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if VOL. ^YL " ~ ^ WINNSBORO, S. 0 WEDNESDAY^XOVEMBER 5, 1890. XO. 12. I DEAD SEA AXD JORDAN. DR. TALMAGE'S FIFTH SERMON ON HIS TOUR IN THE HOLY LAND. S8gB|M Topography of the .Dead Sea Keslon. [ Pompeii antl the Volcano?The Lowest | Lake in the "World?Evidences of God's ft Brooklyn, Oct. 26.?Dr.-Tdmage preached the fiftirsermoii'of the series afreP on his tour in the Holy'Land in the K Academy of Music in ;his city^ .this Hi morning. This- evening at/The Ch^i's||||| tain Herald service in the Academy of Music, New York, the sermon Was" rvgea'teci before an audience which filled the vast building in every part. Dr. Talfnage announced as his text, Rs civ, 32: "He toucheth the hills and g they smoke." He said : David the poet here pictures a volor>^ TrrVi-jt l^.h nrch's PrtfnnflT1 fint-'C! OliJU ?? iU*pW vyj-* WAV/I? V WW j/mk. v*v> w oil painter's canvas this author does in words. You see a hill, calm and still ^ and;, for ages immovable, but the Lord Sal out of the heavens puts his linger on ffiBB the top of it,- and from it'Tise thick n vapors intershot with 3re. "Fie touchffi eth the hills and they smoke'.". HB God is the only being who can man|P age a volcano, and agaia and again- has he employed volcnnic action. The-picggjf tures on the walls of Fompeii, the exhumed .Italian city, "as -we saw them last Xovemher, demonstrate that the Bw city was not fit to live. In the first r century that ' city, engirdled with palaces, emparaciised- witn garcens, ft, pfllared into architectural exquisi.teness, was at the foot of a mountain up the sides of which it ran with vineyards and villas of merchant princes, jmR and all'that marble and bronze and im%? perial baths and. arboriculture and S rainbowed fountains, and a coliseum at the dedication of which nine thousIB and beasts h&d been slain, and a super III nal landscape in whierhthe shore gave |9 roses to the sea and the sea gave crytals to the shore; yea, all that beauty mm and pomp and wealth could give-was * 1 -'-3 !>? ? 4ua:vva^ mere 10 oe seen ur neuiu. dui tu? uau morals of the city'' had shocked the world. In the year 79, on the 4th of W August, a black column rose above the B adjoining mountain and spread out, Pliny says,- as he saw it; like a great pine tree, wider and'wider, until it began to rain upon the city first thin pr ashes and then pumice stone, anc' sulphurous fumes scooped, and streams of mud poured through the streets till I few people escaped, and the city was buried, and some of-the inhabitants eighteen. hundred years after were found embalmed in the scorhe of that awful doom. The Lord called upon volcanic forces to obliterate that profligate city. He touched the hills and they smo'ked. SCIENCE AND SCRIPTURE AGREE. Nothing but volcanic action can explain what I shall-show you at the Dead sea upon which I looked last December, and of whose waters I- took~a on/l cfin/yino focto pAnnornin(y w/iUL-Ci . crti.j.*a ucwiv* vvuVvi?A^D n ' alFthat region the^e has been'controK 'Vfersy .enough to fill libraries, science saying one thing, revelation saying an^ oftr^r-yhijig. But admit volcanic action divIneI^,,empIoyed--and both testimonies are one and the same. Geology. F chemistry, geography, astronomy, ichthyology," ornithology and zoology are coming one by one to confirm the Scriptures. Two leaves of one book nrp Rpvp]at.ion and Creation, and the pennmariship is by the same divine h'and. Our horseback ride will not be so steep-to-day. and you can stay on without clinging to the pommel of the saddle, but>the scenes amid which w-e ride shall, .if. possible, be more thrilling, and by the time the horses snuff the sulphurous atmosphere of LakeAshaltites, or the Dead Sea, we will be ready to dismount and read froha our Bibles-about what was done that day by the Lord \Vhen he touched the hills and they smoked. Take a detour and pass along by the rocky tortus of Jlasada, where occurred something more wonderful in the ** /^AfriAfoliAn f K on vmi hot'o OVOf WttV UI ucopciata'ii iuwu au i w r heard of, unless you have heard of that. Hrrod built a palace amid these heaps ' of black and awful rocks which look like a tumbled midnight. A great band of robbers, about one thousand including their families afterward held the fortress. "When the Horn an army stormed that steep and the bandits could no longer hold the place, their chieftain, Eleazar, made a powerful speech vrhich persuaded them to die before they were captured. First the men kissed their families.a loving and 4.^^"k*? or*/-} d AacrcroT VCclllUJ. guuu-yj uuu y\AV v.into their hearts, and the women and children were slain. Then ten men were chosen by Lot-to slay all the other men, and each man lay down by the dead wife and children and waited for these executioners to do their work. This done, one man of the ten killed the other nine. Then the survivor committed suicide. Two 'women and five children had hid themselves, and after all was over. c/ime forth to.tell of the . nine hundred and sixty slaughtered. * Great and rugged natural scenery makes the roost tremendous natures for good or evii. Great statesmen-and great robbeis, great orators and great butchers, werenearlyall born or reared among mountain precipices. Strong natures are hardly ever.born upon-t-he : plain. When men have anythinggreatly good or greatly evil to do they come down off the rocks. ' TIIE LAND OF DESOLATION. Pass on from 'under the shadow of Hasada, the scene of concentrated diabolism, and come along where the salt .?. crystals crackle under the. horses' 1,, <r* r*oov fVto rr?rvtt Onrl 'or. Jl. KJ U. -UiVv^u vv\A Ay,* saken region of all the earth. * You to whom the word lake has heretofore suggested those bewitchments of beauty, JLuzerne or Cayuga, some great pearl set by a loving God in the bosom of the luxuriant valley.change all yotfr ideas about a lake, and seg this sheet of water which the Bible calls the Salt sea, or Sea of the Plain, and Josephus calls Lake Asphaltites. The multesrs xv-il* take care of the horses while we I go down to the brink and dip up the liquid mixture in the palm of the hand. The waters are a commingling of brimstore and pitch, and have six times larger percentage of stilt than those of the Atlantic ocean, the ocean having 4 per cent, of salt and this lake per cent. Lake Sir-i-kol, of India, is the highest lake in the world. This lake, on.; he banks of which we kneel,.is the lowest lake. Ir empties into no sea, among other things, for thfe simple reason that water cannot ran i>p hill. It-swallows up the river Jordon-'and nrikes no response of thanks, and never reports what it does with-the twenty mi * 1;r?T> fuhif - fp<?t -of water annnallv |p received from that sacred riVer. .-it taV's.th'e three branches and logs float||?|k ed irito.it by the Jordan and pitches them on'the banks of bitumen to decay . f he hot'spribgs near its banks by the ||L name of Callirhoe, where King Herod came to bathe off his illnesses, no sooner pour Into this sea than they are poisonjggk ed. Not a ti?h !<cale swims it. 2so* an insect walks it. It hates life, and if you atB tempt to swim there it lifts yeubyan Ha unnatural buoyancy to the surface, i as'.miich as to say, "We want no life here; but "death- is ' our' preference; : c??ath:"- Those who attempt to'wade ! iilto1 this lake, and - submerge them; selves, come- out almost" maddened, 'as - with the^sting.of a hundred wasps aod- hornets/and- with -lips ana eye' lids swollen with the strange ablution. Thesparkle:Of its. waters is -not-like ! the sparkle of beauty on other-lakes but a metallic lusterwlike-unto.the^ash i of a sword that would thrust you.. The gazelles and the ibexes that live on the j hills beside it, and cranes and -wild ! ducks that fly across?for, contrary to i.the old belief, birds do safely wing Jheir ! way over it?and the Arab'horses you ! have been riding, though, thirsty : enough, will -not drink out-of this .Urwi/l/.ul mivtnru A n\iet hfMTprC AVPr Ui^aUltU UJ1AUU1V/. OA Utiww uv > v*w i parts of it almost continually, 'which i thoucrh natural evaporation, seerrfs like a wing of doom spread over liquid desj olation. It is the rinsings of-abominatioD. . It is an. aqueous monster-coiled j among-the-hills, or creeping with-rip; pies, and stenchful with nauseating malodors. THE CITIES OF TIIE PLAIN. In these regi3ns once stood four ; great cities of Assyria: Sodom, Gomorj rah, Adma and Zeboim. The Bible ; says they were destroyed by a temptest 'of fire and brimstone after'these. cities ! had filled up of wickedness." '\No;'that i is absurd," cries some one; "it is evi; dent that this was a region of salt and i i _i j ^ W '? i fTiuiSLOue itiju jlmluu iuu^ uauic uiat. | And so it was. The Bible says it was -i.-l-efgion of sutphur long. befo're the great catastrophe. '!Well,?noW,;>' sayssome one, wanting to raise; a quarrel ; between science and Revelation^, "you | have no right to say the cities of the I plain were destroyed by a tempest of ! lire and sulphur* and brimstone, beI cause this region had'these charaiterisj tics long before these cities were desI troyed."^Vblbanlc action, is my reply. HDhese cities had been built out of verv | combustible materials. The mortar I was of bitumen easily ign'ted, aad the i walls dripped with pitch most iuflaraai ble. They sat, I think, on a -ridge of? hills. They stooa nign up ana conspic| uous. radiant in their sins, ostentatious I in their debaucheries, four hells on ! earth. One day there was a rumbling in the i earth, and.a quaking. "What's that ?" j cry the affrighted inhabitant's." "What's ithiftV" The foundations of the earth ' werfe giving way. A volcano; whose I fires had been burning for ages, at j God-'s; command', bursts forth, easily ! setting everything ajjame, and first ! lifting these cities high in air and then dashing them down in chasms fathomless. The fires of that eruption intershot .the dense smoke and rolled unto *1"* . U/vaw 1 t? f/v o'/roin } l/UC Llt<\ rUD, \JL11J tu ucowcuu a^aiu. j And all tneconfiguration of that country was changed, and where there was a hill there came a valley, and where there had been-the pomp of jncleanness came widespread desolation. The red hot spade-of- volcanic action had j shoveled under the cities of the plain. I Before the catastropbe the cities stood I on the top of the salt and sulphur, i After the catastrophe they were under. ! the salt and sulphur, tjcience right; ! Revelation right. "He toucheth the ! hills and thev smoke." Xo science ever-irightened believers 'In Revriatum so mneh as eeolostv. i They feared that the strata of the I earth -wpui^ contradict the Scriptures. I and ttiefi Moses must go under. But as in the Bead sea Instance so in all cases God's writing oh the earth and God's writing in the Bible are harmonious. The shelves of rock correspond with the shelves of the American Bible society. Science digs into the earth and .-.finds, deep down, the remains of plants and so the Bible announces plants first. Science d'gs down and says; "Marine animals next." and the Bible says, ''"Marine animals next." Science dips -jown and says. "Land aniI mals nt\i," and the Bible responds, I "Land animals next." "Then comes ! man!" says science. "Then comes man!" responds the Bible. Science digs into the regions about the Dead sea, and finds result of fire and masses of brimstone, and announces a wonderful j geological formation.- "Oh, yes," says ! the Bible, "Moses wrote thousands of I years ago, 'The Lord rained upon Sodj om and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.' and | David wrote. 'He toucheth the hills and they smoke."" So I guess we will hold | on to our Bibles a little longer. A gen! tleman in the ante-room of the White j House at Washington, having an appointment with Mr. Lincoln at 5 j o'clock in the morning, got there fif I t^en minutes eariy, ana assea me servant, "Who is talking in tbe next room?". "It is the president, sir.!' . Is anybody with him?"-. "Xo, sir; he is reading the Bible. lie spends every morning from 4 to 5 o'clock reading the Scriptuies." PROFLIGATE CITIES OVERWHELMED. My text implies that God controls volcanoes, not with the full force of his hand, but with the tip of his finger. Etna, Stromlx.li and Vesuvius'fawn ! at his feet like hounds before the hunter. These eruptions of the hills do not belong 'to-Pluto's realm, as the ancients thought, but to the divine dominions. Humboldt counted two hundred of i them, but since then the Indian archi} pelago has been found to have nine [hundred of these great mouthpieces. ! They are ou every continent and in all j latitudes. That earthquake which j shook all America about six or seven, summers ago was only the raving around of volcanoes rushing against | the sides of their.cftcky caverns trying j to break out-.: Tlbiey must come to the : surface, but it will be-at the divine call. | They seem reserved for the punishment I of ohfe -kind of sin. The seven cities ! they have obliterated were celebrated ; for one kiud of transgression. Prollij gacy was the chief characteristic of the j seven cities over which they"put .their ! smothering wing: Pompeii, Bercula! \ /I ->-% It . *7 a"V> /\ i rv% -Crv/lAm iiciiiii, Ovauitc, -Ziuuuxiu, VJWIV/U.J and Gomorrah. . If our American cities do not quit their profligacy, if in high life and low life dissoluteness does not cease to be a 'joke and become a crime, if wealthy | libertinism continues to find so many i doors of domestic life open to its faintjest touch, if Russian ana French and American literature steeped m pruriency does not get banished from the news stands and ladies' parlors, God will let loose some of these suppressed monsters of The earth. And I tell these American cities that it wili be more tolerable for Sodom and Gomorrah in jthe day of judgment, whether that day of judgment be in this present cen| tucy of in the closing century of the earth's continuance. The volcanic forces are already in existence, but in the mercy of God they are chained in the kennels of subterraneous lire. Yet let profligacy, whether it stagger into a lazaretto, or sit on a commercial throne, whether St laugh in a faded shawl under the street gaslight or to be wrappec!" in the finest array that foreign j iUULII CVfl *\iUUglib Ui ld[/iUdi) j im pearled, know right well that there jisavolcaiiowaitingfor.it, whether in domestic life, or social life, or political ! life, or in the foundations of the earth from which sprang out the devastations that swallowed the cities of the plain. ; "He toucheth the hills and they smoke." j " But the dragoman was rejoiced when j" we had seen enough of this volcanic re gion of Palestine, and he gladly tight ! ens the girths for another march around j the horses which are prancing and neighing for departure. We are oil for the Jordan, only two hours away. We pass Bedouins whose stern features melt into a smile as we give them the salutation Salaam Aleikoum, "Peace be with you," their smile sometimes leaving us in doubt as to whether it is caused by their gladness to see us or uy our poor pronunciation 01 uie enable. Oh, they are a strange race, those Bedouins. .Such a commingling of ruffianism and honor, of cowadice and courage, of cruelty and kindness! When a band of them came down upon a party in which Miss Whately was*traveling, and were about to take pocketbooks and perhaps life, this lady sitting j upon her horse took out her note book and pencil ana began to sketch these brigands, and seeing this composure the bandits thought it something suoernatural.and fled. Christian womanliness or manliness is all conquering. When Martin Luther was told that Duke George would kill him if he went to Leipsic Luther replied, "I wonld go j j to Leipsic if it rained Duke Georges : ; nine days." VTI/iT VTTTW AT." TITR .TAT?T1 K V i Now we jome through regions where | there are hills cut into the shape of cathedrals, with altar and column and arch and chancel arid pulpit and dome and architecture of the .rocks t:.at I think can hardVy just happen so. Perhaps it is because God loves the church sq well, he biiilds. in th 5 solitudes ot Yellowstone;, park and Yosemite and Switzerland ftnd Palestine these ecclesiastical piles. And who knows but that . unseen spirits . may sometimes ! ^ orsbi.p there.? "Dragoman, when shall j we see the - Jordan V" I ask. All the j time we were oa the alert, and looking through tamarisk and willows for the greatest river e* all the eartb. The Mississippi is wider, the Ohio is deeper, the Amazon is longer, the Hudson rolls amid regions more picturesque, the Thames has more splendor on its banks, the Tiber suggests more imperial. procession, the ilyssus has more | classic memories, and the Nile feeds greaier populations uy us irrigation, but the Jordan.:is the queen of rivers, and runs through all the Bible, a silver thread strung like Leads with heroics, and before night we shall meet on its banks Elijah and Elisha and David and Jacou.and Joshua and John and Jesus. At last between two trees I got a glimpse of a river and said, "What is that?" "The Jordan," was the quick reply. And all alone the line which had "been lengthened by other pilgrims, some from America, and some from Europe, ana some irom Asia, .me cry was sounded "The Jordan! The Jordan!" Hundreds of thousands of pilgrims have chanted on its banks and bathed in its waters. Many of them dip a wet gown in the wave and wring it out aad carry it home for their own shroud. It is an impetuous stream, and rushes on as though it were hastening to tell its story to the ages. Many an explorer has it whelmed and many a boat has it wrecked. Lieut. Molineaiix had copper bottomed- crafts split upon its ahelvings. . Only one boat, that of Lieut. Lynch, ever lived to -sail the whole length of it. At the season when the snows on JLebanon melt the/age of this stream is like the Gonemaiigh when Johnstown, perished, -3 a.1 n J t it ri. ~ _ U ^ _ ana uie wuu ueasus i<uai/ may uc ueai run for the hills, explaining what Jeremiah says, "Behold he shall go up like a lion from the swelling of Jordan." Xo river so often changes its mind, for it turns and twists, traveling two hundred miles to do that which in a straight line might be done in sixty miles. Among banks now low, now high, now of rocks, now of mud and now of sand, laving the feet of the terebinths and oleanders and acacias and reeds and pistachios and silver poplars. This river marries the Dead sea to Lake Gallilee, and did ever so rough a , U,-. -T..; - .. I givum laac cuc nauu ui o\J KUI .* UIIUC MIRACLES AT THE JORDAN. This is the river which parted to let an army of two million Israelites across. Here the skilled major general of the Assyrian host at the seventh plunge dropped his leprosy not only by miraculous cure, but suggesting to ail j ages that water, and plenty of it, has muClj to do/with the sanitary improvements of the world. Here is where : some theological students of Elisha's ! time were cutting trees with which to build a theoiogical seminary, and an ax ; head, not sufficiently wedged to the handle, flew ojff into the river and sank, and the young, man deplored not so much the loss of the ax head as the fact that it was not his'own, and cried, "Alas! it was/borrowed," and the prophet threw a'stick into the river, and in defiance of the law of gravitation the iron ax head came to the surface and floated like a cork upon the . water, and kept floating un^il the young man caught it. A miracle performed to give one an opportunity to retufn that which was borrowed, and a rebuke in all ares for those who borrow and never return, their bad habit in this rel sDeot so established that it would be a miracle if they did return it. Yea, from the bank of this river Elijah took a team of fire, showing that the most raging element is servant of the good, and that there is no need that a child of God fear anything, for if the most destructive" of all elements was that day fashioned into a vehicle for a de parting saini, nooning can ever nun you who love and trust the Lord. I am so glad that that chari Jt of Elijah was not made out of wood or crystal or anything: ordinarily pleasant but out of lire, aud yet he went up without having so much as to fan himself. When, stepping from amid the foliage of these oleanders and tamarisks on the banks of . the Jordan, he put his foot on the red step of the red equipage, and toc-k the red reins of vapor in his hands, and spurred the galloping steeds toward the wide open gate of heaven, it was a scene forever memorable. So the hottest afflictions of your me may ron you neavenwnru. oo me most burning persecutions, the most fiery troubles., may become uplifting. Only be sure that when you pull od the bits of tire, you drive up toward God, and not down-toward the Dead sea. When Latimer and Ridley died at the stake they went up in a chariot of tire. When my friend P. P. Bliss, the gospel singer, was consumed with the rail train that broke through Ashtabula bridge and then took flame, I said, "Another Elijah gone up in a chariot of lire!" BAPTIZING IN THIS JORDAN. But this river is a river of baptisms. Christ was here baptized and John baptized m my thousands. Whether on these occasions the candidate for baptism and the officer of religion went i into this river, and then while both j ! were standing the water was dipped in | the hand off one and sprinkled upon : the forehead of the other, or whether Ithe entire form of one baptized disI onno'iruH mnmMnf. }v>ripc;.h t.hp <snr. face of the flood, I do not- nr.w declare. While I cannot""thick without deep emotion of the fact that my parents | held me in infancy to the "baptismal i font in the old meeting house at 5>om; erviile and assumed vows--od my be: Knlf T must, fpll VIYI7 ruin,' nf HFIOthpr 1 mode of baptism"observfji^l?the river ; Jordan on that afterDj^Sg&BB^ December, the particulaiflH^^^Prnow for the first time relateigsaHj It was a scene of u^OTHmble sol ; fcmnity. A comrade in onr Holy Land ! ; journey rode up by my side that day j j and told me that a young man who is j | now studying for the gospel ministry j would like to be baptized by me in the i riv^r Jordan. 1 go: all the facts I could I concerning his earnestness an<}'; faith, i j anu inruugu persuutu cAcii:uuan?? i | made myself confident he was a wo: U.y i ; candidate. There were among <.*irl Arab att' ndants two robes not. unlike those used for American baptistries, j ?nd :hese we obtained. As we were to j have a large group of dill-rent nationi alities present I dictated to my daughj ter a few verses and' bad copies enough made to allow all to sing. Our dragoman had a man familiar withjthe river wade thro ugh .und across to show the i depth aDd the swiftness 01 tne scream | and the most appropriate place for the j ceremony. Then I read from.ihe Bible the accounts of baptisms in that sacred stream, and implored the .presence of the Christ on whose head the dove deended at the Jordan. Then as the andidate and myself stepped into the water the neople oh the banks sari? in full and resounding1 voice: On Jordan "SjStorrny banks I stand And "ast a wishful eye To Canaan's fair and happy land, Where my possessions lie. On, the transporting, rapturous scene That rises to my sight; Sweet fields arrayed in living green And rivers of delight. By this tune we had reached the middle of the river. As the candidate sank under the tloods and rose again under a baptism in the name of the Father, and the Sou, u::'l the Holy Ghost, there rushed through our souls a tide of holy emotion such as we shall not orohalilv reel aeain until we step into the Jordan that divides earth from heaven. Will those waters be deep? Will those tides be strong? Xo matter if Jesus steps in with us. Friends on this shore to help us off. Friends on the other shore t > see us land. ."See! They are coming down the hills 0:1 the other side to greet us. How well we know their step! IIow easily we. distinguish their voices! From bank to bank we hail them with tears and they hail us with palm branches. They say tn ns "T* that, von. father?" "Is that you, mother?" and we answer by asking', "Is that you, my darling?" IIow near they seem, and how narrow the stream that divides us! Could we but stand where Moses stood And view the landscape o'er, Not Jordan's stream nor Death's cold flood Could fright us from the shore. Desecrating the Marriage Ceremony. Birmingham, Ala, October 24.? There was a thrilling ballooD ascension at the State Fair to-day. Thomas J. Mims and Miss Gertrude Pittman. of 13rewton, Ala, were married in front of the grand stand in the presence of 10, UUU people, ?nc itev o. .ai. nuams, president of the State Alliance, performed the ceremony. The young couple then stepped into the car of a monster gas balloon, and with a strong wind sailed oft' on there bridal tour. The balloon took a southerly direction, and at the height of a mile and a half went over Ked Mountain. It was last seen this afternoon at halt-past 2 o'clock passing over Oxmoor, seven miles south of Birmingham, and still- heading for the mountainous region of Shelby County. The State Fair management gave the young couple a purse of $250 and a large number of presents were given to ihem. The groom is 20 and the bride is 18. The balloon bridal party landed on the top of a mountain seventeen miles from Birmingham, after a trip of an. hour They were seven miles from a railroad station, but the country people near by carried them to Helena, where they took the train for Birmingham, arriving at 9.10 o'clock to-night. Flooded by a Standpipe. St. Louis, October 26.?A dispatch from Temple, Texas, says: Two hun urea anu eignty muusauu giuiuua ui water confined in a steel stanclpipe broke loose from its confines about 3 o'clock on Friday morning and flooded the town. Immense sheets of boiler steel, hundreds of pieces of scaffoldings, houses, barns, fences and all the debris of the surrounding neighborhood went floating and crashing in all directions. The people of the town were awakt-ned, and stood in frightened groups about the town watching the destruction of their homes and property. The house of O. T. Ttigdon was crushed as an egg shfll and afterwards took tire from an overturned lamp and was burned, lli'gdon was seriouly burned, and his recovery is doubtful. The accident is unaccountable. 2so flaws were apparent in any of the broken pieces of the pipe and the workmanship shows it to be first-class. The foundation is still there solid and unharmed except in one place, where a gash two feet long was cut through the bottom and a couple of rocks wash-, ed away. TXU11CJ iu vnuuiii^, Ai*vw*?vo. Charleston, Oct. 25?Here is a hint to Columbia capitalists and farmers: The canning factory established here less than a year ago on a very small capital is making money not only for itself but for the farmers. It has saved the truck farmers many thousands- of dollars in an emergency that had not occurred to them and that in no other way could be averted. The large crop of string beans, (the second crop) which maturing now, is always shipped to the Xorth. This year, there having been no frost as yet in the Xorth, the Southern bean is a drug on the market. Here comes the canning factory and offer to buy the entire crop and cure it, paying tJiu farmers ID sprits 3 hlishftl for the beans. All of which goes to show that a canning factory is a convenient thing to have around." He Loved the Telephone Girl. Fort Worth, Texas, Oct. 21.?Miss Addie Cullen, the telephone girl, left here last night ticketed through to New York city where she will be met by exMayor \V. S. Pendleton and .a secret marriage ceremony will Lie performed. Mrs. Pendleton Xo. 1 was granted a divorce a few weeks since and this second marriage will close one of the most sensational society upheavals known in the history of Texas. Pendleton has begun the practice of law ia Xctv York city and has purchased some property. Death Kobbed a Ilride-to-Iie. Birmingham, Ala., Oct. 24.?The dead and wounded from the collision on the Kansas City, Memphis and Birmingham road, two miles from Birmingham last night, were brought to this city this morning at a late hour. The dead are T. I). Franklin, a drummer, of Nashville, and John Killian, lireman. Fireman Killian was not on the engine, but was in a Dassencer coach en route to Armory, Miss*, where he was to be married tomorrow. No Kest for the Czar. Paris. Oct. 22.?The Evenment has advices from St. Petersburg stating that as the train in which the Czar was traveling on his return to St. Petersburg from his hunting trip in Holland was passing Grodno, a. shot was fired .at the train from the railway station there." It is a pity for a man like Judge Haskell to read himself out of the Democratic party, but that is just what he has done. HE KILLED SEVENTY MEN. Death ot One of the Wild West's Most Despernte Outlaws. Muskogee. I. T. Oct. 26.?"Old Tom Starr," one of the most remarkable des- j peradoes in this country, is dead. He ; was.a Cherokee Indian, six feet four ; inches in height, straight as an arrow, j and at the time of his death nearly j eighty years of age. I ] This remarkable man came West with his father, when the C'nerokees were removed to this part of the country. A 1 bitter fend arose over the sale of the ] house of the red man. East of the M is- . sissippi, between two factions known j, as the Kiiige and Ross parties. "Old . Xom!s" lather belonged to the Ridges, j lie was shot >lown in his own door lya ! j partv of the enemy. Torn killed three!; of the party on the spot. <iiid then he ; bs^gaii a war on the enemy in which |, seventy people, as estimated by the (J Cherokee Council, were.slain by him.!; About fifteen years ago the Cherokee Council entered into a treaty with Torn, < sinqe with compromise he lias lived a | quiet and exemplary life. 1 During the da\s of his warfare 1 against his Indian foe there were many \ deeds of desperate daring placed to his ; j credit. I5v him a tax collector in Craw- j1 ford County, Ark., was >vertaken in rv* Anrif'linb un?l rnhhaH ' J of 810,000. Watt Grayson, a Cherokee, 1 was robbed of 832.000, and a subsequent ] suit against the government to recover J the money developed "Oid Tom" as the 1 brains of the gang who did trie neat 1 job in a most romantic way, aided by ] "the cunning of Bill Reed. After the ' robbery Reed went to Texas, where lie ] met a tragic death, and Belle and Tom j quarreled over the Grayson booty. ' Belle married Sam, Tom's pet son, to 1 spite "Old Tom" and his wife. Three ] years ago Sam Starr and Bill West, cousins, killed each other in a duel over ' t' ;i~ .. 4-Ufnr J lciiuiM iiintccio, auu a iittic laiui i/cnu Starr was shot while 011 horseback, near her home in "Younger's Bend." pre- 1 sumably by friends of her husband, ' who beiieved she conspiried with West J to kill Sam. Old Tom would talk freely of his deeds in revenge of his fath- j er's death, but he rarely spoke of his other exploits. j Manager Acaiust Editor. j . Atlanta, Oct. 23.?The lion. W. A. i Ilemphill, the well-known business I manager of the Constitution, in a L speech before the Confederate Veterans' 1 Association a night or two ago, alluded to the light being made on Governor ; Gordon as a blow at the Confederate j cause, lie said he indorsed everything ] the farmers had done except that tight. ; To-day the other end of the Coustitu- 1 tion?the Livingston end?took issue j with Business Manager Ilemphill in an 1 extremely long editorial, in which it ? was claimed that the alliance was mak- i ing no light on Gordon and that to fight < him politically did not mean to fight < him as a Confederate soldier. 1 When Mr. Hemphill saw the editorial, ; his first idea was, he says, to publish a- ; card in answer to it, but this plan lie < abandoned. But without receding from < his position in the slightest, to-day he 1 said: < "I think that the old Confederate sol- < diers.are with me, and they certainly i endorsed my views at the meeting the ] other night. I stand by what ? said, and believe that s?fight is being"5iade oni < General Gordon, and without a just 1 cause; and I reiterate, that a blow at 1 John B. Gordon is a blow at the sacred < cause of which he is to-day the greatest < living representative. To strike at i Gordon means to strike at every Con- ] ieuei itte suiuiei . i t So the business end of the Constitu- i tion and the Livingston end seem to be i just as far from reaching an understand- i ing as ever. ( Hard Times in Western Kansas* The exodus of people from the "West- , era part of the State, where the corn [ crop was a total failure, continues. The ( most of the inhabitants are poor, and all who can are leaving the country. In addition, many are going who have property, although they must sacrifice i their possession to get away. An Atchison railroad man, who is just from the j country which includes the Fifth Con- , gressional District, says people are leav ing by train and wagon, and so many j are getting ready to leave before winter sets in that the* railroads have agents working among them to carry them. 1 One man who lives about twenty-miles 1 South of Superior told the Globe's in- ! formant that he was offering for 83,000 < a line farm which he had lived upon and i improved for twenty years, and if he i could not dispose of it he would put it ] in the hands of an agent and leave. lie has not had complete crops for five , years, and lie will go to .Louisiana , where lie can raise two crops of rice a J year. Louisiana is the land of promise : of most of the people, but a great many ; are going to Oregon.?Atchison Globe. ! Excitiug Adventure. Paris, Oct. 26.?The Aeronauts, Val- . ies, Lelice. Truelle met with an exciting adventure, which nearly terminated fa- ; tally. Tliey left the gas works at La Yillette at 3 o'clock yesterday afternoon in the balloon Mozart intending to make j a brief ascent. When in an altitude of fliro* fltrincanrl vnrrlc n InirnVnnp rlrnvp I tiie balloon Xortheast, the wind violently rocking the car, and the occupants clinging' to the sides. When over the villiage of Bourev, one hundred and lif- ] ty miles from Paris, grappling irons ( were thrown out and broken. The wind tore the covering off the balloon, and sank the car, which struck the ground so forcibly that it rebounded, throwing Lelice on the telegraph wires and companions 011 the ground. All were injured. KumMiihprnr) the Revolution. Baltimore. Oct. 24.?Mrs. Mary Jane Mills died at Snow Hill, Md., aged 102 years and six months. Mrs. Mills was born in Delaware Jnne 15th, 1788, and lived the greater portion of her life in that state. Her family were noted for their longevity, her mother living to the , age of 104. and an aunt died at the age of 102. ller. father was killed during one of the engagements with the British in the war of 1812, while serving as a private soldier in one of the Delaware ? -i.-i..* -> 11111! 11(1 UUllipitHltS. ^>JLIO. ..VliiiO remembered the battle of North Point, having heard the cannonading, as at that time she was living near Baltimore. The Florida Alliance. Monticello, Fla., Oct. 23.?The .^tate Farmers' Alliance of Florida, in annual session here, adopted the followI ing to-night: Jiesolved, That this order is not wedded nor allied to any political party and has no room on its platform for partisan politics or partisan politicians. Florida's representatives in the nalAw'clnfnra n-ava. olo/\ imATl 11UIUU ICglOllUlUC HU6 KIOV V KIIVU . to vote for the bill abolishing the national banking system and substituting for it issues of" legal tender treasury notes: also to support the sub-treasury bill or something better. JEtua in Eruption. Palermo, Oct. 22.?Monnt ./Etna is in eruption, and a thick column of volcanic vapors is rising from the central ' a r\f oQrrhniinlrp has CUilC. II Ol^Ul/OUVVU been felt on the Eastern side of the mountain and a shower of cinders has fallen over Spezzia. j X . PRICES GOING UP. Pleasant Heading for Consumers from the Trade Journals. The trade journals, whose function it is to chronicle the ups and downs of prices for the information of the jobbing rmri retail tmHp arft inst now interest ing reading for people with inelastic incomes. The McKinlev tariff put higher duties on foreign manufactures to enable the home protected manufacturers to get higher prices, and the published price lists show that they are working the new law for all it is worth. The American Wool Reporter of the L6th instant makes this report of the present state of mind of woolen manufacturers: "Naturally all are looking forward to a readjustment of values. This is imperative, and. more than this, is the direct purpose of the new bill." As tc plain goods the Reporter says: Xo cue can tell where the market will 7,0 on these fabrics. At the present time fifty-inch goods that have been sold by jobbers this season as low as 50 sents, and in a few instances possibly Irtwn tn 171/ <->AritQ nrp hplri strnnf at agents' hands at 65 cents. A decided advance must be obtained on these fabrics, and it is held by some that prices will touch 75 cents before the spring season is over " Satinets, says the same authority, are to command higher prices, "consequent upon the change in tariff laws. These must come; they are the inevitable result as well as the" designed purpose of the McKiniey bill." Flannels, according to the lieAM/v 1 " +A OA r\AI? nfln f {JUILC1, <11C CU C11JUJ cl L*J tu ?J\J advance over the auction prices of last spring." The Central Falls Mills, says the same journal, have announced that an and after the 18th the price of their all wool Thibets will be SI.8734, an advance of 12J? cents per yard, the goods having been sold this season at 81.75." On the subject of carpets the Reporter liad an interview with Mr. A. T. Lyman, Df the Lowell Carpet Company, as to the effect of the new tariff on his business. 'All classes of wools entering ilito the texture of carpets," says Mj. Lyman, are subject to higher duties. A large amount of wool now coming to us will liave to pay 40 per cent more duty than it would have had to pay if it had come in last week. Rierht on the top of the passage of the McKinley bill, the Philadelphia carpet manufacturers invited the representatives of the Eastern mills to enter into an agreement to lock up 10 per cent, of all the looms for one year, beginning November 1st." The locking up proposition was not adopted, but it was agreed to "raise prices," and Philadelphia carpets have accordingly been advanced ten cents a yard. This action, however, was only preliminary to a further advance. "In addition," says Mr. Lyman, "it was agreed that if the Eastern mills advance, the Philadelphia mills will immediately follow suit with an advance upon that which they have already made. New prices ire generally given out about December I, out tms year iney win come inucn earlier and will be much higher. Another conference of manufacturers is to be held in Xew York next weak. To ium up the situation: Consumers' will >oon have to pay higher prices, or else :hey must buy inferior qualities of carpet at the old prices." The testimony of the Dry Goods Economist is the same. "The first effect of ;he new tariff," says the Economist, '-has Deen to harden values for all kinds of iry goods and to advance prices for all Masses. Raw wool has advanced and ill manufactures are firmer to higher. Fine dress goods are 10 to 15 per cent, learer, and flannel fabrics are firmer, vith an upward tendency. Linens have idvanced 10 per cent., and the tendency s upward, particularly for handkerchiefs. On all kinds of table linens, shirtings, hollands, sheetings, burlaps, mvplinnrs nnri house-keenin2 linens generally, advances of 10 to 12per ;ent. are readily obtained, and trade is juite brisk at that." A Base Slander Refuted. Atlanta. Ga., Oct. 20.?John Livngston, president of the State Farmers Alliance of New York, figures in a poitical sensation just unearthed in Georgia, in which Livingston's namesake, Leonidas Livingston, president of the Georgia State Farmers' Alllauee and Democratic nominee for Congress in this district, is the other prominent fig are. During the past few days the State has been llooded with circulars ;ontaining affidavits of John Livingston, n which he declares among other Lhings that Leonidas Livingston wrote him a letter in which he said: ' Of course we want the Lodge bill 01 something like it. but from local feeling and prejudice it is not policy to say sc to the public just now. I shall be willing to vote with the Republicans on all party questions to win votes for oui sub-treasury plan." lie further charges that Livingston, the Georgian, is the employee of Jolir Iuman and the West Point Terminal uuiiipau > . President Livingston, when showc the letter to-day, pronounced it an absolute forgery. He says the only letter he ever wiote the 2s ew York Livingstor about the force bill wa3 one in which Ik strongly urged its defeat, and says Johr Livingston theu replied through a Rich' tnond paper, in which ,he said that it consideration for the wishes of his fel low farmers through the South he woulc Jo all he could to defeat the force bill. An Unfortunate Catting: Afiair. Timmonsville. Oct. 30.?Whil< Kdmond H. Deas, colored, who is running on the Republican ticket for Con gress from this district, was addressing o .'mwfl nf in the interest of th( Haskell cause, exception was taken t< his remarks by certain Tillmauites among whom was J. Gully Jackson Jackson's temper was excited to i point of belligerency, and he drew hii knife on Deas and split his mouth opei on one side nearly to the oar, and woul< have killed him hut lor Colonel II. L Morris, who pressed up to make peace In this praiseworthy endeavor of Col onel Morris, however. Jackson, who wa: highly wrought up, turned upon Colone Morris and slashed him a severe cut 01 his left cheek and raked him across hi! left side, cutting clear through his cloth ing and ripping the skin, though not t< a serious depth. Deas bled profusel; and it was believed he would die fron the wound received. Jackson was ar rested but released on ?100 bond fo his appearance before the town counci next. Thursday. Cth instant. There i considerable excitement amon^ the citi zons.?Columbia Agister. Distress in. Oklahoma. Topeka, Kaxs., Oct. 25.?F. Warnei a farmer living in "Western Park, Okla homa, near Keno, arrived in Topeka ye* terday morning. He has been sent ou by his suffering neighbors to solicit ai< for them. Warner says the settlers ar without supplies, and their wives an children without clothing; and they ca: obtain no work. Unless speedily suj plied with aid they will suffer fror starvation and cold. The men must r( main upon their land or forfeit thei homestead rights. I A Cotton Seed War. The Charlotte Xews says: A report {comes from along the line of the oil mills South of us. that the old cotton seed war has broken out again and promises to be worse than ever?the fftrmprs against the oil mills. The cot j ton seed od manufacturers lost money ! last year. They attribute this largely to the Conger Compound Lard Bill, which, although it did not pass Congress, yet caused such agitation against cotton seed oil that it depressed prices. A still more important cause of the losses of the mills, however, was the hi>h nriffi mid for seed, some 814 to | $16 a ton. The competition between the American Oil Trust mills and the independent mills sent up the price of seed higher than was ever known before, and the result was that, although the production was greater than ever, there were heavy losses all along the line; indeed, the more oil made, the greater the loss. "With this experience the cotton seed | oil men resolved to avoid a similar loss this year, and early last month met and resolved to act together. The trust and i the independents combined so as to reduce and fix the price of seed. They i decided on 88 or S9 a ton for the seed, | a little more than half the amount paid last year. This has naturally aroused great opposition, and has brought on the same old war waged between the farmers and the mills three years ago. The low price offered has naturally cut down the supply of seed for the mills. Xot half as much has been received as at this time last year, although the cotton itself is pouring in very fast. The chances are that the war will grow even warmer, and the cotton seed oil product I of the country be materially reduced in ! consequence. In many of the parishes farmers' organizations have been formed to light the mills. The planters are pledging themselves to hold their cotton seed and use it as fertilizers rather than sell it at present prices. They also propose to adopt the plan successfully pursued in South Carolina of putting up and working small co-operative oil mills of their own, and thus freezing out the big mills. They seem determined not to sacrifice their seed, and have already greatly reduced the supply for the New Orleans and other mills. The tYorkofthe Alliance. An *;Allianceman," in the Southern Cultivator says f,the character of the purposes of the Alliance was fully emphasized in the fundamental organism of the organization. The honor and j integrity of the order was pledged to each member that there should be no conflict with their political or religious views. The base of the organization was to render the lives of farmers and laborers more attractive, country life j less lonely and more social, and to better their financial condition. There are two theories as to the cause of agricultural depression. One theory (held by politicians largely) is f.hat the in i-1 na oAlalif tr* lumolofinn UCyiCSS-lUU 10 UUC OUiCiJ W ICK^inviuu, and to remedy the evil legislation must be controlled, and to control legislation the farmers must form a political party. The other theory is that the depression is caused jointly by bad legislation by the political parties on one sides and -^ ant of econumy on the part of the farmers on the other, and that the rein- j edy lies in-?eform on both sides moving in parallel linesr-.The last theory is the j foundation stone of tiie Alliance movement. Their work lieS^in educatingthft for trim in -the econoioi^ .flftflduet of their own affairs, in the proper understanding of the science of government, and in bringing all classes together in harmony and good will. Not theirs to inculcate the spirit of hostility to any class: not theirs to impute dishonesty to any class; not theirs to breed dissension and sow discord among the people; not theirs to enter the political arena and disrupt all par lies uiai new panics iutvy uc ticaicu. Higher! Nobler! Grander! are the aims of the Alliance. Write in letters of living light this quotation from their declaration of purpose: "Its laws are reason and equity; its cardinal doctrines inspire purity of thought and life; its intention is 'Peace on earth and good will toward men." He who would prevent this purpose would degrade the organization by destroying the honor and integrity of the brotherhood solemnly pledged to each member. Brothers let us "protect the prin/Mrwee rtf t.h?? Alliiinpft unto death." Removal of the Alliance Exchange. Columbia, S. 0., Oct. 30.?The stockholders of the State Alliance Exchange , met yesterday in Agricultural llall and. after some discussions, decided to move ; the State Exchange from Greenville to Columbia January 1st. It was also concluded to establish a farmers' bank I in this city. A committee was ap> pointed to memorialize the Legisla ture at its coming sess on to obtain the 1 use of Agricultural Hall for the bank. ',l- ? frtl-An ?ic* tKo raeult 1 nib LiJUYC Wild LUrvcii no vnv iv-ouiu of a meeting of the County trustees of the shareholders of the State All liance Exchange held in this city Tues* I day evening, twenty-three Counties being represented. It was suggested that the exchange be located at Greenville, Blackville, Charleston and Columbia, but the latter place was finally 5 decided on yesterday. It was voted 1 as the sense of the meeting that the 5 stock of $50,000 subscribed to the State * T> ?' cf Anb 1 J&xcnauge UC U3CU <XZ UJC ua^ibai ovvy^x\ of an Alliance bank, and this bans, it i is proposed, will do the business of the - Alliances of the State. The arrange3 ments for the bank will be perfected at a meeting to be held the second Tuesday in December.?Register. , A Cat and Diptlieria. ^ Dodgeville, Wis., Oct. 29.?The family of Robert Paul at Middleton *' have been afflicted by diphtheria, which \ was brought into the house in a singu^ i.*_ ?A limit fruir acrn a Itti IliauiiCi. iouuu IV. ... } stray cat came to their home and one > of the children handled and played with it. Although ii was noticed at the i time that it discharged at the nose and 3 mouth, nothing was thought of it until 1 soon after, when the little boy came I down with black diphtheria?one of the . most malignant kind?that the doctor . said he had caught trom the cat. The . boy died. Then the second took the 5 disease and died. The father, mother 1 and daughter were also stricken down , and recovered. Albert, the only remain t ing son and support or ms parents, cared for them all through their terrible sickness, holding one of the boys 0 when dying and preparing them for y their last resting place with his own a hands. When the others were recover ing he was taken down and died. A Flood in The Hudson. s Hoxdout, X. Y., Oct. 26.?The Hudson to-day showed the highest tide in forty years. The brickyards suffered enormously. Millions o"f brick wert lost. The yards between Koseton and Albany are" submerged, and the greer i- bricks awaiting ournmg were tnruwx. >- down by the liood. It is estimated thai t forty-six million bricks have been losl d in the Kingston district. The tires wen e put out in the kilns in process of burn d ing. Green kilns were thrown dowr n and bricks underneath, sheds were wash >- ed a way; cement sheds suffered greatly n The Newark Lime and Cement Com pany's sheds are submerged with twelv< it inches of water. A much higher tide i; expected to-night. / I NATURE'S LATEST REAL ! LITTLE :NEZ HAYES A PUZZLE TO SOUTHERN DOCTORS. She Ejects Cotton From Her Mouth and Eyes and Xobody Can Tell How it is Caused?Superstitious People Say She is Bewitolled I Dresden, Tenn., Oct. 20.?A most ex! traonlinary phenomenon is at present ! occupying the attention of the people in this neighborhood. Already the newspapers here have discovered the facts in the case as far as observation could go, and from what iias been brought to sjj light thus far there is now no doubt that the little village of Greenfield, about twenty miles from here, will become famous in connection with the extraordinary freak of nature to be found there. it is nothing less than a girl who at regular intervals ejects genuine cotton from her eyes, ears and throat, and hitherto all attempts to solve the mysterv have proved futile. The neighbors were at iiret inclined to attribute it to some sort of legerdemain, but now they have been repeatedly convinced of the absence of any trickery, and they have done the inevitable thing among small communities where anything c?nnot be properly accounted for?that .s, to as cribe it to witchery. The Hayes girl,"who is the subject of ^ this strange story, lives with her parents" near Greenfield. ^Ir. Hayes is seventyone years of age and his wife is but a * few years younger. The daughter's name is Inez Ophelia, but she is generally called Tinesey. She is a rather tirr rriri nf twolvd vpars with 5"VU-AVViXXll5 w v* ? ~ j . fair skin, beautiful golden hair and light blue eyes?a perfect specimen of the blonde. She is stoutly built, though X ;i her family say she is gradually losing \? llesh. She has spent some time at school and is sharp and intelligent to a degree. Questious from visitors do not worry her in the least, and during the periods when she is in possession of her health she is the soul of good nature. Early yesterday morning a party of women and two gentlemen visited the Hayes residence for the purpose of finding out for themselves if the story vjjg of the cotton was true or a myth of some enterprising romancists. On the way to their destination several persons 4-1-1*1 T-IO T-f T- on^nnntArprl wprp VTAJLVXLi. Ci-lVy UJ VAJ.VV^**vv? ? w.w asked to direct them on their way. In all such cases rather dubious answers were given, but there was. an inclination displayed to avoid giving any details of the knowledge possessed on the subject. One man who had seen the cotton plainly ejected from the girl's eyes ad mitted the fact, but doubted that it was caused by any operation of nature. The Haves family live in a small, wooden, box-like house, which contains but one room of any account. In room the three sleep. There is a kitchen' in the rear. Everything around the -r?/-kOf o-nrl rPVia crfrl TT*cic ??ia.V/G w ao xioau anu uvuu< nu^ lying on an old-fashioned trundle bed ? - - j' near the fireplace. Sh^ was dressed in street attire and was playfully t rying with a little harp and some other knickknacks. She appeared to be iTL <rood health and spoke cordially and intelligently. To look at her. nobody would think that sh?j?asTCo?S*oH,ess than a girl taking-gn ordinary 1 mm grtif tecjliii ner.'-Sftre visitors conversed witfi"'hef''"^-__?^r-^^' iQf some time and began to grow some. what impatient, when finally .Mrs. Hayes asked them to look at the girl's feet. Then a sad sight was revealed. Since the poor girl became afflicted, a few weeks ago, her toes have curved around towards the bottom of her feet, and all attempts to straighten them have proved futile and caused her terrible agony. They are cold as death, and so lifeless that physicians have pierced ' T*ritV? iiuem iuiuu^u nuu L/tuuuQU. ?> causing no pain. When an attempt is --4*qk made to bend, them back to their natural position, however, the girl screams with agony. The woman in the party thoroughly searched around the bed and examined the patient carefully for any evidences of concealed cotton, but found none. All of a sudden the girl was seized with one of her spells, and with piteous screams she besought her mother to Uliub harder! rub harder!" at the same time gesticulating violently with her left hand, with which she vainly tried to reach her throat, as if to knock something away. The mother rubbed vigorously at the girl's throat meanwhile. This spell lasted a couple of minutes and three minutes later it was followed bv another and another. At the cessation of each quite a large ball of cotton was removed from her throat. As soon as she began to recover from the prostrating effects of her spells she smiled and talked in just as agreeable a manner as slie had before the spells made their appearance. To inquiries as to how she felt during the time that she is thus so strangelyagitated she said her throat felt as if somebody were sticking a sharp knife. into it. and the only thing which relieves her is a brisk rubbing of the muscles of the throat, which her mother always attends to. Sometimes the cotton is ejected clean through the skin, and on one occasion her throat was completely covered with it. The sufferer at these periods wanders 111 a strange manner, and positively asserts that her bed is surrounded by strange forms, one of which she describes as "a woman dressed in yellow." She charges these forms with depositing the cotton around her. ^ A strange thing in connection with the girl is her pecular sense of hearing. ' This is in itself very extraordinary. People standing by her bedside cannot hear a sound when she will tell them she ->hears voices at certain points, and. sure enough, she has been correct in every instance. She has been tested repeatedly, but has never slipped. Superstitious people ascribe the whole business to the inlluence of witchery, but her parents, while ridiculing this idea, cannot ac tUUlilj J.U1 L1IC piICHViAlCiiVil. Scores of visitors have been to see the afflicted girl, among them being many reputable physicians. Dr. Clopton of Milan says she is perfectly sane, Captain II. C. Roberts ascribes the fits by hysteria, but no one can explain away the presence of the cotton. Mrs. Harvey Drewerv watched by the girl's bedside last Sunday and distinctly saw the cotton come out of the girl's eyes. At breakfast the same day a portion was ejected from her mouth. Mr. II. C. Tucket says he witnessed it coming from her throat while she slept as he Vmf Voyt Afnnflflv flip will take the girl to Lovelace. .Ballard County, K\% where her relatives live. There an effort will be made to have something done for her. Already scores of letters have been sent to the girl's father and mother of' fering every kind of advice. i _i [ An I'cly Sensation in Columbia. i Columbia. Oct. 29.?Dr. Francis 1). I Kendal!, one of the most prominent l young physicians in the city, was arl rested here to-day on a warrant sworn : out by Dr. A. X. Tally, jr.. charging I him with abortion. Dr. Kendall gave i bond in the sum of S300 to appear at a - preliminary examination to-morrow. 1 The warrant also charges a young- Co lumbian now living in Chester and a . young lady of that city with being - parties criminal. All the parties are i well known personages in society. The 5 matter has caused a great sensation and is the talk of town to-nigbt.