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1 11^ -' VOL. XLVI. WINXSBGRG, S. ., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1891. NO. 42. J HE ^DEFINES HIS BELIEF, j ONE WEEK'S WORK THE SUBJECT OF j DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. He in the Mosaic Account ot tlie Creation, and Does Xot Hesitate to Say ; So Most Kmphatlcally?A Xotal>ie Ser- ; xo?a Preached Suud-ty, May 24tli. Brooklyn, May 24.?The striking sermon Dr. Talmage delivered this J mornmjj :o an audience which fiiled the j new Tabernacle in every part di-alt with J a topic of interest to all who have j I watched the discussions dow agitating j the churches. Wherever the question ! ^ of the inspiration of the Bible is raised, the trustworthiness of the Mosaic nan a-1 tlve of the creation is always the point I chiefiy assailed. The fact that so prom- i inent and eloquent a preacher as Dr. Talmage places inmseit cieariy on record on the side of orthodoxy will doubtless have a marked influence on public i opinion. His text was Genesis 31, ' And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." From Monday morning to Saturday night gives us a week's work. If we j have filled that week with successes we hnrmv. But I am coins: ;o tell you j what God did in one week. Cosmogony, m geology, astronomy, ornithology, ichthy? olo?y, botany, anatomy are such vast I subjects that no human liie is long enough to explore or comprehend any B them. But I have thought I mi^fnn an unusual way tell you a little p, of what God did in one week, and that r the first week. And whether you make it a week of days or a week of ages, I care not, for I shall reach the same practical result of reverence and worship. THE FIRST MONDAY MORNING. The hrst Monday murmur iuuuu swinging in space the piled up lumber i of rocks and metal ard soil and water fe Irom which the earth was to be builded. * Ged made up his mind to create a human family, and they must have a house to live in. But where? Not a roof, not a wall, not a door, not a room was fit for human occupaacy. There is not a pile of black besait in Yellowstone park or an extinct volcano in Honolulu so inappropriate for human residence as was this glo^e at that early period. Moreover, there was no human architect to draw a plan, no quarryman to blast tiie | L foundation stones, no carpenter to hew out a beam, and no mason to trowel a j wall. Poor prospect! But the time j was coming when a being called man j was tc be constructed, and he was to have a bride; and where he could tind a J homestead to which he could take her I must have been a wonder 1-ent to an-: rgelic intelligences. Thtre had been earthquakes enough and volcanoes enough and glaciers enough, but earthquakes and volcanoes an ' glaciers destroy instead of build. A worse looking world than this never swunjr. It was heaped up deformities, scarifications and monstrosities. The Bible says it was without form. That L is, it was not round, it was not square. it was not octagonal, 11 was cut a ruum1L bold. God nefer did take any one in ^ his counsels, but if he had aeked some ansei about the attempt to turn this planet into a place for human residence jfefc the angel would h<ve said: "Xo. no; k try some other wor'd; the crevices of this earth are too deep; its crags are too appalling; its darkness is too thick." Ill Bat Monday morning came. I think it was a spring morning and about halfn past four o'clock. The first thing need|j| ed was light. It was not needed for God to work by, for he can work as well - "- Pnf mor ho npr*- i I1U LUC Utti JJUO iiguu fcuwj w u?.v esaary, for angelic intelligences are to see in its lull glory the process of world building. But where are the candles, where are the candelabra, where is the chandelier? Xo rising sun will roll in . the morning, for if the sun is already \ created its 'light will not jet reach the ^ earth in three days. Xor moon nor stars can brighten this darkness. The moon and stars are not born yet, or if created their light will not reach the earth for some time yet. But there is need ol immediate light. Where shall it come from? Desiring to account for things in a natural way you say, and reasonably say, that heat and electricity throw out light independent of the sun, and that the metallic bases throw out light independent of th(: sun, and that alkalies throw out light independent of the sun. Oh, yes; ail that is irue, but I do not think that is the way ii<;iit was creaieu. The record makes me think that, standing over this earth that spring morning, L God looked upon the darkness thus palied the heights ot this world, aud the ^ chasms of it, and the awful reaches or it, and uttered, whether in the Hebrew ot earth or some language celestial I know not, that word which stat-ds tor the subtle, bright, glowing and all prevauing fluid, that word which thrills and garfifag lands and lilts everything it touches, that w full TPPanino' of which all the chemists of the ages have busied thenaIglll selves in exploring, that word which ||| suggests a force that liies one hundred fllljjg and ninety-thousand miles in a second. B and by undulations seven hundred aud twenty-seven trillions in a second, that one word that God utters?Light. And instantlv the darkness began to Hjl shimmer, and the thick folds of blackness to lift, and there were scintillations and coruscations and flashes and a billowiug j up of resplendence, and in great sheets j it spread out northward, southward, j t*. eastward, westward, and a radiauce tilled f" the atmosphere until it could hold no | more of the brilliance. Light now to j work bv while supernatural intelligences j T f firef r?lior\f?>v r*P tfip ! iOVJk iii.oo v* v?iv j first day of the week. Lijjtit, the joy of all the centuries. Light, the greatest blessing that ever touched the humau { eye. The robe of the Almighty is woven j out of it, for he covers himself with i light as with a, garment. Oh, blessed lights I am so glad this was the tirst, thing created that week. Good ihiai: to start every week wilh is light. That will make our work easier. That will keep our disposition more radiant. That will hinder even our losses from becom-1 ing too somber. Give us more light? ! natural light, intellectual lidht, spiritual j ltrtVvf Vnr nf it. CYCi iAOUUj^ v* ~ - -the body stumbles, and the soul stumbles. 0 thou Father of Lights, give us The great German philosopher in his last r oment said, kT want more li^ht." A minister of Christ recently dying cried out In exultation, * i move into the light!" Mr. Toplady, the immortal hjmnologist, in his expiring moments exclaimed, ''Light! Light!" Heaven itself is only j more light. Upon all superstition, all j upon all ignorance, upon all sorrow let j in the light. But now the light of the i first Monday is receding. The blaze is j going out. Tiie colors are dimming, j I Only part of tiie earth's surface is visible. | It is 6 o'clock, 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock; ob-1 aeuraticn and darkness. It is Monda^* ] night. "And the evening and thj i morning were the first day." TUESDAY'S WORK. Now it is Tuesday morning. A deli- ' cate and tjemendous undertaking is set 1 apart lor this cay. There was a great i 'superabundance o: water. God, by the 1 wave of his hand, this morning gathers ] part of it m suspended reservoirs, and i part of it he orders down into the rivers and lakes and seas.' How to han^ whole : Atlantic oceans jh uiu ciuuus ?nuuu<, their spiliiirx over except in right quanti- 1 ties and at right times was an undertak- i iug that 110 one but Omnipotence would ] have dared. Jiut (rod does it as easily 1 a? you would lift a class of water. There I he hoists two clouds, each thirty miles i wide aud five miles high, and balances ] them. Here he lifts the cirrous clouds and i spraads them out in creat white banks . as though it has been snowing in heaven. 1 And the cirro-stratus clouds in long i parallel lines, so straight you know an i l,o? /Ircuvn th^m li ILLiiiliLtJ .V l 11 C4*J UiM'lu w??v ?? . Clouds wnich are the armory from which < thunder storms get their bayonets of lire, i Clouds wh ch arc oceans on the wins. ] Xo wonder, lon.ii after this first Tuesday ; of creation week, Elihu confounded Job i with the question. "Dost thou know the i balancings of the clouds?" Ilalf of this Tuesday work done, the 1 other half is tho work of compelling the waters to lie down in their destined places. So God picks up the solid ground 1 and packs it up into live elevations, 1 which are the continents. With his fin- 1 ger he makes deep depressions in them, i and tuese are tiie lakes, while at the pil- < in-.' up of the Alleghanies and Sierra Xe- ; vadas and Pyrenees and Alps acd Ilima lay as the rest of the waters start by the ' law of gravitation to the lower places, i and in their run down hill become the i rivers and then all around the earth these < rivers come into convention and bccome I oceans beneath, as the clouds are oceans : above. How soon the rivers got to their 1 places when God said: "Hudson and I James acd Amazon, down to the At- i laotis; Oregon and Sacramento down to i the Pacific."' < Three-quaaters of the earth being water am* only one-quartor being land, [ nothing but Almi^htiness could have ' caged the Ihree-louri lis so that they could * not have devoured the one-fourth. ( Thank God for water and plenty of it. - What a hint thai God would have the : human race very clean! Three fourths 1 of the world water, "our it through the ( homes and make them pure. Pour it * through the prisons and make their oc-1: cupauts moral. Pour it through the 1 streets and make them healthy. There * are several thousand people asleep in j Greenwood who but i'or the tilthy streets * oi Brooklyn and Xew York would have ^ been to-day u ell and in churches. More- r over, there n- vcr was a filthy street that s remained a moral street. ? How important an agency ot reform ' water is, was illustrated by the fact ihat 1 when the an nent world got outrageously * wicked it was plunged into the deluge * and kept under lor months till its iniquity was soaked out ol it. But I rejoice that nn tho rir<it-. Tnpsdnv of the world's ex-M istence the water was taught to know its \ place, and the .Mediterranean lay down i at t :e feet of Europe, and the Gulf of t ^Mexico lay cLwn at the feet of North I America, and Geneva lay down at the c leet of the Alps^aa i Scroon lake iell to I sleep in the fap ol the Adirondacks. t ''And the evening and the morning were c the second day." c THE CREATIOX OF VEGETATION. 1 Now it hi Wedensday morning of the s world's first week. Gardening and j horticulture will be bora to-day. How s queer the hills look, and so unattractive t they seem hardly worth having been t made. But now all the surfaces are t changing color. Something beautiful is t ^ i T-, T f liae tho uu *;vui n^iu, jlu uuo uuv or of emerald. A.v, it is herbage. Hail c to the green grass! God's favorite col- c or and God's favorite plant, as I judge ) from the fact that he mases a larger c number of them than of anything else, c I3ut look yonder! Something starts out a of the ground and goes higher up higher ^ and higher, and spreads out broad leaves. 2 It is a palm tree. Yonder is another s growth, and its leaves banc far down, ? and it is a willow tree. And yonder is } a growth with mighty sweep of branches, i1 And here they come?the pear, and the s apple, and the peach, and the pomegrau- c ate. ami proves and orchards and forests, a tneir anaaowsauu meir irun girunug tue earth. We are pushing agriculture aud Iruit culture to g oat excellence in the Nineteenth century, but we have nothing now to equal what L see on this first Wednesday of the world's existence. I take a taste of one ol the apples tins Wednesday morning, and I tell you it mingles in its juices all the flavors of Spil/.ber^eu and Newtown pippin and lihode island greening <md Danvers Winter Sweet and Koxbury russet and Ilub bards ton Nonesuch, but added to all, and overpowering ail other flavors, is the paradisaical juice that all the or CliiUUS 01 UJC -\ iUCLCCUlll I CUIUIJ JAU lu 1 reach. I take u taste of the pear, aud it c has all the luxury of the three thousand v varieties oi' the Nineteenth century; ail t the Seckei aud the Bartlett of the pom- ^ ologieal gardens of later times an acidity, J compared with it. And the grapes! t Why, this one cluster lias in it the rich- r ness of whole vineyards of Catawbas and a Concords and Isabellas. Fruits of all c colors, of all odor3, of a'lltlovors. 2sTo j hand ot man yet made to pluck it or tongue to taste it. The banquet for the t h iman race is !>eir._r spread before the e ariival of the lirsl guest. t; >'"? finit r.t ti.it- frnrrlfn WAS t'nP F seed tor the orchards ami gardens of the t hemispheres. ZN"oiice that the lirst thing e that God made for food was fruit, and e plenty of it. tlaughter houses are of v lcter invention. Far am I fro m being a c vegetarian, but an almost exclusive \ meat diet is depraving. Savages con- p tine themselves almo.se exclusively to e auimal iood. and that :s one reason that d they are savages. Give your children t more apples and less mutton. The v world will have to irive dominance to \ liofnrf* if <rpf? t buck to the morals nf Paradise. May 1t God's blessing come down on the or- t chaids ami vim-yards of America, and 1 keep back the frosts and the curcuho. r Hut we must no: forget that it is Wed- f nesday evening in Kdeu. aud upon that ii perfect iru.i of those perfect trees let the curtain drop. "And the evening e and the morninir were the third day." t PUTTING THINGS TO K1GHTS. t Xow it is Thursday morning of the 1 .vorld's lirst week. Nothing n'ill be 2 created to-day. The hours will be passed r in scuncrm^ ixun emu i, The atmosphere must be swept clean, c Other worlds are to hove ia sight. This t little ship of the earth has seemed to t have al- the ocean of immensity to it- c selr'. , i>ut mightier craft are to be hailed c today on the high seas oi space. First, v the moon's white sail appears and does ] very well until the sun bursts upon the I scene. The light that on the previous s three mornings was struck irom an es- r pedal word now gathers in the sun, J moon and stars. One for the day, the ? others for the night. It seemed as it s J they had all within twenty-four hours * been created. Ah, this is a great time in the world's first week. The moon, Lhe nearest neighbor tc our earth appears, her photograph to be taken In ; the Nineteenth century, when the tele- j scope shall bring her within one hundred ], - ? -"5 <~V f VAITT V ILLU LWCUbJ IU1ICO vi ivuw. j I And the sun now appears, afterward \ to be found eight hundred and eitrhty-I; sight thousand" miles in diameter, and, j. put in astronomical scales, to be found i | lo weigh nearly fcur hundred thousand : Limes heavier than our earth; a mighty i furnace, its heat kept up by meteors pouring into it as fuel, a world devour-1 j :n? other worlds with its jaws of llame. ] A.nd the stars come out, those street , lamps of heaven, those keys ol pearl, . jpon which God's finscers play the mus- : " TT I I t AI 1 1. | ;e 01 ine spneres. iiotv origin mey iuu.\ i, a this oriental evening! Constellations! j Galaxies! What a twenty-four hours ot j. Lhis first vreek?solar, lunar, stellar ap- j pearances! All this Thursday and the i adjoining nights employed in pulling |; aside the curtain of vapor from these , flushed or pale faced worlds. Enough! 11 "And the evening and the morning were , Lhe fourth day." , the fishes and the birds. , Now it is Friday morning in the first I week of the world's history. Water, l but not a fin shimming it; air, but not a < iving flying it. It is a silent world. {i Can it be that it was made only for veg- i ^tables? But hark! There is a swirl ; md a splashing in all the four rivers ot J i Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel unci Euphrates. ] rhey are all asvrim with life, some dartng like arrows through split crystal, ; md others quiet in dark pools like shad- ' dws. Everything, from spotted trout 1 ;o behemoth, all colored, all shaped, the s mcestors of finny tribes that shall by iheir wonders of construction confound 1 ;he Agassizes, the Cuviers and the Lin- ; accuses and the ichthyologists of the i more than six thousand years following 1 -his Friday of the first week. J A T o+/%?%/-} A?> f*> a n 1 ^ AP 1 iiuu rvuiii; x ouauu uu ^ uauao ui ? ,hese Paradisaical livers, watching these < 5nuy tribes, I hear a whirr in the air 1 md I look up and behold wings?wings 1 >f larks, robbins, doves, eagles, ilamiu- I ;oes, albatrosses, brown threshers. I Creatures of all color?blue, as if dipped 1 n the skies; fiery, as if they had fiown ( ?ut of the sunsets; golden, as if they had i ;aken their morning bath in buttercups. ; A.nd while I am studying the colors they i jegln to carol and chirp and coo and ,witter and run up and down the scales >f a music that they must have heard at i leaven's gate. Yes, I find them in i Paradise on this the first Friday after- i loon ol the world's existence- And I ( ?it down on the bank of the Euphrates, 1 md the murmur of the river, together 1 wif.h tliA r>hnnf. nfhirds in t.hp. skv_ nutft ( ne into a state of somnolence. "And he evening and the morning were the ifth day." BEASTS AND MEN. Now it is Siturday morning of the vorld's first week and with this day the veek closes. But oh, what a climaclerc day! The air has its population and he water its population. Yet the laud las not one inhabitant. But here they :ome, by the voice of God created! lorses grander than those which in afer time Job will describe as having ncck iiotned with tnunuer. uattie enou^u io j :over a thousand hills. Sheep shep- l lerded by him who made for them the 1 ;rten pastures. Cattle superior to the ( ilderu^ys and Ayrshires and Devon- 1 hires of after times. Leopards so beau- 1 iful we are glad they cannot change heir spots. Lions without their lieree- * iess and all the quadruped world so sen- c le. so sleek, so perfect. a Look out how you treat this animal 1 reation, whether they walk the earth * ?r swim the waters or fly the air. Do c ou not notice that God gave them pre- 1 edence of the human race? They were reated Friday and Saturday morning, r .s man was created Saturday afteruoon. 1 ["bey have a right to be here. lie who L ;ails a horse, or exposes a cow to the c torm, or beats a dog, or mauls a cat, or 11 ;ambles at the pigeon shooting, or tor- 1 ures an insect, will have to answer for v t in the judgment day. You may con- ' ole yourself that these creatures are 8 lot immortal and they cannot appear J gainst you, but the God who made ^ hese creatures and who saw tlie wrom: ^ ou did them will be there. Better look ut, you stock raisers and railroad com- s >anies who bring the cattle on trains without food or water for ?hree or four lays in hot weather, a long groan of agoty from Omaha to Xew York. Belter look out, you larmer riuiuy; oelind that limping horse with a nail that he blacksmith drove into the quick, ietter look out, you boys stoning bullrogs and turning turtles upside down, ind robbing birds' nests. But some.hins: is wanting in Paradise and the ; ;reek is almost done. Who is there to s )luck the flowers of this Kdenic lawny . ,Vho is there to command these worlds >f quadruped and lish and bird? For ' vhom has God put back the curtain from * he lace of sun and moon and star? The ? vorld want3 an emperor and empress. ? .t is Saturday afternoon. Xo one but ^ lie Lord Almurhtv can originate a hu- < nan being. Ia the world where there s ire in the latter part of the Xineteeuth t entury over fourteen hundred million I )eople, a human being is not a curiosity, c But how about the first human eye hat was ever kindled, the first human !} ar that was ever opened, the lirst hu-! nan lung that ever breathed, thn (irst}? luman heart that ever beat, the first j ? luman life ever constructed'? That j * leeded the origination or a Lroa. lie nau | ; to model to work by. What stupendous j \ rork for a Saturday afternoon! lie must t irnrinate a style of human heart through t vhich all the blood ia the body must t iass every three minutes. He must ' uake that heart so strong that it can, ] r luring each day, lift what would be equal o one hundred and twenty tous oi | veight, and it must be so arranged as to | )eat over thirty-six million times every . "ear. About five hundred muscles must i j >e strung in the right place, and at least j \ wo hundred and fittv bo^es constructed.11 nto this body must be put at least nine | { nillion nerves. Over three thousand : 3 terspiring pores must be made for every j 1 ach of fleshly surface. j ! The human voice must be so construct- s :d it shall be capable or producing seven- s een trillion live-hundred and ninety-two 1 fillioii one hundred and eighty-six mil- 1 ion forty-four thousand lour hundred j md fifteen sounds. But all this the j. nost insignificant part of the human be-: j ng. The soul! Ah, the construction | if that him<*plf vrnnld not be enual o if he were any the less of a God. Its j understanding, its will, its memory, its i 1 :ODScience, its capacities of enjoyment; ' >r suliering, its immortality! What a j1 vork for a Saturday afternoon! Aye! j ] 3efore night there were to be two suoh I' mman and yet immortal beings con- j j tructed. Tbe woman as well as the j ] ?"" ? Cotnr/lcir oft/ipiinnn. K uau yy iXsTt uai-UAuuj V** WW*. ?? ^ 3ecause o, deep sleep fell upon Adam, h md bj divine surgery a portion of his j < iiae was removed for the nucleus of an- i i V r J . _ other creation, it has been supposed that perhaps davs and nights passed between the masculine and lemiuine creations. But no! Adam was not three hours Liumated. J.1 a OClUl KJ\ vlUO.CUiV. -lVO ?S14U duc iuto a cieei. sleep in three minutes, God certainly could have put Adam iuto a profound sleep in a short while that Saturday afternoon, and made the deep and radical excision without causing distress. By a manipulation of the dust [lie same hand thai molded the mountains molded the features and molded the limbs of the lather of the human fa:e. But his eyes did not see, and his tiorves did not feel, and his muscles did not move, ami h:s lungs (Iir! not breatue, and ills heart uul not pulsate. A perfect form lie lay aion^ the earth, symmetrical and of godlike couu-.enance. Maunilicent piece of Divine carpentry and Omnipotent sculpturing, but no vitality. A body without a soul. Then the source of all life stooped to the inanimate nostril and lip, and as many a skillful and earnest physician lias put his lips to a patient in comatose state and breathed into his mouth and nostril, and at the same time compress 2d the lungs, until that which was artificial respiration became nat ural respiration, so methinks God breathed into this :old sculpture of a man the breath of life, and the heart begins to tramp, and the lungs to inhale, and the eyes to open, md the entire form to thrill, and with Lhe rapture of a life just come the prostrate behv_c leaps to bis loot?a man! But the scene of this Saturday is not yet done, and in the atmosphere, drowsy tvith trie breath <>ftlov?vrsaud the song of ijobolinks and robin redbreasts, the man slnmbftvs run! hv iin:L'stheties. divinelv idministered, the .slumber deepens until without the oozing of one drop of blood it the lime or the faintest scar afterward, .hat portion is removed from his side which is to ]>e built up the Queen of Paradise, the daughter oi the great God, .he mother of tin* human race, the benelictlon of all ages, woman the wife, afterward wtmaa the mother. And as the .wo join hands and stroll down alonir .he banks of the Euphrates toward a lower of mignonette and wild rose and loueysuckle. and are listening to the call >\ the whip-poor-will irom the aromatic hickeis the sun sinks beneath the horizon. "And the evening and the mornng weie the sixth day." A OKEAT WKEK'".S "WOUK. What do you think of trial '>ue week's work? 1 review it not f.u* entertainneut, but because 1 would have you join 11 David's doxologv, "'(Jrcatand marvel)us are thy works, Lord God Almighty;" jecause i want you to know what a lomestead our Father '"uilt for his clnlIrcn at the start, though sin has desloiled it, and because 1 want you to nrtw 11io worlil will Innlr nirnin u'hon Jhrist shall have restored it, swinging low betwecu two Edens; because X want ,'ou to realize something of what a nighty God he is, and the utter folly of rying to war auainst him; because I vant you to make peace with this Chiet )f the Universe through the Christ who nediates between olll-nded Omnipotence ind human rebellion; because [ want ' :ou to know .how feariully and wonderully you are made, your body as well as our soul an Omnipotent achievement; because I want you to realize that order eigns throughout the universe, and that iod's watches tick to the second, and * ' ' i - i-~ - - - *>-- 1 - ~1.. * U mil jus ciocks sin&u leuumny, uiuu^" hey strike once in a thousand years. A learned man ou~e asked an old Jhristian man who had no advantages >f schooling, why ho believed there was l God, and the good old man. who prohibit" had never heard an argument on he subject mall his lile. made this node reply: "Sir, I have been heresoiug -1 T/? iaia upon nuy >e<us. jwci v nay ?iuw . have been in this world 1 sec the sun ise :u the cast ami ?.et in the west. The torth star stands where it did the lirst irne I saw it: the seven stars and Job's :oflin keen on the same iath in the sky md never turn out. It isn't so with nan's work. lie makes clocks aud vatches; t!;ey may run well Tor awhile, iut they i^et out of lix and stand stock itill. ihu tiie sun and moon and stars ;cet) or this same way all the while. L'hc heavens declare the 2lory of God." L'ea, I preach this, because I want you n u*nlk in nnnro.r.inJlon of Addison's ubline sentiment ivhcn he writes: The spacious firmament on high, With all the blue etherial sky' And spangled heav'ns, a shilling frame, Their Great Original proclaim. In reason's car they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, Forever singing, as they sliine. The hand- that made us is divine. i'rrinjr on a Train. JJaxooi:, 2vTi: , may 27?A train vhich lett JJing >r for St j cim last night it 7:10 was held up jast be> ond Enfield ? J* ? - " ' f- 4-! ?/ * nnn-innar )y lUlir LLICIi. WiiU lixCU lt;u Cli^lAiVbl liicl cars. The train left Ealield when l man, who was notk-ed by the llreman a'a-.vliu^r over the tender, told them to top the train The gong on the engine .ounried bn' the engineer did not stop lie train until the gong sounded again. I'he train then cams ton stand, when hooting was;hc::rd,and for live minutes he gang kept up an indiscriminate iring, the mail car being the particular ;bject of attack. The leader of tlie g.mg was armed .vith a ride, the others with revolvers, fney lirtu tev?-r;d bit .{s into the bagjage and mail car?. Imtthe engineer uuled the train out bt-iore anyone was njured. The station agent at Enfield vas li red :i~ i?y the men as he was hangng out a signal light. The glass of the aiitern was broken and the light extinlished. The men ordered him to leave ind he did so. Ofiictrs will be sent out a nnnfnro 1 hp ! :ir?t ?5 if nOSSlble. l/he Vffr.ir cansrd considerable excitenent in this section. Crime or Accident? Topeka. Kansas, May 27.?A small 'rame residence at the corner of Jkichman avenue and (Jordon street was iiirried this morning. In the ruins were 'ound the charred remains of Mrs. Aupesrew, aged 33, and her three children, ill girls, aged from fifteen months to live rtlrrtiimchn. (Ctirs. VU i ilw SU1 i milium,; mtuiuoiau :es pointed to a deliberate and carefully >l;mned triple murder and suicide. The ;cer?e of the tragedy is in a sparcely settled portion of .North Topeka, and he house was supposed to have been ininhabited. It is learned th at the J 'aiuily moved i:i the house about a Month a*o. The lather is a teamster md left i?ome early this morning to ook for vers. I>:irl;py \s. Dajo. Sutton*. V?\ Ya.. May 27.?Alex Dunno. a nesrro from Wheeling, who was .vorking with a gang oi Italians live niles east of here, had a uesperate bat,1c with them on Saturday. There was i trilling dispute auri a light. The ne;ro caught up a Winchester rifle, and, jacking himself against a stone wall, . cept fully 200 Italian? at bay from early Saturday morning until the afternoon, tt'hen he was arrested. In the course )f the fray he shot two of the Italians, inflicting fatal wounds. - THE PEOPLE'S PARTY. DIFFERENT ViEWS OF THE THIRD PARTY CONVENTION. Who Can lx; Glad ao<l Who Sorry?The Al nance auu tuo ueiuocranc i'iirry siioiuu K^joice?Livinsstou's Fire "Work?Why Cleveland was Made a Target Of. Washington, D. C., May 24.?Viewed from a strictly political standpoint, the interesting Cincinnati conference stamped upon the minds of various party leaders and individuals impressions quite as distinct as the heterogeneous elements which composed the gathering itself. When the conven tion tmally adjourned, a lull aay at least sooner than was anticipated, those most deeply concerned bai reason to i'eel about as follows: 1. The Farmers' Alliance?relief. 2. The Democratic party?satisfaction. ~ ' . 3. The Republican party?alarm. 4. Mr. Harrison, Mr. Blaine or whoever may be the Republican candidatemisgiving. 5. Mr. Cleveland?solicitude. These results are due, not so much to what the convention really did as to the temper of the more conservative men present, indicated by their speeches and acts. The leaders of the Farmers' Alliance mav well haeve a sierh of relief at the passing of the most serious danger which has menaced their organization. While, from their point of view, the conference did little or no good, ic certainly resulted in less harm than was anticipated. Instead of forcing the Alliance to indorse or reject certain vexatious principles the convention practically referred the whole mattter to the regular Alliance convention next February with a recommendation in favor of naming its own candidate for nrpsidpnt. Cnlnrtpl "Livinsr*- "on. Who represented the officials of trie Alliance outside of the convention itself, shrewdly focussed the inevitable dispute upon this point and secured the adoption of policy which the Alliance leaders have no disposition to antagonize at the proper time. I5y making a show of resistance, moreover, the Colonel diverted attention from matters which might have seriously embarrassed himself and bis colleagues, lie must have returned home in a happy frame of mind. The politicians who have bt'en inclined to consider all Alliance men "unpractical" will do well to study Colonel Livingston's successful manipulation of the most intractable bedy'of men ever got together. It would have reflected credit upon a tactician as clever as Manning was or Gorman is. "The ideas of the old mossback leaders in the Democratic party',' said Colonel Polk, "if not suppressed by the younger element, will certainly lead to its destruction sooner or later, H'ld it may come as early as 181)2 if they are not careful. 41 * " TlA*%o1\lJrton it 1C iUL W1C XlcpuUilV/ail yuivj, iu 4^ corrupt from core to circumference, while its opponent is not controlled by the mam body of the people, who vote the ticket, but by the insidious influence of capitalists. The only wonder to me is that the farmers havenotlcng ago arisen in their might and swept both parties from the held. Cleveland will be the nominee of the Democrats and his nomination will be dictated by Wall street. Yes, and Wall street will nominote an anti-silver Republican. "The objects of the Democrats will be to force us to place a third party in the field, with the hope that it will A1 4-U/-V irit a f l-?0 1>AllCO r\"F mruw l/IIC CiCLUiUll llliu V.U-W Vi representatives, ana then Cleveland would be declari a elected. But I am not so sure that such would be the case, as the Alliance may svreep the country." Only a bald statement of fact could be more definite than this. The Alliance intends to name its own candidates, but not until the time is ripe. The premature action, which, in Colonel Polk's opinion, referred to in this column last week*, would be fatal, is one of the things that Colonel Livingston went to Cincinnati to prevent. lie succeeded so well that the Alliance will have only a "national committee" of about fifty members instead of a horde of cranks to deal with in February. It is not expected or even asked to endorse the Cincinnati platform, and it can yield to the yociferous demand for a third party with perfect complacence. If anything the conference was a bemlit to the Alliance. It enabled a large number ot troublesome reformers to i^t off steam without scalding anybody. The strategists of the house may well keep their eyes or. Colonel Livingston when he enters upon his congressional career in December. The lacts so gratifying to the alliance leaders are no less satisfactory to Democrats. Nothing could be more advantageous to the "Democratic pprty at this time than a steady growth in Alliance membership. Consequently, Democratic politicians will rejoice with their friends, the larmers, thai the most serious danger has been averted by clever management. Moreover, it is pleasing to note that the very fear of being committed against their oid party kept the alliance men in the South at hnmf> Reasons why the Republican party leaders must feel uneasy are so numerous and so patent that they need hardly be noted. Last fail's election furnished conclusive proof that they can not hope to light on equal terms, but to achieve success must make great inroads upon the opposition. It was argued speciously by Republican optimists-last fall that the election was only "an oil-year revolt," and that when tiie time came to make decisive choice of a Republican or a Den ocrat for president the farmers of the West tnd .Northwest would be found under their old banner. The Cincinnati conference mav cincn t heir eves to the truth. .Nine tenths of the delegates came from the formerly Republican States of Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Ohio and Illinois, and of that great number it is sale to say that not more than a handful ever voted a Democratic ticket. The sincerity of these men in advocating the ideas put forward by others net so guileless can not be questioned Whatever they do they will do with all their might. The true significance and danger of the conference, from a llepubli-j can standpoint, lies in the tact mat there was not the slightest indication or a desire to return to the fold. Instead, there was a unanimous demand for a third party. Talk about "mere off-year revolts,"' therefore is out of place. And the danger is even greater than it would seem to be at first thought. Take away from the republican party the sturdy country element, whose allegiance "has never wavered for an inr>.A n-Knf io tharD nf thp hrtflP 15 t 11 L j (I IJ VI " i ? C? O JO VUVl V W vk V4*v w? v | and sinew, except a, few spoilis-monger \ in the bier cities who thrive cn "deals" j with their political opponents? If any reader of The World fails to see cause for solicitude on the part of Mr. Cleveland, let him read a second time the excerpt from Colonel Folk's j interview printed above and then reflect upon the tenor of the speeches in j Cincinnati, of which the following by | Weaver is a sample: "I want to say that the battle for the j | institutions and liberties of this people i will be wa?;ed in 1892 between the canjdidates whom you name and those ! whom the cohorts of Wall street nomij nate. Xow, the Republican party is j practically out of the fight in 1892. ! They were left in a forlorn condition last November. The only part they can play next year is to act as the miners and sappers of the other party. "3Iind, now, what I say. Mr. Cleve laud, when be wrote his anti-silver letter, did it deliberately, as I happen to know. He did it against the protests of many of his friends.' It had this effect, to consolidate the money power in his support. The plutocracy in 1892-94 will make the battle under his leadership, They are playing a shrewd game. The great work to be done is that of organization and preparation." The talk of a played-out politician like Weaver is of no consequence, but the spirit of his remarks permeated all LJJLC OpCCbUCO cli-LU \jLIH tiituv wui^ubivu, and can not be disregarded. Mr. Cleveland is the victim of circumstances and bis own action. The engineers.. of*the new movementjtoow very well that .they can notretamxheir hold uponthe great mass of Sepablicans who comprise their forces if there arises in their minds the slightest suspicion that they are being led into the Democratic camp. Consequently some Democrat must serve as a target along witb the makers of McKinley bills, and Mr. Cleveland happens to be the most conspicuous mark. He greatly facilitated the execution of the plan by pronouncing against free silver, thus presenting to the leaders of the Alliance sufficient excuse for designating him as a slave of Wall street?and mention of Wall street is to the farmers what a red rag is to a bull. Thus the Alliance men nope 10 souuuy uieir uwu i^iutvo by attracting both Democrats and Republicans who have been inclined to pin their faith to tariff reform?New York World. MRS. SURRATT'S EXECUTION. Au Oatra&? Upon Justice in the Opinion j of Her Confession. ( "Washington, May 28.?The Ilev. J. ! A. "Walter, pastor of St. Paterick's Church, this city, has prepared and presented to the Catholic Historical Society : of Xew York a paper on Mrs. Surratt, ' which he thinks will throw new light on the character, trial and execution of j nnfn n'Amdn Tf will ho lliau UlUUllUUtUO nuiuau, xw nm uv read before the Society to morrow night. Father Walter was pastor of St. Fatrick's Church when Fresident Lincoln was assassinated, and Mrs. Surratt was ( a member of his congregation. On the . very night that Booth lired the fatal shot she was at Father Walter's church, | ana that circumstance alone, in the mind of the clergyman, wes partial 1 proof that she knew nothing: of the ; plans prepared by the assassins at her ] house. lie became deeply interested in her ease, was her confessor and ad- j riser after her arrest as well as before, , and did everything in his power, both \ by appeals to Fresident Johnson and hv hitt?r denunciations of the umust measures adopted by the Government in its prosecution, to save her from the i gallows. Although the occurrences which Fa- < ther "Walter describes in his paper oc- ] curred so long ago, that he still feeh j freshly and keenly the injustice which ; led to Mrs. Surratt's execution. In ] speaking of the matter to a Sun rep re- i sentativehe said: If President John- 1 son had been a man of courage the ex- i ecution would not have taken place, i lie simply acted in accordance with < public clamor, and signed the death ; warrant without even reading the testi- < mony on which the woman had been ] convicted. I went to him and told him that I had read every line of the testi- I mony, and that there was not enough ] evidence to hang a cat cn; that I did j not ask a pardon for JUrs. surratt, nor a commutation of sentence, but merely a repreve for ten days, in order that I might prove her innocence, but President Johnson did not have courage enough to comply with mv request, lie feared if he did so he would be accused of commending the deed that had put him in the Presidential chair. So he consigned an innocent woman to a ; shameful death in order to escape the adverse criticism of a frenzied populace. The whole trial was an outrage, and there is no doubt that the Government resorted to fraudulent measures in order to obtain a conviction. i ".Mr. iiradley, who defended John \ Surratt, had among his papers a tele- 1 graph book showing that John Surratt 1 was in Elmira on the night of April 13, 1 yet when a search was maae for the ho- < tel register, that would have shown his j Tiwwonno t'.oru An thai", flatp if had dlS? J appeared and not until a year ago was 1 I able to ascertain tbat the Government 2 had taken possession of it and had 1 withheld it order to deprive the prison- < ers of the benefit of this bit of evi 1 dence. 1 "John Surratt was allowed to escape J a trial because the Government knew < it ha J 110 case against him, and if he < were innocent, his mother was also. It ! has been charged that 1 forbade Mrs. i Surratt's speaking, but this is not true, i She declared her innocence up to the 1 time of her death, and beyond this dec- 1 laration she had nothing to say."?Bal- : timore Sun. ' This May Interest You. Camden, S. C., May 27.?The follow- ! ing has been received by a gentleman in Camden: "gaitmxki:, Maine, April 21,1891. ~ S\-f t V?Q , "JLU IIJU UUII1 UUrtlJUUJ^ UlUtl'l V/i. l/Ll*/ 1 12ih regiment S. C. V.. Confederate i States, in the war of the rebellion of 1801.?Sir: Will von be so kind as to inform me if Llie second lieutenant, Company I, o? that regiment is still living. This otlicer was wounded in the right knee at the second battle of Bull Run on i he 28th of August, 1862. If he is 1 still living please so inform me. He < was wounded in the knee. Ilis servant i was a prisoner, by the name of Sheed or ( Snider. This ofiicer may hsar of something that will interest him. His resi- ] dt-iice was at the time of his entering ihe service Charleston, South Carolina. < Piease answer. Very respectfully, j "Henry E. Merrill, < "Late 1st lieutenant Hancock's 1st j array corps, United States Veteran \ Volunteers." , This was referred to Capt. J. C. Rol* j lings, of Camden, who was at the time i second lieutenant of Company 1,12th regiment, but Capt. Rollings was wounded in the face on that day, and not in tne rignt Knee, as staieu uy xvur. , Merrill, so he is not the man sought for. It is i.houtfht that there must be some mistake in the initial of the company or the number of the regiment. ISlocked by Caterpillars. Minneapolis. May 23? A special to the .Journal from Mankato, Minn., says that all trains on the Milwaukee Jload this morning are delayed at a point seven miles out of this city by caterpillars, which had crawled upon the rails to sun themselves. The sand boxes were soon exhausted and two engines were hardly able to move the train. The morning freight was an hour and ten min es in going two miles. Cat- I erpillars were ground into masses of 1 grease over which the wheels slipped < like so much butter. The caterpillars ] have been a pest in the locality for two j weeks. dJ : CAN'T HOLD TWO OFFICES. The Governor Removes the Supervisor of Registration for Charleston. Columbia, S. C., May 28.?Messrs. J. M. Eason and G. W. Dingle of the ballot reform committee of Charleston were in the city yesterday, and inter viewed the Governor in reference to the matter of the Supervisor of Registration for Charleston County. They represented to him that the present Supervisor, Mr. Cantwell, held t^o offices, viz.: thai of Supervisor of Registration and Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners. The Governer conc luded tbat Mr. Cantwell could not legally hold two offices, and determed to remove him. He first, however, submitted the point involved to the Assistant Attorney General, who gave the following written opinion: "TEe inquiry referred by your Excellency. to the Attorney GeneraV of this date, embraces, as I understand It, two questions: Is the Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners an officer?" "Is a person holding the office of Supervisor of Registration eligible as Clerk oi the Board of County Commissioners?" Without having time to give my reasons in lull. I have the honor to state to m n jour JCjiCeueiiC* uticujr cu<au 1U llij vumion the Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners is au officer, and second, that a person cannot hold two offices at the same time. I refer your Excellency to Section 30, Article 2 of the Constitution and sections 91 and 612 of the General Statutes of South Carolina. The Governor on receipt of this opinion wrote as follows to Mr. W. P. C mwelJ: "Sir?It has been brought to my attention that you are the Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners, while at the same time you have held the office of Supervisor of Registration. In the oninion of the Attornev General one man cannot hold these tvro offices legally, and you are therefore removed from the office of Supervisor of Registration, and will turn over all public property belonging to said office remaining in your possession to the present Board of Commissioners of Registration. '^Respectfully, "B. R. Tillman, Governor." The Governor also wrote to Mr. Geo. W. Williams, Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Registration for Charleston County, advising him of the removal r>f\fr f!?nt.we1L and directing his Board to take charge of the books, etc., of the office uDtil his successor has been , appointed. The committee from Char- J ieston have suggested the name of Major Hall T. McGee as Mr. Cantwell's ; successor, and it is probable that he will : *et the appointment if he will a:cept it. : ?Register. : T?nes Will B? Tried. Columbia, S. C., May 28.?Jones, the triple Edgefield murderer, is to be tried at the next term of court in Lexington County, the chaDge of venue having : uwu mauc suiuc inuuuia a&u, uutouiiu- ; itor 2?elson has had some doubts of his ability to secure the State's witnesses from Edgefield, on account of the fact j that there was no provision made for < the payment of their per diem and j mileage. He accordingly wrote to the Ixovernor suggesting that he pay these expenses out of his contingent fund, and in response to this request the Governor yesterday wrote to him as follows: My Dear Sir.: Your letter of yes- j lerday, asking that arrangement be 1 made for paying the expenses of wit aesses in the Jones case, came to hand ; :his morning. 1 am very anxious tbat 1 ao delay shall occur iri bringing that matter to an end, and I will pay out of :he contingent fund a sufficient per 3iem to each of the State's witnesses to lover actual expenses, not to exceed the amount named by you?$85. I do this with the express understanding that you will insist on a trial at any and all hazards. Yours, very truly, B. R. Tillman, Governor. Inxall's Views. Hutchinson,Kansas, May 27? At a. meeting of Republican editors of the Iflirontlv P/Nnrrroccirvnal a Jt-* tiiCJJ. VVUJ i VUWi VMW* ^4WV>?VW Ml ?vvvv? from ex-Senator Ingalls was read and , tvarmly applauded. Among other ; ihings the letter said: The Republi- k lan party is confronted with great ( problems which threaten its supremacy. [f we are to succeed we must deal with f :he issues of to-day as we dealt with i slavery, secessian and State soverigntv ] :hirty"years ago. The Republicanism ? 3f the future must readjust itself to ( :he changed conditions of American < :ii - ?1 U , lie ur il win pcnsu. x wxsu savciu I from this fate by recalling the spirit of energy, aggressive and patriotic force < Df the founders to the campaign of k L892. This will be waged upon economic * md practical questions, and not upon memories or motions. Harrison will 1 be renominated and Cleveland will be 1 fris antagonist. If we have courage 1 and conscience it will be Austerlitz. If 1 sve dicker with popular errors, com- : promise with unprincipled leaders and ] sneer at honest differences of judgment i and opinion, it will be Waterloo." < That 2s"ew Party. Madison, Wis., May 27?Railroad 1 Commissioner H. A. Taylor, in a letter ] lo the State Journal, of this city, says * dE the people's party inaugurated at 1 Cincinnati: "The convention at Cin- i :innati has no rightful claim to be : called a national convention. In it we < Bnd men who have been prominent in ' neither political nor business circles. ( Ihe men of brain, of integrity and statesmanship, the men who have organized and controlled our great Qnan2ial enterprises, who have enacted our j laws and devoted lives of fidelity to all i legitimate public interests, haven't i raised their voices in the clamor of dis- j 3ontent which comes from the Cincin- ] aati convention. I cannot believe that ; any considerable number of leading < cnen of either of the great parties of ] the country will be tound in the rants I Df this new party. It will be largely i made up of perhaps well meanin?, but 5 misinformed men." Death of a Colored Prtacher. Charleston, S. C., May 26.?Rev. j Jacob Mills, probably the oldest colored i preacher in the country, died yesterday i n Charleston. lie was ninety-one years 1 51 age. >v nen quue young ne was maue "ree, and was an exhorter long before ' ;he war. Of late years was pastor of [ I'entennary Church, this city. lie had J ,he respect of all white citizens who , cnew him, and his own people venerated , rim. The funeral to-day took the shape )f a public demonstration. He is said :o have married over 2,000 colored iouples in Charleston. ' The Agony Over. 1 Tallahassee, Fla., May 27.?Sena- : tor Call was re-eiected United Senator : oy the Legislature in joint session toiav. He received fifty-one votes, only Sfty-four members being present. The ' anti-Call men absented themselves from the joint session. i L CLOSE ON ITS HEELS. ;| THE "CHARLESTON" SIXTY-FIVE MILES BEHIND THE "ITATA." Both Vessels Going at Fall Speed?They Were Met by tbe "Colima"?Rnmori That the Insurgent Leaders Will Give Up the "Itata." San Francisco, May 25.?The first authentic news about the Itata since she left this port, was received here to-day. The steamship Colima, which has just arrived from Panama and way ports, reports that she spoke both the Itata and the Charleston. The Itata was met at 10.52 o'clock thft mnrrn'rxr nf t.hp InMi inst oni-ocr : south at full steam, sixty-five miles from Ac0?r?lco. At 5.20 p. m. the same day the Cciima spoke the Charleston 130 miles from ^Acapulco. Capt. "Kemy, of the Charleston, asked the captain of the Colima if he had seen the Itata. He answered in the afSr- ^ mative. and then the United States crusier went straight on her way. Evidently the Charleston missed the pirate steamer by only about one hundred and twenty miles, by putting into Acapulco. The Esmeralda's ran out of Acaduleo and back again, about the time of the Charleston's arrival, was rrlearlv marie to warn the Itata, which kept off shore. If she has coal enough to carry her to Iquique, she will be able to carry arms to the insurgents, otherwise she must stop at Panama, where the Charleston will probably catch her. It is rumored here to day that insurgent leaders}' ; agreed to deliver the ' -"i Itata to the United States authorities on her arrival at Iquique and that therefore the Charleston will make no further serious efforts at capture. When thft T^smeralria. first pnterftd port at Acapulco she saluted the fort with twentv-one guns, which salute was not returned. On the following daj her commander made an official visit to the commandant of the military forces. The Rope Broke. Broken Bow, Xeb., May 22.?Tha respite of thirty days granted by Gov- ' ernor Boyd to Albert E. Hanerstine,the murderer of Hiram Roten and William Ashley, expired today, and at 1:90 o'clock the condemed man was hanged. In spite of the storm, 4,000 people gathfk A AVAAnf?A? CI CU vu VYIl/iiCOO l/UU CACUUUUU. ?f UCJLL the trap was sprung1 the body shot downward and dropped to the ground, the rope having broken. The half conscious "N">man was seized by the sheriff and carried back on the gallows. The rope was then doubled and the trap again sprung. This time his neck was broken by tne fall. . At midnight he made a statement. He said that two weeks prior to the murder he was accused of petty thieving. The murdered men, with others, annoyed and threatened him. At one time somebody poisoned water that he had hauled in barrels. On the fatal day Roten and Ashley came to his place, "x witnoui aumonty, 10 searcn lor a ciock ? ^ that had been taken from the schoolhouse. Roten carried a Winchester across his arm, Hanerstine gave them the clock and then asked them to dinner. They would not eat with him. An altercation took place, and in the heat of passion he shot Roten to protect himself. Then he shot Ashley, who attempted to draw his pistol from his pocket. Eleven Miners Killed. Birmingham, May 22.?At tne Pratt mines to-day an explosion of gas in the 3haft where convicts are worked killed ten negro convicts and one free miner named Tom Moore. It is believed that the men had in some way knocked oft" a rvlonlr frnm + h^ TtrVn/^h QtA/vl ? J^iOUlV X1VLU tuv UVUi TT UAVU UWVV4 across an old chamber and on which the word ''Gas" was written. The gas: rushed out and caught fire from a lamp Officers of the company went to the rescue and worked to save the men, but were themselves suffocated and narrowly escaped, being dragged out un:onscious. The bodies of the dead have ill been recovered. The mines are not considered in danger from gas as a rule, md this is the first accident of the sort in a long time. Two life convicts worked faithfully with the rescuing party. Tortured by African Savazes. St. Louis. May 27.?A letter has i>een received here from Cape Town, South Africa, siving an account of the capture and torture by Zulus or Jen AJlen, of Decatur, III., and W. A. Kenlan, whose home is supposed to be either n St. Joseph, Mo,, or Silver City, Hew Slexico. The letter is dated March 1st, md it Is signed "Frank Short." It was inclosed in an envelope from the United States consulate at Cape Town. The etter says: The British ship Neptune, Captain Saunders, master, of London, was reiently driven ashore off the coast of Natal, adjacent to the Free States, and all jut five out of the crew of fifty-eight perished. The five men started on foot x> Natal, 170 miles distant, and on the xay they were captured by a band of Zulus, who stripped off their clothes and proceeded to torture them by tying them .0 a tree and beating them with the shambock, a jacged club made of rhinoceros hide. ' While the Sends were in ;he midst ot this barbarous pastime, they ivere surprised by a party of Boer hun:ers, armed with muskets, who charged jpon them and put them to flight. Ken- ? aan and Adams were the only ones who MiinfirrA/^ 4* /> TTArc oof^IlT 3UITIYCU CUV/ IAJL LULL, ftUU TT V>IV sa^ViJ conveyed to Natal and thence to Cape rown. Kennan is still insane from his suffering.'' Three Men Killed by Foal Air. Cextjralia, Wash., May 27.?While grading a street this morning a laborer uncovered an old well to ascertain its depth. lie was overcome with foul air md fell into the well. Three othsr laborers, who went to his assisance, were ilso precipitated into the well in the same manrer. After the air became pure the men were brought to the surface. Only one, named Ford, could be resuscitated. The names of the dead ire Bums, Perry and Dobson. Congressman Houk Dead* Knoxville, Tenn., May 25.?Con- - jZ pressman Houk died here early this morning. Judge Houk had been suffering from heart disease. Yesterday he tvent to a drug store to get a prescription put up. The druggist made it up and Dut it down in a glass near another containing a strong solution of arsenic, and tie took the latter by mistake. Unier medical treatment he seemed to be recovering last night, but became worse toward morning and died at 7 o'clock Ravages of a Kain Storm. Alma, Neb. May 27.?The worse rain storm ever known here occurred last night. The city is comepletely inundated. The water was from two to four feet deep. The W est wall of Si ms block gave way under the pressure and is a total wreck. The sidewalks succombed L - fnrnnfrr-firo fpfti", ftf LU lilt prCSSUIQ, auu incuu; a.v?.w- vthe dam atLakeDisapointment is swept away. The damage to crops will bo enormous. / -vSasafcg yS '