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( MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 29, 1891. NO. 32. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON THE POWER CF ASSOCIATION. 3otntr's Ito% r .e:-td Father's Arm Chair Bring For . 1 s dtr Menorie " When T hry Art it-- e e Memtoi ieb Ot t sies Preach Powt n Iui MermouzI. LAKESuiE. U.. .Jul 19.-Fr nauy years peci.1t I ave uathered in multi tudes at tl.is tason ot the year for a real out-der at muly. The grounds are a sh-ort sail irum Sanduskv. The place beauufui bemond description. Dr. Talmage preached this mornin in this delightuul place to a vast multitude. lis subject was the Vacant Chair, and his lcxt, 1 Samuel xx, 18: -Thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty." Set on the cutlery and the chased sil verware of the palace, Por King Saul will give a state damner today. A distin guished place 's kept at the table tor his son-in-law, a celebrated warrior, David by name. 'lhe guests, jewelled and plumed, come in and take their places. When people are invited to a king's ban quet, they are verv am toigo. But before nke covers are lilted Irom the feast, Saul looks around and finds a vacaut s.at -t the table. lie ms within himself, per Laps audib "] h .t does this ruean? W here is :n'.' au-in-lat Where is Da vid. the great narriory 1 invited him. I xpected him. What! a vacant chair at the kizng's banquet!" The fact was tat David, the warrior, had been seated h-r the last time at his father-in-law's table. The day before Jonathan had i oaxnd David to go and occupy that i|ace at the table, saying to David in the words of my text, -Thou shalt be id s, ed, because thy seat will be empty." The prediction was fuhilled. David was mised. His seat was empty. That one %acaiit chair spoke louder than all the (k cupied chairs at the banquet. In almost every house the articles of lurniture take a living personality. That psicture-a stran-er would not see any tLhing remarkable either in its design or execution, but it is more to you than all the pictures of the Louvre and the Lux embouzg. You remember who bought it, and who admired it. And that hymn book -vou remember who sang out ot it. And that cradle-you remember who rocked it. And that Bible-you remember who read out it. And that bed-youremem ber who selpt in It. And that room 3 ou remember who died in it. But there is notbing in all your house so eloquent and so mighty-voiced as the vacant chair. I suppose that before Saul and his euests got up from this banquet there was a great clatter of wine-pitch ers, but all that racket was drowned out by the voice that came up from the va cant chair at the table. Millions have gazed and wept at John Quincy Adams' vacant chair in the house of representa tives, and at Henry Wilson's vacant chair in the vice-presidency, and at Henry Clay's vacant chair in the American senate, and at Prince Albert's vacant chair in Windsor Castle, and at Thier's vacant chair in the councils of the French nation; but all these chairs are unim portant to you as compared with the vacant chairs in your own household. Have these chairs any lesson for us to earn? Are we any better men and wo men than when they first addressed us? First, I point out to you the father's vacant chair. Old men always like to sit in the same place and in the same chair. They somehow feel more at home, and sometimes when you are in their place and they come into the room, y ou jump up suddenly and say, where, lather, here's your chair." The proba bility is, it is an armchair, for he is not so strong as he once was, and he needs a little upholding. His hair is a little trosty, his gums a little depressed, for in his early days there was not much dentistryi. Perhaps a cane chatr and old fashioned apparel, for though you may have suggested some improvement, fath, er does not want any o1 your nonsense. Grandfather never had much admiration for new-fangled notions. I sat at the table ot one of my parishioners in a former congregation; an aged man was at the table, and the son was presiding, anid the lather somewhat abiuptly ad dressed the son and said: "My son, dou't now try to show oir because the minis tcer is here!" Your lather never liked any new customs or mannets; he pre ferred the old way of doing things, and he never looked so happy ats when, with his eyes closed, he sat in the arruchair in the corner. From the wrinkled brow to the tip of the slippers, what placieity! the wave om the past years o1 his nlie broke at the foot of that chair. Perhaps, sometimes he was a little impatient, and sometimes told the same story twice; but over that old chair how many blessed memories hover! I hope you did aot crowd that 01(d chair, and that it did not get very much in the way. Sometimecs the old man's chair gets very much :n the way, especially if he has been so un wise as to make over all his property to his children, with the undierstaudingi that they are to take care o1 him. I have see-n in such cases children crow d the old man's chair to the door, and then crow d it ciar into the str et, and then crowd it into the poor-house, ai'd keet on crowdlng it until the old man lell out of it into his grave. But your father s chair was a sacre d place. The children used to clhmb up on the rungs of it for a good-night kiss, and the longer he stay ed the better vou liked it. B.ut that chair has been vacant now for some time. The furmiture dealear would noi give you 50 cents ihr it, but it is a throne of intiuence in ',ou domestic circle. I saw in the Freue! palace, and in the throne room, the chali that Napoleon used to occupy. It was s beautifuhl chair, but the most signillean1 part ol it was the letter -N" embroliered mto the back of the cha'r in purple anu. gold. And your father's ,la chair sitn in tie throue room of your heart, ant y our affections have embroidered intt the back of that chair in purplc and gokt the letter "F." IHave all the pratyeri of that old chair been ausweredy 1lave all the counsels of that old chair beet practieed? Speak out! old armchair. History tells us of an old man whos< three sonts w.ere victors in the Olymnpit ames, and when they came back, these hree sons, with their garlands, put therr on the fathier's biow, and the old mat was so re joiced at the vIctories of ha~ three chilren& tha lie fell dead in theia arms. Andl are you, oh man, going t< brIng a wreath o1 joy and Christian use uluess and put it on your father's brow or on the vacant chair, or on the memo ry 01 the one departed? Speak out! o1 armchair. W ith referenice to your father the words of my text have been fullilled -Thou shalt be missed, because thy sea will be empty." I go a little lurther on in your hous4 and I find the mother's chair. It is ver3 apt to be a rocking chair. She had s< man cares and troubles to soothe tha it must have rockers. I rememor it well. It was an old chair, and the rock ers were ab nost woru out, thr I was the Ioungest. and the chair had rocked the whole familV. It made a creaking noise as it moved; but there was music in the s.ound. It was just hig h enough to a low us childrea to put our heads into her lap. That was the bank where we de posited all our hurts and worries. Ah! what a chair that was. It was different from the father's chair; it was entirely diftere-it. You ask me how? I cannot tell; bu we all felt it was different. Per haps there was about that chair more gentieuess, more tenderness, more grief when we had done wrong. When we were wayward, father scolded, but moth er cried. It was a very wakeful chair. In the sick days ofchildren, other chairs could not keep awake; that chair always kept awake-kept easily awake. That chair knew all the old lullabies and all those wordless songs which mothers sing to their sick children-songs in which all p ty, and compassion and sym pathetic influences are combined. That old chair has stopped rocking for a good many years. It may be set up in the loft or the garret, but it holds a queenly power yet. When at midnight you went into that grog- shop to get the intoxicat ing draught, did you not hear a voi e that said: "My son, why go in there?" And louder than the boisterous encore of the place ol sin!ul amuseiment, a voice saying, -My son, wnat do you here?" And when you went Into the house of abandonment, a voice saying, "What would your mother do if she knew you were here?" And i ou were provoked with yourself, and you charged yoursell with superstition and fanaticism and your head got hot with your thoughts, and you went home and you went to bed, and no sooner had you touched the bed than a voice ,aid: "What, a pray eriess pillow? Men! what is the mat ter?" This: You are too near l)our mother's rocking chair. "Oh, pshaw!" vou say, "There's nothing in that; I'm 500 miles oi' from where I was born; I'm 3,000 miles ofi from the shurch whise bell was the first music I ever heard." I cannot help that; you are two near your mother's rocking chair. "Oh,'' you say, "there can't be anything in that; that chair has been vacant a great while." I cannot help that; it is a1 the mightier for that; it is omnipotent, that vacant mother's chair. It whispers; it speaks; it weeps; it carols; it mourns; it prays; it warns; it thunders. A young man wentoft and broke his mother's heart, and while he was away from home his mother died, and the telegraph brought the son, and he came into the room where she lay and looked upon her face, and he cried out: "Oh, mother! mother! what your life could not do your death shall effect. This moment I give my heart to God." And he kept his promise. Another vic tory for the vacant chair. With refer ence to your mother, the words of my text were fulfilled. "Thou shalt be missed. because thy seat will be emp tv.") I go on a little further, and I come to the invalid's chair. What! How long have you been sick? "0! I have been sick ten, twenty, thirty years." Is it possible? What a story of endurance. I'nere are in many of the families of my congregation these invalid's chairs. The occupants of them think they are doing no good in the world- but that invalid's chair is the mighty pulpit from wLich they have been preaching all these years, trust in God. The tist time I preached here at Lakeside, Ohio, amid the throngs present there was nothing that so much impressed me as the spectacle of just one face-the lace of an invalid who was wheeled in on her chair. I said to her afterwards: "Madam, how long have you been prostrated?" for she was lying tlat in the chair. "0!" she replied: "I have been this way fifteen years." I said: "Do y ou suffer very much?" "0, yes," she said: "I suffer very much; I sufi'er all the time; part of the time I was blind. I always suff'er." "Well," I said: "can you keep your courage up?" "0 yes," she said; "I am happy, very bappy indeed." Her face showed it. She iooked ths happiest of any one on the ground. 0! what means of grace to the world, these invalid chairs.~ On that field of human suffering the grace of God gets its victory. Edward Payson the invalid, and 10chiard Baxter the invalid, and Rob ert Rail thio invalid, and ten thousand of whom the world has never heard, but of whom all heaven is cognizant. The most conspicuous thing on earth for God's eye and the eye of angels to rest on, is not a throne of'earthly power, but it is the invalid's chair. 0! these men and women who are always suffering but never complaining-these victims of spinal disease, and neuralgic torture, and r..eumlatic excruciati -n will answer to the roll-call o1 the martyrs, and rise to the miartyr's throne, andl will wave the martyr's pal-i. But when one ot these invalids' chairs becomes vacant, how suggestive i' is! No more bolster ing up of the weary head. No more changiag from side to side to get an easy position. No more use 0of the bandage and the catapulasm,. and the prescription. That invalid's chair may be folded up, or taken apart. er set away, but it will never lose its queenly power; it will al ways Preach o! trust in God, and cheer' th1 submission. Suzlering all ended now. Witu respect to that inv.did the words of my text have been fulfilled: "Thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty." I pass on, and I lind one more vacant chair. It is a high chair. It is the child's chair. If that chair be occupied. I think it is the muost potent chair in all the household. All the chairs wait on it; all the chairs are turned toward it. it mneaus more than David's chair at Saul's banquet. At any rate, it makes more racket. That is a strange house that can be dull with a child in it. H~ow that child bi eaks up the hard worldliness of the place, .:.nu keeps you young to 60, 70, and $0 y ears of agel If you have nC child or sour on adopt one; it will open heaven to your s u1. it will pay its way, Its crowing the morning will give the day a cheerful starting, and its glee a: night will give the day a cheerlul caose You do not like children? Then you hat better stay out of heaven, for there arE so miany there they would fairly makE you crazy! Only about five hundreL millions of t iem. The crusty old Phar isees t' ld the mothers to keep the chil dren away from Christ. "You bothei him" they said: "you trouble the Mas ter." Trouble him! He has tilled heav en with that kind of trouble. A pioneer in California says that foi the first year or two after his residenet Iin Sierra Nevada county, there was no a sinale child in all the reach of a hun dread miles. But the Fourth of Juh came, and the miners were gatheret togther andl they were celebrating thi Fourth with oration, and poem, and boisterous brass i'and; and while the ban< was playing, an infant's voice was heart ,.,-ng, and all the mmners were sartled aud the s% artuy men began to thiuk of their homes on the Easteru coast, and ol their wives aud children far away. and their hearts were thrilled with home sickness as they heard the babe cry. But the music went on, and the child cried louder and louder, and the )r ass band played louder and louder, trying to drown out the infantile interruption, when a swarthy miner, the tears rolling down his face, got up and shook his list, and said: -Stop that noisy band, and give the baby a chance." Oh! there was pathos in it, as well as good cheer in it. There is nothing to arouse, and melt, and subdue the soul like a child's voice. But when it goes away Irom vou, the high chair becomes a liighcr chair, and there is desolation all about you. In three fourths of the homes Of this con gregation there is a vacant high chair. Somehow you never get over it. There is no one to put to bed at night; no one to ask straege questions about God and heaven. Oh, what is the vee o taat high chair? It is to call you higher. W1hat a drawing upward it is to have children in heaven! And then it is such a preventive agaiust sin. It a Iather is going away into san, he leaves the living of his children wita their mother; but if the lather isgoing away into sin, what is he .oing to do with dead children Iloat ing about him, and hovering over his every wayward step. Oh. speak out, vacant high chair, and say: "Father, come back from sin; mother, come back from worldliness. I am watching you. I am waitlug tujr you." With respect to your child, the words o! my text have been fulfilled: "Thou shalt be missed, because thy seat will be empty." My hearers. I have gathered up the voices of your departed friends and tried to intone them into one invitation up ward. I set in array all the vacant chairs of your homes and of your social cir cle, and I bid them cry out this mornin": 'Time is short, Eternity is near. Take my Saviour. Be at peace with my God. Comeup where I am. We lived togeth er on earth, come let us live together in heaven." We answer that invitation. We come. Keep a seat for us, as Saul kept a seat for David, but that seat shall not be empty. And oh! when we are all through with tuis world, and we have shaken hands all around for the last time, and all our chairs in the home circle and in the outside world shall be vacant may we he worshipplag God in that place from which we shall go out no more for ever. I thank God there wiil be no vacant chairs in heaveu. There we shall meet again and talk over our earthly heart breaks. How much you have been through since you saw him last! On the shining shore you will talk it all over. The heartaches. The loneliness. The sleep legs nights. The weeping until you had no more power to weep, because the heart was withered and dried up. Story of empty cradle and little shoe only half worn out never to be worn again, just thq shape of the foot that pressed it. And dreams when you thought the departed had come back again, and the room seemed bright with their faces, and you started up to greet them, and in the effort the dream broke and you found yourself standing amid-room in the midnihat-alone. Talking it all over. and then, hand in hand. walking up and down in the light. No sorrow, no tears, no.death. Oh, heaven! beautilul heavcn! Heaven where our friends are. Heaven where we expect to be. In the East they take a cage of birds anti bring it to the tomb of the dead, and then they open the door of the cage, and the birds. flying out, singing. And I would today bring a cage of Christian consolations to the grave of our loved ones, and I would open the door and let them fill all the air with the music of their voices. Oh, how they bound in these spirits before the throne! Some shout with glad ness. Some break forth into uinc trollable weeping for joy. Some stand speechless in their shock of delight. They sing. They quiver with excessive glad ness. They gaze on the temples, on the palaces, on the waters, on each other. The wave their joy into garlands, they spring it into triumphal arches, they str:ke in on timbrels, and then all the loved ones gather in a great circle around the throne of God--fathers, moth ers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters, lovers and friends, hand to hand around about the throne of God-the circle ever widening-hand to hand, joy to joy. jubilee to jubilee, victory to victory, "until the day break and the shadows flee away. Turn thou, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young hart upon the mountain of Betner." Fatal Sailors' Frolic. SAN DIEGO. CAL., July 15.-There was a serious riot here last evening growing out of an attempt of deputy United States marshals to arrest eleven sailors from the war ship "Charleston," w ho had overstayed their shore leave. h e sailors were carousing in a saloon when Deputy Marshals 1Ureedlove, Webb, Wilson and Grether entered and arrested one cf their number. The other sailors immediately closed in and attempted to prevent the oflicers from removing the man. Clubs were drawn by the oeputies, and a free light ensued. It looked for a time as if the oficers would be killed, but a patrol wagon arrived with reinforcements and the arrested sailor was taken to jail. When the patrol left the crowd agdmn attacked the oflicers with pick handles, gas pipes and other weapons. The of ticers got away and the wounded were picked up. Robert Brown, sailor on the "Charles ton," died in a few minutea from the effects of a blow on the head from a club, said to have been inthcred tuy Deputy Wilson. Another "Charleston" sailor, Paddy Burns, is dying w.ith a fractured skull. Deputies Breedlove and Grether were badly hurt about the heads and a numnber of other persons are injured. There is great excitement and threats of lynching all the deputies concerned in the trouble were freely made. The sympathy of the community seems to be with the sailors as it was said the oficers were too oflicious and for the sake of a reward arrested men whose shore leave had not expired. Warrants are out for the deputies' arrest. Niue Killed. MKany Injured. KENTON, Ohio, July 17.-A report re ceived in this town tonight says that Swift's fast running refrigerator meat train collided with a work train at Hop burn, a small station on the Chicago and Erie Railroad, and that nine labor ers w ere illed and many others injured. Both locomotives and ten or twelve cars are inthe rulins. Wires are do wn, and it is impossible to get fuller par. ticulars from the scene of the acciuent All the. Stale Troops Ordered Out. NASHVILLE, Tenn, July 20.--Gov eror Buchanan has ordered the entire State militia to Briceville, Teuu, to pro Itet the convicts at work in the wines at that place. It is stated that two thousand miners are marching to the Iseat of war. It is feared there will be Itrouble before the miners will yield to cnicts takingr their nlaces. THE sTATliE ALLIANCE MEETS IN ANNUAL CONVENTION AT SPARTANBURG, S. C. Premident Sto-es iCeviews his Admvinis tration-A Slight 1crease in Member ship -Social, Financ. I and Political As pects and Iecord of the Order. SPARTANBURU, S. C., July 22.-The city is crowded with delegates to the State Alli-nce, and their friends. Good humor prevails and sub treasury senti nient is on top au ong Alliancemen. Nothing of special importance has yet been aoue by the Alliances. Indica tions are that the strictest secrecy is to be observed on such matters as the Al liance does not want made public. So far, however, the greatest courtesy has been shown the representatives of the press. Tne first session of the Alliance was held this morning in the opera house at 10 o'clock. The annual address of President Stokes was read. The fol lowing is a synopsis covering every point: 1'RESIDENT STOKES'S ANNUA L ADDRESS. Dr. Stokes began by referring to the heavy responsibilities which h ad weighted him down during his term of office, and to the devotion which he had given to the duties of the position. As a lover of agriculture he had discharged them with "pride and satisfaction." As to the condition of the order in South Carolina, he said that although there had been "some loss of member ship, due to peculiar conditions," it had been "more than compensated by the gain in homogeneity and compactness of organization." Reference is made in the address to the spread of the order in other States, and the claim presented that it em braces 4,000,000 voters, one-third of the total population of the Union. Financially, the Alliance has a hand some surplus to its credit, and it would be wise to invest this and lurther bal ances in some permanent way. The county and suu-Alliances are likewise in good financial condition. The State Exchange has wrought the emancipa tion of the poor farmer from unjust op pression. important concessious have been wrested from the commercial world. "As a mere menace, the busi nezs methods of the Alliance have made themselves felt even in remote trade centres. The money power has felt it, and bids for Alliance patronage are the result. It is best to leave those skilled in mercantile pursuits the man agement of their own capital. Let them furnish the capital and experience and the Alliance the patronage." The suggestion is made that a com mittee be appointed to confer with the Alliance Exchange in "an effort to solidify the entire business of the order and send it through the Exchange on an equitable basis," a board of control, elected by the State Alliance or by a joint board, to conduct it. Reference Is made to the motal, edu cational and social work of the order and praise is given to each. As to politics, it is claimed that the order has maintained its integrity and "adnered to the prescribed line of dis cussion in a non-partisan sense," and that increased attention to political questions has not diminished the suc cess of the members in raising crops. These paragraphs are of interest: "Some few sub-Alliances relatively, overstepped constitutional limitations last year at the beginning of the State campaign. Tne lapse must ue attribu ted, nowever, to the emergency thrust upon them by a hostile press, intensely unfair in its hostility, rather than to the genius of the organization. The instances of such indiscretion were isolated. As soon, too, as attention was called to its compromising ten dency through the Cotton Plant, the abuse materially lessened; and as soon as political clubs were formed, furnish ing a legitimate and adequate medium of ex pression to their pent up leeling, the abus e ceased entirely. "Tbe outspoken utterances of the leaders was against such action and the order was reminded that its function was purely in the way of presentation of truth in a non-partisan way and stimulation of thought. Further than this the Alliance in its organized capacity does not and dare not go. It must not and dare not interfere with the political or religious afliliation of its members." Concerning the Cotton Plant, it is stated tnat "the partisan press, with a few exceptions, is against onr de mands," and that this has rendered the duties of the State organ exceedingly onerous. "While the organ has received generous symnpathy aund support, it ust be confessedl that our people do0 not read it generally, It is of the ut most an[ortance that some means lie devised by this body to get this paper and other approved literature into the hands of every member of the order." 1t is recomnmended that the State Al liance consider the propriety of estaba ishing a propaganda bureau that shall furnish Alliance literature at ccst. i~e is "authorize'd to say that while theu owners of the Cotton Plant are not eager to part with it as an investment, they are willing to sell a controlling in terest in it to the State Alliance upon an equitable basis." The over-production of cotton is re ferred to as a most serious question, and it is recomimnded that "a commit tee be appointed to conter with other State Alhanzes with a view to secuning the call of a convention of cotton-gro w ers-non-Alliance as well as Alliance, colored as well as white-to meet as soon as possible tor confereuce and action." The "iniquities environing tme marketing of cotton" are denounced as '-outrageous in many instances." and ntolerable. "1hle Alliance should ap point trustworthy meii at each cotton market to sample, grade and weigh cotton, andI tell trhe farmer, upon tne basis of telegraphic quotations, what p rice it should bring in the market that a." A fee of ten cents per bale is suggested to cover the expense. Rie commendations are therefore made that time local Alliance appoint its weigher and grader at each cotton mnaret, that arrangements be made in New York for telegraphic quotations daily, and that a committee lie ap pointed to frame and press upon the Legislature legislation on this point based upon the law in MIississippi and other cotton States. It is urged that the State Alliance ap poit a commission to seek co-opera tion and unifority with other cotton State Alliances in the collection of sta tistics. As to the constitutioni of the order, it is recommended: 1. That some detinite time be tixed for the revision of rotis, and that urn form rules be prescribed for dropping names of members in arrears or lost sight of. 2. 'That the life of a "deuxit card" be deinately settled. 3. That such cnange be made as shall legalze the lecture system projected by the Yational Legislative Council. 4. That tihe formation and holding of Farmetrs' Alliances within corporate towns be prohibited ,to the end that the organizaton of Citizens' Alliances be enco,,..ed; and that all iarmers' Alh.. ances so existing at present exchange their charters for charters of the Citi zens Alliancea. 5. That it define the status of female members in respect to voting and repre sentation in higher bodies. In regard to lecturing the president re fers to its great importance; praises State Lecturer Talbert highly' says that he has been "'latteringly endorsed" by the order, but has been unable to meet the demands made upon him. The de mands are increasing, and National Lecturer Terrell has been engaged for a series of lectures, covering each county, during the late summer and fall. Recommendation is made for the pro vision of a lecturer to be constantly in the jdeld, armed with literature sent out by the proposed propaganda bureau. lie would not only enlighten the people, but pay his expenses and turn a handsome fund into the treasury. The interest of the Alliance in Clem son College is stated, and it is praise I as "the noblest possible monuient to the intelligence, benevolence and patriot ism of its projectors." Under the head of "the outlook," the address continues: "Despite the wonderful results wrought so far in all the fields of Alli ance work directly, and indirectly in the political field, the signs of the times point to the tact that the supreme test is at hand along financial and political lines-existing parties apparently pitch their fight npon the financial field. Strange to say that party wnich profit ed most last year by the educative forces of the Alliance, and which should by every token have least to lose by educa tive force, is most bitter in its antagon ism, if we are to rely upon the utterance of some ot the leadersr and newspaper ex pounders. There is every evidence uf a massing of forces before the financial demands of the order. Foes within and foes without have been marshalled for a supreme struggle. "As intelligent men it behoves us to consider all the conditions and bear our selves as men. The past is inspiring, the prospect though stormy, is inviting. The issues have been made up fairly and joined between the monopolistic element of our population, on the one hand, and the masses of the people on the other-whether the masses or the classes shall control the government whether the iniquitous financial system devised and fastened upon this country by Wall and Lombard streets shall stand and continue to rob the people." The assertion is made that "the perpe tuity of free institutions is hanging in the scale with a corrupt and degenerate plutocracy." Assurance is eiven that the other classes are coming to join the Alliance. "Columbia wita its $600,000 debt, and Charleston with its S3,000,000 debt, are directly interested in routing this robber hand that is taking out of their pockets $3 for every $1 loaned them twenty-five years ago. The whole peo ple ot this State are equally interested in removing the abomination of an Ash ley Junction at the gate of our charm ing metropolis by the sea, and in the disruption of the blighting corporate hand that has our beautiful capital city by the throat. The 'bottling up' of a people's capital or metropolis for the gratification of corporate greed or spleen should be forever impossble in a free country." "Tne money trust," it is allege d, "will resort to extreme nieas.res," and the in crease of private detectives, "military establishments," "new barracks com manding New York and Chicago." are cited in support of the declaration. The issues are irrepressible," and "from the Lakes to the Gulf, and from Kamschatka to the Florida straits they confront the individual citizen. It will take the whole people to solve them in a peaceful way." The finalw of the address is: "Brethern, let us knit our brother hood together with a closer stitch, and then reach out our hands to our fellow citizens of all classes who love liberty and will stand for its maintenance." CO3DIITTEES APPOINTED. After the delivery of the address com mittees were appointed as follows: On credentias-J Rt Magiil, WV U El der and T J Robertson. Publication-J W Stokes, B F Miller, W U Elder, E R Walters. President's message-One from each congressional district, to wit: First, L A liarper; second.8S L Ready; third, J A Shlgh; tourth, N F Walkem ; fifth, J Rt Magill; sixth, J M Waduell; seventh. T S Browning. Demands and resolutions-J E Jar niga'n, J S McCall, George 1B Dean, J Hi Price, Thomas Whatley. The following Is the list of delegates by counties: Abbeville, Ji. Tr. Robert son; Anderson, J. P. Glenn; Barnwell, W. S. Bamberg, J. C. Miller; Berkley, T. S. Browning; Charleston, 'J. S. Hol1 brook; Chester, Tf. J. Cunningham; Chsterfield, ,John 1L. Tucker; Claren don, ,J. L. Davis; Colleton, B.. A. Ilar per; Darlington, J. M. Waddell; Edige ield, S. L. Ready; Fairtield, J. M. Gal loway; Florence. J. S. McCall; George town, J1 Ki D~ezees; Greenville, J Ri Ilar rison; Hampton, W J Gooding; llorry, J 1P Derhorm; Kershaw, ,J Rt Mailil, Lncaster, 13 F Mdilller; Laureos, .J A Jones; Lexington, P ?I Rawl; Marion, T 13 Stackhouse; Marlboro, J B Green; Newberry, J A Sligh; Oconee, W F Whitaker: O)rangeburg, E R Walters, WV 0 Tratum;~ Pickens, W T Udell; Ricland, E M Stoeber; SpartMI burg, N F Walker, G U Dean, R M Smith; Sum ter, Rt M Wilson: Union. D P Ducau; Williatusburg, G E Graham; York, W U Elder. Every county is represented and isi al lowedJ one delegate. Counties that hive over 1.000 Ailiancemen is allowed one additional delegate for every 500 mewm ers. Only three counties-Barnwell, Orangeburg and Spartanburg-h-tve more than one delegate. TiHUISDAY's P~tOCEEitNGS. The special order for this morning, as announced in The State, was taken up at the first sessin to-d(ay. With one or two exceptions the present oflicers w ere reelected. The following are the oticers elected: President, J. Willijam Stokes, of Orangeburg; vice presideii, W. D). Ey ins, of Alarinoro; secretary, 'J. W. Reid, of Spartanburg; treasurer, F. P. TIaylor, of Chesterfield; chaplaini, Rev. James Douglass, ot Fairfield; lec turer, W. .Jasper Tlalbert, of Edgetield; steward, 11. Mc Rae, of Marion; door keeper, J. WV. Kennedy, of Williams burg; assistant doorkeeper, .A. R. XX'al ter, of lHorry; surgeant-at-arms, 'J. E. Jarnigan. of Marion. Executive coimmittee-: Lucas Mc In tosh, of D~arlngton; T F. Mitchell, of Fairfield; S. T. D). Lancaster, of Spar uanburg. Of this committee only Mitchell was re-elected, the othera holding over for one and two years. At this meeting the constitution was so changed that the judiciary comtmittee was elected instead ,f appointed as here tofore. The following is the committee: Joseph L. Keitt, of Newc'erry, elected for one year; D. K. Norris, of Anderson, two y ears; W. N. Elder, of York, three years. A committee was appointed to get tip a convention of ctton growers in the South to be held in Atlanta at as early day as possible. This convention is to be composed of Alliancemuen and non. Alliancemen, both white and colored. The following is the committee: D. P Duncan, Union, chairman; E. R. Wal er, Oneburgn JT IT. TarrisonGreen ville: W. N. Elder, York; W. S. B:un berg, Barnwell; G. P. Davis, Ciaren don. This oommittee will make report to this meeting and submit an address to be issued calling this convention, and the committee will be continued. The trustee-stockholders have fln ished their work. Nothing is given out for publication except the election of nine directors of the State Exchange. The board elected at this meeting is constitutel as follows: From the State at large-J. A. Sligh, of Newberry; D. P. Duncan, of Union. First District-G. W. Younginer, of Lexington. Second District-W. 1. Timmerman, of Edge field. Third District-J. 1. Glenn, of Anderson. Fourth District-John R. Harrison, of Greenville. Fifth Dis trict-Rt. L. llicklin, of Lancaster. Sixth District-J. W. Ferguson, of Florence. Seventh District-George J. Graham, of Williamsburg. At a meeting of the board held to-day J. A. Sligh was elected president., V. 11. Timmerman secretary and J. W. Fergu son treasurer. The board will hold another meeting to elect a business agent for the State Exchange, and to consider the- proposition for the re moval of the exchange to Columbia, and to transact such other business as may come before them. At the meeting this afternoon it was decided to hold the next convention at Columbia. State Organizer J. R. Jeffries made his report which showed that the order was in a flourishing condition. The following were elected delegates to the National Alliance: J. W. Stokes, E. T. Stackhouse, W. J. Talbert; alter notes; J. S. Keitt, D. 1'. Duncan. A meeting of the directors of the State Exchange was held this afternoon. M. L. Donaldson, of Greenville, was re-elec ted State Exchange agent. The consid eration of the question of removing the State Exchange to Columbia was post poned to the October meeting. An aud iting committee was appointed to ex amine the treasurer's books and vouch ers. The committee is composed of three members, with president J. A. Sligh as chairman ex-otlico. The other members are: J. R. Harrison of Green ville, D. P. Duncan of Union and J. 1. Glenn of Anderson. A committee was appointed at a meet ing held in Columbia April 23 to pro pose a formula for the manufacture of fertalizer for the use of the Alliance and authorized to report to the State Alli ance at this session. The committee will recomend the following formula for consideration by the Alliance: The fertilizer to Le known as the Ailiance Brand; four per cent. of ammonia, nine per cent. of acid and two per cent. of potash. The committee will also ie commend that the State exchange be authorized to advertise for the manu facture of fertilizer upon above form ula. OswalA Wilson, of New York, for merly of Texas,and secretary of the Na tionil Association of Business Agents, co:mposed of the business agents of the several States in which there are State exchanges, dropped in here Tuesday night, without any one outside of the Alliance seeming to know that he was here, or the object of his visit. It is understood that he was here in the in terest of that ten million dollar scheme which is supposed to have been foruu lated at a meeting of prominent Alli ancemen held in -New York a few weeks ago. It is understood that this meeting proposed to have co-operatiTe stores es tablished in each of the counties, with central headquarters in Ne w York. Mr. Wilson met with the trustees and stock holders of the board of directors of the State exchange, but they absolutely re fuse to give out anything for publication growing out of the conference with Mr. Wilson, or anything about this ten mil lion dollar scheme for establishing co operatt ye stores. Mr. Wilson lef t this morning ior Atlanta, presumably to hold a conference with the Alliance of Georgia._________ NEW ENGLAND'S LATEST HORROR. A Beautiful Young Lady of High Sociai Standing Murdered. HANOVER, N. II., Jaly 18.-As Mliss Christie Warden, accompanied by her mother, her sister Fannie and Louise Goodell, wa returning on foot to their home, local ed one mile from the villiage, at a late hour last night, Frank Alnmy, about thirty y ears of age jumped into the road in front of them, and seizing Christie by the arm, said: "I want you." The mother and sister attempted to 0 e fend her. Almy tired at them, but missed. They ran for assistance. Then Almy dragged his victim into the bush es from the road and shot her twice through the head, one shot tearing out her left eye. When help arrived the poor girl ~was dead, and her body was stripped of nearly every ar; iele of cloth ing. Aloy has fled. Miss W arden was a beautiful and most estimable young woman, about twenty-tive years old, a graduate of the State normal school and a popular teach er. Almy was a former employe ct her father, and his attention to Miss Christie had been repuls-d. She was the daughter of Andrew Warden, a wealthy farmer and a leading citizen. Sheriff F-oster has sen-t out se-archmng parties in all di rectionis. 'rhe father of t lie murdered girl offers a re ward of $500 for the cap ture of the murderer. T~he murde-r or Miss Chiistie Wirden by Frank Alimy has cauised t he greatest excitement in this town, and business is practicalhy suspended today. No trce of the murderei has yet been found, and large nuiiubers of armec men, among them many Dartmouth pr:>fess 'irs, are scouirmg th~e country. Almny caime here about a year- ago. ela~ming that Savamdi, Ga.. was hi., home. An additional force of men was called out this afternoon, by the tolling of tie col lege bell, for the purpose of extending the search. The lectures in the medical college have been suspendred,. and many oi the students have joimed the si'archi ig party. Up to a late hour this evening no very promaising elews were discovered. Frank Osmer, who lives on te fair grounds at White Junction, says thbat he was awak ened by a man answering Almy's de scription, much fatigued, who anxiously inquired the way ouit of the fair ground inclosure. A~n addi' ional $500 reward has bhen offered by the town of llanoveu for Almy's capture. An examination sho ws tat one babmet e-nteredl the girl's brain and thbe other severed hetr spmnal cord. Her funeral will take lace on Moinuay. The Nationali Alilance. BALTIMORE, July 17.-The Ameri can says that the National F-armers' Alliance will hold their encampment in Maryland, near this city, and that the annual encampment will be held here every year, certainly for the next live ears, andl it is probable that a cite will se purchased and the enicampment lo ated here permanently. T1his year the encampment will be held in Sep tember. About two hundred acres of land will be needed for the encamp ment and an auditoriutu will be erect ed which will seat 12,C00 people. The emcampment will last two weeks and 250.00 persons may be expected to be present. The Pennsylvania and Balti more and Ohio railroads have made lib eral otfers to secure the encampment alngr their lines PRESIDENT POLK SPEAKS. HE PLEADS FOR MORE MONEY FOR THE COUNTRY. The A illance Will Not Form a rhird Party Unless Forced to Do So by the Intoler ance of the Democratic Leaders--The Speaker l Received With Enthusiasm. SLARTANBURG, S. C., July 22.-This afternoon, however, a public meeting was held and an address was made by President Polk, of Ihe National Alliance, to whi' everybody was invited. The audience was composed largely of farm ers. President Polk spoke for two hours, and was given good attention and fre quently applauded. He presented for cibly, and in good tone and spirit, the demands of the larmers and their griev ances. The entrance, during his speech, of Governor Tillman, who had just ar rived from Fort Hill, was greeted with applause. President Polk was introduced by President Stokes as a man who needed no introduction to the Alhancemen of South Carolina, as he was already well kr.own. President Polk said he cherished no recollection more fondly than the kind .iess received at the hands of the people of South Carolina. It were needless to refer to the ties wNlch bind the two Carolinas together-they were witten in the best blood of both. If he were to evade or suppress the truth in regard to the great issues of the day he would be unworth of confidence or respect. The farmers have been fed on taffy long enough; let us have truth. The growth of the Alliance was the marvel of this age. It had no parallel in history. It had flourished in thirty-six States, and had 3,000,000 riembers. The great and underlying cause, as argued by the speaker, which had given this wonderful growth to the Alliance, was the financial policy of the government and the distress and suffering among the laboring peo ple, caused ther .by. All the Alliance asked was an open field and a fair fight. Take the railroads and manufacturers. the growth of towns and cities, the amassing of colossal fortunes-all these were never known to flourish more than at present. But when in all your life inown the agricultural interests to lan gu:sh as at present? From 1850 to 1860 tae farmers owned 70 per cent. of the wealth of the country; today less than 22 per :ent., four-fifths of which was un der mortgage. From 1870 to 1880 the agricultural population increased 29 per cent., while the value of property owned by them had decreased. In 18SO the total taxable property of the country was $43,500,000,000, $26,000,000,000 of which escaped taxation, and the farm ers paid on $14;000,000,000 of the re mainder. It I had my way, said the speaker, I would pass a law in each State requiring every assessor to carry with him a seal and attach it to every note or mortgage on evidence of indebt edness, and any paper without this seal I would declare non-collectable by law. Farmers can't put their- land in vaults, and assessors always find it. The time was when I accepted as true what the big men of the country said if they be longed to my party; but now, the bigger the man the more I question the statements made by him. We have been in the habit of swallowing whatever the i-olicians gave us and swear it was good, and holler ourselves noarse. But that time is over. When there was $52 per capita in circulatio'n times were flush and everybody got on well. The farmer who sold his cotton in Spartan burg had to pay a profit to eleven men before he bought it back in cloth. Speaking of the purchasing power of money, he said you don't wont to know how much a dollar will buy, but how much debt-paying power that dollar pos sesses, In 1870 ten bales of cotton would pay a one thousand dollor debt; now it took thirty bales to pay the same debt: and it cost as much to raise cotton today as then. Wall street, backed by Lombard street, London, has taken hold of the goverenment. The government of this country has gone into silent partniership with Wall street. You hear a great deal about fiat money. I would like to know where you could get any more fiat money than niational bank bills, 'cased upon bonds which are based only on the power of the govern Dent to tax the peop)le to redeem them, with no gold or silver back of them. The national banking system lends to one class money at one per cent. andl license the ba ks to enlarg'e eight and ten per cent. for it. I believe that if this government would stiek its name to a piece of leather, or paper, or gold, or anything else, and call it a dollar, it will pass for one hundred cents any where in this country. He read fromu the Ucala platform on the silver plank, and remarked: " I ami not waiting for Grover Cleveland to tell me how to vote, and I intend to stand with the majority of the white people of the South and vote against Grover Cleveland." This statement was izreet ed with applause. In support of the subtreasury plank, he quoted from Jeffersoh and Calhouu. dsaid if the Jefersonian straightout tanted to learn iure Democracy they had better come ito the Alliance and take their lessons over. The Ocala platform was good Jelleronan Democracy and Lmncolnian Republ canism, which made a mighty good combination. I believe that plat form will conduce to the greatest good, and intend to stand on it. The tariff is not tbe great issue. If it were reduced 25 per cent. you wouln be no better oli in tive years. We are not to be sidetracked by the cry of nigger, bloody shirt or anything else. We went to congress and asked for relief: we wanted more money to do the business of the country. Practica'ly we were told -.o go home, work harder, live clos er, keep out of politics. and all would be well. Farmers have gone into polities, and gone there to stay. The Alliance is non-partisan, but it is in politics; and who has more right to go into politics than the farmers? Some people dlon't han the farmers? Some people don't know the difference betw en a party :s sue and politics. A party issue means a nice collar around your neck with a chamn to it. Politics is a science of gov ern ment. I want to ask three questions: Are you in f avor of anolishiug the national banking system? Are you in favor of the government issuing money direct to the people, at a low rate of interest? Are you opposed to dealing in futures of aaricultural products? When the sub-treasury bill was pre sented to, Congress we did not consider it perfect, but it containedi princilies that we wanted incorix rated in tl'e laws. Did our congressmian sit down and talk the matter over with us and see where we ditfered, and see if we couldn't com prmie and get relief? Tt was the first time the farmers had ever asked any thin-. and it was buried beneath legisla tive oblivion. But now, instead or send inZ petitions, we propose to send men In sympathy with our demands. They told us our bill was unconstitu tional. This objection was started by Mr. Oates. of Alabama ,who never saw the bill. This cry was taken up syste matically by others. I said, tellus why it is unconstitutional. The answer was because the government can't lend money. In 187G, when Philadelphia wanted money for the exposition, the government loaned it, and the Supreme Court of the United States decided that it was a loan. In 1884. when the cotton exposition was to be held at New Or leans, Mr. Oates said the appropriation was a loan, and made a speech in favor of it, and it passed. And yet, the same man will tell you the sub-treasury bill is un.onstitutional-the government can't lend money. Talk about class legislation! All the statute laws on the statute books are class legislation and for the benefit of all classes exceot the farmers. Put whiskey in warehouses, and furnish a keeper, and give a certificate of deposit, and keep it three years-that is consti tutional; but when the farmer comes up and says he wants to deposit some wheat and corn with the government and draw some money, it is not constitutional. The fight against the sub-treasury is unmanly, because you know it is a fieht. against a suffering people. Really the tight is against a low rate of interest. That is the rub. The sub-treasury bill proposes to obtain money on non-per ishable farm producis and land, to a cer tain extent. Bring the present bill W me, and I'll tear it up, and you will never hear of it again, provided you will bring something in your pocket that is better or that will give us relief. We want the principles underlying the bill. Until somethiug better is offered, the Alliancemen in the South will stick to the sub-treasury. This bill means that banks and everybody who lends money can't get but 2 per cent. for it. The Allianze Is goirg to take part in politics and vote for our friends. About the third party, I want to say this: It there is a third party established in these Southern States it will be on account of the domineering, proscriptive plart'of the Democratic bosses. You can't point to an Allianceman who has gone into the third party. No Democratic Al lianceman ever went into a convention and bolted its nominations. These hon est people who are interested in this great struggle for humanity claim noth ing but what is just; and. living and suf fering as they do, they are going to have relief. We believe our struggle is just, and we would beunworthy our manhood if we did not stand un for principle. Our evils are national in their nature and ef fect, and can't be cured by sectionalism. I believe that in the success of this move ment depends the life of the nation. Ofucers Led Into an Ambish. MIDDLESBOROUGH, Ky., July 17.-A desperate attemptwas made to assassin ate the MidClesborough police force, yesterday afternoon about 3 o'clock,. - lot of.disreputable characters who fre quent Gum Springs, alow-drinking and gambling dive just outside the city lim its, concocted the plot to murder the officers. They accordingly stationed about fifteen of their gang in ambush along the Louisville and Nashville Rail road, and two of their number began fir ing their Winchesters. These two were Gillis Johnson and Frank Rossimus. Chief Maples, with a posse of officers. went in pursuit of the pair, and they were led into an ambush. Over a hun dred shots were exchanged. Special Officer Dorsey Williams was shot through both thighs, and i'atrolman Tucker was shot in the leg. The police were forced to retire, and they returned to the city. A posse of about one hun dred citizens, armed' with rifies, soon captured both desperadoes and lodged them in jail. About 4 o'clock this morning a crowd of masked men en tered Jailer Pollit's sleeping apart ments at the city jail, and, with pistols to his head, demanded the keys to the jail. The jailer was forced to give up the keys. The crowd then went into the jail, took Rossimus out and led him to the big bridge over the canal, where he was shot several times. A rope was then fastened about his neck and he was swung over the bridge until 7 o'clock, when he was cut down. A pla card was tacked on the bridge rail just above the body bearing this inscription: "Warning-This is the fate of all would be murderers." Eleven Men Killed. L IvER:POOL, July 18.-A terrible ac cident occurred this morning on the line of the Manchester Ship canal. A train passing along the railroad run ning near the canal fell over the latter's enbaninet, near this city, killing eleven men who were working under the heading. In addition to the men killed many of the wvorkmen were injured. The bodies of the killed were horribly mutilated. The accident is probably unprecedent ed in railway annals. T venty-three cars laden with construction materials were being hauled by two engines down a heavy grade, at full speed. The points man, a lad of seventeen years, named Pratt, became confumed and turned the train upon the short siding leading to the brink of the canal. Th'fe distance was so short that the engineers had no time to check the momentum of the train, and it took a frightful le-ap over the embankment, a depth of forty feet, into the cutting. Pratt fled, shrieking, across the country, nearly frightened out of his senses by the awful results of his blunder. He was captured by the police, and will be held for trial. Tile management of the line is severe ly blamed for entrusting so important a switching point to so young and inex perienced a person. Died from Heart Falinre. NEWV IAVEN, July 17.-As officer Loughlin was patrolling East Rock l'ark last evenmng his attention was called to a man who was leaning out of a window in the top of the monument 100) teet above the ground. H~e ascend ed thbe narrow staircase and found that the man was dead. The policeman de scended from midair with a corpse on his back, and the Coroner was sum moned. It was supposed that the man died from heart failure caused by the exertion of climbing the monument. He was John HI. Reid, of New York, who recently came to this city to sell goods for a tobacco house of Ne w York. He was thirty-seven years old. The Republican Machine. l'HIILADELPIA, July 17.-Chairman Quay, of the Republican National Com mittee, has called a meeting of the ex ecutive committee in this city for the 29th Instant. It is understood that the full committee will convene in New York or Washington in November and lix some time in Mlay for the national convention. It is stated thatt Mr. Quay will otfer his resignation at the meet ing this month. His friends say he has no intention of retirirng from the committee, but he will resign the chair manship absolutely, without giving