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aDgTIRxLr,9S LIrTLIG TODDLER. - e tod~ies, toddles all the day And never seems to tire, Fhis little man in baby clothes Who's full of youthful fire. gle jabbers, jabbers all the day And never will be still, TLhis little boss with flaxen hair Who lives at Copenhill, Ue wanders underneath the treo I With his beloved Pat, A little fuzzy dog Who's death to every rat. le talks about the sun and m :on in his peculiar way Ills mamma understands him, thiough In all he has to say. ie Is just the dearest little chap Who loves to laugh and deep At one and all and little arms Around my neck vill creep. And then he always has to grunt He loves eo awfully hard: This little man In baby clothes J pray the Lord to guard. FROM YOUTH TO AGE. Rev. Dr. Talmeg,,w s Tuteresting liscourx Through the Press. BRCOKixN, July 8.--ltsv. De. Tal mage, who is now nearing the antipode on his round the world journey, hat selected as the subject fbr his sermor through the press todav "The Rustic Ir the Palace," the icxt hei taken from: Genesis xlv, 28, "1 will go and see hi-i before I die." Jacob had long Bince passed the iun.i dred year milestone. In thoso times people were distingmshc-: for longevity. In the conturies afterward persons lived to great age. Galen, the most colebrated physician of his time, took so little of is own medicine that he lived to 140 years. A man of undoubted veracity on the witness stand in E;ngland swore that he remembered an event 150 before. 1Lord Bacon speaks of a countess who had cut three sets of teeth and died at 140 years. Joseph Crele of Pennsylvania lived 140 years. In 1857 a'book was printed con. taimug the names of 37 persons who lived 140 years and the unamc of 11 por sons who lived 150 years. Among the grand old people ot whom we have record was Jacob, the shepherd of the text. But lie had a bad lot of boys. They werejealous and ambitious and ev ery way unprincipled. Joseph, howevei, seemed to be and excoption, but he had been gone many years and the vrobabil. ity was that lie was dead. As some. times now in a house you will find kept at the table vacant. chair, a plate, a knife, a fork, for somedecease(l member of the family, so Jacob kept in hia heort a place for his beloved Joseph. Thero sits the old man, the flock of 140 jears in their flight having alighted long enough to leave the marks of their claw on lore. head and cheek and temuplo. Iis long beard snows down over his chest. His eyes are somewhat dim, and he can sce farther when they are closed than when they are open, for he can see clear back into the time when beautiful IRichel, bi8 wife, was living, and his childrcr shook the oriental abode with their merriment, The centenarian is sitting dreamn over the pust when he hears a wago rumbling to the fcont door. Ile gets ut and goes to the door to see who has ar rived, and his long absent sons fron, Egypt come in and annonce to hin that Joseph, instead o1' being dead, i, living In an E gyptian palace',with all th investiture of prime mmnister next to th kmng in the mightest emp~ire of all Lih woildi The news was too sudden an too glad for t'o old man, and~ his cheeki whiten, and lhe has5 a dhazad look, an< his stall'falls out of his hand, ai)( his would have dropped had( not the som: caught him andi led him to a lounge an( put cold wateor on his8 face and lfannet him a little. In that, half (delirium the old mag mumbles somethinggabout 1h18 son Jos eph. He says: "You don't mean ,Jos eph, do you-my dear son, wvho has beer: dtead so long? Y ou dlon't mean .Josepih do you?'" Rut after they had fully r'e sucitated him and1 the niews was con firmed the tears begin their winding way down the crossroads of the wrinkles, and the sunken lips of the old man quiver, and lie brings his bent fingers togethier aa he says: "Joseph is yet alive. I will go and see him before I die." IL did,'not. take the ol man a greal while to get ready, I warrant you. ie put on the best clothes that, the shep herd's wardrobe could ail'ord1. lie gel into the wagon, and though the aged ars cautious and1 like to ride slowv the wagor did not get along fast enough for this oh man, and when the Wagon 'Yith the ok man met Joseph's chariot coming dowr to meet film, and Joseph go' out oi th< chariot and got into the wagon and threw his arms around his father's neck, it, was an antithesis of royalty and rusticity, of simplicity and pomp, filial s h'ction and paternal love, which leaves us ac much in doubt about whether wve hasd better laugh or cry that we (10 both. So Jacob kept the resolutioin of the texi, "I will go and see him before I die.'' What a strong and unfailing thing ii parental attachment! Was it not al moat time for Jacob to forget Josephi The hot suns of many summers ha' blazed on the heath; the ri:'er Nile ha( over1owed and receded, overflowed and receded again aind again; the seed had been sown and harvest reaped. Stars rose and set. 1Years of plenty and years of famine had passed on, but the love of Jacob for Joseph in my text is over whelmingly dramatic. Oh, that is a cord that is not snapped, though pulled on by many decades! Though when the little child expired the parents may not have been more than 25 y ears of age and now they are 75, yet the visIon of the cradle, and the childish face, and the first utterances of the infantile lips are fresh today, in spite of the passage of a haf century. Joseub was as fresh in ac' memory as ever, though at 17 yas ofage the boy had disappeared frmte old homestead. I found in ouha ll record the story of an infant ththdded 60 years before, and I said to my parents, "What Is this eod and what does it mean?" Their che answer was a long, deep sigh. It was yet to them a very tene sorw What does that all mean?r oWI means our children departed are ours yet, and that cord of attachment reach lng across the years will hold us until ii * brings us together mn the palace, as Jacol anud Joseph wore brought together. Tha . Is 000e thing that make old people dt< happy. They realize it is reunion wiU those from whom they have long beel seperated. I am often asked as pastor, and ever pastor Is asked the question, "will m, chdldren be children i heaven and for ever chijdren ?" Well, there was n doubt a great change in Joseph from th time Jacob iost him and the time whei Jacob found hin1--between the boy 1' years of age and the man mn mIdlife, hil iorehead developed with the great busi ues of *tato. but Jacob wide ad to ea Joseph back anyhow, and it did not 1I make much dift'erence to the old man a whether the boy looked older or looked younger. And it will be enough joy for u that parent it he can get back that son, In that daughter, at the gate of heaven, p whether the departed loved one shall I como a cherub or in Full grown angel- t< hood. There must h a change wrougit o by that celestial clinte and by those ri supernal years, but it will only be from n loveliness to more loveliness, and from d health to more radiant health. a 0 parent, as you think of the darling ni panting and white in membraneous it croup, I want you to know it will be n gloriously bettered in that land where o there has never been a death and where a all the inibitats will live on in the hi great future as Godi Joseph was .1osoph ol notwithstand the palace, and your child iN will ha your child notwitlistanding all w the raining splondors of overlasting is noon. What a thrillin-" visit was at that of the old shepherd to the C - prine nisiiter, Jasopli I I see the at old countryman seated in the palaco 11: lookig arotud at the mirrors, and the gI foultains, and the carved pillars, and ob, how lie wishes that Rachel, his wil p was alive and she could have come there ni with him to see Choir son in this great ta house! "Oh,'' says the oid man within cv himself, "1 do wish lRachel could be or here to see all thi!" at I visited at the fairlihoti3 of the fa- W ther of Millard Fillmoro when the son Y was president of the United States and the octogenarian farmer entertained me of until 11 o'clock at night, telling me what great things he sa v in his son's W house at Washington, and what Daniel Ot Web3tor said to him, and how grandly W Millard treated his Father In the White tI: Ihouse. The old man's face was illum. V, ined with the story until almost the w midnight. Ie had just been visiting his at soil at the capital. And I suppose it s1 was something of the name joy that 01 thrilled the heart of the old shepherd as C Ie stood in tle palace of the prime mm. later. tt SE It i3 a great dlay With you when your 30 old parents comle to visit SOU. 'Your bi little children stand around withi great of Wide open eyes, wondering how anybody tL: could be so old. The parents cannot IN stay many days, for they are a little vi restless, and especially at nightfall, be- a cause they sleop better in their own di bed, but while they tarry you somehow II feel there is a benediction in every room A in the house. They are a little feeblo, and you make it as easy as you can for 01 them, and vou realize they will proba. h', bly not visit you very often-perhaps a' never again You go to their room after tl they have retired at night to see if tile cl: lights are properly put out, for the old qp people understood candle and lamp bet- tii ter tiban the modern apparatus for illu. B mination. In the morning, with real A interest in their health, you ask them le how they rested last night Joseph, in the historical scene of the G tc xt, did not think any more of his fa- hi tier thllan you do of your parents. Tha ti probability is, before they leave your a house they half spoil your children with t kindness. Grandfather and grandmoth- b or are more lenient and indulgent to o your children than they were witi you. c And what Wonders ot revelation in the e botbazine pocket of the one and the a sleeve of the other. Blessed is that 0 home where Christian parents come to - visit! Whatever may have been the 11 style of archlitecture whlenl thley caime, it, . is a palace b~efore they leave. Li' they I visit, you 50 times, thbe two most imemo. rablo visits will he the first andl the hiast. Those two pictures wvill hang iii tile h all of your memory while memory' lasts e and yoill reimember just how they pr lookced, and whore they sat, and what li tbey saidl, and at, what figure of the ctr. p ilet, and~ at, what dloorsill theiy plarted with you, givinir you the iinal goodbye. cli D)o not, he emba~irratssed if your father ju come to town and hie have the mlanners hi of' the shepherd, and it your mother tr come to towvn anld there be in her .hat no l sign of costly millinery. Thei wvife of ii the Emuperor TIheodosius said a wvise IC thing when she said, "lliisbandl~s, r0- hi member wvhat you lately were, and re. member what you are, and be thankful,~.9 B y this time you all notice what, kimd- T ly provision JToseph made for his father, I dlacob. dJosephm did not any:"'' can't l have the old man around( this place- h< Ihow clumsy lie would look climbing up oj these marble stairs andl walking over et these mosaica! Then lie would hie put- e& ting his hands upon some of these hoes- si coes. l'eolpic would wonder where that am old sreenhlorn caime from. He would1 tI shock all the Egyptianl court with his hi manners at table, ]esidles that lie miaht t~i et,~d sick on my hands, and hle imight, lbe di qjuerulons, and lie might talk to mae as W though .1 were only a hov, whien 1I amnt the second mani m all the realm. O01 course lie must, not, suffer, and 1i here is famine in his ouniitry-and1 I heary there Is-I wvill send some provisions, p but I can't take a man fronm Padanaram di andl introduce him inito this polite Egyp. ki tiain court. What a nuisance it is to tI have )oor reaina'" Joseph (lid not say that but lhe rushed im Out to mteet his father with perfect, abau- P don of all'ection and brought him uip to a the palace and mntroduced him to the k~ emperor and1( providlem for all tho rest of al tihe father's (lays, and nothmig was too good for thie old man while living. And when lie was dead, ,Joseph, with milita ry escort, took lia f athier's remains to a the family cemetery. Would God all ia chIldren were as kind to their parents! ei If' the fattier have large property, and ti lie be wise enough to keel) It, In ini his w~ own name, lie will be resp~ectedl by the heirs, but how ofiten It Is when the son 01 find~s his father in famine, as Joseph s1 found Jacob in famine, the youing people a make it very hard for the old manm! Tihey Ir are so surprised hie eats with a knife in stead or a fork. They are chagrined at ff his antediluvian habits. They are pro. cc yoked because lie cannot hear as well as of lie used to, and when he asks It over ,of again, and the son has to repeat it, he ec bawls in the old man's ear, "1 hope you (.1 hear that!"' I[ow long he must wear cc the old coat or the old hat before they a i get him a new one! Ihow chagrined they are at his independenco of the En- WI glish grammar! 11ow long lie hangs on! thi Seventy years and not gone yell Seven- ,9 ty flve years and not, gone yet! Eighty T years and niot gone yet! Will lie ever "p go? They think it is of iio use to have a s doctor in his last sickness, and go up to w the drug store, and get a dose of some-- 10 thing that makes him worse, and econo- on ml'ae on a coffin, and beat the undertak- are er down to the last point, giving a note on or the reduced amount which they never ye pay, I2 have officiated at obsequies of sk~ aged people where the family have been (10 'so iordinae re ned to providencem - Proverbs, "The eye that mocketh at O'9 ) Us father and refuseth1 to obey Its moth- to a or, the ravens 01 the valley shall pick i out, and the young eagles shall eat it ,05 In other words, such an ingrate ought a to have a flock af crows for palibearerat ~ -I cougratulate you if' you have the p honor ofiproviling fr nae paret. 'he blessing of the Lord God of Joseph nd Jacob will bo on you. I rejoice to remember that, though ty father lived In a plain house the Lost of his days, he died In a mansion rovided by the fillal piety of a son who ad achieved a fortune. There the oc. )genarian sat and the servants wated i him, and there were plenty of car, ages to convey him, and a bower in hich to sit on long summer afternoons, reammng of the past, and there was not room in the hsuse where he was not elcomne, and there were musical instru Lents of all sorts to regale him, and hen hfo had passed the neighbors came At and expressed all honor possible id carricd him to the village Machpe h amd put him down beside the Itach with whom he had lived more than ill' a century. Share your successes Ith the old people. The probability tha tLho principles they inculcated hieved Your fortune. Giva them a liristian percentage of kindly consider ion. JAt Joseph divide with Jacob o pasture fields of Gosheu and the ories of the Egyptian court. And here I would like to sing the aises of the sisterhood who remain imarried that they might administer aged parents. The brutal world ,ls these self sacrificing ones peculiar angular, but if you had had as many inoyances as they have had Xantippo ould have been an angel compared to au. It is easier to take care of ,e rollicking, romping children, than one childish old man. Among the st woman are those who allowed the oom of life to pass away while they ore caring for their parents. White her maidens were sound asleep they ere soaking the old man's feet or cking up the covers around the in ilid mother. While other maidens ere in the cotillon they were dancing tendanco upon rheumatism, and ireading plasters for the lame back the septenarlan, and heating catnip a for insomnia. In almost every circle of our kindred ere has been some queen of self criflce to whom jeweled hand after weled hand was offered in marriage, it who staid on the old place because the sense of filial obligatien until .0 health was gone and the attract eness of personal presence had mished. Brutal society may call such one by a nickname. God calls her Lughter, and heaven calls her saint, i kd I call her domestic martyr half dozen ordinary woman have. a >t as much nobility as could be found I the smallest joint o' the little finger c her left hand. Although the world n s stood 6,000 years, this is the first , otheosis of maidenhood, although in e the long line of those who have de. ned marriage that they might be talifled for some especial mission are t e names of Anna Ross and Margaret l :eckinridge .and Mary Shelton and V nna Etheridge and Georgiana Wil- 1 ts, the angels of the battlefields of c tir Oaks and Lookout Mountain and I lancellorsville, and though single life r is been honored by the fact that the f iree grandest men of the Bible-John C id Paul and Christ-were celibates. Let the ungrateful world sneer at I ic maiden aunt, but God has a throne tirnished for her arrival, and one side that throne in heaven there is a vase )ntaining two jewels, the one bright e than the Kohinoor of London Tower, ad the other larger than any diamond ver found in the districts of Golconda -tho one jewel by the lipidary of the alace cut with the words, "Inasmuch S Y0 (1id it to father;" the other jiewel y the lapidary of' thle palace cut wvith '10 words, "Inasmuch as ye tiid it to 10ther." "Over the Hills to the i'oor 0o1s0" Is the exquaisite ballad of IllI arheton, wvho tound an old woman ho had been turned~ ofl' by her pros- E )1rOls sonis, but I. thank God I may ( id in my text "Over' the hills to the ;t miace." ( Am; if to disgust us with unfliial con nct, the lible presents us5 the story ofc icah, who stole the 1,100 shekles from| s mother, and story of' Absalom, whol C led to dethrone his father. But all story is beautiful wvith stories of flial 3 lelity. Epaminondas, ihe warrier, i und his chief delight ir, reciting to s parents ils victories. T'here goes - neas from burning Troy, on his I oulders Anchises, his farther i 1ie Athenians 'punishied with athl unfilial condluct. There goes autiful Riuth - escorting vener ale Naomi across the desert amid the wling of the wolves and tihe barking the jackals. JTohn Lawrence, b~urn at the stake in Colchester, was cheer in the flames by his children, who Id, "0 Gnd, strengthen thy servant ad keep thy pormise!" And Christ in *e hour of excruciation provided for s old mother. JIacob kept his resolui on,"1 wvill go and see him before I e andl a little wvhile after we find them alklng the tesselated floor of' the i ilace, Jacob and .Josoph, the p~rime1 inister proud of the shepherd. a I may say in regard to the most of 1 m that your parents have probablyi sitedi you for last time or wvill soon ny you such a visit, and I have won ,red if they will ever visit you in the ug's palace. "Oh," you say, "I am in to pit of sin!" JToseph was in the pit. )h," you say, "I am in the prison or ine iniquity I" .Joseph was once in ison. "Oh," you say, "I didn't have fair chance. 1 was denied maternal ndnessi" Joseph was dieniedl maternal ~tendance. "Oh," you say, I am far wvay from the land of' my nativity!" seph wvas f'ar from home. "Oh," you my, ".I have been betrayed and exais Irated!" Did not ,Joseph's brethren all him to a passing .Ishmaelitish car ian ? Yet God brought him to that nblazoned residence, andI if you will uist his grace in Jesus Christ you, too, ill be empalaced. Oh, what a day that will be when the d folks come from an adjoining man on in heaven and find you amid the1 abaster pillars of the throneroom and I ving with the King! They are corn g up the steps now, and the epauletod ard of the p~alace rushes in and says, four father's coming, your mother's 'ming!" And when undler the arches precious stones and on the pavement porphyry you greot each other the1 one will eclipse the meeting on tihe )Shen high ray, when ,Joseph andi Ja b fell on each other's neck andl wept good while. liut, oh, how changed the old folks ii be! Their cheek smoothed into s flesh of' a little child. '[heir stoopedi sture lifted into immortal s ymmetry. melr foot now so feeble, then with the ri ghtlines of a bounding roe, as they a all1 say to you, "A spirit passedl this my from earth and told us5 that you l ire wayward and dissipated after we hi t the world, but you have repented, t r prayer has been answered, and you r here. And as we used to visit you o earth before we died now we visit a ai in your Dew home after our as con- c in." And father will say, "Mother, 1 n't you see Joseph is yet alive ?" andq ther will say, "Yes, father, Joshep h yet alive." And then they will talku or their earthly anxieties in regard d you, and the midnight supplicat onsd your behalf, and they wilt recite to oh other the old Scripture passage hi lth which they used to cheer their b iggering faith, "I will be a God to l *e9 and thy seed aftelr thee." Oh, the h il1e. the palace, the palacel That is I, htet ieiad naxtr a. e "the aits1 everlasting rest." That is what John Bunyan called the "Celestial City." That is Young's "Night Thoughts" turned into morning exultations. That is Gray's "Elegy In a Churchyard" turned to resurrection spetacle. That is the "Cotter's Saturday Night" ex. changed for the cotter's Sabbath morn. Ing. That is the shepherd of Salisbury Plains amid the flocks on the bills of heaven. That is the famine struck Pad anaram turned into the rich pasture Rlelds of Goshen. That is Jacob visit. ing Joseph at the emerald castle. Many Lives J9st by EfarthquaICO. CONSTANTINOP],1, July I.-Four Fresh shocks of earthquake were felt here today. Up to this morning many houses Jave fallen at Stamboul. At G rand Bazaar, the jewellers' quarter fell this 3iornig, occasioning the greatest con. usion. The merchants fled iII terror, leaving their valuables behind them. Many shop-keepers and passers-by were )uried beneath the ruins. It is impossl )le as yet to give the number of people cilled and injured, but it is known that >ver 150 people are buried beneath the lebris. The Regie tobacco factory and Ahor houses at Djouvali have been seri >usly damaged and several persons have been killeto in that quarter. The shock was very severe at the Princes Island. &t Prinkipo the Orthodox church and siany elegant houses atid villas were lestoyed. In Constantinople four houses roll and a nu-nber of others were dam iged. Five people were idlled. At [1 alatea ten were killed and great dam %go was done to property. At tLe vil age of Stefano the Catholic church and aonastery fell, burying eleven persons oneath its ruins. From nearly all the 7ilage in the vinicity came similar re porte, except from about the Bosphorus where the damage was slight. Public )uldings generally escaped. No news s to be had from the provinces, as the ffires are all down. It is reported that ,he village of Adabaz'ar has boon com iletely wiped out of existence. No [0nglisi or American victims are reported com any part of the car Lhquake-shaken listrict.. Many houses have collapsed, ncluding several foreign villas in Soy the md Missi, where four persons were ,illed. On the Island of lalki nearly ill the houses were wrecked. A portion >f the OLtoman Naval College fall, kill ng six people and in juring several oth rs. At Monastir the Ochiodox church bud a portion of the seminary fell, kill ng one of the priests and injuiing sev rai others. On the Island of Autigoni 11 the buildings exseopt tho monusteries rere wrecked. Three P'eoie Shot Down. DANVILL E, ill., July 9.-Mrs. Mitchel lennan and Miss Clara James were illed and one unknown man mortally vounded and at Westville this after oon by a volley iired over the heads a crowd of rioting miners by a com any of militia. -The miners had been loting in this vicinity since yesterday fter n. During last night a number if freiguit cars were destroyed on the "astern Illinois yards by incendiary [res. This forenoon a number of cars vere derailed at Grape Creek on the helbyville branch. Where the wreck ige had been cleared the in-bound pas enger train proceeded without molesta ion until Westville was reached. When it stopped there it was surround d by a crowd of miners and word was ;elegraphed to Danville and a special xain with a company of State troops startedi at once for the scene of trouble. A.boiut one mile from Westville a large 3rowd~ of miners had collected and upon ,he approach of the train bearing thel nilitini began warlike (demionstratLions. everal pistol shots were lired at the oldiers, who returned the fire, shooting ver the heads of the mob from the rain, intending to snare them. Miss liaraJame, the 1'7 year old daughter f Jonas James, ivas standing in the oor way of her home. A bullet struck Ler just below the right breast'and she .10( almost instantly. Mrs. Michael: lennan, a widow, standing in her own i ard, was also struck and died in live ninutes. An unknown man received a nortal wound and will die beforenight. he militia then left the train and harged the crowd, securing three pris nors. After this the crowd dispersed nd no further resistence being offered, he troops returned to their train which tad been coupled in front of the pas enger and made the trip to D)anyilio vithout further delay. Major Murray D)rownedi. ANDERSON, .July 7.-Mcj, E, U, ilurray was drowned this afternoon in a mall pond( in front o1 his house, Ito md bisa(daughter, Felicia. Miss Mary ?reer, andl Miss IHelen Sloan were in aihing. Aft~er being in about an hour tinj. Murray carried a boat out Hear the nidle of the pond for one of tbe young adios to divo from. She 'ived1 and iwam ashore. While standing on shore he party nioticedl Mr. Murray struggling n the wateor at, some dlistance from the 3at. Ihis daughter asked ii she must, :ome to him, ie shook his head. She ,ben went to him, alcing w~ith Miss P reer. Sinjor Murray caught hold of' each of ,be young ladies andl would have Pulled hem undler but, that they caught hold of he boat,. They called for help, but be ore any assistance arrived Major Mur 'ay sank in water about tea feet deep. L'ho news spread very rap~idly and a argo crowd soon gathered, found the ody and after several efforts brougaht t, up, andl carried it to the shore. Drs. [Iarris, Wilhite and Freison were soon it work exerting every frort to resus siato hum, but af ter working more than in hour they foundl no signs of life. The >ody was in the water about twenty ninutes. it is thought by the doctora ,hat he was attacked by cramp or ver ,igo. The death of Major Murray causes treat sorrow and gloom hero. IHe was me of the leading men of the State andl iand done much hard work for them. I~e vas for a number of years IRepresentative mnd Senator from this county and always ook an active part in those bodies, lie vas In his fort~y-second year. Further articulars cannot be obtained tonight. L'ho funeral will prabably take place en donday morning.-Stato. A ihloody Aftrny, IiUNT.iINOToN, WV. Vii., 'July 7 -. hortly before last mnidnighi t a ln be- I urg, Ky., eight miles west of this city, terrible shooting afray occurred. Much I xcitemient prevails andl lynching is I areatened. Dave and Charles Justice, I lading timber men, with E~d and Bal ird Plymal and Lewies Cole, the latteri emne a promhent Cincinnati citizen, I ~ere collecting subscriptions to keep an r Id lady from going to the poor house, e 'lin they met, with 11. Faulkner, a t tv councilman, and his borther ,John, t hese refused to put up money and a t sarrel ensued, when all drew revol- I ers and began shooting. All six men med revolvers, and four, of them are< iad. W. B. Faulkner was shot three c mes and instantly kilied. John died two minutes from the effects of a 1 atlet through his hearts. Charles Jus ce died from three shots through the< ea'I. Dave Justice is dying tils even. gfrom an abdominal wound. Ballard lymale was shot through the thigh. I V E ERY'MAU. WADDILL, 3IVES THE GOVERNOR / PIECE OF HIS MIND. fHe SayN n 44reat 111an1y lard Thingq Aboti T1Iuman--I.o Was O0o0 a FrInt1,,d of tiv U.vOrnog',1 btat Now Ho in a hittol I.n61"y* COL~Uhnr, S. C., July ll.-The fol. lowing letter explains itself: To the Public. A few days ago Gov cuor Tillmau cowardly attemp',ed to hold me up to the scorn of tlih peoIle o my country. I was denied the oppor tunity to reply to this charge oi his Ti Governor denied callingy me by name but his friends anl coat. tail swingers dt< it for him. I had imformation of the matter tih day before, hence he Is guilty of false hood and cowardice in the samo breath My former advocacy of Tillman and prominence in Alliance work and pres out position cause ne to become an ob ject of Tillman's hate and vindictive. 1108. I wish to retire from active partici pation in politics, but before I do I want to put myself right before the people o: Darlington county and the State at large Governor Tillman charges me with being in the pay of Wall stree'. I sell floui for J. A. 0. Moore, broker, Darlington, and one of Tillman's best friends. I ai also agent for the Home Supply Associa tion of Chicago. Because I will no lon. ger worship the false and ugly God Tillman, I am to be slandered by this selflah, mean fraud; for ho is nothing but a fraud, a traitor to the 1f rm Move, mont and to the Alliance. One ot the first acts of treachery was to the Reformers of Darhngton county in making an appointment which was in violation of his solemn pledge made ti his first address at this place In 1890 tud reiterated to several gentlemen in his of. Lice in Columbia. Then violation after violation of his pledges to the Alliance at Spartanburg in 1891, and May con vention, 1892. Tilman is in the inter est and I believe, in the pay of Tam many Hall. Tllman denies voting for Hill at Chicago. I don't believe he can prove it, and, if he does, lie can not dis prove his advocacy of Hill before tho convention at Chicago, for lie took the delegation (all that he could influence) ono night to Tammany Wigwam, where we weie introduced to Croker, Bourke Cockran, Cummins, et, at, vmn!c and Digared Tillman. and if lie getu to the Senate he will only have Hlll to welcome him. He has vilified and abused Popu lists, Democrats, and Republicans alike. TIlman wrote one of his henchmen here that I was traveling in Edgefleld .n the iterest of General Butler. General 13utler was kind to me in the war and I prefer Butler to Tillman, thereby no principle involved. Butler is an honor ible. bave soldier and an old soldier knows how to meet euch a man. Ex perience of four years, often in contact with Tillman has lead me to judge him a cold, selfish, cruil and cowardly man. I thought at the time that I saw evi dence of his cowardice at Florence in 1892, and so stated to a I 5w frieisl at, tho time, and I have seen morm evidcecs of his cowardien at Chester and Oats. If the Alliance of South Carolina will Riupplort such a mani, who plainly tc'Is them why the~y cani (10 so, 1, fori one, will drawi the line right here and any I ,vill support Butler until a simonipure ~Allianceman is put out. If' thn true k.ilianceme~n of Darlington countyl will Wlow an ollice holder, coat-tail swiwger, lependent on Tillman, to carry them nto a packed caucus to push iwide true md tried Alliancemen for a shyster law. ecr, an eleventh hour convert, why they ~an (lollt, but I will oppose such methods mud light such a candidate. One word ,o the true one-gallus boys who followed I'illman on so blindly and who swallow very word lie says. If yon, the poor enant white farmers, who rent lands md to whom Governor Tiliman is so ond or appealing, if you lived1 in 10lge. leled near Governor Tillman's tenantry place, andl wanted land of him, you could amt '..et it. Ile has inot, a white tenant, All are negroes and his neighbors say that, he will not have a white man on lisa place. Any fairther information on this line will be furnished on application to 1). C, Bullock, E sq., (farmer,) Nmne ty-Six, S. C, lie is a man of integrity and high standing, a descendant of' Revo Iutlonary ancestors, and lives on land of sires who fought mn 1770 at Ninety-Six. In conclusion I ask the Rteformers of D~arlington county, what, has Tiliman done for yen? Has lhe out of his abun dance, contributed one cent to anything here? Our paper went, 'low"; did lhe ever pay his subscription? IHas any Rteform enterprise or work every gotten a cent from Ben Tillman; and in the least of the ep~ithiets cast, upon him, so justly, cannot I add one more any say stingy Ben Tillman? Who will follow longer a shellish, crael. cowardlly and stingy man, however able lhe may be? In the end he will disappoinit us. JouN M. WAID0IJTJ.. D~arlington, S. C., July 7. P'ralso 1or tho Ultadiel. CirARLESTON, July ll.-One of thbe issues in recent political camp~aigns in South Carolina has been the edlucation al institutions which have been sup. ported by the Slate. It, was feared at one time that in thle general work of reconstruction, the South Carolina Mili tary Academy might be upset, but Gov ernor Tillman and the Legislature have not withhold State aid from this inistitu tion and as the rep~ort of Lieut,. Col. G. 11. Rturton, inspector general of the United State~s Army, declares, they bave acted with rare good judgnment. In this report, after setting forth in de aff the p~hyiscal condition of the acad mny, Col. Burton says: "The discipline, military instruction, >earing and general appearance of the :adets; the general care and condition f arms and equip~ments, and the entire nilitary aspect of the military depart n' t of this academy, admit of no corn tirison to any of the colleges with which .have had experience. It is so sup~erior all its methods, scope, appointments 0(d its dfistinctive military featuies, that tmust be classed alone, and can only e compared to our national mlitary cademy. In the milifary bearing, cohe ion and dIrill of all kinds in the infantry ICics,this battalion equals any organiz~a Ion in the army and is but little short of batsuperb excellence generally believed obe possessed by the national cadets." After extolling the work and merits f 1'heut. ,Jenklns, the military instructor signed to tihe academy by the war de. >artment, Col. Burton says: "The col ege merits the best support the govern nent can give to the most advanced if the clvil Institution where the art of var is taught, for the reason that the na ion receIves from It results correspond nug to Its greatest demands." IMPROVE) CROP CONDITIONS. Tit'jr Wo It ly iletin ol th1 Worther amd Crop'. - COLUMBIA, S. C..,Jily l.-The fol lowing is the weekly bulletin of the condition of the weather and crops about the State fur the past weeit, as issued yesterday by Observer Bauer of the State weather service. The weather during the past week favored the rapid growth of all crops and continued to afford opportunity for repairing and planting minor food and forage crops, such as peas, pota toes and turnips, and so forth, and the acreage of such crops promises to be the largest ever known in many sectlons. Such crops deservo greater attention than is generally accorded them in the system of economy of the Southern planters and farmers, and toget.her with vegetable and fruit.gar dens should more latgely supplant strictly "money crops" than is at present the case. The increase in acre. age is, therefore, an encouraging sign. The temperature for the week ranged below the normal. averaging about 4 degrees a day on the coast to about 1 degree a day in the interior and wes tern portion, and tils with more than double the usual cloudiness has devel oped a tendency in cotton to shed its fruit in a few localities, and favored an almost too rapid growth of "weed" everywhere. The rainfall was more general than heretofore and in the southeastern portions of the Stato ,vas excessive to the point of serious im pairment of the crops. Portions of Pickens, Falrfield and Spartan burg counties are comparatively dry and need rain. Cotton made rapid growth and is generally fruiting well, but the wet ground has prevented ploughing to a considerable extent and consequently some fields are becoming grassy. AU yet no material injury has beel done by the grass or Jack- of sunshine, and the crop is in iune condition over the wholeState. It needs more sunshine to favor fruiting ana to check Its ten dency to grow to weed. Corn improved very much and cven that of early planting is responding to the pushing weather, although the stalks of such corn are in many places reported "spindling". "Laiying by" is being delayed by the wet weather, but will soon be general. Peas are still being sown but seed are getting scarce. Early sown a poor stand, that sown on stubble since the rain set in, growing nicely. Potato slips or viues in de. mand for settings, the planting of which continues. quite general. The melon crop falls below expectations, being a small crop of small melons, al. though some fine fields are reported. Rice, toba-1co, sorghim, potatoes anti gardens as well as grasses all show marked improvement over their candi tion a week ago. Farm work generally behind hand, owing to rainy weather. The adverse conditions were washing rains in Sum ter and Aiken counties, and a severe and destructive thunder stoim in Ab beville, which besides damaging crops, killed considerable stock. There were some high winds in various portions of the State but the damage resulting was, even in rho aggregatre, not very great. The following heavy rainfalls are re Ported: Charleston, 5.71; Cheraw, 2 72; Florence, 2.61; Greenville, 1 00; Spar tanburg, 2.75; Jatesburg. 2.75; .lBlack ville, 2.20; Green wood, 2 li;l a[irdeevi lle, 3.41; Kingstroe, :387; Saint Matthiewp 'l.-18; McCormick, 1.75; Elloree, :3.45; TJrli, 2.31; Li berty, 1.75; 1i3s1ey, 2.58; Statesburg, 4.1.1; Onk wooti, 2 00; LPino polls, 3.07; howe, 1.12; Central, 1.01; Port Royal, 4.02; Itied, 1.00; Heath Springs, 2.00; Efligham, 1.31; SocIet~y 11111, 2.54: Con way, 31.81; Waverly Mills, 3.30; Chesterfield. 2.0.1; Longshore, 1.35; Holland's Store. 1L54; St. Stephens, '4.30; Camden, 1.09; llia, 1 80; Tiller's Ferry' 1.87; Trenton, 2.53; Reaufort. 0.9)5. Some of Ouir Futuro TeacheinH. 'The following circular to School Comn missioners has been given out for pubh lication by t he Superintendent of Edu. cation: Columbia, S. C., ,July 9:,h, 1894. Dear Sir: As required by law, I here by beg to call 'your attention to the fact that at, the cloainI of the~ recent session of the South Carolina Milittary Acad - emy, several beneficiary cadets were graduiates fronm that institution, a list, ot wto.e names I furnish you herewith, T1hese graduates are under obligation to tea.lh two years in public schools of the State. I respectfully ask that you do what you can t) secure for them suit. able positions in your County. Should you need the services of any of these graduates who (10 not reside within your count.y, ami willI make known the fact to mie, I will bo glad to asain them to your county, p~rovidedl they are not en.. gagedt at, the tune yout r,.nd in your re quisition. Call the atteutlion of the trus tees of your cwuny 1i I . aTh, tha t they may have the sarvius. o ihmo: young men, provided they ineed thom, anid upon proper reoulsition mnade to me. Very truly, W,.1D. MAY ivmrw. State Superintendent, of Educi 'e, Anderson, W. S. Lee, ,Jr.. Anderson, 0. F. Hunter, Hasrtz~og, ,J. P. Smith, Mt. Pleasant, b. J. DnJ.re, Mt. Pleas ant, W. W. Clement, Enterprise, J. A. Moroso, Charleston, 1). Kearney, Charleston, C. C. Fishbourno, Charles ton, T. .E, L,. Lipsey, Chester, T.' C. Stevenson, Rtossville, W. 1?. Witsell, Walterboro, Il. RL. Hices Bell's P. 0., W. P. Odom, Chesterfield, J1. E. Pen rifoy. Hlarvirdeville, P. 5. Norris, Aiken, RL. H. McMaster, Winnsboro, F. u. mant, Winnsboro, F. W'. Gregg, Claus Ben, J1. T. West, Chandler, R. L. Hughes Blruuson, J1. W. Rouse, Brunson, 11. E. D~ePass, Camden, L. L. Gregory, Taxa haw, R. E, Robb, Laurens, W. G. Pike, Laurens, P. . Hutto, Lesvulle, St. C. C. Gwynu, Spartanburg, lE, R. Tomp kins, Rock Hill, Geo. M. Stackhouse, Donoho, J. G. .Johnoton, Nowherry, ,J. D), Coz.by, Nowherry. Troops Dtchedt. SACRAMENTO, July 1.-The first train to leave Sacramento with troops was ditched on a trestle eight miles from Washington, Yolo county. 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