Birmingham Age-Herald, 1894-10-21

Greensboro, Oot. 18. - [Special Cor Correspondence.] - ]*a«t - respondence.] - ]*a«t Correspondence.] - ]*a«t night we had Hon. O car W. Underwood with us. He came alone and unattended by hired body bodyguards - guards bodyguards of dark and uncertain political records as did his opponent. He needs no one to sing his praise, neither does he hold up "sell" paramount to political issues and the welfare of his party. By 8 o'clock the court house was well filled with good citizens and their families. Nearly every beat in the county was repre represented. - sented. represented. On entering Mr. Underwood was introduced in good old democratic style by Hon. C. E. Waller in a few well chosen words. Mr. Underwood ODened his address by clearly defining his stand on the import important - ant important issues of the day. He spoke of Mr. Aldrich us an honorable man personally, and stated that the "gauge of battle hinged on party principles," emuodied mainly in the McKinley bill. Hespoke on ouriudus ouriudustries - tries ouriudustries in the south and proved very conclu conclusively - sively conclusively that "they nrs not infant, but capa capable - ble capable of competing with the world." He showed that A merle in lnb ir and manufact manufacturers - urers manufacturers do not need protection, and proved that the protection we have had did not protect us. lie says "our opponents don't tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth." He showed that whilst European labor may be cheaper, still we get better values lor the sumo amount ex expended - pended expended for labor. Heuotonly shows this, but proves it. He sta;ei that he is a free freetrader, - trader, freetrader, and believes Unit the Lax levied should only bs just what is sufficient to de defray - fray defray the expenses of an ecouucal govern government. - ment. government. He is opposed to direct tuxation. s He next took up the McKinley bill and it Berves as a powertul weapon of defense, and well did he wield it. He illustrated its tff.'dls and brought to bear plain facts and arguments that cannot be refuted. For iustanoe, be snowed that under Cleveland's administration the yearly commercial fail failures - ures failures only amounted to 6000 or 7000, whiiat in Harrison's first year there were between 10,000 and 12,000, and towards the. latter part of bis terrible reign the commercial failures reached the appalling number of 15,000 - all due, in the main, to the terrible oppression caused by the McKinley bill. Twelve thousand cases of strikes, direotly or iodirectly the effects of this bill, iB the record. The iuborers had been promised better wages on tbe passage of this act, and what did they get? Wages cut from 10 to 40 per cent aud cold lend aad bayonets was the strikers' portion. He asks us, our la laborers, - borers, laborers, have we auy right to expect more from these republicans uow-ai^joipromised increased w.igeB in th* Harr! paign and gave uoy/rfre hut reduction? He tout Aldrich cut bis own "men from 50 cents to 37per ton on coal, under the enactment oi me McKinley bill. He told of the new life that bus come to Birmingham and to oar whole couatry since the repeal of tbe bill and etaled tbat more pig iron is being produced in north Alabama today than ever before. His arguments all along this line were clear-cut and forcible to such a degree that they were simply unanswera- . ble. He showed how it is that high tariff/ maUe3 tbe rich man richerand t lie poor mad poorer; that it fills the coffers of the al already - ready already millionaire and makes more empty the scant pocketbook of tbe poor man. He opened our eyes to facts of which soma or us had never thought or considered. He showed us how it is that two-thirds of the money is owDed and controlled by 235,000 millionaires and the remaining people are left to tussel for the remaining third. He made a telling argument agaiust high tariff, which carried conviction with every word. He illustrated to us the free, list benefits, which we already feel, anc the best part of it is his statements can] be denied, for he speaks with the freedc and boldness of a man who is tioroughpya posted. He says if elected he would «te to put back in force the income tax onJTn onJTncomes - comes onJTncomes over f40C0. This Aldrich wanp to repeal. He boldly and fearlessly announcull his stand on tbe silver question, and siJys he "will work for, speak for aua vote lit sil silver - ver silver at 16 tol if he can gel it," for he isellevesj that the decreased price of product^ is duq to the contraction of currency. JTe would vote to repeal the 10 per cent state isx i banks. He proclaims that lie wobtd refij to longer be the standard-bear^ from district if he could not stand /houldei shoulder and hip to hip with hfls partjj party principles and his hflnest cq tions. He shows us how it is that nj of ponderous moment hinge on tj| congress and that a true democrq gross is needed to hold up the^ Cleveland. All throughout his speech qui order reigned. Our people see hear tbe message he brongh evinced their appreciation bold style in which it was de log him their undivided atb it was over he received ro ' of applause and got a h and many expressions of is he worthy of the ho give him on tbe 6th of

London, Oct. 20. - [Cable Letter.] - The add rets delivered by Mr. Timothy M. Healy in Dublin last Wednesday, in the course of which he denied the stories that were being circulated to the effect that ho aimed at assuming the leadership of the Irish party aod asserted that he was strongly opposed to all attempts to depose Justin McCarthy, has bad a tendency to bring about a general reconciliation of the various factions of the party. It was wholly againBt the interests of the com community, - munity, community, said Mr. Healy, that personal aims or miserable ambition should be set up against the great cause of Irish home rule, Mr. Healy also laid that before the holding of the next general election In the United Kingdom he would like to see a reform of the franchise, provision made for the payment of members of parliament and a general spirit of domocracy inlused into the liberal administration. This latter statement has given great pleasure to the English liberals as in some measure guaranteeing the support of the Irish members to the legislation for the abolition of the veto power of the house of lords to be considered at the coming ses session - sion session of parliament. The czarina receives and sends daily tele telegraph - graph telegraph bulletins as to the condition of the czar from Livadia to the queen and Princess of Wales, the latter of whom proposes to go to Livadia about the middle of Novem November. - ber. November. The most alarming advices do not reach the court circles. The czarina, in her bulletins, communicates to the queen and the princess the opiuions of the phy physicians - sicians physicians in attendance upon his majesty, and these are of a much less alarming character than are the current publio re reports.H - ports.H reports.H The condition of the czar has grown Worse during the week. Since Wednesday his majesty's limbs have beoome slightly affected by dropsy, and i)ls sleep, which he takes only in snort snatohes, is frequently broken by spasms of the heart, attended Slth great difficulty and pain in )>reath )>reathg, - g, )>reathg, which cause the czar to think his last ynoment has come. These spasms are al always - ways always followed by excessive general col collapse. - lapse. collapse. Still bis physicians do no not de despair - spair despair of being able to prolong his life for inontbe, but they positively decline to make any prediction as to how long he will live. His malady follows the coarse pf a severe type of Bright's disease. The ad advices - vices advices received by tbe queen bave certainly not led her to look for the immediate death Of the czar. With regard to the policy of the czar* owitch Stepniak, the Russian nihilist, in an interview today, said the heir apparent's character was an enigma, but it was im improbable - probable improbable that the new regime would con concede - cede concede anything In the direction of liberal liberalism. - ism. liberalism. If a council of regency were formed With Grand Dp^e Vipdimlr, tbe czar's eld eldest - est eldest brother, who is strongly reactionist in hisviews, as dhe of its members, the ad administration - ministration administration qf the government would be far worse than under the czar. Btepnlak expressed the opinion that among tbe ruling powers at St. Petersburg there was none with sufficient intelligence |o advise reforms in the government of the empire. The fiasco made by Lord Rosebery in the attempt to intervene for a friendly settle settlement - ment settlement of the Chinese-Japanese trouble is adversely commented upon,even by tbe lib liberal - eral liberal press. The Economist says tbe pre premier - mier premier will be required to justify before par parliament - liament parliament bis successive diplomatic defeats. His treatment of tbe question touching 81am, tbe Anglo-Belgian treaty with refer reference - ence reference to tbe Congo state and tne Chinese ChineseJapanese - Japanese ChineseJapanese difficulty have shown him to be an exceedingly weak prime minister. Eng England - land England has beard tbe reports of his attempts at intervention in the trouble between Ja Japan - pan Japan and China with incredulons amaze amazement. - ment. amazement. Tbe conservative papers publish rumors of dissensions in the cabinet, Sir William Vernon Harconrt, chancellor of the ex exchequer, - chequer, exchequer, Rt. Hon. Henry Campbell-Ban Campbell-Bannerman, - nerman, Campbell-Bannerman, secretary of state for war, and Lord Kimberly, secretary of state for for foreign - eign foreign affairs, opposing the premier, who, it is said, will probably retire before parlia parliament - ment parliament resumes its sitting.

Mr. Dwight L. Moody, the noted evan evangelist, - gelist, evangelist, arrived in the city yesterday after afternoon - noon afternoon and last night he was on hand ht She wigwam to begin a meeting of ten days, in which he hopes to do great good to the people of the Magic City. At the wigwam last night he was met by a congregation of about 1500 people and a choir of about 100, who made music pleas pleasing - ing pleasing to the ear and inspiring to the soul. After being introduced to the congregation the evangelist read a lesson from the first chapter of Joshua. Alter the singing of a hymn he began with his evening's talk, for it was simply an outline of what he expected from the people and what they ought to do in order to have results from the meetings that are directed by them. He wanted every man, woman and child to go into the work with heart and soul that good might come. He wanted a glo glorious - rious glorious meeting of this, and wasn't bashful in what he had to say, either. Among the first remarks made by the evangelist, he said: 1 want to tell yon that you cannot do much without faith. The trouble of the day is that the people have too little faith. Now what you want is faith, tor 1 have seen many a good thing wrecked without having enough faith. The mau of faith, said he, looks over walls and everything; he has power that he never had before. After dealing at length upon the faith that should be used and illustrating his points with pleasing anecdotes, he took up the courage that should be in the carrying on of these meetings. I'll tell you what's the fact, he con continued, - tinued, continued, 1 think the bulk of us are moral cowards. As Spurgeon pnt it, we haven't enough stioktoitism. Now, said he, in a very earnest and appealing manner, let us keep in miud that if we are going to have suocess we must keep up courage. He urged them to not drop their courage, and then began upon the enthusiasm that should exist. Another thing that we want is fire and enthusiasm, said Mr. Moody. Look at these politicians, how they work to get back to oongress. They work hard and with enthusiasm, and what we want is men full of fire and enthusiasm. One shall chase a thousand and two put ten thousand to flight. Now, that's a fact, for I've seen it done, but it seems now that it takes ten thousand to chase one. What's a Sunday school teacher worth If he gets all his information outof a little pamphlet? Another thing we want la perseveranoe. If you want to succeed you must stick to a thing and not be always jumping about, said he. What I want to see here is faith, with hands and legs, and 1 hope that It will come. The hardest man to reach is the man who sits in the pew, and it's easier to reach a man who hasn't heard the gospel in twen twenty-five - ty-five twenty-five years than it is one that has sat in a pew for thirty-five years. No man can do anything for God without he has love tor his work and I hope you will pul plenty of love in it. The evangelist discussed at length what it took to make a success of the meeting, and gave the people a general warming up. His talk was well reoeived by the congrega congregation - tion congregation that greeted him. There will be preaching this afternoon at 8 o'clock and tonight at 8 by Mr. Moody. The committeemen and ushers will hold a meeting in the wigwam this afternoon at 2 o'clock, when every member is especially requested to be on hand. ANOTHER PHASE OP THE STRIKE. Pawtuokbt, R. I., Oct. 20. - The strike of the weavers in the Lorrain mills assumed a new phase yesterday when it was in indorsed - dorsed indorsed by the local branob of the textile union and from now till the strike closes the strikers will draw benefits. JTOJ6*.

Age-Herald Bureau, 1 Bei.MA, Ala., Oct. 20. / At the request of Hoo. Gaston A. K >b >bbins - bins >bbins the following geotlemea have been appointed by Chairman Burus on the cen central - tral central campaign committee of Dallas county: M. L. Wood, chairman; J. H. Lumpkin, W.T. Allison, K. H. Kennedy, M. J. Meyer, E. B. Martin, W. W. bhippard, J. J. Townsend, W. R. Lee, W. C. Phil Phillips, - lips, Phillips, J. A. Minter, W. C. Billingslea. The committee could net be improved upon. They will enter upon the work of the campaign at once. NEEDING MORE HELP. For some time past the Dallas compress has been pressing 1000 bales of cotton and upward daily, but receipts are so large nnd shipments so heavy that they have fallen behind and the compress company has found it necessary to use the railroad press and it is now being putin readiness for work. TRESTLE BURNED. About daylight this morning a trestle on the Southern, one mile east of Lee's and seventy miles west of Selma, was destroyed by fire. The mail train from Meridian was delayed two hours, arriving here at 12:30 p. m. TO DO AWAY WITH BAGGAGE MASTERS. All of the baggage masters on I he South Southern - ern Southern will lose their positions on the 1st, and by an arrangement between the express company and the railroad the express mes messengers - sengers messengers will do the baggage work. It is thought the baggage men will be giveu places as flagmen on passenger trains and that the present flagmen will be oat of a job. The railroad boys are not happy; they don't know what to look for next. It is thought the bouthern baa just begun her work of retrenchment. THE WELL GAVE OUT. The electric lights all over the city went out last night. It seems that an artesian well from which the boilers at the plant are supplied suddenly stopped flowing, and the engineer had to draw hia fire to save tbe boilers. It is thought the new pump pumptog; - tog; pumptog; arrangements at the water company's station oaused the well at the electrip light works, wlMrse^eral others in that portion of the city, to MWp-tfowing. The lights were turned on agaiwl|0 o'clock, CALLED UrHfftWfB. - - The little babe of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Blackwell died early yesterday morning and was buried at 4 o'clock yesterday af afternoon. - ternoon. afternoon. The friends of the bereaved par parents - ents parents extend heartfelt sympathy to them. NOVEMBER RACES ASSURED. Almost the entire amount asked for by the Driving Fark association has been raised and it is now an assured fact that.the November races will come off. Beventy-flve horses have been booked and great sport will be witnessed. TO BEGIN A STAB COURSE. The Young Men's Christian association star course of entertaluraents will begiu Monday night with the Wendling lecture. Other attractions will follow during the winter months. TO PERFECT HERSELF IN ART. Miss Matilda Pfeiffer has gone to New York, where she will study art two years. 8he Is possessed of remarkable talent and will doubtless make her mark in the world of art.

AWAITING A DECISION. Washington, Oct. 20. - District Attor Attorney - ney Attorney Birney has decided to take no further steps in the prosecnlion of Messrs. Hr.ve Hr.vemeyer - meyer Hr.vemeyer and Sonrle3, the indicted sugar trust officials, and Alien L. Bey in ore, the young New York stock broker, also indicted lor refusing to answer questions asked by the senate investigating committee, until Judge Cole hai rendered his decision in the demurrers filed by Stockbrokers McCartney and Chapman to the iudictments against them. If Judge Cole decides that the in indictments - dictments indictments are void, the district attorney will drop the matter. And the Japs, Who Made the Attack, Are Repulsed, REBELLION IN COREA Over the Firm Rule of Japan. War Vessels Being Re Repaired - paired Repaired for Service. London, Oct. 20. - A dispatch from Shanghai to the Cautral News says the Chinese report that a battle had been fought on the banks of the Lower Yalu, in wbioh the Japanese troops who made the attack, were repulsed with heavy losses. It is added that neither side olaims a defi definite - nite definite victory. It is regarded as probably that the Japanese will declare an effective blockade of the gulf of Pe-Cbe-Li within the coming week. A dispatch from Tien Tsin reports large quantities of munitions of warsupplied by Germans are arriving iue,e ana o<ri=s_££irryi>rded to New Chang, and Port Arthur. German' ccwiti'm<is 'mr~ further supplies have been concluded. JAPANESE TROOPS MOVING. London, Oct. 20. - The Standard this morning prinls a dispatch from Tokiosay Tokiosaying - ing Tokiosaying that 40,000 Japanese troops under com command - mand command of Marshal Couut Oyama, who was temporarily relieved from the duties of his position at minister of war to take com command - mand command of the Japanese forces in Corea, have left Hiroshima. The destination of this force is not known. A fleet of thirty-five transports wasneoessary for the conveyance of these troops. CORBANS GETTING REBELLIOUS. LONDON, Oct. 20. - The St. James Ga Gazette - zette Gazette publishes a dispatch from Yokohama saying several hundred CoreanB have re rebelled - belled rebelled in the province of Chai La Do, the extreme southwest province of Corea, and that a combined Oorean and Japanese force has beeu sent to suppress the upris uprising. - ing. uprising. The Coreans, the dispatch says, have become very restless under the firm rule of the Japanese. REPAIRING VESSELS. Shanghai, Oct. 20. - Four vessels of the Chinese southern squadron have arrived at Wei-Hai- Wei. The Chinese steamer Tung TungChow, - Chow, TungChow, which has arrived here, reports that two Chinese ironclads and one cruiser, which have been undergoing repairs at Port Arthur, have left that place and reached Wei-liai- Wei. The Chinese war warships - ships warships will require more extensive repairs ana their departure from Port Arthur may be delayed for some time.

Upper Marlboro, Md., Oct. 23. - Stephen Williams, tUe negro who assaulted Mrs. Hardesty Wednesday night and con confessed, - fessed, confessed, was taken from the county j eil at 3 O'clock this morning and handed. The negro was captured shortly after the as assault - sault assault Wednesday night aud identified by Mis. Hardesty. He bad a preliminary heariug yesterday inside the jail. Mrs. Hardesty testified that she and her adopted daughter, Rosie Ridgeway, had retired on Wednesday uight, leavmg the door unlocked, awaiting the return of her husband, who was at the store, a few hun hundred - dred hundred yards away. Between 9 and 10 o'clock she beard the door open and saw the negro, who inquired for Mr. Hardesty, saying he had a message for him. Mrs. Hardesty said her husband was down at the stable. The man thereupon said: "I know where Mr. Hardesty is. It is not Mr. Hardesty I want; I want you." She or ordered - dered ordered him away but he ht hold of her and dragged her into the kitchen adjoin adjoining. - ing. adjoining. The house door interfered and she succeeded in getting away. Mrs. Hardesty rail out of the bouse followed by Williams. She succeeded in getting under a wire fence and made her way across a Held of briars in her bare feet. She was overtaken by her husband who had been attracted by the cries of the daughter. Sheriff Uoorge S. Dove was notified and caught the man. The prisoner when put upon tne stand admitted the charge in full, Baying: *'I am the right man, but would not have at attempted - tempted attempted such a thing had I not been under the influence) of liquor." Justice Harris committed Williams to jail without bail to await the action of the court next April. A little after midnight several horsemen rode up to the jail keeper's house and de demanded - manded demanded the keys. Keeper Bpicer said he would not surronder them. Then a report of a pistol was heard and it was announced that the jail had been broken into. It took an hour to batter down the door before Williams was found on the second tier. He cried murder, and begged piteously for his life as he struggled with the maste! men. A rope was quickly thrown over uis bead and the crowd of lynchers started down stairs. Williams made no further redstauce, but ran along with bis captors toan.iron bridge near the jail. Here he wen strung up with a new rope and several sluts fired at this body. j- jHarge body of citizens awakened by the piSj^hots and other unusual noises ap appen^^Bhat - pen^^Bhat appen^^Bhat were warned away. The body wan ci^^^k^and a jury of inquest ren rendered - dered rendered a death by violence at the hauds of i^|H^feparlies. The negro's assault upon Mrs. Uarda"*'y was committed within a quarter of a mile of where a negro named Al.en was hanged for a similar crime only five monthB ago. NEW YORK'S FJNKHT

LONG DISTANCE PHONES. The Bell Telephone company will build lines to all towns within a radius of fifty miles from Selma. Work will begin at onoe on a line to Marion, Uniontown and Faunsdale. Other lines will be constructed as rapidly as possible. Lung distance phones will be used in out of town offices, and city subscribers will be able to talk through their own phoneB to parties in neighboring towns. A toll of 2o cents for a five minute conversation or less will be charged. PERSONAL AND GENERAL. Rev. A. P. Smith of Dallas, Tex., who is here on a visit to his father, Mr. M. S. Smith, will preach at the First Presbyte Presbyterian - rian Presbyterian church. Mr. Smith was raised in Selma, but moved to Texas when a young man. He has for twenty-two years been pastor of the First Presbyterian church of Dallas. He will leave for home Monday. The Christian Elndeavor of the city held an enthusiastic meeting In the Alabama Street Presbyterian church last night. .Re .Reports - ports .Reports were made by the various committees appointed to arrange for the entertainment o! delegates an visitors to the state conven convention - tion convention which meets here in November. Their intention is to make it the greatest gather gathering - ing gathering of Christian workers ever brought to together - gether together in Alabama. SECURED THE ASSETS. New Yore, Oct. 20. - The reorganisation committee of the East Tennessee Land com company - pany company has acquired control of all the securi securities - ties securities aud assets of that company, which were Bold at auction here last week under a judgment claim of Herman Neimeyer. These amounted to some hundred thou thousands - sands thousands of dollars. Oen; Thomas L. James, who is a aealons friend of reorganisation, assisted in engineering the purchase. The necessary money and credit wer9 supplied by Ferdinand Sohumaohers, the president of the Amertoan Cereal company, James Hobbs. A. C. Banker, I.. T. Funk, chair chairman - man chairman of the reorganisation committee, and A. W. Wagnails, the publisher ot this city. ___' DIED SUDDENLY. Washington, Oot. 20. - Mrs. O. N. gpoftord, wife of the late Judge Spoflord of Louisiana, diettsuddenly In tbisoity today from urmrala. She was a sister-in-law of Hon. A. P. Bpofford, librarian of congress. She leaves three children. The funeral will take place atPolaskt, Tenn., Tuesday, October A, l.t; i { * < 1*1 'it.i h u(*

An expedition,under command olColonel Colville, bas started (or Uganda with the object of effecting a thorough occupation of the southern Nile provinces. This ex exSedition - Sedition exSedition will march through Unyore and own the Nile. The garrisons at Wadelai and Ladow will make a simultaneous move movement, - ment, movement, and the Italian foroes will advanoe from Kaesala to Gozreja. and will form a junction with the British troops on the trading road to Khaitoum, while the Egyptian troops will occupy New Dongola. The double aim of the whole movement is to counteract the French advance on the upper Nile and at the same time cut off the Mabdists from their source of supplies. These plain indications of an active entente with Italy and the determination to con continue - tinue continue tbe English hold upon Egypt are cer certain - tain certain to add to the ill will of France. Tbe most notable secession from the lib liberal - eral liberal party since Lord Hosebery came into poweris that of Mr. Alfred Illingworth, member of parliament for the west division of Bradford, who gives as his reasons for withdrawing from the party, that the pol policy - icy policy of the miulsters with reference to labor questions tends strongly toward socialism. Mr. Illingworth, woo is a wealthy manu manufacturer, - facturer, manufacturer, expresses an abborance of any interfering with free play of capital. Bis disposition is signittcunt as a probable pre prelade - lade prelade to the withdrawal of other wealthy members cf tbe liberal party. The cuccess of tbe blood serum care for diphtheria in many CoBes in which it bas been used has so assured the British insti institute - tute institute oi its value us u preventive medicine that arrangements nr-, being made to sup supply - ply supply the serum at 6 1 per dozen, against a foreign cost of 7; 01. Uhj eminent sur surgeon, - geon, surgeon, l-.ir Joseph Lis.er, will superintend the preparation of the serum lor the insti -