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!Vol VOL. XIX.JANUA4(Y 16t tlo. 7 - - - 0 8 $ C THUS,'BDAY,)OAY1619 DIR. TALMAGE IN AUSTRIA. HIS SERMON IN VIENNA, WITH NOTES ON HIS TOUR OF THE HOLY LAND. The Surprises lu IolIgion-T.he Fascina tion that Surrounds Jerusalem and the Bea of Galloe-Soloanon's Designx for His Capitol. VIENNA, Jan. 5.--The Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D. of Brooklyn, greached in this city tloay on "The suriPses of Religion." His text was I Kin x, 7: "Behold, the half was nottold me." The sermon was as fol lows: Appearing before you today, my mind yet agitated with the scenery of the lioly and, from which we have just, arrived, you will expect me to re vert to some of the scones. once enacted there. Mark a circle aroupd Lake Galilee, and another cir-' ble' aroUud Jerusalem, and you de scribe the two regions in which cluster memorieg of more events than in any other two circles. Jerusalem was a spell of fascination that will hold ime the rest of my life. Solomon had re solved that that city should be the center of all sacred, regal and commer cial magnillcence. He set himself to ivork and monopolized the surround img desert as a highway for his cara vans. He built the city of Palmyra around onp of the principal wells of the east, so that.all the long trains of Zaerchandise from the east were vbliged to stop there, pa.y toll and 3ave part of tWeir wealth in the hands f Solomon's merchants. He manned 'a fortress Thapsacusat the chief ford the Eup>hrates, and put under guard s.'erything that passed there. The t reo great protducts of Palestine ione pressed from the richest clusters d celebrated all the world over; oil, w dch in that hot country is the entire 61 stituto for butter and lard, and was UQ ed froi the olive branches until ry tree in the country becanio an well; and honey, which was the en substitute for sugar- these threv jreat products of the country Solomon xorted, and received in ircturn fruits .Nprious woods and the aninials of 5ery clime. He went down to Ezion-geber and ordered a tleet of ships to be construct ed, oversaw the workmen, and watched the launching of 'the ilotilla which was to go. out on more than a year's Voyage, to bring home the wealth of the then known vorld. He heard that the Egyptian horses were large and swift, and long maned and round linibed, and he resolved to purchase them, giving eighty-five dol Fars apiece for theI, luttng the best of these horses in his own stall and selling the surplus to foreign poten t4ates aL great pr.nt. H1e heard that there was the best of timber on Mount Lebanon, and lie sent out one hundred and eighty thou sand mien to hew down the forest and drag the timber 'rough the mountain :ges, to constiiuct it into rafts to be oated -to JAppa, and from thence to Fbe drawn by ox teams twenty-five "miles across the land to Jerusalem. He helird that there were beautiful flowers in other lands. He sent for them, planted theni in his own gar dens, and to this very (lay there are flowers found in the ruins of that city such as are to be found in no other part of Palestine, the lineal descend ants of the very flowers that Solomon planted. He heard that in foreign groves there were birds of richest voice and most luxuriant wing. He sent out people to catch them, and brin.thema 'there, and he put them Insiscages. EStand back now and see this longr train of camels coming up to the ling's gate, and the ox tramns from Egypt, olanad silver and precious stones, ~p~easts of. every hoof, and birds of ~l1wing, and fish of- -every scale I F-s tinde peolgsestru under the ce chris, anwheelorsHmen run, and the charotswhell arkto the orches tra I Gaze upon the dance!i Not stop ping to .)ook into the wonders of the temple, step right on to the causeay andl pass up to Solomon's palace! THicII ARivEIB. OF sOLOMON'S PALACIC. Hrwe fnd ourselves amid a col lecion9/buildings on, which tho kighdlavished the wealth of many em ires. The genius of Hiram, the are itect, and of the other artists is here seen in the long line of corridors and the suispended ga lleryr and the ap p roach to the throne. T1raceried wvin dow opposite tweceried windo. Bronzed ornaments bursting into lotus and lily and pomegranate. Chapiters surrounded by network of leaves in which imitation fruit seemed susp~end ed as -in, hanging" baskets. Three branches-so Josephus tells us-thr-eeI branches sculptured on the marble, so thin and subtle that even the leaves ~"eemed to quiver. A layer capable of 'olding five hundred barrels of water 1n six hundred brazen ox heads, which -ushaed with water and filled theu whole Alace w4th coolness and crystalline o gightness and musical plash. Ten it f>les chased with chariot wheel and a fain and cherubim. Solomon sat on a olone of ivory. At the seMaing place e throne, on each end of the steps, n lion. Why, my friends in place they trimmed their candiles snufl'ers .of gold, and they cut friuits with knives of gold, and l.sed their faces in basins of .d they sce d out the ashes Td.vels of gold, and they stirred ?. fres wit tongs of gold. niected in the water! Gold fl from the apparel! Gold eltn the crown! (old, gold, '/Of cotlrse the news of the affluence that ilace wenit out everywhere by eery ca uvan and by wing of every shp,'uintR soon the streets of Jerusa km de ,rowded with curiosity seek era .What is that long procession ap roachi' Jerusalem 1 . think from e o of it there must be royalty in the n I smell the breath of the inpic b.Ii are brought as presents, hear the shout of the drivers, see the dust covered caravanl sde ing that they come from far away. ses the naews up to the palace. Thei een of Sheba advances. Let all she people come.QO t to see. Let thej bnighy men of the land come out on the palace corridore. Let Solomon C9me down the stairs of the paae be fore the queen has a,ghted. Shako out tire ciinnamon, and the saffron, and the oclamus, and the frankincense and pass it Into the treasure house. Take u the diamonds until they glit. ter in te sun. The queen of Sheba alights. She en ters the palace. - She washes at the bath. She site'down at the banquet. The cup bearers bow. The meat smokes. The music trembles in the dash of the waters from. the molten sea. Then she rises from the banquet, and walks through the conservatories, and gazes on the architecture, and she asks Bolomon many strange questions, and she learns about the religion of the Hebrews, and she then and there becomes a servant of the Lord G6d. She is overwhelmed. She begins to think that all the spibes she brought, and all the precious woods which are intended to be turned into harps and psalteries and into railings for the causdway between the temple and the palace, and the one hundred and eighty thousand dollars in money sie begins to think that all these pres ents amount to nothing in such a place, and she is almost asharned that she has brought them, and she says within herself: "I heard a great deal about this place, and about this won derful religion%f the Hebrews, but I flnd it far heyona my highest antici pations. 1 iust add m6ro than fift per cent. to vhat has been related. t exceeds everything that I could have expected. The half-the half was not told mie." RELIGION IN IIlGHj PLACES. Ia'rn from this subject what a beautiful thing it is when social posi tion an(] weall surrender themselves to God.- When religion comes to a neighborhood, the first to receive it are the women. Somo men say it is because they are weak minded. I say it is because they have quicker per ceptioni of what is right, more ardent aifection ard capacity for sublimer emotion. After the women have re ceived the Gospel then all the dis tre,..od and the poor of both sexes, those who have no friends, accept Jesus. Last of all come the greatly prosPered. Alas,- that it.is so . If there are those who have been fa vored of fortune, or, as I might better put it, favored of God, surrender all you have and all you expect to be to the Lord who blessed this queen of Sheba. Certainly you are not ashamed to be found in this queen's company. I ant glad that Christ has had his im perial friends in all ages-Elizabeth Cl-istina, queen of Prussia; Maria Fedorovna, queen of Russia; Marie, empre-ss of ' lrance; Helena, the i m nrial mother of Constantine; Area ia. front her great fortunes buildin ,h ..Aa Iths in 'Onisian6inople ani toiling for the alleviation of the I-asses; Queen Clotilda, leading her hushaid and three thousand of his arined -warriors to Christian baptism Elizabeth of Burgul(, giving her .Jeveled glove to a beggar, and scat tern#g great fortunes anong the dis tressed; Prince Albert, singmn "Rock of Ages" inl Windsor Castle, and Queen Victoria, in cogi)ita, reading the Scri tu res to a dyig pauper. I bless God that the da is coming wh len royalty will bringal its thrones and music all its harmonies an< Jainiting all its pictures, and sculpture all its statuary, and architecture all its pillars, and conquest all its scepters, and the queens of the earth, in long linc of advance, frankincense fllin the air wid the camels laden'with gol shall appoach Jeirusalem, and the gates shall be hoisted, and te great burden of splendor shall be Ii ftdinto the palace of this greater than Solo mon. is Aain, my subject teaches me what D)o you know where Sheba was? It was in Abyssinia, or some sayr in the southern part of Arabia Felix. In either -case it wvas a great way off from Jerusalem. To get from there to Jeru salem she had to cross a country' in fested with bandits, and go across blis tering deserts. Why (lid . not the queen of Sheba stay at home and send a comnmittee to inquire about this new religion, and have the delegates repor-t mn iregai-d to that religion and wealth of King Solomon? She wanted to see for herself, and hear' for herself. She could not do this by wor-k of commit tee. She felt she had a soul 'worth ten thousand kingdoms like Sheba, and sho wanted a robe richer thtan any woven by Oriental shuttles, and sihe wvanted a crown set with the jewels of eternity. Bring out the camels. Put on the spices. Gather up the jewels of the thrnone and put them on the caravan. Start now; no time to be lost. Goad on the camels. When I see that caravan, (lust covered, weary and exhusted, trudging on across the desert and among the bandits until it reaches Jerusalem, I say: "There is-an eat-nest seeker aftetr the truth." . BEEK 1lARNESTLT FOR THE TRUTH. But thte"e arec a great many who do not act in that way. They all want to get the tr-uth, but they want the truth to conme to them; they do not want to go to it. Ther-e are people whto fold their- armts andl say: "I am r-eadly to become a Chi-istiait at any time; if I am to be saved I shall be saved, 'and if I am to be lost I shall be lost:" But Jerusalem will never conio to you; you nmust go to Jerusalem. The re ligion of the Lord Jesus Christ will not come to you; you must go and get r-ehigion. Bring out the camels; put ont all the sweet spices, all the treas ut-es of the heart's affection. Start for the th rone. Go in and hear the waters of salvationi dashing in fountains all around about the throne. Sit down!at the banquet-the wine pressed fromi the-grapes of the heavenly Eshcol the angels of God the cup bearers. dioad on the camels. The Bible declares it: "The queen of the southi"-that is, this very woman I am speaking of "the queen of the south shall rise up n ~u< gment against this generation and condemn it; for she came from the uttr rmnost parts of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solormon; and, behold!I a greater than Solomon .is here." What infatuadSon the sitting down in idleness expecting to be saved. "Strive to enter in at the strait gate. Ask, nd it sball NO given you; seek and Ye AlU find; anock, and It shall be ed to yoU.ke the kingdom o -eavn byvio-lence. Urge on the cantelsi Again, my subject impresses me with the fact.that religion is a sur prise to any one that gets- it. This story of the new religion In. Jerusa lem, and of the glory ofOng olo mon, who wvs a type of hrlist-that story rolled on and on, and was told by every traveler coming back from Jerusalem. The 16*1 goes on the wing of every ihifiwand' with every caravan, and you now a story en larges as it is retold, a'l' by the time that story gets down into tho southern part of Arabia Felix, and the qaeen of Shbaw hears it, it must be a tremen (us 'story. , Ald yet this queen do cirem in regard to it, although she had heurd so imuel and had her antici )tiuns raised so high. the half-the ialf was int told her. So'religion is always a surprise to any one hint v.-ts it. The story of grace--n old Story. Apostles preach ed it With rzttle o chain; nartyrs do claed it with armi of fire; deathbeds have Uflirmed it with visions of glory, and ministers of religion have sound ed it through the lanes, and the high w ays. and the chapels, an( the cathe drals. It has been cut into stone with chisel, and spread on the canvas with per-eil; and it has beei recited in.the dtxoh>gry ot g roat congregations. And yet when a man first comes to look on the palace of God's mercy, and to see the royalty of Christ, and the wealth of this baniquet, and the luxuriance of his attindants, and the loveliness of his face, and the joy of his service, he exclaims with prayers, with tears, with sighs, with triumphs: "The half ---ti half was not tol(d moel" I ipeal to thoso who are Chris tians. Coinpare the idea you had of tei) joy o' the Christian life before you becamie a Christian with the ap preciation of that joy you have now .unce you have become a Chistian, :aul you are willing to attest before Z.1ngets and Ienl that you never, in the d.tys of your spiritual bondage, had Vy appreciation of what was to come. lmn aretray today to answer and Ny InI regard to the discoveries you .have tade of the inercy and tho grace mid the goodness-of-God: "The half tLhe lial f was not told ine I" ZION SHALL nE THIE .OY OF THE EARTH. W- eli, we hear a peat deal about the good timte that, is coming to this vorld when it is to be girded with '-Ivation. 1Iolines.s on the bells of the horses. The lion's iane patted b, the hand of a babe. Ships of Tar shish brininy cargoes for Jesus, and the hard, di-y, larre, winter bleached, stkrisi f-carred, tlhunde'r split rock brei-. k:r itito tloods of bright water. D< :'r1to which droneda,ries thrust tl 'trils. because they were : , 0 4... the shioon-desertq bloomil'g - N1 Carntion roses and silv.r tipped lilies. It is the old story. Everybody tells it. 1sailt told it, Johni1 told it, Paul i,ld it, Ezekiel told it, Luther told it, Calvin told it, John Milton told it everyidily tells it; and yet-and yet when the midnight shall fly the hills, and Christ shall marshal his great ilmy, and China, dashing her idols into the dust, shall hear the voice of God and wheel into line; and India, destroying her Juggernaut and snatch mtug up het- little children from the GaIges, shall hear the voice of God aid wheel into line; and vine covered Italy, and wheat crowned Russia, and atll the inations of the earth shall hear tho voice of God and fall into line; theni the Church, which has been toil ing and( struggling thtrough the cen turies, robed anid garlanded like a biride adorned for her husband, shall put aside her veil aund look up into the 4ueo of her' Lord the King and say: "Tihte half-the half was not told mel" Well, there is cottmig a greater sur prise to every Christian-a greater siurpr-ise thatn anythittg I have depict ed. Hieaven is an old story. Every body talks about it. There is hardly a hyn in the hymn book that does not refer to it. Children read about it in theitr Sabbath school books. Aged meni put on their spectacles to study it. WVe say it is a .har-bor-from the st-nm. We call it home. We say it is the house of many mansions. We weave togethetr all sweet, beautiful, delicate, exhilarant words; we wveave thcem into letters and then wve spell it out in rose and lily and( amaranth. And yet that place is going to be a surprise to thte most itntelligent Chris tian. Like the qtueenu of Sheba, the teport has come to us from the far coutriy, and mnatny of us have started. It is a dlesert march, butt we urge on the ecmes. WVhat though our feet be blistered with tihe wvay? We are has teninig to the palace. We take all our loves and hopes and Christian. ambi tions, as fran kincense and imy rrh and cassia, to the great Kin g. We must ns>t rest. We must ntot halt. The ntight is coming on, and it is not safe out here in the desert. Urge on the cantels. I see the domes against the sky, and the houses of Lebanton and the temples and the gar-dents. See the fountains dance in the sun and the gates flash as they open to let in tend thenwor up to the palace that we are coming, and that we are wear-y of the mat-el of the desert. The King will comoc out and say: "Welcome to the palace- bathe in these waters; re clin otn these banks. Take this cin namnon anid frankincense anid myrrh andl putt it tupon a cenaser and swing it before the altar." Aitd yet, my friendl., when heaven bursts upotn us iWwill 1,e a greater surp)rise thaii that--Jesus on the throne, and we made like himl All,bur Christian friends sur-rounding us in glory I All our sorrows and tears ahda sins gone by foreveri The thousands of thousands, the one hun dred anid forty ruid four thousand, the great multitudes that no man can number', will cry, world without end: "The half-the alf was not told mel" The British boat Brisk has given tihe most conclusive proof thmat a torpedo may be effective. She fihed one of hers at a 'moy which had been towed out as a target by her steam cutter, and. missing the buoy, hit the cutter and sank her.. NEW STATE LAWS. AOTS PAW$ED AT TEIE LATE SES . SION OF THE LEGISLATURE. .rhbI,ext efolease of the Most. Impertadl Emsatuents ofJutrest to the Public. The following are among the more important of the Acts passed at- the last seston of the General Assembly: FARMING OUT OONVIOTS. An Act to amend the law in regard to the leasing and hiring ou& of con victs and to provide for the purchase of a. State fhrm or farms and tor the employment of the convicts there on. bection 1. That the board of direp tore of the State Penitentiary be, and they are hereby, au horized and em powered to purchase out of the sur plus earnings *ot the Penitentiary a suitable farm or farms, to be worked and planted bj convicts under the superintendency of said board of di rectors: Provided tbat the price paid therefore shall not exceed forty thous and dollars. And the said board Is authorized to retain in its hands and apply to ouch purchase all surplus money received and to be received by it from the operations of said insti stitution during the past fiscal year: Provided, further, tmt no farm or farms shall L.e purchased in which said directors, or any of them, shall or may be directly or indirectly inter ested. Section 2- That no contracts for the hiring or leasing of convicts to be em ployed in phosphate mining shall hereafter be made by said board of di rectors. Section 3. That add farm provided for in Section 1 shai, h ivo sufficient elevation to prevuit t,ao sain from floods an,i overfilows as near as practi cable. Approved December 23, 1881.. THE TARE ON COTToN. An Acto amend Scctlon 1,195 of the General Statutes, relating to tare on bales of cotton. Section 1. That, Section 1,195 of the General Statutes, r0lating to tare on bales of cotton, be, and the same here bS is, amended by striking out' the whole of said section and inserting the following in lieu thereof, so that said section, as amended, shall read as follows: Section 1,195. The custom of making a deduction from the actual weight of bales of unmanufacturod cottou, as an allowance for breakage or draft there on, is aboliehed; and all contracts made in relation to such cotton shall be deemed and taken as referrnug to the true and actual weight thereof without deduction; aia no tare shall be deducted from the weight of such bales of c->tt 3n except, tne seLd weight of the baggingad tie used in baling said cotton. Section 2. Thatthis. Act shall take effect from and after the 1st day of Sep tember, 1890. Section 3. That all Acts or parts of Acts in conflict, or inconsistent, with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. And when ever it shall be agreed betweeu the buyer and seller to deduct tare on cot ton bales it shall be as follaws: For I 'e of cotton covered with seven I -.rds of standard cotton bagging and six iron ties the actual tare shall -be, and is hereby, fixed at sixteen pounds, and for baes of cotton- covered with seven yards of standard jute bagging and six iron ties, the actual tare shall be, and is hereby, fixed at twenty-tour pounds; and wvhen a buyer and seller agree to sell at net weight, and when bales' of cotton are covered1 with seven yards of standard cottoni bag gidg and six Iron ties the actual tare shall be, and is hereby, fixed at six teen pounds, and when bales of cotton are covered with seven yards of stan dard jute bagging and six iroA Lies the actual tare snaIl be, and is) hereby, fixed at twenty-four pound THE~ RATE OF INTE4ST. - An Act to amend an ~t entitled "An Act to amend Sectiof 1,288 of the General Statutes, regulatfag the rate of interest upon any cont.iret arising in this State for the hiring lending or use of money or other commodity," approved December 21, 1882. - Section 1. That Section 1 of an Act entitled "AnAct to amend Section 1,288 of the General Statutes, regula ting the rate of interest upon any con tract arising in this State for the hir ing, lending or use of n oney or other commodity," approve ~ ecember 21, 1882, be, and the same ishbe, eby, amen ded by striking out the wvordI "ten" wherever it appears in saidl section and intserting in lieu thereof 'the word "eight," so :that said section, when amended, shall read as -vs: See tion 1. That Section 1,2rs , e Gene ral Statute be, and the st is herchy, amended by Inserting af. -the wordi commodity, on the third due of i-aid section, the folloing worcs to wit: Ex cept uporr written contrautas, whereiu, by express agreement, &. .ato of in. terest not exceeding eli t per cent may be charged. So tha aid section, when thus amended, shz 'cad as fol lowvs: No greater rate < terest than seven per centum per r ., im shall be charged, taken, agreed .j or allow ed upon any contract . -' in this State for the hiring, le' use of money or other com' ,Xcept upon wvritten contractr , by ex press agreement, a rate rest not exceeding eight per cent mn.., be charg ed. No person or corporation lending or advancing money ore " .er commnod ity upon a greater ra - of interest shall be allowed to rc ..er in any Court of this State any portion of the interest so unla wifully charged; and the principal sum, amount or value so lenf,or advanced, without "v inter est, shall be deemed a" the Coum ta of this State to' debt or measure of da. tents and purposes w1 be recovered without . that the previsions not apply tocontrac entered into, or disco men'ts made, prior to tm ' 1890. WORKING CONVICTS OF a A n At ato authoriet - certain incorporated towns- in the IState of SouthCarolina to subbtitute hard labor on their streeis for fine and imprisonment in cases of misdemean or which come under their jurisdic tion. Section 1. That all inoorporated towns In the State of South Carolina of three hundred inhabitants or more are hereby authorized and empowered to substitute hard labor on their streets for fine and imprisonment, in cases of misdemeanor which come under their juritdiction; Provid!d, that in no case shall such sentence to hard labor exceed a term of thirty days, unless otherwise provided by law. Section 2. That this Act shall take effect from and immediately after the date of its approval. Approved December 23, 1889. REGULATING WEIGHTS AND MEASURES. An Act to provide a punishment for making use of false scales, weights or mea:tres in buying or selling. Section 1. That any person or per. sone who shall knowingly make use of any scales, weights or measures which fail to conform to the standard thereof prescribed by law,*in buying or selling any goods, wares, merchandise or other articles, shall be deemed guil ty of a misdemeanor, and upon con viction shall be fined in a sum of not more than one hundred dollars, or be imprisoned in the county jail for a period not exceeding thirty days. Approval December 23, 1889. THE HOMESTEAD LAW. An Act to amend Section 1,998 of the General Statutes,'relating to the alienation of homestead. Section 1. That Sectiod 1,998 be amended so that the same shall read asfollows: "Section 1,998. No waiver of the right of homestead, however solemn made by the head of a family at any time prior to the assignment of the homestead, shall defeat the homestead provided for in this chapter: Provided, however, that no right of homestead shall exist or be allowed in any prop erty, real or peri'onal, aliened or wort gaged, either before or after assign ment, by any person or persons whom soever, as against the title or claim of the alienee or mortgagee or his heir, or their heirs.or assigns." Approved Debember 24, 1889. TERROR AT A BULL FIGIT. A Graplhc Description of 0t FRail ofa Plaza lu Mcxico-Man SerionslIn.iur.. ed, but Probably Nrino Killed. CITY OF MIIcO, Jan. 8.-Telegrams from Villa- L,rdo, give particulars of the fall of the plaza last Tuesday while a bull fight was in progress. About 10,000 people were crowded in to the building. When the second bull was beintg killed, nearly everybody rose and, stood .upz.udit. and s8,&aping their feet, when all of a sudden ont sideof the,plaza commenced to give way. A rush followed and the extra move ment of the thousands of spectators only helped to bring about the fall of the structure, and it bulged out rapidly and then collapsed, precipitating the uulucky inmates, for distances ranging from 10 to 25 feet, to the ground. Many were buried beneath the debris. Among them were mauy ladies of the best families of the town. In their desperate situation, tights occurred among the men, and man.y were stripped of every stitch of clothing. The crowds on the opposite side of the- building, which numbered several thousand, became panic stricken and fell and tumbled over one another in their attempt to reach the outside of the plaza. The bull-lighters were also seized wyith a panic1 and made their exit, with the bull closely following. The tramping of the helpless, and the agoniz ed cries of the men and women, made the place a scene of pandemonium. It seas not until outside people came to the aid of the p)eople pinned down b>y planks and other timbers that the un fortunate victims were relieved from their painful position. Many physicianz were called, and tine wounds of the peo ple attendel to. Thenumber of wound ed will reach into hundreds, and while a great many of them arc serious and painful, it is believed that not one case will prove fatal. ThIree llahen in Titrtceen Danr. A dispatch from Corry, Pa., says: "Members of the medlIcal fraternity hereabouts have for several weeks past been discnesing the remarkable case of Mrs. L S. Harvey, who within thirteen days gave birth to three children. Mrs. Harvey is about 40 years old, resides at Albion Station, this county, and is the mother of several children. Several weeks ago she gave birth to a three pound baby, but it did not live. Two days afterwards the doctor was .again summoned aed was astonished at the birth of a second child. It waseda however, and not as fully developed al the first. The physIcian had about got over his astonishment and finished look ing up the records on such matters when, ten days later, his services were again required. This time there was another stillborn babe, less fully devel oped than the second. Mrs. Harvey Is doing well, and no further additions are expected. The peculiar case will be written up from a physician's stand point for the medical jo)urnals, having already been the sut>ject of much discus sion among the doctors." An A wfulI Deed.' C1ruhorE, N C. Jan. 9.--News has been receivedl ot the aw ful deed of R1ev. C. L. Powell, who a few years ago went as an Independent Baptist missionary to Algiers, North Africa. It is said that Mr. Powell has lost bIs mind,and that in a fit o,f insanity he killed his little six yaar-old daughter by cutting her throat with a pocket knife. lie also, made an attack upon his wife, but she fled and thus saved her life. He is now In an insane asylum at Algiers. His family, consisting of bis wife and four children, desire to returr to their old borne in thIsi State. RLev. Mr. Powell's mind was af fec'.s once when here, and he spent nearly a year in the insane asylum at '.aleigh. It is said that when hid mind1 was affected in AlgIers he was,sent to an1 insane asylum there, btut after improv lng was allowed to return to his famIly,1 and soon thereafterwards he made thei murderous assault, A BABY SOLDIER BOY. The Remearkable Adventures of Dr. Charles K. Scharloock.-A doldier ag 11 Years of A gi. charleston News and courier. Mr. Charlea E. Soharloock who is on gaged in the drug business at the cor ner of East Bay and Calhoun streets, was probably the younroat soldier in the Confederate service. He entered the army as a drummer boy when only in his 11th'year- and served until near the close of the war, when he was sent home from the fields of Virginia on account of his extreme illness. Mr. Scharloock was born in Moultrieville on the 20th of June, 1850, and he beat the longroll for the soldiers on Sulli van's Island the morning the Star of the West crossed the Charleston Bar. Young Scharloock as a member of the drum corps did service in the litter corps, and displayed bravery and for titude rarely ever to be fouad in one so young. As a true Southerner, even while confined to his bed with a des perate case of typhoid fever, he was willing, niy, anxious, to assist in the rescue of Charleston. A Reporter of The News and Cour ier called og Mr. Scharloock for an ac. count of his services in the Confeder ate service, which he recultantly gave, sayng he cared for no notoriety. Mr. Scarloock said that by the re quest of Capt. Warley, of the Darling ton Guards, his father consented to let him beat the drum for Capt. Warley's command, which was stationed on Sullivan's Island, near the Huger house. When the Darlington Guards were ordered away they wished young Scharloock to accompany thm,'btt to this his father would not consent. He thea joined Capt. DeTreville'.A com pany in the I -1 S. C. V. Soon after the bombardment of Fort. Sumter young Scharloock was,,with his com mand, ordered to Edisto. The .com pany remained at Eding's Bay until after the fall of Hilton's Head, when the command was stationed at Fort Moultrie. While at Church Flats his time ex ,)ired and young Sharloock returned to ais family, which during his absence had become fatherless. Soon after his return to Sullivan's Island he was engaged b; Col. Win. Butler to in struct a drum corps. In 1862 he went to Virginia, where lie remained for only a short time-his mother refusing to a;low one of so tender an age to be away from home. Even while at home he had to go into service and joined the Union Light Infantry, under Capt. Samuel Lord, and upon the organiza tion of the band was transferred to it, and in the band of the Union Light Infantry this youth served until the end of the war. When in his 12th year he witnessed the tiriLUe "ault on BaUtIy Wag ner. Ho was detailed to the litter corps, where he assisted in caring for the wounded. Though a more strip. libg young Scharloock, after the sorwing of B4ttery Wager, was trust ed with the carrying of numerous let,,, ters to th3 friends and relatives of those engaged in the fight. Schar loock was in Eort Sumter when the great night assaalt was made on it. After this incident the "Brick-bat Bat talion," as his command was called, was sent to James Island, and while -there became a part of the 27th South Carolina regiment. While stationed at Legare's Point, the regiment was reviewed by the late President Jefrer. son Davis. Young Scharloock played in the band which greeted President Davis, and the remark was made by the late President that the drum of Scharloock wvas almost as large as its player. In March, 1864, young Scharloock accompanied his command to Virginia, under Col. Gaillard. The regiment immediately entered into active ser vice and left Petersburg for Walthali Junction, where, soon after young Scharlock beat the assembly, the bloody fight at Waithall commenced. D)u.ing this fight Scharlock was do tailedI to save+ the instruments; he found it necessary to remove them un der a large chestnut tree, which made it necessary for him to cross an open field four times, Hie was under con stant fire, but escapied, as di:1 his in struments, unhurt. From Walthail the regiment was sent to Drr' Bluff, where Schar loock acted as cook for the surgeons. While preparing a b)reak fast for Dr. Pressley and thieother surgeons a piece of a shell fell into his frying.-pan and buried' the pan, pancake and all. At Drury's Bluff, wvhile .out foraging, young Schrloock had quite a pathetic expeiience wvith two dying Union soldiers. Hie gave them water, called the attention of his nilleers t.o the men and (lid all tliat wvas p )Ssile for their From c.onstant exposure and hard ship the ladl gave way a-rid feH4l. He wassent to a hospit al, recovered1,'re turned to his duty, but fell seriously ill again. The physicians sent the young drummer boy to his home in South Carolina, where he would re ceive, the attention of loving hands. Scharloock was at home at the time of the surrenqer of Charleston. Al though ha had but partially recovered from an attaca: of typhoid fever. he would have returned to his command had not his mother prevented him. During the burning of .Charleston young Scharloock assisted the Char eston engine companies in their bat-. tie against the raging flames. At the close of the war Scharloock was but 14 years and 20 months old. -The State Convention of the Youn lien's Christian Association of Nort Darolina will meet in Goldsboro March 1.8, 14, 18, and 16, next. State Secre ~ary Coulter writes that 800 delegates nay be expected. --It is not likely that any war yes els will be sent to Clombia at pres mnt as the result of the recent alleged eizure of American vessels at ports in ~hat country, as the information in ~he possession of the Secretary of State would sera to indicate that the Coloms >lanl authorities were justified in to 'using clearance to vessels at pohits iot regular ports of entry.. A MUMMY UNR.' DE rAILS OF AN INTS HIBITION IN LO1DO An Aceount Which ~11aY 1e1tred4 EntertaIn the slevere of The Oirk"SE Weird. A large and distinguished compan Eoglihmen assembledju the botap theatre of University 0ollege.,104 on December 18, to witness %i0e unroll-,4 Ing of a mummy from Uppet Egypt,N&4 This mummy, the London Timee sas "has for about half a century occupied a place in the college museuta, but it is not known how it came into the possw ulon of the anthorities. . It was at length'. decided to unrolk it, and Mr. E A. Wal lie Budge, M. A., of the British museum was requested to undertake the task. The chair was taken by Mr. Erioheen president of the college, and among thoso Present were Sir. John Lubbock, M. P., Sir A. Garrod, Professor Glad, Ptone, Professor Seeley, Professor Ram sey, Professor Goodwin, Professor Carey Foster, Professor Hayter Lewis, Mr. Bomanes, Mr. Poynter, Mr. Almtaade ma, Mr. Beerbohm Tree, Mr. Rider Hag gard, Mr. Maunde Thompson, Dr. Fitch and Dr. Q.aain. %"The mummy was placed on a table on the floor of the theatre and loosely covered with a cloth of fine linen of a fadled purple color, which had formerly' constituted its outer wrapping. Before proceeding to perform the operation of unrolling the mummy, Mr. Budge made some prefatory observQtions on Egyp. tian mummies generally. le described the principal method' of preserving the human body by ri.ummitication as three in number. The first procesR required that the intestines should he extracted and embalmed in four pots dedicated to four gods. The body was then soaked in natron for seventy days. At the end of that time it was washed, and then carefully bandaged in hundreds of yards of linen. By the second process the in ltetines were,dissolved out natron, a'ter which the body was soaked in naRron and then mummifed. By the third process the body was merely salted and put into a pit. Sometime bitumen was used with other substances to fil the cavity in the body after the intestines had been removed. "At the conclusion of his observations, Mr. Budge proceeded to unroll the mum my, which was cloely swathed in scores of yards of thick, yellowish linen of fine texture. The bands of linen varied in width from four to five inches to about a foot. Some of them were laid length Wise zumg te 6idy; others Vere wrap ped round and round it. At the begin niag of the process of unrolling there was a very perceptible sickly smell of oromtics, which, as the work nt o., gave place to a more proqouncel and de cidedly disagreeable odor. When a great part of the linen had been remov ud, black stains, caused by the bitumen, became appargnt, and nearer - to the body the wrappings had suffered con siderably from contact with this sub stance. Two small pieces of linen with fringes were discovered in the course of the unrolling, and these bore inacrip tions more or less impaired by the bitu men. "When at last the coveringe had bee. removed the body was found to he of a very dark brown colior--so dark, indeed, as to be almost black, l'he skin where it remained was hard and shi,ny, The arms and hands lay lengthwise'upon the abdomen, while the heart and Intestines were placed beneath the knees. The features, when disclosed, stood out very clearly, and were those of a handsome person, but the sex could not he deter uii:cd. Glass eyes had been placed in thbe head, and there was a linen plug in the car. Mr. Budge, at the conclusion of his task, said that mummy seemed to belong to a period about 800 years be fore Chiist. It was fihldd with bit'umen, and nearly all the flesh was destroyed in consequence. Parts of the akin remain ed upon the breast, and the bones were still in fairly good condition. The in testines, ip tend of being put in pots, as they usually were in case of persons of high birth, were placed beneath the legs. "The person could not have tIeen o' very geeat implortance, because ther neither scarabmeas nor ring upon the ger. The incision on the left side stilL. found, and was one of the mr teresting features in the mummA person appeared to have bee Beck-Ran or Bek-Ranef. 'I hee scription de,cipherable was th' Osiris, folded over the part ach dedicated to that god, r for the heart of the dec' was another piece of linen date, but the year had been h~e bitumen. From the quaLl inges totem h must belong ro the best-periodi of The ban mummifying, possibly the ntnu. teenth dynasty. The lnser. ptions were irritten in the hieratic or current, hand of Egyptian hieroglyphics. The mum my was about 5 feet and 8 incbda in height, and was that of an Egyptian, probably one of the class correspondinog to the lower middle class of modern times The body will undergo fuarther examination by scientific experts." Livingr In is Blood. A Baltimore dispatch Bays: An inter esting case was received Thursday at" Johns Hopkins H[ospital The patient has animals in spe of spakes lving in bis blood, He is from Charleston, 8. 0., and has suffered from his peculiar dis sase more or lees for twenty years. M!any times his blood has been examined under the microseop., .and the snake-'., shapeti parasites hive always been found resent. The blood for examination.has 4 enerally bieen drawn from a finger ti, his is the first case of the kInd at Jolins Ilopkins Hospital, *Mad fast doctor. in' he Ulnited States have r.souaf knoiv idge of' the diseae. O $ly'enty.'-' ases othis dhi wa