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VOL. XX PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, AUGUST 13, 1891. N047 SEHMON IN TI[E WEST. TALMAGE DISCOURSES FROM A CHAP TER IN RUTH. Sorrow ai81111Saiie-g Deveuipen Cthatrac ter-Unafaulerit.: 'rIimliship it Gloriotsal ViI-t:-rThe sei y Yof FeJ11, 1I811tat ry. GRIN MOUNTAIN FALLs, Col., Aug. 2.-Dr Talmage preached hee to day1 to anl imln'ten13 amllivince. IHis Wvest ern' tour has loia one contilnued rvalion. Never before has he heeti ho enthudiasti cally reveived or have the people come to hear himi l intsuch as1 L iunubers. Ile arrived here from Pueblo, which city he left oin Wednesday ist, in a car provi.1 ed )y the raillroa(l company exclusively for clie uie (if Dr. Talmage and his ec. retary. In this car ie will visit cities i Colorado, 1iianesota, Wisconsin, Kansas amid Utah. It is iide-tracked at laves where Dr. Taiimage has arranged to stay to preach or to lecture. His senion redolent with the breath of the great harvest field 441the West. indicates that the popul.u- preacher has read in his sirriinding uggestions of Gospel lessotis. ills text is token fromI Ruth ii; 3: "And she %%ent an( came and gleantl ii the field alter the reapers; and her hal) was to light on a part of the field belonginlg un louz who was of the kindred Of Eliielecl."1 Wilin a It-w weeks I have been in Noril I Carolina, Virginia, Pensylvan in, New York, Ohio. lichigan, Canada, Indlina. Ilinmms, Kentucky, Missouri. amd fiu Y are W1ne grCaL harvest, field, and no a( a in can be more enchanting inl any coitry !tim the season of harvest. 'lie tine I hat. Ruth and Naomi arrive at !kthlhit- is. harvest time. It was the custom when a sheaf fell from a load in fl.u Lirvest field for the reapers to re tui t h .ather it up; that was to be left for the poor who might happen to come that way. II there were handfuls of -rain Iscattered across tle field after the maim hi vest. had been reaped, instead of ral.ilg it, I Farmers (10 now it was, bv ll:e custom (if the land, left in its place. o) that the poor, coming along that way. mi,ht glean it and get their hicad. But, you say, "What is the use of all these harvest fields to Ruth and Naomi' Naomi is too Old and feeble to go out and toil inl the sun; anti can Nou expect that luth, the young and the beatifil, shond tan her cheeks al blister her hands iin the harvest field?" Ioaz owns a large larm, and lie goes (lit to see the reapers gather in the -rai. Comintv there, right behind the swarthV, sun-browned reapers, lie be holds a beauitiful woman gleaning-a woman imore lit to bend to a harp or sit upon a throne than to stoop amioni the sheaves. Ah, that was aii eventful (lay! It was love at first siaht. Boax forms tant atttchment for the womanly gleaner -an attachment, full of undying interest to the church of ( God in all ag.s; while lRuth, with an ephah. or nearly a bushel of irley -oes home to Naomi to tell her the successes and adventures of the day. 'I'hiat Ruth, who left her native lanid of Moab ill darkness, and journeyed through an undying affection for her m other-in-law, is i ? the harvest-field of Ionz, is alflianced to one of the best flam ifies in.1 ilah, amid becomes in after-time the ancestress of Jesus Christ the Lord of glory! Out of so dark a night did there ever dawn so briglht a morning. I learn, in tle first place, from this sulcet, how trouble developes charac tr. IL was bereavement, povorty mid exile Ihat developed. illustrated and( anl 4 nounicedl to all ages the sublimity of Ihluth's character. That is a very un fortuniiitat ui whol has no trouble. It wats sorrow that made .John Bunvan the h)et ter dreamer, and D)octor Young the better ip>et. anid O'Connell (,he better oratt,r, anid .iisho)p Hall the better pre(achier, anid Itavelock t,he better sol dier, antd Kitto (lie better cevcylopedist, mad 1(uth thme f>etter (daughiter-in-law. I oncve asked an aged man in regard to his past(or, who was a very brilliant man: "Why is it, that your pastor, so very brilliant, seen;s t,o have so litt,le tendernetiss inl his sermonls?'' "Well," lhe reliedf, ''he reason is, our p)astor hias inever* had any ti oumble. Wh len misfor tune1 comes upon himii, his st,yle wvill be different.'' After awhile the L ord took ai chil out of that paistor's house; and1( iough (lhe preachier was just na~ bril liant ais lhe was b)efore, oh, thie warmt,h, thIe t enderness of- his discourses! TIhe P laect is that, trouble is a great, educator. You (it 81 0sometimets ia mlusicianf sit, dhown at, tin instruinenit,, and his exect,ion is cohl andI formal and1( unileehinM. The reasoni is thant all his life lie has been prospieretl. [it let, nmsfortune or be. reatvemeint, comec to (hat, mant, and lie sits down at, the in)strument,, and1( vou discover thie pathos ini the first sweep of the heys. Misfortune and trialw are gret ethiciatoirs. A ', (ung d1octor' comnes into4 a sick room wVhi re .there is ai dlyIing cih!. I 'erhaps he is very iou Ah in ius preisciphtiont, and1( very rough in his mtant nter, afn rough in the feieliniz of t,he pulse. and rouighi in his answer to t,bu mo8thiep's anxions question; hut, the years r5 oll on, and there hasi beeni out dead ini his on ii house; andl no(w lhe comeiC info the hick room, and with tearf ui eyt lie looks at 11he (lying child. and( lie sai s 4 ''"Oh, how this reminds me of my (liar lie!" Trouble, the great educator Sorrow--I see its toL'ch in (lie giandes plhtLing; I hear its tremor In the swveet, Sst, song'; I feel its power in the might,i est argument. Greciatn mythology said that, the, fount taiin of IIippocrene was struck out b~ the foot, of thme wing'ed horse, P egasuss I ha\ e often not iced in uble that t it barighiteSt antd most, beauti'ul fountain of Chrtistian ctfoitt and( spiritual lift have beeni struck out, by (lie iron-shoc hl of (disaster iano calamity. I set Daniel's courage best by the flash o Ne buchiadnezzar's urnce. I see 1.ul'i prowess best wheni I find himt ont thit foundering shmip under the glare of thit lightning mi the breakers of Ma 'tia. 0ot e-rownis his childr-en amitd the howling io wild beasts and (lie choppinh of' bloo< sp laishetd guil lotine and t,he crack I na fires of martyrdom. It took the perseC cutions of Marcus Aurelius to develo1 Poljcarp andit .Justin Martyr. It, tool the pope's bull andI the cardimal's curse antd the world's anaithema to develo) Martin Luther. It t,ook all the hiostili tie3 a:ainst the Scotch covenanters and I the fury of Lord Claverhouse to ddvelop 1 James Rnwick, and Andrew Melville, t and Hugh McCall, the glorious martyrs t of Scotch history. it took the stormy ( sea, and the December blast, and the t desolate New England coast, and the t war-hoop of savages. to show forth the , prowess of the lPilgrim fathers- C When amid the storms they sang, I And the stars heard and the sea; And the sounding aisles of the dii wood Rang to the anthems of the free. It took all our past national distresses, and it takes all our present national sor rows, to lift up our nation on that high career where'it will march along after the foreign despotisms that have mocked and the tyrannies that have jeered. shall be swept down under the omnipotent wrath of God, who htes, oppression v and who, by the strength of his own rea right arm. will make all men free. And so it is individually, and In the family, u and in the enurch, and in the world that t throughidarkness and storm and trouble V men, women, churches, natio is, are de- U veloped. Again, I learn from my subject that events which seem to be most insignifi cant may be momentous. Can you im- 0 agine anything more unimportant than the coming of a poor woman from Moab a to Jud.ca? Can you imagine anything more trivial than the tact that this Ruth just happened to alight-as they say just happened to alight on that field of Boaz? Yet all ages. all generations, have an interest in the fact that she waik to become an ancestress of the Lord t Jesus Christ, and all nations and king- t doms must look at that one httle inci dent with a thrill of unmistakable and eternal satisfaction. So itis in your his tory and in mine; eveuts that you thought of no importance at all have been of very great moment. The cas ual conversation, that accidental meet ing-you did not think of it again for a long while; but how it changed all the current of your life! Again, I see in my text the beauty of unfaltering friendship. I suppose there were plenty of friends for Naomi while she was in prosperity: but of all her a C qu8intances, how many were willing to trudge off with her toward Judwca, when she had to make that lonely journey? One-the h'eroine of my text. One- J absolutely one. I suppose when Nao mi's husband wa.s living, and they had plenty of money, and all things went well, they had a great many callers; but I suppose that after her husband died, andt her property went, and she got old I and poor, she was not troubled very t much with callers. All the birdA that I sung In the'bower while the sun shone have ione to their nests, now the night I has fallen. Oh, these beautiful sun flowers that spread out their collor in the moening hour! but they are always asleep when the sun is going down! Job had plenty of friends when he was the rtchest wan I in Uz; but when his property went and the trials came, theik there were noue so much that pestered as Eliphaz the Te manite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zo phar the Naamathite. Life often seems to be a more game where the successful player pulls down all the other men into his own lap. Let suspicions arise about a man's charrac ter and he becomes like a bank in a i-anic and all the imputations rush on him and break down in a day that character which in due time would have had strength to defend itself. There are reputations that have been half a cen tury in building' which go under some moral exposure, as a vast temple is con sumed1 by the touch of' a sulphurous match. A hog enn uproot a century plant. In this world, so full of heart- I lessness and hypocrisy, how thrilling it is to find some friend as faithful in days of adlversity as in (lays of prosperity! David had such a friend in Hushat; the I Jews hIad such a friend in Mordecai, I who never forgot their cause; Paul had such a friend in Onesiphorus. who visted I him mn jail; Christ had such in the Marys, who adhered to hun on the cross; Naomi had such a one in Ruth, who cried out,; I " Entreat me not to leave thee, or to ie turu fromi following after t,hee; for whither thou goest, I will go, and where thou lodgest, I will lodlge; thy people, I shall be|my people and t,by God my God; whore thou diest will I die, and there r will I be buried the Lord do 8so to me, anmd more also, if' aiught but dleath part ,bec and mel.''] Again, I learn froin this subject, ttat p)athis which opein ini hardship and (dark news~t olf(i.e coimet out in Places of' joy. WVhen ltuth started from Moab~ toward Jerusalem, to go alonag with her mother in-law, I suplpose the peiop)le satid: Oh, what, a foolish creature to go away from her fathers house, to ao of' with a poor old wonmon towardl the land of Judiea! TIhey won't, live to cet, across the desert. Thiey will Oe drownjed in tke sea. or t,hei jackala ol t,he wilderntesa will destroyi t,bem." It, was a very (dark morning Nlien Rut.h started oil wit.h Naomi; but behold her in my text in tbeharvest-field < of hJoaz, t.o be aianced to one of' t,he lords ol' the land, and become one of thei grandi(moLhers of Jesus Christ, the Lord of1 glory. Anid so it, otb-n is that a path1 which starts very darkly ends very I brightly. Whten you startedl out, for heaven, oh,f how (lark was the hour of' conviction how B3inai 1.huudllered, and dlevils tor- I mnented, andit tbe,darkness thickened! All i the sinus of y our life~ pounced upon you and( it, was the darkest, hour you ever saw whten you first found out your sins. After awhile you wvent, into the harvest-i f ield of' God's mercy; you began to glean] in thie field of' dhivine p'romise, and you had more sheaves thani you cold carry as the voice of Godn addressed you, say I ng: "BIlessedl is ihe mian whose tranis greioins are forgiven and whose sins Iare coveredl." A very dhark starting in conviction, a very briighit end(inig in the pardon and the thpe and the trium ,h o01 t,he Gospel! So, very often in our* worly business or in our spirtual career, we st,art, ott on a very (lark pat,b. We must go. Thle flesh 'may shriitk back, bitt there Ia a voice Iwithin, or a voice fronm above, saying, "You must go," and we have to drink the gall, and we have to carry the cross, Iand we have to traverse the desert and we are pounded and flailed of misrepres entation and abuse, and we have to urge our way through ten thousand ob stacles that have to be slain by our own -ight arm. We have to ford the riv ve have to cimb the mountain, we haN o storm the castle; but blessed be Uc he day of rest and reward will coi )n the tip top of the captured batti aents Wi will shout the victory; if not his world, then In that world wher here is no gall to drink, no burden 1 arry, tno battles to fight. How do miow It? Know it! I know it becaus xod says so: "They shall hunger i nore, neither thirst any more, neithe hall the sun light on Ihem. nor auy liea or te Lamb which is in the midst he throne shall lead theim to liviu iuntains of water, and God shall wip ,11 tears from their eyes." It was very hard for Noah to endur he scotfing of the peopte In his dat ifla he was trying to build the i nd was every day quizzed about his ol oat that would never be of any practici se; but when the deluge came, and ti 3ps of the mountains disappeared lilk le backs of sea-monsters, and the el aents, lashed up in fury, clapped the ands over a drowned world, then Nod i the ark rejoiced in his own safety an 1 the wafety of his family, and looke n the wreck of' a ruined earth. Christ, hounded of persecutors, denic pi low, worse maltreated than tiL Iiieves on either side of the cross. huma ate smacking its lips in satisfaction at r it had bean draining his last drop lood, the sheeted dead birsting tro he sephulchres at his crucifixion. Te ce, 0 Gethsemaae and Golgotha! we here ever darker times than those? Lii he booming of the midnight sea again he rock, the surges of Christ's anguit eat against the gates of* eternity, to I choed back by all thrones of heaven at 11 the dungeons of hell. But the day eward comes for Christ; all the pon md dominion of' this world are to I mung on his throne, uncrowned hea( ,re to bow before him on whose het ,re many crowns, and all the celesti vorship is to come up it his feet, lil he humming of the forest, like tI ushing of the waters, like the thunde ag of the eas, while all heaven, risi, n their thrones, beat time with th( ceptres: "Hallelujah, Hallelujah, 0 :ingdoms of this world have become i ingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ. 'hat song of love, low and far, ?re long shall swell from star to star; Phat light, the breaking day whilh tips Lhe golden-spired Apocalypse It seemed to be of no importance t I rubal invented rude instrument nusic, calling them harp and organ; b hey were the introduction of all t, vorld's minstrelsy; and as you hear tI ribration of a stringed instrument, evi ,fter the fingers have been taken av rom it, so all music now of lute ai ]rum and cornet is only the long-c ,inued strains of Jubal's harp and Juba )rgan. It seemed to be a matter of ye ittle importance th at Tubal Cain learn Lhe uses of copper and iron; but that'ru roundry of ancient days has its cc in the rattle of' Birmingham machinec ind the roar and bang of' factories on t Merrimac. Again, I see in my subject, an illusti AIon of the beauty of female industi lehold Ruth toiling in the harvest-fi< under the hot suin, or at noon taki plain bread with the reapers, or caL, hue parched corn which loaz handed ier. The customs ofsociety, of cours mave changed, and without the hardshi itnl exposure to which Ruth was su ected, every intellient woman will lii lomethlng to do. I know there is iickly sentimentality on this subject.I iome families there are persons of i ractical service to the household ommfunity', and though there are nany woes all aroumi about them in U s'orld, they spend their time languihhi >ver a new p)atter'n. or burstimg in ears at midlnight over the story of'son over who shot, himself! They won iot deigni to look at, luth carrying bat he barley on her way home to h nother-in-law, Naomi. All this f'astic >usness may seem to (10 very well 'vhi ,bey are under the shelter of' th< 'ather's house; lint when the sharp ii ,er of misfortune comes, what of' t,be >utterliies? Persons under indlulge >arenitage may get upon themselv tabits of' indolence; but when they con mnt into piractical lite their soul w 'ecoil with (disgust andI chagrin. Th viii feel in their hearta what, the pc to severely satirizedl when lie said: f'olks are so awk ward, things so impolite, I'hey're elegantly pained firom niorn1 night. T.lhrough that gale of lndo.ence ht nany men andl women have mai'che iseless on eart,h, to a dlestroyed eternit spmnola sutit to Sir IIorace Vere: vhatdidl youYr brother die?" "Of havii iot .ini to do," was the answer. "Ah taid Spinola, "that's enough to kill am general of' us." Oh! can it be p)ossible ,his world, where there is so much sutl' ng to be alleviated, so much darkness e enlightened, and so many burdens e carried, that, there is any person wI annot find1 anythingm to do? Mada a.e do Stae ldid a world oftwo n her time; and one (lay, while she w eated amid in4truments8 of music, all which she hand mastered, and amnid ma iscrip)t books which shte had writte ome one saidl to her: "Ihow do y< indl time to attend to all these things 'Oh!" she reliled, "thi se are not U hings I am proud of. Mi chief' bom s in the fact, that I have seventet radeos, by anyone of which I could makt ivelihnood if necessary.'' And if~ in so dlar spheres there is so much to b)e don n spritual work how vast the fiel [low many dying all around about, without on'b word of comfort! We wa nore A bigails, more Ihannahs, mo itebeceas, more Mary's more Debora onsecratedl-body, mindh, soul,-to t, Lord who b)roulght them. Once more I learna fronm my subject t value of gleaning, 1Ruth gomng into t iarvest-tield might have saidJ: "Th'le s a straw, and there is a straw. b) wvhat is a straw? I can't get any hart ror myself or my mother-in-law out these separate straws," Not, so so beautiful Rtuth, She gathered t wo straw and she put them together, and mu straws, unt,il she got enough to msake sheaf. Putting that down she went al gathieredi more straws, until she had a other sheaf, and another, and a other, and another, andl then she broug them all together, amid smoothed the out and she had an ephah or barn ir nigh a bushel. Oh, that we might al 'e be gleaners! d Elihu Burritt learned many thing -. while toiling in a blacksmith's shop 3 Abeacrombie, the world-renowne n philosopher, was a physician in Scot '3 land, and he got; his philosophy or thi 0 chief part of it, while, as i physiciatI I he was walting for the door of the sick e room to open. Yet how many there ar o in this day who say they are so bus: :r they have no time for nieitibl or s>iritu , al improvement; the great duties of lifi > cross the field like strong reapers. an g carry offall the hours, and there is ontl e here and there a tragment. left that i not Worth gleauinv. Ah, my friendt o you could go Into the busiest day an v busiest week ot your life and find golde k opportunities, wuich, gathered, might a d last make a whole sheaf lor the Lord' Lil garner. It is the stray opportunitie e0 and the stray privileges which, taken u e and bound together and beaten out, wi i- at last fill you with much joy. r There are a few moments left wort Ih the gleaning. Now, Ituth, to the lich d May each one have a -neasure lull an d running over! Oh, you gleaners, to tL field! And If there be in your bous< d htold an aged one or a sick relative t,hi e is not strong enough to come forth an n toil in this fleld, then let Ruth take hoin L- to feeble Naomi this sheatof gleanin, )f "lie that --oeth lforth and weepeth, bea n ing precious seed, shall doubtless com 11 a.aln with rejoicing, bringing his sheave e witti him." May the Lord God of Hiut :e and Naomi be our portion forever! It------------. i Tt,upernue Mein at,. Santuc. e UNION, %, C., d tily 31.--The anni d meeting of the grand aivision of t: o Sons of Temperance was held last Wei p nesday and Thurday at Santue. Si Pe subordinate divisions were represente Is by delegates. The reports of the Stal Scribe and organizer showed an ir crease of six new divisions during th past year. The plans of the ensuin e year, bespeaks a decided growth of ti ie order by the next annual ineetin: r- Much interest was mianiftsted by ti ig representatives present. Tho follov% ir ing otlicers were elected and instalk ic f, r the ensuing year: le Grand worthy patriarch, Jolhu Ale: ander, Columbia. Grand worthy associate, 1). It. Fan Sarituc. Grand scribe, F. S. Dibble, Orang burg. Grand treasurer, S. S. Stokes, Unio: . Grand chaplain, J. W. Gregory, Sai 1)1 tuc. Lit irand conductor, .1. 11. Rtandolp le Simtuc. te Grand sentinel, C. W. Davis, Ilario n The order is on a steady growth, i Ly while the representation was smal id those having the management of tLi n- order in this State feel somewhat e 1s couraged as to the future of it, and tht ask all interested in the growth of l temperance cause to exert themselv de during the coming year and hell) at e Vance the interest of the cause by t.h ho individual efforts. yl Th-) local division at Santuc ente lie tained the representativts in a very h< pitable manner, and they left for the a- homes highly pleased and with rene . e zeal for the caise.-Greenville Ne%v ld Two Deitructive Wrecks. LEXINOTON. Ky., ,.Iy 3O.-TWo the wors and most destructive wreci to that have occurred in a long time toc e, pla -e on the Cincinnati Southern Rai road this morning, in which several pe< ,d pie where in;ured and one or two chrus ed to death. The first wreck occirre a one mile south of Hiath Bridge, when freihLt train commtt- north to this cit rwas thrown from tihe track by aL broke 1o axle and five heavily loaded cars wet etumnbling down the embankment. TI construction train a1, La Dleville wi ordered to go to I11gh 1 ridge and rend<l all possible assistance. Wihen the tral (arrived at a (feep) cut necar IDoneraih kcollided with a freight train. The er' -r gines and a large niumber of cars wei . badly demflolished. Th'Ie ein.ineer an ec fireman of the construction train jumpe rfrom their engine and wvere umlnjure< . e Caroll, engineer of the freight, ati e ifiremian, William McKinle.y, wei itbothicaughit in their engine'. Carroll ri i evdsght, cuts anid bruises anid M e Kinley was buried beneath jtL.e engin lWhen extracted he wais mashed into Spulp. All trains aro blockaded, and1( big excursion that was to leave bei this morning for Niagara Fulls had 1 go over the Kentucky Ceutral. il Locu,.t Pligau in Cjouorado. DENVER, .Jlly 30.--lteceuntly LI: wwind bfowini.' iln from the west, brougl ,wit,h it, t,housaniUds of Ro.cky mounta1 inih h custs. TJh hir wias filled with t,bem uii j*til the elec e~ hights were dimm,ed I, their covering the globes. St,ores wet i' oblighited to close their doors to kee y the pes5t, fromi coverinig and destro)yin in their lLoods. The streets were for huoui r- coveredl wit,h them and thiousanids wei to swept off in the sewvers. Th'ie hioppei to wer*e trolin east toward Kanisas andl Ni 10 braska, and the main body cont.inuc their journey withouat, stopping. T1i r'k Inst time Colorado wrw visit.ed by tI as locust,s was In 187-I, when they wek o1 inito Kansas and1( Nebra'iskat andl destro; a. 0(d the crops to such an extent, that thi n, government~ was obliged to comie 10 Li >n aid of1 the settlers. - Kemntucky Elkct ion. IC LOU iSvILI,S, Aulg. :l.---The vot.ing proceeding (juictly all over Keintuck w it,h inicaLltions5 tha.t the propo0sed cot ast,itutin, against, which a Strong high Chas been 1made1, will b)e ratifiedl by a vei ilrge maoity adthat the plurality f< Brown and(-the ot,ber Democrats will 1 ahbetween 30,000) and 35.000O. There al four ticket,s in the field, and it, is est mated that then Third piart.yit.es will p)U e bout 30,00 votes. TIhie next legisi Lure, will, of' course, be D)emocratii with a big represent,ation of the0 farmi 'element. eATripma iyuncihing, it MONTG~oMERYi. Ala., Aug. 1 .-Lai iy Friday night,, in Ilenry County, a shio of' dIstance from Gordon, a mob took froi Id oflicers four negroes-two men and tw s, women-who were charged with burn re ing a (dwelling hiouse'. On the way I a the rIver one (of the meni escaped ari id waLs shot, at. iIe rolled down the barLi a- of t he' rIver, and1( by feiging death e n- caped into Georgia. The (otherts wel ht plalcedl on the bank of the stream at m shot. The body of one of the wo[m< w wna recovered. A BLACK EYE FOR COOSA W. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER DECIOES IN FAVOR OF THE STATE. The Alotion Continuing the Prel'iminary Injunction and Appointing a Reoelver irintedi-Judge Simonton Concur--The Coomaw Octoputs Knocked Out. 3 GREENVL14, S. C., Aug 3.-The decision of Chief ,Justic Fuller in the a Coosaw case was received today, and Judge Simouton added his concurrence Sth's afternoon. The decision. as will be '1 seen, Is a complete knock-out Ir the t "Coosaw octopus," and a signal victory s for the State. The followinli is the de a cision in full: ) STATEOF -SOUTI CAROLINA, ex rel. I TILIMAN et al. vs. THE COOSAW ,IMNINO COMPANY. [I Two motions have been argued: 1! 1. To remand. d 2. To continue the order granting a e preliminary injunction anld appointinlur - a receiver. .t My conclusions ire: d 1. That upon the face of this record e the motion to remand ought not to be b: entertained. The question of jurisdic tion was adjudicated by this court on a the 21st of April. 1891, and cannot be a reexamined at this stage of the nroceed. 11 ings. But if the question were open the resub would be the same, as I concur in the opinion of the district jud"ge. filed here on April 21, 1891. (45 Fed. Rep., 804). The motion to remand is there e tore overruled. 2. As to the motion to coitinue. &c.. x the contention of the deflendant is that it has, by contract with the State, in virtue of the act of 1876, the exclusive i right to mine all the phosphate ock g wit,bn a delined part of the CoosaW e River, for all time. at a royalty of one . dollar per ton. The defendant carried .e on its mining operations prior to 1876, - n the particular locality, under an act d of 1870, which gave the right to mine for the full term of twenty-one years at $1 per ton. The act of 1876 made the right exclusive, and, it is argued. per t- petual. because it was provided that de. f'endant (as well as other comnpanics) should have the right. "so long a.id no longer," than it'should make the returns and pay the rovalp.y prescribed. The royalty thus referred to was fixed by the act ot 1 870. It was decided in State vs. Pacific Guano Company (22 S. C. 50,) .i. that the rule of construction applicable d to the right to mine in the beds of nav 1, igable streams containing phosphate de. e posits is the ordinary one in the instance - of grants of public rights, namely, that Y the urant is to be construed strIctly in le favor of the State and gainst the gran d- tee. I concur in that view, and apply i r intr the rule here, it, Iorbidki O,he conc1lul Sion that, thle legishiture int,ended an in r. definiite grant, by the terms used. The is act or 1876 must necessarily be reaz in ir connection with that of 1870, and this v- being done, it seems clear that the dlu .. ration of the exclusive right. as claimed, was not thereby enlarred. This conclu SiOnl is strengthened by an examin.at,i-n of the many acts in relation to phos. phate ming referred to on the hearing of this motion, which show the policy of' the State to have been to limit the dura ,ion of the right to mine-a policy which It cannot be properly held the State in tended to depart from by the Act of a 1876. It Iollows that the claim of the y defendent to the exclusive right to mine nwitfhin the mentioned territory, indefin it ite ly, at, one (dollar Per toni, cannot be 5 3. T1his being so, and in view of the pm povisinons of the Act of 1 890, an infjunec i tio ouaght to go against the defenidant. take out a license under the latter Act and ot,herwise complly therewith, and such an ordler may' be substituted for the mordoer made lby tIhe State court. which shul e vac itedl, so far as is incoinsist ci:t with the or'der so cut,eredl. e 4i. Pending tIhe filing ..f tIhe foregoing meimoraiinum andl the entry of' the orderCI therein agreedl to, the parties having agreed to submit the case on t,he hear a ing already had, as on the merits, and atheir st,ipulat,ion In that behalf' having ebeen duly considered, a finial judgment, 0and decree may he entered in accordlance with the result above indlicatedl. e August 3, 1891. Chief' ,Justice. it,,lge Simonton concurM in the above opinioli. -Shot in. a Sicep,er. V C(imAiR LOTEsivI L Li, V A., August 1. e A cowardly attempt was made upon01 P the life of' 11. F. Connell, of P'ortsmouth. gOhio, by an unknmowni white mnan on a as Pullmani sleeper on traini No 2,, on the e Chesapeake anid Ohio lIailroad, wm ar *a Basic City, due here at 3 o'clock this .maornhing. T he assassin approached t he d berth of Connell, who resente I the eiitrumsion with a kick, whenm thte would( ebe miulrderer fired a pistol ball, taiking~ eetfct in thle abdomen of' Connell. it(onniell was brought to this cit y and fit's in a precarious condition. Many e rumors are rife as to the cause of tfhe e shooting. The ball was extracted t oday. Th'le assassini escapt d and has niot been captured. is May iIand I)oeentber. y ItociIssii:Tx, N. Y., July 30n. A spe i- cial to the Morning I Ierahf from it Medina, N. Y., says: Stephen L. White, yof' Shelby, who is seventy,-five years r Of ayve, and( little Ell-4 liissell, who is f'ourmteen, are the characters in a little romance interesting this viinity, as Ithey are no0w manm and wif'e. Th'le Jhsseli girl's parenits claim that Whfite persuiadej the little girl to elope with Lhimi, and driving t,o a necigiihboriing village hail the knot tied b)y claiminig r that, the giri was over seventeen years of' age. White was promptly ar rested on the charge of abduction, but releas ed on his own recognizance and escaped tNo trace of hilm can be found. n The Saloon,. Muat Go. o BE~NTroN, Ill., ,July 31 .-Farmei's of' ithe Eastern part of this County hiave o servedl notice on the mer'chanats of (d Thompsonville, a small pilace where k tbey do most of t,heir trading, that If i- thr'ee saloons, which are all there are iu e the Country, located in that p)lace, are d not closed at once they will boycott the nI t.own. Parties intereste<d have piromised :to nomply w ith the rem and1 to-m...r.., DEMOCRACY DIVIDED. Intense i1tterness Between the Factions In Charleston. CHARLES'rON, S. C., July 29.-The un krrilled Democracy of Charleston went o pieces today without bloodshed, but with more bitterness than ever known wen in the days of active Republican sm. A dual convention was held and wo executive committees are now in ,he field. The reformers, with a large itmber of bogius delegates, met in an >ther part of the city and marched lown to libernian hall In a body, head Id bay ex-Alayor W. A. Couirtenay. They ushed into the h ll capturing most of .he chairs and started in to elect Mr. 3ourtenay chairian before the chair ian, of the Democratic executive con nittee had called the convention to or Ier. The chairiman, however, called the )ody to order, and then left the chair 6vith nobody to preside over the conven ion. Tie regulars jumped in then and then elected Bi. F. AlcCabe chairman, and captured the books, records and gravel. The reformers then elected Uourteney chairman, and the two con ventions proceeJed with business. Futile efforts were made by the con servatives to bring about a compromise. The regulars offered to elect a reform chairman if both McCabe and Courte nay would vacate. Mr. Courtenay de clined, and the two conventions went on, both in the saei hal), and elected each ne an executive connittee. V. A. Boyle was elected chalirnian by the reg alars and T. 1). Jervt y boy the reform T lhe spAlI in the party is ut-w regarded 1s hopeless, and the feeling but ween the Lwo wings is intensely bitter. It is re zrarded as al most certain that two tick Ls will be in the field for the mayor Alty. Mr. courtenay will probably head the( refori widg and Mayor Bryan the regular. Both wings will endeavor to get the recognition of' the state execu Live cornniittee.-Augusta Chronicle. Gatut Faiite In iemsarablis. LoNiON, Jitly 3.-A St. Petersburg dispatch slat.es that the greatest misery exists in lessarabia, owing to the fail tire of' the harvest and hie scarcity of food. In the villiage of Koishany the people broke out In a riot aiwl plunder ed shops of provisions. The local po lice tried to restrain thiem and Were badly beaten, one of their number being killed. lettnforcemnents arriving froim the town of' jiender, the rioters were at length dispersed, and a large number were inade prisoners. Two of the pris oners were shot to death in the public streets, as a warning to their late coni panions, and six were selected for im imediate deportation to Sibera. The wives and children of the exiles were not permitted to speak to them before keparting, and nothimn was spared that would be likely to st,rike terror into the inhappy peasentry. At Kishienau, the chief place place of the province, it is said that not less than twelve persons have died (af starvation and pedury this month. Not Jews alone, but many lIussians. have buried across the front ier into loumania, in order to escape the severe invasures institisted since the otitbreak. Asiah3xaIts i in a Tunincl. PORTLAND, Oregon, July 30.-En "ineer Jack Uocheford. of tie through express, south-bound, niet deathi In an unusual nunier in tunnel 1, sixteen miles southi of Ashland, yesterday morn iii. Two engines are required to take the train over the Siskyous. lRocheflord had the front engine. When the train was nearly tbrouiuhl the tuInnQl the coup ling between the mall and express cars broke. T1 wenity inunutes wer*e conisumedh in mnakin4 a new coupjling. The smoke anda gas fronm thle second engine blew (threctl*y inito the. cab of' the one miah, sufllocatinu. the enigLineer' and fireman. 10 was deC(ideCd to back out of the tunnel, ands wh'len the trin sto1pped outside the engineer and fireman of' the front enigine were iinssmig. A seartha revealedf the engineer lying. dhead by the track, wvithi hats left arii cuit. oll b)y the engine. Fire man Fitzpatrick was lng unconscious by the ti'ack, but, revived later on. .Both got off the en:gine to escape suillocaitioni and were asphdyxiated by the time they ieachedu thie grotmda. ltochelhordl lell with his ai'rs inaross th e triack, and bled to deathI. l)rasgge,i tao 1heath by a Horse. Ci iA'tot, ,Jtthy 30.--Ai rthumr Thlomnas, the ine-year-old son of' Manager Ar thur Thaomas, of th,e "Coumnty Fair" Cor miy, wais throwni fromn the back of' the l)Dude, one of' flhe horses isedl in the play, Monday mioi'rig and wvas almost inst;antly killed. W ith his lather and a party the boy was out rhing. Ills horse ran. Mlr. Tlhomaas paurstied himi on Quteen, buit, thouigh Quteen is the fast er horse of' the t wo, she coilad not gain on the Dunde. TIhie iboy lost all control oi thle horse, and dropping the reins n red t o keep oni by ihling to the imane. l ie loot, his b alance, falling to one side, but ins foot s iuck in the stirrup aind for f'utll two blocks lie hiting suispended, his head st.rikinig thlit pivemenrt att every jaiump mIka bsy the horse. ii is head struck the horse's feet at cne timen and the anlinntal gav ~e a ',ici otis kick, which caused thie boy's lolot to slip from his slioe, aiid hie fell to the pavemreunt (lead. Liaility of thea Allnac. Cmm^ni,m-s'r'oN, S. C., ,July 31.--The hFarimers' AlIlianice stoie in Spartaniburg Cotut.y iailed seime time aigo, and1(, atl houghi the stor'e wais undser (lie auspices of' the Couumt,y Alliance wheni the hailure c'am)e, flie Alliamnce (hisa:laimedC all res lionsibhility, hioldin'i that it, lay with the managers person tiy. Th'le creditors, a Ilialtimnore firm, iindinug they could not collect the debt, have cintered suit, in the I'nited Staites Court for $2,9t25, [t is exp)ectedh that t,he case will soon come tip. It is onle ofthie first of it,s kind ever hiad in t.he counttry, andh the decisIon will psrobably define the ibijlltios oh the Al Inlittece oraiatli'zations., It, Killed tHer at, Lant. PwrirsnaUno, Pa., .July 31 .-While in Paris wit,h her piarents four years ago AMart.ha Fr'ick, then aged two years, swallowed a pin. T1o-day she die(d at Cresson Sprinigs as the result. She was the dlaughter of IIenry C. Frick, the millionaire coke operator andl st,eel .nan utacturer. She felt no ill effects until the wimter ohf 1889, wheii, alter much suff'erina from a Pain in the sidhe, an ab cess formed andl the pIn was dischargedl. It left her the victim of a peculiar dlis ease, which has ever since bafilled thme ICS hetphysvain in t.he country. FACULTY OF CLEMSON. SOUTHERN INSTRUCTORS FOR THE CAROLINA YOUTH. Theoretical as Well as Practical Instrue tion Will be Given; but all Theories Will be Reduced to Praatioe--Work Done by the Board of Trastees. PENDLETON,S. C., July 30.- rh board of trustees of Clemson college held its final meeting this merning and today the various members left fortheirhomes. The long session of the board was caused by the difficulty of the selection of professors from the - multitude of applicants, all of whom came with un exceptionable references and recovn mendations. The board proceded slow ly and with the greatest care. The va rious credentials of the applicants were read and every endeavor made to secure the very best possible men for the posi tions,for the t:ustees recognized that upon their selections, in great measure, wiould rest the fate of the college for success or failure. It took several ballots in each case to agree upon the men for the different chairs. rhe board not only endeavored to se cure the men best qualified for the posi tions, as far as possi ble, naive South Car olinians, and men who has been active supporters of the movement for the establishment of a separate agricultural and mechauical college in South Caro lina. The application of this last rule caused great ditliculty in several cases in the election of a professor. THE FACULTY. The following were the professors elected this morning: Professor of Eng ish-C. M. Furman, of Greenville. Assistant Professor of English-T. P. Ilarrison, of Anderson. Professor of Physics-C. W. Welch, of Newberry. Professor of Ilistory-W. S. Morrison, of Greenville. Professor of Agriculture and IIorti culture-J. S. Newman, one of the fac ulty of the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical college. Assistant Professor of Horticulture J. C. Dupre, of Abbeville. Professor of Mechanics-A. V. Zane, of the United States navy. lIe is a native of Maryiand. Instructor in Drawing--William Welch, of Newberry. Professor of Mathematics- President Strode, a native of Virginia. Associate Professor of Mathem atics .1. G. Clinkscales, one of the faculty of the Methodist Female college at Colum bia. Ile is a native of Anderson. Assistant Professor of Mathematics T. P. Perrin, of Abb3ville. Associate Professor of Chemistry R. N. Brackett, of Charleston. Associate Professor of agriculture W. C. Wellborn. of Greenville, Miss. At previous meetings of the board 11. A. Strode, of Virginia, had been elected president; Dr. M. B. Hardin, of Virginia, professor of chemistry, and Messrs. Shiver and Symimes, of Colum bin, assistants in the analyzing of fer tilizers. All of the faculty are Southerners, and the major portion are natives of the Palmetto state. With such a strong and learned faculty, with such a brainy, courteous gentlemen as Professor Strode at its head, the success of Clem son college is assured. It will do noble work in training the young men of the state to be true and faithful cItizens; it will well equip them for the stern bat tie of life, and it them to increase the wvealth and power of the state. Year by year the wisdom of the founders will become more and more apparent, and by all future generations they will be hailed as statesmen and patriots. Two DISTINCT P'ARTIES. At the meeting of the board there were t wo distinct parties. One favored practical education alone while the other wanted some theoretical instruc tion in the curriculum. The advocates of practical, industrial education were victorious. Trheoretical instruction will be given at Clemson college but all the theories taught will be reduced to practice. Th'le trustees have not arranged the curriculum and wiil not do so for some time. Late in the summer a joint meet ing of the trustees and the professors will be held, and then the course of stoi(y and work will be mapped out. If the' buildings are completed in time anid judging from the present rate of progress they wvill be, the college wiUl commence work February 1, 1892. The session will be nine months long. The brick residence of the professor of chemistry, another brick residence, the chemistry building, the barn and lyve wooden residences for the foremen and professors have been completed. The miechanical building is almost fin ished. Very little work remains to be done on it. The efforts of the laborers will now be concentrated on the main build ing, the foundations of which have beeni laid, and the dormitory. Work has been commenced on a wooden cow barn. After the dormitory has been completed, work on the kitchen a dining room will be commenced ai' also on the president's house and te residence for the professor 'of agricul ture. Quite a little town will be formed at Fort 11111 by the buildings of Ciemson College.-Charleston World. Whiat Does the President WVant? I'ACoM A, Aug 1.-George Hazard, Secretary of the Democratic Central Committee, lias received from the gov ernmecnt Quartermaster at Vanconver a ticket from Tlacomi' to Washington and1( return, sent by order of President IIarrison. IIazard was formerly a lead ing Republican in Indiana, and politi cians helec believe that the Praident neceds his services in tne commig cam paign and will try to win him from his party. T[he result of the visit causea much speculation,'' Kissed Her Last Good nyve. GA LVFBTON, ,July 30.-Miss Maude Gertrude Smith, aged 17, dduighter of Caiptain Alonzo Smith of this city and wvell known in the west, committed suicide by shooting herself just above the he.art. She was with her aunt and sister at the time and kissed them both before she expired. No cause can be assigned for the act, although her re |lations state that she had been morose .and melancholy for same time neann.