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THE WINGS OF LOVE. AN INTERESTING SERMON FROM THE EMINENT BROOKLYN DIVINE. The Lord Likened to an Eagle-The Iar velous Power and Speed of Winged Things-The Broad Wings of Universal Love. BRoOKLY.N. Sapt. 14.--Dr. Talmage's text to-day was the words: "The Lord God of Israel, under whose wiIn:S thou art come to trust."-Rutai 2. xii: The following is his serman: Scene: An Oriental harvest-field. Grain standing. Grain in swaths. Grain in sheaves. At the side of the field, a white tent in which to take the nooning. jars of vinegar or of sour wine to quench the thirst of the hot working-people. Swarthy men triking their sickles into the rustling barley. Others twisting the bands lor the sheaves, putting one end of the band under the arm, and with the free arm and foot collecting the sheaf. Sunburned women picking up the stray straws and bringing them to the binders. Boaz, a fine-looking Oriental, gray bearded and Lright-faced, the owner of the field, looking on, and estimating the value of the grain and calculating so many ephahs to the acre; and, with his large sympathetic heart, pitying the over tasked workmen and the women, with white faces enough to faint, in the hot noonday sun. Bu.- there is one woman who especially attracts the man's atten tion. She is soon to be with him the joint owner of the field. She has come from a distant land for the sole purpose of being kind to an aged woman. I know not what her features were; but when the Lord Go)d sets behind a wo man's face the lamp of courage, and faith, and self-sacr.bce, there comes a glory independent cf features. She is to be the ancestress of Jesus Christ. Boaz, the owner of the field, as soon as he understands that it is Ruth. accosts her with a blessing: "A full reward be given thee of the Lord God ot Israel, under whose wings thou art come to trust." Christ compares himself to a hen gathering the chickens under her wings. In Deuteronomy, God is repre sented as an eagle stirring up her nest. In a great many places in the Psalms, David makes ornithological allusions; while my text- mentions the wings of God, under which a poor, weary soul had -come to trust. I ask your attention, therefore. while, taking the suggestion ofmy text, I speak to you in all simplicity and love of the wings of the Almighty. First: I remark that they were swift wings under which Ruth had come to trust. There is nothing in all the handi work of iod more curious than a bird's 'wing. You have been surprised some times, to see how far it could fly with one stroke of the wing; and, when it has food in prospect, or when it is affrighted, the pulsations of the bird's wing are un imaginable for velocity. The English lords used to pride themselves on the speed of their falcons. These birds when tamed, had in them the dart of lightn ing. How swift were the carrier pigeons In the time of Anthony and at the siege of Jerusalem! Wonderful speed ! A carrier pigeon was thrown up at Rouen and came down at Ghent-ninety miles off-in one hour. The carrier pigeons were the telegraphs of the olden time. Swallows have been shot in our latitude having the undigested rice of Georgia swamps in theircrops, showing that they had come four hundred miles in six hours. It has been estimated that, in the ten years of a swallows life, it flies far enough to have gone around* the world eighty nine times, so great is Its velocity. And so the wings of the Almighty. spoken of in the text, are swift wings. They are swift when they drop upon a foe, and swift when they ct.me to help God's friends. If a father and his son be walking by the way and the child goes too near a precipice, how long does it take for the father to deliver the child from danger? Longer than it takes God to swoop for the rescue of his children. The fact is that you cannot get away from the eare of God. If you take the steamship, or the swift railtrain, He is all the time along with you. "Whether shall I go from Thy spirit and whither shall I flee from Thy presenee ? If I ascend up into heaven Thou art there. If I make my bed in hell, behold ! Thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there Thy hands shall hold me." The Arabian gazelle is swift as the -wind. If it gets but one glimpse of the hunter, it puts many crags between. Solomon, four or five times, compares -Christ to an Arabian gazelle (calling it by another name) when he says: "My * beloved is like a roe." The difference is, that the roe speeds the other way; Jesus speeds this. Who but Christ could have been quick enough to have helped Peter, when the water-pavement broke ? Who but Christ could have been quick enough 40 help the Duke of Argyle, when, in his dying moment, he cried: "Good cheer I could die like a Roman, but I mean to die like a Christian.- Come away gentle men. He who goes first, goes cleanest?" I had a friend who stood by the rail track at Carlisle, Pennsylvania, when *the ammunition had given out at Antie tam; and he saw the train from Harris burg, freighted with shot and shell, as it *went thundering down toward the battle field. He said that it stopped not for any crossing. They put down the brakes for no grade, they held up for no peril. The wheels were on fire with the speed as they dashed past. If the train did not come up in time with the ammunition, it might as well not come at all. So, my friends, there are times in our lives when re must have help immediately or perish. The grace that comes top late is no grace at all, What you andlI want is a God now. Oh! is it not blessed to think that God is always in such quick pursuit ot his dear children? When a sinner seeks pardon, or a baffled soul needs help, swifter than thrush's wing, swifter than ptarmlgan's wing, swifter than 1lam ingo's wing, swifter than eagle's wing, are the wings of the Almighty. I remark further, carrying out the idea ot my text, the wings under which Ruth *had come to trust were very broad wings. There have been eagles shot on the Rocky Mountains with wings that were seven feet from tip to tip. When the king of the air sits on the crag, the wings are spread over all the eaglets in the eyrie, and when the eagle starts from the rock. the shadow is like the spread ing of a 'storm cloud. So the wings of God are broad wings. Ruth had been under those wings in her infantile days in the days of her happy girlhood in Moab; in the day when she gave her hand to Mahlon, in her first maraiage in he day when she wept over his grave the day when she trudged out into the wilderness of poverty; in the days when she picked up the few straws of barley dropped by ancient custom in the way of, the poor. Oh! yes, the wings of God are broad' wings. They cover up all our wants, all our sorrows, nil our sufferings. He puts one wing over our cradle, and He put the other over our grave. Yes, my dear friends, it is not a desert in which we are placed; it is a nest. Sometimes it is a very hard nest, like that of the eagle, spread on the rock, with ragged moss and rough sticks, but still is a nest; and, although it may be very hard une mighty. There sometimes comes a perio4 in one's life when lie feels forsak en. You said, "Everything is against me. The world is against me. The church is againstme. No sympathy; no hope. Everybody that comes ucar me thrust at me. I wonder if there is a God. anyhow!" Everything seems to be go ing slipshod and at haphazard. There does not seem to be any hand on the helm. Job's health fails. David's Absalom gets to be a reprobate. Mar tha's brother dies. Abraham's Sarah goes Into the grave of Macbpelah. "Woe worth the day in which I was born!" has said many a Christian. David seeinc( to scream out in his sorrow. as he said: -Is His mercy cleau gone fbrevery" Job, with his throat swollen and ulcered until he could not even swallow the sa liva that ran into his mouth, exchdms: -How long before thou wilt depart from me and leave me aloue, that I may swal low down my spittle ? Have there never been times in your life when you envied those who were buried? When you longed for the gravedigger to do his work for you? Oh the faithlessness of the humaIn heartl God's wings are broad. whether we know it or not. Sometimes the mother-bird goes away from the nest, and it seems very strange that she should leave the callow young. She plunges her beak into the bark of the tree, and she drops into the grain field, and into the chaff at the barn door, and into the furrow of the ploughboy. Meanwhile, the birds in the nest shiver and complain, and call, and wonder why the mother-bird does not come back. Ah. she has gone for food. After a while there is a whirr of wings, and the mother-bird stands on the edge of the nest, and the little ones open their mouths and the food is dropped in; and then the old bird spreads out her feath ers, and all is peace. So, sometimes. God leaves us. He goes off to get food foe our soul; and then Ile comes back after a while to the nest, and says: "Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it;" and He drops into it the sweet promises of His grace, and the love of God is shed abroad, and we are under His wings-the broad wings of the Al mighty. "Yes; they are very broad! There is room under those wings for the 1.600, 000,000 of the race. You say: "Do not get the invitation too large, for there is nothing more awkward than to have more guests than accommodations." I know it. The Seamen's Friend society is inviting all the sailors. The tract society is inviting all the destitute. The Sabbath-schools are inviting all the chil dren. The Missionary socieLy is invit ing all the heathen. The printing pres ses of the Bible societies are goingnight and day, doing nothing but printing in vitations to this great Gospel banquet. And are you not afraid that there will be more guests than accommodations ? No ! All who have been invited will not hall fill up the table of God's supply. There are ;hairs for more. There are cups for more. God could with one feather of His wing cover up all those who have come: and when He spread out both wings, they cover all the earth and all the heavens. Ye Israelites, who went through the Read Sea, come under! Ye multitudes who have gone into glory for the last six thousand years. come under! Ye hundred and forty four thousand, and the thousands of thousands, eome under! Ye flying cherubim and archangel, fold your pinions, and come under! And yet there is room! Ay! if God would have all the space under His wing occupied, He must make other worlds, and people them with other myriads, and have other resurrection and judgment days; for broader than all space, broader than thought, wide as eternity, from tip to tip, are the wings of the Almighty ! Oh! under such provisions as that can you not rejoice ? Come under, ye wander ing. ye weary, ye troubled, ye sinning, ye dying souls ! Come under the wings of the Almighty. Whosoever will come, let him come. However ragged, how ever wretched, however abandoned, how ever woe-begone, there is room enough under the wings-under the broad wings of the Almighty ! Oh, what a Gospel ! so glorious. so magnificent in its provi sion ! I love to preach it. It is my life to pr'each it. It is my heaven to preach it. I remark, further, that the wings under which Ruth came to trust were strong wings. The strength of a bird's wing-of a sea-fowl's -wing, for example -you might guess it from the fact that sometimes for five, six or seven days it seems to fly without resting. There have been condors in the Andes that could overcome an ox or a stag. There have been eaaies that have picked up children, and swung them to the top of the clifls. The flay of an eagle's wing has death in it to everything it strikes. There are birds whose wings are packed with strength to fly, to lift, to destroy. So the wings of God are strong wings. Miighty to save. Mighty to destroy. I preach him-' the Lord, strong and mighty-the Lord, mighty in battle!'' He flapped His wing, and the antedilu vian world was gone. He flapped His wing and Babylon perished. He flapped His wing and Herculaneum was buried. He flapped His wing and the Napoleonic dynasty ceased. Before the stroke of that pinion a fleet is nothing. An army is nothing. An empire !s nothing. A world is nothing. The universe is noth ig. King-eternal, omnipotent-lie asks no counsel from the thrones of heaven, Hie takes not the archangel into His cabinet. He wants none to draw His chariots for they are the winds. ~None to load His batteries, for they are the hghtnings. None to tie the sandals of His feet for they are the clouds. Mighty to save. Our enemies may be strong, our sorrows violent. Our sins may be great. But quicker than an eagle ever hurled from the crags a hawk or raven, will the Lord strike back our sins and our temptations, if they assault us when we are once seated on the eternal rock of His salvation. What a blessed thing it is to be defended by the strong wng of the Almighty ! Stronger than ,the pelican's wing, stronger than the Albatross's wing, stronger than the con dor's wing, are the wings of the Al mighty. I have only one more thought to pre sent. The wings nnder which Ruth had come to trust were gentie wings. There is nothing softer than a feather. You have noticed when a bird returns from fight, how gently it stoops over the nest. The young birds are not afraid of having their lives trampled out by the mother bird; the old whippo will drops into its nest of leaves, the oriale into its casket of bark. the humming-bird into its hanm mock of moss-gentle as the light. And so. says the psalmist, lie shall cover thee with Is wing. Oh. the gendieness of God! But even that figure does not fully set it forth; for I have sometimes looked into the bird's nest and seen a dead bird-itglife having been trampled out by the mother-bird. But no one that ever came under the feathers of the Al mighty was ever troddon on. Blessed nest! warm nest! Why will men stay out in the cold to be shot of temptation and to be chilled by the blast, when there is Divine shelters More beautiful than any flower I ever saw are the hues of a bird's plumage. Did you ever examine it? The blackbird, floating like a flake of darkness through the sun light; the meadow lark, with head of fawn and throat of velvet and breast of gold; the flamingo flying over the South ern swamps, like sparks from the Iorge of the setting sun; the pelican, white and black-morning and night tangled in its wings-give but a very fatnt idea of the beauty that comes down over the soul when it drop the feathers of the Al ims is the only safe nest. Every other ntest will be d('troyed. The prophet sa so: I'Though thouxalt thyseli like the eagle, and set thy rest among stars, vet will I bring thee down. saith the Lord of Hosts." Under the swift wings, under the broad wings. under the strong wings, unler the gentle wing's of the Almighty. 1ind shelter until these calamities be overpast. Then when you want to cJhange nests, it will only be from the valley of earth to the heights of heaven; and instead of -the wings of a dove," ir which IDavid lonCd. not knowing that in the first in le of heir Oig.tht they wouli iv t,. 1 ou will be conducted upward by the Lord God of Isreal. under whose wings Ruth, the beautiful Moabitess, came to trust God forbid thatin this matter of etern al weal or woe we should he more stupid than the fowls of heayeu "for the stork knoweth her appointed time; and the turtle, and the crane, and the swallow. observe the time of their going: but my people know not the judgments of the Lord." The Earth Swallows I[:o. PoTTSvIL:, Pa., Sept. 9.-At 4 o'clock yesterday afternoon Andrew Butts, residing at Wiggins' Patch, near Mahoney City, started out with his two children, a boy and a grirl, aged respect ivelv 7 and 9 years. for a walk. The children had -hold of his hands. He took only five steps from his back door when the earth opened and he dropped out of sight into the old Bear Run Col liery. The cave in was a clear cut-hole not more than three feet in diameter. Butts had presence of mind enough when he found hiniself sinking to let go of the children's hands. The little ones were left behind standing on opposite sides of the hole. Had the hole been a foot wider both children would have gone down also. When the children recovered from their fright they screamed for help. Their mother came to the scene, and seeing what had occurred. she ran throught the village giving the alarm. A crowd soon collected. The cavein was measured and found to be thirty-eight feet deep. Butts could not be seen. but his groans were distinctly heard, proved that he was still alive. A rope was procured and let down, and in a few minutes they heard a feeble voice calling on them to -hoist." In a few minutes Butts was landed on the surface. le was found to be badly bruised and hurt internally, and it is feared lie cannot re cover. No earth fell on top of him. The bottom just seemed to drop out and down lie went. Senator Ingall's Invectivo. Senator Ingalls made a speech at Pittsburg on Saturday last in vindication of the purity of Senator Quay and in sup port of Quay's candidate for the goyern orship, Mr. Delamater. The methot he took to absolve his friend and sen atorial associate, Quay, from the asper sions of Congressman Kennedy, who denounced him as a criminal, and com pared him to Judas Iscariot, was to de luge the democrats with pictureque in. vective. According to Mr. Ingalls "the democratic party is the political dump ing-ground of politics in the nine teenth century." "Every exclude( heresy, evcery abandoned heresy, is the heritage of tie Democratic party." "It has never done a specific act.nor ever pro. posed to do one for the welfare or ad vancement either of the moral. ijtel lectual or physical welfare of the coun try." .It has attempted by revolution arv measures to defeat the benecicient statutes that have been enacted by thc great republican party." "-It is an ag regation of the ignorance, the imbecihi y and disloyalty of this country." "It has neither the conscience nor the cour age of convictions." "I think the worst republican that ever lived is better by Ih than the best Democrat that ever lived.' Finally~he compared the Democratic pa ty to Judas Iseoriot, who betrayed .hi Master, and to Peter, who denmed ilm. and the republican party to the Christi aniy which survived the treachery 0o the one and the denial of the other. -The Cotton Bagging Tax. WVAsrNGTox, September .-Sena to Butler tried hard to-day but in vain tc induce the Senate to relent in favor of the cotton planters of the South and place cotton bagging on the free list with bmding twine. The consideration of the tariff bill was practically concluded ,and all the amend ments recommended by the finance com mittee were adopted, incladino an emah culated form of the reciprocity scheme originated by Blaine. There will be six hours of discussion to-morrow and then the final vote will be taken upon the bill as it stands to. night. It was just as the bill was about to be completed that Senator But ler proposed to place cotton bagging on the free list. 'Under the agreement he was not allowed to dliscuss his proposi tion, but lhe cleverly managed to remind the Senate that it had given relief to the Western wheat farmers by putting bindig twine on the free list. H~e simply asked that even jnstice be shown to Southern cotton planters. Several Re publicans raised the point that debate was not in order, but he had saidl all he cared to say on the subject. A vote was taken and the party lines were drawn, hence the Butler amendment was defeated. There is still a small possibility that the cotton planters may obtain relief when the confrees get to work on the bill. The South Carolina Senators will continue to ask for free cot ton bagging. Married the Wrong Woman. METcALF, Ga., Sept. 1l.-A resident of Claire, Fla.. B.B. D~oss by name, committed suicide here by shooting him self Mental aberation, caused by family troubles, led to the rash act. IIe was married to the adopted daughter of Euchbn Mannmng. It was a run-away match, but they did not live happily to getler, and she returned to her foster parents, charging that he had been cruel to hen, lie plead with her to return to his home. threatening to (do something desperate if she (did not, but she would not listen to his supplications. andI re mained. So Doss came here and~ made another eff'ort to regain her affection. begging her to accompany im~ home. She peremptorily refused to go. Then he drew his revolver and ended his le. A Four 11anded Fight. CIARLESTON, S. C.. Sept. 1.-The Republican Convention lax Berekicy County split today and two conventions were organized, representing Brayton nd Miler, the two Republican cand~i dates for Conzress in the Sevenith Dis trict. 'Berkeley is now the banner county of the State. having four separate politi cal organizations, two Democratie and two Republicans. The fights are gomng to be itter. It is renorted that tile Brayton ites will combine 'with one of the Demo cati and the Millerites with the other Democratic factions between whom the tight is equaily bitter. Bo th Reptublican Conventions elected delegates to the State Convention. The Miller'ites wili snpport anybody for State chair-nan to beat Brayton.-Greenville News. A D~ouble I!anging in Georgia. ATLTA, September 12.-Rtuffus B. Collins and Emily Boone were Eentenced in Gordon County to-day to he hanged en November 7th next, between 10) A. M. ad P. M. They are to be hangzed pblicly. Collius is the white man who hired Steve Custer to kill his wife. Steve Custer was sentenced to life im FOLUl(i IN .Il) AIR. A TERRIBLE SCENE ENACTED ON A MASSIVE IRON TOWER. Two Neu Aralne(I Witlh Hiammers Struggle While Niniety Feet Above Ground-Thev Clinch and Rtoll on the scafYold..oth Men Faint Awaty From Exhaustion. PEoRIA, Ill.. Sept. 16.-Two men 1iglitinig in mid air. This was the terri b. smo cunted a fvAt days sinc- on a massive iron tower being erected by thw water works company. The story of the strange diel is thulS described )y the Uerali to-day: When completed this tower will be 120 feet high. The steei plates are live feet wide and ten feet long, and the line of rivets on the main joints which run horizontally, and the upright seams, which connect the plates end to end, call for a rivet at every two inches. It therefore takes 775rivets to set a single course of plates. The tower had reached the height of ninety feet and two gangs of riveters were it work with their heaters and their holders-on. The latter work on the inside of the tower, while the men who hammer the rivets to a head work on the frail scaffold on the outside. To the beholder who stand on the solid earth this outside scaffold seems to be as thin, as frail, and as delicate as a spider's web. There it winds around the tall, black iron tower, frail below and dwindling away in the upward distance into nothingness. Ninety feet from the ground and on this frail scatfold the other morning two riveters were working, and from some unaccountable cause became In volved in an altercation. Bessemer steel is hard, but it is not harder than the hearts of inturiated men. Iron rivets, awaiting the touch of the hammer, are hot, but they are not hotter than the inflamed passions of the sons of Adam. The riveters in question came with the water works company from Syracuse, LN. Y. One was Mique, the other Dennice. Each man swung a seven-pounds hammer. Mique made a mislick and struck Den nice on the hand. Maddened with the sudden pain, Dcnnice became at once a demon and swung his hammer fulland fair at the head of Mique. Had the iron head of the hammer crushed in those locks a mangled and lifeless and half-headless cropse would have top pled down to the soild earth, ninety feet below. Mique, however. threw up his hammer in a defensive way and par ried the blow. Again the hammer of Dennice swung and again it was par ried, but as its head carromed on the steel head of lique's defensive ham mer it shot off on a tangent, like a glancing arrow strikes a tree, and knocked away one of the supports of the scatlold. There was a sickening, cracking sound as the frail upright was knocked away from the braces and down went the ends of two planks comprising one section of the scrffold. ique, who had been retreating from before tho advances of Dennice, was on a firm footing, but Dennice was compelled to make a glantspring to save himself. In the terror of the moment he leaped almost to the very shoulders of the aflrighted Mique and knocked him down backward, falling on top of him. The force of the con cusion was such that both men rolled to the edge of the scrffold and over Iwent Deninico. Instinctively and in the desperation of the moment he caught one heel in the upright immediately behind him and threw his left arm, around the neck of Mique. There lie hung on the edge of the scaffold, suspended by only one heel andl wrist, while below him-near lv a hundred feet below-was a row of iropie and plates of steel. To fall was o b dahedto pieces. To fall on tepswas tosd break arms and legs and back. To fall on the curved and ipturned edges of the plates wais to be cut into huge and ghastly slices. The man's hand trembled and his hatmmier dropped from his nerveless rasp. It went swiftly downward, hit ai projection in the scaffold. bounded off, and, striking a fifteen inch pipe, broke it in two as cleverly and as keen ly as if it had been split with a knife. The hand swung over and grasped Mique arouncr the loins with an awful tenacity, and there the men struggled on the awful verge of the scaffold and at that dlizzy height. Dennice had al most managed to swing his wveighit on the scafftud where Mique's hickory shirt ripped and back the man went into space, this time losing the purchase of his heel and swinging clear over so that he held himself only by one arm and hung suspended upright in the air. Mique managed to thrust the toes of his left foot between the two nar row planks that constituted the scaffold and thus acquired a leverage. Throw ing over the other shoulder, by astrong and almost miraculous movement, he swung the suspended body of Dennice back to the platform and dashed his face against the tower. There they la, motionless and still, and when their companions reached them they found that both had fainted dead away. The awful duel had lasted less than forty seconds, but there is none on re cord that can compete with it. Ten minutes later Dennice and ique were hammering away at the rivets as merrily as of yore. A Colored Man for White Supremacy. JAcKsoN Miss., Sept. 15.-Mr. Mont gomery, the negro delegate, addressed the convention to-day in support of the committee report and proved himself by far the ablest man of his race who has achieved prominence in this State for years. being easily the equal of John RI. Lynch and B. K. Bruce. IIe said in part: "Blefore the trust of bcomiing amm ber of this honorable body was conferred upon ine by im yconstituents,I fully stat ed to them my'earnest conviction that the work of this conviction in order to be successful must restrict the franchise by prescribing such qualilleation for voters as would reduce the negro v-ote considerably below the white vote of te State. -I entertained the same opinion then that I hold now that the Federal Congress will enterprose no ob jections providedi such restrictions are honestly imnposec for the p~urpose of bringing about a fair solutioni of the great problems now confronting the people of the Stai e." The speaker went on to say how much of the wealth and civilization of the South was due to the labor of the col ored man. lie re~erred to the loyalty of the colored race to the Southern pec pie throughout the war, and concluded that branch of his subject by saying: -It is but iustice to my race that I should recall these affecting memories upon this riour to-day. My mission hero is to br1idge a chasmi that has been widenIng for ai generation, to divert a maelstrom that thri-atens destruction to you and yours while it pi-omises no enduring prosperity to rme and mine. To Tunnel New York Bay. WXASnN(o-, Sept. 17.-In the Ihouse to-day Mr. Cove-rt, of New York, introduced i bill to authorize the con struction of a tunnel under the waters o the bay of New York. between Sta ten Island and the city of Brooklyn, and to establish the same as a post road. The bill authorizes the New Jersey and Staten Island .Junction Railroad Comn paiy to build and maintain a tunnel uhder the waters of the Bay of New York, from Middleto wn. Staten Island, to New Utrecht, Long Island, for the passage of railroad trains through the aje and to lay tracks, connections and extensions. The tunnel is not to interfere with the navigation of water raf, and shall be placed at a depth Ibelow water that a safe archway may be constructed therein to preserve the cui rents and channels of the hay. The: tunel shalil be a post route, with a right of way to the United States for postal telegtraph purposes. TIRED OF HIS OLD PARTY. In Leaving it Ex-overnjor Camero:, U%4-s Souie Vigorous English. PETERsBU1,(, Vr.,Sept.19.-- x-Gov ernor Cameron has pubbished an open letter in which he formally renounces his allegiance to the llepublican party, both State and National. Ex-Gover nor Cameron is considered to be one of the most brilliant men in the State and was elected Governor over Senator John W.Daniel in the memorable cam paign of 1880. Ile juistiiies his action in withdrawing from his old party as follows: "The Republican party preserves 1o longer the emilance ofspeaking for the entire country, but bases its claim to supremacy oi sectional prejudices and sectional interest, pure and simple. Not only is this so, but the directors of its policy have not hesitated in the at tainment of their ends to prostitute the plighted faith of the party in sight of all the world, and to renounce In their Congressional enactments the promises solemnly made in the Chicago plat forn. They stand self-convicted, not only of false pretense and punic faith, but of mathematical malignacy in seek ing to retain power by reinvoking the war sentiment at the North and Vest and by resurrecting all the stock phrases of fanaticism and sectionalism which could stir the South into resentment and retort. "Their object was and is to force the fighting as between a solid North and a solid South. and at the same time"to use the small contingent of Southern Ro publicans in Congress to minimize the power of the South by such political abominations as the Lodge bill, and by so framing a tariff law (under pretext of protection to American labor and American products) as to increase every burden of the customs upon the weaker section, and as to leave in force, in all its shameless inequality, the reve nue tax upon tobacco." In closing, Colonel Cameron ays: "President Harrison has done noth ing South of Mason and Dixon's line since his inauguration except to recog nize with reluctance that any such country existed. His appointments, with just few enough honorable varia tions to prove the rule, have been of men not representative in character, influence or capacity. He has shown utter inaptitude to square his actions with his utterances, his performances with his promises, his principles with his prejudices, or his st:Atus with his stature. IHe has been the instrument, willing or unwilling, of the machine elements of his party. and for the want of bold and brave catholic action he has made himself responsible for the fact that in the North and West there is a divided Republican party and that in the South there is none worthy of the name." "The utterances of Mr. McKinley in the House and the action of the Senate in regard to the tobacco clause consti tute an open declaration of war against Southern development. This action is a deliberate, wanton an absolute falsi fication of a solemn promise given tc the tobacco States. "The record on the Blair bill Is nc better, and the tariff Act, with its so called revision and equalization of im port duties, bristles with discrimina tions against the South." The Governor says the Lodge bill, 11 passed, would paralyze the commercia: progress of the whole country and sel back Southern development half a cen tury. The main sufferer would t.e thE negro. KEPT SILENT THIRTY YEARS. A Woman Religiously Keeps a vow Made to her H asband. A3IERICUS, Ga., Sept. 18.-The death of MIrs. Susan E. M1errifield, which oc curred here recently, revives interest ir one of tihe most peculiar cases eve1 known of a vow of silence made anc kept thirty years. In 1860 MIrs. MIerri field, who, it is said, was a little womnar of a peculiarly bright and cheery dispo sition, was telling her husband of somi occurrence, when he requested her in very surly manner to be silent, addini that the sound of her voice was hatefu to him. It seems that Mir. Mierrifield, while good husband in every other way, wa~ in the habit of venting his displeasure when aroused by outside matters by il humor with his wife, whose good natur< usually passed his testiness by, but or this occasion she replied that, as it was hateful to him, he should never hear hel voice again. And he never did, nor did any other person ever hear it, for, it spite of her husband's remorse and re monstrances from friends and rela tives, M1rs. Merrifield kept her room though she continued to act the part oj a good wife and mother, fulflling every duty scrupulously. She even bore three children to her husband after this vow was taken. When communication was absolutely necessary with those about her she used a slate, but reduced a language of signs to such perfection it governing her household and childrer that it was but seldom that this slate was resorted to. It was thought that wvhen her hus band died she would resume the use ol her speech, but while she sat by his dy ing bed, devoted and loving to the last in answer to his supplications that she speak but a word to him, wrote on th( slate with all the evidences of grief: "] cannot, I cannot! God forgive and hell me. I cannot!" But whether it was that she found it impossible to0 break her will and her vow, or that long dis use had affected her organs so0 that she really could not use them, could not be arrived at, but her family inlned tc the latter belief, for it is said that while she was on her own death-bed she made distinct, but ineffectual effort to speak to her children, dying with the 'seal of silence unremoved from her lips._________ A Sad Accident. R AI'D CrrY, S. D., Sept. 14.- One of the saddest railroad accidents that has ever happened in Black Ihills country occurred yesterday on the new narrowv guage line, which has just been com pleted betwveen Piedmont and Lead City. The masons or Deadwood and Lead City to show their appreciation of the advent of a railroad1 into their cities, planned an excursion over the Black Hlills and Ft. Pierre. which took place yesterdlay. The train was made up of two coaches and a number of flat cars with seats arranged to accommo date passengers, and departed from Lead City at an early hour. About 200 masons andl their families went to make up the excursion party. As the train wvas passing a point, near Elk creek twenty-eight iles from Deadwood, a large pine tree, which had caught lire from a passing engrine, fell, striking the last car, which was packed with human freight, k illing two people and wound in g seven. These two killed were, M, . BIeldiing, engineer of the Golden Star mill, at D~eadwood, and Mrs. J. K. Snyder of Lead City. Don't Like 111s Speech. W.~mxoN~ox, Sept. 17.-The meet ing of the House judiciary committee to-day called to consider the resolutions censuring Representative Kennedy, of Ohio, for his speech against the Senate and Senator Quay, and to expunge the speech from the Congressional Record, was attended by all the members. Rep resentative Kennedy was present and madIe a statement in defence of his action, anid argued to prove that the speech as published in the Record was within the requirements of parliamen tary laws. The committee decided by a majority that was large enough to p~er mit Adams, of Illinois, to refrain from casting a vote,hle having already express ed his opinion of the speech and the duty of the House on the Iloor, to r-eport a resolution directing the Government printer to omit the speech from the per mmant coy of the Reord, F l N W.LSUN, F AGET EQUITABLE LIFE A& .SUJ;A SC E s M'l(ThY, MA NNING. S. C. OSEPIl F. RIIAME, AT I':EY AT LA W, MANNING, S. C. OILN S. WILSON, Alorney and Cmmiselor at Law, LANNING, S. C. LEVI. A A"L .~; T L W MANNING, S. C. ZT Notary Public with seal. ALLA:N HIUGG fNS. D. ). S., JnrVisits -Manning every month or two professionally. JOB PRINTING. T HE TIMES OFFICE IS FITTED UP IN a manner that warrants it in soliciting your patr.onagc for job printing. Send us your orders which shall have prompt atten tion. Prices as low as the cities. Satisfac tion guaraitecd. 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 first class drug store. I have just added to my stock a line of PAINTS AND OILS, and am prepared to sell PAINTS, OILS LEAD, VARNISHES, BRUSHES, in quantities to suit purchasers. L. W. NETTLES, M.D., Foreston, S. C. A. S. J. P, . ,nn.Y. N. n-. SIONS. n.A. rINGLE Johnston, Crews , Co., --WHOLESALE JOBBERS OF DRY GOODS, Notions and Small Wares, Nos. 49 Hayne & 112 Market Streets, CIL0LESTON, S. C. THE . MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE CO. OF NEW YORK. I. A. McCURDY, Prest. Assets, $136,401,328.02. Surplus, $9,657,248.44. IThe oldest, strongest, largest, best compauy in the world. It "makes as surance doubly sure." .E. 1B. Canley, Agent for Kershaw and Clarendon, Crmlden, S. C. ED. L. GERNAND, GEYEnAL AGENT, Columbia, S. C. GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL, IsteCOLUMBIA, S. C. Istelargest hotel in the city, and has, during the past. year, been thoroughly reno vated, remodeled, and refitted with all mod eran improvements. Centrally located, and offers inducements for the accommodation of its patrons. Has 0 spacious, light, and ai-ry sample rooms. Hot and cold baths, el evator, &c. Cuisine under supervision of Mr. E. E. Post, late of Lookout Point Botel, 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, Proprietor. Manager. 50 a UNI N R.N--s. CH-. c L.1U STLOUI 0. Og~ g A LLA5.TX. W. E. BRlOWN & CO,, Manning, S. C. PHILADELPHIA SINGER. High Low Arm, Arm $28. $20. * sa THE C.A. W0D C0. r~ 4.., SEN, ESTNSANSPRiNC. 0S DobeBre Bec-odngSo us Dreec oadn and.5o 0 u Re eating r Ricl r. t $1o uzleBrrlBc Loading beShot Guns, 5 to $35. Sing-le Shot Gans, $2.50 to $12. Revolvers. $1 to $21). Double Action Self Cockers, $2 50 to $10. All kinds of Car tridges, Shells, Caps, Wads, Tools, Powder Flaks, Shot Pouches, Primers. Send 2 cents for Illustrated Catalogue. Address J. [H. JOHNSTON. GREAT WESTERN GUN WOlRKS, Pittsburg, Pa. Manning Shaving Parlor. R AIR CUTTING ARTIST'ICALLY EX ecuted, and shaving done with best razors. Special attention paid to shampoo ing ladies' heads. I have had considerable experience in several large cities, and guar antee satisfaction to my customers. Parlor next door to Manning Times. E. Dn HAMLTN. J. ADGER SMYTH. F. J. PELZER. Special Partner. SMYTH &ADGER, Factors and Commission Merchanis, iNortli Atl1anU.Ci "Whiarf, CHARLESTON, S. C. OTTO F. WIETERS, WHOLESALE GROCER, Wholesale Dealer in Wines, Licuors and Cigars, No. 121 East Bay, Charleston, S. C. OTTO TIEDEMAN & SONS, Wholesale Grocers and Provision Dealers, 172, 174, and 176 East Bay Street, O I--IL A 3- L 0 E4 or T D OlT 9B. C. F. J. PELZER, President. F. S. RODGERS, Treasurer. Atlantic Phosphate Company, cmc.--Tom, S. C. MANUFACTURERS OF STANDARD FERTILIZERS, AND IMPORTERS OF E'ire 4Cermag%3a ME.-3it PELZER, RODGERS, & CO., General Agts., BROWN'S WHARF, CHARLESTON, S. C. Mn. M. Lzv , of Manning, willbe pleased to supply his friends and the public gen ally, with any of the above brands of Fertilizers. B. B. BRowN, Pres. JoinN P. HrTcnzsoN, Manager. T. H. McCatt Gen. Supt & Tress Charleston Mattress M'f'g Company. LNCORPORATED 188. MT7E'A CP=X1M3MM~ CXE' High Grade Moss, Hair, and Wool Mattresses. Wholesale Jobbers and Manufacturers in all Kinds of F niL TIT 1V X EU, E . Capacity, 250 mattresses per day. Capacity, 500 pillows per day. Write for price list. Will pay highest prices for corn shucks. Office and Sales Room 552 and 554 King St., CHARLESTON, S. C. MOLONY & CARTER, COMMISSION MERCHANTS. Dealers in Corn, Oats, Bran, Hay, Flour, Feed. 244 & 240 Meeting St., Opp. Pavilion Hotel, CHARLESTON, S. C. ADContracts made for car load lots or less. W. E. HorxEs. LELAD Moola. W. E. HOLMES & CO., White Lead and Colors, Oils and Varnishes, Glass and Brushes~, Mill and Naval Store Supplies. STREET LAMPS and LANTERNS ofALL KINDS. OFFICE, 207 EAST BAY, CHARLESTON, S. C. - EVERYTHING IN THE PAINT, OILl, AND GLASS LINE. W M M BI D& Co., CHIARLESTON, S. C. STATFXAGENTS FOR MARVIN'S SAFES AND I-IOWESOAL~ES.__ ESTABLISHED 1844. Charleston Iron W rs Manufacturers and Dealers in Marine Stationary and Portable Engines and Boilers, Saw Mill Machinery, Cotton Presses, Ginis, Railroad, Steam boat, Machinists', Engineers' and Mill Supplies. W Repairs executed with promnptnes~s and Di.spatch. &nefdfor price lists. East Bay, Cor. Pritchard St., Charleston,_S._C.____ JOHN F. WERNERi. L. H. QUIoLLo. P. T. MCcGAH. A. S. BROWN. LOBT. P. EVANS. dOHN F. WERNER & CO., McGAHAN, BROWN & EVANS, Wholesale Grocers JOBBERS OF -AND--yGosNtos Provision Dealers. Bos he n ltig 164 & 166 East Bay and 29 & 31 o.20 28&20Metn tet Vendue Range, c. CALST ,S.. (7IIARLESTO, &. C.__ JOH WEBB IO~I J .THMS WHLOEsALE AND RETAL DEALER IN CHOICE FAMILY GROCERIES, Imported andi Domestic WineCs. JWLY VR&PAE AE Liquors and Cigars.caleEeGase anyGos Stores, 130, 189, an d 191 Meeting St., and .~ 't~' n eer eard b 118 Market Street, - ~ 4eetwrmn CHARLESTON, S. C. 7IGSRET Price lists cheerfully furnished. SpecialA L S ON . c attention given to consignmnents of countr produce.- - i' I4 lID 18 . EOLMAN BRTHE~SCDryngtoo, otis os, WhoesaetsPS an -ltig 15 ad16,EatBaNo.0 28 &in St0eetgre, CHARESTO S CCHARLESTON, . . JOHN THOMAONNJI J. MBBOMA. SCephnoThoFaJrorBro AND- LIEWEMEN, SilVER PI, PAIR, FIRE, -COMIShN ERCANT pBRCKalS, AN ELAYesLANyDs, CHALETON S C. 'AenifrChite'LEngTish Pot.n Cm. Solicit consigmentsBo cottonon1whic lierl dvncs il b mde 10 1C arrntonl, ThoaRLSL &. C.