The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, April 22, 1891, Image 4

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gjsreag^-r ' - PLAGUE OF CHIME. | DR. TALLAGE DISCOURSES CN LAW- j BREAKING Police Ileports of New York :tsd lirook j lyu More Sassestive Than Liaetfc's Iisferno? vVays Outlined in which Christians Should Work to Arrest This Plauue. e\v Voick. April 12.?Dr.Talmage, ia continuance of the course of sermous on '-The Tea Piagues of the Cities," today preached to large audiences in th e Brooklyn Academy of Music in the forenoon and The Christian Ileralu service at the Xew York Academy of Music in the evening, on "The Plague of Crime." "r'r- 1- ** "I?v-A/Ino rii 00 iie LOOK IUI Uli iiAWUUO .44, _v, "All the waters that were ia the river were turned to blood." Among all the Egyptian pla-rues none could have been worse than this. The Nile is the wealth of Egypt. Its fish the food. Its waters the irrigation of garden and fields;. Its condition decides the prosperity or the doom of the empire. What happens tc the Nile happens to all Egypt. And now in the text that great river is incarnadined. It is a red gash across an empire. In poetic license we speak of wars which turn the rivers into blood. But my text is not a poetic licenser It was a iact, a ureat crimson appalling condition described. The Nile rolling deep of blood. Can you imagine a more awitil plague? The modern plague which nearest corresponds with that is the plague of crime in all our cities. It halts not for bloodshed. It shrinks from no carnage, j It bruises, and cuts, and strikes down, and destroys. It revels in the blood of body and soul, this plague of crime rampant for ages, and never bolder or more rampant than now. The annual police reports of these cities as I examine them are to me more * suggestive than Dante's Inferno, and ;\11 Christian people as well as reformers need to waken to a present and tremendous duty. If you want this "Plague of Crime" to stop, there are serveral kinds i of persons you need to cons'clcr. First, I the public criminals. "1* ou ought not to i be surprised that these people make up a large portion in many communities. The vast majority of the criminals who take ship from Europe come into our own port. In 1SC9, of the j 49,000 people who were incarcerated in j the prisons of the country, 32,000 were j of foreign birth. 31any 01 mem were the very desperadoes ol society, oozing i into the slums of our cities, waiting for an opportunity to not and steal and dabauch, joining the lanze gang of American thugs and cut throats. There are in this cluster of cities?Xew York, Jersey City and Brooklyn?4,000 people whose entire business in life is to j commit crime. That is as much their j business as jurisprudence or medicine j or merchandise is your business. To it they bring all their energies of body, mind, and soul, and they look upon the intervals which they spen 1 in prison as so much unfortunate loss of time, just as you look upon an attack of influenza or rheumatism which fastens you in the house for a few days. It is their life-time business to pick-pockets, and blow up safes, and shoplift, and ply the panel game, and they have as much pride of skill in their business as you have in yours when you upset the argument or an opposing counsel, or cure a gunshot fracture which other surgeons have given up, or foresee a turn of the market as you buy goods just before they go jp twenty per cent. It is their business to commit crime, and I do not suppose that once in a year the thought of the immorality strikes them. Added to these professional criminals, American and foreign, there is a large class of men who are more or lcssimlustious in crime. In one year the police in this cluster of cities arrested 10,000 people for theft, and 10,000 for assault and battery, and 50.000 for iutoxicattion. Drunkenness is responsible for much of the theft, since it confuses a man's ideas of property, and he gets his hands on things that do not belong to him. Hum is responsible for much of the assau't and battery, inspiring men to sudden bravery, which they must demonstrate though it be on ihe face of the next gentleman. Ten million dollars worth of property stolen in this cluster o? cities in one year. You cannot, as good citizens, be independent of ihat fact. It will touch your po:ket, siace I have to give you the fact that these three cities pay about $S,000,000, worth of taxes a year to arraign, try and support the criminal population. You help to pay the board of every criminal from the sneak-thief that snatches a spool of cotton up to some 1- 1 1. mau wuo swamps a uauts.. ^vxuie umu that, it touches your heart in the moral depression af the community. You might as will think to stand in a closely confined room where there are fifty peo pie and yet not breathe the vitiated air, as to stand in a community where there is such a crreat multitude of the depraved without somewhat beinj: contaminated. What is the fire that burns your store down compared with the conflagration which consumes your morals'? What is the theft of the gold and silver from your money safe compared with Hie theft of your children's virtue:' We are all ready to arraign criminals. We shout at the top of our voice, "Stop thief!" and when the police get on the track we come out, hatless and in our slippers, and assist in the arrest. We come around the bawling ruftlau and hustle him oft' lo justice, when he gets in prison, what do we do for bim? With great gusto we put od the handcuffs and the hopples: but whatprepara^ lion are we making for the day when the handcuffs and the hopples come ollV Society seems to say to these criminals, ' Villain, go there and rot," when i ought to say, "You are an offender against the law, but we mean to give you an opportunity to repent; we mean to help you. Here are JJibles and tracts and Christian miluences. Christ died for you. Look, aad live." V ast improvements nave oeen maue by introducing industries into the prison but we want something more than hammers and shoe lasts to reclaim these people. Aye, we waut more than sermons on the Sabbath day. Society must im press these men with the fact that it does not enjoy their suffering, and that it is attempting to reform and elevate them. The majority of criminals suppose that society has a grudge against them, and they m turn have a grudge against society. They are harder in heart and more infuriated when they come out of jail than when they went in. Many of the neoDle who eo to nrison 20 asrain and again and again. Some years ago of fifteen hundred prisoners who during the year had been in Sing Sing, four hundred had been there before. In a house of correction in the country, where during a certain reach of time \ there had been tive thousand people | more than three thousand had been j there before. So, in one case the prison, j and in the other case the ho ise of cor-! rection, left them just as bad as they j were before. The secretary of one of \ the benevolent societies of New York i saw a lad fifteen years of age who had ! SpCll L> UUt'U Jr CU i ^ Vi lnv; ill | and be said to the lad, "What have | they done for you to make you better?" "Well," replied the lad, "the lirsttime I was brought up before the judge he said, You oui;ht to be ashamed of yourself.' And then I committed a crime \ again, and I v.as brought up before the j same judge, and he said, * You rascal!' And alter a while I committed some other crime, and I v/as brought before | the same judge, and he said. *You ought | to be hanged.' " That is ail they had dnn? for him in the vrav of reformation ! and salvation. **Ob.?' you say, -these people are incorrigible." I suppose Uiere are hundreds of persons this day I3 Inir in the prison bunks who would leap up at the prospect of reformation, if society would only show them a way into decency and respectability. "Oh," you say. "i have no patience with these rogues." I ask you in reply, how much better would you have been under the same circumstances:" Suppose your mother had been a blasphemer and your father a sot, and you had started liie with abodv stuffed with evil proclivities, and you had spentmuch of your time in a cellar amid obscenities and cursing, and if at ten vears ot a^e you had been " > - " - - ? i __ i -, - -1 u.t. A compelled to go out aau siuau uaweieu and banged at night if v? u came in without any spoils and suppose your early manhood and womanhood had been covered with rags and tilth and dccent society had turned its back upon you, and lett you to consort with vagabonds and wliart-rats?how much better would you have bceu'^ I have no sympathy with that executive clemency which j wouid let crime run loose, or which ; would sit in the vallery of a court room weeping because some hard-hearted | wretch is brought to justice; but I do say (iliat the safety aud life of the community demand more potential influence in j behalf of public offenders. In some of the city prisons the air is I lil-a tliof r\f tVia TllacL- T-Told in . I have visited prisons where no air swept through the wicket; it almost knocked me down. Xo sunlight, young men who had commited their first crime crowded in amorng old offenders. I saw in one prison a woman, with one child almost blind, who had been arrested lor the crime of poverty, who was waiting until the slow law could take her to the almshouse, where she rightfully belonged but she was thrust in there with her child amid the most abandc ned wretches of the to-vu. Many of the offenders in that prison sleeping on the iloor, with nothing but a vermin-covered blanket over them. Those people crowded and wan and wasted and half suffocated and infuriated. I said to the men, "IIow do you stand it here?" "God knows," said one man, "we have to stand it." Oh, the.' will pay you when they get out. Where, they burned down one house they will burn three. They will strike rWnpr t.ho assassin's knife. Thev are this minute plotting worse burglaries. Some of the city jails are the best places I know of to manufacture foot-pads, vagabonds, and cut-throats. Yale college is not so well calculated to make scholars, nor Harvard so well calculated to make scientists, nor Princeton so well calculated to make theologians, as many ot our jails are calculated to make criminals. All that those men do not know of crime after they have been in that dnngeon for some time. Satanic machination can not teach them. In the sutferable stench and sickening surroundings of such places there is nothing but j disease for the body, idiocy for the mind, ! and death for the soul. Stilled air and darkness and vermiu never turned a I taiei IIUU uu nuuest in an. We want men like John Howard and Sir William Blackstone, and women like Elizabeth Fry, to do for the prisons of the United States what those people did in other days for the prisons of England. I thank God for what Isaac T. Hopper and Dr. Wines and Mr. Harris and scores of others have done in the wav of prison refer i?: but we want something more radical before will ccme the blessing of him who said: "I was in prison, and ye came unto me." Again, in your effort to arrest this plague of crime you need to consider untrustworthy officials. k*Woe unto thee, O lamb, when thy king is a child, and thy princes drink in the morning." It is a great calamity to a city when bad men get into pnblic authority. Why was it that in New York there was such unparalleled crime between 1SCG and 1S71* It was because the judges of police m tnat city, at tuat nine, iur uie most part, were as corrupt as the vagabonds 'hat came before them for trial. Tbose were the days of high carnival, for election iriuds, assassination and forgery. We had all kinds of rings. There was one man during those years that got one hundred and twenty eight thousand dollars in one year for serving the public. In a lew years it was estimated that there were fitly millions of public treasure squandered. In those times the criminal had only to wink to the judge or his lawyer would wink for him, and the question was decided for the defendant. Of the eight thousand people arrested in that city in one year, only three were punished. These little matters were ''fixed up," while the interests oi' society were "fixed down." Vou know as well as I do that one vil lain who escapes only opens the door for other criminalites. When the two pickpockets snatched the diamond pin from the Brooklyn gentleman in a Broadway stage, and the villains were arrested, and the trial was set down for tbe general sessions, and then the trial never came, and never anything more was heard of the case, the public officials were only bidding higher for more crime. It is no compliment to public authority when we have in all the cities of the country, walking abroad, men aud women notorious for criminality, unwhipped of justice They are pointed out to ) ou Id the street day by day. There vou lind what are called the "fences," the men who stand between the thief and the honest man, sheltering the thief, and at <:reat price handing, over the goods to the owner to whom they belonged. There you will find * >1 T i_; U ii.A Uiose wno are caiieutne "SKiuners,-- tuc men who hover around W all street, with great sleight ot'nand in bonds and stocks. There you lincl the funeral thieves, the people who go and sit down and mourn with families and pick their pockets. And there you find the '"confidence man," who borrow money of you because they have a dead child in the house and want to bury it, when they never had a house or family; or they want to lto to England and get a large property there, aud they want you to pay their way, and they will send the money back by the very next mail. There arc the "harbor thieves." the shoplifters," the "pick-pockets," famous all over the cities. Hundreds of them with their faces In the "Rogues gallery," yet doing nothing i'or the hist live or ten years out defraud society to escape justice. When these people go unarrested and unpunished, it is r-utiin^ a high premium upon vice, and saying to the young criminals of this couutry, "What a safe thing it is to be a great criminal." Let the law swoop upon them. Let it be known in this country that crime will have no quarter, that the detectives are after it, the the police club is being brandished, that The iron door of tiie cell is being opened, that the judge is ready to call on the case. Too great leniencv to criminals is too great severity to society* Again: In your ell'ort to arrest this piague 01 crime, you ueeu cuus act the idle population. Ofcource, I do not refer to people who are getting old, or to the sick, or to those who cannot get work; but 1 tell you to look out for those athletic men aud women who will not work. When the French nobleman was asked why he kept busy when he had so j large a property, he said, "1 keep on en-1 graving so I may not hang myself." I j | do not care who the man is, you cannot J afi'ord to be idle. It 5s irom the idle j; classes that the criminal classes are made j < up. Character, like water, ^ets putrid ! I if it stands still too long. Who can vron- j > fler that in this world, where there is so ! i much to do, and ail the hosts 01 eartn u aud heaven and heli are plunging into i; the conflict, and angels are ilyrng. and ji God is at work, and the universe is j! aquake with the marching and counter- i marching, that God lets his indignation : fall upon a man who chooses idleness? i 1 have watched these do-nothings who spend their time stroking thei.1 beard, aud retouching their toilet, and criticiz- < ing industrious people, and pass their days and nights in barrooms and club ; houses, lounging and smocking and chewing and card-playing. They arc not only useless, but they are dangerous. IIow hard it is for them to while away the hours! Alas lor them! If they do : not know how to while away an hour, : what will they do when they have all i eternity on their hands? These men lor awhile smoxe uie oest cigars, aim wuai ; the best clothes, aod move in the highest spheres; but I h ive noticed that very soon they come down to the prison, the ; almshouse, or stop at the gallows. The police stations of this cluster of cities lurnish annually between two and three hundred thousand lodgings. For the most part these two and three hundred thousand lodgings are furnished to able-bodied men and women?people as ible to work as you and I are. When they are received no longer at one police , station, because they are "repeaters," they go to some O'.her station, and so they keep moving around. They get their food at house doors, stealing what they can lay their hands on in the front basement while the servant is spreading the bread in the back basement. They will not work. Time and again, in the country districts, they have wauted hunJ -"J? ? ~ AP loV\ArovG T)\A5P UrCUb ClLIU 111UU3UUUO Vi IttWXUOl JL wvwv men will not go. They do not want to work. I have tried them. I have set them to sawing wood in mycelial- to see whether they wanted to work. I offered to pay them well for it. I have heard the saw going for about three minutes, and then.I went down, and :o, the wood, but no saw! They are the pest of society, and they stand in the way of the Lord's poor, who ought to be helped, and must be helped, aLd will be helped. While there are thousands of industrious men who cannot get any work, these men who do not want any work come in and make that plea. I am in favor of the restoration of the old-fashioned whipping-post for just this one class of men who will not work; sleeping at night at public expense in the station house; during the day, setting their food at your door-step. Imprisonment does not scare them. They would like it. Black well's Island or Sing Sing wouiuuea comfortable home for them. They would have no ?bjebtion to the almshouse, for they like thin soup, if they cannot get mockturtle. I propose this for them; on one side of them put some healthy work; on the other side put a rawhide, and let them take their choice. I like for that class ot people the scant bill of fare that Paul wrote out for the Ttiessalonian loafers: "If any work not, neither should he eat." By what law of God or man is it right that you should toil day in and day out, until our hands are blistered and our arms ache and our brains get numb, and' then be called upon to support what in the United States are about two million loafers! They are a very dangerous class. Let the public authorities keep their eyes on them. Again: Among the uprooting classes I place the oppressed poor. Poverty to a certain extent is chastening; cut after that, when it drives a man to the wall, and he hears his children cry id vain for bread, it some times makes him desperate. I think that there are thousands of honest men lacerated into vagabondism. There are men crushed under burdens for which they are not half paid. While there is no excuse for criminality even in oppression, I state it as a simple fact that much of the scoundrelism of the community is consequent upon ill-treatment. There are many men and women battered and bruised and stung until the < hour of despair has come, and they stand ! with the ferocity of a wild beast which, pursued until it can run no longer, turns round, foaming and bleeding, to fight the : hounds. i There is a vast underground Xe w York and Brooklyn life that is appalling and shameful. It wallows and steams with putrefaction. You go down the stairs 1 which are wet and decoyed with lilth, and at the bottom you tind the poor vie Liras on the lloor, cold, sick, turee-iounus dead, slinking into a still darker corner under the gleam of the lantern of the ! police. There has not been a breath of fresh air m that room for five years, literally. The broken sewer empties ; its contents upon then, and they lie at nightin the swimming filth. There they are, men, women, children; blacks, whites; Mary Magdalen without here repentance, and Lazarus without his God. These are "the dives" into which the pick-pocket and the thieves go, as well as a great many who would like a differ- , ent life but caunot get it. These places 1 - -** - *?khlno/1 are me sores ui mo tity, nmw perpetual corruptiou. They are the underlying volcano that threatens us with a Caracas earthquake. It rolls aud roars and surges and heaves and rocks and blasphemes and dies. And there are only two outlets for it: the police court and the potter's fieled. In other words, they must either so to prison or to hell. Oh, you never saw it, you say. You never will see it until on the day when those staggering wretches shall come up in the light of the judment throne, and while all hearts are being revealed, God will ask you what you did to help them. There is another layer of poverty and destitution, not so squalid but almost as helpless. You hear the incesssant wailing for bread and clothes and fire, Their eyes are sunken. Their cheek-bones stand out. Their hands are damp with ; slow consumption. Their flesh is punea up with dropsies. Taeir breath is like that of the charnel-house. They hear the roar of the wheels of fashion overhead, and the gay laughter of men and maidens, wonder why God gave to others so much and to them so little. Some of t'-iem trust into an iaHdelity like that of the poor German girl who. when told in the midst of her wretchedness that God was good, said: "No, no good God. Just : look at me. Xo good God." In this cluster of cities, whose cry of want I interpret, there are said to be. as far as I can ligure it up from the reports. 1 about 300,000 honest poor who are de- . pendent upon individual, city, and state charities. If all their voices could come up at once, it wou'.d be a groan that would shake the foundotions of the city and bring all earth and heaven to the rescue. But, for the most part, it suffers unexpressed. It sits in silence, gnashing its teeth, and suckinsthe blood of its own arteries, wa.tinu for the judgment day. Oh. 1 should not wonder it on that day it would be found out that some of us had some things that belonged to them: some extra garment which might have made them comfortable in cold days; some bread thrust into the ashbarrel that mujht have appeased their hunger lor a little while; some wasted candle or gas-iet mat mi^ut nave Kinuieu up their darkness : some Irescoou the ceiling that would have given them a roof; some iewei which, brought to that orphan girl in time, might have kept her from being cro vded off the precipices of anuclean life; some New Testimentthat would have told them ofHim who "came to seek and savs tbat which was lust." Oh, this wave of vagrancy and hunger unrt nakedae?.? that kashessadly against j Dur iront door step! If the roof of all i the houses of destitution could be lifted j o we could look down into them just as i :;o<] looks, whose nerves would be strong j enough to stand it? And yet there they ; ir!>_ The tit'iv thousand sewimr women i in these t'ucj cities, some of them in j hunger and cold, working night after j uhjht. until some times the blood spurts : from the nostril and hps. IIow* well I their grief was voiced by that despairing j woman who stood by her invalid litis-1 band and invalid child and said to the j L-ity missionatv: "I am dowu-heart-.d. Everything's against u-: and then there are other things." "Whatother thing?" said the city missionary. "0," she replied, "my sin." "What do you mean by that?" "Well." she said, "I uever hear or see anything good. It's work from Monday morning till Saturday night, and then when Sunday comes I can't ?o out, and I walk the lloor, and it makes me tremble to th.nk that I have ;,'0t to meet God. 0 sir, it's so hard for us. We have to work so, aud then we liave so much trouble, aud then we are Setting along so poorly; and see this wee little thing growing weaker; and then to ?ro opo nnr rrptf incr nearer to God. but lloating away from him. 0, sir. I do wish I was ready to die." I should uot wonder if they had a good ileal better time than we in the future, to make up for the iact that they had such a bad time here. It would be jnsf. like Jesus to say; "Come up and take the highest seats. You suffered with me on earth; now be glorified with me in heaven." 0 thou weeping One of Bethany! 0 th >u dying One of the cross ! Have mercy on the starving, freezing, homeless poor of these great cittes. i have preached tbis sermon for four or five practical reasons: Because I want you to know who are the uprooting classes of society. Because I want you to be more discriminating in your charities. Because I ?vant your hearts open with generosity and you hands open with charity. Because I want'you to be made the sworn friends of all city evangelisation, and all newsboy's lodging houses, and all children's and societies, and Dorcas societies, under the skillful manipulation of wives and mothers and sisteas and daughters; let the spare garments of your wardobes be fitted to the limbs of the wan and shivering. I should not wonder if that hat you give should co ; e back a jeweled coronet, or if that garment that you hand out from your wardrobe should mysteriously be whitened, and somehow wrought into the Saviour's own robe, so in the last day he would run his hand over it, and say: "I was naked, and ye clothed me." That would be putting your garments to glorious uses. Dut more than than that, I have preached the sermon because I thought in the contrast you would see how very kindly God had deait with you, and I thought that thousands of you would go to your comfortable homes, ana sit at your well filled tables, and at the warm registers, and look at the round faces of your children, and that then you would burst into tears at the review of God's goodness to you, and that you would go to your room and lock the door, and kneel down, and say: "0 Lord, I have been an ingrate; make me thy child. 0 Lord, there are so many hungry and unclad and unsheltered to-day, "I thank thee that all my life thou hast taken such good care of me. 0 Lord, there are so many sick and crippled children to-day. I thank thee mine are well, some of them on earth; some of them in heaven. Thy goodness, 0 Lord, breaks me down. Take me once and forever. Sprinkled as I was many years ago at the altar, while my mother held me, now I conseerate my soul to thee in a holier baptism of repenting tears, "For sinners, Lord, thou cam'st to bleed, And I'm a sinner vile indeed; Lord, I believe thy grace is free, 0 magnify that grace to me." Who?e Fault Was It. Xuw York, April 9.?The agents of the Fabre Line of steamships, which bring most of the Italian immigrants to this port, have involved themselves in serious complications with the United States authorities because of the violaLion of the immigration laws. The superintendent of the immigrant station, Col Weber, several days ago ordered that twenty-four Italians, who arrived on the steamer Burgundia should be taken back to Italy as they were deemed to have come here in violation of the laws. The steamer agents protested against this action, and yesterday Col. Weber sent an inspector to the steamer to see if the barred immigrants were on board, as the vessel was to sail at 4 o'clock this morning. The inspector tound only three of the immigrants there, but he was told by the officers of the steamer that the others were lounging arcund somewhere and would turn up in time for the steamer's sailing. tiip 5r?sner?f.or remained aboard till the Burgundia sailed and then reported to Col. Weber that the|missing twenty-one immigrants had not turned up and their thereabouts is unknown. Col. Weber will report the matter to the Secretary of the Treasury. Weakness. IIow many suffer from weakness. And what a distressful ailment it is. Always praying for strength and yet feeling oneself growing weaker and weaker. There is great virtue in 13. 'J. B. (Botanic Blood Balm) as a strengthening as well as a healing medicine. Try it as a tonic and see how much better you will feel. It will improve both appetite and digestion. It is an excellent remedy to use while convalescing. It aids a natural and rapid recovery. In cases where an invalid has remained long in bed and bed sores or other ulcers break out, this remedy will afford quick relief. W. M. Cheshire, Atlanta. G*., writes: "I had a long spell of typhoid fever, which at last seemed to* settle in my right leg, which swelled up enormously. An ulcer also appeared which dis charged a cupful 01 mauer a uay. x then gave ii. 1J. B. a trial and it cured me." Death of a Young Groom. Wilmington, Del., April 13.?Count Ileidhold A. Lewenhaupt died suddenly at his heme, Xo. 1017 Adams street, in this city shortly after 0 o'clock this morning of typhoid fever. His illness was short and no one outside of Ms Lmmeniate family was aware that bis life was in peril until the sad news of his death was announced. lie was married April 2 to Mtss Ellen, youngest daughter of ex-sjecretary Bayard. He was attached to the Swedish Legation during Cleveland's administration, but came to Wilmington some time ago to learn practical shipbuilding and iron working in the shop of Harlan <fc Ilollingsworth. He was titied, wealthy and handsome and a society favorite, but he was employed as a mechanic and had his bench among the rest of the employees. lie had become an excellent workman. Horrible Deatli. Milwaukee, Wis., April 12.?Joseph IlammeD, an employee in the Schlitz brewery, met a horriole death yesterday, by falling into a yat of boiling water.[ When he was missed the water was 1 drawn off and his parboiled body found < in the bottom of the vat. How the ac- ' cident occurred is not known. f Rheumatism.?James Paxton, of .Sa- [ vaonab, ua., says ue nau Jttueumausa so bad that he could not move from the bsd or dress without help, and thaShe tried many remedies, but received no relief until he began the use of P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potas-f siurnj, and two bottles restored him to? health. d \ A IlEIGN OF TKKSlOiL i RACE RIOTS GROWING OUT OF THE MURDER OF MACCA. I The XefjrodS KIro I'lJon tho >i ilit.;rv r.-oin j I a Church?The .Soldier* Kiddie the ! Hulldiuff With l!un<-ts?Thr?:ttrt of; I acemliari.im. Charlotte. X. C., April lo.?Charlotte is considerably wrought up today over a distardly murder, committed j Saturday night about 11:30 o'clock, in an Italian fruit store on "West Trade street, near the Richmond aud Danville depot. John Macca, an Italian, and owner of the store, while in the act of drawing a glass of cider for a negro, was struck on the back of the head with a freight car coupling pin and his skull was crushed, and he was robbed of .8230. So quietly was the act committed and so stunning the blow that the murder was not discovered by the police until twenty minutes thereafter, when Sergeant Rigler heard the groans of the dying man from the street and went in and found him prostrated, lie was carried to his bed upstairs, and Sunday morning at 10 o'clock he expired. He never was conscious from the time he receiyed the fatal blow. The assassin's name is Henry Brandham, a negro gambler, well known in the police courts of Charleston, Savanno'n imH Atlanta This neero had been t hanging around this fruit store all day, and a t'ew minutes before he committed the murder Dacca's son saw him in the store, and identified him Sunday morning. On his person was found a handkerchief, in which the pin was wrapped before the murder. The handkerchief was soiled with rust and a plain imprint of the pin. Last Saturday night he sold the suit of clothes he wore at the store to a porter at the JSuford Hotel, and Sunday morning, when captured, he had on a ST silk hat, a line black serge cutaway, and a handsome pair of patent leather shoes. These clothes were in pawn, and Saturday night he redeemed them with the money, and only $5 was found upon his person Sunday. News of Charlotte's excitement has spread rapidly, and all trains leading into the nit.v werfs crowded this afternoon with people from the neighboring towns. The streets are crowded with a lively mass of humanity, surging back and forth, and excitement is at a high pitch. The negroes of the city are holding a mass meeting to night to decide what they will do. The African Methodist Episcopal Church was tilled all night long with a crowd of angry negroes, seemingly determined on mischief. About 2 o'clock this morning a squad of negroes went to the jail and asked for protection, stating that the lives of their fellowmen were in emminent danger at the church. Col. J. T. Anthony at once despatched a portion of the militia to the church, and as the men were being drawn into line, some negroes who were in the cupalo of the church opened lire on the soldiers. This so incensed the military that the lire was returned and the negro church was riddled with bullets. Today it presents an appearance not unlike that of a All ct-oi-ncH in t.hf? Oil. jOi J.X1X UUV gtwiuvvi. ??? front were smashed by the rlying bullets, and it is reported that several negroes were badly injured. Mayor F. B. McDowell issued a proclamation this afternoon that all the bar rooms of the city should be closed at 5:30 o'clock, so that whiskey should not lead the infuriated mob to uncalled for yiolience. An extra police force of 200 men have just gone out from police headquarters to guard the jail. It is not thought advisible to put the military on guard again tonight, as they were up all last night. The hardware stores have been raided to-day by citizens in search of any kind of lirearms, and young men, boys and all have guns. Never before in the history of the city has such excitement existed as during the past twenty-four hours. Crowds of men have abandoned their business to join the mobs about the streets. The ladies of the city are frightened terribly. The negroes say that they expect to burn every white church in the city but what they will have revenge for what transpired last night. The minds of the whites have somewhat wandered from the idea of lynching, and now it is a contest of white supremacy against negro domination. Crowds of South Carolinians are swarming into the city from all sides, with their blood fairly boiling with indignation, and grave fears are apprehended for the safety of the city. THE HOME FOR BAPTIST ORPHANSIt Will lie Located in the Town of Greenwood. Columbia, S. C., April 10.?Greenwood is to be the home of the Baptist orphans of South Carolina, and the lit11~ mill ori/in Ko orathprful into fill in L1C l?UCO 11 III OVVU K/\, stitution where they can be clothed, educated and raised to become citizens that the State will be proud to own. Yesterday morning the committee ot twenty-two, appointed by the last Baptist Association met in the First Baptist Church and began the consideration of the offers of location they had opened the night before. A sessiou lasting until 2 o'clock in the afternoon was held. After a full consideration it was decided to accept the oiler of property at Greenwood. Thi; offer embraces $2,200 in cash, ten acres ot valuable land, a mortuary title to 470 acre?, six acres on which is located the handsome residence of Dr. Maxwell and a beciuest of other valuable property. This offer is by far the best presented, and the property is considered sojae of the most valuable in the State. A sub-committee consisting of J. L. Vass, W. II. Lyles, 11. M. Pratt, X. X. Burton and J. D. Pitts was appointed to meet at Greenwood on Monday for the purpose of receiving the deeds to the property. An afternoon session was held and further details of the establishment of the institution were discussed and arranged. Last night the nnsl session was held and thereat the organization of the institution was completed. The following were elected trustees of the orphanage: J. C. Maxwell, J, K. Durst, J. \V. Sprowles, 6. P. Biooks, Greenwood; Ed Lipscomb, Ninety-Six; II. P. McGliee, Due West; Rev. J. D. Pitts, Laurens; Rev. W. T. Hundly, Johnston; Rev. J. L. Vass. Darlington; W. II. Lyles, Columbia; B. P. Smith, Charleston; W. ?\ Cox, Anderson. The officers of the institution were elected as follows: President J. C. Maxwell; vice-president, W. D. Hundley: seccretary and treasurer, J. K. Durst. The Rev. J. L. V:?ss was elected sup erintendent, ami h's salary nxea at^i,500 per annum. His net known whether he will accept or not. A resolution was passed calling on the Baptist denomination in the State for $10,000 as a building fund. The home will consist of a number of small airy, convenient and carefully arranged cottages, which will be erected from time to time as required. The executive or main committee then adjourned to meet again at Greenwood on next Tuesday, for the purpose of arranging for the early opening of the orphanage.?The State. The Cocsaw affair will prove a rich plum to the lawyers engaged in the light. THIRTY YEARS AGO. T!?e Sf'rriiic Event* of April l*ith, 1861, Vividly liticaiitd. At 4.30 o'clock on the morning of April 1?, 1301, II OUIUUSiiCli IU5L" ii urn the mortar battery at Fort Johnson ou James Island, in Charleston harbor, aud burst over Fort Sumter. It was the signal gun of a war that was to last four years, involving millions of combatants and costing huudreds of thousands of lives. Strictly speaking, this was not the first hostile shot tired at Charleston. In that city ou the 20th of December, 1800, a convention of the people of South Carolina. calied by the legislature, had declared that the ordinance of M ly 23, 1765-, whereby they had ratified the constitution of the United States, and all acts ratifying amendments thereof, '"are hereby repealed, and the Union now subsisting between South Caroiina and other Stales, under the name of the United Elates ot America. is nereoy uissolved." Within sire w eks thereafter Mississippi, Florida, Alabama. Georgia, Louisiana and Texas passed similar ordinances of secession, and meanwhile Major ltobert Anderson, commanding Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island, had prudently transferred his little garrison to Fort Sumter, the real key to Charleston harbor, which could only be reached by boat. When, on the 9th of January, the steamer Star of the West, chartered in New York, with provisions for Fort Sumter aud with 250 recruits below decks, appeared in the harbur, she was attacked by a battery that had been erected ou Morris Island and manned by South Carolina troops. The first shot, aimed cross her bows, was fired by G. E. Ilaynsworth; the second, aimed directly at her, by Cadet Horlbeck. ~ " i "i ^ 1 1i?. Still, nope Oi peace naa not wuuuj goue, even after the national flag shown by the Stir of the West had been flred upon, and she had been driven back with her purpose unaccomplished. Weeks later came the peace conference in Washington. But the bombardment of Fort Sumter was war itself, and the liring of the jirst gun in that bombardment was accordiugly felt to be a momentous event. As such, Gen. S. D. Lee, at that time a captain on Beauregard's staff, has described it in the ^Battles and Lefders of the Civil War." lie, with three other members of the staff, one of themKoger A. Pryor, after l otifying Major Anderson of their purpose, proceeded iu their boat to Fort Johnson, and gave the decisive order to Capt. George S. James. "lie was a great admirer of Roger A. Pry or, and said to him, vYou are the onfy <naQ to whom I would give up the honor of tiring the lirst gun of the war ' and he offered to allow him to lire it. Pryor, on receiving the offer, was very much agitated. With a husky voice he said, 'I could not fire the first gun of the war.' His manner was almost similar to that of Major Anderson, as we left him a few moments before on the wharf at Fort Sumter. Captain James would allow no one else but himself to fire the gun." The first shot of the war. discharged from a 10-iucli mortar before dawn of a foggy morniog. "brought every soldier in ihc harbor to his feet, and every man, T -l.si J woman auucuuu iu me uty ui uuancaton Irom their beds. A thrill went through the whole city. It was felt that the rubicon had been passed." After the second sheli, all the batteries opened, and the first shot from Morris Island battery, aimed by Edward Ruflin, hit the fort. Three hours afterward, when the men in Fort Sumter had taken their breakfast of pork and water, their only food left, they began their leisurely reply. Thirty-six hours later the fort surrendered, and on the following day it was evacuated by its garrison. Exactly four years from that time, on April 14,1865, the same llatj that had then been lowered was raised a^ain over Sumter by General Anderson, under orders from Secretary Stanton, Other events of thirty years igo also come to mind. On the day after the fall of Sumter President Lincoln called out ~ AAA t Vi t i An 1 0 r\f A T^TT 1 I 'J} \J\J\J LJLUli auu v_/ i_i Uliv 1VVU V* the Sixth Massachusetts, commanded by C'ol. Edward P. Jones, w & attacked by .i mob in the streets of Baltimore. The dcfence of Port Sumter had been bloodless, but Colnel Jones' com nand, which will be forever lamous as the first armed and equipped regiment that marched to the relief of the national capital, lost four of its men killed and many wounded in that street fight. Now, after thirty years, the Sixth Massachusetts is to visit Baltimore again on the 19th oi April, this time welcomed by the people of that city in token of the peace and concord that prevail throughout the Union. As for Fort Sumter, it is left without any garrison to-day, and so is Port Moultrie. Troops are stationed in the harbors of Boston, Xew York and San Francisco, and may be found manning Fort McPherson in Georgia, Jackson Barracks In Louisiana. and Port Barrancas in Florida; but none are kept in Charleston harbor. Great changes have come in thirty years.?Xew York Times. A Lightning Shave. Louisville, April 15.?During a thunder storm, J. F. liouinson, a prominent merchant, was being shaved in Taylor's harbor shop in Jeffersonville. Direct over head was an incandescent electric light. Suddenly there was a flash of lightning, and the customers in the shop were astonished to see flames playing around the razor in Taylor's hand. The barber dropped the instrument, and in a flash the lights were out A lamp was lighted and Robinson was found lying unconscuous in the harbor's chair, lie soon recovered, however, and has experienced no ill effects. The aluMri/* liorht fiYfnrPS \rPrft fOURf! tO I have been burned out. It is supposed that lightning struck the electric light wire and leaped from the carbon paint of the lamp to the steel razor on the man's face._ Natural Gas Explosion. Jjhaddock, Pa., April 7.?Eleven men werejseriously injured by an explosion in the row of front tenements on the corner of Washington street at 3 o'clock this morning. They were all Hunga rians. The houses have pipes of natural gas but 110 lixtures. One of the men arose at 3 o'clock and lit a lamp, and an explosion followed, setting the building afire. Three men will certainly die. The other eight have only a lighting chance for life. The Philadelphia Natural Gas Company has assumed the responsibilty of caring for the injured. Groat Cotton Fire. Memphis, April 9.?At 11 o'clock tonight the cotton sheds of Hill, fountain Sc Co. caught lire it is supposed, from the spark of a locomotive. At midnight the fire is burning fiercely, and the entire sheds, in which are stored between S.000 and 10,000 bales of cotton, will probably be destroyed. The loss will reach $325,000. Insurance unknown. The importance of? purifying the blond c.mnot be over-estimated, for without pure blood you cannot enjoy good healh. 1\ P. ~P. (Prickly Ash, Poke Hoot and Pottassium) is a miraculous blood purifier, performing more cures in six* months than all thesarsaparillas and so-calied blood purifiers put together. Rheumatism is curwi Dy r. r. jr. Pains and aches In the back, shoulders, knees, ankles, hips, and wrists are all attacked and conquered by P. P. P. This great medicine, by "its bloodcleansing properties, builds up and strengthens the whole body. j ; > ^ r ~ Negress as Lynchers. Kansas City, Mo. April 9.-A crowd j of five hundred negroes lastnijjht attack| cd the county jail with the intention of | lynching William McCoy, who brutally | murdered Nellie MeGruder last Sunday night, by beating her to a jelly with stones. An attempt to lynch McCoy was made last Monday, at the time of his preliminary trial, but the prisoner was so well guarded that the attempt was abaudoned. The sheriff concluded that the excitement, amo: g the ne^ro population had subsided sufficiently to warrant the withdrawal > f the extra guards, and when the attack was made last night it was wholly unexpected. The negroes gathered quietly about the building and at 12.45 twenty of their number, masked and otherwise disguised, broke in the outer door and immediately proceeded to that part of the building which was partitioned oil for a jail. This is separated from the rest of the buildins: by a stout iron door. Only one guard was on duty. lie drew his revolver and threatened to shoot the first man who approached the door. The committ- e of twenty < after some parleying, withdrew and joined their comrades outside. After further parleying the entire mob dispersed. The guards have been doubled in anticipation of a further attack. Pianos and Organs. ST. W. Trump, 134 Main Street, Columbia, S. C., sells Pianos and Organs, direct from factory. No agents' commissions. The ce'lebrated Ohickering Piano. Mathushek Piano, celebrated for its clearness of tone, lightness of touch and lasting qualities. Mason <fe Hamlin Upright Piano. Sterling Upright Piauos, from ?225 up. Mason & Hamlin Organs surpassed by none. Sterling Organs, S50 up. Every Instrument guaranteed for six years. Fifteen days' trial, expenses both ways, if not satisfactorv. Sold cn Instalments. A complete Bedroom Suit for $16.50 freight paid to your depot. Send for Catalogue. Address L. F. Padgett, Augusta, Ga. NOTICE! Before assuring your life, or investing your money, examine the Twenty- * Tear Tontine Policies of THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE United States. Policies maturing in 1S91 realize cash returns to the owners, of amounts varying from 120 to 176 per cent, of the money paid in, besides the advantages of the Assurance during the whole period of twenty years. The following is one of the manv actual cases maturing this year: Endowment Policy Xo. G4.925. Issued in 1871, at age 27. Amount,-?5,000. Premium, 5239.90. Total Premiums I'aid, 54,793. ResultS at end of T ontine Period in 1891: CASH SURRENDER VALUE, ?8,449.45, (Equal to ?176-10 for each 5100 paid in premiums, winch is equivalent to a return of all premiums paid, with interest at V/i per cent, per annum.) Or, in lieu 0: cash, j A PAID-UP LIFE POLICY FOR 519,470. /T?nnd1 +n <Z(\ fnr I 5100 paid vin premiums.) OK, A LIFE ANNUITY of ?633.55 One fact is worth a thousand theories There is no Assurance extant in any company which compares with this. The Equitable is the strongest company in the world and transacts the largest business. For further information address or apply to the nearest agent of the Society, or write direct to W. J. RODBEY, Gi:.\ERAL A<SE>T, April 8-3m ROCK HILL, S. C. THE LARGEST STOCK, H-Z-VCP CT7-TT 7 -en WnQVMVV IUVO JL. Ff vy AfcJUk.iAi.x-1^, LOWEST PRICES. South Carolina Marl Works, F. E. HYATT, PROPRIKTOR. Is the best place in South Carolina or Southern States to secure satisfaction in American and Italian Marble Woik. All kicus of Cemetery Work a speciality. TABLETS, Tt-n A IV^TAWl? XI .CiAl^O I X-O, MONUMENTS, &c. Send for prices and full information. F. H. HYATT, April8 ly COLUMBIA. S. C. mEm]M oiS?^. j62f*Ask for catalojrue. 1 ^T.Av-7v*-vif Paftptt Pap tae Ireiii I I I jA Great Okkek that may not Again! -Va bk Se?kati:d, so do not delay, a }j "strikk While the is Sot." ?| fl [ i Write for Catalogue now and say wha: ^ M ! j'paper you saw this advertisement in. p j | Kenfemlvr that I seli everything that? ) i ?goes to furnishing a heme?iuani'T'actur-v| I inil SOUIti limits WU 111^ VUlClS Hi VUC2 tlargest possible lots, which enables tea j Swipe out all competition. ill EKE ARE A FEW OF MY STARTJ * LING BARGAINS g A No. 7 Flat top Cooking Stove, fulll ? J.size, 15x17 inch oven, fitted with 21 piece^s ?"i ?of ware, delivered at your own depot 3 call freight charges paid by rue, to: 3 I only Twelve Dollars. % Again, 1 will sell you a 5 hole Cookie; ?Range 13x13 inch oven, 18x2i? inch top, tit ? sted with 21 pieces oi ware, for TlliJR-j S'lEEN DOLLARS, and pay the freight toi |'vour depot. ! ' v IDO NOT PAY TWO PRICES FOKi TOUR GOODS. x? I will send you a nice plush Parlor suitT< gwa'nut frame, either m combination ot^ |banded, the most stylish colors for c6.ZO/} ito your jailroad station, freight paid. (< | 1 will also sell you a nice Bedromoi ui;S i Sconsisting of Bureau with giass, 1 l:igi| ghead Bedstead, l Washstaud, 1 Centrcl |table, 4 cane seat chairs, 1 cane seat and9 <3 foback roclier alitor 16.50, and pay irei?ht| t\ afft vniirdftnot. 1 J , !0r I will send you an elegant Bedroomg suit with large glass, full marble top, fori . -MA 530, and pay freight. | v Bb HJN'ice window shade on soring rollers 40* <fl| a Elegant Jarge walnut S day clock, 4.00 fl Walnut lounge, 7.00 Lace curtains per window, 1.00 S 1 cannot describe everything in a small gadvertisement, but have an immense store ^containing 22,600 feet of iioor room, with . | ware houses and factory buildings in other ^ parts of Augusta, making in all the lar-i gest business of this kind under one man-3 agement in the Southern States. These! storesand warehouses are crowded withl < ithe choicest productions of the best f acto-? A gries. My catalogue containing illustrations! of goods will be mailed if you will kindly! j |say where you saw mis advertisement, la 1 Spay freight. Address, L. F. PACSETT, | i SPrnnnptar 1'adept's' Kumiture. Stovef I and Caroet Stole, | | g 1110-1112 Sruad Street, AUGUSTA, GA.g ! f A ?i:M Medfoine! 1 ...... a..*. ? 7. - S9SMMB ! ^ I ^ i? ? ': ; < " '/ and vitalize your B ' . a^vtiteand give your ? .v.} ...:c ?::*! strength. B J ): A ; roa-l rr-rintMvtenta? t, fl * i v.. . :f?gyjtL I-i-i-t, Vysifj> , M '< ' . ; i:.uisKisir-. .. .? fl *: 5 . > ; ! {'lit SO Wfelf-UtliU :if.; 1'. t } :i t . iM livef<;v.4vr,^...id j* i:' ..r- iin.il OUt fr .v.v. . ..^?30 jg ' take v.. Jj* aw | P. P. F. J | ii yvu u iii uac Bywg RES i ncJ vut c' sorts, take g ; If jour digestive orchis seed toning tip, g ll i'3 i P. if n uj ' If you suiter with Lcadaehe, indigestion, g <? debility and weakness, take IP P P I tji * " I ?J If you suffer with rervous prostratfon, | *3 nerves uiistruajr and a general let down > | cf the system, take 1 P. P. P- I 1 g For Blood Poison. Rheumatism, Scrof- Pi --v. .? g ula, Old Sores, Malaria, Chronic Female - v' i* Coxnp'aints, take g ?! a n n ?& r r r g & o 2 B g | Prickly Ash, Poke Root | | and Potassium. "3 The best blood purifier in the world. LIPPMAN EP.r'S., tvholesab Druggists, | J Solo Tropri-xors, ' LarrsLUi's Klocz, Savannah, Ga. | LOW PRICES will be made on ? . ^ TAT DflTT1 8t QniVTQ' XlXXiXlUX X UO UUilU ENGINES and BOILERS, Special estimates on Machinery generally / at bottom figures. CORN MILLS, - - ?115 to ?375. PLANERS and MATCHERS, ?200 to ?1,500. SAW MILLS with Rope Feed, Variable Friction or Belt Feed, ?200 to ?600. We particularly call attention to these Saw Mills. They have patent double act ng set works and are the best mills on the market. Cotton Gins and Presses at low figures. V. C. BADHAM, | GENERAL AGENT, Columbia, S. C. Buy the Talbolt Engine, it is the best. I Feb 19-lv. COJJPLKTE GMXEKIES. UPON THE MOST APPROVED j plans, with Suction Fan or Spiked Belt Seed Cotton Elevator furnished*? competitive prices. COTTON" GIN'S and PRESSES of best ' ? - - mi TT T> makers, monias .nay xBases, wcwug Mower, Corbin Harrows and Planet, Jr, ^ , Cultivators. A. large stock of Portable and Stationary Ginning and baw Mill Engines on band. State Agents for C- & G. COOPER & CO'S Corlis Engines Lane Saw Mills and Liddell Company's complete ... . W. H. G1BBES, JR.. & CO,. Near Union Depot, Columbia, S. C. READ THESE I'lfilRES. Farm Wagons, complete with body etc. 2 3-4 in Thimble Skin ?39.50 3 in Thimble skin - 41.60 3lX in Thimble Skin 42.00 (Inn VIYV?>cr<\n<s ?94 50 S2S.56 2T)(i 528.50, Warranted second to noue. Write for Circulars. Buggies, Carriages, Road Carts, <&c., at 10 per cent less than regular prices. Send for Catalogue. This offer is for only SO days in order to reduce stock?so order at once. HOLLER & ANDERSON BUGGY CO.. BOCK HILL, S. O., In writing mention this paper. LIPP2i.>' E20S., THjoIeuale Drnsglsti, Jole Proprietors, Lippmaa'gBIoek, Sinaaai^Gv