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Vi MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1890. NO. 48. SOJ*LOY10S GARDENS. DR. TALMAGE CONTINUES HIS SKET CHES OF THE HOLY LAND. Continued interest in the Lecture- at the Tabernacle and the Addresses Delivered Under the Auspices of The Christian Herald-The Resurrection. BROOKLYN. Nov. 2.-Dr. Talmage preached the sixth sermon on his tour in Palestine to-day. To-day's sermon was on the gardens and public works of Israel's magniticent kimg, and the text Ecclestastes ii. 4-;: "1 made me great works. I builded me houses, I planted me vineyards, I made me gar dens and orchards, and planted trees in them of all kinds of fruits; I made mne pools of water to water therewith the wood that bringeth forth trees." Dr. Talmage said : A spring morning and breakfast at Jerusalem. A king with robes snowy white in chariot decked with gold, drawn by eight horses, high mettled, and housings as brilliant as if scollop ed out of that very sunrise, and like the winds for speed, followed by a regi ment of archers on horseback, with hand on gilded bow and arrows with steel points flashing in the sun, clad from head to foot in Tyrian purple, and black hair sprinkled with gold dust, all dashing down the road, the horses at full jun. the reins loose on their necks, and the crack of whips and the halAoo of the reckless caval cade putting the miles at defiance. Who is it, and what is it ? King Solomon taking an outing before breakfast from Jersualem to his'gardens and parks and orchards and reservoirs, six miles down the road toward Hebron. What a contrast between that and myself on that very road one morning last De cember going afoot, for our plain ve hicle turned back for photographic ap paratus forgotten; we on the way to tind what is called Solomon's pools, the ancient water works of Jerusalem. and the gardens of a king nearly three thousand years ago. We cross the aqueduct again and again, and here we are at the three great reservoirs, not ruins of reservoirs, but the reservoirs themselves, that Solomon built three millenniums ago for the purpose of catching the mountain streams and passing them to Jerusalem to slake the thirst of the city, and also to irrigate the most glorious range of gardens that ever bloomed with all colors or breath ed with all redolence, for Solomon was the greatest horticulturist, the greatest Lotanist, the greatest ornithologist.the greatest capitalist and the greatest scientist of his century. WONDERFUL ANCIENT MASONRY. Come over the piles of gray rock, and here we are at the first of the three reservoirs, which are on three great levels, the base of the top reservoir higher than the top of the second, the base of the second reservoir higher than the top of the third, so arranged that the waters gathered from several sources above shall descend from basin to basin, the sediment of the water de posited in each of the three, so that by the time it gets down to the aqueduct which is to take it to Jerusalem it has had three filtering,%; -and isasum as when the clouds rained it. Wonderful specimens of masonry are these three reservoirs. The white cement fasten ing the blocks of stone together is now just as when the trowels three thous and years ago smoothed the layers. The highest reservoir 380 feet by 229; the second, 423 feet by 160, and the lowest reservoir, 589 feet by 169, and deep enough and wide enough and mighty enough to iloat an ocean steamer. On that December morning we saw the waters rolling down from reser voir to reservoir, and can well under stand how in this neighborhood the imperial gardens were one great blos som, and the orchard one great basket of fruit, and that Solomon in his pal ace, w'riting the song of Songs and Ec clesiastes, may have been drawing il lustrations from what he had seen that very morning in the royal gardens, when he alluded to melons, and man drakes, and apricots, and grapes, and pomegranates, and figs, and spiken, and cinnamon, and calamus, and cam phire, and "apple trees among the trees of the wood," and the almond tree as flourishing, and to myrrh and frankin cense, and represented Christ as "gone down into his gardens, and the beds of spices to feed in the gardens, and to gather lilies," and to "eyes like fish pools," and to the voice of the turtle dove as heard in the land. I think it was when Solomon was showing the Queen of Sheba through these gardens that the Bible says of her, "There re mained no more spirit in her." She gave it up. But all this splendor did not make Solomon happy. One day, after get tinig back from his morning ride and betore the horses had yet been cooled off, and rubbed down by the royal equerry, Solomon wrote the memorable words 'following my text, like a dirge played after a grand march. "Biehold all 'was vanity and vexatioa of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun." in other words, "It don't pay '" Would God that we might all learn the lesson that this world cannot produce hiappi ness ! At Marseilles there is a castel hated house on high ground crowned with all that grove and g:irden can do, and the whole place looks out upon as enchanting a landscape as the wod holds, water and hill clasping hands 'n a perfect bewitchment of scenery. but the owner of that place is totally blind, and to him all this goes for nothing, Illustrating the truth th it whether one be physically or morally blind brilliancy of surrounding cannot give satisfac tion; but tradition says that when the "wise men of the east" were being guided by the star on the way to Beth lehem they for a little while lost sight of that star, and in despair and exhaus tibn came to a well to drink, when look ing down into the well they stw the star reflected in the water and that cheered them, and they resumed their journey; and I have the notion that though grandeur and pomp of sur roundings may not afford peace at the well of God's consolation, close by. you may find happiness, and the plainest cup att the well or salvation may hold the brightest star that ever shone from the heavens. wISDOM OF THlE ANCIENTs. As I look upon this great aqueduct of Palestine, a wondrous specimen of ancient masonry, about seven feet high, two feet wide, sometimes tunneiling the solid rock and then rolling its waters through stoneware pipes, an aqueduct doing its work ten miles before it gets to those three reservoirs, and then gathering their wealth of refreshment and pouring it on to the mighty city ot Jerusalem and filling the brazen sea of her temple, and the bathrooms of her palaces, and the great pools of Siloam, and 11ezekiah, and Bet'iesda, I find that our century has no monopoly of the world's wonders, and that the cornceit ed age in which we live had better take in some of the sails of its pride when it remembers that it is hard work in later ages to get miasonry that will last fifty years, ;> say nothing of the three thousand, and no modern machinery could lift blocks of stone like some of thos ctanding high up in the walls of Bhalbee. and the art of printing claim ed for recent ages was practiced by the Chines fourteen hundred years ago and that our midnight lightning ex press rail train was foreseen by the prophet Nahum, when in the Bible he i wrote, "The chariots shall rage in the streets. they shall jostle one against an other in the broad ways, they shal seem like torches. they shall run like lightning," and our electric telegraph was foreseen by Job, when in the Bible le wrote, "Canst thou send lightnings that they may go and say unto thee 'lIere we are?'" What Is that talking by the lightnings but the ectric tele graph? I do not know but that the electric forces now being year by year more thoroughly harnessed may have been employed in ages extinct, and tha1 the lightnings all up and down the sky have been running around like lost hounds to find their former master Embalment was a more thorougi art three thousand years ago than to day. Dentistry, that we suppose one of the important arts discovered it recent centuries. is proven to be four thousand years old by the filled teeth of the mummies in the museums a1 Cairo, Egypt, and artificial teeth or gold plates found by Belzoni in the tombs of departed nations. We have been taught that Harvey discovered the circulation of the blood so late as the Seventeenth century. Oh, no! Solomon announces it in Ecclesiastes, where first haying shown that he understood the spinal cord, silver colored as it is, and that it relaxes in old age-"the silver cord be loosed," goes on to compare the heart to a pitcher at a well, for the three canals of the heart do receive the blood like a pitcher," or the pitcher be broken at the fountain." What isthat but the circulation of the blood, found out twenty-six hundred years before Harvey was born? After many cen turies of exploration and calculatior astronomy finds out that the world iE round. Why, Isaiah knew it was round thousands of years before when in the Bible he said: "The Lord sitteth upon the circle of the earth." Scientist: toiled on for centuries and found ou1 refraction or that the rays of light whet touching the earth were not straight but bent or curved. Why, Job knew that when ages before in the Bible he wrote of the light: "Ilt is turned as clay to the seal." BETHLEIIE31 OF JUDEA. We are on this December afternoo on the way to the cradle of him who called himself greater than Solomon We are coming upon the chief cradle of all the world, not lined with satin but strewn with straw; not sheltered by a palace, but covered by a barn; no1 presided over by a princess, but hovered over by a peasant girl; yet a cradle the canopy of which is angelic wings, and the lullaby of which is the first Christ mas carol ever sung, and from which all the events of the past and all the events of the future have and musi take (late as being B. C. or A. D.-be fore Christ or after Christ. All eterni ty past occupied in getting ready fo this cradle, and all eternity to come t< be employed in celebrating its conse quences. I said to the tourist companies plan ning our oriental journey, "Put us in Bethlehem in December, the place and the month of our Lord's birth," and we had our wish. I am the only man who has ever attempted to tell how Bethle hem looked at the season Jesus was born. Tourists and writers are there in February, or March, or April, when the valleys are an embroidered sheet of wild flowers, and anemones anc ranuning to climb the steps, and lark and bultinch are 1looding the air with bird orchestra. But I was there in December, a winter month, the barrer beach between the two oceans of redol ence. I was told I must not go ther< at that season, told so before I started told so in Egypt; the books told me so all travelers that I consulted about il told me so. But I was determined t< see Bethlehem the sa me month in whict Jesus arrived, and nothing 'could dis. suade me. Was I not right in wanting -to know how the Holy Land lookec when Jesus came to it? He did no1 land amid flowers and song. When the angels chanted on the famoum birth-night all the fields of Palestine were silent. The glowing skies were answei (-d by gray rocks. As Bethle hem stood against a bleak wintry sky ] clirmbed up to it, as through a bleali wintry sky Jesus descended upon it His way down was fronm warmth tc chill, from bloom to barrenness, froir everlasting June to a sterile December If 1 were going to Palestine as a botan ist and to study thenfora of the land ] would go in March; but I went as a minister of Christ to study Jesus and so I went in December. 1 wanted to see how the world's front door looked when the heavenly stranger entered it The town of Bethlehem. to my sur pi ise, is in the shape of a horse-shoe the houses extending clear into the prongs of the horse-shoe, the whole scene more rough and rude than can be imagined. Verily, Christ did nol choose a soit, genial place in which tc ie born. The gate thro-ugh which our Lord entered this world was a gate o1 rock, a hard. cold( gate, and the gate through which he departed w~as i swing gate of sharpened spears. We enter a gloomuy church built by Con stautine over the place in which Jesum w as born. Fifteen lamps burning day and night and from century to century light our way to the spot which a1: authorities, Christian and Jew and IMohammedan, agree upon as being the place of our Saviour's birth, and cover ed by a matrbie slab, marked by a silvei star sent fromn Vienna, and tne wor:l -lere -Jesus Christ was born of th( Virgin Mary." 11E wAs UORtN IN A CATTLE PEN. 1Uut standing there I thought, thougit this is the place of the nativity, how~ different the surroundings of the win try night in which Jesus camne! Al t hat ti me it was a khan, or acattle pen. 1 visited one of these khans, now stand ing and looking just as in Christ's time We rode in under the arched entrance and dismounted. We found the build ing of stone, and around an open square, without roof. The building i~ more than two I hotusand years old. It is two stories high; in the center are camels, horses and mules. Caravans halt here for the night or during a long storm. The open square is large enough to accommodate a whole herd of cattle, a llock of sheep or caravan ol camels. The neighboring Bedouinu here rind market for their hay', stran~ andl meats. Off from this center there are t welve rooms for human habitation The only light is from tne door. ] went into one of these rooms and fount a wvoman cooking the evening meal There were six cows in the sanme room On a little elevation there was some straw where the people sat and slep1 when they wished to rest. It was it a room similar to that our Lord war born. Trhis wvas the cradle of a king, and yel what cradle ever held so much ? Civ ilization: Liberty! Redemption! You: pardon and mine: Your peace an< mine! Your heaven and mine! Cradl< of a universe! Cradle of a God! The gardenis of solomon we visited thi! morning were only a type of what al the worid will be when this illustriom personage now born shall have corn pleted his mission. The horses of lines' limb, and gayest champ of bit, an sunhimest nah of neck, that eve: brought Solomon down to these ad joining gardens was but a po ir type of the horse upon which this conqueror, born in the barn, shall ride, when ac cording to apocalyptic vision all the "armies of heaven shall follow him on white horses." The waters that rush down these hills into yonder three great reservoirs of rock, and then pour in marvelous acqueduct into Jerusa lem till the brazen sea is full, and the baths are full, and Siloam is full, are only an imperfect type of the rivers of delight which, as the result of this great one's coming, shall roll on for the slaking of the thirst of all nations. The palace of Lebanon ceder from which the imperial cavalcade passed out in the early morning, and to which it returned with glowing cheek and jingling harness and lathered sides, is feeble of architecture compared with the house of many mansions into which this one born this winter month on these bleak heights shall conduct us when our sins are all pardoned, our bate tles all fought, our tears all wept, our work all done. THE CRADLE OF OUR FAITH. Standing here at Bethlehem do you not see that the most honored thing in all the earth is the cradle? To what else did loosened star ever point? To what else did heaven lower balconies of lightfilled with chanting immortals? The way the cradle rocks the world rocks. God bless the mothers all the world over! The cradles decide the destinies of nations. In ten thousand of them are this moment the hands that will yet give benediction of mercy or hunrl bolts of doom, the feet that will mount the steeps toward God or descend the blasted way, the lips that will pray or blaspheme. Ob, the cradle!. It is more tremendous than the grave. Where are most of the leaders of the Twentieth century soon to dawn upon us? Are they on thrones? No. In chariots? No. In pulpits? No. In forums? No. In Senatorial halls? No. In counting houses? No. They are in the cradle. The most tremendous thing in the universe and next to God is to be a mother. Lord Shaftesburv said, "Give me a generation of Chris tian. mothers, and I will change the whole phase of society in zwelve months." Ob, the cradle! Forget not the one in which you were rocked. Though old and worn out that cradle may be standing in attic or barn, for get not the foot that swayed it. the lips that sang over it, the tears that dropped upon it, the faith in God that made way for it. The boy Walter Scott did well when he spent the first five guinea piece he ever earned as a present to his mother. Dishonor not the cradle, though it may, like the one my sermon celebrates, have been a cradle in a barn, for I think it was a Christian cradle. That was a great cradle in which Martin Luther lay, for from it came forth the refornia tion of the Sixteenth century. That was a great cradle in which Daniel O'Connell lay, for from it came forth an eloquence that will be inspiring while men have eyes to read or ears to hear. That was a great cradle in which Vashington lay, for from it came forth the happy deliverance of a nation. That was a great cradle in which John Howard lay, for from it came forth a mercy that will not cease until the last dungeon gets the Bible and light and fresh air. Great cradles in which the John Wesleys and the John Knoxes and the John Masons lay, for from them came forth an all conquering evangelization. But the greatest cradle in which child ever slept, or woke, laughed or cried was the cradle over which Mary bent and to which the wise men brought frankincense and upon which the heavens dropped song. Ilad there been no manger, there had been no cross. H~ad there been no Bethlehem, there had been no Golgotha. Had there been no incarnation, there had been no ascension. Had there been no start, there had been no close. WIIAT CAN WE DO FORt CIRIsT ? Standing in the chill khan of a Saviour's humiliation, and seeing what he did for us. 1 ask, What have we done for himi? "There is nothing I can do," says one. As Christmas was approaching in the village church a good wvoman said to a group of girls in lowly and straitened circumstances, "Let all now do something for Christ." After the day was over she asked the group to tell her what they had done. One said. "I could not. do much, for we are very poor, but I had a beautiful flower I had carefully trained in our home, and I thought much of it, and I 'put that flower on the church altar." And another said, ''I could not do much, for we are very poor, but I can sing a little, and so I went down to a poor sick woman in the lane, and sang as well as I could, to cheer her up, a Christmas song." "Well, Helen, what did you do ?" She replied, "I could not do much, but I wanted to do something for Christ, and I could think of nothing else to d., and so I went into the church after the people who had been adorning the alter had left, and I scrubbed down the back altar stairs." Beautiful! 1 warrant that the Christ of that Christ mas day gave her as much credit for that earnest act as he may have given to the robed oficial who on that day read for the people the prayers of a resounding service. Something for Christ! A plain man passing a fortress saw a Russian soldi'r on guard in a terribly cold night, and took off his coat and gave it to the soldier, saying, "I will soon be home and warm, and you will be out here all night." So the soldier wrapped himselt in the borrowed coat. The plain man who loaned the coat to the soldier soon after was dying, and in his dream saw Christ and said to him, "You have got my coat on." "Yes," said Christ, "this is the one you lent me on that cold night by the fortress. I was naked, and ye clothed me." Some thing for Christ: By the memories of Bethlehem I adjure you! In the light of thatstar Lie the ages enmpearled. That song from afar H as swept over the word. S o Extra Session. WASHINGTON, .N ov. .--ln accord ance with directions from Chairman Cannon James C. Courts, Clerk of the Iouse committee on appropriations, has notilled members of the committee to meet at its room at the Capitol Thursday, 20th inst., at 12 o'clock. This is in keeping with the usual custom of calling the committee together some days before the opening of a short ses sion of Congress, so as to enable it to consider and facilitate the preparation of appropriation bills in advance of the regular meeting of Congress. The amount of silver offered for sale to the Treasury to-day 1,055,000 ounces. The amount purchased aggregated :370, 000 ounces as follows: Three hundred thousand ounces at 10%, 70,000 ounces at 106~%. Postmaster General Wannamaker to day in answer to an inquiry by a repre setative of the Associated Press said that there was no probability of an extra session of Congress. While, he said, only the President could speak authoritatively upon the subject, he (Wannamaker) did niot believe that the President had any thought of calling* Congress together before the regular session. Two other members of the cabinet who were unwilling to be quoted by name said in response to simular in qries: "There will be no extra ses sion." THE CENSUS AND THE SOUTH. Relative itates of Inereasc in the Last and Previous Decade. WAsHINGToN, October 31.-Accord ing to a statement made by the census office to-day the popalation of South Carolina is rated at 1.147,161 in 189), as against 995,577 persons ten years ago. an increase of 151,584, or 15 23 per cent. Throughout the South Atlantic and Southern Central States the rate of in crease has dimiuished. A certain re duction in the percentage, especially in the eastern part of this region being expected, due not only to the operation of general laws, but also to the fact that there had been considerable immi gration from the states east of the lississippi river to the Westward and but little emigration. Of the States which were ravaged by war Virginia, whose soil was the prin cipal theatre of the war, suffered most severely, and during the period in ques tion it increased at the rate of but 4A per cent. Next to Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee suffered the most severe ly, and yet they increased respectively 14 and 13 per cent. On the other hand. North Carolina, which suffered less severely, gained but 8 per cent, and South Carolina, which suifered less in comparison with Virginia, apparently remained at a standstill as regards population. Georgia gained 12 per cent., while .Alabama and Louisiana gained but 3 per cent. and .Mississippi rained but 5, although they were con paratively remote irom active opera tions and suffered relatiyely little from the ravages of the war. On the other hand, those.States which suffered the most severely from the war made during the decade between 1870 and 1880 the smallest proportion of gain of the. Southern States, whereas the reverse should have been the case. Thus Virginia gained 23 per cent, Kentucky 26 and Tennessee 23, while the States that were farther removed from active operations were North Carolina. which gained 31, South Caro lina 41, Georgia 30, Alabama 27, 2lis sissipps 37 and Louisiana 29 per cent. These startling discrepancies can be due only to the imperfections of the census of 1870, which were, as has been demonstrated, greatest in South Caro lina, Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama, Georgia and North Carolina, although they were not by any means wanting in Virginia, Kentucky and Tennessee. The industries of these two sections are almost purely agricultural. Dur ing the past ten years manufacturers have obtained a slight footing and mining has made considerable growth in the mountain regions, but these causes have produced but a compai% tive trifling movement of population. The urban population, although great in proportion to that which existed formerly, is very small in proportion to the rural population of the region. During the first half of the last de cade Florida had a rapid growth. The population between 1880 and 1885 in creased 73.058, or at the rate of 27 per cent. This rapid growth, however, re ceived a serious check in 1887 and 1888, by an epidemic of yellow fever and by severe frosts. The growth since 1885 has therefore been comparatively slow. Arkansas has continued to grow at a rapid rate, having increased 40 per cent. in the last ten years. Texas also as increased with great rapidity, the numerical increase of its population being 640,471, or over 40 per cent. News and Courier. MOVEMENT OF COTTON. Condition of the Market as Shown by New Orleans Exchange. NEW ORLEANs, November 1.--The Dctober crop statement issued to-day by 5ecretry Hester, of the Newv Orleane D~otton Exchange, shows the largest movement o5 cotton during any single ronth in the history of the trade, the :otal number of balcs brought in sight luring the thirty-one days having reached 1,731,803, against 1,631,219 in ctober, 1889, an increase of 100,484. he statistics of trade prior to the cur rent year show that on only three occa ions'have monthly movements reached as high as 1,600,000 bales. These were .n October and November, 1889, and in December. 1887. The movement from the 1st of Sep :eber to October 31, includes total re 2eipts at all United States delivery ports of 2,084,003, against 1,884,053 last year and 1,458,284 in railroads across he Mississippi, Ohio and Potomac rivers are 164,813, against 127,390 last year and 173,077 year before last. South rn mill takings, exclusive of quantity :onsumed at Southern out ports 99,840, lgainst 100,595 last year and 90,984 the year before, and interior town stocks in excess of those held at the commence nent of the season 334,671, against 168, [69 last year and 217,602 year before last. These make the total amount of ths ~otton crop brought iinto sight during Septemiber and October 2,583.327, agains-t ,300,307 last year and 1,939,947 year be ore last, amnd an excess during this ear of 283,120 bales over the correspon ing t wo mnonths of 1889 and 843.880 ihead of the same time in 1888. Northern spinners took during Octo ber 311,156 bales, against 223,298 last ear, increasing the total for the two non ths to 445,633, against :333.6;09 last year and 461.860 the year before. This makes t he average weekly tak ngs for the season 51.142 bales, aigaigst 38,283 last year and 53,000X the year bc fore. T1he foreign exports for two moths have been 1.241.57i;, showing it excess over the heavy shipments of ast season of 85,154 and over thie same period of the year before last of 474,107. lhe gain in foreign export during (Oc ~ober, coum'pared with last October. has en 31,819. Th'le stock at the seaboard nd twenty-nine leading Southern in erior markets at the close of October were 75t;,455, against 765.030 for the same date lest y'ear and8SI1,739~ the year before. Including port antd interior stocks eft over fromi the previous season, and a noumnber of bales ol lie current crop brought into sight during the two moths, the supply has bueeni 2.655,173 bales, against 2,36;3,670 last year and 2, 135,730 the year before. Up to this date last year 31.46 per ent of the crop had been marketed, an for September andl October of 1888 the percenitage of crop brought into sight was 27,96;. With all this large mnovemenit to market, showing an ex cess to date of 283,120 over last season and 643,380 over season before last sup ply has moved off so rapidly to foreign and domestic consumers that stocks at the close of October were but 91,450 bales larger than at this time last year and 44,719 ahead of this date in 1888. Fire at Gianesvihie, Flat. GA INEMVILLE, FLA, Noveniber 2. Fire this morning partially destroyed the freight depot of the Florida South ern I tail road and damaged mierch andise therein to the extent of several thou sand dhollars. T1hme papers and safe of the railriod company were saved. The structure was owned by the Savannah, Florida and Western ltailroad company and was insured. A box car on the track near by was burned and several the country towns. Complete returm may possibly elect either of the threE candidates, but large Democratic gain in Omaha and the Eastern End still give Boyd the best chance. Tne Dem ocrats gain one Congrasman, Mc Keighn surely, and probably anothe Bryan. The election of Dorbey (Rep. in the Third District is not yet certain THE BAY STATE REVULSION. BOSTON, Novermber 5.-The Glob( says that with only half a dozen town to hear from in Massachusetts at 2 P M. - ussell, Democrat, is leading by over 10,000 votes, and is elected by a large majority. The Democrats gain three Congressman. ALL ONE WAY. In Arkansas, Alabama, Georgia Maryland, North Carolina, Kentucky Louisiana, West Virginia, Tennessee Virginia, Texas, Mississippi, New Jer sey and several other States the Demo crats elected all the Congressmen and other officers. PROUD OF H!S COUNTRYMEN. Grover Cleveland Delighed With the Democra-ey. NEw YouK, Nov. 5.-To an Associ ated Press Reporter, who asked for ax expression of his opinion on the resultE of yesterday's election, Ex-Presiden Cleveland to-day said: "I am delighted. I challenge the right of any man in the country to rejoicE more heartily than I over the results o yesterday. My gratification is that o an American proud of his fellow-coun trymen, who, though led away for v time by party predudices and blind con tidence in selfish leaders, could not bx deluded to their ruin. They have de monstrated that in dealing with them i is not safe to calculate that they arE stupid or heedless of the welfare o their countrymen. "The necessity of tariff reform, the re duction in the cost of living, and thE duty of the Democratic party to advocate it, has been fully demonstrated by the action of the people yesterday. Theil decision has been deliberately made and it is all the more significant because they have voted on their reason and judgement, and because they have proved that corruption is powerless a against their convictions. Of course, there is nothing for the Democratic par ty to do but to push on the battle at all times and places on the lines which they have laid down; that is, to insist on the wise adjustment of tariff taxation to the reasonable needs of the Government as opposed to the plan which enriches a favored class at the expense of the mass as of the people. "Until victory is won the question of tariff reform will not be settled, nor the pledges and professions of the Demo aratie party to the people redeemed. Dur party has made an honest and earn est fight. It has planted itself on dis interested and unselfish devotion to the interests of the people. Its absolote nity and harmony on the question of tariff reform shows quick recognition )f true Democratic principles and its mnthusianism in the cause which invol res the popular welfare. Everywhere >ur people have done magnificently and :he harvest they have gathered has been 1obly earned." In answer to an inquiry as to his view )n the operation oi the ballot reform aw, Mr. Cleveland said: "I think there should be no more op. position to the principle of ballot re orm. The evidence of its usefulness mnd benefit to the people I regard con .lusive. In some matters of detail the aw in New York might be improved. [t seems to me it would be well to ob riate the necessity for so many seperate )allots, but, after all, even this or other .imular objections are not vitally im Dortant. "The thing on which every honest nan should congratulate himself is that ve have a law which protects our voters from corruption and intimidation, and it is one of those measures of relief wyhich once adopted will not be surren lered." Cleopatra's Love Repeated. ALBANY, Nov. 3.-An extraordinary 3ase has been brought to light in the police court through the arrest of a bus band on complaint of his wife. The man gave the name of John McDonald, the wife that of Julia McDonald. MIrs. NIcDonald said she was born in New York city and lived with her parents ind sister there until her father died. Then she was but a mere child, but was put out to work. Her mother married 1.second husband, John3Morey, by whom ihe had a son. Soon after the war the 3omplaint met John Anthon Morey, wyho had served in the wvar, and who, ifter a year's courtship, married her. A year later Julia discovered her nother, whom she supposed to be dead, When the parent visited the daughter's iouse she recognized in the husband her soni by John Morey. 'The result of the evelation was a separation of3Iorey and ifs wife. Subsequently Julia married Tohn Cummings, with whom she lived Eor five years. During all this time 5Iorey kept urging Julia to leave Cum flings and go with him. Finally he hreatened to kill her, and worried the v-oman to such an extent that she went :o live with him again. To prevent Dummings from discovering them Mo ~ey assumed the name of Mcbonald and vent to Albany, where the couple have ived for ten years. In the meantime umnmings married another woman and s living happily with her in Massachu ~etts. There have never been any proceed. ngs for a divorce by any of the parties. [he continued abuse of his wife by Mc D~onald led to his arrest. Horrible Death of a Young Man.~ ATLANTA. Nov. 4.-Mr. li. L. lii >urn, a brakeman, was killed by an in :oming freight on the Western and At antic road Monday miorning short ly af~ ;er 5 o'clock. He was on No 8. fr-om 2hattanooga, and was in the act of turn ug a brake on a flat ear. while the train w'as being placced in the Western and Atlantic yards, when his foot slipped, mnd lie fell to the track. The wheels >assed over both his legs. The left leg vas crushed above the knee and the ~ight one crushed above the ankle. Efe was unconscious when picked up md never rallied from that condition. At 9:30 o'clock lie died. H~e was about 14 years old. Young Hfilburu's death vas a particuilarly sad one. lHe was ust entering upon manhood, and was he mainstay of a widowed mother and :wo sisters,~who live at Tunnell Hill, Ga. ?hie remains of the unfortunate young nan were sent to his home for interment. Fool Whom 7 Mr Farwel1. CricAao, November 5.-In the :ourse of an interview to-day Senator 'arwell said: "-if we have suffered de bat it is owing to three things. time Mc {inley bill, tile farmers' Alliance andi he school law. There is no use deny ng that the people are wonderfully pre udiced agzainst time McKinley law, and nany Republicans seized upon tile oppor .unity of showing their di.,approval of his law. The McKinley bill is all right, >ut tihe people have to be educated up .o it, that is nil. This bill has been a 'rent scare, and some Republicans are yeak-kneed enough to get scared. It vIll take time to get the p~eople to fully mnderstand this law, but when they do. here will be a landsljotidhther way." A CLEAN SWEEP. THE UNTERRIFIED DEMOCRACY IS ONCE AGAIN TRIUMPHANT. The People of the United States Rebuke the Party of Public Plunder and Give the Democrats an All-powerful Majority in the Fifty-second Congress. NEW YoRnK, Nov.5.-The Evening World estimates that the Democrats will have a majority in the next Con gress of between 63 and 97. The Mail and Express concedes a Democratic maiority of at least 50. The Ever.ing Sui places the Democratic majority at about 53. INGALLS BEATEN IN KANSAS. KANSAS CITY, November 5.-The Republican candidate for Governor is beaten, and six out of the seven Re publics n Congressional candidates are defeated. Senator Ingalls's re-election is the subject of grave doubt. This is the situation in Kansas. There was a regular avalanche in Kansas and the 82,000 Republican majority was over whelmed by its resistless force and bit ried beneath its destructive weight. The Farmers' Alliance did it and was a genuine surprise. The Kansas delega tion will stand: Republicans 1, Demo crats 1. Farmers' Alliance 5. Another surprise lies in the possible defeat for re-election of Senator Ingalls. The Farmers' Alliance and Democrats waged a bitter campaign against him, and a majority of the districts contain ed one of their candidates against the Republican candidate. The result is the certain election of 95 Farmers' Alliance and Democratic legislators, against 30 Republicans. A LITTLE 31IXED IN MINNESOTA. MINNEAPOLIS, Nov. 5.-The Guber natorial vote is very close in Minneso ta. Twenty-three Counties give Mer riam, Republican, 22,645; Wilson, Dem ocrat, 23,178; and Owen, Alliance, 16, 808. This does not include Hennipen County, (Minneapolis.) which gives Wilson 2,000 plurality. The Democrats claim the State. The Alliance vote does not cut so great a figure in the counties yet to hear from. Snider, Re publienn, is defeated by Castle, Demo crat, for Congress In the Fourth Dis trict. Hall. Democrat, defeats D. S. Hall, Republican, in the Third District and Harries, Democrat, wins over Dun nell in the First District. The Fifth and Second Districts are douitful. The Democrats made nearly a clean sweep on city, County and legislative tickets in this County. 3ONTANA COMES OVER. IIALENA, Montana, November 5. Returns are coating in very slowly, but all combine to show heavy Democratic gains. rhe Republicans elected their Congressmen last year by 1.600 inajort ty. The returns so far have wiped this out. Secretary Steele, of the Demo cratic State :-ommittee, claims the State for Dixon by 1,000. Secretary Walker, of the Republican committee, says Carter has received a majority of from 200 to 500. A NEW RULE IN NEW HAMIPSIIIRE.J CONCORD, N. 11., November 5.-No doubt that McKinney, Demo:rat, is elected to Congress in the 1st district. The Democrats claim Daniel's election in the 24 by 200 plurality, while the Republicans say Moore has over 250. The Legislature is very close and its control will undoubtedly be determined by the elections held to-day. There is no choice of Governor by the people. ILLINOIS IS IMPROVING. CHICAGO, November 5.-The full vote of Illinois-official and unofficial and estimated-Indicates thie election of Amberg, Republican, for State Treas urer by~ a plurality of about 10,000 over Wilson, D~emocrat. Edwards, Republi can, for superintendent of public in struction, has a plurality of 8,000 over Raab, Democrat. The Democrats gains live Congressmen in this State. LITTLE DELAWARE ALRIGHIT. WILMINGTON, DEL., November 5. Complete returns from the State 4ive Reynolds, Democrat, for Governor, 445 majority, and Causey, Democrat, for Congress, 514 majiority. The next Leg islature wvill stand. Senate, Democrats, 5, Republicans 4, House, Democrats 14, Republicans 7. There is no United States Senator to be elected. The Pro hibitionists, who had a full State ticket in the field, polled about 150 votes in the State. THlE TRIU3IPH IN NEW YORK. NEW YORK., November 5.-The offi cial returns from the CongressIonal districts of the State will not be known for some days. These, however, will make nc change in the results as re ported by the Associated Press last night, unless Coombs, Democrat, be elected in Brooklyn. New York's del egation in the 52d Congress. should Coombs be defeated, will consist of 20 Democrats and 14 Repubalicans. This just reverses the position of the t wo parties as represented in the 51st Con gress, where the Republicans have 20 a nd the Democrats 14. The Democrats have also carried the Legislature. GOOD NEWS FROM1 WISCONSIN. MILWAUKEE, November 5.-The latest returns from this State indicate a plurality of 20,000 and upwards for George W. Peck, Democratic candidate for Governor. The Democrats elected a majority of the assemblymen and the State ticket. .in the lower Ihouse they will have a majority of thirty or over, and in the .Senate a majority or twenty four, T1hey elect seven out of nine Congressmen. 3MIssOURI SOLID ONCE 31ORE., ST. LoUis, November 4.-Trhe Demo cratic State Committee to-night claim that there is no doubt whiatever but that the D)emocrats will have a solid Congressional delegation. Present re turns indicate pretty clearly that the Democratic city ticket is elected, with the possible exception of recorder of deeds, Wnm. H1. Ilobbs, (Retl>.) the pres ent incum~ibenit, showing am good lead over his opponent, Wim. M. Smith. The Democrats claim a majority in the Legislature. THiE OvERFLOW IN OHIO. CO)LUMIBUs, OmIO, November 5. Meagre returins received at the Repub lican and I )e:nocratic State h eadquar trs indicate the election of fourteen Democratic Congressmen. This esti mate includes the defeat of' McKinley in the 16th district andl Poster in the th. Foster concedes the election of Fare, his opponent, by 100 majority. - Both parties claim the 16th distrIct. TilE KEYSTONE FALLs ou'f. PHlILADELPIIIA, November 5.-Re vised ligures from various counties to day, some of them official, indicate that 1attison's pluirally for (Governor over Delamater will exceed 10.000. Water and Stewart. Republican candidates re spectively for Lieutenant Governor and secretary of internal affairs, are certainly elected. The latest returns from the twenty-eIght Congressional1 districts of the State sho w the election of eighteen Republicans anzd ten Dem ocrats. The present delegation from this State stands twenty-one Republi cans and seven Democrats.I DEMIOCRATIC GAINS IN NEBI:AsKA. O3aHA, Nov.53.-The returns indi cate the probable election of Boyd (Dem.) for Governor by a small plurali tv. The Alliance candidates are loom ing up strong in the interior and the Republican candidates are alternating haeween the first and second places in1 BIG FIRE IN 'FRISCO. Tie (.;rand tHotel DIshappears in a Cloud 4) Smoke. SAN FRANcIsco, Nov. 3.-Fire wa4 discovered at 3 o'clock this morning ii Heuter Bros. & Co's paint shop, unde: the Grand Hotel. The flames sprea throughout the basement of the blocl bounded by Market, New Montgomery Stevenson and econd streets, and thei spread to the first floor occupied by ti( Hall Safe and Dock Company. Hill & Goldman, druggist supplies. Board o. Trade rooms; Pullman Palace Car Coi. pany's office;. Great Northern Railroa( ticket office, and rooms of the Syndicat( Investment Company. Smoke in th< meantime had aroused the inmate, of the Grand and Burlington Hotels. and frightened the guests, who rushed to the side walk with what valuables thei could carry. General alarm brouaht th( remainder of the fire department to th< scene. The front of Heuter Bro's stort blew out with a loud explosion and - large volume of smoke poured out, al most overcomin the firemen. Jacol Underhill, a wine merchant, was over come by smoke in the Grand Hotel ani was carried out unconscious. Cashici Weeks of the Grand, who is crippled, was almost overcome when he was as sisted out by the elevator boy. Therc were several other narrow escapes. BN five ('clock the 1Lames had spread alon the Eastern end of the block. bursting from the roof and windows. The wint was slight and the efforts of the tiremer to confine the fire within the block, oc cupied by the Burlington and Grand Hotels, were successful. About6 o'clocl, the roof of the Burlington fell in, carry. ing part of that of the Grand, In a short time the interior of the Burlington was a complete wreck, and the front of thc Grand on Market street, together witli the Eastern end, adjoining the Burlingtou was also a ruin. The Western end was saved. The first floor of the Burlington. on Second street, was occupied by C. H. Hirst, millinery and novelties; C. P. Downing, medicines; P. H. Wardwell, window shades and fixings. These were gutted as were also Henter & Co.'s warehouse, the Board of Trade rooms. The Burr Folding Bed Company's place of business on Market street. the South ern Pacific, the Central Pacific and other ticket oflices under the Grand Hotel, together with Fay's saloon were damag ed badly. The Grand Hotel was opened in 1870, and at that time was considered one of the finest hotels in the world. It was four stories high and had a frontage of 300 feet on Market street. Two years ago about half of the block was leased to other parties and was called the Bur lington Hotel. The total loss, including the buildings, stores, furniture and stock, Is estimated at $1,500,000. The lire is believed to be due to spontaneous combuttion of inflammable material in Henter Brothers & Company's prem ises. A Boy's Fatal Blunder. SYRACUSE. N. Y., November 3.-An accident occurred - on the' Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad this evening, at Rock Cut, a station about three miles south of this city, through the undue officiousness of a boy telegraph operator named M. A. Clark. The ac cicent resulted in the death of four per sons and the injury ofseveral others. The New York and Pacific day ex press from the south passes Rock Cut at 540 P. M. at the rate ot forty miles an hour. Before thle express was due at Rock Cut two coal trains from Syracuse had been run in a switch on the north side of the main track. Engineer James Doyle, of Scranton, Pa, of the coal train was in the cab of his engine waiting for the express to pass, when he would pull out. Michael Tierney. a brakeman, was also in the cab cleaning his lantern. The second coal train was behind Doyles. Clark the operator, was in his room in the station, a few rods east of the switch, and was on the lookout for tihe express. The latter was on time, and as the head light of its engine came into view it rushed through Clark's mind that the switch was op'en and that if not closed the express would dash into the coal train. lHe rushed to the switch and swung it open. Then lie realized, but too late, his mistake. As the switch was turned the express swung into the side track and the crash of the engines spoke the result. The noise of the col lision was lostmi the cries of the passen gers within the coaches of the express train. The fireman and engineer of each en gine were caught in the wreck and ground to death. Their names were: Jas Doyle, Scranton. Pa., Mvtre Ferdinand. his fireman; M. J. Burke, of Syracuse, and Jeremiah Lee. his fireman. The body of Engineer Doyle was found on the side track. Those of Ferdinand and Burke and Lee were found under tons of wreckage. W. II. Coppenall, of Os wego, George Derby. of Cortlandt, and Josiahl Kimball. of Oswego, were all injured. though not fatally. Michael Tierney was also badly hurt. Mrs Jules Corcoran, of Buiralo. had her spine hurt and two ribs broken. Other passengers were not hurt. Woolfolk's Dying Decaration. krtAN'TA. GA., Nov. 3.- Judge John D. Cunningrham of the A tlanta bar, in speaking of Woolfolk's dyin :u declat a tion. is quoted as saying: "I do not think there is any reasonable doubt of hs guilt. and do not believe his dying statement. My experience as a .Judg~e has satisfied my mind that ordinarily a man who will tell a lie when he is living will tell a lie when lie is dy ing. t have presided~ on the trial of probably fifty murder cases. andl do not remember a single instance where a bad mnani told the plain. unvarnished truth in his dymng declaration. but on the other hand 1. do remenmber instances whlere unprincipled men, in spite of the terrors of impend ing death, hell antd thle grave have told palpable lies in order to wreak vein geance through the law on their enemies. When jurors cease to pay so mtuch attention to the dy.ing dcclarations of bad men, it will be better for the cause ofjtustice; for there seems to be a kind of superstitious reverence. tending to persuade, that the last words of a dying man must be true. As for executedl criminals, it is generally undlerstood by them that the y all go to heaven, and I wish it were true. but cannot believe it. The last man on whom I passed sentence dlebauched his neighbor's wife. then waylaid, murdered and hburied the husband in a swamp. Yet upon the gallows lie asserted tile lie was going stright to heaven, and mI the same breath made a palpably fatlse statement concerning his guilt. Good men tell the truth, both in life and in death. while unprincipled men are entitled to but itl+1 credibility, either living no dyingr." AN ALLIANCE ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT POLK TO THE FARM ERSOFTHE SOUTH. Thousands .Made Glad by Llstenln= to the Farmers' Great Headlight-The Power andl Glory of This Great Country Rests with the Farmers. ATLANT-A, Oct. 31.--Col. L. L. Polk, president of the National Farmers' Alliance, who has been traveling and speaking for the last four weeks. ar rived in this city to be in attendance at Piedmont exposition during Alli ance days. The colonel is slightly in disposed, and, therefore, was unable to make an extecded argument; but he is so well kaown in this southern country that the people are thoroughly satis fied with his short speech. Being in troduced, he said: Ladies, Fellow-Countrymen and Brother Alliancemen: I profoundly regret to say that after eontinuous traveling and speaking for four weeks I am utterly incapacitated to meet the demands imposed upon me through your generous kindness and cordi ality. I have come, nevertheless, in obedience to that call to .which I have never yet turned a deaf ear, the call of the farmers of the country, to speak to the good people of Georgia about the farmer. It has been my good fortune within the past few weeks to traverse many portions of this great country of ours. As I rolled across her rich and well-tilled plains, as I beheld the rich harvests of wheat and corn and other agricultural wealth, as I pondered upon our vast network of over 150,000 miles of railway, as I thought of our magnificent rivers, those splendid ar teries of our inland commercial life, and gazed with delighted eyes upon. the beautiful and ever-changing pano rama of scenery presented to my inter ested gaze, and saw the smoke of many factories rolling over the house-tops of prosperous cities, I thought within my self that this was a great country and a great people, and that the progress thus far made was bat a stepping stone to higher and broader and grander achievements yet to be wrought in the fullness of time by the magnificent courage and splen did energy of the American manhood of the future. And it is to the great middle class, the yeomanry of the country, that the country must yetlook for its salvation. These men are th6 hope of our future, and in their quiet and peaceful homes, where simple and honest manhood and womanhood are cultivated and nurtured, will be reared the future stay of the republc, the statesmen and patriots and warriors, if need be, whose lives and fortunes, whose blood and courage will be devot ed to the welfare of the land they love so well. For it is in these- quiet coun try homes that the chief hope df the future of the republii rests; for wihhout these modest yeomanry all progress would be impossible and civilization itself would be arrested and paralyzed. Our civilization itself would perish, an: all commerce cease, and Jay Gould himself, with all his millions, could not buy his breakfast if the farmer were nd longer a living, active factor in our so cial and commercial life. Yes~iwhendV look into the honest face of these grand yeomanry which, by its hard labor and. perpetual diligence, clothes and feeds the world, I forget the magnificence of our cities, forget our splendid railway system, and am forced in my heart to exclaim that of all the power and strength and glory of this great coun try the larger portion of it rests in the hands and hearts of the farmers of .America. I regret, my friends, that I cannot make you a speech today. I am really. here at a serious risk to my health. But I cannot refrain from adding that I have just returned from the great northwest, and bring to you, brethren of the Alliance here, "the glad tidings of great joy." This mighty upheaval, which has interested the mass of the southern people, has crossed the border, and your brothers of the west and north west are with you heart and soul-in one accord with you in all your aims and purposes, and they realize now that the war is over, and that the blue will join with the gray in demanding com mon justice for both, for they realize now at last that your interests are their interests, your aims their aims, your objects their objects, and that what is good for the farmer who wore the gray is the very thing to benefit the farmer who wore the blue. [Prolonged cheer-, ing.] I thank God from the bottom of my heart that the great American people, those who illustrated their manhood in the face of a bloody death on one field after another, men who had the man hood to stand or fall by what they con ceived to be the right; I thank God that these men have gotten now so far away from the echoes to the ritde and the can non that they can embrace each *other as brethren at last, and recognize the great fact that this country is, and shall be, one country that this people is, and shall forever be, one people.[Appau I am commissioned by ourbrt of the northwest to convey toyo message that they feel as you do, like you, no longer proposed to be trolled and governed by designin selfish demagogues. [Loud cheeri Our great organization. I wish t for the benefit of outsiders, extendsi jurisdiction over thirty-five of the st of this Union, in twenty-nine of whic we have perfected state organizations, and number ini all over 2,500,000 of the best bone and brawn and courage and inteliect of American manhood. My friends, I wish to make this re mark, and impress it well upon you: In the great struggle which is hourly com ing nearer to usall the questions will not be whether one or another political par ty shall have the supremacy, but wheth er American manhood shall govern Amrirca--whether the p~eople shall reign and make their own lawvs, or whether the (dollar shall govern and become su premne and sovereign in the republic. That is the great issue. We must meet its; we must face it; we can't avoid it. It is coming nearer every day, and the solution of this great question de pends largely up1on1 the ellort.: of that' great body ol' Americans emnbraeT-U the organization known as the National Farmners' Alliance. [Cheers.] The Cost of Gala Week. CHiAnI LEsTON, Nov. 3.-Gala wecek was a big success socially, financially and otherwise. The railroads brought to the city nearly 25,000 visitors. At moderate estimate these averaged $10 each spent in the city, or a total of 8250,000 putt in circulation in one week. Now, as to the cost of the festival. The linance committee, at the head of wliich is that born hustler Mr. L. Arthur O'Neill, the owner of the Grand Opera Ifouse, collected about $85000 for ex penses. This amount wvas subscribed by the merchants, hotel men and rail roads. They engagedi Pain's Last Days of Pompeii upon terms which turned to be most profitable to both the contract ing p~arties. Five performances of Pompeii were given, the receipts reach ing $11,000. Duaring the week, at a moderate estimate, over 15,000 bushels of oysters were taken by the restaurants and'eaten by visitors. No such a rush ha ever been seen in Charleston before.