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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.
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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, -,