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VOL. Vii. MANNINTG, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST1.191 O 4 SERMON IN TILE WEST. TALMAGE DISCOURSES FROM A CHAP TER IN RUTH. Sorrow and Sufrerini Ievelopes Cbarac ter-Unfaulteriu Fi lt ndship a Glorious ;.Virtue--The Beauty of Female industry. GREEN MOUNTAIN FALLS, Col., Aug. 2.-Dr Talmage preached here to day to an immense audience. His West ern tour has been ont coutinued ovation. Never before has he bL n so enthusiasti cally received or have the people come to hear him In suzh vast numbers. He arrived here from Pueblo, which city he left on Wednesday last in a car provi l. ed by the railroad company exclusively for the use oi Dr. Talmage and his sec retary. In this car he will visit cities in Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kansas and Utah. It is side-tracked at places where Dr. Talmage has arranged to stay to preach or to lecture. His sermon redolent with the breath of the great harvest field of the West. indicates that the popular preacher has read in his surrounding suggestions of Gospel lessons. His text is taken from Ruth ii; 3: "And she went and came and gleaned in the field alter the reapers; and her hap was to light on a part of the field belonging uuto Boaz who was of the kindred of Elnieltch." Within a few wteks I have been in North Carolina, Virginia. Pennsylvan ia, New York, Ohio. Michigan, Canada, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri. and they are one great harvest field, and no season can be more enchanting in any counti y than the season of harvest. The time that Ruth and Naomi arrive at Betblehem is harvest time. It was the custom % hen a sheaf fell from a load in the harvest tield for the reapers to re luse to gather it up; that was to be left or the I oor who might happen to come that A ay. It there were handfuls of grain scattered across the field after the main harvest bad been reaped, instead of raking it, as farmers do now it was, by the custom of the land, left in its place, so that the poor, coming along that way. might glean it and get their bread. But, you say, "What is the use of all these harvest fields to Ruth an Naomi? Naomi is ioo old and feeble to go out and toil in the sun; ana can you expect that Ruth, the young and the beautiful, should tan her cheeks and blister her hands in the harvest field?" Boaz ouns a large farm, and he goes out to see the reapers gather in the grain. Coning there, right behind the swarthy, sun-browned reapers, he be holds a beautiful woman gleaning-a woman more fit to bend to a harp or sit upon a throne than to stoop amonz the sheaves. Ah, that was an eventful day! It was love at first siaht. Boax forms an attachment for the womanly gleaner -an attachment full of undying interest to the church of God in all age s; while Ruth, with an ephah, or nearly a bushel of barley, goes home to Naomi to tell her the successes and adventures of the day. That Ruth, who left her native land of Moab in darkness, an' journeyed through an undying affectln for her mother-in-law, is i. the harvest-field of Boaz, is affanced to one of the best fam ilies in Judah, and becomes in after-time the ancestress of Jesus Christ the Lord of glory! Out of so dark a night did there ever dawn so bright a morning. I learn, in the first place, from this subject how trouble developes charac ter. It was bereavement, poverty and exile that developed, illustrated and an nounced to all ages the sublimity o1 Ruth's character. That is a very un fortunate man who has no trouble. It was sorrow that made John Bunyan the better dreamer, and Doctor Young the better poet, and O'Connell the better orator, and .Bishop Hall the better preacher, and Havelock the better sol dier, and Kitto the better ei cyclopedist, and Ruth the 1 etter daughter-in-law. 1 once asked an aged man in regard to his pastor, who was a very brilliant matn: "Why is it that your pastor, so very brilliant, seems to have so little tenderness in his sermons?" "Well," he replied, "the reason is, our pastor has never had any tiouble. When misfor tune comes upon him, his style will be different." After awhile the Lord took a child out of that pastor's house; and though the preacher was just aa bril liant as he was before, oh, the warmth, the tenderness of his discourses! The fact is that trouble is a great educator. You see sometimes a musician sit down at an instrument, andi his execution is cold and formal and un.eeline. The reason is that all his life he has been prospered. But let misfortune or be reavement come to that man, and he sits down at the instrument, and 'on discover the pathos in the first sweep of the keys. Misfortune and trials are great educators. A young doctor conmes into a sick room where there is a d) ing2 child. Perhaps he is vEry rough in his prescription, and very rough in his mian ner, and rough in the feeling of the pulse, and rough in his answer to the mother's anxious question; but the years roll on, and there has been one dead in his own house; and now he comes. into the sick room, and with teariul eye lie looks at the dying child, and he say .: "Oh, how this rermir-da me of my Char lie!" Trouble, the great educatoi! Sorrow-I see its torch in the grandest painting; I hear its tremor in the sweet est song; I feel its power in the mighti est argument. Grecian mythology said that the fo.un tain of Hippocrene was struck out by the foot of the winged horse, Pegasus, I have often noticed in lei that toae brightest and most beau'.irul fountains et Christian cormioit and spiritual life have been struck cut by the iron-shod hoof of disaster anu calamity. I see Daniel's courage best by the flash of Ne buchadnezzar's furnace. I see P.aul's prowess best when I find him un the toundering ship* under the glare of the lightning in the breakers of M< 'tia. God crowns his children amid the howling of wild L.easts and the chopping of blood splashed guillotine and the crackhng flies of martyrdom. It took the peise cutions of Marcus Aurelius to develop Poly carp and Justin Martyr. It took the pope's bull and the cardhnal's curse, and the world's anathema to develop Martin Luther. It took all the hostili ties a;-ainst the Scotch covenanters and~ the fury of Lord Claverhouse to develop Jame~s Renwick, and Andrew Melville, and Hugh McCail, the glorious martyrs of Scotch history. it took the stormy sea, and the December blast, and the desolate New England coast, and the war-hoop of savages, to sh'ow forth the prowess of the Pilgra fathers When amid the storms-they sang, And the stars beyd and the sea; And the sounding a ies of the dim wood Rang to the anthems of the free. It took all our past national distresses, and it takes all our present national sor rows, to lift up our nation on that high career where it will march along after the Ioreign desnotisms that have mocked and the t3rannies that have jeered, shall be swept down under the omnipotent wrath of God. who hates, oppression and who, by the strength of his own rea right arm. will make all men free. And so it is individually, and in the family, and in the cureb, and in the world that throughfdarkness and storm and trouble men. women, churches, natious, are de veloped. Again, I learn from my subject that events which seem to be most insignifi cant may be momentous. Can you im agine anN thing more unimportant than the coming of a poor woman from Moab to Judiea? Can you imagine anything more trivial than the tact that this Ruth just happened to alight-as they say just happened to alight on that field of Boaz? Yet all ares. all generations, have. an interest in the fact that she wa' to become an ancestress of the Lord Jesus Christ, and all nations and king doms must look at that one little inci dent with a thrill of unmistakable and eternal satisfaction. So it is in your his tory and in mine; events that you thought of no importance at all have beeD of very great moment. The cas ual conversation, that accidental meet ing-you did net think of it again for a long while; but how it changed all the current of your life! Again, I ace in my text the beauty of unfaltering friendship. I suppose there were plenty of friends for Naomi while she was in prosperity: but of all her a qusintances, how many were willing to trudge off with her toward Judfea, when she had to make that lonely journey? One-the heroine of my text. Une absolutely one. I suppose when Nao mi's husband was living, and they had plenty of money, and all things went well, they had a great many callers; but I suppose that after her husband died, and her property went, and she got old and poor, she was not troubled v ery much with callers. All the birds t hat sang in the bower while the sun shone have Lone to their nests, now the night has fallen. Oh, these beautiful sun flowers that spread out their collor in the morning hour! but they are always asleep when the sun is going down! Job had plenty of friends when he was the rtchest man in Uz: but when his property went and the trials came, then there were none so much that pestered as Eliphaz the Te manite, and Bildad the Shuhite, and Zo phar the Naamathite. Life often seems to be a mere game where the successful player pulls down all the other men into his own lap. Let suspicions- arise about a man's charrac ter and he becomes like a bank in a ianic and all the 1i0putations rush on him and break down in a day that chracter which in due time would have had strength to defend itself. There are reputations that have been half a cen tury in building, which go under some moral exposure, as a vast temple is con sumed by the touch of a sulphurous match. A hog can uproot a century plant. In this world, so full of heart lessness and hypocrisy, how thrilling it is to find some friend as faithful in days of adversity as in days of prosperity! David had such a friend in Hushat; the Jews had such a friend in Mordecai, who never forgot their cause; Paul had such a friend in Oxiesiphorus. who visted him m jail; Christ had such in the Marys, who adhered to him on the cross; Naomi had such a one in Ruth, who cried out; -Entreat me n'ot to leave thee, or to re turn from following after thee; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge; thy people, shall bemy people and thy God my God; where thou diest will I die, aind there will I be buried the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me." Again, I learn from this subject that paths which open in hardship and dark ness often come out in places of joy. When Ruth siarted from Moab toward Jerusalem, to go elong with her mother in-law, I1 suppose the people said: Oh, what a foolish creature to go away from her fathers house, to go of with a poor old womon toward the land of Judtea! They won't live to get across the desert. They will be drownied in the sea. or the jackals of the wildernesa will destroy them." It was a very dark morning when Ruth started off with Naomi; but behold her in my text in the harvest-field of Boaz, to be aflianced to one of the lords of the land, and become one of the randmothers of Jesus Christ, the Lord f glory. And so it often is that a path which starts very darkly ends very brighty. When you started out for heaven, oh, how dark was the hour of conviction how Sinai thundered, and devils tor mented, and the,darkness thickened! All the sins of 3 our life pounced upon you and it was the darkest hour you ever saw when you first found out your sins. After awhile you went into the harvest ield of God's mercy ; yo)u began to glean in the 6ield of divitae promise, and you had more sheaves than you could carry as the voice of God addressed 3 on, say ing: 'Blessed is the man whose trans aressions are forgiven and whose sins are covered." A very dark starting in conviction, a very bright ending in the pardon andi thea hope and tne triumg.h of the Gospel! So, very often in our worldy business or in our spiual career, we start off on a very dark path. W e must go. The flesh may bhrink tback, but there is a voice within, or a voice frem above, saying, "You must go," and we have to drink the gall, and we have to carry the cross, and we have to traverse the desert and we are pounde d and flailed of misrepres entation and abuse, and we have to urge our w a y through ten thousand ob sales that have to be slain by our own right arm. We have to ford the river we have to climb the mouatain, we have to storm the castle; but blessed be God the day ot rest and reward will come. On the tip top of the captured battle ments w i will shout, the victory; if not in this world, then in that world where there is nao uall to drink, no burden to carry, o battles to light. How do I kaow it? Know it! I know it because God say s s": '1 hey shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat, for th~e Lamb which is in the midst of the 'throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe all tears from their eyes." It was very hard for Noah to endure the scofling of the people in his day while lie was trying to build the ark and was every day quizzed about his old boat that would never be of any practical use; but when the deluge came, and the tops of the mountains disappeared like the backs of sea-monsters, and the ele ments, lashed up in fury, clapped their hands over a drowned world, then Noah in the ark rejoiced in his own safety and in the safety of his family, and looked on the wrc k of a ruined earth. Christ, hounded of pei secutors, denied a pilow, worse maltreated than the thieves on either side of the cross, human er it had bepn draining his last drop of blood, the sheeted dead b irsting from ,he sephulchres at his crucifixion. Tell me. 0 Gethsemaae and Golgotha! were there ever darker times than those? Like the booming of the midnight sea against the rock, the surges of Christ's anguish beat against the gates of eternity, to be echoed back by all thrones of heaven and all the dungeons of hell. But the day o reward comes for Christ; all the pomp and dominion of this world are to be hung on his throne, uncrowned heads are to bw before him on whose head are many crowns, and all the celestial worship is to come up -t his feet, like the humming of the forest, like the rushing of the waters, like the thunder ing of the seas, while all heaven, rising on their thrones. beat tirse with their sceptres: "Hallelujah, Hallelujah, the kingdoms ot this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ. That song of love, low and far, Ere long shall swell from star to star; That light, the breaking day which tips The golden-spired Apocalypse It seemel to be of no importance L ha Jubal invented rude instrument of music, calling them harp and organ; but they were the introduction of all the world's minstrels ; and as you hear the vibration of a stringed instrument, even after the fingers have been taken away Irom it, so all mutic now of lute and drum and cornet is only the long-con tinued strains of Jubal's harp and Jubal's organ. It seemed to be a matter of very little importance that Tubal Cain learned the uses of copper and iron; but that rude foundry of ancient days has its echo in the rattle or Birmingham machinery, and the roar and bang of factories on the Merrimac. Again, I see in my subject an illustra tion of the beauty of female industry. Behold Ruth toiling i the harvest-field under the hot sun, or at noon taking plain bread with the reapers, or eating the parched corn which Boaz handed to her. The customs of societ,, of course, have changed, and without the hardships an I exposure to which Ruth wvas sub jected, every intelligent woman will find something to do. I know there is a sickly sentimentality on this subject. In some families there are persons of n practical service to the household or community, and though there are so many woes all around about them in the world, they spend their time langulihing over a new pattern. or bursting into tears at midnight over the story of some lover who shot ldmself! They would not deign to look at Ruth carrying back the bariey on her way home to hr mother-in-law, Naomi. All this fastidi ousness may seem to do very well while they are under the shelter of their father's house; hut when the sharp win ter of misfortung comes, what of these butterflies? Persons under indulgent parentage may get upon themselves habits of indolence; but when they come out into practical life their soul will recoil with disgusL and chagrin. They will feel in their hearts what the poet so severely satirized when he said: Folks are so awkward, things so impolite, They're elegantly pained from morn till night. Throueh that gate of indo.ence how many men and women have marched, useless on earth, to a destroyed eternitq! Spinola saia to Sir Horace Vere: "Of what did your brother die?" " Ofhaving not .ingto do," was the answer. "Ah!" said Spinola, "that's enough to kill any general of us." Oh! can it be possible in this world, where there is so much suffer ing to be alleviated, so much darkness to be enlightened, and so many burdens to be carried, that there is any person who cannot find anythinga to do? Mada ie de Stael did a world of work in her time; and one day, while she was seated amid In ttrument s of music, all of which she had mastered, and amid man uscript books which she had written, some one said to her: "How do you find time to attend to all these things?' "Oh!" she replied. "thsse are not the things I am proud of. M', chief boast is in the fact that I have seventeen trades, by anyone of which I could make a livelihood if necessary.'' And if in sec ular spheres there is so much to be done. in spiritual work how vast the field! How many dying all around about us without one word of comfort! We want more Abiaails, more Hannahe, more Rebeccas. mnore Mary's more Deborahs consecrated-body, mind, soul,--to the Lord who brought them. Once more I learn from my subject the value of gleaning. Ruth zomng into the harvest-field might have said: "There is a straw, and there is a straw. but what is a straw? I can't net any barley for my self or my motber-in-law out of these separate straws." Not so said beautiful Ruth. She gathered two straws. andi she put them together, and more straws, until she got enough Lo make a heaf. Putting that down she went and rathered more straws, until she had an other sheat, and another, and an other, and another, and then she brought hem all together, and smoothed them out, and she had an ephah or barley nigh a bushel. Oh, that we might all be gleaners! Elihu Burritt learned many things while toiling in a blacksmith's shop. Abeacrombie, the world-renowned philosopher, was a ph ysician in Scot land, and he got his philosophy or the chief part of it, while, as a physician, he was walting for the door of the sick room to open. Yet how many there are in this day who say they are so busy they have no time for mentr 1 or spiritu al improvement; the great duties of life cross the field like strong reapers, and carry off all the hours, and there is only here and there a Iragment left that is not worth gleaning. Ah, my friends, you could go Into the busiest day and busiest week of your life and find golden opportunities, which, gathered, might at lst make a whole sheaf for the Lord's garner. It is the stray opportunities and the stray privileges which, taken up and bound together and beaten out, will at last fill you with much joy. There are a few moments left worth the gleaning. Now, Ruth, to the field! May each one have a eneasure full and running over! Oh, y ou gleaners, to the field! And if there be in your house hold an aged one or a sick relative that is not strong enough to come forth and toil in this field, then let Ruth take home to feeble Naomi this shea! of glening: "He that aoeth forth and weepeth, bear ing precious seed, shall doubt~less come agan with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with himz." May the Lord God of iluth and Naomi be our portion forevei ! Kise'd Her Last. Good Bye. GALVES'rON, July 3.-Miss Maude Gertrude Smith, aged 17, daughter of Captain Alonzo Smith of this city and well known in the west, committed suicide by shoeting herself just above the heart. She was with h r aunt and sister at the time and kissed them both before she expire d. No cause can b" assigned for the act, although her re lations state that she had been morose nd meancholy inr some time preionu' A BLACK EYE FORl COUSA W. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER DECI0ES IN FAVOR OF THE STATE. The Motion Continuing the Preliminary Injauction and Appointing a Reueiver Granted-Judge Simonton Concurs-The Coosaw Octopus Knocked Out. GREENVILLE, S. C., Aug 3.-The decision of Chief Justice Fuller in the Coosaw case was received today, and Judge Simonton added his concurrence this afternoon. The decision. as will be seen, is a complete knock-out for the "Coosaw octopus," and a signal victory for the State. The following is the de cision in full: STATE OF SoUTH CAROLINA, ex rel. TILLMAN et al. vs. THE COOSAW MINING CO3IPANY. Two motions have been argued: 1. To remand. 2. To continue the order granting a preliminary injunction and appointin2 a receiver. My conclusions are: 1. That upon the face of this record the motioD to remand ourht not to be entertained. The question of jurisdic tion was adjudicated by this court on the 21st of April, 1891, and cannot be reexamined at this stage of the Droceed ings. Butif the question were open the result would be the same, as I concur in the opinion of tne district judge. tiled here on April 21, 1891. (45 Fed. Rep., 804). The motion to remand is there lore overruled. 2. As to the motion to continue. &c.. the contention of the defendant is that it has, by contract with the State, in virtue of the act of 1876, the exclusive right to mine all the phosphate lock within a defined part of the Coosaw River, for all time. at a royalty of one dollat per ton. The defendant carried on its mining operations prior to 1876, n the particular locality, under an act of 1870, which gave the right to mine lor the full term of twenty-one years at $1 per ton. The act of 1876 made the right exclusive, and, it is argued. per petual. because it was provided that de fendant (as well as other companies) should have the right. "so long a'id no longer," than it should make the returns and pay the rovalty prescribed. The royalty thus referred to was fixed by the act of 1870. It was decided in State vs. Pacific Guano Company (22 S. C. 50,) that the rule of construction applicable to the right to mine in the bels of nav ihable streams containing phosphate de posits is the ordinary one in the instance of grants of public rights, 'namely, that the grant is to be construed strictly in favor of the State and against the gran tee. I concur in that view, and apply ing the rule here, it forbids the conclu sion that the legislature intended an in definite grant by the terms used. The act of 1876 must necessarily be read in connection with that of 1870, and this being done, it seems clear that the du ration ot the exclusive right, as claimed, was not thereby enlarged. This conclu sion is strengthened by an examinati -n of the many acts in relation to phos phate mining referred to on the bearing o1 this motion, which show the policy of the State to have been to limit the dura tion at the right to mine-a policy which it cannot be properly held the State in tended to depart from by the Act of 1876. It foilows that the claim of the deendent to the exclusive right to mine within the mentioned territory, indefin itely, at one dollar per ton, cannot be sustamued. 3. This being so, and mn view of the provisions of thie Act of 1890, an injunc ion ought to go against the defendant. restraining it, as prayed, until it shall take out a license under the latter Act andl otherwise comply therewith, and such an order may be substituted for the order made by the State court. which should be vac .ted, so far as is inconsist eint with the order so entered. 4. Pendin;: the filing of the foregoing memorandum and the entry of the order therein agreed to, the parties having agreed to submit the case on the hear ing already bad, as on the merits, and their stipulation ln that behalf having been duly considered, a final judgment andl decree may be entered in accordance with, the result above indicated. MELVILLE W. FULLER, August 3, 1891. Chief .Justice. Judge Simonton concurs in the above opinion. Shot iis a Sleeper. CHARLOTTEsVILLE, VA., August 1. A cowardly attempt was naade upon the lite of B. F. Connell; of Portsmouth. Ohio, by an unknown white man on a Pullman sleeper on train No 2, on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, near Basic City, due here at 3 o'clock this morning. The assassin approached the berth of Connell, who resente i the intrusion with a kick, when the would be murderer fired a pistol ball, t aking effet in the abdomen of Connell. Connell was brought to this cit y and lies in a precarious condition. Many umors are rile as to the cause oftthe shooting. The ball was extracted today. The assassin escapt d and has not been captured. May and December. ROCHEsTER, N. Y , July 30.-A spe ciail to the Morning Herald from Medina, N. Y., says: Stephen L. White, of Shelby, who is seventy five years of age, and little Ella liissell, who is fourteen, are the characters in a little romance interesting this vicinity, as they are now man and wife. The Bissell girl's parents claim that White persuadej the little girl to elope with himn, and driving to a neighboring village had the knot tied by claiming that the girl w as over seventeen years of age. Whbite was promptly arrested on the charge of abduction, but releas ed on his own recognizance and escaped No trace of him can be found. Kentucky Election. LoUIsVILLE, Aug. 3.-The voting is proceeding quietly all over Kentucky with indications that the proposed con stitution, against which a strong light has been made, will be ratifiedl by a very large mnajority, and that the plurality for Browni and the other Democrats will be between 30,000 and 35>.000. There are four tickets in the field, and it is esti muted that the Third partyites will poll about 30.000 votes. The next legisla ture, will, of course, be Democratic, with a big representation of the firmer element. Thte Saloone Mlust Go. BlEN TON. Ill., .July 31.-Farmers of the Eastern part of this County have served notice on the merchants of Thomponville, a small place where they do most of their trading, that if three saloons, which are all there are in the Country, located in that place, are not closed at once they will boycott the town. Parties interested have promised DEMOCRACY DIVIDED. Intense Bitterness Between the Factions in Charleston. 0IIAR'LESTON, S. C.. July 29.-The un terrified Democracy of Charleston went to pieces today withoat bloodshed, but with more bitterness thau ever known even in the days of active Republican ism. A dual convention was held and two executive committees are now in the field. The reformers, with a large number of bogus delegates, met in an other part of the city and marched down to Hibernian hall in a body, head ed.by ex-Mayor W. A. Courtenay. They rushed into the h ll capturing most of the chairs and started in to elect Mr. Courtenay chairman before the chair man, of the Democratic executive com mittee had called the convention to or der. The chairman, however, called the body to order, and then left the chair with nobody to preside over the conven tion. T lie regulars jumped in then and then elected B. F. McCabe chairman, and captured the books, records and gravel. The reformers then elected Courteney chairman, an-l the two con ventions proceeded with business. Futile efforts were made by the con servatives to bring about a compromise. The regulars offered to elect a reform chairman if both McCabe and Courte nay would vacate. Mr. Courtenay de clined, and the two conventions went on, both in the same hall, and elected each one an executive committee. W. A. Boyle was elected chairman by the reg ulars and T. D. Jervey by the reform ers. The split in the party is now regarded as hopeless, and the feeling between the two wings is intensely bitter. It is re warded as almost certain that two tick ets will be in the field for the mayor alty. Mr. Courtenay will probably head the reform widg' and Mayor Bryan the regular. Both wings will endeavor to get the recognition of the state execu tive committee.-Augusta Chronicle. Gaunt Famine In Bessarabia. LONDON, July 30.-A St. Peters'urg dispatch states that the greatest misery exists in Bessarabia, owing to the fail tire of the harvest and the scarcity of food. In the villiage of Koushany the people broke out in a riot and plunder ed shops of provisions. The local po lice tried to restrain them and were badlv-beaten, one of their number being killed. Reinforcements arriving from the town of Bender, the rioters were at length dispersed, and a large number were made prisoners. Two of the pris oners were shot to death in the public streets, as a warning to their late com panions, and six were selected for im mediate deportation to Sibera. The wives.and children of the exilts were not permitted to speak to them before keparting, and nothing was spared that would be likely to strike terror into the uuhappy peasentry. At Kishenau, the chief place place of the province, it is said that not less than twelve persons have died of starvation and pedury this month. Not Jews alone, but many Russians. have buried across the front ier into Roumania, in order to escape the severe measures instituted since the outbreak. Asph)xtated in a Tunnel. PORTLAND, Oregon, July 30.-En aineer Jack Rocheford, of the through express, south-bound, met death in an unusual manner in tunnel 14, sixteen miles south of Ashland, yesterday morn ing. Two engines are required to take the train over the Siskyous. Rocheford had the front engine. When the train was nearly through the tunneil the coup ling between the mall and express cars broke. Twenty minutes were consumed in making a new coupling. The smoke and gas from the second engmne blew directly into the cab of the one ahead, suffocating the engineer and fireman. It was decided to back out of the tunnel, and when the ti-ain stopped outside the engineer and lire 'an of the front engine were missing. A searth revealed the engineer lying dead by the track, with his left arm cut oWt by the engine. Fire man Fitzpatrick was lying unconscious by the track, but revived later on. Both got off' the engine to escape suff'ocation and were asphyxiated by the time they reached the ground. Rochetord zell with his arm across the track, and bled to death. _____ Dragged to Death by a Horse. Ciriciao, July 30.-Arthur Thomas, the nine-year-old son of Mlanager Ar thur Thomas, of the "County Fair" Company, was thrown from the back of the Dude, one of the horses used in the play, Monday morning and was almost instantly killed. With his father and a party the boy was out riding. Ilis horse ran. Mir. Thomas pursued him on Queen, but though Queen is the fast er horse of the t wo, she could not gain on the Dude. The boy lost all control or the horse, and dropping the reins tried to keep on by holding to the mane. IHe lost his balance, falling to one side, but his foot stuck in the stirrup and for full two blocks he hung suspended, his head striking the pavemernt at every jump made uy the horse. His head struck the horse's feet at one time and the animal gave a vicious kick, which caused the boy's foot to slip from his shoe, and he fell to the pavement dead. Liability of the Aillance. CHARLESTON, S. C., July 31.-The Farmers' Alliance store in Spartanburg County failed some time ago, and, al though the store was under the auspices of the County Alliance when the failure came, the Alliance dis-.aimed all res ponsibidity, holding that it lay with the managers personally. The creditors, a Baltimore firm, finding they couhi noti collect the debt, have entered suIt in the United States Court for $2.925. It is expected that the case will soon come up. It is one of the first of its kuad ever had in the country, and the decision willI probably define the liabilities of the Al liance organizations. IC Killed Her at Last. PITTsnuRG, Pa., July 31.-While in Paris with her parents tour years ago Martha Prick, then agted two tears, swallowed a pin. To-day she died at Cresson Spr'ings as the result. She was the daughter of Henry C. Frick, the mllionaire coke operator and steel .nun uacturer. She fl~t no ill eiiects until thc winter of 18s0, when, after much suffering fromi a paulinm the side, an &.) cess formed and the pin was discharged. It left her the victim of~ a peciliar d is ease, which: has ever since baflled the best physicians in the country. A Tripau Lynching. MONTGOMERY, Ala., Aui. 1.-Last Friday night, in Henry County, a short distance from Gordon, a mob took from olicers four negroes--two men and~ two women-who were charged with burn ing a dwelling house. On the way to the river one of the men escaped and was shot at. He rolled down the bank of the river, and by feianing death es caped into Georgia. The others were placed on the bank of the stream and shot. The body of one of the women A S[REET ENCOUNTER BETWEEN TWO WELL KNOWN COL UMBIA NEWSPAPER MEN. Newspaper Articles Cause Bad Blood Be tween Mr. N. G. Gonzales of The Scate and Mr. M. F. Tighe of The News and Courier. COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. 4.-The quiet monotony of summer life in our city was suddenly, but not unexpectedly, broken yesterday afternoon by a per sonal encounter between Mr. M. F. Tighe, the Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier, and Mr. N. G. Gon zales. managing editor of The State. The affair occurred about half-Dast 6 o'clock in front of the News and Courier bureau oilce, and naturally enough in a few minutes after its occurrence it was known from one end of the town to the other, and was the ihemeof all tongues. The casus belli, as the lawyers say, was prim-trily certain newspaper articles which have latterly appeared in the colums of the News and Courier over the initials of Mr. Tighe and certain editorial utterances in The State. Mr. Tighe intimated that a Columbia daily, persumably The State, had Riepublican tendencies and al way* received ,he first news of any important Republican movements. To this The State respond ed vesterday morning In an editorial in which, among other things, the follow ing refereners were made to Mr. Tighe: -Mr. Tige has had the opportunity to know, and knows, that The State is owned exclusively by Democrats; that its editorial policy is absolutely con trolled by the man whose uame appears at the head of its editorial columns, and whom no one dare accuse to his face of beinr other than a Democrat of "the straightest sect;' that it advocates the Democracy of Jefferson without swerv ing or cessation, and that it has no con nection whatever with any other paper, Democratic or Republican, directly or indirectly. "In making what every one will recog nize as insinuations to the contrary. Mr. Matthew F. Tighe, the correspondent of the Charleston News and Courier in this city, has been guilty of a sneaking slan der, unredeemed by the semblance of truth. "If Mr. Matthew F. Tighe, in what he has sent to the News and Courier, did notintend to insinuate that The State was in some manner tainted by Repub lican connections, and for that reason introduced it into a business difference between the owners of the Record, then he is an iJiot. "If, on the other hand-and his refer ence to The State as an 'alleged Demo cratic paper bears out the supposition he did intend to impugn the Democracy of this newspaper, he is a knave." Ihe editorial in question also charged that Mr. Tighe haa sought a position on the staff of The State, and bad asserted that he was not in sympathy with the Tillman party, ard that if he had voted in the general el-ction he would have voted for-Judge Haskell. It also charged that Mr. Tighe desired to take stock in The State, and as late as the month of May was still seeking a position on its statf. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Tighe sent Mr. Gonzales a note in - hich he told him that he could not -escape a fight with him as he had escaped one with Mr. Talbert and Mr. Gandy, and that al though he did not go armed, he would meet Mr. Gonzales wherever and when ever he pleased and with any weapon he pleased, and that he did not carry "the stilletto of the Spaniard;" at least such is said to be the contents of tne letter, but as neither the sender nor the re ceiver of it have given it out for pub lication, the above m-ay not be literally accurate. Upon receipt of the letter Mr. Gonzales procured a cowhide, and, in company with W. II. Gibbes, Jr. sought Mr. Tighe, who was -at the time sittmng in front of the Ne ws and Courier otfice. Sheriff Rowan, who bad a few minutes previous cal e up, see ing Mr. Gonzales approaching with the cowhide sticking out of his pocket, said hurriedly to him. "None of that, N. G.," and as he spoke Mr. Gonzales struck at Alr. Tighe, and they imme diately clinched. They were separ ated momentarily by the Sheriff but got together again', and according to the ac counts of several - ystanders, including, the Sheriff, Mr. Tighe struck Mr. Gion za-les sevetal blows in the face, and by that timent they were again separated, and neither of them appeare d to be much the worse for the encounter. Both of them were summoned to ap pear before the Mayor this morning for disordlerly conduct and fighting on the streets, but thus far no further steps have been taken to prevent any repe tition of the encounter. Sheriff Rowan stated last night to a Register repor ter that the rumor that he had posted himself at the News and Courier office for some time before the dilliculty in anticipation of it, was positively with out foundat ion in fact. He says that he left his ollicei to go hotne by a back street, and remiemb~ering some buisness matter, changed his mind and went. round on Mlaiu street. and had been at the oflice only a few minutes when the encounter took place as above men tioned. 'Eis E~uc a $cheme&. ('ocaia, S C.. .July 3tL-Alliance leet urer J. II. Kiiisler, has to day made public a letter from Capt. Richard O'Neil, e-x-mayor of Colunmbia, wvho has for some ye-ira been ch-ssed with Re publicans. In this letter Capt. O'Neil suggests as a r-emedy for the existing depression by reason of the reduced price of cotton, the skippiing of a cot ton crop in the wiiole South next year. Ihis plan, in brief, is for the tarmiers to ref use to sell but half the present crop during the njext twelve moniths, de miandiug 12% cents pe-r pjund, plant no cotton at all next season, but raise food crops only. In this waty the ne w Mul berry Sellers ligures that the farmers would be able to once for all free them Se-)vt-s from bondage t: the WYest as to being dependent thereon ior supphies, ad( would make something han dsomne on cotton w~hen next thety choose to plant it.____ A Poic~ial Proselste. KANSAs CrrY, Mo. August 4.-The Star's Topeka special says: A letter from IHarrison K~eily, Ex-Congressman frotm this district, in wnich he re nounmce& the Retpuplicanx party and de clares that in fure lie wiil be found dghtiug with Peffer, Polk and Simpson has created more taik than any event of the kind in the pas- few months, Kelly says he has turned to the new party,the People's party, as the be-st medium throngh which to accomplish the re forms favoring their measures, and be leiving their enactment would result in great benefit to the people and both the 01ld parties having rejected hitn he thinks the logical thing to (10 i-s to sup port the new pairty. struck by Lightnjing BARtNwELL, S. C., Aug. 4.-During a thunder storm this afternoon the steeple of the Presbyterian church was struck by lightuing. The bolt, after ut terly demnolishing the steeple. passed on down and tore away the fr-ont, part of the church, stunnimgtwo negroes who were on the porch at the time, and kill ing two cows which were grazing in the vicinity. This goes to show that a negro is hard1er to kill than a cow. THE TRIANGULAR FIGHT IN OHIO. A Third State Ticket to Euter the Field Today. SPRINGFIELD, 0., Aug. 5.-When the People's Party convention was called to order today by lon. H. T. Barnes, at least 450 delegates occupied seats in the beautifully decorated hall. A more orderly and intelli. ent convention is seldom seen. Many ladies were on the floor of the hall and severai of them oc cupied seats on the stage. The proceed ings were opened with prayer by Joshua Crawford, and Chairman Barnes then read letters of encouragement from Sen ator Peffer and Hon. H. Gaithers, mem ber of the national committee of Ala bama. Hugh Cavanaugh, of Cincinnati, was introduced as temporary chairman, and when he advanced to the front of the stage he was greeted with hearty ap plause. Cavanaugh said this was the most important convention held by any party for many a year. It is composed of men who have no axes to grind. We propose, said he, to serve notice on dom inating parties that they have served out their time. We diter from both the other State conventions which have been held this year, notably from the one in Columbus, in that we have not so many senatorial candidates la the field. We aie here to represent a principle which must in the end prevail. Politicians have been saying, "You till the soil a-id we will attend to politics." Cavanaugh said that John Sherman, like Ingalls, would be relegated to pri vate life. "If the Mansfield iceburg fully understood his position lie would say, with Woolsey: 'Had I but served the people with half the strength I have served Wall street, it would not now leave me in my old age.'" H. B. Hutchison was selected as temporary secretary. Various committees retired, and pending their return to report Rob ert Schilling addressed the convention. After receiving reports from committees, the convention adjouned until to-mor row. The committee on resolutions has been wrestling with a platform since 3 p. in., and at 10 p. m. adjourned until tomorrow morning without having reached a conclusion. The sticking points are the prohibition, land tax and farm product loan features. The city districts insist that a prohibition plank would cost the party thousands of votes, and they will fight it to the bitter end. 'iegarding a ticket, everything is chaos. There are a dozen candidates, and their respective advocates are not sanguine. There is beneath the surface considera ble feeling between the Federation of Labor men and the Kmghts of Labor, which causes the farmer element to sus pect both. Temperance Men at Santuc. UNioN, S, C., July 31.-The annual meeting of the grand division of the Sons of Temperance was held last Wed nesday and Thurday at Santuc. Six subordinate divisions were represented by delegates. The reports of the State Scribe and organizer showed an in crease of six new divisions during the past year. The plans of the ensuing year, bespeaks a decided growth of the order by the next annual meeting. Much interest was manifested by the representatives present. The follow ing officers were elected and installed f, r the ensuing year: Grand worthy patriarch, John Alex ander, Columbia. Grand worthy associate, D. B. Fant, Santuc. Grand scribe, F. S. Dibble, Orange. burg. Grand treasurer, S. S. Stokes, Union. Grand chaplain, J. W. Gregory, San tuc. Grand conductor, J. H. Randolph, Santuc. Grand sentinel, C. W. Davis, Marion. The order is on a steady growth, and while the representation was small, those having the management of the order in this State feel somewhat en couraged as to the future of it, and they ask all interested in the growth of the temperance cause to exert themaselves during the coming year and help ad vance the interest of the cause by their individual efforts. The local division at Santuc enter taned the representatives in a very hos* pitable manner, and they left for their homes highly pleased and with renew edl zeal for the cause.-Greenville News. Two Destructive Wrecks. LExINGTON. Ky., July 30.-Two ol the worst and most destructive wrecks that have occurred in a long time took pia te on the Cincinnati Southern Rail road this morning, in which several peo ple where in'ured and one or two chrush~ ed to death. The first wreck occurred one mile south of High Bridge, when a freight train commng north to this city was thrown from the track by a broken axle and five heavily loaded cars went tumbling down the embankment. The construction train at La Deville was ordered to go to High Bridge and render all possible assistance. When the train arrived at a deep cut near Donerail it collided with a freight train. The en gines and a large number of ears were badly demolished. The engi neer and firemuan of the construction train jumped from their engine and were unmnjured. Ben Carroll, engineer of the freight, and his fireman, William McKinley, were both caught in their engine. Carroll re~ ceived slight cuts and bruises and Mc Kinley was buried beneath ,tl.e engine. When extracted he wis mashed into a pulp. All trains are blockaded, and a big excursionz that was to leave here this morning for Niagara Falls had to go over the Kentucky Central. A False Lover Kiled. JACKSONVILLE, FLA, July 31.-A Zeliwood, Fla. special to the Tunes Union says: "Late last night Miss Myra Fancher, a beautiful girl, only 16 years old, shot and instantly killed A. C. Jones. sec tion foreman on the Florida Central and Pennsuar Railroad. She lay in wait for him at a street corner and when he approached blew his brains out with a reolver. " ~For nearly a year past Jones had been paling devoted attention to Miss Fanher, and common report designated them as engaged to be marr ed. About two months ago. however, Jone' dis carded her and married another girl. Since then Myra has been d'spondent, and at times revengeful, but no one sue pected that she intended any violence on Jones. "Since the shooting she says that Jones became criminaliy intimate with her under promise of marrige and she could stand tier disgrace no longer. She was imimediately arrested and taken to Orlando, the county seat, for preliminary trial. Public sympathy is entirely on her .side. Jones's remains were taken to Lake City for hurial." TIIosE papers that have been making fun at Gov. Tillman for presuming to ight the Coosaw octopus has had the laugh turned on them. F1tCULTY OF CLEMSON. SOUTHERN INSTRUCTORS FOR THE CAROLINA YOUTH. Theoretical as Well as Practical Instruc tion Will be Given; but all Theories Will be Reduced to Prastice-Work Done by the Board of Trustees. PENDLETON, S. C., July 30.-The board of trustees of Clemson college held its final meeting this merning and today the various members left for their homes. The long session of the board was caused by the difficulty of the selection of professors from the multitude of applicants, all of whom came with un exceptionable L eferences and recom mendations. The board proceded slow ly and with the greatest care. The va rious credentials of the applicants were read and every endeavor made to secure the very best possible men for the posi ions,for the trustees recognized that upon their selections, in great measure, would rest the fate of the college for success or failure. It took several ballots in each case to agree upon the men for the different chairs. The board not only endeavored to se cure the men best qualified for the posi tions, as far as possible,na-ive South Car olinians, and men who has been active supporters of the movement for the establishment of a separate agricultural and mechanical college in South Caro lina. The application of this last rule caused great difficulty in several cases in the election of a professor. THE FACULTY. The following were the professors elected this morning: Professor of English-C. M. Furman, of Greenville. Assistant Professor of English-T. P. Harrison, of Anderson. - Professor of Physics-C. W. Welch, of Newberry. Professor of History-W. S. Morrison, of Greenville. Professor of Agriculture and Horti culture-J. S. Newman, one of the fac ulty of the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical college. Assistant Professor of Horticulture J. C. Dupre, of Abbeville. Professor of Mechanics-A. V. Zane, of the United States navy. He is a native of Maryiand. Instructor in Drawing-William Welch, of Newberry. Professor of Mathematics- President Strode, a native of Virginia. Associate Professor of Mathematics J. G. Clinkscales, one of the faculty of the Methodist Female college at Colum bia. He is a native of Anderson. Assistant Professor of Mathematics T. P. Perrin, of Abb 3ville. Associate Professor of Chemistry R. N. Brackett, of Charleston. Associate Professor of agriculture W. C. Wellborn. of Greenville, Miss. At previous me-tings of the board H. A. Strode, of Virginia, had Lee elected president; Dr. M. B. Hardin, of Virginia, professor of chemistry, and Messrs. Shiver and Symmes, of Colum bia, assistants in the analyzing of fer tilizers. All of the faculty are Southerners, and the major portion are natives of the Palmetto state. With such a strong and learned faculty, with such a brainy, courteous gentlemen as Professor Strode at its head, the success of Clem son college is assured. It will do noble work in training the young mea of the state to be true and faithful citizens; it will well equip them for the stern bat tle of life, and fit them to increase the wealth and power of the state. Year - by year the wisdom of the founders will become more and more apparent, and by all Iuture generations they will be bailed as statesmen and patriots. TWO DISTINCT PARTIES. At the meeting of the board there' were two distinct parties. One favored practical education alone while the other wanted some theoretical instruc tion In the curriculum. The advocates of practical, industrial education were victorious. Theoretical instruction will be given at Clemson college, but all the theories taught will be reduced to practice. T1he trustees have not arranged the curriculum and will not do so for some time. Late in the summer a joint meet ing of the trustees and the professors will be held, and then the course of study and work will be mapped out. If the~ buildings are completed in time and judging from the present rate of progress they wvill be, the college will commence work February 1, 1892. The session will be nine months long. The brick residence of the professor of chemistry, another brick residence, the chemistry building, the barn and five wooden residences for the foremen and professors have been completed. Trhe mechanical building is almost fin ished. Very little work remains to be done on it. The efforts of the laborers will no w be concentrated on the main building, the foundations of which have been laid, and the dormitory. Work has been commenced on a wooden cow barn. Alter the dormitory has been completed, work on the kitchen and dining room will be commenced and also on the president's house and the residence for the professor of agricul ture. Quite a little town will be formed at Fort l ill by the buildings of Clemson College.-Charlestonl Wor.d. What Does the President Want? ['ACOA, Aug 1.-George Hazard, Secretary of the Democratic Central Committee, has received from the gov ernment Quartermaster at Vanconver a ticket from Tacoma to Washington and return, sent by order of President Harrison. Hazard was formerly a lead ing Republican in Indiana, and politi cians heie believe that the Prsident needs his services in tne coming cam paigu and will try to win him from his party. The result of the visit causes much speculation."' Locaat Plague in Colorado. DENVER, Jaly 30--Recently the wind blowmna in from the west brought with it thousands of Rocky mountain 1o custs. The 1ir was filled with them un til the eledc' lghts were dim-ned by their covering the globes. Stores were obligted to close their doors to keep the pests from covering and destroying their uoods. The streets were for hours covered with them and thousands were swept ofif in the sewers. The hoppers were golnr east toward Kansas and Ne braska, and the main body continued their journey without stopping. The last time Colorado was visited by the locusts was In 1874, when they went into Kansas and Nebraska and destroy ed the crops to such an extent that the government was obliged to come to the ad of the settlers. Death of Ex-Senator Sawyer. SHAWNEE, Te11n., Aug., 1.-Ex United States Senator Sawy er of South Carolina died here last night. He was a prominent figure in the South during the reconstruction, arid had amassed a lare fortnne in ralty.