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p ( /1 VOL, XIX. PICKENS, S. C., THLURSI)AY, MALtCHT 6, 1890. NO. 34. ALPHA AND OMEGA. THE MOST CONSPICUOUS CHARAC TER OF HISTORY. Uhrl.t the OvertopplndVlgare of All Tiwe -The Alpha and IOmega, the Ueglnnln and the End-An Example t" Preachern. On Sunday morning the Rev. T. >e Witt Taimage, D. D., preached on "The Glorious Christ." His text was: "He that cometh from shove is above all." John iii, 31. The preacher said: The most conspicuous character of history steps out upon the platform. The finger which, diamonded with light, pointed down to him from the Bethle hem sky, was only a ratification of the finger of prophecy, the finger of gene alogy, the finger of chronology, the fin ger of events-all;ive fingers pointed in one diraction. Christ is the overtop (>ing figuio of all time. He is ,the vox ,iumana in all mesic, the gracefulest line 'u all sculpture, the most exquisite ming 'ing of lights and shades, in all paint iugs, the acme of all climaxes, the dome of all eathedral grandeur, and the pero ration of all splendid language. The Greek alphabet is made up of twenty-four letters, and when Christ compared himself to the first letter and the last letter, the alpha and the omega, he appropriated to himself all the splen dors that you can spell out either w:th those two letters or all the letters be tween them. "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last." Or, if you pre fer the words,of the text, "above all." What does it mean? It means after you have piled up all Alpine ned Him alayan altitudes, the glory of Christ would have to spread its wings and de scead a thousand leagues to touch those summits. Pelion, a high mountain, of Thessaiy; Ossa, a high mountain, and Olyrnpius; a high mountain; but mythol ogy tells us when the giants warred against ti.e gods they piled up these three mountains, and from the top of them proposed to scale the heavens; but the height was not great enough, and thee was a complete failure. And after all the giants---Isaiah and Paul, propuotio and apostolic giants; Raphael and Michael Angelo, artistic giants; cherubim and seraphim and archangels, celestial giants-have failed to climb to the top cf Christ's glory. They might all well unite in the words of he text and say: "lie that cometh from above is above all." First, Christ must be'above all else in our prcaching. There are so many books on homiletics scattered through the country that all laymen, as well as li clergymen, have made up their milis what sermons ought to be. That aer men is most effeetual which most point edly puts forth Christ as the pardon of all sin {pd the correction of all evil-in diviiuil, social, political and national. There is no reason why we should Ring the endless changes on a few phrases. There are those who think that if an ex hortation or a discourse have frequent mention of justification, sanctification, covenant of works and covenant of grace, that therefore IL must be pro foundly evangelical, while they are sus picious of a discourse which presents the sarmc truth, but under different phrase ology. Now, I say there is nothing in all the opulent realm of Anglo-Saxonism of all the word treasures that we inherit ed from from the Latin and the Greek, and the Indo-European, but we have a right to marahal it in religious discus slons. Christ sets the example. His illustrations were from the grass, the flowers. the spittle, the salve, the barn yard toivi, th3 crystals of salt, as well as from the seas and the stars; and we do not propose in our Bunday school teaching and in our pulpit address to be put on the limits. I know that there Is a great deal said In our day against words, as though they were nothing. They may be mis used, but they have an imperial power. Thiey are the bridge between soul and soul, between Almighty God and the human race. What did God write upon the tables of stone 7 Words. What did Christ utter on Mount Olivet? Words. Out of what did Christ strike the spark for the illumination of the universe? Out of Words. "Let there be light," and light wais. Of course, thought is the cargo and words are only the ship; but how fast would our cargo get on without the ship? What you need, my friends, in~ all your work, in your Sab bath school class, in your neformatory institutions, and what we all need is to enlarge our vocabulary when we come to Ppeak 'thout God anid Christ and heaven. -We ride a few old words to death w 3en thiere is such an Illimitable resources. Bhakespero employed 15,000 different words3 for dramatic purposes; Milton employed 8,000 different words for po-| etic purposes; Rufus Choate employed over 11,000 different words for legal proe;but the most of us have less thn100words that we can manage, less than 5i00, and that makes us so stu -pid. When we come to sot forth the love of Christ we are going to take the tenderest phraseol.og,y whenever we find it, and if it has noter been used in that direction - before, all the more shall we use it. When we come to speak of the glory of Christ, the Conquerer, we are going to dIraw our simniles from triumph al arch and oratorio, and everything grand and stupendous. The French navy have eighteed flags by which they give sig nals, b,ut those eighteen flags they cn put Into sixty-sfx thousand different combinations. Aud I have to tell you that these standards of the cross may be lifted into combinatIons Infinite and varIeties eve: lasting. And let me say to these young mnen who come I rem the theologIeal semi narnies into our services every Sabbath, and are after a while going to preaci Jesus Christ, you will have the larges: liberty and unlimited resoureeu. You only have to present Christ in your own way. Jonathan ECdwards preached Christ ii verest argument ever pon'ned, and preached Christ in the sub, ver compose I. 1Edward exhaused, leaned against the side of the pulpit and wept out his discourse, while George Whit. field, with the manner and the voice and the art of an actor, overwhelmed his auditory. It would have been a differ ent thing it Jonathan Edwards had tried to write and dream about the pilgrim's progress to the celestial city, or John Bunyan had attempted an es ay on the human will. Brighter than the light, fresher than the fountains, deeper than the seas, are all these Goapel themes. Song has no melody, fiowers have no sweetness, sun set sky no color compared with these glorious themes. These harvests of grace spring up quicker than we can sickle them. Kindling pulpits with their fire, and producing revolutions with their power, lighting up dying beds with their glory, they are the sweetest thought for the poet and they are the most thrilling illustration for the orator, and they offer the most intenses scene for the artist, and they are to the ambassador of the sky all enthusiasm. Complete pardon for direst guilt. Sweeteet comfort for ghastliest agony. Brightest hope for grimmest death. Grandest resurrection for darkest sepulcher. Oh, what a Gospel to preach 1 Christ over all in it. His birth, his suf fering, his miracles, his parables, his sweat, his tears, his blood, his atone ment, his intercession-what glorious themes! Do you exercise faith? Christ is its object. Do we have love? It fasten't on Jesus. Have we a fondness for the church? It is because Christ died for it. Have we a hope of heaven? It is because Jesus went ahead, the herald and fore runner. The royal robe of Demetrius wAs so costly, so beautiful, that af er ho had put it off no one ever dared put it on; but this robe of Christ, richer than that, the poorest and the wannest and the worst may wear. "Where sin aboundot'. grace may much more abound." "Oh, my sins, my sins," sr.id Martin Luther to Staupitz, ''m sins, sins!" 'The fact is, that the brawny Orman student had f rd a Latin Bible that made him quake, an l nothing else ever did make hii q' k'', ;'iad when he found bow, througi Ciri - he was pardoued nd saved, he e i a friend, saying: "Come over ad join us great and awful oinnere saved by the ie of God. You teem to be only a ih nrl, sinner, and you don't muoh e the u:urcy of God but we that have h " :uch awful sinners we praise his grace t h tor>re now that we have been redeemeti.'' Can it be tat Vot are so desperatily egotistical that you feel yourself in tirst rate spirit unl trim, and that It tm the root of the hair to the tip of the toe you at scar less and itnaculate? What you need is a looking glass, and here it is in the Bible. Poor, and wretched, and misera ble, and blind, and naked from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, full of wounds and putrefying sores. No health in us. And then take the fact that Christ gathered up all the notes aginst us and paid them, andi then offer ed us the receipt. And how much we need him in our sotrow l We are independent of cir cumstances if we hive Wis grace. Why, lie made Paul sing in tue dungeon, and under that grace, St. John from desolate Patmos heard the blast of the apocalyp tic trumpets. After all other candles have been snuffed out, this is the light that gets brighter and brighter unto the perfect day; and alter, under the hard hoofs of calamity, all the pools of world ly enjoyment have been trampled into deep .-ire, at the foot of the eternal rock the Christian, from cups of granite lily rimmed and vine covered, puts out the thirst of his soul. Again, I remark that Christ is ahove all in dying alleviations. Saladin, the greatest conqueror of his day, while dying, ordered that the tunic he had on him be carried after his death on his spear at the head of his army, and that then the soldier, ever and anon, should stop and say: "Behold, all that is left of Saladin, the emperor and con queror i Of al' the states he conquered, of all the wealth he accumulated, noth ing did he retain but this shroud 1" 1 have no sympathy with such behavier, or such absud demonstration, or with much that we hear uttered in regard to depart ure fronm this life to the next. There is a commonsensical idea on this subject that you and I need to consider-thai there are only two styles of depart. ure. A thousand feet underground,.by li-ght of torch teiling in a miner's shaft, ledge of rock may fall uuon tus, and W( may die a minor's death. Fa, out at sea. falling from the slippery ratlines anc broken on the halyards, we may die sailor's death. On mission of mercy ii hospital, amid broken bones, and reeking leprosies, and raging fevers, we may dit a philanthroplit's death. On the field o battle, serving God and our country slugs through the heart, the gun car riage may - 11 over us, and we may (lie patriot's acath. But, after all, there ar only two styles of departure-the deatl of the righteous, and the death of th wicked-and we all want, to (lie th former. God grant that when that hour come you may be at home. You want th hand of your kindred in your b.and You want your children to surroun you. You want the light on your pil low from eyes that have long reflecte your love. You want the room still You do not want any curious stranger standing around watching you. Y o want your kindred from afar to he. your last prayer. I think that is thb wish of all of us. But is that all? Ca earthly friends hold us up when the hi lows of dleath come up to the girdle Can human voice charm open heaven gate? Can human hind pilot us throug the narrows of death into heaven harbor? Can any earthly friendshi shield us from the arrows of death, an In the hour when Batan shall p ractic upon us his infcrnal archery? No, ni no, nolt Alas I Poor soul, if that is a better die i. the wilderness, far frot tree shadow and from fountain, alon vuiture' circling through the air waiti. for our body, unknown to men, and i have no hL.rial, If only Christ could as thro'!gh the sohtudee: "I will nevt leave thee, I will never forsakre thee From that pillow of stone a ladd would soar heavenward, angels comir t and going; and across the solitude ar the bartenness would come the awe notes of heavenly minJtrelsy. Gordon Hall, far from home, dying the door of a heathen temple, said "Glory to thee, O God!" What. dic dying Wilberforce say to his wtfe "Come and sit beside me, and let ui talk of heaven. I never knew what happiness was until I found Christ,' What did dying IIannab More say? "T< go to Christ, who died that I mighi live! Oh! glorious grave! Oh, the love of Christ, the love of Christ, th< love of Christ." What did the dying Janeway say1 "I ean as easily die as close my eyes of turn my head in sleep. Before a fevr hours have passed I shall stand on Mount Zien with the one hundred and forty and four thousand and with tl: just men made perfect, and we shall as cribe riches, and honor, and glory, and majesty, and dominion unto God and the Lamb." )r. Taylor, condemned te burn at the stake, en his way thither broke away from the guardsmen and wont bounding and leaping and jump ing toward she fire, glad to go to Jesus and to di fcr him. Sir Charles Hare, in his last moment, had such rapturous vision that he cried "Upward, upward, upward I" And so great was the peace of one of Christ's disciples that ho put his finger upon the pulse in his wrist and counted it and observed it; and so great was his placidity that after a while he said ''stopped !" and his life had ended hero to begin in heaven. But grarder than that was the testimony of the worsout first missionary, when, in the Mamartine dungeon, he cried: "I am now ready to be offered and the time, of my departure is.at hand ; I have fogght th : good fight, I have finished my course I have kept the faith: henceforth is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will give me in that day, and not to me only, but to all them that love his ap pearing 1" Do you not see that Christ is above all in dying alleviations? Toward the l:ast hour of our earthly residence we are spording. Brighter than a banqueting hull through which the light feet of the dancers go up and down to the sound of trumpeters will be the sepulcher through whose rifts the holy light of heaven streameth. God will watch you. Lie vill send his angels to guard your slum bering ground ,until, at Christ's behest, they shall roll away the stone. So, also, Christ is above i in heaven. The Bible dist?ICIly says tlh.t h'IIrst is the chief theme of the celestill ascrip ion, all the 'hr neq f cing his throne, all the palms waved efom: li face, all the crowns down at his feet. Cherubim to c:erubim, seraphin to scrohio, re deieed spirit to redeemed spirit, shall recite the Savior's earthly sacrifice. Stand on some high hill of heaven, and in all the radiant sweep the most glori ous object will be Jesus. Myriads gaz ing on the scars of his sufferings, in silence first, afterward breaking forth into acclamation. The martyrs, all the purer for the flame through which the3 passed, will say: ''This is Jesus, fo: whoul we died." The apostles, all the happier for the shipwreck and the scourging through which they went, will say: "This is the Jesus whom we preached at Corinth, and at Cappadocia, and at Antioch, and at Jerusalem." Little children clad in white will say: "This is the Jesus who took us in His arms and blessed us, and when the storms of the world were too cold and loud, brought us into this beautiful place." The multitudes of the bereft will say: "'This is the Jeaus who com forted us when our hearts broke." Many who wandered clear off from God and plunged into vagabondism, but were saved by grace, will say: "This is the Jesus who pardonrd ua. We were lost on the mneuntain, and He brought us home. We were guilty, and he has made us white as snow." Mercy b)oundless, grace unparalleled. And then, after each one has recited his p)ecullar deliver ances and peculiar mercies, recited them as by solo, all the voices will come to gether into a great chorus, which will make the arches echo and re-echo witlh the eternal reverberation of gladness and peacae, and triumplh. Edward I. was so anxious to go to tb< Holy Land that wvhen he was about t< exp)ire he bequeathed $100,000 to havi his heart, after his decease, taken to the Holy Land in Asia Minor, and his requesl was complied with. But there ari hundreds to-d ay whose hearts are already in the IIoly id of heaven. Whern your treasures are, there are your heart1 also. Quaint John Bunyan, of whom: spoke at the openting of the discourse caught a glim2pse of that p)lace, and is his quaint way he said : "And I heart in my dream, and lo! the bells of the cit; rang again for joy; and as they op)ene< the gates to let in the men I looked ii after them, anid lo I the city shone lik the sun, and there were streets of gold and men wvalked on them, harps in thei hands, to sing p)raises withal; and afte that they shut up ihe gates, which whle I had seen I wished myself among them. A Proposed State Hall League. The project for a State base bat league for the comiing summer is hein * agitated. The preposition comes frer s, Charleston, and several parties intereste in base ball have been written to i j regard to the matter. The idea is to fori - a league to include Sumter, Spartar j burg, Greenville, Laurens, Orangeburg .Aiken, Columbia and Charleston. It e proposed te play teams composed * ti amat-ears os mod)(erate salaries and it I r erged that tihe jo-sop. being short, gal e receipts ould easily be worked tip n the point o'f paying expenses. Spartar .burg should not be behindhand in th i moveuient. Base b)all is a good thing s and Spartanburg should have her parti b this movement for a general effo a throughout the state. On Ge of the featurea of our World e Fair. will be an edumcational exhibit, o will Le a designed to illustrate the mea1 Iemp)loyed in this country for the educa n tion of children of dierent ages, ti pre'son for their health, comfort ar gexercise. The department of superi ,o tendence of the National Education Association at uta recent session in Ne r York heartily commended the puroje naind expressed the conviction th sr o ld be made of great practic vale. d Every farmner who raises his own gri at is nrospering. It Is uo use to waste ii tellinmg what the other fellows are douin, a eve:ybody knows. LOUISIANA'S LOTTMRY. FIVE YEAIS YET SECU1B FOR Ti1d INIQUITY. The eat Difmeuilt will be Mad I ".. eurin.i a New leae of Lie-The Moral Eletmente Agal.et the Lettery, but the People will Decide. Letter to the New York Her aid. The recent effort to secure a lottery charter in North Dakota has had the ef fect of filling the press of this country with much misinformation. Among ot'"r thi.gs it has been said that the Louiia Lottery, knowing that It was impossible to aecure an extensin of its charter in Louisiana, ha.t determinei to make preparations to wl%hdtaw (rom the State, and for that reason had sought to secure a charter elsewhere. Few I)eo hie in Louisiana who have watched the current oreveats thought for a moment that the Lottery eempany had the slight es' idea of abandoning the State. 'I'aey regarded the attemnt to secura a harter in Dakota only as a means to get better terms at home and a provisio against a possible failure to seeure a renewa; of the franchise. It has also been charged that ; he Lou isiana Lottery Company w,ll now try to buy an extension of iti charter through the State Legislature, and rvill oiler to retire the State debt of $12,000,000 for a twenty-6v: years' lease of corporate life. There is, as far as I can learn, no such proposition to be made, The Legisla turs is absolutely powerless in the mat ter. The people of Louisiana and they alone can extend the charter. Thu lot tery was chartered in 1808 and its fran chise does not expire until 1895. In 1879 the Legislature,in the excrcise of its police power, abolished the lottery, but before the legislative Act went into effect a constitutional Convention met. The lottery question was taken up in that body,and a majority of te members held that the legi?h.tiyo Aet was unconstitu tional, inasmuch r.s it violated a con tract. A paragraph was, therefore, inserted in the new constitution continuing the lottery until its chatter expired, and giv ing the Legislature power to establish other lotteries, none of them to extend beyond the time of the expiration of the Louisiana State Lottery Company's ftan chise, and after January 1, 1895, no io teries were permitted to exist in tue State. There was an acrimonious debate on this proposition and recrimination among delegates to the Convention, but it was finally emuodied in the Constitu tion of the Sttge, voted on by the peo ple and adopted. So the Legislature is powerless in the matter further than tc submit 9 constitutioral amendment tc the people. It will :equirer.";wo-thirde voto to do this. The next session of the Legislature, which must act upon the matter if a re newal of the charter is secured, will meet in May. It is unders' ood that the lottery company will go before that body and ask that the proposition b< sul5mitted to the people in the form of r constitutional amendment to extend its charter for a period of twenty-five years, The lottery now pays an annual licenust into the State treasury of $40,000. Thi> is set apart for the maintenance of a char ity hospital in the city. WILLINO TO PAY. I am reliably informed that the lottery will propose for an extension of its thar ter to pay an annual license ranging fro $200,000 to $500,000, the sum thus raised to be devoted to the charitable institu. tions of the State and to educational pur poses. There will be a hard fighi over the proposed amendment in the Legislature, but the indications are thai the necessary two-thirds will be securedJ and the amendment submitted to the people. The argument that will be used b3 these who will favor the amendment wil be that in a matter of suchi importance~ involving the payment of $12,000,000 the people should haye the rivght to de cine upon the matter. Those who 01) pose the lottery will do so upos purely moral grounds, holding that all lotterie are pernicious and demoralizing ant should be prohibited, and the peopli have virtually pausedl upon the questiol by declaring ten years ago that no lotter2 should be established In the State aftet 1895. TIhe moral advocates are, as fa as my observation goes, in a minority b)ut will make a most determined fight They will have Governor Nichols witi them. The Executive declared himsel Swithin a week as against an extension o tde lottery charter. The Methodist Con r ference has also declared against it. S' r has the Presbytery of Louisiana and th< Farmers' Alliance. On the other hanm the lottery people will he backeel by mn; of the largest financiers of the city most of the influential politicians Iand by the great bulk of those who so no harm in buying a lottery tickal a These latter, it is safe to say, judgini 1 from the evidence one sees around him~ a constitute a large majority of the 1)01) a latlon. So in spite of the Governor an - the moral f.. rce of the religIous elemes ~, I see no reason to doubt that the propt U sition of lottery, with some modificatiori f in favor of the State, will be submitte s to tho people. 0 The disposition of the amendinent o raore problessatical. The question, if is submitted, will not be voted upon ui a til 1892. In the meantime a great dlei ~, of missionary work can be done on bot n sides. Nothing i.' more certain thu -t that the oppositioa will not cease wit the action of the Legilature, p)rovide<( of course, it is favorable to toe lottet acompany. In fact, such action will on ~tIntensify it. iS This campaign is certain to be one< the hottest over fought in the State. A e attempit will be mnade made to got one d both of the political parties to deela against the lottery in the party pIn al form, b)ut it is not likely that eIther wi W inject the qiuestlon into its declaratit et of purposes. The Republican par Fit chartered the lottery and its represent al tives have always voted for It, both the Legislature and Convention. TI ib Democrats have always divided upon ti ik question, the majority beir4, opposed g: the lottery, formerly on the ground th t was a faction In nnolitien. The lotte has so .brewdly cenducted it. affairs I late years a. to disarm this opposition. TEIMMInO ITd 5AILS. It is underoto3d tsant It has subsetibe impartially to the cmpaign fund of a' parties and thus relieved itself of tb criticism that it has favored one at th expense of the other. Thus political o: position has been disarmed, and it ha only the moral issue to meet. This issue will not down nor can it b waved aside, and so a royal battle wil be the result. Weul-l the readers of the Herald lik< to know how it will end, lroking at th opposing forces at the present time? I should say that the lottery will so cure a renewal of its charter at th hands of the people. Why? Well, fo one teason, the iiepublicans are likely t f,avor it for the reason that it bring iRos'iy and business into the State Again, a large 'eroentage of the peop are lottery players. The moral argu mont has but little ingaence with thei If they do0 not buy Louisiana lottery tick ets their money will go to Havana of Mexico, and they prefer to place il where, although the chances are s< largely iinst winning, they knew that if the ticket draws a prize they will have no difficulty is getting their neney, four of the lareast banks is the city pledging themselves to cash all prizes oVt-r their counters. Again, a majority of those interested in the charitaile institutions in the State are likely to stand by the lottery. Thoo institutioa, with the single exceptior of the Charity IIospital, are not proper ly sustained, or rather are not large enough for the unfortunates who should be within tlir walls, and the lottery propos to provide amply for them. Then the taxpayers will be relieved of a p ,rtion of this burden if the amend ment s adopted. Thete are some c f the influences the anti-lottery people will have to meet, the moral argutuent being their only we, pon of offense agaist an institutior so well entrenched. They know the odd.; against them, and although nol sanguine of success, are fr.r from being dismayed. They propose to make th< fight a warm one, and may be relied or to do it. A Lawyer Out...itted. SENECA, S. C., Feb. 27.--Sherif Moss came down last Saturday, at the request of R. T. James, Esq., attor noy for the creditors of Goldsmith, ani closed up the livery stable of W. M Kirksey. It seems he proceeded with out due process of law and laid him self liable for damages. Mr. Kirkse; employed N. B. Cary, Esq., who forcee Mr. Jaynes to compromise the case b; the payment of $125, so Mr. Kirkse still holds the fort and has the fund to provision it for a good many day to c8me. Wanamaker to be Boycotted. ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 27.-The mui ch-nts of Athens have signed a boycot agaiast firms with whom Postmaste General Wanamaker does business, be cause of the appointment of Matt Davis colored, as postmaster. A Sensat,ion in Atlanta. ATLANTA, Feb. 27.-Thomas H1. Mc Kinnon, the largest real estate ager here, has disappeared, leaving his wif and family and a number of creditors t mourn. his books show a shortage < several thousand dollars. A Terribli, Dlileuima. EnIrE, Pa., Feb. '5 -When the west bound Nickel Plate passenger trai reached the 150 feet high bridge ove Walnut creek, near Swantown, Pa. Monday~afternoon, the engineer saw man in the miiddle of the bridge. Th train was running at the rate of fort miles an hour, an)d to reverse the love on the bridge would have imperilled tb train's 100 p)assengers. Although tb poor fellow wrung his hands is agon3 end looked pleadingly at the engincee the latter stood at the lever, kept or and sent one man down 150 feet int eternity, rather than imperil the lIves I his keeping. The man was unknown. Caught by a Marketl11Bil1. On Tuesday, in Savannah, A. t Bethiea, a young white man from Mario IS. C., was brought before the Unite pStates Commissioner to answer to th charge of robbing the United State mails. It seems that the comp)lainl concerning packages lost in the ma between Charleston and Jacksonvill have been numerous of late, and Inp tor Wilde, Bethea's accuser, put .a ruari ed $1 bill in a paickage addressed to M IIH. Tatum, Orange Park, Fla., Subs; quent inquiries revealed the fact thu - the packet had disappeared. The ii Spector then approached Mr. Bethea, railway mail clerk, in the the present I of another p)ostal inspector and a thir party, and after showing his commissiou requested Blethea to hand over any moi ,cy he had up)on his person to the this e party ; and Bethea handed over the mau .$1 bill. When cornered, Bethea sa g that lie merely put the money in b ,pocket for nafe keeping, intending1 -register it and send it to Superintenmdel I Terrill. lie will be hold for trial. Seed Corn 4,000 Years Old. sDuring the season of 1889 a mo Sremarkable crop w as raised by Day Drew, at Plymouth, N. II. In 1888 Md * Drew came into possession of some cou a grains wrapped with a mummy: Egypt, supposed to lie 4,000 years 01 ;l These were planted and grew. It hi h many of the characteristics of re n corn; the leaves were alternate; it gre h to be over six feet high; the mid-ri ,were white; but the product of t1 y stock, there is where the curious pa y comes in. Instead of growing in ear like modern maize, it hun g in hea' >f clusters at the top, on spikelets; the n was nso tassel; no silk; each sprig w >r thickly studded with grains, eachi pi -e vided with a soparate husk, like whe t- grains. 1l F'ired by Lighltning. y Coi 1Mn1A,35. C., Feb. 27.-Duri a- a thunderstorm this afternoon, the si in ble on the premises of Capt. R. S. D< me portes was struck by lightning ai ie was soon In flames. The fire-engl to had a poor chance for wate', bnt the at efforts coupled with a drenching ra y p revente gr eat damaane. A TALE OF HORROR. SICKENIlNG DETAILS OF THE PRISON OUTRAGE AT KARA. S E Weoeu Prieuor., Driwer to I)espair, . eek to Starvo Thomelvee--Subject to eRevelting Irutalitiee by t'heir Ileaetly Guards--Male PrIonere Attemapt W.hl eaie Suicide. Further details of the outrage in the political prison at Kara have reached Russian exiles in London, from friends who are located a short distance from the scene of the horror. They are s brief but conclusive, confirming fully r the report of the affair received there ' from an official in St. Petersburg, who is in sympathy with the cause of the people. According to the details just received, it appears that trouble at the Kara prison originated in a "hungry strike" in August, when the women political prisoners tried to starve them selves to death to escape the brutali ties of their jailors. All the women imprisoned there abstained from food for fourteen days. The jailors did not believe that they would be able to keep up the struggle. At first they jeered at the women, then tempted them with food and then finding this of no avail, threatened them. When several of the women were at the point of death from their voluntary abstinence from food, the prison officials resorted to artificial means to compel them to take nourish ment. The methods adopted, however, were violent and licestious and the women were compelled to abandon their strike. Abominable outrages followed and were of daily and hourly occurrenco. This state of allairs led Madam Sigida, whose death by flogging has already been announced, to ask for an inter view with the doctor of the prison in the hope of securing an amelioration of the condition of the prisoners. 'this request was granted, but when she was taken before him, she found him abusive. It was said that in her indig. nation at his abuse she called him a villain and slapped his face. It is not, positively known, however, what took place during the interview, but what ever did happen, Madame Sigida did not return to her companions. She was taken from the I)irector's ofllice and conveyed to the prison in which com mon offenders are confined. Three of her companions from among the politi cal prisoners .were permitt ed to join " her. The advices just received state that these were Mary Koalesny, w ift s of Professor Koalesky, of Kiell, Ma s dame 3mirnitnky and Maria Kolujny The last two ladies were from Odes sa. Two months elapsed tftor the eveu before the Agent, Baron Koreg, Gov r ernor General of the Province of Amour, instructed the directors of the prisons that the edict of March, 1888, which ordered that political prisoners should be treated by prison officials in precisely the same manner as crimi nals condemned for comr _un law of fenses, would be enforced, and ordered e the directors to notify the political o prisoners of both sexes that they would be liable to corporal punishment it they violated certain of the prison regulations. The male prisoners, fore" seeing immediate danger, held a eon sulation and sent to the director of the prison a petition that ho would tele " graoh to the Minister of the Interior r at St. Petersburg, requesting him to ,suspend the applicatlon of the edict, a' The director refused to pay any atten e tion to their petition and thereupon 7 the men warned him that the f,loggIng r of a political p)risoner would be the 0 signal for the others to commit suicide a together. ,Three days afterward., Baron Koreff ', sent a special order that Madame8Sigi ,da be flogged according to the regulIa o tions and the order was executed to I the fullest extent. Madame Sigida was strip)ped and received 100 lashes. She was carried off bleeding and in an unconscious condition and her death .ensued1 from rupture of the heart. J4'r a three companions committed suicide. .1 within an hour of the time of heariu; e of Madame Sigida's death. The corp s see of the four women were buried at i the same time in the court yard of the 1 common offenders' pirison, p For weeks the cordon of vigilance -was s0oiosely maintained around the prison that nothiug was know of what was happening within. Since the secret channel of information has been t reopened it has been learned that thc .men carried out their throat of suicide. a They met together andl thirty of them oe shared what poison they could ob)tair d and then went to their cells to dlie. Trh< ,quantity of poison which had beer1 Ssmuggled into the prison wvas not sufm d to kill quickly, but in the course o k the evening two of those who lhar d abared it, Behookor and Koluizry died is Their convulsions and1 the deoath senm ,a which reigrted in other 'cells rouse<( ithe attention of the guards, an d the: immedhiately summoned physicians who adIninist.eredl emetics to the sur vivors and endleavored by ever: means to counteract the effects of the r. A K) ad-Be. uSed Woman, 'a n Mr Fainwed: "Then you refuse te :1. marry me?". dI Mrs. Mainchance: "For thei p resen ~I must. My hus'band is in good health w and we are the best of friends." *u Mr. Fainwwed. "And you can givema mo no encouragement?" rt Mrs. Mainchance: "I will keep yeu mn address, and if a vacancy should ececu ry I will drop you a line." ro (N. B.-T'1his happened In Chicag< is of course.) 'e at Genevous Youth. Mother: "Tommy, I hear you got thrashing in school to-day." Tommy: "yes ma, the teacher whil og ped me, but he is getting so old an a- weak that it didn't hurt mach." is- "Did yon cry?" id "Oh, yes; I bawledI so yeu coul me have heard me on the next 1block." ,ir "Why did you do thai?" ln "I wantedl to make the old1 man fe< GENRAL NEW$ ITEMe. Rotse of Intere.t atherd ftM Vai. e. nueares. -Tbe hotels is St. Augustine are do. ing better than usual. -Columbia Is to have a new 1.: fta tory with a capacity of ten tons daily. -The equestrian statfe of Robert K. Lee, by Mercie, the French sculptor, bas been completed. It will be placed is Richmond. -The recent flood near Phoenix, Ari zona, destroyed nearly a million dollars worth of property, and cost the lives of about forty people. -A cyclone near Brownsville Tens., onWednesday unroofed half the houses ia the place, killed one woman, and woun d d several other persons. -Senator John W, Daniel, the great Virginia orator, will deliver the address at the reunion of Confederate Veterans to be held at Atlanta Apr.26. -The Secreta-y of the Treasury has just spaid.$57,800 to the Richmond, Va., Locomotive Work, for work done for the battle ship Texan now building at Norfolk. -The last time Stanley lectured at Birmingham, England, he received fifteen guineas for his fee. This time the Birmingham lecture manager of fers : 00 guineas, and is afraid he can't get him at that. ---Fred A. Walton, who stole $85 000 from the Express Company at Dal'las, 'roxas, has been captured at St. John, N. B. He had but $10,000 loft., bunco men having robbed him of the other part of his stealage. -The Congressional redistricting bill to make five out of six of the dis tricts of Maryland solidly Democratic, which at first failed for want of one vote, was passed by a vote of 17 yeas to 5 nays. 'Th Governor's signature ias been attached. -A cloud-burst Mondiy night caused Martindale Creek Ind., to rise so quickly that the women and three thildren of the 11lll family were drowned. They be longed to a party of gypsies encamped neir the stream. The bodies heve not yet been recovered. -President Day, of the New York League clu,, vainly offered Buck Ew ini, who caught for the club last year, :,0O for a three years' engagement. Buck sticks to the brotherhood. Ward Richardson, Gore and Slattery also declined big oflers. -A committee of the Texas Legis lature is hard at work on the accounts of ex-Treasurer Hemingway, who is apparently $250,000 short. It is de veloped, however, that he is entitled to a credit of $105,550 which he erro neously had charged against himself -It appears from the two hundred and forty or more petitions sent in by tho good people of Massachusetts and presented in the Senate by Senator Dawes, that 800,000 gallons of Intoxi cants are shipped annually from this country to Africa. The petitioners pray that this very wicked traffic be stopped. -A fatal shooting occurred Tues day, seven miles fromHillsboro, N. C., during a raid on a:distillery by reve nue officers. Itevenue Agent Kirk patrick, who was in charge of the raiding party, was shot in the face and received a dangerous wound. The shot was fired by a negro who was shot and killed by a member of the raiding party. -The Rev. )r. Lorimer, of the Baptist Church at Holyoke, Mass., caused a sensation on Friday by mak ing a violent andl indecent attack from his pulpit on the Catholic Church. On Sunday ho tearfully explained to his congregation that he was drunk at the time from an overdose of qui nine andl unconscious of what he said; and ho publicly retracted and apolo gizedl. -Senator Voorhees is out in a long add ress urging harmony in the Demo cratic party of Indiana in the nomina. tion ol legislative and county candi dates. Mr, Vqorhees says he will supp)ort, ox-Governor Gray far the Vice'Presidency in 1892, na he did at the St. Louis convention two years ago. It, is understood that Mr. Gray will use his host of'erts to secure a Deomocratic Legislature and the re elect,ion of Mr. Voorhees to the Sen ate. -Chicago has won the fight fbr the location of the Exposition in 1892. TPhero were eight ballots in the House --the vote finally standing thus: Chi cago, 15i7; New York, 107; St. Louis, 25; WVash ington, 18. Whole number of votes, 307; necessary to a choice 154. When the Speaker announced the re sult of the eighth ballot the supporters of Chicago on the floor burst into a shout of triumph, which found an echo in the galleries. Speaker Reed hammered away with his gavel to quell the confusion, but was unable to Iob)tain anything like order. Half the members rushed i-ell mell for' the exits, and amnid this disorder the Speaker, on motion, dleclared the I ouse adjourned. r Cinamuen Go~ Overboard. The sp)eial correspondent ef the Cincinnati Enquirer, whe heas jae6 te uived fromi Xeseha st mm Mranell eo, eeads his paper a sensatsenal ae eount of his trip from this eountry ' with a number of Chinese, who were homseward hound for thes New Years i festivities in their native land. Eu voy. >age, the C'hiinamem, inveterate games ters, spent.their time gambling. Incae one of them lost all his money in mid rocean his companions would not at rt,emp)t to stay hira, they believing that rshould they rescue a man in imminent peril his reseuer would have te sup , >ort him. Several are known to have 1e.ped( overlboard, and there is reason to believe that many mere are at the bottom of the sea who got broke. Quite a numb)er, too, died of sickness and were b)uried at sea. Nludde John T. Pendleton has been appointed an attorney for the Rich d mond and D)anville Railroad. The At lanta Journal says it is rumored that Pat Calhoun has been appointed gen ii oral attorney for the etre MIolummnd Temial sys6tem.