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THE SERAPH'S WINGS. DR. TALMAGE IN THE MANJFACTUR ING TOWNS OF MIDDLE ENGLAND. 'he Seraph Covered BtL Faice 'Whenle Approached the Throne oi God--This tetup to Ite an Age of Irreverence Fools Make a Mock of Sin. LoNDON, Aug. 28--DurIng the past week Dr. Talmage has been preaching to erormous audiences in the great tranuiacturling towns of the English cuidland counties. The sermon selected < r publication this wcek is on Isaiah vi, 2, "With twain he covered his face, with twain te covered his feet, and with twain he did fly." In a hopital of leprosy good Klimg Uz ziah had died and the whole land was shadowed with solemnity, and theologi tal and prophetic Isaiah was thinking about religious things, as one is apt to do in time of great national bereave ment, and frgetting the presence o( his n ile and two eons, who made up his l-mily, he has a dream, not like the ('reams of ordinary character which ,.enerally come trom indigestion, but a vison most instructive and un('er the touch of the hand of the Almighty. The place, the ancient temble; build inLg. grand, awiul, majestic. Within that temple a throne higher and grand r than that eccupic d by any czar or sul Ian cr emperor. On that throne, the eternal Christ. In lines rurreuiiding that throne the brighiest celestials, not the cherubim, but higher th1an the3; the most equisite and radiant of the heaven ly mhabitants, theseraphim. They are talled burners, they look like tire. Lips of the, eyes of fire, feet of lire. In addi tion to the features and the limbs which uRgest a human being there are pinions which suggest the lithest, the swiftest, the most buoyant and most inspiring of all intelligent creation-a bird. Each -eraph had siz wings, cach two of the wings for a diflerent purpose. Isaiah's 'ream quivers and flashes with these pinions. Now folded, now spread, now beaten in locomotion. "With twain he covered his feet, with twain lie covered his faCe, and with twain he did fly. The probability is that these wings were not all used at once. The secraph standing there near the throne, over whelmed at the insignificance of the paths his feel had trodden as com pared with the paths trodden by the feet of God, and with the lameness of his loco motion, amounting almost to decrepi tude am compared with the divine veloci ty, with leathery veil of angelic modesty hides the feet. "With twain lie (lid cover the feet." Standing there overpowered by the overmatching splendors of God's glory, and unable longer with the eyes to look upon them, and wishing those eyes shaded from the inEsut'erable glory, the pinions gather over the cottnance. "With twain he did coNer the face. Then us God tells this seraph to go to the farthest outpost ol'i itensity on mes sage of light and love and joy, ntd get back before the first anthem, it does not take the seraph ai great while to spread himselt' upon the air with uninagiiied celerity, oia stroke of the wing c(qial to ten thausand lea;ues of' air. -With twain he did fly." Neither God nor seraph intii-led to put any dishonor upon that which is one of the masterpieces of Almightv (God the human toot,. Phpsiologist and aunto mist are overwhelmed1 at the wonders otf Its organization. T1hie lridgewater Treatise," written by Sir Clrtles llell, on the wisdloml and goodnicsa of G.od as illustrated in the human hantd, was a r*e suit of the $40,000( bequeathed in the last will and testamnent of' the Earl oft liridlgewvater for the encouragement of Christian literature. The world could. alftord to forgive lisa eccenitricities, thotugh lhe had two dogs seated at his table, and though he put six dlogs atone in an equipage dtrawn by four hiorses aind attended by two footmen. WVith his large bequest imducinLr Sir Charles lIell to write so valuable a book on the wis thom of God in the struveare oft he hui man hand, the worhdeonild afford to tior give his odd(itita.' And j)fe world could now afford to have another Earl of Bridgewater, how ever idiosyncrat,ie, if lie would inidut-e some other Sir Charles hell to write a hook on the wisdom and goodness of God in the construction of the human foot. The articulation of its bonies, the lubrication of its joints, the gzracel'ulness of its fines, the ingenuity of' its cartli ages, the delicacy of its veins, the rapid ity of its muscukir contraction, the sen sitiveness of its nerves. I soundl the praises of the human foot. WVith that, we halt or climb or march. ft is the foundation of the physical .fabriic. It is the base of a God ptoisedl column. Give me the iistory of' your toot, and I will give you the history of ' our life time. Tell me up what steps it, hath gone, down what dteclivities and im what roads and ini what directionc, and 1 Will know more about you thtan 1 wanit to know. None of us could endutre the scrutiny. Our feet, not always in pathsi of' God. Sometimes in p)aths of worldli ness. Our feet, a divine and elorit,us mac.dnery for usetulness and work, so often making miisteps, so of ten going in the wrong direction God knowing every step, the pat riarch saying, "Thou settest a print on the heels of my feet." Crimes of the hand, crimes of the tongue, crimes of' the eye, crimes of the t ar not worse than the crimes of the toot. Oh, we want the wings of hum iii ty to cover the feet! Ought we not to go into self abnegation before the all scrutinizing, all trying eye of' God? The seraphs do. How much mnore we. "With twatn he covered the feet." Another seraphic post ure in the text, "With twain he covered the face." That means reverence God ward. Never so much Irreverence abroad in the world as today. You see it in the defaced statuary, in the cutting out of figures from tine paintings, In the chipping of monuments for a memento, in the fact that military guard must stand at the graves of Grant and Garfld, and that old shade trees must be cut deown for firewood, though fifty George P~. Aior rtses beg the wood men to spare the tree, anti tbat calls a corpse a cadaver, and that speaks of death as going over to the majority, and substitutes for the reverent terms, father and muother, "the old man" and "the old wo.aan," and finds nothing impresstve in th'e ruins of Baalbec or the columns of Karnac, and sees nio diflereince in the satsbath from other days except It al lows more dissipation and reads the .lible in what is called igher criticism, makhtg it not the Word of God, but a good book with some tine things in it. Irreverence never so much abroad. s 1How many take the name of God in a vain, how many trivial thinSa said3 about the .Almighty I Not wilIlinig to< have God 'in the world, they roll up an1 idea of sentimentality and humanitari anIsm and impudence and Imbecility, and call it God. No wings of rever nceover the face, no taking off of shoes in holy ground. You can tell from the vay they talk they could have made a etter wqrld than this, and that the iod of the Bible shocks every sense of iropriety. They talk o' the love of 'od In a way that shows you they be Leve it d wes no! make any difference ow bad a muan i, hcre Le, will coume in 6t the shining gato They talk oi the ove of God in tuc a way which shows rou they think It Iit a general jail deliv ,ry tor all the abandoned ana the icoundrelism of the universe. No unishment, hereafter for any wrong lone here. The Bible gives us I wo descriptions f God, and they are just opposite, and ,hey are both true. In ole place the ilible says God is love. In another place the Rible nvi.s Cod is a consum ing fire. The ex planation is as plain caii be. God through Chiirt is love. God out of Christ is fire. To win the one and to cscape the olh r we have only to throw ourselves-body, mind and soul-into Christ's kveping. "No." says Irreverence, "I want no atone ment, I want no pardonl, I watit no in tervention; I will go up ianl lace God. and I will challenge him, and I will tefy him, and I will ask hii% what he wants to do with me." So t liite confronts the infinite, so a I ack hanimer I ries to break a thunderhol, soi lie breath ot huniaii nostrilm delies the everia.1,in.q God, while the hierarchs of heaven bow the head and bend I lie knee as the King's chlni iot gves by, aii the arch angel turns away ieance lie cannot endure lte slilenilor. al. Ih I chortus of all the empires ol heavil comlies ii with full diapason, "Iily, holy, holy!' leverence for shat, ievereuce foi the old merely because it is old, rever. ence for stupidity however learned revernee for incapacity however finel inaugurated, I have none. But w( want more revererce for God, more rev erence for the sacraments, more rover ence for the Bible, inore leverence foi the pure, more reverence for the good Reverence a charat-terist ic of all greal natures. You hear it in the roll of th master oratorios. Y*ou see it in th4 Raphaels and Titiain and Ghirlandijos You study it in the architecture of ti4 Aholfabs and Christouher Wrens. D) not be fiippant about Go I. Do nol joke about death. 1)0 not make full of the lible. Do it t ti ride the eternal The brightest and mightiest serapi cannot look unabashid upon hun. la voluntarily the wings coi iul). "Witl twain lie covered his lace." Who is this God before whon the ar rogant and intractable refuse rever ence ? There was aii engineer ot li name of Stirasicrates ho was in thi employ of Alexander the (Great, and hi offered to hew a mountain in the shapi ot lis master, the eniperor, the enorm ous ligure to hold in thi left hand i city of ten thousand iilabitants, whill with the right hand it was to hold ; ba.3in large enoug h to collect all thi nountain torrents. Alexander ap plauded omin for his ingenuity, but ior ade the ent- rprise because of its cost lint-!r 71et I have to tell you that ou King holds in one hand all the cities o; the earth and all the oceans, while h4 has heaven for his tiara. Earthly power goes fromt hand t< hand-from Henry I to Ilenry 11 an Henry 11I, from Charles 1 to Charle. 11, from Louis I to Louis II and Loui. 1 i1-but from everlasting to overlast ing is (Cod. (God the 1irst, (,'od the last. God the only. lie has one telescopt with which he sees everything-hi,, eniniscience. le has one bridge wil i which lie crosses vverything--his om,. nipresence. fle has ono harniner wiLtl which lie builds everything-his om. ipotence. 'ut two tailespoon fuls 01 water int the paltin of youtr hand andI i1 will overilow; but isainth inidticates thal God pluts thle Atintc, and the l'acilie au:l the Arctie', and(lI te Antdarct ic, an lie 1(edit erratieain,l and Ih lil atck seai and all thle waters of thle airthi in t hi hollow of his bartl. Tlhe lingers titi lieich on one s3ide, thle u ri-t. thie beaci on tihe oilier. "lie .oldetlh the wite: iii the hollow ol his h:and."' A\s you1 take a lin tch of salt or TporW der bet ween you r I i' nb aid t wo mi the ethI'. lie tua;sitres te dust of the earth, the orltitu' alhre in)dicat ing that G;od takiax the.~lii dust. ot all t m'Iiwwt.uhetii Ie lihe thumhlb and twc lingers. Youel wraph arotund your handit i hilue ribboin ii ve tumll s, lt n tiuit s'. Y ou say it is~ live hand1( bri'inuit hs, or it is t en hiandl breadthli. No inintea s the pro phiet, G od winid the blue ribbon ofth sky aroundt his~ hiandt. "lie mleteth ouit the heaven wvithi ai ::ain." Anlot hem' seraphic post1 ire iin the text The seraphi iiuust nod. always stand st ill lie mlust iiiove, aiid it. mulist. lie without cilmsiness. Thiere muiist be ceierity anid beauty in the moveent. "With: twain lhe did thy." ( 'orrection, exhilha rationi. ('0rrect ion att our1 slowv gait, for we onily crawl in thle service whlen we ought to thy at. thle div~ine i'idding. E'xhillarat ion in thle fact that the soul has wings as the1 seraphds have wings. What is a wing ? A n inist-rument of locomotion. Thiey uuiy not lbe like ser aph's wing, they may inot be like bird's wings. God says so. "lie shall mounit uip oin wings as tagh s.'' We are matte in the divine inwi;ge, and ( od has wings. The Bible says so. "Il~lng in his wings.'" "Under thle shadow of his wings." "I 'nder whio: o wing t hoii hast colme to trust." We haw loidedl wing now, wounded wiing, brioken wving, 'bleeding wing, t'agetd wing. Aye; I have it now. ('aged within bars of b)one3 and und(er uir lairEs of' tlesh, but one day to ne tree. I hear the rustle of pinions In Senig rave's pot-n n~ hieh we often sing: Rise myi) soul, and st retch thy winigs. I hear the rustle (of plinions in Alex andter Pope's st anza, wh ich says. I mount, 1Ihy, ) Decath, wheie is 11hy v'ictory. A dying Christian not long ago cried out, "Wings, wings, wings!" Tlhe air is full of them, comning and11 going, coim ing and going. You have seeni hew tile dl t chirysalid t>ecomes the bright bt,tterfly ; the dui and11( stupId let hargic hirn into tile alert and.u the beau:tiitui. Well, my friexds, ini this world we. aire iln a chrysalid state. Ih-uathI will unfurl the wings. O h, it we cou11hl only real ize wihat a grand I hiing it will lbe to get rid of this told cloil or the body and1( mount the heavens, neither seagull nor lark nor albatross nor falconi nor Conl dor pitchling from the highest range of Andes so bouyant or so majestic of stroke. See that eagle in thle iiounrtain nest. It looks so sick, si) ragged featheredl, so worn cult andhSC 11o hali sleep. 1s that angle Uyiiig ? No. The ornithologist wilt tell you it is iiioltinig season with that bird. Not (lying, but molt ng. Youi see that Christian sick and1( teary and worn out and seeming about 0 expIre on what is called his death bed. L'he world says he Is (dying. I say It is lhe inciting season01 for his soul I-the otdy dlroppfing away, the celestial pini ans coming onl. Not dying, but mioit ng. Molting out of darknless and( sin nd struigglig into glory aind into God. Yhiy do you rnot shIout? Why do you it shivering at the thought of death rnd trying to hold back and wishig iou could stay here forever, and speak if departure as though the sub)ject were filled with skeletons and the var ilsh of comaa,, and a.. tough you pre I'red latne foot to swift wiuigs ? 0 people of nd, lt u. sto p..ayi the fool and prepare for rapturous light. When your soul stands on the verge of this life, and there are vpst precipices beneath and sapphlred domes above. which way will you fly ? Will you swoop or will you smar? Will you fly downward or will you fly upward? L Everything ou the wing ,his ruornng 0 bidding us aspire. Holy Spirit on the wing. Angel of the new covenant, on the wing. Time on the wing, flying away froin us. Eternity on the wing flying towardus. Wings, wings, wings! Live so near to Christ that when you are dead people standing by your lifeless body will nut soliloquize, saying, "What a disappointment life was to him; how averse he was to departure; what a pity it was he had to die; what an awful calhmit, 3" Rather standing there imay they st' a sign more vivid on your still face thait the vestiges of pain, something that will indicate that it was a happy exit-the clearaitce from oppressive (uairantiine, t he castOff chrysalid, the molting of the faded and useless, and the amcent from malarial valleys to bright., shining mountain tops, and be led to say, as t hey stand there contemplating your himility and your reverence in lilte and N.itr happi ness in death, "With Litain he covered tlie feet, with twaini he overed the face, with twain he did ly." Vitig! A Light Vt. Cl.t'. i;IA. August, .';.-TIhe thuiu dIr or lthe politicil battle o Tuesday is still rever'eratim:, nAl the echoes are t.o be heard inl thil Valleys wvhere the re treatho venerals have vone to leain i the results of the fray. The news in Co lumbia has been vtry ineaure and i complete. The itileiations ire tit both sides are pretty well satisliel-at least they so alfeet, and are taking their rspective deleat aid victory in eool temper. There have been but, few ind widely ,cattered reportm of traud. ie greatest surpripe is the small vote pIolltl throughout, it State. Both the Cotn servatives and Tillmumiltes ie exceed ingly disappointed with the small nutim ber of voters. ''hie esetve vote is chiefly claimed by the C'oservatIves, and they do not understamd whiy their full streugth was iot polled. It wou'd purhaps be safe to say that tu" total vote cast was bet ween 80,000 and 90,000. In the counties wheie the laraest, votes were promised they iailed to -specily." There have been a great many people badly fooled, anl onittle of them much uore tban thle baidet, woikers.---News and Courier. Ful11 ot Bullot 110149v. FomsN'rii. Ga,Aug. 31.-lula Isut ler, it colored school teacher, whio re Side< about, eihit, milis from here, was bh utally au saulted b.y John J.ossey, her rejected lover. .1ossey waitt d in am .Ihush until the schio was dismissed, and demanded th.t, the virl aicci Iipaly him in a buggy to it v nearest porson. 'Tis Ilia flatly re"I'm to d.). and the negro then made the attack upoin her, despite her cries t'oi hielp. The m roes wele holding a Imlevtinlg about a halt mile away. They quickly disper,-ed. and headed by the 'reacher, hievaln a search for Jossey wi i tuns a.d sti, ks, anld JOssey was s011n 11111 (1)A, aild when last seen was 1i int in the wo d3 completely perforlite with itillet I oles. The uegrocs are _re: wly exnied. Strauge Dutitbloh-all. CoLinmmA, S. C., Aug. 21.-Ane of the strangest dolibie deat hs that has occurred in Columbia took plbictt yest day. A bout 1: - -'clock oi .\\ .I. dla.v, Samun el Dav is, a niegro, (1id~ after a Iinzgering illntess. this faoSi l wvife Sarah, w ho h ad bee n m--.-sing h im w ith tireless attention Arough is illness, miani test ed gytrw ie vot,ion towartt him amid wl. ane ph3 siciani told her 1 hie endt wi ait hnmi, her griief knewv no , ooMtns. Vb esterday imorning she dress ef, ini oirder to aiiccomp)any I hei remiains y of hier lhsband to W ini.sbo(r() where they were to be i nterred. Abhout 11 o'cloc'k she wvas statim lg up, when'i the casket con t aininig hear husbafnd 's body wa~s borne inrough t het room, she s.nv it, and felil t.o the ft or deadt. Then fol lowed gre'at excitmnt, aiamn thle col ored people, an. d ail! k inids oft niracua 1lo1s 1 bieories were ad vanicedl. A cor oners inquiest wa'fs beh1( and a verdficf.of death fr'omi heairt dIis e.ise wvas bioughit ini. State. Il 4iius tata ii u trfeeamce-. Amerttleau 'aik Nlajes tic, fiotin l'etro toulovsk, ecachedh he re i st evening,ii having aboard .hie ca plai anid cr*ews of f lie iou r seal li scthiooners, I osie, Olon, Arctic and Willie McGowani, fly - iniz the iritish flag. and the Amer':ican schooner C. I1. White of San Francisco. Tlhe sech ooniers were sealinug of1' Copper Islanids, betweeiin ort and lilly miiiles from the mainhmd, thie latter plart of' *Jutly, wh len the Htiusian warshii S'a broka, and1( the fur comupan y steamer Sodlak, bearing tfie (Govenor of' Ber in4''s Islandh, lotundl d them til and senit the schiooners to lbe sol at l'etro plouilovski andii made thle captains and crews prisoniers. The captuin of the liussian cruiiscr based his act,ion on lie ground that, llussia e'xercisedf jurisdiction over' all land and water Westward( of the line ofrdemarkation . Iireck of a act SAINA wv, %(10mz., Aulgust 21.-T'lhe steam yacht Wahpmti went down in a storm thiis afl erinoon. George Slier mni, cook on board of the yacht, tele graphedl from Coltlingwooud, Ontario, t.o (lay: "Boat wrecked. TIwo of us saved. All the rest, d rownted." TIhe Wahpiti Ileft hetre about tenl dus . ago on a c'ruise up) t he lakes. Slie had on board 1I. W. Sibley, son) of the late ll ram Si bley, the' iiilltonalire capital ist of N ew York, h is wile, son, daumgh ter and two lady friends, Miss M. P'. liond and NIliss l''. W. I urbiin, of Isoc'h ester, N. Yi. TIhe crew wvas comifposet(l r of Capt. . a mt-s -'Id rdge andt Eniginreer Walter A. IIleri y, .1 trome O'f hare, deck hand, firenual, itin~e linknown, arid George Shel mini, 11o(k. Thte )tin ad lubu tid. Ti -:P.A N, A iig. 2e'1.- -' w chiolerat rages wi ithi unebei'Ccd violetuce thirotigh ot tP erald, and the coatitess corpses lie everywhere unbiuiried. Not,wit hstanid ig ihe turgent orders of the Govern ment , the miollabis. or elergy , refiuses to pei form the last rile s re lired in the 0 case of the de:d :as pIrelt liniiiary to buirial e I hese ri tes include fi' evashiing of thle ii botdies5, anid thIiis the mnollahs pit i vely ti dc tlinle to I er~f orii w heii dleath hnw ben Li cauised by choler,a. Thea drive-rd of th.e I donkeyvs t hat ecirry the iil have dle- a seirted the servl(ce, andt comnmumncat i'n is "very where sutpitded, except wh-e lhe Iteleg raph11 reaches. L A Nsl 0I: , Il'A. , August 29.-0Ii S it uirday Thomnas Ilonnefly, a inember of r the L ocuscade Club, was at the bat ( and (Gorman was pitching tor thle 1I Lansford team. The latter threw a( strong incuive bail, which D)onnelly t struekc at instead or moving out of the ii way. The ball lilt him in tihetear, knock- f Ing him to the groundi. Ile was hasth- E ly carried oft the field and a physician summoned, but before the latter ar rived the Injunea man died.1 Cholera In New York Bay. QUARANTINE, N. Y., Aug. 31.-The ,erman steamer Molavia of the 1am iurg-Amnerican Packet Company, which xr-ived from llamuburg this mornit, iad twenty-Ltwo leathS during the pai; go. which the ship's Eurgcon called holerine. Tbe lit death took plie Xtgust 1 od hie last, one on tht 2hh. V'wcnty wte .hildicn nd tao aiulta L'hlrteeu were natives of Poland, tbrue atives of Hese, - ne Austrian, live ?russians. All wete burled at sea. Vl'e iteamer was imutd:ately ordtred iuto ,he lower bay. The stevrage passenger Nere carefully inspected and all found uite well. There are three cases of neiese onl board. )e. Jenkius has made arraw-,ementis rIt a bactertiogicil ( x liinat,itill to be inado of the bedding an(d ( lects of tle Lwtuty-three victims, and will not pro 1oun1ce1 an opinion as to whether the Jea'.hs were caused by Asialse cholera oLtil the examnination lia been coin leted. )r. ]iiggs, consuin i path - ,lo.,ist, to the b,ard of healt.h, has beiei notfied and Will Iersonally conduct, the L xaminlations. None of the steerage passengers have as 3et landed, but, lus have been sent, for and the transler will be m11ade With all posisible haste. )r. Jkenkins is very reticlent and reltises to pron1ouIice a flat fo0t,ed opinion. lie says: "I got the sirgeon's repint, and at. once called )rs. Tallmage and Sanborn, uy -tputies, 1i t.o consimulat loll. %% e arrived at a con cluion, hut what, it was I refuse to say." -You have observed." he added in a suggestive way, "tbat thbe Asiastic cliol era was diagiosed as cholerilne in all t,he initcted -.orts by the local authorities at the outset., but subsequent i velopneuts proved every one osuch cases to he the actual and --enuime Asiatic plague." l)r. Tallinge refused to answer anly qtiustions telative to the deatbs. "I amin not in authority. You must see )r. Jenkin.-"' I)r. Tallnage insinuated, however, that, lie believed the crIsis had come11. andl that, btom this time forward tile clomest, vigil would be kept, at tile lower station down tile hat bor to pre vent the d.sease from getting as near to the citv a3 event his station. )IacU1,a41,g the DaIIA;er. VA-SI l N<TON, Autgust, 31.-The actual arrival of Asiatic cholera at I he p)rt of New York has brought, to the front tile quest,lon of muspendlj, immnli 1rationi to 1,11 country alt ogether during the pie ulance of cholera in tile Eistern lemieusphere. It is aadmitted that such a measure woult be justitied only by the most pressimg danger, but, this doiti ntur, in thle opinlion o" som1e hi-Oh oflicials, is at, land. Government oillieers are rantacking records and reading un on former scourges. A-sistant, Secretary Spauldingi, who has immediate control ol tile matter. was this afte noon found deeply ituMersed in a hist.orv of the simtalloox epidemic ot 1885. -All tle machitnerv of the Govern metit, is at work on tills cliolei busi ne,:s,'' ie said, "atid all the precautions laken in 1885 have already been taken by us."' (u:ninuimnr, Mr. Spauldin_, s-'-W11't 1i1nier the ( Xisting qul an11 Laws soch i estrIcLions coui be impo.-ed that would plattc .,Jig 5ugCeILmlli.ffratLOb, hut lie A otlid nOt s1ir .at, such action was im inl d1aLS') COit, 1,platt d. iV 2 d1 i V's lR;Ws setUs to udd to the Ja Vity of the siua.iot a ri a t o sti.r t wndt'ar-reaeintg cou, tuecs \\ orloi's F"air is no.*v bemng discusased. It la tonjited out by Treasury olli.:iali hiat, mii 't, of the exhibities will niecssarilyV comeI ho eb colera in feci.ed c<-ul)tries, 111md that,I thle fair wvotuld consequien tly serve as a ire't pro.1lmaa1tim)r gardeni for the e4 neral dI mhinatllilIion ol the diseca-e. ICerenei (In accounti of athe chole i.raL is talso( oluoe thi ii afossiility. L A I'Oim-:, I N n., A 1 ag. 31 .---Somie t wo years ago~ Charmes initer, re'stdtint near l'a11(o1 Mills, thiis (0oiunty, wais kue byCI ) taliiig f rom a 1loa I of hay, l-aving a wido'w, one d.iugiater and( Iwo s01ns. 1-'or ab out a year a farin laborer nameilid Waiter Itter halS beeni w orking ini t,he neighbornood ani bore an un savory reptitat,10i. Aboutl I iuidnight, iLhttr di vestedi haimselfh of iiearily aill h is clot hinrg and , break iing 1iito the widlow Gluter's house, aititacked her wit hit he vilest of motiv1 es. ILn lie St ruggle\Mrs G(int or's screamis irouised her daughter, a prlet.ty young adly, whol wasx sleeping up stairs. and vhlo linmliedliately ca me to her mother's -escue. lwavling the old lady liit ter hiereuponi attacked Miss Ginter. Bioth woilnen fought, i alhiantly to pro c.t, their honor, anid in the mlelee thie I o:iS of Mrs. (Ginter, aged 15 and 16 I enuB s Iee ptetively, arrived hiomte ftrom visit to this city, and2( seeing them, litter fIk d, leaving his clot lies on the >orchi. T'he plucky lads gave chase anLd t an t,he v'illian into a swamup, finallyi >vertakinig -and ove8rpo wverinlg hi m. liindinig Bitter's legs arni( armis fast vith binding twine and coverinig him vit,h marsh lhay to pIrot ect himi, the( oys5 left. him2 in the xwamlp, went to ) nifon Mills, secured the assistance et ~onstablen .ohnson, and returning to i-here lHitter lay. brought him to this ity for incarceration in the count,yt alil. Excitement is high in the neigh- ( ei hiood of I lie Ginters. buit t,he law will I Ildoubtediy be allowed to take its ouirse. Mrs. Gimter and datughter weret everely handled In the fight, and are rostrated. l'he bravery of the lads Is reatly commiiended. Hot. ineiannont il.rned. As E -vi n,,1:, N. C., A ug. 25.--i-tet ist niight, a fire started( in tihe laundry a i>m of Ilatel lhunt In West Ashie-t ille, haml before it, was iiscoveredi had I 11de1 its way to) the elevator shaft and prelad to the upper stories. An alarm its soundehtd imimedhiately. With the xceplt,lon of perhapsl) half a dozen, the 75 y,ueslts got, out saafely. Th'fe remain ig iew hatt a inarrow escape from death. everal hum ,ed from thie third tio(r to ) Ie top f1 the veirandali and t.hence t,o the I roundl, sulstialnin'g se Vere itjiur:es. Mrs. 'arne of (;harlestot lost $5,0003 wt.h I diamonds; another guest, $3,000 in ishl. The hotel cost *60,0001 and was eanred for $25,000. I, was owned by ii West Asheville lurvemenilt, Comi atny. Thei furiiiture was owned by Dr. Cairl VTon Kuch, the lessee of the hotel, u~d was insured for $25,000.4 Anit tier National Trrke-t. NE:W YORLK, Aug. 3.-Tfhe Socialist abor party hield its inationlal conven on at the New York Labor Layceum. elegates from New York, Pennsylva Ia, Massachuisetts, New Jersey and onnrec, cut were present. JMvid Tay >r of -Jloston, presi.id, and Ilenry lynn or-New York was elected secre nIy. It was nuanimoulsly resolved to ominate a presidential ticket, and the allowing candidates were put up: For resIdent, bimoni Wing, of JBoston, vice residen, Charles IL. Matchett of lrooklyn. Mr. Wing Is a tailor, and Matnh.tt a narnenter. Sad tet.lt of a Strike. NEW ORLEANS, La., Aug. 30.-The ,iorihwestern Switchmeu'a strIke % hich I Ills he-tl on 4iti. the I1.h inst., took ai ;erious turu 1t1 1it. shortIy 1e4!oe Uiluight, and t.ermlliuated in tourm loVAs an -1 ie oti til I e i-, t-hi it.. The ihootin- (c:urr(d tit-ar tile maiu bLack in ti.c a'd oIn 1mi 3s 'tt. The wouided tout- a: W. A. bonit'h, ftirC maul ol the SIw ncia Ll.;icehi:.: G or*e Sprague. uii.zi, yardmIastet; W. It. Mapes. switchmat; J. F. Jones, engi 111e (f tie switchliug eutine, and Jaines 1 Lexton, a striking swithtuanu. Jones, Spiragu. Smith anl 'Alipes are all members of the tilit, gug. They were seated on the rear oi a coach in the lumber yard in couverauon. WI1.01out, waninm, of iicir uipproach, Sextun and Comrl-ade alilpear-ed before the quartette uni begul l')using t..en for s'ainl. wages. Suddenly there was a re)ort, aid two men lay groaning oin the grouud A hall d( zen or mnore bhots were tired aU the two a: -ailLats started to rai away, Ole goinig toward the river anid the other towardi Caal Street. A crowd gathieId ab,ut the sCeeUand tle IMreates3, excitement, prav.iled. 'ihe polk:e soon arrivel aun-I the I'mr emllplo ces were placed in an ambulanee and taken to the hospital. Sexton was hound on Royal street, h ing near the si(.walk. Ile va4 ound to have been sliot, live tiue-i. Ile was also taken t.o thiel hospital. The begi ning oh' the trouble resulted iiroi the dismiisal of the night yard. master. who had heen emplo3e-l to porarily. When his place was made vat ant the comlpany brou4ht one of their old employees from Meridisan. The men struck because they wanted one of their number to be given the position. CHA T'A NOOG A, August 26.-M ichael Shelley, a merchant in thi-4 city, got into a di-:cussion recently on national polities with a liepublican neighbor, who asserted that 'during Cleveland's a,lininistrations lie (Cleveland) permit ttd Land Conmissioner W. J. Sparks to turit out 20,000 families frot their hoims in MAinniesota and other North western States. Mr. Shelley addressed a letter to Mr. Cleveland on the subject and ruceived the following reply to-dav: Gi tAY GABLEs, BUZZA ID 1AY, MASS. August 22.-:(ersonal.)-Mr. Shefley, Chattanooga, Tenn.--My Dear Si: Your letter of the 12th inst. is at hand. In reply I have to say that I have not the least idea what "your worthy friend" meant. when he declared that '-I had been the miedunam through which 20,000 families were nade homeless, and hail lost their all fighting for their rights." I'm perfectly well aware that I have been the means of saving some homes to my countrymen, and have tried very hard to nake the burden of their live's easier." I am amazed at recei%ing from the Southei n country a tmer containing charges like th% which you bringto iny attention' I am stir prised, first, at. the irgeuifty necessary for their con,otion without the sem blance tif toundation. I am more ara/.ed that with my record before the people of this country such baseless lies shoild be deemed suflicient argu lients to prejudice mie, and the cause U hich I for the time being represent, inl the minus cf the Southern people. Very truly yours, GiROVER CLEVEL.%ND. 1.,ve Versua Lucre. MUNCi In d., Aiugust 26. - \lioses llradflordl, aged 85 years, is a million aire rs sient of2 Alariou, Grant ceunty. Three years ago he rseeived a good deal oh niewspaper notoriet,y by marrying AMrs. AMackey. a 3 oung milliner who cames to this city 1101m l)1tori. Hrad lord's relatives objectej to the ar rnage', saying tha:t the woman only w.isted his imone'y. She soon deserted him i anrd a lauwsuiit fol lows d, wvhich re isiltedI inanicially inl her favor. F"or the' last year the obal moan has beeii a lonely wvidower, arid a few sdays ago he wrote to Mlr. Dollie Stnider. in this city, ofl'ering $I,XX to any person that wvoula furnish himI a prett.y and refined bide. Theii letter was given to anot.her woman land the p)rosp)ective bridle was seleci.ed in the nerson of AMrs. Indiana D)anto, igrd 28, the widow of a New Orleans l-'renach del ective. Mirs. D)anato consent d to becon,e M1rs. Birand ford it' the 01(1 ranl wouldr give lien $6000 as a wvedding )resenit. lie consenitedl andi came1l here preparedi to be a bridegrooma augairn a-it aight. lHe miet Mrs. D)anto at thew haomae af M'ars. Snider' andi the wedldin)g was thout to take place when Joseph Duck t'oirth, a prominent attorney and vealthly widower, leairned of the pro 'e-dinags. The result was that Brad ord and his money were rejecte'd and (lay set for the wedding of' Mrs. Danto had Mr. Duick worth. Mrs. D)anto Is aarndsoine and has borne a good repu atlona. She has biseen earning a livell aood as a domestic. Ti,e Rteiublcannj, Autir. G n EE:N v I LL E, Aug. :1.---Judasge Mel oni is here. When asked by a reporter f lie would accept the Republican oaiimatio f:r11 Governor, he said hie vould coinsider it when t.he time caine. .Ie denied the report ini the Atlanta 'onstit.ution of tc-d:ay that lhe said he voubtl be the ltepublicani nominee and voulId be the next Governor of South 'arolina. T1he report above referred to was elegraphed to the ConstitutIon from iolumnbia Truesddy night, and is as fol aws: "TIhe signs show thaat the Ite iublicans are watching for a chance o get in their oars. It Is reported here hat ex-,J sdge Meltoni, the leadinug f atlonal Republican In the State, has aid that he will be the next Governor if South Carolina. A Republican here u-night made the signilcant remark hat 60,000 negroes have be-en enrolled, .nd( It was subject of' resmark to-daiy hat State Chairman Webster, the Ite mblican, was unusually active." tate. Oase Htundare-d L'&,steu. )E.N MA RK, S. C., A ug. 26.-Ona Fri Lay last a man named Newton, origl - tally fro,a Marlboro, S C., went to visit riends at. Ciyo, Ga , In Ellnghama cotun v, on the Sout,h llound ltoadl. While here he imade several induecent remarks blouit the ladlies living ini the vicinity. Vlhen ltese remarks reached the ears f the citizens of Clyo. they went to munt Newa on, an-l succeeded In indlng imn at, ltluacon, Ga, Mondlay morninag. L'haey carried him b,ack to Clyo, anad ~ave himu a lair triad, aid alter proyinir hat. therse lintruthaful r-emaarks haad ieen made bay Newtona, lie was takenx >ver the river Into b'outh Carolina, rIven one hundred lashecs, and told to eave the county. seventia flatrict Rtepubilcan.. CiH A JiL ES'roN, Sept. 1 .-The lIepub ian convent 0:a of thieSevenath Congres alonal Dstritto-day, aller a three das s' ession, noiOnmatedi George W. Murray, >f Sumter for Congress. Murra.y as a olored man. The ot,ber. candidates were Robert Smalls and T. E. Miller, >othl colored, aind both of whom has erved i'm Congress before, anid J. HI. )atendorff' and Thomas Johnson, white. ['here was a bolt and an Independent .andidato will be run. Machinery and "upplies. efore 4>lallig 3vur ortier- write us for prices (of PRA'T, W;1N,-,HIPAND BROWN GINS. 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Dr. B%um, the rhird party candidate for Goveior, 10 confided to tnost intimate lilends bat his party has perfected ai range nents with National Republican head iuarters so that in case f arrison's eleu ,ton looks favorable in November, the intire vote of the Thiid p.irty will be brown into the hands of the tepubli ,ans. The latter in return have pledg d themselves to give their entire vbte 'o Weaver if IIarrison's chances of re lection should look donbtful on that Jay. The bargain according to Dr. Exut, was made to beat Cleveland at any hazzard, and with theexpress view of breaking down the Solid South. Murder Ine Charleston. C11ARIJsON, A1W. 20.-An (lues was held this morning over the body of James Bruce, a white man, who was found dead in the at reet last night, The evidence showed that he had been brutally beaten mand mauled by three men, named L. Y. Cox, T. 1'. Sheridan and Joseph It. Trigg. The verdict ot the jury was that the deceasei caie tu his dealh by injiries re-ceive.l at their *hands. The murderers have been seni to jail to await trial at the Court o Sessios. I'his is one of the most in human murders that has ever beer Committed here, PIano asnu Orgas . Where to buy Pianos and Organ representing the world's greatest ma kers. Steinway & Sons pianos, Ma thushek Pianos, Mason & lamlin P anos, Sterlin Pianos, Mason and Han lin Organs, Sterling Organs. Lowea prices always. Easiest terms possibl All freight paid. Comuplete outfit fre4 Vive years guarantee. One price t all. Ljuare dealing, Mloney saved. We do not ask big prices as mIan dealers do, and-then come down. Ou motto- One price to all and that tlh lowest. We ship on fifteen lays' trit to any depot and pay freight boL ways if not satisfactory. Write ft illustrated catalogue. N. W. Truml Columbia, . 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