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RELIGION FOR BUSY MEN. A LESSON DRAWN FROM DANIEL !N THE LION'S DEN. Dr. Talntaje Shows That the Moro Work You Have to Do tho More Need You Have for Christianity?God and the Ballot 2>ox. Waco, Tex., Aug. 31.?Dr. Talmage to-day delivered tlie following discourse on the text: "Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel and cast him into the den ot lions." juaniei v\ 14 Darius was king of Babylon, and the young man Daniel was so much a favorite with him that he made him prime minister, or secretary of state. But no man could gam such a high position without exciting the envy and jealousy of the people. There were demagogues in Babylon who were so appreciative of their own abilities that they were afiron ted at the elevation of this young man. Old Babylon was afraid of youug Babylon. The taller the cedar, the more apt it is to be riven by the lightning. These demagogues asked the king to make a decree that anybody that made a petition to any one except the king within thirty days should be put to death. King Darius, not suspecting any foul play, makes that decree. The demagogues have accomplished all they want, because they know that no one can keep Daniel from sending petitions before God for thirty days. So lar from being afraid. Daniel goes on with his supplications three times a day, and is found on his housetop making a prayer. He Is caught in the not. ile is condemaed to be devoured by the lions. Rough executioners of the law sieze him and hasten him to the cavern. I hear the growl of the wild beast, and I see them pawing the dust, and as they put their mouths to the ground the solid earth quakes with their be;lowing. I see their eyes roll, and I almost hear the fiery eyeballs snap in the darkness. These monsters approach Daniel. They have an appetite keen with hunger. With one stroke of their paw or oue v snatch of their teeth, they may leave him ^ dead at the bottom of the cavern. But ?^>^jYhat a strange welcome Daniel receives frotfrvthese hungry monsters. They lawn aroundtifsa^ they lick his hand, they bury his feet'in their long mane. That night he has ca^sleep with his head pillowed on the warm necks of the lamed lions. But not so well does Darius the king sleep. He loves Daniel, and hates this stratagem by which he has been condemned. All night lomj the king walks the floor. He cannot sleep-^At the least sound he starts and his flesh creeps with horror. He is impatient for the dawning of the morning. At the flrst streak of daylight Darius hastens forth to see the fate of Daniel. The heavy palace doors open and clang shut long before the people of the city waken. Darius goes to ^^^^the den of lions; he looks iu. All is i p rt stops. lie i'eels that to deliver thee ?" There comes rolling up from the deep darkness a voice which says: '*0, king! live forever. My God has sent His augel to shut the lions' mouth, that they have not hurt me." Then Daniel is brought out from the den. The demagogues are hurled iulo it, and no sooner have they struck the bottom of the den than their flesh was rent, and their bones cracked, and their blood spurted through the rifts of the rock, and as the lions make the rocks tremble with their roar, they announce to all ages that while God will defend His people, the way of the ungodly shall perish. Learn first from this subject that the greatest crime that yoa can commit in the eyes of many is the crime of success. *TI7V.k?/l r\ + ! ?<-? f hr> clmnlr? TT UUb iiUU J_/O.UAW V4VHV. C?i?? W cuvuivj wv | flung to the lions? lie got to be prime minister. They could not forgive him for that, and behold in that a touch of unsanctihed human nature as seen in all ages of the world. So long as you are pinched in poverty, so long as you are running the gauntlet between landlord and tax-gatherer, so long as you find ii | bard work to educate your" children, there are people who will say, "Poor man, I am sorry tor him; he ought to I succeed, poor man!" But after a while the tide turns in your favor. That was a prolitable investment vou made. You bought at just the ri?,rht time. Fortune becomes good humored and smiles upon you. Now you are being in some department successful, your success chills some one. Those men who used to sympathize with ycu stand along the street, and they scowl at you from under the rim of their hats. You have more money or more influence than they have, and you ought to be scowled at from under the rim of their hats. You catch a word or two as you pass them by. ''Stuck up," says one. "Got it dishonestly." savs another. '"Will soon,says a third. Every Vcorie m your new house is laid on their ^ "nearts. Your horses' hoofs went over their nerves. Every item of your success has been to them an item of discomfiture and despair. ^ Just as soon as in any respect you rise above your fellows, it you are more virtuous, if you are more wise, it you are more influential, you cast a shadow 011 the prospect of others. The road to honor and success Is within the reach of the enemy's guns. Jealousy says: "Stay , down or I'll knock yon down." "I do ^ ' not like you," said the snowllake to the snowbird. "Why don't you like me?" said the snowbird. ;*0," said the snowllake, "you are going up and I am coming down." Young merchants, young lawyers, young doctors, young mechanics, 3*oung artists, young farmers, at certain times there were those to sympathize with you. but now that you arc becoming master of your particular occupation or profession, how is it now, jaazug lawyers, young doctors, young artists, young farmers?how is it now? The greatest crime that you can commit is the crime of success. For the lack of that clement of decision of character, so eminent in Daniel. . ? i r i 1 t many men are ruineu iur uus ivunu, uuu ruined for the world to come. A great many at forty years of age are not settled in any respect, because they have not been able to make up their mind. Perhaps thev will <zo Vv est. Perhaps they will go East. Perhaps they will not. Perhaps they will go North. Perhaps they may go South. Perhaps they will not. Perhaps they may make that investment in real estate or in railroads. Perhaps they will not. They are like a steamer that should go out of Xew York harbor, starting for Glasgow, and the next day should change for Havre de Grace, and the next for Charleston, and the next for Boston, and the next for Liverpool. These men on the sea of iiiV/ uu\i liiiiiV Ing no headway. Or they are like a man who starts to build a house in the Corinthian style and changes it to Doric, and then completes it in the Ionic, and is cursed by all styles of architecture. Young man, start right and keep on. Have decision of character. Character is like the goldfinch of Touquin; it is magnificent while standing firm, but loses all its beauty in flight. IIow much decision of character in order that these young men may be Christians! Their old associates make sarcastic flings at them. They go on excursions and they do not invite them. They prophesy that he will give out. They wonder if he is not getting wings. As lie passes, they jpnmace, and wink, and chuckle, and say. Titm i neru yues u sunu. O 3'oung man! have decision of character. You cau aft'ora in this matter of religion to be laughed at. What do you care for the scolfs of these men, who are affronted because you will not go to ruin with them ? When the grave cracks open under their feet, and grim messengers push them into it, and eternity cnmr.<5 /Inwn hnr/i nnrtn lhmr snirit. aild conscience stings, and hopeless ruin lifts them up to hurl them down, will they lau<jh then ? I learn also from my subject that men may take religion into their worldly business. Daniel had enough work to do to occupy six men. All the affairs ol state were in his hands?questions of finance, questions of war, of peace, all international questions were for his settlement or adjustment. He must have had a correspondence vast beyond all computation. There is not a man in all the earth who had more to do than Daniel, the secretary of state, and yet we find him three times a day bowing before God iu prayer. There are men in our day who have not a hundredth part of Daniel's cn^apemenls. who say that they are too busy to be religious. They I have an idea somehow that religion will spoil their worldly occupation: that it will trip the accountant's pen, or dull the carpenter's saw, or confuse the lawyer's brief, or disarrange the merchant's storeshelf. They think religion is impertinent. They would like to have it very well seated beside them in church on the Sabbath, to lind the place in the psalm book, or to nudge them awake when the}* get sleepy under the didactic discourse; or they would like to leave it in the pew on Sabbath evening, as they go out closing the door, saying: ''Good night,religion; I'll be back next Sunday!" But to havs religion go right along by them all through life, to have religion looking over their shoulder when they are making a bargain, to have religion take up a bag of dishonest gold and shake it and say: uHa! ha! where did you get that?" They think that is an impertinent re ligion. They would like to have a religion to help them when they are sick, and when the shadow of death comes over them they would like to have religion as a sort ot night-key with which to open the door of heaven; but religion under other eircumstauces they take to be an impertinence. Xow, my friends, religion never robbed a man of a dollar. Other things being equal, a mason will build a better wall, a cabinet-maker will make a better chair, a plumber will make a better pipe, a lawyer will make a better plea, a merchant will sell a better bill ol goods. I say other things being equal. Of course when religion gives a- man a new iic;ui> it uuca uuo v?v 1A44JL4 ci, new head, or to intellectualize him, or to change a man's condition when his ordinary state is ail overthrow of the philosophical theory that a total vacuum is impossible; but the more letters you have to write, the more burdens you have to carry, the more miles you have to travel, the more burdens you have to lift, the more engagements you haye to meet, the more disputes you have to setjJ-' ijjgg^yie more opportunit^^fliavc of Vein?;ati&LS t ian. If you "have .^uiousnnd irons in the fire, you have a thousand more opportunities of serving God than if you had only one iron in the Ore. Who so busy as Christ? And yet who a millionth part as holy ? The busiest men the best men. All the persons conycrceu in Scripture busy at the time of their being eonverted. Matthew attending to his custom house duties; the Prodigal Son feeding swine; Lydia selling purple; Simon Peter hauling in the net from the sea; Saul spurring his horse toward Damascus, going down on his law business. Busy! busy ! Daniel with all the affairs of state weighing down upon his soul, and yet three times a day worshiping the God of heaven. Again: I learn from this subject that a man may take religion into his politics. Daniel had all the affairs of state on hand, yet a Christian, lie could not have kent his elevated position unless he had been a thorough politician; and yet all the thrusts of officials and all the danger of disgrace did not make him yield one ioto of his high-toned religious principle. lie stood before that ase, he stands before all ages, a speeimen of a Christian politician. So there have been in our day and in the days of our fathers men as eminent in the "service ot God as they have been eminent in the service of state. Such was Benjamin F. Butler, attorney-general of Xew York in the time of your fathers. Such was John McLean of I Olii/N woe f-lnnrrrn l^rirrori r>f \Tn<S sachusetts. Such was Theodore Frelinghuysen ot New Jersey. Men faithful to the state, at the same time faithful to God. It is absurd to expect that men who have been immersed in political wickedness for thirty or forty years shall come to reformation; and our hope is in the_ youug- it*"il <u"c iipj ciThL they have patriotic principle and Christian principle side by side when they come to the ballot-box and cast their first vote, and that "'they swear allegiance to the government of lieaveu as well as to the government of the United States. We would liavc uunker iiin mean less to them thau Calvarv, and Lexingtonjnean less to them than Bethlehem. But because there are bad men around the ballot box is no reason why Christian men should retreat from the arena. The last time you ought to give up your child or forsake your child is when it is surrounded by a company of Choctaws; and the last time to surrender the ballot-box is when it is surrounded by impurity and dishonesty and all sorts of wickedness. Darnel stood on the most unpopular platform. lie stood lirmly, though the demagogues of the day hissed at him and tried to overthrow him. We must carry our religion into our politics. But there are a great many men who are in favor of takinir religion iuto national politics who do not sec the Importance of taking it into city politics; as though a man were intelligent about the welfare of his neighborhood, and had no conccrn about his own home. Religion would drive out all base personalities from politics. You have a right to discuss men's politics and denounce their political sentiments, or receive them, as you will; but you have no right to ussail their private character, as is done every autumn. That is not carrying religion into politics. Xow you can always tell without askinar. in any ... .1 " "K.7^4.^ T ...Til cuuLesi, >> iiiio vjuiiuiuau; jl win vuic iuu It is always for the man who is most bodgered, and most abused, and most spit upon, and most howled at. You have a right to contest a mau's political sentiments; you have no right for base political purposes to assail his private moral character. My subject also impresses me with the fact that lions cannot hurt a good man. Xo man ever got into worse company than Daniel got into when he was thrown into the den. What a rare morsel that fair young man would have been for the hungry monsters! If they had plunged at him he could not have climb ed'into a niche beyond the reach of their paw or the snatch of their tooth. They came pleased all around about him; as a hunter's hounds at the well-known whistle come bounding to his feet. You need not go to Jfumidia to get amoD?r lions. You all have had them -*s J 4 after you?the lion of financial distress, the lion of sickness, the lion of persecution. You saw that lion of financial 1 panic putting his inouth down to the earth; and he roared until all the hanks and all the insurance companies quaked. f With his nostrils he scattered the ashes ' on the domestic hearth. You haye had trial after trial, misfortune alter misfor- 1 tune, lion after lion; and yet they never i r.nj- vAiir trnsf ?n c ilttVt; 11U1 O J VW ii J j vm* w* w v God, and they never will hurt you. They i did not hurt Daniel and they cannot hurt you. The Persians used to think that spring ' rain failing into sea-shells would turn j into pearls: and 1 have to tell you that . the tears of sorrow turn into precious ' gems when they drop into God's bottle. , You need be afraid of nothing, putting < your trust in God. Even death, that j monster lion whose den is the world's j sepulchre, and who puts his paws down ; am:d thousands of millions of the dep.d, cannot affright you. i When In olden times a man was to get 1 the honors of knighthood, he was com- 1 pelled to go fully armed the niirht be- ' fore, amon^ the tombs of the dead, car- ' rying a sort of spear, and then when the i * dav broke he would come forth, and, | j amid the sound of cornet and great par- 1 ade, he would get the honors of knighthood. And so it will be with the Christian in the night before heaven, as fully armed with spear and helmet of salvation, he will wait and watch through the darkness until the morning dawns, and then lie will take the honors of heaven amid that great throng with snowy robes, streaming over seas of sapphire. Fifty Thousand Dollars Burnt Up. HiAVATiiA,Kas., Sept. 3.?The worst lire ever known in this city broke out at 1 -s. Wlflinfn TT AT JL V LlliO MJV/1 JAA u tliuuil J neur's livery stable and in less than three . hours It had distroycd two and a half j blocks in the business ccntre of the city, ] causing a ioss of at least $150,000. < The greatest loss was the First Xa- < tional IBank building, owned by Con- 1 gressmau Merrill. The vault, contain- i ing $50,000 in currency and manyvalua- ' ble books and papers, gave way under the 1 intense heat and its contents were 5 entirely destroyed. j For over two hours a furious wind from the North drove the lire South- , ward, but about 3 o'clock the wind died . down. There is only one lire engine in < the city, and should the wind rise again ( the whole of the business portion of the city will be wiped out. At 3 a. m. the i lire was still raging. The lire engine 1 * " ii . .1: , nan a sman stream on me uuuiuugs v near the Hatch block, but it is doubttul : if this block can de saved. J The destruction so far includes the First National 13auk building, the Odd Fellows' building and two of the best livery stables in the city. Three Women Uuriied to JDeath. Philadelphia, Sept. 3.?By the explosion of a coal oil lamp early this morning at 1045 Gcrmantown avenue, the house was set on fire aud Mrs. Sarah Mclntyre, GO years old,Mamie Mclntyre, 10 years old, and Annie Louge, 17 years old, were burned to death. The two ?irls were the daughter and niece ofth^U elder woman. Mrs. ^Iclnjj^ftr^lmd reached the street out when she found thathei\J>hece and daughter were missin<r>2TIedarted back in to" the build'Ing after them. When the llamcs were subdued all three bodies were found ly j. it rr<l.? UliJ LUi^UUiLU. XliU WVU3U XiUV-1 u. of other inmates but they all escaped without serious harm. The lire is supposed to have been caused by Mrs. Mclntyre's grandson, who came home drunk and upset the lamp in his bedroom. lie got out of the house safety and is now uuuer arrest. Wreck of a Cattle Train. Baltimore, August 31.? A special dispatch to the Sun from Oakland, Md., says that at Snow Creek curve, seven miles west of Oakland, on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, this aternoon, an east-bound freight train of twenty-four cars, filled with cattle, was being rushed through at a high rate of speed with two powerful engines, one in front and the other in the rear, when the front engine jumped the track and seventeen cars were wrecked and the cattle were scattered in every direction. The drovers and train Hands escaped injury, cxeepi uic nremaa of the front engine. He was killed instantly. The Chicago express, west bound, which arrived at Oakland about G o'clock, was delayed by the wreck. The passengers were provided for at the company's Oakland Hotel. Tlio EHect of the Conger Bill. Montgomery, Ala., Sept. 4.?Mr. Henry C. Butcher of Philadelphia, the president of the Southern Cotton Seed Oil Company, passed through the city last night on his way to Xew Orleans. In a conversation on the Conger lard bill, which has just passed the House of Representatives, Mr. Butcher said: '"The passage of the Conger lard bill by the House of Representatives has placed the cotton seed oil industry of the South at a great disadvantage, and t'.ie situation in this industry is now very em- , barrassing and the manufacturers of oot vUII ?>CUU UII illC Oil ill' ,at X 1H5 11 clUt; IO -eorapictely deniBElized. There is now absolutelyno dei^fcd for oil, with a large stock on hand at Mnc aud abroad." Swung From a Bridge. St. Louis. Sept. 3.?The Republic's Poplar Blull" special says: An alterca tion yesterday between Mr. Albright, proprietor of the Gilibrd house, and Thomas Smith, a negro, ended in Smith throwing a rock at Albright and his skull was fractured. Tnis morning Smith's body was found hanging to the bridge across Black river riddled with bullets. After the trouble of yesterday Smith was arrested and placed in jail. At 9: 30 this morning a masked mob broke down the outer doors of the jail, battered the steel door to the prisoner's cage in and in spite of the man's plea for mercy took him across the river and lynched him. Miss Simpson's Long Sleep. Monctox.X. I>., Sept. 4.?Etta Simpson, aged seventeen years, went to sleep a week ago yesterday and lias not yet awakened or taken any nourishment. Miss Simpson has for some months had a mania for eating brown paper, and would consume a large bag such as used in grocery stores at a single meal. She has eaten scores of brown paper bags and it is supposed this mania has something to do with her illness. About a year ago she slept for five days, but was awakened while being bled by her medical attendant. Lynched for the Usual Crime _\e\v urleaxs, septemoer *.? Water Valley, Miss., special says that last night a negro named Rogers decoyed Mrs. Samuel Murray from her home on pretence of helping to rescue her husband from roughs, whom Rogers said were illtreating him in a lonely part of the town. He assaulted Iter, bruising her badly. The negro was arrested later, but was taken from custoy and hanged to a tree. Mr. and Mrs. Murray are from Iowa and have lived here two years. A Drucsrist's Fatal Error. Memphis, Tkxx., Aug. 28.?A Knoxville, Tennessee, special says: Tnlin t.lio pl<?vf?n vpnr old soil of Stale Superintendent of Public Instruction 1\ M. Smith, and a boy named Hutchins, died yesterday form a dose of morphine. Three other children of Smith who had fortunately taken another dose were made sick by the same drug which was administered for cold in mistake for quinine. The mistake was made by a druggist in filling the bottle. s - ?^ A DARING TRAiN ROBBERY. [low One Man Held up a Train and Kobbed the Express. Louisville, Sept. 2.?The Louisville md Xashville northbound train was leld up by masked robbers half a mile V? r\r P/jncj^Alo Tnnr*Hrm oorlr thic 1VJL Cll Ui JL 'j uiivuivu VUliJ tiu j norning. The safe was taken from the jxpress car, but the extent of the robjery is not known. The Courier Journal has this from Mobile, Ala.: "The Louisville and Nashville cannon ball train, northfound. was held up near Pensacola Junction, forty miles above Mobile, by robbers, who entered the express car md compelled the messenger to turn yv*er the contents of his safe. It is lot known at this time the extent of ;he robbery. After securing the valuibles the robbers escaped to the woods. "The first news of the robbery received in Mobile by the railway oficials was very meagre. The train V*ol 1 nr? oKrviif" ?> hoT-F milo oKnira k* <V3 aciu uy <wuuu ?.* uua m 1.1 is <4i^vr ? V/ ;he junction, and people there knew i*ery little of what had happened, for ;he train was delayed a few minutes >nly and there was not much chance of earning what had occurred. "Engineer Eol> Sizer says that he was pulling out of Flomaton, and just ys ;he train, which is a through express from New Orleans, got under way, he ;urned around and saw a man standing aear him. lief ore he could ask a (iues:ion or look twice two big revolvers ivere in his face. lie was told to run lis train up to Escambia river bridge, some miles distant, and stop on the jridge. There was nothing left for ijm to do but obey, and he did so. "There the train stopped on the bridge. The engineer was told to get 3iX his engine and he did so. Then the robber directed Sizer to go to the express car and force an entrance. The robber putting a heavy mallet in his land, Sizer did as directed, and burst Dpen the car doors. Express Messenger Archie Johnson was standing in lis car, with pistol in hand, but seeing Sizer, lowered it. The next minute he ivas covered and told to lay down his jun, and he obeyed. Then the robber, standing in the car door, compelled the messenger to open the safe and hand li in the money. "While this was going on, the fellow ivas standing in the door coolly looking it his victim and firing first to one side Df the train and then to the other to jverawe the passengers and train crew. When he got the money, the robber told jizer to loiiow mm. xne man saowea .he way to the engine, bade Sizer pull )ut, and with a parting shot and with ^ells dashed oil in the bushes and was ost to sight. "A posse has left Flomaton and another has lei't Mobile in pursuit of the robbers. "Some surprise is expressed here that :he robbers selected this particular ;rain, as it is well known that other ;rains carry most of the express money. No. G, the robbed train, carrying very ittle at any time and a small amount m this occasion. "It is said Rube Burrows was recent; i_ y seen in Florida and there is a ->^ssiJility that l^ord&ifc&'uieassemblingof lisgjui^JCTlomaton and joined them ?lere to superintend the proper conduct of the affair, but this robbery looks more like the work of the celebrated Gapt. Bunch." A MOVEMENT AGAINST COTTON Itmnorsjof <i Combine in Eusrlanel to Force .. i)ecline. Atlanta, Ga., September 4.?It is announced that instructions have been si:nt by English manufacturers to their agents in this country to buy no more cotton at the :ruling prices, or no more than is required for immediate consumption by the mills. Many of the New England mills have also agreed to curtail their takings for the present The object of both is to force a decline of the staple. They are calculating on a very large crop in the United States and fair crops in other cottonraising countries, and that the "supply will soon be greater than the demand at present prices. The British estimates of the crop of the United States largely exceed seven million bales. Even if it should reach this amount, coming in as it does upon a comparatively short stock of the old crop, there is good reason to believe that the increased demand for the world's consumption will keep pace with it, as it has done of late years. But the manufacturers, by concert, have the power to force a decline, unless money is furnished in plenty to buy the crop. A week or two ago it locked hs if the monetary centres would be strained to furnish money to move the crops this fall. But the commercial reports and the statement of the associated banks for last week encourage the hope mat, tne stringency in uie money market is slackening. The banks gained in their reserves for the first time in several weeks, and the commercial reports show increasing trade and more confidence in business circles. The suppression of State banks of issue destroys the elasticity of the currencey of the South, which formerly helped materially to sustain the price of cotton. JUncter- t!is old -State"" 'bank" system; the banks, though restricted by law in the proportion of their paper issues to their coin on hand, often had out five or "six dollars in paper to one m coin m the cotton season, oecause they had the cotton as security for their issues?a security as good and safe as gold. But this elasticity has been destroyed by the financial policy of the Federal government, and it is "clearly a duty which that government owes to so large a number of its producing people as the cotton planters, to aid by all means in its power in providing a circulating medium sufficient to protect so great an interest from a stringency in the money market and adverse combinations by buyers.?Atlanta Journal Surprising Testimony. Many physicians who have examined into the merits ci' B. 13. B. (Botanic Blood Balm), have been confronted with testimony which they deemed sur prising, ana tnus oeing convinceu ui its wonderful efficacy, have not failed to prescribe it in their practice as occasion required. II. L. Cassidy, Kennesaw, Ga., writes; ''For two years my wife was a great sufferer. Skillful physicians did her no good. Her mouth was one solid trlner, her body was broken out in sores, and she lost a" beautiful head of hair. Three bottles of 15.33. B. cured her completely, incredible as it may sound, and she is" now the mother of a healthy three months old baby clear from any scrofulous taint." A. II. Morris, Pine Bluff, Ark., writes: 'Hot Springs and several doctors failed to cure me of several running ulcers on my leg, B. B. B. effected a wonderfully quick cure after everything else had failed." Strayed Off and Died. Haleigii, X. C.. August 30.?F. L. iiond. a weu-Ktiown. citizen 01 j.arDoro, left iiis bed and house on Thursday night undressed, and not. returning an unavailing search was made for him. Iiis mind was thought to be unsettled. His body was found in Tar River,twenty miles below Tarboro, yesterday. An Awful Crime. The Birmingham Evening Xews says that M. P. Smith, formerly of Birmingham, but until recently an employee of the Louisville and Nashville shops at Pecatur, is in jail at the latter place on a serious charge. It is r.Ueged that he 4/^ l*ic? tt'ifr* Kx? fluvuvinrr UlUU UlUitu UiO ?? J1V Ijj nuv'MUg into a pond, in order to get $5,000 insurauce 011 her life. Nineteen Persons Drowne'l. Vienna, Sept. 3.?Nineteen persons have been drowned in the llood at Prague. The waters are rising everywhere. ~\ \ ' "1 I I I I I Decapitated !>y a Locomotive. A horrible accident occurred yesterday evening at the South Carolina Railway wharf. Frank Beard, a young switchman. was decapitated and his body terrible mangled by falling under a switch engine. Death was, of course, instantaneous. The young man had ocen engaged during the afternoon in arranging switches for the numerous trains which went from the main line to the wharf. The switch engine was just beyond the Northestcrn Railroad crossiug, coming into the city, when the unfortunate accident occurred. Beard had opened the switch, and as is usual, but very unsafe, wanted to get on the engine and ride to the next switch. In the attempt to get on the rear end of the engine, which was at the time moveing backward, he missed his hold and :i 3 it. ^ ^ 4 ieu on me run, uuu me unique wcul crashing over his body. The engine could not be stopped in time to prevent the accident. As soon as it was possible the engineer and conductor hurried to Beard to give whatever assistance was possible, but life was extinct and help useless. The head was lying beside the mangled mass of flesh, aud an arm had been severed from the body. * The accident occurred about 7:45 p. m. and the only witnesses were Couciuctor E. B. Brown, Engineer Ilenry Kirchner and a colored fireman. The youug man, who by his indisc reton lost his life, was a native Charlestonian, and was about 24 years of age. He had always been recognized as a trusty man.?News and Courier. Senator Hampton's Position. The Sun lias received the following letter from Senator Hampton of South Carolina.: Washington. Sep. 1, 1890.?To the Baltimore Suu: In a dispatch of yesterdayjform this place one of your correspondents has placed a construction on a few remarks made to him by myself which is utterly erroneous. I did say, with no idea, however, that I was being interviewed, that the recent meeting in Columbia was merely a conference, with no power to make any compromise, and that the t*vo factions in the Stat? had nntcnmp t.nrrefiher. T ovnressed mv fear that a conflict of authority might occur when the regular convention met, but I said not one word which could possibly justify your correspondent in saying or supposing that I entertained the slightest idea of entering upon a contest for re-election to the Senate. That matter is in the hands of the people of South Carolina, and they must settle it without any advice or suggestion from myself. I have never asked for an office, and I certainly shall not do so now. So that ouestion mves me no nossible concern. Respectfully, yours, Wade Hampton. A Tils Failure in New York. New York, September 4.?Sawyer, Wallace & Co., exporters of breadstuff's and cotton and dealers in leaf tobacco, at 18 Broadway, made a general assignment toclaytu&^itti. ferences. The assignment was filed short ly before the closing of the county clerk'; ofiice, and the news when it reachei the street created a great sensation. Th causc is the losses the firm have sustain ed in their foreign option buisness. Tin firm has branches in nineteen or twen tv European cities. In a pork deal last January the iirn is said to have sustained losses of $1,000. 000. Claims for these losses agains European speculators are among th nominal assets. It is estimated that tin sum total of the nominal assets will read $1,175,000, among which arc includa $1,000,000 lost in the pork deal. I is believed tliat tney nave protected men interests in this country, and that the! chief losses, which may reach $1,500, 000, will be in London, and mainly 01 their pork dealings. liut their buisnes has many ramifications. Killed Himself with Laudanum. Blacksburg, S. C., Sept. 3.?Oi Tuesday morning a young man name< M. E. Lanning, who has been acting a: agent lor some washing machine, wa: found in his bed. by D. M. Williams proprietor of the boarding h;use at whicl he was stopping, in an unconscious state On inquiry, it was found that lie ha< pawned his hat for ten cents and had pur chased that amount of laudanum fron Dr. Fewell's drugstore. The suppositioi is that he took the laudanum for the purpose of ending his life, as a bottl< supposed to be the one purchased iron the drug store was found uear his win dow empty. It seems that he had takei the laudanum and thrown the bottle ou of the window for the purpose of hidim his crime. He received kind attentioi from the peaple of the town and fron ihe physicians, but to no eftect. H< died Tuesday night about 11 o'clock. Hi was from Buncombe County, X. C. Texas JLvwns at war. Waco, Tex., Sept. 4.?The town o Marlin still maintains an attitude o rebellion against the authority of Gov sfscs-jtoss and has reiused to- nbofei the quarantine placed against Waco. A lawyer of this city, who was em ployed to secure an injunction in i cause involving half a milliou, wai forcibly thrust upon the cars and drivei off, and the corporation against whicl the injunction was brought gained ai important advantage. He has filed : suit against the authorities of Marlii for half a million dollars damage. The commerce ot \\ aco is suffering am o? AP flm nnifonfmo lUlliUK- V" a^UU"" Vjuaiu^mv, the cotton trade being directed away Governor Ross says that he will breal the quarantine, and Texas rangers an now within fiye hours' ride of the town It is feared that there will be a collisioi between them and the people. Epidemic of Fleas. Heading, Pa., Sept. 4.?An epi dcmic of fleas has struck Heading, and fo: the past week the lives of citizens hav< been made miserable by the little pests The situation is particularily aggravate* in the suburbs of the city, where the opei lots and outlying fields infested by weed: are thought to furnish conditions especial ly lavorable to the increase of the insects There is scarcely a house-hold here, whether pretentious or lowly, intowhicl the llcas have uot penetrated. Th< druggist of the city repots a tremendous increase iu their sales of flea and insec: powders, and house-keepers are devoting themselves assiduously to the extermiua tion of the insects. A Prairie on Fire. Dickenson, X. D., September 4.A widespread and destructive prairie fin ravaged hundreds of thousands of acre: along the Little Missouri River. Two oi three days ago, about forty miles fron the main line of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the great range of the H, T Cattle Co. was swept cicar. The fire was put out by means of horses which were killed for the purpose. usin?; them as drags to extinguish the llames. The horses were split up the back and theii carcasses dragged over the country bj long ropes. Twelve hundred hea(l ol horses were stampeded to the foui winds. A Frightful Fall. Xew York, Sept. 4.?The fall o William Han Ion. the acrobat, seems as nothing in comparison with that o George Ilolloway, of Xew Albany, Ind iAU was bum UJ l/UC tu^> VI iai5b uiivy> chimney, 95 feet high, at the glass works to tear down the structure. Hardly hac he reached the top wren he slipped anc fell into the stack",ricocheting fron side to side struck th> bottom almos without a scratch. lie was atworkagaii in an hour. SHE TRIED TO KILL HIM. Barrundia's Daughter Shoots at Minister Mizner. City of G uatemala, September 3.? A daughter of General Martin Barrun dia. who was shot tc death in the cabin r>f lhf> \T:ii! sf??am?shin at San Jose de Guatemala last week, attempted to shoot United States Minister Mizner to-day. Mr. Mizner was at his desk translating the guarantee given to him by this government that Barrundia's life would be spared in case he was surrendered when the young woman came into the ofiice. As the Minister looked up from his work she was standing within four feet of him with a revolver in her hand. She saluted him saying: "Are you the American Minister?" Mr. Mizner replied: "I am. Can I be of any service to you?" With flashing: eyes she accused him of having been directly the cause of her father's death and announced that she meant to kill him. Mr. Mizner took the matter coolly and tried to reason with the girl, who was apparently almost crazed with excitement, and in the most tragic manner poured on him the bitterest invective of which the Spanish language is capable. At last she pulled the trigger of the pistol. Mr. Mizner had taken up a heavy law book, which he, with apparent carelessness, held between himself and the girl, and the bullet which was meant for his heart was caught in the leaves of the bock. The sound of the shot attracted attention and before a second shot could be fired assistance arrived, and the pistol was taken from the young woman. Throughout the entire exciting interview Mr. Mizner maintained the utmost coolness, though the only thing between him and the muzzle of a pistol held in the hands of a woman who evidently intended to shoot was a heavy law book. His coolness unquestionably saved his life. Policemen were called in and the young woman was arrested. She proved to be Christina Barrundia, a daughter of the murdered general. As soon as President Harillas heard of the occurrence he sent his respects and offered the power of bis government to protect the American legation. Mr. Mizner, however, declined the offer. will not prosecute the lady and insists that no further notice shall be taken of the affair. It is generally believed here that Barrundia would have been in no danger of death had he not resisted arrest. ? That "Tired Feeling." The newspapers are having a good deal of l'un nowadays over that "tired feeling," so much spoken of in medical ; advertisements, in connection with the ill-heaith of females. It may be a source of hilarity to witty paragraphers, but not so to suffering women, who, by overwork, and a disregarcL-ftM the laws of health, have^i-^psed into a condition bordeti?rg^on invalidism. JjWfed of some of the slavish work that - is piled on them, and a free, but judici ous use of strengthening1 tonics, such 5 as P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke Root and j Potassium,) the greatest blood purifier e and invigorator in use. Superb as a builder up of women, bringing back lost energy to the body, and color to faded cheeks, restoring the appetite, and thus renewing in her that healthy vitality long lost.. P. P. P. cures all 1 blood disease, such as Piheumatism, - Syphilis, Gout, Scrofula, and all ulcert ous affections, even vanquishing that e melancholy enemy of man, Dyspepsia, e All druggists sell it. , Killed by an Electric "Wire. t Wheeling, W- Va, August 30.? . At 7 o'clock this evening a colored man L named Joe Solomon employed in the Wheeling Terminal Railway Company's J j tunnel, now in course of construction, stepped on a wire which supplied the current to the arc electric lights used in the tunnel headings and was instantly killed. An Italian, who is known only i by his contract number, stepped on the i same wire just as Solomon fell and was s also instantly killed. Two other men s were shocked in drawing the corpses , from the wire. Both men wore thicki soled leather boots, and neither body . was burned or mangled in any way. .1 In a Mexican Dungeon. ~ Pittsburg, Pa., August 31.?anA rv>r*r??/"?o nclrQ fJhl* fllf] of UtilUi IXUAV/JLl^UU iw??v w*v v. , this government. Charles T. Rainey, a [ former Pittsburger, is illegally restrained ' of his liberty in Torrada, State of Chiapas, Mexico. He is a civil engineer, em" ployed in running the line of the Mext ican Pacific Railway in Southwest MexT ico. Some months ago. early in the * year, during a dispute with some of the Mexicans employed on the road,he, in s self defense, drew a revolver and threat* * tened to use it. He was at once set " upon by the crowd and the officials of the town called in. He was arrested without warrant of law and thrust into f jail, where he has since been in solitary f confinement. _ ^ B uIJLd.ojs i n from Hazard, ivy., wnere uourc is in session under the protection of troops dated * August 25. says: Tweoty-thee men en* gaged in the French-Eversole feud have been indicted for murder and accessories, 1 and many of them have been arrested. 1 The grand jury were reluctant to brine 1 in indictments, but were called up in 1 Court by the prosecuting attorney, who told them they must do their duty, or 3 he would discharge them and call another ' jury.- Judge Lilley added to this state; ment that if they sought to protect lawv hrenkp.i-s. he would refuse to si<m their e warrants for pay. 1 Pianos and Organs. X. W. Trump, 134 Main Street, Columbia, S. 0., sells Pianos and Organs, direct from factory. Xo agents' cotn missions. The celebrated ' liickering r Piano. Mathushek Piano, celebrated 3 for its clearness of tone, lightness of . touch and lasting qualities. Mason & .1 Hamlin Upright Piano. Sterling Upi right Pianos, from $22 up. Arion Pia> nns from *200 ud. Mason & Hamlin _ Organs, surpassed by none. Sterling Organs, 850 up. Every Instrument * guaranteed for six years. Fifteen days' ' trial, expenses both ways, if not satis1 factory. Sold on Instalments. 5 The "Work of Incendiaries. t Iowa City, Sept. 1.?Fire last night r almost totally distroyed the town of Ox. ford, West of this city. Nearly all the business part and many private residences were burned. The postotlice. bank, and many other public buildings - were destroyed. The fire was doubtless 5 of incendiary origin. The fire bell rope 5 was cut. The loss is estimated at from , $25,000 to 650,000. J Scrofula cured, even in its worst ; forms, by P. P. P., and you will be strong and healthy in a short time by > the use of P. P. P. J Spring medicine is now wanted, for, | if you are out of sorts and feel badly, P. \ P. P. is the remedy to take and get l" strong and invigorated. f The Mother's Friend, used a few r weeks before confinement, lessens the pain and makes labor quick and comparatively easy. f ~?r_~ " ~ ~ ~ f flg&gRJj HAIR "0A LSA Krl arid ucnatifltrs the h:iir. ' gsSgKC^j*' ^^gl'nciiol.? (i luxuriant growth. C pS^S^^_v^ffiWcver Tails to Ryttors Gray Hsip io Its Youthful Color. > ^2SfiQ| Cares sca'.pd:?<:;u<<.-3 & hair falling J Efl7?j5t&?^ yV 5r-c- s.nd $l.oJ at Drugtrista. % | DETECTIVES . Hinted io crery County. Shrewd men to trt coder uutrartl?M 1 jjour S?ertt S?rriee. Kipericnee not noceiury- Particular! fr?e. finuinanlteteetlTe Bureau Co. ttirttdCjCisciaa^QL I / PADGETT PAYS THS FREIGHT, A Great Oefer that may not Again* be Repeated, so do not delay, "Strike While the Iron is Hot." Write for Catalogue now, and say what paper you saw this advertisement in. Remember that I sell everything that goes to furnishing a home?manufacturing some things and buying others in the largest possible lots, which enables me to wipe out all competition. HERE ARE A FEW OF MY STARTLING BARGAINS. A No. 7 Flat top Cooking Stove, full size, 15x17 inch oven, fitted with 21 pieces of ware, delivered at your own depot, all freight charges pa'id by me, for only Twelve Dollars. Again. 1 will sell you a 5 hole Cooking Range 13x13 inch oten, 18x26 inch top, fitted with 21 pieces of ware, for THIRTEEN DOLLARS, and pay the freight to your depot. DO NOT FAT TWO PRICES FOR TOUR GOODS. I will send you a nice plush Parlor suit, walnut frame either in combination or banded, the most stylish colors, for 933.50 to your railroad station, freight all paid. I will also sell you a nice Bedroom suit consisting of Bureau with glass, 1 high head Bedstead, l Washstand, 1 Centre table, 4 cane seat chairs, 1 cane seat and back rocker, all for ?16.50, and pay freight to your depot V/I JL Will OC11U. JVU, CfciJ. ^U.ivv?i4 suit with large glass, full marble top, for $30, and pay freight. Nice window shade on spring roller ? 40 Elegant large walnut 8 day clock, 4.00 Walnut lounge, 7.00 Lace curtains per window, 1.00 I cannot describe everything in a small advertisement, but have an immense store containing 22,600 feet of floor room, with ware houses and factory buildings in other parts of Augusta, making in all the largest business of this kind unaer one management in the Southern States. These stores and warehouses are crowded with the choicest productions of the best factories. My catalogue containing illustrations of goods will be mailed if you will kindly say where you saw this advertisement. I pay fvoirrVif Adr?rp<5<5 L.F.* PADGETT, Proprietor Padgett's Furniture, Stove and Carpet Store, 1110-1112 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA. i ajsb j FOR TIRED I 1MfeN AND WOMAN. I > I III {2 V. r. P. will purify and vitalize your K S blood, create a good appetite and give your B p whole system tone aai strength. S A prominent railroad euperintendent at I tci Savannah, suffering with \ialaria, Dyipep- H ii sia, and Rheumatism sa;' "? ?*? t:?ing I AJ P. P. P. he never felt so well in his life, and B 8 feels as If he could live forever, if he could B ? always get P. gClose coH % If you VI X and out p. p. p. I IS If your digestive org&ns need toning op, a ? take ' P" P- P- I If you suffer with headache, indigestion, R debility and weakness, take P. P. P. I If you suffer with rervous proetration, S nerves unatrung and a general let down h of the system, take P. P. P. I I For Blood Poison. Rheumatism, Scrof- ? ula, Old Sores. Malaria, Chronic Female ? Complaints, take ? P. P. P. I Prickly Ash, Poke Root | and Potassium. The beat blood purifier in the world. LHT2IA>" EROS. Wholesale Druggists, ? 3 Solu Proprietors, | S Ltpphax's Block, Savannah, Ga. TALBOTT SON'S ENGINES BOILERS. SAW MILLS AND GRIST MILLS Are acknowledged to be the best ever sold in this State. When you buy one of them you are satisfied that you have made no mistake. Write for our prices, Cotton Gins and Cotton Presses BOTTOM FIGURES. I cau save you money. V. C. Badham, &en.Agt, COLUMBIA, S, C. STHome olBce and Factory, RICHMOND, TA. DEPOSIT YOUR SURPLUS MOSEY IN THE COMMERCIAL BANK, OP COLUMBIA, S. C. One dollar and upwards received. Interest at tlie rate of 4 per cent, per annum, paid quarterly, on the first days of February, May, August and November. Married women and minors can keep account in their own name. Higher rates of interest allowed by special arrangement. 0. J. IREDELL, President J no. S. Leaphabt, J ames Iredell. Vice-President. (Jashier. DR. GROSVEXOR'S IIEI.L-CAP-SIC PLASTERS. ' ^ it* Are me oest rorous nasiers iu me r* unu. Tliey aro the best plasters in every way for the quick relief of LAME BACK PAIN IN THE GHEST, RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA. Unlike all other plasters, these are Purely Vegetable and Harmless. Believe instantly and never fail to cure. SAFE, QUICK and SURE. Sold by druggists or mailed on receipt of 25c. by Grosvexor & Richards, Boston, Mass. J^RE Y?U QOVSUMPTIVE. Have you Cough, Bronchitic, Asthma, Indigestion? Use Parker's Ginger TonicIt has cured the worst cases and is the best remedy for all ills arising from)defectivenu trition. Take iu time. 50 cents and ?1. HI\I)ERCOR>S, The only sure cure fur Corns. Stops all pain. Ensures comfort to the feet. 13c. at druggists Hiscox & Co., N. Y. DgS=i >56 goe.-<ESS4HEA9MiSfSCU2E8*^ ?s aba r?ck'a lhVioiuLK xuiuua E>K , Baair&i cusHieis. wht?p?* 1^0? forubl*. yimwftjwfcmtll Ewrll?f*a. S^MbflMUCOJ only. ailJSrMwaj. lew Y#rk. WrlU Or i Tie Tozer Dial Boiler B JOHN A. WILLIS' PROPS. 117 WEST GERVAIS STREET, f Ml * * ^ ^ ^ in Manufacturers o? [ T T? 1 lOZER OTEAM JCiNGINEJ ? i | And all sizes of both Locomotives and rt i | - turn Tublar Boilers. I ^"Foundry work in Iron and Brass Re-. - ] pairing promptly executed. < { V It A RLOTTt \ ;f; FEMALE INSTITUTE, ; The building is >tow m emized and improved as a boarding I school until it is second to none in the V I South in comfort and conveniences. The 1 [ Corps of Teachers engaged for the comi ing session is the best the Institute has ever had. No other institute in the soutn can offer advantages superior to those offered here in the Literary, Music and Art De. partments. Mr. Maclean continues to be the Director of Music. The patrons of the Institute whose daughters were taught by Mr. Maclean during the past session, are referred to in proof of the statement that he is the best teacher of Music who has ever taught in Charlotte. As originator and director of the June Musical Festival in this city; his reputation has extended throughout the South. WM. R. ATKINSON, Principal. PARENTS Who have Daughters to educate should send for circular of the SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE FOR WOMEN, COLUMBIA. S. C. Three Departments, Preparatory, Academic and Collegiate. Art and Music Departments unsurpassed. Boarding Depart- i ^^Siaaaupassea in its appointments. For J jyjonnation address, ^^TKIXSC^g Be? V comp^. C01 5 makers.", 'jH Mowers, Cultivators. ~ A large stocks Ginning and Saw r State | C. & G. COOPER ^fl| gines Lane Saw MilL pany's complete line. w. h. gibbes>n^B Near \L * 1 |K|C KlOi^ 3ASY CHILD ^ $Hc?A?bor ^ LESSENS P?M rER TQ LIFE n, DIMINISHES MHBR ' ER CHILD 3RADFELD REGULATOR CO. AttAKTAgj SOLO Br ALL DRUGStSTS. DITT)C riDim'imi!! For correcting xausea Dysentery, Diarrhoea and Cholera Infantum. A pleasant medicine of incaleuable merit in the home circle for child or adult. It is popular, pleasant and efficient. Truly a mother's friend. It soothes and heals the mucous membranes; and checks j -4-1 ? ? -3-~^ r? 4-AtV> rt /* V* v Hie mucous UUVIlill^C liuui u?u, oia/iuck,u \ j and bowels. The mucous discharge from 1 the head aud lungs are as promptly re- 1 lieved by it as the mucous discharge from the bowies. It is madenq^elieve the mucous system and cure naus&^gjji it does it. It makes the Critical pen<xr\)f teething children safe and easy. It invigorates and builds up the system while it is relieving and curing the wasted tissue. is recommended and used largely by physM eians. For sale by Wannamaker & MuxiaH B Co.. Qaiumbia, S. C., and wholesale bfl Howaxfcfe Wil'ett, Augusta, Ga., ^t-WRITE TO fl BUGGr CO., ROGK.HILL, S. C.; FOR THEIR CATALOGUE Giving Prices. Terms and References of Buggies, Carriages, Wagons, Road and Phaeton Carts, Harness, etc. All firstclass work made by hand and warranted. Prices lower than any other of same grade. I Our Vehicles are running in every county in South Carolina, and in man5 counties of North Carolina. Georgia and Florida. All inquiries promptly answered. In writing please mention this paper and don't forget to give your Postoffice address and sign your name plainly. HOLLER, ANDERSON BUGGY CO., Manufacture rs, Rock Hill, S. 0., TERRY M'F'G CO..[NASHViLLg. OvcrQ ti q ^5. | Pianos $30. Cat- fl urgans logu<j frce. d. f. bea-; i ty, Washington, if. <f.