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x - PICKENS, S. t. IIURSI)A Y, 4ll'LY 16, 1891. NO. 4 tj - SDAY JULY16, GOSPEL OF TIIE A WATHiER. DR. TALM AGE PREACHES ON THE COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE RAIN. The Woanteritki Innagtry of to Bnnok of JIob-Ilow the Stmly (it it lin4 Made Weak Dien lstM) Iaida'iatd -Ntar Wiado lto a A.13ste-V Over YouL Ientd. 11toolm.YN, July 5.-J)r. Talmage's sermon today is n a kind of gospel in which few people believe. The weather is ia Commillion object of, complaint and fhult, fil,in'i, but Dr. Tainliage finds a toMe)CI inl it. which totty lie proclaims Irom the text. "I lath ti rain a fither?" .lob xxxviii, 28. This Book of Job has heen the sub .jet of unbounuded theological wrangle. Men have made it the ring in which to 4i:play their ecclesiastical pugilism. Some fialy that the Book of .lob is a true history; others, that it is an allegory; others, ,hat it is ii epic poem; others. that it is a drama. Some say that .Job lvcd eighteen hundred year.i befio Christ, others say that lie never lived at all. Some say that the author of this book was .lob; others, David; other-1, Soloion. The discission has landed some in blank infidelity. Now, I have no trouble with the Books of .lob) or Itevelation-the two most,L mysterions books in the Bible-because of a rule I adopted some years ago. I wade down into a Scripture passage as long as I can touch bottom, and when I cannot then I wade out. I u!,ed to wade in until it. was over Iimy head and then I -_ot drowned. I study a passage (of Scripture so long as it is a comlort and livil to my soul, but when it he coliles a prplexity and a spiritual up Surini I quit. In other words, we ou.ht ma wade ii up to our heart, lit tiever wad- i il until it is over oir head. No muan shoulh ever expect to swim across this great. ocean of divine truth. I vo down iIto that oc( an as I Lo down into the Atlantic ocean at East I1lamp tonl, Long Island. just far elough to bathe; the I coime out. I IeVer had any 1idea that with my weak hand and loot I could strike my way clear over to i verpool. CiOh'S MIYSTri3(Rlo1' GiOY I1NRNii-:NT. I suppose vou understand your 1iml v genealogy. You know something about )our parents. your grandparents, your great viandparetil.s. I Perhaps you know where they were horn, or where they diedl. Iave 3o ever studied the par entage (.f the Shower, "lath not the rai a fathei?" This question is not asked by a poetaster or a scientist. but by the head of the universe. To hum ble and to sav%e Job God asks him four teen questions: About the world's ar chitecture. about the Iei-action of tie stun's rays, about tihe tides, about, the snow crystal, about, the li-littings, anid then he arraigns him with tine interroga tion of' the text, "1lath tile ram a fath With thi scieltific wonders of the rain I have nothing to do. A minist2r gets through with that kind of sermons with inl the first three years, and it he has plety enough lie gets throurh with it in the first three months. A sermon has cole o ife to meni one word of four lotters, "help!" You all kinow titnal the rain is not an orphan. You know it Is not cast out of the gates of heaven A foundling. You would answer theliues tion of my text inl the alirmative. Safely housed during the storm, you hear the rain heating nainst the winIow pane, and you find it, searchling alli the crevices of thne window sill. It first c*omes down in solitary drops, pat,tering the dust, anid then it (deluiges tihe tields5 andi angers tihe mlounitin torrents, and makes the traveler implore shelter. You knowy that the rain is not an aceci dient of the world's economy. You know it, was born of the cloud. You know it, w.is rocked ini the cradile of thne witnd. You know it was sung to sleet? by the storm. You know that, it a flying evani gel 1im heaven to earth. You know it, is the gospel of tihe wveathter. You know that God is its hathler. If' this lie triue, then how wicked is our nmurmuring aboxut cinnatic (IcanOes. Tile first elevenl Sabbaths af ter I enter ed the mmiistry it stormledh. Thirouubn the wveek it was clear weather, bunt on the Sabbaths tihe old1 -country meeting house looiked like Noahl's ark he'i re it lanided1. A fewt lClit( drn h pop?tleat 1be fore a drenched pastor; but mosmt of iihe farmlers S tay)ed at 1home1 andC thnked Godl that whait, wais had( for thne church was good( for te crops. I commi'ittedI a 00ood dealh of sinl it) thiose daiy s in denounc ing the weather. inisters of the Gos piel somfletimels fret abaouit stoirmiy Sah-. baths, or hot. Sabb.athis, ')r inlIC1 eent Sabbaths. 'They forget thne tet, hat the same Go;d who onrchiined thne Sabbdath ami sent forthl his mlinlisters to ananoun!ce sal viationi also ordlainled the werther. "I lath the raini a fithler?'" I N<'iCSA NT' (" oMi,LA INTh 01-' Till MerCchaniiits, also, withi thiru storaes lilt ed with new goods, and thiei r clerks hianging idly alroundl( the couinters, C. i miit the same triansgrejssion. Theresi have been seasons wheni thle u boie0 spring and1( fail trade has beeni rin aed by protractedi wet weather. T1he moier enanirts then elxamiined tine "weathier probabilities"' withl tmoie interest, thnani thley iead their Hibles. Thelly wvatched for a patch of blue~ sky. 'They wvent complJlaimii to t,he stone and( (camel coml plaininig home again. In all that se'asont of wet feet and1( dripping garments attal Impassable streets they never once asked the (luestion, "'Ilath tihe rain ai iither?'' So agricubu trisfa commit this sit. There is nothio more annoyingz than to have plaiited :ornI rot, ini the girtfon he-. caiuse oif too imuich lnoisturie, or h ay all ready for the mow dashed of a hiower. or whleat almost, readoy fihr tIe sickle spoiledl with thle ru.st. I low hard it is to hear tile augricul tural d1i'sappoinltilmentfs. God hias infinmte resources, but, I do nlot, thlink hie has capiucuty to-mako wveathier to please all dhe mrmiers. Sometimews it is too hlot, or it, is too c'old; It is too wvet, or it is too dry; it, is too early, or it is too late. 'Thiey forget that tihe God wvho plromisedi seed time awid harvest, aium mier and winlter, cold ando heat, also or dlained all tile elimat,icelhanges. Thlere is oncO <fuestlion thlat oiughlt to be written Oil every barn, on every fence, on every Iystack, on every falirmhouse, "IUntl the raini a father?" 11 we only knew wi it, a vast enter prise it is to provide appropriate weath er for this world we should not be so critical of the Lord. Isaac Watts at ten years of age complaimed that he did not like the hymns that were sung in the English chapel. "Well," said his fith er, "Isaiv. instLead of' your complaining aboit the hymn go and make hymns that are better.'' And lie did uo and make hymns that were better. Now, I say t0 you if 'you do not like the %% eather et up n weather company and have a presidenIt. and a secreta ry, and at I reasur er, and a board of' directors, and ten million dollars of stock, and then pro vide weather Iliat will suit its all. There is a man who hai a weak head, and he cannot stand tihe glare of* the suni. Y ou Must ha'e a clOutd alWay's IOve'ing i-er( him. I like the sun-shlinv; I cannot lb;e svith out plenty of sulbllul;t, so vou :- us.I al ways have enotuh light fo~r me. Two ships meet inl mid-Atlantie. The one is going to Southaipton and the other is Coinung to New York. Provide weather that, while it is abaft for one ship, it is not a head wind for the other. There is a fairi that is dried up For the lack of raiin. anld there is a pleatsure party going out for a field excursion. Provide weCatli er that will suit the dry firi and the pleasure excursion. No, sirs, I will not take one dollar of stock inl your weather company. There is only one Being in the uiverse who knows enough to provide I he ri-Oht kind of' weat,her for this world. "Ilath the rain a father?" Go I) I NFI N 1IE IN I N Fi N ITiSi MA L,. My text also suggests God's minute supervi,al. You see the divine Soinship in every drop of rain. The je % els of' the ,shower are not liung away by a spe'nd thrift who knows iot how many Ie throws or where they fal. They are all shininx prince.i of heaven. The v all have an eternal lineage. They aie all the.chilren of a king. "Iath the rain a lather?'' Well then. I say if God takes notice of every minute raindrop lie will take notice of the most insignificanit afflair of my life. It is the astronomical view of things that bothers me. We look up into the night hcavens, and we say, "-Worlds! worlds!" and how insignificant we feel! We stand at the foot of Mount Washington or Mont Blane, and we feel that we are only in sects, and th(n %we say to ourselves "Though the world is so large, the sun .s one million fiour hundread thousand times larger." "Oh!" we say, "it is no use, it God wheels that -reat machinery through immensity he will not take the trouble to look down at me.'' Infidel conclusion. Saturn, Mercury and Jupi ter ire no more rouinded and weighed and swung by tile hand of God than arC the globiiles on a lilac bhill the morning aftr a shower. God is o110 imore in magmitudes than lie is in minutiw. It lie has scales to weigh the mountains, lie has balances delicate enough to weigh tlie infinitesimal. You can no more see him through the tele scope than you can see him through the Microscope; n1o more when you look ill than when you look dowl". Are not the hairs of .your head all numbered? And it' ilimialaya has a God, ",lIath not the rain a father?" I take this doctrine of a particular Providence, and I thrust it into the very midst of' your everyday life. If God fathers a raindrop. is there anything so insignificant in your affairs that. (God will not father that? WhelI Drupse, the gunsiithi, invented the needle gun, which decided tre battIe of Sadowa, was it a mere accident? When a farmer's boy showed Blueber a short, cut, by which lie coul bring his army up soon1 enioughi to dlecide Water loo f'or .England, was it, a mere accident? W hen Lord Byron took a pliece of' money arnd tossed it upl to dlecidle whet,ber or iiot lie should be allianced to Miss Mill lbank, wvas it a mere accidernt which sidle of the iioney was uip anid which was dlownr? When the Christian army was besieged at ifeziers, and a dIrunkeni drum mer'1 c'ame ini at idnlighit and( rang the alarm bell, iiot knowmng what, lie was doing. b)ut waking uip the host, in t,ime to figth threiir enemies that, momnen t arr'iving, was it, ani accidlent? Wh'len ini one of thie Irnish wars a starv ing mot,ber, fly~ inig with her starvirng child. sank down anid fa:inted on the r'ocks in the niight and he ihan md fell on a warm bofttle' of miiilk, id that, jurst, happen so? Godl is eithe'r im the ailairs olmen or our iel igi- .iis worthf not.hing at all, andI( you hand1( better take in, a vay fronm us, and insthead of tlfis Iihble, wh lichr teaches the doctirine, gives us a securir hook, andir let urs, as tIhimous Mr'. F-ox, tIre memi lber' of pail ien, iin' Iris last, hour, cr'y onut. "'iead mie thle eighth book of' Vir )ld iliig firinds, lit uls rouise upi to aii arppreiaion of thei fact, that, all the af thirs of our lie r ie uder a king's coim tnd~nl, iid rindefr a hatber's watch, Ale'xnier's war hror'se. 1lucephalus, wvoui allow ai bod y to mol(unt film when lie wuas uinha riessed, buut, as soon as they put. on L haI warr horse I uc epihlus, te sad' dle ma1(1LI the trppings of' tire con <iuror' hei wioihl alhlow no one hurt, Alex ander fir touch him. AndI it a sourliess hr'e coii have' su' much pid(e ini his owne'r,( shll not we immor'tals exult, in tihe hl- rhrat wc are o-vnei by a king? '"Iath the rain a fathreir?" GiOu S w AVS A nE1 P'AST' iN iiiNU OUT. A\ aini my subhjecrt, teaches me tha t Godl's dealings wiith us rre iex ,licab)le. Th'Iat wars the original fiurce of my text. Thme r'aiin was a gr'eat myrstery t.o the ani ents. 'Thmey couhll riot mriler'st,anid Ihow the water shmouhll get, into lie cloudi, anud e'I tingz there, how it, should ihe sus I enided, or fi Iilini', why it should come1 down ini idrops. Mlodern science comles aul one andt say' threr'e are two'l piOr't.in0u1 air' of' ifh'erenit temperi'iaturie, and they aire ihargeid with moist,ure, arnd the one piortionr of' air idecr'eases hii temiperauturie so the hater amay no~ longer be field ini vapor. anid it ills. A nd they tell us that someii of' thre cloudis t,haut look to ibe (only as large as a imain's handit, and( to he almost (imiet in tire heaivens, are greaut miouintahis oh rminst four1 throusandl feet fr'omi base to toi nd that they rush miles a anute. But, after alhl tire brifliant expei'rments of' Drn. .James Hug o'n, arid Saurssure, and( other scientists, there is an infInite myst,ery ab)out thie rain. There Is ain oceaun of the nnf.r o,ahlia everyr... drop, an(d God says tolay as ie said i die time of Job, "If you cannot uti,(il stand one drop of rain, do 11( be st prised if mlly dealings with you are inex Plicable." Why does that ag1fmd maii decrepit, beggared, vicious, sick of th World aud the world sick ot' him, live on while here Is a man in mid life, :oisecra ted to God, hard working, useful ii every respect, who dies Why does tha old gossip, gadding along the stree about everybody's ;usiness but her own have such good health, while the Chris tian mother, with a lock - little one: about ier whom she is preparing lo Isefulness and tor heaven--the mothe who yoti think could not be spared ai hour from that hiousehitild---why doe hele down and die with a Canlcol? Why does that man, sellish to Lii core, go ou adding fortune to tortine consuiming everything on iiiself, conl tinue to prospper. while that man. whi has been giving ten per cent, of all hi income to God and the church, oes iit, bankruptcy? 13!ore we make starl fools of oii-sclves, let us stop pressii: this everlating "why.'' Let us worshil wherewewe calmot understand. Let ; man take that one question, '"WVhyiY*! amd follow it far iough, and push it, aln, lie will land in wretchedness and perdi tion. We want iii our theology fewe interrogation marks and more exclaiia tion points. Heaven Is tile place fo explanattion. Earli is the place 1 trust. if you cannot understand sl minute a thing as at raimdrop, how cai you expect to underutand God's deal ings? "Iath the rain a fathier?'' Ag.tin. my text makes ine think tha the rain of tears is of divine origir Great clouds of t rouble sometiies hove over us. They are black, and they, ar gorged. and they are thunderois. The; are more portentous than Salvator o Claude ever painted- clouds of povert) or persecutioi, or bereavement. The: hover over us, and they get darker arn blacker, and after awhile a tear start, and we think by an extra pressure o the eyelid to ,top it. Others follow and after awhile there is a shower o tearf ul emotion. Yea. there is a rail of tears. "Ilath that rainl a father?*, (0D SEI'S 0Ul1 TEA 1S "Oh11," you say, "a tear is nothing bu a drop of limpid fluid secreted b% th, lachrynal gland-it is only a sign o weak eyes." Great mistake. It is oni of tie Lord's richest bunedictions t' the world. Therl are people in llack well's Island insaie asylum, mid a Utica, and at all the asylums of thi land, who were demente-l by the fac that they could not cry at the righ time. Said a maniac in one of ou public institutions, uder a Gospel sei muon that started the tears: "Do yoi see that tear? that is the first I hay wept for twelve years. I think it wil help nmy brain." There are a great many in the grav who could not stand any longer unde the glancier of trouble. If that glacic had only melted into weeping the could have endured it. There hav been times in your life wIhen you woul lve given the world, if you had po. sessed it, for one tear. You coul shriek, you could blaspheme, but yo could not cry. Have you never seen 11111 holding the hand of a dead wif( who had been all the world to him The temples livid with excitement, thi eye dry and frantic, no moisture on th upper or lower lid. 'ou saw ther were bolts of anger in tile cloud, bu no rain. To your Christian comfort lie said. "Don't talk to me abouit Go)d there Is no God, ot if there is I lit hiin); don't talk to me about God; woiik lie have left ie and these ruotherles: children ?" Vut a few hours or das after, com inig across somie leadl penicih that~ sh owned in life, or someI letters wich shin wrote when lhe wa away from hoine withl ani outcry that aippauls, there burst the fountain of' tears, andl as the sun light of God's consolaitionl strikes t.ha fountain of tears, youl findi out that I is a tender hieartedl, mercifuli, pitiful an< al11 compassionlate God who was thi fathler Of that rain. "Oh," you say, "i is absurd to thuink that G od is going t< watch over tears." No, my friends Th'lere are three or four k indls of tthen that G od counlts, bot tIes and14 etirize/As First, there are all parental teairs, aIn ther'ie lire more of these than1 of an11 other kind, because the mlost,of the race (lie ini infancy, anud that keepis parent: miouLrning all aroiiund the wvorld. 'lThe) nuever get over it. TUhey may live ti shout and sing afterwvard, but there i: always a corridor in tile soul thalt il silent., though it once resoundl(ed. Aly parenits niever lnenltionledi heli dleath 01 a child who (iell lifty years5 be fore wijthout a tremor ini tie voice ami a sighl, oh, how deep f etched' It wva: bet ter she shou11 l ie. It 'vas a1 mierc3 she should die. She would havey uieen I ilfelong invalid. Ihitt you cannlot airgue away a1 parent's grief. I1owv often yoi hiear the mlean, "O h, mly chihd, my chiit.' T'hen there lire the hi hial teoars. Liitth chtiilrenl soonI get over thel4 loss of par enlis. Thiey are ea (sil y dhivertedt with I niew toy'. hInt, whtere is thle unmil t hati tils come to tir ity or forty or ltt) years of age, who can think oF thie oht l)eople without having alt thme founitaim11 of' his soul stirred uIp ? Y Oul maly ha11v( had1( t.o take catre of tier a good many~ years, but youl iiever cani forget hlon she uised1 to take care of you. Tnere hiave. beien many seai capLJtaLim conivertedl In our chunrchi, anld the pecu liarity of' themi wasi that t hey wert niearly a11ll)rayedi ashore by thieii miothlers, though tthe mothers went init( the dust soon after they wenlt to sea llahve you niever hleardI ani out man11 iil de'l iriurn of some sicknress (call for h iiiotther ? TJhe fact is we get so used tc calling I ior her the first teii years o1' our li fe we inever get oiver it, andi( when shi( goes away froim us8 it miak(es deep so row. Youl sometiimes, perhalps, in day1 or trouhble andl dalrknmess, when thhi world wouldI say, "You ought to be able to taik e caire (of you rsell"'-you wvake uip fromll your dIreamsI 1ilinin yoiirselhf saying, "O hi, miothier' mother!' II ave these tears no0 (divine origini Why, thlte all the warm hearts that ever boeat, in altl lanus, and1( in all ages aind put thieii togethr and thieir uiii tet thirob woul be wee' - .mnparedl witlh th tihbroll of Gohd's it aah symnpauthly YI'es, Godu also is fathter of alh thiat rail of rep)entanice. h)id you ever see aL rainl oh repent an1ce? l)o you know what it is thal makes a1 man~ repent? I see leoplIe gol lng aroiuiid t :yinlg to retpent. Tlhe() caninot repent. 1)41 you know ino ma1r1 can repeint until God1( helps hiim to ne pent?' 11ow do( I know ? Ily this pas1 sage, "H im hi lat.h God0 exalted to be I prince and a1 Saviouir to give repent anco. O, It s .a treninnm ,inu J When one wakes illy and says: "I am - bad ilan. I have iot sinned again st. - the Iaws of the land, blIt I have wasted lti - my life; God asked IIe for my services i and I havent given those servievs. h I my sins; (,od Jorgive me." Wheli tli:lt teir starts it thrills all leaen. An hal angr cannot keep his eye oIf it. and; Mim the church of Go.1 asseables arotumi, and there is a commingling of tears, and (;od is the Father of that rain, he i A L Lord, long suiffering, merciful and g.I. I desi ciolls. abol ier 'THE- C1.1, M.' A~ N10,1111-t's HEA1.~ ~* ee in a religious assemblange a Imlani ver arose and said: "I have beeln a very wh< wicked an; I broke mnother's hear1, I p T becaie an infidel. bu11t I have s-e 11 my evil way, and I have surreridt-d pjre my heart to (xod, but it is a grie, t h,:it o I 1 niever enn get over that iny parpannts ittt should never have heard of my salva. - er - tion; I don't. know whet her they are iv- t hat ing or dead." While yet lie was stamiling Irin1 in t he audicnce a voice I roin the gallery anid said, "Oh, my Son! iml.y son!" lIe lookeit tp and hie recognierd her. It was his; hot old mother. She hi,d been pra.\ing for B nim a great many years, arid whun at the loot of the cross tlt prodigal s ai and the praying mnother embrace I e,wh st(il oth.er there was a rain, a tremin ous i l rain, of tears, and God was t lie l'ather 1 - of these tears. Oh, that (;od woulil his r break us down with a sense of our sin, of i - and then lift us With ani appreciationl sit r of his merey. Tears over our wasted to v r life. Tears over a grieved spirit. Tears on 1 > over an injured father. (Oht. that inl 1 God would iove upon this attdien'e I . with a great wave of religions emotion. iilg The king of Carthage was detlronel. wf-r i s people rebelled against him. lie i11i was driven into banishment. Ills wile (a 1 and children were ouit rageoisl ahti. s.i1 Y ear., went by,and tll- king o' ('artlha- 1 go mad manY I rien(s. lie gathti.1 heel r ill a great army. lie i.;arched ag:11 d r1 toward Carthage. Ieacliing the gates a b11 of Carthage the best ien o the p ha Ili, CI1me olt barefooted and biarehea<-fl. ilin and with ropes aroind t heir iecks crY ig for imerev. They Said: "We abisd in You .and we abui1sed your lainily, Il'. u e thr cry for,merey." ie king ofa looked down upon the people Iroii lis bla chariot and said: "I came to bless. I inl m didn 't come to destroy. You drove rue thI al out., but this day I prononce pardon per. for all the people. ( )peii tll- natvs aid shi:1 let the army come in." The king of t iarlied in anud took the throtie, and (ali I .e I'ople all shouted, "Long live the bl in king." addl N My friends, you have d Ii veii thi I ,ord ftir s Jesus Christ, the King of the church. T away from your heart; you have been t hV L inaltreating him all these years; bht le ack r come back to-ila%. Ile stands inl front lit _ of tihe gates of your soul. If you iwill A only pray for his pardon Ie will e11iett you with his gracious spirit, ad hle I1 will say: "''Thy sins and thinle inliii- Soll ties I will remember io more. ( )peu n I a wide the gate, I will tike the thronm. r MY peace I give unto you." And then ,x r all through this aiience. rom thil cit y young and from the old, ther' will be na e a rain of tears, and (Iod will he the of father of that raill' Cot dea Cant11%V01 we S . till Su31 rVISr- tltr CmilAiim :TII, ,C., July 2. d udte red Wallace rendered his decision in the tot Cantwell case this afternoon. speillki" de i brielly but emphatically on the poinos t1 of Jaw. Ile reviewed the caso as iatle a out against Cantivell, and als' 'he :m-N L thority of the governor to rteiove. I t was in the power of the governor to alp- .lohi pomnt, wiLi the approval and consuetlit. of t" the Senate, and it was also in his power tt,o to remove, with exactly the same n . te)) ditions. They most be contemporane olis. There was a special act by which trial julstices, ailitors and( teasuirers em cold( be suspended, pending a me'etini' of the Senate, but no general law. (n ne ,the letter of the governor about the Itwo (bfhlice's, thec judge saidi that t-he lawv had but been decided llinconstittitional in thle ie Suplremne C'.rt relating to appoinrtive be otlices; t hat tIme discharge of' thle dutit's fhe l oIf crlerk of the county commhiissionecrs didl rnot at all confic jt withI those oif stu- 1 piervisor; that they were not i ncomnipat i- agei bHe; and that hie iliust grant t lie prtiayir''hi of Mir. liryan in favor' of .\ir. 'aiit welr. , - tate. I 're Fiell Into theo (lowling Orater'. t he Iu th i.:,. ty .-'suivius has rtee wed tlh:in its vole'anic acti vityv, anthe tI' orrernt of A lava rush inrg down'the mou)hnit aini Sidte is: rin rapidly increasing in v'olonie. Ye(ster. the dlay twvo lBrazilimii tonrisfts aisiendeil tihe phu~ mou ntai n, arid had junst reached Ithlit sum- fuill init and( we're standIin" oil t he' ve'rge of the crater whent they were sudelhtnly eni- , veloped iln ai datnie cloud1( of' smoitke ii rusheat't Ot upon0 thieim fronm thio vtolcanie I li dIepthls. Whien the outhuorst hial sub- t; "I sided it was found that. 1)ne1 of thet gen'i-an tlernien had be'comie asphyxiated andl ha<I thfe fallen in to the imiou th of t he crateri. u II is (compilanioni was only saved by Itihe ho presenice of imid of' the gouide wh o hadu h ac'complaniedl thienm. As the slphuril oiis IunOl of h is paton' waiuatf l dan r d tiiay wast uniable' to save ihe Ot lien. Thei v i nI titu oIf the accidlit w;as l)r. Silva .I at dlini, of' tio .lanleir'o, iaziil, a jourinlist. lie fell a sheer ti st anrie ol li I feet ini toci thle glow in g Ia va of thit craItI r. i" ni 1h1sTox, ,Jttly f'. On Sat 'rdayt list tstt M\rs. ,J'einit I. ('rockt,t, aigtd 1 Iart-,- moh ItIour, of hSo.'eni, a pirofessiona;l liatlooni ist uider the inlmie of NelhIie W\hieeh-r, iiiade an a-ceniollti t' grotundts it thie Waverly ' Landt (iu Company ;is a miem i of advertising a landt saleI. A I a Iheighlt. of I ,200J feet she g raspted hier paraiel hilt 0 1 ant descended, W hed ab ot thiriity liar feet f rom t i grondit shei bto'mnoe f rig~ hit.- i ti eried at the plrospetct ilf landoinmg in a 10.8s ghreenh1 ouse, andI lettinrg go of the nitar hantd le, fell oun her back, breatdking lher I spmeit. She cannuot suirvivye, Mrs. WIheel- I ?iis i-r had tmade umianiy suiccessftul aseuin- Ilet siton. She is the imothuer oIt a bloy ot in tI t,welve. Iler litush lal is said to hvi' i l'rovidence. 11. I. ,i A -"Ott Ace-ii.nt. ftion ,lamies lDoniald, a hiighily'respect ed hilte and well-to-do citizen living abot,tt at el halt mile fromt Elko, wi-nt this iion andh lng with a party tot aptt . W. W. W\ ihli-,'s lhei. miill on a fhshting (expeditioni. .\htot I10 talch o'clock lie and his t wo growii daugh ters wvenit out into the pond in a boal:t, aind while pladdlig upi the pitond the botat 0 striuck a tree, thirowinig out t lie yonger et ta - (laughter, lie ihmmi(t diately jumphih eed oIverboardl to save her' wheitn t hey I bItIh guti went to the hio'.toml arid dild niot, ri.nse tlrt I again. Thie daugh tn r ef t i:illth'eIboat wais - mianaged to get the bloat ot andlt re- ni?t Li ported it. T1hie bodlies have hot yet the - J ou recov i ed, b ut thety are bell ing She searchedl for.- -Newvs antd Courier, hier HANGED FOR HIS CRIME. 11hamu,. t ho Neu:ro Murderer of an Itau lit". Will Kill No More. 1IaNITr:, N. C., July 2.---Tio 09iing of Biblhalin, the negro who dered ti( Italianl Alocca. took place 1:1.1 this forenoon. day or two ago he expressed a re that his execution take place it I I o'clock that he night take din "in hell," yet lie changed his irrev it imood this muorniiig aid had; a con ation vith three clergymen, to 111 i couikesed repvnt.ance and hope arion. e inlt his Iate wvith firnitiess in the VIWe 'f amlit 2M persons. lie I Io renarks to Olth crowd hinself. Iev. 1'. 1'. Al-ton, the colored gynel, at Brabhlai's re<ltlest said h Il;id colitessed his guilt of the I., I'or which hi-_ was to be hanged, that lie was also guilty of the rob whici occurred at the Buford se sal das I'efore the imurder. rabhatin, however, declined to Intray associale in tle robbery, who, lie , was ii poissssiol of Soie of the t:i V01)ds. I lIe refuscd t a go furt her is colaiession. e bhade farewell this horning to all volilnadus ia jail with ti(e exeeption L'aldwel., who had twice assisted aifi Anith in defeating his attimIlpts scape troi3:. j i hadi, however, lie previouls day inchtaled Cild well is larewell. v ate IothigIr sinlce yesterday illorn alald also declinled stin 1ilaants, which e olfftrell hiT. lie slept well last it, a11l seaetned to have good control illisell wheln le was 1r1olight to the v wvas tho sfvN.(thl victimn who Imis i hadA onli the sie scalfold. 'I'le was (,it, and t he fall % as Jour and It f'ee, which did not stillice to break leckl. I )eithl isuied in (elI'ee tDtes. hll haninl.- caulsed 11n1ch intterest -tlhroihli t libruitalit y* of( the cr('ime, is of lynchiig which lollowde a coillic, bet ween whites and ks in ihe nai?lihborhood of the jail h1i1ch he was inmprisoned. The tact he ali;.; only receIntlv inade a les ite attat-k onl SheriIl Siuuith with his Kes. whicb, bit for the intrepidity hat olliver and the interfi-rence o'f lwell. a prisonvr in jail for gai tr, %%ou! have proved skiccessil, :d to the 11umblic interest in tle at' lit-re was no race feehlng, howvver, juistce ()I I Im sentelcev having been iowledgitd, quite a nuinbvr of wit w's beinig legroes. ovel tea Iture o!t tie occasion was lickets of' adiission to the jail, edI by tho sherilff vere eagerly h1d, hilng idiled aroutid at froi ents to .% each. he crimne for which Brabliat was atvd was coamittedlast April. lie ared tle small store of an Italian iied Mocca, wherecalling for a glass -ider, he drew a car couapling piaa, celed i under his coat and dealt the tih blow while Mocca's back was aed drawing lhe cider. This occur at i o'clock at Iight, arid Mralbhiami1 I,. said Ie hiad the pin concealea un his coat 'ron I o'clock oi the pre is afternoona, awaiting his oppor atv. Th11 Dbavis M14nI1n11411t. AsHiiL.L, TfENN., ,Jully 2.- Capt. it W. Chiblers, chairman oh the coin Lxe Iarom tlie Southern I Iress associa delegat.ed to collect a fund and at I to the etIails of erecting a ionit it to thi ineiibry of' ,Jeferson Dla is .Jist, back f'roni a meeting of t he m ittee at Atlanta. e say's t hat thie comrnaittee feel aiiuch uiiraged at. thea progress of affaiirs. alt, 820,000 have already been raised, bet ore the actual wor'k is coin .e(d on t lie iiionutainenit they expect rise $5t),000t. Active aneasiiires will ikeia at onice inl solica ting for the I. was deCcided4 to select a genera) 1t to looiik alter collec-tionas, whose e will he annaoiinced in a few days. coiitftee deterine ir' to requ iest ;idenat Si'rews, o1 the Soaathaeran is associaition, to call a iaetiag of' associ ation at N uahville not I, later a (October'. t this mueet in g thea coiaai t Ice is to) >r't i'50, I0 ia isedl, that, will aisuire ere(ctioni of a imonuiniat, t) submiiit is aii,d spedificationls, arai to recei ve iinstruact ions. 't.i A, S. C. .. aily 2.-l'reviouas to Iiapoiataient of l)r. liablcock as l*irintenta ntiif. th le Luui t ie Asy luma, ecoiut ofl which appears elsewhere, laisitllon w~as tendleredl to I )r. W. I1. tdin oh Aaaleison, whoi doeclianed the .)i in the followaiag lett,er: a. 1H. li. Tlilliaana, (sovernaor, Co IAL Sin:~ Your testeemied favor af .th ina to hiiaid. I'lease~ ariept I hianks li or ihe haoi'oranerred ulp ni' by your' sch-ctio n o t' high with regrlet thaat Ii on forced Itoi de a in' hoiiar, first froam aL senise of1 miy Iiiess~ f'or the poisition, mlad se'cond( an williragai ss to raise iny growing a y thfis surraoiuaded. W%a i highest 'Im ;iaid hopinag you maay r:iad tane I iaa withI re(sp(ct, y'ouars trauly, Ter-ri ble strm in GermanId(y. a:i.ix . .hiuly 2.-- A teri'lble stoirmi of ideir, lail aiti' rami pas. d ovei a ofl life ina thle ' lhlaes of' Siuchtelhln, I hiseblorfI iiadalsittard. I hle C'reehl ditiet, alsoa nari the iw blorfI, aniy haouises were cm ly wre--ced liand the i nates (' buried y beeni -ii re cered throughaouita th (la,1ower' lhine dis . i ieman's hall at Cieteed wais I 'rom its hatunIlationas and caarried ai aiway. Thle circus was blown over the plavil Ians were <huanag-ed and conatenats shl.teredl. Several at. es .sstainedl iaries, A 1-' nmi11E~ A4eroni aut. 14,11led. .-:V l.:A NIl, .luly 4.- -As 3me. Zo lI entley was maakinog a balloona as in at; E'lyria, (O., to day, a st roing at wI ial caulght tihe air~ ship and1( gi-d t.he t raptize uipon whaichi she satting tlarouagh the trees. She was ablei toa retnin1 her hold, aand fell to ground, ia dlist.ance of' sixty feet. wIas instantly killed. Every~ rib ian bodv was broken. HORRORS OF THE ELEC "I0C CHA!R. Terrible Work of (he Deadl y CII-r-vilt (u1 111o V tC1,iM .D Yol1,C, dJuly i.-Tli' J.sv--'i'.w World, in itsi sporting editioll, .1 a The )ody of Mur<erer Harris A. SilPur was >rought p) Ibis city tins allown. I'. >ody hald been claiied by Snii,-r's vidow, th1e Womall lie uilarried 1111d d.. ICLtedI( for the Woman, w11Whomll he ai ,vards inurdere 1. The hAdy was tikii romi thle trainl to the unldertakl inl-_ (-hh-a ish tent, at 21,5 West ne l i-.l0red :toil] 1l'WCnty-filth strect. Thri've 1r tit- In.l Ired people wPrented n- ,>w Les.s the arrival oW t' h I ; - Jou4 arranteenn wvith the mi.lh r!:Akr t in U-'vellnl l W orl rept'l -r41. %N1: inl ng at, the r (oIns to) s t e ll liv 1 I xexcetvd mourderer. TPhe oi taken to :he bast-tnent by tilwlu ?r's atssistants, and14 the li was ux a tLket toff, ote sinil' tiht. dt- 'l u 'Ihlle reporter st1111 h . ; T11 birrided at the(- s*,--',It 01 th m Iliilers face iid'I 1w Ill h: iCeaned by tlhl elevtie I"id P ivilied the appelaranil1e tol' hIm broiled. TIhlle hll. Ill! Irh n C." Iend, tile lmloustache and v\i meen Aunged and burned (,V in 3 b s i ll - 11rot41d : til t iand i ic 6vith a hot) lronl. Th-esv IoNrt-u rc IthIiosU iot at dissec:in." kiel*'! 4. P'hey were 1alpable hunl... I 1 C., I i I ,hwvr t mee tup thad imIO !it - t! r, tile reporter attracted Ct at;(-1:1411n if tile tlertaker's aisistalt.s. : ld th!e.k Uez d 1hit by th'. sho..1 n .11 I willed hinm t > Weavc tht! p;.I-c h!w! "',11 >ther portiml w it 114n)l(1v wN: 1 x ! 'I. in ruei y reto 1 a141ted 1 1 tp . lo,1 ll to spe the bIOd, the i W1 r, ithM-41 t hat tll) nehtwit l II, :Ili b Ind his, a : twlvomd i ut, I'' WC it t'itil it had btnt t 1i-iN tIr1 burial. It wvas Ili t h' l i tile! unerC-takr4' s : 111 , - -nlelr's lt, le-- wva- huntedi And the vYvs wervholly hur A ' r r errntv TaIl ' tot I I L-Itt,.l ly 7.- -. di*---.,cI -: e Autckhlad, N /wZati,d, rci,-t th1 0 tie bark Comp:Idre, b(n'd ji,111 Iro lor ' lov, re tivy c iit; i Ilrt- : i Afvl atitn inell'tectual (111.1" to) ! Iu ;k n mihies the ovapotn i s tclti l 4. tiufllHarbor, a -socapwr 1 )l I l 1 : it il O(Aw-a, N(-w Zealand. Il b :. I Id reVeded In brntn hi(. burill the mouth of the( h:u-bor wvIi.n a IrU 11 t 111ous hurrIcane 4o-took her. - haustQd crew spenvlt thchr h;1-, tt en '.,: in attlempting to keep d1wn ti' v. ire and at the sanmv tim, tit-t Ilu fortunate Ima-k to taCe the tl r wtids and suas whllichl l * 1 4t1 1 h1: 11 - rushedl over hetr It wa14, 1.iil I' n vr. jll to no avail. A fter a <h-sp-ratc r with t ie opposin vlIvnts, 4 1 . ( padre hbecamic wvaterI_-.zuJ.1 .4 . I' . drivenl with eart llohrcv ulin O!w i-*,1 of, tle desolate and unlinhah:i d .\i land Islands. A.444t Itr i bh.. 11 tn the eil of the bark --msccecidrd ml .. Ining ashore. 11re, in mw n0 ih.c .h years of' the nineteenith Ct nturlo, he1 miserable Iten were forced to Sp-'d I days and I ghits, su14'eri tilm c%rCenlt t" : I wretchedness olexposur: andstarva:io-ii. Ih 11 the one huindred :nd I'irli ! their b)el , Cast awvay thwir Ii"tr- - nals were observed by a pave sa e yessel, aill Lhe sorviy Irild s:Wi*rs w\(reC Lken oH* in s aety, Iu t i a 1jiyIr L!Onldition Of' weakncsi :ini m-i44a:l4 1. I )II-llun thte eRIn - .or . I --':ty - :on ,I, . . . bishan1 wsneerhen41:'..n ii .J.o 1 l' n A . ', ,41. .1. A1. , -N . i Sotelrepts'y mIi . ~t Secret: 40f4VState 11 the a 'ent of ithe. .in'k. n-1.4 I m)cN4 their (oh repciv Ied. \ l1i !4. illatus.t (ithe agent fore laraetul II 4,1 toraiei llampton wlvias Inp l til. ui ,1.1 lto 'nat C01t 111tthi ceity. [.Wls1 toy s very1( huver tiunal i th t .-e - \ atal supriting rstteme1'nt t111-<b4ilj' it .I I lfrine fuly tiree bue.| t4rrhi,t .n t.i d dre is a x c to s -, mIi e SWVElI" B~Y A. CTONE :ATH AND DLSTRUCTION IN LOU V3IANA'S CAPITAL CITY. I '.t eor. al I0.44 :tal of th Io 1enu1tef i:'r I# 1a 1i shed -Teni l'ermons K I Illoi ol T ral ty lI v.inIr l.--I a 1: gan. 1a t Ie ii v. 1 1-:\f I -l.i . ri. t1, .I I, _t y l n itih ad d"atrution W. that city. The a"llW,ilt Ck Cit[y wasiht\; to v 's 'a ba'i' hin l eft of her btit hull. --lvl'aT %V hW(r were bad Iur a d. T 11 ar' in the ea t 1;1 t: N w-( wurv destroy,ed. ne( passd oerl. tihe lowe.r ca h town, uilroo.l.og h-ousiea, '''a' tia imilin Se IctIv.i in[ carrri,4 th! a i t;r or uinly blocks. r- : ,0an n WaS directly in (!Vtear.V in iney :ad clear *,.n a ;s Mrtse Irems. The it In upi mw rtlid ll. o beloillg,ing W,h. wa Tarri(4d %aAwy. anld a nilt t la tha place. The na"'- at trees tilat have b . h i-'. w d I t!:e street, bou;. tflli anld tn.e V. a :S ' lied an d i (.Ir hI n . hospit al dI: 11.l- aeai ha *o 1 a-o! have noat beenCl I'; a'.' w al I ive~ beena n d I- ' ' a1 b '. a 'et-h. TIa'uI c-el. -aar , .I h is learal that S r - havo b n a rll ( in l inl the [ ry ilho .-CHnV W.11 . n utItuly warnin" the it v. hich I00 coll a allw p. t loard. T 1he I ' a I' toart1'l extrient 1 U k - VI.: ictilal 1ti11t,i hell I'a '" '.m hi ; . n- rnilthe fulanace Iln I a a:l but win ta) th heavy -\.was 1.11Hin1 thi! threatene'd n : la 'aa. h'lie crescueris aI. l :lio rk aitiol began aiy tihe n w ti -h l andI lyntlgl ai I a jalo ' .1i , the to ve .11 1 1,Ctl v t I t ' t cuim . I ti I )v -lr I i .111 1 I lr a I.ul I y injiur 4L a n i . L 1t w A1. T h'l l pital b p 11,n -, larv inl n% hil-h wlk, Iyinl V t1 11i'mid a!nd helph-.ss C"ln 1 1 i, rill. 'l'a w Iork aaI, rus n ' k 4 , a N ! I':l i lyJhere a a1WIli r ' live, we ini dalln;el, a 1t i m nl' rll aa rllil mrtull ates K:t ,-0 mul it Was ipm un"Ei i' the w1 1 -r 1i r hi'beenl res " i a ta j,VIs a6il ira alt olid tinle - h i a t alltIqlfon t . [lht! 14 hoSpiliI . 'i' ti,' livas .\enI Imn -re dilliclt t.!:v ".lcwry, m\",ns toi [he lveak. ath%a inmat, h were tillable '1 ta I ' 1 ( :Iler- an india tini a-( ilta ill tilt' !elcbris by Slolts. ao, VQ Pa' r!aaM. aroeeds lut sloV I I .i however,''ai* it IS bla1ieve'ta a a t b ~ il g Iln taarrenits and1( a'' ~h a -'' s' of IlLhItin . rnl a iaa re 1tio llal sw'atL at tath thIree Idra' h a 't a ar ina are iln whVijh d1iIagon a ros a ty leveilin levaerti I sena .1' T h sthern pation of C''te -Ial '' iaI aun a e 't roeraalty, it r i-wI t I;t iiga a Iaaiilirs I all Tuoa linnaadreda l'-eat. I II I no , I I. .lulyV -l.- -'ull a a n, laI V.n adaI ii' pan h a' leap. I hat uI . Iual, tiwa nu1 llil as I 'a '- TI t11i1 la:tlh l.w 1h agyLa[ - t q h' 'l;moI:hLte, str'ikinga it, -Ilh a w 'ay ' thalt theI knih- ait thie ropeLa, a.; d h a ah aeret iniaut'',I' fellSt h eL am ' In aou 11 hIt u tl a insbIpta. y.I um The:l une o t vhet m(an killed) a IN u l'a'a t s1 y,I a r id en of t)risa a' w h n,is !I't ina t ilae 'a.IS '''th lla ( a wllow motlS'itLS ur ch Il il'n. at il n t L t i ta~lti h i b la i J . ~i a' ('.hl-i(al. l,.lly IKa. ilL'of'aI lltman ,l t ihe Iliit it \ nl ii tit' aiti 11oast d ulS aladnon n ai'ds lal ritaof prosi Sar, died~51 ye.lSted i att i sqa.lid lln Ctax'aa traeeLt i as worth (a)ll I' r11d1 It01 ahousand ofv dollaa lals,e mot y a ltatime af miserl. lau 'tsIp tall throis. rtPaise haiisl f in'! aaI,t ie I' a. , ru2sh d1~ t hlitI taa this L t hr, iitakLn' tt'e It, wit 'r a' srni .aalaIgf w la bihlin l'aek, an a ttao alVuId a' tr.uh at itth othon h.ands,( i '' Ltih ~ the j britht pulit'al m hs lit'A -