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CKEN, S. C)., TURDAY, JANUARY 14, 1892- NO17 TALMAGE PREACHES A SERMON ABOUT 1892. .st isia Discourn. G'This Y#,ar Thou alt Die,"fi-in Jo"vin;uh xxvill, 1.. :s#on* of 11,porinco Dwelt Upon by ,e Tai,u15 edPrenei.er. BROOKLYN. Jan. ".-This morning Taberi.ae e c.;-regalion, meeting j 1it Svn< ay service of the new found 1b past r disposed to seri '-flection- on t.Ie fliaht of time. (-penain hymn gave the keynote in uiliar words t days are gliding swiftly by, 'nd I, a pilgrim stranger, uld not detain them as they fly, re hose hours of toli and danger. in Talmage read several passages a g to ant diluvian longevity, mak- I w aracteri, .c comments as he read, i th ien preacbed from the ominous Jeremian xxviii, 16, "This year th halt die." w miah, accustomed to saying bold addressed Ilananiah in these They proved tite. In sixty Tt/lananialh had 0oparted this li"e. tii- 1s the first Sabbath of the year. pila time for review and for anticipa ol A man must, be a ,enius at stu as who does not think now. The quar died in giv!og birth to the new, Et lie of Jtie Se.nmour, the English a , departed wht-'n that of her sot), er i d VI, dia vned. 'I lie old year was otl: The n,ew sirt: I be a king. The gue the o,e and lie cradle of the two .e side 1. y side. W%e can bordly i eV v ivhat, the Ohild %% ill be. It is olly i mnad.ns old, but I -rophusy for it an grr - juture. Tt itr ol mh Lh and wii s6! Yei;r of I,e mant and confla i! It W-ll leu:; ;IL will sini1k; It Th oaii it wI.l aie. Th not a time kIr varvest thought? do ngratfiations have been gien. Th arisLmtu, tree., ave been taken are or have well nir h cast their fruit. loo :ends w!o cam' for the holidays w c ne in the rall t: ain. While we are br( forw:.d to another twelve lie 3 o.' in-nse activi ics the text ' <upon u like a I i::r- tog I thuder soul "lhis ye-4 thou shalt lie!' tue, text 1%III probably prove true of are tf us. The pro6ability is ai gone I thu lact t.at all of tin who Th' i v -iirt-five f:ars o1 age have "U jui' d tie aveiage of human iife. We a4i more than due. It is only "tiree, tce ihat i is t,ot, colleaed. race sf .e d'iGtor wh is tal-iug the a hfe P(ys' grace'' of the banks. our ilu. :8ed with nine huudred years for POiitllime. We read of but, one anted dyial.n youth whose early death disap seln d he hopes of his parents by his may h-1 seven hundred and seventy for men ars of aie. The worl!d then study ae becit ahcad cf what it is now, 3I a. had so long a time in which to years iqid invet. and plan. mnots;' artist or a phlosopher has forty huOs) R, 1e1 nia kes great achieve hundict -l at nuxt tt trists and nearly ti -4 Iive done who ha nine flocd, ais before them? In .he inhaba wo thousand years befole the a ina tt. longevity of the floeo at, there may have been nearly fea r n peoph. as there are now. The thil L n not a ireshet. that washed a tj ofi a plank, but a disaster iuh (1t have bwept away a thousand dbs he M If the AtLautie ocean by a a rvidden'ie e.u0 tonioht should drawn the och9 sphere and tI e Pacilic ocean by lyburchl i. t-c earth should drow'n tan ide hemi -phere, leaving about as Thel ie ig rn cotul be got in one or To he c sttiimn .e, it would "vne you to the t ","t - se Oncient flood was. prof essijon racei of "uW occuipations adds err n t. Those who are in the with whm . "t undergoing a Rapping speed. O and nerve foundlations. Tit. hundredo, o n this country are driven is someth' 4d spur t o ti dir topimost ate that y~ 'Otne tbrami worker out of a Edinburgt45 )bt an ru~ ioderation,. TrI1e have brokc"a459 s'-rultiung in our clim-. of fifty-five Jeh Brow n, the essayist of have dropi bi' lived here, he would thing in al wn at thirtv-five instead disposes t( . Charies Dickens would disorders fority. There is sonme plexy v.1 v occup'ationls wvhich pie mng ~'ron iadsease. I f we he stout, to Print.ers r iranging from 'e vers to apio makers, it We be frail!, to dliseases I ng shorten t, consumnpuoni 1> par-alysis, death in ti j ly iceachi lifiy years. Wantch absori .p reerk ing thce time for others, their owi efr awn. (:1 emisis breiathec 69athb in ie labo. al-ui't , and potters I pot id aw lysis. 1'zn: ers hail under ~ Overdr-ivet brush. 1- olundimenWO take ( own livos hl thle filu . Shoamakera I gind thieither owni ilves on the ilast, Masons dig, erchnts~ meatare oil' their And in all lithe 3ardstick. Millers I sionis thceiet~ c-n hives with the g'isit.1 R? ip d c thebi grave.a wi.h the tr-owel. livs. By ouir occupations and pr-ofes heeg re thle er .'ents of peril. 1Avt both imhi .c clan.es threaten our I he warm,; rea on of1 ce v')let,t lis of rjis on, inete.r, n LIii two (lays we the firea ' ath wit d in. (s us w%ith our chanice to w~ 4 a y' I - st cuts tet ougha ameounice c The o'' the whe~el, I three so i( 0 a's: 3, wait, heie pas.s au,' ;iupon u9 thee.r q tir. us. I Vhatgel 3 K an cmpi s ibh y :lhat not, and( ' ,s.nd ant .. U dlay shlwd "This yea ' ius all as we now ar In I Ini view . WOshoot the arro y iow busy la a ~shoe, it at a yen . Sabbr1u1 bs , shalt, (lie." the text b, ( this, I adAvse that you1 be I at what, t itian work-. How many It is unisan the yeac? Fiat.-twvo. If< tWo Sund . trr e of' 3 o)u it (1- - n)ot ray I go In I he e y ou may go, ndi theree last haelf, to count onf all of th~e fihey the flfiy- s. As you aic as lIkely to< Onlyv twe at half of the year as ini ii e tiani men -thi- k we hadI better divk'e I jon do in ' in:o haelves n.cd calculatie t tLhe three TYix Sabbaehs. Come, Chris-< 1S0 A , \' stianl wome 1, what can < nit of the wA4 aiy-six Sabbaths? Divide I a .hum'r-ed and rixiy-lIve days .1 iis ha cnyou do in one: d tigh,y-twodays? What,t t? )y thie way o saving your family, the ,hurch and the world? You will not, bhrough all the ages of e'ernity In heav !n, got )ver the dishonor and the out 'ago of going into glory, and having lelped none up to the same place. It vill be lound that many a Sabbath chool tnacher has aken into her ve-i her vhole c. os; that Daniel Bpker. te wangelist. took thousands into he-iven; hat Doddridge ir -AkL n n 1-undr Is ofi hou. nds; i,at Paul ti -'c In a hundred nillions. How many %:11 you take in? I yo get into heaven and find none h< e that you sent aud that there are ione to come through yoar instrument. kiLy, I beg of you to crawl under some ;eat in the bick corner and never come i )ut lest the redeemed get their eyes on i Vou and some one cry out. "That is the I nan who never hfted hand or voice lor r he Irdemption of his fellows. Lo:,k at c un, all heave !' Better be busy! Bet. t .er nut the plow in deep. Better say I Nhat you have to say quickly. Better Iry tIe alarm. Better fall on your 4 ueces. Better lay hold with b.- ]i hands. Vhat you now leave undone "or Christ vill forever be undone. "This yearthou halt die!'' In view of the probabilities mentioned, advise all the nen and women not eady fbr eternity to get ready. If the ext be true, you have no time to talk >.)ouL nonessentials, asking why God let iu come into the world; or whether the Pook of Jonah is inspire 1; or wLo Mel- 1 hisedee was; or what about the eternal 1 ec; ees. If you are as near eternity as I orne of you seem to be, there is no time < tr anithiug but the question, "What I iust 1 do to be saved?" The drowning t 11Mn, when a plank is thrown him, stops it to ask what sawmill made it, or i vhether it is oak or cedar, or who threw f L. The moment it is thrown, he clutches ( i.If this vear you are to die, there is I io time for anything but immediately 4 aylg hold on God. It is high time I o get o it Ot your sins. You say, "I 1 iave epommitted no great tranlgres- I ,Oub.'' But are you not aware that I ur life has been sinful? The snow c nes down on the Alps flake by flake, 1 nd it is so light that you may hold it i mil 0up ol your finger with out fee 'ng any I veigit; but the flakes gather; ie.y con )act until sonic day a traveler's foot i iaris ti o slide, and it goes down in an I tvalauche, cIushing to death the villa ,ers. So the. sins of your youtl, and the 1 14s of your manhood, and the sins of our womanhood may have seemed only 4gh t inaccuracies or trifling divergences iom the ri-ht-so slight that they are lardlV worth mentioning, but they have een piling up and piling up, packing to ,ether and packing togetier, until tihey nake a mountain of sin, and one more iep of your foot in the wrong dir-ctio. nay slide down upon you an avalanche >f ruin and condemnation. Let me announce that Ctirat, the iord, stands ready to save any man ho wants to be saved. He waited for (ou all last year, and all the before, and ill yovr lie. lie has waited for you with blood on his brow and tears in his ,ve, and two outstretched, mangled iauds of love. I wish you might know Yhat ajob Jesus underLe. when he car 'ied your case to Calvary. They crowded um to the wall. They struzk him. They wat on him. They kicked him. They !u.ed hin. They scoffed at him. They courged him. Th(y murdcred him. BIlood! blood! As lie stoops down to iL you up the cr' .uso i d,opa upon you roin his brow, from his hands. Do you Lot feel the warm curent on your face? )h, for I iee the hunger, tbe ,hirst, the horn stir,,, the sufllocation, the dark tessa, tLhe groan, the sweat, the strug le, the deathI! A great, plague came in Marseilles. L'oe doctors held a :-,onsultat,ion and de ided that, a corpse must be dissected or hev would never know how to atolp the >lague. A Dr. Guyon said, "Tomlorrow norn'~ ug I will prozeed to a dissection." le made his will; prepared for death; I vent into t,he hospital; dissec,ed abody;i vrote out the resul1s of t- e dissection 1 nd died in twelve houts. Beautiful I elf sacrdice, you say. Our . >rd Jeeus I noked out from heaven and saw a riague stricken race. S!n must be dis ected. lie made his will, giving every- I hing to his people. He con es down t uo the reeking hospitial of e t'h. IIe E ar\s his hand to tile work. U;nder our t rlague lie dies-~the healthy for tihe sick, lie pure for the polluted, the innccent or the guilty. iBehold the love! Be old die sacrifice! Behiold tile rescue! Decide on this first SabbAh of the e:ar whether or not you wiilhave Jesus. a le will nIot, tand lorever begging for 'our love. With some here his pleat rds rie bt 'speedily. "This year t,hou I halt (lie.' This great, salvation of the Gospel I on of'er toe every man, woman and hiuld. You cannot, bu y it. You cannot arn it. A Scotch wriLer says that a oar woman one cold w inter's d y looked t brough tbe window of a kmng's conse. atory aind saw a hunch of grapes hang- r ng algainstI us,e glats. She said, "Oh, if only had that bunch of grapes for my f ek child at home!'' At her spinning y vheel she carned( a few shilligs and vent to bu1y the grapes. The king's o~rdener ihiuset her out, very roughly, y uid said lhe hrad no grapes to sell. She e ont oil and sold a blanket, and got, y emie more shillings, anid camne back and ~ ried to buyi the grapes. But the gard- p nier roughly assaulted her and >d her be ofl'. Trhe king's dlaughter was r vall( n hibe garden at, thle time, and ~ lie heardh tIhe excitement,, and seeing a lie poor woman, said to her, "My fat~her t s not a merchant to sell, but hie is a i'g arid gives.' Then she reached up r( ~d plucked thme grapes and dropped i hem in ther poor woman's apron. So lhrist, is a king, and all the fruits of lis >i don lie freely gives. They may not >e. bought. Without, money and wi;'l- ~ ut price, take this sweet clust,er from lie vineyards of God. I a m conming to tile close of' my sermon. t sought for a text, apipropriate for tile K ccasion. I thought of taking onie in A ob, "My days fly as a weaveL's shull le;'' of a text, In Psalms, "S> t'.ach us o ntmber our days that we may apply sur heart.s umoti wisdom;'" of the piaseor >f the vIne d esser, "I >.rd let it, alone his year also;"' but puresed upon my Ltuention fir st ol all, and last of all, and Lbove all, were t he words, "Th.s year bon shalt,ie" Perhaps iL may mean me. Thoughin ierfect health now, il, does not take God )ue week to bring down the etronlest physical cOnstitution. I do not want to tie this year. We have plans and pro. lects on foot tlI t I want to see coin pleted; but God knows best, and he ws a thousand bet -r men than I to do work yet undoue. I have a hope A, notwihsianding all my fis and wanderings, I shall, through t1 e illtinite nercy of my Saviour, come out at the ight place. I have noLhln to brag of ay way of Christi"un experience; hut L vo hlings I have learned-my utter help essness before God and the all abound ag grace of the Lord Jesus. If the text neans some of you, my hearers, 1 (1o lot want you to be caught unprepared. [ would like to have you, either through nouey you have laid up or a 'life inbur Lae," be able to leav<Lthe world feeling hat your family need not become pau )ers. But if you have done your best Lad you leave not one dollai s's worth >f estate, you may confidently trust die ord who bath promised to care for the widow and the fatherless. I would like o have your soul fitted out for eterni,y, io that if any morning or noon or even ug or night of these three hundred and ixty-five days, death should look in iad ask, "Are you ready?" you might, vith an outburst of' Christian triumph, inswer, "Aye, aye! all ready." The sooner the last hour comes the )eter if we are fled for entrance in he celestial wotld. There is no clock n heaven, because it is au everlastinz lay; yet they keel) an a :count of the )assing ye rs, because they are ail the ime heariug form our world. T..e angels flying through heaven report how many ines the earth has turned on its axis, md in that way the angels can keep a liary; and they say It is almost time now or father to come up, or for mother to .ome up. So ne day they see a cohort eavimg heaven, and they say, "Whither )ound?" and the answer is, "To brin ip a soul from earth;" and the questiou s asked, "What soul?'" And a familY :irele in heaven find that it is one of heir own number that is to be brought, ip, and they come out to watch, as on he beach we now watch for a ship tWat a to bring our friends home. After a 7hile the cohort will heave in alikht, (I., ng near and nearer, until with a great lang the gates hoist, and with an em race, wild with the ecstacy of heaven, >ld friends meeL again. Away with ,our stitl formal heayen! 1 want ione of it. Give me a place of ufinite and eternal sociality. My t free fton the clods of earh, I iiall bound the hills with gladnes and ireak forth in alaugh of triumph. Ai:,! tha. We weep now but then we st all augh. "Aoraham's bosom" menois ha heaven has open arms to take us n. Now we fold our arias over our ieart, and telt the world to stand bac. ts though our bosom was a two bariva rate to keep the worbI ouL. Ileaven itands not with folded arms, bat with wart open. It is "Abraham's bosom.'' L see a mother and her child meeting it the foot of the throne afiter some pears' absence. The child died twenty rears ago but it is a child yet. I think the liti's ones who die will re nain children through all eternity. It would be no heaven without tie little I'riogi. I do not want those that are a heaven to grow up. We need their alant voices in the great song. And vhe i we walk out in the fields of light, ye want them to run ahead and clap heir hands and pick out the brightest it the field flowers. Yes. here is a child aid its mother meeting. The child ong in glory, the mother just arrived. Ilow enanged you are, my darling!' s the mother. "Yes," says the child, Ils is such a happy place, and Jesus as taken such care of me, ard heaven s so 'kInd, I got right over the fever vith whtch I died. The skies are so air, mother! Thel' flowers are so swe* nother! The temple is so beautiful: nother! Come, take mae up in your rins as you used to." Oh, I do not nowv how we shall stamnd the first day n heaven. Do you not think we willI reak down in the song from over de Ight? I once gave out in church thme lymn: Thlere is a land of pure delight, Where .eaInts Immortal reign, nd an aged man standing in front of he pulpit aang heartily the first verse nd then he sat clown weeping. I sald o hinm afterwards, 'Father Linton, what made you cry over that hymn ?" le said, "I could not stand it-tne jjys hat are coming." When heaveu i is or the doxology I cannot see how we an rise with it if all these waves of verlasting delight come upoi. the oul-billow of joy af ter billow jf joy, ethinks Jesus would be enoigh for be first day in heai an, yet her', lie ap :oa'ches with all heaven at his back. But I must close this sermnon. Th'is s the last January to somle who are resent. Ycu have enlteredI the year, you will not close it. Within thesec welve me aLhs your eyes ill shut for he last alt ap. Other hands wvill plant he Christmas tree and give tile New lear's congratuilations. As a procla )ation of joy to some and as a wvarn ag to others, I leave in your ears these ye wordls of one syllat>Ae each, "This ear thou shalt die." Fell Inio a NIneLy-F'oot Well. CADILLAC, Mich,, Dec. f>l.-George tevenson, Jr., 12 years old, rtsiding ii a farm near Thorp, in this Countiy, all into a dry well haturday -vening. 'lie well wi-' ninety feet fleepj, and( the til probably .dused (death. The oih in is lantern exolodedl andi set fire t) the mains. TIhe father, surp)risedl tt h le oy's long absence, started for the barn, udl made the horrible (discovery from b~e odor of burning fi- sh. Thle remains ould not be recovered until Sunday. he head was burned b)s.Oond recogi. on. A Groat Man's Hleavy Loa.. SI'ARITANBUROD, S. C.. Dee. 31.-MrF. ames H. Carlisle, wile of P're'ident arlisle, of Wollord college, (died ti ternoon. For a year or lenger s4.e as been dechining in health, and wlIe or death was sudden it was not unex ected. She was born In Columbia, her ather being the late .James Hi. Bryce Werid's5aoPPly of Cotten. NEW YORK, dJan. 2.-The total visi il supply of cotton for the world Is ,G -9.C.3 bales, of w bich 4,232.0,53 bales re A meri' in, against 3,513,b87 bales, ed 3,0?.6087 respc t tvely lass ye-ar. RIe eCipts of cotton th's week at all interior owns 118.345; receipts at plantations 41.050- cron in sight 8.4(1051. A Iiua," Vendetla L1iI.AL Kaui, Jan. G.- In Sprin, field County, the scat of Seward Cout tv. this imorn'ns .lo slerill and tIc deputies were killed by a squard of me in ambuIi. It is supi-osed to be th outcome of a ploL to kill Thus Botkit J utic of the jIdiU al district. It is a the result ofthe famxis Stevens Count leud, -% hich began in July, 1888, an has continued wit.h few interruptlon Judge Botkin, ol' Seward County, Wi t o hold Caurt, at Springfield to-day. S W-rd County befor its organization wa part of Stevens Counts. There is county teat war on between Spr ugflel' and Arkalon. A mob composed of th old Stevens County faction were < etei mined thAt, Botkin should not hol Court at Springlield. Tle Sherift an posse were on their way to escort th Judge to his Court. WYhen near th Jud.e's house they ran into an ambush Shicrifl Dunn and Sieriff-elect Itay Guv man were killed. One ot the deputie is missinlg. Mrs Larrabce ran to Judg Botkin's house and told him of his dar ger. ie flew ov-r Arkalon with hi family. Ile bas 'aken refuge in a hous and hts l ien ds -e holding the mob v bay. His friends are calling on able bo I ied, law-abiding citizens throuIlou the country to rally to his support. Toi>I.:KA, KANs, Jan. 5.-Adjt Gen Roberts has been ordered by ilie Gov .rnor to t ake a company of men and g to tLe scene of the trouble in Sewa'r Countv at once, it I irniore 1orce seem necessary as events (:clo) to order 1 to his aid. Adjt Gen. Roberts wired Col R"ickseeker to have Company A, of th 1st, regiment, ne.t the revular Roc Island train at lutchinson to-morroi at 7 o'cloe'. Sheill'Dun. who i q mur(lered thi lornin,, wa subponacd as a witnes by the committee w ho first investigate the charges against ]otkin. No damag mnie evidence was aldduced andl he wa aterwardi called by the defence an proved one of lBotkil's best witnesses It is nioL likely that. tile Li oubic is ended The tact s in regar. t> the consp1irac liscov -ed by tile .) ind.;e go to show thn it the ;itack on him it ,a ambush prove ilislcces*1l the( lb. would go to hi house oi wherever lie was and wurdt him1l. It iS thO .ilt I.Li attempt of th kind will be 11.de to-night. Aia net %>e Lottery. N 0i.-i.:.%N., Dec. 30.-.Judge M< Efery this iotning oent to Senat: Jonies hits )Ltr (4 acceptawice of' tU I)emiocrati- lio,ii.--tio I for governo imaninously , a % -Worol him by thellato lloigv colnvei ion. Tho govc:nor t,ak ground t: .). ine lottery, vot belie, itg that tie Sta e -oudd t:ke ti he bi d(-n cf ttxa iou - iti y 'yo the sbouldej ot th--- po )le ano obt!* n its revenu Ihrough the oper.t- n l a lo-te . II ,loes not beIeve : : . - e lotiery quei tion shoold r erwiLttd to 1 sr10pt 1i Democratc i rty, -d thinkl tile oi nents; o" t: ! v I e am -dieri should iNe der di the ipropos tio without noii .g an inependCr ticket. lie vo -o e a p u .al disco sion ol the p:opo i.on, -d tinks ti campaign for aitd ag,ai At the lottet should be conilint : fl Witlout bitteroef an(1 strife. lie ern icis: s the Allian movement, and '' - ie farmers t remedy the ev 's ey complain c thrangh the DiAmoe allic party. Th letter is lengthy, but, is largely devote to the lottery questiou aut its variot phases. Judge AlEnerys stand agaim the lottery puts him on the same fool iug with tienator Foster, who is als against the lottery. Died In the DeniK''s Chair. PiT Tsuu no, Pen ni., D)ec. 31 .--Bernar Mahan, aI young gltss-b)lo wer, met deat today ini the denist's chair by inhalin too much v'italize:l air, ile we-itto th oflice of D)r. W. S. Tat 'as to aet rid of tooth that, hinta l.ecn trouibhiag him fe some dlays, lie was afraid of the pair1 and SO got the (kni h to dose him wit the vtalized air. The toot'i wi's the pulled w1ithl great Sacete, lbut the rt vi val of the patient was anoi ier thing The doctor worised with the man fc over an1 hour, buat wats unaable to restor him to conIciisnless and life, an about 4 o'clock lie called an aimbu 'ane Tihe m;tn was again examinedl. All ai i mat ion had lbh(, and1( the body w&i titken to the Mlorgue. The coroner wi: hold mti inquel(st to (day. D)r. Yatesi anI old praeaiiioir, havii<.g beeni Pittsburg for over thirty years. 11 gav e Alahan the usual dose. Alaha wats thirty-one ye.>ris old, and leaves wi 'e anld several '!hildretl. Smnaitpo,x s id Yeillow xver. Lumiox, .hm. 1.- L'>rd Salhsbury vlha recea vedl a cale dIt p).itchI riro the lDril i'dh Consuil aLt Samt i . co'dirming the ra cnt :''aro.i reit>.Is ill regardI to th rta' of Clmt. I d .rllow fever an 1111 pOX. 1';> 'ii X.i' Al,as of met * anC v si l hi:t dieat c . her from bo;te' v'omit, or .-mallp'x vithin twv l)Oin.his. I '.a soir' - ve .els the entir si p' *, commpa a v oli *era and crewv, hav' p e. id. S'een :,li1ors' . died in t,h sir: :s, so0 (j,uck' fut da i I' been th dhiseasie. It 's #5 it ilmaL d t imt, at leas two tliars of the perso a attatcked hay died. Tlhte f,.'e:ll 1m..i 'alty of' victim are eni aran les and( 'aor. Then Conusu writas tl'ett10 .1 :I gre a er mortality thai now exists is loole d for dutring the ho Iiul as oh Janieary and Februairy. Snmow, ilckadte. A i,It:QUIiI E'i, N. AIl., IDec. 30 loth the sant a Fe a1t14 A tlantic and P aci lic roads are troubled a with serious lociaadies. No Eaust ernt iil s hav'e beel receiveda here o ver then nOlt aFe for iou days. P'ascen gr trainis mare ini blockade in the lt:ium mounliitinfs and( the leve stretchl oh c*ountryi iln the niigihborhood of Springer. A numbher of engines art oil' the track ini tile block dle. rThe snov1 blockade (on thle At t' ~e and P'acific i Aewee G rani and 11( Chieeve's, abou oneC hundredIC4 mfle werst, 0. this~ city The snlo torm,is ini thIe mlount)'ains aIr re'por'ted to lbe sOmetash ing unhecard of ho meyerity, andl Stoies' of great suffrin amona( the villaces 1ii t,be mountain art, iln circtihdionl Eight Mena I-Ied. Cu 'A Uo, .Jao. ; A Alacont, Gia., spa cial says el' it n '. were I 'Ied in generat tight,att Ieh'tt &. WIlI a ms Lii I pentiane stip' in e" ch Cou unty. Th tight start.ed with a quiarrel betwee two of the tnena nlameld Adahms and J1oh Parker over at' i ed cheat' og jo a g:- m of car'ls. Pa.rker began the snaootinj Hot.h he c ad W'jiniaai were kill1d. ,.TlElR STATUS DECIDEI o HASKELLITES NOT READ OUT OF TI DEMOCRATIC PARTY. Pac fie Action Taken by the Deomocra y E.zecutive Coninttee-Much Talk it tho Sumter Content-Seat Given the I 8 form Candidate. 8 COLUMM A, S. C., Jan. 6.-The St - Democratic Executive Committee a 8 at the Carolina National Bank h a night at eight o'clock. The followi i members were present: Abbeville, W. Jones; Aiken, O'C. Jordan; Andi son, W. A. Neal; Barnwell, N. II. St I sell; Berkeley, T. V. Stanland; Charli o ton, ). A. J. Sullivan; Clarendon, s C. Galluchat; Darlington, John .Waddell; Gr(aonville. J. W. Gr: y; K . shaw, T. J. Kirkland; Lanc:ister, Ira F Jones; Lexington, F. C. Caughima aLaurens, J. L. M. Irby; Mar!o), J. . Montgomery; Newbei --y, Samps P11ope; 11.chlland, Wilt@ Jo-les; Union, . Duncan; Wilhamsburg, T. C. n r longhby; York, E. B. Findley; State large, John C. Haskell. All the members had pronotinc t views on the various subjects that we to come up before the committee ai these views were rather conlicting ai - caused a number of clashes, but h D mony was preserved throughout i I meeting. 3 The Reform element wi - largelv the majority, but they did not aLtei to rush matters over the minority; th side was given the fullest and jo - opportunity to express its views. Tiu views were listened to with defereu V but they were rot alopttd. The I form meibers of the comi,nittiio d 8 played an exceedingly conciliato a spirit that will be noted with pride it their constituents all over the State. At the oi ening of the meeting thin . went very quiet for a while, and the w: - no Iriction wl'atever, but lat there was no end of speeches, and t political feeling of a year ago w-4 t( certain degree displayed, without a y show of bitterness. Action was wit out great tronole, until the Suniter nii ters were considered. Then the -e w( s long and vigorous discssions and i r guments. ' When the Sumter case was reach the c.edentials of the contestants irc the two factions known respectively the straightouts aid Tillmanit,es wt presentecL. 11. IL. Thoms representi ir the 'Tilllmanites, and W . It. ig,-ai t e strai-houts. The contest came up oi r, m1otio'i to seat Mr. ingrain, and ti n precip'tated a very acrimonious deb is led by Col. ,John C. 11askell, oi beh: r- of Ingram, supported by Mes i.,lot r- of Lancaster and Jordan of Aiken. '1 -s ooier side was represented by Ir. Sa e son 'ope of Newberry and Mr. Wadd e of Darlington. I- At this stage Pnd before any v< o was taken, Col. Ilaskell, acting for >- Ingra n, presered the following re s lutions, which had beeti prepared by i n Ingram, and urged their aopt ion a t lnat and peaceful settle- tic of i Sumter troub'e: e Whereas two bodies claim to he I y executive committee of the Democra s party for Su iter county, and it is i e portant that this matter of d-fferet o should be adjusted as soon as p.ssibi f 1"'esolved, That the State executi o committee recomniend that that ho (I or committee recognizing 1). iC. X#' s as its head and as county chairman it the Democratic party for Siniter coC - ty, and that body or commit e rt .-t o nizing John S. Ilughson as its head, I as such county chairman, each seit one man, a Democratic voter of Su ten county, and the two voters s') sel ii ed select a third voter of tthe couw bi and that the three so appoin)t I cons~ Lr tute commissioners of electiont fer e primary election in said Sumter couz. a Jo- an executive committee for t r Dt mtocrat,ic party for the couni y , ti1 , said commissioners have 10i'I power ti name three managers for everyv vcti Li precinct in Sumter coum.t.', nt' e*ch wich precinct there shall US 0one a i. only one box. Tl.hat elections be hei r on a day named after -- ays pul e notice, for an executive com tittee a: d that the persons receiving the hight 3. number of votes at such e' ct.on sih -he declared by such co umrissioners 5 election to be the Exectiive Commi I tee of the Democratic party for Sumnt S county until another i'actio1 is Ia in and declared under the c'.stBitution S the Democrat,ic party. Eachi of these ii committees now cie ming to be a reg a lar body, may nomi 'nte a tidAet of' . teen, one from each township, to voted for at the election he eiii reco, mendled. The executive comminittee s elected shall chose o.ieof thin-r itnim chairman. The election so order shall be under the requirements an'd stractions of the act, of the L4egis'-nui 1or this State reguiating primary t ions. " "That the executive committee " elected shall at once p)roceed to organi a the county Democracy by authoriz'i a the organization of t wo clubs a'id more ini each township in sa 'd coui 4 That aft.e" .ne clubs so authorized a t, organized, then rolls 0; n emnbersh shall be sent in to the executive cot m~nittee for comtparh.on with oti er rol for rev ision antd correction at least tv' weeks btefore t'he nece lng of at,y co ve'ntionl of thte party in said county. "'hat the roil, so re . d, 'tall for, the basis of representa' -o' in the co vention for the clubs respectively in tI proportion requiredI by provision of ti Iconstitution of the Democratic party the State. "Th'iat should this suiggestic be adopt.ed, tihe organization perfecti r through the method herein suggeste shall be taken and 'onsider i by th commutittee as thle tre' a and legal orgail zaitlol of the Democratic party lor Stin ten C unty and the pre.ent organ izatic 'n mi ii county shalt be disbandled." '' On motion of Gen. J. Walter(Gray th a wIhc ematter of'the Sumter conteat wa t, refetre-d to a commiittee of three,< .wh'ch Gen. G;ary was made chiaa The c motit,tee alta', an hours' del r~ eration reportedl tha~t they fot id th Sprio)r to the meeting of thie S ,tomb a conventio-i t,here was no J)e'noe al 0s ,an saitin in Sumter county andl Lh thereupon Col. Irby h ad inscructcd P'. Gailliard, the former county cl' 'irmla -to proceed to 'Nganize the county. 'I'l a Mr. Galliard refused to do on ti -groutnd that he was no0 lon)ger couni e chairman, haying been succeeded a D)r. Johni S. Ilugheon. Fiurthe1r that I a effort having neen made by what e known as the Straightour,t fctio i ~. organize under irby's order, the TJi manites then came tog-ther nd, (dered a pri inirv %i tiir F-i ion to pit ag,iust thei ws )rrelot-, noninees of a tie otlher faltlou previovoly rominated 1) -E by a piimary. b Tlis piiary of t h- T1llmanit -, In the opnion of *th ,o nmit tee deve'oped I the fat that the ' ltanites had a ma- " c jority of !-e De o ts ' thV'e county a and for this reaso they reeomnntided ; " that Mr. THovme who represented that . fact ion shoul be m( ited w itch was ac cordingly done. Thosv who voted c igaaist, the repor of the committee % L-e w(re John C. Hflaked, Ira 11. Joned, y dor-.anl, Findley d ui(tvan. V The lollowing iR the oflicial I eport of I%t the comini tee, which w:s adopted as A i above stated: A. "We, the spc.-ial commit le -Appointed N to investigate tl-e Sumter contest and o resolutions offered by Mr. 11askell in t< m- reference to same, beg leave respectful ly to report that we have carefully con- tj -. sidered the same and sid- p M- "First, That up to the 10th of Septem- t1 3 ber, 1890, there was Do legally organized o Democracy in Sumter county as decidVd by the Sentember convention. - "S"cond, That said State convention recommended the reorganization of the I - Democracy In Sumter c3unty under the v - new constitution adopte,1 by the said 14 a September convention. n "Third, That the Cailliard faction it ed t( ok no steps to reorganize and the new tj re constitution. (I )d "Fourth, That the Keels faction made an elfort to carry out the recoinmeoda tions of the Stite convention which was 10 ratilled by the people at a Democratic iprimary. L "Therefore your committee reconi- l lt mend the seating of Mr. II. I. Thomas, 3 -- the member of tNe -tSlte E:ecutivo L< t Cotnmitt!e fromi Sumter county. LI ir The argumient on t Ie Sminter case was k Ce very interesting. )ne member would e say '"gent!emen you don't know what i v- iot are &aling with. You are tread- N ry ing on dangerous groini. Then Col. I H7 laskell would say "voi have formed a k great gap which inky never be bridged g over." All along the argument was te rapid and many spoke against the ac er tion. One wa)te( the convention when a he it tmet in May to decide it. a Col. I laskell moved that t lie chairman aY of the Democratic executive committee "- issue an immediate call for the reor tt- gani7.al ion of the pai ty and fot the May re conventiot. Adopled. tr- Mr. Willooglhby introduced the fIol lowving r<solt ion, wich was adopted: ed Rtesolved, That a committee of three 1 he appointted1 by the chair. one of whom as shall be the chait man of the executive .r committee, to prepare rules and reguil.. 1g tions to govern tint reorganizatio of tie the lemocratic parLy and to r- 0om k a mend rtiles for it gover.nmenl of the Is primary ele:tiols, *o be ,tubinitted to the cotlty vonventions for a(ioption. ( l s Messrs. lib.v, ,Jones and Pope were appointed on this I connit( e. They vwill le meet in a few dave ry likely at Lau. m- rens, to take actiou. eI Col. laskell moved that the repr sentation in the next Democratic cou veitiotn Lie do 1ble the nembers of the ir Gviier: Asse'nbly and i hat I he repre S0 sentat'on biad upon tre Ilouse of i st nut i ves be i' in the apportion s a et mider I he act of t lie last Legisla l. .ure. Adapted. WiheW ien the Simitcr matter was comi tc plet.ed, the all impo -.ant qtiestion, that (c as to whether the men wto voted for m. .ldge Mhiskeli woo'd be r'lowed to vote ce or not, was taken up, and the following -eri solutions wcr! uifered by Mr. ,Jo-dan: (e Resolvt d, Th . ir, is the sense of this dv committee that all whito Democrats Is who shall present thIem1selvNes for mem Or ber:!hip to any subilrdi late Donocratic r c eltibs, or wt-o sliall offer to vote at any 9-pri,iary (lection be leii by tihe lein- I. 1d ocratic party, shall first take the follow- v inig oathi, to w it: That lie is a Deno- % crat. and will support the notinees of ( the Demnocratic party nominiatedI at ~. said election. I lie.ol vedl, fin ti r', That all ca ni.. a (lates for any ollice tm the D)emocratic 7" piimai y 'lctLions shall pledge tl'em- s li selves to abide the :esult of tho D)emo- o ~cratic primtiarit o, canldidaites fo)r State r to oflces to) 1h State executive committee, -candeidat.ex for couinty oflies to the co (ullty execiltive comm(littees, respec- ~ Il Mr.l ra1l. .ioniesolfered tihe following a ie amendmilent to the resoluitions: il i1 "J lesolved, li urthe(r, That it is t he g st,1sens of th is cc n mit tee that inI tihe inte- ti rest of1 peaeci anid a unuited D)emocracy If Ifno IDemocrat shall be excluded fromn e Itpartic pa tion ina saidl primary because of(I dilere'lces during the list State b ~. Thle debhate oni these~ resoluitious and amendmenits was spicy anid interesting. "- The a'ntendme'nt was opplosedl by sever-. X-a of the lt'lorm rnemberst of the Coin-" be( iittee. 'lThey thought that the whlite e B- p sple should he kept together and dI su) thbough t I e mnatter' would 1b e settled, r< t' sat Iisfctor'ily settled -by Itihe passage of' 1 at the resolutions. Col. 11 nski ii in speaking cn the reso liltionis without t he alintenenfl'it sa-A p -that it was a se'riouts <mueston if any onle had dieplora'l itnore th,m lie the ac- b) so tion of htis biot 'er last y. r and lie had e (lone all he could Iio pre'venit it, but cl g those wvho wvent out1 had (lone it conlsci ). enItiouisly anid it wu's a state of' things I y- non could p)revent, It, eisiterd an;l Fe coniciliatomn was a nec' sity. P A i1manii:itO e embere !oiplai ned ithat thtere wats no d; " ice muade in II 5,the res:olut.i ons butt w eli n - and those 0: 0who had left thintt. All were plae'd S upon1101 thle same fii oot it t. A no.her saidl b that the. entire resolhit'Ohs breathled of i at bLtrothecrlv f'eeling.. lie hoped the ac- b Stioni wouhl bue in ac(cordl. dI T0''hen there wax aniother' conciliatory 0 )lspeech,. in wh ichl11 Sth siterment was Iiade that ther(01 committee was there to b hd big the whlite p onle of Sout,h (Caro- ~ ,lina hack t,ogether as they ougiht to be. ci lie wanted them to comle bock, anld ~ wol ot opp~ose the re Oluttions. C ol. IlaskelI at this point mnade a n stronmg speech. lie said he! was not op posedI to the resoluitionl hut was strong- ci e ly opposed. to t,he amiendlmenmt. iIe Baid ri ta tilat there were many who wenit away ec fstrongly believing 1. iCy were rIght, and b . had( [lever c umitgedl their opinions. It tl Slook ed like tuiey w ere asking to be taken I t b rk -.ski : par.dani for t he:ir wrong- 11 rdoing. They we aaceord'ugly not in a h c alut.cof tulina. to c!omiply with thue de- hb ~itiitn i' t ie aost~ . :muent. "It simply .A P. "' ns-whien boiled dhown," lie said, 11 n, "that the:.e men are not t.o be punished v s f or thii r, wro'n-doig,ui there were any e , u.ch.'' Mo e no said could be accom ~y pht god( hv usi " them genitly. In con- I ycle~ ,Ln he said, "It is t:2e amend ment| o (lil that I minnk unwise." ( is A TIilman man announceed his disap- t to provat, as~ it, would carry away a larger I I- propor tion of the wiiite mlen,and amnong ur- t.hnm were many 01r hs own reaiv.. Another one said In an excited man er that if the Iaskell men were roiigt bnck it would cause great trou le in his county. Chairman Irby said he would handle tat aud assume the responsibility. Will you and the committee takeit 1?" be excitedly Psked, and Col. Irby -d: "I will assume all resPonsibility >r waviug the olive branch." ,Just here some one the fur of whose ,tt seemed to be rubbed the wrorg ay, uttered this: "I warn you allthat )u are dealing with fire!' This was Pry dramatic. The Pmendment was then adopted. i attempt to lay It on the table failed. he resolutions with the amendment ere then put to a vote and adopted, ne single "no" being echoed in solema mes. The committee adjourned a short mne before midnight. The above re ort of the meeting is compiled from ie columns of The State and Register this city. Terrible Depredations by Wolves. PTT-9nUn0, Pa., Jan. 6.-Paul [acke, of this city, who has a kennel of ,olfhounds at (reensburg, received a ;tter from a number of planters in a re iote section 01 New Mexico,today, ask k him to send five of his wolfhounds > that territory. The letter states that tirin- the last year 150,000 calves and tier cattle were killed by wolves, ,hich entailed a loss of $1,000,000. very remedy which the planters have itis far tried has fai'ed in the extermina on of the pest, and the pla'iters request [r. Ilacke to send a pack of his hounds > them, in the hope that through them ic loss of cattle and money would be esened. Mr. Ilacke ordered his keep. r at G' eensl:irg to put five o' the hounds i training for the Mexican planters. Ir. IIa-ke is certain that any one of his eunds can s*igly and alone tackle and ill dI e laroest and most vicious wolf. The Vear's Record. The failures for the year just passed, s repor "d by 1. G. Dun & Co., show iat tie complaints which have been so e 'er I have not been uu fovnded. The tItir s throughout the country num e 2,2.3 a:ainst 10C37 for 18). lis.is a g a er number than for any viouv, y(-tr sita 1857, when thia gency commenced keeping a record. 'lie Soui I has been especially unfortu ate. 'Inc liabilities involved in the tilures show an increase over 1890 of 0,000,;33, while in the West there is decline o[ $2.000,000. Abundant ropq aud an ntiusual market cauRed by lie failtie of crops in Europe has aided hat se .ion. Biut the country as a vhole lias suliered despite the benell eut MeKioley tai;,^( and Mr. Blaine's eciproctty. The Democratic Congress au do something for the reliet of the weople and is e.;psc,ed to do it. It Was a Joke. P.,r-iso, Pa.. Jan. G-The Hulten xpress on the Alleghany Valley Rail oad was h Id up at 11.30 last night and to pissengrs badly frightened. When he trai, reached Twenty-eight street n tlie 6y limits a sicauger appeared at inc ->r the doors of the ladies' car with L brace of bull dog revolvers and com uanled the twenty-live passengers to Id up their hands. There'was a gene al uPlimIL14 of hands whild many of the >as-engcti i crouched un'er the seats and few attemped to escape from 'te rear oor. %1 hen Forty-third street wan eached the man was overpowered from elnd ai'd taken prisor -. He gave lie name of 11. C. Camp;)ell and said it i 4 a d. inken joke. This morning he ,as sent to the workhouse for thirty ays. A Fearini Plunge. RIJOH \ioND, VA, Jan. 6.-A special >the D)ispatch from Asheville. N. C., tys: "T'o-day on the Murphy branch I the Western North Carolina Rail ad, forty miles from Asheville, eL mec of a west-bound ireighit, while de iched at a heavy grade, became uncon 'ollable and dashed down the track at fearful speed. At Dyke Ridge trestle left the rails an-I jlungedl into the L rge, laninhg in Scott's Creek, more man one hundred feet below. The fol m~ img meti w ere killed: Sam'l Francis, 'gimeer, of Asheville; Sam Arthur, 'em' 1; Riufus IIemphill and a colored anmd.' Swallowed Ii,a Rosary. l.IIiLAIpLPr[A, Jan. 7.-Inspired ith the (lea, a t his act would give him erlastmng life, .Jarres Mullen, while amcnted, forcedh down his thorat the >sary wIch he wore around his neck. e usedl a ten-inch stIck which went >Wni aso0. The brass cross on fie 'sar'y (caught in h's throat and this m')~ably savedl the miadmnan's life. Theon the poli" arr'ved Mullen was aick bim the ' '. Vigorous thumping mused the ejectment of' the rosary, hich wats two feet long and contained 'Ly beads. il'arding House Hioiocaust. SA N lFitANC.qco, .Jan. 3.-Elmer S olTord of Ci' s e'-, N. 11, F. B. TucLer Sac eim' ' , r 'd E. W. Foster of 2'O i y' e bur ied? ) death in their ardIiOg hoc'se at Sanford, C'n1. T. C. amm)iond, a printer, was fatally hurt ,jumIfp 'g fromk the second story sin iw. lie (lied later in the day. Six hers whew:e names are unknown, were ~tally burned. The fire was sr,arted 'ti e ex plosion of a coal oIl stove in eo boarding house. The Methodiss iurch i id several adjoining d wellings ere also deostro3 ed. Shot and Killed by a Burglar. lIDIANAPOFAs, lad , Jan. .-A ape al to t.he News from Seymour, lnd., 31ports that L. W. Marsh, a prominent .tzeni, wvas this morning shot and killed y a burglar. Marsh awoke and found me burglar going through his clothes. le c'iased the bur'~lar and c.mght him 1the yard ouitsise the house. The urglar found Marsh was getting the est of him and d rew a pistol and shot f:trsh through the breast, killing him ntantly. Tha burglar escaped, best the hole population is hunting him. Washed Aeh.re. LONDON, ,Jan. 6.-The bodies of the te ward and second officer of the steamer avalier have been washed ashore on ic coast of Cornwvalls. The Cavalier mut Gib)ralat December 8 for Falmouth. ever'al d tys ago a boat marked Cavahe.r as )icl-ed up off' the Scilly Islands.