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TAIMAGES SERMON. "STRANGERSIN TOWN" WAS REV. DR. TALMAGE'S SUBJECT Els gext; "I Was a Strange'. and To Took Me In-Where t he Stranger Should NOt Go- ExplorinL a Cit'Isa Iniquittee. I;ROoKLY.N, A- til S.-Before no audi ance in the world could such a sermon so Riv. Dr. Talmage preached today be as appropriate as in the Brooklyn Tah ernacle, where it is estimated that 150. 000 strangers attend Avery year. It. was a sermon that had for the n a special in terest. The text selected was Matthew xxv, 35, -1 was a stranger, and ye took me in." It is a moral disster tbt j cosity has despoilt-d so mauN passars-s. f scrioture. and my te x' is one that. bas suffered trom irreverent and misappli*! quotation. It shows great povertv t f w't and humor wben teople take the sword of divine truth for a eaue at fercine or c'ip off from the K -hinoor diamond -t inspira tiona sparkle to decorate a f ol's cap. My textis the salectati'.n in the !ast judz ment to be 2ven to those who have shown hospitality sad kindness and Christian belpfulness to strangers. By railroad and steamboat the popula tion of the earth are all the time in m. tion. and from one Near's end to another our cimes are crowdeO wi-b visitors. Every moroing on the trcks of the Hunaon river. the PeonsIvautia, the - Erie, the Lor. island railroads, there come pasteL-g,: tiains m<.re tan I ca naober, so ab't all ;he depots and the wharves are a ruw ble and a-clung with the coming in of a great immigration of a-rangers. &-,me of th-m come for pur poses o. barter, some for mechanism, some for artistic gratifi -ation, some for sighiseetin. A aPreat many ot them go out on the evemoe traitis, and corwe quenky the city makes but little imp-es sion upon them, buw tbere are muititudes who, in the hotsis and boardirg houses, make temporary residetrce. They ta here for three or four cays, o anv week. They spe - Vs in the stores and tb enings in sightseeina. The tt tfiy will make or break not OnIv fi.ccially, but morally. for this worid and the world that is to come. Malhitudes of them come into our mornilm and evenice services. I am conscieun that I stand in the presence of many this moment. I desire more esoecialiv to speak to them. May God give me tie right word and help me to utter it in the right way. There have glided into this house those unknown to others, whose history, it told, would be wore thrilling than the deepest tragedy, more exciting thetn Patti's song, more bright than a spring, morning, more aufal. than a win try midnight. If they could stand up here and tell the story of their escapes, and their tempta tions, and their bereavements, and their dsaster, and thetr victories, and their de heats, there would be in this house such a COmmin lmg of groans and aeclama tions as wuuld make the piace unendur anie. There is a man who, in fancy, lay in a cradle satin lined. Out yonder is a man who was nicked up, a fmundling, on Bos ton common. Here a man who is cool-1 ly observing this religious service, ex-1 pecting no advantage and caring for no advantage for himself, while yonder is a man who has been for 10 years in an awful confiagration of evil habits, and hei is a mere cinder of a destoryed nature,< sad he is wondering if there shall be in this service any escape or help for hisi immortal soul. Meeting you only once1 perhaps face to face. I strike bands with you in an earniest talk about your pres-1 ent condition and your eternal well be ng. S-. Paul's ship at Mehta went to pieces where two seas meet, but we stand today at a point where a thousanad seas converge, and eternity alone can tell the issue of the hour. The hotels of this country for beauty and elegance are not surpassed by ths hotels in any other land, but those that are most celebrated far brilliancy of tanes try and mirror cannot give to the guest any costly apartment unless hecan'T ford a parlor in addition to.his lodging, The stranger, therefore,s'ill generall3' find assigned to him a/room without any pictures and perhgs any rocking chair. He will ?nodg eof matches on abu reau, an old newspoper left by the pr v' ccupant, and that .will be all the ornentation. At '7 ~o'clock in the evening, after having taken his repast, he will look over his memto randum book of the dag's work, he wdl write a letter to his home, and then a .desperation wili seize upon him to get out. You bear the great city thunder ing uncer your windows, and you Say. "I must join that procession," and in 10 minutes y ou have joined it. Where are you igoing? "On," you say. "1 haven't made up my mind yet!" B -tter make up your mind oefore y ou start. Per haps the very way you go now you wil always go, Twenty years ago 1lrere were two voune men who came down the Astor H->use steps and stirted out in a wrong direction, where the" have been goig ever since. "Well, where are you going?". says one man. "I am going to, the academy to hear some music." Good. I would like to joui y.ou as the door. A t the 'so of the orchestial baton all the gates tf harmony and besusy will open before you. I congratulate you. W here are you going? "Well," you say, "I am going up to see some advertised plc lures." Good. I should like to go along with you and look over the same cata lgega and study with you Kensett and Bierstadt and Churc" and Moran. Notb lng more elevain; than good picures. Where are yuu goins? "Well," you I say, "I am going up to the Young' Men's Christian association rooms.". Good. You. will find there gymnastics to strengthen the muscles, and books t0 improve the mind, and Christian in fia-. ence to save the soul. I wish every c-ty in the Unitsd States had as fine a palace for its Young Men's Christian associa -tion as New York has. Where are going? "Well," ycu say, "I amagoing to take a long walk up Broadway, and so turn around into the B.>.wery. I am g oing to study human life." Good. A walk through Broadway at 8 o'clcck at night is interesting, educating. fascinating, appalling, exhilarating to the last degree. Stop in front cf that theater and see who goes in. Stop at that saloon ad see who comes out. See the great tides of life surging backward and forward and beating against the marhe of the cnrbstone and eddying down into the salsons. What is that mark on the face of that debauchee? It is the hectic flash of eternal death. What is that woman's laughter? It is the shriek of a lost soul. Who is that Christlan man going along with a vial of anodyne to the dying pau per on Elm street? Who is that belated man on the way to' a pra3 er meetinA? Who is that cIty mitssionary going to take a box in which to bury a child? Who are all these clusters of bright and b'eautiful faces? They are going to some interesting place cf amusement. Who is that man going into the drug store? That is the man who yesterdav lost all his fortune on Wall street. He is goingz in for a dose of balladona, ani before morning it will make no difference to him whether stocks are up or down. I1 tell you that Broadway, between 7 and 12 o'clock at night, between the Battery and Central Park, is an Austerlitz, a n Gttwsburg a Waterloo. where king doms ae Iaot cr won, and three worlds mingle ir the strife. I meet enother coming down off the hotel steps, and I say, "Where are you golog?" You say, "I am going with a merchant of New York who has prom ised to show me the underground life of the city. - I am his cdstomer, and he is g'irg to obliee me very much." Stop! A basiness house that tries to get or keep N our custom through such a pro cess as thatis not worthy of you. There are busiDess establishments in ou cities which have for yearc been sending to destruction hundreds and thousands ot merenants. They have a secret drawer in the cruoter, where money Is kept. nd the clerk zoes an'd gets it whe, h vauts to take these visitors to the cit. tr;u:gh the low slums ot the lace. Snail I mention the names of some of these Lreat commercial establishmentt? I k.,ve them on my lips. Sail I? Per bapi I bad better leave it to the yotung men wbo. in tha. 1;ocesp, have been destroyed themselves while they have b-en destroying others.. I care not how niebt soundice tae uame of a comnercial ei.tablsboent tif it prop ses to iget cus . naerz or uo keep them bv such a vro ce's a Lbat Drop their acqu-iutance They will send you a style ot goods dif terent from that which you bought by sample. They will give you under weigbt Tnere will be in the package half a doz'n less pairs. t suspender' ,an vi u paid tor. They will rob you. 0, you feel in yuar pockets and say, "Is mv money gone?" They have robbed. you of somethis g f->r which dol b-s and cents can never give you com L-enqation. When one of tt ese Western merchants have oeen dragiged by one ot those com mercial agents through the slums of the ciLy, he is not fit to izo home. The mere memory of what he ha-i seen will be moral pt .lluto. I think yc;u had better let the city ioissionary and the police at tend to the exploraticn of Now York and undergrouud 1:fs. You-- b-not go to a smsllpnx Ptatioa-for the purpose of exploration. ,Y11 do not go there be eauLe es atraid of contagion. od 3et jcu go into the presence of a moral leprosy that is as much more danzerous to you a. the death of the acul is worse than the death of the body [ will uadertake to say tha nine-tenths f the men who have been ruined in out -i - "ave be z ruined oy simply going >,> otrve without any idea oi partici pau.g. The fact is that underground city life A a filthy, fuming, reeking. pestirerous epth wiich blasts the eye that. looks at .t. In the reign of terror in 1792 in Par a people escaping trom the officers of he law got into the sewers of thecity and :rawledand walked through miles o that xwful labyrinth stified with the atmos phere and almost dead, some of them, when they ca-ne out to the river Seine, where they washed themselves and again breathed the fresh air. But I iave to tell you that a great many of te men who go on the work of explo ration through the underground gut'.ers >f New York life never come out at any Seine river where they can wash off the pollution ot the moral sewage. Stranger f one of the representatives of a com ercial establishment proposes to take you and show you the "sighte" of the wn and underground New York, say o him, "Please, sir, what part do you propose to show me?" Aboutl6 years ago as a minister of :eligion I felt I had a divine commtission t explor e the inquitles of our cities. I lid not ask counsel of my session, or ny presbytery, or of the newspapers but iking the companionship of three prom nent police cficials and two of the el ers of my chur,:h I unrolled my comn nssion, aaid it said: "Son of man dig nto the wall and when [had digged into be wall behold a door, and he said so in and see the wicked abominations ~bat are -one here, and I went in and ~ehold!" Brought up in the country and arrounded by much parental care, I ad not until that time seen the haunts f iniquity. By the grace of God, de ended, I had never sowed my "wild ats." I bad somehow been able ~o ell from various sources something bout the iniquides of the great cities md to prench against-them, but I saw, n the destrgetoin ot a areat muhi.iiie > the people, that there must be an in tuation and a temptation that had ever been spoken about, and I said, "I wi explore " I saw thousands of' men tomg down, and If there had been a piriual percussion answering to the physical percussion the whole air would ave been full of'rhe rumnble and woar d crack and thuncder of the demolition md this moment, if we should pause in :u service, we stnould hear the crash, :rash! Jus't as in the sickly season you some times hear the bell at the gate of the :emetery ringing almost incessantly, so [ found the bell at the gare of the ce~n tory where ruined souls are buried was olling by day and tolling by pight. I aid, "I will explore." I went as a phy sician goes ir.ao a lever aaretto. to see what practical and useful mnforma ion I might get I'hat would be a fool ish doctor who would stand outside the dyr of an invalid writing a Latin pre scripion. When the lecturer in a med ical college is done with his lecture, he akes the students Into the dissecting room and he shows them the reality. I went and eaw, and came forth to my pulpit to report a plague, and to toll how sin dissects the body, and dissects the irnd, and dissects the soul. "Oh," say iou, "are you not afraid that in consequence of such explorauion of te i'mquittes of the city other persons might make exploration and do them selves damake?" I reply, "If in com pany with the commissioner of police,1 and the captain of pice, and the icspec tor ot police, and the coa~pany or two hisuan gentlemen, aod not with the p 3.. of curt .tity, but that you may see eza in order the be tter to combat it, then in the name of the eternal God, go. Bu. If not, then stay away." Wellington standing in the battle of Waterloo when te bullets were buzzing around his head saw a civilian on the field. He said to him: "Sir, what are you doing here? Be off!" "Why," replied the clvdian, "there is no more danger here for me than there is for you." Then Welling ton flushed up and said, "God and my country demand that I be here, but you ave no errand here." Now I, as an officer in the army of Jesus Christ, went on that exploration and on to that battlefield. If you bear a like commission go; If not st ay away. But you say, "Don't you think that somehow the description of those places induce people to go and see for hemselves?" I answer yes, just as much as the description of yellow fe ver in some scourged city would induce people to go down there and get the pestilence. But I may be addressing some stranger already destroyed. Where is he, that I may pointedly yet kindly address hiro? Come back and wash in the fountain of a Saviour's mercy. I do not give you a cup. or a chalice, or a pitcner w'ith a limited supply to effect your ablutions. I point you to the five oceans of God's mer cy. Oh, that the Atlantic and Pacidec sur ges of divine forgiveness might roll over your soul. As the glorious sun of God's forgive ness rides on toward the midheavens, ready to submerge you in warmth and ight and loveI bid you good morning. Mornng of peace for all your troubles. Morning of lioeration for all your in carcerations. Morning of resurrection for your soul buried in sla. Good morn ing! Morning for the resuscitated household that has been waiting for y our return. Morning for the cradle and the crib already disgraced with ing for the daughter that has trudg off to hard work because you did n take care of home. Morning for t wife who at 40 or 50 years has t] wrinkled face, and the stooped shot der and the white hair. Morning f ene. Morning for all. Good mornin In God's name good morning. In our last dreadful war the Federa and the Confederates were encampi on opposite sides of the Rappabannoi and one morning the brass band of ti northern troops played the nation air, and all the northern troops cheer' and cheered. Then on the opposi side of the Rappanannock the bra band of the Confed-rates played, "3 Maryland," and "Dixie," and then I the soutnern troops cheered and chef --d. But afrer awnile one of the ban strack up, "Hotne, Sweet Home," a( tbe band on te opposite side of t rive-r took up the straio, and when tl rune was doue the Confederates at Federals all tegAther united, as ti 'ears rolled dow" their cheeks, in oi greathuzzi, bozz I Well, my frien heaven com,-s very near today. Ir. only a stream that divides us-the- na row stream of death-and te voic tbere and the voices here seem to cor mingle, and we join trumpets and h sannabs and halleluians, and tie ch rus of the united song on earth ai heaven is "Home, Sweet Home." Hon of brigbt domestic circle on eart Uome of forgiveness in the great hea of God! Home of eternal rest in hea en! kiome! Home! Home! But suppose you are standing on crag of the mountain, and on the eds of a precipice, and all unguarded, at some ont either in joke or hate sh run up behind you and push you o ,It is easy enough to pueb you off. B who would do so daqt-Ardly a deet Why, that is done every hour of eve day and every hour of every nign Men come to the verge of city life at s5y: "Now we will just look off. Con young man, do not be afraid. Con near; let us look off." He comes the edge and looks andL' untu aft h1ile satan sneaks up behiad hi and puts a hand on each of his shot ders and pusbes him off. Society sa: it is evil procliviiy on the part of th. young man. Oh, no! He was simp an explorer and sacrificed his life: discovery. A young man comes in from ti country bragging that nothing can c him any harm. He knows about all tt tricks of city life. "Why," he sa! did not I receive a circular in the coul try telling me that somehow th( found out I was a sharp business ma and if I would only send a certal amount of money by mail or expres charges prepaid, they would send package with which I could make frtune in two months, but I did ni believe it. My neighbors did, but I oJ not. Why,no man could take my moi ey. I carry it in a pocket inside a vest. No man could take it. No ma could cheat me at the faro table. Don I know all about the 'cue box', and ti dealer's box and the cards stuck t gether as though they were one, am when to hand in my checks? Oh, the can't cheat me. I know what. 1 ai about," while at the same time, thi every momeat, such men are succuii bing to the worst satanic influences i the simple fact that they are going I observe. Now, if a man or woma shall go down into a haunt of iniquit for the purpose of reforming men an women, or for the sake of being ab intelligently to warn people againi such perils; if, as did John Howard ( Elizabeth Fry or Thomas Chahner they go down among the abandone for the sake of saving them, then suc explorers shall be God protected, an they will come out better than whe they went in. But if you go on th work of exploration merely for the pu: pose of satisfying a morbid curiosi ty will take 20 per cent. off your morn character. Sabbath morning comes. You wal o in the hotel. You have had a longe slep than usual. You say: "Whei am I? A thousand miles from home I have no family to take to church ti day. My pastor will not expect m presence. I think [ shall look over mn accounts and study- my memorandui book. Then I will write a few businei letters and talk to that merchant w1 came in on the same train with me Stop! You cannot afford to do it. "Bur," you say, "I am worth $500 000." You cannot afo -dto doit. Y o say, "I am wor'.h $1,000,000." You cai not affard to do it. All you gain b hreaking the Sabbath you will 1oos4 You will lose one of three thmngs-yor intellect, your morals, or you propert -and you cannot point in the who] earth to a single exception to this rul God gives us six days and keeps or for himself. Now, if we try to get tI seventh, he will upset the wurk of a the other six. I remember going up Mount Wasi ngtox , before tne railroad had bee buIlt, to the Tip-Top House, and tI guide would come around to our horsi and stop us when we were crossing very steep and dangerous place, and I would tighten the .girth of the horn and straighten tne saddie. And I has to tell y ou that t bis road of life is st eep and full of peril we must at leal one day in seven stop and have LI harness of lire readjusted and our sou re-equipped.- The seven days of tt weea are like ssven business partner and you must give to each one h share, or the business will be brose up. God is so generons with us; t has given you six days to his one. No here Is a father who has seven apple and he gives six to his greedy boy, prm posing to keep one for himself. TI greedy boy grabs for the other one an loses all the six. How few nien there are who kno how to keep the Lord's day away frol home! Agreat many who are consis nt on the banks of the St. Lawrenc or the Alabama, or the Mississippi ai not consistent when they get so far o as the East river I repeat-though Is putting it on low ground-you cal not financially afford to break ti Lord's day. It Is only another way teariag up your government securiti' and putting down the price of goo< and blowing up your store. I hal friends who are all the time slicing c pieces of the Sabbath. They cut a 11 te of the Sabbath off that and and little off that end, They do not ket the 24 hours. The Bible says, Remer ber the Sabbath day, to keep it holy I have good friends who are accu tomed to leaving Albany by the mil night train on Saturday night and ge ting home before church. Now the may be occasions when it Is right, D1 generally it is wrong. How if 11 train should run off the track into tI north river? I hope your friends wi not send to me to preach your funer. 'sermon. It would be an awkwa thing for me to stand up by your s1< and preach-you, a Christain ma killed on a raIl train traveling on Sunday morning. "Remember the Sa bath day, to keep it holy." What doi that mean? It means 24 hours. man owes you a dollar. You dot want him to pay you 90 cents. Yo want the dollar. If God demands of 1 24 hours out of the week, he means hours and not 19. Oh, we want to keE vigilantly in this country the Americ Sabbath and not have transplantE hre the European Sabbith, which, fe the most part, is no Sabbath at all. any of you have been in Paris, y< know that on Sabbath morning tl vt population rush out toward t] country with baskets and bundles, at toward night they come back faggi out, cross and intoxicated. May i preserve to us our glorious, quli American Sabbaths. On, strangers, welcome to the gre city. May you find Christ here, al not any physical or moral damag Men coming from inland, from dista cites, have here found God and fow him in our services. May that be yo case today. You thought you we brought to this place merely for t purpose of sightseeing. Perhaps G brought you to this roaring city f the purpose of working out your etex a1 salton. o back to your horr d and tell them how you met Christ t, here-the loving, patient. pardoning, ie and sympathetic Christ. Who knows ie but the city which has been the des I- truction of so many may be your etern 3r al redemption? z! A good many years ago Edward Stan ley, the Esglisb, commander, with his Is regiment, took a fort. The fort was !d manned by some 300 Spaniards. El tk ward Stanley came close up to the fort, ie leading his men, when a Spaniard I thrust at him witn a spear, intending ,d to aestroy his life, but St-mley caught te hold of the spear, and the Spaniard, in Bs attempting to jerk the spear away [y from Stanley, lIfted him up into the Al battlements. No sooner had Stanley r- taken his position on the battlemeuts Is that, he swung his sword,snd his *holt d regiment leaped after him, and the fort te was taken. So it may hte with you, 0 i stranger. The city iufla-nc--s wticn id nave destroyed so many aud aasd-d Lb them down forever shall be the means Is of lifting you up into the to wer of is God's mercy and strength, your soul is more than coiqueror through the r- grace of him who ts promised an es as pecial b,-nediction to those who shall a- treat vou well, saying. "I was a strang D- er, and y e took me iu." ,d A Fatal Explosioo. le I PETERSBURG, VA . April 8.-The # .-xplosion at the fireworks factory of C. 7. N. Romaine & Brother in Blandforn -esterday afternoon and the great sacri a fice of hfa has been the theme of coaver e aauon here today. Special referelce d was made to the catastropbe in all o' .11 the churches today, both white and col I ored, and the most touching prayers 91 were offered for The bereaved families. ? The funeral, of Messrs C. N. Rn y maine. John B. Bland, James R >and t. and R)bert Rowland, -wo brothers; d James Perkins and Edward Taylor, ail victims of the explosion, took place to day and were very largely attende4 r Te scene at the cemetery was a sad one. n The funerals of Messrs C. N. Romaine, i. and John B. Bland, members of the city s council, were attended by the council, t in a body. The funeral of Capt. James y T. Tosh will take palce on Tues D day morning from Grace Episcopal Church. He leaves a widow with twelve echildren. John F. Harris, another vic o tim of the explosion, died this aiternoon. T .is morning another dead body was s fourd near the river bank, but it could not be identified. Tne poor fellow had been burled through the air and carried a distance of several hundred yards. A s jaw bone wita the teeth was found to a day a half a mile from the scene of the a explosion. Three hearts and a quantity it of bones of human beings were tound in d the debris. These were placed in a box - and buried. One of the female operatives Y in the fireworks factory, when the see ond explosion occurred became so fran tic with fright that she rushed from the building and ran to the river bank and d jumped into the stream and would have been drowned bat for a boatman who n happened to be coming up the river at it the time in a biat. and who rescued her. The head of James Perkins was found n this morning some distance from the o scene of the explosion. Had the explo n sion occurred half an hour later a bun Y dred or more persons would have been d killed, instead of twelve, as the hands e were about to be paid off. Dr. H. G. It Leigb, coroner, held an inquest to-day r and a good deal of testimoney was heard. d Pending the examination of witnesses d an adjournment was taken to 1 o'clock d to-morrow. The condition of Chief n Engineer E. V. Earley is critical and it s is not thought he can recover. To day -at noon a special meeting of tbe city I councial was held and appropriate ac LI tion taren on the death of Messrs. C. N. Romanie and John B. Bland, members e of that body. r This afternoon at 3 o'clock pursuant Sto the call of the mayor, a mass meeting *of citizene was held in the orporation SCourt room to take such appropriate measures of sympathy and relser as the a sad and extraordieary occasion req'iired. e There was a very large attendance 0! o Petersburg's most prorninent citizens, " including the ministers of the difierent churches. Mayor Collier presided and ,- the eneeting was opened fwith prayer by a the Rev. H. W. Brttle, D. D., pastor of - tbe F'irst Baptist Church. SOver *1.500 was contributed at this . neeting. The city council will be asked rto contribute to the relief fand and it is Sexpect.d to make the fuod *5.000. SBy the destruction of the fireworks of SC. N. Romaine & Bro. and the tobacco e factory of Bland Brothers & Wright, at i least three thousand people are thrown out of employment. n Ten DOiars E -Cb Tume. WASHINGTON, April 12.-The resolu tion reporta- from the House Commit atee on Rules reads as follows: Rescind ~clause 1 of rule 8 and insert in lien e thereof the follo wing: 1. Every member shall be bresent 0within the House during its sitting, un e less excused or necessarily prevented, and shall vote on each question put un eless he has a direct personal or pecuni Sary Interest in the event of such ques tion. Whenever in pursuance ot Sec tion 5. Article 1, of the Constitution of esettvea theus of -fh the members present shall order yeas and nays of its members on any ques e tion to be entered on its journal, and d upon a call of the roll of its members for that purpose a quorum thereof shall fall to votP, each member within the hil of the Huse who shall fail to vote when his name is called, unless he nas a direct personal or pecuniary in -terest in the event of such question, Sand each member who shall be absent tfrom the hall of the House when his name is called, unless he has been ex Lcased, or is necessarily prevented from fb'eing present, shall be fined the sum of ~$10 and the Speaker shall cause an en s try of such fine to be made against sucti members on the journal of the House and the same shall be cnll-ct ed tand paid into the Treasury of the ULit ed S&ates. The form ot entering fines ~,Is stated and the resolution concludes: It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the .House to certify to the Sergeant-at '.Arms of the House the names of all members against whom fines are en ttered and unless they shall be volunta , rily paid to him, he shall deduct the itamount of said fines from the compen Lsation of said members and all sums Sthat may be paid to or so deducted by hI im shall be paid by him into the treas ii ry of the United States. A call of the droll of such memfoers of the House eb shall not be deemed to have been com Spleted until the Speaker shall have a made alt necessary orders regarding . fines, which may be imposed on rmem sbers in persuance of the provisions of this bill. It shall not be in order to 't move, nor shall the Speaker entertain u a request for unanimous consent, to re smit the fines required to be entered as Saforesaid. a ~ Mardared. d NEW ORLEANS, April 12.-The >r Times-Democrat's Gainesville, Texas, [f special says: News comes to this city >u this morning that a man named Cruz ie a tenant3 had killed Thos. Murrell and i his wife near Callsburg in this county, td early this morning. Murrell had gone xi to his barn about sunrise to feed his >d stock and was waylaid by Cruz and it, shot down with a 48 calibre Winches ter. A cry from Murrell attracted it Mrs. Murrell's attention, when she be id held her husband lying on the ground e. and Cruz wIth the weapon still in his at hand. She started to the scene and, id upon reaching her husband, Cruz fired ir on her, the bullet striking her.< n the re neck killing her instantly. The mur 2 derer then robbed Murrell of' his pock ad et book containing anout $75, saddled or Murrell's horse and left going in the n- direction of Red River. A posse has es gone in eaorch of the murderer. DISAPPOINTED IN LOVE. F.S. Keirse. of Augastv, Cati His Throat la a BRx Car. COLUMBIAS. C.,April 13.-Sometime between 11 last night and 9 this morn ing F. S. Kearse, a white man, from Augusta, committed suicide in a box car at the Charlotte depot. this morn ing Capt. Fickliag was walking along the platform of the old Haltiwanger warehouse when he noticed the door of a car slighly open. As he had closed them all the night previous he pro cdeded to make an investigation think ing he might catch some tramps. As soon as be entered he saw the cold and blooiy body of a man in one end of the car. A slight investigation showed that tr e man's throat bad been cut in the left side of the neck a deep and wide gash having b-en made and the cut e-xtended clear around to the right side. He i;u mediatel y noidyd Polictman Bo land who notifi-d the chief and the cor ouer. A small two bladed knife was lyiug just to the right of the body. The smalt blade was open and the knife was bloody. The man's hat was on, his arms and legs were drawn up but there was no evidence of any struggle. The body was neatly dressed, the man was eviaenily not abad looking fellow. A few papers were found in his pockets but nothing that would throw any light on the affair. Coroner Roach after arriving empan elled a jury and sent for Dr. Lester who masde an examination of the body, He found no other wound except the gash in the neck. An old bullet was toand on the floor but no pistol was on the pei son of the dead man and the most plsusible explanation of its pres ence there was that it was In tti car when Kearse entered it. Dr. Lester took the body to the platform and searched the pockets. He found noth ing except a tooth b _ a idadiencil and a cop e lice Gazette. When vr, was removed it was found that there had been written or printed with a lead pencil on the lining this sentence "A woman done it." This is evidentIv the clue to the death of Kearse. He was disappointed in love. It was learned that for some time he has been paying attentions to a young lady. Hex parents had positively forbidded her to have anything to do with him but he has managed to see her at vari ons times. He came to Columbia on Wednesday iad wrote the young lady a note. It is supposed that she refused to see him and becoming despondent be iilled himself. A note was sent to him at his boarding house last night after supper but he did not get it as he had gone out before it came. The note was from the young lady but its con tents are not known. Kearse was stopping at the Hendrix House. The first night of his arrival he was under the inflaence of liquor but had braced up the next day and to all appearances has been sober since. His only business here was to see the young lady and he has been loafing around doing nothing in particular. He has been seen several 'times at the Charlotte depot and some thought that he was a constable but is evidently not true as Kearse was a barekeeper himself in Augusta. His parents live in Hamp ton county and are highly respectable people. The business he was in is said to have been the objection the young lady's parents had to his paying her at tentiors. Kearse was seen last night about 11 o'clock on Gervaistreet by Chief Rad chiffe wandering aimlessly about. The chief told him that he had better get to his boarding house and Hearse walked off as if he intended to follow the advice. He was not seen after that so far as is known until nis body was found ithis morning. Mr. J. MI. Kirk land, proprietor of the Hendrix House, informed the man's parents by tele graph of his death. The Inquest was adjourned until 3 o'cloek this afternoon. As a further evidence that the man committed sui cide Is a sentence found written on a little blank book in his pocket which was. "No one knows what I suffer nor never will only by a woman untre." Journal. After the Militia. COLUMBIA, S. C., April 13.-The State aiurtorities have begun to move against the military companies which de ilined to obey the~ orders of the Gover nor during the -recent trouble. Yester day the following order was prepared by Adjutant General Parley and it will be sent to all companies in the State which did not respond to the Governors, call: "You are hereny erdered to collect all arms and equipments, unifoims and other'military property belonging to the State that have been entrusted to you, or in the possession of yeaur companh, put them in your armory or some con venient place and hold the same subject to orders from these hea'5quarters, re porting the number and character of same to me. "Your attention is respectfully called to section 426 and 427 of the revised statutes in regard to the militia laws of the State. "By order of the Goverhor, "H. L. FARLEY. "eAAjutant and Iospecrtor Genaral. "Official: J. GARY WATTs, "Asst. Adjt. and Ins. Gjen. "To-" Yesterday Lieut. T. B. Woodward o? the Mojntmorenci Guards, Aiken county, sent in his resignation. The Governor refused to accept it and told Gen. Far icy to notify Lieut. Woodward that he could not resign wuile under orders, and that a court martial would be ordered to try him and all other officers who refused to obey orders. Governor Tiliman yesterday made public the stenographic testimony taken at the coroner's inquest in Darlington recently. The matter is entirely too voluminous for any newspaper to at tempt to publish. There are about 150 pages of typewritten matter. All the constables told pretty much the same story and they swear that young Nor menot, who was killed, fired the first hot. C al. John Gary Watts is preparing a report of all the military affaits incident to the "insurrection," as far as the Col umbia end of the line is concerned. It will also give a statement of the guns taken away fcom the Columbia, Charles ton and other troops. It will be made public this afternoon. Gosernor Tillman yesterday after noon ofiered the press an opportunity to copy every telegram he sent out dur ing the entire trouble. The mass of telegrams was so great that it was im possible for any of them to be handled yesterday. The most important will, however, very likely be published from time to time.-State. MR Charles M. Pratt of brooklyn, N. Y., has had $3,000 worth of the finest Jerseys on Long Island killed because he believed they had tuberculosis. He did this in spite of veterinarians who ssured him the cattle were all right. He did it because the catle all respond ed to the Koch test for tuberculosis, administered by the Vermont veterin arinm Frank A. Rich, and more are likely to be killed. The value of the test is genorally recognized in the Northeastern States. It has never been employed, so far as reported, in any Southern State. Short, DARtLINGTON, S. C., April 11.-J. HL. Schmia, a tor ner employe of the post office here, under the Republican Post master Gathan, was arrested for defal cation today. The shortage is about $1,000. He was taken before United states Commissioner -Sanders and ma-de to give bond for his appearance before the United States Court, So far as the facts can be gathered, the former post master, Gatlin is not in any way im picated in the matter. COTTON FERTILIZERS. The Question Should Be Studied What V Land and the C rop N -eda. An article on fertiliz-rs for cotto compiled by Dr. J. M. McBry de, Pre. Jent of Virginia Agriculrural and M chanical College and Director of V1 ginia Agricultural Experiment Static from accoumts of experiments carrii on under his direction for several yea on lne farms of the South Carolina e periment sations, has just been pu iished by the Unted States Departme of Agricultural as "Farmers' Bullet No. 14," and is well worthy of caref study by every intelligent cotton fk mer. In the introduction to his article I McBryde briefly explains its purpo and scope vs follows: We have reasi to believe from extended observati and xperience in the ield that hu dreds of thousands of dollars are ann ally wasted by farmers in thie lavi and injudicious applications of fert iz-r on cotton. In soils abounding potash, potassic fertilizers. such kainit, muriate of potash, etc, are c ten unnecessarily applied to a cc amounting to $4 or 85 per acre. It especially timely at this season, wh the farmers are about to plant the crops for the year, to discuss the man rial re quirements of cotton,and to gi in condensed form the results of cat ful and long continued experimea bearing directly upon this questic The subject is so broad as to rtqui sub-division. It will, therefore, be d cussed under the following heac Does cotton require potash, phosphor acid and nitrogen? If so, in wb amounts and in what forms? Does need lime? Will copperas prevent i resting? At what time or tim should nitrate of sd bdp if & UiefeMtiizer be applied? These questions are considered ve fully, and are answered by statemeu of results of the numerous careful e periments made by Dr. McBryde working out the problems which I presents. The pamohlet numbers th: ty pages, and we cannot undertare give even a synopsis of it he It may suffice, however, to affo an idea of the character of ,he work quote a few of points. In order to d termine what proportions of the sever elements named were most effective comaination for fertilizing purposi Dr. McBryde made and employed number of co nbinations, in wnich t: relative quantity of each element w widely varied. For instance, ir; o series of experiments different amoun of potash were used with full and :o stant doses of phosphoric acid and i trogen; in another series differe amounts of acid were used with ft and constant doses of potash and nitt gen, and so on. Among the resul noted were the following- A dout dose of potash, with a full dose of ph phoric acid and nitrogen, gave on nine pounds more of cotton per ac than a full dose; and the full dose on twenty-four pounds more than a ho dose. Double doses of phosphoric ac in combination, it was found, can 1 advantageously employed. The half dose or nitrogen gave exat ly the same yield as the double do; As comparel with the quarter d.oi the half dose did not show an increa sufficicint to make up for its additio al dose. Thb results of this series experiments taken together show th a crop of cotton yielding 300 pounds, lint per acre "requires double te ft or theoretical amount of phosphor acid, but only about one-fourth to on half the full amounts of potash and trogen. The next series proceeded< the plan of doubling two of the thr constituents of the combination, whi the third was increased or diminisof "Double doses of nitrogen and pota: gave almost exactly the sieme resul as the full or single dose of nitrogen "Doubling both gave no better retur than doubling only the phosphor acid." Double doses of all tnree el ments gave an increase of only to pounds'. The value of the pamphlet can1 .udged in part by the farmer fro these bare hints of its contents, whit we have taken almost at random. Ti closing pages are devoted to a stat ment of -"conclusions," drawn fro all the experiments, and a cba ter of "practical applications" the conclusions In the shape varied formulas and in structio: for mixing diffrent fertilizing el ments in -.ght proportions, so0 to avoid whste. The outletin is inva uable to cotton farmers and can be h; tree of cast by application to the Secr taly of Agriculture. Washington, D. How n Kail Nu Grass. A farmer gives this plan of gettix rid >f the above pest: "I have set several inquiries lately for a method killing nut grass. I use to think ti only way to get rid of it was to mo1 off and leave it, but have fond a be ter method of treating it. I had abol one acre of very rich garden land tho oughly seeded down with it. I cou: raise a winter or early spring crop bi it would choke out any corn or cott crop I could plant. Five years ago raised a. crop of Irish potatoes oni then planted it in corn. Before it w: large enough to hoe it was a mass green nut grass, and to get it out I the hill pulled up nearly all the cor It was very dry at the time, and by LI time I was through my corn was nearl all dead, but the grass was doing finel I concluded to try heroic treatment c it. So I took a Planet cultivator ati tore up every blade of corn and graf in the field, using a hoe around ti fences. In about four days a new crc came up. Then I cultivated it ti other way, always in the hot sun. TI fourth time I plowed it deep, and I gi another pretty good crop of grass star ed which cultivated as before. fIa on month, I think, I had sprouted an killed every vestige of it, as not a sta] has appeared since, and it has bee planted in corn or sweet potatoes evet year since. Y ou can take this for wh~ it is worth, but the only way to get r~ of it is to keep it from seeding, eith top or root, and cultivate arnd germ ate all lnormant seed and ki th:m by cultivation in the dr'e h< weather of May and June. If you a: bothered with nut grass give the ishoa a trial. _______ Rouned. WICHITA, Kan., April 10.-TI Dalton or other train rob~bers attempte last night to hold up the Rlock Islan train, feur miles belo w Pond Creek I Oklanoma Territory. Tney met a unexpected resistance at the bands< Jake Harmon, the Wells Forgo Expre: messenger, who shot and killed th irst man who tried to break into ti express car by the use of dynamit< The other men In the gang tried t escape but the trainmen suceeded i wounding and capturing acother< them and two horses. The other bant its succeeded ia getting away, bi without any b~odle. A Biz Rome Grown Steer. GRtEENVILLE, S. C., April 13.-Sin uel Harrison, of Fairvie w, broughtt town yesterday the laagest steer see here in many years. The beast we five yerrs old and weighed 1,000 pourn It was black and white in color at, showed all the marks of a thorougi bred Holstein. Tue steer was bougt by Alexander Stewart at 1% cents pound. Mr. Ste wart intends co ship to Norfolk, Va. For the present ti big steer is quartered at Brown's liver stable.-News. THE verdict ot the jury which hs been hearing the Agriculturat El case was rendered in Charleston u Saturday night. The verdia is again: te State on tne tnaic ;ssue. TIee plan ifs sued for S10.00 damages, but tb jry did not award any damages. Tb case will be appealed to the $uprem Court of the United States. Jueg Simon ton, as was stated in The Re~gu er Sunday, would not allow any test: mony as to the fraudulency of the .Blu Rige Scrip to go to the jury. THE STATE BANK TAX. ie The Quee'ion to be Discuseed in a Demo. cratic Caucus. D WASHINGTON, April 6.-Over 150 1- Democratic members of the House to e- clay united in the following request 'o r- Chairman Holman of the Democratic n, caucus, for a caucus on the State bank ld questioa next Tuesday : rs "We, the undersigned, most respect K- fully ask that immediately upon the b- adjournment of the House Tuesday, it April 10, you will call a caucus of n Democrats of the House to consider al the provisions of the Democratic plat r- form relating to the repeal of the tax imposed by the Federal government r upon tne issues of :State banks sad Scate bank associations." n The petition has been circulated by m Ropresentative Swanson of Virginia, a. who has also made a poll or the Demo u. crats on the State bank question. Con ih ctruing the move 11r. Swanson says: 1- "''he request for a caucus is the larg [a est ever presented for a House caucuas as which indicates the great interest felt ,f. in tie suoject. There are two elements st tavorable to the repeal of the State is bank tax. Oae element wants uncon an ditional repeal and the others want a ir repaal with Federal restrictions and a. supervision around State banks of issue. re Unless these two elements can get to e. gether on a compromise measure, it ts will be impossible to pass a repeal bill, n but if those favoring repeal will com re promise their differences by uniting on 8- a measure which both factions can sup s: port the bill can be carried in the ic House." at Mr. Swanson's poll shows not more it than 129 Democrats favorable to un ts conditional repeal. But with those es favoring conditional repeal the poll 8 S~o W ar*gin for repeal of the bank tax. Three p are being con sidered for presentation to the canc . ts One is for the appointment of a special . committee to frame a compromise re in peal bill and report it to a subsequent e caucus. Another is to enlarge the , present Committee on Banking and to Currency so as to make it responsive .e to thte desires of a caucs on a repeal rd of the State bank tax. Thus far the to committee has been in a deadlock over e. a number of repeal bills and the ques al tion has been indefinitely tabled. The in enlarged committee would have a re s, peal majority sufficient to report a com a promise bill. A third propositien is e for the Committee on Rules to take as charge of the subject and arrange for a e plan for getting tne question before the ts House. One of these three plans will n- be adopted. . Spearer Criso's name is among those 2t signed to the request for the caucus. il The other names include the leaders on 0- the Democratic side, among them Rep ts resentatives Culberson, McMillin, le Oathwaite, Cox of Tennessee, Springer, - Dockery and Patterson. It is regarded y as significant that seven New York re members, Cummings, Coombs, Dun lv phy, Clancy, Warner, Tracey and f Haines, have signed. d It has been expressly stipulated in se e curing signatures to the caucus peti tion that members shall not be bound t- by the action of the caucus. In some cases this condition has been attached to the signatures. Representative s Swanson, who circulated the petition, a says that it is fully understood that the caucus is to be a conference toward se at curing a compromise and not a meet ,, ing binding on the Democratic majori M ty of the House. 10 RESOLVED, BY THE CAUCUS, e i- That the rrbibitry Tax on state Banke in Be Bep ealed. le WASHINGTON, April 10.-The Demo d. cratic caucus, after a session of two ih hours and a half this evening, adopted ~s the following resolutions witnout a dia " senting vote: is "Resolved, That it is the sense of is this caucus that the prohibitory tax of e. 10 per cent, on State bank issue be re o0 peiled." "Resolved, That when the bill known as the Brawley and Sprine-er bilU,which y the committee on banking and curren E cy has ordered reported to the House, ie s called up for action, an amendment ebe offere~d repealing the prohibitory -tax on State banks; that ample time be Safforded for discussion, and if neces sary to secure this, the committee on rules be requested to take proper ac tion". isExactly 102 Democratic members of the House were present. The attend ance trom the South and West was ivery heavy, but only a few Eastern emen appeared among theml being C Mlessrs. Strauss, Cummingsi, Dunpby and Warner (New York), Pigott of Connecticut, O'Neill of Massacusetts and Sibley of Pennsyivania. n The discussion of the repeal of the ~fState bank tax proceeded in a desultory e way for a time and took wide range. re Mr. Culberson of Texas, chalrman of t. the judiciary committee, made a strong it speech in favor of it. He reviewed at r some length the political situation in Id which the Southern members found t themselves. The Sherman law had a been repealed, all hope of silver legis j lation must necessarily be abandoned tfor the present since Mr. Cleveland had d set the seal of his disapproval upon f the Bland seigniorage bill. In the f Senate the tariff bill was proceeding . slowly. In fact, said Mr. Cullierson, ethe Democratic members from the y. South and West had no record of .pledges redeemed to carry back to n their people. The only thing left to d meet the urgent demand from their a sections for a greater volume of cur e rency was the repeal of the tax on p State banks' circulation. e After some further talk, the above e resolutions were -offered, the first by >t Mr. Cox of Tennessee, and the second by Mr. Culberson. There was but little e diversiiy of opinion in the caucus on d the question of the advisability of tak ing up for consideration the question n of the repeal, but there was some op y position to uinconditional repeal. The at only outspoken opposition to any d measure looking to the repeal of the r State bank tax, came from Bryan of . Nebraska, and Lane and Williams of 1 Illinois. Messrs. Greshamn of Texas, t Swanson of Virginia, Catchings of e Mississippi, Cooper of Indiana and e others, araently favored the proposl 'tion. Cummings of New York, made a ringing speech at the end in favor of the repeal. He declared the people of e New York had cast their vote for the d Democratic candidates with a full d kno wledge of what the Chicago plat form contained and he for one, was ready and anxious to redeem every plank in that platform. At the conclu s sion of his speech the resolutions were e adopted and the caucus adjourned. e The result of the caucus only means - that the bill to repeal the State bank t ax shall be considered as a rider to the n Brawley bill, which is now on the cal f endar and that a vote shall be had upon it. Lt It was geuerally admitted In the cau cus tonight that this repeal could not be accomplished unconditionally. Mr. Swanson g:ave as the result of his can 1- vase,129 votes for unconditional repeal; 0 and Mr. Williams declared as a result n of his investigation that a majerity of the Honse favored the repeal, although s not unconditionally. The question of d conditions was only briefly touched -upon tonight. All For Love. akrLANTA, G:a., April 11.-Sarah LCarter, a buxom yong country wo eman, threw herself in front of a CentralR ailroad passenger train at Mc Pherson Barracks today and was killed s ler lover, Louis Norwood, a private soldier, had deserted her. He was dis ! charged yesterday, after three years' t service in the army, and left for Bal a imore. He had promised to take her ewith him, but abandoned her. As the e train approaohed, the Carter woman was talking to four other women. She e was crying and said her heart was -bruken. Het companions had no idea - 'hat she contemplated suicide untilI e she cried "goodbye" and jumped inI fron o the train. Gov. T1lmanw' View-. Gov. Tillman Monday gave out an interview to a State representative. The follo wing is what he said: "Yes, they call me a Populist. I will tell them that I am the truest repre sentative of Jeffersonian Democracy in the lead in American politics today. Let me tell you, I don't see anythi ng ahead now bat for tne Southern Demo crats to combine their forces with the Wes'ern Populists and go into the next national campaign on new party lines. The Northeastern Democrats and the R-publicans are now together. It is a combination of the moneyed interests." The Governor then turning suddenly and in a somewhat excited and very emphatic manner said: "I despiae Cleveland and his mugwamps. He is no better than the rarkest Republican. He has destroyed the Democratic party. The South and West will be forced now to unite and have a complete reor ganization of party lines. The people who are afraid of the negro and other questions will have to cut aside their tears on these scares and come togeth er on the one line of fisghting te money combination. Meveland has been working under the aietation of the New York bankers and bargaining with tnem in the matter of the issue of bonds. He promised the banks if they would tae them there would ba no more legislation on the silver question by this Congress. Congress passed the seigniorage act and he vetoed the bill, indicating plainly the nature of his bar gain with the bankers. The whole thing is such a scheme of robbery that he ought to be impeached for it. It is a shame and a disgrace. The idea of this great government having to beg a lot of shyiocks for assistance is so outra geons that there is not any language too strong in which to characterize it. Cleveland is owned body and soul by tthesesscoodrels. He secured his nom ination at Cohimp4hmnaathe influ ence of a subsidized press, SaddMhat votes he lacked there after exhausting such means he bought with promise3 of patronage, which promises have been since redeemed-the goods have been delivered. His attempt to brow beat and debauch the Senators and Representatives was outrageous in the extreme. If those cowardly Congress men up there had any appreciation of their duty to their constituency at home, they would impeach him." "Consider the farce and treason to the interest of the masses of issuing bonds under a pretense of increasing the gold reserves, when the same gold is paid in at one window and drawn out at another with silver certificates, and the same process can go on till the silver certificates areiexhausted and the people have to pay the interest." "Well Governor, what is your idea of what ought to be done?" was asked. The Governor thought for an in stant and then said, " Well I'll tell you I think that the silver men of this country ought to meet in convention at Memphis or St. Louis and organize a fight to control the next congress. Let the West and the South cast aside all questions upon which they now have any differences and get together. It is a fight between gold and silver or poverty and prosperity. One more word as to Mr. Cleveland. I think that it is most damnable and outrageous, his being dictased to and bought up by those bondholders. It is debasing his high office. He is abusing his pow er to dicker with such people and bar ter away the people's blood even upon the pretext of financial relief." "The newspapers which are snarling and snapping at my heels as being a Populist are the paid hirelngs of his bosses. I am a Populist in the sense that I am for the people's rIghts, but there are many planks in the P'opulist platform which I do not endorse. If the silver Congressmen will issue a call for a silver convention and carry the war into Africa we wiil teach those bloodsucking gold theives a lesson in politics such as they hava not bad since Jackson's campaign against the banks. The farm a of the South and the West will move on Wasrington in a solid body and demand legislation that will give them relief from the grinding poverty produced by 6 cents cotton and 30 cents wheat." Ilew Dispensary Fkan. SPARTAmNBUR, April 10.-Many ef our citizsns, ofi all ;political faiths, be ieve that the Dispensary is better in some respects than open barrooms. Te blind tigers and blockade wagons are not as destructive of good morals as open barrooms till midnight, with their games, gambling and other Rurroud ings. Bnt the enforcement of the Dis pensary law is very obnoxious to most of our people. Tney rebel against the illman system of espionage ani inform ing on violators of rthe law. They de spise his constables, both on aCcount of their work and the characteor. "The Spartanburg idea" for the re form of the Dspeneary has been stated by M. Heldmann, chairman of the board of control tar this cojunty. He has only outlinedi his plan, which is as follows: Abolah the Stats Dasgensary and get rid of the heavy expense attached there to. Let there be no State constables to annoy and vex the people. Give each county authority it run Dispensaries under a 2eneral law. Let the county board do all1 the purchasing of supplies from reputable manutacturers. Divide the profits equally between the corpora tion and the county. Abolish the State board of c"ontrol and give the county board power necessary to manage the Dispensaries, Mr. Heldman believes that his plan would do away with blind tigers. and blockade wagons to a great extent. The police of the cites and thie county onstables could make arrests for viola tion of the law. This would certainly be a great reform and we believe that a majority of the people would accept it as a wise solution of the question. Let the voters of each countyv indicate their opinion in the selection of leislators. If the Spartanburg idea sh~uld prevail It would eliminate much power, patronage nd irnfiuence from the Governor's office, but that would also be a great refbrm. Each county wculd then be permitted to exercise the privilege of icc ii opion. Faith Caro. NEW ORLEANS, April 11.-A, special from San Antonio, Tex., to the South ern Associated Press says: fae ex citement in this city amlng the MIex ians and negroes over the apparently miraculous cures performed by Don I'edrito, the Mexican faith cure doctor, is something startling. Tne home of the so-called Mexican saint was sur rounded all day by hundreds of afflicted nd curiosity-affected people anxious to gain an audience with the celebrated nd mysterious man. Several policemen were detailed to maintain order among the crowd of Ignorant believers in the remarkable man. Don Pedriot clasims to be ninety-five years of age, and came o San Antonio t wo weeks ago, af ter being driven out of Mexico by the uthorities. A Georgta Tragedy. SAVANNAH, Ga., April 13.-A spec al to tne Savannan press says: B. N. Edmonsn, a promiment citizen of Birooks county, Geoigia, killed his nep hew John Yattes, last evening. The uncle was in the field and heard his wife scream, and running to the house found that his nephew had made an assault. Yates wasat the front doar bat was shot down in his tracks. The cor ner's jury found a verdict of justifiable nomicide." THE Charleston Sun says "Governor 'illman was eminently right in not go wg to Varlington. it would have been a piece of stupeudloos folly for him to tave done so. Had he gone and in all probability been made a target of with tatl results his worst enemies -would ave been compelled to depihre Lne in lelible disgrace to South Carolmna, even Lt such an event had not inevitably nvolved the entire State mn civil war nd eartain hbnodahed."