The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, May 29, 1889, Image 1

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VOL.MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1889. DEATH IN THE POT. 'Rev. Dr. Talmage Preaches a Ser mon on Temperance. Vnbappy and Undisciplined Homes th. Caldrons of Great Iniquity - Per nicious Effeats of the Example of Indolent Persons Upon the Young. The subject of Rev. T. De Witt Talmage's recent sermon was "A Poisoned Dinner," and his text II. Kings iv. 40: "So they poured out for the mento eat. And it came to pass, as they were eating of the pottage, that they cried out and.said, 0 thou man of God, there is death in the pot. And they could not eat thereof." Following is the sermon: Elisha had gone down to lecture to the students in the theological seminary at Gil gal. He found the students very hungry, as students are apt to be. It is very seldom the world makes large provision for those who give themselves to intellectual toil. In cder that ;these sti dents. may- be 'pe pared 4 ,hear. wh Elisha says, he first feeds their hunger. He knew very well it is useless to talk, to preach, to lecture with hungry men. So Elisha, recognizing.this common sense ciple, which every Christian ought to e, sends servants out to get food for ese hungry students. They pickup some healthful herbs, but they happen to ck-up also some coloquintida, a bitter, ' ous, deathful herb. .Thoy bring all hey put them into the boiling pot, they stir tm and then a portion of this food is brought e students and their professors. Seated ,t the table, one of the hungry students begins immediately to eat, and he happens to-gelt hold of some of the coloquintida. He lnew it by the taste. He cried out: "Poison, poison! 0 thou man of God, there is death in the pot!" Consternation is thrown over the whole group. What a fortunate thing it was that this student so e4ly found the coloquintida in the mixture t the table! You will by reference find tiis story pre cisely as I have mentioned it. Well, in our day thereare great caldrons of sin and death. Coloquintida of mighty temptation is pressed into it. Some dip it out and taste it, and reject' it and live. Others dip it out, taste it. keep on and die. And it is the business of every minister of religion, and every man who wshes wll to the human race, and who wants'ta keep the world back from its follies and its suffer ings, to cry out: "Beware! poison, poison ! Look out for this caldron! Stand back! Be Ware 1" Sin has done an agrful work in our world. It has gone out ugh all the ages, it has mixed up a great n of trouble and suf feringaadsiand wlerc . .- poisoned in , po mind, poisoned in soul. But blessed be God that the gospel of Jesus Christ is the antidote, and where there was sin there shall be par don, and where there was suffering there shall be comfort, and where therewaadeath there shall be life. Some time ago, you will remember, I per suaded you of the importance of being char itable in judgment of others. At the.same time I said to you briefly, what this morning I wish to say with great emphasis, that while we sympathize with the sinner we must denounce the sin, that while we pity the unfortunate we must be vehement againsttransgression. Sin is a jagged thing that needs to be roughly handled. Youhave no right to garland it with fine phrases or lustrious rhetoric. You can not catch a 'th a silken lasso. emigrants settle in y a wild beastofth ad beast comes and carries off an all the neighbors r, and they go out with torch one hand and gun in the other to hunt these monsters down, to find their hiding place, to light up and ransack the caverns, and to destroy the invaders of their bhouses. So we want now notmerelytotalk about the sins and follies of the world, we wanb-to go behind them, back of them. Down into 'the caverns where they hide we 'need to go with the torch of God's Word in one hand and the sword of God's eternal Spirit in the other to hunt out and slay theseiniquitiesin their hiding place. Or, to come back to the figure suggested by my text, we want to find what are the caldrons of sin and death from which the iniquities of society -are dipped out. 1.-In the first place, Iremark: that un happy and undisciplined homes are the cal drons of great iniquity. Parents harsh and cruel on the one hand, or onthe other hand loose in their government-wickedly loose in their government-are raising up a gen eration of vipers. A6 home where scoldingj and fretfulness are dominant is blood re-i lationi to the gallows and the penitentiary I Petulance-is -ser pent that crawls up into the family nursery sometimes and crushes everything. Why, there are parents who make religion disgusting to their chil dren. They scold them for not loving Christ. They have an erasperating way of doing theirduty. The house is full of the war whoop of conitention, and from such place - husband and sons -b out to die. 0, is there aHagarleading away Isbmael into the desert to be smitten of the thirst and parched of the sand? In the solemn birth hour a voice fell to thee from the throne of God, saying: "Take this child and nurse it for me, and I will give thee thy wages." At even timnewhenthe angels of Godhover over that home, do they hear the children lisping the name of Jesus? 0, traveler for eternity, yopr little ones gathered under your robes, are you leading them on the right road, or ane you taking them out on the dangerous winding bridle path, off which their inex perienced feet may slip and up which comes the howlingof the wolf and the sound of loosened ledge and tumbling avalanche? Blessed is the family altar at which the children kneel. Blessed .is the cradle in which the - Christiaif mother rocks the Christian child. Blessed is the song the lit tle one sings at nightfall when sleep is clos ing the eyes and loosening thehanid from the toy on the pill'iw. Blessed is that mother whose every heart throb is a prayer for her children's welfare. The world grows old, and the stars will cease to illuminate it, and the waters to re fresh it, and the mountains to guard it, and the heavens to overspan it, and its long story of sin and shame and glory and tri umph will soon turn to ashes; but influences that start in the early home roll on and roll up through all eternity-blooming in all the joy, waving in all the triumph, exulting in all the song, or shrinking back into all the darkness. Father, mother, which way are you leading your children? A house took fire and the owner was very carepil to get all his furniture out. He got allhis books out, and he got all his pictures out, and he got all his valuable papers out, but he forgot to ask until it was too late, "Areo my children safe?" 0, when the earth-shall melt with-fervent heat,. and the mountains shall blaze. and the earth shall blaze, will your children be safe? Will your - children be safe? Unhappy and undisci plined homes are the source of much of the wretchedness and sin of the world. I know there are exceptious to it some 'times. From a bright and beautiful Chris, tian home a husband or son will go out to die. 0, how long you had that boy in your -prayers! He. does not know how many sleepless nights you have spent over him. He does not understand how many tears yoia have shed for his waywardness. 0, it is bard, after you have toiled for a child and given him every advantage and every kind ness, to have him pay you back in ingrati itude! As one Sabbath morning a father came to the foot of the pulpit as I stepped out of it and said, "0 my son, my son, my son !" There is many a young man proud of his mother, who would strike into the dust any man who would .insult her,wh this moment himself, by his evil . lisa bad hWiZ, sha _en plunge througn tnat momters near. A tee gram brought him from afar. He went bloated and scarred into the room and he stood by the lifeless form of his mother. Her gray hair; it had turned gray in sor row. Those eyes had wept floods.of tears over his wandering. That still white hand had done him many a kindness and had written many a loving invitation and good counsel. He had broken her old heart. He came into the room and threw himself on the casket andhesobbed outright: "Mother, mother!" but those lips that had kissed him in infancy anduttered so many kind words, spoke not; they were sealed. Rather than have such a memory come on my soul, I would prefer to have roll on me the. Alps and the Himalayas, But while sometimes there are sons who turn out very badly coming from good homes, I want to tell you for your encour aeement it is a great exception. Yet an un happy and undisciplined home is the poison ous caldron from which a vast multitude drink their death. II.-I remark that another caldron of in' Iquity is an indolent life. All the railtrains down the Hudson river yesterday, all the rail trains on the Pennsylvaniaroute, allthe trains on the Long Island road- brought to these cities young men to begin commercial life. Some of them are here this morning, I doubt not. Do you know what one of your great temptations is going to be? It is the example of indolent people in our cities. They are in all our cities. They dress bet ter than some who are industrious. They have access to all places of amusement plenty of money, and yet idle. They hang around our great hotels-the Fifth Avenue, the Windsor, the Brunswick, the Stuyve sant, the Gilsey House-all our beautiful hotels, you find them around there any day -men who do nothing, neverearn anything, yet well dressed,having plenty. Why should. I work? Why should you. work? Why drudge and toil in bank and shop and office, or on the scaffolding or by the anvil, when these men get along sowell and do not work. Some of them hang around the city halls of our great cities, toothpick in their mouth, waiting for some crumb to fall from the officeholder's table. Some of them hang around the city hall for the city van bring ing criminals from the station houses. They stand there and gloat over it-really enjoy the disgrace and suffering of those poor creatures as they get out of the city van and go into the courts. Where do they get their money? That is what you ask. That is what I ask. Only four ways of getting money-only four: by inheritance, by earning it, by begging it, by stealing it; and there are a vast multitude among us who get theirlivingnotbeinherit ance, nor by earning it, nor by begging it. I do not like to take the responsibility of say ing how they get it? Now, these men are a constant temptation. Why should I toil and wear myself out in t or the office, or the store, or *men have E to do. They get along a great deal better. And that is the temptation under which a great many young men fall. They begin to consort withthese men, these idlers, and they go down the same awful steeps. The number of rmen in our cities who are try ing to get their livingby their wits and by sleight of hand is all the time increasing. A New York merchant saw a young man, one of his clerks, in half disguise, going into a very low place of amusement. The merchant said to himself: "I must look out for that clerk; he is goingsig coupaniy and going in bad.places; I must look out for him." A few mo sed on, and one morning the ,ore~ant entered his store, and this clef . whom I have been speak in camp n assumed consternation and . ., sir, the store has been on fire; I ave put out the fire, but theire a great many goods lost, we have had a great crowd of people coming and going." Then the merchant took the clerk by the collar and said: "I have had enough of this; you can not deceive me; where are those goods you stole?" The young man instantly confessed his villainy. 0, the numbers of people in these great cities who are trying to get their living not honestly!1 And they are a mighty tempta tion to the industrious young man who can not understand it. While these others have it so easy they have it so hard. Horatiusof olden time was told that he could have just as much ground as he could plow around with a yoke of oxen in one day. He hooked up the oxen to the plow and he cut a very large circle and plowed until he came to the same point where he started, and all that property was his. But I have to tell you to day that just so much financial, justso much moral, just so much spiritual possession you will have as you compass with your own In dustries, and just so much from the morn ing of your life to the evening of your life can plow around with your own hard work. "Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways and be wise." One of the most awful caldrons of death to-day is an indolent life. Thank God that you have to work. II.-Once more I remark: that the dram shop is a great caldron of iniqulty in our time. Anacharsis said that the vine bore three grapes; the first was Pleasure, the next was Drunkenness, and the next was Misery. Every saloon above groundorunder ground is a fountain of Iniquity. It may have a license and it may go along quite re spectably for awhile, but after awhile the cover will fall off and the color of the iniqui ty will be displayed. "0," says some one, "you ought to be easier on such traffic whoa It pays suen a large revenue to the government, and helps support your schools and your greatinstitu tons of mercy." And then I think of what William E. Gladstone said-I think it was the first time he was chancellor of the ex chequer-when men engaged in the ruinous traffic came to him and said their business ought to .have more consideration from the fact that it paid such a large revenue to the English Gevernment. Mr. Gladstone said: "Gentlemen, don't worry yourselves about the revenue; give me thirty millions of sober people, and we'll have revenue enough and a surplus." We might in thiscountry-this traffic per. ished-have less revenue, but we would have more happy homes, and we would have morepeace, and we would have fewer peo ple in the penitentiary, and there would be tens of thousands of men who are now on the road to hell who would start on the road to heaven. But the financial ruin is a very small part of it. This iniquity of which I speak takes every thing that is sacred out of the family, every thing that is holy in religion, every thing that is infinite in the soul, and tramples it under foot. The marriage day has come. The twain are at the altar. Lights flash. Music souinds. Gag feet se up and down the drawing-room. Did ever a vessel launch on such a bright and beauti ful sea? The scene changes. Dingy gar ret. No fire. On a broken chair a sorrow ful wife. Last hope gone. Poor, forsaken, trodden under foot, she knows all the sor row of being a drunkard's wife. "0," she says, "he was the kindest man that ever lived, ho was so noble, he was so good! God never made a grander man than he was, but the drink did it, the drink did it." Some day she will press her hand againsther tem pies and cry: "0 my brain, my brain!" or she will go out upon the abutment of the bridge some moonlight night and look down on the glassy surface and wonder if uuder that glassy surface there is not some rest for a broken hesrt. A young man, through the Intercession of metropolitan friends, gets a place in a bank or store. He is going to'leave his country home. That morning they are up early in the old homestead. The trunk is on the wagon. Mother says: "My son. I put a Bible in the trunk, I hope you will read it often." She wipes the tears away with her apron. "0," he says, "come, don't you be worried, I know how to take care of my self. Don't be worried about me." The lather says: "My son, be a good boy and write home often; your mother will .be anxious to hear from you." Crack! goes the whip, and over the hills goes the wagon. Five y'ears have passed on, and a ~j~life has done its work for that There Is a hearse coming up in ld hn-aataa The.Youunmen of the neighborhood who have stayed on the farm come in and say: "Is it possible? Why, he doesn't look natural, does he? Is that the fair brow we used to know? Is that the healthy cheek we used to know? It can't be possible that is he." The parents stand looking at the gash in the forehead from which the life oozed out, and they lift their hands and say: "0 my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom; would God I had died for thee, 0 Absalom, my son, my son " Lorenzo de Medici was very sick, and some of his superstitious friends thought if they could dissolve a certain number of pearls in a cup and then hewould drink them it would cure him of the disease. So they went around, and they gathered up all the beauti ful pearls they could find, and they dis solved them in a cup, and the sick man drank them. 0, it was an expensive draught. But I tell you of a more expensive draught than that. Drunkenness puts into its cup the pearl of physical health, the pearl of domestic happiness, the pearl of respectability, the pearl of Christian hope, the pearl of an everlasting heaven, and presses it to the hot lips. I tell you the dramshop is the gate of hell. .The trouble is,.they do not put up the right kind of a sign. They have a great many different kinds of signs now on places where strong drink is sold. One is called the "res thurant," and another is called the "sa loon," and another is called the "hotel," and another is called the "wine cellar," and another is called the "sample room." What a name to give one of those places! A "sample room !" I saw a man on the steps of one of those "sample rooms," the other day, dead drunk; I said to myself: "I suppose that is a sample!" I toll you it is the gate of hell. "0," says some man, "I am kind, I am indulgent to my family, I am right in many respects, I am generous, and I have too grand and generous a moral nature to be thrown in that way." Let me say that the persons who are in the most peril have the largest hearts, the best education, the bright est prospects. This sin chooses the fattest lambs for its sacrifice. The brightest gar lands are by this carbuncled hand of drunk enness torn off the brow of the poet and orator. Charles Lamb, answer! Thomas Hood, answer! Sheridan, the English orator. answer! Bdgar A. Poe, answer! Junius Brutus Booth, answer! 0, come and look over into it while I draw off the cover-hangover it and look down in to it, and see the seething, boiling, loath some, smoking, agonizing, blaspheming hell of the drunkard. Young man, be master of your appetites and passions. There are hun dreds-might I not say thousands?-Of young men in this house this m rn ing-young men of fair prospects. I - your trust in the Lord God and all is But you will be tempted. P you may th a - dressed st Sabbath of your coming to the great city, and I give you this brotherly counsel. I speak not in a perfunctory way. I speak as an older brother talks to ayounger brother. I put my hand on your shoulder this day and commend you to Jesus Christ, who Himself was a young man and died while yet a young man, and has sympathy for all young men. 0, be master, by. the grace of God, of your appetites and pas sions. I close with a peroration. Ministers and .speakers are very apt to close with a perora tion, and they-generally roll up some grand ;-agrv to express what they have to say. I close witi 4, roratiua mtight. or tb'n Was ever uttered by mere human lips. Two quotations. The first is this: "Who hath woo? who hath babbling? vwho hath wounds without cause? They tha:'. tarry long at the wine, they that go to see. mixed wine. Look not upon the wine when it is red, when it moveth itself aright in the cup, for at the last it biteth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder." This is the otner quotation. mage up your mina as to which is the more impressive. I think the last isthe mightier: "Rejoice, 0 youngman, in thy youth, and let thy heart cheer thee in the days of thy youth, and walk thou in the sight of thine own eyes; but know thou that for all these things God will bring thee into judgment." SNOW FORTIFICATIONS. A Newv Kind of Br-eastworks Built by the Government or Norway. Snow does not look or feel as if it would form a breastwork that would .with stand cannon balls. Experiments have just been made in Norway under Govern ment orders, and they have proved that snow can withstand the force of cannon balls. How some of our boys would have enjoyed making these breastworks! First, snowbalis were rolled up and piled together, the spaces between being closely packed with snow, forming a perfectly solid wall, twenty meters long, one-quarter high, and three meters thick at the ground; this sloped to about two meters. The shots wer~e fired from Garmann guns, at a distance of fifty meters. The breastworks, it was found. would not stand where less than three me ters thick. Where the snow was free from ice fragments, the projectiles were found flattened on one side. Water was poured over the breastworks, and thie next day was frozen solidly. Shots were fired at one hundred meters and penetrated through the wall; some balls were never found, but those picked up were found unaltered in shape. Freezing made the snow porous. The final conclusion was that if the breast, works were not sloping, but a uniform wall of.two and one half meters thickness, snow breastworks will defy any projectile throwD at any distance.-Christian Union. -:The more God empties your hands fo) other wark, the more you may know he has special work to give them.-Garrett. -The happiness of love is in action; its test is what one is willing to do for the other.-Ben Hur. Professor Russell's Views on Niracles. NEw HAvEN, May 22.-The agitation caused by the departure of Professor Russezl from the Yale Divinity School has not yet diminished, and on the au thority of members of the graduating class it is stated that many of the ad vanced students will not return to col lege unless he be reinstated. The cause o the trouble was Professor Russell's liberal views on the authenticity of mir acle. During a discussion of "Robert Elsmere" Professo~r Russell stated that. though he had no ground for denying th' authenticity of miracles, there was so much room for doubt that no man ought to be rejected by the Christian Church for having those doubts. Profes sor Fisher was present and stated that the only true basis of Christianity was the miraculous element. Professor Rus sell, in reply, reaffirmed his previous statements. A few days later;Professor Russell lectured on "Miracles,"~ and his liberal views were heartily received and indorsed by the class. The central idea was that there is something deeper than miracles on which to found our faith, and that is the history of nineteen cen tuies. Since Professor Russell's resig nation the students have made great endeavors to secure his return and re stre harmony between him andi the more orthodox professors. Two of the graduates at -least have resolved to give up the ministry, and it is thought that these views on miracles re the cause. A Youth marries an Old Woman. A curious wedding has just taken place at Lodz, Hungary. A young man, 1 years of age, and of good position, for some unaccountable reason married a poor widp with a numerous family. The "blushing" bride is in her 74th year. The "happy"- bridegrom has now eleven stepsons and daughters, the oldest of whom is 53, besides twdnty-three grand children and twenty-three great-grand chilrnan_dr all that at 19. ONE ESCAPED UNHURT. FORTY-FIVE PASSENGERS SERIOUSLY IN JURED IN A RAILROAD W RECK. A Train Falls Over an Embankment Thirty Feet High-Spikes and Fish plates Removed from a Rail-The Work of Train-Wreckers. ST. Louis, May 24.-The West bound train on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad, which left St. Louis last night at 8:15, was wrecked three miles West of Sullivan's, which place is sixty-eight miles West of St. Louis. A single pas senger escaped unhurt, and forty-five are known to have been seriously injured, no deaths are yet reported. The train was running at light speed, when suddenly, without warning, the track gave - way, and the locomotive, baggage car and five coaches went over a thirty foot embankment. The train men and those only slightly injured at cace set to work to prevent the addi tional horror of fire, in which ~they sne ceeded, and then turned their attention to the more unfortunate injured, a.nd in a very short time forty-five passengers, all badly hurt, had been released from the debris. A temporary hospital was improvised at Sullivan, and the most seriously injured were taken there, while others were 'brought to St. Louis on a relief train which was hurried to the scene of the disaster. The wounded are under the care of Dr. McIntyre, chief surgeon of the road. It was 11:25 p. m. when the accident occurred, and most of the passengers had already gone to sleep, while the re mainder were about to do so. A creek is crossed by the road at that point, and there is a steep embankment thirty feet high. In an instant all the coaches ex cept. two sleeping cars had been thrown from the rails. People were thrown about in the cars in all directions, and some of them were thrown from the coaches and down the embankment. The train proper was made up of the mail car, an express car, baggage car, smoker, ladies' car, reclinin and two Pullma sleepe first sleeper rest of the car remai sleeper and empty coachs; never left the track. Fortunately. there were no fires any of the cars and the jolt extinguished the lights immediately; otherwise a con flagration would have been caused and there is no telling how many lives might have been lost. As it was, most of the forward ears were smashed into smith ereens. The explanation given by the train men to the passengers was that the spikes and fishplates had been removed from a rail at a curve, thus leaving the rail loose on the ties. The torward por tion of the locomotive passed the place all rirht, but the tender jumped the track and was thrown part of the way down the embankment. Who removed the spikes and plates is u:t known, but the supposition is that the work was done by train robbers. Still no robbers put in appearance and if the accident was caused by them they must have either weakened in their pur pose, or have thrown the wrong train. The road officials claim it is a clear case of train..wrecking. On the train was a large body of physicians returning from Springfield, were the State Medical Convention is eigheld, and they rendered valuable asitnein earing for the injured. WIGGINS'S LATEST DISCOVERY. The Canadian Astronomer Claims that the Earth is Receding from the Sun. O'rriwA, Ontario, May 21. -Professor Wiggins to-day said he considered his discovery that the earth is receding from the sun the greatest astro.nomical event of the century. This recession, he de clares, is proved by what is known as the procession of the equinoxes, which causes the tropical year to be shorter than the sidereal, the latter being the real nmeasure of the earth's increasing orbit. His second proof he sees in the moon's secular acceleration, for it is agred on by all astronomers, so he as serts, that the moon travels faster now in her orbit than t wo centuries before the Christian era. When the earthb approaches the sun, as. she does when moving to her perihelion, the moon recedes and travels in a larger orbit, and when approaching aphelion the satellite approaches our planet, and thus not only moves in a smaller orbit, but moves more speedily. The earth, therefore, in retreating from the sun, causes the moon to move in a constantly decreasing orbit, and therefore with in creased rapidity. As the earih, therefore, is receding from the sun it is getting less and less subject to solar attraction, and must, therefore, be constantly expanding, so that our oceans are gradually becoming more shallow, because they are covering a constantly increasing surface, and the time will come when it will be necessary to carve up the continents by canals as we see on Mars, and the same - is no doubt true of the planets Saturn and Jupiter. Trees will be planted along these canals to produce mrial moisture, as ap pears to be the case along the canals of Mars, which accounts for their apparent great breadth when viewed through a telescope. It Don't Pay to use uncertain means when suffering from diseases of the liver, blood or lungs, such as biliousness, or "liver complaint," skin diseases, scrofulous sores or swellings, or from lung scrofula (commonly known as consumption of the lungs) when Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery is guaranteed to cure all these affections, if taken in time, or money paid for it will be promptly re funded. $500 offered for an incurable case of Catarrh in the Head, by the proprietors of r. Sage's Remedy. Thinks Cane Will Maintain the Lead. The New Orleans Times-Democrat thinks that the beet sugar interest, under the stimulus of the Spreckles of Cali fornia, with their large capital and the extensive plants for the manufacture which they are about to establish, will go ahead of the sorghum sugar interest. It also predicts that "cane in Louisiana, Texas and Florida, beets in California and sorghum in Kansas can be relied upon to soon furnish the country with its entire consumption in the early future of 2,000,000,000 or 4,000,000,000 pounds of sugar." But it thinks that sane can and will maintain the lad. THE WOODROW.WAR AGAIN. &n Inquiry that Sets the Presbyterian General Assembly by the Ears. CHArrANOoGA, May 20.-The General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterians met this forenoon. The standing com mittee on Sabbath observances submit ted its report, which was, on the whole, encouraging. It denominated the great est foes to the Sabbath Sunday trains, Sunday saloons and Sunday newspapers. A motion that each member of the Assembly be allowed five minutes' time to discuss the report to be submitted to morrow on the co-operation of Northern and Southern Assemblies excited con siderable discussion, being opposed by a large number of delegates, who did not think that any restriction should be placed upon the expression of opinions. The motion was finally adopted. Asheville, N. C., was selected as the next place for meeting, Charleston, W. Va.' being second choice. The Rev. E. J. Latham presented- the report of the committee appointed to examine the minutes of the Synod of South Carolina. This report precipi tated a warm discussion of Dr. Wood row and evolution, which has been brewing since the beginning of this session. This committee recommended that the minutes be approved, with one exception, and this related to the Synod's action with reference to the Presbytery of Charleston. This Presbytery, after the meeting of the last General Assembly at Baltimore, passed a resolution announcing that the Assembly had declared the views held by Dr. Woodrow as to the origin of nian's body to be contrary to the stand ard of the church, that the decision of the Assembly was conclus.ve, and that all further contending against that deci sion should cease. A committee appointed by the Synod of South Carolina to exarnfine the min utes of the Charleston Presbytery re ported that the action of the Presbytery in passing this resolution was "ur.wise, irregular and unconstitutional, being an infringement of the rights of free thought and speech." The report was adopted by the Synod. The committee of the General Assem t upon the minutes of recommended: action of the Synod in Presbytery be ap res action of the rfd, second, together de lina took the stand a fute for the report the folio lution: "Resolved, by the General Assembly, That the minutes of the Synod of South Carolina be approved " This presented the two sides of the Woodrow controversy. The Rev. Mr. Whaling said he intro diced the resolution mentioned in the Charesto -PrPghvterY befoi e it was known that Dr. W iends would consent to obey the decision o the Baltimore Assembly. He was sur prised that the matter should have been brought into .the Assembly at all, and re gretted that a purely secular and scien tific question should have ever gotten into an ecclesiastical court. Dr. Wood row, he said, had nothing to do with the matter here. His particular case had been fully disposed of by the judg ment of tbd Assembly, and Dr. Wood row had submitted to that judgment. That decision, however, Mr. W haling insisted, was not binding in any other case whatever than Dr. Woodrow's, and while entitled to some respect as the opinion of the Assembly, could not be taken as a precedent or judgment in After hMr. Whaing~iad soeni an hour, the time for adjournment ar rived and the matter was suspended until to-morrow, wheni a lively discus sion is expected. CAirrANooGA, May 21.-The General Assembly of the Southern Presbyterians began its fifth day's session to-day. The report of the committee on narratives, indicating an excellent condition of churh affairs, was submitted. The lause advising the discontinuance of afternoon sessions on Sunday was or dered stricken out, after which the report was adopted. The Rev. Alonzo Peak, representative of the Reformed Church in the United States, delivered an address. The chairman of the committee on co-operation read the following report: To the General Assembly: Your com mittee, to which was referred the con sideration of the report of the commit tee appointed by the last General As sembly to confer with a siinilar comn mittee of the General Assembly of the North as to fraternal co. operation, would respectfully report that they met as directed by the moder ator. and organized by electing Rev. J. W. Lupton, D. D., chairman and Rev. H. T. Darnell secretary. The report was taken up in its various divisions, and the discussion of all points involved therein was free and unrestrained. After full consideratiou the committee resolved to recommend to the Assembly the adoption of the report as a whole. The roll was called with the following result: In favor of recommending the adoption 15, opposed 7, absent 2, non iquet 2. A recess was then taken. Charleston Presbytery, after the meet ing of the Baltimore Assembly, passed a resolution declaring that the Assembly bad judicially decided that the doctrine of evolution, as taught by Dr. James Woodrow, was contrary to the stand ards of the church; and forbidding all public contending against the decision of the Assembly. The Synod of South Carolina declared this actiou unwise, irregular and unconstitutional. A coin mittee of the present General Assembly recommended that the action of the Synod be approved, so far as it declared the action of the Charleston Presbytery unwise, but disapproved in so far as it decla ed that action irregular and un constitutional. This report was called at 2 p. m. for discussion. An hour's excited debate as to limiting the speeches of members was had. Motions, amendments, sub titutes, reconsiderations followed eadhi other in rapid succession. . The Assemi bly closely resembled a political conven tion in its noisy session. Finally it was agreed to allot one hour and a half each to the Rev. T. C. Whaling and Dr. J. L. Girardeau, as representatives of the Synod and Presbytery respectfully, half n hour to Dr. J. B. Adger of South Carolina, and ten- minutes each to other members. The Rev. Mr. Whaling was the first peaker on behalf of the action of the ynod. He said: "The Presbytery of Charleston was ;e aggressor in this matter. The Balti niore Assembly decided the Woodrow mse, deciding that evolution as taught ay him is contrary to the standards of he chc. , Cretotn Presbetery came along and graciously went beyond the decision of the Assembly and raised a new issue. If the law of the Church is criticised as it is, why should a judi ial decision be above criticism? Am I to be tried for heresy, and speaking my thoughts here? The interdiet is without precedent. It is left for this Presbytery to initiate the most tyrannical rower of Rome." Dr. J. L. Girardeau spoke in behalf of Charleston Presbytery, and said lie thought the Presbytery had some rcasuns for its action. The Rev. D. Adger of;South Carolina made an able argument to show that the Presbytery passed the resolution by a small majority; that it offered no ex planation of its action until the protest was made; that the resolution was un necessary, and that it exceeded its authority. The debate of the afternoon was temporarily suspended at night. Devo tional exercises and addresses by a mis sionary from Brazil made the evening's programme. Adjourned till to-morrow. CHATTANoOG1, May 22.-In the South ern Presbyterian Assembly this morn ing, the report upon the minutes of the Synod of South Carolina, which was so warmly discussed yesterday, was called-. Elder James Lyons of Virginia moved that the Assembly. instead of approving the action of the South Carolina Synod in ',ondemning as unwise, irregular and unconstitutional the action of the Charleston Presbytery in forbidding public contending against the decision of the Baltimore Assembly in the Wood row evolution case, should disapprove of the Synod's action, because of the fact, as lie alleged, that an examination of the full records of the Presbytery's action showed that the so-called inter dict was not intended to limit either private judgment or the constitutional right of proper discussion. In support of his amendment Mr. Lyons began reading criticisms of the Assembly's decision in regard to Dr. Woodrow's case, which appears in Dr. Woodrow's paper. Dr. Woodrow arose and said that if his private character was thus to be dis cussed he wanted the protection of the Assembly, or full opportunity to defend himself. The moderator declared Lyons in order. Dr. Woodrow appealed from this decision, but was not sustained. A recess was taken. At 2 o'clock Mr. Whaling continued his rejoinder to the report on the i etes of ti Synod of South Carolina. t address e or bid all legitimate conte minst the decision of the Assembly. We were a Presbytery and endeavored to stop the mouths of gainsayers against the fold. The truth of God was uttered by the As sembly when it declared that the Scrip tures were not silent in regard to the na ture of man's creation. The opposition says the :eriptres arc silent. . that it is an error. We hold that they are not silent. We say that man's body was created out of dust. Dr. Woodrow acknowledges in his address, in 1883, that the body of Eve was an exception to the operation of the law of evolution, and why not the body of Adam? Scrip ture gives the creation of Adam, and no principle of evolution can break the Word of God. Had we not as guardians of the church the right to prohibit the circulation of siuch false doctrine? After all this matter comes to the old ques tin, whether we, as a church, are to consider the Scriptures as silent or not in regard to the manner of the creation? The General Assembly said not, the Charleston Presbytery said.- not, and I e this General Assembly will say the sai.5 jl this Assembly order out a file and sho- 3tisPebtr for being a little over-zem. An defending God's teachings?"' The question was called up 6fr' dbe adoption of Mr. Lyons's amendment that the action ot the South Carolina Synod in condemning the action of Charleston Presbytery forbidding public contend ing against. the decision of the Baltimore Assembly be disapproved. The vote was announced-124 yeas and 35 nays. A recount was demanded and resulted 104 yeas and 36 nays. Every delegate from South Carolina, except two from Charleston Presbytery voted "no." The final vote to adopt an amendment to the substitute disapproving the action of the South Carolina Synod and up holding the Charleston Presbvterv re slted in 113 yeas anid :31 nays. Thins was in reality the doctrine of evolution again snowed under. The Northern Church. IETw YoRK, M'ay 24.-The lively dis. cussion on the question of co-operation with the Southern Church in yesterday's session of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church was the cause of bringing a large audience to Dr. Cros by's Church this morning, in anticipa ti~on of hearing the continuance of the debat e Almost the first thing donie was the reading of a telegram from the Stated Clerk of the Southern Assembly. now in session, announcing that that body had adopted the majority report in favor of co-operation in mat ters of publation, etc., by a vote of 99 to 27. This statement was received with ap plause. The Rev. John Fox, a Kentuckian, continued his speech in opposition to co operation. While the p~eople of this country during the- past century, ae said, have not observed that Christian equality between the two races that they should have observed, they should now try to break down this lingering prejudice, and he would therefore vote against the majority report because it advocated separate churches for white and colored. The debate on the third sction of the majority report-co-o'peration in the evangelizing of the colored people-was continued-. The first two sections-co operation in home and foreign missions -were adopted yesterdlay. The r'eport is the same as tiiat adopted by the South ern Assembly. The Rev. Dr. Joseph T. Smith, chair man of the commnittee that drIew up the' report held t hat seplarate ebxurichles were desired by the colored people themselves. The Rev. Dr. Striker ot Chicaan saidh that he would vote for no report that asked one Christian to stand aside at the Communion table in favor of another. He moved to strike out that par't of the report which reads: "While conceding he existing situation, it (the Northern Assembly) approves the policy of sepa rate churches, presbyteries and synods, subject to the choice of the colored peo plc themselves." The Rev. Dr. Hlamlin of Washington moved that the word "practice" be sub stituted for the word "policy" in this entence, and that it be allowed to re main n. The Rv B. J Snmunri of North Car THE PALMETTO FLAG THE FIRST TO WAVE OVER MEXICO'S CAPITAL. What a Mexican Veteran Says-Notwith standing Sherman's Objections to the Palmetto Flag, It Was at the Front in the City of Mexico. CHARLESTON, May 29.-Lewis F.'Ro-. bertson, a Mexic n war veteran and a well-known bank .liccr here, has caused quite a sensation. A newspaper reporter got bold of him and he began to talk about the Sherman centennial flag incident. Robertson served through the Mexican war as a second lieutenant of Company F in the regiment from this State, known as the Palmetto Regiment. He is credited with being one of the first UnitedStates - soldiers to plant the colors on the walls 2f the City of Mexico. He also had a hand in the late unpleasantness-on the Southern side, of course. He is not an admirer of General W. T. Sherman. Here is what he said to this correspond ent: "The great barn burner and bummer chief, Sherman, ought to read up a at tie of the history of the country. There are men who fought for the Union when Sherman was in knickerbockers. l don't know where Sherman was in the days of '48 and thereabouts, but I know that when men were wanted at the front down in Mexico there was a regiment of South Carolinians there, and they did good service. The Palmetto Regiment managed to do some good service in Mexico, although they fought under the Palmetto flag. "As a matter of fact, we didn't s the stars and stripes from .the time e left Charleston until we entered the t of Mexico. In those days we didn't think it was necessary for men to wear a United States flag on his coatsleeve to prove his loyalty to his country, provided he proved it by fighting. Nor was it re garded necessary to prove one's loyalty to the flag by burning barns, destroying homesteads and hanging negroes up to the li of trees to make them tell wh the family silver was hidden. .ae history of the Mexican = As I have already said, the Palmetto Regiment, which served through that war, didn't carry the stars and stripes. They. had a- plain Palmetto flag; pre sented to them just before they went to the front: At Chapultepec there was a hitch somewhere. I don't want to say who is to blame, but the troops who were at the front, and who. had the stars and stripes. with them, didu't move on as promptly as the commanding officer de sired. So that officer sent word to Glad den to move his regiment, the Palbnetto, to the front; and to storm the walls. "f he order was given, and the 'armed mob,' with the Palmetto flag at its head, marched up, passed the advance who were lying-in the trenches stars and stripes, and with - 1 and a - rush, ca r d the fortre and planted the attlements. The troops with the stars and stripes came " up later. Then we pushed forward to the City of Mexico, leaving the stars and stipes, which had come up later, flying over Chapultepec. "The Palmetto Regiment were in ad vance when the City of Mexico surren dered, and I remember the incident. General Quitman, who was in com mand, called upon us for the national colors. We didn't have them. He was told that they had been left behind at Chapultepec. I was there at the time with our old Palmetto flag, and said to him that the only national flag we had had been left behind at Chapultepec. "'Here,' said I, 'is the Palmetto flag, and I expect it will do till yon can get the national colors.' "The General took the flag and planted it on the walls. It was the first flag that waved over the City of Mexico after its capture." Lieutenant Robertson says that the facts, as he stated them, can be verified by history. TROUBLE IN OKLAEOMA. United States Troops Called Out to Quell a Riot in Guthrie. CHICAO, May 24.-N dispatch from Guthrie. I. T., says: The soldiers were yesterday called out for the first time since the opening of Oklahoma and for several hours the city of Guthrie was practically under martial law. meetings which have been held'eve~ night for a week by men who lost the lots through contests and by the open ing of streets culminated in a riot ys terday. One of the best lots in Guthrie was awarded by the Board of Arbitra - tion to a man named Driscoll of Chi cago. An old maa by the name of Diemer of Kansas occupied the front of the same lot with a tent. Driscoll erected a building on rollers, ready to shove it to the front as soon as'iDiemer should vacate. Recently Council passed an ordinane empowering the marshai to eject ever person whose claim to a lot had been rejected by the Arbitration Bsed T put to execution would affect a aou sand persons. The city government ade a test case of the Driseoll-Diemer contest The marshal proceeded to re move Diemer and his tent. Immediately a mob of 1.200 men collected and drove the marshals awvay. The mob was about- -1 to attack the City Hail, when Captain Cavanaugh arrived upon the scene and dispersed them, after which the city au thorities resumed the work of ejecting Diemer. Diemer fought like a'tiger and had to be dragged from his tent to the street. Driscoll's building was rolled forward. The mob attempted to tear the house to pieces. bat this time the city amtho'rities were able to repulse the angry men without the aid of the sol diers. Last night soldiers guarded the prin cipal streets, and more trouble is antici pated when the work of ejectment is again begun. A Plan to Buy Cuba. TALLAHASSEE, Fla.. May 22.--A me morial to Congress was introduced in the Florida House of Representatives few days ago asking that the States propose to Spaim a u $10,00,00, to be3 paid' nual instalments of $ the purchase of olina, a colored clergyman, said it was neither the practice nor policy of the church in the South to organize separate churches. Dr. Hamlin's substitute was laid on the table. The vote on Dr. Striker's amendment was taken, and it was carried by about 400 to 50. With this exception, the paper as a whole was adopted, and the paper on co-operation was also approved of. The next thing was the adoption of the majority report as a whole as amended. This was done, only a few votes being heard when the question was put. A motion was then made to telegraph the Southern General Assembly what had been done. The Rev. Dr. Geo. T. Parris of Pitts burg moved as an amendment that when the clerk telegraphs the clause stricken out he also add that the reason it was done was "not to prejudice future ac tion nor to outline the future policy of this church, but simply because this Assembly did not believe that it stated the historical facts in the case." This was carried by a vote of 202 to 197. WAS SHE A BORGIA P Mrs. Chandler's Romantic career, Her Husbands and Their Mysterious Deaths. MOBILE, Ala., May 22.-Carrie E. Holbrook Chandler, the mother of Mrs. James Maybrick, who is charged with poisoning Maybrick in Liverpool, is a woman with a vry romantic career. Miss Holbrook came here about 1856, visiting her uncle, Rev. J. H. Ingraham, rector of St. John's Church, author of the "Prince of the House of David." She was very popular in society, being a good conversationalist, handsome though not pretty, and quiet and pre possessing in demeanor. Among those who joined her troop of admirers was young William G. Chandler, son of one of the most prominent merchants of the city. Chandler . was one of the most agreeable of Mobile's young men, edu cated and refined and quite successful in business. The two young people were mutually taken with one another and he followed her to her home in New York city where they were married. Returning to Mobile they lived in good style, and Mrs. Chandler increased her influence in society. She-was as much of a belle as before marriage aiid her society was especially sought by yon men. It was at the beginnin& he civil war that Frank Dub - ed up, being a captain in t , rdnance Depart ment of the Xntederate government. Capt ' 'rank was a remarkably hand man and a dashing officer. He fell in with tie Chandlers and soon there was some talk of his attentions to the lady. Suddenly Mr. Chandler fell ill. He grew rapidly worse and his relatives came to offer their assistance, but were refused admittance to the house. Chan dler died, attended by no one but the young wife, and the report arose that he had been killed by her. There was no official investigation of the charge, but it affected her position, which became so " she o - er two chil dren and moved to Macon, In less than a year she marrie - bassy there. Shortly afterward Dubassy was ordered to go to Europe as a repre sentative of the Confederate government. He and his family took passage on a blockade runner out of Charleston or Savannah, it is not known which, and had proceeded but a couple of days when Dubassy, who had been complaining, suddenly died. . The captain of the steamer proposed to return to port in order that the officer might be interred, hut the widow stren uously insisted that the vessel shoutd continue. She said that she did not like the risk of turning the vessel back and demanded that the body be cast over board. This was done. and the vessel reached Europe in due time. In a year or two she drifted back to New York, where she was involved in a scandal with sonic actor, which was pub lisbed in the papers at the time and create&Jg great sensation. Atter this she went ag lo Europe and met and married Baron Von"~ue. There was shortly a scandal with him ail, s it 1s said he was not faithful to her,. ana. one time he gave her a beating, so she left him. .It seems that they led an ad venturous life together. After separating from Von Roque the lady became a woman of the world, and when last hoard from was filling the equivocal position of "wife" of an at tache of thbe British Legation at Teheran, Persia. James Mavbrick, who is said to have been poisoned by his wife, Florence Maybrick. the daughter of Mits. Chan dler, was well known and liked here and in New Orleans. He met the young lady in Europe. A gentleman who was well acquainted with Mrs. Chandler during her residence in Mobile. stated to-day that she had a regular mania for collecting all sorts of poisons. In other words, she was a thorough amateur toxicologist. She had collected poisons from all parts of the wold and took great pride in her col lection. which she had in a tiue cabinet wvith each poison carefully labelled. The gentleman in question once visited her house by invitation to inspect this result of a strange "fad." She enter tained him for hours discoursing on the effect atnd nature of eac'h deadly agent, and showed such an unusual knowledge of toxicology that ever af ter the narrator says he entertained a peculiar dread of the woman. fearing that some day she nmight be seizedl with a desire to expleri mntu on him. Three Aged Per-sons. News of three very~ aged persons conmes from New England. The young est of these is Mr's. Lucy W. Follett, who recentiy celebrated her 100th birthday in Ilubibardston, Mass. She is in fairly good health, her figure is spare but erect, and her hair is silvery white. She walks unaitded, reads the newspaper and her Bible daily, and does plain sewing and knitting. ,Mr. George Moriris of Westbrook, Me..- was 101 years old early in this month. He is partially blind and deaf, and rarely goes out of his room. If Miss Betsy Quimby of Thetfori, Vt., lives until the 21st of next month she will he 1 03 years old She is described as hiavidg "a full head of hair" antd able to r-ead without glasses. She is lame, bunt that is because she broke her hip forty years ago. White Settlers Must Move On. CnicMso, May 24.-A dispatch from Pierre. Dakota. says: Agent McChes ney at Cheyenne has received instrtue tiobs to notify all white settlers now on the reservation to leave, by order of Secretary Noble. The world may be searched~from pl and no remedy found equal toB Blood Balm) for the cureo a remedy foundedo edge, and itsr byaucn'