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PM? M WAVING A FLAMING CROSS. DK. TALM4CK’g 8VNDAY SKRMON AT THK CHOWDKD TABKKNACLK. H« Calls t'pon the CabeUeVing to Taler lip the Croaa—Tbe Kaqalrentrnta of n IMsrlple. Rev. Dr. Tblmage preached Snnday morniog upon “The Assasainatiou." He took his text from Luke, xiv., 27: “Whosoever does not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My dis ciple.” After portraying Christ’s death on the cross in his peculiarly graphic manner, Dr. Talmage said: “Oh! my soul. He is dead. Can you tell why? Was He a fanatic dying for a principle that did not amount to any thig V Was He a man infatuated? No; to save your soul from sin, and mine, and make eternal life possible, he died. There had to be a substitute for sin. Who shall it be? ‘Let it be me! said Christ, ‘let it be me.’ You understand the meaning of that word, substitution? You were drafted for the last war; some one took your place, marched your march, suffered J our wounds, and died at Gettysburg. Ibrist comes to us while we are fighting our battle with sin and death and hell, and He is our substitute. He marches our march, fights our battle, suffers onr wounds, and dies our death. Bubstitation! BnbstRution! “How do you feel in regard to that scene described in the text, and in the region around about the text? Are your sympathies aroused? Or are you so dead in sin, and so abandoned by reason of your transgression that you can look r n all that tearless and unmoved. no; thousands of people are here this morning who can say in the depths of their soul: ‘No, no, no, if Jesus endured that, and all that for me, I ought to love Him. I must love Him, I will love Him, I do love Him. Here, lord, I give my self to Thee; ’tis all that I can do.’ “But how are you going to test your love, and test your earnestness ? My text gives a test. It says that while Christ carried a cross for you, you must be willing to carry a cross for Christ. ‘Well,’ you say, T never could understand that. There are no crosses to be carried in this laud; those persecutions have passed, anc in all tbe land there is no one to. be crucified, and yet in the pulpit and in the prayer meetings you all keep talking about carrying a cross. What do yon mean, sir?’ I mean this: that is a crots which Christ calls you to do which is un pleasant and hard. “Here is a man whose cross will be to announce among his business associates to-morrow morning on ’charge that he has begun a new life; that while he wants to be faithful in his worldly duties, he is living for another world, and he ought to advise all those who are his associates, so Jar as he can influence -them, to begin with him the Christian life. Could yon do that, my brother? ‘Oh! no,’ you say, 'not just that. I think religion is religion, and business is business, and it would be impossible for me to recommend the Christion religion in places of worldly business.' Just as I feared. There is a cross offered you, and you cannot carry it. Christ lifted a mountain for you; you cannot lift an ounce for Him. • “There is some one whose cross wiH be to present religon in the home circle. Would you dare to kneel down and pray if your brother and sister were looking at you? Could you ask a blessing at the tea table? Could you take the Bible and gather your family around you, and read of Christ and Heaven and your immortal soul? Could you then kneel and pray for a blessing on your household? ‘Oh!’ you say, ‘not exactly that. I couldn’t quite do that, because I have a very quick temper, and if I professed religion and tried to talk religion in my household, anjMifter that I should lose my temper would scoff at me and say: ' “You A-Jjietty ChristianP” 3ajgon are, cowad down and their scaroasm keeps yon onto! Heaven and away from Christ, when under God you ought to take your whole family into the kingdom. Christ lifted a mountain, lifted a world for you; you cannot lift an ounce for him. l see how it is; you want to be favorable to religion; you want to support Christian institutions; you like to be associated with those who love Jesus Christ; bat as to taking a positive step on this subject you cannot—you cannot, and my text, Like a gate of a hundred bolts, bars you away from peace on earth and glory in Heaven. “There are hundreds of men anq women here brave enough in other things in life who simply for the lack of manli ness and womanliness stay away from God. They dare not say: ‘Forever, Lord Jesus, I take Thee.’ I tell you these things this morning because, my dear friends, I want to show you how light the cross is that wo have to carry com pared with that which Christ carried for us. You have not had the flesh torn off; for Christ’s sake in carrying your cixhs. He fainted dead away under His cross. You have not carried the cross until it fetched the blood. Under His there was a pool of carnage that plashed the horses’ fetlocks. You have friends to sympathize with you in carrying the cross; Christ trod the winepress of God’s wrath alone, alone! “There has some one come here to-day whom you have not observed. He did not come through the front door; He did not come down any of these aisles; yet I know He is here. He is from the Hast, the far Hast. He comes with blistered foot, and broken heart, and cheeks red not with health, but with blood from the temples. I take hold of His coat and I eay: ‘it does not seem to fit Thee.’ 'No,’ He says, 'it is not mine; it is bor rowed; it does not belong to me now. For my vesture did they cast lots. ’ And I say to Him; ‘Thine eyes are red as though from loss of sleep.’ Ho says, ‘Yes, the Bon of man had not where* to His head.’ And I touch the log on His back and I say; ‘Why earnest Thou this?’ Ahl’ He says; ‘That is a cross I carry tor thee and for the sins of the whole world. That uncross. Fall into line, march on with me in this procession, take your smaller crosses and yenr lighter burdens, and join me in this march to Heaven.’ And we join that procession with our smaller crosses and our lighter burdens, and Christ looks back and He sees some are halting be cause they cannot endure the shame or bear the burden, and with a voice which has in it majesty and omnipotence. He cries until all the earth trembles; Who soever doth not bear his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. ’ “Oh! my bretheren, my sisters—for I do not speak professionally, I speak as a brother would speak to a brother or i sister—my brother, can you not bear a j cross if at last you can wear a crown? ! Come now, let us divide off. Who is on the Lord’s side? Who is ready to turn his back upon the Lamb of God that taketh away the c in of the worlo ? “A Roman emperor said to a Greek architect: ‘Yon build me a coliseum, a grand coliseum, and if it suits me I will crown you in the presence of all the people, and I will make a great day of festival on your account’ The Greek architect did his work, did it magnificent- tion. “Then the lions, hungry and three- fourths starved, were let out from their dens in the side of the amphitheatre, and they came forth with mighty spring to destroy and rend the Christians, and all the galleries shouted: 'Huzza, huzza! Long live the Emperor!’ Then the Greek architect arose in one of the galleries and shouted until'in the vast assemblage all reard him: T too am a Christian!’ and they seized him in their fury, and flung him to the wild beasts, until his body, bleeding and dead, was tumbled over and over again in the dust of the amphi theatre yon, in a vast assemblage, all of whom hated. “Could you have done that for Christ? Could Christ, have said: ‘lamaChrist ian.’ or, T want to be a Christian’? Would you have had the ten thousandth part of the enthusiasm and the courage of the Greek architect? Nay, I ask you another question: Would you in an as semblage where thev are nearly all Christ ians—in an assemblage, a vast multitude of whom love Christ and are willing to live, and if need be, to die for Him— would you dare to say: T am a Christ ian,’or, ‘1 want tobeaCbristian’ 9 Would you say in the presence of the friends of Christ, as much as the Greek architect said in the presence of tbe enemies of Christ? Oh? Are there not multitudes here this morning who are ready to say: ‘Let the world look on, let all the gal leries of earth and heaven and hell look on, I take Christ this day. Come ap plause or abuse, come sickness or health, come life or death, Christ now, Christ forever.’ “Are you for Christ, are you against Him? The destinies of eternity tremble in the balance. It seems as if tbe last day had come and we were gathered for the reckoning. Behold, He cometh with clouds, and every eye shall see Him.’ What I say to one I say to all. What are you going to do for Christ? What are you bearing for Christ? “When the Scottish chief taps wanted to raise an army they wodld make a wooden cross, and then set it on fire, and carry it with other crosses they had through the mountains, through the highlands and among the people, and as they waved the cross the people would gather to the standard and fight for Scotland. Bo to-day I come out with the cross of the Son of God. It is a flaming crots—flaming with suffering, flaming with triumph, flaming with glory, I carry it out among all the people. Who will be on the Lord’s side? Who will gather to the standard of Emmanuel? A cross, a cross, a cross! ‘Whosoever doth not bear his cross and come after Me cannot, cannot be My disciple.’ ” THE OLD CANTEEN. By Virginia Framr Bnylr. In Harper’* Weekly. Tig a treasure from out the oltl cedar cheat That a brave wife sacredly keeps, All hidden away ’neath the bullet-ploughed bat. Where the tat tered old gray coat tdoeps; And the years drift softly and silently down. The spider has woven her sheen — A mantle of peace—like a halo of rest— Round the heart of the Old Canteen. It was battered and bent In the storm of war, Where the hurtling grape-shot fell. And It breathes in 1& sleep the mystical tale That the Southland must know so well— Of the clashing of steel, of the carnage of death. Of the woe in the days that have been— But a tenderer tale than the pale stars knew Lies asleep with the Old Canteen. The battle was done, and tbe flash of the Half ceased in the warm bloody rills. And the night, like the pall of the dead, dropped down On the grim field of Chaplin Hills.* But the field was won, to the soldier in gray. And he lay In the lines between— And weary and thirsty, he measured drops That were left in the Old Canteen. SLAIN BY LICHTNI THE COLUMBIA SEMINARY. Professional Advertisements. i below [Jerome Telen jBorth of f hOU8C of i chim the OPINIONS OF THE PRESS. bay What th* tirrnt Paper* of the Country Ahout the Work of the Convention. New York Herald: “It is as good a plat form as was ever adopted by convention, clear, straigkforward, wiihout quibble or double dealing. What it declares concern ing promises redeemed is true; what It promises the ticket guarantees. Now, let us see what the Republicans can agree to at Chicago. If they speak of the past, they must confess to pledges broken by them. If they speak of the future, this Democratic platform warns them to greater honesty than they have practiced in recent years.” New York World* “The Convention ac cepted the issue squarely, and to clinch its action adopted a separate resolution en dorsing and recommending the early pas sage of the Mills bill. The party, there fore, stands committed thoroughly to its candidate and its resolutions to tariff re form, not only in the abstract, in the con crete.” New York Times: “The platform is notable and creditable in almost every thing that it contains. It is still more notable and utterly discreditable for its de liberate omission of any endorsement of civil service reform. The platform, as it stands after the additions made to it by the resolutions offered in the Convention, is dignified, temnerate and candid. The as sertions it contains as to what the Demo cratic party in possession of the executive branches of the Government and of the popular House of Congress has accom plished and fairly sustained by the facts, though it is not stated, and no ope could expect that it would be, that in those mat ters most to the credit of the party, the Administration has not had the (cordial support of tbe representatiues of the party in Congress.” Chicago Morning News ^Independent): “Necessity and sentiment were the parents of the Democratic ticket completed by tne nomination of Allen G. Thurman for Vice Presidency at St. Louis yesterday. Events made Cleveland the nominee at its head as they have steadily advanced him from the Mayoralty of Buffalo to his present high office. It is a singular piece of good for tune for the Democracy that couples the name of its most sentimental ideal with that of its man of destiny on the ticket. About the political wisdom of nominating Thurman for the Vice Presidency opinions may differ. His age is qne thing that can be urged against him. But Thurman e mind is still as strong, his heart js still as right and his courage and conviction as true and as fearless as ever. His name brings to the ticket a popularity with the people throughout the Union that none other could. For this he was nominated.” Cincinnati Enquirer: “The work of tbe Democratic Convention is ended, and it leaves nothing to regret. The Democratic party goes once more before the people with a declaration whose tone is proud and confident. It is a battle cry. It has noth ing to excuse, nothing to palliate. It chal lenges the most careful scrutiny of its stewardship for the past three 3 r eais, and dwells with just pride upon the high ex cellence which marks it.” Boston Herald (Independent): “The Democratic Convention as a whole has met public expectation with regard to ip They have pursued a politic course in all their actions. They have not taken an extreme stc-p in it. ftey ffave acted exactly as if they meant to omit nothing in the way of precaution that should aid them to victory. If Republicans profit by their example and add to it a little precautionarj' progress they will be wise,” There were dying and dead upon every aide. Loud curaea, and prayers breathed low. But the darkneaa conceal ad, nor would not reveal. The face of a friend or a foe; And he thought, as he lay by his ai ms, of home. Of love, and its tenderest scene. And he pillowed his head with its throbbing pain On the breast of the Old Canteen. But the chilling winda sighed, and a gurgling moan Crept on through the darkening mist, And the words of distress woke the slumber ing beart That the bright dream of home had kissed He tenderly lifted the shattered young form With the veil of the night between — The heart of a soldier beat earnest and I rue Beneath the old battered Canteen. A friend or a foe?—ah! what mattered it then— Union blue, or the C. 8. A-? With piteous need in the jacket of blue.f Humanity's heed In the gray 1 And the message was breathed to a stranger heart, In the ear of the foe unseen— And the quivering lips felt the cooling drip From the depths of the Old Canteen. “Tell my sisters I died for my country’s cause, That my end was a soldier’s end ; And tell them, O comrade”-a gasp and a pause— “I died In the arms of a friend I” Through tire shivering mist, like the white rush-lights, The pale stars struggled between, With the deep silence cleft by the gurgling sigh That arose from the Old Canteen. ENVOI. Yes, lay it away in the old cedar chest, With its tale of days that have been— Apd light he the dreams, In the stillness of peace, That may rest on the Old Canteen ! * Perryviile. t Tenth Ohio. f Fifth Confederate AN INSANE ASYLUM. Nearly a Beare of Victim* to a 1*k*« B, * c ‘ trie Btarai. A lb ana, June 7.—Albany’s l P e, ? tl \ re esterday reached 86 degrees 16 Rhaile. t was the hottest city in the c Iry 00 of Virginia’s latitude, and tht i P el1 broke up in a frightful storn attending from Poughkeepsie on the sou o the ot. Lawrence and eastward into kAcbusetts. The electric display was ext: continuous. Its effects are ^At the Watefvleit Shaker dement in this county John Burt was kia bjr Mg 111 ' ning while hurrying homtwar<r\ At Marean-on the Hudson, a South Glens Falls, the house Selleck was struck and his di instantly killed. At Goodspeedville, two m Glens Falls, the fluid struck Mrs. Marry Sherman, shatter!- ney, playing havoc with U furniture, burning a hole in the dress cMrs. Sher man, tearing one of her shoeburning * stocking and her foot and prowling her completely. Miss Frank Biss, who was also in the house, received a ock in her right arm, which was burn* from the elbow down to the ends of heJngers. A hole was made In the side of •« house as the fluid passed out, and thq, azza was sh uttered • v A barn on William Mungls farm in Kingsbury, five miles from #m8 Falls, was torn down by the wind, ifing three cows out of fifteen which wa in it, and seriously injuring Cornelius lonness, a farm hand; who was milking fern. At Fort Edward the ston was very savage. The electric lights we put out, telegraph and telephone poles-ere blown down. A plate glass windo ln Harris’ shoe store was fractured and h, telephone melted down. Guy Lapsing,*Jad who was sleeping on the ground neifthe elec tric light station, was frighteiB into con vulsions. ; In Sandy Hill the housesof Robert Whitcomb, Maple street, ad Truman Dickinson, Pine street, were suck no one was Injured. In the former ae floors in two rooms were torn up and te chimney and stove pipe shattered, and he inmates almost killed by tffe fright The Saratoga battle monumet at Schuy- leyville was struck by lightnog early in the storm, and some ten feet orits top was shattered to fragments. A dielling house was fired at Greenwich by tc lightning. Trees, telegraph poles and hit buildings in all directions were strucl('and more or less damaged, and alohg the eRitry roads frequent cases are noticed^ trees split •‘from truck to keelson.” At Saratoga a heavy bol* t, Jesso Stiles’ yard, on Gra which it leaped to the roof'd residence, which adjoins Mrs a large hole io ffie wall £)nl Wkat u raw’* Ball mf the Ble«l*» »f Dr. Wm -ABOtbrr New Profemor. E. P. Hxndkrsom. ck a tree in §nue, from F. Carey’s | itiles’, bored scraped a j (Special to the News amt Courier.) Augusta, June 6.—The Woodrow com has stirred the countiy, and after settling his doom in Baltimore a seal was put upon it today in Augusta by the election of his successor. The directors of the Columbia Theologi cal Seminary met in the Telfair building today and the four synods of South Caro lina, Georgia, Alabama and Florida were represented, All the directors but three were present. The Carolina Synod was represented by the Rev. Dr. Thompson, of Charleston, and Georgia by the Rev. Dr. Adams, of Augusta, and Mr. W. C. Sibley. Dr. Adams was the successful prosecutor of Dr. Woodrow in Baltimore. Dr. Woodrow’s successor as Perkin pro fessor of natural science In connection with revelation, and also professor of Christian apologetics, is the Rev. Dr. Francis R. Beattie, of Ranford, Ontario, Canada. He is one of the most, scholarly men in the Canadian Dominion, and holds a great many literary honors, such as D. D. p LL. D., and Ph D., all gained by examination in Canadian and American colleges He •is the author of several valuable works on Biblical literature, natural and revealed religion, the higher criticism, Ac. He Is a linguist of remarkable ability, and is a master of Greek, Latin, German, Syriac. Chaldean and Hebrew. He is recoin mended by the leading minds in Canada and the United States, including Sir Wil liam Dawson, Dr. Patton, of Princeton, Dr. Vicker, of Montreal, Dr. Claries M. Morse, of Illinois University, and others. Ar. Adams informs your correspondent that Dr. Beattie is perfectly orthodox in his beliefs and does not hold to any of the evolution fancies. He has reason to' be lieve that Dr. Beattie will accept; indeed, the directors were assured of this fact. Another important chair In the Seminary was filled today and the Rev. Dr. Petrie, of Charlottesville, Va., was elected to suc ceed the Rev. Dr. Hersman, who recently resigned the chair of Biblical Ex egesis. Dr. Petrie is a young man of 35 or 40, but one of the most eminent scholars of the Church. He has one of the most select libraries of any minister in the South and has kept up with the Oriental lan es better than most ministers in pas toral charge. He is much admired by the students of the University of Virginia, who sit under his ministry, and there is every prospect that his selection will prove satis factory. Tbe directors feel that they have done a good day’s worl(. Three Peraoo* Burned to Death. Lowell, Mass., June 10.—Fire broke D. 8. Hbndkkson. Henderson Brothers, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in the State and United States Courts for South Caro lina. ' Prompt attention given to col lections. THE BEST A CHEAPEST PLACE James Albrich Walter Ashley. Aldrich & Ashley, Attorneys at Law, Aiken, S.C. Practice in the State and United States Courts for South Carolina. John Gary Evans, Attorney-at-Law. Will practice in the Counties of Aiken, Edgefield and Barnwell. Haviland Stevenson, Attorney at Law, Aiken, S. C. Special attention given to Collec tion. Edw.J* Dickerson, Attorney-at-Law, Aiken, S. C. Will practice in all the Courts of this State. Fine Groceries OF EVERY DESCRIPTION IS AT WELCH & EASON’S, 185 and 187 Meeting and 117 Market Streets, A CATALOGUE and MONTHLY PRICE LISTS mailed free to any ad dress. PACKING and DR AY AGE FREE. CARPETS AND HOUSE FURNISHING GOOJDS. m. NEW GOODS. PALL Dr. J. H. Burnett, Dentist. OFEICE AT- Graniteville, Aiken County, S. C. Dr. W B Courtney, Dentist -OFFIC’E- Laurens street, Aiken, S. 0. Over Beckman’ Bank. Dr, Z, A, Smith PRACTICING PHYSICIAN, AUCLUSE, - - - 8. C. Office near Depot. Window Shades and Lace Curtains, Wilton, Velvet, Brussels,3-ply Io grain Carpets, Hearth Rugs, Door Mats, Art Carpet, Window Shades of every size and Color, embracing all the New Styles, Cocoa, Caton and Napier Mat tings, Floor Oil Cloths and Linolaums. w . Lace Curtains, Window Cornices and Poles, New Walnut, Cherry, Aaih Ebony and Brass Cornices and Poles. Turcoman Curtains and Drmtertea.. Upholstery Goods. Raw Silks in a variety of Patterns. Fringes in all Colors^ Hair Cloths, Cane and Gimp, and Buttoms. WallPapers, Borders andi Decorations. Just Opened For All Tradesi Oil Paintings, Engraving and Uhromos. Brooms, Dusters, Baskets,Doer- Mats, Walnut and Rubber Weather Strips for out cold, and all sold at Lowest Prices. Doors and Windows, to keep* P. B. Matthews, Carriap and Wapn Manufactory Richland Ave. and Pendleton St. JAMES G. BAILIE St SON, Chronicle Building, 714 Broad Street, Augusta, Ga. A Movement to Establish a Private Institution In the South. Atlanta, Ga., June 2.—Dr. T. O Powell parsed through Atlanta en route to Milledgeville from Old jPqint Comfort, Virginia, where he attended the meeting of the superintendents of insane ayslums. Dr. Powell said to your correspondent on yesterday: “The South should have an insane asylum. There is not one in the Southern states, and every Southern family which has an insane member must send to a distant asylum in the North, or to a pub lic asylum in the South.” “Is there much demand for a Southern private asylum?” “Such a demand that it is amazing that none has been established- There are fifty patients in the Georgia asylum that would be sent to a private asylum at once if one were convenient. I have had three appli cations for advice as to where to send in sane persons since I reached Atlanta. A private - asylum established in the South with fifty rounds would be fjlled from the day it was opened, and would h$ve to be enlarged to four or five times that capacity.” “What is the advantage of a private private asylum you can fix tju*- patients en vlronment. ThaLhf'rtryunportant. You take cultured, highly bred men or women put them in a public hall or ward with ig norant, uncultured patients or drivelling idiots, and just as soon as their condition improves so tjjat they can realize their sur roundings, the shock and disgust wil throw them back again. Almost every Northern State has a private asylum, anc some of the Northern States have several Without exception these private asylums are prospering, and, besides being a real charity, they pay (arge returns to the in Testers.” “How do you propose to organize one for the South?” “I have had a preliminary conference with Dr. Murphy of North Carolina, Dr. Griffin of South Carolina, and Dr. Peter Brice of Tuskatoosa, 4Jp , e-t the late meet ing, and they agreed with ine that it was an absolute necessity. If we cannot get anyone to establish it we will establish the asylum ourselves. Each one of us sees daily the necessity of a private asylum located ip a Southern city, where the patient would be treated ip accordance with his original habits, and where he would be convenient to his relatives and friends. Such an institution would stop a drain of thousands of dollars annually from our section. I am going to call a confer ence of the above named gentlemen during the summer, and if the people of the South will show proper interest in this matter, it is entirely likely that the asylum will be built at once I expect J wjll call the con ference in Atlanta, and if the people of At lanta help us as we i xpect, the asylum may be located here. One thing certain, and that is, that a private asylum for the South will be built, and will be built soon." A Morin in Dakota. Chicago, June 10.—A dispatch from Fort Yates, Dakota, says: Several persona were killed in the great tempest 3’esterday b3' lightning and flying debris. Th \se so far identified arc Shell King, the celebrated Indian chief, and his sop A farmer living two miles south was found dead ip Ids field, the building having been completely wrecked and tbe man, it is supposed, Josialt’s Wife. “When my Josiah and me first married,” she said, “I’d an idee that ho- hadn’t a fault in the world. I wouldn’t hear to anything but that he was perfect; aad he thought the same of me. “He just thought, Josiah did, that he’d drawn one of them impossible prices in the lottery of matrimony—a woman without a “Well, by the time we’d gone through two oy three housekeeping sprapes, a- taking up and patting down caypetp and i setting up and tearing dowp stores and all that sort of thing, to say nothing of ‘blue Monday,’ wash-day, an J tooth aches that lasted three days at a time- time we’d gone through all that Josiah had found out that I wa’n’t quite an angei, anj I’d discovered that he could ‘ and say things fchs saints would ly, planned the building and and looked after its construction. The building was dona. The day for opening arrived. In the coliseum were the Emperor and the Greek architect. The Empror rose amid the plaudits of a vast assembly, and said; ‘We have gathered here to-day to open this coliseum, and to honor the Greek architect. It is a great day for the Roman Empire. Let this building be prosperous, and let honor be pat upon the Greek architect. Oh, we must have a festival to-day. Bring oat those Christians and let us have th««i pat to death at the month of the lions. ^ The Christians were put into the centre of the amphitheatre. It was to be A gnat celebration 13, living at a settlement six miles south, has not been seen since the storm struck that point, and it is believed that she was blown into the river and drowned- The loss among the Indians is especially severe, as hundreds of them had every!hing they had spept away by the w inds. Atl&t-iird tiy a AifiUinau. Chicago, June 4.—Judge Anthony of the Supreme Court had a narrow escape from serious injury or perhaps death this morning. The Judge left his residence in La Saile avenue at 9.30 o’clock to come down to the count3' building. When he reached the sidewalk in riront of his resi dence a man sudden^- sprang upon him. The Judge, who is a large and powerful man, fought his assailant desperately, but was iu great danger of l>eiug throttled. A baker’s wagon came along and the driver went to the Judge’s assistance. By their combined efforts the man was soon over powered. The police were summoned and the des perate man taken to the Chicago avenue police station. Here he g ive his name as Andrew Shirley. From his actions the officers believe him to be insane. The J udge escaped any bad bruises and came down to his court room. carried by the wind to the point where he | ^Lr^elv^o and sav. was fqund. Mattie Dambrowski, a girl of ••And one day, in one of my penitent spells, I says to Josiah, says I, ‘1 ain’t the person you thought I was, am I, Josiah? 1 ain t half as good &ud sweet as you thought i d be.’ “We was at the dinner-table when I said it, and there was a big dish of beautiful honey in the comb on the table. Josiah pic ted it np, and he says, says he, ‘Mirandy, I like honey as well as any man living likes it, and you like it, too, but if we i-ad to eat it three times a day for even six months we’d get so despritly sick of it we’d never want to hear the word “honey” again. Variety,’says he, ‘is the spice of life, sure enongh.' “And most married folks, I take notice, don’t eat honey three times a day, and they’ve variety enough to make life interestin’.” Doublr Marriage *1 the (jarfleld Afaoatou. Worcester, Mass., June 4.—The Rev. V. W. Davis, pastor of the Union Church in this city, is to go to Cleveland, Ohio, to officiate at the double wedding at the Gar field mansion June 14, when Miss Mollie Garfield is fo marry J. Stanley Brown and Harry Garfield and Miss Bebe Mason are to be wedded. Mr. Davis was pastor of the Euclid Avenue Presbyterian Church at Cleveland for several years, and Miss Gar field was the first person received by him into church membership. He has since been on terms of warm personal friendship with the Garfields. quantity of plaster and splitters off the side wall as it descended tc the floor— passing close bo the feet of-Mr. Carey’s sister-in-law, Miss Lizzie BJnnan, and passing out of an open door. "Miss Bren nan was slightly paralzed and^annot bear as well as before with one of her ears. Frank Myers of Saratoga w$ reported as being stiuck north of there on. the Adiron dack road, where he is empLyed as engin eer. At Eagle Bridge a cotUge was struck and burned, its occupant§ escaping injury At Catskj'l the sform laetat nearly two hours, witff continuous ligmning flashes and peals of thunder. In Jlssey county heavy hailstones, accompanied throughout Albany county with wind and a deluge of rain were the features In Columbia county at the interior points heavy damage is reported. Crops and fruitteees suffered in all directions. Boston, June 7.—At Sh. Johnsbury, Vt., a cyclone tore up trees (Agd damaged buildings today. Thp roof’ of Ward's block was swept ofif and the'#hed of the grate company blown down, men narrowly escaping. At Littleton, N. EL, the storm unroofed many buildings and tare up many trees. The damage in the pathi/rf the storm was great. The storm spread |>ver an area from forty to fifty miles wide. I At Greens boro tbe boarding house of (ft. S. Conant was destroyed by lightning; 1|>bs, $2,000. Fires caused by the lighting Joccurred in several other places —Tbigpuu *1 u thermometer yesterday rangS/yi to 95. Last evening the pipst terrffic thunder, storm passed oyer this section Aver known. The light of burning buildings was seen in every direction, but the partio dare are not obtained yet. Lighting struck* the spire of the Town Hall in Westminister, totally de stroying the building and a dwelling owned by Frank Hey wood. The Town Hall was one qf the oldest landmarks in the vicinity, built in 1770, and was thoroughly repaired a few years ago. It was in this building that the first Legislature of Vermont met. Keene, N. EL, June 7.—Daring the se vere shower of last night lightning struck the farm hopte, barn eight head of pattle, and seyeral horsps. ’ Loss $4,000. Con siderable damage is reported from out lying points. Troy, N. Y., June 7.—Reports show that last night’s storm was one of the se verest ever experienced in this vicinity. Earns were struck by lightning in several places. The factory of Degolia & Sons of Bitcheller, Saratoga county, was destroyed, with a loss of $10,000. Ottawa, Ont., June?.—Tbe destruction caused by yesterday’s storm is terrible and widespread. Enormous damage was done to crops, sfloota juat ppepteg forth being literally blown out of the ground. Young apple orchards in nearly every locality in the district were destroyed. The loss can not fall short of $300,000. Besides three persons killed a large number were serious ly injured. A brick schoolhouse in Osgood township was blown down and twenty children were buried in the ruins. Some of them were fatally injured kfid none es caped painfql wounds. To Boycott (levcland and Thurman. All the assemblies of the bor and all othpr labor orgnnuatfonstef this city have received from St. Paut, Minn., copies of a circular issued by a committee of locomotive engineers and firemen in St. Paul for promulgation among members of the various organiza tions throughout the country. The circu lar contains a series of resolutions severely denouncing the Democratic committee for selecting ine route tq the- St. Louis iia- tianal Convention over the Chicago, Be lington and Quincy Railroad, at a lime when that line was “iu the middle of the bitterest struggle known in history of com bined capital against, labor.” ’ The resolu, tibns als i state that ;hp men Who adopted them “will not voleih 1 the nominees of the Democratic* ConvenH^n under 3PV popsjdeiaMon, regardless dt party principles,’' and they pledge the' labor element involved to “use their utmost effort to defeat said nominees at the com ing election.”— Phil. Times, June 8. ■ ■- The tfuglUb H«pere on Cleveland’* Nominetion I London, June 7.—The London papers comment generally upon Mr. Cleveland’s nomination at St. Louis. They consider his re-election assured, and congratulate the American people on the wisdom of the selection. The Daily News says that “Mr. Cleve land will sweep the country as he did the Convention, and the Republican party, in the form in which it has hitherto existed, will become a thing of the past 1 ” The Leeds Mercury says: “President Cleveland has discharged the duties of his office in a way to win the confidence not only of his party, but of the public gen erally. He has made Washington a centre of hign political aims and honorable politic cal ambitions, and there are few persons outside the great parly lines who will not wish him success.” out tonight in the two story tenement block at the corner of Rock and Willie streets and spread rapidly, practically gutting the building before the fire department could make much headway against the flames. The building was occupied by two fami lies, nine persons in all. Six of these ef fected their escape, but three were burned to death. One child, aged 4 years, was nearly suffocated before he awoke. The flames cut off all egress, but he rushed through them and jumped to the ground through a window. The hair was com pletely burned off his head, and tfle skin off his face, aqd llie uppef part of hte body was burned black- Etc will die. The mother escaped by jumping from a win dow, breaking her leg. She was slightly barned, but wifi five. The Balsvert family, three in number, escaped from the building. Mrs. Balsvert was burned slightly, but the smoke so pen etrated her lungs that a fatal result is ap prehended. She made her escape by get- getting out of an end window upon the roof of a low building adjoining, carrying her little onz-y^ar old baby 'With her. One of her children is missing, but is thought to have escaped and taken refuge in a neigh bor’s house. The bodies found in the building bore no evidence that there was any struggle and it is supposed that they were suffocated before awakening. Cause of fire is un known. The house is a rattletrap, with a narrow stairway. Two Block* Burned. —Car&Rrsfttn, ft—Tk? properly 4>f the Tennessee Lumber Company was de stroyed by flre this afternoon. The loss will probably reach $100,000, well insured. The buildings of the Mill Creek Distilling Company, directly across the street from the lumber yard, were partly consumed. Loss $15,000. The flames spread to adja cent dwelling-houses and stores, many of which were burned. The tenement house on the west side, owned by Haller & Park, contained many families, who lost every- thiug. A two-story brick building, two three-story brick jiouses and Cavanag’s West End Hotel were gutted. Loss $30,- 000. Miller & Buchanan’s saddle tree fac tory, Gaff’s rectifying house and four brick dwelljng-hopses wpre jn the territory burned, which includes two squares from Harriet street to the Southern Railroad bridge, and from Sixth street north. The fire originated from the sparks thrown out by passing locomotives on the Southern Railroad. Total loss $200,000. AIKEN, S. €. 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