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' : - FOR THE HANDSOMEST, Best selected, And Cheapest Stock Of Gents' Ties, Bows and Scarfs Ever brought to this market. GO TO A.. LESSER. FOR THE CHEAPEST AND BEST Line of Men's Hats, Clothing, Trunks, Valises, and Traveling Bags, GO TO A. LESSER. In short go to A. Lesser for anything you need in his line. No matter how low others may ?uote prices, GO TO A. LESSER, Before you spend your money, and go home satisfied that you can save money in buying your Goods from Sept 10,1885 WILHITE'S EYE WATER IS A SURE CURE FOE SOREEIES, i 2 OR ANY COMMON FORM OF INFLAMED EYES. WE SELL IT With the understanding that if it does not prove bene? ficial or effect a Cure, after directions have been carefully fol? lowed, the sum paid for it WILL' BE REFUNDED. ? It has been sold on I K . these conditions ior the w ) ^nast FIVE YEARS, $ | Snd as yeifwe have \ L lue* I * * NEVER HAD A 'COMPLAINT QB^F, OR HEARD OF A CASEr IT DID NOT CURE! 'Si h { ) - - IT IS NOT J ? <Q A NEW PREPARATION, : i . \ 1 AND HAS BEEN USED ,-\ FOBrTHIRTT YE?B& ? ? . But has been only four or five years on the market as a PROPRIETARY MEDICINE. -o If you have never used it, or know nothing of its effects on fall?rJM EYES, Ask your neighbor, or some one who has seen it tried. IT HAS CURED SEVERE CASES r '! : i i 171 IN FROM ??" PiO it A HMO SIX TO TWENTY-FOUR HOTJBS I Plied, 25 Cents nr Botfle. WILHITE & WILHITE. PROPRIETOR Aug. 20,1885 6 THE JUDGMENT DAY. A Sermon Preached by Dr. Tnlinago in Cork, Ireland, Before an Immense Audi? ence Upon the Subject of the Last Judg ment. Text: "When the son of man shall come in his glory, and -all the holy angels with him, then shall he Bit upon the throne of his glory; and before him shall be gathered all nations ; and he shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth his sheep from the goats.'?''?Mat? thew, ch. 25. v. 31, 32. Half way between Chamouni, Switzer? land, and Martigny I reined in the horse on which I was riding, and looking off upon the most wonderful natural amphi? theatre of valley and mountain and rock, and I said to my companion, "what an appropriate place this would be for the last judgment. Yonder overhanging rock the place for the judgment seat. These galleries of surrounding hills oc? cupied by attendant angels. This vast valley, sweeping miles this way and miles that, the audience room for all nations." But sacred geography does not point out the place. Yet we know that somewhere, sometime, somehow, an audience will be gathered together stupendous beyond all statistics, and just as certainly as you and I make up a part of this audience today,vwe,,will make up. a part,pi that audience!on ihat'day.. j / . . A common sense of justice in every man's heart demands that there shall be somo great winding up day, in which that which is now inexplicable shall be explained. Why did that good man puffer, and that bad man prosper ? You say, "I don't know." B?t I must' know. Why is it that good Christian woman dying jof what .ia called a spider cancer, while that daughter of folly'sit^wWpped in luxuriance, ease, and health? You say, "I don't know." But I must know. There are so many wrongs tobe wrighted that if there were not some great right ning-up day in the presence of all ages, there would be an outcry against God from which His glory would never recov? er. If God did not at last try the nations, the nations would try Him. We are, therefore, ready for the announcement of the text. The world never saw Christ except in disguise. If onfce.'wlreD. Ee was on earth, He had let out His glory, instead of the blind eyes being healed all visions would have been extinguished. No human eye could have endured it. And instead of bringing the dead to life, all around about him would have been slain under that overpowering effulgence. Disguise of human flesh f ' Disguise of seamless robe! Disguise of sandal 1 Disguise of voice! From Bethlehem caravansary to the mausoleum in the rock; a complete disguise. But oh the day of which I speak the Son of Man will come in His glory.- No hiding of his lustre.. No sheathing of strength. No suppression of grandeur. No wrapping out of sight of the Godhead. Any fifty of the most, brilliant sunsets that you ever., saw ou-; land or sea would be .dimas compared' with the cerulean appearance on that day when Christ rolls through and rolls o n/a nd; npljs, dr/rca i n; His glory." The a i r-, wiiUBfeaal'Sbfoont wjtlrhis presence; ?ml everything from horizon to'horison aflame with His splendor. Elija rode up the sky-steep in a chariot,, the wheels of whirling-fire1 and the horses' of galloping fire, and the charioteer drawing reins of fire on bits of fire! But Christ will need no such equipage, for the law of gravitation will be laid aside, and Christ will descend swiftly enough to make speedy arrival, but slow? ly enough to allow the gaze of millions of spectators. In His glory! Glory of form, glory of omnipotence, glory of holiness, glory of justice, glory of love. In His glory! An unveiled an uncover? ed God descending to meet the human race in an interview which will be pro? longed onlyjtfor a few hours, and yet which shall Bettle all the past and all the present and all the future, and be closed before the end of that day, which will close, not with setting sun, but with the destruction of the planet as a snuffer takes o'f the top of a burned wick. It is a solemn time in a court room wheu there is an important case on hand, and the judge of the superior co* rt enters, and he sits down, and with gavel strikes on the desk commanding bar and jury and witnesses and audience into silence. All voices are hushed, all heads are uncovered. But how much more judgment seat on the last day of the last week of the last month of the last year of the world's existence, and with gavel of thunderbolt shall smite the mountains, commanding all the land and all the sea into silence. Can you-have auy doubt about who it is on -the seat on the judgment d?y? Better make investigation, to see whether, there are any scars about him that reveal his person. Apparel may change. You cannot always tell by apparel.. But scars will tell the story after allje.lse fails! _JL find under His left arm a scar, and on His right foot a scar, and on His left foot a scar. Oh, Yes, He is the Son of Man. Man in his glory. Every mark of wound now a badge of victory, every ridge showing the fearful gash now telling the story of pain and sacrifice which He. suffered in behalf of the human race. 'But what is all that commotion and flutter, and surging to and fro above Him and on either side of Him ? It is a detailed regiment of heaven, n constabu? lary angelic, pent forth to take part in that scene, and to execute the mandates that shall be issued. Ten regiments, a hundred regiments, a thousand regiments of angels; for on that day all heaven will be emptied out of its inhabitants to let them attend the scene. All the holy angels. From what a center to what a circumference! Widening out and widening out, and higher up and higher up. Wings interlocking wings. Galle? ries of cloud above galleries of cloud, all filled with the faces of angels come to listen and come to watch, and come to help on that day for which all other days were made. '.Who are those two taller and more conspicuous angels? The one is Michael, who is the commander of all those. who come out to destroy sin.. The other is Gabriel, who is announced as commander of .all those who come .forth to help the (righteous. Who is that mighty angel near the throne ? That is the resurrection angel, his lips still aquiv er and his cheek a flush with the blast that shattered the cemeteries and woke the dead. Who is that other great angel, with dark1: and overshadowing brow"? That is the one,. who, in one night, by one flap of his wing, turned 185,000 of. Sennacherib's host into corpses. Who are those bright immortals near the throne, their faces partly turned toward each other as though.about to singt Oh, they arc the Bethlehem chanters of the first Christmas night. Who are this other group standing so near the throne ? They are" the Savior's especial body guard, which hovered over Him in the wilderness, and administered to Him in the hour of martyrdom, and heaved away the rock of His sarcophagus, and escort? ed Him upward on ascension day, now appropriately, escorting Him down. Divine glory flanked on both sides by angelic radiance. But now lower your eye from the Divine and angelic to the human. The entire human race is present. All nations, says my text. Before that time ttte 4raerKan republic, the English gov? ernment, the French repnblic, all modern modes of government may be oblitered for something better; but all nations, whether dead or alive, will be brought up into that assembly. Thebes and T^yre and Baylon and Greece and Rome as wide awake in that assembly as though they had never slumbered amid the dead* nations. Europe, Asia, Africa,- North when Christ shall take the -;-?JT-?~-~. ? ? - ? and South America, all the nineteenth century, the eighteenth century, the twelfth century, the tenth century, the fourth century?all centuries present. Not one being that ever drew the breath of life but will be in that assembly. Vast multitude! No other audience a thousai-^wh part as large. No human eye could look across it. Wing of alba? tross and falcon and eagle not strong enough to fly over it. A congregation, I verily believe, not assembled on any continent, because no continent would be large enough to hold it. But as the Bible intimated, in the air. The law of gravitation unanchored, the world moved out of its place. As now sometimes on earth a great tent is spread for somu great convention, so over that great audi? ence of the judgment shall be lifted the blue tent of the sky, and underneath it for floor the air made buoyant by the hand of Almighty God. A. suspended auditorium. An architecture of atmos? pheric galleries strong enough to hold up worldB. Surely the two. arms of God's almightinessare two pillars strong enough to hold up worlds. Surely the two arms of God's almightiness are two pillars strong enough to hold up any auditorium. But that audience is not to remain in session long. Most audiences on earth after an hour or two adjourn. Sometimes in court,-rooms ?n.jpi?dience will tarry four or five hours, ouVfhen it adjourns. So this audience spoken-of; in.the .text wiiLadjourhr My text says': '"He will separate them one1 from another as a shepherd divideth the sheep from the goats." "No," says my friend, "let them all stay together." But the text says: "He shall separate them." "No," says the kings of this world, "let men have their choice, and if ;hey prefer monarchial institutions let them go 'together, and if they prefer Republican institutions, let them go together." "No," says the con? ventionalities of this world, "let all those who moved in what is called high circles go together, and all those who on earth moved in low circles go together. The rich together, the poor together; the wise together, the ignorant together." Ah ! no. Do you not notice in that assembly the king is without his sceptre, and the soldier without his uniform, and the bishop without his pontifical ?ring, and the millionaire without his certificates of stock,, and Iha xonvict';without his chain, and the beggar without his ragp, and the illiterate without his bad orthog? raphy, and all of us without any distinc? tion of earthly equality ? I take it from that, as well as from my text, that the mere accident of position in this world will do nothing toward deciding the questions of that very great day. . "He will separate them as a shepherd divideth the sheep from the goats." The sheep, the clenlinest creatures, here made a symbol of those who have all sins washed away in the fountain of redeem? ing mercy...,The goat,- one of the filthiest ofjjreatures here, a type of those who in the;last judgment will be found never to have had any divine ablution. Division according to character. Not only char? acter, outside, Jbut. characte^Jnaide. Character of hearty- charactief fcti|biM character, of allegiande, . 'charandr 'of affection, character inside as well as characteroutside. Hn many a caee it will be.a complete and immediate^ reversal of all earthly conditions. Some who in this world wore patched apparel will take on rai? ment lustrous as Summer noou. Some who occupied a palace will take a dun? geon. Division regardless of all earthly caste, and some who were down. will be up, and some who were up will be down. Oh, what a shattering of conventionali? ties! What an upheaval of all social rigidities, what a turning of the wheel of earthly condition, a thousand revolutions in a second. Division of all nations, of all ages, not by the figure 9, nor by the figure 8, nor the figure 7, nor the figure 6, nor the figure 5, nor the figure 4; but by the figure 2. Two 1 Two characters, two destinies, two estates, two dominions, two eternities, a tremendous, an all-com? prehensive, all decisive, an everlasting two! I sometimes think that the figure of the book that shall be opened allows us to forget the thing signified by the sym? bol. Where is the book-binder that could make a volume large enough to contain the names of all the people who have ever lived ? Besides that the call? ing of such a roll would take more than fifty years, more than a hundred years, and the judgment is to be consumm mated in less time than passes between sunrise and sunset. Ah! my friends, the leaves of that book of judgment are not made ont of paper, but of memory. One leaf in every human heart. You have known persons who were near drowning, but they were afterward resuscitated, and they- have-told you that in the two or three minutes between the accident and the resuscitation, all their past life flash red before them?all they had ever though^ aU'fhey had ever done, all they had ever seen in an instant came to them. The memory never loses anything. It :is only a folded leaf. It is only a closed book. Though you be an octogenarian, though you be a nonogenariau, all the thoughts and acts of your life are in your ;mind whether you recall them now or not; just as Macau lay's history is in two volumes, although the volumes may be closed, and you cannot see a word of them, and will not until they are opened. As in the case of the drowning man, the volume of memory was partly open, or the leaf partly unrolled ; in the case of the judgment the entire book will be opened, so that everythiug will be dis? played from preface to appendix. You have seen self-registering instru? ments which recorded how many revolu ! tions they made and what ;work they had done, so that the manufacturer could come days after and look at the instru? ment and find just how much work had been accomplished. So the human miud is a self-registering instrument, and it ' records all past movements. Now that ; leaf, that allcomprensive leaf in your vmind and mine this moment, the leaf of judgment, brought out under the flash of the judgment throne, you can easily see how all-the pastof ourlives in aninstant will be seen. And so great and so re Bplendent-will be the light of dhat throne that not only this leaf in iny heart and that leaf in yonr heart will be revealed at a flash, but all the leaves will be opened, aud you will read not only your own character and your own history, but the character and history of others. In' a military encampment'the bugle sounded in one way means one thing, -and, sounded in .another way it means another thing. Bugle sounded in one way means, "Prepare for sudden attack." Bugle sounded in another way means, "To. our t?nts, and let-all lights bo put "but." T have tola" you, my brother, that the trumpet of the Old Testament, the trumpet that was carried in the ar? mies of olden times, and the trumpet on the walls in olden times, in the last great day will give significant reverberatiou. Old and worn-out and exhausted Time, having marched across decades and cen? turies and ages, will halt, and the sun and moon and the stars will halt with it. The trumpet, the trumpet I Peal the first: Under its power the sea will stretch itself out dead, the white foam on the lip, in its crystal sarcophagus, and the mountains will stagger and reel and stumble and fall into the .valleys ?neijerf tjv rise. 'Under one puff of that last cyclone all the candles of the sky will be blown out. The trumpet, the trumpet 1 f* :j ; } ? , Peal the second: ? The alabaster halls of the. air will be filled with those who will throng up from all the cemeteries ol all the ages?from Greyfriar's church? yard, and the Roman catacomb; from Westminister abb^ey, and from the coral crypts of oceanic cave; and some will rend off the bandage of the Egyptian mummy, and others will remove from their brow the garland of the green sea? weed. From the North, and the South, and the East, and the West, they come. The dead! The trumpet, the trumpet! Peal the third : Amid surging clouds and roar of attendant armies of heaven the Lord comes through and there are lightnings and thunderbolts and an earth? quake and a hallelujah and a wailing. The trumpet, the trumpet! Peal the fourth : All the records of human life will be revealed. The leaf containing the pardoned sin, the leaf containing the unpardoned sin. Some clapping bands with joy, some grinding their teeth with rage, and all the forgot? ten past becomes a vivid present. The trumpet, the trumpet! Peal the last: The audience break up. The great trial is ended. The high court of heaven adjourns. The audience hie themselves to their two termini. They rise, they rise! They sink, they sink! Then the blue tent of the sky will be lifted and folded up and put away. Then the auditorium of atmospheric sal leries will be melted. Then the folded wings of attendant angels will be- spread for upward flight... The fiery throne of judgment will become a dim and a van? ishing cloud. The conflagration of di? vine and angelic magnificence will roll back and off. The day for which all other days are made has closed, and the world has burned down, and the last cinder has gone out, and an angel flying on errand from world to world will poise J long enough over the dead earth to chant the funeral litany as he cries, "Ashes to ashes I" That judgment leaf in your heart I seize hold of this moment for cancella? tion. In your city halls, the great book of mortgages has a large margin, so that when the mortgagor has paid the full amount he puts down on that margin the payment and the cancellation, and though that mortgage demanded vast thousands before, now it is null and void. So I have to tell you that that leaf in my heart and in your heart, that leaf of judgment has a wide margin for cancella? tion. There is only one band in all the universe that can touch that margin. That hand this moment is lifted to make the record null and void forever. It may be a trembling hand, for it is a wounded hand ; the nerves were cut and the mus? cles, were lacerated. That record on that leaf was made in the black ink of con? demnation; but if cancellation takes place, it will be made in the red ink of sacrifice. 0, judgment-bound brother and sister! let Christ this moment bring to that record complete and glorious cancellation. This moment in an out? burst of impassioned prayer, ask for it. You think it is the fluttering of your heart. Ob, no! It is the .fluttering of that leaf. I ask you not to take from your iron safe your last will and testament, but I ask for something of more importance than that. I ask you not to take from your private papers that letter so sacred that you have put it away from all human eyesight, but I ask you for something of more meaning than that. That leaf, that judgment leaf in my heart,. that judgment leaf in your heart, which will decide our condition, after this world shall have five thousand mill? ion years been swept out the heavens, an extinct planet, and time itself will be so long past that on the ocean of eternity it will seem only as now seems a ripple on the Atlantic. When the goats in vile herd start for the barren mountains of death, and the sheep in fleece of snowy whiteness, and bleating with joy, move up the terraced bills to join the lambs already playing in the high pastures of celestial altitude, oh, may you and I be close by the Shepherd's crook! "When the Son of man shall come in His glory, and all the holy angels with Him, then shall He sit upon the throne of His glory, and before Him shall be gathered all nations, and He shall separate them one from another, as a shepherd divideth the sheep from the goats.'' Oh,, that leaf, that one leaf in my; .hieart, ?th?t-bne leafvin your- heart. That-leaf *6f judgment.' Oh, those -two tremendous words at the last! "Come!" "Go!" As though the overhanging heavens were in the cup of a great bell, and the stars were welded into a silvery tongue and swung from side to side until it struck, "Come!" As though all the great guns of eternal disaster were dis? charged at once, and they boomed forth in one resounding cannonade of "Go I" Arithmetical sum in simple division. Eternity the dividend. The figure two the divisor. Your unalterable destiny the quotient. A Determined ro.slma.stcr. 'Squire Zangford Is displeased with the present administration. The 'squire, who was postmaster at May Bloam, was recently removed, or rather, was informed that hereafter bis public duties will be discharged by some other citizen. Upon receiving information of his dismissal, the 'squire addressed the following letter to the President: "I reckou you think that you've done a mighty smart trick, er sendin' down here an' tryin' to have me put outcn my own house. This here postoffice belongs to me, I want you to understand. I built the shanty and dug the. well. Thar never wuz no mail in this here curmunity till I started this here office. My oldest son fetches the stuff over frum the railroad, twenty miles frum here, so you see we:ve got everything in our own hands. I think you have jumped up the wrong rabbit. You can set up thar in a rockin' cheer an' chaw your terbacker an' spit over the banisters, but you can't git none uv the best uv me. Tamper along with me an' you'll think you've trod on a wildcat's tail. Oh! I'm here, an' my name ain't Dennis, nuther. My father could split five hundred rails in a day an' my sister married the man that shoved the steer offen a ferry boat. Garland knows me, an' I uster know him, when he wore nankeen britches an' a hickory shirt. Ef you had spoken to him about the matter be would have told you not to progic with mo. I don't kere nothin' for the money that's in the office. A dollar an' a half a year ain't no more to me than seventy-five cents is to you, but I don't want to be fooled with. No, it ain't for money that I kere for, but I do kere for the standin' that the office gives me in society. I am a great hand in society. Presidents is ungrateful. It hain't been mor'n two weeks sense I named one of my boys arter you. He is nineteen years old an' up to two weeks ago we called him Buck, but thinkin' that you would do the squar' thing wo changed Iiis name. Now, sense you have turned out to be agin us we are goin' to call him Buck agin. Shortly arter you tuck your seat a man wanted' to bet me you wouldn't be in office mor'n a year till you would make some big mistakes. I bet him a cow. Arter I got your notice tellin' me to git out, I driv the cow over to the feller's house an' told him that he had won her. You not only cut a man's pride but you break him up in bizness. I believe you take pleasure in makin' a feller feel bad. I wish you would con? sider all this, an' let me know as soon as possible. Write the letter as soon as you git this an' giv it to the mail rider early the next mornin'."?Arhammo Traveller. ? "About ten yearsago,"says the editor of the Boston Transcript, "I found that my gums commenced to recede, which I arrested by the use of common table salt, applied to the gums by the ball of the finger. Since commencing to use salt I have heard from many, including dentists and physicians, that it is one of the best things for that purppae," A TOWN BLOWN AWAY. WasUngton, Ohio, Destroyed by a Cyclone. Cleveland, 0., September 9.?A Leader special from Springfield says tha t a terrible cyclone struck Washington Courthouse, a place of 4,000 inhabitants, 25 miles west of there, a* 8 o'clock last evening and almost literally swept it from the earth. The ctorm camo from the Northwest and broke up the town very suddenly, carrying everything be? fore it. The tornado whirled up Court street, the main business thoroughfare, and ruined almost every business block on it?at least forty or fifty in all. Hard? ly a private residence in town escaped, fully'400 buildings going down. The Baptist, Presbyterian and Catholic Churches all suffered a common fate. The Ohio Southern, Pan Handle, Narrow Guage and Midland Bailroad depots were blown into "smithereens," and every building in tho vicinity was car? ried away, making ingress or egress al? most impossible. Every wire within a circuit of two miles is down. Tho reports received of the catastrophe are from a telegraph operator who tapped the wires two miles west of town and, sitting in a heavy rain storm, works his instruments. The panic-stricken people were taken completely unawares and fled from the tumbling buildings in every di? rection through the murky darkness. A frenzy seemed to seize them and they hurriod hitherand thither in their wild distraction, little knowing whither they were going. After the wild wind, which lasted about ten minutes, a heavy rain? fall set in which continued unabated du? ring the night. As soon as a few of the cooler heads recovered their senses, .searching parties were organized, and the sad work of looking for the dead begau. So far fif? teen bodies have been recovered from the debrin of various ruined buildings and their work is just beginning to get under way. Probably as many more will be found. The glimmer of lanterns pro? cured from farm-houses in the vicinity and from the few bouses left standing was the only light they had to work by. Two or three bodies were stumbled upon in the middle of the streets where they were struck down by flying bricks or timber. ? The cellars of houses and every sort o:f refuge were filled with shivering people, huddling together in a vain at? tempt to keep warm. One babe in arms has died from exposure. Morning trains will carry plenty of assistance. Cincinnati, September 9.?Washing? ton Courthouse, the scene of one of the most disastrous visitations by the ele? ments last night, is the County Seat of Fayette County. It has had a most ex? traordinary business growth within the past ? fteen years, and being the .centre of a rich agricultural district with ex? cellent railroad facilities, it had grown to be a business place of considerable impoitance. Its residents had beautified the t)wn with tasteful dwellings, and its recently completed Courthouse was one of the best in the State. To day this prosperous town is a mass of ruins. Last night's experience of its inhabitants has no parallel in the experience of any town in Ohio. A heavy rainfall began about 8 o'clock last night, and that and the darkness drove everybody in shelter, so tbs.t while there are some who say they saw funnel-shaped clouds, it does not seem possible that there could have been much observation of the heavens. Shortly after the rain began the wind came with a terrifying sound. Its work was almost instantaneous. People say it was over in two minutes, but nobody could take note of time in such a fearful experience, the fierce roaring of the ter? rible tornado, the crashing of broken and falling buildings, sharp flashes of light? ning, rolling thunder and pitiless rain. When the fierceness of the storm had passed, and men could communicate with each ether it was found that all were in darknsss. The gasworks were destroyed, and all the street lights were out. Only by tho lightning flashes were the fright? ened people able to catch glimpses of the desolation that ha'1 wrecked that lit? tle city. The number of deaths was miraculously small. The next duty was to search for the imprisoned and injured. In this there was prompt and whole? hearted effort. Bonfires were lighted and torches improvised. The debris was overturned to see if any more dead could be foand. With cheerful welcome the doors of such houses as were not de? stroyed were opened for the houseless ones. In many cases these were utterly bereft of all their household goods. The night was a fearful one, but it was full of helpful work for the stronger. The sheriff called upon the militia to set a guard over the exposed stocks of all bus? iness, for they were all broken or de? stroyed, and prowling thieves were not wanting even in the first hour of the city's misfortune. Of course their num hers grew to day, when Growds of visitors poured in. Wil.h daylight came a most disheart? ening spectacle. The streets were well nigh impassable from the trees and parts of houses cast into them. The worst of all waa the sight of the poor who had lost all and who had no place of shelter. They wandered hopelessly about as if they were strangers. Of course people whose houses were not ruined began at once to care for their unfortunate fellow sufferers. Farmers soon began to pour into town, drawn by curiosity, but at the same time bringing with them.substantial aid for the desti? tute. Before the day ended cou icil had taken formal action by organizing a re? lief committee, and by night much can be done toward preventing actual priva? tion. The great wonder is that more lives were not lost. In the Odd Fellows hall forty members were gathered at a meeting in the second story when the storm came. The building was literally thrown down, yet not one was injured. Thirty-one weut down with the ruins and escaped, while nine clung to the walls of an adjoining block and were res? cued by ladders. Cincinnati, September 9.?A special dispatsh to the Times-Slur from Wash? ington Courthouse says Mrs. Mollie Jones Edith Floyd, Ella Forsha, Jennie Forsh i and Flora Carr were killed, and Herber Gaggart, James Jack-on and John C. Van Pelt are supposed to be fatally injured. I?ully three hundred per? sons (vere hurt. The loss- will exceed $1,000,000. Council has appointed a re? lief committee, and militia are guarding the stores whose contents are all exposed. The Commercial Gazette's special says: "People were not frightened until they heard the rattle of the signs threshing in the storm. It kept getting worse until the largest and most substantial brick and stone structures heaved to and fro at the mercy of the steadily increasing gale. Bricks and beams, roofs, fences and al? most overy conceivable thing that could possibly be wrenched loose flew through the air, scattering death and destruction everywhere. For eight long minutes the disastrous work went on. Music hall was filled with people attending a Salva? tion Army meeting, and as a portion of the roof and celling fell in a disastrous* panic and stampede was prevented with tho greatest difficulty. ? A Kentucky Judge has startled the State by fining two men for carrying pis? tols. He will probably defend his action by showing that the pistols would not stand it full cock, and were dangerous to bo handled in crowded places. ? On Sunday Mrs. George Poole of Laureiisville was burned by the explosion of a can of kerosene oil while she was endeavoring to kindle a fire in a stove by lingered several hours and at last waa rehevod of her sufferings by death, oil on it. The unfortunate lady A NEW SOUTH, A NEW NOTtTH. Judge Homily Opens His Guns on Sher? man, Hamilton, Ohio, September 5.?-In opening the campaign here this evening Governor Hoadly referred to the recent speeches of Senator Sherman and Judge Foraker in the following language: "The leader of the Kepublicans of Ohio has carefully prepared an appeal to'his party and sent it from the stump through the press to the country. He waves the bloody shirt. He endorses the policy of alienation and hate. He seeks to transplant and cultivate in this country the feelings of the English aris? tocracy towards the Irish, to arouse sec? tion against section, to govern the South from the North as Dublin Castle governs Ireland, as a conquered province?and all this in the year of grace 1885, twenty years and more after the end of the war. The average life of an ordinary genera? tion is thirty years. Owing to the casu? alties of war, which cost our country at least a million lives, the duration of the generation now passiog away has been Jess than this. Twenty-five years have elapsed since Lincoln's election. Five sevenths, perhaps more, of the men who devised the rebellion, the men who fought its battles and the men who overcame it. have passed away. The great civil ana great military leaders, Lincoln and Grant, both sleep in graves bathed in the tears of the whole nation, South and North, and both died with words upon their lips and feelings in their hearts of charity to all, malice towards none. Seward and Sumuer, Chase and Fessen den, Douglas and Stephens, Lee and Breckenridge?these are historic, not living names. Alone of the authors of the rebellion Jefferson Davis survives. Boys born when the war broke out have been voting for three years past. Boys born after the war will vote next year. Boys too young to bear arms are now mature men of 35. There is a new South and a new North. A new gener? ation full of new life is at work. A very large proportion of the people of the South have never seen a slave and have lived under _io other regime but.that of universal suffrage. Is it not time for the Shermans and Forakers to accept the re? sults of the war and no longer to contin? ue in battle? Eight millions of bales or cotton, the probable crop this year, are in sight. There are no idlers in the South. Why croak in the North? White men and black men are aide by 3ide at work. The South is developing new industries, weaving cotton cloth, digging coal and iron, forging steel. God and nature, religion and the human heart are the forces against which Sher? man and Foraker contend and Foster plots." To the policy of alienation, the speak? er said, the Democratic party opposed union; for hate it substituted love. "Let us banish these unmanly fears of Southern wrong doing," he continued, "and cease to exaggerate occasional per? sonal conflicts into wars of races. Dan? ville and Copiah are worn out. Turn out some new grist, oh, grinders of the outrage mill! Home rule and as little application of the eternal principle of regulation as is consistent with the greatest liberty to all the ills of the State and Nation. * * * Sherman is dis? tressed because Lamar and Garland and Bayard, two of them members of the Confederate Congress and one a man who sympathized with them, are at the head of the. great departments ot the Government. Oh, yes, it was well to put Key at the head of the postoffice department. With one Confederate the Cabinet was all right; but two?two are a lamentable concession to treason! No, not quite this even. Akerman was a proper attorney-general, Key a most becoming postmaster-general; but two at a time?Garland and Lamar together! Aye, there's the rub! The tears of croc? odiles are freely shed as Sherman softly Kings ''Insatiate archer would not one suffice?' Mosby, Madison, Wells, Ma hone and Chalmers?the guerillas, the returning board, the repudiator and the Fort Pillow butcher?all these have had their garments washed, but Lawton and Jackson, Jonas and Lamar and Garland, the best and purest men of the South? these to our Senators are unregenerate children of a political satan, uufit to serve the Republic." The speaker said he asked for re-elec? tion as an approval of the present Ad? ministration. "Now I ask for more," he continued. "I solicit approval, not forbearance. Mr. Cleveland has held office six months. Congress has not been in session, yet much has been accomplished. The spir? it of reform and economy has entered all departments. Useless offices and expen? ses have been done away with, while the performance of duty, civil and military, has been enforced. The Government is not solicitous to provide soft places for pets, but to save money for the people and to keep the faith pledged in the plat? form. * * * * It is sweet, it is de? licious, brethren, to hear Republican lamentation as expressed by John Sher? man, who worked the treasury depart? ment for all it was worth in 1880 to nom? inate himself for President, and who never recommended a Democrat for civil office in his life. That impartial, non partisan civil service of our country is in danger." The remainder of the Governor's speech was devoted.to State affairs. A Plucky Woman. Our County jail has long been known as one of the most insecure prisons in the State, and every night when leaving there the Sheriff has to lock the prison era up in the ceils in order to keep them safe. There were seventeen prisoners in the jail on last Friday night, and owing to this great number the Sheriff had to put nine of them in the large cell. During the night one fellow managed to get on . of the cell, and by some means he pro? cured a piece of iron with which he broke the lock and turned out the other eight. They immediately began prizing off the bars from one of the windows, and in a few minutes more all of them would have been free. But Mrs. Gaskins, a daughter of the jailer, heard the noise, when bIic picked up a bar of iron, unlock? ed the outer door and rushed into the corridor where the prisoners were work? ing at the window. She drove the last one of them back into their cell in short order and kept guard at the door until the Sheriff (who* had been sent for) arrived and took charge of the jail. Several of the prisoners are hard custom? er?, and a term in the penitentiary awaits them. The jailer is a cripple, and has long been confined to his bed, being unable to get up at all, so that his duties have been attended to by the daughter during that time, and she has proven herself worthy of the trust reposed in ber. The ring? leaders have been manacled, and no fur? ther trouble is feared now, but we can still hurrah for the plucky little woman. ?Camden Journal. ? A Presbyterian Church at Carroll, Iowa, has the corners of its auditorium curtained off and furnished with cradles and rocking-chairs for the convenience of mothors who are unable or unwilling to leave their babies at home. ? Dr. Pool, of Cross Anchor, Spartan burg County, says if you wish to raise large potatoes and a heap of them, go into your patch with a long pole and raise up the vines and stop their taking root. If you have never tried this plan give it a trial this year. If you doubt it try a portion of your patoh and leave the Others to grow as they please. BETTER THAN GOLD MINES. South Carolina's Phosphate Industry. One of the great industries of the South, but one which is yet confined to a single State, is phosphate mining. South Carolina has been wonderfully enriched by this extensive iudustry, which in connection with the manipula? tion of phosphates, it is estimated by the State agricultural department, has brought ?50,000,000 into that State since 1868. There are at present in operation in the State 14 companies engaged in mining phosphate on land, 11 river min? ing companies, and 11 fertilizer manu? facturing companies. There have been mined and shipped from 1S6S to 1884 2, 099,000 tons of phosphate rock, equiva? lent to about $16,000,000; there have been manufactured from 1871 to 1884 2, 000,000 tons of fertilizers, equivalent to about $34,000,000, giving a total of ?50, 000,000, which has been brought into the State by the phosphate industry in the last 17 years. Of this amount the State ha3 received as revenue ?1,200,000, which was paid as royalty, besides the heavy taxes levied on the products of the land companies and fertilizer manufacturers. The production of phosphates for 1884 wa3 409,000 tons of rock and 236,884 tons of fertilizers. In 1880, according to the United States census, there were 28 fertilizer compa? nies in South Carolina having an aggre? gate capital of ?3,993,300. In tho amount of capital invested in this indus? try South Carolina stood second in the list of States, Maryland ranking first, with a capital in fertilizer manufacture of $4,271,870, or not quite ?300,000 more than South Carolina. The third State on the list was New York, which bad over $1,000,000 less employed in the manu? facture of fertilizers than South Carolina. In the number of bands employed South Carolina ranked first, having more than twice as many engaged in the fertilizer industry as Maryland, and nearly three times as many as New York. Since 1880 there has been a rapid de? velopment of this important industry in South Carolina, as may be readily seen from the fact that in that year only 190, 000 tons of phosphate reck were mined, while in 1884 the amount was 409,000 tons, or largely more than double. The increase since 1880 has been steady, the amount mined in 1881 being '265,000 tons; in 1882, 330,000 tons; in 1883, 355,000 tons, and in 1884, 409,000 tons. The total amout of phosphate rock mined in South Carolina since the discov? ery of these deposits has been as follows: Years. Tons. 1868-70. 20,000 1871. 50,000 1872. 60,000 1873 . 90,000 1874. 100,000 1875. 115,000 1876.. 135,000 1877. 165,000 1878. 210,000 1879. 200,000 1880. 190,000 1881. 265,000 1882. 330,000 1883. 355,000 1884..... 409,000 Total....2,699,000 Of this amount there was? Of river rock.Tons...1,229,170 Of land rock.1,469,830 Total.2,699,000 Of this amount, 1,359,000 tons, or more than one-half, has been mined du">?> ring the last four years. As already stated, the aggregate capi? tal invested in the manufacture of fertil? izers in South Carolina in 1880 was ?3, 493,300. At the present time over $6, 500,000 is actually invested in this indus? try. This, of course, does not inclnde the unpaid capital stock of incorporated companies, but only the actual invest? ments in money.-?Baltimore Manufac* hirer's Record. ? s"s"" How to Manage a Man. Nothing on earth fetches a man like a good dinner and a well dressed wife 'pregu, siding. The husband who can look for? ward to such a state of things every day of his life will never tire of home, ana the wife who studies his comfort will have little difficulty in managing him according to her will. Men are grega? rious animals and will wander in spite of all allurements, but they are selfish enough to remain where they are best . treated, and by taking a little trouble for ~ a year or two of married life the years that follow will, as rule, find the husband ? always glad to go back to the pretty , home where smiles await him and the ; dinner I spoke of. There are so many * women who object to being "bossed," as they call it. My dear ladies, you. can. always be boss if you take the trouble. By giving in you get your' own, uppyis you never would by fighting for it." A?d^ after all, it is better to feel you respect your husband so much that to give in, to him is not a difficulty. Nine men out of ten are manageable if you go the right way about it, and one . great point is to act after marriage jjtst-' as you did before. Argument and con? tradiction are vital enemies to marrird peace. Should you wish for anything particularly, don't insist upon it after re? fusal. Some women are persistentjind ask: "Why may I not? Whv^rfc;': you do as I tell you ?" and irritatelue ? man. Rather bide your time, and make... an extra good dinner of his favorite dishes, put a bow on of the color he likes, make home and yourself sweeter than ever. You'll get it sure, even if you have to wait. Also, when you want him to do any particular thing which you. know will be for his good, for Heaven's}? sake do not say "Do it." Rather drop^ a hint that you think so and so would bef? a good thing to do. Get him interested^ and then let the subject drop. I venture^ to say that in a short time that man willf? do precisely as you wish; he will cever^ permit you to think that he has tread^ the least on your common sense.?*r Francisco News Letter. Interest?How it Eats. We published the following r ago as taken from the AraericalTAlnW nac. As it shows how rapidly a Sic^ijL. increase of interest grows, we publish 1^ as a caution to our readers against bcr^S rowing at high rates of interest: J "One of the causes of bankruptcy^**! that so few persons pioperly estimate th'els difference between a high "and low rate of interest, and therefore often borrowJj money at a ruinous rate, that no ieaitLM mate business can stand. Very few tfa^H figured on this difference between six aud eight per cent. One dollar loaned for one hundred years at six per cent, with the interest collected aunually and added to the principal, will amount to ?340. At eight per cent, it amount $2,203, or nearly seven times as At three per cent., the usual rate of terest in England, it amounts to ?19.25; whereas at ten per cent., which hjia^heen a very common rate in the United State*? it amounts to *lo.S09, or about seroM hundred times as l^uch. At eighteen^ per cent, it amounts to $15,145,007i,* At twenty-four per cent, (which we some? times hear talked of) it reaches thec?or mous sum of ?2,551,799,404. One bu?- - dred dollars borrowed at six per cent, with the interest compounded annually, will amount to ?1,842, in fifty years, | while the same ?100, at eight per cent., - will amount to ?4,(390, in fifty yeaisT^ One thousand dollars at ten per cehi.% compounded, will run up to ?117,390 in fifty years." t Pay'for your paper.