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A SERMON ON BABYLON. DSCOURSE PREAC'"L. SUNDAY, JAN. 25. BY DR. TALMAGE. A Grapbic Descr; lit ion o the l mizders of this Auck4-tt Pa-nan City-.oime L.cssos That Should be lteedcd to be ramnn from Its Fall. BROOKLYN, Jan. 2a.-Dr. Talhage preached the following sermon this m-orning in th-e Academry of Music in this city, and he repeated it to-night at The Christian Herald service in the New York Academy of Music. lli .text was Daniel. v, 30: "In that night was B]elshazzer. the king of the C ual' deans, slain." After the site of Babylon hail ben selected, two million of men were em ployed for the construction of the wall and the principal works. The walls of the city were sixty miles in circumfe-r ence. They were surrounded by a trench. out (f which had b'een dug the material for the Construction of tihe city. There were twenty-five gates et solid brass on each side of the square city. Between every two gates a great tower sprang up into the heavens. From each of the twenty-five gates on either side a street ran straight through to the gate on the other side, so that there were fifty streets, each fifteen miles long, which gave to the city an appearance of wonderful regularit.y. The houses did not join each other on the ground, and between them were gardens ana shrubbery. From house top to housetop bridges swung, over which the inhabitants were accustomed topass. A branch of the Euphrates Went through the city, over which a bridge of marvelous structure was thrown, and under wnich a tunnel ran. To keep the river from overflowing the city in time of freshet. a great lake was arranged to catch the surplus, in which the water kept as in a reservoir until times of drought, when it was sent streaming down over the thirsty land. A palaze stood at each end of the Euphrates bridge: one palace a mile and three-quarters in compass, and the other palace seven and a half miles in circumference. Tne wife of Nebuchadnezzar, having been brought up among. the mountains of Media could not stand it in this flat country of Babylon, and so to please her Nebu chadnezzar had a mountain four hun dred feet high built in the midst of the city. This mountain was surrounded by terraces, for the support of which great arches were lited. On the top o these arches flat stones were laid; then a layer of reeas and bitumen; then twd rows of bricks, closely cemented; then thick sheets of lead, upon which the sQil was placed. The earth here de posited was so deep that the largest trees had room to anchor their roots. All the glory of the flowery tropics was spread out at that tremendous height, until it must have seemed to one below as though the clouds were all in blossom, and the very sky leaned on the shoulder 6f the cedar. At the top an engine was constructed which drew the water from the Euphrat es, far below, and made it spout up amid this garden of the skies. All this to please wifel ~ I think she must have been leased. In the midst of this city stood also the temple of Belus. One of its towers was one-eighth of a mile high, and on EAhe top of it an observatory, which gave the astronomers great advantage, a being at so great a height, one Scould easily talk with the stars. This (temple was full of cups and statues and n censers, all of gold. One figure weighed a thousand lBabylonish talents, which R-would be equal to lifty-two million Sdollars. All this by day: but now night was about to come dlown on Babylon. E2heshadow's of her two hundred and E fty towers began to lengthen. The - Euphrates rolled on, touched by the tjery splendors of the setting sun, and ~ ates of brass, burnished and glitter. n g, opened and shut like doors 01 fame. The hanging gardens of Baby on-,n wet with the heavy dew, began tc pour from starlit flowers and dripping leaf a fragrance for many miles around. iThe streets and squares were lighted A for dance' and frolic and promenade. R The theatres and galleries of art in M ited the wealth and pomp and gran. Kdeur of the city to rare entertainments. Scenes of riot and wassail were mingled -nevery street; godless mirth, and out ufgeis excess, and splendid wicked mescame to the king's palace to do their mightest deeds of darkness. A royal feast to-night at the king's Spalace! Rushing up to the gates are chariots, upholstered with precious dolths frem Dedan and drawn by fire eyedborses from Togarmah, that rear a-Bnd neigh in the grasp of the chariot ' rs,inhile a thousand lords dismount. Sand women dressed in all the splen. a ots of Syrian erregald, and the color Sblending of agate, and the chasteness of coral, and the princely embroideries .brought from afar by came s across Sthe desert, and by ships from Tarshish Sacross the sea. ''Open wide tbe gates and let the guests .come in. The chamberlains ,and cup bearers are all ready. Hlark~ fto the rustle of the robes and to the Sof the musici See the blaze of the ~~wels! Lift the banners. Fill the Up.Clap the 'cymbals. I3low the ~mpets. Let the night go by with song and dance and ovation; and let SthtBabylonish tongue be palsied that Swill not say, "Oh, King Bwlshazzar, itvbe forever!" Ah!.my friends, it was not any comn -mon banquet to wvhich these great peo ple came. All parts of the earth had sent their richest viands to that table. Brackets and chandeliers hiashed their it.lgt upon tankards of burnished gold. ?rji, ripe and lu scious, in baskets of a ver, en twined with leaves, plucked k- rom royal conservatories. Vases, in Slaid with emerald and ridged with ex juisite. traceries, filled with nuts. that were thrashed from forests of distant lands. Wine brought from the royal -vata, foanming in the decanters and bobbling in the chalices. Tufts of im-asia and frankinconse wafting theiI sweetness from wall and table. Gor geaus banners unfolding in the breeze that came through the opened window, bewitched with the perfume of hang ing garaens. Fountains rising up from inclosures of ivory in jets of crys tal, to fall in clattering rain of dia monds and pearls. Stat ues of mighty men lookin& down fromi niches in the wall upon cirowns and shields brought from subdued empires. idolt of wonderful work, standing on pedes tale of prec:ous stones. Fmbroideies drooptug about the wvindowvs and wrap ping pillars of cedar, and drifting or fioor inlaid with ivory and agate. Music. mingling the thrum of harps, and the clash of cymbale, and the blast of trumpets in one wave of transport that went rippling along the wal Iand breathing among the garlands amUbp~ouriug down the co'-ridors, and thrilling the szouls of a thousand ban queters. The signal is given, and the lord: and ladies, the mi-ghty men and we men of the land, come around the table Pour out the wine. Let foam and bub -ble kiss the rimi Iloisti every one his cup, and drink to the sentiment, "Oh, King Bleishazzar, lire forever!" Be starred headband and carcanet of royal beauty gleam to the uplifted chalices as again and again and again the-y arn emptied. Away w~ith care from the palace! Tear royal dignity to tatters Pour out more winel Give us morn light, wilder music, sweeter perfume Lord shouts to lord, captain ogles t< captain. Goblets clash, decanters rat tIe. There comes in the vile song, au( the~runken hiccough, and the slaver ai l~ip;'ana the guffaw of idiotic laughter, bursting from the lips o: pinces, flushed, reeling, bloodshot Smingling with it all I heai insistp. TI. .:.'*"hM bd fro the :Ther is a stit. Ther is a ihs.d voiced shriek o horrr. Let iomiei be brought in to re ad that writinz. Ile cnies i. e reads i "We.& in th~e balan'e and found witmrg;' 2!eanwh ithe Ass',riatn,. who for two vears had -n laying siege to t city. took advantaze of that e.rcl'. an came in. I hear tle feet of the conquerors en the paace stairs. las fla IShe inl wV'it ii a 1otsan1 leam in knives. Dvath bulrsts urpon the scene. and I shut the door of tlhat ban qi::etingr h:dl. for I d1o not w:ut to look. i There is nothing there but torn ban neri. and broken wreaths. and the slush of upset taik-ards. ad the bloc'Wd of muirdered womn. and th; ki 'k d and t::Pmbled carctass of a dead king. For "in that rv itwas Blsiazzar. the king of the Chaldeans. sixiin." I go on to learn ihat when (oi writes anything on the wall. a imii had better read it as it is. Daniel did not misinterpret or rmodify the handwit inz on the wall. It is all foolishness to expect a minister of the G ospel to preach always things that the people like or the people choose. Young men what shall I preach to you to-night? Shall I tell you of the nonders that our race has accomplished ? "Oh. no!" you say: "tell me the message. that came from God." I will. If there is any handwriting on the wall it is this lesson, "Accept of Christ and b, saved!" I might talk of a great many other things, but that is the message, and so I ucclare it. Jesus never flattered those to v. hom he preached. Ile said to those who did wrong and who were offensive in his sight, --Ye generation of vipers: ye whited sepelehers: how can ye escape the damnation of hell:" Paul the apostle preached before a man who was not ready to hear him preach. What subject did he take ? Did he say, "Ob you are a good man, a very line man, ia very noble man?" No; he preached of righteousness to a man who was unrighteous: of temperance to a man who was the victim of bad appetites; of the ju;igment to come to a man who was unlit for it. -So we must alway s declare the message that happens to come to us. Daniel must read it as it is Another lesson that comes to us. There is a great difference between the opening of the banquet of sin and its close. Young man, if you had look ed in upon the banquet in the first few hours, you would have wished you had been invited there. and could sit at the feast. "Oh! the grandeur of Belshaz zar's feast:" you would bave said; but you look in 'it the close of the banquet, and vour blood curdles with horror. The King of Terrors has there a ghast lier banquet; human blood is the wine, and dying groans are the music. Sin has made itself a king in the earth. It has crowned itself. It has spread a banquet. It invites all the world to come to it. It has hung in its banquet ing hall the spoils of all kingdoms and the banners of all nations. It has gathered from all ' music. It, has strewn, from its wealth, the tables ::nd the floors and arches. And yet how 'often is that banquet broken up, and how horrible is its end' Ever and anon there is a handwriting on the wall. A king falls. A great culprit is arrested. The knees of wickdness kncek togeth er. God's judgment. like an armed host, breaks in upon the banquet; and that night is Belshazzar. the king -of the Chaldeans, slain. I learn further from this sabject that Death sometimes blreaks in upon a banquet. Why did he not go down to the prisons in 1iabylon ? There were people there that would like to have died. I suppose there were men and women in torture in that city who would have welcomed Death. Bat he comes to the palace: and just at the time when the mirth is dashing to the tiptop pit'ch Death breaks in at the banquet. We have of ten seen the s-une thing illustrated. Ilere is a young man just come from college. He is kind, lHe is loving, ie is enthusias tic. IIe is eloquent. By one spring he may bound to heights toward which many men have been struggling for years. A profession opens before him. ie is establhshed in the law. Ihis friends cheer him. Eminent men en courage him. After a while you may see him stand ing in the United States Senate, or moving a popular assemblage by his tioquence, as trees are moved in a whirlwind. Some night he retires ear lv. A fever is on him. D~elirium, like a reckless charioteer, seizes the reins of his intellect. Father and mother stand by and see the tides of his life going out to the great ocean. The banquet is coming to an end. The lights of thought and mirth and elo quence ar-e being extinguished. The garlands are snatched from the browv. The vision is gone. Death at the ban quet! .I have also to learn from the subject that the destruction of the vicious, and of those who despise God,' will be very sudden. The wave of mirth had dashed to the highest point when that Assyrian army broke through. It was unexpected. Suddenly, almost always, comes the doom of those who despise God and defy the laws of men. Ilow was it at the deluge? Do you suppose it came through a long northeast storm, so that people for days before were sure it was coming ? No; I suip pose the morning was bright, that calmness brooded on the waters; that beauty sat enthroned on the hills. whe'n suddenly the heavens burst, andi the mountains sank like anchors into the sea that dashed clear over the Andes and the Ilimalayas. The Red sea was divided. The Egyptians.. tried to cross it. There could be no danger. The Israelites had just gone through. W~here they .had gone, why not the Egyptians? Oh: it was such a beautiful walking place! A pavement of tinged shells and pearls, and on either side two great walls of water-solid. There can be no danger. For ward, irreat hosts of the Egyptians. Clap the cymbals, and blow the .tru m pets of viectory: After them! We will atch them yet, and they shall be de stroyed. But the walls begin to trem ble.~ They rock: They fail! The rush ing wnters: The shriek of drowning men! Tihe swinnuinog of the war horses in vain far the shotre: The strewing of th~e great host onm the bottom of the sea, or pitchedi by the angry wave joa the b.dch-a battered, bruised] and loathsome- wreek! Suiddenily, de'strue tion camne. One-hall hour beiore they could nos have bl)ietved it. D)etroysi, and. without re..nedl. I am just setting f'orth a fact.- which vou have noticed as well as 1. Ananiats comes to the apostle. The apostle says. "Did you sell thei land for so much ?" ie says, "Yes." 1t was a lie. Dead! as quick as that: Sapphira, his wife, comes in. "Did vou sell the land for so much ?" "Yes." It was a lie; andI quick as that she was dead. God's judgmenxts are upon those who desoise him and defy him. They comxe sud denly. The destroying angel went through Egypt. Do you suppose that any of the people knew that he was coming ? Did they hear the flap of his great wing? No!ino: Suddienly, unexpected, h e came. Skilled sportsmen do not like to shoot a bird stand ing on a sprig near by. if they are skilled they pride themselves on taking it on the wing, and they wait ftill it star'ts. Death is an old sports man, and he loves to take men lying under the very'sun. ie loves to take them on the wig Are there any here who are unpre pared for the eternal wvorld!? Are there he'te "ccept or th'e Loira de'i t'r't 1.t n you ra nhne hegoc or Lo the ore, or t0 the sp No-1 Iinz v.Iwilh t but Deat1 h m t . idg nen an inrniy. h! iert~oGod, tis hon: 1 hr-b one in th is pire. ee who hafis wande red far awiy from rii., ::my iot nave heard I "invi_ hi now to c1 me and be ave t 1r1L t stron: iold of ;. . -spel:Now is th ai.t-: ed: tiinw. :1-w i _ the ;.ay of salvation!'. G d-nh mv Vou friends' MaV:a youi have rosy slee*~p. gzua-rded by him wl;o nwver stombers: May you awake in rh iorning strong and well! But ohl! ar'L thoul a VSpise.r of Go;(:i? I's this thv last nit ( .rth ? .honidst thon be' :awakneud in the night by s"m thin thou est w e .not what. and t here be shadov-s iloating in the room, and'. i'a iing n01e Wn!!, -u voufee tht yur 1:ast hour is comev, *di thliere be a fainting t the heart, and a tremor in the linih, and a ca'.ch mi. of the breath-then thy doom would be but an ;,cho of the words of the text, "In that night was Belshaazar, the ;in of the Chaleans, slin." Hear the invitation of the Gospel! There may be some one in this house to whom I shall never speak again, and the-refore let it be in the words of the Gospel. and not in my own, with which I close: -11o, every one that thirsteth! Come ye to the waters. And let him that hath no money come, buy wine and milk without money, and without price." "Come unto me, all ye who are weary -an. heavy laden, and 1 will give you rest." Oh' that my Lord Jesus weuld now make himself so attractive to your souls that you cannot resist him; and that, if you have never prayed before. or have not prayed since those days when you knelt dowi at your mother's knee, then that to-night you might pray, saying: Just as I am, without one plea Be t that thy blood was shed for me, And that thou bid'st me come to thee, 0 Lamb of God, I cone' But if you cannot think of so long a prayer as that, I will give you a shorter prayer that you can say, "God. be mer ciful t) me, a sinner 3" Or, if you Can aot think of so log a prayer as that, I will give you a still shorter tone that you may litter, "Lord, save me, or I perish:" Or if that be too long a pray er, you need not utter -one word. Just look amid live: A GENERAL SCALING DOWN. 1rofessorships in the University Abolish ed and Salaries Reduced. CoLUnIBIA, Jan. 29.-A scheme for the reorganization of the South Carolina university which will probably be adopted under the new order of things has been prepared by the sub committee of trustees appointed for that purpose, and their revort will be considered and acted u)oR tomorrow night by the exec utive committee of the university's board of trustees. The chief points in the proposed scheme have been given to the press, and as will be seen. are cliely in the line of the reduction of the appropriation necessary to conduct the institution oi its new basis. Another change, it is understood, is to have the management of the univer sity more directly controlled by the trus tees inisteaud of as heretofore .by the fai cultyV. Under the new plan the proposed ex pcnses or the salaries of the president and other officers will be brought down to 84.At)0 annually, while the library and intirmiarv fund is to be reduced to *1,500. The general expenses for running the university are to be cut down to #0.7:20 A saving of *7,150O is to be expected by abolishing the chairs of pedagogics, vet crinary s'eience, mechanical engineering, pharnmacy, bactcrology andl doctoring and by doing away with the services of one tutor, foreman of the machane shop, foreman of the blacksmith shop, and foreman of thme wood shop, reduction in the salary of the assistant chemist and that of thes secretary. T'o this saving is to be added $1,200) wiped out by reason of abolishing the mnechanical department, that sum having been requiredl for run ning expenses. It is pessible a further reduction of $4,500 may be made as fol lows: Reducmng from three-to two the chairs of English and moral philosophy and rhetoric and logic; by combining English ad rhetoric, and also Lioral philosophy and logic; also by abolishing the professorship of biology and divid ing rte work between the professor of eology and the president ; also by com binIng the chairs of physics and mnatha matles and employing an assistant pro fesor. ThIs reorganization contains so much amputation and liberal blood-letting in the way of reduction in salarIes that thme friends of the institution can scarcely be blamed for fearing that death or a coma tose state may ensue. Whether the full committee will adopt so radical a plan remains to be seen, but it is considered very probable that the scheme outlined in the above may be adopted. >iunk byv a Steamer. LawEs. DEL.. Jan. 2.-The British steamer Macedonia, fi'om Philadelphia for Hampilton Roads collided with a three masted schooner last night ten miles off' the Delaware capes. The sebooner sank immehaely. 1Her captain's son ~ was drowned, and thme captain was badly in juried. Thbe Macedonia passed up at A. M. to-day for Philadelphia with the survivors on board. The schooner sunk wats the Minnme and Gutssie, from New York for Norfolk. wvith guano. The steamer Macedonia received dlamage to two :> her plates on the bow. Fenwick's Island lightship bears- southsoutheast, distant twelve mies from the sunken schooner. Capt French had his arm broken and receiv ed a bad cut in the leg from a thing splnter. lHe may die. The captain's son. Winfield French, who1 was second mate of thec schoont-r, was in the cabin at the time of' the collison and was drownedi. Demnons in Texas. SAN MARCos, Tex., Jan. 23. Gergze H. Snydser,. one of the wealthiestI citizens of this place and( agent for the Southern Agricultural works of Atlatuta. Ga., shot anid killed his wife. The lfol lowing is theO account. of the tragedy Mis. :Snvder' hadl just returned fr'om ch urec, when her husband shot her three tines, ikilling her almost instantly. No one witnessed the shsootin-t but two chiil dru'of the murdered woman, who was a rened laudy and well-liked in the comn munity. Surder was arrested. and ire fuses to talk.~ He gives no reason for his bloody act. Neighbors of his say lie has often threatened to kiil his whole Ifamily. T1hey have t~hree -boys, two of wom wvere at home when their father killed their mother. but they lied, and up to last night they had not been heard of, nor can they' lie found. Snyder and his wife are fromi Rome, Ga., and have been living near' San Mar cos about two y'ears. Shotgua Qusaanitin. HoUSToN, Tex., Jan. %6.-WhileO smallox is prevalent here, it is not epI demie, but the citizens on San Phlilipi stee, etwee theo city and the pest hous, ystedayinaugurated a shotgun quaantne n teirown book anud neither Stte nor city ofliils can breaik through except at the risk of life. The matter is serous, andl the hot-headed citizens will rim 1 iMU A 1iiot )'TAILS OF THt MiNL D:6ASTER NEAR P1 CTSBURG hwe i anre :uan .svvn toi ies Recover ed amlI seveUtreen .lore S.n. in lthe Pit. Nji:LttlejMi;uug HaletL wraped in Mournng.----.Sad I'lct-tre. NotUN. w.OoD, PA., J an.:2N.- Oue huu Ired and seven bodies have been taken roin the ill-fated mine. No 1, of Frick & 2o. at Mammoth, up to 10 o'clock this norning. It is estimated that there re nain at least seventeen more victims of esterday's explosion still in the pit, but t is thought they will be taken out in a ew hours. No body slept at Mlammoth ast night. In every home in the little ining hamlet there was mourning. yet here was no demonstration. The little )ne-story house, scantily furnished, were luminated with tallow candles: mother, vife, sister or sweetheart sobbed in iilence. They only knew that a myste ious accident had befallen them. They aniiot see the dead and they have little ,are for the living. Their grief is deep md keen. After t he explosion yesterday the news f the aw.fal fate of scores of miners at work in the shaft spread rapidly among :he mines and miners' homes. Couriers :arried the dreadfut news hither and tnither, and families were dashed from the comforts of home into the depths of rief and despair. The scenes at these Einers' cottages can readily be imagined )y those who have know grief in its most rormidable forms, but no artist's pen can orrectly picture it. Within an incredibly short time the en :rance to the shaft was swarmed with an ager and anxious crowd of men, women mnd chirdren, some of whom could only vith grei i difficulty be kept at a safe dis Lance. As the bodies of victims, man ;led by the terrible force of explosion or Lmrned almost out of human semblance, were brought from the yawning deaths, the crowd of watchers pushed forward to the pit for a glimpse of recognition, and the fiearts of wives and sisters stood still for fear their loved ones were among the lead. The more disinterested ones quail d before the scene. Tears coursed down lhe bronzed and beared cheeks and were lashed away by brawny hands that had wung the pick for many years. The res uing party proceeded with their grim ask and the crowd of watchers silently .ooked on. It was one of those scenes which, once witnesed, remains forever mpressed upon the memory of the spec ator. This catastrophe, while involving more than live times the loss of life occasioned by the Dunbar disaster, differs in many espects from the latter. At Dunbar the ,xplosion set fire to the mine and shaft, 'or day and weeks the roaring furnace idding horror to the great fatality. in yesterday's occurance this was not the :se, and by the work of the fan pure tir was forced into the mine and the wvork of rescuing was permitted to begin tt once. Fifty collins arrived from Pittsburg this morning, and another half iundred will reach here to night. An idditional order for twenty-live more was sent for this morning. The cause Af the explosion has not yet been deter mined. ~ The coroner is on the ground and a thorough investigation will be made. No arrangements have yet been made for the funerals. The victims will Le buried by the company. 3Many of the unfortunates are Ihungarians, and will be sent to Scotdale for interment. The rescuing party is working with eroic energy and the wreck ipm the shaft is being fast cleared up. An official of the Frick Company said this morning. "It may never be known how or why the explosion occurred. The accumu ation of lire-damp was probably the cause, but it was never known to exist in any quantity before; in fact it may Le said that the M1ammoth mine has been free from damp. There is a theory that a pocket of natural gas was reach ad and that the operation of ventilating fans now prevents any accumulation f it. It is not necessary that every one in the mine be killed when an explosion occurs. The explosive may stay in one particular section and may not perme ate the entire mine, unless the volume is so great as to force it to every part of the pit. in this case the gas was conlin d to one portion and the miners who were in other localities escaped." Never in the history of American coal mining has there been such an unexpect d accident with such complete aunihl ation of all within its reach. The mam moth mine has been notable always as being pasticularly free from gas. Ihun :lreds of safety guage lamps were pro. ided for the miners by the company, bt they were never used, as they were regarded as unnecessary. in their stead the men wore the familiar little open flame lamps on their hats, those smpall of~ee pot shaped affairs of tin, whiich ire fastened above the forehead in the teadgear of the workmen. The boss put the night shaft to work id found nothing to arouse his suspi :ion. Fire Boss Smith, a man who had worked in mines in Great Britian and this country for thirty years, made his isual careful inspeetion of all the rooms md heading at the customary time be :ween 2 and 3 in the morning, and his repors were on lile indicating every hing safe. Superintendent Keighley says no man iving knows the cause of the accident, md it will never be known for certainty. [e said that three hundred feet from ;he bottom of the shaft the rescuers en :ountered a fall of rock in the gangway yhich was caused by the explosion. lmpty cars, completely wrecked, were >iled up against it. We cut our way brough and fell down into the dip .vhere the men were working, and then v were constantly falling over dead odies. Not so many were killed by :he explosion, but the dreaded after lamp came on the poor fellows and they eccumbed to it. This is evident from ,he fact that only a small porportion of he dead taken out were bruised in any vtay. _ _ _ Severe Weather in the Wet CHICAGo, Jan. 28--A heavf fog >vrhung this city anti the adjacent coun ry last night, and continues this morn g. T1elegrapic communication in all lrections is almost completely paralyz d. Special dispatches from Minnesota. ~orthrn Wisconsm,. Northern Iowa an d ~ebraska report that a severe snow to~: ragedl in those sections yesterday ud continues to-day. Omaha reports raff on all railroads from the West tuspndd. The Union Paci~c trains om the West are indefinitely behind mie. Trhe passenger trains for the cst are being run in two sections with wo engines to each.. The Golden Gate ixpress on the Union Pacific is reported ibsolutelyn blocked at Columbus Neb. [Iastings. Neb., reports the street car atlic suspended on account of the storm with a blizzard farther West. Mioux City and Fort Dodgc, Iowa, report ie inches of snow already fallen and Jrifting badly. Over six incbes fell in he vicinity of .Eaulaire, Wis. The snow .ias been zenieral in the pineries, where .t will probably be disastrous fbr the log 'Burned in Rifa.. Prrrs3Uno, Pa., Jan. 28.-Senator ameron's vote to shelve the elections ail has caused the greatest indigna Aion among Republicans in Allegheny city. The Senator was burned in ifligy to-night, well known Republicans tak [ng tho lead in the ceremonies. A Lirass band was engaged and there was r short parade previous to the burning. After th.e ceremonf'es a petition was started amrong the crowd asking the [egislat ure to request the resignation HOIST W17H T3 OWN PETARID. L~lr~m: the Newberry Ubsereri 1 . ould see:n t thet 1,1ost , r:bid .I 1eiormler" ought to be satiedi that -el. llipton !as b:+in defeated. i'here applars to b.,- one, wvr who s not satisfied. on wilo dei brately (Iid S 1iult to Inj. ; I I r m wl:, . i0 1hinkA :hait "I'llPtonq Is down1 !.o-w and overy 16ofiv who!q wanits *,I (::n 1.W i: onec who evidently ihinks iL is the popular hing no.v to ::hise 1amp.0on. The following correspond'tnic ni phains its-lf: DFFIcE OF THE NEwnEInIY Gu r.vER, . NEwBERl Y. S. C.,. ,January 11;. 1t91. ' lon. Wade Hampton, Washington, 1). U.-Dear Sir: The enclosed clipping is an ditorial article froi the Lmrnsville Herald of this date. The Observer would be glad to have from you, for publication a statemzient cav ering the charge of neglect of duty therein im ade. Very respectfully yours, W. H. WALLACE. The following is the clipping re ferred to: "Heretofore Senator Hampton has been supplying seeds to the farmers of the State through the department of agriculture, but for s.me cause or other the Senator has neglected this part of his ofiicial <iuty." WASHINGTON, D. C., January 38. 1891. My dear Sir: Your letter enclosing a newspaper clipping reached ie to-day, and while the latter displays such ignorance as to be unworthy of notice. yoar polite con. munication deserves attention. Eveiry member of Congress has allotted to him a quota of seeds, which ho can dis tribute as die pleases. I made it a rule to send a por tion of my quota, and of my public documents, to the department of ag riculture in our State. 1 did this to aid that department in the first instance. and be cause I thought that Col. Butler could reach many of my constituents whom I could not. ~No "official duty" compelled this course, and I think that I am the only membe- of our delegation who adopted it. I hardly know now where tle agricul tural department of our State will be estab lished, for thlis has been such a "recoed breaking year" that old things have beeai changed. Whatever seed I may have to distibute shalt be given to those who apply for them. and if the Clemson College is authorized to make any distribution, I shall give to it what I have heretofore sent to our department of agriculture. I have already sent many public documents to this College, and I holie to be able to contribute more. I am Yery truly yours, WADE HUAMPToN. A Heavy Jail Dallvery. COLUMBIA, S. C., Jan. 28..-The peo ple of Columbia were' forcibly remind ed of the late Leaphart lynching this morning when at an early hour it be came known that Lexington's jail had been the scene of another affair of lesser note,'however. Rut it has created a con siderable stir. however, and particulars are eagerly awaited. All the prisoners in Lexingtoni's jail at some hour last night walked forth and breathed free air while the sheriff was in Columbia. Sheriff Drafts came to Columbia yes terday and this morning lie intended to go up to Peak's station for the purpose of serving some papers. He remained over in the city last night on a brief visit to his daughter, Mrs. W. II. Boozer. Before hehad come from his room this morning, however ne received a telegram from Mr. Roof, of Lexington, stating that all the prisoners in the jail had made their es cape last night. That the jail had been found open and all the prisoners gone It gave no particulars as to how the de livery was effected. Three murderers are among the es capes. -One was Julius Wise. a negro who was sentenced to hang on August last. Ile has been tried three times, and is now awaiting re-sentence. Another is Fred Brown, wh recently stabbed another negro to death, and still another is a negro now awaitiog his trial for murder. Keiser, th~e white man await ing trial for an attempted assault upon his own daughter at Lewiedale some time ago, was among the party. An old prisoner, who was once confin ed in Lexington jail, says lie often heard Wise say he would never hang. This prisoner also said that WVise was allowed to keep his shoemakers and harness tools in the jail and work with them. -Record.__ ____ 4 P'encil in His PBrain N Ew YORtK, .Jan. 24.--A golden-hair ed boy lav dead on a cot in the Harlem hospital. ~The child was little Patsy Mc Carthy, the 2-year-old son of Patrick and Mary McCarthy, of No. 4391 one Hundred and T wenty-first street. On Tuesday morning Mrs. McCarthy left Patsy andl his 4-year-old sister Nellie in the kitchen, after giving them a slate and pencil to amuse themselves witn. Then Nellie went into the parlor anid Patsy was left alone, Hie became lone some and ran into the room where his mother was, still holding the slate pen cil in his chubby little hand, lie tripped on the threshold of the room and fell with a heartrending scream of agony. On picking him up his mother was horrn ied to see the pencil sticking out of his eye. It was so tightly wedged in the socket that Mrs. McCarthy conld not re move it. She hurried to a drumg store at Pleasant avenue and One Hunidred and T wenty-first street, whlere the pencil was removed. Mrs. McCarthy then took the child to the Harlem hlospital. which is only a block away. It was discovered the-e that the Dencil had entered the eye above the ball and reached the brain. The child died at ten minutes after 10 o'clock on Wednesday night. Monument to Cont-ederate 1'rivates. Rcnmoxn. Va., .Jan. 24.-The foun dation for the monumpent to the privates of the Confederate service has been completed. It is designed after P'om pey's pillar. The great column will be crowned with a figure representing a Confederate private. It will be in thirteen sections, onle for each Southern JOB PRINTING. HE TIES OFFICE IS FITTED UP IN at manner that warranits it in soliciting your patronage for job printing. Send us yu orders wvhich shall have prompt attenl ion. Prices as low as the cities. Satisfaic tion guaraLuteed. Ke ep us in mind. BRUNSON HOUSE, sUMTrEli, S. ''. First class accouniaiodation:s and excea t :able. Convenment to thec business porti'n >f the town. 25 cenits for dinner. . H. DIXON , ropi.:-or LI. UBERN& CO. WHOLESALE OCOERS. Flour a Specialty. Nos. 171 andl 178 East Bay Street, CHARLESTON. S. C. M.Drake & Son, --WHOLESALE- - BOOTS, SHOES, & TRUNKiS. 235 Meeting St., CH A1:LESTO N, 5. C. L'rgest stock, best assortent, 1ost prices. JOHN TL CONNOR, C0ott11 Factor CHARLESTON, S. C. Solicits consignments of cotton on which ~AEP N. Nii 3 A L M'.N 1 NSD . 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It "makes as ~urance doubly sure. . ||. (ani'qi, ~qA It .in' Khat." and ED. L. GERNAND, GENEnAL, AGEN'T, Coluuibia, S. C. CRAND CENTRAL HOTEL, COLUMBIA, S. C. Is. the largest hotel in the city, and has, luring the past ye-ar, been thoroughly reno vated, remnodeled, and retitted with all miod rn improvemecnts. Centrally located, and efirs inducements' for the accommodation 1 its patron<. HaIs I spacions, light, and airy samplle rooms. Hot and cold baths, el evator, &~c. Cuisine u'nder supemvsion of Mr. E. E. Post, late of Lookout Point Blotel, ookout Mountain, Tenu. The proprietor hopes by str(ic attnton tothe wants of his patrons to nmrt a. share of pa'tronage. W. V.NEEGIEl"-, E. E. POST. Propietor. M~Iaager. -6-~-- 8~ 5 wo, ODWORI~A AffAetiMEf) C4.~~I.8 N UNNSQUARE Yr, si.ous.M. ORTAL:-iY.DALLAS.TEX. -*W. E. BROW\N & CO., Monning, b. C. PHILADELPHIA SINGER. Eigh Low Arm,Ar $28. $20. a. i e FIFTE EN DAYS' TRIA L M YOUR OWN SOUSE BEFORE YOU PAY ONE CENT on'. pay an agent $55 or $i0, but send for circular. THE C. A. WOOD COM a ~ o y'a Ade - Et SINES, NETS, TENTS, AND SPORTN C00DS Double I;arreI IUrecht Loading Shot Guns, ,hoke bored. $S to $100. Single Breech Load ing Shot Guns, SI to $25. Every kind of rieechi Loading.i an paing iil--s. 23 to li) Muzzle' Load-ing DoubXe Shot (Guns, i5 to $'35. Sirgle. hot Gns. 825 to e.l2. Re vlvrs.:::1 ti $20. Double Action Self LXekr, $2.5 to N. .\l! kinds of Car tridges, Shels. Ca( Wads,- Tui-, P'owduer lask, Shot P ouce. Primersc. Senl 2 ents foir Ililustrated (ataligue. Address . Ht. JIOljNSTON. CR.\ W'k ESTERN GUN WVORKS, Pittb.1 Pa. ' ~anning ZhavingParlor. ente-l. an su''n done withibest nor. Erell aenon aid -ia shamp ii. ldiVs'-- as. I h:;ve hadl considerableI xper~ eneC :n sever- larg c'-it ie.-n guarl nte stisa-t on tiimy cutome.rs. Parlor e~t door to Manning" imes.I o n) mwrmaTO. 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MOKE HENO CICAR, THE BEST NICKL.E CIGAR SOLD. B. A. JOHNSON, Sole Agent, Manning, S. C. SgL ISEMAN, Wholesale Grocer, State Agent, Lilienthal & Blohm e, .successors to 1'. J. Lilientha.l & son, Poreoso And (eletrs in Prepareud Flour, Grist and Mel, also Ilay, Grain, Flour, Mill Feed, te.s.ndorpr:;u 32, :34, and 3J0 Beaifain St., CHARLESTON, S. C. . THOMAS, JTn. . M THOMAS. BOLLMANN BROTHERS, Sephen Thomas, Jr. & Bro.W hoIeae EWELRY, SILVER & PLATED WARE, iGroCers, Spectacles, Eye Glasses & Fancy Goods. *WatchV. and .Twer re paired by - 15'7 and 169, East Bay, 2,; KIlNG STIU:.T.. CH AR LESTON, S. C. (i()AHS ('. JnN>F.WERNER. L. H. QUZaoLL. STABI~ilD iJOHN F. WERNER & 00'., arrng on, Thomas A 0- Wholesale Grocers -D li.ERS IN ~---AND - Provision Dealers, WELRY, SILVERWARE AND FANCY GO098' 164 & 166 East Bay and 29 & 31 No. 251 KingS treet, VedeRne CHARLESTON, S. C. CHGARL ESTON, S. C. H ARLES C. LESLIEiA. MCCOBB, Jr. 9 AND DEALER IN $$ N/ J LI, ME, OEM ENT, PLASTER PARIS, HAIR, FIRE c onsgnments o poultry. egs :ed l BRICKS, AND FIRE CLAY, LAND PLAS ind of counitry I iedue are respetctfully TER, AND EASTERN HAY. ~iited. )llee Nos. 19 & 20 ;.arket St., E. oftEast Bay Agen ts for White's English Portland Cemet CIIorLL'0 S.n C. 194 s. 19ast 3* Cn a le stm. S. C,