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IP't THE WINGS OF LOVE. | ! AN INTERESTING SERMON FROM THE | EMINENT BROOKLYN DIVINE. . i Thr^^fr^ likened"to an JTagle?The Mar- j j velocs Power and Speed of Winded ; | Things?The Broad Wings of Universal j Love. Brooklyn,.Sept. 14.?Dr. Talmage's test to-da\- was the words: "The Lord God of Israel, under whose wings thou ! art come to trust."?Ruth 2. xii: The j following is his serman: Scene: An Oriental harvest-field. Grain standing. Grain m swaths. Grain in sheaves. At the side of the field, a *r\ tol-ft nriAninf. niuw; tcuo ?u ^ D, jars of vinegar or of sour wine to quench the thirst of the hot working-people. Swarthy men striking their sickles into the rustling harley. Others twisting the bands ior the sheaves, putting one end of the band under the arm, and with the free arm and foot collecting the sheaf. Sunburned women picking up the stray straws and bringing them to the binders. Boaz, a fine-looking Oriental, graybearded and bright-faced, the owner of the field, looking on, and estimating the Aalue of the grain and calculating so iLf>nv ephahs to the acre: and, with Irs lor<_e sy mpathetic heart, pitying the ove. tasked workmen and the women, wiih wire faces enough to faint, in the hoi "** ???? "Ruf +V\oi'o ic nno wfim^n uuuuua v OUU. jjuy I/UV.1V w .? w.v... who especia^y attracts the man's attention. She is soon to be with him li e jo'nt owner of the field. She has come from a distant land for the sole purpose ? of bem^ kind to an aged woman, i I-now not what her features were; b:-t when ti e Ix>rd God sets behind a woman's face the lamp of courage, aud faith, and self-sacrifice, there conies a glory independent of features. She is to le the ancestress of Jesus Christ. Boaz, the owner of the fie'd, as soon as he rnderstands that it is Ruth, accorts her with a blessing: k,A full reward be given thee of the Lord God of Israel, under whose wiugs thou art come to trust." Christ compares himse^ to a hen 'gathering the chickens under her ""> wings. In Deuteronomy, God is repreas an eagle sjirffng up her nest. InagSfca^nany p'aces in the Psalm , David ma?V ornit.lological allusions; whi'e my tex^i^pnt'ons the wmgs of rod under whicn^^T, weary soul had come to trust. I ask your attention, therefore, while, taking the suggestion ofm^text, Ispe; k to you in all simpl'city ancMove of the ~ wings of the Almighty." \ First: I remark that they we^e swift win?s under which Iluth had come to trust. There Is nothing in all the handiwork of God more curious than a birtPs wing. You have been surprised sometimes, to see how far it could fly wilh one stroke of the wing; and, when it las food in prospect, o: whenitisafirighte.', the pulsations of the bird's wing arc unimaginable for ve'ocity. The Englr<h lords used to pride themse'ves on 1 e speed of their falcons. These b:rds when t?med, had in them the dart of lightning. How swift were the earner pigeons in the time of Anthony and at the sie^e <F ? Wonderful sneed! A S carriei* pigeon was thrown up at Rouen **nd came down at Ghent?nine!,}* mil: > o 1?in one hour. The carrier piceo.is were the telegraphs of the olden time. Swallows have been shot in our lauu^s having the undigested rice of Georg a swaivps in their crops, sho wing that they had come four hundred miles in six l ours. It has been estimated that, iu t! e i. i years of a swallows life, it flies far enough to have gone around the world eightynine times, so great is Its velocity. Aud cn the winors nf f lip A Imiohtv. SDOken of ia the text, are swift wings. They are swift when they drop upon a foe, ? id swift when they come to help God's fi iends. If a father and his son be walking by the way and the child goes too near a precipice, how long does it take for the father to deliver the child from danger ? Longer than it takes God to swoop for the rescue of his children. The fact is that you cannot get away from the care of God. If you take the steamsh'p, o: the swift railtrain. He is all the time along with 3*011. "Whether shall I go f.ow Thy spirit and whither shall I flee i mi Thy presenee ? If I ascend up into heaven Thou art there. If I mr\e my bed in hell, behold! Thou ari fiere. Jf I take the wings of the morning an .1 auell in the uttermost parts of ti e se:t, en there Thy hands shall hold me." The Arabian gazelle is swift as the w\jd. If it gets but one glimpse of the hr-ter, it puts many crags between. fco!omon, four or five times, compares ' 0?- ? - - a ?? n~ :* i^nrisi? to au Arauuiu ?, by another name) when he says: '\My beloved is like a roe." The difference is, that the roe speeds the other way; Jesi ? speeds this. Who but Christ co.ild have ^ ueen quick cnor^h to have helped '"'elr-r, when the water-pavement broke ? Wi- o 1 it Christ could have been quick enoiv h .0 help the Duke of Arrryle, when, in li s dying moment, he cried: "Good cVer I couM die like a Roman, but I mean to die like a Christian. Come away gentlemen. Hewhogoes first, goes cleanest?" I had a friend who stood by the ra'Ttrack at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, when i.ie ammunition had given out at Anulam; and he saw the train from Harrs burg, freighted with shot and shel\ as c went thundering down toward the baii!~field. He said that it stopped not 'o any crossing. They put down the bral.for no <jrade. they held up for no per''. * The wheels were on tire with the sped as they dashed past. If the train did rot come up in time with the ammunition. miorhf-. ns well not rnr.ift nf. all. So. mv friends, there are times in our lives wl" .? we musthave he^pImmediately or pe ' . The grace that comes too late is no ii> a. e at all, What you and I want is a God? now. Oh! is it not blessed to think tliat Sod is always in such quick pursuit c: his dear children ? When a sinner seeks pardon, or a baffled soul needs help, swifter than thrush's wing, swifter thr.n ptarmigan's wing, swifter than flamingo's wing, swifter th?n. eagle's wing, are the wings of the Almighty. I remark further, carrying out the idea oimy text, the wings under which Ruth had come to trust were very broad wings. There have been eagles shot on the Rocky Mountains with wings that were seven feet from tip to tip. When the king of the air sits on the crag, the wings are spread over all the eaglets in the eyrie, and when the eagle starts from the rock, the shadow is like the spreading of a storm cloud. So the win^s of God are broad wings. Ruth had been under those wings in her infantile days in the days of her happy girlhood m Moab; in the day when she gave her hand to Mahlon, in her first maraiage in he day when she wept over his grave the clay when she trudged out into the : wilderness of poverty; in the days when she picked up the few straws of barley dropped by ancient custom in the way of the poor. Oh! yes. the wings of God are broad < ^ wings. They cover up all our wants, all our sorrows, all our sutferings. He puts one wing over our cradle, and lie put the other over our grave. Yes, my to dear friends, it is not a desert in which < we are placed; it is a nest. Sometimes < it is a very hard nest, like that of the eagle, spread on the rock, with ragged moss and rough sticks, but still is a nest; and, although it may be very hard uuder us, over us are the wings of the AI- i mighty. There sometimes comes a; -l -1' (Vv * ?! ?/ ?*-? l-ir\ raftle fni'tnl"- 1 pcnuu III ULIU ilio i?<^ luicm- j en. Ycm said, "Everything is against j me. The world is against me. The | church is against me. No sympathy; 110 hope. Everybody that comes near me thrust at me. I wonder if the/e is a God. anyhow!" Everything seems to be i:oing slipshod and at haphazard. There does uot seem to be any hand on the helm. Job's health fails. David's Absalom gets to be a reprobate. Martha's brother dies. Abraham's Sarah goesmto the grave ofMachpeiah. "Woe worth the day in which I was born!" has said many a Christian. David seemed lO buiuuui uut in uia rwuvn . no nv >?uu. i "Is His mercy clcau gone forever?" | Job, with his throat swollen and ulcered until he could not even swallow the saliva ihat ran into his mouth, exclaims: "How long before thou wilt depart from me and leave me aloue, that I may swallow down my spittle ? Have there never been times in your life wlxn you envied those who were buried? When you longed for the gravedigger to do his work for you? Oh? the faithlessness ol the humam heartl God's wings are broad, whether we know it or not. Sometimes the mother-bird goes away from the nest, and it seems very strange that she should leave the callow young. She plunges her beak into the bark ot uie tree, ana sne arops into ine isium field, and into the chaff at the barn door, and into the furrow of the plouglibov. Meanwhile, the birds in the nest shiver and complain, and call, and wonder why trie mother-bird does not come back. Ah. she has gone for food. After a while there is a whirr of wings, and the mother-bird stands on the edge of the nest, and ihe little ones open the"? mouths and the food is dropped in; and then the old bird spreads out her feat'iers, and all is peace. So, sometime*. God leaves us. lie goes off to get food for our soul; and then He comes back after a while to the nsst, and says: "Open thy mouth wide, and I will lill .l'ir. .1 :?4.~ ;? r.,vr.nl u$" ;uiu ixc urups miu ji mc o?v.v.v promises of His grace, and the love of God is shed abroad, and we are under His wings?the broad wings of the Almighty. 4i Yes; they arc very broad! There is roo n under those wings for the 1,G00,030,000 of the race. You say: "Bo not get the invitation too large, for thee i? nothing more awkward than to have more guests than accommodations." I know it. The Seamen's Friend society i.i inviting all the sailors. The tract society is inviting all the destitute. The Sabbath-schools are inviting all the children. The Missionary society is invit'ng all the heathen. The printing presses of the Bible societies are going nigh i and day, doing nothing but printing invitations to this great Gospel banquet. And are 3*ou not afraid that there will be more guests thau accommodations ? Xo! A'l who have bepn invited will not halt till up the table of God's supply. There arc chairs for more. There are cups for more. God could with one feather of His wing cover up all those who have come: and when lie spread out both wings, they cover all the earth and all the heavens: Ye Israelites, who went " 1- *1- T? .1 O llUUUgU Lilt; ?IC(IU OC(l1 u Ln.it i. XV/ multitudes who have gone into glory for 1'ie iast s'x thousand years, come under! Ye hundred and forty four thousand, and the thousands of thousands, eome under! Ye flying cherubim and archangel, fold your pinions, and come under! And yet there is room ! Ay! if God would have aU the space under His wing occupied, He must make other worlds, and peop'e them with other myriads, and have other resurrection and judgment days; for broader than all space, broader than thought, wide as eternity, from tip to /p. are the wings of the Almighty ! Oh! uixler such provisions as that can you rot rejoice ? Come uuder, ye wandering. ye weary{ ye troabled, ye sinnim,, ye dying souls ! Cone under the wings of the Almighty. "Whosoever will come, let him come. However ragged, however wretched, however abandoned, ho wever woe-begone, there is room enough under the wings?under the broad wings of the Almighty! Oh, what a Gospel! so glorious, so magnificent m its provision I love to preach it. It is my life to preach it. It is my heaven to preach it. 1 remark, further, that the wings under which Ruth came to trust were strong wings. The strength of a bird's wing?of a sea-fowl's wing, for example ? ^ou might guess it from the fact tlut sometimes for five, six or seven days it sterns to fly without resting. There have b~en condors in the Arn'es that cou'd overcome an ox or a stag. There have been easles that have picked up children, and swung them to the top of the dill's. The flay of an eagle's wing has death in ic to everything it strikes. There are birds whose wings are packed with strength to fly, to lift, to destroy. So the wings of God are strong wings. Mighty to save. Mighty to destroy. I preach him?"the Lord, strong and mighty?the Lord, mighty iu battle!'' He flapped His wing, and the antediluvian world was gone. He flapped His wing and Babylon perished. He Happed His wing and Herculaneum was buried. He flapped His wing and the Napoleonic c-z'i/] !>ofnro fho cfr/YLrA nf IIJ Liaoiv JL?\/l?ViV VI1V V* that pinion a fleet is nothing. An arm)* i.; nothing. An empire Is nothing. A world is nothing. The unive -se is nothing. King?eternal, omn'potent?He asks no counsel From the thrones of heaven. He takes not the archangel into His cabinet. He wants none to draw His chariots for they are the winds. Xone to load His batteries, for they are the lightnings. Xone to tie the sandals \ of His feet for they arc the clouds. Mighty to save. Our enemies may bo stroug. our sorrows violent. Our sins may be great. But quicker than an eagle ever hurled from the crags a hawk sr raven, will the .Lord strike oat-K our sins and our temptations, if they assault us when we arc once seated on the eternal rock of His salvation. What a blessed thing it is to be defended by the strong wins; of the Almighty! Stronger than the pelican's wing, stronger than the A1 batross's wing, stronger than the condor's wins;, are the wings of the Almighty. I have only one more thought to present. The wings nnder which Ruth h d come to trust were gentie wings. There is nothing softer than a feather. You have noticed when a bird returns from flight, how gently it sto-opsover the nest. Thf? vnnnif Ivrrls nro nof. nfrniri of bavin" their lives trampled out by the motherbird; the old whippo will drops iuto its nest of leaves, the oriale into its casket of bark, ti e humn-'ng-bird iuto its hammock of moss?gentle as the light. And so. says the psalmist. lie shall cover l thee with Ills wing. Ob. the gen Jeness of God! Bi" even that tigure does not fully set it forth: .or I have sometimes looked into the ./trd s nest and seen a dead bird?its I'fe having been trampled out by the mother-bird. But no one that ever came under t".-e eatliers of the Almighty was ever troddon on. Blessed nest! warm nest! Why will men stay out in the cold to be shot of temptation and to be chilled by the blast, when there is Divine shelter* More beautiful than any flower I ever saw are the hues of a bird's plumage. Did you ever examine it*? The blackbird, lloating like a rlake of darkness through the sufilight; the meadow lark, * with head of fawn and throat of velvet and breast of ;old; the flamingo flying over the Southern sv.-nmps, like sparks from the iorge o: the setting sun; the pelican, white and black?morning and night tangled in its wings?give but a very taint idea of the beauty "that comes down over the soul when it drop the feathers of the Almighty, Here fold your weary wings. \ This is the only safe nest. Every oilier ! nest will be destroyed. The prophet: srys so: * Though thou exalt thyself; like the eagle, and set thy nest among I slars. yet will I bring thee down, saith j the Lord o* Hosts." Under the swiftj wings, undor the broad wings, under the j s mug wings, under the gentle wings of , the Almighty, find shelter until these ; calamities be overpast. Then when you ; want to change nests, it will only be from the valley of earth to the heights of heaven: and instead of "the wings of a dove," for which David longed, not ,,, !,/% milft nf'rlmfv i J\UUW1IJ^ (licit ill L11V> uico ?iiijv VA Uivn <lig.it they would give ou!. you will be conducted upward by the Lord God of Lsrcal, uuder whose win^s Rath, the beautiful Moabiless, camc to trust God forbid that in this matter of eternal weal or woe we should be more stupid than the fowls ofheayen; "for the stork I.noweth her appointed time; and the turtle, and the crane, and t'.ie swallow, ob: erve the time of their going; but my people know not the judgments of the Lo;d." The Earth Swallows Him. Pottsville, Pa.. Sept. 9.?At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon Andrew Butts, residing at Wiggins' Patch, near Mahoney City, started out with bis two children, a boy ard a girl, aged respectively 7 and 9 years, for a walk. The children lud hold of his hands. lie too"; only live steps from his back door wl:en the c..ith opened and he dropped out of sight into the old Bear Run Collie; y. The cave in was a clear cut-hole not moie than three feet in diameter. Butts I 'ul presence of mind enough when lie fcund l,:mself sinking to let go of the -4 Anna ii'Pfft C iiitireu 5 iliUXUS. JLiJU Itlug ~? left behind standing on opposite sides of the hole. Had the hole been a foot wider both children would have gone down also. When the children recovered from their H^ht they screamed for help. Their mother came to the scene, and seeing what had occurred, she ran throught the vilin^e giving the alarm. A crowd soon collected. T!:e cavcin was measured and found to be thir?y-cight feet deep. Lutts co.ild not be seen, but his groans were distinc! 'y h .rd, pro zed that he wr.s still ali\ e. A rope was procured and let down, and in a few minutes they heard a feeble voice calling oa them to "hoist." In a few minutes Butts was landed on the surface. lie was found to be badly bruised and hurt internally, and it is feared he cannot rc >' >- c--ii ? CO"* cr. ^\o CtitLii iuii uu ivi xinii* The bottom jt.st seemed to drop out and down Lie went. Senator Iiicall's Invectivc. Senator Ingalls made a speech at Piitsburg on Saturday last in vindication of the purity of Senator Quay and in support of Quay's candidate for iiie goyernorshio, Mr. Delamater. The method he took to absolve his friend and senatorial associate, Quay, from the asper?:oik of Congressman Kennedy, who derouuced him as a criminal, and com- j pared :.im to Judas Iscariot, was to deInge the democrats with pictureque invective. 1 ccording to Mr. Ingalls "the democratic party is.the political dumping-ground of politics in the nineteenth century*." "Every excluded hereby, crery abandoned heresy, is the heritage of the Democratic party." "It has never done a specific act.nor ever proposed to do one for the welfare or advancement either of the moral, intellectual or physical welfare of the counry." "It-OSis attempted by revolutionary measures to defeat the beneficieut ihnt have been enacted by the great republican pariv." '"It is an aggregation of the ignorance, the imbecility and disloyalty of this country." "It has neither the conscience nor the courage of convictions." "I think the worst republican that ever lived is better by far than the be^t Democrat that ever lived." finally hecotnpareu the Democratic party to Judas Iscorio;,. who betrayed his Master, and to Peter, who denied Ilim. and the republican party to the Christianity which survived the treachery of the one and the denial of the other. I"'*" f'nttdn Raecini Tax. Washington, September 9.?Senator Butler trod hard today but in vain to induce the Senate to relent in favor of the cotton p'r iters of the South and pface cotton bagging on the free list with b>nr?:ng t1 'no. The co 'deration of the tariff bPl was practically concluded,audall the amendments recommended by the finance committee we-e a- oL)ted, incladinsan emascr-nf2d I'c.m o." the reciprocity scheme originated by Blaine. There will be six hours of discussion to-j.iorrow and then the final vote will be taken upon the bill as stands tonight. It was just as the bill was about to be completed that Senator Butlc-; proposed to place cotton bagging on the free l'st. Under the agreement he ' 'ac not allowed to discuss his proposition, but he cleverly managed to remind the Senate that it had given relief to the lv"-,n''n favmprs bv nuttill2 " I.OIWU A w binding twine on the free list. lie simply asked that even justice be shown to Southern cotton pianters. Several Republicans raised the point that debate was not in order, hi'- he had said all he eared to say on the subject. A vole was taken and the party lines were drawn, hence the Butler amendment w..s defeated. There is still a small po sibility that the cotton planters may obtfin relief when the ccufrees get to work on tiie Dili. j.ne ouulu tsuunua SeuaJors will continue to ask ''or free cotton bagging. Married the IVrous: Woman. , Metcalf, Ga., Sept. 18.?A resident of Cia're, Fla., B. B. Doss by name, committed suicide here by shooting himself. Mental aberation, caused by family troubles, led to the rash act. lie was married to the adopted daughter of Euchbcn Manning. It was a run-away match, but they did not live happily together. and she returned to her foster parents, charging that he had been cruel to lie -. He plead with her to return lo his home, threateirng to uo suiucwiug desperate ii'she did not, but she would not listen to his suppositions, and remained. So Doss ca.ne here and made another ellort to regain her affection, begging her to accompany him home. She peremptorily refused to go. Then he drew his revolver and ended his life. A Four Hamled Fight. Charleston. S. C., Sept. 10.?The Republican Convention In Berekle-' County split today and two conventions were organized, representing Drayton and Miller, the two Republican candidates for Congress in the Seventh District. Berkeley is now the banner county Ui LI 4 U OUllU^ Wilt lUlti. >JV|/UlUvw I'v cal organizations, two Democratic and two Republicans. The fights are jioinsj to be bitter. It is reported that the Braytonites will combine with one of the Democratic aud the ilillerites with the other Democratic factions between wnom the fight is equally bitter. Doth Republican Conventions elected delegates to the Stale Convention. The Millerites will snpport anybody for State chairman to beat Brayton.?Greenville Xews. A Double Ilanjjinu in Georgia. Atlxta. September 12.?Ruftus B. : (Collins aud Emily Boone were sentenced : in Gordon ('ouuty to-day to be banged on November 7tlx next, between 10 A. M. and 3 P. M. They are to be hanged publicly. Collius is the white man who , hired Steve Custer to kill his wife. Steve Custer was sentenced to life imprisonment at hard labor. VmVAT IX MTD All!. A TERRIBLE SCENE ENACTED ON A MASSIVE IRON TOWER. Two Men Armed With Hammers Struggle WJiiie Ninety Feet Above Ground?Tliev j Clincli and IIoll on the Scaffold?Both Moii Faint Away From Exhaustion. Pjeouia, 111., Sept. 16.?Two men fighting in mid air. This was the terrible scene enacted a few days since on a m-njivn iiv?ii tfiivf!* liftiri?* <*roftpd hvthe water works company. The story of the strange duel is thus described by the Ilerald to-day: When completed this tower will be 120 feet hi^h. The steel plates are live feet wide and tan feet long, and the line of rivets on the main joints which run horizontally, and the upright seams, which connect the plates end to end, cail for a rivet at every two inches. It therefore tal es 775rive"ts to set a single course of plates. The tower had reached the height of ? ?? */! f ?*?A\ /torrc af rt tire IUIKrl/J It'CC clUU ^C411^0 wi invtuo I were at work with their heaters and their holders-on. The latter work on the inside of the tower, while the men who hammer the rivets to a head work on the frail scaffold on the outside. To the beholder who stand on the solid earth this outside scaffold seems to be as thin, as frail, and as delicate as a spider's web. There it winds around the tall, black irtfn tower, frail below and dwindling' awav in the upward distance into nothingness. Ninety feet from the ground nnd o this frail scaffold the other morning two riveters were working, and from some unaccountable cause became ; 1volved in an altercation. Bessemer steel is hard, but it is not harder than the hearts of inturiated T -I ? ftiliftifin/y f K A f All lilt?II, JLIUU I cl yy cii oixo tuuvu of the hammer, are hot, but they are not hotter than the inflamed passions of the sons of Adam. The riveters in question came with the water works company from Syracuse, JN. Y. One was Mique, the other Dennice. Each man swung a seven-pounds hammer. Mique made amislick and struck ])e> nice on the hand. Maddened with the sudden pain, Dennice became at once a demon and swung his hammer full and fair at the head of Mique. Ilad the iron head cf the hammer crushed in those locks a mangled and lifeless and half-headless cropse would have toppled down to the soild earth, ninety feet below. Mique, however, threw up his hammer in a defensive way ana parried the blow. Again the hammer of Dc-nnice swung and j:gain it was parried, but as its head ca'rromed on the steel head of Clique's defensive hammer it shot off on a tangent, like a glancing arrow strikes a tree, and knocked away one of the supports of the scallold. There was a sickening, cracking sound as the frail upright was knocked away from the braces and down went the ends of two planks oAtnnricinrr nno epptinn fsf VUV UVW.v** v. V . * W WV. ..WW. Mique, who had been retreating from before the advances of Dennice, was on a firm looting, but Dennice was compelled to make a giantspring to save himself. In the terror of the moment he Raped almost to the very shoulders of the affrighted Mique and knocked him down backward, falling on top of him. The force of the conclusion was such that both men rolled to the edge of the scrffold and over went Dennice. Instinctively and in the despeiation of the moment he caught one heel in the upright immediately behind him t-K run' li?i: l?aff;>rm nrnnnil UlM r.flclr of Mique. There he hung on the edge of the scaffold, suspended by only oae j heel and wrist, while below him?nearly a hundred feet below?was a row of iron pipes and plates of steel. To fall was to be dashed to pieces. To fall on the pipes was to break arms and legs and back. To fall on the curved and upturned edges of the plates was to be cut into huge and ghastly slices. The man's hand trembled and his hammer dropped from his nerveless grasp. It went swiftly downward, hit a projection in the scaffold, bounded off, and, striking a fifteen inch pipe, broke it in two as cleverly and as keenly as if it had been split with a knife. The hand swung over and grasped Mique around the loins with an awful tenacity, and there the men struggled on the awl'ul verge of the scaffold and at that dizzy height. Denriice had almost managed to swing his weight on the scaffold where Mique's hickory shirt ripped and buck the man went into space, this time losing the purchase of his heel and swinging clear over so that he held himself only by one arm and hung suspended upright in the air. Mique managed to thrust the toes of his left foot between the two narrow planks that constituted the scaffold and thus acquired a leverage. Throwing over the other shoulder, by a strong and almost miraculous movement, he swung the suspended body of Dennice back to the platform ana dasnea nis j face against the tower. There they lay. motionless and still, and when their companions reached them they found that botli had fainted dead away. The awful duel had lasted less than forty seconds, but there is none on record that can compete with it. Ten minutes later Dennice and Mique were hammering away at the rivets as merrily as of yore. A Colored Man for White Sapreniacy. Jackson 2Iiss., Sept. 15.?Mr. Montgomery, the negro delegate, addressed the convention to-day in support of the tuo r^nnrf-, and nroved himself by far the ablest man of his race who has achieved prominence in this State for years, being easily the equal of John R. Lynch and 15. K. Bruce. lie said in part: 'Before the trust of becoming a member of this honorable body was conferred upon me by m yconstituents,I fully stated to them my earnest conviction that the work of this conviction in order to be successful must restrict the franchise by prescribing such qualification for voters as would reduce the negro vote considerably below the white vote of t? T + fhft Cijmp LI1B OLdlC. A emu umiiuu v?.v/ | opinion then that I hold now that the j Federal Congress will enterprose no objections provided such restrictions are honestly imposed for the purpose of bringing about a fair solution of the great problems now confronting the people of the State." The speaker went on to say how much of the wealth and civilization of the South was due to the labor of the colored man. lie referred to the loyalty of the colored race to the Southern people throughout the war, and concluded that branch of his subject by saying: "It is but justice to^ my race that I should recall these affecting memories | upon tliis Hoor to-day. ?Jv mission here is to bridge a chasm that has been widening for a generation, to divert a maelstrom that threatens destruction to you and yours while it promises no enduring prosperity to me and mine. To Tunnel New York TJay. V.'AcnrvriTnv Sent. 17.?In the House to-day Mr. Covert, of Xew York, introduced a bill to authorize the construction of a tunnel under the waters or the bay of Xew York, between Staten Island .ind the city of Brooklyn, and to establish the same as a post road. The bill authorizes the Xew Jersey and Staten Island Junction Railroad Company to build and maintain a tunnel uhder the waters of the Bay of Xew i fi'Am "inrMiotmrn staten Island. I to Xew Utrecht, Long island, for the passage of railroad trains through the same~and to lay tracks, connections and extensions." The tunnel is not to interfere with the navigation of water craft and shall be placed at a depth below water that a safe archway may be constructed therein to preserve the currents and channels of the bay. The tunnel shall he a post route, with a right of way to the United States for postal telegraph purposes. ; S : A TIRED OF HIS OLD PARTY. In Leaving it Ex-Covflrnor Cameron I'sos Some Vigorous Enslixli. Petkksbuug, Ya., Sept. 1U.?Ex-Gov-, ernor Cameron has published an open letter in which he formally renounces i his allegiance to the Republican party, j both State and National. Ex-Gover- ; nor Cameron is considered to be one of j the most brilliant men in the State and : w;is elected Governor over Senator John -W.Daniel in the memorable campaign of 1880. He justifies his action in withdrawing from his old party as follows: "The Republican party preserves no longer the semblance of speaking for the entire country, but bases its claim to supremacy on sectional prejudices and sectional interest, pure and simple. Not only is this so, but the directors of its policy have not hesitated in the attainment of their ends to prostitute the plighted faith of the party in sight of all the world, and to renounce in their Congressional enactments the promises solemnly made in the Chicago platform. They stand self-convicted, not only of false pretense and panic faith, but of mathematical malignacy in seeking to retain power by reinvoking the war sentiment at the North and West and by resurrecting all the stock phrases of fanaticism and~ sectionalism which could stir the South into resentment and retort. "Their object was and is to force the fighting as between a solid North and a solid South, and at the same time to use the small contingent of Southern Re publicans in Congress to minimize the power of the South by such political abominations as the Lodge bill, and by so framing a tariff law (under pretext of protection to American labor and American products) as to increase every burden of the customs upon the weaker section, and as to leave in force, in <wi lua siiauicicoolucquciiitv, tiiu icvc nue tax upon tobacco." In closing. Colonel Cameron says: "President Harrison bas done "nothing South of Mason and Dixon's line since his inauguration except to recognize with reluctance that any such country existed. His appointments, with just few enough honorable variations to prove the rule, have been of men not representative in character, influence or capacity. He has shown utter inaptitude to square his actions with his utterances, his performances with his promises, his principles with his prejudices, or his status with his stature. He has been the instrument, willing or unwilling, of the machine elements of his party, and for the want of bold and brave catholic action he has made himself responsible for the fnr-h in thp "Vnrtli and Wpst t.lipro is a divided Republican party and that in the South there is none worthy of the name." "The utterances of Mr. McKinley in the House and the action of the Senate in regard to the tobacco clause constitute an open declaration of war against Southern development. This action is a deliberate, wanton and absolute lalsification of a solemn promise given to the tobacco States. "The recurd on the JJlair bill is no better,"and the tariff Act, with its socalled revision and equalization of import duties, bristles with discriminations against the South." The Governor says the Lodge bill, if passed, wouki paralyze tne commercial progress of the whole country and'set back Southern development half a century. The main sufferer would i>e the negro. KEPT SILENT THIRTY YEARS. A Woman Keliglously Keeps a Vow Made to her Husband. Ameiiicus, Ga., Sept, IS.?The death of Mrs. Susan E. Merrifield, which occurl-ed here recently, revives interest in one of the most peculiar cases ever known of a vow of silence made and kept thirty years. In 1860 Mrs. Merrilield, who, it is said, was a little woman of a peculiarly bright and cheery disposition, was telling her husband of some occurrence, when he requested her in a very surly manner to be silent, adding that the sound of her voice was hateful to him. It seems that Mr. Merri field, while a good husband in even- other way, was in the habit of venting his displeasure when aroused by outside matters by ill humor with his wife, whose good nature usually passed his testiness by, but on this occasion she replied that, as it was hateful to him, he should never hear her voice again. Ana ne never aia. nor aia any other person ever hear it, for, in spite of her husband's remorse and remonstrances from friends and relatives, Mrs. Merrifield kept her room, though she continued to act the part of a good wife and mother, fulliiling every duty scrupulously. She even bore three children to her husband after this vow was taken. When communication was absolutely necessary with those about her she used a slate, but reduced a language of signs to such perfection in governing her household and children that it was but seldom that this slate was resorted to. It was thought that when her husband died she would resume the use of her speech, but while she sat by his dying bed, devoted and loving to the last, in answer to his supplications that site speak but a word to him. wrote on the slate with all the evidences of grief: "I cannot. I cannot! God forgive and help me. I cannot!" But whether it was that she found it impossible to break her will and her vow. or that long disuse had affected her organs so that she really could not use them, could not be arrived at, but her family inclined to the latter belief, for it is said that while she was on her own death-bed she made distinct, but ineffectual effort to speak to her children, dying with the seal of silence unremoved from her lips. A Sad Accident. liAriD City, S. D., Sept. 14- One of the saddest railroad accidents that has ever happened in Black Hills country occurred yesterday on the new narrow guage line, which has just been completed between Piedmont and Lead City. The masons of Deadwood and Lead City to show their appreciation of the advent of a railroad into their nlunnpfl nn PY<?nrsion over thfi Black Ilills and Ft. Pierre, which took place yesterday. The train was made up of two coaches and a number of flat cars with seats arranged to accommodate passengers, and departed from Lead City at an early hour. About 200 masons and their families went to make up the excursion party. As the train was passing a point, near Elk creek twenty-eight miles from Dead wood, a large pine tree, which had caught lire from a passing ensrine, fell, striking the last car, which was packed with human freight, killing two people and wounding seven. These two killed were, M, J. IJelding, engineer of the Golden Star mill, at Deadwood, and Mrs. J. K. Snyder of Lead City. Don't Like His Speech. Washington, Sept. 17.?The meet? x 1 - TT nAm m iC.G ) 1112^ 01 LlifcJ IIUU^C J HUlUai V 1/UUUiXJAUbVV* to-day'called to consider the resolutions censuring Representative Kennedy, of Ohio, for his speech against the Senate and Senator Quay, and to expunge the speech from the Congressional Kecord, was attended by all the members. Rep- J resentative Kennedy was present aid made a statement in defence of his action, and argued to prove that the speech as published in the Kecord was within the requirements of parliamentary laws. The committee decided by a majority that was large enough to permit Adams, of Illinois, to refrain from casting a vote, he having already expressed his opinion of the speech and the duty nf the [louse on the floor, to report a resolution directing the Government printer to omit the speech from the permanent copy of the Record. - i A LOST FATHER FOUND. ~ ' ! AN ATLANTA STORY WITH AN ENOCH ARDEN FLAVOR. Husband a.ml Estranged?She Believes Him Dead?He Believes Rer Untrue? Reunited <jy a Daughter's ESforts? A Happy Reunion. Athvti S^nf *>0?TTorp nn jesting story "with an Enoch Ardcn | flavor to it. When Sherman's army | entered Atlanta. among the residents here was a Mr. Shackelford, .vho was the father of a handsome young lady, Miss Sullie Shackelford. Among the ofticers in the army was a Major Ilaviland Tompkins from Illinois. lie fell in love with Miss Sallie, and when the inhabitants were ordered to vacate the city he went to her father and told him that he would see that he was protected if he would consent to go to Louisville with him, he having been ordered to report there for duty. Mr. omiCKeiioru conseiueu. ;;nu soon aiter his arrival in Louisville his daughter was married to the Yankee major. They lived happily together for a few year?, but just when the war closed an unexpected cloud arose that swept them apart. Some relatives of the major's wife murdered several Yankee guards and. although the war was over, they were court-martialed and condemned to death. The Major was a lawyer. To save his wife's friends, he wens to Washington and succeeded, after an interview with President .Johnson, in securing a reprieve for three months for the doomed men. They were all very wealthy and Major Tompkins, with the assistance of another notable counsel, succeeded in saving them on the ground that a courtmartial had no authority in condemning men to die alter the war was over. For some unaccountable reason these men refused to pay the attorney's fees, amounting to -525,000, and they took a violent hatred to Major Tompkins. lie returned to his wife and remained for a time and then accepted a position with the American Law Times, his duties being to travel through the country find collect strancre l:i\v cases to be printed in the Times. While he was away, his wife in a joking way wrote that she and the baby Lena" would sue for a divorce if he remained away much longer. The Major's persecutors learned of this and wrote him that she was preparing to get a divorce. Ills letters to her were intercepted, and believing that she really meant what she said, as he could ? not hear from her, Major Tompkins wrote her to go ahead and get a divorce if she wanted to and he would not object. Two years passed and no tidings r..! 4.~ u:, 3 tame iiuiij nit; iviajui lu nib uiie auu daughter. Finally she received a letter from his persecutors saying that the Major was dead, they having read a notice of his death in a New York paper. Mrs. Tompkins, although unused to work, was compelled to take in sewing for herself and her little daughter. They came to Atlanta, and it was given out that she was a widow. As Miss Lena grew older her sensitive nature rebelled at the thought of her father and mother being separated. She determined to find where he was buried if he was dead, or where he was if he was living. She wrote to every hospital in New York city, asking if a man by his name had died there. No information could be gained as to his /Inof li T f a r?-\ no nti nut T nr\0 ca_ UUtll'il. XII bllC UlilXCs atJL iOO JLJ<J11<3< o^cared a position as teacher in the public schools. Determined to learn something of her father she began writing letters to the different places in Illinois, the State from which her father enlisted in the army. At last one of her letters reached Fairfield, 111., and the gentleman to whom it was sent wrote her that there was a lawyer there known as II. Tompkins. Miss Lena left Atlanta at once l'or Fairfield, and. on arriviuor there. found that the H. Tompkins was really her father. His persecutors, whose motives for a long time were not seen, had written him that his wife had secured the divorce and had changed his daughter's name. He knew not where to look for his child, so he returned to his old home and passed fora bachelor. He is one ot the most prominent lawyers in his section, and has accumulated considerable wealth. Through the energy of the daughter a complete reconciliation has been ejected. Surprisiujr Testimony. Many pnysicians wno nave examrnea into the merits of B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm), have been confronted with testimony which they deemed surprising, and thus being "convinced of its wonderful efficacy, have not failed to prescribe it in their practice*as occasion required. II. L. Cassidv, K^nnesaw, Ga., writes; "For two years my wife was a great sufferer. Skillful physicians did her no good. Iler mouth was one solid ulcer, her body was broken out in sores, and she lost a beautiful heau of hair. Three bottles of B. B. B. cured her con?pletelv, 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, j}. 15. 15. ellected a wonderfully quick cure after everything else had failed." The Prlesters of Barnwell. Barnwell, Sept. 18.?Mr. Peter Priester, a prominent and well-to-do young farmer of Great Cyprpss.Township, a twin brother of Willian II. Priester. who was tried some six years since for the murder of his father and acquitted on a plea of insanity, was brought to Barnwell to-day aud~ an inquisition of lunacy was held in his case. He was decided to be a lunatic and was sent to the Asylum. Mr. Priester's violent actions towards the nearest of his relatives first made the unsound condition of his mind apparent, and it is evident that only the prompt action of his neighbors prevented a similar tragedy to tbat which resulted in the death of his father.?News and Courier. P. P. P. cures Scrofula, Salt Rheum and all humors, Dyspepsia, Sick Headache, biliousness. It cures tnat tired feeling, creates an appetite, strengthens the nerves and builds up the whole system. P. P. P. is unrivaled and since its introduction has cured more case ot blood disease than all the other blood purifiers put together. Mr. Randall Pope, the retired druggist of Madison. Fla., says (Dec. 3,18St5) he regards P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke -?* _ -T T? . i. z \ .... I liooc ana I'outssiuiii^ ;u> wu: ucav ouciative on the market, and that he has seen more beneficial results from the use of it than any other blood medicine. P. P. P. stimulates the appetite and aids the process of assimilation, cures nervous troubles, and invigorates and j strengthens -every organ of the body. ! Xervous prostration is also cured by the great and powerful P. P. P. Its [ effects are permanent and lasting. Exhausted vitality, nervousness, lost manhood, weakness caused by overtaxation of the system, will be cured by the powerful P. P. P., which gives health and strength to the wreck of the system. A new thing, L. F. Padgett, Augusta, Ga., deliver; all Furniture, Stoves, Carpets. etc., freight paid to your nearest depot. Send for Catalogue. Much Pain and Suffering may be avoided by child-bearing woman by the timely use of The Mother's Friend. |?g? - , / * A Sad Accident* Birmingham. Ala., Sept. 17.?One ! hundred negroes were poisoned Sunday j last, near Collerine. Dallas County. ! Two cA th m died that day and six others ; died yesv^rday. The latest news from i the neighborhood is to the efieet that j many others are dangerously ill and their dea'.hs hourly expected. A big revival had been going on for a week at a norrro church near C oiler me, and :t was decided to give a dinner on Sunday to all who attended. One course of the dinner consisted of barbecued pork. Physicians examined the pork and found in it traces of ars=e.iic in large quantites. An investigation is being made by the coroner. but so lar he has not learned who placed the poison in the meat. Disastrous Wreck. Albany, X. Y., Sept, 11.?No trains have arrived here from New York since 7:30 to-night, owing to a disastrous wreck at Schodack, sixteen miles '^elow this city on the New York Central railroad. Railroad authorities heie say that an extra fright train collided w'th the regular freight train owins to a misrilnr-Arl switch. and n few freight cars left the track. It has been learned f-o.n other sources, however, that the wreck is very disastrous, two engines, ten cars and a caboose being piled up so as to cover the passenger track as well as freight tracks. Two engineers, a liremnn and brcakman are killed and three others are wounded. Pianos and Organs. X. W. Trump, 134 Main Street, Columbia, S. C., sells Pianos and Organs, direct from factory. Xo agents' commissions. The celebrated Chickering Piano. Mathushek Piano, celebrated for its clearness of tone, lightness of touch and lasting qualities. Mason & Hamlin Upright Piano. Sterling Upright Pianos, from S22 up. Arion Pianos. from S200 iid. Mason & Ilamlin Organs, surpassed by none. Sterling Organs, 350 up. Every Instrument guaranteed for six years. Fifteen days' trial, expenses both ways, if not satisfactory. Sold on Instalments. The Work of a Dime Novel. Cincinnati, Sept. 16.?J ulius Eetter-. man of this city, aged 14 years, suicided this afternoon by hanging himself with a handkerchief. His parents had gone from home to visit some friends, leaving the boy at home reading a dime novel entitled, "Muldoon the Copper, and on their return they found the dead body of their son in the closet. The boy had cotton down on his knees and strangled himself to death, there not being room in the closet to make he hanging process a success. PADGETT PAYS THIIREIGHT A Great Oefeb that mat not Again be Repeated, so do not delay, "Strike While the Ikon 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 Jots,1 rhich enables me to wipe out all competition HERE ARE A FEW OF MY START* LING 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 paid by me, for only Twelve Dollars. Again, 1 will sell you a 5 hole Cooking Range 3 3x13 inch oven, 18x26 inch top, fitted with 21 p:eces of ware, for THIRTEEN T\ AT 1 A DC wftTT 4-Ua IA r jjuuun.no,. <i uu j->ay mc ixu^ut iv jvcix depot DO NOT PAY TWO PRICES FOB YOUR GOODS. I will send you a nice plush Parlor suit, walnut frame either iu combination or banded, the most stylish colors, for $33.50 to your railroad station, freight all paid. I will also sell you a nice Bedroom suit consisting of Bureau with glass, 1 high head Bedstead, 1 Washstand, l Centre table, 4 cane seat chairs. 1 cane seat and back rocker, all for ?16.50, and pay freight to your depot. Or I will send you an elegant Bedroom suit with large glass, full marble top, for ?30, and pay freight. X11UC YVAJJUUW Dliauc KJ11 O^lUJg IKJIX^L V "*v Elegant large walnut S day clock, 4.00 Walnut lounge, 7.00 Lace curtains per window, 1.00 I cannot describe everything in a small advertisement, but have an immense store containing 22,600 feet of floor room, with ware houses and factory buildings in other parts of Augusta, making in all the largest business of this kind under one management in the Southern States. These stores and warehouses are crowded with the choicest productions of the best factories. My catalogue containing illustrations of goods will 1)3 mailed if you will kindly say where you saw this advertisement. I pay freight" Address, l. f. padgett, Proprietor Padgett's Furniture, Stove and Carpet Store, 1110-1112 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA. tatirott son's ENGINES BOILERS, SAW MILLS AND GRIST MILLS Are acknowledged to be the best ever sold in this State. When you buy one of them you are satisfied that you have made no mistake. Write for our prices. Cotton Gins and | Cotton Presses AT BOTTOM FIGURES. X can save you noney. 11 M M .A. v. u. jsaanam, urn agi., COLUMBIA, S, C JSTHome office and Factory, KICHSJO^D, VA. ^TMOTHERS I JpjXj| J~",$ 1^ jSCsi^Hj#' CH!IP^S^BboSR LESSENS PML-ro To UFE ?. DIMINISHESD^MOTHrR " *m "MnTHFRS"\ rvt U* Wi r* mnSiiiF- ? AH" i LU ?RADFIELD REGULATOR CO. AUANTAg^ SCLO BY ALL DRUGGISTS. COMPLETE GINNERIES, T TPOX THE MOST APPROVED vJ clans, with Suction Fan or Spiked Belt Seed Cotton Elevator furnished at competitive prices. COTTON GINS and PRESSES of best iaakers. Thomas Hay Rakes, Deering Mowers, Corbin Harrows and Planet, Jr., Cultivators. A large stock of Portable and Stationary Ginninj and Saw Mill Engines on hand. State Agents for C. & G. COOPER & CO'S Corliss Engines Lane Saw Mills and Liddell Company's complete line. W. H. GIBBES, JR..&CO., Near Union Depot, UOLTDtBIA, O. U. ; A ipoUg fr^oiCilHS | V i FOR TIRED I ^ 1 m m woman. 1 ^ P. P. P. wm purify and vitalize yonr | is Wood, createagoodappetiteand give yonr 9 g "."bole system tone ani strength. >j A prominent railroad superintendent at a Savannah, sulTericg with ' 'a'n.ria, Dyspep- B .-? sLi, and Rheumatism sa; ^-ing B y v: P. P. P. he never felt so well in his life, ana I rj feels as if he could live forever, if he could R always get P. P. P." S3 j-r ?2 Ifyou are tired out and g \j close conflaeinent, take i 9 P p ^ a o r. r. i; If you are feeling b".<?ly in the spring I .*>. and out of sorts, take I f. p. p. J i '.?i If your digestive organs need toning op, s . x, take 1 P-. I | |j If vou suffer with headache, indigestion, |: g debility and weakness, take 11 . IF-p-p- 1 g if you suffer frith rervous prostration, ? g nerves unstrung and a general let down B gj of the system, take a g 1P- P- P 1 fct For Blood Poison. Rheumatism, Scrof- g 4 '<c ula, Old Sores. Malaria, Chronic Female jg | Complaints, tako j? " |?. P. P. 1 Prickly Ash, Poke Root f and Potassium. I fjj The best blood purifier in the vrorio, g H LIPP2IAN EROS.. Wholesale&ruggisfcs, g 3 Sole Proprietors, '9, Lippsiis's Block, Savannah, Gs. Tie Tozer Engine Worts, (Successor to Dial Boiler Works.) JOHN A. WILLIS PROPR. 317 WEST GERVAIS STREET, @ ? NBAS |g nex*/>2j ?8?9?.m Ssli Manufacturers of rri O T? - 9 lOZER 0TEAM -ENGINES V And all sizes of both Locomotives and return Tablar Boilers. ^ ggTFoundry work in Iron and Brass Repairing promptly executed. j WRITE TO J HOLLER & ANDERSON BUGGrCO., ROCK HILL, S.C., 1 X70R THEIR CATALOGUE GIV- * j- ing Prices. Terms and References of ^ Buggies, Carriages, Wagons, Road and Phaeton Carts, Harness, etc. AH?. class work made by hand and warranted. Prices lower than any other oTsame grade. Our Vehicles are running in every county i in J^outn carolina, <aiiu m mauj wuuwco vjl North Carolina, Georgia and Florida. All inquiries promptly answered. In writing please mention tills paper and don't forget J to give your Postoffiee address and sign vour name plainly. JMH HOLLER, ANDERSON BUGGY CO., M Manufacturers, flock Hill, S. C-, J DEPOSIT YG5IR SURPLUS MOMM I tv THE COMMERCIAL BANK, COLUMBIA, S. C. B One dollar and upwards received. In- 1 terest at the rate of 4 per cent per annum, paid quarterl}T, on the first days of February, May, August and November. Marn&K B women and minors can keep account in ^*^B their own name. Higher rates of interest ' allowed by special arrangement. B * C. J. IREDELL, President. B Jxo. Leaphaet, Jajies Iredell, Vice-President. Cashier. fl PITT'S A?JI2i*ATIVE: For correcting nausea ^ Dysentery, Diarrhoea and Cholera Infantum. A pleasant medicine of Incalcu- A. xu. a:?A!A /*KfT>9 /nw aoie merit in mtj uuuic uuuc ivi v-unu. yi adult. It is popular, pleasant and efficient. Truly a mother's friend. It soothes and heals the mucous membranes; and checks the mucous discharge from head, stomach and bowels. The mucous discharge from a the head and lungs are as promptly relieved by it as the mucous discharge from ? the bowles. It is uade to relieve the mucous system and cure nausea, and it does it. It makes the Critical period of teething children safe and ea<y. it mvigo- |fl| rates and builds up tl<e -system while It is - relieving and curing tiie wasted ussce. it is recommended and used largely by physicians. For sale by "Wannamaker& Murray Co , Columbia, S. C., and wholesale by ?* Howard & WiPett, Augusta, Ga., PARENTS ' J Who have Daughters to educate should V send for circular of the SOUTH CAROLINA COLLEGE FOR m WOMEN, W COLUMBIA. S. C. J Three Departments, Preparatory, Acade f aiic and Collegiate. Art and Music De 3 -*-? a? TN partments unsurpassed, rxjaraing uepartQient unsurpassed in its appointments. For 1 circulars or any information address, REV. W. R. ATKINSON, ^ Au? 30-4 President. F?l?SMiWiS^ /jGS-Ask for catalogue. TERRY ?il'F'G CO- Nashville. TekicM M