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a-* VOL. XLVI. WINNSBORO, S. C, WEDNESDAY, JULY 15, 1891. NO. 48. RF GOSPEL OF THE WEATHER, is a mail who ha I DR. TALM aGE PREACHES ON THE cannot stand the COMPLAINTS A30UT THE RAIN- ??ust have a clot 1 ium. The Wonderful Imagery of the Book of ^ the SUDS out plenty of sui Job-How the Study of It Haa Made wavS have enOU Weak Mew Into Infidels?Never Wade j Ships meet in mi I cmnir to Southai o a Mystery Over Voui Head. COmiUiT to Xew 1 J^vpeople believe. The weather rain5 and there is is a common object of complaint and out for a field exi fault finding, but Dr. Talmage finds a er that will sui gospel in it. which today he proclaims pleasure excursii From the text, "Ilath the'rain a father?" take one dollar c , Job xxxviii, 28. company. Tkei I This Book of Job has been the sub- the universe I ject of unbounded theological wrangle, provide the-right I Men have made it the ring ra whk-h to work}. ''Haiti t P display their ecclesiastical pugilism. G0D is i2;finit .. ii..t TJ/v/iV InK 10 o t.mp ' j^vome say iu&l cuc x>wa v* w M _ hislory; others, that it is an allegory; My text also others, that it is an epic poem; others, supervisal. 1 o that it is a drama. Some say that Job 21? everJ" dr?P ?f lived eighteen hundred years before sf*?*'er aJ-e *??t 1 Christ, others say that he never lived at who kno^ all. Some say that the author oi this ^row-s or where book was Job; others, David; others, shining princes Solomon. The discussion has landed f,ave. .f? eter?a^ I some ia blank infidelity. Xow, I have the children of a no trouble with the Bocks of Job or iather-'' Weill Revelation?the two most mysterious potlce ?f every i books in the Bible?because of a rule I ^ e D?tice ol the adopted some years ago. ?* *"e* 18 1 wade down into a Scripture passage things that bo - - r- vV e look ud r~ --fts long as I can touch bottom, anc WDen <. I cannot then I wade out. I used to an(fwesa}% wade in until it was over my head and j?sl=Ql"caat we then I got drowned. I study a passage ?* ^ouut of Scripture so long as it is a comfort -^anci ai ^ " and help to my soul, but when it be- f5mf' ^ i i comes a perplexity and a spiritual up- "Though the wc lQru:a*_JL-<}ujk. In other words, we ^ one m""0n fo ou-ht to wade in up to our heart, but never wade in until it is over our head. ase' .p. whet !Xo man should ever expect to swim immens: across this great ocean ol divine truth, trouble to look 1 ?:o down into that ocean as I go down concIusion. Sat ; into the Atlantic ocean at East Hamp- er.are no P101".6 w ton. Loos Island, just far enough to f. swung by th - . tho oriAtmlpe nn 1 bathe; then I come out. I never had "T" "*v~ ? any idea that with my weak hand and a"?r a shower, loot I could strike my way clear over to . r0(1 .ls n? mor Liverpool. 1S111 minutia?. J god's mysterious government. tfae mountains, ! I suppose you understand your family enouSh to weigh genealogy. You know something about can 20 roore see your parents, your grandparents, your 8c.?Pe than you c great giandparents. Perhaps you know ^lcroscope; no where they were born, or where they f*au, when you died. Have you ever studied the par- , , irrsT. of yoc entage of the shower,' "Hath not the -~n(* . Himalavi rain a lather?" This question is not :e ram a .ather! o -nnafofttpr or a scientist. but ? ^ Particular I {13 liCU VJ J M ^/VV wmv k ? by the head of the universe. To hum- |^lai0Tl.u?, T.ei'Y..1 ble and to save Job God asks him four- ... God fat! teen questions: About the world's ar- f,ny, 5!n3 s0 1DSI chitecture, about the refraction of the no sun's rays, about the tides, about the " hen Druyse snow crystal, about the lightnings, and ^ . =un>' then he arraigns him with the interroga- w badowa, wai tionof the text, 'Ilath the ram a fath- v" .n a a^mer; eryj> short cut by wl With th i scientific wonders of the rain frmJ UP s?oa f1 1 have nothing to do. A minister gets iS,? inland, I through.with that kind ot sermons with- ,n -"3,'r< in the first three years, and if he has u piety enough he gets through with it in ? ?e the first three months. A sermon has was a m come to me to mean one word of four . . ] letters," "help!" You all know tnat the ?own? When t w>;^ ia nnt on nrnhnn. You know it is besieged at Sezu xam ao j-tw not cast out of the gates of heaven a ??er ca:-a'i foundling. You would answer the ques- bell, not tion of ray text ih the affirmative. *D=' wakin Safely housed during the storm, you =>**Vtheir enemii - hear the rain beating against the window was it: an accidei: 1 pane, and you ind it searching all the When in one c crevices of the window sill. It first ing mother, dyini comes down in solitary drops, pattering saQk down and the dust, and then it deluges the fields the night and h and angers the mountain ^torrents, and bottle of milk, d f makes the traveler implore shelter. God is either m 1 I You know that the rain is not an acci- religi?nis worth | dent ofthe world's economy. Yea know haQd better take p it was bom of the cloud. You know it instead of this i was rocked in the cradle of the wind, doctrine, gives i You know it was sung to sleep by the usi as the fane storm. You know that it a flying evan- ber ?f parliamer ?1 to parth. Vou know it out. "Head me SW J1V1U UV?.V- t is Ibe gospel of the weather. You know ?" that God is its father. Oh! my friend If this be true, then how wicked is appreciation of I our murmuring about climatic changes, fairs of our life The first eleven Sabbaths after I enter- mand, and un< ed the ministry it stormed. Through Alexander's w: the week it was clear weather, but on would allow an^l the Sabbaths the old country meeting he was unharn house looked like Noah's ark before it they put on that landed. A few drenched people sat be- tlte saddle and U fore a drenched pastor; but most of the queror he would farmers stayed at home and thanked ander to touch ! God that what was bad for the church horse could ha\ was good for the crops. I committed a owner, shall not good deal of sin in those days indenounc- the fact that we ing the weather. Ministers of the Gos- "Hath the rain i pel sometimes fret about, stormy Sab- god's ways au baths, or hot Sabbaths, or inclement , Thov fnrorftt thft fact that the ^ my su A?jvj -? _ same God who ordained the Sabbath and ^?a's dealings v sent forth his ministers to announce sal- w.as _ e or vation also ordained the werther. "Hath J . raiQ was a the rain a father?" - ancients. ^ 1 hey INCESSANT COMPLAINTS OF TIIE tn(;.wat?r b WEATHER. and setting then Merchants, also, with their stores fill- Pen .' ?r *a'lu ed with new goods, and their clerks cJovva 1U ^roPs? hanging idly around the counters, com- a. -ra,n*. says t rait the same transgression. There air 01 Gllle^eny i have been seasons when the whole are..c ^. .wl, spring and fall trade has been ruined P?rl*on 01 air (le rby protracted wet weather. The mer- s0 -vater cia ^^mts then examined the ''weather XfPor"a cl , i>rob"aou?^les,? with more interest than , some Oi th they read their Bibles. They watched ? - ,as iai"e a* t'nr ft natch of blue sky. They went almost quiet j -1 Aimfn mo a T r?i complaining to the store and came com- < " ^ SEg plaining home again. In all that season ,,m ^ase.t0 ||g of wet feet and dripping garments and mi^es a minute. ?F. impassable streets they never once asked But after all tl K the question, "Hath the rain a father?" of Dr. James Hi B So agriculiurists commit this sin. other scientists, gf There is nothing more annoying than to mystery about B have planted :oru rot in the ground be- ocean of the unfa cause of too much moisture, or hay all (k?r< and God s; B ready for the mow dashed of a shower, lJie tiuie of Job, I or wheat almost ready for the sickle stand one drop spoiled with the rust. How hard it is prised if my dea! . to bear the agricultural disappointments, plicable." Why God has infinite resources, but I do not decrepit, beggai ' ~ *1 I tvnrld ?nr? f iip VV'< thick he has capacity to make w earner . to please all .he farmers. Sometimes it while here is a m is too hot, or it is too cold; it is too wet, ted to God. hat or it is too dry; it is too early, or it is every respect, wl too late. They forget that the God who old gossip, gac promised seed time and harvest, sum- about everybody mer and winter, cold and heat, aiso or- have such good 1 darned all the climatic changes. There tian mother, wit is one question that ought to be written about her wlion on every barn, on every fence, on every usefulness and .t haystack, on every farmhouse, "Hath who ycu think < the rain a father?" hour from that If we only knew what a vast enter- she lie down and prise it is to provide appropriate weath- Why does th; er for this world we should not be so core, go ou add: critical of the Lord. Isaac Wa'ts at ten consuming every years of age complained that he did not tiuue to prosppe; like the hymns that were sung in the i has been giving English chapel. "Well," said his fath-1 income to God a er, "Isaac, instead of your complaining \ bankruptcy? B< ? , j ?1"~ h*.r.inc I fools of ourselv aDOUl Hie uymuss, SJU auu uitiLijmLAj -- that are belter." And he did 20 and this everlasting make hymns that were better. Xow, I where we eann< say to you if you do no& like the weather nian take that < get up a weather com^ny and have a aDd follow it far : president, and a secretary*, and a treasur- he will land in v er, and a board of directors, and ten tion. We want f ^ f stock, and then pro- interrogation marks and more exclamait will suit us all. There tion points. Heaven is the place for s a weak head, and he explanation. Ear;h is the place for ! glare of the sun. You trust. If you cannot understand so id always hovering over minute a thing as a raindrop, bow can you cxpect to understand God's dcalhine: I cannot live *rith- iD^'" "Hath the rain a father?" aliorvJt, so vou r ust al- Again, my text makes me think that "h= li?ht for me Two rain tears *s divine origin. 3 AtWv. Thorvn^ic Great clouds of trouble sometimes hover ffw ? over us. They are black, and they are L'ork Provide weather gorged, and they are thunderous. They , ~ , io\iue v\eatner Hre morfc portentous than balvator or aoau, ior one snip, 11 is qau(ie ever painted?clouds of poverty, torthe other. There is or persecution, or bereavement. They iried up for the lack of hover over us, and they get darker and > a pleasure party going blacker, and after awhile a tear starts, cursion. Provide weath- and we think by an extra pressure of t the dry farm and the the eyelid to stop It. Others follow, on. Xo, sirs, I will not and after awhile there is a shower of )i stock in your weather tearful emotion. Yea, there is a rain e is only one Being in oi tears. "Hath that raia a father?" ho knows enough to GOD sees OUli tears. , kind of weather for this '"Oh," you say ?a tear is nothing but he r?;n a father^-3' a drop ot limpid fluiu secreted by the lachrymal gland?it is only a sign of e in ixkixitesimai.s. weak eyes." Great mistake" It is one suggests God's minute of the "Lord's richest benedictions to ~ - ~ ^ - 11 rm WlortL-. a see Uie divine Sonstup uie wunu. mere (uc^iciii rain. The jewels of the well's Island insane asylum, and at tlunsr away by a spend- Utica, and at all the asylums of this *-s not how manv hp Ianci, who were demented by the fact thevfall Th^v areaU that Wy could not crv at the right of heaven. They ail tin^: "-maniac in one of our lineacre ThPv are all Publlc institutions, uuder a Gospel seriinea=e.__i ney are an mon tnat started the tears: "Do you King. Hath the ram a see ttjat tear? that is the first 1 have .hen. I say u God takes vvept for twelve years. I think it will 3imute ramurop he will help niv brain." i most insignificant affair There are a great many in the grave ?the astronomical view w ho could not stand any longer under thers me. the glancier of trouble. If that glacier into the night heavens, had" only melted into weeping tney orPIs: worlds!" anil how could have endured it. There have feu! We stand at the been times in your life wh&n you would Washington or Mont have given the world, if you had pos:el that we are only in- s?sstd it, tor one tear. \ oil could w-p cqv tn nnr?pivp? shriek, you could blaspheme, but you irld ;s so lar-'e the sun could not cry. Have you never seen a ?r man holding the hand of a dead wife, ^n* m -if J 9 . who had belli all the world to him? un. wesa\, it is no The temples livid with excitement, the 5ls that great machinery eVe ^rv an(j frantic, no moisture on the lty he will not take tue upper* or lower lid. You saw there down at me.7' Infidel were bolts of anger in the cloud, but urn, "Mercury and Jupi- no rain. To your Christian comfort, i rounded and weighed he said, "Don't talk to me about God; e hand of God than arc there is no (Jod, 01 if there is I hate l lilac bush the mortiiug him; don't talk to me about God; would he have left me and these motherless e in magnitudes than he children V" [f he has scales to weigh I>ut a few hours or days after, comin<r across some lead pencil that she the infinitesimal. You owned in life, or some letters which she > him through the tele- wrote when he was awav from home, an see him tlirou-h the ""I a" outcry that appals. there bursts more when jou look up fllf; 01 tear?' ?ai a? .Jhe ?,"n: 7 i- a. light ot Gods consolation strikes that , L T.ii." x ? fountain of tears, you find out that it ir head a.l- numbered:1 js u tender hearted, merciful, pitiful and i has a God, ' Hath not ail-compassionate God who Avas the I taKe this doctrine father of that rain. "Oh," you say, "it 'rovidence, and I thrust is absurd to think that God is going to cnidst of your everyday watch over tears." No, my friends, aers a raindrop, is there There are three or four kinds of them gnificant in your affairs that God counts, bottles and eternizes, t father that? First, there are all parental tears, and . the gunsmith, invented there are more of these than of any ,vhich decided the battle other kind> because the most of the race 3 it a mere accident? die in infancy, and that keeps parents i boy showed Blucher a mourning all around the world They lich he could brine his "ever get over it. They may live to ucn be could bring his shout aad siDg afterward, but there is notion to decide \\ ater- always a corridor in the soul that is was it a mere accident:-' silent, though it once resounded. >n took a piece of money ;\jy parents never mentioned the p to decide whether or death 01' a child who died fifty years beaffianced to M;3s Mill- fore without a tremor in the voice and :ere accident which side a sigh, oh, liow deep fetched! It was vas up and which was belter she should die. It was a mercy lie Christian army was she should die. She would have been a ;rs, and a drunken^irum- lifelong invalid. But you cannot artrue midnight and rang the away a parent's grief. How often you kuowioj what he was hear the moan, "OH, my child, my child." ?up the host in time to riien there are the final tears. Little ?n^man( ?children soon get ever the loss ot par?that moment arriving, ems They are easily diverted with a new toy. But where is the man that >f the Irish wars a starv- has come to thirty or fcrty or fifty I with her starving child, years of age, who can think of the old fain tec on the rocks in people without having all the fountains er hand fell on a warm ?f bis soul stirred up? You may have id that just happen so? hacl t0 take care of her a good many ;he affairs of men or cur 3'ears> but you never can forget how nothing at all, and vou l*sed to take care of you. it a vav frorr ik nrrl rnere have beea many sea captains 5 ble SLh teaches the ,conv^ted in our church, and the pecu?? '????,?? 11, i liaritv of them was that they were is a secular book, and nearly au prayed ashore by their lous Mr. i: ox, ine mem- mothers, though the mothers went- into it, in his last hour, cry the dust soon after they went to sea. the eighth book of Vir- Ilave you never heard an old man in delirium of some sickness call for his s, let us rouse ud to an mother:1 I he fact is we get so used to [he fact that all the af- calling tor her the first ten years of oar are under <1 kind's rom- llfe vve Dever &et over aod wheQ she 'er 1 father's3watch goes away from us it makes deep sora ijiuei s >vdiui. row> You sometimes, perhaps, in days ar horse. l>ucephaius, 0j- trouble and darkness, when the bO(.v to mount h'.rn when World would say, ''You ought to be essed. but as soon as able to take care of yourself'?you war horse Bucephalus, wake up from your dreams finding ic trappings of the con- yourself'saymg, ':Oh, mother! mother!" allow uoone but Alex- ilave these tears no divine origin? lim. And if a soulless Why, take all the warm hearts that :r> <sn mnfii nrirte in his ever beat in all lanas, and in all ages, wc immortals exult in and put them together and their united are owned hv a kino? throb would be weak compared with , fiither*-" n" the throb of God's eternal sympathy. Ves. God also is father of all that rain :e past finding out. 0f repentance. bject teaches me that you ever see a rain of repentnth us are inexplicable, ance? 1)j you know what it is that igina! force of my text, makes a man repent? 1 see people gojjreat mystery to the ing around trying to repent. They could not understand cannot repent. Do you know no man liould set into the cloud, can repent until God helps him to re?, how it should be sus- P^V How do I know? By this pasjtr whv it should come sage, Jlim hath God exalted to be a Modem science comes Prm? 'i?11 s Saviour to give repentriere are two portions 01 "n,ce- " ls a tremendous hour on,i when one wakes up and says: "lam temperature, and the.} H ^ miin j have DQt sinDe(i against 1 mois.ure, and the one ]HVVS 0f but j have wasted creases .u temperature ajy j^e. HS^ei] me jor 1Tly services y no longer be held :n anj 2 haven't given those services. Oh, ills. And they tell us my sins; God lorgive me." When that e clouds that look to be tear starts it thrills all heaven. An ? a man's hand, and to angel cannot keep his eye olT it, and n the heavens, are great the church of Goil assembles around, ist four thousand feet and thrre is a commingling of tears, ?, and that they rush and God is the Father of that rain, the Lord, long suffering, merciful and gra, .... . . cious. ie bniuant experiments . , iffnn rtnrl Sxnssnro nnrl TIIE CRY 0F A MOTHER S IIKAIlT' "there ~is~an "infinite In a religious assemblange a man I the rain. There is an arose and said: "I have been a very | thomable in every rain- kicked man; I broke mother s heart, I nvs todavashe?aidi-i beca::Qe an mhdel. but l have seen my evil way, and I have surrendered loou cannot jccicr- my. }ieart to God, but it is a grief that of rain, do no be sup- x never can get over that my parents iings with you arc mex- should never have heard of my salva dues that aged man, tion; I don't know whether they are livred, vicious, sick of the I ing or dead." While yet he was standing nid eiek of him, live on, in the audience a voice 1 rora the gallery an in mid life, :onsecra- said, "Oh, my son! my son!" He looked d working, uselul in up and he recognieed her. It was his 10 dies? Why does that old mother. She had been praying for idiui: along the street nun a great many years, and when at 's business but her own l*ls *oot cross the prodigal son -ealth wlrle the Chris- aai^p ravine mother embrace 1 each h a dock -J little ones i other' there ^as a rain- H tremendous n a nock a litue ones rai f and God was the Fat]ier i she is preparing for L, t'hese t(,a'rs 0h that (;od would or Lea\en the mother | i)rea]{ lts down with a sense of our sin, I'ould not be spared an an(i ^en us -with an appreciation household?why does of his mercy. Tears over our wasted die with a cancer? life. Tears over a grieved spirit. Tears a mau, selfish 10 the over an injured father. Oh, that ng fortune to fortune, God would move upon this audience thing on himself, con- with a great wave of religious emotion, r. while that man. who j The king of Carthage was dethroned, ten per cent, of all his His people rebelled against him. lie thr> r-hnrHi anos -ntn ' w^s driven into banishment. His wife "tore wmakestork i children were outrapouslv abused. ps let us <itnn nrp^ino I 1 ear? weut b3">aud the klDS of Cartha. *i . j> r I , . . 1?? m^de many friends. He gathered \\h\. - Let us worship : up a grea^ arm'y. He marched again >t uncerstand. Let ...a i toward Casfcage. Reaching the gates one question, "\Vhyy ,0f Carth^?^5be best men of the place mough, and push it, and j Came out "^efooted and bareheaded, rretchedness and perdi-1 and with ropes around their necks cryin our theology fewer I ing for mercy. They said: "We abused you and we abused your family, but we \ V A TT P 0 A T\ If 4 cry for mercy." The kiog of Carthage riAlLlluAl' ii? looked down upon the people from his chariot and said: '"I came to bless, I AWFUL DESTRUCTION didn't come to destroy. You drove me out, but this day I pronounce pardon RAVENNA, OH for all the people. Open the gates and let the army come in." The king A 1>asseDKer Train ltun : marched in and took the throne, and Ke?r by a Freight Train, the people all shouted, "Long live the fUiiy wrecked and set < bern of the Dead Ro.it.ted My friends, you have driven the Lord Jesus Christ, the King of the church, Ravenna, 0., July 3 away from your heart; you have been railroad accident everocc maltreating him all these years; but he Yjcjnjty happened at 3 come back to-dav. lie stands in front ' - ' m, , of the gates of your soul. If you will morrim>=?- The horrible only pray for his pardon he will meet fairly appalled the town j you with his gracious spirit and he kood. Twenty people wi will say : 'Thy sins and thine inlqui- t<nejr bodies turned to a remember no more. Open thaQ tbat numt,er were wide the gate, I will take the throne. charred v-mains of the de My peace I give unto you. And then, from the mins Qf the de all through this audience, from the senger train as fast as tin youpg and from Lie old, there will be i)e subdued, oy the towi a rain nt tours and (>0(1 Will be the au-T " ~ Itlllieu LU l/UC IWtuc. I lather of that ram. sights as were witnessed MORE DEVASTATION. morning hours made the sick. A Cvclone in Mississippi and a Storm In All express, loaded Witt sengers, was run into by i <,xas* while the express was at New Orleans, La., July 7.?A this city. The wreck of Times-Democrat, Madison Mississippi, was te"ible and con ' , x . T- to.the condition of the un: special says: A cyclone struck this sengers who were imprisc place about 11 o'clock yesterday. It ^rjs the train caught lire was preceded by a fearful rumbling sound sumed. In this way deatl that came from the southwest. Disas- through the wrecked tr ters are reported as follows: light twenty bodies, neai H. E. McKay's plantation, destroying charred in a horrible mac negro cabins, killed Wesely Young, en out. xwenty-tnree in colored and, wounded several others, been rescued. A large n Dr. J. II. McKay's building was wreck- were glassblowers ed. The s'.orm than passed across the ,plr ^.ay.e^t from Find. rail road levelling telegraph poles. The exDressSthedress^dmea residences of Glascock and Brown were 7 c , u i i. ? i> i tnicago, ana was runnin first reached in town Both houses miies an hour when it st were wrecked, and muchol the furniture senger train. The accide was destroyed and stock injured. The carelessnees'in leaving a? Presbyterian church and school building ?he pSger v were completely swept away and on.A. vestibule express with < M.Jones' place outstanding buildings from Cincinnati to Xew were destroyed and stock was injured. Xew York, Pennsylvar Trees, orchards and shrubbery were Railroad, was forty-six ruined. Passing out of the town to the and the engineer was try northwest, the cyclone completely de- j ^e. *n the engine 1 stroyed two colored churches and the p*1#"0 was sighted in residence of Handy Lee, colored., _ Galveston, Tlx., Jul} <. ine not stopped on the d storm which raged here Saturday night time, and it crashed into 1 and Sunday culminated Suuday even- passenger train, ing about 9 o'clock. A driving south :The rear coach conta: southwest wind, accompanied by rain, passengers, all glass *woi caused much of the lower portion of the emplDyed at tne Ivich city to become practically inundated. Works in Findlay, who' At 7 o'clock the wind reached a velocity way to their homes in Xe of fifty-five miles per hour. car was completely d( The electric light plaut was useless, a "-errible slaughter occur and the darkness, added to the. fury of George Holman, the ei the storm, made anything like travel ^ that 1 am to blame impossible, and caused ^any to fear a j couifl ^ave got sand ' repetition of the storm and lloodol ISSo. s>oppecj the train, butt The most d&m&^e done wes q.1od?J the wui 2,nd th6 szind would gulf beach where the terrific force of the wa3 not warned in time, surf carried away almost everything See the lights on the rear within its reach. The breakwater in ger, owing to the darkne front of the Beach hotel was completely reversed the lever as qui wrecked and destroyed. The electric ble, and with the fireman railway tracks were unJermined and the train, sustaining a se carried on the shore. the right hand." Mr.I At the east shore end, wi.ich is ex- to think that the man of tremely low and flat, the heavy sea did tram, FredBoynton, coul u A nrflcA rrrooii %T from a greater distance. _ uiuuu uamiujc. iJui.um5o . Thp firp dpnartmpnt of damaged. In many instances ihe nccu- [ *1ie J1?* ,= ,, j , soon ou tiie scene, ana exi pants were compelled to ascend to the Ila but not before t second floor to avoid the water. On the ba(j been wrought. bay side of the city, or east end, small Besides the victims in 1 boats were called into requisition for four passengers in the travel, but boating was dangerous and next forward were kille but few attempted to get about in that and one woman were bi way. Much uneasiness is felt for the in this car, while their steamer "Franklin" from the Blue partly out of the vvmd< Fields, (the banan* fields of Nicaragua) tempts to escape having due since last Friday. 9?e woman was heard sc The occupants of Pagodas and many of "bly while being burned, the beach resorts had to be assisted here ^ of men could be seen cam by means of life savin., lines. Thiou^h- rjgging 0f tjje iOCOmoti' out the city houses were blown down, telescoped car, and anoth and steps and stairs were carried away. was suspended from the People were blown against houses and The brakeman who was s fences, and fractured arms were the re- got only about fifteen ya: suits in several cases. Amass of twist- met the freight train. ed polfs, timbers and debris occupies an The scenes here at th army of workmen today. Taken in all, morning were heart-: it was the most disastrous storm which nurse girl, whose name Galveston has seen for years, and it will and a baby about a year c t.nk-p thousands of dollars to renair the was caring for, were bur damage. ~ ' before tne very eyes o ' = * stricken spectators. IJ Cantweii is s>tiii Supervisor. were made to save them, Charleston, S, C., July 2.?Judge apparently bound down Wallace rendered his decision in the ?iteousl ^for^" Cantwell case this afternoon, speaking mercy to kill her Tr e 1 briefly but emphatically on the points enveloped the car and rep of law. He reviewed the case as made the rescuers away. Final. out against Cantwell, ana also the authority of the governor to remove. It ^ was in the power of the governor i "> ap- pnt ^ point, with the approval and consent of e fyhen thP rrrpat freirf the Senate, and it was also in his power ,>v n? i gI to remove, with exactly the same conditions. They must be contemporane bones several oi ous. There was a special act by which ^ aM Dpiles sevfl a fheywJrefwere^y'com uouiu ue suapciiucu, pcuuiuy ?, iu*ciub f f f) . fr,pnrt of the Senate, but no general law. Oa 9,1\\ e3.L.?? the letter of the governor .about the two nin; offices, the judge said that the law had w ?n^i been decided unconstitutional in the HmL-c if t Supreme Court relating to appointive ^ere undoS)tedlv dead 01 ollices; that the discharge of the duties , 1?.^^? J? of clerk of the county commissioners K;lhae?^8rt?^ . wJdid not at all conllict with thOSe Of SU- fr, pervisor; that they were not incompati- ? ??m11L G?r htf m 1 ^t t ble; and that he must grant the prayer ^ * ?Lr fitfulp?si* Ot ifc Bum in favor of Sir. CanUvell. ?1? fton ? ' * fellows were enveloped ii Fell Iuto the Glowing Crater. flames. Home, July 2.?Vesuvius has renewed _ ?its volcanic activity, and the torrent of A!N| R RAiL QA lava rushing down the mountain side is yjfteen Fersona Killed ai rapidly increasing in volume. Yesterday two Brazilian tourists ascended the ^ injure . mountain, and bad just reached the sum- ^ harle-ston, n . V a., mit and were standing on the verge of greatest disaster in the h the crater when they were suddenly en- community was the wrecl veloped in a d?nse cloud of smoke which ayy,ha any -Michigan trai: rushed out upon the.^ t:om the volcanic yjllage eight miles nortr denths. When the outburst had sub- this morning. There is a i u ,^4 .. Ki/*h n?hi/ sided it was found that one of the gen- uiuty-mr ui&u, ??iiiv tlemen had become asphyxiated and had at some time during the i fallen into the mouth of the crater, unaccountable cause, pre His companiqn was only saved by the cmder from an engine f presence of mind of the guide who had midnight. /While the br accompanied them. As the sulphurous consumed, its foundation smoke puffed out from the crater's damaged as to renaei mouth he rushed forward and dragged ^ros?- 2so notmcatian of one of bis patrons out of danger, but received here, however, . was unable to save the other. The vie- !\he 'irs^ ?* ,*ke day, atien tim of the accident was I)r. Silva Jar- as usual. The engim - nav nassed over ? din, ot JLiio .Janeiro, urazu. a journausu. --- *? He fell a sheer distance ot 170 feet into two coaches went throu< the glowing: lava of the cratrr. * at Connor seemed to rea tion and pulled open the t The Itata Case. llOpe Of pulling all OVer San Diego, Cal., July 8.?U. s. whs too late. Doth c Marshall Guard says he will seize the crowded, and scarcely an; Itata today. The officers of the Itata escaped injury. The sta oiler to pay $500 penalty for sailing miJes lrom tlie nearest te without clearance papers, and it is re- ^ smtfrom^s^ityV ported here that orders have beeore- about2.13 p.m.,bearfne ceived from Washington to accept it and Wound?d discharge Officers Mauzel and Tejeda. One of the most patheti The Lnited States District Attorney is the accident was that of now preparing papers upon three {ion of the Welcher famil: charges: First, clearance without prop- er, his wife and little c er papers; second, kidnapp'ng a deputy their way to Point Plea United States marshal; third, violating friends, being their first t the neutrality law. He will take pos- fhe city for years. Mr. session of the Itata immediately upon instantly killed, and h her release bv the customs officers. He brought here a few hours - --j ko* hinh ohm says t le action is against the vessel aud I chT not against the men. llauzel and Tej- b?Si edawent to Los Angeles yesterday to ?? 'three f1Dgers 0f its consult with their attorney. j fojQg cut off. ^he cars were crowded, and it is a HORR LUuAViiiJ. bonder that there were not more fatal! ities. Scarcely any one in ihetn es- Terrib OF LIFE AT caped unhurt. The list of injured numbers 58: killed 15. 10. 2s E1 HANGED FOR HIS CRIME. Into from the ! World Train Frisht- BraVhauo. the Xecro Murderer of an Ital- body c >n Fire-Nam- Ian. "Will Kill No More. brOUitf to a crisp. Charlotte, N. C., July 2.?The body -The worst hanSinS of Brabham, the negro who x . murdered the Italian Mocca. took place urring in tms ;, .v: * o'clock this at 10:44 this torenoon. lr0m t calamity has A day or tvv0 a"? lie exPresse(i a desire that his execution take place Twenl and neighbor- about 11 o'clock that he might tate din- dred p ere killed and ner "'in hell," yet lie changed his irrev- ness tl crisp. More erent mood this morning and had a con- vious : injured. The versation with three clergymen, to an Ev ad were taken whom he confessed repentance and hope iDo- at molished pas- of pardon. execul e tlames could He met his fate with firmness in the ispeople who presence of about 200 persons. He ,v Such terrible made no remarks to the crowd himself. A;. in the early but Rev. P. P. Alston, tho colored people almost clergymen, at Brabham's request said . e.? that he had confessed his guilt of the h?ri'llj t sleeninsr Das- crime for which he was to be hanged, Smilei i freight train and that he was also guilty of the rob- seame a standstill in bery which occurred at the JJuford sented the passenger house some days before the murder. broile< lplete. To add 1'rabham, however, declined to betray head, fortunate pas- an associate in the robbery, who, he been : ?ned in the de- said, was in possession of some of the wag j : and was con- stolen goods. He refused to go further wjth a h fairly swept in his confession. tk0?e ain. By day- lie bade farewell this morning to all Tiiev iy all of them his comrades in jail with the exception , iner, were tak- of Caldwell, who had twice assisted ci0S?r iured had also Sheriff Smith in defeating his attempts umber of the to escape from jail. lie had, however, w.the who were on on the previous day included Caldwell seized lay, in his iarewell. pelled telescoped the He ate nothing since yesterday morn- other t express from ing, and also declinedstimulants, which In rep ? about thirty were offered him. lie slept well last lowed ruck the pas- mgiit, ana seemeu 10 uave gcoa comroi iQiorir nt was clue to of himself when he was brought to the ant] hi switch open. scaffold. see jt vhich was the He was the seventh victim who has for ^u. iiarht coaches been hanged on the same scaffold. The c York, on the drop was cut, and the fall was four and ^ lia and Ohio a half feet, which did not suilice to break , fr minutes late, his neck. Death ensued in eleven ancl ing to remedy minutes. kVhen the fast The hanging caused much interest T the rear. A here through the brutality of the crime, , 77; but the heavy threats of lynching which followed, ".9 >ur cars could and a conflict between whites and tne,*: own grade in blacks in the neighborhood of the jail *or ;he rear of the in which he was imprisoned. The fact After that he has only recently made a des- llames ined forty-six I perate attack on snerni smiin wim ms jduiii . kers. recently shackles, which, but for the intrepidity of Ota ardso'n Glass of that officer and the interference of ceedec were on their Caldwell, a prisoner in jail for gam- the mi w York State, blinsr, would have proved successful, dous 1; ;molished, and added to the public interest in the af- haustc red. iair. att igineer of the There was no race feeling, however, r: "I cannot the justice of the sentence having been f h,my God,if acknowledged, quite a number of wit- I0.rl^n [ could have nesses being negroes. winds he rails were A novel feature of the occasion was rusbec not take. I that tickets of admission to the jail, t0.B0 j and could not issued by the sheriff were eagerly with t' of the passen- sought, being peddled around at from padre ;ss and fog. I 50 cents to ?5 each. driven ckly as possi- The crime for which Brabham was of the jumped from executed was committed last April. lie land I vere fracture entered the small store of an Italian the c:< lolman seems named Mocca, where calling for a glass the passenger of cider, he drew a car coupling pin, vea^/ dbaveilagged concealed under his coat and dealt the L-.^r death blow while Mocca's back was Jr ? Ravenna was turned drawing the cider. This occur- aa^ ^ Linguished the red at 11 o'clock at night, and Brabham ^retc* errible havoc today, said he had the pin concealed un- On tin uer bis coat from i o'clock on the pre- their 1: ;he rear coach, vious afternoon, awaiting his oppor- nak ^ Pullman car tunity. vessel d. Two men i2je Davis Monument. taken ir? ^ ^ Xasiiville, Texx., July 2.?Capt. ??n4lt 1ft- ,T? John W.Childers, chairman of the com- During 3ws, tneir at- mittee from the Southern Press associa- one oi !' om ? 1 tion' delegated to collect a fund and at- bush i sreammg nor- ten<j to ttie (jetailS of erecting: a monu- is sup] out sne couia ment to tlie memory of Jefferson Da- mad. laaiess ooaies Vis, is just back from a meeting of the jht in the out- committee at Atlanta. !?6hn iv He says that the committee feel much Coi er aeaa ooay encouraged at the progress of affairs, ing to l- uqh About 820,000 have already been raised, of* Sts ent oact nau ^ut t,ef0re the actual work is com- and la ras oerore ne menced on the monument they expect in the: p wrpr* this t0 raise ?50,000. Active measures will Willia ie vvict-b. Lui? betaken at once in soliciting tor the tnn ?n rendering. A fun(^ ? ton aD is unknown, jt was bedded t0 select a general >ia, wmcn sne agent t0 j00^ af{-er collections, whose !T,1o7 f' tho?hnrnr name will be announced in a lew days. 0I"1SI - : :J The committee determined to request ^ecr eroic enorts x>reSi(jent Screws, of the Southern out tney were press association, to call a meeting of VVillia bv the broken the asscciation at Xashville not later tifying he poor girl than October. " receipl someooay in At this meeting the committee is to claimi: lames almost repor^ $50,000 raised, that will insure called eateaiy ^ro/e erecti0I1 0<- a monument, to submit were 1 ly tne \\ orders pians aLCj specifications, and to receive 0f ion(; ,ck and aban- f ,, instructions 1 f il fate. This instructions. . held r< scenes being An Honor Declined. the tre Columbia, s. c.. julv 2.?Previous to noj; it locomotive the appointment of Dr. Dabcoek as hut of ear coach, it Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum, who v? ible masses of an account of which appears elsewhere, taxes, f the passen- the position was tendered to Dr. W. II. This rrible though jsrardin of Anderson, who declined the the sa: pared^ to that honor in the following letter: State s. When the Hon. J>. II. Tillman, Governor, Co- unrctu standstill, live lnmhia S C,. co, ioned between Dear Sin: Your esteemed favor of to emj . tbe torn and the 27th ins.,. to hand, ''lease accept w ty coach. Two my thanks for the honor conferred up- tory r unconscious, on me by your selection tor the high . i swayed their and iesponsible position tendered, and l5 hards in an it is with regret that I am forced to dese themselves cline i he honor, first from a sense of my -keaun ,ion. Quickly unfitness for the position, and second ,ught lire, and the unwillingness to raise my growing os of the poor family thus surrounded. With highest A1' i smoke and esteem and hoping you may rind one luFp more worthy. _ i X am wuu respect vuurs irui>, ijuoocu DISASTER. I \V. li. Xaudi.v. Res ad Fifty-Eiglit Terrible Storm In Germany. tO^thi* Berlin. July 2.?A terrible storm of ?et t^( July 4?The thunder, hail and ram passed over a g0 ag istory of this lar^e part of Germany, last night, eaus- toG at ;ing of a Kan- iDg immense damage to property and n at Farm, a loss of life in the villages of suehtellon, s ' 1 of this city, near DUSScidorf and Sittard.. .\iii<ii trestle there in the Crefeld district, also near the pntton ifchUWm aa I>us?Worr, many hou?* were com- live >bably from a J et.c wrecked and the mma^es buned QOt ja lassing about m the rums. Thirteen bodies have al- coasi<j idge was not ready been recovered. j. Xi s were so bad- The tori-ado caused terrible destruc it unsafe to tion throughout the lower Khiue disthe fact was trict. Riflemen's hail at Crefeed was md the train, lifted irom its foundations and carried ]>os lpted to cross clean away. The circus was blown over Mrs. . 2, tencer and and the pavilions were damaged and four, < safely. but the contents shattered. Several at* ist un< jh. Engineer tachcs sustained injuries. made i?? ^ t-,,o I t Kii A\ 1IAC I/HO oitua- 2 ? - ?? hrottle, in the Murderous ?jr?o Killed. of ad^ safely, but it Savannah. Ga., July 8.?Osn us Lee, of 1,2( oaches were colored, ran amuck the' Eastern part of and c f one in them the city to-night and attempted to kill feet fr tion is three half a dozim people, anion? them To- ened ; legraph office, liceman Andrew Clayton, whom he shot greeDl a relief train twice through the body. Policeman handl( hich returned Neidlinger ran to the rescue and as he spine, the dead and came up Lee snapped an empty pistol er bat in his face, having emptied the cham- sions. c incidents of bers in attempting to kill Clayton, twelve the annihila- Xeidlinger returned the lire, killing Provic it. Mr. Welch- Lee instantly with a bullet through his hild were on heart. isant to visit ? rip outside of Found Dead in Bed. etta Jj UVlnlmr n-OC- A TVIT'JT A (let Tlllv S -T 11 ! il S Xf 11- CejSiO *? CJ.V/HCX M(W +.JL. V. VC X V V.J w _ .is wife was son. a young Dane who has been over gust o later so badly five months in Augusta, was found dragg* rtly after her dead in his boarding house to-day with was si Id, aged two five wounds in his stomach, three of not ab ltd and bleed- which were fatal. He had been unwell the g right hand and it is not known whether it is a case She w; of suicide or murder. her bo orsof the electric chair. :o Work of the Deadly Curreaton the Victims. death a x york, July s.?The Evening 'si !, in its s porting edition, savs: The . 1, ~ The Factor >1 Murderer Harris a. amuer was it to this city this afternoon. The tIary De had been "claimed by Smiler's aild tui , the woman he married and defor the woman whom he after- v" murderel. The body was taken Yew* 0 he train to the undertaking estab- at Eaton ] :ni at 2G5 West One Hundred and death and y-fifth street. Three or four hun- steamboat teople were gathered 'here to wit- pieces thei lie arrival of the body. By a pre- the hull, arrangement with the undertaker, ly ioiurec ening World reporter was in wait- side of Bat the rooms to see the body of the The cv x-d murderer. The coffin was portion of to the basement by the undertak- tearing up ss'stants, and the lid was quickly missies al< oil', exposing the dead man's face. The goveri eporter stood close in', and _was. path o ed at -Uu,-ts5^ met his e\es. clean * o _ -l t 1 ? ~ ,1 1 ^ ii . r "S luce nau ueeu uu'-ueu <iuu ea tne iroi d by the electric fluid until it pre- roof of a h [ the appearance of having been to Mr. M J. The hair on the front of the other dami the moustache and eyebrows had boulevard singed and burned oil'. The lace been torn 'arrowed and scarred as though is filled w hot iron. Tlese marks were not other timt ol a dissecting knife or scalpel, tion. were palpable burns. Pressing The pet to see tae dead man's face plain- down and : reporter attracted the attention wounded, undertaker's assistants, and they molished s him by the shouldsr and com- tentiary bl him to leave the place before any What he portion of the body was exposed, carried av ly to repeated requests to be al- ruined by to see the body, the rept rter was lars are ? ted that no one but the undertaker some persi s assistants would be permitted lo lower part uatil it had been fully prepared At the ; rial. It was learned through one terrible on e undertaker's assistants that walls oft 's left les was burned to the bone victs were ie eyes were badly burned. if they bad . ~?TTTT guards we A Terrible Tale of the Sea. = , T , _ , . , c men at wo :nnv. .Tnlv ?A diSDatch from 1.^1. ? ?j -- ? - -t eu, mue and, Xew Zealand, reports tbat ^ie u rk Compadre, bound trom Calcutta arr^ed frc die, recently caught Are at sea. To ad(1 an iaell'ectual eflort to subdue the ^^5 ( > the captain steered his course for p^ine Harbor, a seaport of the province w?icb 2a, Zealand. He had sue- hoiacaust fin bringing his burning vessel to went qUj, :>uth of the harbor when a tremen- ^gi- of e turricane overtook her. The ex- fr0m bene, id crew spent their last energies work whei smpting to keep down the racing it, was .d at the same time force the ^un- kifl6Q all(j ate DarK 10 iace uie iremenaous and seas which beat upon and /p^g wa I over her. It was, however, all ^ pe avail. After a desperate struggle a number lie opposing elements, the Com- y^ts, was became waterlogged and was t^e f^y, 0I with iearful force upon the rocks cue from t desolate and uninhabited Auck- nut slands. Alter incredible sufieruig, diverted a 2W of ttie bark succeeded in swim- ia ^ ho ishore. Here, in one of the latter most of th of the nineteenth century, the ue(j L1? ..,/VMA AWAA^ orvA?i^ 1 AO LUIS LLlCLi YYC1C iUUCU IrV o^cuu iuv turn tu md nights, suffering the extremest gere tbe , ledness of exposure and starvation. ^an at ^ e one hundred and fourth day of nesg 0f ^ >eing cast away their distress sii?- eyen rere observed by a passing sealing t<Qeir p=r , and the sorely tried sailors were wor^ off in safety, but in a distressing j _ u_ t( ion of -v'eakness and emaciation. most * their enforced stay on the island cue(j# their number wandered into the raiI tnd was never heard of again. It s^ows n0 , posed that suffering drove the man stcJ western di Looli up Your tax Receipt*! hundred f jOibia, S. C., July S.?Accord- a^T acros5 the reports made to the Secretary ^ :vent: ite the asents of the sinking fund c*'^' ud agents are doing splendid work =rea' loss ir respective fields. Dr. A. E. *s ?r ms. the agent for Beaufort. Colle- ever susta ;d Hampton, was in ihe city to-day or a ^re' ke a monthly report. His terri- reac^ seve i very large and the greater part r< imeis spent inmakinathe rounds. vEW t etary Tindal made the interesting 9 n iprising statement to-day that Dr. ^ see Pro ms had discovered and is now rec- a balloon ; ; fully three hundred errors in tax \yhen the is, tax executions, etc., and in re- ioon s]10t og lands to the State. In a case horrified to attention to-day executions (fownwarc evied and collected against a tract tbe ba.loc 1 in Coileton in which the owners entangled jceipts but were not entered on aa(j drope< usurer's books. This is shown to such a v ; the fault of sheriff or treasurei, detached 1 the carelessness of the deputies j0on, and ere charged with the collection of ground w; man fell a' 5 is only one of a great many of ly killed. aie Junu. it is evident tnac ine fall, but h must be out the amount of such fa?ailv, hu rned csllections. Secretary Tin- w^s \vnila 5rs that it is paying the State well piace? wh ploy these agents, and that the banc>on. icy are working is very satisfac- ieave3 a w 3 the property owners. Williams re to-day for Walterboro and will ue his work the following week in Sax Jos 3rt.?Xews and Courier. Kottinger was the 1< Plant Lens Cotton. ^v^ll a meeting of Marlbor) County Al- and poetr held at Benneasville. on July 3, hut on C iiin fnnnw'ricr vAQAititinns wpw hundreds l; " quired by oived, First. That we pledge our- on? to plant only ten acres of cotton noise in 1892, provided we can ^ e co-operathn of the cotton State, fa*^er m[ to decrease the production of cot- e(i yell' wa id so obtain a due reward for our at the ^ed closing to )nd. That we request iht- State He mad a tee to call for a convention of the and, with growers of the South, irrespect- gers, fell I 'class or color, to meet at ter than December first, next, to Blacky cr me sume. i James 3I( [. Thomas, J. J. Lane, and well-1 Secretary. Presideut. halt' mile ing with a Broke Her Spioe. miil 0Q a j ton, July 0? Oa Saturday last o'clock he Jennie C. Crockett, aged thirty- went out i )L' Boston, a professional balloon- while padi der the nnme of Nellie "Wheeler, struck a t: an ascension from the grounds of daughter averly Land Company as a means overboard rertising a land sale. At a height vvent to tl X) feet she 2-rasDed her Darachute oo-.jm ti Lescended, V?'hed about thirty managed" om the ground she became fright- ported it it the prospect of landing in a b8eD reCr louse, and letting go of the searched f ?, fell 011 her back, breaking her She cannot survive, Mrs. Wteeli made many successful ascen- . Sydney She is the mother of a boy of ish war sh i. Her husband is said to live in Grenfell, t ience. II. I. horse pov ? port after A Female Aeronaut Killed. for target velaxd, July 4.?As Mine. Zo- Capt. Grer entley was making a balloon as- ticmg wit! II at Jiiyna, u., to ua,y, it^uruLig ilicu utcct: f wind caught the air ship and ploded, ki] jd the trapeze upon which she Lieut. Go tting through the trees. She was wounding le to retain her hold, and fell to seamen. ' round, a distance of sixty feet, corvette. J as instantly killed. Every" rib in with wood cly was broken. stralian st; ... /. >T BY A CYCLONE. ND DESTRUCTION IN LOUANA'S CAPITAL CITY. y and Hospital of the Penltenmollshed?Ten Persons Killed rty Injarcd ?Oamace In the cleans, July 6.?A cyclone Sourre this morning brought destruction to that city. The Smoky City was blown to e being nothing left of her but Several of her crew were bad1. Two squares in the east on Rouge were destroyed, clone passed over the lower the town, unroofing houses, I immense trees and carrying ong the air for many blocks. aor's mansion was directly in f the hurricane, which made a 'P of every chimney and clearit inrrn ot its large trees. The andsome residence belonging arsh, was carried- c^ay, and age done to the place." : is nnp. mass of trees that have \_. up by the wind, and the street 'ith pieces of house tops and )ers of almost every descriputentiary walls were blown ten persons killed and thirty The factory building was demd the hospital of the peniown down. msehold goods have not been fay by the wind have been the water. Streets and celtooded, and it is feared that 3ns have been drowned in the oi' the city, penitentiary the scene was a e. Without any warning the he factory, in which 100 conat work, were crushed in as I Vkoan mcro r\o q tohnar/1 Thp I WUVU UiVlV. |/MWWWVVM>4V?? re helpless, and as most of the rk were either killed or woundould be done toward extricatnfortunate victims unal help >in the main prison building. to the horror of the situation, ;aught fire from the fuanace in room, but owing to the heavy i was falling the threatened was averted. The rescuers ;kiy to work and be<*an the stricating the dead and dying atL the ruins. Of the force at a the storm struck the build> discovered that ten had been thirty seriously injured, and iers more or less bruised. s not the worst. The hospital nitentiary in which was lying ov??I?viAyl An/1 kftlrv]aOC A/M>. ui uuaim^u CLu.u. wui leveled to the ground by : the storm. The work of reshe factory building, where a aber of lives were in danger, ttention from the unfortunates spital, and it was not until e working force had been resthe prison officials found time eir attention to the hospital. *ork was even more difficult e factory, owing to the weaki inmates, who were unable r ive the rescuers an indication esence in the debris by shouts. therefore, proceeds but slowd noon, however, it is believed of the patients have been resi is still falling in torrents and signs of abating. rru approched from a southrection and swept a path three set or more In width diagon5 the citv. levelling evervthing . The southern portion of the d "Catfish Town," suffered and damage to property. It iutest loss Baton Rouge has ined, whether from a cyclone . The total damage done will ral hundred thousand dollars. all Two Hundred Feet. 1.ISBON, 0.. July 4.?Fully >le were assembled here today f. Bradv. of Cleveland, make iscension and parachute leap. word was given and the balupward, the multitude was to see a man hanging head i immediately below the car of in. The man whose leg was i i a rope disentangled himself I to the parachute, striking it ray that the knife cut the rope, ;he parachute from the bailie and the aeronaut fell to the ith great force. The upper bout 200 teet and was instantThe parachute broke Brady's te was seriously, though not rt. The name of the man killed ^ m Hennessy, a resident of this o was helping to inflate the / He was nfty years old and idow and four childjen. ? led Clutching his Gold. e, Cal., July 6.?Prof Herman , who up to twenty years ago iading violinist on the coast, known as a writer of prose 7, died yesterday in a squalid olfax street. He was worth of thousands of dollars, aca lifetime of miserly. But William Kottinger, was presi death. When the old man, >fh threes ruisprl himself in son rushed to bis side. His staking the act, with a frenzi- -ved him back, and clutching clothes pulled ttum back, di3view a quantity of gold coin. grab at it with both hands, the bright pieces in his finlack with a gasp and expired. A Sad Accident. ille, S. C., July 2.?Mr. '> :DonaId, a highly respected co-do citizen livine about a from Elko, went this morn- ~ , party to Capt. W. "W. Willis's ishing expedition. About 10 and his two grown daughters nto the pond in a boat, and iling up the pond the boat ree, throwing out the younger He immediately jumped to save her when they both le bottom and did not rise lie daughter left in the boat to get the boat out and reThe bodies have not yet ivered, but they are being /-" ? or.?Xews and Courier. As Bad as a Battle. , X. S. \V.. July 6.?The Britip Cordelia, Capt. Harry T. ;?~ ~ en guns. 2,280 tons and 2,420/ rer, has jast returned to this" a most disastrous trip to sea -i practice with her big guns. 1 lfeli reports that while prach one of the Cordelia's sixh-loading guns the latter exling Lieut. Wm. B. Hiliyar, rdoa and four seamen and taree midshipmen and ten rhe Cordelia is a single screw built of steel and iron, cased I. She is attached to the Auation.