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VOL. V. MANNING CLARENDON COUNTY, S. 0., WEDNESIDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 1889. NO.49 THE USES OF TROUBLE. 'Sermon by Rev. T. DeWitt Tal rage, D. D. Trouble Is Designed to Keep the World From Being Too Attractive-How Human Beings are Fitted for Heaven by Their Suf ferings on Earth. I The text of Dr. Talmage's recent ser mon at the Brooklyn Academy of Music was: "God shall -wipe all tArs from their eyes"-Rev. vii., 17. The eloquent divine spoke as follows: . Riding across a Western prairie, wild flowers up to the hub of the carriage wheel, and while a long distance from any shelter, there came a sudden shower, ani while the rain was falling in tor rena, the sun was shining as bright as I .ever saw it shine; and I thought what a beautiful spectacle .this is! So the tears of the Biblo are not midnight storm, but rain on pnsied - o swet and goden sun ight. You remember that bottle which David labeled as containing tears, and Mar-y's tears, and Paul's tears, and Christ's tears, and the harvest of joy thatis to spring from the sowing of tears. God mixes theiii. God rounds them. God shows them where to fall. God exhales them. A census is taken of them. and there is a record as to the nioment when they are born, and as to the place of their grave. Tears of bad men are not kept. !Alexander, in his sorrow, had the hair clipped from his horses and mules. and made a great ado-about his grief; but in all the vases of heaven there is not one of Alexander's tears. I speak of the tears of the good. Alas! me! they are falling all the time. In summer. you sometimes hear the growling thunder, and you see there is a storm miles away: but you know from the drift of the clouds that it will not come anywhere near you. So, though it may be all bright around about us.there is a shower of trouble sonewhere all the time. Tears! Tears! What is the use of them anyhow? Why not substitute laughter? Why not make this a world where all the people are well and eternal strangers to pain and aches? What is the use of an east ern storm when we might have a per petual nor'wester. Why, when a family is put together, not have them all stay, or if they must be transplanted to make other homes, then have them all alive? the family record telling a story of mar riages and births, but of no deaths. Why not have-the harvests chase each other without fatiguing toil? Why the hard pillow, the hard crust, the hard strungle? It is easy enough to explain a smile, or a success, or a congratula tion: but, come now, and bring all your dictionaries and all your philosophies and all your religions, and help me ex blain a tear. A chemist will tell you that it is made up of salt and lime and other component parts; but he misses the chief ingredients-the acid of a soured lies, the viperine sting of a bitter memory, the fragments of a broken heart. I will tell you what a tear is; it is agony in solution. Hear me, then, while I discourse to you of the uses of trouble. - First-It is the design of trouble to iceep this world from being too attrac tive. Something must be done to make us willing to quit this existence. If it were not for trouble this world would --e-gonnougn eaven for me. You and I would be willing to take a lease of life for a hundred million years if there were no trouble. The earth cushioned and upholstered and pillared and chan deliered with such expense, no 'story of other worlds could enchant us. We would say: "Let well enough alone. If you want to die and have your body dis integrated in the dust, and your soul go out on a celestial adventure, then you can go: but this world is good enough for me." You might as well go to a man who has just entered the Louvre at Paris, and tell him to haste n off to the picture galleries of Venie or Florence. "Why," he would say. "what is the use of my going there? There are Rem brandts and Rubenses and Raphaels here that I haven't lookedeat yet."____ No man wants to go out of this worw, or out of any house, until he has a bet ter house. To cure this wish .to stay here God must somehow create a dis gust for our surroundings. How shall He do it? Hie can not afford to deface His horizon, or to tear off a fiery panel from the sunset, or to substract an an ther from the water lily, or to banish the pungent aroma from the umignonette, or to drag the robes of the morning in mire. You can not expect a Christopher Wren to mar his own St. Paul's cathe dral, or a 3Michael Angblo to dash out his owxi "Last Judgment," or a Handel to discard his "Israel in Egypt;" and you can not expect God to spoil the archi tecture and music of his own world. How then are we to be made willing to leave? Here is where trouble comes in. After a man has a good deal of trouble he says: "Well, I am ready to go. If there is a house somewhere whose roof doesn't leak, I would like to live there. If there is an atmosphere somewhere that does not distress the lungs I would like to breathe it. If there is a society where there is no tittle-tattle, I would like to live there. If there is a home circle somewhere where I can find my lost friends, I would like to go there." He used to read the first part of the Bible chiefly, now he reads the last part of the Bible chiefly. Why has he changed Genesis for Revelation? Ah! he used to be anxious chiefly to know how this world was made, and all about its geolog ical construction. Now he is chiefly anxious to know how the next wc rld was made, and how it looks, and who live there, and how they dress. He reads Revelation ten times now where lhe reads Genesis once. The old story, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth," does not thrill him half as much as the other story, "I saw a new heaven and, a new earth." The old man's hand 'trembles as he turns over this apoclytic leaf, and he has to take out his handkerehief to wipe his spec tacles. That book of Revelation is a prospectus now'of the country into which he is to soon immigrate; the country in which he has lots already laid out, and. avenues opened, and trees planted, and mansions built. The thought of the blessed place that if this house were one great ship. and you all were passengers en hoard it, and one hand Qould launch that ship into the glories of heaven, I should' be tempted to take the responsibility and launch you all into glory with one stroke, holding on to the side of the boat until I could get in myself. And yet there are people here to whom this world is brighter than heaven. Well, dear souls, I do not blame you. It is patural. But after a while you will be ready to go. It was not unitil Job had been worn out wita bereav'ements and' carbuncles and a pest of a wifo that lhe wanted to see God. It was not until the prodigal got tired of living ;mong the hogs that ho wanted to go to his father's house. It is the ministry of trouble to make this world worth less and heaven worth more. Again, it is the use of trouble to make us feel our oompleto dependence upon God. King Alphonso said that if he had been present at the creation he could have made a better world than this. What a pity he was not present! I do not know what God will do when some men die. ' Men think they can do any thing until God shows them they can do nothing at all. We lay our great plans and we like to execute them. It looks big. God comes and takes us down. As Prometheus was assaulted by _his enemy, when the lance struck him it opened'a a o~amethat had threatened his Leath, anu tie cot well-. >o it is the ar row of trouble that lets out great swol lings of pride. We never feel our de pendence upon God until we get into troubl-'. I 4-:. riding with my little child .' --oad, and she asked if she r: I said: "Certainly." r the reins to her. an' I had to : .the glee with which she drove. Bur. after awhile we meta team, and we had to turn out. The road was narrow. and it was sheer down on both sides. She handed the reins over tome, and said: "I think you had better take charge of the horse." So we are all children; and on this road of life we like to drive. It gives one such an ap pearance of superiority and power. It looks big. But after a while we meet some obstacle, and we have to turn out, and the road is narrow. and it is sheer down on both sides: and then we are willing that God should take the reins and drive. Ah! my friends. we get upset so often because we do not hand over the reins soon enough. Can you not tell when you hear a man pray. 'whether he has ever had any trouble? I can. The cadence, the phraseology indicate it. Why do women pray-etter than men? Because they have had more trouble. Before a man has had any trouble, his prayers are poetic, and he begins away up among the sun, moon and stars, and gives the Lord a great deal of astronomical in formation that must be highly gratify inp He then comes downgradually over beautiful tablelands to "forever and ever amen." But after a man has had trouble, prayer is with him a taking hold of the arm of God and crying out for help. I have heard earnest prayers on two or three occasions that I remember. Once, on the Cincinnati express train. going at forty miles the hour, and the train jumped the track, and we were near a chasm eighty feet deep: and the men who, a few minutes before. had been swearing and blaspheming God, began to pull and jerk at the bell rope. and got up on the back of the seats and cried out, "0 God, save us!" There was an other time, about eight hundred miles out at sea, on a foundering steamer, after the last lifeboat had been split finer than kindling wood. They prayed then. Why is it you so often hear peo ple, in reciting the last experience of some friend, say: "He made the most beautiful prayer I ever heard?" What makes it beautiful? It is the earnest ness of it. Oh. I tell you a man is ir earnest when his stripped and naked soul wades out in the soundless, shore less, bottomless ocean of eternity. It is trouble, my friends, that makes us feel our dependence upon God. We do not know our own weakness or God's strength until the last plank breaks. It is contemptible in us when there is nothing else to take hol'd of, that we catch hold of God only. A man is unfor tunate in business. lie has to rraise a good deal of money, and raise it quickly. He borrows on word and note all he can borrow. After awhile he ruts a mort gage on his house. After awhile he puts a second mortgage on his house. Then he puts a lien on his furniture. Then he makes over his life insuranc.e. Then he assigns all his property. Then he goes to his father-in-law and asks for help: Well, having failed everywhere, com pletely failed, he gets down on his knees and says: "O, Lord. I have tried every body and every thing, now help me out of this financial trouble." IHe makes God the last resort instead of the first resort. There are men who have paid ten cents on a dollar who could have' paid a hundred cents on a dollar if they had gone to God i time. Why, you do not know who the Lord is. lie is not an autocrat seated far up in a palace, from which He merges once a year, pre ceded by heralds swinging swords to clear the way. No. But a Father, will ing at our call. to stand by us in every crisis and predicament of life. I tell you what some of you business men make me thisk of. A young man goes off from home to earn his fortune. He goes with his mother's consent and benediction. She has large wealth but he wants to make his own fortune. i~e goes far away, falls sick, gets out of money. He sends for the .hotel keeper where he is staying. asking for lenience. and. the answer he gets is: "If ,you don't pay us Saturday night you will be re moved to the hospital." The youing man sends to a corpirade in the same biuilding. No help. He writes to a banker who was a friend of his deceased father. No relief.. He writes to an old schoolmate. bu tts no help. Saturday nightcomes, and'eo-is moved to the hospital. Getting there he is frenzied with grief. and he borrows a sheet of paper and a postage stamp and he sits down and he writes home, saying: "D~ear mother, 1 am sick unto death. Come." It is ten minutes of ten o'clock when she gets the letter. At ten o'ilock the train starts. She is five minutes from the depot. She gets there in time to have five minutes to spare. She wonders why a train that can go thirty miles an hour can not go sixty miles an hour. She rushes into the hospital: She says: "My so, wns' Qoes au? tas mean: i fly didn't you send for me? You sent to everybody but me. You knew I could and wouldl help you. is this the reward I get for my kindness to you always?" She bundles him up. takes him home, and gets him well very soon. Now, some of you treat God just as that young man treated his mother. When you get into a financial perplex ity, you call on the banker, you call on the broker, you call on your creditors, you call on your lawyer for legal coun sel; you call upon everybody, and whern you can not get any help, then you go to God. You say: "0 Lord, I come to Thee, Help me now out of my perplexity." And the Lord comes, though it is the ele'vent-h hour. He says: "Why did you not send for me before? As one whom his moth er comforteth, so will I comfort you." It is to throw us back up~on an all comfort ing God that we have this ministry of tears. Again, it is the use of trouble to capcitate us for the office of sympathy. The priests under the old dispensation. were set apart by having wate~ sprinkled on their hands, feet aud head; and by the sprinkling of tears people are now set apart to the ottice of sympathy. When we are in prosper'ity we like to have a great many young people around ,and we laugh when they laugh, and we romp when they romp, and we sing when they sing; but when we have trouble we like plenty bf old folks around. Why? They know how to talk, Take an aged mother, seventy years of age, and she is almost o:onipotent in comfort. Why? She has been through it all. At seven o'clock in the morning she goes over to comfort a young mother who has just lost her babe. Grandmother knows all about that trouble. Fifty years ago she felt it. At twelve o'clock cf t'nat day she goes over to comfort a widowed soul. She has been walking in that dark valley twenty years. At four o'clock in the afternoon some one knocks at the door wanting bread. She knows all about that. Trwo or three times~ in her life she came to her last leaf. At ten o'clock that night she goes ever to sit up with sonie one so verely sick. She knows all about it. She knows all about fevers and pleurl sies and broke~n bones. She has been doctoring all her life, spreading plasters and pouring out bitter drops, and shak ing up hot pillows, and contriving thinigs to tempt a poor appetite. IDoctors Aber nethy and Rush and Hlosack and H arvey were great doctors. but the greatest doc tor the world ever saw is an old Chris tian woman. Dear me! Do we not re member her about the room when we wvere sick in our boyhood? Was there any one who could ever so touch a sore without hurting it? And when sihe lifted her spectacles against her wrinkled forehead, so she could lonok closer at tha wound, it was Lord took her home. although you may c have been men and women thirty. forty, u fifty years of age, you lay on the collin a lid and sobbed as though you were only i five or ten years of age. 0, man, praise u God if you have in your memory the u picture of an honest, sympathetic, kind, t self-saciflcing. Christian mother. 0. '1 it .takes these people who have had t trouble to comfort others in trouble. t: Where did Paul get the ink with which e to write his comforting epistle? Where I: did David get the ink to write his com forting Psalms? Where did John get the ink to write his comforting Revelations? u They got it out of their own tears. When n a m:an has gone through the curriculum, b and has taken a course of dungeons anid p imprisonments and shipwrecks, he is a qualified for the work of sympathy. to When I began to preach, my sermns u on the subject of trculble were all poetic p and in semi-blank verse: but God s knocked the blank verse out of me long i ago. and 1 have found that I can not comfort people except as I myself have y been troubled. God make me the son of u consolation to the people. I would o rather be the means of soothing one per- so turbed spirit to-day. than to play a tune c that would set all the sons of mirth u reelina in the dance. I am a herb doc- e tor. I put into the caldron the Root out of dry ground without form or comeli ness. Then I put in the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. Then I put into the caldron some of the leaves of 'r the Tree of Life, and the Uranch that was thrown into the wilderness Marah. Then I pour in the tears of Rethany and Golgotha: then T stir them up. Then I a kindle under the caldron a fire made out of the wood of the cross. and one drop u of that potion will cure the worst sick ness that ever afflicted a human soul. Mary and Martha shall receive their Lazarus from the tomb. The damsel shall rise. And on the darkness shall U break the morning, and God will wipe l all tears from their eyes. r You know on a well spread table the food becomes more delicate at the last. I have fed you to-day with the bread of a consolation. Let the table now be cleared, and let us set on the chalice of Heaven. Let the King's cup bearers come in. Good morning. Heaven! ", n says some critic in the audience, "the 0 Bible contradicts itself. It intimates h again and again that there are to be no h tears in Heaven, and if there be no tears 0 in Heaven how is it possible that God will wipe any away?" I answer have you never seen a child crying one no ment and laughing the next: and while r she was laughing you saw the tears still a on her face? And perhaps you stopped y her in the very midst of her resumed F glee, and wiped off those delayed tears. So, I think, after the heavenly raptures have come upon us, there may be the a, mark of some earthly grief, and while those tears are glittering in the light of g n the jasper sea, God will wipe them away. How well He can do that. a Jesus had enough trial to make Him u sympathetic with all trial. The shortest i verse in the Bible tells the story: "Jesus r wept." The scar on the back of eiiCher hand, the scar on the arch of either foot h the row of scars along the line of the 0 hair, will keep all Heaven thinking. 0. K that great weeper is just the one to si lence all earthly trouble, wipe out all stains of earthly grief. Gentle: Why. His step is softer than the step of the dew. It will not be a tyrant bidding q you to hush up your crying. It will be p a father who will take you on His l',. it arm, his face gleaming into yours, while a with the soft tips of the fingers of the n right hand He shall wipe away all tears p from your eyes. I have noticed when the ti children get hurt, and their mother is a away from home, they always come to me for comfort and sympathy: but I t< have noticed that when the children get v, hurt and their mother is at home they i ;o right past me and to her; I am of no se account. k So, wlhn the soul comes up into , Heaven out of the wounds of this life, it ~ will not stop to look for Paul. or NIoses- rn or David, or John. These did very well a once. hut now the soul shall rush past,.3 rying: "Where is Jestis? Whereisy Jesus?" Dear Lord, what a magnificenty thing to die if 'Thou shalt thus wipe away our tears. Methinks it will take us some time to get used to lleaven; the fruits of w God without one speck: the fresh pas- ft tures without one nettle; the orchestra al without one snapped string; the river of oj gladness without one torn bank; the V solferinos and the saffron of sunrise and w~ sunset swallowed up the eternal day be that beams from God's countenance. it Why should I wish to linger in the wild. Wheni thou are waiting, Father, to rec'eive thy TI child? Still, if we could get any appreciation o of what God has in reserve for us, it would make us so homesick we would be unfit for our every day work. Professor h) Leonard. formerly of Iowa University, y put in my hands a meteoric stone, a ti stone thro'wn oRi from some other world to this. Ilow suggestive it was to me. And I have to tell you the best repre sentations wve have of lleaven are only 'erolites flung off from that world whicht rolls on. bearing the multitudes of the redeemed. We analyze these mrolitis, C ad find them crystallizations of tears. a No wonder, flung off from Iheaven. "God ix sall wipe avway all -tears frcm their e a nd glorious times your friends are hav ing in Iheaven? 'How different it is when they get news there of a Christian's E heath fromn what it is here. It is the ~ Merence between embarkation and c .uing into port. Every thing depends n upon which side of the river you stand tl hen you hear of a Christian's death. h If you stand on this side of the rivet p you: mourn that they go. If you stand et on the other side of the river you re-ti joi e that they come. 0. the difference. bet ween a fun'eral on earth and a jubilee ~ in hleaven-between requiem here and triumphal march there-parting here. and reunion there. Together! hlave you thought of it? They are together. ~ Not one of your departed friends in one S land and another in another land: but fi together, in different rooms of the same i house-the house of many mansions. 3 Together! I never appreciated that thought so much as when we laid away in her last slumber my sister Rrah. Standing there in the village cemetery. I looked t4 around and said: "There is father, u there is mnother, there is grandfather, v there is grandmiother, there are whole il: circles of kindred:" and I thought to my- ~ self. "Together in the grave-together in glory." I am so impressed with the thought that I do not think it is any fanatiim when some one is going from this world to the next if you make them C the bearer of dispatches to your friends a~ who are gone. saying: "Give my love to 14 my parents. giveu my love to my chil- C dren. give my love to my old comrades :d who are in glory and tell them I am try-. ing to light the good fight of faith, and I will join thiem after a while." : 1 I believe the message will be deliv-I ered: an~d I lbelieve it will increase the j adnt as of thuose who are beforce the I throne. Together are they, all their I tears gont'. No troubilo getting good p societ* for th(eg. All kings. queens,; d prines and princesses. In 1751 there f3 was a bill offered in the English parlia- y ment proposing to cbange the almanac c so that the 1st of March should conme iimediately after the 18th ouf February. But. oh. what a glorious change in the calendar wvhen all the years of your e'arthiy existence are swallowed tip inthie eternal year of God! My friends, take this good cheer home C with you. These tears of bereavement I that course your cheek, and of persecu- 1b tion, and of trial. are not always to be e there. The motherly hand of God will d wipe thenm away. 'What is the use, on the way to such a consummation-what ~ V is the use of fre'tting about any thing? ~ 4) what an exhiliration it ought to be in hrsin work! See you the pinnacles rainst toe sKy? it is the city of our od, and we are approaching it. O. let s be busy in the few days that still re iain for us. The Saxons and the ritons went out to battle. The Saxons ,ere all armed. The Britons had no capons at all: and yet history tells us 1i Britons got the victory. Why? hey went into the battle shouting iree times, "lallelujah:" and at the iird shout of "Hallelujah," their en mios lied panic stricken; and so the ritons got the victory. And, my friends, if we could only ap-. reciate the glories that are to come, we ould be so filled with enthusiasm that o power of earth or hell could stand fore us: and at our first shout the op osing forces would begin to tremble, nal at our second shout they would begin fall back, and at our third shout they -ould be routed forever. There is no ower on earth or in hell that could ,and before three such volleys of halle ijah. I put this balsam on the wounds of our heart. Rejoice at the thought of hat your departed friends have got rid 1, and that you have a prospect of so on making your own escape. Bear :ieerfully the ministry of tears, and ex It at the thought that soon it is to be ided. There we shall march up the heavenly street, And ground our arms at Jesus' feet. HUMAN DEPRAVITY. he Almost Universaml Disposition to Ap propriate Umbrellas. In my opinion there is no moral phe oienon in the universe more inscrut >e than the disposition-I had almost id the universal disposition-to steal mnlbrellas. If I should say that the ost honest person that ever lived, or, >r that matter, the most devoutly pious arson that ever lived would steal an mbrella if he had a good chance, I would, erhaps. put it too strongly. But, just "t me give one instance from a full ,pertoire of adventures with my um rella. A week ago I came into my nctum with my umbrella, which was good one, in my hand, and set it p in the corner of the room. An our later a very respectable gentle in. who brought no umbrella called 1 me, and. after transacting his uiness, took his departure. A alf hour later he came back somewhat it of breath and remarked: "Oh! Ileft v umbrella," and, snatching my um ella from the corner, was making his ay rapidly toward the door, when I ar isted hini by calling out: "Are you ire you left your umbrella here?" "Oh! es, yes," he said, still going. "But are iu sure that that one is yours?" I added, ith much an:iety. "Oh! my, yes," he Lid, glancing at it carelessly, and still aproaching the door. "But," I said, are you sure that that is your name en raved on the handle?" Never was a an more abashed. He glanced timidly the metal plate on the handle of the mbrella, with my name engraved on it full, and then, putting it down hur edly in the first place he came to where would stand up, disappeared int.> the all. I am still waiting for his al-ology explanation, but not with any h ipe of ?tting it. Such is human nat ire. hicago Journal. How to Rescue the-Drowning. A noted swimmer in answer to the uestion: 'What is the best course to ursue in aiding people who are drown ig," says: "Take them by the back hair id hold them at arm's length. I've oted one thing about drowning peo le. When they are sinking the first me if they see you and they rise rain they know where to grapple with .u, and the result is you both go down gether. with a strong probability that >u will be drowned. It is my advice, at if you go to rescue a drowning per >n you should swim around him and aep behind him, so he won't see you hen he comes up the second time. An her thing, when going to a person's ~scue try to gain his confidence. It is fact that one finger placed under a immer's body will keep him afloat if > can only get him to believe it."-N. .Star. -Those who profess to be perfec ould give better evidence of their pert ction if they did not talk so much out it. Carlyle says: "The greatest faults is to be conscious of none." 'hen all is over and we get to Heaven hat a reversal of judgment there will 3 Three things will surprise us very uch: 1. That some are there whom e never expected would be there. 2. hat sonwe are not there whom we did pet would be there. 3~. That we irseves are there.-Christian Inquirer. --Conscience should lead each man to y a silent court of justice in himself. imself the judge and jury and himselif te prisoner at the bar.-Gotthold. orthern Farmers on Southern F.trm s. What odd and unexpected chaunges me produces! Years ago, for example, i New Hampshire and Vermont farm -s were among the most independent id thrifty folk on the contineut. Farm ig in New England, uowadays, how 'r, is a constant griud and disjcour ;ement. The soil has grown stubborn 3d the mortgage increased.. If the grandfathers of the present meration in Vermont and New Hamp uire ad been told that their children's iidren would pull uip stakes and colo ize in different parts of the Southb, icy would have raised their hands in rror. But the war is over, we are one ople and our young men receive an jual welcome in all parts of the coun There is some difference between loughing round the rocks of a New Eng d farm with a pair of oxen and turn ig p the rich soil on a 3Mississippi plan i.): with a couple of mules. So the authm invites colonists, and a good many rmers' sons are leaving the North with e hope of making their fortunes. Tc York Iherald. Wedded a Bar-Maid. A dispatch from Queenstown, Irelandl, the New York World announces the marriage of Maurice duPont of Dela are, to Miss Margaret Fitzgerald, who known as "Tottie" Fitzgerald, the reltt bar-maid of the Queen's Hotel, ueenstown. According to the 1Vorl's ory young duPont arrived at the hotel Lte in June, and on his part it was a se of love at first sight. His affection as returned andl an engagement fol >nwed. Miss Fitzgerald being a Roman aholic and Mr. duPont a Protestant, a ~spenstion was obtained in order that c might wed the rich American. They crc miarried on tge 12th of October. he Washington ber Erening says [aurice duPont is a son of the late E. [. l'ont, amsi is a young nonu just of age. e has no active connection with the big owder works, hut his brother, Al fred uPont, represenits his branch of the inily in the enterprise. Maurice du out lived when last in D)elaware in the ld family mansion at Breck's line, in ising Sun. The Cost of English Living. An address was recently delivered in Brooklyn church by the Earl of Meath nx the condition of the English toilers. he said that through tile operations of eievolent societies there had been reetedl for the working people of Lon on a new clans of houses, which give oo accommodations at a rent not ex eding $1.50 per week, while in Dublin n excellent divelling can be procured A DEMOCRATIC SWEEP. VIRGINIA, OHIO, IOWA AND NEW I YORK REPUDIATE THE G. O. P. Campbell Elected Governor of Ohio-For aker Gives It Up and Congratulates His Successor--The Republican State Committee Concodes the Legislature to the Democrats -Complete Democratic Victories in Iowa and New York-The Cyclone in Virginia. CoLUMBcS, 0., Nov. 6.-The Repubii can State Committee at i p. m. con cedes the election of Campbell and ad mits that the Legislature is Democratic in both branches. At 1 o'clock this afternoon Governor Foraker sent the following telegram: COLrMUS, 0. Nov. 6.-Hon. James E. Campbe1, Hamilton. 0.: To tre fu'l extent tbat a eieated canni !ate can do so with pro priety, allow me to otTer my cong:atulations and to assure you that it wi I Rive me plea sure to extend to r ou every courtesy I can show you in connection with your inaugura tion and the commencement of your amin istration. J. B. FonnAxkm. Allen W. Thurman has sent the fol lowing: Coi.CBUcs, 0.. Nov. 6.-To Hon. Grover Cleveland, New York: Governor Foraker his surrendered all the Republican fligs in Ohio CIcINN.TI, Nov. 6.- Incomplete re turns from all the Counties in the State except twenty-six give Campbell a plu rality of 4,725. The twenty six Coun ties not heard from gave Powell (Dem.) in 1887 a plurality of 179. The outlook from these figures is that Campbell's plurality in the State is about 8,000. CIscINNATI, Nov. 6.-Unoffi-al re turns from 64 Counties in Ohio give Campbell a plurality of 8,905. The four remaining Counties, which are Ashland, Geauga, Ottawa and Paulding, gave Powell a plurality in 1887 of 430. VIRGINIA'S GREAT VICTORY. Ec~inney's Majority Will Reach 40,000 - The Legislature Two-Thirds Demo cratic. RICIIMOND, Va., Nov. G, 11:30 p. m. [Special to The Register.]-The joyous excitement of the great victory is kept fresh by the continued increase of Mc Kinney's majority. Semii official and estimated returns now place the figures at 40,000. which will not be lowered by the official count. The Legislature will scarcely contain a sufficiency of Repub licans to put one on each regular com mittee. The Senate now stands: Demo crats 29, Republicans 11; the House, Democrats 71, Republicans 20. E. CUTHBERT. A BLOODY ENCOUNTER. Between Two Colored Men, in Which One is Killed. A bloody encounter took place last Friday morning at the farm of HI. L. Allen's, two and one-half miks from Langley. between two colored men, In which a pocket knife and pistol played important parts, and both got in some effectual work. A gentleman from Langley has given us the following in formation: It appears that there was a corn shucking at Mr. Allen's on Wednesday night which Henry Williams (or Toole) and Jim Smith attebded, and during the evening they got into a difficulty while under the influence of whiskey. After they were separated, so our in formant states, Smith told Williams that he would see him again and he prepared for him. They met the next morning and made friends. The following morning, Friday, the 1st, when Williams went out to the sta ble to feed the horses, he found Smith waiting at the stable door for him. As he (Williams) walked up, emithi said: "Now, I anm ready for you," and com mened tirin~g, shooting four times. The first shot missed, but the other three took effect, two in Williams's abdomen and the third struck a tinger of one of his hands. Williams closed in on Smith, and jamming him up against the stable. cut him with a pocket knife about thet nek and stabbed him in thie side. Mr. Allen, who had not yet got ou. of bed, on hearing of the difficulty ran out, uin dressed, and separated the combatants. Williams sank down while Mr. Allen held on to Smith, and after dressing himself had him sent to jail, where he now lies. His wounds, although seri ous, are not necessarily fatal. Williams lingred until Sunday, when he died. Aiken Journud. A Notable Trio. A trio of noted Confederate Briga diers, says the New York Sun, walked up Pennsylvania avenue this afternoon. They attracted much attention, even from passers-by who did not recognmze them. Three finer physical specimens have seldom, if ever been seen on the avenue, famous for its promnenade-rs. Th~se three handsome men were Senator Butler, General Rosser of Virginia, the friend and classmate of the picturesque Custer, and General Field, the ex-door keeper of the House of Representatives, now a resident of Washington. General Butler, although a large man, was the smallest of the distinguished party. Rosser was head and shoulders above him, and Field could easily look over the top of the fiery Senator's hat. Each of these noted men is an Apollo, straight as an arrow, and with features as at tracive as his form. Rosser anid Field are free from wounds or physical ail ment of any sort, and Butler so artfully concealed the loss o. a leg that, as the party strolled along lhe appeared as sound in wind and limb as his compan i ms. General Rosser has been here for two days and has not yet given rein to his nimble tongue. Rapid Growth. On the first day of last January there was *ly one house in Rowland, N. C., Iant now the townl is mcioiporated for one mile square; with over fifty build ings within'ts limits, including resi dences, store houses, machine, black smith and wood shops, a steam saw and grist mill, a steam cotton ginl, aind by the middle of November it cottoni sed oil mill will be in operation. It is the p~reseit terminus of thet Wi lsoni and Florence Railroad, b einig twen tv-eight Imiles from the junction of the Wilming ton, Columbia and Augusta Road at Great Pee D~ec. The Latest Thing in Chrysanthemums. The Rock Hill ilerald of .Thursday says: A number of the young ladies and gecntlmen of the commniity will engage in a "chrysanthemum parade" this alter noon1 at 3 o'clock. The particip~ants will ride horses, and1 the parade will be a very novel one. We understand that about forty couples will turn out-each couple being ornamented in a di.nctive color. The idea is a new one for a; chrs~ithemum show" and had its n rigin in Ror-k Hill BRIGHAM YOUNG'S WIDOWS. Ann Eliza Recounts Recollections of the Household of Which She Was Formerly the Nineteenth Fraction. A reporter of the Chicago 2Ymes re cently made the acquaintance of the one tiime famous "-Ann Eliza," the nine teenth wife of Brigham Young. She is now happily married and living in a pleasant home in Chicago. In conver sation with the reporter she displayed photographs of several of the Mesdhimes Young and chatted familiarly about them. The original of one picture-Miss Amelia Folsom--was his favorite wife. She was quite a beauty, with light hair and blue eves and a sweet and kissable mouth. She refused to marry Young at first, but yielded when he promised to make her a queen in heaven. She was married to him on the 23rd of January, 1863, six months after the anti-poly gamy law had boen passed by Congress, and she did it openly and in (lefiance of the law. "She has a temper of her own," said Ann Eliza, "and gave Brigham the ben efit of it, too. I once heard her threaten to 'thrash' Brigham if he did not do a certain thing, and it may be recorded that he did it. She never had any chil dren. "Miss Eliza R. Snow, the Mormon poetess, was at one time the most noted of all Brigham's wives. She wrote hymns for all occasions, and nearly all of her poetry was of a deep religious sentiment. She was rather plain looking, but was perhaps the most intellectual of theta all. 1 think she was the sixteenth wife that Brigham had scaled to him. She was only a "proxy" wife, and will be long to Joseph Smith in eternity. "What is a 'proxy' wife? Why, the Mormon religion teaches that the more children a man has tne higher he and his wives and children will be in the next world. So a Mormon will have a wife for 'time and eternity' as well as one who is his simply 'for time.' The latter will become the wife of some one else when the next world is reached. Thus Miss Snow wall be Joseph Smith's wife in heaven, and all of her children will go to increase his kingdom and help to cover him with honor. "The only other picture I have of any Mrs. Young is that of Zina D. Hunting ton, formerly the wife of a man named Henry Jacobs, who was at ore time a Mormon. She was not handsome, but she was a very noble woman, and spent her life in the service of her ungrateful husband and ;her ;still more ungrateful Church. She was for a long time the physician and nurse for the household. She was a devout believer. She was large and line looking, but her face had an exoression of sadness about it that shoved she was weary of the world. "Among the more interesting facts connected with Brigham's wives I might mention that almost all of them were dark and they were all Americans but two. '-The oddest of his marriages? Well, to tell the truth, they were all odd enough. but perhaps the queerest was his marriage with Mrs. Lewis. She owned a piece of land through which Brigham wanted to run a watercourse to supply one of his mills. She refused to allow him the privilege, so be mar ried her and thus secured passession of the whole property. She was the last one that he married, and he did not openly acknowledge her, but requzted her to keep it a secret, probably for the reason that he was ashamed of her. 'Since I quit the lecture stage a few years ago, I have become quite domestic in my tastes, and you may be sure that [value the home that I now have. "'My two sons by my first husb:mnd are living~ and doing" well. One holds a prominent position witsh the same rail road with which my husbaind is con nected, and the other is a merchant in a New York town. They are both true mni, and I am proud of them. "1 have had three children since my last nmari-iage. Two of them are going to school here, the other one being too yotng ais yet to enter." Joe Mulhatton. Many people stuppose that Joe Muhat ton is as mythical as tihe wonderful sto ries that arce fronm time to time accred itedl to him. I know Joe well. Ho is a commercial tourist of the tirst water and has traveled for W. R. Belknap & Co. of Leadvilie for many years. He has just resigned to become general man ager, secretary and treasurer of an Ari zona mining company in which a syndi ate of prominent Ken tuckians are in terested. Joe is a wonderfully energetic fellow, of diminutive figure, black beard and hair and bristly eyebrows that meet above a prominent nose. He always wears a Prince Albert coat' and does not look like a traveling man. He is a very qmuek talker, with a familiar, jerky way of bringing out his syllables that once heard is never forgotten. He is, with all his romancing, a hard working mem ier of the Baptist Church and a clevet* and genial fellow, lie is a fine busi ness man and one of the best paid drum mers on the road. I will look for sonic al stories about gold discoveries in A ri zona when lhe gets settled down to his new btisin ess. -St. JLouis Globe-Demo ert. "Doing" Europe. A story that would be ludicrous but for the disgust that an American must feel unon readling it, is going the rounds of two young men from a Western State who are doing Europe. Not that they had the remotest idea of gaining any benefit from the trip or that they really saw aiiythimg worth looking at the secod time, for the paintings in the Louvre and the galleries of the Luxem botrg wvere3 no more to them than ehromos given awvay with packages of por tea. They cotild not understand even "y'he Last Supper." An intelligent New Yorker took them in hand and every nmorning arose early andl laidl out a route for the day, but the expoition made them tired and they saw in the Champs Elysees only a place in which to sit do sn and talk oser their comrades at home. The New Yrker finally lost pa~tientce and said that lie was tired of hurling the glories of France agaLinst the "jellyv-fish souls of. thmse t wo galvanized miunmmi, s fromr the West." lie said that lie had asked them why they cain to Europa and hey did niot know.-Spring/leid (ifass.) Uion. 0O:posed to Nude Art. The good peop~le of Norwalk, Conn., have rather broken out again on the subject of statuary. A few (lays ago Mr. Selleck. a Junstice omf the Peace, pur hased a large marble Venus of Medici, which lhe placed on his front lawn. Shortly after lhe had located it lie found that during the night some one had taken pity on poor Venus and coveredl her with a red flannel petticoat and a plaid shawl. The next day the statue was found to have been pianted red and green. Mr. Selleek has been obligzed to uld a fencrondnr it. EURDERED BY INDIAN CONVICTS. J r How Sheriff Reynolds and His Two Assistants Were Killed. FLORENCE. An., Nov. 3.-The follow ing details have been received of the a killing of Sheriff Reynolds and two as sistants by convicts, whom they were taking to Yama penitentiary yesterday. The prisoners con.sited of eight Apache Indians and one Mexicau. The Sheriff had removed the shackles from the legs of six of the Indians, before they started to walk up the grade near River side, but they were handcuffed together ! in sets of two. Sheriff Reynolds was in 1 front of the column and Deputy Holmes f and the Mexican prisoner were in the 1 rear. At a signal from one of the Indians the Sneriff was seized by the two im- C mediately back of him, while the two immediately in front or the deputy S wheeled about and secured his gun, with I which, after killing him, they shot the Sheriff, who was being held by their I companions. During the melee the Mexican prisoner ran forward to the stage, which was about forty yards to the front, and warned the driver, Mid dleton. The latter drew his pistol, but t was shot twice by the Indians. After securing the keys to the shackles and removing them the Indians muti lated the body of Reynolds by crushing 3 in the skull in a horrible manner. They then disappeared. Middleton, after recovering sufficiently, walked back to Riverside and gave the alarm. The Mexican prisoner, after he had warned Middleton, ran towards the hills. He I was fired at several times, but not hit. C After the Indians had left he secured a horse and rode into Florence and g:c himself up. It is thought that as the Sheriff of Pinal County and his Florence posse are nine hours behind the murderers, there is but little prospect of capturing them. I A dispatch from Tucson says troops have been ordered out from Apache, San Carlos, Fort McDowell and Lowell to intercept the murderers if possible. Secretary Rusk's Report. The annual report of the Secretary of Agriculture, the first issued under the newly-constructed department, reviews the past work and suggests new features in connection with the reorganization f of the department. The new division, which furnishes promptly to the press a synopsis of the main points of every bulletin and report, virtually covers the whole field, "for," the Secretary adds, t "the farmer who does not need some paper devoted to his calling is beyond . the reach of intelligent effort in his be half." The result of the investigations of the rapid development of agriculture in the Rocky Mountain districts will surorise the Eastern States with new views of the wealth and progress of the f great American desert of the recent b past. The sugar industry has in some b cases yielded well and in other cases proved disappointing. Sorghum is a sue- h cess in Central Kansas. Experimental ork devoted to the development of a t productive grass for the Southern States. a Special investigations re being made into 't6e ' t: i ' ...ir - ramie and other fibres. The Secretary recommends that three hundred acres of the Arlington estate be set apart for the testing of new varieties of fruits and other experimental work. A supply of Ii fine varieties of Mediterranean wheat a and also of Bermuda grass seed have been ordered from Europe, the latter , being designed specially for the South ern States. The Secretary says the h brary aind museum of the dlepartment u could be put on a creditable footing. The department received and answered n nearly 40,000 letters of inquiry in the ine months ended October 30. Agri- t cultural organizations, and pa.ticularly farmers' institutes, are referred to as strong evidences of the growth of the spirit of self-help among farmers, and the Secretary is in favor of aiding them. Pleuro-pnmonia is under control, being C restricted to King's and Queen's Counties g in New York State, to New Jersey, h and a limited section in each of t the States of Pennsylvania and Ma ryland, and the Secretary has the i most sanguine hopes of the proximate ~ omplete eradication of the disease. Texas fever is generally spread through ri the channels of Inter-State Commerce, and therefore, can only be controlled by a the Federal government, for wvhich leg- b islation is necessary. The Secretary tI pointedly and vigorously advocates a national meat inspection law. The dis- c ease experiment station should be moved n to the Arlington estate and thoroughly a quipped. A geries ot wvorks on anmmal iseases is promised. The dairy inter est is to have a special division devoted to -it. Poultry is also to receive more attention from the department. As to wool-growing,' the Secretary deplores the reduction of the tariff in 1883. To it is attributed the great reduction in the number of sheep, which has since then fallen off by about seven million tI ead, while the importation of wool tI has increased from 78,350,671 pounds 0 in 1864 to 126,487,729 pounds 0 the past year. "On behalf of thisY industry," says the Secretary, "I b recommend these facts to you, and 1 should they be submitted to Congress I 1' ask for them intelligent and eareful con- ti deration." In conclusion the Secre- cl tary shows that agriculture in this coun- 1 try produces an annual yield of nearly n four thousand million dollars, employ- 1 ing on the five million farms ten ~million S persons, representing a population of tI thirty million people, while the value of 0 ie stock alone is estimated at $-2,507, -si 000,000. Referring to agricultural de- a pression, the Seer'tary insists that the y farmer is entitled to the fullest cnjoy- P men, compatible with the rights of his 0 fellow-citizens, of the benefit of his pro- ~ tective system. For all such articles as 2 our own'soil can produce, the farmecr b justly asks the protection which w-ill a insure to hita all the benefits of our oe market. The report concludes: ~ "The great nations of Europe strain ti every nerve to make science the hanud- P maid of war. Let it b2 the glory of the " American peop~le to make scienes the handmaid of agriculture." Fought by a Rooster. .Joe Islack, a colored man li1ivinig n:ar Bambrg, ha~d his little girl, eighteen :onths old, terribly wounded by a rooster a few days ago. The child w-as playing in the yard when the rooster ft attacked it with spurs and bill and tore b the skin and flesh about its head and e face in a fearful manner. When the fl father ran to thechild the rooster turned f< upon him and fought him until it was h killed. The child was brought to Dr. si Black for medical treatment, and it is si thought that it will soon recover from a the injuries received--Bewderg Adrer- o tiser. Don't be deceived by fictitious~ or raid for cer tificates. All testimonials printed in our paper concernig the merit of B. B. B. (Botanic Blood p~ alm) are true and genuine. Write Blood Balm u HE ARREST OF MAHIONK 'OR THE SHOOTING OF HARRISON AT PETERSBURG. 'he Young Democrats Were Painting the Town Red When Their Merriment Was suddenly Checked by a Volley From Mahone's Yard-The Little Boss Bound - Over for Trial-Harrison's Wound Not Dangerous. PETERSBURG, Va., Nov. 6.-The par iculars of the arrest of General Ma one last night on the charge of shoot; ig young Harrison, his temporary eon .nement in the station house, and his; ubsequent release on bail, are as fol- ; >ws: - About 9:30 o'clock it was evident, ae ording to returns, that the Democratsd ad scored a decided victory. The re uit was that some of the best young ien in the city organized themselves ato a serenading band, armed with a. iberal supply of firecrackers, and eeded to celebrate the victory .F ycamore street they marched to Market. treet, and thence to a point very near reneral Mahone's residence. There hey fired off Roman candles= ,nd baby-wakers until their merriment as interrupted by a volley, which, itis: leged, was fired from Gen. Mahoue's ard. Only one man was shot, however. le was Mr. Herbert S. Harrison, of t rm of Gilliam & Harrison, confed ioners. A warrant was at once issuedn or Mahone's arrest, and he was takes. ato custody, and while detained in theW cknp Mayor Collier was sent for. The' ase was heard and the following e ence adduced: The first witness sworn was Charles Lomaine, son of a New.Yorker, b~tzf _ any years engaged in business 1h le testified that he and his fri tarted up Sycamore street and wentto >oint opposite Mahone's residence. 1" hey fired off several pieces of firew .nd then either General Mahone, Budei is son, or ex-Policeman Berry tom. barged firearms into their midst. teneral himself was plainly visible; as; ras also Berry and Butler, when itness heard Harrison exclaim that Ii ras shot. Then, in company riends, he crossed the street to ;M one's gate, where he was own by Berry, either by the st or by a pistol which he was f8 2g in his hand. His testimony orroborated by that of other wita The evidence of C. E. Barton, rated by Romaine, established the hat Harrison was shot b' erson in the front yard of Ma io ouse, and that the defendant acte& pon the offensive. " Casar Lodelli distinctly heard sots fired from Mahone's yard. tw Mahone with a gun in his hand. Myer Saal heard two or three s red. I saw Gen. Mahone with adouble-' arreled breech-luading gun . inbs ands. One of the gentlemen exp General Mahone surprise about - aving the gun, and the General. saidr Yes, this is my gun." Saal - istifled that Mahone said he ny one who ente me mg his hand -ona and saying he would protect roperty. The General was ear his gate, and the shot was. -om that point. Mahone said: "I was sitting in m brary in conversation with Mr. Can ad Colonel Barbiere. 1 heard the expTo in of fireworks in the street unti ot to my house. Some were expl i my yard. The loud reports ca . ie impression that firearms were ed in my yard. Desiring to ry property, I walked out, and iygun aslIpassed. I saw auiIe ersons at my gate, one of whom - ('ou have a gun. Shoot, damn-yo 'alked down the steps. One of the Lid: 'We are only celebrating.' 1 ied: 'That's~ -al right, but 1ot on my premises.' The mems it and others came up from belo ne of them said: 'Yon havi an.' I replied: 'Yes, I have .ih ave it.' N-ot a gun or apistolwfj iat I know of, from the timeT~ it of the library to the endof tb certainly did not shoot and TI nit tw nor heard any one else shoot. iz General Mahone's statement -was >borated by James C. Campbell The Mayor said that the etidenc a. character to establish cause - ~lief that Mahone had firedth l at wounded Harrison, andtl; ould send the case on to the H ourt; but, as Harrison's wond at dangerous, bail woul~d be allowed the sum of $2,500. The bond was given, and shortaytf idnight the General and hisfreds ft the station house for their homes~~. Utah and the Xormons. - Arthur L. Thomas, the Governor o tab Territory, in his annual reporttt me Secretary of the Interioresiae me population of the Territory at G,. )0, which-is an increase of nearly8i )0 since 1880. During the last ars the foreign born population, ni ring in 1880 about 80,841, hasbea creased by Mormon immigrationby ,094. The aggregate assessed yams on of property of the. incorpoiated~ ties and towns in Utah for the year 19 is $30,596,489, with an indebted ess of $495,541. The estimated popu tion of these cities and towns is 129, 31. The revenue from the tax levy for year 1888, at the rate of three-tifths' one per cent., for Territorial 'and hool purposes was $647,453, whieh is i increase of $20,092 over the previn ar. The assessed valuation of real and ersonaI property in the several Counties: Utah for the year 1889 is $51,917,312,. hich is an increase of $10,874,989, or 5.8 per cent. over 1888. The total nam-. er of land entries made daring the year the Salt Lake City land office was 795, representing 200,407 acres. The. portance of a free public school M n is urged, as the Mormons areqiel. reparing for denominational schools, in bich their children may be taught ormon theology. The opinion, based 1 the fact that the Gentiles carried. gden and Salt Lake City, that the Mor on power is broken is erroneous. Te ormon people will adhere to the doc. ie of polygamy as long as they live. Recovering Rapidly. Spokane Falls is recovering rapidly om the effects of the great fire within er boarders. The chief baker of the t resumed business the day after the re Having no sign, he hoisted a pitch rk above the ridgepole of the "snack" was living in, with a loaf of bread - uek on each tine. A tea merchaut re- -~ med business with similar expeditin, ' though his entire outfit consisted on two or three packages of tea, two three sacks of coffee, a table, a mill id a paLir of scales. Nothing so completely robs confinement of the in and suffering attending it as the ~previous a e of The Mother's Friend. Sold ',by all drag-Q