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Mule a brayta'; Man at gate: "IHellol brother," (Candidatel) Tfow-headed children Watch an' walt; "Bless the darlings]" (Candidatol" Stump in corn field; (Urowin' late,) "1Baised a farmer," (CandIdatel) Gray head so'dier Served the State; ''Wait mucre ponslons?" (Undidatel) Old-timed wilddor, bad as fate: 'Lost my wift,-too!" (Candidatol) .ig church meetin' DOaCOD Atraight, "Born a Baptist!" (Candidatel) Safe In ofllce, Vote a wait: "Go to thunderl" (Candidate?" THE BURDENS OF LIFE. An Eloquent and Foreful Boyinon by Mv. Dr. Talmpge. SAN FRANCISCO, MRy 27.-Rev. T. DeWitt TaIogo is1 now in this city, whence he will sIll next Thursday on the iteomer Alameda for Honolulu on his irip round !he ivorld. le preached today to a 1ire and deeply interested aujieice on the eubje.ct of "Heavy Weights," the text being takeu from Pasnois lv, 22, -Cast thy burdens uoon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee." David was heie taking ble own meal, cne If anybody had on him heavy weights, Dravid hId them, and yet out of his own experienco he atvines you and me as to the bes\ way of gel.ting rid tot burdens. This Is a world ol burden bear ing. During tie pact few days Iidio2s came from acioss the sea of a mighty and rood main fallen. A man full of the Holy Ghost was he, his name tho syn nym lor all that I good and hind and gracious and beietcieut. Word comes to us of a scouren sweet ing oil hundreds and thousands of people, and there is a burden of sorrow. Sorrow on the son and sorrow on the land. Comiug into the house of riyer there may be no sign of Eadoess or sorrow, but where is the man who has not a conflict? Where Is the soul ibat has not a etruggle? And there Is not a dav of all tie year when my text is not glori usly appropriate, and there is never an audience assembled on the planet where the text is not glo riously appropriate, "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee." In the for east wells of water are ac infrejuent that when a man owho a well be has a property of very great value, and sometimes battles have been fough1 for the poesession of one well of vater l'ut there is one well that every moi owns, a deep well, a perennial well I well of tears. If a man has not a burdei on this shoulder he has a burden on th4 other shoulder. The day I loft home to look after my self sane 1.r myself in the wagon my fa ther eat driving, und he said that da3 something which has kept with me al my life: ".DnWitt It is always safe tF trust God. I have many a time come to I cnesd of dfl-cultV. You may know .hat having been sick for 15 years, it wan n easy thing for me to support a famly but always God came to tue rescue, remember the time," lie said, "when didn't know what to do, and I saw man on horseback ridiang up the fan lane, and lhe announced to me that had been nominated for the most lucra tive ofilce in all the gift of the people o the~ county, audi to that ofile I wa elected, and God in that way met all m wants, and [ toll you it, is always safe t trust him Ob, my friends, what we want is practical religion. The relhgion peopl have is so high up you cannot reach i I had a friend who entered the life of al evangelist, lie gave up a lucratly business In Chicago, and he and hi wile finally came to severe want. H told me that in 'he morning prayers h he said: "0 Lord, thou knowest w have not a mouthful of food in the house Help me, help nel'' And lie starte out on the street,, andl a P,ontleman me him and said: "I have been thinking a you a good while. You know I am: flour merchant. If you won't be oflend ed, I shoul1 like to send you a barrel c flour.'' lie cast his burden -on th< Loi d, and the Lord sustained him. Noi that Is the kmdi of rehigion we want. In the strait of Magellan I have beel told, there is a place where, whicheve way a ship capt4un puts his ship, lhe flada the wind aganct hi-o, aind there arm men who all their lives have been run ning in the teeth of the wind, and whici way to t urn they do not know. Some .: thr m may be in this assemblage, and]. address them ince to face, not perlunc. t(;Lby, but as onie breijer talks to an, other brotl'er, "Cast thy burden un the Lord, andl be shall sustamu thee." Thl~ere are a great many men who have business burden's. When we see a war harried and perplexed and annoyed it business lie, we are apt to say, "He ouebit not to ,uave attempted to carry ac much.'" Ah, that man may not be to blame at all! When a man plants his business, lhe does not know what will be Its outgrowths, what will be Its roots. .what will be its branches. There ia ma~ny a man with keen foresight and large busineso faculty who has beer flung Into tho (lust by unforesen cir cumstances springing upon him from ambush. When to buy, when to sell when to trust and to what amount o credlit, what will be the effect of thu new mnyeution in machinery, what wil be the effect of that loss of croi) and a thousand other questions perplex bust ness men until the hair is slivered an< deep wrinkies are piowed in the cheek and the stoks go up by mountains and gi down by valleys, and they are at tbei wits' ends and stagger like drunke: men. There never has been a time whe1 there have been such rivalries in busi ness as now. It is hardware againa hardware, books agair~st books, chant lery against chandlery, imported artic1 agaInst impiorted article. A thousan *stores in combat with another thousan stores. Never such advantage of lighi never such variety of assortment, nevi so much splendor of show indow, no or so much acuteness of' advertising ai amid all these severities of rivalry business how many men break dow Oh, the burden on the shoulder! e the burden on the heart! You hear that it as -avarice whi< drives these men of business throup the street, and that is the commonly a ceptedi idea. I do not believe a word it. The vaot multitude of these busine mnen are tollng on for others. To ed cate their children, to put wing of pro Iteotion over their households, to have . omething left so when they pass out of this life thetr wiver end children will not have to go to the poorhouse-bat Is the way I translate this enerey In the street and store, the vast wejority of thAt energy. Grip. Gouge & Co. do not do all of the business. Some of you re member who the Central America was coming home from California it was wrecked. President Arlbur's father-. law was the heroic captain of the ship and went down witk most ot the passen tenre. Some of them got off into lifeboats Lut there was a young man returning from California who had a bag f gold in his hand, and as the last boat shoved off from the ship that was to go down that -oung man shouted to a comrade in che boat: "Hiere, John, catch this gold. There are $3,000 Take it home to mv old mother. It will maxe her comforpa - ble in her last days." Grip. Gtange & Co. do not do all the business o the w(r!d. Ab, my friend, do you say that God does not care anything about your world ly business? I tell you God knows more about it than you do. He knows all your o*rplexities. Hn knows what mortbage in about to fVraclose. He knows what note you cannot piy. He iknowa what. -iussa~blo goods you have on your lielvcs. IIe knows all your trials from Cie day you took hold of the firh,.3atd stck down to the sale of the last yor' of rbbon, sud the Gd who bolped Dev-d !o be king, und who helped Daniel to be prium 0 minister, n! who helped H1ava lock to be a tsoldier will help you o discharge all your duties. le la going to Pee you through. When loss cormes and you flnd your pro porty going, just take this book and put it down by your ledirer and read of the eternil psossions that will conio to you through our Lord J-aus Christ. And when your business partner betrays you, and your frier'ds turn against you, just take the insultiog letLer, put it down on the table, puL your Bible beaido tho insulting letter and thou read of the friendship of him who "stickoth closer than a brother." A young accountant in New York city got his accounts entangled. He knew he was honest, and vet, he could not make hls acounts come out right, and he tomlod at them day and night until he was nearly frenzied. It seemed by those hooks that something had teen misap propriatod, and he know before (od ho was honest. The last day came. Ho kLiew if ho could not that day make his z.counts . come out right he would to into disgrace and go into hankihment. trom the business estaulishinent. He 'vent over there very early, bMforo there was anybody in the place, and he knelt down at the desk anad said: "0 Lord, thou knowest I have tried to be honet, but I cannot make these things come out rightl Help metoday-help me thifs norniugi" The young man arose, and hardly knowing why lie did so opened it book that lay on the desk, and thero was a I,.at toutainin a line of fleurcs which explained everything. In other words, I ho casi, his burdien upon the Lord, and L Lhe Load sustained him. Young uan, 3 %o you hear that? Oh, )es, God Las a sympathy wiL, anybody that is in any kind f toil. lie - knows how heavy is tho hod or bricks - iat the workmau carries up the laddei on the wall, he hears tho pickox ot the i miner down in the coal shalt, he known ) now strong the tempost strikes the sail. i 'w at meaathead, he sees the iactory 2 iL among the spdles and knows how hier 3 a'ms ache, he sees the sewing woman ,in the fourthestory and knows how few I *a~ce she gets for making a garment. I and k~uder than all tihe din and roar cf s ,* city comes the voice ola sympathie 1 GE d, "Cast thy burden upou thei Lxd, [ and hie shall sustain thee." Then there are .a great many who ' br-ve a weight of persecution and abuse s upo~n them. Somnsumes society gets a ir gidg against a man, All his motives 3 are mtsmuterpre'ed, and all his good deeds are depreciated. With more vir a ture than some of the honored and ap e plauded he runs only against raillery and .sharp criticism. When a man begir~s to i igo down, he has not only the force of na e tural gravitation, but a hundred hands s to help him in the precipitation. Men s are persecuted for their virtues and their B Euccesses. Germianicus Eald he had juet B as many bitter antagonists as he had ad I oniments. The chatacter sometimes :1 is so lustrous that the weak eyes of envy t aud jealousm. cant'ot he ir to look atIt. I It was their in'te.rity that, put Joseph a iu the pit,, and Daniel in the den. and - Mihadrach in the lire, and sent Johni the li Evangelist to desolate Patmos, and Cal s yin to the castle of persecution, and John v H-uss to the stake, and Korah after Mosey, and Saul after David, and Herod 2 afteor Christ. Be sure if you have any r tihing to do for eburch or state and you i attempt it with all your soul the hu2ht ning will strike you, The world al -ave has had a cross he tween two thieves for the one who .omeni to cave ih.. high and holy en tei prise has always been tollowed by abuse. The most sublime tragsdy o1 self sacri fice has come to lurlesque. The graceful sgatt of virture is always followed by scoff and grimace and travesty. The tweeiest strain of poetry ever written has come to ridiculous parody, and as tong as there are viriue atnd righteous. ness in the world there will be something for iniquit~y to grin at. All along the line of the ages and In all lands the cry has beeni: "Not tis man, but Barab baa. 2Now, Barabbas wao, a rob' or." A ud what makes the persecutious of life worse is that they come from people whom you have helped, from those to whom you loaned money or have started in business, or whom you rescued im some great cricis. I thintk It has been tene history of all our lives--the most acrImonious assault has come from those whom we have benefited, whom we have helprd, and that makes it all the harder to bear. A man ia in danger of becom ing cynical. I A clergyman of the Universalist , hurch went into a neighborhood for the > estab~lishment of a church of his denomi e nation, and he was anxious to find some r one .f that denomination, and he was pointed to a certain house and went 3 there. He said to the man of the house: "I understand you are a Universalist. 1 't want you to help me in the enterprise," |- "'Well," said the man, "I am a Univer e salist, but I have a peculiar kind of Uni d versahsm." "What is that?" asked the d minister. "Wl, replIed the other, "I , have beep out in thle world, and 1 have or , esn cheited and slandered and outriged w- and abused untIl I believe in umiversal id damnation)" in The groat danger is that men will he n) come cynical and given to believe, as b, David was tempted to say, that all men ito liars. Oh, my friends, do niot let yh that be the effect upon your souls) II h you cannot endure a little persecution, o- how do you think our fathers endured of ureat persecution? Motley, in his "Dutet as Reopubllc," tells tis of Egmiont, the mar. a-2 tvr. who, condemned to be bhadea uotastened. his collar on the way to th4 80solrold, and when they asked'him wh' he did that he said: "So they will not be detained in their work. I Want to bI ready." Oh, how little we have to on, dure compared with those who have gone before ne Now, if you have com across ill treatment, let me tell you you are in ex. cellent company-Christ and Luther and GaIllei and Columbus and Jobn Jay and Josiah Qincy and thousan(is of men and women, the best spirits of earth and hea ven. Budge not one Inch, though all hell wreak upon you its vengeance and you be made a target for dtevils to shoot at. Do you n not think Christ knew all about pereccution? Wak he not hissed atI Was he not struck on the cheek? Was -a not possued all tho days of his life. Did they not expectorate u',on him? Or, to put t in B'ble lmuago, "They spIt upon him " And canuot he understand what tieraccution is? "Cait they burdtn upou the L~rd, and bei shall sustain thee." Then there are others who carry great burdeos of' physical ailments. When sudden sickness has come and fierce choleras and maliigrant fevers take the castles of life by storm, we appeal to God, hut. in them, chroic ailments wbich worr our, the streigth day tter day wisd vek after week end year after year how little reiorting to God for solace! Then icople dewoinded.npon their tonims. Rd 'heir phwsterq, and tueir cordials rather dhan upon hiavenly st)mula'JLs. Oh, how fow peop)e there are com vlotelV well. Some of you, by, (3it of tombOverance and care, have kept living it) this time. but, how you havo had to war against physical ailmente! Anedilu vitns, without modical collego and li firmary and apothecairv Bhop. multiplied thteir years by hundreds, but ho who has gone through th gantlet of distase in our time and hlan come to 70years of age is a heio worthy o'f a palm. The world seems to be a great hos pital, and you run againAt rheumstisms and consumptioca aud scrof ulas and sctofuls and icwalgias and scores of old diseases baptized by new nomenela ture. Oh, how heavy a burden sickness Is! It takes the color out of the sky and the sparkle out of the wave, and -be swectneos out of the fruit, and 'he luster out of the iitght. When the limbs ache, when the mouth is hot, when the ear roars with ilieaithy obstructions, how hard it is to be patient and chear ful 'id aussidunus! "Cast thy burden upon the Lord." Doesuour head ache? Iis wore the 1.horn. Do your feet hurt? 1119 were crushed of the spikes. Is your side pain ful? Ills was stiuck by the spear. Do Yol teel like giving way under the burden ? Ills wtakuess gave way under a cresa. While you are in every pos sible way to try Lo restore your physit cal vigor, you are to remember tuat more sothing than any auodyne, more vitalizing than any stimulant and more strengthening than any tonic is the prereription of the text, "Cast thy bur den upon the Lord, and he will sustain these." We hear a great dai of talk now about faith cure, and some people say it cannot be done and i is a failure. I do not know but that the chiet advance .,f the church is to be in that direction. Marvelous things come to ins day by day wh.i make nu think that if the age of miracles is past, it is because the aith of toiraclee is past. A prominent wercaant of New York said to a member of my family, "Mv mother wants her case mentioned ti Mr. Talmnage." This was tio case. Ho said: "Mly mot her had a dreadtul absetcss, fiom whicl sihe had suff-red untold agonies, and al surgery hati been exausted uponL her and worseanri worse she grew utilwe call ini a few Chiistan friends and pr< c::etted to pray about it. We commend 'ed her case to God, and the albscest began inmmediately to be cured. She is entirely wveli no w anrlwithout any sur gmt y." So that case has come to me and there are a score of othier caset coining to our ears from all parts of thn eaith 0, ye who are aick, go to Christ Oh,ye who are worn out with agonies ol body, "Cost thy burden upon the Lord andi lie shall sustain thee." Anothrer burden some have to carry is thbe buirden of breevement. Ah, thesa are the troubles that worr us out! If wa lose our proparty, by additional indus try perhaps we may bring back thi estranuged fortune; if we lose our gooc name, perhaps by reformation of mor als we may achieve axamn reputatiot for integrity, but who will bring bacd the dear departed ? Alas, me, for the~se empty cradles an< these trunks of childish toys that wil never be used again! Alas, me, for thi in myty chair and the sijence in the ball that, will never echo again to those fan iliar footsteps! Alas for the cry of wid owhoodl andi orphanage! What bitte: Maraths in the wildJerness, what citiei of the dead, what lon~g black shiadow from the wing of death, what eyes sun. kani with grief, what hands t"ombling ,vith bureavemntr, wvhat inrtruments of music shut nowv becaust there are no LIgers to play on them! Is there no relief for such sonius ? Aye, let that soul ride into the h arbor of my text: 'Thr soul that onu Josus has learned to re I wili nuot, I will not desi-e to its foes. .That soul, though all hell shall endeavor to stake, I'll ilever, no never, no never forsake. Now the grave is brighter than the ancient tomb where thme lights were pre-petually kept burning. Lrhe scarred fee.t of him who was "the resurrection and the life" are on the broken grave hbtlock, while the voices of angels ring down the sky at ' he coronation of an othefr aoul come home to glory. T'hen there are many who carry the burden of sin, Ab, we all carry It until In the appointed way that burdan is lifted, We need no Bible t~o prove that the whole race is ruined. What a spec. tacle it would be if we could tear oil the mask of human defilement or beat a drum that would bring up the whole army of the word'd trans g ressions the deception, the fraud, and the mur. der, and the crime of all centuries! Ayt if 1 coul'l soud the trumpet of thi resurection in the eoul of the best men in this audience, and all the dead sains of the paat shonld come up we could 'aot endure the sight. Sin grim anid dire, has put its clutch upor the immortal soul, and that clutch wil never relax unless it be under the bee of bitni who came to destroy the worki of the devil. Oh, to have a mountai of sin on thi soul! Is there no way to have the bar den moved ? Oh, yes, "Cast thy b~urder upoin the Lordi." The siulessone came to take the conlsPeues of our sin And 1 know he its in earnest. Row d<n I know it ? By the streaming temples atd the streaming handu as he sayi "Conso unto me, all yeo who are wear: and heavy laden, and 1 will give yot rest." Why will prodigals live on swinec husks when the robe, and the ring, ant father's welcome are ready ? Why g< w andering over the great Sahara deser of your sin when you are Invited to thi gardens of God, the trees of life an<e fountations of living water ? Why be houjeleas anid homeless forever wher you may become the sons atid daughi tera of the Unrd f ad A 1mlgah ty? PROhIBITION ADDRES, ISSUED BY THE STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE TO DEMOCRATS. Geittna Ready for the BIg Conventiox, WhIch Will Soon be Held to Coluanbia Want the Question Submitted to tLe People. COLUMBIA, S. C., May 28.-The Prohibitionists of the State are now up an( doing, though it can hardly be said that they are doing much so far. It has been thought for some weeks, since the accidontri prohibition law has been of effect, that the Prohibitionists would take steps to have the law applied to 1he men dealing in liquor. But thev have not made a move lo 0o far as the ueneral publIc la aware. T'he committee now comes to the fcotnt however, and shows its hand. The committee manifestly wishes to consult with the Prohibitionists of the State and get them all to join in a demand upon city authorities that the prohibition law be enforced. Friday the committeo pre. paved an address to the people of the State along this line and urging a bit at. tendauce at the State Prohibition CJn vention to be held in this city on June 7. This address was given to the press Fri day but withdrawn and held over till yes terday, when it was made public. The address reads as follows: To the Democratic voters of South Carolina: We are at this time confronted with a situation which threatens greater perils to all the interest of our people than un'y which we have had to face since the dark day ot reconstruction and nepro domit-a tion. It ,in, therefore, the part of true manhood and loyal citizenship, to meet the emergency with a determined pur pose to do fearlessly and uncompromrais ingly that which is right in the signt of God and, trusting to him for a safe deli verance from the impending evils. The State Prohibition Executivo Com mittee, voicing the sentiments of the large class of our people who balieve that the liquor traffic In an evil agency from which floiws most of the pauperiam, crime and suflering which curse our State and who are confident in belief that prohibition of the traffic is the only ade quate remedy for these evils within our reach, bave issued a call for a conven tion to meet in Columbia on the 7rh day of June to consider thb means for applv ing this remedy. We Veal that we are but fulfillin-z a duty which we owe to our follow citiz-ens in urging upon them, with all the earnestness of which we -tre capable, the supreme importance of re sponding to this call and giving the most thoughtful consideration to the occrasion which demands it. An experiment au thorized by the Legislature, in diroct violation of the will of the people as clearly expressed at the last election, has, after nine mouths trial, just been closed by the interpositioa ol the Su preme t.o.trt, at a cost of bitter puTii cal animcesily, bloodlied, and a cori tion of unehecked lwlessuess ou the part of the representatives of the hqu'ir traffln, uuparallelled in the history of the State. The first decision of the Supremo Court. has been interpreted by some as in effect, removing all restraints lc o the liquor traffic, and the whiskey seller has been thus advertised that they might reopen their saloons anywhere in the -tate without molestation from the su. thorities. As a direct result of thic an nouncement, the sluice sates of this abommnation have been opened, anel! a stream of intoxicants is now roliit' in upon the S'tto, which, if unchecked, by the Prompt and ('etermined action "f a nited people, will carry death and de struction to every portion of our devotad commonwealth. If we did not believe that there is stA aicient power in the law, if promptly u'1 lized, to protect, us in a measture from~ the threatened evils, the siituation would indeed be appalling, but we confidently assure you tellow citizens, that, you are not left hopelessly to battle with this merciless foe, thus invited to invade tho sanctity of your homes. The means of protection are within your reachi. SMunicipal laws exist in most of the towns and cities of the State forbidding the sale of intoxicating liquors without a license and there are penaltics to enf'wce such ordinances. It therefore becones Sthe duty of all good citizens to demiandI iof their municipal authorities that this a prohibition be applied to anyone who would attempt, under the ill-advised ,s. surance of any one, to violate the law of the community as thus expressed. The statute law, which the supreme Court has decided to be of force, pro vides for the punishment of offenders when convicted, a fine of *200 or six months imprisonment, or botth, in' the discretion of the court. While it is truc that these statutes, both in their penal ties and method of prcceedure, are niot such as are needed to guarautee the most efit'ctivo enforcement of prohibi tion, and only show the necessity for nr present movement to secure the pas sage of a law framed in all its p~arts to insure its own summary enforcement, still, the law as it stands is-a moans of defense against the illegal whiskey traf11c, and should be used for all that it will do, until a more perfect law can be obtained. It is therefore especially the duty of prohibitionists to make this the occa sion when they shall give emphasis to their faith, and assurance of their con sistency, by aiding in every proper way to bring such violators under the oper ation of the law. In this way can we most e ffectually show that our deniuncia tion of the liquor traffic and our demand for its prohibition was not an unmeaning clamor but the earnest heartfelt expres sion of truth and soberness. The abandonment of all e fl'jrt to pre vent the reopening of saloons. and the promptness with which the liquor sellers have reoccupied his former position in Imany parts of the State, show unmistak ably thait the battle is joined bet ween the law-respecting citizen and the law less wh'skey seller and that the issue can be no longer evaded or avoided. In'this crisis we urgently present to you .lio only alternat~ive by which as it seemsi to us, the scattered and divided forces can be united for successfuil resistance to the common enemy. It is for all true chii zens who have the general good at heart to lay aside the animosities which hAve divIded them as a political party in the past, and putting behind them the bitter Iness which four years of factional strife has engendered, rememnber only thti jwe L are Caroldivn9, whose dearest interests ,are in leogardy and meeting as brethen on the comnmon ground whiceh all can Soccupy without the least abatemout of selfrespect or of tegard for the views of Seach other on other subjects, and stand together until prohibition Is permanent ly engrafted on the fundamental law of the State. In the presence of a danger - so imminent, all considerations of mere peresonal or fantional dominance or ad vancement should be held resolutely in abeyance, and those who at such a time would seek to influence passion or pro vent the heating of existing variances, or introduce new causes for embittering feeling Within our political family, should be peremptorily remanded to the rear until the enemy in our front has been finally disposed of. Who can doubt, that if the thought ful condervative men of both factions into which our people have been so un fortunately divided, can be brought to gether in council on a question of such vital moment to them all as this, It will be the beginning of a now era of fraterni. ty and peace so devoutly longed for by every true Carolinian. And what ahould prevent this fraternization? Are there not euough good and true men to be found on both sides, intelligent, enough, and patriotic enough, to hold ,heir pro. ferences for men in check long enough to give grave consiceration to it question which has been shown to involve not, merely a policy, but the very peace and safety of society and the maintenance of the law and authority uudtr Which we are to live? We therefore appeal to the voters of every county to see that they are fully represented in the convention which has been calleI to meet, in Colum. bia June 7th, and we earnestly invite the co-operation of the press and of jie ministers of all denominatious, and es pecially of the noble women of the State whose neace and happiness are trembling in the balance during this crit'cal period. Let thein all unite their efforts and prayers with ours to bring about the happy consummation of our hopes and save us from the blighting inilUces which must inevitably follow the return of the saloon, under ativ form of hw, to power n South Carolina. L. D. CIULDS, Ch'mi State Pro. Ex. Committee. ASsESSMENT OF RAIL.ROAD. 8light Rctluotiono 14de . in tho A1asse monta of N(tot of Then. COLUMIj1AS. C., May 31.-The State Board of Railroad Equalization held a meeting i esterday and mado the assess ments on the railroads for the ensuring year. The Board is composed of State Tre asurer Bates as chairman, Attorney General Buchanan, Secretary of State Tinoal and Chairoiari Duncani, of the Rairoad Commission. The session of the Board did not last over three-hoirs but every road in the State was gone over and the assess. ments on each fixed. The assessneats are not final; at least changes may Le made in sone of them. Etch road has been notifled of the amounts it was as sessed at and will be given an oppartu. nityto cnter protests or to ask for changes. The next meeting will be held on June 9. Secretary Norton, of the Board, was too busy yesterday to give the figures to the puplic but from different sour ces it was leared that there has bieen a slight scaling in the asessemients or a majority of the roads. The assesstment:s of some of the new roads, notably the Wilson Short Cut and the Georgia, Carolina and Northern, have been in creased. The object of the Board in the reductions and increases was to equalize taxation. The two new roads mentioned have played havoc witti the business of some of the old roads and have consequently diminished the val ue of the latter. It is understood that the Columbia and Greenvillee, the Charlotte, Colum bia and Augusta, the Spartanbuag,Un ion and Columbia and the Pleonmont Air Line, all of the Richmond and Danville system, have had reductions made in their assessments. *rhe reduc tions run from $2,000 to $3,000 per mile. T1 be Atlantic Coast Line and the Port Royal and Augusta roads have also been niven reductions. The largest cut was made in the Three O's Road. which will hereafter pay $6,000 instead of $10,000 a mile. The assessment of the South Carolina road will remain as it is, $10,000 per mile. The assessment of the Columbia and Greenville road last year was $10,500 per mile, the Char lotte, Columbia and Augusta $14 000 per mile; the Pied. mont Air Line 18,000 per mile; the Coast Line $13.000. The total reduction will not be heavy probably $200,000 or $300,000 in the en tire State, The following shows the amount of railroad property by counties in this State, andl on which the roads paid in 1893: Abbeville....... ........ 16058,740O Aiken ......... ........... 1,249.150 Anderson................... 67,150 Barnwell................. 1,47,375 Beaufort.................. 512.400 Berkeley.......... ........ 1301 250 Charleston.................. 530.990 Chester .......... .......... 743.990 Chesterfield..................1700 Clarendon ................. .458 912 Colleton.... .............. .1,17.850 Darlington.................. 303 950 Edgeflld................... 804 100 Fairtield ................... 711 050 Florence................... 78.260 Georgetown............. 64 425 Greenville .... ........... ..88,870 Hampton................... 775,070 Horry ....... ...............197 370 Kershaw ........... ........39.1450 Lancaster .................. 401 420 Laurenis.................... 916.700) Lexington.................. 807030 Marion..................... 596400 Marlboro..... .... .......... 185,440 Newberry.................. 696 040 Oconee..................... 592 050 Orangeburg...... ......... 1,192,462 Pickens.................... 506 400 Richland................... 1,415,137 Spartanburg..............1 1302.250 Sumter................... 1322,140 Union...................... 3223320 Wiliamsburig............... ?3.935 Xorit.....................1219.020 Totals..................26,783,607 Murte,-er Ha~nned. MACON, Ga., May 28 -Henry Millcr, colored, was ba'wod here Fdiday for the murder of Mr. ,John Braswell on Septom ber 19, 1893. Thelevilence on which he was convicted p~rinc!ially cii cumstan'Jial and he denied the crime to the Jast, but acknowledged being present when it was done andl robbing tihe dead rman's pck ets. lie also~ conifessed to l.aving kill ed Pink Ryan, who was found (dead tin der the ahed of the Metropolitan Street Railway Company a year and a half ago and whose muirder has always been shrouded in mystery. H~e further con fessed that lie had killed three other men on the Oc mulceo river and lie betonged to a band of Kuklux. ?he drop fell at 12:19, and he died in five m.intts, his neck having been broken, lHe made no confession of religion and said be could live as well in hell as anywhere elee. lie was defiant and sullen to t.he last aind exhibited no symptons of weakucas .on the scaffold. The crime for which he was convicted was one of the most brnu tal committedl in this section since the Woolfolk murder. Miller and oth~ers waylaid and murdered Mr. Braswell while he was on his way home to the country from Macon. ils throat was cut from ear to ear arnd his head was ahot full of slus and hmunkt shot. A FIENDISH PtLOT. Its InstIWator PrOMPti4 s5WU Up b; Jude Evaoh. JAOK5ONVILLE, Fla., May 81.A dpeoial to the Times-Union from Pa, latka, Fla., says: The people of this section are very much excited over the dienussion of a diabolical conspiracy among the negroes to commit a series of outrages upon white women. The particulars are that about eight weeks ago, a negro preacher by the name of I. T. Burgle cane to the turpentine stills in the neighborhood of Putnam Hall and procured employment. After becoming acquainted with the colored employees he made damaging remarks about the daughter of a farmer livILg near b , and proposed to the negroes that they should seize the girl and several other white women and carry them into the swamp and make them submit to their embraces. it is under stood that several negrees agreed to the plan and that preparations wero being made to carry it into effect Fortunately the white people got a hint of the conspiracy and began to mpke an investigation. They secured evidence that such a conspiracy did #i., lst and they took steps to guard their homes. In the meanwhile the negroes learned that their diabolical plan was known, and secretly they began to leave the country. One of those to leave was Burgis, who had suggested the outrages upoi the women. He fled just In time to escape from a number of white men who had gone to secure him. It was learned that Burgle had gone to Georgia, and the father of the young lady whom Burgis had so vilely slandered awore out, a warrant against the negro. The Georgia authorities were communipated with and Burgis was arrested. A Florida officer left to secure the negro Sunday. The officer returned with the negro, and, fearing a mob, stopped off at a little station call ed Newburg, intending to secret the prisoner at a friend's home near by. The officer started to this friend's house, but had not proceeded more than half a mile when he was suddenly confronted by between seventy-five and a hundred mounted men. They cover ed him with guns and rifles and de mantled the prisoner. Being over powered there was no alternative but tog ive him up, and next morning Bur gis was seen hanging from a limb two miles from the place wherp he was taken from deputy Lane. Burgle is described as being about 46 years or age, 6 feet tall and weighing about 180 pounds. ie confessed to Mr. Lane that the report he circulated about the tarreer's daughter was untrue, but that he made the remark about her to interest the negroes in his damnable undertaking. The white people are wild with rage, and it is believed that more lynchings will speedily follow. A Most Flendish Plot, COLUMBIA, S. C., May 31.-On Sun day tihe wife of R1ev. S. P. Schumpert, a well known minister of Lexington County wint to visit a relative some miles from her home. .1 was in the evening 'when she returned. Knowing that it would be late before she arrived at her home her uncle, who she had been visiting decided to accompany her. In so doing a henious crime was possibly prevented. Before the lady and her es cort reached ber home they found that the road had been barricaded by trees, stumps and other things. An Investiga. tion revealed that a number of baretooted men had built the barricade. Further inveetigation led to some startling reve lations. These revelations exposed an alleged plot which had been formed to intercept the lady on her return to her homes and to criminally assalut her' Two negroes were arrested and are sup I)osed to be in Lsxington jail. A negro named George Taylor was also sus pected of being implicated in the plot. Hie left Lexington and came to this city. In the meantime the matter had been re ported to Chick Radclhfre by the husband of the lady and the Chief Issued orders for all of the officers to look out for the' negro. Yesterday morning Officer Bol1. ton aaw Taylor in Main street and ar rested him. Taylor was put In the sta tioni house and wi: l be kept there until the arrival of Lexington officers. W hat w ill be done with the neogroes or what hats been done with them is not known. Ii there has been any talk of lynching ii has not reached this city. It is probable that if the negroes have not been lynched their lives have hung on the failure of thore making inveitagations to get suffl cient against them.-Esgister. Silver lastead of B rmdi. WAsHrrNGTON, D. C., May 30.- -Con gressmani Talbert has introduced the fol lowing joint resolution in the House." i tJoint resolution en joining the S cre tary of the Treasury from the lurther issue of bonds. Whereas it is currently reported in the public press that the Secretry of the Tlreneury is agaIn considering an issue f United States bonds in addition to the flIty million dlollars sold in the last Jau uary; e'nd W hereas there is no~w laying idle in the Treasury a large quantity of silver un coined, the 'seigniorage of which, when coined, will amount to flity-five million silyver dollars; therefore, be it RWsolved by the Senate and House of R -presentatives of the United States of Amierica In Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby ei jolned from a further iesue of bonds, and sll laws and parts of laws whatso ever on the statute books or in appro priation bills giving him authority so to do, either directly, by Implication, Infer ernce, or otherwise, are hereby repealed. Section 2. That the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed, in order to meet tihe present pressing need of the Treaeury for money, to at once coin the silver seignmorage in th~e Treasury, and turn It into the availab.e Treasury cash. A Coupile's Third Marxiage, COL UMBUS, May 28.-There was .an unusual event in the study of Chaplin Winget, of the State prison, last eyen ing. It was a wedding le which the groom was a convict with the greater part, of a seven years' sentenlcQ yet to servo and the bride the daughter of one of Cincinnati's most prominent families. T welvd years ago B. F . Con red came to Cincinnati from Minnea polis, where he had left a wife and two childtren. At Cincinnati he married MIi Emma Eberle. Ten years they lived together happily and three .child ren were born to them. Then the fact that lie had another wife living be came known. It was agreed that CJon rad should get a divorce in Minnesota from his first wife, which he did, but on hIs way back fell in love with a Milwaukee girl and married her. lie again married Miss Eberle but she learn of the deception had him arrested for bigamy, for which lie is now serving his sentence. Last night she married Conrad for the third time, on the advice of her la wyer, in order to make her children legitimate. The Milwaukee wife recently secured a divorce and therefore this marriagre is legal. M 06l one Hare Rppy Have 1011 ever noticed it? Iind the hotues of your frien w have a60ooId Piano or Organ In -tb house. Are they not brighter au' more attractive than those where the divine art of music never enters? To -- be sure it Costs to buy a good ins-tru ment, but it lasts imany y4ears auil will pay Its costs many a tug over by interesting the to)a . their homes. Don't make the m though, of onverting 4ikp5, Pudd Yourself thoroughly by writing-Lu4~~ &Bates Southern Music House, Sava 1 nab Ga., the great music house of the. South, estabitshed in 1670. They have supplied 50,000 instruments to 8Outh era homes, and have a reputatt9n for 4. fair prices and honoral3le tyeatm nt of customers; and they represent-the lead. Ing pianos and organs of America-. They take pleasure in corresponding with you, senifig free catalogues, et0 Write them. ctlgeec~, eADGETT PAYS THR FREIGHI Why Pay Ex Pdr for Cohl dsZ. and for Catalogue ud Sea Whit You CaM Sm! 5!Al I tS~l~I:R U0fl0OU1 OVIT -" u . At d-14- wor-thl -M oher e roo "uitts, all pri ces. $69 *% $37 Just te Introucthm No freilht paid on this Or. : an. u3naratiteed to be a drian or money re. co~m Elegant Plush PARLOR SUITM, cnah -P ofa, Armhair, Rech:iz Chair Di ouid 2 side hair; -worth 45. Widel4 I to your depot for JOBS.-~ i~ SThis N6.1 t "th 21 pices of ware win bedelive 0 E4 to yo I attachmentr for deiiveea toyorrgulart eririo t$ h egX is r pzro w hin 00YI 6to 76 dollarit. "he manufacturet' v 3s all theexpenisen, and I athem to you for Q A2g.. .. an guarantee every one a sir ain. No freight paid V is Uuggy A $*60 PIAN4 ielivered at your depot _1 freight paid for 1l0 Bend for catalogues of Furniture, 000king toves Baby Carriages, Bicycles, Orgs, P aons& aSts. Dinner gets, Lamps, e., a rAVli MON E Y. Addreas L.P.PADGETT ,:e" -THE Tozer For Agrcul tural and Gin oral Plantation U Iae,ihave earn4 ' ed their reputa tlon asthe beat on tne market. For 8impliity, Durabilit and Eeonorn in-. ueanwater Has no Equal, so / INOUU Times Hard ORIANSPrices Low Only $00 for~ a Superb MASON & IIAMLIN Organ. 4 sots Rteeds, 10i Stop, Rich Case. $5 cash and 8mo nthly. Reduced from 5116. WV RIE Us. BeantilfuI BTER LING M irror Top only 60. 4 sets Reeds, 11 Stops. .W RITE Us. Lovely New Sty les at 65 and 075. Wnx RIEU. Elegant New Pianos only 6225.I WODERFUJL at the R'a.. Tremendous bargains in nearil~ If you want a Piano or Organ now is the time to buy it, RIGHT. WRITE Us. WrIte us anyhow. . Trade is dull and you can't, ask more 'quetions about, Plinos and Organs than we want, to ant awer. Try it,, please. SAVANNAH, GA. NOW IS THE TIME TO PLACE YOUR ORDERS FOR iThreshers1! And I Bell the Best In the Market. 3.Write to me Before Buying. Shingle Machines, Stave Machines, Brick Machines, Planing Machines, .Swing Saws, Band saws, Gang Rip 8aws, and all kinds of -wood workingrmachines. Grist Mills $115 to $250. Saw Mills $190 to $400. Watertown Engines and Boilers. Talbott Engines and Boilers. Seed Cotton Elevators. Cottoh Gins and Presses HIGH and LOW GRADE, V. C. BADHAM. COLUMBIA. 8. 0,