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VOL VII. _ M~~]NANNiNG, S. C., WEDN'%L ESDAY, JUNE 2.19._____ O 7 TALMAGE ON THE CIEEDS. HE GIVES HIS OPINION IN ANSWER TO MANY QUESTIONS. batan Himself Witm Chief lstiaator of the contiuvxvty Now ta;;ing in MIany Chuyches and Eartiwat Work for Christ Is the Rited3. DROOKLY.K. .1I-e 14.-Dr. Talmaie deait in his sermon this morning with the very timely to:ic-the Battle o! Creeds. After so long and exhaustive a discussion in clerical circles and in the secular press there seemed nothing more to be said on the subject. Dr. Talmage. however, has his own way of looking at all subjects, and eve, people who thought they knety all that could be said on both sides received light !rom the tresh and original contribution which he made to the controversy. His text was taken from Proverbs xxvi, 17. "He that passeth by and meddleth with strife be longing not to him is like one that taketh a do ( Dy the ears." Solomon here deplores the habit of rushing in between contestants of taking part in the antagonisms of others. of joining in tights which they ought to shun. They do no good to others and get damage for themslves. He compares it to the ~experiment of taking a dog by the ears. Nothing so irritates the can ines as to be clutched by the lugs. Take them by the back of the neck and lift them and i;t does not seem to hurt or offend, but you take the dog by the ear. and he will take you with his teeth. In all the history of kennels no intelligeu or sidrited dog will stand that. "Now," says Solomon, "you go into quarrels or controveisies that are not yours and you will -et lacerated and torn and bitten. 'Ile that passeth by and meddleth with strife belonging not to him is like one that taketh a dog by the eas. " THIS IS THE AGE OF CoNTROVERSY. This is a time of resounding ecclesias. tical quarrel. Never within your mem ory or mine has the air been so full of missiles. The Presbyterian church has on hand a controvarsy so great that it finds it prudent to postpone its settle ment for at least one more year, hoping that something will turn up. Somebody might die or a new general assembly may have grace to handle the exciting questions. The Episcopal church has cast out some recalcitrants, and its digestive organs are taxed to the ut most in trying to assimilate others. "Shall women preach?" "or be sent as delegates to conferences?" are questions that have put many of our Methodist brethren on the "anxious seat." And the waters in some of the great baptistries are troubled waters. Because of the controversies throughout Christendom the air is now like an August afterno .n agout 5 o'clock, when it has been steam ing hot all day. and clouds are gathering, and there are lions of thunder with grumbling voices and flashing eyes com mg forth from their cloudy lairs, and people are waiting for the full burst of the tempest. I am not much of a weather prophet, but the clouds look to me mostly like wind clouds. It may be a big blow, but I hope it will soon be over. In regard to the Battle of the Creeds, I am every day asked what I think about it. I want to make it so plain this morn ing what I think that no one will ever ask again. Let those who are jurymen in .he case-I mean those who in the different ecclesiastical courts have, the questions put directly before them-weigh and de cide. Let the rest of us keep out. The most damagina thing on earth is religious controversv. No one ever comes out of it asgood aman as hegoes in. Some of the ministers in all denominations who betore the present acerbity were good and kind and useful, now seems al most twearing mad. -These brethren I notice always open their violent meet mngs with prayer before devouring each other, thus saying grace before meat. They have a moral hydrophobia that makes us think they have taken a dog by the ears. They never read the imprecatory Psalms of David with such zest as since the Briggs and Newton and MacQueary and B3ridgman and Brooks guestions got into full swing. May the rams of the sheeptoid soon have their horns sawed off!. Before the controversies are settl ed a good many ministers will, through what they call liberalism, be landed into practical~ infidelity, and others through what they call conservatism will shrink up into bigots tight and hard as the mummies of Fgypt whih got through their controversies three thousand years ago. SATAN STIRRED IT UP. This trouble throughout Chr'.stendom was directly inspTired by Satan. lie saw that too much good was being done. Riecruits were being gathered by hun dreds of thousands to the Gospel stand ard. The victories of God and the truth were too near together. Too many churches were being dedicated. Too many ministers were being ordained. -ToG many philanthropies were being fostered. Too many souls were being saved. It had been a dull time in the nether world, and the arrivals were toe few. So Satan one day rose upon hist throne and said, '-Ye powers or dark ness, hear!" And all up and down the caverns the cry was, -'Hear! Hear!' d atan said: '-There is that American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. It must either be demolished or crippled, or the first thing you know they will have all nations brought to God. Apolivon the Younger! You go up to Andover and get the professors to discussing whether the heathen can be saved without the Gospel. Divert them from the work of missions and get them in anery convention in a room at Young's hotel Boston, and by the time they ad. iurn the cause of foreign missions will be gloriously and magnificently iojured. Diabohis the Younger! You go up and et Union Theological Seminary ot New York and the general assembly of the Presbyterian church at Detroit at swords: points and diverted from the work o. making earnest inisters of religion. and turn that old Presbyterian church, which has been keeping us out of custoniers for hundreds of years, into a splendid pan. demoniuim on a small scale. Abaddor the Third! You go up and assault thai old Episcopal church, which has beer storming the heavens for centuries witi the sublimiest prayers that were evel uttered-chutrch of Bishop Leighton, Bishop White and Bishop Mc.Ilvaine, and get that denomination discussint men instead of discussing the eternities Abaddon the Fourth! You go up to tha old Methodist church, which has, through her revivals, sent millions to hieavei which we would otherwise have added t< our population; the church of Wesle: and Matthew Simpson, against wvhicI we have an especial grudge, and ge them so absorbed in discussing whethe women shall take part in her conferenec that they shall not have so much tim< to discuss how many sons and daughter she will take to glory." What amazes me most is that all peo ple do not see that the entire movement at this time all over Christendom is sa tanic. Many of the internal attacks are sly and hidden and strategic and so in !enious that they are not easily discov ered. But here is a b6ld and uncovered attempt of the powers of darkness to split up the churches. to get ministers to take each other by the throat, to make religion a laughing stock of earth and hell, to leave the Bible with no more :espect or authenticity than an old alma nac of 1S22. which told what would be the change of weather six months ahead and in what quarter of the month it is best to plant turnips. In a word, the eirort is to stop the evangelization of the world. It seems to me very much like this: There has been a railroad acci dent and many are v ounded and dying. There are several drug stores near the scene of casualty. All the doctors and druggists are needed and needed right away. Bandages, stimulants, antes thetics, medicines of all sorts. What are the doctors and druggists doing? Dis cussing the contents of some old bottles on the top shelf, bottles of medicine which some doctors and druggists mixed two or three hundred years ago. "Come doctors!" "Come druggists!" cry the people. "and help these wounded and dying that are being brought from be neath the timbers of the crushed rail train. .In a little while it will be too late. Come for God's sake! Come right away!" "No," says the doctor, "not until we have settled whether the medicine on that top shelf was rightly mixed. I say there were too many drops of laudanum in it, and this other man says there were to-) many drops of cam phire, and we must get this question set tled before we can attend to the railroad accident. DOCTORS DISPUTE WHILE PATIENTS DIE. And one doctor takes another doctor by the collar and pushes him back against the counter, and one of the drug gists says, "If you will not admit that I am right about that one bottle I will smash every bottle in your apothecary store," and lie proceeds to smash. Meanwhile, on the lower shelf, plainly marked and within easy reach are all the medicines needed for the helping of the sufferers by the accident, and in that drawer, easily opened, are bandages and splints for the lack of which fifty people are dying outside the drug store. Be fore I apply this thouaht every one sees its application. Here is this old world, and it is off track. Sin and sorrow have collided with it. The groan of agony is fourteen hundred million voiced. God has opened for relief and cure a great sanitarium, a great house of mercy, and all its shelves are filled with balsams. with catholic% as, with help-glorious help, tremendous help, help so easily administered that you need not get upon any step ladder to reach it. You can reach it on your knees and then hand it to all the suffering, and the sinning, and the dying. Comfort for all the troubled! Pardon for all the guilty! Peace for all the dying! But while the world is need ing the relief and perishing for lack of it. what of the church? Why, it is full of fighting doctors. On the top shelf are some old bottles, which several hundred years ago Calvin or Arnlinlus, or the members of the synod of Dort, or the formers of the Nicene -creed filled with holy mixtures, and unt'l we get a re .vision of these old bottles and find out whether we must take a teaspoonful or tablespoonful, and whether before or af ter meals, let the nations suffer and groan and die. Save the bottles by all means, if you cannotsave anything else. Now, what parts shall you and I take in this controversy whIch fills all Chris tendom with clangor? My advice is, take no part. In time of riot all may ors of cities advise good citizeas to stay at home or in their places of business, and in this time of religious riot I advise youto go about your regular work for God. Leave the bottles on the higher shelves for others to light about, and take the two bettles onl tihe shelf within easy reach, the two bottles which are all this dying world needs; the one filled with a potion which is for the cleansmng of all sin, the other filled with a potion which is for the soothing of all suffering. T wo gospel bottles! Christ mixed them out of his own tears and blood. In them is no hu nan admixture. Spend no time on the mysteries! You, a man only five or six feet high. ought not try to wade an ocean a thousand feet deep. My own experience has been vivid. I devoted the most of my time for years in trying to understand God's eternal de crees, and I was determined to find out why the Lord let sin come into the world, and I set out to explore the doctrine of the Triuity, and with a yardstick to measure the throne of the Infinite. As4 wth all my predecessors, the attempt was a dead failure. For the last thirty yers I have not spent two minutes in studying the controverted points of the ology, and if I live thirty years longer I will not spend the thousandth part of a second in such exploration. I know two things, and these I will devote all the years of my life in proclaiming-God wilt throuih Jesus Christ p :rdlon sin. and lie will comfort trouble. KEEP OUT OF TiIE SQUABBLE. Creeds have their uses, but just now the church is ereeded to death. The young men entering the ministry are go ing to be launched in the thickest fog that ever settled on the coasts. As [ am told that in all our services students of Princeton and Umion and Drew and other theological s'minaries are present. and as these words will come to thous ards of young men who are soon to en ter the ministry, let me say to such and through them to their associates, keep out of the bewildering, belittling, destroy ing and angry controversies abroad. The questions our doctors of dmminty are try ing to settle will not be settled until the day after the day of judgment. It is such a uoor economy of time to spend years and years in trying to fatho~n the unfathomable, when in tive minutes in heaven we will know all *e want to know. Wait till we get our throne. Wat until the light of eternity flashes upon our newly ascended spirits. It is useess for ants on different sides of a mole hill to try to discuss the compara tive heights ot Mount Blanc and Mount Washington. Let me say to all young m~en about to enter the ministry that soon the greatest novelty in the world will be the unadulterated religion of Jesus Christ. Preach that and you will have a crowd. The world is sick to re azurgitation with the modern quacks in reliion. The world has been swingimg of from the old Gospel, but it will swine back, and by the time you voung men gc into the pulpits the cry will be coming up from all tihe millions of mankimd, "Give us the bread of life; no sweetened b read, no bread with sickly raisins stuck here and there into it, but old fashioned bread as God our mother mixed it and baked it!" You see, God knew as much when he ma.de the Bible na he knows now. H has not learned a single thing in six thousand years. He knew at the start that the human race would go wrong and what would be the best means of its res toration and redemption. And the law which was thundered on Mount Sinai, from whose top I had the two tables oJ stone in yonder wall transported, is the perfect law. And the Gospel which Christ announced while dying on that mount from which I brought that stone in yonder wall, and which Paul preached on that hill from which I brought yon der granite, is the Gospel that is going to save the world. Younz man, put or that Gospel armor! No other sworc will triumph like that. No other shietc vill protect like that. No other helmei will zlance off the battle axes like that. Our theological seminaries are doing glorious work, but if ever such theologi cal seminaries shall cease to prepare young men for this plain Gospel advo cacy and shall become mere philosophi. cal schools for guessing about God anc guessing about the Bible and guessin about the soul, they wili cease their use fulness, and young men, as in older time, when they would study for the Gospel ministry, wil put themselvet under the care of some intelligent an( warm hearted pastor and kneel wit: him in family prayer at the parsonage, and go with him into the room of th< sick and the dying, and see what vic tories the grace of God can gain wher the couch of the dying saint is the mara thon. VITAL RELIGION IS THE REMEDY. That is the way tne mighty minister of the Gospel were made in olden times Oh, for a great wave of revival to rol over our theological seminaries and oui pulpits and our churches and our eccles iastical courts, -and over all Christen dom! That would be the end of contro. versy. While such a deluge would tloal the ark of God higher an I higher, i would put all the bears and tigers am reptiles of raging ecclesiasticism fifteet cubits under. Now, what is the simple fact that yot in the pew and Sabbath school class anc reformatory association and we in the pulpits have to deal with? It is this That God has somewhere, and it mat ters not where, but somewhere. provid ed a great heaven, great for quietnes for those who want quiet; great for vasl assemblage for those who like multi, tudes; great for architecture for thosE who like architecture; great for beautifu landscape for those who like beautifu landscape; great fcr music for those wh< like music; great for processions fol those who like armies on white horses and great for anything that one especi ally desires in such a rapturous domin ion; and through the doings of one wh< was born about five miles south of Jeru salem and died about ten minutes' wall from its eastern gate all may enter thal great heaven for the earnest and heart felt asking. Is that all? That is all What, then, is your work and mine: Our work is to pursuade people to fac that way and start thitherward and fin ally go in. But has not religion some thing to do with this world as well a. the next? Oh yes; but do you not se( that if the people start for heaven or their way there they will do all the goo they can?, They will at the very stari o. the journey get so much of the spiril of Christ, which is a spirit of kindnes and self sacrifice and generosity and bur den bearing and helpfulness, that ever) step they take will resound with goo deeds. Oh, get your religion off of stilts Get it down out of the high towers! Ge it on a level with the wants and woes o our 'poor human race! Get it out of thE dusty theological books that few peoph read, and put it in theirhearts and lives Good thing is it to profess religion whet you join the church, but every day somehow, we ought to profess religion A peculiar patchwork quilt was, dur ino the civil war, made by a lady an< sent to the hospitals at the front. Shi had a boy in the army, and was natur ally interested in the welfare of soldiers But what a patchwork quilt she sent On every block of the quilt was a pas sage of Scripture or a verse of a hymn The months and years of the war wen by. On that quilt many a wounded mat had lain and suffered and died. But oni mornivg the hospital nurse saw a pa tient under that blanket kissing the fig ure of a leaf in the quilt, and the nurs supposed he was only wandering in i mind. But no; he was the son of th mother who had made the quilt and hi recognized that figure of a leaf as par of a gown his mother used to wear, an< it reminded him of home. "Do yoi know where this quilt came-from?" hi asked. The nurse answered,. "I cat find out, for thers was a. card pinne< fast to it, and I will find that." Surn enough, it confirmed what he thought Then the nurse pointed to a passage o Scriture in the block of the quilt. thi passage which says, "When he was ye a great way oft' his father saw him an< ran and fell on his neck and kissed him.' "Yes," said the dying soldier, "I was great way off, but God has met me an< sad compassion on me." "Shall I writi to your mother and tell her that the lot one is f~und and the dead is alive?" H< answered, "I wish you would, if it wouk not be too much trouble." D~o you sup pose that woman who made that quil and filled it with Scripture passages ha< any trouble about who Melchizedek was or ~how the doctrine of God's sovereignt: can be harmonized with man's Iree agen cy, or who wrote the Pentateuch or thi iconsistencies of the Nicene creed? No no; go to work for God and suffering hu ianity and all your doubts and fearl and mysteries and unbeliefs put togeth er will not be heavy enough to stir the chemist's scales, which is~ accustomes to weighing one-fiftieth part of a grain c chamomile flowers. Why stop a mc ment to understand the mysteries whet there are so many certitudes? Wh spend our time exploring the dark gar rets and coal holes of a great palac< which has above ground one hundre< rooms flooded with sunshine? It take all my time to absorb what has been re vealed, so that I have no time to upturi and root out and drag forth what has nc been revealed. The most of t.he effor to solve mysteries and explore the in explicable and harmonize things is al attempt to help the Lord out of theolc gical difliculties. Good enoughi inten tion, my brother, no doubt; but the Lor is not anxious to have you help hina He will keep his throne without your as sistance. Don't be afraid that the BibI will fall apart from inconsistencies. .I hungr together many centuries before yo were born, and your fuineral sermo will be preached from a text taken frot its undisturbed authenticity. LAY HOLD ON GOD'S WORD. Do you know that I think that if a ministers in all denominations would sto this nonsense of ecclesiastical strife an take hod the world of God, the onl question with each of us being how man souls we can bring to Christ and in ho short a time, the Lord would soon appe2 for the salvation of all nations? Whe the youngaquen of England visite Scotland many years ago great prepara tions were made for her reception. The vessel in which she sailed was far oat at sea. but every hill in Scotland was illum ined with bonfires and torches. The night was set on fire with artificial illuni ination. The queen. standing on ship's deck. knew from that that Scotland was full of heartiest welcome, and the thun der of the great guns at Glasgow and E-dinburgh castle woke up all the echoes. Boom! they sounded out over the sea. Boom! they sounded up among the hills. Do you know that I think that our king would land it we were only ready to re ceive hin Why not call to him from all our churches; from all our hospitals, from all our homes? Why not all at once lIght all the torches of Gospel invitation? Why not ring all the bells of welcome? Why not light up the long night of the world's sin and suffering with bonfires of victory? Why not unlimber all the Gos pel batteries and let them boom across the earth, and boom into the partin. heavens. The King is ready to land if we are ready to receive him. Why can not we who are now living see his de scent? Must it all be postponed to later aaes? Has not our poor world groaned Iong enough in mortal agonies? Have there not been martyrs enough, and have not the lakes of tears and the rivers of blood been 'deep enough? Why cannot the final glory roll in now? Why can not this dying century feel the incoming tides of the oceans of heavenly mercy? Must our eyes close in death and our -ears take on the deufness of the tomb, and these hearts beat their last throb before the day come in? 0 Christ! Why tarriest thou? Wilt thou not, bc fore we go the way of all the earth, let us see the scarred feet under some noon day cloud coming this way? Before we die let us behold thy hands that were spiked, spread out in benediction for a lost race. And why not let us, with out mortal ears, hear that voice which spoke peace as thou didst go up speak pardon and emancipation and love and holiness and joy to all nations as thou comest down? But the skies do not part. I hear no rumbling of chariot wheels coming down over the sapphire. There is no swoop of wings. I see no flash of angelic ap pearances. All is still. I hear noth ing but the tramp of my own heart as I pause between these utterances. The king does not land because the world is not ready, and the church is not ready. To clear the way for the Lord's coming let us devote all our energies of body, mind and soul. A Russian general rid ing over the battle field, his horse tread ing amid the dying dead, a wounded soldier asked him for water, but the of ficer did not understand his language and knew not what the poor fellow wanted. Then the soldier cried out "Christos," and that word meant sym pathy and help, and the Russian officer dismounted and put to the lips of the sufferer a cooling draught. Be that the charmed word with which we go forth to do our whole duty. In many languages it has only a little difference of termina tion.. Christos! Its stands for sympa thy. It stands for help. It stands fbr pardon. It stands for hope. It stands for heaven'. Christos! In that name we were baptired. In that name we took our first sacrament. That will be the battle shout that will win -the. whole world for God! Christos! Put it on our banners When we march! Put it on our lips when we die! Put it in the funeral psalm at obsequies! Put it on the plain slab over our grave? Christos! Bless ed be his glorious name forever! Amen! A Runaway Train. ALTOONA, Pa., June 12.-A serious accident occurred at 1 o'clock this morn ing on the Pennsylvania and No'rth niestern Railroad, at a point near Bell w ood, which resulted in the death of three men. A freight trairi of thirty Icars,heavily laden with coal, left Lloyds ville, followed by a pusher. After reaching the summit the train com menced to descend the mountain side at a high rate cf speed. The engineers and crew applied the brakes, but they failed to work on account of the slip pery condition of the track caused by the rain. The runaway train keep on in its made flight until a speed of senty live miles per hour was reached. The trainmen struggled with the brakes, trying to save themselves and the train. At Roat's trestle, which is a curve, the engine left the track, followed by twen ty-nine cars, which were pild up and broken into all shapes. A hunt for the missing employees was instituted, when Engineer .John Simonton was found dead between the sand box and bell. Fireman Millard Frazier and Conductor VanScone were taken out from under the tender, hor ribly disfigured. Brakemen Dunn and Patrick jumped from the train when at its highest sbeed. The former, going over a steep embankment, was forced through a stout fence. His escape from instant death was miraculous. He only received a slight wound. Patrick was not so fort unate, and receive.f a num ber of injities, but none of them of a serious nature. Struck by Lightui-Dg. STr Louis, June 16.-Du ring a severe storm which came up between 1 and 2 o'clock this afternoon some twenty-live picnickers were huddled together in an outhouse in Forest Park, near the police station, for protection from the rain. They had scarcely got inside the build ing when it was struck by lighting. Nearly all the occupants of the outhouse were more or less injured, one being killed and three very seriously hurt. Following is a list of casualities: Miss Sadie McArthur, age 12 years, dead; Mrs. Lizzie Golden, badly injured; Miss Kate Bender, burned and otherwise se riously hurt; Miss Laura Beauclearc, seriously injured. All the injured were taken home and medical as sistance summonedl. None or them are fatally injured. Suicide of a School Girl. IALGrsTA, GA., June 14.-Miss Anna Bugg, the eighteen-year old daughter of Mr. Sam Buigg, a respectable farmer of this county, wvho lives two miles from Hlephzibah, committed suicide this tmorning on the Augusta, Gibson and Sandersville Railroad train, while going home from Augusta, by taking an over -dose of arsenic. Miss jBugg would -have graduated this week from the IHlephzibah High School with honors, but came to Augusta yesterday to meet and marry her cousin, a young man of ~25, named Clarence Rhodes. The young man failed to meet her, and seeing no escape from disgrace, the young lady committed suicide as above stated. SRhodes lives at Hephzibah. There is loud talk to-night against him, but he has not been seen since this morning. News and Courier. An Outrage. SAIKEN, S. C., June 12.-Although a good audience greeted revivalists Leitch and Marshall at their first meet m rg in Graniteville last Monday night, some malicious parties cut a number rof the ropes holding their tent. If found out the full extent of the law will be d gven theam. THlE LOWEST PRICE COTTON HAS REACHED IN THIRTY SIX YEARS. Deplorable Candition of the Cotton Mar ket-The Result of Overproduction-A Talk With Mr. S. M. Inman Abont Fu ture Prospects. ATLANTA, GA.. June 18.-Reently spot cotton in New York reached 8% cents. the lowest price since 1855. The price of August futures was 8.26. the lowest figure in the history future con tracts. The trouble is that the crop has gone 1,250,000 bales above the conservative estimates at the beginning of the sea son, and we begin the new cotto2 year with an enormous surplus. Intelligent estimates of the crop last September were 7,500,000; now experts think a crop of 9,000,000. bales was actually gathered. In this state of affairs the price of cotton is lower than it has been in thirty -six years. The only years in that long period when spot cotton has approached the present quotations were 1855, waen it was 8 cents, 1858 when it was 8,, 1878 when it was 8 13-16 and 1886 when it was again 8 13-16. The acreage for this year, which was supposed to have been much reduced, turns out to be only 21' per cent less than that of last year. The large acre age in Texas has counteracted the de crease in the acreage elsewhere, and it is estimated that we have now planted 20,779,205 acres against 20,852,320 in 1890. The government's report of the condition of the crop is 85.7 against 88.8 last year at this time. If these con ditions continue a crop of not less than 7,500,000 bales may be expected for this year, in addition to the large surplus carried over. The Atlanta Constitution prints an interview on the situation with Mr. S. M. Inman, of the firm -of S. M1. Inman & Co., whose long experience, immense business and close connection with the great markets undoubtedly enable him to speak with more weight on this sub ject than any man in the South. When Mr. Inman was asked what he thought of the situation and the out look, he gave his views as follows: "The situation is something almost unprecedented in the history of the cot ton trade. The American crop, which was believed by many conservative peo ple in the beginning of the year to be not over 7,250,00 to 7,500,000 bales promises to turn out nearly 8,750,000; that is, about 8,750,000 will be sold off the plantations and come into sight, while there will probably be 100,000 to. 200,000 bales which will never leave the plantations this season on account of the low prices prevailing in the mar kets. Hence It looks now as if the viell of this crop, gathered between eptember 1. 1890, and August 31. 1891, if it could all be counted, would be somewhere between 8,800,000 and 9,000, 000 bales. "The crop of India will turn out 300,000 to 400,000 bales short this year in pounds about equal to 300,000 bales of American cotton. "Now take the increase of the Ameri can crop-say 8,800,000 bales, against 7,300,000 last year, giving an increase of 1,500,000 bales-and deduct the 300,000 shortage in the crop of India, and you have an increase in the world's supply for this year of probably 1,200,000 bales of cotton. While there will be a large increase in consumption this year, it will be nothing like sufficient to ab sorb this enormous increase, and it will be necessary to carry a great deal of old cotton into the new year. This would not be so bad if the producers had only exercised ordinary business prudence in planting another crop: but nearly all evidence points to the fact that the acreage in cotton this year is approxi mately the same as last year, and while there has been some trouble with the crop in the Carolinas, Georgia and Ten nessee, the crop in the balance of the cotton-raising States is doing very well ani unless some disaster occurs we will have another reasonably large crop. "It is the fear of another large crop which is at present depressing prices, more than the burden of the cotton that has been made during the past year, be cause, if the world were assured that the next crop would not be over 7,500, 000, I think tbere would be a considera ble rally from the present prices. "As to the future of the martket, it appears to me about this way: That if we make another crop, in any wise ap proximating the size of the one just grown, we may look for a year of ithe lowest prices which have ever prevail ed. You see we are on untrodden ground. The future is one of uncer tainty. As I said before, with another large~ crop we may look for very low prices, while on the other hand, with anything like a general disaster to the growing crop, prices may be re-estab lished and producers may secure re munerative figures for their cotton next winter. "While it would seem to be a calami ty to have another crop made approxi mating the size of the one we have just made, it may result in a blessing in the end, in turning the attention of the Farmers' Alliance and other organiza tions to the matter of controlling the amount of cotton produced from year to year. As I have said before, this is the only hope of the South's growing rich in cotton producing. The consumption of the world is steadily increasing and the South has a monopoly of the in crease in prodluction, and if it could on l be used wisely instead of increasing the production at double the rate of the increase of consumptionl, all would go well. The matter is in the hands of the planters themselves and they are the only parties who can control it." Col. Isaac Lipscomb Dead. CoLUMBIA, S. C., June 16--A pi vate telegram received here tonight aa nounces tile death ot. Col. Isaac S. Lips comb, ex-secretary ot state, at Bryson City, N. C. The deceased was a native of Newberry: served as a gallant officer in the calvalry in the Coniederacy, was a member of the State Senate from New berry county, selected secretary of state in 1882, holding the office until 1886. ie was also master of the State range for many years, and held other piomi nent positions Under Cleveland, he was'head of the interior department at Washington. More~Dead Bodies Found. BASLE, June 16.-The lower one or the two railroad cars suspended over tle broken bridge near Moenchenstein where the accident to the excursion train took place Sunday was lifted to day and more dead bodies were found. The exact number of dead and wound ed is not yet accurately known. The total number of dead is now placed at 130 and the number of injured about Bai'naceda a Despot. NEW YoRK, June l1I.-Mail advices from Chile state that President Balma ceda's Congress has invested him with despotic powet s, giving him authority to coniscate any and all property, to dispose of public fuads at will, to sus pend the right of assemblage and the freedom of the press, and to arrest and fix the residence of all citizens. These nowers expire in September. I I WAb I HtC. UUVtKrUn. Surprise of Two Travelers Who Had leen Conversing With a Carolinian. AJLANTA, Ga., June 12.-Mr. John Carey tells a good story at thd expense of two well known Atlanta men, one of them Mr. Carey himself, and the other his friend Mr. Vaughn. "Mr. Vaughn and I were coming through South Carolina the other day," said Mr. Carey, in telling the story, "and were naturally keeping our eyes open, iscussing the looks of the lands, its possibilities and its probabilities. Be hind us sat a one-eyed gentleman who seemed to listen quite attentively, and who, as we discussed matters particula- - ty partaining to the farmers Lnd ag riculturists, leaned over and joined in our conversation. iHe talked of the fertility of the soil, the possibilities with the intensive system of farming, and of the use of fertilizers in a way which showed that he was thoroughly posted. Both of us put our new found friend down as being a fertilizer agent. Then, naturally enough, we branched off on politics. Mr. Vaughn expressed in pretty strong language his opinion of the Governor of South Carolina. Ile said he hadn't much confidence in Till man. Our friend suggested that possibly we did not know the Governor-that possibly we did him an injustice. uYs'said Mr. Vaughn,'but I haven't much use for a man who will go around in a political campaign witn a body guard of great red shirt followers to elp him out intimidating the other crowd, and all that.' -"Well,' laughed our friend, 'you didn't believe that, did you?' " 'I saw it in the newspapers; it was enerally reported' said Mr. Vaughn, 'and I think I have every reason to be ieve it is true.' "The other gentleman laughed heart ily, and turned off the conversation by saying: "You don't nelieve everything yt u see in the newspapers, do you?' "Our talk was on the same iine for a few minutes," said Mr. Carey, "our Carolini- n all the time speaking tather harily of Governor Tillman, but de fending him mildly whenever he was suggested. Finally we got to his get 5ing-off place, and shaking bands with s he moved off. While he was stand ing on the platform we noticed that he seemed to be very popular, and every body seemed to know him. Turning to some gentlemen wjio had been laugh ing considerably as they overheard our onversation, we asked who that gen tleman was. You can imagine how we elt when they told us he was none ther than Governor Tillman. "As I said," continned Mr. Carey, "what struck him particulary about the (lovernor was his readiness at answer ing us, his evident large information upon the subjects we touched upon, his force and manner of putting things. He wasn't inclined to call a spade by any other name than that used in the hardware stores and he talked right out once or twice about some charges we referred to, calling them lies in very plain language. They tell me that his enemies respect him now that he is in the chair, and that he is a good Govern or."-Constitution. A Terrible Accident. BERNE, June 15.-Further details re eived from the scene of the terrible railroad accident which occurred yester day at a village near Basle Railroad, show that two engines and. three car riages loaded with excurstonists fell in to the stream which flowed beneath an iron bridge which gave way and caused the disaster. These carriages andl en gines now form a hopeless heap of wreckage beneath the bridge structure and by its own size prevented two other carriages, which were suspended prac tically in the air, rrom falling and still further increasing the number of kill e and wounded. At this hour eighty ex cursionist are known to have been drowned, though many of the bodies have not been recovered yet. Of the large number of persons injured many have suffered so seriously that it is considered llkely that their injuries will terminate fatally, as they consist of bad lacerations, andi in some cases limbs have been completely 'severed. The bridge or viaduct which collapsed and caused the accident had only recent ly been built and had just been strength ened after sustaining damage. Cold-Blooded Marder. LEXINGTON, S. C., Junie 14.-Sheriff Drafts returned this evening from the Hollow Creek section of this county, where he had been In search of William Woods, who killed Lizzie Dreher yes terday, as reported exclusively in The State this morning. Woods could not he found. When last seen he was go ing in the direction of Columbia. From what can be ascertained of the circum stances. the killing has the appearance of being a cold and premeditated mnur der. The coroner's inquest revealed the fact that the girl was en eiente. She and Woods had been sweethearts for some time, and he had promised to marry her. He became enamored of another damsel in the neighborhood, and the conclusion is that in order to free himself from the consequences Or his courtship with Lizzie, he decided to put her out of the way. Yesterday, just after dinner, she went down to the spring, about 300 yards from her house. Woods followed her and shot her in the~ head. It is very likely he will be caught, as several are in pursuit of him.-The State. Repudiates the Movement. CICAco, Ill., June 15.--A Topeka, Kansas, special says: Returns received by the Alliance Executive Committee from sub-Alliances which were asked to pass judgment on the work done by the Cincinnati convention, are far f rom encouraging the People's Party politi ians. It is known that twenty-hive sub- Alliances have repudiated the third party movement. Fifteen of these have reported to the State Alliance and ten to the Republican Central Committee. Cloud County Alliance has adopted the following resolutions: Whereas the South was not represent ed in the Ci':cinmnati convention: and Whereas we believe that the third party will disrupt the Republican party to the benefit of the Democratic party, therefore be it resolved, that we auan don the third party to return to our past aliliation. These resolutions, it is said, have doubled signiticance, because Cloud County is the home of Sepnator Wheeler, the only Alliance member of the Sen ate, and has always been considered a People's Party stronghold. A Plague of Locusts. LoNDON, June 18.-The most thrill ing stories come from Algeria of the ravages of the locusts. In many dis tricts not a sprig remains on a farm, and the inhabitants are in a famishing condition. Their only resort for food is the locusts themselves, of which vast quantities are being consumed. The French colonial authorities are taking steps to stay the plague as much as pos sible by the use of scientinec means. The Chamber of Deputies has voted 60,000 francs to be uised in destroying th lst plague in A lgeria. A Colored Milit:ary Cornpauy Disbanted and Disarned. The following correspondence in rela tion to the disarming of the John's Is land company, the members of which produced a disturbance in Charleston some time ago and who have been un dergoing examination, will be read with interest. Among the records is a trans eript of the testimony, which need not be repeated. The letters are: CITY OF CirARLEsTON. EXECUrTIVEDEPARTMENT, May 7, '91. Ilon I. L. Farley, Adjutant and In spector General, Columbia. S. C.-Sir: On the 4th inst the Nation al Guard was inspected in the city by you, and I re gret to say that after the inspection a serious riot was nearly participated by the outrageous conduct of one of the companies from the adjacent island. It is a matter of gratitication to know that the affair was not participated in by the city companies. I beg to enclose you the testimony which I have had taken and request that you will take such steps as may bring the guilty parties to account and as will in the future prevent a repeti tion of such outrageous conduct on the part of those who are supposed to be the defenders and supporters of the of ficers of the law. Alderman O'Neill also informs mc that lie was interfered with by one of the city companies on Calhoun street just prior to the inspection. I request that this matter be also investigated and such action taken as you may deem advisable. I am very respectfully yours, G. D. Bryan, Mayor. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, OFFICE AD. AND IN. GEN'L. COLUMBIA, S. C., May 15, 1891. H1on Geo D. Bryan, Mayor of the City of Charleston--Dear Sir: Your communication of the 7th. relative to certain conduct on the part of the Na tional Guard, or certain command there of, has been duly received at this oflice with accompanying papers, and proper steps have been tAen, upon consulta tion with his Excellency, the Goveraor, for a prompt investigation arraignrwent of the parties alluded to. Unless the matter is presented in a different light from that in which it now appears it is the intention and de sire of this department to make a prop er example of the parties involved in order to prevent a recurrence of such scenes, and to show that of all the cit izens of the State the militia are more particularly required to sustain the of ficers of the law and to preserve peace and good order. I am very respectfully your obedient servant. 11. L. Farley, Adjutant and Inspector Genreal. CHARLESTON, S. C. May-, 1891. Hon G. D. Bryan, Mayor-Dear Sir: I respectfully forward the testimony, under oath, of the policemen who were present and arrested Julius Richardson for being drunk and disorderly and im proper conduct on the corner of Meet ing street and South Battery, and which nearly culminated in a serious disturb ance by the action of a James Island militia company called the Hunter Volunteers, Capt Isaac Ferguson in command They attempted to rescue the above prisoner and behaved in a very disor derly and riotous manner, threatening the officers and inciting to riot, which by the firmness and forbearance of the police was avoided. Julius Richardson was tried by the Recorder and sentenced to five dollars fine or fifteen days in Jail. The fine was paid and the prisoner released. Julius Richardson lives on Mr Charles Rivers's place or plantation. Y ours respectfully, Joseph Golden, Chief of Police. Official: Charles Liebenrood, Order ly Sergeant. COLUMBIA, S. C., June 18, 1891. Gen H. L. Parley, Adjutant and In spector General, Columbia, S. C.-Sir: Your letter of June 16, with enclosures, is receiveC. After a careful investiga tion and consideration of the matter I agree with you that something must be done to enforce discipline and to pre vent a second occurance of such un seemly insubordination of the military to the civil authority You are therefore ordered to call in the arms of the company in question and suspend its officers, until further orders. Yours respectfully, B. R. Tillman, Governor and Commander-in-Chief. COLUMBIA, S. C., June 18, 1891. Special Order. No 14: The Hunter Volunteers, of Berkeley County, Capt Isaac T. Ferguson com manding, having on the 4th of May, 1891, been guilty of improper conduct and violation of the law by attempting to interfere with the civil authority of the City of Charleston in the discharge of their duty, it is hereby ordered: That the officers of the above named company, Hunter Volunteers N. G., be suspended, and Capt Isaac T. Furguson, commandiing, will on the receipt of this order without unnecessary delay turn over all uniforms, arms and equipments and other property received from or be longing to the State now in his posses sion to Col W. Ht. Robinson, who is hereby authorized to receive and hold the same until other wise ordered. By order of.the -Governor, HI. L. Parley, Adjt and Ins Gen, S. C. Oflicial: J. Gary Watts, Assistant Adjutant and Inspector General. Coi. Polk for President.. A'rLANTA, June 16.-P~resident Folk of the National Alliance took dinner in Atlanta to-day, on his way to Missis sippi, where he goes to make speeches along with "Brer" Livingston. President Polk talked a little while in town. His theme was the "People's Party," and he praised it to the skies. Nothing could, in his opinion, be urged against the Cincinnati convention and its output. The new party stood upon equality of rights and those great prin ciples of justice on which the Ameri can government is founded. The per manency of the movement and of the party he did not doubt. Neither did he believe that the far mers of the South would falter to sup port it. They, in common with all the farmers, North, East and West, were common sufferers from a common evil, that, vicious, partial and discriminat ing legislation which robs the many to enrich the few, and which has d warf ed unjustly the rights of the citizens andI magnified unduly the rights of the dollar. Referring to the mention of his name in connection with the People's Party nomination for the i-residency, Col. olk, of course declared that he had no aspirations, would not seek office, etc., at the same time, if the lightning chose to strike in his direction it should find that he was no dodger, not a bit of The Colonel's own words were: "1 am at the call of my people. I have never yet shirked any duty they have imposed upon me, and when they call me 1 am redyo serve them." V'M1i1 JIUUI LI.E A -)Ub. A PERVERSION OF THE SCHOOL FUNDS CF THE STATE. The Columbia Stata Exposes a Little Game that Should be Broken Up--An Attempt to SubsidIzn a PrIvate Entcr prise. COLUMBIA, S. C., June 12.-The fol 10iing circular letters have been sent to the school commissioners of the sev eral counties of South Carolina by W. J. Thackston, the chief clerk of the State Superintendent of Education: "OFFICE OF "PALMETTO SCHOOL JOUnNAL, "CoLUrMAr, S.C., June 4,1891. "Dear Sir: The State board of exam iners, at their meeting in April, made the Palmetto School Journal the official means of communication between the trustees and the department of educa tion. The State superintendent of edu cation designed to aid and instruct trustees in the department which he will conduct. In this way trustees will not only have their attention drawn to the laws governing the public schools of the State, but will also be helped and encouraged to improve their schools in many ways which he will indicate and make practical. The enclosed letter, which f ully explains itself, I beg you. to sign and return to me at once. I will have copies made and mailed to each board in your county. "Your cordial assistance is most earnestly solicited in this effort, believ ing that the interest that will most surely be aroused will repay you a hun dredfold in the help it will give you in your efforts to improve the schools committed to your keeping. "You are especially invited to send items of interest concerning the schools of your county. I send you a copy of the Journal. As each number ot the Journal will contain vital information that will appear only once, it is impor tant that you give attention to this at once. "Very truly, "W. J. TiLAcESToN. "Editor and Owner Palmetto Journa (Enclosure.) "Dear Sir: The State board of exam iners has adopted the Pall'ndtto School Journal as the official means of com munication between the department of edlueation and school officers. A special department will be edited by the State Superintendent of Education, in which school law and-questions relating to the government and improvement of the schools will be discussed. "The State board, with ourselves, most earnestly desire that every trus tee should receive the Journal, and by resolution of the State board trustees. are authorized to subscribe for the same and issue an order on county treasurer in payment for same. "Enclosed you will find claim partial ly filled out tor the three (3) trustees of your district. Have these claims signed by your boa-d and return them to me in order that your name may be for wardei to the - State superintendent and have your names put on the mail ing list of the Journal. Very tFuly, This is a very interesting situation indeed! The State superintendent of education and his chief clerk have a little alliance among themselves, and a n't know whether the superintendentof journal is issued by the latter, of which the former edits a department. We do education is a "silent partner" in the enterprise or not, or whether he is to receive compensation for editing his department or not. That isaside issue. We do know that an attempt is being made to make one department of the State government at once a public of fice and a private "trust"-to take the money of the people and put it into the pocket of an officeholder-to make the taxes of the counties support Mr. Thackston's journal. The declaration that the State board of trustees has passed a resolution ani thorizing this perversion of the public funds does not come directly, it will be seen, from Mr. Thackston. He puts it in the mouths of the county school commissioners. If it be true, the board has done an act which it will find it very hard to justify. If it is true, there is deception as well as jobbery. But no matter how it stiands, this af fair is scandalous. It compels the taking of three copies of the Palmetto School Journal in every school district of the State at the expense of the tax payers, and the money goes into the pockets of Mr. Thackston individually, or Mr. Thackston and his backers. It is estimated that the sum thus proposed to be drawn from the connty treasuries will amount to from sa,000 to $5,000 annually.-The State. Wili Fight the Pistol License. CHARLESTON, S. C., June 1.-The State is about to have another vexatious law suit thrust upon its hands, growing out of an Act of the last Legislature. The law providing for a license of $200 for the sale of pistols and pistol car tridges, which goes into effect on the 23d instant, will be resisted by the man ufacturers of these articles. They have retained Mordecai and Gadsden, law yers or this city, and have instructed them to resist the payment of license in every County in the State whers an attempt is made to enforce the collec tion of the tax. Dealers throughout the State will be notified that the man ufacturers will pay all the expenses of the litigation. The fight will probably be transferred to the Federal courts The ground upon which the law is to be resisted is the decision of the United St ites Supreme Court known as the original package case, in which it was held that a license on goods sent from one State to another in the original package was unconstitutional. TJhe tight promises to be as interesting as the Coosaw case and the railroad and bank assessment cases. The fight will be made by manufacturers in New York, Boston, Hartford, Chicago and other cities.-Columbia Register. A bout an Ox. C ERtA w, S. C., June 19.-In M.aunt Crogham township, in this count, about nine miles from Chesterfield Court House, J. B. Jordon was killed . yesterday by one Miles. Jordon had bought an ox from Miles, and had only paid him a part in cash. When Miles came for the rest of the money Jordan told him he could not pay him the rest then. Whereupon Miles told him he must have the money or the ox. Jor dan objected, and Miles went into Jor dan's field to get the ox, whic? was plowing. Jordan struck Miles with a small stick, Miles, in retaliation, stab bed him in the face, heart and back, which resulted in his death. Miles, at last account had not been captured. Both men are white.-State. A Pleasure Party Drowned. I'ETERIBOiRO, Ont-, June 18.-A party of eleven persons living at Hiawatha went sailing in a small yacht on Rice Lake last evening. A sudden squall capsized the craft, and John Foote, his nineteen-year-old daughter and three year-old baby were drowned. The others were rescued. The bodies of the drowned were recovered.