The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, October 21, 1891, Image 1
VOL. XLVI. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1891. NO. 10.
I fAr nnhti^ nnrnAQP< I T"rr T T^T\ a T* 1 tn HAnH
THE SVrCnD OF ELEAZAR.|
A SERMON ON THE COLDNESS. DOUBi" j
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AND UNSEL1EF OF 7HISAGE.
Sad Ctiht-r- of IhristiHiiH Who Kellivo but |
a FarS u* llie of Ken Who Doubt I
Krerytli. ng kl.<1 of self Styinl Christians i
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Who Shrink ;roi:i tb?? Conflict.
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Bkookltx, Oct. 11.?Among the |
Yast audionces which crowd the Brook-!
iyu Tabernacle at evert scrvice are large i
numbers of ycunu men, many of whom J
are theological students. Dr. Talmage's i
aermon tbis mornius; had a special in- j
f A < if>tc tMr>r> whpn so i
LCICSi, ilJi tlitlii. v,?.w v. -
many are giving up the Bible, or hold-1
ing the truth less firmly than before, the
eloquent preach?r put himself on record j
so clearly and forcibly that no one who j
heard him could have anv doubt as to i
his attitude. His text, was II Samuel j
xxiii, 10, "And his hand clave uuto the !
sword."
A gref t general of King David was J
Eleazar, the hero of the text. The i
Philistines ojcued battle against him, j
and his troop? retreated. The cowards
fled. Elcazarand three of his comrades
went into the battle and swept the tielil,
tor four m eu vfth God on thwir side are |
stronger than a whole battalion with
Godagairst them. '"Fall back!" shouted
the commander of the Philistine army.
The cry r^n along the host, "Fall back!"
Eleasar having swept the field throws
himself on the ground to rest, but the
muscles and sinews of his hand had been
so long bent around the hilt of the sword
that the h-lt was imbedded in the flesh,
and the gold wire of the hilt had broken
through the sk'n of the palm of the j
hand, and he could not drop this sword ;
which he had so gallantly wielded. "His
hand clave unto the sword." That is
what I call magnificent fighting for the
Trm} nr?i nfTsraeL And we want more
of it. I propose to sho.v you this morning
how Eleazar took hold of the sword and
how the sword took hold of Eleazar. I
look at EIeazar?3hand, and I come to
the conclusion that be took tbe sword
with a vt-iy tight grip. The cowards
who lied hitu uo trouble in cropping their
8words. As they fly over the rocks
I hear their swords clanging in every
^ direction. 11 is easy enough for them to
BL drop their swords. I3ut Eleazar's band
MSkclave unto the sword.
Oh, my friends, iu this Christian conPfcf
we wan', a tighter grip of the Gos weapons,
a tighter crasp of the two
^^vord of tue tiuth. It makes me
these Christian people who
of the truth and let the
BiLi.-uth go, so that the Fhilis^the
loosened grasp, wrench
away from them. The
for us to do is to put our
the- bcol. of Genesis and sweep
P?arcunt.the booK until me _>ew
l^tamfcnt comes into ihe palm, and
keep on sweeping our land around the
book uniil the tips of the lingers clutch
at the words, "In the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth." I
like an infidel a great deal better than I
do one of these namby-pamby Christians
who hold a part of the truth and
let the rest xo. By miracle God preserved
this i'lble just as it is, and it is a
Damascus blade. The severest test to
which a sword can be put in a sword i
factory is to wind the blade around a
gun barrel li^e a ribbon, and then when i
ihe swoid is let loose it flies back to its
own shape. So the sword of God's truth j
has been luliy tested, and it is bent this ;
way and that war and wound this way
and thai wav, but it always comes back
to its own shape. Think of it! A book
wiltten eighteen centuries ago, and
tome of it thousanus;of years ago, and
\et in our time the average sale of this
book is more than twenty thousand cop-,
ies every week, and more than a million
copies a ^ear. I say now that a book
which is divioefy inspired and divinely
scattered is a weapon worth holding a
tight grip of. Bishop Colenso will come
along and try to wrench out of ^ur hand
me Live OOOKS OI ALUSCS, iiuut ouauos
will come along and try to wrench out
of your hand the miracles, and Kenan
will come a)on<: and tr^ to wrench cut
ot >ou hat d the entire life of the Lord
Jtsus Christ, and jour associates il the
stuie. or the shop, or the factory, or the
banking house will try to wrench out ol
>oui- hand ti.e entire Bible; but in the
strength of the Lord ot Israel, and
with ELazar's grip, hold on to it. You
give up the .Bible, you give up any part
of it. an-! you give up pardon aud peac?
and life and heaven.
THE NOTHINGARIANS' Ci'.KKD.
I see hundreds, perhaps thousands, ol
}oung ran in this audience. Do not be
ashamed, }Oung man. to have the world
know that you are a Iricnd of the .Bible.
This book is the friend of ali that is ?*ood
and it is the sworn enemy of al! that is
bad. An eloquent writer lectin ly gives
.??? Afo T:crr )\Q/? mon W hf> fctonii
ttl.4 ill V. V VI a ?ViJ WUU .' "V
m ihe cell of a western prison. This
criminal had gone through all styles of
crime, -.nd he was there waiut.g lor the
''allows. The conviet standing there at
thft window or the ceil, this writer says,
"looked out and declared, 'I am an infidel.'
He -.aid that, to ail the mwn and
children who happened to be gathered
there. *1 am an infidel,'" and the ?!oquent
writer says, "Etery man and woman
there believed him." And the
writer gee* on to say. "If he had stood
there sating, 'I am a Christian.' every
man and womi>n would have said, 'lie
is a liar!''' This Bible is the sworn
enemy of all this wron^r, and it is the
friend of all that is good. Oh, hold on
to it. Do not take part of it and threw
the rest away. Hold on to all of it.
There are so many people now who do
not know. Y ou ask tliem if the soul
is immortal, and they say. "I guess it
is, I don't know; perhaps it is, peril ips
it isn't." Is ihe Bible true? "Well,
perhays it is, ana perhaps it i?n's; perhaps
it may be figuratively, aud perhaps
it may not bo at all." They despise
what they call the Apostolic creed; but
if their own creed were written out it
til-*. <K!p. V a!:oi-a >rt wnth
? UUJLU iAC tllio. X 1U uv?i.
ing, the mnker of heaven and earth, and
in nothing which it hath sent, which
nothimr w-s born of nothing, and which
nothing was dead and buried and descended
into nothing, and arose from nothioii
and ascended to nothing, and now
sitteth at the right hand of nothing, from
which it will come to judge tothing. I
believe in ihe holy agnostic church and
in the communion of nothing-garians,
and iD the lorgiveaess of nothing, and
the resurrection of nothing, and in tne
life that never shall be. Amen." That
is the creed of tens of thousands of people
in this dav. If you have a mind to
adopt such theory i will not. "1 believe
in God the Father Almighty,
maker of ht-aven and earth, and in Jesus
Christ, and in the holy cathoiic church,
and in the communion of saints, and in
the life everlasting. Amen." Oh.
when I see Eleazar taking such a stout
\
snip of the sword in the battle agaiust
bin and for righteousness, I cor-ie to the i
conclusion that we ought to take a stouter
grip of God's eternal truth, the s tvord
of righteousness.
As I look at Eleazer's hand I also notice
his spirit of self forgetfulness. He
did not uotice that the hilt of the sword
was eating through the palm of his hand.
He did not know it hurt him. As he
went out into the conflict he was so anx- :
ious for the victory he forgot himself,
and that hilt might go never so deeply
into the palm of his hand it could not
disturb him. *%IIis hand clave nnto the
sword." Oh, my brothers and sisters,
let us go into Christian conflict with the
spirit of self abnegation. Who cares
whether the world praises us or denounces
us? What do we care for misrepresentation,
or abuse or persecution in a
conflict like this? Let us forget ourselves.
That man who is afraid of getting
his hand hurt will never kill a Philistine.
Who cares whether you set hurt
ot not it you get the victor}? Oh, how
many Christians there are who are all
the "ume worrying about the way the
world treats them. They are so tired. .
and they are so abused, aud they ara so
tempted, when Eleazcr diet not think
whether he had a hand, or an arm. or a
toot. A.'I lie wanted was victory.
We see how meu for^rt themselves in 11
worldlr achievemeat. We have wften
seen men vho in order to achieve world:
ly success will forget all physical fatigue
and all annoyance and all obstacle i.
\ Just alter the baltle ot Yorktown, in the
! American Kevolutiou, a musician,
j wounded, was told he must have his
j limbs amputated, and they werea;.out
to fasten him to the surgeon's table?
for it was long before the merciful discovery
of anaesthetics. He said, "Xo,
don't fasten oie to that table, get me a
violin." A violin was brought to him
and he said, "Xow go to work as I begin
to play," and lor forty minutes, during
the awful panes of amputation, he
moved not a muscle nor dropped a note
while he played some sweet tune. Oh,
is it not strange that with the music of
the Gospel of Jesus Christ and with this
grand march of the church militant on
the way to become the church triumphant,
we cannot forget ourselves and forget
all pang and all sorrow and all per
secution and all perturbation?
THE ENDURANCE OF HEROIC ME>\
We know what men accomplish under
worldly opposition. Men do not shrink
back for antagonism or for hardship.
You have* admired Prescott's ''Conquest
of Mexico," as brilliant and beautiful a
hi story as was ever written; but some of
you may not know under what disadvan!
tages it was writteu?that "Conquest of
! Mexico"?fi r Pres^ott was totally blind,
and he had two pieces of wood parallel
to each other fastened, and totally blind,
with hia pen between those pieces ot
wood he wrote, the stroke against one
piece of wood tellins how tar the pen
must go in one way, the stroke against
the other piece of wood telling how far
the pen must go in the other way. Oh,
how much m??n will endure for worldlj
knowledge and for worldly success, and
jet how little we end*re tor Jesus Christ.
How many Christians there are that go
around saying, k'0h, my hand, my hand,
my hurt hand; don't you see there Is j
blood on the hand, and there is blood on
the sword?" while Eleazar, with the hilt
imbedded in the f.esh of his right hand,
does not know it.
Must I be carried to the skies
On flowery beds of ease,
While others fought to win the prize
Or sailed through bloody seas?
What have w? suffered in comparison
with those who expired with suffocation,
or were burned, or *ere chopped
to pieces lor the truth's sake? We talk
of the persecution of olden times. There
is just as much persecution coins; on no *
in various ways. In 1849, in Madagas'
car, eighteen men were put to death for
Christ's sake. They were to be buried
over the rocks, and before they were
hurled over the rocks, in order to make
their death the more dreadful in anticipation,
they were put iu baskets and
swuU? to and fro oter the precipice that
they might see how many huudr<?d feet
they would hay? to be dashed dowu, and
while they were swinging in these baskets
over the rocks they sang:
Jesus, lover of my t-oul.
Let me to Thy bosom fly,
While the billows near me roll,
While the tempest still is high.
Then they were dashed down to death!
I Oh, how much others hate endured for
I Christ, aud buvr little we endure for
! chrisi! We want, to ride to heaven in
! a Pullman sleeping car, our teet on soft
! p ush, the bed made up early so we can
sleep all the way. the black porter of
death to wake us up only in time to ruler
the golden city. We want all the
{surgeons to fix ?ur hand up. Let them
i bring on all the lint, and all the banda!ges.
and all the salve, lor our hand is
{hurt, while Eleczar does not know his
j hand is hurt. "Ills hand clave unto the
l sword."
J As I look at Eleazar s hand I come to
' the conclusion that he hus done a great
I deal of hard hitting. I am not surprised
} whtn 1 see that these lour men?Eleazar
j and his three companions?drove back
I tfce army of Philistines that Eleazar's
sword clave to his hand, for every time
! he stiuck au enemy with one end of the
sword the other end of the sword wounded
him. Wheu he took hold ot the
sword the. sword took hold of him. Oh,
we have found au enemy who cannot be
conquered by rose water and soft
speeches. It must be sbarp stroke and
straight thrust. There is intemperance,
and there is fraud, and there is gambling,
and there is lust, and there are ten thousand
battalions ol iniquity, armed Philistine
iniquity. How are. they to hi.
captured and overthrown? bolt sermons
iu morocco cases laid down in front of
an exqu'site audience will not do it.
You have got to call things by their
riiiht names.
imperative NKHD OK AX AWAKKN
IXG.
We have got to expel Irom oar
churches Christians who eat the sacrament
on Sunday and devour widows'
houses all the week. We have <?Ot to
stop our indignation gainst the Ilittites
and thejubusites and the Gergishites,
and let those poor wretches go, and apply
our indignation to the modern transgressions
which need u be dragged out
and slain. Ahabs here. Herods here.
Jezebels here. The massacre of the infants
here. Strike for God so hara that
while you slaj the sin the sword will
adhere to your own hand. I tell you,
my friends, we want a few John Knoxes
and John Wesieys in the Christian
church today. The whole tendency is
to reiine on Christian work. We keep
on refining on it until we send apologetic
word to iniquity we r.re about to
capture it. And wemustuo .cilia sword
silver chased and presented by the ladies,
and we must ride on white pallrey
under embroidered housing, putting the
spurs in only just enough to make the
charger dance gracefully, and then we
must send a missive, delicate as a wed- J
ding card, to ask the old black giant of
sin "if he will not surrender.
Women saved by the *race of God and
ou glorious mission sent, detained from
Sabbath classes because their oew hat
is not done. Churches that shook our
cities with great revivals sending arouu i
to ask some demonstrative worshiper if
he will not please to say "amen" and
"hallelujah" a little softer. It seems
as if in our churches we waoted a baptism
of cologne and balm of a thousand
flowers, when we actually need a
baptism ot fire from the Lord God of
Pentecost. But we .-ire so afraid somebody
will criticise our sermons, or criticise
our prayers, or criticise our re- j
ligious work that our anxietj for the j
world's redemption is lost in the fear
we will get our haud hurt, while Eleazar
\rent into the conflict, "And hi* hand
% A. - ^ I 1 - }
ciare unto mc swuru.'
Bnt I sec m tbc next place what a
lmrd th ng it was for Eleazar to get his
hand and his sword parUd. The muscles
and the sinews had been so long
grasped around the sword he could not
drop it when he proposed to drop it.
end his three comrades, I suppose, come
up and tried to help him, and they
bathed the back part of th? hand, hopiag
the siuews aud muscles wo?ld relax.!
But no. "His hand clave unto the
sword." Then thej tried to pull open the,:
lingers and to pull back the thumb; but
no sooner vrero thej pulled back than
I hey closed agaiu, "and his hand clave
unto the sword." But after awhile they
were successful, and then they noticed
that the curve in the palm of the hand
corresponded exactly with the curve of
the hilt. "His haud clare unto the
sword." J
You and I have seen it many a time.
There are in the United Statei today
many aged ministers of th? Gospel.
They are too feeble now tc preach. In
the church records the word opposite
their names is 'emeritus," or the words
are, "a minister without charge." They
were an heroic race. Thty had small J
salaries and but few books, and they
swam spring freshets to meef. their ap- j
pointcnents. But th?y did in their day
- * ' 1- < /" ~.l tn?.L
a ruigmy won iui vruu. aucj
off more of the beads of Philistine iniquity
than yon could couut from noon J
to sundown. You put that old ministerjof I
the Gospel now Into a prayer meeting,
or occasional pulpit, or a tick ro?m |
where there is some one to be coaforted, i
and it is the same old ring to his TOlce
and the same old story of pardon and
peace and Christ and heaven. Hit hand
has so long clutched ths sword in Christian
conflict be cannot drop it. "His
hand clave unto the sword."
THE AGED MINISTER'S FAITH.
I had in my parish in Philanelphia a
very aged man who in his early life had
be*n the companion and adviser of the
early presidents, Madison and Monroe.
He had wielded vast influence. but I
only knew him as a very aijed man.
The most remarkable thing about him
was his ardor for Christ. When he
could not stand up in the meetings without
propping he would throw his armt
around a pillar of the church, and tkough
his mind was partially gone his lore for
Christ was so great that all were in
deep respect and profound admiration,
and were moved when he spoke. I was
called to see him die. I entered tke roem,
and he said, "Mr. Talmage, I cannot
speak to you now." He waa in a very
pleasant delirium, as he imagined he
had an audience before hirm. He said.
"I must tell these people U come to
Christ and prepare lor heaven." And
then in this pleas ant delirium, both
arms lifted, this octogenarian preached
Christ and told of the gloriet of the
world to come. There, lying: on his dying
pillow, his dying hand elave to hia
sword.
Oh, if there ever was any one who
had a right to retire from the conflict it
was old Joshua. Soldieri come back
from battle hare the namee of the battles
on their flags, showing where they
d-sting'.iislied themselves, mditia arerj
appropriate inaciption. Loelc at the
flag of old General Joshua! On it Jericho,
Gideon, llazar. City of Ai, and
instead of the stars sprinkled on the fla^
the sun and the moon which stood still.
There he is, one hundred and ten years
old. He is lyinsr flat on his back but he
is preaching. His dying words are a
battle charge against idolatry and a rallying
cry lor the Lord of Hosti as he says,
' i^hold, this day I go the way of all
the earLh, and God hath not tailed to
fulfill his nram;sft concerning Israel."
IIis dying hand clave nato the sword.
There is the headless body of Paul on
the road to Ostea. IIis great brain and
his sreat heart havo been severed. The i
elmn ood rods had stunr him fearfully.
When the corn ship broke up he swain
ashore, coming up drenched with the
brine. Every day siuce that da? when
the horse reared under him i* the suburb*
of Damascus, as the supernatural
light fell, down to this day wben he is
sixty eight years of aaeand old and decrepit
from the prison ctllol the Mamertine,
he has been ontragsously treated,
and he is waiting to die. How does he
spend his last hours? Telling the world
how badly he fgels, and describing the
rheumatism that he got in orison, the
rheumatism sfflictinvr his iimb3, or the
Deuralgia pieccing f is temples, or the
thirst that fevers his tongu*!' Oh, no.
His !a?t words are the battle shout for
Christendom: l'I am now ready to be
olTered, and the time of my departure is
at hand; I have fought the good light."
And so his dying hand clave unto th?
sword.
It was in the frent room on the second
flr?r>r m* father lav a-dvinir. It was
Saturday morning lour o'clock. Just
three years before that day my mother
had left him for the skies, and he had
been homesick to join her company. He
was eighty-three years of age. Ministers
ot the Gospel came in to com tort
him, bat he comforted them. How
wonderfully ths words sounded out from
his dying pihow, "I have been young
and now am old, yet have I never seen
the righteous forsaken, or his seed begging
bread." They bathed his brow,
and th*-y bathed his hands, and they
bathed his feet and they succeeded in
straightening out the feet; but they did
not succeed in bathing open the hand so
it would stay open. Tnty b*th?d th#
hand 01 en, but it cam? shut. They
bathed it open again, but it cam?
shut. Tfhat was the matter with the
thumb and the fingers of that #ld hanu?
A h! it had so loDg clutched the sword
of Christian conflict that "his hand
-1 i.. il.. 1 JJ
Ciave uliwj tuc srnjru.
SPIRITS OF TUB MARTYKS.
I preach this sermoa as a tonic. I
want you to hold the truth with ineradicable
grip, and I want you to strike so
hard for God th*t it will react and whiU
you take tke sword, the sword will take
you.
You noticed that the officers of the
northern army a few years ago assambled
at Denver, and you noticed that
the officers of the southern army assembled
at Lexington. Soldiers coming together
are very apt to recount their ex/
periences and to show their scars. Here J
is a soldier who pulls up his sleeve and :
says: "There, I was wouu^ed in that !
arm," and shows the scar. AuJ au-!
other soldier pulls down his colur, and j
nays, "There, I was wounded in the ;
j neck." And another soldier says, "I |
hare had no use of that limb since the j
gunshot fracture." Ob, my rrieuds, i
wh?n the battle of life is over and the :
resurrection has come and our bodies [
rise Irora the dead, will we have >;n us
any scars of bravery for God? Christ
will be there all covered with scars.
Scars on the brow, scars on the hand,
scars on .he feet, scars all over the heart
won In the battle ot redemption. And
all heaven will sob alond with emotion
as thoy look ou those scars. Ignatius
will be there, and he will point out the
places where the tooth ana the pavr of
the lion seized him in the Colisseum;
and John Buss will be there, and he
will show where the coal first scorched
the foot on that day .Then his soirittook
wing of flame from Constance. M' MilIan
and Campbell and Fr?cman, Americas
missionaries in India, will be there
?the men who with their wives and
children went down in the awful massacre
at Cawnpore, and they will show
where the daggers <if the Sepoys struck
them.
The Waldenses win oe there. ana taey
will show where their bones were broken
on that day when the L'iedmontese soldiery
pitched them over the rocks. And
l-here will be those there who took care
of the sick and who looked alter the poor,
and they will have evidences oi' eartnly
exhaustion. And Christ, with his scarred
hand waving over the scarred multitude,
will say, 'You suffered with me on
earth; now be glorified with me iu heaven."
And then the great organs of
eternity will take up the chant and St.
John will play, ''These are they who
cam* out of great tribulation and had
. their robw washed and made white in
the blood of the Lamb."
But what will your chagrin and mine
be if it shall be told that day on the
streets of hearen that on earth we
shrank back from all toil and sacrifice
and hardship. No scars to show the
heavenly soldiery. Not so much as
one rid?e on the palm of the hand to
show that just once in the battle lor
God and the truth, we just once grasped
the sword so firmly, and struck so hard
that the sword and the hand stuck together,
and th? hand clave to the sword.
0 my Lord Jesus, rouse us to thy service
Tier saints in all this glorious war
Shall conquer though they (lie;
They see the triumph from afar,
And seize it with the eye.
When that illustrious day shall rise,
And all thy armies shine
In robes of victory through the skies,
The gl?ry shall be thine.
Got* Wroiiff.
Niw Yokk, October 15?The New
York Times and other morning papers
to day published new3 of which the following
is the substance: John Iloey,
[ who for the last forty years has beer
[identified with the "Adams Express
Company, and who for over three years
has been its president, was yesterday
; discharged from his high oHice by th'e
[ unanimous vote of the board of directors
on the charge of malleasance.
I Clapp Spooner, vice president of the
J company, a Bridgeport millionaire, who
[ occupied the presidents chair when the
;vote wa3 cast to discL rge Iloey, and
who voted for that discharge, handed
In his resignation, and it was accepted
i for precisely the same reason for which
\ Iloey was discharged. The charges
against Hoey and ijpooner, which
! brought about the above aciion, artthat
they purchased the New York and
! Boston Dispatch Express Company and
: Kinsley Express Company for 8150,000,
! and turned them over to the Adams j
| Express Company for 3850,000, and that
I the differyice between these two
amount* .vas divided between Iloey |
fand Spooner, Ilenry Sherburne and
Henry C- T*ft.
[ The exposure was brought about by
a suit brought by Sherburne against,
| the other three men tor an accounting
and hi? share of tb? profits of the deal.
Hoey's share of the profits is set down
as $179,000, and Spooner's at $172,000.
The published statement* are that
when th? directors met to consider the
subject Iloey had nothing to say. Henry
Sanford, of Bridgeport, Conn , was
this afternoon appointed president of
the Adams Express Company, and
Frederick Love joy, of this city, was appointed
vice president.
Hdueattonal Statistic*.
Washington, Oct. 9? The Census
Bureau has Issued an extra btilietion on
education *s a summary o< statistics
heretofore p*blished but bringing returni
of private and parochial achoois
up to July 1, 1891, and giving parochial
schools by btates and by commun
ities, not before shown i:i any census.
The total school enrollment for the
United States, reported July 1,1891, was
clow to 14,220,000; the total public
sBhoil enrollment, including about 05,0u0
in universities, schools i'or training
teachers, and so on near 12,730,000; iu
prirab? schools and iu parochial schools,
r.^f f-jr tmm 7nT) 000 paeh. A table cives
Ihe national population and school
enrollment from tacb decade from 1840,
when th? tirat educational c-nsus was
taken, showing a gram of population
from 1850 to 1870of per cent.; from
1870 to 1890 of 62.41 per cent.; of spcial
enrollment from 1850 to 1870 of 97 94
per cent.; from 1870 to 1890 of G7.21 per
cent,, indicating nearly the same relations
of population and school enrollment
in each period, notwithstanding
tfreat local change* meantime. Returns ;
received since, this bulletin was pru-1
pared will a<id considerably to private)
and parockia! enrollment and modify j
the clasiificatlon in seme degree.
All VT*r? Drunk.
St. John's, N. 1\, Oct. 15.?A sailor I
named John Brennan arrived at i'repasey
today and tells the following st or\:
He was one of the crew of forty-thri e
of the steamer City of Rome, which ier't
Montreal, October 7, for Dundee with
575 cattle and a lot of flour and maize.
The steamer, he says, was totally wrecked
Monday night at Marine Cove, St.
Mary's Bay. The captain, crew arid officers
were all drunk and could not save
themselves. He was thrown on the
rock, and after a terrible night's experience
was rescued by a man named Lundrigan
on Tuesday morning. All the
others were lost. He tells a pitiful tale
of the struggles of the crew and ol the
cattle in their efforts t<? save them?el ves.
Ther? is considerable excitement here
over the story of the m*o Brennan. who
claims to be the only survivor of the
eattle ship City of Rome. There are numerous
persons here who refuse to bei
lleve his story. Brennan is on his way
to St. Jebfi's.
V
Kfjftian Cotton SaflTers Too,
Cakio. Oct. 8.?The cotton association
reports that the rec?nt cold and
foggy weather which has prevailed
threughout tba cotton growing districts
of Egypt has seriously affected the
crops. Tfie association, taking everything
into consideration, estimates the
jieid of eotton rill be 3,700,000 cantars.
(A canta^r is equal to forty-live pounds.)
|
I
DIVIDING TIME IX OHIO.
an extraordinary union political
meeting at ada.
Uovtrnor C:iiui>l>pll, the Democratic
Champion, Wius th? Opening anrl Closing,
and flakes Good Use of the frlvi]?-Ko
In Doing lrp McK1nl*y.
Ada, Ohio., Oct 8.?The little town
of Aila was Id gala attire to-day in
honor of its great political event, and
not only did ev^ry front window present
a likeness of either McKinley or
Campbell, but lrom every limb of the
trees were suspended above the streets
portraits of tbe distinguished Ohioans.
Flags and banners and bunting there
were without number, and so generous
was the friendly rivalry of decorations
displayed by Democrats and Republicans
tLat the very horizen was obscured
by .the familiar lines of the national
colors. Great decorative taste was displayed
in various triumphal aretes,the
most prominent of these structures being
the non-partisan, "Welcome" arch,
which rose above Main street and bore
the words, "Welcome to their leaders."
From the Keystone were also suspend-.1
r.?
tu JJUllJLiiiia Ui lUUlViUiCJT aun
be!l, and as the various marching clubs
marched under the arch they eneered
lustily for their respective leaders.
By noon there were over live thousand
strangers in the city, and although
great enthusiasm was manifested by
both parties, the rivalry was a friendlv
one and entirely devoid of unpleasant
incidents. Many Indianians and a few
Illinoisians came and they numbered in
their ranks the most enthusiastic partisans
on the ground. From early morning
until the opening of the meeting the
music of bauds resounded through the
streets and occasionally the blast of a
tin horn disturbed the martial melody.
There was an object lesson, however,
in these tin horns, for they were understood
to be and labelled as the product
or' American tin. The hnndv walking
cane, displayed with much ostentation
by various marching clubs, was alluded
to us having an origin in the tin mines
of Dakota, and no occasion was lost to
denounce in vigorous language the bete
noir of Ohio Republicans, the ''Demo
cratic tin-plate liar." On the other hand
the Democrats retaliated by displaying
badges bearing allusions to the inconsistency
and iu) potency of the McKiuKill
Thto IcrHcc urnrf> /lint; npti VP
badges, which attracted much attention,
and the Democratic badge received
special allusion by Governor Campbell.
It bore a portrait of Carupbeil,
and below it were*the significant words,
"American wool, 24 cents, on account
of the JMcKinley bill." An American
tin hadge, displayed with equal
pride by Republicans, container a portrait
ofMc-Kinley and bore the words:
"Protection and honest money."
There were many prominent Ohio
politicians ou the grand stand, a:;d both
parties were fairly well represented.
At 11.15 a special train bearing Major
ilcKiiiley, Senator Humphrey and
others rolled into the deput, and cheer
after cheer arose from the crowds as
the features of the great expo:.cut of
protection were recognized by (is multitude.
The Major bowed smilingly to
the crowd, and, Quickly entering a carriage,
was driven to the residence of
Prof. Lehr, under escort of various
marehin? clubs, led by an <;<ultant
brass band. Promptly at 12.'30 the
Hocking Valley train, bearing about
one thousand cheering Demon .its and
Kepublicans, drow in sight. ;;nd attached
to the rear ol it vtas the special
car "Buckeye," containing Governor
Campbell, Dr. .Nortoo, Chairman Norton
of the State central committee,
Lieutenant Governor JM.?rquis, and a
few other prominent Democrats. A
repetition of the enthusiastic ovation
extended to McKinley was thu rtception
tendered Campbell.
As the cheering multitude pressed
around the carriage in waiting to receive
the Governor noi ??few insisted
on shaking hands and the proceedings
were temporarily interrupted while
Governor Campbel; exreuded his hand
to a lew of the m:>re Oecuonstrative.
The baud struck up '"The Campbells are
Coming" and a^ain a :-eiies of enthusiastic
Democratic cheer- rent the air.
The Governor was rapidly driven to the
residence of Prof. Lehr, where he met
Major Ale Kin ley, and they took lunch
with Prof. Lehr aud a few personal
friends. For a brief hour politics and
the great struggle which is being waged
lor partisan supremacy in the Buckeye
State were forgotten and these two gentlemen,
each acknowledged by his opponents
to be "the prince of good fellows."
met iu s; ecial friendship in fulfilment
of their mutual pledge at the
contest thnt there should l e a campaign
of measures acd principles and not of
personality.
To-day's union political meeting was
held in a vas*. amphitheatre on the
Fair grounds. Great, taste was display
ed iu the decorations ana m iiic centre
of the grounds was a large pole, from
which lloated proudly the Stars and
Stripes. Ariiliery was called into requisition,
and as "the two distinguished
leaders appeared in sight a Governor's
salute was tired.
Among the prominent people on the
grand stand were Congressman Stor*r,
Congressman Taylor, Gen. Fiuiey, KxCoDgrrssiLian
Yoder. E. W. 1'oe, Republican
candidate for Auditor of the
State: .}. P. Uriley. Dfmocratic candidate
lor Attorney General: Chairman
Norton, of the State central cimmitfee;
Prof. P. S. Lei per and many others.
A DUAL PRESIDENCY.
The meeting was presided over by
two chairman, J. JU. Fleet, of Ilarlin
County Deujocratic central committee,
on behalf of the Democrats, and James
C. Howe, of the Republican county
central committee, on behalf of the Ilepublicans.
It was 1.45 P. M. when the
meeting was called to order by the llev
Mr Campbell, a Presbyterian"minister,
and at that time fully seven thousand
people were on the grounds. 'H e clerical
gentleman introduced the two presiding
officers of the meeting, and announced
that Governor Campb? ;l would
be the first speaker.
Chairman Fleet, the Democratic
presiding officer, madea brief speech of
congratulation to everybody, and announced
that Governor Cami bell had
gained the privilege of opening and
closing by casting lots. The gentleman
committed a slight bull bv allud
ing inadvertently to Major JSicKiniey
aa "Governor McKinley," and the Hepublicans
cheered lustily, while the
chairman blushed in confusion.
GOVERXOK CAMPBELL,
after hem* introduced as one of Ohio's
greatest Governors, launched into debate.
I regret, said Governor Campbell,
in opening, that I have not time to
properly present the indictmeLt of that
overgrown monster, which, masquerading
in the garb of protection, subsists
on the wage-earner and agriculturist.
[Applause.] Yearly farming is
growing iuore unprofitable, our commerce
is swept from the se;is and that
industry abandoned; under protection
splendid palaces of protected manufacturers
are crowning the hilis, while
imported Huns, Italiansand Bohemians
are displacing American citizens.
Those who are sometimes called "rotten
rich" are defying the people, seeking
j through ;i venal press to destroy the
i reputation, honor and estate of any
i who may wage war vigorously in the
1 cause of the people. [Applause.] We
| are rapidly reaching the condition
which was predicted by Abraham Lincoln
when he uttered these words: "As
the result o! the war coruorrtions have i
been enthroned, an era of high prices I
will follow, the money power will en- j
deavor to prolong its reign until all the
wealth is aggregated in the hands of the
few, and the Republic Is lost." [Ap-1
plause.J
To convince you that Lincoln's prediction
is being realized I cite to you
the utterances of a Republican Congressman
(liutterworth) from Ohio,
who said in Congress that he could upon
the ten lingers of his hands count
the men who had added more to their
wealth in the last ten years than had
been added to the wealth of aU the
agriculturists in any state in the Union.
[Democratic applause.] The American
Economist says that the number of
people in the United States who own
th^ir own homes has in twenty-five
years fallen from live-eights to threeeighths.
How many years will it take
them to fall to one-eighth? The 1'rogress
says that when Egypt went down
2 per cent of her people owned it" per
cent of her wealth; people were starved
to death; that when Persia went down
1 per cent of her population owned all
the land: that when Rome went down
1,800 men owned all the known world.
In 1850 in this counrry capitalists owned
'iiy> per cent, of iter wealth. let ne j
who goes before thr pt-ople, and without
comment, without temper, points toi
these facts that are statistical, is sneered I
at as i "calamity croaker."
iiradstreet, an authority iu this country,
says that the total number of mercantile
failures in the United .States for
the nine months for 1891 was 8,8W5, as
compared with 7,528 iu a like pt-riod of
1890, an increase of 17 per cent. This
is under the McKinlev bill. [Applause ]
Yet In 1890, when McKiDley accepts
the nomination for Congress, he said
that if his bill passed the Senate this
country would win a boom more marvellous
than it had ever known. [Laughter.]
Where is that boom? [Democratic
applause. "Free sugar!" 'Tree
sugar!" lrom the Republicans.] Were
it not for the present abundant crops,
the best in ten years, these failures
would be a great deal worse t.Han they
are. One ot the greatest causes of the
depression and failures of the present
season is that we are pay ing too much
taxes. McKinley. on Si ay 5. 1S88. at
Philadelphia, said that tariff was a tax.
[Democratic applause.] Xow, who
pays that tax? The Major says that
this tax is not paid by the consumer.
Xow, the Supreme Court of the United
States,the highest authority in the land,
has said who paid the tax. In the case
of Brown \s the State of Maryland
they unanimously announced that "a
I iint.v on inmorts is a tax that is paid by
consumers." [Democratic nppinuse/j
In lbTO William Richardson, once a
member oi the Court of Claims and exassistant
Secretary of the Treasury, in
reply to an inquiry by Senator Sherman,
said that the importer adds the duty to
t he cost of the goods and the consumers
pay it.
Governor Campbell lure caused a
board to be hcist<d upon I he s'age on
which he demonstrated by methods of
bookkeeping the injustice of a high
tarilT. A man goes to England and
purchases goods to the amount of $5,000;
the average duty on these goods would
be 83,000, making 88,000, total sum paid
by importer. Here another board was
hoisted on which this 83,000 was charged
up to "protit and loss," indicating that
if the importer did not charge the duty
to the consumers he would lose 83,000
paid in duties. Thus the foreigner did
not pay that tax. Another board was
hoisted. It was shown that If the foreigne
paid the tax the cost price of the
goods offered to the American consumer
would be 85,000 instead of 88,000.
which would be absolute free trade.
Now, when genuine reciprocity comes
in, we would have not little one-sided
reciprocity with the little countries of
South America, but substantial reciprocity
with England, France aud the
world. [Applause.] The duty on plate
glass is l4u per cent. Last year we imported
8100,000 worth of plate glass.
That was the value of the goods in
England; yet upon that glass there was
paid 8223,000 duties, or 803,000 more
than the cost of the glass in England.
Who paid that tax? Did English manufacturers
give us glass and pay 803.000
besidrs to get us to take it? [Applause
aud Laughter.] A Chicago paper says
that last week a Chicago linn received
81,400 worth of pearl buttons from
Australia and the duty on these buttons
was just 83,000. or a i.ritle over 200 per
cent. Who paid that duty? [Laughtn.j
Did the- foreign manufacturer
paj nearly 82,000 for the privilege of
sending pearl buttons *o us? [Laughter
and applause, j The ilcKinley bill
provides that i?U p*-r cent of the duties
on some articles shall be refunded, provided
the-e articles are expor-ed. Last
year the standard Oil Company imported
tin to '.his country upon which
i they paid m?re lhau a* ruiihon and a
quarter tax or duty, it they did not, if
;he foreigner instead paid th=it duty,
then the United Sutes has pul" its hand
in our packets aud prwnled fiiestandard
Oil Co.npauy vsilh a million and a
quarter of our money, lor this amount
was refunded to the Standard Oil Company.
'i'lf-n: \*eie manuiactured in
this country ! a -1 ye.ir .^n.oOO.UOO.COO
worth ot go<<ds.
If the tariff on Untie*Me -roods is 00
per cent it is fair t<> presume, taking
protected and unprotected industries
togcthrr, that, at hast one-third of that
sum is paid iu lieu of duties to manufacturers
at home upon the American
product. It is said nil this is done for
the upbuilding of *nd maintenance of
manufacturers. 4;iIow long, Lord, how
long, skill this upbuilding and maintenance
go 011[A voice: "Foralltiine."J
"Then will iK not stop with eternity."
[Applause.]
Campbell continued in this manner
his analysis i f the McKinley tariff and
then read from the certificate of the Hepublican
secretary of the Ohio State
board of equalization showing that in
tm years the appraised value of farm
land" has depreciated .*?i'3.0GO,000. and
ask-d: "Have other classes suffered
alike?"
Col. Howe, K-pubiican chairman of
*- - - J .! ot.
me lneeiuijf luiruuiicwi jaiiimci <?o
'an ideal typical American, cut* known
not only at home, but abroad." [Applause.]
It gives me much pleasure, said McKioley
atter the ovation whic/i greeted
Ins appearance had subsided, to greet
this great audience and pleasure to
speak from the same platlorm and to
the same audience with Governor Campbell,
that we may present the causes
that we may respectively represeut.
The issue beteewn us and between the
parties for which the moment we stand
are fixed not by ourselves, but by the
platforms of our respective parties
There is one or two ot thfiu which I
propose to present. One ol'them is the
c uestion of silver, and the other the
question of taxation. One relates to the
standard with which we shall measure
our exchanges with each other and the
rest of the world, and the other relates
to the methods of taxation by which we
\
dUail iai3C icvcuato ivi yuwitv
Upon this question of silver the Democratic
platform has declared for free
and unlimited coinage of the silver of
the world as freely as gold is now coined
and upon the ratios now hxecL The
Republican party stands opposed to
that, insisting tiiat it cannot be safely
done until great commercil nations
shall have fixed the ratio between gold
aail silver.
Coming back to the tariff question
McKiuley said: The Governor's platform
commits him to a tariff for revenue
only, that is, a tariff upon foreign products,
levied with no other object in
view but revenue, unmindful of every
other consideration but revenue, not
caring for the industries and occupations
of the people. A revenue tariff
will raise revenue for the Government;
a protective tariff will do that; a reveuue
tariff will do nothing else: a protective
tariff besides raising revenue
will also stimulate the industries of the
f^ople, tuspurage the skill and genius
of^merican citizens, develop there-,
sources of the Government and secure
to it as it has done in the past thirtv
years the Jirst rank in mining, agriculture
and manufacturing. Tell me why
the foreign producer should be permitted
to enjoy this market equal!/ with
f-r.0 A mori/ion o\tAten' Ul'hv hp should
have the same privilege to enter this
market with his competing products a3
the American citizens enjoys.
McKinley then analyzed t>is tariff bill
from his own standpoint.
At the conclusion of Major McKinley's
speech the adherents of the great exponent
of high tariff burst into cheers aod
prolonged applause, hats and parasols
were waved m the air and the band began
to play. It was some minutes before
Campbell could obtain order, and
not until .McKinley had signalled to his
friends to subdue their enthusiasm.
Ladies and gentlemen, said Governor
Campbell, I concur most heartily with
Major McKinley that this is the greatest
and best aad proudest nation on earth.
But, unlike him, I would distribute that
greatness and that wealth as God distributes
the dews of heaven, upon unjust
as well as just. [L'rolooged applause
and cheers ]
I depicted the condition of the farmer,
and the answer of the Major is not only
that I am a calamity croaker, but in the
words or somebody else, you must not
grumble. [Laughter.] You Findlay
gas workera who have had your meagre
wages reduced, you steel workers of
Cleveland who have had your pittance
further cut down, you must not grumble,
because your poverty adds to some
other man's wealth. [Cheers. A voice:
"Give it to him."J 1 will take care o?
him now if jou will just let me alone.
[Laughter.j This is a good-natured
light, for we are both good men. However,
as only one of us can be Governor,
X rrVitr riorVlO na T
(11JU J. <1LU LUC1G ail liiUJ, 11 UJ , ?"-? ""fj ?
h:td better stay. [Great laughter.
Carclcsa Cotton Covering.
Washington, Oct. 16.?The acting
Secretary of State recently received a
letter from the British minister at
Washington relative to the packing of
xlmerican cotton intended for shipment
in which the minister refers to the great
risk to human life which has been
shown to exist from the loose bailing of
cotton, and remarks that the subject is
one of such great importance to both
countries and, indeed, to all nations,
in addition to the evidence already submitted
by him, he desires to invite attention
to the letter of Edward Atkinson
statin? that American cotton is
treated more dangerously than any
other great staple of any other kind
of cotton in the world, and to Atkinson's
further remarks, as follows:
''Bales are badly made, badly covered,
badiy cut and badly broken. They are
rolltd in mud and exposed to the weather,
and are always in a condition in
which they may become liable to the
impregnation of cotton seed oil and
thereby to spontaneous cumbustion.
When a bale of cotton which is slightly
moistened with oil on the end or
side becomes broken or that air can enter
into the interstices among the fibres
it may happen very often that the right
combination of fibre, oil and oxygen
will occur, causing the rapid oxidation
which is known as spontaneous com
UUOblVU.
The minister also draws attention to
Atkinson's suggestion that there
should be careful examination of bales
before shipment, which examinations
might abate part of the danger, although
the whole danger will not be abated until
a bale of cotton is made up, compressed,
guarded and protected as it
ought to be.
The correspondence with the Secretary
of the Treasury shows that he has
repeatedly instructed customs oflicers
to take such measures as may be practicable
for the enforcementjof penalties
prescribed by law for improper ship
tuents of cotton. It Is assumed by the
treasury department that these instructions
will lead to an examination of
cotton bales shipped and the prosecution
of the offenders.
A Snako Scorv.
Wasiiintox Court House, O., Oct.
15.?While building a kiln to dry fruit
a few days ago two dojs named Wither?poon
and Priest, living near Mt. Pleasant.
Vinton County, Ohio, had a very
unpleasant experience. They were getting
out stone for their kiln, when two
lar^e black snakes came out of the rock
mcY attacked them. The boys beat a
hasty retreat, and were pursued by the
snakes, which moved with great raoid
ity. U'itherspoon succeeded In making
iilS Wirtpc ijj m ivuvv., v.v
companion, Priest. was overtaken at
the fence, and before he could climb it
ore of the snakes had wrapped itself
around his ankle and bound it securely
to the bottom rail. The other snake
sprang ar ins neck and bound it to the
top rail, its powerful coil pressing with
such tension against the boy's windpipe
and jugular that bis tongue and
eyes protruded and bis face turned purple.
lie remained in this horrible predicament
while Witherspoon ran away
for assistance. Mrs. George was summoned,
and, hastening to the spot with
an axe, she proceeded at once to lay out
Uie serpents, cutting the snake from
Priest's neck and severing its body in
twain. She next struck at the bottom
snake, cutting it in two, but aho severing
a couple of the boy's toes. The
snakes measured seven feet six inches
and fight feet six inches.
Tempted Their Fat?.
Louisville, Ky., Oct. lo.?Xear
Mount Sterling. Ky, last night George
and James Howard, sons of Press Howard,
a weli-to-do farmer, went to the
house of a man named Cuppa, who does
not bear a good reputation, and attempted
to force an entrance in Cupps house
with the iutfcntion, it is supposed, of
kukluxing Cupps. They knocked in
the door "of the house, when Cupps
opened fire on thein with a shotgun,
iriMinor them both. James Howard lived
... 0 _
in Missouri ana was at home on a visit.
Frost in North Texas.
St. Louis, Mo., Oct. 8?A dispatch
from Gainsville, Texas, says a heavy
frost formed there and throughout
ISorth Texas and the Chickasaw coun-!
try Tuesday night, doing considerable
damage to the young, undeveloped cot-!
ton boils, thus greatly diminishing the
prospective crop. The weather has been
quite cold and the indications are that j
another killing frost will occur tonight. |
1ULLMJ Ai 1U5 JTUM.
THE UNTIMELY ENO OF POLICEMAN
EAVES.
Shot Down Wblle Attempting to Armt a
Drunken Man, also a Policeman?The
Slayer, a Third Policeman, Likewise
Drunk.
Charleston, S. C., Oct. 12?Policeman
James W. Quinlivan shot and killed
Policeman liichard C. Eaves at the
southeast corner of State and Queen
streets, between 11 and 12 o'clock last
night. The shooting grew out of a
drunken spree In which Policeman
Quinlivan and J. J. Duggan were engaged.
It seems that both Quinliran sod
Duggan had been dunking heavily during
the day, and when they went on
duty last evening at 7 o'clock they kept
it up. Eaves's beat was East Bay below
Broad street. Duggan was the adjoing
beat, that is East Bay above Broad,
and Quinlivan was stationed on State
street. Shortly before 11 o'clock last
night Quinlivan and Duggan left their
beats and went down on Eaves's beat
and began carousing and making a
noise. Jtiaves went up 10 mom auw uidered
them to leave his beat.
RESISTING ARREST.
Duggan, who was the drunkest of the
two, refused to go, so it is said, and
Eaves, after repeating his orders in vain,
called upon Edward Doran to assist
him, and promptly placed Duggan under
arrest, and tried, with Doran's assistance,
to take him to the patrol box
at the corner of Philadelphia and Queen
streets. Duggan objected strenuously
to beins arrested, and Quinliran also
protested in Duggan's behalf, but without
avail. Eaves had taken Duggan as
iar as the comer of Queen and State
street?, when Quiniivan, finding that
his entreaties were unavailing, and determined
to prevent Dcggau's being
t sent to the Station House, attempted
to release him by force.
THE KILLING.
Eaves then drew his club and struck
Quinliran a beavy blow on the head,
cutting the scalp and bringing blood
freely. Crazed by the blow and drink
Quiniivan jerked his pistol out or its
holster and shot at Eaves once. The
ball entered Eaves's head on the left
side, just back of the temple, and death
must have been almost instantaneous.
Partially sobered by what he had done
Quinliran ran to the nearest patrol box
and telephoned to the Station House for
the patrol wagon.
A HORRIBLE SIGHT.
In the meantime Lieut. Heidt and
Sergt. McCaffrey had heard of the
shooting and hastened to the spot.
They found Eaves lying on his oacs on
the pavement, his face turned up towards
the sky, a smile upon his lips, and
both blood and brains oozing out of a
ghastly wound back of the left temple.
The blood trickled slowly down to the
pnvement, forming tiny pools in the
hollows of the bricks. Duggan and
Quinlivan were standing near at hand.
QUINLIVAN'S STORY.
Quinlivan told Lieut. Heidt that
Eaves had struck him with his club
and that he then shot him. He also
claims that Eaves drew his pistol on
him, and, as Eaves's pistol was found
lying on the pavement by the dead
man's side, Quinlivan's story may be
true.
As soon as the patrol wagon arrived
Lieut. Heidt sent Quinlivan and Duggan
up to the Station House where
they were locked up. The coroner had
in the meantime been notified of the
killing, and Deputy Coroner Rivers
went to the scene of the tragedy, and
after viewing the body had it removed
to the City Hospital, where the inquest
i will be held this morning.
AN INVESTIGATION.
Chief Golden was on the spot soom
after the shooting and made an investigation
into the matter. It was exceedingly
difficult to find anyone who
would or could throw any light upon
the killing. The only witness secured
last night was Edward Doran, who had
u "Cf?Vo T>n<T?Mnri tft
ueeu iWSl."Xiayco iu wulx
the patrol box, and who witnessed the
quarrel and consequent shooting. His
account of what happened is substantially
the story as related above- Neither
Duggan nor Quinlivan was in a condition
to be interviewed last night after
bein^ locktd up, so that it was impossible
to learu their version of the shooting.
THE MAN WHO WAS KILLED.
Eaves was a young man, with light
eyes and hair, of a ruddy compjexwiS,
well built and bore an excellent and enviable
reputation for sobriety and
strict attention to his duty. He came
to Charleston two years ago from Sullivan
County, Tennessee, and secured
employment as a driver on the Enterprise
Railroad. He remained in the
employ of that company until June 4,
18U1, when he was appointed to the police
force, being very strongly endorsed
for that position. He was 23 years of
age and unmarried.
THE SIANSLATEIi.
James W. Quinlivan, the officer
who did the shooting, was appointed
to the force on J une 22, and was also
23 years of age. J. J. Duggan, the cause
or the shooting, is the oldest man of
the trio and has been on the fcrce for a
longer time. He was appointed July 7,
1889, and is 24 years old. He is not
what is known as a drinking man, carefully
avoiding as a rule all intoxicating
liquors, but when he does bfgin to
drink he never stops until he is drunk.
The occurrence last nijtht was a moat
deplorable one, and it will be sifted to
the bottom at the inquest this morn
ing.?^sews auu v^vunci.
E?I? Choked the W1?mL
Maimisburg, 0- Oct. 16.?The flouring:
miLl of U. Engleman has been compelled
to shut down the last few days
for a most unusual reason. The water
wheel has been completely choked ud
with eels, and every few hours ic would
be necessary to clean them out. Fifteen
to twenty would be taken out each
time, some weighing nearly five pounds.
This never occurred before, ana is explained
that several years ago the fish
commission planted a lot of young eels
ia the Alaimi, above Dayton, which have
now grown up, and in numbers sufficient
to stop a inilL
Relsas??l the Parachutte. ,
Greenup, III., Oct. 9? Just as a bal- A
loon was ascending from the fair 41
grounds yesterday afternoon, Alex.
Gu'don, a youth, became entangled ic
the ropes attached to the parachutte
and was carried up, his head hanging
downward. In his struggle he caaghl
the rope that released the paraehutt#,
ana ne ana me aeronau# ncic ununu
to the ground eighty feet below. The
balloonist, Wm. Kisser, of Louisville,
Ky., was killed and Gordon was serious
ly injured.
Six Acres In Flames.
Louisville, Oct. 8 ?A fire at Maytield
to-day burned nearly six acres of
ground. The Newport News and Mississippi
Valley freight and passenger
depots, the Western Tobacco Company's
warehouse aad sir hundred "
hogsheads of tobacco and a number of ,,t
residences were burned. The total loss
j is placed at S100.000. Insurance light.
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