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VOL. VI. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1890. NO. 46. BIBLE LANDS IN WINTER. THE FOURTH SERMON OF DR. TAL MAGE'S ITINERARY SERIES. The Brook of Cherith, the Good Samari tain, the Ran's Horns of Jericho, and Ma: y Other Inspiring Scones and Themes--The Fountain of Elisha. BROOKLYN, Oct. 19.-The widespread and absorbing interest in Dr. Tal mage's course of sermons on the Holy Land and adjoining countries is de monstrated by the thousands who are turned away from the doors of the Brooklyn Academy of Music on Sun day mornings, and The Christian Her ald services in the New York Academy of Music on Sunday evenings, unable to gain even standing room in those immense auditoriums. To-day the fourth sermon of the series was preach ed as before, in this city in the morn ing and in New York at night. Hav ing announced as his text Luke x, 30: "A certain man went down from Jerusalem to Jericho," Dr. Talmage said: it Is the morning of December 5 in Jerusalem, and we take stirrups for the road along which the wayfarer of old fell among thieves who left him wounded and half dead. Job's picture of the horse in the orient as having neck "clothed with thunder" is not true of most borses now in Palestine. There is no thunder on their necks, bough there is some lightning in their heels. Poorly fed and unmercifully whacked, they sometimes retort. To Americans and English, who are ac customed to guide horses by the bridle, these horses of the orient, guided only by foot and voice, make equestrianism an uncertainty, and the pull on the bridle that you intend for slowing up of the pace may be mistaken for a hint that you want to outgallop the wind or wheel in wift circles 1-ke the hawk. But they can climb steps and descend precipices with skilled foot, and the one I chose for our journey in Pales tine shall have the praise of going for weeks without one stumbling step amid rocky steeps, where an ordinary horse would not for an h ur maintain surefootedness. There were eighteen of our party, and twenty-two beasts of burden carried our camp equipment. We are led by. an Arab sheik, with his black Nubian servant carrying a load ed gun in full sight, but.it is the fact that this sheik represents the Turkish government which assures the safety of the caravanl. "HE FELL AMoNG THIETES." We cross the Jehoshaphat valley, which, if it had not been memorable in history and were only now discovered, would excite the admiration of all who look npon it. It is like the gorges of the Yosemite or the chasms of the Yel lowstone park. The siles of this Jehes haphat v-aey Pre tunneled with graves and overlooked by Jer an t of dephs -vershadoe by an ure. Within sight of Mount Olivet and Gethsemane and withthe heavens and the earth full of sunshine, we start out on the very road mentioned in the text when it says: "A certain man went down from Jeru salem to Jericho and fell among thieves." No road that I ever saw was so well constructed for brigandage deep gulleys, sharp turns, caves on either side. There are fifty places on this road where a highwayman might surprise and overpower au unarmed pilgrim. His cry for help, his shriek of pain, his death groan would be ans wered only by the echoes. On this road to-day we met groups of men who judging from their countenances have in their veins the blood of many genera tions of Rob Roys. Josephus says that Herod at one time discharged from the service'of the temple forty thousand men, and that the great part of' them became robbers. So late as 1820 Sir Frederick Henniker, an English tour ists, was atta::ked on this very road from Jerusalem to Jericho and shot and almost slain. There has never been any sacrcity of bandits along the road we travel to-day. With the fresh memory of some re cent violence In their minds Christ tells the people of the good Samaritan who came along that way and took care of a poor fellow that had been set upon by villainous Arabs and rebbed and pounded and cut. We encamped fox lunch that noon close by an old stone building, said to be the tavern where the scene spoken of in the Bible culmi nated. Tumbled in the dust and ghast ly with wounds the victim of this high way robbery lay in the middle of the road-a fact of which I am certain be cause the Bible says the people passed by on either side. There were 12,000 priests living at Jericho, and they had temple. And one of these ministers of religion, I suppose, was on his way to the temple service, and he is startled as be sees this bleeding victim in the mid dIe of the road. "Oh," he says, "here is a man that has been attacked of thieves. Why don't you go home?" says the uinisterThe wan, in a comatose state. makes no answ'er. or, with a half dazed look, puts hli wo.unded hand to his gashed forehead and drawls out, "What?" "Vell," says the minister, "I1 inugt hurry on to my'duties at Jerusa lem. .I have to kill a lamb and two pigeons in sacrifice to-day. 1 cannot spend any more time with this unfor tunate. 1 guess some one else will take care of him. But this is one of the things that cannot be helped, anyhow. Beske that, my business is with souls and not with bodies. Good morning. When you get well enough to sit up I will be glad to see you at the temple." THE NEGLECTFUL PRIEST. And the minister curves his way out toward the overhanging sides of the road and passes. You hypocrite! One of the chief offices of religion is to heal wounds. You might have done here a kIndness that would have been more acceptable to God than all the incense that will smoke up from your censer for the next three weeks, and you miss ed the chance. Go on your way-exe crated by the centuries. Soon afterward a Levite came upon the scene. The Levites looked after the music of the temple and waited upon the priests and provided the sup pies of the temple. This Levite, pass ng along this road where we are today took a look at the mass of bruises and laceration in the middle of the road. -My ! my !" says the Levite; "this man is awfully hurt and he ought to be helped. But mny business is to sing in the choir at the temple. If I am not there no one will carry my part. Be sides that ther5 may not Le enough frankincense for the censers and the wine or oil may bave given out, ana what a fearful balk in tneo service that would make. Then one of the priests might get his breastplate on crooked. But it seems too bad to leave this man In this condition. Perhaps ? had bet ter try to stanch this oleeding and give him a little stimulant. But no! TIhe ceremony at Jerusalem is of more im portance than taking care of the wounds of a man who will probably soon be icad anyhow. This highway robberl ought to be stopped. for it hinders u Levites on our way up to the temple There, I have lost five minutes already Go along, you beast!" he shouts as ht strikes his heels into the sides of the animal carrying him, and the dus1 rising from the road soon hides thi hard hearted official. A ChRISTIAN IN PRACTICE. But athird person is coming along this road. You cannot expect him tc do anything by way of alleviation, be cause he and the wounded man belong to different nations, whieh have abom. inated each other for centuries. The wounded man is an Israelite, and the stranger now coming on this scene of suffering is a Samaritan. They belong to nations which hated each other with an objurgation and malediction dia bolic. They had opposition temples one on Mount Gerizim and the other on Mount Moriah-and I guess this Sama ritan, when he comes up, will give the fallen Israelite another clip and say: "Good for you! I will just finish the work these bandits began, and give you one more kick that williput you out of your misery. And here is a rag of your coat that they did not steal, and I will take that. What! Do you dare to apreal to.for mercy? Hush up! Why, your ancestors worshiped at Jerusalem when they ought to have worshiped at Gerizim. Now take that! and that! and that!" will say the Samaritan as he pounds the fallenlisraelite. No; the Samaritan rides up to the scene of suffering, gets off the beast and steps down and looks into the face of the wounded man and says: "This poor fellow does not belong to my nation, and our ancestors worshiped in lifferent places, but he Is a man, and that makes us brothers. God pity him, is I do." And he gets down on his knees and begins to examine his wounds and straighten out his limbs to see if any of his bones are broken, and says: "My dear fellow, cheer up; you ieed have no more care about yourself. !or I am going to take care of you. Let :ne feel of your pulse! Let me listen :o your breathing! I have in these ottles two liquids that will help you. 'he one is oil, and that will soothe the ain of these wounds, and the other is Nine, and your pulse is feeble and you eel faint, and that will stimulate you. Kow I must get you to ths nearest .avern." "Oh, no," says the man, "I :an't walk; let me stay here and die." 'Nonsense!"says the Samaritan. "You Lre not going to die. I am going to ut you on this beast, and I will hold rou on till I get you to a place where ro can have a soft mattress and an sasy pillow." Now the Samaritan has got the ounded man on his feet, and with nuch tugging and lifting puts him on he beast, for it is astonishing how strong the spirit of kindness will make )ne, as you have seen a mother after hree weeks of sleepless watching of ier boy, down with scarlet fever, lift ;hat half grown boy, heavier than her elf, from couch to lounge. And so his sympathetic Samaritan has un ided put the wounded man in the saddle, and at slow pace the extempo ized ambulance is moving towards the ;avern. "You feel better now, I think," says the Samaritan to the Hebrew. tz T Csay, -r-as Teol botter." 'Halloo, you landlord! help me -carry ;his man in and make him comfort tble." That night the Samaritan sat ip with the Jew, giving him water henever he felt thirsty and turning iis pillow whenever it got hot, and in he morning before the Samaritan tarted on his journey he said. "Land ord now I am obliged to go. Take ;ood care of this man, and I will be ong here soon again and pay you for sl you do for him. Meanwhile here is something to meet present expenses." rhe "two pence" he gave the landlord sounds small, but it was as much as ten iollars here and now, considering what .t would there and then buy of food sd lodging. GOOD) MEN IN ALL COMXUNIONS. As on that December noon we sat ander the shadow of the tavern where his scene of mercy had occurred, and jst having passed along the road where the tragedy had happened, I yould, as plainly as I now see the near est man to this platform, see that Bible story re-enacted, and I said aloud to :ur group under the tent: "One drop :f practical Christianity Is worth more than a templeful of ecclesiasticism, and that good Samaritan had more re ligion in five minutes than that minis ter and that Levite had in a lifetime, and the most accursed thing on earth is national prejudice, and 1 bless God that I live in America, where Gentile and Jew, Protestant and Catholic can ive together without quarrel, and where in the great national crucible the differences of sect and tribe and people are being molded into a great brotherhood, and that the question which the lawyer flung at Christ, and which brought forth this incident of the good Samaritan-'Whois my neigh bor?' is bringing forth the answer, 'My neighbor is the first man I meet in trouble,' and a wound close at hand calls louder than a temple seventeen miles off, though It covers nineteen acres." ON THE sITE OF JERICO. On the evening of Dec. 6 we walked amid the brick and morter of that shat tered city, and 1 said to myself: All this dlone by poor music blest of God, for it was not a harp, or a flute, or a clapping cymbal, or an organ played, at the sound or wnich the city surren dered to aestruction. but a rude instru meit making rude music blest of God, to the demolition of that wicked place which had for centuries defied the Al mighty. And I said, If all this was by the blessing of God on poor music, what mightier things could be done by the blessing of God on good music, skillful music, gospel music. If all the good that has already been done by music were subtracted from the world I believe three-fourths of its religior would be gone. Trhe lullabys of moth ers which keep sounding on, though the lips that sang them forty years age became ashes; the old hymns in log cabin churches and country meeting houses, and psalms in Rouse's version in Scotch kirks; the anthem in English cathedrals; the roll of organs that will never let Handel or Haydn or Beetho yen die; the thrum of harps, sweep o; the bow across bass viols, the song oi Sabbath schools storming the heavens the doxology of great assemblages why, a thousand Jerichos of sin haye by them all been brought down. Seated by the warmth of our camp fires that evening of Dec. 6, amid the bricks and debris of Jericho, and think ig what poor music has done and what mightier things could be accom pished by the blessings of God on goot music, I said- to myself: Ministers hav< been doing a grand work, and sermons have been blessed, but would it not bi well for -s to put amore emphasis er muic? Oh, for a campaign of "O0< lundred !" Oh. for a brigade of Moun Pisgahs! Oh, for a cavalry charge o "Coronations!I" Oh, for an army o Antiochs and St. Martins and Ariels Oh, for enough orchestral batons lift ed to marshal all nations! As Jeriche was surrounded by poor music for sev en days, and was conquered, so let ou earth be surrounded seven days b: good gospel music, and the roint planet will be taken for God. Not waln of oppositin, not a throne n A HOTEL DISASTER. THOUGHT TO HAVE BEEN THE WORI OFA FIRE FIEND. A Graphic Description of [the Most Ca lanitous Conflagration Slce tie Lon gue Point Insane Asylum Was Destroy ed-How Many Lives Were Saved. SYnacUrSE Oct. 16.-The magniicen Leland. the most modern and finest ap pointed hotel in Central New York, i to-day nothing but a mass of smoulder ing ruins. It was 12:45 this mornin( when fire was discovered in the regior of the kitchen, located on the secone flood, in the rear of the west side of the building. Inside of fifteen Minutes th( building was in flames from end to end and before thirty minutes had elapsed the walls had fallen, with the exception of the northeast corner. The whole wna one seething furnace. to which was add ed the horror that many lives were in volved. At first it was feared that the loss of life was in the neighborhood of thirty, but as the day wore along, the number of missing and dead wa-s re duced to seven or eight. Strong men seemed paralyzed with fear and knew not what to do. Others more cool hurriedly donned some of their clothing and girded about them the pat ent fire escape, with which each room was equipped. It was nothing but a piece of webbing and rope, but by its means many lives were saved. The burning hotel, viewed from the street, presented a scene which will never be forgotten. It was agonizing in the ex treme. In many windows of the five stories of the burning building could be seen men and women piteously calling for help or making their escape by means of the rope applianers. In a window on the fifth story a man and woman were seen to be apparently struggling in each other's arms. The woman evidently wanted to throw her self out of the window. B3elow them was a sea of flames. Shortly after they were lost to view. On the fifth floor toward the Fayette street side tour women ap peared at a window. Their screams for help could be heard above the din and roar. The firemen shouted to stay where thev were. The hook and ladder was puf in position. The evils of overhead wires were again demonstrated. The wires were in the way and prevented the raising of the ladders. Minutes seem ed hours while one of the laddermen mounted the rounds and cut the wires. Among the frightened women at the window was Annie Cummins, one of the servants. Her companions tried to per suade her from jumping headlong in the street while the ladder men were at work hoisting ladders. Willing hands had hold of the jumping net. The Cummins woman jumped with the evident inten tion of landing in the net. The Cummins woman in her descent struck the wires, and her body bounded over and over, and she fell a bruised and mangled heap seven feet from the net. Meanwhile the ladder men were work ing with a will and succeeded in plac ing the extension ladder against the building. A cry of horror rang out from the spectators when it was found it was short, but this was quick ly succeeded by a cheer when one of the ladder men mounted the ladder and, standing on the topmost round, reached up and helped down the three women. It was the work of a boro. Had the Cummins women waited a moment or two her life would have een saved. On all sides men and women could be seen dropping from the windows or sliding down the fire escapes. In the entre of the building was a court yard. ere was being enacted similar scenes o those on the outside of the building. Ihe guests in the rooms facing this ourt in many instances had to make heir escape by this means. Some umped, wvhile others used the fire es apes. On the roof of the boiler- house loca ed at the west side of the building, at ne time lay six or seven persons un onscious and injured. They were re :oved by the firemen and others to places of safety. The flames swept through the build ng with unparalleled rapidity. Chief Engineer Riley, of the fire department, says that when he arrived at the scene e and his men made for the upper por tion of the building. He with a couple f hosemen, had reached the fourth floor, when they could go no further. Cora Tanner, an actress, made escape by the fire escape. Upon being aroused she rushed into the hail and dashed in to the first open room, which was oc upied by a gentleman who was about to lower himself by the fire escape. She ried to him, "For God's sake save me!" And the man stopped in his flight and adjusted the escape to Miss Tanner. He lowered her to the ground and than followed. Miss Tanner was not ser ously injured, but the palms of her hands were lacerated by holding so tightly to the rope. Miss Tanner saved her jewels aud $500 in cash and her je wel case and tied it about her neck. Miss Tanner was taken to the Vander bilt H ouse and tended to in the ladies parlor. The other members of her com pany are also at the Vanderbilt House. Miss D~upree andl Miss Klein, both of the same company, had narrow escapes. T hey wvere on the fifth floor, and would doubtless have perished had it not been for the courageous boy who ran the ele vator. They groped around the hall till they heard a shout to come to the elevator. They followed the sound of the voice and found the car. They were taken diown safely, although flames shot into ihe elevator at nearly every floor. Win, 1. Glover. acting manager for Miss Tanner, who was Itiling an engage ment at the Grand Opera House, says: -Nearly if not all of the young ladlies of Miss Tanner's company, wvho occu pied rooms on the third andl fourth loors of the hotel, had retired, but sev eral of the gentlemen were still oul when the tire started. I threw a few~ of my clothes and personal effects intc my trunk, but lost them in the end I was on the fourth floor. Amnn others on that floor wvas Miss Adt Dwyer of the company. We mzet it the hall and started in the direction o1 the sound of the voice of a fiireman who was showing frantic men anc woen the way to the stairs. We go1 separated in the crowd in the halls where the scene was an awful one The gas mnust have been put out by tby dense smoke, for the halls were soon it total darkness. I did not see Mis: Dwyer again untill we met on thi ground fioor. I lost all of moy persona effecte except my watch and money." Jno. Bridgmnan, the night clerk. wa siting in the oflice, and the first ha -knew of the fire was when one of thi night hands opened the rear door an< -the oflice was lilled with smoke. Thi bels were at once set at work to a wakej Ithe sleeping guests. lIn twenty-tivi minutes from the first alarm the north ern side of the building fell in, so rapic was the progress of the fire. Fifteel minutes later the centre of the easteri wall fell with a terrific crash. At 1:3 the wvest walls fell, carrying with them; Sjtwo-story brick building on Wes tFay ette street occupied by the Curtis Mnfactnring compny and Charle tyranny. not a palace of sin, not an en terprise of unrighteousness, could stan the mighty throb of such atmospheri< pulsation. Music! It sounded at the laying of creation's corner stone wher the morning stars sang together, Mu sic! It will be the last reverberation when the archangel's trumpet shal. wake the dead. Music! Let its ful: power be now tested to comfort and bless and arouse and save. SOUNDING THE TRUIPET FOR SALVA TION. The region round about the city walls seemed to me white with cotton such as Thenius describes as once growing there, and sweet with sugar cane, and lucious with orange and figs and pomegranates, and redolent with such flora as can only grow where a tropical sun kisses the earth. And the hour came back to me when in the midst of all that splendor Herod died, commanding his sister Salome immedi ately after his death to secure the as sassination of all the chief Jews whom he had brought to the city and shut up in a circus for that purpose, and the news came to the audience in the theatre as some one took the stage and announced to the excited multitude: "Herod is dead! Herod is dead! Then in my dream all the pomp of Jericho vanished, and gloom was added to gloom,and desolation to desolation and woe to woe, until, perhaps the rip pling waters of the Fountain of Elisha suggesting it-as sounds will some times give direction to a dream-I thought that the waters of Christ's sal vation and the fountains "open for sin and uncleanness" were rolling through that plain and across that continent, and rolling round the earth, until on either side of their banks all the thorns became flowers, and all the deserts gardens, and all the hovels mansions, and all the funerals bridal processions, and all the blood of war was turned into dahlias, and all the groans became anthems, Dante's "Inferno" became Dante's -Divina Commedia." and "Par adise Lost" was submerged by "Para dise Regained," and tears became crys tals, and cruet swords came out of foundries glistening plowshares, and in my dream at the blast of a trumpet the prostrated walls of Jericho rose again. And some one told me that as these walls in Joshua's time at the sounding trumpets of doom went down, now at the sounding trumpet of the gospel they come up again. And I thought a man appeared at the door of my tent, and I said, "Who are you and from whence have you come ?" and he said, "I am the Samaritan you heard of at the tavern on the road from Jerusalem to Jericho as taking care of the man who fell among thieves, and I have just come from healing the last wound of the last unfortunate in all the earth." And I rose from my pillow in the tent to greet him, and my dream broke and I realized it was only a dream, but a dream which shall become a glorious reality as surely as God is true and Christ's gospel is the world's Catholi con. "Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Ghost, as it was at the beginning, is now and ever shall be. world without end. Amen." Race Riot im Georgia. ATLANTA. Ga., Oct. 22.-Governor Gordon to-night received this dispatch from McDonald, Thomas County: "Send one company of troops im mediately to suppress a riot of armed negroes, headed by L. B. Barnes, white. We are at the mercy of an armed ne gro mob. F. M. STOKES." The latest information gives this ac count of the riot: It happened at Stokes' turpentine mills five miles from the railroad, in Coffee Gonnty, McDon ad's mills being the nearest station. It seems that F. M. Stokes, D. B. Varna and Thomas Seers, white men, disputed about a tract of land. Varna put his men to work on the timber. Seers shot and wounded one negro, driving off the others. Returning in the afternoon with a posse Seers found the negroes again there and fired into the crowd. To re venge themselves on Seers the negroes armed and assaulted the settlement. having it entirely at their mercy. Just what has happened since that assault is uncertain. The messenger who brought the dis patch to the telegraph office states that just as he was leaving four white men had been shot down. The Waycross Rifles, by order of the Governor, are now on their way there. Nothing has been heard from the scene of action since the messenger left there and four white men were shot down. The above is taken from the Augusta Chronicle. Later Information by the Associated .Lress say that one of the men who were shot down is dead, and that mattero were somewhat quieted, and It is believed there will be no more trouble. Thrashed His Mafgner. ATLANTA, Ga., Oct. 23.-Colonel Tom Winn is a plucky little alliance man who is making the race as a Democratic nomi nee for Congress in the Nmth District against Picket, Independent, and Dar nell, Republican. The campaign is the hottest in the State. A few days ago there appeared in a paper published in one of the Counties of the district an article charging Winn with cowardice in the war. Winn didn't hear of the charge until yesterday, when he was speaking in Gwinnett County. As soon as he saw it he called upon old soldiers who had been with him to give their views, and a dozen or so promptly gave the statement the lie. It was charged that the article had been written by H. A. Duncan, and an hour or so after the meeting Winn met Duncan in the road while on his way to town to illl another appointment. Duncan didn't deny having written the attack, so Winn promptly proceeded to take it out of his hide in the most ap proved mountain style. Winn weighs 126 pounds and Duncan 173. For live minutes there was a lively scene right in the middle of the road. As the old rhyme has it: They fit and fit, and gouged and bit, And struggled in the mud. Then Duncan, who had decidedly the worst of it, "hollered enuff." Winn dusted off his clothing, wiped off his face, said he'd do it again if necessary and went on his vote getting way re jocing. ________ Too Much of a Good Thing. - ERY MIcr., Oct. 21.-Three miles fr.om this village have lived for many years William Fillinger and his wife Last summer they attended a series o: revivals and became religious fanatic -in a mild way. With them lived Filli ger's mother, who had long been physic ally frail. It worried Fillinger and hi: I wife that the elder woman was unbap Stized, and so it was decided that that rit< Sshould be performed, although the poo. Swoman was confined to her bed. Takini 1water to her room, they began the cere I mony by dashing water in her face, aut t continued it until from shock and ex f haustion the woman ceased to struggle f The horrified fanatics then discoveret !too late that she was dead. Soon after - ward neighbors were attracted to ti house, and, discovering the dead body - took charge of the nearly-crazed pail r They also rescued a little child, whonm y they assert, the couple was about to sut 1 rmit to a simular deadly baptism. 'Th a couple were then taken to the jail a fComunna. M. Gibbs. The southeast wail fell soon after, and when daylight broke all that remained standing of the beautiful structure was a section of the north C east corner and the elevator shaft. The latter stood like a monument. threaten ing to fall at any moment. Fortunate lv. there was little or no wind, and the - mighty volume of flame rose high in - the air, raining down showers of sparks - and burning embers on the vast crowds which had assembled and endangering near-by property. The horrible loss of life and property last night is in all human probability due to a fire fiend. Richard Perry, of the insurance firm of- Bowan & Perry, was on the scene and made a personal examination, and from what he saw he believes the place was set on fire by some one employed in the hotel. SERVED HIM RIGHT. One GhoulIsh Fiend Meets Justice by a Mob. MAccN, GA., Oct. 17.- Willie Sin gleton. a 19-year-old nogro, was lynch ed on the outskirts of the city tonight for rapeteommitted three weeks ago. The victim of the outrage was the 19 year-old daughter of one of Macon's most highly respected citizens, a beau tiful young debutante, highly educated and accomplished and a favorite in soci ety. The home of her parents is in the suburbs of the city, two miles form the Central railway station, but on the elec tric car line. The young lady had been away fromi home and was expected to return on a train reaching the city at 11 o'clock at night. By some misunderstanding the parents of the young lady drove with their carrage to the Central depot where, as she reached the city by the East Tennessee road, whose station is in another part of the city. Her parents finding she had not ar rived on the train they met, drove home, suspecting nothing wrong. Meantime the young lady had alighted from the train at the depot on the opposite side of the town, and was surprised and be wildered at not being met by zme member of the family. She soughi the aid of a police officer, who advised her to go to some hotel for the night. She insisted, however on being taken home. She had been away for the summer and was in a fever of expectancy at the prospect of meeting her loved ones again. On her insistance the police man called a cab driver by the name of Will Singleton, and assisting the young lady in, gave 1 he driver his directions. The negro drove away with his fare, but instead of taking a direct route to her father's house he drove her by a dark and unfrequented road, which led through a grove deserted at night. Here, suddenly stopping his carriage, he turned upon the heretofore unsus pecting girl and before she could even utter a scream had choked and dragged her from the carriage and proceeded to execute his foul purpose. The brute treated his victim with ghoulish cruelty, tearing her garments and bruising and maltreating her most shamefully. Having gratified his bru tal passions, he put her in the carriage and drove hcr within a hundred yards of her father's door, when he rudely pushed her out, and, telling her that if she breathed a word of what had hap pened he would kill her, drove rapidly away. The poor girl managed to struggle to the house, and when inside to tell her horrified family the dreadf ul story. Since then she has been lingering be tween life and death from the effects of the brutal attack. The rapist disappeared and was not heard of again until yesterday in Eu faula, Ala. He was taken from the train a few miles from Macon by an armed party, and to-night was carried to the woods where the crime was com mitted and swung to a tree, The brute had previously been iden tified both by his victim and by a police man who knew him, and the crowd did the work with the feeling that a good deed was being done. A large placard was fastened to the body of the negro as the wind swayed it to and fro, on which was inscribed a warning to all others of his race. All present took an oath not to reveal the name of the young lady.- .augusta Chronicle.___________ An Ailiance Bank. CoLxUMA, S. C., Oct. 18.-There was a meeting of several of the leading far mers of Richiand and Lexington counties in Agricultural Hall at noon yesterday in respose to a call issued for the purpose of ascertaining their views on the advisability of establish an Alliance bank in this city. The meeting was the result of a long agi tation of the subject, and the matter is now fairly started and will, no doubt. be carried out, as there has been con siderable encouragement expressed by all to whom the project has been sug ested. SThe gentlemen present were the dele gates elected at meetings of the various sub-Allance in the Counties, and after a long conference with closed doors it was decided to apply for a commission to establish a large Alliance bank in Columbia with a capital stock of $100, 000, and to also establish an Alliance store. The following committee was appointed to wait on the Secretary of State, and to apply to him for the issue of a commission: lHon. J. H. Kinsler and E. M. Stober of Richland, and Cononel J. C. Counts and Dr. Shuler of Lexingion. After along discussion the con ference adjourned at 2 o'clock. The originators of the scheme, itis said, are the farm ers alone, aunt when the bank is estab lished they propose to enter in mercan tile pursuits, and, if possible, erect fac tories and carry on a general manu facturing business. A canning factory is one of the industries proposed, and this will be one of the first to be put in operation.-Register. Died a Horribie Death. BIRMINGHAM, Oct. 22.-The Daily News has learned that Willie Lewis, the 10-ear-old son of John Lewis, section foreman of the Louisville and Nashville railroad at Mountain Creek, sixty miles south of this city, died of hydrophobia after atwful suffering for a week. Six weeks ago the boy, while playing with a pet dog, was bitten by the animal. Two day afterwvards the dog showed signs of hydrophobia, and was killed. T wo weeks ago the boy complained of the wound where the dog had bit him, but it gave him no trounle until a week ago, when he wvent raving mad. H~e had to be placed in room ar.. shut up. Hemade every possible effort to kill himself. lie would bark like a dog and foam at the mouth. The Color Line in New England. ~BOSTON, Oct. 17.-The Rev. J. HI. Hee tor, of San Francisco. colored Prohibi tion orator, who recently wvent to Pitts field to address the Pr-ohibitionist of that city in company with his wvife and little bo'v and Mine.'Bavard. also color ed. of Boston, were refuseil admission to the two hotels there. Hector claims on account of their color, as other par; ties were subsequently accommodated, though the proprietors had informed the Hector family that the hotels were ifull. 1,SENATOR M. C. Butler regards the t askell movement as a colossal blunder. s lie believes that if too much fuss is not a made ovr it it wmm fail of itsef. GIVE THE FARMER A CHANCE. They Should at Least be Giren an Eve Start with Monopolies. Mr. Augustus R. Wright, of Georgif writes as follows in the Southern Cu) tivator and Dixie Farmer. There is : great deal of force in what Mr. Wrigh says, and, sooner or later the evils com plained of must be remedied or ther will be revolution. That this govern ment is now run In the interest of th gigantic monopolies scattered through out the land, not only to the detrimen of the farmer, but to every man in i who has to labor for his bread, n< thoughtful man will deny. The farm ers can remedy the evil if they wil arise in their power, north, east, wes1 and south, and see to it that no mar goes to Congress who is in favor oj these monopolies. Here is what Mr Wright says: It is a false assertion that the farm ers say, "No man shall hold office ex cept farmers"-"false as hell!" Dema gogues, sly usurers, who desire to kee: up the present system, all "liars, whc shall have their portions with hypo crites and unbelievers," say it-nobody else. Farmers say, and their true friends say, no man shall hereafter hold office (if they can help it) who does not pay more respect to their rights and the rights of the working classes than has been paid to them since the war. They say that monopolies created by the power of the money class through the government, has manifestly gotten all of their honest toil and other labor ers, in the last quarter of a century. That, while they are not starving, as they are in Europe, yet they have few comforts and fewer luxuries; that while they ought to have a surplus, their lands are almost universally mortgaged to bondholding usurers at ruinous rates of interest; that while statistics show the profits of labor do not exceed three per cent, they pay from eight to twenty to keep off the officers of the law. They say-their brother laborers say-"this thing shall have an end; that death is preferable to the degraded life capital proposes labor." Labor does not force the issue, capital forces it. Let it come, and God grant victory to the right! The farmers would not ask loans from the government if the govern ment was not engaged in the business of lending, and has been for more than a quarter of a century, without in terest. And to whom does itlend? To the rich only. "Hear, oh heaven, give ear, oh earth ?" To the rich only. And what for? To lend to the working classes at rates of interest the devil would blush to own. Money never blushes. It wants more. The farmers want to borrow money to pay their debts. These rich fellows want it to shave with. Oh! but these rich fellows can secure their debts by depositing their bonds with the government. The working classes have not got any bonds. True, but what gives credit to the bonds? Who pays the interest on the bonds? Who pays the bonds them selves finally? Do not the sons of toil? Government lends to the rich class to lend again. Why not lend to the work ing class to pay their debts-yes, to save from the hammer their home steads, around which cluster all the noble emotions of wife and children and home. Are bonds more secure at nearly whole value, than homesteads at half value? It is nonsense to talk about the greater security of the bonds. Why ot loan on real estate, and why not give to its owners the right to bank also ? No man living can give a reason except that it would cheapen the rate f interest and stop the enormous profits of this oppressive and detestable monopoly, which has already pretty well absorbed the wealth of the whole ountry. The government not only lends to the rich only, but it exempts their property the bonds) from taxation. Bonds reate no wealth; lands are the founda tion of all wealth. Bonds in their in terest quality, weigh like lead upon the whole people. If anything ought to be exempt from taxation it is land en gaged in productive industry. Give farmers, as a class, the same rights which are given to bondholding bank ers, and, instead of mnourning and want and woe, our beloved land from Maine to Louisiana, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific, would surpass Eden in plenty, beauty and glory. God has given to us a beautiful world, and to the Americans the love liest of all lands, and the freest of all governments. Covetousness, controlling govern ment, if not arrested, wvill make it, as it has in Europe, the charnel house of misery and the graveyard of labor. More anon (when the true Democracy gets out its candidates) of the question to whom to lend money and who should make the whiskey ? if any is made, and on bounties to beet roots, and sugar cane, and pensions to second widows of soldiers who "fought, bled and died to save the country." Hydrophobia Not Fatal. TRENTON, N~. J., Oct. 22.-Medical ex perts are interested in the case of Mrs. William A. Maxson, who, a week ago, was in the throes of genuine hydropho bia, but is now pronounced cured by Dr. William T. Rogers, her attending phy sician. She has been improving all the past week, and yesterday, for the first time since she was taken with the dis ease, she was able to sit up in bed and enjoy a meal of milk toast and poached Fgrom the Wednesday preceding until Sunday last the woman barked and snap ped lilke a dog, and the strength of three men was required to hold her down as she passed quickly from one spasm imt another. Dr. Rogers and other physic1 ans say there is no doubt that it wasa case of genuine rabies, and that the cure is most remarkable after the disease had reached such an advanced stage. The4 bite which brought on the attack was in tlicted by a pet dog five years ago. Mrs Maxson is thirty-two ,years of age. She is of slight build and. is the mother o0 several children. Mlost villainous Falsehood. TOPEK~A, Kan., Oct. 18.-President. L L. Polk and L. F. Livingston addresse( the vast multitude, who had assemble ed to listen to the great southern orators and the applause with which they were reeted did not savor of sectional ani "mosity, but to the great surprise of all The Topeka Capitol, the radical, bloody shirt organ of modern Republicanism published several columns of the mos villainous falsehooh and abuse of th< honored guests of the Kansas State All ance, and the people of this conventiol unanimously adopted strong resolution: of censure of that journal, declaring tha it had forfeited all right to the patron age or respect of all respectable citizen of the state. Kansas, on the 4th of November, Wil respond to Georgia, and will send men t< our next cong-ess who will unite wit: the representatives that the Alliance o the South shall select in restoring to thi people of our common country equi rights to all and spesial privileges t none. A BIG TARIFF SCARE. Talk about Flahtina the Mckinley Act it the Courts. WASHINGTON, October 23.-A num ber of newspapers this morning pub lish articles foreshadowing attempts tc a contest the legality of the McKinley t tariff upon various grounds. one being - clerical errors and omissions in the en a rolment of the bill with the conference - committee changes. 3 Concerning these publications Secre . tary Windom said this morning he knew nothing ollicially about protests against the legality of the Mc.Kinley tariff bill. "I do not," he said "regard it as the province of an executive ofli . cer to question the constitutionality of Acts of Congress. It is for him to en force the law as he fnds it and not to determine questions affecting its legali ty. I am therefore executing the Mc Kinley Tariff Act as I find it-approv ed by the President of the United States and certified as correct by the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives, and I shall continue to do so unless a compe tent legal tribune, such asthe Supreme Court, decides that the law is uncon stitutional. It is not for me to ques tion the validity of any of the signa tures to the bill as enrolled, neither is it for me to determine whether the bill signed by the President did or not, in fact, pass the lower house. Much less is it for me to deterraine whether omis sion of the tobacco drawback section or any other provision of the bill invali dates the law as a whole. As I under stand it the Act of October 1, 1890, is the law of the land. My duty, there fore, is plain and I shall execute its provisions to the best of my ability. Its constitutionality Is a question for the Courts and until they decide against it I shall be governed by it as it stands." Attorney General Miller positively declined to discuss the question in any of its bearings, saying it would be manifestly improper for him to do so unless it came to him in an official way. The commissioner of internal revenue. Mr. Mason, who is specially charged with the execution of the tobacco pro visions of the law, confined his remarks in regard to the alleged illegality of the law to the following: "I will obey the law as certifed by the Srcretary of State. It is not for me to say whether ornot the omission of the tobacco rebate provisions vitiates the law. Being merely an executive officer of the Government I must en force it as I find it. Anyhow, the to bacco schedule does not take effect un til January 1, so that if Congress de sires to refund the two cents a pound on all tobacco on hand when the law takes effect it has ample time to legis late to that end." No alarm is felt here among the friends of the McKinley bill as to the legality of its enactment. An old and experienced employee of the House said to-day: "Precedents of unnumbered yeazs leave no doubt that an error, whether of omission or commission, in the en rolment of a bill passed by Congress does not vitate any part of the measure except that part to which the error re lates. Errors of some kind occur at every session of Congress in at least one or more important bills, and to hold that the omission or insertion of any paragraph, word or punctuation mark invalidates not only the part of the bill to which the error is relevant, but the entire measure, would estab lish chaos in the affairs of the Govern ment and compel Congress to remain constantly in session to correct im mediately on discovery errors in bills signed by the President in order that the operations of the Government might be carried on. It is safe to say that an error occurs in at least one ap propriation bill during each Congress, and yet there h .s never been any d oubt entertained by tne accounting officers of the Government, or by any one else, as to the validity of all the appropria tions except the particular one affected by such error. In the enrolment of the Tariff Act of 1883 a comma was im properly used in the 'truit plant' _para graph, and the manifest intention of Congress thereby defeated to the great loss of the customs revenues, but there was no question as to the validity of other provisions of the law when it was passed upon by the Supre me Court. During the very last session of Con gress an error was made in the enrol ment of the river and harbor a ppropu ia tion bill by the omission of t wo ciphers in the amount appropriated for the im provement of the Illinois River, so that $1,000 instead of $100,000 was appro priated. A week or more after the bill became law the error was discovered and Congress promptly passed a joint resolution to correct it. The fact that in this joint resolution, as i'n numer Jus others passed for the correction of similar errors, Congress enacted no pro vision to give legal effect to the re mainder of the bill shows conclusively that in the opinion of the legislative branch of the Goverment an error in one part of the measure does not vit iate it as a whole." Senator Hampton's Position. CoLixBIu, October 17.-The follow ing statement of Senator IHamp tons position in the present political crisis is made with authority by Col. John W. R. Pope, editor of the Colum bia Register: "Senator Hamption, who came t o the city to-day for the first time since his return from Washington, was asked his opinon on the politica;l situa tion in the State, and said that he had written a personal letter to Col. Irhy some (lays ago saying that he would give his views in a letter for publica tion. Hie said fui ther that he would suppot the ticket nominated by the Septemb~er Convention, but that he would not speak at the meetings adver tisedl to be held here or in Charleston, as in his judlgment, these would only, prolong the existing excitement, inten sifying the bitter feeling now unfor iunately prevailing and tend to widen the breach in the Democratic party. Iii a few (lays he will addre-ss a letter to C2ol. Irby giving his veiws more fully." These are the Senato's own - ords, communicated at his request to the press of th.. State.-" N. G. G." in News andl Courier. A Slick Train Robbery. KANSss, CrrY, Mo., Oct.16I-A most -daring train robbery occurred in this city last niight while the train was standing at a small station. When the Omaha express on the Misso'.:ri Pacific. which leaves the union depot at 8:20 p. mn., had stopped at the state line station a short distance from the union depot, where the conductor and engeneer registered, three men, with out masks or visible disguzise, entered the first class car, one pretending to be a news agent selling papers, covered the passengers with their revolvers, and compelled them to hand over their valu ables, and then making their escape as the train was leaving the station with out the suspicion of any one about the station being aroused. There were about six passengers in the car and it is impossible to say howv much the rob bers got.________ SCoNGREssMAN CANDLERt says the 1 Republicans have only put aside the Sforce bill until they could hear from the people. S1OT IN A CELL. ONE OF CHIEF HENNESSY'SIMURDER. ERS MORTALLY WOUNDED. The Vendetta in New Orleans-Over Fifty Italians Arrested on the Cnarge of Be inZ Implicatedlin the Hidnight Assas sination. NEW ORLEANS, Oct. 17.-While the body of the late Chief of Police, David C. Hennessy, lay in state at the City Hall to-day Antonio Scaffida, identified as one of the assassins, was shot and mortaily wounded in the Parish Prison by Thomas C. Daffy, a brother of the ex-prize fighter of that name. Duffy informed Deputy Sheriff 0..S. Andry that he called for the purpose of seeing one of the "Dagos" arrested for the assassination of Chief Hennessy, as he believed that he was able to identify him. Scaffida came down accompanied by Deputy Sheriff Tim Dwyer and put his face within a few inches of the te to recognize who it was that wanted to see him. Duffy, who was standing about a foot from the gate, with alight ming like motion drew a revolver from his hip pocket, and, patting it within a few inches of Scaffida's face, pulled the trigger, and the Italian with a groan fell back in the corridor, the blood spurting from a wound in the left side of the neck. Duffy was disarmed. While in the station Duffy said that if the Italian died he was willing to hang. He said: "I only wish there were about seventy five more men like me." Duffy was lockedup. When the wounded man reached the Charity Hospital Judge M. C. Bringier was sent for, and with his assistant, Judge Hollander, arrived in a few min utes. Scaffida was asked if he had any thing to say before he died and replied in the affirmative. He began his state ment by saying: "We knew that Chief Hennessay and the provenzanos were good people. We were good friends of the Matrangas. I am going to die and I die innocent. My idea is the Matrangas did that to the provenzanos in jail. Oh, my I am going to die," and Scaffida closed his eyes and remained silent. More than fifty arrests have been made of parties believed to be 'p li cated in the assassination and to another Italian, Pedro Natal, was iden tified by Officer Lannagan as one of the men he saw running away from the scene of the murder. There is no longer room for doubt that the murder of Chief Hennessy was the deliberately planned work of an organized band of Italians. The crime is the latest in a series of crimes which have caused many deaths. In June a gang of Italian bravos lay in wait at midnight for another party of Italians, Matrangas, who had offended them in some way or other, and riddled the en tire party with bullets. The authori ties determined to put an end to this vendetta business, which has resulted in forty or more murders and assassina tions, and vigerous efforts were made to track and capture the criminals. Six men were arrested for the crime and tried. During the trial one of the prin cal witnessesan Italianwas assassina - The trial resulted in a conviction, but there was so much perjury that the Judge granted a new trial, which is yet to come oft Chief of Police Hennessy, who was a iitness in the first case, set to work to ollect all the evidence about the Mafia, he Stopaliagieri and other Italian assas sination societies, and about the numer us vendettas and murders commnitted by them. As there is a feud between he Italians growing out of the Mati amaga affair, he found it possible to secure ample evidence of the most sen sational character, and he promised such developments as would break up he vendetta in New Orleans forever. Eennessy well Sanderstood the risk he as running. He was a man of cour ge and fearlessness, but he deemed it rudent, from the many threats he eceived, to guard himself, and never ent without one or more officers as escort. Unfortunately, he dismissed his ody guard a few days ago, either be leving that he could protect himself or that the threats amounted to nothing. The assassins evidently knew this, and :ade their preparations for revenge. There was a meeting of the Italian' Stiletto Society on Wednesday, and it as then decided that Hennessy must e got rid of for the saft of the mem ers. The crime was careflylte. Two gangs of men were dealdfor it. They were armed with revolvers and blndierhusses, and concealed them selves in alleyways at each corner of the block on which Hfennessy lived, so that e could not escape. This was in one of the most popular portions ot the city, but. ' was a rainy night, and few per sons were abroad. It was near mid ight when Hennessy started home. EHe turned the corner and as he came under the glare of the electric light the assassins opened on him with a volley from the alleyway in which they had idden. Hennessy was taken by sur prise, and must have been wounded at the first fire, but he stood his ground, drew his revolver and fired at his assail-. ants. They replied and twenty or more shots were fired. A police officer heard them and ran to Hennessy's aid, to be himself shot in the ear. When Hennessy tenl the men who were concealed in the alleyway ran out and down the street, one of them throwing away his gun. Four other men, armed with bhmnderbusses-the party wvaiting at the corner for Hen nessy-joined the fugitives, and. the entire gang ran up the street and. dis-. appeared in the darkness. When relief reached H~enndssy he was found lying on the doorsteps. His body was riddle4 with ballets. Both his lungs were pen etrated. There was another wound very near his heart, one in his stomach, one in his side and still another in his leg. Besides, his coat was cut by no less than nine other bullets which had not penetrated the nlesh. Hlennessy was only 32 years old, but had won a high reputation as perhaps the best Chief of Police New Orleans ever had. It was he who some years ago captured the famous Italian brigand and bandit, Giuseppe Esposito, and delivered him to the italian authorities. It is thought that among the murderers may have been some of Esposito's band, which was for years a terrorito Naples and Sicily. Without Food, Fuel or Clothing. CuIciAo, Oct. 18.-The Mayor has re ceived alengthy appeal from Houghton, Brown County, South Dakota, signed by A. C. Barzlett, J. H. Lewis, E. M. Piper, Samuel Johnston and B. Cummings. These men represent the towns of Green field and Brainard. They say the cro ps of Brown County have been a ailure during the past three years and the people are absolutely without food, fuel or clothing, and ask the Mayor to appeal for aid in their behalf. Mayor Cregier will receive subscriptions of either mon ey, clothing or provisions and have them sent to the committee named in the letter.