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VOL. V. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5, 1889. NO. 26. OTHER DAYS LIVED OVER. Sermon by Rev. T. DeWitt Tal mage, D. T :10 Thinks It Would be Well for All to Spend More Time in Reminiscence -The Lasting Influence of Early Surroundings. The subjectof Dr. Talmage'srecent sermon at the BrooklynTabernacle was "Other Days. Livod Over," and his text, Deuteronomy viii. 2: "Thou shalt remember all the way which the LordThy God led thee." He said: Before entering on my subject I wish to say that some newspaper correspondents, referring to a recent sermon in which I wel comed foreign nationalties to this country, ,have said that I advocated as a desirable thing the intermarriage of the white and black races. I never said so, I never thought I so, and any one who so misrepresents that sermon is either a villain or a fool, perhaps both. But to open this morning's subject I-have 'to say God in the text advises the people to look back upon their past history. It will do us all goodtorehearse thescenesbetween this May morning and our eradle, whether it was rocked in country or town. A few days ago, with my sister and-brother, I vis ited the piace of my bok It was one of the most emotional au absorbing days of my life. There stans the old house, and as I went through the rooms I said; "I could find my way here with my eyes shut, al -Jinough I have not been herein forty years." There was the sitting room where a large family group every evening gathered, the most of them now in a better world. There was the old barn where we hunted for Eact er eggs, and the place where the horses stood. There is where the orchard was, only three or four trees now left of all the grove that once bore apples, and such ap .ples, too. There is the brook down which Iwe rode to the watering of the horses bare back and with a rope halter. We also vis ited the cemetery where many of our kin ,dred aro waiting for the resurrection, the old people sido by side, after a journey to gether of sixty years, only about three year between the time of their going. There also sleep the dear old neighbors who used to tie their horses under the shed of the country eneetinghouseand sit at the end of the pew, singing "Duke Street," and "Balerma," and "'Antioch." 0, they were a glorious race of nen and women who did their work well, raised a splendid lot of boys and girls; and are now as to their bodies in silent neigh 'borhood on earth, but as to their souls in Jubilant neighborhood before the throne of !God. I feel that my journey and visit last week did me good, and it would do you all food, if not in person then-in thought, to re 1visit the scenes of boyhood or girlhood. "Thou shalt rememberall the way which the Lord thy God led thee." Youth is apt too much to spend allitatime n looking forward. Oldageisapt too much to spend all its time in looking backward. IPEople in mid-life and on the apex look both wes. It woald- be well for us, I think, however, to'spend more time in reminis pence. By sthe constitution of our nature ,we spend most of the time looking forward, and the vast najority of this audience live not se much zn the present as in the future. :I And that yoi mean to make a reputation, you mean to establish yourself, and the ad .vantages yob' expect to achieve absorb a great deal of your time. But I see no harm in this if it d not make yo disconten ur o e' ppy hcme. We are not surprie toEdtt Bryonsheart was a concentration of sin, when we hear his mother was abandongl, and that she made sport of his infirmity and often called him "the lame brat" He .who has vicious pa pents has to fight every~inch of his way if he would maintain his integrity and at last reach thie home of the good in Heaven. Perhaps your early home was in the citv. It may have been in the days when Canal street, New York, was far up town and the site of this present church was an excursion into the country. That oldhouse in the city may have been demolished or changed into stores, and it seemed like sacrilege to you, for there was more meaning in that plain house, in that small housenhann there is in ,aa ' mansion or a turreted cathedral. ~Loigback this morning you see it as Thoughit were yesterday-the sitting-room, 'where the loved ones sat by the plain lamp Iight, the mother at the evening stand, the brothers and sisters, perhaps long ago gath ered into the skies, then plotting mischief on the floor or under the table, your father 'with a firm voice commanding a silence that lasted half a minute. O , those were good day's! If you had your foot hurt, your mother always had a soothing salve to heal it. If you were 'wronged in the street, your father was al ,ways ready to protect you. The year was one round of frolic and mirth. Your greatest trule was like an April shower, moresun gaethan shower. The heart had not been ransacked by troubles, nor had sickness :broken it, and no lamb had a warmer sheep fold than the home in which your childhood nestled. Perhaps you were-brought up in thecoun try. You stand now to-day in memory un der the old tree. You olubbed it for fruit that was not quite ripe-because you couldn't wait any longer. You hear the brcok rumb ling along over the pebbles. You step again into the furrow where your father in his shirt sleeves shouted to the lazy oxen. You frighten the swallows from the rafters of 'the barn, and tike just one egg, and silence your conscience by saying they won't miss - it Youtake adrink again out of the very Acket that the old well fetched up. You go for the cows at night, and find them wag ging their heads through the bars. Ofttimes in the dusty and busy streets you ed you were home again on that cool or in the rag-carpeted hall of the farm use, through which there wasthe breath sew mown hay or the blossom of buckw est ou may have in your wido now I bring to mind another passage in the history of your life. The day came when you set up your own household. The days passed in quiet blessedness. You twain sat at the table morning and night and talked over your plans for the future. The most insignificant affair in your life became the subject of mutual consultation and ad-. visement. You were so happy you felt you never could be any happier. One day a dark cloud hovered over your dwelling and it got darker and darker, but out of that cloud the shining messenger of God de acended to incarnate an immortal spirit. Two little feet started on an immortal jour ney, and you were to lead thom-a gem to flash in heaven's coronet, and you to polish it; eternal ages of light and darkness watch ing the starting out of a newly created crea ture. You rejoiced and y&u trembled at the re sponsibility that in your possession an im mortal treasure was placed. You prayed and rejoiced, and wept and wondered, and prayed and rejoiced, and wept and wondered; you were earnest in supplication that you might lead it trough life into the kingdom of God. There was a tremor in your earnestness. There was adoubleinterestaboutthathome. There was an additional interest why you should stay therend be faithful, and when inae your house was filled wit' the music of the child's laughter you were struck through with the fact that you had a stupendous mission. Have you kept that vow? Have you neg lected any of these duties? Is your home as much to you as it used to be! Have those anticipations been gratified? God help you to-day in your solemn reminiscence, and let His mercy fall upon your soul if your kind ness has been ill requited. God have mercy on the parent on the wrinkles of whose face is written the story of a child's sin. God have mercy on the mother who, in addition to her other pangs, has the pangs of a child's iniquity. 0, there are many, many sad sounds in this sad world, but the saddest sound that is ever heard is the breaking of a mother's heart. Are there any here who remember that ip that home they nwere un faithful? Are them those who wandered off from that early home, and left the mothcr to die with a broken heart? 0, I stir that reminiscence to-day. I find another point in your life history. You found one day you were in the wrong road; you gouldn't sleep at night; there was just one word that seemed ;, cob through your banking house, or through your office, oi' through your shop, or your bed room. and that word was "Eternity." You Said, "Iam not ready for it. 0 God, have v. rey." The Lord heard. Peace came to your heart. In the breath of the hill and the waterfall's dash you heard the voice of God's love; the clouds and the trees hailed you with glad ness; you came into the house of God. You remmeber how your hand trembled as you took up the cup of the communion. You remember the old minister who conse crated it, and you remember the church of ficials who caied it through the aisle; you remember the old people who at the close of the service took your hand ir theirs in con gratulating sympathy, as much s to say: "Welcome home, you lost prodigal;" and though those hands are all withered away, that communion Sabbath is resurrected this morning; it is resurrected with all its prayers, and songs, and tears, and sermons, and transfiguration. Have you kept those vows? Have you been a backslider? God help you. This day kneel at the foot of mercy and start again for Heaven. Start to-day as you started then. I rouse your soul by that reminiscence. ut I must not spend any more of my - -- h Sofcr put them all in one great sheaf, em up in your memory with vest song such as the reapers ' the Lord, ye blood bought of earth! Praise the Lord, ye spirits of Heaven! me of you have not always had a life. ~ Some of you are now in the . Others had their troubles years ware a mere wreck of what you once 1'must gather up the sorrowsof your life; buthow shall Ido it? Yousay that impossible as you have had so many bles and adversities. Then I will just e two, the first trouble and the last trou 1e. As when you are walking along the t, and there has been music in the dis co, you unconsciously find yourself keep 'step to the music, so when you started fe your very life was a musical time-beat. The air was full of joy and hilarity; with the bright, clear oar you made the boat skip; you went on and life grew brighter until after a while suddenly a voice from Heaven said, "Halt!" and quick as the sunshine you halted; you grew pale, you confronted your frst serrow. You had no idea that the fush on your child's cheekwsan unhalthy -'e~os.Det i sipered feet wled round about the cradle.- You did not hear the tread, but after a while The-truth flashed on you. You walked the floor. 0, if you could, with your strong, stout hand, have wrenched that child from the destroyor. You went to your room and you said, "God, save my child! God, save my child." The world seemed going out in darkness. You said: "I can't bear it; I can't bear it." You felt as if you could not put the long lashes over the bright eyes, neven to see them again sparkle. 0, if you could have taken that little one in your arms and with it leaped the grave, how gladly you would have done it! 0, if you cold let your property go, your houses go, your land and your store-house go, how gladly you would have allowed them to de part If you could only have kept that one treasure! But one day there arose from the heavens a chill blast that swept over the bedroom, end instantly all the light went out, and there was darkness-thick, murky, impen. etrable, shuddering darkness. Wit God didn't leave you there, Mercy spoke. As you took up the cup, and were about to put it to your lips, God said, "Let it pass," and forthwith, as by the hands of angels, anoth er cup was put iuto your hands; it was the cup of God's consolation. And as you have sometimes lifted the head of a wounded soldier, and poured wine into his lips, sc God put His left arm under your head, and with Hisright hand he poured into your lips the wine of his consolation, and you looked at the empty cradle and looked at your broken heart, and you looked at the Lord's chastisement, and you said, "Even so, Fa thr, for so it seemeth goods in Thy sight.' Ah, it was your first trouble. How did you get over it? God confronted you. You have been a better man ever since. Yeu have been a better woman ever since. Ii the jar of the closing gate of the sepulche: yan heard the clanging of the opening gate of Heaven, and you felt an irresistible drawing heavenward. You must have been pree of mind ever since that night when the little one for the last time put its arms~ around your neck and said, "Good night, papa: good night, mamma. Meet me in Heaven." But Imust come on down to your latest sorrow. What was it? Perhaps it was your own sickness. The child's tread on the stair, or the tick of the watch on the stand disturbed you. Through the long weary days you counted the figures in the carpet or the flowers in the wall paper. 0, thC weariness, the exhaustion! 0, the burning pangs! Would God it wrere morting, would God it were night, were your frequent cry. But you are batter, or per-haps even well. Have you thanked God to-day that you car come out in the fresh air; that you are it this place to hear God's name, and to sing God's praise, and implore God's help, and t< ask (tod's forgiveness? Bless the Lord, who dealeth all our diseases, and redeemeth our lives from destruction. Perhaps your last sorrow was a financial mbarrassment. I congratulate some o: u on your lucrative professionoor occupa n, on ornate apparel, on a commediou! idence-ererything you put your hands to turn to gold. But there are rs of you who arelike theship on whici * ed, where two seas met, and you ken by the violence of the wares, unadvised indorsement, or by a con of unforseen events, or by fire',-o or a eneles 2c you have beer fung headlong, and where you once dis pensed great charities now you have hard work to make the two ends ileet. Have you forgotten to thank God for your days of prosperity, and that through your trials some of you have made investments which will continue after the last bank of this world has exploded and the silver and gold are molten in the fires of a burning world? Have you, amid all your losses and discouragements, forgot that there was bread on your table this morning, and that there shall be shelter for your head from the storm, and there is air for your lungr, and blood for your heart, and light for you eye, and a glad and glorious and triumph ant religion for your soul? Perhaps your last trouble was a bereave ment. That heart which in childhood was your refuge, the parental heart, and which has ben a source of the quickest sympathy ever since, has suddenly become silent for ever, and now sometimes, whenever in sud den annoyance and without deliberation you say "I will go and tell mother," the thcnght flashes on you, "I have no mother;" or the father, with voice less tender, but staunch and earnest and loving as ever, watchful of all your ways, exultant over your success without saying much, although the old peo ple c telk it over by thomselves, his trem bling hand on that staff which you now keep as a :ily relic, his memory embalmed in grateful hearts, is taken away forever. Or, there was your companion in life, sharer of your joys and sorrows, taken, leaving the heart an old ruin, where the chill winds blow over a wide wilderness of desolation, the sands of the desert driving across the place which once bloomed like the garden of God. And Abraham mourns for Sarah at the cave of Machpelah. Going along your path in life, suddenly, right be fore you was an open grave. People looked down and they saw it was only a few feet deep and a few feet wide, but to you it was a cavern down which went all your hopes and all your expectations. But cheer up in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Comforter. He is not going to forsake you. Did the Lord take that child out of your arms? Why, He is going to shelter it better than you could. He is going to array it in a white robe, and with palm branch it will be all ready to greet you at your coming home. Blessed the broken heart that Jesus heals. Blessed the importunate cry that Jesus compassionates. Blessed the weeping eye from which the hand of Jesus wipes away the tear. I was sailing down the St. John River, Canada, which is the Rhine and the Hudson commingled in one scene of beauty and grandeur, and while I was on the deck of the steamer a gentleman pointed out to me the places of interest, and he said, "All this is interval land, and it is the richest land in all the provinces of New Brunswick and Nova Scotia." "What," said I, "do you mean by interval land?" . "Well," lie said, 'this land is sub merged for a part of the year; spring freshets come down and all these plains are overflowed with the water. and the water leaves a rich deposit. and when the waters are gone the harvest springs up, and there is the grandest harvest ever reaped." And I instantly thought. "It is not the heights of the church and it is not the heights of this world that is the sc-ne of the greatest pros perity, but the soul o, er which the floods of sorrow have gone, the soul over which the freshets of tribulation have torn their way, that yields the greatest fruits of righteous ness, and the largest harvest for time, and the richest harvest for eternity." Bless that your soul is interval lan I But these remi s' - cach only to this morning. wi yet be one m ut endow iscnce, and that is the last hot ife, unen we have to look over all our past existence. What a moment that will be ! I place Napoleon's dying reminis cence on St. Helena beside Mrs. Judson's dy g reminiscence in the harbor of St. Helena, the sanie island, twenty years after. Na poleon's dying reminiscence was ono of de lirium, "Head of the army." Mrs. Judson'.s dying reminiscence, as she came home from her missionary toil and her life of self-sac rifice for God, dying in the cabin of the ship in the harbor of St. Helena, was. "I always did love the Lord Jesus Christ." And then, the historian says, she fell into .a sound sleep for an hour, and woke amid the songs of angeis. I place the dying reminiscence of Au gustus Cesar against the dying reminis cence of the Apostle Paul. The dying reminiscence of Augustus Cosar was ad dressing his attendants, "Have I play'ed my part vwell on the stage of life?" and they answered in the affirmative, and he said, "Why, then, .don't you ap plaud me?" The dying reminiscence of Paul the Apostle was, "I have fought a good fight, I have kept the faith; hence t -mne a~gcrwn of righteouness, which the Lord, the rTl eons judge, will give mec in that day, and not to me only, but to all them that love His appearing." Augustus Cw-sar died amid pomp and great san-roundings. Paul ut tered his dying reminiscence looking through the wall of a dungeon. God grant that our last hour may be the closing of a useful life, and the opening of a glorious eternity. --The thought of Heaven is pleasant to usi w~e believe t hat some place away above the sky, and clouds, and stars, there is a home into which we shall be gathered. If we feel like wanderers, pilgrims and sojourn ers, and our travels perhaps almost con cluded, it is restful to us to look and con 'emplate that which awaits us in the better land. It is not that we wish to escape what is here, but. its fashion changing, we hope for the better enjoyments that are beyond. --United Presbyterian. -We must not be too fastidious about people forsaking their ugliness and-correct big their faults bofore our charity goes out to them.-Bishop Huntington. RAN OFF WITH THE BRIDE. Miss Imel Had Two Lovers and They Both Married Her. CASSVILLE, Mio., Miay 29.-The rapid young Mfissourian, who on last Satnrday r'an off with another man's wife half an iour after the marriage ceremony bad been performed, is now in the hands of the Sheriff on the charge of abduction. The young woman is under arrest on the charge of bigauny. Her name is Mfamie Imel, and she is not quite 17 years of age. She was a belle of Carthage, and she performed the unusual feat of be coming engaged to tno lovers and mar rying them both. J. S. Pritchett was first choseu, and he went away to Idlaho and all details of the marriage were per fected by mail. A young farmer named Ullmer made such progress during the last six months that 3Miss Imel made a second engagement. Last week Pritchett came on to secure his bride, and on Saturday they were married.' Ullmer was quickly notified of tvhat had taken place. Hem induced the bride, about an hour after the cere mony, to step out in the street and have a tal'k withb him. His buggy was stand ing near by, and a few minutes after the conversation began he grabbed the bride tip in his arms, de.posited her in the buggy, and, taking a se-at beside her, drove otY at full speed. A hot pursuit was organized, but Lochinvar escaped. It is alleged they were married on Tues day. Hence the Sheriff arrested them. Lord Salisbury on Bimetallism. LONDON, Miay 30.--Lord Salisbury. re plying to a deputation in favor of .the bimetallic standard of currency, said that he did not think a Parliamentary decree wo'uld settle the question, but that the opinion of the people, founded on business interests, must decide it. He hoped the coming congress at Paris would be really an international one. anw far the nation would co-operate. STORM SWEPT. WILD WORK OF THE ELEMENTS IN VARIOUS STATES. A Terrific Tornado in West Virginia De stroys a Vast Amount of Property and Kills Several Persons-Fierce Gale on the Lakes-Wind, Rain, Snow and Frost. MARTINSBURG, W. Va., May 31.-A tornado struck a section of country five miles East of here yesterday afternoon, and after demolishing a vast amount of property it passed down the Potomac River, up-rooting trees, overturning small vessels and playing havoc .gen erally with small buildings near the banks of the stream. The storm traveled over an area of ten miles, and then passed out to sea. Very few trees were left standing along the water front. Those that escaped were twisted out of shape. The hoose of Martin Barien, which stood directly in the tornado's path, was lifted from the ground. Two women who were in a little frame kitchen were hurled twenty feet and seriously injured. A barn in which George Vogel and 0. Powell had taken refuge was blown down and the two men were killed. The damage to crops was great. FIERCE GALE ON THE GREAT LAKES. CHICAGO, May 31.-Yesterday and last night a fierce gale raged over Lakes On tario and Erie and portions of Lakes Huron and Michigan. All around the lakes vessels are reported wind-bound and driven ashore. At Chicago the wind reached a ve !ocity of forty~ miles an hour, and a number of vessels were forced to an chor outside. At Port Huron the white caps were driven before a gale of 48 miles, and across the river at Sarnia a fleet of big boats were bound up, afraid to move. The storm is moving Eastward, and Lake Michigan will probably be free from unusual wind to-day. At 7 o'clock last night a North wind was blowing at the following ports, with the velocities given: Chicago 40 miles, Milwaukee 42 miles, Green Bay 48, Port Huron 48, Detroit 45, Toledo 35, Sandusky 33. - TERRIFIC STORM IN MARYLAND. HAGERSTOWN. Md., May 31. -A terri fic storm passed over the Potomac River district of Washington County yesterday afternoon. It seemed to follow the course of the river, leaving destruction in its tracks, blowing down buildings, trees and fences, and ruining growing crops. Telegraph and telephone wires are down, and it is impossible to obtain particulars. HEAVY RAIN FOLlOWSDAWS4!Zd" WINAMAC, ad., May 31.-Rain has fallen ithout ceasing for forty-eight h rs, and it changed to a snowstorm yesterday afternoon. There has been nearly twenty-two inche.. rairf1', Sg tdamgfl be done by floods. GREAT DAMAGE BY FROST. GALENA, Ill., May 31.-A heavy white frost visited this section yesterday morning. Corn on low ground was blasted to sprout, and all kinds of tender fruits killed. The damage is very seri ous. SIX INCHES OF SNOW. WAiBAsH, Ind., May 31.-The heaviest rainfall in years has been prevailing throughout this region for two days. At Benton Harbor, Mich., snow fell to the depth of six inches. Snow is also reported at other places. A FIERCE NORTHEAsTER, WITH SNOW. MICHIGAN CITY, Ind., May 31.-A Northeaster, the, fiercest storm known here for years, now prevails. Snow fell here yesterday to the depth of about an inch. A PERFECT HURRICANE. HARRIsONBURG, Va., May 31.-Tbere was a great storm in this section last night. The wind blew a perfect . hurri cane. Wheat was blown dowxm- -ee Wey u-pfofed.~luses-udroofed and fences laid low. The damage is great. RAINED FOR FIFTEEN HOURS. STArONo. Va., May 31.-The storm of Tuesday in the Northwest reached here Thursday and continued till this morning. For fifteen consecutive hgurs rain fairly poured down, accompanied by strong wind, and much wheat has been blown down and damaged. AN INCEssANT DOWNPOUR FOR 30 HOURS. WINCHEsTER, Va., May 31.-There has been an incessant downpour of rain for the last 30 hours. At times the winds were very high. Many magnifi cent wheat fields are laid flat and wheat is materially injured. All water courses are beyond crossing. PIsBURG, Pa., May 31.--A sudden freshet is reported in the North Fork River, East' of Johnstown, Pa., in the Allegheny Mountains. Two-thirds of Johnstwn is said to be under water; and railroad and telegraph lines are washed out. It is said that the reser voir above the town broke about. 5 o'clock this evening and an immense volume of water rushed down to the cit. crryngwith it death and destruc tion Hoseswith their occupants were setaway, and scores, proba bby hundreds, of people, were drowned. There is no communication with Johnstown, but the telegraph ope rator on the Pennsylvania Railroad tower at Sang Hollow, twelve miles this side of Johnstown, says at least seventy-.five dead bodies have floated past. The wires arc all down and no trains are running East of Blairsville Junction, which is about twenty-five miles West of Johnstown. There is no way to get to the scene of t'ne disaster, and full par ticulars can hardly be obtained to-night, although every effort is being made to do so. There will be no trains through to the East before to-morrow. L. Edwin Dudley in Georgetown. Quite a commotion was created in Gereonlast week by the visit of M LEdwin Dudley of Boston, who came to South Carolina to investigate the political conditions here and espe cially for the purpose of ascertainig the true'status and strength of the md pen dent movement. Mr. Dudley had inter viws with several of our citizens and was put in possession of a good deal of information. He expressed surprise at finding so little "independentism" in Georgetown, as he had been led to be lieve that the revolt against the Democ racy had assumed formidable propor tions here. He stated that in Charles ton he had been waited on by delegetes representing nearly a thousand white mehrtfore In affiliation with the Democratic party, who expressed a wil lingness to sever their connection with that party and to join any movement having for its object the advocacy and support of protection for American in Idustries.-Gorgetownl Enquirer. DISCIPLES OF VOUDOOISM. A Superstitious Gang Captured by the New Orleans Police. NEW ORLEANS, May 29.-A case in the Second Recorder's Court this morn ing establishes the fact that voudoois'n and its disgusting rites still have a foot hold in Louisiana. It was generally supposed that the voudoo was extinct. Careful inquiry by the city press, cover ing a series of years had failed to un cover a genuine case of voudooism, and it was believed that this relic of Africa and slavery had finally disappeared with the death some years ago of Marie Leveaux, the Voudoo Queen. The ju dicial proceedings to-day, however, show that the voudoo fetich still has its vo taries and that they are not confined to the negroes. For some time past there has been at stated periods promiscuous gatherings of whites and blacks in a house on St. Anthony street, far removed from the bustle 'of the city. Although in a re tired locality, the assemblages became so noisy that they disturbed the neighbors and attracted to the vicinity large crowds of men and boys. As .ihe house was retired from the street and the doors Ind windows were kept tightly closed those who gathered from curiosity were unable to discover what was going on in side. At last the place became a nuisance to the neighborhood and the police were informed. Steps were taken at once to discover the secret of the house and the ,ause of the disturbance therein. To this end the place was closely watched. A. nu.ber of black and white women and several negro men were seen to en ter the enclosure yesterday and disap pear within the house. Shortly ifrer ward the noises of whiTh the neighbors ad complained were heard. At this juncture a patrol wagon filled with police drove up. The house was surrounded so as to prevent the escape >f the occupants, and without warning he police entered. A strange and dis ;usting sight met their eyes. In a cir 3le formed by eight white and six negro women and seven negro men was a half breed Indian and negro named Alexan ler, who, dressed i. silken tights, was performing a typical voudoo dance, muttering at the same time a weird in iantation, the refrain of which was aken up by the men and women sur rounding him, the chorus at times rising to a great volume of sound. The negro men were lying on the floor partly clad, while the women standing around had also laid aside much of their ordinary wearing apparel. The entire party was ;o engrossed in the antics of Alexander that the entry of the police was a com plete surprise. Captain Donnally, in command of the police, ordered the arrest of all in t bouse. maar Tati violently T st this, one of them expressing the sentiments of all when she exclaimed: "This is scandalous! The idea of arrest ing a woman for trying to get cured." Finding that the police were inexor a they then begged for time to make their'~ftob-rtfthWe granted. - When they were robed for the street ir way found that nearly all the white women were well dressed and apparently were respectable people. They were horri fied to learn that they were to be taken to the polee station. When they reached there they volunteered an explanation of their presence in such an assembly and in such scant attire. Alexander, they said. was a voudoo doctor., He had made many wonderful cures and they had full confidence in his power to relieve their sufferings by his incanta tions. They stoutly insisted that they had experienced benefit from his treat ment and were confident he would ?ffect a thorough cure. The women were evi dently sincere in their statements, They were of all ages, ranging from sixteen to .fifty, and several of them were de cidedly handsome. The entire party were arraigned in court to-day, when the men and women were fined $2.30 each for taking part in an immoral show, while the voudoo doctor was requiredtopay .$25Ighe same ffe___e Drunkenness as a Crime. ST. PAUL, May 28.-Senat or Sc-heifer received the following letter yesterday on the drunkenness question from a New York physician: NEW YoRK, May ee. The Hon. Senator &chefer: DEAR SIR: A friend of mine brought to me this afternoon a slip from a news paper dated Minneapolis, Minn., May 17, stating that Senator Scheffer's drunk enness law went into effect yesterday and giving its provisions. 1 congratu late you as the first legislator in the wold since the days of Moses who has the wisdom to deal with drunkenness as a crime. I have long thought that the only effcctual way of suppressing drunkenness would be to treat it as a felony and inflict upon it a severe and ignominious penalty. I regard pro hibition as wrong in principle and ut terly impracticable. I was traveling in Maine two years ago and reached a ho tel in Portland about 11 o'clock at nigh t. I said to the proprietor: "-I suppose, sir, it would be unreasonable for a in an to expect to get anything to drink down here stronger than tea or coffee, but I hope that I shall be able to get some thing to eat." "Just the reverse," he re plied. -'Our hour for supper has passed, but I can give you'just as much to drink as von like." He escorted me to a room in ~the rear of the house, where a man was engaged m making various alcoholic beverages for a number of guests. Yours very truly. HENRY A. HARTT. Disappointed With the Pacific Coast. A Maine Yankee, who has been visit ing the Pacific coast, says that nearly everything disappoints him. The Palace Hotel,in San Francisco,he found to he an ugly wooden afir, most of whose rooms are dark cells. The barrooms, however, are excellent, and the furnishings are gorgeous. He was especially struck with the daring character of the oil paintings in the barrooms, as instanced in a life-size portrait ot a blonde lady, dressed in a handsome pigeon hovering in front of her. But even with all its artistic attractions, he decides that San Francisco isnt half so pleasant as Ban gor, Me. Attica's Sleeping Woman. ATTICAx, N. Y., May 29.-Mrs. Emma Alhouse awakened this afternoon from a trance which lasted only two days. the shortest she has had in the two years she has been in the trance condition. She now weighs only 87 pounds, although she weighed 178 pounds before she was taken ill. In the last month the only nourishment she has taken has been about a pint of warm milk, which has been given her in very small doses. She is unable to speak and can hardly movether head or hands. The irest of her bpdy is rigid and a physician who saw her yesterday thinks that ossifica tion as set in. She is so weak that,! withoI other causes, death from cx CLEVELAND FOR 1892. Senator Morgan Saes in Hun .thy Only Candidate. MONTGoMERY, Ala., May 29.-S.n itor John T. Morgan is in Montgomery, and to-day sa'd: " am not at all surprised but highly gratified that Mr. Cleveland has again expressed nis well-known views on the question of the tariff and other matters of government policy so successfully in augurated and pursued under his ad ministration. I look upon Mr. Cleve land as one of the best informed and most conscientious men in the Enited States. His administration of the gov ernment was one of integrity and great ability, and will compare favorably with that of any other which the country has ever had. The government and the peorale are certainly very much better for having had the benefit and experi enee of b: upiright, heat ., straigiat forward, splendid administratfhot-. of public affairs for four years. His ho esty and uprightnessi were universally acknowledged, and the people fully ap preciate the value of his great services." "Do you think Mr.. Cleveland is a candidate for President or that he will be the nominee in 1892 ?" "Mr. Cleveland is not a candidate for the Presidency. Personally he cares very little about it But when the tune comes to select a candidate for the Presidency to lead the Democratic pa ty to victory, unless there is some great revolution of sentiment and change in the popular mind, the people will rise up in their might and name ;Mr. Clve land. From the present outlook Mr. Cleveland's will be the only name men tioned in connection with the Demo cratic nominatiorr for the Presidency in 1S92. The Debts of the Southern States. The figures relating to the State indebtment which are presented in the last Statistical Abstract issued by the Treasury Department have drawn the attention of our esteemed contempo rary. the Nen' Orleans Democrat, to a very remarkable fact. The thirteen Southern States, includ ing Kentucky and Missouri. have funded debts aggregating $95,858,G43, besides an unfunded debt amounting to $20. 000,000 more. The funded debt of the South is thus distributed: State Tax Punded Debt. in .Lis. Virginia.......$23,550.696 4.0 North Carolina. 4,300,000 13.0 outh Carolina. 7,012,741 5.25 Georgia........ 8.752,305 3.5 Alabama ...... 9,214,300 5.5 Florida........ 1,275,000 --.-kids Mississippi .... 1,105, 3.5 Louisiana... , ,621 6.0 ; . 4,237,730 2.5 Arkansas...... 12.029,100 4.0 Kentucky...... 074,000 4.75 Tennessee ..... 2.500,000 3.0 MissouT ...... .,525,000 4 0 Total.......$06.158,643 Average State tax in nills.......4.07 Of these Southern States Kentucky lone has a sinking fund, and in her casf~id; nilL00L.r us-enllfrMt= ment. Three-quarters of the debt of Texas and about the whole of Missis sippi's are due to the school funds of Lhose States, so that the net debt is in significant in each case. In round fig ures, $110,000.000 is the Southern ag gregate, including the unfunded debt. The remaining twenty-five States, comprising all those of the North, the Northwest and the Pacific slope, owe less than $48,000,000, funded and un funded, if the amounts in the several sinking funds are subtracted from the nominal aggregate. It appears, therefore, that ten South ern States arc loaded with more than two-thirds of all the State debts of the Union. This heavy and enormously dis proportionate burden is mainly due to the years of misgovernment and plunder which the South-endured tinder Rlepuh lian carpet-bag rule. That was broken up by the efforts of the Southern Denm oeratsgidd~thm., . e other ewspapers, and the melancholy PC ended forever with the election of Samuel J. Tilden as President of the Unmted States. It is well to remember these things once in awhile. The figures of the Southern States debts even at the pres ent time remain as a reminder. The wonderful energy and new prosperity of the South is steadily decreasing the mountain of State debts pi'ed up during the eight evil years of Grant and carpet bag rule-New York Sun. A Terror to Sham Spooks. Dr. Francis Buckner of Covington, Ohio, has.broken all modern records in his suceess in dealing with the ehtss of spirits which are eonjluredl up by the mediums of the present day. It app~lears that Dr. Buckner's wife was a believer in the pretensions of the mnediums, hat the doctor himself was skeptical One da r he went home and found his par lr darkened, a medium eunaed in holding a seance, with the assistance of two females. all for the special behoof and benefit lf Mrs. Buckner. As the doctor was at home, he could not prop erly be put out, so he was invited to join in the exercises. H e did so, and was soon rewarded by the sight of what purported to he the mnaterialized form of his wife's deceased sister. \\atching is opportunity, he seized the alleged sister-n-lawv b.y the arm, conducted her with all conveniient dispatch to th'e outer room and threw her down the steps. This would not have hurt her if she had really been a spirit, but she turned out to he one of the female assistatnts. With-i out any unnecessary loss of time the skeptical phiysicien seizedl the other as sitant and threw her through the vgn dow, and then, falling upon the medium himself, gave hinm a soutid thrashing. This radhical behavior oni rthe part of Dr. Buck ner has materially diniunished the activity of the spirits in Covingto. Lu isrille Courrwr-Joutral. A Prisoner Commits Suicide. PITTsFIELD. Mass.. May :30.-George Wagoner, a pis~oner at the jail, who took poison Tuesday~ night, renmiued un conscious until this mnorning, when he died. lie left a lette to his jais re questinig them to mak~e no investig'ation into his death, statig that he alon:e was eonsiible and tha no one would I 11. ( Ourt wheire he got the poiso.e Jieedm inocence of the cim charged.t and1 adts: "I they ta'ke Tomi they will have the right one. Sherif( Crosbyhas Ii - stituted a rigid exatmnat ion. WXagoner was charged with rape on a 16-year-old Pitchers Full of Medicine. At High Ridge, near Stamford, Conn., there is a wife who is the mother of fourteen children, all living. anmd none of them twins. All but two live at home, and these two, catching the sear let fever, wecnt home to 1e nursed. They gave it to the other dozen, and the hole fourteen were sick at once, and medicine had to be mixed in pitchers nd pn. LYNCHERS BROUGHT TO JUSTICE. Prominent Citizens of Galveston County, * Texas, Arrested for Murder. GALVESTON, Texas, May 30.-Consider able excitement was occasioned here yesterday by the arrest of Judge Henry Wever, a Justice of the Peace of Galves ton County, and W T. Allen and Charles Juneman, well known citizens living several miles down the island, on an indictment found by the grand jury charging them with the morder of Richard Fleisehig in this County on the 20th of August, 1884 The indictment also included Fred Koehler, late con stable in Justice Weyer's precinct, but at present absent from the city, and Cliff Porter, who left Galveston very suddenly and mysteriously soon after the lynching of young Fleisehig. Juneman is engaged in the dairy busi ness. Allen has been recently employed in the - Farmers' Alliance Exchange. Koehler was constable of the third pre eiet. Weyer, Allen and Koehler are all p'oinent members of the Galveston County AlItee. As soon as tTt~diciment was found an officer left Galve'st for Kentucky to arrest Porter. taking the-necessary re quisition papers from Governor Ross to make an arrest in another State. He aso got a similar requisition from the Governor of Kentucky. Porter was found at Latonia, Ky., where, as owner of thc Creole stables, he was engaged in the races now in progress at that place. The crime with which these men are charged is the lynching of a young Ger man, Richard Fleisehig, in this County in August, 1S84, for an assault made upon the wife of Juneman. The present indictment was found upon the disclos ure of new evidence, namely: an affidavit made by Henry Heinroth, who affirms that about a month after the lynching of Fleisehig he secreted himself under the house and listened to a conversation be aw-een the persons now under arrest, the substance of which was practically a confession on the part of Weyer, June inan, Allen and Koehler, to having com mitted the murder. The recent grand jury ordered the body of Fleischig to be exhumed, which was done oa May 21, under the auspices. of Justice Spann and County Physician- Burk. As soon as the indictment was found. Officer Lordan took a train for Kentucky, in search of the fugitive Porter. Nothing eas found in Fleischig's coffin but a lot >f dry bones. One peculiar circumstanc gas that the thigh bones of the leg. ere Foupd at the lower end ofAe'n coffin, vhere the knee bone sh ldld have been, md the knee bonesf'cere up toward the fhin- irsairrangement could not have-resulted from natural causes, and it leads to the conclusion that the bones must have been tampered with, but for what purpose is not known, unless it is to re'cover a piece of wire that may have been left in the body after .it was used for laceration. A badly decomposed rope that had been left around the neck of Fleisehig was also found in the coffin. The Nicaragua Canal Begun. from New York for Greytown last Satu day, had on board a corps of engineers, with material, machinery and supplies, to begin the construction of the Nicara gua canal. Work, it is stated, is to be begun at once in earnest, and proceed without interruption until the 170 miles of the canal route have been opened for business. E'Pry important preliminary has been successfully concluded. A ch.arter has been obtained from the United States government, agreements have been had with the local government, and the canal company's engineers have completed surveys and investigations which enable capitalists to form an idea of the practicability of the proposed in teroccanie waterway. What is of the first importance, money, it is said, is forthcoming to the extent of the com pany's present needs. Since November, 1887, a force of engineers has been en gaged upon the line of the new enterprise. This force is now being wel reinforced with a view to actual constr stion. Several hundred laborers aie alreaWty& loyed, but from this time on their num r wu b great , . creased. Some thousands will be oh tainced in Nicaragua, but for the fifteen or twenty thousand to be einployed when the work is fully under way the company will have to rely largely upon ttie negroes of the South and of the West Indies. Southern commerce will, it is thought, receive an appreciable stimulus from the- construction no less than from the completion of the new trade route. Immense quantities of So-thern pine and other supulies will be drawn from that section during the progress of thbe work. The cost of the canal, including 25 per cent. for contingencies, is estimated at about $6,000.000. This estimate, embraces, besides the construction of the canal pismn, the approaches to it and the buildings, electric light, telegraphs, railroads, &c., required to make it prac tiallv serviceable. As amended by the most'recent surveys the route will con sist of 56) mileslof lake navigation, 64 miles of river navigation and 204 miles of basin navigation, leaving but 29 miles of canal to be constructed. Lake Nica ragua. at the summit level, greatly facili tates the work. By the construction of dams its level will be extended to 154 mies. The height of the surface of the lake above the sea will be 110 feet. Vessel.; will reach this height and descend again by means of six locks. A vessel will requinre but forty-five minutes for each lockage, ~so that, allowing an average tonnage of 1,750 tons, vessels of an a-ggregate tonnage of 20,000,000 tons could traverse the canal in ene year. About one-fourth of this tonnage, it is believed, worlId use the canal from the first, so that a moderate charge per ton wvould enable the canal company to pay dlividlends. An advantage the Nica rauea route will have over the rival Panama route is the salubrity of the country it tra;verses. Both for its builders and its users this will consti tute a distinct and permanent ground of preference. Knows Nothing Abnout the Cronin Case. Ton~oNro, May 30.-W. J. Starkey, the lawyer who -fled from Chicago to thi.. ch v some time ago to escape pr~ose imion b~r tampering with a jury and who iam been accused of complicity with C. F. Long in the preparation of despatehes about Long's alleged inter viwvs with Dr. Cronin, visited the newspaper offices this morning and said he arrived in the city only yesterday, aftei- a month's visit in New York. He declared that lhe had had absolutely no dealinas with Long and had no knowl edge of the Cronin case. Death of Ex-Su-rgeon General Moore. RIcHMOND, Va., May 31.-Dr. S. H. Moore, who was Surgeon General of the Confederate States, died suddenly at, his residence in this city this mo~ of conesion of the lungs. A WILL ENGLAND FIGHT? STARTLING REVELATIONS CONCERNING - THE SEAL FISHERY TROUBLE. A British Naval Officer, While Under the Influence cf Champagne, Gives Away the Tenor of the Ordrrs Issued by the Admiralty to the Commanding Officer of the Fleet Which Has Been Ordered to Behring Sea. CHICAGO, May 30.-A special dispatch from Victoria, B. C., savs: Startling revelations concerning the tenor and extent of the orders issued by the British Admiralty authorities to Admiral Heneage, commanding the Pacific squadron, and under which the British men-of-war Swiftsurer Icarais and Amphion, now at Esquimalt, will proceed to Behring Sea early in June, were made yesterday by an officer in high rank attached to the flagship. He and a number of other naval officers attended a luncheon given by local club men, and before the affair came to a close, all were very much un der the influence of champagne. At the height of the festivities the officer, in responding to the toast of "The Navy," said, in substance, that there would be some fighting soon in Behriug Sea if the . American authoritisattemp-tedJ;.rpre vent Canadian sealers from bunting there. N -actention would be paid to the President's proclamation, lie said, a- .he Admiral would not only dispute the claim of the Americans to exclusive sovereignty in the disputed waters, but if American ships should take into cus tody Canadian sealers, caught fishing - therein, the British men-of-war would take steps to recapture them. He said, further, that the Admira commanding the North American squadron had sent the British cruiser Buzzard from Bermuda to New York, and while there orders were re ceived from the Admiralty to act 4" once and send two war ships from-the North American Station to reinforce those now under orders to proceed to Behrin; Sea. If the statement'-made by this officer - are true, it would sen that Great Bri tain m to resort torce rather han wait it. ol -hing diffiod . t e Admiral heard of the statements made by the officer, and at once ordered him under arrest. Strong efforts were made to keep the matter secret. but it leaked out and caused great excitement. He has communicated to the British Ad miralty authorities by cable. NO NEWS AT OTTAWA. "rrAwA, 30.-The Department of .arine and Fisheries is yet without* any official information as to the despatch of warships to Behring Sea. by either England or the United States. No significance is attached by head officials to the despatch of these s - ers. At any rate that is how they, express themselves. THE REPORT DENIED IN PARLIAMENT. LoNDO.i, May In the. Ho ommons , Y arliam Foreign Office. e re Victoria, B. C., that three men-o - in the Pacific had been ordered to pro ceed to Behring Sea in June to protect British sealing vessels from interference by American men-of-mar. WHAT IS SAID AT WASHINGTON. WASHINGTON, May 30.-The Wash ington dispatches from British Colum bia with regard to expected trouble between the United States and Great Britain over the Behring Sea seal fish eries are generally discredited by officers of the Navy Department. It is pointed out that no officer of rank sufficiently high to make him acquainted with the English government's purpose would under any circumstances be so foolish as to talk in the manner stated .in the dispatch from Victoria. A prominent naval official, speaking on the sub~t said that if such talk did occurt speaker was some subaltern who had drank too much and lost his head, and had by high talk given his auditors to -beggve that something startling was goin M 'm A ~ d that. all about it. The United States had no reason to apprehend any - difficulty. Great Britain assur edly would not commit any ove:t act of violence in case her sealers were molested, without warning this government of its intentions. The warning that Great Britain would by force dispute the sovereignty-of Behring Sea had never been communicated to the United States, and this alone showe.. the improbability of the story. might be that the three vessels named were going to Behring Sea, though that was by no means certain. Their duties there,~however, would probably consist in nothing more than keeping a watch on the situation to prevent their citizens from being wantonly ill-used and giving the scalors good advice. If our vessels attempted anything that was -unwar ranted, it might be that the British of ficers would feel called upon to inter fere. The United Statessend vessels to the Newfoundland fisheries eac:h yeado . look after American interests, and-. British vessels probably had a similar mission in Alaskan~vaters, presuming that they would go there. The Unmted Stat-es n'a i resent available in Behrin~ Sea 'son sists of the Bear, the Thetis a~ a reve nue cutter. These vessels are\ of, no use for actual warfare, and are simply policemen of the sea. The Adams and the Iroquois are at M(are Island, and could be sent to sea at short. notice if circumstances demanded it. The Charleston is also at San Francisco, but it will be some time before she will be ready to go into comnfission. She has demonstrated, it is said, that she is an excellent beat, but has not yet ful filled the contract rcquirements, and. some changes are necessary to be made in her machinery before she can come up to the conditions of the contract. Even if these requirements were waived under stress of an emergency, it would take some time to fit the Charleston out for service. As has been already stated, howev-er, naval officers do not think the situation alarming or even threatenmng. The Bhring Sea fisheries, they are confident, will not precipitate a conflict between4 the United States and Great Britain. M She Beat the Xatrimonial Record. SHELBYvILLE, Ind., Miay 2g.-Mirs. Mfollie Corwin, whose marital experience beats the record, was granted a divorce esterday from Joseph Corwin, her sev enth husband, from whom she was di vorced last winter and to whom she was remarried soon after. Frost and Ice in MIichigan. UHEBOGG.N, Miay 30.-It froze hard here Tuesday night, ice forming an eighth of an inch thick. Early vegeta Stender plants were ktlled and .as badly ntnned by the frost.