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READ AND REED. SERMON ON THE POWER OF KIND NESS BY OR. TALMAGE. "Kind Words Never Die, Cherished and Blessed"-We Hear Much About the Bit ter Tongue and the Sarcastic Tongue but Little of the soft Tonaue. Ciscssa1,Q., Aug.:21.-Dr. Tal mage. who 1s in the city to-day discourses on a power which, if it had been used as extensively as Christ intended it to be used, would have saved the church and the world from infinite discord and sor row--the power of kindness. 1Ils text is "A soft tongue breaketh the bone." (Prov. xxv, 15). Following is his ser mon: When Solomon said this he drove a whole volume into one phrase. You. of course, will not b-e so silly as to take the words of the text in a literal sense. Thev simply mean to set forth the fact that there is a tremendous power in a kind word. Although it may seem to be very insignificant, its force is indescriable and illimitable. Pungent and all-conquering utterance: "A soft tongue breaketh the bone." If the weather were not so hot. and I had time, I would show you kindness as a means of defence; kindness as a means of usefulness; kindness as a means otdo mestic harmony; kiudness as best em ployed by governments for the taming and curmag of criminals; and kindness as best adapted for the settling and unjust ing international quarrels; but I shall call your attention only to two of these thoughts. And at first. I speak to you of kindness as a means of defence. Almost every man in the course of his lifc. is set upon and assaulted. Your motives are mis interpreted or your religious or political principals are bombarded. What to do under such circumstances is the question. The first impulse of the natural heart says: "Strike back. Give as much as he sent. Trip him into the ditch which he du- for your feet. Gash him with as severe a wound as that which he intlict ed on your soul. Shot for shot. Sarcasm for sarcasm. An eye for an eye. A tooth for a tooth." But the better spirit in the man's soul rises up and says: "You ought to reconsider that matter." You look up into the face of Christ and say: "Mv Master, how ought I to act under these diflicult circumstances." And Christ instantly answers: "Bless them that curse you, and pray for them which despitefully use you." Then the old nature rises up again and says: "You had better not forgive him until first you have chastised him. You will never get him in so tight a corner again. You will never have such an opportunity of inflicting the right kind of punishment upon him again. First chastise him and tnen let him go." "No," says the bet ter nature, "hush, thou foul heart. Try the soft tongue that breaketh the bone." Have you ever in all your life known acerbiety and acrimonous dispute to set tle a quarrel? Did they not always make matters worse, worse, and worse? Many years ago there was a great quarrel in the Presbyterian family. Min Isters of Christ were thought o:thodox in proportion as they had measurid _a'Ets with other clergymen of the sanme denorination. The most outrageous personalities were abroad. As in the autumn, a hunter comes home with a string of game, partridges and wild ducks alung over his shoulder, so there were many ministers who came back from the ecclesiastical courts with long strings of doctors of divinityv whom they had shot with their own rifle. The division be came wider, the animosity greater, until after a while some good men resolved upon another tack. They began to ex plain away the difficulties; they began to forgive each other's faults, and lo! the great church quarrel was settled, and a new school Presbyterian church and the old school Presbyterian church became *ne. The different parts of the Presby terian order, wielded by a hammer. a lit tle hammer, a Christian hammer that the Scripture calls "a soft tongue." You have a dispute with your neighbor. You say to 1im "1 dispise you." IIe replies: --I can't bear the sight of you." Yoc say to him: Never enter my house again."~ He says: "If you come on my door sill I'1l kick you oil'." You say to him: "I'll put you down." He says to - you: "You are mistaken: I'll put you down." And so the contest rages; and year after year you act the unchristian part, and he acts the unchristian part. Af ter awhile the better spirit seizes you, and one day you go over to the neighbour, and say: "Give me your hand. We have fought long enough. Time is so short, and eternity is so near, that we cannot afford any longer to quarrel. I feel you have wronged me very much; but let us settle all now it one great bank-shaking, ~and be good friends all the rest of our lives." Youhave risen to a higher plat form than that on which before you stood. You win his admiration, and pgthis apology. But if you have not conquered him in that way, at any rate you have won the applause of your own conscience, the high estimation of good men. and the honor of your Lord who died for his armed enemies. "But," you say, "what are we to do when slandlers assault us, and there come acrimloniuus saying all around about us, and we are abused and spit upon?" My reply is: Do not go and at tempt to chase down the slanders. Lies are prolific, and while you are killing one, fifty are born. All your demonstrations of indignation only exhaust yourself. You might as well, on some summer night when the swarms of insects are coming up from the meadows and dIs turbng you, and disturbing your family. bring up some great "swamp angel," like that which thundered over Charles ton, and try to shoot them down. The game is too small for the gun. But what, then, are you to do with the abuses that come upon you in life? You are to lhve them down! I saw a farmer go out to get back a swarm of bees that had wondered-off from the hiye. As he moved amid them they buzzed around his head, and buzzed around his hands, and buzzed around his feet. If lie had kiled one of them they would have stung him to death. Rut he moved in their midst in perfect placidity until lhe had captured the swarm of wandering bees. And so I have seen men moving amid the annoyances, and the vexatious, and the assaults, of life in such calm, Chris tin deliberation that all the buzzing around their souls amounted to nothing. They conpuer them, and above all, they conquered themselve. '0." you say. that's a very good theory to preach on a hot day, but it won't work." It wvill work. It has worked. I believe it is the last Christian graee we wvin. You know there are fruits which we gather in June. and others in July. and others in August, and others in September. and still others in October; and 1 have to admit that this grace of Christian forgive ness is about the last fruit of thle Chris tian soul. We hear a great deal about the bitter tongue, and~ the sarcastic tongue, and the quick tongue. and the stinging tongue but we knowv very' little about 'thle soft tonue that, breaketh the bone." We read Ilulibras, and Sterne, and Dean Swift. and the other apostles of acrimony but give little time to studying tne ex axample of hinm w~hto was reviled. amn - yet reviled not again. 0 that the Lord, by Ihis spirit. would endow us all with: "the soft tongue that breaketh the bone.' I pass now to the other thought that] as a means of usefulness. In all com munities you find sceptical men. Through early education, or through the maltreatment of professed Christian peo ple, or through prying curiosity about the future world, there are a great many peole who become sceptical in rehgious things. How shall you capture them for God? Sharp argument and sarcastic retort never won a single soul from scep ticism to the Christian religion. While powerful books on the "Evidenices of Christianity" have their ission in cou irming Christian people in the lith they have already adopted, I have noticed that when sceptical people are brought into the kingdon of Crist. it is through the chiarm of solie congenial soul and not by argumcnt at all. Men are not saved through the head; thev are saved through the heart. A Sti COes out of its hiding place. It says. --Now we'll inst rouse up all this sea:" ad it makes a great bluster; but it does not. succeed. Part ofthe sea is rouised up.-perliaps one-half of it, or one-fourth of it. After a whle the calm moon, placid and beautiful. looks down. and the occean begins to rise. It comes up to high-water mark. It embraces the great headlands. It subnerges the beaches of all the continents. It is the heart-throb ot one world against the heart-throb of another world. And I have to tell you that while all your storms of ridicule and storms ofsarcasm may rouse up the passion of an mmnor tal nature, nothing less than the attrac tive power of Christian kindness can ever raise the deathless spirit to happi ness and to God. I have more faith inl the prayer of a child .5 yeais old, in the wav of bringing an infidel back to Christ and to heaven, than I have in all the his sing thunderbolts of ecclesiastical con troversy. You cannot overcome men with re ligious argumentation. If you come at 1 sceptical man with an argument on be half of the Christian religion. you put the man on his mettle. Ie says: "I sec that man has a carbine. I'll use my car bine. I'll answer his argument with nn argument." But if You come to thal man, persuading him that you desire hi happiness on earth, and his eternal wel fare in the world to come, lie cannot an swer it. What I have said is just as true in the reclamation of the openly vicious. Di( You ever know a drunkard to be savec through the caricature of a drunkard' Your mimicry of the staggering step, and the thick tongue, and the disgusting hiccough, only worse maddens his brain But if you come to him in kindness anc sympathy; if you show him that you ap preciate the awful grip of a depraved ap petite; if you persuade him of the fact that thousands who had the grappling hooks of evil inclination clutched in thei soul as firmly as in his have been de livered, then a ray of light will flasl across his vision, and it will seem as is supernatural hand were steadying hu staggerng gait. A good many years ago there lay it the streets a man dead drunk, his face exposed to the'blistering noonday sun. A Christian woman passed along, looke at him, and said: "Poor fellow." She took her handkerchief and spread it ovei his face, and passed on. The manrouset himself up from his debauch, and begar to look at the handkerchief, and, lo ! or it was the name of a highly respectablc Christian woman of the city. He weni to her, thanked her for her kindness; anc that one little deed saved him for thu life, and saved him for the life that is tc conic. He was afterwards attorney-genler al of the United States; but, higher that all, he became the consecrated disciple of Jesus Christ. Kind wvords are so cheap, it-is a wvon decr we do not use them aftener. There are tens of thousands of people who are dying for the lack of one kind word, 'There is a business man wvho has fough1 against trouble until he is perfectly ex hausted. H~e has been thmnking aboul forgery. about robbery, about suicide. Go to that busmecss man. Tell him that better tines are coming, and tell him that you yourself were in a tight busi ness pass, andI the Lord delivered you, Teil him to put his trust in God. Tell him that Jesus Christ stand beside every business man in his perplexities. Tell him of the swveet proniises of God's com forting grace. That man is dying for th4 lack of just one kind word. Go to-mor row and utter that one saving, omnipo) tent, kind word. Here is a soul that has been swamped in sin, H~e wants to fmat the light of the Gospel, Hie feels like shipwrecked mariner looking out ovei the beach, watching for a sail agains1 the sky. 0. bear down on him. Tel him that the Lord wait to be gracious t< him, and though lie has been a great sin nr, there is a great Savior provided, Tell him that though his sins are am scarlet, they shall be as snow, thongi: they are red like crimson, they shall b< as wool. That man is dying forever foi the lack of one kind word. There used to be sung at a great man: of the pi-mnos all through the countra a song that has almost died out. I wisl: somebody would start it again in out social circles. There may not have beer very exquisite art in the ~music, but thern was a grand and glorious sentiment : "Kind words never die, never die; Cherished and blessed." 0, that we might in our families ani in our churches try the force of kindness. You can never drive men, women o1 children into the kingdom of God. A March north-easter will bring out morn honeysuckles than fretfulness and scold ing wvill bring out Christian grace.] wIsh that in all our religious work we might be saturated with the spirit o kidess. Missing that, we miss a greal deal of usefulness. There is no need o coming out before men and thunderint to them the law unless at the same timi ou preach to them the Gospel. Do yor not know that this simple story of Savior's kindness is to redeem all na tions? Tile hard heart of this world'm obduracy is to be broken before thal story. There is in Antwerp, Belgium, one of the most remarkable pictures] ever saw. It is "Thme Descent of Christ from the Cross." It is one of Ruben': pictures. No man can stand and lool, at that "Descent from the Cross," am Rubens picturedh it, without having hi: eyes flooded with tears. if lie have an: sensibility at all. It is aii overmaster ag picture-one that stuns you, anm staggers you, andl haunts your dreams One afternoon a man stood in that ca thedial lookinz at Ruben's "Descetr from the Cross." IHe was all absorbet in that scene of a Savior's suffering: when the janitor came in and said: "I is time to close up) the cathedral for thi night. I wish von wvould depart." Th< plgrim looking at that "Descent fron the~Cross" turned aroundl to the janito and said: "No.. no; not yet. Wai until they get Ihim down.'. 0, it is the story of a Saviour's stiffer ing kindness that is to capture the world When the pones of that great Behemoth of iniquity which has trampledh all na tions shall be broken and shattered,i will be found out that the wyork wvas no done by the hammer of the iconoclast or by the sword of the conqueror. or b)2 the torch of persecution,. but by the plain simple, overwhhninig force of "tihe sot tongue that breaketh the bone." Audi now 1 ask the blessing of God t< come down uplon you in imatters U healthl, in matters of business; that tih Lord will deliver you from your iinan ial perplexities; that ie will give yoi a goodl livelihood, large salaries, health ful wages, suflicient income. I pra: God that lie may give yo thme oppor tunitv of educating your chiildr'en for thi; worlid, and, through the rich grace of ou rd Jesus Christ of' sein them p-e pared for the world that is to come. Above all, I look for the mercy of God upon your immortal souls; and lest I stand before some who have not yet at tended to the things of their eternal interest, in this, the closing part of my discourse. I implore them here and now to seek after God and be at peace with him. 0, we want to be gathered to -ether at last in the bright and blesSed assemblae of the skies, our work all done, our sorrows all euded. God bless you, and your children, and vour child ren's children. And now I commend you to God and to the word of Ihis grace vhich is able to build you up. an( give you in inheritance among all them that are sanctinled. DROWNING OF SEVENTY-SIX MEN. Horrible Scenes at the Sinkina of the Oneida in Alas'sau Waters. SAN FRANcIsco, Cal.. August 28. The first detailed story ofthe loss of the ship Oneida and the drowning of seventy six Chinese in Cook's iulet. Alaska. are given by John Ericsson. one of the crew of the wrecked vessel, who arrived in thrs city on the schoone; Campier last night. "We sailed from here," said he, *"March 28. On April 23 a fog came down, and about nine o'clock at night. when we thought we were well out from land. the shock came. "The water was liowing into the ship at a furious rate and the order was given to get out the boats. The scene that followed that order was sirnply terrible. Two hundred Chinese ishcrmen, who were in the hold, came swarming up on deck, and it was as it the imps of hell were let loose. They cursed and swor and cried and kicked and charged or the boats, and had to be driven off the deck by the crew. Some ran up into th< riging, then down to the deck again. They attempted to take possession of the boats which by this time were man ned. "It was necessary to push out from the side of the ship. To attempt to hold them in check was impossible. They were like demons. 1any of them leap ed into the water and were drowned. None of the white men were lost. "Twenty minutes after we struck there was nothing to be seen on the ship. She landed fairly on top of the rock and was broken in two. As the ship was settling three dories were washed out of the davits. There was a scramble for them by the panic stricken Chinese, but only four of them got into the boats. "It was terrible to listen to the wails of the doomed creatures. We could give thcm no help. A number of them were c-.tught like rats in a cage and went to the bottom on the Oneida. Thirty min utes after the ship struck we were all in the boats, and not a sound could be heard except the oars in the row locks. We reached land safely, and when day broke we went out to see if we could find any survivors. We found twelve Chinamen floating on the wheelhouse two days later. "Three of the Chinese had managed to reach the rock, but these were not found until seven days later, and two of them in the meantime had perished from ex posure. The third had found a keg of spirits and had kept himself alive on its contents." How it Equalizes. The title of the tariff bill now under discussion in the Senate is "to reduce the revenue and equalize duties on imports, and for other purposes." Iow it equal izes duties a few citations will sho0w. On the ordinary cotton or Ilax laces used by the trim millions of our pretty gils, whlo have more good looks than money. the duty is increased from 30 to 40 per cent., whereas silk laces, which only Miss Flora McFlimsey can afford, are raised but 10 per cent. The $300 shotgun with which Miss Flora's brother bowls over a woodock pays from 3S to 45 per cent duty while the cheap German gun, "sold to farmer boys who cannot aff'ord to buy a high-pric ed gun," pays from 70 to 100 per cent An ordinary dress goods for women and children, as. say, a black brilliantine pays 92} per cent., while silks and satins are put at 68. Tile Sultan of Turkey makes his supjects pay only 8 per cent. on the brilliantine, but our Republean Congress charges 97k, anld then wants to gag the Democratic Senators whlo expose and inveighl against the wrong. ILn linens the bell's gossamer handker chief remains at 35 per oent., but thie farmer's brown drill used tor summer clothing is screwed up from 35 to 63 and his crash towel from 35 to 70. Our friends will not even let him wipe the sweat from his brow short of 100 per cent. Is it strange that there is a Re publican revolt at the West against this form of "equalization?" Suicide of a M1inister. UNIoN POINT, Ga.. Aug. 25.-Rev. W'. A. Overton, Baptist ministorat this place, committed suicide this morning at his country home near here. A full charge from a shot gun emptied into his neck and head, ended hlis life instantly. Mr. Ovrerton was about sixty years of age and had been looked upon as a man of the highest christian character. Some two weeks since he was conducting a protracted meeting at Siloam, near Greensboro. When the meeting had been in progress a few days it was whispered that Mr. Overton hlad taken improper liberties with a young lady prominent in the community. The older members of the congregation requested Mr. Overton to discontinue the meeting which he did. The affair was talked of from hlouse to honse and for several days he -appeared alternately lively and despondent until this morning, when the end came. An Author of Fietion. A "blood and thunder" story-writer says: "I am running three stories in serial form at present. In tile last chlap ters thlat were published I left my first hlero suspended over the brow of a preci pice, with the villhrin just cutting the rope: my second hero had just been dropped into thle Atlantic and a monster shark is within ten vards of him, andi my third hero was fallinig from at balloon. Now, bef'ore next Saturday comes round. I hlave to rescue all three of thlese fellows from their repective predicaments andl leave thenm again in still more terrible straits. And yet this doesn't cotint as art. Wily, the work is hard enoughl to bankrupt any dlozen ordinary imagin ations." Beats ils Wire to Death. MACON, GA., Aug. 27.-A crime of peculiar atrocity is reported fromi Chatta hoochee county'. Mrs. Cook, wife of a wvell-to-do farmer. died last .week. She had been in delicate health f'or a long time, b~ut suspicion arose that hecr death w'as not the result ot purely nlatuiral causes. The body was exhtunmed and an autopsy made, and an inquest held, re sulting in a verdict that Mrs. Cook had been beaten to death by her hlusband, Ihenry Cook. It appears that the in htumanu hlusband brutal~y wthipped is -wife while shie wvas ill, causing her death. There are fears of lyncing. A Cotton Convention. UATLANrA, GA, August 25.-The Convention of Gov'ernors of all the cot ton States has been called by (en Gor' 'don to meet in Atlanta onl Septemloer 10. The Convention w'as asked for by' tile Gecorgiat State Alliance in session here last week. Each Governor is to appoint six delegates, maI~kinlg seven representatives from each cotton State. -The Coniventioni will consider the mat ter of (direct trade with Liverpool; also questions relative to weighrlts. insurance, Ifreights and handling of cotton. THE TAR HEEL NEGROES. A REPUBLICAN UPRISING IN NORTH CAROLINA. The Colored D ody of the Party Objects to 1Having a White Head Any Longer-The Negroes Must have a Fair Share of the Offices or they Will not Cast the Votes. RAI.EnloC, N. . A ug. 2';.-- The Color ed State Coiveit ioni met here at noon to-day. all the districts being represented. The eleates were am1ong the ablest lie groes in the state. James II. Young called the Convention to order, and said that its purpose was neither child's play nor disruption of tile Republican party, but to make all men, from the President to the smallest oflice-holder, understand that the negroes demand the rights and privileges to which they are entitled, and from which scheming white Republicans have so long debarred them. The ne groes meet now as the real Republican party of North Carolina. and they will never get any recognition until they thus demand it. The purpose is not to draw the color line. White llepublicans did this some time ago. but the demand is plain that the negro must be recogniz ed in the distribution of patronage. Join S. Darev read the call for the Con vention. in which it is stated that for twenty-live years the negroes have voted wildly. E. E. Smiti. ex-minister to Liberia, who was turned out by Blaine. after he was promised continuance in olice. was made temporary chairman, and declared on taking the chair that this movement was the beginning of a great work-and the negroes had grievances which must be redressed. Calls were made for the Rev. Dr. J. C. Price, the most eloquent negro in the United States, who said that the Blair bill should have been passed, but the Re publican party is responsible for its de feat after it solemn pledges to aid ne groes educationally. Ile said there was special ned for tile establishment by Northern philanthrophists of a grand school of technology for negroes in the South. le took strong ground against tile negro exodus, particularly to more Southern States, asserting it was a great mistake. J. 11. Harris said it was a fact that the Republicanism of many white Republi cans was only office deep. John I. Williamson, one of the pro moters of the Convention, said that the self-respecting negroes intended to whip the white Republicans into reason and justice. or else kill the party, and that they will carry war into the State Repub lican Convention next Thursday. The negroes demand the removal of white office-holders who have betrayed them and ignored them, And measures will be inaugurated to remedy the evils which now burden the negroes. .John S. Leary, Independent Republi can candidate for Congress from the 3d district, said that unless the vlite Re publicans dealt fairly with the negroes the latter would not answer when called on. Charles Moore, Independent Republi can candidate for Congress from the 5th district, was made permanent secre tary. A call was made for Cheatham, the ne gro Congressman from the 2d district. Ex-Minister Smith made a speech bit terly opposing the call, and said lie did not want to hear Cheatham, who had opposed the Convention, and he positive lv refused to hear him. A lively scene followed, but finally Cheatham sp oke and attempted a defence of himself. It fell very flat and did him harm. [He said that President H arrison had made some abominable appointments, but that still his Administration was a great one and he called upon tihe Convention to endorse it. Republican Senators had planned and plotted tile defeat of tihe Blair bill, but he assured the Convention it wvould become law next session. There was a motion for Congressman Brewer to come forward and explain is action toward the negroes, but the Con vention ref used to entertain it, the chair man ruling that whlite men had no business in tile Convention, and that the explanation could be made at the ballot box next November. The Convention adopted resolutions wich, briefly summarized, reafli rn alle giance to the'Republican party and ask that the negro race receive proper recog nition in tile distribution of p~atronage, commend Harrison's administration on national questions, condemn self-ap pointed white bosses who get to Wash ington and nmake representations that the negroes, no mlatter whlether they are recognized or not, will support the Republican party, call for a comnmittee to go to Washinton to lay the grievances of tihe North Carolina negroes before the President, ask for the establishment of a negro schlool of techn~ology in tile South, endorse the Morrill educational bill, condemn the State election law, en dorse the plan of a Southlern exposition in some N~orth Carolina city by both races, and commend Senator Blair for his work for the Blair bill.-News and Courier. ___________ Texas Belleves in Mill1s. GALVESTON', August 27.-Tile De mocratic Convention at Temple, Texas, wich to-day unanimously renominated Roger Q. Mills to Congress, adopted tile following resolutions: Whereas, we. tile Democrats of tile 9th Congressional district, have watchled with the keenest interest the public acts of Roger Q. Mills. our Representative in Congress: Be it Resolved, That we. view with pride and satisfaction his great career in Congress as tile leader ot our party, and that we unp)ualifiedly en dorse his position on the tariff and on tile sub-treasury bill and his advocacy of the free coinlage of silver. Resolved, Thlat we are unqualiliedly opposed to any system which converts tile Government into a loan and broker age agent, and that we oppose the sys temn of the Government leuding money on any conmmodity whatsoever. whether United States bonds, silver, farm or~ oter products. A Drugazst's Fatal Error. MEMPHIs, TrENN., Aug. 2.-A Knoxville. Tennessee, special says: John P. Smith, the elevenl year old SOnl of State Superintendent of Public In structionl F.M. Smith. and a boy named Huthins, died yesterday form a (lose of morphile. Three other chlildrenl of Smith who hlad fortunately taken another dlose wvere mlade sick by the same dirug whiceh was adininistereti for- cold in mistake for. quinne. The mlistake~ was made by a drugist ill lilling theC bottle. The A lliance 11111. WasintNG'roX, Aug. 21.-The bill in todcd to-day by Senlator Blair. upon01 the request of the Farmers' Alliance, provies for batnks for the recepotion of mo~rtaga'ges on real estalte. Th'ie de p~osits of tirst mlor-tgages oni real plroperty must be madlte b~y such banks with th~e trcasurer of thle Cutltetd States, who shall issue to the baniks United Stattes treasul rv nlotes of tiuierenit (dnlomllitions to) tle amnount of1 the mlorignizes dieposited. Two (iues4ts ionstouedl. Suxun;a- ONT., Aug. 25-Queens hot, together with Its contlents, wals ~ured this moringl'. TIhe guests, of w vhiom there was a large numbler, had great diuliculty in escaping. TIwo mni, 1bos. Powers anld Herbert. Taylor. the latter it is said belonging to Ottawa. were burned to death. and two others were sixty lHonw 4ieSs Famuilies. N-W O~ rEANSs. Aug. 2.-A TimeIs Deorat l Paso. Tex.. special says b ~etween thtirty-ie and f10 orty houses were washed awayv 1at evtening! in .Jaurz and sixty families renderedi homeless by a cloudhburst. Two per A QUIET VICTORY FOR QUAY. rhe Conference Agrees. to let the Force Bill go Over. WASmINGTox, AuguSt 21.-The fail tire of the Senate this morning to re sume the debate of 'yesterday on the Quay resolution was a great surprise not only to the public ge.ierally, but to many Senators. Senator Quay, when questioned as to the cauiste of the pos; ponement, would only .ay: -Some of our friends thought it best riot tc take it up to-day. I. shall, however. call it up to-morrow." Senator Manderson said it was felt t.> he bet if there was any ighting to be done aiong the RIpuibli cans to do it in ,rivate and not in public. "That means a caucus, then ?" was suggested. "Not necessarily," he responded, "but a conference may be held." Immediately atter the tariff bill was taken uip n a Senator Coke begrim read ing his sp(:ech the Republican Sena tors deserted their seats an(l gathered in knots to discuss the situation. What, if anything, will he (lone is a matter of mere coijecttre, but it is evident that earnest efforts are being made to agree on an order of business that can be supported by the whole Republican vote. Every Republican Senator now in the city was represented at the confer ence held this evening at the residence of Senator 'McMillan, either in person or by proxy. Among those present were Senators Alli on, Aldrich, Allen, Hawley, Platt. Iale. Fre, Bhlair, Hoar, Dawes, Dixon. Evarts, Iliscock, Quay, lig gins, Stockbridge, Cullom, Spooner, Sawyer, Washbu rne. Davis. Moody. Plumb. Dolph, Mitchell, Squires, Pad dock. Manderson and Wilson of Iowa. More than two hours were spent in an exchange of views, there being, in the language of one of the Senators, as many plans proposed for the settlement of the difliculties confronting the Re publican majority as there were Sena tors present. The friends of the elec tion bill, of course, presented the claims of that measure for consideration and action at this session of Congress. The proposition that was made by Senator Teller some time ago to take up the bill and discuss it for a time, and then lay it aside until next session, met with some favor. Senator Moody made a speech advocating the adoption of the previous question rule, which was re ceived with applause. After the presentation of the various views, the duty of arranging an order of business to be substituted for the Quay resolution and other pending propositions was assigned to a com mittee with Senator Hoar as chairman, and comprising in its membership Sen ators Allison, Spooner and Hale. This committee, it is understood, will pre pare a resolution, if possible, by to morrow morning, to be offered in place of the Quay resolution. The order, it is said, is to include a vote on the tariff bill and upon certain other measures named in the Quay resolution. The election bill will go over until the next session, and will be the first measure to be considered when Congress meets. Virginia Farmers Meet. LYxcurnot, Va., Aug. 19.-The Vir ginia State Farmers' Alliance met in convention here to-day, and every coun ty in the State was represented but one. In calling the session to order President Barbee said: "When I first assumed my present position, so far from receiv ing kind words of encouragement I stood almost solitary and alone in the main tenance of the fact as to what would be the final issue of our struggle in this blessed old commonwealth. Farmers were distrustful. and they stood aloof from any organization. But false pro phets are all dead. Your Alliance has done the work. We come together, not as a political assembly. but to strike off the shackles of party ties and better our condition. Wedo ntot prop)ose to bur den ourselves with candidates for otlice simply because they are members of our order. My brethern, lift the curtain for a moment and gaze upon the panorama of milnions of once happy homes render ed destitute of husbands; wives and children rendered helpless and homeless by hostile legislation and burdensome taxes! Bring forward a platform that wil show to the powers at Washington that you intend to have legislation that shall give justice to the farmer and the laboring man." A lig Stike in Chicago. CHICAGO, August 22.-All the fire men and engineers employed b~y the Un ion Stock Yards Switchin: Association went on a strike for hiher wages this mornintr. At noon forty cng~nes, each having'two men. were lying idle at the 47th street yard. [ni consequence of the strike one hundred and twenty switchmen are also idle. The switching or transfer system is the largest in the country, as thec association does all the work for the immense packing houses at the yards. Consequently all work at the packing houses is at a stand. The tracks meat are filled with immense trains of fresh which were for outside ploints. The reasons for the strike are: The firemen receivd 16.1 cents an hour, engineers 28 cents. and the firemen want 20 cents and the engmncecrs 30 cents. The men also desire Sunday wvork regulated. Demands were made this morning to G. T. Williams, secretary and treasurer of the Stock Yards Company. The men refused his request to go to work until their demand could be considered. and struck at once. A Filiar of Fire by Night. SE AT T LE, Wash., August 27.-Pass engers cn the steamer Arago contirm the report tint Mount Bogosloy, Alaska. is in a state of eruption. The steamer left Ounalaska July 3, and at that time large volumes of steam and smoke could be seen issuing from the volcano, while at night a pillar of fire thousands ot feet in height were discernible for miles. Bogos lay has been in a state of active eruption ever since. The sight is a grandl one and mainers hope the actevity wlll con tinue, as it serves as a lighthouse in guid ing vessels through Ouanak Pass Steam and smoke have been seen to issue from the crater and lire and lava were daily expected to be seen issuing rom its mouuth. shot by Iher Father. IIAZARDS)VILLE, Pa., Augr. 23-Ma mie Hogan, aged 20. is dying at her home here Irom a pistol shot wound at the hniadls of her fatther intlieted between 2 and :3 o'clock yesterday morning. The yonglady had clandestinely le:t her b~ed room after her parents had retiredl for the night. and went to a ball wvith a votng nman wvith whom she had been forbidden to keel) comlpany. She had rturned~ home after 20o'clock and attemp ted to enter the house without bcoing heard. I1er father awoke. however. and mistaking her for a buLrglar. fired on her with fatal ressult. The father is frenzied with grief over the tragedy. No blame whantcrsr is attachedl to the piaret by the neighbors. BLaldoing a Gran d .Jury. LorisvILLE. August 27.-A letter from I lnzard, Ky.. where Court is im ses sOin uinier theC protection of troops dhatedl August 25. says: 1Twen' y-thee nmen en agede' in the Fr nencht-Ev~'ersole fe-ud have bceii indictedl for mrder to annecesso)ries. ain many (of them have been arrested. The girand jury were reluctant to bring i indictmenlts. but were calledl up in Court by the prosecuting attorney. who told thiem they must do their duty, or he would disecharge them and call another ,jury. .Judg~e lhley adlded to this state ment that if they sought to prtect lawv breakers. he wvould refuse to sign their warrants 10I0 Pay. lelgium has a wise law whlich our cities would do well tou copy. Any mniu who is found dirunlk on tihe streets is compelled to sweep time streets for twvo THE FARMERS A POWER. ATTITUDE OF THE ALLIANCE IN TEN NESSEE AND OTHER STATES. Tennessee F:Irner4 Thoroughly Organized -The Alliance Doin: No Direct Work in the Political ieldTIe Alliance in A rkansas and Louisiana. NiW On:E.ms. August 20.--politi clns throughout the South and West have been much disturbed this summer by a new factor that has entered the pidi~t-il tied. This is the Farmers' Al lialle. While the alliance is all power full ii the surrounding States it is rela tively weak in Louisiana. There are two reasons for this: First, Louisiana has a large urban population: second, the large planters, both in the cotton and su gar districts. are not, as a rule, members of the organization. The melbership is confiied principally to the hill parishes of the State. 'There the alliance is very strong. and is able to make and unmake candidates. It is doubtful, however, if it is an absolute majority in a single Congressional dis trict in the State A year ago the roll of the various lodges in the State aggregated a mem bership of thirty thousand. A promi nent member of the organization says the alliance membership now numbers about thirtv-five thcusand. It is a mat ter of mueli doubt, however, if the alli ance leaders can rely upon the members of the order to furnish anything like such a itumber of votes in a political contest. The leaders and rank and file of the or der are Democrats and therefore could do that party serious harm if they should set up a political organization of their own, but it will be seen how im practicable would be an effort to con trol the Democratic party in the State when it is remembered that there are nearly forty thousand Democratic voters in the city of New Orleans alone who are nearly all opposed to the sub Treasury scheme. A candidate for Congress in either of the city districts who would go before the people on the sub-Treasury platform could not com mand a corporal's guard of votes, In talking over the situation with one of the alliance leaders he informed me that the sub-Treasury bill is no longer the matter of greatest interest to the alliance in the State. In fact, he said, it is now a side issue. The lottery ques tion is now predominant and the alli ance proposes to make the fight warm on that issue. It is opposedto a rechar ter of the Loeisiana Lottery Company and will work to defeat it or any one who favors the recharter. Messrs. Blanchard, Boatner and Robertson are on record as opposing the recharter. The Situation In Arkansas. LITTLE ROCK, August 20.-The Far mers' Movement in this State has been growing in volume for the past five year. Beginning with what was and is yet known as the Wheel, it has extended to every County in Arkansas, appearing in some localities as the Farmers' Union and in others as the alliance. The aim of each organization, however, was sim ilar-namely, to redress the grievances of the laboring masses. In the two last sessions of the State Legislature were many members elected by the Wheelers on a distinct Wheel platform which em bodied these grievances in detail. The growth of the Wheel has been steady, and the importance of the organization as an industrial and political factor is beginning to be felt. The effort to in duce the members to contest for supre macy in State politics has so far been unsuccessful. but unless there is a change pretty sooni it is generally coiiceded that the chance of the farmers capturing the State officers is no remote contingency. An important meeting was held at this place July 24. The object of the gathering was to effect a consolidation of the Farmers' Alliance and Laborers Union. Representative members of the tw bodies were in attendance and the session continued two or three days. The propriety of a union of the two organi zations, with a view of promoting and strengthing the interests of the laboring masses, was discussed at length, and the result was that a consolidation was ef fected under the title of the Farmers Alliance and Industrial Union of Arkan sas. The result of the consolidation will shortly be seen in State politics, and pol iticianis are not slow to say that the out look for a continuation of the present order of things. so far as concerns the management of the State affairs, is not altogether encouraging. Since the Convention adjournuded the farmers' movement lhas shown signs of unusual activity. A thorough and sys tematic organization is in progress all over the State. including every County embraced in the five Congressional dis tricts. The alliance has State and dis trict organizers, and these are hard at work. In addition to these there are regular officers. These officers are gen erally well known farmers and planters andl have been selected from all parts of the State, evidently with a view of giv ing each section representation. The stfength of the combination effected on July 24th, together with that of the Wheel, is roughly estimated at 80,000. While these figures may underestimate or overrate the actual voting power of the Arkansas farmers' combination, they at least illustrate the growth of the movement and show but too clearly the factor in politics it would prove should it turn in that direction. Already in many Counties candidates are running for the Legislature on the farmers' or alliance platformn, and at this time it looks as if the incoming Legislature would be composed of quite a number of members who owe allegi ace to that principle rather than to either the Democratic or Republican parties. Two years ago the Democratic candidate for Governor polled 99,229 votes andl the union labor candidate, who was supported by the Republicans, 84,223 votes. Allowing the alliance the number of votes claimed by some of its members, viz: 80,000; it may be reatdily perceived that the advent of the alliance itself into the political arena of the State would cause a revolution of no mean propotionis. ______ THE Barnwell People says: "The white military companies of the State have very generally endorsed the can didacy of Gen. 31. L. Bonham. Jr., for renoninatioii and re-election as Ad jutant General. They know him and want no change in their commander in chief. Those who wear the uniform of the State are hotter judges of the quali lications of leadership than the politi cians whose lives go in more peaceful directions. We hope thlat the Septem ber convention will ratify the volunteer primary election already held by the citizen soldiery. Gen. Bonham .has nroen himself 'every inch a man, a soldier without fear and without re proach.' and lie is too young, too good and too gallant to be sent to the rear." Celibacy Renounced ina Ceil. Asu[taND, Wis., August 19.-Wil lam Phillips, a wvell-to-do bacl elor. anti Alice Fisher, his housekeeper. wvere arrestedl late Saturday night charged with livag together illegally as man and wife. They solved the difliculty by callhng in a .Justice of the Peace. andl in a cell in the city jil at muidmueht oni Sunday they took the lmrriage vows. An Awful Crime. The Birmingham Femonn News says that 3M. 1-. Smith, formerly of Birming hamu. but until recenitly an employee of the Louisville and Nashville shops at Decatur. is ini jail at the latter place on a serous chuarige. It is Bleged thaut lie tried to drown'his wife by throwing her into a plondh. ~in order to get $5.000 inurulce on her life. Tir:Georgia Alliance at its late State Convention swvore ete-rnal enminity agaist jute bagging by repledging tile Alinee to the resolution adopted at the laist anlnual convention relative to otton bagging. ACROBAT HANLON PLUNGES HEAD FOREMOST SIXTY-FIVE FEET. An Exciting Scene in the Academy of Music, Every One Thought the Man Was Killed, But it Turned Out that His Injuries Were Slight. %EW YORIK, August 22.-Ifalf the au dience were driven out of the Acadamy of Music by an accident to Gymnast William Hanlon that missed being fatal by a hair's breadth. It was the open ing night of the season and the Hanlon Volter and Martinetti pantomime and specialty company had drawn a crowd ed house. People were standing every where. The three lanlon's appeared in the last half of the first part of the programnie. Robert and James Hanlon were doing leaps and somersaults from two Ilying trapezes in the ceiling of the vast theatre. William Hanlon was on a horizontal bar in the center of the vaulted ceiling. The trapezists had just finished their part and William Hanlon was doing the forward "giant swing" on the bar-that is, his body swung rapidly in a circle, just as a spoke does in a revolving wheel. His hands and the bar were the hub and axle of the wheel. The bar was suspended from four stiff wire guys. Hanion's body had swung around four times and had just begun the fifth revolution when the bar fell at one end. The guys had given way that held up the North end and dropped that end of the bar three feet. Then somethig stopped it. Ianlon was whipped off by the shock. His body doubled up as he flew through the air. Ills legs struck the edge of the safety net forty feet be low, and plunged head foremost into the audience with the volocity of a cannon ball. The crash of his fall could be heard outside of the theatre. Hanlon struck the chair, "N 6,"in the orchestra with the left side of his head. The iron chair-back was smashed off and into fragments by the fall. The next seat, ."N 5." was also broken. Vil liam Fearing Gill and his wife had oc cupied them, but had barely beer able to leap out of danger as the --robat came lunging down. Presiden. John B. Day, had occupied "N 6" earlier in the evening. The groan that went up from the spectators was awful. Everybody thought Hanlon was dead. A little boy was the first to help him. "Lift up my head," said thegymnast. le was cut and bleeding. The boy lifted his head and IHanlon immediately fainted. Two ushers carried him to the ladies," reception room in the lobby. The spectators stood up and shouted, and for a moment there was every in dication of a panic, as the bleeding man was carried out. Men yelled like wild animals, and many women fainted. In a few moments Manager Harris ap peared before the footlights and an nounced that Hanlon had received only a scalp wound. Everybody cheered frantically. The injured man heard them where he lay and said: "le's made a hit, hasn't he!" A New York Hospital ambulance arrived within five minutes. Drs. Gray and Hallock dressed Hanlon's head. They found only a scalp wound and some bodily contusions. le had struck the chair-back a glancing below. That saved his life. Had the contact been an inch nearer the middle of his skull thechair back would have cleaved it like an axe. The edge of the safety net had brokin the gy inast's fall very little. The utmost confusion overspread the audience. Everybody was talking at once, The orchestra tried to play. but the people hissed them down. When Manager IHarris announced that Ilanlon wasn't much hurt, he said the other brothers were willing to go on with the aerial act. "No," roared the audience. Af ter a wait otf ten minutes the Martinetti's came on with their comedy pantomime. "A Terrible Night." A great many people had left the theatre. One of the three Hanlon's while wait ing for a chance to see his brother at the New York hospital, said to a World re porter: "This is the first accident we have had in a career of twenty-five years. We have always been extremely careful. The safety net was as big as the law demands, but the fact that only one end of the bar fell caused William to be swung far outside of the net, broad as it was. William's accident is the first we have had since I broke my little finger a dozen years ago. A Itunaway Train. DEN VER, August 22.--Three men were killed and three injarcd by the run ning wild of a stone train in the vicinity of Lyons. Col, tis morning. The train -was on a down grade, and without ap parent reason. the engineer found lie hlad lost control, whereupon the whole train started on a wild run (down the mountain. When the engineer found he could not control his engine he jumpedl andl was killed. The firemen then climbed back and at tempted to uncouple the engine, but wvas unsuccessful and sustamned serious injury in jumping. Both brakemen jumped. one bemng instantly killed and the other sustained injuries from which he can not recover. Tile train continued on its wild career until tile dump was reached, when all tihe cars went'over and piled up in a promiscuous mass of ruins. The names of tile killed were E. Norton. engin eer, - Ferguson, car repairer, Wi. Gurken. car repairer. Injured: Jas Consigne, conductor, J. B. Strayer, brakeman. Jas Miller. fireman. A Tough Story. MINNEAPOLIs, August 24.-A Tri bune special from Livingston, Mount says: A man, who gave nis name as Ar lington, repots to Sheriff Templeton that a rancher named Quinn. living twelve miles west of Livingston, had killed his wife and five children with a broad axe. The man was crazy and when discovered was sitting in a corner of the room eating from an arm of one of the children. The bodies of all were horribly mutilated, the arms and legs being served from the bodies. Thle oldest girl, aborut 15, was cut ailmost in two. Several men went to the house and tried to capture Quinn, but he would allow no one to approach him and was kilbe by one of the men inl self-defence. Hung For Arson. DANVILLE, VA., August 22.-In Oc tober last a wvarehouse at Rocky Mount, Franklin County, wvas tired by incendia ries andl burned to the ground, together with several other buildings. There was strong reason to believe that the building was tired by negroes because the owners refused to allow General Ma hone to speak therein andl afterwards all Wed a Djemocratic speaker to occupy it. Pour negroes, George Early. Byrd Woods, William Brown and Naiinne Woods were arrested on suspicion tried andl conlvicted and sentenced to be hanged. George Early and Byrd Woods will be executed at Rocky Munt to-day and the others will be ex ecuted September 19th. A Cowardly Shot. DETROIT, Mich., Aug. 21.-Fred .J. Crinnins, assistant editor of the Even ing Sun, was fatally shot by Anthony Mahilan anl Italian fruit veinder, at the corner of Randlolp~h anid Croganl streets. last evening. The Italiani accused Crimms of' taking onle more plum than ie paid for. Crimnmins laughlmzly de niedl the imp~utationl, when tihe Italianl. w itout wvarmlng. pla'edl a revolver within four inehes of Crimmnins' lef't groin and( fired. Sudden Death. WAsumicorroN. August 25.-Repre sentatve Lewis F. Watsomn of Peunsvl vania, (lied very su~ddenlly this monig i this city. lie was about to enter a c arriage at theShoreham Iotel to drive to tle capitol about 11 o'clock. when lie was suddenly overcome b~y an attack of heart disease andI died soon after being carrierl into the hotel. QUEER WORK OF LAW. Ak CURIOUS LEGAL DISCOVERY MADE IN TEXAS. The Execution of Two Murderers In Texas Delayed By the United Stateri Supreme Court Under Circumstances Never Heard of Before. WAsIN(TON, August 29-Lawyers sometiies need to be re;minde-d that Congr'ss il wiys at work making changes in tli- law, and that the statu tes at large need to be read by those who expect to walk in the procession. The Clerk of the Supreme Court was to-lay s:rprised by the request of a lawyer to-docket a case under circum stances unlike any that had ever come to his notice. James Leeper and Ed ward Powell werein, January last, con victed in the Circuit Court of Coryell County, Texas. of murder. The case was appealed to the Court of Appeals, the highest court having jurisdiction in criminal cases, and the iudgment of the lower court was atlirmed. Mr. G. P. M. Turner of Memphis was retained for the convicted men and he secured a rehearing of the case, argued it, and the adverse decision was realfirmed. Judge Hurt, one of the three Judges, dissent ed. Mr. Turner asked for an opportunity to retry the case, but his request was overruled. Ile tnen petitioned for a writ of error through the U nited States Circuit Court of the Western District, presenting several grounds for the writ, but relying principally upon a law of which none of the ,Judges ap peared to have any knowledge until he directed their attention to it. The statutes at large of the United States for the second session of the Fiftieth Congress, Chapter 113, carry an Act "To abolish Circuit Court powers of certain District Courts of the United States, and provide for writs of error in capital cases and for other purposes." It establishes courts in Arkansas, Mis sissippi, and South Carolina, and, after providing for the terms of the courts and the officers necessary to run them, it sets forth the following section : "Section 6. That hereafter, in all cases of conviction of crime, the pun ishment of which provided by law is death, tried before any court of the Uaited States, the final judgment of su.ch court against the respondent shall, upon the application of the respond ent, be re-examined, reversed, or affirm ed by the Supreme Court of the United States, upon a writ of error, undersuch rules and regulations as said court may prescribe. Every such writ of error shall be allowed as of right and with ou, the requirement of any security for the prosecution of the same or for costs. Upon the allowance of every such writ of error it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the court to which the writ of error shall be directed to forth with transmit to the Clerk of the Su preme Court of the United States a cer titled transcript of the record in such case, and it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Supreme Court of the United States to receive, file, and do:ket the same. "Every such writ of error shall, dur ing its pendency, operate as a stay of proceedings upon the judgment in re spect of which it is sued out. Any su:h writ of error may be filed and docketed in said Supreme Court at any time in a term held prior to the term named in the citation, as well as at the term so named; and all such writ or er or shall be advanced to a speedy hear ing upon motion of either party. When any such judgment shall be either re versed or allirmed the cause shall be re m:mnded to the court from wvhence it came for fu-ther proceeding, in accord anee with the decision of the Supreme Court, and the counrt to which cause is so remanded shall have piower to cause such jurnent of the Supreme Court to be carried into execut ion. No such writ of error shall be sued oat or grant ed unless a petition therefor shall be lile~d with the clerk of the court in which thme trial shall ha;ve been had, diring the same time or within such time, not exceeding sixty days, next after the expiration of the term of the court at which the trial shall have been haas the court may for cause show by ordjer '-urtred on record." 'When Mr. Trurner produced his au thuoritv to the Texas .Judges they didi not retlect long before they granted him the w'rit, and to-day he presented himself at the oflice of the Supreme Court to demand that the case be dccketed. The clerk hadl never heard of the law, but he soon saw that there wams no0 doubt about it and complied with the demand. The statute will make it a great deal easier to get capi tal cases into the Supreme Court, and it is altogether probable that the op portunity will be seized by the counsel of many criminals. PIGEON FLYING. Mr'. TwininigM Bird .John S. Returns Home from a Lonz Journey. P'uIL.DErALA, Pa., August 27.-E. W. 'Twining, of Yardley, reports John S. at home from the start in Greer's, S.C. 535 miles. last Wednesday, and although not reported until yesterday he has rea son to believe that it made better time than Eddie H., which bird holds first honors for the journey and for fifteen miles greater distance. Mr. T wining's residence and loft is at Yardley, but his business is at his quar ries, some fifteen miles beyond. The bird inistead of stopping at its home went on to the quarries and into the chicken coop, where it was captured and held prisoner until yesterday, when Mr. Twin ing went to look at it, not expecting to find it his own, and liberated it to fly home, where lie found it upon his re turn. The bird was caught at about 3 o'clock the afternoon following the start. The distance to the quarries from the place of liberating is about 550) miles. The birds now out for this start are Wal ter N. and D~aisy S. Mfr. Twining has had nine birds liberated in Greer's, and has all but three at home. One, Torch light. is still in Greer's. The bird Dusky, owned by Fred Bow ers, of F'all River, Mass., was liberated at Albert Lea, Minn, yesteaday morning at ii oclock. The distance, air line, to its home is about 1,125 miles. The bird's last journey ;was from Owasso, Mich., when it covered the 670 miles, arriving at home the third day. The recordto be beaten is for distance by a pigeoin, now held by Alabama. belonging to Samuel Ihunt, of Fall River, for the journey from Montgomery, Ala., 1,050 miles.-. 'ime out. 1 d cays. Tlwenty-seven birds hatched this year, and the property of Theodore P. Green, of Woodbury, were sent to the 315 miles station yesterday, for liberating on the irst favorable morning. In this fly the birds will have about 125 miles of new contry to co~ver. in the previous jour ney they had is miles. Only four young sters have been lost to tihis loft this Furthecr returns to the Helleviewv lofts fromi the start from two hundred miles last Sunday are Harry F.. Annie Rtooney and MeG Uity to L. A. Mehler, and reg istered i640 to Mr'. Janmes Skelton. Black ess. credited to Mr. MIather. upon its return Sunday belongs to the Skelton loft. T1wo birds from this start, owned by (eorge' S. Fell and one by Wm. dam, are the guest of H. B. Smith, of Washington. D). C. Both were very Johh c~aden. f the Virtue Club, reports heliboy at home from start in Orange th~e 16ith instant, and that the bird was detained in Baltimore. This gives the club nine of its entry of twen ty at home. THE ol-tuiue Ripubbeanii leaders in the Senaite. says the World. did not ob ject to Mr. Qua;y's leadership when he was buying the erection for their can