Rensselaer Republican, Volume 16, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 March 1884 — Page 7

The Republican. RENSSELAER, INDIANA. ft 1. NARfIHATJ., PPBUBHP,

Prop. Hitchcock says that a “study of the crystalline rocks of, the , Atlantic slopes indicates the presence of ovoidal and Laureutian gneisses.” Exactly! And when you see a young man ' and a young maiden under the same umbrella on the beach that's what they’re looking for, and they usually have a very gneiss time. Dowagers with marriageable daughters now have superseded lawn tennis in England with apple drying. They set aside a large dining-room at the castle, where the young ladies are to _hfr employed iu stringing the apples, while the young sportsmen are to find relief front the fatigues of the field in coring and slicing them. Senator Voorkees, in his defense of young Nutt, told the Pittsburg jury that the young man did right iu killing the murder of his father arid the despoiler of his sister, upon the broad ground that the invader of the sanctity of the family circle took his life in his hand and deserved to be shot to death. “I would have said,” Mr. Voorbees told the Jury, “talce a shot gun,jUl it four inches deep veilh buckshot, wait until you see him on the street, then shoot him down’ I would have done it. God forgive me not if I would not.’ A email cavalcade of soldiers recently arrived at St. Petersburg after eleven days’ ride from Nijni Novgorod. Tho party consisted of four officers and fifteen men of the Orenburg Cossacks. In Moscow they were detained for a day by the kindness of the Grand Duke Nicholas and his friends; another day was lost through the inclemency of the weather j .and it may therefore he said that the distance of nearly 1,000 miles was made in nine days. On their arrival the condition of both men and horses was found to be highly satisfactory. Dorns E. Salomon, the President of the Black Bepnblio of Haiti, is described as a massive, broad-shouldered giant, at least six foot six inches in height, w ith the physical proportions of a gladiator; snow-white locks, keen restless eyes, glittering like diamonds in a setting of jet; high, intellectual forehead, and a form, despite his advanced age, erect as a pillar of stone, with a dignified air. He was educated at one of the most famous colleges in Paris, and is a person of no ordinary ability, being a brilliant conversationalist and linguist and a crafty diplomat During the last eight years no less than 201 railway companies, having a mileage of over 25,000 miles, or over 20 per cent, of the entire mileage of the United States, and representing an investment of nearly $1,500,,000,000, have passed through bankruptcy, foreclosure and reorganization. The worst phase of the situation is that it. looks just now as if not a few more oompanies were about to follow the same downward road. As Prof. Bonamy Price said in 1875, we have again gone far to extensively and too expensively into tlie business of ‘'digging holes in tho ground. - —; — j, "' .. 1 . . —: New York Morning Journal: ’The new paper shirt bosom just issued by an uptown furnishing goods man, fills a longfelt want, and no man need button Ids coat up to his neck now, except for warmth- -These .bosoms are composed of six layers, the top one to be torn off when soiled. By great care one of these pads will last six weeks, and as they only cast five cents apiece they will be appreciated by poor men. An extra gloss bosom for ten cents is pnt np in the same style for Use on special occasions, and these will find ready purchasers in the upper middle classes The bosoms are self-fastening and* adjusting, and are adapted to quick dressing. It looks as if the shirt,will have to go next summer. “Stepniak," author of "Underground Russia,” writes to the London Dally Neicx that five years ago Soudeikin, an obscure plcbian infantry captain, was unknown. He rose with the assassination of the Czar. Having shortly before entered the police from the armv, he attracted the attention of Public Prosecutor Strelmikoff, a monarchical fanatic, who recommended him, though hut 28, to the Czar for important work, and he soon won golden opinions from his Majesty. He was a bora detective, and had a marvelous art of insinuating himself into the confidence of prisoners. He openly avowed that terrorism was, in his opinion, the only remedy applicable. To accomplish his aim he was absolutely indiferent to what expedients he resorted, but be was not cruel. He had often said that, sooner or later, he was bound to be killed, but would do his best to make’ it later. He had no fixed habitation, and but very few knewwhere to find him. Stepniak ’* describes

him as the mo3t powerful subject of the Empire, and thinks that it wonhl be difficult to exaggerate the consternation occasioned by his murder among the court party. 1 New York Telegram: There-mrcr 78,363 dwelling-houses in this city, the rest being devoted to business purposes Of piers in this city which are used forcommercial purposes thre are. all told, j 301, Then there are the bridges also ; to be counted in to the number of 144. Who would fancy that there were so many bridges within the city limits. Seats are in the city theaters for about 50,000 people, not to speak of concert halls and other places of recreation and pleasure. The matter is thus presented : Academy of Musio..... 2,180 Bijou Opera House ®l2 Casino I,' 61 Cosmopolitan theater . 1.860 -Paly's theater; ....... O’.ri Fourteenth Si reeS theater...* J 1,800 Fifth Avert tie theater. .. —..... Um> •Grand -theater, 1.150. Grand Opera House ; 2,11_< Haverl. 's Comedy theater 827 Harry Miner's ißowery> thra'er Harry Miner's Eighth avenue' theater.... 2, ‘240 Lexington Avenue Opera House.,. 1.0 0 London theater 1.50 1 Metr ipoli an Opera House 2,8 “ Madison Squire theater 677 Mount Morris theater V'-Vt Xati nal iheater ’.... sSO Niblo’R Garden. 2.0 0 New Parle theater.... 1,500 People’s theater Sfifiy Star theater V‘49 Thir i Avet'U • theater. I,lo' Theatre t'omiqne 7 1,4*20 Twenty-'htrd Street theater 1,200 Thalia theater Tour Pa-tor's theater. 64't Turf Club thra or , Off Uni-n Square theater I,' 8 ‘ Wallack's theater 1,123 In additions to the buildings now erected there —are on file plans for dwellings to contain 10,174 families, or over 50,000 persons. Frank Hatton tells this story of the appointment of Bill Nye as postmaster i at Laramie,Wyoming Territory. “There ; were two candidates for the office, and the fight they made was occasioning considerable excitement out in the territory. I discovered that one of these candidates was a red-hot Blaine man and that the other candidate was equally loudmouthed for Logan. About the time that this information reached me a number of persons suggested that Bill Nve would make a good postmaster, and it struck me that as he was known to be friendly to the administration his appointment ought to be satisfactory all around. So one day I made out Nye’s commission and took it to the j President, I said: “This wrangle over the Laramie postoffice ought to be settled, Mr. President. One of the applicants is a roaring Blaine man, the second is a roaring Logan man, and the third, Mr. E. W. Nye, is a modest, unostentatious friend of the administration.’ ‘ln that case,’ said the President, ‘our duty is plain—we should appoint Mr. Nye, as a compromise.’ The eomnißision was signed, sealed, and forwarded to Bill Nye that very afternoon, and I am free to confess that I am proud of my efforts in the genial humor, ist’s behalf.” The masons stopped work on the Washington monument November 24th, leaving the shaft for the winter at a height of 410 feet. At this elevation it is tho loftiest artificial structure on the continent, and with very few exceptions in the world. It is now almost the exact height of, the cathedral, at Antwerp. It is higher than any specimen of Moslem architecture, the highest minaret, that of the Mosque of Sultan Hassan, at Cairo, lifting its highest points only to 282 feet above the pavement. The highest bell-tower in the world, the Cumpanile of St. Marks, at. Venice, is nearly 100 feet lower than the present shaft of the monument. Of the few works of man which can still look down on the unfinished trunk of the monu meat are the two tail-chimneys of manufacturing works in Glasgow, one 450 and the other 460 feet high; the great pyramids of Cheops,now 450 feet high; St. Peter’s at Rome, 455; and the Gothic cathedral at Amiens, 422. All these will be in turn surpassed by the monument until it towers above all the created works of man. Its nearest neighbor in the air will be the main tower of the new Philadelphia City Hall, which is designed to be 535 feet above the pavement, or only fifteen feet lower than the monument. The ascent of the monument is made in a platform elevator on which the marble block® are hoisted to the summit. The trip is an interesting bnt not altogether pleasant experience. For nine long minutes one is drawn* up in tho cold, dark, damp passage, with nothing to distract the mind from the moral reflections which occur to it under such circumstances.

Where Pure Air Exists.

Two scientific investigators, one Swiss and the other French, have been analyzing the Alpine air. They ascertained that entirely pure air is not fonnd until an altitude is reached of from 6,000 to 13,000 feet above the level of the sea. The atmosphere around the likes below that level, however pure and healthful apparently, was fonnd to contain bacteria. Nevertheless it was pure enough by comparison with that of the French capital, where the bacteria contained in a square foot of air are 7,000 more numerous than those in the same quantity of air in one of the Swiss valleys. All the whetting in the world can never set a razor’s edge on that which hath no steel in it.

THE BAD BOY

“Take care, there, yon will rail rightover the stove,” said the groce'ry man to the hod boy, as he came along the floor, his eyes fixed as though he were looking into tho future about two years, and bis mind so occupied that he did not seem to see the stove. “ What you thinking about ? Lately you have got so you think too much, and by and by you will be one of.-these vacaue'es that don’t know beans, people are getting so they-think too much, and especially boys. * Nothing liuits a bo*rso lunch as to get in the habit of think’ug. What tlid von have on vour mind when Von came in'-?” T “Oh. I was thinking of that feller down in tho Third Ward' thaFTuHSTW gill and' then killed himself, all on account of their religion being a different brand, so they couldn’t marry each other. Gosh, it don't seem us though religion ought to bar a feller out of the heaven of his girl's love, does it 2” said tLe boy. “Well,” said the grocery man, as lie wiped some sirup off his hinds on ~ar coffee sack, “you can't drive, two kinds of religion to the pole, in a family, with any kind of success. You may drive two kinds of religion single or tanib m, but when von hitch ’em up together, and they try to travel along at a good road gait, one will go off' its feet end gallop, while the other trots, and then tlie galloping rehg.on will catch and ebrno down to a trot, and the other will hr. sik up, and there they are, teg-p.M: ing,>and the air full of creeds a.id do • times, and there is danger they will run away and smash something. No, it is better for the people who are going --torn arry to have tnetr measures taken for. the same kind of religion, and then each can wear the other’s religion, and all will he lovely.” “I don’t know,” says the hail boy, taking an apple, “about this thing of waiting till you find out about a girl’s religion before you love her. Sometimes you can’t do it. If a girl has not got any sign out warning a fellow what kind of religion she has got concealed about her person, how is ho going to know until it is everlastingly too late? When a young feller falls in love with a girl, it is like falling down on skates. Everything seems to give way at once. It strikes him like a 6and-bag, and there he is, asphyxiated the first thing. He knows that she is perfect, and he takes her right into his heart and wraps his heart around her, and puts rubber weather strips oh all the cracks so she can’t get out, and her religion is the last thing he thinks of. If, her religion pulls her one way, and his heart pulls her ’tother way, something’s got to bust; sometimes it’s the religion that busts, and sometimes it’s the heart. I think there ought to be a convention composed of delegates from all kinds of religion, and let them make a law that any religion shall be legal tender anywhere, like a gold dollar. Religion ought to be pure gold, good anywhere. If a man comes in here to buy soap, and gives you a gold dollar, coined in Rome, or Jerusalem, or California, or China, or Russia, or the Feejee Islands, he gets hie soap, Bnt if your son is in love with a Hebrew girl, her religion says your son’s religion is counterfeit, and she goes to her grave with your son’s love in her heart, and he goes to the devil with her image in his heart, and both are ruined for life ’cause they couldn’t match their religions. A Baptist girl falls in love with a young fellow that is a perfect specimen of ' manhood, brave, noble, intelligent, tender to her, and as kind as a man can be, and they begin to plan for the clay when he can take her to a home and be all the world and a small section of heaven to her, when some day a friend says to her, “Your lover is one of the noblest men I ever saw, but it is-a pity he is a Catholic.” Then the trouble commences. He believes his religion is the grandest in the world, and she believes hers is no slouch; each tries to induce the other to adopt another religion, but it is a failure, and they drift apart in all except the buried love that can never be quenched on earth or in heaven. I tell you it is 'pretty tough to have so many different kinds I of religion that can’t be made to jibe; don’t you think so I” “Yes, it is rough,” said the grocery man, “but a little difference like that hadn’t ought to make a fellow kill the girl he loved.” “Course not,” said the boy. “This fehlCT snrdydidn’t love “the girl, else he wouldn’t shoot. Say, s’ppse you loved a girl, regular old spontaneous kind! Could you pull out a revolver and send two bullets into her pretty clidek, and cord her up against the fence dead? Naw, you couldn’t. Nor anybody else. He didn’t love that girl. He thought he did, but it was something else. You see, if he had loved her, not having any particular religion hisself, he would have let her take him by the hand and lead him to her church like a child, and he would have got down on his knees and prayed with her, and become her brother in the church, and then married her. But he was wrong iu the head, and when he found that she loved her church he got jealous of her religion, that was all, and as long as he couldn’t kill her religion, Jie killed her. By Jinks, if it was some fellows, they would join any church that ever was for the girl they loved. Pa says he knew a man that got in love with a Jewess, and her folks tried to stand him off, but he joined their church and opened a pawn shop, and got a rabbi to marry them on the sly, and when her folks came blowing around he pnt up his hand and shook it and said, ‘Hast dogeshen. Vot yon going to do apout it?’ Masays she and pa had a good deal of trouble about their religion before they weremarried. She was a Baptist and pa was a Democrat, but pa kicked when they nominated Greeley, and goes to her church now. Well, I must go down to the morgue and see tfye lovers that couldn’t - agree about going to heaven,” and the boy skipped.— Peck’s Sun. ~ Queen Posiabe V., <ff Tahiti, is an inveterate cigarette smoker. She is described as vivacious, affable, petite, and refined. She speaks English fluently, and, while not a handsome woman, is exceedingly good looking. In the bloom of, youth no ornament is so lovely as that of virtue.

MURDER NO CRIME.

A Review of the Evidence .of Mississippi Outrages—Work of the Pistol and the Whip. j_ The Situation Worse than the Senate Committee Expected—An Organised Conspiracy to Hill or Lash Republican Voters. ’ tNew Orleans Cor. Philadelphia Press.] In the six days* testimony which it has ocenpied in listening' to some fifty witnesses the Mississippi Investigating Committee has ascertained a state of facts Worse than its members expected to find. It has been amply proven that last fall tho elections were carried by the Bourbons only after a reign of terror by mobs, headed by Democratic politicians and abetted by Congressmen and State officials from the Governor down. In some counties the Independents were counted out; {n others they withdraw their tickets the week before election. In Copiah, where a few brave men were at tho head of the opposition, the Democrats drove the negroes to the woods by murdering sonic and whipping others, broke up Independent meetings, patrolled the county by night, and by a regailarly organized and armed mob, disregarded ail appeals of peaceable people for the punishment, of these crimes, held public meetings approving the use of force, picketed the polling-places with armed men, drove away Republican officers of election, and notified their leaders not to go to tho polls. ■ - < . ■ POOR MATTHEWS' FATE. The strongest and best Republican in the county, a man that every witness, Including Democrats and clergymen, has testified was an honorable, peaceful, and wealthy roan, was notified not to vote. He expressed his intention of dcung so. The mob under the lead of the Chairman of the Ceinopratio Committee drew lots to see who should murder him at the polling place. Knowing that he was in danger, but persisting in voting, he was unresistingly murdered by the chosen assassin, an old personal friend. I?o sooner was it done than the news was telegraphed all over the country that Matthews was kllTcd, and the victorious Democracy drove off Republicans, threateningthem with Matthews' fate. A few weeks later the tnurderer is chosen City Marshal, scut as a delegate to a prohibitory convention. and becomes a prominent candidate before the Legislature for the position of Commissioner of Railroads. None of the criminals are punished. Grand juries, ministers of the gospel, Sheriffs, Mayors, and practicing attorneys are silent. Arson and murder are not considered ■crime. The best men in the community swore that, while they did not approve of these proceedings. they did not dare to object, on account of universal terrorism. They adopted a more civilized plan in Hinds County, as testified to by United States Attorney Ware. “What!” demanded Senator Saulsbury. “Over there they counted the Republicans out. Do you call that civilized?” “Yes, compared with deliberate murder, as it was In Copiah,” was Ware's reply. No one can doubt that there was Intimidation. Thomas Sinclair, a very intelligent colored man, who was a candidate for Secretary of State in 1869 as a Democrat, d d not dare remain in the county, and went to Jackson at election time. He had been a Democrat until two years ago, but he left that party because he thinks they mean to exterminate the negroes. “I was a slave,” he said, “and by hard work I have accumulated money enough to buy 1,000 acres of land with stock, with a steam mill, but bad to sell for half the assessed value and leave the oounty.” He has taken no part in politics of late, but he does not feel sale. DRIVEN TO THE WOODS. A thorough system of terrorization pervaded, the armed mob driving the colored men to the woods, and election day forming a cordon of men with shotguns about the polls, so that many Independent inspectors refused to act and hardly any of their party voted. The murder of Matthews was telegraphed and sent to every polling place, causing great joy among the Democrats, and convincing their opponents that it was no use to vote. “We are going to carry this county, no matter If we have to All men,” as testified by a dozen witnesses, was’ the current talk among the Democrats. Matthews, the most prominent Independent in the county, was selected to be butchered as an example for the i est. Richard Cogswell, Inspector of the election, testified that he saw Matthews shot. He was it* the robin with five Democrats. The moment he deposited his ballot Wheeler shot him dead. Wheeler's son-in-law, also armed, was keeping guard at the door. All the testimony shows that the killing was a de iberatc plot. Cogswell had heard some ono say that Matthews carried a pistol to shoot Democrats with. “I don’t blame him if he did,” blurted out Senator Frye. But that is all the evidence so far in that direction. On the other hand, Noah Ramsey, a young white man. swore that he beard Wood, Democratic candidate for Coroner, say the day before election that Matthews would be killed any way, and so would his brother if the latter was elected Sheriff. Henry Hodges said, at Tatlhola, when the news of the murder came; “I bavo known for a week it was going to be done.” Walter P. Ware, a Democratic storekeeper at Hazlehurst, swore that Mead, Chairman of the Democratic Committee, told him that, in accordance with agreement with a Democratic club, he had ordered a cannon fired as soon aB Matthews was shot; he bad advised Matthews to leave, but the latter had been promised protection by the Sheriff, Sheriff Hargraves has been accused of trying to deputize Matthews to quiet the mob, in order to have him shot. WilHameon, the Democratic Mayor of Hazlehurst, testified t at be does not think that Hargraves did it solely for that purpose. WHAT WHEELER SAID. J. T. Dameron, a well-to-do merchant at Jackson, saw Wheeler in a street-car Feb. 14, and beard him say to a young man: “Hoar’s Committee is coming down here. If I get a crack at him I’ll kill him, too. I told Matthews not to vot# 1 . but he did, and I killed him. I did not do it on my Own accord, but jfor the Democratic party. It* fell to my lot, and I am the man who did the dirty work.” Finally Dr. A. P. Pitts, a cousin to Wheeler, pfter a long series of questions, admitted, though reluctantly, that soon after the election Wheeler acknowledged to him that he filled Matthews simply because he had been chosen by the Democratic regulars. A CLEKOVMAN'S STATEMENT. When a Baptist minister, of Hazlehurst, Sained Lomax, was on the stand, be said he as a straight I emocrat. Nothing could jturn him from his devotion to bis fellow-f-eurocrats. He bad beardof Matthews being Killed, but was not prepared to call it a murder. He found it was nctsa.e to express an opinion in public, and be would not do so. At a meeting of Prohibitionists the present month, the majority being Democrats, they voted to send Wheeler to Jackson as a representative, to induce the I e/islature to (grant a prohibitory law to Copiah County. Me thought Matthews a fair representative citizen, although a Democrat. He said he Would not vote for an infidel. “ How about murderers?” asked Mr. Hoar. {The question was evaded. Tbe committee ■was anxious to ascertain tbe popular feeling in Copiah. Lomax said: “I think the mumpers of the mob are generally law-abiding, orderly citizens. It includes the most respectable and influential Demo irate, as a general thing, I think our people may be oppo-ed to the mob rule. I never heard any one denounce Matthews’ killing much; some disapproved it. Ex-Represents.ive Miller told me privately be thought It best not to do it* BARKSDALE'S SPEECH. Congressman Barksdale is shown to have made a speech advising the mob which paraded and (hen attended in a body to carry the election, no matter what the issue, and expressed bis hope that Frank Buffin, an active Republican, would be banged so high the birds sf preyoonld not bury tneir beaks in b«»n- - Parson Mlllaap was present While he did

not remember the exact words, Barksdale's speech had been so violent and Incendiary that be could never vote for him again. Ho had done so believing Barksdale to be a respectable man. A ROPE AROUND MTS NEC*. Napoleon De-mar, eo'orod, testified to hav- j lDg bees visited by armed men before the ; election- They threw a rope over bis neik, j and made him kneel dow - and swear that he i would vote the Democratic tickot. Ho did vote it because hfe feared violence if be 1 failed to do ro. William Robertson. Co-oner ‘ at Hazlehurst when Matthews won killed, test- > tlfie l that Dodd and Ware advised him not to hold an Inquest, as it was Unnecessary, it be- j ing well known who killed Matthews. I ntor In the day he saw Wheeler, who admitted j that he had done tk«‘ kilting. Ware Is folated j to the Matthews family. j Swelling the Outrages —Some Ad'lillanal Testimony. J x : Frank Hayes testified that the third day before the election armed men came to his house and broke in, and shot twice. His wiic was Jshot in the shoulder.- They wont out then, and be ran dawn and jump-id off lbgallery, and was then shot in tho log. He fell, and one of the party suid: “That is: what you good men get.” Witness did not i vote at that election. Tho shot he received i laid him up two months, and be cannot work ■ ybt. Mrs. Frank Hayes (colored i was shot in the throat the day before the last election. Hho showed a bullet hole in her left shoulder. Was shot in four places. Witness was in bed when the men curae and broke into in thouse. T. D. Hurd stated that- when he denounced the killing of Print Matthews ut Ha/.leburst three men presented pistols ut him and ordered him to leave town. Orange Heldshings, colored, swore to the way he was raided and deprived of the Independent ticket. ' r— — ■ J. 18. Warehite lives at Jackson. Is {secretary of the Jackson Light Guard. The night of the last election he was ordered to carry forty guns and 1,000 rounds of cartridges to Hazlehurst. M.-i J. s. Meade at tbe Hazlehurst depot, wno sa d he was ordered by the Sheriff to receive them. Turned the guns oyer to him and took a receipt. Moado hud a body of armed men wtth him. Hen Standiford was visited at 1 o'clock by armed men tho Saturday night before elec- I tion. Got- up and opened tho door for the j visitors, when he was seized and carried out t of the house and forced to swear not to gutol - the election. —At A o’clock - the same night j another squad tame, when witnx-s slipped out into the darkness. The gentlemen cursed I and abused hl.s wife before they went away. Witness had alwaya voted split tickets, supportlilg Democrats when they were good mon. ! Did not vote alter that. Solomon Smith, colored, was called on at his house the night before election- just before day. They demanded the election tickets’which witness had, and beat him over the head with a pistol, knocking him down. They got the tickets. They wero Independent tickets. They then wont away. Daniel Crarohat, colored, lives in Beat 3. The night before the election, just afteh 10 o’clock, some parties came to bis house and fired several shots into tbe door. Witnoss recognized two men, whites. Little and Norman. They set Are to his house, and when witness and his son attempted to put it out parties fired at them and prevented all efforts to extinguish the flames, and his house was burned up. Subsequently he made an affidavit, when he was visited by about twentyfive mon, including Mr. Little, Newman, and others, who ordered him not to make any fuss about tho burning of his house, for if he did they would kill. him. Witness promised to go to Hazlehurst to withdraw tbe present affidavit. ■ Frank M. Sessions was at a meeting at Hazlehurst the day after election, when the resolutions warning the Matthows family to keep out of polities were adopted. The meeting was in the Court House and some 4iJO people,' mostly Democrats, were present. The resolutions were adopted. Maj. Barry objected to the resolutions eo far as they applied to the Matthews family and wished that! part stricken out. He rose twice to urge this 1 action, but was met by cries of “No, no.” j The resolutions were adopted, Maj. Barry alone voting no, as far as witness could hear, amid much noise and confusion. After the resolutions were adopted Mr. Daily made a speech, saying that fad had gohe into'Beat 3 to stump the county, but be found he could do more electioneering in tho saddle than on the stump, and he had fonnd the most convincing argument to be a pistol which he drew from his pocket. The speaker said his friend Wheeler was the best eleeiioueerer be had ever seen. Wheeler’s arguments always convince. Witness had not taken much Interest in politics on either side. Had been in the Confederate army. Mr. Baity in his speech said that if the Democrats who had gone off to the Independent party would come back they ought to be received kindly, but, if they would not, what shall be done? • A voice in the crowd cried: “Kill ’em off.” “No,” said Bully, “I cannot advise that, but I believe you will kill them without advice.” The speech was greeted with app.ause. J, T. Hull, editor of the Tribune, formerly an Independent paper at Jackson, said that in Hazlehurst, last fall, two Democratio papers were published. One of them was full of incendiary utterances; the other, though Democratic, was inclined to bo fair and give the news on both sides. Because its editor would not indorse and approve of the outrageous methods adopted by tbe Democratic bulldozers, tbe varions clubs declared his paper a foe to the Democratic party, and had resolutions published withdrawing their support and transferring it to tbe inoendlary sheet. This paper headed Its election reports; “Copiah shakes hands with Yazoo.” Col. Bridewell, an Independent lawyer of Copiah County, bad been a Democrat qp to last fall. Two years ago, he said, the Independents carried the county by a good majority. After the outrages the vote was 2,000 Democratic and 875 Independent, although three weeks before the Democratic papers acknowledged, that tbsir -oppoaenta were. stronger than ever befor«r'“‘~’“ _ '" -—J. M. Goff, Orange Kitcbins, Solomon Smith, Mr. King, father of the Mayor of Ha lehurst; Hunt, a young- man who was driven from home, and several other witnesses testified that tho Independents were forced to give uptholr meetings and no more wens hfdd.

THE DANVILLE BUTCHERY.

Guns and Revolvers Were Being; Prepared for I’m at the Proper Moment—By Fool or Fair Mean* They Were tm Carry the Elections. Stephen Lang testified before the Danville Investigating Committee, at Washington, that he was in a hardware store the day before the fight and saw two white men loading about 125 double-barreled grins. He went to another hardware store and there found a white man loading double-barreled guns. \ Rufus Hatch (colored) hclfd a white roan say at-the Postolbce: “White folks are going to rutf* this town if we have to kill all the niggers." John Holderness (colored) described the riot and the events whicn preceded it. He was a driver for B* sil Graves' grocery store. He went to the back dcor of the store in the course of his business and toundit locked, but a c erk let him in. He a-,kod why the door was locked, and the clerk said “there was h— l to pay. and-in a short time he would see more dead niggers than he had ever -seed' before.” 1 hare were 200 pistols loaded lying on the counter. Just after the firing eight or ten colored men rushed into the store. Burch and another white man came Into the place with empty pistole and exchanged them for loaded ones. Burch grot behind the>eM> ored men and ordered ttbem oat. He said they (the negroes) bad raised this thing, and they must not find harbor these. _ Warricb Bead (mulatto) was called. He keeps a private boarding bouse in Danville. He was asked with respect to She proceedings Of the Democrat o committee of fifteen or sixteen men, which be had overheard. He asked the committee to excuso him from answering. He said he was a resident of Danville, and most go back there. His bread depended upon his patronage in Danville, and to testify would be to risk his living. He represented considerable real property, and bis interests were considerable. Finally be related what be overt card. It was to tbd efiect that the election must be carried by fair means or fiouL Adjourned.

OSTRACIZED.

The Jury in the Emma Bond Case Haying a Stormy^Ex- '’• ' pitllft < : ““ —;■< Hanged in Effigy, Charged with Brib try. and Their Personal Safety " Threatened. (Hillsboro (HI.) Telegram to Chicago Daily Nctys.] Although it has been nearly two months since the termination of the Emma Bond trial, public interest in tho case has not abated. Tbe wystory is still unsolved, and people’ wonder whether the guilty wll) ever tie brought to justice. As is well known, tiie Jury has been condemned in scathing terms for acquittihg Montgomery, Pettis, and dementi. The verdict was and is still considered a second outrage. The Juror* themselves have bad a hard time sinoe the trial. They have been banged in effigy, charged with bribery, and at time* their personal safety threatened. Only a few weeks ago oue of them was attending a big public sale in thiscounty, and as soon as his presence was known the crowd became so Infurtutod’ that trouble was only avoidod by the juror’s hasty departure. The fact that some of the jurors have apologized for their verdict only serves to intensify the bitter feeling toward him. <ine of them is reported as saying that he would give thousand* of dollars if ho had never had anything to do with the case. Ho talks about the trial constantly, and looks ten years older than he did since he sat in the jury bo*. Another one weeps a great deal of the time, can’t , sloep at night, and seems Sorely afflicted in body and mind because the verdict was not received with favor. The Juror, Peter I*. Davenport, looks much older since the trial, ans bad almost become a hermit, rarely leaving his house, and avoiding people as much as possible. But the greatest misfortune has befallen Boone Isaacs, He was engaged to a handsome and accomplished lady of this county, but she has discarded him since the verdict, and he refuses to be comforted. Mr. Bond has succeeded in getting the names ot the five Jurors who votedrat first for conviotton, faut were subsequently induced to vet* for acquittal, and is after them with a sharp stick. In fact, all of them have trodden a thorny pathjsJnee..the trial. ; ’* Judge Jesse J. Phillips, who tried the case, has not escaped the storm of publio indignation. He has been Panged in effigy at Pane, Tnylorville, and Vandalia, and has received numerous threatening letters from all part* of the country. It Is said that his connection with the case will probably- injure his political aspirations in tbe future. The late defendant*, Montgomery, Pettis, and dementi, have been practically ostracized since their return to their home In .Christian County. Resolutions declaring that their names be dropped from tho Toil of decent society have been passed, and merchants and business men have refused to havo any dealings with them. In retaliation Monte ornery and hie friends have threatened their persecutors with terrible punishment. It is claimed that the dastardly attempt a few nights ago ( to wreck a passenger train, on which wero several hundred people returning home to Tayloovtlle from Pana, where an entertainment had been given for tbe benefit of Miss Bond, was the work of the late defendants or their friends. The Wabash Railroad Company has offered a big reward for the apprehension of the would-be wreckers, and it i* hoped they will be captured.

A HORRIBLE DEATH.

An Entire Family Cremated in a New York Tenement House. _ ■ k.-y - f New York Dispatch.] Afl re which broke out in the tbreo-story frame building, 326 Stanton stroct. caused the death of Cornelius Van Riper and hie family, consisting, of his wife and three children. Mr. Van Hiper and hi* three children were Mifioeated and burned to death. His wife, Beltecca Jmnpel from the third-story- window to the sidewalk and was instantly' killed. The cause of the fire is unkno-a n, 'I he tire «M d-scovered hy a policeman, who, after calling for assistance, kicked In the door and made a rush for the stairs, shouting at the top ot his voice to rouse the sleeping tenants. A confused jumble of shrieks and stamping overhead answered him. But tbe dense smoko drove him back Just as the door on the second floor was opened, and a young woman ran past him in her nightclothes. The policeman was compelled to seek the open air to save his own life. As he reached the street in a half-dozen desperate jumps he sprang over the prostrate body of Mrs. Rebecca Van Hirer. The fire was extinguished after two hours. When tbe firemen made their way to tbe rooms of tbe Van Rlpers, after the fire had been extinguished, a sickening sight awaited them. They found the entire family, save the mother, burned to death. Ihe family had evidently been half suffocated before they were aroused to find escape from an awful death cut off. The bodies were all found in different places, showing that tbe unfortunates rushed wildly and blindly around the rooms In their efforts to escape. In the rear room wag found Jennie, aged ID, with her nfgbt-clotheg burned off. Her arms and bands were terribly burned. The skin from the bands and 'arias of the'bo#/ Albert aged <v hung- itt shreds, and his left arm was raised across big face. He was found doubled up in a corner, and one side of big body was very badly burned. Frankey, aged 2. charred and blackened, was found near bis father’s body in tbe front room. The face and head of Van Riper presented a shocking appearance, the features being scarcely recognizable.

A Massive Sheet of Flame.

Many singular incidents and accidents and miraculous escapes are reported in commotion with the recent cyclone, says a Columbia <B. C.) dispatch. A reliable gentleman of Aiken County, who suffered severe losses, says the roof of his barn was taken off and the dry fodder caught up in the whirlwind, and as it was being carried round and round a sheet of lightning passing through ignited the fodder, and for a distance of one mile the cloud appeared to be a massive sheet of flame. He describe* this scene as grand beyond conception. He narrowly escaped bein tr caught up in the fiery element, his fsce being bad’y burned. Martin Mingo, a colored man of Midway, weighing 200 pounds, was blown 200 yards. At the edge ot a swamp he caught a small bush and told on until the stormrwas over. His overcoat was blown four miles.

CHIPS.

Beatrice King, 13 years old, was pnt la prison in London for stealing half a pint Of milk. An Atlanta picture dealer put a picture Of Godiva in his window, and tfie ladies made him take it away. A factory w ith facilities for making TOIL* 000 wooden dishes per day is to be erected fit Chattanooga, Tenn, .. - k ... A Nrw York lady writes to the Sun to was that "her husband amjoys Tier very much by snoring, and asks what she can do about It The will of Ralph G. Sellew, of New Yorik, is to te contested because ft gives bis $1,300?000 to bis nephew, and disinherits his brothers and sisters. ' ' . v Mcsxoxrnes in Nebraska occupy three entire counties, are good farmers and hard workers, and so economical that their proa perity ia remarkable. J. ... February will not again have five Fridays, ss it has this year, until 1912.