The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, May 13, 1891, Image 4
"HUMMU3I ABOLIShED."~
DR. TALMAGE PREACHES A30UT
SPICE IN RELiGiON.
Why People Do Not Go to Church?'Worship
Should Be I-ikc the Offering* Oucfu
XSalkls Scat Solomon the Wise Means of
EnliYeal2? Service*.
L Brooklyn, May *3.?The capacity of
?&> the new abernacie was fully tested this
P* morning by the vast audience which assembled
to hear Dr. Talmage in his
handsome and spacious church. lie is
now preaching there morning: and evening
and the Christian Herald services in
2s ew York have been discontinued. This
has caused much regret to many people
in that city. A memorial vr :s prepared
and signed by influential citizens asking
Dr. Talmage to continue the services.
He could not see his way to comply at
the time, but, as he was evidently impressed
by the warmth of the welcome
given him in the metropolis, and deeply
moved by the good that was done, it is
not improbable that m the near future
he will agai.i be found duplicating his
usefulness by ministering to two congregations,
as he has been doing during
the past seven months. Ilis subject this
morning was "Humdrum Abolished."
and his text, II Chronicles ix, 0, -Of
spices great abundance; neuaer was mere
any such spice as the (t)ueen of Sheba
gave King Sulomon."
What is that building cut yonder, glittering
in the sun? Have you not heard?
It is the House of the forest of Lebanon.
King Solomon has just taken to
it his bride, the princess of Egypt. You
s :e the pillars of the portico, and a great
tower, adorned with one thousand
shields oi" gold, hunc: on the outside of
w * * "? *? ii.* ~u:~i.1^
tbe tower?live uunareu ox me smema.
of gold manufactured at Solomon's
order, five hundred were captured by
David, his father, in battle. See how
they blaze in the noonday sun!
? Solomon goes up the ivory stairs of
his throne between twelve Hods in statuary,
and sits down on the back of the
golden bull, the head of the bronze beast
turned toward the people. The famiiy
and attendants ot the king are so many
that the caterers of the place have to
provide every day one hundred sheep
and thirteen oxen, besides the birds and
the venison. I hear the stamping and
pawing of four thousand fine horses in
the royal stables. There were important
official* who had charge ot the work
of gathering the srraw and the barley
for these horses. King Solomon was an
early riser, tradition says, and used to
take a ride out at daybreak; and when
in 5iio n-iiifrt ninnrpl hphind the swiftest
horses of all the realm, and followed by
mounted archers in purple, as the cavalcade
dashed through the streets of
Jerusalem, I suppose it was something
worth getting up at 5 o'cbck in the
morning to look at.
Solomon was not like some of the
kings of the present day?crowned imAll
the snlendor of his palace
and retinue were eclipsed by his Intellectual
power. "Why, he seemed to know
everything. lie was the first great naturalist
the world ever saw. Peacocks
from India strutted the basaltic walk,
and apes chattered in the trees, and deers
stalked the parks and there were aquariums
with foreign fish, aud aviaries with
foreign birds;;and tradition says these
birds were so well tamed that Solomon
might walk clear across the city under
the sdadow of their wings as they hovered
and flitted about him.
More than this, he had a great reputation
for the conundrums and riddles that
he made and guessed. He aud King
iliram, his neighbor, used to sit by the
hour and ask riddles, each one paying
in money if he could not auswer or
guess the riddle. The Solomonic navy
visited all the world, und the sailors, of
course, talked about the wealth of their
kings, and about the riddles and enigmas
that he made and solved; and the
news spread unt:l Queen Ealkis, away
off south," heard of it and sent messengers
with a few riddles that she would
like to have Solonmon solve, and a few
puzzles which she would like to have
fin/i Anf <Vir> cor>t r.mr>n(T other
11U11 JLlilU UUl1. kw'ii V/
things, to Kinir Solomon, a diamond
with a bole so small that a needle could
not penetrate it, askiug him to thread
that diamond. And Solomon took a
?n worm and put it at the opening in the
diamond, and the worm crawled through,
leaving the thread in the diamond. The
queen also sent a goblet to Solomon
asking him to lill it with water that did
not pour from the sky, and that did not
rush out from the earth: and immediately
Solomon put a slave on the back of
a swift horse and galloped him around
and around the park until the horse was
nigh exhausted, and from the perspiration
of the horse the goblet was iilled.
She also sent King Solomon 500 girls in
boys7 dress, wondering if he would be
acute enough to iind out the deception.
Immediately Solomon, when he saw
them wash their faces, knew irom the
way they applied the water that it was
all a cheat.
Queen Baikis was so pleased with the
acuteness of Solomon, that she said: "I'll
.just go and see him for himself."
Yonder it comes?the cavalcade?horses
and dromedaries, chariots and charioteers,
jinglinir harness and clattering
hoofs, and blazing shields, and Hying
-??ensigns, nnil clapping cymbals. The
place is saturated with the perfume,
^he brings cinnamon, and safl'ron, and
calamus, and frankincense, and all manner
of sweet spices. As the retinue
sweeps through the gale, the armed
guards inhale the aroma. "Halt!" cry
the charioteers, as the weels grind the
gravel in front o? the pillared portico of
the kirn;. Queen Balkis alights in an
atmosphere bewitched with perfume. As
the dromedaries are driven up to the
king's store-houses, and the bundles of
crmphor are unloaded, and the sacks of
cinnamon, and the boxes of spices arc
opened, me purveyors ui mv; juiuh-v vw^cover
what my texi announces: '"Of
spices, greit abundance; neither was
there any such spices as the Queen of:
Sheba gave to King Solomon.
Well, ray friends, you kt.ow that all J
theologians agree in niakiug Solomon a |
type of Christ, and making the Queen
ofSheba a type of every truth-seeker;
and I shall take the responsibility of
saying that all the spikenard, and cassia,
and frankincense which the Queen of
ijheba brought to King soiomon are
mightily suggestive of the sweet spices
of our holy religion. Christianity is not
a collection of sharp technicalities, and
angular facts, and chronological tables,
and dry statistics. Our religion Is compared
to frankincense and to cassia, but i
never to nightshade. It is a bundle of j
myrrh. It is a dash of holy light. It is
a sparkle cf cool fountains. It is au
opening of opaline gates. It is a collection
oi spices. Would God that we were
as wise in taking spices to our Divine
King as Queen Balkis was wise iu taking
the spices to the earthly Solomon! What
many of us need is to have i he hum< Jrum
driven out of our life and the humdrum
out o. our religion. The American, and
Engli&h, and S ottish church will die of |
humdrum unless there be a change. An
editor from San Francisco wrote me say- j
ing he was getting up fur h:s paper a j
symposium from many clergymen, discussing
anions other things. "Way do j
not people go to church?''ami he wanted
mv rmirvnn r?n<I I "SVft if. in nnn srnters.-p.
People do nol po to church because they
cannot stand the humdrum. The l'act
is that most people have so much humdrum
in their worldly calling that they
do not went to have added the humdrum
of religion. We need in all our sermons
' and exhortations aau songs ana prayers
I more of what Queen Baikis brought to
' Solomon, namely more spice.
j The fact is that the dutirs and cares
| of this life, coming to us from time to
: time, are stupid often, and insane, and j
(intolerable. Here are men who have J
; been bartering, and negotiating, climb- j
ing, pounding, hammering for twenty j
j years, forty years, fifty years. One i
! great long drudgery has their life been.
! Their lace anxious, their feeling bei
numbed, their days monotonous. What
is necessary to brighten up that man's
hie. and to sweeten that man's acid disposition,
and to put sparkles into the
man's spirits? The spicery of our holy
religion. Why, if between the losses of
life there dashed a gleam of eternal gain;
if between the betrayals cf life there
came the gleam of the undying friend
j ship oi Christ; it m guu ume- in cusi!
ness we found ministering spirits flying
i to and fro in our office, and store, and
i shop, every-day life, instead of being a
; stupid monotone, would be a glorious
I insp:iaiiou, penduluminir between calm
satisfaction and high rapture.
IIow any w oman keeps bouse without
the religion of Christ to help her, is a
mystery to me. To have to spend the
greater part of one's life, as many wo|
men do, in planning for the meals, in
j stitching garments that will soon be rent
! aaaiu, and deploring breakages, and
| supervising tardy subordinates, and
j driving ofT dust that soon again will settle,
and doing the same thing day in and
day out, and year in and year out, until
j their hair silvers, and the back stoops,
ana ttie spectacles crawi to we eyes, ana
the grave breaks open under the thin
sole of the shoe?oh, it is a long monotony!
Jiut when Christ comes to the
drawing-room, and corres to the kitchen,
.md comes to the nursery, and comes to
the dwell inn, then how cheery become
all womanly duties. She is never alone
now. Martha gets through fretting aDd
joins Mary at the feet of Jesus. All
day loug Deborah is happy because she
can help Lapidoth; Hannah, because she
can make a coat for young Samuel; Miriam,
because she can watch her infant
brother: Rachel, because she caD help
her father water the stock; the widow of
Sarepta, because the cruise of oil is being
replenished. O woman, having in your
aC Kavoo r>ontoininor nil
\J ciLI Li \ CL iiCCU VI UVAtO j
kinds of condiments, why have you not
tried in your heart and "life the spicery
of our holy religion? "Martha! Martha!
thou art careful and troubled about
many tilings, but one thing is needful,
and Mury hath chosen that good part
which shall not be taken away Irom
her."
I must conless that a great deal of the
religion of this day is uttetly insipid.
There Is nothing piquant or elevating
about it. Men and women go around
humming psalms in a minor key; and
molnnz-'linlv <arv1 fhpir wnrshlD
has in it more signs than rapture. We
do not doubt their piety. Ob, no. But
they are sitting at a feast where the cook
lias forgotten to season the food. Everything
is flat in their experience and in
their conversation. Emancipated Irom
sin, and death, and hell, and on their
way to a magnificent heaven, they act
as though they were trudging on toward
an everlasting Botany Bay. Religion
does not seem to agree with them. It
I seems to catch in the wind-pipe and be
come a tight strangulation instead or an
exhilaration. All the inlitle1. books that
have been written from Voltaire down
to Herbert Spencer, have not done so
much damage to our Christianity as lugubrious
Christians. Who wants a religion
woven out of the shadows of the
night? Why go growling on your way
to eelest!al enthronement? Come out
of that cave, and sit down in 1 he warm
ligbt of the 6un of Righteousness. Away
witu your odes to melancholy and Ilervey's
'"Meditations among the Tombs."
Then let our songs abound,
And every tear be dry;
I We're marching through Emanuel's
ground
To fairer worlds on high.
I have to say, also, that we need to
put more spice and enlivenment in our
religious teaching; whether it be in the
prayer-meeting, or in the Sabbathschool,
or in the church. We ministers
need more fresh air and sunshine in our
lungs, and our heart, and our head. Do
ycu wonder that the world is so far from
being converted when you find so little
i vivacity in the pulpit and in the pew?
i We want, like the Lord, to plant in our
sermons and exhortations more lilies of
ihe Held. We want fewer rhetorical
elaborations, and fewer sesquipedalian
words; and when we talk about shadows,
we do not want to sap adumbration; and
when we me^n queerness, we do not
want to talk about idiosyncrasies; or if
a stitch in the back, we do not want to
talk of lumbago; but. in a plain vernacular
preach that Gospel which proposes
to make all men happy, honest, victorious,
and lree. Iu other words, we want
more cinnamon and less .gristle. Let
this be so in all the different depart
meats ot work to wmcti tne L.ora cans
us. Let us be plain. Let us be earnest.
Let us be commoc-sensical. When we
talk to the people in a vernacular they
can understand, they will be very glad
to come aDd receive the truth we present.
Would to God that Queen Balkis
would drive her spice-laden dromedaries
into all our sermons and prayer-meeting
exhortations
More than that, we want more li.e
und spice in our Christian work. The
poor do not want so much to be groaned
over as sung to. With the bread, and
| medicines, aud the garments you give
| them, let there be an accompaniment of
smiles and brisk encouragement. Do
not stand and talk to them about the
j wretchedness of their abode, and the
i hunger of their looks, and the hardness
J of their lot. Ah! they know it better
| than you can tell them. Show them the
' bright side of the thins, if there be any
bright side. Tell them good times will
c?me. Tell them that for the children
of God there is immortal rescue. Wake
them up out of their stolidity by an inspiring
lau<rh, and while you send in help
'.ike the Queen of Sheba also send in the
apices. There are two ways of meeting
the poor. One is to come into their
house with a nose elevated in disgust, as
I much as to say: "I don't see how you
! live here in this neighborhood. It acuj
ally m; s me sick. There is that bundle?take
it, you poor miserable wretch,
and make the most of it." Anothor way |
is to go into the abode of the poor in a
manner which seems to saj: "The
blessed Lord sent me. lie was poor
himself. It is not more for the good I
am going to try to do you than it is tor
the good you can do me.1' Coming in
that spirit, the gift will be as aromatic
as the spikenard on the feet of Christ,
and all the hovels m that alley will be
fragrant with the spice.
We need more spice and eailvenmeut
in our cnurcn music, tnuitucs situiocussmg
whether they shall have choirs,
or precentors, or orgaus, or hiss-viols,
or cornets: I say, take that which will
bring out the most inspiring music. If
we had half as much zeal and spirit in
our churches as we have in the songs of
our Sabbath-schools, it would not be Ions
north TTTvnlrl nnato
I U^IUi C UiC ? iXVi^ VO.J.W11 M vuiw x^vtcttw
with the coining God. Why, in most
| churches, nine-tenths of the people do
not slug: or they sing so feebly that
the people at their elbows do not know
i they are singing. People mouth and
I mumble the praises of God; but there is
I not more than one out of a hundred who
j nukes "a joyful noise" unto the Rock
! ol our Salvation. Sometimes when the
congregation forgets itself, and is all absorbed
in the goodness of God, or the
glories of heaven, 1 get an intimation oi
what church music will be a hundred
\ears from no?", when the coming generation
shall wfcke up to its duty.
I promise a high spiritual blessing to
any one who will sing in church, and
who will sinsr so heartily that the people
n .i __ i. i._i? u?i.
an arounu cauuub ueip uul siuy. >?
up! all the churches from Bangor to
San Francisco, and across Christendom.
It is not a matter of preference; it is
a matter of religious duty. Oh. for fifty
times more volume of sound. German
chorals in German cathedrals surpass
us, and yet Germany has received noth- j
ing at the hands of God compared with
America, and ought the acclaim in Berlin
be louder than that in Brooklyn*
Soft, long-drawn-out music, is appropriate
for the drawing-room and appropriate
for the concert; but St. John gives
an idea of the sonorous and resonant
congregational singing appropriate for
churches when, in listening to the tem
pie service of heaven he says: "I I
heard a great voice as the voice of a great
multitude, and as the voice of many
waters, and as the voice of mighty thunderings.
Hallelujah, for the Lord God
omnipotent reigneth."
Join with me in a crusude, giving me
not only your hearts but the mighty uplifting
of your voices, and I believe we
can, through Christ's grace, sing 50,000
souls into the kingdom of Christ. An
argument, they can laugh at, a sermon,
they may talk down; but a vast audience
joining in one anthem is irresistible.
Would that Queen Balkis would drive
all her spice-laden dromedaries into our
church music. ''Neither was there any
such spice as the Queen of Sheba gave
King Solomon."
Xow I want to impress this audience
with the fact that religion is sweetness
and perfume, and spikenard, and sslfcon,
and cinnamon, and cassia, and Irankincense,
and all sweet spices together.
"Uti," you say, *\l nave not jookcq at it
as such. I thought it was a nuisance; it
had forme a repulsion; I held my breath
as though it were malodor; I have been
appalled at its advance; I hare said, if I
have auy religion at all, I want to have
just as little of it as is possible to get
through with." Oh, what a mistake
you have made, my brother. The religion
of Christ is a present.and everlastiog
redolence. It counteracts all trouble.
Just put it on the stand beside the pillow
of sickness. It catches in the curtains,
and perfumes the stifling air. It sweetens
the cup of bitter medicine, and throws a
glow on the gloom of the turned lattice.
It is a balm for the aching side,
and a soft bandage for the temple stung
with pain. It lifted Samuel Rutherford
into a revelry of spiriturl delight,
while he was in physical agonies. It
helDed Ilichard Baxter until, m the
midst of su ;h a complication of diseases
as perhaps no other man ever suffered,
he worte, "The Saint's Everlasting
Rest." And it poured light upon John
Bunyan's dungeon?the light of the shining
gate of the shining city. And it is
good for rheumatism, and for neuralgia,
and for low spirits, and for consumption;
itis the catholicon for all disorders. Yes,
it will heal all your sorrows.
1I7U ? AZA ttam 1 /-vor\ orsr? TT*Vion
>T IIV UiU VWU lUUft OU OHU ?/V-^4C?7 KUVU
you came fa?' Alas! for the lonliness
and the heartbreak, and the load that is
never lifted from your soul. Some of
you go about leeling like Macaulay,
when he wrote: "It I h id another month
of such da-"> as lhave been spending.
I would be impatient to get down into
my narrow crib in the grotmd like a
weary factory child." And there have
been times in your life when you wisheo
you could get out of this lief. You have
said: "Oh, how sweet to my lips would
be the dust of the valley," and wished
you could pull over you in your last
slumber the coverlet of green grass and
/laiciec Vftn Vicivp snirl "Oh. how beau
tifully quiet it must be in the tomb. I
wish I was there." I see all around me
widowhood, and orphanage, and childlessness;
sadness, disappointment, perplexity.
If I could ask all those to rise
in this audience who have felt no sorrow
and been buffeted *>y no disappointment
?it I could ask all such to rise, how
many would rise? Xot one.
A widowed mother and her little child
weLt West, hoping to get better wages
there; and she was taken sick and died.
The overseer of the po'^r got her body
and put it in a box, aud put it in a wagon,
and started down the street toward the
cemetery at a full trot. The little child
?the only child?ran after it through
the streets, crying: "Bring me back my
mother! Bring me back my mother!"
And it is said that as the people looked
oc -md saw her crying after that which
lay in the box in the wagon?all she
loved on earth?it is said the whole villoma
woo in toora 4nd that is what a i
great many of you are doing?chasing
the dead. Dear Lord, is there no appeasement
for all this sorrow that I see
about me? Yes, the thought of resurrection
and reunion lar beyond this scene
of struggle and tears. "They shall hunger
no more, neither thirst any more,
neither shall the sun light on them, nor
any heat; for the Lamb which is in the
midst of the throne shall lead them to
living fountains of water, and God shall
wipe away ali tears from their eves."
Across the couches of your sick, and
across the graves of jour dead,;! fling
this shower of sweet spices. Queen
Balkis, driving up to the pillared portico
of the house of cedar, carried no such
pungency 01 penume as exiia-ica Lu-uay
from the Lord's garden. It is peace. It
is sweetness. It is comfort. It is infinite
satisfaction, this gospel I commend
to you. Some ODe could not understand
why an old German Christian scholar
used to be always so calm, and happy,
and hopeful, when he had so many trials,
and sicknesses, and ailments. A man
secreted himself in the house. He said:
"I mean to watch this old scholar and
Christian," and he saw the old Christian
man go to his room and sit down on the
chair beside the stand, and ODen the Bi
ble and begin to read. He read on and
on, chapter alter cnapter, hour afc?r
hour, until his face was all aglow with
the tidings from heaven, and when the
clock struck twelve, he arose and shut
his Bible, and sai l, "Blessed Lord, we
are on the same old terms yet. Goodnight,
good-night." Oh, you sin-parched
and you trouble-pounded, here is
satisfaction. Will you come and get it?
I cannot tell you what the Lord offers
you hereafter so well as I can tell you
now. "It doth not yet appear what we
shall be." Have you read of the Taj
Mahal in India, in some respects the
most majestic building on earth? Twenty
thousand men were twenty years in
building it. It cost about $16,000,000.
The walls are ol marble, inlaid witn cornelian
from Bagdad, and turquoise from
Thibet, and jasper from the Punjaub,
and amethyst from Persia, and all manner
of pr? cious stones. A traveller says
that it seems to him like the shining of
an enchanted castle ol burnished silver.
The walls are 245 feet high, and from
the top of these springs a dome thirty
more feet high, that dome containing the
most wonderful echo the world has ever
known; so that ever and anon travelers
?tanrlinor hplnw with flutes. and drams.
and harps, are testing that ecLo, aad the
sounds from below strike up and then
come down as it were the voices of angels
all around about the building.
There is around it a garden of tamarind,
and banyan, and palm, and all the floral
glories of the ransacked earth. But that
is only a tomb of a dead empress, and it''
is tame compared with the grandeur?
which God has budded for your living and ;
immortal spirit. Oh, home of the blesyf ,,
"**, 1- x: -r A .aKac
ea: x ouuuuuuus ui i^uiu;
victory! Cap-stones of praise! Aaf * _
dome in which there are echoing ancwt tt
echoing the hallelujahs of the ages. Mit i
around about that mansion is a garden? I
the garden of God?and all the springing |
????i?i
loun tains are t e bottled tears of the
church in the < ilderness, and all the
crimson of the 'lowers is the deep hue
that was caught up from the carnage of
earthly martyr- >ms, and the fragrance
is the prayer of ill the saints, and the
aroma puts into utter forge tfulness the
cassia and the s ,ikenard. and the frankIncense,
and the world-renowned spices
which the Queeu Balkis. of Abyssinia,
flung at the feet of Kins Solomon.
When shall these eyes thy heaven-built
walls
And pearly gates behold.
Thy bulwarks, with salvation strong,
And streets of shining gold?
Through obduracy on our part, and
through the rejection of that Christ who
1 i r ?A?
maiies iieaveu pyssiuic, 1. yyuuuci u auy
of us will miss that spectacle? I fear!
I fe-u ! The queen of the south will rise
up in judgment against thi8 generation
and condemn it because she came from
the uttermost parts of the earth to hear
the wisdom of Solomon, and behold, a
greater than Solomon is here! May God
grant that through your own practical
experience you may find that religion's
ways are ways of pleasantness, and that
Uav -rvrtflie ora Y^ofT^Q nf it.
a.ii ii^l ^auio aiv vwuv *?*
is perfume now and perfume forever
And there was an abundance of spice
"neither was there any such spice as the
Queen of Sheba gave to King Solomon."
THE CHARLESTON DEMOCRACYKeprevintaton
to be Based eu the State
Conltltation.
CHJkELBSTOJf, April 30.?The voice
of the unterrified Democracy of Charleston
vras uplifted to-day and its song will
be heard all over the land. The City
Democratic Convention, which met in
Hibernian Hall at noon, consiated of
115 out of the 144 delegates elected. In
the ranks of the delegatea were many of
the m?n who answered to the roll call
in 187G and quite a number of the young
Democracy who have grown up since.
The object of the convention was to
endeavor to heal the brcach now existing
in the party. It was presided over at
the outset by Major Edward Willis, the
Chairman of the Municipal. Democratic
Executive Committee, who, in calling
the convention to order, said:
"I believe the best interest* of the
Democratic party will be promoted by
open door deliberations. I urs;e the
most liberal and unrestricted registration
T favor nrimarr elections that
will be fair and impartial, recognizing
every organized faction of the party. I
hope your deliberations will be such as
many spare the citizens of Charleston
dissension, bitterness and excitement
likely to grow out of the long cam^ign
which is before us. It is the duty and
privilege of the municipal Democracy to
so alter our rules as to adopt whatever
there may be in the rules of the State
Democratic Committee which will enable
us to act in concert and harmon y with
the party. We owe it to the members
of the Dcmocarcy of Charleston to
select the best men in our ranks to represent
us." [Applause.]
T> TT T>..? T- ?oD tKon
jD? XX* X^UbiC^tJ, U nag vugu v? ww> w*
Chairman of the convention. On motion
of State Senator A. T. Smythe, a
committee of twelve, one from each
ward, was appointed to consider and report
what changes, if any, were, necessary
in the constitution of the municipal
Democratic party. Thie committee, after
a recess, submitted a report, which
in efect adopts the conetitution of the
party adopted by the State Democratic
party in 1S90. It provides for the elec
Uoq by tue convention 01 a uew e-i-ecutire
committee which is to ?erve uutil
the meeting of the Democratic Convention
in the Fall. The members of the
committee are to be suggested by the
Democratic ward clubs. The.representation
in the convention is to be based
upon the membership of the ward clubs
as under tne rstaie jj?mucr*uu p*nj
constitution. In oilier words, every
concession was made to the demands of
the reformers. After electing an executive
committee, the convention adjourned.
subject to the call of the committee.
Another convention under the auspices
of Mr. Ocktv Cohen will be held
on Monday next. At this convention
the delegates v* ill be selected by the Democratic
ward clubs recentlv organized
in the city, and it is expecte i that a
municipal ticket will be pat out. The
regular Democracy will not nominate its
ticket until fall.
It should be mentioned that a very
considerable number of the Democrats
of Charleston have nrouea memseives
in ihe newly organized ward ciubs. It
is not improbable that the May convention
will be captured by the regular Democrats.
Th?re are in the city not over
3,500 r??istered voters, white and black,
Denaocrats and Republicans.
At the Democratic primaries yestsrday
nearly 1,300 votes were polled. ITo
report was made to-night of the number
of reformers who voted at the ward
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club meeting lor delegates to me iuay
convention.?Register.
A Remarkable Snrglcal Operation.
Cleveland, May 6? A remarkable
surgical operation, and one rarely performed,
has just taken place at the Huron
Street Homoeopathic Hospital, Dr.
H. F. Biggar bein* the surgeon. It was
practically that of ouilding a new nose
lor a young woman. The patient, Miss
Mamie Miller, is 16 years old. A cancerous
affection had destroyed the left
side and lower portion of her nose.
nnnMtinn Ttrau norfnrmPfl last. Sat
JLUC Upcianuu TIMO J|/U4ivi.u*vv> .v>v- -W ? urday
afternoon.
Firt, the diseased flesh was cut away.
Then a flap of skin and flesh of the proper
size and form to replace the lost
portion of the nose was cut from above
the muscle of the left arm. The flap
was allowed to remain attached to the
arm on one side. The arm was then
raised to the face and over the head
in such a manner as to permit the flesh
of the arm to be grafted and stitched
to the edges of the lost portion of the
nose. The arm was then placed in a
specially constructed harness and securely
strapped up to the face in that
position.
The operation promises to be entirely
successful. The living flesh of the arm
has grown to the nose, and it is expected
that Saturday the flap will be
severed where it still adheres to the arm,
and the slight remaining operation of
fitting and stitching the remaining edge
to the nose will then be performed.
From present appearences the healing
will be so perfect as to leave little or no
scar.
Terrible Tale of Woe.
Racine, Wis., May 3.?Two weeks
ago the brother of Mrs. James W. Palmer,
a prominent railroad man of
Omaha, shot himself while suffering
from an attack of the grip and was
brought here for burial. Last Wednesday
her husband died and was buried
and yesterday her mother died. Her
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1ILL1C U-JfC??l Uiu. dvu 10 iuj
Mrs. Palmer herself is lying at the point
of death. The prevailing disease being
the cause of all the sickness and death.
Hib Second Victim.
Nashville, Tenn., May 7.?Tom
Smith, now under 810,000 uond in the
Circuit Court of Lincoln County for the
killing of young John Brooks, about
three years ago about a youn? lady, is
reported to have killed 0 ames w akefield,
whom she married since the first killing.
Wakefield and the lacy were on their
way to McDowell's mills, near Pulaski,
to visit her fathrr when Smith met them,
killing Wakefield and firing twice at his
wife.
. Congressman Breckinridge, of
Arkansas, expresses the opinion that .
Congressman Mills, of Texas, will be J
fV>Q cnooiror /if the TIHTf hnHQP anf? p.fUl- i
gressmaa McMillan, of Tennessee,
chairman of the ways and means committee.
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THE NE.W ORLEANS GRAND JURY
MAKES ITS REPORT.
It Juntlfies the Action of the Citizens in
Summarily Putting to Death the Mafia
Murderers and Finds No Indictments.
2s ew Orleans, May 5.?The long delayed
report of the grand jury on the
parish prison-Italian affair last March,
was presented late last evening 10
Judge Marr, in the Criminal Court.
The report, which is very voluminous,
reviews the circumstances connected
with the murder o? Chief Hennessey,
the trial of the prisoners and the affair
at the prison, and concludes by justifying
the citizens, and presents no indictments.
The report is signed by all the
jurors. The report concludes as follows:
"The extended range of our researches
has developed the existence of the
secret organization styled 'MaOa.' The
evidence comes from several sources,
pretty competent In themselves to its
truth, while the fact is supported by
the long record of blood-curdling
crimes, it being almost impossible to
discover the perpetrators or secure witnesses.
"We find a general sentiment among
the witnesses, and also in our intercourse
with the people, that the verdict
as rendered by the jury was contrary
to the law and the evidence, and secured
mainlv through the designing
and unscrupulous xgents employed for
the special purpose of defeating the
ends of justice.
"We are so deeply impressed with the
facts of the case, as partially summarized
in the foregoing, that the moral
conviction is forced upon us that some
of the jurors were subject to a money
influence to control their decision.
Further than this, we may say it appears
certain that at least three, if net
more, of the jury were so unduly and
unlawfully controlled.
"The public meeting of the citizens,
which resulted in the killing, was general
and spontaneous in its character,
as truly indicating an uprising of the
masses, and we doubt if any power at
the command of the officers would hare
been sufficient to overcome its intentions.
"Evidence is before us from official
sources that eleven persons were killed
in the attack on the parish prison. In
i/uc udiciui cAamiijawuu aa ou vitizeuship
of those men, we find that eight of
them were beyond-question American
citizens, and another hid 'declared his
intention in this court,' which act carries
with it the renunciation ot allegiance
to his native country.
"It is ^noteworthy fact in connection
with the uprising that no injury was
done to either rerson or property beyond
this one act, which seemed to be
the object of the assemblage at the parish
prison.
"We have referred to the large number
of citizens participating in the demonstration,
estimated by judges at
"fmm ft fKYl tn ft (Y1A on<1 rorron-lorl oa o
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spontaneous uprising of the people.
The magnitude of the affair makes it a
difficult task to fix guilt upon any number
of the participants. In fact, the
act seemed to involve the entire people
of the parish, and the city of New Orleans,
so profuse is their sympathy and
extended their connection with the affair.
In view of this consideration, the
thorough examination of the subject
has failed to disclose the necessary facts
to justify this ^rand jury in presenting
indictments."
nothing else "was expected.
Washington, May 6.?The failure
of the grand jury in New Orleans to
find indictments against the leaders of
the mob that lynched the Italians in
tneparisn prison in iNew urieansiast
March is the general discussion here.
This disposal of the case causes no surprise
here, for nothing else was expected.
Government officials will not talk
about the matter, and the Marquis Imperali
refuses to discuss the subject.
At the State Department the attempt
on the part of the jury to excuse the
infraction of the law by offsetting it
with the alleged attempts at jury-fixing
is deprecated, but there is a well defined
opinion that on the whole the outcome
of the case will be beneficial in it3
effects upon the turbulent foreign elements
in the United States, inasmuch
as it win intone uieai lu tuern luc xaut
that they cannot rely on treaties to escape
responsibility to the great public
for their unlawful acts.
The report, it' is believed, differs in
the matter of the nationality of the
victims, from the report of District Attorney
Grant, now in the hands of the
attorney general. The grand jury
fouad that eight of them were naturalized
citizens, and that one had declared
his intention to become naturalized,
while the District Attorney, it is believed,
found that one of the victims
was an Italian, but an escaped convict,
and that another's nationality was so
poubtf ul as to make it unsafe to hazard
an opinion. So at Its worst, the Italian
complaints will be narrowed down
to two persons, and one of them an escaped
convict.
Million* of Caterpillars.
Charlotte, N. C., May 2.?The Carolina
Central trainmen have been having
peculiar experiences with caterpillars
fcr four or five days past, and it is
something unheard of in the railroad
history of thisState. Just East of Lumberton
-'s what is known as "Big
swamp," and the railroad goes through
it on a trestle work, broken here and
there in the solid portions of the
swamp by embankments of earth. Last
Tuesday an army of caterpillars began
mnvincr nnf. r,f thf? ?w?mn and whfln
they reached the streams over which
the trestles carry the rails, they massed
on the railroad and proceeded to cross
on the trestles. The rails and ties were
covered several inches deep.
The tirst train that discovered them
was brought to a stand still, the driving
wheels of the engine slipping
around as if ttie rails had been
thoroughly oiled. The engineer exhausted
the contents of his sand box
before he got through the swamp and
reached a clear stretch of the track. It
was thought that the trip would be the
end of the caterpillar trouble but the
very next day the train encountered ,
another army of caterpillers crossing
the trestle and had same diffculty. The
Charlotte bound passenger train yesterdav
had a similar experience and the
passengers say the scene was something ;
wonderful. The rails and crossties of ;
the trestle were actually obscured from
sight by the caterpillars and ground
and swamp on each side of the track
were littered with fragments of mil- '
lions of caterpillars from the wheels of
passing trains, and from this an unendurable
stench arose. Where the c?*er- i
pillars came from is not known. Ane i
farmers on this side of the swamp ex- 1
press no uneasiness for the safety of
their crops so long as the advancing
army persists in using the trestle as its .
means of getting across streams, for
none of them have got more than half ;
way across before a train would come
along and convert them into fertilizers. |
A Murderous Crack,
New York, May 6.?Inspector
liyrnes has arrested a lunatic who
threatened to kill Jay Gould unless he
was bought off with a large amount of
money, one million dollars down and
ten annual payments of a half million
each. His name is Charles J. Dixon,
and he came from Pueblo, Colorado, for
the purpose above set forth. He imagines,
or pretends to imagine himself
Vice-President of a band of world reformers,
styling tbemselyes in his
mind, "Christ's followers," and to be
doomed to carry out the decree of the
order. To-day Dixon was committed
to await examination as to his sanity.
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A FIEND'S DEED.
A Prominent Merchant Disguise* toe
Kiils bis Uncle.
Charlotte. X. C., May G.?It has
been learned here that the murderer ol
old man Conoly, in Rob*son county, thii
state, which occurred last week, was
committed by his own nephew, A. McDoueal,
a prominent merchant of Lan
rinbur^.
McDougal boarded a freight train, anc
left it a short way from Shannon.
He blackened his face and pu t on sid<
whiskers. He was seen [by several, anc
they all say it was a white man in disguise.
About dark he went to his uncle's?
Simeon Conoly?and in a disguised voice
called him out, and asked to be sho^n a
path that led to Wilkes.
When 200 yards from the house h<
shot Conoly. and after he fell McDouga
placed the pistol to the dying man's
head and fired a second time.
The bullet was found in the grounc
about six Inches deep, when Conoly's
head was lifted up.
McDougal then started back, tand a:
the river tried to wash the blacking cfi
and change his clothing, but must have
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been irigntenea away, ior ne ieu ms un
pants and an undershirt, handkerchie
a'ud box of lampblack.
He explained his dirty, greasy appearance
by saying he had been riding on at
engine. When he came b*ck to Maxtor
every one noted his restless manner
Tor a week McDougal has been veri
active in having Moore, Purnell anc
Kelly arrested. When he heard that hi:
effects had been found at the river, h(
went and got them and said they hac
been stolen from him.
McDougal has been held in high es
te?m by every one. He was a prom<
inent member of the church, is unmar
ned, and lor some time had been payim
his uncle's debts.
A few months ago, Conoly wanted ?
horse to ran a farm. McDougal refusec
to advance the money unless his uncl<
would have his life insured for him?Mc
Dougal's benefit. This was done, an<
this, it is supposed, is the motive for th<
ujurder.
It has also come to light that Conoly'*
life had been insured for about a year
and last lall McDougal tried to poisor
him by giving him candy which con
tained strychnine. Officers are in pur
suit of McDougal, who left, going in th<
direction of Charlotte.
Jewish Persecution.
London, May 7.?The Moscow cor
respondent of The Standard dwells upoi
the utter disorganization of businea
through the sudden expulsion of th<
Jews. All who are igaged in various
business agencies find ft impossible t<
collect debts, and hundreds of bills ar<
protested daily. The judge of the Com
mericial court has been obliged to tele
graph to the minister of finance for in
structions as to how to act- in the emer
gency. Many traders in the Jewisl
quarters are fearing bankruptcy, owini
to the departure of the Jews, who onlj
left their belongings to coyer debtf
amountihg to ?130,000.
At St. Petersburg the synagogue has
already been sold for $9000. The new
and unused synagogue in Moscow ha;
been offered tor sale, as it is useless it
the face of the exodus. A Moscow letter
to The Times records the sacrifices
made by the Jewish emigaants. In
many cases they have sold their belongings
fnr thp. merest-, trifle, chairs beins
bought tor twopence and bed 4 for sixpence.
Many persons destroyed theii
goods in preference to selling them at a
sacrifice. Many Russians have declinec
to pay debts owing to Jews.
Heartrending scenes are witnessec
daily in the synagogue, people weeping
and praying to Jehovah to help them,
Thousands of workmen are idle who
have hitherto been employed by Jews,
Pnroicm irrmnrters 'are keening back
goods on frontier. It is reported that
one Swiss silk firm has lost $8,000 in a
single week. A letter confirms The
Standard's dispatch as to the business
collopse. Neither Jews nor Gentiles
paying their debats. The correspondent
declares it a shame that the rich
Jewish bankers are not touched by the
government's decrees, and yet do not appear
to help their unfortunate brethren
as they might.
Tell-Tale Letters.
Washington, May 6?Dr. John A. P.
Baker and Mrs. W. R. Gilmer are under
arrest charged with the murder of Mrs.
Baker, wife of Dr. Baker, and an attempt
to murder VV. li. Gilmer, husband
of the woman under arrest. Mrs. Baker
died suddenly more than a year ago. Kecently
some tell-tale letters were found,
whicL v.-ere written by Mrs. Gilmer to
Dr. Baker. They show that a criminal
intimacy existed between the two, and
that they had ploted Mrs. Baker's death.
Mrs. Gilmer has made a confession that
Dr. Baker poisoned his wife and sent her
poison with instructions how to administer
it to her husoand. She did so, and
nothme saved his life but the timely ap
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rival 01 XJV. Ulimer, a uruiuer ui wo
poisoned man. All parties are prominent
in Abingdon, and the affair has
created the greatest sensation the town
has ever known.
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S. C., sells Pianos and Organs,
direct from factory. No agents' commissions.
The celebrated Chickering
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touch and lasting qualities. Mason &
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Joe Mulhatton, the famous inventor
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As the Greenville News says the
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2 fciole Proprietors, B|
5 Ljtpsus's Block, Sa.vajln.ah. G&- jp. ,
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LOW PRICES J
will be made ong
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TALBOTT h SONS'
EXGINESjand^BOILEKS, ^
Special estimates on Machinery generally
at bottom n^ures.
JORN MILLS, - - ?115 to ?37S.
PLANERS and MATCHERS, ?200 to
?1,500.
5AW MILLS with Rope Feed, Variable
Friction or Belt Feed, ?200 to ?600.
We particularly call attention to these ^
Jaw Mills. They have patent double actig
set works and are the best mills on the
aarket.
Cotton Gins and Presses at low figures.
V. C. BADHAM,
GENERAL AGENT, /
Columbia, S. C.
Buy the Talbott Engine, it is the best. . ^
flCTORT FOR THE SAILOR
MACHINERY. g| 1
Exhibited side by side with its leading
competitors at the State Fair, 1890.
The Superintendent and Committee of
li<i "\fnnhor>i/>o1 'nonart'mpnt in insrwv.tirH?
hose features not included in the Premium fl
jist, deein worthy of special mention the 1
jailor Seed Cotton Elevator, DistributorMk
nd Cleaner exhibited by W. H. GibbesJH
r., & Co.
The system operates most efficiently,?
luch improves'the sample, facilitatesJB
inning of wet cotton, and saves largdfl
abor and cost of handling. JM
The Committee recommend to tbfl
rsofthe State an investigatiOj^
lerits of these devices.
[Signed.] D. P^M
W. H.
State Agents andjflj
lachinerj, Uuggi
"ii i T mk
f THE State^B
eferrins: to
<aw Cotto^fl
'lie usua^M
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