The New Orleans daily Democrat. [volume] (New Orleans, La.) 1877-1880, 1877-02-24

VINO keeps q liquor saloon in q los
cabin ten miles from this city, was at
tackled last night by band of thirty
Molly Maguires, or strikers, employed
on the permanent water supply, Their
object was to rob him Of five hundred
dollars which he had ia his possession
His house is mile from any other
residence. He repulsed their first at.
tack by barricading his store and using
his revolver. Four men were shot, two
fatally. Upon the second attack they
succeeded in breaking in the door. He
made his escape by the back window
and fled to the woods. He has not been
seen since.
A deputy sheriff and constable, who
arrived on the spot this morning. were
powerless to make any arrests. A large
body OF intoxicated men are said to be
securing the country searching for
Price, with the intention OF aven ging
their comrades death.
TaEHAmPToN TAX.
Enthusiasm Of the south Carolina Tax
payers to Pay UP.
News and Courier.l
Mr.. Lesesne, the special deputy who
went into the rural precincts recently
to collect their quota Of the ten per cent
tax called for by Gov. Hampton, re-
turned yesterday prior to o trip In an
other direction. Mr.. Lesesne reports
that everywhere he went he was re-
ceived with the utmost hospitality, and
that the enthusiasm OF the people for
the Hampton cause Is without bounds.
Wherever the special deputy went he
met with. hearty responses, and es-
I'pecially from the masses Of the people.
Many people who pay nothing beyond q
| poll tax readily came forward and testi-
fed their adhesion to the cause by pay
ing up.
shot by Her Daughter.
[Augus'a Coastitu,ionalist.J
One OF the most painfully heartrend-
ing accidents occurred Friday night,
near Aiken, South Carolina, which we
have been called upon to chronicle for
long time. Mrs. T. w. Cowart, wife
OF a good citizen Of Aiken county, was
in her room, standing before bureau
glass, dressing her hair before leaving
for party, when her little daughter,
who was standing near her, pulled
pistol from the drawer and began hand
ling it, when it was accidentally dis
charged, the ball entering near the top
OF the hip-bone Of the mother, infiict-
ing q supposed mortal wound.
CROOKED WHISKY.
A Number of Interesting Trials to be
Commenced Next Week.
Especial to Cincinnati Commercial
PEKIN, ILL.,, Feb. 2O.--Imminent dam
ger threatens the Pekin whisky ring,
whose operations, in defrauding the
government, bribing officials and gen.
eral corruption, have made the district
notorious since 1868, and OF which Ell. P.
Westerman, Of Pekin, has been, and is,
chief operator. Some time ago the
leading men Of Springfield and Pekin,
including George Harlow, Secretary Of
State; Tom Ridgeway, State Treasurer,
and others, sent a letter to the govern
ment officials at Washington by Jim
Robinson, ex-Congressman, asking for
compromise OF the cases, which was
refused. Westerman has procured many
indictments against minor distillers OF
Pekin, always getting himself included
in the Indictment, SO as to be able to
make others pay for his litigation.
The total amount due the government
by distillers, rectifiers and defaulters in
exclusive OF the last batch of indict-
ments. Westerman had one Ackerman,
distiller, indicted, and Ackerman fled to |
Canada, just where Westerman wanted |
him to stay, so he could not testify |
against him, but Ackerman turned up |
here to-day penniless and discouraged, |
and he strikes dread into the hearts OF |
the whisky thieves In Pekin and SPRING
field. The government, having refused |
. compromise, or anything that would
Westerman's case, will begin
The prosecution OF criminal cases on the
ssth at Springfield, when long delayed
notorious ring in the United States.
RIVALRY.
che Reason Of Conklfng's Sill ence on the
Louisiana Decision.
Especial to Chicago Timss.1
WASHINGTON. Feb. 2O.-Though Hayes
8 as good as declared elected, the sue
'essful conspirators are not altogether
,asy in mind. The detection Of Conk-
ing came very near creating q schism
n the Senate and bid fair to break the
anks in the House. Conkling's revolt
vas denied, and his absence from the
senate when the Louisiana case came
Up attributed to illness, but it is proven
lbsence from his seat was a compro-
Mise, not a surrender. He has held |,
rom the first, and holds still, that the
louisiana vote was fairly cast for Tilden
nd should be SO counted. It was
,ecause he believed this that he adj
'ocated the Electoral Commission.
When the perjured judges announced ,,
he vote giving the fraudulent electors
0 Hayes, he at once attempted to ,,
escue his party from such a fatal posi-
ion,, and prepared a speech against
.lbiding by the decision of the Tribunal.
MS, coming to the ears of Chandler ]
nd the managers, drew upon him an ]
influential delegation not only OF the !
q 10 Ia md hcru L or.k |