The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, June 19, 1889, Image 1
VOL. V. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 19, ]889. NO. 28.
ABOUT PURIFICATION.
SermCn by Rev. T. DeWitt Tal
mage, D. D.
How Dtfferent reople Try to Cleanse Their
Souls from Sin-Rut Little Good in
Humanity Until It is Recon
structed by God's Grace.
Dr. Talmage's recent sermon at the Brook.
lyn Tahernacle was upon the subject of
Purification, and his text Job ix, 30-31: "If
I wash myself with snow water, and should
I cleanse my hands in alkali, yet shalt thou
plunge me in the ditch, and mine own clothes
shall abhor me." The eloquent divine spoke
as follows:
Albert Barnes-honored be his name on
earth and in heaven-went straight back to
the original writing of my text, and trans
lated it as I have now quoted it, giving sub
stantial reasons for so doing. Although we
know better, the ancients had an idea that
in snow water there was a special power to
cleanse, and that a garment washed and
rinsed in it would be as clean as clean could
be; but if the plain snow water failed to do
its work. then they would take lye or alkali
and :nix it with oil, and under that prepara
tion they felt that the last impurity would
certainly be gone. Job, in my text, in most
forceful figure sets forth the idea, that all
his attempts to make himself pure before
God were a dead failure, and that, unless
we are abluted by something better than
earthly liquids and chemical preparations,
we are loathsome and in the ditch. "If I
wash myself with snow water, and should
I cleanse my hands in alkali, yet shalt thou
plunge me in theditch, and mine own clothes
shall abhor me."
You are now sitting for your picture. I
turn the camera obscura of God's word full
upon you, and I pray that the sunshine fall
ing through the skylight may enable me to
take you just as you are. Shall it be a flat
tering picture, or shall it bea true one? You
say, -Let it be a true one." The first pro
file that was ever taken was taken three
hundred and thirty years before Christ, of
Antigonus. He had a blind eye. and hecom
pelled the artist to take his profile so as to
hide the defect in his vision. But since that
invention, three hundred and thirty years
before Ch rist. there have been a great many
profiles. Shall I to-day give you a one-sided
view of yourselves, a profile, or shall .t be a
full length portrait, showing you just what
you are? If God will help me by His al
mighty grace I shall give yon that last kind
of a picture.
When I first entered the ministry I used
to write my sermons all out and read them,
run my hand along the line lest I should
lose my place. I have hundreds of those
manuscripts. Shall I ever preach them?
Never: for in those days I was somehow
overmastered with the idea I heard talked
all around about, of the dignity of human
nature, and I adopted the idea, and I evolved
it, and I illustrated it, and I argued it; but
coming on in life, and having seen more .of
the world, and studied better my Bible, I
find that that early teaching was faulty, and
that there is no dignity in human nature un
til it is reconstructed by the grace of God.
Talk about vessels going to pieces on the
Skerries off Ireland ! There never was such
a shipwreck as in Gihon and the Hidded
rivers of .Eden, w ,,ax ou-first parents
r9&erOd. Talk of a steamer going down
with five hundred passengers on board!
What is that to the shipwreck of fourteen
hundred million souls? We are by nature a
mass of uncleanness and putrefaction, from
Which it takes all the omnipotence and in
linitude of God's grace to extricate us. "If
I wash myself with snow water. and should
I cleanse my hands in alkali, yet shalt thou
plunge me in the ditch, and my own clothes
shall abhor me."
T .-^--' - . . n that so -
p. to cleanse their soul o sin in the
snow water of fine apologies. Here is one
man who says: "I am a sinner: I confess
that; but I inherited this. My father was a
sinner. my grandfather, my great-great
grandfather, and all the way back to Adam,
and I couldn't help myself.." My brother.
have you not, every day in your life, added
something to the original state of sin that
was bequeathed to you? Are you not brave
enough to confess that you have sometimes
surrendered to sin, which you ought tohave
conquered? I ask you whether it is fair
play to put upon our ancestry things for
which we ourselves are personally respon
sible? If your nature was askew when you
got it, have you not sometimes given it an
additional twist? Will all the tombstones
of those who have preceded us make a bar.
ricade high enough for eternal defenses? I
know a devout man who had blasphemous
parentage. I knew an honest man whose
father was a thief. I know a pure mar
whose mother was a waif of the street. The
hereditary tide may be very strong, but
there is such a thing as stemming it. The
fact that I have a corrupt nature is no rea
son why I should yield to it. The deepstains
of our soul can never be washed Out by
the snow water of such insufficient apology.
Still further, says some one: "If I havE
gone into sin, it has been through my com
panions, my comrades and associates; they
ruined me. They. taught me to drink. They
took me to the gamiblin.hell. They plunged
me into the house of sin. They ruined my
soul." I do not believe it. God gave to nc
eepower to destroy you or me. If a
destroyed he is self-destroyed, and
always so. Why did you not break
Sfrom them? If they had tried to steal
-our purse, you would have knocked them
down; if they had tried to purloin your gold
watch, you would have riddled them with
shot, but when they tried to steal your im
mortal soul. you placidly listened to it.
-Those bad fellows have a cup of fire to
drink; do not pour your cup into it. In this
matter of the soul, every man for himself.
That those persons are not fully responsible
for your sin. I prove by the fact that you
still consort with them. You can not get off
by blaming them. Though you gather up
all these apologies; though there were a
great flood of them; though they should
come down with the force of melting snows
from Lebanon, they could not wash out one
stain of your immortal soul.
Still further, some persons apologize for
their sins by saying: --We are a great deal
better than some people. You see peeple all
around about us that are a great deal worse
than iv. You stand up columnar ini your
integrity, and look down upon those who are
prostrate in their habits and crimes. What
of that, my brother? If I failed through
recklessness and wicked imprudence for ten
.thousand dollars. is the matter alleviated at
all by the fact that somebody else has failed
:for one hundred thousand dollars, and some
body else for two hundred thousand dollars?
0, no. If I have the netiralgia, shall I re
fuse medical attendance because my neigh
bor has virulent typhoid fever? The faoi
that his disease is worse than mine-<does
that cure mine? If I, through my foolhard
-ness, leap off into ruin, does it break the
fall to know that others leap off a higher
cliff .into deeper dairkness? When the Hud
son 'River rail train wlent throurh the bridge
at Spuyten DIuyvil, did it alle':iate the mat
ter at all that istead of two or three peo
ple being hurt there were seventy-live man
gle~d and crushed? Because others are
depraved, is that any excuse for my
depravity? Am 1 bette-r than? they? rer
haps they had worse temptations than I have
had. Perhaps their surroundings in life
wet-c more overpowering. Perhaps, 0 man,
'if you had been under the same stress of
temptation. instead of sitting here to-day,
xou would have bepa looking through the
'bars of a penitentiary. Perhaps, 0 woman,
if you had been under the same power of
temptation. instead of sitting here to-day,
you would have been tranmipng the street,
the laughing stock of men and the grief of
the angel-s of God. dungeoned, body, mind,
and soul, in the !blackness of despair. Ah,
do not let us solace ourselves with the
thought that other people are worse than
we. Perhaps in the future, when our for
tunes may change, unless God prevents it
we may be worse than they are. Many a
manl after thirty year-s, after forty years,
anter fifty v-ears, after sixty years, has gone
to pieces on the sand bars. 0, instead of
wasting our time id hypocriticism about oth
ers, let us ask ourselves the question:
Where do we stand? What are our deficits?
What are our perils? What our hopes?
Let each one say to himself: "Where will
I be? Shall I range in summery fields, or
grind in the mills of a great night? Where?
Where?
Some winter morning you go out and see
a snow bank in graceful drifts, as though
by some heavenly compass it had been
curved; and as the sun glints it the lustre
is almost insufferable, and it seems as if God'
had wrapped the earth in a shroud with
white plaits woven in looms celestial. And
you say: " Was there ever any thing so
pure as the snow, so beautiful as the snow?"
But you brought a pail of that snow and put
it upon the stove and melted it; and you
found that there was a sediment at the bot
tom, and every drop of that snow water
was riled; and you found that the snow
bank had gathered up the impurity of the
field, and after all it was not fit to wash in.
And so I say it will be if you try to gather
up these contrasts and comparisons with
others. and with these apologies attempt to
wash out the sins of you heart and life. It
will be an unsuccessful ablution. Such
snow water will never wash away a single
stain of immortal soul.
But I hear some one say: "I will try
something better than that. I will try the
force of a good resolution. That will be more
pungent, more caustic, more extirpating,
more cleansing. The snow water has failed,
and now I will try the alkali of the good,
strong resolution." My dear brother, have
you any idea that a resolution about the
future will liquidate the past? Suppose I
owed you five thousand dollars and I should
come to you to-morrow and say: "Sir, Iwill
never run in debt to you again; if I should
live thirty years, I will never run in debt to
you again :" will you turn to me and say :
"If you will not run in debt in the future, I
will forgive you the five thousand dollars."
Will you do that? No! Nor will God.
We have been running up a long
score of indebtedness with God. If for the
future we should abstain from sin, that
would be no defrayment of past indebted
ness. Though you should live from this
time forth pure as an archangel before the
throne, that would not redeem the past.
God, in the Bible.-distinctly declares that
He "will require that which is past"-past
opportunities, past neglects, past wicked
words, past impure imaginations, past
every thing. The past is a great cemetery,
and every day is buried in it. And here is
a long row of three-hundred and sixty-five
graves. They are the dead days of 1SSS.
Here is a long row of three hundred and
sixty-five more graves, and they are the
dead days of i887. And here is a long row
of three hundred and sixty-five more graves,
and they are the dead days of 1SS7. It is a
vast cemetery of the past. But God will
rouse them all up with resurrectionary
blast, and as the prisoner stands face to face
with the juror and judge, so you and I will
have to.come up and look upon those de
parted days face to face, exulting in their
smile or cowering in their frown.
"Murder will ou ' is a proverb that stops
too short. Every siX however small, as well
as great, will out. 'In hard times in En
gland, years ago, it is authentically stated
that a manufacturer was the way, with a
bag of monev to y dQ -A man
... ''with hunger met him on the road
aed took a rail with a hail in it from a paling
fence and struck him down, and the nail en-I.
tering the skull instantly slew him. Thirty
years after that the murderer went back to
that place. He passed into the graveyard.
where the sexton was digging a grave,
and while he stood therd the spade
of the sexton turned up a skull,
and, lo! the murderer 'saw a nail
protruding from the back part of the skull,
it seemed with hollow eyes to glare on the
''irderer; and be,~fr~ wih Rc
n s soon cried
out, "Guilty ! guilty ! -O God!" The mys
tery of -the crime was over. The man was
tried-and executed. My friends, all the un
pardoned sins of our lives, though we may
think they are buried out of sight and gone
into a mere skeleton of memory, will turn
p in the cemetery of the past and glower
pon us in their misdoings. I say all our
unpardoned sins. 0, have you done the
preposterous thing of supposing that. good
resolutions for the future will wipe out the
past? Good resolutions, though they might
be pungent and caustic as alkali, have nc
power to neutralize a sin, have no power tc
wash away a transgression. It wants
something more than earthly chenmistrv to
do this. Yea, yea, though "I wash myself
with snow water, and should I cleanse my
hands in alkali, yet shalt though plunge me
nthe ditch, and mine own clothes shall ab
or me."
Ydli see from the last part of this text
that Job's idea of sin was very differeni
from that of Eugone Sue, or George Sand
or M. J. Michelet, or any of the hundreds ol
writers who have done up iniquity in mez
otint, and garlanded the wine cup witb
elegantine and rosemary, and made the patb
of the libertine end in bowers of ease in
stead of on the hot flagging of eternal tor
ture. You see that Job thinks that sin it
not a flowery parterre; that it is not a table
land of fine prospects; that it is not music
dulcimer, violoncello, castanet and Pandeat
pipes, all making music together. Ne. Hie
says it is a ditch, long, deep, loathsome.
stenchful, and wve are all plunged into it,
and there we wallow, and sink, and strug
gle, not able to get out Our robes of pro
priety and robes of worldly profession are
saturatedin the slime and abomination, anc
our soul, covered over with transgression..
hates its covering, and the covering hates
te soul, until we are plunged into the ditch,
and our own clothes abhor us.
I know that some modern religionists carl
cature sorrow for sin, and they make out
an easier path than the "pflgrim's'progress'
that John Bunyan dreamed of. The road
they travel does not stop where John's did.
at the city of Destruction, but at the gate ol
the university; and I am very certain that
it will not come out where Johin's-did, unde!
the shining rampart of the celestial city.
No repentance, no par-ion. If you do not,
my brother, feel that you are down in the
dich, what do you want of Christ to
ilft you out? If you have no apprecia
tion of the fact that you are astray, what
do you want of Him who came to seek
and save that which was lost? Yonder
is the City of Paris, the swiftest of
the Inmans, coaming ac'ross the Atlantic.
The wind is abaft, so that she has not only
her engines at work. but all sails up. 1 ami
on board the Embria, of the Cunard line.
The boat davits are swung around. The boat
is lowered. I get into it with ia red flag, and
ross over t.o where the City of Paris is oom
ag, and I wave the flag. The captain looks
off from the bridge and says: "What do you
want"' I reply: "I come to take some of
your passengers across to the other vessel; I
think they will be safer and happier there."
'he Captain would look down with indigna
ion and say: "Get out of the way, or I
will run you down." And then I would
back oars, amidst the jeering of two 'or
three hundred people looking over the
taifrail. But the Umbria and the City of
laris meet under different circumistan'ces
after a while. Trhe City of Paris is coming
out of a cyclone; the lire boats are smashed,
the bulwarks gone, the vessel rapidly going
owa. The boatswain gives his last whistle
'f despairing command. The passengers run
up and down the deck, and some pray, and
all make a great outcry. The c.aptain says:
"You have about fifteen minutcs now to
prepare for the next world." "No hope !"
sounds froni stem to stern, and from~the rat
lines down to the cabin. 1 see the distress.
I am let down by the side of the U'mbria.
I push off as fast as I can toward the aink
ing City of Paris. Before I come up people
are leaping into the water in their anxiety
to get :to the boat, and whieu I have
swung up under the side of the City
of kParis, the frenrzied passengers rush
through the gangway until the offi
cers, with axe and clubs and pistols, try to
keep back the crowd, each wanting his turn
to come next. There is but one lifeboat,
and they all want to get into it, and the cry
is: "-Menextl mgenext!" You sethe ap
plati be.or I make it. As long as a
man going on in his sin feels that all is well,
that he is coming out at a beautiful port,
and has all sail set, he wants no Christ, he
wants no help, he wants no rescue; but, if
under the flash of God's convicting spirit
he shall see that by reason of sin he is dis
masted and waterlogged, and going down
into the trough of the sea where he can not
live, how soon he puts the sea glass to his
eye and sweeps the horizon, and at the first
sign of help cries out: "I want to be saved.
I want to be saved now. I want to be saved
forever." No sense of danger, no applica
tion for rescue.
0, that God's eternal spirit would flash
upon us a sense of our sinfulness ! The Bible
tells the story in letters of fire, but we get
used to it. We joke about sin. We make
merry over it. What is sin? Is it a trifling
thing? Sin is a vampire that is sucking out
the life blood of your immortal nature. Sin?
It is a Bastile that no earthly key ever un
locked. Sin? It is expatriation from God
and Heaven. Sin? It is grand larceny
againstthe Almighty, for the Bible asks the
question; "Will a man rob God?" answer
ing it in the affirmative. This gospel is a
writ of replevin to recover property unlaw
fully detained from God.
In the Shetland Islands there is a man
with the leprosy. The hollow of the foot has
swollen until-it is flat on the ground. The
joints begin to fall away. The ankle thick
ens until it looks like the foot of a wild
beast. A stare unnatural comes to the eye.
The nostril is constricted. The voice drops
to an almost inaudible hoarseness. Tuber
eles blotch the whole body, and from them
there comes an exudation that is unbeara
ble to the beholder. That is leprosy, and
we have all got it unless cleansed by the
grace of God. See Leviticus. See II. Kings.
See Mark. See Luke. See fifty Bible al
lusions and confirmations.
The Bible is not complimentary in its lan
guage. It does not speak mincingly about
our sins. It does not talk apologetically.
There is no vermillion in its style. It does not
cover up our transgressions with blooming
metaphor. It does not sing about them in
weak falsetto; but it thunders out: "The
imagination of man's heart is evil from his
youth." "Every one has gone back. He has
altogether become filthy. He is abominable
and filthy, and drinketh in iniquity like
water." And then the Lord Jesus Christ
flings down at our feet this humiliat
ing catalogue: "Out of the heart of mon
proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornica
tion, murders, thefts. blasphemy." There
is a text for your rationalists to preach
from. 0, the dignity of human nature!
There is an element of your science of man
that the anthropologist never has had the
courage yet to touch; and the Bible, in all
the ins and outs of the most forceful style,
sets forth our natural pollution, and repre
sents iniquity as a frightful thing, as an ex
hausting thing, as a loathsome thing. It is
not a mere bemiring of the feet, it is not a
mere befouling of the hands; it is going
down, head and ears under, in a ditch, until
our clothes abhor us.
My brethren, shall we stay down where
sin thrustsus! Ishall not if you do. Wecan
not afford to. I have to-day to tell you that
there is something purer than snow water.
something more pungent than alkali, and
that is the blood of Jeaus Christ that cleans
eti from all sin. Ay, the river of salvation,
b>g h~t, crGt e caaen-tortsdido
through this audience with billowy tide
strong enough to wash your completely and
forever away. 0, Jesus, let the dam that
holds it back now break, and the floods of
salvation roll over us. I
Let the water and the blood,
From Thy side a healing flood,
Be of sin the double cure,
Save from wrath and make me .'ire.
Let us get down on both'knees and, bathe
ih that flood of mercy. Ay, strike out with
both haul and try te swing to the other
shore of this river of Goa's grace. To -u is
Tt his~ c ~ 6d th
argess1 e vine bounty. Though you
have gone down into the deepest ditch of 1
ibidinois desire and corrupt behavior,
though yo have sworn all blasphemies un
til there is not a sinful word left for you to ]
speak, though you have been submerged by
the transgressions e f a lifetime, though you1
are so far down in your sin that no earthly
help can touch your case-the Lord Jesus
Christ bends over you to-day, and offers you
is right hand, proposing to lift you up, first
making you whiter than snow, and theu
raising you to glories that never die.
"Billy," said a Christian bootblack to1
another, "when we come up to Heaven
it won't make any difference that
we've been bootblacks here, for we
shall get in, not somehow or other,,abut
B-i1y, weshall getstraightthrough thepgate."
, if you only knew how full and free and
tender is the offer of Christ, this day, you
would all take Him without one single ex
cption; and if all the doors of this houseI
were looked save one and you were com-I
pelled to make egress by only one door, and
stood there and questioned you, and the
gospel of Christ nad made the right impres
sion upon your heart to-day, you would an
swer me as von went out, one and all: "Jesus1
is mine. anA I am His !" 0, that this might
be the hour when you would receive Him !
t is not a gospel merely for foot pads, "ad
vagrnts arid bucancers; it is for the highly
poished, and the educated and tho re
tined as well. "Except a man be born again,
he can not see the kingdom of God." What-1
ever may be your associations, and what
ever your worldly refinement, I must tell
ou, as before God I expect to answer in the
last day, thdst if you are not changed by the:
grace of God you are still down in the ditch
of sin, in the ditch of sorrow, in the ditch of
condemnation. a ditch that empties into a
deeper ditch, 'the ditch of the lost. ButI
blessed be God for the lifting, cleansing,
lustrating power of his Gospel.
The voice of free grace cries: "-Escapo to the 1
mountain:
For all that bAeve. Christ has opened a foun
tain.
Haelujah !to the Lamb who has bought us our
pa'do~n:
W'ln praise him again when we pass over
THE SUGAR TRUST.
Determined to Rob the People While
They Have the Chance.
NEw YoRK, .June 14.-Insiders in su
ar trust predict 200 for the stock. They
laim that the trust has a surplus equal1
o 40 per share, and that upwards oif
92,000,00 aire being put by every month.
The following figures are given by a
prominen t Boston sugar dealer: Cent ri
ugal, 96 test, raw sugar, cost the refin
cries last year 5- cents, the price for<
granulated was then 6i1 cents. Tl-dlay I
I be raw matecrial costs 8 cents alnd thei
price of granulated is 9 cents. The re
ines, therefore, get cenit less pier 1
poundl than last year. A trecasuiry otli
eal, who has madle a study o'' the sugar
question, is qjuoted as saying that "'thle
sugar trust realhzes that Congress will1
have to do something toJwardl removing1
the duty from sugar at the next session,1
andl therefore they lropose to run sugar:
u to the highest notch before Congress
has an o~pportumity to interfere in behalf:
of the consumers. In other words the1
sugar trust has (determineif to iob thei
people while they have the chance."
Marshal Boykin Resigns.
Mir. E. Mhiller Bovkin has sent his re
sigation as5 Eiteil States Mfarshal for~
Suthi Cairolion to President Harrison
with the requ'st that it go ito eiTect
uoon the appointment and qjualificaionl
of his successor. Mfr. Bovkin was ap
pointed M1arshal by Presidenit ('leveland
in June, 1885. Ilis appoinitmecnt was
confirmed by the Senate in July of the
same year, but his second or preseint
commission is dated August 2, 1886, and
tinder the four-year rule would not ex
pre until August, 1890.
Norfolk's Contribution to Jolyistown.
NoRFOLK, Va., June 14.-The Miayor
of Norfolk telegraphed to Governor
Beav'r of Pennsylvania to-day to drawv
upon him for $2,20J0 contributed by the
peoile of Norfolk for the relief of the
THE STRICKEN VALLEY.
NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS ENDUR
ING GREAT PRIVATIONS.
Provisions and Other Supplies Being
Gobbled Up by People Who Are Not
Entitled to Them and Do Not Need
Them-The State To-Day Takes Charge
of the Work of Clearing Up the Wreck.
JOHNSTOWN, Pa., June 11.-Notwith
standing this is the twelfth day since the
flood, most of the newspaper corre
spondents are still without sleeping ac
commodations of any kind, and,. as on
the first day, are sleeping in barns,
brick kilns and other plaees, without
cots or blankets. Cots have been sent
them, they are told, but as they are too
busy to watch the incoming trains some
one else gets them. The militia have
cots and blankets, as have also the labor
ers, but the correspondents, who are
doing the hardest kind of work for the
outside world, are forced to endure the
greatest hardships. The supply of pro
visions is improving somewhat, and
they manage to get one and sometimes
two fair ineals a day.
PROVISIONS, ETC., MISAPPLIED.
The provisions sent to this valley
dont seem as yet to have reached the
right place. A number of carloads of
all kinds of all supplies have been sent
to Morrellville. and as there was no
damage there the stuff has been misap
plied. A prominent citizen of Morrell
ville said this morning: "There
is a large class of people
here who have not lost a thing in this
flood, yet every arriving train finds them
in line ready to receive their share. It
is safe to say these people have secured
provisions enough to last them six months,
and clothing enough for five years."
AT THE CAMBRIA IRON WORKS.
The Cambia Iron Company's Works
and yards show this morning the best
results thus far of the hard work to
ward a semblance of what they once
were. Eaci department was told to
clean up their own part of the plant,
and as each department is damaged to
about the same extent they will finish
about the same time and :he works will
be started. The railroad running
through their yards was first repaired,
and wood and iron wreckage is hauled
to different parts of the yard, and great
piles of wood are being burned, while
the iron will be examined later.
THE STATE TAKES CHARGE TO-DAY.
This is the last day for clearing away
the effects of the flood by volunteer
authorities. To-morrow the State takes
hold of the stupenduous work of restor
ing the valley to its condition before the
UL .m vo-ldb after to-cay
ill be under the supervision of Adju
ant General Hastings. The volunteers
vio heve so untiringly worked for the
)bject of restoring order will have fin
shed their self-imposed task to-day.
kfter twelve days of almost superhuman
vork by the army of volunteers, the
tate will assume its proper place in the
work, and do what every citizen of this
:ommonwealth has known for l
its duty.
9 . ,GOOD EFFECTS OF THE RAIN.
The weary and dreary succession of
-ainy days since the flood continues, and
he day broke amidst a drizzling rain.
With but a single exception every day
iere since the deluge has opened with
amn, but while the rain has
nade the work more disagreeable,
thas had some good results.
But for the almost continuous rains
ie river would have been too low and
hallow to float away the debris that is
ast being loosened and thrown into the
iver. The continued full stream has
endered the work of getting wreckage
way from the stone bridge much less
Lrdois and much more speedy. Again,
he rain has served to cool the 'air and
emper the rays of the hot June sun.
lad there been continuously such
eather as prevailed yesterday after
ioon, hot and exhausting, it is believed
> many that it would have been im
)osible~ to continue ttie work of search
ng for the dead. Even as it is, the
ues arising froni the decomposed
odies of persons and animals are most
uffensive and at times almost overpow
~ring. So noticeable has this become
hat each gang of men searching for
lead carries quantities of disinfectants,
Lnl when a body is located the vicinity is
horoghly sat urated with d isinfectants.
y this m'eans the work, which other
vse would be unbearable, is less offen
THE HORROR OF THE SITUATION.
s not diminished, but rather grows.
[he search for the dead continues, and
n all sections and directions bodies are
>eing found, Numbers of. bodies are
ow coming to the surface of the waters,
Lnd those whose work has made them
opetent judges say as many more
odies as have been foun~d are lying
omewhere. In many unexpected places
odies are hourly bemng found, and
vhere this will end no human mind can
uess. At seven o'clock the monotonous
york begaii, and as the day advanced
lie sun came out and the morning hours'
vere hot and muggy. The fires that
iad been kindled among the timber near
lie stone bridge were quenched by the
*ain and the valley was filled with
teamy and ill-smelling vapors.
AN ExoDUS
t in here to-day, which before the day
loses will have reduced the number of
ien now here by many hundreds. WilI
ng and hard-w~orking volunteer laborers
egan to leave early this morning, and
he train leaving here at 8 a. m. took
way over 400. This is merely the be
iming of the great out pouring that
vill set in to-morrow, and many are
eavig to-day in order to avoid the rush
o-morrow. Among those who left this
norning were 150 laborers from the
.Iartman Steel Company, Beaver Falls.
l'hey said they wotild not work for
i.30. It is the general opinion here
:at Gen. Hlastings has made a mistake
ni offering less to the men than is paid
m present-$2-and that the result will
>e- the temporary eessation of the work.
One of the tirst things to be done by
Jeneral Hastings will be to discharge
001 poiee nlow doing duty here. In
his connection there is likely to be much
trumbling and hard talk. -it has been
lecided that they should not he paid out
f the relief fund, but that the County,
-hose Sheriff deputized them, should pay
or their services. Some persons look
'or trouble from this source, but . the
eneral opinion is that the question will
> amicably settled. All the men ein
nloved by Booth & Flynn will be paid1
iff'to-day and discharged and transpor
:ation furnished for as many as do nol;
rish to work for the State at $1.50 pen
lay. A number of men will remain.
mut the great majority will leave.
MERCHANTS REsUMING BUSINEsS.
A nmber of proprietors of stores are
L munn in to gt t heir plac-es of business
in order and open up. Already a num
ber have done so. and this has done
much to encourage others. A more
cheerful and hopeful feeling prevails and
is daily increasing.
Work all over the valley is being
pushed with vigor, as if the present
force were trying to show how much
they could do. The channel of the river
above the stone bridie is being washed
clean out, and while comparatively little
impression has been made on the great
mass of debris near the bridge, the re
sults along the channel are very marked.
MISS CHRISTMAN'S BODY FOUND.
Thirty-eight bodies were recovered to
day, all of them being in an advanced
stage of decomposition. This afternoon
the body of Miss C. A. Christman, the
foreign missionary from New Orleans,
who was on the express when the flood
swept it from the track, was found. On
her person was found a draft for $275,
a valuable gold watch and a small
amount of money and some jewelry. The
body was embalmed and held to await
the order ef friends.
THE HEALTH BULLETIN
issued to-day is, with few modifications,
a repetition of yesterday's. There were
no new cases admitted to the hospitals,
and all patients 'are reported convales
cent. There are no contagious diseases,
except two cases of diphtheria already
reported.
JOHNSTOwN, June 12.-The borough
of Johnstown and the surrounding
towns are not under military rule. At
7 o'clock this morning General Hastings
took charge and soldiers were placed on
guard duty at all the commissary sta
tions and morgues. A slight rain has
been falling all the morning, and the
city presents a most dismal appearance.
Everything is turmoil and confusion,
and little or no work is being done. For
the first time since the work has com
menced, the men seemed fagged out and
are not in a hurry to get to work. How
ever, all the men at the morgue and the
relief committees were still hard at
work.
NATURE ASSERTS ITSELF AT LAST.
Sufferers were at the commissary sta
tions as early as usual this morning and.
stood around in the rain for several
hours before they were served. They
have the same distressed look as they
have had ever since the flood, and as the
days roll by. they do not seem to liven
up any. In fact, the people that are
residents are just commencing to realize
fully the te3'rible ordeal they have gone
through. Excitement has kept them up
until now, but since the excitement has
been dying out they are now co - us
of the situa on. and if a nu
thing remarka
DISHEAR
For the first
people are corn
financial loss
worr y them as
and to say tha
mer merchants
tine it mildly.
a~si" m:
use; we will never recover from this;
we have lost everything." Pittsburg
wholesale merchants, who are here, are
trying to comfort them, and are offer
ing all the old merchants some very el- I
egant inducements to make up again. t
A circular has been received by these t
men from several Pittsburg merchants
offering them all the credit they want.
PAYING OFF THE LABORERS.
All the laborers employed by Booth &
lynn and all the volunteers and other
orkmen were paid off at the club
ouse this morning by the finance com
nittee. Over 4,000 men surrounded the
lace, and it was with considerable dif
iculty that they were paid. A number
f them forgot their numbers, and it
aused no end of trouble. The pay roliI
ltogether amounted to about $90,000- t
~CARCTY or LABOR UND)ER THLE NEW
REGIME.
Few hodies were recovered this morn- s
ng, owing to the chi'otic condition of t
ffair's pending the transfer of authority C
nd to the bad weather. Although I
>sters axe conspicuously displayed v
.out calling for men at $1.50 per day a
o continue work on the ruins, there are b:
nlv about 130 men working, and these t
n a dilatory and half-hearted mnanner.d
~our bodies' w.ere taken to the first ward in
orgue, none of which were identified, a
ndl but one to the fourth ward morgue. (
t Kernville and the First Presbyterian
hurch morgues nothing was done. V
'hree bodies were observed in the ruins d
tar where the rink lies a wreck, butt
here was no effort made to get them c
ut. Laborers almost unanimously re- o
use to handle bodies when discovered, o
d the men at the morgues are obliged o
o go after them. To this there is much
betion. Undertakers at two school
ouse morgues are serving gratuitously
nd refuse compensation. '1hey will re- ti
air until General Hastings makes ar-t
angenents to relieve them. The body p
rashers were paid offet~o-day. i
GENERAL HASTINGs'S REIGN.
Order is coming out of chaos. Mili- ~
ary discipline has shown its effect the C
ist day of General Hastings's reign.1
t a eitizens' meeting, this afternoon a
esoltion was passed bidding General
Iastings God speed and ordering the ~
~ity officials to keep hands off. General a
iastings has his large staff in working C
rder to-night, and aside fromi some
ight friction regarding teams for the
se of the.. comnmissaty department, g
here has not been a jar in the day's ,
roeedings.
The grand exodus of workmen hasa
een going on all day. As fast as money ~,
'as handed out of the paymaster's win
low at the Baltimore and Ohio depot a
vorkmen boarded the trains on which
heir picks and ear's were loaded andl i
eft .Johnstown without any expressed
egrets. Work upon the ruins has beent
t a stand still all day. hut to-morrow
norning General Hastings expects tot
ae 2,500 men at work. They will be e
mder tbe supervision of Contractor
amnes McKnmght of Pittsburg, and are I
urisihed by Booth & Flynn and James
fecnihit of Pittsbuirg, Cobtrn & Ste- t
~art, of Altoona, and McLean & Co.
r m Easterin Pennsylvania.
T he newi plan of canvassing the city
udt systematizing the distribution of
~uplies is meeting with genieral favor.
rovsi..ons and supplies continue to come
n freely.. .
There is little change in the health
;ituation. Ten bodies were recovered
y the small force of men working,
BUsINEss MEN's MEETING. .
A meeting was held in Alma Hall by
'itizns of Johnstown to-day, at which1
rominent business men were present. 1
Col. J. P. Linton, a prominent busine'ss(
an, presided. Remarks were made by
several Qf these touching the great work I
efore them and the necessity of unitedI
nd' individual action to rebuild the 1
. d the cultivation of fortitude toll
ye r p und~er the bnrdens and griefs so It
suddnly thrust upon thetm A eries of I
resolutions were proposed and adopteu,
thanking James B. Scott for his untiring
efforts to bring order out of chaos, the
pee of Pittsburg in particular and
citizens of United States generally for
their prompt and generous assist
ance. They pledge united sup
port-to the State officials in every
way in their power in the work now un
dertaken to the end that the work may
be expedited. There were some sharp
animadversions upon Governor Beaver
for his tardiness of action relative to the
great disister which has rendered thou
sands of people homeless, and his at
tempt to belittle matters in favor Wil
liamsport and other Susquahanna Valley
towns which have beenanundated. These
expressions were received with manifes
tations of disapproval, and the matter
was dropped.
SOLDIERS SUPPLANT SPECIAL POLICEMEN.
The 800 special policemen employed
here by the Sheriff were discharged this
morning and soldiers put in their places.
This will cause satisfaction to almost every
one, as the police always had orders that
conflicted with the orders of General
Hastings, and there was no end of
trouble getting through the lines. Gen
eral Hastings gave orders to the soldiers
to permit all persons wearing press
badges to go to any place they wished,
and consequently newspaper men are
happy.
REGISTRATION OF SURvIvoRs.
The registers who have been making
a house-to-house canvass will be ready
to report this evening to Colonel Rogers,
who has charge of the bureau of regis
tration. After this a second canvass
will be made, to verify the first, and as
this will take over a week there will be
no correct list of the living until that
time. This register will be official and
s being made for legal purposes as well
as general information.
CONTRIBUTIONS FOR THE SUFFERERS.
HARRIsURG, Pa., June 12.-Addi
ional contributions for the flood suffer
:rs were received by the Governor to
lay from all portions of the country.
The total amount received by him to
late is about $408,000.
JoHNSToWN, Pa., June 13.-The gene
ral opinion among well posted : eopie
icre is that tbe loss of life will be be
tween 3,000 and 4,000. It was generally
riven out that Johnstown and the bor
)ugh adjoining had a population of
35,000, buit this was a very high esti
Onate, and conservative people put the
population between 25,000 and 28,000.
ol Rogers, who has charge of the regis
tration, state.; that from all he can learn
the populatio i only amounted to about
25.000, and t ais accounts for 10,000 peo
ple supposed to be lost. Reports sent
out from here to the effect that 12,000
000 people were missing were based
supposition that there were
nts in these boroughs.
he number of bodies
oints along the
conflicting.
e been sent
hpq~ mre
red.
THE WORK OF CLEARING UP.
The first real woi-k under the super
'ision of the State commenced this
horning at 6 o'clock. The whistle of
he Cambria Iron and Steel Works was
he signal for the men to commence,
mnd about 1,500 started in with their
>icks and shovels. The early morning
ras warm and cloudy, and the fumes
d odors from dlecayed hodies was
omething almost unbearable. As the
orning advanced the weather grewv
armer, and by 10 o'clock the sun was
hining brightly and every one on the
'round was hard at work.
LOAFERs TRY TO MIAKE TROUBLE.
During the-morning a crowd of worth
ss loafers in some mianner secured en
rance to the town and wanted to in
urate a strike among the workmen.
ome of the laborers were alretidy dis
tisfied at having new bosses over
bem, and only wanted a chance to
nrplainl. Jaries McKnight of Pitts
urg, one of the State contractors, got
rind of the trouble brewing and went
mng the men and informed them that
e would have no kicking, and that all
>ose who wished to quit would have to
o so immediately. About 100 of the
men left, but the loafers remained
round, and Mr. McKnight went to
reneral Hasting and demanded protee
on for his men. A dletachmlent of mi
tia from the Fourteenth Regiment were
etailed to the place and drove away all
te men who refused Jo work. This
aused General Hastings to issue an
rder to the soldiers not to admit any
ne to Johnstown proper without an
der.
RESUMiPTION OF BUsINEss..
The business men of the town seenm
>have awakened to their senses, and
2is morning a number of theta were:
reparing to start over again in bus
ess. Two giocery stores were started
ear the Pennsylvania Railroad freight
ation. Both'placs were doing a land
flice business, and this encouraged other
usiness men to start up, and~ the prob
bihties are that inside of a week at
ie latest, a hundred stores will be in
teration. Already two barber shops:
nd one 'jewelry store have been
pened.
A BETTERt FEELING PREvAILING.
To-day was the second day since the
ood that .Johnstown was not dleluged
rith rain. Under the influence of a
right sun the sandy soil was soon dry,
d things in general brightened up
ronderfully. A number of stores, with
beir wares inside, were started anew.
nd large sales of flooded goods were
ffectcd, beingg bought chiefly as relies.
eople are making heroic effort-s to clean
ut their houses to fit them for habita
ion. Numbers have conmtined to help
ach other to restore their homes on~
heir foundations and to remove the ac
mulations of drift and rubbish which
ars the entrancee to their doors. Sewer
ipes are all awry and cellars are all
ll of water. There is need for enlgines
o pu.np out the water as early as pos
ible. Syphoning has been tried, but
rith no success, as thle cllars are mouch
aer thman the ground. TIhe Cambria
~omay started out a corips of survey
.rs this atlternoon to locate the lines of
.emrkation for the rebuilding and re.
air of their demolished plant.
BEGINNING BUSINEss ANEW.
The first decisive step toward putting
ohustown business men on their feet
gain was made to-day, when about 200:
aerhants who had survived the flood,
tany of them without a dollar, met~
'eneral Hastings this afternoon and as
ured him that they would be re-estab
ished in business on long credit. Both
ittsburg and Philadelphia wholesalers
tave offered Johnstown merchants this
usiness courtesy. The meeting to-day
urned out to be an ovation to Generalj
~ati. The meenga penned hv
the General, who said: "I have been
directed to clear the streets of Johns
town, and make contracts with men to
open the way i.i order that the ier
chants may be enabled to get to and
from their business places. Our work is
progressing rapidly and vigorously, and
the best thing for Johnstown merchants
to do is to begin business over agaiai.
I have communicated with Eastern firms,
who offer to assist you if you will re
sume basiness in this city I wofild
suggest that you build temporary struc
tures for the present, until more favor
able circumstances warrant the erection
of permanent establishments. Pittsburg
houses offer to stock your stores with a
a full line of first class goods on long
credit. I advise you to improve this
opportunity; and when in the course of
time matters take more tangible shape,
you will be able to repay all losses in
curred." -
JOHNSTOWN. Pa., June 14.-Rain is
pouring down this morning and has ef
fectually stopped work of all kinds in
this stricken city, where work should go
ahead as rapidly as possible. Even the
soldiers have sought the shelter of their
tents, and the newspaper correspondents -
missed this morning with considera
ble relief the familiar 'Have you a Pass?"
from the guards at different places. The
wreckage at the stone bridge, whicb was
fired last night. has been dampened con
siderably, and unless the rain stops soon
that invaluable work will also come to a
stand still.
THE CROWDS AROUND THE COMMISSARIES,
which seem to increase with each day,
are a mud-bedraggled set. The entrance
to each station is very narrow, yet into
them women and children, each with
capacious baskets, crowd like sheep into
a pen. The line is long, and those who
are so unlucky as to have arrived after
6 or 7 o'clock have been standing unpro
tected, and, in some instances, half clad.
in the pouring rain. Their baskets are
generally well filled, yet on leaving the
commissaries complaints are heard on all
sides of "No butter, nor anything fresh,
after two weeks," etc., etc.
WHEREIN THE RAIN IS A BLESSING.
in one way the rain to-day is regarded
as a blessing, as The terrible stench from
burning flesh, which was almost unbear
able last night, is scarcely noticeable.
A number of lumber men from the
Clarion region were engaged clearing
wreckage with their hooks last night and
this morning, and their work was so ef
fective that another detachment was
sent for.
It has been decided to tear down all
unsafe buildings in the town and burn
the wreckage.
A house-to-house canvass will be. in
augurated to-morrow, to secure, as near
as possible, an accurate list of the living
end dead for the State officials. The
system of registration attempted a week
as not effective.
R FEATURE
loons i
Jo ustown an the ounding owns,
but two escaped destruction. The Chi
nese 'laundries were also completely
wiped out and a number of Chinamen
are missing.
The rain, which poured down all the
morning, ceased at noon. Work was I
roceeded with, but only 700 workmen a
started in.
A large amount of lumber is arriving
o-day, consigned to the State. It will ~
e distributed to the more needy mer
~hants to erect temporary structures in
wich to resume business.
CLEARING AwAY THE WRECK. tl
HARRIsBURG, Pa., June 14.-Gov- d
~rnor Beaver has received an official re
ort from the State Board of Health, in
hich the district from the railroad ~
ridge, over the Conemaugh River at ~
ohnstown, to the mouth of Stony Creek b
iver is $leclared a nmisance. The Gov-- a
~rnor now has the legal machinery and V
Lhe funds to apply it, and the work will be n
ushed without delay.
AN URGENT NEED OF THE HOUR. ri
The Governor this afternoon issued a b
roclamation, in which he says, among
)ther things, that there can be little ca
oubt that the most useful and judicious d
~xpenditure at the present moment for n
e entire people of the region would be s1
fund which could be used for puitting u
p simple board shanties, in which bus- n
ess might be commenced by the cour- 'E
geous business men of Johnstown, who o
ae signified their intention of remain- a
g where they are and assisting in g
)uilding up .the ruins which speak so o
loquently in their behalf. Credit is b
enered them to any extent by mner- n
bants' in our great trading centres. L
hat they need is simply a cover for ni
heir goods and wares. Contributions A
kind, or especially designated for the I]
)urpose of building board shanties in si
vhich business can be commenced, a
'ould be a great boon to the community, p
Lnd will tend more than anything else o1
t the present moment to the restora- n
ou to a moral condition of affairs in
.bat community. el
J!OHNsTowN WILL BE REBUILT.
3efore that is done, howvever, legal steps
mst be taken to consolidate several in
Iepedent boroughs, among which its
unicipal government was divided. It
; unerstood that the people expect to n
>nsolidate their government under a
:itv charter. and that legal steps will be
ken looking toward this end. Until
his is done, streets cannot be laid out,
trades cannot he established, the work I~
)f permenient reb~uilding cannot go on. I
One locality in the far West otfered a k
ew days ago twenty-five catloads ofr
mber, with the expressed intention of
loubling it. Such gifts would be more
han acceptable'at this time. They can
e consigned to General Hastings,
onstown. who will see that they will
c properly (distributed, if designated f
apecially for that ipurpose. If persons fr
ho have already contributed desire
hat their contributions should be ap
)ropriated towardl this object, a simple
utimation from them as to their wishies
will be sutlicient. n
To) REsToRE THE CHIANNEIs OF TRADE. d
The problem which confr'otts the ir
ele of Jlohnstowvn andl vicinity. and
ri the the solution of which their well
wishers everywhere must be deeply in
terested, is thie restoration as early as JE
possible of the various channels of trade v
and the machinery of supply and demand c<
Merchants aind tradlesmien must be en- tI
ouraged to begin the work of rehabilita- rt
ion at once. If their property had -
een destroyed by flre they would p~ro
ably have insurance upon which to be
ia business. Under present con
ditions. however, they have simply and G
absolutely no thing. This object is cor- S
dially comumended, especially to the busi- st
ness' men of Pennsylvania, and to al
others who have transactions with what zu
was one of the most thriving and pop ' i
.ou n ant Commonr <
INDIAN UPRISING.
TIlE CIIIPE WAS DECLARE WAR AGAiNST
THE PALE-FACES.
Seven Swedish Laborers Massacred and
Others Wounded by the Savages-The
Old Story of Encroachment by the
Whites Upon the Rights of the Red
Man.
ST. PAUL, JuUC 141.-A dispatch from
Mora Linn says: The treacherous Chip
pewa Indians are on the war-path again,
and there are grave fears of a general
uprising. Already seven Swede laborers
have been massacred and several hun
dreed laborers and settlers are now hur
rying here for safety. Sheriff Nicolsen
rode to town yesterday and gave the
alarm. He also communicated with
Governor Merriam, requesting him to
order out the State troops to quell the
uprising.
The present trouble is the outgrowth
of the eneroachment by whites upon
Milielacs reservation. Recently a con
tract was awarded by settlers to Folly.
Brothers of St. Paul to dig a ditch for
irrigation purposes from Millelacs
Lake to a point on Smoke
River, near this place. When the
Indians learned that the ditch was to be
dug they came to the conclusion that the -
intention was to drain the latter, and
deprive them of their fishing privileges.
Notice was served by the Indians upon
the contractors, warning them if they
(lid not leave the Territory at once they -
would be put to death.
The contractors gave no heed to the
warning, but came here and engaged- 300
laborers, who began work yesterday
morning at Millelacs. About noon yes
terday they were attacked by a party of
400 Chippewas. led by White Snake and
Great Bear. The Indians were in full
war paint and armed with Winchester
rides and tomahawks. As soon as they
saw the reds coming, the laborers
drcpped their shovels and fled toward
this place. They were pursued by the
savages, who shot and killed seven men.
Seyeral others were wounded, but not
seriously. The Indians scalped two.
men and mutilated the bodies of two
:thers in a fiendish manner.
Indians who have been gathering on
the South shore of Millelacs Lake for a
week or more on Wednesday night en
,aged in a war dance as a preliminary,
o the massacre. Three of the sev
victims have families here in-d
aircumstances.
Ex-Senator H. M. Rice of St. Paul,
Bishop Warty of Dakota and Dr. Whit
ng of Wisconsin, the commissioners ap
ointed by President Harrison to reatr -
with the Chippewa Indians, are in this
ity, and were to have started out next
eek to negotiate with the tribes a t
ifillelacs.
HARRISON'S STRATEGY.
'Judiciously" Sharing Spoils in Ala
bama to Satisfy all Factions.
BIRMINGHAM, June 11.-The adminis
ration is playing the Republican party
n Alabama for "keeps." The visit of a
ommittee of Birmingham iron mann
acturers to the President last wi
Brats in this State suggested Alabama
s a possibly doubtful State in 1892.
ut the organization of the White Re
,ublican Protective Tariff League in this
ity seems to have upset the plans of Re
ublican leaders to capture this State by
judicious distribution of patronage.
The leaders of the movement hastened
o Washington and sought recognition
t the hands of the administration, urg
1g that they could and would break the
solid South" by capturing *Alabama.
he opponents of the movement were not
le, and represented to the President
>st if the colored voters were to be
riven out of tihe party the "South would
>rever remain solid
After the organization of the new
iovement several weeks elapsed before
ny appointments were made, in Ala
ama, and it is now well known that the
dministration was carefully investigat
ig the strength and purpose of the.
ovement, and the strength of the opo
tion. When at last Alabama appoint
ents were taken up, both sides were
sady to claim a viet ,.A oh have
een disappointe'd.
The appointments made so far i
tte that the administration proposes to.
ivide the offices between the two ele
tents, giving the colored man a fair
iare of the minor places. The appoint-.
ent of R. L. Houston, a new move
ent man, postmaster - at Birmingham,
as followed by the appointment of -
pponents of the movement at Anniston __
ad Oxford. A member of the new
anization was appointed Superintende
Sthe Birm public buildings; b
is clerk, jt ited, is one of the
tost bitter i of the movement.
ewis E. ParsoL. .le originator of -the
ew movement, was appointed District
.ttorney for the Middle and Northern.
istricts of Alabama. This created.con
ernation among the negroes, but to
lay their fears a colored man was ap
>inted postmaster at Luverne. and an
:her colored man receiver of public
toney at Huntsville.
Thus the situation remains, neither
ement of the 1.arty in the State being
>le to claim any decided advantage in
te way of odiciid recogniition.
A Duel With Bowie Knives.
ST. AUGUSTINE, TeX., June 12.-Rube
olk, Jr., andi George Audry, t wo young
en of this city, fought a duel to death
ith bowie knives last night for a wo
an. The men attended a party and
ft together, apparently the best of
iends. While on the way home they
iarrelled over one of the girls, and
ey dismounted, and, dirawing their
ives, fought it out on the
adside. Polk was killed in a few
inutes, Hie was stabbed to the hea-rt
id his jugular was severed. Auidry
ceived a fearful cut in tile side and
ie in tile leg. lie was carried home
om the battle groundlt, and told his
iends to inform the Sheriff that he was
ady to give himself up.
Large Gold Export.
NEw YoRK. June 14.-Gold engage
cnts for to mnorrow's steamers are very
savy, four banking houses having or
tred $3,975,000 in gold bars for shl
ent to Europe.
A Strict Party Vote.
hARTFORD, Con~n.. June 13.- The
ouse has defeated the resolution pre -
ding for submitting to the people a
nstitutional amiendmlent providing for
ec election of State officers by a plu
lity vote. It was a strictly party vote
-yeas 80, nays 114.
Shot and Killed by His Stepson.
CH ATTANooGA, June 11.- At Dalton,
a., this morning, Hon. S. ~E. Fields,
:ate Senator, was shot and killed by his
epson. Dennis Taylor, whom he had
xempted to chlastise. Young Taylor
as arrestedl and taken to Dalton. His
tother is prostrated with her dlcuble