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,O.V MA:NNING' C LARENTDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY2218. COL._______ T.------ r ~ ~ ~ ,~ trry TALMAGE'S SERMON. A Discourse Appropriate to the Centennial The Glorious Condition of These United Statea-The American Colonies and tho.Great Rev olution. Last Sunday Dr. Talmago preached in the Brooklyn Tabernarla to a vast audi ence. His teo was II. Kings vi. 17: "And the Lord rpened the eyes of the young man; and be saw: and, behold, the moun tain was full of horses and ohariots of fire round about Eisha." He said: As it cost England many regiments and two million dollars a year to keep safely a troublesome captive at St. H3lena, so the king of Syria sends out a whole army to capture one minister of religion-perhaps 50,000 men to take Elisha. During tha night the army of Assyrians came around the village of Dothan, where the prophet was staying. At early daybreak the man servant of Elisha rushed in and said: "What shall we do? there is a whole army come to destroy you. We must die, we must die." But Elisha was not scared a bit, for he looked up and saw the mountains all around full of super natural forces,- and he knew that if there were 50, 00 Assyrians against him there were 100,000 angels for hin; and in answer to the prophet's prayer in behalf of his affrighted man servant, the young man saw it, too. Horses of fire har nessed to chariots of fire, and drivers of fire pulling reins of fire on bits of fire; and warriors of fire with brandished sword of fire, and the brilliance of that morning sunrise was ec:ised by the tall;ping splendors of the celestial cavalc :de. "And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw; and, behold, the moun tain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha." I have often spoken to you of the Assyriaa perils which threat en our American institutions. but now as we are assembling to keep centennial celebration of the inauguration of Wash ington, I speak of the upper forces of the text that are to fight on ou: side. If all the low levels are filled wi:h armed threats, I have to tell you taa h - ta ' . ot.. u.hop n&oarage and faith '-_2full of the horses and chariots of Di vine rescue. You will notice that the Divine equipage is always-represented as a chariot of fire. Ezekial and Isaiah and John, when they come to describe the Divine equipage. al ways represent it as a wheeled, a har nessed, an upholstered conflagration. It is not a chariot like Kings and conquerors of earth mount, but a,. organized. and compressed fire. That means purity, jus tics, chastisement, deliverance through burning escapes. Chariot of rescue? yes, but chariot of fire. All our national dis enthrallments have been through scorch ing agonies and rod disasters. Throu;h tribulation the individual rises. Through tribulations nations rise. Chariots of res cus, but chariots of fire. But how. do 1 know that this Divine equipage-is on the side of our institutions? I know it by the history of the last one hundred and eight years. The American Bevolution started from the pen of John Hancock ' Independence Hall in 1476. The colonies without ships, witho" - - iio without guns, with trained without money, w' outprestige. ther side. the ghtiest nation of the largest armies, and the , and- the most distin miandern and resources in ble, and nearly all nations ready to back them up in the fight. Nothing as against immensity. The cause of the American colonies, which started atszero, dropped still lower thbth[,quegling of the~ Gemei-als. and through the Jealousies at small suc esses, and through the winters which surpassed, alla predecessors in- depth. of snow ad-horrors of congealment. Elisha surrounded by the whole A~ssy.rian army did not seem to be worse off than dicd the thirteen colonies encompassed and over-. shadowed by foreign assaalt. What de edet1theeontest in-our favor? The upper forties, the upper armies. The Green and White .montains of New England5. tI~e Eighlands along A-he Hudson, . the.J mo'intains- -of Virginia,. all t:.pp-i lachg e angg' were fall of re.-force iunt 'wfi'J:he' yous.ng:niin Wash Insgte Saw by-faith; an~d his med endured1 tihe fiosen feet, and tegangrened wounds, and the exhqssung-hanger, and the long maroeh bedause "the Lord opened the eyes 'othe ogma; and he saw: and, :be ere a a .-d.hariots of fire round abouti Elisha. WashingforihImself waw5amiracle. ..What -oha~.p in-sacred history the-'frst ~Iresldet wasin secular hlstory. A..thousand othier men excelled him In dif fore4hings,.bkkegrZcelled them all Ia rouniess audco felis'of character. The world never saw his like, and proba bly'nerer will see his like again, because there yirobably never will be another such exxgency, He was let down a Divine in - terposition. .He was,from God.dimet. I do not know how any man can read the history of those times without admit ting that the contest was decided by the upper forces. Tbpa in 1881, when our civil war opened, many at the North and at the South pro-. -nounced it national suicide. It was not courage against cowardice, it was not wealth against poverty, it was not large :jStoates againsi small States. It was hero -~Ism agnst herism,.it was the resources o .emany generations against the resources - fgeneration's, It was the prayer of the ao~hagainst the prayer of the South, it 'eWne--half o tihenation in armed wrath. mting:-hS othier h-a'f of the' nation in. armed jignation. What could come but ext'erml'hationi? At; the openin~g of the war the command er-in-chief of -the United States forces wa a man who hiad been great in battle, but old age-had come with many infirm-. itioe.Add.he had a right to quietude. He could not mount a ho:'se, and he rode on the battle field in a carriage asking the' driver not to jolt It too much. During the most oef the foir years of the contest, on the Southern side was a man in mid-life, wholiad in his veins the bicol of many generations of warriors, himself one of the heroes of Cherubusco and Cerro Gordo, Contreras and Chapultepec. As the yearj passed on and the seroll, of carnage ung ronled, there- came out from both sides a heroism and a strength and a determina tion that the wo-ld had never seen mnar shaled. And what but extermination could come when .Philip Sheridan andI Stonewall Jackson met, and Nathaniel Lyz.'and Sidney Johnston rode in from north and south, and Grant and Lee, the thunderbolts of battle, clashed? Yet, we are a nation, and yet we are at peace. Earthly courage did not decide'the con :filect. , The upper forces ,of the text. They tell is there was a battle fought above the clouds on Lookout mountain; but there was something higher than that. igain, the horses and chariots of God came to the rescue of this nation In 1876, at the- close of a Presidential election fa mors for devilish feronity. ~A darker cloud yet settled~down upon this nation. The result of the election was in dispute. andrevolution, not between two or three sections, but revolution in every town andI village and city of the United S ates. semel .imminent. The prospect was tint ~T~Orl wuld throttle New Yorkc, and New Orleans would grip New Orleans, and Boston, Boston, and Savannah, Savannah, and Washington, Wasningtou. Some said Mr. Tilden was elected; others said Mr. Hayes was elected; and how near we came to universal massacre some of us guessed, bat God only knew. I ascribe our escape not to the honesty and right eousness of infuriated politicians. but I ascribe it to the upper forces of the text. Chariots of mercy rollel in. and though the wheels were not heard and the flash was not seen. yet all t'trough the moun tains of the north and tae south and the east and the west, though the hoofs did not clatter, the cavalry of God galloped by. I tell you Gul is the friend of this na tion. In the awful excitement at the mas sacre of Lincoln, when there was a pros pect that greater slaughter would open upon this nation. God hushed the tempest. In the awful excitement at the time of Garfield's assassination, God put his foot on the neck of the cyclone. To prove that God is on the side of this nation, I argue from the last eight or nine great national harvests, and from the national health of the last quarter of a century, opidemics very exceptional, and from the great revivals of religion, and from the spreading of the Church of God, and from the continent blossoming with a;ylums and reformatory institutions, and from an Edenization which proumises that this whole land is to be a paradise where God shall walk in the cool of the day. If in other sermons I showed you what was the evil that threatened to upset and demolish Americam institutions, I am on couraged more th in I can tell you as I see the regiments wiceling down the sky, an 1 my jeremiads turn into doxo:o;;ies, an I that which was the Good Friday of the na tion's crucillxion b-ecomes the Eas:er morn of its resurrec:ion. Of course GUa works through human insiumentalities, and this nationai bettermen. is to come among other th:ngs through a scrutinized baillot box. By the law of registration it is almost i:uposs ble now to have il'egal voting. There was a time-you anti I rem-tmber it wrl.-when droves of vagabonds wandered up and down on ele:ti ,n day and from poll to poli, and vo:e i h--r-, and voted there, n 1 voted everywhere, anid taur. was no eli:'4' if tit-re wry ~ ~ourted to ne thimg, Teemuse nothing; could so suddetly be proved upon the vag abonds. Now, in every well organized neighborhood, every vo er is watched w:th severest scrutiny. 1 m..st tell the regis trar moy name, and how old I am, and how long I have resided in the State, and how long [ have resided in the ward, or the township, and if I misrepresent fifty wit nesses will rise and shut me out from the biliot box. Is not that a great advance? And then notice the law that prohiLits a man voting. if he has bet on th3 election. A step further needs to be taken, and that man forbidden a vote who has offered or taken a bribe, whether it be in the shape of a free dfrink, or cash paid down, the suspicious cases obliged to put their hand cu :he Bi ble and swear their vote in if they vote at' all. So through the sacred chest of our, nation's suffrage, redemptio .l s1ra God alto will save I .ationt. rough an aroused m n-timent. There has never been :.a much discusion of morals and imnmrals. Men, whether or not they ackn -le ge what is right: have to think at is r-,ht. IWe have men who have had their h nds in the public treasury the the most of geir lifetm-, stealing all they could lay t!eir hands on, discoursing eloquently alout dishonesty in public servants, and \men with two or three families of their own, preaching elo quently about th' beauties of the seventh commandment. ,ae question of sobriety and drunkenness is thrust in the face of this nation as never before, and to take a part in our political'contests. The question of national sobri ty is going to be respect fully and -~rentially harml at the-bar .of ever a slature and everHosofRp resrtativeend every United States San ndan omnipo e'mt voice will ring down the sky and across this land and ack again, saying to these rising tides of drunkenness which threaten to whelm home-and church and nation: "Thus (ar shalt.thou come, but no further, and here shall thy proud wraves be stay'ed." I have not in my mind a shadow of dis heartenment as large as the shadow of a housefly's wing. My faith is in the upper -forces, the upper armies of the text. Gost is not dead. The chariots are not un wheeled. If you would only pray more and wash. your eyes in the cool, bright water fresh fronm the well of Christian re form, it would be said of you, as of this one of theitext: "Tfie Lord opened the behod-, thet mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round ai~out Elisha.' When the army of Antigonus went into battle his soldiers were very much dis couraed. and th~y rushod up to the gen era! anid said to him: "Dun't you see we have'a few zorcis aid they have s:> many more?" gmnd the soldiers were aifrighted at the smallness of their number and the greatness of the enemy. Antigonus, their commander, str aightened h mslf up and said, with Indignation and vehemence: "How many do you reckon me to be?" And when we see the vast armies arrayed aaist the cause of sobriety it may some time be ve3ry .discourair'ng, *ut I ask you, 1in makingyp. your esti. .ate of the forces of righteousnss- as < -y oi how many do yu reckon toe Lord Go1I Aimighty to be? He is oar comfmaadelr. The Lord of Hosts is his name. I hav., thme bst authority 1for saying that the char.ots ot God are twenty th jusan I, and the miountains are ~ull of them. You will take. wi houit iny saying It Stmy -02ly faith is in Christianity and In the upper forces sugg-stel in the text. pol t8al parties com-, and go and they oliet aind thay mey be wrong; bu ed le3and I think he had ordained this mtatsoa for a career of prosperity that no de agogsm will be able to halt. I ex pect t~ live to see a political party which w~ill h ve a pla-.formn of two panks-the 'en Clmmandments and the Ser-mon on the $1;ut When thmat party is formed iL, wm s ep across this land like a tornada' I was g ing to say, but when I think (t is ot to bdevastation but resuscitation, I change theifigure and say, su-.h a party as hat wilgeop across thisland l.ike spics gales fr~om ~eaven. Have you pny doubt of the need of the Christian regIgion to purify and make de. tentAreriepn politics ! At every yearly .or qtiadrien ial election we have in this -nty, .g a manufactories, manufatc tories "of'lie~ and they are run day and night, and i. ey turn out a dozen a day all equipped an ready for full sailing. Large lies and sma lies. Lies privart iand lies public and s prurient. Lies cut bias and lies cut iagonal. Long-limtel lies, ies with dcu eteck action. Lies compli mentary and ies defamatory. Lies that some people b leve and lies that all peo ple believe, a lies that nobody believes. Lies with hu s like camels and scales like crocodil and necks as long as storks and fee as swift as an ante ope's and stings 1- e -adders, Lies raw and scalloped and uned and stewed. Crawl ing lies and ju lug li.s and soaring lies.. Lies with attac eat screws and rufifiers and braiders ready-wound bobb.ars. Lies by Christi people who never lie ex capt during elec ons, and lies by people who always lie, t beat themselves in a Fresidential cam gn.- . I confess I am amed to have a for egier visit t~h niry in such times. I shu - uld stand dazed, his hand on his pocket Lo >k, and dare not go out nights. What -will the hundreds of thousands of foreigners who come here to live think of us? What a disgust they -must have for the land of their adoption I The only good thing about it is, many of them can not understand the English lan guage. But I suppose the G:,rman and Italian and Swedish and French papers translate it all an I peddle out the infernal stuff to their subscribers. .Nothing but Christianity will ever stop such a flood of indecency. - The Christian religion w ill speak after a while. The Bil lingsgate and low scandal through which we wade every year or every foar years, must be rebuked by that religion which speaks from its two great mountains, from the one mountain intoning the command, "Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor," and from the other mount making ploa for igindu:es and love and blessing rather than cursing. Yes, we are going to have a national religion. There are two kinds of national religion. The one is supported by the State, and is a matter of human poitics, and it has great patronage, and under it man will struggle for prominence without reference to qual iications and it; archbishop is supported by a salary of ;75,0J0 a y ear, and there are great cathedrals, with all the machinery of music and canonicals, and room for a thousand people, yet an a'tidience of fifty people, or twenty people, or ten, or two. We want no such religion as that, no such national religion; but we want this kind of .national religion-the vast ma jority of the people converted and evange l-,ad, and then they will mana-4e the secu lar a4 well as the religious. Do you say this is imp:acticab'e? No. The time is coming just as certainly as there is a God and that this is His book and that He has the strength and the hon esty to fu'fi~l His promises. One of the ancient emperors used to pride himself -on performing that which his counselors said was impossible, and I have to tell, you to day that man's impossibles are God's easles. "Hath He said and shall lie not do it? Hath He commanded, and will He not bring it to pass ' The Christian re lizion is corning to take posses sion of every ballot-box. of every school-house, of every .1ome. yeve valley, of every mountain, of every acre of our national domain. This nation,not withstanding all the evil influences that are trying to destroy it, is going to live. Never sinca, according to John Milton, when "Satan was hurled headlong flaming from the ethereal skies in hideous ruin and combustion down," have the powers of darkness been so determined to win this continent as they are now. What a jewel it is-a jewel carved in relief, the cameo of this planet! On one side of us the Atlantic ocean, dividing as from the worn out gov ernuents of Eurcps. On the other side the Pacific ocean, dividing us from the supertitions of Asia. On the north of us the Arctic sea, which is the gymnasium in which the explorers and navigators de . it ourage. A continent 10,500 -miles long, 17,0000i square n.a, m:1. all of it but about one-seventh capable of rich cultivation. One' hundred millions of population on this continent of North and South America-one hundred millions, and room for many millions more. A flora and all fauna,. all metals and all precious woods, and all grains an I fruits,. The Appalachian range the backbone. and the rivers the ganglia carrying life all through and out to the extremities. Isthmus of Darien, the narrow. waist of a giant continent, all to be under one government, and all free, and all Chris tian, and the scene of Christ's personal reign on earth if, according to the expec tation of many good people, he shall at last setup his throne in this world. Who shall have this hemisphere, Christ or Sa tanl? Who shali have the shores of her in land-seas, the silver of her Nevadas, the gold of her Coloralios, the telescopes of her observatories, the brain of he: u ii versities, the wheat of her prairi is, the rice of her savannas, the two great ocean beaches-the one reaching from Baffin's bay to Terra del Fuego. and the other from Behring straits to Cape Horn-and all the moral and tempo: al and spiritual and everlastinrg interests of a population vast beyond all humin computation? Who shall have the temisphere? You and I wilt decide that, or help to decide it, by conscientious vote, by earnest prayer, by maintenance of Christian itnstitutions, by support of great philanthropies, by put ting bo-.y, mind and soul on the right side of ail moral, religious an I national movements. Ah !.it will not be long before It ijil not make iny differenies to y~ouoi- toine; sshat Scoes of this cozitinent, .so faras -ear th ry com?'ti oneIe.Ad. All we want of it will be seven feet t'y threlis irr& ei will take in the largest, and there will be room and to spare. That is all of this country we will need very' soon-the. youngest of us But we have an anr~ety about the wvelfare and the happiness of* the generations that are coming on, and it wvill be a gran 1 thing if, when the archangel's tc-umpat sounuds, wc findi that or sepulcher. fire the ose Joseph of Ari mathea provided for Christ, is in the midst ofr a garden. ONE secret act'-of self-denial, one saCri fle of incliation to duty, is worth all the mere good thoughts, warm feelings of -pas sionate prayers in which 'idle people in dalge themselves.-J. IL Newman. Killed the Baby. A shocking affair occurred on Wed nesday in the Northern part of the city near "the encampment ground. Joe Steadnians wife died some months ago, eavinig bim a house full of children. He went olf to Clifton, leaving them there. Little Gabriella, two years old, was crying, and H~ester, eight years old, said that she would stop her. WVhen some neighbors passed by a little later tle baby was dead, with its head bruised and crushed with a heavy stiek. The ba'y had been sernt to the p'oor house. but the father had brought it home. But what could the jury (of in quest do ? Li~ttle Hester could not be hanged. -They brought in a ver-dict of death by an unknown hand. The people are very poor.-Sparta nbu rg Herald. Our Girls. Kitty is witty. Nettie is pretty. Lute is eute aind small: Irene is a queen, Annette is a pet. Nell is the bell of the ball: Dianrtha is wealthy. 'Bertha is heailtlhy. And hecalth is the best (ofall. Perfect healith keeps her 'rosy rind radinnt. beautiful aind blooming. sensible and sweet. It is ecurei1 by wholesome habits anii the use of 1Dr. Pieree's FavoritelPrescriprin. Bierrha tikes it, anud she also "takes the eak e." Tihe only aranteed cure for those distressing -hil mets pseculiar to woman. Satisfaction or your money refundcd. For Constipation or Sick Headache. use Dr. Pierce's Pelles: Purely Vegetable. One a dose. Large Pacingm Houses Burned. CouNCIL BhtUFFS.' Iowa, May 17.-J. Q. Stewart's big packing hotuses in this city were burned yesterdg. Every pos sible effort was made to save the con tents of the building, but the fire spread so rapidly among the meats that almost nothing was .taken out. About one million pounds of meats iwas destroyed. The total loss will exceed $t00,000, most of which is covered byfitsurance. The THE CITY BY THE SEA. 110W THE COLUMBIA EXCURSIONISTS EN JOYED TIhEMISELVES YESTERDAY. Unveiling of the Monument to the Me mory of the Dead German Soldiers Wbo Served in the Confederate Army-The Baseball Game Between Charleston and Columbia Teams-Delightful Weather. CHARLESTON, May 15.--[Special to The Register.J-A very considerable number of Columbians spent to-day in the City by the Sea, and from all accounts had a verypleasant time. A special matinee was given in their honor at the Grand Opera House this afternoon at which "Olivette" was rendered. Several hun dred of the excursionists attended, while orhers went up to the park to see the game of ball. The weather was simply delightful. There was a drop in the temperature from 90 to .55, an agreeable change from the recent hot wave. The party left here to-night in good health and spirits. THE GERMAN MONUMENT - The great event of to-day, however, was the unveiling of the monument to the memory of the dead soldiers of the four 'German companies which left Charleston to serve in the Confederate army. The mnonumnent is in Bethany Cemetery, the German burying ground. It is of Coiumbia granite. with bronze *ta.bl.rt -'nd surmounted by a statue in bronze of the late General John A. Wagener, who is rp-esented as a can noneer in the uniform of the German Artillery, with sponge staff in band, watching the flight of the shot that has just be!en fired. Among the distinmuished 7 tem p tj41- u..were .ter-JlmpIon, who dtllivered itfe meiorial oration, Governor Richardson and Captain Bachman, who was an offier in one of the four German com panies. The ceremonies were very sim ple, consisting of the oration by Senator Iau pton, a short address by .Speaker Jamues Simons, a prayer by the venerable D1". Muller and music. The German Artillery was organized-in 1842 and re organized in 1876 by Captain F. W. agener It is the largest military or gnization to-day in South Carolina, having a membership of over 200, two batteries. of steel parrot rifles, a com plete infantry equipment, a pioneer corps and a band of forty pieces. In his address Senator Hampton said: "We regard our dead as martyrs, and God forbid that any of their living com rades, their cescendants to the remotest tr N ." nrL tor as traitor;. Words, my friends, are not -merely empty sounds in the domains of history. They are things, potent factors, not only in shaping events, but in placing these events in a true light before the world, and we should never acknowledge that we were rebels or traitors. That ques tion is to be decided by the verdict of impartial history and that of posterity, and we may well be satisfied to commit our cause and our conduct to those august tribunals. --Let me not be understood as discuss ing the merits of the great conflict which arrayed one section of - the country against the other; which wrought such idespond devastation, and which cost so muh in treasure and the loss ot so iiany rj3ecious lives. The questions which brought about that unhappy war have been settled, and he is no true atriot who would strive to kindle the tires of sectional hate or reopen wounds whieh the kind hand of time has healed. No higher duty can inspire the heart of every pa triot than' that which imnpels him to devote all his .energies of mfid and body to make this country worthy of the admiration and respect of the world, a tit home for all time to come of American freemen. This duty devolves on us of the South as urgently as upon an other 'citizens of this broad land. for whatever may have been the issues which brought about the civil w , we must remember tha ow, all North, South t and West have but country and Constitution, ,of which our allegiance is due. But while we of the South reeognize this fact fully,it doesnot followthat weshould refuse to do honor to the memory of our dead comrades. The men who met us in battle would teel a just con tempt for us were we base enough to forget those who gave their lives for the cause which they and we believed in our inmost hearts to be just and right. We should, indeed, be time-serving cravens if we allowed the memory of these men, of their untimely death, to pass forever from our hearts, or if we should fail to leave enduring monuments to them as evidences of our love and our gratitude. "We can do nothing to show a grate ful people's gratitude to our surviving veterans. Poor, old, maimed, broken in heart as in tortune, they are forced to fight life's hard battle unaided. We have no overflowing treasury from which to pension the brave soldiers who gave their all freely to their State. All was staked on the issue and all was lost."? "1 have no words of censure for the liberality of the North in granting pen sions to her soldiers. The feeling that prompts this course is natural, proper and generous, and on all occasions my support has been freely given in the Senate to all applications of this sort made in deserving cases. Had the con ditions of, the great civil war been re versed, we should have dealt as gen erously with our disabled veterans .as the North'has done with hers; but as losers in the great struggle we must accept the inevitable results of tiefeat. These de bar us from a proper recognition of the services of the brave defenders of our lost cause, 'but they do not deny to us the right to honor the memory of our dead, . and no more sacred duty is imposed on no than that of keeping re-n in our hearts and those of our children the memories of those who fell under the folds of the Southern Cross. Dd feat cannot mar the glory of their deeds, nor even detract from their fame, nor time obliterate the love we cherish for them. And God forbid that it may ever be otherwise with us of the South" - EATAL RUNAWAY. One Lady Killed and Another Injured by Being Thrown from a Cab. WASHNGTON, May 17.-This evening a hansom cab containing twoi ladies was coming down the steep hill on Thirteenth street, beyond Boundary, when the horse ran away and the cab collided with a tree box* and was overturned and wrecked. One of the ladies, Mrs. A. E. Horton of California, 'was instantly killed, and her companion,-Mrs. Raight, of thi city inued buht not seriously. THE CEDAR SPRING ROBBERY. The Bold Attack in which Paymaster Wham Lost $29,000 of Public Funds. WASHINGTON, May 18.-The robbery of Major Joseph W. Wham, one of the army paymasters, will undoubtedly be made the subject of thorough investiga tion by a court of inquiry. If the pub lished accounts of the strange affair are correct, the chief point to ascertain will be whether/adequate precautions were taken against the possibility of such a surprise of the paymaster's escort as the Arizona highwaymen etTected. That the soldiers afterward did the best they could, considering the ambush into which they-had fallen, seems to be clear from the narrative, since they must have come at once under a hot fire from the robbers which wounded the gre:ter part of them, and put them to a constantly 'iicreasing disadvantage in carrying on the fight. Although the escort in this ease was overpowered, yet ordinarily a force of two non-commissionad offieers and nine privates, besides the two drivers, is a strong detail, and the paymaster and his clerk also doubtless had pistols at least. Major Wham is an old soldier, having served as a private and Sergeant of Com pany G, Twenty-first Illinois Infantry, all through the civil war, from the 10th of June. 1861. to the 28th of .Tulv, 1865. At the latter date he was promoted to a Lieutenaney in his regiment, and was mustered out towards the end of ' the year. Appointel a Second Lieutenant of the Thirty-Fifth Infantry in l87, he served over three years and a half in that capacity, and for more than twelve years he has been a paymaster in the army. Probably the main question to arise at the court of inquiry will be as to the degree of vigilance which was exerted at the time of the attack. And on this point it is only fair t: note that the part of Arizona in which the rohbbery oc curred is one in which the only >raairi tir-i 'd.repeatechlyr ,peI p)otunities for an anibtsr like that which was effeeted. Even with a reasonable degree of caution, it would be difileult in such a region to guarantee immunity against surprise, while an attack of so elaborate and formidable a character is almost or quite unprecedented. Indeed, the num ber of robbers engaged in the successful attack of Saturday afternoon is thus far only a matter of conjecture. They knew that they had a force of fifteen men, of whom eleven were fully armed, to con tend with: and there were enough of them at all events to wound eight out of these eleven in a prolonged fight. Of course no official inquiry will be con ducted until the result of the present general hue and cry after the thieves, both among the military and the civil ians, is known, since this will throw much light upon the conditions of the This affair ad ewripaJhich is situated between Fort Grant anir Thomas, in Arizona, will recall in sonic respects the robbery of Paymaster Dan iel N. Bash, twogears a'. at Antelope Springs, between Do; las and Fort McKinuey, in Wyoming Territory. That, however, though as daring and success ful a robbery as the recent one, was much less of an affair in every way. The amount stolen from Paymaster Bash's valise was $7,350. or only one fourth of the loss of Paymaster Wham. In that former instance a ranchman named Charles Parker, seized the valise, which yas in the stage coach drawn up in front of the tavern where Major Bash and his escort were taking dinner. and jumping on his horse. which was faster than the horses of the escot't, escaped with his booty, although pur sued and fired upon. And as only one thief wa's then concerned, so there were only tn~o or three persons in the escort, while the exchange of shots was harm less all around, and quite different, therefore, from the sanguinary fight at Cedar Springs. However, what particularly recalls this case was the finding of a court of inquiry to the effect that Major Bash did not give to his escort suficeiently speief tifo. the protection of the fr perty and did not--s that proper preations were taken. It' S-also found that unsuitable men had been sF lected for the duty, and that they were not even properly armed. At that time it was urged that the whole matter of es corts for paymasters should be revised, in order to guard against any repetition of loss from such robbery; and the present- far more serious affair will direct renewed attention to the subject. .How It Ga~ve 'Em Away. Private Secretary Pearson, of Gov ernor Beaver's office, Harrisburg, Pa., had a curious and somewhat star'Jing experience with the graphophone. He began to turn the crank, and supposed that he was about to ca~e the machine to give out to the young lady typewriter a message which the Governor had talked into it the evening previous. The young lady was all attention, and the private secretary began to solemnly turn the crank. which works by a treadle. To > horror and the intense embarrassment of the young lady, the following amorous jumble wvas given out with decided emphasis : "Now, don't G)eorge. * * * There; somebody will come. Of course, 1 love you. There; somebody is really coming and you have mussed my hair all uo. * * * Please, love, I'm so afraid some one will come in; besides, I can't work this crank if you insist upon kissing me all the time." * * * The stars rep.resenit soiundls too fa miliar to be mistaken. They wvere the smacking of lips and other sounds which accompany the interchange of caresses between lovers. It was some little while before it could be satisfactorily explained, either by the young lady or by Mr. Pearson, who'at first were disposed to imagine that some body had been playing a practical joke upon them. The matter was finally straightened out, however, when the ex ecutive clerk came around, and, upon hearing of the incident, laughed heart ily. He had the evening before been showing a bride and groom about the executive department, and, being called away a few minutes, had left them in, the private secretary's room to amuse themselves with the graphophone while lie attended to the business which had called him away. Pianos and Organs. Pianos $225. Organs $50. Chicker ing, Mathushek, Mason & Hamlin, Sterling and Arion Pianos. Mason & Hamlin, Packard and Waterloo Organs, at factory prices for cash or on easy in stallments. Fifteen days' test trial .ma freight paid both ways if not sa!sfacto ry. Ordei- and test in your Srn homes. Delivered to nearest freight free. Don't forget bott~ prices and square dealing. Wi'rcuts and prices. N. W. TRUMP, THEY OBJECT TO HIS COLA. Women Clerks in Washington Opposed to Having a Colored Chief. WasuIxr'rox. May 18. - Rev. Jai. Townsend of Rieluuourl. hId.. 1:h col ored clergymen recen ltly appointed Re corder of the General Land Olilee. will reach the city to-morrow. As Recorder 'Mr. Townsenl will be clhief of a division where there are a score or mo tre of in (lie(s employed. There is c:nsi'l rable anxiet y to .'o Mr. Townsend and haid out wiat sort of a mnt he il. Som1Ie of the employes have expressed the opin ion, in a quiet way. that a colored man ought not to hold that position. but the majority are waiting to see the man be fore they make un their minis on this point. 'T'iere are twenty-five lady clerks employed in that division and they are brougit by the nature of their employ ment into constant anti dliroet coi nnum - eatioli \itlh the l..corler. Mr. Townsend is said to be an estina lle gentleman. He is Seerettarv of a Nait'olal Missionarv S.>eietV. h:s been twice a mmlber of the Itdiana Lgisla ture, owns a tine farm and came very near being elected Bishop of his church recently. But all these things are tor gotten by the ladies in that division. who only remember that Rev. J. lown send is a colored man. Since his ap pointment nearly half of the ladies in his division have applied focr a transfer to sonic other division. They all want to kept on the governeitant pay-roll., and for that reason are averse to talking mtuch about the natter, hat the apptlica tions for transfer speak for th~emii THE FARMERS WILL BE FREE. A Declaration of Independence at Bir mingham, Ala. BIRMixAaM. May 16.-The National Convention of Alliances and Wheels to consider the bagging question continued in secret session to-day. A propositioni 1was r-' , i t " t." y,. -..' " ' t i : of the' ,It 'aeaging ianufact tei p.iit a ' follows: "To sell for present delivery jute bag ing at these prices: 1k-pound bagging at Si cents per yard, 1-pound bagging at S, 2-pound bagging at 91, 2?-pound bagging at 10y, or at less than live cents per pound; also, that if farmers were not prepared to take and pay tor bagging now that they would hold the bagging for them until it was needed, adding y of a .ent per yard for each montI." The Jute bagging men claim that at the price asked for bagging made of cotton, l2.' cents for cloth weighing three-fourths of a pound or 1G; cents per pound, that jute bagging at present prices, 5 cents per pound, is less than one-third of the price of bagging made of cotton, and its use will save the planter at least a dollar per bale. This estini rte of the amount saved per bale is based on the supposition that cotton exchanzes will not reduce the existing The convention decline'd this prop.. tion. Tte following is the full text of the resolutions reported by the commit tee and adopted on this subject: "Resolced, That we, from all the light before us, recommend to this body the permanent use of cotton bagging as covering for cotton. We also recommend the appointment of a committee, whose actual expense shall be paid proportion ately by the various State Alliances, Wheels and Unions, whose duty it shall be to secure from ptrchasers and man ufacturers of cottod covered in cotton bagging an allowance of at least eight pounds on each bale at the market priee of cotton when sold. We still further recommend that in the event of any cot ton buyer refusing to grant the allow ance above asked, for then we advise members of the Alliances, Wheels and Unions not to sell until such concessions are allowed." It was developed that there was some opposition to the above resolution, but it went through with practical nnani mity. The delegates contend that there is no such saving in the use of jute bag ging as the manufacturers allege, anid they further have no guarantee that the price will nor be put ap again at will in future years. The price offered by the otton bagging manufacturers is 12.t weighing thiree-quarters The Alian e+ngopes of get ting the allowance on tat for cotton bagging which is sought. Le - are on hami~ from strong New York and 4' pool Exchanges. Thme Southern cotton manufacturers have agreed to allow them ten cents per hundred pounds on cotton wrapped in cotton bagging. BIRaxNoHAM, May 17.-The Conven tion of the Altiance and the Wheel, after appointing committees to confer with Cotton Exchanges in reference to reduced tare on cotton wrapped in cot ton bagging, last night adjourned sine ie. THE PRYOR INCIDENT. A member of the :sth Virginia Cavalry Refutes the Charge of Desertion. B.ALTIMonE. May I 8.- To the lsitor' of the Sun: I was pleased to notice :n to-dy's Sun that the charges against General Roger A. Pryor have been so satisfactorily ref uted. I was persontlly acquainted with General Pryor after lbe entered my regiment--Thirteenth Vir ginia Cavalry. I cannot speak too highly of his loyalty and bravery, and [ was in a position to judge of his character and f the circumstances con aerning his cap tire. It was customary for soldiers to exchange papers, with the enemy while lying on picket, and I distinctly remem ber that Roger A. Pryor ventured out beond the lines November 27, 1864, to exchange newspapeCrs, when be was treacherously captured. I know per sonally that he was forcibly detained by the enemy, and am glad that Col. H. O. Dudley. of the Eleventh New Hampshire Volunteers, who made the capture, con :descends to state the true facts. I was :aptured shortly afterwards in battle. and know that it would have been un possible for him to return, as we were strictly guarded. There was not a b'aver or more loyal soldier in thme Southern Confederacy than Gene ral Roger A. Pryor; he had the love and r'e spect of our wvhole r'egi men t, and I am con lident that all thme gallant boys of the old Thirteenth Virginia Cavalry who serve; with him would gladly join thise son of a noble sire in refuting ma licious falsehoods concerni .. is hero. S. W SN:EA, 658 W. Saratogo s~t altimore, Md., Late of Thirtee Virginia Cavalry. C. ihe Chief Justice En Route to Charleston NORFOLK, Va.. May 16.-Chief .Justice Fuller of the United States Supreme Court, and Judge Hugh L. Bond of the United States Circuit Court, arc here on their way to Charleston. S. C., to hold ourt. The bar of Norfolk gave a ban quet this evening in honor of the Chief X iN 1) : DJA. V tJ..O L..V r 1t.L v ""~ """"" Presidential Postmasters May Serve Their Four-Year Terms from Date ef Confirmation. WV.LItNGToN. Makiy I .1 .-P ril. entiai postmroasters will be allowed to -e! their four-year terms from the date of confiirla tion by the Senate. 1'ostiasar Generai Wanaiinaker made this plain to day by stating that .tihe 'resident is not maiIk ing It-ilovals except for lu t. . lit addied th:tt to displahce~ a p stamsi~ter Ibefore his t ermn expired would b: a r" noval. This is the first authoritative declaration that has been made on this subject. It means that there will he no more postmasters appointed at Presi dential oilices until January. except to fill vacancies caused by death or re signation or removal for a tlagrout cause. The Postmaster General says that he Will promtly make removals whture a postmiaster is shown to be uffnlit iclt. buit he will not remove a mant merely to make a llace for a Repuhlican. This is he posi iona of the President. and I. lis sent back to he de'partient to <) on file the papers in several eases where he has been asked to remove postmasters whose commissions do not expire until nest spring. It the nosition of the President and the Postmaster General can be made plain to the offee-seekers, it oi.ght to diininish somewhat the pressure which still keeps them from giving needed at tention to. ot her matters. Tiv Ilemo crats who were appointeI to i'residen tial post ofices during the sutmmnner of 18) were not confirmed by the Senate until .January or later, some lnt until July, so that their four-vears terms run well into 1190, and under the rule es tablished by the President their sa cessors will not be nominated until near the expiration of their ter'ns. SAD PLIGHT OF A ROMEO. Shot at by His Juliet and Fined and Im prisoned by a Hardhearted Judge. t'reIICAo. May 1'.- hile Josephi Markowski was walkipg in Uiion Park p te yesterday le noticed Mrs. .Jlihe SC ' s ettymnid womn, looki f the window of the house at No. 56. He waved his handkerchief at her, threw kisses and smirked, but she did not respond. Nothing daunted, he continued the performance until finally the lady was reinforced by three others who appeared at the windows. Suddenly one of the ladies threw open the window, reached out her hand with a revolver tightly grasped in her fingers and ired. The bullet whizzed past Markowski's ear, carromed on a light ning rod and a skylight and buried itself in the side of a house a block away. Markowski threw up his hands, uttered a shrill shriek and dashed off down the street with the rapidity of a steam engine. He was overtaken by Officer Dillon and hauled before Justice White, who fined him -$100 and sent him o Bridewell for six months. front of th window filly r n .inutt, . Schoum i "and was all the tim maing - tins which I considered not only insulting but positively indecent. so my sister shot at him." Justice White said he was sorry her sister was such a poor shot. HARRISON AND THE COLORED MEN His First Effort to Recognize Them Liable to Be a Failure. WAssaINGTON, May 13.-The President, it is reported, has tripp ed up in his first recognition of the colored brother. The man appointed is the Rev. J. M. Town send of Richmond, Ind., and the office is the Recordership of the General Land Office, worth $2,000 a year. Mr. Town send is a prominent clergyman in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, and at the last General Conference came within a few votes of being elected a bishop. Another bishop is to be elected next fall, and Mr. Townsend, as matters now sfanid, seems to be sure of the place. But his friends say if lie should go into politics his chances for the bish opric would be blighted. He is now struggling with the proposition, and his friends think the' outcome will be his declination of the political office. The relations in geteral between the colored brother and the administration are still strained. Colored leaders from the South have been calling at the White House every few days for two nmont gut beyond a few assurances of frie sla they have secured nothing. ' Prest has said to them that if tht will only everything will work out to their satist 0on. "But how ki wait," said a Vi r tinia darkey in ruti.iliatinig on the President's assurance," ' .E.2. sumpitn' to wait on? I can't wait no longer on winid. i'm bound to say dat if he is the President." THE P A RELL INVESTIGATION. Testimony of a Priest -The Commission to Make Their Report Next February. LONON, May 18. -Fathier O'Donovan testtied before tihe Parnell Commission to-day. lie said that the Moonlighters at Tulla were opposed t-> the League. They had threatened a witness, who was tnder police protection, while he was connected with the branch of the League at that place. Father O'Donovan at tributed the increase of crime during the League's existence to the action of nndords in enforciiig evictions. Wit ness had denounced crime from the al tar of his church on forty Sandays. The Commission will not make their report to the House of Commons until February.,1800. The Column Printing Telegraph, invented by M'essrs. Moore & Wright of England, is a machine by means of which a printed columni, similar in appearance to niat produced by an -ordinar; type writing machine, is received by wire in a form suitable either for the hands the printer, for exhibition on a' loard or for public use. The aehine has had practical tests rece ..y, and the London ims is of >mnion that it "mairks a new p~ n the histo)ry of letr'-mee .',al relegraphy." Type prnin eshines are of old date, b~ut th - ened otit meissages onl long stri ps .a p:mer, or --tape -, which it was mi conveninlt to read and handle. The ~tiker' of the stock broker's office is a rvivor of a form of machine once in use for ordinary telegraphic messages. The Moore & Wright invention discards the tape of the "ticker" and produ-es news of every kind in column formn, greeable to the eye and easy of refer nce. Only one wire is used. The mi strunment operates, it appears, on the same principle as the "ticker," the inno vation being chiefly in the form in which the message is delivered. Young Girls entering the threshold of womanhood should use Brad field's Female Reg ulator. and thereby avoid suffering. Sold by alt SliacKNG Tlktiial) IN A WASHLNGTON SCl401 ROOM. A Lady Teacher Shot Down in Presence of Her Pupils by Her Worthless Hus band, Whom She Had Supportsd in Idleness-The Murderer Then Ends Eis Own Miserable Life. WtXAs5r ;Tox. May 17.-Mrs. SarahE. Allen has been a public school teacher in Washington for many years, and dur - iii, the last twelve or thirteen years has supported from her earnings her worth less and vicious husband, Oswald C. Allen. Recently her husband had be come so intolerable that she was obliged to separate from him, and Allen spent a large part of his time in a correctional institution. This afternoon. just as thQS pupils i the Jefferson public schoo-, were being dismissed, Allen went to the'' sc ol hu-e . ;u:d. in the presentet.his: wife's punils. shot her in tha head and then shot himself also in the head. -He had caught her about the neck to hoi& her as he shot, and they fell together;. his arm still encircling her neck. Mart died in a few minutes, but his wife lhe gered for two or three hours, and diedt on a cot in the cloak room of her schoo31 Mrs. Allen was a native of Washin' ton. Allen came from Charlottesville,. Virginia. He had no regular business. or trade. HiS wife married him agar everybody's advice, and has led happy life from the beginning of marriage. Allen's conduct has ca public scandal many times, buthis personal worth and value as a t has kept her in the employ of the se department -notwithstanding. Ailen nearil lost his life in the house recently. It is Customary ere apply coal oil to \vermiu-infec I, vagrants when they arrive. Allen a subjeeted to this process, anda practicl joker among his companions touched - lighted match to his flesh before the 4i. had evaporated, and he was seriously stw scorched before the flames were extin'4 guisbed. cad caused a panic -in the other scho mildi The children, thinki re out in the building, rushed ddwa pell-mell, and several were- knkeli down, but no one was badly hurt. Th tire alarm brought firemen and- poliesL who removed Allen's body to- th morgue. REV. JOHNJASPER'STWOHUNDBED There Was a Monster Baptism in the James River Sunday. RICHo-ON, VA., May 12.-One of the most remarkable scenes that have h pened here since the war, and-perhaps the crowning evcnt in the ministry of Rev. John Jasper] the famous cold preacher and noted expounder of Sun do Move," occurred to-da . Te thousand people crowded an each other at the Itichmon Ie Fre Bridge to wi the tebapbzag o; about two hi male and fdrzwe*' 4 i''ts of . ,rea revival now inpr= gress. It required the combined effor o the Mayor and thirty policemento k the crowd off the bridge, whichis.d gerous one. They appeared to dui but -~ little for the conseq:ences, so long they could see the baptizmng The didates assembled at Jaeper's chnreh and marched down to the river is body, some of them singing as thy went along the streets, while - were rejoicing over the fact had been saved from sin. The first sister to be baptized'eci out of the river with a mouth1 water and a face full of ex-' She was also full of religious ent ~ and the good deacons, who wee hand in the capacity of life-rs landed hedwith great difficulty;Ii brothers were calmer, but nowap. one would follow the fashion of b~ ters in the church and give vent t religious .enthusias '. They wered happy that they euuld not contain j . selves, and so the good deacons,. them with superior mus "I have done all shouted a doz while others out: "Tha theyfe new authors""-" and intend to take up undryn ties hereafter as much as .eil common stock, in order to k fixed charges. Geoige' Gould e as saying that he considersbathe i te Richmond Terminal in buying shares of Richmond and Danville most important for the Richmonda ~~ minal Company. It certainly ouit.~ make Richmond Terminal itc $40 a share, he thinks. Of the situation in general he says: lf'the road men live up to their agree and maintain rates, the compamies reap the benefit, but it all depends the word 'if." The Westphalian Miers' Stri~ e . Bmtus, May 16.-The EmperbrKo received a deputation of Wes mine owners. who presented their si of the troubles between themselvesan the min'ers. The members of the' mittee who have in charge the' tion of the money subscribe ief of the striking mi volved in a dispi' proper divisio the qurrm oommii ie iuation namers at Dortmn~ ~trikers are behaving in an orderly ma Never Too Old to Sue and B8S0ec GA LE, Ill., May 15.-Louisa lehr aa.a widow of this city, agedsevety 'ears, has brought suit against Samuel .. ~unninghanm, a wealthy and eccentric ld batchelor. also of Galena, tore ,over $10,00J0 damages for breach romise of marriage. Cunninghats, wh s wealthy, has reached the age also~ hree score and ten without ever havin )reviouly been entangled by Cupid' viles. Mrs. Lehrman alleges that Cun in~rhanm has beea making love to her -' nd finally obtained a promise of mar lage from her. The best counsel in this tity has been retained on both sides. Te world may be searched from pole to pol.-' Lnd no remedy found equal to B. B. B. (BotaiA Blood Balm) for the cure of blood poison. It'i remedy founded on scientific maedical knowi- y 'dge and its reputation nsa curative esabliah& v such true and unsolicited testimony as oud nour mcun remtimertoatiI -