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ONLY &PLIIEND. Only a friend-Yet a year ago - I loved you with eye and heart and soul I thought the skies had no stars as brigh As your beautiful eyes, os black as night I thought the gloam in your gypsy hal r Defied the moonlight shining fair. On some crystal lake, I loved you then Yet now-only a friend, Nothing mnore Only a friend-yet can it be Tiat a passion so deep, so tender ant1 true Could die in a year, leaving no trace On my mind of your beauty, your woman ly grace? - How could I forget the dreamy nights Illumined above by the heavenly lights And below by love. Ah, I loved you then Yet now-only a friend, Nothing more Only a friend-how cold it seems To write those words of you-my dream Every thought was a poem, a beautifu song Full of love, sweet love-so deep, so stroni That 1 swore it would last till the worlk was old; Till I, and you, dear, in death were cold Only a year ago. I loved you then, Yet now-only a friend, Nothing n:oro Only a friend--we can meet each day, And my hand does not tremble-l love j ou not. - A year has rolled over, the firo is dead, And all the sweet thoughts of love liave lied. )id you know that I loved you-who can toll? I thought that I hlid my secret well, Yet perhaps you knew. All, I loved you then. Yet now-only a friend, Nothing lore. Only a friend-how saI it is That a love as strong as mine should die In one short year. Other men love, And their love is blest by the gods above, But I-ah, well, the dream Is past, What folly to hopo that sue:i joy could last For more than a year. I loved you then, Yetnow-only a friend, Nothing mnore. A NARROW ISCAPE. What Job New About De itistty H nid the Eoaimac1l of Teoth. BROO KLYN, July 29.-Rev. .)r. Tal mage has selected as the sub ject for lis sermen for today through the preas "Narrow Escapes," the text being taken from Job xix, 20, "1 am escaped with the skin of my teeth." Job had It hard. What with buils and bereavements and )ankruptcv and a fool of a wife lhe wished he was (lead, and I do not blame him. His flesh was gone, an his bones were dry. Ills teeth wasted away until nothing but tlieennmel secmed left. He cries out, "I am cscaped witti the skin of my teeth,." There has beeu some difi'erence o opinion about this passage. St. Jeromli and Schultens and Drs. Good and l'ool and Barnes have all tried their forcep on Job's teeth. You deny my interpreta tion and say, "What did Job know% about ile enamel of' the teeth?" Ife knew everything about it. Dantal sur gery is almost as od as the carth. The mummies of Egypt, thousands ofi vears old are lound today with cold filling in their teeth. Ovid and Horace and Solomon and Moses wrote about these important factors of the body. To othber provoking complaints J1ob, I think, has added and exaspeorating tooth ache, ani( putting his hand against tihe inilamet face he says, "I am edcapedl with ti< skin of my teeth." A very narrow escape, you say, fat Job's body and soul, lint there are thous anids of men who maike ,just as niarrow escape from their soul. Tihere was a time when the partition between them and ruin was no thicker thlan a tooth's enemel, but as Job finally escaped so have they. Thank GodI Thank Godi Paul expureases the samne idlea by a dif-' ferent figure when lie says than, some people are "saved s by lire." A ves sel at sea is in fim mes. You go to tne stern of the vessel. Thej boats have shoved off'. The thames advance. You can endure the heat, no longer on your face. You slide down on tihe side of the vessel and hold on with your fiogers until the forked tongue of' tile fire begins to lick the back of' yonr hand, and you feel that you must fall, when one ol the lifeboats comes back, and,,the passengers sary they thinki they have room for one more. .The boat swings under you; you drop into It; you are saved, So some men are pursued by temptation until they are partially consumed, but after all get cfl', "saved as by fire." Bunt, like the figure of Job a little better that1 that of Paul, because the pulpit line'not worn it out, and I want to show you, i God will help, that some men makeinar. row escape for their souls and are sayved as "with the skin of their teeth. It is as easy f'or some p~eople to look to the cross as bor you to look to this pulpit, Mild, gentle, tractable, loving, you expect them to become Christians, You go over to the store and say, "Graei don joined the church yesterday." Your business comrades say: "That is ,jusn what might have been expected. H always was of that tur of mind." In youth this p~erso~n whom I describe was always good. lie never broke things. Hie never laughed when it was lmnproper to laugh. At 7 he cold( sit an hour ini church perfectly quiet, looking neither to the right hand nor to the kfs, but straight into the eyes of the minister, as though lie understLood the whole discus sion about tihe eternal decrees, Hie never upset things nor lost them, lie floated into the kimgdom of the God~ so gradually that it is uncertain just when the matter was decided. Here is anothsr one, who started in life with an uncontrollable spirit. Hle kept the nursery in an uproar. H'is mo ther found him walking on tihe edge of the house roof to see If lie could balance himself. There was no horse lie dlaredl not ride; no tree lhe could not climb, is boyhood was a long series of plredlica. menits. is manhioodi was reckless; lisa midlife very wayward. But now lie is converted, and you go over to the store and say, "Arkwright joined the church yesterday." Your friends say: "it is no)t possiblel You must be jokingi'" You Bay: "I4o. 1 tell you the truth, He joined the church." Then they re ply, "There is hope for any of us it old Arkwrlght has become a Chriatianp' In other words, we all admit that it ii mere difficult for some men to accept the gospel than for others. I may be addressing some who hava cut loose from churches and Bibles ani Sundays, 'and who have at present n< intention of becoming Christiens them selves, but just to see what is going on and yet you may find yourself escaping before you hear the end, as "with the skia of your, teeth." I do not expect to Waste this hour. I have seen boati go off from Cape May or Long Branch soid drop their nets, and after awhili come ashores pulling In the nets wlihout hai Caught a single fish. It was not a ofy orte had not the right excursion today. The water is full of fish; the wind is in the right direction; thle gospel not is strong. 0 thou who t didst help Siion and Andrew to I i, Biow us tooaIy how to cast the net el I the right "ide of the shipl I3omea of 3Cu im coming to God will I have to run against skeptical notions. It < is uselc.s for people to 1ay sharp anid I cutting thmwa to these who re*jlct the Christian relimion. I cannot say such I 01 in' s By wi it proce8s of temptalion i or trial or tetrayal you have como to ( 3our present state I know not. TI ere i are two gatcs to y( u miture-the gnto I of the head iand th.e 1nte of the hIeart I Tlhe1 gate ( f mir head Is Iocked with bol's and bars that ani archantwnel eould not bresk. but the gate of your heart I swirgs eneily ol its hings, It I niasailted i your body Aith Weapons, you w4.u1d r iueet me with weaipont, and it would ha , sword etroke, for tsivr.l vtroke, t aid wound for woun 4, and a I tlood for blood, but it I come and kucck t at the door of Iou hope you open it and y give mec the best erat .a your parlor. If a I should coMe at y-1 today with an aIr - ,unent, you wouil answer te with an11 U argumetl; if with sarcasm, you would s answer me with Larcasn, Il.w for blow.v stroke for stroke, but when I come knd e knock it the door of your heart you open A it alJ say, "Come in, my hrother, and 1 tell mue all you know ahut. Chris, and c heaven." 11 'tCII to tWO Or tIr(c quertione: Are t You as happy as you used to he when t you believe(d in the trulh of* t!c Christian v religiot ? Would you I k to have your I chilren travel on in the road in W h:ch C you are travelint? You had at relative who profbesed to bo a Chri-tian and I was throughly consistent., livimg and dy ing in tho faith of the Vospel. Would you not like to live the same quiet life im1t(I die the saime peacelul deati ? I ro ceived a letter sent tme by one who has I rejecte(d the Christian religion. It says, I am old enough to know that the joys and pleasures of lite are evanescent, and I to realiz) the fact that it must, be com- < fortable in old age to believe n some. thing relative to the future and to have a I faith in sone system that proposes to I save. I am free to confesa tiat I wOuldI be happier if I could exercise the isimple and beautiful faith that, lW possessed by many whom I know. I am not willing. ly out of the church or out of the faith. My state of uncertainty is one of unrest. Sometimes I doubt my immortality and look upon 1,he deathbed as the closing acme, after which there is nothing. What shall I do ,hat I have not donre" Al, skepticism is a dark and doleful! Let me say that this Bible is either true or false. If it he false, we are as well ol' as you. If it; be true, then which of us Is sater? Let me also ask whether your trouble has not been that you confouided( Chris. tiatmty with the inconsistetit character of' some who profess it. You are i law yer. In your prolession there are tuCan and dishonest men. Is that anything nigainst the lani? You are at doctor, There are unskilled andl conternmptil)le I men in your professionl. 1s thalt, anly-| thing againat iedicmte? You are a ier chant. There atre thieves and defraud I era in your buiness. Is that anything < against merchandise? BelolA!, then, the I unfairness of charging upon Christian ity r tihe wickedness of its dificiplee! We ad. mit, some1 of the charges against t~hose who profess religion. Somei o1 the mos08t I gantic swindles of the p)resenlt day have 'l been cairriedl on1 by miembhers 01 tihe Ichurch. Thedre are men01 in the churches wvho wouild not bie trusted for $5 without goodl collateral security. They leave thieir business dishonesties inl the vesti. t bule of the church as they ago in anid sit; at the communllion. Having concluded the~ sacratment, they get up1, wipe the wine fromi their lips, go out and' take up their sins where they left, oil. To servo tihe devil is their regular work; to serve God, a sort of play spell. With a Sun day sponge they explect to wilpe oil from their business slate all the past week's inlconsistencies. Youl have no more right to take such a man's life as speci men of religion than yell have to take the twisted irons and s plit timbers that lie en the beach at 00oney Island as a specimen of an American ship. It is time that, we drew a line between re llgieon and the f'railties of' tho'e who pro foss it. Again, there may be some ol you who in tihe attempt after a Christian life will have to run against p~owerful pasionls and appetites. 1%rhaps it is a disposi t~ion to anger that you have to conltend~ against, and perhaps, whlile in a very se rious mood0(, you hear of something that makes you1 feel that you must swear or (lie. I know of a Christian immi who was once so exasperated that lie said to a mean'culstomer "I cannot swear at you myself, for I am a memilber of tile church but if you will go (Iown stairs my pairt nor in business will swear at, you." All your good1 resolutions heretofore have been torn to tatters by explosions of' tellmper. Now there 1s 110 harm in getting mad if' you only get madi at sin. You need to bridle and sadd(le these hot breathed passions, amid wilthhem ride1 down injustice andl wrong. There are a t.housandl things in the world that we oughlt to be mad at. Th~fere is no0 hairim in getting redhot, it you only bring to the forge that, which nleeds hammering. A man who has no psower of' riighteousiness indignlation is an imbecile. But be eture it is a righteous iud~ignaltionl anhd not a petullancy that, blurs andI uniravels and depletes the soul. There is a laraze class of persons in midlife who have still in them appetites that were aroused in early manhood, at a time when they pridled themselves on being a "'little fast,"''"high livers," "free and easy,"' "hail fellows well met." They are no0W paying in compound in. terest for troubles they collect ed 20 year ago. Some of you are trying to escape, andi you will-yet very narrowly, "as with the skin of your teeth."' God and1( your ownI soul only kniow what, the strug gle Is. Omnipotent grace has pullled ot many a souil that was dheeper in the mire I tihan you ate. They line the beech of' I heaven- -the mnultitudcir whom God has rescued from the thirall of suicidal hablits, I If you this (lay turn your' back on the r Wronig anid stairt anew, God will help you. Ohi, tihe weakness of' human help! t Menl will symp~ath)iz for awhile aind then tulrn y'ou off'. If' you ask f'or their par do'i t'ey will glve' It aind say they will try you again; but,, falling away again under the power of temptation, tihey ~ cast you oil forever. But God forgives ~ seventy times Beveln; yea, seven hun11 d cred times; yea, though this be0 the ten la thlousandttl tinme he la mnore -earniest, S more sympathetic, more helpful this I last time thani When) you took your first 11 misstep. I If, withl all thle~influences favorable or a riugt life, men make so many mis takes, how much harder It is when, for Instance, some appetite thrusts its iron grapple Into the roftls of the tongue and pulls a man down with hands of de sitruction! If, under such circumstancs he break away, there will be no sport inii the undartakring, nn hnliay noyentae but. a struggle In which the wrestlers move frotm side to sido and bend ana Mvist and watch flor on opportunity to ret in a heavier stroke', until the one fl. Il e f'art in) W'11c the muscles are (ig. ended, and the velns Ptand out, aild thie )lood starts, the swarthy habit tal!s un - ler the knee of (he victor-esc-pel ut at, as by the skin (,f[ his tooth. In the last (hy it will be found that lugh Jatimer and John Knox and iluss n1d It'dley were not the greatest mar yrs, but (hristian mon who went up nerrupt from Iho coniainations and wrt h xities of Wall street., Water street .arl street, Breal street, State street, Lhird street, Lnmibard street and the oourso. Oa earth they were called irokers or stockjobbers, or retailers or inportors, lit in heavenu Christian lie. oes. No fanots were heaped about heir feet, n1o ir cjuisition domaned fron heen recantation, no h)ldier aimed a pike at their hoart, but they had men al toriures, compared with which all hysical conuming is Ni the breath of a pring nninriluz. I find in the community a large class C men who have been so cheated, C) lied athut, so outrageously rrongIed that they have lost fait,h It ev rythin;. In a world whore everything eems s, topsy turvy they do not, see ow there can he any God. They are onfounded and frenzied and m'santhrop Efaborate argument, to p'ove to bem the truth of Christianity or the ruth of anlvthinu. else touches them no viere. Hoar me, all such 'non. I >reach to you no rounded periods, no rnametital discourse, but I put my 'and >n your shoulder andl( invite you into the >eace of' tho gosel. Here is a rock on lich you may stand 1km, though the vaves dash ngain-st it harder than the ktlantic pitching its surf clear above 'ldystone lightlh->uso. Da not ciArge ipoin God ail these trouble of the world. 1s long as the world stuck to G od God tuck to the world, but the earth seceded rom his goveroinmnt. and hence all these )trages and all these woes. God It ,ood. For timany hundreda of years he ins been coaxini 4 the world to come >ack to him, but the more he has coaxed .he more violent have men been in their :esistance, and they have stepped back itd stopped back until they have Iropped into ruin. Try this God, ye who have had the ibloodlounds ifer you. uld wlio have thouight that God had forgotten you Try him and aec if le will not help. Try him and see it he will not pardon. Try hiin and see if lie will not save. The llowers of spring have no bloom so sweet as the il..ering of Christ's affee. tions. The st hath no wnrmth comn warmth conoared with the glow of his heart. The waters have no refieshment like the fountain that, will slake the tlhirst of thy soul. At the moment, the rein deer stands with his lip and uostill thrust ito the cool mountain torrent, the hunter iay be coning through the thicket. Without crackling a stick under hiis foot lie comes, close by the stla, rim13 hils gin, draws the trigger, aid ihe )onr thin- rears in its death agony and alls backward, its antlers crashing on ho rocks, but the panting heart that Irinks from the water brooks of God's Promise shall ncvar hou fatally wounded Jad shall never (lie. THE WEATHER AND CROPS. hle InltetingA Wi~1ookly Jiullntin of ti:o Staun linireau. Cormu ii aA, A..urr. 1.--State Weather )bserver .1. W. Bauier yesterday issued he following interes9ting buletinm of the voather and crops for the wveek ending esterday: The temnperature wvas imurch below tie normal on the ist two dlays of the veek and rangedl nearly normal on thme 'emainming days. Time highest temper iture for thle week was til reportedt rom Allendale, and (Greenwood on the 7th and from Spartanburg on the 28th, L'he lowest was 60 reported from Lees rille on the 23d. There was a marked Leiciency in sunshine time first of the veek and partly cloudy to clear weather generally the latter part. There was less rain during the week previous, although showers were nu inerons, anid In some instances heavy, md well distributed over the entire state. It should be borne in mind that ,he rainfall has not been excessive over he entire State, there being many 1o 3allties in the central and western soutnties that have not had the normal Jtuly rainfall and to such localIties the adverse reports dlue to too much rain hio not app)~ly. T'hese localities are nut merouts, bunt of too lImited areas to specify each by itself; their aggregate xtent is however, large, and ini these places all crops are In most encoutraging mud promising condition. In f'act the 3rops are goodI over thme ent ire State with thme exception of' cotton, and possi bly peas1. Cotton oin sandy soll has turned, aind is turning, yellow and shedding too freely with indications that growth hats stopped; on richer soil the plant is growifng too mticht to wveed and fruiting too lightly. On those two points the reports are more pronouincedl than on the previotus week. Considerable rumst .s also nioted. The conitintued wet weather has made it impossible to keep :own tire grass and it wvill be necessary o lay by somne fields in the grass; the 3orn needis more cul tivation for its root ievelopmnent. Those are the sources o f Llpairmlent which tihe crOp has en 3Ountered during tire week, but the larmage is as yet not very seriousa ex sept fin some counties where It its said hie crop has fallen oig from one-fouirth o one-half since Ju rly 1. Corn hars rnot sifeored much, if' any, mpnlairment from tire wet weather ox sept that some corn of quite late plant ng on bottom lands poorly dlrained, is lot lookfng very wvell; but in general hle crop Is considered made. Two cor espondents thin k it is over-estimated, lilt the preponderance of opinion is ~hat the yield will be very large. It is lnring some ini places and earing high rp the stalk, the latter inclined to be mall. Fodder stripping has already iegumn, or is about to begin this week, ni tihe eastern corrnties. It is thought that thre wet weathler ras injured peas to seine extent, but rot seriotusly. Pea forage and~ crab rass promise a large yild in the nor heastern counties. Sweet puotatoes (101ing finely, although osslbly growing too umutch to vine. In )harleston county the thlird crop of rsh potatoes is being planted. Time northern shipments of melons ontinuies heavy andl the quality ars well a the size of time melons is better. Gardens continue to ilourishm and the iarkets are kept well supplied with easonable vegetables at reasonable rices. New sweet potatoes are on time riarket. What few apples escapled tihe March reex3 are dIropiping badly and miaturr ig a small sttated fruit. ]rarly varle Los of grapes a complete failure. No rno naltive fruits in thme markets. There were a few wind-storms in !arioums portions of the State that did lighit damage anmd some bottom lands ubmerged with trilling damage; other. vise rps suffered nio physical injuury 1101 ilMES IN UNION. [CONTINUED FROM PAGE FInST.] directed to the crowd, was drowned out by the loud cheers for Tilliman. General Butler explained that he had prepared the article which was in the News and Courier to use at Laureng. Ile had given it to the reporters to copy and mail to their papers. The Courier correspondent had mailed itto his paper and that paper had prematurely pub lished it. It was published without au thority. Governor Tillman knew the circumstances and yet took advantage of it. Notwithstanding this he sees fit to go out of his way to make flings at me. General Butler got warm again and said: "Ile (Tillman) talks about my mouth being a vehicle for filth. God save the sewer pipes of this country if his mouth is not worse than tiny sewer pipe I know of." This was greeted by loud cheers for Tillman which cortinued for a few sec onds. Resuming, General Butler said: "The figures on this Dispensary matter I secured from competent authority and not from the whiskey trust. Why doesn't he answer and give facts; say whether they are true or not and not indulge in nonsense and idle stuff which has no reason in it." Tillman: "I have denied what you charge." General Butler: "I have secured these figures from proper sources and when he answers them 1 will have something else to say. Ile intimates that 1 am not paying my debts. If I had the Diepensary at my back with the hundreds of thousands in it I w6uld pay my debts and feather my nest, I I wan like some people. Any man who says that I do not pay my honest debts says a falsehood. Tillman talks like he is a rich man. I am a poor Iman and I can't help it. I have done my ditty to mvslMi' and my country." The cheering for Tillman had gradu ally grown louder and more frequent during Butler's remarks and it broke into a fury all at once. When the yell ing partially ceased, Butler said: "Ile will need all the hollering you can give him." An old gray haired ex-Confederate said to Butler: "You used to lead me right in war. Ile (I'illman) leads me right now, and you don't." The yelling for Tillman continued. I did not re gard it as a formal attempt to howl Hutler down, but as an expression of the feelings of the people for Tillman. It was at least annoying to Ganeral Hutier andl he shouted to the crowd: "I understand this thing. You have been put there to howl me down, but you can't (10 it." The crowd vehemently denied this, but continued to cheer. Intler: "If you will meet me one at a time I will settle it with you." This caused more confusion, a variety of noises and a number of verbal shots at Butler on various subjects. With ilushed face and powerful voice Butler yelled: "Come at me one ata time you blackguards, and I will give you all you want." At this point "hell broke loose in Georgia" sure enough. Three or four men shouted to Butler that they would meet him. Men pushed and scrambled to the front, cursing, sweating and tuming. All kinds of noisei rent the air and the excitement was at fever heat. From way back in the rear a man named J. M. Mobley, an executive committeeman, and a candidftte for Su pervisor, came pushing to get to the front. ie was stop pod. Another man p~ut his hand to his pistol pocket and held his hand on it. H~e was a Butler man, however, but did not pull his gun. The four marshals were powerless to stemn the crowd and to allay the excite mnent. Governor Tillman advanced to ask for quiet, but Butler peremptorily told him to sit dlown. Chairman Lyles made earnest efforts to restore order and these efforts were finally successful. B3efore older had been restored, however, General Butler was shouting above the noise that he came hero as an invited guest and that lie intended to speak if he stayed there all iight. Vroice: "Go ahead, we are going to listen." B5utler: "No you are not. You didn't come to listen. You come here to howl me down." General Butler shouted that he had not said anything that lie wouldn't stana by'and he was going to stay there. "There are not men enough here," lie said, "to frighten and intimidate me. I thought the men of Umnon were 're markable for their courtesy and chiv airy and L believe a majority of them are, but some of them have acted tihe blackguard here. I want you to un derstand that I see men in that audi once when times were more dangerous than now, when bullets whistled around heads and cut down men by our sides." Voice: "We would stick to you now if you were all right." Butler: "That shows what you are. I sat and listened to him (Tillman) andl said nothing when lie foully slandered mec. When 1 come to repay his hench men try to howl me down." Voice: "Did you call this crowd thieves ?" Butler: "I dild no such tiling. I want to say tis to you, some of whom have steod by my side0 whlen it took brave men to dio it and 1 am going to say it. In 187u; and 1877 1. took my life in my hands a huindred times to redeem this State. I thought that when we got ridl of those thieves we would have free sp~eechi, but now whien a man gets lip to express hisa honest sentiments lhe is howled down. Th'lat don't work in tihis country or anywhere else and won't win. It will bring untoid woes if it is persistedi inl." TIhen General Butler continued his speech talking on nation al issues. Cheering and counter cheer ing broke loose and there came near be ing several fighlts. There was never perfect order from the time Butler began until lie finished and the gubernatorial candidates be gan. OTlHlciR S~I'J.lH Es. General .Eilerbe opened his speech by repuidiating the charges which have been made against him by papers friendly to Eh'vans and refuted them. ie said that they aire foul slimdners. ie did not believe his opponlelit had anything to do with these slanderm s, but it was low and mean that such schemes were being resorted to to dlefeat him. All he wanted, ho said, was fair play. Gantt ought to prove the charges lie has made or apologize. Wiie talking on these subjects a man said: "You wrote too manly letters in favor of T1. C. Duncan for the Legis lature." Ellerbo: "I am glad you mentioned that. 1 did( write several letters and~ I am not ashamed of it. D)uncan was my friend. Ie said lie would support the Reform administration and Governor Tillman, andl pledged huiwsult to that." Soeeinterlocutor: "Did(1 he prove t~o be0 a Reformer ?" Elierbe: "I don't know. You can set tle that among yourselves, but he was my friend and I never go b~ack on a friend." (Applause.) -interlocutor again: "We are going to vote for your cousin Johnny." Ellerbe: "I'll tell you how you can do that. Thn next Lngaturie wil eleor two Judges. He isa lawyer. You oar elect him one of those judges and vote for me for Governor. (Cheers and coun ter cheers.) General Eillerbe said he was going t< be ellected Governor and is going to en. force the Dispensary law. Voice: "I thought you were weak. kneed." ElIerbi-: "No man can accuse me of being weak.kneed, Governor Tillman and I are both in favor of reopening the Dispensary, although I differ from him some time. If am elected I will en force that law." (Applause.) After the men with plenty of mouth got through speaking General Ellerbe discussed Al liance demands and national issues. Senator Evans who followed said he did not pay anv attention to the pitiful little newspapers and inkslinger. There are measures of importance and they ought to be illscus:ied. Senator Evans told what he had done for Reform and said lie was going to be the next Gov ernor. Voice: "There is a report around here that you will disfranchise the poor man and keep him from voting." Evans: "That is a lie and is intended to hurt me, but they can't fool the peo ple." (Appluse ) Ellerbe says I have got all the poli ticians on my side. Well they are. but they see that the people are going to elect me and they want to be on the winning side. (Applause.) While discussing the Dispensary Senator Evans said The Columbia Reg ister jumped on me Sunday and said prove or retract because I jumped on it for criticising Governor Tillinan for re opening the Dispensary. Haven't I got as much right to criticise it as it has to criticise meI was simply defending Governor Tillman." le took a band primary on this ques. tion: "All who think that the Gover nor is right in reopening the Dispen sary and that I had a right to criticise Thelegister and stand to the Governors back hold ip your hands." On this double headed question in which Gov ernor Tillman was mixed the crowd voted overwhelmingly the way Mr. Evans desired. None voted the other way when that side of the question was put. "That is vindication enough for me," exclaimed Senator Evans, and he went on with his speech on the Dispen sary, arousing a good deel of enthiusi asm. Evans begged the peoplo to vote for a constlttiti6iial convention. Dr. Sampson Pope spoke in favor of his stand for a Reform primary. lie talked to a small crowd which did not seem to fully understand all he said. Dr. Pope declared that he did not ex pect any advantage from the Conserva tives by the position he had taken. On the Dispensary Dr. 'ope said the Su preine Court, which was composed of honorable men, had decided the law un constitutional. Governor Tillman was not acting according to law in reopen ing the Dispensary now and the people should not follow him when lie was wrong. Ile apmitted that liquor can be boughtanywhere in the State but said the Governor or no other law of licer has made any attempt to enforce probition. Dr. Pope insinuated very strongly that ignoble ambition Is guid ing some of the candidates for olice and that they are freezing vith fear ful tenacity to Tillman's coat tails. Tillman at Aiken, he said, declared thit lie would get a coat tail big enough for Evans and 01llerbe but never said a word about Tindal or Pope. ire (l'ope) was glad of it as ho did not hang to anybody's coat tail. All four of the Congressional candi. datep, Parley, Wilson, Dunncan and Johnson, were here to-day and spoke, belaboring each other and discussing issues the least of anything else. Col. Collards Caughman attempted to speak this afternoon from thle balcony of tile Union Ihotel but the crowd would not let him. They took especial pleasure in cheering all he did't say and for this reason lhe didn't say any thing. ie stoodh on the balcony over half an hour with a colored man hold ing an umbrella over him, It was hotter do wn below thanm it was aba ye. Andrewv Jackson'g Grave . NAsHVILLE, Tenn., Aug. 1.-Infor mation was received to-day from "The Hermitage," where General Andrew Jackson's remains are buried, that his grave was disturbed last night by some unknown person or persons. A hole eighteen inches in debth andl three feet in length was dug at the head of the grave, but the parties were frightened away before they accomplish their ob ject. The Hlermitage Is twelve mniea from this city. The desecration of general Jackson's grave wvas discovered at an early hour tc-day and the fact Immediately report ed to the Ladies hermitage Association A long plank was left lying beside tile grave. Suspicion rests upon a well dressed negro for whom the authorities are now looking. He went to the resi dence of a white man living haif a mile fromn.tte liermi tage yeserday afternoon and borrowed a shovel, which lie re tulrnedl this morning. While near lihe llermitage he made some Iiquires about .Jackson's tomb. Trouble at (ioUslem * LEMSON CoLLEGE, S. C,, .July 28,-. For some tinie certain parties, 1not stu - dents, have been trying to remove P'resi (lent, Craighead. For several days tihe report has beeni going round that all the sti~uents but obout six hail signed a poi . tion asking theo Boardi to remove the President. President. Craighead met, ihe issue equarely at, chaupel :exercises by asking those siudlen ts who wished him for President, to rise. Almost the entire body, over 350 arose. A few, prohmably twenty- five, did not, rise. some of whom gave as their reason that they dlid not care to vote as it belonged io the Board to decide. Thie parties who oppose the President, are enemies of the collen, and their ellor'ts to remove him will bI- ill vain., How~ to S~sve $50 , .950 can actually be savedl on a Piano and~ $10 to $20 on all Organ by purchas ing (luring August, September or Octo ber under the Special Midsummer Sale now annoulncedi by Ludden & hates Southern Music Hhouse, Savannah, (a. This well known house is making SIx special Summer Offers oni Standard Instruments which buyers should care, fully investigate. They offer also a Spe'cial MIid Summtr pha.n of Payment --which ensures to buyers the Lowest Spot Cash Prices-with only a very small Cash Payment and the balanice in November next, without any interept whatever. Rtead their advertisement elsewhere In this isue and write thoem at once for fuil particulars. T1he offers are good only until November 1. Killed, CoLUMuus, Ga,, August 1.- Young Chlam blish, stenographer at tihe E'mpire Mills, this city, and .JImn Corbett, col lector for the Bee Hive store, ha:i a pleasant tussle tils aifterncon at tihe mills. Chamblish st~ruck Corbett rath er severely in the eye which nettled him and he dealt him a blo0w over the heart with all of is power. CJhamblish fell to the ground and expired in a few moments. The deceased was about eighteen years old and it stated suffer educonsiderahly with heart afretn. LARRY GANT HITS BACK. [CCNTINUI'D FROM 1AoE FIRST] its columns so long as the present edi. tor remains at its hElm. It is a piece of brazen impertinence on the part of that committee to designto middle with this paper, while condoning, by silence in their own organ just what the' Headlight is charged with. The proceedings o' the State Alli ance convention plainly show that it was captured in tbe interest of certain Politicians, and was used to defeat Governor Tillman for the United States Senate arnd to crush every man who is his friend and supporter. This was proven by the great interest that the old ring and H1askellIte organs mani fested in the proceedings, and when these papers were given out news be fore our own members were informed. And we are also told that "more than four-lifths of the delegates were Ellerbe men I" Well, this accounts for the in justice done the editor of the Dead alght, and the attempt to pull him down.But we accept the gauntlet cast at our feet and intend to take up the work where that so-called "investigating" commit tee left OJT, and lay before the people the facts and the testimony. Our Al liancemen will then see whether or not we have made any charges against Manager Duncan but that can be sub stantiated by reliable witnesses. The money to start the Exchange was taken from the farmers, and they have a right to know just how every dollar has has been expended. Tho Alliancemen of Georgia invest ed over $71,OCO in an E'xchange, under the charge of as honest a board of directors as ever livea; and yet their manager in three years' time had gotten away with more than half of their-entire capital, and only $1,500 in cash were found in the treasury when theexpose was made Now, with this lesson before our Alli anceinen, we do not believe that they will rest content with any such white washing reports as that made by the committee. We do not charge Mana ger Duncan with appropriating money that does not belong to him; but we do assert, and can prove, too, that as the State Exchange is now, operated our Alliance members must use outside competition to batter down its prices. There are now $17,000 in this Exchange belonging to the farmers, and we learn that about $3,500 of this sum is due Spartanburg county. Several of our county Alliances have asked their share of this fund returned to them, as they feel that they can use it to bot ter alvantage than Manager Duncan is doing. lut this claim, so we are told, has been refused. Then we do say, if our people's money must be kept back from them and against their wishes, and they petitioning for it, then it is right and fair that a report be made so thateach Alliancemai can know juist how every cent received by the Ex change, under its present managment, has been expended. So far as the principles of the Alli ance are concerned, they are firmly implanted in our bosom, and we shall iphold and defend them as iong as life lasts. But when we see our movement turned over to politicians, and the niost palpable acts of injustice (lone a mem ber, then shall we expose the outrage and shame. Our principles cannot be tray or mislead us, but men can, and only to. often (10, betray and i Islead 'is. JIIvnrronn, Conn ,T July 29.-The three Gumnan children who strayed away from their h omc on Broad street, this city. Thursday afternoon have been foUnd, but all three are dead. The chief o'f poli1cc gave order ithis nmorning that all cars about the dlepot and the freight yards ba thoroughly searched. A few minutes after 10 o'clock Policemen who had been searcbing cars in the yard of the New York, NIew Ihaven and Ihart ford for about two hours came to a ca boose from which sickening odors caine. They burst open the door and the stench which had been strong before became almost overwhelming, Keeping on at, their wvork of mnvestigation the oflcers traced the smelL to the closet which the trainmen use as a clothes press and breaking open the door they found the three little bodies naked and1 mangled by rats. Freddie, tho four year-old, lay at the nottomn; on him wan ihymond, 9 yearn old, and on top of both was L, roy, 7 years old1. Under the three bodies here the few garments the boys wore when they left home. At the antopsy this alternoon nothing was found to in dicate violence. The condition of' the wings indicated dleath by suffocat on and tue absence of contusion or other marks on the neck lprccludes idan of strani guli tiom. The theory is that the litLe fellows ran into the car to hide from a p~aestaig policeman Tltursrh'iy afe~crnooni and that the dloor of th ae -'' ' ' wung to and caught. them i 1( - . - sprine lock. The closet is live tect, high and its Iilor space is 28 by 15 incles. It is inmpossible that t~he little boys could have lived long in such a milned sp ice and the dlocto)rs think they becamo une n scious in about 15 minuues and they did not live more than 50 minutes alter the dloor was locked on them. IL Is rup. posed that the three boys hadl taken oil' their clothes to play goliig in swlmmint0, as that idea was in their mind when they lef t home A Shanckcing Orime. PA RKICRsnn, W. Va., July 28. - rThe news ha~s been received here of a terrible crime whIch was committed in Lincoln county the other day, the do tails of which arm so shockmng as to be almost beyond belief. Franklhn Valen -- tIne, a married mani with a respected family, lhymg not far iromi Grantville, Calhoun county, has been keeping up an improper Intimacy with a widlow namedl Mary Trader, living in the same vIcinity. On Sunday last Valca tine and1( Mrs. Trader decIded t i hva lie coun-. try, the neighbors hauv..g mn.ile it uni comfortable fo)r them. Thetmatter Wa.s dlicuissed in the pres. ence o Mrs. Tfra lr's d -year ol I chll. TIhe little gIrl did nt want to gn and ran away from homd., golr g to Valen ton's home, where she told Mrs. Valen tine that her mother and Valentine were going to take her away. Mrs. Valentine broke up the intended elopement, which so enraged ValentIne and Mrs. Tra-fer that they decided to take revenge upon the child. They tied the little one to a tree ihi the woodls. piledl birush arniund her and set, it, on tire and left the child to its fate. Fortunately Ira J .hnison, who was hunting, heard the child's screams andl arrived ini time ino tear away the blazing wood and release the child, but tnt tin ti1 she had been horibl y burned ironm her knees to her head, Thme child1's clothmig was burned away, her hair burned oil and the skln over her whole bodly burned so she can not recover. The country people arb aroused and are hiuntimg the guilty couple, and will wreak vengeance upon them If found. They are supposed to have made their way to the OhIo iver. Mugleal Bones are Happy Romos. fave you ever noticed It? Oall mind the homes of your friends w Wye a good Piano or -Organ in ht-lis. Are they not brighter a more Attractive than those where t (livine art of music never enters? be suro itcosts to buy a good. Instr heait but it iastsj many years, and wl Pay Its costs many a thousand tim over by interesting the young folks in their homes. Don't make the mistake though, of investing haphazard. Post yourself thorough by writing Ludden &.Bates Southern Music House, 8avah. nab, Ga., the great music house of the South, established In 1870. They have sup lied 50,000 instruments to South ern homes, and have a reputation for fair prices and honorable treatment of customers; and they represent the lead ing pianos and organs of Amerloa They take pleasure In corresponding ith you, sending free catalogues, etc Write thel,. P A TS THE FREIGRI V~ P:(Aft ~'.ts Fdm fr GaalI ard s What Yes Ca Som $69 *'-'M '$37 -nt I.t. nfirogate tlhe*an. No fot:ht pa ! lot o'1,11 ,1 or * ~ goj (rgan or nanuIt~y re ; i fuTd' c n - n Thi- No W . -l ' $46 Will dlive ' , "- fitt th T . - -e -III a b.. .dellv . to ~ ~ ~ &*o fcoro al yg. env te y userit 3 NoA freigt pa 0~g 0~ DMI BEW MAOaRLY wvb lin ia f' la-- . or 0- ON .Y $1 m .. /Pr 7'1v.r' ae :;nI I.I4 Ct th OLA eu Ha-nte(- ev Hicy onoe a N r taapt paid -- -THE --~-- - ik4*fvrfr4! V.os# Wi~Rt W, IUeA!L1_ Ii (f.( 110 For tor - tural aGrinu 4 oral Pl tation UssL e, have earn Sed their reputa 5& tion as the best on tne market. For Simpflty, - Durabilit and - Eoonomy in fuel and water TE TOEUn Has no Equal. PANOS -ORGANS./ MID-SUMER BAGAINS Spea SaeSme 134 h tietoby ha' ndEsy i Special sumr - r ta oa h Smnera Pl uer10. RynAustSpTe P$aoo $0 ol rgan Ogan.nx oe be~mr l'th. Jner ym i wuantd.pO~i~ Rl~ant toamet all. Pano $5 to a1 mionibily. Organs $2 to $5. Our Ml0d-Summer Offers save big money 0n all ptlansa of paymnut. Now Fall Leaders ready. Bleauti. raul and( Cheap,. Temptin Bargains. Wr'ito at one for Mid-Suimer Of.. fors. Good1 only until November 1. D)on't wait. LUDDEN & BATES. SOUTHERN MUSIC HOUSE, SAVANNAH, GA. NOW [S TH E TIME 'I'O l'14A.UC YOlR OR)EitS-FORt Thiresheors ! Andi 1. Soil the IUnst iln the Market. Write to me Bufore Buying. Shingle Machines. Stave Machinedi,. lirick Machines, Planing Machines, Swing Sawa, lland saws, (Gang liip Saws, andi all kinds of wood work hug machitnes,. Irist Mills $115 to $25~0. 5a W Mills $i190 to $400. Watertown Engines and Boilers. Tialb~ott Engines anti Boilers. Seedi Cotton Etlevators. (Cottol, Gis and Presses. IIIGI aind LOW *RA.DE. V. 0. B&OliAMI, (JOLUMUr A& n0