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RELIGION FOR BUSYM A LESSON DRAWN FROM DANIEL IN THE LION'S DEN. Dr. Talmage Shows That the More Work You Have to Do the More Need You Have for Christ~anity-Ged and the Ballot Box. WACO, TEx.. Aug. 31.-Dr. Talm:ige to-day delivered the following discourse on the text: "Then the kin command ed, and they brought Daniel and cast him into the den of lions." Daniel vi, 16. Darms was king of Babylon. and the young man Daniel was so much a favor ite with him that he made him prime minister, or secretary of state. But no man could gain such a high position without exciting the envy and jealousy of the people. There were demagogues in Babyivn who were so appreciative of their own abilities that they were affron ted at the elevation of this young man. Old Babylon was afraid of young Baby lon. Tle taller the cedar, the more apt it is to be riven by the lightnIng. These demagogues asked the kiu to make a decree that anybody that made a petition to any one except the king with in thirty days should be put to death. King Darits, not suspecting any foul play, makes that decree. The demago gues have accomplished all they want, because they know that no one can keep Daniel froni sending petitions before God for tiirty days. So far from being afraid. Daniel goes on with his supplications three times a day, and is found on his housetop making a prayer. He is caught in the act. le ts condemned to be devoured by the lions. Rough executioners of the law sieze him and hasten him to the cavern. I hear the growl ot the wild beast, and I see them pawmg the dust, and as they put their mouths to the ground the solid earth quakes with their bellowin. I see their eyes roll, and I almost hear the fiery eyeballs snap in the darkness. These monsters approach Daniel. They have an appetite keen with hunger. With one stroke of their paw or one snatch of their teeth. they may leave him dead. at the bottom of the cavern. But what a strange welcome Daniel receives from these hungry monsters. They fawn around him, they lick his hand, they -bury his feet in their long mane. That night he has calm sleep with his head pil lowed on the warm necks of the tamed lions. But not so well does Darius the king sleep. He loves Daniel, and hates this stratagem by which he has been con demned. All night long the king walks the floor. He cannot sleep. At the least sound he starts and his flesh creeps with horror. He is impatient for the dawning of the morning. At the first streak of daylight Darius hastens forth to see the fate of Daniel. The heavy palace doors open and clang shut long before the peo ple of the city waken. Darius goes to the den of lions; he looks in. All is silent. His heart stops. He feels that the very worst has happened, but gath ering all his strength he shouts through the rifts of the rock. "0, Daniel! is the God whom thou seryest contnually able to deliver thee?" There comes rolling ip from the deep darkness a voice which says: "0, king! live forever. My God has sent His angel to shut the lions' mouth, that they have not hurt me." Then Daniel is brought out from the den. The demagogues are hurled into it, and no sooner have they struck the bottom or the den than their dlesh was rent, and their bones cracked. and their blood spurted through the rifts of the rock, and as the lions make the rocks tremble with their roar, they announce to all ages that while God will defend His people, the way of the ungodly shall perish. Learn first from this subject that the greatest crime that yoa can commit in the eyes of many is the crime of success. What had Daniel done that lie should be flung to the lions? He got to be prime minister. They could not forgive hiu for that, and behold in that a touch of unsanctibed human nature as seen in all ages of the world. So long as you are pinched in poverty, so long as you are running the gauntlet between landlord and tax-gatherer, so long as you find it hard work to educate your children, there are people who will say. 'Poor man, I am sorry for him; lhe ought to *succeed, poor man!" But after a while the tide turns in your favor. That was a profitable investment you made. You bought at just the right time. Fortune becomes good humored and smiles upon you. Now you are ~being in some department successful. your success chills some one. Those men who used to sympathize with ycu stand along the street, and they scowl at you from under the rim of their hats. You have more money or more it'tluence than they have, and you ought to be scowled at from under the rim of their bats. You catch a word or two as you pass them by. "Stuck up," says one. "Got it dishonestly," says another. "Will burst soon." says a third. Every stone in your new house is laid on their nearts. Your horses' hoofs went over their nerves. Every item of your success has been to them an item of discomfiture and despair. Just as soon as in any respect you rise above your fellows, il you are more vir tuous, if you are more wise, it you are more influential, you cast a shadow on the prospect of others. The road to honor and success is within thle reach of the enemy's guns. Jealousy says: "Stay down or I'll knock yon qlown." "I do not like you," said the su?owliake to the snowbird. "Why don't you like mne?" said the snowbird. "O," said the snow flake, "you are going up and I am com ing down." Young merchants. young lawyers, young doctors, young mechan ics, young artists, young farmers, at certain times there were those to sympa thize with you, but now that you are be coming master of your particular occu pation or profession, how is it now. young lawyers. young doctors, young artists, young farmers-how is it now? The greatest crime that .you can commit is the crime of success. For the lack of that element of deci sion of character, so eminent in Danmel. many men are rined for this world, and ruined for the world to come. A great many at forty years of age are not set tled in any respect, because they have not been able to make up their mind. Perhaps they will go West. Perhaps they will go East. Perhaps they will not. Perhaps they will go North. Per haps they may go South. Perhaps they will not. Perhaps they may~ make that mnvestment mn real estate or in railroads. Perhaps they will not. They arc like a steamer that should go out of New York harbor, starting for Glasgrow, and the Snext day should change for Ilayre deC Grace, and the next for Charleston, and the next for Boston. and the next for Liverpool. These men On the sea oi life everlastingly tacking ship and mak lng no headway. Or they are like a man who starts to buil a house in the (Corin thian style and changes it to Dorie, and then completes it in the Ionic, and is cursed by adl styles of architecture. Younir man, start right and keep On. Ihave dec-ision of character. Chiaracter is like the goldhinch of' Tonquin; it is magnificent ~while standimg firm, bu: loses all its beatuty in ilighit. IHow much decision of character in order that these yonmen- mae hrisiains! Their old assoclates make sarcastic iinzs :t them. They o on excursions and the 1 do not invite thel. I hey l.roplhesy that I he will givC out. Tle wonder if he Is not gettin.g w'ine-. .\' he pas-ss. ! t1tima(c. Ind wIink. .mii11 (e111kiO. and -There goes a sint." 0 votni nt: i hav decision of cha acter. Tou can alord in1 this imnatter of religion to be laughed at. What do vou care ior the sofls of these nen. whor affro.tCd heCause You wil not go to ruin with them y When the rave craks open under their feet. ad grAi messen Qers push them into in, and eternity Colies, dowlvi hard up onPl tiheir spirit. and conscience simgs. and hopeless ruin lifts them up to hurl them down, will they laugh then? I learn also from iv subiect that men may take religion into their worhilv business. Daniel had enough wvork to do to occupy six men. All the aidhirs of state were in his hands-questions of iinance. (Iestions of war, of peace. all international questions were for his set tlement or ad justment. Ile must have had a correspondence vast beyond all computation. There is not a man in all the earth who had more to do than Dan ,el. the secretary of state, and yet we find him three times a day bowing be fore God in prayer. There are men in our day who have not a hundredth part of Daniels engapements. who say- that they are too busy to be religious. They have an idea soiehow that religion will spoil their worldly occupation; that it will trip the acconitait's pel, or dull the carpenter's saw. or confuse the lawyer's brief, or disarrange the merchant's store shelf. They think religion is impertinent. They would like to have it very well seaed beside theml in enurch on thie.-ab bath. to find the place in the psalm book, or to nudge them awake when they get sleepv under the didactic discourse; or they would like to leave t in the pew on Sabbath evening, as they go out closing the door, saying "Good nizht. religion; I' be back next Sunday !" Btit to havs religion go right along by them all through hfe. to have rehgion looking over their shoulder when they are mak ing a barzain. to have religion take up a bag of dishonest gold and shake it and say: "Ila ! ha ! where did youget that?" Tiey think that is an impertinent re ligion. They would like to have a re ligion to lielp them when they are sick. and when the shadow of death comes over them they would like to have re ligion as a sort o1 night-key with which to open the door of heaven; but religion under other circumstances they take to be an impertinence. -Now, my friends, religion never robbed a man of a dollar. Other things being equal. a mason will build a better wall, a cabinet-maker will make a better chair, a plumber will make a better pipe, a lawyer will make a bet ter plea, a merchant w'l, sell a better bill o goods. I say other things being equal. Of course 'when religion gives a man a new heart. it does uot propose to give him a new head, or to intellectualize him, or to change a man's condition when is ordinary state is an overthrow of the philosophical theory that a total vacuum is impossible: but the more letters you have to write. the more burdens you have to carry. Ihic more miles you have to travel. the more burdens You have to lift, the more engagements you haye to meet, the riore disputes you have to set tle. the more opportunity you have of being a Chsistian. If von have a thousund irons in the fire, yvou have a thousand more opp~or tunities of ser-ving God than if von had only one iron in the lire. Who so busy as Christ? And yet who a millionth part as holvy? The busiest men the best men. All~ the persons converted in Scripture b~usv at the time of their being converted. Matthew attending to his custom house duties; the Prodigal Son feeding swine; Lydia selling purple; Simon Peter hauling in the net from the sea; Saul spurring his horse toward Da inasens, going down on his law business. ]usy ! busy ! Daniel with all the affairs of state weighing down upon hus soul, and yet three times a day worshiping the God of heaven. Again: I learn from this subject that a man may take religion into his Volitics. Daniel had all the affairs of state on hand, yet a Christian. He could not have k'ept his elevated position unless he had ueen a thorou.:h politician; and et all the thrusts of oflicials and all the anger of disgrace did not make him yieldl one ioto of his high-toned religious principle, lie stood before that age, he stands before all ages, a specimen of a Christian polhtician. So there have been in our day and in the days of our fathers men as eminent in the service o1 God as they have been emient in the service of state. Such was Benjamin F. Butler, attorney-gen eral of Newv York in the time of your fathers. Such wvas John M~cLean of Ohio. Such was George Briggs of Mas sachusetts. Such was Theodore Frel inguysen ot New Jersey. Men faithful to thestate, at the same time faithful to God. It is absurd to expect that men who have been immersed in political wicked ness for thirty or foriy years shall come to reformation; and our hiope is in the young men who arc coming np, that they hve patriotic principle and~ Christian princip)le side by side wvhen they come to the ballot-hox and cast their first vote. and that they swear allegiance to the overnment of heaven its wvell as to the government of the United States. We would have Bunker Ihill mean less to them than Calvary, and Lexington.mean less to thiem than Bethlehem. But because there are badl men around the ballot box is no reason whyi Chris tian men should retreat from the arena. The Inst time von ought, to give up your child or forsake your child is when it is surrounded by a ~company of Choctawvs; and the ldst time to surrender the bal lot-box is when it is surrounded by im purity and dishonesty and~ all sorts of wickedness. Daniel stood on the most unp~opular platformi. lHe stood firmly. though the demagoguies of the day hissed at himi andl tried to overthrow him. We miust carry otur religion into our polities. JBut there are a great many men who are in favor of taking religion into natioiial poiticsw who do not see the importance of taking it into city polities; as though a man were intelligent about the welfare of hi eihborhood, and had no concern about his own home. Rleli'ion wotld (drive out all base per sonlities from politics. Yotu have a ight to discuss men's polities and do notnce their p'olitical sentiments, or re ccve them, as von will; but votu have no riht to ussail their private character, as is (dine evecry autumn. That is not car rying religiont into politics. Now you can alwvays tell withotut asking, in any contest. whuat caniildate I will vote for. It is always for the man who is most badered, and most abused, and most spit tupoli, and most howled at. You have a right to contest a man's political sentincts: you have no right ir base poitical puirposes to assali his private moral character. MyV subect also impresses me with the feet that lions caiinot hurt a good man. No man ever got info wvorse comn pany than Daniel got into whien lie was throwvn into the deni. What a rare mor sel that inir vouing man wouli have beeni fi r the hungry monsters ! If they had plniged at him hei could not have climob ed into a niche bevondi the reach of their pawv or the snatch of ther tooth. They cane pkasmed all around abouit hun, as a hunter's hounds at the wvell-known whistle conie hounding to hii feet. You need not go to Numidia to get tOr vot-the lion oi imianle'al diStress. .i xln of sickness. the lion of perseen _1 Y saw that lion of financial aiic Puttilr his mouth dowi to the aIrth: lie roared until all the banks I(nl all th insuiirance cIoipainies quaked. With lo nxotri, lie scattered the ashes u thlie omstic hearth. You haye had rial after tril, mifortunie after misfor i. ern axfter lion: and vet they never myexv hulr you :t ou p, your trust in Sod1, and they never will hurt you. They lid not hurt Daniel and they cannot lurt you. The Persians us-ed to think that spring ain falling into sea-shells would turn .nto pearls: and I I:ave to tell you that the tears of sorrow turn into precious ems when they drop into God's bottle. You need be a'raid of niothing. putting your trust in God. Even death, that i nonster lion whose den is the world's ;epulehre. and who puts his paws down un:d thousaid.s of mifllhols of the dead. :-annot aflfright you. When In olden times a man was to get he honors of knighthood. he was com pelled to go fully armed the night be tore, among the tombs of the dead. car rving a sort of spear, and then when the ay broke he would come forth, and, amnid the sound of cornet and great par ide. lie would get the honors of kight hood. And so it will be with the Chris tian in the night before heaven. as fully armed with spear and helmet of salva tion. he will wait and watch through the arkiiess until the morlng dawns, and then lie will take the honors of heaven amid that great throng with snowy robes, streaming over seas of sapphire. Fifty Thousand Dollars Burnt Up. IIiAVATI A.Kas., Sept. 3.-The worst Be ever known in this city broke out at I o'clock this morning in William Hor niear's livery stable and in less than three ours it had distroved two and a half blocks in the business centre of the city, causing a ioss of at least $150,000. The greatest loss was the First Na tional Bank building, owned by Con gressman Merrill. The vault, contain ing $50,000 in currency and many valua ble books and papers, gave way under the intense heat and its contents were entirely destroyed. For over two hours a furious wind from the North drove the fire South ward, but about 3 o'clock the wind died down. There is only one fire engine in the city, and should the wind rise again the whole of the business portion of the city will be wiped out. At 3 a. in. the fire was still raging. The fire engine had a small stream on the buildings near the Hatch block, but it is doubttul if this block can de saved. The destruct'ion so far includes the First National Bank building, the Odd Fellows' building and two of the best livery stables in the city. Three Women Burned to Death. PILADELPIA. Sept. 3.-By the ex plosion of a coal oil lamp early this morning at 1045 Gerniantown avenue, the house was set on fire and Mrs. Sarah McIntyre, 6o years old. Mamie McIntyre, 10 years old, and Annie Louge, 17 years old were burned to death. The two girls were the daughter and niece of the elder woman. Mrs. McIntyre had reached the street safely, but when she found that her niece and daughter were missing she darted back in to the build ing after them. When the flames were subdued all three bodies were found ly. ing together. The house had a number of other inmates but they all escaped without serious harm. Th~e fire is sup. posed to have been caused by Mrs. McIntyre's grandlson, who came home drunk and upset the lamp in his bed room, ie got out of the house s afety and is now under arrest. Wreck of a Catle Train. BA LTIORE, August 31.- A special dispatch to the Sun from Oakland, MId.. says that at Snowv Creek curve, seven miles wvest of Oakland, on tihe Baltimore and Ohio lRailroad, this aternoon. an east-bound freight train of twenty-font cars, filled with cattle. was being rushed through at a high rate of speed with two powerful engines, one in front and the other in the rear, when the front engine jumped the track and seventeen cars were wrecked and the cattle were scattered in every direction. The drovers and train hands escaped injury, except the fireman of the front engine. I Ie was killed instant ly. The Chicago express. west bound, which arrived at~Oakland about 6 o'clock, was dielayedl by t he wreck. The passen gers were provided for at the company's Oakland llIotel. The Effect of the Conger BilL MONTGOMERY, Ala.. Sept. 4.-MIr Ienry C. Butcher of Philadelphia, the president of the Southern Cotton Seed Oil Company. passed through the city last night on his way to New Orleans. In a c:onversation on the Conger lard bill, which hlas julst pass ed the IHouse of Representatives. MIr. Butcher said: "The passage of' the Coniger lard bill by the House of Representatives has placed the cotton seed oil industry of the South at a great disadvantage, anxd tihe situa tion ill this industry is now very em barrassing and the manufacturers ofecot toil seed oil are all at sea. The trade is completely demoralized. There is now absolutelyno (denmand for oil, with a largc stock on hand at home aud abroad." S Swung I romi a Bridge. ST. Louis. Sept. 3.-The Re public's Poplar Blufl' special says: An alterca tion esterday between Mi-. Albright, prorietor of the Gifl'ord house, and Thomas Smith, a negro, ended in Smith throwing a rock at Albright andl his skull was fractured. Tnis morning Smith's b~ody~ was found hxangmtg to the bridge across Black river riddled with bullets. After the trouble of yesterday smith w~as arrested and placed in jail. At 9: 30 this mornaing a masked 'mob broke down the outer (doors of' the jail, batter ed the steel door to the prisoner's cage in and in spite of' theo man's plea for mnercy~ took himn across the river andl lynched 31iss Siminpson's Long Sleep. MoxCoNN. B.. Sept. 4.--E tta Simp. sonx aged sevenlteenl years, wvent to sleep a week ago v'esterdlay and has not yet awakened or~ taken ~any nourishment. MiSs simlpsonl has for somle months hadl a mania for eating brown paper, and wvould consume a large bag such as used in grocery stores at a single meal. She has eaten scores of brown paper bags and it is supposed this mania has some thing to do with her illness. About a year ngo she slept for fiv'e days. but was awakened while being bled by her medi cal attendlant. Lynched for the I'na~l Crime NEW OnLEA.s, September 4.--A Water Valley, MIiss., special says that fast night a negro namecd Roger's dlecoyed x's. Samnuel Iuxrray' f'romn her home on pr:tenec of helping to i'escuc her hiusband froi roughxs, whomn lto-gers said wer'e ill t'eating hinm ill a lonely pact of the town. ie assaulted her', bruising her badly. The negro was arrested later. but was takenx from eustoy' and haxnged to a tree. M'. and~ Mrs. Mxiurray are fx'om Iowa an iav livedi hex'e two years. A D~ruggist's Fatal Error. MiEMPI'rs. TE:NN., Aug. -8-A Knoxv:lle. .Tenncssee, special says: dohn(1 P. Smith. the elev'en yeari old soi of State Sxupertiendent of Public In st'uction F". 31. Smxithx. and a boy namlec I nthins. diecd vestc'erda'. ibrmn a dose o: moi'ne~i. TIhiree oitheri children of illt who hadl fortunatllv taken anxother' dost wore made sick by the same (druig whiel: wa'1 adinilsteredl ior cold in mistake for quxinie. The mxistake was made by A DARING TRAIN ROBBERY. Iliow OneMIn Ifeld up a Train and 1 0b bed the Express. LoUlsvILLE, Sept. 2.-The Louisville 1and Nashville northliound train was held up by masked robbers half a mile north of Pensacola .J unction early this morniing. The safe was taken from the express car, but the extent of the rob bery is not known. The Courier .Journal has this from MNobile. Ala.: "The Louisville and Nashville cannon ball train, north hound, was held UP near Pensacola Junction, forty- miles above Mobile, by robbers, who entered the express car and compelled the messenger to turn over the contents of his safe. It is not known at this time the extent of the robbery. After securing the valu ables the robbers escaped to the woods. "The first news of the robbery re ceived in Mobile by the railway of ficials was very meagre. The train was held up about a half mile above the junction, and people there knew very little of what had happened, for the train was delayed a few minutes only and there was not much chance of learning what had occurred. "Engineer Bob Sizer says that he was pulling out of Flonaton, and just as the train, which is a through express from New Orleans. got under way, he turned around and saw a man standing near him. Before lie could ask a ques tion or look twice two big revolvers were in his face. Ie was told to run his train up to Escambia river briclge, some miles distant, and stop on the bridge. There was nothing left for him to do but obey. and he did so. "There the train stopped on the bridge. The engineer was told to get off his engine and he did so. Then the robber directed Sizer to go to the ex press car and force an entrance. The robber putting a heavy mallet in his hand, Sizer did as directed, and burst open the car doors. Express Messen ger Archie Johnson was standing in his car, with pistol in hand, but seeing Sizer, lowered it. The next minute he was covered and told to lay down his gun, and he obeyed. Then the robber, standing in the car door, compelled the messenger to open the safe and hand him the money. "While this was going on, the fellow was standing in the door coolly looking at his victim and firing first to one side of the train and then to the other to overawe the passengers and train crew. When he got the money, the robber told Sizer to follow him. The man showed the way to the engine, bade Sizer pull out, and with a parting shot and with yells dashed off in the bushes and was lost to sight. "A posse has left Flomaton and an other has left Mobile in pursuit of the robbers. "Some surprise is expressed here that the robbers selected this particular train, as it is well known that other trains carry most of the express money, .No. 6, the robbed train, carrying very little at any time and a small amount on this occasion. "It is said Rube Burrows was recent ly seen in Florida and there is a possi bility that he ordered the assembling of his gang at Flomaton and joined them there to superintend the proper con duct of the affair, but this robbery looks more like the work of the celebrated Capt. Bunch." A MOVEMENT AGAINST COTTON. RumorsIof a Combine in Eugl:and to Force a Decline. ATLANTA, Ga., September 4.-It is announced that instruictions have been sent by English man ufacturers to their agents in this country to btiy no0 more cotton at the truling prices, or no more than is required for immediate consumption by the nulls. Many of the New England mnille have also agreed to.-curtail their takings for the present The oibject of both is to force a decline of the staple. They are calculating on a very large crop in the .United States and fair crops in other cotton raising countries, and that the supply will soon be greater than the demand at present prices. The British estimates of the crop of the United States largely exceed seven million bales. Even if it should reach this amount, coming in as it (does upon a comparatively short stock of the old crop, there is good reason to believe that the increased demand for the world's consumption will keep pace with it, as it has done of late years. But the manufacturers, by concert, have the power to force a decline, tun less money is furnished in plenty to buy the crop. A week or two ago it locked as if the monetary centres wvould be strained to furnish money to move the crops this fall. But the commercial re ports andl the statement ot the associa ted banks for last week er.couraige the hope that the stringency in tihe money market is slackening. The banks gained in their reserves for the first time in several weeks, and1 the com imercial reports show increasing trade and more confidence in business circles. The suppression of State banks of issue destroys the elasticity of the cur rencey of the South, which fornmerlv helped materially to sustain the price of cotton. Under the old State bank system, the banks, though restricted by law in the proportion of their paper issues to their coin on hand, often had out five or six dollars in paper to one in coin in the cotton season, because they had the cottor, as security for their issues-a security ats good and safe as gold. Bitt this elasticity has been de stroyed by the financial policy of the Federal government, and it is clearly a duty which that government owes to so large a ntimber of its producing people as the cotton planters, to aid by all means in its power in p)rovidling a cir culating med iumn suilicient to protect so great an interest from a stringency in the money market and adverse com binations by buyers.-Atlanta .Journal surp~risinlg Testimnony. MIany physicians who have examined into the merits of B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm), have been confronted with testimony wvhich they diemed sur prising, and thus being convincedl of its wonderftil eicacy, have not failed to prescribe it in their practice as oc casion reqtiired. II L. Cassidy, Kennesawv, Ga., writes; "For two years my wife was a great sufferer. Skillful physicians did her no good. Her motuth was one solid uler, her body was broken out in sores, and she lost a beautiful head of hair. Three bottles of B. B. B. cured her com pletely, incredible as it may sound, and she is now the mother of a healthy three months old baby clear from any scroflotus taint." A. IL. Morris, Pine luiff, Ark., writes: "Iot Springs and several doctors failed t cure me of several running ulcers on my leg, B. B. B. effcted a wondlerfully qick cure after everything else had failed." _______ _____ Strayed Off~ and Died. ltAL.EIG II. N. C.. August :Ud--. -. ond. a wvell-known citizen of Tarboro, left his bed and hotuse on Thursday night undressed, and not. retiurfni an unavailing seareb wans made for him. His mind wvas thouaht to lbe tnsettledl. His b~ody wvas found in Tar River ,twcnty mliles bielow I'Tarbioro. yesterday. An A wtul Crime. The Birminghmam Frenmne News says that 31. F. Snmith. formerly of Birmingi ham, b)ut until recently ai employee of -the Lotuisville and Nashville shops at Dentur, is in jail att the latter place on a seriouis chiarae. It is -:lleg'ed that lie tried to drowni his wife by thriowing her into a pond11. in order to get 65.000t insurauce on her life. Nineteent Personsi Drowuned. VIENNA, Sept. :3.-Nineteen per sons ha~ve beeni drowned in the flood at Prague. TIhe water~s are rising evcry Decapitated by a Locomotive. A horrible accident occurred yesterday evening at the South C:arolina Railway wharf. Frank Beard, a young switch mau, was (iecapitated and his body terrible mangled bv falling under a switch engine. Death was. of course. instantaneous. The young man had been enga.,ed during the afternoon in arranging switches for the numerous trains which went from the main line to the wharf. Theswitch en.,ine was just beyond the Northestern Railroad crossiug. comin;; into the city. when the unfortunate accident occurred. JBeard had opened the switch. and as is usual. but very unsailc, wanted to get on the engine andl ride to the next switch. In the attempt to get on the rear end of the engine, which was at the time move ing backward. he missed his hold and fell on the rail, :nd the engine went crashing over his body. The engine could not be stopped in time to prevent the accident. As soon as it was possible the engi neer and conductor hurried to Beard to give whatever assistance was possible. but life was extinct and help useless. The head was lying beside the mangled mass of ilesh, and an arm had been severed from the body. The accident occurred about 7:45 p. im. and the only witnesses were Couductor E. B. Brown, Engineer HIIenry Kirchner and a colored fireman. The young man, who by his indisere ton lost his life, was a native Charles tonian. and was about 24 years of age. Ie had always been recognized as a trusty mau.-News and Courier. Senator Hampton's Position. The Sun has received the following letter from Senator Hampton of South Carolina.: WASHINGTON. Sep. 1. 1890.-To the Baltimore Sun: In a dispatch of yes terdaylform this place one of your cor respondents has placed a construction on a few remarks made to him by myself which is utterly erroneous. I did say, with no idea, however, that I was being interviewed, that the recent meeting in Columbia was merely a conference, with no power to make any compromise. and that the tiro factions in the State had notcome together. I expressed my fear that a conflict of authority might occur when the regular convention met, but I said not one word which could possibly justify your correspondent in saying or supposing that I entertained the slight est idea of entering upon a contest for re-election to the Senate. That matter is in the bands of the people of South Carolina, and they must settle it without any advice or suggestion from myself. I have never asked for an office, and I certainly shall not do so now. So that question gives me no possible concern. Respectfully. yours, WADE HAMPTON. A Big Failure in New York. NEW YoRK, September 4.-Sawyer, Wallace & Co., exporters of breadstuffs and cotton and dealers in leaf tobacco, at 18 Broadway. made a general assign ment today to Marshal Ayrs without pre ferences. The assignment was filed short lv before the closing of the county clerk's office, and the news when it reached thestreet created a great sensation. The cause is the losses the firm have sustain ed in their foreign option buisness. The firm has branches in nineteen or twen ty European cities. In a pork deal last January the firm is said to have sustained losses of $ 1.000. 000. Claims for these losses against European speculators are amoeg the nominal assets. It is estimated that the' sum total of the nominal assets will reach $1,175,000, among which are ineladed $1,000,000 lost in the pork deal. It is believed that they have protected their interests in this country, and that thieii chief losses, which may reach $1,500. 000, will be in London, and mainly on their pork dealings. But their buisness has many' ramifications. Killed Himself with Laudanumn. B3LAcKsnunao S. C., Sept. 3.-On Tuesday morning a young man named 3L. E. Lanning, who has been acting aLs agent for some washing machine, was fojund in his bed. by D. M. Williams, proprietor of the boarding h;use at which lie was stopping, in an unconscious stat2. On inquiry. it was found that lie had pawnedh his hat for ten cents and had pur chased that amount of laudanum froal Dr. Fewell's drug store. The supposition is that lie took the laudanum for the purpose of ending his life, as a bottle supposed to be the one purchased fro'n the drug store was found niear his wia dow empty. It seems that lie had taken the laudanum and thrown the bottle out of the window for the purpose of hiding his crime. He received kind attention from the peaple of the town and frem the physicians, but to no effect. He (ied Tuesday night abotut 11 o'clock. He was from Buncombe County, N. C. Texas Towns at Wa. WACO, Tex., Sept. 4.-The town of Marlin still mamntains an attitude of rebellion against the authority of Gov' ernor Ross and has refused to abolish the quarantine placedl against Waco. A lawyer of this city. who was em ployed to secure an injunction In a cause involving half a million. was forcibly thrust upon the cars and driv~en of, and the corporation against which the injunction was brought gained an important advantage, ie has filed a suit against the authorities of Marlin for halfa million dlollars damage. The commerce of u1 aco is suffering terrible on account of the quarantine, the cottoii tradle beiing directed aw ay. Governor Ross says that lie will break tie quarantine, and Texas rangers are now within fiye hours' ride of the town. It is fearedi that there will be a collision between them and the people. Epidemic of Fleas. RIEAD)IN(, PA., Sept. 4.-An epi demic of fleas has struck Readling, an .1 for the past wveek the lives of citizens hiave been made nuiserable-by the little pests. The situation is particularily aggravated in the suburbs of the city, where the open lots andl outlying fields infested by weeds are thought to furnish conditions espe cal lv lavorable to the increase of the insects. Th'lerc is scarcely a house-hold here. whether pretenitious or lowly, into which the fleas have not pienetrated. The druggist of the city repots a tremendous increase in their sales of liea and insect powders, and house-keepers are devoting themselves assiduously to the extermmia tion of the insects. A Prairie on Fire. DxiKENsoN. N. 1).. September 4. A widespread and destructive prairie fire ravagedl hundreds of thousands of acres along the Little M1issouri River. T wo or three (lays ago, about forty miles from the main line of the Northern Facific Railroad, the great range of the Ii, 'T. Cattle Co. wa~s swe pt clear. The fire was put out byv means of horses which were killed for the purpose, using themi as drags to extinguish the flames. T he horses were split up the back and their carcasses drazned over the country by long ropes. Twelve hundred head of horses were stampeded to the four w in ds. ____ A Frightfl Fai. NEw YinE. Sept. 4.-The faill of William llnnlon. thre acrobat, seems as othing ia comparison w.ithm thait of Georue Ilolloway. of New Albay ind. Ie was sent to the top of the large brick c himiiney, .P feet high, at the glas~s works. to tear dlown the structure. IIardhy had he reached the top) when lie slipped and1( fell into the stack, and ricocheting fr oi sie to side struck the bottom almost without a scratch. IIe was at work again F' N. WISON, SAGEINT EQUITABLE LIFE AS SUR A NCESOCIETY, MANNING. S. (. OSEPIE F. RHAME, At TTUILNEY .1 ' LA W, MANNING, I. C. OHN S. WILSON, A11orne| oad (,Crunselor at Law, MIANNING, S. C. A... 1S .1TL1W MIANNING, S. G. 7 Notary l'ublic with seal. ( ALLEN HUGGfNS, D. D. S., Jr. CH ER AW, 6. C lVisits Manning every month oi two professionally. JOB PRINTING. T]HE TIMES OFFICE IS FITTED UP IN a manner that warrants it in soliciting your patronage for job printing. Send us your orders which shall have prompt atten tion. Prices as low as the cities. Satisfac tion guarauteed. Keep us in mind. FORESTON DRUG STORE, FORESTON, S. C. I keep always on hand a full line of Pure Drugs and Medicines, FANCY AND TOILET ARTICLES, TOILET SOAPS, PERFUMERY, STATION ERY, CIGARS, GARDEN SEEDS, and such articles as are usually kept in a irst class drug store. I have just added to my stock a line of PAINTS AND OILS, :md am prepared to sell PAINTS, OILS LEAD, VARNISIIES, BRUSHES, in quantities to suit purchasers. L. W. NETTLES, M. D., Foreston, S. C. A.s. J. PERRY. I. I. sMoNs. r . A. PRINGLE. Johnston, Crews & Co., --WHOLESALE JOBBERS OF DRY GOODS, Notions and Small Wares, Nos. 49 Hayne & 112 Market Streets, CHARLESTON, S. C. TI-IE MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. OF NEW YORK. R. A. McCURDY, Prest. Assets, $136,401,328.02. Surplus, $9,657,248.44. The oldest, strongest, largest, best company in the world. It "makes as surance doubly sure." E. B. Canley, Ageint for Kershawe and Clarendon, Camden, IS. C. ED. L. GERNAND, GENERAL AGENT, Cohimnbia, S. C. GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL, COLUMBIA, S. C. Is the largest hotel in the city, and has, during the past year, been thoroughly reno vated, remodeled, and refitted with all mod. ern improvements. Centrally located, and offers inducements for the accommodation of its pttrons. Has 6 spacious. light, and airy sample rooms. Hot and cold baths, el evator, &c. Cuisine under supervision of Mr. E. E. Post, late of Lookout Point Hotel, Lookout Mountain. Tenn. The proprietor hopes by strict attention to' the wants of his patrons to merit a share of patronage. F. W. sEEGERS, E. E. POST, Prop'-ietor. Manager. PHILADELPHIA SINGER. HighLo $28. $0 p@ay N 03 b e or0ic 0:.3 . - DALAS.EX CSh Cueoles Don. pa r an a Le t. Quor 0 ssbut s tghiru HES C.S TNS AN. SWRTIN COODS'.~ Ureech RO Lodn and R Mpaning t, S3 to Reoves Sl to nS0.DblevAonvelf Flaks htPuhs rm rs. led, eents fr Illusrated atraeAdrs J.. I-JOHNSTONiar GREA~J?1T WESTER SGUNE NETRNTSitb, N P.IN OOS iaig tGn,$t Shavin EPr ido. eetLadin and shating Re, it bet raztors. Seinle Stten paid to a2. Reglders, hsit0. Dohave aconself exprigencSels insra ads. ctoos, andwguar anssfahtio Pocstormers. Sardor nex nndng to aing r H AIR UTTI n AR'rILTON.X J. ADGER SMYTHI. F. J. PELZE R, Special Partner. SMYTH & ADGER, Factors and Commission Merchants, NTcrtI .A.tlantlc 'T~Aarf, CHARLESTON, S. C. OTTO F. WIETERS, WHOLESALE GROCER, Wholesale Dealer in Wines, Liouors and Cigars, No. 121 East Bay, Charleston, S. C. OTTO TIEDEMAN & SONS, Wholesale Grocers and Provision Dealers, 172, 174, and 176 East Bay Street, C IRLES T ON S. 0. F. J. PELZER, President. F. s. RODGERS, Treasurer Atlantic Phosphate Company, C ST4rS >o , S. C. MANUFACTURERS OF STANDARD FERTILIZERS, AND IMPORTERS OF 3'utre Germaa I~al . PELZER, RODGERS, & CO., General Agts., BROWN'S WHARF, CHARLESTON, S. C. Mn. H. LrvI, of Manning, will be pleased to supply his friends and the public gen ally, with any of the above brands of Fertilizers. B. B. BnowN, Pres. JoN 1. HuTcHINsoN, Manager. T. H. McCALL, Gen. Supt & Treas. Charleston Mattress M'f'g Company. INCORPORATED 1889. -.UUEE S OF High Grade Moss, Hair, and Wool Mattresses. Wholesale Jobbers and Manufacturers in all Kinds of F' U) NT IT U) RL E= , "El TC. Capacity, 250 mattresses per day. Capacity, 500 pillows per day. Write for price list. Will pay highest prices for corn shncks. 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 & 246 Meeting St., Opp. Pavilion Hotel, CHARLESTON. S. C. 7dPContracts made for car load lots or less. W. E. HowINs. LEL.&D MooBE. W. E. HOLMES & CO., -DEALERS IN White Lead and Colors, Oils and Varnishes, Glass and Brushes, Mill and Naval Store Supplies. STREET LAMPS and LANTERNS of ALL KINDS OFFICE, 207 EAST BAY, CHARLESTON, s. C. EVERYTHING IN THE PAINT, OILl, AND GLASS LINE. WM. M. BIR D & CO., CHARLESTON, S. C. STATE AGENTS FOR MARVIN'S SAFES AND I-IWE SC.A.LES. ESTABLISHED I844 Charleston Iron Works, Manufacturers and Dealers in Marine Stationary and Portable Engines and Boilers, Saw Mill Machinery, 'Cotton Presses, Gins, Railroad, Steam boat, Machinists', Engineers' and Mill Supplies. *W Repairs executed with promptness and Di.-rpatch. Sendfor price lists. East Bay, Oor. Pritchard St., _Chartoest O.? T. II. McGAHAN. A. s. D~iOWN. RoBT. P. ET s JOHN~ F.V WERNER. L. H. QUROLO. McGAHAN, BROWN & EVANS, JOHN F. WERNER & CO., JOBBERS OF Wholesale Grocers Dry Goods, Notions, Prvso- Daes Boot, Soes nd lothng. 164 & 166 East Bay and 29 & 31 Nos. 226, 228 & 230 Meeting Street, Yendue Range, CHARLESTON. S. C. CHIARLESTON, S. 0. S. T HOMAS, Ju. J- M- T HOMAS.J0HN W EBB Stephen Thomuas, Jr, & Bro. EAE N lTILD~UE JEWELRY, SILVER & PLATED WARE,IpotdndDletcWe, Spectacles, Eye Glasses & Fancy Goods,Li osadCi r. re-Watches and Jewelry repaired by Soe,1O 8,ad11MeigS. n copetent workmen. 18Mre tet 257 K{ING STREET,CHLETS.. ESTALISIE 186.HOLLE ANNl BROTHERES, Liquors aGrCrs, No.251toresret,157 19 and 19 Eetst . a nd CHARESTN. S C.CHARLESTON, S. C. CA. LESTOBB. J . JtetON ve toconmNsOory Gealntn homss Mecat Co., Fico A-DEALES IN- h l s l IEEMET, PLASVERPARI HAIRC FIRES TE AND LESTEN, S.A. CHARLESTON, S. C. Agenefra WhitesSngls Poran ' Cemn. Slct os nsootton c onr hc I 194. 19 Ea Bay CHALESON s. c liberal advances will be made.