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) VOL. XLVI. WINNSBOKO, S. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 1891. NO. 15. THE TABERNACLE PULI'lT DR. TALM/G5. P Ft CACHES ABOUT THE TEVPlE CF DIANA. Continuation *. h? KrooU!) ^ IKvii:?'s Series of Oidciur'.fi or His Ttki*!# in the Kiist? 3Js fothc (.';?> oI Kj>Jirsas L)escr'?>?(f2 '.*i I>er?ti!. Brooklyn. X<>v. l.>.?Dr. Talmaje continued th's yucriit:* his series ofsermon* eatit :c<I, *l*ro:u I he Prramid? to the Acrc';'Ol:?.'? His test was Acss x'x, 34. :s of the Kphcsiaiis." We hav* Isr.ded this morning at Smyrna, a city <A' Asiatic Turkey. One of thesaven churches of As:* >nca stood here. You read in Krvela*ion. "To the church in Smyrna write." It is a city that ha? often ! pen shaken by earthquake, swept bv conflagration, blasted , by plagues and butchered by and | here Bishop Po-'carp stood iu a crowded ] amphitheater ; vi wncn he was asked to j give up the advocacy of the Christian re- i lijion and save .un.seh'from martyrdom, J the procoosul laying, "Swear and I re-! lease thee; reproach Christ," repiied. "Eighty a*..d ?'x treats hare I served hies, aud ! : r-. rer did me wrong; how then can I /cviii; :n? Xiu* and Saviour?" When lit we? brought to the Jres into which he fits &b?.-ut to be thruss, and the official- were about to fasten him to the stake, he fcuid: "Let me remain as i ajti, lor he who iriveth me strength to sustain the 1'rc will enable me aise without your j- jcui ag me with nails to remaiu uun ;ve- iu the lire." History sejs the f. "C8 reiused to consume him, and unde; tL* winds the flames bent outward so tha\ they did not toyeh his person. a~d there tore he rra3 slain by ?words an., spiara. One cypress bend iuy o/er hi$ si;ive is the onlj monument to Bishop I'ol^arp. T% - ? "l". ? *r.itv a! I XJUl W6 ilt*? jll l i" way \-ic/ vEphesus, about rif'ty miles from Smyrna. We are advised nut 10 so to Ephesus. The bandits in that region have had an ugly practice zi cutting oil' the ears of travelers and sending th?se specimens ears down t'> Smyrna, demanding a v rau-fim. The bai-.dits suggest to the & friesds cf 'he per.-ons from whom the S ears have bee*: subtracted that if they P. would like to kivc the rest of the body they ir'l' ple&se send an appropriate HE sum ofr.ouey. I?' the money is not sent the muulnted prisoners will be as^ sassinated. There have been cases where tea and |L 1 twenty and forty thousand dollars hare t** been demanded by these brigands. We did not fec-l li'ca putting our friends to such expense, and it was suggested that i\e had belter omit Ephesus. But that would have been a disappointment from which we would never recover. We must see ICphesus? associated '.vita the most wonderful apostolic scenes. We hire a specal railway train, and m about an hour ai^.I a l alf we arrive at the citj of Epkes:?3, which was called "Th* Great Met.opcvs of Asia," and''One ot ; the Eyes of A-:a,'' and "The Empress \ of Ionia,.be capital of ail learning and magnificence. Here, as I said, was one - > ?f the sew a cnurches of Asia, and first of all we visit the ruins of that :hurch 'where on?.e an ecumenical council of iwo thousand ministers of religion was held. I Mark th- fuiiillmeut of the prophesy. I)f the seviiu churches o! A?:s four were jommended in the liook of Revelation Ind three we:-3 doomed. The cltics fiaving the iou: commended churches still stand: the cities having the three doomed churches are wiped out. It oc* Ieurred jest as the Bible said it would occur. Drive on am! jou come to the threater, which wa3 COu feet from wall to wall, capable of hoidins - 0,700 specta P tors. Here and there there walls arise ] almost unbroken, but for the most, part L the building is dowu. Jus: enough ?f it W is left to help the imagination build it up | F as it was ^ he;: those audiences shouted j j/ and clapped at some creat spectacular. J Their huzzas must have been enough Id j (r stun the heavens. Standing th?"e we esnld not forget j ; that, iu that- br.ildicg once assembled a j riotous throng lor Paul's condemnation, i because what he preached collided with the idolatry of th^ir national goddess. Paul tried to jet into that theater and address the excited multitude, but his friends held him back, lest he be torn in pieces by -he mob, and the recorder of the city h;d t read the riot act among I \ the peopis w.;o had shrieked for two ' - mortal ho .is r:i thirir throats v'cre sore j , and they v ere in tho face, "Great I |is Diana <>:'the Ephesdans." ' Now -ve step into the Stadium. Enough o. Its waiis and appointments are ietl to -ho.? what a stupendous place U must have :ecn v.lieu used for foot *aces aid :or ; ghts with wild bf-asis. It ?trs a bui: :r-2 'M.' itct long by 2(H> feetj wide. Pk-i refers to what transpired j -here in t! <: v? ij < ! spectacle *!ten he j says, "\T" ha\t W>u madt t spectacle." i ''Yes," 1 i'Jl nivs, ""I have tou^ht with beasts at it/pb^us." an expression usually taker. :l* :ura;':vc, 'out I suppose it waiiiifcriviy t .iC, :V<r one of the atnusemecu> :u tlrat wa- to put a disliked iuu: fht- arynii with a hungry liou or pan;her, and let fit- i^ht ? ?0 on ?ni.i eu::tr the mar: <.-r tae h?.-.st or bo U: w( re shiln. It mtsi liav 1.0, n yreat fun :?.-r '.Lose j haters jf ChrlstinuUv hear thai on the mo-ro-v i:: ih-: Stadium in Ephe?us | the missicnar. Paul v.-&ulin ;hs preseoce of vhe cior.dcd jjailerie*, fi^hta hungry Ion. The people v.ci^ early 1 thereto ?;et t-ic : est "eats, aud a more alert ar..i c^-haniitRtic crov.d never y % * r%" ? '? * <!* ? .-c ! ussenuiiet.. x .?} hum. ?? "sr'tb thet .v.d >va? there crer n more unequal om' at proposed? Paul. nocording {? tradition. small, crooked backed ufc. tt 'jv.-d. but the grandest j man in sixty n nturhs. is led to the ceu-1 ter as th- Yeoplc shout: J.'hcrc he comes, r:u - or w!io ha? nearly ruined on: rel .:ion. The iion tii. make but a brie! mouthful <-i hire." It is plain tfca'.ali the sympathies oi that crow ", ar-r with the lion. In one of! the sndsr^rouiul rocais I hear the grow; | of the w !d b as :s. They have been i kept lor f^veril dajs without food or j water in order that they maybe especially avcuot:* and bioodthirst*. ; What cbance .s there :or l'.iui? Hut | you cannot te I by a nuu's size or looks j how used bh w he can strike or how keen a bi: de'.e can thrust. Vfiiness. heaves at; : ej.:Lh and hvil, this struggle of Paul wi'h a ^iid oeas:. The coolest """ "" ? *' - \VI.?i li'ii V-,? ' ;u iiir r.uvuiuui x ? mw ?.?- . to fea;'/ 1 ? h.-.s defied all ihu powers.! earth It an! inertia!. auJ ii his hoar j tumble u^:?r :he aud tooth of the wild beast. :C>ul will omIt the sooner find dise?f#a"I neat. I3ut it is his duty, as far as p.>fc?ihie, to preserve hi? hfe. Now, -! #eiu- the bolt of the wild: beast:s doorfph^vtd hack, aud the whole i audience riscl to their teet as the lierce I [ brute springs for the arena and toward | its small occupant. I think the first ; plunge thai was made bv the wild beast ' <:t the apos'.lii *Aas made sis the i>oint oi : a sharp blaue. and the snarling monster, ; with ;i i;oTrl o: pain and reeking with i^jore. turns back. But now the little I missionary has his tarn of ma<iag at! tn.:k. and with a few well directed thrusts ! the monster lies dead in the dust of the ; arena, and the p pestle puts his right foot | on the l;on and shakes him, and then i puts bis left loot on him and shakes him j ?a scene which Paul afterward uses for 1 au illustration when he wants to show ! how Christ rriil triumph over death? j *"ile must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet''?>es. under his eet. j i'aui tout the literal truth when he i "I have fought v.-"::h bea?ts at ' Ephe u*," and as the plural is used I chink he had more than one sach light, or several beasts were let loose upon ; him at one time. A* wc stood that day i in the middle ol the Stadium and looked around at the great structure, the whole sccne came back upon us. In the miust of this city of Ephesus once floate i an artificial lake, brilliant with painted boats, and through the river Carster *t was conne ;ted with the sea, and ships from all part* of the kao?rn earth floated in and out, carrying on a commerce finch inade Epbesus the enrv of the world. Great was Ephesus! Its gymnasia, its hippodrome, itsodeon. its athenanzm, its torum its aqueducts (vrhose skeletons are stdl strewn along the city), its towers, its Castle of Hadrian, its monument of Androclus, its quarries, which were the ?ranite cradle of cities; its temples, built to Apollo, to Minerva, to Xeptune, to Mercury, to Bacchus, to Hercules, to Ctesar, to Fortune, to Jupiter Olympus. What history and poetry and chisel and canvas have net presented has come up at the call of archaeologists' ponder blast and crowbar. Eut I bare aot to unveil the chief wonder of this chieftst of cities. In 1863, under the patronage ot the English government, Mr. Wood, the explorer, began at Enhssus to feel along under the ground at great depths r>r roads, for vr;)Ils, lor towers, and here it is?that for which Ephesus wos anore celebrated than all else besides?the temple of the goddess Diana, called the sixth wonder of the world, and in 1839 we stood amid the ruins of that temple, measuring its pillars, transfixed by its sculpture and confounded at wiiat was the greatest temple of idolatry in al: lime. As 1 sat on a piece el one of its fallen columns I said, "What earthquake rocked it dowa, or what hurricane pushed it to the earth, or under what strong wme of centuries did the giant stagger and fall?" There have been seven temples of Diana, the ruins of each contributing somethiag lor the splendor ol all its architectural successors. Two hundred and twenty years was this last temple in construction. Twice as lone as the United States have stood was that temple in building. It was nearly twice as large as St. Paul's cathedral, London. Lest it should be disturbed by earthquakes, which have always been fond of making those regions their playground, the temple was built on a marsh, which was made lirm by layers of charcoal, covered by fleeces ot wool. The stone came from the quarry near by. In removing the st?nes from the quarry to their destined places in the temple, it was necessary, in order to keep the wheels, which were twelve feet in diameter, i;om sinking deep into the earth under the unparalleled heft, that a fra?ne of timbers be arranged over which the wheels roiled. To put the immense block of marble in its place over the doorway of one of these temples was so vast and diflicult an undertaking that the architect at oae time gave it up, and m his chagrin intended suicide, but one night in his sleep he dreamed that the stone li3d settled to the right place, and the next day he found that the ?reat block of marbe had, by its own weight, settled to the right place. The temple of D'.ana was four huadred and twenty-five teet long by two hundred and twenty leet wide. All Asia was taxed to pay for it. It had one hundred and twenty-seven pillars, each sixtv leet higii. and each the gi:t oi a king, and inscribed with the name o! the donor. Xow you site the meaning of that passage in Revelauon, just as a kiu? presenting one of these pillars to the Temple of Diana ha ! his own naxie chiseled on it and the name of his own country, so says Christ, "Him that overcometh will I make a pillar in the temple of my God, and I will write upon lum the name of my God and tlie name of the city of inv God, which is New Jerusalem, and I will write upon h;m my ue>r name." IIow .suggestive and betut'ful! lu addition to iao3e pinars mat i ciicibed ovfr while a:ir 1 the rums oi Diana's tors pic. 1 saw afterward eight of those at Constantinople, to Tvhich city they iiad been removed, and are now a part o!" the Mosque of St. .Sophia. Those oii'nt eolumus are all irr?fan j as per, but some of those which stood in Diaua's temp'o ut Kphesus were tkiri? drenched wlih brilliant colors. (.'oatlv metals .- too>i up in various par:a ol thu temple, w.'jcre they could catch the fullest flush of the sun. A llight of stairs was carved out of oae grapevine. Doors of cypress wood which had been kept in slue for years and bordered with bronze in bas relief, swung ajjainst pillars of brass and resounded with echo upon echo, caught up and s-ent on and hurled back through the cor ridors. In that building stood an image of Diana, the goddess. This image was carvtd out of ebony ana punctured here and there wUU openings kept full of spikenard so as to hinder the statue from decaying and make it aromatic, but ihis ebciiy was covered with bronze and alabaster. A necklace of acorns coiled ; race fully around her. There were four lions on <ach arm. typical o! strength. Her head was coronete#. Around this figure stood statues which by wonderful invention shod tears. The air by strange machinery was damp with descending perfumes. The walls multiplied the scen8 by concaved mirrors. Fountains tossed in sheaves of light and fell in showers of diamonds. The temple was surrounded with proves, in which roamed lor the temptation of hunters, stass and hares and wild b< >ars. a:;d all ?tyles of srarne, whether winced or four footed. There j was a cave wiih statue so intensely I ; brilliant thai \l extinguished the ere of those who looked upon it. unless, at the command of the priest, the hand of the spectator somewhat sluced the e?e?. Xo wonder that even Anthomy and > Alexander and Darius cried out Id the of I One whole month ol' ea.-h year, the | month of May, was devoted to her wer| ship. Processions m garbs of purple j and violet and scarlet moved through it, ; aud there were torches and anthems, j and choirs in white, and timbrels and : triangles in music, sacrifices and dances. | Here young men and maidens were be| trothed with imposing ceremony. Xaj tions voted large amounts to meet the j expense of the worship. Fisheries "of I vast icsource were devoted to the supi port of this resplendence. Horace and Virgil and Ilomer went into rhapsodies | while describing this worship. j All artists, all archaeologist, all cen ; turies, agreed in saying. "Great is Diana ! of the Ephesians." Paul, in the presence i of ibis i'emple of Diana, incorporates l it in his figures of speech while spooking of the spiritual temple, "Xeiv if j any man build upon this foundation. I gold, silver, precious stones, etc.," and | no doubt with reference to one of the [ previous temples which had been set. [on lire by Herostratus just for the i fame of destroying it, Paul says, "If any i man's work shall be burned, he shall sutler loss, etc.," and all up and do*vn Paul s writings you realize that he had not only seen, but had been mightilyimpressed with what he had seen of the Temple of Diana. In this city the mother of Jesus was iaid to have been buried. Here dwelt 4 s. a? 4 1 1 V* Ih'Klft -. iquuia liiiu x listuio. vl j.jiuic uivin.n.'u, who were professors 1q an extemporized theological seminary, and they taught the eloquent Apollos how to be elcquent for Christ. Here John preached, and from here because of h:3 fidelity he was exiled to Patmos. Here Paul warred against the magical arts for which Ephesus was famous. The-sorcerers of this city pretenaed that they could cure diseases, and perform almost any miracle, by pronouncing these senseless words, "Aski Cataski Lix Tetrax D?iinnamrneus Aislon." Paul having performed a miracle In the name of Jesus, there was a lying family of seven brotbers who imitated the apostle, and instead of their usual words of incantation used the word Jesus over a man who was possessed of a devil, and the man possessed llew at them in great fierceness and nearly tore these frauds to pieces, and in consequence all up and down the streets of Ephesus there was indignation excited against the magical arts, and a great bonfire of magical books was kindled in the streets, and the people stirred the b!a;:e until thirty-live thousand dollars' worth of black artrliterature had bven burned to ashes. But, all the glory of Ephesus I have described has gone now. At some seasons of the year awful malaries sweep over th# place and put upon mattress or in graves a large portion of the population. In the approximate marshes scorpions, centipedes and all forms of reptilian life crawl and hiss and sting, while hyenas and jackals at night slink in and out of the ruins of buildings which once startled the nations with their almost supernatural granduer. Mnt, he--* is a lesson which has never yet been drawn out. Do you not see in that temple of Diana an expression of what the world needs. It wants a God who can provide food. Diana was a huntress. In pictures on many of the coins she held a stag with one hand and a bundle of arrows In the ether. Oh, this Is a hungry world! Diana could not give one peund of meat or ene mouthful of food to the millions of her worshipers. She was a dead divinity, an imaginary god, and so in idolatrous lands the vast majority of people never have enough to eat. It is only in the countries where the God ?f heaven and earth is worshiped that the vast majority have enough to eat. Let Diana have her arrows and her hounds. Our God has the sunshine and the showers and the harvests, and in proportion as he is worshiped does plenty reign. So also in the Temple of Diana the world expressed its need of a refuge. To it froth all parts of the land came debtors who could not pay their debts and the offenders of the law that they might escape incarceration. But she sheltered them only a little while, and while she kept them from arrest she could not change their hearts und the cuiltv remained sruiltv. But. our God in Jesus Christ is'a refuse into which we itiaj ily from ail oar c:ds and all our pursuers, and not be safe for time, but safe for eternity, an* the guilt is pardoned and the Dature is transformed. What Diana could not do lor her worshipers, our Christ accomplishes for us. Rock of ages cleft for me, Let hide myself In thee. Then, In that temple were deposited treasures from all the earth for safe keeping. Chrysostom says it was the treasure house of nations; they brought gold and silver and precious stones and coronets from across the sea, and p>st them under the care of Diana of the Ephesians. But again and again where treasures ransacked, captured or destroyed. Xero rob bed them, the Scythians scattered them, the Goths burned them. Diana failed those who trusted her with treasures, but our God, to him we raay intrust all our treasures for this world and the next, and fall any one who puts confidencd in him he never will. Alter the last jasper column lias lanen, and the last temple on earth has gone Into ruins, and the world itself has suffered demolition, tne Lord will keep for us our best treasures. JSut notice what killed Ephesus and what has killed most of the cities that lie buried in the cemetery of nations. Luxury! The costly baths, which had been the means of health to the city became its ruin. Instead of the cold baths that had been the invigoration of the people, the hot baths, which are only intended for the inlirm or the invalid, were substituted. In these hot baths many lay most of the time. Authors wrote books while in theso baths. Business was neglected and a hot bath taken four or five times a day. "When the keeper of the baths was reprimanded for not having them warm enough one of the rulers said, "You blame him for not making thebaih warm enough: I blame tou because vou have it warm at all." Gymnasiums? Ye3, but see that the vigor gained in them be consecrated to God. Magnldcent temples of worship? Yes, but see that in them instead of conventionalities and coid pomp of service there be warmth of devotion and th* pure Gospel preached. Imposing court houses? Yes, but in th#m Jet, justice and mercy rule. Malacca of journalism? Yes." but let all of the printing presses be marshaled for happiness and truth. Great postoflice buildings ? Yes, but through them day by day, may correspondence helpful, elevating and moral pass. Oruate dwelling houses? Yes, but In them let there be altars of devotion, and conjugal, filial, paternal aad Christian fidelity rule. London for magnitude. Berlin for universities, Paris for fashious, Bome for cathedrals, Athens f</r classics. Thebes for bitroglyph'cs, ^Ismphis for tombs, Babylon for gardens, Ephetua for idolatry, but what shall be the characteristics of our American cities when they shall hare attained | their full stature? Would that "holiness to the Lord" might be inscribed upon all our municipalities. Or.e thing | is^certaiD, and that is that all Idolatry j must coine down. When the greatest, j goddess of the earth' piana, enshrined 1 in the greatest temoMjl^tever stood, was prostrated at Epiu Vr, it v,-:- a | prophecy of the overthrow of all the : idolatries that have, cursed the (arth. ! and anything we love more than ;>od is j an idol, and there is as much idolatry in the Nineteenth century as in the I First, and in Amt-rica ;*s in Asia. As our train pulled oat from the station at Ephesus, the cars surrounded I by the worst looking group of vs! liars ,J I ever gaz-d on, ail o: them -eemiug in I a wrangle with < ach oth: r and 1 rying i to get into a wrangle wilh us. una we j movfd along the columns of urn-h-nt i *\ / ? 11 cxr* ? r? hv c\ ./?l* /*r?T iivnn . ?T? lCMtis Ct'-jUCUUvtO, l/V/i li! * 1 UlV)?iiV.V? M iC l storks, having buiit the!r nests there, and we rolled on down toward Smyrna, and that night in a sailor's bethel as we spoke of the Christ whom the world must know or perish, we felt that between cradle and grave there comd not be anything much more enthralling for body, mind and soui than our visit to Ephesus. A l'!nci<y Chicago, Nov. 12. -Imports or' train robbery near the Western Union junction have been received. General Manager Earling of thj Chicago, Mil waukf-e and i'aul Ilailrond states that the safes have been recovered and that the robbers did not get .my booty. The report says six men boarded train No o at Western Union junction, sixtytwo mile3 North of Chicago ar. il p. n;., and it is supposed the robbers rt-achcd the junction over the Northwestern ltoad. They heid up the engineer and lireman and when tn^ train reached Franksvdle, a suitsll station of 200 or 300 inhabitants, about three mil's beyond the junction, they caused ti.e engineer to stop it at the point a revolver. They demanded of the ex press mi sscnger that he open the car door to which he refused to do. The conductor came up by this time and he was laken prisoner. Iha robbers then broke in the window of the car antl thr-.-w in some kind of explosive which forced out the end of the car. They then went inside and covered the express messenger with a revolver and tried to make him open the safe3. This he positively refused to do, and the safes were thrown out of the car. In the meantime, the rear braKeman, understanding the situation, rushed back to the junction and got rielp and an engine. The engine and posse at once went to the scene and the robbers lied. The tram went on to Milwaukee, and the fast mail train, which leaves Chicago at 3 o'clock p. m.. picked up the safes and carried them to Milwaukee. The police oi' Milwaukee and the secret service of the system, together with the sheriff of lticirie County, were sent in pursuit of the robbers." Tneir flight was so hasty that they did not take the precautions they had evidently intended* to take, so that the olliciais believe they wiil get them before noon oday. ?<I?son Cotton Harvester. Augusta, Xov. 12.?The Mason cotton harvester, which lms beei anxiously looked for here for several davs, arrived today and was exhibited in operation in a field of cotton in the Exposition grounds this afternoon, in the pie?.ence of a very large crowd of interested spectators. The machtue gathered at the rate of 300 pounds an "hour, or 3,0(X) pounds for an ordinary working day. The bushes have been killed by trost and the cotton has been open in the bolls about two months, but despite these drawbacks the cotton which was picked was ginned without being passed through a cleaner, and produced a good clean sample. Mr. Patrick Walsh, the president of the Exposition and the editor of the Augusta Chronicle was present during the trial or tie machine and said: "I consider it most wonderful machine. It picks the cotton under inojt adverse circumstances without injuring the plants and unripe bolls and it gathers enough :o make it an implement of great value." The machine will be exhibited again tomorrow and will probably remain here until the Exposition closes. Bad for tlso G. O. J'. Washington-,; Xov. 10.?The Supreme Court of tiie District of Columbia to day overruled the demurrer of Charies A. Newton, President of the Old Dominion Republican League, charged with violation of the Civil Service Act forbidding the solicitation or receiving political contributions in government buiidlngs. Newton sent a circular asking persons to become members of the league, paying SI initiation fee and 25 cents a month and further contributions if they could afford to aid in the campaign. The demurrer contended that the law had not been violated and If so wa3 unconstitutional. The-court said that Congress in the reasonable exercise of its powers prohibited politic,d solicitations or contributions ir. public buildings and this was not <;n inlringment of constitutional rights. Civii Service Commissioner Thompson said he thought the effe ct of the decision will be to practically stop politI ica! assessments and to ieav?> all uovirn ment tniployees free to contribute or not as they see fit. Xoara Officially l>ar5)<>cr;iclc. Des Moines, Iowa, .Nov. 12.?The county boards of supervisors have a! last revised the canvass of the vote east at the last election. The returns received by the Register from all counties make the total role cast lor L*r>"?rror 42.',214. This is the largest vote ever cast in the State. Voting in the presidential election in 1883 vrai 404.000. lioics, demoerat, received 207,574; Whee'er. .?pubhcan, 199,375; Wcsifall. a!!iaace, 11,527; Gibson, prohibition, 962. J5")ies plurality id f\200, lacking 4.289 of being a majority. Two years Governor Boies lacked only 401 of having a majorit y of all votes cast in ihe .State. For lieutenant governor. Bestow, democrat, received 204.822, Van Iloulen, republican. 200,580; ]>e$tow's plurality, 4.242. For judue of supreme court. Kime, .lemocrat, 203,019; Weaver, republican. 2u0,410, Kime's plurality, 3,158. For superintendent of public instruction, Knoeppler, democrat. 203.779; S^bia, republican, 202,880, Knoeppler's plurality, *93. 1'rohlblMon Cru?ade. CoLi'.MitiA, S. Nov. 10.?i'rohibitionists claim th;it 25.CK?0 names have been signed in the State prying th-' Legislature to pass a prohibition bill, i Petitions will be circulated :n the city i soon. Some counter petitions are also I being circulated in th?? St:>.ce, notably in : Charleston. There is promise or a lively } light when the measure is brought- before the Legislature. 'Die light preciI pitated by the prohibitionists will be hotly contested i>} theant.is. Xot only Is Charleston up in arms against The proposed law but the anti-prohibitionists of this city will take an active hand in it. A copy of the Charleston petition against the proposed law has been received in the city and it will be circulated here. A petition of Cliuriestion parties has also been -fceivtd praying the Legislature not to Increase' the license. These petitions will be circulated in the city. The anti-prohibitionlsts have been stirred up by the activity of their opponents and a great Cght i3 ou between the contending forccs.?Record. DL - j THE FA1LMERS" ALUA50E. 'the supreme council meets in annual session. J TSifc Delegates Welcomed b.. ihc JIavor? ! Patriotic Kesyocso 1>j Secretary Tillman i | ?President I'olk'.i Annu:il Address ? ! TarJil'aisu Financial Itelorm the I>sue. Indianapolis. Ixd., Xov. '7.? i The Supreme Council of the Farmers7 | Alliance was called to order In Tomliuj K!i: Ila'l at 1U:40 o'clock by Prescient IForce, of ti e Indiana Alliance, with nearly all the 120 delegates and 600 spectatois In attendance. Mayor Thomas L. Sullivan was introduced. and welcomed the delegates. T. I V Tillniiin. spo.rfitnrv of the Alliance Executive Committee, in responding, 1 thanked people of Indianopolls for their warm welcome, and, after paying tribune to President Harrison, he continued: "XL is the farming and laboring people who fe^d ttie world, .vho fought the battles of this country, and to who3e energy and patriotism this great and glorious land of ours is indebted for its richest blessings of liberty and pi ace. It is notour mission to tear down nor I disintegrate our honestly conducts;'! industries, but to preserve them. Yet we viu mean the death-knell to all illegitimate combinations and monopolies lhat lend to destroy the very spirit at.il intent of the constitution. "We are i';t 2.ere a? politicions, seek- ( :;g to dispute as to partisai political parties or io promote the fortune of any political aspirant, nor are we here in ihe interest of any third party, for by the very organic teachings we have the right to vote with whichever political rarty we may think will best advocate good government. "I desire to call you attention to the jast billion dollar Congress. Its expenditures reached a grand total of $1,000,200,471, which is nearly two-thirds of ail existing United States money. More moaey was spent by that proiligate billion dollar Congress than was spent by all the Congresses during the first seventy-two years cf the history of ui:s ^'.;vt*ruLueiiL. it :a uivie u:au 177,0uU for every day from the time the Fii tj-iirsc Congress met till itadjouraed. It meant a tax of $40 on the he;-J of every family to support the general government alone. Ilow long would t/ney endure il if collected directly from Ihem instead of indirectly a? it is now coiicctcd through our tariff? "Say what you please about tarill', but il must and shall come down to a reasonable basis of taxation, and these reckless expenditures by Congress must be stopped, or we will continue to change the personnel o. every Congress. "Yet this is not all. nor is it the bottom which brought about the uprising of the people of all parts of this great country. Transportation, tanlf and trust, here is the trouble. There are three 'J.'s?crush, change and controlled? that constitute the unwritten and ^onH'Ound oath that our friendly political newspapers abuse us so about. I will tow tell you what the oath is. It is to crush monopoly, change i.anil' and control transportation. VVe art* going to f ucceed in our efforts to obtain a iarge circulating medium. Wc must ixive more currency and will have it. ' jMr. Mayor, the Farmers' Alliance means the greatest good for the greatest number, and is determined to have exact justice for all aud especial fa vors to none. It numbers in co-operation a:-ar 4,000,000 and it has come to stay, ana \v:u ne neia intact as ;i ucunm: wau organization. Members or' ail political parties may join the organization, and it 7 ill never become a third political party. There is a big political significance ;a it, l?ut no partj political sigcitkeiuce, because that would mean hopeless ruin. We have alreadj taken party extremes <>ut of us. have made a lew governors and Congressmen and bid fair for 2u0 next vcar." Tillman's references 10 ihe nonpartisan nature of the Alliance caused fcemething of a sensation and were received with about e<iuai evidence 0** approval and disapproval. General Weaver, of Iowa, was called for and made a spoech on the sacral situation, which was received with eu.huslasm. lie was followed by Congressman Jerry .Simpson, of Kansas, in the same strain. President Willebe, of the Kansas Alliance, spoke briefly and the meeting adjourned. The attendance at the opening tonight was something less than 10,U00. President l'cik delivered iiis annua! address. The farmer.*, he said, had ba en di.serimiii.ued against and were now appealing to the ballot box. The Alliance r-ub-trcasury bill has received ne con ;;;ocrauon except ueauuejuuuu u un billion dollar Congress. I, was au imperii ivc duty of the people to arrest the nvident and alarming tendency to centralize the money power of the country. This was one of the yrand purposes of the sub-Treasury bill. It would have supplanted our unjust and oppressive national bank system by securing to the people an adequate amount of money uircet from the government, at a lower :-ate ot interest, to mnet the legitimate demands of the country. But in justilieation of the silent contempt which characterized the reception of the measure. assaults vehement and persistent have been made on Us minutest de;ails, instead of arguments on the under ying princ'p!ea. Jiut despite these assaults, ;he sub-treasury had grown unl: the sentiment of the order in thirty-ibur Stair.? was a unit. Government control of railroads. Polk said, is one < "' the essential demands of the Alliance; also the retention of the public domain t?;r /ur own people: also the nrohibitioa of gambling in futures: also t!ic free cohage >t silver; also that no class legislation be unacted; also that United State? Senators be elected by popular vote: also a graduated tax on incomes: but the greatest demand otl' all is that the ua.tonal banking system be abolished an 1 the people's money be issued dire, t by the government to the people. The jupre ne question before the people is that of financial reform. The two :<reat Imi-n afi.^nntlv 1 t-fll-P i'aitiCQ .JiHU V, > iUCULI ? cvuut?vv? W.v^w, and. as in the past, this question of innncial reirom shall continue to be regarded as "neutral ground" between them. Folk urged the members to ttand :irm and demand uf otfieescekers a definition of their principled. The organization, he claimed, was. steadily growing, i lie recommended the continuance of the f educational work through the pres.- and lectures. A history <?f the Alliance has been issued b'-^t special committee of editors. A whici^S. A. Dunning was the chief compiler/ The honor of the original society bedongs toLampassas county. Tex.." from which small beginniLg developed i,!ie state organization and dterward the1 national society. It was origmall^wganizcd to correct economic evils as well as a protective measure against thieves and robbirs, with which that section u. Texas it that time was particularly cursed. The ilrsc meeting of the national association was heid at Waco, Tex., ia January. 18S7. C. W. Macunc was tlie chiel spirit in that meeting and 1 irgely instrumental in the adoption of a platform, ot which the motto was: "In all things essential unity, and in all things charity." Only Louisiana and Texas v\:re represented at this and ihf> tit'Iftcrfllfis wprn limited in number. Now the officers report 30,000 subordinate lodges, with a membership aggregating 4,000,000 and a representation m every sUte and territory . The first noteworthy political acts of the Alliance were the Ocala and St. Louis platforms, with their demands for the abolition of national banks and the substitute >n of treasury currency; free silver coinage; prohibition of alien laud ownership; prohibition of speculating in agricultural and mechanical productions; fractional currency, and that the government should own the telegraph and railway lines. The Ocala platform also demanded the removal of the tariff from the necessities of life, an income tax, and that United States senators be elected directly by the people. SECOND DAY'S PROCEEDINGS. Ixdtaxavolis, Nov. IS.?The open' meeting ol the Alliance this morning lasted but a few minutes. When the executive session opened the trouble over the sub-treasury matter began. A communication was received from the executive committee ot the Anti-subtreas'iry Alliance, asking a hearing for a protest prepared by \V. Pope Yeomans of Missouri under instructions from the St. Louis convention of last September. The Macuue faction opposed any hearing, but Livingstone of Georgia moved the appointment of a committee of live to read the protest and report to the Alliance whether or not it should be read. On this motion, which was finally carried by a two-thirds vote, a bitter tight was made by the Macuue men, who made a charge that an attempt had been made to assassinate Macune la Mississippi. JBefore the adjournment of the executive session signiticanl action was taken which shows that the protest of the Anti-Sub-Treasury people will receive very little consideration. A resolution was adopted, almost unanimously, reaffirming the adherence of the Alliance to every plank in the Iloachdale platfor u. Macune's resolution to reduce representation one-half was passed and it gives no end of uneasiness to the delegates who havecome here with a narrow allowance of lunds. The treasury is nearly empty and unless representation was reduced there would not be enough money to pay all the delegates. The Alliance has been failing off in many States and State Alliances have been unable to furnish their quota of the assessment to the national body. President Polk laid.before the convention an ollicial letter addressed to him last night by W. ,S. McAllister of Mississippi requesting to be heard in behalf of the complaints and protests of the anti-sub-treasury Alliance men. The lot nl thrniorh cwirl pnnftl v worried. J *V V V ** "5 w *< a . v -w ^ * ' * * *" ~ 7 produced Lbe wildest confusion and disorder. Several members yelled out: l,\Ve don't want to hear anything from McAllister. lie has done more to destroy us than al! our en imies put together. Down with his trick to sou discord among us." Colonel Livingston moved to appoint a committee of five to meet the anti-subtreasury committee and hear their protasts and report to the supreme council. McDowell, of Tennessee, moved to table. Livingston's motion, and bitterly attacked McAllister, alleging he was here in the interest of Wall street, Eastcrs press and the Anti-Alliance Demoracy of the South. Terrell oi" Texas opposed the motion to table, saying'there was a large and respectable crowd under McAllister's umbrella, whose complaints should be heard aud considered. Wardell of South Dakota spoke earnestly in behalf of the motion to table, saying that It would be c owardice to recognize McAllister's committee, the chairman of which was here represent-1 in<* thn tvorst political elements in the I South; that he had done nothinz else for eight months Out att ack Alliance leaders and oppose its measures. Euikett, of Mississippi, closed the debate in behalf; of the motion to table. He said that owing to the backing given McAllester by the "subsidized press," he was the worst enemy to the Ailiancs in the wholt country and as a re3uit of his war. the Alliance had lost two United States Senators in Mississippi this year. L'viagston's motion prevailed. President Polk then appointed a commit ee witii Livingston as chairman. Having disposed of ibis matter the convention immediately forestalled a prospective protest by adopting a resolution to stand by the sub-treasury plan. tiiikd day's proceedings. Indianapolis, Nov. 10.?Resolution were introduced today declaring that a ia~ge number of men had been elected ?o Congress by Alliance votes, and demanded that they support no man lor speaker who would not lirst declare tor the Alliance platform. They further declared it the sense the body that those Congre-smiu should nominate one of their own number for the speak ership and stick to lnm. They further admonished Ailiaucemen throughout the country to beware of committing themselves to any party m such a manner as to interfere with their freedom of political actien, or of taking any position in favor of men or parties not in sympathy with Alliance principles. The ellect to make the platform of the Alliance more radical on the subject of government ownership of railroads and telegraph 1'nes was made by IJranch, a delegate at lar^e from Georgia. This resolati ?n demands complete ownership of railroads while the Oca a demands is for partial.control, with contingent own ersh'.p it simp'y control is deemed impractical. The resolution went to the committee on legislative demauda, and the prospects are that it will bo favorably reported upon. Soon after the opening of this morning's executive session of the Supreme ('nnnci! (r.:v:rvrston. chairman of the committee which last night met representatives of the anti-sub-treasury element, rose and said that this committee was ready to report. Instantly there was a disturbance. On motion from a delegate seated ou the Macune side oi the house, a canvass of those present was mads and every one not entitled to vole in executive session was obliged to leave the hall. When the doors had been closed, Colonel Livingston read the recommendation of the | comnmtee, that Dr. W. Pope Yeamans,! the author of the aaii-sub-treasury pro- j test, should have a hearing. j I " I After acrimonious discussion word j was sent to the anti-sub-treasury men i to send in their protest. The antis replied to this that the com-! mittee was empowered through Yea-j mans to present the protest, and until! Yeamans eoulil be heard by the Supreme Council the latter bodj would necessarlIj be deprived of the pleasure of reading j the protest. The answer of the council was that the protestants could not be heard unless they furnished the council with a copy of the protest. This tbe amis refused to do unless the? could present their protest in person, and that ended j the negotiations between the two wings ol the Alliance. The result is a split. The executive committee of the anti- : sub-treasury partv will now proceed to < Texas, where 127 sub-Alliances have already declared against the sub-treas- : ury scheme and will begin the work of organizing a new AHiauce. Th? call tor a national conveutiou will probably be issued to-morrow. The capture o! the Alliance by the People's party was practically accom "* - 1 T ?. 4Ua pnsneu iwq or uiree uajs a^u, uui me lull extent of the capture was not ap- ] parent till to-day when President Polk i was unanimously re-elected and J. II. ' Louks. of South Dakota, was chosen vise-president; J. H. Turner was re- j elected secretary and treasurer: and Q. 1 P. Willets. of Kansas, national lecturer. George i\ Washburn, of the national executive committee of the People's ; i parly statou that the leaders of that party were jubilant over the election of . Polk. Of the four great leaders in the ; Alliance, Livingston. McCune, Terrell 1 and Polk, the latter was regarded as ] the one favorable to independent politi- < cai action. Polk in his annual address Tuesday 1 night positively condemned the two old 1 parties and in the address, so strongly ' indicated his tendencies to the People's 1 party movement that the election o? J any other one of the gentlemen men- , j tioDed would have been regarded as a ] | blow to the People's party. j While on the other hand the re-elec- tion of Polk is regarded as a sreat vie- , tory for the People's party, the election 1 of Louks, of South Dakota, as Vice- ' President, is regarded as a greater victory from the fact that h? w a member j of the national committee of the Peo- ] pie's party. The fact that a large number of Farmers' Alliance delegates are J | also members of other industrial organ- j ! izations and working together woula iD- . I dicate that the trend of their action was j ' toward a unification of all, and in the i I direction of independent political action. Fighting the South Bound. . | j Tlie Savannah Xews, of a recent date I savs: <4The Richmond and Danville j j seems t^ L-e adopting a policy of repression toward the So"th Bound. It has , notified the .South Bound that it will . not receive freights trom Savannah and j through points from it for any points J on its lines north of Columbia ana west of Augusta. 2S*aturaily it does not turn j over any freight to the South Bound j that can be carried around by its own , lines. This action of the Richmond < and Danville practically limits the South Bound to its local territory. "It pre- \ vents Savannah from getting the bene- ; lits of the decreased distance to points . north of us," said a South Bound rail- ] road man yesterday, and compels them ( to pay for shipping their goods over the , same old round about routes." The j putting on of the new schedule between Savannah and Charlotte to connect . with the Richmond and Danville for ! "Washington and New York, giving j practically the same time as the Allan- tic Coast Line is regarded as an attempt < to forestall the anticipated short route | schedule by the South Bound. It is < said now that the Richmond and Dan- } ville will not give the South Bound a 3 vestibule train or a through Pullman ( service between Savannah and Char- < lotte to connect with the vestibule on 1 he Richmond and Danville for Wash- ( ; ington and New York, as was confident | ly expected a short while ago." I A Victory for the Banks. 1 -Newberry, 5>. u., i\ov. xa.?ioc banks are on top now. Judge Hudson ( decided to-day that the Comptrol- 1 ter General in ordering the auditors to j increase the returns of banks acted without the authority of law. and his ; act is therefore illegal and nugatory. * The case came up on a petition fcr a ' writ of mandamus by the Newberry National Bank to compel the county 1 auditor to change his tax list and tax 5 duplicate and to reduce the assessment j to the returns as made by the president 1 of the bank. The petition was granted 1 and the clerk of the Court was ordered to forthwith issue the writ. The bank * returned its stock at par. This return 1 was accepted by the township board of j assessors and the county board of equalization. The market value of the * stock is about 860 on the share above ( par. The Comptroller General ordered * the auditor to change the return and ( place the stock on tax duplicate for taxation at its market value, thereby increasing the returns of the bank ( about 880,000. Under this decision trie auditor is required to correct his tax duplicate so as to restore the original , valuation of the properly and make the . corresponding reduction in the tax pay- j merit by the bank. The case will go to , the Sup"reme_Court . Look Oat for Them. I New Berne, N. C.. Nov. IS.?Two ( representatives of a Boston oaddebt s agency, who came here last week, left < this city bright ana eariy, leaving ue- j hind them a debt which some rival . agency would iind it hard to collect. 1 The men. who gave their names as il. L. Hubbard and V. M. Weaver, claimed to be traveling representetives of a debt agency with headquarters at Boston. * They engaged board with Mrs. J. M. 1 Ilines, ofXew Berne. and, af'.er run- ' ningupa bill of -313 for their board, left 1 for parts unknown, taking everything < they had with them except the bill, 1 which they kindly left with their land- : lady. As no answers can be gotten to ] letters written to the Boston firm whose 1 name they gave, it is supposed her<j that ' the men are dead beats and are laking in the country as they go1_ "Will The States Ke*pond ? t Ki<jiimoxi>. Virginia, Xov. 18.?Mrs. < Jefferson Davis and her daughter. Miss 1 Winnie, left the city to-day for Mem- < phis. Tenn. The Richmond Dispatch ' to-morrow In an editorial on Mrs. Davis 1 will say: "The Southern States ought 1 to vote" a pension to Mrs. Jefferson Datis and Virginia should lead the move- 1 >ment. It is nothing but fair and pro1 per that we shovld put her upon'the foottnc- that the United States Government places the widows of its j (.Presidents. The duty devolves upon the States that composed the Confeder-! acy is a thing of the past. It can't be a very costly precedent for us. inasmuch" as there never will be another i j Confederacy, and therefore never an- i [other widow of a Confederate President." Misers I\ Iliad. \ iijcRLiN, Xov. 13.?Eleven miners have been killed and two injured by an explosion of lire damp in h mine near i Essex, the srreat German coalproduc- ! ing district. LOOK OUT FOR YOUR LAND WAS IT EVER OWNED BY ONE THOMAS WADS WORTH If It Was You May be ia Danger of Losing It?A Story That Will Interest Many of " Our Headers?JIanv Ianoeeiit Parties May Suffer. Greenville, 6. C.,Xov. 16.?Recently the Greenville Xews published the following: The ;,Wadsworth poor school fund" 2nd the Wadsvrorth es tnte have been beard of by many people of this State, but the story that surrounds them is not familiar. Inasmuch ms thf pstrite nnnfp.ms manv rwrmlfi in nearly ever} county In the State, the story is repeated below: Thomas "VVadsworth died in Charleston about the year 1771. He came to America from England when a young man, first settling ia Massachussttsana later in Laurens county, this Stato, near Hilton. He became immensely wealthy, owning thousands of acres of land and hundreds of slaves. After living in Laurens county many years he moved to Charleston and went into the merchantile business with a Mr. Turpin. When he died he owned lands from the mountains to the seaboard of South Carolina, principally in the counties of Laurens, Spartanburg, Greenville, Pickens, Anderson, dewberry, Lexington and Orangeburg. After abundantly providing for nis wife and mother, for he had no children, he left about 34,000 acres in various counties for a "poor school fund." The property was not to be sold. Everything wai left in the hands of a board of trustees, composed of Jive men. The trustees were to be elected every two years by the white free holders of Dunlaps battalion of Laurens county and the school h/-\ \\r\ cit u?oa t r\ ho 1 AAofnH in tU uc ouyjJUiL^u rt cto tu %j\j auuuuvu xla the battalion. la Mr. Wadsworth's lays the counties were divided into t.-attalions instead of townships, as now, and there were four battalions in Laurens county. There were also four in Greenviile. The deed3 to the lands were left in the hands of trustees and ire now in the possession of the present trustees, elected last year by the white voters living in "Dujlap's battalion." A. school house was built in the battalion, now Hunter township, and has been in use ever since, although the vast estate has not, until now yielded enough to pay a teacher's salary. The trustees rented the land for awhile and inally leased them for terms ranging from fifty to ninety-nine years. The money received was loaned out and much of it was lost. Some of the leases cvere renewed by other trustees, but a lumber of them are beginning t* expire and a distressing state of affairs is in store for a number of people now in possession of the lands. 11. G. Wallace and W. II. Workman, two of the hve trusttees, are in the city and are looking up a part of the estate located in this county for the purpose 3f selling or settling in same manner. A.n act of the Legislature a short time ago empowered the trustees to sell the lands and reinvest in lands in Laurens township, near the Wadswhorth school. The trustees lind by okl records in the Register Mesne Conveyance's office that there are about 1,400 acres belonging to i- ? ? * I? * ? - i A OAA me esiais iu mis county, kjyhr ow acres of it are located two and a half miles from the city and the worst pare Df the story is that ubout forty seven persons own the property and there are ^ver twenty houses on it. Persoas to vrhom it was leased and released yej.rs ago sold it to unsuspecting and careless persons and there is not much doubt out that many people will have to suffer. Part of the land is in possion of Uaptain "William Goldsmith. Much of the same land lies in the Ssndy Flat section of this county. Xo proptrty m the citv is included in the estate and real estate owners here will breath iasier. In one tract in Spartanburg jounty there are 1,800 acres. It was said at one time that the town )f Anderson was built on this proper;y, but the courts treed the property :here from further trouble. About oa? lundrec and twenty-five acres east of ;he town belonged to the estate, and the owners settled with the trustees some :ime ago by paying a fair price to compromise. Wherever the present owners iave fought the matter in courts they nave lest. This would tend to lrighten ill who have any interest In the prop?rty. One gentleman in this city lately inrested in some of this land east o* here ind he is now worried. All over the State, wherever there is any of this?... and, there will be uneasiness and a few nay loose their all. The trustees of the fund now have ibout 83,000 on hand. They propose ;o push matters to settlement and increase the fund. They have planned to build two more school houses in Dunap's battalion, one at Cross : Hill and me at liDuntville. The Wadsworth state is now valued at between $200,XX) and 8300,000 at 3 lowestimat?. Wajjeuer May Whistle. Charleston, S. C.. Xov. 17.?The Jourt of Common Pleas of Darlington jounty has been engaged since November 2 in trying cases involving the liability of the agricultural order known is the Grangers. The cases are brought by F. W. Wagener & Co., a wholesale lrm of this city, against four grangers. ,he amount involved being $5,000, said ;o be a balance due on notes for 820,000 jiven by the agent of the Grangers for upplies. The Grangers were branches jf'the Patrons of Husbandry, which jave birth here to the present Farmers' A.11 lance. In three cases tried verdicts lave been given for defendants. Knrued to Death. Columbus, O.. Nov. 13.?At an early lour this morning a row of cheap 'rames on North High street was dee;royed by lire. This evening the lire:nen found four bodies, three of young children and the fourth of an adult, ia v,.> /lohrio Tliov wprp all mpmhsrs ot i family and this explains why they -vere not missed. The head of the famly is said to be Charles Bethers, a laborer, but this has not been confirmed. Irvine to Save Their Necks. Charleston, i>. C., Nov. 12? Coilec,ions are being taken up in all colored jhurche? here to procure counsel to defend the ten negroes who were convict?d of murder m Laurens County in September last, and sentenced to be ranged. The Governor has respited :he men. and the movement now is to jrant them a new trial. SofarS150of :he SoOO needed has been secured. A City lu Flames. Foocnow, China, Nov. 17.?Advices of October 3rd. from Hankow, L'hina. says: "A huge fire destroyed 1.300 houses in this city and rendered, L.'i.uOO people homeless. It is believed i number ot women and children lost :heir lives. Two days afterward 200 uore houses were burned." Guiltv ol Haaslaacter. 15ai;\well. S. C., Xov. IT.?After ;wo full days' work the case against \Vm. L. McFail, for killing Policeman W. r. Burpee at Midway, was given to ;he jury, who rendered a verdict of 5uiItyj;ofj;manslaughter with a recommendation to mercy. \ A