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"AND YOU'LL REMEMBER ME-" One evening as the sun went down Among the zolien hills, And silent shadows, soft and brown, Crept ov r vales and rills. 1 watched the dusky bats a-wing D;p down the dusky lea; HarkeniSiS, heard a maiden sing, "And you'll remember me." Trrv.a? /-.rV.o*- Tina and nf-her hearts." ?? uca viuci ? , ( Came drifting through the trees; 'In language whose excess imparts," Was borne upon t^e breeze, Ab! love is sweet and hope is strong, And life's a summer sea. A woman's soul is in her song; "And you'll remember me." Still rippling from her throbbing throat, With joy akin to pain. There seemed a tear in every ncte, A sob in every strain; Soft as the twilight shadows creep Across the listless sea, The singer sang her love to sleep With: ' You'll remember me." AT THE TABERNACLEA Sermon ci Imagery on the Spbitualj Cor Acts of Life. Brooklyn, April 29?The Taber* j nnr>io was r?n? ded this morning with the ! usual throng of eager listeners. Dr. Talmage preached on the spiritual conflicts of life, taking for his text Genesis xxxii, 24-26: "And Jacob was lefc alone, and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw ibat he prevailed not against him he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow o? Jacob's thigh was out of ioint as he wrestled with him. And he said. Let me go, for ihe day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee go except thou bless me." The dust arose from a traveling herd of cattle and sheep and gcat3 and camels. They are the present that Jacob sends to gain the good will of his offended brother. That night Jacob halts by the brook Jabbok. But there is no re3t for the weary man. No shming ladder to let the angels down iDto his dream, but a fierce ccmbat that lasts until the morning with an unknown visitor. They each try to throw the other. The ua- j known visitor, to rfiVe&l hlS Superior | power, by a touch wrenches Jacob's thigh bone from its socket, perhaps maiming him for hfe. As on the morning sky the cluters of purple cloud begin to r'pen Jacob see3 It is an angel with whom he has been contending and not one of his brother's coadjutors. Let me go," cries the angel, lilting himself up Imo increasing light, "The day breaketh." You see m the first place that God al lows good people eomeume3 to get into a terrible struggle. Jacob was a sood man, but here he is left alone in the midnight lo wrestle wkh a tremendous influence by the brook Jabbok. For Joseph pit, for^ Daniel, a wild beast dei; for David,"detbroDtm^t and exile; for Jonn the Baptist, a wilderness diet and the executioner's ax; for Peter, a prison; tor Paul, shipwreck; for John, desolate Patmce; for "W&hii, most insuliia^ cruelij; lor Josephine, banishment; for Mrs Sigcarney. the agony of a drunkard's wife; lor John Wesley, stones hurled by an in lariated mob; for Catherine, the Scotch girl, the drowning surges of the sea; for Mr. Bums, the buffeting of the Montreal populace; for John Brown cf Edinburgh, the pistol shot of Lord Claverh use; for Hugh McKail, the scallold; forLnimer, the stake; for Christ, the cross. For whom toe tocks, the gib bets, tbe guillotines, the thumbscrews? For tbe sons and daughters of tbe Lord God Almighty. Some one said to a Christian reformer, "The world is against you." k'Then," he replied, ''I , am|against the world.' I will go farther and say that every Christian has his struggle. This man had his combat in Wall street; this one on Broad street? this one on Fulton street; th;8 one on Chestnut street; this one on State street, this one on Lombard stree'; this one on the bourse. With , financial misiortune ycu have had the midnight wrestle. Rsafcot disasters ! have dropped into your store ' from lrsfr in rail sr. What vnn ' bought ycu could not sell. Whom you trusted fled. The help you expected j would not come. Some giant panic, , with long arms and grip like death, took | hold of ycu in an awful wrestle, lrom , which you have not yet escaped, and it ; is uocertain whether it will throw you or ' you will throw it. j: Here is another in struggle with some ' bad appetite. He knew not how stealtbi-1 ly it was growing upon him. One hour he woke up. He said, "For the sake ot my soul, of my familv and of my children and of my Gcd, I must stop this!" And, be hold, be found himself alone by the brook Jabbok, and it was midnight. That evil appetite seized upon him, "and ho nnon il. ATifh nh_ thfi hnrrnr nf 1 the conflict! When once a bad habit i has aroused itself up to destroy a rnao, and the man has sworn that, by the help j of the eternal God, he will destroy it, . all heaven draws itself out in a long line i of light to look from above, and hell stretches itself in rnjrmidons of spite to look up from beneath. I hf.ve seen men rally themselves for suchai truggle, and they have bitten their lip and clinched j their fists and cried with a blood red earnestness and a rain ot scalding tears, "God help me!" Frcm a wrestle with habit I have seen ; men tail bacs defeated. Calliog lor no help, bat relying on their own resolutions, they have ccme into the straggle, and for a time it seemed as if they were; getting the upper hand of their habit, but that habit rallied again its infernal power and lifted a soul Irom its standing and with a lorce borrowed frcm thejpit hurled it into utter darkness. First I saw the auctioneer's mallet fall on the pictures, and musical instruments, and the rich upholstery oi his family parlor. Alter) awhile I saw him fall into the discb. 5 Then, in the midnight, when the children were dreaming their sweetest dream3 and Christian households are silent with slumber angel watched I beard i him give the sharp shriek that followed the stab ol his own poDiard. He fell from 1 an honored social position; he tell from a family circle[of wnich once he was the j grandest attraction; be fell from the house of God, at whose altars he had j 1 been consecrated; he fell?forever! Eut ' ib'luk God, I b'aVo CuC'Ii Secii il Belter j termloation than that. I have seen men piepare themselves j for sucb a wrestling. They laid bold of; God's help as they went into combat. The giant habit, regaled by the cup of j many temptations, came out strong and ! defiant. They clinched. There were j the writhines and distortions ot a fearful j struggle. But the old eianl began to j waver, and at last, in the midnight alone I with none but God to witness, by the biook Jabbok, the giaut fell, and the triumphant wrestler broke the darkness with,; the cry, ''Thanks te unto Goo, | I who givelh us the victory, through our j ! Lord Jesus Christ," There is a widow's heart, that tirst i was desolated bv bereavtmenl.'ard since I by the anxieties and trials that came in the support of a family. It is a sad thing ; to see a man contending for a livelihood i under disadvantages, but to see a deli ! cate woman, with helpless little ones at | her tack, fighting the giants of prov'erty | and sorrow, is more affecting. If was a j humble home, and passersby knew not that within those four walls were displays ' of courage more admirable than *hat of Hannibal crossing the Alps, or the pass of Thermopylae, or Balaklavn, where, "into the jaws of death rode the six hundred." These heroes had the whole world to cheer them cn, but there were none to applaud the straggle in the humble heme, one fougnt for bread, lor clothing, lor fire, for shelter, with aching head and weak side and exhausted strength through the long night by the brook Jabbok. Could it be that none would give her help! Had God forgotten to be gracious? No, contending stul! The midnight air is lull of wings commg to the rescue. She hear3 it now, In the sough of the night wind, in the ripple of the brook Jabbok the promise made so long ago ringing down the sky, "Thy fatherless children I will preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust in me!" Some one said to a very poor woman, ''How is it that la such distress you keep cheeriu?" She said: "I do it by what I call cross prayers. When I had my rent to pay, and nothing to pay it with, and bread to buy, and nothing to buy it with I used to sit down and cry. But now I do not get discouraged. If I go aloDg the street, when I come to a corner of the street, I say 'The Lord help me.' I then go on uatill I come to another crossing of the street, and agam I say, 'The Lord help me.' And so I utter a prayer at every crossing and since I have got into that habit of saying these 'cross prayers' I have been able to keep up courage." Learn again from this subject that people sometimes are surprised to find out that what thev have been struggling with in the darkness is reail/ an "aDgei of blessing." Jacob found in the morniDg that tbis strange personage was not an enemy, but a God dispatched messenger to promise prosperity for him and for his children. And so many a maD at t.ie close of his trial has found out that he has been try'mg to throw down his own blees ng. If you are a * ' . T ?MI i i_ I Unrisuan man, i wm go uaot m _yuur bistorv and find that the grandest things that have ever happened to you have been your trials. Nothing short of scf urging, imprisonment and shipwreck c uld have made Paul what lie was. When David was fleeing through the wilderness, pursued his own ecu, he was being prepared to become the sweet | singer of Isreal. The pit and the dungeon were the best schools at which Jos- ( eph ever graduated. The hurricane that upset the tern and killed Job's children j prepared the man of Uz to write the , magciflcer.t poem that has a3tonishsd i the ages. There is no way to get the wheat out of the straw but to thrash it. i There is no way to purify the gold but to burn it. Look at the people who have 1 always had it their own way. They are prcud, discontented, useles and unhappy ' If you want to find cheerful folks, go ! among those who have oeen purified by ] the fire. ! After Rossini had rendered "William , Tell" the five hundredth time a company < of musicians came under his window in ] Pans and serenaded him. They put i ? nxA rr?n Toilt?ftl 1AOT70Q' 1 LUO uiuu a uurru yjx xau^i ivawd. But amid all the applause and enthusi- < asmRossmi turned to friend and said, "I 1 svould give all this brilliant scene for a ' few days ot youth and love.". Contrast ] the melancholy feeling of Rossini, who ' had everything ihat thl3 world could ' iive him, to the joyful experience of j Isaac Watts, whose misfortunes were innumerable when he says: The Hill of Zion yields ! A thousand sacred sweets 1 Before we reach the heavenly fields Or walk the golden streets. Then let our songs abound I And every tear be dry. We are marching through Immanuel's ' ground i To fairer worlds on high. ] It is prosperity that kills and trouble 1 that saves. While the Irealites were on I the march amid great privations and J hardships thev behaved well. After ! awhile they prayed for meat, and the ' sky darkened with a great flock of quails . and these quails tell in large multitudes j all about them, and the Ierealite3 ate ; and ate and stuffed themselves until , they died. Oh, my friends, it Is not hardship or trial or starvation that injures the soul, but abundant euppiy. It Is not the vubure ot trouble that eats up the Christian's life. It is the auails. It is the quails. Youwili yet find out that your midnight wrestle by the brook Jab* bok is with an angel of God come down to bless and save. Learn, again, that while our wrestling with trouble may be triumphant we ( must expect that it will leave its mark i upon us. Jacob prevailed, but the angel toucned him, and his thigh bone sprang ' from its socket, apd the good man went limping on his way. We must carry through this the mark of the combat What plowed those premature wrinklts iu you face? What whitened your hair before it was time lor frosty What silenced forever so much of the hilartty of your household? Ah, it is because the angel of trouble hath touched you that! vou go limping on your way. You need j not be surprised that those who have > passed through the ffre do not /eel as 1: *av as cnce they d:d. Do n-vt be out of patience with those who come not out of their despondency, i rhey may triumph over their loss, and 1 yet tucif gait shall tell you that tusy 1 have been trouble touched. Are we s oies that we can, unmoved, see our cradle rifled of the bright eyes and the j sweet lips? Can we stand unmoved and see our gardens of earthly delight uprooted? Will Jesus, who wept himself, be angry with us if we pour cur tears into the craves that open to swallow down what we love best? Was Lazarus more dear to him than our beloved dead to us? No. We have a right to weep. Our tears must come. You shall not drive thera Dack to scaia me riearts. They fall into God's bottle. Afflicted one3 have died because they could not weep. Thank God lor the sweet, the mysterious relief that comes to U3 in tear. Under this gentle rain the flowers of corn put forth their bloom. God pity that dry, withered, parched, all consuming grief that wrings its hands, and grinds its teeth, and bites its nails unto the quick, but cannot weep! We may have tcund the ccmlort cf the cross and yet ever after show that in the dark night and by the brook Jabbok we were trouble touched. Again we may take the idea of the text ami announce the approach of the daydawn. No one was ever more glad to see the morning than was Jacob after that night of struggle. It 13 appropriate for philanthropists and Christians to cry out with this angel of the text, "The day breakelh." The world's prospects are brightening. The church of Christ is rising up its strength to go forth "fair as the moon, clear a? the sun and terriole a3 an army with banners." Clap your bands, all ye people, the day breaketh. The bigotries of the earth are perishing. The time was when we were told that if we wanted to get to heaven, we must be immersed or sprinkled, or we mu3t helieve in the nsrseverence of the saints cr in falliug away from grace, or a liturgy or no liturgy, or they must be Calvin is t8 or Arininians in order to reach heavcu. Wo have all come to confess now that these are nonessentials in religion. Luring my vacation one summer I was in a Presbyterian audience, and it was sacramental day, an : with grateful heart I received the holy communion. Oa the next Sabbath I was in a Methodist churcn and sat at love feast. On the following Sabbath I was in an Episcopalian church and knelt ai the altar and received the consecrated bread. I do not know which service I enjoyed the most. "I believe in the communion of saints and in t.ho lite everlasting." "The day breaketh". As I look upon the audience I see many who have passed through waves ot trouble that came up higher than their girdle, la God's Dame I proclaim cessation ot hostilities. Ycu shall not go always saddened and heartbroken. God will lift your burden. God will Dring your dead to life. God will stanch the heart's bleediDg. I know he will. Like a3 a father pities his children, so the Lord pit'.es you. Toe uains of earth will end. The tomb will burst. The dead will rise. The morning star trembles on a brightening sky. The gates of the east begin to swing open. The day breake.th. Luther and Meianctbon were talking together gloomily about the prospects of the church. They could see no hope of deliverance. After awhile Luther got up and 3aid to Melancthon: "Come, Philip, let us sing the forty six psalm of David: "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help In trouble Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed and though tha mountains be carried Into the midst of the sea, though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah." Death to many?nay, to all?it is a struggle and a wrestle. We have many friends that it will be hard to leave. I 3are not how bright our future hope is. It is a bitter thing to look upon this fair world and know that we shall never again see its blossoming spring, its falling fruits, its sparkling streams, and to say farewell to those with whom we played in childhood or counseled in manhood. In that night, like Jacob, we may have to wrestle, but God will not leave us unblessed. It shall not be told in heaven that a dying soul cried unto God for help, but was not delivered. The lattice may be turned to keep out the sun, or a book set to dim the light of the midnight taper, or the room may be filled with the cries of crphanage and widowhood, or the church of Christ may monrn over our going, but if Jesus calls all is well. The 3trong wrestling by the brook will cease."the hour of death's night will i pass along, 1 o'clock in tbe morning', I o'clock in the moroing, 4 o'clock In the morning?tbe day oreaketb. jSo I would have it when I die. 1 am in no ha3te to be gone. I have no grudge against this world. The only fault" I have to Ilnd with the world is that it treats me too well, rlut when the time comes to go I trust to be ready my worldly affairs all settled. If I bave wronged others, I want them to be sure or their forgiveness. In that last wrestliDg, my arm enfeebled with sickness and my head faint, 1 want Jesus beside me. If there be hands on this side of the floor stretched out- to hold me back, I want the heavenly hands strsched out to draw me forward Then. O Jesus, help me on and help me p. Unfearing, undoubting, may I step right out into the light and be able to icok back to my kindred and friends, who would detain me here, exclaiming Let me go; let me go! The day breaketh." Democrats .Jubilant. Columbus, 0., May 1.?The Third Ohio Congressional District, in the special election held to-day, has gone Democratic by about the usual maj?o aati TTrtt-aa c.1of?Hncr PAHI .T ui iu_y, o,wv ?,, ,?_n , over E. G. Rsthbone (Republican,) Sorg home, Middletown, strongly Republican, gave liim 408 plurality, while Hamilton, ex-Governor Campbell's home, carried by the Republicans at the last municipal election, gave him 1,183 plurality, and Dayton, carried by A^c* Kiniey by 565 votes Dst fall, went De mocratic today by 196. The Democrats here are j'bilant over the apparent turn in politics in their favor. SalolQed. New Orleans, April 27.?George Fairbanks committed suicide this mornins: at the Hotel de Louisiana. He has been here only a short time with his wiL and two children. Little is kDown of the family, but they are said to be from Columoils, Ohio. TO BE FULLY SETTLED. T The Dispengary Liw Agslo Before the ! ' [ i I Supremo Court. Columbia, S. C., May 3.?The mcsi importaut development in the liquor 1 situation since the tiling of the decision of 1 the State Supreme Court, occurred ( yesterday, and by Monday evening it is likely that the uncertainty as to what the 1 Supreme Court meant by it? decision? ! whether it is free liquor or prohibition? will be removed, and everybody will, till Justice Gary goe3 on the Supreme bench * 1 ? ?i il ~4 Know exaeuy wuere luey me at. xlicic j is no case which has been brought bsfore the court recently in which all take so deep an interest a3 that which started on its career yesterday. Many seem morally certain that it will result in the '< court declar'ng that its recent decisioc meant absolute prohibition. Equally as man> are just a3 certain that the court will decide that it meant absolute- j ly free liquor, and then there are ethers j who consider that the court will say that it meant the old license laws would goyern the situation. This latter class does not consist of many, however. , Like the original case3, which resulted in the knocking out of the dispen- < sary law, the case referred to above i came up from the Pee Dee section. : Yesteiday morning Mr. P. A. Wilcox 1 arrived in the city from Florence. lie 1 had nothing to say to anybody, aud did what he had to do so quietly that it j was 2:30 o'clock?when he had com- [ pleted bis important work?before any j one knew what he had come here for. , He was armed with papers which meant J business. There was no session of the j Supreme Court yesterday, and he went i before the Chief Justice at chambers. Mr. Wilcox first made application for a writ of habeas corpus in the case of J. 1 Ellis Brunson. The fact was set forth that Bruusor. was arrested by the chief ol' police of Florence subsequent to the passage by the city council of it3 liquor [ license ordinance, for the violation of that ordinance. Branson, it seems, wa3 fined, and is still in the custody of the ch'.ef, and Governor Tillman cannot order that officer to discharge hici. The hietJu3 j tice. without hesitatian, granted the fol lowing order in this case: ? County of Florence, Third Ju- ] dicial District, Ex parte J. Ellis < Brunson.?Petition for Writ of Ila- i beas Corpus. < To. G. S. Turbeville, Chief of the Police < of Florence, S. C.: j It having been brought before me by the petition of J. Ells Barnson that as : chief of police of the citv of Florence. * S. C., you unlawfully declare bis per son in custody, and the said J. E'lis , Brunson haviDg petitioned for a writ of j habeas corpus to b rag said petitioner before the SuDreme Court to uoquire into -t the cause of bis detention by you as ? aforesaid. ] You are hereby ordered and required f to bring the body of the prisoner before 1 the Supreme Court, at Coiumb'a, S. C., [ at 11 o'clock od Monday, the 7th day of ^ May A. D., 1894, that the cause ot his ( commitment beins known and seen such < further proceedings may be had thereon <b are agreeable to law and jus'ice. ( Henry McIver, l Chief Justice. ( Then Mr. Wilcox, to be dcubly sure, 1 came up with ajpetition for an it-junction f against the town council ot Florence c asking that this body show cause why s they are charging and collecting a liquor c license, and asking that they be re- ; strained from doing so henceforth. This , petition was presented on behalf of two ^ citizens of Florence. The rule to show * cause was issued by the Chief Justice as ? follows, and thus the whole thins: is > brought squarely before the court: J. L. Barrtnger and Theodore Kuker, Petitioners, vs. The City Council ot Flornce, Respondents. t Upon the readiug the petition of J. L. c BatriDger and Theodore Kuker herein, it r is. a Ordered that the respondents herein 5 do show cause before the Suprems Court s of South Carolina, at Columbia, at 11 J o'clock a. in., on Monday, the 7th day J; of May A. JD., 1894, why an injunction J should not be issued by said court, re* * ~ orktA Aifrt />nnnr?il BirttlUIL!^ I'CRJJ JUUCULO, oaiu V/Ibj WUUV1& J, of Florence, from issuing licenses to sell a intoxicating liquors in the said city of c Florence, prayed for in pfttitiou, and for s such other and further relief as the said r court may deem j ust. It is further c Ordered that a copv of the within or- t der be served on the respondent herein, J Henry McIver. t Chief Justice. t These two cases will permit of all ^ doubtful points being brought squarely c before the ccurt, and admit of the ee- ^ couring of a square-cut definition of the f meaning of the recent decision. It is ua- t dertood that the arguments will consist a in El greui iLteasuic ui qiiuwuuiio uuiu > recent decision. It is also understood that Mr. C. S. Nettles, who made the winning light against the dispensary law will appear on behalf of the town council of'Flosence. It wa3 further ascertained that the constitutionality of the new dispensary law will be brought up, and the court will he asked to make its decision on the original law apply thereto.?State. Wh olr1nn? firncro Athens, April 29.?The latest re * ports from Atlanti say that oa Friday x 36o shocks oi' earthquake were felt * there in eight hours. For two hours, ? the trembling of the earth was almost continuous. For a radius of three and a naif miles on every side of the town, r the fields and highways have been torn l with deep tissues. The sea has en- i croached upon the shore about sixty r feet. iJispatches from all parts of the c kingdom indicate that former reports t of death and damage to property have i underestimated the losses. The list j of dead and injured grows hourly. The c misery in the smaller towns of the t stricken districts is extreme. Hundreds t who were prosperious householders be- 3 fore the earthquakes are now withou' I food and shelter for their families and r are begging for help. The government ? continues to do all in* its power to re- g lieve the suffering, but the burden is e beyond its means and scores of fami- f lies are already on the vene of starva c tion. Nearly one hundred thousmd i persons are said to have been left dest- ] itute of food and shelter in the Locris j \ distric; alone. 11 WEEKLY WEATHER REPORT. rhe Eallctlu Isnn'd by thu WeathwBalean. Columbia, S. C., May 1.?The following is the weather crop bulletin of the^ Weather Bureau for the week ending April 29th: The past week has not been a decisive or decided one for any crop, al cnougn me prevailing weatuer conditions werf-* on the whole unfavorable except in ;j, few counties notably JBarnwell, where the reports were of a uniform favorable character. These regions were confined principally to the middle belt of counties, wherever there were showers. The sunshine was somewhat in excess over the normal,but this was more than offset by the cool nights and cool drying winds of the first of the week, although the temperature for the week, as a whole, was about normal. Itain is needed in every part of the State. There were a few scattered showers during the week which were very beneficial for the limited areas where they occurred. In the counties that had the heavy showers of the previous week rain is needed to soften the crust that covers plowed ground and which retards cotton and corn from coming up freely. In the two tiers of counties next the coast the need of rain is most urgent as the drought is becoming serious. Throughout this region the rainfall has been but from 1-8 to 1-3 of the usual amount in April and but from 1-5 to 1-2 of the usual amount since the 1st of March. The soil for the most part being of a sandy nature is not as capable of sustaining a prolonged drought as a clayey soil do. [Vnna dta frnm tan Hara tr? ften TOaafrs behind the season; farm work is well up, and was not interrupted during the week. Cotton planting is nearly finished, the weather haviag been all that could oe desired for the purpose. The same :annot be said for the seed that is up Dr that of later planting, for with the exceptions noted, the ground lacks the noisture to supply the needs of the growing plant or to germinate the late planted seed. The stand will depend im the weather conditions of the next ;wo weeks largely. Sea Island cotton is reported a complete failure. In general com is not making a good stand. Where there were showers it is iooking fairly well, but owing to the ;oo! nights and drying wind the color s not good. It will also be a very uneven stand, for whil8 some is large mough to work other lands in the same vicinity are just being replanted. Jut worms are doing much damage In ;he central and Western counties, scattered reports indicate that there rrrtl! Kn Ktif liftlo n? oil vra ri at i OQ IT 111 UO UUO liUliC UUU UVQi: TOllVViGU) md the berry crop will be a short me. This corroborates the fisst estinates after the March freezs. Wheat has improved in appearance ?nd is beginning to head,but the heads ire small and the straw very short. Rust has shown in a few places, but is jot general. The outlook for oats is ess encouraging than last week. The irought ba3 affected it more seriously ;han any other crop, and as it is far advanced in heading, will be less quick ;o respond to more favorable weather, rbe straw will be short. Garden truck is as a rule doing well ixcept on the large truck farms in the ow counties where the drought has ;au3ed a complete standstill iu growth, fhe seeds of late planting lie in the ground without showing the least tea- , leDcy to germinate. Cut worms doing lome damage. What was said of gar- j lens is particularly true of potatoes. ! irish potatoes have been greatly dam- | iged in places by the Colorado beetle. Helens are doing well and have im- ' iroved much during the week. The ains of Sunday night (29-h) were conined to the Northern parts of the state and even there was not general. , J. W. Bauer, Director. Sulccie of a Prisoner. Columbia, 3. C., May 2.?The quiet i own of Prosperity, located on the line ! >f the Columbia, Newberry and Lauens, and Richmond and Danville roads I ibout fortv miles from Columbia, was yesterday thrown into a considerable tate of excitement, so a gentleman vho arrived in the city last night says, >y the suicide of a negro prisoner in he station house, by hanging. The ellow was named Dan Sheppard. He vas a powerful built mulatto. On donday evening he was arrested for LS3ault and battery and attempted ximinal assault upon the person of his fep-daughter, Mary Bouknight, a nulatto girl about 20 years of age. The :ity authorities placed him in the staioh house for the night. He told Town darshal White when he locked him up hat he "reckoned they would hang him his time." He meant by this that he eared serious consequences. Once becre he had been arrested on the same iharge, but his wife being the only vitness against him he was discharged rom custody. The negro seemed to lave been throughly resolved upon ?1 r /.nf Mil /kf i /\V\ LT A Ad ft AK V* A t?Ii-UCSbi UCllUU. IJLC aita no va3 locked up to make himself a ope out of the crocus sack covering >n the bed, tying it recurely around lis neck. He then tied the other end 0 the grating of the window, which ,vas no higher than himself. Then he melt down and choked to death de iberately. When the town marshal vent to the station house yesterday norniDg tc carry him his breakfast he 'ound the fellow in a stooping attitude lis head hanging over on his breast, :old and death. The coloner held an inquest and a verdict of death by strangulation was rendered. The negroes of be town seem to be glad the negro's ;arreer is ended, for he was considered 1 desperate fellow. Musical Homes are Happy Homes. Have you ever noticed it? Call to nind the homes of your friends who lave a good Piano or Organ in the louse. Are they not brighter and , nore attractive than those where the livine art of music never enters ? To ? ie sure it costs to buy a good instrunent, but it lasts many years, and will )av its costs many a thousand times >v*er by interesting the young folks in heir homes. Don't make the mistake, hough, of investing haphazard. Post ?ours--li thoroughly by writing Ludden c Bates Southern Music House, Savahi*h, Ga., the great music house of the < south, established in 1870. They have lupplied GO,000 ins'ruments to South irn homes, and have a reputation for air prices aud honorable treatment of :ustomers; and they represent the leadng piano3 and organs of America [\bey take pleasure in corresponding vith you, sending free catalogues, etc. >Vrite them. < A large number of new in-mEm companies bave been organized *i|i| State since the Darlington affa will take the place of the CctH??h| that have been disbanded. 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