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AND YOU'LL REiMBSEOR ME." One evening as the sun went down Among the golden hills, And silent shadows, soft and brown, Crept ov*-r vales and rlils. I watched the dusky bats a-wing DIp down the dusky lea - Harkenina, board a maiden sing, *'And you'll temember me." When other lips and other hearts," Came drifting through the trees; 'In language whose excess Imparts," Was borne upon the breezo. &b I love 18 sweet and hope is strong, And life's a summer sea. A.womn's soul is In her song; "And you'll remember me." There soman' te ar in ver note, Still rippling from her throbbing throat, With joy akin to pain. There seemed, a tear In every note, A sob in every strain; Soft as the twilight shadows creep Across the listless sea, The singer sanig her love to sleep With:. I You'll remember me." AT THE I ABERNACLE. A nermon of Imnakery on tho spiltual Cox filets of L'te. BROOKLYN, April 29 -The Taber nacle was crowdeq this morning with the usual throng of eager listeners. Dr. Talmage preached on the slpritual con flets of1ife, taking for his text Genesis xxxii, 24-20: "And Jacob was it fG alone, - and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that lie prevailed not against him he touched the hollow ot his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of toint - as he wrestled with him. And he eaid. Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not let thee ao except thou bless me." The dust, arose from a traveling herd ot cattle and sheep and goats and camels. They are the present that Jacob sends to gain the good will of his Ol'r.ded brother. That night Jacob haitf by the brook Jabbok. But thero is ii) ret k.r the weary man. No 0iniog hlner to t( the angels down into his dicam, bit a fierce combat that lasts until the rnorn ing with an unknown visitor. ''hey each try to throw the other. The un known visitor, to reveal his superior power, by a touch wrncichea ,acob'b thiah boie from its seeket, perhaps maiming him For life. As on tih morn ing sky the cluters of purple letid 1(. gin to ripe. Jacob :ees 1f i an eugcl with whom he hits bcen i cotlnding ami1 not one of bia.brother' toad j utors. Let me go,'' cries to inigel, liitimv himsellfup Into increastminv i "'1'hmo daiy hrcik eth.'' You see in tihe first phce tha (lod ill lows good jeoplo Otie' imesr' to got in a terrible struigc. Jacob wa a cood man, bit here ho is left. aloni in the mid ni2ht to wrestle whIh a trenmendous in, fluence by tke ,brook alihok. For Josej)h pit, for DanioI. a wild beant, de ; for David, det ronmeinti- ant exith; bor J o n the Baptist, a wilderness diet aiil ti.he executiouts ix; for Peier, it prisoo; lor Paul, shipwrcIk; tor 1dlin destolte 1 . mok; for VAliti, most iasrul i: crtmt.) , for .iosephine, hai.islinieo; for MIt Sigt.irney. tM. agoy 0f a drunklic.i t wife; for Jilm W sley, stonems t i ed to an infuriated mob; for CahliOriowe, ilhe Scotel. 4irl, 11he drowni: 2 i s-2 'urveo t' tet, see; for Air. Iiirr s. the hullt-inig of $hm Monnleatl popuiLce; for J4o1.1n Blown (t Edminurui, the pietol Shot of L,,rd Ulaverh. us( ; for Iluui McKiil, 1he cat - fold; for Lummer, the stinkr-; tor C2hrist, the cross. Ft wvhom tn's inus , the Lih betP, the guillotines, the th~uIlibpr 0V9y For the sons and c daura tt o f iu I, rm G~od Atmifbty. bomnne one' siaal to a C2hristian reformer, "T1oa: wrldi is ogains 300.'' '"Then," h le rephatlt, * 1 amu;against thbe woild.'~ I will go further antd sa tlitt evers ( bristian bus his Ptrtcgle. TI iisn ana, had his combat, in WVall streed; t'is not on Broad streely this onte ont lul ina streei ; this one on Chiestnt atreeccn; tisi one on State street, tazis 11 one I n li mbard stree' ; this one oin the buu~rse. WViLe financial misltortune you hamvO hadl the midnig~ht wresile. Redbnioitidisasiers have dro)lpped ini t)o sour store~ from loft, to celhar. What yjou bought yen coul not sell. Wi'hom you trusted fled. The help you expeci tdt would no' c::me. Some giant panic, with long armiis nod grip like deaith, took hold of you in an awful wrestle, irom'i which 30um have not 3 et occpe, aind it 1s umt ertain whether it will throw you or you will throw it. Ihero is another in struggle with some bad aplpetito. ie knew not how stetlthi. ly it was growing upon him. U.no hour lie woke up. lie saidi, "For the sake of my soul, of my family and of my chil dren antI of my God, I muist stop) this!"' .And, be hold, he fouind himsel f alone by the brook Jabbok, and it was mitdnight. That evil appetmte seizetd upon0 him, and he seized upon it, and, oh, the horror of the confliict When once a bad haibmt has aroused itself up to destroy a mani, and the man has sworn that, by the help of the eternal God, he will diestroy it, all heaven draws itself out in a long line of light to look trom above, anti hell stretches itself In nyrmidons of spite to look up from bcneath. I have seen men rally themselves for such a stru~gle, ant they have bitten their hpi andl clinched their lists andl cried with a blood1 red earnestness and a rain of scaldiing tearn, "'God bet1) mt!' From a wreatle with habit1I haye B een men fall back defeatedi. Calling for nlo help, but relying en their owni resolum tions, they havo come Into the st~ruggie, and for a time it seetmed as if they were gettiog the upper hand of their habilt, hiut that habit rallied again its interinal power and lifted a soul Irom its standing and wIth a f orce borrowed from thelpit hurle d I It into utter darkness. First I saw the auctioneer's mallet fall on the pictuires, and tausical instruments, and tihe rich upholstery of his family parlor. After awhile, I saw him lall Into the ditch. TLhen, in the midnight, wheni the cliil- 1 dren were dreaming their sweetesti dreams and Christian households are sil. eut with Slumber angel watched I heard him give the sharp shriek that followed the stab of his own poniardi. lie fell from an ho:nored social position; lhe fell from a family circlet which once he was the grandest atitraction; hie fell from the house of God, at whose altars lhe hadt been consecrated; lie lell-.-.orever! Bunt thank God, I have oftenr Seen a better termination than that. I bave seeni men piepare themselves for such a wrestling. They laid holtd of God's help as they went into comibat. The giant habit, regaled by the cup of' many temptations, came out strong aid defiant. They clinched. There were the writhings ar d dilstortlons ot a fearfl struggle. BLut the old giani, hegan to waver, and at last, in the midnight alone with none but God to wItness, by the blook Jabbok, the giant fell, and tihe triumphant wrestler broke the darkness with the cry, "Thanks be unto God, who giveth us' the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ." There ~a a wIdow's heart, that first was desolated by bereavement, ardsie by the anxieties and trials that came in tIhe 40ppo'i Qf 4 fatmlly. It is a sad Lfmng to see a man contendimg for a livelIhood under disadvantages, but to see a dell Date Woman, with lielpless little ones at her back, flghting the giants of Proverty and soirow. is more affecting, It was 0 humble hone. and passersby know noi that witbin those four walls were displayi of courage more adouirable than that o Hannibal crossing the Alps, or the past of Thermopylw, or .Balaklava, Where "Into the jaws of death rode the sh hundred." These heroes had the whole world t< cheer them on, but there were none t( applaud the struggle in the humbih home. She fougat for broad, for cloth, ing, for (ire, for shelter, with aching head and weak aide and exhauste( stiengti thrcugh the long night by the bicok Jabbok. Could it be that nonw wculd give her help! Had God forgot ten to be gracious? No, contending s ul The midnight air to lull of wings comium to the rescue. She hears it now, In thl Bough of the night wind, in the ripple ol the brook Jabbok the promise made w< long ago ringing down the sky, "Th.1 fatherlees children 1 will preserve then alive, and let thy widows trust in mel' Some one said to a very poor woman. "How is it that in such distress you keel cheerful?" She said: "I do it by what I call cross prayers. Whon I had my reni to pay, and nothing to pay it with, ant bread to buy, and nothing to buy it witi: I ased to sit down and cry. But now I do not get discouraged. If I go along the street, when I come to a corner of the street, I say 'The Lord help me.' I then go on untill I come to anothet crossing of the street, and agaim I say, 'The Lord help me.' Andt so I utter a prayer at every crossing and since I have got mnto that habit of saying these 'cross prayers' I have been able to keep up couiralge."' Learn a:am from this subject that people olutlties are surprised to find out that what they have been struggling with in the darkness is really an ''angel of blessing.'" Jacob found in the morn ihg that this strange personage was not an enemy, but a God dispatched mee senger to promise prosperity for him [nd for his children. And 80 many a maw at tae close Of his trial has found out that. lie has been trying to throw down his own blessing. I ycu are a Christian man, I will go back in lour history and id that the crandest things that have ever happened to you have been .your trials. Nethling short of r".irging, imprisonnint, and uhipwreck coubilA have made Paul what he was. When David was fleeing through the wildernces, i'ursued by his own son, lie was bein..t propared to become tho sweet iinger of Isreal. Tih pit and the dun .M' ii were the best schools at which Jos --ph ever griadtiited. The hurricane tiat LIpst Ie ten and killed Job'a children Pireoared the ialn of Iz to write the mnuaile ut poem that has astonshsd the ageb. There is no way to et the "tCat out of the straw hut, to thrash it. There is no way to purify the gold but to hurt it. Look at. the people who havo ,tlw asa had it their own way. They are f . , Giatontented, soueles afnd tithllappV 1i oni watit to flud ' heerlul folks go atuonu those who have - cen purilletd by the tire. A a l'r Rsini had rf ntdered "Willharn T'h" the five hundredth time acompanv -1 mticians cam Under his window in Parim and serenaded him. Trhey put upoan his~ brow a crown ci laturel leaves! Hur amid all the aapplauise andt enitusi. inemla m sni turned to a tend and said, "'I wouiil give ad lui 1.i billiantt sc'~me Jot a fewv days (t youtth arnd Jove ''. Con trast the1( melanicholy foolig cif Rossini, who buad everya hinag that this wnrld couih X're him1, to the O joyfu expearienlce of Iaac \Vatte, whose miilritnes wvere innunwr i iable when he saye: Thea 11111 of Zion yieldls A huousatnd sacredl sweets Ik'foca 14 we reach tilo heavenly faelds; Or wvalk thei goliteon streets, IThen let taur soangs abounad Anud evt-ry tear' he dry. We are atcarhiang through Imanueln's gaontt TIo I irite worhats oan high. It is prosperity that, kills and trjuble hat saveS. While the Irealites were on he march amidl great privations and aardships they behaved well. Atter tuvbile they' prayed for meat, anti the tky daarkened with a great, flock of quails mdt these quails tell in large multitudes til abhout them, and the Isrealites ate mat ate anti stuff'ed themselves until Lhey diled. Ohm, my friends, it Is not rtmedship or trial or starvation that in tres the soul, but abundant supply. It s not the vultutre of trouble that eats up the Christian's life. It is the quails, It, is the quails. You will yet find out that y'our midnight Wrestle by the brook Jab bok is with an angel of God come down o0 bless aand save. Lean, ngnin, that while our Wrestfling vih trouble may be triumphant we nust expect, that it, will leave its mark upon us. Jacob p revailed, but the angel ocued him, and his thigh bone sprang romi its socket,, and the good man went impig on his way. We must carry ,hrough this the mark of the combat. What plowed those premature wrinkles n you face? What wvhitened your' hair efore it was time for frost? What, ail mnced 'forever so much of the hilarity of fouir household? Ah, it is becauase the inget of trouble hath touacheta you that ion go iimp)ing on your way. You needi tot be0 airprised that those wvho have assed through the fi're dlo not feel as any as once t hey did(. D~o not be out, of patience with those vhio come niot out of their despondency. L'hey may triumph over their loss, and et their gait shall tell you that tney ave been trouible touched. Are we Oice that we can, unmoved, see our radle rifled of the bright eyes and the weet lips? Can we stand unmoved1 and es our gardens of' earthly delight up ooted? Will ,Jesus, who wept himself, >e angry iih us If we pour our tears ato the eraves that open to swallow ltown whiat we love best? Was Laza.rus 'tore dear to him than our beloved dead o us? No. We have a right to weep. )ur tears must come. You shall riot Irive them back to scaldl the hearts. 1'hey fall into Goed's bottle. Afflicted mnes have died because they could not weep. Thank God1 or the sweet, the nysterioua relief' that comes to us in ear, Under this gentle rain the flo.- ers )f corn put. forth their bloom. God pity Lhat dry, withered, iarched, all consum-~ nug griefthat wrings its hands, and grinds is teeth, anti bites its nails unto the qjuick, hut cannot weopit s may have hound the comfort of the cross and yet ever after she v that in the dark uight and by the brook Jabbok we were trou. ble touched. Ag~ain we may take the idea of the text and announce the approach of the day~ dawn. No one was ever more glad to .see the morning thtan was Jacob after that night of struggle, lIt is appropriate for p~hIlanthropists a nd Christians to cry out with this angel of the text, "The day breaketh." "The world's prospee B are brightenrog. The church of Christ is ris. Ing up its strength to go forth "fair as the moon, clear as the sun and terrible I'. - as an army with banners.'' Clap youi bands, all ye people, the day breaketh The bigotries of the earth are perishing. The time was when we were told tha it we wanted to get to heaven, we tius be immersed or sprinkled, or we mus believe in the perseverence o1 fthe saint or in falling away from grace, or a litur i gy or no liturgy, or they must be Cal vminsts or Arminians in order to reacl heaven. We have all come to confes now that these are nonessentials in re lipion. Luring mny vacation one sumuer: was in a Presbyterian audience, and i wae sacramental day, an-' with eratefu heart I rcceived the holy communion I On the next S.Abbaith I was in a Motho dist churcn and sat at love feast. On tW ifollowing SAbbath I was In an Episco - palian church and knelt at the altar an received the consecrated bread. I di not know which service I eujoyed th most. "I believe in the communiou 0 saints and in tie life everlasting.'" "'jh day breaketh". As I look upon the audience I se many who have passed through waves o trouble that came up hieber than theil girdle. In God's name I proclaim ces Pation ol hostilities. You shall not g( always saddened and heartbroken. Goi will lift your burden. God will Drini your dead to life. God will stanch thi heart's bleeding. I know lie will. Lik as a father pities his children, so li Lord pties you. The tains of earth wil end. The tomb will burst. Tile dea< will rise. The morning star trembles o a brightening sky. The gates of th< east begin to swing open. The da breaketh. Luther and Melanctbon were t,.lkinp together gloomily about the prospects of the church. They could see no hopt of deliVeranco. After awhile Luthe got up and said to Melancthon: "Come, Philip, let us sing the forty-six psalni of David: "God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble i'hereforo will not we fear, though the earth be removed and though the imountains be carried into the midst of the sea, though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with t lie swelling thereof. Selah." Death to many-nay, to all-it is a struggle and a wrestle. We have many friends that It will be hard to leavo. I care not how [right our fiiture hope is. It is a hitter thing to look upon this fair world and know that wo shall never again see Its blossoming spring, its falling fruits, its sparkling streams, and to say farewell to those with whom we played lit childhood or connseled in manhood. In that night, like Jacob, we may have to wresIle, bit God will not leave us unblessed. It shill not be told in heaven that at (lying soul criod unto God for help, but was not deliv ered. The lattico may be turned to keep out the sun, or a book .st to dim the light, of the midnigl. taper, or the room may be tilled with the cries ot orphanage ;md widowhood, or the church 01 Ci ist, May mourn over our going, but if desus calls all is well. The strong wrestling by the brook will cease, the hour of dieath's night will pass ,long, 1 o'clock in tile mor alNig 2 o'clock in the moroing, 4 o' -locr 11' the morning-the day meaketh. So I woule have it when I aie I am in no haste to be gone. I. h we no grudge against this world. ?rr only fault I have to find with the world is that it treats me too well. But when the tnime comes to go I trust to be realy my worldly allaire all settled. If I have wronged others, I want thbem to be sure or their forgiveness. In that last wres'.llig, my arm en foebleav wth sickness and my hread faint, I wvant Jiesurs besIde me. If there bo hands on this side of the thor stretched otut to hold me backc. I want the heavenly handcs str ached out to draw mne for Wvird Then, (O desus, help mue on and help me uip. (nfearing, undoubting, may I step riglat out into the light and be able to took back to my kindred and friends. who would detain me here, exclaiming 'Let me go; let me go! The (lay break eth." Sweepiton the sonuate, . WAsINoTON, May 1.-For the third time in a short space of live weeks the Senate met today only to hear the an nouncement of another gap made in i'8 ranks by death. A fortnight ago to day funeral ceremonies were held in the Senate chamber over the remains ot Senator Vance of North Carolina. Three weeks before the like sad cere morial had taken place over the re mains of Senator Cokquitt of Georgia. And today theo announcement was made of the (death of Senator Stock bridge of Michigan, who died .yester day in Chicago. The other two Sena. cors had died in Washington. The meeting of the Senate today hrad been postponed from 11 a. mn. to noon, so as5 to give Senators an opportunity of paying their last tribute of respect to the memory of Mrs. Morgan, wife of the Alabama Senator, whose funeral took place this morning; and in the Chaplain's opening prayer they were reminded of the death of their associ ate from Michigan, whose dtesk and chair, in the outer row of Republican seats, wvere covered with black cloth. An unusually large number of Senators were present at the opening prayer. Trhe formal reading of yesterdlay's jour nal was (dispensed with and then Sena tor McMillan, thre col loane of the de ceased Senator, madeo the announce ment of Stockbridge's death. The usual resolutions wvere then offered by McMillan and were agreed to. T1hey expressed thre great sorrow of the Sen rate at the announcement of Mr.. Stock tbridlge's death andl provide for a corn mittee or sieven S'nators to attend thre funeral at Kalamazoo, Mich. Senators McMrllan, Frye, Washburn, Cuillom, Jones of Arkansa'j, Gibson and Jlan chard were appointed such committee andl then, at 12.10, the Senate adjourn ed until tomorrow at 11 a. mu. AmLEXANDRtIA, Va., A pril 27.-~Ben White nnd Jim ltobinson, botha colored, wvere hanged in the jail yard at Manasas at 7 o'clock thirs morning for criminally assaulting two white women no ir Man Mans late 01n thre mrght of the~ 13th ot last January, '1The two men, whlo had been confined in jail in this city since threir conviction, were taken to ManassaR Wedlnesday nighrt and1( kept in jail there till this morning. They sleplt butt little last night and spent most of the~ time on the floor of their cell undler tihe cots. This morning they ate nio breakfast tand after prayer in their rooms walked with fIrmi stepls to the gallows In the yard. A force of twenty deputios armed with guns Was present, bitt no disordler occurred, rTe hiangingz was witnessed h'v about fif ty persons. On the scall'old aftetr the knots had been adjusted., White asked to be eiven a few untos to pray, anrd while engaged ini prayer the drop tell. The necks of both men were broken and life was pronouncedl extinct by the dc tor-s in eight minutes. Bnlotaed. NEWv ORLIEANS, April 27.--eorge Fairbanks committed suicide this morn. .ug at the Hotel de Louisiana. lie has been here only a short time with his wrife and two children. Little is known of thbe family, but they' ar' said to be from COlumnnas Ohio TO BE FULLY SETTLED. The DIPpeUsary Law Agal Hefore th Suipr tit Oonrt. CoIUMir A, S. C., May 3.--The mos Importaut development in the liquo situation since the filing of the decision C the State Supreme Court, occurre, yesterday, and by Monday evening it I a likely that the uncertainty as to what th Supreme Court meant by ite decision whether it is free liquor or prohibition will be removed, and everybody will, til t Justice Gary goes on the Supreme bene I know exact.y where they are at. Ther Is no case which has been brou2htbefor the court recently in which all take e 3 deep an interest as that which starte on its career yesterday. Many seer morally certain that it will result in th court delaring that its recent decisio meant ab'solute prohibition. Equall is many are just as certain that Lh I court will decide that It meant absolute ly free liquor, and then there are other 3wao consider that the court will say tha it meant the old license laws woul govern the situation. This latter clas does not consist of many, however. Dke the original cases, which resull d in the knocking out of the dispen sary law, the case referred to abov came up fcom the Pee Dee sectior Yesteiday morning Mr. P. A. Wilco: arrived in the city from Florence. 11 had uothing to say to anybody, and di what lie had to do so quietly that i was 2:30 o'clock-wheu lie had com pleted his important work-before an one knew what he bad come here for lie was armed with papers which mean business. There was no session of thi Supreme Court yesterday, and he wen before the Chief Justice at chambers. Mr. Wilcox first made application foi a writ of habeas corpus in the case of J Ellis Brunson. The fact was set fort that Biruuson was arrested by the chie of polleo of Florence subsequent to thi passage by the city council of its liquo license ordinance, for the violation of tha ordinance. Brunson, it seems, was fined and is still in the custody of the ch'ef and Governor Tillman cannot ordoe thal onllcer to discharge him. The hief Jus Oco. without liesitatian, granted the fol. lowing order in this case: COUN'rV OF FLORENOR:, Third .Ju ricial District, Ex parte 3. Elli Brunson.---Potition for Writ of' Ila beau Corpus. To. G. -i. Turbeville, Chief of'the Police of Florence, S. C.: It having been brought before me by the petition of J. Ells Burnson that as chief of police of the city of Florence, S. C., you unlawfully declare his per es'n in custody, and the said J. Ellis Brunson having petItioned for a writ of haoeas corpus to b, ing said petitioner before the Suoreme Court to unquirt into the cause of his detent.ion by you as aloresaid. You are hereby ordered and requIred to thring the body of the prisoner bmfore the Supreme Court, at Columb'a, S. C., at 11 ciock on Monday, the 7th day of N1,y A. D., 1894, that the- cause of his coromitment belnur known and seen such further proceedings may ha had thereon a are agreeatb:e to law and jus.ice. HENRY NMIvFER, Chief Jusuce. Trhen Mr'. Wilcox, to be doubly sure, catme up with ajpetition for an n.junction ai.amint tue towin council of Florence asking that this body show case8 why they are charging anrd collecting a liquor license, and asking that they be re strained from doing so henceforth. This putition was presented Oni behalfcoi two citizens of Florence. The rule to show eause was issued by the Chief Justice as follows, and thus the whole thing is brought, equarely befor'e the court: .J. L. Bar'ringer and Theodore Kuker, Petitioners, vs. The City Council of Fiornco, Respondents. Upjon the reading the petition of J. L. Bat ringer and Theodore Kuker herein, it is. Ordered that the respondents herein do show cause before the Stuprems Court, of South Carolina, at Columbia, at 11 o'clock a. mn., on Monday, the 7th day of May A. D., 1894, why an mnjunction should not be issued by said court, re st~raining respandents, said city council of Florence, fro:n issuing licenses to sell intoxicating liquors in the said city of Florence, prayed for in petition, andl for such other and further relief as the Eaid court may deem just. It is further Ordered that a copy of the within or der be served on the respondent herein. HENRY MoIVER, Chief Justice. These two casos will permit of all doubtful points being brought Equarely before the court, and admit of the so. couring of a square-cut defimition of the meaning of the recent decision. It is an dertood that the arguments will consist in a great measure of'quotations from the recent decision. 1t is also understood that Mr. C. S. Nettles, who maae the winning fight against the dispensary law will appear on behalf' of the town coun cil of' Flosence. It was further ascer ininedl that the constitutionality of the new dispensary law will be brought up, and1( the court will be asked to make its decision on the original law apply tere to. State. Sh, aking Urot ca. A''HE'NS, April 29.-'l.'he late3t ro ,ports from Atlanti say that on Friday 365 shocks of earthquake were felt there in eight houirs. For two hours, the trembling of the earth was almost continuous. For a radius of three arnd a hlalf miles on every side of the town, the fields and high ways have been torn with deep fissues. The sea has en cr'oached upon the shore about sixty f"eet. Dispatches from all parts of the kingdom indicate that former reports of death andi damage to property have undi~erestimated the losses. The list of (lead and injured grows hourly. The mnisery in the smaller towns of the stricken (districts is extreme. Hundreds who were prosperious householders be fore the earthquakes are now withou t food1 and shelter for their f amilies andI are hogging for help. The government continues to (d0 all in its power to re liove the suffering, but the burden is bey.':i fits means and scorers of fai lies are alreadly on the ver're of starva tlon. Nearly one hundred thousand persons are said to have been left dest ituite of food and shelter in tne Lonri districl alone. A M'atai Miutake. SARANAC LAKE, Mich., April 28.-Mr Charles (1oward, or Burke, aged 21, and his wife, h ave quarreled ever since they were married, threae months ago. Many a time after her jealous outbreaks he has threatened so kill himself, and, the other day, when he repeated the threat, she lau ghed at him, dared him to do so, and handed him a vial of morphine. H~e walked into his room saying: "You have always called me untruthful. Now I will prove the contrary." An hour later he was found dead. The young wife, crazed by remorse, was with diffilty restrained from killinig herself, WEEKLY WEATHER REPORT. D The 33uIeti Iseutd by the wother flu . reau. t COLUMBIA, S. .C., May l.--The f. - r lowing Is the weather crop bulletin i of the Weather Bureau for the week I ending April 29th: The past week has not been a do. claive or decided one for any crop, al though the prevailing weather condf tions were on the whole unfavorable except in a few counties notably Barn well, where the reports were of a uni form favorable character. These re 1 gions were confined principally to the middle belt of counties, wherever there c were showers. The sunshine was some I1 what in excess over the normal,but this a was more than offset by the cool nights e and cool drying winds of The first of the week, although the temperature for the y week, as a whole, was about normal. D lam is needed in every part of the State. There were a few scattered showers during the week which were t very beneficial for the limited arm %s where they occurred. In the counties that had the heavy showers of the pro vious week rain is needed to soften the crust that covers plowed ground and which rotardo cotton and corn from coming up freely. In the two tiers of a counties next the coast the need of rain is most urgent as the drought is becoming serious. Throughout this region the rainfall has beer. but from 3 1-8 to 1-3 of the usual amount in April and but from 1-6 to 1-2 of the usual amount since the 1st of March. The soil for the most part being of a sandy nature is not as capable of sustaining a prolonged drought as a cla) ey soil do. Crops are from ten days to two weeks behind the season; farm work is well up, and was not interrupted during the week. Cotton planting is nearly finished the weather haviag been all that could be desired for the purpose. The same cannot be said for the seed that is up or that of later planting, for with the exceptions -noted, the ground tacks the moisture to supply the needs of the growing plant or to germinate the late planted seed. The standi will depend on the weather conditions of the next, two weeks largely. Sea Island cotton is reported a complete failure. In general corn is not making a good stand. Where there were showers It is looking fairly well, but owing to the cool nights and drying wind the color is not good. It will also be a very un even stand, for while some is large enough to work other lands in the same vicinity are just being replanted. Cut worms are doing much (a mage in the central and Western counties. Scattered reports indicate that there will be but little fruit of all varieties, and the berry crop will be a short one. This corroborates the flaet esti mates after the March free z3. Wheat has improved in appearance and is beginning to head,but the heads are small 'nd the straw very short. Itust has shown in a fow places, but is not gneral. 'rite outlook for oats is les encouraging than last week. The arought has affected it more seriously than any other crop, and as it is far ad vanced in heading, will be less quick to resoond to more favorable weather. The straw will be short. Garden truck is as a rule doing well except on the large truck f.arms in the low counties where the drought has caused a complete standstill in grbwtn. The seeda of late planting lie in the ground without showing the least ten aency to germinate. Cut worms doing some damage. What wvas said of gar dens is particularly true of potatoes. Irish potatoes have been greatly dam sgedl in places by the Cilorado beetle. Melons are doing well and have im proved much during the week. Tihe r,uns of Sundlay nlignt (29).h) were con Lined to the Northern parts oi the htate and even there was not general. .veraia 'engceance. RII.\TOND), Va., May 2.--A Staunton special to the Dispatch says: The trial of Lawvrence Soiller, charged with the murder of Lottie Rowe, was con cluded this morning at 10:30 o'clock. It was a tragic scene in the bloody drama when Commonwealth Attorney Meade F. White bade the burly bla'ck smith to stand before the jnry, pull1 off his coat, show the jury his undershirt and fitted the blood-stained piece of garment into a square hole in the pris oner's shirt sleeves, it corresponded in shape, texture and color. It was a cleverly arrariged climax. Spillez's paramour, Rose .'3rown, had ,testilled that she, at the prisoner's commarid, had cut the cloth from the shirt that the prisoner had on. The defense offered no witness and the case was given to the jury without argument. The jury retired and no tuirned in three minutes with a vy aiict of murder in the first degree, which thme prisoner received stoically. The usual motion for a new trial on the ground that the velidict was contrary to the law and the evidence was over ruled by the court. Mr. White, who since Sunday morning, with ceaseless activity and unerring aim, has pushed the Common wealth's case, asked for an immediate sentence. Judge Chalkloy in delivering the sen tence, asked the prisoner: "You have had a fair and impartial trial by your countrymen; have you anything to say why sentence should not be pronoucedi now ?" The prisoner replied: '-No." Tnue judge then added: "The sentence of the court is that you betak en from the court house to the city jaIl and be there confined until the 8th of Ju mne and that you be taken thence and hanged by the neck until you are dead, and may God have mercy on your soul." The State law requires that a pris oner is not to lbe executed until at least thirty days af ter sentence. As the prisoner sat down, lie said in a spirit of resignation rather than bra vado: "Well, dleath d'oes not come but once, and I may as well go now as at any time." He asked Sheriff Watts for a drink of whiskey from the bottle that was found at his home and upon being told that it was in his boots, which were used as evidence in the trial, said: "I don't care for the boots, but would like to have a taste of that whiskey." 4s the prisoner was led back to jail, he passed the West Au g usta Guards and bowed to them, say ing: "Good bye, gentlemen." Yesterday afternoon the R1ev. .John Donovan of this city conducted the funeral services at the United lBre theren Church over the remains of Lot tie Rio we, the murdered girl. She was buried at Bethlehem Cemetary in thef country, ten miles from the scene of her death. All is quiet there. The Hlarrisonburg Gauards and the Monti cello Guards have gone home, having maoe a fine impression by their conm duet and bearing. The West Auogusta Guards are on duty tonight. A Terrib'n AenlIent. 1IRAUILT, .ttouamnia, April 30.-A terrible accident occurredl here tolay. The white pier was crowded with p eo ple in holiday attire, bound for (alat z, or the D)anubo, and waiting for the streamer which was tonvey them to that place, when the pier gave way and threw about 120 people into the waters. Many excursionists it is be leved were drowned. MU60 Homes are Happy Homes, Have you ever noticed- it? Call to mind the homes of your friends who have a good PIano or Organ in the house, Are they not brighter acid more attractive than those where the divine art of music never eaters? To be sure it costs to baty- a good" instru. ment, but it lasts many years, and will pay. its costs many a thousand times over by interesting the young folks in their homes.. 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AVottohGsandPess NIH 'ad OW ISRADTI E . to.m 0.or Buying. SwingBIA. w;, The M11ti. COLUMBIA, S. C., May 8.-Orer one hundred muitary compaies have beeu organized in South Carolina since the Darlington affair and It looks like there will be no end to the orgaliations Which want to enter the service of the State and which promise to be loyal to the commander-iu-chiet in times of trouble. All the companies which have applied for admission have been mustered into service; at least the o1ibers have been commissioned. The laws of the State allow only one hundred military .com panies'which shall receive arms, ammu. nition and aid from the State. This num b 5r Is the limit, but there is no limit to the number ot reserve companies al lowed. -Including the companies to be dimissed from service because of their failure to respond to the call of Gover nor Tillman there will be vancancles for about twenty-five of the new companies. A hard matter will be to decide which of the himdred and more new companies shall have the honor of entering the regular service. Some of them, those which were organ ized immediately after the Darlington trouble, have already beensu' plled with arms, ammunition and uniforms. Of course the new companies which do not get into the regular service will have to wait.until there are openings. As a reserve force the companies will have to supply their own arms and uni forms it they want them. There is no necessity, however, for them to do this. All that is necessary is for them to pre serve their organizations. Governor Tillman said yesterday that he had not had time to consider the reorganization of the military of the State. So soon as he gets the time he will issue orders and be gin the Ireorganization. The Governor did not say positively yesterday that he intends to dismiss certain Columbia and Charleston companies from service, but the plain inference from his remarks was that none of them will be Allowed to re main in military ranks. The Governor was asked li there was any law to prevent the companies to be dismissed from maintaining tlemselves as independent military brganizations He said that lie had not read the law on the question, but did iit knew anything against their having all the guns and uni forms they wanted. They could also drill all they wanted. le was not so certain that they would have the right to make a display on the streets 01 their warlike manoeuvres, but did not sup pso anybody would interfere with them. Every man, he said, has a con stitutional right to bear arms provided it is with peaceful intent. The indepen dent companies will not get any aid irom the State and muat defray their ei penses. They must buy their own uni forms and accoutrements.--Register. Suiode of a Prisoner. COLUMBIA, S. C, May 2.-The quiet town of Prosperity, located on the line of the Colu tibia, Newberry and Lau rens, and Richmond and Danville roads about forty miles from Columbia, wait yes'erday thrown into a considerable state of excitement, so a gentleman who arrived in the city last night says, by the aticlde of a negro prisoner in the station house, by hanging. The tellow vas named Dn Sheppard. He was a powerful built mulatto. Oa I'-v evniag he was arrested for assault arwt betsry anid attempted criminal aissauit. tran th~- person of his step-daughter, Mary B3:knight, a mulatto girl about 20 years o1- age. The city authorities placed him in the sta tion house for the night. lie told Town Marshal White when he locked him up that he "reckoned they would hang him this tima." Hie meant by this that he teared serious consequences. Once be lore he had been arrested on the same charge, but his- wife being the only witness against him he was discharged from cuistodiy. The negro seemed to uave been thiroughly resolved upon self-destruction. He proceeded after he was locked up to make himself a rope out of the crocus sack covering on the bed, tying it recurely around his neck, lie then tied the other end to the grating of the window, which was no higher than himself. Then he knelt down and choked to death de liberately. When the town marshal tent to the station house yesterday1 morning to carry him his breakfast he found the f ellosw in a stooping attitude his head hanging over on his breast, cold and death. The coloner held an in 1uest and a verdict of death by stran gulation was rendered. The negroes of the town seem to be glad the negro's carreer is ended, for he was considered a desperate fellow. A Repubilican Landslide. INDIANAPOLIS, Ind,, May 1.-May~ elections were held through Indiana to clay. The only cities not voting were Indianapolis, Evansville and Logan sport. Terre Haute elects the whole R'3publican ticket by majorities ranging rom 900 to 1,900. The Republican gain >n the mayoralty is 880. Union City ivo the Usual Republican majority. At Valp~araiso, where the Democrats had a noajority of 100 tw'o years ago, the Re. )ublican majorities range from 75 to 300. Alt K~okomo the Republicans win by argely increased majorities. Brazil, isually close, goes Republican. Law ~enceburg, usually Democratic, elects ,he entire Republican ticket, and three )ut of five councilmen. Lal'orts and Rtichigan City, usually Democratic, both ri Republican by increased majorities, is does Kendallville, Bloomington, LFranktort and Osborne. Green Castile, iBimwood and Irwin, the gas belt cities, show increased Republican majorities. Ilew Altuany, usually 1,000 Democratic, slects every Republican but one council. -nan. T'iFayette goes Republican with s gain of 500. ,Attemipted Swindle. CoUmuunrA, 8. C., A.pril 28.-The Wadesboro Messenger Intelligences itates that on the 24th of October last Tame Horne of the vicinity of Wades boro, took out a polici' for $6,000 in the Lroviden' Saving Life Assurance Society >f New York, and 'hat on the 21st of January last lie and his brother in-law, James Watkins. left in a buggy for Uheraw, 8, C.. Watkins returned alone and represented that Horne had fallen from the railrcadl bridge at Uheraw and been drowned in tile river. Nobody be hioved this. Mrs. Horne applied for the lusurance money. A special agent came hlown to Investigate the matter. The II shiot was that Mrs. Horne and [ho)ne's brother, J. T., both confessed k hhut they believed Horne to be still alive nd the "widow" surrendered the pol cy. They made very much of a mess >i the matter. PROF. FALD, of Berlin, propheies a very pronable collision between the arh and the cornet or 1800 on Novem cer 13, 1899, when the comet will cut 4 rhe point where the earth arrives every yeair at that time. lBut he does not think "arm could come of such a'colli stona, thei arat erikl of the comet being so light.. unle~ss iti carbonic acid gas of which it is probably comnposed should Ison our atmosphere. lint, any way [aywemay look out for a magnifi, sent shower of meteors on that date.