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~ WINNSBORO, S. ( ., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1890. NO. 13. I|.0)l(>yS GARDENS. ? g-MAGE CONTINUES HIS SKET- j RES Or THE HOLY LAND. r ned Interest in tho Lecture* :it the I I roacle and the Addresses delivered r the Auspices of Tho Christian ! Id?The Kesurrectiou. rggpOKLYX. Nov. 2?I)r. Talmage | llped the sixth sermon on his tour j IWRlestine to-day. To-day's sermon was on the gardens and public works of Israel's magnificent king, and the text Eceiesiastes ii. 4-G: "I made me grea; works. 1 builded me houses, 1. plamed me vineyards. I made me gar-: dens and orchards, and planted trees in them oi' all kinds of fruits: I made me : pools or water to water therewith the i that. VirinorAtti forth trees.*' Dr. ! Talmage said : I A spring morning and breakfast at: Jerusalem. A king with robes snowy j white in chariot decked with goi.i, j drawn by eight horses, high mettled, { and housings as brilliant as if scollop- j ed out of that very sunrise, and like 1 the winds for speed, followed by a regi- j ment of archers on horseback, with j hand on gilded bow and arrows with I steel points llashing in t'*e sun, clad I from head to foot in Tyrian purple,! and black hair sprinkled with gold j dust, ail dashing down the road, the I horses at full jun. the reins loose on i their aecks, and the crack of whips and the halloo of the reckless c-aval- j cade puttin ? the miles at defiance. Who j I is it, and what is it,? wn? .>oiomon : taking an outing before breakfast from j Jersualem to his gardens and parks and j orchards and reservoirs, six miles i down the road toward Hebron. What " a cpntrast between that and myself on thajt very road one morning last December gWD**-Afoot,, for our plain ve- j hide turned back for' photograplTre-rtp-i paratus forgotten; we on the way to j iind what is called Solomon's pools/the j ancient water works of Jerusalem, and I the gardens of a king nearly three! thousand years ago. We cross the! aqueduct again and again, and here we j are at the three great reservoirs, not | ruins of reservoirs, but the reservoirs j themselves, that Solomon built three { millenniums ago for the purpose of j catching the mountain streams and passing them to Jerusalem to slake the j thirst of the city, and also to irrigate i the most glorious range of gardens that i 1 ' ?I aaYaw i fever oioomeu wiui cui uuiuis ui u^aut- i ed with all redolence, for Solomon was : the greatest horticulturist, the greatest j botanist, the greatest ornithologist, the greatest capitalist and the greatest I scientist of his century. WONDERFUL ANCIENT MASONRY. Come over the piles of gray rock, and { here we are at the first of the three j reservoirs, which are on three great j levels, the base of the top reservoir j higher than the top of the second, the i base of the secoDd reservoir higher; than the top of the third, so arranged j t.hat. the waters gathered from several \ (sources above shall descend from basin j to basin, the sediment of the water de- j posited in each of the three, so that by j the time it pets down to the aqueduct j which is to take it to Jerusalem it has ^ had three filterings, and is as pure as j ~~~^when the clouds rained it. "Wonderful i specimens'of masonry are these three reservoirs. The white cement fasten-' ing the blocks of stone togethar is now j just as when the trowels three thousand years ago smoothed the layers. I The highest reservoir 3S0 feet by 229; the second, 423 feet by 1G0, and the j lowest reservoir. 589 feet by 109, and deep enough and wide enough and! miorhtv pnnnj?h to iioat an ocean i steamer. On that December morning we saw j the waters rolling down from reser- j voir to reservoir, and can well under-! stand how in this neighborhood the I imp-'rial gardens were one great bios-: som, and the orchard one great basket: of fruit, and that Solomon in his pal- j ace. writing the Song of Songs and Ec-1 clesiastes, may have been drawing illustrations from what he had seen that very morning in ihe royal gardens, when he alluded to melons, and mandrakes, and apricots, and grapes, and pomegranates, and figs, and spiken. and cinnamon, and calamus, and cam- j phire, and "apple trees among the trees of the wood," and the almond tree as j nourishing, and to myrrh and frank'a- j cense, and represented Christ as "gone k down into his gardens, and the beds of | spices to feed" in the gardens, and to i I gather lilies," and to "eyes like lisn I pools," and to the voice of the turtle I r dove as heard in the land. I think it j j was when Solomon was showing the I I Queen of Sheba through these gardens ! [ that the Bible says of her, "There re-; mained no more spirit in her." She j gave it up. But all this splendor did not make i Solomon happy. One day, after get-; ting back from his morning ride and | before the horses had yet been cooled off, and rubbed down by the royal | equerry. Solomon wrote ine memunjuit* i words "following my text, like a dirge j i played after a grand march. "Behold j I ail was vanity and vexatiou of spirit, f and there was no prolit under the sun." I In other words, "It don't pay !" Would | God that we might all learn the lesson j that this world cannot produce happi-1 ness! At Marseilles there is a castel-1 i ? s?rmvnp?l i iaieu iioust; uu iiijju givuuu with all that grove and garden can do, and the whole place looks out upon as enchanting a landscape as the world holds, water and hill clasping hands in a perfect bewitchment of scenery, but the owner 01 that place is totally blind, j and to him all this goes lor nothing, illustrating the truth th it whether one be physically or morally blind brilliancy "~~of surrounding cannot give satisliiction: but traditipn says that when the "wise men of the east" were being guided by the star on the way to Beth- ! lehein they for a little while lost sight; oi' that star, and in despair and exhaus- i tion came to a well to drink, when look-1 ing down into the well they saw the | star reflected in the water and that j cheered them, and they resumed their! journev; and I have"the notion that! though grandeur and pomp of sur- f ^mov n/At off'.-iri) npafp at the; luunuiu^a uvu uuvm ? , well of (.Jod's consolation, close by, you i may find happiness, and the plainest! cup" at the well of salvation may hold j the brightest star that ever shone from ; the heavens. "WISDOM OF TIIE ANCIKXTs. As I look upon this great aqueduct : of 1'alestine, a wondrous specimen of : ancient masonry, about seven l'eet high, two feet wide, sometimes tunneling the | t solid rock and then rolling its waters i through stoneware pipes, an aqueduct, doinglts work ten miles before it gets j to those three reservoirs, and then j gathering their.wealth of refreshment; and pouring it on to the mighty city of; Jerusalem and miing tne orazen sc-a 01 her temple, and the bathrooms of her palaces, 'and the great pools of Siloam, and Hezekiah. and Dethesda, 1 lindtl:at our century has no monopoly of the world's wonders, and that the conceited age in wh'ch we live had better take in some of the sails of its pride when ' Stes^it remembers that it is hard work in : njater ages to get masonry last Hfety years, to sa? nothing 01 the three i |?)usand, and no modern machinery . blocks of stone like some of Blading high up in the walls of i Hn iJaalhec, ;m<l the art oi printing claimed i'or recent ages was practiced by the Chinese 1'ourteen hundred years" ago, and that our midnight lightning express rail train was foreseen by the prophet Xahuro, when in the Bible he wrote, "The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against another in the broad ways, they shall seem like torches, they shall run like lightning," and our electric telegraph was loreseen uy .jou, wnen m me o^iuie he wrote, ''Canst thou send lightnings that they rnav go and say unto thee, 'Ilere we" are?'" What is that talking l>y the lightnings but the ectric telegraph ? 1 do not know but that the electric forces now being year by year more thoroughly harnessed may have been employed in ages extinct, and that the lightnings ail up and down the sky have been running around like lost hounds to (ind their former master. VrnhyhnPTif \v:iK -a. morn thnrnnfrh art three thousand years ago than today. Dentistry, that we suppose one of "the important arts (.fiscovered in recent centuries, is proven to be four thousand years old by the filled teeth or the mummies in the museums at Cairo, Egypt, and artificial teeth on gold plates found by P^lzoni in the tombs of departed nations. We have .>een taught that Harvey discovered the circulation of the blood so late as the Seventeenth century. Oh, no! Solomon announce it in Ecclesiastes, where first having shown that he understood the spinal cord, silver colored as it is, and that it relaxes in old age?''the silver cord be loosed,'" goes on to compare the heart to a pitcher at a well, for the three canals of the heart do receive thi blood like a pitcher," or the pitcher be broken at the fountain." What is that hut tlip cirrv.ilatum ol" the blood, found out twenty-six hundred years before Harvey was born? After many centuries of exploration and calculation astronomy finds out that the world is round. Why, Isaiah knew it was round thousands of years before when in the BiWe he said: "The Lord sitteth upon the "circle Or the earth." Scientists toiied on for centuries and found out refraction or that the rays of light when touching the earth were sot straight, but bent or curved. Why, Job knew that when ages before in the Bible he wrote of the li<jht: "It is turned as clay to the seal." BETir.KHEM OK.) L'DEA. We are on this December afternoon on the way to the cradle of him who called himself greater than Solomon. We are coming upon the chief cradle of all the world, not lined with satin, but strewn with straw; not sheltered by a palace, but covered by a barn; not presided over by a princess, but hovered over by a peasant girl; yet a cradle the canopy of which is angelic wings, and the lullaby of which is the first Christmas carol ever sung, and from which :il I r.he events of the o;isti and all the events of the future have and must take (late as being B. C. or A. D.?before Christ or after Christ. All eternity past occupied in getting ready for this cradle, and all eternity to come to be employed in celebrating its consequences. " I said to the tourist companies planning our oriental journey, 'Tut us in Bethlehem in December, the place and the month of our Lord s birth," and we had our wish. I am the only man who has ever attempted to tell how iJethiehem looked at the season Jesus was born. Tourists and writers are there in February, or March, or April, when the valleys'are an embroidered sheet oi' wild "flowers, and anemones and rauuning to climb the steps, ana lark and bullinch are flooding the air with bird orchestra, iiut i was there in December, a winter month, the barren beach between the two oceans of redolence. I was told I must not go there at that season, told so before I started, tola so iu .bgypt; me oooks torn me so; all travelers that 1 consulted about it told me so. But I was determined to see Bethlehem the same month in which Jesus arrived, and nothing could dissuade me. Was I not right in wanting to know how the Holy Land looked when Jesus came to it? lie did not land amid (lowers and song. When the angels chanted on the famous birth-night all the lields of Palestine w^iCSIieuc. JL lie giu>uu^ Oft ICO answeied by gray rocks. As .Bethlehem stood against a bleak wintry sky I climbed up to it, as through a bleak wintry sky Jesus descended upon it. Ilis way down was from warmth to chili, from bloom to barrenness, from everlasting June to a sterile December. If 1 were going to Palestine as a botanist and to study the flora of the land I would go in March; but 1 went as a minister of Christ to study Jesus and so I went in December. 1 wanted to see how the world's front doer looked when the heavenly stranger entered it. xhe town of Bethlehem, to my surprise, is in the shape of a horse-shoe, the houses extending clear into the prongs of the horse-shoe, the whole scene more rough and rude than can he imagined. Verily, Christ did not choose a sott, genial place in which to be born. The gate tm*ough which our Lord entered this world was a gate of rock, a hard, coldj gate, and the gate through which he departed was a swing gate of sharpened spears. We enter a gloomy church built by Constantine over the place in which Jesus was horn. Fifteen lamps burning day and night and from century to century light our way to trie spot wnicn an authorities. Christian and Jew and Mohammedan, agree upon as being the place of our Saviour's birth, and covered by a marble slab, marked by a silver star sent from Vienna, and the word: "Here Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary." UK WAS JiOKX IX A CATTLE I'EX. JJut stand'ng there I thought,though this is the place of the nativity, how different the surroundings of the win try nignt m wmcn .jesus came, jh that time it was a khan, or a cattle pen. I visited one of these khans, now standing and looking just as in Christ's time. We rode in under the arched entrance and dismounted. We found the building ol stone, and around an open square, without roof. The building is more than two thousand years old. It is two stories high; in the center are camels, horses anil mules. Caravans halt here for the night or during a long storm. The open square is large enough to accommodate a whole herd of cattle, a ilock ol sheep or caravan of camels. The neighboring Bedouins here find market ior their hay, straw and meats. Oil trom this center mere are twelve rooms for human habitation. The only light is from the door. I went into one of these rooms and found a woman cooking the evening meal. There were six cows in the same room. On a little elevation there was some ctr.im ivhliro thu Tiunfllp Silt. DHlI <dpnt when they wished to rest. It was in a room similar to that our Lord was born. This was the cradle of a king:, and yet what cradle ever held so much? Civilization! Liberty! 1 redemption! Your pardon and mine! Your peace and mine! Your heaven and mine! Cradle of a universe! Cradle of a God! The gardens of Solomon we visited this morning were only a type of what all the world will be when this illustrious personage now born shall have completed his mission. The horses of linest limb, and gayest champ of bit, and sublimest arch of neck, that ever i brought Solomon down to these adi joining gardens was but a po >r type | of the horse upon which this conqueror, j born in the barn, shall ride, when ac! cording to apocalyptic vision all the I "armies of heaven shall follow him on j white horses." The waters that rush i down these hills into yonder three j great reservoirs of rock, and then pour j m marvelous acqueuuct imo .Jerusalem till the brazen sea >s full, and the baths are full, and Siloam is full, are only an imperfect type of the rivers of delight which, as the result of this i great one's coming, shall roll on for the j slaking of the thirst of ail nations. The I palace of Lebanon ceder from which 1 4-v.r* nut ' n i 1/LiC i lli I tat (uv/uu^ vv? w j the early morning, and to which it I returned with slowing cheek and J jingling harness and lathered sides, is j feeble of architecture compared with j the house of many mansions into which this one born tiiis winter month on i these bleak heights shall conduct us i when our sins are all pardoned, our batj ties all fought, our tears all wept, our ; work all done. XJtit t"K.\1JL.K ur uun l Auii. Standing here at Bethlehem do you I not see that the most honored thine in i all the earth is the cradle? To what ! else did loosened star ever point? To j what else did heaven lower balconies I of light tilled with chanting immortals? | Tne way the cradle rocks the world I rocks. God bless the mothers all the | world over! The cradles decide the i destinies of nations. In ten thousand ! of them are this moment the hands *K..f ?.*?! I vur r?ivu hpnorii^tinri nf niprcv ; or hurl bolts of doom, the feet that will mount the steeps toward God or descend the blasted way, the lips that will pray or blaspheme. Oh, the cradle! It is more tremendous than the grave. Where are most of the leaders of the ; Twentieth century soon to dawn upon us? Are they on thrones'J Xo. In chariots? No. In pulpits? Xo. In forums? Xo. In Senatorial halls? Xo. ! In counting houses ? Xo. They are in j the cradle. The most tremendous i thing in the universe and next to God I is to be a mother. Lord Shaftesbury | said, "Give me a generation of Chris | tian rnotners, una i win cuan^e me phase of society in :\velve j rnontfc?." Oh, the cradle! Forget not I the one in which you were rocked, i Though oi(l and worn out that cradle | may be standing in attic or barn, forj get not the foot' that swayed it. the lips I that sang over it, tire t^ars that dropped ! upon it, the faith in God that made j way for it. The boy Walter Scott did I well when he spent the lirst five guinea ! piece he ever earned as a present to ftjs | mother. j Dishonor not the cradle, though ifr may, like the one my sermon celebrates, have been a cradle in a barn, for I think it was a Christian cradle. That was a great cradle in which Man in Luther i i -i 4- ..? f Kn r._? fr\rm o_ xay, iin uuiiinwuit tion of the Sixteenth century. That was a great cradle in which Daniel O'Connell lay, for from it came forth J an eloquence that will be inspiring j while men have eyes to read or ears to I hear. That was a great cradle in which ; Washington lay, for from it came forth j the happy deliverance of a nation. I That was a great cradle iu which John J Howard lay, for from it came forth a I mercy that will not cease until the last j dungeon gets the .Bible and light and [ fresh air. ureal crauies m wmcu me ijohn Wesleys and the John Knoxes and the John Masons lay, for from them came forth an all conquering evangelization. But the greatest cradle in which child ever slept, or woke, ] laughed or cried was the cradle over | which Mary bent and to which the ! wise men brought frankincense and j i upon which the heavens dropped song, i i Had there been no manger, there had | i been no cross. Ilad there been no j Bethlehem, there had been no Golgotha. J I Had there neen no incarnation, there j ' had been no ascension. Had there been \ I no start, there had been no close. I WIIAT CAN WE DO FOIi CIIKIST? Standing in me emu Kuan ui n I Saviour's humiliation, and seeing what j he did for us. 1 ask, What have we I done for him? "There is nothing I ! can do," says one. As Christmas was j approaching in the village church a ; good woman said to a group of girls in ; lowly and straitened circumstances, j "Let all now do something for Christ." I After the day was over she asked the i ! group to tell her what they had done, j i One said. "I could not do much, for we j j are very poor, out l nau a oeautuui 1 ilower I had carefully trained in our I home, and I thought much of it, and I j put that llower on the church altar." ! And another said, '*1 could not do : much, for we are very poor, but 1 can ' sing a little, and so I went down to a : poor sick woman in the lane, and sang' j as well as 1 could, to cheer her up, a ! Christmas song." "Well, Helen, what | did you do?" She replied, "I could not do much, but I wanted to do something ! for Christ, and I could think of nothing i else to do, and so I went into the church : after the people who had been adorning j the alter had left, and I scrubbed down [ the back altar stairs." Beautiful! I j warrant that the Christ of that Christ! mas day gave her as much credit for ! that earnest act. as he may have given | to the robed ollicial who on that day ; read for the people the prayers of a i resounding service. Something for J Christ! j A plain man passing a fortress saw a j Russian soldier on guard in a terribly cold Dight, and took off his coat and ' ? ? V.a ?untn/v 41T tirill ' I gtlve Xt/.LU l/iic auiuici, OUJlUg, jl nm I soon be home and warm, and you will i be out here ail night." So the soldier j wrapped himself in the borrowed coat, j The plain man who loaned the coat to j the soldier soon after was dying, and in I his dream saw Christ and said to him, I ' Von have got my coat on." "Yes," j said Christ, "this is the one you lent me I on that cold night, by the fortress. I j was naked, and ye clothed me." Some-1 thing for Christ! By the memories of | Bethlehem I adjure you! In the light of tliatstar Lie the ages empearled. That song from afar Has swept over the world* >o Jtxtra Session. j Washington, -Nov. a.?In accord ! ance with directions from unairman ; Cannon James C. Courts. Clerk of the ; House committee on appropriations, ! has notified members of the committee j to meet at its room at the Capitol | Thursday, 20th inst.. at VI o'clock. This ; is in keeping with the usual custom of calling the committee together some i days before the opening of a short sesj sion of Congress, so as to enable it to j consider and facilitate the preparation | of appropriation bills in advance of the : regular meeting of Congress. The amount of silver"offered for sale i to the Treasury to-day 1.055,000 ounces. j The amount purchased aggregated 370.' *-11 I UW OUIXCeS US 1UUUHS. iiucc umiuicu i thousand ounces at lCHiJ-.j, 70.000 ounces i at lutes'. Postmaster General Wannamaker today in answer to an inquiry by a representative of tiie Associated Press said that there was no probability of an extra session of Congress. While, he j saicl. only the President could speak ! .mrlinritntivf-lv nnrm flip. SliblPfit. lie I (\Vannamaker) did not believe that the i President had any thought of calling i Congress together before the regular I session. Two other members of the ; cabinet who were umvi]Jja?to. b?4UOtwii by name said in response to simular in! quries: "There wiff be no extra sesjsion" / _ 4 j THE CENSUS AND THE SOUTH. j lielative Rates of Increase in the Last ;md Previous Decade. Washington*, October 31.?According to a statement made by the census i ofiice to-dav the population 01' South j Carolina is rated at 1,147,101 in lS'.m, as i against 905,577 persons ten years ago, i an increase of 151,584, or 15 23 per cent. ! Throughout the South Atlantic and j Southern Central States the rate of increase has diminished. A certain reduction in the percentage, especially in the eastern part of this region being expected, due not only t.o the operation of general laws, but also to the fact that there had been considerable imrnitVntn tlio ututiac aoct nf th#* Mississippi river to the Westward and but little emigration. Of the States which were ravaged by war Virginia, whose soil was the prinfhnofro fho war ciifV^rA/1 nirKt severely, and during tiie period in quesJ tion it increased at the rate of but 4.4 Tpcr fpnt. Next to Virginia, Kentucky ! and Tennessee suffered the most, severei ly. and yet they increased respectively | j 14 and 13 per cent. On the other hand. | North Carolina, which suffered less i severely, gained but 8 per cent, and | South Carolina, which suffered less in j j comparison with Virginia, apparently I I remained at a standstill as regards | | population. Georgia gained 12 per j ! cent., while Alabama and Louisiana] j gained but 3 per cent, and Mississippi I j trained but 5, although they were com- ] | paratively remote from active opera-1 I tions and suffered relatively little from I ! the ravages of the war. On the other hand, thoseStates which j I suffered the most severely from the! i war made during the decade between | j 1870 and 1880 the smallest proportion ; j of gain of the. Southern States, whereas I j the reverse should have been the case, i I Thus Virginia gained 23 per cent, | j Kentucky 25 and Tennessee 23, while! uie scaxes mat were iaruiur remuvru from active operations were North Carolina, which gained 31, .South Carolina 41, Georgia 30, Alabama 27, Mississipps 37 and Louisiana 29 per cent. These startling discrepancies can be due only to the imperfections of the census of 1870, which were, as has been ! demonstrated, greatest in South Caro- i ; lina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama. I Georgia and .North Carolina, although i they were not by any means wanting I in Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. The industries of these two sections are almost purely agricultural. During the past ten years manufacturers have obtained a slight footing nnd mining-has made considerable growth in the mountain regions, but these causes have prodjiC?d Jiut a comparative trifling movement of"pftf)ulation. i TKo r\Annl'itiAn ilt'hminrh d-T.f. < J.HM uiucHi j/uyumnuu, luuuvwjjii f, ' in proportion to that which existed formerly, is very small in proportion to the rural population of the region. During:* the first half of the last deLcade Florida had a rapid growth. The population between 1880 and 1885 increased 73,058, or at the rate of 27 per cent. This rapid growth, however, "received a serious check in 1887 and 1888, by an epidemic of yellow fever and by severe frosts. The growth since 1885 [ has therefore been comparatively slow. Arkansas has continued to grow at a rapid rate, having increased 40 per cent, in the last ten years. Texas also has increased with great rapidity, the numerical increase of its population being 040,471, or over 40 per cent.? i Xews and Courier. MOVEMENT OF COTTON. Condition of the Market a* Shown by New Orleans Kxchaniie. New Oiileaxs, November 1.?The October crop statement issued to-day by Secretry Hester, of the Xew Orleane j Cotton Exchange, shows the largest movement of cotton during any single < month in the history of the trade, the | total number of bales brought in sight j during the thirty-cne days having. reached 1,731,803, against 1,631,219 in October, 1889, an increase of 100,484. The statistics of trade prior to the current year show that on only three occasions'have monthly movements reached as high as 1.600,000 bales. These were in October and Novetnber, 1889, and in ! Decern ber. 1887. The movement from the 1st of Sep- j tember to October 31, includes total re-' eeipts at all United States delivery ports of 2,084,003, against 1,884,053 last year and 1,458,284 "in railroads across the Mississippi. Ohio and Potomac rivers are 164,813, against 127,300 last year and 173,077 year before last. Southern mill takings, exclusive of quantity consumed at Southern out porta 99,840, against 100.595 last year and 90,984 the year before, and interior town stocks in excess of those held at the commencement of the season 334.K71, against 1G8,- j lf>9 last year and 217,002 year before [ last. These make the total amount of ths | cotton crop brought into sight durintr I September and October 2,583,327, against! 2,300,307 last year and 1,930,1)47 year be- j fore last, and an excess during this year of 283,120 bales over the corresponding two months of 1880 and 843.880 ahead of the same time in 1888. Northern spinners took during Octo-! ber 311,156 bales, against 223,208 last I year, increasing the total for the two months to 445,633, against 333.600 last year and 461,860 the year before. TMo maboc tho qvatncrc* ivppL' 1 zr ings for the season 51,142 bales, agaigst 38,283 last >>ar and 53,000 the year before. The foreign exports for two i months have been 1,241,57)5, showing at excess over the heavy shipments of last season of 85,154 and over the same period of the year before last of 474,407. The gain in foreign export during October, compared with last October, has been 31,849. The stock at the seaboard and twenty-nine leading Southern interior markets at the close of October were 455 acainst 7(55.030 for the same date lest year and 811,739 the year i before. Including port and interior stocks ; left over from the previous season, and j a number of bales of the current crop i brought into sight during the two j months, the supply ha-- been 2.055,170 bales, against 2,#>3,670 last year and I 2,135,730 the year before. Up to this date last year 31.40 per j cent of the crop had been marketed, i and for September and October of 1888 I the percentage of crop brought into sight \ras 27,90. With all this large movement to market, showing an excess to date of 283,120 over last season and 043,380 over season before last supply has moved off so rapidly to foreign and domestic consumers that stocks "at the close of October were but 91.450 j bales larger than at this time last year j and 44,719 ahead of this date in 1888. \ Vlrp nt Gnlr.ea\'ille. Flrt. Gainesville, Fla, November 2.? ; Fire this morning partially destroyed tlie freight depot "of the Florida Southern Kail road and damaged merchandise therein to the extent of several thousand dollars. The papers and safe of the railroad company were saved. The i structure was owned by the Savannah, i^orluu TtiMAY-estern Kaiiroaa company and was insuredT" A 4sox car on the track near by was burned and several others were damaged. i I A CLEAN SWEEP." THE UNTERRIFIED DEMOCRACY IS ONCE AGAIN TRIUMPHANT. ' Tlie I'eople of (lie United States ltelmke ! the Party ?>f Public Plunder ami Give i J the Democrats an All-powerful Majority ! in the Fitty-soroiid Coii^ro*. New Yokk, Nov. 5.?The Evening World estimates that the Democrats will have a majority in the .ioxt Congress of between (53 and 1?7. The Mail and Express concedes a Democratic maioritv ol' at least 50. The Evening ! Sun places the Democratic majority at i about 53. i no alls ii eaten in kansas. Kansas City, November 5.?The ! Republican candidate lor Governor is i beaten, and six out of the seven liepublican Congressional candidates are defeated. Senator IngaUs's re-election I is the subject of grave doubt. This is [ thusituation in Kansas. There was a j reg alar aval an ch e in .Kansas and the I SZ.UUU Iiepuuiican majority was uvawhelmed by its resistless force and buried beneath its destructive weight. The Farmers'Alliance did it and was a genuine surprise. The Kansas delegation. will stand: Republicans 1, Democrats 1, Farmers' Alliance 5. Another surprise lies in the possible defeat for' re-election of Senator Ingalls. The Farmers' Alliance and Democrats waged a Miter campaign asra.iu.st him, and a majority of the districts contain- ! ed one of their candidates against i the Republican candidate. The result is the certain election of '.?5 Farmers' Alliance and Democratic legislators, against 3u Republicans. A LITTLK -MIXED IN MINNESOTA. J Minneapolis, Xov. 5.?The 'iuber-j natorial vote is very close in Minneso-1 til. Twenty-three Counties give Merriarn, Ilepublican, 22,?J45; Wilson, Democrat. 23.178; and Owen, Alliance, lU,808. This does not include Ilennipen Connty, (Minneapolis.) which gives Wilson 2,000 plurality. The Democrats claim the State. The Alliance vote doesnotcut so great a ligure in the j counties yet to hear from. Snider, Re-1 publican, is defeated by Castle, Demo- j crat, for Congress in the Fourth District. Hall. Democrat, defeats D. S. Ilall, Republican,in th? Third District! and Harries. Democrat, wins oyer Dunnell in the First District. The Fifth i and Second Districts are doubtful. The I Democrats made nearly a clean sweep on city, County anil legislative tickets in this County. montana comes over. IIalena, Montana, November 5.? Returns are coining in very slowly, but all combine to show heavy Democratic gains. The Republicans elected their Congressmen last year by 1 ,<;< >0 majorl-1 ty^The returns so far have wiped this j out. Sectary Steele, of the Demo- j cratic State'^ummittec. claims the i State for Dixon by" Secretary j Walker, of the Republican cofrrH)ittee, j says Carter has received a majorilyNjf; from 2iX) to ">UU. a. new rl.'le in new hampshire.! Concord. X. II.. November 5.?Xo rJonlif. thnf, MelCinnev. Demo -rat. is i elected to Congress in the Is!; district. The Democrats claim Daniel's election in the 2d by 200 plurality, while the Republicans say Moore has over 250. The Legislature is very close and its control will undoubtedly be determined by the elections held to-day. There is no choice of Governor by the people. illinois is improving. Chicago, November 5.?The full vote of Illinois?oflicial and unofficial and estimated?indicates the election of Amberg, Republican, for State Treasurer by a plurality of about 10,000 over Wilson, Democrat. Edwards, Republican, for superintendent of public instruction, has a plurality of 8,000 over i Raab, Democrat. The Democrats gains j live Congressmen in this State. ! little delawalle alright. Wilmington", Dkl., November 5.? Complete returns from the State -five Reynolds, Democrat, for Governor. 445 majority, and Causey, Democrat, for Congress. 514 maioritv. The next Leer islature will stand. Senate, Democrats, j 5, Republicans 4, Ilonse, Democrats 14, j Republicans 7. There is no United States Senator to be elected. The Prohibitionists, who had a full State ticket in the lield, polled about 150 votes in the State. tiie tku'mhi ix new york. Xew Yokk, November 5?The ollicial returns from the Congressional districts of the State will n:>t be known for some days. These, however, will make n< changc in the results as reported by the Associated Press hist night, unless Coombs. Democrat, be eiecteci in jjrooKiyn. ,\ew i oi k 5 allegation in the 52d (Congress, should Coombs be defeated, will con?: t of 20 Democrats and 14 Republicans. This just reverses the'position of the two parties as represented in the -31st Congress. where the Republicans have 20 and the Democrats 14. The Democrats have also carried the Legislature. GOOD NEWS FROM WISCONSIN. Milwaukee. November 5.?The latest returns from this State indicate ;i plurality of 20,000 and upwards for George \V. Peck. Democratic candidate for Governor. The Democrats elected a majority of the assemblymen and the State ticket. In the lower House they will have a majority of thirty or over, and in the Senate a majority of twentyfour, They elect seven out of nine Congressmen. missouri .solid once more. St. Louis, November L?The Democratic State Committee to-night claim that there is no doubt whatever but that the Democrats will have a solid Congressional delegation. Present returns indicate pretty clearly that the Democratic city ticket is elected, with the poss'ble exception of recorder of deeds, Vv'm. II. Iiobbs, (Hep.) the present incumbent, showing a good lead over his opponent. Wm. M. Smith. 1'he Democrats claim a majority in the ijcyiai<iLiu r. the ovekflou* ix oiiio. Colvmiius, Ohio, November 5.? I Meagre returns received at the llepub-1 lican and Democratic State headquar- i ters indicate the election of fourteen Democratic Congressmen. This estimate includes the defeat of McKinley in the l(5th district and Foster in the 8th. Foster concedes the election of i Hare, his opponent, by 100 majority. Both parties claim the l?>th district. j the keystone falls out. Philadelphia, November 5.?Ilevised figures from various counties today, some of them official, indicate that ''sit.tisnn'K Dlurallv for Governor over Delamater will exceed lO.Ov"). Water. and Stewart. Republican candidates re-; spectively for Lieutenant Governor and secretary of internal aii'airs, are certainly elected. The latest returns from the twenty-eight Congressional districts of the State show the election I of eighteen Kepubl cans and ten Demj ocrats. The present delegation from this State stands twenty-one llepubli' chns and seven Democrats. ! DEMOCRATIC < AIX S IX XEIIIiASKA. Omaiia, Nov. 5.?The returns indij cate the probable election of Boyd j (Dem.) lor Governor by a small plurality. 'JLhe Alliance candidates are luomi ing up strong in the interior and the j Hepublican candidates are alternating j between the first and second places in I I T " " | ! the country towns. Complete returns j may possibly elect either of the three J candidates, but large Democratic gains j in Omaha and the Eastern End still j give Boyd the best chance. Tne Bern- j i ocrats gain one Congressman, Mc-! | Keighn surely, and probably another, J ! Bryan. The election of Dorsey (Rep.) t i in the Third District is not yet certain, j THE BAY STATE llETVULSIOX. I Boston, November 5.?The Globe j i says that with onlv half a dozen tov ns i to hear from in Massachusetts at 2 P. ; M. Russell, Democrat, is leading by i over 10,000 votes, and is elected by a 1 large majority. The Democrats gain ! three Congressman. all one "way. In Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, j j Maryland, North Carolina, Kentucky, j Louisiana, West Virginia, Tennessee, I Virginia, Texas, Mississippi, New Jersey and several other States the DemoI c-rats elected all the Congressmen and | other ollicers. PROUD OF HIS COUNTRYMEN. Grover Cleveland Deli?he<i With the Democracy. f Xew: Xokk, Nov. 5?To .an AssocU j ated Press Reporter, who asked for an ! e: pression of his opinion on the results | of yesterday's election, Ex-President Cleveland to-day said: "I am delighted. I challenge the right of any man in the country to rejoice more heartily than I over the results of yesterday. My gratification is that of ;m American proud of his fellow-countrymen. who, though led away for a time by party predudices and blind con| iidence in sellish leaders, could not be deluded to their ruin. They have demonstrated that in dealing with them it 1 is not safe to calculate that they are stupid or heedless of the welfare of their countrymen. 'The necessity of tariff reform, the reduction in the cost of living, and the ( duty of the Democratic party to advocate ( it, lias been fully demonstrated by the , action of the people vesterdav. Their , ucuio?vii una uccn ucnuci itLCi.y iiitiue rtuu it is all the more significant because 1 they have voted on their reason and ( judgement, and because they have ; proved that corruption is powerless as against their convictions. Of course, there is nothing for the democratic par- 1 ty to do but to push on the battle at all < tunes and places on the lines which they ' have laid down; that is, V insist on the ' wise adjustment of tariff taxation to , the reasonable needs of the Government ( as opposed to the plan which enriches a ( favored class at the expense of the mass- t es of the people. ' I'ntil victory is won the question of tariff reform will not be settled, nor the pledges and professions of the Demo- 1 cratic party to the people redeemed. < Our party has made an honest and earn- 5 est light. It has planted itself on dis- J interested and unselfish devotion to the i interests of the people. Its absolote i unity and harmony on the question of 1 tariff reform shows quick recognition \ of true Democratic principles and its s enthusianism in the cause which invol- j ves the popular welfare. Everywhere ort-rpeople have done magnificently and i the harvest they have gathered has been . nobly earnea^--^. 1 In answer to an inquiry, as. toJ"s view on the operation of the ballot"Ireform law, Mr. Cleveland said: "I think there should be no more op- ? position to the principle of ballot re- j form. The evidence of its usefulness and benefit to the people I regard conclusive. In some matters of detail the t lawinXew York might be improved, t Tt captviq tn mo it lrnnlH Via n-ol! r?h. V WVVlilW VVT iJUV A U IF VU1U I? V_ii tv vv viate the necessity for so many seperate ballots, but, after all, even this or other c simular objections are not vitally im- s portant. "The thing on which every honest ] man should congratulate himself is that ? we have a law which protects our voters ? from corruption and intimidation, and ] it is one of those measures of relief j which once adopted will not be surren- c dered." riflonutrjt'M T.nv#> Itpnpatfld. ^ Albany, Xov. 3.?An extraordinary t case has been brought to light in the ( police court through the arrest of a 1ms- > band on complaint of his wife. The ' man gave tiie name of John McDonald, < the wife that of .Julia McDonald. Mrs. j McDonald said she was bom in Xew , York city and lived with her parents r and sister there until her father died, j Then she was but a mere child, but was put out to work. Her mother married a second husband, John Morey. by whom * she had a son. Soon after the war the 1 complaint met John Anthon Morey, t n-lin corvorl in the war flTld \vhf> 5 after a year's courtship, married her. t A year later Julia discovered her ^ mother, whom she supposed to be dead. ? "When the parent visited the daughter's ? house she recognized in the husband her ] son by John Morey. The result of the ? revelation was a separation of Morey and : his wife. Subsequently Julia married John Cummings, with whom she lived for live years. During all this time = Af a?/vi? 1 - nrrt-mni Tiilio -f/~v f'll YY* _ * ^UUICV JVCjJt Ul??lii? ?; una cv iturv \jkkl?a mings and go with him. Finally he J threatened to kill her, and worried the I Woman to such an extent that she went i to live with him again. To prevent I Cummings from discovering them Mo- t rev assumed the name of McDonald and ] went to Albany, where the couple ha-ve c lived for ten years. In the meantime ^ Cuminings married another woman and is living happily with her in Massachu setts. " r There have never been any proceed- ; lliys l<Ji <l luvuiuc uy <iiiy ui uic j/tuuto. The continued abuse of his wife by Mc- s Donald ledto his arrest I Horrible Death of aYouns Mao. Atlanta. Nov. 4.?Mr. It. L. IJilburn, a brakeman. was killed by an in- j cominu freight on the Western and At lantie road Monday morning shortly after 5 o'clock. lie was on Xo 8. from * Chattanooga, and was m the act of turn- t iny a brake on a Hat car. while the train [ was beinu placed in the Western and c ^IIIUULIC )iUU?, ? UVU ms iuui and he fell to the track. The wheels ' passed over both his legs. The left leg r was crushed r'^ove the knee and the 1 right one crushed above the ankle. 1 lie was unconscious when picked up 1 and never rallied from that condition. 5 At (J:30 o'clock he died. lie was about 1 24 years old. Youn?r Ililburn's death ( was a particularly sad one. He was 1 just entering upon manhood, and was ! the mainstay of a widowed mother and 1 two sisters, who live at Tutinell Hill, Ga. J The remains ot the unfortunate young \ man were seui iu 1115 iiuine iui m^iuicut. Fool Whom ? 3Ir Farwell. ] Chicago, "November 5.?lu the < course of an interview to-day Senator < Farwell said: "If we have suffered de- ] feat it is owing to three things, the Mc- i Kinley bill, the farmers' Alliancc and i tne scnooi law. jmere is uu usu ueu>ing Ilia: the people are wonderfully prejudiced against the McKinley law, and : I many Republicans seized upon the oppor- : tunity of showing their disapproval of | this law. The McKinley bill is all right, j but the people have to be educated up ; j to it. that is all. Thi3 bill has been a i great scare, and some Republicans are | weak-kneed enough to get scared. It i will take time to get the people to fully ! understand this law. but when they do. i there will be a landslide the other way." IS BIG FIRE IN 'FRISCO. The Grand Hotel Disappears in a Cloud of Smoke. San Francisco, Xov. 3.?Fire was discovered at 3 o'clock this morning in Heuter Bros. & Go's paint shop, under the Grand Kote!. The flames spread xt 1 i. x!_ - ~ UIsvaI. ! uirougiioui luc uuscuiuui ui uiv , bounded by Market, Xew Montgomery, Stevenson and Second streets, and then j spread to the first floor occupied by the j Hall Safe and Dock Company. Hill & Goldman, druggist supplies, Board of I Trade rooms; Pullman Palace Car Com- j pany's office; Great Northern Railroad ticket office, and rooms of the Syndicate j investment company, smowe in tue meantime had aroused the inmates of the Grand and Burlington Hotels, and frightened the guests, who rushed to the side walk with what valuables thev could carry. General a'rrm brought the remainder of the lire department to the scene. The front of Heuter Bro's store blew out with a loud explosion and a large volume or smoKe poureu out, aiactt QTftroonung?H-o firemen. JacotT Underbill, a wine merchant, was overcome by smoke in the Grand Hotel and was carried out unconscious. Cashier Weeks of the Grand, who is crippled, was almost overcome when he was assisted out by the elevator boy. There were several other narrow escapes. By five <,'clock the flames had spread along the Eastern end of the block, bursting Irom inc. root ana windows, ine winu was slight and the en'orts of the firemen to confine the fire within the block, oc-. cupied by the Burlington and Grand Hotels, were successful. About G o'clock the root of the Burlington fell in, carrying part of that of the Grand, In a short time the interior of the Burlington was a rrm-mlfife wreck, and the front of the Grand on Market street, together with the Eastern end, adjoining the Burlington was also a ruin. The Western end was saved. The lirst door of the Burlington, on Second street, was occupied by C. II. Hirst, millinery and novelties; C. P. Downing, medicines; P. II. Ward well, ' window shades and fixings. These were . gutted as were also Renter & Co.'s tvarehouse, the Board of Trade rooms. , rhe Burr Folding Bed Company's place , business on Market street, the Southern Pacific, the Central Pacific and other < ;icket offices under the Grand Hotel, : ;ogether with Fay's saloon were damaged badly. '< The Grand Hotel was opened in 1870, ; ind at that time was considered one of ,he finest hotels in the world. It was "our stories high and had a frontage of 500 feet on Market street. Two years igo about half of the block was leased ;o other parties and was called the Burington Hotel. The total loss, including :he buildings, stores, furniture and stock, Is estimated at 81,500,000. The ire is believed to be due to spontaneous :ombu8tion of inflammable material in Center Brothers & Company's premses. A Boy's Fatal Blunder. SYRACUSE, j\. 1.,^oveniDer o.?ah j uJCident occurred on the Delaware, j Lackawaapa and Western Railroad this < ivening. at~ItDek.Cut, a stationamaTI hree miles south of iJii^ciiVf^through 1 ,he undue officiousness of a boy telegraph < jperator named M. A. Clark. The ac- < :ident resulted in the death of four per- * ions and the injury ofseveral others. The New York and Pacific day express from the south passes Rock Cut it 5 40 P. M. at the rate ot forty miles : iu hour. Before the express was due at } Sock Cut two coal trains from Syracuse ] ->o(l l?on r:m in <1 switch nn the north ] side of the main track. Engineer James i Doyle, of Scranton, Pa, of the coal train < vas in the cab of his engine waiting for < he express to pass, when he would pull 1 )ut. Michael Tierney, a brakeman, ] vas also in the cab cleaning his lantern. ' The second coal train was behind Doyles. J Jlark the operator, was in his room in , ,he station, a few rods east of the switch, [ tnd was on the lookout for the express, j rhe latter was on time, and as the head- j lght of its engine came into view it i ushed through Clark's mind that the i >witch was open and that if not closed ( ;he express would dash into the coal J .rain. lie rushed to the switch and i swung it open. Then he realized, but } ,00 late, his mistake. As the switch 1 vas turned the express swung into the , iide track and the crash of the engines i poke the result. The noise of the col- t ision was lost in the cries of the passen- , jers within the coaches of the express \ rain. ( The fireman and engineer ot each en- t ;ine were caught in the wreck and ground \ o death. Their names were: Jas i Doyle, Scranton. Pa., Mytre Ferdinand, ? lis fireman; M. J. Burke, of Syracuse, ? ind Jeremiah Lee. his iireman. The * >ody of Engineer Doyle was found on s he side track. Those of Ferdinand and Parke and Lee were found under tons * )f wreckage. W. II. Coppenall, of Os- 1 ves^o, George Derby, of Cortlandt, and j Fosiah Kimball, of Oswego, were all s njured. though not fatally. Michael Cierney was also badly hurt. Mrs j Fules Corcoran, of Buffalo, had her j ipine hurt and two ribs broken. Other c )assengers were not hurt. \ IVoolfolk'a Dying Declaration. Atlanta, Ga., Nov. 3.? Judge i rohn D. Cunningham ofthe Atlanta bar, n speaking of Woolfolk's dying de.~".aia- j ion, is quoted as saying: "I do not i hink there is any reasonable doubt of I lis guilt, and do not believe his dying j itatement. My experience as a Judge j _ las satisfied ray mind that ordinarily a I < nan who will tell a lie when lie is living * vill tell a lie when he is dying. I have I ^resided on the trial of probably fifty nurder cases, and do not remember a ! .in^le instance where a bad man told the j plain, unvarnished truth in his dying . leclaration, but on tlie other hand I do j remember instances where unprincipled \ nen. in spite of the terrors of impend- ] mr death, hell and the grave have told palpable lies in order to wreak vengeance through tiie law on their enemies, j When jurors cease to pay so much t ] iHontinn +/-? tVin flvinc flr>(>l9r!ltirtns nf I ' mvuwivu VV VHiV \?J ?w3 V>VVM. . bad men, it will be better for the cause . :>f justice; for there seems to bo a kind j ;>f superstitious reverence, tending to persuade, that the last words of a dying ! man must be true. As for executed j criminals, it is generally understood by ; them that they all go to heaver, and I j wish it were true, but cannot believe | it. The last man on whom I passed j; sentence debauched his neighbor's wife, I then wavlaid, murdered and buried the j husband in a swamp. Yet upon the! gallows he asserted the he was going I straight to heaven, and 111 the same j breath made a palpably false statement! concerning his cuilt. Good men tell | the truth, both in life and in death, while unprincipled men are entitled to but little credibility, either living or dying." I AX ALLIANCE ADDRESS : BY PRESIDENT POLK TO THE FARMERS OF THE SOUTH. Thousands Made Glad l>y Listening to the Farmers' Great Headlight?The Power and Glory of This Great CounJry Hosts with the Farmers. Atlanta, Oct. 31.?Col. L. L. Polk, president of the "National Farmers' Alliance, who has been traveling and speaking for the last four weeks, arrived in this city to be in attendance at Piedmont exposition during Alliance days. The colonel is slightly indisposed. and, therefore, was unable to make an extended argument; but he is so well known in this southern fountrv that the people are thoroughly satisfied with his short speech. Being introduced, he said: Ladies, Fellow-Countrymen and Brother Alliancemen: I profoundly regret to say that after continuous traveling and speaking for four weeks, -I -ana. fV>a demands imposed upon me through your generous kindness and cordiality. I have come, nevertheless, in obedience to that call to which I have never yet turned a deaf ear, the call of the farmers of the countrv. to speak to the good people of Georg'ia abou^h^^^n^d farmer. It has been my good within the past few weeks to travel many portions of this great country of -ours. As I rolled across her rich and well-tilled plains, as I beheld the rich harvests of wheat and corn and other agricultural wealth, as I pondered upon our vast network of over 150,000 miles of railway, as I thought of our magniQcent rivers, those splendid arteries of our inland commercial life, ana gazeu witn ueiigntea eves upon the beautiful and ever-changing panorama of scenery presented to my interested gaze, and saw the smoke of many factories rolling over the house-tops of prosperous cities, I thought within myself that this was a great country and a great people, and that the progress thus far made was but a stepping stone to higher and broader and grander achievements yet to be wrought in the fullness of time by the magnificent courage and splendid energy of the American manhood of the future. And it is to the great middle class, the yeomanry of the country, that the country must yetlook fttr itc Qiilvatinn Thiwu men ora tVio hope of our future, and in their quiet and peaceful homes, where simple and tionest manhood and womanhood are sultivated and nurtured, will be reared the future stay of the republic, the statesmen and patriots and warriors, if need be, whose lives and fortunes, whose blood and courage will be devotjd to the welfare of the land they love so well. For it is in these quiet "country homes that the chief hope of the future of the republic rests; for wihhout Lhese modest yeomanry all progress _ cvould be impossible and civilization itself would be arrested and paralyzed. 3ur civilization itself would perish, md all commerce cease, and Jay Gould aimself. with all his millions, could not buy his breakfast if the farmer were no longer a living, active.factor in our social and c^ffiffl^rHaTMStYes. when I lookmtathe honest faceof^k^fl ^nvftd_ ^ ,, [e$Hnanry which, by its hard labor and perpetual diligence, clothes and feeds :he world, I forget the magnificence of )ur cities, forget our splendid railway system, and am forced in my heart to exclaim that of all the power and strengtn ana giory 01 tnis great county tbe larger portion of it rests in the lands and hearts of the farmers of America. I regret, my friends, that I cannot Bake you a speech today. I am really lere at a serious risk to my health. But 1 cannot refrain from adding that [ have just returned from the great lorthwest, and bring to you, brethren )f the Alliance here, "the* glad tidings )f great joy." This' mighty upheaval, vhich has interested the mass of the southern people, has crossed the border, indyour brothers of the west and northvest are with you heart and soul?in me accord with you in all your aims md purposes, and they realize now that ;he war is over, and that the blue will oin with the gray in demanding comnon justice for both, for they realize low at last that vour interests are their nterests, your aims their aims, your )bjects their objects, and that what is jood for the farmer who wore the gray s the very thing to benefit the farmer vho wore the blue. [Prolonged cheer- " f thank God from the bottom of my leart that the great American people, hose who illustrated their manhood in he face of a bloody death on one field ifter another, men who had the manlood to stand or fall by what they conceived to be the right: 1 thank God that :hese men have gotten now so far away 'rom the echoes to the ririe and the can ion that they can embrace each other is brethren at last, and recognize the jreat fact that this country is, and shall >e. one country that tliis people is, and ihall forever be, one people. [Applause.] I am commissioned by our brethren )f the northwest to convey to you the nessage that they feel as you do, and ike you, no longer proposed to be conrolled and governed by designing and leltish demagogues. [Loud cheering.] Our great organization, I wish to say A 'or the benefit of outsiders, extends its urisdiction over thirty-live of the states ~ )f this Union, in twenty-nine of which A ve have perfected state organizations, JM md number in all over 2,500,000 of the >est bone ana brawn ana courage ana ntellect of American manhood. My friends, I wish to make this renark, and impress it well upon you: In he great struggle which is hourly comng nearer to us.all the questions will not je whether one or another political par:y shall have the supremacy, but whether American manhood shall govern \merica?whether the people shall reign md make their own laws, or whether ;he dollar shall govern and become supreme and sovereign in the republic. That is the great issue. We must neet it; we must face it; we can't avoid t. It is coming nearer every day, and ;he solution of this great question defends largelv upon the efforts of that jreat body of Americans embraced by ;he organization known as the National Farmers' Alliance. [Cheers.] The Cost of Gala Week. Charleston, Xov. 3.?Ga.a week cvas a big success socially, financially md otherwise. The railroads brought to the city nearly 25,000 visitors. At J a. ? oin uiuueriue esuiiiitu; uicse <v*a<igcu -jiu each spent in the city, or a total of ?250,000 put in circulation in one week. Xow, as to the cost of the festival. The finance commits, at the head of which is that bom hustler Mr. L. Arthur O'Xeill, the owner of the Grand Opera House, collected about So,000 for expenses. This amount was subscribed by the merchants, hotel men and railroads. They engaged Pain's Last Days of Pompeii upon terms which turned to be most profitable to both the contracting parties. Five performances of Pompeii were given, the receipts reaching 611,000. During the week, at a moderate estimate, over 15,000 bushels of oysters were taken by the restaurants and eaten by visitors. Xo such a rush has ever been seen in Charleston before ... ; &* > -, "-iS ' -m jA