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GOSPEL THINDER. DR. TALMAGE THINKS GAMBLING THE CURSE OF THE AGE. Mlions of Money Lost Annuwily aud Millions of sculs Swe pt Into the Rr:;i ons of the Damned Throught t he Cunred vice. -NEw Yoiq., Feb. 22.-A decided sen sation was produced in this city and in Brooklyn, to-day, by Dr. Talmage's an nouncement of a series of sermons which he proposes to preach on "The Ten Plagues of these Three Cities." In this sermon, which is the first of the series, he pays his attention to the pre valent curse of gambling. lie preach ed it in the Academy of 'Music in Brooklyn, in the morning, and again this evening at the Christian Herald service in this city. His text was taketi fro'n Exodus ix, 13, 14: -Let my peo ple go, that they may serve me: for l will at this time send all my plagut's." Last winter in the :nuseum at Cairo, Egypt, I saw the mummy or eml-almed body of Pharaoh, th- oppres-or of t he ancient Israelites. Visible are the very teeth that he griashed against the Israe litish brick-makeis. the sockeis of the merciless eyes with which he looked upon the overburdened people of God. the hair that floated in the breeze e1f the Red sea. the very lips with wNhich he commanded the m to make bricks without straw. Thousands of years after, when the wrappings of the mum my were unrolled, old Pharaoh lifted up his arm as if in imploration; but his akinny bones cannot again clutch his shattered sceptre. It was to compel that tyrant to let the oppressed go free that the memorable Ten Plagues were sent. Sailing the Nile and walking amid the ruins of Egyptian cities. 1 saw no remains of those plagues that smote the water or the air. None of the frogs croaked in the one, none of the locusts sounded their rattle in the other, and the cattle bore no sign of the murrain, and through the starry nights hovering about the pyramids no de stroying angel swept his wing. But there are ten plagut s still stinging and befouling and cursing our cities, and like angels of wrath smiting not only the first born but the last born. I speak to you to-day concerniag the Flgue of Gambling. Every man and woman in this house ougit to be inter estedin this theme. Some years ago, when an association for the supp :ession of gambling was organized, an agent of the association came-to a prominent citizen and asked him to patronize the society. He said, "No, I can have no Interest in such an organization. I am in no wise affected by that evil." At that very time, his son, who was his partner in business, was one of the heaviest players in Hearne's famous - gaming establishment. Another re fused his patronage on the same ground uot snowing that his first bookkeeper. though receiving a salary of only $1.000 was losing from W50 to $100 per night. - The president of a railroad company refused to patronize the institution, saying: "That sccie.y is good for the defense of merchants; but we railroad people are not injured by this evil;" not knowing that at that very time, two of his conductors were spending three nights of each week at faro ta bles in New York. Directly or mdi rectly, this evil strikes at the whole world. Gambling is the risking of something more or less valuable in the hope of winning more than your hazard. The mnstruments of gaming may differ, but the principle is the same. The shuf fling and dealing of cards, however full ;of temptation, is not gambling, unless akes are put up; while on the other hand, gambling may be carried on with out cards, or dice, or billiards, or a ten deals in "fancy" stocks, or conducts a business which hazards exira capital, Ior goes into transactions without foun dation, but dependent upon what men cal1 "luck," is a gambler. 1'Whatever you expect to get trom your neighbor _without offering an equivalent in mon eyor time or skill, is either the product i.of theft or gaming. Lottery tickets tad lottery policies come into the same geategory. Fairs for the founding of phospitals, schools and churches,: con aducted on the rafting system come un Ederthe same denomination. Do not. therefore, associate gamb'ling necessa rily with any instrument, or game, or time, or place, or think the principle epnds upon whether you play for a 3ssof wmne, or one huncred shares of ralodstock. Whether you patronize "auction pos," "French mutuals," or "book-making;" whether you emnploy taro or billhards, rondo or keno, cards or bagatelle, the very idea of the thing ladishonest; for it professes to be stow 'upn you a good for which you give no eq vaisestimated that every day in Christendom eighty million dollars pmass from hand to hand through gamb <lhng practices, and every year in Christ endom one hundred and twenty-three billion one hundred million dollars change hands in that way. There are in New York,Brooklyn and Newark about -'ih hundred co ifessted gambling es talsments. There~ are about three thousand five hundred pro ~fessional 'gamblers. Out of the eight hundred gambling establish ments, how many of them do yoai ~sppose profess to be honest? Ten. These ten professing to be honest be cause they are merely the ante-chamber to the seven hundred and ninety that are acknowledged fraudulent. There are first-class gambling establishments. You go up the marble stairs. YDu ring the bell. The liveried servant intro duces you. The walls are lavender tinted. The mantels are of Vermont marble. The pictures are "Jephthah's Daughter," and Dore's "Dante's and Virgil's Fro-en Region of Hell," a most appropriate selection, this last, for the place. There is the roulette table, the finest, the costliest, most ex ~quisite piece of furniture in the United States. Tihere is the banquettine: room where, free of charge to the g aests, i o may find the plate, and viands, and wines and cigars, sumptuous beyond parallel. Then you come to the second-class gambling establishment. To it you are introduced by a card through some "roper-in." Having entered, you must either gamble or Eght. Simded cards, dice loaded with quicksilver, poor drinks, will soon help you to get rid of all your money to a tune in short me tre with staccato parzages. You want ed to see. You saw. The lowv villains of that place watch you as voa come in. Does not the panther, ;quat in the , know a calf when he sees it ? rangle not for your rishts in that place, or your body will be thrown bloody into the street, er dead into the East river. You go along a little furth erand find the policy establishment. ~In that place you bet on numhers. Bet ting on two numbers is called a "sad dIe;" betting on three numbers is call ed a "gig," betting on four numbers is called a "horse," and there are thous ands of our young men leaping into that "saddle," and mon'ting that "gig" and behind that "hoise," riding to per dition. There is always one kind tof sign on the door-"Exchange," a most appropriate title for the door. for there, on that room, a mnan exchanges health, peace and heaven, for loss of health, loss of home, loss of family, loss of im mortal soul. Exchange sure enough, and in~r-i c~p h. N .en wishirng to ga~~l nup sjust suitede to their capacity, not only m the under ground oyster-cellar, or at the table back of thecurtain. covei ed with greasy cards, or in the steamboat stnokmng cabin. wvhere the bloated wretch w ith rings in his ears instead of his nose deals the pack, and draws in the unsus pecting traveler-providing free drin ks all around-bat in gided parlors and A youD mian, havi ig suddenly n hcrited a large propertv, sits at the tbz ard table, and trnkes ip in a dice box the estate won by a :atiier's lifetime swat, and shakes i:, and tosses it away. Intemp-rance soon stigmat:zes its victim- kicking hhi i out, aslavering fool, into the ditch, or sending him, with the drunkard's h ccough, stagger ing up the st'eet wher - his family lives. But e:1ub!incg does not in that way ex pose ts victinis. The gambler may be eaten up) bv the gambler's passion, yet you only d:scover it by the greed in his e. es. t he hardness in his features, the n'ervous rest lessness, the threadbare coat and Is emnbarrassed business. Yet hie is (on the road to hell, and no preach er's voice or startling warning, or wife's tntrcaty. can make him stay for a moinrit his headlong career. The infera 'fspell is on him: a gizant is aroustd within;and though you bind him with cables, they would part like thread: and though you fasten him sev-n times round wxith chains, they would snap like rusted wire; and though you piled up in his path heaven hig'h Iibles,tractsand sermons, and on the top should set the cross of the Son of God. over them all the gambler we Id lap ,like a roe over the rocks, on his way to perdition. Aain, this sin works ruin by kiing industry. A man used to reaping scores or hundreds, or thousands oi dAlars from the garubling table will not be content wi- i his slow work. le will say, "What is the use of trying to make these S50 in my store when I can get ive tim(esthat in half an hourdown at 'Illy's'?" You never knew a con irtued gambler who was industrious. The men given to this vice spend their tinie, not actively employed in the game, in idieness, or in intoxication, or sleep, or in corrupting new victims. The sin has dulled the carpenter's saw, and cut the band of the factory wheel, sunk the cargo, broken the teeth of the farmer's harrow and sent a strange ligh 2ning to shatter the battery of the philosopher. The very first idea in gaming is at war with all the indus tries of society. But these dishonesties in the carry ing on of the game are nothing when compared with the Irauds which are com ritted in order to get money to go on with the nefarious work. Gambling with its greedy hand has snatched away the widow's irite and the portion of the orphans; has sold the daughter's virtue to get the means to continue the game; bas written the counterfeit sig nature, emptied the banker's money vault and wielded the assa:.-in's dagger. There is no d pth of the neanness to which it will not stoop. The-e is no cruelty at which it is appalled. There is no warning of God that it will not dare. Merciless, unappeasable, fiercer and wilder it blinds, it hardens, it rends, it blasts, it crushes, it damns. It has peopled our prisons and lunatic asylams, How many railroad agents and cashiers and trustees of funds it has driven to disgrace, incarceration and suicide! Witness years ago a cash ier of a railroad who stole $103,000 to carry on his gaming practices. Witness $40.000 stolen from a Brooklyn bank within the memory of many of you, and the $180,000 taken from a Wall street insvrance company for the same purpose! These are. only illustrations on a large scale of the robberies every day committed for the purpse of carry ing out the designs of gamblers. Hun dreds of thousands of dollars every year leak out without observation from the merchant's till into the gambling hell. A man in London keeping one of these gambling houses, boasted that he had ruined a nobleman a day; but if all the gambling saloons of this land were to speak out, they would utter a more infamous boast, for they have de stroyed a thousand noble men a year. 2Notice also the effect of this crime upon domestic happiness. It has sent its rutbless plowshare-t-brouigh hun dreds of families-rtil the wife sat in rags andg'dughters were disgraced -d+osons grew up to the sate in famous practices or took a short cut to destruction across the murderer's scaf fold. Ilome has lost all charms for the gambler. How tame are the children's caresses and a wife's devotion to the gambler! How drearily the tire burns on the domestic hearth! There must be louder laughter, and somethiing to win ano something to los&; an excite ment to drive the heart faster and ll lip the blood and fire the imagination. N o home. however bright, can keep back the gamster. The sweet call of love bounds back from his iron soul, and all endearments are consumed in the flame of his passion. The family Bible will go after all other treasures are lost, and if his crown in heaven were put into his hand he would cry: "Here goes one more game, my boys! On this one throw I stake my crown of heaven." A yoting man in London on coming of age received a fortune of $120,000, and, through gambling, in three years was thrown on his mother for support. An only son went to a Southern city; he was rich.ingellectu al and elegant in manners. His parents gave him on his departure from home their last blessing. The sharpers got hold of him. They fiattered him. They lured him to the gaming-table and let him win almost every time for a good while, ond patted him on the back and said, "First-rate player." But fully in their grasp, they fleeced him; and his thirty thousand dollars were lost. Last of all he put up his watch and lost that. Then he began to think of his home, and his old father and mother and wrote thus: "'Mv beloved parents: You will doubtless feel a momentary joy at the reception of this letter from the child o T your bosom, on whom you have lav ished all the favors of you declining years. But should a feeling of joy for a moment spring up in your hearts when you should have received this fro.n mue, cherish it not. I have fallen deep-never to rise. Those gray hairs that I should have honored and pro. tected I shall bring down witf' sorrow to the grave. I will not curse my des troyer; but oh! may God avenge the wrongs and impositions practiced upon the unwary in a way that shall best please him. This, my dear parents, is the last letter you will ever receive from me. I hurr bly ask forgiveness. It is my dying prayer. The old father came to the post ofilce, got the letter and fell to the floor. They thought he was dead at lirst; but ther' brtushed back the white hair from his brow and fanned him, lie had on ly fainted. I wish he had been dead; for what is life worth to a fa'ther after his son is destroyed ? When things go wrong at a gambling table they snout "Foul!" "fool!" Over all the gaming ta les of the world 1 cry out: "Foul!" "foul! infinitely foul!" Shall I sketch the history of the gam bler ? Lured by bad company, lie tinds his way into a place where honest en ought never to go. ie sits down to his first game, but only for pastime and the desire of being thought sociable. The players deal out the cards. They un coseCjously play into Satan's hands, who takes ali the tricks and both the players' souls for trumps-he being a sharper at any game. A slight stake is put nip just to add interest to the play. Game after gamze is played. Lairger stakes and still larger. They begin to miove nervou~y on their chairs. Their brows lowver and eyes lash, until now they who win anid they who l.as-, lired alike with passion, sit with set jaws and compressed lips and clenched fists, and ees like lire-balls that see-u starting rom their sockets, to see the linal turn bfore it comes; if losing, pale with envy and tremulous with unuttered oathis cast back red-hot upon the heart -or, winning, wvith hysteric laugh -'ha: ha: I have it! I have it!" A few years have passed and he is only the wreck of a man. Seating him self at the game ere he throws the first card, he stakes the last relic of his wife, the marriage ring wvhic'h sealed the solem vowvs between them. The game i: lost andc stagzgering back in exhaus tion he creamls. The bright hours of the as mocknns1 his ..oy anrd in his dreams neads with eyes of nire .n' tongue of James circle about him wit;i joined hatrds, to dance and sing their orgies with hellish chorus, chr.nting IIail! brother!" kissing his clamry forehead until their loaths3me locks. riowing w th serpents, crawl into his bosom an(sin rK their sharp fangs and suck up his ilfe's blood; and colling around his heart pinch it with chills and shudders unutterable. Take warning! You are no stronarger than tens of thousands who have by this practice beena overthrown. No young man in our cities can ese.ije being tempted. Beware of the first i ginningrs! This road ;s a down grade and every instant increases tlie io mentum. Launch not upon this t reach erous sea. Split hulks strew the beach. Everlastiiig serums howl up and down. tossing unwary crafts into the hell gate. I speak of what I have seen with my own eyes. I have looked off into the abyss, and I have seen the foaming and the hissing, and the whirling of the horrid deep in which the mangled victiuis writhed, one upii anothrr. and strugrIed. strangled, blasphemed and died-the death-stare of etei nal despair upon their countenances as the waters gurgling over them. To a gambler's death-bed there conies no hope. Ife will probably die alou His former associates come not niigh his dwellng. When the hour cuos his miserable soul will go out of a mis erable life into a miserable eternity. As his poor remains pass the house where he was ruined old compaions may look out a tmoinent and say: "There goes the old carcass-dead at last." But they will not get up from the table. Let him down now into his grave. Plant no tree to throw its shade there, for the long, deep, eternal gloom that settles there is shadow enough. Plant no "forget-me- nots" or eglantines around the spot, for flowers were iiot made to grow on such a blasted heath. Visit it not in the sunshine, for that would be mockery; but in the dismal night, when no stars are out and the spirit of darkness came down horsed on the wind-then visit the grave of the gambler! The Sugar Trust [nvestigation. NFV TORK. Feb. 20.-The Senate Committee on Laws resumed its investi gation of the sugar trust to-day. The Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms reported that he had been unable to serve subpuas upon Treasurer John E. Searles. Theo dore Havemeyer. William Dick. John Parry, Dick Dekest and IHecker; all were reported tw be out of town. The Sergeant-at-Arms said he was greatly hampered by the people and o0licersof the trust in Wall street, as the employees did all they could to prevent him from finding the persons wanted by the com mittee. The only witnesses whose testi mony was of interest was J. 0. Donner, of Decastro. Conner & Co., of Brooklyn. He saidi he did not know the d'-eetors of the trust when he surrendered his stock. He knew lie would lose nothing by so doing. Witness said lie understood that each company was to go on in the same way and the profits were to be turn ed in to th-i trust to be divided pro rata. Under the trust he got 11 per cent, a year-about the same as under the con pany. The witness said that prices were low now because o' the great out side competition of the companies of Claus Spreckles and others. The com bination of several companies in a trust made production cheaper. Claus Doscher was placed upo.. the witness stand. IIe was quite ignorant on trust matters. Two weeks ago lie re ceied a dividend of about $25'000. "Isn't it on your bank book?" asked Senator Irwil". "Ys, anwered the witness, who was then admonished to bring the bank book to the' hearing to morrow, and was told that it would not do if lie canme and gave inlormamon or. the subject verbally. The Question of Taxes. Comptroller-General Ellerbee has is suedl a circular to county auditors call ing further attention to their duties under the law in obtaining a just val uation for taxation of property. i~e says it is not believed a uniform and equal taxation exists. Auditors are largely responsible for this, as they create boards of assessors. If com plaints are made of inequalities, the only duty of the auditor is to enforce the law. Auditors are referred to Sees. 206 and 208, G. S., for instructions as to unincorporated banks, etc. Farmers who'"keep a place of business" and ear ry on such business as mentioned in the section, come under its require ments. The Comptroller-General has information leading him to believe there are "organizations doing business in this State for profit who have failed heretofore to return property for taxa tion." Auditors are referred to Section 215, G. S., and urged to do their duty. The circular finially says: "There is no law for valuing a $100 mule at $40 or $0. The idea which seems to prevail in parts of the State that all property for taxation should not be assessed at above 66% per cent. of its real value, is erronous, and in direct contlict with the la s: -All property shall be valued for taxation at its true value in money.' 'A piece of property is what it will bring on the market'; and if a mule is wortn 6100 it should be assessed at81C3 -no mnore, no less. Every piece of ta' able property from the sore-back mule on the farm to the gilt shares of the wealthiest bank in the State must he value:d at their 'true value in money' for taxation. A large percentage of the poil tax in many counties snot pa d. Auditors can remedy this largely through the help of the township boamrd o assessors, and we must insist up)on the collection of all poil tax." Conficting Legislation COLUMBI, S. C., Feb. 20-In refer eneto an inquiry referred by the iov ernor to time attorney-general for his opinion, as to whether a vacancy in the oflice of probate judge can be filled by executive appointment when' time vacan y is for a lenger time than one year. the assistant attorney-general writes as iol lows: 'Section 2, artical 4, of the cons titu tion forbids such appointment, whle sec tions 101 and 772 of' the General Statutes seem to authorze such an appointmer t. These two last mentioned sections should be constructed in harmony with the con stitution, if it can be do te without viola ting any rule of the constitution, and, in this vielv of the matter. I am of the opini ion tl'at by these last nmentioded sec tions the leaislature intended me-ely that if a vacancy in said office is not lon.;er than for one (1) year it may be filled; other wise not. "In cases of vacancy longer than one year in said ofhic, the duties of the o ile may be performed by the clerk of the court, as provided for in Section 740$ of the General Statutes, even during the whole of the unexpired ternm or until the election to till the vacancy."' The case referred to comes fronm Georetown, where the probate judge died after being in oflice less than one Not Satisfied. Ciircaoo, Feb. 19.-The Sioux Indians who have been to Washington reached this city last night on their way back to Pine Ridge. They are not at all satis!!ed. Young-an-Afraid-of-Ilis-Ilorse said to a reporter: "We had some p~romiises, but they are like all the other promises of the Great Father. We are not fooled, and we go home with heavy hearts. We wanted General M1iles, but lie did not ome. We shall tell our people that we have got more promises. Then they will laugh at us and calon nold men." A DE. l'EIATE BATTLE. BETWEEN THE EGYPTIANS ANE DER ViSHE 'AT AFAFITE, EGYPT. ()v! One Ti ,usrnd Lives Lest. i, the Con niiet-Thie :.ypi? ans F'irht with Deter in1:(d E- r uy-A Desper.to Hand-to Ila-ad Fi'it .\;w lyiaS t ak imii, Feb1. 21. \ r. cn.gagmint was fought at Tk 1ar on F-bruarv 11. bet ween the Egyp tian troom who rccently left El-Teb and Osnan DIigna's forces. Nearly one thousand 1;ves were lost in the battle which foll ecd the ap peatrance of the Egyptians at Tokar. The Egyptians made their advance from AfaliLe (uring the early dawn of iorning on Thursday last. The enemy was sighted near To kar. and af-er an exchange of shots be tween the s;-irmishers of the enemy and the advance enard of the Egyptians the latter wished forward through the brushwoud surrounding Tokar and its neighborhood in order to seize the old governmien. bailding now little more tia a tuible-down ruin. but which form a strat-ge! point where a force of infantry cCuild light against heavy odds. The dervis-s, s-cing the object of the Egyptian advance in that direction, made a rush for the building and sur rounded it by a coinpact mass of Arab riflemen. wlho poured a hot tire into the ranks of tle a vancing Egyptians. The latter, however, were not to be checked in their advance, returning the Arabs' fire as they advanced. The Egyptians fixed bavonets when within easy dis tance of the enemy and bravely charged upon the defenders of the old ruins. For over an hour a desperate hand-to hand bayoiCt to spear-and-sword light followed, during which the Egyptian troops fought with the most determined energy. The Egyptian cavalry made a brilliant charge on the dervishes, who retired in disorder, suffering a crushing defeat. The dervishes numbered at least 2,000 lighting men. About an equal force of Egtyptians succeeded in reach ing the shelter of the building before the Arabs surrounded t h em for the at tack. Aftr'r the retreat of the dervishes the troops found oves 700 dead around the position mentioned. while large numbers of dead were lying in the bushes ar-and the buildings. Nearly every Em r of importance who was presenit at :he battle fell upon the field. Osman Di-]na did not take part in the iighut but vatched its progress from a pointof vutage near Aftite. After seeing thi his faithful followers had suffered disaster, Osman Digna. accom pa-nied by about thirty horsemen iled towards Tnemerin. The Egyptians to night bivan. .ac at Afalit and will ad vance on i emerin to-morrow. The loses upon the part of the Egyptians are Captain Barrow and twelve me killed, and Captain Breech and four ',gyptain o!' cers and forty two men wounded. -.tter leaving a force of troops to garrison Tokar the Egyptian troops marched direct to Afa lite and ,.scended the hills recently occupied b'y the enemy. Afalite was found to have been vacated, though there were hundrtds of Arabs in the vicinity. These quietly surrendered to the Egyptians, handing over a number of banners, spears and riles and two guns. The Egyptians also captured large quantities of stores and ammu nition. Lost In the Flood. Los ANELES, Cal., Feb. 25.-Up to noon to-day rc)orts showed that at least six persons lost their lives in the floods. The famnily of Charles Watts is also mssing from near Downey and is sup posed to have been drowned. The Wellk ammlv, man, wife and baby, wers drowned at Duart. and the bodies of two Mexicans we~c found in the same neigh borhood. S. Laurens was drowned at Wilmm;aton while trying to rescue some cattle. The worst of the flood was nrobably at D~owney and vicinity. The ~San dabaici Rivers broke from their banke and ran together and made a great inland sea six to ten miles wide and seventeen miles long. Many houses were s-rept aivay and a number of fa ni lies occupyium the territory inundated have not been heard from Shots were becard in Do wney Monday morn'ng. They were liredI at Watts's ranche house and are spposed to have been a signlal of distress. The house was sooui swept away and it is fearedl the whole family pershied in the torrent. It Was Oniv A Fame. CHIERAW, S. C., Feb. 24.-The cor respondent of The State learned to-day that the story in regard to Miss Goodson having been murdered and her body thrown into Black Creek was a fabrica tion, made Up) out o1 the whole cloth. A young man. Ihenry T. Patrick, from Rockingham, N. C., came to Cheraw Thursday af ternoon and told the tale, saying thiat lie had captured the negro in Florence with $460 and brought him to Cheraw on his way to Chesterfield jail. The iail at Chesterfield has never receiv ed1 one such criminal within its walls, and The State correspondent has learned that people living near Miss Goodson's fther's house have seen her alive and well since it was reported that she had been murdered.-The State. Ilurned in E6;:y. PUan\: orA Ala., Feb. 21.--At Athens, Ala., Thursday night a crowd of indign;"a nt citizens hirst hung and then burnen Governor Jones in eiligy. One of the State Agricultura! Experimental taitior's located at Athens, and the Legisati:- passed a bill dividing the Agricultur al College fund appropriiated by Congr-ss among the several stations in the St:. e. Governor .Tones vetoed the bill on the grouiid that the fund was in the natun. of a trust already accepted by the .State for the benelit of the Agri utural and Miechianical College at Au burn and~ could not be diverted from that instatutionu. Athen's share under the vetoed bill wvas $2,000 per annum. Af ter the Newinti'e Men. Waisa i o-rox. Feb. 2:1.---In the Senate th i afteron a bill was introduced, whilch was~ suggested by the newsp~aper fen.d res uting? so horribly to-day. It proides? Iit any editor, proprietor or corresonenit who publishes or permits to be 1published nyv attack upon tile p~rivaite character- ot any citizen with the intent to injure his credit or standl ing in pu)ile, or to publicly charge anyv eitien wii unhaxvful practices in pri va tea's shall be deemed guilty of a feony mi d lined not less than $1 ,000 and c'onied in the peitientiary not less than one year, or both. at the discretion of the court. 'rhe .Iils to the Co.tton. iUi~xu1.r ; i:. Fe b. 19I. --The manulfact urrsfHecord reports that an1 English copny has purchased a large water poer prop~erty in South Catrolina,whiich will be decveloped for manufacturing puroses: also tuiat a MIanchester cottoni mili cominyu has sent a maui toexanunlfe a location with a view of building a mill jto emplo: one thousand hainds. This company'reports that on account of the new tari!T it cann~ot retain a hold oin tile Auericanu market. and so it is proposed to locate a mill in the South to manua fcture tihe goods now made by it in huicete r. Nineteen Liver, Lost. \Nt F* i:. Neiro. Feb. 23-The loss of lv es by~ tie wr'eekinig of t he clipper ship E liab'eih, off North I lead, Saturday nihi ow estimated at nineteen, in cnlng ( .titaini I enry of the local life svgsevc.* leven p~erson~s, includ ing he ifeand children of Captain Colord 'f the i'!izabeth, were saved. The vessel was bound fromi New York to San Fraricisco with a cargo of general mrchandise. aid was l'st within can non-shot of the mouth of the Glolden 'ate. The vessel was valued at $75,000 Iand the r-argo at $125,000. SIMFSON ISN'T A FOOL. Rebi fr of the Sociless Statr sman to an In ouisitive Woman. WASRINCToN, D. C.. Feb, 27.-'-Is it tr ie that you don't wear socks*. Wou't you let me sce, leLase *' and a pretty woman who thus add:cssed Jerry Simpson at the capitol today, _lanced curiously at the latter's fe'et. ,Iadam," replied SimUp:9wln. 2raveiy, "I'i a believer in rIeciprocitv. Do you wear socks y if'you'll show me yours I'll show 3 ou inne'. Tile lady said, "Oh, imy) !' and lied precipitately. but Jerry remained to sturdv further the methods of legislation. A little later in the dar a mnutma friend presented Theodore lloosevelt to the Kansas statesmau. "I'm pleased to meet vou." said 'Mr. Roosevelt politely. 1've heard a great deal about you." "And 1." said Mr. Simpson, witti equal politeness, "-have heard a great deal about you. I'd like to talk with you about civil service reform." -Mr. Rooseveit assured the Kansan that nothing would give him u-reater pleasure, and he added that he would like to show 'Mr. Simpson how practical the commission's methods were and how httle they were understood. "I'm isomething o1 a civil service re former myself." said Mr Simpson, bland ly, but my objection to the present sys tem is that it creates an oilice-holding arisuocracv. I don't think any man ought to hold office longer than eight years. It kind o' gives 'em the big head. Still. on the other hand," he continued, relletively, "Idont believe in wholesale dismissals upon every change of admin istration. There ought to be a law regu lating the matter, and all the patronage taken away from the president." The conversation was interrupted at this point by the appearance of Henry Cabot Lodge, of Massachusets. who was also presented to the Kansas statesman. 'Are you the author of the-the-" '"The -iniquitous force bill0 ''said Mr. Lodge, with easy good nature. refresh ing Mr. Simpson's memory upon the subject. "Tha,'s it.." said Mr. Simpson grave ly ; -the iniquitous torce *ill ! I'm agin' if..) The little group of spectators laughed heartily. They began to respect the "sockless," or perhaps I should say they began to suspect him, for they all agreed that he had more practical sense than he has been credited with. Mr. simpson is not overplease : with our national law makers. They are, he finds, more inter ested in measures personal to themselves than in those of interest to the people at lare. All this he thinks is wrong. The next house will contain twelve alliance men pure and simple. IHe hopes th it they will leaven the entire legislative lunmp, and that their influence will re sult. in the enactment of more laws of a cueral character. The Kansas legislature is composed in the main of alliance members, practica farmers, horny handed sons of toil. They are, Mr. Simpson says, the most intelli gent, tl'e most moral and the most in dustrious body ever assembled at Tope ka. They go to bed early. They get up earlv. and t iey're out at 9 o'clock in the morning. "That's what they need here," and Mr. Simpson cast a sly glance in the di rection of the house. The alliance' men, lie tells me, are tariff reformers. They are practical free traders. They will, as Dundreary would say. "dock by themselves." They will affliate with any party that reflects their views, but they will not ge into caucus with either. They will put a presidential ticket into the tield. If they can not elect their nominee they hope to be able to say who shall be elected. Mr. Simpson will remain in Washing ton until the close ol the session, Ie is an object of universal interest in the gal eries. ie is more inquired after and talked about than any member on the floor of the house, lie has even ob scured interest in McKinley's tariff bill or Speaker Reed's outrageous rulings. MIrs. Logan Takes a Hand. SPRtINGFIELD, ILL., Feb. 26.-Mrs. John A. Logan has taken a hand in the Senatorial light. Senator Crawford has received the following telegram from her from Washington: "Better be defeated by an organized, honorable opposition. than to be de moralized and disorganized by an ig noble snrrender of principle. Stand firmly together and command the con idence and respect of intelligent peo pe, even though you might be, tempo rarily unsuccessful. It is against rea son,sense and all usage that a minority so small shoul~d dictate to the great majority of recognized, honorable rep resentatives of' honest principles." Three Republicans were still absent from thme joint assembly to-clay on ac count of illness,so. the members of that party andl of the F. M. i. A. ref rainied from voting on the ballot for United States Senator, breaking the quorum. The Democrats cast 101 votes for Palmer in three ballots, when the As sembly adjourned. Scoring But Chandler. CoNconD, N. II., Feb. 28.-Nearly the entire afternoon session of the Iouse was occupied by United States Senator-elect J1. II. Gallinger, of Con cord, and II. W. Greene, of Ilopinton, in replying undler a question ot person al privilege to the allegations mad~e by United States Senator Win. E Chand er in an editorial in the coluns of his paper, the Concord Monitor, that these getlemen and other lAieulicans have entered into a series of bcargainis with Frank Jones, C. A. Sinclair and oth -r iniuetial Democrats inimical to the interest of :e lRepuzbicans of this State. In t e course of the discussion Chandler was roiindly dentounce(~d as a cur, a cowarcd and a liar. Bad Ch ild(ren. . Acmov:LLE, Feb. 2fL.-J. 11. B> den, a prominent contractor and buld er of this city,. is in har'd I ik. satur day, two of l is children, uo~ s of I1) and 13'veairs, ran oil after steatliniir imoney and jewelery from their parents. amid esterday two others, a girl aged 14 umu a boy 8-disappearedJ.either kid napied or run off. No trace of thiem can be foutnd, and the distracted father has wired the police in Charleston. Cin cinnati, New Orleans and other points, to look out for the missing children. Whipped b~y W1hite Cap's. LoUJ-sVILLE, Ky., Feb. 2I.--~White Caps" Tiuesday night went to the house of John 31eConnel, in New Amuster dan, indh., and breaking in the door. took him and his wife outside and whipped thn mn. The two victims were theu carried to a shanty boat and turned adritt in the Ohio iver. With great dilliciilty they madec a landing. as the wind was very high aind the river was rising rapidly. Trhere is ino clue to the White Caps. TnlE Columbia Register says the Al liance is lighting against the greatest conspiracy against the people of this country which was ever attempteud and which has cost the honest labor of this country thousands of millions of dol lars. Tihe money lords have lorded it ever the free peCople of this country until they have risen in their might :o ask, and solemnly to ask. Who owns this country ? Who o wns this govern ment ? Devoured by Wolves. IENNA, Feb. 25.-Two clergymenl were devoured by wvolv~es while sleigh riing near Tfwesvar on Monday. T wo night watchman of that city were also eatn by wolves. OSEPJI F. MIAs E. A T I n:X Ef .T LA , S.N NDM 1 .1 JOlLN S. '73i N M.ANNIN, . C. A Ll'iN. .1 i I. L FO,. ESON, S. C. I kv.p L L 'N l: nG I N li. f . of Pure Srugs ard i , FANCY AND)U TILET A 1TICLES, TOILET SOAPS, PEr'FV31ERV, ST.ATION ERY. -1l A15, I L DEN SE:LS. anid such article as are uspdly ikept il a I htv uc t : led t myv ItLck a in o PAINTS AND OILS, and am prepar-AL to ell! PAINTS, 01LS LEAD, VARNISHES, I'SRI-IE, inl <raittics to suit purchiasr. L. W. NETTLES, M.D., Foreston, S. C. A. s..r. r :Y . r11. 1.. SE INs. I.- A. rPi :-I.. Johnston, Crews & Co., -WHOLESALE JOBBERS OF DRY GOODS, Notions and Small Wares, Nos. 41) Ifavrne & 112 Market Streets, CHARLESTON, S. C. R T. MT.3CGA H AN. A. S. 1=0owN. T 11. EVANS. McAHAN, B0W. & EVANS, JOBBERS OF Dry Goods, Notions, Boots, Shioes and Clotiling, Nos. 226, 228 & 229 ~:Jecting Street, CIARLESTON. S. C. JOB PINTING. T IE TIME> OIC71, L- FITTED UP IN a :uannr th:t warTa:tsi it in solicting youlr p;trontau.g: for job prining. Sefnd us your ordeirs which shaM hav promipt atten tion. Price :-s low a th Ctes. Satisfac BRUNSON HOUSE, s RI E ST0 , N . C. Fir' t elap~s aIccommo211 atiofns and excellena table. ConLven.t to the busliness portion of the1 town. :n cents for dinner. .T.II DINON, Propriet r. M. Drake & Son, -WIIOLESALE BOOTS, S HOES, & TRUNKS. 235; ~ceting St., CII LESTON, S. C. Lrgest stock, best assortment,Ilowest prices. GRAND GENTRAL HOTEL, COLUMBIA, S. C. Is the largest hotel in the city, and has, durir~g the p;ast year, been thoroughly reno vated, remodeled, and retitted with all mod ern imnprovenments. Centrnlly located, and offers induemaents for the accommodation of its natrons. Has G spacious, light, and airy sample rootus. H~ot and cold baths, el evator, &'c. Cuisine under supervision of MIr. E. E. Post, late of Lookout Point R otel, Lookout MIountain, T.Lenn. The proprietor hopes by strict attention to the wants of his patrons to merit a share of patronage. E. W. ME:EGERS, E. E. POST, Proprietor. Mana er.g .sJWGD?3WORK 2GoAffAeHMEN1~~ c.28 UNION SQUARE.NY. 5% cA9'-.-TLUA NTA.~A, CALI. .. 2 97.LOUIS.MO'F. -.;AM B CA LL A5.TEX. W. E. BIROWN & JO, 21Ianning, S. C. PHILADELPHIA SINGER. High K ~ Loi $28. $20. FIFTEENJ DAYS' TRIAL IN YOUR (!WHi HCUSE BEFORE YOU PAY ONE CENT. Don't pay a agent $4 to r g, t::t vend for circlar. TH C. A. WaOO C.,,,1.,,,:7, " Shot~ unRvles I e M. - Etc. .- e. T Greatt Wetea - SEINES, FNETS, TEt.TS, AN2 SPORTING C00DS Doble lia~rrel lb7-U T.oa~iinSat ms choke b"red..M t fla00. S l . b L ti ing' Shbt G.uns..:-:4.t..I::5. EvI ki of lrech? L I n :md 1a::' 11 1-' to * to.35 .in::h Sh it Gu( 3-~. t ' 812. ttvles 81 to c '-. D1ui. Ai on , lf centsi for llh"eirated ';''ue dd GC IW I)!K\', itbug Pa.ti'LS L Maninofl Shavine Parlor. I A CETTING .\!II ' (ALLY EN . eented ::n' . Ih':n o with h' t raz*'rs. S"' -a at'ni' p id to -hampn ing ladies' h.eds. I hav a. 1:n ded exper i1e nvr0 lar- 1 eiiis, andI :gar next door to M Innnga Thuecs. E D TAlILTON. ADGER SMYTH. F.J. PELZER, Spec1 PL wuer SMYTH &M ADER, Factors and 0omissni :s. ' vsPs, JToCrt A tlaTiO N 'ea7rf CHARL~ESTON, . . OTTO F. WiETERS, WHiOLESALE G GU Wholesale Deaier in Wi,3, -2 - ~8 No. 11 East Bay, Clhark!m >:.. -5 OTTO TIEDEMAN &ION, Wholesale Grocers ard Po ..0 172, 174, and 176 East Thy Sreet, C'EEAit..."3 T mi- i771 D 8. (0. MOL NY & CARTER, COMMISSION MEZU HAYTS. Dealers in Corn, Oats, Bran, h1y, Fr, Feed, 244 & 24-6 Meeting St., Opp. Pavlion llot. CAAR L1.TON. S. C. 7jYContracts made for car loaidl lots or less. W. E. HoLmES. LELAD MOORE. W. E. HOLMES & CO., -DEALES IN White Lead and Colors, Oils and Varnishes, Glass and Lrushes, Mill and Naval Store Supplies. STREET LAMPS and LANTERNS ofALL KINDS OIFICE, 207 EAST DAY, CHARL.STON, S. C. ESTABLISHED l34. Charleston iron Works, Manufacturers and Dealers in Marine Stationary and Porta ble En nud Boilers, Saw Mill Machinery, Cotton Presses, Rhailroad, Steam boat, Machinists', Engineers' and Mili Sznpplies. g&Repairs exrecuted u-ilk pJromlaei? and Di ah. &ndfor price lists. East Bay, Cor. Priitehard St., Charleston, S. C. PUCKHABER BROS., Wholesale Bakery and Oandy Factory. AGENTS FOR HOLMES & COUTTS bEAFOAM WAFE1S.AND ENGLISH BIscuIT, 464 and 466 King St.. CIlARLESTON. S. C. PE]R.OIV.AL~ MvFG. CO. SI 'U Sr' AND DLINDS 478 to 48G Meet n. S. CHT'~ LSTONS. C. THEBEST AND TH MHAPST. All goods guaranteed. Estimaites l'arnished by reun al E gestock, prompt shipments. Our goods do0 not shrink or warp. Geo. E. Toale & Company, MANrFACTCRiERS OF AND WIIoLEsA:.E DE.ULE5 IN Doors, Sash, Blinds, Moulding, and 6snoral Builing Material Oflice and Salesrooms. 10 and 12 H1ayne St., (IiAitLESTON, S. C. OLD CLOTHES MADE NEW. SEND YOURt DYEING To THET CHARLESTON STEAM DTE WORKS, All work guarantee. 3'10 Kn St.. CHlIALESTON, S. C. SMOKE H ENO CIGAR, TiHE 555T N0KL.E CIGAR SOL.. B. A. JOHNSON, Sole Agent, alanining, S. C. SOL. ISEMAN, Wholesale 6rocer, StateAgent, 18 Eas Bay, Charlosion S. C Lilienthal & Blohme, Saecess.ors to F. J. Lienhd .ar f And daleirs in Prepae - Fluri Gi t and . : .I, four, M11!l Feed' S. T;OIO3i JTa. J. . THTHMRA, Stephen Thom~as, Jr, & Bro~ waromasWho esa e JEWERR7Y, SilVEm!. PATED WA GrocerS, Spectacles, Eye Glasses & Fancy Go0. :-YWateni&.and Je.-r rreaired bo ~ 7 i ':,Est Bay, 2->7 KING STREET, 7E 1A STR~ S. C. CHARLESTON. S. C. 'I.VL- II-QUoLo anassa ''N Y RER & GO., Carrington, Thomas & Co, '~e Grocers - DEALERS~ IN - JEWELRY, SILVER WARE AND FANCY GO3DS No. 251 Kng Street CHARLESTON, S. C.</ ;7'QS.G CHARLES C. LESLIE Gema.:nS~Uili Mercharn Consiiments of ponhilrv, eggs. and1 al . AD IS kind, of country 1,roduce are respi edfnu Ti AND EASTEFN HAY. soliited. Otiec N's. 18 & 20 Market St.. E. of Eas-t lay Ael iGI v!ts *~~Prln eet CI{UtLSTQ, e C. 11 & ast Peay, Charlestonl, S. C