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SERMON TO FARMERS. DR. TALMAGE ADDRESSES THE ENCAMPMENT AT MT. GRETNA. "J-'mmiiIiik u | I Type," tlic Sunjeet, iiikI the Text, "Kliihn, the S<in of Sll?phnt, Who Who IMowIiik with Twelve Oxen. ItKBANoN, 1*a., August 17.?Tlic. American Farmers' Kncampment at Mount (Jrctna. near this city, to-day listened attentively to a remarkable discourse by the meat Brooklyn preacher, Kev. T. DoWItt Talmage, who arrived here yesterday from the Chautauqua, at Piedmont, (la., where he spoke Wednesday last. The subject was one |>ociiliurlv suited to the vast audience, being on Fanning a (iospel Ty|>c." I Kings, xix, 19: "Klisha.the son ofShaphat. who was plowing witli twelve oxen before him, and he with the twelfth." Representatives of the great Farmers' 1 associations from all parts oi the country are at the encampment, preparations for 1 which have been going on months tu ' advance. The surrounding densely-pop- 1 ulaled counties of Pennsylvania are also ' fully represented. To-day's services : were held in the open air. An immense 1 choir, from the churches of Lebanon, led the music. Kev. Dr. Talmagc spoke as 1 Farmers ot' America! Accept my salutation. Our text puts us down into the plow's furrow, where many of us have been before. My boyhood passed on a farm, and my father, a fanner, your style ' of life is familiar to me. One of my ' earliest recollections is that of my father coming in from the hot harvcst-lield ex- ' hausted, the perspiration streaming from his forehead and chin, and fainting oil the door-sill, and my mother resuscitat- J ing him, until seeing the alarm of the household, lie said, "Don't be frightened. I got a little tired, and the sun was hot, hut I am all right now." And I remember mother seated at the table, often say- J ing, "Well, 1 am too tired to cat!" The fact is, that 1 do not think the old folks got thoroughly rested until they lay j down in the grave-yard back of Somer- j villc, to take the last sleep. < llliec-scekera go through the land and : they stand on political platforms, and 1 they tell the farmers the story about the 1 independent lite of the farmer, giving llatby.v wlterp ihev ought to give symtfjvcoplc in this country have it harder j Of the curculio that "stings'tiVtT JVtliRln ' trees? <?f the rust in the wheat? of the ' lnii' rnin with tlif> rvr> dmvuV Inde- < pendent of the grasshopper? of the 1 locust? of the army worm ? of the potato- ' hug? Independent of the drought that 1 burns up the harvest? Independent of : the cow with the hollow horn ? or the ] sheep with the fool-rot9 or the pet 1 horse with a nail in his hoof? Iudc- ( pendent of the void that freezes out the ' winter grain ? Independent of the snowhank out of which he must shovel him- t self? Independent of the cold .weather \ when he stands thesliiug his numbed * lingers around his body to- keop them t from being frosted? lmk)puidcnbo?-thc ; frozen ears and ' made their tortuncOTS>($te $ all the modern impro^il^t^'| solace; but the yediffamy^r^^t''ttiWr < living out of the-#JLBb4_who that wtoiy i nave to clothe their huulTTcs and cducsfw ] their children, and pay their taxes and i meet the interest *<y>. mortgaged farms? < such men tind a terrific struggle. And I my hope is that this great N&tipnul ' Farmers' encampment may ,diV sopic- < thing towards lifting the b(lr?cns of^rfie agriculturists. Yes, w<pmngo?arJyjill i of us born in the country. \wc dropped i corn in the hill, and went on Saturday 1 to the mill, tying the grist hi.{Jie centre .i of the sack so that the coititnifjjncither .i side the horse balanced e."i"n(u;r; and t drove the cattle alield, our brirtwwet wet s with the dew. and rode the horses with l the halter to the brook until wc loll oil". . ami hunted the mow lot-msLs iml4 the leathered occupants ; went cockling away. So we all understand rustle allusions. The lliblc is lull of them. In Christ's sermon on the Mouut, you see the lull-blown lillics and the glossy black of the crow's wing ns it Hies over Mount Olivet. David ami John, l'aul ami Isaiah find in country life a source of frequent illustration. \\Lile Christ takes the responsibility of calling Clod a farmer, declaring: "My Father is the husbandman." Xoah was the first farmer. Wc say nothing about Cain, the tiller of the soil. Adam was a gardener on a large scale, but to Noah was given all the acres ot the earth. Elisha was an agriculturist, not ctdturing a ten-acre lot. for in my text you lind him plowing with twelve yoke of oxen before him, and he with the iwelfth. In JJiblc times the land was so plenty, and the inhabitants so lew, that Xoah was right when he gave to every inhabitant a certain portion of land; that land. If cultured, ever after to be his own possession. They were not small crops raised In those times, for though the arts were rude, the plow turned up very rich soil, and barley, and cotton, ami Ilex, ami all kinds of grain came up at the call of the harvesters. IMiny tells of one stalk nt grain that had on it bet ween .'ion ami 100 ears. The rivers and the brooks, through artificial channels, were brought down to the roots of the corn, and to this habit of turning a river wherever it was wanted Solomon refers when lie, snvs: "The King's heart is in the hands ot the Lord, and He turncth it as the rivers of water are turned, withersoever He will." The wild beasts were caught,and then a book was out into their nose, and then they were led over the fiehl. and to that i tiod refers when he says to wicked Keuuneherih: "1 will put a hook in thy nose and 1 will brin?j thee hack l>v the way which thou earnest." And (iodhasa hook in every mail's nose, whether it he Nebuchadnezzar or Aliabor Herod. lie may think himself very independent, hut some time in his life or in the hour of his death, he will lind that the Lord Almighty has a hook in his nose. This was the rule in regard to the culture ot the ground, "Thou shall not plow with an ox and an ass together," illustrating the folly of ever putting intelligent and useful and pliable men in association with the subboin and the unmanageable. The vast majority of troubles in the churches and in reformatory institutions cornea from the d'.sre- ! jrard tor this command of the Lord, j ' Thou shall not plow with an ox and an ass together." There were lame amounts of properly Invented in cattle. The Moabilcs paid lub.ooi) sheep as an annual tax. Job , had T.iHiii sheep, ,'t,000camels, .r?ut) yoke ot ovcu. The time of vintage was ( uslitrcil in with mirth and music. The clusters of tin- vine were put in to the winepress, am) then live men \Vould net into the press and trample out the juice from the grape until their garments were saturated with the wine and had become the emblems of slaughter. Christ Himself, wounded until covered with the blood ot crucifixion, made use of this allusion when the question was asked: "Wherefore art thou red in thine apparel and thy garments like one who treadeth the wine-vat?" lie responded : "L have trodden the winepress alone." In all ages there has been great honor paid to agriculture. Seventh-eighths of the people in every country are disciples of the plow. A Government is strom; in proportion as it is supported by an athletic and industrious yeomanry. So loin; as before the lull of Carthage, Strabo wrote twenty-eight books on agriculture; I Icsiod wrote a poem on the same subject?"The Weeks and Days." Cato was prouder of his work on husbandry than of all his military conquests. Hut I must not be tempted into a discussion of agricultural conquests. Standing unid the harvests and orchards and vineyards of the Bible, and standing amid Lhe harvests and orchards and vineyards n our own country?i wain, to run out. Lite analogy between the production of :rops and the growth of grace in the soul?all these sacred writers making use of that analogy. In the first place I remark, in grace as in the fields there must he a plow. That which theologians call conviction isonly the plowshare turning up the sins that have been rooted and matted in the soul. A farmer said to his indolent son: 'There arc a hundred dollars buried leep in that Held." The son went to work and plowed the lield from fence to Tence, and he plowed it very deep, and then complained that lie had not found the money; but when the crop had been gathered and sold for a hundred dollars more than any previous year, then the young man took the hint as to what his father meant when lie said there were a iiindrcd dollars buried down in that lield. Deep plowing for a crop. Deep flowing for a soul, lie who makes iglit of sin will never amount to anyhing in the church or in the world. If i man speaks of sin as though it were m inaccuracy or a mistake, instead of die loathsome, abominable, consuming, ttul damning thing that (*od hates, that man will never yield a harvest of usefulness. When 1 was a boy 1 plowed a lield with a team of spirited horses. I plowed id over sdnWoi file iTicnbih t, but I did not jerk back the plow with '10 UlwrtW' iflVfrf? :amc along and said: "Why, this will 1 r>vnr .lr?- lliiu tiliVA'Pil < 1. <> i, r> 11, * 11,. 11 Llicre you have missed this and you have missed that." And he plowed it over i^ain. The ditliculty with a great many people is that they are only scratched with conviction when the subsoil plow if God's truth ought to he put in up to die beam. My word is to all Sabbath-school :eachcrs, to all parents, to all Christian workers?plow deep! And if in your >wn personal experience you arc apt to :ake a lenient view of the sinful side of your nature, put down into your soul Lhe ten commandments which reveal the Itolhicss of God. and that sharp and flittering coulter will turn up your soul po the deepest depths. If a man preaches you that you are only a little out of wdpr bv reason of sin and that you need >hTy a little lixing-up, he deceives ! You ?n?Vnroil f\?? nppntting injury by rdason of sin. There are quick poisons, nid slow poisons, but the druggist could jive you one drop that would kill the body. And sin is like that drug; so rirulcnt. so poisonous, so fatal that one j lrop is enough to kill the soul. Deep ploughing for a crop. Deep douglung for a soul. Broken heart or 10 religion, itroken soul or 110 harvest. IVIiy was it that David and the jailer ind the publican and l'aul made such ido about their sins? Had they lost heir senses? No. The ploughshare j truck them. Conviction turned up a treat many things that were forgotten. \.s a farmer ploughing sometimes turns J ip the skeleton of a man or the anatomy I )t" a monster long ago buried, so the ' doughshare of conviction turns up the ! jhastly skeletons ot sin long ago en-! otnhcd. (icologists never brought up ! rom the depths of the mountain migh- I icr ichthyosaurus or megatherium. Jlut what means all this crooked donghiug, these crooked furrows, the epunlnuvo Hint nmuuntn to nuthhi<;, Hie | epentanec that ends In nothing? Men | jroan over their sins, hut yet no hotter. | I'liey weep, hut their tears are not count- 1 d. They get convicted, hut nut eon- ' rerted. What is the reason? I retnem- j >er that on tlie farm we set a standard I villi a red flag at the other end of the j ield. We kept our eye on that. We j limed at that. We ploughed up to that, j josing sight of that we made a crooked in-row. Keeping our eyes on that we j nude a straight furrow. Now in this j natter of conviction we must have some i itandard to guide us. It is a red staudird that (Jod has set at the other end of he field. It is the cross. Keeping your >ye on that you will make a straight urrow. Losing sight of it you will nakc a crooked furrow, l'lough up to he cross. Aim not at either end of the lori/.ontal piece of the cross hut at the ! ipright piece, at the centre of it. the | wart or the Noil 01 tiou who hore your | lius ami made satisfaction. Crying and .veoplng will not. tiring you through. "Ifini hath (Jod exalted to he 1'riuee mil Saviour to give repentance." Uh! I dough ut? to the cross ! A train. I remark in grace as in the ield there must, lie a sowing. In the uttumnal weather you lind the farmer ?olng across the tield at astride of a limit twenty-three inches, and at every stride lie puts his hand into the sack ol grain and he sprinkles the seed corn over the liehl. It looks silly to a man who does not know what he is doing. lie is doing a very important work. He is scattering the winter grain, and though the snow may conic, the next year there will he a great crop. Now. that is what we are doing when we are preaching the (Jos pel ?wc are scattering the seed. It is the foolishness of preaching, hut it is the winter grain; and though the snow ! ot worldiness may come down upon it. it will yield after a while glorious liar vest. 1.01 lis DC ?nre ivc iwnv mi: nyiii j kind of need. Sow nuillcn stalk ami million stalk will conic up. Sow Canada thristlcs and Canada thistles will conic up. Sow wheat and wheat will come up. Let us distinguish between truth and error. Let us know the difference between wheat and hellebore, oats and henbane. The largest denomination in this country is the denominate n of Nothingarians. Their religion is a system ot negations. You say to nncolThciu. "What do you believe?" "Well. I don't believe in infant baptism." "What do you heft ? -V . \J> I lieve? "We ll I don't lielicvc in the prcseverance of the saints." k,Wrll. now tell tin- what you ?lo believe?" "Well, I don't believe in the eternal punish' meiit ol the wicked." Their religion is a J row of cyphers. Believe something and teach il; or. to resume the figure of my text, scatter abroad the right kind of seed. A minister ill New York preached a sermon calculated to set the denominations of Christians quarreling. He was sowing nettles. A minister in Boston advertised that he would preach a sermon on the superiority of transcendental and organized forces touiitraiisceudeiital and unorganized forces. What was lie sowing? The Lord Jesus C hrist nineteen centuries ago planted the divine seed of doctrine. It sprang up. On one side of the stalk are all the churches of Christendom. On the other side of the stalk are all the free governments of the earth, auil on the top there shall he a (lowering inillcnium after awhile. All from the Gospel seed of doctrine. Kvery word that a parent, or Sabbath-school teacher, or eily missionary, or zither Christian worker speaks for ChnstToines tip. Yea, It eomes tip with eomponnd interest?yon saving one soul, that one saving ten, the ten a hundred, the hundred a thousand, (lie thousand ten thousand, the ten thousand one hundred thousand?on, on forever. Again, I remark, in grace as in the farm there must be a harrowing. I refer now not to a harrow that goes over the field in order to prepare the ground for the seed, but a harrow which goes oves after the seed is sown, lest the birds pick up the seeds, sinking it down into the earth so that It con take root. There are new kinds of harrow, hut the harrow as I remember it was made of bars of wood nailed across each other, and-the underside of each bar was furnished with sharp teeth, and when the horses were hitched to it it went tearing and leaping across the Held, driving tin; seed down into the earth until it sprung up in the harvest. Bereavement, sorrow, persecution arc the Lord's harrows to sink the Gospel truth into your heart. There were truths that you heard thirty years ago, that have not allotted you until recently. Some great trouble came over you, and the truth was harrowed in, and it has come up. What did God mean in this country in 1857? For a century there was the Gospel preached, hut a great deal of it produced no result. Then God harnessed a wild panic, lo-a harrow of commercial disaster, and that harrow went down Wall street and up Wall street, down Third street and up Third street, until the whole land was torn to HteelP ihHfew? ,w:v great awakening in which there were 500,000 souls brought into the kingdom of our Lord. No harrow, no crop. Again, I remark, in grace as in the farm there must he a reaping. Many Christians speak of religion as th nigh it were a matter of economies or insurance. They expect to reap in the next worid. un. no: jvnv is the nine to reap. Gather up the joy of the Cliristrian religion tliis morning, this afternoon, this night. If you have not as much grace as you would like to have, thank God for what you have, and pray lor more. You arc no worse enslaved than Joseph, no worse troubled than was Dayid. no worse scourged than was l'aul. Yet, amid the rattling offetlcrs, and amid the gloom of dungeons, and amid the horror of shipwreck, they triumphed in the grace of God. The weakest man here has 500 acres of spiritual joy all ripe. Why do you not go and reap it V You liAVO been ^ronnitnr over > our inlirniitico for thirty years. Now give one round shout over your emancipation. You say you have it so hard; you might have it worse. You wonder why this great cold trouble keeps revolving through your soul, turning and turning, with a black hand 011 the crank. All, that trouble is the grindstone 011 which you arc to sharpen your sickle. To the fields! Wake up! Take oil'your green spectacles, your blue spectacles, your black spectacles. Pull up the corners of your mouth as far as you pull them down. To the fields! Reap! reap! Again, I remark, in grace as in farm- j ing, there is a time for threshing. I tell ; you bluntly that is death. Just as a| farmer beats the wheat out of the straw, 1 so death heats the soul out of the body. I Kvery sickness is a stroke of the llail, and the sickbed is the threshing floor. What, say you, is death to a good man, only taking the wheat out of the straw. That is all. An aged man has fallen asleep. ( )n\ y y?>ulortbl V )(WU ntl>? llllll 111 Uto ny porch, playing with his grand-children. Calmly lie received the message to leave this world. lie hade a pleasant good-hy to his old friends. The telegraph carries the tidings, and on swift rail-trains the kindred come, wanting once more to look 011 the face of dear old grandfather. I Irtish hack the grayhairs from his brow: it will never ache again. Put him away in the slumber of the tomb. lie will not be afraid of that night. Grandfather was never afraid of anything. He will rise in the morning of the resurrection. Grandfather was iHvnvsi tlw lirst to rise. His voice has already mingled in (lie doxology of heaven. (Grandfather always did sing in church. Anything ghastly in that? No. The threshing of wheat out of the straw. That is all. The Saviour folds a lamb in His bosom. The little child tilled all the house with her music, and her toys are scattered all up and down the stairs just as she left them. What if the hand that plucked four o'clock* out of the meadow is still? It will wave the eternal triumph. What if the voice that made music in the home is still? 11 will sing the eternal hosauna. Put a white rose in one hand, and a red rose in the other hand, and a wreath of orange blossoms on the brow; the white (lower for the victory, the red llower for the Saviour's sacriliec. the orange blossoms for her marriage day. Anything ghastly about that? Oh, no. The sun went down and the llower shut. The wheat threshed out of the straw. "Dear Lord, give inc sleep," said a dying hoy; thi' sou of one of my elders, "Dear Lord, give me sleep." And lie closed his eyes and awoke in glory. Henry W. J.ongleiiow, wrming :i leuur oi coimolence to those parents, said: "Those last words were beautifully poetic. "Dear Lord, give m(> sleep." " 'Twas not in cruelty, not in wrath That the reaper came that day; 'Twas an antt.il that visited the earth Ami took the tlower away." So it may he with us when our work is all done. "Dear Lord, give mo sleep." I have one more thought to present. I have spoken of the plowing, of the sowing, of the. harrowing, of tin; reaping, of the threshing. I must now speak a moment of the garnering. Where is thegnrner? Need I tell you/ Oh. no. So many have gone out from your own circles?yea. from your own iamily, that you have had your eyes on that garner for many a year. What a hard time some of them had! In lieth sciuancs of suHcrinir. they sweat ureal ?lroj>s of blood. They took the "cup of trembling" and they put it to their hot lips nod they cried: "If it he possible, lei thiscup pass Iroin me." Willi touuues of burning auony they cried: "< > Lord, deliver my soul!" IJut thev uot over it. They all got over It. (Jaruered! Their tears wiped away; their battles ail ended; tUeir burdens lifted. tlnriiercd! The Lord of the harvest will not allow those sheave*Jo perish in the equinox. (Jarmua>l.of us remember, on the farm, lliat the sheaves were put on the top of the rack, which surmounted the wa?on, and these sheaves were piled lusher and higher, and after a while the Vases started for the barn; and these iheaves swayed to and fro in the wind, and the old wagon creaked, and the horses made a struggle, and pulled so hard the harness came up in loops of leather on their hack, and when the front wheel struck the eievated tloor of the barn, it seemed as if the load would go no farther, until the workmen ?avu a great shout, and then with one last tremendous strain, the lioiscs pulled in the load; then they were unharnessed, and Ibrkl'ul alter forklul of grain tell in the mow. O my friends, our getting into heaven may he a pull a hard pull, a very hard pull, hut these sheaves are bound to go m. The herd of the harvest has promised it. I see the load at Inst coming in the door of the heavenly garner. The sheaves of the Christian soul sway to and fro in the wind of death, and the old body creaks under the load, ami as. the load strikes the lloor ol ilmf jt'-'.iiii gm j it e,?oi.is as 11 it can go'n? further. It is the last struggle, until the voice ot angles and ihe voices of our departed kindred and the welcoming voice ol our (Sod shall send the harvest rolling into the eternal tri11 ini?11_ w 11i11> im and down the sky the cry Is hoard: "Harvest home! Harvest homo." A CHARLOTTE GIRL'S SAD FATE. Sliu win* Ills S?>v?"iitli Wife Hut Didn't. Know It. Ciiaki.ottk,N. C.. August H?.?Charlolto has a sensation. In it one of the prettiest of her daughters is the principal factor. On the 4th of last .June, this city was startled by the elopement tjl Miss Uorinne Xcisles without! Chanes (1. Lamoine. Miss Xeislerhad met Lamoine in Atlanta where she was visiting friends, and fronied ii deep attachment for him. Her parents objected to the match, but under the pretense of attending the exercises of the unveiling of thvihn?nO, C....V Her r"?>nt? were uct <ui islioil to ) :>/?.: A telegram announcing her marrige in Jloston. Humor in the meanwhile was rife. It was reported that Lamoine was a noted bigamist. Deplorable to relate these rumors appeared to be only too true. Yesterday, in the cityo Manchester, X. II.. Charles (i. Lamoin vas arrested on a warrant sworn out t a charge of Li l... \f?., /i /1 : -c /i:? u) iUID. Kj. U. lit; UJ 1111cinati, O., who has been on his track ever since he deserted her last April. Lamnine claims that his Cincinnati wile is the only one he is bound to by the marriage vows, but his wife says that he deserted her four months after the marriage and married Corinne Neisler, and that this is his seventh ma trimonial venture The result of the trial was that Lamoine was placed under a bond of .Sot*) and his Charlotte bride lined Slit. t?2. The unfortunate lady telegraphed to her grief-stricken family to-day for money to come home on. The J'""*" y n. ntnAi.gr best in Charlotte, respected by all and moving in the best circles. The shock comes upon them with crushing force. They have the sympathy of all the citizens of Charlotte, and what now seems to he such a dark cloud of allliction, it is hoped, will somewhat disappear when the idol of the family circles gets hack to her Southern home. She is expected to-night.?Atlanta Constitution. A Terrible Story. Birmingham. Ala., August. 17. Reports of a fatal light among miners at Johns, twenty-eight miles from here, were received here to-night. It seem some fifteen or twenty miners became involved in:i quarrel yesterday while at work down in the mine, and divided into two factions. One party of ten came out of the mine lirst, and waited at the mouth of the shaft for the other party. When the second party came out they were attacked by those above ground. As a man's head would appaerat the mouth of the shaft he would in-' jured. There is n? telegraph ollice near I..1 r. < > ?\ . 1 .1.1/1 I'l.ffrtw*.* tin: 111111j ciiiii iiaiuro ?ir11\4 i ui tiiui particulars cannot be learned to night. The coroner has gone down to investigate tin? matter. Solar as known, no arrests have been mailt;. Will We llHve h Fltlit. Coltmiua,S.C., Aug. 1?>.?K.M.Brayton, chairman of the Republican State Executive Committee, issued a call today for a Republican State Convention to be held in this city on September l7tb. This convention, which will consist of 125 delegates, will elect a new executive Committee and transact other business that may be deemed advisable. When asked by a reporter if a nomination for State olllccrs would be made, Mr. Brayton replied: "Thecall says'and to transact any other business that may be deemed advisable* and L can't say whether nominations will be made or not. But you are at liberty to guess." I A prominent colored Republican was seen later who said that he was positive that nominations would be made and that I nited Stales Marsnai lainningham, of Charleston, would be the nominee for Governor. Out of lliinililily'H ItciuUi. St. Lor is, Mo., August 15.?Anna Met Jowl), known far and wide for her obesity, was buried to-day. The woman weighed over 500 pounds before death, and the cotVui, an immense affair especially constructed for her, weighed 400 more. She was removed from the house on skids airl elevated to the hearse with a derrick. The grave was a small cellar in size, being eight fret long, eight loot ueep ami six feet wide. Another derrick was made to do duty in lowering the woman to her last resting place. Stiii'vint; C?? n ml in n *. (JlJKiiK<\ August 2d.?I.e ('anadien appeals to the leaders of the Ot tawa and (Quebec governments to provide work for the inliahitants of the ('miotics below (Quebec whose crops are a total failure, The paper says it has ascertained that thousands of families are preparing to leave the country and unless the projected Matane railway is pushed ahead in order to provide these families with bread emigration will take place which will he ruinous to the Dominion. .Suicide of it Conductor. Atlanta. August 18.?Samuel \V. Harris, a conductor on the (ieorgia <'entrtil Railroad, committed suicide to day by jumping in his well. Illhealtl ami despondency are ascribed ;ls tin reason. I THE RIDE TO DEATH1.1st of tin* Iti-uil in tin- Ai'i'Mi'lit N?*)ir Hon ton. Boston. Aug. 2". Tin1 latest report I'rum tjuincy gives the following; as the complete list of t lie dead, all iileiit ilied: Mrs. M. K. I'arker, Wellllcet. Mass. Master I'arker. son of Mary F. I'arker, Lyman Merrill. Koiiiney, N.II. Mrs. L. Merrill and .\irs. Mattie Fran- j ; cis, Chelsea. Miss Mary K. Vilton, Lexington, Mass. i Mrs. Mary Abbott, Louisville, Ky. Miss Kva Ballard, Ashville, N. C. Mrs. F. O. Allen, Philadelphia, l'a. Miss Bessie Allen, Philadelphia, l'a. Mrs. Osear Feiiley, Lonisvdle, Ky. Mrs.Sue Fenley, Louisville, Ky. Alice Fenley (infant), ami Catherine : Fenley, Louistflle, Ky. Mrs. I']. 1'. .loluison, A. C. Johnson, son of the above, and James Ryan, South Boston, fireman of train. Mrs. Nancy Wells, Hartford, Ct. % C. M. Copp, Cleveland, O. Regarding the cause of the accident I Division Superintendent French, of the 1 Old Colony road, said last night: "We 1 have not made an investigation, but 1 j i mm wiiiii ?r fit11 if.irii il appears mill 11 In* suction men, who were at work on j the track, had wlutt we call a 'track i jack' on the rails, and that they had it on when tlu' train came dying around the curve. From all indications, although ' we don't know it officially, the jack was not taken out when the train came up. Whether or not the danger signal was ! set will not he known till the otiicial investigation Thursday." ' .V .>(?>! ICl, ill j?vuvv.a:..? l,jw investigations, found in a lot of weeds, beside the track near the bridge, the , jack which is supposed to have caused i such terrible loss of life. I Marks of the Manges of wheels were plainly cut in the heavy tool and it bore ( evidences of having been run over by a train of cars. The sides of the socket of ' the casting to receive the handles by ' which the weight is raised were pressed ' close together and a large hole was cut through the casting and the bottom of the casting was broken olf. The foreman of the section gang, named Welch, could not be found last evening. Hot SprliifiH. llave you ever visited Ilot Springs? Alas! You meet while there so many instances of terrible blood poison, evidenced by disfigurement of face and form. Hither, rush sufferers from scrofula, syphilis, eczema, salt rheum, ulcers, blemished skin, twisted and aching joints, limbs made crooked by rheumatism, etc.,etc. Some lind relief, some <i?..Ho.f JW4..SPJiUi,,W.V.r Vi I f'HSts nwtm>v tn vicif ?in?l c/\iMiirn ?# II,?f ? iTC *iaJ?"r 1 iiit-YlV"o11 "goi'iij? there cannot be indulged in without considerable expence. IIow thankful then should everyone be to know there is a remedy even more beneficial in eases of blood poison than Hot Springs. We refer to llotanic I Mood Halm (li II 11) as to its merits thousands will testify. '/. T. llallerton. Macon, (la., writes: "I contracted blood poison. I lirst tried physicians, and then went to Hot Springs. 1 returned home a ruined man physically. Nothing seemed to do me any good. My mother persuaded me to try H H H. To my utter antcnishment1 every ulcer quickly healed." .las. L. Hosworth, Atlanta, (la., says : "Some years ago 1 contracted blood poison. I had no appetite, my digestion was ruined, rheumatism drew up my limbs, so I could hardly walk, my throat was cauterized live times. Hot Springs gave nie no benefit, and my life was one of torture until I gave Ji H H a trial, and surprising as it may seem, the use of five bottles cured me." A Deed of llcrnlsin. Aniikkson. S. <;., August 10.?Maui street was the scene on yesterday afternoon of a deed of heroism seldom equaltoil lit I/i-oiiL- Millov o I'lUin.i iwt gro man. was the hero. A horse driven by MrsSehirmcr, her mother-in-law ami a little <*irl being with her in the carriage, heeanie frightened at the engine of the ltough and Ready Fire Company, which was throwing water on the square, and ran away. Frank Miller, who was standing on the sidewalk near the National Rank, seeing the runaway ran out and caught hold of the harness, and alter running some distance at the side of the horse and seeing that he would have to turn loose or he struck against a post toward which they weare fast approaching. he gave one hound and leaped upon ( the hack of the running animal, and gathering up the lines, succeeded in bring- < ing him to a standstill. No one was i hurt, although the ladies were dread c.,n,. tvi.ri.......i ~r?c.,J A handsome purse was at once made up { and persented to the rescuer, who had no 3 doubt saved the lives of these ladies at ] the risk of his own. It was a noble act. and one that cannot he too higfdy commended.?News and Courier. I l'ianos iiixl N. W. Tlil'Ml', 134 Main Street, Columbia, S. C., sells l'ianos and Organs, direct from factory. No agents' commissions. The celebrated Chiekering I'iano. Mathushek Piano, celebrated for its clearness of tone, lightness of touch and lasting qualities. Mason & Hamlin Upright Piano. Sterling Upright IMnnos.from ?22 up. Arion Pianos, from ?200 np. Mason A Hamlin j Organs, surpassed by none. Sterling , Organs, ?.~>0 up. F.very Instrument | guaranteed tor six years. Fifteen days' 1 trial, expenses both ways, if not satisfactory. Sold on Instalments. Ktlitor ami Mule. A Georgia editor, says the Atlanta Constitution, borrowed a mule to plow 1.:.. .1.... wi , ?.? . . 1 the editor was found under an outhouse, four panels of fence were gone, and the mule was eat ing roastiug-cars in a neighboring truck patch. IQtlanimatorv Rheumatism is cured I?v T*. I*. I'. I 'rick 1 y Ash. Poke Hoot ami Potassium. Physicians have boon consu 11<*<I, and to no purpose. As a last resort patient, take I'. I\ I'. and nets well. I losts of eertilieates to t his effect, are an possession of the manufacturers, and will he shown on application. ! OvcfiYic $35. Pianos $30. t'atulbauo loituc lice. 1). F. lieaty. Washington. N. .1. COMPLETE GINNERIES, I [PUN Til K MOST APPROVED ' plans, with Suction Fan or Spiked I licit Seed Cotton Elevator furnished at I competitive prices. COTTON (iINS and PRESSES of best ' makers. Thomas Hay Hakes, Deerlng j Mowers, Corbin Harrows and Planet, Jr., | | Cultivators. A larno stock of Portable and Stationary Cinniia and Saw Mill Empties on band. State Agents for I C. A <;. COOl'Elt & CO'S Corliss Engines Lane Saw Mills and Liddell Company's complete line. W. 11. C.IIHIKS, .lit., & CO., Near Union Depot, COLUMBIA, S. C. 1 . Ad-* hP" .?-. ? is. I -I.;. -.JbuUK i-.ti ! uW Kan /rm i CUSMIMS. Wliu|.. r* h.iir.1. ( ...iifor labia. Sytrriifol wbara all Uemadlaa fall. Nald bj K. Ml HI l'\ | tail. ?* M?? t*rk. WrlUCw ( prnb mf ^'MOTHERS jpi FRIEND"! M7AflKES-,r5tH &ASV CHlLD/'TnteR LESSLNS P^'N rcn tq LIFE " DIMINISHES DANGER TO LIFEU( e???ZW?P?Wmin "i RAD FIELD REGULATOR CO. ATLANTA n* SOLO or ALL DRUGGJ&rS. PADGETTPAYS THEFREIGHT. A OllEAT OF.KKH THAT MAY MOT AOAIN HE Repeated, ho i>o not delay, "SStiuke While the Ikon is Hot." Write for Catalogue now, and say what '< paper you saw this advertisement in. Remember that I sell everything that goes to furnishing a home?manufacturing some things and buying others in the largest possible lots, which enables me to wipe nut all competition. HERE AUK A FEW OK MY STARTLINO 15 a ROA1NS. A No. 7 Flat top Cooking Stove, full size, ^ 15x17 inch oven, fitted with 21 pieces of ware, delivered at your own depot, all vun.^vn .,j ...v, .... Twelve Dollars. Again. 1 will soil you a 5 hole Cooking Range 1 :sx 1 ;t inch oven, 18x20 inch top, fitted with 21 pieces of ware, for THIRTEEN DOLLARS, and pay the freight to your ilepot. .Mr DO NOT PAY TWO PRICES F(J?T eoini nnniiw ^ I will solid you a nico plusl* I'arlor Kuit, ^ walnut frame either in combination or j handed, the most stylish colors, for 8:13.50 ' to your railrond station, freight all paid. 1 i will also sell you a nice lledrooin suit 11 consisting of liurcau with glass, 1 high head " Redstcad, 1 Washstaml, 1 Centre table, 4 11 cane seat chairs, l cane seat and hack rock- '' cr, all for ?10.50, and pay freight to your depot. ' Or 1 will send you an elegant lledrooin suit with large glass, full marble top, for ' ?30, and pay freight. Nice window shade on spring roller ? 40 ' Elegant large walnut 8 day clock, 4.00 . Walnut lounge, 7.00 J Lace curtains per window, 1.00 J 1 cannot describe every tiling in a.small advertise* out, but have ail immense store containing 22,(100 feet of lloor room, with ware houses and factory buildings in other parts of Augusta, making in all the largest business of this kind under one management in the Southern States. These stores and warehouses are crowded with the choicest- productions of the best factories. My catalogue containing illustrations of goods will lie mailed if you will kindly say where you saw this advertisement. I pay ~ V?? A.l.irocc i iu|incmi i augc^fs^ and | Carpet Store, 1110-1112 15road Street, AUGUSTA. GA. TALBERT SON'S j ENGINES UOILKRS, SAW MILLS AND ! UllIST MILLS Arc acknowledged to be the best ever sold in tills State. When you buy one of tliemyou are satisfied that you have made no mistake. Write for our prices. 1 Cotton Gins and Cotton Presses ) AT bUTTOM FIGUUKS. ; ! 1 can save you money. >, V. C. Badham, Ben. Agt., ; COM MIKIA, N, | 2?i7"lIome ollice and Factory, j j I(l< IITIO.M), V I. WRITE TO HOLLER & ANDERSON \ BUGGY CO.. UOCK II ILL, ,S. C., I^Olt Til Kill CATALOG I' K G I Vin<t Prices. 'lVrins ami Ueferenecs of HugHics, Carriages, Wagons, ltoaii and Phaeton Carts, Harness, etc. All firstdass work made by hand and warranted. I*rices lower than any other of same {trade. Our Vehicles are runnin.it in every county n South Carolina, and in mun> counties of North Carolina, Georgia and Florida. All miuiries promptly answered. In writine 1 JIVU.IV/ Iiu.fii/iwii ,? *.? |M?|M t ?%! ? U?MI t> MM Kt 1 'I .<> nive your Postollice address and sign ,'our name plainly. HOLLKU, AND'EKSON BUGGY CO., 1 Manufacturers, Hock Hill, S. C., DEPOSIT YOCR SIKPIJS MONEY I IN s THE COMMERCIAL BANiC, OK COLUMBIA, S. C. One dollar and upwards received. In 14MCM ai uir r;nc 01 ? per ccm. prr annum, [>ai(l quarterly, on tin- lit>>( days or February, May, August and November. Married women ami minors can keep aeeonnt m their own name. Higher rates of interest allowed by special arrangement. C ,1. IKKDKIjH, 1'reMdent. J NO. S. LKAl'HAKT, .lAMKS lltKDF.l.T., Vice-President. Cashier. PITT S 4'Ai:iiImArIvi:: pMm couitKCTi Nt; naps K A fantuni. A pleasant medicine of i'ncaleuable merit in the home circle for child or adult, it is popular, pleasant and ellieient. Truly a mother's friend. It soothes and heals the mucous membranes; and checks the mucous discharge from head, stomach and bowels. The mucous discharge from the head and lungs are as promptly relieved by it as the mucous discharge from the bowles. It is made to relievo the mucous system and cure nausea, and it does it. It makes the Critical period of teething children safe and easy, it invigorates and builds up the system while it is relieving and curing the wasted tissue. It is recommended and used largely by physicians. For sale by Wannamaker A Murray Co., Columbia, S. C., and wholesale by Howard A Wil'elt, Augusta, (!a., ftzczz)xr.: ?.r: ? y-TS.Yjjg^s--" F3NE SH0W CASK tin Ask f?n" catalogue. TERRY M'F'G CO.. Nashville. Tenn iiini?B:ICI OI: "* ?, rpni: oni.v sriMO ci*i:k for 1 Corns. Stops all pain. Ensures comfort to the feet. 1.1c. at druggists lliscox A Co., N- Y. DETECTIVES Vfioted iii tftf| 8hr?men t.? mi udJ<r instruction* mour Soerat Serrico. Kii>rrirnc* not oeocasarj. Car lie ultra freo. Urtouia Detective llurrau t'o. 11 Arc4lo,ClaclauU,Q, The Tozer Fnsine Works, (Sii ccssm to I rial I'm i!rr Works.) JOHN A. WILIIS, PROPR., 117 WKST'i; KU v A IS STREET, jyjanufactuhers ojt 1 ozEii Steam ILngines, tiul all sizes of both Locomotives ami return Tublar lktilers. jaTFoundry work in Iron and Brass ltoairlng promptly executed. I II ;l K I, ? I I' k. .0 FEMALE INSTITUTE, piIK<l5UILI)lN(f IS NOW MP" iiniii until it is second"to none In'lViS iouth in comfort, and conveniences. The Jorps of Teachers engaged for the coning session is the best, the Institute has ever ad. No other institute in the South can Iter advantages superior to iiiose olTered * icre in the Literary, Music and Art Deartments. Mr. Maclean continues to bo tlie l)irecor of Music. The patrons of the Institute, vhose daughters were taught by Mr. ilaclean during the past session, are reerred to in proof of the statement that ho ? the best teacher of Music who has e*- J aught in Charlotte. As original* !*. lirector of the June MusVa' restive! in liis e'dy his reputation has extended hrough'out the South. H'M W. AlklNSON, l'lincipal. & during Meriinine | : mTIRED 1 fcj ;>iar'; flwp WOWflW. I . ,'* !' wi" purify and vitalize your 5 A, " ; j >l< I, civat>'a goodnpp''tilsand give your B u l".i?*system tom? Hint sir >ugth. rj J -v prominent railroad .aim riutcndnnt at B Savaiiuali, sulTcriiig Willi !.iriii, JJyspep- B s-".', and Itluainiatisin sa; _ _,njj B . I-. i\ i'. no nevor row no won ui ins tiro, ana . f; <-ls as if hocould livoft ;\ V-'r, if ho could idwtty s got 1'. 1'. I'." If yon are tired out fr . ,,v ? ....sand ' cloSo ColdluCHIttllt, tako ; p. p. P. ! ' you nro fooling l> jly *n the spring .".iid out of sorts, tako ,j p. p. p. If your digostivo org* tin ie?d toning up, i p. p. p. T If v >!! milTer with headache, Indigestion, il dchiiity and weakness, tako 1 p" p- p" i fij If you suffer with rervous iirostratlon, H K nerves unstrung and a general lot down B jj of the system, take , " 1 P. P. P. | il For Flood Toison. Kheumatlsm, Serofri i,la, < Id Soros, Malaria, Chronic Fotualo , Complaints, tako } p. P. P. J L. fi Prickly Ash, Poke Root | and Potassium. The best blood purifler in tliu world. y i r.llTMAN IiUOR., Wholesale.Drug^lsta, tj J.ippman's ISuh-k, Suvai.nnli, Go. rg I >K. (?1{( )SV lONOR'S IIIIMM ir^lC IMiANTIiKS. Vie the best rorous Plasters in the World. I'hey are the best plasters 111 every way for the quick relief of _ A M E BACK, PAIN IN THE GHEST, RHEUMATISM, NEURALGIA. Unlike all other plasters, these are Puroy Vegetable and Harmless. Relieve intantly and never fail to cure. SAFE, QUICK AND SURE. Sold by drub'Hi %ts or mailed on receipt of !3e. by GitOSVKKOU & Richakds, I3oston, Mass. MP I'M AN BROS., Wholeule I>niMltt?, Sole Proprietors, Lippman** Block, Savannah, Ok AUK YOU (JoVSUMPTIVB. II live you (Joiitfli, Bronchi tic, Asthma, i lulijicslioir.' Use I'arkcr's (ringer Tonic. II lias cured the worst cases and is the l?ost iciuedy for all ills arising froinjdefectivenu trition. Take in time. .'?() cents and $1. Fa fTFfK fTs K AI (* BALSAM Jjnei" niv.w fi i 1 |,, utiilc* toe hair. 4^ ' jy Never F..il? l> Itertoro Gray ^Ivi.n,, jBbfij Hair to it* * oulhful Color. maaSra arali .lifwrs .V h.tlr fallia? Safft -"<* V /? t<v. ar.ll m I. ai OnnortM?._ I