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PI CH Vl.x.PICKENS, S. (1.1% "IJ1IURSI)AY1 'i IY 91181.N,2 ASTRAY BUT RECOVERED. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON THE NE CESSITY OF A REDEEMER. Beauty, Pathos and eonfort Found in the Fifty-third Chapter of Isaiah---flow and Why Men and Sheep Go Astray. Whosoever Will. Let IHin Como. ROOKXLYN, June 28.---Dr. Talmage's sermon to-day is of so decidedly evan gelfgal a character as to prove conclu sive1v that while go many eminent preachers of the (lay aro drilting away from the old fashioned Gospel he re mains firm in the paths of orthodoxy. Ilis subject is "Astray, but Recovered," and his text, Isaiah lii, 6: "All we like sheep have gone astray: * * * and the Lord bath laid on him the iiiiquity of us all." Within ninety years at the longest all who hear or read this sermon will be in eternity. During the next fifty years you will nearly all b,e gone. 'rhe next ten years will cut a wide swath among the people. The year 1891 will to some be the finality. Such considerations make this occasion absorbing and mio mentous. The first half of my text Is an indictment, "All we like sieep have gone astray." Some one sayQ: "Can you not drop the first word? That is too general; that sweeps too great a cir cle." Sonic man rises in the autience and lie looks over on the opposite side of the house, and he says: "There is a blasphemer, and I understand how lie has gone astray. And there in another part of the house is a defrauder, and lie has gone astray. And there is an im pure persoo, and he has gone astray.'' ,Sit down, my brother, and look at home. My text takes us all in. It starts behind the pulpit, sweeps the circuit of the room and comes back to the point where it started, when it says: "All we like sheep have gone astray.'' I can very easily understand why Mar tin Luther threw up his 'Inds after lie had found the Bible and c, ied out, "Oh! my sins, my sins." and why the publi can, according to the custom to this (lay in the east when they have any great grief, began to beat himself atid cry as he smote upon his breast, "od be ier ciful to me a sinner." ILLUSTRATION FRO1M lTHE Si E'Ill E'S LIFE. I was, like many of you. brought up in the country, and 1 know sonie of the habits of sheep and how they get astray, and what my text means when it says, 6 11 we like sheep have gone astray." Sheep get astray in two ways, either by trying to get into other pasture, or from being scared by the dogs. In the former way som6otus got astray. We thought the religioa ox Jesus Christ short coi mons. We thought there was better pasturage somewhere else. We thought if we could only lie down on the banks of distant streams or under great oaks on the other side of some hill we might be better fed. We wanted other pasturage than that which God through ,Jesus Christ gave our soul, and we wandered on and we wandered on, aind we were lost. We wanted bread and we found garbage. The further we wandered, insteadz of finding rich pasturage. we found blasted health and sharper rocks and iore sting ing nettles. No pasture. Ilow was it i the worldly groups when you lost your child? Did they come around and console you very much*e Did not the plain Christian man who caie into your house and sat up with your darli!ng child give you more comfort, than all worldly associations? Dlii all the convivial songs you ever heard comfort, Tou in that day of bereavemient so much as the] song they sang to you, perhaps the very song that was sung by your little child the last Sabbath afternoon of her life? a There is a happy land, far, far away, Where saints immortal ieign, bright, bright as day. .i)ld your busimess associates ini that day of darkness and trouble give you any especial condolence? Ihusiness ex asperated you, business wvore you out, business left you limp as a rag, buisiniess inade you mad. Yenu got dollars, but you got no peace. God1 have mercy oni the imani wh& has nothing but business to comafort him. The world af Yorded you rno luxuriant pasturage. A f'amous English actor stood on the st age impersonating, andl thunders of aplahnuse camne dlowi Irom the galleries, andl many thought~ it was I the proudest nmomenit of' all his hrie; but there was a man asleep just, in fron t of' .I him, andl the fact that t,hat man was in dlifierent and somnolent, spoiled all the occasion for him, and lie cried, "Wake upl! wake up!" So one little ainnoyance ini life has been more pervadmirg to y'ouar mind than all;I the brilliant congratulations iindo suce cesses. poor' pasturage for y our soul youi found in ithiis world. The wor'ld has cheated you, the world has belied 3oui. the world hias misintrrpreted you, the world has nersecuted you. Li, niever comf'ortedl you. Oh! this world is a good rack from which 'u horse miay pick his hay; it is a good trough from~ which the - swine may crunch their mess; but it gives but little food to a soul blood bouliht and immortal. What is a soul? It is a hope highl as the throne of God. WVhat. is a man? You say, "It is only a man." Ii isl only a man gone overboard in business life. What is a main? The batt.le groundl( of' three worlds, with hIs hands taking hold of destinies of light, or darkness. A man! No line can measure him, No limit can bound him. Thue archangel before the throne cannot out.live him. The stars shall die, but lhe will wvatch their extinguishmenit. The world wil burn, but lIe will gauze oni the conflagra tion. Endless ages will march on; h.e will watch the p)rocession. A man! The masterpilece of God Alniighit,v. Yet you say, "It is only a main." Can a nature like that be fed on husks of the wilderness?; Substantial comfort wi l not grow On nature's )jarreii soil; All we can bofast till Christ we know Is vanity and toil. THOSE W110O STRtAY IN TinOI'Hii,.:-, Some of you got astray by looking for better pasturage; others by being sEared of the dogs. The hound gets over into the'pa.st,ure field. The ioor things fly In every directon. In a w - ments they are torn of the hedges and i they are plashed of the ditch, and the 4 lost sieep never gets home unless the larmer goes after it. There is nothing so thoroughly lost as a lost sheep. It may have been In 1857, during the Ilnan-i uial panic, or during the financial stress in the fail af 1873, when you got astray. You almost became an atheist. You 1 said. "Where is God, that honest men E go down and thieves prosper?" You were doggel of creditors, you were (log ged of the banks, you were do.fged of worldly disaster, and come of you went Into misanthropy, sonic of you took to I strong drink, and others of you fled out a of Christian association, and you got I astray. 0 man! that was the last time 1 when you ought to have forsaken God. V Standing amid the foundering of your ( earthly lortunes, how could you get c along without a God to comfort you, and < a God to deliver you, and a God to help tj you, and a God to save you? You tell i( me you have been through, enough busi ness trouble almost to kill you. I know m It. I cannot understand how the boat i could live one hour in that chopped sea. s, But I do not know by what process you c, got astray; some in oe way, and some %j in another, and if you could really see I the posiLion some of you occupy before a God this iornin1, your soul would burst it into an agony of tears and you would a pelt the heavens with thecry, "God have I mercy!'' Sinai's batteries have been u Litilimbered above your soul, and at Limes you haveilieard litthunder: "The e wages of sin is death." "All have sin - e LIed and co tie short of the glory of God." i "By one man sin entered into the world, 0 in( death by sin; and so death passed t! il on all men, for that all have sinned." r "The soul t*iat sinneth it shall (lie." 5 WVhen Sebastopol was being bombard d, two Russian frigates burned all niglt t In tile harbor throwing a g Are upon tile trembling fortress, and some of you are ft tanding in the night ofyour soul's trou- b b)le. The cannonade an( the conliagra- i Lion, the multiplication of' your sorrows h And troubles I think must make the Ib wings of God's hovering angels shiver I Lo tile tip. But the last part of my text opens a b [loor wide enough to let us all out and y to let all heaven in. Sound it on the ti organ with all the stops out. Thrum it h on the harps with all the strings atune. p With all the melody possible let the u heavens sound it to the earth and let I the earth tell it to tile heavens. "The v Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us - all.'' I am glad that the prophet did o not stop to explain whomi he meant by p) "him.'' Him of the manger, him of the I bloody sweat, him of the resurrection tj throne, him of the crucifixion agony. a ''On hin the Lord hatih laid the lliquity of us all." CHRIST CoMES To riiE FALLEN. "O," says somec man, "that Is not genirous, that is not fiur; let every man carry his own burden and pay his own debts." Th,t sounds reasonable. It' I have an obligation and I have the means 0 to meet it, and I come to you and ask you to settle that obligation, you right ly say, "Pay your own debts." If you t ind I walkinL down the street, both h bale, hearty and well, I ask you to car ry me, you say, and say rightly, "Walk )n your own leet!" lut suppose you md I were iN a regiient and I was wounded in tile battle and I lell uncon icious at your feet with gunshot fractures r ind (islocations, what would Von do? tj Yoil would call to your comradjes say- o ng, "Come and help, this man is ielp- " ess; bring the ambulance, let us take % tim to the hospital," and I would be a I lead lilt ill yolr armIs, .Ad you would i ift me from thle ground1 where I had t< allen and put me1 in tihe ambulance and I aike me to the hospital and have all 0 Cinidneiss shlowlnc. Would there be sI mitythli mean in your (doing that? Would there be anything bemeaning in nty accep)ting that kindness? Oh, no. You wouild be mean not to (do it. That j s whait Christ does-.c If we could pay our debts then it would ti >e better to go up and pay them, saying, di 'IIere, Lord, hlere is my obligation; ti lere are the means wih which I mean 10 .o settle that oblimgation; now give me a ai -eceipt; cross it atll out.'' Thei debt is g >aid. Butt the faict is we h1 ive fallen inj 0 hIe battle, we have gone down undler the 1 lot lire of' our transgressions, we htave >en wvoutiled 1by3 tihe sabers of sin, we ire hlelpless, we are und(onle. Christh :omues. Th'ie 1011( clang hleard in the sky , ml thant Chriistma m118 ght was only tihe a Jell, thle iesoundieg hell1, of the amb)u- tc ance. Clear tile wtay for tile Son of di Jod. le conmes dlown to bind up tile V voundiis, and( to scatter the (darknless, and1( o save tile lost. Clear tile way for tile tt Son (of God.~I C;hiist comes down to see us, and( wer re a (1e1a( lift, iIe does not lift us5 with ci lhe tilps of his lingers, iIe dloes not lifta is wIth one aim, IIe comes down upon * uls knee, 11nd( then with ai deadl litt lie '11ses u1s to 1101nor anid glory and inaimor alit,y. "Thle Lo~rdl hath laid on him thed he niriuity of us5 al."' Whly, then, will no0 til iani carry his5 sins? You cannot carr'y in miecessfullhy the 5im-diest sin you ever L -:>mumittedl. You1 might, as well put the Aenntiines (on (ine shouilder' and( the lo (Also then other1. 1low much less can 0o youI carry all1 thle sinls of your lifetime! ei briist comIes andii looks diownl In your P aice and1 a1ys: "'I hlave come1 through ill the lacderathins ofi these (lays and(l Lhr1oughl all the teimpests of' these nights. p [Iave come to bear your burdlens, andl l to pardon your* sins, and to pay your a lebts. P'ut, them on my shoulder; put I hlem ont my heart."''*On hlim tile Lord tb ath laid the initiuity of u1s all, al NO RIEST FORi TH'l E WViCiKE>. i Sin has almost pestered t,he life out of a lome of you. At, times ithas madle you a5 :ross and unreasonable, and it has1 spoil 3u the brightness of your (lays andl flhe n peatce of v'aur nights. There are men h wv to have been ridldlied of' sini. Th'ie a wvorldl gives them no solace. Gossamer" tad volatile the world, wIlIe eternit,y, is they look forward to It, Is black as uidmghit. They writhe uinder the st,ings C >f a conscienice wvhich ptroposes to give C 1o rest, here and no rest hlereafter; and I yet they (10onot,repent, they do not pray, htey do0 not, weep. Thley do not realize that just, the position they Occupy is t,he ~ Ilosition occuptied by scoree, hundredsr md( thousands of men who never found ~ my hope. f Ji this meeting should be thrown 0open s md tihe peopln who are ile.. coul give. heir testimony, what thrilling experi mnces wO should hear on all sides! Thern s a man in the gallery who would say "I had brilliant surroundings. I had til )est education that one of the best col, egiate institutions of this cotintry coult tive, and I observed all thie moralities 0 1ie, and I was self righteous, and I ,ioul t I was all right before God as I tm all right, before men; but the Ioly 'pril, enn' to me one day and sai(il You are a sinner;' the Holy Spirit per. uaded me of the fact. While I had es aped the sins against the law of the ald I had really committed the worst in a man ever commits-the drlving, >ack or'the Son of God from my heart'a !lections. And I saw that my hands ie:c led with the blood of the Son of iod, and I began to pray, andl peace nie to my heart, and I know by exper ,tce that what you say this morning is ue, 'On him the Lord hath laid the in luity of us all.' Yonder is a man who would say: "I ,as the worst drunkard in New York; I ,ent from bad to worse; I destroyed my Af, I destroyed my home; my children >wercd when I entered t ie house; 'hen they put up their lips to be kissed struck them; when my wife )rotested ,ainst the maltreatment, I kicked her ito the street. I know all the bruises nd all the terrors of a drunkard's woe. went on further and further from God util one day I got a letler saying: "AY D.,An IIUSnAND-1 have tried very way, done everything, anl(d prayed atrnestly and fervently for your refor iation, but it seems of no avail. Since ur little Henry died, with the cxcep on of those I'ew happy weeks when you nlained sober, my life has been one of :)rrow. Alany of the nights I have sat y the window, . ith in v fitee bathed in !ars, watching for your cominin--. I am roken hearted, I am sick. Mother and Lther have been here frequently and eged me to come ihome, but my love >r you and iny hope for brighter days ave always made me refuse them. That Ope seems now bevond realization, and have returned to them. I Lis hard, and battled long before doing it. May (God less and preserve You, and take fromi on that accursed appetite and hasten ie (lay when we shall be again living appily together. This will be Im daily rayer, knowing that lie has said, vCome nto me all ye that labor an(I are heavy tden, and I will give you rest.' Froim our loving wife, MA Ir. "And so I. wandered on and wandered n,'' says that, man, "until one night, I assed a Methodist meeting huse, and said to myself, 'I'll go in and see what :iey are doing,' an( I -ot to the door, ud they were singing: All imay come, whoever will, This man receives poor shiners still. "And I dropped right there where I -as andi I said, 'G'od have mercy,' and c had mercy oii me. Aly home Is res. >red, my wile simgs all (lay long during rork, my children come out a long way greet me home, and miy household is little heaven. I will tell you what did 11 this for me. It was the truth that us (lay you proclaim, 'On him the Lord ad laid the iniquity of us all.' 11 TIlE DRUNK ARD AND THiE OUTCAST. Yonder is a woman who would say I wandered off from my father's house; heard the storm that pelts on a lost >1l; my feet were blistered on the hot >cks. I went on and on, thinking iat no one cared for my soul, when nie night Jesuis met me and he said: Poor thing, go home! your father is 'aiting for you, your mother is waiting )r you. Go home, poor thing!' And, r, I was too week to pray, and . was >O weak to repent, but I just cried out; sobbed out my sins and1( miy sorrows i thle shoulders of' him of whom it is uid, 'the Lord hath laid on him the in [uity of 1us all.'" There is a young man who would say: [had a Christian bringing up; I C-moe -om the country to city life; I started ell; I had a good position, a good >mmiercial position, but one night at 10 thleater I met someI young menCf who td me no good. They dragged me all urough the sewers of iniquity, andI I is my morals and I lost my position, d I was shabby and wvretched. I was >ing dowvn the street, thinking that no le caredl for me, when a young man ~pped me on thme shoulde r and1(1d, eorge, come with mec and I will do u good.' I looked at him to see hether lie was joking or not. I saw 3 was ini earnest anid I said, 'What (do >ui mean, sir?' 'Well,' he replied. 'I ean if you will come to thme meeting -night I will be very g'ad to intro. ice you. I will mleet you at the dloor. till you come?' Said I, 'I will.' "I went to the p)lace where I was ~rryin)g. I lixedl myself up1 as well as could. I buttoned my coat over' a igged vest amid went to the dloor of the irch, anid the young man met me )d we went in; and as I wenlt in I ?ard an 01(1 man pirayinlg, and he looked > much like my father I sobbed right it; and they were all aroundl so kind 1(1 sympathetic ',hat I just gave :my uart to God, andj I knoqw thuis morning ant whlat you say is true; I believe it Smy own experience. 'On him the ord hath laid the inimfnity of us all.'" Oh, my brother, without stopping to ok as to whether your hand trembnlles not, without stopping to look w~heth your hand1( is bloated with sin or not, ii it in my hand, let me give you one arm, brotherly, Christian grip), arnd vito you right upn to the heart, to the >mpassion, to the sympathy, to the urdon of him on whom the Lord had itd the iniquity of us all. Throw wvay your sins. Carry thiemi .io longer. proclaim emancipation this morning all who are bound, pardon for all sin, rId eternal life for all the dead. Some one comes here this morning, 1ad 1 staiid as5ide. lI (Icomes up these eps. lie comes to this place. I must ~and asidle. Taking that place lhe preadls abroad his hands, and they were aiheed. You see his feet, they were ruised. iIe pulls aside the robe and hiows you his woundled heart. I say, Art thou weary ?" "Yes," he says weary with the world's woe." I .say, Whence comest thou ?" lIe says. "I omle froim Calvary." I say, "Who omnes wvith thee?" iIe says, "No one; have trodden the wvinepress alone !" say, "Whiy comest thou here ?" "O h," e says, "'I came here to carry all thle ins and sorrows of tihe people'." And he kneels and lhe says, "l'ut on 3y shoulders all the sorrows and all the Ins." And conscious of my OWn) sins rat, I take them and( pult thlem on the boulders of the Son ot God. I say, Canat thou bear any more.() Christ?" lie says, "YeIa, more." And I gathl i up the sins of all those who serve - these altars, the ollicers of the Chiir of Jesus Christ-1 gather up all thi sins and put them on Christ's shou ders, anl I say, "Canst thoul bear al mot e?" I lu says, "Yea, more." 'T'lh I gather up all the sins of a hiindre people in this house, and I put ther o the shoulders of Christ, and I sa "Canst thouI bear more ?" Yea, more And I gather up all the sins of this a senbly, and I put the'n on the sho1 ders of the Son of God anl I sa "Canst thou bear them?" "'ea," 1 says, "more." iE iIATii nORlNiE Ol'it T't.ANSG Fti-'sir N Bit he is depurting. Clear the wa for him, the Son of God. Open ithe (loc and let him pass out. Ile is carry.n our sins and bearing then away. W shall never see them again. Ile t hiro them down into the ahysin, an you hear tihe long reverberating echo c their fall. -'On him the Lord hath lai the iniquity of us all." Will yot i him take away your sins to-dayz (r d you say, "1 Vill take charge of thei m*yself; I will light ny own battles; will risk eternity on imy own account , A clergyman said in his pulpit one .Sil bath I."Before next Saturday night on of this audience will have passed out < life." A gentlemai said to anotlhi seated next to him: "I don't believe i I inean to watch, arid if it doesn't coim true by next Saturday night I shall te that clergyman his falsehood." TI mait seated next to him said, "'Perhai it will be yourself." ")h, no," the ot er replied; "I shall hive to he an ol min." 'l'hat night he hretlied Iiis las To-day tie Savioir calls. All ima come. od never ptislis a uan of' God never dest ros anybodhy. The ma jumps ol. It is silicidt ..soul suicide it' the man perishes, for the in vitatio is, "Whosoever wN-li, let. himi comle. W.hosoever, whosoevver, whosoever! I this day of merciful visitation, whil many are coming into the kingdom < Uod. joint the procession heavenwarn seated amliong us during a servic was a man who came in and said, do't . know thIt there is imly God hlat was on Friday night. I sai( "We will knevl down)vi aid fiid ou whether there is any God." Ald in ti1 second seat from the pulpit we kneli IIe said: "I have found himli. There i a God, a pardoning God. I feel hi here," lIe knelt in tih darkness o sin, Ile arose two minutes atterwar in the liberty of the Gospel; whil another sitting under the gallery o 1-riday ight said, ''My opportunitv i gone; laL week L might Ihave bee saved, not now, time door is shirt," Ail another from the very midst of th meeting, dutring the week, rushed oit of the front door of the ''abernael saying, "I am a lost mnan." "liehol tire Liamb of God whNlio taketh away th sin of the worl 1." "Now is the aci-ep ed tin'e. Now is the day 'Of salval ion It is appointed unto all men once t (lie, and after that--the j udgillent!" Tiirty Skeletonm in at Row. CIcAl.o, June 28.--Thirty skeletor were found yesterday ini an ol ice ho0u: at the corner of Archer avenue an HIough place. .For several days niumerous coii plaints have been made to the lialt oflico and to the Deering street polic by residents in the vicinity of Arche avenue and lough place, who asserte that a nu1isance of imost aggravate form made life almost unendurahit Investigation was miade bv both du partnments, but withiout locatinr til trouble. Yesterday the mystery was solvei Several boys found near the corner human skull and several thigh bone bleached white. The lads told the firs policeman they met of their discover and le notified tihe hIalth oflice. I I W~are, with several assistants, v'isite< the scene anid mnade a moi'e thoi'ouigl search thain hrad before beeni miade. bad odor was detected from Sebrine man's ol I ice houise on the corne'. Tinlr searchers ripped up a part of the lloor andr were horritled to lind rows of skel etons, to somew of which shrreds of liest still citing. WIh) placed them there is not, knownt and thre authorities wvill make evei'y ('f fort to finid the guilty p)ersons. Th'le theory adv"anced by the health of licers is that soluie attache of a mluedic'a college brought thre subjects there t< bileach. Th'le bones were allowed to i'e main until tire miatter' can be tmore full' (in ICA( r, <j une 28.-1I is now learnet that,I llobert A. I [awes has been carryin onl the grewsom-e business oif eleanring hrumanr skeletons for thle tred ica;l pr'o fessin in the building. 'Thei board o hiealth wi~ill look inito tIre m11atteri. 'Ib 3 ', ia i., iine o i.-TetH' ne al Exi'cutivye Ilioard of the Kn ighrts o Labor is in session here to-dIay 'Thi nieetinig will conrt.inur foir sr've,al days and will Ibe antt implor'tant one' iin ntii re'sprcts. It, wilt ib' udreidedl wIhethe Maj. AIe Iiiinl'.y shall hbe deinoiu'e I) anitagonizedl beca use I >resident I lairisnr tradl refu sed to alltow the ri'inlst atemenio of' dischrargedr late pintfer's at thre li reau of' Enrgrav ing mui i'i'in tinrg a W ashington. Mr. i)cvlini said this af te'noonm tha~t nio tault col tbe fouwi it,hL ~ AeNi nley prmsoinaliy, as Ie lhar expressed sympiIathy~ with tire mn, hw if anitagonized0( at. alI it woui be as leade r ot' the lI ptbicant pailtv, wiho. headt(, Il'residient V Ia r in, Ihti refu se' t he delnand o1 organtizedi labor. ('itA u -.r sTIN, S. ('., . iune 2i1. A hior ribl irmr. l hen t occurrtied art t.hie Sourt I Cairolina G ailway idep'ot her'~e this morn ing, . lihn lIl~ack, a respectahle (oll st,ree clar co)ndu ctor, went t,) the depo)lt to set his dlau~hrter oiff for Waihahla. Itn try img to jummp from thle train afte'i start.erd iris foot was caught ini time plat form of thei car and his body, after bre inig diraggi d tire whole lenigthi0 of thi depot, some Mof feet, was hurledI uindi time cars and1 hiorribly in angledl. Al this occured in the pre'senice o)f ove: 10)0 spectators, inmcludingu. a soni of thi deceased. 'Thiey we're piowerless to heilp ila('k was ant old mian al wa~s one o the mtost popular corndurcors on thIe city railwvay. I le r'ame here twvelvi years ago from Walhialla. lirtilig for Wart. TIA('Li A, Wa';sh., .Jurie 2-3. --It is r'u mioredl the strikr'rs dlisplaced b~y colorrt men imrportedl fromi tie SorithI at thi Glilliran, Newy (Castl and' FrmI rairklim ninrrs are drilling inr the woodils da;ily They are sa id to be armredi with ri tles and a cotmbiaatioin has been elffected, s that any attem pt to re'suim work at an: of tire nmines will result in tire gather ing of the entire iorcee of arrmed tiner to re'nlst thn attempt t ANOTIER CARD F FROM MR. THACKSTON IN REFERENCE TO HIS SCHOOL JOURNAL. it (1 110 E.XI1ial1 Il1%w lie C3une to bo 311ltak n it About tie tle olutis1a r < f tioe st:tte 14i-1l 4)f Ex.a iai.rM. COL'MInA, S. C"., .Julv 2.- ar .l ''ackstoi, clerk to State Muperiten dent of, Ention AhNyied, uias asked 16for the publicatioli of ite Ib6lowlinl': Ty To the 1'ublic: I feel that it is die to mg y-sclf, adi to the public that I should say that not until I read the Stattetits O SUpCinltende-t Alyfield on his return q to the city and of Prol -1ollinsonl, pib. d lished in Lte Rlecord of A1onday, the 2.Ith uit, did I know I had iiNvonceiver the lntion of tihe State board 41 e)mIners with re._ard to the 'almetto 'School o.lour nal. It hail been until then my hontest im pl presioi that the actioll of*te )(rd had r been what was stated bv Ime ian li e torial ili referen-e thereto, w.:i4-1 ap It peared in the April nutaler of the Jour e nal, page 263. Inl t1hat edtoria, which 8 was widely circulated, but whhclI the - board of cxamitiies viently did nit read, it they saw a copY the - I wrote as follow :. "The St Ite board of exainers S atk;1t ed a resfilution tlr.iI_, tIle 1tru1stecs troul-out, the State to become sk-lc-n biers, mld allowin. thlviltu ) pav I t:eir subscriptions out of tht' (ontinit t un1l of their district." e. J)uringthe lletin- of the bard of tx f aimners on the -ith of Al ril, ot wI -h 1. bcard I amby law clerk, I inade or'ly e the proposition in quIestion, lrc.v that tie board shoul 4llicially enl se the Pa metto School ,ilurnal as its I %'lnfl, and should urge the school trulsf.ts to becoie subscribers, payin" f>r 0 tir L ,sscription out of tle tniids 1ihr th-ir SdiStricts. That proposition i ';n c i olffer o all space free 4) ch:irge Ie - f ry for the publinationl of the (llicual n t i ter of the boarl ind)I of the leparltintt e of (IIcatit,l. I tien asked to Ie -x. eused from tle Imeetiln- that tIe hoani s mi-ll, consider he IrepoISition wi1.,ut ' When I returned the Im ld hail paed L'o other suiects mIl I wzis liur:iw t that, the boar< had nlor"cd the Pat to School .ournal. Nothin'-, else was said to me inl Ieference to the mtnterl at e that Uti or subse<iuently by any lmt Inl ber of the board, and knowinl'r of' no0 other propositloln, i natually supo.l that what was sah re!'e,rd to the pr.. position I slbmitiad. 1*-1der this un pre.ssionl I Wrote the (itoral in ihe 1- Journlal mentioed, the ('TciU1111' letter1 to ; the trustees an<I the statemelit recewtly prepared by me 14or l>oublicattion. I 1-id 110 itl was Ilistlkel 1111til I ,Wa 'Ile statements Im Monday's Record. It is mconceivable tlit I shoul have r attempted to prevent a resolui (llWi the Iboard where detection an<d ex\p, osr VOIuld be so certain to ,0follv. I t.Icm .lmitted thet errilr of not veril,\ inl- tilmy - pression simply becale I dlid n1t sus pet the possibility of Ilustake. 11ad! I entertainel any <mibt, I cml easily have (lonC so, as I -.m ilirk of lthe boaril anti keeper ot' its record. TI proposi tion was mla<de openly, in perle-t !'ood flith and witih a sincere desire to :di'llnve seemed to ms t.o b1 justii h4 prece dent, and to lie within thle ieLitimaI:te powers of' the it: boar. .In tIs State tile State buoaril of examl inters 011 tIle 17th of A fpril. 18SS9,1-se thle 1following resoluLtion) mI referm- tot the Carolina School ,Jonuah: " 'ltesolvedl furthier. That theC ebir manil be re5(Isqeilt to subs4crilfIe fo r li ye coiesO of thle ,14)urnal1 for th 11 e o1f1 (the If thte bloard oIf xainel)rs 4c41u4allu scrie for Ii ve c.opies5 of thei ( 'ro lim School ,1 otirlial,* 11 fli (i alI membe) ~ r (if pulblic ttls, they certainly ha:ve tIl r:ght to1 at,blorize 'lhe I Str ~ss to isuIb t s'cribe for a ichl 1 .1 iur1tnul ihr thfelir ute, at11( pay for' it out (of thet pub14ic hnis, ifI a SchllI .1(ournal 1111 pai< li y thme State is a1 .1(ood ting for tile membi1Iers of1 tIhe State bloardI (ot (!x[aminers, why4 is it, 1no1t coluall11y as5 g)od1 (ihte trulst1ees, wl)ho I-e suppIIosed 1 t need tile ilbrma1:t.ionl i'. con1 ''Te twenty)1- irst, annual replort. of the Stateo SupeIrin)ttlen1t of 10l ntion101 t r I $M9 (f age 20) sihows 11his CInt rv- 'Sh. scriptioni to Charleston W44rbl."~. ft ill the~ past it, was thlought (xJ.4<lfn t4o 1pay3 for at llaiiy ne' '.sftltuI'e ihr' th hIead414 of the edu0callttionaI:l elpartment of tihe ri(e V coubil there he iln paingI lwr:m1 edlu Otlicrs of the Statfe (41t, of' the pulilt flunds, wblehl .journ'lal cotinls (oiial iln forml1ationl lromi tIle State boar:uu'l th14 le illyct l (iforma' tioiti o rei t i i-4 fi.a Lioni fori thle board'4. I lfet sure0 they wi thi adoli? no4 phmIt whichl was11 not4 :uIiiaofe (ed mty propos40itions ais 51uhinitted!. I flft ait liberty to' pr)loceed ii( lCn'their 1 m ltort y.' I no0w stee (: cmitt)ed1f anI error't40 in Ilot - verifyinlg thir act ion, Ibu t I po151 itIey -disclatimu 1allt A 0 inn t t of mti.repeenflCt m ig the fa,cts. I hlave! ac(ted thlroughou1t Im eItire goodl Iaithl w .ithiot intn tiona)hl concealmient. ft is due to Super'1intI edt 1111 ay IielI thant I should say\ that thle editorilal in thet P'altmet to .1 ournall, te tIlrelar letter to the tustees and my 14 formetnr stattemtu t to) the press were wr'ittent and1 pubtlishted w.ith1out, his knowledge mal4( dutring is absenCet'(. iIe w.as11. no t, nsulted by me4 because he hald nto mnterest iln the .1 ourntal aIl(1 was:I no(t reCspIonsible foir mty action a18 its edi torl. 1 , 1s lso dute to tIlie mem-41 hers of thle lboarid of' e'xaminer's to acqulit t,bem) of a~ '.l responsibil it y fuhr my1 m)istake. ThiIls statemneti made21 I public as sootn ats possible after' I hadti dl'i'ceed that. I h.ladl been all along mistaken as to the0 . acetion of the board ot exammners wIth) a referece to te mI lmoto j 0.....,. A GANGOF YOUNG THUGS. TIto tecet Asstits and Itobbierfem I Statter. andl the evIdence a-ainlst Nelson, 'h youn1(nfro l'botpad, are accumulatin! rapidly al it beginls to appear that i was not I he only one connected with lth variotts asx.ults awl robberies perpetrat Cd tilmn our t11 citizens durm- the past tw< wei;es, btit w%a%s-I probably th.G rinvleade ol' a qan-, ()1 our11. m five y desperi does. NiAmo'. was taken out ol'Jail yesterdai and brodiut before .lustice Wells to anll, swcr to the charge of having entered. ou 1'UC sday mn114ing., between 3 and - 4'clock, the apartnent Im which Mr. A iF. 1) , :u1.,it ('mp1loyee at thle mnill of'M r. S. M. Grahatm, on Sutiter street, was sh-epiIL tad oWrbbn himi of, his poclk ethlook, atl the( lmney wIch'l it coll tained, ad al".) (A somw vahuable se. villities ntI lipers. Mr. Iyrd stated that ai tihe- n.-rht was warni, he ha(I opened all1 thm windows and thle door, 111141 had haid d(wIt -11 the bed. :ntenlding 1s 40)11 ts he 1114 cmflvd oil', to (_ret Il and Shulf the do-or; that he( had _rone to slvvp. howt'ver, atn betwncu ." and 14 o'clm-k inl the 1n>m11i -, was aroulsed b) hearili., some olle ;nIovill- 11out01( it his rool). at111)il1 o awakihiittg Nlly h, lmulul it wa:s a younmg n1egro& tman, c whom he gaVe 1 descriptioli Aviell ex ctliv IitIted NvIson. 11(t Said the nie,-rr >lcd hi' laun 111upon his hip picket, af 111"11211 iii C'10 t 4,1 ' drawil' a pktol. 1t1l,! 1- I iL4 1-11 1)4 1 t11 e, or hle wVot1l I! ht bravis anl that heliu it iIa,m1d, he hid I-villainled qjuiet; that t'11 iier u ier tev welt throu"1 v - V Ill . t'-11% the al-ticles tb1ove Ii en ional :Uni I v:ht. IV lii.:v i0 :-iiri.' the t blhook and 1141114rs wl ret Ib>tiil :11t Il Nelsonsii thiel . ani I he ci"lfl e td the while 1a111ir, list ao41 1 IlI ho bilil hWVl '4O1 I iIe bv a . Illnn - I) 401o the townVl, namll t arr,411t1 1.1vr suntbtliai! I at w;al it r :.! ;t i the 40,-0nh r1c.nr i ft he i.'01 1 .i .'s N :1ll :k1111 e coldesSIMI S t 0 I11 I 4l'1 i n i ti-t ':1 se!vero, l - 1r4I 1 11 I 1114 WZ. bl !t have lititvt b ipu I a1r resteli, l ol t t* l ee \41 11 1i V 4 I I ht ik v '1 1%v1 IUt I I 1Ir11I.11II42v tknoll thi oieIlle. wl., M r J lt, olic. a the narlier ' illi N o '1.\ v lg t ju.1, bvl'orv o gi bewi):th wa srut-k. F rom the timV at which 'wSwo t1 was struck and that muti have si 11j1111 l diately fromn the I to the ter.---The te. Ction 14 ) 1 Th ree Weeklis 1 1 (I. The wkI\'ly wathr a Crop bulle. tin oh Ite u1t11h11 avrolia , L werateir Ser vitiv, ill co-.11pwraltiton wit-h the l nite<' late jIiall -ervice for thle wei-k end ing 1 at,lrday, is as follt)ws, anid is ver (11r11a1g4i14 in g 1 t 4 arin I I ers. The raliftall fh thi t past wef-k ha.I., tet it below I. hlm ir1 al nd badly dis tribtited. 'Tel( tewIperattire has heeli above th1w v With vert 11111ch I; sinshinle, .111 of* whiech has been ver benelicial it) all crops. The cotton hnts inProved very mutch where it, has ievn propily eidivated, but, thi(i,r t: ( r anoy gaps or missinu plces which givt. if a ragge l appear. ; InII( ', and ( hal pmrion ofIt l.e crop is growi(!g vv'ry rapidly Ind is now coy rl with bloonis. A considerable por tion ofIIle cr,th le p has bel and still is VerIy 91 grISSyV, anid I'llrnriS ia(e making av\er.y effllrt to chllli it this hot, and dr'y we:then-r, l iut hbol. is very Searce. 'The yiel of' aill ordilnary vrop will, to a great Ixtout de1'14. pon thes Au ccesleint gt ting ri l of 144 the4 grs lin he n~l ell (few b(it if a1.- drough 1441 la t V o vseti', wh44*ich prset appearance11 s Iicae, Itit wil4b seio sl ~iIured. iIjtt'l. iiThee' a hlo'.e no donht1414, Iu that ane Uni.tn crop114 i three1 wekhie, and it Nt rhn (anii,o avrae rilop. dbis ilcThe (list i4rop. wll t.( Iu onre half of itlI was4:1 Xoed earl, allof it isCe now been4'1' 1)' wbai e r lLlnI ile. Altlle 1e1nntI1 frhmiler.eow~e io the lit'ds 11rom (-ro tt, cr .p ('., says a, lorit ol 5ala, trw h)hOIt)l( wiloris.t: lued itlcr murc-rig the llalian, Mre. en,s m:tl1. an Iattempt tist aftenoo (oXn th1e1 largo Shrltitinh. oin hVtlsis . I'teptrnl to ill alhw-risoer named CiIjahhvell, Wi(am has3ie( been lchheferd to appearrobeos'oell Thi as te shruflIhl im to imOf tirabham lotn 110 lei'- lt heI ou d b t eaie A HORRIBLE DEATH. Ii GEORGE W. MALCOM BITTEN BY A MAD DOG. He Showed No 81i1 of Ilvdrophobis Ua til lie Saw Witer-He Ilegged and Prar ed to fie 11ofore the S,amsns Calne. or:, Ga., Jtuc 20.-Mr. George W. Malcoim, Sr., one of the most promi nent men and one of the best citizens of Walton county, meta horrible death at his home nine miles from here yesterday morning. Ie died from hydrophobia and the -scene at his death bed was terri ble. Oin the morning of the 3d of June, about daybreak, he started out to his lot to fiued his horse. In the public road near the lot he met a log coming down the road in a run. Without the least provocation the dog sprang at Mr. Mal coin, catching hlin through the nose and a,1ce. lle behl on like grim ldeath, and only turned loose his holdsafter Mr. Mal coim had Chocked him nearly to death. Notwitlhstandinii his mouth and nose were badly torn by the bite of the dog, and 1lie blood was rapidly flowing from his wounds, Mr. Malcom still held on to the do. until lie coul get a rock, with yhich lie beat the dog to death. le wae a brave. gritty mian, and seemed to have less fe ar of hydrophobia than any of his frienils. Ile woildl alvays say: '' don't think the dog was mad and I don't be lieve I will have llydrophobia.ll 'ucsday lie ate a hearty dinner and went out on the Ioreh to get a drink of water. As soon as ithe dipper reached uIs lips he JumPd high oil the floor and screami1led a11, the top of his voice. As sooln as this, the first convulsion, Wore c1l, hie anluoune(I to his family that le was a dead man-that lie had hy. drophoibia. I[e sent at once for all his :.illdrenI and had a ueighbor to write his will. Tis bfeing finished, lie began having 1*onvilsions, which were light at first and at in f ervals of about one hour. They !rew harder and harder and nearer and nearer togethier until Wednesday even iM-. when lie became exhausted and irra tio!:d, and remaiined in this condition uIntil lursday morning, when he died. I'he physiciais could do nothing to re lieve him. 'I'ey gave him morphine, which made him deathly -iek, and from this time lie reftsed to take any medi eilie, and would -"o into convulsions whenl the subject was mentioned. Ile never drank a drop of water from the tine lie was taken until lie died. Ilie wanted it and talked about it, and even I begged for it, but when it was brought ito his sight lie would shud(ler and or dler it carried away as quickly as possible. lie frothied at the mouth, and his screams were hecarreudinll. Ile would Ieg to dic, and often prayed to die be fore another spasnm came. Ile secimed to have superhuman strength. Six men around his bedside could not hiold him down. Finally, in a convulsion miore terrible than any that had preceded it, death came to his relief. Mr. Malcom was sixty years old, and a deacon in his church. Ile leaves a wile all ten hiildren, most of' whom are growii nld Iarried. 'Thie hinOIo Mll 11ut (10." VASlI.Nwrox, dline 2I.-Acting Secretary Saill,nr rendered a decision to.day fi re!ard to (hina that wIll be W idesjpread in its app)hlication. Three Clinameni yesterdlay camne to IDettoit fromi C anada, andi the commissioner in tinmatedl that Canadla was the country from whieiice they came and to which they should be returned. Act,ing Secre tary Spauldhn' directimf that they be re turnedh to China, and in discussing the Ijoints raiisedl by the United States Corn missioner at Detroit sent the following telegram to thie Collector there: '"The act oif September' 13, 1888s, is not in force, as the treaty named in Section No. 1 not ratified. The act of August 13, 180, makes appropriation spiecificallyv for re turinmi to) China all Chiinese persons ii. legally In thie United Stales. It is use less to return thieni to Canada to come back tomorrowv. Tbchi above act was ex piessly made to meet the difliculty. Un dIer it we return uniquestionied to China, as the country whence they came, Chii nese coming from Mexico and British ;ohnnibla, as they make the contiguous foreign counitries the avene for reach imig the iited States. Th'le Attornoy G,eneral gives the opinion that this action is (directly in the line of carrying out the expulsion act for which the appropriation ais ~a(de. ft is the practice Onl the I 'acific coasth when the court finds Chii nimn illegally in the country, for the m)arshiai to turn them over to the collec t->r at San Francisco for deportation to (in:! TIhe dlepartment sees no occasion for (diflerent practice at D)etroit."' 11):0l in a Court Roomt. N smv m1LE, T1enn., .Junie 29.-At h1hlftalo \'alley, l'utnam County, two wVitneosses in at murder trial, nlamed Jim Mlitchell and Oscar Plunkett, becamie involved in a (luarrel in the court room Saturday.. Tlhey drewv revolvers and began firing at each other and kept it upl until both had been mortally wouded. Theu shooting caused great consternation in the court room, the spectators dodging behind dloors and under benches to escape in,jury. E'xcuirsion Tralin Wrecked. VAN lRUREN, Ark,, June 26.-A special excursion train from Little Rock to Fort Smith was wrecked by a broken rail three miles east, of here at 6:30 last. -nmght, killint a little babe of Mrs. Wal ker and( wvounding about twenty passen geirs. Condu1~ctor IIenry Angel had his inw broken and IEison Willard, of Little lhock, had a leg badly mangled. Two Ladl, Killed by a Train. Li NCoLN, Neb., .June 26.-Mrs, 0. F. hlaney and Mrs. A. N. Tabro at tempited to cross the railroad track at Gralton this afternoon in front of an approaching train. TVhey were struck [by the engine and both instantly killed, the bodies being badly mtilatd. Swallowed His False Teeth. n IBOSTON, Jlune 29.-James Coreoran e died in the hospital here last ni ght, from~ ~te eeects of having sWvallo wed his false