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RULE OF THE RIFLE. Remarkable State of Affairs at Spring Valley. For eigne s on One Side and Ne groes on the Other Under Arms, While the Law Officers Are Conspicuously Absent. Ladd, III., Aug 5.? The foreigners at Spring Valley ander tbe leader ship of the Italians, and the negroes who have concentrated their forces at Seatonvilie, are practically under mob law and a deadly conflict is soou anticipated. The non-English speak ing miners at Spring Valley, to the number of 2,000, held a mass meet ing at the lumber yard, near tbe Rock island depot at 10 o'clock this morning aud passed a resolution that no negroes, men, women or inva lids, would be allowed to remain inside the city limits after o'clock to-morrow evening. Speeches of the most inflammatory nature were made advocating the immediate opening up of hostilities The negroes at Eatonville. on the other hand, held a meeting at Union Church at 11 o'clock this morning and organized themselves for active service. Bureau county has 300 Winchester rifles stored, in her court house at Princeton for the protec tion of her citizens, and an effort will be made to secure them Should this fail, the men will arm themselves with shotguns or rifles and small arms and make au effort to regain their homes and household goods at Spring Valley. They also adopted a resolution that they will continue to work in the Spring Valley mines until discharged by the coal company. As the police and sheriff are making no effort to arrest the rioters, the spirit of lawlessness is on the increase. In addition to the negroes re ported injured form yesterday's con flict, four others are missing : Wash ington Anderson, aged forty-seven years ; Arch Fleming, aged thirty five years ; Sam Johnson, aged thirty years; Lewis Martin, aged thirty five years. Of these, it is the opinion that two. at least are lying dead in tbe woods surrounding the late negro colony, as tbe seeing of two pros trate forms have been reported by farmers. The i m mense whistles at the va rious coal shafts were blown last night and this morning, giving the signal that work would be done in the mines to-day aud large numbers of miners turned out with their din ner pails, but were confronted on the highways leading to the shafts by Italians armed with rifles and va rions small arms used iu the riots yesterday. At the secret meeting of the Italians held last night the plan of stopping the men from working was arranged. Over 1,000 miners | were assembled at the lumber yard j to-day at 10 o'clock and the situation was freely discussed, nearly all of! the speeches being in a foreign I tongue. The coal company was I roundly denounced and much inflam- j matory language used. One speaker ; said if the murdered Italian was a relative of his, he would not stop with the negroes but would settle it j at once and effectively with Manager j Dai zeli of the coal company, whom 1 he said deserved all the blame ! as he had brought the negroes here. After an hour of discus- i si?n, a resolution was adopted, giving the remnant of the negroes ? until 5 o'clock to-morrow evening j iu which to leave the city and carry j off their effects. Any effects left ? after .that time would be declared confiscated" and destroyed. A com- j mittee was appointed to organize ! the Italians and see that the iustruc ! tions were carried out. Another ! committee of five was appointed to j wait upon Manager Dalzeil to de- ; maud that he discharge all negroes ; and agree to employ no new ones for th? present. ? he committee im- ? mediately called at Dalzell's office1 and stated their grievances. Mr. : Dalzeil in reply said that he had noth ing to say on the subject and that it j veas a matter he would not discuss. The committee retired with ne assur ance. During the remainder of the ? ?Iay the streets were crowded with ! men discussing the situation. Anoth er meeting of the miners is called for a late hour to-night at which time it ! is the general impression the strike will be ordered to continue until such time as the demands are grant ed. The situation is indeed set ions and much is feared from those who have already indulged in riot without mo lestation or arrest. The foreign ele ment which dominate the situation, declared that no man, either black or white, shall return t^ work until the coal company agrees to discharge every colored man in its employ and also to hire no new men of either race until all idle men of Spring Val ley shall be given employment The negroes now propose to return to their homes and continue i? their employment in the minea of the coal company. The Spring Valley Coal Company sent its treasurer to Seaton vilie late this afternoon and paid the negroes what was due them to the ?ast Wednesday. The amount due *ince that time will be paid within a few days. A plan to mob a newspaper cor respondent to-day was frustrated only by tue latter jumping on a bicycle and riding away. The mob of about 200 men was composed wholly of the men who were engaged iti yester day's riots and were agrieved be cause it bad been published that none of the guilty parties had been ar rested. The county officials at Princeton when seen to-night did not know what steps, if any, would be taken to bring the guilty parties in Spring Valley to justice. Sheriff Clark said he was discouraged in the matter, as not one man was ever convicted in the courts who was arrested a year ago for looting the stores at Spring Valley and Ladd. They were either let off on lack of evidence or techni calities of the court. States Attor ney Johnson said he would not be the one to make the complaints He had personally conducted the cases last year to no effect, and did not care to go through the same expe rience again. The citizens of Spring Valley are in such a state of intimi dation that a criminal prosecution re quiring local witnesses is no avail At the uegro settlement at No 3 shaft pandemonium reigned all night. Crowds of foreigners floated about the streets at all hours, discharging fire arms of various kinds and throwing rocks against the cottages of the ne groes. This was evidently done for the purpose of terrorizing the ne groes, and in this it was successful. XEGRO REINFORCEMENTS. Peor?a, III., Aug 5.?At a meet ing of the colored men to-night twenty-six signed the roll to go to Bureau county and help their breth ren They will probably leave in the I morning. They have arms and ammunition. Butchered By Barbariaas. j _ I - Story of a Minister Who Witness- : es the Carefully Planned Massacre. London, Aug. .?The Telegraph will print tomorrow a dispatch from Shaoghai, saying that the Rev. H. S. Phillips, of the Eoglisb Church Mission ary Society, witnessed the atrocities at. Whaeang, but was powerless to do any thiog to prevent them. The Chinese ; magistrate, the dispatch says, waited ' until the foreigners were murdered or bad fled before he appeared. The riot ers, who numbered fifty, were led by a man carrying a red flag, it seem* that the massacre was carefully planned, There are aboce 1,000 soldiers stationed at Kucheog, aod they could have stop ! ped tbe riot had the officials choseo to ; order them to do so. Tbe same dis patch states that tbe American inisstoo ! at Sbasi, near Bakow, on the Yaog tsekiang river, has been destroyed aod its former occupants are fugitives. Tbe American consul here bas advised j the missionaries in other parts of the country to retire. A meetio? of foreign residents of Shanghai, of all nationalities, was held this afternoon under the euspices of tbe China Association. Foreigoers were urged to appeal direct to the govern- ' meats of their respective couotries to secure reparation for the many outrages committed in the Chinese Empire, espe cially for that at Wbasang Some of the speakers at this meeting declared that no confidence was to be placed in tbe diplomatic representatives at Pekio. Tbe American residents desire the. appointemeot of a committee to inquire into the outrages in Szeohuen aod other j inland provinces, apart from tbe Brit ish commission, to be under tbe control cf American Consul Jamigan, and Mr. ! O'Connor, the British minister, has given his asseot to the proposition. The existing commission is composed of ? British Cooeul Tratman, o? Chuog King, ooe missionary, tbe native pre fect at Cbentu, the provincial treasurer and tbe provincial judge. All of the latter are regarded as haviag been im plicited in the attacks upon foreigners, j NEGROES DRIVEN OUT OF TEXAS. P.AKi?, Texas, August 5 ?News has readied here of a bad state of affairs prevailing in Delta county, which adjoins this county, Lamar, on the south One night last week every negro was notified that he must leave tiie county at once or he would be taken out and hanged. Notices weie posted informing white men who undertook to protect them that they would meet with the same fate. Tin's caused a perfect stampede among: the negroes, who begrau to move out of the county, although the citizens offered then: every pro tection. In a radius of five miles 2,000 acres of laud, crops ami all. were abandoned and contracts for another year abruptly cancelled. The White Cappers, or whoever they were, continued to post threat ening notices, and not a family is left. Some negroes who owned valu able farms have remained behind to sell their lands for whatever they could get for them One colony of negfroes. who owned one hundred acres of the b<-st land in the county, have as yet ^ot no offer for it, al though it is worth from $25 to $50 per acre Feeling is running high. Thousands of acres ol the finest farming lands in the South will be idle next year in consequence of the exodus. ???????? Murder Most Foui. J. O. Carson Pound Weltering? in bis Blood. Spartanbcrg, August 2?J. 0. Carson was found in bed yesterday ruoroing with his head almost severed from his body. His head also was horribly marked id several places. It was an awful sight, and strong men grew faint aod turned away from per haps the most sickening and bloody sight they bad ever seen. Carson was a well-to-do farmer at New Prospect and was very popular here At the inquest to-day his wife testified that it was suicide, but the evidence and circumstances connected with his death prove conclusively that it was murder most foul, and that his slayer had premeditated the deed. Bloody tracks were to be seen on the floor while blood was entirely absent from the dead man's feet. Several pieces of blade from a razor were found imbedded io bis throat Mrs. Carson says that her husband had often times accused her of beiog unfaithful and chat scandalous stories had been told on her. It looks to be a very crooked and ugly affair. It is believed that Mrs. Carson knows more about her hus band's death than she has told acd it is also thought she can place her hand on the murderer. Some very sensa tional developments may yet be brought to light. The coroner's jury returned a verdict that he came to his death by some one unknown to them. The mat ter will be investigated and arrests will surely follow.? The State. Mrs. Carson and Green Nar rowly Escape Lynchers. Spartanbukg, Aug. 5.?Mrs. 0. Carson, Ed Green and J. B. r'age have been arrested for the murder of J. 0. Carson, and if Judge Lynch does not take a hand in the case Judge Benet will, perhaps, be called upon to sit upon the most horrible, cold-blooded murder case that has ever been tried in this State. After the killing Green fled into North Carolina, but on Sunday night was captured and brought back, getting off the train at Landrum's. There they were met by a mob of about 150 who were eager to lynch Green on the spot and it was with the greatest i difficulty that the officers prevented it. An investigation was begun to-day at Fingervi!Ie. There is an enormous : and excited crowd present. The feeling is most intense. Threats of lynching are heard on all sides, and the situation is serious. Page has turned State's evidence and has told the story of the killing. He says that on that fatal night he j slept at Green's house and that Green and Mrs. Carson went over to Car son's home and on Green's return he said : "Me and Mrs. Carson have killed Carson and if anything ever comes from it I will give you $100 to swear that I slept with you all to-night. Page's story, in the main, is true, yet it is thought that he took a hand in the killing as some of his ciothes, all besmeared with blood, were found at his house. The prisoners will be brought to jail to-night if they can es cape the hands of the mob Sheriff ; Dean and a posse have just left here for New Prospect, the scene of the killing, to protect, if possible, the I prisoners from the hands of an excit ed mob of 600. Later?The sheriff and posse have1 just arrived in charge of Mrs. Carson and her paramour, ?. J. Green. Had it not been for the timely arrival of ! the sheriff and posse they in all pro bability would have been dangling at the end of a rope. Both woman and man were very nervous and refused . to make a statement A. large crowd is now collected about the jail. No I trouble is feared now that the murder ers are within prison walls ?-1 . . ^ Sheppard to be Released from the Penitentiary. ?hi'er' Justice Mr Irer Issue* Writ Returnable <>n August dth. William Sheppard, who is now con fined in the penitentiary for contempt of court in violating the court's order restraining him from further violation of the dispensary lav;, will make an effort for liberty this week. John McMaster, Esq., his attorney, notified Assistant Attorney General Townsend this morning that Chief Justice Mclver had issued a writ of habeas corpus in the case to be heard before him at Clieraw next Friday, August 9. The progress of this case will he watched with much interest, f ?t will be another important step in usi iug the dispensary law. Assistant Attorney (renerai Town send wili represent the State, as At torney General Barber is now en gaged in Richmond in arguing the last injunction case before Judge Goff IMI - ? ? I. I. 1 airi [?<? and pencil 'ai it-t?, stationery < I all kind?, '.t:k. pens, pencils, blank honk?, typewriter supplies, etc., *X ii. (?. U?teen S Co".'., Liberty Str?e?, "~.v *?> Watchman and Southn ;< !!;?.??1. Blank i ooks of all k:n j? %\ H. G. Os^en & Co: s Stuffed Lions as Pulpit Ex hibits. Puch and Judy Theology. The startling innovation in pulpit methods made by Parson 0. H. ; Tyndall, of the Broome Street Tabernacle, who illustrated one of ; his sermons by suddenly producing a wooden lion which roared and wag ged his tail when the clergyman pulled the string, has insured him a \ big congregation. Students of natu i ral history want to see him strength ! en his theology with staffed giraffe?? I and human skeletons. They are on j the tiptoe of expectation awaiting his j next i.iove. The reverend gentleman has start : ed in for a serious crusade on the ; lines of the object lesson. He ex ! plains that the stuffed lion was in ; tended to give some idea to the younger members of his flock of the 1 king of beasts and his terrible ways. It was not his fault that the thing he j took with him into the pulpit looked more like a what-is-it than a lion. He ordered a real wooden lion, and ; he understood that the contract had been carried out until the fatal mo ment when he removed the covering from the model. Many of the experienced pewhold er? complained that the thing was misleading, as it did not look like a lion When the parson pulled the string the tiri trumpet-like squeak that came from the animal created laughter instead of terror. Inside the lion, it seems, there was a pair 1 of bellows which supplied air to the squeaker, the latter being operated i with a lever. "Listen to the awful roar of the king of beasts,'' said Mr. Tyndall impressively. Then lie pulled the string and the tin trumphet emitted its feeble note. It was very disap pointing. WHO STARTED IT C Kealism in the pulpit, it is 'said, was first invented by Mr. Spurgeon, j of London, England, who, in the presence of a big crowd, slid down a ? greased pole to show how easy was the descent to the lower regions. I Then, to demonstrate the difficulty of getting to heaven, he put sand on his fingers and tried ?o shin up the pole, lie stuck half way and flop ped down again, thoroughly fatigued, his object lesson being a dismal failure. Most of his people resolved that it was impossible to get to heaven at all and made arrangements to go elsewhere. Mr. Tyndall, though, has no greas ed pole in his church. His realism takes another turn. When he wants to dilate on the sins of whiskey drink ing he pulls a quart bottle from his hip pocket and waves it in the air ! with not a little dramatic effect. J But the Broome Street Tabernacle ? people have a treat in store of : which at present they know noth- ' ing. Their pastor, it is said, ; with a determination to keep them informed, is having a papier ! mache devil made that wags his tail, brandishes a pitchfork in a ter rifying manner and spits electric j sparks from his eyes. If this | realistic devil won't frighten the boys into being good nothing will. j It is but fair to the pastor to say that he does not acknowledge the truth of the reports about th!j ; wonderful devil. But there is a lot of mystery around the Tabernacle, j It is iiuerstood that in addition to the imitation Satan there is to be a model of a hippopotamus and a stuffed \ turkey buzzard, but everything is ! kept so secret that the real facts can-1 noe be got at. There won't be any tin trumpet ! business about the papier mache ! devil, because a powerful second j hand fog hern has been located in j his abdomen that is warranted to1 carry five miles. It belonged origi nally to a Sound steamboat. When it is blown the devil will clap his ! hands together in a threatening fash ion. Immediately the wicked will ? forsake their evil ways, drunkards : will sign the pledge and men will become reconciled to their mothers in-law. EXPANDED REALISM. These models will participate in one character dramas, but gradually the pulpit realism wil! evolute1 until : two or three things participate as in a Punch and Judy show. For in stance, a rare bit of theatrical effect will he produced when a plaster of I pari? whale, now on the stocks gets in working- order and is made to swallow a live Jonah i.: the person of a little boy attached to the Sunday school, who is pledg ed to keep to himself how the tiling is done. The whale, rather an akward looking creature, not like the whale of fiction, will be run into tin; Taber nacle on wheels at an appropriate moment during the discourse. He will open and shut his jaws every time the pastor pulls a string, and alici singling out his Jonah from among the throng of the frightened youngsters he will devour him. Some of tin' frequenters of the Tabernacle who are enthusiastic over the new departure say that a better effect would be produced by real animals, and there is a grow ing demand for educativi p^gs ami learned geese \V nether this springs (rom ' zeal to boom theology or to boat the circus :s not itiite cleat just now. The pastor will not consent to hire a learned pig at present, though one of them couid be made to do useful work in . picking out texts, and biting the bad boys Who invented the menagerie meth : od of worship ? Colonel Elliott F. Shepard is per haps the most prominent supporter ! of the Tabernacle, and of course a : share of the suspicion attaches to him, although his name has not been authoritatively given as that of the patentee. There are some ani mals hitched to the Fifth avenue stages that might be exhibited in churches as a warning to those who argue that horses can live without; eating. CHILDREN' LIKE THE SCHEME A three-year-old tot, who was sent to church the ether day, came back complaining that there weren't any elephants or zebras exhibited, ; and asked her mother how it was She had been used to the Broome | j Street Tabernacle and of course found other places of worship dull Before long, it is said, no clergy : man will be able to draw an audi ence unless he exhibits a live walrus c: a carnei at some time ' during the service. Wiiite mice and guinea pigs will crawl all over a pastor while he is reading his sermon. When he tells how Xoah released a drove from the ark with a fine flourish he will set fee a fleck of trained pigeons, who, after i flying once round the church, will | return and roost all over the rev erend gentleman. Of course competition, which ex tends even to the churches, will ?. ensue, and no church will be con- I sidered complete without its cage of performing tigers Xoah and Daniel, of lion's den fame, will be ' i the favorite texts for all sermons on account of the Opportunity they give for bringing in the animals during the sermon without the thing seeming forced. Mr. Tyndall, though, does not favor this sort of a pian. He insists that the strange creature that he attempt ed to make his sermon lucid with, which out of courtepy was admitted : ; to be a wooden lion, was not intend ed to be the opening wedge to intro- i , duce other wild beasts into church \ ' circles. He does not like the notori- ! ! ety the matter has brought to him at | all, and some of his friends go so far i i even as to deny point blank the pa pier mache devil story and the asser- ! tions about the stuffed turkevbuz! zard But be that as it may, the elee-1 ! trical world is ir. a great fever, and j ? Mr. Tyndall is narrowly watched to I see if he is going to take ?ive rab- i i bits out of his beard like a magi- ; ! cian next Sunday, or walk an ele phant down the aisle to point a | moral with his trunk.?X. Y. Iferaid. My hoy was taken with h disease resem blir.c bloody flux. The ?rst tb'mg I thought 1 or was Chamberlain's Colic, Cholera and Diirrhoea Remedy. Two doses of it settled the m-ifrt-r ?nd cured him sound and well. I heartily recommend this remedy to all per sons snfTcrrin^ from a ?ke complaint ? will j answer any inquiries re^ardiotr ir when stamp ' is ?ncloFH?. I refer to any county official as to reliability. Wm. Roach, J. , Primroy, . CarnpMl Co., Tenn. For sale by Dr. A. J. : China. AYEB'S Hair Vigor Prevents BALDNESS REMOVES DANDRUFF Mil* Restores Color TO ? Faded and Gray HAIR THE Best Dressing NOTICE. I want every man and woman in tbe United States interested in the O^cm and Whisky habits to have one of mv books on these dis eases. Address . M. vTooUey, Atlanta, Ga. Box 3S2, and one will be sent you free. To You 1 w Who Write & Books or Letters: H;is your impatient pf-n ever cauizbt :n your paper r*.?:;t i:; the midst o' a spretai spurt to ^t-t at-re.ist with your Nrain ? How many a tirici.t ?deabas ?t' been ios; forever this way Splash flies ti? ink?sed the thought is fron-!??wnllowed up ? a treach erous wave of irritation. Sometimes the pen is to biatue : Streuer \bepeper: But never ihf Utter it' yon tis Blairs Writing: Tails . . which .".re ;iia?'.e t e<? st.>CK } only, smooth *>' surface, even in ri - h i~h. with n? broken-fibre 'r<if> ;->r the ;j unwary quill. For sale bv . mi LIBERTY STEjsjs., S?MTKR, 8. C. 1 fim i, vii ?3c9: LODGE DIRECTORY. Claremont Lodge, No. 64, A. F. M. Meets Thursday nights of each month, on or before the Full Moon. A. C. Phelps, W. M. H. C. Moses, Secretary. Beulah Chapter, No. 25, R. A. M. Meets on First Tueeday of eacb month. H. C. Mosse, High Priest. F. M. Spaxx, Secretary. Gamecock Lodge, No. 17, K. of Meets every Monday night at o'clock, except fifth Monday night. JL M. Stcckey, C. G B. Walsh, K. of R. ?: S. Sumter Lodge, No. 1077, K. of B. Meets ever}' First and Third Meo day nights at 7 o'clock. W. F. Reams, Die H. 0. .Moses, Rep'r. Fidelity Lodge, No. 251, . L. ofE. Meets every Secoud and Fourth Monday nights at 7 o'clock. J. S Hcghsox, Protector B. J. Rhame, Secretary. Sumter Council, No. 649, A. L. of H Meets every Second and Fourth Tuesday nights at 7 o'clock. W. F. Rhame, Com. J. X. Corbett, Sec. Sumter Lodge, No. 8, /. 0. G. T. Meets every Wednesday night at 8 o'clock. J. W. Daxiei, C T. George Maxotte, Sec. Sumter Lodge, No. 1, JL. 0. U. W. Meets every First and Third Thnre day nights at 7 o'clock. H. C. Moses, M. W. . Walsh, Ree. l>ocahonta$ Tribe, No. 16, /. O. R. M. Meets every Friday's Sleep at the 8tb Run. 'Wm Yeadox, Sachem. B. C. Wallace, C. of R. Sumter Council, NO. 7. Jr. O. ?. A. M. Meets on Second and Fourth Tues day nights of each month at 8 o'clock. Sheppaed Nash, Councillor. B. C Wallace, Sec'ty. Holly Wood Camp, W. of W. Meets every Third Wednesday night at S o'clock. Thos. B. Jexkixs, Con. Com. E. I. Reardox, Clerk. All of the above societies hold their meetings at the Masonic Temple. To Yob I ??? * Who Bay I School Books: 1 ?Why should you pay unreasonable ? prices for hook*, when , you can get ;hem fron: $ I . . 'jSte:-:x ? co. )\ - WHOLESALE PRICES, f H special, arrangement we nre X ?f?irik: all f,ooks used in the Pubitc ?> Scheel and other schools or this city *^ tj< *t prices <:::o;ed ia the wholesale ? We have :?.;!! !ir?e of Ta h Ms, ? Jf* Ten?, Peucils, Erasers, Inks, ani 2 V? every ?v.^ seeded by school children. $ ? LIBERTY STE3ET, | ? : SUMTER, S. C. $ HONET. NEW CROP 1896. White Comb Honey in Sec tions. Choice Extracted Honey, by the gallon or less quantity. For sale at my residence, or orders may be left office of the Watchman and Southron. >\ 6. Osteen.