The Pickens Sentinel, 1894-09-13

THEY 1DO NOT AGREE. COLONEL YOUMANS AND GENERAL EARLE ON INDEPENDDNTISM. Vhe Former I@ In Favor of Opposing Till Tillman, - man, Tillman, Evans and all Otlher Candidates of the Iteformers While the Latter Opposoe Huch Action. COLJMur A, S. U, Sept. 6.-The fol following - lowing following cards appeared in the Register of today: Editor Register: Your communica communication - tion communication of the first inst. received this af afternoon - ternoon afternoon and in accordance with your request I reply immediately, in this communication addressed to me you say: "Knowing you to be a staunch and uncompromising foe of aught that tends to disturb white unity and white supremacy, and that your words carry weoight and influence, I ask that you write the Register a letter giving your views upon the new Independent movement about to be started and out outlining - lining outlining the duty of the hour. Hoping ror an early reply, I am," &c. As to the "white unity," that was listurbed four years ago, when Gover Governor - nor Governor Tillman, conceiving himself to be Lhe only man with the nerve and the brains and the ability to array the common people against the aristocracy, for the accomplishment of his own sel sel[lsh - [lsh sel[lsh purposes, spread discord and divis division - ion division among the white people by inau inaugurating - gurating inaugurating what, he chose to term a fam family - ily family quarrel in the State. As to "white supremacy," it should be remembered that whilst negro dom dom[nation - [nation dom[nation in the reconstructed States has been one of the most marked features f the policy of the Republican party that the Northern Democracy, through all of the political vicissitudes of the last quarter of a century, has been the unfaltering friend of the South. It was due to its persistent demands that white supremacy was restored in '716 and in '77 to South Carolina and Lousi Lousiana - ana Lousiana and its aid was treely given to de defeat - feat defeat the force bill and to repeal the election laws. On the other hand all of these new political organizations which have sprung up like Jonah's gourd, and will wilt as soon, have gen generally - erally generally acted with the Republican party aginst the interest of the South. The Greenbackers, many of whom were elected in part by denouncing Demo Democrats, - crats, Democrats, whom they were trying to defeat as not sufliciently Democratic, when elected were found voting with the tepublicans in the interest of all meas urep, dragooning the South in favor of negro domination. The Populist and third partyltes are no exception to this rule; they went over bag and baggage into the camp o our enemies during the consideratior or the lIotise bill to redico the tit) burdens of the tariff and placed them selves uinder the leadership of the gen tinian from Maine, Mr. Reed, and Mr Boutelle to prevent the Democrata from even considering a bill designed to lift the burden of tariff tixation from the farmers of the South. They joined the Republicans in a body and voted almost solidly against the repeal of the 10 per cent. tax on State banks, a measure which if it had been enacted into law would have given great ilnan. cial relief to the South. These new de departures, - partures, departures, whenever they have taken place in the South, have nearly always resulted in an appeal to the negro and a termination within the iRepublican ranks. Witness Mahone, McL]ane, Tom Watson and R. F'. Kolb. The originator and autocrat of your political faction, for he dictated to it not only as to measures but men, has admitted that he was half Populist in the canvass of '92; that he is now like McJane a Greenbacker, and has served notice on the voters of tile State of is early expectation to desert the Demo Democratic - cratic Democratic party. I think tis "new Indle Indlependent - pendent Indlependent movement about to be start started" - ed" started" biy Governor Tillman and those pledged to support him should be met by an immediate reorganization of tile Deomocratic party in tile State and that tile "duity of tile hlour is for every D~emocrat who hlas any manhood or political princIple or owns any proper ty that binds him to the State or inlter inltereats - eats inltereats him in its welfare to aid tis refer, mation withl all of his might. As to placing a Democratic ticket iri tile loid at tis late day I stand con. firmed in my opposition to it, were ii not for the bloody lawlessness of the present administration and the promisE of its continulance by tile legatee-i policy of outrage and bloodshed which if persisted in seems to ine inevitab3 bound to precipitate tile State into al the horrors of cival war, it cannot bi reasonably presumed that freemen wil forever tamely submit to having theli private premises ransacked and thoui private packages torn open and scatter ed by the pimps, underthugs and plug uglies of any set of nondescript petty tyrantu,. or even allow II. R. Tillmnan tc blow open their iron safes and~ break down their doors. Hlowever, upon thiu question I am willing to b)e governe& by tile combined wisdom of those witii whom I have been politically associa. tedh. L,. W. YOUIMANs. Fair fax, S. C., Sept. 3, 1891. Editor Register: The liutier confer conferences, - ences, conferences, as reported, are supposed to in indicate - dicate indicate that having been defeated at the recent primary elections, the Genera] will now organize an Indlependent movement, inm order that lhe may halve another chlance to ba returned to the Senate. Such a movement would lbe "conceived in sin and brought forth in iniqulity." Surely there must be some mistake in tile pulbliheld reports for it is hard to believe that Senator Butler and his frmient~s, many of whom have proved their manhood, couirage an Jf pa patriotism, - triotism, patriotism, in war and in peace, W' .rld enter upon a venture so fraught with evil to the State. Senator I lampton in 1878 declared that "all Independent was worse thian a Radical ." 'I~he con conditions - ditions conditions which inspired this forcible ex. pression remain unichaniged, 5o let tile word lie again passed down the line, "an Indiependeont is worse than a Itadi Itadical." - cal." Itadical." An indiepandlent movement against tile organized l)emocracy cold~ sulcceed only by forming a coalition with the black ltepubllicans, andl this wold eventually result in their restoration to power. Shall white men be rulled by negroes'? Shall the State lbe again dom dominated - inated dominated by ignorance and vice? Shall we have negro judges presiding over our counts ~? Shall South Carolinians be again subjecto.l to the insults, suf suffering - fering suffering and humiliation experienced by thmem in the dark d ays omaia

DESERT THEIR PARTY. LOUISIANA PLANTERS GO OVER TO THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. A convention 01 sugqr Growers beat and Denounce the Tariff as to sugar--In a.. tional Politice They WI1 Act With Re RepubHloans, - pubHloans, RepubHloans, NEW ORLEANS, La, Sept. .-The sugar planters convention in this ity today was the most remarkable gather gathering - ing gathering in many years, and the first serious break in the Democratic party in twen twenty - ty twenty years is now actually threatened. The convention declared in favorof'an alliance with the Republican party on national issues and two and possibly three Congressional Districts, compris comprising - ing comprising the sugar region, are endangred to the Democrats. There were proba- - bly three hundred representative m6p resent at the convention and, as near neary - y neary all of them are men of wealth with" large influence and with power to con control - trol control a considerable following, the ac- - tion they have taken cannot be under underestimated. - estimated. underestimated. The meeting was called to order by Richard McCall, one of the leading planters of the Third District, and Mr. E. N. Pugh of Ascension, a near rela relative - tive relative of Justice Nicholls, was made chairman. Among thuse who partici participated - pated participated in the discussion were Mr. W. E. Ilowell, a prominent Democrat of Li Fouchere, II. P. Kernochan, who was a naval ollicer under Cleveland, Albert IEstopinal, Democratic State Senator, who may be the planter's candidate in the First District, G. P. Anderson, a wealthy planter of Plaquemine, James A. Ware, Democratic Representative In the Legislature from Iberville, Col. J. ). ]till, Capt. J. Pharr and others. Mr.John Daymond was the only speak speaker - er speaker who strenuously opposed secession from the Democratic party. Messrs. Ilowell, Weems, Kernochan an- Wil. kinson, brother of Collector Wilkinson, were appointedl a committee to propose a plan for the collection of the bounty on this year's crop. The committee re reported - ported reported and their report was adopted. The convention then took up the political questions. McCall, Pugh, Kernochan, Estopinal, Ware and others advised an alliance with the Republi Republit - t Republit can party. They said that they had t been betrayed by the Democrats, and that the only hope of protection for sugar lay in a joining of hands with the Republicans. They realized the full Import of breaking with the Dam Damocratic - ocratic Damocratic party, but feeling that the ne negro - gro negro question was no longer an issue land that the white race would forever govern the Southern country, they said 0they had reached the conclusion that d self-preservation required an ailhliation with a party that would give them the protection necessary for the prosperity of the Industry which is the backbone of the State. The fellowing committee was ap appointed - pointed appointed on resolutions and it may be said that the gentlemen named are among the wealthiest and best known in the State: Messrs. J. A. Ware, H. McCall, D. L. Monnot, Charles Mat Matthews, - thews, Matthews, Louts Clark, B. A. Oxnard, Charles Godchaux, D. S. Ferris, G. P. Anderson, L. J. Sully, Charles Magin Maginnis, - nis, Maginnis, Wyley Thompson John Dymond, W. 11. Chafee, G. Breaux .ionore Duga1, W. P. Flower, Gen. *. Il. Bia Biahand, - hand, Biahand, T. Su fMa and Capt. J. N. Pharr. The committee reported elaborate resolutions, setting forth that the white people of Louisiana and the planters for many years had been loyal to the Democratic party through victory and defeat, but that the State had been be betrayed - trayed betrayed and a blow struck at its chief industry .by that party, and caused its absolute ruin, and that the nomination of protection candidates and their elec election - tion election had become a necessity. The res resolutions - olutions resolutions were adopted by a rising vote. It was decided to meet again on the 17th of September in this city when the plans of the sugar planters will be per perfected. - fected. perfected. It was also decided to nomi nominate - nate nominate a candidate in the thlree sugar districts and to atihliate with the R3 R3publicans. - publicans. R3publicans. The report of the committee on reso resolutions - lutions resolutions ffhich was adopted at the out outset - set outset declares: A crisis has arrived In the politics of our State. Very many of us who for many years co-operated withl the Democratic party and have loyally su pported its candidates have done so withl the belief and with the aurance that that party would maintain a fair protection on the products grown by us. We had personal and positive as as-surance - -surance as-surance from the Democratic candi candi-date - -date candi-date for the Pr'esidency. drover Cleve Cleveland, - land, Cleveland, (luring the late Presidential cam. paign and we likewise had the personal assurances of the leaders of tile Demo Democratic - cratic Democratic party to the same effect. Drc'perate Plot. FnANKl.owr, Ky., Sept. 15.-News of a threatened outbreak at the penitenti penitentiar - ar penitentiar y has just been learned. Tih e UDat UDatfield-Mc~oy - field-Mc~oy UDatfield-Mc~oy gang, of Pike county, and James F. Little, of Jireadoes and life men, were concerned in tihe plot, which was made known to Warden Gieorge on Sunday by a prisoner who chanced to overhear the men talking. It was their purpose to make an attempt this week as the guards and prisoners were going to supper. With four large knives made from files ground to a keen edge and point, they intended to kill the guards and take their weapons, kill the guard on the wall between tile male and female wards, and make their es escape - cape escape by passing over the wall. The warden placed the plotters is irons and in separated cells. All soon confessed each saying that the others were the traitors, except Wick Tallant, who held out for thirty hours before he re revealed - vealed revealed the hiding place of tile knives. Besides Little and Tallant, G~eorge W~est, Htockingheiler, Mc(Joy, Cook and a dozen others are known to have been in the plot. coat nim His ire, BIRMINGHIAM, Ala,, Sept. d.-Near Newaite, Tallapoosa county,' James Ashley and his son Robert went into. ,the field where Robert Cross, a young ,farmer, was harvesting. Robert Ashley held Cross while his father fIred seven C, bullets into his body. Ashley fired as 3 long as Cross breathed, remarking, "I ,iam going to shoot as long as there is .breath in the d-d rascal's body." Cross went to church with Ashley's daughter I Sun'day and kissed her. She reported I the matter to her father and the mur murI - I murI der resulted. A posse is in piultn o -the Ashleys and if caught, it is likely that they will be ly-ched

era failed to accept the terms offered. 'They have not bettered their condition by their refusal, and the general im impression - pression impression Is that, sooner or later, these lines will be acquired. The Southern Company is also (xpected to control the Georgia Central when reorganized. Among the most important cities reached by the Southern Railway are Wachington, 1). C, Alexandria, Vra., Charlottesvilie, Va;, Richmond, Va, Lynchburg, Va., Danville, Va., IRa IRaleigh, - leigh, IRaleigh, N. C., Durham, N. C., Greensbo. ro, N. C., Statesville, N. C.. Asheville, N. C., Salem-Winston, N. C., Charlotte N . C , Columbia, S. C., Spartanburg, S. C., Greenville, S. C, Augusta, Ga., At Atlanta. - lanta. Atlanta. Ga., Macon, Ga., Brunswick, Ga, Bristol, Tenn., Louisville, Ky., Lexing Lexington, - ton, Lexington, Ky.. Knoxville, Tenn., Chattanoo Chattanooge, - ge, Chattanooge, Tenn., Rome, Ga., Birmingham, Ala., Anniston, Ala., Columbus, liss, and Selma, Ala. The lines of the company, located as they are, reach and scrve all of the di. versilled interests of the South. In the way of mineral, they penetrate Its two great coal fields, viz, the Kentucky and Tennessee coal fields on the north and the Alabama coal fields on the South, and from these are able to supply all the States traversed by them. They also reach the great iron industiles of the South at Knoxville. Cleveland, 'Ihat 'Ihattanooga, - tanooga, 'Ihattanooga, Anniston, Birmingham, and intermiediats points. Iron is made cheapir in the United States, or, for that matter, in the world. On the wes western - tern western division of the system there are over thirty iron furnaces. Through inl. numerable small brancl'es the com company - pany company goes int o the very heart of the lumber territory in the States through which it runs. It is able, of course, to draw cotton from every direction, not only on Its own lines, but from its con connections, - nections, connections, and it penetrates the S(ctions of North and South Carolina and Georgia which are occupied by cotton mills. The growth of cotton mills along the line is, perhaps, one of its most remarkable features. ight through the hard times new mills have been going up, especially in North Car Carolina. - olina. Carolina. Its lines in Kentucky enable it to control its full share of the tobacco business at Louisville, and, in addition to this, it penetrates in every direction the country in which tobbacco is grown, especially in the neighborhood of Oxford and Durham, in North Caro Carolina, - lina, Carolina, and aiong almost the entirelengtht of the former Western North Carolina RUailroad, which is now a part of its system. By way of Augusta and its I connections to Vlorida it does a very large share of the garden truck busi business - ness business in the Southeastern States. it is most. direct paosenger line flom Wash Washington - ington Washington to Atlanta and all the intermed intermedlat.e - lat.e intermedlat.e points, and also as short as any line to Florida. The old Pi'edmont Air fLine, which is a part of the system, has long beena famous. The properties embraced in the reor reorganization - ganization reorganization had bonded and floating debts of about $135,000.000. This now rediuced to a bonded debt of $94,60,000, including su llicient bonds (which are reserved) to take up all underlying bonds and stocks of the 491 miles of leased railroad. The company will also issue about 80,000,0C3 more bonds dur during - ing during the next two years, to purchase ad additional - ditional additional eluipment and improve the properl.ies, which will make the total bonded dept of all kinds $1,00.000,000. The plan of reorganization wisely pro- I vides that $20,000,000 of bonds addition additional - al additional (to be strung out through a series of years) may be issued hereafter only for the further development of the property. The interest charges before the re reorganization - organization reorganization wore about $7.503,000, per annum, and sinking funis were about $t$00,000, to 8700,000 prr annum additional. The new company's chares are $4,100,000 for 1894, 700,000 for 1895 and $5,40.000 for 189I. Thie old comp~aniy was always in such (lire financial straits and had such large lixed charges tihat it could not airord to spend a cent on the property where such expendlituros could possibly be avoided, and in this way it reaily lost business. Furthermore, its fInancial necessities led it to-litigate all caimns of shippers for lost or damaged goods, suchl litigation in nine cases out of ten having for its object simply to procras procrastiniate - tiniate procrastiniate andl delay paymnent. Tile new company, or-ganlizedt as it now is, can, o1 course, follow a (dilferent policy, andI by f air treatment of shippers is sure to enlarge its bulsiness. Another interesting feature is that, notwithstanding the nominal control of tile former Easst Totnnessee, Virginia and Georgia and lRichmond andi Dan Danvylle - vylle Danvylle systems by the now defunct Ter Termlinal - mlinal Termlinal Company, there was no actual controJ~and tile two companies did not cooperate even In tile ordinary inter interchlange - chlange interchlange of business. Th'le jealousy be between - tween between the two was so great thlat they preferred to turn business ever to some ouitsidie conlnection rathler than give it to each other. Another feature is the consolidlation of the blusiness organi-zationls and the red uction of expenses at j uncti, n points were the D~anviile andl East Ten Tennessee - nessee Tennessee have each mlaintained seperate orgai'z. tions heretofore. In several of the Southern States, legislation has been bittelly hcstile, and it must 1)0 admitted that the way these coimpaniles were condiuctedl pro provoked - voked provoked such legislatior,. As a result of the reorganiztion there is already a mIuch better toel Lug In this respect, a~4 it is certain t~o grow as t he coin. mu l~ty is better servedi. Ter, ible liinanter. ~VA:~~A 1AIll.,, Se-pt. 5.--A t the~ A s sSilton - Silton sSilton C.( shaft, about seven miles moig, of here w n early hour this about 200 feet fo the botto, he wirs cable broke ad the cagetoil tho fl')bottom, demolInhing te ceri fll in TIwy the shaft is 1O0 nctde mli engineer became confused at the ltap and losing contr-ol of 11is engine contyecpdb upnrms1' wh~~1ithibuihlingt wasl i ns'ued for41- . . TLw on tihe st oc,(( 8:j6 jll tihe (onti lCv tuiii (lobe,,. Thue loss onl 1 the .oblk lyS $ I,50 and ll wa pro'he ., O & it bing sved. he co tools t fur4i *' l~ Sen~ y Trap1 onl .ih-t. LM w. Oi' chlieri, the( freslhest can1' dv l)i ineman all kinlds oftnn~d 'oil

TIE NEW SOUTHERN OPENING OF A GIGANTIC SOUTHERN RAILROA ENTEIRPRISE. The New Soulliern Itallway 001nianY "n(1 ?00* the Many itsillroads ti,at Enter Into itN Composition-Iteduced Fixed Chargos and a Good Ilusinen Outlook, Niew YOR1K, Sept. 6.-On Saturday, the 1st instant, the reorganization of the Richmond Terminal system was deflnitely and formally completed, and the last of the many properties which under the plan of reorganization have lost their unhappy and unfortunate identities and become merged in a new - and propitious enterprise, pased into the possession of the Southern Railway Company. Last Saturday, therefore, markk for all practical purposes, the completion of the reorganization; and a conalderation of the situation is, there r opportune, particularly when It is rne in mind that the event is the most notable that has taken place in the b~itory of American railroads, and thatints bearing upon every South Southern - ern Southern business interest is of vital import importance. - ance. importance. The Southern Railway Company op operates - erates operates 4,500 miles of railroad and about 150 miles of water line. With the ex exception - ception exception of 491 miles all the system is owned by the company, and the here heretofore - tofore heretofore complicated and expensive plan of control by majorities, wholly tim timpracticable - practicable timpracticable and unfortunate in its op operation - eration operation and sure to make enemies among the minorities, is done away with. The old Richmond Terminal Company did not own any railroad at all, and the much vaunted (but intrin intrinsically - sically intrinsically worthless) Itichmond and Dan DanVille - Ville DanVille owned only 145 miles. The rest of the Richmond and Danville system was made up of some thirty separate companies, ranging in length from six to 552 milts. Efficiency and economy were impossible on this basis, which also afforded good opportunity for ob. jectionable methods of accounting. The organization of the East Tennes Tennessee - see Tennessee was more compact, but it, too, left much to be desired. As a result of the reorganization over thirty corporations, whose affairs and securities were interlocked in every conceivable way, and in almost hope hopeless - less hopeless confusion, are united in one com company. - pany. company. Thirty Boards of Directors and thirty sets of separate accounts disap disappear - pear disappear simultaneously. The original plan %Vas dated May 1, 1893 it was Issued on ay 23, 1893, and the response of se security - curity security holders was prompt, andi by the middle of June, 1893, success was as assured - sured assured so far as their corporation was concerned. . The summer and autumn of 1893 par. alyzed the South, in common with the rest of the country, and railroad earn earn.,ings - .,ings earn.,ings shrunk greatly. New conditions diai pew complications were presented, and the problem became one of dealing with bankrupt receivers as well as bankrupt corporations. By strenuous efforts everything was held together, and as soon as possible some amend amendments - ments amendments to the original plan were pro promulgated, - mulgated, promulgated, mainly to solve the financial problems of the receiverships, and also to cut down the Interest charges of the reorganlzed company pending a return to normal conditions. These amendments were made public on March 1, 1894. and they were so rea reasonable - sonable reasonable in character that they were quickly accepted by the security hold hold3rs, - 3rs, hold3rs, and the reorganization was at once pushed forward with such rapidity that within four months the new company was formed, and now, within two months more, the last of the proper ty comes into its possession-OO miles of railroadi which, exactly six months ago, had almost dropped to p~ieces, anid which but for the strong hands that held the properties together (luring all the financial troubles, would have dirop dirop.ped - .ped dirop.ped to pieces, are now brought into one compact andi eficient company. company.The - The company.The new company Is organized under a charter granted by the Legislature of Vrnasupplementedl by its confor m mity - ity mity to the laws of' all the othier States in which it owns property. The reorganizition hasi invalved two trustee(' saep, viz.: Richmond and WVest PoInt T1erminal Railway andI Warehouse Company. Trustee's sale under S per cent col collateral - lateral collateral mortgage. TLrustse's sale undier1 5 per cent. col - lateral mortgage. One receiver's sale, vize Richmond and West Point Te'rminal Railway and Warehouse Company. Ten foreclosure sales, viz., covering Richmond and Danville and1( its leased lines. last Tennessee, Virginia and (Geor (Georgia - gia (Georgia (under twvo mortgriges). Charlotte Cohiumbiai and A ugusta. Columbia and Greenville. Louisville Southern. Georgia Pacille. Western North Carolina. North western North Caroliuna. Oxford and Clarksville.' Clarkaville and North '-arolinia Six conveyances without foreclosjur ie viz.: Atlantic, Tennessee and Ohio. Richmond, York River andi eAea eAeapoake. - poake. eAeapoake. Washington, Ohio and West(ern. Piedmont. Statesville and Western. Oxford and II~enderson. And ve understand that some half dozen itnor sales anid as many more conveyances of other kinds are now in progress in order to perfect the wvork. Prior to the reorgan ization, the proper properties - ties properties now merged into the Southern *Railway Company were covered by about seventy separate mortgages. About fo~rt.y or Usu mnlrtnae hayc been eliminated in one way or Ailo~r. Described briefly, and ignoring many smail branch lines, the Southern Rail Railway - way Railway Company extends from Washing Washington, - ton, Washington, or,'.more properly, fronm'Alexan fronm'Alexandria, - dria, fronm'Alexandria, Va. and from West Point and Rtichmondl, Va., via Salisbury, N. - ,, to Augnsta and Atlant'l, Ga.; and thence to the Mississippi River at Greenville. At Salisbury another main lIne crosses the State of North Carolina by way of -- Asheville; thence over t~o K~noxville and Chattanooga, Tenn., andi from there to Rome, Ga., where it dividies, one line going to Brunswick and the other t~o Meridian, Miss. Another line runs from Louisville to Lexington and1 Ilur. gin, Ky., there connecting with the Cin cinnati Southern. The Cincinnati Southern and Memn phis and Chiarleston were includl ini the plan of reorganization as orIginally promulgated, but were dropped from the amended plan, as the security hold *t.., ) -

ism ? If not, then rise up in your might and put down a movement which to gain a temporary advantage would open Pandora a box and flood the State with evils which will be fast fastened - ened fastened iot only upon you, but also uperi your children. The duty of the hour compels every Democrat, whether Tillmanite or anti Tillmanite, to fight now on common ground to sustain white supremacy. Jos. 11. EARLE. THE DEATH ROLL SWELLS. rho Work of Burying the Dead and Oar OarIng - Ing OarIng for the Living. P'INE CITY, MinnD., Sept. 5.-Thie general executive committee in charge of the relief work in this section, has made a report of the dead bodies re recovered - covered recovered thus far as follows: Iliickley 271, Sandstone 77, Miller (often called Sandstone Junction) 15, between Skunk Lake and Miller 12 Pokegama 25, on the timber camps 50 Total 450. Ghouls are at work in the vicinity of Sandstone. Today a party from Du Duluth - luth Duluth under James Bailey came down to help bury the dead and while searching around at noon, came upon a gang who had broken open and rifled some safes and when Bailey and party met them they had just found a cistern from which they had hauled fifteen dead bodies and had robbed them of jewelry, rings trinkets, etc., and were throwing the bodies back into the well, Bailey and party were unarmed, and the ghouls took to their heels and escaped. A frame powder magazine at Sand Sandstone, - stone, Sandstone, a portion of which was left standing and which was empty was torn down for material for coflins. The fire was seen by the Sandstone people four hours before it struck the town and everything was packed up in readiness to move to Kettle River, east of the village. Before anyone was aware of the real danger the lire came upon the town from the north, east and west and liring the whole town in inside - side inside of live minutes. Many were un. able to reach the river and died in thf streets. A blacksmith burned to a crisp in his shop, where he was shoe ing a horse. So sudden was the Ilrn not a thing was saved and in thirt3 minutes the whole town was swept o1 the earth. Those who reached the river remain ed most of the night. The survivor are entirely destitute and have no even clothing to their backs, excep such as is provided by the relief com muittees. Whole families are wipe4 out. President Sam 11111 of the easteri Minnesota branch of the Northern l.i cilic came up from Ilinckley thi morning and took a northern traf over the St. Paul and iIuth roat Mr. Hill took the )uluth Road t within nine miles of Sandstone an walked over. The big eastern Minn( sota bridge over the Kettle river has steel arch in the middle 180 feet lon and is still intact, though wooden ar proaches are burned. "The scene of death and ruin alon the road is a terrible one," says Mr 11111, "not a sign of life is anywheri to be seen, all is blackened, charret mass of ruins. Dead animals and hu man beings are everywhere and the) are buried where ever found. In on old well was found twenty-flve snake! and forty or flIfty field mice all togethel alive. There were many peculiar fed tures of the fire. In one place, when all else was burned and blackoned al around, we found a wagon with the hay in the box intact, while the horsei were dead. There is yet to be closed up on Minnesota, a gap of twelve mile' between IIinckley and )uluth eight miles, of which are between IInckle) and Sandstone. There are four mile in St. Cloud direction, which will bi closed up by tomorrow. I noticed it one place some freight car wheels wern melted, while not three hundaed feel away was another car untouched. J1udge Nethaway, of Still Water, ha: been one of the most active in relie! woric, and has been all over thme sur rou~nding country. lie found the fain ily of Jack Itobinson, man, wife an< seven children all dead and hardly re cogr.izab~le and also found .J. 0. Row ley, agent of- the Minnesota an< Winnipeg. Several miles northwest oj llincley today he came to a spol where a farm house had stood. Ir front was a well and over to the lefl could be seen live human bodies an< h lodies of several animals. .Judgi Nethaway went at once to the well t< see if anyone was there, and fount dlown in the bottom, a little 12-year-ol< Iboy in eight in~lhes of water, who ha< llvedi there since Saturday with nioth ing to eat. T1he little fellow was pull ed up and said lhe had been put dowi there when the lire was seen, andi ar "awful bad smoke had passed over hin andI it was awful hot." Ile asked the judlge if he knew where his fathei and mother were, and his dog. .Judge Nethaway took him on his backt tc where he could be fed, while other par ties went~ back after the flive bodies. A niorrble Murder. A NDERSON, S. U., Sept. 4.-Barbari ilall an old colored woman, was shol andl killed last Saturday morning aboul 1 o'clock by her two grand sons, Law rence Rutledge and .John Andrew Rice The circumstances of the tragedy ar1 as follows: Gilbert Rutledge, the steil father of' the two boys, had given thenr a severe thrashing, and they after arm ing themselves with a shot gun loade(1 with buck shot, went to the Ihall we man's house, where their stepfather was, with the purpose of wreakinj their vengeance on him. She refused them admission. They then fired al the door, behind which she was stand, ing, Th'ie shot passed through the door and entirely through the old woman making a hole in her chest as big ai an egg. A number of negroes were arrested, but af ter hearing the evidenci at the lnflumest all were released except the boys ablove named and they arn now ini jail, held for trial. flurned HIs Harreim. M ERKE'r, Tex., Sept. 5-A great re vival under the auspices of the Met ho dist church has b~eenl going on here Among the converts was J. W. hlrooks a saloon keeper. To p rove that he wal sincere in his professions, Brooks tool his entire stock of liquor out into thi public square, poured the liquor out andl set ire to the boxes and barrels ie also consigned all his licenses t< the flames. A crowd of 500 witnessed tihe per formance, which was coniducte< with impressive religious exercises ani Binuing. The stock o goods as v

A DARING EXPLOIV. HOW MOBY CAPTURED A UNIOt GENERAL AT FAIRFAX. I True Tale of the Oon(tdkorate War Thal Read. Like F.etion-Some Confedorate Enter the Union Uampn and oapture Number of Men and Horses. ItTHITMOND, Va., Sept. 6.-To thosi who know nothing of the hardships o war, there ever hangs over a battlefleb tmist of romance, shrouding its mos ideous details in the poetry of fiction &nd even those who have felt thi fhock of charging men, and heard th .annon's roar that seemed to shake thf verylfoundation of earth, in after year look buicli with a certain tendernes upon those "days that are no more" more"wen - wen more"wen though those days were passed ir 1he cramped bed of a dirty prison hos pital, or on the long, hot marches o nidsummer. But bravery command u r admiration, and the deeds of tli nen who fought in the Civil war ofter ival the dauntless courage of Charle :nange and are as exciting as the ex loits of Richard on the sunny plaint f Palestine. Perhaps one of the mos inique adventures of the war was th 3apture of General Stoughton by Mosb' tnd the affair reads more like the raidi f Robin Hood than an event in th( prosaic times of the present. In the spring of 1863 General Stough .on was encamped at Fairfax Court louse with a large number of men, an< ;he doughty warrior had determine< :o put a stop to the depredations o Wosby, who kept the Federal troops I1 .4orthern Virginia in a constant stat )f terror by his numerous and sudder ,aids. All this part of VTirginia wa: nown as "Mosby's Confederacy." ler he ranger chief gave the enemy som inpleasant surprises in the shape o ,aids en sleeping encampments, th ,apture of their wagons and the de itruction of their railroads, ised in sup lying them with men and food 5toughton had grown weary of thi .ruitless efforts of others to capture th iwift-moviEg rebel, and he was decide( ,hat he would bag Mosby or lose ever5 nan he had in the attempt. One night., early in March, Stoughtor lad a little supper at his headquarteri -a neat little supper that sent the gal ant general to bed in an excellent iu ,nor,and made him quickly forget tha war's alarms were ever likely to disturl Jie slumbers of a votary of the laugh ing, vine crowned god. It was a col sight, and the rain that had set in ear ly in the day continied to come dow: in a ceaseless pour that made the worl ne dreary, watery waste. The Unioi non never dreamed that any one woul renture out after setting the usual son inels to plot( through the mud at theli )osts 'about town. By 11 'o'clock the little village wa ilent and the Federal camp wrappec n slumber, but down the road near th amous field of Chintilly a party o: lien on horseback were stealing hrough the woods. No one spoke . vord, and the only sound in the dark less was the splashing of the horses ioofs in the pelting rain through th ,ossing trees. And as they stole along n the night, wrapped in heavy cloaks md with their hats pulled low 'ovel 'heir brows, they looked liki tome band of conspirators creeping or ,heir way to assassinate some sleeping L'oe. On nearing the town one of them ciu he wire that ran to tho station near b5 md thus the Union troops were sev 'red from all communication vith theli 'rienuds at a distance. It was mid~nigh whlen the cavalcade entered the village md as they tramped (down the mudd' road no one saw them or heard a soun( rrom the foes thus dlaring to ride int< ~he very face of the slumbering enemy l'here was no light in the to Wnl streets md only now and then a faint glean ~rom a half shut window wonuld trembli ~or a moment on the smoking sides o ~he rangers' horses, or be rellecte( >ack from the pistols in their belts. Oai reaching the center of the villagi Mosby halted his men, and dividini hem into two detachments, sent ont luietly to secure the horses, while with lix mon he took lis way to the heat lnarters of tihe Commanding General 'le house was old-fashioned Southerr nansion, about 100 yards from the roat md set back in a pretty grove of trees L'he rangers quietly openied the gate md troting upl to the house, dismout d and ran up on thle porch. With lerce jerk Mosby rang the bell. A window in a room above flew ul mnd a sleepy voice demanded who wal elow. ''A courier with dispatches for Gen ~ral Stoughtoni," replied Mosby, as hi notlioned to the men not to move. Th'le window fell, the ofllcer ran dowl md In a moment the door stood open "You are my prisoner," wvhisnerei Niosby to the astonished Federal,~whc eing unarmed, dared not make an: resistance. Then, leaving one man t' guanrd the captive, the ranger dlashet ipstairs and strodle into the rooni where the General lay sleeping. Wit] I rough shake Mosby aroused him. " What in the dlevil Is the matterT nquired Stoughton as he sprang up it led. "Stuart 's cavalry is in possession o ,ho town," Mosby quietly replied. "Stuart in town," Stotughuton ex ~laimed in astonishiment, still mistak ng the men about his bed for his owi roops. 'Why, I thought you had cap tred Mosby." "Oh, no; you have not captured Mos ay," coolly remarxed the (Chieof, "bit Niosby has captutred you ; you 1had( bes seIt ill quietly and come with me." lFinding himself a prisoner in thi innds of the very man to whose cap utre lie was aworn, and believimr tha Iilnrt's troops hadl the town the Uhnior for~ Bral made no attempt to resist, bu ied (quiethy. In a few minutes hi ...Mosb~y dcend~h~ed the steps, and rting horses that stoodi outside ar soon jolnedl the rest of the rangern were awaiting Mosb~y's arrival at leeting phle in the center of the hi . 'C r it was found that the night'i I., had securedl 58~ h'urses and 32 pris 'ago -and all this had bean accomn 'd without a blow bueing strtuck, i ,a ired or any alarm being given t< (tny 'at of the camp. In fact, thi rs pushed noiselessly out of towi 4,~ heir prisoners ann their horses -n u oul dreamed that the guerrilh .was stealing away with thel '.-. les from beneath their ver)

noses. By daybreak the troop was miles away. In passing th3 enemy's last outpost they mounted a bluff that overlooked the road and gazed anxiously in the di direction - rection direction of Failfax. Hut not a foe was in Bight--there was nothing in sight, except the water soaked hills and the gray light creeping down in the brown valleys below. And with a sigh of re. lief the troop again took up its march to the South. No pursuit was made, and by noon the next day the men and horses were turned over to General Fitzhugh Lee, who was then stationed atBrandv Station. And so closed one of the most amusing incidents and dar daring - ing daring exploits of the Civil war.-Dis war.-Dispatch. - patch. war.-Dispatch. . THE CONGRESSIONAL NOMINEES. Counting the Votes of Congressional Van Vantlidates - tlidates Vantlidates in Ewch Disirlct. 3 COLUrni A. S. C., Sept. 5.-The State Denocratic Executive Committee met last night in the btate Rouse. State Chairman Irby called the committee to order shortly before 9 o'clock. Secre Secretary - tary Secretary Tompkins and Treitsurer Jones were on hand. A. II. Patterson of Barnwell and 11. 11. Townes of Edge Edgeiield,sent - iield,sent Edgeiield,sent in their resignations as mem members - bers members of the conimittee and the real gna gnations - tions gnations were accepted. The committee proceeded to tabulate the votes of Congressional candidates in each dis district - trict district and to declare the result. The following is the vote for each district and the candidates wha received a ma majority - jority majority were declared the nominees of the party: FIRST DISTRICT. Win. Elliott. Sullivan. Charleston......... 1,257 1,457 Georgetown........ 553 116 Beaufort........... 219 17 Williamsburg...... 350 34 Colleton ........... 256 1 Berkeley.......... 15!. 1.10 Totals............ 2,937 1,789 SECOND DISTIICOT. W. J. Talbert. . Iampton.........................1,248 Barnwell........ ...........1.584 Aiken-....................1,21 Edgefeld. ..........2,058 Total....................... 6,411 'rITIM D IST RIT'. A. C. Latimer. Abbeville............ ............2,348 Newberry ........................1,111 Anderson.........................2,657 Oconeo ............................1,380 ... kn............ ...........1,4313 '.iothl........................ 8929 FOURTIl DITRIuT. Wilson. Duncan. Johnson. 1 Greenville....1,789 295 1.435 I/jtrens......1,31 54 838 Fairfleld...... 232 454 7 1 Spartanburg.. 2493 81 404 . Union........ 670 504 24;3 - ltichland..... 398 - 308 696 Totals.....),!I03 15 * 3.628 Wilson's majority over alli1,579. FIFTH DISTRICT. T. J. Strait. D. E. Finley. Spartanburg..... :314 77 York .......... 71; 1,094 Cbester.......... .15 131 Lancaster.......1,375 4;31 Chesterfield ...... 859 542 Kershaw ......... 9:10 286 Union ..........: 0:1 91 Totals ......... 5,442 2.655 Ma jorit.y for Strait, 2.787. SINTIT DISTRI01T. Jolin L. Mei]aurin. Clarendon............ .7811 Darlington........... 76i8 Marlboro............. 880 M arion............... 1,571 Ilorenc............. No report Williamsburg..... 411 Total...............5,20s .SE v EN'rII DIRTU[C'r. J1. Wmn. Stokes. Lexington.................. 1,493 Orangeburg................. 2,135 Sutr........ .... ............ 1,078 Colieton--...-..................... 1,586; iHerkeley.................... 798 otln.....................2127 The Reformers aind the aniti-Tillman aniti-Tillmanites - ites aniti-Tillmanites each held a primary in IBeaufort county, and the quiestion camne before tecommittee of coua ting the vote for Congressional candidates. Each side claimed to be D~emocratiu.. Thie com committee - mittee committee decided to count all the votes in each of the primaries for Sullivan and lIitt. IBefo.e adjourning the comn comnmnittee - mnittee comnmnittee passed a resolution asking the railroads to give reduced rates to delo delogates - gates delogates wiho will attend the State con convention - vention convention this month. - A Rorror of the saluda, W IILLI AMS'rON, S. C., Sept. 4.---While RL. V. Acker, trial justice, was fIshing two miles below Peizer today he dis discovered - covered discovered the body of a man floating in Itie water and caught on an overhang overhanging - ing overhanging limb. Without further inves investigating - tigating investigating the matter he came to Wil Williamiston, - liamiston, Williamiston, summoned a jury of inquest andi returned to the scene. Frank Lan Lander, - der, Lander, together with three other men, Iprocured a boat, went out to where the ,body was floating. tiedi a rope around it and towed it to the bank. Careful Sinvestigation and expert testimony could ascertain nothing with certainty as to the race or color of the man, the bodIy being in such a state of decompo decompo-sition, - -sition, decompo-sition, but it is believed that he was a white man, lie was barefooted, had on black pants, a very old coat, a leather belt and overalls. It is thought that the man was murdered though no marks of violence could be dletected. There is a camp of hands very near whore the body was found who probably know more than they will tell. The man was evidIentiy put in the river blelow P'elzer mill as his body could not haye passed over the (dam. TJhe jury will render Itheir verdict tomorrow.-Greenvlie News. Kied a Tramii,, IHEND)EHSON, Ky., Sept. 4.--Two Itr amps entered the farmhouse of .John (Gillespie, near inks City, on Green Iriver, and, finding his wife alone, they dlemanded food, which sihe refused, when they helped themselves andl plim plimdered - dered plimdered the house. On her husband re returning - turning returning and ascertaining of the robbery, he armed himself with a shotgun atid, accompaniedi by a neighbor, went on the trail. They came upon the tramps near Congleton, McLean county. The rillanis drew their pistols and refused to surrender, whtereu pon the pursuers opened tire, fatally wounding one, the' othnr nefeting his eape.a