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VOL. XXi PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1892. NO 21. A VIEW OF REAVEN. DR. TALMAGE TELLS OF A THIRTY MINUTES' GLIMPSE OF PARADISE. A Sermon on tile nenu1tiful but Oft Neg lected Text frons Revelation vili, 1, "There Wits Sitnco in leaven About the Space of lalf an i Hour " BROOKLYN, Jan. 31.-Dr. Talmage has of late been preaching on texts Of Scripture that seem to have been neg lected, and here is a sermon on a beau tiful text which prob,ably was never be fore selected for ai discouirse. Revela tion viii, 1, "There was silence in heav en about the space of half an hour." The busiest place in the universe is heaven. It is the center from which all good influences start. It is the goal at which all good results arrive. The Bible represents it as active with wheels and wings and orchestras and processions mounted or charioted. But my text descriles a space when the wheels ceased to roll, and the trumpets to sound, and the voices to chant. The riders on the white horses reined in their chargers. The doxologies were hushed and the processions halted. I'le hand of arrest was put upon all the splendors. "Stop, heaven!" cried an omnipotent voice, and it stopped. For thirty minutes everything celestial stood still. "There was silence in heav en for half an hour." From all we can learn it is the only time heaven ever stopped. It aoes not 3top as other cities for the night, for there is no night the::e. It does not stop for a plague, for the inhabitants never says, "I am sick." It does not stop for bankruptces, for its inhabi tants never fail, It does not stop for impassable streets, for there are no fallen snows nor sweeping freshets. What, then, stopped it f or thirty minu tes? C-rotius and Professor Stuart think it was at the time of the destruc tion of Jerusalem. Mr. Lord thinks it was in the year 311, oetween the close of the Diocletian persecution and the beginning of the wars by which Con stantine gained the throne. But that was all a guess, though a learned and brilliant guess. I do not know when it was and I do not care when it was, but of the fact that such an interreg num of sound took place, I am certain. "There was silence in heaven for half an hour." The full power of silence many of us have yet to learn. We are told that when Christ was arr:tigned "lie an. swered not a worik." That silence was louder than any t.lunder that ever shook the woild. Oftentimes, when we are assailed and nisrepresented, the mightiest thing to say is to say noth ing, and the mightiest thing to do is to do nothing. Those people who are al ways rushing into print to get them selves set right accoinplish nothing but their own chagrin. Silen:-e! I)o right and leave the results with (od. Among the grandest le.-sons the world has ever learned are the lessons of patience taught by those who endured uncom plainingly personal or domestic or so cial or political inijustice. Oh, the power of patient silencel Eschylus, the immortal poet, was con demned to death for writing something that offended the people. All the pleas in his behalf were of no avail, until his brother uncovered the arim of the pris oner and showed that his hand had been shot oil at Salamis. That silent plea liberated him. The loudest thing on earth is silence if it be of the right kind and at the right time. There was a quaint old hymn, spelled in the old style, and once sung in the churches: The race is not forever got By him who fa3test runs, Nor the Battel Iy thoso peoell That shoot with the longest guns. My friends, theNossing Sea of Galilee seemedl most to offend Christ by the amount of noise it maide, for he said to it, "lie still!" H1eavert has been crown ing kings and queenis unto God for many centuries, yet heaven never .stopped a moment for any such occur rence, but it stopped thirty minutes for the coronation of Silence. "There was silence in heaven for half an hour.'' Learn also from my text that heaven must be an eventfuml and active place, from the fact that it could afford only t thirty minutes of recess. There have been events on earth and in heaven that seemied to demand a whole (lay or w hole week or wvhole year for celestial consideration. If Grotius was right and this silence occurr-ed at tihe time of thbe destruction of J er usakm, that scene was so awvful and so prolonged that the inhabitants of heaven couad not have done justice to it in many weeks. After fearful besiegement of the twc fortresses of Jlerusalem-Antonio and Hlippicus-hiad tbeen going on for a long while, a R~omanu soldier mounted onl the~ shoulder of another soldier hl ed intc the windlow of thet teimple a lirebrand, andl the temple was all allame, and( af ter covering many sacriices to the huoli ness of God, the building itself became a sacriflece to the rage of man. Thme hunger of the people in that city dur ' Ing the besiegemnent was so great that as some outlaws were passing a dloor way and inhaled the odors of food, they burst opeun the door, threatening the mother of' the household with death un less she gave them some food, and she took thetn aside and showed them It was her own child she was cooking fox the ghastly repaust. Six hundruedl pries ts were destroyed on Mount Zion buecause tihe temiple be ing gone there was nothing for them to do. Six thousand people in one cloister were consunmed. Ther-e were one million One hundred thousand dleadl according to Josephus. Grmotius thinmks % that this was thme cause of silence in1 heaven for half an hour. .1 lf Mr. Lord was right and this silence was dumrinig A the Diocletian persecutions, by whicl: eight hundred and forty-four thousand Christians suifered (death from sworc and fire andi banishlment and exposure why did not heaven listeni throughout at least one of those awful years? No Thirty minutes! The fact Is that the celestial programme is so crowdled withi spectacle that It can afford only one re cess in all eternity andi that for a short space. Not only are all the triumphs of the past to be commemorated, but all the triumphs to come. Not only what we now know, of God, but what we will know of him after everlasting study of the DelfIc. If my text had said there was silence in heaven for thirty days I wpmuhd niot have been startled at the announcement, but It indicates thirty Smir tes. Why, there will be so many frieid to untt up; so many rst the greatly goud and useful that we will want to see; so manv of the inscrutable things of earth we will need explained; so many exciting earthly experiences we will want to talk over, and all the other spirits and all the ages will want the same, that there will be no more opportunity for cessation. How busy we will be kept in haying pointed out to us the heroes and hero. toes that the world never fully appre ciated--the yellow fever and cholera doctors who died, not flying from their posts; the female nurses who faced pestilence in the lazarettos; the railroad engineers who staid at their places in order to save the train though they themselves perished. Hubert Gofiln, the master miner, who landing from the bucket at the bottom of the mine, just as he heard the wa ters rush in, and when one jerk of the rope Would have lifted him into safety, put a blind miner who wanted to go to his sick child in the bucket and jerked the rope for him to be pulled up, cry ing, "Tell them tne water has burst in and we are probably lost, but we will seeK ref uge at the other end of the right gallery;" and then giving the command to the other miners till they digged themselves so near out that th~e people from the outside could come to their rescue. The multitudes of men and women who got no crown on earth we will.want to see when they get their crown in heaven. I tell you heaven will have no more half hours to spare. Besides that, heaven is full of Chil dren. They are in the vast majority. No child on earth that amounts to any thing can be kept quiet half an hour, and how aie you going to keep five hundrod million of them quiet halt an hour. You know heaven is much more of a place than it was when that recess of thirty minutes occurred. Its popula tion has quardrupled, sextupled, cen tupled. Heaven has more on hand. more of rapture, more of knowledge, more of intercommunication, more of worshir. My subject also impresses me with the immortality of a half hour. That half hour mentioned in my text is more widely known than any other period in the calendar of heaAen. None of the whole hours of heaven are measured off, none of the years, none of the cen turies. Of the millions of ages past and the millions of ages to come not one is especially measured oil in the Bible. The half hour of my text is made immortal. The only part of eter nity that was ever measured by earthly timepiece was measured by the minute hand of my text. Oh, the half hours! They decide everything. I am not asking what you will do with the years or months or (lays of your life, but what of the half hours. Tell me the history of your half hours and I will tell you the story of your whole life on earth and the story of your whole life iu eternity. The right or wrong things you can think in thirty minutes, the right or worng things you can say in thirty minutes, the right or worng things you can (1o in thirty minutes are glorious or baleful, inspiring or desperate. Look out for the fragments of time. They are piece, of eternity. The half hour when in the parsonage or a country minister I resolved to be come a Christian then and there; the half hour when I decided to become a preacher of the Gospel; the half hour when I first realized that my son was dead; the half hour when I stood on the top of my house in Oxford street and saw our church burn; the half hour in which I entered Jerusalem; the half hour in which I ascended Mount Cal vary; the half hour in which 1 stood on Mars hill; the half hour in which the dedicatory prayer of this temple was made, and about ten or fifteen other half hours are the chief times of my life. You may forget the name the exact years or most of the importaut events of your existence, but those half hours like the hour of my text, will be 1(d0 not query what you will do with the T wentieth centuary, I do not query what you will do with 1892, but what will you do with the next half hour? Upon that hinges your destiny. And during that some of you will receive the Gospel and make complete surren der, and during that others of you will make final and fatal rejection of the full and free and urgent and imnpas sioned offer of life eternal. Oh, that the niext half hour might be the most glorious thirty minutes of your earthly existenc e. Far back in history a great geogra p)her stood with a sailor looking at a globe that repsesented our p)lanet, and he pointedi to a place on the globe where he thought there was an undiscovered continent. The undliscovered continent was America. The geographer whc pointedl where lie thougrht there was a new worldl was Miartin llehaim,and the sailor to who hie showed it was Colum bius. This last was not satisfied till h( had picked,that gem ott of the sea and set it in the crown or the world's geog raphmy. Oh, ye who have been sailing uf and (down the rough seas of sorrow and sin, l.et me point out to you another continent, yea, another world, that you may yourselves find a rapturous world, andi( that is the world a half hour of which we rrow study. Oh, set sail for it! Ilere i.. the ship and here are the compasses. Again, my text suggests a way of studiymg heaven so that we can better understand it. Th le word "eternity' that we handle so much is an immeas. tura ble worldl. Knowing that we could not underst and that word the Bible uses it only once. We says, "Forever and ever," bitt how long is "forever aid ever ?" I am glad that my text putt undi(er our eye heaven for thirty mm. tttes. As when you would see a greal picture you put a sheet of paper into scroll and( look through it, or join youm forelinger to your thumb and 'loot through the circle between, and the p)ictuire becomes more intense, so thim masterpiece of heaven by St. John h more irmpressive when we take only hmbirty minutes of it at a time. Now we have something that we can come nearer to grasping, and it Is a quiet heaven. When we discourse about the multitudes of heaven it must be almost a nervous shock to those whc have all their lives been crowded by many people and who want a quiel heaven. "There was silence in heaven for hall an hour." You will find the inhabitante all at home. Enter the King's ['ahace and take only a glimpse, for we have only thirty mintues for all heaven. "It that Jesus ?" Yes." Just under the hair along his forehead is the mark of a wound made by a bunch of twisted brambles. and hisfo o h trn has on the round of his instep another mark of a wound made by a spike, and a scar on the plain of the right hand, and a scare on the palm of the left hand. But what a countenance! What a smile! What a grandeur! What a loveliness! What an overwhelming look of kindness and grace! Why, he looks as If he had redeemed a world! But come on, for our time is short. Do you see that row of palaces? That is the Ap3stolic row. Do you see that long reach of architectural glories? That is Martyr row. Do you see that immense structure? That is the big gest house in heaven ; that is "the House of Many Mansions." Do you see that wall? Sbade your eyes against its burn ing splendor, for that is the wall of hea ve4, jasper at the bottom and amethyst at the,top. See this river rolling through the heart of the great metropolis? That is the river concerning which those who once lived on the banks of the Hudson or the Alabama, or the Rhine, or the Shannon say, "We never saw the like of this for clarity and sheen." That is the chief river of heaven-so bright, so wide, so deep. But you ask "Where are the asylums for the old ?" I answer "The inhabitants are all young.' "Where are the hospitals for the lame?" "They are all angile." "Where are the infirmaries for the blind and deaf?" "They all see and hear." "Where are the almshouses for the poor ?" "They are all multimillionaires." "Where are the inebriate asylums?" "Why, there are no saloons." "Where are the grave yards?" "Vliy, they never die." Pass down those boulevards of gold and am qer and sapphire and see those inter mnimable streets built by the Architect of the universe into homes, over the threshold of whicn sorrow never steps, and out of whose windows faces, once paic with earthly sickness, now look rubicund with immortal health. "Oh, let me go in and tee them ?" you say. No, you cannot go in. There are those there who would never consent to let you come up. You say, "Let me stay here in this place where they never sin, where they never suffer, where they never part." No, no! Our times is short; our thirty minutes are almost gone. Come on! We must get back to the earth before this half hour of heavenly silence breaks up, for in your mortal state you cannot endure the pOm1p and splendor and resonance when this half hour of silence is ended. The duy come when you can see hea ven ih full iblast, but not now. I am now only showing you heaven at the dullest half hour of all the eternities. Come on! There is something in the celestial appearance which makes mc think that the half hour of silence wiil soon be over. Yonder are the white horses being hitched to chariots, and yonder are seraphs lingering harps as if about to strike them into symphony, and yonder are conquerors taking down from the blue halls of heaven th( trumpets of victory. Remember, we are mortal yet, and cannot endure the full roll of heavenli harmonies and cannot endure even thi silent heaven for more than half at hour. Hark! the clock in the tower o: heaven begins to strike and the hal hour is ended. Descend! Come back Come down till your work is done Shoulder a little longer your burdens Fight a little longer your battles Weep a little longer your griefs! Anc then take heaven not in its dullest hall half hour, but in its mightest pomp and insLead of taking it for thirty minutei take it world without end. But how will you spend the first hall hour of your heavenly citizenship aftei you have gone in to stay? After youi prostrition before the throne in wor ship of him who made 1t possible fcr you to get there at all, I think the rest of your first half hour in heaven will be passed in receiving your reward if you have been faithful. I have a strangely beautiful book containing the pictures of the medals struck by the English government in honor of great battles, these meduals pinned over the heart of the returned heroes of the army on great occasions, the royal family present; the Crimean medal, the Victoria cross, the Waterloo medal. In your first half hour in heaven in some way you will be honored for the earthly struggles in which you won the day. Stand up before all the royal house of heaven and receive the in' signia while you are announced ai victor over the dIroughts and fresheti of the farm field, victor over the temp tations of the Stock exchange, victot over professional all urements, victom over domestic infelicities, victor ove] mechanic's shop, victor over the store house, victor over home worriments victor over physical distresses, victot over hereditary depressions, victor ovel sin and (death andl hell. Take the badg< that celebrates those victories througi our Lord ,Jesus Christ. Take It in thi presence or all the galleries-samntly angelhe and (divine! Thy saints In all this glorious wvar Shall conquer though they die. 'Thley see the triumph from afar, And seize It with their eye. A Iirutali Murder. D AnINGTNON, Feb. 1.-A dIruinket quarrel had a tragic and fatal endini near Darlington to-day. IIenry ,Jone and George Moody were in town to-da, and both had been drinking too mucd Some words passedl between them as t which was the best man physically Shortly afterwards they parted and n one thought the affair would go an: further. .Jones left town with his wir andi when two miles In the country wa overtaken by Moody and two of hi friends. Moody Immediately renewc< the qjuarrel andM Mrs .Jones prevente< her husband from getting out of thi 'buggy. ,Just at this juncture Mood ap)proached the buggy and held Mr, J1ones's hands, re'straining her from the interference wvhich she attemp)ed t4 make, at the same moment shoioting .Jones with a pistol. The ball hit .Jone| slightly over the right eye, entering thi frontal bIone andl piercing the brain Dr. A. T. Baird was immediately sum mnoned, andl when he saw the (lead mai said that death was instantaneous iloth were white men-Jones abou 45 years, and Moody about 30. Mood1 lived in this county. Jones in Florec County. The murderer fled1 at once and It is not known where lhe is at pros ent.-News and Courier. A Big Revival. PA coL r, 8. C., ,Jan. 29.-- A midlwin tar revivival conducted by the R1ev Thiomas 1[. Leitoh closed here las nig:a'. Over six hundred of our peop4 profe3:s:ed a new life. One hundre( and forty united with the church as the result of this meeting. Mr. Leitch wil leave to-day for his next appointmeni with Rev. .Tahn Attaway. N SAD SUICIDE. CAUSE, THEFALSE REPORT OFHER HUSBAND'S DEATH. The Huaband Is Wild with Grief, and Hi1 Ieason Dethroned-A Former Suitor Charged with Circulating the Report. PARIS, Feb. L.-A tragic af'iIr is re. ported from Lucerne. Switzerland. A young French woman whose beauty and other good qualities attracted mnity suitors, accept,ed as her husband au English naval officer. The husband al ter a brief honeymoon, was summoned abroad, and joined his vessel on a voy age to the east. Ile left his bride at Lucerne, promising a speedy return. Not long atterward the youni wife received a telegram telling her that heli husband had died of cholera, in India. The blow caused her brali to reel, and friends who hastened to consola ier tound that she was nmail. She contitAually raved about her dea(d husband, and ',er Insanity took a suici dal tendency, and she poisoned hesell with cyanide. She ilied and was buried at Lucerne. The wife had been dead but a fev, days when the husband made his ap pearance, and tile people of the ious( were astonished when they saw him and at first thought he had come bact from the (lead. When convimced tha he was really alive they hesitated to tei him the truth. At length one sum,1 moned courage to confess to the hus bard, now himself almost crazy witl fears for the worst, that his bride wai (ead. Wild with grief, lie demanded to bi taken at once to hier grave. IIe wa, escorted there and shown the littk iound, which still bore tile fresh mark. of the grave digger's spade. The husband threw hiimself on thc grave and burst into a passion of grief At first it was feared his reason, too, woul(I give away. When lie had gradu ally recovered they told him the stor3 of the telegram, with the iews of hil death. lie exclaimed that lie knev who had sent the cruel message, that i must be tile former suitor for the han of his wife, who had shown hitter dis appointment, and threatened revene. Ile mentioned tihe name or this persoi and declares that he will not rest unti his wife's murderer, as lie calls the per son whom lie suspects, is brought t justice. FACTION WAR IN KENTUCKY. ltIvalling The Hatfield M'Coy Strife-Soi eral Killed. PINEVILLE, Ky., Jan. 29.--A factiot al fued that promises to rival in bloo4 shedding the famous Ilatield-McCc or any of the other desperate faction; wars which have made this section < Kentucky notorious, has broken out i the southern part of this county. T1 scene is the wild mountain localil know as "South America," about sevei teen miles from the nearerst railroi point. Owing to the inaccessibility of ti place, particlars of the light are hal to be obtained. Three men have bee killed snce last Saturday. Their nam are Manuel Parton, Lee Davis and W i Jones. The fight is between Berr Turner, notourious outlaw and murdei er, who has killed more men than an other man who has ever terrorized thi section, with a strong gang, and th Parton faction. The Parton side is a strong on', all claim to have the law on their side, bii so far they have had the hot end of th feud.- .Parton was killed Saturday. HI had essayed to capture Berry 'ITurnei dead or alive, and posted himself at convenient distance from at hIousei which Turner was fortified, with lnmber of his gang. It was probaial IPar.ton's intention to shoot Turne at the first opportunity, but the latte had too much cunning. The outlas discovered the whereabouts of hi would be slayer, and at an unguarde moment succeeded in drawing a bea on the latter and sent a hail I rom i Wilnchester crashing through P'arton head. 'The body of Parton w as allowed i lie in tile woods for four days, hi friends being afraid to attemplit to re: cue it. When it was finally taken awa; tile body had been partially dievoutre by hogs. T1his mutrder only Iiredl the Panic faction to desperate warfare agaim~ the Turner side, and on Wednesdr they made ai 1bold attempilt to atvenig tile death of one of their men. The at was disastrous to the l'arton's as tw more of their numbher, Lee D)avis al! Bill .Jones, were killed. Th'lere is talk of organizing a pcsse I officers from this county andl tre Claiborn county, Tenn., to attempt t1 capture of T1urner, and a big light wv undoubtedly follow. Two H uan iends, VIENNA, Jan. 30o.-T-ihe sensation i trial and conviction of Frank Schnieid and his wife, Rosalie Schneider, 1i ..murdering eiht servant girls, hi ): brought out many new and startlirl .facts in connection with the revolir > crimes alleged to have been commiittA i by the couple. A mid the most inten excitement the prisoner deCscribed(, i all its hlorrible details, his method< I strangling the poor girls who wereC hint I to their death ini his iiouse. iIe sai I that he had not empijloyed( chlorofori Sin any instance. If is victims werea ways conscious when lie att acked thier I andl he was aissitd in his horrib.h I work by hits wife. She, lie dleclare< > used to hold( the handls of the strugglin girls while he grasped t hem by ti neck and choked their life out,. I Schneider admittedi that lie assaulit( .the girls before choking them to deatli Mrs. Schneider, after her husband hai assaulted and strar.gi(ed tie girl .helped to drag their bodies into a neigh boring woods, whlere she strippedh thei iof their clothing. Death of D)r. M anley. LOUJISVILL,E, Ky., F"eb. I.. D)r. Has Manley, professor of Old TIestamer interpretation and b)lblical introducio in the Southern Baptist Thieologicl Seminary, died here last ilght. I had been sick several weeks with pnet0 Smonia resulting from grip, Ile wI born December 19, 1825, near Edlgefieb S.C., and was the son of thle late Bas Manley, president of tile Univeisity< IAlabama. Hie was one of the foundei of the Southern Baptist Theologici Seminary. A YOUNG LADY MISSING. Charleston Detectiven at Work on a Sensational Mystery. CIIARLESTON, S. C., Jan. 28.-Charles ton detectives have a Recret to discover and a mytery to unravel, which it will re<quire their keenest wits to accom plish. And when the story comes to light, the reputation of a virtuous wo man will be sustaineo, and sensation mongers will be rebuked. On the 20th of November last, Miss Etta Melride, an engaging young lady of relinemet, and education, about twenty-six years old, with auburn hair and bright blues eyes, started from Ilur illngton, \rermont, to Charleston, where she wias to spend the winter. Before leaving Burlington she wrote to ier parents in Garden City, Minnesota, tell Ing them that her health required thl change, and that she was coming l"rc to recuperate. .Nothing more was heard of the young lady for nearly a week. when her sister in law received the following letter: "CHAR LEsITON, S. C , Nov. 2-1, 1891. "Mrs. F. W. Lamberton: "Dear Lady-1 will send you your sis ter's letter. 11er journey was hard foi her. She fainted this morning (as w( thought), but she was gone. She tu J ust been speaking of her home, and wa, homesick, poor child. We will do a, near right as we can. E. A. BRowN." While the letter was in a strang( handwriting and the contents soundet rather peculiar, still the fainily believe( her to be dead, especially as the lettel enclosed a draft for $101, and her trunli of valuable clothes came on shortly af. terwards. Several letters were written to E. A Brown, inquiring about her death an giving directions for the disposition of her body, but no answer was ever re ceived, and in<luiry developed the fael that no E. A. Brown is in the city. Mr. 1F. W. Lamberton came here somi time ago to hunt for E. A. Brown am to have Miss McBride's remains earriet to Minnesota, or properly interred lier The only information ie could obtan was that she arrived here Novemlie 2:d, and staid two days at the Osceol r hotel, and that at the end of the secon L day she paid her bill and left, saying sio I was bound for Atlanta, (;.i. - As a ticket had been purchased o1 the afternoon of November 25th Fo that point. Mr. L,ambii-ton, who i.i brother-in-law of \iss IMclride, wen to Atlanta to continue his search. Fai ing there, lie returned to Charleston yv. terday, bailled and disheartened, an concluded to give up the search, wiht. Capt. .. Elmore artin advised him t try Charleston again, and the detectivc have taken hold of the case with will. Mr. Lamherton says that tI I- young lady was in had health, hut I I- believes tier to be alive and near Cha y leston. lie attributes her strange a il tions to a sudden fit of mental aberatio if and feels assured that she is safe, wher n ever she is; "One thing is certain," sa ie he with emphasis, "1sh is a piro ar y virtuous woman, wherever she may b i- and whatever she may have done, 81 d is still a latly." His statements scemis to be consis e ent, and judging froim the general so d row expressed through the Mininesot n papers when the news of her death I s rived, the missing woman was gene i ally admired and respected.- -The Stati y - . Capt. (ainntoas in, iesl. COLI31li1A, S. C. Jan. 30. -overnic s Tillman received the following lette e yestertday morning from Captain Gat lington, commandling the Seventh Cav 11 alry, U. S. A.: t "If the diaily press reports accuratel e tie condition of the situation exist,in e between our own government and tha; ', of Chili war is not, imprwobable. lI IL the event of wvar it seernls to ime that thm a UnQitedl States will hmave t o send t o Cli] a a considerable force, and to have siici y a force available it will he nlecessary ti r call for volunteers. I take it I hat Sonti r Carolina will respond; and it the Stat. V should( muster anmy 1troops into the ser s vice of the United States I have thi [I honor to apply for time apploinitmient o I colonel of cavalry, if the Ste lurnishe s any cavalry, if nmot, of infantiry. s "I refer you to the War D)epartment W~ashington. for miny record and litntes 0 for the coinmmand asked for." s To this the G overnior replied as tol I- lows: 1, " Yours ohf the u i, instanit, ask in d alpointmIenlt of c(olnel ii Sonith Cart lina should rmuster in amny troops fu n t.he war with Chili received. Wii t admiring t,he spirit w hich caused yout y 'sniub the battle from afar,' anid to de e sire a place in the picture as commai a der of South Carolinians, you will, o am sure, rejoice with me that there wi dI be no) war, and therefore no0 such al pointmient to iiatke. fWith assurances ot' imy respeet an rn my good wishes for you r welf are an I(e promot,ion ini your (chosenI field, il "1 am, v'ei y respectfully, "H. IB. TIxLL3I .''. Captain G arlingtoni is a uiat,ive o L au rens ('ounity andi hias ahv ays exhit ri ited trute Carolina plutck and dash. A thei hard fought battle of Woutn(il r K nee Captain Garli ngton, then a lieui a enan t, foutght har'd aind w~ell.--Iliegie Ster. Iin'wn to 1-:tern,ity'. n pihia and( liendting (coal eliginie blew i if at N ewcastie, near St. Ciai r, Schunyk ii (I County, lour' iniiles Northl of here, ti ( m rig. F"ive men11 werie instant I n kitlled, thle enigineier, Davm e Sigler;: lire man, Napi 'Tu rner; conduci (tor, W illianr ~,Winters, andh Ilenry Sandts. The dea< e n compose the (ntire crew and( lIt i,body lives to tell how the accident hal gpenied. 'The bodies were horribly miar e gledl. One hasm not been foundl. 'Th engine was st andinrg on a sidin1g and( th men were upon01 and arounid it. dl Tiook lior (iwn 1'o 1,on1 4, KiN'IN '(T N, ()NT', ,J an. 30- 1ri i I lackw~ell, of Wo)lfetown, Renfrem n Count,y, poisoned tea prepared for meal with the intent of taking the lif of' her family. Il1er hiusbandl detecte something worng with thme tea andl a( cuemsed his wife ot having placed poisoi t in it. She dtenledl the accusation, an ni to prove that the beverage was all righm di(rank a coupful of tea. She w as takel e ill in a short time and died hefore th ~doctor, who was sumiimned, reache 5 her side. 11 Choked to i)e,tilh, it I'onTi CAnnION, Pa., ,Jan. :1.--Mri 's Moses Robinson while preparing suppe il Wednesday night was choked to deat by a piee of matIt as . ensm. HORRIBLE CHINESE CRUELTY. Shocklog Atrocities Perpetrated-NI Mercy Shown the Captured Rebels. SAN FRANCISCo, Feb. 3.-Th( steamer China, which arrived yester, day from Chaa and Javan, brought ad vices giving details of the revolt and itt suppression in Manchuria. The rebels, it appears, were mostly bandits whc roam the country just outside the wall of China. Last spring they joined forces and entered upon a regular plat of campaign and plunder. They were all well armed, and being, as stated, mainly composed of proscribed Chinese criminals, they fought desperately wher ever pitted against the Chinese troops, and for a long time always defeated their adversaries. Some of the large bands were led by Buddhist priests. One of the most no torious of the priestly marauders was Han lang Chiung, who recently lost his lil'; durinig a fierce engagement with the Chinese troops. le was for many years enshrined in a Mongolian temple as the living Buddha. There is no doubt that the most hor rible atrocities were perpetrated by the wanleri:ag desperadoes. hye witnesses stat. that almost the entire population of villages were cruelly maltreited an( murdered. The burning of children alive, and the brutal treatment and mur (er of women was the general line oi conduct of these inhuman fiends. A band of 500 marauders swooped down upon Kutulan In tbe (lead of night captured aill whom they did n6t kill out. right, and finally carried away witl I them all the womien. Before going thei put sixty nien in a large corn house, sc curely Fastened all places of egress, ar. ter which they ect lire to the place The shrieks of' those being burned aiv4 reached tihe ears of a few persons whuc had escaped to the hills. The scene wai frigihtful in the extreme. This, however is only one of a dozen such incidents. The rebels raided and destroyc< Chris,ian and heathen villages alike I but to captives of the former place 3 they act(d in at particularly ferociou manner. At a place called TRalijew I which has been Christian lor two ceti r turies, they massacred nine Chines 1 sisters, or nuns, and burned the orphan age which contained sixty little inmate The piercing of' the bodies of captive with heated uayonets an( spears, th ouging out of eyes and the disemlbowe ing or burying alive )t victims wer 8 among the atrocities practiced by t1i a rebels. One band is said to have been led bi e a huge amazon who rode astride h ke horse like a man. It was report( r- among her followers that she drank tl C- blood of victims in order to mainta iher courage. Te'I'i suppression of the revolt is ii entirely (lue to the effortsof the Chine, dGUve1rnmeit. IL was the extreme co that had the most to do with it. TI robbers could not stand the campaigi . ing in the wintry weather, and many them retired to their strongholds in L: a hills. Their power, however, is brol en. The imperial troops showed as littl 3. mercy to the rebels captured by thei is the robbers themselves had shown t r their victmnis. Many prisoners wer taken, but most of' them were execute r on the spot. The executions were cor ducted on a whiolcsale scale. The mei were beheaded in hundreds and the en tire trunks of' trees were utii;zed a blocks, along which the prisoners wer 't ranged in linies, and tbeir executioner isimpldy miowed oflf their heads when th' a signal was given. Tme heads were hung iin long rows oni poles as a wariinmg t< others. A Train Wrecker's CofafesNlon. ATILANTA, Feb. 3.--A negro team - ster named lloyd hias beeni arrested, an4 3 has confessed that, lie caused the acci I (lent oin the Westerin North Cairolinia di a vision of' the llichmmondl andl Danvill Itailroad Iast September, in which twenm ' ty per'sons were killed and many other a hurt. The railroad offered *$10,000 re . ward for thme capt,ure of t,he traini wreck er. D)etcetive IIoniey went t.o work an< iCiene tbat lloyd( had1( left, a packing .conltaining s I,600f and valuable ijcwelr: r ,with a man at Statesville. \Vit,h th e aid of this maii lloyd was led to confes o hIS critme and Liie coniessioni was repmeat cmed before several others. Theni Super Linteindent. Mellee was hot, inito the case 1 aiid causedi lloyd's arrest, on tile charg< 1of' cattle stealing, thme belief being tha others were imiplicated. Boyd says hii motive was the robbhery of pasengeri mimi that while engaged in lescuing th dieadl bodies lie strifppedl thmem of valua bleCs. Hie (deliberatcly selected a trail which he knew would( have a goodi his f' of passengers departing from the North .Carolina resorts, p)eop)le who would havy t mioney. and about half' ain hour befor< I Ithe trinii was duie p)ulled time spikes of - couple of' rails leadinig on to the llos - tiani's b)ridge. iec watchedh the crash and1( in tiie confusion of' people rushinj to thme rescue of tihe vic, ims took lit . place among thenm. Superint,cndan y McBec ha1s in his possession the imple 1ments with which Boyd dIrew thc spikes s having found thiem whieire lBoyd declarc< v thmev were hidden. Ti'hmoy WVant M.mxey. I WN ASI suIxwoxI, Feb. 3.-The Tfreasurs .i)epartmnemi, is receiving njumnbers o7 . letters I romn ignorant people, who - Jiaboring uinder the delusion that th< e United States loans money on land e* are asking sums ranging f rom $3,001 to 85,000~ to be forwarded to them as foani on their land, or that t,bey be ad vanced $3,000 to $5,000) so they ma; m. buy land, and thme land accepted as i v security f'or repayment of the money Ft A letter preferring the latter caso wa o to-day received from two men in Ai I kansas. Deomoralizedl by (Grip. SAuUloRA, ILL., Jani. 29.--Grip tool t possession of this town last wveek an: a now there are over 1,000 cases. On e nundred employees otf the Ciicag< il Burlington and Quincy shops are ol duty. Mayor Frasier is critically I] with the mlaladhy. A number of room in the city school are closed on accoun m. of the serious illness of teachers, ani r the electric street railway is badly cri: h pled, seven of the motor men bein, vict.ims of tha grip. THERE WILL BE NO WAR. CHILI CONCEDES THE DEMANDS OF THE UNITED STATES. The Oftensive Note of Minister Matta Withdrawn and Reparation for;the As sault Upon Our Sailors to Ie Made and Peace Reigno. WASnIN(TON,1 Feb. I.--The war cloud that has been rising for the last three months between the United States and Chili has blown over, and the preparations that have been quiet ly going on for hostilities at the differ ent navy yards will cease. This happy condition of affairs was brought about by Chili conceding every demand of the United States. The de mands were that the insulting note of the Chilian Minister, Matta, should be withdrawn, also the request for the recall of Egan, the United States Min ister to Chil, and an apology and full reparation for the assadlt on- and the killing of United States sailors in the streets of Valparaiso, Chili, last No vember. Chili having complied with every one of these demands, she has been notified that the United States Government is satisfied and that there is no cause for further strained relations between the two countries. In this connection it may be stated that the United States was fully pre pared for war, and that had Chili not responded in the proper spirit to our i demands that war would have been de clared in a very short time, but the good sense of the Chillan government has removed all cause for war, and it is hoped that the cordial relations that has heretofore existed between the United States and Chili will be re sumed. Blwe Her Irains Out. C0 I,U. iII A, S. C., Jan. 30.-One of the 1 saddest tragedies that has occurred in this State for a long time, happened in Ildgefield yesterday afternoon, and the news of it having spread to most of the towns of the county, nearly every one was much shocked. The saddest part of it all, however, is that it is a fair and apparently happy young woman who deliberately committed suicide. Mr. John Carson is a well-known young B Edgelield man, who has been living e since his marriage at a cross-roads just - a few niles north of Ridge Spring-be e tween that place and Ward's-with his e fair young wife and their two bright little children. Yesterday this happy household was terribly dismembered. Mrs. Carson, so a assenger on the in d coming train s,ai , some time during the day went into her room took her e husband's pistol, placed it to her temple n and fired. The bullet plowed its way through her brain and death was in )t stantaneous. At the sound of the pistol, e members of the household rushed to 1d the room to find the dead wife lying in ic a pool of her own blood and braftis. I- They were terribly shocked. Such a )f step was not in the least anticipated e and no cause can be assigned for the . rash act. The only possible cause that can be conceived is ill health. The e young wife has recently had a spell of illness and it is supposed that it effected her inind.-State. e ~ Justice at Last. d WASIIING TON, Feb. 1.-The Supreme . Court of the Unlited States to-day deci a ded the Boyd-Thayer gubernatorial . case in favor of Boyd, the elected )en a ocratic candidate, who was denied his seat by the Supreme Court on the al leged ground that his father had not perfected his natutralization papers. SThe opinion was given by Chief ,Jus rtice Fuller, and its reading was list ened to attentively by a crowded cour t room. It was to the effect that Gov ernor lloyd,'when elected to the gub ernatorial ollice, was a citizen of the -United States and had been a citIzen I for twvo years next preceding his eec - tion. All the justices of the court, - excepting JIustice F"ield, concurred in i in this opinion, but .Juistice Hlarland, - Gray and Brown dissented on a minor a point. * A Hiolocauast in GAreenvilie. * ,GuEEINVILLIE, S. C., Jan. 29.-Sandy I Y oung, colored, and his two children were burned to death at their home in this city shortly before 1 o'clock this a miorning. Their charred and limbless a bodies were taken from the ruir.s by . fIremen. Th'le house was a small oine . andl was in the western piart of the city. Young's widow says when she awoke the house was in ilames. She escaped by a door, but Young attem ted to save his two children, aged 6 an~ 3 res pectively, adalthree perished. T[here is some suspicion of foul play, but the evidence before the coroners jury to. day did not confirm the suspicions. The three people were so horribly burned that nothling was found but the trunks of their bodies. JForlPensions. WASIIINOGTON, Jan. 28.. -Pension Cominissioner Ihaunm informed the -I louse Appropriations Committee to-day that the pension appropriation for the fiscal year would necessarily be larger than the amount approp r ated for the current year. The maximum -of pension expenditures, lie thought, would be reached dI uring the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1893, and ending Jiuly 1, 1894, and it would not exceed 816,000,00 a year. Sudden Death. ,Juiunsic Cry, N. J., Jan. 27.-.Judge Manning F. Knapp, of the State Sui preme Court and presidin Judge of 3 the lludson County Circuit Court, drop. ,ped dead this afternoon while deliver ing a charge to tho grand jury at the Court llouse. The Judge was refer - ring to the violation of the law by the 1 Io boken Theatre proprietors In giving I Sunday performances, when he sudden -ly fell back in hIs chair dead. Sensation at Union, UNION, S. C,, Jan. 30.--UnIon has been excited today over the arrest of W. I[. Pool, son-in-law of Intendant C W. T. Graham, on the charge of arson, Iin attempting to burn the storehouse of SMr. Phil iph Dunn, in which Mr. Pool had a stock of goods, last Thursday night. The fire ws checked before Imuch damage had been done. 5 tNew Express Oompany. .1 Asniuny PARK, N. J., Jan. 30._.John -Iloey, ex-president of the Adams Ex i press Company, has formed a new ex press company. Hoey will be presidn.