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-N.-*-t S.CW D ED Y U - TALIAGE: IN KIENTUCKY. Wir NESSES TO THE TRANSFORMING POWER CF Ct-HRiSTAN RELIGION. The Dying Ch~lrtiav's Ttbtimnony--The Generous Action of 31adame Sontag The Missionartest and Their Itenard Ignorance ot Unbeiiver. HIGH BRiDG E, Ky., July 12.-A vast concourse of people assembled this morn ing on the historic oamp ground at 1 igh Bridge, Ky.. to bear Dr. Talmage preach. They came from all the sur rounding cities, towns and neighborhood. A large contingent from Louisville and another from Cincinnati were present. Many of the visitors have remained here siuce yesterday afternoon, when Dr. Tal mage preached in the same place. The text of his sermon th:s moruino v as from A cts iii, 15, "We are witnesses." Standing amid the hills and groves of Kentucky, and bedor this great multitude that no man can number, most of whom I never saw before and never will see again in this world, I choose a very practical theme. In the days of George 6tephenson, the perfector of the loco motive engine, the scientists proved conclusively that a railroad train could never be driven by steam power success fully without peril; but the rushing ex I ress trains from Liverpool to Edin Lurgh, and from Edinburgp to London, have made all the nation witnesses o1 the splendid achievement. ' Alachiaists and navigators proved con clusively that a steamer could never cross the Atlantic ocean; but no sooner had they success!ully proved the impos sibility of such an undertaking than the work was done, and the passengers on tLe Cunard, and the Inman, and the 2, ational, and the White Star line are witnesses. There went up a auffaw of wise laughter at Professor Morse's pro position to make the lightning of heaven his errand boy, and it was proved con clusively that the thing could never be done; but now all the news of the wide world put in your hands every morning and night has made all nations witnes ises. bo in the time of Christ it was proved conclusively that it was impossible for him to rise from the dead. It was shown Jogcally that when a. man was dead, he was dead, and the heart, and the liver. and the lunas having ceased to perform their offices, the limbs would be rigid beyond all power of friction or arousal. They showed it to be an absolute absur dity that the dead Christ should ever get up alive; but no sooner had they proved this than the dead Christ arose, and the disciples beheld him, heard his voice, and talked with him, and they took the witnesses stand to prove that to be true which the wiseaeres of the day had proved to be impossible; the record of the experiment and of the testimony is in the text: "Him hath God raised from the dead, %hereof we are witnes ses." FOLLY OF THE AGNOSTIC. Now let me play the skeptic for a noment. "There is no God," says the skeptic, "for I have never seen him with my phIsical eyesight. Your Bi.le is a pack of contradictions. There never was a miracle, Lazarus was not raised from the dead, and the water was nevur turned into wine. Your religion is an imposition on the credulity of the ages." 'there is an aged man moving in that pew though he would like to respond. Here are hundreds of people with faces a little flushed at these announcements, and all through this throng there is a suppressed feeling which would like to speak out in behalf of the truth of our glorious Christianity, as in the days of the text, crying out, "We are witnes ses!" The fact is that if this world is ever broughit to God it will not be through argument, but through testimony. You might cover the whole earth with apolo gies for Christianity and learned trea tises in defense ot religion-you would not convert a soul. Lectures ou the harmony between science and religion are beautiful mental discipline, but have never saved a soul and never will save a soul. Put a man of the world and a man of the church against each other, and the man of the world will, in all proba bility, get the triumph. There are a thousand things in our religion that seem illogical to the w orld, and always will seem illogical. Our weapon in this conflict :s fith, not logic; faith, not metaphy sics; faith, not profundity; faith, not scholastic ex ploration. But then, in order to have zaith, we must have testimony, and itf five hundred men, or one thousand men, or five hundred thousand men, or live million men get up and tell me that they have felt the reliion of Jesus Christ a joy, a comfort, a help, an inspiration, I am bound as a lair minded man to accept their testimony. I want justnow to put bek.ore y ou three proposiuions, the uuth of which I think this audience will attest with overwhelming unanimity. The first proposition is: We are witnesses that the religion of Christ is able to can yert a soul. The Gospel may have had a hard time to conquer us, we may have fought it back, but we were vanquished. You say conversion is only an imaginary thing. We know better. "We are wit nesses." There never was so great a change in our heart and life on any other subject as on this. Peopie laughed at the missionaries in Madagascar because they preached ten y ears without one convert; but there are mxany thousands of converts in Madagas car today. People laughed at Dr. J ud son, the Baptist missionary beciatse lhe kept on preachiug in Burmah Live y ears without a single convert; but there are many thousands of Bapusts in Burmah today. People laughed at Dr. Morrison in China for preachlag there seven y ears without a single conversion; but there are ma, y thousands ot Christians in Chmna today. People laughed at te mssslonaries fo.r preaching at Tahiti tor fifteen years without a single conversion, and at the missionaries for preaching in Bengal seventeen years without a single conversion; yet in all those lands there aie multitudes of Christians today. But why go so far to find evidences of the Gospel's power to save asoul? "We ni e witnesses." We were so proud that no man could have humbled us; we were so hadthat no earthly power coukd have melted us. Angels of God were all aroundi about ub; they could not over come us; but one day, perhaps at a Methodist anxious seat or at a Presby terian catechetical lecture or at a burial (or on horseback, a power seizee us and muade us get down and made us trembie and made us kneel and made us cry tor mi rey, and we tried to wrench ourselves an ay fi-onm the grasp, but w e could not. Ii flung us flat. and when we .arose we were as much changed as Gourgis, the heathen, who whent into a prayer meet ing with a dagger and a gun, to disturb th meetne and desroy it, but the next day was 10tud crying: O my great &ns! Oh, mv ureat aviour!" and for eleven \ears preached the Gospel of Christ to lis fellow miountaincers, the last wods on his dying lips being "Free race!" Oh, it was Iree grace! MILLIONS COMFORTE) BY THE GOSPEL. There is a man who was .or ten years a hard drinker. The dread!ul appetite had sent down its ioots around the pal ae and the tongue, and on down until they were interlinked with the vitals of the body, mind and soul, but he has not taken any stimulants for two years. What did that? Not temperance socie ties. Not prohibition laws. Not moral suasion. Conveision did it. "Why," said one upon whorn the great change had come, "sir, 1 feel just as though I were somebody else." There is a sea captain who swore all the way from New York to Havana, and frnm Havana to San Francisco, and when he was in port he w as worse than w hen he was on sea. What power was it that washed his tonaue clean of profanities and made him a psalm singery Conversion by the Holy Spirit. There are thousands of people heie today who are no more what they once were than a water lily is a niahtshade, or a morning lark is a vul ture, or day is night. Now, if I should demand that all th3se people here present who have felt the converting power of relgion should rise. so lar from beingr ashamed they would spring to their feet with far more alacrity than they ever sprang to the dance, the tears mingling with their ex bilaration as they cried, "We are witnes ses!" And if they tried to sing the old Gospel hymn they wou.d break down with em tion bv the time they got to the second line: Ashamed of Jesus, that dear friend On whom my hopes of heaven depend-. No! Whtn I blush, be this my shame, That 1 no more revere his name. Again, I remark that "we are witnes ses" cf the Gospel's power to comfort. When a tuan has trouble the world comes in and says: "-Now get your mind off this; go out and breathe the fresh air; plunge deeper into business." What poor advice! Get your mind off it! when everything is upturned with the bereavement, and everything reminds you of what you have lost. Get your mind off it! They might as well advise you to stop thinking, and you cannot stop thinking in thai direction. Take a walk in the fresh air! Why. along that very street, or that very road, she once accompanied you. Out of that grass plot she plucked flowers, or into that show window she looked fascinated. sav ing, "Come see the pictures." Go deep er into business! Why, she was asso ciated with all your business ambition. and since she has gone you have no am bition left. Oh, this is a clumsy world when it tries to comfort a broken heart! I can build a Corliss engine, I can paint a Raphael's "Madonna," I can play a Beethoven's symphony as easily as this world can comfort a broken heart. And vet you have been comforted. How was it done? Did Christ come to you and sav: "Get your mind off this. Go out and breathe the fresh air. Plunge deeper into business?" No. There was a minute when he came to you-per haps in the watches of the night, per haps in your place of business, perhaps along the street-and he breathed some thing into your soul that gave peace, rest, infinite quiet, so that you could take out the photograph of the departed one and look into the eyes and the face of the dear one aa say: "It is all right. She is better oiff. I would not call her back. Lord, I thank thee that thou has comlorted my poor heart." DIVINE HEALING FOR THE SICK SOU'L. There are Christian parents here who are willing to testify to the power of this Gospel to comfort. Your son had just graduated from schoolor college and was goug into business, and the Lord took him. Or your daughter had just gradu ated from the s oung ladies' seminary, and you thought she was going to be a useful woman and or long life, but the Lord took her, and you were tempted to say, "All this culture of twenty years for nothing!" Or the little child came home from school with the hot fever that stopped not for thme agzonmed prayer or for the skillfuil phy sician, and the lit te child was taken. Or the babe was lifted out of y our arms by some quick epidemic, and you stood wonderiug why Goti ever gave you that child at all if so soon he was to take it away. And yet you are not regining, y ou are not fret ul, you are not tighting against God. What enabled lou to stand all the trial? -'Oh," you say, "I1 took the miedicine that God gave my sick soul. In my dis tress I threw my self at the feet of a sym pathizing God; and when I was too weak to pray or to look up he bres~thed into me a peace that I think must be the foret'ste of that heaven where there is neither a tear nor a tarewell nor a grave." Come, all ye whbo have been out to the grave to weep there--come, all ye com forted souls, get up off your knees. Is there no power in this gospel to soothe the heart? Is ther e no po wer in this re ligion to quiet the worst paroxysm of grief? There comes up an answer from comtforted widowhood and orphanage and childiessness, saying, "Ay, ay, we are witnesses!" Again, I remark that we are witnes ses ol the fact that rehgion has power to give composure in the last moment. I shall nev er forge t the lirst time 1 con fronted death. W e went across the corn ields in the country. 1 was Ied by my litther's hand, and we came to the 1arm house where the bereavement had come nd we saw the crowd of wagons and carriaaes; but there was one carriage that especially attracted niy boyish at tention, and it had black plumes. I said: "What's that? what's that? Why those black tassels at the topy" And after it was explained to me I was hited up to look upon the bright lace of an aged Uristian w oman, who three days bemore had departed in triumpb. TIhe whole scne made an impression I never for got. IT IS NO HEARSAY EvIDENCE. In our sermons and our lay exhorta tions we are 1ery apt. when we want to bring illustrations of dying triumph, to go back to some distinguished personage -to a John Knox o: a Ilarriett Newell. But I want you for witnesses. 1 want to know if you have ever seen any thing to .make you believt. that the religion of Christ can give composure in the final hour. Now, in the courts, attorney, ury and judge will never admit mere heresay. They dcmanid that tihe witness must have seen with his own eyes, or heardl with his own ears, and so I am critical in my examination of you now, and I want to know whether you have seen or heard any thing that makes youz believe that the religion of Christ gives composure in the final hour. "Oh, yes," you say. "I saw my father and mother depart. There was a great diference in their deathbeds. StandIing by the one we felt more veseration. By the other, there was more tenderness." Bfoe the ne on bwed, perhaps, in~ awe. In the other case you felt as if you wuuld like to go along with her. How did they feel in that lost houJ? How did they seem to act? Were they very much frightened? Did they take hold of this world with both hands as though they did not want to give it up? -Oh, no," you say; "no; I remember as though it were yesterday; she had a kind word for us all, and there were a few memeutoes distributed among the children, and then she told us how kind we must be to our father in his loneliness. and then she kissed us godby and went asleep as a caild in a cradle." What made her so composed? Natural courage? "No," you say; "motner was very ner vous; when the carriage inclined to the side of the road she would cry out: she was alwa)s rather weakly." What gave her composure? Was it bezause she did not care much for you and the pang of parting was not great? "Oh," you siy, "she showered upon us a wealth of affection; no mother ever loved lier children more than mother loved us; she showea it by the way she nursed us when we were sick, and she toiled for us until her strength gave out." What, then, was it that gaie her composure in the last houry Do not hide if.. Be frank and let me know. "Oh," % ou say, "it was because she was so good; she made the Lord her portion and she had faith that she w.'uld go straight to glory, and that we should all meet her at last at the foot of the throne." UNCO'NTED MILLIONS OF WITNESSES. Here are peop:e who say, "I saw a Christian brother die, and he tri umphed." And sorme one else, "I saw a Christiazn sistur die, and she tri uiphed." Some one else said I saw a Christian daughter die. and -he tri umphed. Cowe, all ye who have seen the last moments of a Christian, and give testimony in this cause on trial. ucover your heads, put your hand on the old family Bible, from which they used to read tae promises, and promise in ihe presence of high heaven that you will tell the truth, the whole truth aid nothing but the truth. With what you have seen with your own eyes and what you have heard with your own ears, is there power in this Gospel to give calmness and triumph in the last exigency ? The response comes from all sides, from young and old and mid die aged, "We are witnesses!" You see, my friends, I have not put before you an abstraction or a chimera, or anything like guess work. I present you aflidavits of the best men and wo men, living and dead. Two witnesses in court will establish a fact. Here are not two witnesses, but millions of wit nesses on earth and in heaven testify ing that there is power in this religion to convert the soul, to give comfort in trouble and to affuid composure in the last hour. If ten men should come to you when you art sick with appalling sickness and say they had the same sickness and took a certain medicine arid it cured them, you would probably take it. Now, suppose ten other men should come up and say, "We don't believe that there is anytbing in that medicine." "Well," I say, "have you tried it ?" "Nc, I never tried it, butI don't believe there is anything in it," Of course you discred it their testinwy. The skeptic may come and say, "There is no power in your ieligion." "Have you ever tried it?" "No, no." Then avaunt!" Let me take the testimony of the millions of souls that have been converted to God and comforted in trial and solaced in the last hour. We will take their testimony as they cry, "We are wit nesses!" LOOK FOR THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM. Professor IHenry, of Washington, dis covered a new star, and the tidings sped by submarine telegrapo, anid all the ob servatories of Europe were watching for that new star. OTh, hearer, looking out through the darkness of thy soul, uanst thou see a bright light beaming on thee ? "Where?" you say, "where ? How can I find it ? Look along by the line of the Cross of the Son of God. Do you not see it trembling with all ten derniess and beaming with all hope. It is the Star'of Bethlehem. Deep horror then my vitals froze, Deathstruck I ceased the tide to stem, Whlen suddenly a star arose It was Star of Bethlehem. Oh, hearers. get your eye on it. It is easier b r you now to become Christians than it is to stay away from Christ and heaven. When Mine. Sontag began her musical career she was hissed off the stage at Vienna by the friends of ber rival, Amelia Steininger, who had al ready begun to decline through her dis sipation. Years passed on, and one day Mmne, Sontag, in her glory, was riding through the streets of Berlin, when she saw a little child leading a blind wo man, and she said: "Come here my little child, come here. Who is that you are leading by the hand ?" And the little child replied: "That's my mother; tha''s Amelia Steininger. She used to be a great singer, but she lost her 'voice, and she cried so much about it that she losL her eyesight." "Give my love to her,'' said Mmne. Sontag, 'and tell her an old acquamntance will xall on this afternoon."I The next week in Berlin a vast assemn blage gathered at a benefit foer that poor blind woman, and it was said that Son tag sang that night as she had never sung before. And she took a skilled ocu list, who in vain tried to give eyesight to the poor blind woman. Until the lay of Amelia Steininger's death Mad am Sontag took care of her and her daughter after her. That was what the queen of song did for her enemy. But Lob, hear a more thrilling story stiil. Blind, immortal, poor and lost, thou who, wh'ien the world and Christ were rivals for thy heart didst hiss tby Lord away-Christ comes now to give thee sight, to give thee a home, to give thee a heaven. With more than a Sontag's generosity. he uonmes now to ment your need. With rjore than a Soutag's music, he comes to plead for thy deliverance. An "ExcellonL" Bank Failure. LorIsvILLE, KY., July 10.-The Falls City Bank, established in 1865, went to the wall this morning, making an assignment to the Mechanic Trust Company and closed it doors at 701 W est Main street. Liabilities $431,300, of which $223,900 is due the clearing house, and deposits are $191,700, assets nominally $123.000. From the begiL uing ot the financial panic last year the bank has been carriedl along by the clearing house, being on the ragged edge all the time. It has been known for several days that it was only a matter o1 time before it would have to go. D~e positors will be paid in full and stock holders will get possibly 35 cents on the dollar. The capital stock is $600,000. ~J. T. Moore is president. Bankers re rard the failure as an excellent one, as creditors were getting rendy to bring at tachments. Mother and Child Killed. ()LYNEY, 1ll., dJuiy 9.-MlrS. Raymond and her little four-year-old son were struck and killed by a passenger train on the Ohio and Mississippi Road near here this morning. 31-rs. Raymond was picking berries, and her child strayed on the track. 'The mother tried to rescue the lad, but both were run over and killed. CAMPBELL NO311NATED. THE TARIFF ISSUE ACCEPTEL) BY OHIO DEMOCRATS. One Ballot all Necessary to Decide Who Sbould Lead the Hosts Agalast McKin le--Foraker Receives Slight Attention Platform Adopted by the Convention. CLEVELAND, 0., July 15.-Camp bell wins, and will again lead the Dem ocratic hosts of Ohio. The Democratic State convention was called to order at 10.30 o'clock this morning. From the rear of the stage a large number of woman viewed the pro ceedinzs with interest. State Chirman Jno. A. Norton called the gatherng.to order. He delivered a long speech, call ing attention to the importance of the campaign and its issues. and asking the delegtates to bury passion. He closed by introducing Allan W. Thurman as temporary Chairman, who ,vas loudly applauded as he came forward te speak' THE CHIP OFF THE OLD BLOCK. The son of the'Old Roman began as follows, -m his speech nominating Ma ior McKinley, Governor Foraker said even the wiles of the devil seemed un able to kill the Democratic party, which undoubtedly meant that it will never be destroyed by the Republican party, Evidently the fact must have occurred to him that this grand old Democratic party has seen tbe birth, growth and death of every political organization that has ever risen in this cour try. Now an orianization that connot be killed, even by the evil spirit, must be ixnmortal that is, it can never die, and in the cd it will certainly put all of its enemies under its feet, including Major McKinley and the Republican party." The speaker criticized the po'icy of the Repubiican party in raising the average rate of duties from 47 to 57 per cent., in clothing; the President of' the United States with unconstitutional powers; in pernicious class legislation, driving the American marine off the high seas; in assisting England in her attempt to establish nonometalism; in adding in a shortPtime 2,000 names to the list of officer holders; in blocking all legislation for months in the endeavor to enact the infamous, villainous and partisan force bill. Continuing Mr. Thurman said: "I most earnestly beseech the farm ers, whose interests are identically the same as my own. to follow this course: The wild schemes of the Government loaning money upon warehouse certi ficates or upn lands, the taking posses sion of railways and telegraphs by the government, internal improvements that are demanded' and a dozen other minor issues that all lead not only to greater taxation, but to the rankest kind of so cialism, I says to them, put all to one side and stick to the tariff issue until you get what is due you." He continued at length to discuss the tariff law in its relation to the farmer and industrial classes, and dwelt in strong language upon tLe tin plate in iquity, and concluded by saying that last fill protected classes poured out money like water, intimidating work men and straining every nerve to carry the McKinley district. In conclusion lie said; "Interenched monopoly will not surrender without making a desperate struggle; thersfore, I implore every man in this convention to work after he leaves here with his whole soul for our success. Let no per sonal differences or feelings oZ disap pointment in any way deter you, but be dilligent, be active, be alert; organize in every school district, and above all, be courageous. Let there be no dodiging upon this issue: this is no time for faint heartedness, but a time when true and brave men should be willing to fight with their whole power for what they know to be right." PERMANENT ORGANIZATION. Ex-Congressman Frank Leblond was elected pet manent chairman, and made a brief and eloquent speech. Gen. Armstrong of Cleveland, moved that the convention adopt the picture of' a victorious rooster as the device to des ignate the Denocratic ticket. the recent ballot reform law requiring the selection of some device. "I think," said Gen. Armstrong, "that the convention should adopt as the em blem of the Democratic party of Ohio, the old gamecock rooster. [Cheers and applause.] Republicans will recognize that as our symbol, and every man who every voted the Democratic tIcket can put his mark under the rooster." [Cheers and applause.] Gen. Armstrong'% motion was adopt edl by acclamation, THlE PLATFORM. After a session lasting trom 10 last ight, with slight intermissions, till 6 this miornit~g, the committee on resolu Lions reported majority and minority re ports. The tormer declares: "We are op posed to all class legislation, and believe in a taritl' levied for tl e sole purpose of producing a revenue sufficient to deiray the legitimate expenses of the govern ment, economically administered. TARIFF ISSUE ACCEPTED. "We accept the issue tendered by the Rlepublican party on the subject of the tariff, as represented by the so-called McKinley tariff' act, contident that the verdict of the people of' Ohio will be re corded agamnst the iniquitous policy of the so-called protection, chiampoined by the Republican party in the interest of a favored class against the masses. ON THE SILVER QUESTION. "We favor a graded income tax. We denounce the demonetization of silver in 1873 by the party then in power as the iniquitous alteration of the money stan dard in favor of creditors and against debtors, tax payers and producers, and which, by shutting Oti'one of the sources of supply of primary money, operates continually to increase the value of gold, depress prices, hamper industry and disparage enterprise. "We demand the reinstatement of the constitutional standard of both gold and silver, with the equal right of each to a free and unlimited coinage. THlE BILLION DOLLAR CONGRESS. "We denounce the Republican BillIon Dollar congress, which by its extrava gant expenditures, exhausted the sur plus in the national treasury, left there by the Democratic administration, and reated a deficit which substitutes des potic rule for free discussion in the house of representatives. THE FORICE BILL. "We congratulute the people on the defeat of' the o hous force bill, deman ded by the Republican president and cham pioned by the Republican party for t..e purpose of perpetuating its rule by per vertong the constitutional powers of the government, destioying free elect'ons, in order, as declared by speaker Reed, 'to register voters, supervise elections, count ballots and declare result.' PENSIONS. "We faor liberal anr1 nst pnsons to deserving and disabled soldiers and sailors who fought for the maintenance of the government, and like pensions to their widows and orphan children." The platform also denounces the He brew persecution in Russia. * THE 31INORITY REPORT substitutes the following plank on free trade and the unlimited coinage of silver: "We believe in honest money, the coin age of gold and silver, and a circulating medium convertible into such money without loss, and we oppose all legisila tion which tends to drive either gold or silver out of circulation, and believe in maintainIng the coinage of both metals on a parity. The majority report was overwhelm ingly adopted. NOMXINATING SPEECHES for governor began at 1 o'clock. Mr. Follett, of Cincinnati, placed Neat in nomination, and at the conclusion of his speech the convention went wild. Gen. Michael Ryan nominated Gov. Campbell. He said he was there to con tradict the statement that All the Demo craits from Hamilton county are opposed to the present: governor for renom-ma ton. FORAKER'S XONU3MENT. He caused great laughter by alluding to Foraker's defeat, saying a banged up editor and a patent ballot box were all that was left to commemorate the mem ory of the once mighty Foraker. CAMPBELL, ON FIRST BALLOT. Gov. Campbell was renominated .n the first ballot, amid great enthusias t. In accepting the nomination he grate fully acknowledged the honor paid him. He referred to the successes of the Dem ocratic administration in Ohio, and re butted the Republican charges of extrav agance. A NATIONAL FIGHT Continuing, he said: "The battle before us is essentially a national one. Not only is this true be cause the result must seriously etl'ect text year's Federal elections, but also ecause the Republicans of Ohio have unreservedly identitied themselves with every phase of the iniquitous legislation accomplished or attempted by the lifty irst congress. THE REPUBLICAN "LOST CAUSE." *-In their platform the! have reaf irmed their adherence to the infamous force bill-the Republican lost cause-a measure so obviously designed to des troy tree elections that Republican sena tors, unwilling to viola.e their con science and oaths, refused to inflict it upon the country." He concluded as follow -: A WORD TO THE ALLIANCE. "Let the well-meaning men who train under names of the Farmers' Alliance, or of People's party, and who seek to remedy the real grievances brought about by Republican legislation, remem ber that no third party can succeed, but with us, and as a part of us, they can help tW swell joyous bosannas that will peal to heaven from tax burdened people of the entire country when the glad tid ings go forth next November that we are yet in possession ot the old Republi can citadel, now the Democratic Buck eye State." Lieutenant Governor M. V. Marquis was renominated unanimously. AN AMUSING APPLICATION. The Illiterate Requ tat for a Charger from a Colored Body. COLUxBIA, S. C., July 11.--One is always stumbling across something in teresting m the Secretary of State's of fice, and even in so dry an official docu ment as an application for the charter of a corporation or a society, there is sometimes that which will raise a laugh. Of such a nature is the following appli cation of a colored organization in Mari on County: The St. of S. C. July 7th 1891 State Secretary of South Carolina Dear sir we the under Sign, have Gathered our selves to gether; and look ing at our Present condation and seein~g our Prosper, that Bin upon us for the last 25 years, desided that their is no hope tir us; in the State of South Caio lina, and we had well gether out Selves to .ether, and leave for and other State and while we was meditating over the Subject, a thought was handed down to us by the all mighty, who Rules Both heven and lEarth, lige unto this that we needed a new organization among our: selves; and upon that thought, we call a Body of mens to gether and organized a society Kinown as the Days cof Labor1 and, we do hear By apply to the State 1 of South Carolina for a Cnarter; and our1 objects is thus, tirst to)jteach our Peotile how to work, for the uphilliue c our Race second to care more for the help less, and sick, third to try and turn the minds of our un thoughtful Peoples; four to advicate the cause of the State, where they wer Bi ed and Born, tive to care more for the Edgercatlonal of our "fhdren, than we have here to fcr; we hope that you will Give us the full charge ot the Charter if it are gran ed to us, and also what sorse must we apply1 to for further instruction if' any neaded weating your Reply the Boddy mintion 1 Below 1. J. N. Hlamlin; 2. S A. Bithen; 3. A. iR. Stafford; 4. E. Harlee; 53. Rt. Stephenson; 6. N. S. Stephens; 7. J. R. Eamelton; 10 S. C. Kennedy; 1 1. HI. Jackson: Totel no 12-S. J. McNeil; 12. you Will Please address MOSE HADIELroN & Co. Little Rock, S, C. < The applicants were informed thati the Clerk of the Court was authorized < by law to chai ter benevolent societies 1 and in all probitbility, "'the Da~ys of Labor and (K)nights of Toil" will soon be a full fledged society and ready to aid 4 in the "educashon" of their people around them.-Register.C Mrs. Davis's Decisionl. 5 NEW YORK, July 11.--Mrs. Davis, the widow of the late .Jeffersoni Davis, who has been sojourning at the New York Hotel in this city for some time past, in a letter for warded to the citi zens of Richmond to-day, states that, after much deliberation. she has decid ed to give Virginia the care of her hus band's body. She briefly reviews the claims of the I various States to her husband's re mains, and urges the fact that in thec fullness cf fame he did not belong to I any part of the country, but that inii Richmond he received generous andr unwavering support in the darkest hour of the SoutLu's defeat. She refers to her personal sacraticeI in giving up the hope of dwelling near her husband's resting place, and ex presses the hope that the States of the Confederacy will also relinquish theirI cherished plans for the sake of gratify ing the majority of the veterans of the South who have urged Richmond as t the proper place fo~r him who loved CUPID CUTS A CAPER. ALFRED SUARTZ BRINGS HIS SWEET HEART FROM AUSTRIA. On Arrival Sli Informs Her Lover She Didn't Like His Lcoks, and Starts on the Long Journe, Homepward. COLUMBIA, S. C., July 14.-Alibred Suartz was the saddest man in Columbia yesterday, for the rose-colored dream of his uneventful, hard working life had been rudely, suddenly swe)t away by the faithless action of the girl whom he intended to make his wife. All the way from sunny Austrit came Alfred, just a year ago, w ith ambition beating hihh within his breast, and the sweet assur ance that her whom he loved would come over and join her fortunes with his, should he make his way in the New World. And be did. In the course of events he drifted to this city and engaged in his trade of b-iker. By his careful mode of living, Alfred amassed quiLe a tidy sum of money, and he sent a portion of it to his sweetheart, Alarie Epple, of Vi enna, with the request that she come on at once. The young woman leit her native country at once, and took passage for America. Although wild with the impatient de sire to see his loved one, Alfred could not go to New York to meet her and bring her on to this city, and so lie waited. Yesterday morning Marie arrived on the train from the Metropolis, and her lover was waiting for her at the depot. He had made preparations for them to be married at once, and had prepared her a home,-humble, but still a home. Now Alfred is almost a dwarf in size and by no means handsome. Ills per sonal excellencies atoned for this among his few friends, howev r, but his anpear an:e proved the death knell of all his hopes. He Lad looked forward to the meeting with ail the longing that his simple mind was capable of, and bis fu ture happiness seemed centered in Marie. Perhaps the fair Marie thought that he would grow, and that the air of the new and mystic continent would im prove his looks. When the Coast Line train steamed into the depot early pes terday morning, Alfred was waiting an xiously at the gates. Through the win. dow of one of the cars he saw Marie, and executed a war-dance in his glee. But his joy was dashed to the earth. Dis appointment was plainly visible on the young woman's face when she caught sight of her diminutive lover. Evidently t6e climate had done nothing to increase his stature. or make him better looking, as she fondly hoped it would. When they met, Marie dismayed poor Alfred by coolly telling him that she had ebanaed her mined and was content to remain plain Marie Epple for the pres ent. A long and stormy interview fol lowed, and the crestfallen lover left his faithless sweetheart, vowing to do some thing desperate in his terrible disappoint ment. Marie remained in the depot until the next train left, when she started back )n her long tedious journey to her home. She told a Register reporter in broken English that she was very mad at being dragged all the way from Vienna for nothing, and that she was aoing right home. She just had money enough to get back. Altred was despairing his luck last iight, and lamented the loss of his hard arned savings, which lie had given to Marie.. The poor baker swears that lie ill now romain a bachelor the rest of as nat~ural life.-Register. An Alliance Boit. FO1:T WORTH, Texas, July 11.-Ihe ollowing resolutions. having a national earig, were adopted to-day by the mtisubtreasury State convention of :he Farmers' Alliance. "Resolvnd, That we denounce the sub-treasury and land loan schenes mud governmental ownership of rail ~oads as a violation of the first princi ies of good government, as paternal n their character, as centralizing in heir tendencies, and if enacted into e law they would create such a horde >f national ofiice-holdels as would fast m the clutches of the party in power ipon the throats of the~ people so trongly that tne voices of honest, pa. riotic citizens would no longer be iard in the control of governm ent af fairs. "We demand that these men who are iot farmers be removed frou1 the na ional and State otlices of our order, and hat none but those who have their in erests in farming be allowed to fill nch places. We now appeal to all hon st members of the Alliance through ut the United States to unite with us n putting dowvn this common enemy td disgrace of our o.der. To this end ve most earnestly recommend the roter Alliancemen of the United tates to meet in national convention it St. Louis on the third Tuesday of ieptember, 1891. "Resolved, That we most heartily en orse the course of Ilon. U. S. IHall resident or the State Alliance of Alis o ri, in refusing to concur in the ac ion on the case of C. W. laeine at )cala in opposition to the sub-treasury cheme, etc. We earnestly pledge M1r. al our support ini the noble aiid man y effort to rid the order, both State and mational, of all shackles which will re ard its strength for ultimate success." Monster in Human Formi. NEW YoRK, July '.-A newspaper ecached this city tod ry from the State f Chihuahua, Santa Rosa, South Amer ea, which contains a startling story of :anibalism in Brazil. According to he article, the horrible feasting occured it Salnas, in the State of Mlinas, Brazil, vhere the human monster, a man named ;leente Vierra, was eaught in the very ct of eating a portion of the~ remains of ne of his victims. The editor of the aper Cida D' Leopoldina saw Vierra a jail, and asked the prisoner if ft was rue that he had nourished himself on uman flesh. "'Yes, sir,'' answered the risoner, "for sonme time I and my riends, Basilo, Leandro and others, lave eaten human fiesh: in fact, we lived The story goes on to relate the killing d eating of several nersons, until inally, when victims became scarce, 7ierra and Basilo killed one of their ompanious and dlevoured him. Vierra ater on killed Basilo, but had only eaten part of the body when lie was arrested. The rest of Basilo's remains was found acked away in a barrel, prepared with eper and salt. Fatat Faii of a Gi ii mnast. CLINTON, Ia., July 13.-During the fternoon performance of Adam Fore uaugh's show the crane broke upon vhich Wiiliam, of ianlon brothers, o the grou..d, missing the net, and triking upon his head, broke his neck, ying alrnnst instantly. TILLMAN VERSUS TALBERT. It Looks Like a Drawn uattle at Edge field. EDoEFwLD, S. C.,July 10.-The gath ering of the Edgelield County Alliance to-day took the shape of a protracted meeting and a love-feast. It assembled at 11 A. M. and adiourned at 5.)0 P. M Mr. S. L. Reedy presided, with Mr. S. 1 Mays as secretary. The business of the meeting was dis patched promptly. The election of of ficers resulted as follows: President. S. L. Reed; vice-president, I. B. Jones; secretary, S. B. Ma3 s; treasurer, Dr. W. H1. Timmernan; county lecturer, James P. Bean; assistant lecturer, P.D. Ouzts; chaplain, the Rev. J. D. Larish. Exec utive committee, D. P. Lagrone. W. S. Allen and J. W. Aiton. Delegate to State Convwntion, S. L. Reedy; altern ate, W. W. Holson. After the elections as above speeches were made by Distriect Lecturer Gas ton, Col. W. J. Talbert and Governor Tillman. Mr. Gaston's speech was on the fol lowing points: Punctual attendance, unity of action, education, abolition of national banks and free and unlimited coinage of silver. Col. Talbert spoke of the policy of the Alliance and followed the line gen erally of his speeches heretofore pub lished. Governor Tillman also spoke on Alli ance principles and the course of the Alliance to insure its success as an or ganization. After the speeches several resolu tions were offered, as follows: Resolved, That the endorsentent of the sub-treasury scheme has a tenden cy to disrupt the Democratic party. This resolution was tabled. Resolved, That the Edgelield County Alliance adopt the Ocala pl ttform, with the omission of the sub-treasury plank. The third and last resolution was of fered by Mr. Williams, of Grey Town ship. It was Resolved, That the Edgelleld Alli ance do adopt the Ocala platform. This resolution was not pressed nor put to the hoase and was therefore not carried. Col. Talbert spoke for two hours and a half, and is said by his friends to have made the best speech of his se ries. le was very frequently applaud ed. Governor Tillman was very warmly received by his Edgefield friends, and his speech was characteristic, earnest, forcible, and at times humorous. Whjie he wvs speaking inside a large crowd of friends from the country and town outside were patiently awaiting the close of the meeting to call him out lie declined, however, to make another speech. It was expected before the meeting this morning that there would be a conilict between Governor Tillm:an and 20l. Talbert. Outside of eriticisms, however, which have been repeatedly referred to, the meeting was quiet and harmonious, the delegates in an excellent humor with themselves and everybody else at the close of the six hours'session. Those who oppose ur are negative on the sub-treasury business say that they desire more enlightenment before they commit themselvef to it, and the prom inent sub-treasury men say the passage of the Williams resolution endorsing the Ocala platform was not necessary, as the St. Louis platform had been en dorsed and that Alliance men by a great majority endorse it, whetner formally or not. The sub-treasury men at the meeting claim that, although no resolutions of instructions were passed, State Dete gate Reedy is a sub-treasury man and also the district delegates. The fact is both sides in the meeting to-day claim a victory of peace. Those who differ with either side can read over the re cord.- News and Courier. America MIust Feed the World. WASHINGTON, July 13.-A report on the harvest prospects in France and Erol e has been received at the state departmnen t from Commercial Aaen t Griin. of Limnoges. Frauce. The Na tional M1illers Association of France, the report says. has just issued an estimate, founded on very carefuljy collected data, of the probable wheat harvest of France and Europe for 1891. The estimated yild of wvheat for 1891 will be 82,779, 000 hectoliters. This is the maximum estimate. It will be 31 per cent. less than the harvest of 1890. Russia. Tunis, Egypt and some of the Danubian provinces with have a iair harvest, and in Hlunguray it will be be low the average this year. Tile estimates given by the rnillers, the report says, are optimistic. The, desire to create an impression that there is a better supply than really exists is all djone with a purpose; they went to buy grain as cheaply as possible in those fortunate countries that have an abund ance to export. In conclusion, the report says that ot only France, but all Europe, is look in longingly to the wheat iields of the United Ste.tes. Last year many hoped that Soute America would help supply the deficit. especially the Argentine Rte public; but today no mention is made of those countries. The fact, as recently stated, is that the bread of Europe must come Irvim America. Shot Dead in a Field. BATEsBUR.IG, July 10.-News reached here this afternoon that one Press Wise, a notorious negro tough, who had been work ing at F'rater's Mi11!, in Edge feld County,was killed to-day in a tield. It seems that one (lay last week Wise had a difficulty with a white man and dealt him a severe blow on the head with a hook. Since that time there has been had blood amiong.the whites, or a part of the whites and blacks, in that neighborhood. Wise and his comn panions, it is said, have been waylaying the roads with double-barrelled shot guns. No one seems to know who (did the killing, as there were nto witnesses present. lie was a bad negro and had the reputation of being a bully.-N ews and c Courier. Tragic Sequel to a Tragedy. CATTaxOOGA, Tenn., July 1. Judge James A. Warder, who shot and killed his son-in-law, S.31.Fiugette, and dangerously wounded his daughter. Mrs. Fugette, wvhile she was trying to mve her husband's life, en January 18 last, shot himself in the right ear early this morning at the stone cottage on Lookout Mountain. lie survived autil 1:45 o'clock this morning. Judge War der was the district attorney of this city at the time of the murder, which was the most appalling tragedy known in tils Staite. Intense grief and remorse gradually unsettled his mind until lie became but a shadow of his former Found Dead in Bed. A orsT A. Ga., July 8.-Julhius Neil On, a young Dane who has been over ive months in Augusta, was found eaad in his boarding house to-day with ive wounds in his stomach, three of which were fatal. He had been unwell and it is not known whether it is a case TO 1AKE RAIN TO ORDER. UNCLE SAM TOSEE WHAT HE CAN DO ASA RAIN DOCTOR. A Partv of Scientists Bound for Kansas to Try and Break the AVindows of leaven with Dyuamite Gus aud Ballooni. WA--, iT x-roN, July 1 .-Some time within the next few days th, re is going to be a noise out in Western Kansas. Uncle Sam's rain-makers are bound thither with a provision of explosives sufli:ient to stock a fair sized volcano in actie operation. They take with them threescose ballooas, each ten feet in di ameter when expanded; likewise about one hun:dred kites uve feet high, a freight car full of wooden mortars to fire bombs from, and many thousands of pounds of dynami:e. gunpowder, nitroglycerine and other powerful agents for agitating rature with spasms. If there is not a second deluge in the region mentioned within a fortnight it will not be for lack of efiort on the part of Gen. Dyrenftrth and the department of agriculture. Seven thousand dollars vet remains of the $9,000 appropriated by Congress for this purpose, and so there is no need to economize on the fireworks for the pre hminary experiment. Because it is a matter of history that storms have often followel heavy cannonading in warfare, it has been thought desirable to attack the sky for this meteorological purpose with a regular line of battle. A con venie.it and excessively aid plain will be selected for operations, and the wood en mortars will be planted across it in drills, as it were, for a distance of about two miles. They will be loaded with dynamite, rackarock and other materials caculated to agitate the atmosphere as much as possibl, while at suitable in tervals of space the ballooas will be ar ranged for ascension. Simultaneously a flight of kites will be l-t loose in the air. The three-score balloons will in them selves represent an extraordinary scien titic novelty. They are all completed, now, and each one is calculated to hold about live nundred and twenty five cubic lect of gas-one-third oxygen and two thirds hydrogen. The oxygen is put in first. and then the hydrogen. Each bal loon upon being intlated ascends under control of a double wire, which serves instead of a rope to hold it by. When it reaches the desired height the button of an electrie instrument on the ground is touched, a spark ignites a fuse in the balloon, and the oxygen and dydrogen suddenly combine with a terrific explo sion. Experiments made within the last few days in this city show that suck an oxyhydrogen balloon thus ignited produces a reajy tremendous detona tion, the cloth or paper vessel itself ap pearing- for an instant and by daylight like a ball of tire. Few things can be imaained more curious than this pheno menon, which signines that the two gas es, at the touch of fire, have united in the shape of a drop or two of water, which fluid consists o two patts of hy drogen and one of oxygen. But,.as has been said, the balloons will be supplemented by great kites, each of which will be held by a doubled wire instead of a string. Their tails will car ry dynamite and other explosives, which will be set off' in the same way by the electric spark. Meantime, while the oxyhydrogen bags explode and the kite tails go bang, the buried mortars will vomit forth rackarock to the heavens all along the two-mile line. For at least two, and possibly three, days the racket will be kept up. Then the expedition will hoist its umbrellas and calmly await the downpour, consoled for the incon venience by the acclamations of the ag ricultural population. It must not be supposed, however, that this bombard maent of the heavens wilt be conducted without scientific meth od. Before it is begun the observers of the expedition will ascend in a suitable balloon, and find out by the way the hy grometer works at what level the explo aires may be most advatagreously set off'. If they discover the greatest amount of moisture at an elevation of one thousand five hundred feet, that is the stratum of air in which they want to work. The theory of the matter no one pretends to understand very thoroughly, but it isX imaginedl that the artificial combustideca tion, as scientific men would say, makes a sort of vortex or hole in the dir, into which the heavier moist particles rush, so as to occasion condensation and pre cipitation of rain. It is surmised also that th~e small parti :les of water made by the explosion o1 the combining oxy gen and hydrogen form a sort o1 nucleus for other particles to gather about. Another important idea is that the wat ery particles in the atmosphere, being heavier than the rest of the air, are shak en out of it by concussion and fall upon the earth. II' the eilicacy of explosives for pro duciug rain is proved. it is supposed the farmers will make It their business to establish detonating plants. emnploying fo: the purpose balloons, kites, mortar bombs, or what not. The balloons to be used in the approaching Gov'ernment trials cost about $22 apiece, but the ex pense entailed for a score or so'of these would be of no consequence to a district for which a sin:.lhe good shower might signify' 10,000 or even $100,000 of value. Cropa, Devastated by Grasshoppers. BUnsur, Col., .July 15.-Ten miles south of he're grasshoppers are devasta ting all plant lite which lies in their course. Their operations extend over a scopeC of country twelve miles in width. They are moving north and bid fair to lay waste all crops which they come across. The ground is competely cov ered andl so numerous in parts es to be an inch dieep. Several upland larmers have lost their entire crops. Many of these farmers have suffered for the last four years from drouth, and it is feared great distress will hbe caused by -hi new misfortne. They Ali Do It. (1::sNwooD, S. C., .July 11.-F7rom an authentic source your correspond ent has ascertained that the following State otlicials enjoy the felicity of riding on free railroad passes of tbe following numbers: Lieutenant Governor E. B. Gary. No 10: J. W. Gray. No 17; d. E. Tindal, No 4: Dr. Samson P'ope, No 12; Gen. W. IL. Ellerbe. No 2: Col. J. Gary W atts, 3 o 111: Cole Blease has one, but the number could not be ascertained, so also has Reoresentative John R. Ilarri son, of G reenville, and Dr. Fuller, of Lauren.-. who came here on the 9th to attend the big Alliance meeting. Killed by Lighting. Nitw OntLAN.4, JIuly 9.-A special from Clifton, Boseine county, Tex'se says the house of s. P. Anderson, fif teen miles west of that place, we struck by lightning iast night. Anaer son's wife and three daughtei-s, all that were in the house at the time, were killed. The building was burned to the ground.