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THE STORMY TASSAGE. "j DR. TALMAGE PREACHES tN THB AN- j ?/ . . ?^r- r\c i?*DCDW4IIU Ultrs I VILLHUC vr vnrtiiMnwn,. 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 ' Purgative Pel'.ets, or tiny Sugar-coated r Granules, easily "knock out" and beat all * r the big pills hollow! They are the original \Ye fl ? and only genuine Little Liver Pills. IB H 1 Beware of Imitations, which contain Foi- in the H jj?? 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 1 "Billon* Headache, Ho? - ^ Coiistina ' tiou. 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