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TALMAGE ABJOC D, ELOQUENT SERMON PREA li ED BY HIM IN LONDON. .fhe Apostles' Prison oh-use- triu',aa: Uhains and Damp u ;..ti V'ty thePrisoner- The Pit, the iot.n'% >en. We Blazinc Furnace, th e :take- ard th4 Prison for Christian,. The Rev. T. De Witt Talmair-, D. D. of Brooklyn, preached in, L0don, Sunday, taking for his text Aets xvi, 81: "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." He said: Jails are dark, dull, damp, loathsome places even now; but were worn i:- the '-apostolic times. I ine to-d-se we arstanding in the Philippian dungeon. you feel the chill? Do you hear the grean of those incarcera e ones w o for ten years have not seent the szuu light, and the deep sigh of w-men who remember their fath-trs house, and mourn over their wasted estates? Listen again. It is the cough ofa -.n sumptive, or the struggle oi one in a nightmare ofa great horror. You is :,"en again, and hear a culprit, his chains -rattleing as he rolls over in his dreams, and you say: "God pity the prisoner." -But there is another sound in that prison. It is a song of joy and glad Uess Whataplace to sing in! The _music comes winding through the cor -xidors or the prison, and in all the dark *ards the whisper is heard: What's Eth'at? What's that-" It is the song of Paul and Silas. They cannot sleep. '-.They have been badly whipped. The long gashes on their backs are bleed ing yet. They lie flat on the cold round, their feet fast in wooden sock. Sot, and of course they cannot sleep. But they can sing. Jailer, what are you doing with these people? Why '.have they been put in here? 0, they .-have been trying to make the world better. Is it that? That is all A pit for Joseph. A lion's cave for Daniel. ,-.A blazing furnace for Shadrach. Clubs -foe John Wesley. An anathema for Philip Melanethon. A dungeon for Paul and Silas. But while we are -standing in the gloom of that Philippi an.dungeon, and we hear the mingling voices of sob, and groan, and bias phem, and hallelujah, suddenly an earthquakel The iron bars of the prison twists, the pillars crack off, the solid masonry begins to heave and rock till all the doors su ing open, and the walls fall with a terrific crash. The -jailer, feeling himself responsible for E~eee prisoners, and feeling suicide to t be honorabli-since Brutus killed himnsel, and Cato killed himself, and Cassius killed himself--puts his sword to his own heart, proposing with one strong, keen thrust to put an end to his as=citement and agitation. But Paul cried out: "Stop! Stop! Do thyself no harm. We are all here." Then I see 'the jailor running through the dust amid the ruin of that prison, and I see -im throwing himself down at the feet of those prisoners, crying out: "What .shall I do? What shall I do?', Did Pau) answer: "Go. out of this place before there is another earthquake; 1put handcuffs and hobbles on those other prisoners. lest they get away?" Not a word of that kind. Compact, k thrilling, tremendous answer-; answer 3peindrable all through earth and : "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ,and thou shalt be saved.', Well, we have all read of the earth -quake in Lisbon, in Tima, in Aleppo i5and in Cracas; but we live in latitude where inall our memory there has not been one severe volcanic disturbance. AndLnyet wehave sean flfty earthquakes. ..7 ere is a man who has been building _up a large fortune. His bid on the ~ money market was felt in all the cities, nlg rivalries in trade, and he says to M alel "Now I an free and safe from all possible perturbation." But a nat ional panic strikes the foundation of Sthe commercial werld, and crash! goes all-thatmagnificent business establish :ment. He is a mnwhobhas built up a very beautiful homa. His daughters Shave come home from the seminary ~'with diplomas of grduation. His st ons have started in lie, honest, tem. Sereand pure. When the evening iare struck, there is a happy and apunbroken family circle. But there Shas been an accident down at the Sbeech. The youngman ventured too is' r out in the surf. The telegraph ihurled the terror up to the city. An ~earthquake struck under the founda ~tions of that beautiful home. The pao closed, the curtain dropped; the lagtrhushed. Crash! go all those domestac hopes, and prospects, and ex Spectations. So my friends, we have aRl felt the shaking down of some great ~trouble, and there was a time when Swe were as much excited as this man of the text, and we cried out ashe did: "WWhatsll do? What shall I do?' The same reply that the apostle made to him Is apropriate to us: "Believe in the Lor' esus Christ and thou shalt he saved." There are some documents of so little importance that you do not care to put any more than your last name under them, or even your ii tials; but there are some documents oi -sa great importance that you -write out your fb!name. So the Saviour in somepartsof the Bible is called, "Lord' and In other parts of the Bible he is -j caled "Jesus," and in other parts of theBibe h iscalled "Christ," but that there might be no mistake about this pasgallsthree names come in 'othr"the Lord Jesus Christ." No, who is this. Being that you want me to trust and believe in? Men sometimes come tome with credentials and certificateulof good character; but I cannot trust them. There is some dishonesty in their looks that makes meiknow I sall1 be cheated if I con -Ade in them. Yen cannot put your heart's conidence in a man until you know~what stuff he is made of, and am I unreasonable this morning, when I - stop to ask you who this is that you want me to trust in? No man would think of venturing his life on a vessel going out to sea, that had never been inspected. No, you must have the cer tificate hung amidships, telling how many tons it carries, and how long ~oit was built, and who built it, and about it. And you cannot expect me to risk the cargo of my immortal interests on board any craft till you tell me what it is made of, and where it was made, and what it is. When, then, I ask you who this is you want me to trust in, you tell me he was a very at tractive person. You tell me that the contemporary writers describe him, and they give the color of his eyes, and the color of his hair, and they describe his whole appearance as being resplen dent. Christ did not tell the children to come to him. "Suffer little child ren to come unto me," was not spoken to the children; It was spoken to the Pharisees. The children had come without any invitation. No soormr -did Jesus apper than the little ones pitch from teir mothers' arms. an avalanche of beauty and love, into h~is lap. "Suffer little children to com~e unto me." That was addressed to the Pharisees; not to the children. Christ did not ask John to put his head down en his bosom, John could noc hLt~p but put his head there. Such eyes, such cheeks, such a chin, such hair, such physical condition and appear. anoe-why it must have been com pletely captivating and winsome. I suppose a look at him was just to love him. 0! how attractive his manner. Why, when they saw Christ coming =ang the street they ran into their house,-,1 'a --'* Mesai-t, so) 'lei a g1-entle v.wr. :1r. thy 't. h Yiw from him. In diin to the i 'J! acter, there w s a hery me~-entu How the old hypcritet fore hitu. lw tue k i r turned pale, Here is a plain maU, with a iew saiors i a ck, emiA on the sea of Galilee, ' O;)1 u ' the palace of the Caesar., makin t hat p . aee quake IO ith ftae C0 1 U Iut teriig a word of merev a'i eine~ which throbs through all the earth, ani through all the heavens, and through all the ages 0! he was a lovingI Christ. But, it 'tvas not ethemlmxacy, or insipidity ZehAraJcr: it wa accoui naniei ~with majes., ininite ant o4.nipoteut. Lst th Vorld shouldl not realize Hils earneztne, this Cari: mounts the cros! You sa::: "It Ch'i Sto die wh not let 1iltl :.Ke somC deadly potion and lie on a couen in some bright and beautifni homer If He must die, let Him expire amid all kindly attentious." No), the w0ld must hear the hammers on the heads of thespikes The world must, ii;tcu to the death rattle of the suffeorer. The world must feel His warm blood djrop ping on each cheek, whilel it looks up into the face of His anguish. And so the cross must be lifted, and the hole is dug on the to.. of Calvary. It must be dug three feet. deep, and then the cross is laid on the groutd, and the sufferer is tretced tpon it, un-i the nails are pounded through nerve, and muscle, and bone, through the right. hand through the left hand; and then they shake his right hand to see if it is fast, and then they shake hi. left foot to see if it is fast, and then they heave up the wood, half a dozen shoulders under the weight, and they put the end ofthe cross to the mouth of the hole, and they plunge it in, all the weight of his body coming down for the first time on the spikes, and while some hold the cross uprht others throw in the dirt and trample it down, and trample it hard. 0, plaat that tree well and thoroughly, for it is to bear fruit such as no other tree ever bore. Why did Christ endure it? He could have taken thoe rocks, and with them crushed his crucifiers. le could have reached up and grasped the sword of the omnipotent God, and with one clean cut have tunbled them into perdition. But no, he wa; to die. He must die. His life for my life. His life for your life. In one o the Euro pean cities a young man died on the scaffold for the crime of murder, Some time after the mother of this young man was dying, and the priest came in, and she made confession to the priest that she wag the murderer, and not son; in a moment of anger she had struck her husband a blow that slew him. The son came suddenly into the room, and was washing away the woundsand trying to resusltate his father when so -e one looked through the window and saw him, and suppes ed him to be the eriniinal. That young man died for his own mother. You say: "It was wonderful that he never eposed." But I tell you of a grander thing. Christ, the Son of God, died not for his mother, not for his father, but for his sworn enemies 0, such a Christ as that-so loving, so selfsacific ing-can you not trust Him?, I think there are many under the spirit of God who are saying: "I will trust him if you will only tell me how;" and the great question asked by thousands in this assemblage is; "Ho n? how?" And while I answer your quesuiou iook.ip and utter the prayer which Rowland Hill so often uttered in the midst of sermons; "Mas ter, help!" How are you to trust in Christ? Just as you trust any one. You trust your partner in business with important things. If a comumer cial house give you a note payable three months hence, you expect the payment of that note at the~ end of three months. Y ou have perfect con fidence in their werd and in their abil ity. You go home today. You ex pect there will be food on the table. You have confidence in that. Now I ask you to have the same confidence in the Lord Jesus Christ. He says: "You believe; I take your sins," and they are all taken away. "What!" you say, 'before I pray any more? Before I read my Bible any more? Before I cry over my sins any more?" Yes, this, this moment! Believe with all your heart and you are saved. Why, Christ is only waiting to get from you what you give to scores of people every day. Whit is that? Confidence. If these people whom you trust day by day are more wor thy than Christ, if they are more faithful than Christ, if they have done more than Christ ever did, then gite them the preference; but if you really think that Christ is as trus;worthy as they are, then deal with him as fairly. "Oh," says some one in a light way, "I believe that Christ was born in Bethlehem, and I believe that he died on the cross." Do you believe it with youhead or your heart? I will illus tate the difference. You are in your own house. In the morning you open a newspaper, and you read how Capt. Braveheart on the sea risked his life for the salvation of his passengers. You say: "What a grand fellow he must have been! His family deserve very well of the country." i ou fold the newspaper and sit down at the ta ole, and perhaps do not think of that incident again. That is historical faith. But now you are on the sea, and it is night, and you are asleep, and are awakened by the shriek of "Fire!" You rush out on the deck You hear, amid the wringing of the hands and the fainting, the cries: "No hope! we are lost! we are lost!" The sail puts out its wings of fire, the ropes make a burning ladder in the night heavens, the spirit of wreck hisses in waves, and on the hurricane deck shakes out its banner of smoke and darkness. "Down with the life boats!" cries the captain. "D~own with the life boats!" People rush out into them. The boats are about full. Room only for one more man. You are standing on the deck beside the captain. Who hall it be? You or the captain? The captain says: "You."' You jump in and are saved. He stands there, and dies. Now believe that Capt. Brave heart sacrificed himself for his past.en gers, but you beitere it with love, with tears, with hot and long continued ex Iclamations, with grief at his loss and saving faith. In other words, what you believe with all the heart, and believe in regard to your self. On G: hinge turnxs my sermon; aye. the salvatmn of your imimortal soul. Mrs. Htmans, Mrs. Eig'urne'y, Dr. Young and almost all the poe's have said handsme things abotu. death. L~ere is nothiing beautiful about it. When we staad by the white and rigidI features of those whom we love, and they give noanswering pressure of the hand, and no retuning kiss of the lip, we do not want any body poetizing around about us. Death is loathsome-1 ness, and midnight, and the wringing of the heart uutil the tendrils saap and curl in t le torture unless Christ be with us . .confess to you to an ini finite fear, a consuming hnrror, of 'VOI' nlSd~ "o P'.te' a' ribu, : I ad no jo to the Mev Chiristm" on-'r the "Happ uth h' - l in hegoun the't gri. LI here her . superraiural ili umi i La ion, 1. si'lder back from it. My wei nueevi ae -is But r mthi goriou t apis n iov tIhe rav, al Le darkne's is gone a-1d the way is clar. I look into it now wtih out a sing e shudder. Now my anxic ty is not about death; my anxiety i that I may live aright, for I know that il my life is consistent whenU I couie to the ia- u cur, and this voice is silnt, .hnd the-e eyes are closed, and hd with i whcich I beg for your etarnal wi. vat ion tod iy are folded over te s;]till heart, that then I shall only begin to live. What power is there ia any thing to chill me in the last hour if Chiist wraps around me the skirt of his own gar men i? What dark ness can fall up on my eyelids tnen, amid the heaven ly daybreak? 0 death, I will not fear thee then! Back to thy cavern of darkness. thou robber of all the earth. Fly, thou despoiler of families. With this battle axe I hew thee in twain from helmet to sandal, the vice of Christ sounding all over the earth, and mheougi the heavens: "0 de:tth, I will be thy plague. 0 grave, I will be thy destruction" To be saved is to wake tup in the presence of Christ. You know when Chrit w upon earth how happy he made every house he went into, and when he brings us up to his house how great our glee. His voice has more music iu it than is :o be heard in all the oratories )t eternity. Talk not about banks dashed with efilores cence. Jesus is the chief bloom of heav--n. We shall see the very face of that beamed sympathy in Bethany, and ake the very hand that dropped its blood from the shor: beam of the cross. '0, I want to s'and in e*crnity with him. Toward that harbor I steer. Toward that goal I run. i shall be satisfied when I awake in his likeue-s Oh, broken hearted men and women, how sweet it will be in that g- od land to pour all your hardships, and be reavements. and losses into the loving ear of Christ, and then have him ex plain why it was best for you to be sick, and why it was best for you to be widowed, and why it was best for you to be perLecuted. and why it was best for you to be tried, and hzave Him point to an elevation proportionate to your disquietude here, saying: "You suTfered with me on earth, come up now and be glorified wi; h me in heav en. Fomo one went int' a house where there had been a good deal of troule, and Laid to the woman there: "You seem to be lonely." "Yes," she s- id, "I am lonely." "How many in the family?" "Only myself." "Have vou had any children?" "I had seven children." "Where are they?" "Gone." "All gone?" "All." "All dead?" "All." Then she breathed a long sigh into the loneliness and said: "0, sir, I have been a good mother to the grave." And so there are hearts here that are utterly broken down by the bereave ments of life. I toint you to the eter Lal balm of heaven. Are there any here that I am missing this morning? 0! you poor waiting maid! your heart-s sorrow poured in no human ear, lone ly and sad! how glad y- u wiill be when Christ shall disband all your sorrows and crown you queen unto God and the Lamb forever! 0! aged men and women, fed by His love and warmed by His grace for three score years and ten! will not your decrepitude change for the leap of a hart when you come to look face to face upon Him whom, hav ing not seen, you love? 0, that wvill be the good shepard, not out in the night and wat ching to keep ofi the wolves, but with the lambs reclining on the sun lit hill. That will be the captain of our salvation, not amid the roar, and crash, and boom of battle, bul amid his disbanded troops keeping victorious festivi:y. That will be the bridegroom of the church coming from afar, the bride leaning upon his arm while he looks down into her face and says: "Behold thou art fair, my love! Behold thou art fair." vanderbilt'. Carolina La nd. According to the Manufacturers' Record. George Vanderbilt is prepar iug to improve his land near Ashe ville on a great scale. The Record says: "Mr. George Vanderbilt is reported to have contracted to have a thousand acres of his land at Asheville, N. C., planted in coniferous trees, mostly white pines, three hundred acres of which, at the rate of twelve hundred trees to the acre, are to be done in two years. This is the most extensive at tempt at timber culture that has been undertaken in the South, and it must ultimately result in great good in many ways. It will draw attention to timber culture and to the more careful preservation of toresta, and at the same time add to the beauty of the scenery and the healh giving qualities of the atmosphere at Ashe ville. By systematically laying out a forest in this manner, Mr. Vanderbilt will ultimately possess one of the most charming, healthful and famous voorts oi the continent." Church Earned by Imoendlarles. RaLmtn, N. C., January 25.-Goshen chapel, a colored church in Guilford county, has been burned by incendiaries. There has been for a long timo a bitter controversy between two factions as to the right of possession of the church, which resulted in some litiga ton. At the laat term of court the rnem bers of one faction were tried or. the charge of forcible trespase, and acquit ted. The defeat. so enraged the meem bers of the other party that they have re sorted to the crime of huruing the church in order to preront its use by their victoriu opponents. Itandall .Joins thme ChIurch. The Washingtion correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution says: 1-Ion. Samuel J. Randall has joine I the Presbyterian church. Dr. Ch ester, the pastor of the church, went to Mr. Randall's house a day or two ago and performed the rites of baptism. Mr. Randall's family deny that the action >n his part indicates that he fears the ipproach of death. On the contrary, se is more hopeful, and seems more :hoerful than he has been for many nonths. although l'e is yet in very >ad health. He is confident of recovery tad expects to take his seat iu the ilouse before the session is over. The warning Waared. Father (who had put an attachment n the gas pipe, to that the gas would >e extinguished at 10 o'clock:) "Were 'ou surprised last night, dear?' D~aughter. "No, papa. Something ~urious happene-3, though. Just as harley was going to turn down the ight it went out and we couldn't light SCR1P-URAL STATUARY. .mer<-en ca-en- at ronCollege, t~w o:-kof CmraS. Chr InoiLCent Z' 1"), Itr 111 illc 4:~ av i * :,z.. etrc I,,,. i* \'I"~Z1). mdhas n b nxhb'it)in for foH - .v-ar. sinc dut t~ne is onAlbert Chase, thein. The "Last Supper" is ti" first -roup. Leonardo da Vinci. tl ::ut. of the celebrated picture of e --Last 'Supper," from wn.ich this is a faithful Copy in statuary, was born in 1 ITe was ranked :auong the :nI diEbtivonished men of science ir. his da.v and~ proved himself emphati cally,'a Ifan of literature, a philoso phei and a painter of the most pro Iu nd study and exalted taste. While at Milan, iin 1492. he began and com pleted the g-randest work of his art, Tie Last Stpper." which he painted upon the wvails of the prefectory of the DIoniinicanI couvent. The thrilling and interesting moment chosen by the artist to represenit this solemn scene is described in the 261th of Matthew, when our Lord says, "Vrily, I say ulIto) you that one of you shall )etray ie." Some of the most striking fig ures of the group are as follows: Judas Iscariot will hw at on:ce recog lized by his dark a)peuancc and hav ing tile purse. he is represented as perfectly master of himself, amid the agitation of those around him, and appears astonished at the words of our Lord. He feigns incredulity, and by a slight movement of his left hand he seenis to say: "How .s it possible?" nie grasps closely the little purse which contains the adored idol of his soul. for which he is about to sacrifice his master, while hjs lips express the spite and hatred whiich lie has in his heart. The artist has rendered sub servien-t to his purpose a prejudice vell known in the tivilized world; the up setting of the salt by Judas with his elbow. The positiou of our Lordis di rectly in front of the spectator, at the center of the table. In the midst of this agitated scene, and in conformity with his nature, he appears at once a superior being. His countenance, the ne~plus ultra. of expression, indicates a heavenly calmness aud the most sub iliissive resignation. The easy incli nation of .he head of Christ, the pa thetic action of his hands, and the tranquil position of his body are all in perfect harmony with the expression of his countenance. St. John is represented under the form of a handsome young man, with swNyeet and regular features, almost ~pyrching hose of a woman. Heis seated by his master's side, to demon strate his particular esteem. His hands are joinel together by a volantary ioveieit of despair. He reclines his head, and does not seem to think of the accusation, or even to take any in terest ill the agitation of his brother I apostles. The trial of Christ, represented by twenty-three wax figt.res, comprises the next group. These were desiorned from an engraving found on a roc- in the city of Vienna, and supposed to be the work of Pontius P.late himself. It would be well to remember that this exhibition is intended to represent that moment in the trial of our Saviour when Caiaphas says to him: "Iadjure thee, by the living God, that thou tell us whether thou be Chrnist, the Son of God," thus putting him upon his oath before God. This is the thrilling mo ment in the trial, represented by the solemni and impressive scene, and -should be kept in view by the specta oUr iln order to appreciate its merits. The third group is represented by ,wenty-five figures, and is Charles S. Chase's own conception of the cruci lixion and of the prominent persons present at that scene. The moment when the Saviour hangs in his last ex piring agonies is the one the artist has seized, and with fine conception and great skill presented to the eye of the beholder.--Boston Herald. Buffaloes S300 a Head. 'lBuIralo Jones" is tang to Garfield B~celh, Salt Lake, thirty-six head of huffaloes, lately purchased of George Benson of Stoney Mountain, Manitoba. Jones is agent for the syndicate which hasl become interested with the Union Pacific in the Utah pleasure resort. Benson claims that lie bred the herd from a young pair he captured ten years ago, but Jones doubts this, and says there is surely a big bunch of butlaloes in the Stoney Mountain re gion and that Benson will soon offer another lot for sale. The price for tiw'.se was $500 a head. According to Jones the worst feature of his mission was the removal of the herd from the Stoney Mountain to the Northern Pacific, 500 miles away. Every day un the trail was marked by a desperate chase for the valua ble herd. Jones has been in~ the buffalo busi ness at Garden City, Kan., for ten yeaeor more an os nthing else. L~eisaget orBufal Bil ndme nageries all over the world. Some times lie furnishes a juicy young buf falo for sonme swell restaurant. The steak is worth $1 a p)ound. With his thirty-six buffaloes Jones has nine beautiful arctic foxes.-Washington Post. The Queen's Cattle. At the Birmingham show the queen took a first prize, 100 guineas, with a shorthorn bred upon her own farm near Windsor, and she also gained eighit other' prizes. One of Hereford steers weighed 1,960 pounds, and an other bea uti ftrl shorthlorn steer scaled 2,408 pounds. On Friday last took place the annual sale of fat stock be louging to her majesty. There was a large attendance of buyers from all parts of the country and excellent prices were realized. The queen takes great delight in this annual function, :dasinspects the stock previous to tesale, and gives the people who at tend a good, old fashioned English luncheon, with plenty of roast beef and beer. -Toronto G lobe. One of the visitors at Fortress Mon roe last week was sixty feet long. It was a whale. Mr. Parses te Visit Europe. The Raleigh News and Observer says: The Rev. R. G. Pearson, the noted evangelist, is now conducting a series of meetings in Charleston, S. C. His meetings are being held at the' Citadel Square Baptist Church. He has made engagements for the next twelve months in Southern cities, and after that he will visit Europe and Asia Minor, accompanied by Mrs. Pearson. On February 1st Mr. Pearsou will be gin a series ol meetings in P~altimore. The~ Blair Bill. WAsHINGTON, Jan. 22.-The Senate to-day discussed further the bill pro viding for a census of farm mortgages, and referred it back to the committee. A number of billi on thle calendar were passed andI February :3rd was agreed upon as the day for taking up the Elair educational bill. An Exrm~ Trnia's Itloady wo.rk. JOH sTO'*x, PA., Jan. 15.- Vhe lima ited express west-hound on the: Penn sylvania Railroad struck and killed Edward Gallagher. aged 17, Michael Galaher, his brother, aged 15, ar. d Mrs. Kate Stockhomer, their .married sister, aged :25, at Morrillville, near CURRE~NT NElWIS. es (athercd Hee and There hy Tee graph anrd .cimsors. -Tbc Brazllian gvernment h-is seut . miau to Euro'p t- brrr'"- Q10,.0. --Thirty-nine p::rson, chifly B.li: nnd Giermn nobtmh ,b-iixcoha ished from iussia. -L. H. Adams, mereban f Rlieich. N. C., has assigned to W. H. Pace, Li abilities $35,000, assets $70,000. -Dr. Lvman Abbott has been form ally installed as pastor of Plymouth Church, Henry"Ward Beecher's old church. -At Columbus, 0., Friday morn ing, the grand jury indicted seven per sons for selling Louisiana lottery tick, ets in that city. -Peter Jackson, the colored pugilist, is expected to arrive at New York on the Adriatic this week. He claims to be rnxious ta meet Sullivan. -Influenza has been so prevalent among the members of the Quebec Leg islature that Do serious work has been done in the House so far this session. - It is rumored in London that Valen tine Loewer's Gambrinus Brewery in New York has been sold to an Eoglisb syndicate for $1,150,000, and will be cap itatized at $1,500,000. -The influenza epidemic is fast disap pearing from Great Britian, and the daily newspaper record of it, which a week ago extended to columns, is now com piessed within a few lines. -Argument in the Supreme Court ot the United States in the case of the State of North Carolina and W. P. Roberts, Auditor, adpollants, vs. A. H. Temple, was inished Thursday. -The grand jury at Petersburg, Va. failed to find a true bill against Gen. Wm. Mahone, who was arrested charg ed with shooting a young man on the night of the November election. -The Military Affairs committee of the House has ordered a favorable re port on the bill to authorize the Presi dent to brevet officers of the army for gallant service in the Indian cam-, paign: -Harris Austin, John Billin. Sam Goen, Jamison Burris, Thomas 'Willis and Jamison Jones were hanged at Fort Smith, Ark., Tuesday, for murders committed in the Indian Ter ritory. -The queen regent of Spain has caused advertisements to be published -in all the leading papers of her domin ions offering two prizes, $5,790 and $2,995, for the beat two essays on the life of Christopher Columbus. -Brown, the mind readeris to be used as a witness at Ashland, Wis., in defence of a cashier who is charged with being implicated in a robbery, the specialty of Brown being to prove that any mind reader could secure the "combination" o: the safe. -Senators Wade Hampton and M. C. Butler, of South Carolina, have accepted invitations to be present and deliver ad dresses at a meeting of the Camp of Con federate Veterans at Leesburg, Va., Feb ruary 25. General Rosser will also de liver an address. -Edmund Waddill, contestant foi the seat In the House of George D. Wise, of Richmond, Va:, is a candi date for the United States districi judgeship to be vacated in about eight teen months by the retirement oj Judge Hughes. -H. E. DeBardeleben Is the richesi man in Alabama. He is the leading mac in the State in iron manufacturing and is president of the company which bear: his name. He is worth from $3,000,00( to $8,000,000, and has ma-le it all in and around Birmingham. -A band of 800 Indians on St. Peter': reservation, a few miles out of Winni peg, is being rapidly wiped out. The Indians are afflicted with la grippe in its most severe form, and being without proper medical attendance they quickly succumb to the mala dy. --A dispatch from Ban Antonia. Texas says that one of the men who assisted Judge Longenecker in the prosecution it the Crenin case is in San Antonia insane His name could not be learned. He im agines that members of the Clana-Gas are after him with knives dripping witi blood. -The Grand Lodge of Minnesota, A F. and A. M,, by an overwhelming vot< condemned a few days ago that braned of the Scottish Rite known as Cerneau ism, and hereafter Minnesota, like Nes York, Pennsylvania, and the other State: of the Southern jurisdiction in general will have nothing but "straight" Ma. sony. A recent Act~of the Legislature pro vides that each military company i the State shall have twelve drills dlur ing the year, and sixteen men shal] be the minimum number allowed for a drill. If these rules are not complied with, the company shall forfeit its proportion of the annual appropria. ion. --A St. Petersburg dispattch o the New York Herald says that it is re ported that one of the Czar's brotherE is about to be banished forever fr',n the capital, together with his family. It is not suggested that his Imperial Highness had any share In the recent plots, but he is accused of mixing him self up in politics, by which is meant -Some statistician reports that the number of lynchings In the United States last year were 175, while there were only 98 legal hangings. Most of the latter were in the Southern States, but the "wild and woolly West" contri buted a large proportion of the lynch ings. In fact, it is said that all the hang. ings in Iowa, Knnsas Nebraska, Wiscon sin and Michigan, and a majority of those in Indiana, were done by Judge Lynch. -General A. M. West, from Mar shall county, Miss., introduced in the Senate of that State, a memorial to Congress, asking for the abrogation of the fifteenth amendment to the Federal constitution and instructing the Mis sissippi delegation in Congress in ac cordance therewith. The memorial further directs the Secretary of the State of Mississippi to furnish a copy to the Governor of each State in the Union, to be laid before their respec tive Legislatures. Death of Mr. Andrew J. Young. Mr. Andrew J. Young died at his home near Inman on Sunday last. Mr. Young was a native of Greenville, and was in his 76th year. He spent much of his life in Spartanburg, and was most esteemed by those who knew him best. He served the State in the Mexican War ai d the War of Secession -making a goon soldier in each. lie was a man of honesty and industry. and was respected accordingly. The Kansas Wheat Crop. Reports to the agricultural depart ment of Kansas represent the growing wheat crop in that State to be in a very fine condition. The early rains and the recent snow have assured, unless some unforeseen misfortune comes, the largest wheat crop ever harvested in the State. Mr. Mohler estimates that the present acreage is 20 per cent. greater, than that of last year and that the present prospects are 20 per cent. A FAILY T7 EDY IN ROME. A P:-co:nEA;, ahan blont nzd Kili J.rothe-in La.1. I 'e. '(1 Iij~ I i~o lilt.ar of r;~i ~.;L wi t~ ivsZ-Itly kite'1, at S.)'eek I.his evening by Dr J. B. S. Iloimes, l: orohthr-in w, and one of the most pronihient and papular of Georgia physicians. Allgood has long cherished ill will to ward Hohnes for some business matters between them, and had frequently threatened his life. Holmes had avoid ed Allgood for years and went out of town to avoid meeting him. Today Allgood came down from Trion factory to Rome on an evening train and waited for Holmes in his office door. Holmes, who had had avague warning, sought to reach his office by back street. Messrs. MclKelden and Mattlock, of Tennessee, friendsof Dr. Holmes, had been hunting with them. When the party drew up in front of the office. All good advanced with a drawn pistol on Holmes. Tho latter shot Allgood twice with his double barrel shot gun, loaded with bird shot, both shots taking effect, the first cutting an artory and the jugular vein and the second breaking the neck completely. Allgood fell at the first, then half rose, still trying to draw his pistol, when be received a second shot falling on his face and instantly expiring. Holmes exclaimed: "I was forced to do it to save my own life. I am sorry, so sorry; but he hunted me down, and for the sake of my wife and my son I had to kill him. Holmes immediately surrendered to the officers, and and is resting in hit own apartment ia charge of the deputy sheriff. General sentiment agrees that the kill ing was clearly in self defense, and al though both men mere exceedingly pop ular, tne current of sympathy is strongly with- Dr. Holmes. A Bledy Crime in Union, S. C. A dispatch from Union says: "Last Friday morning a little colored boy, living with J. B. Porter, while going to his rabbit gum, about 30 yards from town, in an open field, on T. C. Dun can's premises, found the dead body of a bright mulatto girl, named Susie Fer nandes. from Spartanburg, lying in a gully about three feet deep with her throat cut from ear to ear. The coroner and sherifi were at once notified, who went to the scene of the horrible deed and summoned a jury, who are now at work on the case and will probably finish it by Tuesday evening. As far as can be ascertained, it appears that she was killed in a house occupied by a colored woman named Lottie Mack, in the back yard of Dr. M. A. Moore. She had a great many bruises over her head and face. After killing her, the body was redressed, as there was not a drop of blood to be found on her clothes. When found a dull barlow knife was lying under her head, and her hat, handkerchief and gold spec tacles were lying on the edge of the gulley, thus trying to make it appear as if she had committed suicide. She had been missed for some five or six days. Five arrests have been made so far-four women and one man. A special to the Greenville News gives the following: The coroner's jury found that the woman, Susie Fernandes, "came to her death by one James Vincent, white, and Lottie MlcMahon, Charlie Gilliam and william Davis, colored." From the facts gathered from the testimony at the coroner's inquest, the Imurder is the most diabolical and cold blooded that has ever been committed in this county. James Vincent had been intimate with the deceased for some time,the result of which was that she was expected to become a mother. From the testimony of Win. Davis, he with Charlie Gilliam, Lottie McMahon and James Vincent went to the cem etery where the body had been con veyed after death and removed it about a quarter of a mile, to a swamp near Mr. T. C. Duncan's residence where they threw it into a ditch, dis arranged the clothes, placed a knife near by, to give tbe impression that -the deceased was assaulted and then murdered. The accused are all now in jail and will proceed through theirx lawyer to try to get bail. A Long Felt Want. Candidate: "You are a workingman, are you not?" -Workingmlan: "I am, sir." Candidate: "Well, I am a candi date for a position of trust, and I wish to say to the sons of toil-" Workingman(who is tired of taffy and disgusted with the results:) "I am very busy now, sir." Candidate: "I was merely going to say that if elected I shan't do any more for the workingmnan than for anybody else, because I don't care a continental for one class more thar. an other, and I don't think there should be any classes in legislation, any how." Workingmnan (grasping his hand:) "You'll get my vote." The Joiner "Outrage.'' CHARLOTTE, N. C., January g5.-The dark side of the Joiner case is now be ing shown up. It is learned from per factly roliable sources that Jo'ner not only confined his preaching to '..iem such doctrine as was calculated to excite their animosity against the whites. He preached thatb there should be no color line and told the negroes that they wore just as good in every respect as the whites and that they should demand a social equality which is now denied them and if the whites refused to give them their rights as set forth by him, the "reverend" gentleman reminded them that they had a very effective weapon in the torch. Fatal Fxplosion of Natuaral gas. .PITTSnURo, PA., Jan. 22.-An ex plosion of natural gas about 9:30 this morning completely wrecked three strong frame dwellings, on 38th near Butler street, killing one person al most instantly, and sericusly injuring eight others. two cf whom may ale. R ICE BEER!. RICE BEER I We are the sole manufacturers of this do licious and healthy beverage, which afte having been analyzed by all the eminenr chenmists in Atlanta, Ga., during "Prohibi tion" and after the most searching scrutiny for traces of aleiohol, was allowed to be sold free of State and city licen se, and so also more recently after further analyzing in Flor ida. It tills a long felt wvant for a stimulant andi appetizer that is not intoxicating; pleas aat to the taste, contains nourishment and sp~ecially suited for porsons of weak and del icate constitutions. It has the tastelof lager beer of the finest fiavor; besides, to add to its purity anda medicinal qualities, is special ly made of our celebrated world renowvned original Artesian well water. Put up in case~s of one dozen pints at $1 25 per dozen; five dozen at $1 per dozen, and in easks o ten dozen each at 90i cents per dozen. Cash must accompany each order. Copyrighted and patent applhed for. We have no Agents, and non. genuine unless ordered direct trom? CRAMER & KERSTJN, Steam Soda and Mineral Water Works. Charleston, S. C., U. S. A. Hemme's Restaurant, 228 King Strecet, Opp. A cadlemy of Music, CHA RTESTON, S. C. ESTABL!SHED 1844. Charleston Iron Works, Manufacturers and Dealers in Marbie Stationary and Portable Enginesa jid Boilers. Saiw Mill Machinery, Cotton Presscs, ("ins. RatilromII, e %Itail lxat, Mllachijnists', Engineers' and 1ill Supplies. ga5'Repairs executed with promptnesud Diopatch. .Sndi o ipw i'ut i. East Bay, Cor. Pritchard St., Charleston, S. C. R. C. D.AKLLEY, President. C. BIssEL JrNirs, Gen'l anager. Rica.inr> S. G.Nrr, See. A Treas. The Cameron & Barkeley Gompany. COMMISSION MERCHANTS, -AND AGENTS FOR Erie City Engine and Boilers, Atlas Engine and Boilers, the famous little Giant Hydraulic Cotton Press, Eagle Cotton Gins. We have in stock one each 60, 65, and 70 saw Eagle Gin, only shop worn, that we are offering way below cost. Send for prices. Oils, Rubber and Leather Belting, and a complete line of Mill Supplies. We Guarantee Lowest Prices for Best Quality of GOOds. CAMERON & BARKELEY CO., Charleston, S. C. I F. J. PELZER, President. F. S. RODGERS, Treasurer. Atlantic Phosphate Company, c4m ImM -!roCX , S. C. MANUFACTURERS OF STANDARD FERTILIZERS, AND IMPORTERS OF PELZER, RODGERS, & CO., General Agts., BROWN'S WHARF, CHARLESTON, S. C. 3R. M1. LzvI, of Manning, will be pleased to supply his frends and the public .en erally, with any of the above brands of Fertilizers. SECKENDORF & MID.DLETON, Cotton Factors, NAVAL STORES, No. 1 Central Wharf. CH.A.RLJSsTON, S. C. F. W. CAPPELMANN, DEALER IN CHOICE GROCERIES, WINES, LIQUORS, TOBACCO AND CIGARS, S. E. Cor. Meeting and Reid Sts., CHARLESTON, S. C. Choice Flour a specialty. Sugars sold near cost. No charge for drayage. Goods do ivered free to depot. Country orders promptly attended to. OTTO F. WIETERS, WHOLESALE GROCER, Wholesale Dealer in Wines, iors and Cigars! 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