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Terrestrial?Joy in Ffeaven Over the Kepontinz of One Sinful Soul. Osxaloosa, Peb. 21.?Rev. Dr. t Talma^e preached here today to an enormous ?.udience. He expects to be absent from home about ten days, during which period he speaks in as many cities. T^e subject ot his sermon was 'T'avenl} Congratulations." His evident intention was to make worlds that seem a great way cu iiom eacti otuer appear very near. Ilia text, was takeD from Luke xv, 7, "Likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth, more than over ninety and niue just persons who need no repentance." A lost sheep! Nothing can be more pi* thoroughly lost. I look through the window of a shepherd's house at night. Tb? candles are lighted. The shepherd has jus,; plLiScrlhs stall' against the mantel. lie has taken o2' his coat, shaken out of it the dust and hung it up. I see by the candlelight that there are neighbors who have come in. The shepherd, tagged out with the long tramp, : sits down on a bench, and the wife and children and the neighbors say to him, "Uome, now, tell us how you iouau me poor thing?" "Well," he says, "this morning I went cut to the yard to look ~ at the flock. Xo sooner had I looked over the lence than I saw something wronsr. The fact was they did not count 1mr right. Ninety-live, ninety-six, ninety-1 seven, ninety-eight, ninety-nine?only ninety-nine. McDonald, you know we had a hundred. And I wondered which one was gone, and I began again, and I ^^^^^^^^^^ninety- j the best fare that the cabin could affor I and they sat up very late that nigfc L and they talked, and thsv laughed, ai jig they sang, and they ate, and they dran 111 and they danced, and told over and ov and over again the sfcory of the lo sheep that was found. With such tenderness and rusticity illustration does Christ represent tl . soul's going off and the soul's comli back, when he says, "Likewise there juy in uu&vcu tue is ui \jrv over one sinner that repenteth, moi iuan over ninety and nine just persoi ?Lac need no repentance." To repei is lo feel that you are bad. and to t sorry about it, and to turn over a ne leaf, and to pray lor forgiveness as """* help. Just as soon as a man does tha they hear right away ot it in heaven. There are no gossips in siory goin around to chatter and laugh when a ma falls, but there are many souls in jilor who are glad to run about and tell when a man is saved. The news goe very quick irorn gale to gate, and iroi as* north wall to south wall, and from eas wall to west wall, and in three minute Sitea. every citizen of heaven has heard of ii 111^ for "there is joy in heaven among th ||||y angels of God over one sinner that r< I can very easily understand hoi } there should be joy in heaven over . I Pentecost with three thousand soul saved in one da??no mystery abou Ithat; I can understand how there shoul he joy in heaven over the Parish c Schotts, when four hundred souls wer saved under one sermon of Mr. Living ston; I can understand how there shouli be joy in heaven over the great awak ening in the time of Harland Page, whei in one year four hundred and seventy I tnree tnousuna souls were brougnt t< God in the United States; I can under stand very easily how there should b( joy in heaven over five hundred thous and souls converted in 1857, in this country; but mark you, my test announr ces there is joy in heaven among the angels of God over one, just cue, sinner that repenteth. Some cathedrals have one tower: seme cathedrals have two, three, foui towers. Did you ever hear them all rinf at I dm to!rl flint flip hpll in the cathedral of St. Paul rings only on rare occasions, for instance, at the death i or the birth oljj kia^- Have you seen & f')ur towers, and have ^^^^^'"^youhcard them all strike into one great chime of gladness? Here is a man who is moral. He is an example to a great many professors of religion in some things; he never did a mean thiDg in his ?H life; he pays all his debts, and is a good Iciuzen and a goou ne:gnoor, out he says he is not a Christian. ?S? Some day the II0I3" Spirit comes into his heart and he sees that he cannot depend upon his morality for salvation, lie says: ilO Lord God, I have been depending upon my good works; I tind I am a sinner. <md I want thy salvation. H Lcrd, for Jesus' sake, have mercy on me!'' And God pardons him, and im PLueuiiiLeij uuc ui tae Luwers ui ueaveu 3trikes a silvery chime, for there are four towers to the heavenly temple. \ Here is s man who is bad; he knows he is bad, and everybody else knows he is bad, but he is not an outcast?far f'rem being an outcast. He moves in respectable circles. But one day, by the power of the Holy Ghost, he rouses up j.v 3tt iiio oiu.uiutrjo <iuu lie " \J Lord, have mercy! 1 am a wanderer, and without thee I perish. Hare rnercyl;' God hears him. and immediately two of the towers of heaven strike a silvery chime. But here is an outcast. He was picked up last night out of the gutter and carried to the police station. He has been in the penitentiary three times, lie is covered and soaked with loathsomeness and abomination. Arousing from his debauch, he cries out: 4'0 God, have mercy on me. Thou who didst | pardon the penitent thief, hear me cry for mercy." And the Lord listens and pardons, and no sooner is the poor . wretch pardoned than three of the great towers of heaven strike up a silvery chime. But here is a waif of the street. She passes under the gaslight, and your soul shudders with a great horror. Mo pity for her. Xo commis?ration for her. As she passes down the street she Sears a 3ong in a midnight mission, and 11 as she listens to that song she hears: 1 All may corap, v.'hoevor will, This Man receives poor sinners still. She puts into that harbor: she kneels J by the rough bene i nvar the door; she . says: "O Lord! Thou who didst have ] mercy on Mary Magdalen, take my , blistered 1'eet oil' the red hot pavement , of hell." God says, ilMy daughter, toy sins are forgiven thee; go in peace." ' Xow, all the lour towers of heaven j strike a silvery chime, and they who ] pass through the celestrial streets say: "What's that? Why, the worst sinner ( must have been saved. Hear all the ! four towers ring and ring and ring!" ; ' And there is iov in heaven among the ' angels of God over one sinner that re- : penteth." My subject impresses you, I think, with the thought that it is possible for us to augment the Happiness of heaven. People think that souls before the throne are as happy as they can be. I deny it. Look at that mother before the throne of God. When she died she left her son in this world a vagabond. That son repented of his iniquities and came to God. The report of that salvation has reached heaven. Do you tell me that mother before the throne of God has not her joy richly augmented? There is many a man in this house today who could go out with a torch ana xinuie a new bonfire of victory on the hills of heaven. If you would this day repent and come to God, the news of your salvation would leach heaven, and then, hark! to the shout of the ransomed. Your little child went away from you into the good land. While she was here you brought her all kinds of beautiful presents. Sometimes you came home at nightfall with your pockets full of gifts for her, and no sooner did you put your night key into the latch than she began at you, saying. "Father, what have you brought me?" She is now before the throne of God. Can you bring her a to Christ BpM^ng!"l5ut if this lion j^^Roul should come to God, nothin uc could stop the shouting of the armies c d, God before the thrcne; for "there is jo it, in heaven among the angeis of God ove id one sinner that repenteth." k, In some families they keep a vacan er chair aad a vacant plate for the departed i l. :i i -1 -t^ Si out ii id some 01 your uouseuuius yo kept a vacant chair and a vacant plat of for those who have gone away from yoi ie into the next world, the vacant chair ig and the vacant plates would outnumbe is those which are occupied. I once sail >d to you there are no vacant chairs ii re heaven, but I recall that. Eight besidi is your loved one in that good land then it is a vacant char, not made vacant b: >e death, for death never enters there; i w is a vacant chair for you. Will yoi id take it? t. My subject also>impresses me witt the idea that heaven and earth are ir ig close sympaty. People talk of heaver ii as thought it were a great way off y They say it is hundreds of thousands o it miles before you reach the first star, anc :s then you so hundreds of thousands o n miles before you get to the second star, st and then it is millions of miles before !S you reach heaven. The say heaven is t, the center of the universe and we are on ;e the rim of the universe. That is nol the idea of my text. I think the hear! of heaven beats very close to our world. y We m .-asure distances by the time taken a to traverse those distances. s i It used to be a lonsr distance to San it Francisco. Many weeks and months d were passed before you could reach that >1 city. Xow it is six or seven days. It e used to be six weeks before you could voyage from here to Liverpool. Xow d you can go that distance in six or seven - davs. And so T measure the distance i between earth and heaven, and I find it - is only a flash. It is one instant here ) and another instant there. It is very - near today. Do you not feel the breath i of heaven on your face? Christ says in . one place it is not twenty-four hours' 5 distance, when he says to the penitent . thief, "This day, this day, shalt thou be ; | with me m paradise." It is not a day, . I it is not an hour, it is not a minute, it is not a second. ; ' Oh, how ne^r heaven is to earth. By oceanic cable you send a message. As [ it is expensive to send a message, you : ' compress a great deal of meaning in a . few words. Sometimes in two words ; you can put vast meaning. And it , seems to me that the angels of God who : carry news from earth to heaven need to take up this hour in regard to y?ur soul, only two words in order to kindle with gladness all the redeemed before the throne, only two words, "Father saved," '"mother saved," 'kson saved," uaugnter saved." And "there is joy in heaven among the angels of God over one sinner that repenleth." My subject also impresses me with the fact that the salvation of the soul is of vase importance. If ycu should make $200,000 this year, do you suppose that news would be carried to heaven? It would not be of enough importance or i.~ i.- *? i siguiuuaiuw lu ue cameu ueaveiiwaru. If at the next quadrennial election you arc made president of the United States, do you suppose that news would be carried to heaven? Do you suppose that the news of a revolution in France or Spain would be carried to heaven? These things are not of enough impartance, but there is one item that is sure to be carried. It is the salvation of your soul. It is your repentance bc-fore | God. The il}iug hoofs of God's couriers clash through the gates aud ihe news goes from gate to mansion, and from mansion to temple, and from temple to throne, aud ''there is joy in heaven" among the angels of God over one sin ner :orgiven. it must oe 01 va3t importance to be Oi any moment in heaven, your salvation, in that land where glad-' i nesses are the everyday occurrence, in , that land where the common stones of 1 the field are jasper aud emerald and i chrysoprasus aud carbuncle aud .sar- ' donyx. And yet the news o'your salva- 1 tion makes joy before the throne of God. ' You remember years ago, a stage driver 2n the White mountains became j very reckless, lie had a large number 4 oi passengers on the stage, and the j stage was drawn by six horses, wild and \ ungovernable, and he drove near the j precipice, and he drove off, the stage j With its precious Ireightrolling down the i smbankment, and many were slain, but few were saved. I suppose when they j wrote home they wrote wiUi con-! ;ratulation at their rescue. The j iu^eis o( God look down and they j Lhcy see men driving oa the ( dge oi jreat prceipiccs of ruin aud danger, Jrawn by wild, leaping, learning and ungovernable perils in mis iue, auu u j any shall escape before they capsize, do you not suppose the anyels oi God rejoice. crying: tkGood, good! Saved from siD, saved from death, saved from hell, saved forever!" The supreme court ot the United States does not adjourn for anything trilling. It must be the death of a cabinet minister, or the death of a poesident, or some matter of very great moment. When I iind all heaven adjourning its other joys for this one joy I make up rorw errant-, importance my uiiuu to vi i v*j I if heaven can aflord to adjouru all other festivities to celebrate this one triumph. Do you wonder that so many of these Christian people have toiled night and day in this work of soul saving, if it is of such vast importance:-' Do you wonder that Xettleton and Finley aud Bishop Asbury and John Wesley and George Whith field aud Paul and angels and Christ and God stripped themselves for the work? Around that one soul circles the mist, the lire, the darkness, the joy, the anthem, the wailing, the hallelujah and the woe of God's universe. If the 1 : O.an lin wrniM Ifi irumtJCt SUU1 19 3(1* buvu j' v /*mvw ?v ?.? ? ^ and fiDgers to harp and hammer to bell and "there is joy among the angels of God over that one soul forgiveu." For such a soul I plead Having found in my own experience that this religion is a comfort and a joy, I stand here to commend it to you. In the days of my infancy I was carried by Christian parents to the house of God, and consecrated in baptism to the Father, and the Son, and the Iloly Ghost; but that did not save me. In after time I was taught to kneel at the Christian lamily altar with father and mother and brothers and sisters, the most of them now in glory; but that did not save me. In after time I read Doddridge's "Rise j^y^ggss^an^Baxter's "Call to the J gggflfe^nouseno: u, a hospital, "It is strange to me that Jesi ir doesn't see me when he goes throuj g here at nights and takes others to hit >f self. He goes through here and he do y not see me. I must be asleep and 3 r deesn't know I want to go. "Now, I tell you how I'll arrange ; t I'll go to sleep with my hand up at I then when Jesus comes through tl J hospital bv night he will see my har e lifted, and'he will know by that I wai ? to go with him." So it was done. F< that night Jesus went th.-ough the ho 3 mfcui anH trtnlr tV>A ?nfferin<7 lad. an !: the next morning the nurse pas 1 ing through the wards of the ho 2 pital saw a dead hand lifted brace e on one side against the pillow, and ti a left hand holding the elbow of the rigi p arm. Jesus hnd seen the signal an 11 answered it. Ob, sick soul, woundt i soul, dying soul, canst thou not gi\ some signal? Wilt thou not lift oe j hand or one prayer ? God grant thi fV>io ^-jtr lJioro mat? ha invinhftavp ^ I O VAC* J \ UVJ.V VV jv; ~ ? * ~ among the angels of God over your soi forgiven! f Senator Irbj 011 the Call. \ Wa siiixgton, Feb. 22.?Senator Irb was engaged with his constantly-grov | ing correspondence when I called at hi apartments in the Metropolitan IIot( i today. ' "I see in the Carolina papers," said ] ' "a call for a convention to nominate man to defeat (iovemor unman. a chairman of the party have you anv . thing to say concerning the call ?" "Xothing," said he, ''except to sa; ; that I am amused at the inconsistent , of these leaders. In 1890, when thepeo pie of the State, who believed in re forming the State Government thought it necessary and wise to call ; convention and nominate a candidate these same meo, whose names are ap 3 - J * ~ 4-U:~ peuueu wuis mh, Li.ii.cv> uy uicn hands in holv horror and cried out 'This is treason to the Democracy o! this State; this is Mahoneism, and thai they ought to be read out of the party. Tha ounnoco nf fhyf r.finpAnHnn nrrtv<.ri that it was right. I am glad that this Convention has been called; first, because it means that our troubles shall be settled in a sensible way inside the Democratic party, and second, it justifies what the ring politicians and ne^g. papers claimed to have been irregular and undemocratic in the farmers of 1890. I hope that the campaign will be conducted in a quiet, conservative and TITO T? 'jn^ t Vt of TTD TT7111 OQD HC* J j UUU ?f V If liA MVIV4 WW again in South Carolina, during a political campaign, what we saw at the 'Columbia meeting in 1890. I3ut for the patriotism and wisdom of the Tillmanites at that meeting, aud the pluck of Governor Tillman, there might have been bloodshed. Any man who is nominated will receive my hearty support." ?News and Courier. >"o Hill-Tillman Deal. Columbia, S. C.. Feb. 18.?Governor Tillman was slightly indisposed today, and being fearful of an attack of the grip did not leave the Executive mansion daring the day. The Bureau man called on Governor Tillman during tbe evening, and in a conversation inquired what information there was at this end of the line concerning the "Hill-Tillman deal," which was reported in the Washington dispatches. Governor Tillman stamped it as a iciiijr uuc un iuc paio ui uae uune&puu- i dent. "What in the world do we want money here for in our campaigns?" he said. '"We can carry everything without money. I did not know that Dr. Pope was in Washington until I saw it in The Xews and Courier, and if Senator Irby wanted to see Mr. Hill or bis emissaries be could very easily have done so in Washington, it occurs to me. 1 do not know a thing aboui the visit. I certainlv have never heard of anv deal." Governor Tillman was asked who was his preference for the Presidential nominee of the Democratic party. He said that'he had not yet decided, but that he was not in favor of Cleveland. When asked who, he thought, would oe the preference of the South Carolina ielegates to the nominating Convention, he replied: "'Further than that ;hey will not be in favor of Cleveland [ could not prognosticate." Governor FiUman did not seem to think that the people had exactly made up their minds is to their candidate.?News and Courer. . ^ uuJl ?Miiiiiimwji Jli Ji .MBPghwiJU UMWLi! " THE THIRD PARTY CONVENTION. | j Called to Sleet 2a Orsaha <m Ike Jt'ourth Day ?>f July. St. hoc is, Feb. "j.j.?The joiut contitiillee ia whose charge the matter was i pjuc^u uy trie xiiuusvii.ti wuiciciitc j uju ended here met this morning, and after ! an all day's session selected Omaha, ; Neb., as the place of holding the norm- J nating: convention of the newly born ! third party. July 4 was last night se- 1 lected as the date, and that action was < reaffirmed. The following formal call i was issued: "The National Committee of the Peo- * pie's party of the United States acting ] in conjunction with the following: 0. < H. Van Wyck, of Nebraska; C. W. Ma- ! cune, Texas; M. J. Branch, Georgia; J. II. Powers, Nebraska; II. M. Humph- : rpv Te*?<i- Tj. T). Laurent. Louisiana; i Marion Cannon, California; T. H. Mc* < Gaire, Mew* York: J.II. Williams. Kansas; L. L. Polk, Mortli Carolina; Tierce Ilackett, Missouri; M. M. Garrett, Illinois; John Seilz, Ohio; Mary E. Leass, Kansas; Anna L. Diggs, District of Columbia; Anna Dobbs, Texa*; A. P. 1'arksen, Florida, :tnd Ben TerriU, Texas, representatives of a certain meeting of members of various organizations of this country, held in the city nt T.finis Mrt nn t.htt 2-ith daV Of ! February, 1892, respectfully submit to the people oi' the United States the preamble and platform of the conference of said labor organizations of our nation, held on the 22d, 23i and 24th I days of February, 1892, in the city of St. Louis: "We urge that all citizens who support those demands shall meet on the last Saturday ia March next, in their respective towns and villages, and hold public meetings and ratify these demands, and take steps to organize preparatory to electing delegates to the national convention, and we call upon ali duly qualified voters of the United States "who are in favor of these principles and of nominating candidates for President and Yice-rresident on the above platform to send delegates to the convention of the People's party to be held in Om iha,Xcb, July 4.1892, at 10 o'clock in the forenoon. "The executive committee of the People's party in each State is charged with the duty of promulgating this call aod of lixing the time, place and method by whicn said delegates shall representation JfeM^^hCon . 'hell, Texas, sSSj 3e II. M. Loucks, South Dakota. US Another Fight Opened. jh Columbia, S. C., Feb. 20.?At i n- again. The railroads seemed to be d< es termined to give the Attorney Genera ie and his assistant as much work as the can do. Another big law suit is abou [t. to be began and it will be a length; id one. ie Yesterday Mr. B. L. Abney, repre senting the Richmond and Daaviil system, Mr. Barron, representing tin 3r Atlantic Coast Line, and Mr. McQueen 3.. the agent of the South Carolina llai] >cj way, visited the office cf County Treas s_ ure'r Campbell and rendered him in casl s. the same amouut of taxes that the] a paid last year, and ignored the assess" ie ment of their property that was mad< ^ and that so signally differs from th< d returns made by the roads. Id Treasurer Campbell informed then e that he could not accept the amount: ie that were tendered as they were belou the amounts at which the roads were n assessed. Upjn this the parties pickec ,i up their cash . nd departed. Thi3 was done, it is said, in everj County of the State. In this Countj the amount to be collected from the y roads is very lar^e, the taxes of the South Carolina Hail way being about $4,500 and the others proportionately s large. The Columbia, Newberry and jl Laurens Railroad was the only road taxable in this County that offered the , full amount of its taxes according to L' the revised assessment, ine bourn a Jiound Koad is not jet taxable. All s the other roads in this County offered r_ to pay the same amount of taxes that they ottered last year. Of course the Treasurer bad no alternative and could y do nothing but refuse the amounts teny dered as they were below what the - roads were charged with. uy mis uLiuy" yu tuc pan ui wic iauroads the State failed to receive about i S175.000 that is due it. Tbe result of i this big deficiency cannot yet be foretold. : When the matter comes to trial it is : probable that all the roads will bunch f their case*, and malie a test case of one ; of them. The railroads will fight the ' matter vigorously and will employ emil nent legal counsel to represent them, i A Iiegister reporter called at Comp troller General Ellerbe's house yester , day afternoon to ascertain his views on ; the subject and enquire what would bs done. The Comptroller was unwell and couid not grant the interview, but ' it is stated that he will fight vigorously on this q uestion .?Register. Thiakn It Is Hill. Washington, Feb. 18?Senator James L. Pugh has written a letter to the David B. ilill Club of Lauderdale County, Alabama, on the Presidential situation. He says that Senator Ilili is a self-made man, who has been in full view of the people during his entire career, and has had uninterrupted success in all his aspirations. "All elections in New York, a doubtful State," he continues, "have been hotly contested, and Hill has never been defeated a3 a candidate. Xo man in history has been subjected to severer scrutinv and attack hv a mora rrnwer I'ul and marvelous adversary than David li. Hill." Senator JL'ugh also says that Hill closed his splendid career as Governor by an achievement that has attracted attention for the ffreat skill and remarkable benelits attached to it fcr the Democracy. The credit of securing New York State for the Democratic party was due to him. The Senotar closes hy making the prediction that David ]J. Ilill will be carried to the National Democratic Convention by delegates from Xew loik, ^ew jersey. Connecticut ana Indiana, and that with this support he | will be nominated, with Gray of Indiana for Vice President. The ticket, the Senator says, will be invincible. They Want thg Karth. San Francisco, Feb. 19.?The State Department will be astonished when it gets in a few days the formal claim ot , the sailors on the Baltimore who were ; wounded by the Valparaiso mob. Law yer Alleyne Orr has the cases of twen- , ty-four rneu who were a)l wounded in tne streets of Valparaiso. They we.re sailors or coal heavers, but they want big money i'ur their rough handling by i the Chilians. Their combined claims 1 foot up $1,305,000. The- largest sums ( are demanded by Johu Hamilton,^sail- j or, and Jerimiali Anderson, eoai heaver. ' They apply for $15u,000 apiece. Ham- i ilton has three bad wounds and declares i tnere is stiil a piece of a Chilian d;igger 1 in one and that it refuses to heal. An- s derson is disabled by several wounds, c the most serious being in the lfcng. j Other claims vary from 810,000 to &30,- t 000. ; - | i sflfi 1 s ? ? rv ? f-N A rr O I niro 1 Mt.LvUiNrC.Ur.r\Mi^. oULUlin j lie Uaa uo Api'oloKy for tho l'art lie j Toole in th? VT;?r. WA^nixcrox. Feb. l:i ?The W;:sh- j ingt-m ex-Con fyde rale Association roe I H Union Hall to night, the president, l?. W. Anderson, presiding. Representatives John M. Alien, of Mississippi, and Clifton lireckenriJe, of Arkansas, Senator Berry of Arkansas and Col. Dickinson of New York made addresses. Mr. Allen in addressing the meeting. said: "lam not an old Confederate; I am one of the youngest alive at most. In tact, I was asked to come here to meet Did Confederates and make a little talk. L don't mind talking, and it is a pleasare to meet you. I will not pursue the regular order I usually do in speaking to ex-Confederates. It is customary to devote most of a speecn 10 expiamiug i why the war was fought. What I take pride in is how we fought. I never stopped to think why l went in. I had do grievance, no negroes to lose, but when the Northerners came down and started after us, 1 found a disposition among my people to resist, and went with them. "I don't know that I can improve very much on the little speech I made in Congress on this subject. Of course you have all read it. 1 take some little pride in referring to that speech. It was made on the pension bill. That tells the story briefly of how we fought. So far as I am concerned, I would not swap the record of having been a private Confederate soldier for any pension the Government might give. I don't fear that someone will suspect me of having fought well. I have no apol ogy to make for the little pare 1 tosk in tL-i r" nionf ?r\ \\Trifu mP ICcAl/ W&F. -LI tiiCJ v>autu iv H?*w w. down as a traitor, then I am one of the traitors who followed Lee. No man who ever walked God's green earth was possessed of nobler attributes than Robert E. Lee; no man ever had more of the attributes of true greatness. What better vindication could we have than that we marched in the columns of Stonewall Jackson? "Some men make a great racket about such meetings as this. These men don't rise to the dignity ot my contempt; they cannot make me mad; he has got to be a man of more dignity to make me mad These meetings mean nothing to harm any one. We take great pride in them, and no power on earth can rob us of that pride. "As I am a representative of that class to sav a word aoout tee priNo one will detract from Hta^wc^rjmtthey double WP^B^uSput tnis down as wh; ^^ink they will do: On the 29th < ^^nne, in the city of St. Louis, will 1 ^ held a National Convention of the Fr hibition party, delegates to which wi , be from every State and territory In tt I Union with a fair intersprinkling < \ women among the delegates, and ths II 11 ,1 n ijuuveiiuuu win &ciiu uuu o. jLuatiuiiu, y heart of oak in every plank, sound o 1 economic principles, treating of G01 y ernment ownership of all highways an means of communication, also of moi etary reform, ownership of land, pr< e hibition and woman suffrage. e "Theplatform will mean what it say '? and says what it means. Candidate " will be chosen for President and Vic< ' President, and we will have the spect* 1 cle presented of two tickets in the fie' 7 among the divided ieform forces wb seeks the people's good. I "The Prohibitionists," said Miss Wi J lard earnestly "would have been willin, ana glad to meet the reopie s part J half way, and the method we had i; 3 view was that the St. Louis Xatioaa 7 Industrial Conference would put lilt * its platform a woman suffrage plan! 1 and a plaDk for suppression of th r liquor traffic" ' lie Had the Whole Car. i Indianapolis, Feb. IS.?Severa ' weeks a o the friends of William Royse ' a well-known attorney of this city, no Liced that h'13 mind was laiiing, and hi was sent to a private hospital at Oxford ' O., lor treameat. Last ni^ht he es , cayod and boarded a Cincinnati, Ilamil ton and Dayton train for home. Jus before t e train reached Hamilton Iloyse went into the sleeping car and flourishing a revolver, drove the portei tuiu paoscugcis uui. xuc tuuuuiiui aui trainmen made an efl'ort to captme the maniac, but were deterred by his threats to kill the first person that advancec upon him. The police of this city were notified of the state cf ailairs by wire, and Eoyse was taken m charge at the depot. This afternoon he was adjudged insane and sent to the asylum. Neither Cleveland or Hill. Washington, Pa., Feb. 25.?Henry Watterson lectured here to-night. To a reporter he said: "The way things have been shaped iriixewl oik it'^ould be suicidal for Democracy to nominate either Cleveland or Hilffor the Presidency. Senator Hill as a Presidential candidate will encounter difficulties which never presented themselves during his previous candidacies. lie cannot carry a single Northern State, unless it be New York, and Mr. Cleveland cannot carry New York at all. Kentucky will instruct her delegates to vote for John G. Carlisle. Next to Grover Cleveland he is the most prominent exponent of the tariff reform." Shortened by GO Miles. Wilmington, N. C., Feb. 19.?The Atlantic Coast Line today laid the last rail upon their Fayetteville Branch in North Carolina, which connects the Wilmington and Weldon and Florene railroads at the State line between North and South Carolina. This shortens the Atlantic Coast Line sixty miles and brings Charleston, Savannah, Florida, Columbia and Augusta that much nearer to Washington and New York. It gives practically an air line between Charleston and Norfolk, with grades not in excess of forty feet to the mile and a maximum curvative of four degrees. The Atlantic Coast Line is the West India fastmail route. Bursting of the Big Sua Spot. Washington, D. C., Feb. 18.?Observation made at the 2s aval Observatory today by Frof. Edgar Frisby showed that the large spot hitherto observed 011 the sun, which covered a space equal to one-sixteenth of the sun's surface, or an area of 140,000 miles long by 100,000 miles wide, has by some great cataclysmic operation been broken into about twenty smaller spots. In addition to this other spots have appeared, which are situated a vast distance from 4-l> ~ ..../I ...A 4- ~ W1C UllglllcU sput illiu BIG CVlUCULl^ tutally independent from It. This newdevelopment on the sun's surface has attracted the attention oi the astronomers at the observatory and will be closely observed by them. I>ld Xot Waat It. Atciiisox, Kan., Feb. 18?Iiobt. li. Rose, a poor m in of Tatan, Mo., who Sell through a nole in a sidewalk in this Jity and sustained permanent injuries, *ot a verdict against the city for 62,500. rhe money was paid to the plaintiff's ittorneys last week, and when they i f? /> 1 i nn f r\? hie rrnnH I'Artnnft le surrendered himself to the Sheriff, laying that he was a perjurer, lie ienied that he had received any inuries and said he planned the accident a defraud the city. He is undoubtedly csafte. Jt t ?& FOREIGN NOBILITY. . > Tjie king- of Greece is a do in uunv- ; < five years ol^! lie has a complexion as ! ( clear as a baby's and speaks with flu- I j eney a dozen languages. Napoleon's handwriting was so de- ' ( cidedly illegible that it was said of his | j letters, written to Josephine, during ? the German campaign, that they re- ] sembled nothing so much as war-maps. The aged Louis Kossuth, the Hun- 1 garian patriot, knows English remark- j ably well. He learned the language , while a prisoner, with only a diction- ! ary, a Bible and a copy of Shakespeare < to aid him. 1 Stanislas Zalewski, a noble Pole, < . ^ -r>?J v:*. nor. 1 has jusl cneci <it< vu w? tificatc at Warsaw showing that he was born in 1780. lie was a great smoker 3 and an amateur in pipes. His memory was clear to the end of his last year, 112th. Princess Metternich has been elect ed an honorary member of the Imperial , Austrian fire brigade, in recognition of ] the heroism and presence of mind she j displayed at the great fire at Banja, in i Hungary. She rescued the lives of three persons with her own hands. ' NOT GIVEN IN WEBSTER. Taut at sea?Hopes. , 1 Just a line?Fishing. '* * Jump into notice?Frogs. Acrimonious food?Tarts. Cold comfort?Water ice. Ends in liquor?Deco-rum. Good all round dessert?ne. < The commercial center?Mer. Shine in the city?Bootblacks. Not a poem?The lay of a hen. The pink of perfection?Salmon. Result of a squeeze?Lemonade. The real tennis blazer?The sun. Seaside breakers?Hotel waiters. A dangerous eruption?Vesuvius. Lines in dismal places?Epitaphs. A bright scheme?Polishing1 silver. Caught by the ear at dinner?Corn. The most imposing month?August. A game it takes two to play?Chess^i Solicited to divulge?Williat|^M Coolness between people? "Down in the swamp''?Crajfl Talk better than they taA rots.?Mail and Express, SHORT SOgH Rbig one. I Ji^^eing prepared i: devil's children, at Suffering is a chariot drawn of horses -whose faces are toward Heaven ^6 The man who willfully continues ii sin is conscious that he deserves n< help. ^ It is better to rejoice in tribulatioi ^ than not to have any tribulation to re a joice in. n We sing1: "Take my silver and mj 7- gold," and immediately go into oui d pockets hunting- for pennies. ? Earn': l- Horn. FARM FACTS AND FANCIES. s ;g The cheapest foods, such as grass. I. clover and vegetables, make the bes1 [. pork, for it makes lean, not grossly fa1 d pork. The latter is happily going out o of fashion. - .a poultry journal aavises oeginners l* in chicken-raising not to expect to get o rich on a few dozen fowls. If the iny vestment is doubled every year the business may be regarded as profitable. 0 The milch cow will need something [j besides corn meal this winter. If you e have neither ensilage nor roots, b'-an and oats should be fed, and the animal will respond handsomely to the gift of oilmeal. From experiments made with blue uj tiiw: w CL vr.vpcAlJULiciit rjiiiuuu it appears that this grass is richer in e albuminoids and crude protein than tim' othj, red top, orchard grass or low meadow hay. * A cow that jumps fences needs attention. but not so much in the way of ' pokes, blinders, knee bands, etc., as ' plenty of food. Cows don't jump fences , just to show their skill, as boys do when I they stand on their heads the day after ' a circus leaves town. | ECHOES FROM EUROPE. "? An* English peer cannot resign his ? peerage. [ Crime is very rare among women in Scotland. From 25.000 to 30,000 letters are posted every year in England withoutJst?y~ addresses. ? ~~ France?possesses 1,100 mineral Springs, of whioh over 1.000 are made use of in France. 1 In" the public gardens of Milan, Italy, is a gothic building containing twelve milch cows from which the visitor can get milk at two cents a glass. St. Malo has an omnibus conductor who is a marciuis: a count who earns I his living1 by making mouse traps, and a bathing man whose title is Count Raoul de la Uegace, Marquis de ChamberJ . ? i THE WORLD'S METROPOLIS. Tiiere arc 1,250 miles of water pipes in London. A London notion is to insure houses against burglars. London* has taken up the deceased American craze of roller-skating. One-third of the crime committed in London is perpetrated on Saturday nights. IX London there are half a million houses and nearly a thousand miles of streets. ^ Thirty million dollars has been expended on London's drainage system in the last thirty-three years. Confessed. Montgomery. Ala., Feb. 18.?About seven years ago John Cunningham was killed in his dooryard here at niguD| while in the act of detecting a chicken | t-uiei. x>o one ever Knew wao aia me killing, bat it was suspected that a negro, John Hubbard, who afterward fled the city, committed the crime. A few days ago a negro, Frank Brooks, was arrested, suspected of the murder. lipis now in jail here. Wm. Cunningham, brother of the deceased, voluntarily went to Chief of Police Gerald and admitted that he was the one who killed his brother. He did it accidentally, and asked that the negro be released. The clearing ud of the loner mvsterv created a sensation. JPrivatc Crematory. Montreal, Que., Ont., Feb. 21.?One Adolph Lawse, %vho lives in St. Cunegorde, a suburb of Montreal, recently lost a child and burned its body in a v cooking stove to save f aneral expenses. Magistrates were applied to, but they j decided that he acted within his rights. The Rev. Father Sequin called upon Mr. Lawse, who said in defense of his act that both in France and in the United States dead people were burned in big ovens and accordinly he thought he was justified in burning his dead in his own cooking stove. Kl?:tas i(i j Why suiler cr fs's-ase j vhcn you bo jr1! o~-cklv :urtd wilboa? rordiclno the us-? ? ? i he Lieclrop":^. .\. W. ! 11:?: i: :-J -i. Su ?i?j. S.J J., Wilting 11 JAM- t: :lf 01 .May IV.\>. >ays: For two K'Uf.s p;;st Mrs. K. has suffered with. uhut w;;s r^ard- fi us aialarial attacks, wiiiuli bi*-g>;n absut May and continued through th- sum- J ner and fall. Iltr sickness last summer was more severe ami morn protracted than that of the year before, md we, therefore, looked forward with apprehension to us return ins present \ season. Early m the year she began the use of the Eiectropoise, and has continued to use it ever since without the use of other remedies. At present tier health is excellent, and there are no indications oi' the return of her malady. Aiken*, s. C., Sept. 19,1800. The ElectroDoise has worked wonders in my household. I introduced it to ilrs. Cuthbert last March as a remedy lor rheumatism, and since then she lias laid aside stick and crutches and is able to attend to all of her household j ? a mamhflp iit mv t'amilv UUI/1C3. iluuiiiC! lii'-muvi. by using It is better than she has ever been, ana I myself Cnd it an admirable tonic when tired out after three services on the Sabbath. Several parties have investep in this instrument because of our experience and expression of opinion. Very gratefullv. KEY. LUCIUS CUTII13ERT. A 40 page book, describing treatment aLtl coctaining testimonials from all sections' and for the cure of all diseases, mailed free on application. Address ATLANTIC ELECTRO POISE CO.. 222 King St., Charleston, S. C. Hard on a Doc!or. Chattanooga. Tenn., Feb. 25.?Dr. W. C. Townes, one of the best known physicians of Chattanooga, was horsewhipped in Market street, a leading business thoroughfare, this morning by Mrs. John Volistadt, a painter's wife. The woman stepped up to the doctor and, exclaiming: '"You have murdered mv child, now I shall kill you," jstruck the doctor several heavy blows Wills built the Tabernacle, ivhich cc 1 S-IOO.OOO. The amount of his jtulgine is the unpaid balance. Thesaleissu 7 ject to a mortgage of Russell Snge. The51>od7 in si Trunk. 1 El Paso, Tex... Feb. 18?It isrumc 3 ed on the streets here that the body the missing lawyer, E. X. llouquil i has been found in a trunk at Las V - gas, X. A!., which had been shlppi from here. The trunk remained it! tl T depot uncalled for until the order < 1 the body attracted attention, when 11 t fit r\ 1r ii'ufj ?? v> s\ f K a fAmnii 11UUA ? rtO CliiU ti-ic iULLiail found. liouquillo's son states that ti family received a letter saying the bcc had been shipped from Albuquerqu but he did not give the writers nam I " : I Mptt rays iiie Freipi. i A rREAT OEFEB. THAT MAY NOT AGAI> 4 iRepeated, so do not delay, 1 4 "Strike While tee Iron is Hot." ; a Write for Catalocna now. and sav wh: fpaper you saw this advertisement in. . | >.t2nember that I sell even-thing thai ? gees to furnishing a home?nianuiactur|ing seme things and buying others in the ?largest possible lots, which enables me tc | wipe out ail competition iHERE ARK A FEW OF MY STAR'J LING BARGAINS | A No. 7 Flat top Cooking Stove, fuii I size, ] 5x17 inch oven, lilted with 21 pieces (of ware, delivered at your own depot, if ail freight charges paid by ms, for gorily Twelve Dollars. * Again, 1 will sell you a 5 hole Cookia I Range 13x13 inch oven, 18x26 inch top, he ted with 21 pieces of ware, for THIRTEEN DOLLARS, and pay the freight to your depot. DO NOT PAY TWO PRICES FOR YOUR GOODS. I will send you a nice plush Parlor suit,' walnut frame, either in combination ori !inded, the most stylish colors for 33.50,j your jailroad station, freight paid. 1 will also sell you a uice Bedromos uit; nsisting of Bureau with glass, l higisj iad Bedstead, 1 Washstand, l (Jentre: ble, 4 cane seat chairs, l cane seat andj ck rocker all for 16.50, and pay ireigisj your depot. Or I wiil send you an elegant Bedroom [ it with large glass, full marbio top, ioij ), and pay freight^-*- ?-??j ^-^ina?w shade on soring roller % ool Emit &Se[l geanwtar day alclocK, i.ur 8 Walnut lounge, 7.00 ] gLace curtains per window, l.ooj I 1 cannot describe everything in a small! Badvertisement, but have an immense store! Scontaining 22,600 feet of lioor room, with! aware houses and factory buildings in other! gparts of Augusta, making in all the lar-l |gest business of this kind under one man-| ill LUC ovucnoiu. j* uwwz toresand warehouses are crowded with# be choicest productions of Uie best facio-I ies. My catalogue containing illustrations! f goous will no maiied if you will Kinaiy jj ay where you saw ciiij advertisoiiieui. IJ ay freight. Address, L. F. PAD8ETT, 'ropnetor Padgett's Furniture, Stove j and Garnet Store, 110-1112 liroad Street, AUGUSTA, GA.I CHILD BIRTH MADE EASY 2 *' Mothers' Friend " is a scientificallyprepared Liniment, every ingredient of recognized value and in constant use by the medical profession. These ingredients are combined in a manner hitherto unknown "MOTHERS' FRIEND" WILL DO all that is claimed for it AND MORE. It Shortens Labor, V-Lessens Pain, Diminishes Danger to of Mother and Child. Book to ''"--Mothers " mailed FREE, containing valuable information and voluntary testimonials, Sent bvexpress on receipt cf price $1.50 per Dottic BRADFIELO REGULATOR CO.. Atlanta. Qz. eCLU 11Y ALL DHUGGISTfi. UPPMAN raOS.^Propri^ont, 1 Druggists, Llppman's Block-* SAVANNA.5!. GA. 1 Mamsfiicttiivis of EN'GINES, BOILERS, COTTON SEED Oil. UACI11N EKY, and all kinds of TOBiCOO ilACHINERI, CORN AND WHEAT MILLSTURBINE WATER WHEELS, 1 SAW MILLS, 4 WITH RAPE FEED, or BELT AND VARIABLE FRICTION FEED, IMPROVED DOGS, V AND SET WORKS 'jgj AND TIMBER GUAGERS, J graduated to sixteenth of an inch ?200 to ?600: Brick Macliinery and Wood A Working Machinery a specialty. Planing Machines ?200 and upwards. fl Drying Kilns for Brick and Lumber. Every yard should have one. Plans and drawings for construction furnished, We sell the highest grade or Macnmery and at low prices. V. a BADHAM, ' v; GENERAL AGENT, COLUMBIA, S. C. Feb 19-lv. cwj HXBDB 1 W\?&i(ffS^Sf^jH^IWAH ^ c? bzrtt." 8:?2qI?V Swelling!, R^somitlim, Uiiaria, eld Chroilc UJc?r? tilt t?v? rttUtt-i all tressnest, C*unlt, yt at 5?? ? ( rTi b" I n i H < SUHES s|lNxMM| m 1q illIr'n"^CS3I"^Sm^*^hrS??SE?"5SpI?!3^ w. trial^Fo^soa, T?:ur, SciM Kml, tic., tu. iy r ^ u^> LL* A Lnc:<r? v> c ? ?v>tcai era pobontd ?s4 whew bleed 11 ta **> *ji fcn&sM ccr.'!i'.ton. <ic? to Tr.cr.itrnil ImpdixitU*. * ! [WpftC CU?W j IKr.r.MALARii , 3 t?? :y " iwnl'liMU^by^^lTOsSJTfSrTonio1 TS^TISSP^ ^ 2 0-. j ?-i^.!a, c; ?. P. P., Prickly JUk, P?k? Soot >? II f CrrjrjLsra, Lippmnu's Block, SAVA55AH, &Aj I THE LARGEST STOCK. r I ? " '} MOST SKIIJLED WORKMEN. ? Cv^> X ,-i i T> OWTf SrP PPTPTO! j Soitii Carolina Marl Warts. j F. E. HYATT, fg PROPRIETOR. Is the best place ia South Carolina 01 Southern States to secure satisfaction in American and'Italian Marble Work. AT tends of ^ __ - M Cemetery Work J I a crKV?i*l?tv fl TABLETS, ; SB HEADSTONEb,' MO N^UEN'IS, &c. Send for prices and- ull information.* F. H. HYATT3 fl April 8 ly COLUMBIA, S. C.r~ -J| f ~ ' - fl First. mass "Wnrlr i 1 ? ?? *** W WA V erv Low Prices. dl Buggies, Carriages, Road Carts, Wagoifl 3tc., Wan-anted Second to none. Inquire of nearest dealer in ticse goodaJI ur send for Catal0gue--iient30ninj? thifl l>apor. . _ it f\ 7 i r n ^ i m t> r n n /fl II U L L f r> o- A IN il I\ o BUGGY COMPANY, I Pvock Hill, S.fl