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AT TIIE TABERNACLE. I ?-? REV. DR. TALMAGE'S ELOQUENT SER-| MCN ON THE HARP AND JAVELIN, j An JEx'rtmely Vivid 'Word Picture?I'erils ] I That Can lis Avoided?Javelins cf Wit of Irony, ot Sophistry and of Diabolic Hostility. Brooklyn, May 14.?Ia his sermon this forenoon in the Brooklyn Tabernacle Rev. Dr. Talmage brought in a novel and Ywacfcical nomination that is SU2 gested by a text perhaps never befo'e chosen. The opening hymn, led by organ and cornet and joined :n by thousands of voices, was. Before Jehovah's awful throne Ye nations bow with sacred joy. The subject announced was -'Harp and Javelin," the text bein^ I Samuel, eighteenth chapter, tenth a:'.d eleventh verses: ''And David played with his hand as at other times, and there was a javelin in Saul's hand. And Saul cast the javelin, for lie said, I will smite David even io the wall with it. And David avoided out of his presence twice." What a spectale lor all a^es! Saul, a giant, and David, a dwarf. An anfortunate war balled had been composed and sucg sulogiziog p David sbove Saul. That suns threw Saul into a paroxysm of rage which brought on one of his old spells of insanity to which he had been subject. If one is disposed to some physical aiiment and he get real mad, it is very apt to Ki-inrr An r.na r.f '-no otfjir-Vs Saill IS a raving maniac, and he goes to imitating the false prophets or sibyls, who kicked gesticulated wildly when they prefgjj^sd to be foretelling events. W^9j6ver the physicians of the royal sta2* ma^ave prescribed for the disor-. dered king$^now cot, bat David prescribed music^ Haviug keyed up the harp, his fingers b6?8Ptopull the rhythm trorn the vibrating s5?fn^r~>Thram^ Thrum! No use. The king willnoTfe-" ten to t.hp. p^nuisite cadences. He lets fly a javelin expecting to pin the minstrel 10 the wall, but David dodged the weapon and kept cn. tor he was confident that he could as before, subdue Saul's bad spirit by uius:c. Again the javelin is flung, and David dodges it and departs. Wbata contrast! Roseate David with a harp and enraged Saul with a javelin. Who would not rather play the one than fling the other? But that was not ihe only time in ihe world's history that harp and javelin met. Where their birthplace was ? can not declare. It is said that the lyre was first suggested by the tight drawing of . the sinews ot a tortuise across its shell, and that the flute was first suggested by the blowing of the^wind across a bed ot reeds, and that the ratio ot musical in tervals was first suggested to Pythagoras Korn?nori An t.hp nf U y U^ vu w ?* v ?*M * ?> v? the smithy, but the harp seems tame to have dropped out of the sky and the * javelin to have been thrown up Irom the pit. The oldest stringed instrument of the world is the harp. Jubal sounded his his harp in the book of Genesis. David played many of his psalms on the ha~p while he saDg them. The captives in Babylon hung their harps on the willows. Josephus celebrated the invention ot the 10 stringed harp. Timotheus the Milesian was imprisoned ior adding the twelfth string to the harp, because too much luxury of sound mi*ht entrTfttfc* r\?w-vr\lc\ "P.irrnfion ViQT-na Sv^nt".* tish harps, Welsh harps, Irish harps have been celebrated. What an inspired triangle! Everylasting honors to Sebastian Erard, who by pedals invented called the foot as well as the hand to the harp. When the harpsicord maker for whom he worked discharged him for his genius, ^ the employer not wanting to be eclipsed * by his subon dinate, Erard suti'ered from tbe same passion of jsalohsy that threw Saui of my text into the fit during which he flung a javelin at the harpist. The harp is almost human, as you find ? when you put your fiuges on its pulse. Other instruments have louder voice and may be better for a battle charge, but what exquisite sweetness _ slumbers between the harp stringe waking at the first touch of the tips of the fingers. It can weep. It can plead. It can sooth. It can pray. The tlute is more mellow, tbe trumpet is more startling, tne organ ^ is more majestic, the cymbals are more festive,-the drum is more resounding,but tbe harp has a richness of its own and will continue its mission through all time and then take part in celestial symphonies, for St. John says he beard i? heaven the harps of God. But tbe-javelin of my text is just as old. It is about 5* feat long, with wooden handle and steel point, keen and sharp. JBut it belongs to t ie great iami -ly of death dealers and is^brother to sword and spear and bayone", and first cousin to all the implements that wound and slay. It has cut its war throu^'j the asfs. Ii ?vas old when Saul..-in the spen|y^-^v--'.oy-t, JrLec, *Q?aarpoon ?DanaT It ha3 gashed the earth with grave treccfces. lis keen tip is reaaenea with the blood v,f American wars. English wars. Gsrccan wars, Russian wars, French wars, Crusader wars ana wars of all nations and of all ages. The structure of the javelin shows what it was made for. The plowshare is sh *rp, but aimed to cut the earth In preparation for harvests. The lightning j . * rod is sharp, but aimed to disarm the lightnings and secure safety. Ttte as is sharp, cut aimed to leiiiorests ana clear the way for human habitation. The knife is sharp, but aimed to cut the bread for sustenance. But the j avelin is sharp only to open human arteries and extinguish human eyesight' and take human life and hil the earth with tae cries of orphanage and widowhood and child^ lessness. Oh, I am so glad that my text brings I . tbem so close together that we can see t \ the contrast between the harp and the javelin. The one to soothe, the other to >. fcurt; ttie one to save, tne otusr to acs > troy; the one divine, the other diabolh; one to play, the other to hurl, the lgM!gkin jL?avia;s> skillful baud, the-other in Hull's wrathlul ciutch. ilay God Heed the harp; mav God grind into dullHess the sharp edge of the javelin! H Xow what does ail this make you Hthink 01? It suggests to me music as a Hmeaicine lor physical and mental disBforders. David took hold of the musical H instrument wh:ch he best knew how to jw play and evoked from it scuuds which Sip were lor Kim; Saul's diversion and H medicament. But ycu say the treat- J rment in this case was a frilure. Why was it a failure? Saul refused to take the medicine. A wiiole apothecary shop ! of curative drugs will do nothing toward hearing your illnesses if you refuse to take the medicine. It was not tfye fault of David's prescription, but the fault oi Saui^ obstinacy. David, one of the wisest and best of all ages, stands before us in thh text administering music for nervous disorder Arv.-J 7^<lvri/3 ftUU UCiCUia; -ULL-v* U f iU was risht. 2<ius:c is the-mightiest lorce A iu all therapeuties. its results may not SBBHSa seen as suodenly as other forms of cure, A but it is just as wonderful. You will lip never know how much suSerin* and sormBBBes row music has assuaged and healed. A SaeSjf soldier in the United States army said jjm. that on the cays the regimental oaad ri'avpi! r.pjir thp hosnitals all sick and [wounded revived, asd men who were so ^rte they could not walk, before got up and went out and sat in the sunshine, and those so dispirited that they never expected to get home hegan to pack i their basir-;ge and ask about timetables i on steamboat and rail train. Theodusius. the emperor, wrathful at ] the behavior of the people of Antioch, who on some sudden provocation tore down the statuea of emperor and empress, resolved severely to punish them, ! but the bishop, iyiowins that the emperor had a group of boys sing to him vu:i5 ta'.it'ij at i,l.c tiwit, mu^uj boys a plaintive song in which the people lamented their bad behavior, and the kiog, under toe pathos of the music, ; cried out: -'The city of Antioch is forgiven.'" The rage of Achilles was assuaged by a harp." A3cleDiades swayed rebellious multitudes by a harp. After ti;e battle of Yorktown, when a musician was to sulier amputation, a>id before the days 01 a me 3 the tics, the wounded artist called for a musical instrument and los: not a not3 during the -10 minn^s nf nmnutiit/on. FilioDb Pal ma, the great musician, confronted by an ingry creditor, played so enchant-' inglv before hiai that the creditor forgave the debt and gave the deb .or 10 guineas more to appsase other creditors. An emiaent physician of olden lime contended (of course, carrying our theory too far) that all ailments of the vorld cculd bs cured by music. Tne rned'cal journals never report their recoveries by this mode. But in what twilight hour ha-s many a saint of God solaced a heartache with 'a hymn hummed or suns or played!j ^.Jerome of Prague sang while burning at the stake. Over what keys of piano or organ consolation has walked! Yea, in church ri V\r?<> noono Auor Q thhllS UUC liJkUU uao iUHUW ^/VUVU V t V4 M wmv?.v and of the worried, perplexed and agonized. While there are hvmns and tunes ready for the jubilant, there is a rich hymaolozy f >r the sutTeriag? Naomi" anu "Eventide" and "Autumn Leaves" and "Come Ye Disconsolate," and whole portfolios and librettos o> tears set to music. All the wonderful triumphs ofsursrery and all the new modes of successful treatment of physical and menial disor* ders are discussed in medical conventions and spread abroad in medical that some of the millions of souls i55titt&5,^-*sbeeD medicated by music, vocal anciinsuumeata!, let the world kuow what power there is in sweet sound, whether rolling from lip or leaping from tightened chord or ascending from ivory key. Music is a universal language. At the loot of tbe Tower of Babel language was split into fragments never to be again put together but one thin.* was not hurt, and that is music, and it is the same all the world over. Last summer in Russia at a watering place we were greeted as we entered a oreat auditorium which was filled with thousands of Russians, wh ;se language I could not understand any mo^. than they can uude.stand mine. But after the grand band had, out ot compliment to us, played our two great Atrerican airs I stepped on the platform and said to the bandmaster, "'Russian air! Russian air!" and then he tapped with his baton oa the music rack, and with a splendor and majesty of power that almost made us quail the full band poured forth their natioaal^anlhem. They ann ? ? J aerstoca our American mu3ic, auu we understood their Kussian music. It is a universal language and so good for universal cure. I should not wonder if in the day of judgment it should be found out {hat more souls have been saved by music than by preaching. I should not wonder If, out of the 144,000 ransomed souls that John foresaw before the throne of. God, at least 130,000 had been saved by sweet song. Why does nob the church on earth Lake the hint? Heaven is the greot musical center of the universe, the place of doxologies and trumpets and harps, and in preparation for that place we ought to make more of music on earth. The band of music at Waterloo plaTed the retreat of the Forty-second High I landers baek to their places, and sacred music has returned many a faltering host of God into the Christian conflict with as much determination and dash as Tennyson's "Six Hundred." Who can tell what has been accomplished by Charles Wesley's 7.000 hymns, or by the congregational' singing of his time, which could be heard two miles off? When my dear friend Dio Lewis (-gone to his rest all too soon) conducted a campaign against, drunkenness at the west, and marshaled thousands of the noblest women of the land'm that magnificent campaign, and whole neighborhoods and villages and cities shut up their grog shops, do you know the chief weapon used? It was the song: Nearer myGcd, to thee, Nearer to thee. They sang it at ths door of hundreds of liquor saloons which ha3 been open for years, and either at the first charge of the canpaign or ths second the saloon shut up. At the first verse of 'Clearer, My God, to Thee," the liquor dealers laughed; at the second verse they looked' j'50lCwP.; atjL^e third^vyfreiftr%7 %efio to cry, anil a5fths fourth verse they got down on tneir knees. You say they opened their saloons again. Ye3 3ome of them did. But it is a great thing to have hell shut up if only for a week. Give full swing to a good gospel hymn, and it would take the whole world for God! Bat when in my text I see Saui de clining this medicine of rhythm and cadence and actually hurling a javelin at the heart of .David, the harpist I bethink myself of the fact tbat sin would like to kill sacred music. We are not told what tune David was playing on the harp that day, but from the character of the man we know it was nr>t a crazy madrigal or a senseless ditty, or a sweep of sirings suggestive of the melodrama, but elevated music, God given music, inspired music, reli?iou3 music, a whole heaven of it encamped under a harp string. Xo wonder that wicked i? i. ?3 :i. 1 ?4. ii,? oaui uaieu it auu ujuiu u'ji <tuiuc tuc sound and with all hi? might hu;led an iDStruiaeul ol death at it. I know there are styles of music that sin admires, and you hear it as you pass the casmo or the dance ball, and the dev il has stolen most of the fiddles, though I am glad the Oie Bulls have snatched up tbe charmed striags from their desecration: but it is a fact that sin ha3 a javelin for sacred sounds. In many churches the javelin of criticism has killed the v n r. 1 .it music, laveim nung iroixi organ iuil <jr irom adjoining pew ol the supersensitive Saul's javelin aimed at David's harp. Thousands of people so afraid they may not sing scientifically t:iey will not sing at all or sing with such low tone t.iat no one hears them. In many a church'the javelin of criticism bas crippled the harp ol worship. If satan could silence all the Sunday school songs and the hymns of Christian worship Iw would gain his greatest I fifhip.vmpnr. * When t.h?? millennial son<r ! shall rise (and it is bein^ made ready), there will oe such a roll of voices, such a concentrated power of strinzs and wind instruments, such majesty, such unanimity, such continental ana hemisj pheric and planetary acclamation thai it [ will be impossible to know where earth ] I steps and heaven begins. Roll on. roll I in, roll up. thou millennial harmony! See also in my subject a rejected opj poriimity of revenge. Why did not Dai v:d pick up Saul's javelin and hurl it back again? David had a skillful arm. ue aemonsLraieu uu acumer wcasiuu he could wield a sling, and he coald have easily picked up that javelin, aimed it at Saut, the would be assassin, and left the foaming and demented monster as lifeless under the javelin as he had left Goliath under a sling. Oh, David now j is your chance. Xo, no. Men and wo- | men with power of tonsus or pen or I: band to reoly to an embittered antagonist, better imitate David. Better imitate David an-i let the javelin lie at your feet and keep the harp in your hand. Do not strike back. Dji n<;t plav the game of tit for tat. Gibbon, in his history, tells ot D'ljizet, the great Moslem general, vho was brought a captive to the tent of Timur. Ee had attempted the massacre of Timur and his men. Timur said to him '-Had you vanquished u?, I am not ignorant nF fata rnn rocorrp.] for TTIV VI CliV ?c?t.V ?r J --- ...J 3clf aca mv troops, but I disdain to retaliate. Your life and houor a-e secure aud I shall express my gratitude to U-od by mv clemency to nan." Beaatitul! Revenue on Christian's tongue or p>ni or hand is map: and more damage to the one' who employs it than the "me against whom it Is employed. What! A javelin hurled at you and fallen at your feel and you not hu-1 it back a?*ta? Yes. I have tried the plan. I learned it from m.y father and have practiced it all my life, and it works well, and by the help of God and lavehns not picked up I have conquered all my toes and preached funeral sermons in honor of most of them. The best thin* you can do with a jav ellu hurled at you is to let it l'e where it dropped or hang it up in your museum as a curiosity. The deepest wound made by a javelin is not, by the sharp edge, but a; the dull end ot the handle to h;m who wields it. I leave it lo you to say which got. the best of that fight in the palace?Saul or David. See also in my subject that tb* fact that a man sometimes dodges is not against his conrage. My text says that when Saul assailed him "David avoided out of his presence twice"?that is. when the javelin was llung he stepped out of its direction or bent this way or tnat?in other words, he dodged. But. all those who have read the life ot David know that he was not lacking in prowess. David had faults, but cowardice tupc nnt. nraP nf t.hftm Whan David, who was, I guess, about 4y2 feet high, went out to meet the giant, who was, 1 guess, about ten feet fegh, itwas a big undertaking and the lneqoaTIWes-^r-^e' great that it struck the giant's idea of the ludicrous, and he sucgested to the little fellow tbat ha would make-a fine dinner for a buzzard or a jackal. "Come to me, and I will give thy flesh unto the fowls of the air and to the beasts of the nelcl." AVhen David went out to meet that giant and conquered him. he demonstrated, as he did on other occasions, his couraee. .But I am so glad that when Saul flung that javelin, David dodged it, or the chief work of his life would never have been done. What a Kmmam rr? K y-v T r\ f/% n ~ Q . 1CSSUU LUIS iS l/U liiiuac WUU gu iui'U uav less danger and expose their lives or their reputations or their usefulness unnecessarily. When duty demands, go ahead, though all earth and hell oppose. Dodge not one inch from the right position. But when nothiDsr is involved, step back or step aside. Why stand in the way of perils that you can avoid ? Go not into quixotic battles to light windmills. You will be of more use to the world and the ^hnrnh as an antive Christian man than as a- target for javelms. There are Christians always in a light. If they go into churches they Gght there.. If they go into presbyteries or conferences or consociations they fight there. My advice to you is, it anything is to be gained for God or the truth, stand out of the way of the javelins. I Samuel xviii, ii, "David avoided out of his presence twice." Washington was as mighty in his retreats as in his advances. His army would several times have been destroyed if he had not dodged. He dodged on Long Island, he dodged ou New Jersey heights. Lincoln on his way to inauguration at Washington was waited for by asssassins, but he took another train and dodged the despera- , does. We have high example of the J fact that sometimes a man will serve God best by disappearing from this or that piace, this or that environment. A mob brought Christ to the top of the rocks back of Nazareth. They did not like his preaching, and they propose to hurl- him down the precipice. JBut while they were getting ready for the massacre Christ daned into the crowd and amid the confusion escaped to Capernaum and continued exercising devils and cooling fevers and iilling fishnets and giving neaitny circulation of blood to paralysis and curing dementia and turning corpses into living men and women and doing his chief work. What a good thing he dodged the crowd on the rocks back of Nazareth! Likewise at Jerusalem one daj, while he was sauntering up and down. in Solomon's porch waiting for an opportunity to say kind words or do a useful deeu, the people proposed to pay him for bis self sacrifices by stoning him to death, bat the record is, "He escaped out of their hands." See also in my subject tbe unreason I able aUit&fe--ofy^yeIiii towar<i harp. Whajfhad that harp fe'TJSVia'^ band uoue to the javelin in Saul's hand? Had the vibrating strings of the one hurt the keen edge of the other? {Was there an old grudge between the two i'amiiies of sweet sound and sharp cut? Hfid the triangled ever insulted the 'polished shaft? Why the deadly aim of the detroyiner weapon against the instrument of soothing, calming, healing sound? Well, I will answer that if you will'tell me why the hostility of so many to the gospel, why the virulent attack against Christian religion, whv the ancrrv antipathy of so many to tbe most genial, most inviting, most salutatory influence under all the heavens V * Why . will men give their lives to writing and speaking and warring against Christ and the gospel? Why the javelin of the world's hatred and | r-^.ge against the harp of heavenly love ? You know and I Kn ?w men who get wrathf ully red in the face and foaming at the mouth, and use the gesture of the clinched fist, and put down their feet vrith indignant emphasis, and invoke all sarcasm and irony and vituperation and scorn and SDite at the Chris tiaa religion. What lias the Christian religion done that it should be so assailed? Whom hath it bitten and left with hydrophobiac virus in their veins that it should sometimes be chased as though it were a maddened canine? To head off and trip up and push down and corner our religion was the dominant thought in the life of David Hume and Voltaire and Shaftesbury.| and even the Earl of Rochester until one day in a princely house in which they blasphemously put God on trial, aaa ine JCjdii 01 nocaebier was tut; attorney against God and religion and received the applause of *he whole company, when ^suddenly the earl was struck under conviction and crien: "Good God, that man who walks uprightly, who sees the wonderful works of God and has the uses of his senses and reason, should use them in defying his Creator! 1 wish I had been a crawling leper in a ditch rather than have acted toward God as I have done." Javelin of wit, javelin of irony, javelin of sf>nrrilit.v. iavp.lin of sonhist.rv. javelin of human and diabolical hostility, have been flying for hundreds of years and are flying now. But aimed at what? At sometkingtbat has come to devastate ';he world? At something that slays nations? At something that would maul and trample under foot and excruciate and cruch the human race? Xo, aimed at the gospel harp?harp on which prophets played with somewhat lingering and uncertain fingers, but harp on which apostles nlaved with sublime certaintv. and martyrs played while their lingers were on fire. Harp that was dripping with the blood of the Christ, out of whose heart-strings the harp was chorded and from whose dying groan the strings were keyed. Oil,gospel ham! All thy j nerves a-treQible with st >ri-s of self-j sacrilj'-e. Ham thrummed by flog^rs Long a^o turned to dust. Harp that made heaven lis'eu and will yet m*ke ail tn<j earth hv+r. Harp - hat soundeu pardon to my sini'ul soul and pence over the grave v. here my dead sleep. iidrp that will lead the cbarr. of the bio.id vvnih-d throng redeemed around the throne. M-?v a javelin si iy be fore i ilinir a j-iVt-lia at that. Ilarp which it seems almost too sacred for me to.touch, and so I call d >wn from their triroaes t'aose who usea to linger it and ask them to toner, it now. "Come do.vn, William Cosper. and run your fjeeers over the strings of this harp." lie says, "I will." and he plays: There is a fountain filled with blood. Drawn from liimiiiiuei's veins. ' 'Come down, Charles Wesley, and touch the strings.'" IIj say?, '*1 will," and he plays: Jesus, lover of my soul. Let me to thy bosom fly. "Come down, Augustus Toplady, and s:.veep } oar fingers across th-s gospel harp." lie says, liI will," and he plays: Rock of Aires, cleft for me, Let me hide myself in thee. "Come d^vvn. Isaac Watts, and take this harp." lie s-tys, ''I will," and he plays: Alas, and did my Saviour bleed, And did my Sovereign die? "P. P. l>iiss, come down and thrum this srospei harp." He sav>\ 4;I will," and tie plays: Halleluiah, 'tis done, 1 believe oa tlie Son. Ineffable harp^ Transporting harp! Harp of ear.h! Il.trp of heaven! Harp saintly and seraphic! Ilarp of God! CKi, I like the idea of the old'monument in 'he ancient church at Ullard. near Kiik.muy, Ireland. The sculpture on tuat monument, though chiseled mo.e tnan l.OUO \ears?s?o, as appropriate today ;rs then, the sculpture r?-presenrin^ a haro upon a cross. That is where I hang it now; that is where you h;;d better han<r it. Let the javelin be torcver buried, the sharp aW r'Ci rl. .urn hi'* o n rr t-H h*vrr\ i! ^ n fhc CUi;o w >1' u, u u u C4>u ucu p uyva uav cross. And now upon our souls let the harps of heaven rain music, and as when the sun's rays fall aslant in Switzerland at the appro^'OfTHsiQtide, aod the shepherd anions the Alpsp^rstite ..horn to hisiips aud blows a blast an<T~gyYs. I ' Glory '03 to God," and all the shepherds oa the Alpine heights or down iu the deep valleys respond wifh other blast or horns, sayiner, "Giory be to God," and then air tli3 sinpherds uncover their heads and kneel in worship, and after a f.'W moments of silence some shepherd rises from his knees and blows another olast of the horn and siys. "Thanks be to God," and all through the mountains the re sponse comes from other shepherds, ' Thanks le to GjrJ,''so this moment j let all the valleys-of e*rth respond to the hills of heaven with sounds of glory aud thanks, and It be harp of earthly worship to harp of heavenly worship, and the words of St. John in the Apocalypse be i'ultilled, "1 heaid a voice from h'euvea as tne voice of many waters and as> the voice of a great thunder, and 1 heard the voioe of harpers harping with their harps." A .Slick lineal. Spaktanbukq, S. C., May 17.? Some time aio a ff-intieman by the * * ?" t i? name or w. ii. irwin cams nere nuia Atlanta and too.* charge ot Spartanburg's little bucket shop, lie crot a number of young men lo dealing with him and did a thnviug business. Alter a vhile they noticed that in their speculation they steadily lost and never won, so they suspected something crooked and determined to lay "a trap for the manipulator. One Sit the young saou went to Irwi n and telling him that he was on to his game, made the proposition that they go into tie business of dcfiaudin^ the patrons of the shop together. The young man was to lurnish the suckers and Irwin was to do iLe rest. Irwin agreed and there was where be lost his bonanza. The young man uot a friend to put up $10 on futures. Irwla at once gave frs pseudo-partaer $5 and kept the other. He did cot make an? effort to speculate; of course ke wis exp.sedond made to give up as much as he bad ol his ill gotten gain. The pressure was beconusg too great ou him, and Saturday night he departed for climes unknown, leaving behind some poorer bu1 wiser \0un2 speculators. The scheme he worked was this: lu his shop he would post fictitous reports o( the markets such as would cause lhs patrons ulwa}S to lose. After a 'jhile the discrepancy between bis reports and those iu the daily papers was noticed, and this led to the. detection of his rascality*. He did an ex'.en.-ive business for some time before he was caught, a~:d it is said teat some of the young men lost rather heavily. At any rate Irwin left Spartanburg several hundred dollars ahead In the game.? Columbia Register. An Alab.ima JFtud* Birmingham, ^Ja., May 17.?A political teud of seven years' standing came to pistols and shotguns at Marion. J. B. CocKe is one of the best known black celt politicjajisrTn-Alabama, coming to the tfout in reconstruction times and bavin* held several cfikes since.' 13. M. Huey w?ts also very prominent :n Perry county, having been state senator. Seven years aiio Cocke wanted to be postmaster and Ilury opposed him. Cocke abased lum r?undly and Iluey took it. Since then the men i-ave belonged to opposing factions in the county, and Cocke has been unfortunate in his candidates. Huey rep-esents one of the commercial agencies and Cocke accused him of making reporLs that bur- his bu-ine-M. Last Muucay Cocke went to Iluey's office and curscd him like a do_\ and Iluey claims drew a irsto! on him. Iluey 3!;mmo:2ed his sous to Marion and Cocke passed by a storte where Edwin Huey was at the windor. X(.t a word parsed, but before Cocke 20t ins pistol OUL VUUDir JtlUcJY UilU UiLU uv; uuies with djuamite cartridges. lV.r.ng Beo Huey rushed from his father's cfike and shot h!ni with bucxshM irom a shotgun. Huey, senior, also rushed up p.nd shot Cocke twice. Cock} fell at the rirsi. dre, but got '.is pistol out and iirsd once aimlessly. (Jocko L dangerously wounded in the small or the back, lie says the attack was unexpected. It 's said it is not believed that he c?.n live, but if he i/els up the fight will be re Dewed. Tl:o Iliilroad Ca^ei*. Charleston, S. C. May 10.?The caues of the liichmoDd and Danv;lle T> jI'k.qH s iictcm in '^nnlS unrl theSouth Carolina Railroad, were before Col. J.E. Hagocd today, as court referee, to take testimony thereon. Tnesc issues arose .in May, 1392, when the State board oi equalization assessed the properties of these roads for taxation. The roads refusing to pay the assessment and suppo^iLig that executions would issue lor their cdlecticn, came before the United States Court iri Charleston, and prayed for writs of 'injunction which wvre granted, until a hearing could be had en merits. Col. J. E. Hagood, clerk of the United States Court, was appointed referee to take testimony as to the value of the prop erty and equity of the assessments. Tlie railroads were given until June io take testimony, and the State unt'I August. :ind the railroads azam in September. Then, when all the testimony, pro and con, is in, the argument as to the validity of the assessments will be heard. Counsel engaged today wer;' Attorney Gent-ral D. A. Towns?nd, and Lord ?fc Burke for the State. For the railroads ex-Judge Cothrao, Mitchel; & Smith, and Mr. Jos. W. Barnwell. Tne roads' I position is tha^they have be*n unequally assessed. Tne State's the reverse of the proposition.?Sun. WHO WILL THEY BE? | \ ! TRYING TO FORETELL THE NEXT j STATE CAMPAIGN i Wli \Vi:l i>o ' h'-i Candidate** ct the Vari- j cm .factions?Soma Jfc'r0,;iiOotKications j onihe Sabj.c*?Ti!'!ii^n Spokfuof for a Third T>r:n, Columbia, May 14?Ti|pe are a great many people who believe in spirit rapping? and thai sort of thing. The little Piiinubet'e. which i3 supposed to have direct communication with spirit- { land, is somewhat out of fashion just j now. It was, however, brought out the other evening for the express pur-! Doss of having a talk about the politi-1 eiil j-ituaUon. The lirst qu^s'ion asked was: "Who aretne lieiormers going to nominate for Governor next year? The Mtle hociroto | conrii. tirriJ hafnrp fhf>v began to trace out the name of the standard-bearer o; the powers that be. Then it went up and down, up and down until a stop was made. What is it? asktd thosr around, and all agreed that it read ''Tillman." "Whoare the Conservatives going to name?" was the next inquiry. Planchette took even a longer time, and then wrote rather clearly: "Longtime, big changes, wait. "Xo amouot of coaxing would bring forth any other reply, aad it seemed evident that the spirits were not inclined to give away the situation for some time to come. Then someone suggested that Planehette might name the nominee for L'.cU'.enaric Governor on the Reform imV-l-vi- Thrpft different times it tried to give the nam?, bat all that could be made out of the spirit writing was "Wylie" or"ma>i," or something that seamed to have no special significance on tne situation. Plunchstte posilivelv declined to commit itself on the names of any 01 the Conservative candidates. ' Who will make the lightV" someone asked. ' between Butler and Tillman, possibly Alliance." The fact of the matter if. Piauchette was not accustomed to political discussions; love affairs and trilies v;ere more in enter, ami a3 it seemed anxious to Drancil ou ?t? 115 iiufluiai gi-'uau ;ie ladies were given L5* charge of the novel 0evic^'. The fmomentary political pointers caused inquiry to be made as to the sayings. While there seems to be a desire oq the part of some of the more enthusiastic partisans or' the lteform party to renominate Govt-rror Tillman, it is regarded as altogether improbable bj those recognized to be in authority. They explain that the spasmodic call for the usual renominution of Goverror Tiilman is because whenever an impor taut trouble arises, such as the railruad Crises, and prompt action is needed, HiCiC <1IC ILU-LiJ U_> Wiu-tuv-irvvi i*j;/ roanng-one-idea Tiilmanites who believe i nat nisJExcellency is the only man ever born to lead the party out of the woods. They realize that the Governor is responsible lor many of the peculiar situations, and that he is about the only man who knows the combination by vshch the trouble can be prevented from "inj uring the movement." There area great many ot' Governor Tillman's frienas who wouid prefer to see bim remain here and do not care a snap about his going to the Unittd States senate. That brings up the question of the coming election* for the Senate. The prevailing opinion here is that unless something very unexpected happens the real and recognized lizht of the campaign of 1S'J4 will be between M. C. J Sutler and B. 11. Tillman. All other considerations will be purely incidental and of secondary as compared with the contest between the rivals rrom Edgelield. The fact that the element opposed to the existing conditions is not doing any active work is by no means iLdicative that the Anti-Administration sentiment is not being developed, and it is to-day honestiy believed to be stronger than ever before. It is manifesting itself on all sides, and especially in the i'iedmont section of the State. The reports from there are that the dispensary law, combined with otber consider: ations, has done more to injure the cause than anything since the farmers got in control. The "Reformers" realizing that they f-hA c-oHrflo olalrduHu l?P0riT"l ql c iii iuu iDcx\jIkjx\j c4<l v/ uilvutaj wv ^ ??? ning to speculate oil the chances ot,the various possibilities. So far as the situation is reflected in the mirror at the State Capital, there caa be no doubt tuat Secretary of State J. E. Tindal and Ltate Senator John Gary Evans are in the lead among: the stal wart "Reformers." It is suggested that Evans is to be the candidate of Irby & Co, and the mere suspicion of that fact has already hurt him to some extent, as there is an element that says "Irby can no longer bo^s the Reform movement and we will show him that he can't." In conversation i suggested Dr. W. T. C. Bates, State Treasurer, and the party with whom I wa? speaking promptly replied: "He's too conservative." Tnere was a very general feeling - -Uiat M. L. Donaldson" and George \V. he two Drominent figures in the next, carapa&o. There seems to be some difficulty mHie minds of the political players \vher?-i^ place them the preparatory to the op6?\n?r ?f the contt-st. Some suggest thaVlQoaai4" son will be run as an Alliancec^di date for Governor, and others that Sbefr will be agreed upon as a compromise candidate and that he will be tne only Gubernatorial candidate next year. Such au id?a is by no mean3 uncommon. Donaldson is going to have a "rough and stumpy roao," because he is not truckling after Tillman. That's certain. The fight is on and the first test is liable to be made in July at the an nuul meeting ot the Alliance. Whether Mr Donaldson is to be candidate tor reelection to the presidency or not is not known, but in case he is a candidate, although the Alliance boasts of the fact that it is not a political organization, the indications are that politics Will very largely enter into the election. It has evv'n been suggested that Mr. Donaldson has never seemed to realize the significance of his election. Said one Alliance man: ''Mr. Donaldson was elected directlv against the wishes of Irby & Co, or the machine, and he has never seemed to realize the fact" It will be interesting to watch the proceedings of the next session of the .State Partners' Alliance?News and Courier. Another Lynching;. Columbia, S, C., May 15.?Yesterday rccrrjiDgttiere reached the city from tne upper part cf this county near the s-ershiV.v line a gentleman who tells the nnry of another fiendish assault comblitteu by ayoune: negro, and theprobawe lynching of tu? criminal. The crime Kas committed Friday in the ToogO)(ioo neighborhood, now known as I West Wateree. It is eighteen miles 1 ~ *-? ? re * U^ ^ V?,1K, iromtms ciry, iar ou m wr aum* lime, a goail distance from any railroad line. It" is near the residence of Daniel Rabun, just on this side of the county line. The victim of the crime was the thirteen-year-old daughter of Mr. Green Brown, and the scoundrel who assaulted her is a young negro named Boozer M;ijor. lie is about seventeen \ ears of age. He managed to escape in the woods before the crime had been general^ known. A pdrty of men went out in search of him, and yesterday morning, so The State's informantsays, he was captured and confessed fV>Q /li-imo TMc nonMomari Ipfr. hpfnrp he heard what became of the maD. The last seen of the party which had him in eharcre was when they disappeared in 'the woods towards the Keishaw line. The fellow has not v ^ * I- - o , J ueen orougnt to me juicuiauu jan anu here is no report of him having teen arried to the Kershaw jail?State. A GEORGIA SCANDAL. O -ie ot ilie Judges of tbe State Supreme ( Court Dlvoicid from h:s Wife. ; bioux Falls, S. D , May 16 ?Judge H. D. I). Twiggs, of Augusta, Ga. lor ^ eig!;t years a JuJsiP- on the Supreme fiecc'i and prominent in politic?, has I j been divorced ircm Lucie E. Twiggs, a i lead.ng society woman of Augusta, Ga, ; and a le'auve of Senator John B. Gordon. of Gcr-roia. The case was brought iu Brookings, a small town near here, ( o avoid publicity. Airs Twiggs made < answer to the suit to mak? the decree bindjuc, but no serious light was made j lue CdS". JX uuu'jruuiiu was uiyeu into ihe custody ot the mother. The | marriage occurred in May, 18G1. and in : 1883 Mrs Twiggs, unable to live happily ' with ber Susband, deserted him. JTive ' childrcu were born of the union. the sequel to the story. Chattanooga. May 16.?Chattanooua iurnishes tLe second chapter or communion of the above story. Shortly aiter Geo. Mull opered the Stanton IIouss a remarkably liaudscnie, stvlisnly aiiired lady reyiaiered here. Stie was accompanied by a brkhifaced lad, probably 5 y cars ot ase. The quests of the hotel woudered who the ladj could I 1~ ^ 1' ft f AM cVl /V.t7Ap f IvA An*l?tT (JC, illlli IMC iCS'ClCSl OJUmu tut (UU{I "Mis (J. E. Harrisou aud son, Char-' lest.on, 6. (J." C^aiet and modest, she kepi ber a flans 10 herseil, not even makicg a coulidant among the ladies in me handsome bote). The boy was up 10 his part and knew absolutely nothing when oilier boys ot bis age, with whom he played about the spacious grounds, asked questions about his former home or wondered what had brought him acd his mother to Chattanooga. Several weeks rolled on. Mrs Harrisou kept to her own apartments, coming ont only to meals and only once or twice ventured to the business centre of the city on shopping expeditions. Not even Landlord Mull kuew wny she remained here so long. She was a most satisfac tor}'guesi, uavuigaaweu suite unuuuis and giving absolutely no trouble to any oue, cot evta the numerous servants of the hotel. At noon yesterday the register had an eniry which read: " H. D. D. Twiggs, of Georgia." He sat with the lady and boy at tinner, and after the dining room closed the head waiter, Ed Irvine, was taken into tbeir confidence. He went po?t. haste for a minister, and iira few minute. returned witb tbe liev. J. VV. Armstrong, ya?!rr Grace Memorial Church, in tbe parlors of L!ic ^otel tbey were mads one, onlv the attaches aud a few guests being aware of the proceedings. Judgf: Twiggs is a distinguished looking :i-an, tall and upright, and probably twenty years the senior of the beautiful bride. He is well known to members oi the Chattanooga Bar, having once represented btt'oie a iiamilton County Court the defendant in a celebrated murder case. By reputation he is known . over the entire South as a brilliant lawytr, having been, as stated in tbe press dispatches, a Jut!ge oa Georgia's Supreme Bscch, aud has been in jearo past very prominent in that Stale's politics. The news oi his marriage on the very [iUC.b ui iuc giiiLLHu^ ui uivuioc in Si-uth Dakota was a great surprise at the Judge's* old heme in .Augusta, Ga. Tiie happy coujle will remain in Chattanooga several days.?$sews aud Cuurier. Bank Officer Suicides. Savannah, Ga., May 18?A special to the Horning: News from Brunswick, Ga., says M. Ulliuan, president of the Ogle'hrope National Bank, committed suicide in the toilet room of the bank this morning. Up to this time he was considered one of the wealthiest men in tJ-vio ouotinTi li&inop nroQi^CTit lUig g( k.M iV. K? K/ WA.U^ j^A. VW*V4\ Uw of trie Ogkthrope bank he was president of the Brunswick Brewing and Ice Company and a line of river steamers and was a large stockholder in various enterprises. President Burbage of the First National Bank called at the Oglethrcps Bank shortly after opening and requested Uilman to repay a loan made tne day before. "All right; wait a moment," said Uilman, steppiDg into the toilet room. A moment later .tsuroage nearu a report ana unman was found sitting upright with a bullet hole in the centre of his forehead. In his pockets were found an ounce bottle of laudanum and an unsigned bono drawn to protect a large depositor who bad demanded his money the day before. The supposition is that Ullman had been crazed by financial troubles and his inability to protect his friends drove him to suicide. Tbe news spread rapidly and the depositors started a run. In a few minutes the Oglethrope National Bank closed its dcors, followed almost immediately by the First National. A slight run commenced on the Brunswick State Bank, but it met all demands. Mayer & Ullman, wholesale grocers, have closed temporarily. The firm is composed of Sam Mayer and M. Ulimau. The Brunswick brewery and Brunswick cotton factory will also close-temporarily. Eumois affecting the two banks had been in circulation for several days. These became public after the tragedy, causing the runs. Odethrope was capitalized at 3150,000 at.d the First National Bank at S2(J0,000. The officers of both banks say that all claims will be paid in fulL >-uii?ioess_ 5iii y^-snner 10 any great, extent. - \ The Negro Democrats* Washington, May 14?Tbe National Negro Democratic League has, through its president, C. H. J. Taylor, of Kansas, Secretary H. C. Smith, of Alaoama, ana Cbaieman of the Executive Committee Ii. C. C. Astwooa, of Louisiana, addressed a leuer to President Cleveland upon a question seriously affecting the case of "negro Democracy in this country." Afcer criticising the Republican party for its treatment of the negro, the letter says that the League stood with the Democratic party when it was routed in 1888, and these who had received recognition were promptly chastised and summarily dismissed by the succussful Republicans. In the list campain the negro Democrat "in the face of insults and injuries of every kind, with his voice, his pen and his best energies, proclaimed for Grover Cleveland and reform. Xegro Democracy then became a positive feature of the body politic of the nation." The letter recites that the League is Dlaced in a false light before i he country because of the failure so f.;r tort cognize its mecnbers in the distribution ot patronage, and ask the President if the places held by colored Republicans, wt o have been and are now hostile! to the League and the party with which it is identified, are to remain longer in the hand* of political enemies. To correct this abuse and to prove to the country that the Democratic party o 5 tKa norrrrt oo trfill QO f.A fA 13 LI UC 11/ \J uc i-iv. glU, UiJ TT V4- V*vJ VV * V deem pledges maue during the campaign, the League asks that speedy recognition be given by tne Preslde-d to negro Democrats and the places nowheld by negro Republicans be given to the League. That Precedent. Greenville,"May 15? In an interview to-day, Judge Cothran stated that he Mm pi/ examined the witnesses and made the arc-:mentintheBland-Clisby case in Edgefield. 'Solicitor Bonham drew the indictment, summoned the witnesses, and then turned the case over to Judge Cothran.?State. Another Outrage. Greenville, May 15.?A. negro wo' ./-J Uin/lmAnf An IQHU WSS uaua^cu ucai X Itumvuu uu Saturday night. Her assailant was a negro. The colored people of that section are hunting the man, and if found tney will lynciThiai.?State. # ' \ } i * J&, . w darungt:nis delighted. rhe Town Goes Wild Orer tlie Victory of ^ the Guards In Columbia. Darlington, May 18.?The Darlington Guards, winners of the first prize at the Columbia carnival yester lay, and by virtue of this victory holders of the" military championship of the State, came marchine jome with rrlor? onH cpollonf ctan " 1 U gMHUUW Kf l.vy. To say that Darlington looks with pride unon this victory inadequately expresses what is the unanimous and enthusiastic opinion of the triumph. The Darlington Guards have entered four military contests and have carried off four first prizes, but this last is the greatest victory of them all. This is true in more ways than one and is owing as much to the excellence oi their drill as to the skill of their opponents. The news of the victory of the Darlington Guards was telegraphed ahead and the entire town was stirred with pride and the people were enthusiastic in giving vent to their feelings. The company could not return on the ex- f cursion train last night and missed the inspiring welcome prepared for them. A very large crowd had gone to the statiou 10 meet tnem ana tne Dooming of cannon and the music of brass bands mingled with inspiring cheer after cheer was beard as the long, shrill echoes of the whistle :eased and :he train stopped. These who saw the drill will know j bow well the honors of the day were , won, for the coolness aDd nerve of the * men, the accuracy and precision of their movements, and the dash and. spirit of the fight they made are additional hnnnrs nf an occasion of iust pride to the Guard? and their lriends. The tumultous and oft-repeated ap- piause given the Darlington Guards by the spectators bears testimony to this fact, when it is known that they were the justly honored recipients of more than twice the applause given all the other companies combined. These., facts and the unanimous verdict of tuC judges not only show that our boys made a record of which we should be proud, but shows further that they competed as men and soldiers should, and their victory, like their Sght, "was without fear and above reproach." The first prize to the Darlington Guards, the seeond prize in the individual contest to Sergt E.-R. Cox, of the same command, are honors enough and speak for themselves. Last night in Columbia the Guards were serenaded and in response to the calls Captain Thompson, who can make a speech 2S well as he can drill a company, made most appropriate remarks. At home today Capt' Thompson and his been surrounded by friends eager to hear ~*t?e_stoiy of the glory" of the men who woiT tftexlay. Arrangements are now being m&Je... to jrive the grandest military.reception in the history of Darlington, and an entertainment befiting the honors of the occasion will very soon be tendered the victorious Darliugton Guards. The Guards in their recollections of tbis victory will always remember with peculiar pleasure the ma&ly and chivalrous congratulatians extended them by , their comrades-in-arms, the Gordon Rifles and the Lee Light Infantry. Devastated by "Water. Washington, May 17.?News from the flood in Ohio and Pennsylvania con- 3 tiaue to come in; the following ltem3 are the most important: Meadvilie. Pa., is suffering the worst inundation in its history. People are ] taken from second stories of houses in boats. New Castle, Pa., is having a 3 similar experience. Th?i furnace factories and mills in both places are flooded and stopped. Erie, Pa., is suffering heavily and reports one case of drown- 1 ing. The Lake Shore Haiiroad docks at Ashtabula, Ohio, are under sis feet ot water. Four feet of water is in the Union depot at Meadvilie, Pa. A 4. luuu^aw^u, vuiu, ULic u;g ucpartment was busy all night and this ] morning rescuing people in boats. The American tube and iron company is un- : der water and it is expected that tonight . the Brown Bonnell Iron company's mill will be inundated. Titusville, Pa., is again visited by, a destructive flood, causing great distress . to poor families and entailing great loss of property. Oil Creek is rising sis inches an hour. The conditions are ve ry siiuiuir i,u tuuac ut acvciai jrcaio &xu when a fire broke oat amoiig the flooded oil refineries. Great dread is now felt lest fire may start. ..Businsss is entirely suspended and " and railroad service stopped. All the streams in Western Pennsylvania are : full or overflowing:. Much the same sjate ol a ft airs prevails In the lake re- . gions of Canada where forty eight hours of rain has fallen. St. Catharine. Out., is inundated. \ xvojcara ior-aanaay, ? Chicack), May 18.?The directors of the World's Columbian Exposition decided today to abrogote their contract < with Congress by which they bound themselves to close the fair on Sunday in consideration of an appropriation of S2,500,000. The money will, b8 re- i turned to the government and hereafter the fair will be opened Suncfays. This course was decided upon at a j special meeting of the directory this afternoon. Most of the directors were dissatisfied with the plan adopted at their last meeting by which it was proposed to open the grounds Sundays, while closing all buildings containing ^x&ibits. Today's action was praetically u^Dimous, but two directors out of tMrtv^iil^ing against the propositioa. "By the tei^ofthe resolution adopted today the. ,machiSt^O^1 be closed down on Sunday, but ine?3?y | other respect the fair will be open in alf * departmentr the same as on secular days. But ?1,929,120 of the appropriation made by Congress has been turned over to the exposition company, and this amount is to be returned to the national Treasury after the debts of the exposition have teen paid. A rule embodying these pirn's will be submitted to the National Comm.is- < sion for approval. In any <-vent, it is the evident purpose of the local directors to open the fair Sundays even at the expense of a rupture with the national oody. the Tro?t?. Columbia, S. C.. May 14.?Governor Knute Nelson of Minnesota has written a letter to Governor TillmaD, in which he says that a majority of,the Govenors of the different States favor Chicago as the plice of meeting of the conveationfor fighting the Interstate Coal < Columbinationas'well as other trusts, which Governor NelsoB inaugurated. Governor Nelson announced th*t the conference will be held at Cential Music Hall, Chicago', on the 5th and 6Lh days of June. Indication point to a large gathering. Governor Tillman says that as a large number of representative South Carolinians will visit tha"Fair hf> wnnlri hp clad is thev WOUki notify him stating whether they would be willing to serve for South Carolina Fianes ?nd Organ*. Where to buy Pianos and Organs < representing the world's greatest ma- , kers. Steinway & Sons Pianos, Mathushek Pianos, Mason & Hamlin Pi anos, Steriin Pianos, Mason and Hamlin Organs, Sterling Organs. Lowest prices always. Easiest terms possible. | All freight paid. Complete outfit free. pive years guarantee. One price to all. Square dealing:, Mouey saved. We do not ask big prices as many : dealers do, and then come down. Our motto* One price to all and that the 1 rtm/iof WTo f>Kin An fiPfAAn /?dno' f? <o 1 IUYYCCU. 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