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MY SWEETHEART. "Twas a quaint line scrawled in a spelling book, And handed to ire with a bashful look, By my blue eyed sweetheart so fondly true, In the dear old school days long years ago? "If you love me as I love you No knife can cut our iove in two " That "Sanders' Speller," so tattered and torn Has always a halo of romance worn, And never a poet with honeved pen II as written so precious a rhyme since then? "If you love me as I love you." At, dear, you know X did?1 do. Tve kept it safely for many a year? Tnis aog's-earea, snappy oia speiiing-poos, dear, And now. as I hold it within my hand. Again in the school room 1 seem* to stand? Heading once more with rapture new? "If you love me as 1 love you." How some foolish saying from out the past Like a rose branch is over the pathway cast And the time of flowers we stdl rememPer, Till winds blow cold in the bleak December. God grant it always may be true? "That you love me as 1 iove you." EVILS OF THE DANCE. Dr. Talmage on the Dat gera cl Social Dissipation. Brooklyn, Sept. 30.?Rev. Dr. Talmage, who i3 still absent on his round the world tour, has selected as the sub* iect of today's sermon through the pres3 "The Quick Feet," the text chosen being Matthew xiv, 6, "When H>rod's birthday was kept, the daughter of Herodies danced before theiri and pleased Herod." _ . It is the annivg^y^f Herod's birthday. ^rne'paiace is lighted. The high. _ -- Ways leading thereto are all ablaze with the pomp ot invited guests. Lords, capmoi-fhonf -nrippAa f.hft mi<?hfcv men ILaiUOf UMIVUaun J of the land, are comiDg to mingle in tbe festivities. Tbe table is spread with all tbe luxuries that royal purveyors can gather. Tbe guests, white robed and anointed and perfumed, come in and sit at the table. Music! The jests evoke roars of laughter. Riddles are propounded. Repartee is indulged. Toasts are drunk. The brain is befogged. Tbe wit rolls on into uproar and blasphemy. They are not satisfied yet. 1 Turn on more fight. Pcur out more wine. Music! Sound all the trumpets. Clear the floor for a dance. Bring in Salome, the beautiful and accomplished princess. The door opens, and in bounds the dancer. The lords are enchanted. Stand back and make room for the brilliant gyrations! These men never saw such "poetry cf motion." The scul whirls in the reel and bounds with the bounding feet. ** ? "? A V Herod Jorgets crown ana icrauo ?uu | everything bat the fascinations of Sai lome. Ail the magnificence of his realm f 13 as nothing now compared with the splendor that whirls on tiptoe before him. His body sways from side to side, corresponding with the motions of the enchantress. His soul is thrilled with the pulsations of the feet and bewitched with the taking postures and attitudes more and more amazing. After awhile he'sits in enchanted silence locking at the flashing, leaping, bounding beauty, and a3 the dance close3, and the tinkling cymbals cease to clap, and the thunders ot applause that shook the palace begin to abate, the enchanted monarch swears to the princely performer, "Whatsoever thou shalt ark of me I will give it thee, to the half of my kingacn." Now, there was m the prison at that time a minister of the gospel of the name of John the Baptist, and he had bsen making a great deal of trouble by preaching some very plain and honest sermons. He had denounced the sins of the king and brought down upon him the wrath of the females cf the royal household. At the instigation of her mother, Salome takes advantage of the extravagant promise cf the king and says, k'Bring me the head of John the Baptist on a dinner plate." Hark to the sound of feet outside the door and the clatter of swords! The executioners are returning from their awful errand. Open the door. They enter,1 and they present the platter to Salome. What is on this platter? A new glass cf wine to continuethe uproarious merriment? No. Something redder and costlier?the ghastly, bleeding head of John the Baptist, the death glare still in the eye, the locks dabbled with the gore the features still distressed with the last agony. This woman, who had whirled so gracefully in the dance, bends over the awful burden without a shudder. She gloats over the blood, and with as much indifference as a waiting maid might take a tray of empty glassware nnt. of rnnm after an entertainment Salome carries the dissevered head of John the BaptiBt, while all the banqueters shout with laughter and think it a good joke that in so easy and quick a way they have got rid of an earnest and outspoken minister of the gospel. You will ail admit, whatever you think of that >tyle of amusement and exercise, that from many circles it has crowded out all intelligent conversation. You will also admit that it was made the condition of those who do not dance, either because they do not know how, or because they have not the health to endure it, or because, Ihrough conscientious scruples, they must decline the exercise, very uncomfortable. You will also admit, all of yon, that it has passed in many cases from an amusement to a dissipation, andycu are easily able to understand the bewilderment of the educated Chinaman who, standing in the brilliant circle where there was dancing going on four or five hours and the euests seemed exhausted, turned to the proprietor of the house and said, "Why don't you allow your servants to do this for you?" You are also wiliiDg to admit, what ? - ~ f/N 4 na omnco. ever yuur luea iu ic^lu w iu? uiuu^ment 1 am speaking of, and whatever be your idea of the old fashioned square dance and of many of the processional romps in which I see no evil, the rouud dance is administrative of evil and ought to be driven out of all respectable circles. I am by natural temperament and religious theory opposed to the position taken by all these who are horriied at playfulness on the part of the young, and who think that ail questions are decided?questions of decency and morsl3 ?by the position of the feet, while, on the other hand, I can see nothing but ruin, temporal and eternal, for those who go into the dissipations of social life, dissipations which have already des- j poiled thousands of young men and young women of all that is noble :n character aDd useful in life. Dancing is the graceful motion cf the body adjusted by art to the sound and measures of musicul instruments or of! the human voice.? All nations have 1 danced. The ancients thought that i Castor and Polluxjaught the art to the Laceciemonians. Uut, wnocver started it, ail climes have adopted it. In ancient times they had the festal dance, the bacchanalian dance, and queens and lords Bwayed to and fro in the gardens, and the rough backwoodsman with this exercise awakened the echo of the forest. There is something in the sound of lively music to evoke the movement ol the hand and foot, whether cultured or uncultured. Passing down the street we unconsciously keep step to the sound of the brass band while the Christian in church with his foot beats time while his soul rises upon some great harmony. While this is so in civilized lands the red men of the forest have their scalp dances, their green corn dances, their wardances. la ancient times the exercise was so utterly and completely depraved that the church anathematized it. The old Christian fathers expressed themselves most vehemently against it. St. Chryso8tom says, "The feet were not given for darclng, but to walk modestly; not r to leap lajpudent'y, like camels." One s of the dogmas rf the ancient church i read : ''A dance's the devil's posses- j sit a, cr.d he that entereih into a < dance cntrrclh into h;s possession. As many pi eta as u man makes ia danc- < me, so many pac-.s dots he make to \ hell." E:Scwhcro the old dogmas de- i claiea'his: "The woman that singeth i in the dance is the princess of the devil, i ar.d those that answer are her clerks, i and iLe oeholjers are h-s friends, and the music is his be.lows, and the tiddlers < ere the m u slers ol the cevil. For as, when hugs aie strayed, it the hogsherd call one ad assemble together, so when the. dtv.i calleth one woman to sing in the dare, or to \ 1 iy on some musical iustiuT.en's, presently all the dancers gather together." This indiscriminate and universal denunciation of the excrete fame from the tact that it was utter 1^ and comple ely depraved. But we ate not to discu33 the customs of the olden times, but customs now. We are not to take the evidence of the 1 ancient lathers, but cur own conscience, [ enlightened by the word of God, is to be f the standard. Oh, bring no harsh criti. cism upon the young. I would not ! drive out from their soul the hilarities of . life. I do not believe that the inhabitants of ancient Wales, when they j stepped to the sound of the rustic harp, ; went down to ruin. I believe God inj tended the young people to laugh and i romp and play. I do not believe God rxkUiVG :^^ocr-nr&e and exuberance in the body if he had not intended they should in some wise exercise it and demonstrate it. If a mother join hand* with her children and cross the llx>r to the sound of mu3ic, I see no harm. If a group of friends cross and re cross the; room to the sou .d of piano well played, I see no barm. If a company, all of whom are known to host and hostess as reputable, cross and recross the room to the sound ot musical in3trnment, I see no harm. I tried for a long while to see harm in it. I could not see any harm in it. I never shali see an"7 harm in that. Our men need to be kept young?young tor may year? longer than they are kept young. Never since my boyhood days have 1 had more sympathv with the innocent hilarities of life than I have now. What though we have ielt heavy burdens! What though we have bad to endure hard knocks! Is that any reason why we should stand in the way of those who, unstung ot life's misfortunes, are full of exhilaration and glee? God bless the young! They will have to wait many a long year before they hear me say anything that would depress their ardor or clip their wings or make them believe that life is hard and cold and repulsive. It is not. I tell tnem, judgeing from my own experience, that tney will be treated a great deal better than the deserve. We have no right to grudge the innocent hilarities to the young. What are the dissipations of sociai life today, and what are the diss'pations of the ballroom! In some cities and in some places retching all the year around, in other places only in the summer time and at the watering places. Taere are dissipation? of social life that are cutting a very wide swath with the sickle cl death, and hundred? and thousands are going down under these Influences, and my subject in application is a3 "vide as Christendom. The whirlpool of social dissipation is drawing down some of the hricrhtftftt nraft that ever sailed the sea? thousand and tens of thousands of the bodies and souls annually consumed m the conllaeration of ribbons. Social dissipation is the abeltes of ' pride, it is the instigator of jealousy, it Is the sacrificial altar of health, it is the dedter of the soul, it is the avenue of lust, and it is the curse of every town on both sides of the sea. Social dissipation. It may be hard to draw the line and say that this is right on the one s de and that is wrong on the other side. It is not necessary that we do that, for God has put a throne in every man's seal, and I appeal to that throne today. When a man does wrong, he kno.vs he does wrong, and when he does right he knows he does right, and to that throne which Almighty God lifted in the heart of every man and woman I appeal. As to the physical ruin wrought by the dispositions of sccial life there can be no dcubr. What may we expect of people who work all day and dance all night? After awhile they V7iil be thrown J on society nervous,,exbau3led imbeciles. These people who indulge in the suppers and the midnight revels and then go home In the cold, unwrapped of limbs, will after awhile be found to have been written down in God's eternal records as suicides, as much suicides a3 if they had taken their life with a pistol or a knife or strychnine. How many people have stepped from the barroom into the graveyard! Consumptions and swill neuralgias are close on their track. Amid maoy ol the glittering scenes of social life diseases stand right and left and balance and chain. The breath of the sepulcher floats up through the perfume, and the froth ol death's lip3 bubbles up in the champagne. I am told that in some ol the clues there are parents who have actually given up housekeeping and gone to boarding tbat they may give their time lllimitably to social dissipations. I have kuown such cases. I have known family af:er family blasted that way in one of the other cities where I preached, lather and mother ~ n iwn oil LULLUti^ 1/LiCiI MC\crw w.i v^wivir culture and all the amenities ol home, leading forth their entire family in the wrong direction. Annihilated worse than annihilated?for there are somethings worse than annihilation. I gave you the history ol more than one family when I say they went on in the dissipations of I social life until the father dropped into a a lower style of dissipation, and after, awhile the son was tossed out into socie! ty a noneDity, and after awhile the ! daughter eloped with a French dancing j master, and after awhile the mother, get! ting on further and further In years, trie3 to hide the wrinkles, but fails in the attempt, trying all the arts of the belle, an old flirt, a poor miserable butterfly without any wings. If there is anything on earth beautiful to me, xt is an aged women, her white locks flowing back over the wrinkled brow?lock3 not white with frost, as the poets say, but white with the blossoms "of the tree of life, in her voice the tenderness of gracious memories her face a benediction. As grandmother passes through the room the grandchildren pull at her dress, and she almost falls m her weakness, but sne nas notning dui canny or cake cr a kind word for the little darlings. When she gets out of the wagon in front of the house, the whole famiiy rush out and cry, "Grandma's come!" and when she goe3 away from us, never to return, there i3 a shadow on the table and a shadow on the hearth, and a shadow on the heart. There is no more touching scene on earth than when grandmother slecp3 the last slumber and tne little chiia is lifeted up to the casket to give the last kiss, and she says, "Goodby, grandma!" Oh, there is beauty in I old Hcrp? find sits so. "The hoarv head 1is a crown of glory." Why should people Gccliue to get old? The best things, the greatest things I know of, are aged?old mountains, old seas, old ! stars and old eternity. But if there is ! anything di3tress!ul it is to see an old woman ashamed of the fact that she is old. What with all the artificial appliances, she is too much for my gravity. I laugh even in church when I see her coming. The worst looking bird on earth is a peacock when it has lost its feathers. I would not give one leek of ny old mother's pray hair for 50 COO I'jch caricatures of humanity. And if ,he life of a wordllug, if the lite of a disciple given to the world, is sad, the close )f such a life is s:.mply a tragedy. Let me tell you that the dissipations >f social life are despoiling; the useful- 1 cess ol a vast multitude cf people. What Jo those people care about the fact that there are whole nations in sorrow and suffering and Bgoay when they have for consideration the more important question about the biz8 of a glove or the tie t or a craval? Which one of them ever ] bcuad up the wounds of the hospital? ( Which, one of them ever went out to care t for the poor! Which cf them do ycu t Kr.nt.fs r\f oin A io f ri Vm t i nrr ( UUU 1U l.U\s uruiuo VI ciu^ tract? They live on tbemeelves, and it 1 is very poor pasture, ( Sybaris was a great city, and it once ' sent out 300 horsemen in battle. They j had a miuis'rel who had taught the horses of the army a great trick, and when the old ministrel played a certain ( tune the horses would rear and with , their front feet seem tn beat time to the , music. Well, the old ministrel was of- i fended with his country, and he went ; over to tbe enemy, and he said to the i enemy, "You give me the mastership of the army, and I will destroy their troop3- ( when those horsemen come from Sy baris." So they gave the old minstrel the management, and he taught all the ' other minstrels a certain tune. Then ' when the cavalry troop came up the old , minstreal and all the other minstrel? ' placed a certain tune^agg^tr tbe most . "critical mtfSf^TtnThe battle, when the ! horsemen wanted to rush to the conllict, < the horses reared and beat time to the music with their fore feet, and in d.sgrace < and rout the enemy tied. Ah, my friends, I have seen it again and again?the ' minstrel3 of pleasureis the minstrels of 1 dissipation, the minstre of godless association have defeated people in the hardest fignt of life. Frivolity has lo3t the battle for 10,000 folk. Oh, what a belittling process to the human mind, < this everlasting question about dress, this discussion of fashionable infinitesimals, this group looking askance at the glass, wondering with an infinity of earn- ; sslness how that last geranium leaf does look, this shriveling of a man's moral dignity until it is not observable to the nnbAri ata. this Snanish inaaisition of a tight shoe, this binding up of an itamortal soul in a ruflb, this pitching off ot an immortal nature over the rocks when God intended it for great and everlasting uplifting! With many life "13 a masquerade ball, and as at such entertainments gentlemen and ladies put on the grab of kings and queens or mountebanks or clowns and at the close put cff tbe disguise, so a great many pass their whole life in a mask, taking off the mask at death. While the masquerade bail of life goes on they trip merrily oyer the floor, gemmed band is stretched to gemmed hand, and gleaming brow bends to gleaming brow, 1 On with the dance! Flush and laughter of immeasurable merrymaking. But after awhile the languor of death comes on ; tbe limbs and blurs the eyesight. L:ghts lower. Floor hollow sepu'chral tcho. Music saddened into a wail. L ghts lower. Now the maskers are only seen iG ibe aim light. Now the fragrance of . the flowers is like the sickening odor that come3 from garlands that have lain long iu the vaults ofcemetries. Lights lower. Mists gather in the rocm. Glasses shake as though quaked by sullen thunder. Sigh caught in the curtain. Scarf drops from tbe shoulder of beauty, a shroud. Lights lower. Over the slippery boards in dance of death glide jealousies, envies, revenges, luet, despair and death. Stenchjhe lampwicks almost extingu:shed. Torn garlands will not half cover the ulceratud feet. Choking damps. Feet still. Hands i closed. Voices bushed. Eye3 shut, I/2ht out. Oh, now many of you have floa'ed far away from God through social dissipa* tions! And it is time vou turned. For I remember that there were two vessels on the>ea and in a story. It was very, very dark and the two vessels were going straight for each other, and the captains knew it not. But after awhile the man on the lookout saw the approaching ship, and he shouted, "Hard a*Iarboard!" and from the other vessel the cry went up, "Hard a-larboard!" and they turned just enough to glance by and passed in safety to their harbors, Some of you are in the storm of temptation, and you are driving on and coming toward fearful collisions unless vou change your course. Hard a -larboard! Turn ye, turn ye, for "why will ye die, 0 house of Israel?" A Sad, Sad Tragedy, A very sad tragedy occurred at Gaston on "the South Bound Railroad last Wednesday nignt. it was me death of a bright young lad, who had run away from home, without even tell- , irg his parents good bye. The sad event occurred just about midnight, and tears stole down the cheeks of many a strong man, as he stood by the handsome lad in the hours of the morning, as his lite slowly ebbed away from his mangled form. These strong, tender-hearted larmer? stood around the little fellow, al- : though he was a perfect stranger, doing all in their power to save him, kucwing he was in a dying condition all the time. They stood there and heard him tell his ; story and plead lor his life to be prolonged till he could kiss his father good- : bye, a father whom he had left without giving any intimation as to his intentions ?a father who was at his home in Philadelphia. perhaps at that very moment racking his brain to devise soms plan of securing intormatian as to ms missing son. It was a scene to touch the heart of any man. The story briefly told is as < follows: On Wednesday night this lad 1 got into Ga3ton in some way. At midnight a fast freight train passed through, : but did not stop. Ju3t as it rolled past the station, a cry of pain was heard on the track and several parties hastening to invest'gate, found the form of a youth on the track terribly cut and mangled. He was lifted up tenderly and taken into the depot building. There was no physician m the place, the town physician being away in Columbia. The lad told these around him that he had in a belt around his waist $3.65 in cash. Ho begged them to tear his clothes open, get it and get a physician for him. He said that this wa3 all the money he had and he had not cared to spend any of it to ride on the railroad. He said he attempted to jump on the train while it was running; no one had pushed him off, but he had simply missed his footing and fallen under the wheels. No physician could be secured before the arrival i of the 3 a. m. train from Columbia. When the lad was told this he said he had some time ago, without cau?e, and , without, evea saying good-bye to his mother and father, run away from his home in Philadelphia. He said he was eighteen year3 01 age anu ms uams was Samuel William?; his parents lived at 1 Xo. 2 736 Germautown avenue, Phila- , delpbia. The boy was a handsome little fellow, and teemed to be of good j birth and well-to-do parentage. When i he realized that death was imminent, he i pleaded to be allowed time enough to i kiss Ms father good-bye; and thus his i young lite slowly ebbed away. Dr. < Broi/ker arrived about 3 a. m., but the < lad diee1 m liftecn minutes thereafter. 1 The good people of Gaston took charge ! of the remains and as much concern was : displayed in the funeral as if some son ] of a Gaston mau had died. lie was j given a neat burial and his grave was ( marked, so that should his parents hear ( of his tragic end and wish to see the ' grave, they can find it. The above ac- j count of this extreamly sad tragedy is < taken from Momday's State. < THE NEXT HOUSE. SOW IT 15 FI3UKED OUT BY DEMOCRATS and republicans. So: h Sides Claim a Comfortable M-.j .rlly?The Democats ere a Little More Mode"t lu th?*lr Finnren than the 1Upablicans. The Congressional Campaign Committees of both the Democratic and Republican parties are beginning to lonsider saiiou3ly the complexion of be next National House of Representatives. The election is only a little )ver four weeks off, and there is a na:ural inclination to survey the field and ietermine, if possible, the size of the harvest that ia to be gathered in. Very naturally the spectacles through which :he Democrats and the Republicans jjaze at the Congressional districts do sot produce the same results, but the inference is not as marked as one would suppose. Both sides are conliient of winning. The Democratic estimate is more conservative than the Republican, and with its total of l'.JO is dangerously near the danger line. me uemocrauc esumaie gives vuree of tbe South Carolina members to the Populists, which is a mistake. Our belief and hope is that every district in this State will be carried by the Democrats. The Republicans in their estimate claim 200 members, bat we have oo idea that *111 gel them/if the I^tnOcfats all over the country witb&y asid9 tlieir factional difficulties and pulltogether. This is all that is needed to 3ecurea grand Democratic victory next month. The following table gives tbe claims of each party, and it will be worth while comparing these figures with the returns on the morning after election: Republican Dem'cratic State. estimate. estimate. R. D. P. D. K. P. Alabama 9 ... 9 Arkansas 0 ... ? California <> 1 ... 4 3 ... Colorado 3 2 Connecticut 3 l ... 2 2 ... Delaware 1 1 Florida 2 ... 2 Georgia 11 ... 11 Idaho 1 1 ? Illinois 11 11 ... 9 13 ... Indiana 9 4 ... 7 0 y. Iowa 10 1 ... 1 10 ... Vonaoa X ... 4 4 Kentucky 2 9 ... 10 1 ... Louislna ... G ... 5 1 ... Maine 4 4 ... Maryland 3 3 ... 5 1 ... Massachusetts 12 1 ... 2 11 ... Michigan, 11 1 ... 4 8 ... Minnesota 7 2 5 ... Mississippi 7 ... 7 Missouri G 5 4 12 3 ... Montana 1 1 ... Nebraska G 3 3 ... Nevada 1 1 New Hampshire... 2 2 ... New Jersey 5 3 ... 4 4 ... New York 19 15 ... 17 17 ... North Carolina 1 8 ... 8 1 ... North Dakota 1 1 ... Ohio 16 5 ... 6 15 ... Oregon 2 l l ... Pennsylvania 24 G ... G 24 ... Rhode Island 2 1 1 ... South Carolina 1 6 ... 4 ... 3 South Dakota 2 2 ... Tennessee 4 6 ... 8 2 ... Texas 9 4 13 Vermout 2 2 ... Virginia 3 7 ... 9 l ... Washington 2 2 ... West Virginia 3 l ... 4 Wisconsin 7 3 ... 5 5 ... Wyoming l l Totals 200 147 9 190 156 10 M either the Democrats nor the liepublicans, it will be seen by the above, believe that the Populists will cut verv much of a llgure in the outcome. The Republican managers, for instance, do not believe that a single Populist will be elected north of Mason and Dixon's line, and the Democrats account for only a total of ten in the whole United States. The truth is that the Populists have made much exaggerated claims in the past, have cried "wolf" so frequently when there was no wolf, that tne practical politicians pay little or no heed to aDy prophecies which take the Populists into consideration. The Pop ' ulists, for their part, expect to hold the balance of power. It will also be noticed in the above table that In a large number of instances there is absolutely no difference of opinion between the Democratic and Republican experts, in nearly all the Southern States solid Democratic delegations are cencedei to the Democrats. This is noticeably the case with Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, and, with the exception of one district in North Carolina. Texas, on the contrary, is regarded by Republicans as debatable ground, their information being that the Populists in that State will make serious inroads into the Democrats. In Missouri, too, the Republicans expect, with the aid of the Populists to unseat at least four Democrats, in addition to carrying six straight Republican Disfrimj? These six districts comprise the three in the city of St. Louis and three in the State. The Democrats for their part, concede to the Republicans the entire delegation from Iowa, with the exception of Judge Hayes's district, and some forty more Congressmen in Maine, Oregon, Montana, Idaho, New Hampshire, North and South Dakota, Washington, Vermont and Pennsylvania. The estimates regarding the latter State tally to a nicety, although even such a conservative Republican as Chris Magee is said to believe that the Democrats will carry seven districts in the State, or one more than is allowed by either of the committees. The Democrats expect to get nothing in Kansas, and they count upon four Populists from that State, while the Republicans claim the entire eight. Out of the six New England State3 the Democrats anticipate at least live members, two in Massachusetts, two in - - - -J - o A ~ UOIineCUCUL ana one ill ivuoue isiaau. The Republicans cut this estimate down to two, one ia Massachusetts and one in Connecticut. In New Fork the Democratic committee counts upon sixteen certain for each party, with two districts doubtful, and a possibility that the delegation will be equally divided. The Republicans look for nineteen of their candidates to be electad, giving to the Democrats the districts south of the Harlem. Under the Republican redisricting of the State the Republicans look for only three Democrats to be returned frcm New Jersey. The Democrats count on carrying four districts in this State. A Republican gerrymander also confronts t' Democrats in Ohio, but they count upon at least six districts. The Republicans concede live. In Illinois, on the other hand, the redisricting is with the Democrats. It is a fact which is admitted at the Republican headquarters that nothing Dss than a majority of 00,000 in Illinois can change the political complexion of the delegation from the State, while the Democrats can lose the State by 30,000 and still hold the Legislature. Consequently the Democrats will probably get a majority of the Congressmen and the Republican managers will be 3ati3tied if they get one-half of the total of twenty two. For this reason the Democratic claim of nine is within the most conservative bounds. As to the outcome in Indiana opinions differ. One district there, dow represented by Mr. Hammond, a Democrat, is certain to go Republican, and the ut and 11th districts, the homes of Congressmen Taylor and Martin, are thought to be doubtful. Out of the nine remaining districts the Democrats rxpect to carry six, but the Republicans only allow them a total of four. FostmoDtor Tlalt-nn nf fhft iffiiiqp fit I?PD uioovui iy(?:wvu, va. U.JV ,wjr resentatives, and an ex-member from Indiana, has looked veary thoroughly into the situation in the State, ana ?ives it as hi3 opinion that the Democrats will elect eight, and he does not iven anticipate the defeat of Martin, ;he chairman of the pension committee. Fhe pension question, however, s causing the Democrats coniiderable trouble in the State. Jhairman Ellyson, of the Vir 9 ginia Democratic Statp corr.mitfpe, be- 1 J<evrs that t.he .Republicans will only gmu one Congressman in his State, and r be Is not at all curtain that even this slight change will occur. At Republican headquarters, however, it is said that Repulicahs will be elected in the 2d, Till and 'J.h districts. West Virginia r also seems to be a very much disputed ( battle ground. The advices at the fDemocratie headquarters indicate the . election of Democratic Congressmen in all of the four districts, but this claim t is said by the opposing managers to be 1 absurd. Wilson's defeat is predicted by 1 a majority of 1,200. A communication received at t he Republican head- c quarters recently, tHted at Berkeley t Springs, in Wilson's district, says that all the saw mills in that county have r been closed, and that at Davis City 300 , lumbermen have been thrown out of " employment. Howard, in the 1st, and 1 Alderson in the 3J, are also said to be t doomed to defeat. Wisconsin is another State where the result appears uncertain. Chairman Wall, of the Democratic State v committee, predicts the election of live j Congressmen, but Representative Bab- h cock, of Wisconsin, who Is the chair?V* nf Bn I>ar\nV?lirtOn PAM rPfiiOai An O 1 C UlrtU VI LliC XirjJUUIIVO" vjuimnojiuum committee, thinks the Democrats will \ be fortunate if they bring even three r of their candidates safely through. 13y . a fusion with the Populists the Democrats expect tc get three Congressmen ; in Nebraska, who wiil co-operate with s the Democrats in organizing the House, ( but the .Republicans, claim the entire f Stat*, being now confindent that Mr. > McKeigJiar^itgai??t ^hcru they Ik." to uirtKe their hardest light, is as good as \ beaten. lu Kansas Jerry Simpson was j their most formidable opponent. From ( Michigan the Democrats expect Gritlin, f Gorman, Whiting ard Weadock to be ] returned, but the Republicans claim j eleven out of the twelve districts. In ] Maryland, too, the Republicans expect , to make gains, counting upon three of ( the six districts, the 1st, 5th and Gth. They do not put Louisiana in their column, believing that they have a clear , majority in the House even if the bolt j in the sugar State does not materialize. < The defeat of Enloe and Snodgrass j in Tennessee is predicted, giving them ( a total of four Republicans from that . State, while they do not concede a single Democrat from Minnesota. The j Democrats expect to hold their own in , that State. They have now two mem , bers. A clean Republican sweep In ( California, with the exception of one district,is also apart of the llepubli- j can programme. They also expect to , wrest Colorado from the Populists, i Delaware and Wyoming from the Democrats, and gain a district in Kentucky. ' Wniie we believe that the Democrats ] will win, we confess that the light is , going to be a hard one. THr OEORCIA ELECTION. fhe Poalist M<ke L'^rga Gilns All Over the State. ( Atlanta, Ga,, Oct. 4.?The Constitution publishes this morning returns ' from all of the 137 counties in Georgia, made from unollicial estimates, compiled Dy its correspondents in every coun ty, and most of them received after '< midnight last night. The unofficial returns Indicated that the State had gone Democratic bv thirty thousand majority, but the official county, consolidations wnich took place at 12 o'clock to-day show that thi9 figure has J been reduced. The official Democratic i majority will not vary much from twenty thousand and this is the figure ] which is now accepted by conservative < estimates on the Democratic side. The ] Populists on the other hand claim that tha counties, the consolidations from, ; which will be the last to be heard from : will reduce this majority to at least l ten thousand. Of the one hundred and ' seventy-five members of the House < elected, about sixty are Populists and f of the forty-four members of Senate, ) there are seven Populists and one Ks- | publican. Several of the strongest Ds- i mocratlc counties in the State have ' been carried by the Populists and with i but few exceptions every county ia the State shows Populist gains. Speaker I unp 3 district gives me largest ueuiw < cratlc majority of any district ia the < State. He figured conspicuously in the campaign, strongly advocating tariff reform and the free coinage of silver. An organized movement against a return to silver coinage without foreign consent was started early in the campaign, Secretary Smith, Congress man Turner and others vigorously defending the policy of the administration on the stump. The debate on the silver question grew so warm as to frequently put Democratic speakers in the attitude of making a joint discussion against each other on this issue. Speaker Crisp and Secretary Smith spoke in Atlanta together a few weeks ago, one defending free silver the other antagonizing it. The Populists took full advantage of the division and the result has been a great slum in Democratic majorities throughout the State. atkinson badly scratced. Atlanta, Oa., Oct. 4.?iteturns come in slowly but enough official and unofficial reports have been received by the Journal up to 12 o'clock J to indicate an average Democratic majority of twenty to twenty-live thous- ! and. Atkinson, the Democratic nomi- 1 nee for Governor, has been scratched ' in all the parts of the State and it is 5 not believed his majorty will exceed lif- ' teen thoushand. The Democrats will have thirty majority in the State Sen- 5 ate and 150 majority in the House, i Every Congressional district except ] Dlack's went for the Democrats. The > ninth, represented by Tate, is carried < for the Democrats by seven majority, i and the fourth, represented by Moses, : by 930. Tnis is the first election since ' the war when Republicans and Ropu- 1 lists have made a complete fusion. ' The negroes voted solidly with the To- ? pulists. Great surprise has been oc- ' casioned by the defeat of Warner Iitil a nrnminAnt. randiriaifi for So9aker of 1 tne next Ilou3e. This county went J with the Populists; this insures the election of W. H. Flemming of Rich- 1 mond to be Speaker. South Georgia < counties which are so lid for Represen- < tative Turner for the Senate have given i the largest majorities in the State to t the Democrats. Atlanta, Oct. 8.?The State election I occurred in Georgia today, the State < voting for Governor and State ollicers '< and a full Legislature, which is to < elect a Senator in November. Two i years ago the State went Democratic c for Governor by 71,00 ) majority for W. 1 J. Northern over W. L. Peck, the Po- I puiist nominee. W. 1". Atkinson is the Democratic candidate for Governor 1 this year and J. K. limes the Populist t nominee. There are 137 counties in '< Georgia and returns are coming in ? slowly, but there seems to be no doubt. 1 that Atkinson's majority for Governor 1 will be between 30,000 and 50,000. Later t reports irom an over ueorgia suuw that the Populists have made gains in almost every county in the State and j that the Democratic majority will pro- j bably not be more than 30,000. ladica ( tions are that the Populists will have a thirty or forty members in the next ( Legislature. The Populists claim that <the oilicial reports will reduce the Dem- ? ocratic majority to 20,000, while Caair- v man Clay, of the State Democratic ex- t ecutive committee, claims that the De- : mocra'ic majority will reach 33,000. g a big falling off. Savannah, Ga., Oct. 4.?Returns in this CoDgresional District indicate rour s tncusnnd Democratic maj ority, a fall- 1 iog oilof twelve hundred in two years. r Indications are that the Democratic a majority in Congressman Turner's dis- I trice will hold up well. Counties in t the Tenth, Tom Watson's District, t show live hundred Populist majority, i If they repeat this next month he will s be elected, [t was a notable fact that c the heaviest Democratic majorities are I returned from counties endorsing the r administration's financial views. In- a dlcations are that the constitutional f amendments increasing the number of t the Supreme Court Judges to live and s increasing pensions to Confederate S soldiers have been lost. t HE SOUTH CARD. INA AND G?O^GIA' LoaLvllle and Nashville and Oast L'ne Buy It. The Augusta Chronicle, of iast VVe1lesdav, says the South Carolina and Jeorgia Railway will soon change lands again. Just as the Chronicle has ieen telling you all along, the Atlantic Joast Line and the Louisville and Nashville, jointly are going to buy it. Yugusta will be beneiitted by the ihange. The News and Courier yeserday ssys: The following paragraph, which has ecently been goiQg the rounds of the N'ew York papers, will unquestionably )e of interest; to the people just at this irae. With slight variations the paragraph is as follows: "Negotiations are said to be under vay between the Parsons brothers, the >rincipal owners of the South Carolina ind Georgia, and the executive oflicials >f the Atlantic Coast Line and Louisville and Nashville, whereby the lirst lamed property is to pass into the joint :ontrol of the latter companies. The 5011th Carolina was bought by the Parions some time ago, and the name was jhanged. The road ha3 a main liEe Tom Charleston to Augusta, with Jraacfcre, hud the Atlantic Coast'LIhe md Louisville and Nashville have hid heir eyes on the property. During the ?ast week negotiations are said to have jecn resumed between the Parsons md the Atlantic Coast Line and the Louisville and Nashville, and it is said ;hat the transfer of the desired line is now pending. The South Carolina is wanted by the Atlantic Coa3t Line, because it will give it an entrance into Augusta." In substance this statement has been made many times before,both here and in New York, and the pertinacity with which the rumor keeps itself before the public is possibly the strongest argument which at this time can be adduced in support of it. rl1U/> W? A r-? VtArAoKrvtl t O Or A IUC JLCillLUnU UJ.CU UClCflUWU'O cue pretty well divided in their opinions an the question. Some very high oill cials on the South Carolina and Georgia Road, while they disclaim speaking with authority on the subject, are open and above board in their expressions of belief in the truth of the rumor. At the 3ame time there are other well informed railroad men in the city who think that the ultimate outcome is to be that the Louisville and Nashville and Atlantic Coast Line will control the South Carolina and Georgia Riad. From time to time the Louisville and Nashville people, as well as the Messrs. Parsons, have denied that any deal wa3 in progress, and yet it continues to be generaly accepted as a fact that negotiations are now penning between the two. A gentleman was s .en ill the city yesterday who mentioned the name of a well known railroad man who toll him that he had received a telegram from New York stating that the arrangements had actually been made looking tc the transfer of the property. At the same time it should not be forgotten that the new officials of the road in this city disclaim having any information on the subj ict, and the business of tb8 compauy is being conducted as though the management were a permanent one. But information was received here yesterday, which seems to indicate beyond a doubt, that the "Old Reliable" has already, or will positively, within cne very near imure, euaatfe iK-iuua again. The statement was made on the street list night that a well known gentleman In this city had received a telegram during the day in which it was stated that the Louisville and IS ashville and the Atlantic Coast Line had made definite arragements with the Messrs. Parsons by which these sys terns would in the near future take 3oatrol of the south Carolina and Georgia Railroad. A coDiirmation of this rumor was received in au unexpected way last sight. A gentleman in CnarlestoD, who does not wish his name given just aow, showed a reporter a letter from a prominent New York man in which ihe writer says: Of course you know :hatthe Messrs. Parsons have dis posed of their interest in the iSouth Carolina and Georgia Railroad." This statement, coming as it does from one of tne beat known linauciers in the country, seems to be a very 'straight tip." The writer of the letter is in a position to have inside informainn nn thn suhiect. and be is not a man who would speak lightly of such an important question. He says no more ,n the letter than has been given, ividently takiDg thesaieof the road as i matter of course, it is not said to whom the Messrs. Parsons had dispos?d of the property, but everyone takes it for graateu that the purchasers are :he Louisville and Nashvile and Atlantic Coast Line systems. Some persons have supposed that the Southern Kailway Compaay might wish to own the property, but there is very little reason to believe that that jystem would care greatly for the South Carolina and Georgia Line. If It Is true, as now rumored,that the Southern has made arrangements to ibsorbtheCentralsystem.it 13 hardly probable that it would care to nave an additional South Atlantic port. Taking everything into consideration, and remembering everything received here yesterday, there is little reason to doubt ;hat if the Messrs. Parsons have sold .he South Carolina and Georgia Iijad, ;hat the purchasers are the Louisville and Nashville and Atlantic Coast Line jystems. In this connection it may be said :hatoneof the leading railroad men of ;he South recently told a reporter of l'he News and Courier that there was ittle reason to doubt that the South Carolina and Georgia Koad would ih.ange hands again within a very few months, lie said that he felt confident ;hat the Louisville and Nashville aad ;he Atlantic Coast Line systems would luild a new line to Augusta if they ;ould not control the South Carolina md Georgia property, and as he cousilered it 'would be ruinous to the old f the new line was built, he did not ioubt that arrangements would be t- \\ r\ *TT Anl/1 nhon^Q nauo l)J WLIUJUL LUC iuau YY UUIU uuaugg lands. The information which is given here las come so straight that there seeni3 ;o be no reason for doubting it. Tne iuthority is about as good as could be gotten, unless aa official statement lad been made either by the Messrs. .'arsons, or by the Louisville and Nashrille, people themselves. lJaried in a Mine. Sciianton, I'enn., Sept. 28.?Two ives at lour men, two miners and two aborers, without warning were crushid out in Northwest colliery of Simpion and Watkins, at Simpson, near ]aronaale, late yesterday afcernoou. Cneir managled remams as near as can )e ascertained lie beneath a fall of rock vhicn is ten feet wide and six feet ugh, and extends for at least sixty feet n the gangway off from the third lope of the mine. P. W. Kline, a lottery and policy bop man of JvaLsas, has published a etter in whicn tie rentes mat Gjverior Levvellyn, Attorney General Little iid other Populist State oili ;ers of vans is agreed to sell him police preectionin that State aid to permit him ohave the aopoiatment of tie p )l'ce a certaiQ cities aid that they failed to tand by their bargains. Hi farther laiins to have contracted with the liOuisaaa lottery to have all lotteries uaout of Kansas aid to have paid t ie ittoraey general $4,000 to begin tie >rosecution of them. Tie publication ia3 of course caused a great deal of candal. It is said that the Republican State committee secured the publicaion of the letter. crops and wfathrr. the Vahi \ve*k atd the k'co'd* ?>f the ajcricaitarai i5ar?nn. Columbia,s. C., OB. 2?The following is (he wpefcly weather crop report of Weather Observer Bauer and it is unusually full and interesting: During the week ending October 1, the temperature ranged between 88 and 48 degrees, the former was recorded on September 30 and October 1, and the latcer at Looper's, l'ickens county, ana at Iteid, (Jreenviile county, on the 25th and 2i5th respectively. The iirst of the wwk was much cooler than usual while the latter portion was very warm. The two lest days were the only ones comparatively clear. The sunshine averaged about 3d per cent, of the possible. Bain began on the 25th in portions of the State,and wa* general and heavy on the 25th and 17th, ended gradually on the 28th, and there were light scattering showers, with generally clearing weather on the 29:h. iue uegiumug mm euuiu^ ui uic rainy weather marked the duration of a West Indian hurricane, whose centre skirted the South Carolina Coast on the 2ti:h and 27ch, with gales over the entire State, but most severe along: the coast and second tier of counties, where the rainfall was extraordinarily heavy, ranging from eight inches at IMaepsiis ra lesser ar cunts the interior, and about an inch in the Northwest counties. Very few streams oversowed their banks, but heavy damage resulted from the combined force of the rain and high winds which reached an extreme velocity of sixty miles per hour at Charleston aud probably a greater rate at Statesburg. Cotton and late corn, peas, rice ami grasses were beaten to the ground, and In Richland and Orangeburg counties it is reported that trees were uprooted by the violence of th6 wind. Rica suffered most severely, having been some what damaged by high tides and by fresh water. Much of it was in stacks which were more or less scattered and saturated, entailing a great deal of labor to dry the grain to prevent sprouting. The aggregate damage from this storm, is nowever, much less than that caused by the historic storm of August, 1803. This year's scoria was less severe, the tides were not as high, and, owing to having occurred later in the season, a smaller percentage of the crops remained in the fields ungatherec. The following rainfall measurements, made during the storm, will illustrate the gradual decrease from the coast towards the Northwestern counties, (In incnes auu nuimreutus;; j. luuyms <xw, Charleston 7.45, Georgetown 6 55. Trial 5.47, Beaufort G.15, Conway 5 08, Cheraw 4/J8, Society Hill 4.03, Barnwell county 4.G2, Fort Rival 4.27, Effingham 4 02, frenton 3.4'J, Chesterfield 4 00, Blackv'l'e 3.70, Tiller's Firry 3 02, Stetesfiurg 2 35. Lexington 2 50, A/ken count? 2 20, L mgshore 2.12, Hooper's 185, Little Mountain 1:45, Smtuc 1.33, Laurens 1.22, McCormicK 1.22, Wionsboro 1.70, Columbia 1.18, Greenvide 1.00, Watts 0.81, E la 0.75 The force of the win! did not decrease to the same extent as did the rainfall from the ca?t towards the Northwestern counties and consequently the damage to corn and peas, out mure particularly to octon, was almost general over the entire State. I'he percentage of damage to cotton in the fields is variously estimated from 5 to 20 per can'"., an average of all tne estimates making somawiat under 10 per cent. Green bills were broken rlT very' freely. Many, if not the greater portion, of the open bolls were m ire or less stained and where the sta'ks remains greea the damp,cloudy weather caused an intreisa in rust and boll worms which late in the week again appeared m Injurious nu nbers m some counties. Picking was greatiy hindered by the unfavorable weather, but will h j pushed rapidly tram now on, as the weither permits, as the bolls are opening very fast, some, it is thought, prematurely. Sea isl sud cotton suffered more from the storm than the short staple varieties. The rain was beneficial lu the North central and Western counties for late root crops, such a3 turnips and late sweet potatoes, and also for gaideus, and kept gr^si green and growing for pasturage. Some oats being sown, but oats seed ing has not become general yet; it is generally too wet to prepare the ground. Truck farmers suffered severely from the heavy rain3 along the c.>ast as the wet soil interferes with the cultivation and marketing of fall crops. To the r* quest made for estimates of the percentage of cotton ungatnered on October 1, replies were received from all but six counties, some of which raise but little cotton and therefore wouid have but little effect on the percentage for the State. A very good indication of the accuracy of the different reports is that la counties from which two, or more reports were received they aid not differ more than 10 per cent., and that cm readily be ascribed to varying conditions according to locality. Toe estimates by regions and expressed in averages, are as follows: Alpine region 80 p<-r cent, ungath^red, Piedmont 01, lied Hill and Upper Pine Belt 42, -Lower Line and uoasc regions 30. By assigning to each region a value in proportion to its cotton acrerge ttie average percentage ot' unfathered cotton for the State, on ORooer 1, is 51 par cent. Counties grouped according to per centages, the results are as follows: Above 80 per cent. Laurens, Ocooee, Tick-ens; between 70 and 80 per cent.? Anderson, Greenville, Spartanburg; between 00 and TO per ceat.?Fairlield. Richland, York, Abbeville, Union; between 50 an 1 00 per cent.?Beaufort, Berkeley, Florence,\Viliiam3burg. Lancaster, Sumter; between 40 and 50 per cent. ? Hampton, Aiken, Chesterlleld, Darlington, Iversnaw, Lexington,Eigelield; between 30 and 40 per cent.? Clarendon, Barn well, Oraagehurg, Newberry; below 30 per cent.-Mariooro. In the statement that 51 per cent, remained unfathered, allowance was also made for the probable damage that resulted irom the storm, In other words, the number of bales already gathered will likely, be more than doubled by the end ot the season. J. VV. Bauer, Director, ooooooooocooo sPIflNOS.! | 0RGHNS.I |j MID-SUMMER BARGAINS. ? V Special Sale Summer 1*94. The V v time to buy Cheap and Easy. Six V V Special Summer Offers that beat the V V record. V () $50 saved every Piano purchaser. 1J1 0 $10 to $20 on every Organ. V )? Six Special Offers on our Popular Mid-,h, /) Summer Plan. 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