THE STORMY TASSAGE. "j
DR. TALMAGE PREACHES tN THB AN- j
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A. Sermon Appropriate t , C?i i'l-ioe Delivered
on the Banks ol JLoke Where
Christ Stilled the Tempest So Many Centuries
Ajo.
Capern'altu, Dec. 15.?The Rev. T.
De Witt Talmage, D, D., preached
here todav to a 2:roup of friends on
"T^ie Stormy Passage," taking for his
texts the verses of the gospel following:
John'vi, 17: "Entered into a ship, and
went over the sea toward Capernaum
and Mark iv, 39: "And he arose and
rebuked the wind an I ...... t. He
said:
Here in this seashore viiiage was
the temporary home of that Christ
who for the most of his life was
knmftiocc Ci-n tba sitp. of this village.
now in ruins, and all around this lalce,
what scenes of kindness and power,
and glory and pathos when our Lord
lived here! It has been the wish of
my life?I cannot say the hope, for I
naver expected the priv:1"""*? tand
on the banks of Guliio*. t a solemnity
and what a rapturehere!
I can now understand the feeliug of
the immortal Scotchman, Robert McCheyne,
when, sitting; on the banks of
this lake, he wrote:
AW Id UVV WUV tUV ?? MM
Comes down to cfrink tay tide,
But he that was pierced to save from hell
Oft wandered by thy side.
Graceful around thee the mountains meet.
Thou calm reposing sea;
But ah: far more, the beautiful feet
Of Jesus walked o'er thee.
I can now easily undei-stand from
" the contour of -he country that bounds
this lake that storms were easily tempted
to make these watei-s their play
ground. From the gentle way tins
lake treated our boat when we sailed
on it yesterday, one would have
, thought it incapable of a paroxysm of
rage, but it was quite different on
both the occasions"spoken of in my
two texts. I close my eyes, and the
shore^of Lake Galilee as it now is,
with but little signs of human life, disappears,
and there comes back to my
vision the lake as it was in Christ's
time. It lay in a scene of great luxuriance;
the surrounding hills, terraced,
sloped, grooved, so many hang '
1 ^ r\ xi
ing gardens 01 oeauty. wn me suure
were castles, armed towers, Roman
baths, everything attractive and beautiful?all
styles'of vegetation in shorter
space than in almost any other
space in all - the world, from the
palm tree of the forest to the trees of
rigorous climate..
OXE WAVE OF BEAUTY.
It seemed as if the Lord had launched
one wave of beauty on all the
scenie, and it hung and swuu? from
rock and hill an oleander. Roman
gentlemen in pleasure boats sailing
this lake, and countrymen in fish
smacks coming down to drop their
nets, pass each other with nod and
shout and laughter, or swin<rin<r idly
at their moorings. 0, what a beautiful
scene! _
if we a quiet
of GenHb
a little
wc hasHfind
it an
Ra flotilla
Widron. or
^Hpper with
piratic ves jthing
they
Baring mesHmd
peace.
H boat. His
H>at. Jesus,
Brier to la'-?e
the^^s."Tf^uy
^ at all, the sliip^'?
P^Hn-board, trie bQ2t- "vw>ul(
PRc5!ancl by the gentleness of the ino
tion putting the Master asleep. Anc
they extemporized a pillow made ou
L ftf a figlioi?rv>or.v- T tV.i'y.1- __?J
sooner is Christ prostrate, and his
head touched the pillow, thau he L
sound asleep. The breezes of the lake
run their fingers through the locks of
the worn sleeper, and the boat rises
and falls like a sleeping child on th
bosom of a sleeping mother.
Calm night, starry night, beautiful
night. Bun up all the sails, ply al]
the oars, and let the large boataud the
small boat glide over gentle Gennesaret.
But the sailors'" say there is g-o
ing to be a change of weather. And
even the passengers can hear the
' moaning of the storm, as it comes on
with great stride, and all the terrors
of hurricane and darkness. The large
boat trembles like a deer at bay among
the clangor-' of the hounds; great
patches of foam are flung into the air;
the sails of the vessel loosen, and the
sharo -winds crack like pistols; the
smaller boats like petrels poise on the
clrtfs of the waves and then plunge.
v. . ' T3E STORM.
Overboard go cargo, tackling and
masts, an$ the drenched disciples rush
into the back part of the boat, and lay
hold of Christ, and say unto-him:
''Master, carest thou not that we
perish?" That great personage lifts
his head from the pillow* of the fisherman's
coat, walks to the front of the
vessel, and looks out into the storm.
All around him are'the smaller boats,
driven ir> the tempest, and through it
comes the crv of drowning men. "Rv
r? ? the flash of the lightning I see tlie
calm brow of Christ as the spray
dropped from his beard. lie has one
word for the sky and another for the
waves. Looking upward he cries:
"Peace!" Looking downward he says:
SBe still!"
The waves fall flat on their faces,
the foam melts, the- extinguished stars
a^^adit their torches. The tempest falls
^>>Bltea!rSRLChrist stands witk- his feet
on the ne51^l6tiiS'St9f#?#'A5^-while
the sailors are bailing out the boats,
ana while they are trying to untangle
the cordage, the disciples stand in
amazement, now looking into the
calm sea. tV'ii into sky, then
into th untonance,
and i aimer of
man is this, that even the winds and
the sea obey him?"
ALWAYS HAVE CHRIST IX THE SHIP.
The subject in the first place impresses
me with the fact that it is very
important to have Christ in the ship';
for all those boats would have gone to '
the bottom of Gennes&ret if Christ
had not been present. Oh, what a
lesson for vou and for me ^ learn!
We must always have Christ in the
ship. Whatever voyage we under
. take, into whatever enterprise we
start, let us always have Christ in the
ship. All you can do with utmost
tension of body, mind, and soul, vou
1 3 J. - -t ' * ' ' V "
? are uouua iouo; out on: nave Uimst
in every enterprise, Christ in every
' vwoyage.
There arc men who ask God's help
at the beginning of great enterprises.
He-has been with them in the past;
no irouoie can overthrow them; the
storms might come down from the
top of Mount Hermon, and lash Gennesaret
into t'oam and into agony, but
it could not hurt them. But here is
another man who starts out in worldly
enterprise, and he depends upon
the uncertainties of this life. He lias
no God to help him. After a while
the storm comes and tosses off the
masts of the ship; he puts out his lifeboat
and the long boat; the sheriff
and the auctioneer try to help him off: '
f
I" III! ??Mi _ r
mey can t ueip mm on; lie musx
go down?no Clirist in the ship.
Your life will be made up of sunshine
and shadows. There may be in it
Arctic blasts or tropical tornadoes; I
know not what is before you, but 1
know if you liave Christ with you all
shall be well. You may seem to get
along without the religion of Christ
- .1 . ? "U?4
wnue everymmg goes smwuuj, um.
after awhile, when sorrow hovers over
the soul, when the waves of trial dash
clear over the hurricane deck, and the
decks are crowded with piratical disasters?oh,
what would you do then
without Christ in the ship? Take God
for your portion, God for your jruide,
God* for your help; then all is well; all
is well for time, all shall be well forever.
Blessed is that man who puts in
the Lord his trust. He shall never be
confounded.
But my subject also impresses me
with the fact that, when people start
r'u.Mot thru- m-nct. not exnect i
IKJ Vili 101, iajw y .
smooth sailing.
don't expect smooth sailing.
These disciples got into the small
boats, and I have no doubt they said:
"What a beautiful day this is! What
a smooth sea! What a bright sky this
is! How delightful is sailing in this
boat! And as for the waves under the
keel of the boat, why they only make
the motion of our little boat the more
delightful. JL3UI wnen me wuius
swept down and tlie sea was tossed
into wrath, then they found that following
Christ was not smooth sailing.
So you have found it; so I have found
it. Did you ever notice the end of the
life of the apostles of Jesus Christ?
You would say, if ever men ought to
have had a smooth life, a smooth de
parture, then ttiose men, the disciples
of Jesus Christ, ought to
have had such a departure and
such a. life. St. Janies lost his head.
St. Philip was hung to death on a pillar.
St. Matthew had his life dasned
out with a halbert.. St. Mark was
dragged to death through the streets.
St. James the Less was beaten to death
with a fuller's club. St. Thomas was
struck through with, a spear. They did
not find following Christ smooth sail
ing. Oh, how they were all tossed m
the tempest! John Huss in the fire;
Hugh JIcKail in the; hour of martyrdom
; the Albigenses, the Waldcnses,
the Scotch Covenanters?did they find
it smooth sailing? But why go into
history when we can draw "from our
own memory illustrations of the truth
of what I say? Some young man in a
store trying to serve God, while his
employer scoffs at Christianity; the
young men in the same store, antagonistic
to the Christian religion, teasing
i him, tormenting him- about his religion,
trying to get him mad. They succeed
in getting1 hini mad, saying,
V/m-iW ft nvAt.tv Christian!" - Does
that young' man find it smooth
sailing when he tries to follow
Christ? Or you remember a
Christian girl. Her father despises
the Christian religion; her mother despises
the Christian religion; her
brothers and sisters scoff at the Christian
religion; she can hardly find a
quiet place in which to say her prayers.
Did she find it smooth sailing
when she ti'ied to follow Jesus Christ?
\ Oh, no! All who would live the life
of the Christian religion must suffer
persecution; if you do not find it in
one'way, you wili get it in another
way. The question was asked: "Who
are those nearest 'lie throne?" And
the answer came back: "These are
they who came up out of ^reat tribulation?great
flailing, as tne original
has it; great flailing, great pounding
j ?and had their robes washed and
made white in the blood of the lamb."
Oh, do not be disheartened! Take
! courage. You are in glorious com'
panionsliip. God will see j'ou through
j all trials and he will deliver you. My
! subject also impresses me with the
--facl that good people sometimes get
I veryVmuch frightened.
\ EE NOT AFRAID. ,h"?
L they are frightened almost t<
-T death. They say: 1 "Master, carestthoi
i ! not that we nerish?"' Thev had m
[ 1 reason to be frightened, for Christ wa
) in the boat. I suppose if we had beei
; there we would have been justasmucl
! affrighted. Perhaps more. In al
; ages very good people get very rnucl
L affrighted. It is often so in our day
1 and men say: "Why, look at the bat
s lectures; look at the" various errors go
I ing over the church of God; we ar<
' going to founder; the church is going
to perish; she is going down." Oh.
how many <rood Deonle are affright
ed by iniquity in our day, and thini
the church of \Jesus Christ is going tc
be overthrown, and are just as much
affrighted as were the disciples oi
ii_.y text. Don't worry, don't fret, as
though iniquity were going to triumph
1 over righteousness. A lion goes into
a cavern to sleep. He lies down, with
his shaggy mane covering tlie
paws. Meanwhile the spiders spin a
web across the mouth of the
cavern and say, ""We have captured
him." Gossaiiier thread after gossamer
thread, until the whole front of
I the cavern is covered with the spider's
I web, and the spiders say: "The lion is
1 done: the lion is fast." After a while
| the lion has got through sleeping; he
i rouses himself, he shakes his mane,
he walks oui into the sunlight; he
does not even know the spiders web is
spun, and with his voice he shakes the
' mountain. So men come st>hminc
J. o
their sophistries and skepticism about
Jesus Christ; lie seems to br sleeping.
They say: "We have captured the
Lord; he will never come forth p.gain
upon the nation; .Christ is c'.ptured
forever. His religion will nc ,*er make
any conquest among men." But after
a while the Lion of the tribe of Judab
will rouse himself and come forth to
shake mightily the nations. What's a
spider's web to the aroused lion ? Give
truth and error a fair grapple and
truth will come off victor.
FOOLISH FEARS.
But there are a great many good
people who get affrighted in other respects;
they are affrighted in our day
about revivals. They say: "'Oh! this
is a strong religious gale; we are
afraid the church of God is going- to
be upset, and there are going to oe a
great many people brought into the
church that are going to be of no use
to it;" and they are affrighted whenever
they see a revival taking hold of
the churches. As though a ship captain,
with five thousand bushels of
wheat for a cargo, should say some
day, coming upon deck: "Throw over
board all the cargo;" and the sailors
should say: "Why, captain, what do
you mean? Throw over all the cargo?"
*'Ohj" says the captain, *we have a
peck of chaff that has got into this five
thousand bushels of w^eat, and the
only way to gfct rid of tne chaff is to
throw al 1 the wheat overboard." Now,
that is a great deal wiser than the talk
of a great many Christians who want to
throw overboard all the thousands and
tens of thousands of souls who arc the
subjects of revivals. Throw all overboard
because they are brought into
the kingdom of God through great revivals,
because there is a peck of chaff,
a quart of chaff, a pint of chaff! I say,
let them stay until the last clay; the
Lord will divide the chaff from the
wheat. Do not be afraid of a great
revival. Oh, that such gales from
heaven might sweep through all
our churches! Oh, for such clays as
Richard Baxter sa.v in England, and
Robert McCheyne saw iu Dundee!
Oh, for such clays as Jonathan Edwards
saw in Northampton! 'I have
often heard my father tell of the fact
that in the early part of<this century a ,
ueviva.1 broke out at X .T
t
and some people were very much agi- j
tated about it. They said: "Oh, you j
are going to bring too many pt ople
into the church at once;" and ihey
sent down to New Brunswick to ?et
John Livingston to stop the rev.vfcl.
Well, there was no better soul in *J1
tlion Tnlm T.iv-ino-st.on. 'de
went^md looked at the revival; they
wantea him to stop it. He stood in
the pulpit 011 the Sabbath, and looked
over the solemn ^iditory, and lie said:
"This, brethren, is in reality the work
of God; beware how you .try to stop
it." And he was an old man, leaning
heavily on his .stair?a very old man.
And he lifted that staff, and took
hold of the small end of the staff,
and began to let it fall slowly
through between the linger and
the thumb, and he said: "Oh,
thou impenitent, thou art falling now
?failing from life, falling awa\ .rem
peace and heaven, falling as certainly
as that cane is falling through my
hand?falling certainly, though perhaps
falling slowly!" And the cane
kept on falling through John Livingston's
hand. The religious emotion in
the audience was overpowering, and
men saw a type of their doom, as the
cane kept falling and falling, until the
knob of the cane struck Mr. Livingston's
hand, and he clasped it stoutly
and said: "But the grace of God can
stop you as I stopped that cane;" and
then there was gladness all through
i the house at the fact of pardon and
peace and salvation. "Well," said ttie
people after the service, "I jruess you
had better send Livingston home; he
is making the revival worse." Oh,
for gales from heaven to sweep all the
continents The danger of the church
of God is not in revivals.
GOD AND 21 AN IN.ONE PERSON.
Again, my subject impressed me
with the fact that Jesus was God and
man in the same being. Here he is
in the back part of the iJoat. Oh, how
tired he looks; what sad dreams he
must have! Look at his countenance;
iv/x z-if to
?L-Lt? III U^t VJU V/4 ^
come. Look at him, he is a manbone
of our bone, flesh of our flesh.
Tired, he falls asleep; he is a man.
But then I lind Christ at the prow of
the bout; I hear him say: "Peace, be
still;" and I see the storm kneeling at
his feet, and the tempests folding- their
wings in his presence; he is a God.
If I have sorrow and trouble, and
want sympathy, I go and kneel down
at the back part of the boat and say:
"Oh, Christ! wearvoneof Gennesaret,
sympathize with all my sorrows, man
of Nazareth, man of the cross." A
man, a man. But if I want to con
quer my spiritual foes, li 1 want 10
fet the victory over sin, death, and
ell, I come to the front of the boat,
and I kneel down, and I say: "Oh,
Lord Jesus Christ, thou who dost hush
the tempest, hush ail my' grief, hush
allvmy temptation, hush all my sin!"
A man, a man; a God, a God.
I learn once more from this subject
that Christ can hush a tempest.
It did seem as if everything must gc
to ruin. The disciples had given up
the idea of managing- the ship; the
crew were entirely demoralized; yet
Christ rises, and he puts his foot on
the storm, and it crouches at his feet
Oh, yes i Christ can hush the tempest.
You have had trouble. Perhaps il
was the little child taken away froni
i you?the sweetest child of the household,
the one who asked the most curious
questions, and stood around you
with tne greatest fondness, and the
spade cut down through your bleed
ing: heart Perhaps it was an onlj
son, and your heart has ever since
1 been like a desolated castle, the owL<
: of the night hooting among the faller
arches and the crumbling stairways,
Perhaps it was an aged mother
You always went to her with you.'
i troubles. She was in jour He m<
i, to welcome your , ?2&
tuf? o,. v - *a&y died she
"ii> pity von; that old hand wi
y day on no more kindness; tliat whil
;t lock of hair' you put away in th
0 casket or in the locket didn't look i
a it usually did when she brushed :
a away from her wrinkled brow in th
s home circle or in the country church
1 Or your property gone, you said: "
i nave so much bank stock, 1 have s
] many government securities, I hav
i so many houses, I have so man
, farms?all gone, all gone." Why, si)
1 all the storms that ever trampled, wit
- their thunders, all the shipwreck
i have not been worse than this to joz
r Yet you have not been complete!
' overthrown. Why? Christ says: "
have that little one in my keeping.
: can care for him as well as yoi
> can, better than you can, (
i bereaved mother!" Hushing th
' tempest. When your property wen
away, God said: "There are treasure
in heaven, in banks that never break.
Jesus hushing the tempest. There i
one storm mio wnicn we win an nav<
to run. The moment when wi
let go of this world and try t<
take hold of the. next, we will wan
all the grace possible. Yonder I see :
Christian soul rocking on the surge:
of death; all the powers of'darknesj
seem let out against that soul?th<
swirling wave, the thunder of the sky
the shriek of the wind, all seem U
unite together; but that soul is noi
troubled; there is no sighing, then
are no tears; plenty of tears in th<
room at the departure, but he weep:
no tears?calm, satisfied and peaceful;
all is well. By the flash.of the
storm you see the harbor just ahead,
and you are making for that harbor.
All shall be well, Jesus being our
guide.
Into the barljor of heaven now we glide;
We're home at last, homo at last.
Softly we drift on the bright, silv'ry tide.
We're home at last.
Glory to God! all our dangers aro o'er.
We stand secure on the glorified shore:
Glory to God: we will shout evermore,
We're home at last.
Domestic Service in tbe Siuth.
There are too many low-grade cooks,
dirty nurses and lazy "hou=e girls. Thev
have demoralized tbe better class of
negro servants to be found here before
the war, and at that time one of the
features of Southern households. Domestic
service has been dragged do*n
to tbe level of tbe rough plantation
hands, who pour into the cities, and
who are readv to hpmn rrinkin? for a
family without having ever seen a stove
io tbe;r lives. Tbey work at a place a
| month and then leave it for another,
and tie domestic history of most families
in the South to-day i* a steady succession
of incompetent negro servauts.
We are suffering on the servant question
as much as the people of New E lgInnd
Th#>v from ? laolr r?f ^..mootinn i
we from an excess, which ba3 thoroughly
demoralized all and dragged the good
down to the level of the worst. If we
c^iild ship annu;tl!v some 10.000 ?r even
100.000 ntgro servauts North it would
be better for all hands. Perhaps onr
Northern friends could make something
out of them, and we would certeinly
imDrove dorm s'ie service Iwrn with
fewer, but better cooks, nurses and
house-girls ?New Orleaus Times-Democrat.
? \ public mee'ing was held in R chra?Dd
*>n Tuesdav, to arrange a p'an
to indue? the permanent burial of ;he
body of Ex-President Divig in that city.
Annthpr mass meetinc will he held ?r
an early day In the meantime a com- j
raittee will canvass for subsciptions to ;
a monument fund.
?Tbe Farmers* Alliance of Oc>nee !
coun'y recommends Capt. J. L Shank- I
lin, its president, a9 one of tbe trustees j
of th? Clemson College.
SOUTHERNERS IN NEW YOKK.
Yiniiy of 1'tii'it* iu n!l Iicpurtui?siii of .'he
Bij: Cily's ijilc?.">oiiu: Who Have Woo
Fame a>i<{ Fortune.
?s\ Y. Letter to lUltimore JArueiican.
It is said by some that New York
contains more Southern than Kichmond
or Atlanta, and quite recently
a, boomei of New Y<-rfc's claim to the
World's Fair cited to this fact as
showing that the Southern in Cougress
would vote lor New York. A Southerner
is said to feel especially at home
in this city, a fad which is in part explained
by the recent opening ot a
club house tor Southern men in New
York city and visitors here from that
nf rhf> nnnntrv. In everv nrofes
r*" w v" " - - - * ? ? ?
sion and in nearly branch of commercial
endeavor and in public ollice we
find Southern-born men in Gotham.
When the war closed, the men whose
fortunes had disappeared, and whose
prospects did not seem bright in their
native States, came to New York, to
seek employment* Many of them have
become rich and famous, and have
nothing left by which to trace their
Southern nativity but a tinge of dialect.
Perhaps it is the dropping of a
few "r's" or a quick wa> ol getting
over thh vowel sounds. But one,
meeting them on the big exchanges
and in courts, will invariably recognize
the Southern men. In walking
yesterday a single block, I met three
men, ali of them born in "Dixie," all
of them lawyers, and all ol tnem pretty
well known in tncir profession.
The first was Assistant District Attorney
Dawson, a hearty looking old
Vfentlemen with iron-gray ha'.r. piercmg
eyes and courtly manners, who attends
the dinners oithe Twilight Club
and amuses the members with his
taking stories of the Southern darkey.
He was a lawyer before Colonel John
R. Fellows, his chisf, had left college,
Of course, he lias a title, and the fraternity
alweys speak of him as Major
Dawson, At the Twilight dinners
Major Dswson manages tc get a seat
between another Southerner and
some New Yorker, and then begins
his interesting soories of ante-bellum
days.
f ollowing Major Dawson was Mr.
Eben Appleton. it is hardly necessary
to teil Baltimoreans that Mr. Appleton
is the custodian ot the Star ijpan
gled Banner ami a blood 1 elation oi
the Arinistcad family. For many years
Mr. Appleton has practiced law ia thi*
city, but be came from the State v
Virginia, spending several \ears i-n
Baltimore on his way to Gotham H<
is a little past middle age and i:
counted one of the handsomest mem
' X! \r. _1_ ?
ners 01 me i\ew x via. uai.
"I dislike to ask ycuDg men?som<
of tbein?to come up to see me," saic
Mr. Appleton to me, when he ha(
finished telling about the means hi
has taken for the proper presei valiox
of his banner. 'iYou see." said he
modestly, "I am such poor company.
, I don't smoke; can't chew, never drink
) and can't tell a new siory. But I fiat
, ter myself I am a good listener, and
| enjoy thejcompanyof young people.1
| Despite thtse facts, Mr. Appleton is :
hii>hlv entertaining: talker, but is i
close reader of law and curreut litcra
i ture. He lias a valuable library ii
[ which he spends most of the t ime no
. devoted to his clients.
Burton jS\ Harrison, who was th
l private fecretary of Jefferson Davis
; from 1802 io'18(5d, wasseenin thesarn
. block. Mr. Harrison looks abou
r forty-eight, but must be a trifle olde
j than that, as he was a man when th
3 civil war began. Hecorces from Mi
t Da\ i' own Slate?Mississippi?but ha
been a long time a m< nibyf^i I?.
New York bar, with an otiifce in ti
* handsomest olKce buildii^ in Nt
^IC would II
lUIB. lil*? jL.VjUiWIU.V- . - - ?
I take a stranger Jorums to find out th
^doi-nsun was hoi ii in tlie irsoat
He is much like the more importa
member of Congress from the South
| his manner ar>d way of saying tiling
He likrs poetry and law, and can r
member when he could quote '*Dc
e Juan" from the first canto to the la
( couplet . He is very precise, and lool
ij lide a n:ao who has a single purpo:
in mind. His hair, once jet black, h;
tegun to take ou a small quantity
o( silvery gray. His law oiiice is *
. full of naDeis and briefs that Mr. Ha
k rison has to keep his type writers i
j an adjoining room. Gen. Roger i
* Piyor, John S. Wise and John C. Ca
^ houn might have been seen in the
j offices within three blocks of eac
j other, while in Wall Street perhar
one-fifth of J the big iaw firms conlai
-) the names of men whose fathers wei
e famous in the South years ag<
^ Their club has nearly six hundre
members, while applications for ac
? tive membership are being receive
s every day.
e DR. CRONIN'S MURDERERS.
e
^ How They Tate Tbeir Fate? Soinc I.ojcj
^ Question*.
s uhicago, Decernoer 18.?The cas
5 of v- ughlan, O'SulIivan, Burke an<
J Kuntz, convicted of Di. Cronin, and
, sentenced, by the verdict of the jurj
) to imprisonment for life (except fo
t Kuntz, who gets three years), con
i tinues .to attract much of 'he publi
5 notice.
> An appeal has been taken, of course
and now the point is made that if afte
> a new trial, the prisoners be fount
guilty the jury cannot affix the penalty
of death.
Friends of the lour prisoners callei
on them this morning to express svm
pathy. Mrs Coughlan leaned agains'
the. bars of the prisoners' cage anc
sobbed as though her heart wmlc
break, while her husband whisperec
such words of comfort as he coulc
command.
O'Sullivan's sister, accompanied by
her husband, paid the ice man a visit,
She wept bittesly over her brother1*
fate.
Kuntz's sweetheart and a lady friend
visited him. The little German was
joycus and tried to cheer them up. No
one ealled to see Burke, and he did
not seem to reel nurt at ms isolation.
He still ma.ntains the cool demeanor
hat has always characterized him.
Sumter Ha* a (Jir! Jtywtery.
Diisy Robinson id a little mulatto girl
about twelve years old, now living with
her aunt. Laura, who is a servant "in ths
house of Mr. F. A Tradewell, a well
known resident of our city. Her mother
is dead, and her father resides in Columbia.
There is nothing uncommon
about Daisy's appearance. She looks
and acts very much like any other child
of her age.
Saturday evnuiug last while sbe and
her aunt and s.oter were in their room iD
a house in Mr. Trad eveH's yar j, there
were heard repeated rappiogs about the
room, which is ceiled all around, which
were followed by such strange phenom
- i- - / \i: ~ e . r ?. t. _
ena a* ioe idinns; ui vruuncry irutu wie
top ?.f the cupboard aDd manTfcI-pi<ce
and the .sudden leaping of flat-irons
from tbe front of the fire to the middle
of the room There was not much
sleeping done that tight by the inmates
of the Of course such phenomena
na'urally exciud attentiou, and nil I
Sunday and Monday crowds visited the i
place uniii their uresence amounted to a i
nuis:inf-e. anil Mr. Tradewell was obliged j
to a>k for a pulici man tc be detailed 10
keep out the throng. Doctors of medi- j
.? A ntiMnift! ol.n nc/*r?f tr* !
stranyt* sin'rit. electric light men. aud ex- ,
perimenters in e eotricity, lariieu ar?.i (
young men who c uld spare lhe time '
flocked to the piace.?Sumter Watch- j
rnaD.
REPUBLICANS MEAN MISCHIEF. j
Representative M Us OitilinesTheir PruSr- j
5.. . I.,. tlouM*. . !
UUIC tuuisc l.i tav
In the last number of the North
American Review the Kou. Roger Q.
Mills has published an iuiert-sting
paper on what has been given out as ;
the probable course of the Republican |
majority, not only with respect 1o the
proposed change in the rules of pro- .
ceduie, but in other matters designed
to perpetuate Republican control of
the government. Mr. Mills starts out
by pointing to the well-known fact
* - 1 . ?
that "As soon as it was kdowl iuai |
the elections had given the present |
House to the .Republican party the
leaders of the party began a systematic
j crusade against the rules of procedure,
i These rules are intended prima: ily to
J facilitate the dispatch of business, i>uo
they are also intended to protect the
weak against the strong." Mr. Mills
does nor deny the right of the m?j jritVj
to govern, nor the right to make rules'
to promote the business of the House.
But "the demand lor the removal of
limitations in the rules (which wers
intended to secure tae rights ol free*
?thf? ahnse cf nower).
iliCi-I
means," says Mr. Miils, ''that the
party in pover are fataily beuton mischief;
that they have some desperate
enterprise on foot their prophetic
souls tell them, is beyond the i>ouudary
of rightful jurisdiction, and i-hat in
carrying if out tbey w ili meet with !
stubborn opposition: It is not believed
that they desire to create a-> establishment
ol religion, or to abridge tbe
freedom of speech or of the press; but
there is goou ground to believe that
the wantonness of power has suggesi-d
to them the necessity of doing some
things that are as palpable violations
of the constitution as those would be,
though they may not be so pernicious.
ftvcps=es which they will attempt
will be such as are dictated by a conviction
of party necessity. The measures
for which the way must l?e cle aredare
such as will, in their judgment,
secure party ascendency. li it cuu he
done, the rules will be so framed thai
all opposition will be silenced when
ihey are ready to vacate a Democratic
. se8t and give itio a Republican contestant,
regardless ,;f rhe eoustitueucy.
. And there will be no "scandalous
r scenes" when they are trying to pass
; bills to create returning boards ;o Jve
. certificates of election to defeated lieI
publican candidates for electors and
, members of Congress. It is to prepare
} the way lor the advent of this higher
5 civilization that the rules have been
. indicted and ''arraigned before the bar
of public opinion.'1 The objection now
; raised to the existing xules is "tha
1 they permit filibustering/' but 3Ir.
j Mills shows that this resort to parlia.
a mentarv faction for the purpose of dej
feating acts of gross injustice is the
only course except one other that a
1 minority can "take, and he cites an instance
wherein an attempt was made
' by the Republican majority to unseal
j three Democrats undoubtedly elected,
u which was in two cases successful
a and in the third was only prevented
a by persistent filibustering until rht
end ol the session. lu 1854 the minor
a ity resorted to the same parliamentary
. forties to deleat. the Kaasns-Nebraskj
bill, and in the Forty-third Con^re*;
e the Democrats resisted the passage o
. the civil-rights bill until :>the gag:
g was adopted and the bill passed, onii
L to be declared by the Supreme Cour
r to be unconstitutional. "In 1S77,'
e says Mr. Aiills, "there was anothe
r notable struggle by the Jemocratii
^ mi).oritv to prevent tho theft <>f tb<
" Presidency. - * * It was ua^ue
- *
k | ce^sJul, buu wnen .ur. nayrs v>?x=
.^.^Jarcd President and inauguraied. hi
ot susained the Democrat io rem^n-slnine
at by abiding that Louisiana had gon<
h l>^-.ocrktio for *'? .,-r>r* fr-.'ntv
v* Governor down, though the same re
turning board that declared a inajorit
,s for him declared it fur all the Keuubl
'e[ can candidates.'' Mr. 2\Iiiis goes on 1
)D say: "liac Kepuouoans again nave
st majority in the House, but not larc
,g enough to insure the success of the
*e schemes. They have r.^aiw extraoni
norr T rv Ka i.VrAJior'r
aS """J KJ1.4KU1VU V"?" ? ?"? -"* ""O"
^ and the rules must again be subjeetc
;o to their manipulations. They hav
^ gotten up seventeen contests for Den
ln ocratic seats. These vacate-l an
^ given to Republicans would give thei
jJ a working majority large enough t
;r place beyond ihe domaia of doubt th
^ passage ot such laws as will material!
JS aid in preserving and perpetuating
* their party ascendency." ?!e adinii
... that there will be no difficulty in mak
^ ing a rule to prevent dilatory motiom
jV and that the speaker will refuse t
, put such motions to the* vote. Th
j only defense then remaing tor th
| minority will be to prevent the quorun
whi'h the constitution requires to d
business. In the present House ;
quorum will consist of on^ huudre<
and sixty-five members. "This rule,5
savs Mr. Mills, "cannot be changed
and with a margin of three over th<
e constitutional requirement it will b(
ri be very difficult in so large a body, u
!, keep in their seats the iudis-pensabi<
:, number of absentees from sickness
r business or ether causes. . The per
- plexing question that will not down is
c how to obtain a quorum if the minority
sit still and refuse to vote. This
/ 11 /-v.-?tir\r? V\no aKartn Kanaka 1 c
l^UOOLlWli liao Ui Ivu yccn UClUiO WJLfc*
r House." Mr. Mills cites a number &.
3 cases in which attempts were made tc
y force the abstaining minority to vote.
and in every instance the Speaker de1
cided that he had no power to make
- up a quorum by going behind the roil
t call; that "the majority party must
i make the quorum to do business, and
1 that the majority of members present,
1 when less than a quorum, c?n only
I compel the attendance of absentees,
but cannot compel the voie of a memr
ber." Mr. Mill? clases his article by
saving that the Republicans, with a
: majority in both hou es, and having
control of the three branches of the
law-making departments, including
1 th j executive, beiug doubtful of their
retention of power, "feel the necessity
of throwing fortifications around ihtm,
and paking their hold on power so
strong that the ballot-box cannot, dislodge
them. To do this they must revive
the old returning boards that
throw out the Democratic votes, and in
all cases where it is important to give
the certificate to the Republican,
whether he is elected or not. The
measure they propose is bold f<ud revolutionary,
and it remains to be seen
whether they will succeed iu passing
it, and, if it is passed, what the popular
verdict will be when incomes to be
enforced."
A Peculiar Marriage that Failed.
The little towo of Pardeeville 's all
agrg over a peculiar matrimonial affair.
One roorniDg, a few dnys ago, Benjamin
WiuS met Mrs. Leaver)worth, x widow.
Although he is severity aad she is seventy-1
one, the inspiration .-e:z M him to p >p
the question. Sh;* acceped iiiu ;?g?-d
suitor, stipulating, he vi v r. that he
SUU'iiii lvalue iu iita u*?u u .1 is-n*
in hers, the same as before. The saac
evening they w^re m the i)ii tgroom
standing 10 otic cun.-r of "fixroom'acd
the blushing bride in the opposite
corner. After the cvre:n-> y vie
went to her home and be to hi-. .
next day Be-jamin "5<- i r < (!! r, :
his bride, a id w s y-iMPiy -w i * j
whoij SQe met h:rn a* lii -i > r wi h ? j
pail of scalding water ao<i vvi'o-rd '
to keep awny if h?< did noi jv- .n- to <;et |
t urt. And d )w limn; i> to i??- ouajf.ia* j
for the divorce courts, and an ?i :..cr ij;tol I
evidence that m*rri:ij;e i;'. a failure lia- f
been adduced. ? Milwaukee Senn<!?-!. 1 '
EBAU UiCKMAN. ^
'i'be FnuiouH Tonxi He l'roj>t??cd tea l''oi9|
clan Visitor. V
TV'i^Tiinortnn Pr^cc
Colonel Arnrud, a well know nRussian ^
relates an experieuco be had with tbe
historically notorious Beau Hickman,
which is typically characteristic of that
grea': wag.
"When I first came to Washington, in
1S47," said Colonel de Arraud. "I pat
up at the old Niti'Miai hotel and imme
Ui'ALCIJ 3UU^Uti,UC Ui UCUI Jr
CUy, to whom I h.*d a letter of introduction
from one of the highest government
officials at St. Petersburg. 1 found Mr.
Clay in bis privhte rooms at the. hotel,
and after a longtatk with him we strolled
into the lobby of';he hostelry. I could
speak very little English, and, having a
very foreign acceut, immediately attracted
the attention o( Beau Ilickman. who
was ore of the 'hangers-on' around the
place, lie approached me ia great dignity
and said with the courtesy of b
Frenchman:
' You are a stranger here? I believe
you have j 1 -t arrived from Russia?"'
"Yes, si'."1 I repli .'d, 'I have just asrived
from Use capital of Russia 1
' Well, s>r,' continued Hickman, 'itis
customary for strangers arriving here to
VC UiV/ Ui
"The air of the man aid the extreme
earnestness wi:h which he spoke impressed
me that he wrs a head tax collector
I ur a passport eensjr liKe we have ia Rusj
?ia, and I presumed that the immediate
! payment of uuy deamud he might make
I was necessary. I noticed Mr. Clay, who
j stood only a short distance from me,
i senile bbmdly as he" watchcd the interI
view which Hickman was holding with
i me. Fiually I said: 'IIow much must I
give you?"
"It is customary,' said Hickman, 'to
give me from-$l to $o.'
"I thought that I would show myselfi
princely, ann immediately placed a ?5
i coin in the man's band and turned to Mr.
Clay who expressed, astonishment that I
should have suffered myself to be bled as
I had. Greatly fo my ,-urorise Hickman
approached Mr. Clay and making the
most profobnd salaam, inquired after his
! i ?-? T . j . _i_.. T , j ^ i i:
aeailD. x tnougni, 1 wouiu ?ap ine unmix
by askiDg Hickman to take somethiug
at the bar. He declined with
great, grace, sayins that he did not drink,
but said he would go into the counter
aud propose a toast. This is what lie
gave us:
" Here's to the A merican eagle and to the
Russiau bear,
O.ie's got the feathers and the other's
?ot the hair;
I Put them together and they wili make a
pair.'"
SELECTING jTwi[FE 3\'L0T.
! A fciiniruhir Bet Beteen Two Brother* Liv1
iaer Near Newport, Jljnii.
St Paul Minn., December 19.?
r / . >T
j William -K-ingisa tarmer at i\ew
' ' port, Minn., and is about 3;) year* o
acr?i and unmarried. Sidney <J IC ng
| who is three years older aud carries or
, a teaming business at the same place
^ is his brother. A. i'uw days ago the}
. were sitting at. William's hou-;e reading
, the uev.. papers, when Sidney noticec
: a paragraph about a man in the Ea?
who was adverii-ing for a wile. Siune]
; said he thought that was a foolish plai
. by whii-h to secure a wife. Wiliian
' said he didn't think ii was, and thi
: brothers got into a heated argumen
r over the question.
'I will leilyou to what I will do.'
firwtiJy .Itclared Sidney. *'I will bet yoi
^ $o<>0 eve-u that.you u.u-e not select :
wi!e by lottery iu a way that I will ic
^ dicate.'-'
"1 have no money," replied William
"but I have a farm worth that at Jeas<
an^ I will lake ihut- bet if you will pu
-I i Li?i- . m; v farm a
up your n:r-v-^, i^aiapMpMP*
' Corkington."
All right; it's a go,'' said Sidney, an
} they set to work to prepare the tern
' of tbe bet. A contract was drawn u
r', in legal form and each sigt-ed it. ]
provides that William shall gc- c<
l_ jnorc than 500 miles nor less than thr?
* miles from his home and select a wi'
(| by lottery. He is to make 100 ticket;
c numbered from 1 to 100, which are (
be put in envelopes and one given t
every jaoy wismng a nusnand, regarc
less of her age or nationality. A ce]
tain day is to be announced for th
e : drawing and a public notice is to b
: given of the place where it is to tak
place. On she dny of the drawingsom
person is to be selected by theaudienc
and blindfolded. The tickets are t
be Tihif.pfi in a hat and well chakpn 111
J The man. blindfolded, v ill then b
e brought on the stage and requested t
draw one ticket from the bat. By tb
number which it bears the future wif
0 of William Xing is to be determined
as he must marry the lady holding tin
5 corresponding number or forfeit hi
r, farm. If he carries out this agreemen
he will receive the sum of $500 bet bj
g his brothor.
I A SHOWER OF HYMN BOOKS
3
Riot in a Scjro ?. hurcb in Kansas City?
Two .lien I)an:erou?ly Kurt.
5 Kansas City, Mo, December 19.
Differences between factions in th<
5 First Baptist Church, colored, of Kan
: sas City, culminated Sunday nisrht ir
' a riot in which two men were dauger>
ously injured, ana quite a numbei
i hurt. Tne tactions were that wricfc
sided with tbe pastor, the Rev. J. R,
! Jones, and auother which opposed
^ him. There was a meeting ot mem
bers of the church organization to
select, officers last evening. The pastor
presided, but the anti-Jones faction
out- numoered the pastoi's supporters.
Whenever a motion hostile to the pastors
crowd was made, he would call
on some brother to pray. He blockaded
business this way lor two hours.
The opposing factions was enraged,
and when G. \V\ Smith was called on
to pray, a shower of hymn books and
chairs greeted him. Then followed a
general riot. Razors were used and
two negroe?- were seriously cut. Their
names are Benjamin and Knight.
Others were pounded ever the head
with chairs, but no dangerous wounds
were inflicted.
A Tremendous Eaploficu in Russia,
St. Petersburg, Dee. 20.?A shell
exploded today in the artillery magazine
at Bakuk, causing a general explosion
of ali muutions stored there
and the destru ition of the building.
The noise of the explosion shells and
rockets sounded like a bomb uJ-nent.
One hundred thousand cartridges were
destroj'ed. Four persons were killed
and four injured
KilH-d by Gut in .Baltimore.
Baltimore. Deo. 20.?William
Firtb, of Front Royal, Ya., was found
dead this morning in his room at the
Niagara House, having been overcome
by uas. he probably blown cut the
gas la?t night, as the cock was turned
on. He had only arrived here last
night.
J E P'liiiipsi, who lives near Westmuster."
rect-miy killed five porkers,
ihirieca months eld, *?hi h weighed id
he aggregate fourteen buolred and
twenty-seven pounds. They were a
cross of Berkshire and Essex. They
were rai.-ed on Bermuda ?r>i^s, wheat
bran and cats until September, when
they were put in a pen and fel oh corn.
Tbos. B. .Tohns:or, of Sumter, has
beon appointed col ictor of c isioms a
Charleston.
t?n - g
sypmi^^H
eijn
ail else
A:!.-.nta, wB
r!!ed with^H
seemingly
A. F. Brit^H
toct-rd raalar^M
working for th^H
'end of intdidii^B
^hHDE^M
POISON bu?|
myH
rr.i^d with poison an^fl
i.ulJy came here, my^B
: s.it i could scarcely eaM
tilled with little knots^^H
sorted to without
5. C. axd it has curea^B
iorca of my mouth are
iy clear of knots and sor^H
^m
K R. Saulter, Athens, I
afflicted with
of medicines and se
to cure me. My blood, was
erar
CATARRH disea* - JWJ;' I
Blood Remc^^^H
R.. a few bottles of which
recommend it to ail who
jtny merchant or banker of Athen^H ^9
reply to any inquiries."'
Cenj. Morris, Atlaatd, Ga., writes
appetit^my
Sore Tonsils
cd and^B
| ranninff sons. Srrta bottles orHj
cv*d in*." Q
JEV.5LS' DREA3I. ? ^ y JBH
Jenks had a queer dream the other night. 1 j\ I jB H
He thought he saw a prize-fighters' ring, and \ \ IB H
' in the middle of it stood a doughty little f f
champion who met and deliberately knocked
over, one by one, a score or more of big,
burly-lcoking fellows, as they advanced to H
the attack. Giants as they were in size, the H
valiant pigmy proved more than a snatch for fl
f them. It was all so funny that Jenks woke
1 up laughing. He acc-rtunts for the dream by * -? -H
the fact that he had just come to thwconclu- i\'l 9 H
l Bion, after trying nearly every big, drastic 1 S MR
pill on the market, that Pierce's Pleasant H
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r Granules, easily "knock out" and beat all *
r the big pills hollow! They are the original \Ye fl
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t sonous Minerals. Always ask for Dr. Pierce's ir:,
. Pellets, Th ich are Little Sujrar-coated Pills, H I0H
i or Anti-bilious Granules. Oue a Dose. Oils9
i m SU HMMML |H
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