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THE ISCAPE OF PAUL. DR. TALMAGE DESCRIBES IT IN HIS MOBILE SERMON. He Chose as 1i1 Subject "Iynap)rectatedi ~eivloe6"--HoW (tirct Resulte 1l1Ig on Blonder Threads--Many Ilelpfual In1Hte once Never Acknovledge d. MoniiE. March I.-hev. T. D. Witt Talmage, 1). D., who is now visit Ing the scuth, selected as the subiect of today's sermon "Unappreciated Ser. vices," the text being taken from 11 Corinthians xi.33, "Throuuh a window, in a basket, was I let d,2wn by the wall." Lamascus is a city of white and glis tening architecture-sometimes called "the eye of the east," sometimes called "a pearl sourrounded by eieralds," a, one time distinguished for swords of th best material,catlled Damascus i bladse and upholstery of richest inbric, called damasks. A. horseman of the name of P'aul, rid. Ing toward this city, had becn thrown from the t-addle. The horse had drop ped under a flash from the sky, which at the same time was so briht it blinded the rider for many days, and, I think, so permanently injured h!2 e.Yesiht that this defect of vision becnme the thoron In the liesh he'atterward 'peks of. IfoIstarted for Damascus to nitcher Christians, but after that hard fall !rom his horse ho was a changed man and preceL'd Christ in ]) imascus till the city was shaken to its foundation. The mayor gives authority for his ar rest, and the popular cry is: "Kill him I Kill him!" The city is surrounded by a high wall, and the gates are watchc(l by the police lest the Cilician preacher escape. Many of the houses are built on the wall, and their balconiies projeotcd clear over and hcovered above the gar deus outsice. 1t wos customary to low er baskets out of these balconies and pull up fruits and flowers from the gardens. To this day visitors at the monastery of Mount Sinai are lifted and let down in baskets. Detectives prowlcd around from house to house lookiug for Plaul, but his iriends hid him now in (n1 place, now in another. le is no coward, as 50 incidents in his life demon strate. 13ut lie feels his work is not (one yet, and so le evades aesassina tion. "Is that preacher here?" the foam ing mob shout at one house door. "Is that fanatic here?" the police shout at another house door. Sometimes on in street he passes incognito' throuwi IL crowd of clinched fists, and sometimes he secretes himselfon the house top. At last the infuriated populace get on sure track of him. They have positive evidence that lie is in the house of one of the Christians, the balcony of whose home reaches ovet the wall. "Ilere he is! Itere he is!' The vociteratita and blassphcniy itti( howling (-.f the pursuers are at 'he fronI door. They break in. "'atch omt thait gospelizer, and let uis hnmnz hiis heal on the city gatel Where is ht'' The cmer gency was terrible. 1'rovidemiially there was a good stotit basket in the h, 11se. Paul's friends fasten a rope to the bas ket. Paul steps into it. Tile lbiasket. is lifted to the edge of the balcony on the wall, and then while Paul holds1 outi the rope with both hands liis friends lower away, carefully and cauttiously, slowly but surely, farther downi and farther dhown, ujotil the basket strikes the entrii, and tho apostle steps out and afoot and alone starts cu thant famous mlinsionaury tour, this story of which has astonished earth andl heaveni. Aplpropriato entry in Paul's diary oh travels-" Thirou h a window, in a basket, was I let down by the wall." Observe first on what a slender tenure great results hanig. T1he ropemaker who twistedh that cordl fastened to that lower lng basket never know how much would depend on the strength of' it. Ihow if it bad been broken and the apostle's life had teen dashed out? What would have become of' the Christian church? All that magnificent missionary work in Pamphtylla, Cappadeciai G alatia, Mace-. domia, would never have been accomu phished. All his writings that make up 50 indispensable and enebanting a part of the New Testament would never have been written. T1hie story o( resurrection would never have been so gloriously tol( as hie told. That example oft heroic ani triumphant end~urance at Philippi, in thi Mediterranean eturoclydon, tinor fl agel. lation and at his beheadina, wyould noi have kindled the couraige of 10,000 mar tyrdoms. But0 the rope hloiding thai basket--how much depended on it! st again andl rgain great results have hung on what seemed slender ci rctimstances. Did ever ship of many thousand tona crossing the sea have suich unportant passenger as hiad once a boat of leaves, from taffirail to stern only three or foumr feet, the vessel made waterproof by a coat of' bitumen anid floating on the Nile with the infant lawgiver of the .J.ws on board? What ifesomo crocodlile should crunch it? WV hat if some of the cattle wading in for a drink should sink it? Vessels of war sometimes carry 40 guns looking throtugh the portholes, readly to open battle. But that tiny craft on the .Nile seems to be aimedl with all the guns of thiundler that bombarded Sinaui at the lawgivmng. On how fragle craft sailed how mtuch of historical Import ance! Tihe parsonage at iEpworth, England, Is on fire in the night. and the father rushes through the hallway for the res cue of his children. Seven children are out and safe on the groundh, but one re maIns in the consuming thuilding. .['hat one wakes, I and finding his bed on fire and the building crumbing comes to the Window, and two peasants make a lad. der of their bodies, one peasant standing on the shouldeor of the other, andl down the human ladder the boy descends John Wesley, If you would know how much depended en that ladder of peas ants, ask the millions of Methodists on both sides of thesea. Ask their mission stations all round the world. Ask the hundreds of thousandls already ascendedl to join their founder, who would have pezished but for the living stair of pea sant's shoulders. An English ship stopped at Pitcairn Island, and righit in the midst of stir roundIng cannibalism and squalor the passengers discovered a Christi an colond of churches and schools and~ beautiful homes and highest style of religion any civlization. For 50 years no missionarj and do Christian Influence had lander] there.- Why that oasis of light amid m desert of heathendom? 8!xty years be fore a shIp had met disaster, and one o: the saIlors unable to save anything else, went to his trunk and took out a Bible which his mother had place there and swam ashore, the Bible held In his teeth. The book was read on ali sides until the rotigh and vilfous population were evkngelized, and a church was stamited, ad an enlightened monwealth estab. liahed, and th oE4e.history has no more brilliant page than that which tells of the trantsformatisn of a nation by one book. It did not seem of much import atice whether the sailor continued to hold the book in his tooth or let It fall in the breakers, but upon what small cir cumetance depended what mighty re sults! Practical minerence: There are no in siLunificances in our lives. The minutest thinlg is part of a magnitude. Infinity is made up of influltesimals. Great things an aggregation of small things. Bethie hem manger pulling on a star In the eastern sky. One bo)k in a drenched sailor's mouth the evangelization of a multitude. One boat of papyrus on the Nile freighted with events for all ages. The fate of Christendom in a basket let down from a window on the wall. If you rmake a rope, make it strong and true, for you know not how much may depend on your workmanship. If you fashion a boat let It be waterproof, for you know not who may sail In it. 1 I Tou put a Bible in the trunk of your 1 boy as he goes from home, let it be| heard in your prayers, for it may have a l mission as farreaching as the book which I the sailor carried in his teeth to the Pit. t :airn beach. The plainest man's lie is ai island between two eternitles-eter. nity past rippling against his shoulders, elerni y to come touching his brow. The casual, the accidental, that which mere ly happened so, are parts of a great platn, anld the rope that le:is the fugitive apostle rom the DamaPcus wall is the cleA that holds to its mooring the ship of the church in the northeast storm of the centuries. Again, notice unrecognized and un recorded scrvices. W ho spun that rope? Who tied it to tL'u basket? Who steadied the illustrious preacher as he stepped into it? Who relaxed not a muscle of the arm or dismissed an anxious look from his fice until the basket touched the ground and discharge i its magnifl cent cargo? Not one of thei names has come to us, but there was no work done that day in Damascus or in all the earth compared with the importance ot their work. What if they had in their agita tion tied a knot that could slip? What it the sound of the mob at the door had led them to say, "Paul must take care of himself, and we will take care of our selves." No, no! They held the rope, and in doing so did more for the Christ. Ian church than any thousand of us will ever accomplish. But God knows and has miudo eternal record of their under 1,kamg. And they know. How exultant they must have felt when they rend his letters to the Io muans, to the Corinthians, to the Gala. tians, to the Epheaians, to the Phillip. pians, to the Colossians, to the Thessa lonians, to Timothy, to Titus, to Phile mnon, to the Hebrews, and when they heard how lie Walked out of prison, with the earthquake unlocking the door for him, and Look command of the Alexan draui cornship when the sailors were nearly scared to death, and preached a Ramoni that nearly shook Felix off Ills judu&mrent seat! I hear the men and wo. mie who helped him down ILrough the wintdow and over the wall talking in pri. viately ovel the matt!r and saying: "How glad I am that we eilected that reEcuti n coming times others may get, the glory 01 Paul's work, but no one shall rob us of the satislaction of know ing that we held the rope." Th'iere are said to be about 09,000 min idersi of religion in this country. About 50) 000, I warrant came from early homes wich had to struggle for the noe cessairaes of life. The sons of rich bank ers iad merchants generally become hankers and merchants. ~The most of those who become ministers are the sons of those wvho had terrific struggle to get their everyday bread. TIhe colle giate cnd theological education of that son took every luxury from the parent al table for eight years. The other chil diren were more scantily ap~pareled. The son at, college every little while got a hundle from hihme. In it were the socks that moither had knit, sitting up late at night, her sight not as good as once it w as. And there also were some delica cies from the sister's hand for the 3ra cious appetite of a hungry student.. The years go by, the son has been or dained and is preaching the glorious gee upel, and a great revival comes, and sf)uils by scores and hundreds accept, the gospel Iromi the lipa of that young preacher, and father and mother, quite old now, are visiting the son at the vil haee parsonage, and at the close of a Sabhath of mighty blessing father and miothier retire to their room, the son ig the way and asking them if he can do anything to make them more comifortable, saying if they want any thing i the night just knock on the wall. And then all alone father and mother talk over the gracious influences of the (lay andl say: '"Well, it was worth all we went through to educate that boy. it was a hard plull, but we held on tih the work was done. The world may not know it; but, mother, we held the rope, didn't we?" And the voice trem ul1ous with joyful emotIon, responds: "Yes, father; we held the rope. I feel my wvork is dIone. Now, Lord, lettest thou thy servant deplart ini peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation." "Pahaw," says the father, "I never felt so much like living in my life as nowl I want to see what that fellow 15 going on to do, he has begun so weJll." Oh, men and women here assembled, you brag sometimes how you have fought your way in the world, but I think there have been helpful influences that you have never fully acknowledged. IHas there not been some influence in your early or present home that the world cannot see? Does there not reach to you from among the New England hills, or from western prairies, or from southern plantation, or from English or Scottish or Irieh home, a cord of influ ence that has kept you right when you would have gone astray, and which, af ter you had made a crooked track, re callod you? The rope may be as long as 30 years or 500 miles long or 3,000 miles long, but hands that, went out of mortal sight long ago still hold the rape. You want a very swift horse, and you need to rowel him with sharpest spurs, and to let, the reins lie loose upon the neck, and to give a shout to a racer, If you are going to ride out of reach of your mother's prayers. Why, a ship crossing the Atlantic in seven days can not sail away from them! A sailor finds them eon the lookout as lie takes his p1 ice, and finds them on the mast as he cimbs the ratlines to disentangle a rope ntihe tempest, and ainds them swinging on the hammock when he turns In. Why not be frank and acknowledge It? T[he most of us would long ago have been dasned to pieces had hot graclous and loving hands steadily and lovingly and mightily held the rope. Bunt there- must come a time when we shall find out who these Damascenes were whlo lowered Paul in the basket, and greet them and all those who have rendered to oand t..e world.ur...... nIzed and unrecorded services. That i going to be one of the glad excitementi of heaven-the hunting up and pickinj out of those who did great good on eartil and got no credit for it. Here the churel has been going on 19 centuries, and thii Is probably the first sermon ever recog mzing the services of the people In thal Damascus balcony. Charles G. Finn3 said to a dying Christian, "Give mN love to St. Paul when you meet him.' When you and I meet him, as we will, I shall ask him to introduce me to thosf people who got him out of the Dmas cone peril. Once for 36 hours we expected every moment to go to the bottom of the >cean. The waves struck through the ;kyliglits and rushed down into the 2old of the ship and hissed against the oilers. It was an awful time, but by ,he blessing of God and the faithful. iess of the men in charge we came out >f the cyclone, and we arrived at home, Nach one before leaving the abi hanked Captain Andrews. I do no1 hink there was a man or woman thal vent off that ship without thankini Japtain Andrews, and when years af or I beard of his death I was impelled o write a letter of condolence to hii amily in Liverpool. Everybody recognized the goodness, he courage and the kindness of Captaih &ndrews, but it occurs te rae now tha we never thanked the engineer. H itood away down in the darkness amit he hissing furnaces doing his whol luty. Nobody thanked the engineer but God recognized his heroism, an( his continuance, his fidelity, and theri will be just as high reward for th4 engineer who worked out of sight a the captain who stood on the bridge o: the ship in the midst of the howlinj tempest. A Christian woman was seen goini along the edge of a wood every ever tide, and the neighbors in the countr did not understand how a mother witi so many. cares and anxieties shoul waste so much time as to be idly saur tering out evening by evening. It wr found out afterwards that she wer there to pray for her household, an while there one evening she wrote thi beautiful hymn, amous in all ages fc chesring Christians hearts: J[ love ro steal awhile away From every cumbering care And spend the hours of setting day In humble, grateful prayer. Shall there be no rewad for such ui pretending yet everlasting service? We go into long sermon to pros that we will be able to recognize peopi in heaven when there is one reason w fail to present, and that is better tha1 all-God will introduce us. We sha have them all pointed out. You woul not beguilty of the impoliteness c having friends in your parior not ii troduced, and celestial politeness wil demand that we be made acquainte with all the heavenly household. Wha rehearsal of old times and recital o stirring reminiscences. If others fail jto give introductioi God will take us through, and befor our lirst. 24 hours in heaven-if it wer calculated by earthly timepieces-hav passed we shall meet and talk wit more heavenly celebities than in ou entire mortal state we met with earthl celebraties. Many who made grea noise of usefulness will sit on the las seat by the front door of the heaven]l temple, while right up within arm reach of the heavenly throne will b many who, thcught they could n preach themselves or do great exploil for God, nevertheless held the rope Come, lot us go righ t up andaccost thoe on this circle of heavenly throne. Surf ly they must have killed In battle million men. Surely they must havy buried with all the cathedrals souniflnJ a dirge and all the towers of all thE cities tolling the national grief. Wh< art thou, mighty one of heaven ? ". lived by choice the unmarried daughte In a humble home -that I might tak care of my parents in their old age, ani I endured without complaints all thel querulousness and ministered to al their wants for 20 years." Let us pass on round the circle o thrones. Who art thou, mighty one a heaven? "I was for thirty years Christian invalid and suffered all th while, ozcasionally writing a note c sympathy for those worse off than: and was general confidant of all thoi who had trouble, and once in a while was strong enough to make a garmer for that poor family in the back lane Pass on to another throne. Who ai thou, mighty one of heaven ? Iw the mother who raised a whole famil of children for God, and they are ot in the world, Christian merchant Christian mechanics, Christian wive; and I have had full reward of all mi toil." Let us pass on in thle circle c thrones. "I had a Sabbath school clam and they were always on my heart, an they all'entered the kingdom of Gol andl I amn waiting for their arrival." But who art thou, the mighty one heaven on this other throne ? "In tin of bitter persecution I owned a houw in Damascus, a house on the wall. man whio preached Christ was hounde from street to street, and 1 hid hii from the assassins, and when I foun them breaking in my house and I coul no longer keep him safely I advise him to flee for his life, and a basket we let down over the wall with the ma treatedi man in it, and 1 was one wh helped hold the rope." And I said, "J that all ?" and he answered, "That:j all." "And while .I was lost in amazemer I heard a strong voice that sounded e though it might once have been hoare from miany exposures and triumphar as though it might have belongedt one of the martyrs, and it said, "Nc many mighty, not many noble, ar called, but God hath chosen the wea things of the world to confound th things which are mighty, and bas things of the world, and things whic are despised hath God chosep --yea, an things which are not-to bring t naught things which are, that no ies should glory in his presence." And looked to see from whence the voic came, and lo! it was the very one whi had said, "Through a window in a bas kot was I let down by the wall." llencforth think of nothinig as insi-f afficant. A little thing may docd your all. A OJunarder put out fron England for New York. It was wvel quipped, but In putting up a stove ii he pilot box a nail was driven tot iear the compass. You know hov ~hat nail would affect the compasa L'ho ship's ollicer, deceived by that dis racted compass, put the ship 200 mile >ff her right course, and suddenly thu nan on the lookout cried, "Land, hiol md the ship was halted within a few' iards of her demolition on Nantucke ihoals. A sixpenny nail came nea wrecking a Cunardher. Small ropes hol< .Amnotr seated in Boston at hi: ;able, lacking a word, puts his band be lad his head and tilts back in hii 3hair to think, and the ceiling falls anc rushes the table and would hav4 erushed him. A minister in Jamaici ait night, by the light of an insect callec the candleily, is kept from steppin1 over a precipice a hundred feet. F. W Roibertson, be celebrated English cler gyman, said that he entered the minis try from a train 'of oircumstance started by the barking of a dog. EIa te win blown one way on a certa cla, te pansh.- rmqhinlton op have been established In England, but it blew the othf. way, and that dropped the accursed institution with 76,00C tons of qhipping, to the bottom of the sea or flirng the splintered logs on the rocks. Nothing unimportant In your life or mine. Three ciphers placed on the right side of the ilguie 1 make a thous and, and six ciphers on the right side of the figure 1 a million, and our nothing ness placed on the right side may be augmentation illimitable. All the ages of time and eternity affected by the basket let down frot a Damascus bal conyI THE BLAND BILL PASSED. A M'rJ3izty of Thirteen Givonu bI bvThe senato. WASHINGTON, March 15.---A resolu tion was ofl'red by Gallinger (Rep,' Jf New Hampshire and laid over tempt'.a. rily zalling on the Secretarles of the Treasury and Interior tor the names of all clerks appointed, promoted, reduced or dismissed In their respective depart ments since March 4, 1893, with the i State to which each is credited. At 12:30 the Bland seianiorage bill was taken up and Carey (Rep.) of Wyoming L continued his speech begua yesterday against it. He characterized the bill as the worst blow aimed at silver since the demonetization of silver in 1873. The next speech on the' subject was made by Dubois(Rep.)of Idaho. le said that he took no comfort in voting for thi bill. It was not the kind of silver leaisia tion that suited him. He should like t< vote for a free coinage measure. The next speaker was Mitchell (Rep. of Oregon. He said that lie should vot for the bill, not because he believed i went so far as it ought to go in the in 7 terest of silver as a money metal, bu 1 because it was a move on the legisla I tive, checker board in the right direction Like the Senator from Idaho, he woul( much prefer that it was a free coinagi t bill; and then he would vote for il wiLl ,t great placasure. r Palmer (Dem.) of Illinois opposed th bill, and quoted ie witt's statement tha it proposed to coin a vacuum. It was indeed, he said, a vacuum, for it wa admitted that if the whole niass rf sil ver purchased under the Act of 189 I- were put on the market today it Aoul bring many millions less than Lh e amount necessary to discharge ths Tre 0 sury notes issued for its purchase. le believed the bill to be so defectiv that the silver which it required to hi coined would remain inert in the Trea d f sury, and that not a single silver dolla could be put into circulation under it. Pettic-rew (ltep.) of South Dakota ha just begun an argument in favor of thi t bill, when Harris rose and in his mos f impressive tones said: "Mr. President the hour of 2 is recorded by that cloc 1, (pointing to the clock over the mali e doorway) and at that hour the unanim 3 ous agreement of the Saate is that th e final vote shall be taxen on the passagI ti of this bill. I ask for that vote." r Davis (Rep.) ot Miunesota asked tha V Pettigrew.should be allowed to finish hii t speech. Ilarri3: "I object. If I were to yiei( a to the Senator from South Dakota . e would feel bound to yield to other Sen t aors. I vield to nobody." (Laugh ter. s Kyle (Pop.) fo South Dakota as~ket .that Pettigrewjmighti be allowed to hiave B all his speech printed-in the Record. The presiding oflices, Vilas (Demn.) o: I W~isconsin, declared the question to be: 3 "'Shall the bill piass?"' The vote was taken and the bill was passed, yeas 44, nays 31, as follows: Yeas-Allen, Bate, Berry, Black burn, Blanchard, Butler, Call, Cockrell Coke. Colquitt, Daniel, Dubois, Faulk. i ner, George, Gordon, Hiansbrough, lHar r ri, Hiunton, Irby, Jones, of Arkansas, I Kylev, Lindsay, Mcbaurin, MartinD Mills, Mitchell, of Oregon, Morgan, f' Pasco, Peflfer, Perkins, Pet t igre w, Pugh f Quay, Ransom, Roach, Shoup, Stewart tTeller, Turpie, Vest, Voorhees, White e Wolcott-44. S Nays-Aldrich, Allison, Brice, Caf fai'ry, Carey, Chandler, Cullom, Davis SDolph, Frye, Gillinger, Gicson. Gor t man, Ihale, Ilawley, Iligginn, LOdge n Mchiillin, McPherson, Manderson t~ Mitchell, of Wisconsin, Morrill, Mur .s phy, Palmer. Platt, Proctor. Smith y Stockbridge, Vilas, Washburn, Wilon ~t -31. i, When the result was announicd, tlieri 6, was hand-clapping in the crowded galle y ries, which broach of order was rebukei Sby the presiding oficer. Then the spec Stators began to desert the galleries; ani the Senate chamber resumed Its ai of quiet languor and respectability. Thb ,Republicans who voted for the bill were e Dubois. Hansbrough, Mitchell of' Ore e son, Pettigrew, Power, Quay, Shoup Stewart, Teller and Wolcott. d The Democrats who voted againsti a were: Brice, Caffeory, Gormnan, Mc d Pherson, Mitchell of Wisconsin, Mur d phy, Palmer, Smith, and Vilas. Thn d three Populist Senators-Allen, K(yli ,s and Peffer-voted f'jr it. 11ill, (Dem of New York announced his pai 0 wIth Dixon (Riep.) of Rhode Island, s A joint resolution heretofore 5untro a duced by IHarris (Dem.) of' Tennesse< for the appointment of a commission t: *t be composed of the Secretary of' the s Treasury, Secretary of War and the A t t tornesy General for the settlement o o United Statetes government and thu a State of Tennessee, arising out of th e transfer of' railroads, was taken up an kc passedI e Teller gave notice that lie would tri e to get the McGarrahan bill up for ac ii ion next Monday. I After a short executive session th~ 3 doors were reopened at 3.20 and busi ness was resumed and continued unti S4.10, when the senate adjourned unti Monday. 190 business of general inter -est was transacted after the executivi session. The Seigmiorage bill caniuo . reach the President before Monday, ai it was not signed by the presiding of fleer of the two houses at the time o Iadjournment,, WHILEn deer driving in lower portorl ofMarion county, a few di .ys ago, Mr Thomas H., Kirton of the Centenar3 neighborhood, made one of the meal remarkable shots that has been record, ed in this State within qr ite a periodl. Three deer, a buck .and two does, wverf juLmped at one time by the dogs and ran out in a bach, at the stand oc cupied by Mr. Kirton, coiming directly to wards him, and when within a shori distance he fIred, killing all three ol them at the sin gle shot. Mn. Robert Bonner gives to the ptib lie a letter he received from Heonr3 IWard Beecher years ago in whlich th( latter says concerning a visit to Lin coin: "Abrahami told me three staries two of which I forgot and the othoi won't bear telling." TJ E cost of the world's wars since the-Orimean war has been $18,265,000, i 000, or enough to give a 810 gold piect I to every man, woman and child on the i globe. An enterprising man might I. sell pools on ftux e ace. A ROW. BREWING. ba - J. TROUBLE BETWEEN THE UNITED Ion STATES AND THE STATE. the for The NIat ,nal Governuont Offiocars Wnt me sw( to Take Some Seized W eiskey front thio and 'isPenia-Uovf rubr Titmmau I)'osn't Se Fed jLke It. the CorUMrA, S. C., March 13.-The pu United States government and the got State government are about to "mix" sta over seizures of contraband whiskeys. t What will be the outcome of itno one 0 knows and it will take time to decide- bul Governor Tillman does not like the in- rea terference of Uncle Sam's officers, and o in a letter vhich he sent to Collector doo Townes yesterday he says so. 'C61lector oft Townes is probably acting under in. I structions from Washington and what- mer ever he does in the matter in. dispute day will be after hearing from headquart- Col ers, go( The trouble now on hand is over the lou seizure, in Charlesion last week of nine sayt packages of whiskey which had been wi directed to L. Elias of that city. The out whiskey was shiDped here and is now seg in the State Dispensary. Collector wit Townes wrote to Commissioner Traxler laying claim to the whiskey on the ground that it was shipped into this ptate in violation of section 3449 of 8 the Revised Statutes of the United rib States. This section provides for the day seizure of any whiskey shipped in any Ion manner other than under its proper 3. name. For instance, in case a person wh ships whiskey into this State or any clo State in a box labeled "Bacon," or la- pla beled any way except wiskey, the ship. In f ment Is liable to seizure. ing The packages seized in Charleston are said to have been shipped in violation pie of the section named. In answer to the hot claim of Collector Townes Governor ofI Tillman sent the following letter- tha "1,olumbia, March 12, 1894. fro "lon. S. A. Townes, U. S. Collector ma Columbia, S. C. ' my Sir: Your letter of March 10th, refer ring to a seizure made by State Consta- The ble Gailard of nine packages of dis- th tilled spirits found in the store of L. and Elias, Charleston, 8. C, has been -ro- Sh ferred to the Statd Board of Control by ha Mr. Traxler. pr You say that these packi'gesare liable erii to seizure under U. S. l. S., section su1 3449. We acknowledge this, had the on United States revenue officers found the tim liquor andi made the seizure, but inas- of much as the State constables seized it aho first and it has come into the possession the of the State Commissioner as "contra- the band" under our State law, we deny the right of the government to take it from us on the following grounds: First. This liquor was not being to ' "shipped, transported or removed," but Ai had alredy reached its destination. Ala Second. It was smuggled into the spr State to evade the State law, and not Ile, k the United States law, because it bears ites all the stamps showing that all revenue sec1 taxes have been paid. pall Tnird. It is now in possession of a lis State olicer, under confiscation proceed. per ings, and is to all intents and purposes VOt the property of the State. - It, came into mo her possession by due process of law tiol and this fact should prevent the rev- ago enue olicers from interfering since sec, wh tion 3149 could have no other purpose wd: other than to secure the pa yment of the tis, tax. cas8' I We will be glad to have the matter son setteled once for all; first, by the dleci- bitt sabn of the commissioner at Washing. OrI ton, D. C., and it that Is againts our list claim then we w'll make a Lest ease in pro the (courts by giving bond and defend- wat ing suit to show that our title is good wVh< against yours. 1 simply add, in con. sha] clusion, that we want the matter set. tioti tied as soon as possible. We have every the desire to co-operate with the Federal the authorities in the suppression ot the crat ilicit trailic in whiskey, but wve cannot au fi be expect.ed to tamely submit to -such an unjust claim as this. The United States government encourages men to 13 break the State law by letting them A. pay special tax for privilege to sell. Mel When they smuggled in whiskey on han which tax has been paid to avail them- sern selves of the privilege, and the State mei constables seized it, it belongs to the tak State, if there is the least regard for wil equity and fair play. It' we cannot upc hold it we will dump it into the streets nat in the future. Very respectfully, tit B. iR. TILL31AN. g'ML Governor and ChaIrman State Board. the P IAYTNG U1ACK TITE (IOVER NMENT. to 1. 'The State got even with Uncle Sam sen yesterdlay. During the morning the gov.. soo ernment rold at the Federal building a abc I hot of whis&:ey which hadl been seized Rea by revenue cilicers. Co). F. M. Mixson - qui was present at the sale and bought hin most of the whiskey for the State Dis- er. pensary, paying $1.15 a gallon for it. his There were several private bidders, the however, and they bought some of the leg whiskey at $1.25 a gallon. These per- be sons were Sam HL-rmon, who bought a at T~'Y, ANI We imea1 *nificti,"' t$600 by 1( WE4 MELI PKANON.-i Roliable, Dur ablo, Mustically Perfect ho ecause best. We can save yonumoney. S times. Wite us. Mention this papeor. LTUDDEN &0 '3' Southern tHumxe Eloun DENS "THE WORLD'S GREALTES .'THE MAlHINEt TI The Only F~OR TIYPEWRI'I'ERS AT THE~i STAi] "NO MACHINE COULD. -' lBE ANY B'ETTErlR. u1.1 PERFIECT." privave statement of one. of the Judges. - Responsiblo Ocunity Ag J. WV. Gribb . NERmAl. A(JnTun SOnr rel containing forty-seven gallons. ary Dart, who bought two'keg, and P, McCartha, who bought sex gal i of apple brandy. efore the purchasers had paid for 0 whiqkey a warrant was sworn out its seizure and for the arrest of the ri who bought it. The warrant was rn out before Trial Justice Stack b was placed In the hands of Deputy iriff Olvil. That officer went to the E teral buildins in the afternoon, but whiskey remained unmoved. The chasers had not paid for it and had called for it. They had probably .en wind of the intention of the h 'e, to seize the "stuff" and arrest b n if they attempted to take it out. c onstables were placed around the 0 ding during the afternoon. and were t ly to pounce upon the whiskey so ti 1 as it was rolled out of the front - r of the building and got from oul lie hands of the government. is not thought that the persons ' itioned will go for the whiskey to and the government will resell it. ector Townes says that it cannot iut of his oflice except during offiee ra, from 9 a. m. to 4 p. in. le also that he has nothing t > do with the skey after it is paid for and gets of the bulling. The constables can e it then and do what they please [I it so far as he is concerned. Murder Wll Out. NYANNAiH, Ga., March 9.-A har e murder was unearthed here to. . A negro named Isaiah Harder, a zslioeman, diiappeared about Sept. Investigation failed to determine it had become of him until his hes were found where they had been 3ed by the murderers. le was killed room, presumable by Mary Wash ton, Sam t dwards and Richard 0 ,shington. His body was cut in 3es-and buried under the floor of the 5S. Suspicion led to the beginning LU investigation-last Monday. Since t time the body has been removed in the room of the Washington wo a and its whereabouts is still the stery of the case. Washington, his e and Edwards are under arrest. woman admits the killing and all horrible details and says Edwards her husband were both accompliecs refusedl to tell what disposition W boon made of the body. The other oners deny a1 knowledge of the te. The causs of the murder is posed to have been jealousy, either Jhe part of Edwards, who was in- U ate with the woman, or on the part t ior husband. Several brother long- 0 remen made feeble attemps.to lynch * prisoners this afternoon, in which V were unsuccessful. An Alabama Sensition, [nM P I is, Tenn., March 9.-A special ' 'he Commercial from Birmingham. $ ., says the biggest sensation. of the bama campaign has just been Ing. Some time ago the Alliance I ald, the official organ of the Klob- " began a warfare on Ben Dala, mos, g etary of the State Republican Cam.- a gn Committee. In reply he pub ed a card in several DemocratiU pa- | i threatening to mate public the chers which would show that hey was paid to him from the Na ial Republican Committee two years to Kolbites to help out the leaders, 3recy the Weaver electorol -ticket i firt supported by these two par elected, was to vote for Harrison in a vote was needed to insure Harri 's election. The Alliance Herald erly denied these charges. The enville Truth, a straight out Pop'u paper edited by J. M. Whitehead, oate juedge of Butler county, who on the Weaver electoral ticket, but >hats since given the Kolbites the te, comes out in a lengthy publica exposing the deal. The effect of exposure will be a stunning blow tob Koibites-Populist combine. Deino 1c leaders say that this in itself is cient to defeat Kolb for Governor. A Preacher Arrested 3 JILMINanAM, Ala., March 14.-Rev. M. Thompson, in charge of the e hodist Church at East Birming- C 1, was arrested near the close of his D non Sunday morning by two police- ~ 1 in citizen's clothes, and will be ~ en back< to Jackson, Miss., where he serve out a life sentence imposed ahim five years ago for the assassi Ion of a brother minister in his pul while preaching to a large congre ion. The cause of the killing was appointment of the murdered manE hepatorate of Thompson. He was I to the penitentiary for life, but ri made lisa escape. lie came here ut two years ago, calling himself - W. M. Thompson, and assisted in f te a number of revivals, proving LBelf an earnest exhorter and preach His congregation was horrilled at arrest and can hardly believe that pastor is guilty of the crime al 3d. He is in jail at present and will aken to the Mississippi penitentiary. >nce. PAN ONLY $150+ S'ANS'--NO.-Ca ,led. [A 1 b MIAILL VALUELESS. the P'ianos so glaringly advor- g ol r "Grand Offers," "Factory Agents' rrofits Saved," for $150, * anid misrepresented as "Mag- . i 'iBest Made," "Snme as Sold at gular Dealers." * a Only $225 $260. $300-Cheapest 0 Speclad~y easy termis for closo BATES+ ,Savnnma, (Ga. [ ORE. T TYPEWRITER." [AT TOOK A w a r d . C IfAIR, NOV EMIC' 9, 1893. .1TIIE ONLY AWARD) b h WAS AlMO .MADE TO US b FOR TrYPEWRITER'S t S.IUPPLIES. mits Wanted. es & Oo., J1MBIA. c; 8. A Mystery. PENSAOLA, Mrch 10.-A body of n unknown Mnan Was discovered float - 'g In the bay' thistnoralng. 10 was f medium height ant had light haIr, meighed probably 100 pounds. ldad i - his pocket a leather tr k check, earing the name of C. L., cobs, t3an )iego, Cal. No marks of violence was >ud on the body. Wi1l Pound Itook 'PEORIA, Ill., March' 10,.in the Cir 'it Court last night, Charles Wickert, Oavy-Welght pugilist, who, on Dacem or 15, brutally .beat John Behrands, rippling him for life, was found guilty f assault with intent to kill, and son snced to fCurteen years in the peniten ary. 'MGETT PAYS THE FREIGH' Whj Ia ELirsme Prlous for Goods I end for atalogus and See What You Cia SGin A .r se r ot Ilita, all Ir cel. $69 CpWa ML$37 Just tintro uc17te ( e.1111 No frei lit pald on tha-~or gan. uarantoed i) be a undedorgan or 'noey re lgan1 Plush PAtIoR siiTs, consisting I Sofa, Arm Chair, Rocking (i'dr Divan, nd 2 ilde Chilrs -worth $45. Will delives to your depotor $ . 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