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CROOKED THINGS. THE CROOKED SHALL BE MADE STRAIGHT. Dr. Talmage', Discourx' at the .Academy of Music-A Series of Sermon,; on the Holy Land to be Deetred. Biooxr.y,. Sept. 21.-Preliinary to his sermon at the Academ. of Music in this city, ths forenoon, Rev. Dr. Tal mage announced that, until the new Brooklyn Tabernacle was completed. he would preach in the Brooklyn Acadcny ol Music, on Sunday mornings. ITe was glad to add that, by an nrranzenent made through The Christian Ierald. of New York city, he would be enabled to preach in the New York Academy of Musi'. on Fourteenth street. on Sunday evenings, begmniug with the eveuing of September :38th. He also announced that on next Sabbath morning, Septem ber 5Sth. he rould bezin a series of ser mons entitled: "My Recent Journey Through the Holy Laud and Neighbor ing Countries; What I Saw and Lean:ed." The subject of to-day's sermon was: "Crooked Things." Text, Isaiah x1. 4: "The crooked shall be made straight." Geometry, from the time it was dis covered on the banks of the Nile, which, by its overfiow annually obliterated the landmarks, and the restoration of these laudm!rks made such a science neces sarv-I say, Geometry, ever since then has been busy with lines. straight lies. curved l!nes. lines in angles and0 coues and spheres. but has never been able 16 evolve any beauty from a line that was merely crooked. The circle and the square were always considered admir able. Isaiah recognizes the circle and says : "The Lord sits upon tke circle of the earth." The altar of the ancient tabernacle was "Cour square." and the breastplate of the priest "four square," and heaven. accordinz to John. !s "-four square." But the Bible has no admira tion for lines that are merely crooked. Indeed, my text in propiesying the world's complete rectification declares: "The crooked shall be made straight." There have been so many moral earth quakes that many things have got into a terrible twist-crooked laws. crooked governments, crooked fortunes, crooked dispositions-and many of the ed'orts to straighten things have o nly made thcm more crooked. And some good people sit wn in despair and become pessni is c and give up liie and the church and the world as dead failures. With such lachrymose behavior I have no sympa thy-. It is a promise ot the Lord Al mighty. "The crooked shall be nade straight." I propose, as I may be di vinely helped, to mention some of the crdSed things that are going to be siraightened. Much of the wealth of the world is In the hands of the profigate while many of the best people are subjected to dis tressing privation; and there is going to be a redistribution of property. if it were possible. it would be a bad thing to have things divided equally. Some men are able to endure more success than others, and prosperity that might not unbalance you, might destroy me. The Declaration of American Independ ence declares that all men are born equal, but the opposite is the truth for they are born unequal. In no respect is is this more evident than in their capa city to endure success, financial or social. -I have seen men by the acquisition o1 fifty thousand dollars made arrogant and overbearing, and I have known others with their millions of dollars childlike and unassuming and Christian. We would all be affluent but the Lord can not trust us. 1 am glad there are those He can trust. Much is said against capitalists, but the world would be a shaky world without them. Who built railroads which, while they give such facilities of travel, employ tens 01 thous ands of laborers supporting them and their families ? Capitalists. Who built great ships that stir the rivers and bridge the ocean? Ca'3italists. Who reared the thousands of factories all over the land in which hundreds of thousands ot employees earn theit daily bread? Capi talists. Whio endowed your colleges, and opened free libraries, and built asy lums for the orphan. the crippled and the insane? Capitalists ! But for them there would not be an Academy of Mus ic, or a picture gallery or a free library or a steamboat, or a railroad in America. Who put the world on seventy-five years beyond what it would haye been in enterprise, in comforts, in education al advantage, in good things without number ? Capitalists ! The more money a man gets the better, if it come honest ly and is employed righteously. Never theless we all see that there needs to be a redistribution of property. Corm munism proposes to make that distribu tion by torch and dagger and dynamite. Throw the midnight express train ofi the track and put the factory into conflagra tion. Disrupt society. Burglarize._ As sassinate. Such people believe neither mn God nor man nor woman and they know how to make things wvorse but never have made and never can make: anyhinbetter. I tell you how there will conme a re distribution of property. 'Under the di vine blessing good people will get more alertness and acumen and assiduty. Many good people are kept in straiten ed circumstances because they have been indolent, or lacked courage to take hion est advantage of circumstances, and were too stupid to get on. With the very same surroundings others went on to competency. In the better days to come good men will have their faculties wakened, and will in consequence ri e to larger share of property. On the other hand, estates wrongfully accumulated. will dissolve. If not the sons. then the grandsons will make the money fly, and it will gradually scatter in their hands. and become a part of the general wealth. Then, as to vast properties righteously gathered-and there are thousands of them-such estates, will contribute to ward helping the unfortunate, not more by charities than by helping struggling people into lucrative business' and the man who has amassed enough and a sur plus will say : "There is a young mer chant without any capital. I will start1 him on Fulton Street," and "there is a young mechanic who has no means of his own, and I will put him on a career of prosperity," and " There is a farmer wit[ too big a mortgage on his land, and I will help him lift the encumbrance." The fact is that if the kindness and gen erasitv manifested by moneyed men to word the struggling during the last lifty years. increases in the same ratio for the next fifty years. there will be a condition of society paradisacal. We are goIng to have a multiplication of William IE. Dodges, and Peter Coopers. and James Senoxes. and George Peabodys, So will come redistribution, and the crooked will be made atraight. Mind this: God never yet undertook a failure. The old book which is worth all other books put together, makes it plain that God has undertaken to regu late this world by gospel influences, and if He has the power Ie will do what lie says He will, and no one who amounts to anything will deny IHis poer God has said a hundred times "I will." but never once has sa:d "I cannot." We may wth our tack-hammers pound away, try ing to mend and improve and straiehten be distppintd in tihe result. heeau!e our arm is too weak and the hammer we weil!, too small, but the most deliant di ficuty wll 11itten and disappear when God with a hamnmer male of summer thuderbolts strikes .t, saying, "The crooked shall be made strai.ht." In your usinss concerns there ar: Iii t:ences perpgexing. Your ailaits may secm all rigiht to outsiders. 1or busiuess firms do not advertise their private tr'uble, bit where one !irm has every thing just as t!ey want it there are a hundred .irms at. ther w:t's end what to do with that partner who draw; more thtu his share of the pnr t, or with that stockholder who comes in iut otcn cnough to upset tidngs. or with that (is appearance of :hmds which you canniot accouit for. tlthough you have suspicious you icnnot mentton, or with that invest mnt which was made contrarv to vour judIgment because there was a determi nation to nush It tlrouh. or because You are goin behind month by month ith out any prospect o extrication. Te ronlle is putting a wrinkle on your forhead that ought not to appe.-r Ithere f ten vears vet, and vou will be fortv yerl w Ven you (ugit to 1.0 only 11h4y (r 'ity when you olit to be Iily wr servemyr when YOU ough"'it to bO oly .ixty, Stop worrin . Ethe'*r lwihe disou 0tion th1t irm. o bV re-ad Iust 'g matte 'rs vou will erX h safelv tilrough ;f you rut yoeir trust in God. Whe a ma ecial ho~ussil tie sus p'nsion is auvertised, bu, of the tcus of tho usands o: men, who are every day cx trica, ted uo publie mnilon is mnad"e. T eR *'rday was Saturday and I warrant that a' the windows of banks. an d in count ing-roors of stores and on every street of eve ct. God appearedl for the de hverance of good men. a certainl' as heuxii with 1i's riahz foot he trod Lake Galiaee, into placidity and made Daniel a afe among the lions as though they Ihad bee house dogs asleep on a ru be fore a winter's fire. Throw yourself on the rromise of the text. or a hundred other texts meaning about the same thine. I never Yet asked God to do anythir but lHe did it. if it were best, and in all t: cases where my :rayer has not been answered. I have found out afterward that it was bost not to have been an swerca in my way. But none ofus have tested the full power of prayer. It is a force very like some of the forces of na ture, that were in existence but not ea ployed. For ages electricity was thought good for nothing but to burn barns. and kill people with fell strokes. The lightning rod on the top of houses was the spear with which the world charged on the thunderstorm. as much as to say. "If you dare to come this way I will hurl you into the ground." l3ut now electricity lightens homes. and churches. and cities, and Christendom, and moves rail cars, and he is a rash man who mentions anything as impossible to this natural energy. So the power of ,raver was to the world rather a fright ul power, if it was any power at all. But that has been changed. and men begin to use it in some things, and the time will come when it will be used in all things, and there will be a Bible in every counting room, and supplication will ascend from every commercial es tablishment, and when business firms are formed the question will not only be asked as to how much this one and that one put in of capital, the question will be asked: "Do you know how to pray?" Mightier agent than any natural force vet developed will be this Gospel elc tricity, flashing heavenward for help. flashing earthward with Divine response. God in business life. God in agricultural life. God in mechanical life. God in ar tistic life. God in every kind of life. Your religion for the most past is hung up so high you cannot reach it. It is hung up on the cloudy rafters of the sky where you expct to snatch it up as you finally go through for heavenly residence. Oh. have your rehgion within easy reach now! Re -ligion is not for heaven. but for this world. Once mn heaven, we will need no prayer. for we shall have everything we want. We will need no repentance. for we shall have forever got rid of our sins. We shall have no need of comfort. for there will be no trouble. The Chamstian re ligion is not for heaven where every thung is all right, but for this world where so many things are ail wrong. Washington Allston, whose name vou recognize as that of a great American painter, was reduced to extreme poverty. and one day got on his knees and asked for a loaf of bread for himself and his starving family. While be was bowed in that prayer there was a knock at the door and a man came in anti said: "o a bout your painting, the 'Angel tCricl.' that received the prize at the royal acad cmy:? Has it been soldh" "No," said Allstona. "IIow much do von want for its' Allston replied: "I amt done fixing a price for I cannot tell." "~Wlil four hundred pounds be enongh~' asked the stranger. "Why that is more than I asked." said Allston. Thte 400 pounds. (62.000) were paid and the purchaser ma troduced tmseif as Marquis of Stalford,. who) thereafter was one of the most lib oral patrons of the rescued artist. "Oh. that all just happened so!" Didit? Tell that to sonie ignorant man, somel be nighted woman, who has never read the the promise: "Call upon me in the day of trouble. I will deliver thee." or that other promise: The crooked shall lbe made straight." "Well.," says oue. "you don't apply this in every direction." Yes, I do). Tate the most uncertain thing on eart~h -the weather. The Bible distinctly says that prayer controls the weather. James 5th. and 1 8th: "Elijah was a man subject to like passions as we are and he prayed earnestly that it might net rain, and it rained not on the earth for the space of three sears and six months: and he prayed again andl the heavens gave rain." Do you say that was the weather of olden time? There have been instances in modern times just as mar velous. There is not a Christian ship ca p tain but could give you instances of dli vine interference with the weather in answer to prayer. It has been my good fortune to know many shly captains. They are in all our services. They leave their vessels on Sunday mornings and join us in worship. I warrant there are enough of them present this morning to take a whole fleet im safety across the Atlantic. Whenever I have heard them testify, It has mightily confirmed me in what I knew before, that God answers prayer concerning the weather. And there have been cyclones that started up from the Carribbean sea. sweeping down every sail anti every smokestack and every mast in their course, which in answer to specitic petition have been di verted and made to curve around some particular ship, ieaving that in calm wa ters, and then resuming their original path of destruction. The weather probabilities again have announced a tempest and we wore all ready for it, but to the surprise of most people, the net day we saw thle announcement that the atmospherictjury had changed its course. The probabtilty is it struck a prayer and glancetiofl. if Eliijah's prayer ef fectedi thre weather of Palestine for forty-two months', .1 shoutld tink~ someb od ynuw mtlight have a prayer tlat would e it for a couple of days. .lohtn Easter w.as many~i years ago ani evangelist in Virgin~a. A large out-door meeting was being~ hel in that sate. Many thcousands hadi ass~embledt in the op~en air and heavy stormn-coud began to gather. T here wa., n shelter to which !the mlt.itudes could re tet Th~le rain had alrertdy re ae the ad .in iields when John Easter~ erio out: "B~rethren, be sdll whi 1 Ica 1upon G od preaced to this nulttude.-- .Ten he knelt and vraved that the audileCC might I be spared from thec rain and that afcr thoy had gone to their hones there might m refreshiug sihovers. Uchiold the clouds parted as they came near and Issed to eher Side! of the crowd and then coscd aga :a.m the place dry Wt."r thC aUdience hIa abled ard the next day the postponcd showers nme upOn ilhe ground that had bcen the day before omitted. Do you say it only happened so? I cainnot see what you Kec) vourt bibles !or. 'n:d the God yon wurship is not my God. Your God iS an autocrat. and le i far oil and so far u') that the wod cannot touch Him, a. his throne is au eternal iceberg. Mv G d is a father. here and now. and a father wil gve is child what h e aks for. if it is best for him to have it. Pray aboaut evri that concerns you. see u'arties as well as spirimuahties. Take to God all your annoyances and perplex it-es. The crookied shall re made straight. Some p-eople talk as though God Controlled things in gewnral but not in articular; that He started everythim; un"de r certain laws and let it take care of itself, as an engineer njiht start, his 1o comotive on al iron ratlroad track and then jumip oil. WhIt would happen to sutch a locomiotive :s what would long ago ha-ve1 happuild 41 our world *I God had started it ant aclrwards alloweId it to look out for itsell, There is no such thing as a general providence. It is a particular providence. God has no gen era! care for a :orest. it is a care of e:ver ce!!, of every leaf and root in that fores'i. God has -no general care of the occan . Is a care of every drop of wa tor in the liquid magnitude. God has no general care for the human race. It isacare of every ind'vidual of that race. and of every item of inriividual history. I preach IFlm, a God in ilinitesinuals, an every-dav God, a Go.1 responsive, and one breath of earnest prayer, though that breath should not be strong enough to make a candle ilicker. will absorb more of the divine attention than if the arch cngel standing at the fcot of the throne should 11ap both wings. it is remarkablie how many crooked tligs arc in the providence of God be iA made straight. About thirty years ago our natlonal allars were as crooked as denraved American nolities ant bad men, and satan could make them. From the to of Maine to the foot of Florida. the nation was red with wrath. It was wranigle and fight all the way throug, and one of the mildest things that the North and South promised each other was assasination. During this snmmer I have traveled through New York, and Ohio, and Illinois, and Indiana. and Minnesota. and Kansas and Nebraska. Mad issouri, and Texas. and Louisi ana. and Georgia. and North and South Carolina. and Virginia, and Pennsyl vania. and I have shaken hands with tens of thousands 01 people. and talked with men of all sections and degrees, and I have to tell you it is all peace, and in all the states of the Union you could not now marshal a military company of 100 soldiers to gfiht against the United States government, unless you got your men out of the penitentiary. Did the corrupt and gangrened political parties do this work of rectification and pacification? No! It was ny divine interposition that the crooked has been made straight. On December 2, 1851. Louis Napoleon Bonaparte rode down.the Champs Elysee of Paris. and under the hoofs of his horse a Republic was trampled as the rider went to take a throne. It was the out rage of the century. For nineteen long1 years the wrong trphed. The will of. one man who wanted to remain emiperor kept down a nuation who wanted a Rie public. But September, 18T0, arrived, and Sedan unrolled its crimson scroll. The emperor surrenders with 83.000 troops. 410 field guns, t3,000 horses and 60.000 muskets. From that day the bal lot-box was up and the throne was down. Free institutions have been substituted for an infamous monarchy. Thank God! The crooked has been made straight. But why go so far to find fuliilment of my text. In all our lives there are rooked things that need to be nmade straight. and each hearer or reader will enumerate for himself or herself. With one it is deiapidated phuysical health, anid you are savyig, -Whyv cannot I be in gohelhwhen I have sutch opportui tie ad schresponsibilities?" Alas for the sick headaches and the rheumatie jomits, and the neuiraigic thrusts, and the lame foot ! But rou' will be well soon. Life at the lon:gest is an abbreviated dur ance. There is a black doctor thant will ure you. Some people call him Death. No disease was ever able to stand before his touch. Use all thie means allforded :or phlysleal recuperation. but if they fail the hour of release is not fair away. There need be no incurables. There is no sorrow that heaven cannot cure. Those who in this world have always been well will not get thie best part of heaven. Thtey wlli not have the advan tge of contrast. They were well before they left this world and wvhy should they be so gratulated at being well in the next world. But to those who on earth wore hindered or broken down in health what a contrast as they step into that domain w;here there has never been an aching brow or lame foot or inflamited muscle or disordered nerve! For forty years there may have been a stooping in the b~ac'k. or a twisted muscle, or a curved spine or a crooked limb, but (lie premise has been fulfilled. -"The crooked shall be made straight." In ninny a domestic life are dificeulties to be removed. There are thousands of matches that are not made in heaven. Sonic of the loveliest women have been united to somle of the meanest men, and some of the grandlest men to (lie most worthless womien. There amy be no suficient cause of divorcement. but there has never been any accord. For them the weddimg march ought never to have been played. The twain divergrent in sentiment. the north pole and the south pole might just as well have been mar ried. A twist of nettles would have been more appropriate than a garland of orange blossoms. The unutterable mis ake was made to please piarents. or for the acquisition of estate, or for heighten ig of social position or thorough thought essnes I call the attention of such to lie rapid dissolutioIn of fhmilies. This thought, whiichu is a sadness to a happy marital state, might be consolatory to those unequally yoked. A very short pathm is the pathi of life. The roiling years vil give quick emancipaticon. Every ~ody, for discipline, must have some kind of trouble. andl that is your trotuble. Put in a song now and thn to eer our stnrt. Mlake the bet tof thi ngs. Find in God that peace whichm no one else can bestow. The days and monthisI nd years are crowding past. atnd thte last of the processuin, so fa a s you arc onerned, will sooni have oe hy.le-1 enber that some of thie best men and omen who ever livedI hiave had the samei ifetime misforttune.I They bore up undi~er I it and so can 'you. Thle expiration of the ife of one of you. will, aller a while, re- t nove thie aliiection L et the one that emamns miake no hypocritical mourn ng at the obsgc~mes. of the o10net. goes or imitate those whomn we have all noe tcd who fot:;hItik cte and dogs all their marric. -tatLe anil thenl coul not :et org as to sun airges doleful ca uh, or :urnishing stores . 1''repare wedls blacik enough.1 or tmbstone cut tes to chisel eitap -~i~ ucugstic enough. It is a matter of con tatuintion hat the urmhapptest conju'ral rceatons wi er minate. Theo crookded shalli he mde straihzit. In the ages of the- wor!. wh~en the people liv*ed Iive or ::-xo eih or nie hundred y ears. suchI consolation for 1 apt. It would have brouiht no relief to some of those old patriarchs to say. "You will have only 700 years more of this." But lifc has been abbreviated by the cutting oil of century after century until we can console people, whether their trouble be financial or domestie. by. saying it will not be long before the crooked shall be made straight. HALE AND HEARTY AT 104. A emiarkab!e Wonan Livina at Park ersburg. 1v. Va. PAln~Ins1~ur , W. VA., Sept. 24. Om of the attractions at the tourteenth anaual reunion of the Army of West Virginia in this city last week was the oidest Person in West Virginhi. Mrs. Jane Brungardner. She will be 104 yeats uid on D)ece nber 25 next. She was born in Gear--in in 1786. Esrlv in her youth she came to Virginia -nd setticd in what is now called West Virginia, near the Ohio itiver. She is a most rerm-arkable woman in inny respects. She does not use glasses, even when doing tho finest se Wi mr. She wouid be taken a- a casual glace as a woman of 60 years of age. She uses tobacco, having byen r-ccustoiedi to it from her youth, her constant companion being a primitive cob pipe. She says she pref:-rs a cob pipe to "any of the new fangled no tions." Iler hearing is still good. She had eight children, tour of whom still live. She has forty grandchldren, thirty-five great-grandchildren, and three great-great-grandchildren. This chronological table is taken from her recollection of ten years ago. A fair estimate of her descendants at this date would not be less tl an two han dred and fifty people. The old lady has a reportire of stories of Semilnole raids in Florida and of the aborigines of this part of the coun try aimost a century ago. She was oyer 20 years of age when Aaron Burr and Blennerhassett figured prominent ly in the history of the country. She says she saw Burr and his victirm. Her man Blennerhassett, frequently in th'eir travels from the historical island to Marietta and return. and frequently conversed with both of them. Mrs. B"lennerha1sset t was, and still is, h,?r ideal of a beautful woman. In speak iug of Burr she says she always had a natural dislike for the man. When she settled permaneutly at Briscoe. six miles from Marietta. Ohio, (the ol-lest town on the Ohio River,) that place was nothing more than a collection of a few log huts. The fort at. Hammer, Ohio, opposite Marietta, was the only place for many miles up and down the Ohio River where the isolated settler of that day could secure protection dur ing the numerous Indian raids which were common then. MIrs. .Brungardner's physical :condi tion is,indeed, wonderful at her great age. She comes to this city unattend ed once every three months to sign vouchers for her pension as the widow of a soldier of the war of 1812. SAD FATE OF OSMAN PASHA. Five Hundred Turkish Seaman Drowned With Him. LoNox, Sept. 19.-A dvices from IIi ogo state that the Turkish man-of-war Ertzogroul has foundered at sea, and that live hundred of her crew was drown ed. The Ertzogroul was a wooden, frig ate-built crusier of 2,344 tons displace ment. She mounted forty-one guns of small calibre and was built in 1863. Os man Pasha and Ali Pasha. envoys of the Sultan to the Fmperor of Japan. were passengers on the Ertzogroul and were drowned. Osman Pasha, who-se victory over the Russians at Plevna gave him a high rank as a lighting general. was on board and was lost, lie had been oil an oflici al visit to Japan. having been intrusted with a special mission from the Saltan to the 31ikado. The progress of the steamer sinice she left Constantinople for the East many months ago has been a most undlignlified and ludicrous one. .She left Turkey short of money, it being understood that supplies were to be sent for her use to the ports at which she was to call. Thle result was that her sojourn in those countries was ndeinately prolonged, in consequence of the orlicials at home not being able to keep their promises. In this wax- she lost some of her crew and her oiliecers were many times on the verge of rebellion, induced by starvation. The Governors of the cities visited re fused to remit harbor dues and grant other priveliages that were of right due her as a Turkish man-of-war, On the ground that she was not sailing in that character. there not being powder enough on board to enable her crew to fire the regulation salutes. A fter many adventures, only worthy of an opera bonife navy, the Ertvzogroul inally arrived in .Japanese waters, and it was on her return voya~ge that the dis aster oc-curred. MURDERED BY HER HUSBAND. Ae Crushed the skull and Sent a Uulket Throu;;h the Head. M mconi is. Tenni.. ept. lt.-Thle funer al of Mrs. Mary J1. Persons, wife of Wiliamu II. Persons, one of the~ wealth kest men in this city. -who. was supposed to nave conmnitted suicide vesterday, took place to-dlay. The body was enl route to the cemetery, followed by a piro :ession a mile long, when a Sherills posse arrivedl aiid took chlarge of the re mains. A post mortem examination was eld and revealed one of the most autro ious murders ever committed. The wo aans skull was erushed in three places and contained an ugly bullet wound. (reat excitement followed th ese dIisclo mres. TIhe physicians who miade the ex iinationl rep~orted1 the~ case to the prop r olicers and at -8 o'clock Judge D~ubose f the criminal court issued a bench war ant for the arrest of William II. Per ons. the husband of the murdlered~ wo nan. The warrant was served anid thle nanl placed in jail. Persons was seen in his cell and aip >ared to be a man past middle age.- lie akes his arrest coolly and protests his nnoliceceIt. If1e declares that lhe w~ill be i1ble to prove that his wife (lied by her m-nl hiand. Dr. ilaymlond. one of the surgeons ap Oited to make the post mortem exam nation. had no hesitancy in pronounc ng theC woman's dleathl one of the most ol murder's ever pierpectrated. 11er ~kuil was crushed in three places with a Aumit instrument, probabliy a hianuner. nd there was a bullet hole clear through ie :head. Ile declared that the suicide heory was bosh. Thii Coironer's iniuuest diselosed~ the act that Personshl anid his wife have had reluen t family jars. ilis soni, a lid six ecn years old. testilied that a few weeks g~o his moather had discovered his liat her a posessioni of ai number of letters which a had receivedl from another womnan. nd thait afterthlat thle two had freqiient Iarrels, and his father would oiften eaie home anid remain away without ~iving any resou for his abscee. The Coroner'"s jury adjourned at a late ~or until to-miorrowv morninug. The tters referredl o by the boy were placed a evidence. Th-e- 0 ooner prc.poses ioi to allow t hem to beomie pubilie' prop rty for theL iresenit, but it is saidt that hex 'v icose P1 erson's gult anid a plot etivce hi'mself and others to remove Is. Personl' so that thle guilty pair oud enji t'-~hem'selves withlout 1-er es -na... It i sai d thati sver'l persons 'e imli~aItd and that maore' arrets Tm.:-~r Basn Advertiser - usets thait ivreoval of the. dutx from iningi .rmers. iwill rinI the cordageindiustry 'i Massachustts. Iy v,a of 0 n- l g thei \dv-rtiser the Newxs -'nd~ Cour r i riemarks *hat it is no- t suo had as that, Iin empljloV LI ther lant i mkiing (clt on bagging. withi the full assuraice ht no lhip:iblicani Cmngress~ wxil ever FOUR DAYS ON A RAFT. TERRIBLE SUFFERING OF THE CREW OF THE ABBIE CLFFORD. Four Days W;tIhout a Drop of Water Tihe! Capan's Vio Swept r-n His Side by an !unim Wave--Thirty Raidsins a Day's RationU. N.W YOR!, Sept. 25. -Six more vic tims of the great three days' hurricane that swept up the Atlantic coast, carry ing death and (!structio) before it, ar rivid on the Qebec steamwslhip Orinoco from B1ermuda Sunday. They were Capt. ). W. Storer and 1ive of the crew of the American brigantine Abbie Clifford. !ncluding Mate Ira A. Small and sailors John Denver, Charles Dal kanip, IT ,nry Richardson and Charles Sorom. Traccs of the suffering enlured by the men were still visible. The couft tenan ce of white-laired Captain Storer bore evidences of a suffering that. even time might not assuage, for he saw his wife swept into the seething ocean which was pounding his little craft to piees and he powerless to make even an effort to save her. It was a sunny morning and a cheer ful breeze fannpd the sails of the Ab bie Clifford when .9he left Frn-.ndina, Fa., on August 8 for Port au Spain Trinidad. Lu mber was stored between decks and piled up above, leaving bare room for the yrdsto swing free. Mrs.Storer, who mnuch younger tan her husband, was is over sixty years old, accompanied him as she had on many prenous voyages. Everything went well until the morn ing of Au gust 30. She was ,her in latitude 30 degrees, 20 seconds, and lonitude 67 degrees, or about four hun dred and fifty miles East of the coast of Florida and some three hundred miles West-South: west of Bermnuda. Then, without. the slightest warning, the hurricane pounced upon the vessel, whirling her like a top upon the seas, which'arose to a tremendous height. The wind cane from the South-South east. The crew managed to get the vessel before it and for live hours she ran be fore the storm. She suddenly broached to at 4 p. in. and filled with water. She was almost on her beam ends, and to make matters worse the deck load of lumber broke loose and batter ed out the bulwarks, opening the ves el's side planking so that the water came into the space between decks in streams. It was just before 5 o'clock when the most pathetic incident of the wreCk oc curred. All hands were at the pumps working vigorously to keep the rapid ly sinking craft afloat. The mighty waves washed over the vessel. Mrs. Storer stood beside her husband, who was trying to guie his storm-battered ship. She was doing her best to en courage him, when a wave mightier than any that had gone before swept the deck from stern to stem. When it had passed over it was found that Mrs. Storer had been swept away with it. It also carried away the bulwarks, the forward and after houses, part of the maindeck and everything movable within its track, including the life boats. Captain Storer saw his wife disappear over the side of the vessel but he was powerless to help her. There was no sign of the storm abat ing by the morning of Sunday, August 31. One by one the crew ventured down to assuage their thirst and ap pease their cravings for food. The poor fellows did not diream that it was the last time for four (lays anid nights that their lips wouldl touch fresh water. They sought refuge on the poop and the remaining portion of the main deck and silently waited. Just before noon their worst fears were realized, fcr almost without warning the overtaxed vessel broke into three parts, and the top of the poop deck, which was made out of matched lum ber, iloated away with the men clin'g ing to it. Just before t be final crash came one o the crew .hiad secured part of a box of raisins, anrounting to about two quart', and this was the only food on the raft. There was not a drop of fresh wvater and not a sail could he seen on the storm tossed ocean. Some of the rigging and spars of th wrecked vessel 110ated near the raft, and this was easterly grasped an:d made to do duty in strengthening the frail structure, which was their only hope. Captamn Store- had taken chrarge of the raisins and in the morning he dealt out a few to each man for breakfast. At noon another small ration was given to each and again at six in tire evening. The day's rations for eachn man did not amount to more than tlrir ty raisins. The-ir thirst had now be co me almost intolerable. For four d:vys the little company cn the raft waited and watched for a sarii. When their thirst became imhearale. they stripped themselves, and, as tihe sea had gone down, they ju1tnpied i and swamn around the little raft. Tire watergthus a bsorlbed through tne porns, they said, partially relieved their ter rible thirst. It w~as not until tihe morning of the fifth day that a sail was seenr. It proved to be the British bark Beatrice, Captain Ilesse, bound from New York for Port an 2rince, Ilayti, with a geni erai cargo. She, too, hadl met with tire storm. 11er foremast was gone at the dieck and her jibboom and all attached rigging -carried away. She mret the hurricane on Augurst 30, 1t00 miles Southwest of Bermuda, and the ves:-el was throw~n on her beam en-Is. 11er mainmast and rigging were cut away'i and she righted. TIhe second mate was struck by a fallinig spar a~ so hu i ~rt initernally that be died tihe nrext day,.lHe was buried at s'-a, andt the Beatrice was tring t." make the Bermirudas when she sightedl the raft. A boat was muanned: anid the exhaust -dl (.cw of thre Abie Chlf.ord were taken -mn hoard the I eatre and caredi for. it was rnot unitil Septembor 13 that the I eatrice mrad'- St. Geourg. Bermu rdar, and re would nrot have reached pit, hleu haid not the steamner Britani:rra towed her in. Eurorein;r the Anrti-Lottery Law. MoNrrc-ny, Ala.. Sept. 25.- --Under irstrructions fromr Chief Inlspector sharp. Inspector i ;oth to-day seized all theV is ue of lihe Birmuighmn Age-Ilerald of this ate andi the issue of thre Week ly Atlanta Conrstitutionr of this week and all eth pa per~s comning here for thiis dac-. and for (distri bution in tis~ sec ion, wlhiclh -upon examlinationl were oinrd to contain lottery atdvertisemrerr.s. hie ouicers of tire Advertiser companyv f this city were also retlnired to giv~e onus for their appearence at1 tire No emner term' of the Uniutedi States t ourt for publlishling last Sunday lot try rdvt-r isements. although they amnounced in he next issue, that having learned that he law became operait ive ar once. it er'. advertisements wvould not again be asertedl in their coliu:nns. iBroke Iii Neen. Noienrr..s, G..-et.2i.- George W'Il s. a llegro weli digrrr met wif lbl unr Id~~i(eath. 11Haajustf''inis-.cea \Y wll, anid was stadibfon the(ii 1e( ' a an. frome somte causeC h' feet~ sIpp *d. nrd hre fe-ll to the bot tomr f thIel rekinrg Iris ne k. A liot in a Colorado- Town.J !):NVEr:. t ci.. ept. .- N w of a1 ~erous riot of. -ire so' rt is r-eport ed romr lient County in this~ state. it is rt.rt -d thalt twio'men-i have been killed, erd that the Court Homuse has been btrn to+he g rond.m N WILSON. o MENT EQUITAiBLE LILFE A.' MANNING. S. C. USEhll F.. 1:HAME.? .....T.....'.T.....W MANNI':,, 8. C. J OiNN S. WIL S. i/forney and Cou~fns'bor at Law, A LEVI, A -TTui:X-EYA;T L..IW. M1fA NN IN G, S. C. :M-oa.Publ.e wilth Sea). A ilHUGGINS, D. D). S., ;T\i.it 7anning every month or two professioal, % JOB PRINTING. T ETIMES OFFICE IS F ITTED ;P IN T manne that warrants it in solciting yonr patronagl for job printing. Se)nd us your orde-rs which shlli have prompt att tion. lric, m; a .s the cti;s. Satisfae tionguart Keep u-s in min. FOREST0 DR1C STAIIE FORESTON, S. C. I kp al.ay on hand a fui line of PU're 2rbomgs W UHLdicines,% FANCY AND TOILET ARTICLES, TOILET lO'Irs, TErUFUERY, STATION EIY, CIGARS-, GARDEN SEEDS, and sueb articles as are usnally kept in a first class dlrugc store. I have just a to my stok a line o PAINTS AND OILS, antd amu prepad to sl PAINTS, OILS LEAD, YliSEBRUS-HES, in quantities to suit purchaser,:. L. W. NETTLES, M. D., Foreston, S. C. .. S. J. PELLY. K. R1. SIMONS. R. A. PrJNCnE. Johnston, Crews & Co., ---WIIOLESALE JOBBERS OF DRY GOODS, Notions and Sna!! Wares, Nos. 49 Havne & 112 Mark-ct Streets, CHARLESTON, S. C. THE MUTUAL LE INSURANCE OU OF NEW YORK. R. A. McdCURDY, Prest. Assets, $136,401,32S.02. Surplus,. $9,65,248.44. The olest, strongest, largest, best company in the world. It "makes as surance dloubly sure." E. B. Camay, iAye~w ircKeraw ad (.u.e:don, C'amden, ''. C. ED. L. GERNAND, GF.N~ntAL AGEtNT, Columbia, S. C. GRAND GENTRAL HOTEL, COLUMB!A, S. C. s the, largest hotel in the city anrd has, during the p)a::t yea:', been th'oroughly renfo vated, remiodecledi, .and relited ih al UI d ern improvemients. Centrally located, and offers indueements for the accomnodation of its patrons. Has d spac~~ious igt. anud airv- sopU. rxc.ms. Ilot ard Cold l'ts cl er:tor, .\c. Cuisine u~nder supervisionI of Lookout Moml!tain, ~Tin. Thec proprietor hopes by strict a;tte-ntion to the wants of his 1ston omeita shai:re of pattronag.e. P'roprietor. .ngr. CN -c~u. - I ST.LOUIS MD. ~ - * DA.LLA5.TEX. W. E. B,1tOWN & CO., Manning, S. C. PHILADELPHIA SINGER. Arm, Arm $28. $20. 434 *~ U -- -~r FFTEEN DAYS' TRIAL IN YOUR OWN HOUSE BEFORE YOU PAY ONE CENT. Dont pay an agent $65 or $60, but send for circular. THE C. A. WOOD cr., b Ten'bSf 33otCuns -I.. Revolvers. - - .Rifles, s~iES, NETS, TENTS, AN SPORT~INa 000DS. D]u- Unrre Itadreech I Loaing Shot Guns, ng sht Gns, :1 to *5. Ev.ry kind of . CLI.. A.iadn nLldi --he- t u to 835 Singe sho I an 82.-50 to '12. evolers *' to .,0. Do-le Action. elf oe e s.-5 to I ' A , ki -s o ar - ridgl. Shellas. j~ Wa..d. Ta , Pe:GertIi~ laskt LI-'o t 3en, rimers. ri2 r.I..MN 0 . R.\ WTMILTN .J. ADGER SMYTH. F. J. PELZE1R, SpucialPartner. SMYTH & ADCER, Factors and POHmmissicn Mrchanl 1TCrtht3 A a n-tiXU0 TVVIarfE CHARLESTON, S. C. OTTO F. WIETERS, WHOLESALE GROCER, Wiolesale Dealer in Wines, Liouois and c.gars, No. 121 East Bay, Charleston, S. C. OTTO TIEDEMAN & SONS, Wholesale Grocers and Provision Dealels, 172, 174, and 176 East Bay Street, C0Z .'EIA T:at5.. A Ml%, 2;nS > . I. C. F. J. PELZER, Presidert. F. S. ROD ~ELS, Treasurer. Atlantic Phosphate Company, C [ ~ a 3JMTM OC N, S. c4. MANUFACTURERS OF STANDARD FERTILIZERS, AND ImPORTERS OF T1La.e CGeeraG.& I a'in '.i PELZER, RODGERS, & CO., GeneralAgts., BROWN'S WHARF, CHARLESTON, S. C. Mr.. . Lnvi, of MIanning. will be pleased to supply his frieds and the public gen ally, with any of the above brands of Fertilizers. B.. B Brows, Pres. Tonl P. HUTcHINSoN, 3anager. T. H. IcCm.L, Gen. Supt& Treas Charleston Mattress Pfg Company, INCORPORATED 1889. Mk1VTNU.AC T]EM-E S OF High Grade! Moss, Hair, and Wool Mattresses. Wholesale Jobbers and Manufacturers in all Kinds of F T X. IT I T ' U .gE, E T C. Capacity, 250 mattresses per day. Capacity, 500 pillows per day. Write for price list. Will pay highest prices for corn shucks. Office and Sales Room 552 and 554 King St., CHARLESTON, S.. C. MOLONY & CARTER, COMMISSION MERCHANTS. Dealers in Corn, Oats, Bran, Hay, Flour, Feed, 244 & 24G Meeting St., Opp. Pavilion Hotel, CHARLESTON, S. C. D-Contracts made for car load lots or less. W. E. HorzIos. LEIAND nOORE. W. E. HOL M ES & CO., White Lead and Colors, Oils and~ Varnishes, Glass and Brushes, Mill and Naval S tor'e Supplies. STREET LAMVPS.and LANTERNS ofALL KINDS. CFFICE, 207 EAST IAY, CHxARLESTON, s. C. EYERYTHINO IN THE PAINT, OILt, AND (LASS LINE. WM.M. IR D & CO., CHARLES3TON, S. C. STATE AGENTS FOR MYARVIN'S SAFES AND HOWE SO.ALE~S. ESTABLISHED 1844. Charleston iron Works, Manufacturers and Dealers in Marine Stationary and Porta ble Engines and Boilers, saw Mill Machinery. Coatton Presses, Gmns, Railroad, Steam boat, Machinists', Enginleers' and Mill Suppilies. Mi"RekpWar c.reculerd WIcA prim1'a'.s mufl/ Dieatcahh. Sendfor price lists. East Bay, Oor. Pritchard St., Charleston, S. C. Jor.s F. WEaNEP.. L. H. QtanoLLo. 1. 'T. :cGAIHAN. A. 5. B!owN. ROBT. P. EVANS. JOHN F. WERNER & C0., MoGAHAN, BROWN & EVANS, Wholesale Grocers JOBBERS OF AM. Dry Goods, Notions, Provsion~ealrs.Boots~shoes and Clothing, 164 16 Eas Ba and29 31Nos. 22G3, 228 & 230 MIeeting Street, VCI A R gEO.T. S. C. ('I~t ~ LCHARLESTO. C.S.__. ----- -~ . TH t MA8,.TJa. .3. .i. THOM1AS. JO HN W E BB _egenThnmaJr.&Bro. 9H0i0E FAiMilY IGROCERiE8,J~AE JEWo~e a~ ll(Si~N lC lR s LVER &' PL.ATED WARE, Liur andt igars and 0 1 !v,-L883 v repatred3. 1ores a:m, 1 9 1 M ting St., anlc t .-eelyrpard b CHARLESTON, S. C. 257 KING STREET, Price lis.ts cheerinully farn ina. Sp ed 'H tLalON ' ' ,ttenltioni given to consignmenti of coutry 8, . rod~uce. EITA BL!5H E D 1836. 3OLLMANN BR~OTHERS, arintn, Thomas ? Co., W~ho esale D h N Grocers,I ~~ -!EWELRY, SILVERWA RE MND FANCY GOODS, 157 and 109, East Bay, No. 251 Ling Street, JOANL ~A. MCOBB, Jr. Cot toni Fa'ctor I ~e, ufniSSJ Mrhat --UM1E, OGi'ENT, PLASTR PARIS, HAIR, FIRE -CO.MDHSSLIN MERCHTANT-- 8310KS, AND I CLEY, LAND PLAS Xs::s w:tom-, TE, AND F ST[RN HAY. CH AIRLESTON, S. C- Aids~ for WhtI'S Eog!!i Portland Cem0Eu1