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p .- -.----- - VOL. VII. MANNING, S. C., WEYDNESDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1891. _NO.43. THE TABEiDSACLE PULPIfi DR. TALMAGE A-KS THE QUESTION, "WHAT WERE YOU MADE FOR?" His Text Tak 0 trota Jabsav 1:1. s7, "rI This Ead Was I llorn"-An Able 1)* course Preveded be an Inspressive scene. BROOLLYN, Oct. 4.-A tuost impres sive scene is that wituessed in the Brook lyn Tahernacle, when at the 01eing of, the morning service 7.000 persons on the main floor, in two galleries and the adjoming rooms. rise and sing the Dox ology. Tbis morning in addition to the congregeational singing Prof. Henry Eyre Browne rendered from the organ, "Theme arid Variaions In A," by Cramer. Dr. Talimae's text was taken from John 18:37. "To this end was I born After Pilate had sucided. trz)dnion says that his bodv was thrown imto the Tiber, and such storms ensued on and about that river that this body was taken out and thrown into the Rhone, and similar disturbances swept that river and its baurks. Then the body was taken out and rearived to Lausanne and put in a (Ieeper pool, which imniedi ately became the c- uter of similar at mospheric and aqueous disturbances. Though these are lanciful and false tra ditions they show the execration with which the world looked upon Pilate. It was before this man when he was in full life and power that Christ was arraigued asin a court ot oyer and terminer. Pilate said to his prisoner: "art thou a king. then?" and Jesus answered: "to this end was I born." Sure enough, althouzb all earth and hell arose to keep bim down. He is today empalaced, enthrone I and coroneted king of earth and king of heavte. "To this end was I -born." .Tha: is what he came for, and that is what he accompliehed. By the time a child reaches ten years of age the parents begin to discover that child's destiny, but by the time he or she reaches tilteen years of age, the question is on tLe child's hrs: "What amItobe? What am I going to do? What was I. made for?" I is a sensible and right eous question, and the youth ought to keep ,n asking it until i is so fully answered that the young man, or thet woman can say with as much truth as its author, though ou a less expensive scale: "to this end was I born." There is too much divine skill shown in the physical, mental and moral con stitution of the ordinary human being to suppose that he wras constructed without any divine purpose. If you take me out on some vast plain and show me a pil lared temple surmounted by a dome like St. Peter's, and having a floor of pre cious satones, and arches that must have taxed tha brain of greatest draughts man to design, and walls scrolled and niched and paneit d and wainscotted and painted, and should ask what this builn ing was put up for, and you answered: ":or Lothingat all," how could I believe Jou? And it is impossible for me to be lieve that any ordmary human being who ha" bnis muscular, nervous and cerebral organization more wonders than Christoper Wren lift: d in St. Paul's, or Phidias ever chispled on the Acropolis, and built in such a way that it shall last long after St. Paul's cathedral is as much a ruin as the Yarthenon-that such a being was constructed for no purpose, and to execute no mission, and without any divine intentnon toweard some end. The object of this sermon is to help you to find out w bat you are made for, and help y ou find you sphere, and assist you into that condition where you can say with certainty and emphasis and enthu siasm and triumph: "to this end was I born." First, I discharg.e you from anl respon sibility for most ot your environments. You are not responsible for your parent agze or grand-parentage. You are not responsible for any of the cranka that may have lived in your ancestral line, and who a hundred years before you were born may have lived .:style of life that a.ore or less affects y ou today. Yo onie not responsible lor the fact that your temperament is sangniie, or melancholiu or bilious, or lymphatic, or nervous. Neither are you responsible fo~r the place of your nativity, whether among the granite hills of New England, or the cotton plantations of Louisiana, or ou the banks of the Clyde, or'te Unieler, or the Shannon, or the Seine. Neither are y ou resi,or'sible for the religion taught in your iathrer's house or the irre ligion. D)o not bother yourselr about what.you cannot help, or about circuni stat ces that you did Dot decree. Take things as they a io and decide the ques tion so thai you shall be able safer, to to bay: "to tLis end wiis I born." How will you decide ii? By direct application to the only being in the universe who is competent to tell you-the- Lord Al mighty. Do y ou know the reasoni wIhy he is the only one who can tell? Because She can see everythmng between your cra-e die and.)our grave, though the grave b5 eighty y ears oif. And besides thai. hie i the only beina w bo can see what has been happe ning :or the last 500o years in your ances!.aI line, and for thousands ct years clear back to Adam, and there is not one pei son in all that annu.~tal line 01 6,000 years but has somehiow affected your character, and even old Adatn himself will sometimes turn up in your disposition. The only being tnat can take all rhings that pertain to y ou into consideraton is God, and he is the one y ou can ask. Life is so short we have no time to experiment with oc cupations and prefe siuns. The reason we have so r.uay dhead failures is that parents decide Ior ceildren what they bhall do0, or children themselves, wrougt. on by some whim or ancy, decide icr thenmselves without any imploration of divine guidiances. So we Lave now in pulpits mien making- sermons who ought to be in blacksmith shops making ilongshares, andt we have in the law those who instead of ruining the cases oi their clients ought to be pounding shoe lasts, and doctors who are the worst hin drances to their patients' convalescence, and artists trying to paint landscapes who ought to be whitewashing board leesces. Wh.ie there are others making 1.r aks who ough. to be remodeling con stitutuons, or aboving planes who ought to be tiansfer mitig literatures. Ask God about what worlcly business you shall undertake until you are so positive you can in earnestness smite your .hand on your plough handle, or your carpernter's bencn or your Black stone's Commrentaries, or your medical dictionary, or your Doctor Dick's Didac tic Theology, maying: "for this end was I born." Th~ere are children who early develop natural attinities for certain styles of work. When the fther Sof the astronomer For bes was going to London, he asked his children what present he should bring each one of them. The boy who was inohe na s troveimer, cried out "brnug we a t cope!" And there are cl.idreu w on Iou iud all by themselves drawig o their shites. or on paper, shbip-,ir h1ouSt or birds, aud Vou kniovW they are to be draughtsmen or artists of some kind. And you Iud others ciohering out dili cult problems with rare interest and sUc cess, and you kuow they are to be math umaticians. Aud others making wheels awd strange contrivances, and you know they are going to be machiuists. And' others are found experimentimz with hoe and plough and sickle, and you kn -w they will be farmers. Aud others are always swapping jack-knives or balls or bats, and making something by the bar gain, and they are going to be mer chants. When Abbe de Rance had so advanced in studying Greek that he could translate Anacreon at twelve years of age, there was no doubt left that he was intended for a scholar. But in almost every lad there comes a time when he does not know what he was made for, and his parents do not know, and it is a crisis that God alone cat de cide. Then there are those born for some especial work, and their fitness does not develop until quite late. When Philip Doddridge, whose sermons and books have harvested uncounted souls for glory. began to study the ministry. Dr. Calamy, one o the w:s'st and beSt' men, advised him to turn his thoughts to somae other work. isawo Barrow the eminent clergyman and Christian scien tist-his books standard now thougi he has been dead over 200 years-was the disheartenment of his father, who used to say that if it pleased God to take any of his children away he hoped it might be his son Isaac. So some of those who have been characterizea fortheir stupidi ty in boyhood or girlhood, have turned out the mightiest benefactors or bene factresses of thq human race. These things being so, am I not right in say ing that in many cases God only knows what is the most appropriate thing for you to. do, and He is the one to ask. And let all parents. and all schools, and all universities, and all colleges reco. nize this, and a large number of those who spent their best years in stumbling about among businesses and occupa tions,- now trying. this and now trying that, and failing in all, would be able to go ahead with a definite. decided and tremendous purpose, saying, "to this end was I born." But my subject now mounts into the momentous. Let me say that you are made for usefulness and heaven. I judze this from the way you are built. You go into a shop where there is only one wheel turning and that by a workman's foot on a treadle, and you say to your seli': "here is some thing g->od being done, yet on a small scale;" but if you go into a factory covering many acces, and you find thousands of bands pulling on thousands of wheels, and shuttles flying, and the whole scene bewildering with activities, driven by water. or steam, or electric power, you conclude that the factory was put up to do great work and on a vast scale. Now, I look at you, aw d if I should find that you had only one faculty of body. only one mus Cle, only one nerve, it you could see but could not. hear. or could hear and not see, if-you had the us& ef-bnly-one foot or one hand-aid,'s toj7or higher na ture, if you had only one mental faculty, and you had memory but no judgment, or judgment but no will, and if you had a soul with only one capacity, I would say not much is expected of you. But stand up, oh man, and let me look you squarely in the faic. Eyes capable of seeing everythinx. Ears capable of hearing ever3 thing. Hands capable of grasping everything. Mind with more wheels than any factory ever turned. more power than Corliss engine ever mocved. A soul that will outlive all the universe except heaven. and would out live all heaven if the life oX other imamor tala were a moment short of the eternal. Now, what has the world a right to ex pect of you? What has God a right to demand of you? God is the greatest of' economists in the universe, and Hie makes nothing uselessly, and fer what purpose did Hie build your body, mind and soul as tney are buiLt? There are only two beings in the universe who can answer that questihn. The angels do not know. Tue bchools tio nloL know. Your i: dredJ cannot certainly know. God knows, and you ought to know. A factory running at an expeuse of $500,000 a year, and turning out goods w orth 70 cents a year would not be such an incongruity as you. oh man, with such semi-lutinite eqmipment doing nothing. oc next to nothing, in the way ot use iulness. "W!hat shadl I do?" you ask. My biethired, my sisters, do not ask me. Ask God. There's some path of Chris Lian usefulnes. open. It may be a rough path, or it mnay be a smnoOta path, a long path or a short path. It may be ont a mount of conspieuity, or 1n a valley un observed, but at is a path on which~h you can start with such laiib and such satis laction and sneh certanuty that you can ery ouC in the face of earth and hell and heaven: "to this end was I born." Do no; wait for extraordinary (quahtications. Philip the Conqueror gained has great est vcetories seated on a mule. and if you wait for some caparisoced Bu,:ephalus to ride into thme conflict you will never get ito the world-ie Sght at all. saason slew the Lord's enemies with the jawbone ol the atuzpidestbeat creat ed. Shamngar slew six hundred ot the Lord's enemies with an ox-goad. Un der God, epittle cured the blind man's eyes in the .New Testament story. Take all the faculty you have and say: "U Lord here is what 1. have, shiow aie tihe field and back me up by omnmpotent power. Any where, any how, any time for God." Two men riding on horse back came to a trough to water the horses. While the horses were erink mag one of the men said to the other a me w words about the value of the soul, and then they rode away, and in oppo site directions. Bat the words uttered were *.he salvation of' the one to whom they were uttered, and lie became the Riev. Mr. Champion, one of the most distinzmshed mi:ssionairies in heathen lands; bor y ears wondering: who did f'or him the Christian kindness, and not tind ing him cut until in a bundle of books sent him to Africa he found trne biogra phy of Brainerd Tay lot and a picture of him, and the missionary recognized the lace in that book as the man who, at the watering trough for horses, had said the thing that saved his soul. What oppor tunities you have had in the past! W hat opportunities you have now! What op por tunities you will h rve in the days to come! Put on your hat, oh womisn, this afternoon, and go in and comfort that young mother who lost her babe last summer. Put on your hat, oh man, and go ever and see that merchant who was compelled yesterday to make an as signment; and tell him of the everlasting riches remaining for all those who serve the Lord. Can you sing? Go and sing for that mana who cannot get well, and you will help him ieto heaven. .our hands, sour Iret. your body. , yir mnid, your soul, your Ie, your death, pcur time. your eternity fir (od, feellng In your sou!: ,to this end was I born.' It may be heipful to some If I recite nv co experience in this regard. I started for the iaw without asking any divme di .'ection. I consulted my own tastes. I Iked lawyers and court rooms and judges and juries, and I reveled in hearing the Frelioghuysens and the Bradleys ot' the New Jersey bar, and as asistant of the cointy clerk, at 16 years of age, I searched titles, naturalized forei-ners, recorded deds, received the confession of judgments, swore witnesses and juries and grand juries. But after a while I fel L a calf to the Gospel minis ry and entered it, and I felt so e satisliction in the wark. But one summer, when I was resting at Sharon Springs, and while seated in the pa-rk of that village, I said to myselt. " it I have an especial work to do in the world I ough; to find it out now," and with that determination I prayed as I had never before prayed, and got the divine direction, and wrote it down in my niemnrandum book, and I sa-V my life-work then as plainly as I see it now. Oh do not be satisfied with general directions. Get specilie direc tious. DLo not shoot at iandnm. Take aim and fire. Concentrate. Napoleon's success in battle came :ro n his theory of breaking through the enemy's ranks at one point,, not trying to meet the whole line of the enemy's force by a similar force. One reason why he lost Waterloo was because he did not work his usual theory, and spread his force out over a wide range. Oh Christian man, oh Christian woman, break through somewhere. Not a general engagement for God but a particular engagement, and make ;n answer to prayer. If there are sixteen hundred milimon people in the world, then there are sixteen hun dred million different missions to fuliil, different styles of work to do, different orbits in which torevolve, and if you do not get the divine direction there are at least fifteen hundred and ninety-nine midion possibilities that you will make a mistake. On your knees before God get the matter settled so that you can irmly say: "to this end was I born." And now I come to the cliniateric consideration. As near as I can tell. you were built for a happy eternity, all the disasters which have happened to your nature to be evercome by tte blood of the Lamb if you will heartily accept that Christly arrangement. We are all rejoiced at the increase of human long evity. People live, as near as I can observe, about ten years longer than they used to. The modern doctors do not bleed their patients on all occasions as did the former doctors. In those times it a man had fever, they bled him, if he had consumption they bled him, if lie had rheumatism they bled him, and if they could not make out exactly what was tke matter they bled him. Oiden time phlebotomy was death's coadjutor. All this has chaaged. From the way I see people skipping about at 80 years of age, I conclude that life insurance com i-anies will have to change their table of rsks and charge a man no more pre m.um at 70 than .they ustd to.do when he was 60. anl o more'premim at 50 than when he was 40. By the advance ment of medieal science and the wider acquaintance with the laws of health and the fact that people know better how to take care of themselves, human life is prolonged. But do you realize what, after all, is the brevity of our earthly state? In the tme when people lived seven and eigrht hundred years. the pa triar.;h Jacob said that his years were few. Looking at the life of' the young est person in this assembly and suppos ing he lived to be a nonagenarian, how snort the time and soon gone, wbile banked up in front of us is an eternity so vast that arithmetic has not ligares enough to express its lengt i, or breadth, or depth, or heieht. For a happy eter nity you were born unless you run your self against the divine intentions. If standing in your preseuce, my eye should fall upon the feeblest soul here as that soul will appear when the world lets it up, and heaven entrances it. Isupe I sho-ild be so overpowered that I should drop down as one dead. You hav'e ex amined the f'amily Bible and explored the family records, and you may have daguerrotyp)es of some or the kindred of previcus generations, you have had pho tographs taken of what y'ou were in boy hood or girlhood. and what you were ten 'rears later, and it is very interest ing to any one to be able to look back uon pictures of' what he was tenl, or t wenty or thirty years ago; but have you ever had a picture taken of what you in my be and what you will be if' you seek after Gea and feel the Spirit's reeeratng power? W hi e r e shall I plant the camera to take the jme trer I plant it on this platf'orm. I direct it toward you. Sit still or stand still while I take the picture. IL shall be an mnstantaneous picture. There! I have it. It is done. You can see the picture in its imperfect state, a: d get some idea of what it will be whon thoroughly developed. There is your resurrected body, so brilhiant that the noonday sun is a patch of midnigrht compared1 with it. TIhere is your soul, so pure that all the forces of diabolism could not spot It with an impertection. There 1s your being so miigntv and so swift that flight fromi heaven to Mercury or Mars or Jm'piter and back againi to heaven would not weary you, andl a world on each shoulder would not crush you. An eye that shall never shed a tear. An energy that shall never feel a atigue. A brow thiat shall never throb with pain. You are young again, though you died of decrepitude. You are well again though yen coughed or shivered yourself into the tomb. Your every-day associates are the apostes and prophets and martyrs, and inost exalted souls, masculine and feminine, of all the centuries. The archangel to you no embarrassment. God hismself y our present and everlasting joy. That, is an instantaneous pi.;ture of what you naay be, and what I am sure some of on . ill be. If you realize that it is an imperloet pictur-, iny apology is what the Apostle John said: ''It doth not vet appear what we shall be." "To this end was I born." If I did not think so I would be overwhelmed with melancholy.. The world does very well for allile while eighty, or a hundred or a hnndred and fity years. and I think that human lon gvity may yet be improved up to that prolongation, for now there is so little room between our cradle and our grave we cannot accomplish much, but who wouldl want to dwell in this world f'or all eeruity. Some think this earth will fiually be turned into a heaven. Per lhaps it may, b'utit would have to under to radical repairs andl thorough elmina ions and evolutions and revolutions and transformations intinite, to make it desir able for eternal rwsidence. All the east winds would have to become weat winds. and all the winters changed to sprinr ties, and the olnone vtinguiseo, :31d the oceans6 chiailled I.:: :heir e&n theepdem.ies forb ie eiutmace, an'd 0;Ie world so lixed Up 9; t I hink it wvOuld take mow-re to repipur this old warid I han to make an entirei v new one. I t I lmuLst say I do n't care wl' lIwaVn!k . ii . we can onziv Let the:e. whetier a ar den:i7ed America. cr an Emparadisel Euope, or n world centr:l t the wo:'le aliverse. "To this Cud w 1s I bilr." 'I each oue of us could .y mat, we wou '. with faces shin:: am'i hojws exh crant <mid earth's worst m.isfortunates and taials. Only a little while and the1 the rapture. Only a little while ard I then the reunion. Only a little while and theu the Lransfi..urationi. In the seventeenth century, all Eu rope was threa.tened with a wave of Asiatic barbarism and Vienna .was es pecially besieged. The king and bis .ourt had fled and nothmg couki save the city front being overwhelmed unless the king of Poland, John Sobieski, to whom Ihey had dent ferhelp, shou d v:nh hi' army come down for the relie, aud from every roof and tower the inhabitants of Vienna watched and waiied and Lope i untti or the morning o! Sept. 11, the rising sun threw an unusual and uu paralleled brilli ancy. It was the re ftection on the swords and shields and helmets of John Sobieski and his army coming down over the hiill to the res cue, aud that day, not only Vie . ua, but Eurbpe was saved. And see you not, Oh ye souls, besieged with sin and sr row, that lighit breaks in, the swords and the shields and t le helmets of divine res cue batbed in the risiug sun of heaveuly deliverance. Let everything else go rather than Itt hCaven go. What a strange thing it must be Lo feel one's self born to an earthly crown, but you have been born for a thorie on which you may re:n after the last monarch of all the earth has gone to dust. Invit you to start now bor your own corona Lion. to come in and take the titie deeds to your everlasting inheritance. Through an impassioned praver take heaven anLd all of its raptures. What a poor farth in, Is all that this world can offer you compared with pardou here and life im mortal beyond the stars, unless this sxlc of them, there be a place large enough and beautiful enough and grand enouwh for ah the ransomed. Wherevr it be, in what world, whether near by or far away, in this or some orther constalla riun. hail home of light and love and blessedness! Thron.a the ato::ing mercy of Christ may we all g1et therel An Unennny V1ist-or. KANsAS CITY, Mo.. Oct. 2.-Kausas City, Kan., now coL1s to the front with a regulation ghost story. It is not one of the common, ordinary ghost which pvrowl around deserted nouses, but at ful-fledged ghost of a policeman, uni form and al!. Two years ago a Policeman Henry James was on tbe brat leading toward the Southwest boulevard, and was very regular in passing such points, ao mtich so, in fact that the people used him in place of a clock, for they knew that when James passed it was a certain h'ur of the niht or day, as ths case may be. One morning James was found lying dead on the sidewalk with an ugly hole In the back of his head. He had been struck with a pick::xo, which was afterwards found near by, covered with hair and blood. Not the slightest clue was ever found which would point to the perpetrator of the deed, and after a tiue the matter was relegate-I to the annals of Mysteries. It seems, however. tthat Jawes oid not rest eaisy in his grave. and ii :s now e,.d that his form can be seen on it moon light, night patrolling the beat just, as he did in former days when he wats In the flesh. The people livineg on the beat say that he can be neard walking with the same measured tread as form-rly. and he ap pears as plainly as if he were alive. He is never seen from the street, but always from the windo ws of thei houses. When the people try to get nearer and see what it is the form vanishes out of sight and appears no more that night The other poliice-inr were at iirst d!is posed t o soold a: the' so-called ghost, but one night rine of them saw the spech-r, and now the ehief is compireiled to hae two men walk the beat, for the piatrol uten wiui not go alone. One now has to go to protect the othe'r. It is dillicult to finrd any one who hlas seen the ghost, but all can tell what their t:eigh bornw arnd wh .t they heard. p'hey say that JTamesi walks along every night at the samte i~our anid diappear~s at the spot where his body was found. The appearance is at 1:20J o'elock in the morning, anid it is sitpposed thi, he. was murdered at tnait hour. Grover artd the iHabT. Nxw TORK, October 3.-A darugh'er was born to Mrs. Grover Clevelhind~ shortly after midnig'ht. he mnothier and daujhter are doing well. The im portant news dlii not become kno'wn down-town until ziearly' TnoJ. Trh.-n it spread with the utmiost rapidity, noth in the city and to other parts of the country. During thie afternoon nmany flowers were sent into Mrs. Cievelan~d and both rather and mouter reseived hearty congratltii:,s. Then :nes senger boys hegran to move up the avenue wirth telegraphic m~essages from all parts of tne country. Ex-l'res::nrt Cleveiand was evidently a pleiased Ue'n when seen about the recent addition to his householl. Hre r-ceivedI the r:ess representatives ini the drawingc room, anid anticipating the questionf rhat would be ased htun said: "Yes, it is true. My wife was saf cly delivered of a little girl this morning at s~x mninutes past midnight. and both mother and child are dloinir splendidly. N rs. Cieve land has reste U quietly all tday. The child is strong anid ne-aithy and at its birth weighed eight lounas." A Massacre ia Mexico. SAN ANTox10, T1-XAs. Oct. 5 ..hn H. tParton, an America, wh~o r theC past two years has been eugaged in the minmng- busmness near Metztilanin th "e State of ilidialgo. Mexico, arriv ed here yesterday, lie brings i'mormation ofa bloody Indian outbreak. wihi has for some time beentm in rogress in the d trict of Tulanmengo, in that Stat. The trouble is the ontgrowth of at dis pute between several c.,lonies ofi Shun tards and Germaus and the Irihans. The news setti-ars attempting to settle on the lands of the natives, the Indians resisted their attempts to evlet them and much bloodshed has resulted. Parton says that a few dave before his departure a settlement of whites was attacked by Ind'ans nearly two hundred peop)le were rmassacredh, inc!nding amen, women and children. Th~e colonists have appealed to the Goveru-neut for protection andh several battalions of troops are on their Wa y to the scene .f the troubbe. Rtoasreud Alive. IlosTox, Oct. 5.-The immense pack iniz establlsh-cent of John P. Sqirt &: Co, in East Cambridge and Soruerville, was partially destroyed by .jire to-night.! The tire caught in the ho.g but:lding in~ which were 1,500 live hugs. These auli mals wers :all roasted to death and tie PEi1lSiiED IN FLAME. yHFREE BURNED TO DEATH AND OTHRS INJURED. i'oAica and Ftrexxen Aided the Inmates Luvn the Flre Es-ape-Fireuau Murphy Yiuda 11 IWVVife.'s Corpse In the Burn inig Mount. NEW X ORK, Oct. 3.-Three persois were burned to death early this moin ing in a lire in a live-story brick tene ment house at the corner of Iludson and Dominck streets, and two others very badyi burned, one so seriously that recovery is not expected. The dead are: Mrs. Annie Murphy, 32 years old, of 562 i Hudson street; Miss Katie Dunn, 22 < yeatrs old, a dressmaker who boarded wi-h Ms. Murphy; Josephine Ryan, 6 veers r.!(, of Washington, D. C., Mrs. 1! rp y's niece. The injured are: Martin D. Toohey, 11 yeirs old, Mrs. Murphys' son bynrr first husband; his injuries are pronounced fatal; John Toobey 9 y vrs .!d, Mrs. Murphy's second son; his iojuides perhaps fatal. Ohe lire was discovered at 2:20 o'clock this morninr, when Policeman Mc Grath hear]l a sound of breaking glass which he thought was caused by burg- i larn. Running up to the store on the ground floor of 262 Hudson, occupied by J. K ratzenstein, lurniture and uphols tery, hebroke a pane of glass in the wiudow when there immediately poured out a.heavy volume of smoke. The po liceman rapped for help and Roundsman Ryan and Detectives Cox and Gargan hastened to his aid. They sent out an alarm, then broke in the doors of the maln entrance to the house on the Dom inick street side. Flames and smoke rushed out and drove the policemen ba*k. The stairway leading to the up per floor was a winding one, the centre lcrming a shaft that was filled with a column of liames. It was evident that it would be impossible for the inmates of the house, lift in number, to escape by the stairs. olicemen hastened to the tire escape on the front of the build ing and shouted to the panic-stricken occupants not to attempt to descend !y the stairs. Then they climbed up the escape and aided men, women and chil dren to descend. In tanis they were aid ed by the firemen, who had quickly an- i swered trie alarm. Firemau Lucas on reacning the tifth floor found in the rt3r room Matthew Ryan, a box maker, whoa is a * idowe-r, and his tfhree children al mc-st overpowered by smoke and unable to help themselves. le dragged then to the window and with the aid of his comurades succeeded in getting them down the fire escape safely. Just th-n the hooK and ladder truck No.8 drove up and one of its firemen, Matthew Murphy, sprano to the ground shout ing "Great God. its my house; where nre mv wite and child?" Before any i one could stop him he rushed through the llanmrs and smoke and fought his nay up btairs to the fifth floor. There he found the body of his wife burned alrio.st beyond recognition, lying in the hallway just outside her apartment. A little further away was the burned form of little Josephine Ryan, the dead wo man's neice. She was still living, but died :-,ou after. The body of Miss at n was found at the foot of a laa.1r scading to the roof. She had evidellly been overcome by smoke and I bu:rned to lteath hille seeking to escapte Two boys Jobn and Martin Toohey, i Mrs. Murphy's step son,, were found in tbi. room. They were removed to the rooms of the Monticello Club across the street where the half-dressedtenants had foind refuge. Thence the boys were taken to St. Vincent.'s Ilospitai. Mar tin~ 'oohey was terribly burned all over his body and cannot survire. ils broth er John is not so badly burned, bat It 13 feared he may be fatally injured by inhsiing smoke. Mrs. Murpny was married to Fireman Murphy only one month ago. Sae was the widow of Pol Icemnan Toohey. Nine families resided in the hous+ and eacn famiiy had an average of three boarders. The fire broke out in an un occunpied wood house in the cellar, andi th-- police saidl this morning that it was o~f lacendiary origin, hut they would nout say on wnat this opinion was based. ?he aciual.dama~ge to the buildmng will :.: exceed .91,500. John Toohey died at 0 o'clock in great agony. Seven P~rehoa Killed. CHincAo, Oct. 4.-A boil-r explosion aboard the steamer C. W. Parker killed s-ven persons and seriously injured ma,,ny othiers in the neighborhood of Archer ave'nue bridge, on the south bra whi of the river, about 4:30 o'clock this af' ernoon. T'he tug C. WV. Parker, in comnpany with three other togs, was ogaged in attemnptinx to tow the coal se einer HI. S. lickards out of a draw of to bridge when the explosion occurred. ihree of the killed wr-re employe-e ofr the tug, and their bodies have not beent !Ic.)ver4-l. The o'her persons killedf were stauding or. the hanrss of the rivr, to whiich a number of spectators had ben drawn to witness the removal of the steamer P'ickards, wh'eh arrived on Saturd;iy from Buffalo with a cargo of coaxl. The vessel had run agrounhd in theo draw, rad four tugs were putting forih every et'ort to move it, when one 1 :f them, thie C. W. Parker. exploded. 0 In ZDavy JohneR's Looker. .ioNTREA L, Oct. 2.-A dispatch from, 9t. Jo~hns. N. F'., says that t wo veesus, osm-~d the P'arsee and the Amazon, ro turried from Labrado lad:en with tish. were overtaken by the recent viol-nf, sorm,. driven ashore andi became total wrecks. The captains and crews, nobreing ten or eleven men, were all hrowned. In the same gale the Blos- I somn, ainother Labrador vessel, on re rurn, struzck on Gull island, Notre Damne bay. and went to pieces. .Four or live uU perished. The loss of the Newfoundiarnd brig C'ameilia, at Scatierie, has created a pannful sensation here, as Capt. Rich rir H arvey, a very worthy and highly reg(ett-d citizen of St. Johns. with his wtife andQ child, perished ina the wreck. I flThir bodi's were recovered.I A Sad Fate. Cnicwo, Oct. 2.-When the through :rain on the Rock Island Road pubed I rnio Englewood this morning Condu:-r or Dickey- missed one of his passen- ( ~ers. She was a lady and had come allr :h-e ay through from Denver. After hrorouIghly searching his train for the nisiing woman he telegraped to Blue [slaind to the operator thiere to have ther ~rack east aud west of Blue Island gone I >ver. About two miles west of BlueC [slsnd the body of the missing passen- 1 te-r was found lyIng beside the track. Sh had pronably gone out on tlie plait- C ormi of the car and accidently fallen C if. Nothing was found to identify the t ,ro~man. Takwrirfromi he hrir. hLzcA, Ark., Oct. 1 -It Is learned ~h:i. Sheriff Derrick of Mariana, Ar-k. ett Cat Island last night having i blarge nine of the thirteen colored I Ricker rioters who killed Inspectorc MIiller in Arkansas last, Friday. Thee sheri :1 was on his way to Mariana whore t te wais going to put his prisoners in I all, but tihe party was overtaken late t ast night by an armed posse who tookr ~be prisoners after a sharp struggle and ' ianned the entire part. AN EARNEST APPEAL For Co-Operation in Aid of the Movemunt for a Prohibitory Law. COLTJ3TA, S. C.. Oct. 8.-Rev. 1. F. Chreitzberg has the following appeal n the Southern Christian Advocate in urtherance of the prohibitory move 2ent. A bill is pending in the Legislature of ur State looking to the prohibition of he liquor traffie in South Carolina. it .as been drafted with care, and will he 'urther amended before it is put on Its passage by guarding the weak points in similar bills in others States. 1i it is passed it will be the strongest law of he kind exuant. That it will pass there can be no doubt .f the friends of humanity will rali th's nce more to the woik. To gain thi :onsensus of e'ort the Gocd Te nplars. >f Columbia have appointed a commit Lee. That committee has sent out a ircular letter anda number of blank Lroms of petition to every minister ofI he Gospel in the State, irrespective of Jenomination or color, whose adress :onld be obtained, to every Depui.y in aood Templar Lodges and Divisions of he Sons of Temperance. Twenty odd housand of the petitions has thus beeu ent out. Shall we succeed? That depends now 2pon the willing co-operation of the riends of the cause. Will you pdrdon is if we continue to urge your attention o this mAtter? The work is great. but t has been so divided that a thorough anvass can be made and no one bur lenid. if you cannot give tiis work our immediate personal attention, willI ou kiudly enlist some of the good wo nen of your charge or neighborhood, so tbat every man. friendly to this move ment way be allowed the privile-e uttin himself upon record against the injust cruel, lawless, disgraceful trallic n intoxicating liquors, and pedduni of inman souls and family happiness ;r evenue. Let no name be or.Atted. -Let very voter, white and colored, have an pportunity to sign. Designate therm o that the number of white aud colored an be ascertained. We are terribly in arnest. We believe that we shall suc :eed; but should we fail, let it be on the ida of right. Brother, think for a brief space upon ikat we are trying to do. Think of the t iutold number of our people who are in tony on account of this traffic. Thinx low it antagonizes and nullifies the wrk of the church. Think of the thou lands of souls it shoves off into the pit )f woe every year in our beautiful State, d by a grant of authority by the tate. Think how impossinle it is for his trafice to continue without levyimp s victims irom the present rauks of the nuocent. Think then of the boys and pirls of the present Who must suffer in a ew biort years to come. 0, in the iame of high heaven, it these are to be iarmed and destroyed by this curse of :urses, this plague of plagues, let it be lone in violati-n of a righteous law macted by the will of the people. From >r bended knees, supplicating the Divine- blessing. let us press forward in ,his work of freedom and reform. God will help us to throw tir this material. >olitical and moral parasite if we will ,nly help ourselves. For long. years nethods have been discussed; let us :ease talking now and put some method n operation. This petiti:n method is ,he best we have at hand now. Now for long pull, a strong pul, and a pull al o-ether, for God and home, and beloved rolina. H. F. CH REITZBERG, One of the Committee. A Letter to the Farmers. COLUMBIA, S. C., Oct. 8.-The fol owing circular letter to the fairmers of South Carolina was issned yesterday. [ts object is to interest the tanmers of he State in the turnishing of samples of gricltural products for the State ex libit at the Augusta Exposition, which willi be held from November 3d to No reber 30th instant: Eo the Farmers of South Carolina: The powers and dumies of the old oard of Agriculture have been devolved< apon the Board of Trustees of Clemson ollee. All the energy and money eretofore used by the D~epartmenzt or1 uriculture in other ways are now be ng directed to the building of that, in titution. But the Trustees are not tin nindful of the iamportance ot utilizing very opportunity wh'ch oi!ers to adver ,ise our resources. it has, therefore. 1een detertmined to make an exhibit of >ur products and industries at the Au usta Exposition, 'which opens on thme Id and closes on the 30th nI November. The committee in charge of the work 'epecfully asks the earnest co-opera ion and help of our farmers towards urnishing samples of agricultural prod lets--corn, wheat. rye, oats, rice, bar ey, potatoes, turnips, etc.. The value > such exhibits de pends upon the pur and quality or the article and oi its >elng displayed in libe-ral qluautity-. ?ersous willing to contribu:.e or sell ex ra ine sam ples of these things will as st us greatly if they wiil at once noti:y ie Secretary ol :State, w!Io will forward au, and the articles can then be hi'ped to Augusta. If the article to e exhibiied is bought only the name 'f he ce'uty will appear; if it is contrib ited the aame 01 the donor wil! ibe daced apon it. We ask our brother t armers to give us prompt help ini mak og a creditable display of farm pro ieta. Respectfully, B. R. TrILLMAM, J. E. TINDAL. J. E. WANNAMAKER, Committee. Killed by a Dog. ALTIonE. Oct. 2.-Mrs. Mary Glen- . leng, aged 35, was at tacked by a bulle log at her home this miorning. Thie >rute ilt her three times, anm iinally ~stened his teeth in her side. draggimg wr some distance. Mrs. tiess, hearing ter screams, came to hern aid. and was n turn attacked by the dog, which bit I tr severely on the leg. A imian passlug ushed in and beat off nle dog. Mirs. iendening is dying; Mrs. Iless miay ecvr.1 Two Bliander ing~ Generain. CALLAO, via Panama, Sept. 2.- -it. iow seems, If the report be true, that I he Congressionals owe their victory hietly to a terrible mistake committed I >y the g-nerals, Bar bosa and Aleerroca, rho took each others' forces for those >f the common enemy during the battle >f the 21st, and had a desperate encoun en n which both generals were killed Lnd of which the Congreesionals took ilvantage____ -- Pelsomed by Wild I'aranlp'. OTTAWA, Ont., Oct. 5.-Elgnt child- h 'en, from three to ten years of age, were I: posoned yesterday by eating the berries e. if the wild parsnip, and are not expect d to recover. They were playing about he streets lst evening, and seeing one plants growing with bright red t >erries on top, ate a quantity of the ber- r jes, which were sweet and pleasant. o shortly after all the children were tak- t n ilntly (111 1. hat, Charle L evar P.I~AXIIl, thDe iioLt Lri~h Icadt~r, died z-Udd;exIly VCUateri ,v~igat ll: hoI'.;1 Illihtu It has bec. well kiwwi thut; Mr. I':. li!i nas I.r Lno.. UC besti wca1lhf 1r Wi173 j):lbt. aifd It LlaS beL flat, MiCe he~ U'ita dSvorce devewo neub t ua a in atter 0t jiUtilie nIOt ifitv. am;a siull ,),Aoitical troules cati ipou hun, thut great Irish memubtr .?arhianieiLt IMU groam u thinner, anld thi ie had pefeep~UDIa ncd in appiaranci )UL nobody expected to heuar of li. teath,' aild no 0 iU.ti Us LU U'6S illI lad reachecd [tie Iewsjpajers. QuIly at thiS h9ur, I P.* M.,l ha, i bet iossibie to ftbiain t~le detaLils in regai oV tx'e death Ot I'arnell. 1L. died Ut Il itonme. Wa.whr ercJrgt Lt 11.V*.) 3U1aY H~nn~.is deW -S 5uld toi ha~-e bietii ituIreetly du t.) :h"il V-hiC1A fle Catil iabt Week, U'_ yhil tt rst, waa LI'rL re..ardcd as belL )fa *erius naturc. i'arnlCl, howeve ;rew %worse ad a phy-ii-n.as caici 'vith thle rczsUiL that thet patit W4:5 v lered to take to his bedL'. ihts wvas ( 'riday last, anld iromu thal. t11nt Pain. Q:,t 3Ltrenii anld inaliy sucumbed. 'Irie exact fUture of the diseuase wNvli ;atlSC(l thle deth, ot bt:e Ir.ua ivtder i iot yet be;u madte iwoun. Fi'oii tU lay h1C took to his Led, flu*wc'v(r, Ll Late ol hiS 1neh_'th ha:S bue tucr a.,s ices;CWC the c0Ut)tatat a L.tntLIIU VI 01. awt and unUiriia ll ort tov,*: WPr~kit24( -ave is ie~ I'arueii grddaialf bat oweTtr batd !.),fur Ufltil lie C-Xj)1LCe in.u irostrated UY VIe sizOekexeL ec .nrough in hut'.stid's Oert' A. ratie, 6lu1A 0j. the :,:ty -NeW Yu.' eiuidered -. rteeptiou to flIon. Iutw .. Flower, JDaiocrat Uatiahite 1( ;verflur. iii thle W7oose I Fill NLLIUe. LL was a iiutdUbic. gathcr~ung rtamn1.L11L DeznoccniLIe C;'i'u '." iletropitA, iuciulIng extIeiiei r xr Cleveland. Wheni tihe e.x-jresideaL entered hLs a] icarance was a signal Or an eULhusia: ic outburbL01PoTlAUoi-SC, Wh:imIi coat-iflh or iteveral Ifiites. .its teeting wit dr. Flower waes cliaracteized by tt ieartiest of nood !einand tue cleej -ere redoubled. Ill response to cri Or* a steexh, Mr. U~evel.Ltld baic;: I'robabtWy you arc te QU U 1I.O0LI; hv en more linterest1ed the la: ew da3 s with a mou-Vmer than I. ai fA;th actual polin, -.. [Laughter at ipLau I rretu to ay Li.-a- tii; aoll-VOLCL hA' k b~t)lCiP Li )emocratie partY U unI uroiloUita( L'atn5L wvornau suffrage hits ucw 1 repua ld. [euewcd laughter and applause Whlen I comLe i[to this hoQWe of 1), flocracy, into tuew DIUenC-rhtic atnn here, all my en-Ahu.-iasin for the pzi, iples (-I' our grand party is it.vakelm IWI ilLUtSeisihe. Wye arc now euLera: L orit5L. in I'('!! I d:. UoL Want toI eft Out. This is a time when,; tei Ljemocrat must do his ;eil duty. -Never Las there( be,_N a ttMe when L. Democrats Lad a greater inicentive vork 1'.r party siuceis. It gived me ti reatest pleasure, t11 be able to say thi le ticket noranated wernts and s11OU eceive Uhe earnc,, SUP~I0L ci every t Jl~eiorat. Vur s.-xCS5 thiS fai MU; eattained by ss s*ewatie, unltiring au nteHiirgcut work. Tit LCona!.o. must oN ELEC'TR0oU[ioNS. :L DR. M'DONALD'S STATEMENT ON THOSE AT SING SING. It F1,'1y Cnturmrns the Accounts ilven by thj United Pes S.-vie.,-lxaelbriit .Intantoustu and Death Speedy. ALBANY, N. Y., Oct. 1.-Dr. Carlos F. MacDonald, who superintended the electrocutions at Sing Sing, to-day made the following statement which in each particular verrilies the report of the United Press sent out on the day of the electrocution. In this supplementary - report of the details of the executio u which took place at Sing hi son d last July it is stated that in all these i cases, one electrode was so applied as to cover the forehead and temples and a the other-a large one-the calf of the right leg, except in the case of Joseph d Wood, in whica it was applied to the let L leg, in consequence of the existence of an ulcer on the right one. The eleo trodes were thoroughly wet with a solution of salt and water before the current was turned on and were mois ' tened at Intervals when the current was interrupted, with the same solution thrown on them with a syringe. Siocum h entered the oxecution room at 4:33 a. m. L and passed at once to the chair. The I restraining straps and electrodes were adjusted expeditiously and without re sistance, aud the electric circuit was comipleted for tne first tite at 4:35. 'he first contac' lasted twenty-seven seconds at tne end of which time it was broken but the pulse was still round to be ueating strongly, and between one, C and twelve minutes later a noisy re y spiration became established with con d siderable regularity. The current was irmediAtely reapplied and continued for 26% seconds. Respiration had then ceased entirely and permanently and the heart beats had also ceased. Alter Socurm's body had been removed con i sultation among tne medical genuiewe:i )r present seemed to point to tne unani mous feeling that it was quite possible that the long continuance of the current was not so signiliant a factor in pro ducing rapid cessation of tile heart beat, as the sudden rupact of making and breaking the contact and for that reason the next execution was conduct ed a little differently. 1Harris A. Smiler entered the rcom at h 5,06 a. In. Ine first contact was made ie at 5 OS a. im., and continued ten seconds; s was ticn interrupted to allow or wet s ting spouges; was again made tor ten seconds and again the sponges were wet, and a third contact was made for ten seconds. Three contacts ot ten sec onds each were thus made, at the end t of which time there was no effort at respiration, but the pulse was ueating so tirruly ant reguiarly that it was deemed expedient to again close the circuit for nimeteen seconds, at the end - of which time the heart had perman .] ently ceased beating. it wiAl be noticed that in the first - case the pressure was applied tor htfty 1. three secon.ds in all. At the end of that d time respiration and the heart beats had ceased permanently. In the see ond case at tne end of three contacts of Len seconds each the heart beat was still ,Lrong and at the end of tme fourth to upiation ot nineteen seconds that ehad enurely ceased. It will appear frum this tLat the duration of the cur C rent w'as quite as important an item as It the makilng and breaking of a contact. d It was therefore determined to make L tne contact in the next case a little t longer, interruptions being necessary to ,L permit of moistening the sponges. >e Joseph Wood entered at 5.32 and the Selectric current was completed at 5.34. eiTnree contacts of twenty seconds each were made at the end of which time respiration had ceased permanently; no pulse could be felt at the wrist and no 9 heart beat was neard on examination.. -- -. J ugiro entered the room at 6 a. m. At 6.u2 a. m. tne current was closed for the first time, and three contacts of tif Ce teen seconds each followed, with two in. r- terwissions of twenty seconds each. >f When the current was finally broken a B- very slight Iluttering was telt at the 3- wrist. in this case extreme heat was -s noticed in the region of the knee above g thbe point where the lower electrode had a VCeen appliea and a thermometer heia e against the skin for only fifteen see d onds ran op115 degrees, the highest y poInt it registered. At 6.17 the chest Swas bared and cessation of the heart ts was confirmed. ai From the experience had in these eases, the report says we are inclined to kthe beliefthwhlunnsises e i is moment of contact in each cae, 3 ti order to insure that death supervenue as rapidly as possible it ws n ece'ssary to conticue the voltage elm played in these cases for from fifty to sixty seconds. In each case the temn -perature of the water nea'r to and at t the e' ges of the electrodes was raised neairly If not quite, to the boiling point' Sso as5 tOo blster lihe skin more or less Cx Steni'vely. There was absolutely no whrew any smoking, charring or burn ing. u An Inhuman Fath~er's Crim.. CH A R LESTON. S. C., Oat. 5.--Carlo Mouzen er, white, has been arrested for sooting his thirteen-year-old daughter. M.ouzenier is .,tnteid to have left his wie and children several mlonths. Ie went "to Mount Picauac in company with an Ither inmn and proceeded to the res tdeuce o: his wile, can ying a double bar rel run loaded with bird shot.. His Sdaughter saw him coming and ran away e frizhened. Monzenier ordered her to 'stby wh!chi she did not do and her father - takiraz deliberate aim fired. The shot Sstruck her on the lower portion of bob,. aShe wasi taken up in an insensible con A sens:on at ena . 'D m, Oct. 2.-A profound sensa on ha been created by a dispatch 'r.am 1-ichenberg, Bohemia, which 'wh'il anInoiinemg the safe arrIval at that p14ce of the Emperor Francis .1.seph, also brings the startling news that during last night an attempt was made to blow up the bridge at Rosen bhal, a. suburb of Reichenberg, by means ofabomb. Fortunately the plot was discovered and frustrated. It is sup pon d thiat the bomb was placed there in hope of killing the Emperor, whose t rain. crossed the bridge in question. No arress have been reported. Smothered in Cotton seed. RIA ~L t(m, N. C., Oct. 3.-Willioughby Sas, of Wayne county, on going into his uarnx, wherein a large quantit y of ed cottoni was storedi, discovered his ive year-old daughiter Mary with her rei and aportion of her body in a hole in the cot ton dead. She had imitate~d her bother, aged twelve, in digging the hole and while the latter went to the s house shep deepene.d the cavity and stuck e her headt in it, but owing to the heavy Sprsuire of the cotton from all sides was a unable to draw herself out and was nmothered. s Gox-. TILLMAN has called a conven -tion to meet in Columbia. during Fair s week to discuss the World's Fair mat Ster. All cities, alliances, boards of