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VOL. XLVI. WINNSBOKO, S. G, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1891. NO. 45. I
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TADIAlfK OX THE CREEDS.
HE GIVES HIS OPINION IN ANSWER TO
Tv'ANY QUESTIONS.
^atun Hinv.ielt I* th<- Chitl ln?ti;:aJor of
tlie Controv?-i!?> Now iu Many
Churches ami X:tri>fi?t Work for Christ
Is the Ktinedy.
Brooklyn, jut.e- 14.?Dr. Talmage
dealt in Lis stinion this morning with
| the very t'.meiy topic?the Battle of,
| Creeds. After so long and exhaustive
t a discussion in clerical circles and iu the
secular press there seemed nothing more i
to be said on the subject. Dr. Taimage,
however, has his own way ot looking at
all subjects, and eve:, people who thought'
they knew all that could be said on both j
sides received light from the Iresh and j
original contribution which he made to
the controversy. IIis text was taken
from Proverbs xxvi, 17. "He that
passeth by and meddleth with strife be- j
longing not to him is like one that taketh j
a dig by the cars.''
Solomon here deplores the habit of
rushing in between contestants ot taking
part in the antagonisms of others, of
joining in lights which they ought to
shun. They do no good to others and
get damage for themslves. He compares
it to the experiment of taking a dog by
the ears. Nothing so irritates the canines
as to be clutched by the lugs. Take I
them by the back of the neck and lilt
them and it does not seem to hurt or
oll'end. but you take the dog by the ear,
and lie will take you with his teeth. In
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or spirited dog will stand that. "Xow,"
says Solomon, "you go into quarrels or
controveisics that are not yours and you :
* will mi lacerated and torn and bitten, j
kIie that passeth by and meddleth with
strife he-louring not to him is like one
^ that taketh a dog by the eats.'"
THIS IS THE AGE OF CONTROVERSY.
This is a time of resounding ecclesias
tical quarrel. Never within your memory
or mine has the air been so lull of
missiles. The Presbyteriau church has
ou hand a controvarsy so great that it
finds it prudent to postpone its settlement
for at least one more year, hoping
that something will turn up. Somebody
might die or it new general assembly
may have gra^'C to handle the exciting
questions. The Episcopal church lias
cast out some recalcitrants, and its
tfivii/l t a ])< -
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most in tr> lug to assimilate others.
"Shall women preach';" "Ur be sent as
delegates to conferences?" are questions
that have put many of our Methodist
brethren ou the "anxious seat." And
the waters in some ol the great baptistries
are troubled waters. Because of the
controversies throughout Christendom
the air is now like an August afterno n
agout 5 o'clock, when it has been steaming
hot all day. and clouds are gathering,
and there are lions of thunder with
grumbling voices and Hashing eyes coming
forth from their cloudy lairs, anci
people are waiting for the full burst of
the tempest. I am not much of a
weather prophet, but the clouds look to
me mostly like wind clouds. It may be a
bis.blow, but I hope it will soon be over.
^ In regard to the Battle of the Creeds, I
am every day asked what I think about
it. I want to make it so plain this mornincr
what. T think that no one will ever
ask again.
Let those who are jurymen in the
^ case?I mean those who in the different
m ecclesiastical courts have, the questions
put directly before them?weigh and de*
cide. Let the rest of us keep out. The
most damaging thing oh earth is religious
controversy. INo one ever comes out
of it as good a man as he goes in. Some
of the ministers in all denominations
who betore the present acerbity were
good and kind and useful, now seems almost
swearing mad. These brethren I
notice always open their violent meetings
with prayer before devouring each
other, thus saying grace before meat.
^ 1 that.
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makes us think they have taken a dog by
the ears. They never readthc imprecatory
Psalms of David with such zest as since
the Brings and Xewtcn and MacQueary
and Brid^man and Brooks questions uot
. into full swing. May the rams of the
sheepioid soon have their horns sawed
oil! Belore the controversies are settled
a good many ministers will, through
what they call liberalism, be landed into
practical inlidelitv, and others through
what they call conservatism will shrink
ud into biiiocs tight and hard as the
mummies of Fjrypt wlii ;h got through
their controversies three thousand years
ago.
SATAN STIRliKl) IT Ul'.
This trouble throughout Cln\steudom
.vas directly inspired by Satan. lie saw
that too much trood was being done.
Recruits were being gathered by hundreds
of thousands to t he Gospel staud
? ard. The victories oi' God and the truth
were too near together. Too many
churches were being dedicated. Too
many ministers were be'.ng ordained.
To;, many philanthropies were being
fostered. Too many souls were being
saved. It had been a. dull time in the
ne*he: world, and the arrivals were too
few. t>o Sat:;n one day rose upon his
throne and said. " Ye powers oi darkness,
hear!" And all up and down the
caverns the cry was, Hear! Hear!"
' s?id? "There is that American i
Board of Commissioners i'or Foreign I
Missions. It m^st cither be demolished
or crippled, or the first thing you know j
. they will have nil natiotis brought to j
God. Apollyon the Youngei! You go
up to Ar.dover aud get the professors to
discussing whether the heatheu can be
saved without the Gospel. Divert them
from the work of missions aud net them
in anary convention in a room tic Young's
hotel Boston, and bv the time they adifium
the cause of foreign missions will
be gloriously and magnificently iuiured.
Diabolus the Younger! You go up and
iiet Uniou Theological Seminary ot NewYork
and the general assembly of the
Presbyterian church at Detroit at swords'
points and diverted fiom the work of
making earnest ministers of religion, and
turn that old Presbyterian church, which
has been keeping us cut of customers for
huudreds of 3 ears, into a splendid pan-;
demonium on a small scale. Abaddon j
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old Episcopal church, which has been
storming the heavens for centuries with
the sublimes! prayers that were ever
uttered?church (if lJishrp I.eighton.
Bishop White and liishop MJlvaine,
aud uet that denomination discussing
men instead of discussiug ihe eternities.
Abaddon I :e Fourth! You go up to that
old Methodist church, which has, through j
her revivals, sent millions to heaven j
l which we would otherwise have added to I
ft our population: the church of Wesley
and Matthew Simpson, agaiust which
P we have aa rspecial grudge, and get
L them so absorbed in discussing whether!
1 women shall tnke part in her conference |
Ithat they shall not have so much time
to discuss how many sons and daughters
she will take to ^.ory."
What amazes me most is that all peo-!
pie do not see that the entire movement |
at this time all over Christendom is Satanic.
Many of the infernal attacks are
sly and hidden and strategic and so ingenious
that they are not easily discovered.
But here is a bold and uncovered
attempt of the powors of darkness to
split up the churches, to i.ret ministers to
j take eacli other t>y ttie tnroas, to raase ;
| religion a laughing stock of earth and
j hell, to leave the Bible with no more
j respect or authenticity than an old almajnac
of 1822. which told what would be
I the change of weather six months ahead
j and in what quarter of the month it is
| best to plant turnips. In a word, the
I eil'ort is to stop the evangelization of the
| world. It seems to me very much like
this: There has been a railroad accident
and many are v> ouuded and dying.
There are several drug stores near the
| scene of casualty. All the doctors and
; druggists are needed and needed right
away. Bandages, stimulants, anjesj
thetics, medicines of all sorts. What
are the doctors and druggists doing? Dis|
cussing the contents of some old bottles {
,on the top shelt, bottles 01 meuicine
which some doctors aDd druggists mixed
two or three hundred years ago. "Come
doctors!" *'Come druggists!" cry the
people. liand help these wounded and
dying that are being brought from beneath
the timbers of the crushed rail
train. I a little while it will be too
late. Come for God's sake! Come
right away!" %iXo," says the doctor,
"not until we have settled whether the
medicine on that top shelf was rightly
mixed. I say there were too many drops
of laudanum in it, and this other man
says there were tor) many drops of cam>1A
it.Q miief nrof tiiia nnpetinn <jpf>
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tied before we can attend to the railroad
accident.
DOCTORS DISPUTE WHILE PATIENTS
DIE.
And one doctor takes another doctor
by the collar and pushes him back
against the counter, and one of the druggists
says, "If you will not admit that I
am right about that one bottle I will
smash every bottle in your apothecary
store," and he proceeds to smash.
Meanwhile, on the lower shelf, plainly
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HJUriveu UUU wiuiiu taoy icavuui& an
medicines needed tor the helping of the
sufferers by the accident, and in that
drawer, easily opened, arc bandages and
splints for the lack of which tifty people
are dying outside the drug store. Before
I apply this thought every one sees
its application. Here is this old world,
and it is off track. Sin and sorrow have
collided with it. The groan ot agony is
fourteen hundred million voiced. God
lias opened for relief and cure a great
sanitarium, a great house of mercy, and
all its shelves are filled with balsam?.
V-ftlr\ AHiAtiO
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help, tremendous help, help so easily
administered that you need not set upon
any step ladder to reach it. You can
reach it on your knees and then hand it
to all the suffering, and the sinning, and
the dying. Comfort for all the troubled!
Pardon for all the guilty! Peace for all
the dying! But while the world is needing
the relief and perishing for lack of It,
what of the church? Why, it is full of
fighting doctors. On the top shelf are
some old bottles, which several hundred
years ago Calvin or Arminius, or the
members of the synod of Dort, or the
formers of the Xicene creed filled with
ncuy mixtures, auu uuw ?c a itvisioa
of these old bottles and find out
whether we must take a teaspoonlul or
tablespoonful, aDd whether before or after
meals, let the nations sutler and
groan and die. Save the bottles by all
means, if you cannot save anything else.
Now, what parts shall you and I take
in this controversy which fills all Christendom
with clangor? My advice is,
take no part. In time of riot all mayors
of cities advise good citizeas to stay
at home or in their'places of business,
and in this time of religious riot I advise
you to go about your regular work for
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ItOci. jLeave tue uuiues uu tuc ui^uci
shelves for others to fight about, and
take the two bottles on tiie shelf within
easy reach, the two bottles which are ail
this dying world needs: the one filled
with a potion which is tor the cleansing
of all sin. the other filled with a potion
which is for the soothing of all suffering.
Two gospel bottles! Christ mixed them
out of his own tears and blood. In them
is no hu iiau admixture. Spend no time
on the mysteries! You, a man only
five or six feet high, ought not try to
wade an ocean a thousand feet deep.
My own experience has been vivid. I
uevoieu llie lllU3t Ui ui> umu 1U1 icaio
iu trying to understand God's eternal decrees,
and I was determined to find out
why the Lord let sin corne into the world,
and I set out to explore the doctrine of
the Triuity, and with a yardstick to
measure the throne of the Infinite. As
with all ray predecessors, the attempt
was a dead failure. For the last thirty
years I have not spent two minutes in
studying the controverted points of theology,
and if 1 live thirty years longer I
will not spend the thousandth part of a
second in such exploration. I know
two things, and these I will devote all
the years of ray life in proclaiming?God
will through Jesus Christ p trdon sin.
and he will comfort trouble.
KKEP OUT OK THE SijUABBLK.
Creeds have their uses, but just now
the church is creeded to death. The
young men entering the ministry aregoini;
to he launched in the thickest fog i
that ever settled on the coasts. As I i
am told that in all our services students
of Princeton and Union and Drew and
Other theological s iminaries are present.
and as these words will come to tiious- :
atds of young men who are soon to en- 1
t?v the ministry, let me say to such and 1
through them to their associates, keep
out oi'ihe bewildering, belittling, destroy- 1
ing and ar>gry controversies abroad. The
questions cur doctors of divinity are tryiuy;
to settle will not be settled until the
day after the day of judgment. It is
such a poor economy of time to spend
years aud years ir> trying to fathon the
unfathomable, when in five minutes in
heaven we will knor all we want to
Woit- till \va .rpt. nnr throne.
KUU'" .."W WW.
Wait imtii the light of eternity flashes j
upon our newly ascended spirits. It is
use-ess for ants on diil'erem sides of a
mole hill to try to discuss the comparative
heights ot Mount Blanc and Mouut
Washington. Let me say to all young j
men about to enter the ministry that {
soou the greatest novelty in the world
will be the unadulterated religion of
Je?us Chrst. Preach that and you will
have a crowd. The world is sick to regurgitation
with the modern quacks in
religion. The vorld has been swinging
oil'from the old Gospel, but it will swing
back, and by the time you young men go
inio the pulpits the cry will be eoming
up from ail the millions of mankiud,
"Give us the bread of life; no sweetened
hread. uo bread with sickly raisins stuck
here and there into it, but old fashioned
bread as God our mother mixed it and
baked it!"
You see, God knew as mueh when be
made the Bible as he knows nov. He
has not learned a single thing in six
thousand years. lie knew at the start
that the human race would go wrens and
what would be the best means of its restoration
and redemption. And the law
which was thundered on Mount Sinai,
from whose ton 1 had the two tables of
stone in yonder wall transported, is the
perfect law. And the Gospel which
Christ aunounced while dying on that
mount from which I brought that stone
in yonder wall, and which Paul preached
on that hill from which I brought yonder
granite, is the Gospel that is going
to save the world. Youmr man, put on
that Gospel armor! Xo other sword
will triumph like that, Xo other shield
will protect like that. Xo other helmet
will glance off the battle axes like that.
Our theological seminaries are doing
glorious work, but if ever such theological
seminaries shall cease to prepare
young men for this plain Gospel advocacy
and shali become mere philosophical
schools for guessing about God and
guessing about the Bible and guessing
about the soul, they will cease their usefulness,
and young men, as in olden
fimo fliAv wnnlf] sfnr?v for the
Gospel ministry, will put themselves
under the care oi some intelligent and
warm hearted pastor and kneel with
him in family prayer at the parsonage,
and go with him into the room of the
sick and the dying, and see what victories
the grace of God can gain when
the couch of the dying saint is the marathon.
VITAL 11ELIGION IS THE KEMEI>Y.
That is the way tne mighty ministers
of the Gospel were made in olden times.
Oh, for a great wave of revival to roll
over our theological seminaries and our
pulpits and our churches and our ecclesiastical
courts, and over all Christendom!
That would be the end of controversy.
While such a deluge would lloat
the ark of God higher an 1 higher, it
would put all the bears and tigers and
reptiles of raging ecclesiasticism fifteen
cubits under.
Xow, what is the simple fact that you
in the pew and Sabbath school class and
reformatory association and we in the
pulpits have to deal with? It is this:
That God has somewhere, and it matters
not where, but somewhere, provided
a great heaven, great for quietness
for those who want quiet; great for vast
assemblage for those who like multifmlps
oreat for architecture for those
who like architecture; great for beautiful
landscape for those who like beautiful
landscape; great for music fo>: those who
like music; great for processions for
those who like armies on white horses,
and great for anything that one especially
desires in such a rapturous dominion;
and through the doinss of one who
was born about five miles south ot Jerusalem
and died about ten minutes' walk
from its eastern gate all may enter that
great heaven for the earnest and heartfelt
asking. Is that ail? That is all.
What, then, is your work and mine?
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\JUZ WUIK IS W jJUiOUiiUC w muv,
that way and start thitherward and finally
go in. But has not religion somethins
to do with this world as well as
the next? Oh yes; but do you not see
that if the people start for heaven on
their way there they will do all the good
they can? They will at the very start
o.' the journey get so much of the spirit
of Christ, which is a spirit of kindness
and self sacrifice and generosity and burden
bearing and helpfulness, that every
step they take will resound with good
deeds. Oh, get your religion oil' of stilts!
Get it down out of the high towers! Get
it on a level with the wants and woes of
our poor human race! Get it out of the
dusty theological books that few people
read, and put it in their hearts and lives.
uood thing is H to proress religion wnen
you join the church, but every day,
somehow, we ought to profess religion.
A peculiar patchwork quilt was, during
the civil war, made by a lady and
sent to the hospitals at the front. She
bad a boy in the army, and was naturally
interested in the welfare of soldiers.
But what a patchwork quilt she sent!
On every block of the quilt was a passage
of Scripture or a verse of a hymn.
The months and years of the war went
by. On that quilt many a wounded man
had lain and suffered and died. But one
morning the hospital nurse saw a patient
under that blanket kissing the iigure
of a leaf in the quilt, and the nurse
supposed he was only wandering in his
mind. But no; he was the son of the
mother who had made the quilt and he
rofnorni'/eH thnl- of a leaf as nart
of a gown his mother used to wear, and
it reminded him of home. "Do you
know where this quilt came from?" he
asked. The nurse answered, "I can
find out, for there was a card pinned
last to it, and I will find that." Sure
enough, it confirmed what he thought.
Then the nurse pointed to a passage of
Scripture in the block of the quilt, the
passage which says, "When he was yet
a great way oft' his father saw him and
ran and fell on his neck and kissed him."
"Yes," said the dying soldier, "I was a
sreat way oil', but God has met me and
had compassion on me." "Shall I write
to your mother and tell her that the lost
one is f:>und and the dead is alive?" He.
answered, '*1 wish you would, if it would
not be too much trouble." I)o you suppose
that woman who made that quilt
and filled it with Scripture passages h:id
any trouble about who Melchizedek was,
or how the doctrine of God's sovereignty
can be harmonized with man's lree agency,
or who wrote the Pentateuch or the
inconsistencies of the Nicene creed? Xo;
uo; so to work for God and sullerin^ humanity
and all your doubts aud fears
and mysteries and unbeliefs put together
will not be heavy enough to stir the
chemist's scales, wnich is accustomed
lo weighing one-fiftieth part of a grain ot
chamomile ilowers. Why stop a moment
to understand the mysteries when
there are so many certitudes? Whyspend
our time exploring the dark garrets
and coal holes of a great palace
which has above ground one hundred
rooms llooded with sunshine'r It takes
an my urae 10 aosoro wuai iius uucu revealed,
so that I have no time to upturn
and root out and drag forth what has not
been revealed. The most of the eil'crt
to solve mysteries and explore the inexplicable
and harmonize tilings is an
attempt to help the Lord out ot theological
dilliculties. Good enough intention.
my brother, no doubt: but the Lord
is not anxious to have you help him.
He will keep his throne without your assistance.
Don't be afraid that the Bible
will fall apart from incc usistencies. It J
hung together many centuries before you i
were born, and your funeral sermon
will be preached from a text taken from
its undisturbed authenticity.
LAY HOLD OX GOD'S \VOKI>.
Do you know that I think that if all
ninisters m all denominations would stop j
this nonsense of ecclesiastical strife and i
take hod the world of God, the only
question with each of us being how many
souls we can bring to Christ and in how
short a time, the Lord would soon appear
for the salvation of all nations? When
the young queen of England visited
Scotland many years ago great preparations
were made for her reception. The
vessel in which she sailed was far out at
sea, but every hill in Scotland was illumined
with bonfires and torches. The
night was set on lire with artificial illumination.
The queen, standing on ship's
deck, knew from that that Scotland was
k.ii 1.
luuui iiearucdb ncx^uuiu, auu tuc muuder
of the great guns at Glasgow and
Edinburgh castle woke up all the echoes.
Boom! they sounded out over the sea.
Boom! the}* sounded up among the hills.
Do you know that I thiuk that our king
would land if we were onty ready to rece
ive him? Why not call to him from all
our churches; from all our hospitals, from
all our homes? Why ncu all at once light
all the torches of Gospel invitation?
Why not ring all the bells of welcome?
Why not light up the long night of the
world's sin and suffering with bonfires o?
victory? Why not unlimber all the Gospel
batteries and let them boom across
the earth, and boom into the partin.
heavens. The King is ready to land if
we arc ready to receive him. Why cannot
we who are now living see his descent?
Must it all be postponed to later
ages? Has not oar poor world groaned
long enough in mortal agonies? Have
there not been martyrs enough, and have
not the lakes of tears and the rivers of
blood been ^deep enough? Why cannot
the final glory roll in now? Why can
not this dying century feel the incoming
tides ot the oceans of heavenly mercy?
Must our eyes close in death and our
ears take on the deafness of the tomb,
and these hearts beat their last throb
before the day come id? 0 Christ!
Why tarriest thou? Wilt thou not, before
we go the way of all the earth, let
us see the scarred feet under some noonday
cloud coming this way? Before we
die let us behold thy hands that were
spiked, spread out in benediction for
a lost race. And why not let us, with
out mortal ears, hear that voice which
spoke peace as thou didst go up speak
pardon and emancipation and love and
holiness and joy to all nations as thou
comesidowD?
But the skies do not part. I hear no
rumbling of chariot wheels.coming down
over the sapphire. There is no swoop
of wings. I see no llash of angelic appearances.
All is stil1. I hear nothing
but the tramp of my own heart as I
pause between these utterances. Tl;e
king 'Iocs not land because the world is
iiuu ruiiiiy, aim uiu tuuitu is uvi> icauj.
To clear the way for the Lord's coming
let lis devote all our energies of bodv,
mind and soul. A Ilussian general riding
over the battle lield, his horse treading
amid the dying dead, a wounded
soldier asked him for water, but the oflicer
did not understand his language
and knew not what the poor fellow
wanted. Then the soldier cried out
"Christos," and that word meant sympathy
and help, and the Russian officer
dismounted and put to the lips of the
sullerer a cooling draught. Be that the
charmed word with which we go forth to
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it has only a little difference of termination.
Christos! Its stands for sympathy.
It stands for help. It stands for
pardon. It stands for hope. It stands
for heaven. Christos! In that name
we were baptized. In that name we
took our first sacrament. That will be
the battle shout that will win the. whole
world for God! Christos! Tut it on our
banners when we march! Put it on our
lips when we die! Put it in the funeral
psalm at obsequies! Put it on the plain
slab over our grave? Christos! Blessed
be his glorious name forever! Amen!
A Runaway Train.
A T/rnnvA. Pa.. .Tune 12.?A serious
accident occurred at 1 o'clock this morning
on the Pennsylvania and Northwestern
Ilailroad, at a point near Bellwood,
which resulted in the death of
three men. A freight train ot' thirty
cars, heavily laden with coal, left Llovdsville,
followed by a pusher. After
reaching the summit the train commenced
to descend the mountain side
at a high rate cf speed. The engineers
and crew applied the brakes, but they
failed to work on account of the slip
pery condition 01 tue iruc* uauscu uy
the rain. The runaway train keep on
in its made flight until a speed ofsentylive
miles per hour was reached. The
trainmen struggled with the brakes,
trying to save themselves and the train.
At Iloat's trestle, which is a curve, the
engine left the track, followed by twenty-nine
cars, which were pild up and
broken into all shapes.
A hunt for the missing employees
was instituted, when Engineer John
Simonton was found dead between the
sand box and bell. Fireman Millard
Frazier and Conductor VanScone were
taken out from under the tender, horribly
disfigured, ikakemen Dunn and
l'atrick jumped from the train when at
its highest sbeed. The former, going
over a steep embankment, was forced
through a stout fence. Ilis escape from
instant death was miraculous. lie only
received a slight wound. Patrick was
not so fortunate, and recei *-e 1 a number
of injuries, but none of them of a
serious nature.
Struck by Lichtninz.
St Louis, June 1G.?Durmg a severe
storm which came up between 1 and 2
o'clock this afternoon some twenty-five
picnickers were huddled together in an
AiitUiMioa in V/irncf- T^rL- ro-ir flip nfilif'P
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station, for protection from the rain.
They had scarccly got inside the building
when it was struck by lighting.
Nearly all the occupants of the outhouse
were more or less injured, one being
killed and three very seriously hurt.
Following is a list of casualties: Miss
Sadie McArthur, age 12 years, dead;
Mrs. Lizzie Golden, badly injured; Miss
Kate Bender, burned and otherwise scvi
Ant! linvf. \r-cc T.nnro
seriously injured. All the injured were
taken home and medical as-sistance
summoned. None or them are fatally
Injured.
Suicide of a School Girl.
Augusta, Ga., June 14.?Miss Anna
Bugg, the eighteen-year old daughter
of Mr. Sam Bugg, a respectable farmer
of this county, who lives two miles
from Ilephzibah, committed suicide this
morning on the Augusta, Gibson and
Sandtrsville liaiiroad train, while going
home from Augusta, by taking an overdose
of arsenic. Miss lings: would
l>o,-r> rrr-,rt no ? ?><> +>11.2 frrtlYl thP
IJCJ ? ^lUUUU VU V1_IW ?? V.VU. Ai. v V...
Ilephzibah High School with honors,
but came to Augusta yesterday to meet
and inarry her cousin, a young man of
25, named Clarence Iihodes. The young
man 1 ailed to meet her. and seeing no
escape from disgrace, the young lady
committed suicide as above stated,
lihocles lives at Hephzibah. There is
loud talk to-night against him, but he
has not been seen since this morning.?
News and Courier.
A.11 Outrage.
Aiken, S. C., June 12.?Although a
good audience greeted revivalists
Leitch and Marshall at their first meeting
in Graniteville last Monday night,
some malicious parties cut a number
ot' the ropes holding their tent. It'foui;d
out the full extent of the law will Le
given them. ? J
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THE LOWEST PRICE COTTON
HAS REACHED IN THIRTYSIX
YEARS.
Deplorable Condition of the Cott?n Market?The
lies alt of Overproduction?A
Talk With >Ir. S. M. Ioman About Future
Prospects.
Atlanta, Ga.. June 18.?Recently
spot cotton in New York reached 8%
cents, the lowest price since 1855. The
price of August futures was 8.26, the
lowest figure in the history future contracts.
The trouble is that the crop,has gone
1,250,000 bales above the conservative
estimates at the beginning of the season,
and we begin the new cotton year
with an enormous surplus. Intelligent
estimates of the crop last September
were 7,500,000; now experts think a
croD of 9,000.000 bales was actually
gathered. In this state of affairs the
price of cotton is lower than it has
been in thirty-six years. The only years;
j in that long period when spot cotton
has approached the present quotations
were 1855, when it was 8 cents, 1858
when it was 8;^, 1878 when it was 8
113-16 and 1886 when it was again 813-16.
The acreage for this year, which was
supposed to have been much reduced,
turns out to be only 2}^ per cent less
than that of last year. The large acreage
in Texas has counteracted the decrease
in the acreage elsewhere, and it
is estimated that we have now planted
20,779,205 acres against 20,852,320 in
1890. The government's report of the
condition of the crop is 85.7 against
S8.S last year at this time. If these conditions
continue a crup of not less than
~ /v\n mou ]io ovnor>tpr? t'nr thiq
I uaiw Kf\s v?.w
year, in addition to the large surplus
carried over.
The Atlanta Constitution prints
interview on the situation with Mr. S.
M. lnman, of the firm of S. M. Inman
& Co., whose long experience, immense
business and close connection with the
great markets undoubtedly enable him
to speak with more weight on this sub-*
wnn i T-> f^Oi Qmi M"?
jcub tuldu any jjjo?li jlu i/uv> >jvuuu.
When Mr. Inman was asked what he
thought of the situation and the outlook,
he gave his views a3 follows:
"The situation is something almost
unprecedented in the history of the cotton
trade. The American crop, which
was believed by many conservative people
in the beginning of the year to be
not over 7,250,000 to 7,500,000 bales
promises to turn out nearly 8,750,000;
that is, about 8,750,000 will be sold off
the plantations and come into sight,
while there will probably be 100,000 to
200,000 bales which will never leave the
plantations this season on account of
the low prices prevailing in the mar
kets. Hence it looks now as it tne
viel i of this crop, gathered between
September 1, 1890, and August 31.1891,
if it could all be counted, would be
somewhere between 8,800,000 and 9,000,000
bales.
"The crop of India will turn out
300,000 to 400,000 bales short this year?
in pounds about equal to 300,000 bales
of American cotton.
".Now take the increase of the American
crop?lay 8,800,000 bales, against
7,300,000 last year, giving an increase of
1,500,000 bales?and deduct the 300,000
shortage in the crop of India, and you
have an increase in the world's supply
' ' * ' i i r?/\n /v\A | A,,
lor r.^-.syear or prooaoiy uaico
of cotton. Whiie there will be a large
increase in consumption this year, it
will be nothing like sufficient to absorb
this enormous increase, and it will be
necessary to carry a great deal of old
cotton into the new year. This would
not be so bad if the producers had only
exercised ordinary business prudence in
planting another crop: but nearly all
evidence points to the fact that the
acreage in cotton this year is approximately
the same as last year, and while
there has been some trouble with the
crop in the Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee,
the crop in the balance of the
cotton-raising States is doing very well
and unless some disaster occurs we will
have another reasonably large crop.
"It is the fear of another large crop
which is at present depressing prices, j
more than the burden of the cotton that; j
has been made during the past year, Decause,
if the world were assured that
the next crop would not be over 7,500,000,1
think there would be a considera- j
ble rally from the present prices,
"As to the future of the martket, it
appears to me about this way: That if
we make another crop, in any wise approximating
the size of the one just
grown, we may look for a year of ;the
lowest prices which have ever prevailed.
You see we are on untrodden
ground. The future is one of uncertainty.
As I said before, with another
large" crop we may look for very low
prices, while on the other hand, with
anything: like a general disaster to the |
growing" crop, prices may be re-estab- j
lished and producers may secure re-!
munerative figures for their cotton next I
winter. " I
"While it would seem to be a calami- j
ty to have another crop made approxi-1
mating the size of the one we have just j
made, it may result in a blessing in the!
end, in turning the attention of the
Farmers' Alliance and other organizations
to the matter of controlling the
amount of cotton produced from year to
year. As I have said before, this is the
only hope of the South's growing rich
in eotton producing. The consumption
of the world is steadily increasing and
the South has a monopoly of the increase
in production, and if it could only
be used wisely instead of increasing
the production at double the rate of the
increase of consumption, all would go
well. The matter is in the hands of the
planters themselves and they are the
only parties who can control it."
Coi. Isaac Lipscomb Dead.
Columbia, S. C., June JG.?A private
telegram received hen tonight aa
nounces the death or uoi. jsaac 3. Lipscomb,
ex-secretary of stat";, at Bryson
City, X. C. The deceased was a native
of Xewberry; served as a gallant officer
in the calvalry in the Conlederacy, was
a member of the State Senate from XewLerry
county, selected secretary ot state
in 1882, holding the office until 188G.
lie was also master of the State Grange
for many years, and held other prominent
nositions Under Cleveland, he j
was head of the interior department at
"Washington.
More l)ea<l iloilie* jb'ound.
Uasle, June 10.?The lower one of!
the tworaiiroad cars suspended over
the broken bridge near Moenchenstein
where the accident to the excursion
train took place Sunday was lifced today
and more dead bodies were found.
The exact number of dead and wounded
is not yet accurately known. The
total number of dead is now placed at
130 and the number of injured about
300.
*4 T)PltUOt.
New York, June 17.?Mail advices
from Chile state that President Balmaceda's
Congress has invested him with
despotic povveis, giving him authority
to confiscate any and all property, to
dispose of public luads at will, to suspend
the right of assemblage and the
freedom of the press, and to arrest and
fix the residence of ail citizens. These
powers expire in September.
/
IT WAS THE GOVERNOR.
Surprise of Two Travelers Who Had Been
Conversing With a Carolinian.
Axlaxta, Ga., June 12?Mr. .John
Carey tells a good story at the expense
of two well known Atlanta men, one of
them Mr. Carey himself, and the other
nis ineDa j?ir. v auguu.
'\Mr. Vaughn and I were coming
through South Carolina the other day,"
said Mr. Carey, in telling the story, "and
were naturally keeping our eyes open,
discussing the looks of the lands, its
possibilities and its probabilities. .Behind
us sal a one-eyed gentleman who
seemed to listen quite attentively, ana
who, as we discussed matters particula ly
partaining to the farmers and agriculturists,
Jeaned over and joined in
our conversation. He talked of the
fertility of the soil, the possibilities
with the intensive system of farming,
and of the use of fertilizers in a way
which showed that he was thoroughly
posted. Both of 113 put our new found
friend down as being a fertilizer agent.
Then, naturally enough, we branched
off on politics. Mr. Vaughn expressed
in pretty strong language his opinioa
of the Governor of South Carolina. He
said he hadn't much confidence in Tillman.
Our friend suggested that possibly
1 - - * 1 ?- /"AtTAMrtAW 4-hnf
we (HQ HOT. KIIOW lilC UUYCiuyi ? wail
possibly we did him an injustice.
"Yes"' said Mr. Vaughn, 'but I haven't
much use for a man who will go around
in a political campaign with a body
guard of great red shirt followers to
help him out intimidating the other
crowd, and all that.'
"Well,' laughed our friend, 'you
didn't believe that, did you?'
" 'I saw it in the newspapers; it was
( Anpr?iiv reported' said Mr. Vaughn,
'and I think I have every reasoD to believe
it is true.'
"The other gentleman laughed heartily,
and turned off the conversation by
saying: "You don't oelieve everything
ycu see in the newspapers, do you'?'
"Our talk was on ttie same iine for a
few minutes," said Mr. Carey, "our
Carolininn all the time speaking tather
charily of Governor Tillman," but defending
him mildly whenever he was
suggested. Finally we got to his getting-off
place, and shaking bands with
us he moved off. While he was standing
on the platform we noticed that he
seemed to be very popular, and every
body seemed to know him. Turning
to some gentlemen who had beeo laughing
considerably as they overheard our
conversation, we asked who that gentleman
was. You can imagine how we
felt when they told us he was none
other than Governor Tillman.
"As I said," continued Mr. Carey,
"what struck him particularyabout the
Governor' was his readiness at answering
us, his evident large information
upon the subjects we touched upon,
hie -Fnma unri m arm prof rmttin??t,hin?S.
lie wasn't inclined to call a spade by
any other name than that used in the
hardware stores and he talked right
out once or twice about some charges
we referred to, calling them lies in very
plain language. They tell me that his
enemies respect him now that he is in
the chair, and that he is a good Governor."?Constitution.
A Terrible Accident.
13erne, June 15? Further details received
from the scene of the terrible
railroad accident which occurred yesterday
at a village near Basle Kailroad,
show that two engines and three carriages
loaded with excursionists fell into
the stream which flowed beneath an
iron bridge which gave way and caused
the disaster. These carriages and engines
now form a hopeless heap of
wreckage beneath the bridge structure
and by its own size prevented two other
carriages, which were suspended practically
m the air, rrom falling and still
further increasing the number of kill e
and wounded. At this hour eighty excursionist
are known to have been
drowned, though many of the bodies
have not been recovered yet. Of the
large number of persons injured many
have suffered so seriously that it
is considered likely that their injuries
torminotft fatally as thev consist
of bad lacerations, and in some cases
limbs have been completely severed.
The bridge or viaduct which collapsed
and caused the accident had only recently
been built and had just been strengthened
after sustaining damage.
Cold-Blooded Murder.
I Lexington, S. C., June 14.?Sheriff
j Drafts returned this evening from the
Hollow Creek section of this county,
where he had been in search of William
Woods, who killed Lizzie Dreher yesI
terday, as reported exclusively in The
j State this morning. Woods could not
he found. When last seen he was go:
ing in the direction of Columbia. From
what can be ascertained of the circum!
stances, the killing has the appearance
j of being a cold and premeditated murI
rni? vutraoloH tViO
aer. x ae wiuuci a iu^u?v i v-??,.v,
fact that the girl was ai ciente. She
and Woods had been sweethearts for
some time, and he had promised to
marry her. He became enamored of
another damsel in the neighborhood,
and the conclusion is that in order to
free himself from the consequences of
his courtship with Lizzie, he decided to
put her out of the way. Yesterday,
just after dinner, she went down to the
spring:, about 300 yards from her house.
Woods followed her and shot her in the
head. It is very likely lie will be caught,
as several are in pursuit ol' liirn.?The
State.
Repudiates the Movement.
Chicago, 111., June 15.?A Topeka,
Kansas, special says: Returns received
by the Alliance Executive Committee
from sub-Alliances which were asked
to pass judgment on the work done by
the Cincinnati convention, are far from
encouraging the People's Tarty politicians.
It is known that twenty-five
sub-Alliances have repudiated the third
party movement. Fifteen of these have
reported to the State Alliance and ten
to the Republican Central Committee.
Cloud County Alliance has adopted the
following resolutions:
Whereas the South was not represent- j
ed in the Cincinnati convention; and
Whereas we believe that the third
party will disrupt the Republican party
to the benelit of the Democratic party,
therefore be it resolved, that we abandon
the third party to return to our
past affiliation.
These resolutions, it is said, have
doubled significance, because Cloud
County is tho home of Senator Wheeler,
the only Alliance member of the Senate,
and has always been considered a
People's Party stronghold.
A l>lorynn Af T.rtPIl
London, June 18.?The most thrilling
stories come from Algeria of the
ravages of the locusts. In many districts
not a sprig remains on a farm,
and the inhabitants are in a famishing
condition. Their only resort for food
is the locusts themselves, of which vast
quantities are being consumed. The
French colonial authorities are taking
steps to stay the plague as much as possible
by the use of scientilic means.
The Chamber of Deputies has voted
60,000 francs to be used in destroying
the locust plague in Algeria.
MAKING AN EXAMPLE.
A Colored Jlilitary Company Disbanded
and Disarmed.
The following correspondence in relation
to the disarming of the John's Island
company, the members of which
produced a disturbance in Charleston
some time ago and who have been un
dergoingexaminatioD, will be read with
interest. Among the records is a transcript
of the testimony, which need not
be repeated. The letters are:
City oy Charleston, ?
Executive Department, May 7, '91. ^
Hon H. L. Farley, Adjutant and Inspector
General, Columbia. S.C?Sir:
On the 4th inst the National Guard was
inspected in the city by you, and I regret
to say that after the inspection a
serious riot was nearly participated by
the outrageous conduct of one of the
companies from the adjacent island.
It is a matter of gratiiication to know
that the affair was not participated in
by the city companies.
"I beg to enclose you the testimony
which I have had taken and request
that you will take such steps as may i
1 rtnilfrr TlQrflAa OA>AAnnf OTI/?
UiiJU? lliU gUiiwJ" uxw vv uvvvuuv uu\a
as will in the future prevent a repetition
of such outrageous conduct on the
part of those who are supposed to be
the defenders and supporters of the officers
of the law.
Alderman O'Xeill also informs mc
that he was interfered with by one of
the city companies on Caltioun street
i.-iof i-cri/ir tn the ir>anor?tir>n \ rAniiA^t.
JCiOU l/V jfvwv?vw? * N/?J V?v? W
that this matter be also investigated
and such action taken as you may deem
advisable.
I am very respectfully yours,
G. D. Bryan, Mayor.
Executive Department, )
Office Ad. and In. Gen'l. [
Columbia, S. C, May 15,1891. )
lion Geo D. Bryan, Mayor of the
City of Charleston?Dear Sir: Your
communication of the 7th. relative to
certain conduct on the part of the XaI
tional Guard, or certain command thereof,
has been duly received at this office
with accompanying papers, and proper
steps have been taken, upon consultation
with his Excellency, the Gover jor,
fnv o TK-rrvm-nf inTrocHcrMt.inn 51 rra??rn r 1PTIt,
XVI Ul i.U I V?k
of the parties alluded to.
Unless the matter is presented m a
different light from that in which it
now appears it is the intention and desire
of this department to make a proper
example of the parties involved in
order to prevent a recurrence of such'
scenes, and to show that of all the citizens
of the State the militia are more
smi 1 ?-s ?r r*r\n n? f.a/1 f CllOtoin
yai biuuiaiij ltv-jiuitu tu )jugbvuu vuv Vi.
iicers of the law and to preserve peace
and good order.
I am very respectfully your obedient
servant;. " II. L. Farley,
Adjutant and Inspector Genreal.
Charleston, S. C. May?, 1891.
lion G. D. Bryan, Mayor?Dear Sir:
I respectfully forward the testimony,
under oath, of the policemen wno were
present and arrested Julius Richardson
for being drunk and disorderly and improper
conduct on the corner of Meeting
street and South Battery, and which
nearly culminated in a serious disturbance
by the action of a James Island
militia company called the Hunter
Volunteers, Capt Isaac Ferguson in
command.
They attempted to rescue the above
prisoner and behaved in a very disorderly
and riotous manner, threatening
4Ua orwl inm'finrr tr* TxrV?l^h
l/LLC UlIIUwIO C4r IX ci. XUV/IUU^ tv i. XV Vj tva-i~lns*a
by the firmness and forbearance of the
police was avoided.
Julius Richardson was tried by the
Recorder and sentenced to five dollars
fine or fifteen days in Jail. The fine
was paid and the prisoner released.
Julius Richardson lives on Mr Charles
Rivers's place or plantation.
1' ours respectfully,
Joseph Golden, Chief of Police.
Official: Charles Liebenrood, Orderly
Sergeant.
Columbia, S. C., June 18,1891.
Gen H. L. Farley, Adjutant and Inspector
General, Columbia, S. C.?Sir:
Your letter of June 16, with enclosures,
is received. After a careful investiga
tiori and consideration or me mauer jl
agree with you that something must be
done to enforce discipline and to prevent
a second occurance of such unseemly
insubordination of the military
to the civil authority
You are therefore ordered to call in
the arms of the company in question
and suspend its officers, until further
orders.
Yours respectfully,
13. R. Tillman,
Governor and Commander-in-Chief.
Columbia, S. C., June 18,1891.
Special Order, Xo 14:.
The Hunter Volunteers, of Berkeley
County, Capt Isaac T. Ferguson commanding,
having on the 4th of May,
1891, been guilty of improper conduct
and violation of the law by attempting
to interfere with the civil authority of
the City of Charleston in the discharge
of their duty, it is hereby ordereu:
That the officers of the above named
company, Hunter Volunteers X. G., be
suspended, and Capt Isaac T. Furguson,
commanding, will on the receipt < ? this
order without unnecessary delay turn
overall uniforms, arms and equipments
and other property received from or belonging
to the State now in his possession
to Col W. II. liobinson, who is
hereby authorized to receive and hold
the same until otherwise ordered. J3y
order of the Governor,
If. L. Parley,
Adjt and Ins Gen, S. C.
Official:- J. Gary Watts, Assistant
Adjutant and Inspector General.
Col. I'olk for President.
Atlanta, June 10.?President Polk
of the .National Alliance took dinner in
Atlanta to-day, on his way to Missis,
sippi, where he goes to make speeches
along with "Brer" Livingston.
President Polk talked a little while
in town. His theme was the "People's
Party," and he praised it to the skies.
Xottiing could, in his opinion, be urged
against the Cincinnati convention and
its output. The new party stood upon
equality of rights and those great principles
of justice on which the American
government is founded. The permanency
of the movement and of the
party he did not doubt.
Neither did he believe that the farmers
of the South would falter to support
it. They, in common with all the
farmers, North, East and West, were
common sufferers from a common evil,
that, vicious, partial and discriminating
legislation which robs the many
to "enrich the few, and which has dwarfed
unjustly the rights of the citizens
and magniiied unduly the rights of the
dollar.
Referring to the mention of his name
in connection with the People's Party
nomination for the Presidency, Col.
Polk, of course declared that he had no
aspirations, would not seek office, etc.,
at the same time, if the lightning chose
to strike in his direction it should find (
that he was no dodger, not a bit or
it.
The Colonel s own words were: "I am
at the call of my people. I have never
yet shirked any duty they have imposed
upon me, and when they call me I am
ready to serve them."
VERY MUCH LIKE A JOB.
m
A PERVERSION OF THE SCHOOL
FUNDS OF THE STATE.
II
The Colombia State Exposes a Little
-
Game that Should be Broken Up?
' * V
Attempt to Subsidize a Private Enter- ' prise.
Columbia, S. C., June 12.?The following
circular letters have been sent .
to the school commissioners of the several
counties of South Carolina by W.
J. Thackston, the chief clerk of the
State Superintendent of Education:
"Office of )
"Palmetto School Journal, [
"Columbia, S. C., J une 4/1891. )
"Dear Sir: The State board of examiners,
at their meeting in April, made
the Palmetto School Journal the official
means of communication between the
trustees and the department of educa- . " .
t ion. The State superintendent of education
designed to aid and instruct
trustees in the department which he
will conduct. In this way trustees will
not only have their attention drawn to
the laws governing the public schools
of the State, but will also be helped and
encouraged to improve their schools in
many ways which he will indicate and
make practical. The enclosed letter,
which tully explains itself, I beg you to
sign and return to me at once. I will
uavc cupies uiaue aau. manea to eacn
board in your county.
"Your" cordial assistance is most "-cii?
earnestly solicited iu this effort, believing
that the interest that will most
surely be aroused will repay you a hun- "^1
dredfold in the help it will give you in - your
efforts to improve the schools
committed to your keeping.
' You are especially invited to send
items of interest concerning the schools . ,
of your county. I send you a copy of
the Journal. As each number ot the
Journal will contain vifcAl infnrmat,iAi>
???
that will appear only once, it is important
that you give attention to this at
once. "Very truly, "W.
J. Tiiackston.
' Editor and Owner Palmetto Journa
(Enclosure.)
U _
"Dear Sir: The State board of examiners
has adopted the Pallmdtto School
Journal as the official means of communication
between the department of
education and school officers. A special
department will be edited by the State
Superintendent ot' Education, in which
school law and questions relating to
the government and improvement of
the schools will be discussed.
''The State board, with ourselves,
most earnestly desire that every trustee
should receive the Journal, and by
resolution of the State board trustees
are authorized to subscribe for the same
rtuu iaouc ah uj.uci uu uuuuuy ueasuier
in payment for same.
"Enclosed you will find claim partial- ^
ly filled out tor the three (3) trustees of
your district. Have these claims signed
by your board and return them to me
in order tliat your name may be forwardel
to the State superintendent
and have your names put on the mailing
list of the Journal. Yery truly,
u yy
This is a very interesting situation
indeed! The State superintendent of
education and his chief clerk have a
little alliance among themselves, and a
n<~t kno vv whether the superintendent of
journal is issued by the latter, of which
tne lormer eaits a department. we ao
education is a "silent partner" in the
enterprise or not, or whether he is to
receive compensation for editing his
department or not. That is a side issue. ^
We do know that an attempt is being
made to make one department of the
State government at once a public office
and a private "trust"?to take the
money of the people and put it into the
pocket of an officeholder?to make the
taxes of the counties support Mr.
Tbackston's journal.
The declaration that the State board --- 1 - "**
of trustees has passed a resolution authorizing
this perversion of the public
funGS does not come directly, it will be
seen, from Mr. Thackston. He puts it
in the moutbs of the county school
commissioners. If it be true, the board
has done an act which it will find it
very hard to j ustify. If it is true, there
is leception as well as jobbery.
I?ut no. matter how it stands, this affair
is scandalous. It compels the
tak.'ns? of three copies of the Palmetto
School Journal in every school district
of the State at the expense of the tax
payers, and the money goes into the
pockets of Mr. Thackston individually,
or Mr. Thackston and his backers. It
is estimated that the sum thus proposed
co be drawn from the connty treasuries
will amount to from S3,000 to $5,000
annually.?The State.
Will Ficht the Pistol License.
Charleston, S. C., June '16.?The
State is about to have another vexatious
iaw suit thrust upon its hands, growing
out of an Act of the last Legislature.
The law providing for a license of $200 - ^
xor tne sale 01 jjisluis auu pisuji cartridges,
which goes into effect on the
23d instant, will r>e resisted by the manufacturers
of these articles. They have
retained Mordecai and Gadsden, law- J
yers of this city, and have instructed
them to resist the payment of license M
in every County in the State where an
attempt is made to enforce the collection
of the tax. Dealers throughout
the State will be notified that the manufacturers
will pay all the expenses of
the litigation. The fight will probably
be transferred to the Federal courts
The ground upon which the law is tobe
resisted is the decision of the United JZ
Stites Supreme Court known as the
original package case, in which it was
new tnai a uceuse ou guuus scul iiuux
one State to another in the original
package was unconstitutional. The
tight promises to be as interesting as
the Coosaw case and the railroad and
bank assessment cases. The fight will
be made by manufacturers in Xew
York, Boston, Hartford, Chicago and
other cities.?Columbia Register.
About an Ox.
Ciieraw, S. C., June 19.?In Mount
r,ra<rham townshio. in this county,
about nine miles from Chesterfield
Court House, J. B. Jordon was killed
yesterday by one Miles. Jordon had
bought an ox from Miles, and had only
paid him a part in cash. When Miles
caine for the rest of the money Jordan
tcld him he could not pay him the rest
then. Whereupon Miles told him he
must have the money or the ox. Jordan
objected, and Miles went into Jordan's
field to get the ox, which was
T 3 *1" vmfU n
plowing. <Joraiiu S'.ruca. jjxuco muia
small stick, Miles, in retaliation, stabbed
him in the face, heart and back,
which resulted in his death. Miles, at
last account had not been captured.
Both men are white.?State.
A Pleasure Party Drowned.
Petekboro, Ont., June 18.?A party
of eleven persons living at Hiawatha
went sailing in a small yacht on Kice
Lake last evening. A sudden squall i
capsized the craft, and John Foote, his
nineteen-vear-old daughter and three
year-old "baby were drownea. xne
others were rescued. The bodies of the
drowned were recovered.
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