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VoL. xx. PICKENS, S. C., TURSDA NOVEMBER 3, 1890. SOLOMON'S GARDENS. DR. TALMAGE CONTINUES HIS SKET CHES OF THE HOLY LAND. Continued Interest In the Lectures at the Tabernacle and the Addresses Delivered Under the Auspices of The Christian Herald-The Resurrection. BROOKLYN, Nov. 2.-Dr. Talmage reached the sixth sermon on his tour n Palestine to-day. To-day's sermon was on the gardens and public works of Israel's magnificent king, and the text E cclesiastes it, 4-0: "I made me great works, I builded me houses, I planted me vineyards, I made me gar dens and orchards, and planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits; I made me pools of water to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees." Dr. Talmage said: A spring morning and breakfast at Jerusalem. A king with robes snowy white in chariot decked with gold, drawn by eight horses, high mettled, and housings as brilliant as if scollop ed out of that very 3unrise. and like the winds for speed, followed by a regi ment of archers on horseback, with hand on gilded bow and arrows with steel points flashing in the sun, clad from head to foot in Tyrian purple, and black hair sprinkled with gold dust, all dashing down the road, the horses at full .mn, the reins loose on their necks, and the crack of whips and the halloo of the reckless caval cade putting the miles at dellance. Who is it, and what is it? KingSolomon taking an outing before breakfast from Jersualem to his gardens and parks and orchards and reservoirs, six miles down the road toward Ilebron. What a cortrast between that and myself on that very %*oad one morning last De cember go .tg afoot, for our plain ve hicle turned back for photographic ap paratus forgotten; we on the way to find what is called Solomon's pools, the ancient water works of Jerusalem, and the gardens of a king nearly three thousand years ago. We cross the aqueduct again and again, and here we are at the three great reservoirs, not ruins of reservo.rs, but the reservoirs themselves, that Solomon built three millenniums ago for the purpose of V catching the mountain streams and passing them to Jerusalem to slake the thirst of the city, and also to irrigate the most glorious range of gardens that ever bloomed with all colors or breath ed with all redolence, for Solomon was the greatest horticulturist, the greatest Lotanist, the greatest ornithologist. the greatest capitalist and the greatest scientist of his century. WONDERFUL ANCIENT MASONRY. Come over the pies of gray rock, and here we are at the first of the three reservoirs, which are on three great levels, the base of the top reservoir higher than the top of the second, the base of the second reservoir higher than the top of the third, so arranged that the waters gathered from several sources above shall descend from basin to basin, the sediment of the water de posited in each of the three, so that by the time it gets down to the aqueduct which is to take it to Jerusalem it has had three filterings, and is as pure as when the clouds rained it. Wonderful speci ens of masonry are these three reservbirs. The white cement fasten ing tho blocks of stone togethar is now just when the trowels three thous and years ago smoothed the layers. The f4ghest reservoir 380 feet by 229; the sMond, 423 feet by 160, and the lowest reservoir, 589 feet by 16.), and deep enough and wide enough and mighty enough to float an ocean a steamer. On that December morning we saw the waters rolling down from reser voir to reservoir, and can well under stand how in t.his neighborhood the imperial gardens were one great blos som, and the orchard one great basket of fruit, and that Solomon in his pal ace, writing the Song of Songs and( .Ec clesiastes, may have been drawing il lustrations from what he had seen that very morning in the royal gardens, __ when he alluded to melons, and man drakes, and apricots, andI grapes, and pomegranates, and flgs, and spiken, and cinnamon, and calamus, and cam phire, and "apple trees among the trees of the wood," and the almond tree as flourishing, and to myrrh and frankin cense, and representedl Christ as "gone down into his gardens, and1 the beds of spices to feed in the gardIens, andl to gather lilies," and to "eyes like fish pols," and to the voice of the turtle dove as heard in the land. I think it was when Solomon was showing the Queen of Sheba through4heso gardens that the Bible says of he,r, "There re mained no more spirit in her." She gave it up. But all this splendor did not make Solomon happy. One day, aifter get ting back from his morning ride and before the horses had yet been cooled off, and rubbed down by the royal equerry, Solomon wrote the memora ble words following my text, lhke a dirge played after a grand march, "Behold all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." In other words, "It don't pay !" Would God that we might all learn the lesson that this world cannot produce happi ness ! At Marseilles there is a castel Rated house on high ground crowned with all that grove and garden can (do, and the whole place looks out upon as5 enchanting a landscape as the world holds, water and hill clasping hands hi' a perfect bewitchment of scenery, but the.owner of that p lace is totally blinid, and to him all this goes for nothing, illustrating the truth th it whether one be physically or morally blind brilliancy of surrounding cannot give satisfac. tion; but tradition says that when th( "wise men of the east" were bein gu1idedl by the star on the way to Beot lehem they for a little while lost sig of that star, and in despair and exhaus tion came to a well to drink, w ben look ing down into the wvell they stw the star reflected in the water and tha{ cheored them, and they resumed their journey; and I have the notIon that though grandeur and pomp of sur roundinlgs may not afford peace at the well of God's consolation, close by, you may find happiness, and the plainest cup itt trie well of salvation may hold tlie brightest star that ever shone from ttie heavens. WI6DO31 OF TIHlE ANCr*"'** *As I look upon thisA%' andes ot Palestj vua 1owng rh an Ma cient nThe"y all report a splendid o feet~ ca.ptivated by the Metropol 'oidro'r coug,f through stoneware pipes, an aqueduct doing its work ten miles before it gets to those three reservoirs, and then gathering their wealth of refreshment and pouring it on to the mnighty city of Jerutdem au.d filling the brazen sea of her temple, and the batbrroms of he palaces, and the great pools of Siloam, and Ilezokliah, and Bethesda, I find that our century has no monopoly of the world's wonders, and that the conceit ed age In which we live had better take in some of the sails of its pride when it remembers that it is hard work in later ages to get masonry that will last fifty years, to say nothing of the three thousand, and no modern machinery could lift blocks of stone like some of those standig high up in the walls of Baalbec, and the art of printing claim ed for receat ages was practiced by the Chinese fourteen hundred years ago, and that our midnight lightning ex press rail train was foreseen by the prophot Nahum, when in the Bible he wrote, "The chariots shall rage in the streets, they shall jostle one against an other in the broad ways, they shall seem like torches, they shall run -like lightning," and our electric telegraph was foreseen by Job, when in the Bible he wrote, "Canst thou send lightnings that they may go and say unto thee, 'Here we are?'" What is that talking by the lightnings but the ectric tele graph? I do not know butthat the electric forces now being year by year more thoroughly harnessed may have been employed in ages extlnct, and that the lightnings all up and down the sky have been running around like lost hounds to find their former master. Embalment was a more thorough art three thousand years ago than to day. Dentistry, that we suppose one of the important arts discovered in recent centuries, is proven to be four thousand years old by the filled teeth of the mummies in the museums at Cairo, Egypt, and artificial teeth on gold plates found by Belzoni in the tombs of departed nations. We have been taught that Harvey discovered the circulation of the blood so late as the Seventeenth century. Oh, no! Solomon annoumnces it in Ecclesiastes, where first having shown that he understood the spinal cord, silver colored as it is, and that it relaxes in old age-"the silver cord be loosed," goes on to compare the heart to a pitcher at a well, for the three canals of the heart do receive the blood like a pitcher," or the pitcher be broken at the fountain." WV hat is that but the circulation of the blood, found out twenty-six hundred years before l1arvey was born? After many cen turies of exploration and calcul4tion astronomy finds out that the world is round. Why, Isaiah knew it was round thousands of years before when in the Bible he said: "The Lord sitteth upon the circle of the earth." Scientists toiled on for centuries and found out refraction or that the rays of light when touching the earth were not straight, but bent or curved. Why, Job knew that when ages before in the Bible he wrote of the light: "It is turned as clay to the seal." BETIiLEIIEM OF J UDEA. We are on this December afternoon on the way to the cradle of him who called himself greater than Solomon. We are coming upon the chief cradle of all the world, not lined with satin, but strewn with straw; not sheltered by a palace, but covered by a barn; not presided over by a princess, but hovered over by a peasant girl; yet a cradle the canopy of which is angelic wings, and the lullaby of which is the first Christ imas carol ever sung, and from which all the events of the past and all the events of the future have and must take date as being B. C. or A. D.-be fore Christ or after Christ. All eterni ty past occupied in getting ready for this cradle, and all eternity to come to be employed in celebrating its conse qjuenices. I said to the tourist companies plan ning our oriental joulrney, "Put us in Bethlehem in D)ecember, the place and the month of our Lord's birth," and we had our wish. I am the only man who has ever attempted to tell how Bethle hem looked at the season Jesus was born. Tourists and writers are there in February, or March, or April, when the valleys are an embroidered sheet of wvild flowers, and anemones and ranuming to climb the steps, and lark and bulfinch are flooding the air with birdl orchestra. Bumt I was there in December, a winter month, the barren beach between the two oceans of redol ence. I was told I must not go there at that season, told so before I started, toldl so ini Egypt; the books told me so; all travelers that I consulted about it toldl me so. lHut I was decternmined to see Bethlehem the 39) me month in which .Jesus arrived, andl nothing could dis suadle me. Was I not ri ght in wanting to know howv the IIoly Land looked wheni Jesus came to it? IIe did not land amid flowers and song. When the angels chantedl on the famous birth-night all the fields of Palestine were silent. The glowing skies were answei ed by gray rocks. As liethle henm stood ngainst a bleak winitry sky I climmbed up to it, as through a bleak wintry sky Jesus descended upon It. IIls way down was fromn warmth to chili, Iroin bloom to barrenness, fr.-m everlusting ,Junie to a sterile December. If I were goimg to Palestine as a botan ist anid to study the flora of the lanet I would go In March; but I went as a minister of Christ to study .Jesus and so 1 weiit ini December. I wanted to see how the w~orld's front door looked when the heavenly stranger entered it. The townm of Bethlehem, to my sur puise, Is in thei shape of a horse-shoe, the houses extending clear Into the prongs of the horse-shoe, the whole scene more rough and rude than can be Imagined. Verily, Christ did not choose a soit, genil place In which to be born. The gate through which our Lord entered this world was a gate of rock, a hard. coldlI gate, andl the gate through which he departed was a swing gate of sharpened spears. We enter a gloomy church bil t by Con stantino over the place In which Jesus was born. Fifteen lamps burning day and night and from century to century light our way to the spot which all authorities, Christian and Jew and Mohammedan, agree upon as being the place of our Saviour's birth and cover ed by a marble slab, markeA by a silver star sent fromi Vienna, and the wordl: "IIere .Jesus Christ was born of the Virgin Mary." lIE WAs IIORN IN A CATTLE PEN. But standing there I thought, though this Is the place of the nativity, how different the surroundings of the win try night in which Jesus came! At that time it was a khan, or acattle pen. I visited one of these khans, now stand-. ing and looking just as in Christ's tih We rode in under the arched entrar and dismounted. Wo found the bui ing of stone, and around an opf square, without roof. The building more than two t housand years old. is two stories high; in the center camels, horses and mules. Carava halt here for the night or during long storm. The open square is lai enough to accommodate a whole hV of cattle, a flock of sheep or caravan camels. The neighboring Bedoni here find market for their hay, strn and meats. Off from this center th( are twelve rooms for human habitatic The only light is from the door. went into one of these rooms and foui a woman cooking the evening me There were six cows in the same rooi On a little elevation there was sor straw where the people sat and slo when they wished to rest. It was a room similar to that our Lord w born. This was the cradle of a king, and y what cradle ever held so much ? Ci ilization Liberty! Redemption! Yo pardon and mine! Your veace ai mine! Your heaven and mine! Crad of a universe! CrAdle of a God! i gardens of Solomon we visitLed t1i morning were only a typo of what ; the world will be when this illustrio personage now born shall have cot pleted his mission. The hores of ine limb, and gayest chaip of bit, i sublimest arch of neck, that ev brought Solomon down to these a joining gardens was but a por tv of the horse upon which this conquer born in the barn, shall ride, when a cording to apocalyptic vision all ti "armies of heaven shall follow him < white horses." The waters that ru: down these hills into yonder thr great reservoirs of rock, and then pol in marvelous acqueduct into Jern. lem till the brazen sea is full, and t baths are full, and Siloam is full, a only an imperfect type of the rivers delight which. as the result of th great one's coming, shall roll on for ti slaking of the thirst of all nations. Tl palace of Lebanon ceder fron wih the imperial cavalcade passed out the early morning, and to which returned with glowing cheek ar Jingling harness and lathered sides, feeble of architecture compared wil the house of many mansions into w Il this one born this winter month ( these bleak heiwits shall conduct i when our sins are all pardoned. our i ties all fought, .ur tears all wept, oi work aU done. THE CRADLE OF OUR FAITI. Standing here at Iethlehem do yt not see that the most honored (hing all the earth is the cradle? To wI else did loosened star ever loint.? what else did heaven lower halconi of lightiilled with chanting immortal The way the cradle rocks the woi rocks. God bless the mothers all t world over! The cradles decide t destinies of nations. In ten thousai of them are this moment the han that will yet give benediction of iter or hurl bolts of doom. the feet th will mount the steeps toward God descend the blasted way, the lips th will pray or blaspheme. Oh, the crad] It is more tremendous than the gras Where are most of the leaders of t Twentieth century soon to dawn up( us? Are they on thronesP No. I chariots? No. In pulpits? No. J forums? No. In Senatorial halls? N In counting houses? No. They are J the cradle. The most tremendoi thing in the universe and next to G( is to be a mother. Lord Shaftesbin said, "Give me a generation of Chri tian mothers, and I will change tl whole phase of society in wel months." Oh, the cradle! Forget n< the one in which you were rocke Though old and worn out that crad may be standing in attic or b)arn, Io get not the foot that swayed it. the lij that sang over It, the tears t hat dropp4 upon it, the faith in God that nmat way for it. The boy Walter Scott d well when he spent the lirstilive guini piece he ever earnedl as a pr.ant to hi mother. l)ishonor not the cradle, though may, like the one my sermon celebrate have been a cradle in a barn, for I thir it was a Christian cradle. That was great cradtle in which Marlin Luth lay, for from it camne forth t lhe r"form tion of the Sixteenth centuiry. Th'l was a great cradhle in which D)ani O'Connell lay, for from it, caime foi an eloquence that wviUli e inispinr wvhile men have eyes to read or eais hear. That was a great cradle in wh ih Washington layr, for from it caime fort the happy deliverance of a naitio That was a great cradle in wvhichm ,0o: lloward lay, for from it caine forth mercy that will not cease until the la dungeon gets the Bible and lhght r fresh air. Great cradles in which ti John Wesleys and the Joehn K(nox and the John Masons lay, for fro them caime forth an all conqumerim evangelization. But the greatest crad in which child ever slept, or wvoI laughed or criedl was the cradle cv which Mary bent and to which t wise men brought frankincense ai lipon which the heavens dIropped som IILad there been no rmnger, there hr been no cross. hand th ere been i Bethlehem, there had been no Golgoth Had there been no incarnation, the had been no ascension. lIad there bei no start, there had been no close. WHAT CAN WE D)O FOiR CHnmiWs'i? Standing in the chill khani of Saviour's humiliation, and seeing wh;i he did for us, 1 ask, What havey done for him? "There is nothing can do," says one. As Christmas w, approaching in the village church good woman said to a group of girls: lowly and straitened circunmstanct "Let all now do something for Chirist After the (lay wa5s over she asked ti group to tell her what they had don, One said, "1 coumld not (do much, for v are very poor, but [ hadl a beaumtif flower I had carefully trained in o0 home, andl I thought much of it, and put that flower on the church altr And another samid, ''I could not much, for we are very poor, but I cr sing a little, andl so I went down to poor Rick woman in the lane, and sat as well as I could, to cheer her up, Christmas song." "WVell, Helen, wiu did you do?" She replied, 'I could n do much, but I wantedl to dho somethir for Christ, and I could think of nmothin else to d., and so I went into the churc after the people .who had been a(dornin, the alter had left, and I scrubbed dow the back altar stairs." lcautiful! Warrant that the Christ of' that Chris mas day gave her as iniuch credilt it that earnest act as he may have give to the robed official who on that, ti read for thn neonle the prayers of 11e. resou"nding service. Something foi ice Christl Id- A plain man passing a fortress saw a en Russian soldi. r on guard in a terribly is cold night, and took off his coat and it gave it to the soldier, saying, "I will fo soon be h,;me and warm, and you will ns be out here ill night " So the soldier a wrapped himselt in the horrowed coat. g ' The plain man who loaned the coat to rd the soldier soon after was dying, and in of his dream saw Christ and said to him, ns "\tou have Lrot my coat on." "Yes" %w said Christ, "this is the one *you lent me re on that cold night, by the fortress. I n. was naked, and ye clothed me." Some I thing for Christ! By the memories of id Bethlehem I adjure you! il. In the light of 'thatstar Lie the ages iempearled. IIThat song from afar Pt 1as swept over the world. in - - MOVEMENT OF COTTON. Conditionl of 1ihe Ma3rke It Shown by New et orieans exism,o. V_ tNIw O1LEANS, Noveimber I.---The d October crop statement issued to-day by Secretry Ifester, of the .New Orlean~e e Cotton Exchange, shows the largest is movement of cotton during any single IlI month in the history of the trade, the s total number of bales brought in sight - during the thirty-one days having .it reached 1,731,803, against 1,631,219 in t(, October, 1889, an increase of 100,48.1. r I'he statistics of trade prior to the cur (- rent year show that on only three oeca. )t sions have inonthly movements rea'2hed er as h igh a3 1,0(K),(XX0 bales. These were .. inl October and N ovember, 1889, and in w December. 1887. > The movement from the 1st of Sep h tember to October 31, includes total re Le ceipts at all United States delivery .ir ports of 2,081,003, against 1,884,053 last a- year and 1,-58,281 in railroads across le tle Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac re rivers are 164,813, against, 127,390 last i year and 173,077 year before last. South is ern iuill takings, exclusive of quantit y Ie constimied at Southern out ports 19,840 1e against 100,595 last year and 90,984 the -h year before, and interior town stocks in i excess of those held at the commence it meat of the season 3:34,671, against 168, ,( 169 last, tear and 217,602 year before 1s last. '.h These make the total aliount of ths :I cotton crop brought into sight during >n Septe.uber and October2,583,327, against s 2,300,307 las:. year and 1,939,947 yvar be f lore last, anul ani excess during this ir year or 28:3,120 bales over the correspon ding t wo months oC 1889 and 843.880 ahead or the same time in 1888, ,A Northern spiniers took during Octo in her 311,151; bales, against 223,298 last at year, increasing the total for the two l'o nLiths to 445,633, against 333,609 last es year an( -161,86i0 the year before. 3-. ''his inak(-s tho average weekly tak. ings t)r the scason 51,142 halus, agaigst lie 38,283 last y(ar and 53,000 the year be. lie fore. Ih'le foreign ex ports for two Id monothis have been 1,241,576, showing (is at excess over the heavy shipments of ey last season of 85,154 and over the sanic at period of the year before last of '174,407. or 1he gain in loreign export dtiring 0 . at tober, compared with last October, has e! beeii 31,8-1.. The stock ai the seaboard e. and twenty-idne leading Southern in Ie terior markets at the cloe of October ) were 756,455, against 765,030 for the n same date lest year and 811,739 the year .n before. 0. Inlchidiiigr port and interior stocks l ert o% er from the previous season, and s a nimber of bales of the current crop d( brought into sight during the two y mont hs, the stipply has been 2.655,170 - bales. againist, 2,363,670 last year and. e 2,135,730 the year hefore. 1 7p to this date last year 31.46 p-r )t cent of the crop had been marketed, il. and for Septeniber and October of 1888 le thle percentage of crop brought into r- sight was 27,96. With all this large )5 movenuient to market, showing an ex *d cCss to (late of 283,120 over last season ie and 613,:380 over season b,efore last sup d ply has iovedl off so rapidly to foreign ~a anti dlomiestic conlsutmers that stocks at is the close (if October were but 91 ,45() bales larger than at this time last year it and 414,7191 ahead of this date in 1888. UnAN, Nov. 3. -Au extraordIinary r case asbeenbrought to light in the baind oin comptlainit of his wvife. Th'le mlnani gave the name of Johm 31el)oniald, the wife that of .Juilia MeDhoinald. Mlrs. Mcl )omnl said shte wvas born ini New g 'trk .ct and lived wt e aet h1 ando sister' there until her father dlied. h hlien she was but a mere child, but was puimt out to work. 11er mo(thier married la se'cond( huisbai nd, J1olin Morey, by whom a~ she had a son. Soon after the war the t coimplait met ,Johnn Anthion Morey, ol wvho had served in the war, and wvhno eatften*a year's courtship, married lher. L's A year later Julia discovered her mn mother, wvhom shte stupplosed to be dleadl. Wh't len the parenit visited the daughter's le house site recognized in thne hnusband her Sson by Jlohin Morey. Th'le result of the ei' revelation was a separation of Morey and Shis wife. Subsequently Jutlia nmarriedl ohnlii Cumnminigs, with whom sihe lived for live years. Dunriing all tis timue ~Morey kept uirgintg .Julia to leave Cunm o mlings anid go with hint. Fintall y he : breaten edl to kill her, and wvorriedl thne re woman to such ain extent that she went tliewith him again. Tlo p)revent Cm(tnnmings fromn discoverintg them Mo rey assumiedl the namne of Mel )ontald and a went to Albainy, where (lhe couple have h lved for ten years. Ini the meantime Cumminigs muarriedl antothmer woman andi( Sis living hapil y w itht hter in M~ assachu' Ssetts. T ihtere have iiever been alnty p)roceed-. Smigs for a dhivoirce by anyr of thne parties. The cVIon(Otinuted abttse of is wife by Mc % D)onald led to his arrest. C T1II,o COMt of Ola, Week. e. ('m i . sTON, N ov. 3.- -Uala week 'e wvas a big stuccess socially, financially ii amid otherwise. Thhe railroads brought ir to the city nearly 25,000I visitors. At ,1 moderate estimtate these averagedl $10 -" each spent ini thme city, or a total of lo $250,000 puit in circuilationi in one week. In Now, as to the cost of tlhe festival. Th'le a finance committee, at the hnead of which g is that born hustler Mr. L. Arthur in O'Neill, the owner of the Orand Opera it Ifouse, collected1 about $5,000) for ex it penises. Tlhiis amount was subscribed g by th e merchaints, hotel meni and rail g roadls. T1hey engaged Pain's Last D)ays h of P'ompeIii upon01 terms which tutrted to g be most profitaible to both thme contract nt ing parties. Five performances of I Pompeii wvere given, thle receipts reach I- ing $11,000. lhttring the week, at a >r moderate estimate, over 15,000 bushels n of oysters were taken by the restaurants iy and eate'n by visitors. No such a rush a hias ever been seen In Ch.arleston befr. A CLEAN SWEEP. THE UNTERRIFIED DEMOCRACY IS ONCE AGAIN TRIUMPHANT. The Peoople of tihe United Station Rebuke the Party of Pusblic Plunder and live the Denmeerats an All-powerfi Majority Jai tihe Fitty-econl Congreno. NEW YonK, Nov. 5.-The Evening World estimates that the Democrats will have a majority in the next Con gress of hetween 63 and 97. The Mail and Express concedes a Domocratic majority of at least 50. The Evening Suit places the Democratic majority at about 53. INOALLs BEATEN IN KANSAS. KANSAS CITY, November 5.-The Republican candidate for Governor Is beaten, and six out of the seven Ite publican Congressionial candidates are defeated. Senator Ingalls's re election is the subject of grave doubt. This is the situation in Kansas. There was a regular avalanche in Kansas and the 82,000 Republican majority was over whelmed by its resistless force and bu ried beneath its destructive weight. The Farmers' Alliance did it and was a genuine surprise. The Kansas delega tion will stand: Republicans 1, Demo crats 1. Farmers' Alliance 5. Another surprise lies in the possible defeat for re-election of Senator Ingalls. The Farmers' Alliance and Democrats waged a bit ter cam pain against him, and a majority of the districts contain ed one of their candidates against the Iepublican candidate. The result is the certain election of 95 Farmers' Alliance and Diemnocratic legislators, against 30 ltepublicaas. A LITTLE. MIXED IN MINNESOTA. MINNEA Oms, Nov. 5.-The fluber natorial vote is very close in Minneso ta. Twenty-three Counties give Mer riam. Republican, 22,045; Wilson, Den ocrat, 23,178; and Owen, Alliance, 16. 808. This does not include Ilennipen County, (Minneapolis.) which gives Wilson 2,0(X) plurality. The Demorats claim the State. The Alliance vote does not cut so great a figure in the counties yet to hear from. Snider, Re publican, is defeated by Castle, Demo crat, for Congress in the Fourth Dis trict. lHall, Democrat, defeats 1). S. Hall, Republican, in the Third District and iarries, Democrat, winsover Dun nell in the First District. Tie Fifth and Second Districts are doubtful. The Democrats made nearly a clean sweep on city, Cotmity and legislative tickets in this County. MONTANA CWMEMEs OVER. 11A LENA, Mon1tani, Novetnher 5. Returns are coming in very slowly, but all combine to show heavy Democratic gains. Thie Rtepuiblioans elected their Congressmen last year by 1.)00 majort ty. The returns so far have wiped this out. Secretary S-t-eee, of the Dimo cratic State ::omi miitee, claims the State for Dixon by 1.L0). Secretar% Walker, of the lepublican committej says Carter has received a majority o from 200 to 5(X). A NEW Ri* .E IN NEW IIA1P-SIiIR,E.I CONCORD, N. H., November 5.-Nc doubt that, McKinney, Demo -rat, is elected to Congress In t.he 1st district. The Democrats claim Daniel's election in the 2d by 200 plurality, while the lIepublicans say Moore has over 250. The Legislature is very close and its control will undoubtedly be determined by the elections held to-day. There is no choice of Governor by the people. ILLINOIs IS IMPIOVINO. CIIICA(IO, November5.-The full vote of Illinois-oflicial and unoilicial and esti mated-indicates the election of Anberg, Republican, for Stato Treas urer by a p)lrality of about 10,000 over Wilson, D)emnocrat. Ehuvardls, lRepubli can, for superintendlent of putblic ini struiction, has a plurality of 8,000 over llaab, D)emocrat. Th'le D)emnocrats gains five Congressmuen in this State. LITTiLE DEL~iAWAItl A LIIIT. WIL31iN-ITON, D)ISL., November 5. Comnplete~ returns from the State <ive Reynolds, D)emnocrat, for Governor, 445 majority, and Causey, Democrat, for Congress, 514 miajority. The next Leg islatutre will stand. Senate,DIemocrats, 5, Republicans 4, hIouse, D)emocrats 14, Riepublicans 7. T1here is no United States Senatorn to be elected. The P'ro hibitionists, who had a fmull State ticket ini the field, polled about 150 votes in the State. TIlE TnRUM I'll IN NEw YOltK. N EW' Youix, November 5.-The ofi cial retuirns from the Congressional (districts of thme State will not be known for- some days. These, however, will inake m change in thme results as re portedl by the Associated P'ress last night, unless Comts, D)emnocrat. be electedl in Brooklyn. New York's del egation in the 52d1 Congress, should1( Coomubs be dlefeated, will consist of 20 D)emocrats and 14 Republicans. Tihis just reverses the posItion of the two piarties as represente.i in thme 51st Con gress, w here the Riepublicans havo 20 amnd the D)emocrats 14. The Democrats have also carried the Legislatur ie. (1001 NEWS FRtOM WISCONSIN. MiLWAUKEE, Novembmer 5.- -Thue latest returns from this State indicate am plurality of 20,(000 arid upwards ror George WV. Peck, D)emocratic candlidate f'or Governor. Th'le D)emocrats elected a majority of the assemblymen and tihe State ticket. In the lower IIouise they will.have a majority of thirty or over, and in time Senate a majority of twenty four, They elect seven oult of inei Congressmen. MIlSSOUti sOLID ONCE MiOnE. ST. Louis, Novemrber 4.-Tlhe Demno cratic State Committee to-night clai m that there is no dloubt whatever but that the D)emocrats will have a solid Congressional delegation. Presen t re turns Indicate pretty clearly that the Demnocratic city ticket is elected, with time possible exception of recordier of deeds, Win. I1. Ilobbs, (Rtep.) the pres ent incumnbent, showilng a good lead over his opponent, WVm. Mi. Smith. T'he D)emnocrats clainm a majority ini the Legislature. TIlE OVERtFLOWv IN 011IO. COLU3MUs, OHInO, Novemb)er 5. Meagre returns received at the Rtepub lican and D)emocratic State headquar ters indicate the election of fourteen D)emocratic Congressmen. This cati mate includes the defeat o)f McKinley in the 16th dhistrict and Foster in the 8th. Foster concedes the election of f lare, his opponent, by 100 mrajority. Both plarties claim the 16th district. TIRE KEYSTONE FALLS OUr. PILADELPHIIA, November 5.--Rte vised figures from various counties to (lay, some of them oflcial, indicato that Pattison's nlurally for Gonora .ve Delamater will exceed 10,000. Water and Stewart. Republican candidates re spectively for Lieutenant Governor and secretary of Internal affairs, are I certainly elected. The latest returns from the twenty-eight Congressional districts of the State show the election of eighteen Republicans and ten Dem ocrats. The present delegation from this State stands twenty-one Republi cans and seven Democrats. DEMOCRATIC GAINS IN NEBRASKA. OMAHA, Nov. 5.-The returns indi cate the probable election of Boyd (Dem.) for Governor by a small plurali ty. The Alliance candidates are loom ing up strong in the interior and the Republican candidates are alternating between the first and second places in the country towns. Complete returns may possibly elect either of the three candidates, but large Democratic gains 8 in Omaha and the Eastern End still t give Bioyd the best chance. The Diem- fl ocrats gain one Congressman, Mc- t Keighn surely, and probably another, Bryan. The election of Dorsey (tep.) I in the Third District is not yet certain. r THE BAY STATE REVULSION. t BOSTON, November 5.-The Globe I says that with only half a dozen towns d to hear from in Massachusetts at 2 P. y Al. Russell, Democrat, is leading by a over 10,00) votes, and is elected by a c large majority. The Democrats gain i three Congressman. t ALL ONE AY.t In Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia, f Maryland, North Carolina, Kentucky, y Louisiana, West Virginia, Tennessee, r Virginia, Texas, Mississippi, New ,Jer- c sey and several other States the Demo- % crats elected all the Congressmen and I other ollicers. PROUD OF HIS COUNTRYMEN. urover Cieveianmi imuiighe( Withv the t Denocracy. NEW YonK, Nov. 5.-To an Associ ated Press lieporter, who asked for an expression of his opinion on the results of yesterday's election, Ex-l>resident Cleveland to-day said: "I am delighted. I challenge the right of any man in the country to rejoice more heartily than I over the results of yesterday. Aly gratilication is that (if an American proud of his fellow-coun trymlen, who, though led away for a time by party predudices and blind con fidence in sellish leaders, could not be deluded to their ruin. They have de monstrated that in dealing with them it is not safe to calculate that they are stupid or heedless of the welfare of their countrymen. "The necessity of tariff reform, the re duction in the cost of living, and the duty of the )emocratic party to advocate it, has been fully demonstrated by the action of the people yesterday. Their decision has been deliberately made and it is all the more significant. because they have voted on their reason and judgement, and because they have proved that corruption is powerless as against their convictions. Of course, there is nothing for the Democradic par ty to do but to push on the battle at all times and places on the lines which they have laid down; that is, to insist on the wise adjustment of tariff taxation to the reasonable needs of the Government as opposed to the plan which enriches a favored class at the expense of the mass es of the peoplo. " Until victory is won the question of tariff reform will not be settled, nor the pledges and professions of the Domo cratic party to the people redeemed. Our party has made an honest and earn est fight. It has planted itself on dis Interested and unselfish devotion to the interests of the people. Its absolote unity and harmony on the iuestion of tariff reform shows quick recognition of true Democratic p)rmciples~ and its enthusianismi ini the cause which invol ves the popular welfare. IEverywhere our pleople have (10n1 magniificenttly and the harvest they have gathered has beeni nobly earnedl." In answer to an inquiry as to his view on the opieratin of the ballot reform law Mr. (Cleveland saidi: "think there should be no more 0op positiont to the p)riniciple of ballot re form. Th'le evidence of its uisefulness and benefit to the people I regardl con clusive. In some miatters of detail the law ini New York might be implroved. It seems to me it would be well to ob vinte the necessity for so many sepeorate ballots, but, after all, even this or other simular objections are niot vitally im piortant. "Tfhe thing on which every honiest man should congratulate himself is that we have a law wvhich p)rotects our voters from corrup)tion andh intimidhation, and it is onie of those measures of relief which on1ce adop)tedi will not 1be surren dlered." No Extra Sesiona. WASHIINoTrON, Nov. 5.-in accord1 anece with directionis fronm Chairman Cannion .James C. Courts, Clerk of the H ouse committee on1 applrop)riations, has notiflled members of the comimittee to meet at its room at the Capitol ThursdIay, 20th inst., at 12 o'clock. This is in keeping wvithi the usual cuistomt of calling thle committee together some days before the opening of a short ses sien of Congress, so as to enable it to consider and( facilitate the preparation of app)rop)riation bills ini advance of the regiular meeting of Congress. .l'hie amount of silver offered for sale to the Treasiury to-day 1,055,000 ounces. Tihme amount pu11rch ased aggregatedl 370, 000 ounces as follows: Tihree hundred thoumsand( ounlCes at 106%,'70,000 ounces at 100%s. P ostmnaster Gener-al *Watnnam aker to dhay in answver to an inquiry by a repre sentative of the Associated Press said that there was no probability of an extra session of Comngress. WiVIle, lhe saidh, onlhy, the President could speak authoritatively upon01 the subject, lie (WVannamaker) did not believe that the P resident had any thought of calling Congress together before the regular session. Two other members of the cabinet who were unwilling to be quoted b)y namne said ini response to simu lar in h.uies: "There will be no extra ses sion." Fire at Gainesville, Fta. .GAINE$VILLE, FLA, November 2. Fire this morning partially destroyed the freight depot of the Florida South ern Railroad and damaged merchandise therein to the extent of several thou sand dollars. The papers and safe of the railroad company were saved. Thme structure was owned by the Savannah, Florida and Western Railroad company andl was insured. A box car on the track near by was burned and several others were damaed. AN ALLIANCE ADDRESS 3Y PRESIDENT POLK TO THE FARM ERS OF THE SOUTH. mouiannanatis Maedo Glad by Listening to the Fariers' Great fleaJdglat-The Power nun Glory of This Great Country Rests with the Farmers. ATLANTA, Oct. 31.-Col. L. L. Polk, )resident of the National Farmers' 'lliance, who has been traveling and peaking for the last four weeks, ar -ived In this city to be in attendance t Piedmont exposition during A111 nce days. The colonel is slightly in [isposed, and, therefore, was unable to sake an exte:ded argument; but lie is o well known in this southern country hat the people are thoroughly satis ed with his short speech. Being in roduced, he said: Ladies, Fellow-Countrymen and irother Alliancemen: I profoundly egret to say that after continuous raveling and speaking for four weeks, am utterly incapacitated to meet the enands imposed upon me through our generous kindness and cordi lity. I have conw, nevertheless, in bedlence to that call to which I have ever yet turned a deaf ear, the call of lie farmers of the country, to speak to lie good people of Georgia about the armer. It has been my good fortune vithin the past few weeks to traverse kany portions of this great country of iurs. As I rolled across her rich and veil-tilled plains, as I beheld the rich arvests of wheat and corn and other gricultural wealth, ao I pondered ipon our vast network uf over 150,000 Mies of railway, as I thought of our nagnificent rivers, those splendid ar eries of our inland commercial life, ad gazed with delighted eyes upon he beautiful and ever-changing pano ama of scenery presented to my inter sted gaze, and saw the smoke of many actories rolling over the house-tops of rosperous cities, I thought within my eli that this was a great country aid a great people, and that the )rogress thus far made was but stepping stone to higher and roader and grand tr achievements yet o be wrought in the fullness of time >y the magnificent courage and splen lid energy of the American manhood if the future. And it is to the great niddle class, the yeomanry of the .ountry, that the country must yet look ror its salvation. 'Ihiese men are the liope of our future, and in their quiet uid peaceful homes, where simple and honest manhood and womanhood are cultivated and nurtured, will be reared the future stay of the republic, the statesmien and patriots and warriorit, if need he, whose lives and fortunes, whose blood and courage will be devot ed to the welfare of the land they love so well. For it is in these quiet coun try homes that the chief hope of the future of the republic rests; for wihhout these iodest yeomanry all progress would be impossible and civilization itself would be arrested and paralyzed. Our civilization itself would perish, and all commerce cease, and Jay Gould himself, with all his millions, could not buy his breakfast if the farmer were no longer a living, active factor in our so cial and commercial life. Yes. when I look into the honest face of these grand yeomanr.y which, by its hard labor and perpetual diligence, clothes and feeds the world, I forget the magnificence of rjur cities, forget our splendid railway 3ystein, and am forced in my heart to Bxclaim that of all the power and trength and glory of this great coun ry the larger portion of it rests in the iands and hearts of the farniers of ALmerica. I regret, my frienids, that I cannot nake y'ou a speech todlay. I am really ere at a serious risk to my health. But I cannot refrain f rom addim4g that have jiust retutrned from the great iorthiwest, anud bring to you, brethren if thme Alliance here, "the glad tidings >f great joy." This nmighty upheaval, vhichi has interested the mass of the ;outhecrn people, has crossed the border, uiid your brothers of the west and north vest are with you heart and soul-in me accord with you in all your aims md pullrp)oses, and they realize now that he war is over, and that the blue will oin with the gray in dlemanidinig comn non justice for both, for they realize mow at last that your interests are their nterests, your aims their aims, your >bjects their objects, and that what is food for thme farmer who wore the gray s the very thing to benefit the farmer ,vhio wore the blue. [l>rolonged cheer ng.J I thank G~od from the bottom of my ieart that the great A merican people, hose who illustrated their mnanhood in lie face of a bloody (leath on one field ufter another, men whio had the man iood to stand or fall by what they coni seivedl to be the right; I thank God that hese men have gotten now so far away rom the echoes to the riule and the can ion that they can embrace each other us brethren at last, and recognise the trent fact that this country is, and shall 30, 0one country that tis people is, and hlall forever be, one people. [Applause.] I am commissioned by our brethren >f the northwest to convey to you the nessage that they feel as you do, and ike you, no longer proposel to be con- ( ~rolled and governed by designing and sellfish deimagogues. [Loun cheering.J Our great organization I wish to say for the beinefit of outsidercs, extends its jurisdliction over thirty-i.ve of the states >f this Umuon, in twent: -nine of wvhich we have perfected state organizations, anid niumber in all over 2,500,000 of th.e best bone and brawn and courage and intellect of American manhood. My friends, I wish to make this re mark, and impress it well upon you: In the great struggle which is hourly com ing nearer to us,all the questions will niot be wvhether One or aniotheir p)olitical par ty shall have the supremacy, but wheth er American manhood sh'all govern A merica-whether the people shall reign and make their own l aws or wvhether the dollar shall govern and become su preme and sovereign in the republic. That is the great issue. We must meet it; we must face it; we can't avoid it. It is coming nearer every (lay, and the solution of this great question de pends(1 largely upon01 thme efforts of that great body of Americans .embraced by the organmzation known as the National Farmers' Alliance. Chelrs.] THE: Philadelphia Press is candid enoughm to admit that the next House may be Democratic. In view of this it may become necessary for Mr. Reed to - formulate new rules whereby two Dem oerats will be required to cast one vote, -,