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F TABERNACLE PULPIT. I i f REV. DR. TALMAGE'S SERMON fiOR ME- I MORIAL DAY. "I Will Say to tho Noith, C*:ve L ?>, au<: I the South; Keep Not liack"?Isaiah xJiil, 6, the Text?A Notable Discourse. Bjrooklyn, May 31.?yesterday Lav- i: mg been observed as Decoration Day, j Dr. Taimage this morning preached an appropriate sermon. It was a novel and j unprecedented service, as' in different | parts of the audience were many of those j who had belonged to both Federal and i Confederate armies, the subject having ' been previously announced, namely, j "Two Garlands for Northern and South- j era Hraves." ?jver me yuiyimcicmu i wreaths of beautiful flowers, and they-j were linked together, stf that they were j an object lesson lor the subject present- j ed. Text: Isaiah xliii, G?"I will say to the north, Give up, and to the south. Keep not back.?' Just what ray text meant by the north and south I cannot say. but ?n the Vnited j <totos the twn words are so v>olnt blank ; in their meaning that no one can doubt. I Tbey mean more than east and west, for although between those last two there | have been rivalries and disturbing arnbi- j tions and infelicities and silver bills and World's fair controversies, there have been between them no batteries unlimbered, no intrenchments dug, no long lines of sepulchral mounds thrown up. It has never been Massachusetts Fourteenth regiment against Wisconsin zouaves; it has never been Virginia artillery against Mississippi rifles. East and west are distinct words, and sometimes may mean diversity of interest, but there is no blood on them, They can be pronounced without any inJ ? c?' ~ nvAo n "Rnt. lUII'dliULl Ui YVCliilJ?? iUJU ucaiu a^?v . ihe north and the south are words that have been surcharged with tragedies, j They- are words which suggest that for forty years the clouds had been gathering for a four years' tempest, which thirty years ago burst in a fury that shook this planet as it has never been shaken since it swung out at the lirst world building. I thank Gcd that the words have lost some of the intensity which "they possessed ihree decades ago; that a vast multitude of northern people mnvpr? south, and a vast multitude of southern people ;have moved north, | and there have been intermarriages by the ten thousand, and northern colonels have married the daughters of southern captains, and Texas rangers have um ed iOr life with the daughters of New York abolitionists, and their children are half northern and half southern and altogether patriotic. 13ut north and south are words that need to be brought into still closer harmonization. I thought that now, when - we are half way between presidential j elections, and sectional animosities are Uiroof /.KVv- orwl r?nw inst after a t ?AV IUV ? V .. , J presidential journey, *hen our chief magistrate, who was chiefly elected by "w the north, has been cordially received at the south; and now. just after two Memorial Pays, one ofjthem a month ago, strewiu^ flowers ou southern graves, ahd the other yesterday, strewing flowers on northers graves, it might be appropriate and useful for me to preach a sermon which would twist two garlands, one for the northern dead aud the other for the southern dead, aud have the two interlocked in a chain of flowers that shall bind forever the two sections into one: and who knows but that this may be the day when the prophecy of the text made in regard to the ancients may be fulfill in regard to this country, and the north uive up its prejudices and the south keep not back its confidence? i-I will say to the north. Give up, and lo the south, Keep not back." GARLANDS OX LIVING BROWS. But before I put these garlands on the graves I mean to put them this morning a little while on the brows of the living men and women of the north and south who lost husbands and sons and brothers during the civil strife. There is nothing more soothing to a: wound than a cool bandage, and these two garlands are coolfrom the night dew. What a morn ing that was ou the banks ot tne nuuson and the Savannah when the son was to start for the war! What fatherly and motherly counsel! What tears! What heartbreaks! What charges to write home often! What little keepsakes put * away in the knapsack, or the bundle that was to be exchanged for the knap- . sack! The crowd around the depot or the steamboat landing shouted, but father and mother and sisters cried. And how lonely the house seemed af? ler they went home, and what an awful-, ly vacant chair there was at the Christmas and Thanksgiving table! And at-, ter the battle, wbat waiting for news! What suspense till the lor^ lists of the killed and wounded were nade out! All along the Penobscot, an.I the.Connecticut, and the St. Lawrence, and the- Ohio and the Oregon, and the James, and the Albemarle, and the Alabama, and the Mississippi, and the Sacramento there were lamentation ana mourning uuu great woe, Rachel Wfcepiog for her children, and refusing to be comforted because they were not-. The world has forgotten it, but father and mother have not forgotten it. They may be now iu the eighties or the ninet es, but it is a Irosh wound, and will always remain a fresh wound. Coming down the stt-ep of years the bands that would have steadied those tottering steps have been twenty-eight years folded into the last sleep. The childishness, the widowhood, the or pbanage, who has measuring line ' long enough to tell the height ot it, the depth of it, the infinity of it? What a ? x A1*\o nrKof- O rTl Ylfl- ! IJiUlillUUU, W IJiio an Xl*i?'CU ouai c% a*.*.?~ laya of piled up agony of bereavement in the simple statement that three hundred thousand men of the north were slain and live hundred thousand men of the south were slain, aud hundreds of thousands long afterward, through'.he exhaustions there sutiered, izoing down to death! I XPROTECTED CHI l.DiiKX. I (ietain from the top ot the tomb these two garlands that I am twisting lor a little while that I may with them soothe the hrow ol the living. Over the fallen the people said: "Poor fellow! VV'hat a pity that he should have been struck nnt hnwfvrr. often U*J ? U . II V- ViiV4 UV^ * 4 V - - - enough say "Poor father!' Poor mother! Poor wife! Poor child!" and so I say it now. Have you realized that by that wholesale massacre hundreds of thousands of young people at the-Horth and ihe south have never had any chance? We who are fathers stau<l between cur children and the world. We tight their battles, we plan for their welfare, we give them the advice of superior years. Among the richest blessings of my life I thank God that my father lived to light my battles until I was old enough to fisht for myself. Iiave you realized the fact that our civil war pitchcd out upon the farmlieldsofthe north and the plantations of the south a multitude that no mm can number, children without tathrrly \ help and protection? Under all the ad i.: .1 ,.?.i ; YUlUii^es ? Ulvll IltlU Ui lawtli) i dance, what a struggle iiS'e has been to the most of us! But what of the children, two and live and ten years of aire, who stood at their mother's lap with yreat, round, wondering eyes, hearing her read of those who perished in the Battle of the Wilderness, their fathers cone down among the dead host? Come, young men and women, who by such disaster have had to make vour own way in life, and 1 will put the garland rm m:ir vnun? and uawrinkled bro*v. j I Yes; you have had your own Malvern I s Hi!!, and your own South Mountain, and j t j our own Gettysburg all along these j < twenty years. Come! And. if I ean- ! i not spare a whole garland for your brow, j; I will twist in your locks at least two i . llowers, one crimson and one while, the crimson 'or the struggle of your life. ( which has almost amounted to earn aire, ; find the white for the victory you have i gained. J FOR LIVING SOLDIERS. 1 Before I put the two irarlauds I am j twisting upon the northern and south- j < em tombs, I detain the garlands a little < while that I nauy put them upon the 1 brow of the living soldiers and sailors I of the north and south, who, though at < variance for a long while, are now at 1 peace and in hearty loyalty to the United States government, and ready, if need i be, to march shoulder to shoulder airainst uuv foreign foe. The twenty- ' six winters that have passed since the i war, I think, have sufficiently cooled the i hatreds that once burned northward and ; south *ard tc allow the rema-k that they : who fought in that conflict were honest <.r n The chanlains on both armies were honest in their prayers. : The faces tluu went into battle, whether they marched toward the Gulf of Mexico < or marched toward the north star, were honest faces. It is too much to risk either side to be- : lieve that those who came out from their homes, forsakrg father and mother and wife and child, m?my of them never to i return, were not in earnest when they put their life into awful'exigency. Witness the last scene at fa uily prayers up omnn< < flip arpon mountains or down by the fields of cotton and sugar cane. Men do not sacrifice their all for fun. Meu do not eat moldy bread or go without bread at all lor fun. Meu do not sleep unsheltered in equinoctial storms for fun. There were some, no doubt, on both sides who enlisted for soldiers' pay, or expecting opportunity for violence aud pillage, or burning with revenge and thirst f >r human blood, but such cases were so rare many of you who were in the war four years never confronted such an instance of depravity. -A - - * 1 ~ * ' ^ o1 * ?"o racrim L/i Ci JL cuuojf&vauiu 4v^* rnent, anil as. a representative of the United States Christian commission, I was for a while at the front, and in those hospitals at Hag. rstown and Williamsburg and up and down the Potomac, where all the churches and farmhouses were filled with wounded and dying Federals and Confederates, I forgot amid the horrors to ask on which side they fought, when with what little aid I could take them for their suffering bodies, and the mightier aid 1 could pray for their souls, 1 passed the days and months amid scencs that in my memory seem like a ghastly dream rather than a possitne reaiuy. When a Xevv Orleans boy, unable io answer my question as to where he was hurt, took out from the folds of the only garment that had not been torn oti' him in the battle a New Testament, marked with his own life blood, and 1 saw the leat turned down at the passage, "My peace I give unto you, not as the world giveth give I unto you," it read just as though it had been a northern Xew Testament. And when I sat down and took from a South Carolinian dying in a barn at Boonesville his last message to his wife aud mother ana cuuci, 11 souuu ed just like a message that a northern man dying far from home would send to his wife and mother and child. And when I picked up from the batile Held of Antietam the fragment of a letter which I have somewhere yet, for the name and the address were torn oil'. I saw a was the words of a wife 10 her husband telling him how 1he little child ' prayed for their father every night that hn mi.rht not ?ret hurt in the battle and -r>? ^ might come home sound and come home well, but that it" anything happened to i them they might all meet again iu the ; world whelre there are no partings, it lead just as a northern wife would write : to :i husband away Irom home and in i peril conveyiug the messages ot little : children. Oh, yes; they were honest on coth sides. And those who lived to ] get home and are living yet were just as honest, and ought they not for the suf- i feriug thev endured have a coronal of ; some kind'/ COURAGE ON BOTH SIDES. Yea, there was courage on both sides. They who were at the front kuow that. ; When the war opened the south called the northern men l,mudsills" and the ' north called the southern men " braggarts" and ;'ponipous nothings," but alter a lew battles noitung mure said about northern "mudsills'' and ; southern "braggarts." It was an army 1 ol' lions against an army of lions. It was 1 a flock of eagles mid-skv with iron beak against another tWk of eagles iron beak- : ed. It was thunderbolt against thunderbolt. It was archangel o' wrath 1 asainst archangel of wrath. If.v? -TIau- 1 cock against Longstreet. It was Kil- J Patrick against Wade Hampton. It was : Slocum against Hill. It was 0. 0. ! IT. Oi'nmot Xfrw-wl It WAS shftr. JiA V >? mm a^aaiou .. man against Stone wall Jackson. It was Graut a^aiust Lee, and the men who were under them weie just as gallant. 1 and some of them are hei e. and I detain the two garlands that I have twisted for the departed, and in recognition oi honesty and prowess put the coronals upon ( these living Federals and Confederates. North and south, we w;ll make a sreat : fuss about them when they are dead. There will not be room un their tomb- stones to tell how much we appreciate < them. We shall call out the military and explode three volleys over their ; "raves, ni iking all the cemetery riug under our command of '"Fire!" We will have lou<i obituaries in newspapers telling :n what battles they fought, what sacrifices they endured, what ilags they captured, in what prisons they suffered, but all that will com** too late. One word in the living e;u ut' praise for their honesty and courage will be worth to them more than a military funeral two miles long, ora pile of flowers half a mile high, ami ten bunds of music playing over the grave ''Star Spangled Danuer" or "'Way Down South in Dixie." Xow, while they are in their declining years, and their right knee refuses to work because of the rheumatism they ; got sleeping on the wet ground on the ] banks of the Chickamauga, or their ui * {'.t ?1 At.,vU Vlrt __ gestive organs arc un uu luiiui^u ut- j cause of the six mouths ot prison life in ( which their rations were big slicis of i nothing, and their ears have never been < alert since the cannonade m which they l heard so much they have been able to 1 hear but little since?in these cases I i call upon tne people of north and 1 south to substitute a little ante- ! mortem praise for the good deal of post-mortem eulogium. These Uvo garlands that L twisted :or north- | em and southern graves shall not he put < unon tlie L'rass of the tomb until the}* have tirst encircled the foreheads of ihe i living. I will let the troat of the wreath 5 come down over the scar of a scalp 1 wound made by the sword of a cavalry- 1 man at Atlanta, and droop a little over j the c)c that lost l'.s luster in the mine explosion at Petersburg. lluzza for the ' living! (.'alia lilies and camellias and < amaranths and palm branches for the ? living. THE I'KAb KNOW. Hut we must not detain the two garlauds any longer from the pillows of those who lor a quarter of a century : have been prostrate iu dreamless slum- . ber, never oppressed by summer sheat i or chilled by winter's cold. Both gar- j ls>n<!snr:> fra?rant. Both have in them 1 the sunshine and the shower of this ; springtime. The colors of both were ; A f _ nixed by him who mixed the blue of the ! iky, and the gold c f the sunset, and j .he green of the grass, and the whiteness ; >1 the snow crystal. And I do not care ] .vhich you put over the northern grave ; aid which over the southern grave. ; Does any one say, "What is Lhe use? | None of them will know U. Your De- j :oration Days botb sides Mason and j D.xon's line are a great waste of ilowirs." Ah! 1 see you have carried too :ar mv idea that praise for the living ;s better than praise for the departed. Who says that the dead do not know )f the flowers? I think they do. The lead are not dead. The body sleeps but Lhe soul lives and 13 unhindered. No two cities on earth are in such rapid aud :onstaut communication as earth and lieaven, aud the two great Decoration Days of north aud south are better known in realms celestial than terrestrial. With what interest we visit the place of jur birth and of our boyhood or "irlhood Jays! And have the departed no interrest in this world where they were born and ransomed, and where they suffered and triumphed:'' My EMe does not positively say so, nor does my catechism teach it, but my common sense declares it. The departed do know, and the bannered procession that marchcd the earth vesterdav to northern graves, and the bannered procession that marched a month ago to southern graves. were accompanied by two grander though invisible processions that walked the airprocessions of the ascended, processions of the martyred, procession? ot the sainted?and they heard the anthems of the churciies, and the salvo ot the batteries, and they stooped down to breathe the incense of the flowers. These august throngs gathered this morning in these pews and aisles and corridors and galleries are insignificant compared wTih the mightier thronjs of heaven who mingle in this service wnich we render to God and our country while we twist the two garlands. Hail spirits multitudinous! Ilail spirits blest! Hail martynd ones comes down from the King's palaces! How glad are we that you have come back again! Take this kiss of welcome and these garlands of reminiscence, ye who languished in hospitals or went down under the thunders and the lightnings of Fredericksburg and Cold Harbor and Murfreesboro and Corvinth and Yorktowu and above the clouds on Lookout Mountain. A UNIQUE SERVICE. Amoug the thousands of gatherings at the north and at the south for Decoration Days I am conscious that this service is unique^ and that it is the only one in which there has been twisted two garlands, one for the sjave of the northern dead and t:.e other for the crave of the southern dead. 0 Lord God of the American Union, is It time that we bury forever our old grudges? My! My! Can - - ?r we not De at peace cm eartu wucu una moment in heaven dwell, in perfect love, Ulysses S. Grant and Robert E. Lee, William T. Sherman and Stonewall Jackson, and tens of thousands of northern and southern men who, though they once looked askance at each other from the opposite banks of the I'otomac and the Chickahominy and the James and the Tennessee, now are on the same side ot the river, keeping jubilee-with some of those old angels who near nineteen centuries ago came down one Christmas night to chant over P>ethlehem, "Glory to God in the highest; on earih peace, good will to men!" I have been waiting for some years for some one else to twist the two gar lands that I today twist, but, no oue doing it, in the love of God and my country I put now my hand to the work, and next sprim.: about this time, if I am living and well, I will twist two more garlands for northern and southern graves, and fevery springtime until some man or woman whom I may have cheered a little in the struggle of this life shall come out and put a pansy or two on my own grave. But if the time should ever come when this land shall be given over to sectional rancor and demagOi:ism, and north and south, or *-ast and west shall forget what the good God built this n iliou for, and it shall halt on its hi^h career of righteousness and liberty and r>r>/l lio/.Amo ltlfi K'Pnf. nf ,f.V Tfl D11 V I iiuvt y^uuiv/ tiiv u3w?.? w- u and wrong and oppression, then let some youn<j man whom I have baptized in infancy at those altars ij;o out to Green-; wood and scoop up my dust and scatter it to the four winds of heaven, for I do oot want to sleep, and I will not sleep in a land accursed with sectionalism or oppression. And now I hand over the two garlands, both of which are wet with mauy tears?tears of widowhood and orphanage and childlessness, tears of suffering and tears of gratitude; and as the ceremony must be performed in symbol, there uot being enough liowers to cover all the graves, take the one garland to the tomb of some northern soldier who may yesterday have been omitted in the distribution of the sacrament of flowers, and the other garland to the tomb of some southern soldier who may a month a<:o have been omitted in the distribution of ihe sacrament of the flowers, and l 1- - XL /JAOTn r\T?C*V I put UUlll LllC wtcctulo ^cuiujr uvhu the hearts that have ceased to beat. God bless the two garlands! God save the Uuiled States of'America! The Exodus From Kussla. Beklix, May 28.?The Hebrew relief committee here has secured a long railway tunnel at Charlottesburg in which to shelter t he llussian Jews en route to Hamburg for embarkment. Boxes of clothing and necessaries, enormous boilers of tea and coffee and supplies of bread and brandy are in readiness to relieve tne misery of the crowds of fugitives that daily pjur out of the railway trains. Many heartrending scenes are descrbed and tales told of the extreme suffering. Many iugitives had to leave on a dav's notice and were compelled to abandon everything" but what they stood in. while others, often hardly able to walk, are seen staggering under sacks containing all their present worldly possessions lu many cases the fugitives are of the poorest classes, with numerous scantily clad children crying tor bread. All are shy and suspicious, remembering their ill treatment, at the llussian railway stations, and they fear fresh torment if they enter the waiting rooms. A doctor attends the children who are ill from the effects of the jourIf v. The fugitives describe how the streets in which they lived would be suddenly cordoned with police searching for Jews ivho would fiy for safety; how the doors 3f synagogues would be wrenched, anu :roo"ps of armed men would tie t^";ir lamis and feet and plunder everything n the place, and how on arriving at the frontier the police would extort fresh jribes to allow them to cross. A Lost Child Found. Thompsonville, Conn., May 28? A and. of ervnsies. which bad been en lamped here several weeks, le'ff last Wednesday morning. Freddy Goodnan. live years old, disappeared at the same time" A party of lifty men scoured ihe country, but obtained no trace of :he little fellow, and his parents were grazed with grief. It was supposed :hat the gypsies had kidn ipped him. [Ie was found yesterday in a boat house 3ii the 'ianks of the river at Long Itiv?r, Mass. The child was too \ve;ik to speak and his feet were badly swollen Fatal KhII from a Bridge. Anderson, .Time 3.?John "Scotch" McDonald, the stone mason from near [lonea Path, was found dead this siorning in the railroad cut which crosses McDulKe. He had fallen from it? i?: ^ o r\ f uhnnt .IlC UliUgO (1UU*C, O uioi/uavt v/* itwvut I wenty t'eet, and in the descent struck !iis head against a crosstie. He was ibout 60 years old and leaves k wife md several children, all grown. HAD ENOUGH OF INDIANS. I Ar: Liiilern MU-OoiiHij- Di.-jjusrpil With ' the !?? <! Men. Ciiicaou, .Tune A. -One year ago Dr. j Arthur Greaves, of Boston, went West j for the purpose of tiling the Indians i about the good things at the end of the | straight and narrow path. Tor the last ! ten years he had been an active member I of Eastern societies formed in aid of the ! red men. but, he wished to visit the sav-j age in person, and administer spiritual ! and worldly hlessiugs to them. He visited a number of the agencies, and conversed with hundreds of Indians. I Faithfully lie labored tor nearly a year, j Then he quit. I)r. (1 reaves was at the I Richelieu yesterday j >urne>iug toward j Boston, where there are 110 Indians ex- j cept iu tho museums. He is disgusted j wirli the aborigines. "1 have worked like an apostle of the olden times with the Indians," he said last evening, "and have retired iro:u i missionary work for good. The West- j em Indians know mort; thin most of the i people of Boston, and they are as crafty as a veteran detective. For years I pitied them, for I thought they had been treated shamefully and were innocent and ignorant. They know considerable. I would 'ell them .Bible stories at the ltosebud Agency, and they would listen most attentively. When i had finished they would get together and guy me unmercifully. When 1 was with the Sioux Chief, lied rinnd. he said that I could make a hun dTed Indians happy by getting our society to send out fifty plo .vs and other farming instruments. 1 got the people at home interested in the matter, and they slipped me two carloads of he ivy tools. These were distributed to the Indians, who appeared overjoyed with the prospect of having the means of tilling the soil. Shortly alter this I went farther West for a month. When I returned I could not find any of theimplemen:s sent out from Boston. After a diligent search it was discovered that the heathens had pitched them all in the White lliver and made a brigde of them. The costly tools seat out for farming purposes were used as you c'nncit! unrl a bridge across a lit tie river was all the good that was accomplished. This is one instance, and there are many more similar case?. At this time 1 began to lose l'aith in the sincerity displayed by Ihe iDdians, and subsequent events proved to me that the Indian could only be an Indian. All the teaching in th^ world could make no difference. "The best way to solve the Indian problem is not to bother with it at all. Leave the matter to the Western people, and they will treat the rrd mun fairly and keep him in his place at the same " *? - u r.MM'cf a xv h r\ time. ?uv meddle with affairs of which they have no accurate knowledge, do more"harm than good." , The Weather and the Crops. The weekly weather and crop bulletin of the South Carolina Weather Service, in co operation with the United States Signal Service, for the week ending Saturday, is as follows, showing a uniform improvement in the crops all over the State: The reports received from weather crop correspondents for the past week show that the rainfall ha^ been above the normal and well distributed throughout the State, and was greatly needed and very oenelicial to all crops. Th*? tpmnpratLire has been below the average, the nights have been very cool ror the season and therefore injurious somewhat to cotton. There has been a very small amount of sunshine and for the want of it cotton to some extent has been injured. About two-thirds of the crop was planteu early iu the season. and was greatly retarded by the long dry weather and cool nights. The remainder of the crop was planted later, and since the recent rain show good stands. The partial unpropitious seasons lor the last week show that there lias been some improvements in the cotton crop nevertheless. C >m is in splendid condition and growing rapidly, and prospects now are the crop will be a full average one. The fall oat crop has been considerably improved by the raios and will be a fair average. The spring oats are. in some localities, inferior, while in others it is in Line oonuiuuu. Area or' the wheat crop, although smaller than usual, is about an average. The truck farms are in good condition and are shipping large quantities of vegetables. A large area has i-.een phinted in melons, but the crop is late and some complaint is being maiie that the crop is being injured by bugs. Xo information has been received as to the condition of the rice crop. Upon the whole ths prospects for fair crops are greatly improved compared to the several past weeks. Hold Crim? in Anderson. Ajceersox. S. C., May 2S.?S. L. Kskevv s store at Denver was the scene 011 last Friday night of as bold a robbery * -4- - M as was ever Known in uiese purus. .ui. Eskew left his young son, Eugene, a lad about 12 years old, in charge. About 9 o'clock lie closed the store and was about going to the house when he was requested by a young man who appeared about that time, to open the store and let him have a pair of shots. The store was opened, but instead of buying the shoes the robber covered the boy with a pistol and ordered him to hand over the money in the drawer and also to open the safe. lie had complied with the first part of the order and gave about fifteen dollars, but not knowing the safe combination could not cpen it.. The robber then left. Mr. Eskew at once went to work, but very quietly, to discover the criminal, and day before I yesterday two young white men, livins a few miles above here, were arrested | charged with the crime. ineir names are '.John and Marcus Morehead alias I I'ittman. D. II. Ilussell,- trial justice, held a prelitnin try yesterday, and John | Morehead alias rittman was sent to the court of sessions charged with highway j robbery, carrying' concealed deadly weapons and assault and battery of high and aggravated nature. Marcus, the other party, was sent up for carrying a concealed deadly weapon. The d'eputy sheriff who made the arrest at the same time, captured a large Smith & Wesson revolver and two pair of heavy metal knucks. These parties have only been in this country a few weeks are said to be wanted in Georgia for shooting a man. They are only about IS and 20 ? -? - .i I years vm ira[iwuto;.-? Xews The Higher Law. Kansas City, June 2.?A number of business men, citizens of Kansas City, met yesterday alteruoon as a vigilance committee and decided tliat Schweinfur'Ji, who is visiting and holding meeting.. here, was a blasphemous Impostor. It was also decided, that he should he made to ieuve the city or suffer the eonsequences. A committee of twelve on the execution ot :1k: latter decision was appointed. This committee met ami organized and sent notice to Soil'.vein-1 - - i - ' I i'urth by a messenger ai miuuigiu, giving hira twrniv-four hours to leave the city or abide the con?e<iucnccs. Schwcin I'urth called upon the mayot for protection. and two policemen were detailed to guard Schweiufurth. Death and Destruction. Cincinnati, J une 3.?A cyclone carried death and destruction in Kentucky this afternoon. At Covington it tore down buildings, killing Joseph Wit's, instantly. The property loss in this vicinity will exceed 840,000. Crops are WpW) i-vfrvwhere. Wires are down south and north, and the ugliest of rumors prevail concerning loss of life and property. Three members of the new Congress havedied?Spinola, ofXew York; Ford, of Michigan,-and ilouk, of Tennessee. j WHISKEY AT THE BOTTOM OF IT. | i Th* Brutal Mtirrtr-r of II. T. W^st l>y W. i ' S.Tolijt-rr. KtusirA A", ,s. C'.. June i.~ K. J. Da-; vis ami \V. M. We si compose the lirm ;' of Davis & West, iu the turpentine fjus- ;1 mess. Davis was here yesterday, on j liis return from Camden court, aud West and his cousin. II. T. West, employed 1 by the firm, cam ; in to meet him. They 1 had a draft cashed. bought supplies ami j: some iutoxicant", and left i'or Timrod, 1 their home, in a wagon. W.S. Tolbert manager, ot Mc2\* or ton's ' still, near Roland, soon followed, with 1 a negro, in another wagon. They overtook Davis and West near Baker's Mills, anil louud them quarrelling. Tolbert : said: '"Ilush up in that wagon, or 1 will jump in there and whip the last oi c of you.'' II. T. West said he was jusl ' trwnif to quiet them, and lhai, there was no need of a row. Tolbert afterwards toid Davis to no : ahead a id whip W. M. West, or l.e would conic in there anc! do it lor mm. j Put II. T. West iuterposed, and Tol- j bert commenced striking him with his t list, and liually took out his pistol and beat West iu the lace and on the nead with the butt of the pistol, cutting eight I cashes, and, just before West fell, shot him in the head, below and hi:hind tiie 1 >be of the left cur. | All seemed to be under the influence I ot intoxicants, and the above storv is as ! accurate evidence as could be ascertained at the inquest. if. T. West's bodv was brought to town and the inquest postponeu uu this morning. Dr. Truesdtl examined him and said he was shot iu the posterior part of the head, and that the ball ranged to the let't toward the forehead. Verdict: "II. T. West came to his death by a gunshot wound at .the hands of W. 5. Tolbert." II. T. West leaves a wife and three children, living near lioland. S. C. Tolbert's wife and child live near Monroe. X. C. lie had just sent them money yesterday to come to him. Tolbert lias lied and is still at large. The bheriir wires that Tolbert is in Concord, _\. L. no lias ueen oruereu iu arrest and hold him.?The Stale. A Mountain of i'lenJi. Philadelphia, .June 4.?The fuueral of Mrs Ellen Cleary to-day attravted a great crowd at the rcsideuce of the deceased, northwest corner of Tenth and Berks streets, and at St. Malaehey's lloman Catholic Church. Eleventh street, above Master, as well as along the streets over which the procession passed between the house audchurch. The main cause of such interest was the immense size of the deceased, whose body weighed (i70 pom ds, while the codin in which the body reposed weighed 310 pounds additional. Twelve stalwart men acted as pall-bearers, aud a huge plank tvvo feet wide was laid from the entrance of the second-story front room to the front stoop, along which the huge casket was slid to the sidewalk. The co Hi a had to stand on end twice before it could be got out of the room. The men had as much as they could do to lift it into the hearse, which was a large one procured in Xew York. and was drawn by four horses. The same hearse had been used on the occasion of the burial of Daniel Cleary, the late husbaud ot the dead woman, who also was ot an immense size, although not quite so large as his wife. <>ood J'ftws for Teacher*. The Columbia Register of last Thursday savs: "Prof. W. .J. Thackston of the department of education returned to the city ye sterday from his recent visit to Atlanta, ;vhere he went to confer with the railroad authorities in regard to cheap rates to the teachers' convention at Chattanooga. He says that he was treated with great kindness and consideration by the railway ollicials at Atlanta, who seemed desirous of doing all in their power for the teachers, and have fixed a round trip rate which will make the fare from Columbia to Atlanta about 813. The route from Atlanta will be via the Western and Atlantic Railroad, and will give an opportunity to witness some magnilicent scenery. Professor Thackston expects to make up a party from Columbia and they will be l'uin ishetf aspcciai car, anu win uuikb mc | trip without change of cars. Arraogements for cheap hotel rates will also he made at Chattanooga, and the trip will undoubtedly be a very pleasant and profitable one for those who make it." A IJank "With No Capital. St. Louis. .June 4.?A dispatch from Guthrie, Oklahoma, says Receiver E. D. Mix of the Commercial Bank, which failed some months ago, has handed in his report to the court. It shows that the bank from its inception was run with a view to take in all it could in deposits 1 r_:i (HI.. ! auu IIIL'ii lail. j ui; uwuutii uauivowun,ii in without a dollar. It opened on the 22d of April, 1889; on the 23d 810,000 in silver were received from the Xewton National Bank of Xewton, Kansas, by express, and the same day 612,000 was sent back to the Xewton National. Deposits for the first three months average $18,000 a day. There is no record that any of the organizers of the institution or anybody else ever put in a dollar except of depositor's money. President [M. Itogsdale credited himself with j having deposited 855.000, while another i party named T. M. liogsdale had a credi it of $48,000. Tlie books are in bad conI ditiou. l'revrntfd a Lynching. i k vavvtt t f. Tenn. Mav 28.?The ne-1 gro Patterson who shot two negroes, held up two white men and then shot Fred Carpenter on Sunday, was this morning lodged in Knoxville jail. It was on the cards last night to lvnc.-h j him, but Major I). A. Carpenter, father j of the wounded man, Iieiird ol' it and [ immediately set to work to prevent it. The names "of the lynching party were known to him and by personal appeal i and by a letter to the chief or police, in which he asked that every precaution be token to defeat the attempt and urged the police to do their duty if attempts should be made, he broke the backbone of the plan. Major Carpenter is on record is this particular, as lie has broken up several mobs since, the war * L'niiul JiiKMisoHAM, June 2? Xews . comes from Hound Mountain, Cherokee County, of the killing of JJrook White by* his father-in-law, named Edge. Tnree \eari ago White married Edge's daughter, running away with her as her parents objected. Since then bad feeling h;is existed. Saturday night While, while drunk, went to "Edge's house and tried to break in, saying he was going to whip Edge. The hitter ' came' out with his shotgun and shut > White, who died on Sunday. j Crashed to Death. ' r - . t : LlIAKLKSTOX, >. L.. .lime -i.?v^e-iur i Manigault was crushed to death and Charles Thomas badly injured by a falling wall while working at a new building on Main street this afternoon. Both were colored. Manigault's neck and both legs an-' arras were broken. Thomas sustained a. fracture of the legs. The wall was of brick, about iiiieen feet high and was undermined by vermin.?Register. Immigrants Se:it Hack. Xe\v Yokk. June 4.?Twenty-three immigrants were to-day sent back to Europe by the Federal authorities at the barge office. They were all penniless and liable to become public charges. One of the men returned made affidavit tn enme to IIlZLb liu uau uwv.v^w,. - - America by government agents in Ireland. - - - - - - JRAILWAYS KICKING. Their Taxatiou la South Carolinil Too J High. Columbia. S. C\, .luac 3.?Today lias been a lield day for the railroad men of the state, and one could scarcely step ibout the corridors of the state house without flanker of treading on the toes of a railroad president, superintendent, r>r railroad attorney, at least. The reason of the gathering was that today was fixed lor a hearing before the State Board ot Railroad Equalizing on the subject of the remarkable increase of the assessment of the railroads of the state for taxation by the board at its last meeting, [lie said iucrease being something over $12,000,000. Among the railroad maguates preseut were: Receiver Chamberlain, oi the South Carolina railway; Manager W. II. Rrawley for the Charleston and Savannah and South Carolina railways; Senator Snnthe and General Manager Ward^ for the Three C's; Col. J. II. Averui. nenenil mauaguro: mcLiiancs- j ion, Sumter and Northern: Judge Coth- j ran and Mr. D. 11. Duncan tor the Rich- j rnond and Danville railroad, and Manager Xettles lor the Cheraw and Darl* I inizton railroad. Judge Cothian lead otl'for the llich- j moKd and Danville, and was followed by Keceivcr Chamberlain and Senator Smythe for the South Carolina radroad. The point was made that the board had the power only to equalize railroad assessments for taxation, and not to increase:. It was argued that the roads could not possibly stand higher taxation. Maj. Brawley, who spoke next, claimed any attempt of the board to increase the taxatiou would be unconstitutional, and discussed, with some interruptions irom the members of the board, the point that the comptroller general was the 'v nnn wliri i-nnlrJ nassnn the assess merit made by a couut\ board. It was developed as on the line held by the state officials that they believed the railroads should be assessed exactly as private property is assessed. The attorneys lor the roads contended railroad property was assessed at a greater v due than was rinht or just. Messrs. C. S. .Nettles, of Darlington, spoke for theCheraw and Darlington, J. m 1> JL . J Jiu ieii, Vi V^UIUIUUIQ, 1U1 vvuov Line roads. The State Doard will probably reserve its decision and announce it later, but the present prospect seems to be that th.e result will be an adhesion in the main to increased assessment made with possibly some redactions as to certain roads. ?Augusta Chronicle. 'A Memory of the Pa#t." New York, May 28.?Mrs. Jefferson Davis, Miss "Winnie Davis and Mrs. Stonewall Jackson received more than 4U0 of the representatives of Southern society in Xevv York and lJrooklyn yesterday eveniog. at the residence of Mrs. Dr. Lewis Mason, of Xo. 171 Joralemon street, Brooklyn. Mrs. Mason is the great-grand-daughter of .John Witherspoon, a signer of the Declaration of Independence, and her nieces, the Misses Witherspoon, of Mayesville, '5. C., assisted at the reception. . One of the features of the reception was the presence of a negro quartette, which sang Southern melodies and played Southern airs during the evening. The affair was spoken of as a "memory of the past," and was purely Southern in tone and representation. Anions those present were the Iiev. Arthur Kinsaling, the llev. Wesley R. Davis, D. II. McGuire, Mr. and Mrs. Dr. James, Mr. and Mrs. U. S. Packer, Lieut Brumley, U. S. X., Dr. Marion Sims, Dr. lland, Dr. Kemp, Lieut. Albert Gihon, U. S. X., and a number of persons prominent in Southern social I life. Carde were received Irom wellknown Southerness from all parts of the South, and altogether the reception was a brilliant affair. Pianos ?ud Organs. N. W. Trump, 134 Main Street Columbia, S. 0., sells Pianos and Organs, direct from factory. No agents' commissions. The celebrated Chickering I'i'jnn \f-if 'n nchpL- Piano pplphrahpd for its clearness of tone, lightness of touch and lasting qualities. Mason & Ilamlin Upright Piano. Sterling Upright Piauos, from $225 up. Mason & Ilainlin Organs surpassed by noue. Sterling Organ?, $50 up. Every Instrument guaranteed for six years. Fifteen days' trial, expenses bot h ways, if not satisfactory. Sold on Installments. SeektDs: their Fortunes. X js\v 1'oeic, June 3?This was an Italian day at the barge office. 4,136 of this nationality having passed through 1fKn rmr\ v^ocolo me DUllUIIig. JUC01U.CO liUb HIU itouvu that arrived yesterday with 2,471 immigrants too late to be taken off, the Alsatia arrived to day with 1,065 Italians from Xaples, and two Rotterdam ships Drought in (300 more. The itnportane. of purifying the blood c.iiinot be over-estimated, for without pure blood you cannot enjoy good healh. P. P. "P. (Prickly Ash, Poke Pioot and Pottassium) is a miraculous blood purifier, performing more cures in six months than all thesarsaparillas and so-called blood purifiers put together. Rheumatism.?James Fax ton, of Savannah, Ga., says he had Rheumatism so bad that he could not move from *1,^. 1...1 .v ? J if K Anf KaI orv/l fhot" lilt; ueu Ui UIt'?3 YtlLUUUli uciy, auu buciu he tried many remedies, but received no relief until'he began the use of P. P. P. (Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium), and two bottles restored him to health. Rheumatism is cured by P. P. P. Pains and aches in the back, shoulders, knees, ankles, hips, and wrists are all attacked and conquered by P. P. P. This great medicine, by its bloodcleansing properties, builds up and strengthens the whole body. Some of the Republican papeis are much disturbed bv the recent organiza* tiou of the Third Party, and frankiy admit that the movement will hurt the Republicans a great deal more than it wili the Democrats. We hope theiifears will1 'realized. A complete Dtdroom Suit for SIC50 freight paid t> your depot. Send for Catalogue. Address L. F. Padgett, Augusta, (la. YOUNG WIVES! "Who are for the first time to u:. iergo woman's severest trial we oftei MOTHER'S FRIEND a remedy which if used as directed for i. few weeks before confinement, robs it of its Pain, Horror and Risk to Life )f both mother and child, as thousands who have used it testify. A Blessing to Expoctant Mothers. Mother's Fkiexd is worth its weight in rrold. Mv wili* >!i(fcrod more in ten minutes with eithc- of Lor first two children than she did aitojr^ther with her last, hav- * ins: previously used four bottles of Mother's Friend. It is a blo-ninsr to mothers. Carmi. 111.. Jan.. 1soo. G. F. Lockwood. Sent by express, charges prepaid, on receipt of price, $1.50 per Dottle. So. d by all dru^srists. Book to Mothers mailed free. Br.vofleld Regulator Co., Atlanta, Ga. . *7^--;?rif"?v,. FINE SHOW CASES Kio^Ask for catalogue. TERRY M'F'G CO. nashville. T<=ks \ NOTICEIj ... Before assuring your - life, or investing your money, examine the TwentyTear Tontine Policies of THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE United States. I'olicies maturing in 1891 realize cash returns to the owners, of amounts varying from 120 to 176 per cent, of the money paid in, besides the advantages of the Assurance during the whole period of twenty years. The following Is one of the manv actual cases maturing this year: Endowment Policy No. 64,925. Issued in 1871, at age 27. Amount, $5,000. Premium, ?239.90. Total Premiums Paid, 54,798. results at end of Tontine Period in 1891: CASH SURRENDER VALUE, $8,449.45, (Equal to ?176-10 for each ?100 paid in premiums, which is equivalent to a return of all premiums paid, with interest at lyi per cent per annum.) Or, in lieuo. cash, A PAID-UP LIFE POLICY FOR ?19,470. (Equal to ?405.80 for each ?100 paid in premiums.) OR, A LIFE ANNUITY of $633.55 One fact is worth a thousand theories There is no Assurance extant in any company which compares with this. The Equitable is the strongest company in the world and transacts the largest business. For further information address or apply to the nearest agent of the Society, or write direct to W. J. RODDEY, GENERALASEXT, April 8-3m ROCK HILL, S. C. DOYOUWISHTO BE BOSS OF YOl'R OW\ UL\ HOUSE. THEN BUZ THE THOMAS STEAM | PRESS AND SEED COTTON ELEVATOR. It is the most perfect system in use, un- j loading cotton from wagons, cleaning and I delivering it Into gins or stalls. Cotton does not pass through fan and press requires no pulley nor belts. It saves time and mon^y. TALBOTT & SONS' ENGINES ANI) BOILERS, STATION ART AND PORTABLE OLD doMINION CORN MILLS 9125 to 300 TALBOTTS SAW MILLS, IMPROVED FRICTION AND ROPE FEED ?200 TO 5600 LUMMUS AND VAN WINKLE COTTON GINS AND COTTON PRESSES. We offer Saw Mill Men and Ginners the most complete outflts that can be bought and at bottom prices. V. C. EADHAM, GENERAL AGENT, Columbia, S. C. THE TALBOTT ENGINE IS THE BEST Feb 19-ly. THE LARGEST STOCK, MOST SKILLED WORKMEN, LOWEST PRICES, Soitl Carolina Marl Mi F. E. HYATT PROPRIETOR. Is the best place in South Carolina 01 Southern States to secure satisfaction in American and Italian Marble Work. All IklUUO VI Cemetery Work a speciality. TABLETS, HEADSTONES, MONUMENTS, Ac. Send for prices and full information. F. H. HYATT April 8 ly COLUMBIA, S. C. victory for the sailor MACHINERY. Exhibited side by side vith its leading competitors at the State Fair, 1890. The Superintendent and Committee of the Mechanical Department, in inspecting those features not mciuaea in ine rremium List, deem worthy of special mention the Sailor Seed Cotton Elevator, Distributor and Cleaner exhibited by W. H. Gibbes, Jr.,&Co. The system operates most efficiently, and much improves the sample, facilitates the ginning of wet cotton, and saves largely in labor and cost of handling. The Committee recommend to the farmers of the State an investigatioa into the merits of these devices. [Signed.] D. P. DUNCAN, for Committee. W.'H. GIBBES, Jb.. & CO.. Columbia, S. C. State Agents and Dealers in first class Machinery, Buggies, Wagons, &c. Special.?-To ^est the advertising value of The State, we will sell to any farmer referring to that paper one of the best Dow ijaw Cotton Planters made for 4.25, cash. The usual price is ?5.00. W. H. GIBBES. JB., & CO. ; ? ?-?; ?i ' , ? rmwwsn ? A Great Oe?ek that may not Again i g -be Repeated, so do not delay, | | "Strike While the Iron is Hot." a J Write for Catalogue now, and say wha'ij spaper you saw Luis advertisement in. 33 | Remember xuat I sell eve rything that i fgoes to furnishing a nome?manuiacnir- * ling some things and buying others in the''; largest possible lots, which enables me to? wipe out all competition. HERE ARE A FEW OF MY START-! LING BARGAINS A No. 7 Flat top Cooking Stove, fulll size, 15x17 inch oven, fitted with 21 pieces J of ware, delivered at your own depot, $ all freight charges paid by me, fori only Twelve Dollars. * Again, 1 will sell you a 5 hole Cookiu^ Range 13x13 inch oven, 18x28 inch top, lit \ ted with 21 pieces of ware, for THlLR-1 TEEN D OIlLARS, and pay the freight to] your depot. DO NOT PAY TWO PRICES FOKi TOUR GOODS. I will send you a nice plush Parlor suit, walnut frame, eith' '.n combination or| banded, the most stj ?ish colors for 33.50,| 9to your .railroad station, freight paid, a 1 will also sell you a nice B^iromos uita consisting of Bureau with glass, 1 higba head Bedstead, 1 Washstand, l (Jentrel table, 4 cane seat chairs, 1 cane seat anas back rocker alitor 16.50, and paj freigki to your depot. Or I will send you an elegant Bedroom! suit with large glass, full marble top, fori $30, and pay freight. Nice window sliade on SDrinn roller I 40s Elegant large walnut a day ciocfc, 4.00| Walnut lounge, . 7.001 Lace curtains per window, l.OOg. I 2 1 cannot describe everything inasmall| advertisement, b*'.t have an immense stores containing 22,6( ?^t of floor room, withg ware houses and, - buildings in others parts of Augusta, , in aU the lar-g gest business of thBrVwr1 under one man-i agement in the Southern States. Tfcesel storesand warehouses are crowded with! the choicest productidhs of the best facto-a ries. My catalogue containing iilustrationsS of goods wiii be mailed if yoa will kindly B say where you saw this advertisement, i.3 j pay freight. Address, L, F. PADGETT, Proprietor Padgett's Furniture, StoveS iand Carpet Store, 1110-1112 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, (xA.| !! Wl I I ! IBMW ! ?W j A Spring Wicine j \mjm 1 {m AND WOMAN. f~* ?* ' P will purify and Titaliz? your si b!o.?., or.*a&-a irood appetite and giveyoor jg ? waoif system icneaai Mreugm. 3* J A ;>pj.m.xit-ut railroad MifcTinterwIent at S&vauunh. suffering with ' * tari . T">v*rep ? ?* si;i, and ICheumatism s&' -at. jr I . i .* he never felt so well in his :if<- v. * > 'ft ? ij :i fie could live fc-re.ver, ir h .. ..;J s a?\Miy& ret P. P. P." ~ If y\>u are tired out ft . .-.una & \ closo cuu0iieui6ut, take 3 p. p. p. E ? If you are feelia? b'aly In tile spring f? ? and out of sorts, take Ip-p-p- i A If your digestive orgaES need toning np, U a I P- P- | | If you suffer with headache, indigestion, S | debility and weakness, take J P. P. P. J i If you suffer with rervous prostration, | [P.P. P. I I 8Sp???a?asswa I IP. p. p. I Prickly Ash, Poke Root and Potassium. I The best blood purifier In the world. r.tpvma V BROS., Wholesale Druggists, i 3 Sole Proprietors, T- Lippjoh's Block. Savannah, Ga. I WHY NOT USE OURS ? MURRAY'S! IRON MIXTURE ;is a GENUINE BLOOD TONIC! MURRAY'S SARSAPARILLA is a Blood Purifier and Spring Medicine! j We are the Manufactures and Sole Proprietors of both. This is the time of the year the system reo.uires a tonic and the blood a purifier. ! Our stock of Drugs. Medicines, Cheml- , cals and Druggists Sundries is complete. \ Our facilities for filling your orders cannot be excelled, we solicit your patronage. The Murray Drug Co,, COLUMBIA, S. C. First Class "Work. V ery Low Prices. Buggies, C.-uriages, Road|Carts, Wagons, etc., Warranted Second to none. Inquire of nearest dealer in these good's,r??J or send for Catalogue?Mentioning thi?: paper. j !uai t v v * k n n p?e q n w j U U L L L H Ail V A.01V LJ \y ?. BUGGY CO.. BOCK HILL, S. C.,l LIPP21N BROS., WholtulQ Dragglsts, Sol# Proprietors, Lippntn's Block. S*T*nn*h,6*