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lLORIOUS EAS ER 1M0R1N! )R. TALMAGEON THE RESURRECTION OF JESUS 'Glor; to God in the Highest, anrd on Earth Peace. Good Will to 1e '" mortuary Honers to the Dead Poo: Atonement for Neglect to the Living. NEW YorK, March 29.-Dr. Tal nage preached an Easter sermon to his two audiences to-day. Both at the morning service in Brooklyn and at The Christian Herald service in New York, in the evening, the Academies of Music were bright with a profusion of flowers, Easter lilies being conspicuous. A se ection of music appropriate to the festi rai was beautifully rendered at each scr ice. The text of the preacher's dis ourse was Matt. xxvii, 6, "Come, sce he place where the Lord lay." Visiting any great city, we are not satisfied until we have also looked at its emetery. We examine all the styles of :enotaph, mausoleam, sarcophagus. :rypt, and sculp..ure. Her .s buried x statesman, yonder an o r, here a poet, out there an inventor, in some ther place a great philanthropist. But with how much greater interest and with more depth of emotion, we look upon ur family plot in the cemetery. In the mne case, it is a matter of public interesL, in the other it is a matter of private and eartfelt affection. But around the grave at which we halt this morning, there are gathered' all kinds of stupend Dus inte:est. At this sepulchre, I have to tell you there was buried a king a con gueror, an emancipator, a friend, a brother, a Christ. Monarch of the uni verse, but bone of our bone, and flesh of ur flesh, and sorrow of our sorrow, and heart of our heart. "Come, see the place where the Lord lay." It has for surroundings, the manor in the suburbs of Jerusalem, a manor >wned by -t wealthy gentleman by the :iame of Joseph. He was one of the :ourt of seventy who had condemned Christ; but I think he had voted in the aegative, or, being a timid man, had been absent at the time of the casting of the vote. He had laid out the parterre Ltgreatexpense. It was a hot climate, md I suppose there were broad-branched rees and windic.g paths underneath them, while here the waters rippled over the rock into a fishpool. and yonder the Ones and the flowers clambered over the wall, and all around there were the benu reo, kiosk and arboriculture. After the fatigues of the Jerusalem court-room, how refreshing to come out in these su burbs botanical and pomological. -Iwalk a little farther on in the par terre and I come across a cluster o rocks, and I see on them the marks of a sculptor's chisel. I come still closer, idl. find that therEt is a subterranean etess, and I walk down the marble stairs, and come to a portico, -ver the doorway an architecture of fruits and fowers chiselled by the hand of the scul por. I go into the portico, and on either side there are rooms, two, or four, cr.sirooms of rock; in the walls, niches zbach niche large enough to hold a dead body. One of these rooms of rock is es ,.cially wealthy with sculpture. It was beautiful and charmaing spot. Wihy all his ? The fact was that Joseph, the fwner of the parterre, of that wealthy manor, ad recognized the fact that he o~d not always walk those gardens, and he sought this as his own last rest ing place. What a beautiful plot in which to wait for the resurrection! Mark well the meuseleum in the rock. ft is to be the most celebrated tomb in althe ages; catacombs of Egypt. tomb oflaleon, Mahal Taj of India. noth ing pared with it. Christ had just beemifdered, and his body must be hron out to the dogs and the ravens, agi~ Enitomary with crucified bodies, unle there be prompt and effective indrnce. Joseph, the owner of - the mhanaesmbegs for the body of Christ, aud ia fres .ad washes the poor and jntlated frame fro n the blood and the lustand shrouds it and perfumes it. R think embalmment was omitted. When. mn lden times, they wished to emalmi a dead. body, the priest, with isomeepretesiofl of medical skill, would sow the point between the ribs where th incision was to be made. Then the e ac wrould come and make the in ishion and then run for his life, else he bej3 alain for vioiating the dead )~Tfien the other priests would ~eth salt of nitre and cassia, and ine.of.palm tree, andecomplete the em Einmmet. But Ithink in this case emi Mmment. was omitted, lest their be ,rezcitemnent and another riot. The unial advances. Present-Joseph, the imer of the reasoleum, Nicodemus, Oio bi-ought the flowers, and the two Marys. Heavy burden on the shoulders efto men, as they carry the body of hrist'down the marble stairs and into haportico, and left the dead weight to heevel ot the niche in the rock, and ush the body of Christ into the only ~plsantresting place it ever had. These ~m'heoming forth, close the door ol irock against the recess. The govern ment; afraid that the disciples would 2teal the body of Christ and play resur :recm. put upon the door the seal ol ~he Ranhedrim, the violation of that seal, ike the violation of the seal of the nited States Government, or of the *British Government, always followed with aever penalties.. A regiment oI soldiers from the Tower ofAntonio is detailed to guard that .masoleum. At the door o1 that tomt a fight took place which decided the tqion for all graveyards and cemeter ies. Sword ofrlightning against sword of steel. lAgel of God against the milh tary. The body in the crypt begins tc Imove in its shroud of fine linen and sdes down upon the pavement, movet :trough the portico, appears in tile door way, comes up the marble steps. Chris1 'having left his mortaary attire behi him, comes forth in the garb of a work man, as I take it, from the fact that the -women mistook him for the gardener. .There and then was shattered the tomb so that it can never be rebuilt. All thE trowels of earthly masonry cannot ment it. Forever and forever it is a broker tomb. Death that day. taking the sidr of the military: received a horrible cu Iunder the angel's spear of flame, an< Instimself go down at the last-th< king of terrors disappearing before thi :king of grace. --The ILord is risen.' Hosanna! Hosanna ! O weep no more, your comforts slain, 'The Lord is risen, he lives again. - When one of the old Christians wa: dying, he said he saw on the sky the let tei "V,' and he said: "I cannot under stand what that is I see against the sky it is the letter 'V.'" A Christian stand ing beside him said. "I know whati means; that letter 'V stands for -vic tory."' I gather up all these tiower to-day, and 1 strew them over the grave of your Christian dead in the letter "V for "victory." "R" for 'resurrection,' "T for "triumpb," "H" for " Heaven. "The Lord .is risen." Hosannal While standing around the place wher he Lord lay, I am ianpressed with ih fct that mortuary honors cannoti aton for wrongs to the living, If they coul have afforded Christ such a costl seulhre, they could have atforded hit a a ent earthly residence. Will the ive a piece ofsmarble to the dead Chrit w*hen they might have given a soft pillo lo the living Christ. If they had but ha the expense of that mausoleum in tb makig of Christ's life on earth comfoi sad. He wanted breaad; they gave him a stone. Cirist. like every other benefac tor of the world, was better appreciated after he was dead. Westminster Abbey and monunental Greenwood are to a certain extent the world's attempts by mortuarv honors to atone for neglects to the livin. Poetb' Corner in Westmuin ster Abbey-an at.empt to pay for the sufferings of Grub street. Igointo that Poets' Corner of Wcstminster Abbey, and there I find the grave of Handel, the musician, from whose music we hear to-day, as it goes dlown reverberating through the ages. While I stand at the costly tomb of I1audel, I cannot forget the fact that his fellow musicians tried to dstrov him with their discords. I go a little further in the Poets' Corner of Westminster Abby, and I tind the grave of John Dryden, the great poet. Castly monument, great mortuary honors; but I cannot torget the fact that at seventy years of age he wrote about the oppres Sions of misfortune, and that he made a contract for a thousand verses at six pence a line. I go a little further on in the Poets' Corner, and I find the grave ef Samuel Butler, the aurthor of -Htudi bras." Wonderful monument, costly mortuary honors. Where did he die? In a garret. I move further on in the Poets' Co.ner, and I find the grave of a poet of whom Waller wrote: "An old schoolmaster by thename of John Milton has written a tedious volume on the fall of man. If its length be no virtue, it has none." I go a little further on in the Poets' Corner, and I find the grave of Sheridan, Alas! for Sheridan. Poor Sheridan! Magnificent mortuary honors. What a pity it was he could not have discounted that monument for a mouth ful of something to eat! 0, unfilian chil dren, give you old parents less tomb stone and more blankets, less funeral and more bedroom. Five per cent. of the money now expended at Burns' ban quets would have made the great Scotch poet comfortable and kept him from be ing almost harried to death by the drud ery of an exciseman. Horace Greely outrageously abused while he lived oing out to his tomb was followed by the President of the United States and the leading man of the army and the navy. S.me peop e could not say bit ter enough things about him while lie dived; all the world rose up to do him honor when he died. Massachusetts, at the tomb of Charles Sumner, tried to -atone for the ignominious resolutions with which her legislature denounced the living senator. It was too late. The costly monument at Springfield, Illnois, %annot pay for Booth's bullet. Costly mortuary honors on the banks of Lake Erie-honors that cost between $200, 000 'and $300,000-cannot pay for the asasination of James A. Garfield. Do justice to the living. All the justice you do you will have to do this side the zates of the necropolis. The dead can not wake up to count the number of carriages in the procession, or see the polish on the Aberdeen granite. or to read the words of epitaphal com memoration. Costly mausoleum of the gentlemen in the suburbs of Jerusalem cannot atone for Bethlehem's manger and Calvary's cross and Pilate's ruffian judiciary. Again! Standing in this place where the Lord lay, I am impressed with the fact that floraland sculptural ornamenta tion are appropriate for the places of the dead. We are all glad that in the short time of the Saviour's inhumation he lay amid flowers and sculpture. I cannot quite understand what I see in the ne ws papers, where, amid the .announcements of obsequies, the friends request "send no flowers." Why, there is no place so appropriate tor flowers as the casket of the departed. If your means allow-I repeat, if your means allow--let there be lowers on the casket, flowers on the hearse, tiowers on the grave. Put them on the bro~v; it means coronation. Put them in the hand; it means victory. Chr i't was buried in a parterre. Christ was bur'ed in a garden. Flowers are types of resurrection. Death is sad enough, anyhow. Let conservatory and arboretum do all they can in the way of alleviation. Your little girl loved flowers while she was alive. Put them in her hands, now that she earnot go forth and pluck flowers for herself. On sunshiny days twist a garland for her still heart. Brooklyn has no gre nder glory than her Greenwood, nor Boston than her Mount Auburu, nor Philadelphia than her Laurel Hill, nor Cincinnati than her Spring Grove. nor San Francisco than her Lone.Mountain. What shall I say of those country graveyards where the viners have fallen down and the slib is aslant and the mound is caved in, and the grass is the pasture ground for the sexton's cattle. Are your father and oother of so little account you have no more respect than that for their bones? Some day gather together and straigh ten up the fence and lift the slab, and bank up the mound, and tear out the weeds, and plant the shrubs. After awhile you, yourself, will want to lie down to the last slumber. If you have no regard for t'ie bo c: of your ancestors, your children will have no defence for you- bones, Do you say these relics are of Lno importance? You will see os how much importance they are when the archangel takes out his trumpet. Tun all your graveyards into gardens. Standing in this place where the Lord lay, I am also impressed with the dig~ nity of unpretending obsequies. Joseph that day was mourner, sexton, livery man-hiad the entihe charge of all the ocsion. Four people only at the bur ial of the King of the Universe. Let this be consolatory to those who, through small means or lack of large acquaint ance, have but little demonstration of grref at the grave of their dead. It is Dot necessary. Long line of glittering equages, two rows of silver handles, casket of costly wood, pall-bearers scarfed and gloved, are not aecessary. Christ looks'out from heaven at a burial where there are six in attendance, and remembers there are two more than he had at his obsequics. Not recognizing this idea, how manny small properties are scattered in the funeral rites, and wi ow hood and orphanage go out to the cold charity of the world. The departed left enough property to have kept the aimiuy together until they could take care of themselves, but it is all absorbed in the funeral rites. That went for crape which ought to have gone for bread A man of small means can hardly afford to die in one of our great cities! Funeral pageantry is not necessary-. No one was every more lovingly andl tenderly put into the grave than Cerist, but thiere were only four in the procession. Aeaiu: standing in this place whmere the Lordh av, I am im pressed with the fact that ~vou cannot ke ip the dead down. The seal of the Sanhedrim. regiment of soldiers from the tower o: Antonio to stand guard, iloor of rock, roof of rock, wall Ai rock, niche of rock, -cannot keep Christ in the crypt. Comie out, and come up, lie must. Came out, came up. lie did. Preti;;urationl. The first fruits of themi that sleep. .Just a. certainly as you and .t go down into th( grave, just so certaiy we will comei ui agan. Though you pile up on thie tot Sof us all the boulders of the mountains Syou cannot keep us down. Thouti w< e bburied under tie coral of the deep Iest cavern of the Atlantic ocean Swe will rise to the surface. Ai! m: afriends, death and the grave are no Swhat they used to be to us, for now *twalking around the spot where the Lori ~'lay, we find vines and flowers coverini LIup the tomb, and that which we calle ea piace of skulls has become a beautifu garden. Yea now there are four garden ot the World's SeputnLe. garden of Earth's Regeneration, garden of Hear en. Various scriptural accounts say that the 'york of grave-breakain will he:;n i with thle ;list of trumipets and shoutings; whece I take it the iirst imtimat i n of tle da, will be a sound fromn I aveni stch as has never beiore ocen heard. It may not be very loud, but it will be pani etratin.;. There are im usoleons so deep that undis.turbed silence has slept there every since the day when the s!cc pers were le .t in thern. The great noise shall strike through them. Among the corais of the sea. miles deep, where the ship wrecked rest, the sound will strike. No one will mistake it for thunder, or the bI -st of earthly minstrelsy. Tire will be heard toe voice of the uncounted un lions of tli dead, who Come rvshing out the gates of eternity flyl: toward the tomb, crylu,. "Make way! Oh, grave, give us back our body! We uavC it to y u in corruption; surrender it now M incorrultion." Thousands of spirits arising from the field of Sedan, and from among the rocks of Gettysburg, na from among the passes of South Mountain. A hundred thousand are crowding Greenwood. On this grave three spirits meet. for there were three bodies in th L tomb! Over that family vault twenty spirits hover, for there were twcnty b idles. From New York to Liverpool, at every few miles on the sea route. a gIroup 01 hundreds of spirits conling down to the water to rieet their bodies. See tha multitude ! That is where the Centi al America sank. And yonder multitude! -that is where the Pacific went down. Found at last! That is where the City of Boston sank. And yonder the Presi dent went down. A so;itary spirit alights on voinder prairie-that is where a traveler 'perished in the snow. The whole air is full of spirits-spirits flying north, spirits flying south, spirits ilying east, spirits flying west. Crash! goes Westmir-ster Abbey, as all its deal kings, and orators, and poets ct up. Strange commingling o, spiri s search ing among the ruins. William Wiber force, the good; and Queen Elizabeth. the bad. Crash! Cras '! go the py ramids, and the monarchs of Egyl)t rise out of the heart of the desert. Snap! g the iron gates o' the nodern vaults. The country grave %ard will look like a rough ploughed field as the mun'dus break open. All the kings of the earth; all the semator ; all the ;;reat meu: all the beggars; all the armies-victors and vanquished; all the ages-barbaric and civilized; all those who were chopped by the guillotine, or si miniered in the fire or rotted in dungeons; all the infants of a day, all the octogeiarians-all! all Not one straggler left behind. All ! all! And nov the air is darkened with 1he fragments of bodies that are coming to gether from the opposite corners of the earth. Lost limbs finding their mate hone to bone, sinew to sinex-until every joint is recons ructed, and every arm finds its socket, and the amputated hmb of the s irgeon's able shad be set again at the point fro.n which it was sev ered. A surgeon told me that after the oattle of Bull Run he amputated limbs, throwing them out of the window. until the pile reached up to the win::ow-sill. All those fra..ments will have to take .eir places. Those who were born blind I.ave eyes divinely kindled; those who were lame shall have a limb sub stituted. In all the hosts of the resur rection not one eye missing; not one fooz clogged, not one arm pals!ed; not one t-ngue dumb; not one ear (leaf. Wake up, my friends, this day. this glorious Easter morning, with all these congratulations. If I understand this day, it means peace toward IHeaven and peace toward earth. Great wealth of lowers! Bring more flowers. Wreath them around the brazen throat of the cannon, plant them in the deserts until it shall blossom like the rose, braid them into the mane of the war charger as lie comes back. No more red dahles ofhu man blood. Give us white lilies of peace. Strew all the earth with Easter arlands, for the resurrection we cele rate this morning implies all kinds of resurrection, a score of resurrection. Resurrection from death and sin to the life of the gospel. Resurrection of apos tolic faith. Resurrection of commercial integrity. Resurrection of national hion or. Resurrection of international good will. Resurrection of art. Resurrection of literature. Resurrection of every thing that is good and kind and gener ous and just and holy and beautiful. Nothing to stay down, to siay buried, but sin and darkness and pain and dis easo and revenge and death. Let those tarry in the grave forever. "Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peae, good will to men." Christ, the Lord, is risen to-day, Sons of men and angels say. Raise your songs and triumphs high, Sing, ye lleavens, and earth reply. Love's redeeming work is done, Fought the fight, the battle won. L~o! the sun's eclipse is o'er; Lo! lie sets in blood no more. The First Hiome Made Rebel Gun. The drst gun made for the Confeder ate govermlent is owned by Mrs. HI. 1 Miller. of Chattanooga. The owners of Libby prison. now in Chicago, are in correspondence with Mrs. Miller for the purchase .of the historic relic. The gun was made by Mrs. Miller's father. W.S. MElwaine. at Holly Springs, Miss.. in the Summer of 1801. It was carried through part of the wvar by a young man of Holly Springs. a friend of Mr. Mc Elwaine. Origiaallyv it had a rild har rel. About the middle of the war the brrel was injured by a ball, an't the gun was retuned to Mr. Me Ehruue, who cut it off at the injured point aud bored it for a shot guni. Mr. McElwaine was a native of Pitte field, Massachusetts. where lie learned the trade of a machinist. Afterward he worked in a gun factory in New York, and then mosedi to Samdusky. Ohio, where lie enzaged in the loundry busi ness, In 1859 he wvent on a prospe-ctung trip to Missis-'ippi. He settled at Utolly Spings, and in a crude way began the fundry business with two partners Wien the wvar began the company had a wel equipped establishment, which Pre sident Davis induced the owners to con vert into an armory. Small arms wer badly needed, and Mr. McElwaine planned and made the necessary machm ery for manufacturing them. With is own hands lie made the first gun, wic his daughter now preserves. When the battle of Shiloh~ was ud in 1862 the plant wvas turning out twea' t ive stands of arms a day and emplom 500 hands. The armory was aiterward sold to the Confederate government r $150,000. in addition to the $00,000 pod i r converting it into an armory. The plant was shortly afterwvard removed to Macon. (in- After the evacualou of Corinth by the Confederates a raid wa s made on Uolly Surmnes and the buildin s were burned.~ After an evenitful- career the -naker of the first gun of the Con federacv died in Chiatta; ooga in 1882. The Inside Rtoute. CuanLEsTroN, s. C., March 27.-Thie Lot M. Morrill, United States revenue utter, drawving nine feet ot water. ad carryng a Hlotchikiss battery and a cre w -of thirty- eight men, commanided by Liet. Bald wvin, arrived here this morn ing, having made the trip by an inland rote from North Edisto. The Merrill thus demonstrated the tact that smatll war vessels can navigate inland all the waters of the southern. coast from Charleston to Fernan:lina, and from Fernandina northward to Ps'iadelphi. 1 Great importance is attachid to the feat of the Morrill from a militar y point A f;.miBLE SFAMPEDE. HUNDREDS OF BEASTS DRIVEN TO DEATH BY HUNGER AND COLD. I Grapi ic DeScrip,:on of a Most Terrible es.. save, by Saperiiaumau Efforts ct; te .,ike Despe-rate Efforts .AN hiAxcisco, March 28.-Recent timates 0 the loss of cattle last win ter run he nonber op to 250,000, and examules are numiewrouis where out of a herd i 2,ueKO, three scre or less were ulive in the springr. This was L. M. Lraw bridge's experience, while G. W. Crambs saved but 1,7('o out of 10,000. S. C. D)e;son and Frarnk Miller, of Sac rarcito lost between 6,0J and 7,000, valued at 8100.-J, while othiers lost so manv breen ng animias that this sum meirsome ranchers branded 1,00 to 1,300 calves where J or several seasons past they we-re in the habit of branding from 0.u.0 to 26,00. John Uradley was another heavy loser and had an experience with some of his cattle that he will never forget. One night in January l:tst 5,000 of his choicest, which had b-en driven in close to the liada arters of the ranch, where th.ere were uetween 500 and 1,000 bales o: hav stacked together in one huge pil, and enclosed by a high and strong 'xard fence, in.ade a wild stam pede, a:2d took complete possession~of the hay. During tne day they were given a small quantity of it, the idea eing to keep them from utter starva tion and make the hay last as long as possiblc. Men armed with sticks land pitcliforks were stationed alongside of the fence to more completely guard the provender, it being anticipated that in their hunger the animals would, make an onslaught on the feice to get at the covettd" 10o. Daraness c:une on, and it was bitter cold. The night was clear and the sno w deep on the ground, and ever and auou sharp. piercing winds would mer ciessly lasa the poor dumb beasts, who n suld phalanx on au four sides of the i enced hav stood a short distance away, shivering' in their plignt, looking at the ha and watching tne men en guard. T wo hours before midnight the wind increased in fury. It becawe a hurri cane, with the thermometer below zero. The men on 'guard in their bundle of clv:bes were painfully cold; the cattle pr*sted gril aspects. in one great ie mass, surging to and fro, r,::tiess with pain and hunger, bat w ith heir eves ti ilxed on the big pile o hav. Thtr- rz-stiessness increased, the swag movement of the big mass be eilue more noticeable. Timt cattle in the rear, in a v4in attempt to get away fromu the cruel wind, stru,-Zled wildly, rushing forwanrd and lighting to oust those in front, until the whole herd took aL.rr and biegan moving toward the hay. Suddenly with one accord they bello wed loud and long, as if in stiet told them death was near, and then in a mad career rushed blindly and furiously toward the fence. The guards. having no avenue of es cape but on top of the pile of hay, swiftly climbed the fence and scram bled oi top just as the hungry herd ade its mad charge. t was a grand and terrible scene as the cattle rushed up to the fence, those in the front having their brains dashed out and others being trampled to death by those charging on behind. The fence gave way, and around and up the pile of hay the herd moved on, so close ly packed together that some behind were forced upon the backs of those in front, while here and there were large piles of dead animals, from the top of which cattle stood frantically grabbing their food, only the next moment to be savagely attake by others for a fav ored place. For an hour the guards on top, with bated breath and frightened looks watched this weird sight, and then e1L or help.,~ e tih cattie pusneui or-e imnother close up to the top, made Brad ley and others, who had run out of the house when the cattle bellowed think g that the guards were being mangled beeath tihe hoofs of the enraged beasts. For two hours tuey labored to drive the cattle back to rescue the guards and finally succeeded in getting an opening for themi to escape, but the cattle iin ished the hay pile, and a week later ah wvere dead from cold and hunger. Which are the Heathen? Prr-unruo, March 29.-Chinamen of Pittsburg, contrary to the general belief in regard to their burials, do not send their dead to China, but own a neat lot in Uniondale cemetery, in which they are entered. This afternoon one of their number. Jen Sen, was buried with ex e y~ rite and observance attending Chinese obsequies. Jen Sen was a high Mason. and a long procession of Celestials fol lowed thle remains to the grave. Here a most disgraceful scene ensued, brught about by some fifteen hundred Caucasin-s, who had trampled over the graves, torn down the shrubbery and jostled the timid moarners in order to gratify their curiosity. The Chinese revently placed burning Joss sticks, perfued paper and printed prayers be side the grave, only to have them almost snatched out of their hands by the excit ed mob. They also wrapped small coins in paper and scattered tnem on and mn the grave. but the boys and men snatch ed them du and fought fiercely for the possessionl of the curious momentoes. Cat calls, jeers, and howls from the vul gar crowd added to tihe slhameless scene. The Fa.rmners' Double Tax. The Western Rural says it secems hardly necessary t> write for farmers on the evils of the saloon. No one artnds to di-ny the general charge tt the s::doon 1B a bad thing. 1t is .ur puro;se to speak brielly of this na tinl erse to the farmers as a class. [The licese sa I'~loons in. the towns and vilages of this country impoise a one and unduerhand formi of taxa tioi uponi the iarmers~ that w , ld not ~e tlrateda under ainy other name. Towns license s'loons to) help pay their own1 expeUses They build sidwalks, pa policceen buildt jails and become x ravaant in proportloon as the in cme fromu saioons increases. The firmr. or their sons andt laborers, hl p to miaintaia the saloons, and lose h r eiie:enev, and often their farms. 'h the crop-Ao crime is ready for hr.-est. the farmer is agaiu called oo ' nav taxi-s into the county t-esar i cover the expeniSes of deC eevig, convict.ing, andi puuishing the r- imi' s that have been turned out by Th-'orch and the Noose. 1;n. m. .nlx, Ala. March 2D.-A speelal to the Age-IHerald froma Russell ileAa. eports the lynching of two nrosat an early hour this nmorinifg. Foar tie" oe , two men and two women, we-e uret and lodged in jail at 1Bel "een C ount site for buriiing the town f IRusevifie. last MIonday niaht. Thle women conf.essed and told the whole tor. L ast nigh: a mob of two hundred aid liiv armed men went to B3e1 rin ov er powered .Jailer Walthrep and too .Je D~enzemlare and Eli Ihudson, the t o menc to a neighboring white oak {e, sw'ung them to a limb, filled them ful of baltlet a-i lef t them. They de ni d teir guilt, but the miob believed ti stor:: o thie women~i. Down :tn Emlbaukmen~ft. A-i \unis), Pa.. March 28.--While ai fight'' 1rain 0on tile Philadelphia and RI eadig R ailiroad was ascending the 'd roim Locust Slummit last night te locu'fative jumpetd the track neat ! arr station and rolled down the em balkent, carrying with it thirty-two -it c-ars. Engin< :r Oscari W alker ad 1-iremian John Oecheh, &so Frank Myrs a1 passeniger engineer, whio wvas reuri to his home at Tamaqtua, were insani k-l' illed. Conductor Wim. E Hoffa atd Urakenman Lewis Cockart and Jcob Yaniacer were very seriously in jurdthe former perhaps fatally. The wrck is all attributed to the spreading SOCKLESS JERRY IN NEW YORK. An Alleged Toterview em the 3,ucce.k of the Alliance. NEW YoRK, March 30.-An evening paper says that C., ngressnai Jtrry Simpson, of Kansas. was at the Wluisor Hotel to-day. He occ'i(d a G6 a day room and secm'ed to be pe fectiv at bo5:,.e in the hotel whwre milionaires stop. This dialogue took place betvcen Simpson and a reporter: "Somie t1 the Republican papers i N.nv 11iampshir says Senator :Chandler invited you to speak in that State. Did he-" "I have never hcard anythini abouL it. I spoke there under the au.pices f the Farmers' Alliance. IL is ratLhr queer that I should be accus.d of bIing an ally ot the Republeans in the !Nori. Now, in the South the Dciorats declare that the farmers' Alliance is in with the Republicans and in the Nor'.h Re publicans declare we are nothing but Democrats, and between th e two we go ahead, and gather strength and in 1892 both parties will see what we are end whether we can paddle our own cauoo "Do you expect to run a canddate of your owu for the Presidencs?" "I think so, but can't say vet. Next year some time we will hold a co .fer ence and de-:ide what we shall do. It looks to mue as if we should 'e able to put a candidate into the field and win." "You are accused of helping to elect Senator Palm..r. Did you lend him any aid ?" " Well, I went by Springfield and I am not sorr v that Palmer is elected Senator. Why should I not want to see him elected Senator? We want to hold the the balance of power in the Senate and in the House, and naturally I did not wish to see a Republican elected, be cause it would lessen ouchances in the Senate." "Iow do you exnect to have abalan:e of power in the Senate by the election of senator Palmer?" Easy enough. Ie is a Democrat and will vot~e against protection and against the Republicans on every vital point. Well, with Pfeffer and Kyle and several silver Senators from the West the Alli ance expects to repeal the present tariff. That is our aim. and I do not think we can fail." This is his first visit to New York. Hie Intends to see the city thorou:l,y. Ills address will not he the Vindsor Iotel after to-day. but :a care of Henry George. Wide Awake for Education. BLACKVILLE. March 2.5.-The com mittee appointed by the Baptirt Asso ciation to take under consideration the advisability of establishing a school of a high grade for boys and girls in this county met here on Wedensday. Reports from all sections of the county were very interesting and enthusiastic. The pro ject is bound to be a success. After hearing these reports the committe agreed to organize for business, and the following commIttees were appointed: A committee after circulation, a commit tee to get up plans for building, and a committee on bids for location. The object of the Baptists is to raise an amount of at least $15,000 Ior buildings, together with ten acres of land. on which the buildings will be placed. The build inz will consist .of a large three-story school building. On these -rounds they propose erecting suitable buidings to be used for boarding purposes, thereby not only placing the children directly under the supervision of the professors, but greatly reducing expenses a'the iy claim the charges ror board wd il be very moderate. While this school will be instituted by the Baptist denomination. it is not, how ever. intended to be sectarian, as it will re a atip wi oe 'receieti from all. The committee on bids, eon Isistiog of the Revs C. 1'. Ervin, Bam berg, WV. D. McMillanl, Blackville, and W.~D. Rice, Graham, are authorized to ask from the towas in the county the amount that they are willing to give f'or the location of the school in their respec tive towns. These bids are to be closed on September 15 next. This is certainly a big thing and will be a great addition to our county anid a per feet bonanza for the towa that succeds in securing it.--News and Courier. NEW ToinK, March 25.-A special to the World from Butte, MIont., says a movement has been begun by the leaders of the Republican party in Washington to throw MIontana into the Republican colmn n 192,insure the election of audrtothe Senate, steal tbree elec toral votes from the Democracy and contest the seat of Representaitive-elect Dixon. The object of the Republicans is to disfranchise 7,000 naturalized citi zens, all, or nearly all, of wvhom are Democrats, because of a technical error in the process of natturalization. .T'.is error was the swearing of the men in the open air instead of in the otlice of the City Clerk. The case of MIrs. Langtry will be taken as a precedent, her natur alization having been declared irregular and void by the United States because th ahws administered at her room in ahote inseadof in the clerk's oflice. Jt is the intention of the projectors of the scheme to keep the case pending uin til after the next Presidential election, so that in the meantime the 7,000 men will be kept from voting. He Rtobbed the roor. BA LTDIoRE, MIarch 31.-The discov ery that William A. Wisong. the default i n treast' -er of the Poor Association. hall also disposed of 84000 worth bonds belongiig to the Marylaiid8 n~iod ot the Luthern church and~ appropriated the p~roceeds, and that a bout $2.000 belong g to Rev. John MIorris had likewise been taken by Wisoing, wa:s a great sur prise to W\isong's friends, wyho thought tht the previous discoveries were the extent of his defalcations. \\isong was for many years treasurer of t lie pastor's fund of the Synod, aind had the conli dece of the ministers to such an ex tent that no bond was ever required. Te money, it is thought is irretr'.evably lost. Wisong's property has alre:: dy been attached by the Poor Association. Wisong is said to be in Martensburg, W. Ya. Fleeced by sharpe~r~a ST. Louis, 310., March 27.-A special to the Republic from Faye'tte sville Ark., saysS Captain W. D. Done~-ll, a well-to-do farmer ad State ITreasurer Iof the Far riers' Allian te of Arkans.s Iwas buneioedi ont of 83,000Y .b oy thre sharuers. It was the S:iilh ('hi gamae. (Captain Da.uwell l :0 ial icne of the men money wit h wh11ic to cove a iger ..n a urame or cards mtadle by' anI tpprent stran4er. The u:auiner i o iish the gamze but. put, the mnon in his valise, direwi a pistol as thiunf he ws going to shouot and d are lls whereabouts are' unikiown. .1Ih other two nmen were captur-d :iuair their names as Dr. Ihoward anid ,Jtuge l.uer, of Sprinigiield, .lo. A Double Mdurder aurud suicidei. $tOKANE FALLS, Wash., .March 2. A double murder and suicide occurred early this morning at the Causino, variety theatre. Charles Filiott, a faro dealer. who was occutpymfl a box near a stage, drewv his pistol and ir:ed several shots at the performers. One bullet took effect in the left breast _of Mael D)ebablan, killing her al-nost in stantly. Another bullet lodgted in thle tack of Carrie Smith, indlictong a fatal wound. Elliott then placed thle muuzzle of the revolver in his mouth and blew out his brains. IHis shots were intended for an actress named Luiu D~ur:tnd of whom Elliott was jealous. Dir. IHowAIn CaosBY, of Ne w York.. one o the greatest Presbyterian preach rs in this country, died in that city Sunday eveningr. MASSACRE IN ASSAM. Ammunition Gave out and the Camp Sur rendered. CALcU-rTA, Marc: 30.-A dispatch from Manipur, in the province of Assam, brings news of a disaster to a force of native troops there. The news was brouiht to Kahiman. on the Assum frontier b, two Jookhas-native soldiers in the British service-who arrived there yesterday. The massacre originated n a feud between the Rajah of Manipur and the lea ling tribal chief. The Rajah was deposed and he was appoint to the V:ceroy. British Commissioner Quin ton was sent to setLle the tro uble and started from the headquarter at Phillo ny. escorted by the Forty-second and Fortv-fourth Goorkha Light Infantry. After crossing the front, Qumton sum moned the chief to Durbar, at Manipur, for the purpose of arresting Ribel Sioux. The chief of the tribemen, pretending to obey the summons, moved in force and at rndmuht before the day on which Durbar was to be held suddenly attacked and attempted to surprise the camp, but failed and the tribemen were driven back. They returned, however, and kept up the attack daiy and night for forty-eiu-ht. hours. Finally th.a ammunition of the Goorkha gave out and Commissioner Quin ton was obliged to give the order, "Save who car." During the light scouts were sent to try to communicate with Shillong, but they never returned. The Manipur na tives cut the telegraph wires and killed the messengers. The fugitives report that a general massacre followed the looting of the camp. There is reason for believinz that the estimate that 470 were killed is incorrect. Quinton and his staff were made prisoners. Another account says that Colonel Skeno, a com mander. Commissioner Quinton, with his son and daughter, Captain Baileau and six officers were killed, the natiTes refusing to give them quarter. The rebellious tribe is famous for cunning cruelty and bravery. Immediately upon receiving the news of the disaster the 'Vice:oy at once summoned the Council, Two natiye regiments stationed in As sam have already been dspat.hed to Manipur. The Third Bengal Infantry wii! start for the scene to-morrow. The Vicerov of India has abandoned his tour ad has started for Simla. Five rezirents and a mountain battery have been ordered to Manipur. Abdncted is Wife. LoNoN. March 31.-A committee, headed by Bishop Roberts, is circulating an appeal for funds in order to carry the Clitheroe case to the House of Lords. The committee's appeal asserts that it is in the interest of religion and moral ity that this final appeal should be made. The Clitheroe case consisted in the ab duction, by her own husband, of Mrs. Jackson, a wealthy lady, whose relata tives had persuaded her not to live with her husband. The Court of Appeals re cently decided that the husband could not compel his wife to live with him, and ordered her to be allowed to choose her own residence. The contention of counsel for the husband was that, there fore, he was justified in abducting her and compelling her to live with him. J OSEPH F. EIIAME, A TTO1.VEY AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. JOHN S. WILSON, Attorney and Counselor at Law, MANNING, S. C. A. LELTLI p-~?Notary Public with seal. G.AL!NHUGGINS, D. D. S., 72Tisits 3anning every month or two professionally. BRUNSON HOUSE, SUMTER, S. C. First class accommodations and excellen table. Convenient to the business portion of the town. 25 cents for dinner. J. HI. DINON. Proprietor. 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