The Aiken recorder. [volume] (Aiken, S.C.) 1881-1910, October 08, 1895, Image 2
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IMMON
.REGULATOR.
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ulator, the “King of Liver Medr
oines?” That is what our readers
want, and nothing but that. It is the
same old friend to which the old folks
pinned their faith and were never dis
appointed. But another good recom
mendation for it is, that it is better
than Pills, never gripes, never weak
ens, but works in such an easy and
natural way, just like nature itself, that
relief comes quick and sure, and one
feels new all over. It never fails.
Everybody needs take a liver remedy,
and. everyone should take only Sim
mons Liver Regulator.
He sure you get it. The Red Z
is on the wrapper. J. II. Zeiliu &
Co., Philadelphia.
GENERAL SCHOFIELD RETIRES.
It is Reported that Gen. Miles Will
Be His Successor.
General Schofield issued an order
announcing his retirement from the
command of the army Saturday. Later
in the afternoon he received the offi
cers on duty in Washington and bade
them farewell. The reception was in
formal and the officers and the retiring
lientenant general were in citizens’
dress. Captain George A. Armes,
United States army (retired), who was
placed under arrest Friday by order of
General Schofield for insubordination
in writing a personally offensive letter
to the general, was released under a
writ of habeas corpus issued by Judge
Bradley, of the district supreme court.
The case will be heard next Saturday.
The New York Tribune says that
General Nelson A. Miles was seen
Saturday night by one of its reporters
and replying to an inquiry said that he
had been officially informed by the
president of his appointment to the
supreme command of the army.
TO PREVENT THE FIGHT.
Governor Culberson Calls au Extra
Session of the Texas Legislature.
Governor Culberson, of Texas, has
issued a proclamation for a session of
the legislature to pass a law prohibit
ing prize fighting. The legislature is
to be convened in the city of Austin for
the following purposes:
“1. To denounce the prize fighting
and kindred practices in clear and un
ambiguous terms, and prohibit t he
same by appropriate pains and penal
ties, putting the law into immediate
operation and making necessary pro
vision for the enforcement, so that the
proposed exhibition of this character
w'll bin the state may be prevented, the
undoubted will of the people upon this
subject respected and the affront to the
moral sense and enlightened progress
of Texas averted.
“2. To consider and act upon such
other matters as may be presented pur
suant to section forty, article three, of
the constitution.
TALMAGE ACCEPTS.
The Brooklyn Divine Goes to a
Washington Church.
Rev. Dr. Talmage, of Brooklyn, has
accepted the call to be co-pastor of the
First Presbyteiiad church of Wash
ington city. This decision was com
municated by him to the special com
mittee of elders, deacons and trustees
who extended the call.
Dr. Talmsge is to be co-pastor of
the church, of equal authority with
Dr. Sunderland and probably will
preach one-half of the sermons be
ginning Sunday evening, October
27th. Dr. Sunderland and Dr. Tal-
mnge have long been intimate friends,
and the Brooklyn preacher has many
warm admirers among the congrega
tion of the First church. Dr. Sun-
derjand has been the pastor of the
"cKurch more than forty-two years,
having preached his fortieth anniver
sary sermon on February o, 1893.
ON A LARGE SCALE
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SUMDAY
Subjec^i^Qideon’s Battle With the
Midlanltes.'*
Will Lands in East Tennessee Be De
veloped.
A dispatch to The Manufacturers’
Record states that the LaFollette Coal
and Iron Company of New York City,
which owns between 80,000 and 40,-
000 acres of timber, coal and iron
lands in East Tennessee, is preparing
to develop this property on a large
scale by building several railroads to
connect with surrounding points. The
dispatch says:
_ “The LaFollette railway will be
constructed immediately from Coal
Creek to the town of LaFollette, with
branches to Middleboro and Jeliioo,
and that the line will probably ' e ex
tended from Coal Creek to Knoxville.
A considerable part of the grading on
the section from Coal Creek to L iFol-
lette is done and enough ties for that
section have been gotten om and par
tially distributed. ”
PASTEUR IS DEAD.
The Discoverer of th? Treatment of
Rabies Dies in Paris.
A Paris special says: Professor
Louis Pasteur, the distinguished ebem- j
1st and discoverer of the Pasteur treat- |
ment for the cure of rabies, is dead. I
He expired Saturday afternoon at his ;
residence at Garches, near St. Cloud.
His death was caused by paralysis.
Furnace to Blow 3a.
At a meeting of stockholders of the
Gracey Woodward furnace, at Clarke
ville, Tenn., recently it was decided
to resume operations at once. A force
of men have already been put to work
making preparations, and the furnace
will start ap November 1. The plant
is one of the largest and best in the ,
south, hftving a daily capacity of 150 '
ton*
Text: “And the three companions blew
the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and
held the lamps in their left hands and the
trumpets in their rieht hands to blow withal.
And they stood every man in his place
round about the camp, and all the host ran
and cried and fled/'—.Judges vii., 20, 21.
That is the strangest battle ever fought.
God had told Gideon to go down and thrash
the Mtdianites. but his army is too large, for
the glory must be given to God and not to
man. And so proclamation is made that all
those of the troops who are cowardly and
want to go home may go. and 22,000 of
them scampered away, leaving only 10,000
men. But God says the army is too
large yet, and so he orders these 10.000
remaining to march down through a
stream and command Gideon to notice in
what manner these men drink of the water
as they pass through it. If they get down
on all fours and drink, then they are to be
pronounced lazy and incompetent for the
campaign, but if, in passing through the
stream, they scoop up the water in the palm
of their hand and drink and pass on they are
to be the men selected for the battle.
Well, the 10,000 men marched down in the
stream, and the most of them come down on
all fours and plunge theirmouths like ahorse
or an ox into the water and drink, but there
are 300 men who, instead of stooping, just
dip the palm of their hands in the waterand
bring it to their lips, “lapping it as a dog
lappeth.” Those 800 brisk, rapid, en
thusiastic men are chosen for the
campaign. They are each to take a trumpet
in the right hand, and a pitcher in the left
hand, and a lamp inside the pitcher, and
then at a given signal they are to blow the
trumpets, and throw down the pitchers, and
hold up the lamps. So it was done.
It is night. I see a great host of Midianites
Sound asleep in the valley of Jezreel. Gid
eon comes up with his 300 picked men. and
when everything is ready the signal is given
and they blow tne trumpets, and they throw
down the pitchers, and hold up the lamps,
and the great host of Midianites. waking out
of a sound sleep, take the crash of the
crockery and the glare of the lamps for the
coming on of an overwhelming foe, and they
run and cut themselves to pieces and horri
bly perish.
The lessons of this subject are very spir
ited and impressive. This seemingly value
less lump of quartz has the pure gold in it.
The smallest dewdrop on the meadow at
night has a star sleeping in its bosom, and
the most insignificant passage of Scripture
has in it a shining truth. God’s mint coins
no small change.
I learn in the first place from this subject
the lawfulness of Christiau strategem. You
know very well that the greatest victories
ever gained by Washington or Napoleon
were gained through the fact that they came
when and in. a way they were not expected—
sometimes falling back to draw out the foe,
sometimes breaking out from ambush, some
times crossing a river on unheard of rafts,
all the time keeping the opposing forces in
wonderment as to what would be done next.
You all know what strategy is in military
affairs. Now ! think it is high time we had
this art sanctified and spiritualized. In the
church, when we are about to make a Chris
tian assault, we send word to the opposing
force when we expect to come, how many
troops wo have, and how many rounds of
shot, and whether we will come with artil
lery, Infantry or cavalry, and of course
we are defeated. There are thousands of
men who might be surprised into the king
dom of God. We need more tact and ingen
uity in Christian work. It is in spiritual
affairs as in military, that success depends
in attacking that part of the castle which is
not armed and intrenched.
For instance, here is a man all armed on
the doctrine of election. All his troops ol
argument and prejudice are at that particu
lar gate. You may batter away at that side
of the castle for fifty years, and you will not
take it, but just wheel your troops to the side
gate of the heart’s affections, and in five
minutes you capture him. I never knew
a man to be saved through a brilliant ar-
gumet. You cannot hook men into the
kingdom of God by the horns of a dilemma.
There is no grace in syllogisms. Here is a
man armed on the subject of perseverance
of the saints. He does not believe in it.
Attack him at that point, and ho will perse
vere to the very last In not be
lieving it. Here is a man armed
on the subject of baptism. He believes
in sprinkling or immersion. All your dis
cussion of ecclesiastical hydropathy will not
change him. I remember when I was a boy
that with other boys I went into the river on
a summer day to bathe, and we used to dash
water on each other, but never got any re
sult except that our eyes were blinded, and
all this splashing of water between Baptists
and Pedobaptists never results in anything
but the blurring of the spiritual eyesight. In
other words, you can never capture a man’s
soul at the point at which he is especially
intrenched. But there is in every man’s
heart a bolt that can be easily shoved. A
little child four years old may touch that
bolt, and it will spring back, and the door
will swing open, and Christ will come in.
I think that the finest of all the fine arts is
the art of doing good, and yet this art is the
least cultured. We have in the kingdom of
God to-day enough troops to conquer the
whole earth for Christ if we only had skillful
manoeuvering. I would rather have the 300
lamps and pitchers of Christian strategem
than 100,000 drawu swords of literary an 1
ecclesiastical combat.
I learn from this subject also that a small
part of the army of God will have to do all
the hard fighting. Gideon’s army was origin
ally composed of 32.000 men. but they went
off until there wore only 10,000 left, and that
was substracted from until there were only
300. It is the same in ail ages of the Chris
tian church. A few men have to do the hard
fighting. Take a membership of 1000, and
you generally find that fifty people do the
work. Take a membership of SCO, and you
generally find that ten people do the work.
There are scores of churches where two or
three people do the work.
We mourn that there is so much useless
| lumber in the mountains of Lebanon. I
j think of the 10,000,000 membership of the
j Christian church to-day if 5,000,000 of the
names were off the books the church would
be stronger. You know that the more
cowards and drones there are in any army
the weaker it is. I would rather have the
300 picked men of Gideon thau the 32,000
unsifted host. The mauy Christians there are
standing in the way of all progress! I think
it is the duty of the church of God to ride
over them, and the quicker it does it the
quicker it does its duty.
Do not worry, O Christian, if you have to
do more than your share of ike work. You
had better thank God that He has called you
to be one of the picked men rather than t<*
belong to the host of stragglers. Would not
vou rather be one of the 300 that fight than
the 22.000 that run? I suppose those cpw-
ardly Gideonites who went off congratu
lated themselves. They said: “We got rid
of all that fighting, did not we? How
lucky we have h Q eo! That battle costs
ns nothing at all,” But they got none
of the spoils of the victory. After the battle
the 300 men went down and took the wealth
of the Midianites, and out of the cups and
platters of their enemies they feasted. Ami
the time will come, my dear brethren,
when the hosts of darkness will be routed,
and Christ will say to His troops: “Wall
done, my brave men. Go up and take ths
spoils. Be more than conquerors forever.’*
And in that day all deserters will be sboi.
Again. I learn from this subject that God’s
way is different from man’s, but is always
the 'nest way. If we had the planning of that
ba’ tle. we would have taken those 32.003
men that originally belonged to the army,
anl we would have drilled them and
marched them up and down by the day and
week and month, and we would have had
thorn equipped with swords or spears,accord
ing to the wpy of arming in those times,
and then we would have marched them
down in solid column upon the foe.
But that is not the way. God depletes the
army, and takes away all their weapons.and
gives them a lamp, and a pitcher, and a
trumpet, and tells them to go down and
drive out the Midianites. T supnose some
wiseacres were there who said: “That is not
military tactics. The idea of 300 men un
armed conquering such a great host of Mid
ianites!” It was the best way. What sword,
spear or cannon ever accomplished such a
victory as the lamp, pitcher and trumpet?
God’s way is different from man’s way,
but it is always best Take, for in sea nee.
the composition o f the B ; b’e. If we had had
the writing of the Bible, we would have said:
M L«t one man write it. If you have twenty
orthfrty men to write a poem, or make a
statute, or write a history, or make an argu
ment. there will be flaws and contra Ac
tions.” But God says: “Let not one man do
It but forty men shall do it.” And they
did, differing enough to show thera ha 1 been
no collusion between them, but not contra
dicting each other on any important point,
while they all wrote from their own stand
point and temperament, so that the matter
of fact man has his Moses, the romantic na
ture his Ezekiel, the epigrammatic his Solo
mon, the warrior his Joshua, the sailor his
Jonah, the loving his John, the logician his
Paul. Instead of this Bible, which now
I can lift in my hand —instead of the
Bible the child can carry to Sunday-school,
instead of the little Bible the satlor can put
in his jacket when he goes to sea—if it had
been left to men to write it would have been
a thousand volumesi, iudeing from . tbf
amount of ecclesiastical controversy w.iicb
has arisen. God’s way * s different from
man’s, but it is best, infinitely best.
So it is in regard to the Christian s life.
If we had had the p'anning of a Christian’s
life, we woiild have said: “Let him have
eighty years of sunshine, a fine house to live
in. Let his surroundings all be agreeable.
Let him have sound health. Let no chill
shiver through his limbs, no pain ache his
brow or trouble shadow his soul." I
enjoy the prosperity of others so much I
Would let every man have as much
money as he wants and roses for his
children’s Cheeks and fountains of gla iness
glancing In their large round eye?. But
that la not God’s way. It seems as if man
must be cut, hit and pounded just in propor
tion as he is useful. His child falls from a
third story window and has its life dashed
out. His most confident investment
tumbles him into bankruptcy. His friends,
on whom he depended, aid the natural
force of gravitation in taking him down.
His life is a Bull Run defeat. Instead of
32,000 advantages he has only 10,030. Aye,
only 300—aye, none at all. How many good
people there are at their wits’ end about
their livelihood, about their reputation? But
they will find out it is the best way after
awhile. God will show them that He de
pletes their advantages just for the same
reason He depleted the army of Gideon—
that they may be induced to throw then-
selves on His mercy.
A grapevine s&ys in the early spring:
“How glad I am to get through the winter!
I shall have no more trouble now. Summer
weather will eome. and the garden will be
very beautiful.” But the garlener comes
and cuts the vine here and there with his
knite. The twigs begin to fall, and the
grapevine cries out: “Murder! What are
you cutting me for?" “Ah,” says the garden
er, “I don’t mean to kill you. If I did
not do this, you would be the laughing
stock of all the other vines before the season
is over.” Months go on, and one day the
gardener comes under the trellis, where great
clusters of grapes hang, and the grape vine
says: “Thank you, sir. You could not have
done anything so kind os to have cut me
with that knife.” “Whom the Lord loveth
Ho chasteneth.” No pruning, no grapes: no
grinding mill, no flour; no battle, no vic
tory; no cross, no crown.
So God’s way, in the redemption of the
world, is different from ours. If we had out
way, we would have had Jesus stand in the
door of heaven and beckon the Nations uu
to light, or we would have had angels flying
around the earth proclaiming the unsearch
able riches of Christ. Why is it that the cause
goes on so slowly? Why Is it that the chains
stay on when Go 1 could knock them
off? Why do thrones of despotism stand
when God could so easily demolish them?
It is His way in yder that all generations
may co-operato and that all men may know
they cannot do the work themselves. Just
in proportion as those pyramids of sin go
up in height will they eome down in ghast
liness of ruin.
O thou father of all iniquity! If thou
canst hear my voice above the crackling of
the flames, drive on thy projects, dispatch
thy emissaries, build thv temples and forge
thy chains, but know that thy fall from
heaven was not greater than thy final over
throw shall be when them shalt be driven
disarmed into thy fiery den, and for every
lie thou hast framed upon earth thou shalt
have an additional hell of fury poured into
thine anguish by the vengeancs of
our God, and all heaven shall shout at the
overthrow, as from the ransomed earth the
song breaks through the skies: “Halleluiah,
for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth! Hal
lelujah, for the kingdoms of this world have
become the kingdoms of our Lord Jesu.-
Christ!” God’s way in the composition of
the Bible, God’s way in the Christian’s life,
God’s way in the redemption of the world,
God’s way in everything—different from
man’s way. but the best.
I learn from this subject that the overthrow
of God’s enemies will oe sudden and terrific.
There is the army of the Midianites down in
the valley of Jezreel. I suppose their
mighty men are dreaming of victory. Mount
Gilboa never stoo l sentinel for so large a
host. The spears and the shields of the
Midianites gleam in the moonlight and
glance on the eye of the Israelites, who
hover like a battle of eagles, ready to swoop
from the cliff. Sleep on, O army ot the
Midianites! With the night to hide them
and the mountain to guard them aud strong
arms to defend them, let no slumbering foe-
man dream of disaster. Peace to the cap
tains and the spearmen.
Crash go the pitchers! Up f are the lamos!
To the mountains! Fly, tty! Troop running
against troop, thousands trampling upon
thousands. Hark to the scream and groan
of the routed foe, with the Lord God Al
mighty after them! How sudden the onset!
How wild the consternation! How utter the
defeat! I do not care so much what is
against me if God is not. You want a better
sword or carbine than I have ever seen to £<•
our and flcht atrainst the Lord Omninr.>*«-.
Give me Goa for my any, ana you may nave
all the battlements and battalions.
I saw the defrauder in his splendid house.
It seemed as If he had conquered God as he
stood amid the blaze of chandeliers and pier
mirrors. In the diamonds of the wardrobe
I saw the tears of the widows whom ho had
robbed and in the snowy satins the pallor o"
the white cheeked orphans whom he had
wronged. The blood of the oppressed
glowed in the deep crimson of the im
ported chair. The music trembled with
the sorrow of unrequltted toil. But the
wave of mirth dashed higher on reefs of
coral aud pearl. The days and the nights
went merrily. No sick child darea pull that
silver doorbell. No beggar dared sit on that
marble step. No voice of prayer floated
amid that tapestry. No shadow of a judgment
day darkened that fresco. No tear of human
symoathy dropped upon that upholstery.
Pomp strutted the hall, aud dissipation
filled her cup, and all seemed safe as the
Midianites in the valley of Jezreel. But God
came. Calamity smote the money market.
The partridge left its eggs unhatched. Crash
went all the porcelain pitchers! Ruin, rout,
dismay and woe in the valley of Jezreel!
Alas for those who fight against God! Only
two sides. Man immortal, which side are
you on? Woman immortal, which side are
you on? Do you belong to the 303 that an
going to win the day or to the great host oi
Midianites asleep in the valley, only to be
roused up in consternation and ruin? Sud
denly the golden bowl of life will be broken
and the trumpet blown that will startle our
soul into eternity. The day of the Lord
cometh as a thief in the night ani as
the God armed Israelites upon the sleeping
foe. Ha’. Canst thou pluck up courage Tor
the day when the trumpet which hath never
been blown shall speak the roll call of the
dead, and the earth, dashing against a lost
meteor, have its mountains scattered to the
stars and oceans emptied in the .air? Oh,
then, what will become of you? What will
become of me?
If those Midianites bad only given up
their swords the day before the disaster, all
would have been well, and if you will now
surrender the sins with which you have been
fighting against God you will be safe. Oh,
make peace with Him now, through Jesus
Christ the Lord! With the clutch of a drown
ing man seize the cross. Oh. surrender!
Surrender! Christ, with his hand on his
pierced side, asks you to.
Lassoed a Sea Lion.
A wounded sea lion on the beach
at Bear Harbor, Cal., which a hunter
had shot and then lassoed, dragged
the hunter and his horse into the
surf, and got the rope so entangled
about the horse that the hunter had
to abandon his animal and swim for
his lifo. The drowned body of the
horse was washed up on the beach
next day. The rope was broken,
and no trace was found of the wound
ed sea lion. The sea lion was sc
powerful and dragged the horse into
the surf so quickly that the hunter
was unable to use his knife to cut
tbe animal free.
WASHINGTON NOTES
GOSSIP OF THE CAPITAL IN BRIEF
PARAGRAPHS.
Doings of the Chiefs and Heads of the
Various Departments.
A rumor has been abroad in Wash
ington for several days to the effect
that President Cleveland would in his
speech at the Atlanta exposition, on
October 21st, take occasion to deliver
a “solemn utterance" ag unst the third-
term.
A dispatch received at the state de
partment from Minister Denby Satur
day shows that good progress has been
made in the matter of the investigation
of the Cheng-Tu riots, and that the
Chinese officials have decided the nec
essary assistance to be given the Amer
ican cammissiohers.
All the heavy expenditures of the
treasury for this month have been
paid and now for the first time the
fignres show a slight excess of receipts
for the month. The excess is only
8112,744, but it is expected that by
October 1st the excess will reach 82,-
500,000 and the deficit for the present
fiscal year, which is now 813,000,000,
will be reduced to $10,500,000.
The attorney general has sent addi
tional instructions to the district at
torney of Wyoming, based on infor
mation furnished by the Indian office,
which will probably enable the United
States officials to commence prosecu
tions against the whites responsible for
the attacks upon the Bannock Indians.
It is thought by the Indian office that
the new material furnished the depart
ment of justice will result in bringing
to justice the meu responsible for the
recent trouble at Jackson’s Hole.
The Ransom case is settled. Acting
Comptroller Bowers, of the treasury,
has signed the warrant for $525,drawn
by the state department in favor of M.
W. Ransom, United States minister to
Mexico, and the warrant has been for
warded to Minister Ransom. Auditor
Holcomb, of the treasury, originally
held up the warrant on the ground that
Mr. Ransom had not been confirmed
by tho senate, and, therefore, could
not be paid. Secretary Carlisle over
ruled the auditor. Acting Comptroller
Bowers sustained the secretary. Under
this decision Minister Ransom will
draw his full salary from the time of
his second appointment.
An Important Decision.
Secretary Smith has rendered an
important decision regarding railroad
right of way. The road affected is the
Montana Railway Company. This
company applied for right of way over
public lands under the act of 1890,
making auch grants; this act provided
that the road should be completed
within five years after the map of the
location was filed. The company did
not complete its road in that time
but subsequently offered new maps of
location.
The commissioner of the general
land office recommends that the maps
be not approved because the road was
not completed within five years after
the first map of location was filed. The
secretary way tiwfyly in .reason why
the company should bo ileuied the
right to file a new map fot location
even after the expiratioq of tho five
years, the new' map tov operate upon
such lands as are free from claim. He
therefore approves the new maps for
the Montana Railway Company.
Pension Roll Increases.
A year ago Commissioner of Pensions
LochreU said that the limit had prob
ably been reached in the number of
pensions, or rather in the amount to bo
yearly appropriated for pensions. It
was his opinion that there would be a
slight reduction in the number of pen
sioners on account of deaths, but that
the allowance of new pensions with
back pay and arrearage would prob
ably keep the amount about oven.
While the amount of money paid for
pensions will not be materially differ
ent from that of past years it appears
that there has been added to the pen
sion rolls during the year about a
thousand names in excess of those that
have dropped out, so that there has
been an increase instead of a decrease.
There have been a great many out
standing pension claims adjusted dur
ing the year, and that accounts for the
large increase. The year has not been
very fatal to pensioners, the death rate
being less than would be anticipated
at the time of life at which the veter
ans of the late war have arrived.
World’s Grain Crop.
Consul General Max Judd, of
Vienna, has forwarded to the depart
ment of state a report on the grain
crop of the world for 1895 compiled
from the report of the international
grain fair which Mr. Judd commends
as trustworthy.
The abstract furnished by Mr. Judd
shows that the wheat, rye, barley aud
oat crops of Europe are somewhat be
low the average—while corn is exceed
ingly promising and it is expected that
the yield will be one-half again as
large this year as it has been on an av
erage for ten years.
Canada shows an increase of about
0,000,000 metre centals in wheat while
Ineia shows a loss of about double that
quality—both as compared with 1894.
Most of the Russian provinces indicate
an increase in wheat and rye.
The Austria-Hungarian wheat crop
is poor in quality laud less in quantity
than usual. A lighter wheat crop is
also indicated in the United States.
The French wheat crop is estimated at
98 per cent—rye at 105 and oats at 85
per cent of the average. The wheat
crop of Great Britian and Ireland is
put down as poor and is estimated at
irom 40 to 50 per cent of the average
the English barley crop will be better
than the wheat crop but the quality
will be poor, Egypt will export con
siderable wheat.
It is anticipated that the loss on
wheat in India and the United States
will be compensated for by the grain
In Canada and Russia—and that tak
ing this crop througout the world the
result for the year will be about equal
to the average season.
A Town Burned Out.
The town of Big Stone Gap,Ya., six
ty-five miles from Bristol, Tenn., was
almost totally destroyed by fire short
ly after midnight Friday night. The
lose will be about $30,000, while the
insurance is only about $6,000. The
|*t originated in the Talley total
WINTRY WINDS
BLOWING A FEARFUL GALE ON
THE GREAT LAKES.
Vessels Having a Rough Time and
Several of Them Wrecked.
Specials from St. Joseph, Mich.,
state that the storm which raged there
since last Saturday morning has as
J et abated but little. No steamers
ave left there since Friday night aud
much fruit is now lying on the docks
awaiting transportation.
The steamer Puritan, probably to
make a record, left Chicago Sunday
morning in the face of a gale, arriving
three miles off the port of St. Joseph
at 11 o’clock. She was rolling and
pounding Very badly, and could only
be seen a portion of the time. Tho
Waves were rolling over the piers and
she could not enter and started off on
the Milwaukee route. Two schooners
were reported as being ashore. % The
Wind has whipped the remaining fruit
off the trees, blown several small
houses down and torn shade trees up
by the roots, besides damaging tele
graphic communicaton.
Reports from Muskegon say that
one of the worst lake gales has been
raging there for twenty-four hours
and waves have rolled higher than for
many years, submerging wharves and
doing much damage. The steamers of
the Goodrich line did not leave port,
owing to the roughness of the lake.
Sunday the lake was in an angry
mood and no small craft could weather
the sea. At Holland a fifty-mile-an-
hour northwester raged all Saturday
night. The Hollaud-Chicago transpor
tation boats off there were ordered to
remain in port.
Had to Swim Asbore.
The bark Kershaw, together with the
schooners Moonlight and Kent, which
she had in tow, were beached Sunday
morning at Marquette, Mich. The
Kershaw and her consorts were making
harbor safely when a steam pipe broke
and the boats were at the mercy of tho
heavy seas and strong winds which
were prevailing. The Kershaw is
broken in two and is pounding to
pieces. She will be a total wreck.
The Moonlight and Kent are resting
safely on the sand beach and all on
board are safe.
Severe at Buffalo.
The storm which broke over Buffalo,
N. Y., has been the most severe of the
season. Tho maximum velocity of the
wind was 55 miles an hour aud rain
fall was very heavy. Much alarm was
felt in marine circles over the safety
of several vessels overdue, but it is be
lieved they have all put in port at safe
harbors.
A Steamer Overdue.
The gravest apprepension is felt at
Cleveland, O., for the safety of the
passenger steamer State of New Y'oik,
of the Cleveland and Buffalo line,
which was due at 6 :30 o’clock Sunday
morning from Buffalo. Up to mid
night she had not been heard from,
either at an American or Canadian
port. A high wind had been blowing
all day sea was run
ning in Lak^L^^; Although late in
the season for passenger traffic, the
New York had quite a large party of
excursionists on board.
FOR INDEPENDENCE.
Irish Americans Advocate the Use of
the Sword.
“Revolution,’’ written in big flaming
letters, was tho text of Wednesday’*!
proceedings of the Irish national con
vention at Chicago; and when the
body adjourned to await the report of
the committees.on resolution and ways
aud means, there did not remain a lin
gering doubt in the minds of a single
delegate regarding the exact purpose
and policy of those whose call had
summoned them to Chicago. There was
no beating about the bush, no veiling in
fancy words of the object of the gath
ering. It was boldly declared by Iritffi-
Americans from different parts of the
country—some of them men of nation
al reputation—that no matter what the
sentiments of the American govern
ment, or the American people, the
time had arrived for the Irish in Amer
ica to abandon constitutional agita
tion, to take up the sword, and to seek
the independence of their isle by the
use of weapons rather than through
legislative enactments.
The organization of a standing
army, ready to do battle whenever the
opportunity should present itself, was
advocated amid frantic enthusiasm,
and which culminated in a wild scene
when a New York delegate named the
chairman, ex-Congressman John F.
Finerty, as the first president of the
Irish republic of the near future.
Hatred of England and everything
English was expressed in vehement
language in ever/ speech, and the
cheers and yells of approval were
mixed with hoots, hisses and groans
for the British government, tories and
unionists.
The Convention Ridiculed.
The newspapers of both parties at
London, ridiculing the national con
vention of Irish societies in Chicago,
which they regard as being a part of
the presidential contest. The Times,
in its issue of Thursday, referring to
the contention, said: “The perform
ance will be regarded with contemptu
ous indifference here.’^
An American Joke in Turkey.
Some time ago an Englishman vis
ited Caifa, an out-of-the-way place
within the dominion of the Sultan of
Turkey. He flew into a rage when,
just before leaving he was presented
with a hotel bill charging outrageous
prices for very sorry accommodation,
but on the advice of his wife he paid
I the amount asked. A few days after-
! wards the hotelier received a letter
saying • “Your prices are too high t”
A few weeks later a parcel arrived;
the innkeeper removed wrapper after
wrapper—100 of them—and at last
came to a card on which was written :
“Your prices are too high!’’ A few
months after that, quite lately, a
large box was delivered to him—after
he had paid a goodly sum for freight
charges. On opening it, and after
^oing a tremendous amount of un
packing, he found another card:
“Your prices are too high!’’ Since
then the unhappy man has refused
to accept either letters, parcels or
hosss.
Miss Ella Hu
Invites the ladies of Aiken and vicinity to au inepectioj
aud well relected stock of
Hats, Bonnets and General 3Iillinery at
728 Broad Street, - * * AUGUSTA, tSA.
Mrs B. N. BUCKLEY.
» Bookseller, Stationer ami »
UNT IE
625 BROAD STREET,
School Books and Stationery,
Photosrapliic Albums, Hlank Hooks, Envelopes,
Playing Cards, Pens, Inks .
s@~All articles required by sdirVs >.* <b k Ir.ilo
always on hand.
Men’s and Boys’ Clothing,
etxxd
Cent’s Furnishing Goods.'
Every‘ ' Trnstworlliy, and lie Stamp ot Me
Witty oi Every Article.
Inspect onr seasonable line, learn tho prices and you will not be disappointed
The question will arise in your mind, how can such fine goods be sold for a.
little money? Don’t fail to see our splendid assortment and to take advar
tage of the inducements offered.
I. O,
Tailor-Fit C:othiers, AUGUSTA,;CA,
Mrs. A. L. Warneke,
Baker and Confectioner,
—AND DEALER IN—
IIES AT ROCK
Tobacco and Cigars of all Qualities.
■At -tie Old Stand, Corner Lanrens Street and Park Avenne.-
Miss Ella Hughes,
The Fashionable Milliner,
Invites the ladies of Aiken and vicinity to an inspection of her large and
well selected stock of
920 BROAD STREET,
liflfiry.at
AUGUSTA, GA.
CHEAPEST & BEST
GINS, PRESSES AND CANE MILLS,
Engines, Boilers, Shafting, Pulleys, Belts, Injec
tors and Repairs at
Lombard Iron Works & Supply Co.,
Above Passenger Depot, - - AUGUSTA, GA.
Look Before You Leap.
STRAIGHT GOODS s
STRAIGHT PRICES
ROGERS’ FURNITURE STORE
Only asks you to examine the stock, get prices and then compare. I want
your trade and propose to get it by showing superior good*, giving lowest
prices and giving you just what you buy in good order.
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E. ft. ROGERS, - 838 Broad St.
A. F. TISCHER,
940 Broad Street,
Augusta, Ga.
KEEPS constantly on hand: Perfumery, Patent Medicines,
Fancy Goods, Window Glass, Drugs, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Etc.
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