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VOL. VII. MANNING-, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECELMEI1 80 ~.3 THE WATERS OF MERO31. SUBJECT OF SUNDAY'S SERMON B) REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE. He Tells of Cities That Were Taken b2 Joshua Under God's Guidance Whez the Children of Israel Entered the Hol: .and. BROOKLYN, Dec., 21.-Dr. Talmago preached the following sermon thi, morning in the Academyv of Music it this city, and again in the evening a The Christian Herald service in Ne" York. His text was Josh. xi, 5 -"An( when all these kings were met togeth er they came and pitched together al the waters of Merom to fight againsi Israel." We are encamped to-night in Pales tine by 'the waters of Ierom. After E long march we hive found our tenti pitched, our fires kindled, and thougl far away from civilization a variety o fqod that would not compromise a firsl class American hotel, for the most of our caravan starts an hour and a hall earlier in the morning. We detair only two mules, carrying so much o: our baggage as we might accidentalil need and a tent for the nooniJay lunch eon. The nalarias around this Lake Merom are so poisonous that at any other season of the year encampmen here is perilous. but this winter night the air is tonic and healthful. In this neighborhood Joshua fought his last great battle. The nations had banded themselves together to crush this Joshua, but along the banks of these waters Joshua left their carcasses. Indeed itis time that we more min utely examine this Joshua of whom we have in these discourses crught only a momentary glimpse, although he crossed and recrossed Palestine, and next to Jesus is the most stirring and mighty character whose foot ever touched the Holy Land. JOSRUA READY TO TAxEMOSES' PLACE. -Moses was dead. A beautiful tradi tion says the Lord kissed him, and in that act drew forth the soul of the dy ing lawgiver. He had Deen buried, only one Person at the funeral, the same One who kissed' him. But God never takes a man away from any place of usefulness but he has some one ready. The Lord does not go look ing around amid a great variety of can didates to find some one especially it ted for the vacant position. He makes a man for that place. Moses has pass ed off the stage, and Joshua, the hero, puts his foot on the platform of history so solidly that all the ages echo with the tread. He was a magnificent fighter, but he always fought on the right side, and he never fought unless God told him to fight. He got his mil itary equipment from God, who gave himthe promise at the start, "There shall not any man be able to stand ba' fore thee all the days of thy life." God fulfilled this promise, although Josh ua's first battle was with the spring freshet, and the next with a stone wall, and the next leading on a regiment of whipped cowards, and the next battle against darkness, wheeling the sun and the MGQn into his battalion, and the last agains&itC ~~ ' - 1 J, death-five great victor es. For the most part when the general of an army s ' out in a conflict he would like have a small battle in er th he may get his courage up and y his troops and get them drill ed for greater conflicts; but this first undertaking of Joshua was greater than the leveling of Fort Pulaski, or the thundering down of Gibraltar, or the overthrow of the Bastile. It was the crossing of the Jordan at the time of the .spring freshet. The snows of Mount Lebanon had just been melting, and they poured down into thevalley, and the whole valley was a raging tor rent. So the Can-anites stand on one bank, 'and they.- look across and see Joshua and the Israelites, and they laugh and saiy, "Aha! aha! they cannot disturb us in time-until the freshets fall; it is impossible. for tuemi to reach us." But after a while they look across tbe water and they see a movement in the armey of Joshua. They say: "What's the matter Dow ? Why, there ir ust be a panic among these troops, and they are going to fly, or perhaps they are going to try to march across the river Jordan. Joshua .is a lunatic." But Joshua, the chiefain, looks at his army and cries, "Forward, mareh!" and they start for the bank of the Jordan. TRE ?AING OF JORDAN. One mile ahead go two prnests carry ing a glittering box four feet long and two feet wide. It is the ark of the covenant. And they come down, and no sooner do they just touch the rim of the water with their feet than by an Almighty fiat Jordan parts. The army of Joshua marches right on with out getting their feet wet over the bot tom of the river, a path of chalk and broken shells and pebbles, until they get to the other bank. Then they lay hold of the oleanders and tamarisks and willows and pull themselves up a bank thirty or forty feet high, and having gamned the other bank, they clap their shields and their cymbals and sing the praises of the God of Joshua. But no sooner have they reached the bank than the waters be gin to dash nd roar, and with a terri fic rush they break loose from their strange anchorage. Out yonder they have stopped, thirty miles of distance they halted. On this side the waters roll off towards tbe salt sea. ~ut as the land of the Lord God is ta~ en away from the thus uplifted W tT-aters perhaps uplifted half a pn'ile-as the Almighty hand is taken away those waters rush down, and sognie of the unbelieving Israelites say: "Alas, alas, what a misfortune! Why could not those waters have staid part ed ? Because perhaps we may want to go back. 0 Lord, we are engaged in a risky business. These Canaanites may eat us up. flow if we want to go back ? Would it not have been a more com plete miracle if the Lord had parted the waters to let us come through and kept them parted to let us go back if we are defeated ?" My friends, God makes no provision for a Christian's retreat. Hie clears the path all the way to Canaan. To go back is to die. The same gatekeepers that swing back the amethystine and crystalline gate of the Jordan to let Israel paiss through now swing shut the amethiyst'ne and crys talline gate. THIs Is No PLACE TJO STOP. pBut this is no place for the host to top- Joshua gives the command, 'Forward, marc-h!" In the distance there is a long grove of trees, and at the end of the grove is a city. It is a city- It is a city of arbors, a city with walls seeniing to reach to the heaven, to buttress the very sky. It is the metropolis that commands the moun tain pa's. It is Jericho. The city was afterward captui-ed by Pompey, and it Sas alterward captured by -ilerod the i-eat, and it was afterward captured y thelMohammedanls; but this cam pign the Loi-d plans. There shall be no rwords. ho shields, no battering ram. here shall be only one weapon of war, apd that a ranu's horn. The horn of $p slpin rapi was sometines taken, pnd lioles were punctiured in it, and then the musician would put ihe in srument to his lips, and ne would run is ainger over this rude musical in strument and make a great deal of sweet harmony for the people. That was the only kind of weapon. Seven priests were to take these rude rustic musical instruments. and they were to go around the city every day for six days-once a day-and then on the seventh day they were to go around blowing these rude:musical instruments seven times, and thenl at the close of the seventh blowing of the rams horns on the seventh day the peroration of the whole scene was to bo a shout at which those great walls should tumble from capstone to base. ROUND THE CITY's WALLS. Tb seven priests with the rude musi cal instruments pass all round the city walls on the first day, and a failure. Not so much as a piece of plaster broke loose from the walls; not so much as a loosened rock, not so much as a piece of mortar lost from its place. " 'here," say the unbelieving Israelites, "didn't I tell you so? Why, those ministers are fools. The idea of going around the city with those musical instruments. and expecting in that way to destroy it! Jobhna has been spoiled; he thinks because he has overthrown and de stroyed the spring freshet he can over throw the stone wal. Why, it is not philosophic Don't you see there is no relation between the blowing of these musical instruments and the knocking down of the wall? It isn't philosophy." And I suppose there were- many wise acres who stood with their brows knit ted and with the forefinger of the right hand to the foretinger of the left hand arguing it all out and showing that it was not possib!e that such a cause coald produce such an effect. And I suppose that night in the encampment there was plenty of philosophy and caricature. i.nd if Joshua had been nominated for any high military posi tion he would not have got many votes. Joshua's stock was down. The second day the priests blowing the musical instruments go around the city, and a failure. Third day, and a failure; fourth day, and a failure; fifth day, and a failure; sixth day, and a failure. The seventh day comes, the climacteric day, Joshua is up early in the morning and examines the troops, walks all around about, looks at the city wall. The priests start to make the circuit of the city. They go all around once, all around twice, three times, four times, five times, six times, seven times, and a failure. There is only one more thing to do, and that is to utter a great shout. I see the Israelitish army straightening themselves up, filling their lungs for a vociferation such as was never heard before and never heard after. Joshua feels that the hour has come, and he cries to his host, "Shout, for the Lord hath given you the city !" All the people begin to cry, "Down, Je'icho! down, Jericho I" And the long line of solid masonry begins to quiver, and to move, and to rock. Stand from under ! She falls! Crash ! go the walls, the temples, the towers, the palaces, the air blackened with the dust! The huzza of the victorious Israeliters and the groan of the conquered Canaanites commingle, and Joshua standing there in the debris of the wall hears a voice saying, "There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days HAB S 1OUS, SrI Only one house spared. Who lives there? Some great king? No. Some woman distinguished for great kindly deeds? No. She had been conspicuous for her crimes. It is the house of Ra hab. Why was her house spared? Be cause she had been a great sinner? No, but because she repented, demonstrat ing to all the ages that there is mercy -for the chief of sinners. The red cord of divine injunction reaching from her window to the ground, so that when the people saw that red cord they knew it was the divine indication they shoald not disturb the premises. making us think of the divine cord of a Saviour's deliverance, the red cord of a Saviour's kindness, the red cord of a Saviour's mercy, the red cord of our rescue. 3Mercy for the chief of sinners. Put your trust in that God, and no damage shall befall you. When our world shall be more terribly su'rounded than was Jericho, even by the trumpets of the judgment day, and the hills and the mountains, the metal bones and ribs of nature shall break they who have had Rahab's faith shall have Rahab's de liverance. When, wrapt in fire, the realms of other glow, And Heaven's last thunder shakes the earth below; - Thou, undismayed, shall o'er the ruins smile, And light thy torch at Nature's funeral pile. But Joshua's troops may not halt' here. The command is, "Forward, march !" There is the city of Al; it must be taken. How shall it be taken ? A scouting party comes back and says, "Joshua, we can do that without you; it is going to be a very easy job; you just stay here while we go and capture it." They march with a small regi ment in iront of the city. The men of Ai look at them and give one yell, and the Israelites~ run like reindeer. The northern troops at Bull Run did not make such rapid time as these Israel ites with the Canaanites after the-n. They never cut such a sorry figure as when they were on the retreat. Any body that goes out in the battles of God with only half a force, instead of your taking th~e men of Ai, the men of Ai will take you. Look at the church of God on the retreat. Bornesian canni bals ate up 3Munson, the missionary. "Fall- Lack !" said a great many Chris tain people. "'F41l back, 0 church of God ! Borneo will never be t'ken. Don't you see the Bornesian cannibals have eaten up M1unson, the mfissionl aryv?" Tyndall delivers his lecture at the University of Glasgow, and a great many good people say : "Fall back, 0 church of God ! Don't you' see that Christian philosophy is going to be oyercome by worldly philosophy ? Fall back !" Geology plunges its crowbar into the mountains, and there are a great many people who say : "Scien tific investigation is g ing to over throw the Mlosaic account of the crea tion. Fall back !" Friends of the church have never had any right to fall back. 50sHUA IS CHAGRINED. Joshua falls on his face in chagrin, It is the only time you ever see the back of his head. Ile~ falls on his face and begins to whine, and he says : "Oh, Lord God, wheretore hast thou at all brought this people over Jordan to de liver us into the hand of the Amorites to destroy us? Would to God we had been content and d welt on the other side of Jordan 1 For the Canaanites and all the inhabitants of the land shall hear of it. and shall environ us round and cut otY our name from the earth." I am very glad Joshua said that. Before it seemed as if lie were a super natural being, and therefore could riot be an example to us; but I find he is a man, he is only a man. Just as some times youifind a man under seyere .op po.sition, or in a bad state of physical health, or worn ou4t with over work lying down and sighing about everything being deleated. I am encouraged when ~I hear this cry of.Joshumaas he lies in the dust. God comes and rouses himi. Ilow Idoes he rouse hunm? By complimentary I apstrophe? No. T~eaysr: "et theea up. Wherefore liest thou upon thy face?" Joshua rises, and I warrant you with a mortified look, but his old cour age comes back. The fact was that was not his battle. If he had baen in it he would have gone on to victory. Ile gathers his troops around him and says, "Now, let us co up and capture the city of Ai; let us go up right away. They march on. lIe puts the majori ty of the troops behind a ledge of rocks in the night, and then he sends coi paratively small regiments up in front of the city. The men of Ai come out with a shout. The small regiments of Israelites in stratagem fall back and fall back, and when all the men of Ai have left the city and are in pursuit of these scattered, or seemingly scattered, regiments Joshua stands on a rock-I see his locks flying in the wind as he points his spear toward the doomed city, and that is the signal. The men rush out from behind the ro-ks and take the city, and it is put to the torch, and then these Israelites in the city march down, and the flying regiments of Israelites return, and betw' en these two waves of Ibraelitish pro%% ess the men of Ai are destroyed, and the Is raelites gain the victory. And while I see the curling smoke of that de stroyed city on the sky, and while I hear the huzza of the Israelites, and the groan of the Canaanites. Joshua hears something loader than it all, ringing and echoing through his soul, "There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thy life." ON TO THE CITY OF GIDEON. But this is no place for the host of Joshua to stop. "Forward. march!" cries Joshua to the troops. There is the city of Gideon. It has put itself under -he protection of Joshua. They sent word, "There are five kings after us; they are going to destroy us; send troops quick; send us help right away." Joshua has a three days' march at more than double quick. On the morning 1 of the third day he is before the enemy. There are two long lines of battle. The battle opens with great slaughter, ] but the Canaanites soon discover some thing. They say: "That is Joshua. I That is the man who conquered the i sping freshet and knocked down the stone wall and destroyed the city of Ai. There is no use lighting." And they sound a retreat, and as they begin to retreat Joshua and his host spring upon them like a panther. pursuing them over the rocks: and as these Canaanites with sprained ankles and gashed foreheads retreat, the catapults of the sky pour a volley of hailstones into the valley, and all the artillery of the heavens with bullets of iron pound the Canaanites against the ledges of Beth-horen. "Oh!" says Joshua, "this is surely a victory." "But do you not see the sun is going down? Those Amorites are going to get away after :.1, and then they will come up some other time and bother us, and perhaps destroy us." See, the sun is going down. Oh, for a longer day than has ever been seen in t (this climate! What is the matter with Joshua? Has he fallen in an apoplectic ft? No. He is in prayer. Look out t when a good man makes the Lord his s ally. Joshua raises his face, radiant r with prayer, and looks at the descend n_ Int crescent of the moon, for you know the qdeen of the night sometimes will linger around the palaces of the day. Pointing one hand at the descending sun and the other at the faint crescent of the moon, in the name of that God I who shaped the worlds and moves the , worlds, he cries, "Sun, stand thou still t upon Gideon; and thou moon, in the , valley of Ajalon." They halted. a But Joshua was not quite through. There was time for five funerals be fore the sun of that prolonged day set. Who will preach their funeral sermon ? Massillon preached the funeral sermon over Louis XVIL Who will preach the funeral sermon of those five dead kings king of Jerusalem, king of Hlebron, king of Jarmuth. king of Lachish, king of Eglon ? Let it be by Joshua. What is his text ? What shall be the epitaph put on the door of the tomb?i "There shall not any man be able to stand before thee all the days of thyi life." But before you fasten up the door I want five more kings beheaded and thrust in-King Alcohol, King Fraud, King Lust, King Superstition, King Infidelity. Let theix1 be beheaded and hurl them in. Then fasten up the door forever. What shall the Inscrip tion and what shall the epitaph be? for all Christian philanthropists of all ages are going to ,.ome and look at it. What shall tne inscription be ? "There shall not any man be able to stand be- 1 fore thee all the days of thy life."' TIE FOR JOSHU~A TO GO IIOME. But It is time for Joshua to go home. He Is 110 years old. Washington went down the Potomac, and at Mount Ver non close'l his days. W ellington died peacefully at Apsley hlouse. Now, where shall Joshua rest ? Why, he is to have his greatest battle now. After 3 a hundred and ten years he has to meet | a king who has more subjects than all| the present population of the earth, his throne a pyramid of skulls, his parterre the grave yards and the cemeteries of the world, his chariot the world's hearse-the King of Terrors. But if this is Joshua's greatest battle, it is going to be Joshua's greatest victory. He gathers his friends around him and I gives his valedictory, and it is full of reminiscence. Young men tell what they are going to do;~old men tell what they haye done. And as you have heard a'grandfather or great-grand father, seated by the evening fire, tell of Monmouth or Yorktown, and then lilt the crutch or staff as though it wcre a musket, to light and show how the old battles were won, so Joshua gathers his friends around his dying couch'. and he tells them the story of what he has been through, and as he lies there, his white locks snowing down on his w~rinkled forehead, 1 wonder if God ri has kept his promise all the way through. As he lies there he tells the story one, two or three times-you have heard old1 people tell a story two or three times over-and he answers: "I go t the way of all the earth and not onet word of the promise has failed, not one word thereof has failed; all has comea to pass, not one wordl thereof has failed," And then he turns to his3 family as a dying parent will and says: "Choose now whom you will serve, the God of Israel, or the God of the Amo- f rites. As for me and my house wet will serve the Lord." A dying parent cannot be reckless or thoughtless in t regard to his children. Consent to part with them forever at the door of the i tomb we cannot. By the cradle in a which their infancy was rocked, by the bosom on which they first lay, by the blood of the covenant, by the God of Jushua it shall not be. We will notr part, we cannot part. Jehovah .Jireh,: we take thee at thy Promise "I willa be a God to thee and thy seed afterg thee."d Dlead, the old chieftain must be laide out. Handle him very gently; thati sacred body is over a hundred and teng years of age. Lay him out, stretch outc those leet that walked dry shod the t parted Jordan. Close those lips which :1 helped blow the blast at which thes walls of .Jericho fell. Fold the arm h that liftedl the sear trowarrl the rdnnm- f. ed city of Ai. Fold it right over th heart that exulted when the five king. fell. But where shall we get the burn, ished granite for headstone and the footstone? 1 bethink myself now. I imagine that for the head it shall bE the sun that stood still upon Gideon and for the foot the moon that stood still in the valley of Adjalon. Bill Howard Killed. Gi EENvi. i E, Dec. 23.-W. 11. How ard, better known all over GreenvillE County as "Big 1Uill' Ioward, is dead. The revengeful mountain bullet has again got in its work, but this time the victim appears to have received the wound face to face with the man who in flicted it and there was no lurking in the dark or behind bushes on the hillsides and a fatal blow by unknown persons, as is usually the case. The particulars received here yester day were very meagre, but the killing of "Big Bill" occurred not far from where Ben 1toss was shot to death and the slayer is the son of Ben lRoss' wid ow. lis aiime is George Center and he is well known in the mountain sections of this county. There were no witnesses to the affair, but it is said that Sunday afternoon about 4 or ; o'clock "Big Bill" and Cen ter met in the road in the neighborhood of where both lived. What passed between tlem is not known, but Big Bill was shot with a Remington rile, the ball shattering the right arm and going into the abdomen. T'he wound caused a constant flow of blood from the mouth and floward died some time yesterday. Late yesterday afternoon Sheriff Gil reath received notice that Center was ready to surrender himself. The Sher iff left shortly afterward and will prob ably return to-day with him. The scene f the killing is twenty-live miles above the city. . Several rumors are current as to the :ause ot the killing, the principal one being that Howard informed on Center who was engaged in the "blockade" whiskey business. Two of his stills iave recently been destroyed by the gov rnment and he believed that Howard 1ad something to do with directing the evenue officers to the blen-Kade stills. Death is generally the infoimer's fate. Kews. Her Income and His. CHARLOTTE, N. C., December,25 Che World's San Francisco special in -egard to the marriage of Miss Maggie .icDowell, of Charlotte, to Baron Von daltzahn, of Berlin, Germany, in con iection with his alleged letter in reply o the California joker's advertisement >f rich American brides for European ioblemen, has been the all-absorbing heme of conversation in social circles iere to-day. It is said the Baron declared that the :ause othis resignation from the German rly was his bride's re-usal to li;e .broad. A circumstance by sorae hought significant in this connection vas told the World correspondent this vening by a person quite intimate with he McDowell fanaiy. This informatioi teted that soon after Miss McDowell's eturn from Europe the Baron in one of loselv about her income and said that t would be impossible for them to mar .y if she was not wealthy. The story -uns that J. B. McDowell, a brother of ;he Barone's answered the letter, saying hat his sister's income was $4,000 a ear and that it would be necessary for lie Baron to write at his earliest con renience and declare what his income w'as. It is said tile Baron replied as ollows: "You ask what my income is. That ias never troubled me, and I have nev ~r thought to ask my mother in what dad of financial condition she would eave me in at her death. Preached to a Jury. KANSAs CITY, Dec. 17.-A special 'rom Wichita, Kansas, says: The jury n the case of Nellie 3Iayers, charged vith robbing John Yost, and then throw ng 1dm while in a drunken stupor from Sthird story of a house of ill repute, iad been out fifty-two hours last night, vhen Judge Balderson announced his ietermination to have a verdict before nornn. He did not reveal his plan, but at 3 a. n. took R1ev. N. E. Iharmon to the court 10use. The bailiff ushered the reverend ~entleman into the jury room. 3Mr. -iarmon then commenced a religious ervice, the jury joining in tile singing. -ie then delivered an hour's discourse ipon the immortality of the soul, and ifter the closing prayer left the jury to hemselves. When court opened thle >ailitT announced that the jury had ar ived at a verdict. It was "guilty." One of tha jurors said the verdict was eached on the first ballot after the close f tile religious service. The defense will appeal thle case, al eging misconduct on the part of tile udge and his bailiff. Accident to Col. Lee Hagood. Co~t-3zIA, S. C., Dec. 23.-Informa iol: was received hlere yesterday of a ery serious accidenlt to Colonel Lee lagead. It seems from the particulars btained last night from our Sumter orrespondent that Colonel Ilagood, ho has been over at Sumter for some .ays past on insurance business, acci entally sh~ot himself in theC left arm :ith a pistol Monday night in his room t the J ervey Ilouse. Tile bail fractured oth bones above the wrist. M1edical ssistance was summoned at once and he wound wvas dressed. Yesterday iorninlg upon re-examination it was oun~d necessary to amputate 11is arm. hr Ihagood is now doing tolerably well. Irs. Ilagood and her son1 left'for Sum er yesterday evening. The intelligence of this sad accident to olonel Ilagood was a great shock to his riends in Columbia, but they have been eassuiredi by tihe information that re ctionl had set in.-Columlbia Riegiste r "The Old Reliable." Cnl~ILEsrox, D~ec. 20.-Tile first an lull rep~ort of Receiver C'haniberlain of he Southl Carolina R ailway was filed in hie Uniited States Court to-day. The et earnings for the year are 8530,TIt gainst $:312,t;74 in 188-t, an increase of 2tS,057. The I rep~ort is up to October 1, 1890. Th le expense account shlows a corres onding decrease, notwithstanding the act that the road has added materially o its rolling stock and motive power. The receiver says that tile inicrease ill he earnings is not G.ue especially to any reat inicrease ill the crop~s but to tile atulral developemlen~t of the counitry lid to its columectionis. A l'oss'ible Floodl at Wheeinzg. WH IEELIx(I. W. Va. D~ee. 18.-Thfle riust terrifle snow storm for six years as been raging for 24l hours, and a large mount of damiage resulted. All tele raph conununication was cut ofT all ay yesterday. The city telephane, tel graph and lire alarm systems are corm-~ fetely wreckedl, and railway traini retly delayed. 'ThIe loss is large. Street ars are not runniling and hack lilies are akinig ti heir place. Lit tle business h as >en done. TJiere are lively appreheni ions of a ilood in the citv. 'There isa 'ast amount of snow about the headwa INGALILS SCHEME. IHE WILL CARRY HIS FIGHT TO THE UNITED STATES SENATE. If he is Defeated for Re-election he will Alleze that the Kansas House of Rep resentatives Ix Illegally Constituted. Tol::KA, December. 26.-The Sena t(rial contest in Kansas is at this time attracting much attention. owiug to the prominence of Senator Ingalls. The Times recently gave an account of the preliminary steps being taken for a con test to be made in tile United States Senate. An interview has :ocen had with a gentleman of national reput ation, who fully and freely expressed his views upon thi' subjest. and gave con firmatorv evidence a'; to the conspiracy revealed by the Timcs. For political reasons his nanic will 1:e withheld. He is in a posi tion to know absolutely the workings in the inner circles of'politics. This gentle man said "The struggle for the Senatorial suc cession to John J. Ingalls bids fair to outrival in stubborn fighting, in persis tent offort. and in fertile expedients all others in the history of such elections. Gathered around and supporting Senator Inualls in li's offort at re-election are some of the strongest and most active minds in the West, men who for a quar ter of a century have so managed the politics of the State that Kansas had outstripped all other Northern States in piling up majorities for Republican can didates in Presidential years. And while Ingalls would not be their first choice in the event of an open field and fair fight, they recognize that his re elec tion means an extraordinary triumph for them and a continued supremacy in the management of their party. "The Kansas Legis!ature as now con stituted consists of 40 Senators and 128 members of the House of Representa tives, Classifying them politically there are 38 Republican Senators, 1 Democrat, and there is one vacancy to be filled at a special election December 30. The va cancy in all probability will be filled by an Alliance man, instructed against the re-election of Ingalls, so that the Senate will stand 38 Republicans, 1 Democrat and 1 Alliance Senator. The House contains 91 Alliance, 9 Democratic and 28 Republican members. This gih es an Alliance vote of 92, a Republican voftof 66 and a Democratic vote of 10. There is no doubt that four of the ten Demo'cratic votes are for Ingalls to the bitter end, and that the very great pro babilities are that as against a distinctive Alliance candidate, all ten of the Demo cratic votes will be given to Ingalls. "The Alliance people to bridge over this difliculty could secure five of the Democratic votes by taking a candidate with strong Democratic antecedents, and one who upon all political questions, ex cept silver currency and tariff, would range himself on the De side of the chamber. Such electionwould S Me T, if they coulfhO their men; but here one of their main difficulties would occur. Their total number of members is composed of mixed and diverse materials. Nearly two-thirds have heretofore been active Republicans. Seven of their number are Knights of Labor and are free lances in politics. "Aain, the Republcan leaders allege that the Ihouse ofRepresentatives ought to contain under the plain terras of the Constitution. 144 members instead of 123, that nineteen counties are disfian chised by the legislative apportionment of 1885. This claim is based upon a provision of the Constitution of the State that declares that the number of Re pcesentatives and Senators aball be reg ulated by law, but that it shall never exceed 128 Representatives and 40 Sea ators. From and after the adoption of the amendment the House of Represen tatives shall admit one member from each county in which at least 250 legal votes were cast at the next preceding general election, and each organized county in which less than 200 legal votes were cast at the next preceding1 general electioa shall be attached to and1 constitute a part of the Representatives district of the county lying next adja cent to it on the cast.' This amend ment to the Constitution was adopted at the general election in 1873. "In the apportionment bill of 1885 no provision was madle andl no margin left for counties orangized after that time, the wl'ole number of 128 members being assigned to counties then organized. It is now asserted that the true construe tion of this amendment is, that as the Constitution expressly provdes in an other section that each organized county shall have at least one Representative, that the first part of the amemdment 1 was a direction to the Legislature in making an apportionment, and that the 1 second was intended to give each of the ] new coca ties a Representative in the I session of the Legislature succeeding its I organization, and this without reference to the apportionment in force at the time. "Since 1885 nineteen counties have been organized and are nowI and have been since 1885 excluded from representation on the floor of the House. The matter was recently brought before the Supreme Court of the State by an application for a man damus against the board of State canvas-t sers on behalf of a person electied to the I House in one of the excluded counties to 1 compel the board to issue to him a cer- C tificate of election as a member of the House. The Supreme Court, following some old decision refuised to grant the writ. This application wvas urged by two of' the strongest lawyers in the ( State. and their, airguments are held by c the public generally to be coinclusive of t the question. "Another argument supp)orting this proposition is founded on Chapter 57 of the General Statutes of Kansas, which - requires that in all elections by a joint a convention of both houses thxe personr elected is requiredl to receive a majo-:ity1 of all tile members elected to the two houses. The claim will be made that each one oft these persons receiving a 1 maiority or plurality vote ila the nine f teen recently org!anizedl counties are ( members elected according to the mean- I i of' this statute. "it is doubtful whether Ingalls and t his legal friends really wanted the Courtt Lii grant the wi'it or whiether they did r this solely' or the purpose of'makingr ther reccord. believing that the Coui't wvould adhere to its previous opinion. At all events. they have raised a question that the Senate of the United States may( have ultintely to decide. because their thieoi'y is that if Ingalls is beaten by a r llouse thius constituted tiiey will contest on the ground that the 11ouse not hay- g ing been legally constituted, there was c no electior. This question would be de- a termined by the Senate at its called ses- L "If the Senate should decide, as it is confidently believed by Ingalls and his advisers, that there was no election, the State Legislature having adjourned, and there being no session for two years, Governor Humphrey would have the power to appoint, and Senator lugalls would be appointed and hold until Janu ary. 1892. when the Legislature wouid again be in session. If the legal theory of this scheme is sound. there seem to be no escape for the Allhance men. un less they could so manage as to give their candidate so large a vote that he would have a clear majority. admitting that eve-v one of these disfranchised members would have voted for Ingalls if they h4d been admitted to their seats. This would requeire on Alliance candidate to receive 93 votes, and this is cons'dered impossible. They have this scheme to fall back on, if they do not succeed iu getting the required 93 votes for Ingalls and a Legislature as at pressent coi posed. "It may be said that if ingalls doesn't receive ninety-three - otes ihe other side may contest on the same ground, but It must be recollected that while after the 4th ot March next the Senate will be very close it will still be Republican, and in view of modern political act'on it would be strange indeed if the Republicans would so weaken themselves, but I do not care to discuss such probabilities, my effort being to acquaint you with some of the schemes and political move ments that are now g'oiu on in a State that has been so prolific of Senatorial sensations."-New York Times. AFOUL MURDER IN NORFOLK. Shootingan Old Soldier to Death in the Presence ofhis Iife and Grandchildren. NORFOLK, Va.. Dec. 25.-There Was a most brutal murder here to day shortly after 12 o'clock. A veteran of two wars, C. J. Calcutt, an Ex-Confederate and a brave soldier in that war and the war of this country with Mexico, was he victim. Until very lately he was >ne of the most trusted members of the police force and for the past few months le has been a private watchman on a wharf of the Boston and Battimore line )f the Merchants' and Miners' Trans portation Company. At an early hour this morning a man iamed J. E. Brady, a fireman employed )y the Cotton Compress Association of ;his city, apphed to Calcutt to arrest i man in the street who had been offen live to him. Calcutt replied that he had iot seen the affair, and in addition, did lot think his jurisdiction extended out dde of the wharf. Brady left but came back just as Cal :utt was eating his dinner, which had >een brought him by his wife dad two ittle grandchildren, who remained to ielp cheer up what would otherwise lave been a lonely Christmas meal. iVhile the meal was in progress and han )y laughter and briaht joke were going ,he round of the little circl.e, Brady re :arned, and, entering the office where ,alcutt was eating, applisd a vile het to him and called on another W was refused. Brady then made at Cal utt. but the other watchman interfered and separated them. Calcutt went out into the yard to put Brady out, so that his vile language :ould not be heard by his wife and little randchildren. Calcutu put his hand on Irady and the latter jerked away, arew a pistol from his overcaat pocket and Fired, the ball striking Calcutt in the ear and coming out on the other side of his iead. Calcutt fell and ('eath was al nost insiantaneous. Brady was at once arrested by those tround and taken to the station house. rhe affair soon became noised about and Brady would have fared badly if tl e rowd that iathered could have gotto:1 iold of him. The police authorities a e trong enough, however, to prevent any ummary proceedings, and the law will ake its course, though there is great in lignation. ________ Illnois Senatorship. CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-Chairman "Long" jones, of the Republican State central ommittee, gave notice to-night that he right of five Democratic State Sena ors-elect to sit in the Legislature vould be contested. This is the latest maneuvre in the ight for the United States Senatorship rom Illinois. The notices were with ield until the last moment allowed by aw, the motive for the delay being, it s understood, to avoid stirring up the Jemocrats to possible reprisals. State Senators upon whom notice vas served are Nooman, of the First2 listrict; Caid well. of the Thirty-ninth: i.rnold, of the Fifteenth; Dawkins, of he Seventeenth, and Coppinger, of the forty-first. General charges of bribing voters vith money and promises of oflices in he organization of the General As embly are the india grounds for con ests, except as to Dawkins, who is al eged to be ineligible because of foreign >irth. With the contest against 31er itt, of Springfield, there is now a con roversy raised as to an even half dozen )emocratic seats and a pair of Republi ans. The legislature is almost evenly di ided between Democrats and Repub cans on the joint ballot with three ~armers' Alliance men apparently olding the balance of power. The avowed candidates so far are en. John M. P'almner, Democrat, and shas. B. Farwell, Republican, who is. he present incumbent. The struggle romises to be fully as fierce as the onei a which the late Gen. .John A. Logani efeated Wim. R. MIorrison, now mem er of the interstate commerce coim- l 11ssion. The New Assointe Jusice. s WA $mIXa ToN. Dec. 23. -The Presi ent to-day nominated Ihenry B. Brown tf MIichigan to be Associate Justice of te Supreme Caurt of the U'nited States, ice Samuel F. M1iller deceased.t Judge Brown is now United States )istrict Judge for the third district of r Lichigan; also Col. Charles Sutherland, argeon, to be Surgeon-General. with mnk of Brigadier-General, vice J. .* e iaxter, deceased.r An Explosion of Dynamite. PITTsarun;, Dec. 21.-A special from Vheeling, W. Va., says: "On the Nor 1lk and Western Railroad in Wayne 'onnty yesterday a gang of men hand een at work on line blasting and sever- r 1 sticks of dynamite were placed around ae tire to thaw out. In sonme manner, :iey were exp~loded tearing everything to ieces in the immediate vicinity. Two ien were killed, an Italian and a negro; ~ ames unknown. Ten others were in-. ared, several very seriously." Fell Into 3Iolten 3Xetal. t P~OTrTsvlL LE, P'a., Dec. 20.--Wmn. MIc konigle, a pit boss in the employ of the 'ottsville Steel works, met with a ter itle accident, ie was moving about i the discharge oIf his dutties, when he eidentally slipped and fell inito ia pilen f m~olten steel. When removed he ras in a pitiful condition, being very Ib adly burned from head to foot. Hie I; a nnot recover. A GENERAL CANING. Deserved Tributes to Distinguished Re presentatires. COLniIA, S. C.. Dec. 23.-The mem bers of the General Assembly tendered a banquet to' Senator-elect Irby this evening. Previoi;sly he was pre.ent ed with a handsome ebony gold head ed cane in the parlor of the Grand Cen tral llot-.. Ain:fl: those present were: Messrs. ELruest Gary and J. L. McLarin, Sen ator Evans. Lieutenant Governor Gary, Attorney Geueral Pope, Mr. J. Gary Evans and Speaker Ira B. Jones. By the way, the General Assembly buys its gold-headed canes in Charles ton, the Senator's cane being from Mes iers. Carrington, Thomas & Co. Mr. McLaurin, making the piesentation _peech, said: Sir: It is with feelings of pride and pleasure that your friends in the Gen eral Assembly, through me, propose to pzestnt you a memento of your servi c:-s as Speaker of the House of Repre sentatives. Your rapid elevation t: the highest office in the gift of the peo ple of South Carolina is not only a com pliment to your ability, but is charac teristic of the time-an age of steam and electricity. By a single stride yotr have attained the position that heretofore was only reached after the energies of youth were tamed and devitalized by age. You have not yet reachtd-the-meridiin of life. You have the grandest oppor tunity that has ever befallen a citizen of South Carolina-the opportunity of bringing to bear a manhood and brain untouched by the withering blight of age to the service of your people in the most august legislative body in the world. Our hopes and our prayers go w~th you, and we feel that South Caro lina will never need to apologize for her young representative in the United States Senate, if the same nerve, the same brain, the same tenacity of pur pose and devotion to duty which have heretofore characterised you will still enable you to expand and meet the re quirements of every occasion. You are a fit type of the new era which is dawning all over this broad Land, and in every way worthy to catch the mantle as it falls from the states man and soldier now wearing it, and who is a grand type of the past genera tion. Let the dead past bury its dead: Act! Act in the living present, Faith within and God overhead. Go to that Senate adorned by the statues of the noblest men this country )r the world ever produced and the scene of the splendid triumphs of Clay, Webster and Calhoun, and we fear- not :hat you will sustain the honor and glory of the whole country. Mr. Irby replied: Gent'emen and friends: Permit me >riefl' to thank you for this testimo hial of your high esteem and confidence. Were I not profoundly grateful to you md to the General Assembly of South Carolina,-I would be unworthy )f the high esteem and confidence 'you iave reposed in me. At the beginning of the present ses ;ion of the Legislature, which Wil Wable in t& b istory our State Te~er of the os Representatives, who are the represen tatives of the people, unanimousl elected me to preside over the delibera tions of that body. Subsequently the General Assembly, by a most flatter ing vote, electe 1 me to the highest of [ice within the gift of thepeople of thi State. While presiding as Speaker my sole efforts have been to insure to each member a fair and impartial presenta tion of any 'views he might desire to Dring to the consideration of the House. As your representative in Congress I~ promise unqualilledly that the peoplel f South Carolina shall never have just Muse to say that I have been untrue toi :he interests of the people of a State' wvhich I nam proud to say is not only thei lace of my nativity, but that of miyi mncestors for over one hundred years. As the chairman of the Democratici arty of' South Carolina permit me to, ndulge the hope that all political differ mnces will be buried at once. Under! ur existing forms of government the: sa jority must control and the minori ;y must submit. The hope of thei south and nation is in the success of he Democratic party. In spite of division the Democracy >f South Carolina has triumphed, and nust and will continue to be trium )hant so long as intelligence, truth md virture ar~ held in higher esteem han ignorance, vice and corruption. Again thanking you for this token f esteem and friendship, and wishing ach and every one of you a safe return ome and a merry Christmas, I bid rou'adieu. The inscription on the cane is:"1890. ['he General Assembly of South .Caro ina to the Hon. J. L. M. Irby." Mr. J. Gary Evans was also present d with a handsome cane by his friends brough Representative T oumans. Representatives jBr. eale and Bow Len, of Anderson, also ame in for two legant gold-mounted native canes rom admiring friends.-News and Ijourier. __________ The Beauties of The Tariff. A practical illustration of the beauties f the new tariff law was given to the louse recently says a Washington dis ath in the shape of a letter from the ecretury of the Treasury, asking that ni appropriation of 825,000 be made in irder to enable the lighthouse board to ay duties upon imported articles used n the establishment of lighthouses, and ni which the goverment has to pay duty. 'he secretary says the illuminating ap aratus used in lighthouses is not made a this country. "Tl'e duty on the parts," I e adlds, "which are mostly of glass, is U per cent. and on the parts made most of metal 45 per cent. The foairth or- 1 er apparatus, the ones which i're most- 1 -used, cost, say, 10,000f. in France, or 1 ay S-1.00, the duty upon which will be, 1 av, half that amount. Certain other rticles needed in the establishment of I ghtlouses, and not made in this coun- . ry. i're also imported and are subject to 1 eduty under the new law." The see- 1 etary adds: -'Free entry on articles im orted1 for government use is no longer llowed, and the appropriation will have > be made in order to enadle the gov- I rnmment to pay duties to the govern 1ent." Three Tramps Lynched. WALLA WALLa, Wash.. Dec. 24. iews has reachea here that three ramps were lynched near Huntington, pregon, on the Oregon short line by ailrox'Imen. Four tramps boarded a reight train near Fry's, Idaho. They rere put off, but afterwards got on the :ain and o)verpowere?d the brakeman1 thom they threw under the t-rain, both f his le~ being broken, he dying soon tter from injdiries. The report says: ne tramps were caught near Hunting mf and three of them were lynched. 'he fourth escaped. Lynched by Negroes. JACI~soNvILLE', Fla., Dec. 12.-Dan Villiamns. an old negro, living eigh iiles froni Qunicy, Fla., was lynch~ egroes last night. Houses uildings o:: several negroes hay been burned, and it ~ii -as the gu ilty nartm WINDING UP THEIR WORK. THE MEETING OF THE LEGISLATURE DRAWING TO A CLOSE. The End of the Session of 1890-A Sum mary of Some of the New Laws of Public Importance and What Was Done With Them. COLUIBIA, S. C., Dec. 2.-Spe31al: The Legislative session of 1890 may be said to have virtually ended. To morrow, together with the portion of Wednesday which will be employed will be occupied with business of 'rou tine character, necessary to wind up the work of the session. Already t4he proceedings have lost much of'their interest. As has frequertly happened in the past fourteen years, some of t66 most important measures have undergone discussion .in the last days of the. ses sion. This is of course to be regretted,. but it is sometimes unavoidable. ThJs yeai there appears to..have been uun sual deliberation in bringing forward the more prominent measures..-..These have, in some. instances.at least, been rushed through with what must ap pear unseemly haste. Below is given a summary of the most -prominent measures that have met their fate In enactment or rejection. THE PHOSPHATE BILL. The new phosphate law carries out, in some things at least, the ideas of Governor Tillman, as'expressed. in his inaugural For many years there have been, among those interested - in' or familiar with the subject, differences of opinion as to the general plan on which the State should dispose of tle phosphate territory. On one side It has been urged that the Sta retain ing ownership and control of all the. territory, should let it to be mined la any area or to any parties that shoutd be concluded best by the officials in control-each party digging the rock to choose his own field of operations; and to work for one year only This-is the outline of what is called the "gen eral-rights" scheme. On the other hand many have thought it best-for the State to let out the territory in large defined portions, for a long term of years. This latter .plan was that urged by the commissioners that.re po:ted to the Legislature three years ago, but whose report was summarily rejected in the House. Governor Till man favors the 'general rights" idea, though he appears to favor also'the power, in the Commission, to lep out particular territory for a term longet than one year. This power was coi tained in the House bill, but was stricken out in the Senate. The law. generally stated, restores thse "general rights" plan, subject-only to the rights. which the State may have given to corporations. In this connection inter est attaches to the fact that it is claitn ed for the State that the franchise of the Coosaw Mining Company expires in March. The termination of this franchise will open the most desirable territory to general operations.. The lom it is said, will elWn Westsatu' w , fte way, was almoe repealed in 1883. This ~new statuts gives the Railroad Commission the power to fix rates for the carrying of both freight and passengers. It gives general supervisory control of the rail roads, and-is regarded a very stringent law. It carries out Governor Tillman's . suggestions made in his inaugaraL. ' An attempt to graft on the bilE a. provision for separate cars for the races was promptly defeatedin the Hotise as was also the separate bill for''the. same purpose. The bill to require mail train( i stop at every post-office station was killed in the Seniate. OHTER IMPOETANT MEA UBE. The constitutional amendment abol ishing the county commissioners, bais been duly ratified. No attempt uis been made to devise any new system. Meantime the present system continues. in force by operre.tion of the existIng statutes. .a The Senate refused to pass the..join. resolution calling a ennstitutionalcond - vention. The matter was not moetN~4 i-1the House. The Act abolishing the Departinn of Agricultu-e becomes a .law. .4. transfei-s all the work~ of the. Depait, ment to the Clemson College. . The Act* to reduce the salaries .of State officers has passed 'both> houses and will, of course, be approved by the Q~overnor. .Its provisions have been yven in this correspondence. The Act to reorganize the U~niverui by, mares that institution to comprise Ihe South Carolina College here-a lit arary and scientific institution, with a aw school annexed; Clemson College. Citadel Academy. and Clafiin Univer 5ity. The Citidal remains under the nanagemnent of the .Ioard of Visitors md the effort to reorganize thatTard .vas killed in the Senate. The College 1ere is to be reorganized on or after the - tst July, 1891. The provision, in tha >riginal bill, requiring the P'resident to e a minister of the Gospel was killed, is was also an amendment requiring uim to be a member in good standing, >f some Christian Church. The House bill to limit working ours in cotton factories was killed in he Senate. The Act requiring the several coun ies t~ pay the cost of maintaining pa .ienl sent, by the county authorities, o the lunatic asylum, was passed, to ake effect on the 1st January, 1892. The bill authorizing the Governor to emove any sheriff who permits thd ynching of a prisoner was continued ill next session. Similar action was aken on the bill to authorize certain f the State officers to designate an offi ial ne wspaper in each county. Such, iso, was the fate of the bill to estab ish a college for women. Trhe-usual number of local measures i-as passed. K A Barroom Tragedy. - DAXvIL LE, Va., Dec. 23.-A shocking ragedy occurred here to-day. Edward ?noch, a railroad man, and James Gra ett, a carpenter, were in a saloon, and oth under the iultuence of liquor. They egan to quarrel about some tritiing~ Latter and Gravatt insulted-.Enoh: then the latter knocked him down and iterally stamped him to death with .his eavy boots. Gravett's face was crush-. d and he died almost immediately. inoch was arres Smo NEWA he bum Irs.