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' '1 VOL. XLVI. WINNSBORO., S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 11, 1890. NO. 43. M - mi: SWORD. IT nAS Pl.A (ED A GREAT PART. BUT IT IS DOOMEDSe. moil by Dr. Ta'mage at ihe Brooklyn ? - - - f Academy?'xnesvoruaK .^eru m wc ?The l <? and A1?h*c l>y_ Nations?The Tiiueis coming When Nation Sh 11 No More- '.'.it J.'i? Sword Against Nation. B:: .:;ly.v, X. Y., June 5.?Chaplain X. Witt Talmage last Sunday preaclied the annual sermon before the Thirteenth regiment, in the Academy of Music. The staff-officers and members of the regiment were immediately in fro*:t of the platform, and their friends thronged the gal * _ XT?i. Icnesy^-l'tie Hymn sung was mu nui" \ly c->u try. .ii? <>f ie . Sweet laud of liberty.'* The subject of * the sermon was; ikThe -Sword?Its Mission and its Doom." The text, Isaiah xxxiv. 5: My sword shall be bathed in heaven." Three hundred and fifty-one times does the Bible speak of that sharp, keen, curved, inexorable weapon, whir-h flashes udoh us from the text ?tUe sword. Sometimes the mention is applaudatory and sometimes damnatory, sometimes as drawn, sometimes as sheathed. In tlie Bible, and in much secular literature, tlio sword represents all javelins, all muskets, all carbines, all guns, all police clubs, all batele-axes, all weaponry for physical defence or attach. It would be an interesting thing to give the history of the Plough, and follow its fuirow all down through the ages, from the first crop in Chaldea to the last ; in Minnesota. It would- be interest- ' ? w/w. no if l-?Qo * lllg LO iUliU VV WC pc\u. o.o i\j uu? w. ed its way on down through the liter- ' ature of nations, from its first word * in the first book to the last word ! which some author last night wrote J as he closed his manuscript. It would ' be an interesting thing to count the J echoes of the hammer from the first " nail driven, down through all the \ mechanism of centuries to th# last J stroke in the carpenter s shop vester- * day. But in this, my annual sermon as chaplain of the Thirteenth regi- 1 ment, I propose taking up a weapon 1 that has done a work that neither .1 r>lr?w -nor mn nor hammer ever ac- * eomplished. My theme is the sword j ?its mission and its doom. The sword of the text was bathed ' in heaven; that is. it was a sword of righteousness, as another sword may * be bathed in helLand be the sword of ] cruelty and wrong. There is a great difference between the sword of ( ?Winklereid and the sword of Cataiine, , betweeiH^a^sword of Leonidas and I KrS~ the sword o^-JBcfiedict Arnold In our eftdrt to hasten the end of war, * we have hung the svjord with abuses ? and execrations, when it has had a divine mission. and when many crises \ of tlio world's history it has swung 2 for liberty and justice, civilization and righteousness and Gofl. At the very opening of the Bible, and on the east side of the Garden of Eden God placed a flaming sword to defend the tree of life. Of the officer of the law, St. Paul declares: "H^beareth not the sword in vain." Through Moses God commanded: "Put every man his sword by his side." David, in his prayer, says: "Gird thy sword A WAC5I Ono 3 Up'JJJ. LJL1J LLLigJLlj V luvou of the old battle shouts- of the Old Testament was, "The sword of the * Lord and of Gideon." Christ, in a \ great exigency said, that such a weapon was more important than a coat, 3 for He declared: "He that hath no ! sword, let him sell his garment and buy one." Again He declares: "I 1 come not to send peace, but a sword." ( Of Christ's second coming it is said: ( "Out of His mouth went a sharp, : two-edged sword. '' Thus, sometimes , figuratively, but oftener literally, the : divine mission of the sword is an- 3 nounced. ( WhaD more concentrated thing in k the world than Joshua's sword, or : | Caleb's sword, or Gideon's sword, or f David's sword, or Washington's I sword, or Marion's sword, or Lafayette's sword, or Wellington's sword, or Kosciusko's sword, or Garibaldi's sword, or hundreds of thousands of American swords that have again and again been bathed in heaven. Swords of that kind have been the best Mends ' - " " i - i_-_ i of the human race. xney nave siurn tyrannies, piied open dungeons, and ( cleaned the way for nations in their j march upward. It was better for 1 them to take the sword and be free, than lie under the oppressor's heel , and suffer. There is something worse . than death and that is life if it must j cringe and crouch before the wrong. Turn over the leaves of the world's history, and iind that there has never been a tyranny stopped or a nation , liberated except by the sword. I am not talking to you about the way { 11 ' ?1.x 1\a oliAnf flia I ' tiling's UUiJUl/ W way they have been. "What force drove back the Saracens at Tours, and kept Europe from, being overwhelmed by Mohammedanism, and, subsequently, all America given over kto Mohammedanism/ The sword of Charles Martel and his men. Who can deal enough in infinities to tell what was accomplished for the world's good by the sword of Joan of Arc? T-- 1?? < T 1aaI-o/1 riff DTlH IJLU ii-l VKZ1. JL l\J\SJBk.\* \A> V?* ? ??-? saw in the distance the battlefield of Marathon, and I asked myself what was it that, on that most tremendous day inliistury, stopped the Persian hosts, representing not only Persia, but Egypt, and Tripoli, and Afghanistan, and Beloocliistan, and Armenia: a host that had Asia under foot and proposed to put Europe under foot, and, if successful in that lmttle, would have submerged by Asiatic j fHirbarism Earopeau civilization, and, j as a consequence hi after time, I American civilization? Tiic swords of Miltiades. and Themistocles. and 1 Aristides. At the tvaving of these | swords, the 11,000 lancers of Athens j "? X A*!. _ 1 /w\ I HL on the run. dasueu ag:unsi xne iuu.000 insolent Persians. and trampled A them down or pushed them back into ft the sea. The sword of that day saved the best part of the hemisphere, a H trinity of keen steel fashing in the H two lights?the light of the setting sun of barbarism, the light of the rising sun of civilization. Hail to these three great swords bathed in [ heaven! I \Y nat put an ena to miamuub ju<jui? XVTs plan of universal conquest by which England would have been made to kneel on the steps of the Tuileries aud the Anglo-Saxon race would have been halted and all Europe paralyzed? The sword of Marlborough, at Blenheim. Time came when the Roman war eagles, whose beaks had been punched into the heart of nations, must be brought down from their eyries. All other attempts bad disgracefully failed, but the Gel-mans, the mightiest nation for brawn and brain, undertook the work, and under God succeeded. "What drove back the Roman cavalry till the horses, wounded, flung their riders and the last rider perished, and the Hercynian forest became the scene of Rome's humiliation'? The sword, the brave sword, the triumphant sword of Arminius. "While passing through France last January my nerves tingled with excitement and I rose in the car, the better to see the. battlefield of Chalons, the mounds and breastworks still visible, though nearly 500 years ago they were shovelled up. There, Attila, the heathen monster, called by himself the "scourge of God for the punishment of Christians," his life a massacre of nations, came to ignominous defeat, and he put in one great pile r\-f VtlO />0volvf tiiie VV UUUCU OOiliVULCD Ui JJJ.O VUIUUJ, and the spoils of the, cities and kingdoms lie had sacked, -and placed on top of this holocaust the women who , had accompanied him in his devastating march, ordering that the torch de put to the pile. What power broke that sword, and stayed that red scourge of cruelty that was roll- . ing over Europe? The sword of Theodoric ank Actius. 1 To come down to later ages, all intelligent Englishmen unite with all intelligent Americans in saying that , it was the best thing that the Ameri can colonies swung off from the gov- , ernment of Great Britain. It would j have been the worst absurdity of ?, 300 years if this continent should j liaye continued its loyalty to a throne , Dn the other side of the sea. !No one ] tvould propose a governor general for the United States as there is a j governor general for Canada. We j have had splended queens in our J American capitol. but we could hard iy be brought to support a queen on , the other side of the Atlantic, lovely ; md good as Victoria is. The only : ise we have for earls and lords and 1 lukes in this country is, to treat them , lvpII wVipti thev r>ass through to their i muting grounds in the Far "West, or j Evhen their fortunes have failed, roin- : iorce them by wealthy matrimonial . illiance. Imagine this nation yet a , part of' English possessions! The ] :rouble the mother country has to- ( lay with Ireland would be a para- , lisaic condition compared with the j ;rouble she would have with us. , England and the United States make 3 excellent neighbors, but the two fa?u- , lies are too large to live in the same \ louse. What a god-send that we . should "have Darted, and "Darted lone , iga! But I can think in no other ' vay in which we could have possibly ] ichieved American independence. ( jreorge the Third, the half-crazy king, vould not have let us go. Lord Nforth, his prime minister, would not : lave let us go. General Lord Corn- 1 ivallis would not let us go, although 1 liter Yorktown he was glad enough < :o have us let him go. Lexington, i md Bunker Hill, and Monmouth, ; md Trenton, and Valley Forge, - ere ] proofs positive that they were not 1 ivilling to let us go. Any committee ] 3f Americans going across the ocean 1 ;o see what could have been done J would have found no better accom- ] nodations than London Tower. The i Dnly way it could have been done was \ oy sword. Jefferson's pen could i write the Declaration of Indepen- 1 lence, but only Washington's sword ] jould have achieved it, and the other 1 swords bathed in heaven. ] So now the sword has its uses, al- i ihough it is asheathedsword. There i a -r>r\ + onnrmnrvin ~Rvr?nVlvr?_ nr ( fork, or Philadelphia, or Chicago, or f Charleston, or New Orleans, or any < American city, that could be spared. We have in all our American cities a ! ruffian population who, though they ! ire small in number, compared with ! i good population, would again and i again make rough and stormy times ? if, back of our mayors axid common i councils, and police, there were not 1 in the armories and arsenals some ; keen steel which, if brought into play, would make quick work with i mobocracy. There are in every great sommnnity unprincipled men who 1 [ike a row on a large scale, and they ] heat themselves with sour mash and ] Did rye and otherjdecoctions,enriched l ivith blue vitriol, potash, turpen- < tine, sugar of lead, sulphuric acid, : logwood, strychnine, night shade and ] :>ther precious ingredients, and take 1 down a whole glass with a resound- ] Log "Ah!'' of satisfaction. "When 1 they get that stuff in them, and the blue vitriol collides with the potash; : and the turpentine witii tne suipnu tic acid, the victims are ready for ( any thing but order and decency and good government. Again and agais, 5 in our American cities, has the neces- . sity of home guards been demonstrated. You remember, how, when the soldiers were ail away in the war in 1863?64, what conflagrations were kindled in the stroets of JNew lorK and what negroes were hung. Some of you remember the great riots in Philadelphia at fires, sometimes kindled just for tlie opportunity of uproar and despoliation. In 1849 a hiss at a theatre would have resulted in New York city, demolished had it not. been for the citizen soldiery. Because of an insult which the American actor Edwin Foirrest had received in England from the friends of Mr. Macready, the English actor, when the latter appeared in NewYork in Macbeth, the distinguished Englishman was hisfeed and mobbed, the walls of the city have been placarded with the announcement: "Shall Americans or English rule in this city?'' Street were filled with a crowd, insane with passion. The riot was read, but it only evoked louder yells i?id heavier volleys of stones, and the whole city was threatened vrith violence and assassination. But the seventh regiment, under Gen. Duryea,mach3d trough Broad^^^preceeded by mounted troops, and at the command; "Fire! Guards! Fire!" the mob scattered, and New York was saved. What would have become of Chicago, two or three years ago, when the police lay dead in the streets, had not the sharp command of military officers been given. Do not charge such scenes upon American institututions, They are as old as the Epliesian mob that howled for two hours in Paul's time about the theatre amid the ruins of which I stood last January. They were witnessed in 1675 in London, when the weavers paraded the streets and entered buildings iu J--stroy the machinery of those who, becaa^ of their new inventions, could undersell the rest. They were witnessed in 1781 at tke trial of Lord George Gordon, where there was a religious riot. Again, in 1719, when the rabble cried, "Down with the Presbyterians! Down with meeting houses!" There always have been, and alway will be. in great communities, a class of people that cannot govern themselves and which ordinary means cannot govern, and there are exigencies which nothing but the sword can meet. Aye, the militia are the very last regiments that it will be safe to disband. Arbitrament will take the place of war between nation and nation, and national armies will disband as a consequence, and the time will come? God hasten it!?when there will be no need of an American army or navy, or a Bfciss\an army or navy. But some time alter tnat,cities win nave to keep their armories and arsenals,and well-drilled malitia, beeaiise until the millennial day there will be populations with whom arbitrament will be as impossible as treaty with a cavern of hyenas or a jungle of snakes. These men who rob stores and give garroters hug, and prowl about the wharves at midnight, and rattle the dice in gambling-hells, and go armed with pistol and dirk, will refrain from disturbance of the public peace just in proportion as they realize that the militia of a city, instead of being in awkward squad, and in danger *~f shooting eacJbi other by mistake, or losing their own life by looking down into the gun-barrel to see if it is loaded, or getting their ramrod fast in their boot leg, are prompt as the sunrise, keen as the north wind, potent as a thunderbolt, and accurate, and regular, and disciplined in their movements as the planetary system. Well done, then, I say, to legislatures, and governors, and mayors, and all officials who decide upon iarger armories, and better places for drill, and more generous equipment for the militia. The sooner lt .?J ? t?% +1,^ LLie swyru CILLL fcUAClJ gV VCLSsXk. uw LJ-LX^ scabbard to stay there, the better; but until the hilt clangs against the 3ase in that final lodgment, let the sword be kept free from rust; sharp ill along the edge, and its point like i needle, and the handle polished, lot only by the chamois of the regimental servant, but by the hand of brave and patriotic officers, always ready to do their full duty. Such swords are not bathed in impetuosity, or bathed in cruelty, or - a _ ; ? oatneci 1* oppress.iu.u, vjl uaiucu m outrage, but bathed in heaven. Before I speak of the doom of the sword, let me also say that it has developed the grandest natures that she world ever saw. It has developed cottage?that sublime energy of the soul which defies the universe svhen it feels itself to be in the right, [t has developed a self-sacrifice ivhich repudiates the idea that our ife is worth more than anything else, svhen for a principle it throws that ife away, as much as to say, ''It is lot necessary that 1 live, but it s necessary that righteousness triumph. There are tens of thousands imong the Northern and Southern reterans of our civil war, who are 95 per cent, larger and mightier in soul, ihan they would have been, had they lot, during the four years of nationil agony, turned their back on home, md fortune, and at the foot sacrificed all f?r a principle. It was the sword which on the Northern side developed a Grant, a McClellen, a Eooker, a Hancock. Sherman, a Sheridan, and Admiral Farragut and Porter, and on the Southern side a Lee, a Jackson, a Hill, a Gordon and i;he Johnstons, Albert Sydney and " ' 1 -1 A 3 ? _ ? 1 C? ? jQsepn ill., ana jiamirai oemiufes, md many Federals and Confedrates whose graves in national cemetaries ire marked "unknown," yet who were just as self-sacrificing and brave 13 any of their major-generals, and wHose resting places all up and down the bank of the Androscoggin, the Hudson, the Potomac, the Mississippi and the Alabama, have recently been snowed under with white fiowsrs typical of resurrection, and strewn with red flowers commemorative of the carnage through which thev oassed, aid the blue flowers il Lustrative of the skies through which they ascended. But the sword is doomed. There is one word that needs to be written in every throne room, in every war office, in eVery navy yard, in every oational council. That word is disarmament. But no government can afford to throw its sword away until all the great governments have agreed to do the same. Through the influence of the recent convention of North and South American governments_ at Washington, and through the Peace Uonvention to oe held next July in London, and other movements in which prime ministers, and kings, and queens, and sultans, and czars shall take part, all civilized nations will come : to disarmament and if a few barbarian races, decline to quit war, then all the decent nations will send out a force of continental police to wipe out from the face of the earth the miscreants. tfut until disarmament anu consequent arbitration shall be agreed to by all the great government, any single government that dismantles its fortresses and spikes its guns and breaks its sword would simply invite its own destruction. Suppose, before such general agreement, England should throw away the sword: think you France has forgotten Waterloo? S ippose betore such general agreement Germany should threw away her sword: how long would Al sace and Lorraine stay as tney arer Suppose tiie Czar of Russia before any such general agreement should throw aw?Ky- his sword, all the eagles A and vultures and lions of European j power would gather for a piece of the j Russian bear. Suppose the United j States without any such general j agreement of disarmament, should ; throw away her sword, it would not; be long before the Narrows of our j lmrknr would be ablaze with the I bunting of foreign navies, coming here to show the folly of the "Mon-1 roe doctrine." Side by side the two movements must go- Complete armament until j all agree to disarment. At the same i command of ''halt!" all nations halt-; ing. At the same command of j "ground arms!"' all muskets thump-, ing. At the same command of j "break ranks!" all armies disbanding.: This may be nearer than you think. The standing army is the nightmare of nations. England wants to get rid of it, Germany is being eaten up 1 by it, Russia is airiest taxed to death j with it. Suppose that the millions , of men belonging to the standing. armies of world and in absoluto idle- i ness, for the most part of their lives, 1 should become producers instead of i consumers. Would not the world's prosperities improve, and the world's , morals be better? Or have you the ; the heathenish idea that war is ne- J cessary to kill off the surplus population of the earth, and that without it, the world would be so crowded there WUUJLU. SUUIl ueuu ICSCHCU scabs I even the standing room would be ex-j hausted? Ahl I think we can trust to the pneumonias, and the consumptions, and the fevers, and the Russian grippes to kill the people fast enough. Besides that, when the world gets too full God will blow up the whole concern and start another world and a better one. Besides that, war kills the people who can least be spared. It takes the pick of the nations. Those whom we could easily spare to go to the front, are in the penitentiary, and their duties detain them in that limited sphere. No; it it is the public-spirited and the valorous who go out to die. Mostly are the young men. If they were aged, . and had only .five or ten years at the ; most to live, the sacrifice would not be so i-reat. But it is those who ' have forty or fifty years to live who ' step into the jaws of battle. In our ' war Col. Ellsworth fell while yet a mere lad.. Renowned McPherson was ; only 35. Magnificent Reynolds was ' only 43. Hundreds of thousands fell between twenty and thirty years of age. I looked into the faces of the ' French and German troops as they i n i J I n _ n -j.1 went out to ngnt ax oeu.au, luia uue^ were for the most part armies of splendid boys. So in all ages war has preferred to sacrifice the young. Alexander the Great died at thirtytwo. "When war slays the young it not only takes down that which they are, but that which they might h$ve ( been. So we are glad at the Isaiahic pro- ; phecy, that the time is coming when 1 nation shall not lift up sword against nation. Indeed, both swords shall go back into the scabbard?the sword ' bathed in heaven and the sword 1 bathed in hell. In a war in Spain a soldier went on a skirmishing expedition, and, secluded in a bush, he had the opportunity of shooting a soldier of the other army, who had strolled away from his tent. He took aim and ' dropped him. Running up to the fal- 1 len man he took his knap-sack for : spoil, and a letter dropped out of it, and it turned out to be a letter signed > by his own father; in other words, he ! had shot his brother. If the brotherhood of man be a true doctrine, then ( he who shoots another man always ( oV./irt+a "hie rvcc-n lvrnf.her. What a ' OJawuo AUU v ?.** v* w? horror is war and its cruelties were ! well illustrated when the Tartars, af- ; ter sweeping through Russia and Poland, displayed with pride nine great sacks filled with the right ears 1 of the fallen, and when the corres- ; pondent of the London Times, writing of the wounded after the battle ' of Sedan, said: "Every moan that the human voice can utter rose from that heap of agony, and the cries of 1 'water! For the love of good, water! ; A doctor! A doctor!' never ceased." After war has wrought such cruelties, how glad we will be to have the Old Monster himself die. Let his dying couch be spread in some dismantled fortress, through which the stormy . winds howl. Give him for a pillow a battered shield, and let his bed be hard with the rusted bayonets of the . slain. Cover him with the coarsest blanket that picket ever wore, and let his only cup be the bleached bone of one of his war-chargers, and the last taper by his bedside expire as the 1 midnight blast sighs into his ear: * ''The candle of the wicked shall be : put out.v Tonight, against the sky of : the glorious future, I see a great blaze. . It is a foundry in full blast. The workmen have stirred the fires until the furnaces are seven times heated. The last wagon load of the world's sword's has been hauled* into the foundry, and they are tumbled into the furnace, snd" they begin to glow I and redden and melt, and in hissing and sparkling liquid they roll on down through the crevice of rock un- : til they fall into a mold shaped like ; the iron foot of a plough. Then the . ? - ? ? i i t liquid cools ofi' mto a nara metai, ; and, brought out on an anvil, it is beaten and pounded and fashioned, j stroke after stroke, until that which . was a weapon to reap harvests of men, becomes an implement turning the soil for harvest of com, the sword . having become the plowshare. ; Officers and comrades of the Thir- : teenth regiment of State militia: ' After another year of pleasant ac- 1 quaintance I hail Veto with a salutatirm nil rrwlp nr> of <?ood wishes and prayers. Honored with residence in the best city of the best land under the sun. let us dedicate ourselves anew to God and country and home! In the English conflict, called "The War of the Roses," a white rose was the badge of the house of York, and the red rose the badge of the House of Lancaster, and with these two colors they opposed each other in battle. To enlist you in the Holy War for all that is srood against ail that is wrong, I pin over your heart two badges, the one suggestive of the blood shed -> < ? ?n tor our redemption tuiu iuc uc-ucj. symbolic of a soul made white and clean, the Rose of Sharon and the Lily of the Valley. Be these henceforth our regimental symbols?Rose and Lily, Lily and Rose! ^ ALLIANCE IN POLITICS. ? Clear aud Frank Statement From President fjtaekhouse. I am in receipt oi letters from brethren in different parts of the State, asking the question, "Is it constitutional for tiie Alliance to pass resolutions for or against the action of the March convention? I did not advise against the passage of such resolutions because I held that such action was unconstitu- . tional, but I did so because I believed that such action would be hurtful : to the Alliance, and because I be- i lieved there was no absolute neces- ; sity for such action, and X have seen [ nothing in the developenients so far i ? * i ? 0 n ^ to lesson my estimate 01 tne danger, : or to show the necessity for such ac- 1 tion. ] "While there is nothing partisian in the questions submited by the far- 1 mers' movement?they refer to the 1 policy of the Democratic party in ] South Carolina?yet it may not be i denied that the discussion of these < questions -within the party had de veloped a spirit of bitterness between < the faction and-that, too, before the 1 organization of the -Alliance?such as 1 would be hurtful to if not absolutely 1 destructive of Alliance unity. This } being true, would it not be far safer i and better to form clubs for or against i the "movement'' in which to discuss 1 and advance their ideas of true Dem- i ocratic policy? I would not advise < this course in the study and discus- f sion of new questions, but I do earn- i ** H i "i- - i 1_ estiy acmse meaoaDaonmentoi sucu < action by tlie Alliance on these questions for the reason stated, and I have been pleased to see tlut Captain Tillman has advised the same course, because of his appreciation of the danger to our organization. So, too, has your State Lecturer, Bro. Elder. So again, let me adpse the abandonment of such action \>y the Alliance. If our people desire to giveorganized expression to their views on these questions, let them organize for that purpose, where none need be present who are not in sympathy with their news and purposes. In most of our Alliances_ there is more or less division of opinion on these questions ?divisions that had caused irritation of feeling before our order was organized. So, again, let me advise against such action, not becausr it is unconstutional, but because it is dangerous to the unify and success of the Alliance. E. T. Stackhouse, Pres't S. C. S. F. A. ONc OF EGYPT'S PLAGUES. , A.n Epidemic of Crawfish making Mississij) ( pi Pla.iters Miserable- ^ Farming operations in the vicinity ? of Egypt, Miss., are greatly retarded i ( \jy tiic uiu?naii? v*x\s fields and keep the surface broken and wet. They bore under ground to the depth of two or three feet, so that the hogs can not get at them, else th6y would not live to do any' damage. At the bottom of their boles they have a conspecious nesting place, where hundreds of them nest together and whence they bore to the surface in every direction. So great a, pest have they become, that a, planter of the vicinity, Mr. Adam Carlisle, conceived the idea of enlisting the aegroes to exterminate them. He offered 10 cents a hundred. The negroes took lanterns and hunted the * crawfish at night, when they would J be promenading around the mouths * of their holes. Mr. Charlisle paid * out ?30 for two nights1 catch, and 5 abandoned the plan. He thinks of ? establishing a colony of raccoons on c a o 1 o cf Dfl-nnro/f.O ? LLLO CfcO CL xaiou \4vw^/v*wwv The Choctaw Indians used to set up ? poles with crosses on them for the s convenience of the owls, which are A famous crawfish hunters, and thus \ their little crops were fairly protect- j ed; but owls are too scarce to be em- J ployed on large plantations, and the * planters are therefore debarred from * this means of protection. The craw- ' fish question is a serious one to them, " however ludicrous it may appear to * people at a distance. t i RETURNS F30M OREGON. A. Republican Representative and Lcgisla- 1 ture and Democratic Governor. Portland,' Oregon, June 3.?Returns from the State arc very incom- 3 plete. The election of Herman (Re- 1 publican) for Congres is assured. 1 Phe Governor is in doubt with the chances in favor of Pennoyer (Democrat). The Republicans elect the , remainder of the State ticket and a , majority in both branches of the ] Legislature. i . . < Without Tongue or Palate Geo. Watson, a Texas rancher, j reached New York the latter part of November with a consignment of ] polo ponies from Grason county. < They were a part of a purchase by ] Tames Gordon Bennett and Lord ] Lonedale, and were to be shipped to < England. Wat sen had cancer of the ' tongue ard went to the Charity Hos- * pital. It was decided to remove his 3 3 1: 1 tongue, lower paiace iinu. uuyuiti glands beneath the tongue. On the 1 afternoon of December 2 the opera- ] tion was performed by Drs. J. E. Kelly and Cuthbert Gillam. For j several months Watson took nourish- < oient through a silver tube inserted j in his oesophagus just below the ] right ear. He was unable to articu- i Late at all for a month following the t operation, and the first words lie ut- < tered were shouted at a troublesome * cat iu his ward in the hospital. His languge was idiomatic and emphatic. J There are no outward indications to show that Watson is tongueless and palateless. His speech is hampered a great deal, however, his articula- , tioD being defective. He will always I speak somewhat inarticulate!}-. The ; greatest loss to him is the loss ol ail ( sense of taste and smell. Swallow- 5 ing solid is a very difficult task for I him, as he has lost the power to 5 gulp .food, which the tongue gives. * "\Vatson was official interpreter for 1 Indians at Washington twelve years ! ago. He speaks or spoke, the 1 Comanche, Priste, Ute, Shosnone ! and Arapahoe lingo. H was in the j ranks of the Texas Rangers and . fought on the Confederate side dur- J ing the civil war. j OUR ELECTION LA WS | DECLARED BYTHEfJREPllBLICANS TO | BEIUNCONSTITUTIONAL A I51underinx.Synopf.itt of Provisions?Xe- ' jiroesWlio Sell Out?Miller's Election Do creed. Washington, D. C., June 3.?The j maj ority report in the case of Midler vs. Elliott from the seventh South Carolina district was submitted to the House Committee on Elections this morning. The report is somewhat sensational in that at the very beginning it declares that the entire South Carolina registration and election j laws are unconstitutional. The ba-1 sis for this declaration as stated in bhe report, is that the State law imposes a number of restrictions upon the exercise of the right of suffrage svhich are in conflict with the State Constitution. The Constitution deprives a person of the rights of su-f irage only upon conviction for inurler, felony, duelling and treason, rhe State laws prohibit the exercise )f the right of suffrage by persons ,vho were entitled to register in L881 and neglected to do so, also ;kose who moved into the State and leglected to register at the first registration and on those who sold their egistration certificates for a valuable consideration. The report says ;hata number of negroes have been iompelled by poverty while waiting ;he maturity of the cotton crop to legotitate their certificates to traders vho immediately send them to politi:al headquarters with the result that ;he negroes are permanently disranchised. After laying down this proposition the report proceeds to liscuss the, legal aspects of the elecion from the usual standpoint and ecites the fact that in certain preiincts what amounted to an educa-. ;ional test (and therefore an illegal .est) was imposed by lettering the /ailVL WV.U O. ?? i-iiVii ?T WVJ^wav-VV ;he case of each office, and that voters vere deceived by an intentional shiftng of boxes, so that the judges of ilectiou were able to throw out all ^allots cast in the wrong boxes. There vas also, says the report, evidence )f ballot box stuffing, Summing*up. t is found that, taking the position nost favorable to the sitting member, he contestant, Miller, had a majority )f 757, while, if the law Was strictly 'ollowed, his majority will reach I J irv W7:-i it; L,t-?o. vv iibuxij <ji juasuLui, ?xjj. pxtDare the minority report. Afraid ofService Pension. Washington, D. C., June 3.?After i talk yesterday beteen Senator Davis and Representative Merrill, ihairman of the two committees on Decisions, it was believed that an igreement would be finally and fornally reached to-day by the conferees m the general pension, bill. Butt vhen the House conferees came up ;his morning with the instructions >f the Republican caucus of last light to maintain the principle of service pensions, it was manifest that ? 1 i a 1. J igreement couia not uc secmcu u_uler those conditions, and the vote to eport a disagreement to the respec;ive houses was adopted. Tiie serrice pension feature was the onlj >ne of importance upon which the :onferees could not agree. Cleopatra's Ashes. Chicago, June 3.?Alexander Tagiaferro, of Alexandria, Egypt, -writes ;o the directors of the world's fair hat he is in a position to furnish hem an interesting exhibit. He has < sent the officials a photograph of a iarcopnagus wmcn ne asserts is cnai >f Cleopatra. It was recently dissovered in Caesar's Camp, near Alexindria, by archaeologists. "When the sarcophagus was opened the contents vere in ashes, with the exception, of ;he skeleton, which is still preserved.' Ur. Tagliaferro says he is prompted o negotiate with the exposition auhorities from notices which he has seen in the newspapers from; the Jnited States announcing that the Khedive of Egypt has been asked by ;he directors of the exposition for he mummy of Earoises. His price s S60,000._ "SLOYD^ ? nf ITannal Trainlni? Xow BciaS Tanght in This Country. The worn "sloyd" has been seen iD print more or less of late years in magazines as well as newspapers, sap, ;he"Boston Transcript, and always in . lonnection with the vital question oi manual training and its introduction into the public schools. It is an inglicized form of the Swedish slojd, meaning dexterity or manual skill [compare Norse word slogd, cunning, English sly.) Of late, however, the vord has been restricted in its use to Jenote a system of manual training, * ' '1 - * ^ i 4-u~ ^ 51 which me ucst .k.uu>vii i? wc ;ujailed Xaas system, adopted some ifteen years ago in Sweden. When this system was adopted at STaas it was new only as a whole. The ietails had been worked out and proved to be beneficial by different, persons at different times and in different countries, but not until then had ;hey been collected and made into a systematic whole. The material used is wood, found, by experiment, to be ihe cleanest and easiest to wopk?a nost profitable selection, as with proper tools it can be worked into any shape and form. The purpose 01 tne sioytr insirwcuou is by no means only to give general skill to the hand, but also to stimulate ind broaden the mind and to excite a iove and respect for all'honest work; it s to be looked upon as ^educational, a ;hing which will help us all and generitions to come to be more fully and jvenly developed. On the value of the various systems ;here is much dissent; but all beievers in manual training agree to tiio following principles. The work must, 1. Interest the pupil. 2. Give usesul articles as a product. 3. Promote general dexterity. 4. Develop the sense ana love or oruec ami uAu.cLu<n?. >. Encourage eleanliness and neatness. >. Take into consideration the ability md strength of the pupil. 7. Cultivate ;he esthetic sense. ' 8. Develop and strengthen the body. 9. Counteract sedentary occupations. 10. Progress methodically. 11. -Train tLe percep;ion and develop the constructive and nventive faculties. 12. Cultivate at:ention. diligence, and perseverance. These qualities the sloyd will be found ;o supply more full}' "than any other system, while it is better calculated to secure a symmetrical development ol aiad and.bodv. - * MR. PORTER AND H!S CENSUS. The Sarpervlsor Taitcs Water as to his Objectionable <Jue6*ions, Except in their Application to the Criminal Clasce*. Washington, June 1.?Robert P. Porter, superintendent of the census, * * ? ' * -1 x. lias received telegrams irom auom, one hundred supervisors stating that they were thoroughly prepared to enter upon the work of taking the census on Monday last, nnd that everything is in readiness to push the work forward with accuracy and rapidity. The telegrams were in response to a message sent out from Washington yesterday. All the supervisors heard from reported that no trouble had ? l j ?j .a?j. yet occurreuj iluu. tuuo uusaiuaouimculties were apprehended. Porter intimated very plainly this evening that so far as the "chronic diseases" questions were concerned, it was not the intention of the office to endeavor to bring to'-punishment' those who were relnctant to make answers, but as to the "mortgage*' question he held language not quite so cheering for those who have determined not to answer this part of the schedule, though the probability is strong that nothing will be done with recalcitrants in this matter. He expressed himself very earnestly, however, with regard to bringing the law to bear upon those who willfully refuse to answer any and all questions put to them by the enumerators. rni y 11 . 3 1. t inev win oe compeata xo answer, xie said, or to take the ccnscquences of their refusal. He thought there wa:j a possibility that members of the criminal classes might take advantage of the fight made against the diseases and mortage questions to refuse any information whatever to the enumerators, and he stated that this would not be tolerated under any circumstances. GKX.KAKLEWILL BE A CANDIDATE. Tlie General Defers to the Tv isheg of His Friends. t Sumter, June 3.?Your correspondent bars been credibly informed by a friend of Gen. Earle that he has decided to enter the race for gover nor. Letters and petitions - have been pouring in upon him from ail parts of the State for several weeks past, and he has at last decided to yield to their demands and enter upon the canvass of the State. Gen Earle. himself, is absent from the i /v* T city attending to ms omciai duties m Columbia and it was impossible to see him; but in a few days he mil declare lumself through the press.? Charleston "World. Sam Small Changes Again. The Rev. Sam W. Small is a man of many minds. Several years ago he joined the Episcopal church, and was confirmed at St. Philip's, Atlanta. A few months later he made his remarkable speech on the head of a barrel in the streets of Atlanta, announcing his conversion. He then connected himself with the Methodist church and loomed up as an evangelist, being in partnership with Sam Jones for a year or two. When the partnershrn dissolved. Small went it alone for a while in the evangelical work. In 188S he darted back to Atlanta and ran as an independent candidate for the State Senate. Being defeated, he ; again took np the business of a travelling evangelist, subject to nobody's direction but his own. Several months ago it was announced that he would withdraw from the Methodist Church and become an Episcopal clergyman. He undertook some missionary work in Boston in connection with the tti?: 1 m >-u ;+ V^LLU-L^JLL OJJ.U. jJUlOU^U xu vigorously for several weeks. Then he suddenly reappeared in Atlanta and proclaimed that he would be a candidate for the Legislature. His f jiends have been zealously working up his political prospects ever since and were confident of his election. He left Atlanta a few days ago and Saturday a telegram was received' from him dated Ogden, Utah, m which he stated that he had been elected president of/the Utah University of the Methodist Church and had accepted the position. This indicates that Mr. Small will renounce political ambition and the Episcopal Church, at least for the present. He is a rnrelv <?ifted m.in and is capable of success in almost any line he may choose. "What liis line will be in a few months hence it is always impossible to predict. But whatever he may do and wherever he may go, Mr. Small is sure to attract attention.? Macon Telegraph. A Murderous Deputy Marshal. Kxoxvtlle, Tens., June 3.?Reports received here last night state that Bud Lindsay, Deputy United States marshal, shot and killed Kilts, a distiller, in Campbell county. Lindsay wished a gallon of whiskey. Kilts told him he could not sell less than ten gallons under his lipense. Lindsay got mad and abused Kilts. The distiller's fourteen-year-old son thought his father in danger and threw a rock at Lindsay. Lindsay attempted to shoot Kilts, but his party took his pistols from him. They left, and when a mile away Lindsay asked for his pistols, saying he would do no harm. He got his pistols, wheeled his horse and rode back to . Kilt's house. The latter saw him coming and locked his door, but Lindsay broke it down and shot Kilts twice, killing him instantly. He then attempted to shoot the boy, but missed him and hit a little girl seri ously wounding licr. it i.s reported that Lindsay's party arrested him and gave him over to the sheriff of the county. Lindsay is a desperate character, having murdered a prominent citizen of Campbell county five years ago and escaped because of lack of evidence, claiming self-defence, and there were no witnesses. The place of,the recent lolling is twenty I live miles iroin a seiegrapn sk4t-.oii. He Removed the Flaff. "Washington, D. C., June 3.?Chairman Cooley of the Inter State Commerce Commission' noticed this afternoon that one of the clerks r of the commission was wealing a Confederate Hag in l^s buttonhole and directed Secretary Closely to remove the Hag or the clerk. Secretary Closely removed the liag. ?The Grand Army of the liepub-1 lie lias bought tlie land where the j Andersonville prison stood, and will j tum it into a pleasure park. ?m* i * j, WAR TO THE DEATH. Col. John J. Darjjan will Fight Col. Earle "to the Bitter End." Sorne years ago an acrimonious i i. ' / quarrel occurred oetween uojl- .c^ane and Col. Dargan of Sumter. Iv culminated iz a challenge from Dargan to fight. The challenge was promptly accepted, but friends interfered, the matter was left to a board of arbitration, and the difficulty adjusted. Dargan never forgave. Kecently he said that if Earle came out for Gov- 1 ernor he would do all in his power to \ 'A defeat him. The utterance seemed V so ungenerous that many admirers of V both men refused to believe it. CoL Dargan places the matter beyond dispute by the follotring letter to .the World Budget: Editor of the Budget: It is to be regretted that what I said of my opposition to CoL Earle should have gotten prematurely into print. It was said at a picnic, it is true, but in private conversicfn, and was not intended for the press. "When CoL Earle announces himself regularly as a candidate for governor, I shall conceive it to be my duty to oppose his election, and shall give to the public the grounds of my opposition. I am trying to do my part towards "i t J x securing a gooa state government, and I am not to be restrained in this work by any personal considerations whatever. I am not of those who are kfor anything to beat Tillman," but of those others who are for anything :i to advance the cause of the people in our State and National administrations. I can be depended upon to fight vigorously against both Tillman and Earle "to the bitter end;" and? against anyone else who may come out for an gag office that I consider unfit for a proper ^ discharge of its duties. . Respectfully, "?a Johx J. Dabga>\ Stateburg, S. C., May 31, 1890. HOMICIDE IN PICKENS. ' ~|| Col. John C. Griffin Stabbed to Doath b S. Stephens. Pickets, June 2.?The first murder for the town of Pickens was committed Saturday. David S. Stephens stabbed John C. Griffin in the left breast, inflicting a mortal -wound, of "Si which Griffin died two hours after . J the blow was struck. Stephens bad been employed by Griffin, to attend to his mills on Town creek, near Pickens, and lived tvith his family in -Pickens, next door to Griffin. The contract for sawing the lumber for Clemsoii college bad been awarded to Griffin and R. W. Gillespie. On May 26 Griffin removed the saw part of his mill from Pickens to Fort Hill, and had been absent all that week.. He returned a little aftei*sun % down and called at the postoffice for *>-?oil Ttroo TtToifin X 1 IP X1ICUJ.* KJ *T C4.0 Tl CUiUlllg -^\^? + him at F. M. Morris's store, near by, " ... and had been using some pretty strong language about what he was . boing to do for Griffin, if he did not gring the saw mill back. BHt no one had any idea of violence. As soon as he saw Mr. Griffin he called him, and meeting up with him he (Stephens) JJ; began to Say how he understood the-.... ?\ contract. Griffin did not agree with ^ him, and they walked on down the A street talking together until they reached the house of'Mr. Stephens. At this place a negro, who says he was near by, testified that the lie was mutually passed, and Griffin struck Stephens a blow with his ?St, when Stephens struck him back, and, as Griffin advanced again Stephens , stabbed him with a knife. Griffin then turned back up the street, crying "'Help! help! I'm murdered," and called to John P. Boggs, the nearest one to him, to come quick. Boggs, thinking he had been disembowelled, ran ard met him after he had walked about twenty-five steps, and eased him down on the street. On examination he found the wound as above described by the blood gush ing out. Drs. Williams and Earle ' -j were soon on the scene and had him carried to his house. An examination convinced them that the wound was mortal- / . M . The remains were buried yesterday afternoon with Masonic honors, at the Hagood burying ground nsrth of Pickens. < Railroad Up the Jungfrau. French engineers are planning for an attack upon that hitherto virgin peak of the Alps the Jungfrau. They propose to continue the present line of railroad from Interlakcn to Lauterbrunnen as far as Stockelberg, at the foot of the Jungfrau, and thence to mount up by a succession of slanting cable roads, forming a zig-zag, to a height of some 12,000 feet, landing nearly at4he summit of the mountain, where there will be a hotel for the ex CUlOM/UiOLO v* uu aig iv/ ixtaivo the trip by thousands daily. There will have to be five steps to "the great steaircq^o, and a separate railroad for each step, making live changes of cars necessary to reacli the sum nut. ?A vocalist in a local theatre began to sing the song, "For' goodness sake don't say I told you," a few nights ago, and was promptly hit with a rotten egg by one of the audience. "Who threw that?" he howled. "It was me." ciied a voice in the gallery, "but for goodness sake don;t say I told you." This brought down the house and the singer retired. ?Senator Stanford, who wants the government to go into the business of lending money at a low rate of interest on real estate mortgages, owes his first step to great wealth to a fire that burned his law library. while be was practicing m Wisconsin. and drove him out to California at a time when he struck a tide that led on to immense fortune. ?The Republicans of the first district nominated Hon. Thos. B. Reed for Congress by acclimation. i A T7!ocf TnrHn Cnm P:unl TO moves quickly all coins. i>unioiis and wails without pain, ?The Lottery people seem to be gaining* ground, and are very confident