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VOL. XLVL WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1891.' NO. 50. y THE VaJANT CHAIR " I dr. talmage preaches on the! power of association. T Jlotiiet's Kuck< r aiitl h'at'uer's Arm Chair j Krlng I'orlh Ttuiier Mtmorira When j They Art- (>?ce?1 h?-?e Memories Ottloiea Preach 1'owczftil Sermons. Lakeside, 0., July 19.?For many I \ea.*s peoj k-Lave gathered in multliudee at this m aon of the year lor a J % reat out-door assembly. The grounds f are a short sail irom Sandusky. The place beautiful be\ond description. Dr. [ Talmage preached this morning in this delightful place to a vast multitude. His subject was the Vacant Chair, and his t uxt, 1 Samuel xx, li>: "Thou shall.be | missed, because thy seat will be empty." * ? ? 3 ? oil I Set on Uie cutlery auu m? v,uaovu o.? , I verware of the palace, for Kin^ Saul will L give a state dinner today. A distin j;uished place is kept at the table for his W son-in-law, a celebrated warrior, David I by name. The ?uests, jewelled and I plumed, come iu and take their places. 1 When people are invited to a king's ban| quet, they are very apt to go. But before r tee covers are lilted from the feast, Saui b looks around aud finds a vacant s ;at -t F tiie table. lie sa\s within himself, perhaps audibly. **\Vh .t does this mean? Where is my sou-iu-law? Where is David, the great warrior? 1 invited him. 1 t-xpected him. What! a vacant chair at the king's banquet!" The fact was that David, the warrior, had been seated tortii* last time at his father-in-law's table. The day before Jonathan had I coaxed David to iro and occupy that Hace at ihetab^^^agtoir^d^rirttre^ ~Or-4ffl^^?t7v,Tirou shall be^ mi&oed, because thy seat will be empty." The prediction was fulfilled. David was missed. His seat wks empty. That one I vacant chair spoke louder than all the f occupied chairs at the banquet. I lu almost every house the articles of furniture take a living personality. That ? picture?a stranger would not see anyf thins remarkable either In its design or execution, but it is more to you than all the pictures of the Louvre and the LuxL embouig. You remember who bought it, "* * ^ * u^u and who admired it. Ana tnai nyuiu uwa, ?you remember who sang out oi it. And limt cradle?you remember who rocked it. And that Bible?you remember who read out it. And that bed?you remember who selpt in It. And that room? Ia ou remember who die j in it. But there is nothing in all your aouse so eloquent and so mighty-voiced as the vacant chair. I suppose that before Saul and his guests got up from this banquet there was a great clatter of wine-pitchers, but all that racket was drowned out by the voice that came up from the va cant chair at the table. Millions have gazed and wept at John Quincy Adams' I |s vacant chair in the house ofre'presentaB lives, and at Henry Wilson's vacant cbair ? in the vice-presidency, and at Henry | Clay's vacant chair m me Amvnuiu ^sejuate, and at Prince Albert's vacant chair ItrfMftW ^^ancl atThie_r^ vacant chair in the councils oll?i^?rench nation; but all these chairs are unimportant to you as compared with the vacant chairs in your own household. lj Have these chairs any lesson lor us to b. learn? Are we any better men and wo* men than when they lirst addressed us? i First, I point out to you the father's vacant chair. Old men always like to sit in the same place and in the same chair. They somehow feel more at |& home, and sometimes when you are in Iff their place and they come into "the room, rjoujump up suddenly ana say, "nere, iather, here's-your chair." The probai bility is, it is an armchair, for ht is not I so strong as he once was, and he needs 1 a little upholding. His hair :s a little Irosty, his gums a little depressed, for in his early flays there was not much dentistry. Perhaps a cane chair and oldUK fashioned apparel, for though you may have suggested some improvement, fath, er does not want any oi your nonsense. Grandfather never had much admiration for new-fangled notions. I sat at the table oi one 01 my parisuiouers iu a former congregation; an aged man was at the table, and the son was presiding, and the lather somewhat abiupjy addressed the son and said: "My son, don't now try to show ott'beeause the minister is here!" Your lather never liked auy new customs or muuners; he preferred the old way of doing things, and he never looked so happy as when, with his eyes closed, he sat in the armchair in the comer. From the wriukUd brow to the tip of the slippers, what piacieit}! the wave ot the past years or his life broke at the foot oi that chair. Perhaps, someLirues ne was a ii(,ue luipaucut, auu sometimes toiu ihe same story twice; Lut over that ol?i chair how many blessed memories hover! 1 hope \ou did uot crowd that old chair, ana that it did not get very much in the way. Sometimes the old man's chair gets very much m the way. especially it' he has been so unwise as to make over all his property to his children, with the understanding that they are to take care ol him. I have seen in such cases children crowd the old man's chair to the door, and then y.wAit./l i ?> r? l?t utlil t Jic.n I \.iunu iu lictti. iuiv liit; ou ^ v, v??vu jL'rowdit into the poor-bouse, and keep on crowding it until the old man tell out of it into his grave. Buc your lather s chair was a sacred place. The childreu used to climb up ou the ruugs of it for a good-uigbt kiss, and the longer he staged the better you liked it. But that chair has been vacant 1 now ior some time. The furniture dealear would not give you 50 cents for it, but it is a throne of influence iu .your domestic circle. I saw in the Fieuch palace, andm the throne room, the chair that Napoleon used to occupy. It was a beautiful chair, but the most significant part of it was the letter X" embroidered ? into the back of the cha^r iu purple and yold. And your father's old chair sits m the throue room of your heart, and i your affectkns have embroidered into the back of that chair in purple and gold the letter "P." Have all ihe praters of that old chair been answered? Have i all the counsels of that old chair been practiced? .Speak out! old armchair. History tells us of an old man whose three sons were victors m the Olympic games, and when they came back, these three sons, with their garlands, put them un the father's brow, and the old maD was so rejoiced at the victories of his three children that he fell dead in their & arms. Andare\ou, oh man, going to * bring a wreath of joy and Christian usefulness and put it on your father's brow, or on the vacant chair, or on the memory of the one departed? Spsak cut! old armchair. With reference to your father, the words of my text have been fulfilled: "Thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty." I go a little luriher on iu your house and 1 tind the mother's chair. It is Very i apt to be a rocking chair. She had so | many cares and troubles to soothe that it must have rockers. I remember it! well. It was an old chair, and the rock- { ers were almost wore out, for 1 was the j youngest, and the chair had rocked the ; whole family. It made a creaking noise j as it moved; but there was music m the j sound. It was just hiyh enough to a low |i us i-liilflrpn to nut our h?nda into her I lap. That was the bank where we de-! posited all our hurts and worries. Ah! j what a chair that was. It was different j from the lather's chair; it was entirely different. You ask me how? I cannot i: tell; bu. we all felt ii was different. Per- j haps there was about that chair more i gentleness, more tenderness, more griet j when we had done wrong. When we j were wayward, father scolded, but moth- j er cried. It was a very wakeful chair. | In the sick days of children, other chairs ! could not keep awake; thatcha'r always \: kept awake?kept easily awake. That chair knew all the old lullabies and all those wordless songs which mothers sins: to their sick children?son^s in which all p ty, and compassion and sympathetic influences are combiued. Thai old chair has stopped rocking for a good many years. It may be set up in the loft or the garret, but it holds a queenly power yet. When at midnight you went into that grog-<hop to get the intoxicating draught, did you not hear a voi e that said: "My son. why go in there?" And louder thau the boisterous encore of the place ol siulul amusemeut, a voice saying, "My son, wtiat do you here?" And when you went Into the house of abandonment, a voice savin?, "What | would your mother do if she kuevv you were here?" And you were provoked I with yourself, and you charged yourself with superstition and fanaticism and your head sot hot with your thoughts, and you went home and you went to rbedv and no sooner had you touched the i bed tfian^voice taid: "What? a prayerless pillow? Man! what is the matter?" This: ^"You are too near your mother's rocking chair. ' Oh, pshaw!" you say, "There's nothiDg in that; I'm 500 miles otffrom where I was born; I'm 3,000 miles oft from the Jiurch whose bell wa3 the first music I ever heard." I cannot help that; you are two near your motners rocking chair. "Oh,'' you say, "there can't be anything in that; that chair has been vacant a great while." 1 cannot help that; it is a 1 the mightier for that; it is omnipotent, that vacant mother's chair. It whispers; it speaks; it weeps; it carols; it mourns; it prays; it warns; it thunders. A young man went of. and broke his mother's heart, and while he was away i'rom home his mother died, and the telegraph brought the son, and he came into the room where she lay and looked upon her face, and he cried out: "Oh. mother! mother! what your life 1 ? J ~ l. ^ 1? It couiu not uu your ueo,m 0uau cucct. This moment 1 give my heart to God." And he kept his promise. Another victory for the vacant chair. With reference to your mother, the words of my text were fulfilled. "Thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty." I/go on a littil further, and I come to J&e invalid's chair. vV"hat! IIow long have you been sick? '^Ql I have been sick ten, twenty, thirty y&rs." Is it possible? What a story of endurance. There are in many of the families of my congregation these invalid's chairs. The occupants of them think they are doilS no good in the world- but that invalid's chair is the mighty pulpit from wl.ich they have been preaching all these years. /"-A/I 'PI>a bttcff- f ima T liUOb iU UVU. A lit? 11LOW liuiv 1 ^ttuuvu i here at Lakeside, Ohio, amid the throngs present there was nothing that so much impressed me as the spectacle of just one face?the lace of au invalid who was wheeled in on her chair. I said to her afterwards: "Madam, how long have you been prostrated?" for she was lying fiat in the chair. *'0!" she replied: "I have been this way fifteen years." I said: "Do you suffer very much?" "0, yes," she said: "I suffer very much; 1 suffer all the time: j)arc of the time I was blind. I always suffer." "Well," 1 said: "can you keep your courage up?" "0 yes," she said; k*I am happy, very happy indeed." Her face showed it. She looked the happiest of any one on the ground. O! what meaus of grace to the world, these invalid chairs. On that field of human suffering tiie L'race of God H ^ its victory. Edward Paysou the iuvalkl. [ and liiohard Baxter the invalid, and Robert Ilall tho invalid, and ten thousaud of whom the world has uever heard, but of whom all heaven is eogmzaut. The most conspicuous thing on earth for God's e\e and the eve of augels to rest on, is not a throae of earthly power, but it is the invalid's chair. O! these men and women who are always suffering but never com^laiuiu^?these victims of spinal disease, and neuralgic torture, aud rheumatic exoruciati ^n will answer to the roll-call 01 the martyrs, auil rise to the martyr's throne, and will wave the mart)r's pal n. But when one of these invalids' chairs becomes vacant, how suggestive i- is! No more bolstering up of the weary head. .No more changmg from side to side to get an easy position. Xo more use of the bandage and tiie cataplasm, and the prescription. That invalid's chuir may be folded up, or taken apart, vr set awav, but It will never lose its queenly power; it will always preach ot trust in God, and cheerful submission. Suffering all ended now. With respect to that invalid the words ol my text have been fulfilled: "Thou I shall be missed, because thy seat will be | empty." I pitas on, and I ilnd one more vacant chair. 11- is a high chair. It is the child's chair. If that chair be occupied, I think it is the most potent chair in ail the household. All the chairs wait on it; all the chairs are turned toward it. it meaus more than David's chair at Saul's banquet. At any rate, it makes more racket. That is a strange house that can be dull with a child in it. How that child bieaks up the hard worldliness of the place, ana keeps you young to GO, 70, and years of age! If you have no child of > our owuaJoptone; it will open heaven toyoursjui. It will pay its way. Its crowing the morning will g've the ! dav a cheerful starting, and its glee at night will give the day a cheerlul ciose. Yuu do not like children? Then vou had better stay out ot heaven, for there are so many there they would fairly make you crazy! Only about five hundred millions ot t tem. The crusty old Pharisees tt Id the mothers to keep the children away trum Christ. ''You bother him," they said? "you trouble the Master." Trouble him! He has tilled heaven with that kind ot trouble. A pioneer in California says that for the lirst year or two after his residence in Sierra Nevada county, there was not > a single child m all the reach of a hun"? . ?:i ? T ? ??. T.,1.. ureau rnnes. x>ut luc xuunuvi t>uo came, aud tbe miners were gathered together and they were celebrating the Fourth with oration, aud poem, aad a boisterous brass uand; aud while ihe band was playing, an infant's voice was heard cr} ing, and all the miners were startled, and the swarthy men began to thiuk of their homes on the Eastern coast, and ot their \vive% aud children far away, and their hearts were thrilled with homesickness as they heard the babe cry. But the music went od, and the child cried louder and louder, aud the brass band played louder and louder, tryiug to drown out the infantile interruption, when a swarthy miner, the tears rolling down his face, got up and shook his fist, and said: "Stop that noisy band, aud !>:ve the babv a chauce." Oh! there was pathos ia it, as well as good cheer in it. There B nothing to arouse, aud melt, aud subdue the soul like a child's voi.e. But when it goes away Irom vou, the high chair becomes a higher chair, and there is desolation all about you. lu three fourths of the homes of lui* congregation there is a vacant high chair. Somehow >ou uever get over it. There is no one to put to bed at ni^ht; no one to ttaa. aiiaa^c i^ucowvuo ayuuu uvu anu heaven. Oh, what is the use oi that high chair? It is to call you higher. What a drawing upward it is to have children in heaven! And then it is such a preventive aiiaiust siu. it a father is going avray iuto sin, he leaves the living of his children with their mother; but if ihe lather is going away into siu, what is he >oiug to do with dead children lioat- j lug about him, and hovering over his every wayward step. Oh, apeak out, vacant high chair, and say: "Father, come back from sin; mother, come back from worldiiuess. I am watching you. r >> 117 il li ^oru.,,1 In X &LLI >Tdil>lLl^ iUL JUU, Vf i Lii uvy your child, the words of my text have been fulfilled: "Thou shall be missed, because thy seat will be empty." My hearers. I have gathered up the voices of your departed friends aud tried to intone them into one invitation upward. I set iu array all the vacant chairs of your homes and of \ our social circle, and I bid them cry out this morning; "Time is short, Eternity is near. Take my Saviour. Be at peace with my God. Come up where X am. We lived together ou earth, come let us live together in heaven." We answer that invitation. We come. Keep a seat for us, as Saul kept a seat for David, but that seat shall not be empty. And oh! when we are all uritVi f-iiia u.-Arlr! and wp hiiVA shaken hands all around for the last time, and all our chairs in the home circle and in the outside world shall be vacant may we he worshipping God in that place from which we shall go out no more for ever. I thank God there will be no vaeaut chairs in heaveu. There we shall meet again and talk over our earthly heartbreaks. How much you have been through since you saw him last! On the shining shore you will talk it all over. The heartaches. The loneliness. The sleepless nights. The weeping until you had no more power to weep, because the heart was withered anddiiedup. Story of empty cradle and little shoe only half worn out never to be worn again. jus I the shape ot the toot tnat pressed it. And dreams when you thought the departed had come back again, and the room seemed bright with their laces, and you started up to greet them, and in the effort the dream broke and you found yourself standing amid-room in the midnihgt?alone. Talking it all over, and then, haud in hand, walking up and down ra the light. No sorrow, no tears, no.death. Oh. heaveu! beautiful heaven! Heaven where our lriends are. Heaven where >ve expect to be. lu the East i*iej take a cage of birds am' bring it to the tomb of the dead, and tjien they open '&? door of the cage, and the buds, ~.,V_ain<rinir_ And I would todav HJ 1LI~ VUia*"D O* " brinw a cage'# Christian consolations to the grave of our^IW^d oucs, and I would open the door and left them fill all the air with the music ol tlfcir voices. Oh, how they bound m these spirits before the throne! Some shouVsM1 gladness. Some break forth into "Dc trollable weeping for joy. Some sYlftd speechless in their shock of delight. They sing. They quiver with excessive gladness. They i<aze on the temples, on the palaces, on the waters, on each other. The wave their joy into garlands, they spriDg it into triumphal arches, thev strike in on timbrels, and t! all the loved ones gather in a great circle arrmnt? the throne of God?fathers, moth ers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters, lovers and Iriends, hand to hand around about the throne ot God?the circle ever widening?hand to hand, joy to joy. jubilee to jubilee, victory to victory, until the day break and the shadows dee away. Turn thou, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young hart upon the mountain ol Bether." Fatal &stJlor?' Frolic. Sax Diego, Cal., July 15.?There was a serious riot here last eveuing growing out of an attempt of deputy United States marshals to arrest eleven sailors from the war ship "Charleston," who had overstayed their shore leave. The sailors were carousing in a saloon when Deputy Marshals Breedlove, Webb, Wilson aud (irether entered and arrested on? of their number. The other sailors immediately closed in and attempted to prevent tbe officers from removing the man. Clubs were drawn by the deputies, and a free Ogbt ensued. It looked for a time as if the officers would be killed, but a patrol wagon arrived with reinforcements and the arrested sailor was taken to jail. When the patrol left the crowd again attacked the officers with pick handles, gas pipes and other weapons. The ofticers got away and the wounded were picked up. Robert iirown, sailor on the "Charleston," died in a lew minutes from the t.fF?r>+a /\f n. hlnw nrt hpad from a Hnh said to have been inflicted ny Deputy Wilson. Another "Charleston" sailor, Paddy Burns, is djing with a fractured skull. Deputies lireedioveandUrether were badly hurt about the heads ana a number of other persons are injured. There is great excitement an I threats of lynching all the deputies concerned in the trouble were freely made. The sympathy of the community seems to be with the sailors as It was said the officers were too officious and for the sake of a reward arrested men whose shore leave had not expired. Warrants are out for the deputies' arrest. Killed, Many Ioj tired. Kenton, Ohio, July 17.?A report received in this town tonight says that Swift's fast running refrigerator meat train collided with a work train at Hepburn. a small station on the Chicago Vrio T?ui 1 or?/*J rhof nir?o lol\Ar ers were killed and many others injured. Both locomotives and ten or twelve cars are iu the ruins. Wires are down, and it is impossible to get fulier particulars from the scene of the acciaent All the State Troop* Ordered Ou*. Nashville, Tenn, July 20.?Governor Buchanan has ordered the entire State militia to Briceville. Teuii. to protect the convicts at work in the mines at that place. It is stated that two thousand miners are marching to the seat of war.. It is feared there will be trouble befor^e the miners will yield to convicts takin?vtheir places. \ THE STATE ALLIANCE MEETS IN ANNUAL CONVENTION AT SPARTANBURG, S. C. President Stoics Kevl<?w? his Administration?A Slight Decrease in Membership -Social. Financial aud Political As pects and Kfrcord of the Order. Spartanburg, S. C., July 22?The city is crowded with delegates to the Slate Alii-iDce, and their friends. Good humor prevails and sub treasury sentiment is on top an ong Alliancemen. Nothing ot special importance has yet beeu Gone by the Alliances. Indications are that the strictest secrecy is to 1 - -l ~ .??, f-Ka A 1 ue UUSC VCU UU auuu luaucio iu iu</ iiiliance does not want made public. So far, however, the greatest courtesy has been shown the representatives of the press. Tne first session of the Alliance was held this morning in the opera house at 10 o'clock. The annual address of President Stokes was read. The following is a synopsis covering every point: PRESIDENT STOKES'S ANNUAL ADDIIESS. Dr. Stokes begau by referring to the heavy responsibilities which had weighted him down during his term of office, and to the devotion which he had given to the duties of the positiou. As a lover of agriculture he had discharged them with "pride and satisfaction." As to the condition of the order in South Carolina, he said that although there had been "some loss of membership, due to peculiar conditions," it had been "more than compensated by the gain in liomogenei'y and compactness of organization." ? tKn orlrlrficQ f r\ iiriCl iO 1UCVUV 111 IUV UUUi VCiP wv the spread of the order in other states, and the claim presented that it embraces 4,000,000 voters, one-third of the total population of the Union. Financially, the Alliance has a handsome surplus to its credit, and it would be wise to invest this and iurther balances in some permanent way. The county and sub-Alliances an; likewise in good iinancial condition. The State Exchange has wrought the emancipation of the poor farmer from unjust oppression. Important concessions have been wrested from the commercial world. "As a mere menace, the business methods of the Alliance have made themselves felt even in remote trade centres. The money power has felt ir, and bids for Alliance patronage are the result, n is oesi to leave muse skilled in mercantile pursuits the management of their own capital. Let them furnish the capital and experience and the Alliance the patronage." The suggestion is made that a committee be appointed to confer with the Alliance Exchange in "an effort to solidify the entire business of the order and send it through the Exchange on an equitable basis," a board of control, elected by the Siate Alliance or by a joint board, to conduct it. Inference Is made to the moial, educatioaal and social work of the order aad praise is giren to each. a - if io sJoitrto/^ that, t.hft Al t/VJ it/ 10 viaiui\.u ^uuu v*?v order has maintained its integrity and "adhered to th3 prescribed line of discussion in a non-partisan sense," and that increased attention to political questions has not diminished the success of the members in raising crops. These paragraphs are of interest: "Some few sub-Alliances relatively, overstepped constitutional limitations last year at the beginning of the State campaign. The lapse must oe attributed. nowever, to the emergency thrust upon them by a hostile press, intensely unfair in its hostility, rather than to the genius ol the organization. The instances of such indiscretion were isolated. As soon, too, as attention was called to its compromising tendency through the Cotton Planr, the 1 1 aousf materially ieascneu, auu own as political clubs were formed, furnishing a legitimate and adequate medium # expression to their pent up feeling, th^abuse ceased entirely. "Tnc ouispoken utterances of the leaders wSSHgamst such action and the order was renMfcJLthat ils function was purely in the way^jifsPresentatioQ of truth in a non-partisa"i*^y an(J stimulation of thought. Furtn^Silai1 this the Alliance in its organizes capacity does not and dare not go. It must not and dare not interfere with the political or religious affiliation of its members." Concerning the Cotton riant, it is stated tnat "the partisan press, with a few exceptions is against onr demands," and that this has rendered the duties of the State organ exceedingly onerous. "While the organ has received generous sympathy and support, it must be confessed that our pt-ople do riot read it generally. It is of th? utmost importance that some means be devised by this body to get this paper and other approved literature into the ' hands of every member of the order." It is recommended that the State Alliance consider the propriety or establishing a propaganda bureau that shall furnish Alliance literature at cost. lie is "authorized to say that while the owners of the Cotton Plant are not eager to part with it as an investment, they are willing 10 sell a controlling interest in it to the State Alliance upoa an equitable basis'." The over-production of cotton is referred to as a most serious question, and it is recommended that "a com mi tI tee be appointed to confer with other .State Alliances with a view to seeming the call of a convention of cotton-growers? non-Alliauce as well as Alliance, colored as well as white?to meet as soon as possible tor conference and action." The "iniquities environing the marketing of cotton" are denounced as "'outrageous in many instances," and intolerable. "The Alliance should appoint trustworthy men at each cotton market to sample, grade and weigh cotton, and tell tne farmer, upon the basis of telegraphic quotations, what price it should briog iu the market that day." A lee ot ten cents per bale is suggested to cover thb expense. Recommendations are therefore made that the local Alliance appoint its weigher and grader at each cotton marKet. inac arrangements ue maue in New York for telegraphic quotations daily, and that a committee be appointed to irame and press upon the Legislature legislation on this point based upon the law in Mississippi and other cotton States. It is urged that the State Alliance appoint a commission to seek co-operation and uniformity with other cotton State Alliances in the collection of statistics. As to the constitution of the order, it is recommended: 1. That soma definite time be fixed for the revision of ro:ls, and that uniform rulfcS be prescribed for dropping names ui uiemuci b iu ancms ui iuai< | sight of. 2. That the life of a "demit card" be detinately settled. 3. That such cnacge be made as shall legalize the lecture system projected by the National Legislative Council. 4. That the formation and holding of Fanners' Alliances within corporate towns be prohibited .to the end that the organization of Citizens' Alliances be encouraged; and that all Farmers' Allir I anos so existing at present exchange their charters for charters of the Citizens Allianca. 5. That it dtfiue the status of female members in respsct to voting and representation in higher bodies. In regard to lecturing the president refers to its great importance; praises .State Lecturer Talbert highly! says that he has been "flatteringly endorsed" by the order, but has been unable to meet the demands made upon him. The demands are increasing, and ^National Lecturer Terrell has been engaged for a series of lectures, covering each county, during the late summer aud fall. iiecommendation is made lor the provision of a lecturer to be constantly in the rield, armed with literature sent out by the proposed propaganda bureau. He would not only enlighten the peoplr, but pay his expenses and turn a handsome fund into the treasury. The interest of the Alliance in Clemson College is stated, and it is praise i as "the noblest possible monumeut tr> the hon otta Innno o r\ A 1 Livvin^viivCj ugugtuiuuv& auvi ism of its projectors." Under tne head of "the outlook," the address continues: "Despite the wonderful results wrought so far in all the fields of Alliance work directly, and indirectly in the political field, the signs of the times point to the tact that the supreme test is at hand along financial and political lines?existing parties apparently pitch their fight npon the financial field. Strange to say that party wnieh profited most last year by the educative forces of the Alliance, and which should by every token have least to lose by educative force, is most bitter in its antagonism, if we aieto rely upon the utterance of some or the leaden; and newspaper expounders. There is every evidence of a massing of forces before the financial demands of the order. Foes within and foes without have been marshalled for a supreme struggle. "As intelligent men it behoves us to consider all the conditions and bear ourselves as men. The past is inspiring, the prospect though stormy, is inviting. The issues have been made up fairly and joined between the monopolistic element of our population, on the ooe hand, and the masses of the people on the other?whether the masses or the classes shall control the government? whether the iniquitous financial system devised and fastened upon this country by Wall and Lombard streets shall stand and continue to rob the people." The assertion is made that ,4the perpetuity of free institutions is hanging in the scale with a corrupt and degenerate nlntftnrapv " pv?vvv?uv; . Assurance is aiven that the other classes are coming to join the Alliance. "Columbia with its S COO,000 debt, and Charleston with its S3,00u;000 debt, are directly interested in routing this robber hand that is taking out of their pockets S3 for every SI loaned them twanty-five years ago. The whole people or this state are equally interested in removing the abomination of an Ashley J unction at the gate of our charming metropolis by the sea, and in the disruption of the blighting corporate haud that has our beautiful capital city by the throat. The 'bottling up' of a people's capital or metropol's for the gratification of corporate greed or spleen should be forever impossble in a free country." "The money trust," it is alleged, "will resort to extreme measures "and the increase of private detectives, "military establishments," "new barracks commanding New York and Chicago." are cited in support of the declaration. The issues are irrepressible," and "from the Lakes to the Gulf, and from Kamschatka to the Florida straits they + tl-in i i i wl Th 'Will UUUXlUiiW bUU luuiviuum Vtwi^u. jl v Hill take the whole people to solve them in a peaceful way." The finale of the address is: "Brethern, let us knit our brotherhood together with a closer stitch, aud then reach out our hands to our fellow citizens of all classes who love liberty ana will stand for its maintenance." COMMITTEES APPOINTED. After thi! delivery of the address committees were appointed as follows: On credentials?J II Magill, W U Elder and T J Robertson. Publication?J W Stokes, BF Miller, W U Elder, E It Walters. President's message?One from each cougressional district, to wit: First, L A Harper; second. S L Ready; third, J A Sligh; fourth, X F Walkei; fifth, J f^Magili; slxtb, J M Waduell; seventh. T Deman^tSs^P^ resolutions?J E Jarnigan, J 6 MS^f^orie n I)ean' J H Price, Thomas Whatl^x^.. , . , The following is the lisTbi* _i ^ sby counties: Abbeville, J. T. Robertson; Anderson, J. P. Glenn; Barnwell, W. 6. Bamberg, J. C. Miller; Berkley. T. S. Browning; Charleston, J. S. Iiolbrook; Chester, T. J. Cuauingham; Chwterfield, .John II. Tucker; Clarendon, J. L. Davis: Colleton. 1.. A. IIar per; Darlington, J. M. Waddell; l^vijjelieid, S. L. Ready; Fairfield, J. M. Galloway; Florence, J. S. McCall; Georgetown, J II Detzees; Greenville. J imprison; Hampton. W J Gooding; Horrv, J P Derhorm; Kershaw, J 11 ilagill, Lancaster, B F Alilller; Laurens, J A Jones; Lexington, P I Rawl; Marion, T 13 iitackhouse; Marlboro, J B Giecn; Newberry, J A Sligb; Oconee, W F Whitaker: Orangeburg, E R Walters, W 0 'latum; Pickens, VV T Odell; Richland, E M Stoeber; SparUubur#, N F Walker, G R Dean, R M Smith; Sumter, R M Wilson; Union. I) P Duncan; Williamsburg, G E Graham; York, W U Elder. Rverv conntv is renresented and is al lowed one delegate. ConDtiesthat have over 1.000 Allianceuien is allowed one additional delegate lor every 500 members. Only three counties?Barnwell, Orangeburg and Spartanburg?have more than one delegate. THURSDAY'S PROCEEDINGS. The special order for this morning, as announced in The State, was taken up at the first session to-day. With one or two exceptions the present officers u-or? rpoWfpr! The following are tlie officers elected: President, J "William Stokes, of Orangeburg; vice presidenr, W. 1). Ey ms, of Marlboro; secretary, J. W. Reid, of Spartanbur?; treasurer, F. P. Taylor, of Chesterfield; chaplain, Rev. James Douglass, of Fairfield; lecturer, W. Jasper Talberf, of Edgetiuid; steward, II. Mcliae, of Marion; dourkeeper, J. W. Kennedy, of Williamsburg; assistant doorkeeper, A. li. Walter. of Horry; surgeant-at-arms, J. E. Jarnigan, of Mirion. Vv?.n,iHuii />nnimiffpp' T,llf\iS Mclll-I tosh, of Darlmeton; T f\ Mitchell, of Fairfield; 8. T. 1). Lancaster, of Spartan burg. Of this committee only Mitchell was re-elected, the "other# holding oyer for one and two years. At this meeting the constitution was so changed that the judiciary committee was elected instead of appointed as heretofore. The following is the committee: Joseph L. Keitt, of 5?'e<vberry, elected for one year; D. K. Norris, of Anderson, two jears; W. N. Elder, of York, three years. A committee was appointed to get up a convention of cation growers m uic South to be held in Atlanta at a9 early day as possible. This convention is to be composed of Alliancemen and nonj Alliancemen, both white and colored. The following is the committee: D. P Duncan, Union, chairman; E. R. Walter, Orangeburg; J. R. Harrison, Green ' : ville: W. X. Elder. York; \V. S. Bamberg, Barnwell; G.P. Davis, Clarendon. This oommittee will make report to this meeting and submit an address to be issued calling1 this convention, and the committee will be continued. The trustee-stockholders have finished their work. Nothingi9 given out lur puimcauuu cAucpo ujc cjcuuujj ui nine directors of the State Exchange. The bo^rd elected at this meeting is coDStitulei as follows: From the State at large--J. A. Sligh, of Newberry; D. P. Duncan, of Union. First District?G. YV. Younginer, of Lexington. Second District? W. 1I. TimmermaD, of Edgefield. Third District?J. M. Glenn, of Anderson. Fourth District?John II. Harrison, of Greenville. Fifth District? II. L. IlickliD, of Lancaster. V, r % ? /. T U.' OJLALII h x ^ uoua, vl Florence. Seventh District?George J. Graham, of Williamsburg. At a meeting of the board held to-day J. A. Sligh wai> elected president, W. H. Timir.erman secretary and J. "W.Ferguson treasurer. The board will hold another meeting to elect a business agent for the State Exchange, and to consider th?> proposition for the removal of the exchange to Columbia, and to transact such other business as may come before them. At the meeting this afternoon it was decided to hold the next convention at Columbia. State Organizer J. R. Jeffries made his report which showed that the order was in a flourishing condition. Thtt following were elected delezates to the National Alliance: J. W.Stokes, E. T. Stackhouse, \V. J. Talbert; alternotes; J. 55. Keitt, D. i'. Duncan. A meeting of the directors of the Stale Exchange was held this afternoon. M. L. Donaldson, of Greenville, was re-elected State Exchange agent. The consideration of the question of removing the State Exchange to Columbia was postponed to the October meeting. An auditing committee wa3 appointed to examine the treasurer's books and vouchers. The committee is composed of three members, with president J. A. slirh as chairman ex-oinco. The other members are: J. It. Harrison of Greenville, D. P. Duncan of Uniou and J. >L (ilenn of Anderson. A committee was appointed at a meeting held in Columbia April 23 to propose a formula for the manufacture of tertalizer for the use of the Alliance and authorized to report to the State Alliance at this session. The committee will recomend the following formula for consideration by the Alliance: The fertilizer to *be known as the Alliance Brand; four per cent, of ammonia, nine per ceot. of acid and two per cent, of potash. The committee will also re? commend that the State exchange be authorized to advertise for the manufacture of fertilizer upon above formula. Oswald Wilson, of New York, formerly of Texas, and secretary of the X a tion-il Association of Business Agents, composed of the business agent3 of the several States in which there are State exchanges, dropped in here Tuesday night, *itnout any one outside of the Alliance seecuing to know that he was here, or the object of his visit. It is understood that ne was nere in me interest of that ten million dollar acherue which is supposed to have been formulated at a meeting of prominent Alliancemen held in New York a few weeks ago. It is understood that this meeting proposed to hare co-operative stores established in each of the counties, with central headquarters in New York. Mr. Wilson met with the trustees and stockholders of the board of directors of the State exchange, but they absolutely refuse to give out anything for publication growing out of the confereuce with Mr. Wilson, or anything about this ten mil lion dollar scheme for establishing cooperative stores. Mr. Wilson left this morning tor Atlanta, presumably to hold a conference with the Alliance of Georgia. NEW ENGLAND'S LATEST HORROR. A Beaut.:. ! Young Lady of High Social Standing Murdered. Hanover. N. II., July 18.?As Miss Christie Warden, accompanied by her mother, her sister Fannie and Louise Goodell, was returning on foot to their home, located one mile from theviiliage, ut a hmir lash m'trM. Frank AlniV. about thirty ) ears of age jumped into the road in front of them, and seizing Christie by the arm, said: "I want you. The mother and sister attempted to defend her |ir-1 at t missed. They ran for assistance. Theo Almy dragged his victim into the bushes from the road and shot her twice through the head, one shot tearing out her left eye. When help arrived the poor girl "was dead, and her body was stripped of nearly every article of clothing. Almy has tied. Miss Warden was a beautiful and most estimable young woman, about twenty-five years old, a graduate of the State normal school and a popular teaener. Almy was a former employe of her father, and his attention to Miss Christie had been repulsed. She was thedaughter of Andrew Warden, a wealthy farmer and a leading citizen. Sheriff Poster hns sent out searching parties in all directions. The father ot' the murdered girl offers a reward of $500 for the capture of the murderer. The murder of Miss Christie Warden by Frank Almy has caused the greatest excitement in this town, and business is pracucaiiy suspenrieu rouay. trace of the" murd^-rei has yet been fouml,and largr nun.bers of armed men, among Uiem many Dartmouth professors, are scouring trie country. Almy came here about a year ago, claiming that Savanali, Ga? was hi* home. An additional force of men was called out this afternoon, by the tolling of the college bell, for the purpose of extending the search. The lectures in the medical college have been i.uspen ied, and many of the students have joined the searching party. I'd to a late hour this evening no very promising clews were discovered. Frank Ostner, who lives on the fair grounds at White Junction, says that he was awakened by a man answering Almv's description, much fatigued, who anxiously inquired the way out of the fair ground inciosure. An additional 8500 reward has been offered by the town of Ilanovei for Almv's capture. An examination shows that one bullet entered the girl's brain and the other severed her spinal cord. Her funeral will take pMce on Monday. The National Alliance. Baltimore, July 17.?The American says that the National Farmers' Alliance will hold their encampment in Maryland, near this city, and that the annual encampment will be held here every year, certainly for the next five! years, and it is probable that a cite will be purchased and the encampment located here permanently. This year the encampment will be held in September. About two hundred acres of land will be needed for the encampment and an auditorium will be erected which will seat 12.C00 people. The emcampmeoi win last two weesa axiu 250,000 persons may be expected to be present. The Pennsylvania and Baltimore and Ohio railroads have made liberal offers to secure the encampment along their lines. PRESIDENT POLK SPEAKS. HE PLEADS FOR MORE MONEY FOR THE COUNTRY. The Alliance Will Not Form a Third Party Unlf.HK Forced to Do So by the Intolerance of the Democratic headers?The Speaker is Received With Enthusiasm. Spartanburg, S. C., July 22.?This afLemoon, however, a public meeting was held and an address was made by President Folk, of the National Alliance, to which everybody was invited. The audience was composed largely of farmers. President Polk spoke for two bours, and was given good-attention and freo XJ& f ?>/? fnr G.^/^71C4?AV4WJ ? lllj j,/i VVVV4 1.VV* J"*. cibly, and m good tone and spirit, the demands of the tarmers and their grievances. The entrance, during his speech, of Governor Tillman, who had ju3t arrived from Fort Hill, was greeted with applause. President Folk was introduced by President Stokes as a man who needed no introduction to the Alliancemen of South Carolina, as he was already well kcown. President Polk said he cherished no recollection more fondly than the kind .iess received at the hands of the people of South Carolina. It were needless to />. h hinri 1 urn IGiCl tKJ LL1G >r u4i^u viuu btity vuv Carolinas together?they were witten in the best blood of both. If he were to evade or suppress the truth in regard to the great issues of the dav he would be unworth of confideuce or respect. The farmers have been led on tally long enough; let us have truth. The growth oi the Alliance was the marvel of this age. It had no parallel in history. It had flourished in thirty-six States, and had 3,000,000 members. The great and underlying cause, as argued by the speaker, which had given this wonderful tna A fhp finanrHa.i giw.?tu tV/ M1V, policy of the government and the distress aud suflermg among the laboring people, caused thereby. All the Alliance asked was an open held and a fair fight; Take the railroads and manufacturers, the growth of towns and cities, the amassing of colossal fortunes?all these were never known to flourish more than at present. But when in all your life Known the agricultural interests to languish as at present? From 1850 to 1860 the farmers owned 70 per ccnt. of the wealth of the country; today less than 22 per ;ent., four-hfths of which was unAas lYinrtcrcure "FYnm 1S70 f.O 1880 the MVI ? agricultural population increased 29 per cent., while the ralue of property owned by them bad decreased. In 1880 the total taxable property of the country was $43,500,000,000, $26,000,000,000 ol which escaped taxation, and the farmers paid on $14;000,000,000 of the remainder. It I had my way, said the speaker, I would pass a law in each State requiring every assessor to carry with him a seal and attach it to every note or mortgage on evidence of indebtedness, and any paper without this seal I would declare non-collectable by law. Virmopa Mn't rvit-. their land in vaults. and assessors always find it. The time was when I accepted as true what the big men of the country said if they belonged to my party: but now, the bigger the man the more I question the statements made by him. We have been in the habit of swallowing whatever the lioliticians gave us and swear it was good, aud holler ourselves noarse. But that ;me is over. When there was $52 per capita in circulation times were flush and everybody got on well. The farmer who sold his cotton in Spartanburg had to pay a profit to eleven men before he bought it back in cloth. Speaking of the purchasing power of money, tie saiayou uoirc woui w &uu? how much a dollar will buy, but how much debt-paying power that dollar possesses, In 1870 ten bales of cotton would pay a one thousand dollor debt; now it took thirty bales to pay the same debt: and it cost as much to rais: cotton today as then. Wall street, backed by Lombard street, London, has taken hold of the goverenment. The government of this country has gone into silent partnership with Wall street. You hear a great deal about fiat moneV. I would like to know get any more fiat money * ;niimH-;r hi'Ja bonds which are based only on tf^Vwu^L of the govern nent to tax the people to redeem them, with no gold or silver back of them. The national banking system lends to one ciass money at one per cent, and license the ba ks to charge eight and ten per cent, for it. I believe that if this government would stick its name to a piece of leather, or paper, or gold, or anything else, and call it a dollar, it will pass for one hundred cents anywhere in thie r>r?nr>< rv 1U (.IJisJ VVMMW4 J t He read from the (Jcala platform on the silver plank, and remarked: "I am not waiting for Grover Clevelaud to tell me how to vote, and I intend to stand with the majority of the white people of the South and vote against Grover Cleveland." This statement was greeted with applause. In support of the sub-treasury plank, he quoted from Jetlersou and Calhoun, and said if the Jeftersonian straightouts wanted to learn tjure Democracy they had better come into the Alliance and take their lessons over. Tbe Oeala platform was good Jellersoman uemocracy and j/racoiaiau Republicanism, which made a mighty good combination. I believe that platform will conduce to the greatest good, and intend to staml on it. The tariff is not the great issue. If it were reduced 25 per cent, you wouln be no better off in five years. We are not to be sidetracked by the cry of nigger, bloody shirt or anything else. We went to congress and asked for relief; we wanted more money to do the business 01 trie country, we were told -o go home, work harder, lire closer, keep oat of politics. and all would b? well. Farmers have gone into politics, and gone there to stay. The Alliance is non-partisan, but it i3 in politics; and who has more right to go into politics than the farmers? Some people don't than the farmers? Some people don't know the dill'erence betw ;en a party issue and politics. A party issue means a nice collar around your neck with a chain to it. Politics is a science of covornmont. I want to ask three questions: Are you in lavor of aoolishmg the national banking system? Are you in favor of | the government issuing money direct to the people, at a low rate of interest? I Are you opposed to dealing in futures of agricultural products? When the sub-treasury bill was presented t? Congress we did not consider it perfect, but it contained principles that we wanted inconx. rated in the laws. Did our congressman sit down and talk the matter over with us and see where we differed, and see if we couldn't com; promise and get relief? It was the first time' the farmers had ever asked anything. and it was buried beneath legislative oblivion. But now, instead of sending petitions, we propose to send men in sympathy with our demands. They told us our bill was unconstitutional. This objection was started by Mr. Oates. of Alabama ,who never saw the bill. This cry was taken up systematically by others. I said, tell us why it is unconstitutional. The answer was because the government can't lend imobey. In 1?7C, when Philadelphia wanted monev for the exposition, the government loaned it, and the Supreme Court of the United States decided that it was a loan. In 1884. when the cottoa exposition was to be held at Xew Orleans, Mr. Oates said the appropriation was a loan, and made a speech in favor of it, and it passed. And yet, the same man will tell you the sub-treasury bill is unconstitutional?the government can't lend money. Talk about class legislation! All the statute laws on the statute books are class legislation and for the benefit of all classes except the tanner*. Pat whiskey in warehouses, and furnish a keeper, and give a certificate of deposit, and keep it three years?that is~ constitutional; but when the farmer come~s~?p r: and says he wants to deposit some wheat v*?: and corn with the government and draw some money, it is not constitutional. The fight against the sub-treasury is unmanly, because you kuow it is a tisht against a suffering people. Really the fijjht is against a low rate of interest. That is the rub. The sub-treasury bill propose? to obtain money on non-per iSLiuuic uuLLL pruuuci-s aua iana, to a certain extent. Bring the present bill t<* me, and I'Jl tear it up, and you will never hear of it again, provided you will bring something in your pocket that ;s better or that will give us relief. We want the principles underlying the bill. Until something better is offered, the Alliancemen in the South will stick to the sub-treasury. This bill means that banks and everybody who lends money can't get but 2 per cent, for it. TLe Alliance is goirg to take part in politics and vote for our friends. About the third party, I want to say this: It there is a tbird party established in these Southern States it will be on account of the domineering, proscriptive plan of the Democratic bosses. You can't point 10 an Aiiianceman who lias gone into the third party. Xo Democratic Allianceman ever went into a convention and bolted its nominations. These honest people who are Interested in tuis great struggle for humanity claim nothing but what is just; and. living and suffering as they do, they are going to have relief. We believe our struggle is just, and we would be unworthy our maDhood if we did not stand ud for principle. Our evils are national in their nature and effect, and can't be cured by sectionalism. I believe that in the success of this moveil.A 1ZL- x\- .4.5 uicLib ucpcuus tuc xue vi ice uauoo. Officers Led luto an Ambnsh. ^Lddlesborouge, Ky., July 17.?A desperate attempt was made to assassinate the Jlidclesborough police force yesterday afternoon about 3 o'clock. A lot of;dlsreputable characters who frequent Gum Springs, alow-drinking and gambling dive just outside the city limit?, concocted the plot to murder the ^ officers. They accordingly stationed about fifteen of their gang" in ambush along the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, and two of their number began firing their Winchesters. These two were 1111Q TnVi ncrtn On/1 T?p?r%Iy m v?o v>? Aiiiw w44 uovu unu x iaua J.WOOIuiu^? Chief Maples, with a posse of officers, went iQ pursuit of the pair, and they were led into an ambush!. Over a hundred shots were exchanged. Special Officer Dorsey Williams was shot _? . through both thighs, and i'atrolman Tucker was shot in the leg. The police were forced to retire, and they returned to the city. A posse of about one hundred citizens, armed with rifles, soon captured both desperadoes and lodged them in jail. About 4 o'clock this morning a crowd of masked men entered Jailer Pollit's sleeping apartments af. t.ho n.lt.v -Jail 5?r>r1 orith niafnla to his head, demanded the keys to the jail. The jailer was forced to give up the keys. The crowd then "went into the jail, took Rossimus out and led him to the big bridge over the canal, where he was shot several times. A rope was then fastened about his neck and he was swung over the bridge until 7 o'clock, when he was cut dawn. A placard was tacked on the bridge rail just above the body bearing this inscription: i hisis th^fot^fal^ould^^^^^^^ Eleven Men Killed. Liverpool, July 18.?A terrible accident occurred this morning on the line of the Manchester Ship canal. A train passing along the railroad runnin? near the canal fell over the latter's enbankment, near this city, killing eleven men who were working under the ) heading. In addition to the men killed * / many of the workmen were injured. _? The bodies ox the killed were horribly mutilated. The accident is probably unprecedented in railway'annals. Twenty-three cars laden with construction materials were being hauled by two engines down a heavy grade, at full speed. The pointsTV* O n lu/1 A 4 o? iciu \jl j caiof urtiucru. Pratt, became confused and turned the train upon the short siding leading to the brink of the canal. The distance was so short that the engineers had no time to check the momentum of the train, and it took a frightful lt-ap over * the embankment, a depth of forty feet, jir: into the cutting. Pratt fled, shrieking, across the country, nearly frightened* ' out of his senses b#.t]ie$?yful-results of his blunders'He was captured by the police, andfSFlll be held for trial. The management of the line is severe 13' blamed for entrusting; so important a switching point to so young and inexperienced a person. Dted from Heart Failure. New IIavex, July 17?As officer Loughlin was patrolling East Hock -V ! Park last evening his attention was called to a man who was leaning out of a window in the top of the monument 100 feet above the ground. He ascended the narrow staircase and found that the man was dead. The policeman descended from midair with a corpse on his back, and the Coroner was summoned. It was supposed that the man died from heart failure caused by the ' i exertion of climbing the monument. lie was John II. Ileid, of ]NTew.-York, : who recently came to this city to sell , goods for a tobacco house of Xew Yorfc. lie wa3 thirty-seven years old. The Republican Machine. Piiiladelpia, July 17.?Chairman Quay, of the Republican National Committee, has v ailed a meeting of the executive comnittee in this city for the 2*Jth instant. It is understood that the full committee will convene in New York or Washington in November and fix soma time in May for the national convention. It is stated thit Mr. Quay will offer his resignation at the meeting this month. His friends say he has no intention of retiring from the y committee, but he will resign the chairmanship absolutely, without giving reasons. I