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YOL. V. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY. NOVEMHEl (, 188g. * NO. 48. THE BAPTISM OF FIRE. Sermon by Rev. T. DeWitt Tal mage, D. D. He Discourses About the Destruction of the Brooklyn Tabernacle-The Church to be Rebuilt-What Fire Does Toward Kenining Men. Dr. Talmage chose as the subject of his recent sermon, "The Baptism of Fire," taking as his text: Acts xx., 24. "None of these- things move me." He said: But, Paul. have you not enough afflic tion to move you? Are you not an exile from your native land? With the most genial and loving nature. have you not, .in order to be free for missionary jour neys, given yourself to celibacy? Have you not turned away from the inagnifi cent worldly successes that would have crowned your illustrious genius? Have -you not endured the sharp and stinging houralgias. like a thorn in the flesh?2 Have you not been mobbed on the land, and shipwrecked on the sea; the sanhe drim against you. the Roman govern ment against you. all the world and all hell against you? "What of that?" says Paul. "None of these things move me:" It was not because he was a hard nature. Gentlest woman was never more easily moved in to tears. lie could not even bear to see anybody cry. for in the midst of his s. r mon when he saw some one weeping her sobs aloud, "WhAt mean ye to weep and bre' ifiine heart?'for I am ready not to be bound'only but also to die at'Jerusa lem for the name of the Lord Jesus." What then did Paul mean wh n he said. "None of these things move me." lie meant, "I will not be diverted from the work to which I have been called by any and all the adversities and calamities." . I think this morning I express not only my own feelings but that of every man, woman and little child belonging to Broolyn Tabernacle, or that was converted there, or comforted there, or blessed there. when I look toward the blackened ruins of the dear and conse crated spot and with an aroused faith in y loving God. cry out: "None of. these things move me." When I say that, I do not mean that we have no feeling about it. Instead of standing here to-day in this brilliant auditorium, it would be more consonant with my feelings to sit down among the ruins and weep at the words of David: "If I forget thee, 0 Jerusalem. let my right hand forget her cunning." Why, let me say to the strangers here to-day in explanation of the deep emotion of my flock, we had there in that building sixteen years of religious revival. I be lieve that a hundred thousand souls were born there. They came from all parts of the earth and we shall never see them again until the books are opened. Why. sirs! our children were there baptized. and at those altars our young men and maidens took the mar riage vow, and out of those gates we car ried our dead. When from the roof of my house last Sunday morning at three o'clock I saw our church in flames, I said: "That is the last of the building from which we buried our De Witt on that cold December day when it seemed all Brooklyn wept with my household." And it was just as hard for you to give up your loved ones as for us to give up ours.. Why. like the beautiful .vines that still cover some of the fallen walls, our affections are clambering all over the ruins, and I could kiss the ashes that mark the placewhere it-once stood. Why, now that I think of it. I can not think of it as an inanimate pile. but as a soul, a mighty soul, an indestructible soul. I an sure that majestic organ had a soul, for we have often heard it speak and sing, and shout and wail, and when the soul of that organ entered Heaven, .I think Handel, and Haydn. and Mozarti -and Mendelssohn, and Beethoven were to the gates to welcome it. So I do not use the words of my text in a heartless way, but in the sense that we must not and will not be diverted from cur work by the appalling disasters which have befallen us. We will not turn aside one inch from our determination to do all we can for the present and everlasting hap piness of all the people whom we may bable to meet. "None of these things move me. None of these things move you." When I looked out through the dismal rain from the roof of my house and saw the church crumbling bricic by brick and timber by timber, I said to myself: Does this mean that my work in Brooklyn is ended? Does this terminate my asso ciation with this city, where I have been more than twentyv years, glad in all its prosperities, and sad in all its misfortunes? And a still small voice camo to me, a voice that is no longer still or small but most emphatic and commanding, through pressure of hand, and newspaper column, and telegram and letter and contributions, saying. "Co forward!" I have made and I now make appeal to all Christendom to help us. We want all Christendom to help, and I will ac knowledge the recept of every contribu tion, great or small, with my own hand. We want to build larger and better. We want it a national church, in which peo plec of- all creeds and all nations -may $nd a home. The contributions already sent in make a small hear ted church for ever impossible. Would not I be a sorry spectacle for angels and men if, in a church built by Israelites and Catho lies, as well as all the styles of people commonly called evangelical, I should. instead of the banner of the Lord God Almighty, raise a fluttering rag of small sectarianism? If we had $300,000,000 we would put them all in one great monu ment to the mere-y of God. People ask on all sides about what we shall build. I answer, it all depends on the contribu tions sent in from here and from the tistory. I say to all Episcopalians, we shall have in our services as heretofore at our communion table portions of the Liturgy. I say to the Catholics, we shall have a cross over the pulpit and probably on the tower: I say to the biethodists, we mean to sing there like the voices of mighty thunderings. I say to all denominations, we mean to preach a religion as wide as Heaven and as good as God. We have said we had : total loss. 'lut there was one r-xcep tion. Trho only things we saved were the silver communion chalices, for they happened to be in another building, and I took that fact as typical that' we are to be in communion wi ch all Christ endom. "I believe in "the communion of saints." 1 think, if all the Brooklyn firemen and all insurance c-ompanies should search among those ruins on Schernmer horn street, they would not finda splinter large as the tip end of the little finger marked with 'bigotry. And as i is said that ther exhaued bickks of the, walls of Habylon hav-e on themi the let ter ).sanding for Nebucuhadnezza", decl]art to '.ou that it we 4-ver get a n'ew church thu'letter we should like to have ion every stone and every timber wou)i be the letter C, for that would stand foi ,both Christ -and for Catholicity. Th flast two words I uttered in the old churci ion Friday night, some of you may re member, were "Hallelujah! Anmenr' SThe two words that I utter now as most expressive of my feelings in thi: our first service after the baptism oj fire, are Hallelujah! MAnen! "None o: these things move me." *We are kept in this mood by two o three considerations. The first is, tha God rules. In what way the church tools fire I do not know. It has been charget on the lightnings. Well, the Lord con: trols the lightningsI. Uie managed then everal thousand years before our- eleo tricians were Uoa. i ei mmIe ilituchates that. though they tfash down the sky recklessly, God builds for them a road to travel. In the Psalms it is said: "lie made a way for the lightning and the thunder." Ever since the time of lni:r j:in Frank lin the w'orld has been trying to tame the lightnings. and they seem to be quite well harnessed. but they occasionally kick over the traces. But though we can not master great natural forces. God can and does. and that God is our Father and best friend, and this thought gives us confidence. We are also reinforced by the increased consolation that comes from confratern ity of sorrow. The people who. during the last sixteen years sat on the other side of the aisle, whose faces were fa miliar to you. but to whom you had never spoken-you greeted them this week with smiles and tears as you said: "Well, the old plac. is gone." You did not want to seem to cry. and so you swept the sleeve near the corner of the eye, and pretended it was the sharp wind made your eyes weak. Ah: there was nothing the matter with your eyes: it was your soul bubbling over. I tell you that it is impossible to sit for years around the same church fireside and not have sympathies in common. Souehow you feel that you would like those peo ple on the other side of the aisle, about whom you know but little, prospered, and pardoned, and blessed, and saved. You feel as :f you are in the same boat. and you want to giide up the same liar bor. and want to disembark at the same wharf. If you put gold and iron and lead and zinc in sufficient heat, they will melt into a conglomerated mass: and I really feel that last Sabbath's tire has fused us all, grosser and inter natures. into one. It seems as if we all had our hands on a wire connected with an electric battery. and when this church sorrow started it thrilled t hroeuh the whole circle, and we all felt the sleek. The oldest mlan and the youngest child could jein hands in this maisfortiine. randfat h''r said. "I expected from those altars to be buried:" and one of the children last Sabbath cried. "Grm:dpa. that place was next to our own house." Yea. we are supported and confident in this time by the cross of Christ. That is used to the fire. On the dark day when Jesus died. tie l ightning struck it from above. and the flames of hell dashed up against it front benLath. That tearful, painful, tender. blessed' cross still stands. On it we Lang all our hopes: beneath it we put down all our sins: in the light of it weexuecttomake the rest of our pilgrimage. Within sight of such a sacrifice. who can feel lie has it hard? In the sight of such a symbol. who can be discouraged. however great the darkness that may come down upon him? Jesus lives! The loving. patient. sympathizing, mighty Jesus! It shall not be told on earth. or in hell, or in Heaven, that three llehrew children had the Son of God beside them in the fire, and that a whole church was forsaken by the Lord when they went through a furnace about two hundred feet wide. 0 Lord Jesus! shall we take out of Thy band the flowers and the fruits, and the brightness and the joys. and then turn away because Thou dot grive us one cup of bitterness to drink? 0. no. Jesus! we will drink it dry. liut bow it is changed! llessed Jesus. what hast Thou put into the cup to sweeten it? Why. it has be come the wine of heaven, and our souls grew strong. I come now, and place both of my feet deg'p down into the black ened ashes of our consumed church. and I gry out with an exhilaration that I never felt since the day of my -soul's emancipation. "Victory victory! through our Lord Jesus Christ!' Your harns. ye tremhtng ;a uts, Down from the wiil..ws take, Loud to the Praise n' io. diviac Bid.every string aw:,ke. We are also reinforced by the catho licity that I have already referred to. We are in the Academy te-day, not be cause we have no other place to go. Last Sabbath morning at nine o'clock wye had but one church: now; M a have about thirty, all at o'w- disposal. Their pas 'tois and their trust."-2 say: "You may take our main audiee roms, you may take our lecture roomns, you may take our church parlors, you may baptize in our baptisteri's, and sit on our anxious seats." 0! if there be any larger hearted ministers or larger hearted churches anywvlhere than in Brooklyn., tell me where they arn, that I may go and see them before 1 die. Trhe millenuium has come. People keep wenderin.;'vben it is coming. It has come. The hon and the lamb lie down to;:ether, and the tiger eats straw like an ox. I should like to have seen two of the old-time bigots. with their swo-ds, fighting through that great fire on Schermerhorn sreet last Sabbath. I anm su r, the swords would have mel']ted, and they whowielded them wvoul have learne'd war no more. I can never say a word against any other denomninamtion of Christians. 1 thank God 1 never have been tempted to do it. I can net be a sectarian. I have been told I ouget to b~e. andI I have tried to be, tsut I have not enough material in mue to mako such a structure. Every t'ime I get the thting most done there comes a fire or something else, and all is gone. The angels of God shake ot on this air. '-Glory to God in the highest. and on earth peace, good wvill toward men." 1 (10 not know but 1 see on t h horizon the first gleam of the morning which shall unite all denominations in one organization, distinguished only hy' the locality as in npostohie times. ]t was then the Church of Thyatira, and the Church of Thessalonica. and the Church of Antioch and the Church of Lodicea. So I do net know but that in the futur'e history. and 'i far off either. it may b~e simp~ly a d i-:tluet ion of 1o ality. and not of .'ree'd. as I.'- ehurch of N'ew York. the (h'rc o:t f lUrooklyn, the Chuitrch of Chart-'ton, the Church 'f .31adras,. the Churchl of C'onstantito pe. the Church of Aumerica. 31y dear hrs-th ren,. we can not afford to of the great fof-s of onr 'ommolen Ch'is ?antt. we want to put eu the whole armar of God and march down in solid columun. should.'r to. 5houIlder: one0 comn mad~er! one tri umh: 'The truuap~t r.-' a martLial '4train 0 Is-ael: Pr.i tie for ti e ihmt; Arie. aind put thy fors 'o tt!! t. We also feel r'iifo"c'd by the thought that we are on th'e way' to a heaven that -an never burn diown. Fires ay v weep through cther cities-but I am glad t< know that the Newy Je.rusalem is lire proof. There will be no e'ngines rushg~j through those streets: there will be rn temples consumed in that city. Comuing to the doors of that church, we will tind them open, resonant with songs. and noi cries of fire. 0. my deatr brother and sister! if this short lane of life comes ul so soon to that blessed place, what is the use of worrying? I have felt a good many times this last wveek like Fathem Taylor, the sailor preuacher. lie g~ot i a long sentence while h- wvas preni'ng one day, and lost himisel f. anl could no; find hi's wvay out of the sentence... IE stopped and said: "lhrethresn. I have lost the nominativo of this sentence, and things are generally mixed up, but I am bound for the kingdom anyhow." And during this last week, when I saw the rushing to and fro, and the excite ment, I said to myself, "Il do not knott just where we shall start again, but I am bound for the kingdom anyhow." I dc not want to go just yet. I want to be pastor of this pe.ople until I am ab~ou' eighty-nine ye.ars of age. but I hav< sometimes thought that there are such glories ahead that I may be persnaded tc go a little earlier-for instance, at eigh ty two or eighty-three: but I really thinkE that, if we cotuld have an appreectatior Iof wvhat God has in reserve for us. w( would wvould w"ant to go. stepping righi out of the Acade'my of -\usic into the oies of the skies. Ahi: that is a good land. Why, they tell me that in that land they never have a heartache. They tell me that a man might walk five hundred years in that land and never see a tear or hear a sigh. They tell me that our friends who have left us and gone there, their feet are radiant as the sun. and that they take hold of the hand of Jesus fa miliarly. and that they open that hand and see in the palm of it a healed wound that must have been very cruel before it was healed. And they tell that there is no winter there. and that they never get hungry or cold, and that the sewing girl never wades through the snow bank to her daily toil. and the clock never strikes twelve for the night, but only twelve for the day. See that light in the window. I won der who set it there. "Oh:' you say. "my fatker who went into glory must have set that light in the window." No: guess again. "My mother. who died fifteen years ago in Jesus. I think must have set that light there." No: guess again. You say: '"My darling little child that List summer I put away for the resur rection, I think she must have set the light there in the window." No: guess again. ,lesus set it there: and le will keep it burning until the day we put cur finger on the latch of the door and go in to be at home forever. Oh! when my sight gets black in death, put on my eyelids that sweet ointment. When in the last weariness I can not take an other step. just help me put my foot on that doorsill. When my ear catches no more the voices of wife and child, let me go right in. to have my deafness cured by the stroke of the harpers, whose fingers fly over the strings with the anthems of the free. hleaven never burns down! The fires of the last day, that are already kindled in the heart of the earth. but are hidden because God keeps down the hatches those internal fires will after a while break through the crust. and the plains. and the mountains and the seas will be cnsuimed, and the flames will fling their long arms into the skies: but all the terrors of a burning world will do no mnore harm to that heavenly temple than the fires of the setting sun which kindle up the window glass of the house on yonder hill top. 0. blessed land! But I do not want to go there until I see the Brooklyn Tabernacle rebuilt. You say, 'Will it be?' You might as well ask me if the sun will rise to-morrow morning, or if the next spring will put garlands on its head. You and I may not do it you and I may not live to see it; but the Church of Gol does not stand on two legs nor on a thousand legs. How did the Israelits get through the Red Sea? I suppose somebody may have gone and said: "There is no need of try ing; you will get your feet wet; you will spoil your clothes; you will drown your selves. Whoever heard of getting through such a sea as that? How did they get through it? Did they go backr No. Did they go to the right? No. Did they go to the left? No. They went, forward in the strength of the Lord Al mighty: and that is the way we me:an to get through the Red Sea. By going forward. But, says some one: "If we shoild build a larger church, would you be able with your voice to fill it?" Why. I have been wearing myself out for the lost sixteen years in trying to keep my voice in. Give me room where I can preach the glories of Christ and the grandeurs of Ieaven. Forward! We have to march on. br.2: 'u down all bridges behind us. making retreat inipossihle:. Throw away your knapsack if it impedes your march. Keep your sword arm free. Strike for Christ and his kingdom while you may. No people ever had a be ter mission than you are sent on. Prove yourselves 'worthy. If I am not fit to be your leader. set me aside. The brightest goal on earth that I can think of is a country parsonage amidst tilc mountains. But I am not afraid to kad you. I have some dollars: they are at your disposal. I have good physical health; it is yours as long as it lasts. I have enthusiasm of soul; I will not keep it back from your service. I have some faith in God. and I shall di rect it towvard the rebuilding of our n('w siritual house. Come on, then. I will lead you. Comne on, ye aged men. not yet passed over Jordan! Give us one more lift be fore you go into the promised land. You men in nmfldle life, harness all your business faculties to this enterprise. Young man, put the fire of youtr soul into this work. Let women consecrate their persuasiveness and persistence to this cause, and they will be preparing benedictions for their dying hour and everlasting re wards: and if Satan really did burn that Tabernacle down, as some people say he did, he will find it the poorest job he ever undertook. Good-bye, old TIabernacle. I ptut my fingers tomy lip and throw a kiss to the departed church. In the last day miay we be able to meiet the songs there stung. and the prayers there otfered, and the sermons there preached. Good-bye, old place, where sonie of us first felt the gospel peace, and others ht#.rd the last message ere they fled away m~ito the skies! Good-bye. Brookly n Ta.bernacle of 1873! But welcome our new church. (1 see it as plainly as thotgh it were already built:) Your gattC wide", your songs miore triumphant. yo0' r ingathier ings more irloi'ious. Rtise out of the ashes and greet otir waiting vision! Iurst on our souls, oh daiy of otir church's resurrection! By your altars may wye be prepared for the l:oui when the fire shali try every nman's work of what sort it is. Welcome, Brooklyn Tabernacle of 1890U! --No thoroughly-occupied m: .n was ever yet yeriy miserable.-Landon. He Rode in Style. One week ago the Long Island Rail roaid Conmpany ad(1vertised to run special trains fr om Sag Harbor to the fair of the Live Stock Association at hlunting rn 'o f~i omenedl o hrd Owing to the heavy r'aini-stoirm, hiowever lie special train was poorly patron)ized, andl~ it blowing a hurricane the next day. the r'ailroadI officials naturally supposed that there wouldt be no0 demnaud 'oir the special train. They were mistaken in their opinion, however, for G. B. Tlhtu' ber, of Bay Shore, was at the depot at the advertised time for the train to start, boughlt a ticket for Huntington and took his scat in a car. He was the only passenger. The conductor r'emton stratedl with Mr. Thurber. but the gen tIman annonneed his unalterable itften tion of going to Huntington on that train, and he dlidn't care whether he had any company or not. No plassen gers appeared at Babylon, and again the conductor appealed to Mr. TIhurber to take back his ninety-five cents and allow the "special" to go back. Mr. Thurber insisted upon the company's keeping its implied contract, and the corpiation gave in, tihe resuilt beinig that he wais the .oe pa:ssenlger of the special from Bay Shore to llntington. A r'ailr'oatd oth eia! is r'epor'ted to have remarked, in referencee to the mnatter, that the solitary passenger found fault with the company for' not putting on a parlor car, a sleeper and a dining-room coach, but. the rumor is not generally credited.-New York S3tar. A Lancastrian Kill a Man in Texas. It is reported here that Major Miles Hilton, who left this County a few years ago to settle at or near Palestine, Texas, killed a mnerebat in that State a few (ays ago, about a settlement 'e1 w.ee'n the merchant and a tenanit of Major Hilton. It is said Major IHilton himnself was al~so severely shot.-Lamoaster Re MEXICAN SOCIETY REPORTING. The Tropical Descriptive Style of the Land of the Montezumas. The society reporters in the City of Mexico do their descriptive work in a tropical style that makes the discreet I efforts of our American writers seem mere cold catalogues in comparison. Here is the translation as made by a cor respondent of the Kansas City Tines of the particulars of the attendance at a ball in the Mexican capital: "The beautiful Senorita Luz de los Rios, an enchanting bud, who makes her debut in the spring of life, full of grace and beauty, salhon pompadour; Senorita Manuela Pavon, whom the seraphims might envy, a fascinating ideal, like amythological dream, salmon; her no less beautiful and elegant sister Camerina carried herself with great ele gance in a correct dress of rose colored silk; the discreet Senora Crespo y Pach eco, black; the celestial Senorita Pacheco, steel gray; the Senmoritas Dolores and Lupe Natera, rosy sisters, beautiful as the first blush of a May morning, blue I with white flowers; the Seioritas Quin tana, with languid and passionate eyes and forms like waving palms, blue and rose colored silk. eThe beautiful Senorita Perez Solis, more tender and seductive than the smiles of a child, more candid and pure than the break of duly, white; the Seno ritas Arnuf-we have already described them in speaking of the ball at the Na tional theatre-a living starza from the harp of love; both were dressed in rose colored satin; both Senoritas Saunter, to whom were given the enchantments of the splendid sun of the middle ages of France, which charmed the immortal Mistral, rose-colored satin. "Senoritas Luz larbedillo. queen of roses, light of salons, nest of love, and fountain of inspiration, whose lips re semble A rubs casket of gems divine Inclosing a matchless cet of peerless pearls, dark, coffee-colored silk with black adornments. Queen of that constella tion was Elena Carrara; she appeared to be dressed in a robe torn from the azure blue of heaven, having glorious black eyes, glowing with the fiery splendor of the dying sun; an image of the Beatrice of Dante, she deserved to be sung in his immortd verse." How much warmer and more appre ciatve this than our bald, business-like description: Miss Lula Bangs, green plush; Miss Mamie Jenks, blue foulard; Miss Anastasia Blenkinsop Higginbot too, pink crepe, and so on. GETTING READY FOR THE FAIR. Secretary Holloway Putslis Shoulder to the Wheel-The Grounds and Buildings Nearly Ready and Entries Pouring In. Secretary Holloway was in the city again yesterday, and is making his pesence felt in the way of furthering the necessary arrangements for the coming State fair. This year all the preliminary business in relation to receiving exhibits, etc., will be conducted at the Secretary's office at the entrance of the fair grounds, instead of as heretofore opening an office on Main street. Secretary Holloway desires that all lists of entries he brought or sent in within the next few days, so that delay and confusion may be avoided later on. The time for the making of entries closes on Friday next, and it is intended to place as uyan exhibits in position Saturday cevening as possible. The paintirtg of the mnaitn building and the Secretary's ofiee is nearly comn pleted and reflects credit on the taste of the committee and on the wor-ktmanship of Captain Newtnham, thle contractor. The whitewashing of thle othier build ings, sheds, fences,. etc., is going for wardl, and ever-ything will *bc "spick span clean" by opening day. The new coops for tile poultr-y are about completed and compare favora bly with anything of the kind to be found anywhere. The entries arc conming in rapidly and over 500 have already beeni transcribed into the entry books. A mong thiem is a list of about fifty articles entered from Laurens Cotunty in competition for the 8t0 premiuim offered for the best and largest exhibit by any County in the field ct-op department. The exhibit th's yea'r of the nmechan ial dlepartment of the University prom ises lo be qjuite a show in itself and wvill afford a practical exemplificatiotn of the possibilities and advantages of that de p~artmnlt of our great State educational institution In this exhibit. will be in eluded many articles mnanufactured en tirely by students, and several hand some models showing to some extent the method of instruction employed. Noth ing like these models is to be seen else where in South Carolina. The exhibit will include work in the pattern, forge and machine wvork. Other branches of the University will make a creditable showing by exhibitinig samples of work done in pharmaceutical and other departments, including photo graphic work. It is intended to increase the Univecrsit y exhibius from year to year anl to make them a feature of the Fair. Tfhe contract for furnishing music oni the Fair grounds for the Agricultural soete v has been awarded to the Capital SCity Band. and a ~etter selection could seic tw bn amat. -Uder Po fessor Vinecut's direction the band has p rogessed rapidly anti the petrsistent prctice of the members has made them really proficient. Visitors to the Fair wil be- asured of excellent music and pletyt of ittfromn this excellent organiza ion. -Columdiia Rey ster-. Crushed by a Palling Tree. On Tuesday morning of last week Mr-. Daniel Baxley, who lives on Batck Swamp, near Mullitns, wvent into the woods near his home to fight a fire that was endangerinig property in the com munity. After having been there sonme time he heard one or two trees fall, and feat ing that his life might be en dangered should he remain where he was, he started to leave the woods. lie had gone but a very short distance be tore lie was struck to the earth by a fall iig tree. Mir. Baxley was very seioiusly hurt. I!lis right shoulder was ernshedl, his left bii was broken, anid int addlitioni to these hiis back was severely bruised and injured. Ie was attended hy Dr. C. T. Ford, who made him as comforta ble as his condition would allow. It was some time before Mr. Baxley was founid and it relured four inent some time to fece him~ from his uncomnfortable and p~erilous position.-Xaurion lude.. A sailing vessel of new construction has undergone a successful trial at Southampton, En gland. Its peculiar fea ture is the shape of tle submerged part, Iwhich is that of a W, with the angles well rounded off. The two keels are of brass and hollow, so that the water flows turouh them frotm (-ld to cnd. The THE CRONIN TIAL. LAYING BARE THE CONSPIRACY I THE CLAN-NA-GAEL. A Strong Case Being Made Out Agains John F. Beggs, the High Muck-a-Mucd of the Notorious Organization-An At tachment Issued for an Unwilling Wit ness. CHICAGO, October 30.-At the openinL of the court in the Cronin trial thi: morning, State's Attorney Longenecket asked for an atachment against Ed ward Speliman of Peoria, Ill., a distric officer of the Clan-na-Gael. Mr. Longe necker said Speliman had been served with a subpo'fna, and had agreed t< come when called for. Two telegram; had been sent to him, but he had no responded. An attachment was ordere< issued. The first witness sworn was Denni: O'Connor. He testified that he was member of Camp 20. At a meeting o0 the camp on February S last, witnes said he neard Thomas O'Connor statt that he had heard read in Dr. Cronin' camp the minority r, port of the com mittee to try the executive body of ti order. The name:-s of the members o the executive body were not mentionec and witness said he never knew whi composed the triangle. Then it wa: voted to appoint a committee to go ti to Cronin's camp and investigate th< matter of the minority report whicl Cronin had read. The cross-exanina. tion elicited nothing new. Stephen Colleran, who was on th( stand at the time of the adjourunent q) court last evening, was recalled, and after answering a few unimportan1 questions from the Stile was turnet over to the defense for cross examina tion. It developed nothing of interest Patrick Nolan, financial secretary of Camp 20, produced his record book and from it testified as to the numbers born( by Coughlin, Cooney, O'Sullivan, Begg and Burke, all of whom except Cooney are now on trial. Witness further testi fled that he was present at the meetint of the camp on the night, of May 3, th( day preceding Dr. Cronin's death; thal Beggs presided; that there was a call foi a report of the secret cmmittece ap pointed on February 8, and that Begg: replied that the committee was to report to him alone. Witness said that on tht Sunday following Cronin's disappear ance he met Burke and Cooney, about 5 o'clock in the afternoon, in a saloon. This was before witness knew of Cro Din's disappearance. They went to an other -saloon and played cards for o couple of hours. The next witness was Captain Thomas F. O'Connor, the man who created ex citement in Camp 20 on the night of February 8 by saying he had heard read in Cronin's camp th< report of the com mittee - that had tried the triangle. O'Connor said that Andrew Foy was the first man to speak that night. Foy arosc in his place in the camp and addressed the senior guardian, and stated that he arose under a terrible strain; that aftei the disclosures of LeCaron in London, the organization, as an organization, was no more; that there were fout British spies in the organization, rad that it should be reorganized; and every one that was in the organization who had the slightest taint or suspicion attached to him should be expelled. When he got through I arose to my feet, and I stated that I was not at all sur prised at hearing the gentleman talk as he had done; that I knew by positive information that the organ iz'ation was run by a parcl of rogrues known as our executive body; that they ad squandered our funds,; even to thet extent ot $100,000; and not alone that. but they sent our best me~n across to England to have them put behind the bars; and now, I state positively, thfat LeCaron was an agent of our executive board and received pay from them. At that nioment I waLs interruplted by two or three brothers with a dlemandl to tell where 1 got my information. I did not like the first brother who spoke to me,. and I said: ''You demand nothing. Then there were two or three other brothers that demantded to know where I gt my inforimation, and there wa: a general uproar at the time. &e 1 turnied around to the senior uardian and said to him: "If the senior laardian demands of me where I got y initcrmation I will gll him." Het did not say anything. ihen there was some more uproar. I turned the second time and the third time, and said if the senior guardian would demand of ne where 1 got my information, I would tell him. Then I stated I had heard terrible report of the entire t mit tee in Buffalo, and had alk seen a writt of 300 pages o0 elosel . .en og-hand about the trial and tha~t 1 was pisitive of my statement. At that instant Daniel Coughlin, a mem her of the camp. arose to his feet and said: "Mr. Guardian, 1 move that secret comumi'rec of three b~e ap poined to find out the sonrce o1 Captain O'Connor's information." Thesi were his word(s. Then there was somn one else on his feet, and the senio: guardian wrapped the camp to order, as i was such a tumultuous time, such tur. nioil. somebody spoke, and the senior guardian said: "I will hear no more 0r this subject, andI I will appoiut the com. mnitte." Quesion--WVho was i,he senior guard ian at thuis time? . Answer-John E.Geggs. CmAco.Oetber :11-J1u'lge McCon net'hs court, in which the Cronin tr-ia is in progress, was called to order ne'aria half an hour later than usual this morn. ing. Johna Kunze, 01ne of the prisoners, was feeling badly yesterday afternoon, and the tria! was adjourned a ltik erlier than usual on that account. lb v as not so well this morning and re cined in the court roon with his head on a pillow. His trouble is pleurnisy. but it is not beleived that it will result sciiously. Patrick Mctarry, who occupied tht chair at the time of the ad journ ment last night, was still a wit ness. 1r. D)onahoe, of counsel for the defense niovd' to strike out all of :bait part 0i MicGar'y's evidence given1 yesterdayi ir which MicGarry describes his visit to thie honee of def'endant O'Sullivan, aftet Cronin's murdler, and at which time hei questioned O'Sullivan closely about hi contract with Cronin. A long argument followed. It was fifially decided to postpone the dlecisiot on the point till the afternoon in ordes to allow counsel time to present author Pending that, the cross-examinatiom of MGarry was also postponed, ant George Reilly, a barkeeper, was callet to the witness chair, lHe testified thal in the latter part of March, Coughlin O'Sullivan and others were in a saloor and wer'e talking politics, when Cough in saidl that a certain Noi'tht-side Cath oic. wa alk-ingao inu eb, and that iE hi did not eep his mout so.it he would get the worst of it. James Quinn was +'e next witness, r and wa questioned about the same matter as the wituess who preceded him. It developed nothing new. Then the State's Attorney sought to introduce correspondence between Bcggs -iand Spellman. Mr. Foster, attorney for Beggs, said he wa ready to admit any thing that Beggs ever wrote, but that lie could say nothing about letters written by any one else. So the matter went over, pending the appearance of Spellman. W. P. IIatfl'1, sakesman for Revell & Cox, was c:dled, and told of sellingto a man calling himself J. B. Simonds a bill of furniture which was taken to a flat at 117 Clark street, -and was subse quently conveyed to the Carlson cottage, the scene of the murder. The only new point developed was the fact that Si nonds said the furniture was "for tem porary use." A fter Hlattield had identified the fur uiture sold to Simonds as that subse quently seen by him in the Carlson cot tage, the trunk in which Cronins body was carried away was brought into court. Hatfield, after examining it, testified that it was identical with the one sold to Sinionds. On cross-examination he said that lie could not swear that it was the identical trunk, because the firm keep such on hand aiwavs, and perhaps other dealers did also. It came out that Mr. Forrest, of counsel for the defense, had bought just such a trunk from witness. It could not be sworn to positively that t he furniture in the Carlson cottage was the sanie furniture sold to Simonds. It was prei.,ely like it, however. A recess was then taken. CHICAGo, Nov. 1.-Martin McHall, a carpett layer, was the first witness in the Cronin trial this morning. le tes tified that the carpet bought by "J. B. Simonds" in February last wAs laid by him (witness) on the floor of a room at 117 Clark street. Witness was then shown a piece of carpet, presunably from the Carlson cottage, and lie iden tified it as identical in pattern with that which he laid in the Clark street room. :after the shipping clerk, the delivery man and other employees of Revels had testified, the first important witness of the dlay, Annie Carlson, was placed on the stand. The young woman began her testimony very timidly. After several questions she became so nervous that her replies were almost inaudible. It frequently became necessary for the court stenographer to repeat aloud the barely uttered sentences which fell from her lips. The audience in the court room. assuming that revela tions of a most startling character were being made, craned their necks in the direction of the witness stand, and the excitement became intense as Mr. Mills put the next question. Witness then went on to state how, on the 20th of March, while she was at Carlson's, a man came to rent the cottage which stood near the house. le said his sister was to keep house for him, and that he had some furniture he wanted to move in at once. lie gave his name as Frank Williams. "Mrs. Carlson," asked the iawyer, "do you see that stranger in the court room now?" "Yes, sir." "WVili you point him out to the jury?" "There he is"-[witness pointing to Martin Burke.] -Do you mean Martin Burke--that man?" continued Mr.- Mills. pointing to Burke again. "Yes," replied witness; and that ended her examination. Mr. Forrest then cross-examiined the witness at great length, going inito all the details of her niovements and her visits to Carlson's house. She testified hat .she had never seeni Burke from the day she entered the cottage until a few days ago, when she came into tr~e court room for the purpose of identifying him, vet she recognized him immediately. Iis eyes, hair and mouth and his peeu liar wa.y of looking, she said, made a grecat impressioni:oiu her, and she knew him at oince. Mi-. Forrest mnade the wit ness look away fi-om Bui-ke and at the ur-y and then describe his features and the color of his har. - This she dlid. Mr. Forrest'. for the dlefense, raised the qutestion as to whether this testi mony was applicable to any other one of the defendants except Bur-ke. The eourit deculed that that was a qulestioni which would have to be decided by subsequeiit devclopments of the trial. Jonats Carlson, owner of the cottage, was the next witness. He corroborated thle testimony of his .daughter-in-law -aboutt the stranger coniing to rent the cottgi.e. Witness then said: He asked iLn it was my house, as lie wanted to e--nt a house. I told him y-es. I1e said, Le mein sic the house,"- and we walked oer- to thle house, and I took the k-eys ad wenut to the cottage with him. We enered by the back door and lie hooked around a id said there were six roonn. "Now, hec asked, "how nmuch do you ask for it ' I said$12a~tmonth. IHesaid, "Can you t ake.$11?" "No, I cannot," I said. "I will give you the money now," lie said. Th len I got lihe money, and my boy gave hiim at rec-eipt, wheni we went back to the oth'er house. ICarlIson went on to say that the stangecr, who gave the name of Frank Wiliams, said he had three brothers and his sister. who was to conic on from Bal tiimre to keep house for- them, lie had boghit furiniture :mid it would arrive ini two or three days. The stiranger then took the key. Wit ness said lie had met and talked 'with O'Sullivan, one of the defendants, mainy tinies. O'Sullivan lived in the immediate vicinity. -At this point at r-ecess wams taken. Making Slate Pencils. One of the miost peculiair br-an'ches of idustry in this -ountry is the manu facture of slate pencils. There is only one slate pencil factory in the United ates. It is located at Castleton, Vt., ad employs twenty-five hands, who turn out :30,000 slate pencils every day. The mnethod of manufacture is a good -deal in advance of the primitive means employ ed someC years bacek. Not long in ce the blocks of soft slate fr-om which hiy a-re cot were sawed ini lengths and di t uted anmong ithe neigh boing Ia horn' tamilies to be whittled dlowni to Ipencil shaipe. Tiiose working att theni could car-n about fifty cents pecr thou sand. By the present system the blocks, which are as wide its the pencil is long, ar put into the mouth of a machine c-led the crocodile. This contains six rows of revolving curved knives. As - the slab passes between these knives palecl grooves are cut in the slabs. then they ar-e turned and cut through. The square penceils are then rounded tand polished by holding them agaiinst the cenery belt. One man can cut out and finisi about 8,000 pencils per day. -New York JIoianl. - It (aes twenty-two servants to run - the W. IC. Voermbilt house and five to .run the stables BOTH STEAMESswENTrDOWN. The Steamers Cleopatra and Crystal Wave Sunk in Collision Off the Dela ware Capes. NEw Y nK, October 30.-The steamer Kanawha. from Newport News; arrived here this morning with the crew of the steamer Cleopatra, twenty-six in nutn ber, and the crew of thirteen of the steamboat Crystal Wave, which were both sunk in collision at 5:30 o'clock yesterday morning off the capes of Dela ware. All hands were saved. The Cleopatra was an American screw steamer of 523 tons register and was built in 1S05. She was running in the Old Dominion Line and was bound from West Point. Va., for New York. The Crystal Wave was a side-wheel river steamer and was bound hence for a Southern port. The boats came together about 5:30 o'clock yesterday morning. The Crystal Wave was cut down to the water's edge and the Cleopatra coi menced to break up, and as she was sinking rapidly her officers and crew, twetity-six in number, decided to aban don her and were taken off by .the steamer Kanawha, from Newport News for New York. The Kanawha also took off the officers anl crew of the Crystal Wave. She attempted to tow the Cleo patra, but was unable to do so, as the latter vessel filled rapidly and became a complete wreck. The Cleopatra had no passengers. The crew of the Crystal Wave consisted of thirteen all told. The Crystal Wave was bound for Washington. The Crystal Wave was purchased a week ago for $45,000 from the Bridge port Steamboat Company. by E. S. Ran dall of Washington, D. C. Captain Dan Martin, one of the best known steamboat men in this port, was placed in command, and she left last Saturday afternoon for Washington. The wea ther was clear and the sea smooth until the vessel reached the Horse Shoes. There a slight storm came up and the boat anchored until Monday night. At 7:30 that night the boat resumed her voyage, proceeding without further in terruption until a few minutes after 5 Tuesday morning. At this time the darkness was intense. Captain Martin was in the pilot house, and he says the vessel's side lights were brightly burning. Suddenly, and without any previous warning, a great black object loomed up. Before he could signal the engine to slow down the black object, that Captain Martin now saw was the bow of a steamer, eashed into the Crystal Wave. Her captain just had time to make out the name. "Cleopatra," on approaching the vessel's bow when he was thrown to the floor of the pilot house by the shock of the collision. The Cleopatra struck the Crystal Wave at right angles, between the paddle box and the stern on the starboard side. . The Crystal Wave was cut clear through to the keel. The Cleopatra's planks parted, and in an in stant both vessels began to till. It was not then known that any ves sel other than the two in collision was within miles of them, and hurried pre parations were made on board each vessel tos te to the boats. The Cleo patra was the eas . ed, a Dale ordered his crew to I r the life boats and endeavor to save those on board the Crystal Wave. One or two boats had been lowered and several men taken from the Crystal Wave, when the coal boat Kanawba came in sight, and all on board both vessels were transferred to the Kanawha in life boats, with the exception of Capt. Martin, who refused to leave his vessel. The Crystal Wave's owner, Mr. Ran lall; who had beeni taken off, saw his vessel was sinking, and shouted to calp tin Martin to enter the life-boat that was waiting for him, but the captain refused and remnair.e2 on board for an hour atter the collision. Then the Crystal Wave plunged dIowjn, bow first, with Captain Martin still in the pilot house, when she sank. He was subse quntly picked up by one of-the life boats. No lives were lost. The Cleopatra. which carried a valn ah~iCecarg') of 'cotton, still remained afloat atfter the Crystal Waive had sunk. and was taken in row by the Kanawha. She was towed for an hour, when the water had risen over her hurricane deck, and it was impossible to tow her further. She wvas abandonied otf the Delaware Lightships. six miiles tro'n the place where the colhLsion occurredl. The captains of the lost boats each claim that his vessel was not at fault. The Cleopatra had recently been pur chased by the Old l)ominion Company as an extra ye sel. She formerly be longed to the International Steamship Company and plied between Nova Scotia and Boston. She was a wooden vessel, schooner rigged aiid of about 500 tons burthen. She was valued at between $20,000 and $25,000 and was not in sired. The value of her cargo could not be learned. The Crystal Wave's owner. Mr. Ran dall, said to-day that he had invested his life's savings in her purchase anid had not a dollar of insurance on the boat. A sTE.AMER DIsAULED. NEw YoRK, October I:0.--The Mal lor Line Steamer Colorado. which sailed hene for Galveston October 21, has been lying at anchor otf Sandy Hook all the morning. having returned with her -udder disabled. A M ire and an Ox Fight to the Death. C. WV. Iammond of Cowan Station. Kv , turned a line blooded mare, valued at 500, and a large ox into the same in losure on Monday. The two animals had been together sever-al timnes before, but as soon as they entered the lot yes trday they rushed at each oth-r. Two or three farm hands were present and attempted to separate themi, but niar rowly escaped serious injury and failed in the endeavor. The mare kicked the ox in the side with both feet, nearly stunning him, but the latter recovered and gored the mare two or three times. Both fought with the greatest fury-. The mare both kicked andI bit, .tea-rig chunks of flesh from the oix wn her sharp teeth. while she in turn was rakd iign1iIa and aga in by th:w' shar) h es. Both were e >,eedlj wih 1)lood, hut conutinued the bat tie as dles p-ratev' as ever, despite all the efforts of the men to separate themi. At last the ox pluinged his horn alnost entirely through the thick part of the nare s neck. The blow was fatal, but as the mare stagger-ed her weight broke the ox's horn ~off short. and she fell and died with it in her body. The ox was so adly kicked and bitten that he died in the aftcrnioon. Failure of Klinck, Wickenberw & Co. CHALsToN, Nov. 1.-.Judge Kershawv to-day appointed A. M. Lee receiver of the firm of Klinck, Wiekenberg & Co., for the last half century engaged in the grocery business ini this city. Liabilities $000 aand sm ets nominally 1ure. The Red Leaf. So nature's second harvest crowns With gold earth's countless hills; Wi h hind, soft, gray light veils its frowns, Its pulses quiets and stills. The spirit touch of faintest white That clothed the oaks in May, Has grown to brood-red, fail delight; So vanishes away. The rich brown youth the maples threw About the hours of spring, Comes back a mellow, orange hue, With songs the angels aing. 0! nature, in these autumn hours, What deathless beauty thrills Thy godlike, everlasting powers, And covers all thy hills. The sumac's crimson bravely stays To cheer the lifeless green Of faded cypress. So, always Death's resurrection dream. LOOKS LIKE MONEY WASTED. A Fortune for a Man Who Keeps-Too Drunk to Understand It. Some few months ago, says the Nor wich (Conn.) Bulletin, Mr. Fred. B. Manning saw in a Chicago paper-an ad vertisement inquiring for a lost printer, for whom a fortune was waiting. He., recognized the name as that of a drunken tramp printer who had turned up in Norwich. Mr. Manning wrote the family and received a letter from the uncle of the young man, who asked' him, if he ever came to Norwich again to send him to his family. To pay the fare of the printer to his destination.the : uncle remitted $15. Two weeks ago the printer, who was a lost son of a worthyI. family, turned up in Norwich too intoxai cated to understand the message a Manning had for him. Before he coI be sobered he had left the town. Inquiry; was at once made for him, and he traced to Putnam and sent back to Nor.. wich, still drunk. Every effort - made to get him sober enough to know there was good fortune awaiting-him; but he raved and raged and again left the city and went to Willimantic. In quiry was again made for him, which resulted in his being sent back again to; Norwich. He was just as drunk as eve and could not be made to agree to take: the $15 and go home. Losing all hope of being able to vail on him to return to his who lived in New York city,' Mr. Man ning enclosed the $15 in a letter and mailed it to the printer's uncle. A the money had been mailed the fell turned up sober enough to take in situation. Mr. Manning went to... the postoffice and recalled the letter, ga the man his $15, and he promised go home, a place he he had ncs seen for years. - A letter received i6y Mr. Manning from the uncle, on Monday, proved the-. man had kept his word. The letter con tained the heaatiest thanks to Mr. Namen ning for his services, and offered to re munerate him for his trouble. Theinele said his nephew had $6,000 now which would be paid at once, and that' his annual income from his share of hisi father's estate is $2,800 His mothert has $75,000 worth of property, and wandering sot proves to be the sole her: - to about $150,000. The Champion Lie. Readers of "Notes for the Curious says the St. Louis Republic, will re= member the remarkable account gib in the issue of September 7 of the eye that winked after the head had been. severed from the body. The following, story, -ven more wonderful than' e Fren atory in which the eye-play the important part, is from a Gra history of the past century, and po~ conclusively that the mind does surr decapitation: Herman Krause, employed ast executioner in 1702, was the muset ful knight of the sword that has been in governmental employ. one occasion he was detailed to a matnof one of the North. pro< who, had been convicted of a heinous crime. This particular had a singular itching to play aL pins, and he implored permisaion play once more at his favorite ganli fore he died. Then, he said, he submit to his fate without a marm_ The judge, thinking there coul be harm in granting this modest last quest, granted it. Whben the prisoner arrived at place of execution he found ev prepared for the game, the pins iipsbd tbe bowls ready. He commencedz favorite sport with great enth and played with a will for over an never 'seeming to think of - fate awaiting him. The second had well advanced and the hour of e ecutien had been past twenty ite, still tx doomed man showed no cla: tion to desist. One of the guards and theexctoe held a hurried consultation. It 'was de. cided to strike the fatal blow while the curprit was deeply absorbed in the Unobserved by the prisoner the eeu tioner stood with drawn sword ready~c the crowning tableau. At last victim was in easy reach, as he for the bowl. Swift as a strokeof lightning the steel descended -on the neck of the unsuispecting wretch. - His fingers never touched thebol but, as he straightened with aspmo. shrug, his own head fell into hisot stretched hands. He naturally sup it was the bowl for which he bad stoopged, and, seizing it firmly, he rolled it in the direction of the pins. All of them fell, and the head was heardto5 exclaim as it rebounded from the farther wall: "Hurrah! I've won the game. It was traly a ghastly sight, andon never forgotten by the spectators. Only Temporary. The recent indisposition of ex-Senator Thurman, which interrupted his speech . at the great Democratic meeting in Cin cinnati, was only temporary, and the old Roman announces his purpose to try it again. He will preside over a Demo cratic mass meeting at Middletown; Ohio, Saturday next, and will make the - opening speech. Mr. Thurman an nounces his purpose to warmly urge the.A election of Hon. James E. Campbell, the lemoratic nominee for Governor, and thus silence the assertion of the Repub hcants that he is not heartily in favor of-s that gentleman. Other speakers an nounced for the Middletown meeting in-'3 elude Goveror D. B. Hill of New York,' f x-Governor Isaaic P. Gray, Senator D. W. Voorheces, Congressmen Lamb and 3, Shively of Indiana aind Hon. James E. Campbell. ______ George Vanderbilt has recently bought more land in Buncombe County, No Carolina. He has just paid $10,500f one tract and taken a $20,000 option another. Altogether he has invee $750,000 in lands down there. The Sultan of Turkey has borro $00,0 with wvhich to entertain Emipe'ror and~ Empress of Germ Cntantinople.