A FAREWELL SERMON. 'JUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD." . Talmage Speaks of Ills Approaching "eparture for Europe--H3 Advises His uongregation to Hold a Very High llodol-Take Jesus Christ for a Pattern. BRooK LY N, June 12.-Dr. Talmage reflaced his sermon this morning with statement to the effect that he would il on Wdnesday next for Europe, and )ight be able to be present at the dis '.bution in the famine districts of Rus i of The Christian Herald reliefcargo, nasisting of three million pounds 01 ur and other supplies which goes out is week on the steaushi,) Leo, char :red for the purpose. le congratulated ic American people on the generous ,pirit evinced by this magnificent gift to ic starving people. ils sermon was com the text, Ephesians vi, 11, "Put -n the whole armorof God." There is in this text a great rattle of -hields and helmets and swords. Sol liers are getting reody for battle. We !ave had recently in this churwti new nlistments and I shall nddress mysell ;o those in this and other churches who ire putting (in the armor of' God, and .Vhio may feel themselves to be as I et -)uly raw recruits. "Masterly retreat" is a term often used in military -ireles, but In religion there is no such thing. I t is either glorious advance or disgrace ful and ignominious falling back. It would be a strange thing if all our anxie. ty about men ceased the moment they were converted. The begiuning to be a Christian is only putting down a foundation; but al ter that there are years of hanimerin, polishml, carving, liftin, before the structure is complet,ed. It takes live years to make a Christian character, it takes twenty years, it takes forty years, it takes seventy years if'a man shall live so long. in otber words, a man dying after half a century of Christian expert ence feels that he has only learned the "A 11 ('s" of'a glorious alphabet. 'The next year will decide a great deal in your history, young Christian luau; it will de cide whether you are to be a burning and shininlg light of' the church, or a spark of grace covered up in a barrel of ashes. It will decide whether you are to be a strong man in Christ.lesus, with gigantic blows striking the iron ntil of dariiess, or a bedwaited, whining, grumbling sol dier that ought to be drimied out of the Lord's camp with the "louties' Aarch.' YoUi have only just, been launched. The voyaie is to be made. Earth and heaven and liell are watching to see how fast 1ou will sail, how wel! you will weather tle telpest al whetler at, last, amid the shout,ing of t,he aigis, you shall come into the right harbor. May God help mue this morning to give you three oi four words of Christian counsel, as I address myself more especially to those who have just now entered the Chli IB;ai life. Aly first word of counsel is, Hll he fore your soul a very highi model. I)o not say, "I wish I could prav like that man, or speak like this man or have the consecration of this one."' Sai: "Here is the Lord Jesus Christ, It perfect, ialt terin. .ily that 1 mean, with God's grace, to shIapi all my le.'' In other wordas you will nev'er be any more a Chrtstian than you strive to be. If you build a thundation twenity by thirty fcet, you will only have a small house. If you buildl a fouindation one huniidredl by one hundired feet, you will have a large house. If you revo(lvye to be onl1y a miiddling Chiiistian, you will only he a middling Christinn. If you have lii hih aspiration in a worldly direction you will never- succeedl in business. If y~ou have 1no huigh atspiratlOionm rel gious things you will never' succeed in eligioni. Y onuive a righit, to ashupire to the very hIgliest style of Chirisfiani ebairacter. F"roim your fe2et there reaches out a Pathio (1 iiristiaii attaiinmenlit w hiebi you may take, and I deliberatelyv say that, you liay be a better man than was P aul or' David or Summnerfieldl or I)od di ge--a better woimiai than Ilaiiniah Mlore or1 Charlotte Eliza/dbethl. WhIi not! I lid theuy halve' ia imonopoly of Christian grace? l>)id they ha:ve it priv ate key of the storeblo iso of God's mier c',? Does Godl shut y'ou out f'ronm the clatdness and goodiiess to wh Iich they' were liitrodulcedl? Oh, no. You have just the same puromlises, just, flhe samie Chist,~ just the same Ifol y Ghost, juist the same11 eflers of i'reseint and I everlastinig uove, and1( if you hlIl short fII what they werec-le, if yon do iiot comie tip to the po~int which they r.3achled( and go beyond it-it is lot heceiuse Chlrist, has shut y ou out fi-om any pouinIti (i morial and spiritual elevation, b)ut lbe caulse 3you deliberately r ie to take I admlit, tht man cannot bccome a Chlristiani like that wihout a struggle, lbnt whiat (do you get without lighting for iit? T1he hiortresses of ditrkiiess are to b( tahken by3 storii. Yoti iiay by3 acute striateLs ihmank the hosts of I ltept ion, but there are teiinpltations, there are evils, mi the wiay that you will have to meet 11ace 10 face, and it wvill be shiotr for shot, i.utn for gun giip for tgil, slauighter' for slaiughter(. Thie A luostle Paul over and1( ov'er aL!ain rep lesents the Christian life its a combai)it. When the win' vessel of Christ's I churichi comes iinto glory, bringing its crew and1( its passengers, it, will nlot coetui in like a North liver yacht, becautifufly pinltedl andl adorned, swinging mio th'e boathouse aifteir it pleasure excuirsion. I Oh, no. 1I, will be like a vessel coming< with a heavy cargo from China or lindia tile marks of the wave and the hiurri cane uponi it-sails rent, riggings splheed, p)u'ps all working to keep her afloat, bulwarks knockedl away. I seel such a vessel comiinIg, and1 get out my small boat and ipush toward her, and I shout:. "Ahoy, capt,aIn! What, are you going to (do with those shivered tInm. L:ers? That was a beaut,iful ship when you went out, but, you have ruinedl it." '-Oh," says tihe Captain, "I have a line cargo on board, and by this roundl trip I have made ten fortunes." So I believe it will he when the Chris tian soul at last comes into the harbor of heaven. It will come bearing upon It the mark of a great stress of' weather. You can see by the very looks of that soul as it comes Iito glory that it was dIriven by a storm and dashed in t,he hurricane, but by so much as the voy age is rough will the harbor be blessed. "-Jf'yo sufl'ered with him on earth ye shall be glorified with himn In heaven." Aim high. Do not De satisfIed to be like the ChristIan all around about you. Be more than they have ever been for Christ. JMy iecond word of counsel to those wrho have recently entered upon Chris- I ian life is, Abstain from all pernicious I tesoclations, and take only those that tre useful and beneficent. Stay out of o ill associations that would damage your I Ahrlstian character. Take only those tsaociations that will help you. A earned man said, "If I stay with that nan Fenelon any longer I shall be a Christian in spite of myself." In other ,vords, there is a mighty power in Jihristian associations. N)w, what knd of associations shall we, as young Uliristlans, seek after? I think we ought to get into company better than our selves, never going into company worse than ourselves. If we get into company a little better than ourselves, and there are ten people in that company, ten chances to one we will be bettered. If we get into company a little worse than ourselves, and there be ten people in that company, ten chances to one we will be made worse than we were b4fore. Now, when a young Christian enters the church, God (toes no ask him to re tire from the world. The anchorite that lives on acorns is no nearer heaven than the man who lives on partridge and wild duck. Isolation is not demand ed by the Bible. A mian may use the world with the restriction of not abusing it. But just as soon as you lind atiny surroun[011dings pernicious to your spiritual interest, quit those associiitions. Tbis remark is espically more appropriate to the young. Now it is impossile that the young and untroubled blIould seek their associations with those who are aed and worn out. As Gcd intecded the aged to associ ate with the aged, talking over the past and walking stafl' in hand along the samne paths they trod thirty, forty and lifty years ago, so I suppose he intended the young chielly to associate with the Young. The grace of God does not de mand that we be unnatural. I do not want you to take this caution I have given1 you its that of a growling misan thrope, hatimg hilarity. For you lust have a1 spring bow if you want to make the arrow fly. But while this is so. I want you to be especially on guard in this miatter and let the religion of Jesus Christ control you in all your associa Lions. Iii this church there is a large corn pany of young m1Ien anld young women ctinseerated to Christ. I know of' no better people than they are. Young convert, I invite you into their friend ship. Uontact with d,hem will elevate Iou. All hail, young followers of Jesus Christ, my joy and imy pridel My heart thrills at, every step of your ad]. Sancemeint. I talked with you in th-it hour when you first tried to break from sin, ittid I now rejoice as .I sec you put tig on the armor of* a conflict in which God will give you present and everlast ile victory. Stand oil' from all evil as sociations. A mnan is nio better than tie company lie keeps. Go among those who atre better than you are, and you will be made better. Go among those who are worse than you tire and jou will be made worse. My next word of counsel is that you be actively employed. I see a great mniy Christians with doubts and per plexities, and they seem to be proud of tein. Their entire Christian lifi, is made tn of gloom, and they Beemi to cultivate that spiritual despntidentcy, when I will undertake to say Ilhat in nie cases out of ten spiritual despon leucv is a judgiment of God Upoil idle nhss. Who are the happy pIeople in the church toda3? The busy pleople. Show me a man who professes the re ligion of Jiesus Christ and 1s 1(d1e, and I will show you an unhappy man. Th'le very lirst prescription that I give to a man11 wheni i 11ind himru full of dloubts and( ltas abou1tt his eternal intereat Is to) go to wor41k for God.41 Ten thotusand voices aire lit ted up asking for your hlp. ( o andl help. hlere is a wood lull ofMummer inseets. An aixman 240es into the wood to ctt lirewoodl. Th'ie insects do not bother lum ery uchi, and every stroke'of thle ax maikes themo Ily away. Uut, l. a lnini 24o andI lie down there and lie is bitten and mautled andI thinks if. is a hor rilelt thiing to stay in the wood. Why dtIes 11hIlnt take an ax and go to work~? S(o there are thouisandls of CThristi.ins no0w ini the church who go out amid renI!it annoiIyanIces in) life-tihey are not perllxed, they are all the time busy; while there are ot,bers who do not.hing, and( triey are sttung and st,ung and stuing ild covered from head to loot wit,h the bb>,tcthes of' indolence and inactivit,v a litd Tlhie first thing, tben, y oul have to (10 I. Christiatn young' mall, Christian young VI)omanl, is to go to work iln ,he service ft the I 4ord if' you want to be a happy bhrislti. WhelIn ani army goes (out, ,1ereI areC ailways stravglers lulling oil . arl an 1, here, $01me because they are( ainlt andi sick, but a great many because( heiV arle afraid to light and too lazy to I nlarch. A 11er awhvlile t,he liazy nmen on1t hie road hear thle booming of the guns or holurs, andl they heatr thle shiout of 'ictory, and a man 0on horseback COnmes 11 anut says, "'We haive won t,he (day!'' lIihti they hasten up. How brave they 1re iaft.r thle battle is over. Poor ait .:htinig, bult grand lit "buitzza~!'' So here atre si.ragglers going af'ter t,he Ilil's host,. There conie days of' dark- ~ Is and ha11 :ttle. Where tire the3? We p 'all the roll of the host. TI'hey malhke I o( anfswer', hut, after awhiile there comes~ t daiy of tiriup 111 inU t,he churc . and11 they ~ re all1 about. "lIuzza! hiuzzat! IDidn't re mi e it to thiem!' I have aniother word ol counsel t.o yi~e those who haive just enlteredo Chris ian ie~, andl that,is,,lIe faithful iln prity- V r. 1 ou night as well, businesa man, tarL, out ini the morn'linIg wiL,boult food lid explect to be strong all that day -on mbiit, a well abst,rain from food all he wveek and14 explect t,o be strong phli-i ally as to be strong without, plrayer. * e onlb way to get any st,rength inlto lie 8011ui l y pIrayer', andi the onl'y dif er'enlce between t,hat. Christian that is Vor'th everything andi that who is worth .l>thmig is the fact that the last, do)es not ~ray and1( the other (toes. And the only difference bet,ween this blristian, who is getting alonig very fast E ni the holy lif'e, andh this, who is only i Letting alongi tolerably, is that t,he first C prays more than the last. You can t by the amount of' prayer, not1 by this iiumbeor of hours, perhaps, but by tihe earnest supplicationi thlat lie puts up to c GodI. There is no exception to the rule. Show mle a Chiristian man who t neglects this kind or duLy and I will i' show you one who is inconsistent. Show t me a mani who prays. and his strengt,h andl his po(wer cannot be exaggerated,. I W hy, just give to a man th.is power of' I prayer anid you give him almost omnipo- I tence. .Another WOrdl of counsel I have to give. HIe faithful in Bible researchl. A great many good books are now coaming aut. We cannot read half' of thlemi. At avery revolution of tihe printing press1 iley are coinlg. They cover our par. d* tables and are in our sitting rooms wnd libraries. Glorious books they are. We thank God every day for the A ork >f the Christian printing press. But I iave thought that perhaps the followers >A Christ sometimes allow this religious .iterature to take their attention from God's word, ant that there may not be as much Bible reading as there vu.;bt. Lo be. How is that with your own experi. Dmct? Just Calculate in your mnuda how much relitious literature you have read during the year, and then how large a portion of the Word of God you have read and then contrast the two and au swer within your own soul whether you are giving more attention to the books that were writen by the hand of man or that written br the hand of God. Now you go to the drug store and you get the mineral waters, but you have noticed that the waters are nt, so fresh or sparkling or healthful as when you get these very waters at Saratoga and Sharon-getting theni right where they bubble from the rock. And I have no ticed the same thing in regurd to the truth ot the Gospel; while there ie a good deal of refreshment and health of the Gospel of God as it comes through good books, I find it is better Wien I conie to the eternal rock of' God's Word and drink from that rountain that hib bles ip fresh and pure to the lite and] the relreshnient and the health of the soAl. Read the Bible and it brings you into the asiociation ol' the best people that ever lived. You stand beside Moses and learn his meekness, beside Job and learn his patience, beside Paul and catch something of his enthusiasm, be side Christ and you feel his love. And yet how strange it is that a great many men have given their whole lives to the assatlting of that book. I cannot understand it. Toni Paine worked against i lat book as though lie received large wages, arid was inspired by the very powers of darkness, confessing that al1 the time he was writing lie (lid not have the 13iolo anywhere near him. flow many powerful intellects have en deavored to destroy it. Ilune, Boling broke, Voltaire have been atter It. Ten thousand men now are warring against the truth of God's Word. What do you think of them ? I think It is mean,and will prove it. I will prove it is tho meanest thing that has ever been done in all the centuries. But I can think of a meaner thing than that, and that is at old man going along on the mountains with a stalf in one iand and a lantern in the other. Darkness has come on suddenly. lIe is very old, itist able to pick his way out amild the i ocks and precipices, lean ing on hii staff with one hand and giiiding himself with the light in the other. You come up and sik: "Father, you se-in to be lost. Y on are a long way from home. "Yes," lie replies. And then you take II in by the hand and lead hint home. That is very kind of you. Uut suppose instead of that you should snat el the staff frot his hands and hurl it over the rocks, and snatch the lantern and blow it out? That would be dastardly, conteiptible until there is no depth of conteimpt be neath it. If you have a better staff, give it to him, If you have a better light, give it, to him. When God has put the staff of the Gospel in our hands and t,he lamp of G;od's word tt) light our feet, are you going to take from us our only support. and our only illumination? I love the sting of the wasp and the rattlesnake better than I (o the man who wants to clutch the word of God from my wrasp. T'here are people lhere who have been reading it a good while. It is a precious book to their souls. It has been so in timie of darkness and troutble. There was a soldier who fell ini battle, and at ter lhe had fallen tie said ini a feeble voice to his comiradIe, "Give me a drop." Ills comrade replied, "t'hieme is niot a p'art,icle of water in my canteen ." "Oh" he said. "I (ldin't mean that . Look i'n miy knapsacek and you will hind a Bible there. Get out that old liible aiid just give me a drop ouit of that,." Antt his coim, rade founid the lible anud read a fe~w piassages. The (dyinig soldier S:Oidl ''Oh, ( ltorg4e, there is ino hinii like that, is thene, for' a dyinug sotutier ? Cling to) your Bibte! IfI this hliblhe dioui be (lest royed, if all thle liilelts that have ever bseen pritedlt' shiould be Jt'stroyed, wve could make up a flible Ighit out oh- this muidience. F"rom' tha;t blristiain man's experience I take one ,luster of promises, andl fromn that, old( briistian mani's txpewrience aniothier, I ut them all together, arid I think I vould have a Bi tle. Yomu see, miy f riendis, I inave not tried 0 hideC ie fact that I have large expec at ion of youl who have eniteredl the 'hristiant life. D)o not be dliscouiraged. 'ress on towvard the prize, G od besidle 'on arnd Ileaveni hietore you. K(eep yotur 'ourage uip. Look ini thirty years from ow upon this chtn:ch. Another man n the pulpit. Other faces in the pews. 'diother man leadinlg the song. Otht rsa arryirng around the arliis boxes ot the hurch. All changed. Thirty years ave gone, and I look iinto thle faces of lie people, andh I say: " Why, It seems 0 mte I have seeni these people some there, but I cannot exactly say where. } )hi, yes, now I begin to thintk. TJhese v'ere the converts in 18932 and 1890J. 'hiy, how you have chaungedl!" "Oh, ye:s," they say, "01 couirse we 0 ~ ave changed. Tfhiirty years mnake a neat change." I say, "I low many rilnkles there are in your faces! "Oh, ~ es," they say, "thirty years make a reat many wrinkles." "hlave you , ept tht: faith ?" "Yes, we have kept hie faith." "Where are' those people /ho use to sit in the pew wit.h y'ou ?"' All gone.'' 'Theni I say, "W~ell, I I eel )nely; come, let us sing one of the old ymiis we use to sing thirty years ago, i1892, on cotmmuinion (lay. Any of on kinow thle 0old tunie? Some one uim it. Yes, that's it, t hat's It. N ow, I Itogether, let us sing, just as we did ' 1892: "Th'lere is a fountain filled wIth blood,1 D)rawn fronm Immuanuiil's veins; And sInners p)lunged1 benieath that flood L ose all theIr guility stainis. "Ioyng thief rejoiced to see Thatiutaini in his day; Amid there miay 1, though vile as lie, Wash all my sins away." Mi I EA PO1, ,Juine 9.-]tussell and *' Is crowd of Independ'nts are f'eellng 'ery sore to-night. The committee on redentuals hats not only decIded in fav- I r of the Bray tonmans,b but they refused D g've the tuissellites a hearing before he commit,tee. Naturally the Htussel curty are very indilgnalnt anid declare hey will carry their conltt at to the floor c f the Convention. Clayton,a liussell te, says such a thitig Is dusheartening ~ o men who came all the way here I rom outh Cyrolinia to receive such shabby ' reat ment from the ReDpublican leaders. a Lhe Itusselhit.es hoped that their declar ation in fayor of B1lalne would sect're hem recognition. They jumpedl too e coon, and lRussell, Clayton, Nlchols and I tlunter, who are otlicebolders under ri he present Administration, stand In a v ad plight. Theiy not only declared f ugainst IIarrison, hut t,hey were refused o ecognition as legitimate lIepublicans. i l'hey have hurrned the brid(ges behind t ~hem, and liarrusoni's friends wvill de- o nand their ofilcial scalps Immediately. e .gews and Courier BOB SMALLS UAPPY. 41E REJOICES OVER HARRISON'S VIC TORY OVER BLAINE. 1%raytoa aud If lo Crowd very Ruch Cant Down--How I ie D1re ent Staten voted A Repui4icati Who ThInkm Uarriaon Will bo H.-ften. CIIAI0,E,rroN, S. C., J une 13.- A Jispatch from Minneapolis to tie News xnd Courier says: Bob Smalbl and his E1mbinistration crowd from South Caro lina are rejoicing tonight over Ilarri. son's victory, while Brayton and his friends are correspondingly deprosseA. Just alt,r liarrison's nomination was assured I met, Brayton. lie said he was not particularly loud of Blame or Mc Kinley, but lie was anxious to defeat larrison. Among the delegates from South Car olina it is considered that Dr. Crum ha's a sure gras on the Charleston postmas torship inl paymxent for his loyalty to Harrison. lie was subjected to great temptation to join the auti-Ilarrison for ces, but Snialls, Webster and Miler, who were inl the coulidence of the Ilar rison mia,maaers, coivinced him that his ersoittl interesIs were with Iarrison. 1t, is understood that lie was shrewd enoughi to exact a written promise author:zed by Harrison and Wanamaker that le should succeed 'ost Master Mowry immediately on returning home. Be will probably stop at Washit.st,on and take his appointment to Charleston in his inside pocket. This has beenl a bad day for the repub lican bosses of' the Platt, Qu .y and Clarkson stripe. They go thundering down to politic 11 perdition, carrying wit,h them some small fry bosses who have outlived their usefulness in the party. If they keep up the t.reats they are making tonight Harrison has a very hard road to travel in the coming cam paign. It is generally conceded that Cleveland or G"orman can defeat him. In adlition to t,he hiostility lie aroused in his own party, there are thousands of republicans who are o)posed to a second terni. Today's proceeding sholwed that HIarrison can not, arouse much enthu sastn, but lie and his Iriends are shrewd manageri, and it will not, do for the dLemrats to underestimate his IiARISON WILL nE Il,ATEN. The followinii twivato dispatch was re 3eived last night rem Ll well known Sout,h Carolina repblicati now in New "New York republicans are ut'erly lisgusted with tie noniination, and say he North is snubb-d. Illil or anyone :an wipe up the Stale with Harrison. Doli'l, theC miy natne.1 TilE IALLOT FOR PICICSIDiENT. Tihie fo0llowing was .he ballot on the 1o1ination for president: Alaska-llarrisoti 2. Alabama-Ilarrison 15, MH.Kiuley 7. Arkansas-llarrison 15, McKioley 11. California-'farrisou 8, Blaile 9, Mc xm,ey I. Colorado-Blaine 8. Connecticut--lia rison 4. McKinley 8. Delawaie-ILarrison 4, Blaine 1. Mc K1mlev 1. Florida-Ilarrison 8. Georgla-arrison 26. Idalo-Blaine G. Illinois-Ilarrisoni 34, laine 14. Ini iana-ilarrisoni 30. Maine--Blainme 12. iowa-IIarrison 20, Bilaine 5, McKin ley 1. Kentucky--iatrrison 22,. Blaine 2, McKinley 1. Kanisa9-lIlarrisonm i1, MicKinlev 9. Louisiana-i-Iiarriston 8, Blaine 8. Malir> iami-I-nfm'sonm Io, linefl 2. M':ch gn- Mc Kiniley19Iarion7 hllaine 2. 1,hrisn7 i-sonri-IIairrisonm 28, Blaine 4, Ms Kiniley 2. Maissachuts(etss-l larrisoni I8. Blain e 1, M\cKhiiley 1f. ,\iMineotta-- lIaraiso)n 8, Blaie 9, Li Kmiey I. 'Mf issis.sippji--l farris~oni 13., Bflie)j \ Unntilt--f arrisoni 8. Vimr..inmia-i1arrison 1,1 liaine 13., Me (:mley 2 Wecst Virginiat----Iharris~on 12. Wisconsinm--f arrismi I19, 1lainie 2, lel-inley 3. South D)ak oto-IIairrison 8. NorthLl Dako,ta-iarrison 2, B3laine 4. WVashington---1arison~ 1, Blaine 6, Ohio-I 1arrison 1, McKmlfey 45. Oregon--lIarrI on 1, McKinley 7. P ennsylvania-IIarris,n 19, Blaine 3, IeKinley 42. lImode k lands--l brison 5, Blaine 1, Souiley I, lReed I. ouhCarolina-IIari Lon 13, Jlhainie ,McKinley 2. Tenmnessee-IIarriison 17, Blaine 4, IcKmnley 3. Missomi i-IIat rison 28, lIlaine 4, Mc :iley 2. Neb)raskam-Harrisoni 15, McKinley- 1. Nevada-IIrrisonm 4. New Manmpaluire-- hiarri .on 4, Blaine , leed I. Lincoln I. New .Jersey--IIarri ion 18, Bllaine 2. New York--hlarrisoni 27, Bline 35, IcKiniley 1t0. North Carolina-I-larrisoni 18j, laiie &, McKmnlev 1. WVyoming-- iarrison 4, Blaine 2. .Ariz ma-llarrisoni I, laine 1. New Mexi, o-Hiaison 2. O)klahoma-IIlarrisonm 2. IDist,rict of Columbhima--BIllne 2. Utah-IIharrison 2. lindian T1erritory-liarrison I, Blaine T1otal 90-1. Ha&rrison 535k, Blaine 82 1.6, McKinley 182, Reed 4, L aceoln .Necessary to a choice '453. "I am Not 4uity." CIIAIRLOTTrE, N. C ,June 10.-Several ears ago Alex. \Vhitley and D. II. ucker, natives of Stanuly Count y, went Vest atnd settledl at Arkadelphi. Ark. n a gambling dispute WVhitley brutal murdered Tucker. Whitley came ack to his old home andI last week was p4tured and put in jaIl at Albemarle. all yesterday imorinlg a mob of 100, 11 wearing red shirts, went to the jail, verpowered the keeper and took Whit iy- omit and hanged him to a tree. ames II. Abraham, Sherli of Clark ounty, Arkan.sas, arrived at Albemarle )r Whitley two hours after the lyn rdng, his intention being to take the risoner back ton Arkansas for trial. hitley's last words just before being rumng up were, "I am not guilty." le as of a prominent family in Stanoly, i was itasoTucker. Hleallug the Breach. BATON JBOUOE, La., June 15.--Two 3rnterence committ,ees or the divided oulsiana Democrats have reached a mm ,ual ly satisfactorallyv agreement pro iding for an amalgamationi or the i,wo ct.ions of the party and the sending f a single Democratic delegatIon, tun. strmcted to Chicago. Thew F'oster action has been recognmzed its the head f f,he party in the .'tate. Unilnstruct d delegates at large to the Chicago "GIVE ME A DRINK." Were George Wililamis's L-st Word-e Turned and fell Dead. A,iLANrA, June 12.-People passing along Piedwont avenue near the rail road culvei t esterday morning about 8:30 o'clock saw the trembling form of a man walking s-uthward along the avenio suddenly reel and tall tottering to the sidewalk. Tile man lay quite still, uttring no sound, and a big crowd rushed to his side. Some men lifted the man up and carried him into How ard's undertaking establIshment, just a few steps away, and bent over him to see if he was ii any danger of dying. The man was (lead. ils heart and pulse were still and his wide open, glassy eyes were staring vacantly above him. The curious crowd gazed pityingly on the dead wan's upturned face, bloat ed and wearing the marks of excessive dissipation. Some one in the crowd recognizud the dead man as George Wiliais, a brick mason, who boarded at 70 Alaietta street. Up to Saturday tigh t Williams had a good position, paying him about tlirve dollars and a half a day. Ile did not return to work Monday, his old enemy. whisky getting ill its work on hint atid rendering him unlit for work. ills drunk was pro tracted over Tuesday and Wednesday. Veditesday morning Oilcer Shepard found Williams on Decatur street stag gering about drunk and arrested him Ile was tried before Recorder Cal houn \Vednesday afternoon and lined 96.75. Subsequently the line was sus pended and Williams died owing the city just 56.75. After being liberated from the police station Williams again resumed his drunk, and WednPsday night he was soaked in liquor. Early yesterday morning, before the bar near the corner of Decatur street, and Pled mont avenue opened, Williams was standing at the door. lie was in a piti able coudition. Ilis face was bloated and his eyes were blood-shot. Iis handi were trembling and he seeired tc be suleting terrible agony. The awful thirst for whisky was gnawing upon Im and lie was suffering all the agonies of hell. Soon after the bar opened a workman entered with a b sket on his arm and called for a g,ass of beer Williams walked up to him and said: '.Pardner, for God's sake give me a drink. I'm dead broke, and I'm dying for a dr,nk." Trhe ian paid for Williams a drink, which lie gulped down eagerly. Wil liams walked Out and was gone for sonie time. lie returned about 8 o'clock and stood about the place, lits hands trembling anti his face showing the excruciating pain he was suffering. A negro passed by him and he begged piteously for the price of a drink. The negro passed heedlessly on and Wil liams w ilked up Piedmont avenue to ward the railroad. lVhi-n near thecul vert he reeled and fell-dead. Coroner Davis held an inquest over the dead man about 9:30 o'clock. The verdict of the jury was that Williams's death was caused by failure of the heart brought on by excessive drink ing. Williams has a family near Tal lapoosa Ga., but he has not lived with them for over two .ears. IIe came originally from Fairburn, G t. Took the Money and Fied. SAN FRANCISCO, .June ll.--John Gil. son, secretary of the .J udon Manufac turing Company drew S[7,000O in gold and silver coin trom the Bank of British Columbia this morning and took the Oakland ferry boat to cross the bay and pay off the three hundred (eimployees of the company at the fac tory and rolling mills at Emnoryville, a stat ioni between Oakland and Berkeley. Leaving the terry boat b'i took the Herkeley train, When the train stopped at Jf street statioii two men sprang aboard and hastened to Gilson's seat. T'here, at the point of revolvers, they cornipelled Gilson to give up the twvo sacks containmng the coin. The men thein jumped from the slowvly moving trait, amnl entered a buggy which It was su bseq iuentfly ascertained had( been hitched at the foot of .15 street for some ime (luring the morning and drove away'. (hlison lired live shots from the plat torin o,f thle train and one of the men who had his lace blackened returned ihe shots, but none of' them took effect. l'he passengers on the train wvere most ly tuerry-makers on their way to a pic nic and were dumbfounded at the scene rapidly enacted before them. Word wvas hastily sent to Oakland andt guards were established on the ferry boats and on the roads leading into the country, but nothing has been seen of thle men at a late hour, The man who lhad his face blackened is de s9cribed as wearing blue over aIls and juniper, while the other wore blue trousers and a limien duster, It is sup p)osed that the men were discharged employees, familiar with Secretary Gil son's mnethods. The cotton crop, W ASIllNGTON, Ju nne 10.-Returns of thae statisticarl correspond(ents of the IDepartment of Agriculture report cot ton p)lanting late, germination retarded by low temperature, and slow dlevelop merit of plant. In the entire cotton belt temperature of the past three imoonths is reported below nornmal, in sottne districts twvo to three degrees be low. Thme raintfall has also been report ed below normal on the Atlantic coast, while generally In excess in the MississIppi valley, both conditions co-operattig with tihe low temperature to retard growth, Many correspon dents of the Atlantic section report a poor stand. '[he average condition of cottoii in the consolidation of the re ports Is 85.9. Th'lis ls the lowest aver age, with or.e exception, since 1874. state average are as follows: Virgin Ia, 79; North Carolina, 88; South Caro lina, 91t; Georgia, 87; Florida, 89; Ala bama, 91; MississippI, 91; LouisIana, 82; Texas, 81; Tennessee, 90; Arkansas, 75. Thel redluctioni of area from floods re suiltinig from river overflows especially of the MississippI and its tributaribs, has beeni heavy. The acreage of cotton has been materially reduced. On the 1st of May, while planting was pro g ressing, ou r correspondents reported the Intention to reduce the acreage 18.6 per cent. State percentage of area In comparlsoii with the actual acreage of last year are as follows: Virginia, 73; North Carolina, 76; South CarolIna, 84; Georgia, 84; Florida, 81; Alabama, 84; Mississippi, 85; Louisiana, 80; Texas, 85; Arkansas, 82; Tennessee, 83; aver age, 83 5. Lightning iStrikes Two Churches. MA nnID, June 13.-A terri flc thunder storm prevailed in various parts of Spain yesterday anid heavy loss of life antd injury by lightning are reported, At MIhas, in the province of Orenses, the Parish church was struck while worshippers were attending mass, Tee were killed and twenty-eight seriously in juredl. At Muccendes, in the province of Valladolist, a church was struck and five killed and ten injured. Dave baw in Not Dead. GREENVILLE, S. C., June .-It now appears that Dave Nhaw, the Laurens negro whose fate has been a mystery for nearly two weeks, is alive aud "still in the ring, although somewhat dis tiguied." .1. M. Teriy, who lives below Piedmont, was in the city yesterday attnruoui atid reported to ( F. Dill that Shaw has turned up and that be is at Thouas Sullivim'u, nine itVles below where he was supposed to have been lynched. Shaw 8ays that the crowd gave him an uinierciful whipping and allowed him to go. lie has since kept quiet fearing that an end would be put to his life. All the facts In the alleged lynching showed it to have been an outrageous affair, and the treatment of the negro has been condemned by the press and people of the State. Mr. Dill said yesterday afternoon that he has known Shaw a number of years and that he does not know a more honest or straightforward negro. Ile says that he has loaned Shaw money to make his crop every year for a number of years and that lie has been repaid i,romptly, Shaw at present owes hin over $121 and he has no doubt but that lie will get it. lie also says that when Shaw was arrested lie had money, as he (H1r Dill) had loaned it to him a tow days before. Shaw, if alive, and the report to that effect is aut.hentic, will probabl make trouble for the party that toolk the law into their own l,ands. The negro's statement of the affair, whtwu lie makes it., will be of interest all over the State.-News. 'Ihe Alliance in Morning. WASHIN(iTON, June 1I.-Col. L. L Polk, president of the Farmers' Alli ance, died at Gailield Hospital at 11:16 this morning. Col. Polk was a relative of President Polk. Ile was a native of North Caro lina, where he was born about lifty-tive years ago. Ilis education was received in the common schools. During the war he served for a time in the Con federate Army and resigned to go to the Legislature to which body lie had been elected. Ile filled for severa years the ollice of Commissioner 01 Agriculture for North Carolina and later still, he began the publication of the Progressive Farmer which he man aged for a long time. At the time of his death lie was serving his third tern: as president of the body to which ie has given so much of his time and at tention. Col. Polk's home was at 1laleigh, N C. IIe leaves a wife and three children The 11 o'clock train over the Rich mond and Danville Railroad to-nigh carried the remains of Colonel Polk t< Raleigh, N. C., for interment. Tht funeral services will be held at Raleigl at 4 p. m. to-morrow. 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