The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, January 12, 1893, Image 1

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i ~ ". -- -* ---,n_-,- -'.....-s .. = - VOL.XXn 5 PCES.C.TURDYJAAY121893. NO. 17 Th MA CH OF YEARS. AN ANNIVERSARY 8ERMON BY DR. d TALMAGE. rbe Chr nology of the Bible N r Has Been and annseot Bft I oepaed - Evo- C ipIlian of the AIssse-Tee Was., Tine I, but Time Will Eud. BRooxIYN. Jan. I.-Uv. Dr. Ta -I mage this morning appropriat,ely t ok I for the subject, ot'his New Year 'a day I sermon "Tne Chronology of the bible, I ord4od A.nong the Cen-uries." Before ( the discourse the great audience which fully cio%ded the Tabernacle sang the hymiu:9 Our God. our holp In ages past, Our hope for yeArs to come. The tt xt chosen was Deut,eronom% t xxxii, 7, "('onsider the years of many genetaAons." Ai, Idclock last nimlht, while so many good people were watching, an old triend passed out of our homes and y a stranger entered. The old t'riend mak- a ing valedictory was 1892; the stranger arriving is 1893. The ohl friend was t gv ,)ous witli the occurrences o many t days, but the stranger put his linger C over his lip and said nothiuir and seemed t charged with many secrets and mys i teries. I did not see either the depar ture or the arrival, I.ui. was sound asleep. thinking that was for me the best way Lis be wide awake now. Uoodby, 18921 t Welcome, 18931 As an army i- ~-vided into brigades E, aid regiments companies, au t,be. jA observe this older in thair march, and t their iread is majestic so the timie ol c the worla's existence is divided into ata t army divinely commianded. The erat U are the brigades, the ceniuries are the ' regIments. ani Lhe years are the com panies. Forward into the eternit% pust, out of the eternity to 1comel Forward is the command, and nothig can halt them, even though the world should die. While obeying m. ) text, Consider the years of many gene ratiou," I propose to speak ol Ih c "Chronology of the Bible, or God . Among the Centuriei4." e We make a distinction between time L and eternity, but time is only a piece of P eternity, and chronology has beeL en - %u1a=rk of dividing up n of eterklity that we call time to coxnpartments and putting eveets in their right c-mpartment. It is as much an Ia justice agaInst the past ts wrongly arrange its .-Vent, as it wouh be an injustice if, through neglect ol ti chronological accuracy, it should, in the 0 tar distant, future, be said tha America was discovered in 1776. and the Declaration of' lude pendence was sigted in 1492. 1 and Washini.-ton born on the 22d o March and the civil war of the United 0 Mtates was tought in 1840. As God pu P all the events of tne in c the right place, let us be carelul L,a %e do not put thein in the wrone place. The chronology oN the Bible t kes six steps, but they ure iteps so long i makes us hold our ireatha as -ve watcha the movemenii. Frni Adam to Abra d ham. From Abrhaiu to the ex.du- 3 out of E.Fypt. From the exodui to ta tie 1oundation oi Solomjoti'ti Iemple tt From the foutadation of S dlomoa', temple to thie(deviriuc tionl of tha' 1 temple. Flom the destruction of 4; the temple to the returu 1r Babylon tI ish coptivit%. From 11abylonish cap L tivity to the hiihl ol Chrebt. LI Chronolovy takes pen and pencil, and V calling astronomy, and at,or to hel it sas: 'Lea, us ix one event from which 0 to calculate every t,bing. Let, It be a star.a t,he Bet,blehem star, the Christ,ma'' b str. And Irom that we go b)ack and II see the world was created 4,004 years a jbeore Christ; the deluge came 2,348|n years before Christ; the exodus out, o1 ~Egypt occurred 1.491 years before L ICterist, andl Solomon's temple was de 0 ~ stroyed 586 years behore Christ. I Chronology enters the irst chapter oh U G*enei is and says the day mentioned ti there is not a day of twenty-tour hom's,0 'but of' ages, the word there being trans L4 lated as "day" in ot,her piases meaninr a ages. Atnd so the Bible account of t,he creationt and the geologisls' account of n the creation are complet,ely harmonious a Chronooasy ent,ers the book of Daniel g Sand says tbat, tho words "t,ime and a n hall" mean a year and a hall. Chronol- a egy enters at, another point anad shaows gus that the seasonis of the year wera 0 ithen only two-sutnmer and winter. We a Cfind that the Bible year was 360dy 1insteadI 01 365; that the (lay was calcu 1lated from 6 o'cloik in the morning , in * o'clock at, tniht; that, the amght was divided into four watches-nAmely, t,ht c late w atch, the midnigtht, the cock crow - ug, the early witch. The clock andi l watch were invented so long alter th~e t world began their mission that the day [ was not very sharply divided In Bible u times.*i &haz had a sundial, or a lightot ~ stairs with a column at the top and the ~ shadow which that column threw on the. ~ steps beneath indicated t,he hour, the t shadow lengthssuing or withdrawing ~ from step to step. But the events o life and the events of thai world moved , eo slowly, for t,he moat part, in Mible times that they had no need of such d Stimepieces as we stand on our mantels a or carry in our pocketa in an age whesa a a man muay havesa half dezen or a dozena a engaements for one dlay and needs to C know the exact minute for each one or d them. The earth itself in Bible times t was the chief timepiece, and it turnedl on its own axis and( that was a day, andl once around the sun and that was a year. it was not until the Fourteenth century that the almanac was born-the almanac that we toss carelessly about,,~ not,realizing t hat it took the accumulatedi ingenuity of more than 5,000 years to make one.( Chronology ha-l to bring into its aer- a vice the ir """ents of EgayA, and tbe I evhrmders 01 A,,..j..ia, and the brieks of ( Ba b, ion, and the pottery ol Nineieh, ' and the nmedals struck at, Antioch for the bat,tle of A dtlum, and all the hieroklIphics that could be dee p' ered. and bad to go into the extremely delIcate business of asking the ages of Adam and Seth anal Enoch and Methuselah who, atter t,heir 1 300th year. wanted to be thought young. I think It must ave been to re-O ognitlon of the stupendous work of nakinu an almanac that all the days of he week are named after the gods, Sun lay after the suu, which was of old rorshiped as a goud. Monday, after the moon, which was Jso worshipped as a god. Tuesday, tier Tuesco, the god of war. Wed tesday, after Woden, the chief goi of he Scandinavians i'hursday after Pior, the goo of thunder. Priday, Xiter Frea. the goddess cf marriage. rnd Saturday after Saturn. Th" old itble year twgan with the 25th of darch. Not until 1752 did the firat of he month of Januarv get the honor in egal documents in England of being alled the first day of the year. Im irovements all along have been made a chronology until the calendar, and he almanac, and the clock, and the vatch seem to have reached perfec lon, and all the nations of Christen on have similarity of time calcula ions and have adopted what is called new style," except Itussi., which eeps what is called the "old style," nd is twelve days different, so that, rriting from there, if you wish to be ccurate, you date your letter Jan. I ud Jan. 13. or Dec. 10 and Dec. 22. It is sometning to thank Uod for that he moues are so complete for calcula ing the cycles, the centuries,gthe de ades, the years, the months, the days, he hours, the seconds. Think of mak ig appointments, as in the Bible days, Lr the time of the new moon. Think f making one of the watches of the ight in Bible times a rooster's crowing. 'he Bible says. "Before the cock crow iou shalt deny me thrice." "if the laster cometh at cockerowing," and bat was the way the midnight watch ias indicated. The crowing of that arnyard bird has always been most on ertain. The crowing is at the lowest inperature of the night, and the mount of dew and the direction of the find iay bring the lowest tempera are at II o,clock at night or 2 o'clock a the morning and at any one of six ours. Just. bef ore a rain the growing f ehantichter in the night is aliosM erpetual. Compare these modes of marking ime with our modes of marking time, ?hen 12 o'clock is 12 o'clock, and 6 'clock is 6 o'clock, and 10 o'clock is 10 'cloek, and independent of all weata rs, and then I hank God that you live ow. utie. notwitlstandiug all the ima ertect modts of marking hours or ears or centuries Bible chronology ever trips up, never falters, never con radicts itself, and here is one of the eat arguments for the aut.henticity of he Scriptures. If you can prove an alibi in the courts, nd you can prove beyond douut that ou were in some particular place at, e time you were charged with doinit r saying something in quite another lace, you gain the victory, and infidel. .y has tried to prove an alibi by con - andina that, events and circumstances i tde Hible ascribed to certain times inst have taken place at some othe - tte, if t .took place at all. Hut this uok's cirt 'ogy has iever beei aught at ft alt. It has been prove iat when the Hebrews went. into Egypt. aere were only seventy of thew, and lar. wheo they came ,;ut there werst 000,000 of them. "Now," says influeli e, with a guflaw that it cannot sup rems, "what an absurdityl Tliey went. Dwn into Egypt seventy and came otit 000,000. That is a falsehood on the ice of it. Nations do not incre ,se in iat ratio." But, my skeptical friend, hold a mo ient. The Bjble says the Jews were 10 years in Egybt, and that explains ie increase from seventy persons to 2, )0,000, for it is no more, but rather I, as, ian the ordinary increase of nations. he Pilgrim Fathers came to America k the Mayi iwer-one small shiploau 'passengers- less than 300 years ago. id now we have a nat,ion of 60,000.000. There, then, is the so called impossi hlity that t.he seventy Jews who went It.o Egypt In 430 years becamne 3,000, X0? infa'eiity wrong and Bible enro Llogy right. Now stop and reflect. Why is it that uis suolime subject of Bible cnronol (y lias been ao nleglected, and that the ost of you have never given ten nin-x tes to the consideration of it, and that its Is the llrst sermon ever pre'uched a. this stupendous anid over whelmiung eme ? W e have stood by the half day t,he whole day at, reviews and seen rmles pass. Again and again and gain on t,he Chamnps Elysees French ten by the hundreds of thousands have ood and watched the bannered armies by and the huzza has ;been three tiles long and until the populace were hoarse they could huziza no longer. Again and again und again the Ger ans by hundreds of thousands have ood on the pahaced and statued Unter an Linden, Berlin, and strewn gar ntds under tie feet, of uniformed housa d on by Von Moilke or Biuchier or rede-rick the Great. Wheii Welling ~n and l'onsonby and the Scotse Greys ame back from iVaterloo, or Wolsuley rom Egypt, or Marlborough from Blen elm, what imilitary processionis itrough Regenitst,reet and( along by the asuces o1 Laond(on and ove'r the bridge-s f the T1hamesl What alimost iitermui able lines of military oni the streets of 11 our A mericanu capit,als, while may ors nd governors and presidenta, wit,h un overed heads, looked on? But put all iose granid reviews together and they re tame compared with the review ihichi on this New Year's day you rom the pew anId I from the puilpit ritness. Hiear them pass in chronological or er-all the yeai s before the 110ood; and Il the years since the flood; decades breast; centuries abreast; epochs breast; milien iints abreast.; Egy ptians ivilizat,ion, Babyalonian population, ayrian donminions, armies of Persian, Irecian, Peloponm sian and Rtomant rare: By zant,ine empire, Saracenic hoast, ruisuders of t,he first, the r.econd, the hird and the hast-avalanch of men. ),ra Ages in sombre epaulets and righter ages with shields of silver and elmiets oflgold; Italy, Spain, Rutssia, lermausy, En,glandl and America, pact nid present dynuasties, fuiedal dominsta, espotisams, monarchies, repnblica, ages *n ages, ages on ages, passing today in chronological review, until one has no siore power to look upon the adv-eming olumns, now brillhant, now squan~d, ow garlanded wit.h peace, now crian en with slaughter, now orrid with hastiness, no w radiant with love and Dy. This chronological stud, affords mong many practiceal thoug ta esp.c ally t wo-the one encouragli g to the uesLdegr ee and the other startlin The incotlraging thought, is that th nain laift of the centurieq has haen 'nardr betterment, with only here and there a stout reversal. Grecian civilization a was a vast improvement on Egyptian r Civilization, and Roman civilizatirn,% vast improvement on Grecian civiiza tion, and Christian civilization is a vast improvement on Roman civilization. I What was the boasted age of Pericles compared with the age or Longfellow and Tennyson ? What was Queen Elizabeth as a specimen of moral wo manhood comparet with Queen Victo- 1 ria'? What were the cruel warriors of olden times compared with the most. diotinguised warriors of the last half a century, all of them as much distin. gutsied or kindness and good moi als as for I ro vess-the two military leaders Ui o.r ot vil war on northern and south- t brn side communicant members of 1 Unristian churches, and their home lire t is pure as their putlic life? Nothing Impresses me in this chrono Logical review more than the fact that the regimeuts of yeard are better and I better regiments as the troops move c on. I thank God that you and I were t not born ;.ny sooner than we were born. flow could we haveendured the, disaster of being born in the ligliteenth a or Seventeenth or SixLeenth century y Glad am I that. we are in the regiment a now passing tho reviewing stand and that our children will pasi the stand in r a still better regiment. God did not build this world for a slaughter house or a den of infamy. A good (eal of cleaning house will be necessary before this world becomes as a clean and sweet as it -,ught to be, but the brooms, and the scrubbing brushes, and the upholsterers and plumbers arei already busy, and when the world gets fixed up as it will be, if Adam and Eve ever visit it, as I expect they will, they will say to each other, "Well, this beats paradise when we lived there, and th pears and the plums are better than we C plucked from the first trees, and the wardrobes are more complete, and the climate is better." Since I settled in my own mind the fact that, God was stronger than the devil I have never lost faith in the emparadis ,tion of the t planet. Wit,h the exception of a re- 'I Lrogremsion in the J)ark Ages the miove- ( nient of the world has been on and on, I and up and up, and I have t,wo jibitant i hosannas-one for th4 CdOsing year and I the other for the new year. - But the other thought coming out of this subject is that Biblical chronology, and indeed all chronology, is urging the world to more punctiiality and hn mediateness. What an unsatisfac'.ory and indefinite thing it must have been for two business men in the time of Ahaz to make an appointment, saying, "We willst-ttle that1 business matter to. morrow when the shadow on the dial of Ahaz reaches the tenth step froij the top," or, "I will meet. you in the street called Straight in Damascus in ' the time of the new moon," or when asked in a courtroom what. time an oc currence took place should answer. " It was during the time of the latter rain," or, "It wa. at the time of the third crowing of the barnyard." You and I remember when ministers of the Gospel in the country, giving out a notice of an evening service, in stead of saying at 6 or 7 or 8 o'clock, would say, "The service will begin at early candle light." Thank God for r chronological. thilevoments which have ushered in calendars ai'd almanacs and clouks and wat ches, and at so cheap A a rate all may possess them. Chronol ogy, beginning by appreciating the 'I value of years and the value of days, has kept on unt il it cries out, "%an, A immortal; woman, immortal; look out for that minute; look out ior that sec ond!' We talk a great deal about the value of time, but will never filly appreciate its value until the last fragment of it 1 has p)assed out, of our p)ossessIin for- i: ever. The greatest fraud a man can y commit is to rob anot.her of his time. a Hear it, ye laggards, and( repet.! All b~ the lingers of chronology point to r punct,ualhty as one of the graces. The minist.er or the lectiuer or business' man who comes to his place ten ininu tea after the appoinited timie coimmits ia crime the eiiormity of which can only r lhe estimated by iuitiplying the num.i ber of persons present by ten. If t,he h engagement be made wit ii live persoiis, i lie has stolen lifty minutes, for hie is tenr minutes too late, and he hasi robbedit each of the ive persons of ten minutes apiece, and ten times live are lifty. I f th are are 500 persons present., and he be ten minutes too late, iie*has coim- I mitted a robbtery of 5,000) :uinuates, for a ten times 500 are 5,000, and 5,000 minu tea are 83 hours, which make more than three dIay s. T1hie thief oft dry goods, the thief of bank hills is not half so bad as the thief of time. D)r. itush, the great,est and busiest physi cian of his (lay, appreciated the value of time, and when asked hot the had been able to gather so mouch informa tioni for his books aiid lectures lie re plied: "I have been able to do it by economizing my time, I have not spent, one hour in amuusemeiit in thin ty years." And taking a blankbo,ok from his pocket he said, "1 11l1 a book like t,his every week wit,h thought.s that,I occur to me and facts collected in the 1 roo)ms of my patien ts." Napoleon appreciated the value of time when t,he sun was sinkIng upon 1 Waterloo, and lie thougnt that a litt,le more time would retrieve his fortunes,J anid he pointed to the sinking sun anid said, "What would I not give to be this day possessed of the power of ,Ioshuia and enabled to retardl thy march for two hours!" The good eld woman ap pieciated the value of time when at ninety-three years of age she sa.id(, "The judge of all the earth does not. mean that I shall have any excuse for not being prepared to meet him." Vol. taire, the blatant inildel, appreciated ;he value 01 time wheni in his (lying moments, lhe saidi to his doctor, "I w Ill give you half of what I am wort.h if you will give me six months oh life," and when told that he could niot live six weeks he burst into tears andm~ said, "Then I shall go to hell." Jiohn Wesley appreciated the value omf time when he stood oii his steps wait ing for a delayed carriage to take him to an appointment, saying, " I have lost ten minutes lorever.w Lord Nelson appreciated the value of time when he 'said: "1 owe evet y thing ini the world to being al ways a quarter of an heuir beforehand." A clockmnaker ini one of the old English towns appreciated the value o' mime whenm he put on the fronit, of the .own cloca toe waords, "Now or when." Mitchell, the astronomer, ap pr'-cia'ed the value of time when he said, "I have been in t,he habit of cal culating the value of a thousandth nart of a second," That minister of the Gospel did not ppreciate the value of tine who du ing, uPeason of Illness, instead of em. oloying his time In useful reading and vriting, wrote a silly religious romance vhich in some unknown way came nto the possession of the famous Joe Imith, who introduced the hook us a livine revelation, which became the oundation of Mormonism. the most eastly abomination of all tinime. The.y est appreciate the value of time vhosC Sabbaths have been wasted, nd whose opportunities of repentance ,nd usefulness art all gone, and who ave nothing left bat, mereories, bale. ul and elegiae. '1iny stand i the leak September, with bare feet, onl he sharp stubble of a reaped wheat eld, crying, -The harvest is past," and lie slough of an autuitinal equinox aoanis forth in echo, "The harvest is 1at.si" But do not let us get an impression rom chronology that because the years if time have been so long in procession hey are tj go on forever. Matter is Lot eternally. No, no! If you watch alf a day, or a whole day, or two days s I once did, io see a military proces ion, you remember the last brigade, ,nd the last regiment, and the last ompany finally passed on, and as we tse to go we said to each other, "It is 11 over." So this mighty procession of earthly ears will terminate. Just when I ave no power to prognosticate, bit c tnce confirms the Bible prophecy hat the earth cannot always last. In leed there has been a fatality of worlds. 'he moon is merely the corpse of what, t once was, and scientists have again nd igain gone up in tLelr obseivato lee to attend the deathbed of dying vorlds and have seen thein cremated. o [ am certain, both from the word f God and science, that the world's bronology will sooner or later come to ts last chapter. The final century will arrive and ass on, and then will tame the flial Lecade, and then the final year, and he finl ii month, and the final day. 'he last. spring will swing its censer >f apple blossoms and the last. winter oank its snows. The last soinsHt will mtrn like Moscow and the last m.rn ng radiate the hills. The clocks will vil1 tick their last secoud. No incen liaries will be needed to run hither ind yon with torches to set the world in fire, Chemistry teaches us that there i, a rery inil immable element in water. Mhile oxygen makes tip a part of the vater the other part is hydrogen, and ,hat is very combustible. ['he oxygen Irawn out. from the water, the intlan. nable hydrogen will plt instantly into tonlagrat ion the H udsons antI savan iahis ond Mississippis and Ithines and rals and Danubes, and Atlantic ana art"ille and Indian and Mediterranean eas. And then the Angel of God des ending from the throne might put mte fot t in the surf of the sea and the ither oil the beach and cry to the four vinds of heaven, "Time was! But time hall be no longer!" Yet found in 'nrist, pardonoi aud sanctilled, we flail welcome the day with more glad iess than you ever welcomod a Ctrist nas or New Year's mnrn. vhien wrapt in fire the realms of ether elow Mnd heaven's last thunder shakes th earth below, 'hou, unidisnayed, shalt o'er the ruin sileh11 and light thy torch at nature's funeral Badl It-we 1I,,9d. COtLrMBIA,. S C., DcC. 30.-Excite iont runs high in Easley, a town it, '.ek--ns countv, this State, and there l)ahtd blood betweent the races, lAst Vednestday a negro of' the town wrote n mnsul.ing note to a young lady. She iformued her brother, who gave t,he neg a a severe tiogginig wit.h a hickory st,ick. 'lie negro was ctomnmitt,etd to j:ail andt Sthe expaectation tbat he would be La en out to st,and a l)relimiinary t,rial, a umber ol whites prepared to meet, hum nd reso)rt to harsher measures. On earing this imost of the negroes in town rmetd themnseleves, went, t. t,he jaul andi cleasedI the neigr'o who tied. Tlo-day he whites held a mass m et,inu I andl au at)hntedt a committ1ee t,u notIlly all t,he legroes wiho went, to the iail yeterda y hat, they must leave town within 21 our's or take the consequen -es. liothi itdes tare excitetd and1 there is eome loubt, at>out the negroes complying, as he*y are iced by a lBaptist, prea,cher. ['he town is guardled b)y pat,rtals tonight,. Wivee (Come. One-a.. J1AMESTIOwN, N. Yi., .Jan. 1.-About wo months ago, Charles Madder alnd )ora Cuip came to ,Jaimestown andt. vere marrietd. TLhanksgivinag day Mrs dladder received A dispatch fromu Tlitus ,Ille, her l ormier home, to the edc hat her 5-year-old lboy was siek. Shi vent to Titusville, tmut, instead of find ng a sick boy, she fo)undt Fred Gilsonm or whom she had baeen housekee-pei >efore her mnarriag.', wanted her to re urn, Ile accomipanied her back to yard ,Jamiestowni as far as Frewsburg lyhere they stopped andi were married )t)th returnIng to TIitusvie. Yester lay a friend of (Allson's came to set W adder, who agreed that upon paymeni >f $25 he would relinquish all claim t< he woman, ilew (Out, H IN M.-as us. CnA wvyoal>viLLE, Tenan. Jl.m. 4 - Vounig Tomnlinsotn, who a few weeki igo left home suiddetly alter forgina ils lather's name, ble w out his braint with a revolver last night. On F"rida' ie wrote f romn 'eoria that he was sae iad repetntant anti wanted t,o come asome, lie telegraphed I rom Coving on yesterdiay that he was so all lie coult get no0 further. Ills brother-in-law went. to him and last night his fat,he was at the train to mee, and forgivi him, but he was dest,ined to disappoint mient. ,Just as t he brak eman called onl "Crawf(ordsvillt'' y oung Tolinsol palacefi a revolver to his nie'id and firect Ills lather receivetd him a corpse. The Total Vote 3orlPresident, N sw Yon)it, January 3.-The Eve ning P'ost t,oday say,s: "The set-lemen oh t ae Oregon contest, makes it, posslbh4 to give an accuirat,e t.ahle of the vote for I*residlent, as It shoultd be cast b: the Eleet,oral College, anud which wil show: Total ntumber of' voles 44-4; nec essary to a chouice 223; ClevelanJsa ma jon ty 108. Tot,al vot,e for t,he respect ave candidates is as follows: Clevelan, 276, Harriaon 144 and Wavear 24, A be Decision Dnectured. OMAHA, Neb., Jan. 4.-Attorneys and politicians were greatly astonished this morning when they read in the Omaha papers what purported to he the .-uprense Court's decleion in the Kruz Norton contest for the seat as itepre sentative from Knox and Boyd Coun ties. It was recognized as not the (lec sion delivered from the bench. It con tained a clause nullifying t,he certilieato now held by Kruz, Populist. This did not appear in the oral decision. Chief' Justice Maxwell caused a sensa tion at the opening of court this morn ing by asking how the offensive clause came into the printed decision. Justice Post remarked that it was inserted by him (Post) and an attorney after t,be Chief Justice had left the bench. The two Justices had some angry words about the matter. It will be ini Yestigated. Last night County Clerk Van Campt of Knox County, was captured by a messenger trom the State Supreme Court, and ordered to canvass the re turns of Knox and Boyd Counties. Van Camp had already is ued a certill caie of election to Kruz, the Populist cancidate for the 11ouse, but had not canvassed the v ite of Wyd County. Late last tlght he completed the can vass of t.e votes and issued a second I certificate of election to Norton, Re publican. A messenger sent by the Republican managers hurried to lucoln with the certificate by stage and train, but ado ar as concerns the organization of the House all this work is fruitless. A dis patch form Lincoln says that in the Huse to-day the Democrats and Inde pendents combined and capture. the temporary organization. In the Senata no oreanizition was efFected. The votes were divided between the Demo crats, Independents and Republicans, none having a majority. A Steer in Church. Nowri DEmit Conn. Dec. 30. There was a sensation here Christ.ma which worshipers will not soon forget. A dog aid bull lormed a combination t w hici proved dem,,ralizing to the congre &vation of fhe Long Meadow meetini hou Yotherwise knovn as thechurchof the V-'tom. as it was ',he first church in the State'eTU t0e in colored people on quality with wt The dog was Sz.na mn a carriage near tIre craiKwFhien a heard of cattle passed. The dog stafi peded them. One steer dashed into the church and came to a stand in the cen ter aisle. Eveiybody tried to get out alt once andL the steer was left in undis puted possessicn. The clergyman grew hoarse in his endeavors to iave same of the men remain and(] drive the animal out. le came lown from the pulpit to undertake the task himself, but he was aot succes.ful, and had lie not sought, refuge in a paw where the stecr could not reach him, the lufuriaLed animal would have made short work of him. The clerg3man was compelled to sit perched upon the bck of a liew and watch the iteer demolish the church properl.y. When the animal became dired lie trotted out. The pastor re en lered the pulpit and when his congrega Lion had returned lie took up his sermon at ti,e point where it, had been so rude. ly intrrupted. closetiou Will be Open. COLUMB 1A, S. C., Jan. 5.-Governor Tilhlman rztuined last, night from Clem son College where lie attended a mee. itg of the trustees of tha . institution. The trustees now have at their disposal the large sum of money appropri.ted fir the completion of' Clemson College bi the General Assembly. The trustees at, their mee ,ing i,his week took stepis to p)rovide for t,he collection of workinen andl mat.erials. TIhey aire det.ermined t,o press t.he work of the college at rapidly as possible. It, is doubfl whether the college can be co nj.leted in time l'or' it. t.o e opened oni the first of' may, but at. any rate it, will be opiened) by i,hie irst, of July. Governor Tfillman believes t,ha' the college will certaitly be opened by Junie I. The trustees will ho0ld another meet.iig on Feb-lruary I, and at this meet ine it will be decided w hen the college shall be opened. The fIrst mont.h ol the session will be ape'nt in. org-mihzation. Thue buildings wecich are now being erect,ed will accomodate (600 st.udents. Mr II. A. Strode will be given the chair of mathematics. The board has not de c'dedl upion a man for t,he p)residencs. (lood Meng for a lown. A cot.emiporary makes this pertinent reman~rk because it is trtue: Thie only mien of worth to a commiiuity or town are those who forget their own self-ish einds long enough, arnd are liberal enouigh in their Ideas, to encourage ever y publie anld private enterprise; t.o push all projects calculated to betild up the town, and enntance its fmp)ortante. TJhie enterprise aund push of a town or coimmunity is the foundation of its permiatient, success. A towii may as well prepare for its funeral as to be come indifferent to the enterprise In its m ridst. Men who come to town to make It their fut.ure home, who can riot look far enough before them to see that niney place:i judiciously in a pub lic enterpriso, will lie a hundred fold In the appreclat ion of their property, are to be pitiled. T1hey are riot, the meni t,o put their ablouller to the wheel an:d buaild up the town. They are of the class who are ready to take all they can of some one else's hnhlaling enterprise, but they are niot, willenga to do anyi ng themselves. It Is the town that hasiz the most ent~ irprising citizeiis that grows most, i.pidly. Ibied of a Broken Heart. ToLEO), () . l)ec. 29.-Bob Slavini, the comiediani, died suddenly in this city thIs morning, iIe wias one of t,he most popular minstrel meni In the country and was at oiie t,ime one of the propri -etofs of the McNush, Slavin and John sone's mInstrels. l"or two years he had noI.hin~g but hard luck, and the cause of his sadi death was principally a broken heart. The. Vecauvlum 14atin for Port Royal. NF.w' YonIK, January 2.-The dyna ,'mite~ cruiser Vesuvius, Lieut. Schroder, I 1elt the Brooklyn navy yard to-day for -Port Roy al. She passed out, of Sandy - 1100k at. 8.39. The vessel will go dir - ect t.o Port Royal Sound, where the fin 1 al tests of her great ayniamite guns will be madle early next. week, A DESI'E ATRE BAII'LE BETWEEN SEVERAL HUNDREb LYN CHERS AND A SHERIFF'S POSSE att 11akerpvtile, N. V., Iu Whifh Thirty Three Men are Kiied---Calvin Snipes. Moonabluer and Murderer. the Uause of the Slaughter, JOHNsON CITY, Tenn., ,Jan. 4.-Last Aitht a masked mobof o500 men entered :,e jail at Bakersiville, N. C., and Look Jalvin Snipes, who had murdertw Isaac JAborne, a prominent citizen of' Mitch )II Colunty, to a dense forest about half & mile away and lynched him, Seven )f the sheriff's posse were killed in ,heir efforts to defend the prisoner, and Lbotit tweity-five of the mob were tilled, A mong the dead ana wounded iome of the most pro ninent men in ,he county were found. The facts which lead ip to the terri )le lynching affray In liakersvifle, 4orth Carolina, are as followi: Aaron Wiseman and Calvin Snipes were partners in an illicit nistillery in Aitchell County, North Carolin-i, and tad told William Osbuine at Isaac Jsborne, two brothers, where the dis ,illery was sit,uated. William t)sborne reported the distil ery to the officials at. llakersville, N. '., and helped theam to destroy it. Wiseman and Snipes suspected -aate )sborne as the reporter. On the night of August 27, 1892, ;nipes and Wiseman,armed with Wilo -ht ster rilles, went to the house of Is Ute -iborne and called him up, 0iborne .amie to the door, and the culprits opened tire, almost riddling him with mtllets. Wiseman and S!ilpes were arrested, mt swillcient evidence could tot. te oo ainled against Wisemiain and lie was eleased. Snipes was bound to the Superior mourt, on purely circumstantial evi lence. lie was placed in jail and after oeing conftned about, two weeks, con-I essed to the Hilling in the macinnier utive relat,ed. The story of thelynching anl the fa al contlict with the maieriff's pos,e is omfirmed. The namkesi of those of' the ill-d are as follows: .1. N. Williams, ). T. ltichie, It. N. Jones, 1'. 11. Sais, t. E. ,Johm-,oi, Aaron iteed, T. N. leckiter .1, W. Law-, N. It l'annieli, i. N. Inlilield and Tom lilall. Tne iames of those of' the mob killed tare: lohn Worth, William Osborne, T. ti ilif, Will I erry, John Osborne, l'iii 'r JW',,im Name-, Will 1tter, ilagey ly, n -. T-homas, J ack PhiHllips anti several otlr4:z whose iames are not known at present- - MAiox, N. C.,.Jan. 4. --The last at ack ou the Mitchell County j.il was nade at 6 o'clock Tuesday ight. The itruecture i a frame buidig, and is ittle calculated to winis'and an as tault. Bil t,he sheriff had it. g.irrisoned Nith about. sevent,y-live deterniniied men, who declared they wauld see the aw upheld, or 4ie. The attack was expect.ed all day 'uesday. Ttie iou tatineers of Miti el, Mclivegall and Yancy Coumtius tsem1ibled in the little mount,ain ham el of Ki.rkersville until the population f 500K was about doubled. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon a for nil demand was made upon Sheriff Uoomaw for Snipes and the two Whit, ions by a messrger from the mob, who approachtd the jail uider a flag >f truce. To this the garrison responded: " We vill die first." Then they knew there would be a Ight. The little company split up in o three parts, one remaining in Ohe jail ad the other two occupying the Sher i's house andi barn niear the miaina tuiding. Winchiesters were loaded oil the wait for t,he fInal st,ruggle be, ani. T[he men were not long in sits ense. A bout sundown the first attack wvas niade. A t leasn, live hucidred armed nen marched up t,he road, and thlen w it.h a ho vi broke oin a rin for t,he jail. l'he garrison was readly f or them. "Illt, or ill give trae order to fire," ang out, Sh'rt if Mooma w. Noat,t,ettion was p)atd 1.0 the warn nug. "I''ire!" rang out the order, and sov mty-livye ri lies poured a direct, and lanking hail of' bules into the deter nlined lynicleis. T[hey wavered a mo iueint ias a score of t,hem went down, Limt, wit,h t,he st,eadiness of veterans 3l0sett up their ranks and rushed for ward wit,h t,he old "rebel yell." Again the rilles of the besieged rang aut., and thIs time they were aniswered by a coniceintted tire from the mob. Tihe aim was deadly. Every wiindow Oin t,he ex posed sides of the building occupied by the defenders was shot, out,, and a dozen~ men fell wounded or killed. The-ir bodies huamnpered the de pu1ties who were inharimed, andi only a few could close up to t,he windows and ret.urn the volley before the mob was uponi them. 'There was a short, struggle, and all was over. Tihe deputies, wit,h their leader, Sherif II Aoomnaw, tuortalhly wounided, were in the hands o1 the iiob, anid every one of them was look tng down the muz'izle of' at, feast t,hree Wincchest,ers. T[here was no hope for further re sistance, acnd the fate of three inunder era was sealed. Without waiting to pIck us) the dead or care for the wounded, the mob miade s rutsh at the door of t,he jail, and it went dlowni before the shouilders of a score oi atalwart, meni. 'The prisoners were reached. '[hey were the only ones in jail, ant t,nc mob had nto trouble in breaking down t,he fr-au cells. llalf (lead with fe-ar t,he culprits were dIragged out into the open air where ropes were placed around their necks with one hundred mewn, mad wit hi lhe thirst, of blood, al, the end ot eac... T1he wretches were dIragged over the Icecovered rocki to a piece of' wood land haif a mile away. Hehind them followed the remainder of the miob fir ing at the prostrate forms at every st,ep. Th lm victims were un doubtedlly dead before they had beei dragged twenty vardst, amid it was s mere semblanice of huumian forms thai was strunig up when the woods wer< reached. T[hen the miob returned tI look for their (lead and wounded. Inc the little enclosure and oni the roat bed ini front of the jail twentyilve bodie: were found, anid in the three nulliding eight more were rigid in death. A boti thirty others were wounded, some them fat ally, among these being gallan Sheriff Moomnaw, who was shot twic throgh the chest, aad three time n hrongh the abdomen. Nothing delnite is k'wn of the w< nded. im linkersville is,-ijesaway fro a telegritiph (office and all news brou it to this point, or Johnson City in Ten essee, comes by carriers. Since 'le i Ist news was received four more (it tht:, 8heriff' posse are rep9jed dead, and the more of the mob.. Ilk!, mob remained linder arms. A h of the seriiff' l-se also remain der arms, and was rapidly reinfor, All through the kornibg the cro continiel to receive accessions to It raiks, and by noon ti. ed bet,ween 5()0 t1o6 mWOarty num Fueling run high and A.1ter a few speehes the posse resolved . Sheriff Mootnaw% deat. avenge Anot her battle took place sl tor noon, in which at least twe at' more in were killed. What w ti result i one can- tell, but Lrobe tre ex pected. Mott,asma for the Deaocratm. II ll.:NA, Minth.,,an. 4.-The Demo :rats have secured C1mtrol oj* tne orzau zation of the liouie oi itepresentatives, >iraedeally assuriiig the election of a I)emocratic United States Senator. Mhen twenty-live It-pubhicans and two 'opuli-t, took an udjouriment yester lay ater the emocUrats had walked out > the itimiouse, it was to meet, again at 5 )'clock this iltLernoon. IAst night and his mornimg tuere were nimuerous con 'ereuces between the three Populist lembers alnd represeiltitives of the ,wa other art.ies. The Itepublicanls aree to give the 'opu5ists all the offices in tie [louse, im pmsitloims they might, want on COM - mtluttees, and also to pass till their bills providing ini returni the 'opulit,s would Vote wiL.i them on all election contests. i'he l'opulists retused to entertain any A Lliese propositiois for the reason that tm the D. imii icrats controlle(I the Senate, ,e thmi,g 1hey most, desired, the passage i their hills throOu h h ilh branches ,he i,--iature, time co'pulcans co lot give Liletit. The ) iiocrats ot'-,rel th.n Speak( ;hi .O O'Iuli-L, oIMIer 0liCs to I Ivid-d heL.veei te two paIUes, and >ss Ceriain me-asures in which t, P'Opllhitst ire inMteresteId throuti bot,h 1011W. lu reiurto tle I' aih,iti agreed ,o stand by the leil-ewits oin all lVliti -al queitimis antid ie SiiatorsLhil. When Ahe house met thi. alernloon Lhe assem I y hall was packed Lo sulf1b: . tion). Every 0)emoc4'a excepl the sick member D.vidmoin, w is pr-esent, also all lR-publt allls 1111 )lpIlists. Watki.is, the lopu imt, who had heea int IM by the lepu; nminority ai L.emporary Speaker, '1upit I ClieO T e RieptI;lic1tj ..knew sonet.hir, wits going Lo hlaplpell, thil d iot, kn, exAtly what. NoOteith, Rt-.pubiict li oeliately mloved to ad1iMuI till 9 ni. hlis was tione to test the streng of Lite Iloemrat's, lnd ltlsko bectile cer.ifieite ol LeehI. teliblean, testant i'roi CiotUau Count,y wai b Iosed to be 40'k itay W haV i' nild wo, atrrive about. 7 p. i. l'he molioni tu jourij wit-i voted dlown by a VL,e 01. ior alnd i.7 attrinst., the Imtihist VoLil. with the )emocrats. 'henA tile Itepublicaisl began all sorts of dilatory t eLi's, but, lially a Motion to proceed to pernmianent organizition wts carried. The lh-muooralzi nontiueed Mat,tlews for Speaker, and illIttpul nominat,ed i,ik. Tie vote P twelil-tninc Cor M ittlews and tw our for lmcky. All thI-e Populist une leiepibbil'al voted with 1,1i 0 reats lor cheil clerk. )!.mnocratie u. --mi.n.t ee wats e. I eted.- T-1A he I the iiltadjmllinedlI till to tuolrrow mt (Ileveland'si PiNilnin. Ninv Yo)ti, Jaql. 4.--Tte ('i has been askedi f)aniel S. hi "W haltfouni laton is t,here fo r t,he hlicet report, that Mr. C. leveland erferinig mn t,be senat,orial c inte variousl States and enideuivorinig talc the election oF his own lrienth "IL, in Lime,'' answered Mr. l '-that, Lhe lrienids of' Mr. Clevelan some niotlee ol this lalsehmood. st,ale. authioit,tttively, that, Mr. land has not dict,ated, or' even xug the election of any one ii the Shi whichl there are D emocratic IaegisI at-.d where cnitest, ar e bein.~1fmat/ 'ias Mr. Cleveland expresse sell ab)out, thiese~ repor'ts'' "'lfe has. I hauve received many he ters askinig if .lhe reports were true. a may say Lthah in m.iiv of t,le States Mr. Cleveland does lnot know who are tbe candulates for Senmat,Or except, through general retort. In New York, of course Mm. Clevelam has st,.ted his object,Ions to Mr. Murphy, ais he had11 a right to (do, but tie has not cone beyond ,Ie OWn State.'' Col. 1.amont, was asked if lie would tell Mr. Cleveland's at,tltude toward t,hose who mit, ha lo >ked on1 as havingL been1 antim-Ceveland men. lie shook his head att lirst, anud thnt was asked as to 1the t ut,h of thme stor'y allhoat In polit,ical circeles to this etfect,: A p)rominent, anti Cleveland D)emocrat, from this State called on I. ol. ,atmont, and1 asked him a'bout Ihe trneatment ihose: men who had oppo)s'd Mr. (levelanid wotild receive, fori whIch Col. I inont, repilieid tbat he did( not, e ire to talk about, the matter, but, lie coild say that Mr. Cleveiand would1 certatinl y not forget, thme mcen who werc ini layor oif hIm. "T'ih ut is t,riue,"' said lie. "1 said It, and it represent.o Mr. Cieve:lami's pesl WAsIllN(nTON, .Vi11. 4 --Chairmnan Carter (of the l{epiulbbean N .itional Comn mit,c e onmcedes the coutrol of the Semn ate to the D)emocr-ats aft.er thei 4th of Miarch in an itervi"w wit,h a reporter today lie Is quioted as not, only giving~ up the conltet in WVyoing atnd C ii- . foruma, but also in his ownr State of Montana, where hie was supposed to 4 have a personial interest, in the eontcome of the st,rugge. lie said, however, that he never had any inletion of becom ing a candidate lor the Senate, and had ref uied permission to) his friends to use his namnlit in thle Cccuses. 'IT is now certain that Stephen WVhite, Demiocrat, will suceed (C ' Fell on ias Senator 1' om Califor T hims is a Demnocrat1l galx.