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VOL. VII. MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17. 1891. NO. 26. CAST THEM ON THE LORD. CHRIST WILL HELP YOU BEAR YOUR HEAVY BURDENS Dr. Talmage Jreaches an Eloquent Ser mon That Appeals to the Business Man, the Invalid, the Mourner and to All Humanit.T. BRooKLYN, June 7.-It is no new thing to the members of the Brooklyn Tabernacle church to have their pastor's eminence eknowledged by the outside world. But even they must have been gratified by the distinction conferred upon him since last Sunday. In listen ing to Dr. Talmage to-day, they were listening to the chaplain of the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company of Massachusetts, in which office he was formally installed with due ceremony on June 1. The organization, which is two hundred and fifty years old, and the lineal descendant of an English organi zation dating back to the beginning of the Sixteenth century. has had many distinguished divines as chaplains, and the honor has always been highly appre ciated. The subject of Dr. Talmage's sermon this morning was "The Burden Bearer," and his text Psalm iv, 22 "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee." THE SERMON. David was here taking his own medi ciue. If anybody had on him heavy weights, David had them, and yet out of his own experience he advises you and me as to the best way of getting rid of burdens. This is a world of burdeu bearing. Coming into the house of pray er there may be no sign of sadness or sorrow, but where is the man who has not a conflict?- Where is the soul that has i.ot a struggle? And there is not a day of alt the year when my text is not gloriously appropriate, and there is nev er an audience assembled on the planet where the text does not fit the occasion: "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee." In the far east wells of water are so infrequent that when a man owns a well he has a prop erty of very great value, and sometimes battles have been fought for the posses sion of one well of water; but there is one well that every man owns-a deep well, a perennial well, a well of tears. Ifa man has not a burden on this should er, lie has a burden on the other should er. The day I left home to look after my self and for myself, in the wagon my .ather sat driving, and he. said that day something which has kept with me all my life: "De Witt, it is always safe to trust God. I have many a time come to a crisis of difficulty. You may know that, having been sick for fifteen years, it was no easy thing for me to support a family; but always God came to the rescue. I remember the time," he said, "when I didn't know what to de, and I saw a man on horseback riding up the farm lane, and he announced to me that I had been nominated for the most lu crative office in the gift of the people of the county, and to that office I was elec ted, and God in that way met all my wants, and I tell 5ou it is always safe to trust him." Oh, my friends, what we want Is a practical religion! The religion people have is so high up you cannot reach it. I had a friend who entered the life of an evangelist. He gave up a lucrative bus iness in Cbicago, and he and his wife finally came to severe want. He told me that in the morning at prayers he said: "CO Lord thou knowest we have not a mouthful of food in the house! Help me; help us!" And he started out on the street, and a gentlemad met him and said: "I have been thinking of you for a good while. You know I am a fiour mnerchant; if you won't be offended, I should like to send you a barrel of flour." My friend cast his burden on the Lord, and the Lord sustained him. In the Straits of Magellan, I have been told, there is a place where whichever way a captain puts his ship he finds the wind against him, and there are men who all theirlives have been running in the teeth of the wind, and which way to turn they do not know. Some or them may be here this morning, and I address them face' to lace, not perfunctorily, but as one brother talks to another brother. "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustaini thee." THE BUSINESS MAN'S BURDEN. First-There are a great many men who have business burdens. When we see a man harrned and perplexed and an noyed in business life we are apt to say, "He ought not to have attempted to car ry so much." Ah, that man may not be to blame at all! When a man plants a business he does not know what will be its outgrowths, what will be its roots, whatt will be its branches. There is many a man with keen foresight and large business faculty who has been fiung imto the dust by unforeseen cir cumstances springing upon himi from ambush. When to buy, when to sell, when to trust and to what amount of credit, what will be the effect of this new invention of machinery, what will be the effect ol that loss of crop and a thousand other questions perplex business men un til the hair is silvered and deep wrinkles are plowed in the cheek, and the stocks go up by the mountains and go down by the valleys, and they are at their wits' ends and stagster like drunken men. There never has been a time when there have been such rivalries in busi ness as now, It is hardware against hardware, books against books, chand lery against chandlery, imp .rted article against imported article. A thousand stores in ecombat with another thousand stores. Never such advantage of light, never such variety of assortment. never so much splendor of show window, nev er so much adroitness of salesmen, nev er so much acuteness of advertising, and amid all the severities of riva'ry in busi ness how many men break down! Oh, the burden on the shoulder! Oh, the burden on the heart! You hear that it is avarice which drives these men of business through the street, and that is the commonly accepted idea. I do not believe a word of it. The vast multitude of these business men are toiling on for others..- To edu cate their children, to put the wing of protection over their households, to have somnething left so when they pass out of this life their wives and children will not have to go to the poorhouse-that is the way I translate this energy in the street and store-the vast majority of that en ergy. Grip, Gouge & Co., do not do all the business.' Some of us remember when the Central America was comino home from California, it was wrecked. president Arthur's father-in-law was the heroic captain of that ship, and went down with most of the passeneers. Some of them got off into life boats but there was a young man returning from Callifornia who had a bag of gold in his hand; and as the last boat shoved off from the ship that was to go down that man shouted to aco-nrade in the boat, "Here, John, catch this gold; there are $3,000, take it home to my old mother; it will make her comfortable in her last days." Grip, Gouge & Co. do not do all the busi ness of the world. Ah! my friend, do you say that God does not care anything about your worldly business? I tell you God knows more about it than you do. He knows all your perplexities; he knows what mortgages is about to foreclose; he knows what note you cannot pay; he knows what unsalable goods you have on your shelves; he knows all your trials, from the day you took hold of the first yardstick down to the sale ofthe last yard of ribbon, and the God who helped David to be king, and who helped Daniel to be prime minister, and who helped Havelock to be a soldier, will help you to discharge all your duties. He is zoing to see you through. When loss comes, and you find your property going, just take this Book and put it down by your ledger, and read of the eternal possesions that will come to you through our Lord Jesus Christ. And when your business part ner betrays you, and your frireds turn against you, just take the insulting let ter. put it down on the table, put your Bible beside the insulting letter, and then read of the friendship of him who "stick eth closer than a brother." THE LORD SUSTAINED HIM. A young accountaut in New York city got his accounts entangled. He knew he was honest, and yet he could not make his accounts come out right, and he toil ed at them day and night until he was nearly frenzied. It seemed by those books that something had been nisap propriated. and he knew before God he was honest. The last day came. He knew if he could not that day make his accounts come out right he would go into disgrace and into banish ment from the business establish lishment. He went over there very early, before there was anybody n, the place, and he knelt down at the desk and said: "Oh, Lord, thou knowest I have tried to be honest, but I cannot make these things come out right! Help me today help me this morning!" The young man arose and hardly knowing why he did so opened a book that lay on the desk, and there was a leaf containing a line of figures which explained everything. In other words, he cast ins burden upon the Lord and the Lord sustained him. Young maa, do you hear that? Oh, yes; God has a sympathy with anybody that is in any kind of toil! He knows how heavy is the hod of bricks that the workman carries up the ladder of the wall; he hears the pickax of the min er down In the coal shaft; he knows how strong the tempest strikes the sailor at masthead; he sees the lactory girl among the spindles and knows how her arms ache; he sees the sewing woman in the fourth story and knows how few pence she gets for making a garment; and loud er than all the din and roar of the city comes the voice of a sympathetic God, "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee." Second-There are a great many who have a weight of persecution and abuse upon them. Sometimes society gets a i.rudge against a man. All his motives are misinterpreted, and his good deeds are depreciated. With more virtue than some of the honored and applauded, he runs only agamst raillery and sharp criticism. When a man begins to go down he has not only the force of natu ral gravitation, but a hundred hands to help him in the precipitation. Men are persecuted for their virtues and their successes. Germanicus said he had just as many bitter antagonists as he had adornments. The character sometimes is so lustrous that the weak eyes of envy and jealousy cannot bear to look at it. It was their integrity that put Joseph in the pit, and Deniel in the de'n, and Shadrach in the fire, and sent John the Evangelist to desolate Patmos, and Calvin to the castle of persecution, and John Huss to the stake and Korah after Moses, and Saul after David, and Herod after Christ. Be sure if you hive any thing to do for church or state, and you attemipt it with all your soul, the light ning will strike you. INTEGRITY ALWAYS BRINGS ABUSE. The world always has had a cross be tween two thieves for the one who comes to save it. High and holy enterprise has alw ays been followed by abuse. The most sublime tragedy of sell sacrifice has come to burlesque. The graceful gait of virtue is always followed by grimace and travesty. The sweetest strain of poetry ever written has come to ridiculous parody, and as long as there are virtue and righteousness in the world, there will be something for inmquity to grin at. All along the line o the ages, and in all lands, the cry has een: "Not this i' an, but Barabbas. Now, Barabbas was a roboer." And what makes the persecutions of life worse is that they come from people whom you Lave helped, from those to whom you have loaned money or have started in business, or whom you re scued in some great crisis. I think it has been the history of all our lives-the most acrimonious assault has come from those whom we have benetited, whom we heve helped, and that makes it all the harder to bear. A man is in danger of becoming cynical. A clergyman of the Universalist church went into a neigborhood for the establishment of a church of his denom ination, and he was anxious to find some one of that denomination, and he was pointed to a certain house and went there. He said to the man of the house. "I understand you are a Universalist; I want you to help me in the enterprise." "Well," said the man, "I am a Univer salist, but I have a peculiar kind of Unive~salism." "What is that?" asked the minister. "Well," reiplied the other, "I have been out in the world, and I have been cheated and slandered and outraged and abused until I believe in universal demnation!" The great danger is that man will be come cynical and given to believe, as David was tempted to say, that all men are liars. Oh my friends, do not let that be the effect upon your souls! If you cannot endure a little persecution, how do you think our iathers endured great persecution? Motley, in his "Dutch lRe public," tells us of 2Egmont the martyr who, condemned to be beheaded, un fastened his collar on the way to the scaflold, and when they asked him why he did that he said, "So they will not be detained in their work; I want to be ready." Oh, how little we have to en dure compared with those who have gone before us! BUDGE NOT ONE INCH. Now, if. you have come across ill treat ment, let me tell you you are in excel lent company--Christ and Luther and Galileo and Columbus and John Jay and Josiah Quincy and thousandt of men and women, the best spirits of earth and heaven. Budge not one inch, though all hell wreak upon you its vengeance, and you he moa a target for devils to shoot at. Do you not think Christ knows all about persecution? Was he not hissed at? Was he not struck on the cheek? Was he not pursued all the days of his life? Did they not expectorate upon him? Or, to put it in Bible lan guage, "They spit upon him.". And cannot he understand what persecution is? "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee." Third-There are others who carry great burdens of physicial ailments. When sudden sickness has come, and fierce choleras and malignant fevers take the castles of life by storm, we appeal to God; but in these chronic ailments which wear out the strength day after day, and week after week, and year af ter year. how little resorting to God for solace! Then people depend upon their tonics and their plasters and their cor dials rather than upon heavenly stimu lants. Oh, how few people there are completely % ell! Some of you, by dint of perseverance and care, have kept liv ing to this time; but how you have had to war against physicial ailments! An tediluvians, without medical college and infirmary and apothecary shop, multi plied their years by hundreds; but he who has gone through the gantlet of dis ease in our time, and has come to seven ty years of age, is a hero worthy of a palm. THE BURDEN OF ILLNESS. The world seems to be a great hospi tal, and you run against rheumatisms and consumptions and scrofulas and neu ralgias and scores of old diseases bap tized by new nomenclature. Oh, how heavy a burden sickness is! It takes the color out of the sky, and the sparkle out of the wave, and the sweetness out of the fruit, and the luster out of the night. When the limbs ache, when the respiration is painful, when the mouth is hot, when the ear roars with unhealthy obstructions, how hard it is to be patient and cheerful and assiduous! "Cast thy burden upon the Lord." Does your head ache? His wore the thorn. Do your feet hurt? His were crushed of the spikes. Is your side painful? His was struck by the spear. Do you feel like giving way under the burden? His weakness gave way under a cross. While you are in every possible way to try to restore your physicial vigor, you are to remember that more soothing than any anodyne, and more vitalizing than any stimulant, and more strength ening than any tonic is the prescription of the text: "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee." We hear a great deal of talk now about faith cure, and some people say it cannot be done and it is a failure. I do not know but that the chief advance of the church is to be in that direction. Marvelous thiags come to me day by day which make me think that if the age of mira cies is past it is because the faith o& mir acles is past. A prominent merchant of New York said to a member of my family, "My mother wants her case mentioned to Mr. Talmage." This was the case. He said: "My mother had a dreadful ab scess, from which the had suffered untold agonies, and all surgery had been ex hausted upon her, and worse and worse she grew until we called in a few Chris tian friends and proceeded to pray about it. We commended her case to God and the abscess began immediately to be cured. She is entirely well now, and without knife and without any surgery." So that case has come to me, and there are a score of other cases coming to our ears from all parts of the earth. Oh. ye who are sick, go to Christ! Oh, ye who are worn out with aaonies of body, "Cast thy burden ;upon thie Lord, and he shall sustain thee!" THE BURDEN OF BEREAVEMENT. Another burden some'have to carry is the burden of bereavement. Ah! these are the troubles that wear us out. If we lose our property, by additioal industry perhaps we may bring back the estrang ed fortune; if we lose our good name, perhaps by reformation of morals we raay achieve again reputation for integri ty; but who will bring back the dear departed? Alas me! for these empty cradles and these trunks of childish toys that will never be used again. Alas me! for the empty chair and the silence in the halls that will nevev echo again those famifliar footsteps. Alas! for the cry of widowhood and orpanage. What bitter Marahis in the wilderness, what cities of the dead, what long black shadow from the wing of death, what eyes sunken with grief, what hands tremulous with bereavement, what instruments ot music shut now because there are no fin gers to play on them! Is thete no relief tor such souls? Aye, let the soul ride into the harbor of my text. The soul that on Jesus hath leaned for re I wil nt, I will not, desert to its foes: That soul, though all hell shall endeavor to shake, I'll never no never no never forsake. Now, the grave is brighter than the ancient tomb where the lights were pepetually kept burning. The scarred feet of him who was "the resurrection and the hfe" are on the broken grave hillock, while the voices of angels ring down the sky at the coronation of another soul come home to glory. THE ONLY CURE FOR SIN. Then there are many who carry the burden of sin. Ah, we all carry it until in the appointed way that burden is lift ed. We need no bible to prove that the whole race is ruined. What a spectacle it would be if we could tear oil' the mask of human defilemnent, or beat a drum that would bring up the whole army of the world's transgressions-the decep tion, the fraud, and the rapine, and the murder, and the crime of all the centuries! Aye, it I could sound the trumpet of res urrection in the s ml of the best men in this audience, and all the dead sins of the past should come up, we could not endure the sight. Sin, grim and dire, has put its clutch upon the immortal soul, and that clutch will never relax unless it be under the heel of~ him who came to destroy the works of the devil. Oh, to have a mountain of sin on the sul! is there no way to have the bur den moved? Oh, yes. "Cast thy burden upon the Lord." The sinless one came to take the consequences of our sin! And 1 know he is in earnest. How do I know it? By the streaming temples and the streaming hands as he says, "Come unto me all ye who are weary and heavy laden, aud I will give you rest." Why will prodigals live on swines' husks when the robe, and the ring, and the father's welcomie are ready? Why go wandering over the great Sahara desert of your sin when you are invited to the gardens of God, the trees of life and the fountains of living water? Why be houseless and homeless forever when you may become the sons and daughters t the Lord God Almightyr Superintendent of Immigimration. WVAsIINGTON, June 4.-The P'resi dent today appointed Wim. D). Owen, of Logansport, Ind.. Superintendent of Tmmiration. TIlE TRIPLE MURDERER. SIXTH TRIAL OF THE EDGEFIELD FAMILY EXTERMINATOR. Jones'- Case On In the Lexington 3 Court A Formidable Array of Witnesse--Story of the Murders-One Witness Examin ed. LEXINGTON, C. H., S. C., June 10. In the Court General Sessions this morn ing the case against Robert T. Jones for the murder of Edward Pressley, Sr., was called, and the trial entered upon. There was only one eye witness to the three murders which Jones is charged with, but the case has grown to such magnitude as to require 100 witnesses to tell the jury all about it. At the roll call this morning thirty four witnesses answered on the side of the State' and the defense have had sum. moned sixty-seven witnesses, the most of whom are in attendance. Among the prominent witnesses are Senator M. C. Butler, Congresman George D. Tillman, Capt. George B. Lake, Dr. Jennings, T. R. Denny, Capt. Lewis Jones, Mark Toney, S. L. Ready, Jos. R. Edwards, Col. Robt. Hughes, Hon. W. H. Tim merman, M. H. Mims, Dr. W. E. Pres. cott, W. A. Strom, Coronor Johnson. A. L. Broadwater, Capt. U. R. Brooks, David Means. Jones's wife and three little children are here, and will figure prominently in the court scenes. Jones, who arrived on yesterday's noon train from Edgefield, gives every appearance of being in pretty good health and spirits, and he will recieve at the hands of Lexington's sheriff that distinguished consideration which his celebrity as a successful slayer of three of the human race entitles him to. The facts of homicides are so well known to the public that as a prelimi nary or introduction to The State's re ports of the trial it is only necessary to state briefly the circumstances o! the killings. Joies and the Pressleys hand a misun derstanding as to the right to cultivate a small tract of land which they had at first bought from the sinking Fund Commission of South Carolina, and afterwards, on account of inability to meet the payments, the Pressleys rent ed, the State having foreclosed on the land. On the 18th of November, 1885, Jones saw the three Pressley's plowing this piece of ground. With his Run he went to where the Pressley's'were in the field, and, addressing Charles, he said: "Charlie didn't I tell you not to work this ground until it was decided who had the right to plant it?" Then he shot both barrels of his gun into Charlie, killing him instantly. He next paid his respects to Edward Pressley, Jr., and cut him to pieces. Jones then reloaded his gun, and, retracing his steps to where the father of the two young men he had just murdered was standing, holding his son Charley's mare by the bridle, he shot him to cdeath. This last killing is tne one that is now being tried. Mr. Edward Pressley, Sr., was seven ty eight years old, and in addition to his extreme age he was afflicted with palsy, which made him as helpless as a child. Jones was placed upon his trial for the first time on March 6, 1886, for the mur der of Charlie. A mistrial was the re sult. The State then concluded that it would try hkm for the killing of Edward Pressley, Sr. He stood his second trial on March 10, 1887, and was convicted of manslaughter. An appeal was taken to the Supreme Court, and a new trial was granted. Since then Jones has bad three trials. The trial that is now in progress makes the sixth that he has been subjected to. Five of them were had in Edgefield County. The case was transferred to Lexington County on a motion on the part of the State for a change of venue, which the grand jury of Edgefield Coun ty recommended in their presentment of 1890. Solicitor Nelson, in the prosecution of the case, is assisted by S. McG. Simkins and W. W. Butler, of the Edgefield bar. The defendant is ably represented by Maj. W. T. Gary, Earnest Gary, George Evans and Maj. H. A. Meetze. The following compose the jury: John J. Culler, P. G. Lowman, P. Brooks Saiot, A. L. Summer, C. A. Bockman, A. L. Price, James M. Keisler, Charles C. Sharp, J. K. Davis, Henry WV. Mar tin, John M. Hite and J. G. Wingard. The foreman of the jury is Hon. J. K. Davis, a member of the Legislature from this county. The only witness examined up to the time of adjournment this morning was Charles Brooks, the negro who saw Jones kill the last two of his victims Edward -Pressley, Jr., and old man Pressley. Brooks was on the stand for fve hours, three hours of which time he was put through a most rigid and severe ross-examination by Maj. W. T. Gary. This witness has always, in the five preceding trials, given his testimony in a manner which baffled the legal akill of the delen'dant's attorneys to break it own: Mai. Gary, to use a common phrase, "paralyzed" him on the cross examination, lie twisted him, tangled im and placed him before the jury in a ight which, it is thought, has seriously impaired his credibility. The witness ot very much mixed up, and made everal very material contradictions, hich, of course, the astute counsel of he prisoner will play on before the jury for all they are worth. The State, however, cannot fail to make a strong case against Jones. The facts and details of the killings are so verwhelmingly against- the prisoner hat it is believed his plea of self-defense will not avail him before a lexinirton ury. For the first time since this case has ben undergoing investigation the clothes worn by the three Pressleys at the time hey were killed by Jones were ;intro uced in tevidence by the State. Solici tor Nelson didn't know of their existence ntil after the last trial of the case. These three suits of clothes made a tell ng effect upon the jury and spectators. They were three silent witnesses, and they have spoken more unmistakably than any witness in the case. The cioat and vest of Edward Pressley, Jr., show how lie was butchered up; and the pants of old man Pressley is saturat ed with his life blood, showing where the contents of the gun emptied into the front part of the last victim of Jones's wrath. The garments of Charlie Press ey show that he must have'been shot down while plowing in the field. .Steamship Seized on Libel. NEW YoRK, June, 4.-The steam ship Finmece, of the Brszil line, was seized by a United States deputy mar shal as she was about to sail from Brook lyn yesterday on a libel sued out by the Berwind White Coal Mining Company, BLUE BEARD, JR. George Reinhart Excells the Fainou Character of Hobgoblanism. W APAKONETA, 0, June 3.-A modert Blue Beard has been practicing his hor rors in Clay townstip, thiscounty, abou six miles east of this city, in a mos respectable and quiet neighborhood Auglaize county has produced a maz who even excels tb at famous characte: of hobgoblanism in the mortality of hi wives. Charitable neighbors say tha the awful death rate among Georg Reinhart's wives is simply misfortune as in forty-two years he has hd 3i3 wives, all of whom but the last one art dead; but, since he is responsible fo: the delicate condition of his 14-year-oh grand-daughter, it may be almost rea sonable to say that a mystery exists ii his household. So far the wretche< villain has gone unpunished. but this i due to the fact that the existing stat of affairs was unknown to the authori ties here. Reinhart is 70 years old, bu is strong and possesses unusual vitality He was married at 27, and his first wif lived four years and bore him thre children. Then Christina Pulsfer, neighbor, came to his household. Sh lived long enough to bear three children The third woman to enter his home wa, Christie Schlichtig. She lived but : year, and her sister was induced to takt her place as a wife. She at the end o: eigh years had borne him five children and soon after slept beside her sister it the church yard. His neighbors begar to wonder at Reinhart's misfortunes He next married a widow named To land, who already had three children and with them and the widow Rein hart came into possession of ten acre, of land. She died after a four years residence in the household, leaving fonr children, who owed their parent age to her second husband. A 40-year-old spinster named Betche: was the next to assume the duties a. Reinhart's wife. She was the mothei of two chIldren, and her death endec the mortality of the wives in the house hold. No. 7 now came. She wa young and did not want to work Neither was she prolific. She disguste her husband, who abused and mistreat ed her. Four years ago she secured E divorce in the courts of Auglaize coun ty. A daughter of a son of Reinhart whose mother had died, came to abidt in. the household of the many wives She was the only woman in a house oJ five men. Since the girl was 12 she had lived in Reinhart's home, and at thal time his incest began. What threat, were used are only matters of conject ure. Without a friend on earth, the girl remained in the wretch's house The condition was apparent to all, and to add to her shame she was recently driven from a public gathering o young people at a neighbor's. Any court can readily establish these facts as the incestuous wretch does not deny them. Prosecutor Layton, Sheriff Shu bert and Constable Van Ski.er dovi out to Clay township and arrested Reinhart. They brought his victim with them, and she will be cared for b3 friends until court opens. Reinhart waived examination and was bound over to the court in the sum of $3,000 He is charged with incest and rape which, as the child is a daughter, is a life penitentiary offense. He says h( is innocent, and the girl says he forci bly ravished her. Earthquakes In Italy. RoxE, June 8.-Advices from Badia, Calavania and Eatregna, towns ir Northern Italy visited by earthquakeE yesterday, show that the inhabitants are terror-stricken and have taken to the fields for safety. The authorities have, as far as possible, sought to alleviate distress among the people and have furn ished a large number of tents to shelter those who have fled from their homes. Subterranean rumblings continue and occasionally slighter shocks than those of yesterday are felt. The people are it distress of momentarily seeing the eartia open and swallow them. The damagE done at these places is much greater thar was indicated mn the first report. The towns were practically destroyed by the severity of the shocks. The commis sion appointed by the authorities to ex amine the houses which were not thrown down by the undulations of the earth have made a hasty investigation, and they report that at least three-quarters of the houses are in such condition that public safety demand that they be pull. ed down entirely. A large body of troops has been dispatched to these places to assist the authorities in clearing the streets of debris, in tearing down dan gerous houses and to render such other assistance as they may be called upon to give. ____ ___ A Bank With No Capital. ST. Louis, June 4.-A dispatch fronm Guthrie, Oklahoma, says Receiver E. D. Mix of the Commercial Bank, which failed some months ago, has handed iui is report to the court. It shows that the bank from its inception was run wvith a view to take in all it could in deposits and then fail. The defunct bank started in without a dollar. It opened1 on the 22d of April, 1889; on the 23d $10,000 in silver were received from the Newton Nfational Bank of Newton, Kansas, by~ epress, and the same day $12,000 was sent back to the Newton National. De posits for the first three months averag~e $18,000 a day. There is no record that any of the organizers of the institution r anybody else ever put in a dollar ex ept of depositor's money. President J. M1. Roasdale credited himself with aving deposited $55,000, while another party named T. M1. Rogsdale had a cred t of $48,000. The books are in bad con ition. ________ Indicted for Forgery. SUMTER, S. C., June 10.-In tlhe Court of General Sessions this morning idictments were issued against John RI. eels for forgery in two cases. Bail was granted in the sum of $500 in each ase. In the Common Pleas this after noon W. F. B. Havnsworth, acting for he Bar of Sumter made a motion that a ule be issued against J. RI. Keels to how cause why he should not be disbar ed from the practice of law in the Courts f General Sessions, Common Pleas, and he inferior Courts of the State. Judge [zar issued the rule, and made it return le on Wednesday, June 1.-News and :ourier. Bursting of a Waterspout. CITY OF MEXICO, June 9.-A water spout burst near San Leus Paz, in the State of Guanajunata, on Sunday, and nany horses, cattle and uprooted trees were swept away by the water. The ater covered a space of nearly three niles, completely devastating that part f the country. The number of lives ost has not yet been reported. Hun reds of people are homeless and in a estitute condition. Seeking their Fortunes. NEW YORK, June 3.-This was an talian day at the barge oilice, 4,136 of his nationality having passed through he building. Besides the two vessels hat arrived yesterday with 2,471 immi grants too late to be taken off, the Al atia arrived to-day with 1,065 Italians from Naples, and two Rotterdamn ships AN ALLIANCE REVIEW. STRENGTH AND SENTIMENT OF rHE BIG ORGANIZATION. Three Millions of Voters Enrelied-Fro gress Since the Ocala Meeting--Feeling in Favor of a New Party-President Stekes Non-Committal. NEW YoRK, June 10.-The New York Herald has made a general investiga tion of the extent, growth and condi tion of the Farmers' Alliance. An swers to the questions were received e from nineteen States. From these and other sources of information the Her ald makes the following statements and 1 figures: j The total strength of the Alliance, s then, is about 1,270,000, but from this a number must be taken about 20 pe: cent representing women and minors. This would leave the voting strength cf the order at about 1,016,000. In addition the National Farmers' Alliance and Industrial Union there are, according to Col. R. M. Humphrey, 800,000 Colored Farmers' Alliance al . most wholly in the Southern titates. Then there is the Northwestern Alli ance, with its strength in Nebraska. Minnesota. Iowa and Wisconsia, witi about 175,000 members; the Farmers' Mutual Benefit association, strong in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, with 150.000 members; the Patrons of Husbandry, with about 200,000 members; the Knight of Labor, with 300,000 members, and the Citizens' Alliance, the membership of which is problematical. Making a reduction of 20 per cent in these organizations for non-voters and to thestrength of the Alliance must be added 1,460,000 voters, making the total voting strength of the combination 2, 476,000 throughout the country. It is questionable, however, if this strength can be held. The 800.000 ne groes are unreliable and the grangers or patrons of husbandry are not in clined to the third party idea strongly. In the West the feeling for indepen dent action is strong and the people from that section are determined at all I hazards to put a ticket in the field next year, no matter what the Southern wing does. The feeling in the South is perhaps, as clearly expressed in the following editorial from the Southern Alliance Farmer, the organ of the Georgia State Alliance. It says: "In the Cincinneti convention the Southern Alliance men did all and everything in their-power to prevent er postpone the organization of a new po litical party. This action gives the lie to the statements of partizan. papers that the Alliance leaders are trying to wreck the Democratic party in order to further their own ends. Now, had these Southern officers given the least countenance to the new movement, you would to-day see the third party fairly launched on the political sea. As it is, final and definite action has been post poned until February, 1892, so that the Democratic Congress may have a fair opportunity to show its interests in the welfare of the people. The Ocala convention seems to have had but little effect one way or the oth er, the order having continued to gain about at the same rate after as before that event. New York and Pennsylvania report 25,000 members apiece and no disposi tion to enter politics. Virginia has 60,000 Alliance men. West Virginia guesses her strength at 30,000. North Carolina has over 100,000 and Secretary Barnes says 95 per cent of them are solid for Ocala demands. Georgia reports 80,000 members. Florida 15,000 and only 5 per cent in favor of any movement outside the Democratic party. Alabama has 75,000 members who will favor a new party if no concessions to the Ocala demands are made. Louisiana has 20,000 members who await the action of the supreme coun cil before talking of a third party. Texas reports revival of the order there, 400 sub Alliances having been organized since the Ocala meeting. Kentucky has 100,000 members who vor a third party. Ohio's Alliance stands on the Ocala platform, Indiana has 100,000 Alliance men ready for the third party. Illmnois has 15,000 who all favor inde pendent action, Michigan has 25,000 Alliance men and they favor the third party. Tennessee has 118,000 members and the third party feeling is growing among them. Arkansas reports 60,000 Alliance voters and the president says they are for the people's party. IHere is the answer fromn South Caro lina: Speaking generally, the order is in good shape in this State and is making1 satisfactory progress. We are unload ing some material, but results show a< net gain and a more compact, homoge-1 neous membership. We are organizing constantly, though the most of the State has been already covered. Within the past month the State organizer has had calls from two different counties, and the result of his visits are apparent. Outside of the political press and a small circle of political speculators the questionl of independent political action has not created a ripple, because it has not been discussed. Independent politi cal action by the Ailiance is out of the question so long as the Alliance con stitution remains as it is. It can not be changed before next winter, and our people are not disposed to worry about the bridge before they get to it. From a close and frequent contact1 with them in every quarter of the State I can safely say they may be countedj on to stand squarely by all the de-t mands of the Alliance, Governor Till man to the contrary notwithstanding. The temper of the people is such that they will repudiate any man, however trusted, who can not support the Alli ance demands, just as they repudiatedi H ampton last fall. JT. WILLIAM STOKES, 2 President South Carolina F. A. and I. 1 U. Orangeburg, M.C The Itata is Ours. IQUIQUE, Chile. via Galveston June4. 1 -The steamship Itata arrived here this f morning from Tocopilla, and has beent delivered over to the American war- i: ships now here. The Charleston is ex-t pected to arrive here to-day from Arica. b Tne Itata has handed over to the Ameri- a can warships to which she surrendered all arms she took on board off San Dieg3. These consist of 5,000 rifles. WAsmINGTON, June 4.-Secretarye Tracy late tonight received a dispatch from Admiral McCann at Iquique, con firming the reported surrender of the Itata at that point. The Itata will be sent under convoy back to San Diego, ~ to answer the injunction proceedings ~ against her_______ Florida Want Phillips Brooks.s JACKSONVILLE, Fla., June 4.-The n Episcopal Diocese of Florida goes on record as in favor of the consecration of Rev. Phillips Brooks as Pishop of the i Massachusetts diocese. The standing t committee met to-day and after two o hours' discussion, voted 5 to 1 in favor 1 of his cnsecrtion. c BEASTLY BUTCHERY'. Massacre and Reign of Terror in Port An Prince. NEw YoRiK, June 12.--Advices irom Port au Prince, under date of May 31, says for the past two or three weeks there have been rumors that a revolu tion against President Hippolyte was imminent. At his capital they were current and reached the ears of the chief executive, who caused the arrest ofabout eighty suspected persons and put them in iron In prison. Among the suspected was General Sully who. hearing he was "wanted," hid himself. Failing to se cure the general himself, his wife was taken instead and thrown into prison. Corpus Christi, Thursday, May 28th, was a national holiday, and it was re ported that on that date Hyppolyte, in order to effectually terrify the populace, had ordered a Gathng gun down to the prison and the eighty prisoners to be summarily executed. The friends of the prisoners, among whom was Gener al Sully, met in council, and wmle the president was in cathedral. they forced open the prison doors and freed all the prisoners, about 250 in all. Then, by order of the president, began a series of assassinations, perhaps unequalled in the annals of civilization and by which the massacre of St. Bartholomew sinks into insigmficance. The first victim was Earnest Rigaud, a respected merchant, a bard working man. who occupied himself exclusively with his business, and was positively known to have been perfectly innocent of con spiracy of any kind. He was sitting on a balcony with his wife when the presi dent passed, and ordered him out to a cemetery to be shot. He asked to be allowed to take his hat, (he was unarm ed) and the president's own words were: "You won't require a hat long." His nephew, a boy of 15 or 16, followed him to the place ot execution, and returned with the news to the affieted wife, who was still hoping to bring Influ'nce to bear to save her husband. He told her: "It is useless; my poor uacle has been toully murdered." These words were reported to the president, and twenty minutes later the boy was brought be fore him. Being asked if he had made, the above statement, he did not deny it, but said: "President, I have never onspired agamst you in word or deed." The boy was shot. Alexis Rossignol, an inoffensive and much esteemed man was executed m the streets, another man was put up gainst the cathedral wall, seven others were executed in one batch, and even at this date occasional volleys tell that an other wretch has been sent to doom! There was no fighting In the streets to excuse this massacre. Every execu tion is carried out in the most cold blooded manner, the excutioners being soldiers belonging to the most degraded type of men, who seem to enjoy their bloody task. Large Firm Assigns. NASHVILLE, Tenn., June 4.-The Connel Hall, McLester Company, one of the largest wholesale dry goods and shoe firms in the South, made an as signment this morning to the Nashville Trust Company. During the past year the firm have done an enormous busi ness, amounting to more than a million dollars. Daring the extremely hard season their collections have averaged about $3,000 daily. Their tronbles are from overstocking and an attempt to do a larger business than their capital would permit, credits contracted during prosperous times and inability to pro rre an extension of their paper. Their iabilities are $464,000; assets S'718,000, Leaving a balance of $254,000 in favor f the firm. With the exception of $60,000 due local banks their creditors are in New York and Boston. Recent failures in Boston are given as the rea son for their inability to secure an ex tension of their paper. The officers of the company are confident that all ob igations to creditors will be met speed. ily and that they will lose nothing, and hope to resume in a short while, as heir assets are abundant and creditors safe. Meantime the house will not be 1osed, but will continue under the su pervison of the Trust Company.' The Death Penalty. LOuWsvELE, KY, June 10.-Leo fames, colored, was hanged at Hickman it 5.47 this morning, He walked firmly pon the scaffold. The trap was sprung md he fell with a heavy jerk, breaking 1s neck. He was pronounced dead in ourteen minutes. In November, 1889, >e night he had a fight with some man, lame unknown, and was badly beaten. le got a revolver and started to find his nemy. Searching at the depot be saw ['homas Garvin, a man fro u Chicago, vho was there on business and waiting r the train, and mistaking him for the ther, shot him dead. He escaped and vas caught at New Orleans. He was onvicted and sentenced to be hung ovember 12, last, but was adjudged in ae. Latter he became sane, and the ~xecution was set for to-day. A Secret Political Society. TOPEKA, KAN., June 4.-The Grand odge, Knights of Reciprocity, is now n session in this city. This new or ranization was called into existence by he inroads made in Republican ranks >y the Alliance, although its founder lad commenced work upon its princi yes long before. The membership has een rapidly extending in this and other tates, until now there are seven Grand odges. In Kansas there are sixty odges, with a membership of about ten housand. Missouri has thirty lodges, vith a promise of an even hundred be. re the end of July. Nebraska, where he Alliance is strong, has nearly forty odges. In other States the strength is "The Only True Christ. ' K~sAs CITY, Mo., .June 4.-Swein 'urth, the Rockford, 111., crank, who tles himself "The only true Christ," ud who for the past few days has been olding forth with his "'disciples" in this ity, had to flee from the vengeance of a aob last night. A cro wd assembled be ore the building in which Sweinfurth tas been exhibiting himself, 'with the .rm determination of applying a coat of ar and feathers to the pretender. Tak ag alarm at the determined character of he demonstration, Sweinfurth secreted 1mself, and had not been caught up to late hour. Starved Himselt to Death, READING. , ass., June 4.-John You. n inmate of the county hospital, delib rately starved himself to death in that stitution. He went without food for wenty-seven days and died this morn 1g. He was terribly emaciated. He riginally weighed 115 pounds, and at e time of his death weighed only hirt-eiht pounds. Nothing could iduce him to take food and why he in Lsted on starving himself to death can ot be explained. People's Party Convention. 1 MILWAUKEE, June 4.-Robert Schill ig Secretary of the new People's Par 7, to-day issued a call for a convention f the party to be held in St. Louis June 3, to arrange a plan of action for the min camnpan. PROBABLY A IIOAX. REPORTED FINDING OF A LARGE AMOUNT OF MONEY. Recovered After Twenty-four Years of Digging-Captured and Buried by Sher man's Men.-Itb Location Revealed by a Death-Bed Confession -$163,000, Be sides Jewelry Secured. KERSITAW, S. C., June 8.-Whether or not it is historic or ficitious. the story goes. When Sherman was passing through this section the officers of the Camden Bank collected $163,000 and some jewelry and brought it near Hanging Rock to bury it. They were found and captured by Sherman's men and forced to give up their treasures. The Yankees in turn appointed one of their own number to bury it. Besides the $163,000 there was said to be watch es and other jewelery and a gold pitch er presented by the ladies of Charleston to Calhoun. A man named Rhodes was selected to re-burry the tre tsures. He crossed Lynche's Creek, below the mouth of Hanging Rock Creek, near an old mill. Rhodes, on his death-bed, confessed burying this nnney, and wrote a discrip tive letter for Col. Win. E. Johnson, of Camden, and Col. Burwell Jones, of Kershaw, has a copy of the same. People have been digging for this gold about twenty-four years, and Friday night it was found by a Mr. Rhodes, brother of the one who buried it, and a Mr. Swaggart, both Yankees, from Winnsboro. They had a negro along with them. Swaggart has been here once or twice before digging, and he and Rhodes were here about three weeks this time before their efforts proved of avail. These men were seen Friday after noon going into the farm of Mr. Theo. Kirkley. They were afterward seen by four or six different parties, all of whom seem to believe firmly that they had found the hidden treasures. They say that the men had a half bushel satchel on a.stick across each of their shoal ders. single file. The report created quite a sensation here, and several peo ple have been out to look at the hole from which the money was excavated. It was said that the place is fully des cribed by Col. Jone's letter, and there are the marks on the trees and the large rock, &c. The hole is large enough to cover a barrel of flour. I have been told by a reliable farmer, who says also that you can see tallow around, where the diggers were burning candles. It was found on Seb Williams' farm. The story is believed by a number of our citizens who resided near here where the valuables were buried.-The State. GoverniDg by Force of Arms. NEW YoRK, June 8.-The steamer Orange Nassau arrived at this port to day fromiFort-au-Prince and brings the first definite news of the late insurrec tion in Hayti. The uprising was of a serious character, and for a time threa-. ened important consequences, but tie Government repressed the rebellion by prompt and stern measures. The in surrectionists stormed the prison at Port-au-Prince and a number of pr.s oners were released, when the military appeared on the scene and captured the whole party. Frederick Douglass, the United States minister to Hayti, was expected to sail on this steamer, but owing to the excite ment at Port-au-Prince decided to post pone his departure until next month. Mr. N. B. Waller. a well-known resi dent ef Port au-Prince is a passenger by the Orange Nassau. He states that there is considerable excitement in that city and that martial law had been de clared. Some sixty persons had been shot on May 28 last, as was cabled to Paris. Hippolyte has everything in his own hands, and the killing goes on at the rate of two ,.C three persons per day. Fed on Raw Seal and Duck. OT TAwA, June 4.-Robert Piercy, a young seal bunter of the schooner May, Bell, arrived at Victoria from Juneau by the latest Alaska boat with a story ot adventure and hardship such as few old salts can tell. He and two boatmen strayed from the schooner off' Cape Fairweather in the lat ter part of April and after some days made land about two hundred and fifty miles from Juneai. Thence they pulled along the coast to that town-, all the time in a dead calm. Their stock of provi sions, only sufficient at first to last a few hours, soon gave out and they were orced to feed on raw seal and ducks, which tasted of fish and salt water, They reached Juneau thoroughly exhausted and broken down after fifteen days' starvation and exposure. The t .vo other men, Oliver Hauge and Elie Sinclair are still at Juneau. Piercy sold his eun and three seal skins in order to raise money to reach Victoria. Gen. Schofield to Marry. CHICAG~o, June 4.-News of a social event of the first magnitude was private ly discussed to-night among army offi ers. Although not yet formally made public the announcement is said to be authoritative that Gen. John M. Scho field, Commander-in-Chief of the U. S. army, who is a widower and now in the Wst, will soon be married to Miss Georgia N. Kilbourne of Keokuk, Iowa. The date has been fixed but is not givea ut for the present. The wedding will take place either in Chicago or Keokuk. Pistols Selling Cheap. CHARLESTON, S. C. June 8.-Some hing of a stir is created in mercanaile ircles here by the law passed at the last session of the Legislature, requiring all ealers to pay a license of S200 for the ale of pistols and cartridges. Most of the eading hardware houses will take out he license, but quite a number of small ealers will be frozen out of the busi ess. The County Treasurer gave no ice to-day that the law goes into effect une 23d. As a consequence pistals are >ffering here at bottom prices, most of he holders being anxious to unload. In the Track of the Storm. LAPORTE Ind, June 4.--A terrifiC urricane and hail storm struck this lace last evening. Reports are coming .n showing great damage throughout this ection. There is hardly a merchant in his city whose stock is not damaged. he King and Fidels compaay 's woolen varehouse roof was blown off' and 840, 00 woith of Ilannels soaked, thie.Quaker ~hurchi unroofed, the new city hall badly amaged and several store fronts blown Death of a Lancaster Lady. L ANCASTER, S. C., June 4.-Mrs. E. A. rown, wife of Mr. D. W. Brown, of his town, died last night. She leaves a usband, and six children all of whom re grown. Mrs. Brown was a sister of o1. Dixon Barnes, of the T welfth Regi ent S. C. V., who received his death o und at the battle of Sharpsburg mrile gallantly lading his regiment.