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VOL, XiX. PICKENS. S. ('.. TIHURS)AY, MARCH 4, 1890. NO. 2. ALPHA AND OMEGA. TH M8T CONSPICUOUS CHARAC TER OF HISTORY. Vlarist the OvertoppngFlgere of All Tliuo -Thu Alpha and l0asega, the Beginnlng nd tho End-An Kxanple to Preachers. On Sunday morning the Rev. T. Ve Witt Talmage, ). D., preached on "The Glorious Christ." His text was: "He that cometh from above is above all." John iii, 31. The preacher said: The most conspicuous character of hisiory 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-allfive fingers pointed in one dirmction. Christ is the overtop )ing figure of all time. He is .the vox Iumana in all music, the gracefulcst line lan all sculpture, the most exquisite ming 'ing of lights and shades. in all paint )L.gs, the ucme of all climaxes, the dome of all cathedral grandeur, and the pero ration of all splendid language. The Gret k alphabet is made up of twenty-four letters, and when Christ compared himself to t _ie 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 wvth those two letters or all the letters be tween tLem. "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 Dnd Him alayan altitudes, the glory of Christ would have to spread its wings and de scet-ei a thousand leagues to touch those summits. Pelion, a high mountain, of Thcssa*y; Ossa, a high mountain, and Olympius, a high mountain; but mythol ogy teils us when the giants warred asainst tie 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, aid thete was a complete failure. Aud after aU the giants--Isaiah and Paul, prophetic and apostolic giants; Raphael an1d Michael Angelo, artistic giants; cherubim and seraphim and archangels, celestial gianti--have failed to climb to the top c f 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 preaching. There are so many books on homiletics scattered through the country that all laymen, as well as all iergymen, have made up their min is what sermons ought to be. That ser. mon is most effectual which most point edly puts forth Christ as the pardon of all sin and the correction of allevil-in divi uAl, social, political and national. There is no reason why we should iing 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 it must be pro foundly evangelical, while they are sus picious of a discourse which presents the same 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, aind the Indo-European, but we have a right to marahal it in religious disous sions. Ohrist sets the example. His illustrations were from the grass, the fioweis. the spittle, the salve, the barn yard to,yl, the 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 wvere nothing. They may be mis used, but they have an imperial power. Th'Iey are the bridge between soul and soul, between Almighty God and the hurman race. What did God write upon the tab)les of stone? Words. What did Christ utter on Mount Olivot? Words. Out of what did Christ strike the spark for the illumination of the universe? Out of WVords. "Let there be light," and light was. Of course, thought is the cargo and words are only the ship; b)ut hoiw fast would our cargo get on without the ship? What you need, my friends, ini all your work, in your Sab bath school class, in your aeformatory institutions, anid what we all need is to enlarge our vocabulary when we come to Pp)eak about God and Christ and heaven. We ride a few old words to death w3en there is such an illimitab)le resources. Shakespero employed 15,000 different words for dramatic purposes; Milton emnloyed 8,000 different words for po etic purposes; Rufus Choate employed over 11,000 different words for legal puirposes; but the most of us have less than 1,000) words that we can manage, less than 500, and that makes us so stu pid. When we come to set forth the love of Christ we are going to take the tenderest phraseolog,y wvhenever we find it, and if it has notar been used in that direction hefore, all the more shall we use it. When we come to speak of the glory of Christ, the Conquerer, we are going to draw our similes from triumphal arch and oratorio, and everything grand and stupendous. The French navy have eighteohi flags by which they give sig rfiuls, t.ut those eighteen flags they can put into sixty-six thousand different combinations. And I have to toll you that these stand ard., of the cross may be lifted into combinations infinite and varieties eve: lasting. And let me say to these young men who come f rem the theological semi niaries into our services every Sabbath, and are after a while going to prea.h Jesus Christ, you will have the largest liberty and unlimited resources. You only have to present Christ in jour own s:ay. Jonathan Edwards preached Christ in verest argument over penned, and preached Christ In the sub. vr composed. Edward exhausted, leaned u against the side of the pulpit and wept out his discourse, while George Whit field, with the manner and the voice and theart 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 essay 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, flowers have no sweetness, sun set sky no color compared with thgse 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 1llustration 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. Sweetect comfort for ghasithest agony. Brightset hope for grimmest death. Grandest resurrection for darkest sepulcher. Oh, what a Gospel to preach! Christ over all in it. His birth, his sit fering, his miracles, his parables, his sweat, his tears, his blood, his atone ment, his intercession-what glorious themes! Do you exercise faith? Chrizt is its object. Do we have love? It fasteis 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 wAR mo costly, so beautiful, that uf er he 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 Aboundothi grace may much imore tbound." "Oh, my sins, my sins," sa1id Marti Luther to Stnupitz, "1miN sins, sins! The fact is, that the brawny (rima, student had f ir. a Latin Bible that i made him I., no'jing ee uviul did makelhfn (I- when e foui how, thron.a s o and saved, hie w "Come over Id weat, and awfi sinnere saved tythe -~ f God. Y u set to be (,' IY q - sinner. and you don't nih e- -. he i .rcy of God ; ut we the have 1. - awful cinn(r, we p ise his grace 1 1 -rire now that w< t liave been redvemei:.'' Can it )e1 tan I ymu art so despeoraNv eg l that 3oul fuel yourself in first ite sptlirit- t 11:61 16rim, and that If mI the l-oot [if thet( hair to tie ti) of the toe you 1; scar 1(8s and inmacul e Wfhat you need is a looking glass, aindu here it is in the Bible. Poor, and wietched, and misera ble, and blind, and naked from the crown of the head to the sole of the foot, full of wounds and putrefving sores. f No health in us. And then tiKa the fact i that Christ gathered up till the notes uginst us and paid them, at i then offer ed us the receipt. And how much we need him in our I aotrow I We are independent of cir Duaistances if we hive His grace. Why, Ile made Paul sing in the dungfln, and under that grace, St. John from desolate Patmos heard the blast of the apocalYp tic trumpets. After all other candles bave been snuffed out, this is the light s that gets brighter and brighter unto the m p)erfect day; and after, under the hard I toofs of calamity, all the pools of wo: 1d ly enjoyment have been trampled into deep -uire, at the foot of the eternal rock I the Christiun, from cups of granite lily i rimmed and vine covered, puts vut the thirst of his soul. Again, I remark that Christ is a*1ve all in dying alleviations. Saladin, the greatest conqueror oif his I clay, while dying, ordered that the tunic he had on him be carried after his death I 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 querorli Of all the states he conquered, of all the wealth he accumulated, ncoth-t log did he retain but this shroud !" I have no sympathy with such behavior, or much absud demonstration, or with muchJ that we hear uttered in regard to depart. ure from this life to the next. There is a commonsensical idea on this subject that you and I need to consider-that there are only two styles of depart ure. A thousand feet underground,.hy light of torch toiling in a miner's shaft, a ledge of rock may fall ucuon us, and we may die a cminer's death. F"ar out at seac,I falling from the slippery ratlines and broken on the halyards, we may (die a sailor's death. On missIon of mercy in hospital, amid broken bones, and reeking leprosies, and raging fevers, we may (lie a p)hilanthropist's death. On the field of battle, serving God and our country, slugs through the heart, th gun car riage may roll over tie, and we may (lie a patriot's death. But, after all, thero are only two styles of dleparture-the death of the righteous, and the death of the wicked-and we all want, to die the former. God grant that when that hour comes you may be at home. You want the hand of your kindred in your hand. You want your children to su:cound you. You want the light on your ji.11 low from eyes that have long reflected your love. You want the room s',ill. You do not want any curious strugers standing around watching you. You want your kindred from afar te hear your last prayer. I thiuk that is the wish of all of us. But is that all? Can earthly friend. hoid uu up when the bil low, of death some up to the girdle? Can human voice charm open heaven 's gate? Can human head pilot us through the narrows of death into heaven 's harbor? Can any earthly friendship shield us fromt the arrows of dleath, and in the hour when Batan shall practice upon us his infernal archery? No, no no, aol AlasI Poor soul, if that is all better die in the wilderness, far from tree shadow and from fountain, alone, vultures circling through the air waiting for our body, uwknown to men, and to have no burial, if oniy Christ could say through the solitude.: "I will never leave thee, I will never forsake thee." From that pillow of stone a ladder would soar heavenward, angels coming and going; and across the solitude and the bar: enness would come the sweet notes of heavenly minstrelsy. Gordom Haln fr froam home, dyin.. i. the door of a heathen temple, baid: "Glory to thee, 0 God!" What. did dying Wilberforce say to his wife? "Come and alt beside me, and let us talk of heaven. I never knew what happiness was until I found Christ." What did dying Hiannah More siy? "To go to Christ, who died that I might live! Oh! glorious gravel Oh, the love of Christ, the love of Chritt, the love of Christ." What did the dying Janeway say? "I ean as easily die as close my eyes or turn my head in sleep. Before a few hours have passed I shall stand on Mount Zion with the one hundred and forty and four thousand and with th: just men made petfect, and we shall as cribe riches, and honor, and glory, and majesty, and dominion unto God and the Lamb." Dr. Taylor, condemned to burn at the stake, en his way thither broko away from the guardsmen and went bounding and leaping and jump ing toward Phe fire, glad to Eo to Jesus and to die f(r him. Sir Charles Hare, iu his last moment, had such rapturous vision that he cried "Upwarid, upward, upward !" And so great was the peace Of one of Christ.'s disciples that ho put his finger upon the pulse in his wrist and co)umted it and observed it; and so grea1t was his placidIty that after a while he said ''stopped!" and his life had stnded hee fl) be4gin in liCveU. Bt t grarder th,i that wam tihe ti-tilinony of the wornout tirst nissionary, when, in htt Mamartinn duingeon, he cried: ' im now ready to he offered end the time, >f rmy depatrturre isat hand; 1 bave fought, he good fight. I have finished my course have kept the faith: hencefoith is laid ipl for me a crown of righteousness, P.LIich the Lord, the righteous Judge, vill give tue in that day, and iot to me )nly, but to all them tit love his al Caring!" Do you not see that Christ is l)ove all in dying alleviations? Toward tle l:it hotr of our carthly esidence we are s)(edjing. Brightcr thl, a Ihanqueting hill hiough whici the hgit feet of thf lalcerls go up :md) lown to the "ounrd of rumpeters will be the kepuleher through vhose rifts the holy ght Mf eaven tre%meth. G()d will watch you. iIe vill send his angels to guard ywir slum >er;; groutri,,until, at Christ's belhest, hey ,.'all roll lwvxt t he Ione. .,aso,. (.rist is abo-e ;i in hen-r. I'n ible- d ie 'ly iay v. C Chr* ti h , ef ti m t, ff t t cohlt t l acrip > e the ' O t eing Ili. throne, - palimsl i wa ki * '1us face, all bv Awn il d t hi feet. Cherribim rit: r rubim, r I ~ -to *;hphim, re ke-el Spirit to r Aedeued -pirit, -hall ccite the Savior's earIthly saerifice. St:Ind o 1ome i high hill of heaven, and n all tile rndiant weep the most glori >us 4bj- ot will be Jesus. lyriads gaz 11g on the scars of his sufIerings, in fleince tirst, afterward breaking forth nt,) --cclamation. The martyrs, all the urer for the Il:rme through which they nSSed, will say: "This is Jesus, for vhotq we died." The apostles, all the appier for '1he shipwreck and the courging through which they went, will Ay: "This is the Jesus whom we )reached at Corinti, and at Cappadocia, rid at Antioch, and at Jerusalem." Aittle children clad in white will say: 'This is the Jesus who took us in His rms and blessed us, and when the torms of the world were too cold and oud, brought us into this beautiful >lace." The multitudes of the bereft vill Fny: "This is the Je:ius who corn orted us when our hearts broke." Many vbo wandered clear off fron God anpi >lunged into vagahondism, but wero aved by grace, will say: "This is the esuts who parniorned us. We were lost mn the rountaint, arid lHe broug;ht us ome. We were guilts, and he has made rs whrite as snoWv." Mercy boundless, :race unparalleled. And then, after ash one has recited his peculIar deliver aces and peculiar rmercies, recited them a by solor, tall the voices will come to ecther into a great chorus, which will nake the arches echro and re-echo with he sternal reverberation of gladness, mdi pea~ce, and triuimpth. Edward I. was so anxious to go to the holy Land that when lie was about to ixpire he be.queathled $100,000 to have is heart, after his decease, taken to the holy Land in Asia Minor, and his request was complied with. Biut there are inurdreds to-dlay whose hearts are already a the Holy Laid of heaven. Where rour treasures are, there are your hearts diso. Quaint John Bunyan, of whom I poke ant the openinig of the discourse, :aughit ra glim pe of that place, and in irs quaint waiy he said : ''And I heard ri my d ream, anid ho! the hells of the city ang again for joty; and as they opened lie gates to let in the men I looked in ifter them, tand lo! thre city shone like he sun, and thorec were streets of gold, mad men walked on t hem, harps in their iands, to sing prais'es withal ; rind after :bat they shutt tup t he gates, which when [ hard seen I wished myself ameng them." A Propose(tSC St ate Ball Leagute. The l)roject for a State base ball! league far the corming ktummer is being igitatled. The propolsition comes from L'har lestort, rand several partics interestcd in base ball have been written to in regard to the matter. The idea is to form a leaigne to include Sumter, Spartan burg, Gireenville, Laurrens, Orangeburg, Aiken, Columbia and Charleston. It is proposed to play Iearms composed of amataurs os tmoderat, salaries aid ib is nrged that the jenmps beiug short, gate receipts eould easily be worked up to tire poi.nt of paying expenses. Apartan burg should not be behindhand in this moveuient. Base ball1 is a good thing, iand Spartarnburg should have her part in this movesient for a general effort throughout thes state. Oner of the features of ouir World's F"air. will be art educational exhilait. It will i.e a designed to illustrate the means emloy )13ed iu tis country for the eduica - tioni of children of different ages, the p)rev'sions~ for their health, comfort and exercise. The depiartiment of suiperiut tendeince of the National Educational Association at its recent session in New York heartily commended tire Droject and expressed tire conviction that could be maude of great p)ractical value. Every farmer who raises lis own grub is prospering. It is no use to wastu Ink telling what the othier fellows are doing: every body knows. LOUISANA'S LOTTMY. FIVE YEARS YET BECURS FOR11 INIQUITY. The Wareat Dlaiulty will bo UsnE lu 64 eurin, a New Lenew of Lim--'ho Morm iesuents Agalut the Lsterr, but ti Feople will Decide. Letter to tho New York Herald. The recent effort to secure a lotter charter in North Dakota has ha 1 the e fect of filling the press of this countr with much misinformatimn. Amjon ot%vr thitgs it has been said that th Louiat.a.. l,'ttery, knowing th.t it vti impossible to e i i an extc,i rsi '4f it charter in Louisiana, hzit diterminic: t make preparations to WibdiAl IrOlt the State, and for that reason hd itough to secure a charter elsewhore. Few IN) hie in Louisiana who have watched th current of evets thotght for i tuomen that the Lottery eempany had the light es' idea of abatdoning the State. Tite regarded the attempt to seenre a chitte in Dakota only as a means to get bette terms athome and a provisio-# aguinst possible failure to secure a renowa; o thu franchise. It has also bevn char;;el thAt ;he Lou isiana Lottery Compaiiy w.1i tow try it buy un extension of its charter thronUgl the State Legislature, and w:l tffer t( retire the State debt of $12,000,000 for I twenty-tiv; years' luase of corporat( life. There is, as far as I can learn, at aue proposition to be made, The Legisla turs is absolutely powcrless in the mat ter. The peoplo of Louisiana and the, ilone can extend the charter. The lot' tery was chartered in 1808 aml its fri.n chise does not expire itatil 189. I 1870 the Legislature,in the exercise of itt police power, abolishedt ihe lottery, bul before the legislative Act went into effect i constitutional convenLioa iet. Thc lottery question was taken up in thal budy,and a majority of the members held that the legitlative Act wa! UACOnstiti. tional, inasmuch .s it violated a Con tract. A paragraph vas, therefore, insertet in the new constitution continuing the h>ttery until its chatter expired, and giv ing the Legislature power to establish Ather lotteries, none of then to extent teyonu the time of the expiration of th1 Louisiana State Lottery Company's fian -hise, and after January 1, 189:, no !;t teries were permitted to exist in tic Stite. There was an acrimonious debat< on this propo.ition and recrimination among delegates to the Convention, but it was finally embodied in the ConstitU tion of the Stge, voted on by the peo ple and adopted. So the Legislature is vowerless in the matter further than t< submit A constitutional amendment, t< the people. Tt will reqtire. . *wo-thirdk vote to do this. The next session of the Legislature, which must act upon the matter if a re newal *of the charter is secured, wil meet in May. It is unders- ood that th< lottery company will go before thal body and ask that the proposition b< sulSmitted to the people in the form of a aonstitutioual amendment to extend its ,harter for a period of twenty-five years rhe lottery now pays an annual license ito the State treasury of $40,000. This 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 praoose for an extension of its char ter to pay an annual license ranging fron $200,000 to $500,000, the sum thus raiset to be devoted to the charitale institu tions of the State and to educationa purp~osoe. There will be a hard fighl over the proposed amendsetnt in the LegIslature, but the indications are tha the necessary two-thirds will be secure' and the amendment submitted to thi people. The argument that will be tused ba these who will favor the amaendment wil be that in a matter of sucti 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 (10 so upon purel; moral grounds, holding that all lotterie, are pernicious and demoralizing anr should ho prohibited, and the p)eoplI have virtuailly passed upon the qutestiot by declaring ton years ago that no lotters should be established in the State aftei 1895. The moral advocates are, as fa as my observation goes, in a minority. but will make a most determined tight They will have Governor N'ichols with them. The IExecutive declared himsel. within a week as against an extension o tde lottery charter. The Methodist Con ference has also dleclared against it. S< has the Presbytery of Louisiana and the Farmers' Alliance. On the other hant the lottery people will be baeked by mans of the largest financiers of the city, most of the influcntial p)oliticians and by the groat bulk of those who set no harm in buying a lottery tickat These latter, it is safe to say, jutdging fromi the evidence one sees arottnd him constitute a large majority of the p)opf lation. So in spite of the Governor anc the moral f.. rce of the religious elemenl I see no reason to doubt that the prTopo sition of lottery, with some modilicationi in favor of the State, will be submittet to the pople. The disposities of the amendament il rmere problemsatical. The question, if I is submnitted, will not be voted upon uin til 1892. In the meantime a great dea of missionary work can be done on both side.. Nothing i- more certain that that the opposition will not Cehse witl the action of the Legislatuire, p)rovided1 of course, it is favorable to tne lotter' company. In fact, such action will onl' intensify it. This campatignt is certain to be one o the hottest over fought in the State. At attempt will be made made to get one o both of the polhtical parties to deolar, against the lottery in the party pInt form, but it is not likely that eIther wil Inject the question into its declaratiot of purposes. 'The Republican part; chartered the lottery and its representa tives have always voted for it, bo0th ii the Legislature and Convention. Th Democrats have always divided utpoa th question, the majority beinh, opposed t< the lottery, formerly on the ground tha t was a faction In n)Olitien. The lntter has so Airewdly conducted its affairs late yearr. as to disarm this opposition TRIMMING IT1 SAILA. B It is understoed t2at it has subscril impartially to the compaign fund of parties and thus relieved itself of criticism that it has favored one at expenso of the other. Thus political i position has been disarmed, and it I only the moral issue to meet. This issue will not down nor can it waved asied, and so a royal battle v be the result. Wou!-i the rr-aders of the Herald li F to know how it will end, h-oking at t r opposing forces at the present time? e I should say that the lottery will cure a renewal of itR charter at I hands of the people. Why? Well, a one ionson, the Republicans are likely a favor it for the reaqon that it brin Iomey und business into the Sta Ag,iri, a large peroentage of the peal -liry phmyers. The moral arm nont h is but little infiaence with thei If thiy (to not buy Lmlsiaua lottery tic c1i their moneticy will go to Havana Mexivo, and they prefer to place whieru, although thle chances are largely ;Liwiiv%t winning, they know th if the LiCket dr,iws a prize they will ha o difficulty in getting their alone four of the lart-.vt b!inks in the ci pledging themleiclves to cash ali priz ov-r their counters. Again, a imaj rity of those interest in the charitaie institutions In the Sta are likely to tand by the lottery. The institutioaq, with thu single excepti( of the Charity llospital, are not prope ly sustained, or rather are not larl enough for the unfortunates who shou be within their walla, and the lotte proioies to provide amply for then Then the taxpayers will be relieved a p ,rtion of this burden if the amen llont s adopted. Tihete are some c f the influences ti anti-lottery people will have to mec th moral arguitent being their on we' P ( of olense agaist an instituti( :o wc:l entrenched. They know tl odidi a-gainst. them, and although n1 San.;Une of success, are fi.r from be-i dismayed. They propose to make U,1 light a warim one, and may be relied c to do it. .1 Lawyer O ...it ted. SENECA, S. C., Foh. 27.-Shnri Moss cane down last Saturday, at ti reqluest of I. T. James, Esti., att.oi ney for the creditors ol'Goldsmith, at closed up the livery stable of' W. 2 Kirksey. It seems he proceeded wit out due proces- of law% and laid hin self liable for damages. Mr. Kirks< employed N. B. Cary, Esq., who fore( Mr. Jaynes to compromise the case I the payment of $125, so Mr. Kirks4 still hords the fort, and has the funi to provision it, for a good many da; to c&ne. Waaanamaker to be Boycotted. A.TLANTA, Ga., Fob. :7.-Tbo mc chants of Athens have signed a boyco againLt firms with whom Postmasto General Wanamak-ir does business, bc cause of the appointment of Matt Davi colored, as postmaster. A Sensat lon inm At lanut a. A-ri,ANTA, Feb. 27.-Thomas ii. M Kinnon, the largest real estate agei here, has dipappeared, leaving his wi and family and a number of creditors mourn. Iis books show a shortage several thousand dollars. A Terrilo Dile miifma. EnI-:, Pa., Feb. !5 --When the wee bound Nickel Plate passenger tra reached the 150 feet high bridge ov' WValnut creek, near Swantown, Pt Monday afternoon, the engineer saw man in the middle of the brnidge. T] train was running at the rate of for miles an hour, and to reverse the lev on the bridge would have imperilled t' train's 100 passengers. Although tl p)oor fellow wrung his hands is agon 'nd looked pleadingly at the enginee the latter stood at the lcyer, kept o and sent one man down 150 feet In eternity, rather than imperil the lives his keeping. TIhe man was unknowni. Cauaght by3 at Marked1 11il. Ona Tuesday, In Savannah, A. Bethea, a young white man from Marit S. C , was brought b)efore the Unit< aStates Commissioner to answer to tI charge of robbing the United Stat' mails. It seems that the complain concerning packages lost in the ms between Charleston and ,Jacksonvil have been numerous of late, and Inspei tor Wilde, llethea's accuser, put a mar' ed $1 bill in a packagc adldressedl to V II. Tratumn, Orange Park, Fla., Subs quent inquiries revealed the fact th the packet had disappeared. The i spector then approached Mr. IBethea, railway mnail clerk, in the the presen< of another postal inspector and a thii p)arty, and af ter showing his comamissioi reqluested Betheca to hand over any mol ey he had upon his person to the thii party ; and Bethea handed over the nmai $1 bill. When cornered, Bethea sa that he merely put the money in 1: poket for safe keeping, intending register it and mend it to Superintend. Terrill. iIe will be held for trial. Seed Cornt 4,000) Year.. Old. D)uring the season of 1889 a mao remarkable crop was raised by D)av Drew, at Plymouth, N. Hi. In 1888 M D)rew came into possession of some cot grains wrapped with a mummy 14gypt, supposed to be 4,000 years e1 These were planted and grow. It hr Imany of the characteristIcs of ro Icorn; the leaves wore alternate; it gre to be over six feet hIgh; the mlid-ril were white; but the product of tI stock, there is where the curious pa comes in. Instead of growing in ear like modern maize, it hung in hea' clusters at the top, on spikelets; the was no tassel; no silk; each sprig W; thickly studded with grains, each pr vided with a separate husk, like whe grains. Fired by Ilightnming. Co1XMnuAj. C., Feb. 27.-Durbm a thunderstorm this afternoon, the St a ble on the promises of Capt. Rt. 8. De portee was struck by lightning an was soon in flames. The fire-enghm had a poor chance for water, bnt the eflorus coupled with a drenching ra prenrvented grat damaen. A TALE OF HORROR. SICKENING DETAILS OF THF all PRISON OUTRAGE AT KARA. he - he Wouen Prideners. Drivem te Des"aIr p- Seek to Mtarvo Thewe.elve.--mublect t4 ,as feveltiou 1rutalitien by Their ienstis Unards--Male Priviouers A ttenapt Whole. be .iLle Suicide. Further details of the outrage in the political prison at Kara have reached ke Russian exiles in London, from friendi he who are located a short distance from e- the scene of the horror. They are he brief but conclusive, confirming Ailly or the report of the aflair received there to from an oflicial in St. Petersburg, who 98 is in sympathy with the causo of the le people. According to the details just u. received, it appears that trouble at the u. Kara prison originated in a "hungry k strike" in August. when the women or i political prisoners tried to starve them 1o selves to death to escape the brutali. it ties oftheir jailors. All the women 'M imprisoned there abstained from food 71 for fourteen days. eo The jailors did not believe that they would be able to keep up the struggle. d At first they jeered at the women, then tv tempted them with food and then le finding this of no avail, threatened them. When several of the women were at the point oi death from their voluntary abstinence from food, the d prison ollicials resorted to artificial .Y means to compel then to take nourish ment. The methods adopted, however, were violent and licentious and the women were compelled to abandon their strike. Abominable outrages followed anl were of daily and hourly occurreneo. This state of allairs led Madam ,igida, whose death by flogging has already been announced, to ask for an itvr view with the doctor of the prison in 9 the hope of securing an1 amBeliorat ion of the Condition of the prisoner.. Tllis request was granted, but when she was taken beforo him, sho 1ound hii abusive. It was said that in her ind i. nation at his abuso she called him a villain and slaipped his face. It, is not positively 1:1nown, however. whaut look placeo during the interview, biu what d ever did happen, Madame Sigila did not return to; her coiipanions. She was taken fro the )irector's ollice and conveyed to the prison in which comll mon ofWenders are contined. Three ol' her companions from among the oliti cal prisoners were peirmitl ed to join y her. The advices just received state 1 that these Wero Mary Koales,y, v. ift of Professor Koalesky, of Kicll, Ma dame Smirnitsky and Maria Kolujiiny. The last two ladies were from (Mes sa. . Two months elapsed after the event t before the Agent, Baron Koreg, Gov ernor General of the Province of Amour, instructed the directors of the prisons that the edict of March, 188, which ordered that political prisoners should be treated by prison officials in precisely the same mauner as crimi nals condemned for common law of fenses, would he enforced, and ordered the directors to notify the political prisoners ef both sexes that they would )fbe liable to corporal punishment if they violated oertain of the prison regulations. The malo pris:ners, fore seeing immediato danger, held a con sulation and sent to the director of the prison a petition that he would tele " grauh to the Minister of' the~ Inter'ior rT at St,. Petersb)urg, reqjuesting him to -suspend the application of the edict. a The director refused to pay any atten is tion to their petition andI thereup~on L7 the men warned him that, the floggig er of a political prisoner would bo thme Ie signal for the others to commit suicide 'e together. f, Trhree days afterwards, Baron Koroff' r', sent a special order that Madame Sig~i ,da b)e flogged according to the regul[a Lo ions and the order was execuitedl to in the fullest extent. Madame Bigida was stripped and mreceived 100 lashes. She was carried ofi' bleeding and1 in an unconscious condition and her death 4. ensuedl from rupture of the heart. Hefr 'n three eompanions comnmittedl suicidle *d within an hour of the time of hearing ec of Madame SigidIa's death. Thelm corp a see of the four wonmen were buriedi at tb the same time in thme court yard of the il common ofl'enders' p)rison, le For weeks the cordon of vigilance Swas so closely mainitained1 aroundl( the .. prison that nothiug wvas know of what f. was happening within. Since the. >- secret channel of information has been it reopened it has been learned that the ~. men carriedlouit their threat of suicide. a They met together and thirty of thm o shared what poison they could obtain d and then went to their cells to (lie. The ~, quantity of poison1 which had been . smuggledl into the prison was not sufli 'd to kill quickly, but in the course of k the evening two of those who had ii shared it, Behookor andl Koluzry (lied. is Their convulsions and the dloath scene ,o which reigried in other -cells roused it the attention of the guards, and they immedimately summoned1 physiciaus, who adnministeredl emetics to the sur vivors and endleavored1 by overy means to counteract the effects of' the poison. 1.ee Wina a n Mr Fainwed: "Then you refuse be 1. marry me?" d Mrs. Mainchanco: "For the present 0l I must. My husband is in good health, w and we are the best of friendIs.'' is Mr. Fainwed. "And you ca.s give nae ie no eneouragement?" rt Mrs. Mainchance: "'I will keep your en address, and1 if a vacancy should eecur 'y I will dIrop you a line." re (N. B.-T'his happened in Chicago, w of course.) 0 at Oeneeous Youth. Mother: "Tommy, I hear yoti got a Thrashing in school to-day." Tommy: "yes ma, the teacher whip ig pod me, 'but he is getting so 01(1 and i- weak that it didna't hurt munch." s- "Did you cry?" d "Oh, yes; I bawled so yeu could ie have heard me on the next bloeck." ir "Why did you do that" in "I wanted to make the old man feel happyo ne more." GENERAL NEWX ITEMS. Fuse or Imterest Gathered rm vari ous *erseme. -The hotels in St. Augustine are do. ing better than usual. --Columbia is to have a new ice fee tory with a capacity of ten tons daily. -The equestrian stattde of Robert XL Lee, by Mercie, the French sculptor, hw been completed. It will be placed In Hichmond. --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 Tenn., onWednesday unroofed half the houses fa 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 Secretary of the Treasury has just ipaid.$57,800 to the Richmend, Va., Loconotive Works, for work done for the bttle ship Texan now building at Norfolk. -The last time Stanley lectured at 11irinughain, England, he received fifteon guitieas for his lee. This time the Birmingham lecture manager of fler 300 guineas, and is afraid he can't get himn at that. - -F'red A. Walton, who stole $35,000 from tie Express Company at Dallas, Texas, has been captured at St. John, N. B. lie had but $10,000 left, bunco Mnl having robbed him of the other part. of his stealage. -'Tho Congressional redistricting bill to iako five out of' six of the dis trict.; or ' Maryland solidly Democratic, which at first failed for want of one Vot e, was pasSed by a vote of 17 yeas it oinv s. The Governor's signature has beten at tachied. A c!()wl -burst Mondty night caused Mu ii+do Creek Ind., to rise so quickly t ILt the women and three thildren of the 1l1l f:inily were drowned. They be long- to ac party of gypsies encamped nec>r the -streami. The bodies hove not Yct h1ccn recovered. --President Day, of the New York Leaguo club, vainly offered Buck Ew imr, who eaught for the club last year, S ,~Oui for a thr-ee years' engagement. l;uck sticks to the brotherhood. Ward ltichardson, Gore and Slattery :lso .eclined b)ig offers. -A voimiittee of the Texas Legis laturo 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 the good people of Massachusetts and piresented in the Senato by Senator D.twes, that 800,000 gallons of intoxi cants aro 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 nuo otlicers. lievenue 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 Itev. )r. Lorimer, of the Baptist Church at Holyoke Mass., caused a sensationt on Friday by mak ing a violent andl indecent attack from his pulpit on the Catholic Church. On Sunday Ito tear-fully explained to his congregation thtat he was drunk at the time from an overdose of qui nine tand uncotnscious of what he said; and lhe publicly retracted and apolo gited. -Senator Voorhees is out in a long add ress urgIng harmony in the Demo cratic party of Indiana in the nomina. tiont of legislative and county candi elates. Mr, Vqorhees says he wvill supporft ex-Governor Gray for the Vice'Presidency in 1892, as he did at the St. Louis convention two years ago. It, is understood that Mr. Gray will use his host efforts to secure a J)omocratic Legislature and the re electiont of Mr. Voorhoes to the Sen ate. -Chicago has won thte fight fbr the location of the EK position In 1892. '[There were eightt ballots in thte House -the vote finally standing thus: Chi cage, 15.7; New Tork, 107; St. Louis, 25; WVashtington, 18. Whole number of votes, 30)7; necessary to a choice 154. When the Speaker announced the re, suIt of thte eiglthth 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 quetll the confusion, but was unable to ob)tain any thing like order. Half the member-s rushed jell mell for' the exits, and amidi this disorder the Speaker, ont motion, declared the H ouse adjiourned. Chminamten Go Ov'irboard4. The special correspondent ef the Cincinnati Enquirer, whe hase6 . 'ived flrm Ye etems at ba 3ani .O, eds hIs paper a senstMenal ae eou*t of his t rIp from this country with a number of Chinese, who were homeward bound for the' New Years festiviies in their native land. Eu roy. age, the Chinamen, inveterate games ters, spent.their time gamabling. In case one of them lost all his money In mid oceatt his companions would not at t,empt, to stay hiin, they believing that should thtey rescue a man in imminent peril his rescuer would have te sup port him. Several are known to have leaped ovet board, and there is reason to b)elieve that many meore are at the b)ottom of the sea who got broke. Qtite a number, too, died of' siekness and were buried at sea. T iidg'e John T. Pendleton has bee. appointedl an attorney for the Rich mond and Danville Railroad. The At lanta Journal says It Is rumored that Pat Calhon has been appointed gen eral attorney for the enuire Richamnd Tnrnknal iimeam.