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IMBaBHaMMBaaBBBBIBaBBHHMMnEEBnagi THE CANDIDATE. \ Mule a brayin'; < Mail at gate: t "Hello! brother," t (Candidate!) Tow-headed children Watch an' wait; "Bless the darlings!" < (Candidate!" ' < Stump in corn field; (Growin' late.) { "Kaised a farmer," (Candidate!) : Gray-head soldierServed the State; 'Want mere pensions?" (Candidate!) Old-timed widder, Sad as fate: "Lost my wife, too!" (Candidate!) Big church meetin' Deacons straight, "Born a Baptist!" (Candidate!) Safe in ofEce, Voters wait: "Go to thunder!" (Candidate?" THE BURDENS CP LIFEAn Eloquent and Force'nl Sermon l>y Ksv, Dr. Talm^ge. San Francisco, May 27.?Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage is now in this city, whence he will sail nest Thursday en (H? efeamor A!qm?f!? fnr "HVinn'nln fin his trip round the world. He preached today to a large and deeply interested audience on the subject of "Heavy Weights," the text b?ing taken from Psalms lv, 22, "Cast thy burdens upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee." David was here takiDghis own medicine. If anybody had on him heavy weights, David had them, and yet out of his own experience he acvises you and me as tothebesi way of getting rid of burdens. This is a world of burden bearing. Daring the past few davs tidings came from acioss the sea of a mighty and good man fallen. A man full of the Holy Ghost was he, his name the synonym for all that is good and kind and gracious and benedcient. Word comes to us a scourge sweeping ofi hundreds and thousands of people, and there is a hnrdan of sorrow. Sorrow on the sea and sorrow cn the land. Coining into the hcu3e of Drayer there may be no sign of sadness cr sorrow, but wbere is the man who has not a conflict? Where is the soal that has not a struggle? And there is not a day of all the year when my text is not gloriously appropriate, and there is never an audience assembled on the planet where the text is not gloriously appropriate, "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee.". In the far east wells of water are so infrequent that when a man owns a well he has a property of very great value, and sometimes battles have been fought for the possession of one well of water, tut there is one well that every man owns, a deep well, a perennial well a well of tears. If a man hss not a burden cn this shoulder he has a burden on the other shoulder. The day I left home to look after myself and for myself in the wagon my father sat driving, und he said that day somfithincr which has Vent, with rre. ell my lite: "DeWitt it 18 always safe to trust God. I have many time come to a crisis of difficulty. You may know that, having been sick fcr 15 years, it was no easy thing for me to support a family, but always God came to tee rescue. I remember the time," he said, "when I didn't know what to do, and I saw a man on horseback riding up the firm lane, and he announced to me that I had been nominated for the most lucrative office in ail the gift of the people of the county, and to that cffice I wa3 elected, and God in that way met all my wants, and I tell you it is always safe to trust him." Oh, my friends, what we want is a practical religion. The religion people have iB so high up you cannot reach it. I bad a friend who entered the life of an evangelist. He gave up a lucrative business in Chicago, and he and his ? - wife hndllycame to severe want.' He told me that in the morning prayers he he said: "0 Lord, thou knowest we nave not a moutDiui 01 loou in tne nouse: Help me, help us!" And he started out on the street, and a gentleman met him aod said: "I have been thinking cf you a good while. You know lama flour merchant. If you won't be oflended, I shouM like to send you a barrel of flour." He cast his burden on the Loid, and the Lord sustained him, Now tbat is the kind cf religion we want. In the strait of Magellan I have been told, there is a place where, whichever way a ship captain puts his ship, he finds the wind against hi d, and there are . men who ail their lives have been running in tne teeth of the wind, and which way to turn they do not know. Some of them may be in this assemblage, and I address them face to face, not perfunctorily, but as one brother talks to another brother, "Cast thy burden upon ; the Lord, and he shall sustain thee." There are a great many men who have business burdens. When we see a man harried and perplexed and annoyed m business life, we are apt to say, "He ougm not 10 nave auempieu to carry so much." Ah, that man may not be to blame at all! When a man plants his business, he does not know what will be its outgrowths, what will be its roots, what will be its tenches. There is many a man with keen foresight and large business faculty who has been flung into tho dust by unforeseen cir cumstances springing upon him from ambush. When to buy, when to sell, when to truBt and to what amount of : credit, what will be the effect of this new invention in machinery, what will th? effieot of that loss of crot> and a thousand other questions perplex business men until the hair is silvered and deep wrinkles are plowed in the cheek, i and the stcks go up by mountains and 20 down by valleys, and they are at then* 1 wits' ends and stagger like drunken men. There never has been a time when 1 there have been such rivalries in busi- 1 ness as now. It is hardware asainst i hardware, book3 against books, chand- ' lery against chandlery, imported article 1 against imported article. A thousand 1 stores in combat with another thousand 11 Voo vra "? f orro nf lirrhf I 1 5bUIiC3? ilOVCl OU^U C* V_* > KSA never sach variety of assortment, never i so much splendor of show window, nev- < er so much acatene33 of advertising and 1 amid all these severities of rivalry in business how many men break down! 1 k Oh, the burden on the shoulder! Oh, < |||^ the burden on the heart! i Eli You hear that it is avarice which < drives these men of business through i K the street, and that is the commonly ac- 1 A cepted idea. I do not believe a word of H it. The vast multitude of these business i |f|l men are toiling on for others. To edu- 1 A cate their children, to put wing of pro- 1 tection over their households, to have \ something lefc so whto they pass out of i A this life their wives snd children will not \ || ave to go to the poorbouse?that is r |||||Vibe way I translate this energy in the i |p|?|8treet and store, the vast majority of i rinnfrn C-* ^ 'A A r\ T~\ f\i I ? I.L1H CliCigJf. VXtiy, uvu^t kv v^v. uuuvt I Jo all of the business. Some of ycu re- t Lember when the Central America was ping home from California it was I Bcked. President Arthur's father-in- s glLwasthe heroic captain of the ship c went down with most of the passen- c B. Some cfthem got cffinto lifeboats ( Bthere was a young rnaa returning \ - California who had a bag of gold \ t'J CtJ ?UJ tTUU uci^cu i/auivi iu v\, prime minister, end who helped Havelock to be a soldier w.ll help you to discharge ail jour duties. He is goiog to fee ycu through. When loss comes and yea Cud ycur pro; perty going. ju3t take this book and put it down by your ledger and read of the eternal possessions that will come to you through cur Lord Jesus Christ. And when your business partner betrays ycu. and your friends turn against you, just take the insuring letter, put it down on the table, put your Bible beside the insulting letter and then read of the friendship of him who "slicketb closer than a brother.'7 A young accountant iu New York city got hi3 accounts entaDgled. He knew he wa3 honest, and yet he could, not make his accounts come out right, and he toiled at them day and night until he was nearly frenzied. It seemed by those books that something had teen misappropriated, and he knew before God he was honest. The last day came. lie knew if he could not that day make his accounts come cut right be would go into disgrace and go into banishment irom the business estaolishment. He went over there very early, before there Was anybody in the place, and he knelt down at the desk and said: "O Lord, thcu kncwest 1 have tried to be nones c, but I cannot make these things come out right! Help me today?help mo this momins!" The ycuog man arose, and hardly knowing why he did so opened a book that lay on the desk, and there was a leat containing a line of figures which explained everything. In other words, he cast his burden upon the Lord, and the Loid sustained him. Young man, do you hear that? Uh, yes, God has a sympathy with anybody that is id any kind of toil. He knows how heavy is the fccd of bricks that the workman carries up the ladder on the wail, he hears the pickax of the miner down in the coal shaft, he knows how strong the tempest strikes the sailor at masthead, he sees the factory girl among the spindles and knows how her arms ache, lie eees the sewing woman iu the fourth story and knows how few pence she gets for making a garment, ana louder than all the dm and roar of the city comes the voice of a sympathetic God, "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee." Then there are a great many who have a weight of persecution and abase upon ihem. Sometimes society get3 a grudge against a man. All his motives are mlsinterpre'cd, and all his good deeds are depreciated. With more virtare than some of the honored and applauded he runs only against raillery and sharp criticism. When a man begins to go down, he has not only the force of natural gravitation, but a hundred hands to help him in the precipitation. Men are persecuted for their virtues and their successes. Germanicu3 said he had just as many bitter antagonists as he had adornments. The character sometimes is so lustrous that the weak eyes of envy and jealousy cannot be ir to look at it. It was their integrity that put Joseph in the pit, and Dauiel in the den, and Shadrach in the fire, and seat John the j j _ * 1 _ a _ T"> ? i. _a / t _ "I .bvaogeiisi 10 aeso;ai,e ratGJUo, aau <^aivin to the castle of persecution, and.John Huss to the stake, and Koran after Moses, and Saul after David, and Herod after Christ. Be sure if ycu ba^e anything to do for church or state and you attempt it with all_yo?*~?ou] the lightning will s'rik~ you, ~ The- ??orid always has had a cross between two thieves for the one who comes to save it. High and holy enterprise has aiways been followed by abuse. The most sublime tragedy of self sacrifice has come to burlesque. The graceful gait of virture is always followed by sceff aud grimace aud travesty. The sweetest strain of poetry ever written has come to ridiculous parody, and as long as there are virtue aud righteousness in the world there will be something for iniquity to grin at. Ail along the line of the ages and in all lands the cry has been: "Not thi3 man, but Barabbas. Kow, Barabba3 was arobrer." A nd what makes the persecutions of life worse is that they come from people whom you have helped, from those to whom you loaned money or have started m business, or whom you rescued in some great crisis. I think it has been the history of all cur lives?the most acrimonious assault has come from those whom we have benefited, whom we have helped, and that makes it all the hard?r to bear. A man is in danger of becoming cynical. A clergyman of the Universalist church went into a neighborhood for the establishment of a church of his denomination, and he was anxious to find some one of that denomination, and he was pointed to a certain house and went there. He said to the man of the house: "I understand you are allniversalist. I want you to help me ia the enterprise." "Well," said the man, "I am a UniverBalist, but I have a peculiar kind ofUniversalism." "What is thai?" asked the minister. "Well," replied the other, "I have been cut in the world, and I have been cheated and slandered and outraged and abused until I believe in universal damnation!" ' ~ * - iL.i ? .*11 - me great oanger is taat men win uecome cynical and given to believe, as David was tempted to say, that all men are liars. Oh, my friends, do not let that be the effect upon your souls! If ycu cannot endure a little persecution, how do you think cur fathers endured great persecution? Motley, in his "Dutch Republic," tells us of Egmont, the martyr, who. condemned to be beheaded, unfastened his CDlkr on the way to the scaffold, and when they asked him why he did th. he said: "iSo they will not be detained in their work. I want to be ready." Oh, how little we have to enSure compared with those who have gone before us! Now, if you have come across ill treatment, let me tell you you are in excellent company?Christ and Luther and Gralilei and Columbus and John Jay and Josiah Qu.ncy&nd thousands of men and vomer, the best spirits of earth and heareo. Budge not one inch, though all hell vreak upon you its veDgeance and you >e made a target for devils to shoot at. Do you not think Christ knew all about DersecutioL? Was he not hissed at! Was le not struck on the cheek? Was he not )ursued all the days of his life. D:d they lot expectorate upon him? Or, to put t in Bible language, "They spit upon lim." And cannot he understand what >ersecution is? "Cast the.y burden upon he Lord, and he shali sustain thee." Then there are others who carry great .urdens cf physical ailments. When udden sickness has come and tierce holera3 and mai:guant fevers take the :astles of life by storm, we appeal to Jed, but iu these chronic ailments which ?ear out the strength day after day and veek after wce-k and year after year how little resorting to God for solace! Then people, defended upon their tomes, and their plasters, and their cordials rather than upon heavenly stimulants. Oh, how few people there are completely well. Some cf you, by, dint of perseverance and care, have kept living to this time, bur how you have had to war against physical ailments! Antedilu vians, without medical college and infirmary and apothecary shop, multiplied their years by hundreds, but he who has gone through the gantlet of disease in cur time and has come to 70 years of age is a hero worthy of a paim. The world seems to be a great hospital, and you run against rheumatisms and consumptions and scrofulas and scrofulas and neuralgias and scores of old diseases baptized'bv new nomenclature. Oh, how heavy a burden sickness is! It takes the color out of the sny, and the sparkle out of the wave, and the sweetness out of the fruit, and the lnotor r\n fr nf tV>Q ninhf ^Vlion the. limha iUOICi UUC \JX iu\y IX l ? IT 41V/U UUV ? J 4.^ ache, when the mouth is hot, when the ear roars with unhealthy obstructions, how hard it is to be patient and chearfuland assiduous! "Cast thy burden upon the Lord." Does your head ache? His wore the thcrn. Do your feet hurt? His were crushed ot the spikes. Is your side painful? IIi3 was struck by the spear. Do you feel like giving way under the burden? His weakness gave way under a cross. While you are in every possible way to try to restore your physical vigor, you are to remember that more soothing than any anoayne, more vitalizing than any stimulant and more strengthening than any tonic is the prercription of the text, "Cist thy burden upon the Lord, and he will sustain these." We hear a great deal of talk now about faith cure, and some people say it cannot be done and it is a failure. I do not know but that the chief advance of the church is to be in that direction. Marvelous things come to me day by day which make mo think that if the age of miracles is past it is because the faith of miracles is past. A prominent merchant of New York said to a member of my family, "My mother wants her case mentioned to Mr. Talmage." This was the case. He said: "My mother had a dreadful abscess, from which she had suffered untold agonies, and all surgery had been exau3ted upon her, and worse and worse she grew until we canea m a lew i^utisuaiu incuusauu^iv ceeded to pray about it. We commended her case to God, and the abscess began immediately to be cured. She is entirely well now and.without any sur Igeiy." So that case has come to me, and there are a score of other cases coming to our ears from all parts of the earth 0, ye who are sick, go to Christ! Oh,ye who are worn out with agonies of body, "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee." Another burden some have to carry is the burden of breevement. Ab, these are the troubles that wear us out! If we lose our property, by additional industry perhaps we may bring back the estranged fortune; if we lose our good name, perhaps by reformation of morals we may achieve again reputation for integrity, but who will bring back the dear departed? Alas, me, for these empty cradles and these trunks of childish toys that, will never be used again! Alas, me, for the i empty chair and the silence in the halls I that will never echo again to those fam I iliar footsteps! Alas for the cry of widI on/I nrnho ri&rra! Whftf". hitfpr I V/' *> UU'OU UUU Vl^UMUUgV.. K UMU Marahs in the wilderness, what cities of the dead, what long black shadow from the wing of death, what eyes sunken with grief, what hands trembling with bereavement, what instruments of music shut now because there are no lingers to play on them! Is there no relief for such spuls? Aye, let that soul ; ride into the harbor of my text: ! Thr soul that on Jesus lias learned to rei pose I will not, I will not desire to its foes. That soul, though all hell shall endeavor to stake, I'll never, 110 never, no never forsake Xow the grave is bri&ht+z i'uan the ancient tomb ,7Lere the lights were prepetasliy kept burning. The scarred feet of him who was "the resurrection ""1 fVm Ufa" ora nr> tVifl hrr?fron irraVP OUU bUC IliU CkLTj uu UULV> Vivuvu gvv. ? V hillock, while the voices of angels ring down the sky at the coronation of another soul come home to glory. Then there are many who carry the burden of siD. Ah, we all carry it until in the appointed way that burden is lifted. \Ve need no Bible to prove that the whole race is ruined. What a spectacle it would be if we could tear off the mask of human delilement or beat a drum that would bring up the whole army of the word's trans gressions ? the deception, the fraud, and the murder, and the crime of all centuries! Aye if 1 could sound the trumpet of the resurection in the soul of the best men in this audience, and all the dead sins of the past should come up we could not endure the sight. 6in, grim and dire, has put its clutch upon the immortal soul, and that clutch will never relax unless it be under the heel of him who came to destroy the works of the devil. Oh, to have a mountain of sin on the soul! Is there no way to have the burden moved ? Oh, yes. "Cast thy burden upon the Lord." The sinless one came to take the consequences of our sin. And 1 know he is in earnest. How do I know it? By the streaming temples, ?r.ri thA sfrAamino- hands as he savs ,:Come unto me, ail ye who are weary and heavy ladeD, and I will give you rest/' Why will prodigals live on swines' husks when the robe, and the ring, and father's welcome are ready ? Why go wandering over the great Sahara desert of your sin when you are invited to the gardens of God, the trees of life and fountations of living water V Why be houseless and homeless forever when you may become the sons and daughters of the Lord God Almighty ? Sbocklnj; Wreck. Coierlaxd, Md., May 27.? The New York and Pittsburg express on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which left here at 1.30 this morning, was wrecked near Pine Grove, two ana a half miles east of Rockwood, Penn., about 3 o'clock this morning. The coaches were filled with passengers and the train was running at the rate of sixty miles an hour. Suddenly, without a moment's warning, the engine dashed into a large land slide, sending the engine in a twinkling down into the creek, where it still lies, The combination mail and express and the regular express and the regnlar express cars crashed into the engine with ternlic force, aud in a few minutes were on tire. The coaches with their precious burden of passengers were jammed together, but did not leave the track. Xone of the passengers were injured. As soon as the train quieted from t he concussion the passengers rushed to the piled up and burniDg express car, where they found Messenger Stonl. of the United States Express Company, straggling to escape from his car, and in a moment he was rescued. He had received serious Injuries about the head unH anr? nrnhahlv internally hnt it is thought he will recover. The passengers then turned their attention to the derailed engine below in the creek and were horrilied to iina no signs of the engineer cr his fireman. For live hours the^ continued their search until at last they found the crushed and dead body of Fireman lihinheart under the locomotive. One of his feet was entirely burned off. Continuing their search they came across by itself the remains of the unfortunate engineer, Xichol3on These they gathered up and placed in a bucket, the rest of his body having been entirly consumed by fire. Messenger Stohl was taken to Baltimore, where he lives, on Train Xo 6 this afternoon. The remains of the engineer and tireman were taken to Glenwood, i'a., where they have familes. All traffic was suspended for live or six hours. PROHIBITION ADDRESS, ; ISSUED BY THE STATE EXECUTIVE I COMMITTEE TO DEMOCRATS] " ! Gatt'na Ready tor the Iila Convention, I Which Will Soon be Held in Colnmb's? I I Want the Question Submitted to the 1 rcopi-*. I Columbia. S. C., May 23.?The j Prohibitionists of the State are now up < and doing, though it can hardly be said that they are doing much so far. It has i been thought for some weeks, since the i accidcntrl prohibition law ha3 been of effect, that the Prohibitionists weald take steps to have the law applied to the men dealing in liquor. But they have not made a move so so tar as the aencral publ'c is aware. The committee now comes to the front : however, and shows its hand. The committee manifestly wishes to consult with ihe Prohibitionists of the Slate and get them all to join in a demand upon city authorities that the prohibition law be enforced. Friday the committee prepaied an address to the people of the State along this line and urgiDg a bis attendance at the State Prohibition convention to be heldm this city on June 7. This address was given to the press Friday but withdrawn and held over till yesterday, when it was made public. The address reads as follows: To the Democratic voters of South Carolina: We are at this time confronted with a situation which threatens greater perils to all the interest of our people than any which we have had to face since the dark day ol reconstruction and negro domina tion. It ^is, therefore, the part of true manhood and loyal citizenship, to meet the emergcuoy with a determined purpose to do fearlessly and uncompromisingly that which is right in the signt of God and, trusting to him for a safe deliverance from the impending evils. The State Prohibition Executive Committee, voicing the sentiments of the large class of' our people who believe that the liquor traffic in an evil agency from wh'ch flows most of the pauperism, crime and suffering which curse our S-ate aDd who are confident in belief that prohibition of the traffic is the only adequate remedy for these evils within our reach, bave issued a cali for a convention to meet in Columbia on the 7 th day of June to consider the means tor applying this remedy. We feel that we are but fulfilling: a duty which we owe to our fellow citizens in urging upon them, with all the earnestness of which we are capable, the supreme importance of responding to this call and giving the most thoughtful consideration to the occasion which demands it. An experiment authorized by the Legislature, in direct violation ot the will of the people a3 clearly expressed at the last election, has, after nine months trial, just been closed by the interposition of the Supreme Court, at a cost cf bitter political animosity, bloodshed, and a condition of unchecked lawlessness on the part of the representatives of the liquor traffic, unparalleiled in the history of the State. The first decision of. the Supreme Court has been interpreted by some a3 in effect, removing all restraints from the liquor traffic, and the whiskey seller has been thus advertised that they might reopen their saloons anywhere in the State without molestation from the authorities. As a direct result ot this announcement, the sluice gates of this abomination have been opened, and a stream ot intoxicants is now rolling in upon the State, which, if unchecked, by the prompt and determined action c: a united people, will carry deatu and destruction tc every portion of our devoted commoiwealth. if we did not believe that there is sufficient power in the law, if promptly utilized, to protect us in a measure from the threatened evils, the situation would indeed be appalling, but we confidently assure you fellow citizens, that you are not left hopeiessly to battle with this merciless foe, thus invited to invade the sanctity of your homes. The means of protection are within your reach. Municipal law3 exist in most of the towns and cities of the State forbidding the sale of intoxicating liquors without a license and there are penalties to enforce such ordinances. It therefore becomes the duty of ail good citizens to demand of their municipal authorities that this prohibition be applied to anyone who would attempt, under the ill-advised assurance of auy one, to violate the law of onmmnnilc thllR fixnres3f(l. The statute law, which the supreme Court has decided to.be of force, pro* vides for the punishment of offenders when convicted, a fine of $200 or six months imprisonment, or both, in the discretion of the court. While it is true that thes8 statutes, both in their penalties and method of prccsedure, are not such as are needed to guarantee the most efleclive enforcement of prohibition, and only show the necessity for our present movement to secure the passage of a law framed in all its parts to insure its own summary enforcement, still, the law as it stands is a means of defense against the illegal whiskey traffic, and should be used for all that it will do, until a more perfect law can be obtained. It is therefore especially the duty of prohibitionists to make this the occasion when they shall give emphasis to I their faith, and assurance of their con -1 sistency, by aiding in every proper way to briDg such violators under the operation of the law. in this way can we most effectually show that our denunciation of the liquor traffic and our demand for lis prohibition was not an unmeaning clamor but the earnest heartfelt expression of truth and soberness. The abandonment of all effort to prevent the reopening of saloons, and the promptness with which the liquor sellers have reoccupied his former position in many parts of the Stale, show uumistakabiv that the battle is joined between the law-respecting citizen and the lawless wlrskey seller and that the issue can be no longer evaded or avoided. In this crisis we urgently present- to you the only alternative by which as its;em3 to us, the scattered and divided forces can be united for successful resistance to the' common enemy. It is for all true citizens who have the general good at heart to lay aside the animosities which have divided them as a political party in the past, and putting behind them the bitterness which four years of factional strife has engendered, remember only that we are Carolinians, whose dearest interests are in jeopardy.and meetina as brethren on the common ground which all can occupy without the least abatement of selfrcspect or of icgard for the views of - ' * - J ? ? ? 11. ? n ft 4 ft n M eacn oiner oa otuer hul/jculs, ?uu mauu together until prohibition is permanently engrafted on the fundamental law of the tS'.ate, In the presence of a daDger so imminent, all considerations of mere peresonal or factional dominance or advancement should bo held resolutely in abeyance, and those who at such a lime would seek to influence passion or prevent the healing cf existing variances, or introduce new causes for embittering feeling within our political family, should i be peremptorily remanded to the rear i until the enemy in our froDt has been i Anally disposed of. Who can doubt, that if the thought- i ful conservative men of both factions < into which our people have been so unfortuuately divided, can be brought to- ' gethcr iu council on a question of such i vital moment to them all as this, it will ' be the beginning ol a new era offraterni- i ty and peace so devoutly longed for by ? ?very true Carolinian. And what should prevent this fraternization? Are there aot enough good and true men to be A found on both sides, intelligent enough, and patriotic enough, to hold iheir preferences for men in check long enough to give grave consideration to a question T which has been shown to involve not, merely a policy, but the very peace and 3afety of society and the maintenance of the law and authority under which we are to live? We therefore appeal to the yoters of every county to see that they are fully represented in the convention ei which has been called to meet in Colum- o Kio TnnA 7fh_ and wft earneatlv invite ~ the co-operation of the press and of the ^ ministers of all denominations, and especially of the noble women of the State a whose peace and happiness are trembling h in the balance during this critical period. ^ Let them all unite their efforts and ^ prayers with ours to bring about the happy consummation of our hopes and 0 save "us from the blighting inflences tl which mu3t inevitably follow the return h of the saloon, under any form of taw, to t power in South Carolina. c L. D. Childs, d Ch'm State Pro. Ex. Committee. r ASSESSMENT OF RAILROAD. ^ Sight Reductions Made '.n the Assess- 11 imntgol Ncstol Them, ( Columbia,S. C..May 31.?The State Board of Railroad Equalization held a meeting yesterday and made the assess- t ments on the railroads for toe ensuring \ year. ? The Board is composed of State Tre- J asurer Bates as chairman, Attorney \ General Buchanan, Secretary of State ~ Tindal and Chairman Duncau, of the r Rairoad Commission. The session of the Board did not last 9 over three hours but every road in the s State was gone over and the assess- * ments on each fixed. The assessments are not final; at least chaDge3 may be t made in some of them. Each road has i been notified of the amounts it was as g sessed at and will be given an opportu- \ nity to enter protests or to ask for g changes. The next meeting will be ^ uciu uu fj uuc a. Secretary Norton, of the Board, was ; too busy yesterday to give the figures " to the puplic but from different sour- E ces it was leared that there has been a 3 slight scaling in the assessements of a I majority of the roads. The assessments a of some of the new roads, notably the s Wilson Short Cut and the Georgia, r Carolina and Northern, have been increased. The object of the Board in j the reductions and increases was to j: equalize taxation. The two new roads r mentioned have played havoc with the c business of some of the old roads and 0 have consequently diminished the val- rc ue of the latter. It is understood that the Columbia 1 and Greenvillee, the Charlotte, Colum- c bia and Augusta, the Spartanbuag,Un- i ion and Columbia and the Piedmont c Air Line, all of the Richmond and e Danville system, have had reductions 1 made in their assessments. The reduc- t tions run from $2,000 to S3,000 per mile. The Atlantic Coast Line and the ] Port Royal and Augusta roads have 8 also been given reductions. The largest t c? D^rt/1 CUl was rnaue iu luc JLUi.ec ua xwau, c which will hereafter pay ?6,000 instead 0 of $10,000 a mile. The assessment of r the South Carolina road will remain as : it is, 316,000 per mile. 1 The assessment of the Columbia and s Greenville road last year was $10,500 1 per mile; the Charlotte, Columbia and * Augusta $14,000 per mile; the Tied- c mont Air Line S18,000 per mile; the s Coast Line $13,000. c The total reduction will not be heavy c probably $200,000 or $300,000 in the en- ^ tire State, j The following shows the amount of J railroad property by counties in this State, and on which the roads paid in r 1893 Abbeville $ 1,658,740 1 Aiken 1,249,150 1 Anderson 676,150 1 Barnwell 1,447,375 Beaufort 512,400 t Berkeley 1,301,250 t Charleston 530,990 Chester 743,990 e Chesterfield 61,700 g Clarendon 458,912 Colleton 1,173,850 Darlington 303,950 Edgefield 804,100 i Fairfield 711,050 t Florence 786,260 t Georgetown 64,425 1 Greenville 683,870 t Hampton 775,070 f Horry 197,370 t Kershaw 391,450 1 Lancaster 401,420 i Laurens 916,700 c Lexington -. 807,030 c o iyiauuu o^u^uv ? Marlboro 185,440 } Newberry 696.040 I Oconee 502,050 ^ Orangeburg 1,192,462 c Pickens 506,400 f Richland.... 1,415,137 i Spartanburg 1,302,250 a Sumter..., 1,322,140 I Union 322,320 Williamsburg 773,935 York 1219,1)20 c ?: 2 Totals $26,783,607 c Murderer Hanged. I Macon, Ga.,May28 ? Henry Miller, t colored, was hanged here Friday for the murder of Mr. John Braswell on Septem c ber 19, 1893. The|evidence on which he z was convicted principally circumstantial and he denied the crime to the last, but acknowledged being present when it was ( done and robbing the dead man's pock c ets. He also confessed to fcaviDg kill- [ ed Pink Ryan, who wa3 found dead un- j der the shed of the Metropolitan Street : Railway Company a year and a half ago 1 and whose murder has always been shrouded In mystery. He lurther con fessed that he had killed three other men r on the Ocmulgee river and he belonged I to a band of Kuklux. The drop fell at c 12:19, and he died io five minutes, hl3 t neck having been broken. He made no ? confession of religiOD and said he could s live as well in hell as anywhere else. He was deliant and sullen to the last and exhibited no symptons of weakness on the scaffold. The crime for which he was convicted was one of the most brutal committed in this section since the Woolfoik murder. Miller and others waylaid and murdered Mr. Bra3well while he wa3 on his way home ic the country from Macon. His throat was cut from ear to ear and his head was shot full of slugs and buckt shot. ? Silver Instead of Bonds. 2 Washington, D. C? May 30.- -Con i gre3sman Taibert has introduced the following joint resolution in the House." Joint resolution enjoining the Secretary of the Treasury from the lurther issue cf bonds. Whereas it is currently reported in the public press that the Secretry of the Treasury is again considering an issue _ cf United States bonds in addition to the fifty million dollars sold in the last Jauuary: end Whereas there is now laying idle in the c Treasury a large quantity of silver un- ? coined, the seigniorage of which, when * coined, will amount to fifty-five million \ 8ilver dollars; therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of r Representatives of the United States of | America In Congress assembled, That c the Secretary of the Treasury Is hereby t enjoined from a further issue of bond3, t and all law3 and part3 of lavvs whatso- \ ever on the statute books or in appropriation bills giving him authority so to i do, either directly, by implication, infer- iS ence, or otherwise, are hereby repealed. 9 Section 2. That the Secietary of the ? Treasury is hereby directed, in order to * meet the present pressing need of the ? Treasury for money, to at once coin the ^ silver seigniorage in the Treasury, and v turn it into the availab.e Treasury cash. ^ A BOUNTY FOR BABIES. GREAT SCHEME TO INCREASE CURRENCY. he Plans of an Orsnst-hars; Man to Make Everybody H*ppyat*(l to g'v.? Them Plenty of Money?Governor Tillman Much Amused at It. Columbia, S. C., May 29.?The lat3t scheme for increasing the circulation f money in this couutrv has been sugested to Governor Tillman m a letter rhich he gave to newspaper men ye3teray. The Governor did not express imseif in favor of the plan ut was amused at it. He thinks, owever, of advocating a tsx on achelors. If this tax cculdbe added to he suggested bounty for babies it might iave the ellect of adding another charm o the proposed new law.' Parenis of nore than the average number of chil Ireu will probably wish that the proceed law could be made retrospective as Fell a3 prospective. The author of the iroposed new law is unknown but here 3 his letter: Orangeburg, s. C., May 23, 1894. jovermr B. K Tillman, Columbia, S. C. Dear Sir: I have read with interest he replies ot yourself and Senator Buter to the questions propounded by the state Alliance, and after a careful com>arison end study of the two papers, it pves me pleasure to accord to you in lational politics that hearty support vbich I have always given you in Slate iffairs, Your position is well taken and m'xod2, and I feel eoutident that you will ?iu. To niy mind there is one point yet to >e settled,?bow to issue money to the >eopie after the government makes it? md it is upon this point that I take the iberty of writing you. The free comige of silver and gold will issue money lirect to the people oftie West; the lensions will be a direct issue to all Yankeedom, but the South will have no noney issued to her except what little .he 2ets bv nublic improvements. This nits "The land we love" at a ureat disidvantage as she will have no money upply except what comes to her in the eguiar channels of trade. I Trite to suggest to your mature udgmeot and experience a plan for the ssue of money direct to the people, a )lan that will know no North, nor South lor East, nor West. It is this: Let the ;ovemment issue a pension of $100 in ;reenbacks legal tender for all dues, lublic and private) to every couple who :ontracts the marriage relation; also a jounty of $10 (greenbacks) to the parent T every child born in wedlock after the mactment of these tuggestionsinto law fhe effect of such a law would be marvelous. The volume of circulation would ixpand with ths increase of population. >Iew industries would spring up. Joint itcck companies would oe formed for the nanutacture of cradles, baby carriages, ;otton diapers and soothing syrup. A ;realer demand would be created for ood and clothing, aod there would no onger be any danger of over-production Jong these linea. Young people cculd Den pool tneir issu;s aau go into a comline tor home predic tion without any iread o f a financial crisis. Woman's iuffrace wculd no longer be a burning juestion, and labor would receive its re:ompense. Every woman would be a Fillmauites lor all time and the next :eneratiou ot yrung men would always )e ready to go to Eariing-town. I submit the above, hoping it may neet with your approval. In conclusion 1 will say that I am not wedded to this )lun, or anything else. You may accuse ne of having "an axe to grind" by this icheme, but you cannot convict me of he charge till the new law puts me to he test. Wishing you a long career of success ind usefulness, I am, ever, your ardeut mpporter, "Krof." A Tilal Justice Iiemoyed, Patttupta SI (\ .Tnnfl 1?If. will hp emembered that while Treasurer Waler of Charleston v?as in the city in atendance upon the diocesan convention le was instructed by Governor Tillman ,o bring a suit against Vincent Chicco or perjury. This was to be done upon he ground that Chicco was reported as laving boasted that he sold liquor durng dispensary days and on the strength if that made an affidavit that he had ibeyed the dispensary law and thereby rot $50 license money from the county. iVhen Governor Tillman read the news>aper accounts of the trial, he got vrothy and saul that the the time had :ome for Trial Justice Milan's head to ^o into the waste basket, so the followng little note went to Mr. Milan by the ifternoon's mail: dr. E. MilaD, Trial Justice, Charleston, S.C. Sir: Your action as trial justice in Ii3mifi3ing the C3se against V. * Chicco, tfter a prima facie case had been mrde >ut, necessitates -your removal from ofice and you are hereby removed as rial Justice for the county of Charleston. You will turn over the books, itc., belonging to you as such toTheolore S. Gilliarci.who has been appointed is your successor 13. It. Tillman, Governor. The notice of the appiDtment of ex3hief Constable Gillard was forwarded >n the afternoon train. Governor Tillnan said that he has for some time ieen wanting a trial justice in Charleston who was willing to look at things n a different way.?State. Gayden'a Slayer Slain. Sumter, May 31.?Information wan eceived here this morning thatJobji slcLeod, the desperado, murderer and lepot burner, had been shot and morally wounded. The shootiDg occurred it Lamar, a station on the Charleston, jumter and Northern .Railroad this nornin? at about 4 o'clock. The facts >f the "shooting are these: McLeod lad entered the store of Mr. Minis arid iroceeded to help himself to the goods le found therein. Some person passing leardthe noise and went to the house >f Mr. Turner, who clerked for Mr. dim?, and called him up. Mr. Turner vent to the store and McLeod ran out. le shot at McLeod, the ball slrikiDg urn in the abdomen. McLeod, fcowev>r, did not stop, but ran to some woods iboutl50 yards away carrying with iim the goods he had taken. The citi:ens were aroused and surrounded the >atch of woods which McLeod had enered patiently waited for daylight. >Vhen morning came the party closed n, and after a few minutes found the legroin a ditch mortally wounded, le lived a short while after he was bund* The man who killed him ha3 enaerea Di3 country u great service iu idding the State of this desperate man. -State. 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 >e sure it costs to buy a good instrunent, but it lasts many years, and will >av its costs many a thousand times iver by interesting the young folks in heir homes. Don't make the mistake, hough, of investing haphazard. Post murself thoroughly by writing Ludden c Bates Southern Music House, Savahlah, Ga., the great music house of the iouth, established iu 1870. They have npplied 50,000 insWuments to South irn homes, and have a reputation for air prices and honorable treatment of :ustomers; and they represent the leadng pianos and organs of America ['hey take pleasure in corresponding vith you, sending free catalogues, etc rVrite them. THE CURRENCY FIGHT. Mel,sarin Favors the Repeal of the Ten Per Cent Tax. Washington. June 1.?Committees were called for reports and the House recurred, in committee of the whole, Richardson of Tennessee, in the chair to the consideration of the bill to repeal the 10 per cent. State bank tax law. iilack (Dem.) of Georgia had the floor and presented his argument against the constitutionality of the law. He spoke an hour, attracting the close attention of members. His peroration was an eloquent recital of the leading part taken by the South in the historj of the government and of the nation and a refutation of the assertion that the repeal of the bill was desired alone by * ^ DArmklinono a f fVwi sj^nth A 4" ifa LUC ItC^UUllLaUO \JL LIuAV. KJUUVU ivg close, he was warmly applauded and received the congratulations of his associates on the floor. Walker (Kep.) of Massachusetts spoke for two hours upon a general financial plan embodied in a bill introduced early in the session by himself. He had no defense to make of the existing financial system of the country. What it needed was flexibility. The object of his bill was to force into circulation every dollar that could be advantageously used. The present system withheld from circulation 8600,000,000 or 8800,000,000 of currency. That, he emphatically said, must stop. McLaurin ot oonth Carolina addressed the House on the bill. He told of the direful results to the cotton market during the financial stringency and how "King Cotton" was saved from dethronement only by the issue of clear ing nouse connaeuce cerumcaies, wuica passed current in South Carolina and enabled the people to tide over the crop moving period. But the promised prosperity when the Sherman Act was repealed had failed to materialize, he said, and the crop moviDg period was again upon them. What were they do? If South Carolina had to pay a tax upon her clearing house certificates he saw no reason to exempt the great clearing house association of New York, lor while in the use made of the South Carolina certificates there was a wide difference, the legal principle was the eame. He did not believe as some did that State banks would cure all our financial woes, but the repeal of this tax was a step toward a radical change in our financial system, a step toward decentralizing the enormous and dangerous powers now vested in the national banking system. There were, said McLaurin, but two avenues through which the currency could now be Increased, to wit: 1. The coinage of gold, and 2. Additional national back notes. Every other channel had been closed. He believed we needed a currency which had both local and national characteristics. The old State banks were not in touch with the spirit of the age. Every section of the TT??? ?* r* r. /* A*\ /\ti AH wftAn/kn (JU1UU W<*3 CJJlibiCU. CU CUUUJJU bUUCUVJI to raise and market its crop, and it was the duty of the government to provide the machinery to do this. The United States might issue enough Treasury notes to be divided arnoDg the various States in proportion to population, the States depositing with the government their bonds bearing asuflicient.amont of interest to cover all expenses. It would then be left to each State to provide the method of distribution for its quota of money and we would have a currency to do local business which would pass at par everywhere. Wheeler of Alabama followed Mr. McLaurin in aa argument favoring the repeal of the law. It was, he declared, a war measure, pure and simple, and had no foundation other than the necessity that was then supposed to exist for the national government to control the issue of circulating medium. He hoped the House would yield to the eloquent appeal of the gentleman from Georgia and give the country an adequate amount of money. When he spoke of money he meant money with a purchasing power. He characterized the national banks as a great trust. The presidents of the institutions in Xew York city acted as one man. Before Wheeler concluded, the committee rose and, at 5 o'clock, the House adjourued until to-morrow at noon. A FIENDISH PLOT. Ita Instigator Promptly Swang Up by Jadge Lynch Jacksonville, Fla., Hay 31.?A special to the Times-Union from Palatka, Fla., says: The people of this section are very much excited over the discussion of a diabolical conspiracy among the negroes to commit a series of outrages upon white women. The particulars are that about eight weeks ago, a negro preacher by the name of I. T. Burgis came to the turpentine stills in the neighborhood of Putnam Hall and procured employment. After becoming acquainted with the colored employees he made damaging remarks about the dauehter of a farmer liviLar near by, and proposed to the negroes that they should seize the girl and several other white women and carry them into the swamp and make them submit to their embraces. It is understood that several negroes agreed to the plan and that preparations were being made to carry it into effect. Fortunately the white people got a hint of the conspiracy and began to make an investigation. They secured evidence that such a conspiracy did exist and they took steps to guard their homes. In the meanwhile the negroes learned that their diabolical plan was known, and secretly they began to leave the country. One of those to leave was Burgis, who had suggested the outrages upon the women. He fled just in time to escape from a number of white men who had gone to secure him. It was learned that Burgis had gone to Georgia, and the tather of the young lady whom Burgis had so vilely slandered swore out a warrant against the negro. The Georgia authorities were communicated with and Burgis was arrested. A Florida oflicer left to secure the negro Sunday. The officer itjlutueu villi iuc ucgiu, auu, lcanug a moo, stopped off at a lfftle station called Xewburg, intending to secret the prisoner at a friend's home near by. The officer started to this friend's house, but had Dot proceeded more than half a mile when he was suddenly confronted by between seventy-live and a hundred mounted men. They covered him with guns and rules aad demanded the prisoner. Being overpowered there wa3 no alternative but to give him up, and next morning Burgis was seen hangiDg from a limb two miles from the place where he was taken from deputy Lane. Burgis is described a3 being about 45 years of age, 6 feet tall and weighing about lbO pounds. He confessed to Mr. Lane that the report he circulated about the farmer's daughter was untrue, but that he made the remark about her to interest the negroes in his damnable undertaking. The white people are wild with rage, and it is believed that more lynchings will speedily follow. A Fatal Wreck. Milwaukee, Jane 1.?A Marshheld, Wis., dispatch says an accident ' result!Dg in the loss of eight lives and the iDjury of 15 to 20 persons, more or less seriously, occurred there at 4.15 a, m. A train on the Wisconsin Central railway went through an ODon switch and was completely wrecked. The cars afterward took fire and were consumed. Four persons were taken from the wreck dead and four others are missiDg and supposed to have been caught in the mass of broken timbers and consumed. Among the dead are one.of the J>wesdy brothers. A Verj Expensive War, The civil war coast the North 33,000.000,000. The pensions since have amounded to 31,500,000,000. tfut this is not all. At the present time, nearly thirty years after the close of the war, 300,000 more persons are drawibg pensions than there were union troops in the field at any single time during the st.rnffffle and 700.000 aDDlications remain tammmmm n mf i vatmmmmxsammammmaummmsaammm q his hand, and as the last boat showed iff from the ship that was lo 20 downhat young man shouted to a comrade in ,he boat: ''Here, J ,hn, catch this gold. There are $3,000. Take it home to my old mother. It will maae her comioriaole in her last days." Grip, Gcuge & Co. do act do all the fcusiaess ot the svcrld. Ab, my friend, do you ?3y that God does cot care anything about your worldly business? I tell ycu Gcd kuows more about it than you do. He knows all your perplexities. He knows what mortgage is about to foreclose. lie knows what note \cu cannot pay. He knows what unsalable goods you have cc. your shelv- s. He knows ail your trials from fie day you took bold ot the first yardstick down to the sale cf the last yard of ribbon, and the G d who helped David 1 - I..? ? "^'1 Ki-dnrtrl T"\ ? r* ? n 1 + r\ Kn to be acted upon. Already, our pension expenses exceed those of all the nations of the earth: Where will it end? What will the war between the States finally cost us ? In 1861 the total value of all the property ia the States that seceded was 35,000,000,000. The New Orleans Picayune suggests that in view of the enormous expense of the war it would have been more economical if the North and South had settled their differences on a cash basis. It would have saved billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives if the North had secured the emancipation of the slaves by paying full price for entire 4,000,000 of them. When we get * through paying for it history will record the fact that our civil war was the most expensive conflict in ancient or modern times. jlo ise tsaumi) urncu, Columbia, S. C., May 31.?It Is authoritatively stated here that the report of the military commission to the Governor and commander-in-chief of the result of its inquiry into the culpability of the Charleston military in connection with the Darlington affair j has been hied, but owing to the Gover- j cor's absence from the city it has not 4 yet been made public. The gist of the ^ report, it is said is a recommendation that Gen. Thos. A Huguenin, the commanding officer of the Fourth Brigade be court martialed for disobedience in not extending tho orders of the Governor and Commander-in-Chief to the companies of his brigade.?Charleston Sun. ARE YOU SICK OR AFFLICTED AND NEED MEDICINE? 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