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lie TALMAGE'S SERMON. rio?"STRANGERS IN 1 OWN" WAS R?V. DR. TALMAG?*S SUBJECTHis Texfrj *'l Waft ? S r?nter} ?cdT?Took Me Io"?Where ihe Str?n??r Should Nor Go- ExpIo?ix>jt a Cut's Infquit'en. /Ibouklyn, A^rU 8.?Before do audience Id ifce world cou'd sucb & sermoD ? "rx- rr>-1 ? ~ hpl 80 li*V. XT. X illLuv (iiwu^u v? aa appropriate as in the Brooklvn Tab. ern?cle, where it is estimate'! tha* 150,009 Grangers attend every year. It *'as a sermon that bad for the n a special in? tere<<t. Toe text seltc'ed was Mat'hew xxv, 35, l,I was a stranger, and ye took me io." It is a moral disaster that j ">co3ity has M * * . f onnnfnrp Cfc8jy>uea so mwy and mv text is one tbar. has suffered trom irrevereDt and misapplied quotation. It 8hows great poverty of wit and bumor wben people take the sword of divine truth for a same at fencing or chip off from the K >hinoor diamond ?f inspira . lion a sparkle to decorate a fool's cap. My text Is the salectati^n in the last jud* men*. to be given to those who have shown hospitality and kindness and Christian helpfulness to strangers. By raiiroadaud steamboat fhepopula tion of the eaVth arc air the time m motion, and from one gear's end to another our cities are crowded with visitors. Erery morale? on tbe tracks of tbe Hudson river, the Pennsylvania, tbe Erie, the Long Island railroads, there come passenger trams more than I can number, so ihat all ihe depots and tbe wharves are a rumble and a-clang with the comiog in of a sjreat immigration of strangers. Some of them come ror purposes oi barter, some for mechanism, some for artistic gratification, some for sightseeing. A treat many of them go out on the evening traios, and conse quently the city makes but little impression upon them, but there are multitudes who, in the hotsls and boarding houses, make temporary residence. They tarry here for three or four days, or as many week. Thev spend the days in the stores and the evening3 in sightseeing. Their temporary stay will make or break them not cnly financially, but morally, for this world and the world that is to come. Maltitude3 cf them come into oor morning and evening services. I aoi conscious that I stand in the presence of many this ^ - moment. I desire more especially to - "v " speak to them. May God give me the right word and help me to utttr it in the right way. There have glided into this house those unknown to others, whose history, it told, would be more thrilling than the dee nest tragedy, more exciting than ? _ Patti's song, more bright than a spring, morning, more auful than a wintry midnight. If they could s'antf up here and tell the story of their escapes, and their temptations, and their bereavements, and their disaster, and the>r victories, and their deteats, tbere would be In this bonae such a commingling of groans and acclama tions as would make the piace unendur ttUlC. Thsre is a man wbo, in fancy, lay in a cradle satin lined. Our. yonder is a man who was kicked up, a f >undling, on Boston common. Here a man who is coolly oliserviiu? this religious service, expecting no advantage and carina for no advantage tor himself, while yonder is a man who has been for 10 years in an awful conflagration of evil habits, and he is a mere cinder of a destoryed nature, , and be is wondering if there shall be in i this aervice any escape or help for bis ; immortal soul. MeetiDg you only once perhaps lace to face. I sirlke bands with i ? trr>n in on eartiftKt talk about VOUT DrSS- I ent condition and your eternal well being. S . Paul's ship at Melita w<snt to i pieces where two seas meet, but we stand today af. a point where a tbousaud ( seas converge, and eternity alone can tell the issue of the hour. < The hotels of this country for beauty i and elegaoce are not turpassed by ths i hotels in any other land, but those that j are ni^si celebrated f ?r brilliancy of tanes i try aijd mirror cannot give to the guest ( any costly apartment unless he can af~ ir. orMifirm *A hi? livfiyiHC. iUiU Ck ?JC*t 14-1 UUutMvkA ?w ? - The straDger, therefore, wDl generally find assigned to him a room without any pictures and perhaps any rcckiDg chair. He will 6ud a box of matches on a bu reau, and an old newspaper left by the previous occupant-, and that will be abcut all the ornamentation. At 7 o'clock in the eveniog, after having taken , his repast, he will look over his memo < randum book of the day's work, he will write a letter to his home, and then a desperation will seize upon him to set out. You hear the great city thundering under your windows, and you say, "I must join thatprccessioD," and in 10 minutes \ou have joined it. Where are you KOing? "Oa," you sav, "I haven't t T)? "Ra+f-or motft IUSUC up 1UJT Ul.UU JCI. uxav up jour mind before jou start. Perhaps the very wav you go now jou will always go. Twenty years ago there were two vouns: men who came down the Astor House steps and started out in a wrong direction, where the? have been going ever since. "Well, where are you going?" says one man. "I am going to tne academy to hear some music." Good. I would like to join you at the door. A t the tap of the orchestral baton all the gates ot harmony and beauty will open before you. I congratulate you. Where are you going? "Well," you say, "I am going up to see some advertised piclures." Good. I should like to go along with you and look over the same catalogue and study with you Keasett and Bierstadt and Church and Moron. Nothing more elevating than good pictures* Wkers are you going? "Well," you say, "I am going up to the Young Men's Christian association rooms." Good. Ycu. will find there gymnastics to strengthen the muscles, and books to improve the mind, and Christian infla ?nce to aave ice sou.':. jl wisu every ua) in the Unitsd States had ss fine a palace for its Ycung Men's ChrUjfcan association as New York has. Where are goina? 4'Weli,"ycu say, k,I amgoing to take a long walk up Broadway, and so torn around into the Bowery. I am gilng to study human life." Good. A wall: through Broadway at 8 o\ ck at night is interestins, educating, fascinating, appalliog, exhilarating to the last degree. Stop in front of tbat theater and see who eoes in.. Step at that saloon and see who come3 ou:, See /\f lit* enrorinnr C bU9 biUbO V* 4i*V and forward and beating against the marlie of the curbstone and eddyios down into the salwons. What is that mark on the face of that debauchee? It ia the hectic flush of eternal death. What is that wcmac-'s laughtei? It isthe shriek of a l03t soul. Who is that Chri&f.an man going along ** "iftl f A 1 Ka rvQ 11a rf xyxx a i :ox vx auvujuc ?,\J tuo KWM per on Elm street? Who is that belated man on the way tu apra .er meeun^? Who is that city missionary 2:0101; to take a bos in which to burv a chilc? Who are all these clusters of bright and beautiful facet-? The? are goios to some interesting place cf amusement. Who ?n V>nf man r?/\'n. > A f hu of/\vtO ID i.uab Uiau 1ULV due: UiUJ OtViC. That is tbe man who yesiercav lost all hi*, fortune oa Wall street. He is goioi: in lor a dose of bslladona, ami before mominz it will make do difference to him whether stocks are up or do wo. I tell you thai Broadway, between 7 aod 12 o'clock at Di$ht, between the Battery aod Cen>ral Park, is an Austerlitz, a Gettysburg, a Waterloo, where kingHk doms are lost or won, aad three worlds minpie in the strife. I meet another comin? down off the hotel s:ep?, and I say, l'Wbfr? are yon t'^ins?" You?av. ' lam 2oisg with a merchant ot New York who has pmtn feed to show me the underground life of the city. I am hi3 customer, and he is g >?og to oblige me very much.'' Stop! A business bouse that tries to i-et or keep * onr custom through such a process as tbati3 oot worthy ot y?u. There are business establishments in our cities which have f"r years been stndinsr to destruction hundreds and thousands ot mercnants The} have a secret drawer in the counter wnere money la kept, -nd the clerk noes a?d gets it when be wants to take these visitors to the citv tr rou>ih the low slums ot the nlace, Shail I mention the names of some of 1 onto Kli jhmpntt.? I have them on my lips. Shatl I? Perhaps I bad better leave it to the young men who. in that process", have been destroyed themselves while they have been destroying others. I care not how M'gh scundins: tae uame of a commercial establishment if it proposes to get cas wmers or to k^ep them by such a process as that. Drop their acquaintance. They will send you a style ot goods dif? lerent from that which you bought by sample. They will give you underweiaht. There will be in the package half a dozen less pairs of suspenderi i^-hd yon paid for. They will rob you. 0 \ you feel :n your pockets and say, Is. my money aont?" They have rubbed you ot something for which dollar and cents can never give you compensation. When one of ttese Western merchants have been dragged by one of those commercial agents through the slums of the city, he is not fit to so home. The mere memory of what he hait seen will be moral pollutioa. I thick you had better let the city missionary and the police at tend to the exploraucn of New York and underground lifs. You do not go to a smsllpox station for the purpose of exploration, You do not go there because you are afraid of contagion. Aod yet you go into me presence 01 a moral leprosy that is as much more dangerous to you as the death of the soul is worse than the death of the body I will uadertake to say thai nine-tenths of the men who bave been ruined in our cities have been ruined by simply going to observe without any idea of participating. The tact is that undergrouud city life is a filthv, fuming, reeking. pe3tIrerou3 depth waich blasts the eye that loofcs at it. In the reign of terror in 1792 in Paris people escaping from the officers of the law got into the sewers of thecity and crawledand waited through miles of that awful labyrinth stifled with the atmosphere and almost dead, some of them, when they cane out to the river Seine, where tfcey washed themselves and again breathed the fre3h air. But I have to tell you that a great many of the men who g-> on the work of explora:iOD through the underground gutters of K"cw York life never come out at anv Srine river where they can wash cfl* the pollution ot the moral sewage. Stranger if one of the representatives of a commercial establishment proposes to take you and show you the "8igbtp" of the town and underground New York, say to bim, ''Please, sir. what part do you propose to show me?" About 16 years ago as a minister ef rt-liiioa I felt I had a divine commission to txploje the in;quitles of cur cities. I did not ask counsel of my session, or mv presbytery, or of the newspapers but asking the companionship of three prominent police ? flkials and two of the elders of my cv urjh I unrolled my commission, aud it said: "Son of man di2 into the wall and when I had digged into i he wall behold a door, ana he said Go in and see the wicked abominations i bat are *'one here, and I went 'n and T?mn(?ht nn in t.hpf?nnntrv and UCLlMiU# j ? ? surrounded by much parental care, I had not uatil that time seen the haunts erf Iniquity. By the grace of God, defended, I had never sowed my "wild oats.'1 I bad somehow been able .*> tell from various sources something about the iniquities of the great cities and to prench against them, hut I saw, in the destruction of a great multitude of the people, that there must be an infatuation and a temptation than bad ever bee*n spoken about, and I said, "I wiil explore " I saw thousands of men going down, and if there had been a Rniriin^l nercaasion answering to the ptyysic&l percussion the whole air would have been lull of the ramble aod loar and crack and thunder of the demolition and this moment, if we should pause in out service, we should hear the crash, crash! Just as in the sickly season you sometimes hear the bell at the gate of the cemetery ringing almost incessantly, so I fouad the bell at the gate of the cemetery where ruined souls are buried was tolling by day and tolling by night. I siiid. ;'I will explore." I went as a physician goes into a fever lazaretto, to see what practical and useful information I might get. That would be a foolish doctor who would stand outside the door of aa invalid writing a Latin prescription. When the lecturer in a medical college is done with his lecture, he takes the students- Into the dissectiDg room and he shows them the reality. I went and saw, and came forth to my pulpit to report a plagud. and to tell how sin dissects the body, and dissects the miL>d. and dissects the soul. "Oa," say you, "are you not afraid that in consequence of such exploration of tne iniquities of the city other persons might make exploration and do themselves damage?" I reply, "If in com- ! pany with the commissioner ot police, and the captain of police, and the inspec tor ot police, and the company ot two Christian gentlemen, ana not with the spirit of curiosity, but that you may see sin in order the be tter to combat it, then in the name of the eternal G-od, go. But If not, then stay away." Wellington, standing in the battle of Waterloo when tue bullets were buzzing around his head saw a civilian on the field. He said to him: "Sir, what are you doing here? Be off!" "Why," replied the civilian, "there is no more danger here for me than there is for you." Then Wellington flushed up and said, "God aud my countr? demand that I be here, but you have no errand here." Now I, as an officer in the army of Jesus Christ, went on that exploration and on to that battlefield. If you bear a like commission go; if not 3t*y away. But you sav, "Don't you think that somehow the description of those places induce people to go and see for themselves?" I answer yes, just as much as the description of yellow fever in some scourged city would induce people to go down there and get the pestilence. But I may be addressing some stranger already destroyed. Where is he, that I may pointed'y yet kindly address hiro? Come ba-jk and wash in the fountain of a Saviour's mercy. I do not give 5011 a cup, or a chalice, or a pitcoer with a limited supply to effect your ablutions. I point \ou to the five oceans of Gxl's aeicy. Ob, that the Atlantic and Pacific surges of divine forgiveness might roll over your soul. As the glorious sun of God's forgiveness rides od toward the midh^avens, ready to submerge vou in warmth and light and love,I bid vou good morning. MorniDg of peace for all your troubles. Morning of Iteration for all your incarcerations. Morning of resurrection for your soul buried in sia. Good moraine! Moraine for the resuscitated household that has been waiting for your return. Morning for the cradle ; and the crib already disgraced with ! being that ot a drunkard's child. Morn 4-Urv nn^KfAn fhof Hoa fmnffoH 1 lUfct iUl OLLC UAUiCUiiCi buriu ^uu^vv> off to hard work becanse you did not rake care of home. Morninj? for the wife who at 40 or 50 years has the wrinkled face, aud the stooped shoulder and the whire hair. Morniog for one. Morniog for all. Good moroingl Iu G >d's name good morning. In our last dreadful war the Federals and the Confederates were encamped on opposite sides of the Rappahannock and one morning the brass band of the I northern troops played the national j air, and all the northern troops cheered ! and cheered. Then on the opposite I o!At* t"Kd PonnohonnAAt thp hriUA OIUD VI bUV i.VK^pwiiMMwvv4? band of the Confed-rates played, "Aly Maryland," ana "Dixie," and then all the southern troops cheered and cheer| ed. Bat afrer awhile one of the bands struck up, "Home, Sweet Home," and tde baud oo the opposite side of the riv*-r took up the strain, and when the I tune was doue the Confederates and Federals all together united, as the tears rolled dowu their cheeks, in one great huzz*, huzzi! Well, my friends heaven comes very near today. It is j only a stream that divides us?the narrow stream of death?and the voices there and the voices here seem to commingle, and we join trumpets and hosannahs and halleluiahs, and the chorus of the uaited song on earth aLd ' T-? J9 heaven is "tiome, sweec aome. nume of bright domestic circle on earth! Heme of forgiveness in the great heart of God! Home of eternal rest ia heaven! Home! Home! Home! ?5ut suppose you are standing on a crag of the mountain, and on the edge of a precipice, and all unguarded, and some one either m joke or hate shall run up oehind you and push you off. It is easy enough to push you off. But j who would do so dastardly a deed? I Why, that is done every hour of every I day and every hour of every night. I Men come to the verge of city life and say: "Now we will just look off. Come young man, do not be afraid. Come near; let us look off." He comes to the edge and looks and looks until after awhile satan sneaks up behind him and puts a hand on each of his shoulders and pushes him off. Society says it is evil proclivity on the part of that young man. Oh, no! He was simply an explorer and sacrificed his life in discovery. A young man comes in from the country brsgging that nothing can do him any harm. He knows about all the tricks of city life. "Why," he says did not I receive a circular in the country telling me that somehow they found out I was a sharp business man, and if I would only send a certain amount of money by mall or express, charges prepaid, they would send a package with which I could make a fortune in two months, but I did not believe it. My neighbors did, but I did not. "Why,no man could take my money. I carry it m a pocket inside my vest. -No man could take it. No man could cheat me at the faro table. Don't I know all about the 'cue box', and the dealer's box and the cards stuck together as though they were one, and when to hand in my checks ? Oh, they can't cheat me. I know what 1 am about," while at the same time, that every moment, such men are succum ; bing'to the worst satanic influences in the simple fact that they are going to observe. Now, if * man or woman sball go down into a haunt of iniquity for ths purpose of reforming men aod women, or for the sate of. being able intelligently to warn people against such perils; if, as did John Howard or TM.irohut-h "Prt? nr Thninns flhalners. iiheygo down among the abandoned ror the sake of savin* them, then sucb explorers shall be G >d protected, and they will come out oetter than when tbey went-- in. But if you go on this work of exploration merely for the purpose of satisfying a morbid curiosliy I will take 20 per cent, off your moral character. Sabbath morning comes. You wake u d in the hotel. Y un have had a longer sleep than usual. You say: "Where am 1? A thousand miles from home? I bave no family to take to church today. My pastor will not expect my presence. I think I shall look over my accounts ana stuuy my mcmuiiui'-ium book. Then I will write a few business letters and talk to that merchant who came In on the same train with me." Stop! You cannot afford to do it. "But\" you say, "I am worth 8500,000." You cannot affo'd to do it. X on say, '*1 am worth ?1,000,000." You cannot afford to do it. All you gain by breaking the Sabbath you will loose. Tou will lose one of three things?your intellect, your morals, or you property ?and you cannot point In the whole earth to a single exception to this rule, tfod gives us six days and keeps one for himself.. Now, if we try to get the seventh, he' will upset the work of all the other six. I remember going up Mount Washington, before tbe_railroad had been built, to the Tip-Top Jiouse, ana me guide would come around to our horses and stop us when we were crossing a very steep and dangerous place, and he would tighten the girth of the horse and straighten the saddle. And I have to tell you that this road of life is so steep and full of peril we must at least one day in seven stop and have the harness of life readjusted and our souls re-equipped. Th& seven days of the weefc are like seven business partners, and you must give to each one his share, or the business will be broKen up. G-od is so generons with us; he has given you six days to his one. Now here is a father who has seven apples, and he gives six to his greedy boy, proIroon rtna fnr himoalf ThA pUOXUg iv vuv jlv*. uiu*wv4* greedy boy grabs for the other one and loses all the six. How few men there are who know how to keep the Lord's day away from home! A great many who are consistent on the banks of the St. Lawrence, or the Alabama, or the Mississippi are not consistent when they get so far off as the East river. I repeat?though it is putting it on low ground?you cannot financially afford to break the Lord's day. It Is only another way of tearing up your government securities and putting down the price of goods Klnmln/. nn TTrtnr otnra T ha VP aUU U1U TT ?Ug Uj^ J VVM. WVVTA'W* A MV. . w friends who are all the time slicing off pieces of the Sabbath. They cut a iittle of the Sabbath off that and and b little off that end. They do not keep the 24 hoars. The Bible sayB, Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy." I have good friends who are accustomed to leaving Albany by the midnight train on Saturday night and getting home before church. Now there may be occasions when it is right, out generally it ia wrong. How if the train should run off the track into the north river? I hope your friends will not send to me to preach your funeral sermon. It would be an awkward 1 * ' -< J taicgior me uustauu up uj jum oiuc and preach?you, a Chris tain man, killed on a rail train traveling on a Sunday morning. "Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy." What does that mean? It means 24 hours. A man owes you a dollar. You don't want him to pay you 90 cents. You want the dollar. If God demands of us 24 hours out of the week, he means 24 hours and not 19. Ob, we want to beep vigilantly in this country the Arcerica Sabbath and not have transplanted here the European Sabbath, wbich, for the most part, i9 no Sabbath at all. If any of you have been in Paris, you know that on Sabbath morning the vast population rush out toward the ^KoeV^tei onH hnnHlaa OTlrf UUULili j mtu i/ctonc;*? uuu toward night they come bacfc fagged out, cross and intoxicated. May God preserve to us our glorious, quiet, American Sabbaths. Ob, strangers, welcome to the great city. May you find Christ here, and not any physical or moral damage Men coming from inland, from distant cif.ies, have here found God and found him in our services. May that be your case today. You thought you were brought to this place merely for the purpose of sightseeing. Perhaps God brought you to this roariog city for the purpose of working out yeur eternnal salvation. Go back to your homes and tell them how you met Christ here?the loving, patient, pardoning, [ and sympathetic Christ. Wne knows but the city which has been the destruction of so many may ba your eternal redemption? A good many years ago Edward Stanley, the Eaglisb, commander, with his regiment, took a fort. The fort was manned by some 300 Spaniards. Edward Stanley camec.'ose up to the fort, leading his ok ., when a Spaniard thrust at him witn a sp^ar. intending to destroy his life, but "Stanley caught hold of the spear, and the Spaniard, iD attempting to jerk the spear away from Stanley, lifted him up into the battlements. No sooner had Stanley taken his position on the battlements than he swung his sword,and his whole regiment leaped after him, and the fort, was taken. So it may be with you, O stranger. The city influences which have destroyed so many and dashed them down forever shall be the means of lifting you up into the tower of God's mercy and strength, your soul mor9 than conqueror through the mmaaa mk/v hoo t\t?arr> i anH on aq. gl(tuc V>L LL1LL1 VYUU uao yiULUiOCU c*u v,^ pecial benediction to tnose who shall treat you well, saying, "I was a stranger, and ye took me in." A Fatal Ezploslou. Petersburg, Va , April 8.?The explosion at tbe fireworks factory of C. N. Romaine & Brother in Blandfor'* yesterday afternoon and the great sacrifice of life has beea the theme of coaversation here today. Special refere- ce was made to the catastrophe in all ot the churches today, both white and colored, and the most touching prayers were offered for the bereaved families. Tha funeral* of Messrs C. N. Ro mame, jonn a. eiana, james jsoiana and Robert Rowland, iwo brothers; James Perkins and Edward Taylor, ail victims of tbe explosion, took place today and were very largely attended. The scene at the cemetery was a sad one. The funerals of Messrs C. N. Romaine, and John B. Bland, member? of the city council, were attended by the council, in a body. The faneral of Capt. James T. Tosh will take palce on Tuesday morning from Grace Episcopal Church. He leaves a widow with twelve children. John F. Harris, anoiher victim of the explosion, died this afternoon. This morning another dead body was found near the river bank, but it could Urtfr Tho 'nrwir fUlld07 hod UVU UU iUCUWUW, ywi beea hurled through the air and carried a distance of several huudred yards. A jaw bone wita the teeth was found today a half a mile from the scene of thn explosion. Three hearts and a quantity of bones of human beings were found in the debris. These were placed in a box and buried. Oae of the female operatives in the fireworks factory, when the second explosion occurred became so frantic with fright that she rushed from the building and ran to the river baok and jamped into the stream and would have oeen drowned but for a boatman who happened to be coming up the river at the tim9in a b">at. and who rescued her The h?ad of James Perkins was found this morning some distance from the scene of the explosion. Had the explo sion occurred naif an hour later a hundred or more persons would have been killed, instead of twelve, as the hands, were about to be paid off. Dr. H. Gr. I>igh, coroner, held an lDquest to-dav and a good deal of testimoney was heard. Pending the examination of witnesses an adiouroment was taken to 1 o'clock r-o-morrow. The cond;tioa of Chief Eagmeer V. E irley is critical and it is not thought he can recover. To dav at noon a special meeting of the city councial wa3 held and appropriate action taken on the death of Messrs. C. N. Romanie and John B. Bland, members of that body. Tfai8 afternoon at 3 o'clock pursuant to the call of tha mayor, a mass meeting of citizens was held in the corporation Courtroom to take such appropriate measures of sympathy and rebel as the sad and extraordieary occasion required. There was a very large attendance ot Petersburg's mo3t prominent citizens, including the ministers of the diflerent churches. Mayor Collier presided and the meeting was opened with prayer bv the Rev. H. W. Brttle, D. D., pastor of the First Baptist Church. Oyer $1,500 was contributed at this meeting. The city'council will ba asked to contribute to the relief fund and it is expected to make the fuad $5,000. By the destruction of the fireworks of /"! "W Rjimaino An "Rrn an/1 r.hp. t.nharv.n factory of Bland Brothers & Wright, at least three thousand people are thrown out of employment. Ten Dollars Eich Time. Washington, April 12.?The resolution reported from the House Committee on Rules reads as follows: Rescind clause 1 of rule 8 and insert in lieu thereof the following: 1. ?verv member shall be bresent within the House during its sitting, unless excused or necessarily prevented, and shall vote on each question put unless he has a direct personal or pecuniary interest in tbe event of such quts TTTl ^ ^4 uon. w ueuever m puisuauuc uj. ocution 5. Article 1, of the Constitution of the United States, the House of Representatives, at the request of one-fifth, the members present shall order yeas and nays of its members on any quf-stion to be entered on its journal, and upon a call of the roll of its members for that purpose a quorum thereof shall fail to vote, each member within the hall of the House who shall fail to vote when hi3 name is called, unless he has a direct personal or pecuniary interest in the event of such question, and each member who shall be abseat from the hall of the House when bis name is called, -unless he has been excused, oris necessarily prevented from being present, shall be fined the sum of $10 and the Speaker shall cause an entry of such fine to be made against suca m?muer3 uu uie juuruai ul lug House and the same shall be collected and paid into the Treasury of the United States. The form of entering fines Is stated and the resolution concludes: It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the House to certify to the Sergeant-atArms of the House the names of all members against whom fines are entered and unless they shall be voluntarily paid to him, he shall deduct the amount of said fines from the compensation of said members and all sums that may be paid to or so deducted by him shall be paid by him into the treasury of the United States. A call of the roll of such members of'the House shall not be deemed to have been completed until the Speaker shall hav<? oil nrHarc? rocrurHinor UiOUV Uit UVUthJUUi J W1UV?D fines, which may be impoaed on members in persnance of the provisions of this bill. It shall not be in order to move, nor shall the Speaker entertain a request for unauimous consent, to remit the liaes required to be entered as aforesaid. Ma'dered. New Orleans, April 12 ?The Tim^s-Demccrat's Gainesville. Texas, special says: News comes to this city this morning that a man named Cruz a tenant, had killed Thus. Murrell and his wife near Callsburg in 'his county, early this morning. Murrell had gone to his barn about sunrise to feed hi3 stock and was waylaid by Cruz and shot down with a 48 calibre Winchester. A cry from Murrell attracted Mrs. Murrell's attention, when she beheld her husband lying on tbe ground and Cruz with the weapon still In his I Wnny) O K SV afnwf Ar) f'A K OAQn O O VI utkuu. .ouc availcu ?u wo auu, upon reaching her husband, Cruz fired on her, the bullet striding her on the neck killing her iustantly. The murderer then robbed Mnrrell of his pocket book containing about ST5, saddled Murrell's horse and left going in the direction of Ked River. A posse has gone in search of the murderer. DISAPPOINTED IN LOVE- . F. S. Ke^ra", of Angara, CntiHls Throat ia a B <z Car. Columbia, s. C.,April 13?Sometime bet-.veen 11 lastnurtit and 9 ibis moroiDg F. S. Kearse, a white maD, from Augusta, committed suicide in a box ?->? nf PV.o^lAff A /lonrtf Thto Tin/vT?n i;<iL Ck\j mc vuauvwic ucwui/? JLUIO IU\AUingCapt. Fickltng was walking along the platform of the old Haitiwanger warehouse when he noticed the door of acarslighly open. As he had closed them all the night previous he proceeded to make an investigation thinking he might catch some tramps. As soon as he entered he saw the cold and bloody body of a man in one end of the car. A slight investigation showed that tne m-an's throat bad been cut in the It-fc side of the neck a deep and wide gash haviDg been made and the cut fxtfDded clear around to the right side. He immediately notified Policeman Poland who notified the chief and the COrnner A email r.wrt hladpfl feniffl WAS lying- ju*t to the ri?ht of the body. The 1 small blade was open and the knife was bloody. The man's hat was on, his arms and legs were drawn up but there wa3 no evidence of any struggle; The body was neatly dressed, the man was evidently not a bad looking fellow. A few papers were found in his pockets bat notbiDg that would throw any light ou the afEair. Corooer Roach after arriving empanelled a jury and sent for Dr. Lester who made an examination of the body. He found no other wouad except the gash ia the neck. An old ballet was round on tbe floor bus no pistol was on the p6ison of the dead man and the most plausible explanation of its presence there was that it was in the car when Kearse entered it. Dr. Lester took the body to the platform and searched tbe pockets. He found nothing except a tooth brush, a lead pencil and a copy of the Police Gazette. When the cravat was removed it was found that there had been written or printed with a lead pencil on the liniog this seotence 4,A woman done it." This is evidentlv the clue to the death of Kearse. He was disappointed in love. It was learned tha?< for some time he has been paying attentions to a young lady. Hei parents had positively forbidded her to have anything to do with him but he has managed to see her at vari/>.*a Ua noma PaInmhio nn uuo uuiro, jlxo \/ouiu uv vviuvuvtu vu Wednesday aed wrote the young lady a note. It is supposed that she refused to see him and becoming despondent he killed himself. A note was sent to him at bis boarding house last night after supper but he did not get it as he had gone out before it came. The note was from the young lady bat its contents are not known. Kearse was stopping at the Hendrix House. The first night of his arrival he was under the influence of liquor but had braced up the next day and to all appearances has been sober since. His only business here was to see the young lady and he has been loafing around doing nothing in particular. He has been seen several times at the Charlotte depot and some thought that he was a constable but is evidently not true as Kearse was a barekeeper himself in Augusta. His parents live in Hampton county and are highly respectable people. The busiaess ne was in is said to have been the objection the young lady's parents had to his paying her attentions. K-arse was seen last night about 11 n'mrwlr nn fJnrvaist.reet hv Chief Rid cliffe wandering aimlessly about. The chief told him that he had better get to his boarding house and Kearse walked off a3 if he intended to follow the advice. He was not seen after that so far as is known until nis bodv was found this morning. Mr. J 31. Kirkland, proprietor of the Hendrix House, informed the man's parents by telegraph of his death. The inquest was adjourned until 3 o'clock this afternoon. As a further evidence that the man committed suicide is a sentence found written on a little blank book in his pocket which was. "No one knows what I suffer nor never will vmy uy a wuuiau uuuc. ? Journal. After the SHlltia. Columbia, S. C., April 13.?The State authorities have begun to move against the military companies which declined to obey th? orders ot the Governor during the recent trouble. Yesterday the fallowing order was prepared by Adjutant General Farley and it will be sent to all companies in the State which did not respond to the Governors, call: "You are heresy ordered to collect ali arms and equipments, unifoims and other military property belonging to the State that have been entrusted to you, or in the possession of yeur company, put them in your armory or some convenient place and hold the same subject to orders from these headquarters, re 1" -* ' ?"Un? />ft4rtW /\f porting me uuluuci auu ^uoia^i^i. w same to me. "Your attention is respectfully called to section 426 and 427 of the revised statutes in regard to the militia law3 of the Slate. "By order of the Governor, "H. L. Farley. "Adjutant and las,sector Genaral. "Official: J. Gaby Watts, 'Asst. Adjt. and Ins. Gen. "Tc " Yesterday Lieut. T. B. Woodward of the Mantmorenci Guards, Aiken county, sent in his resignation. Tbe Governor refused to accept it and told Gen. Farley to notify Lieut. Woodward that he could not resign wuile under orders, and that a court martial would De oraerca to try him and all other officers who refused to obey orders. Governor Tdlman yesterday made public the stenographic testimony taken at the coroner's inquest in Darlington recently. The matter is entirely too voluminous for any newspaper to attempt to publish. There are about 150 piges or typewritten matter. All the constables told pretty much the same story and they swear that young Norment, who was killed, fired the first ohot, CdI. John Gary Watts is preparing a "ariAri- -if oil ihe mi'ifarv nflfAMa incident to the "insurrection," as far as the Columbia end of the line is concerned. It will also give a statement of the guns taken away from the Columbia, Charleston and other troops. It will be made public this afternoon. Governor Tillman yesterday afternoon offered the press an opportunity to copy every telegram he sent out during the entire trouble. The ma88 of telegrams was so sreat that it was im possible for any of them to bs bandied yesterday. The most important will, however, very likely be published from time to time.?State. Mr Charles M. Pratt of Brooklyn, X. Y., has had S3,000 worth of the finest Jerseys on Long Island killed because he believed they had tuberculosis. He did this In spite of veterinarians who oil riohf (10SU1CU LULLI l/UO uamc nuu uu He did it because the ?atle all responded to the Koch test for tuberculosis, administered by the Vermont veterinarian Frank A. Rich, and more are likely to be killed. The value of the test is generally recognized in the Northeastern States. It has never been employed, so far as reported, in aoy Southern State. Short. Darlington, S. C., April 11.?J. H. Schmid, a former employe of the postoffice hare, under tne Republican Postmaster Gatlin, was arrested for defal catioQ today. The shortage is about ?1,000. He was taken before United states Commissioner Sanders and made to give bond for his appearance before the United States Court, So far as the facts can be gathered, the former postmaster, Gatlin is not in any way implicated in the matter. / / COTTON FERTILIZERS. I The Qacstjon Should Be Studied What the Land and the Crop N^eda. An article on fertiliz-rs for cotton, compiled by Dr. J. M. McBrjde, President of \riremia Agricul' ural and Mechanical College and Director of Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station, A' ?" * ? aC norriarl I rum iucuuLiis ui ca^chujcuw uou*vu on under his direction for several years on ice farms of the South Carolina experiment stations, has just been published by the United States Department of Agricultural as "Farmers' Bulletin No. 14," and is well worthy of careful study by every intelligent cotton farmer. In the introduction to his article Dr. McBryde briefly explains its purpose and scope as follows: We have reason to believe from extended observation and experience in the field that hundreds of thousands of dollars are annually wasted by farmers In tbe lavish and injudicious applications of fertilizer on cotton. In soils abounding in potash, potassic fertilizers, such as kainit. muriate of ootasb. etc.. are of ten unnecessarily applied to a cost amounting to Si or $5 per acre. It is especially timely at this season, when the farmers are about to plant their crops for the year, to discuss the manurial requirements of cotton, and to give in condensed form the results of careful and long continued experiments bearing directly upon this question. The subject is so broad as to require sub-aivisiou. It will, therefore, be discussed under the folio wing heads: Does cotton require potash, phosphoric acid and nitrogen? If so, in what amounts and in what forms? Does it need lime? Will copperas prevent its rusting? At what time or times should nitrate of soda be applied? How 'J SLIUUiU LUC 1CL LLUZaZL UC ap^li^u i These questions are considered very fully, and are answered by statements of results of the numerous careful experiments made by Dr. McBryde in working out the problems which he presents. The pamohlet numbers thirty pages, and we cannot undertase to give even a synopsis of it here. It may suffice, howevsr, to afford an idea of tbe character of the work to quote a few of points. In order to determine what proportions of the several elements named were most effective in combination for fertilizing purposes, Dr. McBryde made and employed a number of combinations, in wnich the relative quantity of each element was widely varied. For instance, in one series of experiments different amounts of potash were used with full and constant doses of phosphoric acid and nitrogen; in another series different amounts of acid were used with full and constant doses of potash and nitrogen, and so on. Among the results noted were the folio wingt A double dose of potasb, with a full dose of phosphoric acid and nitrogen, gave only nine pounds more oi cotton per acre than a full dose; and the full dose only twenty-four pounds more than a ha.f dose. Double doses of phosphoric acid in combination, it was found, can be advantageously employed. The half dose or nitrogen gave exactly the same yield as the dou^e dose. As compared with the quarter dos-, the half dose did not show an iocrease sufficient to make up for its addition al dos?. Thb results of this series of experiments taken together show that a crop of cotton yielding 300 pounds of 1?~4. ?v/>- na?a 4<nin'T?co HaiiKIo -frill 11 Li l> pwi auto Uvuv/iv uuv XUM or theoretical amount of phosphoric acid, but only about one fourcb to oneCtalf the full amounts of potash aad nitrogen. TUe next series proceeded on the plan of doubling two of tbe three constituents of the combination, while the third was increased or diminished "Doubltt doses of nitrogen and potash gave almost exactly the s?me results as the full or single dose of nitrogen." "Doubling both gave no better returns thin doubling only the phosphoric acid." Double doses of all three elements gave an increase of only two pounds. The value of the pamphlet can be judged in part by tb6 farmer from -1-?~ v,nnntanta ToVii/^h llitSO JJftlO iillllD U1 1 tO wuu^ui\7j nu*vu we have taken almost at random. The closing pages are devoted to a statement of "conclusions," drawn from all the experiments, and a chapter of "practical applications" of the conclusions in the shape of varied formulas and in structions for mixing different fertilizing elements in right proportions, so as to avoid waste. The bulletin is invaluable to cotton farmers and can be had free of cost by application to the Secre tary of Agriculture, Washington, D. C How to Ktll Jfat Graci). A farmer gives this plan of getting rid of the above pest: "I have seen several inquiries lately for a method of killiDg nut grass. I used to think the only way to get rid of it was to move off and leave it, but have found a better method of treating it. I had about one acre of very rich garden land thoroughly seeded down with it. I could raise a winter or early spring crop but it would choke out an7 corn or cotton crop I could plant. Five years ago I raised a crop of Irish potatoes on it, * ' j it * ~ * r trroo IUKI1 piailLCU lb 1U CU1U. UCIUIC IU n no large enough to hoe it was a mass of green nut grass, and to get it out of the hill pulled up nearly all the com. It was very dry at the time, and by the time I was through my corn was nearly all dead, but the grass was doing finely. I concluded to try heroic treatment on it. -So I took a Planet cultivator and tore up every blade of corn and grass in the field, using a hoe around the fences. In about four days a new crop came up. Then I cultivated it the other way, always in the hot sun. The fourth time I plowed it deep, and I got another pretty good crop of grass start ed which cultivated as before. In one month, I think, I had sprouted aDd killed every vestige of it, as not a stalk has appeared since, and it has been planted in corn or sweet potatoes every year since. Yon can take this for what it is worth, but the only way to get rid of it is to keep it from seeding, either j top or root, and cultivate and germinate all dormant seed and kill tbem by cultivation in the dry hot weather of May and June. If you are bothered with nut grass give the above a trial. A Ble Home Grown Steer. Greenville, S. C., April 13? Sam % ft hfAiiffhf- f A uti riamauu, >jx lauvicn, uiuuguu ?,v town yesterday the laagest steer seen bere in many years. The beast was five yerrs old and weighed 1,000 pounds It was black and white in color a:. d showed all the marks of a thoroughbred Holsteln. The steer w*s bought by Alexander Stewart at 1%. cents a pound. Mr. Stewart intends 10 ship it to Norfolk, Ya. For tbe present the big steer is quartered at Brown's livery stable.?News. A Georgia Tragedy. Savannah, Ga.s April 13.?A special to tbe Savannah press says: B. N. I T .imArtaArt O T\TV\m 4 TlOn /*it"i7 0n Af ?J 'UlUUOVUy Q piVLUlUVUU VtViMWW v? Brooks county, Geoigia, killed his nephew John Yattes, last, evening. The uncle was in tbe field and heard his wife scream, and running to tbe house found.tbat his nephew bad made an assault Yates wasatthe front doer but was shot down in bis tracks. Tbe coroner's j ury found a verdict of j ustiuable homicide." Tiie verdict of the jury ^hichhas been hearing the Agricultural Hall j ? ? J J r> ^kovlaofAft Aft CcISC wcib reauacu ill wuoiicov,uu . Saturday night. The verdict is against the State on tne main issue. T&e plainriffs sued for 610,000 damages, but the jury did not award any damages. The case will be appealed to the Supreme Court of the United States. Judge Simonton, as was stated in The iiegister Sunday, would not allow any testimony as to the fraudul^ncy of the Blue Ridge acrlp to go to the jury. * > r . TUP QTATP RANK TAX. The Qa*8 loa to be Discussed In a Democratic Caucus, Washington, April 6?Over 150 Democratic members of the House today united in the following request io Chairman Hclman of the Democratic caucus, for a caucus on the State bank question next Tuesday: "We, the undersigned, most respectfully ask that immediately upon the adjournment of the House Tuesday, April 10, you will call a caucus of Democrats of the House to consider the provisions of the Democratic platform relating to the repeal of the tax imposed by the ?'ederai government upon t&e issues of State banks snd State bank associations." The petition has been circulated by Representative Swanson of Virginia, who has al.w made a poll or the Democrats on the State back question. Concerning the move Mr. Swanson says: "The request for a caucus is the largest ever presented for a House caucus which indicates the great interest felt in the subject. There are two elements ~ 1 ?- - " iavoraoie to toe repeal ui uic oo<*uo bank tax. Oae element wants unconditional repeal and the others want a repeal with Federal restrictions and supervision around State banks of issue. Unless these two elements can get together on a compromise measure, it will be Impossible to pass a repeal bill, but if those favoring repeal will compromise their differences by uniting on a measure which both factions can support the bill can be carried in the House." Mr. Swanson's poll shows not more than 129 Democrats favorable to unomHitinnal rpnftfll Rnt with those favoring conditional repeal the poll shows a wide margin for repeal of the bank tax. Three plans are being considered for presentation to the caucus. One is for the appointment of a special committee to frame a compromise repeal bill aud report it to a subsequent caucus. Another is to enlarge the present Committee on Banking and Currency so as to make It responsive to the desires of a caucus on a repeal of the State bank tax. Thus far the committee has been in a deadlock over a number of repeal bills and the question has been indefinitely tabled. The enlarged committee would have arepeal majority sufficient to report a compromise bill. A third proposition is for the Committee on Rules to take charge of the subject and arrange ior a plan for getting tne question before the House. One of these three plans will be adopted. Speaker Crisp's name is among those signed to the request for the caucus. The other names include the leaders on the Democratic side, among them Representatives Culberson, McMllllc, Outhwaite, Cox of Tennessee, Springer, Doekery and Patterson. It is regarded as significant that seven New York members, Cummings, Coombs, Dunoby, Clancy, Warner, Tracey and Haines, have signed. It has been expressly stipulated in securing signatures to the caucus petition that members shall not be bound by the action of the caucus. In some cases this condition nas oeen attacueu to the signatures. Representative SwansoD, who circulated the petition, says that it is fully understood that the caucus is to be a conference toward securing a compromise and not . a meeting binding on the Democratic majority of the House. RESOLVED, BY THE CAUCUS, That the Prohibitory Tax on 5t\te Backi Be Bt-paalOd. Washington, April 10.?The Democratic caucus, after a session of two hours and a naif this evening, adopted the following resolutions witnont a dis sentmg vote: "Resolved, That it is the sense of this caucus that the prohibitory tax of 10 per cent, on State bank issue be repealed." "'Resolved, That when the bill known as the Bra wley ana Spnnser om,wmcu the committee on banking and currency baa ordered reported to the House, is call<-d up for action, an amendment be offered repealing the prohibitory tax on State banks; that ample time be afforded for discussion, and if necessary to secure this, the committee on rules be requested to take proper action." Exactly 102 Democratic members of tbe House were present. The attendance from the South and West was very heavy, but only a few Eastern men appeared among then being Messrs. Strauss. Cummlngs, Dunpby and Warner (New York), Pigott of Connecticut, O'Neill of Massacusetts ar d Sibley of Pennsylvania. tha riis/?n<winn of the reneal of the Svate bank tax proceeded in a desultory way for a time and took wide range. Mr. Culberson of Texas, chairman of the judiciary committee, made a strong speech in favor of it. He reviewed at some length the political situation in which the Southern members found themselves. The Sherman law had been repealed, all hope of silver legislation must necessarily be abandoned for the present since Mr. Cleveland had set the seal of his disapproval upon the Bland seigniorage bill. In the Senate the tariff bill was proceeding slowly. In fact, said Mr. CulDerson, the Democratic members from the South and West baa no recora 01 pledges redeemed to carry back to their people. The only thing left to meet the urgent demand from their sections for a greater volume of currency was the repeal of the tax on State banks'circulation. After some further talk, the above resolutioDs were offered, the first by Mr. Cox of Tennessee, and the second by Mr. Culberson. There was but little diversiiy of opinion in the caucus on the question of the advisability of taking up for consideration the question of the repeal, but there was some opposition to unconditional repeal. The only outspoken opposition to any measure looking to the repeal of the State bank tax, came from Biyan of Nebraska, and .Lane ana wmiamsoi Illinois. Messrs. Gresham of Texas, Swanson of Yirginia, Catchings of Mississippi, Cooper of Indiana and others, ardently favored the proposition. Cummings of New York, made a ringiog speech at the end in favor of the repeal. He declared the people of New York had cast their vote for the Democratic candidates with a fall Knowledge of what the Chicago platform contained and he for one, was "on-l" on/1 onvinna tft TP/lAftm fWfi.TV plank in that platform. At the conclusion of his speech the resolutions were adopted and the caucus adjourned. The result of the caucus only means that the bili to repeal the State bank tax shall be considered as a rider to the Brawley bill, which Is now on the calendar and that a vote shall be had upon it. It was geuerally admitted In the caucus tonight that this repeal could not be accomplished unconditionally. Mr. Swanson gave as the result of his canvas*,129 votes for unconditional repeal; and Mr. Williams declared as a result of bis investigation that a majority of rhn Hnnse favored the repeal, although not unconditionally. The question "of conditions was only briefly touched upon tonight. AH For Lore. Atlanta, Ga., April 11.?Sarah Carter, a buxom yoaog cauatry womaD, threw herself in front of a CentralJKaUroad passenger train at McPherdon Barracks today and was killed tier invf?r r,ouis ^Norwood. a private soldier, had deserted tier. He was discharged yesterday, after three years' service in tbe army, aud left for Baltimore. He had promised to take her vcitb him, but abandoned her. As the traia approaohed, the Carter woman was talkiDg to fDur other women. She | was crying and said her heart was broken. Hei companions had no idea that she contemplated suicide until she cried "goodbye" and jumped in front of the train. -?1 Musical Homes are H?ppy Homes. Have you ever noticed it? Call to mind the homes of your friends who have a good Piano or Organ in the house. Are they not brighter and more attractive than those where the divine art of music never enters? To be sure it costs to buy a good instrament, but it lasts many years, and will pay its costs many a thousand times over by interesting the young folks in their homes. Don't make the mistake, though, of investing haphazard. Post v yourself thoroughly by writing Ludden & Bates Southern Music House, Savahnab, Ga., the great music house of the .'fl South, established in 1870. They have suDDlied 50.000 instruments to South ern homes,'and bare a reputation for fair prices and honorable treatment of customers; and tbey represent the leading pianos and organs of America Tbey take pleasure in corresponding with yon, sending free catalogues, et.c Write them. Bou'fd. Wichita, Kan., April 10.?The fl Dai ton or otber train robbers attempted last night to hold up the Kock Island train, four miles below Pond Greek in Oklahoma Territory. Tbey met an unexpected resistance at the bands of Jake Harmon, the Wells Forgo Express messenger, who shot and killed the first man who tried to break into the CApiCOO IXU. uy LUG uoo ui u;uaiiiiywi. The other men In the gang SiiJu to -. ! escape bat the trainmen succeeded in wounding and capturing another of them and two horses. The other band- ';jH its succeeded in getting away, but without any boodle. -1DGETT PATS THE FREIGH1 WM Why Paj tstiBae Prists for Goods! i*. - A.. era lor l aiawgutj ana ocs waa; m uiwi :<ait?, *11 prices. jBSL, $69?rSf?$37 Just to introduce them. )[|rp3-i No freight paid on this Or? pan. Guaranteed to b? a < "JH ^od orgrsua or money r?JLULgg tA'i '-r-s1 ^^@?b5S& ?;J Entrant Piusb PARLOR SUITS, conri*tto| j?p% o: Sofa, Arm Chair, Rocking Chair, Dlvaa ' A uid 2aide Chairs?worth $45. Will dthvet :;3hB it to your depot for ?88? ?~?" "*1 This No.} .. V.ifl WW5 ym IPg 1 "*%& prioetlS. a. ma a ttWQQ if*nmn (ritn all attachments, for ' <M delivered)' yo^r^epot. V VTbe regular price of thli dSB^ . | BUGGY Is 85to 75dolianj. The manufacturer pay*'all ^iv JB the expenses and I seil them llJB U> too for Ik42.73- I/'tB and guarantee every one a 0fltt? iTl ?v*l 0?^^_fr!i^t_paW gggjgg^ ^1 A ^eeo pia2I? delivered atvourdeyot freight paid for <136 ? 8?nd for c&taloguee of Furniture, Cooktof I Stoves. Baby Carriages, Bicycle*, Oxfmsf, Piaaoa, Tea Sets. Dinner Sets, Lamps, Ac., a&4 AVE MONET. Address ; -j&H L.F.PADGETT "tSSi.'gr Jj 9 Eeonomj3* in VYMBH fnrf and water > J I ^ THX TOJSB I Has no Eatuil. fii ZZZ1*? UORGANS B"C"L?" I I < >nly jyo lor a Superb M ason^?? -.1 I? vr' 9,(n* T f*vw ? \?u, .-y^saaf -y-j lo fitops. lliclJ Cax;. $5 <-H-h (a and SS inont>ily. lUduced Jr3 from $i 15. WkitkUs. cg Beautifui.STKKi.iNG Mirror Top Cr3 only$?0. 4 set* Itoods, 11 estop*. Ci^ Lovely New wyie* at S?i6 and Ss {75. White U*. Elegant New Pianos oni.vS22a.Cra ? WONDERFUL at t he PttlCE. C? '"-^T Tremendous bargains tn nearly Jtjtj S%new Pianos and Organs, used 5? a trifle only. Writs Us. 5g If yon want a Piano or Organ I now is tue lime to Day it<pa bight. Write Us. ^Pg " Write us anyhow. Trade Is (Kg dull and you can't ask more 4 j?| questions about Pianos and Organs than we want to an- j 39 swer. Try it, please. J P9 ~s? lieniHSUil. I Q1VANNAH. GA. !3i NOW IS THE TIME TO PLACE TOUR ORDERS FOR Threshers2! ?*0 ? -z T Call TtAtt in thft Mart fit. Writa AH" ? >?" 7, V T> H to me Before Baying. Shingle Machines, Stave Machines, Brick Machines, * Planing Machines, Swing Saws, Jjfl Band, saws, . Gang liiD Saws. and all kinds of wood workiajf machines. : . Grist MiUs $115 to 3250. 4 Saw Mills $190 to $400: I Water town Eogines and Boilers. Talbott Engines and Boilers. * fi Seed Cotton Elevators. Cottoh Gins and Presses. ?, m HIGH and LOW GRADE. Wr N ?. C# BADHJJT. nnr.TTVRTA. S:d - - - -*