The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, June 09, 1892, Image 4
AT TilE TABERNACLE.
DR. TALMAGE ILLUMINATES AN OB
SCURElEXT.
SignifiCRnc o the Verule. "I Answered
Thee In the Secret I'laoe of Tbunder."
In the BIbW Thunder I@ the TyVe of
Power and Dystery.
BROOKLYN, May 29.-Dr. Talmage
gave a Iresh illustration this morning of
the power he possesses of extractiug val
uable lessons from a text which preach
ers have generally neglected as bairen
ground. His sermon was based on the
text Psalms lxxxi, 7, "1 answered thee
in the secret place of thunder."
It is past midiighit, aid two o'clock
it. the morning, far enioui from sunset
andO sunrisc to make the darkness very
thick, and the Egyptian army im pursuit
of' the escaping Israelites are on tbo
bottom of the Red sea, its waters hay
ing been set up on either side in mason,
ry of Sapphire, for G od can , a
:14~ SolYhid ,''4~H .lale a wvall
atr as out of granite,
and the trowels with which tlhete two
walls were built were none the less
powerlul because invisible. Such walls
had Lever before beeu lifted.
When I saw the waters of the ed
sea rolling through the Suez canal they
were blue and beautiful antid flowing like
other waters, but tonight, as the I;yp
tians look ipl to them bailt into walls,
now ou one side and now on the other,
they must have been fiowninig waters,
for it was probable that the same power
that lifted themli upl) might sliddenly f1tng
them prostrate. A great lantern of
cloud hung over this chasm between the
two walls. The door of that lantern
was opend toward the Israelites ahead,
giving them light, and tie back of the
lantern was tcward the Egyptias, and
it. arowled and rumbled and jarred with
thunder; not thunder like that which
cheers the earth atter a drought, prom
ising the refreshini shower, but charged
and surcharged with threats of doom.
The Egvptians captain lost their
presence of mind, and the horses reared
and snorted and would not answer to
their bits, and the chariot wheels gou,
interlocked and torn oil', and tile char
ioteers were hurled headlong, and the
led sea fIll on all the host. The con
fusing and contounding thunder was in
answer to. the prayer of the Israelites.
With their backs cut by the lash and
their 1et bleeding and their bodies de
crepIt with the suffering of whole gener
ations, they had asked Almighty God
to ensepuicher their Egyptiau pursuers
;u one great sarcophaigus, and the splash
auid the roar of the Red sea as it droppt d
to its netural bed were only the shutting
01 the sareophagus on a dead host. That
is the meaning of the text when God
says, "I answered thee in the secret
place of thunder."
Now, thuntler, all up and down the
Bible, is the symbol of' power. The
J.vptian plagte of hail was accompa
nied with this lull diapason of the heav
ens. While Samuel ned his men were
makmg a burnt offering of a lamb, and
the Phiistines were about to attack
them, it was by terrorizing thunder they
were discomili ed. .lob, who was a coml
bmnation of the D)antesque andi the Mil
tonic, was solenmixed oni this reverbera
tion of' the heavens, and cried: ''The
thunder of his puower', who can uinder
siand.'' and lie challenges the universe
by saying, "'Can'st thou thunder with a
vulce like him?"' aind he throws Rosa
Bonheuri' "'I trse i"air" irnto the shade
by tihe liihle phnotog~aph of' a war-horse,
when lie describcs hils nteck as '"clot.hed
with thunder."' 1ecause of thne power
of' dames anid Jlohn, they were cal led
"'the sons ('f thunder.'" The law uivein
(in the basaltic cerags of Mount Sinai
was3 emiphnasizcd~( withi thni. cloudy clulli
tioni. Tho rlJes al atroun<I i>Out M'-.
,JhnI at P'atmaos weie fuill of I lie thunder
rat war and the thunder of Chriast y i
umpih and the thntmduer of' resurrection
inithe thunder of' eternity.
Now right -along by a natural law
there is always a spir aual lawi. As
there is a secret la(ce ofI naturatl thun
dier, there is a secret pine'e of' moral thun
der. In other wvordls, the religious
power that you see abrwoad in the clhurch
and1( in the world has a hiding place, andt
mi mitny cases it.is never discovered at
all.* I will use a similitude. I can ive~
only the dimi outline of a particular case,
for mnany~ of the remarkalde circumstan
ces I have forgotten. Many year's ago
flere was a large church. It was chatr
inenized by strange and unIaccounitale
con versions. There were no great re
vivals, but individual eases of' spiritual
arrest and( transformation.
A young nian sat, in one of thne front
pews. lIe was a graduate of Yale,
brillhant its the north star tandt notor'ious
ly', dissolute. lFverybody knew him and
liked hiim for his geniality, but deplored
his imoral errantry. T1o please his par
ents lie was every Sabbath morning in
chturch. One day~ there was a ringing
of the doorbell of the piastor of' thaut
church, and that young man, whelmned
with repentance, implored prayer andit
advie oand passed io comiplete irefor
n'ation of heart and life. All the nei
borhiood was astonished aind asked, WIny
wv.us this? IIis father and mother baud
said nothing to him about his soul's wel
fare.
On another aisle of thne same church
sat an old miser. IIe paid his pew rent,
tut was hard on thre poor and had no
interest in any philanthropy. Piles of
money! And people said: "What. a
st ruggle lie will have when lie quits this
life, to part with his bonds(1 andl mort
gages.") One (lay lie wrote to is miin
later: "Please to call immediately. I
he'tve a matter of great importance about
which I want to see you." When the
pastor came in the old man could not
speak for emotion, but after a while' lie
gathered self control enough to say: "1
have hived for this world too long. I
want to know if you think I can be
saved, and, if so, 1 wish you would tell
me how." 'Unon his soul the light soon
dawned, and the 01(1 miser, not only rev
olutionized in heart but in life, began to
scatter benef actions, and toward all the
great charities of the (lay lie became a
cheerful and bountiful ahmoner. What
was the cause of this change? everybody
asked; and no one was cap)able of giving
an intelligent answer.
In another part of the church sat Sab
bath by Sabbath, a beautifuland talent
edl woman, who wvas a great society
leader. She went to church becauset
that was a respectable thing to do, and
In the neighb)orhood where shne lived it
was hardly respectable nzot to go.
Worldly was she to the last degree, and
all her family worldly. Sne had at her
house the finest germans thmat were ever
danced, and the costliest favors' that
were ever given, and though she attend
ed church she never liked to hear any
.story of pathos, and as to religious emo
tion of any kind, she thought it positive
ly vulgar. Wines, cards, theaters,
J ond of costly gayety were to her the
highest satisfaction. One day a neig h.
bor sent in a visiting card, and th's lady
came dowR the stairs in tears, and told
tie whole story of how she had not slept
for several nights, and she foured she
was going to lose her soul, and she won
dered if some onic would not come
around and pray with her.
From that time her entire demeanor
was changed, and though she was not
called upon to sacrifice any of her amen.
ities of life, she consecrated her beauty,
her social position, her family, her all to
God and the church and usefulness.
Everybody said in regard to her, "Have
you noticed the change, and what in the
world caused it?" and no one could
make satisfactory explanation. In the
course of two years, thoui there was
io general awakening In that church,
ninny such isolated cases of suh unex
pc ted and unaccountable conversionis
took place. The very people whom no
one thought would be affected by such
considerations were COVerted.
The pastor an d the oflicei-s (f the
church were on the lookout for the solu
"WVhere is i,' ie" sald, "alld who is it
and what is it'' At last t-e discovery
was made and all was explained. A
pioor old Christian woman standitng inl
the vestibule of the church one Sunday
morning, (rymng to get her breat.h again
befTore she went upstairs to tihe gallery,
heard the iiuiry and told the secret.
For years she had been inl the habit ol
concentrating all hcr prayers for partic
ular persons in that churich. She would
see somlle iaenli or soie Woma11n pr1esent
anrd, though she nivht not k:ow i Ot
person's 1ame, slhe would pray ', r I.Ih:A
per-on uintl lie or she was coiiv( rt . to
God. All hier prayers were fhr that one
peron-just that one. She waited and
wiited For coulilniillionl days to see when
tle candidates fhr micibership stood uip
whether her prayurs-..had been el'eclual.
It turned out that these marvelous in
stances of converson were the result of
that old womani's prayers as she sat imthe
gallery every Sabbath, bent and wizened
1nd poor and unnoticed. A little cloud
of consecrated humanity hovering inl the
-alleries. That was the secret place
ot the thunder. There is some hiiden,
unknown, mysterious source ot'almost,
all the moral and religious power demon -
strated. Not one out of a million-not
one out, of ten million prayers ever
strikes i lunan car. On publ'e occat
sious a iwtwlter of religion voices the
supplicauions of en assemblage, but tihe.
prayers of all the congregation are in
silence. There is not a secondi in a cen
tury when prayers are uot ascendinig, but
Imlyriads of themli are not even as lld as
a whisper. for God leurs a thought as
plainly as a vocalization. That silence
of' suppheation-hemisphiri andi per
petual --is the secret place ot thunder.
The( day will cone-God hasten it
when people will lind out tie velocity,
the majesty, tire iiltipotence of prayer.
Wo brag about our limited express
trains, which put us down a thousand
miles away in twenty-lour hours, but,
ere is sonething by which Ill a mionent,
we may confront people live thousand
miles away. We brag about our tle
phionies, but here is sorething! tha", beats
the telephone in utterance an rl.OYi, for
God says, "Before they enti, ! will
hear." We brag about tire pho' taph,
mi whichi a man can speaiik anti iris words
aiid t,he tones of' his 'voice con be kept
for ages, anti by the turrninrg of :u erankI
tire wordi may come torth upoirtir e ars
of' another century. but prayer allows us
to speak words into the ears of' everlast
ing rememhbrance, iand on the other sht!c
of all the ete 'rities they will lhe hreanr'.
Ohi, ye w ho mare washing your b reath,
andi( w ar'tinig y,our br'ains, and.t w~astnr
your nire~S, anud wastinrg your lunngs,
wi'lhing for this' good andi that anod for
time :ichrh and the world, why do you
not gointo thi. secret place of Ithurnde'?
"But,'' says one, "'thatt is a beauiti
bnl theor'y , yet it docs. not work in myi
case, or I aim in a cloud of1 trouble, or a
cloud o1' slekness. r a cloudl a1 perisecui
in, or a cloud of poverity, or ai chr'rd of
hueravemient, or a cloudt of pe'rplexity,'.'
Il ow glad I ami that, you told ime ta..
'.l'nnat is exacetly thre place to) wich imy
text refers. It was frm a cloud( thatr
Godl answered Israel, tihe cloudii over Ire
charsmr cut throughn tire lied .;ea, tire cloudi
tha:t was lighrt to thre tarachities ai:
darkness to tihe Egyptiarns. It was f'rm
ai cloud, a tr'emendous cloud, that Godl
made(l reply. it was a c'loud that, wars
tire secret, place oif thiundler. So you
cant,u uct away hr'om tire conisolaiton)i ''
my text by talking thia', way. I,eit. all
tire pleople under a clound h eai' it."
answered thee ini t' .e secret phic of
TIhre bl1essing~ of God)1 is askedi oa tire
hood, arnd the mieau o,ver the tanily ible
is put uiponr tire white tablc cloth, ad aili
chapt.er is read and prayer umade, whnich
includes all the initei'ests h'oi' this worldi
and tire inext. Thre children pay not so
miuch at,t.entionr to tire prayer, for it, is
ab)out tihe saime thing day after day, lbut
it puts upon threii an imipressionr that ten
throusandt years will oinly make mor'e viv
idl andI tremnendouQ. As long ais the ol
folks live their pr'ayer is for their childr'en
aund threir ehildhren's chrildr'en. Day ini
and day out, mronthi in andt imonth ourt.
year in tand year omit, dIecadle ini and de
crade out, tire sonis and tdaughirs of' that
faimily ar'e remremiberedi in eairnnest
prayer, and they know it, aund tbey feel
it, and they 'rannot, get aiway fromi if.
Two fuinerais after awhile-riot more
than two years apart, for it is seldlomi
that, threre is more irhan that lapse of
time between father's going arid ninth
er's going-two luinerals put out of' sight
tire old folks. But wirerec are tire chil
dhren?y The (laughters are rir onmes
wher'e they are incarnations of' good
sense, iniduistry and piety. Thre sonrs,
prerhaups one a farmer, anrothier a mrer
chaint, anothrer a miechranie, another ai
physician, another ai minrister of tire
Gospel urseful, consistent, admrir'ed.
What, a power for good those scyoni sons
and daughters! Where dhi( theuy get thle
power? .From tire se,hools, andrt tire
scmminaries, and tthe colleges? Oh, nio
throughl threse many brave hrelp)ed. Fromi
their suiperior' menrtal endlowmrent? No,
L do riot think they hand unusual mieiital
caliber. From accidentaul circumnstaunces?
No, they hadit nothring of whaL is carlled1
ast.ouniding good lued.
1 think we will take a train arid rie
t.o thre depot nearest to the hiormesteadl
from which those men andi womren
st,arted. Tire trarin halts. Let urs stop
a few minurtes rat tire village graveyard
and see the tombust.ones of the parents,
Yes, tine one was seventy-four years ol
age and tire otirer severity-two, and th <
epitaph says that "after a useful lif(
they died a Christian death.'' How op,
proprhately thre Scripture passarge eu
on the mother's tombstone, "She hiath
(done what shre coul.'' Anti howy beau
tnfnl tire passage on tire father's tomib
stone, "Blessed are the dead who tie in
thre Lord, for they rest fromi threir labor
and their works do follow them."'
On over the country road we ride
the road a little rough, for the spring~
wather. ia not mqfIe setild,'n antu c
down in a rut it Is hard to get the wheels
out again without breakiug the shaits.
But at last we come to the lane in front
of the farmhouse. Let me gtre out of
the wagon and opei the gate while you
drive thiough. Ilere is the arbor under
which those boys and girls many years
ago used to play. But It Is quite out of
order now, for the property is in other
hands. Yonder is the orchard where
they used to thrash the trees for apples,
sometimes befo' e they were quite ripe.
There is the mow where they hunted
for eggs before Easter. There is the
doorsill upon which they used to s it.
I'liere is the room in whicb they had
fitinily prayers and where they all knelt
-the lather tliere, the mother therc,
and the boys and girls there.
We have got to the fountain of pious
and gracious influences at last. That iv
the place that decided those seven
eart.lI and immortal destinies. Be
hold! Behold! That is the secret place
of thimder. Boys are seldom more
in their fathers will lzt them b)e
G irl a1-16 itu're than their moth
Us will let t.hem be. But there conic
Limes when it seems that parents can
not control their children. There come
linies in a boy's life when he thinks he
knows more than his fither does, and I
remember now that I knew iore at fit
1een yearsofae tU I have ever known
sinwe.
There ome tinies in a girl's life when
she t.hiink her mother is notional and
does 11ot understand what is proper and
best, and the sweet, child says, '"Oh,
pshaw!'' and she longs for the time
when she will not have to be dictated to
Itil she goes out of the door or goes to
bed with pouting lips, and these moth
ers rencimber for themselves that they
knev wmore at, lourteen vears ofage than
they have ever klown since. But, tath
er trid mother do not think you have
lost )Our inflience over your child.
Y ou have a resource of prayer that puts
the s) m11pathetit and olnipotent God
in to I our parental undertaking. Do not
waste youir timne in reading thimsy books
about, the ways to bring up children.
(o inito) the. secret place ol' thunder.
'Tlie reason that we ministers do not
accomplish more is because others do
not. pray enough for us and we do not
prty enough for ourselve.i. Every mii
ister could tell you a thrilling story of
sermons--sermows hasty and imi
promptit, because or finerals and sick
beds and annoyances in the parish; yet
those sermons harvesting many souls
for God. And then of sermons prepar
ed with great care and research and toil
iininterrnpted; yet those sermons fall
ing fat or powerless. Or of the same
seiion mightily blessed on one occasion
andti useless on another.
Oh, pray for us! I Poor sermons in t lie
pidpit, are the curse of God on a prayer
less parish. People say: "What is the
matter with the ministers in our time ?
Se) many oef them seem (dissatisfied wit Ib
thl lib, and they are trying to help
Aleses and 'aul and Christ out of in
consistencies and contradictions by fix
ing up the llible." As well let the inti
%iilans go to work to fix up Haydn's
"Creation," or Handel's "Isreal ill
Egypt." or let the painters go to fixing
up lhiplael's "Transfiguration," or
aicitects go to iixing up Christopher
W ren's SL. 'al's.
I hit I will tell you N hat is the matter.
Thure aro too iiiany uinconverted min
te-rs. The'.ir hearts have never beeni
chunged by the grace of Go ~d. A mere
int 'lleettiiut ministr-y is the deadest fail
m'e this side of perdition. Alas for the
G~o- I of ieicles. Froim apologetics
and er * tueneutics and diogmnaties good
LOnt deliver us! Th'ley are trying to
ge fi rom t rantscendental theology, or
cII' pr~ooundl ex igesis, or* from tihe
a it of :.plit ii ig ha:ir-s bectweeni north and
nort hi west side', inusi eadl of getting their
powerfr m' t he secret pilace oft thundmoer.
We want ilhe poweir a man gets when
heK is alfoie, ihe dloor locked; on his
k n es; ttil idn ighlt; with such a burden
ofl -eOl s uipon1 him i that makes himn cry
C i first in lamneinat ion muidt thlen ini
raipt inies.
Le,t all thle Sabb:1,th scho0o l tteachiers
an md .1ih le cla'ss inustruictors, atnd all re
iorteruiirs and alil &evaiigelist s, and all
iniinisteris kno1w thait dleploma s aiilti die
t1 ionaies' and( ii enylopiedias and ti-eat
ise aud libraries are not the source 01
iun>ral and spiritual achiievminent, but
that, t' roomi of perayer, where no one
bu1t GOdh is present and nit one butt God
hiears, is t he secret place of thunder.
.Steret ?A hi, yes! So secret that comil
paratively few ever lind it. At os)c tbel,
Enuglandii, we v-isit ed at house whetre a
ki ng \%is (once1 hid. Ne one', ulhess it
were hoimitedl out to hlim, could find thle
d oor in athle floor thmroig h whichl the
kinug enittered hits hiding place.
Whlen tilre hidden the armed pursu
ers loo kted ini vain for' him, and after
vartd t b rough an iinde-rgrounzd passag(e,
liri out1 inI the fields, lie came 0-it in the
open ajir. So this limperial power o1
s eiriit oull imence has a hiin g p lace, a
secret place which few know, and it
coimes forth noinet ines ill strange and
tuyster-ious ways, and far otf from the
ph;iee w hiere it. was hidden you can find
it onity by diligent searching. Ilait you
will flid it, and I wish youiinight, all
findl it, It' stec:et phice of thunider.
A t nineI o'clock Wiednetsdaiy mlorning,
.1 tne l5 intxt , oin the steamer ('it y of
New York, I expect to sail for Liver
j)e)ul, to be gone' unitil September. It is
ini airrcptance of mnany invitations that
I am goimig (on a l'reachiing tour. I ex -
peel to devote my) timle to preachinig
Ltii Gospel mn England, Scot land, Ire
1.1 ii ando Swedenm, I wanlt to see hiow
nuany souls I cani gather for- the king
tdom of Godl. TIhose counitries have for
manyIi years beelonigedi to my parish, and
I go to sp)eak to theta andi shake hands
with them. I want. to vi sit more thor
oughly than before those regions from
whfich miy ancestors camie, Wales and
Se 'tlanid.
I wili make it a camnpaign for G od
adi eterniity, and I hope to get (luring
th,is absence a baptisml of p)ower t,hat
wiall make mec of iiore service to you
whieni I return thtan I ever yet have
been. F"or, bret hiern amnd sisters in
Christ, our opportunity for usefulness
will soon1 bet gone, and we shall have
our faces uplifted to the thironie of
.judginent, before which we imust give
aic:oiint. That daly there will lbe no
secret pia1ce of thunder, foir mll thle
thiiuiders will be out. There will be
thle thundt-r of the tummblinlg rocks.
l'herre will be the t.hunder of tie burst
ing waves. There will be tile thunde'r
of descending chariots. 'lTere will be
theI thundcer of the parting heavens.
Ilioom! Ilom!
litut all that dlin mand uproar and crash
will find us unfalTrig htened, and will
leave us nndismayed if we have nmade
Chirist our confidence and after an Au
gust shiower, when tile whole heavens
have been an unlimberedi batterv can
nonlading thes earthl, then fields are~ morre
green, and the Sunrise Is more radiant,
and the waters are the morn opaline, so
thie thunders of the last day will make
the tiees of lIfe appear miort emerald,
anid the carbuncle of the wall more
crimson, and thie saipphifre seas the
moltre shilmnmering, mand the suni.ise of
ete'rnal gladne'ss the more emplog0iled.
TIhe thuiinders of dlissolving niatture will
be followe'd by a celestial I salmody, the
sounid of wvhich St.,John on l.'atmos dec
scribed, wvhen lie said. "1 heard a voice
like theO voice of mighty thunderings!'
A men.
LAURENS' ALLEGED LYNCHING.
Detale'of Dave Shaws's Spiriting Awa
Looking for Shaw.
COLUMB1A, S. C., June 2.--The re
ported lynching of the negro, charge(
only with larceny, in Laurens, count
created considerable talk yesterday it
the city, and much interest was 'iani
fested in the matter In the State depart
ment.
During thc forenoon Governor Till
man received a reply to his messege U
Solicitor Schump6rt, stating that h4
would leave by the next train for th
scene of the trouble and make a thorouw1
investigation of the all'air as instructed
Until his report arrives the (overno
will take no further action ii regard t<
the matter.
iy t (low [iri1seste rday the Gov
Z:or received the following lette
which clears the trial justice in clar_(
of the district in which the crime oc
c irred from any .-harge of neglect a
duty, and gives the fullest details ye
received. It is dated irom Dorrah, S
U., May 30, is and siined by John 11
liellams, trial ju3tice of Dial's town
ship, Laurens county:
Dear Sir: There was an unlawful ne
of lynching, occurring in Laurens coin
ty on Friday night, the 27th inst. Th
circumstances were as follows:
On the 27th inst., one .1. 11. 11opkin
came before me and swore out a war
rant against Dave Shaw, colored, foi
burglary and grand larceny, for enterin
his father's store by means of fal-o keys
and taking therefrom goods to th
amount of $60, belonging to himself ram
his father, W. L. 11opkins. I sent m3
constable, J. M. Abercrombie, for the
defendant, Dave Shaw. Ile, i coi
paly of'J. II. llol)kins and V. L. Aber
cronibie, went and arrested Dav,,e Shaw
tied him, and were bringing him to my
ollice to stand the preliminary examina
tion. In crossing the bottoms of South
Ilubourns' creek they were accosted by
a body of ien. who were in ambush and
called on "to hands up;"' the constabh
reports that lie was covered with pis
tols, and fired into, and ordered to take
the road back. Others grabbed hold of
him and forced the line by which hc
held the prisoner from him. He says
that it was then gool (lark, and he could
not recognize any one among the out
laws. I have been on tile scene and
tried to investigate the matte-:, as far as
I was able. I found where they had
carried the prisoner in the thickets anid
hung him to a limb, either to whip or
otherwise punish him. I found a pool
of blood there and from the signs there
must have been a considerable body of
men. My constable says there were
fifty or seventy-live.
The prisoner has not been heard of
since the liching. I have had the
creek and mill pond searched for bhe
body but have made no discovery o!
him. It is the general opinion that lie
was murdered, and concealed. It may
be that lie was ordered to skip the coun
try.
The facts lea-hlng to the lynching are
these: 11 was generally conceded that
Dave Shaw did the stealing, and tihe
evidences leading to proof were circuim
stauxtial, and would not, probably convic
hitn. It,is known that lie was runnimr
a one hoise fhrm without any visibli
means of support, that corn cribs wer
being entere<f by means of false key
and corn taken therefrom. This lyn
chinig is depllored by our best citizens
If' any further facts conme up I will nxoti
y' .you. T1he negroes ar*e still seareb
ing for D)ave.-State.
llurrah for' the Goverunor.
C'oL.:uA., S. C., May 31.- (Governio
Tillmian has been working very qjuieti;
bu'it eftefetially to break uip an evil thia
has been intlictedl on the citizens o
Ilamibuirg by reaisoin of the strict en
forcement of' law in A ugusta. It xtp
pear's that sinice tlie change in the cit
governmet(nt of Augusta her cit,izen
wYho dIulidtot cairry home ai "ticklher"' ou
Sat urday night were as dry ais a huoni
on Situ?tay. I anmbiurig, ac:ross tfhe ri ver
was a v'ery pleaisant Sundlay walk amn
thi ther the thirsty crowd h:ied thema
se'lves on Sunday ini order to wet thei
dlry ami parche(d lip~s, andi in conse5
'jitence' tie Sitnday liuluior trailic grev'
int,o such an open violation of the lav
as to make It (fisgusting to decent pteo
pie. Tlhe law-abiding citizens cota<
(obt in no redress, as the mayor, aider'
men and even the chief of police, wht
also fills the ollice otf Trial d1 ustice, han
all gone into the liquor trallic and wecrt
violatinig the law. So the law abiding
peop)le appealed to the Governor for re
lief. TIhe Governor was determinei
that tho business should stop, so hi
(ietly senit Messrs. Ilartin and 11ol
loway to the scene and they went t,
work inl ai (Iet lbut effectuial way ti
break it up. They had the legal know]
edlge of Assistant Attorney tienera
Tlowrinen who made several visits to
1llamnburg to assist thetm, and yester:la)
Governor Tillman received a telegrant
front im announcing the fact thal
twenity-two) arrests had b( en madle foi
violation of the law. Further dlevelopi
muents wvill be watched with interest
Goverinor Tillman is dleterminled tint
South Carolina shall not supply An
gusta's dintkers with liquor on Sun
day.-Register.
The.y Bu.y Staves.
NEWv Youn., June 2.-Tihe bark Libe
ria, Capt. 1togersu, which arrived toda3
Irom ulonrovia, and Sierra Leone, coin
pleted the round trip in the unparaliel
ed time of soventy-five days. Th'iis in
eludes the timie of discharging anc
taking on cargo at two West Africar
piorts. Among the Liberia's passen
ge were the Rev. A. McCullough, o:
the International Missionary ;Society
and his wife, whose ill-health inducet
him to return to A'nerica. iIe spen
Ill t,een mont hs in Sierra Leone. le hat
not acqfuiredl a high opinion of eithei
the American negro or the educatec
A frican there. Several of the Liberua't
colored steerage passengers are nativi
Africans coming here to be edeated
arid four are returning Americans. Mr
McCullough says that much rum is im
portedi into Sierra Leone, and that, at
the natives absorb it with the doctrinet
of the missionaries, the results of th(
conversions are not always agreeabhi
to conltempilate. Many of the colored
A mericans who stay in Sierra Leone
cal led themselves Europeans, and when
they get prosperous bay slaves to in
crease their wealth. The Porttuguiesc
and the coloredl Amnericans trea~t theft
slaves Wilth greater hiarsihness than any
other slave Owners. Thue natives A!f
rican is usually spoiled by a European
education. 'The Liberia b)rought sev
eral boxes of pythons and monkeys.
DEA'TH no0-:8 NOT dliseriminate. Ii
the terrible dlisaster at \Vellington dIan
cers at the balhl and( worshippers at th(
prayer meeting, were alike buiriedl h
the ruins or buildings, but, as the (G reen
ville News says, "nmost of' us, howeve,
our notions of such matters may be
Iwould probably have preferred going,
to the great beyanxd from thie prayei
mnleD"
IT MEANS VICTOnY.
The Democrats and People's Party Fusoe
In Kansas.
ToPEKA, KAN., Juce 2.--For th e
first tune in tho histcry of Kau.as it is t
posRible to take from the Ropublicans
every State office, every Congressman,
and the Presidential electors. Whether t
this will be done or not depends entirely 1
upon the Democratic leaders. They are I
at present divided, and each faction de- I
cares that unless it can control it will
not move.
Outnumbering the Democrats four to
3 One, )08i)ly 'live to one, the People's
party declares that it will not depart
form its priicilAes as set forth in tihe St.
Louis platCoru. Long ago they adopted
at catchy phrase. "Keep in the middl e
ot the road," ain), t i,e4bo1ilch i
idea of a (apaign, they will not depart
from it.
The party is well organized, which t
leadil many Deiocratic le,ders to be- I
lieve that this year they should take ad.
vantage of that power. Realizing that
three ,ickets assue lItepublican success,
they % ould fiirst break the power of their
old-time political enemy tad then reforim
their lines in an open field. Their plan t
is to draw the lepublicans from their I
entrenclhments and completely rout them I
believing that evontually such defeat ,
would add to Democratic strength and
result in the total demoralization of the
present dominant, latlrty.
In ac.,ordance With their ideas of po- I
litical strategy, to at.coiplish this they
are willing to concede to their allies,
the 1 '.ople's party, all the olices. if
necess-try, beleving that the fight over
the Ppoils will ultimately disinte.rate
that party and( eventually leave the
Democrats masters of the field.
Other Democratic Leaders concede
this situation; but believing that this
year there will be national Democratic j
success, would hold *itact the Demo- (
cratic ranks, maintan their organization, t
and thus control the Federal patronage. t
They would make a ticket, make State
and Congressional nominitions, aud
also name an electoral ticket, though
fully realizing that a thrru-cornered
light can only result In tbe R-ipublcan
success all around.
The People's party in its strength de
clines a fusion in the general acceptation t
of that word. Its leaders believe their
numbers are great enough to give them t
the right to dictate, and they propose, i
except in isolated cases, to exercise that t
right. They will name the State oficers',
the Congressional candidates, and tihe 0
electoral ticket, and then ask the Demo
c[ats to vote with them.
Their organization has been on the
Ocala and St. Louis platforms. To
yleld, or even to appear to waver, would
cost the party thousands of votes, for
.vhether right or wrong the farmers of
State are contending for what they be
lieve to be principles. They believe
that finally the Democratic party will
give them all they desire, but the are not
yet ready to place In Democratic hands,
except indirectly, the power to control
them.
The combined People's party and
)eniocratic vote is greater than the Rte
publican vote by at least 20,000. In
tile election last fall the Republicans
had a majorit,y in only 27 of the 165
Senatorial and Represent,ative (listricts,
proving that the cominued olppositlion
still held its st.rength from the previous
year. possible that the People's party
in the 1st Ccrngressional district, will eni
dlorac tihe Democratic nominee. The
llepublicans have friends enough in the
new p)arty in that (district to lorce sep
arate action, as wvas dlone two years ago,
when IBrodlerick was elected over Mooni
r light,. The newi~ parl,y is not strong
there4 and cannitot hope to wini anii Lng
byindepeiiiirnt, act,ion.
lIn the six ether 'ilstricts there arme
Don-ioeorats who desIre to miakec the rae,
- although by3 domii3 so thiey kno3w nlow as
- well as they will after tihe election that,
they can only aid the ltepublicanrs.
There will he eight, Congressmein elected
ini Kaarsas this y ear. With three tickets
the lIe-publicanis will ciect, seveni, the
6th udisitrict., niow rep:esenrted by Raker,
b einu~ the orily one that, cant be carried
by the P eople's party ,v er the o(ds.
Three State tickets in the field will
"ive U, e election to thre Republicans by
at, least, 15 ,000) pluraility. Tihre endorse..
mreint. of thre l'eople's patrty ticket would
elcted that ticket, by 20,000 majority.
. The electoral ticket will be in the same
shape as the Stare ticket. Th'ose of the
I D)emocrats who faivor lusioni on any
terms realize that it, ii in their power to
take tire teln Electoral votes of Kansas
- out ot' the Riepublican colum: , some
Ithing never before p)osibl;. Thiree
tickets wIll forcycer losuthis prospect.
TlEY HAVE FUsKO.
mneet,ning of- the Democrats aind l'eopile's
part,y of Kansas was held here to-day.
Thne meet,ing (heudoed that it would be
well for tire Diemocrats arid People's
parties to form a coalit,ion against the
ltepublhlicans in the coming elections.
The nmeeting went into secret,session at
11 o'clock and1( didi not adjourn until 5
o'clock in the afternoon. During tire
intervening hours the whole matter of
fusioni was throughrly%discussed, and a
resolution was ado~ptedl giving tIre sense
of the meeting ars in favor of fusion.
An Appecal for Aid.
WVEL LINOTON, iKan., ,June 2.-The
commrittee appointed to procure relief
for tire suffers by the recent cyclone
to-day issued an appeal to the people
of the United States. Tire people, says
the appeal, are met on every sidle with
want, discouragement and depression.
All that could be done to relieve dhis
tress has been done by those citizens of
the town who suffered n'. loss, and still
the amount of aid yet to la. rendered is.
very great. A few thousand dollars of:
aid now would accomplish miore than
many thiousandls at a more dlistant day.
"We nreed money most of all," says the
appeal; "but wouldt be greatf ul for anry
tiring valuable, especi ally household
furiiiture."
Foll Ouit b>y thre Way.
G R EE N y I LLE, S. C., May 30.---Richmard
Stroud and Rhansy St,rond, two brothers,
were iassault.ed on Saturday rnit in the
ulpper part, of thuis county by two unr.
known white men, who asked to ride ini
thre wagon in wich thre Strouds were on
their way hems. Richaird Stroudl was
fa 'ally inrjuredl andl hiB brother was ipain
fully hurt. Blothr men were knocked
Uiunconsious. If robbery wias tire obrject
of the crime the mien did not get airy.
money, alt.hough Richard Stroud had
some on Is person. It is believed that
the horse attached to tire wagon ran
away andl threw out the two wounded
briothers.4
J)rowned in a Hole.
A Ven Us'r, GI a., Many 30.-TLhils after
noon0, ai little aft.er 7 o'cluc k, (George
Cobb, a child about eight years old, aci
cidently fetl into a hole dug for a tele-j
graph pole, which Was full of water,i
and was drowned before assistance ar
rived.
A Neation ian 11arsrwenk.
A shocking affair ik reported from
lrnwell, the result of which involves
lie good name and liberty of a hitherto
ighly respected physician, a brother
n-law of Abraham Lincoln. Some
lays ago the ( oronir was callod upon
4h1ohl an iniest over the deald bo)die4
if a youig white woinai, who. it ap
wals. had bei led autray by the over
ures of a railroai conlractor froi the
vest., and her infant. A jury was em
>anele(, and after a number of wit.
.esses had been examined, including
everal leading physicians, the jury ren
lered a verdict holding Dr. Todd guilty.
)r. Todd is a brot her of the late Presi
[ent Lincoln's wile. lie caie to South
Jarolina from Kentucky several years
)efore the war, ard settled in liarn
veil, where lie soon built up an eXiA11
ive- r.jedieal praciice, and has ever
inCe enDjoyed the contidence and esteeni
A the entire cominutity. Ile served
ts surgeon in the Cmi'ecrato army,
id won Iuch distinction. It is sail
hat he amputated no les.4 than 700
inbs during the war. Wr. Todld wias
irrested tipon a charge in accordance
vith the jury's finding, and furnished
>ond inl the sum of 91,500 for his ap
earance at the court of general ses.
ions. If convicted of the charge, he
an be punished by iinpri4oninent in
lie penitentiary for not less than fivo
ior more thau ten years. The affair
ims created a great sensation in Barin
veil.
Thti P1arbl.za nP F>t11hion Jurnald.
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61ot!vs," So well-kilowl 1s th pluiblica
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me n itlh in advance of all other jotir
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00 popular. 'I'he demand for them is
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. Alcl)owel & Co., 4 West 14th Street,
"ew York, have found it difficult to
Cep p) wil .1 the increaisinIg demand
ach month. Thwy lain thut the
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f thw newsde.Ilers are entirely out of
hetm by the filth of the month. As all
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uiresi considerable timeu to catch up
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