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VAT. VT. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 99 TAL3AGE ON ANGELS. A SERMON RELATING TO SUPERNAL EXISTENCE. The Characteristics of the Celestial Beings, a. Gathered from statements in Holy Writ. Dr. Talmage on Sunday announced as his text Judges xiii. 19: -And the angol did wondrously." Follow ing is a report ot his sermon: Fire built on a rock. Manoah and his wife had there kindled the flames for sacrifice in the praise of God, and in honor of a guest whom they supposed to be a man. But as the flames rose up higher and higher their strauger guest stepped into the flame and by one red leap ascended into the skies. Then they knew that he was an Angel of the Lord. "The angel did wondrously.' Two hundred and forty-eight times does the Bible refer to the angels, yet I never heard or read a sermon on angelology. The whole subject is relegated to the realm mythical, weird, spectral and unknown. Such adjournment is unscriptural and wicked. Of their life, their charac ter, their habits. their actions, their velocities, the Bible gives us full length portraits, and why this pro longed and absolute silence concern ing them? Angelology is my theme. There are are twonations of angels, and they are hostile to each other; the nation of good angels and the na tion of bad angels. Of the former I chiefly speak to-day. Their capital, and their headquarters, their grand rendezvous, is heaven, but their em pire is the universe. They are a dis tinct race of creatures. No human being can ever join their confraterni ty. The little child who in the Sab bath school sings, "I want to be an angel," will never have her wish grat ified. They are superhuman; but they are of different grades and ranks, not at all on the same level, or the same height. They have their superiors and inferiors and equals. I propose no guessing on this subject, but take the Bible for my only au thority. Plato, the philosopher, guessed, and divided the angels into super-celestial, celestial and sub-ce lestial. Dyonysius the Areopagite, guessed, and divided them into three classes-the supreme,the middle and the last-and each of these intothree other classes, ma&ing nine in all. Philo said that the angels were re lated to God, as the rays to the sun. Fulgentius said that they were com posed of body and spirit. Clement said they were incorporeal. Augus tine said that they had been in dan ger of falling, but now they are be yond being tempted. But the only authority on this subject that I re spect says they are divided into cher ubim, seraphim, thrones, domina tions, principalities, powers. Their commander-in-chief is Michael. Dan iel called him Michael, St. John call ed him Micheal. These supernal be ings are more thoroughly organzed than any army that ever marched. They are swifter than any cyclone that ever swept the sea. They are more radiant than aay morning that ever came down the sky. They have more to do with your destiny and mine than any being in the universe except God. May the Angel of the New Covenant, who is the Lord Je sus, open our eyes and touch our tongue, and rouse our soul, while we speak of their deathlessness, their in telligence, their numbers, their strength, their achievements. Yes, deathless. They had a cradle, but will never have a grave. The Lord remembers when they were born, but no one shall ever see their eye extinguished, or their momentum slow up, or this existence termmnate. The oldest of them have not a wrm kle, or a decreptitude, or a hindrance; as young after sis thousand years as at the close of the first hour. Christ said of the good in heaven, "Neither can they die any more, for they are equal unto the angels." Yes, death less are these wonderful creatures of whom I speak. They will see world after world go out,but there shall be no fading of their own brillance. Yea, after the last world has taken itslast flight they will be ready for the widest circuit throughimmensity, takin a quadrillion of miles at one sweep as easy as a pigeon circles a dovecot. They are never sick. They are never exhausted. They need no sleep, for they are never tired. At God's command they smote with death, in one night, one hundred and eighty-five thousand of Sennacnerib's host, bnt no fatality can smite them. Awake, agile. multipotent, deathless, immortal! A further characteristic of these radiant folk is intelligence. The woman of Tekoahi was night when she spoke to King David of the wisdom of an angel. There is only one thing that puts them to their wits' end, and the Bible says they have to study that. They1 have been studying it all through the ages, and yet I warrant theyhave not fully grasped at the wonders of re demption. These wonders are so high, so deep, so grand, so stupen dous, somagnificent that even the in telligence of angelhood isconfounded before it. The apostle says, "'Which things the angels desire tolookinto." That is a subject that excites inquisi tiveness on their part. That is a theme that strains their faculties to the utmost. That is higher than they can climb, and deeper than they can dive. They have a desire for something too big for their compre hensidn. "Which things the angels desire to look into." But that does not discredit their intelligence. No one but God him self can fully understand the won ders of redemption. If all heaven should study it for fifty eternities they would get any farther than the A B C of that inexhaustible subject. But niearly all other realms of knowl edge they have ransacked and ex plored and compassed. No one but God (can tell them anything they do not know. They ha~ve read to the last word of the line of the Slast page of the last volume of inves tigation. And what delightsnme most is that all their intelligence is to be at our disposal, and coming intc their presence, they will tell us more n e minut+s than we cant learn by one hundred years of earthly surnis Iing. A further characteristic of these immortals is their velocity. This the Bible puts sometimes under the fig ure of wings, sometimes under the figure of aflowinggarmentsometimes under the figure of naked feet. As these superhumans are without bod ies these expressions are of course figurative, and mean swiftness. The Bible tells us that Daniel was pray ing, and Gabriel flew from heaven and touched him before he got up from his knees. How far. then. did the angel Gabriel have to flyin those moments of Daniel's prayer? Heav en is thought to be the centre of the universe. Our sun and its planets only the rim of the wheel of worlds. In a moment the angel Gabriel flew from that centre to this periphery. Jesus told Peter he could instantly have sixty thousand angels present if he called for them. What foot of an telope or wing of albatross could equal that velocity? Law of gravita tion, which grips all things else, has no influence upon angelic momentum. Immensities before them open and shut like a fan. They are here is no reason why they shonld not be a quintillion of miles hence the next minute. Our bodies hinder us, but our minds can circle the earth in a minute. Angelic beings are bodiless and have no limitation. God may with his finger point down to some world in trouble on the outmost lim its of creation, and instantly an an gelic cohort are there to help it. Or some celestial may be standing at the furthermost outpost of immensity, t and God may say "'Come!" and in stantly it is in his bosom. Abraham, Elijah, Hagar, JoshuA, Gideon, Ma- I noah, Paul, St. John, could tell of their unhindered locomotion. The red feet of summer lightning are slow compared with their hegiras. This doubles up and compresses infini tudes into inlinitesimals. This puts C all the astronomical heavens into a t space like the balls of a child's rattle. This mingles into one the Here and the There, the Now and the Then, r the Beyond and the Yonder. Another remark I have to make concerning these illustrious immor tals is that they are multitudinous. a Their census has never been taken s and no one but Got knows how many t they are, but all the Bible accounts t suggest their immense numbers. Companies of them, regiments of them, armies of them, mountain tops f haloed by them, skies populous with them. John speaks of angels and other beings round the throne as ten thousand times ten thousand. Now, according to my calculation, ten thousand times ten thousand are one hundred million. But these are only the angels in one place. David conted twenty thousand of them rolling down the sky in chariots. When God came away from the riven rocks of Mount Sinai,the Bible sayshe 0 bad the companionshipof ten thousand i angels. I think they are inevery bat- t tle, in every exigency, at every birth, s at every pillow, at every hour, at ev ery moment.The earth is full of them. The heavens are full of them They outnumber the human race in this world. They outnumber ran somed spirits in glory. When Abra ham had his knife uplifted to sla Isaac, it was an angel who arrested the stroke, crying "Abraham! Abra- t ham!"- It was a stairway of angeis ~ that Jacob saw when pillowed in the wilderness. We are told that an an- - gel led the host of Israelites out of Egyptian serfdom. It will be an an gel withe uplifted hand, swearmg~ that time shall be no longer. In the great final harvest of th world the reapers are the angels. Yea, the Lord shall be revealed from heaven ~ with mighty angels. Oh, the num ber and the might and the glory of these supernals! Fleets of them! Squadrons of them! Host beyond host! Rank above rank! Millions on millions! And all on our side if 2 we will have them. -I This leads me to speak of the offices of these supernals. To defend, .to cheer, to rescue, to escort, to give c victory to the right, and to overthrow the wrong; that is their business.. Just as alert today and efficient as when in Bible times they spread ~ wing, or unsheathed sword, or rocked' down penitentiaries, or filled the mountains with horses of lire hitched to chariots of fire and driven by reins men of fire. They have turned your steps a hundred times, and you knew it not. You were on the way to do some wrong thing, and they changed your course. They brought some thought of christian parentage, or of; loyalty to your own home, and that - arrested you. They arranged that some one should meet you at that crisis, and propose something honor able and elevating, or they took from your pocket some ticket to evil amusement, a ticket that you never found. It was an angel of God, and perhaps the very one that guided you to this service, and that now waits to report some holy impression to be this morning made upon your soul, tarrying with one foot upon the door step of your immortal spirit, and the other foot lifted for ascent into the skies. By some prayer detain him until he can tell of a repentant and ranomed soul! Or you were some time borne down with trouble, be reavement, persecution, bankruptcy, sickness and all manner of troubles beating their discords in your heart and life. You gave up; you said: -1 cannot stand it any longer. I believe I will take my life. 'Where is the railtrain, or the deep wave, or the precipice that will end this torment of earthly existence?" But suddenly your mind brightened. Courage came surging into your heart like oceanic tides. You said: "God is on. my side, and all these adversities he' can make turn out for my good.' Suddenly you felt a peace, a deep Ipeace, the peace of God that passeth all understanding. What made the chanet A sweet and mighty and conforting angel of the Lord met you That was all. What an incentive to purity and righteousness is this doctrine that we are continually under angelic ob servaion. Eyes ever on you. so that the most secret misdeed is committed in the midst of an audience of immor tals. No door is so bolted, no dark ness so Cimmerian, as to hinder that* supernal eyesight- Not critical eve sight, not .iealous eyesight, not baleful.2 pathetic eyesight. helpful eyesight. Men and women of all circumstan ces, only partly appreciated, or not appreciated at all, never feel lonely again or unregarded again! Angels all around: aiigels to approve, angels to help, angels to remember. Yea. while all the good angels are friends of the good, there is one special angel Four bodyguard. This idea, until this present study of angelology. I upposed to be fanciful. but I find it -learly stated in the Bible. When ,he disciples were praying for Peter's ieliverance from prison, and I,- ap peared at the door of the prau : neeting, they cauld not belive it was Peter. They said: "It is his angel." io these disciples, in special nearness o Christ, evidently believed that wvery worthy soul has an angel. resus said of his followers: "Their tngels behold the face of my Father." L Elsewhere it is said: "He shall give iis angels charge over thee, to keep hee in all thy ways." Angel shielded, i mgel protected, angel guarded, angel r nopied art thou. No wonder that Jharles Wesley hymned these words: < Wh ich of the petty kings of earl h (an boast a guard iike ours, C En. ircled from our second birth With a1l the heavenly powers? Valerius and Rufinus were put to t leath for Christ's sake in the year 287, 1 .nd, after the day when their bodies ad been whipped, and pounded into r jelly, in the night in prison, and be ore the next day when they were to e e executed, they both thought they d aw angels standing with two glitter- i ag crowns saying: "Be of good cheer, I -aliant soldiers of Jesus Christ! A lit- , le more of battle and then these t rown are yours." And I am glad to n mow that before many of those who , ave passed through great sufferings t a this life some angel of God has eld a blazing coronet of eternal re rard i Yea: we are to have such a guar- a ian angel to take us upward when s ur work is done. You know we are e ld an angel conducted Lazarus to y braham's bosom. That shows that y one shall be so poor in dyinghe can- t ot afford angelic escort. It would t e a long way to go alone, and up aths we have never trod, and amid b lazing worlds swinging in unimagin ble momentum, out and on through ch distances and across such infini- ! ades of space, we should shudder at c ae thought of going alone. But the ii ngelic escort will come to your lan- p uishing pillow, or the place of your d ital accident, and says: "Hail, im- v iortal one! All is well: God hath 1 ant me to take you home;" and with- v ut tremor or slightest sense of peril t: ou will away and upward, further G n and further on, until after awhile b eaven heaves in sight, and the rum- n le of chariot wheels, and the roll of p iighty harmonies are heard in the t istarce, and nearer you come, and y earer still, until the brightness is s ke many mornings suffused into ne. and the gates lift and you are a side the amethysine walls, and on t( e banks of the jasper sea. forever il afe, forever free, forever well, forever a ested, forever united, forever happy. n [others, don't think your little chil- 1E ren go alone when they quit this f orld. Out of your arms into angelic c rms. Out of sickness into health. ut of the cradle into a Saviour's o osom. Not an instant will the dar- A ngs be alone between the two hisses, d Le last kiss of earth and the first iss of heaven. "Now angels, do a our work !" cried an expiring chris an. Yes, a guardian angel for each ii ne of you. Put yourself now in ac- t: ord with him. When he suggests t Le right, follow it. When he warns ou against the wrong, shun it. Sent rth from God to help you in this reat battle against sin and death, is ccept his deliverance. Paul had it fi ight when he said: "We wrestle not c gainst flesh and blood, but against g rincipalities, against powers. against t be rulers of the darkness of this g orld, against spiritual wickedness i high places." In that awful fight c aay God send us mighty angelic re- r nforcement! We want all their y 'ings on our side, all their chariots n our side. c Thank God that those who are for I is are mightier than those who are t gainst us. And that thought makes r ae jubilant as to the final triumph. a elgium, you know, was the battle f yound of England and France. Yea. 3 elgium more than once was the bat-t le ground of opposing nations. It o happens that this worlis the Bel ium, or battle ground, between the ngeie nations, good and bad. Mi 'hae, the commander-in-chief on one C ide: Lucifer, as Byron calls him, or ephistophteles, as Goethe calls him,~ r Satan, as the Bible calls him, the. ommander-in-chief on the other side.1 Ll pure angelhood under the one eadership, and all abandoned angel tood under the other leadership.~ dany a skirmish have the two armies1 ad, but the great and decisive battle s yet to be fought. Either from our arthly homes or down from our upernal residences, may we come in the right side; for on that side are Ilod and heaven and victory. Mean hile the battle is being set in array, md the forces celestial and demonical1 tre confronting each other. Hear he boom of the great cannonade al eady opened! Cherubim. Seraphim. 'hrones, Dominations, Principalities td Powers are beginn ride in lown their foes, and until the work s completed, "Sun, stand thou still apon Gibeon, and thou Moon, in the alley of Ajalon? -It is a singular fact that Profes sor Max Miller, the eminent Orien talist. went to England without knowing a single word of English. Although at that time a mere youth, he was deeply versed in Scanscrit, Hebrew and Arabic. Professor Mil ler lives in Oxford in the house that years ago Professor Goldwin Smith built for himself. He rises early and leads the long, laborious day of the devoted student. He is especially proud of an invention of his which is designed to support the right arm when writing, and which by an in genious mechanical contrivance dis counts the probability of writer's cramp. -A family in Whatcom, Wash., not liking the taste of the water they were driawing from their ninety foot deep well, sent a man down to in spect its depth. The well was in tolerably good condition, but a dead PLAIN TALK. L. F. LIVINGSTON TAKES THE STUMP IN GEORGIA. mnb-Treasury Plan-Whiskey Men Have the Favor of Government-Why Not Farmers? the Alliance in Politics. At a recent mass-meeting of farm rs at Lawrenceville, Ga., Hon. L. F. ivingston, President of the Georgia state Alliance, d&'ivered a speech in vhich he indulge I in some very plain alk. The follo,.wing report of his re as is going the rounds of the >apers: He said there are still in the minds f many grave doubts as to the orig al design and ultimate result of the Lliance organization. The two years a which it had been in existence hould have been sufficient time for 11 to have inquired into these things nd learned for themselves. But he egretted to say that they had not Lone so. I am constrained to con lude that this is due to two causes; trst, a fear or apprehension that the >rganization will bring to the pro lucing classes benefits at their loss. 0econd, an entire misconception of he intent and operation of the Lliance. The purposes of the order are still isunderstood and misconstrued. No greater innovation in political conomy had been made since the .ay of Adam Smith, than have been Atroduced by the Farmers' Alliance. t has wrought a revolution in that cience. Necessity has been called e mother of invention, and these ew ideas in political economy had rown out of the necessities of the tmes. This is not a political organization. t has been said that it was conceived i the political ring and brought forth mid political councils, and its de gn is to capture all the political fices. It has even been said that -e are banded together against law ers and merchants. This is all un :ue. He could show,if any doubted, iat the order has nobler aims. The necessity for the Alliance is to e found in the IPvERIsHED CONDITION OF FARMERS. ?ot in Georgia only, but in the entire )untry. If you take a dozen farmers any county of Georgia and com are their condition with that of a ozen farmers in Ohio or Illinois, you ill find that it is about the same. 'he dozen Georgia farmers will be no 'orse off, perhaps not so bad off, as le Northern or Western farmers. eorgia farms are not mortgaged as eavily as the farms in Ohio or Illi ois. Everywhere the farmers are im overished. It is not a local trouble, iough the press has for twenty ears made the mistake of supposing It can not be so much the fault of protective tariff, or the revenue sys =m of our government as just those tdustries receiving the largest mount of protection. Thus the far Lers are more deeply in debt and ss enable to protect themselves -om mortgages and their fore Losure. We have been told that the farmers f the South were too lazy to succeed. nd now we are told that we need iversified farming. Ohio harvests twenty-seven crops ad is no better off than we. If you are to lose money by farm g, as you have done, the fewer crops ie better. Better lose only on one ian on twenty-seven. [Laughter.] FARMERs "MAKE' NO PRICES. The farmer makes no prices. There nt a farmer in this house that in fteen years has ever brought butter, ogs or cotton to Lawrenceville and ot the price he asked. He must say the merchant, "how much will you ive ne for my butter?" and then, how much will you take for your dico?" The merchant buys at the rice of another and sells at his own rice. [Applause.] No merchant or lawyer would arry on business as you farmers ave been obliged to carry it on. The caders and speculators have allowed s to keep body and soul together, nd that's all, but we should be thank 1l that they have not treated us orse, as they had the power to do. Applause.] CAUSE OF THIS POVERTY. What has caused this poverty? Not so much the want of industry n the part of our people. The very uge increase in the products from he soil, annually, with a decrease in he number (in the South) engaged a agriculture, set, this charge to one Not so much the want of a diversi Led agriculture, as the statistics show, or .inst where diversity most obtains, here our people are more seriously nd extensively involved. Not so much the want of economy, .s any observing man can see. Our eople are not extravagant in dress, liet, tools, and implements. Very ew have means to indulge in the lux n-ies, or attempt to do so. Not so much on account of the aling or business in which we are ngaged, for if any one fact be clearly ~stabshed it is that agriculture and ts kindred industries are the basis of ealth and prosperity in this country, nd from this fact, wish to make this ;tatement, that unhampered, with a 'air and equal chance at the markets f the country, with a currency that ould equally accomodate, and facili sate the exchange of our products for ,hose we purchase, without that bane 'l discrimination in transportation favor of large cities and against small towns, and several sections, the armers of Georgia would in two de sades be the wealthiest class in the The financial policy of the govern ment, the system established by national legislation, is chiefly at fault. In 1860 the farmers owned seventy per cent. of the property in Georgia, and the farmers of the United States owned 68 per cent. of the entire prop erty of the country. Today only 28 per cent. of the peo ple own homes, and in Georgia only 24 per cent. of the property is held by farmers. In 1842 Charles Dickens said a tramp in this country would be as strange a sight as a flaming sword at midday in the heavens. In 1868, not a +,--mpmes to be -fomn in this country. In 1879 there were 3,000. 000 tramps in the United States. The towns and cities of Georgia have grown at the expense of the country. In ten years the property in towns and cities has increased $60,000,000, while in rural districts it has decreased .50,000,000. The monetary system of this coun try is the child of the war between the States, enacted when the United States were trembling in the face of an advancing and injured foe. The government wasthreatenedbytheCon fedate forces, with the "rebel yell" distinctly heard from the capitol of the notion. At the instance of M.r. Lincoln after his indignant visit to Wall street for money, the government began the issue of Greenbacks, (July 1861, and Feb. 1862), "the people's money, non-interest bearing. To circumvent this currency, that left gold (the money of kings and autocrats) in the hands of those thathadhoarded it for the purpose of forcing from the peo ple and the government, their own rates of interest and prices for the necessities of war. The money kings of that day, (1863,) induced Congress to enact the national banking system. Under this system they were after wards enabled to force Congress to an Act, (1866,) the contraction law. "The strength crediting Act." "The refunding Act." "The demonetiza ion of silver andtheresumption Act" all of which were in their interest and gainst the people. Thus the gov ernment, as a war measure, when they ould not call their souls their own, were thrown into the hands of their relentless and avaricious, money kings, andthere bothgovernment and people remain to-day. THE EVILS OF "cONTRACTION." In 1866 the Congress passed the Famous contraction Act. It was not eigidly enforced, however, until 1868. n 1866 the total circulation was 31,673,379,753, amounting to $52 per mapita. In ten years the circulation ell to $466,549,097, and the money in 3irculation was reduced to $5.45 per :apita. In eleven years there was lost by 'contractoin" of the currency a total >f $10,149,687,415, shared by the people as follows: Lost by business men, 81,304,751, L17. Lost by farmers, $3,044,936,267. Lost by laboring classes, $4,800, )00,000. HoW IT HURT THE FARMER. In 1868, a certain farmer in Geor ia came to town with a 500 pound bale of cotton he and his wife had aised. He sold it for 30 cents a pound, getting $150 for the bale. He paid his taxes $40; bought a cooking tove, $35; a suit of clothes, $15; a ress for his wife 85; a barrel of lour for $12; 100 pounds of meat for 318; and had $30 in clear cash left. In 1877, nine years later, the same armer carried a 500 pound bale to lhe same market and sold it for 42.34. He paid his taxes, $40, and aad $2.34 left. This so demoralized aim that he got dead drunk and dead broke. The price fer his cotton had ontracted, but taxes and other things aadn't. [Laughter.] The National Alliance at St. Louis adopted the sub-treasury plan as the anancial remedy for the "Pondora box," and the evils that flow from it, Lhat so burdens the producing and aboring classes of this country. We Ring this system before the world, to take it, examine it, adopt it, or give as something better, this we will orce you to do, one or the other. Ridicule will not do, there is too nch involved; our people are too aich in earnest to be intimidated by his childs play method of meeting~ Facts. ENCOURAGING TRUSTS. This plan has been ridiculed by the Columbus paper, which ealls it "Mr. Livingston's plan," and says it is not based on good business sense. It is not my plan. That paper does me too much honor. I was one of the committee of five that formulated the plan at St. Louis at the meeting of the National Allinee. I want to say that so honorable aman as Zeb Vance has introduced this plan in a bill be fore Congress. Our plan is this: We do not ask a change in the gov ernment plan. It is not a revolution. WVe merely want the plan enlarged. They allow me to deposit bonds as evidence of indebtedness, and draw 90 per cent. of their face value, and bank on these bonds. The govern ment pays the holder interest on these bonds, and taxes the people to get money to pay this interest. And the government, besides taxing the people, discriminates against them by not allowing the banks to loan money on real estate, while it allows the merchant to get money on his merchandise. Whiskey men can put green whiskey in bonded warehouses, valued at one dollar per gallon. The moment it is considered worth $3 a gallon. be cause it is worth more as it ages, and they get 83 on their whiskey. WHY NOT THE FARMER? Why not give the farmers the bene fit of bonding their cotton and other produce? Why should he not have the same favor as is shown the whis key man and the banker? The sub-treasury plan would re quire the building up of warehouses in every county. This would cost $50,000,000. Some will say that big sum will killithe plan. If it was 50,000,000 for pensions, or rivers and harbors, it wouldnt be too much, but it is too much to give the farmers of the United States! You can get the $50,000,000 out of the $100,000,000 surplus left to re deem the treasury notes which Con gress has declared are not to be re deemed, and thes e millions are lying idle in the vaults. There are $25. 000,000 in fractional currency, which the bankers won't handle, because it is too small. Give us the fragmen tary and ragged currency. [Ap plause.] When the crops are harvested you could take them to these warehouses rand store them, pay the actual ex pense of storage, insurance. etc. The agent would then issue 80 per cent. advance upon the value of the pro duce, and still leave 20 per cent. for future use. The moment your cotton goes intc +h warehomuse ini impossible for the speculators to get hold of it. Tm would keep prices more equall steady. It would be there for twelv months, and within that time th farmer would be brought face to fac with the consumer, and it would kee him out of the hands of the speculh tors. It would at once put an end t corners. combinations and trust: [Cheers.] We have been asked, what if w don't sell in twelve months? The the agent would sell and settle wit: us. This currency put in circulatio: would make about 850 per capita ani put us back to the good times i 1868. The crops are stored in the ware houses, the agent issues certificate, When they are sold out the certifi cates are burned. This would mak the currency flexible, giving us mone with which' to handle each crop an< retiring some when not needed. TROUBLE AT TRYON. South Carolinians Invade North Ourolin and Rescue a Negro frem Custods. Tryon city, on the Asheville Spartanburg road just over the lin in North Carolina, was the scene of: riot last Sunday. The trouble i said to have started with the arres and imprisonment in the town locl up on Saturday evening, of Hollan< Durham, a notorious negro and rc puted desperate character. Durham was locked up for disorderly conduct On Sunday a party, friends of th, imprisoned negro from Greenvill, county, entered Tryon with the an nounced determination to rescu, Durham. They were fully armed an< succeeded in their purpose, bearin the prisoner off in triumph after bat tering down the guardhouse. Ther< were nine or ten men in the rescuim party and their names are given a: follows: William Durham, Warrei Durham, Luther Durham, Mar] Durham, Babe Durham, Babe Pace Jim Durham, Hugh Rodgers an< John A. Gibson. Against this forc was opposed John S. Fisher, whi acting in the place of the town mar shal, B. G. Poole, of this city, an< William Weaver. The three mei were fully armed, but they did no succeed in baffling the rescuers. 03 their way out of town, the raidini party fired recklessly into a churci by the roadside. The people of Tryon are highl: wrought up over the matter and ar anxious to run the lawbreakers dow if possible. Requisition has beei made for the men and as soon as th< papers are returned active effort will be made to capture them. Thi affair calis attention to the conditio2 in which the town of Tryon is place< by its peculiar situation near th, State line. Criminals and law break ers of both States make bold to carr; on outrageous exploits, like the res cue of the negro, Durham, in the cei tainty that they have only to get ove the line to escape the clutches of th officers. Holland Durham, the negro whi was rescued by the white men, i said to be a bad character, havini shot two man and having escape< from custody after conviction of higI way robbery. W. M. Durham, th alleged leader of the rescuers, wh lives in the upper part of this county is said to have killed two men already one in Pickens and one in Greenvillt -Greenville News. Ex-Priest Boyle Acquitted. A special dispatch to the Baltimor Sun says: "Ex-Priest J. J. Boyle, c the Church of the Sacred Heari Raleigh, F. C., was acquitted Satin day night of a charge of assaultin Miss Geneva Whitaker, aged sever teen years, a member of the congre gation of which Boyle was assistan pastor. This was the second trial c the case. In the first one Boyle wa found guilty and was sentenced to 1) hanged. He appealed to the Suprem Court of North Carolina, and wa granted the trial which ended in verdict of not guilty. Evidence wa introduced Saturday tending to shoa that cries for help from a person i Boyle's room could be heard in th church. Miss Alice Upchurch tests fed that she was in the church whil Miss Whitaker was in Boyle's roon and that she heard no calls for heli Therc was a great audience in th court room. Boyle was calm an< collected and employed much of hi time reading newspapers. Messri T. C. Fuller, George H. Snow an, R. H. Battle presented the case fc the defense, while Solicitor Arg closed for the State. The jury reti) ed shortly before ten o'clock, and afte two hours' deliberation returned th verdict 'Not guilty.' In spite of th judge's order there was a wild bur's of applause from hundreds of throat in the crowded court room at the ar nouncement of the verdict, and thi was kept up for five minutes Peop] crowded around Boyle and congra ulated him heartily. Then they b< gan to call on him for a speech, bt his leading attorney mounted a tab: and loudly announced that Boy] would not make a speech. He wer immediately back to jail, where 1: remained till Father Charles, of tl Church of the Sacred Heart, came f him in a carriage and took him to il rectory as his guest." "The Old North State." A spirit of enterprise seems to I abroad in North Carolina. We het more of the old North State in tl newspapers now than formerly; son of the smallest and most insignifice> towns are lcoming up and compellir recognition by their push and pluc. and an industrial boom is visib everywhere. The resources of ti State are vast and inexhaustible, ai they are now being utilized in tI most practicable way to her advane ment. The State papers conta more industrial news than any othe and seem to have entered into compact to fester every enterpri: that is started-no matter whei and to keep North Carolina well bz fore the world. This is right. S] is simply keeping, in line with tI industrial procession, the march the South in this era of progr'ess; t] South shares in her prosperity ai congratulates her people on the wo: they have accomplished. They are busy people and their future is bright one. There is life in the o orth Sae-A tlanta Constitution. s LOUISVILLE DISASTER. Y' e LESS TERRIBLE THAN AT FIRST SUP e POSED. FuHer Accounts of the Cyclone--Only 1 Hundred. Killed. The cyclone of last Thursday was one of the most destructive in the e history of this country. It swepi through the States of Tennessee. Kentucky, Illinois and Indiana. a Great damage was done to property and many lives were lost. The great es; destruction occurred in Louis aille, the first accounts of which were appalling. The following paragraphs - are culled from the telegraphic ac a counts of the terrible storm. and give some idea of its extent and destrue tiveness: The cyclone struck Louisville at 7.30 p. m. It entered the southeas tern portion of the city at 18th street and swept a path five blocks wide diagonally. reaching in a ragged line to 7th street, leveling every building in its path. On Market street the Falls City Hall, a four-story building was blown down while several Ma a sonic and Knights of Honor lodges were in session and one hundred men - and women were buied in the ruins. I The district laid waste comprises an - area of the city three miles long and nearly half a mile wide. Outside of clearly-defined limits the citizens knew only of a heavy rain, accompa nied by a high wind. But soon came - alarms of fire from different stations, and the horrors of the calamity began to dawn on the people. Houses, halls of amusements, railroad stations, all went down before the mighty of the air. More than two hundred houses were destroyed and many were dam aged. A telegram dated Saturday says: "Up to this writing the total number killed at all places where bodies have been recovered and of the missing and of those whom it is reasonably certain are dead is 80. In addition to these there are above a dozen so badly injured that death may ensue. From 150 to 200 persons are injured to an extent worth noting and probably hard on to 1,000 have irery slight bruises or scratches that do not inconvenience them." Refer ring to the wreck of the Falls City Hall, the account says: "Ten women, locked in each other's arms, were drawn out of the debris. James Har rison, whose wife had been at a lodge meeting, was foremost in the work, and the first person whom he drew out of the ruined building was his wife, who died in his arms. He laid her by the side of others who were dead and continued to work for the living. Inside of the next hour thirty - men and women were drawn out i dead, but wit .wounds on their - bodies, and it is thought-ihi-they - all met their death from suffoca T.. The gas pipes had been broken, which caused the lights to go out, and which saved the ruins from fire ) for a time, but flooded the debris 3 with vapor almost as deadly as fire might have proved. Ways were pierced into the ruins and the vic - tims were drawn out dead and dying. SOne part of the building was reserved 3 for the dead, but the wounded were 'taken into stores and houses on the ' opposite side of the street, where -physicians and priests admi-nistered to their souls and bodies." The board of trade meeting held Friday morning authorized the state a ment that there would be no call for f aid from outside. The lowest esti , mate puts the property loss at 81,. -000,000; the highest at 83,000,000, and the least, founded upon the facts presented, placed at 82,500;00. There isj almost no insurance. Parkland, t a suburb, is swept away. f At the Union depot, at the foot os s 7th street, a Chesapeake and Ohic train was just starting out filled witl> e passengers. The building was pros s trated. crashing down on the train. i All the passengers, however, were s rescued except one newsboy. A dis v patch from Louisville dated March 1 31st says: ':The water supply is run e ning very low. Every effort is being -made to complete a temporary stand. 3 pipe to be finished by Wednesday. ,Before that time, probably by to. night, the city will be almost entirely e without water. Strong appeals are 1 being made for all to observe thc s strictest economy in its use, but they .do not seem to be effective. Enougi 1 water will be reserved as a protec r tionm against fire. The total subscrip tion now amounts to 848,000. This -added to 822.000 from the city makes r 70.000 at the disposal of the reliel e committee. The ruins ar still unde1 e police guard. All streets arc no-n t open and the electric cars are run s ning. Business everywhere will b( Sresumed to-day. s The tornado struck the town o: e Bowling Green. Ky., and completely -wiped it out. Bowling Green has population of about 5,000 inhabitants t and the loss of life is conjectured tt e be correspondingly large. e ONLY 9:3 KILLED IN LoIIsNILLE. e LoUIsvILLEIKy., April 1.-The tota e number killed here by the tornado 0: r Tuesday night is 93. It is fearec .e that R. R. B'eton. of Pittsburg, i dead in the ruins. So far about 15( badly wounded persons have beer found. Several of these who wer< hurt are at the hospital in ady e condition. r The State Legislature this after e noon appropriated 830.000 for relie e of the sufferers by the cyclone. t HENDERsoN, Ky., April 1.--Th. g total of the killed in Webster count; is 40 and of wounded S0. e _______, ____ .--Owing to the crowded state o, our columns this week," apologizes; e ea- edto. w are compelle< eihrto ardeorEuropean die .patches or omit altogether the at count of the exciting cock fight a Grizzly Short's ranch last Wednes eda-. In this emergency we hay e' decided to leave out a portion of th e- name of Bismarck's successor a iGerman chancellor. It will appea in P full lnext week if it bursts ever e hase in the office: k -In the formation of a single locc a motive steam engine there are nearl, a 6,000 pieces to be put together, an< a these require to be as accurately pu together as the works of a watch. A STUDENT DEMONSTRATION. Unfortunate Occurence-What the Students Say-Action of the University CounciL COLMrBLt, S. C., Mareh 29.-The following letter appears in today's Register: "Dr. MeBryde, President of the South CarolinaUniversity: DearSir "During the farmers' convention here numbers of the students of the University were present, and during the progress of the proceedings, speakers who were in favor of nom inations were hissed and treated in a rough manner. After the proceed ings were over a large crowd of stu dents was an organized mob, singing vile songs and applying all manner of opprobrious epithets to the leaders of this movement, and followed Capt. Tiliman around, even to his hotel, and insulted him by applying all manner of disgraceful terms to him, and threatening to do personal via lence to his person. "We desire respectfullyto call your attention to these proceedings. A public expression of opinion from you concerning this will oblige us. Very respectfully. 4-J. H. Counts, L. E. Parker, J. L. M. Irby, W. P. Snelgrove, A. C. Lat timer, Geo. B. Dean." ACTION OF THE STUDENTs. The Register of the 30th gives the following: The University students held a meeting at 2.30 o'clock yesterday af ternoon to consider the charges re cently made as to the action of cer tain of their number during and af ter the adjournment of the Farmers' Convention. A committee of nine was was appointed to draft resolu tionsinreference to the matter. This committee made a report to a second meeting of the students held at eleven o'clock last night, after the public debate of the Euphradian So ciety. The resolutions reported by the committee were adopted by the meeting with certain amendmentar--_' and were submitted to President Me Bryde, who consented to their pub lication. The resolutions are as follows: Whereas ithas been brought to the notice of the students of the South Carolina Universitythat certain dam aging statements have been circulated in regard to the actions of some of the students on the night of the 27th instant, therefore, be it Resolved, That the following state-w ments are false: (a) that a body of students followed Captain Tiliman to his hotel; (b) that they sang "vile" songs; (c) that they threatened "to do personal violence to his person." That immediately after the conven tion adjourned a number of students were in a crowd together, with dele gates and others, an ' alged Remiitrition more-boisterous than politic; 'that the students intended no disrespect whatever to the con vention. That the account published in The News and Courier of March 29th. is complete and true in every detail. That these resolutionsbepublished in the leading papers of the State. J. W. Simpson, E. E. Aycock, J. R. Coggesall, Geo. S. Legare, Sam uel McGowan, G. M. Pinckney, K.L Elliott, Jr., S. P. Verner, 0. R. Withers, committee. The University council met at noon yesterday and remained in session two hours investigating the matter referred to above. The council met again at six o'clock last evening but adjourned without taking action, its sessions thus far having been devoted to investigating the matter with a view of ascertaining what portion of current reports were correct and what exaggerated or false. The names of a number of students, said to be about forty, have been submitted to the council as having been participants in the demonstra tion. On Monday separate cases will be investigated, to arrive at the indi vidual responsibility of the students concerned. President McBryde has never re ceived any communication on the subject from Captain Tillman and those who signed the open letter, but will comnmunicatewith them after the council takes action. WHAT WAs DONE WITH THE STUDENTs. After being in session three days and hearing fifty witnesses on the anti-Tilhnan demonstration the Uni versity council yesterday summoned and individually reprimanded each of the twenty-three students involved. Fifteen of the twenty-three stu dents are from the country, eleven being sons of farmers. The Negro in the Church. CH.ELESTON, S. C., April 2.-The war in the Episcopal Church here about the adlmissionof negroes to the - Diocesan Convention is waxing hot. The elections of delegates to the Dio cesan Convention are held on Mon day next, and most of the congrega tions are divided into negro and anti negro parties. A circular issued to day nominates a ticket for delegates to represent St. Philips' Church who are pledged to the absolute sep aration of the races in the Episcopal Church. The compromise party are seeking to admit the Rev. J. H. M. Pollard, the colored rector of St. Mark's Church, and to draw the line there. The slogan of the straight out party is "no negroes need apply." A Decaying Community. The North Star. of Danville, Ver mont, founded in 1808, has suspend ed publication. Several months ago. both the town and the paper suffered a stunning blow from fire, and busi ness was prostrated. Danville, one of the towns in the northern part of the State. has fallen behind in recent years in population and business; it is chiefly a fanning community, and many of its farms have been aban doned. The Springfield Republican regards the suspension as significant, and inquires: "Shall we go from abandoned farms to deserted vil lages?"~ S-The largest and heaviest locomo tive ever constructed was made by the Baldwin Locomotive Works for the Northern Pacific Railroad Coin Ipany last year. It weighed, with its Itender, 225.000 pounds. The ordi nary weight is from 47,000 to 165,000