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w: g&c: ? P W-* At iiifc iABkMaCLF. i i I REV. L?R. TALMAGE PREACHES UPON "THE 3AK= -iRM OF GODGod. did sot so Much *? Lift a FXnz?-r to Br'ng forth 1.1th'? \ Srupendous I'ndert*klDg?N?-ed "f Bare Arms*. Brooklyn, Jan: 21?Singularly aDprt>pri?:t Hue' impretsive was the old got-p;! t'ja-n as it ws? snD* tbis morning bv ibe thousandsoi Brooklyn TaberLacled, led ou by cornet aod orsan: Arm of the Lord, awake! awaked! Put on thy strength, the nations shake. Rt-v. Dr. Tslm&L'e ux>k lor his subject "The Bare Artr^of God," the text, being Isaiih in. 1U, "ine Liora nam maae oare i his boly arm." It almost lakes cur bieath away to read some of ibe Bible imagery. There is such boldness of metaphor in my text that I have btea for some time aettiog m?' ccHr&ge up to preach from it. Isaiah, the evangelistic prophet, issoanding the jubilate cf cur planet redeemed aud cries out. "The Lord hath made bare bi3 boly arm." What overwhelming sus^tstiveness in that hgu^e of speech, '*Tce bare arm oi God!" The people of Palestine to this day wear much binderin? apparel, and when they want to rur a special race, or lift a special burden, hey put off the outside apparel, as in oar laud when a man proposes a special exertion he puts off bis coat and rolls up his sleeves. Waik through our foundries, our machine shops, our mines, our factories, and you will find that most of the toilers have their coats o? and their sleeves rolled up. Isaian saw that there must be a tremendous amount of work done before j L " ~ ?1 ^ TTMAf if ir\ Ho I HIS WUiiU nuav it? kv and be foresees it all accomplished, and accomplished by the Almighty, not as we ordinarily think ol him, hut by the Almighty with the sleeve of his robe roilea back to his shoulder, "The Lord hath made baie bis holy arm." Xothmg more impresses me in the Bible than the ease wiih which God does most things. There is such a reserve of power. He has more tbunderb -ts than he has ever flaag, more than he - has ever cistribuied, more blue than thai with w:-ich hr has overarched the sky, more given than that wl*h which he has emeraided tbe ?rass, more crimswn than that with which be Las burnished the | sunsets. I say it with reverence, from all I can see. God fias never half tried. I^You know as well as I do that many f ot tfce most elaborate an J expensive industries ot cur world have been mplfjed in creating artificial ligbt. Halt of the time its world is dark. The moon and the stars have their glorious uses, but as in&txusnents of illumination the> ar< taiiurcs. They wili not allow you to r-ad a boc k or stop the rufiiii ism ot your great cities. Had not the dark ness been persistently fought bscl* bv ariifii.ial means, ihr most ot the world's enterprises would fave halted half "le time, * hile the crime ot .cur great municipalities would tonhajfihe timt run rampant and nnrebuked; bence all the inventions ot creaiiDii artificial lisht, from the flint stiuck against steel in centuries past to ihe dynamo of our electrical jmanutaciorits. What uncounted * ??? i nmhi.ro >M?nrv!o oe wnrlr i_h(? vpsr round in making chandeliers and lamps bug fixtures aci wires and batteries wLcrt- hgh' shall be mads or along whicc li^nt Sudll run or where fcijht saail poist! How many bare ..rats of human toil? and some of those bare arms are very tired?in the creation efligat ana its ap paratus, anc.after all the work the greater pan of the continents and hemispheres sit night have no latitat all. except perhaps the Srt- flies flashing their small lanterns across swamp. Bui see how easy God made trie light! He did nol make bare bis arm; he did ' ? r 1- \ 1 ? L-. J.J not evtE puMOTia ms ruL'eu axuj; uc uiu not lift so much a? it finger. The flint out o? which he struck the noonday sun was the word k,Luiht." "Let there be li^ht!" Adam did not see the sud until the fourth cay, for, though the sun was created on tha first day, it took its rays from the first to the fourth day to work through the dense mass of fluids by which this earth was comnassed. Did yen ever hear of anything so easy as that? So unique? Oat of a word came the blazing sun, the father of flowers and warmth and light. Out of a word building a fireplace :or all nations cf the earth to warm themselves bj! Yea, seven other worlds, five of them inconceivably larger than our own, and 79 asteroids, or worlds on a smaller scale! The warmth and light for thi3 great brotherhood, great sisterhood, great family of worlds, 87 larger or smaller worlds, all from that one magnificent fireplace made cut of the one word "L'ght." The sua 880,000 miles in diameter! I do not kno.v how much gran-2 * r> uei a. auitu cjsicui vjuu tuuiu uuvc ucated it be had put forth his robed arm to say nothing of an arm made bare! But ~~ - . this I know?that our noonday sun was a spark struck kcm the anvil of one vord, and that word "Light." "But" sajs some one, "do you not . ihink that in making the machinery of \ the universe, 01 which our solar system is comparatively a small wheel working into mightier wheels it must have caused God some exertion?the upheaval of an arm, either robed cr an arm made bare?" Xo. We are distinctly told otherwise. The machinery of a universe God made simply with his Sabers. David, inspired in a sight song, says so?"When I conBicer tby heavens,, the work of thy fingers." A Scottish clergyman told me a few weeks ago of dyspeptic Thornss Carlyle walking out with a friend oue starry night, and as the friend locKea up and said, "What a splendid skv!" Mr. Cari-i i:-J i-- ..c^J jjie rrpiieu as LIC uywiuu, oau sight, slcI sishi!" Xot so thought David as he read the gnat Scripture cf the night heavens. It was a sweep of embroidery of vast tapestry, G^d manipulated. That is the alluxiou if me psalml3t to the woven hangings ot ^.tapestr) as they were known Ions oefore David's time. Far back in the ages what enchantment ot thread and color, the Florentine velvets ot silk and gold and Persian carpets woven ot goats' bail! If \ou have been in the Gobelin mat-ulactory of tapestry in paris?alts, now no more!?you witnessed wondrous thici;$ as you saw the wooden neecle, or broach, goi?-s back and forth and in and out. You were transnxed with admiration at t'. e pattern? wrought. Xo wonder tuai Louis XIV bought it, and it became fht. niissf iis-on of r h? !hmne. and fora loca while note but thrones and paiaces rui^ht have any cf its v>ork. What triumphs of loon! What v:ctory of skilled finders?! So David says of the Leavens that God's Sneers wove into them the iigbt; that Ged'f an?trsi tape&trifd them with stars thti Gea's lingers embroioererec! them with worlds. Ilow much of the immensity of the heavens David understood I know ncu Astronomy was born is China - :00 \ears before Chrii? ] was born. Dunr- the rel^a of Hoar>?- , Ti as roncmcrs were put to death if they macie wrong calculations about the | heavens. Job undtrsiocd the re!rac ticc of the sun's rays and said thev were "turned as me ela> to tbe seal." The pyramids were astronomical observatories and they were so long ago built that Isaiah retcrs to one of them in his nineteenth chap tar and calls it the "pilinr at the border." The first of all sciences bom was astronomy. Whether 'rem knowledge already abroad or from direct inspiration, it seems to me ell ever saw were bu eaouj ubuc mau they were made with the fingers. As ! easily as witti your fineers you mold the wax, or the clay, or the dough to particular shapes, so he decided the shape of our world, and that it should wei?b six s^xtilliou tons, and appointed for till worlds their orbits and decided tbeir col- r?ihe white to Si<iu3, the ruddv to Aldebaran, the yellow to Pollux, the olue to Altai::, marrying some of the stars, us the 2,400 double stars that Herschell observed administering to the whims of the variable stars as their ' glance becomes brighter or dim, preparing what astronomers called "the girdle of Andromeda" and the nebula in the sword handle of Orien, Wjrlds on worlds! Worlds under worlds! Worlds above worlds! Worlds beyond worlds! So many that arithmetics are of no use ; in the calculation! But he counted them as he made them, and he made them with his fingers! Reservation of power! | Suppression of omnipotence! Resources ! af. yet untouched! Almigbtmess yet undemonsirated! Xow, I ask for the benefit of all disheartened Cnristian workers, if God accomplished so much with his fingers, what can he do when he nnf-? nnt all his strength and when he unlimbers all the batteries of his omnipotence9 The Bible speaks again and again of God's outstretched arm, bnt only ones, and that in the text, of the bare arm of God. My text makes it plain that the rectification of this'world is a stupendous undertaking. It takes more power to make .his world over again than it took to make it at first. A word was only necessary for the first creation, but ior the new creation the unsleeved and unhindered fore arm of the Almight>! The reason of that I can understand. In the shipvards ot Liverpool or G:as?n;vor New York asreat vessel is constructed. The architect draws out the pLtn, ttte length of the beam, the capacity ot tonnage, the rotation of whell or screw, the cabins, the masts and all the appointments of this great palace of the. deep. The architect finishes his work without anv pprplesity, and the carpenters anc art'zans toil on the cra't so many hours a dav, each one doiDg bis part, until | with flags and thousaods ot people huzj zmui? on the docks the vessel is launched But out on the sea that steamer Dreafcs her shaft and is limpirg slowly along to ward harbor when Caribbean whirlwinds those mighty hunters of the deep, look i ica out tor prev ot ships, surround that wounded vessel and pitch it on a cocav coast, and sne hfis and falls in tne breakers until every joint is loose, and every spar is down, and every wave sweeps over the hurricane dsck as s'?e parts midships. Would it not require more ski'l and power to get that splintered vessel ofi the rocks and reconstruct it than it required originally to buiid her? Ave' Our world that, (rod built so beau liiul, and which started out with all the E^lenic foliage and wiih the chant of paradisaical bowers, has been 60 centuries pounding in the skerries of sin and sorrow, and to eet her ont, and to get ber oft, and to get her on the right way again will require more of omnipotence than it requi-ed to build her and launch hei. So I am not surprised that though in the drydock ofoce word our world was mace it will take tbe unsleeved arm of God to lif; her from the rocks and put ber on the right couise again. It is evicent from my text and its comparison with other texts tbat it would not be so s*reat an undertaking to make a whole constellation of worlds, and a whole galaxy of worlds, and a whole astronomy oi worlds aad swing them in their right orbits as to take this wounded world, this stranded worlu tins destroyed world and make it as sood as wben it started. Now, just look at the enthroned diffi culties in the way, the removal of whtch the overthrow of which set;n to require the bare right arm of omnipotence. Tbere stands heathenism with its 860,? 000,000 victims. I do not care whether you call them Brahmans or Buddhists, Confucians or fetich idolaters. At the World's fair in Chicago last summer those monstrosities of religion tried to make themselves respectable, bul the long hair and baggy trousers and trinkeied robes of their representatives cannot hide from the world the facts that those religions are the authors of funereral pjre, and juggernaut crusshina; and Ganges infanticide, and Chinese shoe torture, and the aggregated massacre i of many centuries. They have their heels on India, on China, on Persia, on Borneo, on three-fourths of the acreage of our poor old world. I know that the missionaries, who are the most sacrificing and Christlike men and women on earth, are making steady and glorious inroads upon these built up abominations of the centuries. All this stuff that you see in some of the newspapers about the missionaries as living In luxury and ?r?7e>nooa ia r*rr>mn1arafA/-? h*7 rnmint; iUtVUVgg ^/*VU*Ui^WWVV* IJ VVfc fc ? American or English or Scotch merchants, whose loose behavior in heathen citie3 has been rebuked by the missionaries, and these corrupt merchants write home or tell innocent and unsuspecting visitors in India or China or the darkened islands of the sea these falsehoods about our consecrated missionaries, who, turning their backs on home and civilization and emolument and comfort, spend their lives in trying to introduce the mercy of the gospel among the downtrodden of heatheuism Some of those merchants leave their families in America or EDgland or Scotland and stay for a few years in the ports of heathenism while they are making their fortunes in the tea or rice or opium trade, and while they are thus absent from home give themselvs to orgies of dissoluteness such as no pen or tongue could, without the abolition of all decency, attempt to report. The presence of the missionariewith their pure and noble house holds in those heathen ports is a constant rebuke to such debauchees and miscreanrs. If satan should visit heaven, from which be was once roughly but justly expatriated, aad he should write home to the realms pandemoo iac, his correspondence published In Diaboies Gazette or Apollyonic JNews about what he had seen, he would re port tne temple or lioa ana tne.L<au;0 as a broken down churcb, and the bouse of many mansions as a disreputable place, and the cherubim as suspicious of morals. Sin never did like holiness, and you bad better not depend upon satanic report of tne sublime and multipotent work of our missionaries in foreign lands*. But notwithstanding all that these men and women of God have achieved, they feel, and we all feel that if the idolatrous lands are to Ix Christianized there needs to be a power from the heavens that has not yet condescended, and we feel like crying out in the words of Charles Wesley: Arm of the Lord, awake, awake! Pta on thy strength, the nations shake. Aye, it is not only the Ljrd's area what is net-ded, the noly arm, tbe outstretched arm, but the bare aria! There, too, stands Mohammedanism, with Its 176.000.000 victims. Its Bible is the Koran, a book not quite as large asourXew Testament, which was revealed to Mohammed when in epileptic fits, and resuscitated from these fits he dictated it to scribes. Yet it is j read today by more people than any | other boot ever written. Mohammed, tbe founder of that religion, a polygamist, with superfluity of wives, the first step of his religion on the body, mind [ and soul of womaD, and no "wonder that :.be heaven of the Koran is an ev- ; fcrla3tingr Sodom, an infinite seragiio,! about which Mohammed promises that each follower shall have in that' place 72 wives 10 additioo tc all the wives he K/%/4 h Knf tViof r? A -vlW rrAmon UOU sJiL *701 l>li| UUi? lii3v Jul \J OlU *1 \j! i?ch UL shall even enter heaven. "Whs-n a bishop of England recently proposed that the best way of savin*? Mohammedans was to let them keep their religion, but ingraft upon it some new principles from Christianity, he perpetrated an ecclesiastical joke at which no man can laugh who has ever seen the tyranny and domestic wretchedness which always appear where that religion gets foothold. It has marcned across continents and now proposes to set up its Clchy and accursed banner in America, and what it has d >ne for Turkey it wop.Id like to do for our nation. A religion that brutally treats womanhood ought never to be fostered in our country. But there never was a religion so absurd or wicked that it did not get disciples, and there are enough fools in America to make a large disclplesbip of Mohammedanism. Thio r>nrrnnt. rfllltriori has hpfin makinc steady progsess for hundreds of years, and notwithstanding all the splendid work done by the Jessups, and the G^oaells, and the Blisses, and the Van Dykes, and the Posts, and the Hisses Bowens, and the Misses Thompsons, and scores of other men and women of whom the world wa3 not worthy there it stands, the giant of sin, Mohammed anism. with one foot on the heart of woman and the other on the heart of Christ, while it mumbles from its minarets this stupendous blasphemy, "God is great, and Mohammed is his prophet." Let the Christian printing presses at Beyroot and Constantinople keep on with their work, and the men ! and women of God in the mission fields toil until the Lorf* crowns theua, hut what we are all hoping lor is something supernatural from the heaveDs as yet unseen, something stretched ' JfKa otiao QAmAthinor lifep | UU YVU UUU Ui IUC gvu4vvu?w^ ****V aii arm uncovered, the bare arm of the God of nations! There stands also the arch demon of alcoholism. Its throne is white and made of bleached human skulls. 0;i one side of that throne of skulls kneels in ob-isance and warship democracy, and on the other side republicanism, and the one that kisses the cancerous and gangrened foot of this despot the ofte:iest gets the most benedictions. There is a Hudson river, an Onio, a Mississippi of strong drink rolling through this nation, but ai the rivers trom wnicn I taKe my ngure or sper-cn empty into the Atlantic or the gujf this mightier flood of sickness and insanity and domestic ruin .".nd crime and bankruptcy aDd woe empties into the hf-artH, and the homes, and the churches, ana the time, and the eternity of a mutu'uae beyond all statistics to number or d-scribe AH nauous are mauled and sacrificed with baleful stimulus ur kill ing narcotic. The pulque of Mexico, the cashew of Brizil, the hash^esn of Persia, the opium of China, the guavi> of Honduras, the wedro of Russia, the soma of India, the aguardiente of Morocco, the arak of Arabia, the masnc of <vria, tfcui raki of Turkey, the beer of GermaBV, the whiskey of Scotland, tuealeof England, the all drinks of America, *re doing their best to stupefy, inflame, dement, impoverish, brutalize and slay the human race. Hu man power, unless reenforced from the heavens, can never extirpate the evils I mention. Much good has been accomplished by the heroism and fidelity of Christian reKnf T?Am n i no fhof thflPfl 1 1U1 LU CjL 05 UU.U lliC 1 uu b xcuiatiig uuuu vuvi v are more splendid men and magnificent women this moment going over the Niagara abysm of inebriety man at any time since the first grape was turn-d into wine aud the first head of rye began to soak in a brewery. Wfcen people touch this subject, they are apt to give statistics as to how many millions are in drunkards' graves or with quick tread marchiLg oa toward them. The land is full of talk of high tariff and low tariff, but what about the highest of all tariffs in this country, the tariff of S900,000,000 which rum put upon the United States in 1891, for that is wnat it cost us? You do not tremble or tarn pale when I say that. The fact is we have become hardened by statistics, and they make little impression. But if some one could gather in to one mighty lake all the tears that have been wrung out of orphanage and widowhood, or into one organ diapason all the groans that have been uttered by the suffering victims of this holocaust, or into one whirlwind all the sighs of centuries of dissipation, or from the wicked of one immense prison have look upon us the glaring eyes of all those whom strong drink has endungeoned, we might perhaps realize the appalling desolation. But no no; the sight would forever blast our vision; the sound would forever stun our souls. Go on with your temperance literature; go on with your temperance platforms; goon with your temperance laws. But we are all hoping for something from above, and while the bare arm of suffering, and the bare arm of invalidism, and the bare arm of poverty, and the bare arm of domestic desolation from which rum hath torn the sleeve are lifted up in beggary and supplication and despair let the bare arm of God strike the breweries, and the liquor stores, and the corrupt politics, and the license laws, and the whold inferno of grogj shops all around the world. Down, thou accursed bottle, from the throne: Into the dust, thou king of the demijohn! Parched be thy lips thou wine cup, with fires ibat shall never be'quenched! But I have no time to specify the manifold evils that challenge Christianity. And I have sees in some Christians, and read in some newspapers, and heard from some pulpits a disnear'enmerit, as through Christianity were so worsted that it is hardiv worth while to attempt to win this /orld for Goo", <ind r.hat all Christian work would collate, and that it is no U3e for you to teach a Sab:>?itn class or distribute tracts or exhort in prayer meetings or preach in a pulpit as satan is gaining Ta rvuooi ^ i UUUII, xu fouHD tuau prooiuiioa:, the gospel of smashup, I preach this sermon, showiDg that you are on the winning side. Go ahead! Fight on! What I want to make out today Is that our ammution Is not exhausted; that all which has been accomplished has been only the skirmishing before the great Arnnseddou; hat nut more than one of the thousand fountains of beauty in the King's paik begun to play; that not more than one brigade of tne innumerable hosts to be marshaled by the ridtr on the white horse bas yet taken the field; that what God has doue yet bas been with arm folded in flowing robe, but that the time is comisg wheu he will rise from his throne, and throw off that robe, and come out of the palaces of eternity, and come down the stairs of heven with all conquering step and halt in the presence of expectant nations, and flashing his omniscient e>es across the work to be done will put bavk the sleeve of his rinht arm to the sbouMer and roll it up there and for the world's final and complete rescue make bare his arm. Who can doubt the result when according to my text Jehovah does his brst when the last reserve force of omnipotence takes the fled, when the last sword of eternal might leaps from its scabbard ? Do you know what decided me battle of Sedan ? The hills a thousand feet highs Eleven hundred cannon on the hills. Artillary on the heights of Givonne and 12 German batteries on the heights of La Moncello The crown price of Saxony watched the scene from the heights of Mairy. Between a quarter to 6 o'clock in the morning antf 1 o'clock in the afternoon of Sep*. 2.1870, the hills dropped the shells that shattered the,French host in the valley. The French emperor and rh? ftfiOflrt of his armv ranmrpd hv f.hp hills. So in this conflict now raging between holiness and sin "our eyes are unto the hills." Down here in the valleys of earth we must be valiant soldiers of the cross, buc the Commander of our hosts walss the heights and - * ^ views the scene far better than we can in the valleys, and at the right hour all heaven will open its batteiies on our side, and tbw commander of the h -sis of ur.riebteousaes'' "irhallhis followers will surrender a^d it will take eternity to fuliy celebrate the universal victory tnrough our Lord Jesus Christ. "Our ? k;n? yy T# ctrr uiiiu luc 111113. ai? 10 cy wlain t-> be accomplished that Isaiah in my text looks down through the fieldnrlass cf prophecy and speaks c'' it as already accomplished and I take my* stand where the prophet took his stand :-.nd look at it as all done. "Hallelujah its done. See those cities without a tear! Lo k! Those continents with out a pang! Behold! Those hemispheres without a sio! Why th03e deserts? Arabian desert, American desert and Great Sahara desert?are all irrigat ed into gardens where God walks tn the cool of the day. The atmosphere that encircles our globe floating not one groan. All the rivers and lakes and oceans dimpled with not one falling tear. The climates of the earth have dropped out of thsm the rigors of the cold and the olasts of the heat, and it is nniiTorQiil inrino' T,at. 119 fhancrft t.hft old world's name. Let us no more be called tbe earth, as when it was reeking with everything pestiferous and malevolent, scarletted with battlefields and gashed with graves, but now so changed, so aromatic with gardens and so resonant with song and sorubescent with beauty, let us call it Immanuel's Land or Beaulah or millennial gardens or paradise regained or heaven! And to God, the only wise, the only good, the only great, be glory forever. Amen. SvraUowed too Man? Swords, New York, Jan. 22.?C. E. Cliquot, a pli^sant looking young Canadian, who makes his home in New York, has a clever way of putting the tip of a sword In his mouth and then letting the Diade drop out of sight. This Is professionally termed sword swallowing. It was suggested to the doctors at the Metropolitan Throat Hospital that they might be interested in observing the effect produced by this feat upon the muscles of tbe throaLaB^tg^iy gus, so y est e after noon Cliquot gav? a >ri'/ate exhibition. It interested the doctors greatly. Iucidentally it surprised Cliquot and alarmed his wife for the sword swallower narrowly escaped dciog himself serious injnry. He stripped to the waist for his work, and i.egan with a bunch of four swords. The blades were about twenty infhe3 long and tbr<-e*quarters of an inch wide, with blunted points and dulled edges. Fixing the swords so r.hat. they rested on each otber like a p.-.ck of cards h^ pur, them in his m jutb .iod pushed them down his esophagus until'all but (he bandle3 were hidden. His chest heaved rast as though he were workiug hard, but he showed no sign of pam. The swords were flexible, and by the forward motion of his head he bent them to an angle of about forty-five degrees. Then he took a stiff sword about twentv-two inches long, and after sfarriDg It In the right path, he asked a spectator to seize the hilt arid pash the sword down till the hilt almost touched his teeth. After performing snccessfully a number of other feats Cliquot took fourteen of the flexible swords, and, placiDg them on top of each other as before, he explained that he would swallow them all at once and then have them puiled from his throat one by one. When the swords were about half way down he seemed to be in great pain. H;i chest moved rapidly and he gasped once or twice for breath. But the swords were pushed down until Cliquot. signalled for them to be pulled out. He seemed in such disr.re&s that all fourteen were removed together instead of one at a time. when this had been done the sword swallower sank feebly into a ch3ir. Perspiration moistened his forehead, and he leemed to be In great pain. He rested a few moments, 311a tnen an attendant brought him .-ome whiskey, but he couldn't swallow it. The doctors gave him an injection of morphine to relieve the pain. Then he was hustled into a cab and driven to the Union Square; Hotel where he is staying. Two doctors were called to attend him there, as it was thought that he might have punctured the owophagus or the stomach. They said he had done neither, but had probably distended the ?so phagus so that it became nervo usly ex cited. Killed Wile then Hlmielt. Greenville, S. C., Jan. 23.?Last night Ed Davis killed hia wife and then killed himsell. Davis was a well known and rather prominent negro. He has been selling papers and also keeping a store. His wife wa3 a handsome yellow woman. Both were under thirty yeat s of age. The whole affair is wrapped m mystery, They lived happily, were respected by white people and no cause can be assigned for tie act. Davis cut bis wife's head with an axe, probably while she was in bed asleep, hor? Rpvpral nolv cashes. either oi which would have caused death. She was tound in bed this morning, her long hair carefullyj: smoothed and the cover neatly pulled up about her, and had it not been for the blood it would have seemed that she;was sleeping. The body of Davi3 was found in his. well a few steps from his back door. The theory is that In a sudden fit of passion he struck, and then finished the job with the axe. The horror of the deed was so areat that when he calmed down he deliberately went and leaped into the well. D-ivis' eldest child, some eight years old, saw the father and mother retire. Ur, jNo screams or iiouse were ueeuu ujr neighbors. There is a growing teeling among the colored people that there was foul play and that Davis and his wife were both murdered. The coroner's jury brou2ht in a verdict to the effect the woman came to her deatb at the bands of part:es unknown. It is a signiGcant fact a negro suggested that .Davis was in the well as soon as the murder wa^s discovered.?State. an Adci Paeiligt Crusade. Richmond, Va.,Jan. 19.?Governor O'Ferrail was interviewed today on the subject of the pugilistic event at Norr-n ' ?* .>i-?A flnM fnuf ha nrn. iUlb. JclSl. Bvcmug 4UU coiu mji uu posed to have the matter investigated :-?nd to bring the participants to justice it possible*. The Governor then warmed up and snid: "The term glove contest is a mere subterfuge. The*e contests are prize fights in fact and in the meaning ot the law, and I shall use all the power at my command to break them up and to punish those who may engage in them and who promote them. There is a notorious place across the river from Washington known as Jackson City, which is not surpassed in villainy by any town on the Mexican border, and if they will only give me the law to reach it I will break up the law less resort if I have to call out the entire military force to do it." The Governor then read the law on the subject of prize lights, and said he was inclined to think that all persons who witness such a tight in the eyes of the law "aid and promote" the 6ght, and may, upon conviction, be pnnished by imprisonment for a term of three years in the penitentiary. Tbey "Ware Caught. Greenville, Jan. 22.?Yesterday a circular was received by Chief of Police Kennedy, from Shreveport, La., offering a rewaid for the arrest of J. A. Sisk, charge with robbing a jewelry store in that city. Kennedy got nn thp of Sisk and eancht hiin this morning near Belton, and brought him to this city to lay. He is now in jail. Several watches and a pistol were fonnd on his person. Deputy Sheriff Gilreath caught John-Henderson today near Simpsonvilie^his county. On the 21st o? Decembe;:, Henderson, ma fit of jealpusy, struck. Salathia Mitchum in the head with a rock and she died three days afterward.?State, i ' OUTLINING THE COURSEVFhit Branches the Wemt:n of the S ate Will srucly.] Columbia, S. C, Jan. 24.?Rapidly all tne preparations are being m ide for the opening of the State Icdustrial aod Wmtbrop Normal College at Rock Hili next fall?just as soon as the buildings are completed. Those in charge of this institution, which will doubt1qos o/?(V*mr>liah miiph fr?r fh? pr?nfa. uv^VUi^/iJgu uuwvu *.Vi v>tv vmmwm tionofthe women of South Carolina, are determined to have everything else in absolute readintss by the time the builoings are ready for occupancy, aDd that work itselt is being pushed with all possible dispatch. At the recent meeting of the board of trustees of the college held ot Rock Hill, all these matters were carefully considered and the following regulations in regard to the organization and course of study were adopted. They contain the iirst outiine of the course of study te be pursued by the students at this college. 1. The courses of study, in conformity with the purposes of the act establishing this college, shall be designed to secure to all pupils, besides the opportunity of higher culture, the requisites of at least a sound Enjlisti education, and especially the practical suiay or uraucura peicaiuiua tuc science and art of teaching, or to the various departments of domestic, artistic orcommerclal industry, by which women may be qualified to earn independent support, or to make tbeir homes more comfortable, more economical and more beautiful. Every pupil in the institution is required by law to pursue at least one of tne industrial branches. II. In addition to the regular col'eg'ate coarse there shall be a'Jcwrd for the present, one year ;of preparatory academic study, "but none will be admitted who may not probably in one year be prepared for tne regusar closes in some one of the courses of study. III. Tne several departmed^ skatt for _thepr^ntj3a_as-fdri*fw-s: ?^.'"MSntaTand moral science and pedagogics. 2. English language and literature and history. 3. Latin and modern languages. 4. Mathematics, physics and astronomy. 5. Chemistry, mineralogy and biology. 6. Normal department and model school Y. Department or industrial arts. 8 Department of music, to which shall be added such instructorships and assistant instructorships as may be found necessary. IV. For the further consideration of the courses of study and other questions of organization and regulations to be submitted to the bjard, there shall be appointed a standidg committee on organization and r?-S')iuti >as, consisting of two members of the board, to whom the president, when elected, shall be add?id as chairman. The following regulations relative to the management of the institution and defining tr.e powers and rights of those reho will bs in charge were also artnntor! I. The facalty shall coosist of a president, who shHll also bs a professor, and of the professors or heads of departments appointed by the board. II. To the faculty shall be entrusted the general conduct and control of the institution, under such regulations as they may adopt, subject to the approval of the board. III. To the president shall be entrusted the executive management, under regulations adopted and approved as above. He shall be :Jso the organ of communication between the faculty and the board of trustees. At such stated meeting of the trustees and at other meetings wnen required, he shall submit reports of the condition ana wants 01 tne coiiege. jlii preparlog such report he shall require reports from the several professors on their own departments, which reports, with such comments as he may deem proper, he shall forward to the board for their information. 1Y. To the several professors shall be entrusted the instruction and control of their several departments, with the choice of text boobs and of methods of instruction therein, subject to the general regulations of the faculty as above provided. It sball be the duty of each professor to submit reports, general or special, whenever required by the president or by the board. V. The president shall preside at all meetings of the faculty: As professor, he shall be entitled to a vote, and in case of a tie, ha shall, as president, have a casting vote. In his absence or disability, the faculty, or wben deemed necessary, the b oard, shall appoint a chairman, who for the time being shall have all the powers and duties or president. VI. In addition to the president and faculty, the board may appoint such instructors and assistant instructors as they may deem necessary. These officers shall be subject to the general direction of the faculty, under regulations approved as above, and in each department to the special direction of the head of the department. VII. The terms of office and the salaries of the faculty and instructors shall be flx3d by the board. VIII. Except to fill temporary vacancies, professors and instructors shall bechosenonly at stated ra<?emg of the board; nor shall any such officer be appointed or removed except by a vote of a majority of the enure board; nor shall any such officer resign without giving three months' notice through the president to the board.? State. Maitlal Law Threatened. Columbia, s. C., Jan. 26.?Governor Tillman is now talking of putting Charleston under martiai law, if it become necee^arv to do so for the protection of the liquor constables. He did not return to the city till yesterday afternoon. He had already reuc. the newspaper accounts of the trouble in that city, when a representative of The State called on him yesterday evening. He was considerably stirred up over tbe action of the people of Charleston and did not hesitate to say so. He said that he had received no official report from Gaillard or any of the Sta e's officers in Charlesson and only knew WLat the newspapers said, lie oasea wnat ne oau to Bay on these accounts. He said: "The ODly thing abous, it, it seems to me, is that there Is 'a concerted conspiracy there which will have to be put down it it goes much farther, if it takes all the troops in the State to go down there. And I will say farther that Charleston will have to pay the bills. I will declare martial law, too, if necessary, before I will allow such over-riding of the law as seemB to be contemplated. Every man in South Carolina who knows Elliott kn^ws that he never struck a woman, and there is no man in Charleston who will stand .to his face and tell him that he did strike one." All Liabilities. Chicago, Jan. 20.?Liabilities, 855,000,000; assetts, S440. This epitome of the report of .Receiver T. J. Hurley, of the Guarantee Investment Comyany, filed in the circuit court here, tells volumes about the nature of the concern whose president, C. B. McDonald, is now under sedtence of imprisonment for fraud. The report shows the company's liabilities were 355,000,000? that la, there were 55,000,000 bonds outstanding. To pay off these bonds the receiver found ?449 in cash and 75 cents in mutilated. He also found a quantity of office furniture, which he expected mijjht be turned into money for the % - * j X- ..A. If- TTo.Iatt Deneac ot creaitors, uuo auu. nunc/ was dumbfounded to receive within half an hour after he had left his report a notice informing him that every stick of furniture was mortgaged to Austin & Co., private ankers. A SURPRISE OF SURPRISES. J The Mitchell-Corbatt Mill Casa?* f fl Al David had wide knowledge of the heavtus. Whether he understood the full '>rcss of what he wrote I kno v not, but the God who inspired him knew, aodbe ^ would noi let David write anything but "nuth. and therefore all the wcrldo that the telepcope ev? r reached or Copernicus or Galilei or Kepler or Newton or Laplace or Herschell cr our own Mitch~ " I** 4 Kr?t icr AU. Jacksonville, Fla., Jan. 24.? Jud^e Rhydon M. Call reached forth hi3 judicial baDd at 3 o'clock this atfcernaon and pulled the Duval Athletic Club out of the hole into which it had been cast by the Governor of Florida. To the surprise of almost everybody the Judge granted the injunction asked for by the club restraining Sheriff Broward from in and way interfering with the fight between James J. Corbett and Charles Mitchell, which is scheduled to take nlace in this city to morrow. The order granting the injunction is very brief, the Judge simply stating that in his opinion "glove contests" weie not violative of that law of Florida which forbids "fighting by previous appointment." The Court room was packed almost to suffocation by the sporting gentry, and when the import of the otder was realized pandemonium broke loose. f1 a - o) I or- oh??r i<om? Srnm t.hp fhrr?nt_a vutgi auvi w-vvi ~ of lovers of pugilism, and the officials of the Court were utterly unable to qaell the disorder. Jadsre Call grew red in the fsce and pounded .for order, but the sports were too overjoyed to be controlled easily. To say that the occasion caused a sensation in the city is putting it mildly, Nine men out of every ten belisved that Judge Call would uphold the Governor in his efforts to prevent the mill, and when his decision in favor of tbe club became sener illy known the people were dumbfounded. At present the club people are on top for the first time since they undertook to pull off the match, but how long they will remain on top is a question. It Governor MitcheH accepts the decision of course tbere is no further obstacle in the way ot the fitfht tn-mnrrrtar Tint. nliitnd#-" "v "jwfctv .a~Yfc? ?rn- ?v* wuv Governor has been bo determined in op* portion to the fight that many believe he will yet find some way to circumveht the club. It is understood that the Governor i* averse to declaring martial law. In fact, Attorney General Lamar sta ed to-night that martial law would not be declared. This wa3 on the authority of a telegram from the Governor himself. the fight. Jacksonville Fia., J an. 25?J acnes John Curbettof California is the champion pugilist of the world. He won (he honor ?t. twenty-eight minutes p3st 2 o'clock this afternoon, when "Honest," John KriUy pronounced him the winner of the priz- of $20,000 in his fight with Charles Mitchell, the champion of England. The fi^ht was an easy victory for the American champion. It lasted only three rounds, and Corbett was the aggressor from the very start. Mitchell was clearly out-clasaed, and ali hough the fight was a sharp and ex citing one, it was really a one-3id6d one In ev-ry particular. There were fully 3,000 people present and all of them were disappointed because the spectacle was so short as to hardly give them the worth of their money?especially those who had paid $25 for box seats and come from 1,000 to 3,000 miles to occupy them. ASd for ?ke Safterera. Columbia, S. C? Jan. 25.?The last session of the Legislature passed a joint resolution extending for one year the time for paying taxes in the sections of the Ssate affected by the tummer storms Comptroller General Ellerbe will send out a circular in a few days extending the time as authorized by the resolution, which is as follows, and which gives the territory exempted from the collection ot taxes: 1 it. hr t.he Sen. ate and House of X*presentatives of the State of South Carolina, now met and sitting m General Assembly, and by the authority of the same. That the Comptroller General be, and he hereby is, derected to extend, for a period ot twelve months, the payment of taxes m aud for the counties of Georgetown ana Beaufort, and so much of the counties of Colleton and Berkeley lying South of the Charleston and Savannah Railway, James Inland and the Parish o! St. James Santee in Charleston County, and all persons who lost their crops or sufered damages by the late storm and are unable to pay their taxes in Horry County. Proviced that the benefits of such extension shall not apply to phosphate mines fertilizer manufacturers and other corporations engaged in business within Rnid territory. "Section 2. That so much of Section 8 of an Act to raise supplies and make appropriations for the fiscal year commencing No7ember^l, 1892, as conflicts with this Act, is hereby repealed." Found a Half Million. Guadaiajaka, Mexico, Jan. 19.?A few weeks ago a Spaniard named Francisco Perez, arrived at the City of Ameca, this State, from Lisbon, Spain. He had with him several old documents and drawings showing the location of a hidden treasure amounting in yalue to $1,500,000, which had been secreted a century or more ago by a band of brigands, all of whom were afterwards killed or driven out of the country. Perez came across the documents a few months ago and at once set out for America to seek the wealth. He secured from the city authorities exclusive permiision to acquire whatever he might find and has already had success, an Iron box filled with gold coin and jewelry having been unearthed near the toundation of an old cathedral, in the vicinity of which all of the wealth is believed to be hidden. The value of the contents of the box is placed at $500 000. Will be Sent B*ck, Wasiuncton, Jan. 20.?A delegation composed of the mayor of K*y West, Fla.. the custom collector, Mr. Alien and Mr Seideaberg, of the cigar firm over whom all toe trouble originated, on one side, and Mr. RoDens representing the labor people of Key West, had a long bearing before Superintendent Stump this afternoon at the Treasury Department. Superintendent Stump, before t&e bearing began, warned beldenberg and his party not to make any admissions that would criminate themselves. At the end of the hearing Superintendent Stump said he had already had sufficient evidence to send the Cubans back, and -that he intended to strictly enforce the law. The matter will, it is now said, be tafcen up by the law branch ot the government. Irby Present the Hemoz-1*), Washington, Jan. 24.?Senator Irby laid before the Senate today a very tastefully printed memorial of the General Assembly of South Carolina in the matter of receivers ot raildroad companies and equity jurisdiction of the Court o? the United States. The mecnorial consists of sixty large pages includ ins: an appendix ot extracts from the address of Governor Tillman. The memorial grows out of the action of Federal judges in arresting officers for carrying out the directions ot the State courts, and marks the renewal of the conflict between State and United States Courts. A Sad Occurrenco. Elberton, Ga., Jan. 21.?Qaite a serious if not fatal accident occurred In lower Elberton Friday. Youotf Mr. Ben Tillman, son of Governor Tillman of Sonth Carolina, is visitiag his cousin, young Mr. Sam Stark, of this county. These two young gentlemen were practicing shooting at a target on Friday, when the gun, while in the hands of young Tillman, accidentally disthp hall nassinar the bed? of vounsfMr. Stark producing a serious wound. 1 MET THEIR MATCH. Gr<eajocdi Men R-.utea by Two Kentacklans Ja New York. Barb our vi lle, Ky., jad. 19.?To Gordea Gillespie, of this county, belongs the credit of beating greengoods men at their own game. Gillespie is employed as 3 collector for a commercial agency. His income nets him a modest living. To an intimate friend on last Sunday he imparted the information that he was negotiating with New York greengoods men, and be was going to make an effort to beat tbem. He west to New York on Monday and has just returned, and in evidence of his success now exhibits two rolls of money. One contains S 1,500 in crisp, genuine bank notes. Tbe other to all appearances is the same, but an examination shows it to be nothing but green paper. Gillispie began a correspondence with the greengoods men a year ago. All messages that he received came from JS'ew York. He was to put in $300 and receive SI,500 of the stuff which would defy detection. It was arranged that Gillispie should go to New York, and when an pftrlv train nulled into tne citv. Gillis pie and a friend alighted from it. Gillispie carried a carpetbag and aa umbrella. He was met at the station by a man who had a couple in waiting When he introduced his friends there was some hesitation exhibited on the part of the man with the carriage. After driviug for about 15 minutes the cab was halted before a hotel and the two entered. They were met by another man. Again it wa3 necessary for Gilllspie to explain that his companion had in his clones hard cash and was willing to mase a deal. After being conducted to another room, the tlrst man whom they met exhibited and counted a roll of bills contaiareg$1,500. Tne coafeder&fr-STfrftfenly apJ)^-t^7btrt-te6~patrons kept an eye on the roll, and before the flimflam game of exchanging the money for bo^us paper could be ac3ompiished Gillispie held the wad and offered h!s o*n in return. The dealers again tried to divert attention, but to tneir surprise they found themselves locking iuto a pair of pistols. Believing they had b^en duped by directives, the men made a break for tfc-i door. In thoir naste they dropped the roll.of bogus piper which was intended tor toeir victims, and, pocKetin^ both rolls. Gillispie and tiis companion escaped through a window. Desperate Criminals. Birmingham, Ala., Jan. 19.?As a result or ibe escape ot seven convicts lrom Pratt mi-es ot Thursday, one ot the bravest deputies iD Bibb county is dead, and one of the convicts is now ai the point of death at the mines. As soon as possible, after the escape messages were sent to uffi^ers in all the adjoining countes *o that effect, witn the request to apprehend and bring them back if possible. Deputy S'lerift Dexter of Bibb, receiving one of the messages and learning that the notorious Jim Morrison was amongthe number, rightly concluded that he would come in that direction, he having inends in his old haunts in that county. Securing the aid of two others ue left for the home of Morrison's best friends near Bessemer, am close to where the Morrision's father lives. About 3 o'dcck this morniug they cams upon Morrison and another convict named Davis. Dexter advanced ahead of the offi^rs and called out to the men, whom they readily recognized, to halt and surrender. Instead of doing so, they opened fire with the result that Dexter fell from his horse a corpse. The other officers opened fire and Davis fell with a bulletin his groin. Morrison began retr?atlng, at the same time continuing to fire cn his pursuers. He made his escape. Hundreds of friends of Dexter, the dead man, are scouring the country ior Morri3lon, who it is learned hasbeen joined by another of the escaped men. Take the Care. A number of cases have bsen reported in this city where Keeley graduates have been drugged. A man who would do this deed for the purpose of getting back a customer should he filled with lead up to his neck, and the man who this hrnf.ai ant: as a io?e should be filled with the same metal to the top of his hat. There can be no terms used too severe for a greedy whiskey peddler or fool of this kind. The Keeley Cure has done more for the human race than anything in our time. They can as successfully cure a man of whiskey-drinking as any physician can treat the measles. It is a measure that people can afford to back up, protect, defend and pu3h. They should vigorously punish the dopers and firmly insist that all maudlin, tipsy nuisances should take the Cure *nd stay cured. There is no need of being further annoyed with this useless class of humanity. If a man can keep sober he is under obligations to his neighbors to do so. If he cannot maintain sobriety under all circumstances, then he should take the Cure. All know he can be cured, and he knows it. B3fore many years it is to bs expected that the authorities will by law compel a man to be decent and sober whether he will or not; at least retain him m safe keeping where he will not interfere with the peace and happiness of other people.?Joliet (111.) News. Fertilizer Kegroea Scnke. Charleston, S. C., Jan 23.?The negroes employed in several of the fertilizer works around the city have gone out. ob a strike in consequence of a re duction of wages from SI to 75 cents a day. The mills haVe no trouble in geting labor to supply the places of the strikers, as there are thousands of Idle negroes around the suburbs from the sea islands. Ihey are called cyclone refugees. But the strikers will not let them work and there h.is been trouble all day in the vicinity of the mines. A squad of mounted police was sent up to the scene and made quite a number of arrests tonight. It is feared that the trouble will assume a serious character tomorrow.?State. Flacors asd Organ?. .Nowis tne time to ouy summer yiau S25 cash balance November 15tn 1893. Will buy a Piano at spot cash price $10 cash, balance November 15ca 1893 Will buy -a orgau af spot cash price. See the list to choose from, Steinway, Mason & Hamlin. Mathusaek ana Stir ling Piauos, Mason & Hamlin ana Stirling Organs. Fifteen days test trial and freight both ways if n ->t satis factory. A large lot of nearly new and second hand Pianos and Organs at bargains. Good as uew. Write for prices VV.NT. Trump. Colombia. S. (3. WnI "THE WORLD'S GREA THE MACHiN The O n 1 FOR TYPEWRITERS AT THE S1] "NO MACHINE COULD. BE ANT BETTER. 1T.W greg* PERFECT." 5||||jg privaye statement of out of the Judges. Responsible Oounf J. W. sGrib GENERAL AGENTS, WsDt a CoEventon' Anderson, S. C, Jar. 20 ?After the meetiDg of the county alliance here the i members of the old farmers'associ?j tion met and passed resolutions favor- ^ in<? a March convention to Dominate j candidates for state officers as called by ^ ! Editor Bowden of the Cotton Flint. -M ! PADCETT PAYS THE .FBEIGH1 | V'hj a* E:trsrn8 Prices for Goods! ~ent! 'or 'ataicgue and See What Yoa Csa Sial " 1 > T-iriKT CXS ^szsovit :rr: p*i U L?4 I?J -Ig 'It Vt LmmI "K/CE NOV. $fs FMsfcSs iS)D| ? iuci h''i:rooin \y \ - ^j.L ' all { ;ices. ? ?w $69 ?r??-$37 J5^?" Just tc introds:cc them. f! No freight paid on this Or<5*^. .*...* v#> gan. Guaranteed !? be a Sp^- -;.r ~ 'y good organ or uiom-y ro8g^-t^|! funded. vranr Phish PARLOR SJ. ITS. cousisrlcs ^ofa. 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Ann U<??f tka tr Ji*ioKlo _[ OclW ALUICL3 U(i l U U v tiiv * tuauiw - ^ fi ictioQ feel D<;Loacii Mill from M 6190.00 up co tfie largest ?izv 3 Also G<iug Rip Sa*3, E liters, Swi"ur 'm Saws, Planing liac&iaes, aad all siad* a ">? wood worSmi? oaachiaery. "Taibott" Ea^iQss iud Boilers. Spesial discount ande tor liisH. -wr * ?. c. sinaia. rOLlTMBlA. S.C. J M:OEEr^ 4 TEST TYPEWRITER." E TEAT TOOK y Award fA-TE FAIR^XOVEMBER 8, 1893. y AgentsJWanted.] toes . & Co., ,-flj , COLUMBIA, S C.