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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