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VOL. XX. >ICKENS, S. C., TIllURSDAY, eJANUTAlRY I, 1891. NO. 15. PIKES THE WATERS OF M1ol. SUBJECT OF SUNDAY'S SERMON BY REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE. lie Tells tt C(ites Thint Were Traien 13 Joshua Untisr Gottoo (.iaatvo iviien the Childiren of lkrael Eiitereil ot if1y Land. BitOOiiiYN, ID'e., 21. -- Dr. Talnmage preached the following sti tion tiis morning in the Acadenuv of Music in this city, and again in the e% ening at The Christian Herald service in New York. [li, text was .losh. xi, 5 "Aud when nil these kings were iet togeth er they cae anind pitched together at the waters of Meromn to 1)41ht against Israel." Ve are encatiiped to-night in Pales tine by the waters of Meror. A rer a Wong niarch we hve found our tents pitched, our fires kindled, and though fai away from civilization a variet y of food that would not corn pronise a lirst class American hotel, for the int)-it of our caravan starts an hour anid a hair earlier in the morning. We detain only two mules, carrying so niiitch of our baggage as we might accidentally need and a tent for the noon:lay lunch eon. The inalarias around this Lake Meron are so poisonous that at any other season of the year ena: tPment here is jetilous, Imt.tiis wuit'r ig,ht the air is ttonie and healthful. II t Lis neighboil hood .osliua lought his last great battle. The nations 1,idi harAh.d tem1selves together to crush this J1oshu., biut along the banks ol thsl('S waters Josliia left their carciisses, Indeed it is time that we more min utely exalnine this .oshua o' whoill we have in these discourss caught only a iomenitary gliips. althougi ho-crossed aid recrossed Palestine,anl next to Jesus is the most stirring and mighty liaracter whose foot evei touched the Holy Land. JOSHUA READY TO TAKE Mos-:s' 1'LACE Moses was dead. A beatiftiul traIi tion sai s the Lord kissed him, arni in that act drow forth the soul of the dv ing lawgiver. Ile had leen buried, only one Person at the funeral, the same One who kissed him. Ilit God never takes a iian away fron any place of usefulness but he has some one ready. The Lord does not go look ing around amid a great variety of can didates to find somie one especially ii ted for the vacan t- Iositiop. I!e iniakus a man ror that place. Moses has pass ed off the stage, and Josliua, the hero, puts his foot Ol the platforn of hist ory so solidly that all the ages ocho wvitlh the tread. I[e was a miagnificent fighter, but he always fought on the rightside, and h. never fuzight lule: God told hin to fight. Ile got his ii itary equipmient.* fron Cod, Who g:ve him the promise at the start, "Thiiire shall not any inan he able tii at art be fore thee all the days of t h lik.." God fulfilled this promise, altlhough losh ua's first battle was with the siriniz freshet. and the next with a stone wall, and the next leading on a reginent, of whipped cowards, and the next. hattle against darkness, wheeling the sun and the moon into his battalion, and the last against the kin c of terror., 7' death-five great victorits. For the most part, when the general of an army stairts out in a conflict he would like to have a sinll hattle in order that he may get his courage ul and rally his troops and get I lii drli ed for greater conflicts; but this flir-t undertaking of Joshua was gr eater than the leveling of Fort I 'ulaski, or the thundering down of Gibraltar, or the overthrow of the j;astile. 1t was the crossing of the .1ordan at tie ii mw of the spring freshet.. l'lie sijows of Mount Lebanon had just been imeiting, and they poured down into the valley, and the whole valley was a raging tor rent. So the Canaanites standi o:i one bank, and they look across :md see Joshua antd tihe Israelites, andi they laugh and say, "Aha! aba! they cannrot disturb us in time-until the fr< :hets fall; it Is imipossilie for them t a reach us," hut after a while they look across the water and they see a llinoveirtent in ' the army of J1osh na. TIhey say: "Whuat's the matter now *? Why, t here maiis lhe a panic among thiese troops, a nd t hey are going to ily, or p)erh aps t.hay arc going to try to) march across ihe river' Jordan. Jioshua is a lunalt ic." bhit ,Joshua, the chielain, looks8 at his arinty and cries, "Forward, ttareht!" and they start for the hank of thle ,Jordanu. TAtE 'AI'TIN(i OiF .10lhiA N. One nileIt ahead go twvo pr'iests carry ing a glittering box four' feet long arnd two feet wide. it is tihe mi k oft heIn covenant. And they come douwnl, aned no sooner (10 they jumst toiuch the rim l of thme wvater with their feet thInt by an AlmIghty fiat .Jorthm parts. FTe army of ,J shua marches right on withe out getting their feet wvet over Ite bot torn of the river, a path of dhal k arnd broken shells anid pebblues, until they get to the other bankll. Thlen t hey lay hold of the oh-atid-rs ani d Iit ariisk s ap(1 willows arnd ptul thiomselves upj ai banik thirt-y or forty reel. lighI, au-ii having gained thle otheir bankh, thly cia p their shiebts and m thi it.h andtsing the praises ofth Goii (d if Joshua. But Lio soonet.r hav VI'Ilry reached the banik thani the watrs h gin to (dash1 ntd roar, and wit ih a trr fie rush t hey brea k lotose. IfromnIi hei;r strange ancihorage. Ott yo(tnir it y have stopp)ed, th irty ilmiles or hla ite they halted. On this side the w:t s-rs roll ofT towards the salt sei. But as the lalnd( of the L ord Go ; & .taken awvay irom the thius ulilled waters--waters p)erhiaps tupili It,ed hal I a mile-as the Almighty hand is taken away those waters rutsh down, at appleo of the unlbelieving lsratelItes sayv: PAlaus, alas, what a tmlisfortante! Why Coutldl not t hose waters have staid part ed?y Because perhaps we tiay want to go back. O Lord, wve are eingageid in a risky business. Th'lese (Ca naani Ilt may eat us up. Ilow if we wantt to go back ? Would it not have beetn a u.o re coini plete miiracle if the Lord hal t'artedi thme waters to let us come throutghi arnd kept thorm parted to let uts go hack it we are defeated ?" My fr-iend(s God makes no provision for a Chiristatn's retreat. IIe clears the pa1th all tile way to Canaan. To go back is to die. 'lThe same gatekeepers that swIng back the amnethiystine and crystalline gate oft the Jordaui to let Israel pass through now awing shut t,he amethystine alnd crys. talline gate. Tills 18 NO I'LACE T1( SToli'. But t b Iis Is ino lace for the hlost to stop. .J oshuai gIves thle commitiandi, '-Forward, march!" .In the (distaince there Is a long grove of trees. and at mt!end of' ttue grove is a eity. It is a city. It is a city of arbors, a cit y with walls seening to reach to the heaven, to buttress the very sky. It is the metropolis I hat coniiands the moun taii pa,s. It is Jericho. The city was afterward captured by Pomupey, and it was at terward captred by IHerod tho Gri-at., and it was afterward captured by the Moaliainedanls; but. this Cam Iaign the Lord plans. There shall be I no rwor(ds, no sh ields, no bat.tering raim. THwre shall be only one weapon of' war, aid that a rain's horn. 'I'le horn of tihe slain raimi wis soietiies taken, 111( hkoles were punctured in it, and then the iuvsicini would put the inl I s- rumetit to his lips, and he would run his finger over this rtide musical in' strument and make a great deal of sweet harmony for the people. That was tle only kind of weapon. Seven priests were to take these rude rustle musical iistruments. and they werG to Zo around the elty every day for six days-once a day--and then on the sevent h day they were to go around 1 blowing these ride'musical Instrument seveti iies, and then at the clo,o of the seventh IIo%wing of the rains horns on the se% enth day tIhe peroration of the w holt' scen. was t o ho a shout at which those great. walls should tiubild frotw capstone to base. ZOUNI TIil i CITY'S WALLS. T' - +ven priests with the rude musi cal instruments pass all round the city ;jvlpls on the irst day, ani a failure. Not so iIIItch ps aic of plaster hroke loose 1 r(il the walls; not so lromeh as a loosened rork, iot, so n1ieb as a ptce of. it ri~ar lo tr'.i 1oi its place. --) the diil)tliing Israeli es, "<lidin't I tll yout so? Why, those litinisters ie l Fools. The idva of goring aroind t e ciy with thi-t. musical mstrments ard expect ing in that way to destr oy4)3 it.! ,Joshu111a Is beeni spoiled; he thinks bcecaum! he has overthrown and de stroyed tihe spring freshet he ean over throw the ,tone wall. Why. it is not philo:,ophie Don't you sve tlire is no relation he ween the blowilrig of theSV im!icl instrimients al ie knocking down of the wall? It isn't philosophy." And I stippose there were nany wise acres n ho st ood wit I their brows knit ted and withi the fd'elinger of the right. hand to tie forefinger of the left hand arguin it :all oit an-1 showing that it wis not possible that such a causo co Ild prodice siclr an efwet. And I suip,ose that light in t he eileamuipment t hjere vats plen1ity of philosophy and vnrieatire, and if Joshiua had beci noillilated for any hig miilitary pomi tion Ihe would riot have got many vote,. ,Josilul'A Stock was down. The second day the priests blow% Ing the musical inst.riments go around the city, and a failure. Third day, and a failure; fourth da, -nmd a failure; fifth day, and a failure; sixth day, ail a failure. The sovent h da.y coilies, the climacterie (113', J osh I i u early in tie morninLig :111d ex;uin i ws the troops, walks all air-ound about., looks at the city wall. The priestv start to make the circuit of the city. They go all aroiunid once, all auilll(j t% i.e, three tiies, four titnie, live times, six times, seven ts, and a failire. There is only one rnore thing to do, and that Is to utter a great shout. I see the Israelitish army straightening themselves ip, tillinrg their tlntrigs for a vocifet'iaion siuich as was never hearl efrore and itver heard after. Joshiua feels t hat. the hour has coic, and he cries to his host, "Shotut, For the Lord Iimth ,iein you tlti (ity, "' All the i-ople Ibegvinr to cry, "Down, ,Je.cho ! d>wil, .Jericho !' A tild I lie long Ii.n of . olid Imnasonry beginls t.o qivr and to Inove. ail to rock. Sttnid From under I 'hie Falls ! Crsh ! go the walls, the It'mph-ls, the towers, the palaces, the air bfac'kenedi with the (lust ! 'The lhizza (of t he vi et oriouis Israeli ttrs anrd the groan of the con< liured Cainaanites coiimingle, aird .Joshua standinug threrel ini the debris of the wall hears a voice saying, "'There shall not any ruan be able to St andi(l before thee all the days of t hy li fe.'' ONY IX RAlA.\ 's ri0o'si: sr'Aiui:.. OnlyI one house spared. Who live's t here ? Sonie great king? No. Soino wOianOU tdistinrguiishied 10or great k indl y tdeed s? No. She had b een conispicuiious for her'm cri mes. It is ihe house of IHa hiab. W 'hy~ was hier house ipart'tl y le ent iii' sit- h atd teii a great sinner ? No, bui t hterise she repeit ted, deiniornst rat in g t o all the age's thatt there is me rcy fort ihe chiei of sinners. 'Thle redl cord wirndow~ to the giruda, so that wheni the irwoipit'saw t hat riet ord the iy lit'w it, was the divine itlient ion t hev shioul nOt dlistturb thle pre'mies, rii:king irs thinik ol the dis ionord of a Saviouir's uhlivt'rince t' he I rit<il c'oni Iof au S:iviounr's kindness,~ the ried iord of a Nsvmur's ier'iy, the r'ed cord of ourn rest'ni'. iltrey' fori the chiefc of sinneiirs. Ilit y-our trust in that (hed, andIli n d iage shall bef'tall you. Whien ouir wor'ld shall Je'r'iuhot, eveni lby the tiruimpe'ts tof t' Jiudganu'it day~', andi the lills aroil Ith'e moutnitaiins, the rectal bonei '.nd! ribs of' natuirrswhl bire'ak, t hey wvho have hunt libihah.i's faith shall ha~ve liahlab's de live'rance'. When'r, wriapt in liire, the ireahns of other g low, An iil Itt'veni's last thuinde'r shiakes the earth belo;' 'Thoui, iindtlismaiyedit, shall o'er the ruins Ain dit thy b t'Ih at Nature's funeral pit'. hlut ,bt -huIr's trloop-i miay nt halt iumru I!"'] heu-r i- tlhe city of Ai ; it. iiii:st i e thenm. Ilow' sha:ll it hre taken?& A scoit i.g pairt y c'i>mes b ack antI says, " eu,we caii dIt that without you; mt, rsging to lie at very eausy job; you juost stay ir whIle we go arid catptiure it." TIhey miarchi with ai small regi uieint ini firnt of the city. The men of Al look at th(em and1( give one yell, antI the Israeliti's ruin like reintdeer. TIhe nrtern troops at llull H mn did( not maike such rapid time as these Israel it (' with the Canaant,es after thiem. TIhey nieve'r curt such a sorry Iigurie as whun they' we're on the retreat. Any buody' that goes ouit in the battles of God with tinily half a force, instead of your taikinig the uten of Ai, the men of Ai will t ake you. Look at the church of (bod on the retreat.. I orniesiani cani bats at' e' My lunson, the misionary. "Faull I atIk !" saridt a great inaniy Chris tain Ie'ople . "'I d11 back, () chuiirch of (odt! Hor'neo will never be taken. I )on't you see the Ilorneslan canibals hiave' ('ateni up 1%!unson, theo mission nun ?" Tynidhtfl delivers his lecture nat t he i'nieve'slty of Gilasgow, and a great umany good people say :"Fall back, 0 church of GodI ' Don't ',ou see that ChristiAn philusbphiy ls going to be DIyercome by worldly philosophy ? Fall I back !" Geology pliiges it erowbar I into tho mountains. amd t here are a I great many people wYho say : "Scien tific investigation is g>ing to over throw the Mosaic acount of the crea tion. Fall back !" Friends; of the i church have never had any right to t fall back. t JOSHlUA Ns CHMA'nINE-D. I .Joshia fills onl his face in (hagrin. It I is the only titie yoiu ever see the back : of its hoad. flu falls oil his fee and I blgrins to whine, andI he says : "Oh, I Lord Gd, wlereflot iast thou at all brought this people over Jordanl to de liver us into the hand of the Amorites I to destroy its? Wouiol to God we had I beeti content and dwelt on the other I side of Jordan I For the Canaanites 1 and all the inihbit ants of the land shall I hear of it, and shall envirovi its round I mail eut off otir name from the earth." I am very glad Josliuta said that. I lBefore ft seemed as if he were a super natural heing, and therefore could not he an example to its; but I find he is aI man, he is only a inan. .J ust as some thmes you find a man under severe op pusition, or In a had state of physIcal health, or worn out with over work lying I down and sighing about everything being defeated. I am encoturaged when I hear this ery of' Joshtiua as he lies in the dist.. God Comlies and rouses him. flow does he rotsi him ? lBy ::om plimentary a postrophe? No. Ie says: 'et t hee Ilp Wher'no liest. thui tipon thy face?' .1iosltia ri-s,ani I n airrant you wifitb a iuor tilatet bi'k. buit. hxi- ithl cour! age coiNs lack. The fat:t was that was not his hatti'. If' he hal Ien in it he would have gont. mn to victory. Ile gatl Is his troops aroind him aInd sa-s, Now, lt. its go it and capture thi :itv of Ai; let, Its go uIp right awayv." They marhi on. I e puts tihe majori ty of the troops behinid :I ledge of rocks in t lie idght, aid then lie sends com paratively small regiments ttp in front of tie eity. The men of Al como out with a shoit. The small regiients of Israelites in stratagem fall back and fall hAck, atil when all the men of Ai have left the city and are in pursuit of I liese scattered, or 4eemingly scattered, rugiments Joshia stands on a rock-I see his locks flying in the wind as he points his sre-tr toward the dooneil city, and that is the signal. The tmen rush out from behind the rocks and take the city, and it is put, to the torch, aid then these Israelites in the city imarch down, and the flying regiients of Israelites return, anti between these two waves of Israelitish prowess the men of Ai are destroyed, and the Is raelites gain the victory. And while I see tlie eliirling smoke of that de stroyed city on the sky, and while I hear the huzza of the Israelites, and the groan of the Canaanites, Joshita hears somiething louder than it all, ringing and echoing through his soul, "There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all tile days of tIy life." ON TO Til E C ITY 0F 0i 1)t0N. lBt, this is no place for the host of Josliuia to stop. "Forward, march!" cries Joshia to the it roops. There is the city of Gideon. It has put itself un11der the protection of Joshiia. They sent word, "There are live kings after its; they are going to destroy us; send t roops quick; send Its help right away." J osI i has a th ice days' Inarch at more than double quiek. On the morning - of [h th! , ird d ay ie is ifore tile enciny. There are two long lines of battle. I The hIte opens with great. slaughter, bIt tile Cananites soon discover some- I thing. They say: "That is .osha. 1 That is tle mani; who conquert d the I s frig freshet, ad knocked dow n the i stone wall and destroyed the city of Ai. 'T'lhire is no use tighting." And they soi ud a retreat, and as they begin to] ret rent Jo 0situta and his host spring ir u pon thiemi like a~ panither, piursilng I tem over tht roc'ks; ando as thesei C'anaanites withb sprained ankles and1(1 gashed foreheads retroat, the catapults< of the sky ijimr a v'olley of hatilstones t into the v'alley, andu all the~ artillery of tlhe hetavenis with bu1 illets5 of iron pound lie Cananittes ag du tst the ledges of 1 I ethi-horeni. "Oh !"' says .Joshuta, "'this is siurely ai vicitory."' "lb it, do you ni ot see thle situn is going dlowni ? Those Ainorites a re going toi get away !after all, and thenI the'y will cotme up sonic other tme and botheri its, and1( perhaps dlestroy its." see, the siun is goitig dhown. Oh, for a longer day thani has ev'er be'en see(n in Si his eliiate! Whlat is t lhe miatter with ,cihu ?i 'llias hie fall(en in an aipoplh0ctic fit ? No. hit' is in prayet-. Look out I when i good itan makes the Lord haisi w ith prai illr, and loo iks at the descend tng sun ov er Gideon and at thit [aint reen~ugt ofi the iniioni, for you know the I ulitntt of the high. sotrnetinmes will Itinget' 'arotid if.he palaces of the a lay,. 1Pointing otne h:tmd at thle d es'entd ing sun aindl (t lther at the finlt, eresutct of the tioon, in the itame of that God whoii sha:pted the worlds andi mtoves the I worlds, hi' crit s, "Sun, stand thou still p upn Giideauuotn; atnd liou moon, ini the I valh-'y of A jautt.'' Thaey h'alted. i 'ut Jl'oia was ntot, (fuite through. 'There was tme for five funerals lbe fore the star of that prolongedl day set. a WhIo will preach their funeral sermon ? I Maissillonu preached thle fiueral sermon I over L.ois XV1I. Whio will reia(ch t,her fitnieral seritnon of those fivye dead k inrgs king of ,Jerusalem, king of lIfebron, r king of Jarmuth, king of Laichish,c kitng of EgIo: ? Let it, tie by Joshua. What is fats text? W~hiat shall 1)0 the I epi taphi pot. on theo (100r of the tomb? j "''There shall not aniy mati be able to stand b efore thlae all the (lays of thy I1 bite tforec you fasten tip the (leorI want five moore kigs behecaded atnd llirust.in KI'ing A\lcohtol, K'iu: F'rautd,I King Lust, King SuplerstitIio n. KinugI In fidelity. Let t hem't be bieheatdedi anid huri l them ini. 'lThent fast(n upti the dloor forever. Whai~t shall t.he Ilaserip i ont andl what shall the epitaplahbo?y for' all Cihrist ian phi ilatthropists of all aiges are going to toime and look at it. Whiat shall the iniscripitioni be ? "'Thiero shtallI not any man lie able toe standii be fore theeo all thte (lays oif thy life.'' T'liE t'Ol JOiSt I'A TO tO) llOME. lItit It, is timie for Joshuia to go home. lIe ia 110 ye'ars oild. Washitigton wet, down the Ptotlonie, andl at Mount Ver nton cloiseil his days. Aell igtn (lied peac efuilly at A psle flouise. Now, whern shtall ,Joshtua rest ? W~hiy, he Is to hav'e his greatest biat.tle now. A fter a lhun iired and teit years lie lias to meet ai king whlo hits mtore subljects th.an till s the ',resent popublition of the earth, his t b one a pyramid of skulls, hils parterre t the grrave vards and thn emetnries .,f 1 he world, his chariot the world's earse--the King of Terrors. But if his is Joshua's greatest battle, it is ,oing to be .loshua's greatest victory. To gathers his friends around him and Ives his valedictory, and it is full of eminiscenco. Young men tell what hey are going to do; old men tell what hey have done. And as you have keard a grandfather or great-grand ather, seated by the evening fire, tell of lonmouth or f orktown, and then lift he crutch or staff as though it were a iusket. to light and show how the old >attles were won, so Joshua gathers its friends around his dying couch, md he tells them the story of what he ins been through, and as he lies there, its white locks snowing down on his vrinkled forehead, I wonder if God ias kept his promise all the way hrough. As he lies there lie tells the story one, wo or three times--you have heard >ld people tell a story two or three Imes over-and he answers: "I go he way of all the earth arind not one vord of the promise has failed, not one vord thereof has failed; all has come o pass, not one word thereof has ailed." And then he tiurns to his amily as a dying parent will and says: 'Choose now whom you will serve, the ,od of Israel, or the God of the A mo 'ites. As for me and my house we Lvill serve the Lord." A dying parent .annot be reckless or thoughtless in ,egard to his chilI reit. Consent to part tvith them forever at the door of the omb11 we cannot. ly the cra(lie in wh ich their infancy was rocked, by t he mosom on which they first lay, by th 1lood of the eovenant, by the (god of ,I lushua it shall not be. We will not inirt, we cannot part. Jelhovah .ireh, we take thee at thy promise "I will W a God to theil and thy seed after lhee." Dead, the old chIeftaIn nist be laid 'ot. landle him very gently; that sacred body is over a hundred and ten Vears of age. Lay him out, stretch out those feet, that walked dry shol thie parted Jorilan. Close those lips which hlIped blow tle bast at which tl'e walls of Jericho fell. Fold the arm that lifted the spear toward the doom A city of A. Fold it right over the teart that exulted when the live kings 7ell. But where shall we get the burn shed granite for headstone and the ootstone? I bethink myself now. I iagine that for the head it shall be he sin that stood still upon Gideon, mud for the foot the moon that itoo( till in tle valley of Adjalon. 11111 Howard Killed. Gu.EENN'itt,1E Dec. 13--W.I. Ilowv ird, better kinown all over Greenville 'ounty as "Big Bill" IIoward, is dead. 'e revengefil mountain bullet has 1gain got inl its work, but this time the victim appears to have received the wound face to face with the man who in licted it and there was no lurk ing in t he lark or behind bushes on the hillsides aind a fatal blow by unknowin persons, is is usually the case. The particulars received here yester day were very ieagre, but the killing af "Itig Bill" occurred not far froi where lien lRoss was shot to deatil al(l the slayer is the son of Benl Hoss' wid v. IIis name is Georgo Center and lie :s well known in the mountain sections )f this coility. There were lio witnesses to the affair, ut it is said that Sunday afternoon ibout -1 or 5 o'clock "Big Bill" ai(l cen er met, in t he road in tle neighborhood >f where both lived. What passed >et ween them is not knowin, but Big ;il was shot with a lZemilingtoi rille,the mll shattering the right arm and going "to the abdomen. Thel( wound caused colst ant flow of blood from the moutili md Ioward died some time yesterday. ,ate yesterdlay afternoon Sheriff GI1 cath received niotice thait C(fnter was eandy to surr-end(er himself. 'The Slher ff left shortly afterward and( will p)rob) lbly returnii to-dany with imin. Th'le scene f the killiing is twenty-live miles above he city. Several rumors are current as to the ause of thle kill ing, thei pinicipal on e einig that loward-( inforniied oni Center rhio was engaged ini thie "blockade" vhiiskey buisiniess. Tlwo of his stills inve recently been destroyed by thie gov rnimenit and( lie believed that Ilowvard iad something to do wvith iireeting the evenuie ofiies to thle bldockade stills. )enth is gienrlly the informer's fate. 5 ews. KA N-A5 ('irY, IDec. I17. -A special r-oml W'ich(lit a, Kainsas, says: Thet jury ri the case of Nellie Mlyers, ehinirged ith robbinig.Johin Yost anid thon throw ag him n~-~ whe ini a drun1iiken stup or from third story of a house of ill repl)ute', ad been (Jit fi fly-t wo hiouris last iiight,i thien Judi(ge I lh-isoni armoun'iiced his eleriniiat ion to have a verdic't before niormniiig. Ile dlid notul rev(al his plan, bit at 3 a. a. took I Wv. N. 1I. If armioni Io thie court louse. 'Thle bailiff ushered thle reverendi( enitlemiani into the juiy roomi. Mir. I armuon thi'i Oni0( comeced a rel igiouis erv~'ice, th e jur iy jo(iin g in thle sinuginig. iIe lien dlelivered ani hour's (discouirse poii the iniiiiortality of thie soul, andu fler the chosinig pray('r left thie jury to hieimselves. Wheii ('ourt openied thle aiIi If announc iied that the jur ly hiad ar ivedI at. a verdiict. It was "guilty." One oft tha jurors sald thle verd(ict was ea(ced on the tirst bal lot after the close *f thle religiousi service. The (letfeinse will appeal thle case, al ?ginig miiisconiduct on (lie part of the iidge and his bailiff. A IHarreomt Tragedy. ID) Nv iui,1,, Va., D)ec. 23.---A shiockling raiged(y occurredl here to-dlay. IEdward nmoch, a railroad mian, and -ames Gra (-f , a carpe!iir, were in a saloon, and( oth under (lie in fluence of liqu or, l'hey egani to~ qhuarrel about some triflinig niat'er and (Gravatt insulted Enioch, -hien (lie latter kniocked him dlown and( it erally stamped himn to (death with his envy boots8. Graivett's face was crush (d anid lie (hedl almost immnediately. ',iochi was arrested. L~ynchedi by Nelgroeu. JTACi(5oNViLLE, F"la., D)ec. 12.-Daln V'illiamus, an 01(d negro, living eight liles from Quincy, iFla., wvas lynched by egroos last night. llouses and out mildiings of several negroes have recenit f' been burned, and it is thought he las the guilty_lparty. A Grea. Uarge of Cotton. NEw~ ORLE.iANs, D)ec. 20.-Thel steam hip British Queen, has cleared for hire ten. She has the largest cargo of cot on ever taken from tis city--12,350O ales, whinh In valuedatn nearnnOnnn INGALL'S SCHEM11E. HE WILL CARRY HIS FIGHT TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE. It hie In Defeated for Ito-eliettis in h will Allege that ithe Kumeam House of ICoL resenutativo is Ililegally Constitutod. Toi-:--KA, December. 26.-The Sena trial contest in. Kansas is at tik time ittractiug much attention, owu,_, to the prominence of Senator Inalls. The Times recently gave an accou it of the preliminary steps being taken for a con Lest to be made in tle United S tates Senate. An interview has oeen had with a gentleman of national reputation, who fully and 1'reely expressed his views upon this subjest, and gave con firmatory evidence as to the conspiracy revealed by tle Times. For political reasons his name will be withheld. IIe is in a posi tion to know absolutely the workings in the inner circles of politics. This gentle man said : "The strutrgle for the Senatorial suc cession to John J. Ingalils bids fair to outrival in stubborn lighting. in persis tent offort, and in fertile expe(lients all others in tle history of such elections. Gathierud around and supportint Senator in-allIs in lis oltuort at ic-0ee-tion are SOMe Ot tie strongest and most active Ilinds in the West., mn% wIno for a quar ter- of a cenitlry havo *o lIaiCd the politics of tle State that Kansas had outstripped all other Northern States inl piling niy majoritivs for liepublican cau iidates inl 1'residentil years. And while Ingalls would not be their first choice in the event of an open field and fiir fight. they recognize that, his re cIee (ion meatis an extraordmiar tr4inpli for them and a continued supremacy in the mainagemeint of' their party. "Tihe Kansas Legislature as now con stituted consists of -10 Senators and 128 membeirs of' tle nouse of lepresenta tives. Classifying trem politically there are 38 Republican Senators, I )emocrat, and there is one vacancy to be filled at a special election December 30. The va cancy in all probability will be filled by an Alliance man, instructed againstl the re-election of' Jingalls, so that tle Senate Will stand 38 Iepublicans, I Democrat and 1 Alliance Senator. 'Ile lIfouse contains 91 Alliance, 9 1)emocratic and 28 Republican members. This gives an Alliance vote of .2, a "Iepublican vote of 6 and a I)Cmocratic vote of 10. There is no doubt that four of the ten 1)emocratic votes are for Ilgalls to the bitter end, and that tie verv- urcat pro babilities are that as aamini's a distinctive Alliance candidate, all ten of tle )emno cratic votes will be giveni to Ingalls. "The Alliaice pe,,ple to bridg over this dilcult,Y could secure live of the Democratic votes by taking a candidate with strong Democrativ antecedents, and one who upon all political que.stionis, ex cept silver currency and tarifl*, would range himsel f on the Democratic side of tle chamber. Such a selection would give them 97 votes, it' they could hold their men ; but here one of their main ditliculties wlild occur. Their total number of members is composed of mixed and dIverse materials. Nearly two-thirds have Ieretoflore been active liepublicanis. Seven of' their number are Knights of Labor anid are free lances in politi(-. Agaii, the IIlliban leaders alltige that the louse ofiepresentatives ought to conti m11nuer the1 plain terIIIs of tle C onstitutioii, 14-1 imemibers instead of' 128, that ineteenu counties are disfi an Ihised by (lhe legIslative apportionment otf 1885 Th'lis claim is based uponi a provision of (lie Constitution of (lie State thaut udeclares that the nmbler of .le piresenitatives and( Senastors shall be re'g nlatedl by law, but (hat it sall never e~xceedl 128 ltepreseintatives and1( -1( Seii alors. Frionm and afteir (lie adoption of' the amendment, thie house of liepr'esen tat ives shiallI admiit one membher irombi each) couiity ini which at, least 250i legal votes weire ('ast, at the next precediing eneral electioii, and eachi organized count.y in which less thiani 200( (egal votes were cast at the niext preceding genieralI el ection sh alIlihe attamchied to and c oisti ttute a parit of th liep1' resent ativyes dlistrict of the couty lyinig next ad ja 'ent to it on (lie east.' T1his amenici ment. to (lie Constitmion was adopihtedl at thle geiieral el ectioi in I 87. "In the~ apportioinien t bill of 1t'I 5 no prov isioni was mucie amid no miai'gin eIft ['or counties oirangizedl after thant time, thie whole nuniber of' 12s imeimbers being as.sitnedl to ceeiiities t hi'n organiizedl. It ia now asserted flint the truel] ('onstr'ue tion of thi s anieinmentI is, thiat as thle ont ituition ex preCsI.y p'rsvdes in an it lie i' sect ion t 1hat each oi'ganiized count y thiall have at least one liereentative, hat (lie first part of (lie amiemlmenit vas a direction to (lie L egislature in nakiing an aplportiominent, and that (lie econd was intended to ?give each of the iew counties a Riepresentative in (lie uessioin of (lie Legislature succeeding its rganization, amid this without re f'erence .o the apportionment in force at thne ie. "iice 1885 nineteein c'ounmties have ICren oirgaizedi anid ate no0w uind have been since I185 excluded from representat ion en (lie floor o f th e I louse. The matter' was recently cnrought bef'ore (lie Supreme Court of lie State by anm appli cationi for a mian amus against. (lie board of State canvas ters on b)ehalf of a person electied to (lie louse in one of' (lie excluded counties to ompilel (lie board to issue to him a cer ificate of election as a mnember' of' (lie louse. The Supreme Couirt, following omne old decision refused to grant the vrit,. This application was urged by wO of (lie strongest lawyers in (lie tate, and their, arguments are held by he public generally to be conclusive of lie question. "'Another argument supporting this >roposition is founded on Chapter 57 of he General Statutes of' Kansas, which equrcs that, in all elections by a joint onvention of both houses the person ~lected is required to receive a majorIty >f all the members elected to the two 'ouses. The claim will be made that ach one of these persons receiving a najority or plurality vote in the nine ,en recently oreannIzd c-,ti re. members elected according to the mean ing of this statute. "It is doubtful whether Ingalls and his legal friends really wanted the Court to grant the writ or whether they did this solely for the purpose of'making the record, believing that the Court would a(hliere to its previous opinion. At al events, they haye raised a question that the Seuute of the United States may have ultimately to decide, because their theory is that if Ingalls is beaten by a 1.ouse thus constituted they will contest on the ground that the House not hav ing been legally constituted, there was no electior. This question would be de termined I by the Scnatc at its called ses sion after the 41th day of March next. "If the Senate Should decide, as it is confidently believed by Ingalls and his advisers, that there was no election. the State Leyslature having a(journe(d, and there being no session for two years, Governor 1Humphrey would have the power to appoint, and Senator IngalUs wol be hea pointe(d and hohl until .hu ary, 1892, when the L e-iklatulre wiuill again be in bession. If the legal throry of this schemec is sollid, there sveii t'o be no escape for the Alliamce mon, nlt less they could so naluage a's to give thlvir candidate so large a vote that. lie Would have a clear majority, admitttig that every one of these distranchised members w ould have voted for Ingalls if they ha:1.1 been admitted to their seats. Thin would require oil Alhace caindidlate toI receive 93 votes, and this is considcr( d impossible. They have this secette to hall back on, if they do not succeed in getting tile required 93 votes for 1igalls and a Le ! gislattire as*iat pressent com posed. "It miay be said that if Ingalls doesn't receive ninety-three votes the other side ilay contest oi the same ground, but it must be recollected that while after the -th et Ma6rc% next tile Senate will be very close it will still be liepublican, and in view ofriodern political action it would be strange indeed if the Republicais would so weaken themselves, but I do not care to discuss such probabili ties, my efrort being to acquaint you with some of thc schemes and political move ment,s that are now going on in a State that has been so prolific of Seuatorial tsensations.'-New York Timeii. Her Income and Him. Cii AlIMO'"rE, N. C., December,25 The World's Sai Francisco special in regard to tle marriage of Miss Maggie McDowell, of Charlotte, to Baron Von Maltzahi, of Berlin, Germany, in con nection with his alleged letter in reply to the California joker's a(lvortisement of rich Americati brides for European noblemen, has been the all-absorbing theme of conversation in social circles here to-day. It Im said tle Baron declared that the cause of his resignation from tl, (erian arny was his bride's refusal to live abroad. A circumstance by some thought significant in this connection was told the World corresoident this evening by a person quite itimate with the McDowell family. This information steted that soon after Miss McDowell's return from Europc the Baron in one of his letters to her questioned her very closely about her income and said th at it would be impossible for them to ma ry if she was not wealthy. The story runs that J. B. McDowell, a brother of tle Barone's answered the letter, saying that his sister's inconie was $4,000 a year and(] that it vould be necessary for tle Baron to write at his earliest' col venience nid declare what his income was. It is said the Baron replied as loll ows: "'Youl ask what my inicome ins. T1hat has never troubled mnie, and( I have nev er (liotght to ask my, mnother ini what kind of financial cond(itionl she woul leave me mn at her (leatih. Accident to Coli. Lee Haugood. tilon was received here yesterda;y of' a very seriou s accidenit to (Coloinel L ee I lagood. It seenis from the particulars (obftined last niighat from otir Sainter colrrespiondenit that colonel llagood, whoiI has beeni over at Stuntter for' some days patst oni inisuiranic business, acci (dentally shot himisel f in thie lef't armu withI a p)istol Monday night in his iroomi at (lie .1ervey f louse. Th le ball fractumred bothi bones above thiu wrist. Medical assistance wuas summiioned' ait onice and( thle wvound( w~as dIressed. Yes(terday~i3 mforning uponi re-examinat ion it. wast found niecessar'y to ampul)(tate his armii. i IIlagood is niow dloinig t olerably well. Mrs. Ilagoodl anid her soni left for' .Sin ter yesterday evening. Thle inut eliligence of' tis d acciden t t o Colonl IlagIood was a grecat shock to hi is friend(s ini C'oh imibia, butt they EI: beenW(i reaissuried lby thew inifor'mation ftat'e act ion hiad set in.-Columiibia llIegister'. "'The Old1 HtE-linblio." CHr. Ai luErrx, Ilee. 20.- -The first ani niial r'eport of' ieciver C'haamberlbriin of thle South C'aroiina ltailway was filed ini niet earnjings for the( year are i530ft,7fi against $31 2,f17f in 1888-89, an inicrease of' $2i8,08l'7. Tiheo report, is up1 to October 31, 18901. The (Xexpene aiccouint shiows a corres poninug dlecrease, niotwvithstainilg thie fact fliat the roadl hans added materially to its rollfing stock and( motive piower. Thhe receiver says that the increase in the earnings is niot due espIecially to anly great inicreaso iin the crops5 but to) the intural dlevelopemenit of the country tiad to its coiiieetionis. A l'osibe@ Flood1 at, WhIeelng. Wm EEI.N(l, W. Va. lDec. 18.--The most terrific snow storm for six years has been raging for 24 hours, and a lai'ge tmouant of (damage restulted. All tele graph communication wvas cut off all lay yesterday. The city telephane, tel agraph and fire alarm systems are comn pletehy wrecked~ and railway traflic gretly delayed. l'he loss is large. Street aars are not running and hack lines are taking their place. Little business has been done. 'hero are lively app rehen lions of a 11lood in the city. The1 ire is a vast amount of snow about the headwa Loers. Smoking a Pipe In Bed. NEW ARK, N. J., December 19.-By the burning of' a small house last night, Mrs. Annie McGuire. aged 50, and1( her grandIdaughter, aged 20, were burned to death. Mrs. McGulre's husband escaiped by jumpIng from the second story win dow .The fire Is supposed to hiave orig inated from McGulre's hahit of smnoking t. pipe in bed. WINDING UP TIIEIR WORK. THE MEETING OF THE LEGISLATURE DRAWING TO A CLOSE. Tihe l'ut of t!hec. io n of I 890-A Stan iary ofsomm- or the Ne,w Laws of Publie Impuui-ace1t :1i wat %A;Ii Done with Theicn. Col.nu ! ,. (., I . 22.-Special: 'Tle Lsegisht v ) s-IIn of Pil9! may be maid to h itt rallyn t. To morrow, together with the portion of Wednesday which will be vlployed will be occupiei with b ies of rou tine character, nect-ssary to wind up the work of the sessIon. Already the proceelings have lost much of their interest. As has frequently happened in the past fourteen years, soni of the most Inportant lilteastres have undergone Iiselssitn 11 111h. last, days of the ses. .lut, it iq Simi.:n ItTnavoidable. This yevar t-wo ;,r; ave been unu ui' delr' hIra ,I 1n n brin,ing forward ,lhv imors- friilt .1s rs These hiavf-, I ,'- t least, been rushvdilan iih-mt uit, ap pe-ar ut,.- !i- is given a sui n.ti * v iw prominent m-r fate in 'iii. !:it-: ilewi o ft (htt i r TI-' t I his inatuiual. I .i * i: thy-o h.1ve beenl, :n n th .tr '.1 inl or famliliair with tht, ye,d lerale of opinlioll ;1- Io Ilhw ( a plan onl which the .Iate slIM'l diSIpSe of LItG phosphat(ft torritory. (N n oi, Side it 1Ii tqvie urg--d1 th:tt the tate, retain ilig owner"hipil andil cltrol of all the territory, slhmolild t it tibe llined in any area (tI to lni,trl tes itat should be coniculded bst by il h1ollicials in control-each rlitiy %fivaig. the rock to choo.so hi.i own 'I111hi o' Opurations, and to w ork i ne yvar only. This is tihe outlint of witt i clle i hI lie "gen eral-riglhts" - hm. On the other hand inmy hav 'itdight it best for ihe St ate to lIt it I th e territ,ory in large deliwtd portioi 1s fo)r a long term of years. This latter planl was that urged by Itie c-1tiiiissionie's that re ported to ti lt g .it url threw years ago, but whose rio v. a stunniarily rejectodlin thl e GovernorTill ma I fav o rs ie' .ge -i Ii g Its" idea, thougi lie ap irs t, avor also the power, in thoit o-iii-ionl, tO let out partieular territorv f-r t erm longer thal one ye:ar. Thi- imwer was con tainled lin theo 11must. bill, Im"It was st ricke t aii! 1'i. . m I h e law, generally stal e r1 'hcl i")Inieral rights" plan. sub.! IL: to IIhe rights which thte 4at i- m1 he ri.yen: to corporitt ins. in it, c:>iw4t1oit ilittr est attachies to lho :.t-t. Ilh; i! it claim ed for flit' State i i h I I c h i.4e of the Cow;aw wpiiinl yipany e.xpires inl March. Tho elhto of, Lhis franchise w%-iI! ol-;t th d-sirable territory to1 ;n(st operations". Th,rie Coosaw Collipanly. it 1i S lai,i wIll chlim thlat their cbat r1 c-:.:,r V a i 1(rpep tlial right to Mill. t i : it 41rY therein specilied. A lively I0-ht texp ox tedto. The Iew\ hAspltt ) t tin ii'si is to Consist of the Gt-vr:w;, th h A torney General and the omitr h'r (;eieral, with two mppmbtris bp oit by the Executive, "-hy alld whthle consent of the Senato." T11-ElAI.n .i LA W. a r-e-enlactmlwnt of1 the ,:t Itlb. of 18S2 which, by tht, War, w. :Iltdost entireily rtpeali-1d in -,3. Thi., ii n'W statute gives I le lI ai!L 1011 I':tlisi on1 the power to) lix rat's tttj the calrrying of both freight miii I :It 11ng''s. I t gives ge'neral sup r\or. ea~4 t Iioil of th 0 rail roadi s, andlt i-slo rer,t ai 1very stringent siggestionIs litle:li his i:l;allglical. priovisioliifir ::tlIat e e:irs hIor I he races was pruitntt Iy thIfeat el int thle I 1ouse0 as- wvas lst) lthe St p: Ira t' bIt for1 tho Thle hiii tt reqlur nil trains~ to k jillul i n It' eiint t'. The enIl I' t tillt A IllII ldilent, o l bttern ihuly rat ib 1. Ni i t il pt has b('elt lii,illt' I i ll'\ -*O ll V It'w system7r. ti forci. byt:1 5irto of: t ooitng ini the I luiste. Thle Act, abt hhLi.' i h i)epartment of Aricu:ltatlt' becomtl < a law. It tranls a5:i llo I WIork tf F it e epart The Aet, to) itedute theo salaries of State oigeers hias i aSSl bo1 1th houses anil will, (hJtriiUse, he approv lC( ed by theo given~r in this eort -stih neae. Thle Act tto reoriga .Ne the l'ni versi ty, makites t hat iist it uit iTi o. comprise the SI)uith (Carol inia Cltleugti eie-a lit cerary and scient,iiie inst itiut l~with a law school ann iexed;l Clemso 1ar011 sity. The C'tihlail itrielais uintder the nmnauIIg('eent ofi tie I oardll of Visitors andic the (effort to) reor'ganize. t hat b)oardl was killed ini the Sena ' . The C olle'ge here is to he reorganizedt on or after the 1st Ju tly, 1891. The prtovhi ln, in the original blill , requiiringir i I'resideint to bIe at miinister of the Gohspl was kailled, ats was also an . amleniniien t renajiirinig hi n1 to be a mnembteri in good , standing. of some Christian (Chutrch. Th'le flouse lill to hiunit working hours in (cott on factories was Liletd in the Sena~te. T.he Act reqjuirig thet t se veralI coun l lies to paty the iost oh' minItainiing pa tients senlt , byvt he' eaiinty aulthorities, to the lunatic aisyhii, was passedl, to take effect oni t ho 1st .lnIuary, 18932. The bhill aut11horn g the G overnor- to remIove any shieriff whot permits the lynchinig oIf a1 prison rA was ciontflinue till next sesin. .Simtoihir action wvas talken oni t he il toI lii athorize certalin of' the State oili'trs tto idesignate an offi cial netwsoperCl inl ieachl counlty. Such, also, was'the fate of I he hill to e'stab lish a collego for wVomen'l. Th'le usiuadliinumberi of locail meaI's1res FourIIISCh Indtiitana Ifangef. MissoiA, MoN'r,, Deccember 19. TI11hi ornfinIg I atIe'e, P~ire,Paul Antley and Pascale, four ladhiatn mur'derers, were hanged at theO Court HIouse here.