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SfM'' "-vi"'jlj* " # VVOL. XLVI. WINN8BORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17, 1891. NO. 44. j . CAST THEM OX THE LORD. CHRIST WILL HELP YOU BEAR YOUR HEAVY BURDENS Dr. Titluiusft Preaches an Eloquent Sermou That A i>peats to the Busirea* Man, the Invalid, the Mourner and to All liUIKHUiiy. Brooklyn, June 7.?It is no new tlnnii to the members of the Brooklyn Tabernacle church to have their pastor's eminence cknowledged by the outside leg world. Bat even they must have been K gratified by the distinction conferred V upon him since last Sunday. In listeuggBHR ing to Dr. Talmage to-day, they were V listening to the chaplain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of fJMas?acnuseil5, iu nuitu uwtc uc noo formally Installed with due ceremony on June 1. The organization, which is two hundred and fifty years old, and the lineal descendant of an English organization dating back to the beginning of the Sixteenth century, has had many distinguished divines as chaplains, and ths honor has always been highly appreciated. The subject of Dr. Talmage's '??? !??? r?>/vrnir>rT WOC l^tlTffen ISITI LL1KJLL LiiiO UiVlUiUg n ww amv liearer," and bis text Psalm iv, 22? "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee." THE SERMON. David was here taking his own medicine. II' anybody had on him heavy weights, David had them, and yet out of his own experience he advises you and me as to the best way of getting rid | of burdens. This is a world ofburdeu bearing. Coming into the house of prayvr ihere may be no sign of sadness or burrow, but where is the man who has no;, a conllict'r Where is the soul that i nt. ji sirnoaie? And there is not a day of all the year when my text is not gloriously appropriate, and there is nevtr an audience assembled on the planet \\-here the text does not fit the occasion: "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee." In the lar east wells of water are so infrequent that J w hen a man owns a well he has a prop t-ity of very iireat value, and sometimes 1 allies have bec-n fought for the posses' siiiu of one well of water; but there is cue well that every man owns?a deep well, a perennial well, a well of "tears, ifa man has not a burden on this shoulder, he has a burden on the other should\ er. The day I left home to look ailer myIself aud for myself, in the wagon my .aiher sat driving, and he said that day something which has kept with me all ?... ..t^q if Jo olnroce cofa fn iiu^ li?C. ? I IUC, JIV IMIIWJW wv trust God. 1 have many a time come 10 a crisis of difficulty. You may know that, having been sick for fifteen years, it was no easy thing for me to support a family; but alwa}s God came to the rescue. I remember the time," he said, "when I didn't know what to de, and I saw a man on horseback riding up the farm lane, and he announced to me that I had been nominated for the most lucrative office .in the gift of the people of the county, and to that office I was elected, and God in that way met all my wants, and I tell )ou it is always safe to 4. ?> U U.M. UULU* Oh, my friends, what we want is a practical religion! The religion people have is so high up you cannot reach it. I had a fiiend who entered the life of an : evangelist. lie gave up a lucrative business m Chicago, and he and his wife finally came io severe want. He told me that in the morning at prayers he said: 4*0 Lord thou knowest we have not a mouthful of food in the house? * Help me: heip us!" And he started out Oil me Sireei, aua a geuueiuaxi mei mm and said: *kI have been thinking of you for a good while. You know I am a flour merchant; if you won't be offended, I should like to send you a barrel of flour." My friend cast his burden on the Lord, and the Lord sustained him. In the Straits of Magellan, I hare been told, there is a place where whichever way a captain puis his ship he finds the wind against him, and there are men who all tiieir lives have been running in the teeth of the wind, and which way to turn they do not know. Some of them may be here this mominsr. and I address them face to face, not perfunctorily, but as one brother talks to another brother. ' Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee." TIIE BUSINESS MAN'S liUKDEN. First?There are a great many men who have business burdens. When we see a man harried and perpic-xed and annoyed in business life we are apt to say, "He ought not to have attempted to carry so much." Ah. that man may not be to blame at a1.!! When a man plauts a business he does not know what will be Us outgrowths, what will be its roots, whxt will be its branches. There is mauy a man with keen foresight and large business faculty who has been tlunir into the dust by unforeseen circumstances spriDgirg upon hit.) from ambush. When to buy, when to sell, when to trust and to what amount of credit, what will be the effect of this new invention of machinery, what will be the vi/.f a? Iapo <*\f <*?rr?n onrl o UllCl?b VA llitfcb iUOO Vi VIV^/ auu ?.*, uiuucuuu r ' tffter questions perplex business men until the hair is silvered and deep wrinkles are plowed in the cheek, and the stocks iro up by the mountains and go down bv the valleys, and they are at their wits' ends and stagger like drunken men. There never has been a time when there have bet n such rivalries in business as now. It is hardware against hardware, books against books, chandlery against chandlery, imp -rted article against imported article. A thousand stores iu combat with another thousand stores. Xever such advantage of light, never such variety of assortment, never st! iiiucu spieuuor 01 snuw \>iuuu?. uevcr so much adroitness of salesmen, never so much acmeness of advertising, and amid all the se verities of riva'ry in business how many men break down! Oh, the burden on the shoulder! Ob. the burden on the heart! You hear that it is avarice which drives these men of business through the street, and that is the commonly accepted idea. I do not believe a woru of it. The vast multitude of these business men are toiling on for others. To educate their children, to put the wing of protection over their households, to have bomeihinir left so when thev uass out of tAus life their wives and children will not have to go to the poorhouse?that is the way I translate this energy in the street acu\ store?the vast majority of that energy. Grip, Gouge & Co., do not, do a\lthe business. Some of us remember w\\en the Central America was coming home from California, it was wrecked. President Arthur's father-in-law was the heroic captain of that ship, and went down with most of the passeneers. / Some of them got oft' into life boats but there was a young man returning from California who had a bag of gold in his hand: and as the last boat shoved off from \ the ship that was to go down that man shouted to aco made, in the boat, l'Here, John, catch this gold; there are $3,000, take iL home to my old mother; it will make her comfortable in her last days." Grip, Gouge & Co. do not do all the business of the world. Ah! mv friend, do you say lhat God does not care anything about your worldly business? I tell you God knofrs more about it than you do. He knows all your perplexities; he knows what mortgages is about to foreclose; he knews what-note you cannot pay; he knows what unsalable goods you have on your shelves; he knows all your trials, from the day you tovk hold of the first yardstick down to the sale of the last yard of ribbon, and the God who helped David to be king, and who helped Daniel to be prime minister, and who helped Havelock io Dea soiQier, win nerj you 10 aiscaax<;e all your duties. He is ?oing to see you through. When loss comes, and you find your property going, just take this Book and put it down by your ledger, and read of tbe eternal possesions that will come to you through our Lord Jesus Christ. And" when your business part aer betrays you, and your fri&eds turn against you, just take the insulting letter, put it down on the table, put your Bible beside the insulting letter, and then read of the friendship of him s\ ho "sticketh closer than a brother." THE LORD SUSTAINED HIM. A young accountaut in New York city got his accounts entangled. He knew he was honest, svnd yet he could not make his accounts come out right, and he toiled at them day and night until he was nearly frenzied. It seemed by those books that something had been misappropriated. and he knew before God he was honest. The last day came. lie knew if he could not tliat day make his accounts come out right he would go into disgrace and Into banislimpnt from thp hn?in#?s? pcfahlish lishment, He went over there very early, before there was anybody n? the place, and he knelt down at the desk and said: "Oh, Lord, thou knowest I have tried to he honest, but X cannot make these things come out right! Help me today? help me this morning!" The young man arose and hardly knowing why he did so opened a book that lay on the desk, and there was a IaoP o Imn 4*\f* firrnnncj iva* wuia.aiu^ ck ?? uiv,u explained everything. Ia other words, he cast his burden upon the Lord and the Lord sustained him. Young maa, do you ' .tr that? Oh, yes; God has a syi^athy with anybody that is in any kind of toil! lie kuows how heavy is the hod of bricks that the workman carries up the ladder ol the wall; he hears the pickax of the miner dowu in the coal shaft; he knows how strong the tempest strikes the sailor at masthead; he sees the lactory girl among the spindles and knows how her arms ache: he sees the sewing woman in the fourth storv and knows how few pence i she gets for making a garment; and louder than all the din and roar of the city comes the voice of a svmpathetic God, "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and ne snaii sustain tnee. Second?There are a great many who have a weight of persecution and abuse upon them. Sometimes society gets a . rudge against a man. All his motives are misinterpreted, and his good deeds are depreciated. With more virtue thau some of the honored and applauded, he runs only against raillery' and sharp criticism. Whed a man begins to go down he has not only the force of natural gravitation, but a hundred hands to help him in the precipitation. Men are f<rvr tfipir virfriAS anrl l.hpir successes. Germanicus said he had just as many bitter antagonists as he had adornments. The character sometimes is so lustrous that the weak eyes of envy and~jealousy cannot bear to look at it. It was their integrity that put Joseph in the pit, and Dmiel in the din, and Shadrach in the fire, and sent John the Evangelist to desolate Patmos, and Calvin to the castle of persecution, and John Huss to the stake and Korah after iuuoco, auu oaui aiuti. i/aviu, auu xxuvu after Christ. Be sure if you have anything to do for church or state, and you attempt it with all your soul, the lightning will strike you. INTEGRITY ALWAYS BRINGS ABUSE. The world always has had a cross between two thieves for the one who comes to save it. High and holy enterprise has alwavs been followed by abuse. The most sublime tragedy of self sacrifice has come to burlesque. The graceful gait of virtue is always followed by grimace and travesty. The sweetest strain of poetry ever written has come to ridiculous parody, and as long as there are virtue and righteousness in the world, there will be something for iniquity to grin at. All along the line o the ages, and in all lands, the cry has een: "Not this i* an, but Barabbas. Xoiv, Barabbas was a robber." And what makes the persecutions of life worse is that thev come from neonle whom you have helped, from those to whom you have loaned money or have started in business, or whom you rescued iu some great crisis. I think it has been the history of all our lives?the most acrimonious assault has come from those whom we have benelited, whom we heve helped,?and that makes it all the harder to bear. A man is in danger of becoming cynical. A clergyman of the Universalist church went into a neieborhood for the establishment of a church of his denomination, and he was anxious to find some one of that denomination, and he was pointed to a certain house and went there. He said to the man of the house, "I understand you are a Universalist; I want you to help me In the enterprise." Well," said the man, "I am a Universalist, but I have a peculiar kind of Universalism." k*What is that?" asked the minister. "Well," ret.lied the other, 4*I have been out in the world, and I have been cheated and slandered and outraged and abused until I believe In universal demnaiion!" i. ^ ii i. ...:n I j. lie urea.o uauuet is uiui muu wm uccome cynical and given to believe, as David was tempted to say, that all men are liars. Oh mv friends, do not let that be the effect upon your souls! If you cannot endure a little persecution, how do you thick our lathers endured great persecution? Motley, in his kiDutch Republic," tells U> ot Egmontthe martyr who. condemned to be beheaded, unfastened his collar on the way to the scatiold, and when they asked him why he did that he said, "So they will not be detained in their work; 1 want to be 1? 11 /\U I reauy. uu, uuw uiuc nave w cu* dure compared with those who have gone before us! BUDGE NOT ONE INCH. Xow. if you have come across ill treatment, let me tell you you are in excellent company?Christ and Luther and Galileo acd Columbus and John Jay a,ud Josiah Quincy and thousands of men and women, the best spirits or earth and heaven. J3udge not .one inch, though all hell wreak upon you its vengeance, and you be made a target for devils to shoot at. Do you not think Christ knows all about persecution? Was he not hissed at? Was he not struck on the cheek? Was he not pursued ail the days of his life? Did they not expectorate upon him? Or, to put it in Bible language, "They spit upon him.". And canuot he understand what persecution is? "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thoe." Third?There are others who carry great burdens of physiclal ailments. When sudden sickness has come, and fierce choleras and malignant fevers take the castles or lite by storm, we appeal to God; but in these chronic ailments which wear out the strength day after day, and week after week, and year after year, how little resorting to God for solace! Then people depend upon their tonics and their plasters and their cordials rather than upon heavenly stimulants. Oh, how few people there are completely well! Some ol you, by dint of perseverance and care, have kept living to this time; but how you have had f r\ r? oro i n c< f rvKveiAto 1 oil An ? LU ?? ai ?suj OI\*HXI awui^u^. tediluvians, without medical college and infirmary and apothecary shop, multiplied their years by hundreds; but he who has gone through the gantlet of disease in our time, and has come to seventy years of age, Is a hero worthy of a palm. THE BURDEN OF ILLNESS. The world seems to be a great hospital, and you run against rheumatisms and consumptions aud scrofulas and neuralgias and scores of old diseases baptized by new nomenclature. Oh, how lif>;avi7 Vimvlfn siclrnps* is! Tt takes the color out of the sky, and the sparkle out of the wave, and the sweetness out of the fruit, and the luster out of the night. When the limbs ache, when the respiration is painful, when the mouth is hot, when the ear roars with unhealthy obstructions, how hard it is to be patient and cheerful and assiduous! ''Cast thy burden upon the Lord." Does your head ache? IIis wore the thorn. Do 1>ri?*4v Tlio'u'ftra nf flip YA>Ui ICUb U Ul L. XJ.IO UWV VA.VAk .4VVA v* Vtiv spikes. Is your side painful? Ilis was struck by the spear. Do you leel like giving way under the burden? His weakness gave way under a cross. While you are in every possible way to try to restore your physicial vigor, you are to remember that more s^othiug toan any anodyne, and more vitalizing lhan auy stimulant, and more strengthening than any tonic is the prescription of the text: k'Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee." We hear a great deal of talk now about faith cure, ciuu suuic pcupic oaj iu cauu^b wt done and it is a failure. I do not know but that the chief advance of the church is to be in that direction. Marvelous things come to me day by day which make me think that if the age of miracles is past it is because the faith o. miracles is past. A promiueut merchant of Xew York said to a member of my family, "My mother wants her cass mentioned to Mr. Talmagc." This was the case. He said: 4 "My mother had a dreadful abscess, from which dhe had suffered untold . agonies, and all surgery had been exhausted upon her, and worse and worse rry/\ xxr n 4 i 1 TT?Ck in O FflW OlIV/ ^,1 ^ ?? ?? V, VUiiVU w. iv?? tian friends and proceeded to pray about it. We commended her case to God and the abscess began immediately to be cured. She is entirely well now, and without knife and without any surgery." So that case has come to me, and there are a score of other cases coming to our ears from all parts of the earth. ~Oh. ye who are sick, go to Christ! Oh, je who are worn out with agonies of body, "Cast thv burden [upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee!" TIIE BURDEN OF BEREAVEMENT. Another burden some have to carry is the burden of bereavement. Ah! these are the troubles that wear us out. If we lose our property, by additional industry perhaps we may bring back the estranged fortune; if we lose our good name, perhaps by reformation of morals we may achieve again reputation for integrity;" but who will bring back the dear departed? Alas me! for these empty cradles and these truuks of childish toys r?aTTA?? V\A ncA/1 orrnin A loo. Uia.0 VT ?I1 Ut UOV/U ClgCllUL? Xi.*tW me! for the empty chair and the silence in the halls that will nevev echo again those familiar footsteps. Alas! for the cry of widowhood and orpanage. What bitter Marahs in the wilderness, what cities of the dead, what long black shadow from the wing of death, what eyes sunken with grief, what hands tremulous with bereavement, what instruments ot music shut now because there are no fingers to play ou them! Is theie no relief tor such souls? Aye, let the soul ride into the harbor of my text. The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for repose, I will not, I will not, desert to Its foes: That soul, though all hell shall endeavor to shake, I'll never, no never no never forsake. Now, the grave is brighter than the ancient tomb where the lights were pecpetually kept burning. The scarred < feet or him who was "the resurrection and the life" are on the broken grave M11aaV? traivmo r\f flrxYolo rinfr UillVVsA^ YT UH. TUl^tO VI UU^V/IO A lUL^ , down the sky at the coronation of another soul come home to glory. * , THE ONLY CURE FOH SIX. Then there are many who carry the ! burden of sin. Ah, we all carry it until : in the appointed way that burden is lift ed. We need no bible to prove r-hat the whole race is ruined. What a spectacle : it would be if we could tear off the mask ; of human defilement, or beat a drum that would brini^ up the whole army of 1 me \voncrs transgressions?me ueception, the fraud, and the rapine, and the murder, and the crime of all the centuries! ; Aye. il I could sound the trumpet of resurrection in the s >ul of the best men in ' this audience, and all the dead sins oi the past should come up, we could not endure the sight. Sin. grim and dire, . has put its clutch upon the immortal soul, and that clutch will never relax unless it be under the heel of him who came to destroy the works of the devil. Oil, to have a mountain of sin on the soul! Is there no way to have the burden moved? Oh, yes. '"Cast thy burden upon the Lord." The sinless one came to take the consequences of our sin! And I know he is iu earnest. How do I know it? By the streaming temples and the streaming bands as he says, "Come nnto me all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest." Why will prodigals live on swines' husks when the robe, and the ring, and the father's welcome are ready? Why go wandering over the great Sahara desert of your sin when you are invited to the gardens of God, the tiees of life and the fountains of living water? Why be houseless and homeless forever when you may becornc the sons and daughters Oi the Lord God Almight^ ? Superintendent of Immigration. Washington, June 4.?The President today appointed Wm.D. Owen, ot Logansport, Ind? Superintendent of Immigration, > THE TRIPLE MURDERER. SIXTH TRIAL OF THE EDGEFIELD FAMILY EXTERMINATOR. Joneo'tf Case On In the Lexinstou Court? A Formidable Array ol Witnesses?Story of the Murders?One Wltnes* Exumin ed. Lexington, C. H., S.C., June 10.? Ia the Court General Sessions this morning the case against Robert T. Jones for the murder of Edward Pressley, Sr., was called, and the trial entered upon. There was only one eye witness to the three murders which Jones is charged with, but tbe case nas grown to sucn magnitude as to require 100 witnesses to tell the jury all about it. At the roll call this morning thirtyfour witnesses answered on the side of the State' and the defense have had summoned sixty-seven witnesses, the most of whom are in attendance. Among the prominent witnesses are Senator M. C. Butler. Congresman George D. Tillman, Capt, George B. Lake, Dr. Jennings, T. K. Denny, Capt. Lewis Jones, Mark Toney, S. L. Ready, Jos. R. Edwards, Col. Robt. Hughes, Hon. W. H. Tim ir TT If!? _ . \_ 117 merman, .ai. n. jiujis, L?r. x icocott, W. A. Strom, Coronor Johnson. A. L. Broadwater, Capt. U. R. Brooks. David Means. Jones's wife and three little children are here, and will figure prominently in the court scenes. Jones, who arrived on yesterday's noon train from Edgefield, gives every appearance of being in pretty good health and spirits, and he will recieve at the hands of Lexington's sheriff that distinguished consideration which his celebrity as a successful slayer of three of the human race entitles him to. The facts of homicides are so well known to the public that as a pcelimi nary or introduction to The State's reports of the trial it is only necessary to state briefly the circumstauces oT the killings. Jones anc. the Pressleys hand a misunderstanding as to the right to cultivate a small tract of land which they had at first bought from the Sinking Fund Commission of South Carolina, and afterwards, on account of inabihty to meet the payments, the Pressleys rented, the State having foreclosed on the land. On the 18th of November, 1S85, Jones saw the three Pressley's plowing this piece of ground. With his gun he went to where the Pressley's'were in the field, and, addressing Charles, he said: "Charlie didn't I tell you not to work this ground until it was decided who had the right to plant it?" Then he shot both barrels of his gun into Charlie, killing him instantly. He next paid his respects to Edward Pressley, Jr., and cut him to pieces. Jones then reloaded his gun, and. retracing his steps to where the father of the two young men he had just murdered was standing, holding his son Charley's mare by the bridle, he shot him to ;death. This last killing is the one that is now being tried. Mr. Edward Pressley, Sr., was seventy eisht years old, andjn addition to his extreme age he was afflicted with paisy, which made him as helpless as a child. Jones was placed upon his trial for the first time on March 6,1886, for the murder of Charlie. A mistrial was the result. The State then concluded that it would try h m for the killing of Edward Pressley, Sr. He stood his second trial on March 10, 1887, and was convicted of manslaughter. An appeal was taken to the Supreme Courl, and a new trial was granted. Since then Jones has had three trials. The trial that is now in progress makes the sixth that he has been subjected to. Five of them were had in Edgefield County. The case was transferred to Lexington County on a motion on the part of the Stite for a change of venue, which the grand jurv of Edgefield County recommended in their presentment of 1890. Solicitor Nelson, in the prosecution of the case, is assisted by S. McG.Simkins and W. W. Butler, of the Edgefield bar. ' a oKltr r/inroton f Kv i.ug ucicuuauj 10 a. uxj 4 Maj. W.T.Gary, Earnest Gary, George Evans and Maj. H. A. Meetze. The following compose the jury: John J. Culler, P. G. Lowman, P. Brooks Sailor, A. L. Summer, C. A. Bockman, A. L. Price, James M. Keisler, Charles C. Sharp, J. K. Davis. Henry W. Martin, John M. Hite and J. G. Wingard; The foreman of the jury is Hon. J. K. Davis, a member of the Legislature from this county. The only witness examined up to the time of adjournment this morning was Charles Brooks, the negro who saw Jones kill the last two of his victims? P/larorr? Prooalor Tr and nlrl man Pressley. Brooks was on the stand for live hour3, three hours of which time he was put through a most rigiu and severe cross-examination by Maj. W. T. Gary. This witness has always, in the five preceding trials, uiven his testimony in a manner which baffled the legal skill of the defendant's attorneys to break it down: Mai. Gary, to use a common phrase, "parabzed" him on the cross examination. He twisted him, tangled him and placed him before the jury in a light which, it is thought, has seriously impaired his credibility. The witness [jot very much mixed up, and made several very material contradictions, which, ol course, the astute counsel of the prisoner will play on before the jury [or all they are worth. The State, however, cannot fail to make a strong case against Jones. The facts and details of the killings are so overwhelmingly against the prisoner that it is believed his plea of self-defense will not avail him before a Lexington jury. For the first time since this case has been undergoing investigation the clothes worn by the three Pressleys at the time they were killed by Jones were |introduced in [evidence by the State. Solicitor Nelson didn't know of their existence until after the last trial of the case. These three suits of clothes made a telling effect upon the jury and spectators. They were three silent witnesses, and they have spoken more unmistakably than any witness in the case. The coat and vest ol Edward Fressley, Jr., show liow he was butchered up; and the pants of old man Pressley is saturated with his iiJe blood, showing where the contents of the gun emptied into the front part of the last victim of Jones's wrath. The garments of Charlie Pressley show that he must have been shot down while plowing in the field. Steamship Seized on Liibel. New York, June, 4.?The steamship Findnce, of the Brazil line, was seized by a Lmted states deputy marshal as she was about to sail from Brooklyn yesterday on a libel sued out by the Berwind White Coal Mining Company, to recover $26,000 for coal. L . BLUE BEARD, JR. George Relnfcart Excell* the Famous Character of Hobcoblanl.sm. Wapakoneta, 0, J une 3?A modern Blue Beard has been practicing his horrors in Clay township,thiscounty, about six miles east of this city, in a most rp?nf>r?t<ah1? on H n mot neifrhhnrhnnH Auglaize county has produced a man who even excels tbat famous character of hobgoblanism in the mortality of his wives. Charitable neighbors say that the awful death rate among George Reinhart's wives is simply misfortune, as in forty-two years he has had six wives, all of whom but the last one are dead; but, since he is responsible for the delicate condition of his 14-year old grand-daughter, it may be almost reasonable to sav that a mvsterv exists in his household. So far the wretched villain has gone unpunished, but this is due to the fact that the existing state of aiT'airs was unknown to the authorities >.ere. Keinhart is 70 years old, but is strong and possesses unusual vitality. He was married at 27, and his first wife lived four years and Dore him three children. Then Christina Pulsfer, a neighbor, came to his household. She lived loner enough to bear three children. The third woman to enter his home was f-hristip Xr.hlir.hticr Shfi livt-d but a year, and her sister was induced to take her place as a wife. She at the end of eigh years had borne him five children, and soon after slept beside her sister in the church yard. His neighbors began to wonder at lieinhart's misfortunes. He next married a widow named Toland, who already had three children, and with them and the widow Reinhart came into possession of ten acres of land. She died after a four years' residence in the household, leaving fonr childreo, who owed their parentage to her second husband. A AC\ T-cko * s\\<-1 oninornr nomul iX 1V-JCai-VlU uiwuv,u Ayv,vw?v* wad the next to assume the duties as lieinhart's wife. She was the mother of two children, and her death ended the mortality of the wives in the household. No. 7 now came. She was young and did not want to work. Neither was she prolific. She disgusted her husband, who abused and mistreated her. Four years ago she secured a divorce in the courts of Auglaize county. A daughter of a son of Iteinhart, whose mother had died, came to abide in the household of the many wives She was the only woman in a house of ^ o: *v. :_l v.o/4 live men. omue cue gin was ji^suc uau lived in Rein hart's home, and at that time his incest began. What threats were used are only matters of conjecture. Without a friend on earth, the girl remained in the wretch's house. The condition was apparent to all, and to add to her sbatne she was recently driven from a public gathering of young people at a neighbor's. Any court can readily establish tLese facts, as the incestuous wretch does not deny them, i'rosecutor JLayton, snerni ouubert and Constable Van Skiver dove out to Clay township and arrested lleinhart. They brought his victim with them, and she will be cared for by friends until court opens, lleinhart waived examination and vra,i bound over to the court in the sum of S3,000. He is charged with incest and rape, which, as the child is a daughter, is a I:i\r penitentiary offense. He says he is innocent, ana tne gin says ue xurcibly ravished her. Earthquakes in Italy. Rome, June 8.?Advices from Badia, Calavsnia and Eatregna, towns in Northern Italy visited bv earthquakes yesterday, show that the inhabitants are terror-stricken and have taken to the fields for safety. The authorities have, as far as possible, sought to alleviate distress among the people and have furnished a large number of tents to shelter those who have fled from their homes. Subterranean rumblings continue and nc.rasionallv slighter shocks than those of yesterday are felt. The people are in distress of momentarily seeing the earth open and swallow them. The damage done at these places is much greater than was indicated in the first report. The towns were practically destroyed by the severity of the shocks. The commission appointed by the authorities to examine the houses which were not thrown down by the undulations of the earth have made a hasty investigation, and they report that at least three-quarters nf t.hp hnnspq nre m such condition that public safety demand that they be pulled down entirely. A large body of troops has been dispatched to these places to assist the authorities in clearing the streets of debris, in tearing down dangerous houses and to render such other assistance as they may be called upon to give. A Bank With >"o 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 i?i 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 and then fail. The defunct bank started In without a dollar. It opened on the 22d of April, 1889; on the 23d $10,000 in silver were received from the Xewton National Bank of Newton, Kansas, by express, and tbe same day $12,000 was sent back to the Newton 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 exrant nf flpnn*ifnr's monev. President v- ~~ j - j. M. Iiogsdale credited himself ^lib having deposited $55,000, while another party named T. M. Iiogsdale had a credit of $-18,000. The books are in bad condition. ludicted for 1'orgery. Sumter, S. C., June 10.?Iu the Court of General Sessions this morning indictments were issued against John R. Keels for forgery in two cases. I3ail was granted in the sum of $500 iu each case. In the Common Pleas this after- j noon W. F. B. Ilaynsworth, acting for the Bar of Sumter made a motion that a rule be issued against J. K. Keels to show cause why he should not be disbarred from the practice of law in the Courts of General Sessions, Common Pleas, and the inferior Courts ol the State. Judge Izlar issued the rule, and made it returnble on Wednesday. June 17.?Xews and Courier. Bursting of a W&terspout. City of Mexico, June 9.?A water spout burst near San Leus Paz, in the State of Guanajunata, on Sunday, and many horses, cattle and uprooted trees were swept away by the water. The water covered a "space of nearly three miles, completely devastating that part of the country." The number of lives lnsf-. has nnf. v^r. hppn rennrted. Hun dreds of people are homeless and in a destitute condition. Seeking their Fortunes. Xew York, June 3.?This was an Italian day at the barge ollice. 4,130 ot this nationality having passed through the building. Besides the two vessels that arrived yesterday with 2,471 immigrants too late to be taKen off, the Alsatia arrived to-day with 1,065 Italians from Naples, aDd two Rotterdam ships brought in GOO more. AN ALLIANCE REVIEW. STRENGTH AND SENTIMENT OF THE BIG ORGANIZATION. Three 3Iillious of Voters Enrolled?Progress Since the Ocala Meeting?Feellnff In Favor of a New Party?President Stekesi Nor.-Cominittal. New York, June 10?The New York Ilerald has made a general investigation of the extent, growth and condition of the Farmers' Alliance. Answers to the questions were received from nineteen States. From these and other sources of information the Herald makes the following statements and figures: The total strength of the Alliance, then, is about 1,270,000, but from this number must be taken about 20 per cent representing women and minors. This would leave the voting strength of the order at about 1,016,000. In addition the .National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union there are, according to Col. R. M. Humphrey, 800,000 Colored Farmers' Alliance almost wholly in the Southern btatfs. Then there is the Northwestern Alliance, with its strength in Nebraska, Minnesota. Iowa and Wisconsin, with about 175,000 members; the Farmers' Mutual Benefit association, strong in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, with 150.000 members; the Patrons of Husbandry, with about 200,000 members; the Knight of Labor, with 300,000 members, and the Citizens' Alliance, the membership of which is problematical. Making a reduction of 20 per cent in uiese urgrtiuziiwuiis lor non-voters ana to the'strength of the Alliance must be added 1,400,000 voters, making the total voting strength of the combination 2,47<5,000 throughout the country. It is questionable, however, if this strength can be held. The 800,000 negroes are unreliable and the grangers or patrons of husbandry are not inclined to the third party idea strongly. In the West the feeling for independent action is strong and the people from that section are determined at all hazards to put a ticket in the field next year, no matter what the Southern wing does. j ug icejiug iu uie oyum is peruaps, as clearly expressed in the following editorial from the Southern Alliance Farmer, the organ of the Georgia State Alliance. It says: "In the Cincinneti convention the Southern Alliance men did all and everything in their power to prevent or postpone the organization of a new political party. This action gives the lie to the statements of partizan papers that the Alliance leaders are trying to wreck the Democratic party in order to further their own ends." Now, had these Southern officers given the least countenance to the new movement, you woukl to-day see the third party fairly lauL^ued on the political sea. As it is, final and definite action has beea postponed until February, 1892, so tbat the Democratic Congress may have a fair opportunity to show its interests in the welfare of the people. The Ocala convention seems to have had but little effect one way or the other, the order having continued to gain about at the same rate after as before that event. "NTp.w York and Pennsylvania rpnnrf. 25,000 members apiece and no disposition to enter politics. Virginia has 00,000 Alliance men. West Virginia guesses her strength at 30,000. North Carolina has over 100,000 and Secretary Barnes says 95 per cent of them are solid for Ocala demands. Georgia reports 80,000 members. Florida 15,000 and only 5 per cent in favor of any movement outside the Democratic party. Alabama has 75,000 members who will favor a new party if no concessions 10 me ucaia uemanas are maae. Louisiana has 20,000 members who await the action of the supreme council before talking of a third party. Texas reports revival of the order there, 400 sub Alliances having been organized since the Ocala meeting. Kentucky has 100,000 members who vor a third party. Ohio's Alliance stands on the Ocala platform, T-n/HonM 1)oc 1 Hfl fWl A llionna mon JLl~llllC4Jai? UUO AWjWV ^.X UlLU ready for the th'rd party. Illinois has 15,000 who all favor independent action. Michigan has 25,000 Alliance men and they favor the third party. Tennessee has 118,000 members and the third party feeling is growing among them. Arkansas rpnnrt.s tin OOO Alliance voters and the president says they are for the people's party. Here is the answer from South Carolina: Speaking generally, the order is in good shape in this State and is making satisfactory progress. We are unloading some material, but results show a net gain and a more compact, homogeneous membership We are organizing constantly, though the most of the State has been already covered. Within the past month the State organizer has had calls from two different counties, and the result of his visits are apparent. Outside of the political press and a small circie of political speculators the question of independent political action has not created a ripple, because it has not been discussed. Independent politij cal action by the Alliance is uut of the question so jong as ine Alliance constitution remains as it is. It can not be changed before next winter, and our people aie not disposed to worry about the bridge before they get to it. From a close and frequent contact with them in every quarter of the State I can safely say they may be counted on to stand squarely by all the demands of the Alliance, Governor Tillman to the contrary notwithstanding. The temper of the people is such that triey will repudiate any man, however trusted, who can not support the Alliance demands, just-as they repudiated Hampton last fall. J. William Stokes, President South Carolina F. A. and I. I. Orangeburg, s c. The Itata Is Ourst. i(>rique, Chile, via Galveston June 4 ? ] he steamship Itata arrived here this i morning from Tocopilla, and has been delivered over to the American warships now here. The Charleston is expected to arrive here to-day from Arica. Tne Itata has handed over to the American warships to which she surrendered all arms she took on board olf San Diego. These consist cf 5,000 rilles. Washington*, June 4.?Secretary Trar v late tnni.<?ht received a diSDatch from Admiral ilcCann at Iquique, confirming the reported surrender of the Itata at that point. The Itata will be sent under convoy back to San Diego, to answer the injunction proceedings against her Florida Want Phillips Brooks. Jacksonville, Fla., June 4.?The Episcopal Diocese of Florida goes on record as in favor of the consecration of llev. Phillips Brooks as Pishop of the Massachusetts diocese. The standing committee met to-day and after two hours' discussion, voted 5 to 1 in favor of his consecration. BEASTLY BUTCHERY. Massacre an<I Keisn of Terror In Port Au I'riuce. New York, June 12.?Ad vices from Fort au Prince, under date of May 31, says lor the past two or three weeks there have been rumors that a revolution against President llippolyte was imminent. At his capital they were current and reached the ear;; ol the cluel executive, who caused the arrest ofabout eighty suspected persons and put them in iron In prison. Among the suspected was General Sully who, hearing he was ''wanted," hid himself. Failing to secure the general himself, his wife was taken instead and thrown into prison. Corpus Christi, Thursday, May 2Sth, was a national holiday, and it was reported that on that date Ilyppolyte, in order to effectually terrify the populace, had ordered a (Catling sun down to the prison and the eighty prisoners to be summarily executed. The friends of the prisoners, among whom was General Cnllir mot ir. /vwinMl on/1 mKile tho ai kJU.il J 4 U AI_fc VVUUVii< r, VMV president was in cathedral, they forced open the prison doors and freed all the prisoners, about 230 in all. Then, by order of ihe president, began a series of assassinations, perhaps unequalled in the aunals of civilization and by which the massacre of St. Bartholomew sinks into insignificance. The first victim was Earnest Rigaud, a respected merchant, a hard working man, who occupied himself exclusively with his business, and was positively known to have been perfectly innocent of cono?iiror?v (it'flnv L-iml TTY> w<><j <s3f f.inor r>n ?-r - o ? a balcony with his wife when the president passed, and ordered him out to a cemetery to be shot. He asked to be allowed to take his hat, (he was unarmed) and the president's own words were: ' You won't require a hat long." His nephew, a boy of 15 or 10, followed him to the place ot execution, and returned with the news to the afflicted wife, who was still hoping to bring Influence to bear to save her husband. He told her: "It is useless; my poor uacle has been loullv murdered." These words were reported to the president, and twenty minnfoo liter tho h/w hrnnorhf". U<1UUtVg KSVJ ?- " fore him. Being asked if he had made, the above statement, he did not deny it. but said: ''President, I have never conspired against you in word or deed." The boy was shot. Alexis Rossignol, an inoffensive and much esteemed man was executed in the streets, another man was put up against the cathedral wall, seven others were executed in one batch, and even at this date occasional volleys tell that an, other wretch has been sent to doom* There was no fighting in the streets to excuse this massacre. Every execution is carried out in the most cold Diooaea manner, me excuuoners uemg soldiers belonging to the most degraded type of men, who seem to enjoy their bloody task. Largre i'irm Assljrns. Nashville, Tenn., June 4.?The Connel Hall, McLester Company, one of the largest wholesale dry goods and shoe firms in the South, made an assignment this morning to the Nashville Trust Company. During the past year the firm have done an enormous business, amounting to more than a million dollars. During the extremely hard season their collections have averaged about $3,000 daily. Their troubles are from overstocking and an attempt to do a larger business than their capital would permit, credits contracted during prosperous times and inability to procure an extension of their paper. Their liabilities are S4G4.000; assets $718,000, leaving a balance of S254.000 in favor of the lirm. With the exception of 860,000 due local banks their creditors are in New York and Boston, llecent failures in Boston are given as the reason for their inability to secure an extension of their paper. The officers of the company are conGdent that all oblioraHnnc! tn rrpdifnrs will he met SDeed- I ily and tnat they will lose nothing, and hope to resums in a short while, as their assets are abundant and creditors safe. Meantime the house will not be closed, but will continue under the supervison of the Trust Company. 'ihe Death Penalty. Louisville, Ky, June 10.?Leo James, colored, was hanged at Hickman at 5.47 this morning, lie walked firmly upon the scariold. The trap was sprung and he fell with a heavy jenc, breaking his neck. He was pronounced dead in fourteen minutes. In November, 1889, one night he had a fight with some man, name unknown, and was badly beaten. "LJV i.nrfAliToi- onr! qtorfoci tr> find his xxc Suu a is.vi.w ""U ? enemy. Searching at the depot be saw Thomas Garvin, a man fro 11 Chicago, who was there on business and waiting for the train, and mistaking him for the other, shot him dead, lie escaped and was caught at Xew Orleans. lie was convicted and sentenced to be hung November 12, last, but was adjudged insaae. Latter he became sane, and the execution was set for to-day. A Secret Political Society. Topeka, Kan., June 4.?The Grand Lodge, Knights of Reciprocity, is now in session in this city. This new or ganization was caueu iniu tjxisiKuue uy the inroads made in Republican ranks by the Alliance, although its founder had commenced work upon its principles long before. The membership has been rapidly extending in this and other States, until now there are seven Grand lodges. In Kansas there are sixty iodges, with a membership of about ten thousand. Missouri has thirty lodges, with a promise of an even hundred be tore tiie enci 01 j my. jseorasna, wnere the Alliance is strong, has nearly forty lodges. In other States the strength is less. "The Ouly True Christ." Kansas City, Mo., June 1.?Svveinfurth, the llockford, 151., crank, who styles himself "The ooly true Christ," and who for the past few days has been holdincr forth with his ''disciples" in this city, had to llee from the vengeance of a mob last night. A crowd assembled before the building in which Sweinfurth has been exhibiting himself, with the firm determination of applying a coat of tar and feathers to the pretender. Taking alarm at the determined character of the demonstration, Sweinfurth secreted himself, and had not been caught up to a late ftour. Starved Himself to Death, Reading. Mass., June 4.?John You. an inmate of the county hospital, deliberately starved himself to death in that institution. He went without food for twenty-seven days and died this morning. He was terribly emaciated. He originally weighed 115 pounds, and at the time of his death weighed o'aly thirty-eight pounds. .Nothing could induce him to take food and why he insisted on starving himself to death cannot be explained. People's Party Convention. Milwaukee, June 4.?Robert Schilling Secretary of the new People's Party, to-day issued a call for a convention of the party to be held in St. Louis June 13, to arrange a plan of action for the coming campaign. i iiimiii ! ? ? I ill mill III?dm! PROBABLY A HOAX. REPORTED FINDING OF A LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY. llecovered After Twenty-four Years of _" , Discing?Captured and Buried by S ier>' 5=? man's Men.?Its Location lleveal?! by a Death-Bed Confession ?SI <53,000, Besides Jewelry Securad. Kershaw, S. C., JuneS?Whether or not it is historic or ficitious. the story goes. When Sherman was passing through this section the officers of the Camden Bank collected S163,000 and some jewelry and brought it near Ilancrins? Rock to bury it. Thev were found and captured by Sherman's rasn and forced to give up their treasures. The Yankees in turn appointed one of their own number to bury it. Besides the $163,000 there was said to be watches and other jewelery and a gold pitcher presented by the ladies of Charleston to Calhoun. A man named Rhodes was selected to re-burry the tre tsures. He crossed Lynche's Creek, below the mouth of Hanging Rock Creek, near an old mill. Rhodes, on his death-bed, confessed burying this m "mey, and wrote a discnp- . tive letter for Col. Wm. E. Johnson, of Camden, and Col. Burwell Jones, of Kershaw, has a copy of the same. People have been digging for this gold about twenty-four vears, and Fridav night it was found by a Mr. Rhodes, brother or the one who bured it, and a Mr. Swaggart, both Yankees, from Winnsboro. They had a negro along with them. Swaggart ha? been here once or twice before digging, and he and unoaes were nere aoout inree weess this time before thsir effor'-s proved of avail.: ?5?EZJ .*% These men were seen Friday afternooQ go'mg into the farm of Mr. Theo. Kirkley. They were afterward seen by four or six different parties, all of whom seem to believe firmly that they had found the hidden treasures. They say that the men had a half bushel satchel on'a stick across each of their shoal- - ders, single file. The report created quite a sensation here, and several people have been out to look at the hole from which the money was excavated. It was said that the place is fully described by Col. Jone's letter, and there are the marks on the trees and the large rock, &c. The hole is large enough to cov^r a barrel of flour. I have been told by a reliable farmer, who says also that you can see tallow around, where the diggers were burning candles. It was found on Seb Williams' farm. The story is believed by a number'of our citizens who resided near here where the valuables were buried.?The State. Governing by Force of Arms* New York, June 8.?The Jsteamer : Orange Nassau arrived at this port to ^ day from*Fort-au-Prince and brings the first definite news of the late insurrection in Hayti. The uprising was of a serious character, and for a time threatened important consequences, but the Government repressed the rebellion by prompt and stern measures. The insurrectionists stormed the prison at Port-au-Prince and a number of prsnners were released, when the militarv ^ appeared on the scene and captured the whole party. Frederick Douglass, the United States minister to Hayti, was expected to sail on this steamer, but owing to the excitement at Port-au-Prince decided to postpone his departure until next month. Mr. N. B. Waller, a well-known resident ef Port au-Prince is a passenger by the Orange Nassau. He states that there is considerable excitement in that city and that martial law bad been declared. Some sixty persons had been shot on Mav 28 last, as was cabled to Paris. Ilippolyte has everything in his own hands, and the killing goes on at t'^e rat^ of two io three persons per day. Fed on Raw Seal and l>uck* Ottawa, June 4.?Robert Piercy, a young seal hunte* o* the schooner May Bell, arrived at Victoria from Juneau by the latest Alaska boat with a story ot adventure and hardshin such as few old salts can tell. He and.two boatmen strayed from the schooner off Cape Fairweather in the latter part of April and after some days made land about two hundred and fifty miles from Junea J. Thence they pulled f along the coast to that town, all the time / in a dead calm. Their stock of provi- / JI sions, only sufficient at first to last a / jfl| few hours, soon gave out and they were ' Sm forced to feed on raw seal and ducksA Jjm which tasted of lish and salt water. / fl They reached Juneau thorough, Jg exhausted and broken down after fifteen days' starvation and exposure. The t.vo other men, Oliver Hauge and Elie Sinclair are still at Juneau. Piercy sold his gun and three seal skins in order to raise money to reach Victoria. Gen. Scholiel<l to Marry. Chicago, June 4.?Xews of a soc:al event of the first magnitude was privately discussed to-night among army officers. Although not yet formally made public the announcement is said to be authoritative that Gen. John M. Soholield, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. army, who is a widower and now in the Wist, will soon be married to Miss Georgia X. Kilbourne of Keokuk, Iowa. The date has been fixed but is not given out for the present. The wedding will take place either in Chicago or Keokuk. Pistols Selling Cheap. Charleston, S. C. Jnne 8.?Something of a stir is created in mercantile circles here by the law passed at the last session of the Legislature, requiring all dealers to pay a license of $200 for the sale ot' pistols and cartridges. Most of the leading hardware houses will takeout the license, but quite a number of small dealers will be frozen out of the business. The County Treasurer gave notice to-day that the law goes into effect J une 23d. As a consequence pistols are offering here at bottom prices, most of the holders being anxious to unload. I a the Track of the Storm. Laporte Ind, June 4.?A terrific hurricane and hail storm struck tl.is place last evening. Reports are coming in showing great damage throughout this section. There is hardly a merchant iu this city whose stock is not damaged. The King and Fidels company's woolen warehouse root was blowa off and $40,000 wot th of llannels soaked, the Quaker church unroofed, the new city hall badly damaged and several store fronts blown in. Death of a Lancaster Lady. T. \ vr- a jti.-t) < r Titnui?"\fr<< V. A. Brown, wife of Mr. D. W. Brown, of this town, died last night. She leaves a husband, and six children all of whom ' are grown. Mrs. Brown was a sister of Coi. Dixon Barnes, of the Twelfth Regiment S. C. Y., who received his death wound at the battle of Sharpsburg, Ke gallantly leadiBg his regiment. - - J