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OL -XI, PICKENS S. C. THURSDAY, JANUARY 26,1893. NO19 ERUIN AT AILAMN&. LMAGE ON A PREACHING CIF IT OF SOUTHERN CITIES. H Owls ef Good and IyT,lt 1 set Pamiebment-Be Not Deelve 411;Desgnod Agalst Anotber WI to Plangue thO Iventor. NTA, Jan. 15.-ltev. Dr. Ta ,who is now making a ten day of the southern cities, preache today. The throngs in and arouix hall were beyond estimat, bject chosen was, "The Circle c boI" the-text being Isaiah x hi he0 that siteth upon the circl o de. th. er yet people thought that th ;d at, and thousands of year U 0y found out that it wa h' , in my text, intimate 0 0 of It-God sitting upon th I u the earth. The most beautj In all geometry as the circl the universe on the plan of e. T ere are in the natural worl ht Ues, angles, parallelogrami as, quadrangles, but these evi Uy are not God's favorites. Al everywhere you will find hic etrizing you wid find the circl nant, and if not the circle, thei curve, which is a circle that die . If it had lived long enough I have been a tull orb-a peripher3 ipse is a circle pressed only a 111 hard at the sides. t's Causeway in Ireland show t God thinks of mathematic are over 35,000 columns of rock nal, hexagonal, pentagona rocks seem to have been mad e and compass. Every artis his molding room, where he ma 0 11tty shapes; but he chooses on peas preferable to all others. I wi say that the Giant's Causeway wa world's molding room, but I do sa of a great many figures God seem ave selected the circle as the besl is he that sitteth on the circle of th ." The stars in a circle, the moo: circle. the sun in a circle, the unj in a circle, the throne or God th ter of that circle. hen men build churches they ougb mitate t e idea of the Great Arca: and put; the audience in a circ ing"'t the tides of emotion re. a) that way than in stralgt 'thousan years ago Go e I lorld out or his rignt ban< lo-t throw it out in a straigh * -ivingly, with a leash of luv a boring it back agai eY-{ from his hand pui IS- It has been rolling o ton'ons of moral ice and d1i 11(1 long it willroll God oni roh i wall in due time mak ~",u.it and come back to th jI~ it started-the hand c 4 1- d Edenic. ,rin' h. of the world goes in bet itwri it that the shipping i rapIP .S proving so rapialy * J a,l lag - are imitating the ol rol) - a's ark. A ship carpet - as his opinion. Althoug ch derided by small wits, tha I Noah's time beat the Mjesu Etruria and the City of V'arii 9 h we boast so much. Where I p on the sea today that coul, i deluge in which the heave earth were wrecked, landin pasteagers in safety-two o 0u d of living creatures, thousand ol . g will go on with ittachievt un after many centuries th will have plums and pears equi par adasaical. The art of garuem II grow for centuries, and atte .wings and Mitchells of the worn no their best in the far futur of gardening will come up 5 Sburescence of the year 1. It th a of colored glass go on impro, 'y may in somieceaturies be ab] o something equal to the eaa of York minster, which wa 1290. We are six centuries b4 - ose artists, but the world mui Aling on until It shall make tEa ,a carcuit and come up to tha Uthose very men. S.e world contanues to improv nry, we shall have after awhll alter the advance of centuriel equal to that which 1Isaw lai ean the w:all of an exhume cit.y , baut an the time of th , 1,ISO years ago-that morta laas good as the da.y mn which , ade having outasted the brac s, masonry may advance to thi If the world stands long enougi yb; have a city as large as the f w old tames, liabylen ive time Sof London. igG4nto the potteries in Englar you hasa them making cuys an h atter the style of the cups ax m sxhumedi Irom Pompeii. 'ii is not going back. Oh, no, but ;r anging .an a crcle and wiliconr to the styles of pottery known i ago as the days Of Pompeii. Ti ad must keep on progressing until aes the complete carcuit. 'Ine cur' in the right direction; the curl -ep on until at becomes the cireli 4now, my friends, what is tri 'emateril universe is true mssoral government and sparitua gement. 'A hat as the meaning kasel's wheel. All commientato: ee auasayang that the wheel meai 'a' psovaoence. But a wheel is of unates at turn, and ltit tuan It tura land, anid if at turn around it. movy acetele, What then ? Are we par 6 great aron machine whirled aaoua C6hey we will or net, the victims otable taste? 10o1 so far tronathe show you that we ourselvt t the cile of good or badi action that at as i hutely come arout a to.us uanite by - eavane intervei a it be hincered. 'Ihose bad or got a may make the circuit of mar , but come back to us they willa nly as that (Go sits on the circ osebel, the worst woman of the .1 slew .feaboth because she wanto vineyard. While the dogs were en the body of1 .aboth, Lishia ti phet put cownr his compass. at ked a circle from those dogs ele und to the dogs that shoulca eat tU y of Jezebel the muraeresa. "Ia bie," the people saId; "that wi et happenl." Whets that being flum of the palace window ? Jezelb tow hours aftera they came aroun to bury her. They hnd only ti PaUUnm uo ueuon uuu n u eaKun. ine dogs that devoured Jezebel and the dogs that devoured NabothI Oh, what a swift whatan awful circuit I But It is sometimes the case that this circle sweeps through a century or through many centuries. The world started with a theocracy for govern went-that is, God was the president and emperor of the world. People got a tired of a theocracy. They said, "We don't want God directly interfering with the affairs of the world; give us a monarchy." The world had a monarchy. From a monarchy it is going to have a limited monarchy. After awhile the limited monarchy will be d given up, and the republican fo.im d of government will be everywhere dominant and recognized. Then the of world will get tired of tne republican form of govornment, and it will have an anarchy, which is no government at all. And then ill nations, flnding out that man is not capable of righteously a governing man, will cry out again for a theocracy and say, "Let God oome back and conduct the affairs of the world." Every step-monarchy, limited mon archy, republicanism, anarchy-only a different steps between the first theo d cracy and the last theocracy, or seg ments of the great circle of the earth on which God sits. But d* not become . impatient because you cannot see the curve of events, and therefore conclude e that God's government is going to a break down. History tells us that in the making of the pyramids it took t 2,000 men two years to drag one great stone from the quarry and put it Into the pyramids. Well, now, if men short lived can af a ford tj work so slewly as that, cannot i. God in the building of the eternities s afford to wait? What though God i. should take 10,000 years to draw a cir e cle ? Shall we take our little watch, t which we have to wind up every night y lest it run down, and hold it up beside e the clock of eternal ages? If, accord il ing to the Bible, a thousand years are g in God's sight as one day. then. accord y ing to that calculation, the 6,000 years s of the world's existence have been only . God as from Monday to Saturday. e But it is often the case that the re 11 bound is quicker and the circla is soon er completed. You resolve that you e will do what good y,)u can. In one week you pat a word of counsel in the t heart of a Sabbath school child. Dur i Ing that same week you give a letter , of introduction to a young man strug i gling in business. During the same it week you make an exhortation in a d prayer meeting. It is all gone; you 1, will never bear of it perhaps, you think. it A few years after a man comes up to a you and says, "You don't know me, do 1. you?" You say, "No, I don't remem e ber ever to have seen you," "Why," n he says, "I was in the Sabbath school a- class over which you were the teacher. y One Sunday you invited me to Christ; ,e I accepted the offer, You see that ,e church with two towers yonder?" of "Yes," you say. I1e says, "I'hat is where I preach;' or: "Do you see that a governor's house? That is where I n live." One day a man comes to you -L and says, "Good morning" You look d at him and say,"Why, you have the ad i- vantage of me; I cannot place you." ft Ile says, "Don't you remember thirty it years ago giving a letter of introduc c tion to a young man-a letter of intro 3, duction to Moses If. Grinnell?" "Yes, a yes; I do." He says: "I am the man. [i That was my first step toward a for Li tune, but I haive retired from business W now and am giving my time to philan. L thropies and pubi,c interests. Come s up and see me, Ora man comes to you and says: "I - want to Introauce myself to you. I e went into a prayer meeting in Atlanta 6I some years ago. I sat back by the - door; you arose to make an exhortation; r that talk changed the course of my life, di and If I ever get to heaven, under God e I will owe my salvation to you." In 0 only tec, twenty or thirty years the cir e cle swept out and swept back again to -your own grateful beart. e But sometimes it is a wider circle t and does not return for a great while. a I saw a bill of expenses for burnmng :- Latimer and JLldiey. The bill of ex it penses say s: e One load of fIr fagots...... ....3s. 4d. e Cartage for four ioads of wood... 2s. Item, a post....---..........s. 44. e Itemn, two chains.... .........3. 4d. a, Item, two staples.............. td. B, Item, four laborers.---.... ... ..28. 8d, t That was a cheap tire, considering all di the circumstances, but it kindled a *e light that shone all around the world ir and aroused the martyr spirit, and1 out Lt from that burning of Lat mer and Rtid k ley rolled the circle wider and wider, is starting other circles, convoluting, t overrunning, circumscribing, overarch aing all heaven-a circle. y Btwhat is triue of thie good is just -s as true of the bad. You utter a slan der against your neighbor. It has d gone forth from your teeth; it will d never come back, you think. You cd have done the man all the mischief you be can. You rejoice to see him wince. it You say, "Didn't I give it to him?" ie T'hat w ord has gone uut, that aland' .. 10 ous word; on its poisonous and biaadu ie way. You think it wial never do you it any harm., But I am watching that 'e word, and I see it begining to curve, re and it cur ves around, and it is aiming a. at your heart. You had better dodge 1e it. You cannot dodge it, it rolls into i your bosom and after It rolls in a word al of an old book, which says, "W ith what af measure ye mete, it shall be measured ra to you again." is Y ou maltreat an aged parent, You 1o begrudged him the room in y our house. as You are Impatient of his wnimDsicaii 5- ties andi garrulity. It makes you mad Is to hear him tell the same story twice. i You give him food he cannot masti at cate. You wish he was away. You st wonder If he is going to live forever. 1s kle will be gone very soon. IIis steps a, are shorter and shorter, ile is going ad to atop. But God has an account to u- settle with you on that subject. A fter ad awhile your eye will be dim, and your y gatt will hait, and the sound ot the is grinding will be low, and you will tell Is the same story twice, and y our children will wonder if you are going to live for I- ever and wonder if you will never be i taken away. - r- They calied you "father" or"'e, now is they call you the "old man." f t you icu live a tew years longer tney will call ir you the "old chap." What are those is rough words with which your chIldren a- are accosting you ? Tn'rey are the echo il of the very worris you used In the ear ig ot your olci father forty years ago. ii. What Is that which you are trying to ci, chew, but find It unamusticable and your Is laws ache, andi you surrender t.he at tempt? Perhaps it may be the gristle which YOU gave to your father for his breakfast forty years ago. A gentleman passing along the street saw a son dragging his father hito the street by the hair of the head. The gen tleman, outraged at this brutal con duct, was about to punish the offender wien the old man arose and said: "Don't hurt him. It's all right. Forty years ago this morning I dragged out my father by the hair of his head," It is a circle. My father lived into the eighties, and he had a ver) wide ex per lence, and he said that maltreatment of parents was always punished in this world. Other sins may be adjourned 1 to the next world, but maltreatinent of n parents is punished in this world. The circle turns quickly, very (uick- f, 17. Oh, what a stupendous thought that the good and the evil we start come back to us! Do you know that the Judgment Day will be only the points at which the circles join, the good and the bad we have done com ing c back to us unless divine intervention hinder-coming back to us with wel- " come of delight or curse of condeinna tion ? V Oh, I would like to see Paul, the in- b valid missionary, at the moment when his influence comes to full orb-his in -i fluence rolling out through Antioch, l through Cyprus, through Lystra, % through Corinth, through Athens through Asia, through Europe, throughL America, through the First century, : through (lve centuries, through twenty t centuries, through all the succeeding r centuries. through earth, through heav- d en. and at last, the wave of influence Ii having made full circuit, strikes his f great soul. Oh, then I wou.d like to k see him. No one can tell the wide I sweep of the circle of his influence save c the one who is seated on the circle of a the earth. I should not want to see the counten- 1, ance of Voltaire when his influence comes to full orb. When the fatal hemorrhage seized him at eighty-three t years of age his influence did not cease. v The most brilliant man of his century, t: he had used all his faculties for assault- t Ing Christianity-his bad influence 1 widening through France, widening c out through Germany, widening 1h through all Europe, widening through c America, widening through the 115 ii years thAt have gone by since lie died, II widening through earth, widening sl through hell, until at last the accumi- a lated influence of his bad life in fiery p surge of omnipotent wrath will beat 11 against his destroyed spirit. and at that n moment it will be enough to make the i black hair of eternal darkness turn 1n white with the horror. No one can tell (_ how that bad man's influence girdled f the earth save the one who is seated u on the circle of the earth-the Lord Al- 1p mighty. "Well, now," say people in this audi eice, "this in some respects is a very a good theory, and in some others a very 0 sad one. We would like to have all the a good we have ever done come back to t us, but the thought that all the sins we 0 have ever committed will come back t to us fills us with affright." Aly broth- S er, I have to tell you God can break t that circle and w'ill do so at your call. V I can bring twenty passages of Scrip turesto provethat when God for Christ'ts 8 sake forgives a man the sins of his past ti life never comes back. I The wheel may roll on and roll on, but you take your position behind the I cross, and the wheel strikes the cru,, - d and is shattered forever. The sins fly P off from tn circle into the perpendicu lar, falling at right angles with con plete oblivion. Forgiven! Forgiven' T'he meakest thing a man can (1o is, at ter some difliculty has been settled, to bring it up again, and God will not be i so mean as that. God's memory is mighty enough to hold all the evets of the ages, but therea is one thing that is sure to slip hirs memory, one thing he is sure to forget, 5 and that is pardoned tranasgremioini.d How do I kno,w ,t? I wimll prove it. "Their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more." Come into that 1 state this morning, miy dear brother, my dear siater. "Blessed is the one whose transgressions are forgiven."' ut do not make the iiiistake of ~ thinking that this doctrine of the circle stops with this life; it rolls on through heaves. You might quote in opposi sition to me what St. John says about the city of heaven. Jie says it "lieth lour square." That does seem to mili tate against this idea. but you know there Is many a square house that has j a family circle facing each other, aiid in acircle moving, and I can pirove that this is so in regard to heavenm. St. .Johmn says, "I heard the voice of many angels round aDout the throne, and the beasts, and the elders." Again he says, "There was a rain bow w around about the throne." Time former p two Instance a circle; the last either a & circle or a semicircle. Th'le seats facing (t each other, the angels faciag each other, m, the men facing each other. II eaven an e amphitheater of glory. Circumferenced of patriarch and prophet and apostle. h Circumference of Scotch Covenanters o and TIhebanm legion and Albigemess. p Circumference of the good of all ages. I Periphery of splendor uniinagined anid a indescribable. A circle: A circle' But every circumteraince muist have s a center, anid what is the ceniter o,f this heavemily circumntereiice? Christ. Ilis all the glory. llis all the praise. i1is a all the crowns. All heavejj wreathed c into a garland round about him. 'fake I. off the imperial sandal from his foot j and behold the scars of the spike. Lift the coronet of dominion from his b)row & and see where was tne lacerationi of thed briers. CGame closer, all heaven. Nar- a row tile circle around lis great heart. 1 () Christ, the Saviouri 0 Christ, the [ man! O Christ, the God! Keep thy t throne forever, seated oni the circle of I the earth, seated on the circle of the i heaven! On Christ, the soild rockc I stand; A ll other ground is sinmking sandm . ( t Iiailroadi IEoocauast. ST. rETrEItnli(i, Jau. 1.-A train '1 filled with.recruit,s was ru' 'ing from 81atousk to Simara who. lle ues bui st, from the foremost, car. 'j.'he t,rain wias' going full speed, and in a fea minutes all t,he cars were blazing. TIhe engineer, for some unaccountahlc reason dIidl not, stop the car unt,il he had run a conisidler able distance. Many o1 thme recruits Jumped Irom windows ano dloors. Some landed uninjured in the snow banks, bunt others were killed. Those unale to get, out were burned to death, as the t,rain was entirely consumed. Fo.rt,y nine lost, their lives and twenty were injnred. DEATHI OF R. B. HAYES. IE QUIETLY PASSES AWAY AT Hit HOME IN FREMONT. utne of the Notable Acts of the Goot lan'h 1.Ife--The First President to Be mtore Fraternal Feeling,s Between Norti and South. FIEMONT, Ohio. January 17.-Ex resident Rutherford B. Ilayes died at L o'clock tonight. Early in the eve Ing an inquiry elicited the respons( iat the gentleman had passed the da% tirly well and was resting nicely thiu vening. The change from better tc 'orse was rapid, and at 11 o'clock th x- President passed away. The first intelligence of this was re Aved when Webb C. Hayes came dowr )wn and quietly announced that hit tthier had just died. Ex-Presiden [ayes was brought here last Saturda5 ifl'ering from an attack of rheuma sin of the heart, with which he haC een stricken at Cleveland. It was the second attack of the kn( e had suffered within two weeks, anc is condition was regarded as some ',aw serious, and excited the alarm ol r his family. Encouragement giver iem by Dr. Ilillbest, the family physi lan, led then to believe that the pa ent would soon recover. For thi 3ason all knowledge of the kx-Presi ent's sickness was kept from the pub c, and the fact that lie was suffering roni heart trouble did not becom nown until yesterday afternoon Vhile Dr. Ilillbest remained almost .nstantly at the patient's bedside, nc larming symptoms appeared unti is afternoon, when he became rapid, r worse. Rutherford Burchard Hayes, nine, ienth President of the United States ,as born at Delaware, Delaware Coun , Ohio, October 4, 1822. Hle was ie youngest son of Rutherford layes. Ile commenced his edu ttion at the common schools ol is native hamie, completed his Alege course at Kenyon Collegc i 1842, and a law course at Harvard w senool at Cambridge, in 1845; was iortly afterward auinitLed to the Bar b Marietta, Ohio, and coinuenced the ractice of law at the town of l're on1t. In 1819 lie moved to Cincin ati and continued his law practict ith great success. Ile was soon aftei arried to Miss Lucy Ware Webb, 01 hillicoth'!, Ohio. Froin his success Id practice of the law he was grad ally drawn into the political cam aigns which followed close upon th( vents of 1856; was actively engaged i the Fremoct Presidential canvass ddressing public meetings at Cincin ati and elsewhere with great enthusi Sill. Two years after the defeat of Lw Hepublican party by the electior f Buchanintin Mr. Ilayes was choser ) his first public oflice, that of cit3 licitor of Cincinnati, which he con nuled to till uitil tile outbreak of th ar in 1861. At the approach of this crisis hE wems to have been fully awake to the ireatening exigences of the hour, pon the que.stI of a disruption of ie lion he wrote: "Disunion and vil war are at hald, and yet I fear smion and civil war leps than coin. romis-." laincoln's second call for troops un.d l r. II ayes among the most en mistastIC of Ohio volunteers. Presi nt, Lincoln sent, him a coimlmission as lo.xel, which he declined on the round of his inadeqiuate knowledge of ilitary affairs. lie at once devoted msell to a study of military tactics id in a short timeit went into the army Smajor of the 23d Ohio volunteer in. mnt,ry, uinder (Col. Rosec,rans. On the ~th of .1 uly, 18m1, his regiment was or ered to West Virginlia. lie was 'ounided at thme battle or Souit,h Moun-. ill 011 the 2d of( a, uJily, 1812. IEarly in] 61 he took an act,ive part in tile chiase ter (Gell. Alorgan's raiders into Ohio; ttinig oif their retreat, and with his ~mmand( materially aidIng in their Ipture. lI cwats promot.ed t,o the rank4 f cotlonel of Is regimenlt,, and com. imided a brigide, mostly made up ol hiio troop'i, ill the I)attle of Cloyd icountain, Mlay 9, 18114, capturing thet on Ielerate's lpositioll. lIn the battle If this c'a mpiaignl . u regimnent su11erell neat losses, hlaving been unlder lire etweni I lhe 1st, of Mlay and tile last ol Ictobe.r, 18111, a total of sixty days Ir. hlayes was four tunes woun1d0<( tiring his term 01 service. lie was linst nminlated for Congesm 1 01h10 in Auguist, and elected in Oc )ber, 181-l, wvhile lie was yet~ in the ser ice .In tile Shienanidoah Valley cam algn. In reply to a letter from hia dhio friends at this time urging 1hin j leave his command and return ome t,o look after his Interest,s ini tnt lection lhe wrote: "All olicer uIt foi uty who, at thIs crisis, would abandon iS post to electioneer for Congres uIght to be sLeaiped. You may fe ertectly suire I shall do no such t,ning. lef ore bieIng mu lstened out of the armli Ir. llayes was promoted to the ranid f brevet major geneoral. iIe toolC hii isal the h ouse of liepresentative: )cct .aber, 180t>, anld served as chair mn1 0on the commllit,t.ee of' the librar' 11( was5 aL nembler of tile committet n pruivate land1( claims; was renomnina Led In 18f6, and elected by a large ma >rlty anid took him seat ini the 40t,t ongrIgess; accepit ed thet noinaUtlin moi lovernor of O:tio as Jiepublican candi ate against, tihe 0111 J{ooman, Tlhurman nud was elected; was again nominatet iX182, bt, was defeated. Rtetiring tc rivat,e lif'e for seiverill years he ilgai aok p)art ini the famous campaign o: 875, was nlominated by his enthusiast -ltrieinds on a hard Imloney platforrn nd( was enthusiast ically elected. In Mlarch, 187m;, the liepublican State 'on1venltionl oif Iltio paesed a resolutior 0 PeC5ent I ittherfonri H. hlayes to tnt sationlal liepublican Con~vent,ionl foi lie mn >in lation for P'resident, and iln tr uct ig ih State delegatIon to 8sup ,a)rt hiuni. Tfhe N at jonlal lRepublican A)onvenitioni met atI Clincinnati on1 ,Iunm .I, I187i'. Thle prinici pal canldidates Ibe ore it, we're ,ames I;. itiaine, Oliver I ilort,oni, lelalumii 11 . liristow, Rtoscot ',onlin g, G ovetrnor IIlayes and ,I . V iart,ralt. Gouvernorw Ilayes's n1am< vais presented biy GIen. Noyes, who salt hat lie ha<d the ojinalitieis "'calculate est to comlpromnise all dilliculties ant O0 SOfteri all anitagonuisim.' ilaves hai 1 Votes omn t.he lirst ballot, 378 beini ecessary to a choice, and is suppOr lowly but steadIly grew uintil onl tb eventh ballot tih oppnosit.in to M r Blaine, who had been the leading can. didate, concentrated upon Hayes and gave him the nomination, which was mane unanimous. It is fresh in the minds of thousands of readers of the News and Courier how bitterly the great political con test of 1870 was waged, and how Sam uel J. Tilden was, through the decision of the electoral commission-but pri manrilly through his own want of "backbone"-deprived of the great of lice to which he had been elected. On March 5, 1877, President Hayes was inaugurated. Ilis first great act perhaps the most important of his civil life, was his determination that the upholding of local governments in the Southern States by Federal troops must come to an end. On April 10, 1877, he ordered the United States troops to withdraw from the State House of South Carolina, and on April 20, took like action in regard to Louis iana. For this act of patriotism and duty and justice so long delayed South Caro - linians held President Hayes in tender regard, and the warmth with which lie was welcomed during his short tour through this State was the best evi d3nce of the respect this people had for the first President of the United States since Buchanan who had recog nized that they had any constitutional rights whatever. Another feature of his public career i for which President Hayes will be held in grateful recollection is his warm aa. vocacy of civil service reform, for which he and his Administration were I attacked and denounced by many of the spoilsmen of his own party. In his letter accepting the nomina tion for the Presidency he had declear ed it his "inflexible purpose" not to be a candidate for election to a second term, and on the expiration of his term Ex-President Hayes retired to his home in Fremont, Ohio. Ile still kept in touch with the pub lic through his active advocacy of be nevolent and useful enterprises, being a trustee of the John F. Slater fund one of the trustees of the Peabody education fund and president of the National Prison Reform Association. At a meeting of the National Prison Reform Association held in Atlanta, Ga., in November, 1886, he was receiv ed with much popular enthusiasm a-id greeted by an Ex-Governor of Geor gia as one to wnio more than any oLher the people were indebted for the era of peace and union which they now enjoyed, and by tWe then Governor. John 1, Gordon, as the man who had "made a triie and noble effort to coni plete the restoration of the Union by restoring fraternal feelings between the estranged sections." President Ilayes married Miss icy Ware Webb, of Chillicothe, Ohio, who made a devoted wife and mother, and who died during the past year. A 8urprise for the Bar. WASHINOTON, Jan. 12.-During the argument of the South Carolina cases in the Surpreme Court to-day Chiet Justice Fuller stopped the counsel for the rail roads with the announcement that the Court has no Jurididtion in the case. This was a great surprise to the array of counsel present representing the rail roads and the State authorities, and the decision of the Court will probably cause the Tillmanit,s to rejoice, fo1 it is a jus tiieation to a certain extent of' their methods of taxation. The Chief Justice stated, however, that the Court was not prepared to go into the merits of the case, but was couvinced that the Court has no jurisdie tion. and therefore further argument would be unnecessary. The sudden tormination of the argument, after the counsel had been de,ained here since last Friday, occassioned considerable disap point,ment, especially among the railroad men. Mr. Lord opened the argument on be half or the Stat,e authorities, and upon the conclusion of his remarks Mr. Smith p)roceedled to present the argument, for the railroads. Immediately certain members of the Court, plied Mr. Smith with questions, all of which seemed to ndlicate that the Court, doubtedi its jurisdlictionl to deal with the question in vl. Alter Mr. Smit,h finished his argument Mr. Fiizsinmns, also repre senting the railroads, began to supple menit,aid reinforce the statements umade by Mr. Smith. In the midst of this arguimenit t,he Chief Just,ice held a whis p)ered consult,ation wit,h his Assocates andl th..n announced that the Court did not care to hear furt,ber argument, as it, was clearly of the opinion that, it, had no: jurisdict,ion to consider t,he case. Mr. B~aron was to have followed Mr. Fitzsimmons on behalt of t,he railroads and then Speaker Jones was have miade the closing argument for the Stat,e. The action of the Court to-day practical ly reverses the decision of t,he Court, be low, which was in favor of the r ailroads. Those who are familiar wit,h the p)rac t,ice of the Surpreme Court say that, the announcement of t.he Chief' Just,ice that, the refusal to hear further argument without passmng upon the merits o1 the case cuts iut litt,le figmie in the proceedings. The failure of t,he Court ,.o take juris<diction in itself' vir - ually decides t,he case in favor of the State authorities.-News and Courier. A Suick Swindler. JA(i8ONVII4., Fla., Jan,. slick swindler who hae been operating in church circles and religious schools was neatly and unexpectedlly captured in St. August,ine last, night, by two nuns of the Order of St. ,Joseph, Mother Superior Claverhe and Sister Mary Ann. Ile had defranded them by arranging to place his daughter in the convent school .iere, paying the term's expenses iu advance with a worthless check drawn for $20 ini excess of.t,he necessary amount, and receiving cash in change. The t,wo nuuis went to Sit. Augustmne to warn the Sis tei-a there against him. They had hard ly entered the convent building when lie was adimitted by a servant. They re cognized and seized him, iIe fought hard for his liberty, but, they threw him down and held him on tIhe floor until officers arrived and arrested him. IIe travels under the name of Mosely, and Shas played hIs confidence game sucess fully in WIlmington, N. C., and other ISouthern cities. Col, Win, (G. Kennedy, an old and highly respected citizen of Sumter Coun t, ty, and formerly editor of Sutetr True a Southron, died on Wednesday of last, ,week, THE ARCTIC WAVE. Weather Condlition Thirottaoit tho Cottit ry. VASIl INO ION, Ja., 15.-The stortu whieh Moved eas8tward ovp.r the Ohio Valley Sunday Illortlinf is central nlear Nova Scotia. The temperature Ilms fallen geuerally over thle eiiturn part of the country, atia a cold wave has visited Lhe Sourhern States. with a tem(lerattiru tall of 20 degrees to 28 deg,rees. A N l s(M E I.Nt 3l 1 ;. l I'll-1IS. Meiphii, Tenn., Jan. 15-For the iecond tilme inl history, anll ice gorge hat3 ,orned in the Miississipp river at Meni - phi The ice begia to make Its appeatr lnce on Thursdav li-lit alon, the city rout, and today hti cakes are banked 1p in the bend o* tie river ili front of he Anchor Lime elevator. Iiver trallic etweenl Metilphis atnd Cairo is Suspendiz .d on account oI the itl. iie Tmvls alon ,he ilississi>pi vitho t ilrailroati fielli ties are threateneti w ith a coal faini )>n account of the Ice vor-'es ill e u1 - ,er rivers aid the illlbility (t toWboatt bring do vii cal himi-e. lA'A"rANOIWM A'S C T'I CA..I,I O)N 1) 1. l IWN. CIIA'"rANtomA, 1'ei.. Jt. 1.. Chaittalioo-a is inl tile (lrk 1111 the city Ivithoult a drop w witer. At muIlbmIit lie wiater companlly's supply "aVC. o.t, 3wmti- to the IIrvezml-1 4W the riVer' al the water ill the sectim) pipes. E.'very busiiess Ii )se, lailmt y and 1owslmper Muid reshlelce is eflceki by t the daiage. .rlhe elect li.;h!ts went ot iL, i th ie lty is pitch 41.trk , wit' cvverN street tro ei as thick ag glas. Ii case ol fire. [lot a drop of water coul be Scured for work. The sitt.i0tiOn is critica 1-:I0 11TE-E-N lI:lI\I, \- -y :10 CJacG ln. a.Tecoldes4 pell )f thle past tcw tays is tlt sevcre.qt ex perionced ill several ve:Irs, aitin is gett 3ral throlighout tile Vst . At lo o'clock his m i ngll II the therIIItilletur registered 18 dtb,grees wI % :-.r at l sifie Ul,at lour tile teluiperature Ias slilly Iml .d ,rated. The railroi-;i ar-, the chief 11'ers, Ileatly% :ll| the p.kismenger trainis )l Ogon to twent -lour hourl.s late. rile 11titl . 'l v le is la ty (I cilloltl ied 11l 1 tile coelh i. |-'1122Igh 'K. 'i.i't is [I lite l ale h d iztil . ihcl l,i>h -ic tout\ 01 i A Sm l;. ' C A - l' ' ( l .\ 1,.. . \-I., , g I . . nIlow Itll early tis IIrI-1nil. cov r le 1e1lltiilarhro il cell. Il I tt Lt.11 liches l eI p. ITlte eriury t v is It-111 le hrees toliot an llin I iis itll. It hlias teen th chiet1 iest day sille ti . Tl'he itcaniers betwvemti pe i() Chaves and Norlolk are ain ip with itich 11ticulty oil tccmit (i ic . A L ,Il hit'. Islanid ice e5tet. is a milu , hil ItO Lte ocuan. I I -:SKATIN(i .\A.'I 1.1l: ASlv\1 1,11-:, T I . ,] n I ._. da . i li ly ii ILLIN' codh . allil tioib-d.:h bids [air to be ct)ldvr tmha t 1!- i .:htL. The Cullberlatild is Irozcnlilb ;-1 tii lli k t i bank, an1d duin thea<ht was vi-Aited by cliousanid : oo1 lii-4 III. the 11l141,11 sih1110 Ponds near t.le city -e crowded With 3ktters, I sceno ra V wit ii-s lihere. 'I till lIt / A1 1 ~iTil 1l l i: F I). PI' T I 'i. a, I n,I 15tI.- i n- e '.i itu - ed Cohl weitlter hai iiiasedil the sil erilg at. lol eslend, 111d it, is lkate Ilat Iletriry .Oll ilphe Ire on the v 111 Ar stlSvatiLil. ('ltliil1iolcs arc -till oatitss %i. 11 P%, a lle are-h e i llhan, htate lit.ai wil les lere lIt (ire barbolie,at C( ,>-: ye s o 11 F: V I i 1 \, 1Ntr k tl ALTIt111RE ,Jllt j.~all. i V a C hei rom1 all partA 44 Mari-3-ld shosw U.e herililters narksbelow V 1l1 rt Ai R c IT ) l -. I: S 11 Iigi.: (.: i iiNf tv e Por. t 'i i yTtrl'i. ,Jtui.itIt, -.e vAte uas at, prnt ii. At-1he rivr Irei Ibloced wAa h-e attl sI nnyl, rteMer es tassa)0 lOIvr them tmossible. Mopoatny erlys ine .1a'1, 111 ,.1 Atett n th at eti othne bIp wirubermuti lrtws. Tel oThinee were~in acs gealeont reot neO's to)three aet the ec-t eli aOr isa Lsiatiel. FOUR AT A TIME. FOUR MURDERERS DIE ON THE GAL LOWS IN MARYLAND. The Iorrors of the Efanxman's Noose The Men Simply Choked to D)eath.-Amor rible Scenes. CHl[ESTEToWN, Md., Jan. 13.-Con trary to what was gone-ally expected by every one, ChesterLown, outside of the jail precluct, pnassed a quiet and unevent.. lul nigh. The streets of the little cit were almost entirely deserted except the posse summoned a couple of ago by Sheriff 'lummer. These gu' in twos and threes, armed with . rifles and pistols, dating from thir ,ck used in the revolution to the nuderln self-acting revolver, patrolled the streets nearly all nigh; long, and until the exe cution took place. Business during the morning was al most entirely suspended, but the streets were crowded with sleighs and other vehicles filled with rrerry couples, who did not seem to have a thought for the tour miserable wretches confned in the damilp basement cells of the Jail. But, nevertheless, the shadow 01 the gallows seemed to hting over all, and gaiety wA ol i forced cbaracter. Very ftw negroas could be seen onl the streets. Not, a sin gle arrest was made by t,he men who walked the streets ot the town all night, anti not a single disturbance occurred. The scene in tbe county court house, h >wever, was quite ditlerent trom th it on the streets. The room in which the eight men were tried, condemned and sentenced was crowded with young and old -Den, armed with all kinds of weap uns. They had been summoned to de tend the jail should an attempt he made to lynch the 'our prisoners. But no SUchI attempt, was made, and the posse conttented it,set with empt,ying sundry bottles and telling what it would do if a -iolb should appear. Shortly ttter i I o'olock the members o the posse inside the jail, reporters and the tweuty witnesses allowed uy law crowded int the corrideor when told by tho -sherif' to uet ready. The short miare bto te scatold began with Brooks last, Comeuy l next, followed by Wil lhani Moses lIrown. On reaching the scatfold the tuen were placed in posi tion, the nooses arranged about their necks, the black caps pulled over their itcuS aid their legs bound at the ankles. AL 12:30 the bar controlling the trig gers slipped easily along the greased surlace. There was a crash as the light battened trap doors tell to the ground, and four black bodies shot through the hole. Four ol the murderers of Dr. Hill had expiated their crime on the gallows. Fleaticher Williams and Moses BBrown died almost. without, a struggle: their necks were broken. Brooks and Com eys went th ough the most appalling contortUons. The latt,er died from st,rax guLIiu, and the loimer's death was due to tislocation ot his neck. Com ys, the youngest of the qu irtette, was c(onscious lor at, least live minutes while dhlmghIing trom the ro)e, he twisted his iceis, struggled with the hand-cul's and diew his knees to his neck. Brooks went tlroutighI simil ir movements; he died hid, his Ir".e swayed several min 1t.es, and wI en the crowd thought himn <head lie sta rted the most desperate con tortiis; his body strugIzled Witin the 41raps about him, and his determined cilirts to get, t,he han-ctil'i oil pleased the crowd imntensely. Olibitrmers who gathered about the d1 inC men iaughied, and some one cursed t.he negroes. T1hec men<hied in tro a ten to ititeen iutes. '1The heart of Wil I amgs beat, For seventeen minutes, al though lie acted as thtoug.h lie died first. The men were exammnetd by D)rs. W. l''rank Illaes.. J. llorton Kelly, Chas. W . IIloi and and J1ohn Wetihered1, the latter of l'hiiladelphaa. At 2.50 the bothets were cut dIowa, p)laced in pine cothius att once, and two express wagon.s conlveyedi them to potters's field. Ait.er the executioni the pteolie quiet ly dispuersetd. Catught tin a Tragi,. M. ut oN, ,Jan. 17.- A shocking atffatir is repot ted t romt the p)lantt,ioni of Mr. I''. A . I irker a well-to-doantd.highly res in-ctable farmer, fc our miles souith of Mbtrion. For somie ti me, it is stated, Alr. linker hias been missinig corn from his barn, which sems to have been ex tractuu through a crack. On last 11 daiy ntighit he sat a strong steel trap In the barn at the place where the corn had beeni miissintg. N ext morning, on goitng ott, lie tioticed the term of an oil colored wtomant namied Doily Betheai, wvhoi hiatd beeti or some time in his emt plty as cookl, stantiinig fast by the side of lie banti with oine hand through the crack, t< iiet, anid motttionless. Mr. Ba ker ent,er ed( the barn and unlocked the traip. when the oltd woman fell. Her hititd was badly ct, by the stronig jaws ot Ih lipIowert itt trap, anti tier body was wvell might, hroz.en- the weather being intensely cold. Site was taken to the hious,e anid eared for, bitt it is reported this mloring that sh~e has sinced died. Ul. JI aker is said to be very much grie~ved oni accotunt of its being the old womlan, and niot, stome yo)ung thief, as hie sitppjosed. Thle old( womtani had beeni ini the lnuiily I or a numbi er of. years, anid had never been suspected of theft. -Th[le State. D)eserte,t wife and Child. 'i iT .M ii i.!, ,1 an. 17.-N otwit,hstand ing the very cold weather, there was war tm talk, andi( plenty of it, onl the streets yesterday, catused by the dlisap pearanice of F. M. Whitesell,~a boss bea men in the ginghams mill at tis place. Mr. WVhiteseh left his home, wife and child Suntday night, pretending to at tend the Methodist church, btut instead b)oarded the train and wvent to Char lotte, where it is learned lie met and elopedl with ai youing woman who was onice int operative in thd mill at this place. Whlitesell left several notes, stating that lie was in trouble andI could niot live here, and also gave inst,ructions -blr the benefit, of his ifae, who Is al most distractedl with grief . Sihe tracked her huusband to Charlotte, where she .fouind that the worse huad really hap Speined. Whitesell hiatd firat finished a beautiful home, bitt it was encumbored with a heavy mortgage, lie wa also . a pillar fin tile Methodist church. It Is - generally suipposed here that the un fortuniate man will repent of his folly f and return.