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Could we but climb where Moses stood And view the landscape o'er. NotJordan's stream nor death's cold flood E Could fright us from the thore. Again, this Jordanic passage teaches 1mle the completeness of everything that God does. When God put an invisible n dam across Jordan and It was halted, it would have been natural, you would have supposed, for the water to have overflowed the region all around about, and that great deverstation would have taken place. But when God put the dam in 1ront of the river he put a dam on the other side of the river, so that, ac cording to the text, the water halted and reared and stood there, and not overflowing the surrounditig country. Oh, thle completeness of everything that God doel One would have thought that if the waters of Jordan had dropped until they were only two or three feet deep the 1 Israelites might have marched throu 4h it and have come tip on the other bank with their clothes saturated and] their garments like those of men coming ashore from shipwreck, and that would have been as wonderful a deliver once but God does so nothing botter than that. When the priests' feet touched the waters of Jordan and they were drawn oil', they might have thought there would have been a bed of mud and slime through which the army should pass. Draw oil the waters of the Hudson or the Ohio, ald there would be a good tmany days, and perhaps many weeks, before the sediment would dry up, and yet here, in an instant, inimediately, God provides a path through the depthi of Jordan; it is so dry the passenger (10 not even get Cicir feet damp. Oh, the completenes of everytlhiug that God does! Does lie make a universey-it i3 a perfect celck, running ever since it was wound up, the fixed stars the pivots, the constollations the intermoving wheels, and ponderous laws the weights and niig,,hty swinging pendulum, the stars in the great dome of nighi striking the midnight, and the sun. with brazen l-tongue, tolling the hour of 0 noon. The wildest comet has a chain of law that it cannot break. The thistle dow w f 1hing before the schoolboy's breath i. e controiled by the same law that contro I r the suin and the planets. The rose'aush' in your window is governed by the s imw pl inciplo that governs the tree o. the umitverse on which the stars are ripvn l huit?, and on which God will one day .put his hand and shake down the fruit a perfect universe. No astronoumy ha.s I ever proposed an amendment,. a lV'od makes a Bible, it is it coinpeto e Bible. Standing amid the dreadkul and e delightIul truths, vou seem to be in the midst of an orchestra where the wailinga r over sin-, and the reje)icims over par le don, and the martial st-rains ot victkr). tt make the chorus lIke an anihem o A eturnty. This book ,ieema to yotu th, e ocean of trut,h, on cyet y wave of whitl l Christ walks-sonietitmes in the dark Id tiess of prophecy, again in the spicudor with which ie walks on Galilee. I le Lhii hook apostL Iswers LI) plp1h 'id t Isaiah, Ilevelati,n I to G e.;nesis - t.- goriouis light, turning i i<iiu i.hi, srrov l 1 int0 the Illidnoonl joy, disiersiIIg eveir n lf, iushing every tempes. Take till m ook; it is the kiss of (;od on the sot ld f lo:t ian. 1'erfect Bible, e >mplet i- ile! No inan has eyer prop-'ed an d. 11uprovemlent,. or God Irovided It Saviotur. lie is a :i p, plot Satviour-God-man-divinity an he humaii nify uiited in t.he same tiersoi ned lie set, til the starry pillars of the univ of erse and the, to wers of light. IIe laniite to the cedaris and thle heavenly L4ebamior ed lie struck out of the rock tlie rivers c y~, life, siniging unde(r the trees, sin'mg uni at der thie thrioiics. iIe quarried the sur doinyx and1( crystLI, and Lhe topaz of' th( Lo hieavenily wvall. iIe liut, down the jauspiei la for the toundiaitjin aiid hieiaped up) th!c "' amnethiyst for the capital and iwung tht >I 12 gaLes, which are 12 pearls. Ila one 5 insxtatl.hle t outgh t, Out, at un11verSe, and! "' yet lie bee-1mie a child, cr3 ing hor his e iiother, feclinig alonig the sOie of th 1, miani!er, leai ning to walk. i Omn1iipotenice sheathed ini t,he muii.clei and Ili o)f ai child's arm, omn1 i ieteice st rung ini the optie nerve of a chiild 's eye, iniiniiite love beatting in the clhid'. 8 heartt. a great, Godl app)learingI til,e foirm i ii a child 1 year 01hd, 5 years old, 15 1 years, old. WVhile all the heaveus were - aeeribing" to him glory and: honoi' and Spower on earth men said, "W~ho is this i ellotw :" While all the heavenly hosts, g with folded wing about, their,l aces, b)owed " dowii before him crying, "Iloly! 1Iol !'" on earth they deniouncedl hhn ias ia bias l).hemler and a sot. Rocked in a boat'on IGennesatrcL, and1( yet he it, is that un Sdirked the lightning from the stormecloudl itnd pismlasted Lebanon of its forests Y atid holds the five oer'. 'is on the tip of s~ hiis in'er its it leaf hiold the r .iindrop, il Oh, the comnp'ete Saviou':, rubbing s his hand over the place where we have Sthe pain, yet the stars o. heanve * the e adornn gems oi his right, he'l.. Ihold S-in; us in his arms when we t,ake our last, view of our dead. Sitting dlown with us on the tombstone, and while we plant e roses t,hcr'e lhe planting consolation in our heart., every chapter ai stalk, every verse a steim, every wVOrd a rose. A complete Saviotur, it complete Bible, a camplete universe, a complete J1ordaic c passai.,c. Everyt.hing that God (hoes is *complete. 0 Again, I learn from this .Jordanic pits *sag'e thi ,t between us antd every Citnaan of succes,s and proaperity there is a river thait Iust be piassed. ''Oh, how I eO would like sonme oi those grapes oin t.he othier side!" saidl 01ne of the Israelites to hJo ha. "' Well''' says .Joshtua, "'ii you want, the grapes, why don't, you Sriver of diflicult,y between us and every. thIng thant is worth having---thant whiclh cost.s not,hing is n orth nothing. 0 Glod didn't intend this world for an Y easy parlor, throtigh which we atre te e be drawn in a rocking chair, but we a are to woik our passage, climb miasts, o fight battles scale mountains and ford ul rivers. God makes everything valti e able (ifhicult to get at, for the same-rea .son that he p)ut the gold down in the~ a mine and the pearl clear (hewn in the a sea-to make tisdig and dive for thiemi. We acknowledge this principle in worldly things; oh, that we were only awise enough to acknowiedge it in re k~ lgious things. You have scores of ilitustrations tin tder your own. observation where men n have had the hardest lot and been trod 3. den under foot, sand yet after atwhile ec had iteasy. Nowv their homes blossom n and bloom with pictutres, and carpets ef that made foreign looms laugh now eo embrace their feet. The summer winds e lift the tapestry about the window gor a geous. enough for a Turkish sultan. ja mpatient teeds paw and neigh at the e door, their carriages moving through the sea of New York life a very wave Whoisit Why, it is a boy that came to New York with a dollar in his pocket and all his estate slung over his shoulder in a cotton handkerchief. All that ilVe' on the dancing span is petri fled sweat drops. That beautiful dresi Is the faded calico over which God put TALMAGE IN DETROIT. HE PREACHES AT THE CITY OF TH STRAITS. A Sermon on the Crobving of the Jorda by the Children of Ipreaw, the Text be Ing From Joshua iII, 17-An Interestin Discourse. DETROIT, March 12.-Rev. Dr. Tal Mage, who is now visiting this city preached today to a large and intensel interested audience in the Fort Stree Presbyterian church, of which Rev. Dr IRadellfle is pastor, on the crossing c the Jordan by the chiddren of Isreal, th text being from .Joshua iii, 17, "An, the uriests that bare the ark of the cove nant of the Lord stood firm on the dr ground in the midst of the Jordan, ar1 all the Isrealites passed over on drl ground, until sill the people were passe clean over Jordan." Washington crossed the Delawar, when crossing was pronounced impossi ble, but lie did it in a boat. Xerxe crossed the Ilellespont with 2,00,00 men, but he did it by a bridge. Tbe le realites crossed the Red sea, but th same orchestra that celebrated the dc liverance of the one army sounded th strangulation of the other. This Jor danic papsage difiers from all. Ther was no sacrifice of hinman life-nol s much as the loss of a lincpin. Ti vanguard of tho host, made up of priest advanced until they put their loot at, th brim of the river, when immnediately th streets of Jerusalein were no more dr than the bed of that river. It was a if all ihe water had been drawn oi', an then the dampness had been soaked u with a sponve and then by a towel tih road had been wiped dry. Yonder goes a great army of Isrea ites, the hosts in uniforiml; followin them the wives, the childreN, tle flock the herds. The people look up at th crystalline wall of the ,jordan as the paes and think what an awfful disaste would conic to then it bfre they gc to the opposite b,ank of that Aidon wa that wall should fall n tiemi, and th thought makes the nwthiers 1ug thei children close to their Iier; ts as tle swifteni their pacv. Quick, now: or theni all up on the bnks, the arnme warriors, the wives and children, flocl and herds, and let this wonderlful Jo danlic passage be conldeted forevel. Sitting on the shelved liicfstone, look oft upon that .Jordai where .1 oslu crossed under tle triumphal arch of tI rainbow woven out ci the spray, tI rive: which aiLterward bcac:ume the bal tistry where Christ w-Ias sprinkled < plunged; the river where lhe ax-tl borrowed ax--miraculously swam tL.e prophet's order; the river illustro in the history of the world for hero and ormipotent deliverance aid tV) of scenes yet, to transpire in your life a mine-seenes enough to make us, *r( the sole of the foot to the crown ol i head,tingle with flite gladniew. Standing on le scene of lint alt ii ed fugitive river Jordan, I learn lor:a l and for you, first, that w)bistacles wh they are tonched vanish. The text sl that when these priests came down a touched the water-the edge o(f tho I ter with their fect-the water paru They did not wvade in cin feep waist deep or knee deep or ankle dlea but as soon as their feet touchedi I water it vanished. Anid it mnakesi thiink that alniost all thie obstalIes .ife aied onily be appifroachled in orer(C be conquered. D iflicul ies buint touch vanish. 1t is the t roubile, the dillicultI the obstacle far in the distancee th seemis so lingo and1 iremiendous. The apostles IPaul and Jlohin seems ilslike cross dogs, theapilostle P aul tel us in Phillipipianis, "Iewvare of' (figs! and ,Johin seems to shut (lie !zate< heaven against all the canine spiecit when lie says, "'WIthout ar'e doies. .But I have been fold that when thos animals are furious, if' they comue at yot if you will keepi your eye on thiemi an advanice upon themi they will retreal Whether thsis lie so) or' not I cannot tel: but 1 (10 know that the vast minnority< the misfort.unes and trials and dIisastei of your lie that boundii youri stepis, you can only get your eye on them an keep your eyeoii them, antd advance up on themi, and cry, "lbegone-!"' they wi slink andl cower. There is a beautifuil tradition anwii) the Anierican Indians thiatj Manito was travelhng im the invisible w~ork~ andl one day lie came11 to a ba'rier c brambles and( sharp~ tho(rnis, whieh Ia bade his goii~ on, and there was a w ii beast glaring at hirn Irorn the theke but as lie determined to go on his wae lie did pur'sue if, andui those bramle were found to be0 only phantoms, an that beast was found to be a powerles ghost, atid the inmuassable iriver thlai forbade him irushing to embrai'ice th Yaratilda p)roved to be only a pihaniton river. Well, my friends, the fact is tht r'e ari a Ureat niany things that look teririhl across our pathway which wvhen we a( vance upon themi are only the phat Loins, only thie apparitions, oiily th delusions of life. Difliculties touche are conquered. hit your feet into th brim of the water and Jordan ireti'eati You sometimes see a great duty i perform. It is a very disagreeable duti You say: "I can't go through it. haven't the courage, I haven't the ii Lelligence to go through it." Advan< upon it, Jordan will vanish. I always sight before I begin to pireat at the greatness of the undertaki.ng, bi as soon as I start it beoiies to me ii exhilaration. And any duty undertake. with a confIdent spirit becomes a plea ure, and the higher the duty the hight the pleasure. Dilliculties touched as conquered. Thlere are a igreat mnan people who are afraid of' dleath in tI: future. Good John Livingston oince, o a sloop coming from E'lizabethiport I New York, was dreadfully frightene because lie thought, he was going to b drowned as a sudden gusteame up. Pec pie wc.re surprised at him. If any ma In all the world was ready to (lie, it wa good John Livingston. So there are now a great many gee people who shioulder: in p)assinig garveyard, and they hardly dhare thin of Canaan because of the Jordan thu Intervenes, beat once they are dlown a sick bed then all their fears are gon, The waters of death dashmg" on tU beach are like the mellow voice of oces shells-they smell of thie blossoms the tree of life. The music of ti -~ heavenly choirs comes stealing over tL waters, and to cross now is only pleasant sail. How long the boat coming! Come, Lord Jesus; con quickly! Christ the Priest advanc ahead, and the dyjag Christian go over dry shod on coral beds and flowe of heaven and paths of pearl. aid we miake our doubts rensuve ydobsthat rise ~ansan that we Ikve foa Eyesl his hind of perfection, trrning it to Tirkish satin (or Italian silk. Those diamonds are the tears which stif1er ing froze as they fell. Ohl, there is a river of difli,;ulty betwean us.and every earthly achievement. You know t hat. You adilit that. You know this is so witii regard to the acquistion of knowiedge. The an cients used to say that Vulcan struck -Jupiter on the head, anti the goidess of wisdoni jumped out, iliutrating the truth that wisd,om comes by hard knocks. There was a river of diflioulty betweEn Shakespeare, the boy, holding the horses at the door of the Loidon theater, and that Shakespeare, the great. dramatist, winning the applause of all audiences by his tragedies. There was a river betweeni Beiijamin Frank linl, with aloaf of bread unde, his arm, walking the streets of Philadelphia, and that same Benjamin Franklin, the philosoplher, just outside of Boston ily ing a kite in the thunder storm. An idler was cured of his bad habit by looking through his window night after night at a rlan who seemed sit ting at hii desk turning c1f one sheet of writing after another until almost the dawn of the morning. The man sitting there writing until morning was industrious Walter Scott; the aia who looked at him through the win dow was Lockhart, his illustrious hi ographtr afterward. Lord Mansfielk pursued by the press and by the po)l lace because of a certain line of duty, went on to discharge the duty, and while the moh werv aroid in (te n - 371u*m the taking ot his life heshiook his flit in tho face of the mob an'i said, "Sirs, when one's last, end conic, itean' not come too soon if ie falls in defe..e of law and the liberty of his cotintry." And so there is, my friendls, a tug, a tussle, a trial, a push, ain anxiety through which every mtan must go be foro he comt to worldly sticcps3 and vorldly achieveinent. You admit it. Now, be wise encugh to apply it in re ligiou. Em1'a ienit Chris!ian clara(ter 'q only gain"d by the .jordanlic pas sge; no inan juit happ'neA te get good. Wihy dtoes thia' mant know so mucih aboult the 'c-r iWti? Ho% was stituy it theIti liih- e while VOut were readin,g a novel. Ii w, Nas on firo with the stib lmiti.s ot the lihle n6hil0a you were soond'l asl -p. 1y Lu i 1A Vle, plishiml - and running in thw Christiimi fife th;iL Inal gotso 'rolg for Gcd; in at htuii dred ,oltrlJ(o-; hIe li rned li ow 11 -'10 inl a luuLdred shipwres he leariell l,)v to m "TIars over silt, tears ()v.r Ziois dte I i it ears over the iniveni!enit, wi.iu ,ver 'Aegravus md ate tVhe drdi winch 1tt, lla hlad1 isassed . HPrrow ais the cheek, and lade. tth eye, w:d wrinlklos tile brow, and witlers th-, homds. There are miourninir g:irinent.s in the wardrobe and thtri- are deaths in every family record -atI ar.am d are t he rclies Of the de'td. Thi Christi:tn lia, p;sed (h Red sea of trouble,-, and yet hi thinks there is a .1 trhn of :ordh b etween Ihim and heav ('n1. It, in- Oown Ito that .loralt. of ! letih .i1 ihIublks hiu lanv hGae beien lost I Ith (. 1 0 Wi MItt IyitLix w , vx. ooril I the dont-m ia l'a 's'r , ha had hii bitall kitsa'sed to piia't in the ilds oi th rivr. Alt ct-r are a i i ll :air oI ,:a b At l-:it: and i':"ei o havent saowdSo nrily. S I ak a% ;t fu i! sn to mll 1'. Shi wr.1 nth; e m f ruil; mwksts F.11 v' grotanntis '0 rhe water, inoantings it t.ue v. id111, th tr in I'h Akv, while -- uod w itha tata' h( 'a t f lil' 1ight ing wrkv it aI v ft l ' kv. II will r themia ( toy wat h and- ha'v I i i iph . . ragm Jtorr ., ain.I i h Ii lam ha( ni I Itimtme his biy athi eets shotri, ndi( htis -~ la t'eth li:t hun1 as'i hte itepat!s into tilt streon andI -:l (I>'er dat~ (1C ha touich thea st ra:nain it it it; parted, antd lie goes throughitZ dr!y IhdE wVhilea all the that h, whe e i h b st mg ? ( ) 7ratve, where is t lby vtia wry G od shaill WI i1p away al teots fruom their eyes, anda thtere shall b:-lI Itmore wVetepiu.g amid thelre! shall hae io ttore' a:pathi. gore tilp t he'' ehar baitki. Yt ont't tlthem diown ont thh, side' of the b ink; thlev will hu ont thle oither't batnk to litli y'ot tip with sutpea'mtur-il t.rength. Tlhe other muoritog at itty table, all my tamt 13'y present, I thugh t to imysel I how pleammut t woul)d bIe if I couald pult all 11nto a iIa.it and thlen gao in with themn and- we co,tid 1pull :crc.ss t he river to the ttext wo)rldt amnd ba there all to gether. No famnily parltintg, no gloomy~ obsetlaies. [t wouhliin't take live mit tles t.o go fromt' bank to banitk, and then in that lx(tter wor-ld to be togeter for ever. W~ouldn'Wt it bea pleasantt f or you to take all your faittily lit o that blessed c.ounitry ir yotu (caul d all go together ? I reinembear my mtothier ini her dlying hour said to my father, 'Fat her, woutldnt't it Ibe pleasanit i f we coulal all go togetherii' Ibit we! canntlot all go) together. We tm ut go one! by3 one, anld we! Ituist lbe griate!f a: if' we get~ there at all. W\hat a he'avern it will be if we have all our lantilies thtet-e tao look aro ud atnd tilt al I he chtildrieni are- pros entI Yout would rtather have thtem all there, and you go wvitht bare.browv for eve r, tbitm I l'at oune shot'hl be mnissing to co'le the garbinds of hecaveni for you)ir co:'onal. TFhea ILord God of .Josh * givaa therm a sa fe ,J oiain ic passage! ',vcmn ('hildrent will go thlrought dtry shted. 'l'lte of s5 wh Io w ere bt-otught uip in the counltry remem!itber-, whten the summter was comintg on in our boy hootd days, wao alwys3 longed for the day whenm we werec to go bariefootedl, and u fter ,teasing our miothers in re gardl to it for at good wvhila, tad they conisentCd, we remembPit ra the( deliciouts sensation ot the cool grass when we put our utncoveredl foot ont it. Antd tIhe titmt Will (come1 wheni these shtoes we wear [now, last wet be cuit of the' sharp plaesa of lthis wvorl, shahl be taken off, anda with utnsandtaled foot w"e wvill si ep tnto the; bad of thme river; with feet unt ranunle I, iree ifromv pa1in antd fat iguie, we will ::ainm that last jouirney,. whent, with cone loot ini the bed ot thei rivetr and thte other li )t onl tilt othmer batik, wet strulggle Itptward'i. ''Tat will1 be heavein. Oht, I pray fer all my dear peoplae a s:a fe' J1ordPtic passatgo.: Tlht is w hat the dy~ i;.: ('h.rtsting hl)iand felt when hev sind: "HoW ithe 'ar1dlea flickers, NelIha' l'ut it' ouit i shl!~l sleep well ton ight undta wake ini the muornig.' One wordi of comflor't on thli sutbject for the bereaved. Yott are. 01ur depart ed friends have not Ibeen submer)Ciged have not bee'n swamtped ini tha' waters. They have only crossed over. T[htes Isreailites were j tet as thoroughly alive on the western banks of the Jlordan as they htad been otn thte easteurn baniks of' the .Jordan, amnd outr departed ChrIstian frientds have otily cr'ossaed over- not sick, rot deadl, not axhaiisted, ntot (extin gutishted, niot btlottetd 2nt, b:,t with healthier respirat ion, and utoter pu uses aid keener eyesight-, andl better pros peets-crossedt over. Their slunn, their physical anti menttal dtisquiet, tall left clear this side, an eternally ilowing, Impassable obstacle between themi and all h umnan and satanic pursuit. Cross ed over! Oht, 1 ahake -'hands of con gratulation with all the biereaved in the conaideration that our departed Chris tian friends are safe. Why was there an much joy in certain. circles in New York when people heard from the friends who were on board that belated steamer? It' was feared that vessel had gone to the bottom of the sea, and when the friends on this sideI heard that thesteamer had arrived safely in Liverpool had we not a right to cong.ratulate the people in New York I hat their friends had got safely across? And is it not right this morn ing that I congratulate you that your departed friends are safe on the shore of heaven? Would you have them back ? Would you have those old par ents back again ? You know how hard it was soietinmes for them to get their f breath in the stilled atmosphere of the r summt-ner; would you have them back in this weather? Didn't. they use their brainis long enotrh ? Would you have h your chiiren b'ack again? Would you 1 have them tak;t the risks of temptation n which throng every human pathway ? Would you have them cross the Jordan three tinmes? In addition to crossing it already, cross it again to greet you now anid thon cross back afterward. For certainly you would not want to 1 keep thein forever out of heaven. - Pause ana weep, not for the freed f rom pai, mut that the sigh of love would bring thon back again. I ask a queition, and there seems to Com14e back tie answor i heavenly echo: 'Wh<at, will you newr be sick again?" "N1.ever-sick-again." "What, willt you never be tired again?" "Never- 8 tired-agaim" "What. will younever wcep again?" "Never--weep-again" 1 "What, will ycii never die again?" I "Never-die-gain." Oh, ye army of departed kindred, we I hall you from bank to baik! Wait for I us when the Jordan of death shall part ior us. Con .3 down and meet us half way between the wUilowed banks of earth and the palm groves of heaven. May our great High Priest go ahead of us, and with bruised feet touch the wa ter, and then shall be fulfilled the words of my text, "All Jsreal went over on dry ground u itil all the people were gona clear through Jordan." t If I ask you what shall be the glad hymn of this morning, I think there ] wouild be a thousand voices that would ( choose the same hymn-the hymn that I Illnmines so many death chambers- c the hymn that has been the parting I hymn in inany an instance-the old I Onl Jordan's storny banks I stand And cast a wistful eye To Canaan's fair and happy land, Where lily possessions lio. Oh, the tranisportlngs rapturous scene That rises on imy sight! Sweet iEilds arrayed in living green, And rivers of delight.' i1is 'oTpotiatl Motlon Machine. G REENVILLE, S. C., March 15-An I i 3enious story was told in the defense ( of' ('. T. Biughrmarn, tried and convicted t o[counterfeiting, in the U nited States Court yesterday an(l sentenced tO three ycart in Cohmirnbus, Ohio, penitentiary, t with a ini of $500. Bati0hman is from I MNLCormick's. m Abbeville County, and I was found guilty on eight counts. The money ie manufactured wa,s made with ,Libbitt, me"il and consisted of nicldes, quarters, half dollars rind (dollars. The -itory o lLhe de'ense is about as iollows: lHaughmnant -laimed that, he had in.. vente da machiie, vwhicl had it ever beenl completed, WaIS intended to ac couplish the heretotore imipossible feat ol perpetual motion. The counterieit money was not intended for circulation but was to be used in the invention. By exrrerments he had ascert,aned that a silver dollar wa:s the exact size requiired1 for certa in wheels, and tire smaller men ('y was to be usedi for weights arnd other iurpioses. Finding tire required size of' thecse wheels tire alleged inventor made aIldIl of Babbitt metal and mannfac tumred eleven dollars from thre aue ma ieriah which were t,o be serrated with a fileI andm uised as a part of' this wonder- c iul marchmor. Be fore rts comprlletion the i aurtih'ities piouncedl down upon him, and e alter hris p)rel~iminary hearing before the UTnited States Commissioner mn Anrder.. soni he beccamie conivincedl that tihe in- ir venrtion wvasn't, practical andl destroyed e j. -dlidn't nave a pilece of it to bring in to) court as a means of proving that this brilliant, idea was anyt.hing hat a fanrtai t.c story and a myth, originating im the mind of tIhe clever counterieit,er as a '>ophiole thrmough wich to crawl out, of ~ d a tickiish postion.-News. Eiimbargo Against Editors W AsIINoTrON, March 12.-The Post t p)rinits t.he following: Thre assertion that C (editors ar e not generally to be recog- t niizedl by tire new administration is ~ true. Mr. Cleveland believes that his C prede~cessors suffered through the f charge of having subsidized the press, I and he does not intend to run the same 'v gauntlet. The decision is also to be made particulanrly applicable to news- t papes men who (desire to be postmast era in their towns. Mir. Bissell has ( had the names of some country editors t presentedl to him In connection with various postoilices, b)ut has unif'ormly declined to givie any encouragement to ~ tire oilieseeker. lie lays (down the f principle that in small towns all uit- I terances of newspapers over which a ~ postmaster-edit.or presides will be re- I garded at the views of~ the administra- ~ tion, wvhile, on the other hand, all ' praise of Mr. Cleveland's acts will be C discounted because It emanates from the recipient of official favor. There fore Mr. .lbssell ('aes not propose to ap)pomrt any edIitors to postmasterships, anrd the .1'resident will observe tire same -rule in disposing of the higher v dices.' Thoursands Sh ut Off. 8 WVASIIINOTON, March 10.-The Sen- t ators arnd Representatives who called ~ on l'resident Qipveland this morning ~ received confirmatory evidence of the ' report that Cleveland does not intend ~ to give flhices to those who have been d favored under previous D)emocratic i adm rin istrations. Ex-RIepresentative c IIe-mphilh, of South Carolina, called ex pressly for tire purpose of ascertaining ( whether tire report was tm Lie, and re- 0 ce'ived ain allirmative answer from b ('leveliand. It is likely, of course that P ('xceptions will be made in rare instan- c ce's, and one of these It is said to be C tmiat of .1 udge ,Johni Goode of Virginia, I whoi( was nominatedl for Solicitor Gen- ci eral, burt failed of confirmation by the a Senamte. iIe cannot, therefore, be con sidleredl f rom a techinica' standpoint to has' e held uflice under Mr. Clevelanid, A Desperate Aolt.h QUInNCY, MQas,, March 15.-Unre- " (iuu.ted love and leal>usy were the causef ol a probable murder and suicide here. ai Manry Victoria Latave, a comely lass of ' I8, was loved by Joseph Massey, aged , 30. Thre girl had been to mass and was n returnmg home. Massey, who had been em waihing for her, followed her and with- b' eut ainy warning drew a revolver and iiredl three shot.s In rapid success'on. Several men started for him, btit before he could be overt,aken he placed tire re volver to his head and flhed. lIe fell over on a bank of snow dead. The girl e is dying, as all the 'shots took effect, hi two entering tire mnlddle of her back. M Massey prgqposedl to tire girl nine months ih ago and was rejected. Hie left Qoincy, an lbut returned to carry out anid old threat re to kill her. at MINISTERS VIC'IMIZED. THE NEAT WORK OF A SLICK SCOUN DREL EXPOSE. Oueb,f the Victims Tells the story-He i 8-0141 Them all Oterieal 41l1th at Fabu 1(usy Low Prices--rhe Faet Etc., as Publinhed by the Stalo. CoLUMBIA, S, C., March 14-A. lick rascal has been making things ve. y interesting for ibe milisters ofCo. vnbia durin- the p.ist wack. and he as succeeded in "bilkin," or more roperly, swindling nea.ily every white linister in Columbia. It is very strange )o that lie should have cloaked his op. crations "in clerical cloth." But, be < iat as it may, there are now a great c ianV wiser, not to say madder minfitets i Columbia, than thet e was just a week & go. They were neatly taken in. t There has been considerable talk r I)out the matter for several days. but ( e whole al.ory (1i(l not come out until estunday afternoon, when Uhe 10Y. E. L. Wiugard, the pastor of St. Paul's E ,utheran Church, sent for a representa ve ot The State and told all the facts, t sking that they be published. Mr Wingard says the man -alled at is parsonage last week with some sam les of cloth for sale. Ile gave his name a "Mr. Ward,1' repress.nt,iog a Chicago oranch of a bankrupt Manchester, Eng. I and, house which had sent its cloths ver to this country to be disposed of. le oflered his cloth at fabulously low irices. Mr. Wingard says the man was very irepossessimh in appearance and was ; eialy dressed in a gray suit. IIe oil' red to sell to minister's wives and r laughters and ladies of t,e congrega- f ion One silk dresses etc., at from 28 to 7 cents. IIe also oilered a flee lot of 3russels c'rpets, to be made and put r a the floor at 67J cents a yard. What c e seeml more anxious to sell than all r lse was the cloth for gentlemen's suits. r Vhen he got an order for these he de- E ivered the goods lorthwith, but for oth- t r goods he only took orders. Mr. Win- I ard bought materials enough for a I ilack clerical suit, at $12.50, the man Ist asked $15 for it. When lie delivered the cloth, it was a the condition that in a few days, he vould have some lour or live ot his spe lal tailors here to make it up in suits at cost of only $7.50 a suit, lie agreeing iso to wait ninety days for the pay. Mr Vingard continued: "I got this piece of loth, and I haven't heard anything nore of the man. Ile came here showing ome recommendations from Charles. on ministers whom I knew. That was he re ison I got bit. I suppose that hese gentlenen gave him thec recom- I nendations before they waked to the re- t Llizition of the tact that they had been I windled. lie was to have come back t o my house on Thursday last, b-.t 1 ( Lannot hear anything from him. 1 guess I ie has skipped. Ile leaves this cloth >n niy hands, and it wili cost mie $24 to iave it. miade into a suit here. lIe t0ok is all in by his representation that it vould cost practically nothin to lave he tailoring done.'' The lt,v. Mr. Biackburn wa cAuYbt 'Or one suit, Dr. Lindiay for one uit., Dr. Giradeau for two suits, t,he Rtev. J. a. Rtice for a suit, and others f'or va ions amounts. D)r. Tadlock of the TLhe. >logical Seminary was perhaps takens in vore than all; lie was caught for four uits at a cost of abo)ut $50. It is said hat the fellow also got an order f'or car- I ets at the State Lunatic Asylum. Mr. I Vingard Bays: "Tfhe various minist,ers i )insoled each other t,oday, and umow z eic is a general weepinig, wailing and a nashing of teeth among us." In the meantime the oily tongued Mr. Ward" has gone on his way re joic ig, and, with his samples, is perhaps r yen now "fakmng" other ministers min eighboring cities .-Stat,e- t Aj,acheslKilled - MOnILE, ALA, March 14.-At Mount rernoni larracks, Mobfle Couiity, Sun ay night, the Indian and white sol iers, while drinking, had a fight, anda we Indians of the Apache tribe were sund dead next morning in the mill-. ary road, both with their heads crush-. d in. Thme Indians were Elmo Dit- 1 oen, of Compamy J. 12th infantry, t nd F"itz Uuchey, for merly of the same ompany, but who had been discharged or dishonorable conduct. Dittoen had ~ 'it recently returned from Carlisle, there lhe received a good education. All the men who were absent from Lie barracks were arrested, and two. V. 11. Wise and Michael Cooney, of ompany G, 12th Inf'antry, were iden-. Ilfled by Erie Spitty, an Apache soldier, s the men whom Dattoen and Duchey ere engaged in a fight as b,hat place, dhere their bodies were subsequently ound1. The killing was done with a lece of sdantling. The accused men ~ere brought before Commander Mc Linstry ini Mobile to-aay, and a preli sfnary trial begun. Evidence as bove etated was brought out, anid the ase continued until to-morrow. A True Rtefoasr. W ASIIINGToN, March 15.-Secretary 1orton of the Agricultural Depart. sent has found time to familiarize imself with the duties of nearly all be employees of the ofllce. There are averal places that are regarded by him s sinlcnres and he does not propose bat the incumbents shall much longer raw a large salary without giving the overnment a fair return, le has con Luded that several of these positions re not essential to the success of the epartment and will shortly notify the icumbents that their places are va ant. They will not be tilled. Tho eeretary says he intends to. run his apartment on a business basis. Where illcials do not earn their salary it will s turned over to the credit of the do Birtment. Secretary Morton has been >mpelled, on account of the insill ency of the appropriation of the Seed Ivision of the Department of Agri iture, to sign an order disrmissing ost sixty employees of that division. lie dismissals took effect today. Ghastiy Freight. LOUIrsVxL LE, KY., March 15.--Eig ht iman bodies packed in four barrels as the ghastly discovery made by eight handlers of the Newport News d Mississippi Valley freight depot .. .is afternoon. Five of them were re ains of rpen and the other three of ( omen. Whether there is any crimi- A iiity attached to thme matter or wheth bodies were intended for dissection medical students is not kno wn. A Double Kinling. BIRMKINOHIAM, Ala., March 10.--At ,e duelb vIron Works, this mornling, >hn MclTanahanl, a drunken negro, Lot and killed R. M. illihard, the - roman, because Ililliard discharged ~ m. Who'his arrest was attempted cLianahan shot at his pursuers and ~ ci. Ite was met by W . A. Wilbun, engineer, who demanded his sur I nder. Both opened tire and McLan srn was riddled with bullets. .44 Padgett Pays the Freiht! A large illuitrated CaIlaloto 4kow Ing hundrods of (Ieuignm or pulr,iture. Stoves and Baby Carriag's will be mailed free, if you t141ntiol t,t paper. I Will sell ytt FUCNITU1R, 01a., just as benp la you Canl buy t,hem In large cities, atd pay the freight:to your depot. Here are a few arn iles: ) A No. 7flat top Cook in g MIove with 2 00ki g Uteuals, dolIvored to any depot, for $12 O0. A 5-hole Cooking Range with 20 cooking uenSalla, delivered to any dep,4 for fl800. lare line of Stoves in propor Uion. Mpctal agent for Charter Oak A nice Parlor Suit, upholstered in lush, fashionable colors, de var anywhere for $M.O. A large line of Parlor Buits to select fromt. A lidrooin mult, large iass, bi bedstead. enolosed wash.tand, full suit 9 pleces; chairs have cane seats, delivered any whore for $22 00. Other "nits th cheaper and more ex~pensive. S Yd. of a-wide Carpet for $7 50. I pair No ngham LAoe Curtain. ehains, I hooks, 10 pins, al .. nWe Window Shae4, T It 1 , 3 ft. WIGO, %.. -Vtr I relbeff,whit, -I for 80 oents. No freght paid v.i b.aadr.J . .,. ,.Ar tains unless ordered in conneattom with other goods. Send for Catalogue. Address L. F. PAD TcrT 805 Broad Street, Augusta, ( . R ALL =KIN n be~ i i ah .i gret Chor ' , thec c of all I J CU RES 1' ,n,r - ia na poer I L ARIA '4 . 8yf1001ar 1. k t SAVA (N a, boa Having111U* hahneprec fmanyars" c i F and find n q at th bt a ts, Mh as hande i excusiely 'a akei pc ?aly A p't < o handapr - ce eicTothe lowstosiblojpo.' " e a Iad qu aX1rtwn er oln eors Mil, t i i nd lr Maeder, a s nd werlln asnad Wasandk e hvedecis o Mill H.nin an8ES JtR., &aChlm, a _____COLUMBUIA, S.U. Talbot & S3ons, KNOlNES. BOllERS, SA W MIhble. HItIUK MAUlIlNEREA WOOl) WVORKJN MAUllINIERY,: COTT'ION GIN', Cominplete equlpment' for large and small G inniijes oIn '(ost 1,r' .1oved plane. Cunr Thomas direct acting Steam Proe and 1Elevator system Is beyond question. Tile best cvt' ...-ented., Talbott's Engines and S1aw Mitls. Van Winkle ned Lummnus (inos V.Q. BADHRAM, (TLUM n[tA, 8. (, MR. ARMOUR'S INDORSEMENT. What a Gret Busineds M<an S%ys et Great Work. The Leslie E. Keeley Rlemedies have mon so thoroughly tfsted by actua )xperinents made by several hundred men in the employ of P. D. Armour & so., the great packers, that it is nol itrange that the senior should com nend it in the following manner, whic we copy from the San Francisco (Cal. 3xam iner: Letter from the great packer and finan cier Philip D. Armour, to 0. N. Ram sey, Manager of the Keeley Institute at Los Gatos, Cal.] My DEAlt Si:-Replying to yours of January 24, asking my opinion of he Keeley Treatment for inebriates Itc., it gives me pleasiure to state thal am familiar, both t.hrough my own observation and through a knowledge obtained from other reliable sources Vith the results achieved by Dr. Keeley rnd his associates, and am satisled hat the claims made by them are cor. ect, viz.: That the diseases coDsequent Ipon the excessive use of alcohol and pium are treated and CURED by the se of a speciilc, which relieves the ictini of all appetite, desire or need of iarcotic or alcoholic stimulants. The work has my hearty commenda. ion, as I believe it is doing a great ood. Yours truly, PHILIP D. AiRouR. The above was sent to Mr. Armour with the request that he sign it if ap iroved. In returning it he adds: "1 v3u'd have made this letter much tronger if I had written it. P. D. Ar nour." 0. N. RAMSEY, Manager. There are two K%eley Institutes in ;outli Carolina-one at Columbia and ine at Aiken. The former has sent out n imber of graduates cured of the vhiskey habit, whilst the latter is al eady filling up with men who wish to add their names to the long list. Won by a Colored Man. WASIItNGTON, March 13.-Ex-lPost aaster General Wannamaker's gold aedal for proficiency in the railroad iall service was won by a colored aan, Edward Burns, who runs on the acramento and lLedding division of he Southern Pacifi3. le obtained 1 ier cent., making not a single mistake n the distribution of 1,003 postal cards vhich bore only the names of postof. ices all over the Coast and Texas turn's speed was fifteen cards a min. Lte. Burns is a North Carolinian, whc erved seven years in the army in Ari ona. lIe Is now 30, and has been it he postollice department about om. ear. I)one in self-Detense, SurER, S. C., March 10.-In the aseot the State against Willie Cooper or the murder of Albert Montgomery olored' on the 7th day of October. he ury returned a verdict of not guilty L'he killing was caused by a dispute )etween Cooper and Montgomery aboul lie removal of some cotton. Coopei iad ordered Morntgomerv not to mov< he cotton, but lie persisted in doing so 'ooper claimed that he attempted tu >mt Montgomery out of the ginhouse knd the action of Montgomery made min think that his life was in danger md that ho shot Mantgomery in self lefense. The jury was out about ter ninutes.-State. Dhriveon Fromt Towel. MA1oN, N. C., March 15.-l,. W ,row has been driven from the towr >f Neba by anonymous threats, the de traction of their property and fear oi issassination. Crow is a white mar md( his daughter taught a school fom iegro children. On Saturday night the chool house was overturned and de troyed. Crow has received anonymous etters threatening him with death an ess lie left town before April. He de. arted today. T1he better class of citi ens are indignant over the outrage nd are making efforts to discover the uilty parties. ___ i'iaun,, and( organ,. Where to buy Pianos and Organs epresenting the world's greatest ma mers. Stein way & Sons Pianos, bla hushek Pianos, Mason & Hlamlin Pi nos, Sterlia l'ianos, Mason and H1am n Organs, Sterling Organs. Lowest rices always. Easiest terms possible. 1l freight paid. Complete outfit free. ive years guarantee. One price to 11. W:luare dealing, Mouey saved. We (d0 not ask big prices as many ealers (do, and then come down. Our iotto- One price to all and that the west. We ship on fifteen (lays' trial a any, depot and pay freight, both rays if not satisfactory. Write for Lustrated catalogue, ~N. W. Trump, ~olmin bla. S. C. * &Mi., BIRTH M1ADE EASVi M Mrm, Im s O is a scientific lly prej me d I.ioimet, every ingre (ilenti of re, ' iz,ed value anmd in constant ia iv tme imedical pro !essioni Ti ni.;--.!ien Is are comn bined ii amm e !. itle to unknown FRIEND " WILL DO0 all that is claimed for it A ND MOR Ei. It S' etens Labor, Le:,sens Pain, Diinishes Danger to. L.ife of Mother and Child. Book to " MO-rPus " m-tiled FR EE, con taining valuable tutiormnation~ and voluntary testimonials. Sent by ex pr ess on rec i pt of price $1.50 per bottle BRADFIELD REGUlLATOR C0., Atiants. OR. SOLD BY A LL DRUJoOiTT ~ '5'! e PMNBO ,Poreog SAW MILL 'p5 AfFT WE90.0. NGINE 4'OLM thePMFm fiS. rstear ordc,pe UTU' !a LZo.,A iums orJAJI inceas .T. SUI. LA0N Sen'CKAg Oh YARDa O. A unumbia. .