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THE KIG' PALACES. DR. TALMAGE'S FAREWELL SERMON IN LONDON. e31ew of kisl Extraordinany Campalan of Preachiang In Great Britain-Pre seatd with a Gold Wateh-Takes the Work of the Spider as an llustration. LONDON, Sept. 18.-The closing week of Rev. Dr. Talmage's preaching tour was marked by several gatherings which in magnitude and enthusiasm eclipsed all that had preceded them. At one meeting In this city there were over 30, 000 persons present. His tour here has been a great ovation, and so great has been his success here that his admirers presented him with a handsome gold watch. After the presentati . preached his farew , . n shook hands at the close. The teAed for today is from proverbs -K', 28, "The spider taketh hold with her hands and is in kings' palaces." Permitted as 1 was a few days ago to attend the meeting of the British Scienti fie association at Edinburgh, I found that no paper fead had excited more in terest than that by Rev. Dr. McCook of America, on the subject of spiders, It seems that my talented countrjmen, banished from his pulpit for a short time by ill health, had in the fields and forests given himself* to the study of insects. And surely if it is not beieath the digui ty of God to make spiders it is not be neath the dignity of man to study them. We are all watching for phenomena. A sky full of stars shining from January to January calls out not so many re marks as the blazing of one meteor. A whole flock of robins take not so much of our attention as one blundering bat darting into the window on a summer eve. Things of ordinary sound an(d s-lit and occurrence fail to reach us, and yet no grasshopper ever spring up in our path, no moth ever dashes into the evening candle, no mote ever floats in the sunbeam that pours though the crack in the window shutter, no bainacle on ship's hull, no limpet clinging to a rock, no rind of an artichoke )ut would teach ut a lesson if we were mot so stupied. God in his Bible sets forth for our con sideration the lily, and the snowflake, and the locust, and the stork's nest, and the hind's foot, and the aurora borealis, and the ant hill. One of the sacred writers sitting a'uid the mountains sees a hind skipping over the rocks. The hind has such a peculiar ly shaped foot that it can go over the steepest places without fallin, and as the prophet looks upon that marking of the hind's foot on the rock and thinks of the divine care over him lie says, "Thou makest my feet like hinds' feet that I may walk on high places." And an other sacred writer sees the ostrich leav Ing its eggs in the sand of the desert, and without any care of incubation walk off, and the Scripture says that is like asme parents, leaving their children without any wing of protection or care. In my text inspiration opens before us t'e gate of a palace, and we aie inducted amid the pomp of the throne and the courtier, and while we are lookmng around upon the magnificence inspirMI tion points us to a spider plying its shut tie and w'eaving its net on the wall. It does not call us to regard the grand sur roundings of the place, but to a solemn and earnest consideration of the fact that "The spider taketh hold with her hands and is in kings' palaces." It is not very certain what was the particular species of' insect spoken of in the text, but 1 shall p)roceed( to learn from it the exquisiteness of t,he divmne mechanism. The kinsg's chamberlain comes into the place and looks around and sees the spider on the wall and says, "Away with that intruder,'' andl the ser vant of Solomon's palace comes wit,hhis broom and dashes down the insect, say ing, "WVhat a loathsome thing it is." 3ut under microscop)ic mspectioii I find. it mnore wondrous of' construct,ion than: the embroideries on the place wall: and the unholstery about the windows. All the machinery of the earth could not, make. anythmng so delicate and beauti ful as time prehensile with which that spider clutches its prey, or as any of its, eight eyes. We do not have to go so far up to see the power of God in the tapestry hang ing around the windows of heaven, or in the horses or chariots of fire with which the dying day departs, or to look at the mountain swinging out its swordl arm from under the mantle of dlarkness until it can strike with its scimeter of' the lightning. I love better to study God in the shape of a thy's wing, in the for mation of' a fish's scale, in the snowy whiteness of a p)ondl lily. 1 love to track lims footsteps in the mountain moss, and to hear his voice in the hum of' the rye fields, and discover the rustle of' his r'obe of light in the south wind. Oh, this wonder of divine p)ower that can build a habitation for God in an apple blossom, and tune a hee's voice until It is lit for the eternal orchestra, and can say to a firefly, "Let theie be light," and from holding an ocean in the hollow of' his hand goes forth to find heights and dlepthis and length and breadth of omni potency in a dew drop, and dismounts from the chariot of mid night hurricane to cross over on the sus pens ion bridge of a spider's web. 'You may take your telescope and sweep it across the heavens in order to behold the glory of G od; but I shall take the loaf holding the spider, and the spider's web, and 1 shall bring the miscroscope to my eye, and while I gaze and look and study and am confounded, 1 widi kneel down In the grass and cry, "Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty!" . Again, my textteaches me that insig nmfleance Is no excuse for inaction. 'Thiu spider that Solomon saw on the wall might have said: "I can't weave a web worthy of this great place; what can I (to amid all this gold embroidery? I1 am not able to make anything fit for so grand a plqJe, amnd so I will not work my sin nmn jenny." Not so said the spider. "Tue spider taketh hold with her hands" Oh, what a lesson that is for yon and me! You say If you had some great sermon to preach, if you only had a great audience to talk to, if you had a great arm to marshal, If you only had a constitutfo to write, if there was some tremendous thing In the world for you to do--then you would shohw us. Yes, you would show us! What If the Levi to In the aacient temple had refizsedto snuff the candle S becansohe -could not beabigh priest? What If the humming bird should refuse Sto sig tb onglinto the air of the hon *slk.because it cannot, like the , dushitswinglinto the sun? What thindrop should refuse to descend Ua90 It Is not a Niagara? What it Spdr of the text should refuse to layeit shuttle because It cannot weave ifyuare lazy with the one' robe Awa wit ~ui alent you would be lazy with the ten c alents. If Milo cannot lift the calf lie a tever will have strength to lift the ox. s n the Lorp's army there Is order ior c romotion, but you cannot be a general iutil you have been a captain, a lieu. V Ainant and a colonel. it is a step by t itep, it is inch by inch, it is stroke by t itroko that our Chriscian character is d builded. Therciore be content to do a wiath God commands you to do. t God is not ashamed to do small things. He is not ashamed to be found Dhiseling a grain of sand, or helping a honeybee to construct its cell laith mathematical accuracy, or tingoing a shell in the surf, or shaping the bill of a chaflinch. Whit God does he does well. What you do, do well, be it a great work or a small work. If ten talents, employ all the ten. If live talents, employ all the live. If one tal ent, employ the one. If only the thou AaDth part of a talent, employ that. "Be thou faithful unto death, and I will Five thee the crown of life." I tellyou if you are not faithful to God in a small sphere you would be indolent and in significant in a large sphere. Again, my text teaches me that perse verance will mount into the king's palace. It must have seemed a long distance for that spider to climb in Solomon's splendid residence, but it started at the very foot of the wall and went tip over the panels of Lebanon cedar, higher and higher, until it stood higher than the highest throne in all the nations-the throne of Solomon. And so God has decreed it that miany of those who are down in the dust of'sin and dishonor shall gradually attain to the King's palace. We see it in worli. ly things. Who~is that banker in l'hiladelphia? Why, he used to be the boy that held the horses of Stephen Girard while the mil lionaire went in to colleat his dividends. Arkwright toils on up from a barber's shop until he gets into the palace of in vention. Sextus V toils on up from the ollice of a swineherd until he gets into the palace of Rome. Fl'etcher toils on ty irom the most insignilicant family position until lie gets into the palace o~f Christian eloquence. Ilogarth, en graving pewter pots for a living, toils on up until he reaches the palace of world renowned art. And God hath decidd that though you may be weak of arm and slow of tongue, and be struck through with a great many mental and moral delicits, by his almighty grace you shall yet ar rive in the King's palace-not such a one as is spoken of in the taxt. not one of marble, not one adorned with pillars of alabaster and thrones of ivory and flagons of burnished gold, but a palace in which God is the King and the angels of heaven are the cupbearers. The spider crawling tip the wall of solomon's palace was tiot worth looking after or considering as compared with the fact that we, who are worms of the dust, may at last ascend into the palace of the King Immortal. By the grace of God may we all reach it. Oh. heaven is not a dull place! It is not a wornout mansion, with faded curtaius and out- i landish chair. and cracked ware. No; i it is as fresh and lair and beautiful as f though it were completed but yesterday. t The kings of the earth shall bring their t honor and glory into it. A palace means splendor of apart- r ment;. Now, I do not know where 8 heaven is, and i do not. know how it 0 oi;s, tbut if our bodies are to be resur- s rected in the last day I think heaven v must have a material splendor as well r as spiritual grandeur. Oh, what gran- t deur of apartments when that divine t hand which plungi's the sea into blue, und the foliage into green, and sets thne sunset on lire shall gathe'r all the beau- C tituil colors of earth around( his throne,y arid when that arm wvhich lifted the l Pillars of Alpine rock and bent thle arch V of the sky shall raise before our soul a the eternal architecture, andi that hand t which hung wilth loops of fire the cur- g tains of mornmng shall prepare the up- p hrolstery of our kingly residence! A palace also means splendor of as-c sociations. Th'le poor rman, the outcastc cannot get into Windsor castle. The E sentinel of the <pueen stands there and cries "llalt!" as he tries to enter. But t in the palace (ot which I speak we may 1 all become residents, and w e shall all be a princes andl kings. We miiay have been beggars, we may have bee'n outcasts, t we may have been wandetltrinig and lost as we all have been, buit there we shall take our regal power. What comi painionship in heaven! Tlo walk side by side with Johi- and Jlames and Peter and Paul and Mloses arnd Jloshua and Ualeb and Ezekiel and .1leremuiah and Micah and Zechiariahi anid Wilberforce C andi Oliver Cromwell and Philip D)od dridge and FMdw ar(i P ayson ant1 .John I Miilton and Elizabeth Fry and llannaht More and Charlotte izabethi, and all the other kings andl ijueens of he.aven. Oh, riy soul, what a comnpaninship! I (It not know hut that Chirist refer redi to !he reaml julice of the grape when hre said that we should driink new witvne in our Father's kingdom, but not thre initoxicating stu if of this world's brew irig. I dio riot say it is so, bumt I have as much right for thinking it is so as you have for thilnkinig the other way. At any rate, it will lie a glorious banquet. Ilark ! the chariots rubi hng ini tire distance. I really believe the guests are coining no0w. The gates a winig open, the guests dismount, the palace is 1il1 ing, and all the chalices, lashring with p)earl and anmthyst andi carouncle, are lifted to the lips of the aniyria-l ban queters, while ru;tlanthug ini r'obes of snowy white they dirink to the honor of the glorious King. "Oh," you say, "that is too grand a place for you and for tie." N o itis riot. If a spidecr, accordling to the text, could crawl up on the walls of .Solomion's p)al ace, shall not our poor souls, through the blood of ChrIst, mount uip from the dlepthns of their sin and shame arid fini ally reach the palace of the eternal King? "Where sin abounded, grace shall much more abound, that whereas I sin reigned unto death, tven so may I grace rergn thirough righteousness unto eternal life by Jiesus Christ our Lord. "t One flash of that comIng glory obliter- I ates the sepulcher. Years ago, with lanterns arid torches t andi a guide, we wvent down in the i Mamrnoth cave in Kentucky. You1 t may walk fourteen miles andi see no sunlight, it Is a stupendous place. Some places the roof of the cave Is a I hundred feet highn. The grottoes filled with weird echoes; cascades falling i from invisIble heigh t to Invisible depth. t Stalagmites rising uip from thre floor of the cave; stalacities descending fromi the root of the cave, joining each other I and making pillars of the Almighty's sculpturing. T'here are rosettes of amne thymut In halls of gy psum. As the guide carries his lastern ahead of you the shadows have an appearance supernat ural and spectral. Tihe darkness Is fear ful. I! wq people getting lost from their guide enly for a few hours, years ago, were demnente, and for years sat InrI their It.sanity. You feel like holding your breath as you walk across the bridges that seem to span the bottom less abyss. Tire guide throws his calci um lIght down into the caverns, and the light rolls and toeses from rock to rock, Irom depth to depth, making at every plunge a new revelation of the awful power that conid have made such a jBlace a that. A sense of snffoataon I omes upon you as you think that you re two hundred and fifty feet In a traight line from the sunlight surface f the earth. The guide after awhile takes you into vhat is called the "star chamber," and hen he says to you, "Sit here," and hen he takes the lanteru and goes own under the rocks, and it gets dark id darker until the night is so thick hat the hand an inch from the eye Is knobservable. And then, by kindling ne of the lanterns and placing it in a left of the rock, there is a reflection h ast on the dome of the cave. and there re stars coming out in constellations brilliant night heavens-and you in ,oluntary exclaim, "Beautiful beauti Wii." t Then he takes the lantern doWin in other depths of the cavern and wanders t m and on and wonders off until lie omes up from behind the rocks gradu- h illy, and it seems like the dawn of the t norning and it gets brighter and i )righter. The guide Is a skilled ven- V riloquist, and he imitates the voices of a he morning, and soon the gloom is all one, and you stand congratulating t Fourself over the wonderful spectacle. I Well, there are a great many people t vho look down into the grave as a t treat cavern. They think it is a thous- v ind miles subterraneous, and all the t !choes seem to be the voices of despair. I md the cascades seem to be t lie failing f ,ears that always fall, and the gloom t A earth seems coming up in stalag. nite, and the gloom of the t ternal world seems descending in i Aie stalactite, making pillars of t indescribable horror. 'The grave is i rio such place as that to me I 'hank God! Our divine Guide takes is down into the great cavern, and we iave the lamp to our feet, and the I 'ight to our path, and all Ihe echoes in I ,he rifts of the rock are anthems, and i ,he falling waters are fountains of sal Vation; and after awhile we look up, md behold! the cavern of a tomb has < )ecome a king's star cham ber. 1 And while we are looking at the I pomp of it an everlasting morning be tins to rise, and all thei tears of the i iarth crystalize into stalagmite, rising i ip in a pillar on the one side, and all 4 :h1 glories of heaven sim to be de icenlding inl a stalacite, making a pillar I i the other side,and you push against , he gate that swings between the two i illars, and as that gate flashes open I ou find it is oneof the twelve gates I which are twelve pearls. Blessed be i 'od that through this Gospel the J nammoth cave of tile sepulcher has < )ecome the illumined star chamber of < he King! Oh, the palaces! the etern- < l palaces! the King's palaces! A Tremendous Collision. CLEWEL AND, Ohio. Sept. 21.-What vill undoubtedly prove to be the most lisastrous accident that ever occurred n the history of the Pittsburg, Fort Vayne and Chicago Railway, which is iperated by the Pennsylvania Railroad, ook place this morning at 3 o'clock in vhat is known as Brown's Cut, a mile ind- a halr West of the village of hreve, Wayne County, Ohio. TrainNo. the fast East bound passenger ex ress train, collided at that point with lie first section of freight No 75 West ound. The passenger train was about ne hour late anI was running at tile ate of sixty miles an hour. It is tarted that the engineer and fireman n1 the freight, while standing on a ide track at Shreve, fell asleep and 'ere awakened by hearing a train using by. Thinking that it was 8, i engineer pulled out on the main rack and had just got under way Len thie train came. 'Te collision occurred on a sharp urve and in a cut where neither crew ras able to see the other train ap roaching. The engines came together pith such awful force that the mail car nid smoking car of the express were r irown on top of the passenger en-d ine, and a freight car, filled with rinting presses, waxs thrown over thiee reighit engine. The passengers and trainmten who es-c alped say the accidenit had hardly takern e lace before flames burst forth, andjt bey believe that but t wo or three.i ersons were killed,outright, the others aving been pinned down in the cars nd slowly roastedto death. 'Twelve urned and blackend trunks have beent aken from the w'reck. TIhie firemaui on the freight train niist have had a horrible death, as lhe vas cauight in the cab and his fright- i ully burned body dangled in the air in 'low of hundreds who visited the cene, the wvreckers being unable to get t because of the heat. T he poor postal lerks imprisoned in the mail cars yhich were thrown upon the passent ~era engine hail no chanceeto escape and hey were doubtless all burned to heath. All fatalites occurred in the wo locomuotives, the pastaul andi smok - ng car andi the (lay coach. TIhe sleep. rs did not leave the track and the pas-.. ('ngelrs, beyond a shaking, escaped in mry. As sooni as the people of Sherve teard of' the wreck they hatenied to the eent' with all physicains available. The njuredi were tenderly ecared for andl : very effort possible made to rescue hose who were polishing ma the burn arm. The heat wvas so intense, owever. little couldl be donie. ' As soon1 as possib)le after the acccl [tat the injured, none whom are be-r loved to be fatally hurt, were taken ni charge by the railway oompany antd II were removed to their homes. TIwo postal cars, tililed with mail, one xpress car and three freight cars were onsamod by fire. W reck trains were sent to the scene vithin an hour after the accidlenit and ~ vhen they arrived the engines and ~ testroyed cars were a mass of red hot ron and embers. TIhe Coroner has be un an inquest to ascertain the cause f collisionm. fu~i,nr cople's p)arty folks are greatly dis- j atisfiedl with the situations in South ~ ~arolina. There is a general assump- b ion on the part of the public that a ecause the so called regular demno- I rats got knocked out by Tillhman and ~ Is fllowers, the petople's party and ~ Ilance have reason for rejoicing. Quite o he reverse is true. At the alliance a endquarters here, wvhich is really thea ational headquarters of the people's arty, illnian Is regarded as a traItor, h nd the situation of affairs In South ~ ~arolina is5sid to be more unsatisfac- a ory than aay where else in the United uates. Mr. Jmuinnng tile editor of heir national orgin, says that the ~ 'eople's part y folks where so much lispleased that they would probably 9 all a convention and puf, up a State ~ Icket against the Tillmanites and also 'ote for Weaver electors. As for Trll nan, he was a democrat, and the lAght vas merely one between factions of hat party. nLace War. ITTLE RocK, Ark.,Sept., 19- News tas reached here of a fearfutl race war t cultninated in 4 general fight, in c vhich four negros Wgre killed and r aapt. James, a white man, was gerioj ly t vounded, at Campagnolle townsi, t Jahouin county, last saturday night. f l'h a negroes are said to be greatly excit- C id, and, under the Influence of some f white men, arn r,breatening to kit c Ber white nman, woman and chtid in 4 PROHIBITION. FHAT CHAIRMAN CHILDS SAyS ABOUT IT. e Derives Great Eneouragement. trom the Vote on the Sub:eot and in his pro p,hetic Vision Beholds Mouth Caroilat Without a Bar toom. CoLuUXLA, d. C., Sept. 17.-Chairman hilds has issued an address in which e gives a complete review of the sit ation from a prohibition standpoint. le says: To the Citizens or South Carolina: t the close of the first encounter on lie open field, where the advocates of rohibition have met its opponents at he ballot box, it seems to be expected hat as the representative of the Pro ibitionists I should say something of he results of the encounter and of the essons of encouragement and caution rhich are to be drawn from the first uccess in this movement. The returns of the vote on prohibi ion have been tabulated and published n the daily papers total vote cast ii his State was 88,474, and the prohibi ion 70,535. For prohibit ion 40,238, gainst prohibition 30,197; majority in wenty-seven counties for prohibition 5,938, majority in eight counties gainst prohibition 5,797. Net majori y for prohibition in the State 10,141. When it is rememberecl that we en ered on this light with an organization rery imperfect by reason of the short ine in which to perfect it; without neans to meet the requirements of a noveuient covering the entire State; vith both elements of the 1)emocratic )arty, in the midst of which our con est had to be made, engaged in a bitter ,actional strife and divided in senti nent, as to the principle and policy of >ur movement, and with an enemy to mcounter who had all the advantages )f thorough and compact organization, inlimited resources and no scrunles as o the means for our defeat, the friends f prohibition have reason for congrat ilation in the signal success which has 'esulted from this test of the strength f their cause at the recent elections. Tr e effort to secure prohibitory leg slation has been marked by several itages of progress, each developing ome new effort to defeat it, but each ndicating a clearly defined advantage oward the ultimate success of the novement. The course of the last Legislature on the question made it ,lear to the minds of its friends that a lirect appeal to the people on the oc asion of the election of a new Legisla ure, when prohibition should be inade idistinct issue, afforded the only hope f success. That appeal was deter nined on by the Convention which met a May, when a platform and policy vere adopted and an organization Aected, the outcome of which is known o you on the result of the first primary llection. That result has exploded several )opular fallacies which had found odgmnent in the minds of the people. )ne of these fallacies was that the aloon controlled elections in Sout.h arolina. It has been conclusively hown that the liquor seller's intluence n the State is no longer a controlling ine, and that the common enemv gainst whom our efforts arp directed i not so trongly entrenched that we iay not hope by steady, persistent and veil organized endeavor to drive him eyvnd our borders. The white votels f the State, so long as they act togeth r, have ample power to protect them elves against the demoralizing in uences which whiskey has heretofore xerted in elections. Tro have stricken these shackles from he hands ot the white voters; to have berated their minds from the humiHi ting sense of t,his control, and let them eaI,ze that they are free fron the omination of this arrogant and tyran Ical power is in itself wvorthi all the fort which has been put forth by the rohibitionists of this State, as it is the ertain precursor of the complete des verance which is to crown the work i the future. Another rallacy was that prohibition as a question in which the people iok no int.erest, and that no sufliclent ote on it should be given to det ermine 'leir position respecting it, The result lows that the quesion is a populeir ne, and that t.he people are keenly ive to its importance. A larger popu ir vote has been polled on this case san on any single qutestion ever before uibmitted to the people of this State. n a total vote of about 88,000 over D,000 have been cast in the prohibition ox, That ought to be conclusive as D the interest that the p)eople feel in his question. Another fallacy urged with great ersistency by the enemies or prohibi ion is that where prohibition has been ried the people 800on tire of its re traints, andi quickly return to the oldi ystem of licensed whiskey. The proof whuich tho election furnishes a an an. wer to this is that outside of the cities nd towns, where the law throws a wall *f tefence about the trailic and en ourages its work of demoralization, he people, after ten years' experience ith the advantages and inconveni ncs of partial prohibition, aire sufli. lently recovered icrnm the dhemolrailin g itects of the traihic to asort their ights of self-defence agantisfer ul evils.isfer The overwhelming majorIt y of votes ast by this class (the votes ini the pro ibition area in the State) in favor of rohibition can only be interpreted as n expression of entire sat,isfaction ith Its operation, so far as It has gone ndeir the existing law, and their wish a extend it over the whole State. Out ide of the counties of Charleston and tichland, the cent,res of the liquor traf C, the aggregate majority cast against rohibition was 1,551, or less than I in 1) of the mnajority for prohibition. In the counties ot Mlarion, Ilorry and Villiamsburg majorities aggregating 54 were given against prohibition not ecause the public sentiment was gainst it, but becaulse in those counties >cal prohibition had been tried and the rohibitionista felt so gi re that the rould go in favor of the measure with ut an effort that they did not take the teps necessary to Insure stuccess, and a a result of such mistaken conlidence be alert enemy captured the vote. It safe to atllrni, however, of each of biose three couties that If a vote was gain taken on this question it would lye large prohibition majorities. In Beau fort no provision was made y our executive committee to test the uestion, and the election went against s by default. In the town of George. )wn the tickets for prohibition were tolen from the polls (not by Prohibi onists of course) as soon as they were ut out by the managers, and this act f brigandage doubtless served to swell lie majority against us in that coun V. It appears evident from the returns haat wherever the Prohibitionists were rganized and active, large majorities esulted for prohibition. The failure D secure such results In all the coun Les save Charleston and itichiand came rom lack of organization and activity an the part of its friends. It follows rom this fact that all reasonable snc. ess for the movement.henceforth is asily within reach, if its friends will The question is being anxiously ask ed, what will be the effect of the elec tion in controlling the action of metu bers of the next Legislature on this quetion? I do not hesitate to aflirm that it commits them to the support of any proper prohibitory Act for the whole State which may be presented to the next Legislature for its action. To show the binding character of this ob ligation it is only necessary to utate clearly the conditions under which tbe eleciton on prohibition was held. The Prohibition Convention submit ted as Its conditions two propositions: The first, addressed to the Democratic voters of the6tate, was that they should express by their votes at the first pri mar y their will for or against prohibi tion as a Means of ascertaining what was the sentiment of-Lbe people of' the whole State on this subject. This re qluest was responded to with a unani. mity so ur:expected and remarkable that our opponents have not yet recov. Fred from the shock which it prodtc. ed. The other proposition of the Conven. Lion was addressed to the candidates for the Legislature, urging that they should before the election, declare their atti. tude for or against prohibition In or iler that its friends might know wneth er to vote for or against them at the primary. A few candidates in the sev eral counties announced their position for or against the measure, but in most instances they declined to do what the Convention requested, but voluntatily on their own part agreed to abide the result of the vote in the prohibition box and support or oppose the measure in the Legislature as the majority in the boxes should determine. With such a pledge, voluntarily as suied by him, it is beyonld belief that any self-respecting ian who should be elected could, by any) process of evasion or subteriuge, feLt otherwise than bound to vote for prohibition in the next Legislature. Ce rtainly no such na one can refuse to act with the Prohi bitioinists and expect to retain the res pect and confidence of his constitu ents. To a campaign of t ducation, to the teml,erance organizations for their ae tive co-operation and ti the noble wo icn, i ho, in every crisis, when the welfare and honor of our beloved State. has been in jeopar:iv, have always given their prayets and iluence in favor of the truth and the right, to all these agenci-s uuder the blessing of Al mighty God belongs the credit for the success which we have this tar achiev ed, and to them, guided and controlled by His divine wisdom, we conlldently look for ultimate victory for prohibi tion as enduring as the t ruth of God upon which it is founded. L. 1). CHILDS. Chim State 'ro Ex Com. Colum bia, S. C , Sept., 12, 1892. They are toi Married. VICHI I ITA, Sept. I .-Exiteme t will doubtless be create I i II.irvey coun'.y society when the result of the Bunton-Kinnerly divorce case bLUIecm known. District. Jud. e lReed has de. c ided that Cora But toti was not, married to Andrew Kimuerly, b cause the coull ty clerk of Newtoa had bi-,ned the he ense instead o1 tihe probate jud.:e. As the county clerk ha5 ]on-- teen in Lite habit of ( lii;iatiog in Lite abseuce of the probate jud.e, there ure m.mny unimwr ried marted couples ill andi a illrn N,-,v ton, (C ra lIUoi was 12 34arso 01, a daugtheter of John W. liuntoni, si well.reo. do tarmer liviii near iere. l iy shirwd uess she Wbtaiei te t uatres Il lher parenite toe a writteu pcerisstin to) mtar ry Anidz e,v Kimmcierly, a hiired man, aged 42. A ie,v clays later Kicmmerly took Lie girl to Ne At in, a ce.d the license and marn-e I her. The irate i'athor had him a rrestcd for kidcnapping his child, then dismiSsed the case anid brought suit for di voice wit.h the result above statedl. S'r'. l'lETEinsiuiun, Sept. 17 --The isrnor nit Itussiani workmcen are now ~reap rig the fruit ofthie ir foolish attempts to prevent p)ropJer sauitary rueasures being takeni to check the ipreaid of hiolera and of their efforts to drive loctors away. Eiotsi growimg out of ~heir supersitlon acid igoranace occuir r at Ilughiesotka, inr tihe Goverament )f Eikaterinoslav, and lin their blinhd rrenzy the wvork mene destroyed factories mud shops' with~ no throught. that upon ~hese places they depended for their king. N ow there is great distress in ~he town, acid hunrcdrecs of inhabitanrts ire on the verge of Mtarvation. They tave been colfnpelled by hunger to eat til mannler of rel use with the result that chroler-a is now rarging amtong hemc worse than before. The disease s causing schc ravages that all work meni who acre aide to do so are learvinig he plaice. Terrific Exrio,to CoMiirrn, Ont., Sept. 17.-A terrible loiler exp)losion took place inl Force & i)icksont's staive mill art Stapiles, a smnal villarge on thIe Starpleg ande( St. Clair road(, tour mtile's from here, this morn lug, in which seven mleni were killed tutright, one factally injutred anud about twenty or les~s scalde-d. An emnploye of1 the il s.13 thar, the boilers were ini good reunning coniiton, bunt that bie belheves scales hard Iimed onithe plate and interruipted sonee of the valves. hte boiler was carrried fully 500 feet. 'fle k.lled were frightfully mangled, some leaving arms andl legs torn off and otherrs skulls and brains dashed ouit. . Gone to Hlohnken. Flng ISLAN ii, Sept. (fl.-The steacirer Cepheus with 491.of thre Normiannia's passengers left here at 8 o'clock this miorning for Iloboken. They lhave a clean bill of health . The steamer Ce phiens, with the Normannia's passen gets aboard, went aiground opposite Oak Island. She loated off uninjuredl at, 11 and cleared Fire Island hear at 11:11. A bout 100 passegrs of the Normiannia refusel to go on the Ce phens, preferring to cross over to Baby lon and take the train f'or the city. They left, he-re on board tihe Ilip pie at 9:l5 an, m , for Babylon, under military escort, to take a train on the rLong Island flailroatl at I his point. Fuil of FPools. New York, Sept. 17.-There is again a chanche for trouble between thne State authorities and,the town of Islip ove Fire Island. The board of health of that town passed a resolution direc ting the coucnty Sheriff to take pos.ses aion of Fire Isl and, eject pasenrgers and banggagi and prevent t.he Ian ding of others. Governor Flower has Or derod Captain Cochramne, in charge of the troops there, to protect tine St.tae qu arantine againsr~t alt trespassers The town, he wirerg, has no jurisdiction over Fire Island. Four- Data on, alat. IIA.iFAx(, N. S., Sept. 16.--Three membera of the crew of the British bark Ilope wrecked in a gale August 22, were brought to this port yesterday, having been rescued from a raft. Their captain, the mate, and four of the crew were drow e.ed. The vessel was turned comnph-tely oveir, and the crew made a raft of the lumber in her cargo. T'hey gloated four days without food or drink, and their sugferings were intense. anned hnuself. UNION, 8' C., Septemder 16 -G,roner Gregory has returned iromt the 'homp. son Gold Mine, in the upper portion of this county, where he went to holi an1 inquest ever the dead body 1 a negro named Jim Jacobs. The negro was found in an old house with the end of a rope around his neck. The coroner's jury rendered a verdict that from all Lbe facts obtainable the deceased de stroyed his own life. The negro was insane. When the negra was first found the news spread fast and there were some very ugly rumors ulloat. It looked at first very much like a Dave Shaw case. 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