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MANNING, S.--., EDN ESDAY, OCTOBER 21, 1891. NO. 44.
VOL. VII. X A N - " N S7q'TL
THE SWO:RD OF ET F A ZAR.
A SERMON ON THE COLDNESS. DOUBT
AND UNBELIEF OF THiSAGE.
Sad Cabes of Chrlitians Who Believe but
a Part of the liAble, of Men Who Doubt
Everything and of Self Styled Christians
Who Shrink from the Confliet.
BROOKLYN, Oct. 11.-Among the
vast audiences which crowd the Brook
lyn Tabernacle at every service are large
numbers of young men, many of whom
are theological students. Dr. Talmage's
sermon this morning had a special in
terest for them. At this time when so
many are ;ivng up the Bible, or hold
ing the truth less firmly than before, the
eloquent preacher put himself on record
so clearly and forcibly that no one who
heard him could have any doubt as to
his attitude. His text was II Samuel
xxiii. 10, "And his hand clave unto the
sword."
A grept ge:eral of King David was
Eleazar, the hero of the text. The
Philistines owuined battle against him,
and his troops re.reated. The cowards
fled. Ele.zar and three of is comrades
went into the 'Jattle and swept the field,
for four n-.;n %%ith God on tbir side are
stronger t 'aL a whale battalion with
God again- t tV. m. ' Fall back!" shouted
the comranar c: the Philistine army.
The cry r..a a! n- the host. "Fall back!
Eleasar lhvug swept the ftield throws
himself ou the ground to rest, but the
muscles and sinews of his hand had been
so long beat around the hilt of the sword
that the hilt w as imbedded in the flesh,
and the gold wire of the hilt had broken
through the skin of the pa-m of the
hand, and he could not drop this %word
which he had so gallantly wielded. "His
band clave unto the sword." That is
what I call msrificent fighting for the
Lord God of Israel. And we want more
of it. I propose to show you this morning
how Eleazar took hold of the sword and
how the sword took hold of Eleazar. I
look at Eleazar's hand, and I come to
the eonclusion that he took the sword
with a very tight grip. The cowards
who fled had no trouble in dropping theiz
swords. As they fly over the rocks
I hear their swords clanging in every
direction. It is easy enough for them te
drop their swords. But Eleazar's hand
clave unto the sword.
. Oh, my friends, in this Christian con
flict we want a tighter grip of the Gos
pel weapons, a tighter grasp of the two
edged sword of the truth. It makes me
sad to see these Christian people whc
hold only a part of the truth and let the
rest o the truth go, so that the Philis
tines, seeing the loosened grasp, wreach
the whole sword away from them. The
only safe thmg for us to do is to put our
thumb on the book of Genesis and sweep
our hand around the book until the New
Testament comes into the palm, and
keep on sweeping our band around the
book until the tips of the fingers clutch
at the words, "In the beginning God
created the heavens and the earth." I
like an infidel a great deal better than I
do one of these namby-pamby Chris
tians who hold a part of the truth and
let the rest go. By miracle God pre.
'served this Bible just as it is, and it is a
DamaEcus blade. The severest test to
which a sword can be put in a sword
factory is to wind the blade around a
gun barrel like a ribbon, and then when
the sword is let loose it flies back to its
own shape. So the sword of God's truth
has been fiuly tested, and it is bent this
way and that way and wound this way
and thai wav, but it always comes back
to its own shape. Think of it! A booki
written eighteen centuries ago, andi
some of it thousands~of years ago, and
yet in cur time the average sale of this
book is more than twenty thousand cop
ies every week, and more than a million
copies a s ear. I say now that a bock
which is divinefy inspired and divinely
scattered is a weapon worth holding a
tight grip of. Bishop Colenso will come
along and try to wrench out of your hand
the five books of Moses, ands Strauss
will come along and try to wrench out
of your hand the miracles, and Renan
will come along and try to wrench out
of you hand the entire life of the Lord
Jeisus Christ, and your associates Ir. the
store, or the shop, or the-factory, or the
banking house will try to wvrench out of
Syour hand the entire Bible; but in the
strength~ of the Lord God of Israel, and
with Eleazar's grip, hold on to it. You
y''i the Bible, you give up any part
of it, an) p2.r. - g parden and peace
and life and heaven.
THoTHIGAIANS' CREE1).
I see hundreds, perhaps thousands, 0f
young men in thais audience. D~o not be
ashamedi, young man. to have the world
ea~da'o are a friend of the Bible.
This bcok is the friend of all that is good
and it is the sworn enemy of all that is
bad. An eloquent writer recently gives
an incident of a very bad man who stood
in the cell of a western prison. This
criminal had gone through all styles of
crime, and he was there waiting for the
gallows. The conviet standing there at
the window of the cell, this writer says.
"looked out and declared, 'I am an in
fidel.' He said that to all the men and
children who happened to be sgathered
there, 'I am an infidel,' " and the elo
quent writer says, "CEverv man and wo
man there believed him." And the
writer goes on to say, "If he had stood
there saying, 'I am a Christian,' every
man and woman would have said, 'IHe
is a liar!' " This Bible .is the sworn
enemy of all this wrong, and it is the
friend of all that is good. Oh, hold on
to it. Do not take part of it and threwt
the rest away. Hold on to all of it,
-There are so many people now who do
.not know. You ask them if the son]
is immortal, and they say, "I guess it
is, I don't know; perhaps it is, perhi &ps
it isn't." Is the Bible true?~ "Well,
perhaps it is, and perhaps it isn's; per.
haps it may be figurativelyv, and perhaps
it may not be at all." They despise
what they call the Apostolic creed; but
if their own creed were written out it
would read like this: "I believe in noth
ing, the maker of heaven and earth, and
in nothing which it hath sent, which
nothmnt was born of nothing, and which
nothing was dead and buried and des
cended into nothing, and arose from noth~
ing and ascended to nothing, and nowt
sitteth at the right hand of nothing, from
which it will come to judge Nothing. I
believe in the holy agnostic church and
in the communion of nothing-garians,
anmd in the forgiveness of nothmng, and
she resurrection of nothing, and in the
life thatnever shallbe. Amen." Thai
is the creed of tens of thousands of peo.
ple in this day. If you have a mind te
adopt suchu theory I will not. "I be.
y e in God the Father Almighty,
er of heaven and earth, and in Jesue
bit, an'd in the holy catholic church.
din the communion of saints, and ir
lfe everlasting. Amen." Oh.
n I ate m Ela a ing such a stonw
I rip of the swon iii tie baLC against
Sin and for righteousness, I come to the
conclusion that we ought to take a stout
er grip of God's eternal truth, the s wor d
of righteousness.
As I look at Eleazer's hand I also no
tiee his spirit of self forgetfulness. lie
did not notice that the hilt of the sword
was eating through the palm of his hand.
He did not know it hurt him. As he
went out into the conflict he was so anx
ious for the victory he forgot himself,
and that hilt might go never so deeply
into the palm of his hand it could not
disturb him. "His hand clave unto the
sword." Oh, my brothers and sisters,
let us go into Christian conflit with the
snirit of self abnegation. Who cares
vhether the world praises us or denoun
ces us? What do we care for misreprm
sentation, or abuse or persecution in a
conflict like this? Let us forget oursel
ves. TLat man who is afraid of getting
his hand hart will never kill a Philis
tine. Who cares whether you get hurt
oi not if gou get the victory ' Oh, how
many Christians there are who are ali
the time worrying about the way the
world treats them. They are so tired.
and they are so abused. and they are so
tempted, when Eleazer did not thiw':
whether he had a hand. or an arm, or a
foot. All he wanted was victory.
We see how men foret themselves la
worldly achievement. We have e:ten
seen men who in order -o achieve world
ly success will forget al physical fat~gue
and all annoyance ant- all obstacle.
Just after the battle of Yorktown. in the
i American Revolution, a musician,'
wounded, was told he must have his
limbs amputated, and they were a"out
to fasten him to the surgeon's table
for it was long before Lhe merciful dis
covery of auxsthetlcs. He said, "'No,
don't fasten me to that table, get me a
viohn." A violin was brought to him
and he said, "Now go to work as I be
gin to play," and for forty minutes, dur
ing the awful pangs of amputation, le
moved not a muscle nor dropped a note
while he played some sweet tune. Oh,
is it not strange that with the music of
the Gospel of Jesus Christ and with this
grand march of the church militant on
the way to become the church triumph
ant, we cannot forget ourselves and for
get all pang and all sorrow and all per
secution and all perturbation?
THE ENDURANCE OF HEROIC MEN.
We know what men accomplish under
worldly opposition. Men do not shrink
back for antagonism or for hardship.
You have admired Prescott's "Conquest
of Mexico," as brilliant and beautiful a
history as was ever written; but some of
you may not know under what disadvan
tages it was written-that "Conquest of
Mexico"-fcr Pres::ott was totally blind,
and he had two pieces of wood parallel
to each other fastened, and totally blind,
with his pen between those pieces ot
wood he wrote, the stroke against one
piece of wood telling how far the pen
must go in one way, the stroke against
the other piece of wood telling how far
the pen must go in the other way. Oh,
how much men will endure for worldly
knowledge and for worldly success, and
yet how little we endure for Jesus Christ.
How many Christians there are that go
around saying, "Oh, my hand, my hand,
my hurt hand; don't you see there is
blood on the hand, and there is blood on
the sword?" while Eleazar, with the hilt
imbedded in the flesh of his right hand,
does not know it.
Must I be carried to the skies
On flowery beds of ease,
While others fought to win the prize
Or sailed through bloody seas?
What have we suffered in compari
son with those who expired with sullo
cation, or were burned, or were chopped
to pieces for the truth's sake? We talk
of the persecution of olden times. There
is just as much persecution going on no tv
in various ways. In 1849, in Madagas
car, eighteen men were put to death for
Christ's sake. They were to be hurled
over the rocks, and before they were
hurled over the rocks, in order to make
their death the more dreadful in antici
pation, they were put in baskets and
swung to and fro over the precipice that
they might see how many hundred feet
they would have to be dashed down, and
while they were swinging in these bask
ets over the rocks they sang:
Jesus, lover of my soul,
Let me to Thy bosom fly,
While the billows near me roll,
While the tempest still is high.
Then they were dashed down to death!
Oh, how much others have endured for
Christ. and how litte we endure for
Christ! We want to ride to heaven in
a Pullman sleeping catr, our feet cn soft
p ush, the bed made up early so we can
sleep all the way, toe black porter of~
death to wake us up .nly in tinme 1o en-'
er the golden city. We want all the
surgeons to 11x eur hand up. Let them
bring on all the lint, and all the banda
gen, andl all the salve, for our hand is
hurt, while Eleazar does not know his
hand is hurt. "IIis hand clave unto the
sword."
As I look at Eleazar's hand I comc to
the conclusion that Le has done a great
deal of hard hitting. I am not surprised
when I see that these four men-Eleazar
and his three companions-drove back
the army of Philistines that Eleazar's
sword clave to hIs hand, for every time
he struck an enemy with one end of the
sword the other end of the sword wound
ed him. When he took hold of the
sword the sword took hold of' him. Oh.
we have found an enemy who canno tbe'
conquered by rose water and soft
speeches. It must be sharp stroke and
sraght thrust. There is intemperance,
and there is fraud, and there is gambling,
and there is lust, and there are ten thou
sand battalions of iniquity, armed Phil
istine iniquity. IHow are. they to be
captured and overthrown? Sol t sermons
in morocco cases laid down in front of
an exquisite audience will not do it.
You have got to call things by their
right names.
IMPERATIVE NEED OF' AN AWAKEN
IG.
We have got to expel from our
churches Christians who eat the sacra
ment on Sunday and devour widows'
houses all the week. We have got to
stop our indignation against the Hlittites
and the jubusites and the Gergishites,
and let those poor wretches go, and ap
ply our indignation to the modern trans
gressions which need to be dragged out
and slain. Ahabs here. Hlereds here.I
Jeebels here. The massacre of the in:
fants here. Strike Ibr God so hard that
while you slay the sin the sword wili
adhere to your own hand. I tell you,
my friends, we want a few Jolhn Knoxes
and John Wesleys in the Christian
church today. The whole tendency is
to refine on Christian work. We keep
on refining on it uutil we send apolo
getic word to iniquity we are about to
capture it. And we must go with sword
silver chased and presented by the la
des, and we must ride on white pallrey
under embroidered housing, putting the
spurs in only just enough to make the
charger dance gracefully. and thetn we
ii.z cad, to aml, the old black g-iaut of
, he will not surrender.
Women saved by the grace of God ant
>u glorious mission sent, detained from
4abbath classes because their new hat
s not done. Churches that shook our
Ities with great revivals sending arounJ!
.o ask some demonstrative worshiper if
.1' %ill not please to say "amen" and
halleliujah" a little softer. It seems
is if in our churches we wanted a bap
ism of cologne and balm of a thons
md flowers, when we actually need a
)aptism of fire from the Lord God of
Lentecost. But we nre so afraid some
)odv will criticise our sermons, or crit
cise our prayers, or criticise our re
iious work that our anxiety for the
world's redemption is lost in the fear
we will get our hand hurt, while Eleazar
sent into the conilict, "And his hand
flave unto the sword."
But I see in the next place what a
iard thug it was for Eleazar to get his
mud and his sword parted. The mus
:!es and the sinews had been so long
Zasped around the sword he could not
lrop it when he proposed to drop it.,
tad his three comrades, I suppose, come
. and tried to help him, and they
atled the back part of the hand, hop
ag the sinews and muscles would relax.
lut no. "Iis hand clave unto the
s word." Then they tried to pull open the,
ngers and to pull back the thumb; but
o soonLer were they pulled bick than
Aey c!ostd again, "and Is hend clave
into the sword." lut after aw':ile they
were sueccssful, and then the) noticed
Lflat the CurVe in the palm of ie hand
corresponuded exactiy with the curve of
he hilt. 1is hand clave unto the
sword."
You and I have seen it many a time.
here are in !he United States today
many aged ministers of the Gospel.
hey are too feeble now to pre ch. In
he church records the word opposite
heir names is 'emeritus." or the words
ire, "a minister without charge." They
6ere an heroic race. They had small
alaries and but few books, and they
wam sring freshets to meet their ap
pointments. But they did in their day
a mighty work for God. They took
>ff more of the heads of Philistine in
Equity than you could count from noon
Lo sundown. You put that old ministerof
the Gospel now into a prayer meeting,
)r occasional pulpit, or a siak room
where there is some one to be conforted,
nd it Is the same old ring to his voice
and the same old story of pardon and
peace and Christ and heaven. His hand
bas so long clutched tht sword in Chris
ian conhfiet he cannot drop t. "His
hand clave unto the sword."
THE AGED MINISTER'S FAITH.
I had in my parish in Philanelphia a
very aged man who in his early life had
been the companion and adviser of the
early presidents. Madison and Monroe.
1ie had wielded vast influence, but I
Dnly knew him as a very aged man.
The most remarkable thing about him
was his ardor for Christ. When he
ould not stand up in the meetings with
ut propping he would throw his arms
round a pillar of the church, and thougzh
is mind was partially gone his love for
Christ was so great that all were in
eep respect and profound admiration,
and were moved when he spoke. I was
:allea to see him die. I entered the room,
and he said. "Mr. Talmage, I cannot
5peak to you no w." He was in a very
pleasant delirium, as he imagined he
ad an audience befOre him. He said.
I must tell these people to come to
Christ and prepare for heaven." And
then in this pleas ant delirium, both
arms lifted, this octogenarian preached
Christ and told of the glories of the
world to come. There, lying on his dy
ng pillow, his dying hand clave to his
sword.
Oh, if there ever was any one who
bad a righ' to retire from the conflict it
was old Joshua. Soldiers come back
rom battle have the names of the bat
tes on their flags, showing where the!
istingished themselves, and it is a very
appropriate inscription. Look at the
lag of old General Joshua! Oa it Jer
~cho, Gideon, Hlazar, City of Ai, and
nstead of the stars sprinkled on the flag
he sun and the moon which stood still.
rhere he is, one hundrcd and ten years
ld. He is lying flat on his back but he
s preaching. His dying words are a
battle charge against idolatry and a rally
.ng cry for the Lord of Hosts as he says,
lhold. this day I go the way of all
he earth, and God bath not failed to
~ulill his promise concernin.. Israel."
[11s d yinir hand clave unto the sivord.
There is the headless body of Paul on
he road to Ostea. His great brain and
als great heart have been severed. The
almoedI rods had stung himW fearfuily.
When the corn ship broke up he swam
shore, coming up drenche& with the
rine. Every day since that day when
the horse reared under him in the subu
ebs f Damascus, as the supernatural
ight fell, down to this day wben he is
sixty-eighut years of age and old and de
:repit from the prison cell of the Mamer
tine, he has been outragsously treated,
and he is waiting to die. How does he
p~end his last hours? Telling the world
ow badly he feels, and deeetsibing the
~heumatsm that hie got in arisen, the
heumatism sillicting his limbs, or the
euragia pieccing h~is temples, or the
hirst that fevers his tonguer Oh, no.
Elis last words are the battle shout for
Chrstendomn: "I am now ready to be
lered, and the time of my dieparture is
m hand; I have fought the good fight."
nd so his dying hand clave unto the
sword.
It was in the front room on the second
loor that my father lay a-dying. It was
aturday morning four o'clock. Just
.hree years before that day my mother
mad left him for the skies, and lhe had
een homesick to join her company. He
wvas eighty-three years of age. Minis
ers ot the Gospel came in to comfort
um, but he consforted them. How
wonderfully ths words sounded out from
is dying pihlow, "I have been young
md now am old, yet have I never seen
.he righteous forsaken, or his seed beg
~ing bread." They bathed his brow,
and they bathed his hands, and they
bathed his feet and they succeeded in
straihtening out the feet; but they did
at succeed m bathing open the hand so
t would stay open. Tney bathed the
and olen, but it came shut. They
athed it open again, but it came
ihat. What was the matter with the
:humbh and the fingers of that old hand?
Xlhi it had so long clutched the sword
>f Christian conflict that "his hand
lave unto the sword."
a1RITS OF THE~ MARTTiRS.
I preach this sermon as a tonic. I
aant you to hold the truth with inera
ficable grip, and I want you to strike so
uard or God that it will react and while
ou take the sword, the sword will take
Tou noticed that the oflicers of the
iorthern army a few years agro assem
>led at Denver, and you noticed that
he officers of the southern army assem
bed at Lexington. Soliers coming to
periences and to show their scars. Here
is a' solier Who pulls up his sleeve and
says: "There, I was wcunded in that
arm," and shows the scar. And an
other soldier pulls down his collar, and
sals, "There, I was wounded in the
neck." And another soldier says, 'I
have had no use of that limb since the
gunshot fracture." Oh, my iriendis,
when the battle of life is over and the
resurrection has come and our bodies
rise from the dead, will we have -n us
any scars of bravery for God' Christ
will be there all covered with scars.
Scars on the brow, scars on the hand,
scars on the feet, scars all over the heart
won in the battle of redemption. And
all heaven will sob aloud with emotion
as they look on those scars. Ignatius
will be there, and he will point out the
places where thm tooth ana the paw of
the lion seized him in the Cliem;
and John B uss will be there, and he
will show where the coal first scorched
the foot on that day when his spirit took
wing of flame from Constance. M' Mi
Ian and Campbell and Freeman, Amer
ican missionaries in India, will be there
-the men who with their wives and
children went down in the awful massa
cre at Cawnpore, and they will sho-v
where the daggers of the Sepoys struck
them.
The Waldenses will be there. and they
will show where theirbones were broken
on that day when the Piedmont-se sol
diery itehed them over the rock-. And
there will be those there who tok care
of the sick and who looked ater the poor.
and they will have evidences of IearthlY
exhaustion. And Christ, with his ,carred
hand wavinz over the scarred multitude,
will say, "You suffered with ine ou
earth; now be glorihed with me in heav
en." And then the great orsrius of
eternity will take up tie chant and St.
John will play, "These are theiy who
came out of great tribulation and had
their robes washed and made white 'n
the blood of the Lamb."
But what will your chagrin and mine
be if it shall be told that day on the
streets of heaven that on earth we
shrank back from all toil and sacrifice
and hardship. No scars to show the
heavenly soldiery. Not so much as
one ridge on the palm of the hand to
show that just once in the battle or
God and the truth, we just once grasped
the sword so firmly, and struck so hari
that the sword and the hand stuck to
gether, and the hand clave to the sword.
o my Lord Jesus, rouse us to thy ser
vice.
Thy saints In all this glorious war
Shall conquer though they die;
They see the triumph from afar,
And seize it with the eye.
When that illustrious day shall rise,
And all thy armies shine
In robes of victory through the skies,
The glery shall be thine.
Gone Wrong.
NEW Youx, October 15.-The New
York Times and other morning papers
to-day published news of which the fol
lowing is the substance: John HIoey.
who for the last forty years has beeL
identified with the Adams Express
Company, andI who for over three yeart
has been its president, was yesterday
discharged from his high office by the
unanimous vote of the board of direc
tors on the charge of malfeasance.
Clapp Spooner vice president of the
company, a Bridgeport millionaire, who
occupied the president's chair when the
ote was cast to discharge Iloey, and
who voted for that discharge, handed
in his resignation, and it was accepted
for precisely the same reason for which
Hoey was discharged. The charges
against Hocey and Spooner. which
brought about the above act-ion, are
that they purchased the Ne w York and
Boston Dispatch Express Company and
Kinsley Express Company for $150,000,
and turned them over to the Adamai
Express Comp'any for $850,000, and that
the difference between these two
amounts was divided between IHoey
and Spooner, Henry Sherburne and
Henry C. Taft.
The exposure was brought about by
a suit brought by Sherburne against
the other three men for an accountima:
and his share of the profits of the deal.
Ioey's share of the profits is set down
as $179,000, and Spooner's at $172,000.
The published statements are that
when the directors met to consider the
subject Hoey had nothing to say. ieu
ry Sanford, of Bridgeport. Conn., was
this afternoon appointed presidert of
the Adams Express Company. and
Frederick Lovejoy, of this city, was ap
pointed vice president.
Educationals5tattics,.
WASmflIOTON, Oct. 9--The 'Cencus
Bureau has issued an extr: bu!!he-on o '
education as a summary of statistics'
heretofore published but briniging rt
turns of private and parochial schools
up to July. 1, 1891, and giving~ paro
hial schools by States and by commuu
ities, not before shown ic any censu.
The total school enrollment for the
United States, reported July 1.1l691, wi-s
close to 14,220,000; the tot:l public
school enrollmenit, includmng about '65,
0Mi in universities, schocls for trainin g
teachers, and so on near 12,73t0,000; ia
private schools and in parochtal schoon,
at far from 750,000 each. A t able gives
the national population and scbiool
enrollment from each decade from 184-),
when the first educational e'-nsus was
taken, showing a gain of population
from 1850 to 1870 of 66.26 per cent ;from
170 to 1690J of 62.41 per cent.; of spetai
enrollment from 1850 to 1870 of 97 94
per cent.; from 1870 to 180'0 of 'J7.21 per
cent,, indicating nearly the same reht
tions of population and school enroll
ment in each period, notwithstanding
great local changes meantime. Returns
received sincei this bulletin was pre
pared will add considerably to private
and parochial enrollment and modify
the classitication in some degree.
All Hands Wore Drunk.
ST. Jonx's, N. F., Oct. 15 -A sailor
named John Brennan arrived at ? re
passy today and tells the following si ora.I
~e was one of the crew of forty-three
f the steamer City of Rtome, which left
Montreal, October 7, for Dundee wit h
575 cattle and a lot of flour and maize.
he steamer, he says, was tot ally wreck
ed Monday night at Marine Cove, St.
Mary's Bay. The captain, crew and of
icers were all drunk and could not save
themselves. H~e was thrown on the
rock, and after a terrible night's experi
ence was rescued by a man natued Lun
:drigan on Tuesday morning. All t be
others were lost, ie tells a pitiful tale
f the struggles of the cre w and of the
cattle in their efforts to save themselves.
There is considerable excitenment here
over the story o fthemnanlBrennani. who
claims to be the only survivor of the
cattle ship City of Rome. There are nu-;
merous persons here who refuse to be
lieve his story. Brennan is on his way
to St. John's. -
Egyptian Cotton srers Too.
CARlo, Oct. 8.-The cotton associa
tion reports that the recenit cold an~d
foggy weather which has prevailed
throughout the cotton growing distrl':ts
of Egypt has seriously affected the
crops. -The association, taking every
thing into consideration.'estimates tihe
vlelQ of cotton will te ;3,70',00 cantr-rs.;
DIVIDIENG THIE IN 01110.
I
t
AN EXTRAORDINARY UNION PGLITI- r
CAL MEETING AT ADA. M
Governor Campbell, t h e Democratic
Chamion, iVtns the Opening and Clos
int, and MakeA Good Uso of the Privi- V
c
lege In Doing Up McKinley.
f
A iu, OrIo., Oct. 8.-The little town
of Ada was in gala attire to-day in
honor of its great political e7ent, and c
not only did every front window pre
sent a likeness of either McKinley or 9
Campbell, but from every limb of the c
tr-es were suspended above the streets t
portraits of the distinguished Ohioans. 5
Flags and banners and bunting there t
were without number, and so generous a
was the friendly rivalry of decorations
displayed by Democrats and Republi- ]
cans tbat the very horizen was obscured p
by the familiar lines of the national t
coiors. Great decorative taste was dis
ph'ed in various triumphal arches,the e
moet prominent of these structures be- t
ing the non-partisan. "Weleome" arch,
which rose above Main street and bore
the words, "Welcome to their leaders." c
From the Keystone were also suspend- t
td portraits of McKinley and Camp- I
bell, and as the various marching clubs t
marched under the arch they eneered 1
lustily for their respective leaders. I
By noon there were over Ilve thous- 3
and strangers in the city, and although V
great enthusiasm was manifested by C
both parties, the rivalry was a friendlv .
one and entirely devoid of unpleasant a
incidents. Many Indianians and a few
11liuoisians came and they numbered in
their ranks the most enthusiasti- par- e
tIsanson thteground. Fr'm early inorn- t
ing until the opening of the meeting the C
music cf bands resiurded through the i
streets and occasionally the blast of a
tin horn tilstlirbed the martial melody. ,
There was an object lesson, however. t
in these tin horns, for they were under- t
stood to be and labelled as the product c
of A merican tiu. The handy walking v
cane, displayed with much ostentation t
by various marching clubs, was alluded :
to as having an origin in the tin mines 3
of Dakota, and no occasion was lost to i
denounce in vigorous language the bete t
noir of Ohio Republicans, the ")emo
cratic tin-plate liar." On the other hand a
the Democrats retaliated by displaying d
badges bearing allusions to the incon- S
sistency and impotency of the McKin- t
ley bill. The ladies wore distinctive j
badges, which attracted much atten
tion, and the Democratic badge receiv
ed special allusion by Governor Camp- t
bell. I1t bore a nortrait of Campbell, y
and below it werethe significant words,
"American wool, 24 cents, on accowL.t h
of the McKinley blil." An Ameri- 0
can tin badge, displayed with equal t
pride by Republicans, contained a por- t
trait of McKinley and bore the words: l
"Protection and honest money." 1
There were many prominent Ohio a
politicians on the grand stand, ard both a
parties were fairly well represented. r
At 11.15 a special train bearing Major ,
McKinley, Senator Jlumphreys and t
others rolled into the depot, and cheer
after cheer arose from the crowds as
the features of the great exponent of
protection were recognized by the mul
titude. The Major bowed smilingly to V
the crowd, and, Quickly en tering a car- b
riage, was driven to the residence of t
Prof. Lehr, under escort of various V
marching clubs, led by an exultant i
brass band. Promptly at 12.W0 the
ocking Valley train, bearing about
one thousand cheering Democrats and h
Republicans, drove in sight, and at
tached to the rear of it was the special 1
car "Buckeye," containing Governor
Campbell, Dr. Norton, Chairman Nor
ton of the State central committee,
Lieutenant Governor Marquis, and a
few other prominent Democrats. A e
repetition of the enthusIastic ovation ~
e
extended to McKinley was the recep- ~
tion tendered Campbell.
As the cheering multitude pressed .
around the carriage in waiting to re- I
ceve the Governor not a few insisted r
on shaking hands and the proceedings
were temporarily interrupted while ~
Governor Campbell extended his hand
to a few of the more demonstrative.g
The band struck up "The Campbells are
Coming" and again a series of enithusi
astic Democratic cheers rent the air.1
Te Governor was rapidly driven to theP
residence of Prof. Lehr, where he met
Major McKinley, and they took lunch
with Prof. Lehr and a few personalU
frinds. For a brief hour politics andb
the great struggle which is being waged a
for partisan supremacy in the .Uuckeye
State were forgotten and these two gen
thmen, each acknowledged by his op
ponents to be "the prince of good fel
lows." met in steeial friendship: in ful
turlment of their mutual pledge at the -
contest that there should be a campaign P
of measures an~d principles and not of ~
pe:soality.
Today'd union political meeting was P
held in a vas. amphitheatre on the 0
Fair grounds5. G reat taste was display
ed in the decorations and in the centre Y
of the grounds was a large pole, fromP
which floated proudly the Sinrs and I
Stripes. Artillery was called :-nto re- q
usition, and as the two disting~uished
le~ders appeaired1 in sight a Governor's
salute was tired.
A mong the prominent peoph on thea
g~rand stand were Congressman Storer,~
Congressman Taylor, Gen. Finley, Ex-.
Congressman Yoder, E. W. Fee, Re
publican candidate for Auditor of the
State: .J. P. Briley. Democratic candi
date for Attorney General; Chairman
Norton, of the State central cimmittee;
Pro. P. 5. Leiper and many others.
A 1)UAL. PRESIDENCT.
The meeting was presided over by
two chairman, J. M. Fleet, of Harlin
County Democratic central com~mittee,~
o behalf of the Democrats, and James t
. Ilowe, off the Republican count Ic
central committee, on behalf of the Re-n
pu blicans. It was 1.45 P. M. when the
meeting was called to order by the Rev
Mr Campbell, a Presbyterian minister,.
nd at that time fully seven thousand h
people were on the grounds. The cleric-t
al gntleman introduced the t wo presid-U
ing oflicers of the meeting, and an
once:l that Governor Campbell would
be the ,irst speaker. la
Chairman Fleet, the Democratic
presiding oflicer, made a brief speech of a
ongratulation to everybody, and an- a
nounced that Governor Campbell had
gained the privilege of opening and.
losing by casting lots. The gentle
an committed a slight bull by allud- n
ing inadvertently to Major McKinley P'
s 'iovernor McKinley," and the Re-K
publicans cheered lustily, while theh
chairman blushed in contusion. tU
GOVEIRNORt CA3MPBELL.g
ft-r being introduced as one of Ohio's tU
greatest Governors, launched into de- be
bate. I regret. said Governor Campbell, tU
in opening, that I have not time to T
properly present the indictmernt of that px
overgrown monster, which, muasqluer- ax
ading in the garb of protection, sub- p1
ists on the~ wage-earner and agrical- T
urist. [A pplause.] Yearly farming is pi
growinr moore unprofitable, *.ur com- gi
merce is 3awept from the seas aLnd that qji
ndustry abandoned; under protection st
splendid palaces of protected mnanufac- [oi
turers are crowning the hills, while tr
mprted inns, ITalins and Baheminns atc
re displacing American citizens.
'hose who are sometimes called "-rotten
ich" are defying the people, seeking
brough a venal press to destroy the
eputation, honor and estate of any
rho may wage war vigorously in the
ause of the people. [Applause.] We
re rapidly reaching the condition
rhich was predicted by Abraham Lin
oln when he uttered these words: "As
be result of the war corporrtions have
een enthroned, an era of high prices
rill follow, the money power will en
eavor to prolong its reign until all the
realth is aggregated in the hands of the
ew, and the Republic Is lost." [Ap
lause.]
To convince you that Lincoln-s pre
ietton is being realized I cite to you
be utteranes of a Republican Con
ressman (i-utterworth) from Ohio,
rho said in Congress that he could up
n the ten fingers of his hands count
le men who had added more to their
realth in the last ten years than had
een added to the wealth of all the
griculturists in any State in the Union.
Democratic applause.] The American
,conomist says that the number of
eople in the United States who own
eir own homes has in twenty-five
ears fallen from five-eights to three
ighths. How many years will it take
em to fall to one-eighth? The Pro
ress says that when Egypt went down
per cent of her people owned 97 per
ent of her wealth; people were starved
D death; that when Persia went down
per cent of her population owned all
e land; that when Rome went down
,800 tmen owned all the known world.
n 1850 in this country capitalists owned
7% per cent of her wealth. Yet he
rho goes before the people, and without
omment, without temper. points to
hose facts that are statistical, is sneered
t as a "calamity croaker."
Bradstreet, an authority in this coun
ry, says that the total number of mer
antile failures in the United States for
be nine months for 1891 was 8,846, as
ompared with 7,528 in a like period of
590, an increase of 17 per zent. This
under the McKinley bill. :Applause.]
et in 1890, when McKinley accepted
e nomination for Congress, he said
at if his bill passed the Senate this
uuntry would win a boom more mar
ellous than it had ever known. [Laugh
r.] Where is that boom? [Demo
ratic applause. "Free sugar!" "Free
ugar!" from the Republicans.] Were
not for the present abundanc crops,
e best in ten years, these failures
,ould be a great deal worse than they
re. One of the greatest causes of the
epression and failures of the present
!ason is that we are paying too much
xes. McKinley, on May 5, 1888, at
'hiladelphia, said that tariff was a tax.
Democratic applause.] Now, who
ays that tax? The Major says that
als tax is not paid by the consumer.
iow, the Supreme Court of the United
tates, the highest authority in the land,
as said who paid the tax. In the case
f Brown vs the State of Maryland
ey unanimously announced that "a
utv on imports is a tax that is paid by
onsumers." [Democratic applause.]
a 1870 William Richardson, once a
iember of the Court of Claims and ex
ssistant Secretary of the Treasury, in
,ply to an inquiry by Senator Sherman,
iid that the importer adds the duty to
2e cost of the goods and the consumers
ay it.
Governor Campbell here caused a
oard to be hoisted upon the stage on
rhich he demonstrated by methods of
ookkeeping the injustice of a high
iriff. A man goes to England and
archases goods to the amount of $5,000;
ie average duty on these goods would
e $3,000, making $8,000, total sum paid
y importer. Here another board was
oisted on which this $3,000 was charged
p to "profit and loss," indicating that
the Importer did not charge the duty
the consumers he would lose $3,000
aid in duties. Thus the foreigner did
ot pay that tax. Another board was
oisted. It was sho wn that if the for
igner paid the tax the cost price of the
oods offered to the American consum
e would be $5,000 instead of $8,000,
rhich would be absolute free trade.
ow, when genuine reciprocity comes
1, we would have not little one-sided
ciprocity with the little countries of
outh America, but substantial re
procity with England, France and the
rorld. [Applause.] The duty on plate
lass is 140 per cent. Last year we im
orted $160,000 worth of plate glass.
'hat was the value of the goods in
ngland; yet upon that glass there was
aid 223,000 duties, or $63,000 more
ian the cost of the glass in England.
Ebo paid that tax ? D~id ESnglish man
facturers give us glass and pay $63,000
sides to get us to take it ? [Applause
ad Laughter.] A Chicago paper says
iat last week a Chicago firm received
1,400 worth of pearl buttons from
.ustraia and the duty on these buttons
'as just $3,000, or a trifle over 200 per
mt. Who paid that duty? [Laugh
i.] Did the foreign manufacturer
ty nearly $2,000 for the privilege of
~nding pearl buttons to us? [Laugh
r and applause.] The McKinley bill
ovdes that 90 per cent of the duties
a some articles shall be refunded, pro
ded these articles are exported. Last
tar the Standard Oil Company im
rted tmn to this country upon which
iey paid more than a million and a
.arter tax or duty. If they did not, if
i foreigner instead paid that duty,
ien the United States has put its hand
ur pockets and presented the Stand
-d Oil Company with a million and a
arter of our money, for this amount
as refunded to the Standard Oil Comn
my. There were manufastured in
tis country last year $5,500,000,000
orth of goods.
If the tariff on dutiable goods is 60
r cent it is fair to presume, taking
7otected and unprotected industries
gether, that at least one-third of that
m is paid In lieu of duties to manu
turers at home upon the American
~oduct. It is said all this is done for
e upbuilding of and maintenance of
raufacturers. "Ihow long, Lord, how
rig, shall this upbuilding and mainte
mce go on ?" [A voice: "For all time."i
hen will it not stop with eternii~y."
pplause.]
Campbell continued in this manner
s analysis c f the McKinley tariff and
en read from the certificate of the Re
iblican secretary of the Ohio State
,ard of equalization showing that in
i years the appraised value of farm
nd has depreciated S98,000,000, and
ked: "IHave other classes suffered
Col. Howe, Republican chairman of
e meeting introduced McKinley as
.n ideal typical American, onae known
t only at horne, but abroad." [Ap
ause.]
It gives me much pleasure, said Mc
inley after the ovation which greeted
s appearance had subsided, to greet
is great audience and pleasure to
eak from the same platform and to
e same audience with Governor Camp
11, that we may present the causes
at we may respectively represent.
ae issue beteewn us and between the
rties for which the moment we stand
e fixed not by ourselves, but by the
atforms of our respective parties.
aere is one or two of them which I:
opose to present. One of them is the
iestion of silver, and the other the1
estion of taxation. One relates to the
andard with which we shall measure 1
tr exchanges with each other and the
st of the world, and the other relates
the methorls of taatonn by which we
Upon this question of silver the Dem
ocratic platform has declared for free
and unlimited coinage of the silver of
the world as freely as gold i3 now coin
ed and upon the ratios now fixed. The
Republican party stands opposed to
that, insisting that it cannot be safely
done until great commercil nations
shall have fixed the ratio between gold
and silver.
Coming back to the tariff question
McKinley said: The Governor's plat
form conimits him to a tariff for revenue
only, that is, a tariff upon foreign pro
ducts, levied with no other object in
view but revenue, unmindful of every
other consideration but revenue, not
caring for the industries and occupa
tions of the people. A revenue tariff
will raise revenue for the Government;
a protective tariff will do that; a rev
enue tariff will do nothing else; a pro
tective tariff besides raising revenue
will also stimulate the industries of the
people, encourage the skill and genius
of American citizens, develop the re
sources of the Government and secure
to it as it has done in the past thirty
years the first rank in mining, agricult
ure and manufacturing. Tell me why
the foreign producer should be permit
ted to enjoy this market equally with
the American citizen; why he should
have the same privilege to enter this
market with his competing products as
the American citizens enjoys.
McKinley then analyzed his tariff bill
from his own standpoint.
At the conclusion of Major McKinley's
speech the adherents of the great expo
nent of high tariff burst into cheers and
prolonged applause, hats and parasols
were waved in the air and the band be
gan to play. It was some minutes be
fore Campbell could obtain order, and
not until McKinley had signalled to his
friends to subduetheir enthusiasm.
Ladies and gentlemen, said Governor
Campbell, I concur most heartily with
Major McKinley that this is the greatest
and best ad proudest nation on earth.
But, unlike him, I would distribute that
greatness and that wealth as God dis
tributes the dews of heaven. upon un
just as well as just. [Prolonged ap
plause and cheers.]
I depicted the condition of the farmer,
and the answer of the Major is not only
that I am a calamity croaker, but in the
words of somebody else, you must not
grumble. [Laughter.] You Findlay
gas workers who have had your meagre
wages reduced, you steel workers of
Cleveland who have had your pltbance
further cut down, you must not grum
ble, because yonr poverty adds to some
other man's wealth. [Cheers. A voice:
"Give it to him."] 1 will take care of
him now if you will just let me alone.
[Laughter.] This is a good-natured
tight, for we are both good men. How
ever, as only one of us can be Governor,
and I am there already, why, perhaps I
had better stay. [Great laughter.
Carelees Cotton Covering.
WAsHINGTON, Oct. 16.-The acting
Secretary of State recently received a
letter from the British minister at
Washington relative to the packing of
American cotton intended for shipment
in which the minister refers to the great
risk to human life which has been
shown to exist from the loose bailing of
cotton, and remarks that the subject is
one of such great importance to both
countries and, indeed, to all nations,
in addition to the evidence already sub
mitted by him, he desires to Invite at
tention to the letter of Edward Atkin
son stating that American cotton is
treated more dangerously than any
other great staple of any other kind
of cotton in the world, and to Atkin
son's further remarks, as follows:
"Bales are badly made, badly covered,
badly cut and badly broken. They are
rolled in mud and exposed to the weath
er, and are always in a condition in
which they may become liable to the
impregnation of cotton seed oil and
thereby to spontaneous cumbustlon.
When a bale of cotton which is slight
ly moistened with oil on the end or
side becomes broken or that air can en
ter Into the interstices among the fibres
it may happen very often that the right
combination of fibre, oil and oxygen
will occur, causing the rapid oxidation
which is known as spontaneous com
bustion."
The minister also draws attention to
Atkinson's suggestion that there
should be careful examination of bales
before shipment, which examinations
might abate part of the danger, although
the whole danger will not be abated un
til a bale of cotton is made up, com
pressed, guarded and protected as it
ought to be.
The correspondence with the Secre
tary of the Treasury shows that he has
repeatedly instructed customs oflicers
to take such measures as may be prac
ticable for the enforcementiof penalties
prescribed by law for improper ship
ments of cotton. It is assumed by the
treasury department that these instruc
tions will lead to an examination of
cotton bales shipped and the prosecu
tion of the offenders.
A Snake Story.
WAsuINTON COURT HOUSE, 0., Oct.
15.-While building a kiln to dry fruit
a few days ago two boys named Wither
spoon and Priest, living near Mt. Pleas
ant. Vinton County, Ohio. had a very
unpleasant experience. They were get
ting out stone for their kiln, when two
Large black snakes came out of the rock
nd attacked them. The boys beat a
Liasty retreat, and were pursued by the
makes, which moved with great rapid
Lty. Witherspoon succeeded in making
is escape by scaling a fence, bat his
oompanon, Priest, was overtaken at
:he fence, and before he could climb it
>ne of the snakes had wrapped itself
iround his ankle and bound it securely
to the bottom rail. The other snake
sprang at his neck and bound it to the
op rail, its powerful coil pressing with
such tension against the boy's wind
pipe and jugular that his tongue and
ayes protruded and his face turned pur
ple. He remained in this horrible pre
Ilcament while Witherspoon ran away
L'or assistance. Mrs. George was sum
nroned, and, hastening to the spot with
mn axe, she proceeded at once to lay out
:he serpents, cutting the snake from
P~riest's neck and severing its body in
wwain. She next struck at the bottom
make, cutting it in two, but also sever
ng a couple of the boy's toes. The
makes measured seven feet six inches
md eight feet six nches.
Tempted Their Fate.
LouisviLLE, Ky., Oct. 15.-Near
Mdount Sterling, Ky., last night George
md James Howard, sons of Press Hlow
ird, a well-to-do farmer, went to the
iouse of a man named Cupps, who does
iot bear a good reputation, and attempt
id to force an entrance in Cupps house
with the intention, it is supposed, of
tukluxing Cupps. They knocked in
;h door of the house, when Cupps
>pened fire on them with a shotgun,
tilling them both. James How ard lived
n Missouri and was at home on a vis
Frost in North Texas.
ST. LoUis, Mo., Oct. 8.-A dispatch
rm Gainsville, Texas, says a heavy
rost formed there and throughout
No4rth Texas and the Chickasaw coun
ry Tuesday night, doing considerable
aaage to the young, undeveloped cot
on boils, thus greatly dilminishing the
)rospective crop. The weather has been
luite cold and the indications are that
mother 1k11ing f,.oet will ocunr tonight.
ALL.rL1y Al 1110 1 U01.
THE UNTIMELY END OF POLICEMAN
EAVES.
Shot Do wn While Attempting to Arrest a
Drunken Mau. also a Policeinan-The
Slayer, a Third I'oilceuan, Likewise
Drunk.
CH ARLESTON, :. C., Oct. 12.-Police
man James W. Quinhvan shot and kill
ed Policeman Richard C. Eaves at the
southeast corner of State and Queen
streets, between 11 and 12 o'cloci last
night. The shooting grew out of a
arunken spree in which Policeman
Quinlivan and J. J. Duggan were en
gagea.
I seems that both Quinlivan and
Duggan nad beelt drinking heavily dur
ing tae day, and when tney went oIL
duty last evenig at 7 o'clocK they kept
it up. Eaves's oat was East Bay be
low Broad street. Duggan was the ad
joing beat, that is East BAy above Broad,
ana Quinuvan was stationed on 6tate
street. SLortly before 11 o'clock last
nignt Quinivan and Duggan left their
oeats anu went down on Eaves's beat
and began carousing and making a
noise. Eaves went up to thetn anO or
dered them to leave his beat.
RESiSTING AtRREST.
Duggan, who was the drunkest of the
two, refused to go, so it is said, and
Eaves, atter ?epeaung his orders in vain,
called upon IA.waru Doran to assist
him, and promptly placed Duggan un
der arrest, and Lrieu, w ita .oran's as
sistance, to take him to the patrol box
at tue corner ct Pniladelpnia and Queen
streets. Duggan oujected strenuously
to being arresed, and Quiniivan also
protested in Duggan's benaif, but Wiln
ouLt avail. Eaves had taken iDuggal as
iar as the corner of Queen anu state
streets, when Quimiivrn, lindng that
nis entreaties were unavailing, and de
termined to prevent Duggats ucing
sent to the station Rouse, aLtemptew
to release nim by force.
TUE EILLING.
Eaves then dre w is ciab and struck
QuinivYan a heavy bioW on tne neau,
cutting tie scaip ana Urnging blood
freely. Grazed oy tle ulo w aid drinx
Quinnvan jered 11:3 pistoL out Ot its
olsLer anu shot at Eaves once. lhe
ball entered Eaves's head on the left
sate, just back of tue temple, anu deata
must have been almost iusanLaneous.
P'arLlaUy so uered by wnat lie had done
Quinivau ran to tne nearest patrol box
and telepioned to the stationl inouse for
tae patrol wagon.
A iOlRiiBLE 61UiGH.
In the meantime Lieut. Aleidt and
6ergt. .1cCaltrey. had heard of the
shooting and hastened to the spot.
ney found Eaves lying on his back on
the pavement, ills face turnea up to
waras the 3ay, a smile upon his lips, and
both blood and brains ooZiLg out or a
gnastiy wouna bacK of the ieft teuplg
.ne 0100a trickled sloWly down to W'e -
pavement, tortinag tiny poois in the
no01ows of the oncks. Uuggan and
Quinlivan were standing near at hand.
QV'INLVAN'S sTORY.
Quinhvan toid Lieut. .aeidt that
Eaves naa struck nim with his CiuD
and that he then snot niw. .de also
claims tnat Eaves drew his pistol on
him, and, as Eaves's pistol was found
lying on the pavelet by the aeU
n11 s side, Quinlival' s story may be
true.
As Soon as Lie patrol wagon arrived
LieuG. 1eilt aenzt QuinLiva and Dug
gan up to tau staion tiouse wueie
uey w ere iocKeu up. Tile coroner bad
in Wue niealtitWe been noUtned of the
kining, and Deputy coroner tivers
went to the scene of the tragedy, ana
atter vie wing tile body had iL removed
to the City Ihospital, w acre tine inquest
wil be held this tnorning.
Ax iN VE5TfGATiON.
G olden wvas on the spot, soon
Chiefe shooting and made an inves
after th into the matter. It was ex
tigation y drillectu~t to nnd anyone who.
ceedngi coulu' throw any light upon
would or 'fie only witniess secured
the killin ' as Edw ard Durail, who had
last night * Evst tage .Luggan to
been assis nEaved wtowtnseh
the patrol boco nd h wtesu h
quarrel and cot hapee sootin i
account of w relaced auove. Yeither
ally the story as niivan was in a condi
Duggan nor Qui~ewed last niignsl atter
tion to be intervilo that it ws imposs5i
being locked up, s version' ci the "iiO"I
ble to learn their
TiIE 3LAN WHO WAS KILLED.
Eaves was a young man, with light
eyes and hair, of a ruddy complexion,
well built and bore an excellent and en
viable reputation for sobriety and
strict attention to his duty. He came
to Charleston t wo years ago from Sul
livan County, Tennessee, and secured
employment as a driver on the Enter
prise Railroad. He remained in the
employ of that company until June 4,
1891, when he was appointed to the po
lice force, being very strongly endorsed
for that position. He was 23 years of
age and unmarried.
TILE 3LANSLATER.
James W. Quinlivan, the officer
who did the shooting, was appointed
to the force on June 22, and was also
23 years of age. J. J. Duggan, the cause
of the shooting, is thie oldest man of
the trio and has been on the force for a
longer time. He was appointed July 7,
1889, and is 24 years old. He is not
what is known as a drinking man, care
fully avoiding as a rule all intoxicating
liquors, but when he does begin to
drink he never stops until he is drunk.
The -occurrence last night was a most
deplorable one, and it will be sifted to
the bottom at the inquest this morn
lng.-News and Courier.
Eels Choked:the Wheel.
M3LorSBnJno, 0., Oct. 16.-The tiour
ing mill of U. Engleman has been com
pelled to shut down the last few days
for a most unusual reason. The water
wheel has been completely choked up
with eels, and every few hours it would
be necessary to clean them out. Fifteen
to twenty would be taken out each
time, some weighing nearly five pounds.
This never occurred before, and is ex
plained that several years ago the fish
ommission planted a lot of young eels
n the Maimi, above Dayton. which have
now grown up, and in numbers suffi
ient to stop a mill.
Released the Parachtte.
GREENLr, Ill., Oct. 9.-Just as a bal
loon was ascending from the fair
grounds yesterday afternoon, Alex.
Gordon, a youth, became entangled in
the ropes attached to the parachutte
and was carried tup, his head hanging
'downward. In his struggle he caught
the rope that released thle parachut,
and he and the aeronant were thrown
to the ground eigrhty feet below. The
balloonist, Wm.~ Kisser, of Louisville,
Ky. was killed and Gordon was serious
injured.__________
six Acres in Fiames,
LOIsviLLE, Oct. 8.-A lire at May
feld to-day burned nearly six acres of
ground. Tfhe Newport News and Mis
sissIppi Valley freight and passenger
depots, the Western Tobacco Com
pany's warehouse and six hundred
hgsheads of tobacco and a number of
residences were burned. The total loss