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it . OF A HEART. Dear heart?dear heart! the sweetest heart r.hat ever Gave one quick throb for me' I do pray God that your kind steps may never In paths of darkness he! Eut if they were?O, dearest eye of blue: I would walk there through all my life for you! Dear heart-dear heart: the gentlest heart, that, beating, Felt for my heait one day! I trust that there shall be a tender meeting For our hearts, far away! But if there should not?O' my love, my dear! Since you were happy, I the grief would bear! 00 THYSELF NO HARM. Kvr. Or, Tolmace Discourses Upon the Evils ot Snlclde. Brooklyn, Aug. 12.?Rtv. Dr.Tuimage, who is now abroad, has selected as the subject for today's sermon through the prees the wcrd "Suicide," the test being Acts, 27, 28: "He drew out bis sword and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. Bat Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm." Here is a would fce fucide arrested in his deadly attempt. He wa3 a sheriff, and according to the Roman law a bailiff himself must suffer the punishment due an escaped prisoner, and if the prloner breaking jail was sentenced to be eodungeoned for three or four years then the sheriff mustbs endungeoned for three or four years, and if the prisoner break ing jail was to have suffered capital punishment then the sheriff must suffer capital punishment. The sheriff* had received especial charge to keep a sharp lookout for Paul and Silas. The government had not had confidence in baits an<l bars to keep safe these two clergymen, about whom there seemed to be something sirange and supernatural. v Sure enough, by miraculous power they are free, and the sheriff, wakJng out of a souud sleep, and supposing these ministers have run away, and knowing that they were to die tor preaching Christ and realizing that he must therefore die, rather than go under the executioner's as on the morrow and suffer public dis -1 LfA Kio nwn r?ft . grace resoives iu picwynaut uu ?** ??, , cease. Bat before the sharp, keen, glittering dagger of the sheriff could strike his heart one of the unloosened prisoners arrests the blade by the command, "Do thyself ao harm." In olden time and where Christianity ^ had not interfered with it suicide was considered honorable and a sign of courage. Demosthenes poisoned himself when told that Alexander's embassador bad demanded the surrender of the Athenian crators. Isccrates killed him self rather than surrender to Philip of Macedon. Cato, rather than submit to Julius Cseiar, took his own life, and after three times his wounds had been dressed tore them open and perished. Mithridates killed himself rather than submit to Pompey, tbe conqueror. Hannibal destroyed nis life by poison from his ring, considering life unbarable. Lycurgus a suicide, BrclU3 a suicide. Afcer the disaster of Moscow, Napoleon always carried with- him a preparation of opium, and one night his servant heard tbe exemperor arise, put something in a glass and drink it, and soon after the x groans aroused all the attendants, and \ it was only through utmost medical 3kill he was resuscitated from the stupor of the opiate. v Times have changed, and yet the American conscience needs to be toned np to the subject of suicide. Have you seen a paper in the last month that Oid-not announce the passage cu!yi>fc??eby one's own behest? Defa^^csf alarmed at the idea of expos^jcw^ficiite precipitate? tylMea^osine large lortunes go out of the world because they cannot endure earthly existence. Frustrated aflection, domestic infelicity, dyspeptic anger, remorse, envy, iealousy, destitution misanthropy, are considered sufficient causes for atsconding from this life by paris green, by laudanum, by belladonna, by Othello's dagger, by halter, by leap from the abutment of a bridge, by firearms. More cases of ufe!o do eo" in the last two years of the world's existence. The evil is more and mere spreading. A pulpit not long ago expressed some donbt as to whether there was really anything wrong about quitting this life when it became disagreeable, there are found in respectable circles people apologetic for the crime which Paul m the ". text arrested. I shall show you before I set through that suicide is the worst of all crimes, and I shall lift a warning unmistakable. But in the early part of tbis sermon I wish to admit that some of the best Christians that ever lived have committed self destruction, but always in dementia and not responsible. X have no more doubt about their eternal felicity than I have of the Christian who dies in his bed In the dslirium of tyaphoid fever. While the shock of the catastrophe is very great I charge all those who have had Christian friends under cerebral aberration step on tne douudaries of this life lo have no doubt about their happiness. The dear Lord took them right out of their dszid and frenzied state into perfect safety. How Christ feels toward the insane you may know from the kind way he treated the demoniac of Gadara and the child luaatic and the .potency with which he hushed the tempests either of sea or brain. Scotland, the land prolific of intellec' tual giants, had none grander than Hugh f Miller, great for science and great for Uod. He came of the best highland blood, and he was a descendant of Don aid ^07 a man eminent for his piety and the rare gift of secoftd sight. His attain ments, climbing up as he did "from the quarry aud the wail crthe stonem;son drew forth the astonished admiration of Auckland and Murchison, the scientists, ^ __ and Dr. Chalmers, the theologian, and held universities spellbound while he loldthem the story of what he had seen of God in the old red sandstone. That man did more than any being that ever lived to show that the God of the hills is the Got! of the Bible, and he struck his tuning fork on the rocks of Cromarty until he brought geology and theology accordant in divine worship. His two books, entitled "Footprints of the Creator" and the "Testimony of the Rocks," proclaimed the banns of an everlasting marriage between geuuine science and revelation. On this letter i it-- J J? ? J ??u DOOK Lie tuncu uay auu uj^ui tuiuugu love of nature and love of God until he could not sleep, and hi3 brain grave way and he was found dead with a re volver by his side, the cruel instrument having had two bullets?one for him and the other for the gunsmith who at the coroner's Inquest was examining it and fell dead. Have you any doubt of the beatification of, Hush Miller after his hot brain had ceased throbbing that win ter night in his study at Portebellc? Anion? the mightiest of earth amon? the mighties of heaven. No one ever doubted the piety of Wi! liam Cowper, the author of those three great hymns. Oh, F^r a Closer Walk With God!" "What Various ILn drances We Meet!" "There Is a Foun tain Filled With Blood," William Cow per, who shares with Isaac Watts , and Charles Wesley the chief honors ol k \ Christian hymnology. In hypochon JL 9 dria he resolved to take his own life L and rode lo Ihe river Thames, tut PPL. found a man seated on some goods at the very point from which he expected to sprins. and rode back to his home and that night threw himself upon his own knife, but the blade broke, and then he hanged himself to the ceiling, but the I Hill ?1 HI I 111 mill IIMMBMa??BM?B rope parted. No wonder that when God 1 merofully delivered hiui from that awful I dementia be sat down and wrote that I o her h^mn ju9t rs memorable: * God moves in a myterious way g His wonders to perform. ( He plants his footsteps in the sea , And rides upon the storm. Jjiliiu nnueiiCJ. is auic IUCU And scan his work in yain, God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain. Whi'e we make i his merciful and righteous allowance in regard to those who were plooged into mental incoherence I declare that the man who in the U3e of his reason b v his owa act saaps the bond between bis body and his soul gees straight. into perdition. Shall I prove ii? R?velatijn xxi, 8, '-Murder ers shall havtj their part in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone." Revelation xxii, 15, "Without are doss and sorcerers and whoremongers and murderers." You do not believe the New Testament? Then perhaps vou believe the Ten Commandments, "Thou shalt >not kill." Do yen say all these passages ref*r to the taking of the life of j others? Then I ask you if you are not i as responsible for your own life a3 for i the life of others? God2ave you aspe- j cial trust in sour life. He made you the custodian cf your life as be made 50U 1 the custodian of no other life. He gave 1 you as weapons with which to defend it ! two arms to strike back assaillants, two , eyed to watch for invasion and a natural j iove of life which ought ever to be on . the alert. Assassination of others Is a mild crime compared with the assassina- , tion of yourself, because in the latter j case it is treachery to an especial trust; ; it is the surrender of a cistle you were j especially appointed to keep; it is treason to a natural law, and it treason to 1 Ged added to ordinary murder. 1 To show how God in the Bible looked upon this crime I point you to the rogues' picture gallery in some parts of the Bible, the pictures of the people who , have committed this unnatural crime. Here is the headless trunk of Saul on , the walls 0? Batb8han. Here is the man who chased little David?10 feet in stature chasing 4. Here is the)man who j consulted a clairvojant. witch of Endor. Here is a man who, whipped in battle, instead of surrendering his sword with dignity, as many a man has done, asks his servant to slay him, and when the servant <W:ines then the Liant plants : the hilt oi the sword in the earth, the I sharp point sticking upward, and he J throws his body on it and expires, the ' coward, the suicide! Here is Ahithopel, the Machiavelli of olden times, betraying his best friend David in order that he may become prime minister of Absalom and joining that fellow in his attempt at parrlei'te. Not getting what ho wanted by change of politics, he takes a short cut out 'of a disgraced life into a suicide's eternity. There he 'b, the ingratt! Here is Abimelech, practically a suicide. He is with an army bonbarding a tower, when a woman in the tower takes a grindstone from its place and drous it upon his head, and with what life he ha? left in a cracked skull he commands his armor bearer, "Draw thy sword and slay me, lest men say a woman slew me." There i3 his post mortem photograph in the book of Samuel. But the hero of this group is Judas Iscariot. Dr. Donne says he was a mar tyr, and we have in our day apoigisis j for him. And what wonder, in this da; i when we have a book re /ealln^ Aaron | Burr as a pattern of virtue, and in this day when ? e uncover-?, statue to George ( Sand as tho bene*dctre3S of literature, i and in this la? when there are betrayals j of Qo?iat<ru the part of some of his pre* 1 "traded apostles?a betrayal so olack it makes the infamy of Judas Iscariot white! Yet this man by his own hand hung up for the execration of all the ages, Judas Iscariol. All the good men and women cf the Bible left to God the decision of their earthly terminus, and they could have said with Job, who had a right to com- : mit suicide if any man ever had, what , with his destroyed property and his ! body ail aflame with msunera&ie carbuncles and everything gone from his home except the chief curse of it?a pestiferous wife?and four garrulous people : peltiDg him with comfortless talk while 1 he sits on a heap of ashes, scratching his 1 scabs with a piece of broken pottery, ] yet crying out in triumph, "All the days J of my appointed time will I wait till my ; change come." Notwithstanding the Bible is against ! this evil and the aversion which it creates by the loathsome and ghastly spec- 1 tacle of those who have hurled them- ' selves out of life, and notwithstanding ' Christianity is against it and the argu- 1 ments and the useful lives and the illus- ! trious deaths of its disciples, it is a fact' 1 alarmiogly patent that smciao is on toe increase. What is the cause? I charge 5 upon infidelity and agnosticism this whole thing. If there be no hereafter or if that hereatter be blissful without reference to how we live and how we die why not move back the foldinz doors between this world and the next? And when cur existence here becomes troublesome why not pass right over into Elysium? Put this down among your most solemn reflsctions and consider it after you go 10 your homes: There has never been a case of suicide where the operator was not either demented and therefore irresponsible or an infidel. I challenge all the ages, an?!I challenge the whole universe. There has never been a case of self destruction while in full appreciation, of his immotality and of the fact that that immortality would be glorious or wretched, according as he accepted Jesus Christ or rejected him. You say it is business trouble, or you ] say it ts electrical currents, or it is this, or it is tha!. or it is the other thing. Why ' not go clear back, my friend, and ac- 1 knowledge that in every case it is tue abdication Df reason or the teaching of infidelity, which practically 3ays, "If yon don't like this life, get oat of it." And you will land either in annihilation, where there are no notes to pay no persecutions to suffer, no gout to torment, or you will land where there will be every tning glorious and nothing to pay for it. In.iJelity always has been apologetic for self immolation. After Tom Paine's "Age of Reason" was published and widely read there was marked increase of 8>3lf slaughter. Amanio London heard Mr. O^en deliver his infidel lecture on '-'Socialism" aad went home and sat down and wrote these words. "Jesus Christ is one of the weakest characters ia --3 iu. f uiaiu:y auu iuo jlhuic 13 tuo possible deception," and then shot himself. David Home wrote these * roordg: "It would be no crime ^ for me to divertt he !N ile or the Danube 1 from its natural bed. Where, then, can * be the crime in my diverting a few i drops of blood from their ordinary t channel ?" And having written the es- c say he loaned it to a friend to read it who wrote a letter of thanks and admiration and then shot himself. Appendix to the same book. Rousseau,Voltaire,Gibbon, and Mon- c taigue, under csrtaln circumstances, ? were apologetic for self immolation. I Infidelity puts up no bar to people's ^ rushing o it from this world into the i next. They teacn us it does not make l any difference how you live here or go t out of this world, you will land either a in an oblivious nowhere or a glorious j somewhere. And infidelity holds the ^ upper end of the rope lor tne suiciue, * and aims the pistol with which a man blows his orains out, and mixes the strychniDO for the last swallow. If in- I lidelity could catry the day and per- 1 suade the majority of people that it I does not make any difference how you t go out of the world you will land safe- t y the riyers would b9 impeded intbeir )rogress, and the crack of a suicide's )istol would be no more alarming than hft rumble of a street car. Ab! infidlity, stand up and take tbv ieotence! In the presence of God and ingles and men, stand up; tbou mooter, thy lip blasted with blaspemy, thy jheek scarred with lust, thy breath foul vith corruption of the ages! Stand up, latyr, liltby goat, buzzard of the naions, leper of the conturies! Stand up, ;hou monster inlidelitj! Part man part ^anther, part reptile, part dragon, stand up, and take thv sentence! Thy lands red with the blood in which thou aas washed, thy feet crimson with the luman gore through which thou hast wadded, stand up and take thy sendee! Down with thee to the pit and sup on the sobs and grc3ns of families thou hast blasted, and roll the bed of snives which thou hast sharpened for others, and let thy music be the everastlng miseries of those whom thou last damned! I brand the forehead of infidelity with all the crimes of self immolation for the last century on the part of those who had their reason. My friends, If ever your life thought its abrasions and its molestations 3hould seem to be unberable, and you are tempted to quit it by your own behest, do not consider yourselves as svorse than others. Christ himself was tempted to cast himself from the roof of the temple, but as he resisted so resist ye. Christ came to medicine all our wounds. In your trouble I prescribe life instead of death. People who have had it worse than you will ever have it have gone songful on their way. liemember that God keeps the chronology of vour life with as much precision as tie keeps the the chronology of nations, your death as well as your birth your grave as well as your uradle. Why was it that at midnight, ju3t at midLight, the destroying angel struck the blow that set the Israelites free from bondage ? Trie 430 years were up at 12 o'clock that night. The 430 years were not up at 11, and 1 o'clock would have been tardy and too late. The 430 years were ap at 12 o'clock, and the destroying angle struck the blow, and Isreal was free. And God knows just the hour when it Is time to lead you up from earthly bondage. By his grace make not the worst" of things, but the best of them. If you must take the pill?, do not chew them. Your everlasting rewards will accord with your earthly perturbations, just as Caius gave to Agrippa a chain of gold as heavy as had been his chain of iron. For your asking you may have the same giace that was given to the Italian martyr, Algerius, who. down in the darkest of dungeons, dated his letter from "the delectable orchard of the Leonine prison." And remember that this briet life of ours is surrounded by a rim, a very thin but very important rim, an<t close up to that rim is a great eternity, and you had better Keep out of It until God breaks that rim and seperates this from that. To get rid of the sorrows of earth do not rush into greater sorrows. To get rid of a swam of summer insects leap not into a jungle of Bangal tigers, There is a sorrowless world, and It is so radiant tnat noonday sun is only the lowest doorstep, and the auroratliat lights up our northern heavens, confounding astronomers as to what it ca?i be, is the waving of the banners or the procession come to take t.hf^onqaerors home from church triumphant, and you ana I nave ten taousana reaons ior wanting to jarc there, but we will never get there dither by self immolation or lmpenitency. All our sins slain by the 'Jnrist who came to do that thing, we want to go in at j ust the time divinely arranged and from a couch divinely spread, and then the clang of the sepulchral gates behind us will be overpowered by the clang of the opening of the solid peari before us. 0 God, whatever others may cboose.give me a Christian's life, a Christian's death, a Christian's burial, a Christian's immortality! CAPTURE OF BLUEFIELDS. Hundreds of Feople Laave for Fear of Their Lives. Mobile, Aug. 15.?Steamer Semniva arrived here at 9 o'clock tonight from Bluellelds, Mosquioto reservation. She left BlueGelds on the morning of August 10. The Ssmniva brings the following adrices: The Nicaraguans arrived at BlueGelds Monday, August Gth, and moved r?n "Rlnafiftlda Au?nst 8th. Their force numbered 800. Bluefields was occupied peaceably. The Mosquito, flag was Lowered, loaded Into a cauuon ana fired with a saints to the Nicaraguan flag which had been hoisted to the top of the staft. The British and American marines svere notified by Gen. Gabezas to retorn to their vessels. The order was obeyed. Tbe British offered to take the Jamaicans and na'ives to Port I/mon Eree of charge )f they desired. Six hundred of these subsequently accepted tbe invitation, as there were rumors that the isicaragoaus intended to kill all Jamaicans and natives. There was for a time a reign ot terror among this class :>f inhabitants. They ran through the streets, the women screaming and the children crying, the men hurrying hither ind thither, carrying their household ?oods. Some left all that they had and rushed to the wbarves willing to go in my sort of a craft, tueir only desire beng to get away from Blue5eld*? at once. The scene at the wharves wa3 one :ong to be remembered. The Mohawk ;ook as many of the refugees as she jould carry and others weat in nnvate 33/ats. General Cabezas assumed comnand cf Bluefieldj and issued a prcc'.anation declaring martial law in force. The Americans felt much disappointment at the action of the commanders )f the American vessels, the Marblehead ind Columbia. They thought the American marines had been landed to protect American lives and property, 3ut at the supreme moment, these had Deen abandoned. The officers claimed iey were compelled to obey the orders )f Cabcaas, but would nevertheless jrook no interference with American nterests. The Americans who attend jo their own affairs and have taken no part in the present intrigues are not in -he least molested. Those Americans who were involved in the political in .rigues have left. They went to Captaia 3'Neal, of the United Slates man-of-war tfarblehead, and implored his protecaoa. He told them briefly that if they iad violated the laws of the country he jould not afloid them protection, and if ;hey took refuse on his vessel and a denand was made for them he would be compelled to give them up. Captain 3'Neal remained Arm in his position lespite the appeals and entreaties of hose American intriguers who sought lis protection. Tbe Mohawk was not in port when she Semniva left, having gone to Port r Imnn nrifVt V??r lrtarl /~lf na(iv*a nnrl .Ta. I nacians. from wbich port Capt. Stewart stated that he would continue his jourley to Olon for instructions as to whe,her to 1st Spaniards in or drive them )ut of Bluelields. Shocfeinc Deatb. Nashville, Tenn, Aug. 10.?A. lorrible tragedy was witnessed by a large :rowd of spectators at Gleadale Park, lear this city this evening about G o'clock Sliss Lulu Randall, of Detroit, Mich., vho ha? for some time past has been makng balloon ascension was almost instanty killed. She ascended safely to about wo thousand feet altitude. When the iignal was given she cut the parachute oose. It opened and she descended safey until she wa3 about seventy-five feet rom the grouad, when the parachute lilted into a tree with such lorce that she yas thrown against **, limb and her hold >roke. ;She fell to the ground, and though jhysicians were summoned died soon afer the fall. The remains will be sent o Detroit. . ^a&a^i^EazaMB5esas=?MB5aaaiiPBnv nnriiTr t-: r n T~r -r* A M1SK niiiil BETWEEN TWO POLITICIANS IN A HOTEL LOBBY. Editor Kiester and W. Gibbes Whsley Come to Blowg?The Origin of the Trouble?Cowardly Attack on Mr. Koenter from the Rear. Columbia, S. 0., August 10.?A personal dilliculty in the lobby of the Jerome Hotel yesterday afternoon between George K. Koester, editor of the Kegister, and "VV. Gibbes Whaley of Charleston, a delegate to the State convention, caused some excitement on Main street. It is unnecessary to go into details. The following is an account of the trouble as given to the reporters of other papers by the principals: FROM MR. WHALEY. Mr. Whaley being asked for a statement of the causes leading to the trouble between himself and Editor Koester, said: "I sent Mr. Koester a note this afternoon at about 5 o'clock, stating that in an editorial on the 14th instant he had willfully perverted a conversation with me and that he had told a deliberate falsehood. Mr. Koester called at the hotel this afternoon and had a conversation with me concerning this note. He stated that he J * "? A ?v> An^t^MA ^ rv* r\1 ? nA 4 r? o Ortfl T7^T* - uau ILL a iiiCaoULC luupiidA m u v^u T Ui satiofl whilst in Charleston that I was a coward- I told him I would ask him a simple question: 'Did he mean to say that I was a coward ?' He begged the question and I had to repeat the question several times,stating that he must give a positive answer, yes or no. He finally answered'yes.' I at once slapped his face. He struck at me, slightly grazing me. The crowd in the lobby at once rushed in and separated I regret to say that one of my friends in separating us struck Mr. Koester. I would have preferred attending to the matter myself. I stated thac I was then and there entirely willing to finish out the matter with Mr. Koester. liy fhah Uma fho ha/1 P.nl 1 ill UUUU UlUiU uuv V*- V II v* UMW W?nswvvww the lobby of the hotel, and I got upon one of the bsnches and stated to the crowd that Mr. Koester had made a statement in one of his editorials which I had denounced as absolutely false; that I had desired to slap his face and I had done so." FROM MR. KOESTER. Tuesday morning I published in the Register an editorial severely criticising Mr. Whaley for the part he had taken in the 'ring' tactics adopted at the meeting of the Tillman Reform Club, in Charleston, Saturday night. Among other things I stated that an outsider (myself) had told Mr. Whaley that he was too big a coward to repeat to any one of the men excluded from the* meeting an Insinuation he had just made to me that they were not there in good faith. Today I received ! a letter which will be found elsewhere in the paper in which Mr. WJialey ob jects only to that part ol.jmreuitorial containing a statement afc^ve narrated. The statement that hc had been called ! a coward he. denounced as a falsehood. As soon ?.s I received this letter I waJfrcS over to the Jerome Hotel and Saw Mr. Whaley engaged in conversation. When he was through I walked up to him and told him that I had received a letter from him,which I would like to discuss for a few moments in public or private, with or without friends being present. He said that either a public or a private discussion suited him but finally decided on having the matter ventilated in the hotel lobby. He commenced calling up va| rious members of the Charleston delegation, while I.asked Mr. "VV. W. Trice to be present as my friend. There is no necessity for going into all that was said. It amounted to this: That I stated to Mr. Whaley that possibly 1 had not used the word coward but that I had used words to the same effect and that I had certainly called up one of the gentlemen whom he had - - i, insinuated was not at toe uuarica urn meeting in good faith and had told him that he did not dare repeat to him the insinuation he had'just made to me. Mr. Whaley kept asking did I mean to say he was a coward. I told him that I did. He then struck at me. He struck at me again and I gave him a lick. Friends then interfered and pulled us apart. While I was being shoved away I was struck three or four times from behind, one of which was exceedingly severely, landing upon the neck, just below my right ear. I do not know what outsiders interfered in such a cow.ardly manner.' mr. wiialey's card. The following is the card of Mr. Whaley which brought on the trouble: Columbia, August 15. G. R. Koti8ter. Esq., Editor the Columbia Register. Dear Sir: I have only today seen an editorial In your issue of the 14th inst. The editorial is an attack upon myself, and amongst other things you say: "Mr. Whaley said to an outsider that the men whom he had excluded were not there in good faith. He was promptly told that he was too big a fn oriTT cuwaru LU uuau k3iauuci vivr ?uj one of those men face to face." The outsider you rafer to is vourseif i nd you will recollect that, the conversation was as follows: I told you that you knew that a combination had been formed by yourself, Terrell and F. W. Wagener by which a number of men were to be rushed up to the meeting at the last moment with the intention of capturing the meeting and that the men were not there in good faith. You said in a high flown style: "You will not undertake (or you will not dare) to say so to these men." I laughingly and satirically replied: "Oh, no, 1 have no intention of saying anything of the kind to them." You know well that the word coward was not used. You have wilfully perverted the conversation and in my opinion told a deliberate falsehood. I must request you to give this note equal publicity with vfinr editorial, but as I much doubt your doing so, I will give a copy to another paper. Very truly, W. Gibbes Wiialey . mr. price's statement. I wish to say under my own signature that when Mr. Koester asked me to be present as his friend 1 did iiot anticipate anything serious.Eren after the blows had passed between them 1 did not consider that it was my business to interfere. I was simply present tosee fair play. I did not see Mr. Koester struck from the rear as he was some distance from me and I was watching Mr. Whalev.who had been jerked nearly to the floor by Mr. Koester. I did see a demonstration by two men as if they intended to attack Mr. Koester and I called them down. They accused me of trying to be a bulldozer. I did not know even then that Mr. Koester had been struck from the rear and told these excitable men to keep cool but not to interfere in the trouble. Later I tt-oo thof nne nf t.hpsa samft rrifin V VJ VUMW V-v V *? had been the person who had been so cowardly as to strike Mr. Koester from the rear, and was farther told that he made a motion to draw a pistol, presumably to use on me. I had not'the remotest idea at th^ time that there were any cowards in the crowd or I would naturally have looked more carefully after the interests of my friend. The only satisfaction I afterward had was to denounce publicly as a coward whoever had struck Mr. Koester. That is all I have to say on this line. I also desire to say that Mr. Koester's face was not slapped and that Mr. Whaley struck him on the forehead with his li3t. w. w. price. Killed by Ltgbtalng. Cincinnati. O., Aug. 12.?The Hebron, Ky., baseball team was playing a game with a nighboring club yesterday afterneon, when the sky became over cast. John Tanner, pitcher for the Hebrons ran to catch a fly. As the ball was settling into his haDds, there was a flash of lightning and Tanner droppn dead. MI3HTY HOT WEATHER. Lis Eft'jcta Upc.ii 1U9 Crops?Two Divisions 1q the State. Columbia, S. C., Aug. 14 ?The following is the weekly weather crop report: There was a decided change from cool to excessively hot weather in the past week, the average temperature varying from one to nine degrees a day in excess of the normal, except on the 7tb, when it was slightly below; on this date the minimum for the week, 54, was reported from Batesburg. Friday, the 10th, was the hottest day with maximum generally above ninety and reaching 100 at Batesburgr, Columbia and Spartanburg. Few higher temperatures in August have ever been recorded. During the greater part of the week there was a plenty of sunshine, that was highly beneficial in drying the soil, permitting plowing of late com and cotton, which should have been done two and three weeks earlier, and generally favorable for haying operations and curing the fodder that is being stripped. On very wet or partially submerged land it proved injurious, crops firing badly: There was but little rain after the Gth until Saturday and Sunday, when showers occurred in the Northern, central and Southwestern counties, accompanied by some hail and high wind that did considerable damage over limited areas, blowing down a house near St. Mattnews ana injuring cotton ana corn slightly. The State can be divided Into two distinct divisions. In the first the crops are uniformly good and promising,the only exception noted being cotton on which has grown too much to weed and not fruiting a3 heavily as it should. A correspondent who has made careful and extended inquiry, states that it is over-estimated, owing to its fine stand in this division. The above conditions exist in the Western, central and JSortb central counties, 15 in all, while m the other division, comprising Abbeville, Aiken, Barnwell, Berkeley, Beaufort, Chesterfield, Charleston. Clarendon, Colleton, Darlington, Edgefield, Florence, Horry, Hampton, Kershaw, Lexington, Lancaster, Marion, Orangeburg and Sumter counties most crops are doing well, but cotton has been materially Injured by the excessive rain fall. Some fields were completely submerged and ruined, but by far the greatest damage resulted from excessive shedding of shapes and fruit iind leaves. In some couaties the falling off in condition is estimated"at from 10 to 40 per cent. The foregoing applies more particularly to low and sandy lands than to upland fields, which are generally fine and promising. Caterpillars are attacking the bolls in the lower part of the State. jtSolls are begining to ;open in the more Southern counties. At Society Hill the rain fall in forty-eight hours was 7.57 inches, and it ranged from that down to about three inches, and until the submerged and washed lands nave a chance to make a partial recovery no approximate estimate of tne damage to crops can be made, although reports indicate that it was serious and extended. Peas are shedding their leaves on wet land and growing too much to vine. Sweet potatoes and other root crops doing well. The sowing of turnip seed continues under favorable conditions. Sugar cane and sorghum seemingly doing well, but poor yield of syrup reported from Kewbery county. Gardens growing well, except cabbages, which are rotting badly." A heavy hay crop being secured under favorable conditions. J. W. Bauer, Director. a vioiu x>uk rioui The European papers are very generally discussing the announcement that the Rothschilds are about to buy up the Transvaal pjold lieids in Africa. The combined English, French, German and Austrian branches of the family control thousands of millions of dollars, and their power is really greater than that of any existing government. A leading German paper says the Rothchilds have a financial monopoly in Austria, Hungary and Brazil, and endeavor to rule the copper, quicksilver and oil markets. People who pointed out that this influence of the Rothchilds is dangerously great have been in danger of attacks from financial papers, but the news that this firm is about to assume control of the Transvaal goi fields causes grave concern even to the organs of the stock exchange. These gold fields are at present In the hands of a large number of companies, and they represent approximately onethird of the whole gold production of the world. It is, therefore, impossible for any other house to attempt a control of these mines. Ifthe Rothehilds succeed in buying the Transvaal mining rights, free competition would cease, and they could regulate the supply of the yellow metal according to their pleasure. They would settle the mineworkers in the places which would best assist in a regulation of the sale of manufactures and provisions. ITostore, no hotel would be safe from a sudden boycott at ihe order of the monopolists, who could organize every business in or near the mines themselves. A llothehilds gold monopoly would also rule the financial politics and the currency question of all civilized countries. This is only another turn to the screw that is crushing the life blood out of the masses of the people of this and all other civilized countries. The end will be reached after awhile, ana tne people win arise in their might and get the relief by the sword that they have failed to secure by legislation. The masses of the people have some rights that even the Rothchilds and other money kings are bound to respect. If revolution is tbe only means by which the people can secure their right?, the quicker it comes the b9tter. Tbe Hlack Death. It is thought that the pestilence raging in Hong Kong, China, is the same disease that ravaged the whole world about the middle of the fourteenth centurv under the name of Black Death, and which under the name of the Plague scouged Europe so fear fully again in 1065. If this be so it is time for all civilizsd nations to begin systematic efforts for its res'iiction and extirpation. 1 he Black Dsath was the most fearful scourge to which nu manity ha3 ever been subjected. In the fourteenth century it killed 13,000,000people in Chiua, 24,000,000 in other Oriental countries, and not less tnan 25,000,000 in Europe. Germany alone had 1,244,43 J recorded deaths from this cause Italy had quite one-half its entire population 3wept away, and in London, then a comparatively small city, there were no less than 100,000 victims. The disease is directly infectious, is spreading rapidly from every place of its appearance. It. is attended by fearful suffering, and is so nearly always fatal that where it has been epidemic great numbers of the alllicted have committed suicide rather then endure a suffering so sure to end in death within a week or tvo. The birthplace of the Black Death was in China, whence it spread literally all over the inhabited world. If this outbreak at Hon Kong be indeed a new appearance of this disease the nations of the earth cannot too soon ascertain the fact or too vigorously act for its conlinement to the region of its origin. To that end our own State Department and the foreign oflices of other Governments should at once take measures for united action. No trouble can be too great, and no expenditure can be extravagent which will prevent another journey of this pestilence around the world. No quarantine can be too ba^h which is necessary to prevent ild entrance into any civilized land. JSo sacrifice of commerce should weigh against humanity's right to protection against this merciless scourge, j The time to stop its ghasly march is I before that march begins. I < T7- k \rn k XT V i OlV TTTl XT VT P!) i fc V a in r,/\ 01 \ v ui n r, . [continued from first page.] nerve and ability to stand by them, and that, man shall be the man to represent us. (Cheers.) That is tbs voice of South Carolina which will prevail next November in spite of, you might say, the assiduous attempt to array one class agaiDSt another class or one people against another people. But we are united. We have canvassed the entire State of South Carolina; there is no dissension in our ranks, but our opponents are alert; they are anxious to make it eppear that there are dissensions. When I look before me and see my father's old soldiers?when I look and see before me lawyers, doctors, merchants, farmers and laboring men? when I see before me the bone and sinew of popular government, I think it is a rebuke to our opponents wben they say that lh6 Ilsform movement of South Carolina is composed of any particular class. Now one word as to my competitors. We have fought this tight; we have fought as brothers; we have not fought as enemies, as our opponents tried to impress upon you, and I have this to say about the noble Reformers who went into this tight, who opposed me. they never hit below the belt. (Cheers.) I know we are brothers; we are arm in arm, fighting for your cause, and when the people express their opinion, their choice, there is no dissension, and when the attempt is made to make dissension these opponents of mine are ready to rise and say, 'Thus far shalt thou go and go further." This is the voice of the people. (Cheers.) We have fought" for our principles upon one platform, and the people of South Carolina are unanimously, I might say, in favor of those principles. When I say the people, I don't mean those who are actuated by prejudice and animosity, because they are beyond the pale of citizenship. They cannot reason, and have no right to be called true citizens. (Cheers.) I will not detain you longer. At a future occasion I will announce the rtf YV4TT Qnminioff^HAn T h QT7A VI JUUJ auuiiuiouiuuivu, JU uu ? v been connected possibly more intimately with your movement than any other man in your mid9t, and I have been unswerving in my principles. I shall hew to the line mapped out by you, and as advocated by me on this floor, and I shall stand on those principles until . they are written in letters which cannot be mistaken; in letters which will be written over the world, and when the history of this movement is written they will say in unmistakable characters behold the administration which has but one object,-the happiness and p?ospefity-efthe entire people of South Carolina. (Prolonged cheers.) Mr. Evans concluded his speech amid a perfect storm of applause. OUR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. The chairman of the convention then introduced Dr. W. H. Tim merman, the nominee for Lieutenant-Governor. As the doctor* who had fixed himself up for the occasion, mounted the speaker's - uonrt anr\ hA<ran to fiance around.verv much as would an elephant upon a crowd in the menagerie of a circus, a slight titter was heard about the hall, which in a few moments developed into a general laugh. The doctor's face and shape, which he has been running on through the campaign, were too much for the crowd. But he stood it and proceeded to make a bright speech. Dr. Timmerman said: Gentlemen of the Convention: I have read somewhere, in some book, at some time, where a dog of Venice went to visit the court of Louis XLY, in France. He stood about and seemed to be thoroughly surprised and bewildered. When asked what surprised him most, he answered "To find myself here." (Cheers and prolonged laughter.) Gentlemen that is the way it is with me today. Here, in the presence of this assemblage, I can well say I am surprised at the unanimity with which I have been endorsed for the office of Lieutenant Governor. For this confidence, I sincerely thank you, and ask you to bear to your constituents my most grateful acknowledgements. As my distinguished young friend has claimed to be the representative of the young mcn,I claim to stand here as the representative of the older men. (Laughter.) And I shall uphold bim in all his efforts .for the honor of South Carolina. (Cheers.) I am but an humble citizen. I have lived on a farm always, but my heart always beats in unison with all the people. I don't profess to be an orator, but a pure and loyal Reformer. (Cheers.) My destiny is with the Beformers or South Carolina. It will be my pride and glory, in the discharge of the duties of my office, to represent the whole people of South Carolina. Dr. Timmerman at the conclusion of his address was loudly applauded. There were repeated calls for Ellerbe. TTa ^ i?> onW folr/in hid CAQf". ULC IiaU JUtJl V/UiUC XU (tuu uaavu uavj WVMV near the front, and he responded by going upon the stand. Mr. Ellerbe said: Gentlemen of the convention: I don't know that I can thank you for what you have done today, (Laughter) but I do say that I am not mad with you, nor am I sulklne- We have had a tight inside the ranks. My distinguished opponent, whom you have nominated, knocked down the persimmon, and I not only congratulate him, (applause) but pledge him the hearty support of my friends, as well as that of myself. I will prove to you that I am a Keformer from principle, and that 1 can work as well for lleform at home as in office. My distinguished friend will have my - - V* co-operawoa tu uio aumimgLLatioa a success. (Voice: "Brajo!" Calls were then made for Mr. Tindal. Mr. Klugh of tha committee announced that Mr. Tiodal was absent from the city. Mr. Appelt then stated that he took the responsibility of endorsing for Mr. Tindal what Mr.*Ellerbe had said. Tnis announcement was greeted with much cheering,, A motion to adjourn was made but* withdrawn. A vote of thanks to the chairman and secretaries was passed. FINISHING UP THE "IVOTCK. Before another motion could be pui to adjourn .Professor Marchant got up and made a red hot speech in favor of nominating a full .State ticket. When he finished a motion to adjourn was made. Those in favor of nominations called for the ayes and nays on this motion. Professor Marchant demanded that every name be put down. It was decided to call the counties and let the chairman of each county, announce the vote of his county. The motion to adjourn was carried by a vote of 190 to 125. The counties voting for adiournment were Aiken, Abbeville, Berkeley, Charleston, Chester, Chesterfield, ClarendoD, Colletoa, Fairfield. Florence, Georgetown, Hampton, Horry, Kershaw, Lauren3, Marlboro, Marion, Newberry, Oconee, Orangeburjr, Sumter, Union. Williamsburg, York. Those against adjournment were Anderson, Barnwell, Beaufort, Darlington, Edgefield, Greenville, Lancaster, Lexington, Pickens, Richland, Spartanburg. Colleton and Laurens at first voted against adjournment, but changed their votes. Aiken had one vote against, Clarendon several votes 3nd Newberry several. Just at this juncture, before the vote could be announced. Mr. Jordan offered the following resolution, which was unanimously adopted: Jleaolved, That this convention unanimously endorse the candidacy of 13. It. Tillman for the United States Senate, and pledge him our earnest and hearty support. This was the sismal "or cries for Tillman from Prof. Mtrchant and others, and Mr. Jordan b <r*ted out to get the Governor, crying *T11 bring him." In a few minutes Mr. Jordan returned, bringing Governor Tillman. The Governor appeared to be in an excellent humor. On taking the stand the Gov ernor glanced around hira with asTiiie on his face. He said: Gentlemen of the Conv-ntion?1 aai sure this is quite unexpected ro me.but I have heard so manv whooos and yells in the campaign that I have become accustomed to them. I suppose some of you fellows wereia the crowd. (Hurrahs.) I congratulate you on the harmony which has characterized your proceedings today. If the Ileformers all over the State will act as you have done today I expect; we will continue to march on to victory. You are all aware of the fact?that is I suppose you are?I don't know that you are? that I am going to the United States Senate. (Laughter and applause.) You know we are paassing through a transition stage in national politics now, and I tell you I intend 10 go there with my pitch fork, too. "Voice?You had better carry it sharpened too.) As I said in my interview for the New York Herald the other day, the national Democracy is doomed to defeat in the next election, for under the present rotten leadership they don'c deserve anything but defeat. (Applause.) In that interview for the Herald, I slid we must cast about for our new leaders. Your salvation rests in the union of the South and West againet the money power of the North and East. I !* nAll *V*TT An/H ArQcirYl t n t" on/i tuauii JVU XVI LU.J UUUVlOV/UivuV) MUV* when electea to the Senate, I promise you I will do my whole duty, as I have always attempted to do towards you in the past. Mr. Slattery, as the Governor was leaving the stand, called to him through the applause and told him that the convention would like to hear his views en the tariff. Governor Tillman replied that he had expressed himself in the interview, and that he thought it a fraud and a sham. Governor Tillman then retired from the hall; the vote given above was announced, and the convention was declared adjourned. Still la the Rice. Newberry, Aug. 14.?Dr. Sampson Pope is determined more than ever to go to the general primary, and he will announce his delegates next week in the county papers. He will head the list himself. He will have a ticket in every county in the State. ^ ? T~> A mAM m ? A KTT r Atip JJIT. i'upt) tv<? luicuicncu kJJ JVUI correspondent; today, in view o? the result of the Reform convention held here yesterday, and the foregone nomination to be made in Columbia on Thursday. The interview was as follows: Doctor, I would like you to explain your position in refusing to go before the Reform primary ? "I am standing squarely on the lieform platform in refusing to go into the preliminary primary"The March convention in. 1890 declared for a primary of the* white people of the State?not Reformers alone, but all of the white people. The Demo i-i - 1: ?4^ Ati crauc couveuuuu wulivju mcu iu gust, 1890, composed almost entirely of Keform delegates, compromised with the low country by having a primary for delegates in each county instead of a direct primary because these people claimed that a direct primary would be unfair to them,as the bulk of the white vote was from Columbia up to the mountains, consequently they claimed that they would nave but little voice in the selection of candidates. The representation agreed upon was double the members of the General Assembly. This was followed in 1890 and 1892. In 1890 the Conservatives had two candidates, Messrs. Bratton and Earle, both went into the general primary, the Rsf jrmers had but one. In 1892 each had one candidate and both went into the general primary. "In 1894 we had four, the Conservatives had none. They simply asked that the four be put in the general primary,and that they be allowed their choice of the four. "The four Reformers refused and called a preliminary primary to weed out to one. I found that it was a packed machine, as the result has proven, and I retused to go into it and will run at the general primary. I am therefore on the original Reform platform and the others are not. I will beat the race in this county and in the State. "We left the other wing because of rings and bossism, and we have got a bigger ring and a more domineering boss than we had under the old regime."?State. . How He Expects to Wla. The following appeared in the News ana Courier one day last week: "Ex-Collector T. B.Johnston, of Sumter, is in the citv for a short visit and is staying at the St Charles Hotel. Col. Johnston is making the race for Congress in the new 7th district as the Republican nominee, and his friends think that he is going to be the next Representative at the NaHnnal Capital from that section of t* State. Col. Johnston is in fin e health - id spirits and is confident of election. When asked yesterday who was going to be the next Congressman from th* 7 h he replied unhesitatingly, "I am," au;i he went on to dlssuss the situation in an interesting and animated manner. He said that just now he is trying to find how many registered votes his party has in the district, but he added that he did not depend exclusively upon his own party vote for his election. He was confident tha* there were many Democrats who were not satisfied with any of the candidates of their own party who had so far announced themselves who would vote for him. There would be a great many Democrats who would not vote at ali. Dr. Stokes would have to set the main part of his strength from Orangeburg and Lexington, while the district was a large one. Xo one, he thought, supposed thit Oal. Caughgman would be elected. On the whole he was satisfied with the outlook and he considered that he had a right to be reasonably hopeful of success." So it seems that Col. Johnston expects to go to Congress by the aid of Democratic votes. Democrats should think well before they vote against the nominee of their party on any ground whatever. There is nothing in common between the white people of this section and Col. Johnston. He may be ever so nice a gentleman, yet he is a Republican and endorses, no doubt, all the policies of his party, including the force bill and the abominable tariff. The duty ot every man in the district who claims to be a Democrat is plain. He should go to tDe pons ana aeposu his ballot for the candidate of his party whether that candidate is his personal choice or not. He is not voting for the candidate, whoever he may be, but for the maintenance of white supremacy in South Carolina. The days of '76 should not be lost sight of. Col. Johnston was then among the worst enemies of the State, and the Democrats should be very careful now how they assist him to warm to life again the insidious foe that we stifled then.?Times and Democrat. Sow Try Thi?. It will cost j'ou nothing and will surely do you good, if you have a Cough, Cold, or any trouble with Throat, Chest or Lungs. Dr. King's New Discovery lor Consumption, Coughs and Colds is guaranteed to give relief, or money will be paid back. Sufferers from La Grippe ou-ck! it just the thing and under its use had a speedy ?nd perfect recovery. Try a sample bottle at our expense aud learn for 3'ourself just how good a tiling it is Trial bottles free at The Dr. J. G. Wannamaker Manufacturing Company's Drag Store. Large size 50c. and $1.00, 3 Fkivate Cedarquest of the regular army refused to obey an order to practice target shooting on Sunday and was tried and convicted of the disobedience. President Cleveland released Cedarquest when informed of the facts and had the oilicer who caused the arrest himself arrested under an order issued by President Lincoln which is still the law of the army and which forbids such Sabbath desecration. 4 *' : / - m 4 'III A Dual Life. , ? Lexington, Ky.f Aug. 14.?Judges I Msbon and Walters, of Hannibal, "&>., are 10 the city taking depositions thes'iit recently institute! at Hannibal by Dorcas M. Hampton to recover a daughter's interest, in rhu estate of her :S father, Dr. John Hampton, who died coTToroi s.fTnin Missouri. leavinor * an estate valued at S75.0G0. The deposition already taken are startling in the extreme, and pro?e >d| that Dr. Hampton led a dual life, the one cloaded by suspicions of a doable crime, and the other brightened by up* rigbtness and integrity. The defense expect to prove that Dorcas Hampton jji is an illegitimate child of the doctor's and that her mother, although betrayed by Dr. Hampton was recompenseo*? by a sum of money, a receipt of which is on file at the Lexingion courthouse. M Depositions show that Dr. Hampton V was suspected of having poisuned his ^ wife, Maria Burcb, here in 1845. He had been forced to marry her at the point of the pistol, and she died soon after the marriage. A druggest named ^ Hayes, who had remarked he knew fl enough to send Hampton to the gal' S lows, was murdered. Hampton was tried for the murder and acquitted. He went to St. Louis and married a Miss Sweeney. He then moved to Hannibal, .31 where he amassed a large fortune and . I led an irreproachable life. 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