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j ' ** ' : VOL. XLVI. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 3, 1891. . NO. 42. M m HE DEFINES HIS BELIEF. ONE WEEK'S WORK THE SUBJECT OF DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON. He BelUv?-s in the Mosaic Account o! the Creation, and Does Xot Hesitate to Say So Most Emphatically?A Xotitbie Ser in?n Preached Saudiy, May 24tl>. Brooklyn, May 24.?The striking sermon Dr. Talmage delivered ibis morning to an audience which filled the new Tabernacle in every part draJt with a topic of interest to all who have watched the discussions dow agitating the churches. Wherever the question of the inspiration of the Bible is raised, the trustworthiness of the Mosaic narrative of the creation is always the point chiefly assailed. The fact that so prom' 1 inent and eloquent; a preacuer as jl?i. Talma^e places himself clearly on record on the side of orthodoxy will doubtless have a marked influence on public opinion. His text was Genesis i, 31, 4*And the evening and the morning were the sixth day." "From Monday morning to Saturday night gives us a week's vrork. If we have filled that week with successes we are happy. But I am going ;o tell you what God did in one week. Cosmogony, geology, astronomy, ornithology, ichthy olo?y, botany, anatomy are sucn vasi subjects that no human liie is long enough to explore or comprehend any on^^" them. But I have thought I mi^R^n an unusual -vay tell you a little of what God did in one week, and that the first week. And whether you make it a week of days o: a week of ages, I care not, for I shall reach the same practical result of reverence and worship. Tflf VTRST MONDAY MOENIXG. The first Monday morning found swinging in i pace the piled up lumber of rocks and metal and soil and water 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? Xot a roof, not a wall, not a door, not a ro-,?m was lit for human oceupaacy. There is not a pile of black besalt in Yellowstoue park or an extinct volcano in Honolulu so inappropriate for human residence as was this glo^e at that early peric d. Moreover, there was no human architect to 1 ? " ~ 4 r\ "Klnst f]io araw a piau, uu u un. > j ma^ iu uuu? wv foundation stones, no carpenter to hewout a beam, and no mason to trowel a wall. Poor prospect! But the time was coming when a being called man was tc be constructed, and he was to have a bride; and where he could find a homestead to which he could take her must have been a wonder Lent to angelic intelligences. There 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 swung. It was heaped up deformities, scarifications and monstrosities. The Bible saja it was without form. That is, it was not round, it was not square, it was not octagonal, it was not a rhomboid. God never did take any one in his counsels, but if he had aeked some angel about the attempt to -turn this planet into a place for human residence tKo w.-nn1r1 have said: "Xo. no: itry some other wor- d; the crevices of this earth are too deep; its crags are tco appalling; its darkness is too thick." But Monday morning came. I think it was a spring morning and about halfpast four o'clock. The first thing needed was light. It was not needed for God to work by, for he can work as well in the darkness. But light may be necessary, for angelic intelligences are to see in its full 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 Tvr-irrMori this The mnnn VOU A/i. _ and stars are not born yet, or if created t'.iir light will not reach the earth for some time yet. But there is need of immediate light. Where shall it come from? Desiring to account for things in a natural way you say, and reasonably j say, that heat and electricity throw out j light independent of the sun, and that I the metallic bates throw out light independent of the: sun, and that alkalies throw out light independent of the sun. Oh, yes; ail that is true, but I do not think that is the way liyht was created. The record makes me think that, staud m2 over mis eariu mat *prmg ujoiu.u^, God looked upon thedarkuess iliac palled the heights oi this world, aud the chasms of it, and the awful reaches of it, and uttered, whether 1q the Hebrew ot earth or some language celestial I kuow not, that word which stat-ds tor the subtie, bright, glowing and all pi-evading' fluid, that word which thrills and garbte lands and lilts everything it touches, that word the lull meaning of which all the |P chemists of the ages have busied them-1 Hi salves in exploring, that word which (suggests a force that flies one hundred and ninety-thousand miles in a second, and by undulations seven hundred aud twenty-seven trillions in a second, that one v> ord that God utters?Light. And instantly the darkness began to sLImmer, and the thick folds of blackness j to lift, and there were scintillations and coruscations and flashes and a billowing ! up of resplendence, and in great sheets it spread out northward, southward. t eastward, westward, and a radiance filled the atmosphere until it could hold no more of the brilliance. Light now to work bv while supernatural intelligences look on. Light, the first chapter of the first day of the week. Light, the joy of all the centuries. Light, the greatest blessing that ever touched the human eye. The robe of the Almighty is woven out of it, for he covers himself with light as with a garment, Ufi, luesseu light! I am so glad this was the first thing created that week. Good thins to ^ - start every week with is light. That will make our work easier. That will - Jr keep our disposition more radiant. That ^ ^ will hinder even our losses from becoming too somber. Give us more 1-^ht? natural light, intellectual liaht, spiritual i light, everlasting ligbt. For lack of it 1 the body stumbles, and the sou] stumbles. 0 thou Father of Lights, give us <ight! The great German philosopher in his k last r oment said, "I want more liuht." A minister of Christ recently dying cried out In exultation, ,4I move into the light!" Mr. Topiady, the immortal hymnologist, in his expiring moments e::claimed. *'j_,igni: i^ignii" jueaven lustu is uuij. ; more light. Upon all superst tion. ail L upon afl ignorance, upon all sorrow let in the light. But now the light of the V first Monday is receding. The blaze is ^oln? out. The colors are dimming. I Only part of ihe earth's surl'acc is visible. It is 6 o'clock, 7 o'clock, 8 o'clock: obBeuration and darkness. It is Monday night. "And the evening and the morning were the first day." TUESDAY'S WORK. Nov,* it is Tuesday morning. A deliI eate and tiemendous undertaking is set i apart for this day. There was a great [superabundance of water. God, by the 1 wave <>i his hand, this morning gathers part ?>fit in suspended reservoirs, and I part of it he orders down into the rivers | and lakes and seas." How to hang whole j Atlantic oceans in the clouds without their soiliing over except in right quanti ties and at right times was an undertaking that no one but Omnipotence would have dared. JSut God does it as easily as you would lift a glass of water. There he hoists two clouds, each thirty miles wide aud fivu miles high, and balances then.. TT^i-e he lifts the cirrous clouds and spraads them out in srea', white banks as though it has been snowing in heaven. And the cirro-stratus clouds in long I parallel liaes. so straight you know an infinite geometer has drawn them. Clouds \vr;ich are the armory from which thunder storms get their bayonets of fire. Clouds wh ch arc oceans on the win?. Xo wonder. Ions after this first Tuesday of creation week, Eiihu confounded Job with the question. "Dost thou know the balancings of the clouds?" j Half of this Tuesday work done, the | other half is the work of compelling the waters to lie down in their destined places. So God picks up the solid ground and packs it up into live elevations, which are the continents. W.ihhis finger he raiikes deep depressions in them, and tnese are the lakes, while at the piling up of the Alleghanies and Sierra Xevadas and Pyrenees and Alps and Himalayas the rest of the waters start by the law of gravitation to the lower places, and in their run down hill become the rivers and then all around the earth these rivers come into convention And become oceans beneath, as the clouds are oceans above. How soon the rivers got to their placcs when God said: "Hudson and James acd Amazon, down to the Atr\*a,rnn or>/-| < m pri trv fjnwn to lcii.' Clo. Vi.v. UUU >vav4Mi>*vta?v ? ^ the Pacific." Tiiree-quaaters of the earth being water an;' only one-anartor being: land, nothing but Almightiness could have caged the three-fourths so that they could not have devoured the one-fourth. Thank God for water and plenty of it. What a hint that God would have the [ human race very clean! Three tourtns of the world water. Pour it through the homes and make them pure. Pour it through the prisons and make their occupants morai. Pour it through the streets and make them healthy. There are several thousand people asleep in Greenwood who but lor the filthy streets oi Brooklyn and Xew York would have been to-day w ell and in churches. Moreover, there n-;vcr was a filthy street that remained a moral street. IIovv important an agency ol reform water is, was illustrated by the fact that when the an jient world got outrageously wicked it was plunged into the deluge and kept under lor months tdl its iniciuity was soaked out of it. But I rejoice that ou the hrst Tuesday of the world's existence the water was taught to know its place, and the .Mediterranean lay down f at t :e feet of Europe, and the Gulf of Mexico lay d^wn at the feet of Xorth America, and Geneva lay down at the iect of the Alps ran i Scroon lake lell to sleep in the lap of the Aclirondacks. "And the evening ana me morning were i the second day." THE CREATION OF VEGETATION. Now it is Wedensday morning of the world's first week. Gardening and horticulture will be born to-day. How queer the hills look, and so unattractive they seem hardly worth having been made. But now a:l the surfaces are changing color. Something beautiful is creeping all over them. It has the color oi emerald. Ay, it is herbage. Hail to the green grass! God's favorite color and God's favorite plant, as I jud^e from the fact that he maices a larger number of them than of anything else. But look yonder! Seme thing starts out of the ground and goes higher up higher and higher, arid spreads out broad leaves. It is a palm tree. Yonder is another growth, and its leaves hang far down, and it is a willow tree. And yonder is a growth with mighty sweep of branches. And here they come?the pear, and the apple, and the peach, and the pomegran aie. and proves and orchards and torcsts, their shadows and their fruit girdling the earth. We are pushing agriculture aud iruit culture tr< geat excellence in the Nineteenth century, bit we have nothing I now to equal what 1 see on this first Wednesday of the world's existence. I take a taste of one ol ihe apples this Wednesday morning, and I tell you it mingles in Us juices all the flavors of Spitsbergen and Newtown pippin and Khcde Island greening snd Danvers Winter Sweet and lioxbury russet and Ilubbardston Nonesuch, but added to all, and ovcrjiowerlns all other navors, is the paradisaical juice that all the orchards of the Nineteenth century fail to reach. I take a taste of the pear, and it has all the luxury of the three thousand varieties of the Nineteenth century; all the Seckei and the Dartlett of the pomological gardens of iutc-r times an acidity, compared with it. And the grapes! Why, this cue cluster has iu it the richness o? whole vineyards of Catawbas and Concords and Isabellas. Fruits of all colors, of all odors, of all tlorors. No hand of man yet made to pluck it or j tongue to taste it. The banquet for the ! h iman race is beic_r spread before the i n*. c. (?> < : In the iruit of that garden was the i seed lor the orchards and gardens of the j hemispheres. Xoiice that the first thing that God made for food was fruit, and plenty of it. t-launhler houses are of L ler invention. Far am I from being a vegetarian, but an almost exclusive meat diet is depraving. Savages confine themselves almost exclusively to animal food. and that is one reason that they are savages. Give your children more apples and less mutton. The world will have to L'ive dominance to the fruit; diet of Paradise before it gets back to the morals of Paradise. May God's blessing come down on the orchards and vineyards of America, and keep back the frosts aud the curculio. But we must not forget that it is Wednesday evening in Eden, and upon that perfect iru:i of those perfect trees let the curtain drop. "And the evening and the morning were the third day." PUTTING THINGS TO KIG1ITS. Xow it is Thursday morning ot the world's lirst week. Nothing rvill be created to-day. The hours will be passed [ in scattering fogs and mists and vapors. I The atmosphere mu?t be swept clean. 1 Other worlds are to hove in sight. This little ship of the earth has seemed to ! have al the <teean of immensity to itself.; kJhit mightier craft are to be hailed today oa the high seas ot space. First, tiie moon's white sail appears and does very well until the suu bursts upon the scene. The li^ht that on the previous three mornings was struck from an especial word now gathers in the sun, moon and stars. One for the day, the others for the night. It seemed as il d thev had all within twenty-four hours been created. Ah, this is a great time in the world's first week. The moon, the nearest neighbor tu our earth appears, her photograph to be taken In the Nineteenth century, when the telescope shall bring her within one hundred I froontv m?1os r*f "S'nrkv And the sun now appears, afterward to be found eight hundred and eightyeight thousand" miles in diameter, and, put in astronomical scales, to be found to weigh nearly four hundred thousand times heavier than our earth; a mighty furnace, its heat kept up by meteors pouring into it as fuel, a world devouring other worlds with its jaws of llame. And the stars come out, those street lamps of heaven, those keys ol pearl, upon wtiieh God's finders play the music of the spheres. IIotv bright they look in this oriental evening! Constellations! Galaxies! What a twenty-four hours ot this first week?solar, lunar, stellar appearances! All this Thursday and the adjoining nights employed io pulling acidc thf? <-nrf.3in of ranor from thtise flushed or pale laced worlds. Enough! "And the evening and the morning were the fourth daj." THE FISHES AND THE BIKDS. Now it is Friday morning in the first week of the world's history. Water, but cot a fin sv?imming it; air, but not a wing flying it. It is a silent world. Caa it be that it was made only fur vegetables? But hark! There is a swirl and a splashing in all the four rivers uf Pison, Gihon, Hiddekel and Euphrates. They are all asvrim with life, some darting like arrows through split crystal, and others quiet in dark pools like shadows. Everything, from spotted trout to behemoth, all colored, all shaped, the ancestors of finny tribes that shall by their wonders of construction confound the Agassizes, the Cuviers and the Linnamses and the ichthvoloffists of the more than six thousand years following this Friday of the first week. And while I staud on the ttinks of these Paradisaical livers, watching these finny tribes, I hear a whirr in the air and I look up and behold wings?wings of larks, robbins, doves, eagles, damiugoes, albatrosses, brown threshers. Creatures of all color?blue, as it cupped in the skies; fiery, as if they had down out of the sunsets; golden, as if they had taken their morning bath in buttercups. And while I am studying the colors they begin to carol and chirp and coo and twitter and run up and down the scales of a music that they must have heard at heaven's gate. Yes, I find them in Paradise on this the first Friday after noon oI the world's existence. Ana l sit down on the bank of the Euphrates, and the murmur of the river, together with the chant of birds in the sky, puts me into a state of somnolence. "And the evening and the morning were tbe fifth day." BEASTS AND itEN. Xow it is Siturday morning of the world's first week and with this day the week closes. But oh, what a climacteric day! The air has its population and the water its population. Yet the lanil has not one inhabitant. But here they AAMM T-V IT ikrt WA1AA AP /?A/1 UULUC* Uj UUU * v/iot/ V/i uvu ut\/avvvi. Horses grander t'nan those which in after time Job will describe r:s having ncck clothed with thunder. Cattle enough to cover a thousand hills. Sheep shepj herded by him whc maoe for them the | green pastures. Cattle superior to the ! Alderneys and Ayrshire^ and Devon | snires or aicer times. jLecoarns so oeauliful we are glad they cannot change their spots. Lions without their fierceness and all the quadruped world so gentle. so sleek, so perfect. Look out how yce treat this animal creation, whether they walk the earth or swim the waters or fly the air. Do you not notice that God gave them precedence of the human race? They were created Friday and Saturday morning, as man was created Saturday afternoon. Tbey have a right to be here. lie who galls a horse, or exposes a cow to the storm, or beats a dog. or mauls a cat, or gambles at the pigeon shooting, or tortures an insect, will have to answer lor it in the judgment day. You may convAnroftlf thof t'nAco 4>ta*;tturps nrft not immortal hdc] they cannot appc.tr against you, but the God who made these creatures and who saw the wron<: you did them will be there. Better lookout, you stock raisers and railroad companies who bring the cattle on trains without lood or water for ?hree or four days in hot weather, a Ions groan of agony from Omaha to Xew York. Belter look out, you farmer ridiug behind that limping horse with a nail that the blacksmith drove into the quick. Better look o"t, you boys stoning bullfrogs and turning turtles upside down, and robbing birds' nests. But something is wanting in Paradise and the week is almost done. Who is there to pluck the flowers of this Edenic lawn? Who is there to command these worlds of quadruped and fish and bird? For whom has God put back the curtain from the face of sun and moon and star? The i world wants an emperor and empress, it is Saturday afternoon. Xo one but the Lord Almighty can originate a human being. In the world where there are in the latter part of the Nineteenth century over fourteen hundred million people, a human being is not a curiosity. But how about the first human eye that was ever kindled, the first human ear that was ever opened, the first humau lung that ever breathed, the. first human heart that ever beat, ihe lirsl human life ever constructed? That needed the origination of a God. lie had no model to work by. What stupendous work for a Saturday afternoon! lie must originate a style of human heart through which all the blood in the body must pass every three minutes. He must make that heart so strong that it can, during each day, lift what would be equal to one hundred and twenty tons of weight, and it must be so arranged as to beat over thirty-six million times every year. About five hundred muscles must be strung in the right place, and at least two hundred and fifty boues constructed. Into this body must be put at least nine million nerves. Over three thousand perspiring pores must be made for ever j inch of fleshly surface. The human voice must be so constructed it shall be capable or producing seventeen trillion five-hundred and niaety-two billion one hundred and eighty-six million forty-four thousand lour hundred and fifteen sounds. But all this the most insignificant part of the human being. The soul! Ah, the construction of that God himself would not be equal fn if Vip wppo .inv thf? less of n God. Its j understanding, its will, its memory, its i conscience, its capacities of enjoyment or suffering, its immortality! What a work for a Saturday afternoon! Aye! Before night there were to be two such human and yet immortal beings constructed. Tbe woman as well as the man wa3 formed Saturday afternoon. Because a deep sleep fell upon Adam, and by divine surgery a portion of his side was removed for the nucleus of anm " _ J oilier creation, it has been supposed that ! perhaps davs and nights passed between j the masculine and :emiL.ine creations. I But no! Adam was not three hours uumatsd. If a phyciciau cau by aniusthctics put j one iulo a deei? sleep in three minutes, j God certainly could iiavc put Adam into | a prorouni! sleep m a snore, wnue mat i Saturday afternoon, and made the deep ; and radical excision without causing disj tress. 13y a manipulation of the dust i the same hand that molded the moun! tains molded the features and molded j the limbs of the lather of the human I ra:e. But his eyes did not see, and his I -It ? __i?__i __ 1 u: | j Iiorves UlUQUb iiuu i:is uiustics uiu ! not move, and his lungs did not breathe, and iiis heart did not pulsate. A per! feci form lie lay aionn the carlh, symj metrical and of godlike countenance. ! Ma?nilicent piece of Divine carpentry j and Omnipotent sculpturing, but no ! vitality. A body without a soul, j Then the source of all life stooped to j the inanimate nostril and lip, and as j many a skillful and earnest physician j has put his lips to a patient in comatose state and breathed into h:s mouth and nostril, and at the same time compressed the lungs, until that which was artificial respiration became natural respiration, so methinks God breathed into this cold sculpture of a man the breath of life, and the heart begins to tramp, and the luugs to inhale, and the eyes to open, and the entire form to thrill, and with the rapture of a life just come the prostrate boioir leaps to bisleet?a man! J3ut the scone oi' this Saturday is not yet done, and in the atmosphere, drowsy wit.n fhfi brpflih of flowers and the sonirof bobolinks and robin redbreasts, the man slumbers, and by anesthetics, divinely administered, the slumber deepens until without the oozing of one drop of blood at the time or the laiate.st scar afterward, that portion is removed from his side which is to be built up the Queen of Paradise, the daughter ot the great God, the mother of the human race, the benediction of all ages, woman the wife, afterward w?mau the mother. And as the two join hands and stroll down alonir the banks of the Euphrates toward a bower of mignonette and ^vild rose and honeysuckle, aud are listening to the call of the whip-poor-will ironi the aromatic thickets ihs sun sinks beueat'u the horizon. "And the evening and the morning weie the sixth da\\" A GREAT WEEK'S WOIiK. What do yon think of thai -sue week's work? 1 review it not for entertainment, but because i would have you join m David's doxology, ''Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty;" because I want you to know what a ' "? 1 >liio /.lill. I I ll<JLLLC3ci;UU VUl X -ItllCi i;u.o ivi dren at the start, though sin has despoiled it, and because I want you to know how the world will look again when Christ shall have restored it, swinging now betweeu two Edens; because L want you to realize something of what a mighty God he is, and the utter folly of trying to war auainst him; because I want you to make peace wuh this Chief of the Universe through the Christ who mediates between oll'ended Omnipotence . nn.1 Kiminn rah?llinn> llflOO llSfl r wonf UUU lJUlllitlA . iyc\.nuuv ?i -%,_w you to know ihow fearlully and wonderfully you arc made, your body as well as your soul an Omnipotent achievement; because I want you to realize that order reigns throughout the universe, and that God's watches tick to the second, and that his clocks strike regularly, though they strike once in a thousand years. A learned man onoe asked an old Christian, man who had no advantages of schooling, why he believed there was a God. and the good old man, who prob~"U1.. 3.r\*\ <iV?-*nmonf An clUi^) UttU liCYCi uv^am an ai^uuiv.uu vu the subject in all his Hie. made this noble reply: "Sir, I have been here going hard upon fifty vear3. Every day since I have bsen in this world I see the sun rise in the cast and set in the west. The north star stands where it did the lirst time I saw it: the seven stars and Job's ^nma in (lio olrv UU111L1 ACL't' Vll II1G CUUiU I'llbl! ALJ MIS/ N/4?J and never turn out. It isn't so with man's work. lie makes clocks and watches; they may run well for awhile, but they i*et out of lix and stand stock still, iiut the sun and moon and stars keep on this same way all the while. The heavens declare the 2lory of God." Yea, I preach this, because I want you to walk in appreciation of Addison's subline sentiment >v!;cu he writes: The spacious firmament on high, With all the blueetherial sky And spangled lieav'ns, a shining frame, Their Great Original proclaim. In reason's car they all rejoice, And utter forth a glorious voice, Forever singing, as they shine. The hand' that made us is divine. Firinsr on it Train. IJangoi:, Mi:, May 27? A train SVinrnr Svir<^ T, .;i n last. nityht. \t J i 1^11 i/.ViJ-, '4. 4-vy. 0 at 7:-i0 was held up j;;st beyondEoOeld by four it.en. who iired at the engineer and cars. The train lefi i>atield when a man, who was noticed by the llreman crawling over the tender, told them to stop the train The gong on the engine sounded bus the engineer did not stop the train until the gong sounded again. The train I hen came to a stand, when shooting wasjheard.and for five minutes the gang kept up an indiscriminate firing, the mail car being the particular nhififtt of attack. The leader of the gaufj was armed with a rille, the others with revolvers. They fired several sh-ts into the baggage and mail cars, hut the engineer pulled the train out before anyone was injured. The station agent at Knfield was (ircda", by the men as he was hanging out a signal light. The glass of the lantern was broken and thf* light extinuished. The men ordered him to leave and lie did so, Oflicers will be sent out to capture the assailants if possible. The affair cunsrd considerable excitement in this section. Crime or Accident? rn" " * *>7 A -LOf.t.ivA. ivausnj. -ucu _ i. -x oumu frame residence :it the corner of Buchanan avenue and Gordon street was burned this morning. In the n:ins were ! found the charred remains of Mrs. Aupj tegrew, aged &5. and her three children, j all girls, aged from fifteen months to live ' years. All tire surrounding circumstan! ces pointed to a deliberate and carefully ! planned triple murder and suicide. The iscene of the traced? i< in a sparcely | settled portion of 2sorth Topeka, and J t!ie house was supposed to have been j uninhabited. It is learned that the ! I'niiiilv movftil in the house about a month ago. The father is a teamster 'and lei t home eariy this morning to look for wcrfc. Iisirlipy vs. Uajo. Si'TTOX. V,*. Ya.. M;iy 27.?Alex Dunj lap, a negro from Wheeling, who was 'working1 with a gang of Italians live 1 miles east of here, had a desperate bati tie with them on Saturday. There was i a trilling dispute aatl a light. The neI trro caught up a Winchester rifle, and. backing' himself against a stone wall, kept fully 200 Italiaa? at bay from early Saturday morning until the afternoon, when he was arrested. In tbe course ] of the fray he shot two of the Italians, ! indicting fatal wounds. THE PEOPLE'S PARTY. DIFFERENT VIEWS OF THE THIRD PARTY CONVENTION. "Wlio Can be Glad a.n<l AVho Sorry?The Alo**s? tlm r\r>ru f J/? P'?rtv Sltnnl/1 K^jolce?Livingston's Fine "Work?"VVhy Cleveland was Matle 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 convention finally adjourned, a full day at least sooner than was anticipated, those most deeply concerned hai reason to feel about as follows: 1. The Farmers' Alliance?relief. 2. The Democratic party?satisfac ticm. 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 IXit/U jyJL lUUl^C4it^U WJ t ilv_Ai. >jjk/vvvuvw and acts. The leaders of the Farmers' Alliance may well haeve a sigh 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, is 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 president. Colonel Livingston, who represented the cflicials of trie Alliance outside of the convention itself, shrewdly iocussed 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. By making a show of resistance, moreover, the Colonel diverted attention from matters which might have seriously embarrassed himself and iiis colleagues. Ife must have returned home in a happy frame of miad. The politicians who have been inclined to consider all Alliance men "unpractical" will do well to study Colonel Livingston's successful manipulation of the most intractable body of men ever got together. It would have reilooft.fl ororlif nnnn 5? tflr-timan 2S filever as Manning was cr 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, Had it may come as enrly as 18!>2 if they are not careful. "As for the Republican party, it is corruot from core to circumference, while its opponent is not controlled by A *- ? C ?NAArv1 A A llirilLI wuy U1 tW ?ji v ?wkv, the ticket, but by the insidious influence of capitalists. The only wonder to me is that the farmers havenotlong 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 Kepublican. "The objects of the Democrats will be to force us to place a third party in the field, with the hope that it will throw the eletcion into tiie nouse 011 representatives, and then Cleveland would be declare d elected. But I am not so sure that such would be the case, as the Alliance may sweep 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. He 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 piatrorm, anu it can yield to the vociferous demand for a third party with perfect complacence. If anything the conference was a ben?lil to the Alliance. It enabled a large number ot troublesome reformers to let off steam without scalding anybody. The strategists of the house may well keep their eyes on Colonel Livingston when he enters upon his congressional career in December. The facts so gratifying to the alliance leaders are no less satisfactory to Democrats. Nothing ^ould 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 farmers, that 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 old party kept the alliance men in the .South at home. Reasons why the Republican party leaders must feel uneasy are so numerous and so patent that they need hardly be noted? Last fall's election furnished conclusive proof that they can not hope to fight on equal terms, but to achieve success must make great ia roads upon the opposition. It wa-j argued speciously by Republican optimistsJast fall that the election was only "an oil-year revolt," and that when the time c;ime to make decisive choice of a Republican or a Den ocrat for president the farmers of the West tnd Xortliwest would be found under their old banner. The Cincinnati conference may open their eyes to the truth. Ninetenths of the delegates came from the formerly Republican States of Kansas, Nebraska, Minnesota, Ohio and Illinois, and of that great number it is safe to ??v nnt 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 denser of the conference, from a Republican standpoint, lies in the fact that there was not the slightest indication of 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 lirst thought. Toi-o ow!iv fmrti thp 1 ?pniihlipan nurtv ! the sturdy country element, whose allegiance 'has never wavered for an instant, and what is there left of the bone and sinew, except a few spoilis-monger in the bier cities who thrive on "deals" 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 Polk's j -interview printed above and then re- j fleet upon the tenor of the speeches in i Cincinnati, of which the following by Weaver is a sample: "I want to say that the battle for the BBaaa"?TimT-n? institutions and liberties of this people will be waged in 1S92 between the candidates whom you name and those whom the cohorts of Wall street nominate. Xow, the Republican party is practically out of the fight in 1*892. 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. "ALincl, now, wnat l say. Mr. Cleveland, wlien 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 bis remarks permeated all the speeches and the entire convention, and can not be disregarded. Mr. Cleveland is the victim of circumstances and his own action. The engineers, ofthe hew movemenkJaiow very yell that .they can not retain their hold upon the great mass of Sepoblicans 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 with 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, Thu3 the Alliance men hope to solidify their own ranks by attracting both Democrats and Republicans who have been inclined to pin their faith to tariff reform.?New York World. MRS. SURRATT'S EXECUTION. An Oatra?* Upon Justice In the Opinion xr? ? W1 JLJLXil VVUI^OOIVUI "Washington, May 28?The Rev. 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 thiDks will throw new light on the character, trial and execution of that unfortunate woman. It will be read before the Society to morrow night. Father Walter was pastor of St. Fatrick's Church when President Lincoln was assassinated, and Mrs. Surratt was a member of his congregation. On the very night that Booth tired the fatal shot she was at Father Walter's church, ana that circumstance alone, in the mind of the clergyman, wes partial Drool' that she knew nothing of the plans prepared by the assassins at her house. lie became deeply interested in her case, was her confessor and adviser after her arrest as well as before, and did everything: in his power, both by appeals to President Johnson and by bitter denunciations of the unjust measures adopted by the Government in its prosecution, to save her from the gallows. Although the occurrences which Father "Walter describes in his paper occurred so long ago, that he still feels freshly and keenly the injustice which led to Mrs. Surratt's execution. In speaking of the matter to a Sun representative ne said: If President Johnson had been a man of courage the execution would not have taken place, lie simply acted in accordance with public clamor, and signed the death warrant without even reading the testimony on which the woman had been convicted. T went to him and told him that I had read every line of the testimony, and that there was not enough evidence to hang a cat cn; that I did not ask a pardon l'or Mrs. 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. TT .. V?A <?A "ho n?Anl/1 V\A O/V. 11C 11 HC UiU OV xic ?r \juai*. iu\j uvcused 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 io. order to obtain a conviction. "Mr. Bradley, who defended John Surratt, had among his papers a telegraph book showing that John Surratt was in Elmira on the night of April 13, yet when a search was ma:je for the hotel register, that would have shown his presence there on that date, it had disappeared and not until a year ago was I able to ascertain that the Government had taken possession of it and had withheld it order to deprive the prisoners of the benefit of this bit of evi dence. "John Surratt was allowed to escape a trial because the Government knew it hai no case against him, and if he were innocent, his mother was also. It has been charged tuatl forbade Mrs. Surratt's speaking, but this is not true. She declared her innocence up to the time of her death, and beyond this declaration she had nothing to say."?Bal umure ouu. This May Interest You. Camden, S. C., May 27.?The following h;ts been received by a gentleman in Camden: "Gaiidixeu, Maine, April 21,1891. "To the commanding officer of the 12:h regiment S. C. v.. Confederate .states, in the war of the rebellion of 1801.?Sir: Will you be so kind as to inform me if the second lieutenant, Company I, of that regiment is still living. This officer was wounded in the right knee at the second battle of Bull Run on the 28th of August, 1862. If he is still living please so inform me. He was wounded in the knee. Ilis servant was a prisoner, by the name of Sheed or Sniusr. This officer may hear or something that will interest him. His residence was at the time of his entering ih? service Charleston, South Carolina. I'iease answer. Very respectfully, "Henry E. Merrill, "Late 1st lieutenant Hancock's 1st army corps, United States Y'eteran Volunteers." This was referred to Capt. J. C. Rollings, of Camden, who was at the time second lieutenant of Company 1,12th ivjrimerit, but Capt. Rollings was wounded in the face on that day, and not in the right knee, as stated by Mr. Merrill, so he is not the man sought for. It is thought that there must be some mistake in the initial of the company or the number of the regiment. Iilocked by Caterpillars. Minneapolis, May 23.?A special to the .Journal from Mankato, Minn., says that all trains on the Milwaukee Koaa this morning are delayed at a point y-v?,* /-v-p +hio r?i+T7 UTT 3CYCU IUX1CO UUt UJ. 11JIO V.1UJ u; lars, 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 minutes in going two miles. Caterpillars were ground into masses of grease over which the wheels slipped like so much butter. The caterpillars h^ve been a pest in the locality for two weeks. CANT HOLD TWO OFFICES. Tbe Governor Removes th? Supervisor of Registration lor 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 interw'awa/1 f? ATTftvn r\y in roforan^o tf\ fh^ ViCTYCU IUU UVVC1UV1 1U ivivivuvv/ w vuv matter of the Supervisor of Registration for Charleston County. They represented to him that the present Supervisor, Mr. Cantwell, held t.vo offices, viz.: that of Supervisor of Registration and Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners. The Governer concluded that Mr. Cantwell could not legally hold two offices, and deiermed to remove him. TT<? first hn7fpvf>r. submitted the ooint involved to the Assistant Attorney General, who gave the following written opinion: _ t4T?e inquiry referred 3>y your Excellency to tie Attorney General, of this dale, embraces, as r 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 ot the Board of County Commissioners?" Without having time to give my reasons in lull, I have the honor to state to your Excellency orieflv that in my opinion the Clerk of the Board of Couuty Commissioners is an 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 inwell: "Sir?It has been brought to my attention that you are the Clerk of the Board of County Commissioners, while of (Via oama tima f.hf nffipp. of Supervisor of Registration. In the opinion of the Attorney General one man cannot hold these tvro offices legally, and you are therefore removed from the office ol 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. VV. Williams, Chairman of the Board of Commissioners of Registration for Charleston County, advising him of the removal of Mr. Cantwell, and directing his Board to taKe cnarge or tne dooks, etc., of the office UDtil his successor has been appointed. The committee from Charleston have suggested the name of Major Hall T. McGee as Mr. Cantwell's successor, and it is probable that he will get the appointment if he will accept it. ?Register. T*nes Will Be 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 change of venue having been made some months ago, but Solicitor kelson has had some doubts of his ability to secure the State's witnesses from Edgefield, on account of tne fact that there was no provision made for the payment of their per diem and mileage. He accordingly wrote to the Governor 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 Sin: Your letter of yesterday, asking that arrangement be made for paying the expenses of witnesses in the Jones case, came to hand tms morning. jl am very anxious mat no delay shall occur in bringing that matter to an end, and I will pay out of the contingent fund a sufficient per diem to each of the State's witnesses to cover 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. iDKall's Views. Hutchinson, Kansas, May 27.?At a. meeting of Republican editors of the seventh congressional .District a jeuer from ex-Senator Ingalls was read and warmly applauded. Among other things the letter said: The Republican party is confronted with great problems which threaten its supremacy. If we are to succeed we must deal with the issues of to-day as we dealt with slavery, secessian and State soverigntv thirty "years ago. The Republicanism of the future must readjust itself to the changed conditions of American life or it will perish. 1 wish to save it from this fate by recalling the spirit of energy, aggressive and patriotic force nf the f.vinrters tn the rarrmaiffn of 1892. This will be waged upon economic and practical questions, and not upon memories or motions. Harrison will be renominated and Cleveland will be his antagonist. If we have courage and conscience it will be Austerlitz. If we dicker with popular errors, compromise with unprincipled leaders and sneer at honest differences of judgment and opinion, it will be Waterloo." That >?ew Party. Madison. Wis.. May 27.?Railroad Commissioner H. A. Taylor, in a letter to the State Journal, of this city, says of the people's party inaugurated at Cincinnati: "The convention at Cincinnati has no rightful claim to be called a national convention. In it we find men who have been prominent in neither political nor business circles. The men of brain, of integrity and statesmanship, the men who have organized and controlled our great financial enterprises, who have enacted our laws and demoted lives of fidelity to all legitimate public interests, haven't raised their voices in the clamor ot discontent which comes from the Cincinnati convention. I cannot believe that any considerable number of leading men of either of the great parties of the country will be found in the ranks of this new party. It will be largely made up of perhaps well meaninsr, but misinformed men." Death of a Colored Pr?ach?r. Charleston, S. C., May 26.?Rev. Jacob Mills, probably the oldest colored in flip rnnntrv. diftd vesterdav la Charleston. He was ninety-one years of ase. When quite young he was made free, and was an exhorter long before the war. Of late years was pastor of Centennary Church, this city. He had the respect of all white citizens who knew him, and his own people venerated him. The funeral to-day took the shape of a public demonstration. He is said to have married over 2,000 colored couples in Charleston. The Agony Over. Tallahassee, Fla., May 27.?Senator Call was re-eiected United Senator by the Legislature in joint session today. He received fifty-one votes, only fifty-four members being present. The anti-Call men absented themselves trom the joint session. / CLOSE ON ITS HEELS. J THE "CHARLESTON" SIXTY-FIVE MILES BEHIND THE "ITATA." Both Vessels Coins: at Fall Speed?They i "Were Met by the "Colima"?Eumon That the Insurgent Leaders Will G!t? Up the "Itata." :'Wm Sax 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 the morning of the 15th inst, going south at full steam, sixty-five miles I from Acapulco. At 5.20 p. m. the same day the Colima spoke it* Charleston | ! Capt Ewnyrol ^Charleston, asked the Itata. He answered in the afBrmative, 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 Acadulco and back again, about the time of the Charleston's arrival, was clearly made 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 haye agree! to deliver the Itata to the United States authorities on her arrival at Iquique and that there fore the Charleston will make no farther serious efforts at capture. When the Esmeralda hrst entered port at Acapulco she saluted the fort with twenty- one guns, which salute was not returned. On the following day her commander made an official visit to the commandant of the military forces. The Kope Broke. Broken Bow, Xeb., May 22.?The ; respite of thirty days granted by Gov- / ernor Boyd to AlbertE. Hanerstine.the murderer of Hiram Roten and William Ashley, expired today, and at 1:30 o'clock the condemed man was hanged. In spite of the storm, 4,000 people gathered to witness the execution. When the trap was sprung the body shot downward and dropped to the ground, the rope having broken. The half conscious 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 the 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 theiatal<iayx Roten and Ashley came to his place, \ without authority, to search for a clock 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 l?nf Eleven Miners Killed. ^?51 Birmingham, May 22.?At tne Pratt mines to-day an explosion of gas in th8 shaft where convicts are worked killed ten negro convicts and one free miner nampH Tnm Monro Tt is hftliftvpd that the men bad in some way knocked off a plank from the door which stood 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 unconscious. The bodies of the dead have all been recovered. The mines are not considered in danger from gas as a rule, and this is the first accident of the sort in a long time. Two life convicts worked faithfully with the rescuing party Tortnred by African Savazes. ST. T\r>TTTR Afsv 07 A Ipf-.ter h?m been received here from Cape Town, South Africa, siviog an account; of the capture and torture by Zulus of Jeff Allen, of Decatur, III., and W. A. Kennan, whose home is supposed to be either in St. Joseph, Mo., or Silver City, New Mexico. The letter is dated March 1st, and it Is signed "Frank Short." It was enclosed in an envelope from the United States consulate at Cape Town. The letter says: ' The British ship Neptune, Captain Saunders, master, oi London, was ref?pn1.1v drivpn ??<5hrvrp> ofT t.hp nf "Vft. tal, adjacent to the Free States, and all but five out of the crew of fitty-elght perished. The five men started on foot to Natal, 170 miles distant, and on the way they were captured by a band of Zulus, who stripped off their clothes and a proceeded to torture them by tying them to a tree and beating them with the Shambock, a jacged club made of rhinoceros hide. * Whiie the fiends were in the midst ol this barbarous pastime, they were surprised by a party of Boer hunters, armed with muskets, who charged upon them and put them to flight. Kennan and Adams were the only ones who survived the torture, and were safely - ;:-c! conveyed to 2satal and thence to Cape Town. Kennan is still insane from his suffering.'' Three Men Killed by Foal Air. Cextralia, Wash., May 27.?While grading a street this morning a laborer uncovered an old well to ascertain its aeptn. lie was overcome wnu iuui <411 and fell into the well. Three othsc laborers, who went to his assisance, were also precipitated into the well in the same manner. After the air became pure the men were brought to the surface. Onlv one. named Ford, could be resuscitated. The names of the dead are Burns. Perry and Dobson. . Congressman Hoak Dead. ' Knoxyille, Tenn., May 25.?Con- a gressman Houk died here early this morning. Judge Houk had been suffering from heart disease. Yesterday he went to a drug store to get a prescription put up. The druggist made it up and put it down in a glass near another containing a strong solution of arsenic, and he took the latter by mistake. Un der medical treatment ne seemed to De recovering last night, but became worse toward morning and died at 7 o'clock Ravages of a Rain Storm. Alma, Xeb. 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 West wall of Sims block rrotre Tvoc nnrier nrfiSSUre and is a total wreck. The sidewalks succombed to the pressure, and twenty-five feet of the dam at Lake Disapointment is swept away. The^ damage to crops will be enormou^X i