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VOL. XlX- PICKENS, S. C.9 TrHURSDAY, JULY 17, ~3 TALMAGE OUT WEST. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE IPREACHINC IN NEBRASKA. An Open Air Sermon DeUvered to the Mul titudes From the Text, "We Are Witnes seo." On Stiiday Dr. Talmage preached at Breat.rice' Nebraska, in the open air to au immense congregation which had gathered from all the surrounding country to hear the fa mous prealher. His text was, "We are witnesses." (Acts 8: 15.) Fol lowing is his sermon: In the days of George Stephenson, 10i perfector of the locomotive en gine the scientists proved cionclu sively that a railway train could nev er be driven by steam power success fully and without peril; but the rush ing express trains from Liverpool to Edinburgh, and from Edinburgh to London, have made all the nations witnesses of the splendid achieve ment. Machinists and navigators proved conclusively that a steamer i could never cross the Atlantic Ocean ' h-' no sooner had they successfully 0 ...Pfved the impossibility of such an I undertaking than the work was done, 0 and the passengers on the Cunard, 9 and the Inman, and the National, I and the White Star lines are witnes- I ses. There went up a guffaw of wise laughter at Professor Morse's propo sition to make the lightning of heaven his errand boy, and it was proved conclusively that the thing could t never be done; but now all the news of the wide -.-' by asspciatnd press put inyo r morning and night, has m "' f witnesses. So in the tirr i was proved concluaively tn 1 impossible I for Him to rise T e dead. It ' was shown logicall. when a man was dead, he was . dthe-heart and the liver aL. W the lungs having ' ceased to perfor. their offices, the I limbs would be rigid beyond all. power of friction or arousal. They showed it to be an absolute absurdity t that the dead Christ should ever get i up alive; but no snnner had they 8 proved this than the dead Christ e arose, and the disciples behold Him, N hear His voice, and talk with him, E and they took the witness stand to prove that to be true which the wis eacres of the day had proved to be t impossible; the record of the exper ience and of the testimony is in the text: "Him hath God raised from the dead, whereof we are witnesses." Now, let me play the sceptic for a moment. "There is no God," says the sceptic, "for I have -never 96en him with my physical eyesight. Your Bible is a pack of contradictions. Theke never was a miracle. Lazarus was not raised from the dead, and f the water was never turned into wine. r Your religion is an imposition on the . credulity of the ages." There is an I aged man moving over yonder as e though he would like to respond. I Here are hundreds of people with faces a little flushed at these an- e nouncements, an< all through this t assembly there is a suppressed feel- i ing which would like to speak out in i behalf of the truth of our glorious N Christianity, as in the days of the text, crying out, "We are witnesses!" The fact is, that if this world is ever brought to God, it will not be through argument, but through tes timony. You might cover the whole' earth with apologies for Christianity, and learned treatises in defense of religion-you would not convert a I soul. Lectures on the harmony be. tween science and religion are beau- I tiful mental discipline, but have never ] saved a soul, and never will save a ] soul. Put a man of the world and a man of the church against each other< and the man of the world will in all probability get the triumph. T~here are a.4housand things in our religion - that seem illogical to the world, and always will seem illogical. Our weap- i on in this conflict is faith, not logic:i faith, not metaphysics, faith, not pro- I fundity; faith, not scholastic explora tion. But then, in order to have faith, we must have testimony, and if 1 five hundred men, or one thousand I men, or five hundred thousand men or five millhon men get up and tell - me that they have felt the religion of Jesus Christ a joy, a comfort, a help,< an aspiration, I am bound as a fair minded man to accept their testimony. I I want just now to put before you 1 three propositions, the truth of Swhich I think this audience will attest] with overwhelming unanimity. The first proposition is, we areI witnesses that the religion of Christ is able to convert a soul. The gos pel may have had a hard time to con quer us; we may have fought it back,] but we were vanquished. You say 1 conversion is onily an imaginary thing. We know better. "We are witnes 4. ses." There never was so great a change in ou,r heart and life on any) other subje'ct as on this. People laughed at the missionaries in Ma dagascar-b,ecause they preached ten years without converts; but there are 83,000 converts in Madagascar today. People laughed at Dr. Adoniram Judson, the Baptist missionary, be. cause he kept on preaching in Bar mnah five years without a single con vert; but there are 20,000 Baptists in Bu-mah today. People laughed at Doctor Marrison in China, for preach ing there seven years without a sin gle conversion; but there are 25,000 Christians in China today. People laughed at the missionaries for preaching at. Tahiti fiteen years ithout a single conversion, and at the missionaries for ~reaching in Beingal seventeen years without a single conversion; yet fi. all those , ds there are multitudes of Chris - a stodaay., .ut why go so far to find evidence oje Gospel's power to save a soul? proud that no man could have hum bled us; we were so hard that n< Darthly power could have melted us ingels of God were all around aboul s, they could not overcome us; bul :)e dry, perhaps at a Methodist anx. ious seat, or at a Presbyterian cat 3chetical lecture, or at a burial, or or [iorsoback, a power seized us, and rn%de us get down, and made ui ,reinblo, and made us kneel, ane 3ry for mercy, and we tried to wrencl >urselves away from the grasp, bul ve could not. It flung us flat, and vhen we arose we were as mucl -banged as Gourgis, the heathen vho went into a prayer meeting witi , dagger and a gun, to disturb th< neeting and to destroy it, but th( iext day was found crying, "Oh, m Treat sins! Oh, my great Saviour!' md for eleven years preached thE 3ospel of Christ to his fellow moun. ;aineers, the last words on his dying ips being, "Free Grace!" Oh, it waF 'ree grace! There is a man who was for ter rears a hard drinker. The dreadful Lppetite had sent down its rootf Lround the palate and the tongue, Lnd on down until they were inter. inked with the vitals of body, mind aud soul; but he has not taken an3 timulants for ten,, years. What did hat? Not temperance societies; noi rohlibition laws; not moral suasion .onversion did it. "Why sir," said mne on whom the great change had one, "I feel just as though I wer< omebody else!" There is a sea cap ain who swore all the way from Nev cork to Havana and from Havana t< 3an Francisco, and when he was it )ort he was worse than when he was mn the sea. What power was it thal vashed his tongue clean of profanities, and made him a psalm singer? Con. ,ersion by the Holy Spirit. There 6re thousands of people in this as emblage to-day who are no mor< rhat they once were than a watei ly is a night shade, or a morning ark is a vulture , or day is night. Now, if I should demand that all hose people here present who havE elt the converting power of religion hould rise, so far from being asham d, they would spring to their feet vith more alacrity than they evei prang to the dance, the tears ming ing with their exhilaration as they ried, "We are witnesses!' And il hey tried to sing the old Gospel iymn, they would break down witl motion by the time they got to thf econd line: AOhamed of Jesus, that dear Friend on whom my hope of heaven depen d? No! When 1 olush, i,e this my shame: That I no more revere ills na me. When a man has trouble the worli omes in and says, -"Now got youi nind off this; go out and breathe the resh air; plunge deeper into busi tess." What poor advice! Get youi nind off it! When everything is up urned with the bereavement, and iverything reminds you of what you lave lost. Get your mind off it! l'hey might as well advise you tc top thinking. You cannot stop hinking, and you cannot stop think ng in that direction. Take a walb n the fresh air! Why, along thai ery street, or that very road, sh< >nce accompanied you. Out of thai ,rass plat she plucked flowers, oi uto that show window she looked ascinated, saying: "Come see th< >ictures." Go deeper into business Vhy, she was associated with al tour business ambition, and sinc< hd has gone you have no ambitior eft. Oh, this is a clumsy world w~hen it tries to comfort a broker eart. I can build a Corliss engine can paimt a Raphael's "Madonna,' can play a Beethoven's "Eroica ymphony" as easy as this world can omifort a broken heart. And yet enU have been comforted. How was t done? Did Christ come to you and Lay, "Get your mind of this; go out and bisathe fresh air; plunge deoper nto business?" No. There was ai ninute when he came to you--per tapsain the watches of the night )erhaps in your place of business ierhaps along the streets-and TH >reathed something into your sou hat gave you peace, rest, infinitt luiet, so that you could take out the >hotograph of the departed one anc ook into the eyes and the face of th( lear one, and say "It is all right he is better off; i would not call hei )ack. Lord, I thank Thee that Thor ast comforted my poor heart." In our sermons and in our lay ex mortations we are very apt, when we vant to bring illustrations of dying riumph, to go back to some distin guished personage--to a John Knoi >r a Harriet Newell. But I want you or witnesses. I want to know if you mave ever seen anything to make you >elieve that the religion of Christ can live composure in the flia hour. Row in the courts, attorney, jury, md judge will never admit mere mearsay. They demand that the wit mess must have soeen with his own eyes or heard with his own cars, and to I am critical in my examination >f you now; and I want to know~ vhether you have seen or heard any ,hing that makes you believe that Lhe religion of Christ gives compos ire in the final hour. "Oh, yes," you say, "I saw nmy :ather and mother depart. Ther< vas a great difference in their death )eds. Standing by the one we feIl nore veneration. By the other, ther< i'as more tenderness." Before the mne, you bowed perhaps in awe. Ii he other case you felt as if yom vould like to go a long with her. Hov lid they feel in that last hour? Hov lid they seem to act? Were the, rery much frightened? Did the' ake hold of this world with boti iands as though they did not wan o give it up? "Oh, no," you say 'n -I remember as though it wer< TOd~ she hal a kind word fo: ial nthere were a few memnn toes distributed among the children, and then she told us how kind we must be to our father in his loneli ness, and then she kissed us goodby and went asleep as calmly as a child in a cradle." What made her so composed? Natu ral courage? "No," you say, "mother was very nervous; wben the carriage inclined to the side of the road, she cried out; she was always very week ly." What, then, gave her composure? Was it because she did not care much for you, and the Ima-z of pait ing was not great? "Oh,' N c.: say, "she showered upon us a wealth ti affection. No mother ever loved her children irore than mother loved us. She showed it by the way she nursed us when Iwe got sick, and she toiled for us until her strength gave out." What, then, was it that gave her composure in the last hour? Do not hide it; be frank and let me know. "Oh," you say, "it was because she was so good; she made the Lord her portion, and she had faith that she would go straight to glory, and that we should all meet her at last at the foot of the throne." Here ae people who say, "I saw a Christian brother dic,and he triumph ed." And some one else, "I saw a Christian sister die, and she trium phed." Somo the else will cay, "I saw a Christian daughter die, and she triumphed." Conic all ye who have seen the laot moments of a Christian, and give testimony in this case on trial. Uncover your heads, put your hand on the old family Bi ble from which they used to read the promises, and promise in the presence of high heaven that you will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. With what you haN e seen with your own eyes, and from what you have heard with your own ears, is there power in this gospel to give calmness Pnd triumph in the last exigency? The response comes from all sides, from young, and old,and middle aged: "Where are the witnesses!" You see, my friend, I have not put before you to-day an abstraction, or chimera, or anything like guess-work. I present you affidavits of the best men and women, living and dead. Two witnesses in court will establish a fact. Here are not two witnesses, but thousands of witnesses-on earth millions of witnesses, and in heaven a"great multitude oqwitnesses that no man can number-testifying that there is power in religion to convert the soul, to give comfort in trouble, and to afford composure in the last hour. If ten men should come to you when you are sick with appall ing sickness, and say they had the same sickness, and took a certain modicine, and ~it cured them, you would probably take it. Now, sup pose ten other men should come up and say, "We don't believe there is anything in that medicine." "Well," I say, "Have you ever tried it?" "No, I never tried it, but I don't be lieve there is anything in it." Of course you discredit their testimony. The sceptic may come and say, "There is no power in your religion." Have you ever tried it?" "No, no." "Then, avauut!" Let me take the testimony of the millions of souls that have been converted to God, and comfort ed in trial, and solaced in the last hour. We wvill take their testimony as they cry, "We are witnesses!" Some time ago Professor Henry, of Washington, discovered a new star, and the tidings, sped by sub marine telegraph, and all tho obser - vatories of Europe were watching for that new star. Oh, hearer, looking out through the darkness of thy soul to-day, canst thou see a bright light beaming on thee? "Where?" you say; "where? How can I find it?" Look along by the line of the cross of the Son of God.. Do you see it tremb ling with all tenderness and beaming wvith all hope? It is the Star of Beth lehem. Deep horror then my vitals froze. D)eath- struck I ceased the tide to stem, whien sudd~enly at star arose It was the Star of Betolehern. .Oh,hearer, set your eyes on it. It iseaie fryou now to become a Christian than it is to stay away from Christ and heaven. When Madame Sonntag began her musical career shte was hissed off the stage at Vienna by the friends of her rival Amelia Steininger, wvho had already begun to decline through her dissipation. Years passed on, and one day Madame Son.ntag, in her glory, was riding through the streets of Berlin, when she saw a little child leading a blind woman, andl she said, "Come here, my little child, come here. Who is that you o e leading by the hand?" And the little child replied, "That's my mother; that's Amelia.Steininger. She used to be a great simger, but she lost her voice, and she cried so much about it that she lost her eyesight." Give my love to her," said Madame Sonntag, "and tell her an old acquaintance will call on her this afternoon." The next week in Berlin a vast assemblage gathered at a benefit for that poor blind woman, and it was said that Madame Sonntag sang that night as she had never sung before. And she took a skilled oculist, who in vain tried to give eyesight to the poor blind woman. Until the (lay of Ame lia Steininger's death, Madame Sonni tag took care of her, and her daugh ter after her. That was what the hueen of song did for her enemy. But, oh, hear a more thrilling story still. Blind immortal, poor and los t, thou who, when the wvorld and Christ were rivals for thy heart, didst hiss thy Lord away-Christ comes now to give thee sight, to give thee a home, to give thee heaven. With more than' a Sonntag's generosity He comes now to meet your need. With more than a S ia' music He comnes to plead BATTLING ON BROADWMAY. itriking aid Working Cloak Makers Strike Sure Eiough-An Excl ng Scene in New York's Chief Thorough are. NEW YORK, July 3.-A crowd of %bout 200 striking cloak makers ,athered on Broadway between [jeonard and White streets this norning at the hour when the hands ii the Meyer & Jannassen shops at )34 and the Mercantile Cloak Coin pany's place at 394 Broadway were ,oing to work. These firus are two )f the largest in the trade and are )attling in the front row of the Em p)loyers' Association against the strik ,rs' deiands. When their employ 3es tried to enter the shops they were surrounded by strikers who rorbade them with vehement gesticu lations to enter. Some were fright aned away by the crowd and escaped 6vhile those who persisted in the -ffort to enter the shops were seized ind hustled away by force. In a few ininutes Broadway for two blocks was the scene of a dozen running ights. For a short time the strikers had it their own way but soon the assailed men pluckily fought back. A,s a consequence damaged heads among the strikers were plentiful. The working cloak makers, however, generally got the worst of it. Around Heyer & Janassen's shops the war raged the most fiercely. A dozen trikers caught Charles Butler, stock clerk, and dragged him backward off the steps and maltreated him. Jos. Lerberger, buyer for the house, was beaten. An old operator iamed Quincy was set upon and so badly beaten that he had to be driven home in a cab. William Wisner, another operator. received several scalp wounds. He was taken to the Chambers Street hospital for treatment. Neither pis tols nor knives were used in the melee, the only weapons being firsts and clubbed umbrellas. When the police arrived in force they had no difliculty in dispersing the mob. They used their clubs freely. Mr. Moorcroft, of the cloak tirmn, said he had no idea that violenco would be used. He had supplied the places of the strikers, he said, and work was progressing as usual. COUNTING UNCLE SAM'S NOSES. Machliaes That Beat the u1aman ntrain In Computing Returns WAsII-rGTo, July 10.-Nice-looking girls in clean, white aprons are the busy hands in a machine shop on the third floor of a Ninth street building. It is the census bureau, and the girls work on those wonderful counting machines, which come so near human intelligence in computing the returns sent from all sections of this big country for the census of 1890. At first glance the machines remind one of an upright piano. They have hand some oak cases and each one occu pies about the same space a piano does. They are, however, eminently practical machines, and with their aid some fifteen young ladies can count accurately 500000 names a lay. It is expected that when the work of counting the census returns really begins there will be seventy or Dighty of these machines at work. The returns from the census dis tricts throughoumt the counitry are icoming in slowly. There arc more than 50,000 of these districts, and so far only about 2,500 districts have sent in the returns. As fast as the returns come in they are countedl, al. though not as rapidly as they will be, as it is necessary to train the young Ladlies in the use of the machines. In making this count, which is known as the "rough count," the returns for each distr.,t are counted twice. After being counted on one machine they are passed over to another, and when the latter count is completed the twvo are compared, and if there are dis crepancies necessary corrections are made. Followving this method, if the total p)opulation of the country is 60,000,000 there will be counted in the census office an eqluivalent to 120,000,000 names. The machines, which are the iriven tion of Mr. Hollerith, and supplement his tabulating maclimes, are very simple. A key board, resembling that of a typewriter, is at the right of the operator. Each key has a number from one to twenty. The operator has a pile of census sched uiles at her left side, and, as she turns the schedules over, she notes the figures which indicate the nmnber of members in each family enumerated in that schedule. If there are five in a family she strikes the key marked five. When a key is struck an eec trio connection is established with the hands on a dial in the frame work in front of the operator. That dial is marked No. 5, which means it recordls the number of fami lies consisting of five persons. Each time the No 5 key isnstruck No. 5 dial records one. When the count is completed the recorded number on each dial is multiplied b)y the nium ber of the dial, the results added up and the total number of individuals in that district is ascertained. If the result is obtained by a different oper ator, then it is concluded that the count is correct. It is expected that by the use of these machines the re iults of the census will be known much sooner than b)y any other known method. -Governor Nicholls, of Louisiana. vetoed the bill to submit the l'ottery question to the people, but the House passed it over his veto, and the Sen ate sustained the House. So the oil becomes a law. -During the ha4 year forty-two colleges received gifts of money amounting to $2,67noo MW AS .t PvRIOT. HF MORALIZES ON THE GLORIOUS FOURTH. SonmteI important H1 itorical Fait itecined -Let Uuo 1Eve Peatce. At%hnta Constitutton. I asked an intelligent young man to-day about the 4th of July and what it meant, and he said "Our fore fathers had a big fight with old Eng land and whipt it; and after it was ill over the colonies got together oii the 4th of July, '76, and formed a union and made a declaration of in dependence." A good many young people have an idea that this day celebrates the whipping of the fight, and the beginning of a new govern ment. This is a mistake, but it is a very reasonable supposition. The day of a great victory that closes a war and secures peace and indepond ence is a greater day th:an the one on which it was declared. "Let not him boast that putteth his armor on like him who taketh it off." The surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown virtually closed the war on the 19th day of October, 1781, and the treaty of peace was signed in Paris on the 30th day of November, 1782. This treaty for the first time acknowledged and estab lished the independence of the United States, and the day it was signed should be observed as a very notable day. The 4th of July was not the beginning of the war. The colonies had been fighting for a year or more all along the line. Bancrof t saysthe bat tle:of Lexington that was fought on the 18th of April, 1775, was the beginning of the revolution. The battle of Bunker Hill was fought in June, 1775. The colonies had rebelled from Maine to Georgia, and had or ganized for resistance. Old North Carolina held a secession meeting at Mecklenburg in May, 1775, and pass ed a declaration of independence. The second continental congress met in Philadelphia the 10th of May, 1775, and issued $2,000,000 of conti nental money for war purposes. Caia daN was invaded and Montreal was taken in December, 1773. Our fath ers were getting along pretty well with the war long before the 4th of July, but the colonies were fighting on their own motion, ynd had not cemented any settled union. Some of them thought that England would soon get tired and beg their pardon and invite then back, and perhiaps they would go back, but on the 7th day of June, 1676, Richard Henry Lee introduced resolutions in the continental congress that cut the last cord that had bound the colonies to Great Britain. The resolutions were passed and a committee appointed to draw up a more formal declaration of independence; and so it was done, and was reported to congress and was passed on the 4th of July, 1776. It is well for the children and youth to understamd these things, so that when they are asked what all this racket is about, and these annual celebrations and fireworks, they can answer. Richard Henry Lee was the perso nal friend of Washington, and wh'len Washington (lied Lee was chosen to pronounce his eulogy, and( it was in bhat address that lhe said of him: "First in wvar, first in peace and first in the hearts of his countrymen." Don't forget that. Those Lees were terrible rebels. When Cromwell wvas dictator they rebelled against him and p)assed a dleclaration of independenice for Vir' ginia, and so Cromwell sent over a fleet to subdue themu, but he couldni't do0 it, and had to recognize their in dependence and make a treaty with themi. The Lees were b)orn to rule, a.nd they have been ruling for 150 years in this couiitry. It is a grand old family. Henry Lee, a cousin of Rtichiard's, was the father of our (Gen eral Robert E. Lee. He was known (luring the revolution as Light Horse Harry. His father must have been a very eixsaordinary man, for ho and General 'Washington loved and court ed the same girl, Miss Lucy Grymes, the "lowland beauty," and Lee out gener'aled the general, andl history says that Washingtongnever wholly recovered1 from that (defeat. Somte years after lie triedl a wido0w with bet. ter luck. She had one son, and that son1 mar'ried( and1 dhied, le'avinig 0one (laughite~r, and our1 Bob marr'iiodl her. The Lees all had1 personal pride and( p)ridle of family. They scorniedl to (do a mean thing. Their self-respect wvouldn't permIiit it. T[hey stoodl up andl sat down and1 rode and walked with a princely dlignity that com mnanded resp)ect and( adlmiration. 'Wil liam Preston Johnson says ini a re cent letter that he never saw General Lee take an ungraceful posture. No matter how worn or weary or sick or sad his bearing was grace and dignity refinied. This was not affected. It w~as his nature. A man wvith a great mind1 anid a good1 heart can't 1he11 being dignified. His body partakes of the nobility of his mind1. He becomes godlike, as was said of Daniel Web ster. If ai mian's body is the temple of the living God,as the scriptures say, then it becomes him to be dignified and graceful and courteous. Some folks affect to despise all this, but they do not. They are fooling them selves. Just let a man or a woman sit or stand before the camera of the photographer for a picture and see how they fix up for it, and how care ful to take a good position. They will do their best and look their prettiest every time, especially a woman. Light Horse Harry wvas the most dashing cavalry officer of the revolu ti.on and Washington depended upon lum a Gnnral Lee dendedn ,,p.. Job Stuart in the late war. Ho was a devoted friend and a magnanimous foe. After the war lie happened to be in Baltimore where a mob had gathered to break up a newspaper and whip the editor, a man who had been his friend, and lie rushed to his rescue and got wounded in the fray and was injured internally and never recovered from it. He went to Cuba for his health and came back by Cuinberland island to rest awhile with General Green's family and there he (lied and was buried. Geor gia was honored with his bones. I reckon that the 4th of July is the fittest day to celebrate, though it was not the day of the nation's birth, nor the begining of the war, nor the day of the last great victory, nor the day vf-hcn peace was made. it IS a singular coincidence that the battle of Lexington, where the first blood was shed in the old revolution, was fought on the 18th of April-the same day of the sanie month that closed the late war, ninety years af terward. Sherman and Joe John ston made peace on that day at Dur ham's station, in North Carolina. In the beginming of the first revolution eleven of the colonies seceded. In the second revolution eleven States so - ceded. Secession and rebellion began with the fathers and ended with the sons. It began in defense of a princi ple, a little tax of three pence a vound on tea, All other duties on iiports"had been renioved, and King George de clared that he would keep a little tax on tea, not for revenue, but to show the colonies that England had a right to tax-that was all. Where there is a will to light, excuses are plenty. The colonies had been quar reling with the parent government for years and were tired. So it was with the North and the South. They had been quarreling for fifty years, and the light had to come. It wasn't the election of Lincoln, but it wias the pent up bitterness of half a cen tury that had to explode. And we are quarreling again, and if we kee) on there will be another fight some time. Human iiature is the same now that it was then, and there are more causes of quarrel than a little tax on ten. What is the mat ter with this American people? I wonder if these farmers can't stop the fuss when they get into power. For the Lord's sake, gentlemen, do start us on an era of peace and good will, and let the next Fourth of July celebrate a victory over hate and pre judice and the iniordinate love of other people's money. BILL An. ONE NEGRO KILLS ANOTHER. A Irutal I'Mirder in I)arlingtoin County Tho Mlrlerer Arrested. Saturday morning Kelly Powers killed Ben Newman, at Ashland, twenty five miles fron Darlington. Both were colored ien. Powers wias beating his wife severely, so sevei'ely that Newman asked hiii to stop, when he turned upon Newman with a large knife and stabed him iiin the heart. Newman turned and ran, PoWers folloWiing and CUtting him. After running abLout fifty yards New man fell dead. A crowd of negroes gathered at the scene of the crime and beat Powers sevoI'ely and were with (1ifficulty restr'aine (d from lynch inig hmiim. A deputy shecriff' was pr'omnptly dispatched to the scenme of the nmui'der' anid biefore sunset the mnurd(er'er was safely lodged ini jail. A Whole Trowniship MISSedI. A Raleigh dispatch asserts that no census of South Greensboro', GJuil ford county, N. C., w~hich has at popu) lation of thrmee thoumsandl, has bmeeni taken, and one township in the county had no emuerator. In the townishmip ink (questioni a D)emocraftic applican t for appoinitment as eni ma ei'ator wasi' applointed over' the lle p)ublieno applican t. Sooni after lie got to wor'k hie was notified of his re mIovall andI( ordered(' to turni his b)ooks ovei' to tihe ltep)ublican, but the lat ter' i'efuised to acceplt the applointmient, and1( 'ons5equiently 1no cenisus has beent taken in that township. Tfhere. are simnilar' conmplaints from all over that census di stict. Supjer'i nten (dent Poi' ici' wVold have (lone better' ini this cenIsus buISine'ss if he had paulid more attenition to competenicy and less to p)olitics ini time selectioni of supervisors andl(li enumrators.--.Bal tinor'o Smn. A Shoeking Aceidlent. A drea'idfull acci dent occum'red necar Chappells Depot,inm Newberr'y county last Tuesday after'noon. Mirs. Dan Holland and a negro womani were driivinmg in a sulky. They wVere eni dleavor'ing to get ahead of a rain storm which was com5ug up, and ini er1ossing a small stream thme sulky was thrmownm off the bridge, turning it over'. Mi's. Hoaimd's foot caught in the stirrup of tihe upturned sulky, and the iior'se, becoming frightened, ran away, killing Mirs. Holland and seriously hurting the negro wvoman. Mr's. Holland wvas only 16 yeai's old, and had only beeni married about two months. The People Will No)t Stand it. Th le American people, North and South, will not submit to being blull dozed andl dictated to. Our educa tion for' 100 years has made us intol erant of compulsionannd of autocratic methods. Fair play is the first pr'in ciple of the American citizen, and this bill violates fair play in every provision. If it becomes a law, and there is no reason to anticipate that it will not, it will be a law that will never be put into eff'ect. The Sum premo Court wvill not suistain it and the people will not stand it. Tom Reed and his gang of buccaneers may force it through Con'gress, but theyI cannot make the American peoplo swallow it.-Louisville Post. WRECKED AMONG PIRATES. The ThrilingAdventarem of an Ainerfean Crew. Charles Stubr, lately steward of the schooner Gellert,' who arrived in this port on the steamship Clyde last Saturday, brought news of the wreck o! that vessel on the re"fs of the is land of Catalinita, in the Caribean sea, April 21; of the attack of pirates and wreckers, of rescue by a passing trader and of the mutinous conduct of the crew. The Gellert, Capt. A. C. Long, sailed from this port Sauto Domingo and the San Blas cost with a mixed cargo and carrying a deck load of lumber. A tornado struck the schooner when past the Isle of Pines and made things lively for two days. The lumber was thrown overboard, but the vessel, still unmanageable was thrown by the surf on the inner reef surrounding Catalinita Island at dawn of April 21. The schooner struck between two rocks and was firmly held. The crew, regardless of discipline, man ned the long boat and went ashore deserting the captain, the mate and steward7 They collected some flour and bis cuit and when the sea went down went ashore in the dory. The sai lors had found neither food nol v a ter and welcomed the provisicas. A camp was nade. That wanme niight threo stark naked natives, armed with swords and pis tols, appeared. After some parley they went away to get help to loot the vessel. The crew, already much exhausted, were frightened, and at daybreak lauched the long boat and went out to the vessel, bat were un able to reach her. While trying, a native coaster appeared and a nun ber of armed men put off in a small boat for the Gellert. The firmness of Capt. Long and the mate, backed by a pair of pist6ls, kept them off. The savages went ashore, stole the dory and the clothes of the wrecked sailors and went back to their ves sel. The captain and mate, by jumping and swinuming from rock to rock, got out on board of the Gellert safely. Wreckers, who were meanwhile flock ing to .the shore, failing to eltice the sailors ashore, threatened to kill thei and beg-an building rafts. Then too, the pirates from tile coaster imade another attempt to board the schooner, bat the captain and mate miade a good fight. The sailore, thinking, as they say, that both were killed, put out to sea. They were at sea on th over twenty-fpur hl.rs. whenl the ex haustedi men V1.4w picked up by a trader from Santo Domingo and ear ed for. When the captain heard their story he straightway changed his course an.1 went to the wreck. There they found the captain and mate alive, who had driven off the pirates, wounding several. The two Captains decided to tramsfvr the whole or part of the cargo to the trader and take it to Santo Domingo, 1,50 miles away, but the crew of the Gellert refused to work, claiming that their pay stopped when the schooner was wrecked. They said the caltain had no authority over them, and that they wero too sick to work anyway. Threats of shooting (id not budge them, so the cargo was left on the wrecked vessel and the trader with the (Gillert's crew, sailed for Santo Domingo. At that Port Capt. Long charged his crew with mutiny, and the men wvere tried before the British consul and acq(uitted.--New York Hebrakd. Servetl Ii()nger than .Jacob. W. A. Pollard, a farmer wvho lives ini thl!s cou nty, was in time city a few days ago, and to somme of his friends he told the following story, wvhichm is vouched for by those living ini his neigh borhood: About nineteen years aigo Mr. Pollard hiredi himuself to the late Alex. Spiliers, a well-to-do far mner of this county. The first month lhe received a suit of clothes as p)ay. Mr. Pollard was thmen employed per manently as a farm hand. He had been with Mr. Spillers but a short time when a girl child wvas born to Mrs. Spillers. An hour after it was born Mr. Pollard asked Mr. Spillers to give him the child as his wife when she arrivedi at the proper age. Mr. Spillers consented, and said if Mr. Pollard stayed with him he should have his daugh iter at sixteen. Through sixteen years the young man wvorked with his employer and at sixteen claimed the young lady as his fiance. __ and was soon after married to her. lie is now the father of two children, and at Mr. Spiller's death he left his son-in-law $1,600 in cash for the sixteen years he had so patient ly wvaited for his wife.--Greenville Newvs. Some Thitngs Thammt Stanley Saw. Mr. Stanley fairly rivals old Ho mer's famous catalogue of ships in enumerating the inhabitants of the central Africani forests. He found there the elephant, bufhfalo, hippopota muns, crocodile, wild pig, bush anto, lol)es, coneys, gazelles, dchimp)anzees, baboons, monkeys of all kinds, squir rels, civ'ets, wild cats, genets, zebras, ichineumnos, large rodents, wvhile the air swarms with parrots, p)aroquiets, siubi rds, finches, shrikes, wvhippor wills, hIopors, owls, guinea fowvl, blackbirds, weavers, kinguishers, di vers, kites, wag-tails, bee-eaters, pip)its, cockatoos, hornbills, jas bar bets, woodpeckers, pigeons, -and fin ally the rivers teem wvith fish, oysters and clams.-Boston Herald. -The price og ice has been ad vanced in St. Louis to $1 per 100 pounds, and nothing less than ten polunds is sold1.