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' ' Sri. %. fc&r-" ^nMgMMNMM^^BQ30QHBlDflSBBSBHDDR3DQ3 ~ ~ ~ r THE ESCAPE OF PAUL DR. TALMAGE DESCRIBES IT IN HIS MOBILE SERMON. He Chose a* His Subject **XJnapprec?ated 8eivlce?"?How Great Resell Haas oa Slender Threads- Mssy Helpful Itflaence Never Acknowledged. Mobile, March 11.?Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D , who is cow visiting Ihescutb, selected as the subiector today's sermon ltUcappreciated Services," the tfxt bsicz taken from II Coruitliiaa3 X' 33, "Trircu'h a windo.v, in a basket, letdown by the waii." ? - - * *-? .1 Jl?? Lamascus i* a civ ox wmie auu tening arcbitrciurs?sometimes called "the eye of ibe east," sometimes called "a pearl senrrounied bv emeralds,at one time distiagu;?hed tcr swords or the best material, called Damascus bladse, aDd upholstery ot richest fabric, called damasks. A horseman of the nr. cc of Paul, riding toward this cay, had cec-o thrown from the saddle. The horse had drop pec unaera iiasu num mc co.j, . the same time was so bright it bJinded the rider for many day3, and, I think, so permanently injured Lis eyesight that this defect of Vision became the thoron in the flesh he afterward speaks of. He started for Damascus to butcher Christians, but af .er that hard fall irom v his horse he was a changed man and preached Christ in Dimaicua till the city was shaken to its foundation. The mayor gives authority fcr his arrest, and the popular cry is: "Kill him! Kill him!" The city is surrounded by a high wall, and the gates are watched by the police lest the Cilici&n preacher escape. Many of ihe houses are built on - the wall, and th^ir balccnies projected * - - J L aVavta IKq nroy*. ciear over tmu uuvcicu auu?o maidens outside. It.was customary to lower baskets out of these balconies and pull up fruits and florers ftom the gardens. . / To this day visiters at the monastery of Mount Sinai are lifted -and let down in baskets. Detectives prowled around from house to house looking for Paul, but his mends hid bim now in cne place, low m another. He is no -coward, as 50" incidents in his life demonstrate. Bui he feels his work is not ^? done yet, and so he evades assassination. "Is that preacher here?" the foaming mob shout at one house door. "Is that fanatic here?" the police 3hout at another house door. Sometimes on the street he passes iucegnito .through a crowd of clinched fists, and sometimes ' ? ? l-? U* A f te secretes nimsoii oa we uvuse. wy. ^ last the infuriated populace get oa sure =- track of him. They have positive evidence that he is in the house of one of the Christians, the balcony of waose home reaches over the wall. uHeie he is! Here he is!" The vociferation acd blasphemy dnd howling ef the parsuers are at the front door. They breilk in. ' Fetch out that gospeL'zer, and let U3 ban? his head on the city gate! Where is he?" The emergency was terrible. Providcniiaily there was a good stout basket in the hcu3e. Paul's friends fiisteu a rope to the basket. Paul steph into it. The basket is lifted to the ed^e of the balcony on the wall, and then while Paul holds onto the rope with both hands his friends lower awav, csirefally and cautiously, slowly but surely, farther down and farther dowD<? until the basket strikes the eatrh, and the apostle steps out and afool and alone starts cn that famous missionary tour, the story of which has astonished earth and heaven. Appropriate entry in Paul's diary ot travels?"Through a window, in a basket, was I let down by the wall." ***_ c L 1 ^ 4 uoservemst ou wuai, aaicuuci. Kuuis great results hang. The ropemaker who twisted that coi d fastened to that lowering basket never knew how much would -?- depend on the otrengtb cf it. How jf it had been brok<;n and the apostle's lile had neen dashed out? What would have become of the Christian church? All that magnificent missionary work in Pamphjlla, Cappadccia Galatia, Macedonia, would never have been accomplished. All his writings that make up so indispensable and enchanting a part of the Xew Testament would never have been written. The story of resurrection would never have been so gloriously told as he told. That example of heroic an 1 triumphant endurance at Philippt, in the Mediterranean euroclydon, unoer fiagel iation and at ots Deneaains, wooia not have kindled the courage of 10,000 martyrdoms. But the rcpo hoidmg that basket?bow much depended od it! So again and again great results have buog on what seemed slender circumstances. Did ever ship of many thousand tens crossing the sea have such important passenger as had once a boat of leaves, from taffrail to stern onlv three or four feet, the vessel made waterproof by a ? ^ Art ?ir?/? An fV.A \ 1 uuau U1 UUumeu auu nuaviiu^ ua ouo awc j with the infant lawgiver cf the Jews on boarc!? What if some crocodile should crunch it? What if some oftbe cattle wading in for a drink should sink it? Vessels of war sometimes carry 40 suns looking through the portholes, ready to open battle. But that tiny craft on'the .Nile seems to be aimed with all the guns of thunder that bombarded Sinai at the lawgiving.. On how fragile craft sailed how much of historical Importance! The parsonage at Epworth, England, is on nre in the night, and the father rushes through the hallway for the rescue of his children. Seven children are out and safe on the ground, but one re" :i J! I mains in me consuming trauumg. j.utu one wakes, and finding his bed on fire and the building crumbling comes to the window, and two peasants make a ladder of their bodies, one peasant standing on the shoulder of the other, and down the human ladder the boy descends? John Wesley. If you would know how much depended on that ladder of pf asants, ask the millions cf Metbod;sts on both sides of the sea. Ask their mission stations all round the world. Ask the hundreds of thousands already ascended tn inin thfiir founder, who would have perished but for the living stair of peasant's shoulders. An English ship stopped at Pitcairn island, and right in the midst of surrounding cannibalism and squalor the passengers discovered a Christian colond of churches and schools and beautiful homes and highest style cf religion any civilization. For 50 years no missionary and no Christian influence had landed there. Why that oasis of light amid a desert of heathendom? Sixty vears before a ship had met disaster, and one ot the sailors unable to save anything else, went to his trunk and took cut a Bible which hi3 mother had place there and swam ashore, the Bible held in his teeih. The book was read on ali sides antil the rough and vicious population were evangelized, and a church was started, and an enlightened commonwealth esiablished, and the world's history has no more brilliant nasre than that which tells of the trasfeformatkn of a nation by one book. It d:d not seeai of much importance whether the sailor continued to hold the book in his teeth or let it lali in the breakers, but upcn what small circumstance depended what mi^htj' results! r? i.? i T<Krx..A ^~ ^ rracuuai luicieuoe; Aucic aic uy iu* significances in cur lives. The minutest thing is part of a magnitude. Intimty is made up of infinitesimals. Great things an aggregation of small things. Bethlehem manger pulliog on a star in the eastern sky. One bojk m a drenched sailor's mcuth the evangelization of a multitude. Oae boat of papyrus on the Nile freighted with events for all ages. The fate of Christendom in a basket let down from a window on the wall. If you mtake a rope, mate it strong and true, for you know not how much may depend on vour workmanship. If you fashion a boat let It be waterproof, for you know not who may sail in it. If you put a Bible in the trunk of your boy aa he goes from home, let it be ???TT<?re fnr it mav have a ucaiu iu JUUI ^iajwi,w) mission a3 f arreachin? as the book which the sailor carried in his teeth to the Pit-aim beach. The plainest man'a lite 13 an island between two eternities?eternity past rippling against his shoulders, eternity to come touching his brow. The casu*J, the accidental, that which merely happened so, are parts of a great plan, and the rope that lets the fugitive apostle from the Damascus wall is the c^ble that holds to its mooring the ship of the church in the northeast storm of the centuries. ? ?nnrprwrnizeri and nn. LlV'WV^ UU4 _ recorded services. Who span that rope? Who tied it to the basket? Who steadied the illustrious preacher as he stepped into it? Who relaxed not a muscle of the arm or dismissed an aoxiouj look from his face uutil the basket touched the around and discharged its magnificent cargo9 Not one of their names has come to us, but there was no work done that day in Damascus or in all the earth compared with the importance ot their work. What if they he-1 m their agitation tied a knot that could slip? What il the sound of the mob at the door had led them to say, "Paul must take care of himself, and we will take care of ourselves." No, no! They held the rope, and in doing so did more for the Chris;" ? ? J _r? _:n i ian church than any tnousauu ui us nm ever accomplish. Bat God knows and i has made eternal record of their undertaking. And they know. How exultant they must have felt when they read his letters to the Romans, to the Corinthians, to the Gala: tians, to the Ephesians, to the Phillippians, to the Colossians, to the Thessalooians, to Timothy, to Titus, to Philemon. to the Hebrews, and when they heard how he walked out of prison, with 4ho ?ori-hnnot? imT/ickincr Lhe doorfor fcUV , w a J him, and took command of the Alexandrian cornship when the sailors were nearly scared to death, and preached a sermon that nearly shook Felis off his judgment seat! I hear the men and women who helped him down through the window and over the wall talking in privately ove* the mattsr and saying: "How glad I am that we effected that rescue! In coming limes others may get the glory of Paul's work, but no one shall rob us of the satisfaction of knowing that we held the rope." * % " ? X AA AAA There are said to oe aoout o?,wu mmisters of religion in this country. About 50,000, 1 warrant came from early homes which had to struggle tor the necessaries of life. The sons of rich bankers and merchants generally become bankers and merchants. The most of those who become ministers are the sons of those who had terrific straggle to get their everyday bread. Ths collegiate and theological education of that son took every luxury from the parental table for eight vears. The other children were more scantily appareled. The son at college every little while got a bundle from hhme. In it were the socks that mcther had knit, sitting np late at night, her sight not as good as once it was. And there also were some delica j cies iruia me bioici o uauu uh. me ?w?cious appetite of a hungry student. I The years go by, the son has been or' dained anB is preaching the gloriom gospel, and a great revival comes, and : souls by scores and hundreds accept the gospel lrom the lips of that young preacher, and father and mother, quite old now, are visiting the son at the village parsonage, and at the close of a Sabbath of mighty blessing father and mother retire to their room, the son lighting the way and asking them if he can do anything to make them more comfortable, sayinsif they want anything in the night just knock on the wau. And then all alone father and mother talk over the gracious influences of the day and sit: "Well, it was worth all we went through to educate that boy. It was a bard pull, but we held on till the work was done. The world may not know it; but, mother, we heidthe rope, didn't we?" And the voice tremulous with joyful emotion, responds: "Yes, father; we heidthe rope. I feel my work is done. Now, Lord, lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation." "Pshaw," says the father, UI never felt so much like living in my life as now! I want to see what that fellow is going on to do, tie Has begun so weii." Oh, men and woman here assembled, you bras; sometimes how you have fought your way in the world, but I think there have been helpful influences that you have never fully acknowledged. Has there not been some influence in your early or present home that thfc world cannot see? Does there not reach to you from among the New England hills, or from western prairies, or from southern plantation, or from English or Scottish or Irish home, a cord of influence that has kept vou right when you 14 ? ?.3 ? would aave gone asiray, auu wwu, alter you had made a crooked track, recalled yon? The rope may be as long as 30 years or 500 miles long or 3,000 miles long, but hands that went out of mortal sight long ago still hold the rope. You want a very swift horse, and you need to rowel him with sharpest spurs, and to let the reins lie loose upon the neck, and to give a shout to a racer, if vou are going to ride out of reach of voor mother3^ nravera. Why. a ship crossing the Atlantic in seven days can not sail away from them! A sailor finds them- on the lookout as he takes his place, and finds them on the mast as he climbs the ratlines to disentangle a rope in the tempest, and finds them swinging cn the hammock when he turns in. Why not be frank and acknowledge il? The mo8t of U3 would long ago have been dasned to pieces had hot gracious and loving hands steadily and lovingly and mightily held the rope. But there must come a time when we shall find out who these Damascenes wpr* whn lnwAPAfl Pan] in tHft basket. and greet tbem and all those who have rendered to God and the world unrecogn'zed and unrecorded services. That is going to be one of the glad excitements of heaven?the hunting up and picking oat ot those who did great good on earth and got no credit for it. Here the church ha3 been going on 19 centuries, and this is probably the first sermon ever recognizing the services of the people in that Damascus balcony. Charles G. Finny said, te a dying Christian, "Give my love to St. Paul when you meet him." When you ana 1 meet him. aB we will, I shall ask him to introduce me to those people who got him out of the Dsmas cene peril. Once for 36 hours we expected every moment to go to the bottom of the ocean. The waves struck through the skylights and rushed down into the hold of the ship and hissed against the boilers. It was an awful time, but by the blessinz of God and the faithful ness of the men in charge we came out of the c} clone, and we arrived at home. Each one before leaving the ship thanked Captain Andrews. I do not think there was a man or woman that went off that ship without thanking Captain Andrews, and when years after I heard of his death I was impelled to write a letter of condolence to his family in Liverpool. Everybody recognized the goodness, I the courage and the kindness of Captain Andrews, but it occurs to me now that' we ne ver thanked the engineer. He j stood a way down iD the darkness amid the hissing furnaces doing his whole duty. N obody thanked the engineer, but God recognized his heroism, and his continuance, his fidelity, and there will be just as high reward for the engineer who worked out of sight as the capta/n who stood on the brideo of the ship In the midst of the howling tempest. A Christian woman was seen going along the edge of a wood every eventide, and the neighbors in th^country did not understand how a mother with onH anYifltvias shrmld 1 so rnauy cares ??? waste so much time as to be idly saun- < tering out evening by evening. It was | found out afterwards that she went thereto p^y for her household, and while there one ever iag she .rrote that i beautiful hymn, tamous in all ages for cheering Christians hearts: I love ro steal awhile away i From every cumbering care An d spend the hours of setting day In humble, grateful prayer. I ( i Shall there be no rewad for such un^Afan^incr Trot, ovprlastinir sprvinfl ? i jvw v, 0 ^? I We go into loDg sermon to prove that we will be able to recognize people .1 in heaven when there is one reason we ; fail to present, and that is better than i all?God will introduce us. We shall i have them all pointed out. You would not be guilty of the impoliteness of having friends in your parior not in- I troduced, and celestial politeness will demand that we l>e made acquainted ( with all the heavenly household. What n rehearsal of old times and recital of stirring reminiscences. If others fail ito give introduction, God will take us through, and before our first 24 hours in heaven?if it were calculated by earthly timepieces?have passed we shall meet and talk with more heavenly celebrities than in our entire mortal state we met with earthly "I~*fonrr rrrhn muiio orront" V6iOUlitUC3> Ulauj nuu LUUMV noise of usefulness will sit on the last seat by the front door of the heavenly temple, while right up within arm's reach of the heavenly throne will be many who, thought they could not preach themselves or do great exploits for God, nevertheless held the rope. Come, let us go right up andaccost those on this circle of heavenly throne. Surely they must have killed in battle a million men. Surely they must have buried with all the cathedrals sounding a dirge and all the towers of all the cities tolline the national grief. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven? "I lived by choice the unmarried daughter in a humble home that I might take care of my parents in their old age, and I endured without complaints all their qnerolousness and ministered to all their wants for 20 years." .Let us pass on round the circle, of thrones. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven? "I was for thirty years a Christian invalid and suffered all the while, occasionally writiDg a note of sympathy for those worse off than I, and was general confidant of all those who had trouble, and once in a while I was strong enoagh to make a garment for that poor family in the back lane." Pass on to another throne. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven ? J'I was the mother who raised a whole family of children for God, and they are out in' the world, Christian merchants, Christian mechanics. Christian wives, ana i nave naa iaii rewara 01 an wy toil." Let as pass on In the circle of thrones. "I had a Sabbath school class and they were always on my heart, and they all entered the kingdom of God, and I am waiting for their arrival." But who art thoa, the mighty one of heaven on this other throne ? "In time of bitter persecution I owned a house in Damascus, a house on the wall. A man who preached Christ was hounded from street to street, and 1 hid him from the assassins, and when I found them breaking in my house and I could no longer keep him safely I advised him to flee for his life, and a basket was let down over the wall with the maltreated man in it, and I was one who helped hold the rope." And I said, "Is tnat an?" ana ne answerea, -iuana all" "And while I was lost in amazement I heard a strong voice that sounded as thouzh it might once have been hoarse from"many exposures and triumphant as though it might have belonged to one of the martyrs, and it said, "Not many mighty, not many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the weak things of the world to confound the things which are mighty, and base things of the world, and things which are despised hath God chosen?yea, and things which are not?to bring to naught things which are, that no flesh giQjy ^ ^is presence." And I looked to see from whence the voice came, and lo! it was the very one who *- ~ 2 ? A kAf. naa aaia, "xnruugu a wiuuuw m a uar ket was I let down by the wall." Hencforth think of nothing as insi-?- ! nlficant. A little thing may decide 1 your all. A Conarder put out from ' England for New York. It was well i equipped, but in putting up a stove in 1 jthe pilot box a nail was driven too near the compass. You know how ! that nail would affect the compass. : I The ship's officer, deceived by tbat dis j traeted compasj, put the ship 200 miles ; ' off her right course, and suddenly the ; ; man on the lookout cried, "Land, hoi" and the ship wa3 halted within a few yards of her demolition on Nantucket 1 shoals. A sixpenny nail came near ( wrecking a Cunarder. Small ropes hold 1 mighty destinies. < A minister seated in Boston at his ] table, lacking a word, puts his hand beKin A Vila hocui anil tilt* hflrtJr in h'S I chair to think, and the ceiling falls and crushes the table and would have crushed him. A minister in Jamaica ( at night, by the light of an insect called { the candlefly, is kept from stepping ( over a precipice a hundred feet. F. w. 1 Robertson, the celebrated English cler- < gyman, said that he entered the minis- 1 try from a train of circumstances 1 started by the barking of a dog. Had : the wind blown one way on a certain < day, the Spanish inquisition would < have been established in England, but it blew the other way, and that dropped the accursed institution, with 75,000 1 tons of shipping, to the bottom of the 1 sea or flung the splintered logs on the rocks. UillLUtauu 1U J VUl AA1V VI. mine. Three cipher placed on the right side of the figuie 1 make a thousand, and six ciphers on the right side of the figure 1 a million, and our nothingness placed on the right side may be augmentation illimitable. All the ages of time and eternity affected by the basket let down from a Damascus balcony! A Woman's Body Niagara Falls, March 9.?A big cake of ice floating down ihe river toward the Horseshoe falls, whirling in the rushing current and on it lay the ooay ox a womau, uor uoau uau^iu^ ] half oyer the edge of the cake. As it was swept past Loretto convent the ] nuns were notifled by a sister wbo discovered the dead woman, and as the Ice floated ny with its dead burden the ; nuns prayed for the dead and dying. I For an instant only the Ice paused at < the brink of the falls and then it was ; swept over into the seething mas3 of ( water below. The body must have been i frozen to the ice, for several hours later ] it was seen in the rapids near the Am- < ericanshorey by a number of, people. < * " " 1? - ^ J U i xoe onij way il wuum uavc gvn/cii i down there was by passing under trie i big ice bridge which has formed. No t attempt was made to reach the body, ? for it could not have been secured under any circumstances. It will not be rescued before the ice melts. It is supposed the woman's body came from j up the laae somewhere. It was clad i in a dress of dark stuff. i ***> RftTinap cri vbq to the Dllb- ' JJUIi XWV^JLV AJUUUVI. is* * W ?w jp lie a letter lie received from Henry Ward Beeeher years ago in which the latter says eoneerning a visit to Lincoln: "Abraham told me three staries, two of which I forgot and the other i won't bear telling." < A CLOSE ELECTION. THE R4CE FOR CONGRESS IN THIS DISTRICT VERY CLOSEA. Very Light Vote Polltcl Throtsjjhcut ! the District?The F^publlCfingTake VorT i I.tttle Interest la the Election ac<l Cast Few Votes. ( The election l'or Congressman to till j the unexpired terra of Brawley came off last Tuesday. The vote throughout , the district was light, not more than ( two thirds of the Democratic vote be- i ins:polled, la tbis county the vote i arrw fnllnw?- * Precinct. Iziar. Stokes. Orangeburg 299 199 Crancbville 35 53 ] Ro<vesville 27 40 i 3 a .ison 12 62 \Torth 30 113 Q.:attiebaum 5 53 ( Ayers 14 130 < Cedar Grove 1 92 St. Mactbews 1 4 Corbettsville 66 16S ! Gleaton 49 126 1 Zeigler 14 129 ! Eisterlin 4 149 Connor 25 "48 i Tbe total vote In tbls county is 1,985 i Jtc fnllnws- j Stokes 1,372 Izlar 583 | Majority for Stokes . 790 ] It is estimated that about 150 colored , votes were polled in the county, of , which Gen. Izlar received 100 and Dr. , Stokes 50. , In tbe primary election of. 1892 Dr. Stokes received 1,916 votes and Mr. 1 Brawley 758, making a total of 2,673 1 votes in 1S92 against 1,?54 this yeai which shows a falling ofE in the vote in i the present election of 719. Deduct the i colored vote, which is estimated at 150, < and the falling off in the vote in the , county is 870. Br. Stokes received 544 votes less in the present election than he received * in 1892, and Gen. Izlar received 176 less , vnt.es than Mr. Brawley received in 1892, making a total falling off in the vote of 870 as above stated with the 1 colored vote deducted. 1 A special from Barnwell to the Co- ' lumbia Register says at Corbettsville i several fist tights occurred, and that < one man was arrested for trying to vote five times. This is the only ilis- ; turbance that we have heard of any i TOherfl in the countv. CHARLESTON COUNTY. The vote in Ihe city of "Charleston fell off about the same ratio that it did , in the other counties, the vote being as ' follows: . Izlar.... 1,995 Stokes 112 1 The outlying precincts in Charleston County will increase Izlar's majority to about 2,000 COLLETON COUNTY. The following is the-vote in Colleton County as far as heard from: Precincts. IzUr. Stokes. | Waltprboro 102 29 , Reevesville 44 5 Georges.. 97 115 ' Summerville 32 3 Ridgeville 9 13 * ' ' *- - ~ "D cj f ii. special 10 LOfc V_/U1Uijjuici .jLvoj<;i.i>i.oi. says the Summerville box will be contested on the ground of illegal voting. ' It is claimed that the -managers alio vved registered voters of Berkeley and the Seventh District to vote at this box. I A dispatch from Summerville to the News and Courier says tbe vote at that , precinct was very light, considering tbe amount of electioneering done. Xo : poll was opened on the Colletoa side of . Summervillef which lost Izlar a good J vote. The ballot boxes was not re- ' ceived, although reported as having ' been expressed from Walterboro on the 8th instant. At the polls opened ' hpra on the ISerkelev side of Summer- 1 vine lzlar received 32 and Stokes 3. It 1 is claimed that there is no authority in I the statutes for the opening of this i poll, and a contest will in all probabil- < ity be made if their votes are received ] and canvassed by the election commissioners at Mount Pleasant. { Ten precincts out of the fourteen in < this county gives Gen. Izlar 120 major- k ity. It is thought that the four precincts yet to hear from will reduce Izl:<r's majority to about fifty in the J entire county. 1 LEXINGTOX COUNTY. 1 The vote m Lexington County, like ? in all the other counties, was light, be- < imrahni;f, a two-thirds vote. The fall- i iDg off injures Dr. Stokes. The total vote polled in the county was about < 1,700, of which Di. Stokes received t something over 1,000. These figures j are not official, but are 'estimated by ? the Columbia Register correspondent j it Lexington. The following 13 the , detailed vote in Lexington County as k far as heard from: " Precincts. Izlar. Stokes. ' Batesburg 49 39 I Lexington 72 166 Swansea 45 79 t ?T? " '- >?j on t lNew uruusxauu ?ju ^ Peaks 13 68 Estimating from half the precincts in the county heard from the vote falls off Dne thousand from the Congressional primary of 1892. Izlar's vote is 25 per ;ent. less than Brawley's and Stokes 35 per cent, less than bis vote of that year, rbis will give Izlar about COO" and Stokes 1,200"'votes in the county. THE YERY LATEST. The very latest news indicate thafr > Sen Iziar is elected by a-small majority. ? Dnly a small portion of Lexington j LJounty has been heard from, ana tnese returns indicate that Dr. Stokes has carried that county by about 800, but lis majorities there and in this county will not be snfficient to offset the majorities Gen.Jzlar received in Charleston md Colleton Counties, which is put lownat about 2,050. Gen. Izlar elected. All the counties have been heard from, and the returns elect Geu. Izlar Dy a majority of 500 at least. Turned Fiend. j Vl/rrirrTTtj TVvnn KfoivOlQ kJ-AAfCA Y J.guu.} V, A.. Smith, a farmer, about 35 years of ige, in the edge of Pickett county, sev3ral miles above Celina, went home 3runk Wednesday night, and brutally murdered his youngest child, after cvhich he beat his wife in a horrible manner, cutting her thorat and then crushing her head. Leaving his bleudincr victims hp renaired to tbehOUSftOf < '"6 ' ? J r - c iis sister-in-law, a short distance away, ? md QndiDg her sick in bed. grasped her by the hair and dragged her on to the Eloor, stamping her. She managed to < escape from him and alarmed the ^ oeighborhood, who soon discovered ? Smith's terrible crime. Smith has fled ^ Lhe neighborhood aDd bis whereabouts v ire not known. He will very likely be ^ lynched if captured. c Probably some American citizens [ ire ignorant of the reason why the j bankers of Xew York turned at first a ? jold.deaf ear to Secretary Carlis'ft's \ ippeal to them to suDcrlbs for his 650- J Y)n fMY> hnnda. then charged their mind3 * suddenly and in 24 hours took the whole c loan. Tbe reason was that they found ( Dut Secretary Carlisle was gcin^ to 3oiE some of the silver bullion In the treasury and put it into circulation in :ase he failed to secure the loan. liath- s than see the currency expanded by i 3ilver they took the bonds in a hurry c tttt; v Stroudsburg, Pa, March 15.? > liicuard Parjear, who murdered Chris- ] Lian Eblers, near Tannersvil'e about a f month ag3. escaped irom. jail here this morning. A crowd gatnered and Paryear was c lughi in Cherry Hollow woods. He fought desperately, but was over- j powered and taken to Palmer Island by ? the mob. A rope was obtained and the j murderer was hanged to a tree until \ dead. 1 THE BLAND BILL PASSED. 4 ^I?j)rlty Ot Thlrffcen Given '.u bv The j Senate Washington. March 15.?A resolu,ion wa3 ofTcrei by GalliDger (Rep.) of Sew Hampshire and laid over tempera- 1 :ily calling on the Secretaries of the rreasury and Interior for the names of til clerks appointed, promoted, reduced dismissed in their respective departments since March 4, 1S93, with the Statft to which each is credited. At -r 12:30 the Bland sei/Diorage hill wa3 ^ .aken up and Carey (Rep.) 0; Wyoming ? joc tinned his speech begua yesterday ^ igainsl it. He characterized the bill as ^ he ^crst biow aim^d at silver siace the ( SeoioDStizatloa of silver in 1873. t T-^e next speech on the subject was i made bv Dcbois(Rep.) )f Idaho. He S2id 1 that he took do comfort ia voting for the 1 bill. It was not the kind ot silver legisia- s Lion thai; suited him. He should like to e rote for a free coinage measure. ; The next epsaker was Mitchell (Rep.) e if Oregon. He saiu that he should vote tor the bill, not because ?e believed it ? sveat so far as it ougfct to go in the ia- I LeresL of silver as a money metal, but ^ because it was a move on the legisia- ^ Live checker board in the right direction. ^ r il-.'v Crinnf a*. 4r?r\m T^s'nA CTAllW t U'-AO *-Uw C^UabUL UVLU IUUUU^ uu HUU?M ^ couch prefer that it was a free coinage g tiill; and then he would vote for it with c ?reat Dlaeasure. t Palmer (Dam.) of Illinois opposed the fc bill, and quoted Hewitt's statement that s it proposed to coin a vacuum. It was, t indeed, he said, a vacuum, lor it was 1 idmitted that if the whole mass cf sil- s per purchased under the Act of 1890 ^ were put on lbs market today it would j: bring many mDlions less than the amount necessary to di3char^-:- the Trea- g 3ury notes issued lor its purchase. JHe believed the bill to be so defective c Lhat the silver which it required to be *] ;oined would remain inerL in the Trea jury, and that not a single silver dollar could be put into circulation under it. Pettigrew (Rep.) of South Dakota had just begun an argument in favor of the 1 bill, when Harris rose aod ih his most 1 impressive tones said: "Mr. President, !. the hour of 2 is recorded by that clock : (point'102 to the clock over the main j doorway) and at that hour the unaniin ous agreement ot the Ssnate is that ihe t final vote shall be taKen on ihe passage rt of this bill. I ask for that vote." ] TlnTrici /T>arv \flnnoQnfo Qftlror? t.lifit. 1 JL/AVXC y VI i.<A>UU vUWM VUM w | X Pettigrew should be allowed to finish his i 3V?eech. f Harris: "I object. If I were to yield < to the Senator from South Dakota I * would feel bound to yield to other Sen- 1 ators. I vield to nobody.'' (Laughter.) 1 Kyle (Pop.) 'of South Dakota asked ,, that Petiigrewtmigbt be allowed to have j all his speech printed in the Record. . The presiding offices, Vilas (Dem.) of s Wisconsin, declared the question to be: t l'Shall the bill pass?" j The vote *as taken and the bill was t passed, yeas 44, Lays 31, as follows: Yeas?Allen, Bate, Berry, Black- t burn, Blanchard, Butler, Call, Cockrell, i Coke. Colquitt, Daniel, Dubois, Faulk- t aer, George, Gordon, Hansbrcu^h, liar- \ ris, Hunton, Irby, J^nes, of Arkansas, * Kylev, Lindsay, McLaurin, Martin, * Mills, Mitchell, of Oregoh, Morgan, Pasco, Pcffer, Perkins, Pettigrew, Pugh, . Qaav, Ransom, Roach. Shoup, Stewart, Teller, Turpie, Vest, Voorhees, White, Wolcott?44. - ? Nave?Aldrich, Allison, Brice, Caf- ^ Esry, Carey, Chandler, Cullom, .Davis, c Dolph, Frye, Gillinger, Gicson. Gor- t man, Hale, Eawley, Iligginn, Lodge, i McMillin, McPherson, Manderson, 2 Mitchell, of Wisconsin, Morrill, Mur- c ph?. Palmer. Piatt, Proctor. Smith, t StockbrkUe, Yilas, Washburn, Wilson, c -31. 2 When the result was announced, there ? era3 hand-clapping in the crowded galle- ^ :ies. which breach ot order was rebuked I oy the presiding officer. Then the spec- ? iators began to desert the galleries; and j the Senate chamber resumed its air ^ 5f quiet languor and respectability. The ^ Republicans who voted for the bill were; s Dubois. Hansbrough, Mitchell of Ore- c joa, .Pettigrew, Power, Quay, Shoup, S Stewart, Teller and Wolcott. e The Democrats who voted against it fc ^ere: Brice, Caffejy, Gorman, Mc- 11 Poerson, Mitchell of Wisconsin, Murphy, Palmer, Smith, and Yilas. The c -hree Populist Senators?Allen, Kyle ind Peffer?voted fjr it. Hill, (Dem ) v :f Xew York announced his pair ~e vith Dixon (Rep.) of Rhode Tsisnd. j( A joint resolution heretofore ,'ntro- t, Juced by Harris (Dem.) of Tennessee y cr the appointment of a commission tD n 33 composed of the Secretary of the p rreasury, Secretary of War and the At- J ;ornev General for the settlement of h [Jaited Statetes government and the v State of Tennessee, arising out of the f ;ransfer cf railroads, was taken up and passed. ; Teller gave notice that he would try j\ ;o get the McGarrahan bill up for ac- 1 ion nest Monday. ^ After a short executive session the f, loors were reopened at 3.20 and busi- D ies3 was resumed and continued until s L10, when the Senate adjourned until a Sdonday. 2?q business oi general inter- S !St was transacted afcer the executive I tes3ion. The Seigniorage bill canno.t t; each the President before Monday, as P t was not signed bf the presiding of- D icer of the two houses at the time of 2 idjournmrnt. ~ Vlctory tor the State. Charleston, March 13.?The g gained a decisive victory over the rail js oads In the United States Circuit | Tt-i/^rro VJimrtntfin G jUUl.ii LUUaj*, rr ucu o uu^u y iled a decree in the much litigated rail- | oad tax cases. Last year the assess- k rient oil all the railroad property was % arbitrarily raised by the board of ;qualization. The railroads refused to f )ay the taxes on the increased assess- | nent and- carried the case into the S Jnited States courts. They, however, | iendered tte amount of taxes on the ? >ld assessment. The case decided to- % lay was brought by D. H. Chamber- K ain, receiver of the South Carolina ? Railway, to test the constitutionality % )f the assessment made by the board of g :qualization. The court, in a lengthy ? thot- tha assessment. \ UCUU^U VU14U w?*v , vas not unconstitutional and orders ;be receiver to pay the State the bal- | mce due and also costs of the action.? ? >iate, I The Spartanburg Herald says that ; 'Mr. Cleveland's closest friends say he vill veto the .Bland bill. We have had i suspicion to that effect all along. He vould veto a law repealing the taxon State banks just as readily. The presiientis an honest man, a great man and itatesman, but he is not infallible. His inancial views are not such as any in;ellieent Southern or Western man can iccept. Tney go well on Wall street, >ut just as a law for the especial beseit of tbe debtor works a hardship on he creditor, so contracting the curren;y cannot help those who are pro iucers." A Mystery. Pensacola, March 10.?A body of ia unknown xaa was discovered float- { ng in the (5av this morning. He was >{ medium height and had light hair, j weighed probably 1G0 pounds. lie had n bis pocket a leather trunk check, p )earing the name of C. L. Jacobs, San L>iego, Cal. No marks of violence wa3 o ound on the body. A Vessel ia Dinger. PptrmuT V n Marrh 14?A arge three mast schooner, unknown, is inchored about four miles oil shore, [t is blowing a gale from the southvest, and the vessel is dragging towards lookout Shoals. , A ROW BREWING- ! ROUBLE -BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE STATE. 'lis XiM nal Giveruua^nt O/ticora Want to T*l:e Souis !s?'zsd Whiskey from tbe Dispensary?Gov*raor Tilimsn Doesn't Like I*. Columbia, S. 0., March 13.?The Jnited State.} government, and the itate government are about to "mix" iver seizures of contraband whiskeys. Vkat will be the outcome of it no one mows ana it will take time to decide. Governor Tillman does not like tbe inerfArpnfiA of TTrirle Sim's officers, and a a letter which he sent to Collector ["ownes yesterday he says so. Collector lOwnes is probabiy acting under in* tructiorJS from "Washington and whatever he does in the matter in dispute vill be after hearing from headquartrs. The trouble now on hand Is over the eizure, in Charleslon last week of nine >ackages of whiskey which had been lirected to L. Eiias of that city. The yhiskey was shiop^d here and 13 now n the State Dispensary. Collector Cownes wrote to Commissioner Traxler aying claim to the whiskey on the ground that it was shipped into this rate in violation of section 3449 of he Revised Statutes of the United >;,ates. This section provides for the eizure of any whiskey shipped in any nannsr other than under* its proper lame. For instance, in case a person hips whiskey into this State or any Itoto in a hr?v !ahf?1p<1 ''Ranon." or la >eled any way except wiskty, the shipnent i3 liable to seizure. The packages seized in Charleston are ;aid to have been snipped in violation >f the section named. In answer to the :laim of Collector Townes Governor rillman seDt the following letter: "Columbia, March 12,1894, 'Eon. S. A. Townes, U. S. Collector, Columbia, S. C. Sir: Your letter of March 10th, refering to a seizure made by State Consta)le Gailard of nine packages of dis liiea spirits iouua in uie suore ui u. 21ias, Charleston, S. C, has been reerred to the State Board of Control by Sir. Traxler. rou say that ihese pack?ges are liable o seizure under U. S. R. S., section 1449. We acknowledge this, nad the Jnited States revenue officers found the iquor and made the seizure, but inasnuct. as the State constables seized it irst and it has come into the possession jf the State Commissioner a3 "contrajand" under our State law, we deny tbe ight of the government to take it from is on the following grounds: First. This liquor was not being shipped, transported or removed " but lad alredy reacned its destination. Second. It was smuggled into the State to evade the State law, and not ;he United States law, because it bears ill tfce stamps showing that all revenue axes have been paid. Tnird. It is now in possession of a state officer, under confiscation proceedngs, and is to all intents and purposes :he property of the State. It came into ler possession by due process of law md this fact should prevent the rev;nue officers from interfering since sec ,ion 3449 could have no other purpose >ther than to secure the pxyment of the ;ax. We will be glad to have the matter ietteled once for all; first, bj thedeciij An aP f nAm rvtinoiAnAii f- WT n n K i w ayjLi ui ouc o>u ?? aouiu^on, D. C., and it' that is againts our :laiin then we will make a test case in he ^courts by giving bond and defendngsuit to show that our title is good tgainst yours. I simply add, in contusion, thai; we want the matter setled'as soon as possible. We have every lesire to co-operate with the Federal luthorlties in the suppression of the licit traffic in whiskey, but we cannot >e expected to tamely submit to such in unjust claim as this. The United States government encourages men to >reak the State law by letting them lay special tax for privilege to sellYhen th'ey smuggled in whiskey on rhich tax has been paid to avail themelves of the privilege, and the State lonstables seized it. it belongs to the itate, if there is the least regard for quity and. fair play. If we cannot Lold it we will damp it into the streets q the future. Yery respectfully, B. R. Tillman. iovernor and Chairman State Board. paying back the government. Tne State got even with Uncle Sam esterday. During the morning the goyrnment sold at the Federal building a Dt of whiskey which had been seized y revenue officers. CoJ. F. M. Mixson 72ls present at the sale and bought jost of the whiskey for the State Disleosary, paying 81.15 a gallon for it. ?here were several private bidders, owever, and they bought some of the whiskey at 51.25 a galion. These perons were Sam Harmon, who bought a ids ef crntaining forty-seve gallons. Tenry Dart, who bought two kegs and P. MnCarfcha. who bought si* ?ral dqs of apple brandy. Before the purchasers had paid for he whiskey a warrant was sworn out or its seizure and for the arrest of the aen who bought it. The warrant was worn out before Trial Justice Stack nd was placed in the hands of Deputy heiriff Civil. That officer went to the 'ederal buildins in the afternoon, but he whiskey remained unmoved. The purchasers had not paid for it and had ot called for it. They had probably : otten wind of the inteation of the |I j|| ^ ti 1 -.5175, 5 j| >-'^;>..v:.^:; : : ; ?600 bj WE SELL PIANOS Reliable, Durable, Musically Ferfe go because best. We can save you moi times. Write us. Mention tills papt 1 LUDDEN 6 ? Southern Music Hoi DEN8I "THE WORLD'S GREAT TEE MACHINE The O n 1 ] FOR TYPEWRITERS AT THE STi 'NO MAC SINE COULDJ '^fESS 5E ANY BETTER. ITJU ?S|5jji rivave statement of ont UaanAnc.iHlu OAUnh? vv?u?; J. W. G-ib GENERAL AGENTS.C ooioa fho anil orrcof. ! SJUUbV , vw UUW 0UUU UUU U14WW I them if they attempted to take it out. Constables were plsced around the building during the afternoon and we?e ready to pounce upon the whiskey so soon as it was rolled out of the front door of the building and got from 0113 of the hands of the government. It is not thought that the persons mentioned will go for the whiskey today, and the government will resell it. Collector Townes says that it cannot go out of his office except during office hours, from 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. He also says that he has nothing t > do with the whiskey after it is paid for and gets out of the builing. The constables can seize it then and do what they please with it so far as he is concerned. A. Millionaire Manl-ic. New Haten, Conn., March 9.? Hoadlev B. Ives, the millionaire bank president of this city, one of tlie most inflaencier ot Connecticut, became violently insane this afternoon. The deplorable fact soon became generally known and caused the biggest kind of a sensation in business circles. It was first discovered that he had gone mad when about 1:15 o'clock he entered the house of President Wilbur F. Day, of the 23 ew Haven bank and demanded that he be released so that he might prepare his dinner. He then rushed out, came back with two boiled eggs and a plate. After eating he became so violent that the police had to be A.Z C ~ J A uuwmeu. .a. ucuau ui wuetj pauruiLucu. was sent to the house, which is next door to his office. His wife is out of town bat friends came and medical assistance wa3 called in. If he does not recover soon, steps will be taken to to take him to an asylum. He is 60 years old and is rated to be worth from two to five million. He is president of the Yale National bank, president of the Fair Haven and Westvllle Horse Bail way Company and is a heavy stockholder in the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad. An Alabama Sensation, . Memphis, Tenn., March 9.?A special to The Commercial from Birmingham, Ala., says the biggest sensation of the Alabama campaign has just been sprung. Some time ago the Alliance Herald, the official organ of the Klobites began a warfare on Ben Dal a, mos, secretary of t&e State Republican Campaign Committee. In reply he pub 1 I 1 iiaiieu a caru iu several xrcuiucrahiv; papers threatening to make public the vouchers which would ahow that money was paid to him from the National Republican Committee two years ago to Kolbites to help out the leaders, wherecy the Weaver electorol ticket was first supported by these two partis, elected, was to vote for Harrison in case a vote was needed to insure Harrison's election. The Alliance Herald bitterly denied these charges. The Greenville Truth, a straight oat Populist paper edited by J. M. Whitehead, probate judge of Butler county, who was on the weaver electoral ticket, but who has since given the Kolbites the shake, comes out in a lengthy publication exposing the deal. The effect of the exDosnra will be a stunnim? blow to the Kolbites-Populist combine. Democratic leaden say that this in itself is sufficient to defeat Kolb for Governor. A. Preacher Arretted BmmxGKAM, Ala., March 14.?Rev. A. M. Thompson, in charge of the Methodist Church at East Birmingham, was arrested near the close of his sermon Sunday morning by two policemen in citizen's clothes, and will be taken back to Jackson, Miss., where he will serve oat a life sentence imposed upos him five years ago for the assassination of a brother minister in his pulpit while preaching to a large congregation. The cause of the killing was the appointment of the murdered man to the pastorate of Thompson. He was sent to the penitentiary for life, but soon made his escape, fie came, here about two years ago, calling himself Rev. W. M. Thompson, and assisted in quite a number of revivals, proving himself an earnest exhorter and preacher. His congregation was horrified a't his arrest and can hardly believe that the pastor is guilty of the crime alleged. He is in j all at present and will be taken to the Mississippi penitentiary at once. While deer driving in lower portion of Marioncounty,a fewdays^ago, Mr. i no may n.. .carton ui tue ^uwuuujr neighborhood, made one of the most remarkable shots that has been recorded ill this State within quite a period. Three deer, a buck and two does, were jumped at one time by the dogs and ran out in a bnch, at the stand occupied by Mr. Kirton, coming directly towards him, and whea within a short distance he fired, killing all three of them at the single shot. Tested.' Shbevepobt, La., March 10.?United States Circuit Judge Boardman presiding on a jury triad, gave judgment to the heairs of J. Leman vs. Knights ot Pythias, for the amount of the policy in that order. The payment of the policy was contested on the suicidal clause. The amount was $3,000. This wftr a t^st cara. The lawyers engaged In the Breckenbridge-Pollard case at Washington had a regular knock-down and drag-out fight in the courthouse immediately after the adjournment of the court last Monday. The row was caused by one , lawyer insulting another in the coures of argument. If FANS ONLY $150 i PIANOS?So-Called. TIN PANS" IN TONES, QUALI- M lNd musically valueless, m nean the Pianos so glaringly adver- KgS inder "Grand Offers," "Factor? " "Agen's' Profits Saved," for $150, >190, and misrepresented as "Mag- tps C," "Best Made," "Same as Sold at igs Regular Dealers." &? .-3fOT TIH PASTS. P ct?Only 1225, $260.5300?Cheapest M iey. 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One of these broth- " M ers is not even a subscriber to the Beview and the other, though he has been taking the paper for two or three years * has never paid us a red cent for it. And yet they have the cheek to tell us, % fl through oar own columns, that the paper is not being run to suit them?that 1 it hasn't done this and it hasn't done that, which in their stupendous judgment it ought ta have done. We are always glad to receive suggestions made in good faith by paying subscribers, in regard to the management and editorial conduct* of the Review, but it makes 'that tired feeling' come over us to have persons who do not contribute anything whatever to the paper's sup port rear up on their Mad legs, jerooalike, and patronizingly tell us now to ^ attend to our own business." yj 'ADCETT PATjIHE FKEI6H1 X= y atenia Goods! ^ssi for al2io2M and See W3M||^uyjjd^ ^uitsiall ^riicea?1^ i jm $69 I JS^~~r 'ina Justtc introduce them. - ? MffSMSr^i t,? height paid on thw Or-* jr' l.!.-...7Tin gan. 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