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AT THE TABERNACLE. L R. TALMAGE GIVES AN ACCOUNT OF HIS OBSERVATIONS ABROAD. Suni Vather Novel Views of the Czar o,t Rusiat anti Afrairi Gcnerallyl(i That Empire-' lie I)readind Faine- -Hie ingonu Amerlen. PAW0OLYN, Oct. 1G.-Unusual in terest attached to the sermon preached by Rev. Dr. Talmage this forunoon, it having been announced that he would devote the entirc discourse to a review of his summer's journey. The great Tabernacle buildiug was crowded early by an cxpectant audience. Prolessor Brown, the organist, during the service endered the Russian national air, the Lnglish national air and our own na ional air. Among other hymns slng as M%1y country, 'tis of thee, 6weet land of liberty. The subjcct was, "Observations in Russia and Great Britain,'' the text, selected being Psalm exxxix,9, "it 1 take the wings of th'e morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there shall thy hand lead me.' What an absurd book the Bihle must he to a man who has no poetry in his soul! "Wings ol the morning.'' What kind of a bird is it, and how long are its wings and of what coloi* Ali, some of us have seen and felt its wings. They are golden. 'They 11rie buoyant. They are swift. They are widespread. Tke 15th of last June I took 'the wings of the morning''and started for Europe. June 20, on "the wings of the morn im!,i'' I started trom Lilerpool. July 12, on "the wings of the morning,'' I entered (Germany, the land of 2\11artin Luther lind many )f that ilk, living and dead. On "the wings of'the morning'' I enter cd St. 'enersburg, Ilssia. On "1the wing of the morming'' I entered Moscow. You all know why I went to Russia this sulmmer. There are mianiy thous. nds of people whio have a right, t ) eay to me, -is was sai inl the Bible p.irable, "(iive an accounl, of thy stewardship.'' Through 'I'e Christain Herald, wich I have lthe honor to edit, we had for moonths, inl pubiisher's, inl reportorial and editorial cohuii, put, betore the peo ple tle ghastly facts concerning twenty mlillionl Russians who were starving to death, and subscriptions to tle relief 1ind had come I letters that seemuedI nt so mnch written with ink as with ea-s, some of the letters practically iaying, "Ve find i, hard to geL bread f,0r our own lamilies, but we cannot, staild this cy of hunger from beyond Ilie seas, Iild so please to receive the inclo,s4l.' .And others had sent jew eb" 11rom their haniid and nt-iecks sayin, Sil the-;ec and iurn them into bread.1' Andl another letter said: "Incl.oied is md obl clud lliek.. it was my Ioth cr -'1. he .ve il. to ie and toh(l ie never to pztrt with it vxcept for 'reai' ilul now 1 inclosme it." We hal athered thirtii-live thousid dollar.i in mIlloney, wilch w,e turned ll thrce ihlon ponllids of 1lour. WVhIel 1 went down to the hoard of trade at icago and let t live thousand dollais of th amount raisel with a pro mntient 11-ur merch:it, tainu no re * Ipt Muil leavinz all tO him11 to df0 the b:est thing, and reftuned , it wVas suigges kCd that I had unot done thiincs in ai bus;neiss way . 1I ow coul we know what sort otf lour would be sent? There are styles ol' lour more lit, for the trough of the swine than the miouthis of hiungry men and women. WVell, as ls cuistomary, when the flour came to New York it was tested, and1( we found indleed they had cheated us. They' gave us better flour than we had boug~ht.I bought in Chicago fine flour, but they sent, 11s superfine. Godl bless the mier btshiit ol' Chicago! N.ow we know nothing about famine 1i Amcrica. The grasshoppers many ill the crops in Kansas, the Ireshet ay (destroy the crops alcug the Ohio ie potato worm may kill the vines of ong island, the rust may get into the heat of Michigan, yet when there has been dreadful scarcity mn some parts of' the land there has been p)lenty in other parts. But ini dIstricts of Russia, vast enough to drop several nations into them udrought fer six consecutive years has oevastatedf, aild those districts weie previously the most p)roduictive of all the empire. It was like what we would have in America it' the hunger fIend somehow got out of hell and alighted ini our land and swept his wing over Mlinnesota and said, "Let'nothing grow here," and over Alissouri and said, "Let nothing grow here," and over New York state and said, "Let nothiing grow here," and over Ohio andf Georgia and Mlassachusetts andI Pennsylvania and N ebrauska and D)akota and the Carolfinas and said,"Let nothing grow here," andh the hunger hend haOd swept the same withering and blasting wing over the best parts of America in the years 1887, 1888, 1889, 1890 1891, and 1882, and finally all our familes were put on small allowance, andj we alil had risen from the table hungry, and after awhile the children had only quarter enough, and after awhile only one meal a day, and atter awhile no good food at all, but a mix i ure of wheat andl chaff and bark of trees, and then three of the children down with hiunger typhus, and then all t21e family unable to walk, and then erawling on hands and knees, and then one dead in each room, and neighbors, hot quite so exhausted, coining in to) b)ury them, andiu at terwaird thie house bo coming the tomib, with 11one1 to carr'y the dead to mlore a1ppropriate sep)ulehier --whole families blotted ouit. Th'lat was what 'ccurred in Russia in homes more than were ever counted, in homes that were once as comfort able and happy ard bountift ul as yonrs u- mien, in homes as virtuous as yours rmine, in homes where God is wor tied as much as in yours or mine. I t (18 to do a little something toward iating back that archan' -of wretch iness and horror that we wvent, and we have flow to report that, according o the estimate of the Russian famine - eief committee, we saved the lives of, 25,000 people. As at the hunger relief tations the bread was handed out--for t w as rmade into loaves and dIstributed -many people would halt before tak ing it and religiously cross themselves and utter a prayer for the donors. Some of them would come stagger ing back and say, "Please tell us who sent this bread to us." And when told it came from America they would say: "What part of America? P'lease give uis the names of those who sent it." Ah, God only knows the names of those who sent it, b.ut.he certanily does kno w, and many a prayer is going up, I warrant yo,day by day, for thor'a who sent flour byth hip Leo, Perhaps some or us5 at our tablus rattle oft a prayer that may mnean nothing, although we call it "saying grace," but I warrant when whish people who received the bread whic savd thir lves"said grace" it * mant 8oehet.. Our religion may not demand tha we "cross ourselves," but I have learne( that while crossing one's self in somi cases may mean nothig but mere forri I believe in most cases it means, "Oh thou of the sufforing cross of Calvary have mercy on ine and accept my grati, tude." Prefer your own form of relig ion by all means, but do not depreciatt the religious forms of others. Fron all I can learn there were several good people beforo we where born, and I rather expect there will be several left after we are dead. I have traveled In many lands, but I tell yot plainly, as I told Empero Alexander 111 in the pal. ace at Peterhoff, that I had never been so impress.d with ftie fidelity to their religion of any people as by what L had seen in Russia, and especially atnong her public men. I said respectfully to a Russian when I saw hin cross himself, "Vhat do you do that for?" "Oh," he said "when I do that I alwayssay, 'God havt mercv on ine?'" I hold in my handi something very suggestive. What doe, that black and uncomely thing loob like? That is what is called hunger bivad fron Jtusia; that is what mil. lions of people lived on for months be fore help came from England, ScoLland Ireland and America; that is a mix ture which seems to have in it not oni grain of sustenance. It is a mixture ol pig weed and chaff and the sweepingi of stables. That is something which, iI dropped in the street, your dog or cal illight. Sniff, at, but would not eat. That was the only food on which millions ol nen and women lived. You mustlook at that hunger bread o: Russia before you can get proper ap preciation of what an attractive ant beautiful thing a good loaf of bread is It is so columon to us we cannot realzi its iniig. Stop and look at it in I bakery window or see it on your ain ly table --I inean an honest loaf o bread, white as a ball of packed snow with a crust brown as the autuinna woods, and for a keen appetite mor arom-tic ;than tlowers-a loaf of brea< as you remember it in childhood, whei the knife in the hand of your father oi inothier cut clean through, from crus to crust, and pitt before you, not a qtar ter of a slico or a half slice, but a Itill round slice, and another, just suitcd to a boy always ready to eat, and for tlh most ti tue hmuigry, even in a WIell sui plied house. I reinemier, and you re !ileiiber, if you had a healthy lhrildhoot just how it tasted. My! My! I'lumil pull ding does not taste as good now is tha plain bread then. It was then bread a the table, and bread between meah and brea(t before breakfaat, and breai before going to bed. Why (loes not somte poet ring a cant< on a loaf of bread, or some moideri Iaphael paint. it, or some historian tel its history ? Noticed all over like wed ding cake, or dotted hike many article if food, pretentious and with, antasti iminredients, but that, granidest prodhic of the earth; tL.at rihlest. vield of tie flouri mill; that best,ene6iwtion of; hot oveni--a God giNen loa' of breid Bitt. I he rhythe . of it, the luxury (It it t.e mntit lilig of it, the )be edictiol c it, thie divinie mercy of it, (1nly thes knIov wh-Io have seen a latine. N wonder Christ put his fool iito im sac:ier ni. w l i said itf a broken lo:i 01 bread, Il'is i.i my body." Thank (,o< that I ever sav that I ranlsvenldert an comlipact kindiess of the inlfinite God--": loaf oh) bread. And it was otr joy thi, S11111oner to hand over a shipload of Iua teal ior laening mivany I lioussind of 11i1ssiats with such a beatit.le. ['mt I have blei asked by good pico p1e in (e.it l"ritail and \riica, aga aind agai:r, Wh y did not t.he proispIro:u pioble ot lius..sia step that suulTerit hemnses.es, i nak intg it U iseless for o lthe iuttiins hellp ? Andii I amii always glat when I hear tihe qunest ion asked, be. cause it-givei mei ani opportunit y of ex liinig. IIlave you any idea wihat il retures to I end twenty million peo0ple There is only one being in the univers, who can do it, andl that is the Being wvh< this morning breakfasted sixteen hun dred million ot human race. TIhie nobili ty of liussia have not only contributeu lmost lavishly, hut many of them wven down andl sI.aid for mionths amid thi ghastliness, and the horror, and th t,yphiusiever, anid smallpox that the mnight adminilster to tihe sufYering. Tlhe emperor has made larger conl tribuitionis toward this relief fund tha1 any 'nmonarch ever made for any caus since the wvorld stood, andl the superC kindness written all over the faces c empeior andl empress andl crown princ Is demonstrated in what they have a ready done and arc doing for the sulfet ers in their own country. When a fev days ago I read in the papers that th emp)eror and1( empress, hearing an expk slon,stopped the royal rail train to fini olit what a1cident hadi occurredl, an the~ empress knelt dowin by, the side0 c a wvoundedl laborer and held his hea until pillows and blankets coumld bi brougzht, and the two wunded men w(r put uplonl the royal train to be carrie t,o a place where they could be bett cared for, I said to my wife, "Just lik W he-n I saw a few days0 ago in th] papers thaet thle emUperor and eampres hadt walked through thme wvards of th most, vi ruienit cholera, talking with th patients, sliaking hand(s wvith thlem ani cheering them upj, it was no surpris to me, for I said( to myself, "T1hat Is jmui like t,hemt." Alny one( whio has eye seen the royal family will believe any thing in the wvay of kindness ascribe to them, and( ill join mie in the execr; tioin of t hat too prevalent opinion tha a tyrant, is on the thironme of lluusia, I God spares my life I will yet show bi facts beyond dlispuite that the mio. slandered and sysStemtically he about, nation onl earth is Russia, am lt. no0 riuler ever live' I more for th ele-vat ion of his people 11 ineuationi anI morals and religion I han Abexandher thi Thhi Ird. O 1 I u all thle thriee~ prayer together(''--- id save iitheteidt, t th i I'i lied Stat es' ( ;oil sav e t ihe qujeen e I:miglantid (God save' 1hue emiiperour n empress of Iiius,ia: Before passing to the othier lieI o mmy stummerCi'ohbserv'ation I give you on little specimenr of the~ falsehood's aboet ilussia. 1 stood1 in Londion with mn tickets f'or st. Petersburg, lliissia, ii mmy pocket. It, was two o'clock In th at ternooni, and at three o'clock I wa take the train. An American phy3s] clan camne in and saidh, "Y Vou cert ainl are nt going to Rtussia." i said, " Wh not.'" 'Then a miorning paper wa shown moe, saying that in St.. P'eters burg there were two thousand cases o virulent cholera; the clity had becen di vided inito hiospital dibstricts, and tlit dhocters wvere at their wits' end What t( dho with the numbflher of patients. Thii population was flying in terror. II wvas almost as bad in Moscow. While reflecting on these acconitn two messages arrived from other friends protesting against the foolhard iness of my rushing Into the presence of two thousand cases of cholera In one city. Of course I halted. I halt.ed for four days. Meanwhile a telegram from St, Petersburg encouraged me to go. I went. There was not a single case ot cholera in St, Petersburg or Moscow, and there was not a single case i either city until four weeks after 1 lef t those cities. But the conti riental false. hood had done its commercial errand. Tens of thousands of Americans and Englishmen who proposed to summer In Enania turned a other dircton. At the large hotel in St. Petersburg I at which I stopped, though capable o ) holding live hundred guests, an( t months before every room and every hallway and every mattress and every pillow had been engaged by telegraph by sightseers, all the orders were can celed, and instead of live hundred guests I should think about thirty,and that including our party. And so it was in all the hotels in northern Rus sia, and the subtraction of that amount of commercial proUt from those cities you may imagine. But that whole subject of systematic fabrication I ad journ to some other hour. Yet I must tell you of a picture of patihos and moral power impressed upon my mind, so that neither time nor eternity may efface it. But I must also give a word of re port concerning my other errand-the preaching of the Gospel in Great Bri tam last summer. It was a tour I had for many years anticipated. With the themes of the Gospel I confronted more people than ever before in the same length of time-multitudes after multitudes, and beyond anything I can describe. The throngs in all the cities were so great that they could be con trolled only by platoons of police, so that none should be hurt by the pres sure, each service indoors followed by a service for the waiting throngs out doors, and both by handshakings to the last point of physical endurance. From the day in which I arrived at noon in Liverpool, and that night ad dressing two vast assemblages, until I got through my evangelistic journey, it was a scene of blessing to my own soul and I hope to others. I missed but three engagements of all the sum mer, and those from being too tired tc stand up. At all the assemblages large collections were taken-the money be ing given to local charities, feebl churche4, orphan asylums or Young Men's Christian Associations-my ser vices being entirely gratuitons. But what a summer! There must have been much praying here and elsewhere k for my welfare, or no mortal czulk have gono through all I went through In every city and town I had mes sag-s poured into my ears for familieq in America. Oh, sons of Scotchmen Englishmen, Welshmen and Irishmen there are hearts on the other side ol - the sea heating in affection for you an praying for your present and eterna welfaire. T,hey wanted me to give yot their love, and here it is by the whole sale, for I cannot give it by retail. Dis L appoint not the old folks on the othe: , side the Atlantiv. You will probablA Inever see them again in this world Their hair is whitening, and their stel is not as firm as wheni you saw thea I last. So live that you iay meet then I in heaven. Write h(one often, and - while you know they are praying foi i you, do not forget to remember in youi 1irayers those who were your firs friends, and friends than whom yo( wiil nevvr have btter--I inean yoni t ld i'M.her anl imother. Iy tht- iiienorics of the old ScotL kIu:i whero yolu were bap)tizeld, and of u English fireside, by which you plaNe, and of the Welsh hills and val h 1,iog which yoiu roamed, and the old hoies on the banks of the T%vecd and the Shannon and the Clyde I ( h;rge you be honorable and true and C,hristial). You have good ancestral blood in your veins. Prove yoursell %% orthy. It neii to mne that the Gos 1 )I makiing mighty strides over only one thing I saw in the chapels aml churches I did not like. That is a 1:ick: of a)rociation of each oll:cr as hiet wee*n the na.tional church and the disentrs.Now ea2h is doing a great speeUd thmem al--they of the episcopacy and they of the dissenters! Some needi the rit ual of the natior.al church and others I he spontaneity of the Wesleyan, In tihe kingdom of God there is room f or all to work and each in his own way. Some people are born 1Episcopal ians and others Methodists and others Baptists aini others Presbyterians, and dJo not let us force our notions on others. As for myself, I was born so near the line that I feel as much at home in 0om denomination as another, and when ir t he Episcopal church the liturgy sirm - my soul1 so that I cannot keep back tin 1 tears, and it overwhelms me with itu B solemnity and its power. WVhen in at i old f ashioned Methodist church the re f spionses of "AimenF' and "hIallelulah!' e lift me until, like Paul, I am in blesse( bewillderment as to "whether in thi - body or out of the body, God knoweth.' ' And as for the Baptists, though I havi e never beeni anything but sprinkled, have irmnersedl hundreds and expect t< .1 immerse hiundlredi more in the baptis I try under this pulpit where 1 nov f standul .1 What is the use of controversy about e anything except how we shall keel e close to the cross and (10 the most fo: I1 helping people for this world and thn r next? May there come in Englan< e more cordiality between the nationa church and the dissenters. Al.thougl e I would be called a dissenter there, al most mny first step In England was intn e a banqueting hall-thie lord mnayor' ban<cinet, given to the bishops and high oLI ilsof the national church, thi ~great and( good and genial archbishoj tof Canterbury at t heir head, and rmiore magiicent group of folks, intel rlectually amid spiritually, I never gol a Imong, andt 11found that though we hac never met before the archbishop anc t myself were old1 frIends. But all ui andl down Great Biritafe I found a mul. titud(e that no( man can number enlisted fohr God an(d eternity, and I tell you the Ikingdom isi comunig. I f the pessimists would get out of the eway-t he lpecple who snitvel anid groan and think everythiig has gone to th( dloirs or is about I to go-- I say if these s l'tssi mists wiold( only get omut of thie wamy, I lhe wVori woumld soon see the sal1 ivat ion of G od. Christianity is only an rothe(r name11 for e'levatedin optimism, \\as Isaiah an optimjist ? See his (de s~ ris licarnadinedl with red roses and I '.owe-d uinder withb white lilies and( fhis mb asdinep betiveeni the paws of a Si oni. \\ as St . John an opt imist ? i I a;d the uplifting splend(ors in the A pocaly pse and t lie halhlelulahi chorus -a with v,ichm the E)ld book, which they - l'he greatent thing I can think of would be to halve a triple alliance of America, lisngland( and( llussia in comn lIete harmonization, and then to have - 11pon al11 of them come a (delulge of the Iloly Ghost. Let the defamation of -other na:tions cease. I'eace and( good will to men! For that glorious con suimmnation, which may be nearer than we think, let 11s pray, remembering that God can (10 more in five minutes than man cani do in five centuries. If Ithe consummiation is not effected In our dlay I shall ask the privilege of coming out from heaven a little while to look at this old world when It shall have put on its millennial beauty. I think God will let us come out to see it at least once in Its perfected state be fore it Is burned up. I should not worador If all heaven would adjourn for an excursion to this world to see how a ship wrecked planet was got off the breakers and set afloat again; amid a the, eternal ha monies. Meanwhile let us de alli we an to make it better and it 'vill somehow tell In the final iesult, though it be only a child's sob hunshad, ctw a tricngn tea. wiped from a pale face, or a thorn ex tracted from a tired foot, or a sinful 8ol iwashed white as the wool. May i God help us t.o help otheral And so these lessons of gratitude and sympa. G thy and helpfulness and vindication I s have brought you on the wings of this l morning. i FigurIng on the tesult. There will be 444 votes in the next ed electoral college, and 223 will be neces- TI sary to a choice. At National Dene - tu cratic headquarters in New York they hc estimate that the Democratic national nc ticket will get not less than 245 electo- D ral votes. This is counting on the fif- in teen votes of Indiana. If that State su goes Republican the Democrats will be still have 230 votes, according to their TI calculations, seven more than requir- Bi (id. A tate based on reports received 8u at the Democratic headquarters gives B the following as the probable result of the election: CLEVELAND. HARRiSON. in Alabama, 11 California 9co Arkansas 8 Colorado 4 th Connecticut i Idaho 3 Delaware 3 Illinois 24 Bt Florida 4 Maine () D Georgia 13 Massachusetts 15 n Iowa 13 Michigan 8 Indiana 15 Montana 3 Kentucky 13 Nevada 3 ti Lousiana 8 N. Hampshire 4 Mar3 land 8 North Dakota 3 t Michigan 6 Ohio 23 th Mississippi 9 Oregon 4 t Missouri 17 Pennsylvania 32 of New Jersey 10 Rhode Island 4 pr New York 36 South Dakota 4 North Carolina 11 Vermont 4 o South Carolina 9 Vashington 4 w Tennessee 12 Wisconsin 12 w Texas 15 Wyoming 3 r Virginia 12 in West Virginia 6 Total..........245 Total....... 1j It will be noticed that in the above estimate the States of Kansas, Minne sota and Nebraska are omitted. These States are conceded by the Democrats to Weaver. The three have 27 electo ac ral votes. Counting Weaver's 27 votes in with Ilarrison's 172 votes would make pn a total of 199 votes, which deducted pI from Cleveland's 245 votes would leave A him a majority of 45 votes over Iarri- L son and Weaver combined and a plu- ul rality of 73 votes over Harrison. Ac- ( cording to this estimate the Democrat ic ticket can be elected without the 15 votes of Indiana. To give the vote ot Si that State to Harrison would only give him a total of 187, while Cleveland al would still have 230, or seven more T than enough to elect. To take the al Cleveland column and give them to M Harrison would leave the former 209 th votes and give the latter 208. This ca would t hrow the election into the th house of representatives. The above pl is the )emocratic estimate, and so far co as our information goes is a pretty i, sale one. At the Republican National head- ci (uarters, whicn are also located in NeC York, they are disposed to claim every thing. Figures based on the claims 8 they are making show the following re- I sut: co IARIRISON. CLEVELAND. be Alabama 11 Arkansas 8 California 9 Delaware 3 Colorado 4 Florida 4 Connecticut 6 Georgia 13 an Idaho 3 Kentucky 13 of Illinois 24 Lousiana 8 Bi Indiana 15 Maryland 8 is iowa 13 Mississippi 9 pa Kansas 10 Missouri 17 fe, Maine 6 South Carolina 9 Ih Massachusetts 15 Texas 15 iu Michigan 14 Virginia 12 Minnesota b9 Montana 3b Nebraska 8 ih Nevado 3 I New llampshire 4I an New .Jersey 10 ne New York 361 ex North Dakota 3 thi Ohio 23 vc Oregon 4 Pennsylvania 32 Rhode Island 4 South Dakota 4 th Vermont 4 Cl WVashington 4 dr West Virginia 6in WisconsIn 12 WVyoming :1d -- ---ch] Tiotal.........302 Total.......119 nc In this claim, all estimate of the Re- p~ publicans the States of Norih Carolina ti and Tennessee, with 23 votes are con-7 ceded to Weaver. Take these 23 votes Ti and add them to Cleveland's 119 we 7c have a total of 1-42 for Cieveland and WVeaver combined, which taken from I'arrison's vote, woukt leave him a F majority of 160 over both Cleveland E and Weaver and a plurality of1183 over hi Cleveland alone. The above wild fig- ci urnies show that the Republicans are trying to play a bluff game, hi A bove we give the figures of the par- re ties most interested in making as fa- ki vorable showing as possible, and now sp as an impartial view we give what Mr. co Edmund IIudson, a journalist of wide ly experience and large political informa- fri tion, has to say on the subject. In a recent letter to the Washington Post he says: "I read Mr. Clarkson's interview, in which he stat,es that New York is suire i to give IIarrison a large majority, and ba that the President will be re-elected by fo a huge majority. I would like here to tu venture a prediction. Grover Cleve- th laud will have a plurality of 50,000 in y New York over Mr. IIarrison, who in my judgment, will have the smallest electorijl vote received by any Republi- a can candidate sinice 1864. The chances dr todlay are ab)out eveni between Cleve- ~ land andl JIarrison in Massachusetts.w Indiana is safe for Cleveland by 10,- l 000. lilinois, Wisconsin and Iowa will wI give their electoral votes to the Demo cratic candidates. The man who talks s about-a Republican victory in New York as probable, either does not know wnat he is talking about, or hie is whist- rol ling to keep up the courage of his par. ke ty associates. Today the prospects are th favorable to a landslide which will al- an most duplicate that of 1890. 1 am l writing this not as apartisan, but from pri the facts of the situation as I see Al them." vi - - --all A CollIery Horror. 81IA OK IN, Pa., Oct. 13.-Bv an explo- der sion of gas in t,he Stirlinag i a.n colliery. !' one and a half miles from here, at 11 to o'clock this morning, one miner was wa killed, four were seriously wounded and illi eight imprisioned. Two of the latter Co) were rescued at 10 o'clock tonight in a critical condition, There is but little - hope for the remaining six being taken out alive. The colliery is operated by the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron Company. An English OpInIon. laONDON, Oct. 19.-The Chronicle ' calls the decision of the United States Supreme Court in the Michigan electo ral case the most important and far reaching promulgated in years, and says that the decision will probably eventuate in the downfall of the eleo toral college and i'n the election of the President by a direct vote of the peo npe Drawley Fairly Elected. The Charleston Sun, which during 0 campaign favored the election of overnor Tillman, in a recent issue ,ys: Dr. J. Wim. Stokes, Major Braw y's defeated competitor for Congress, liomiated in the Columbia Register r railroad commissioner as the Cheat Congressman of t he First District. le nomination is mane over the signa re "Orangeburg," which is Dr. Stokes' me. We trust the wording of the imination In the Register has not hi. itoken' approval. There were in inces of fraud in the recent election this city and county which can be bstantiated, if need be, but we do not leve we were Singular in this respect. iey were such frauds as might in fi reLe prevented by proper precaution. it we do not believe they were of ch number as to have vitiated Major awley's election. Major Brawley's ljority here was greatly out of pro. rtion to the majorities of other candi est, and Dr. Stokes' vote was amaz ly small, but these facts are ac unted for on other hypotheses than ose of fraud. But many of the Lunchest "Reformers," in a local nse, were utterly at variance with ' Stokes' doctrines with regard to ,tional affairs. It was found impos )le at the time to make this distinc m clear either to the ople or to the iders and the local "I formers" suf red disastrously on account of it, but e sympathies, the intelligence and e prejudices of Charleston were all ainst Dr. Stokes and the smallness his vote here should not have sur ised any one. We are sorry if Dr. okes, who is personally a gentleman pleasant and amiable qualities and do, we certainly hope. will be elected ilroad commissioner, does not accept 3 defeat gracefully. But our private kpression from personal observation thal; Major Brawley's large majority re was the true expression of both 3formers and Regulars. The Minnesota Fusion. ST PAUL, MINN., October 13.-The Lion of the Democrats and Populiets several parts of the State discloses in rt why the four Weaver electprs were it on the Democratic national ticket. t Rochester two candidates for the uglslature were nomimated by the P1op ists and t,he Democrats promptly en >rsed them. The same thin4 was >ne In three other counti.; of the ate. The scheme, it is stated, is to bring out fusion ir every part of the State'. > this end the Populists will withdraw I their candidates in SL Paul and inneapolls, and in return of the favor e Democrans will withdraw ail their ndidatei in Alliance strongholds in e northern part of the State. The lm, it is alleged, contemplates the utrol of the lower house witb the ,w of Bending Michael Doran, Demo at, national committeeman for Minn a. to th" Senate to succeed Davis. ie State Scuate, which holds over, muds R-epublicans 25, Fusionists 26. order to eontrol the Legislature the mbine mustelect 56 ofthe 114 mem rs of the Icuse. Black Bulldozers DovEn, Del., Oct. 14. Last night attempt was made by 200 negroes this town to mob. A WorthIngton inkley, colored, of Wilmington who or-gamnzing an independant colored, rty in this State. The police inter -e, and as t,he police were escortin: 'aucley to his boarding house the mob riedi bricks and ot,ber missiles at em. Oflicer Kinnaman was hit and dly hurt,. Thue mob was led by Joa a Parker, a negro oflicehoIcer in ashiington. This morning Pdrker d four negroes were arrested. The groes are very boisterous, and much citement prevails. Negroes arc on a streets yelling: "No negr'o here t,es the Democratic ticket." The Same Old Story. ~i:MTERt, S. C. Oct. 19.-Josh Mat aws and his wife, negroes, living near iremont depot, locked their four chil an in their house and won't to a ighboring religious meeting. The re horriled, on returning, to find their teling on fire and the rescue of their ildren impossible. They could do thing but watch with terrified des ir the flames which slowly consumed eir children. The oldest was eleven are old1, the youngest a mere infant. iey were all burned and charred be nd recognition.-State. A Narrow Escape. WiesT WINSTED, Conn.. Oct. 18. ght hundred school children were sted on temporary seats fifteen feet gh this afternoon, rehearsing for the ilumbus Day celebration on Friday, den the benches collapsed, and three indred children fell to the floor. Many ~eved broken limbs, but none were fled. A crowd was quickly on the ot and rescued the children. The mmunily is excited ant threats of ichin gCarpenter 6urtis have been sely expressed. A Shock. I.'ETESIIIUiRO, VA., Oct. 13.-James A . rker, one of Petesburg's best-known iabiftants, was found (lead undIer t e ek porch of lisa residence shortly -S 'e midnight by his wife, on her re rn home from the performance ats 3 Academy of Music, IIe was 56 srs of age andl a well-known shoe archant. l'iuE GERMANS all over the co intry flockiing to Cleveland. On Wednes y night, at Norwich, Conn.. a great as meeti ng of German-A mericana a held at which many local Germans, o0 had previously been Repnblicans' ~lared f or Cleveland. Pimanos and Organ,. 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