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MA G CWS , E48NO. 46. VOL. '\7jf~~~ MANN INGS. C., WEDNESD)AY, -NOVEMBE ,19. ____ TABERNACLE PULPIT. CR. TALMAGE'S SECOND SERMON ON HIS OLD WORLD JOURNEYS. He Ficas Coufrniation of the Truth of the Scrptoerea in the Testianonv of the - Cities and Elvern and Place. of Long Ago. BROsxLYN. Oct. 25.-The render ng of the Fist :Saata in D Minor, by t4u:lmant, on the ::reat organ of the Brooklyu Tabernacle this morning, by Professor Benry Ejre Browne, the or zanist, held ti e vast congregation spe'l hound with profound emotion. Dr. Tal mage nreaebed on "Sailing Up the Nile," the second sermon of the series entitled 'From the Pyram.es to the Acropolis; )r, What I Saw In Evypt and Grecce Confirmatory of tLhe Scriptures." Iis text was Ezekiel xxix, 9, "The Itiver Is Mine and I Have Made It." A ba! This is the River Nile. A brown Jr yellow or silver cord on which are hung more jewels of thrilling interest thsan on any river that was ever twisted a the sunshine. It rii.ples through the ,cok of Ezekiel, end flashes in the books )t Deuteronomv an! Isaiah and Zecharia -i Naha, nd on its bauks stood the -nighties of :any a,,es. It was the .rvstal viadie of Moses, and on its banks slarry ile :u:ee, carried the infant lttus. To :ind the birthplace of this .iver v :s t.e :uacination and defeat. of tpeditiwns without number. Not nrany years ago Bavard Taylor, )ur gyreat American traveler, wrote. 'Since (iolumnbus drst looked upon San -alvador. the earth has but one omo ion of tr'uc:ph left for her bestowal, and ht she reserves for him who shall first Irik fro.m he fountains of the White Ni.e undter the snow fields of Kihma Njaro." But the discovery of the ;ources ;f the Nile by most people was 'Ousidered an impossibility. The ma .arias. the wild beasts, the savages, the uclimbable steeps. the vast distances, stopped all the expeditions for ages. But the White Nile would do little cr Egypt if this were all. It would .;eep :Ls banks and Egypt would remain a desert. But from Abyssinla there .bomes v.hat is called the Blue Nile, which, though dry or nearly dry half the year, under tiemendous rains about iLe middle of June rises to great mo mentum, and this Blue Nile dashes with sudden it.flux into the White Nile, which in consequence rises thirty feet and their combined waters Inundate Egypt with a rich soil which drops on all the delds and gardens as it is conducted by Jitches and sluices and canals every whither. The greatest damage that ever came to Egypt came by the drying up of the River Nile, and the greatest blessing by its healthful and abundant flow. The famine in Joseph's time came from the lack of sufficient inundation from the Nile. Not enough Nile is drought; too much Yile is freshet and plague. The rivers of the earth are the mothers of its prosperity. If by some convulsion of nature the Mississippi should be taken from North America, or the Ama7on from South America. or the Danube from Europe, or the Yenisei from Asia -what hemispheric calamity! Still, there are other rivers, that could fertil ize and save these countries. What happens to the Nile, happens to Egypt. The Nilometer was to me very suggestive as we went up and down its damp stone steps and saw the pillar) marked with notches telling just how high or low are the waters of the Nile. When the N11e is rising four criers every morning run through the city announc ing how many feet the river has risen ten feet, fifteen feet, twenty feet, twen ty-four feet-and when the right height of water is reached the gates of the ca nals are fiurg open and the liquid and refreshing benediction is pronounzed on all the land. As we start where the Nile empties into tiae Medit erranean sea. we behold a wonderful lultillment of prophecy. The Nile in very ancient' times used to have seven mouths. As the great. river ap proached the sea it entered the sea at seven different places. Isaiah-prophest ed, "The Lord shall utterly destroy the tongue 01 the Egyptian sea and shall smite it in the seven streains." The lact is they are all destroyed but two, and Herodotus said these two remain ing are artificial. Up the N.ile we shall go; part of the way by Egyptian rail train and theu by boat, and we shall un derstand why the Bible givesauch prom inence to this river, which is the largest! river of sil the earth with one exception. But before we board the train we must take a look at Alexandria. It was founded b~y Alexander the Grea't, and was once the New York, the P'aris, the~ Londou of the world. Temples,.aa ces, fouui ains, gardens, pillared and e! flerescent with all architectural and Edenic grandeur and sweetrness. Atol los, the eicquent whom in New Testa ment time~s some people tried to make a rival to Paul. lived here. Here Mark, the author of the second book of thej New Testament. expired under INero's anathema. From here the ship sailed that left Paul and the crew strugigling in the breakers of Melita. But AriZan der, fascinat'.ng for this or that thing, according to the t-ste of the visitor. Was to me most entertamning because it had been the site of the sneatest library t iat the world ever saw, considerin;g the inct that the art of printing had not been nu vented. Seven hundred thousand vA-l uines and all the work of a slow p . But down it all went under the torch of besiegers. Built again and destroyeid again. Built aaain, but the Arabs camib along f r its final demolition and th~ tbur thouimad baths of the city were heated with those volumes, the fuel lasta ing six months, anid were ever lihes kin died at such fearful cost. Only one book has been able to with stand the bombardment, atid that has gone through without smell o1 fire on its lids. No sword or spear or musket ir its defense. An unarmed New Testa ment. An unarmed Old Testam~ent. Yet invulnerable and triaimphant. There must be something supernatural abcut it. Conqueror of books! Monarch of books! All the books of all the ages ia all the i:braries outshone by this one book which 3 ou and I carry to church in a pocket. So methought amid the ashes of Alexanidrian libraries. But all aboard the Egyptian rail train going up the banks of the Nile! Look out of the window and see those camels kneeling for the imposition of their load. And 1 think we ight take from them a lesson, and. instead of trying to stand upright in our own strength, become conscious of cur weakness arnd ne-ed of divine help before we take uon us the heavy dudies or the year or the week or the day. and( so kneel for the burden. We meet Drocess~ons of men and beasts on the wayv from their day 's work, but alea, for Ihe homen to which the por inhabitants re gin, .,r the most piat hovels of mud. But tI.ere is somethin in toe cene that tho:oulihly enh:st u. It is the vovelty of wretchedness and a scene ot pituresque razs. For thuts ands of years .h:s land has been under a viry damnation of taixes. Nothing but Chri-stian civilizatifn will roll back the influenices which are "spoiling the Egyptianis." There are gardens a:id palaces. but they belon;- to the rulers. About here under the valiant Murad Bey. the Mamelukes, wfho are the tin- I est horsemen in the wv'rid, came like a hurricane upon Napo'lon's army. but they were be tten back by the French in one of the tiercest battles of all time. Then the Mamelukes turned their hor ses' heads the other way. and in desper ation backed them against the French troops. hoping the horses would kick the life out of the French regiments.1 The Mamelukes, failnz again. plunged into this Nile and were drowned, the French were for days fishing out the dead bodies of the Maiciukes to get th: valuables u-ion their dead bodies. Na poleon, at the daring o, these Mame lukes, exclaimed, -Could I have united the Mameluke hoise to the French in fantry, I would have reckoned myself master of the worl." This ride along the Nile is one of the most soleni and iturressive rides of atI niy life ime, and our euiotions deepen as the curtains of the night tall upon a,' ,urroundigs. But we shall not be sat isled until we can take a ship and pass right out upon these wondrous waters and between the banks crowded with the story of empires. According to tue lead pencil mark in my Bible it was Thank iving day morn ing, Nov. 2S. 1889, that with my fa-nily and friends we stepped aboard tho steamer on the Nile. The Mohammedan call to praveis had been sounded by the priests of that reigion, the Muezzins, from the tour hundred mosques of Cairo as the cry went out: "God great. I bear witness that there is no God but God. I bear witness that Mohimmed is the apostle of God. Comc to prayers. Come to salvation. God is great. There is no other but God. Prayers are better than sleep." As we slowly move up the majestic river I see on each bank the wheels, the pumps, the backets for irrigation, and see a man with his foot on the treadle of a wheel that fetches un the water for a garden, and then for the first time I un (erstand that passagoe im Deu.eronomy which says of the Israelhtes after they Lad got back from Egypt, "The land whither thou goest in 10 possess it is not as the land of Egypt, from whence ye came out. where thou sowedst thy seed, and wateredst it with thy foot." Then I understood how the land could be watered with the foot. How do you suppose I felt when on the deck of that steamer on the Nile I looked off upon the canals and ditches and sluices through which the fields are irrigated by that river, and then read in Isaiah, "The burden of Egynt-the river shall be wasted and dried up, and they shall turn the rivers far away and the brooks of defense shall be emptied and dried up; and they shall be broken in the parposes thereof, and that make sluices and ponds for fish." That Thanksgiving morning on the Nile I found my text of today. Pharaoh in this chapter is compared to tht dragon or bippopotamus suggested by the crocodiles that used to line the banks ot this river. "Thus saith the Lord God: Behold I am aganst thee 1haroah, kig of Egypt the great dragon that lieth in the midst of his rivers, which bath said my river is mine own, and I have made it for myself. But I will put hooks in thy jaws and I will cause the fish of thy rivers to stick unto thy scales, and I will biring thee up out of the midst of th y rivers, and all the fish of thy rivers shail stick unto thy scales, and the land of Egypt shall be desolote and waste, and they shall know that I am the Lord; be cause he bath said tho river is mine end I have made it." While sailine on this river or stoppimr at one of the villages, we see people on the banks who verify the Bible descrip tion, for they are now as they were in Bible times. Shoes are now taken off in reverence to sacred places. Children arn ed astride the mother's shoulder as in IHagar's time. Women with profusion of jewelry as when Rebecca was atlianc ed. Lentils shelled into the pottage, as when Esau sold his birthright to get such a dish. CtLe same habitso~f saluta tion as when Joseph and his brethren fell on each other's neeks. Courts 0f law held under big trees as in olden times. People mnakin:r br:eks without straw, .compeJLlled by circumsetauces to use stubble instead of stra.v. Flyin:: over or standing on the banks as .n S-crpture datys are flamtgoes, opreey seag'les, peClicansa, iern's 'uekons ad buiilees. On all sides of this rver sepulchers. Villages of sepul chers. Ciues~ of sepulihers. Nations of sepulchers. And one is temlpte2d to call it an empire oh tombs. I never saw such a place as EgypL is tor graves. And nowv we uderstand the comp'ain m-g sarcasm of the Israelites when thev were on the way from E ypt to Canaan, "Because there are no graves in Egypt hast thotu taken us away to die in the willderness." l3wn~ the rvier bank come the buflalo and ths cattle or kime to drink. And it was th:e ancestors of these cattle that inspiredl Pharoah's dreami of the lean kine and the fat kine. Here we disembark a little whiie for Memph-lis. oil from the Ndle to the right. Memphis founded by the first king of Egpt and for a long~ while the capital. A city of rmarble and gold. Home of the Pharaohs. City nineteen miles in cir cumference. Vast colonnades through one hundred years. or nearly ten times as ionmz as the United Stattes have exist ed. Here is a recumbent statue seven ty-five feet lone. Bronzed ;.ateways. A necropolis called "-tile haven of the blest." Ihere Jonph was prime minis ter. Here Pharaoh received Jacob. All possinie sp-ieuadors more built up into this royal city. Iioses, Ezekiel, Jere miah and Isaiah s;ieak of it as some Never did 1. visit a city with such ex alted ant iiptions, and never did mv anticpations drop so flat. Not a pillar sands. Not a wali is unbroken. Not a outntaim tosses in the suna. Even the ruias h ave been ruined and all that re mains are cheips of mnarbie, small pieces of fractured scnlpture and splintered human bones and there a letter of sonme elaborate inscript!.>n. a toe or ear of a statue that once wcood mn niche of palace wall. Ezekiel trophesied its blotting out, and the prophecy has been futilled. r~ut bacK to the .Nile and on and up till yout re-sch The bes. in Scripture calledI the City of No. Hundred gated Thebes. A quadrangular cit., four miles from limit to liit. Four great temples, two of them Karnac and Luxor, onfce mnoun tains of exquisite sculptor and gorge ous dreams solldifled in stone. statue ofRameses II, eight hundred and eign ty-seven tons in weight and seventy ive feet high, bnt now fallen anrd scat tered. Walls abloom with the battle hlds of centuries. Thebes mighty and douinant live hundred years. Tnen she went down in fulillmient of Ezekiel's prophecy concerning the Ci'v of No, which was another name for Thebes; "I will execute judgement in No. I will cut off the wultitudes of N o." Jere miah also prophesied, "Thus saith the Lord, I will punish the multitudes of No." This city of Thebes and all the other dead cities of Eg3 pt iterate and reiter ate the veracity of the Scripuires tell ing the same story which Moses and the prophets told. llave you noticed how God kept back these archocological con firmations of the Bible until our time, when the air is full of unbelief about the thruthfulness of the dear old book ? lie waited until the printing press had been set up in its perfected shape, and the submarine cable was la'd, aud the world was intelligent enough to appre the tcstiinony, and then he resurrected the (!ead cities of the earth, and com mands them, saying: "Open your lonz seiled lips and speak! Mensphi. and Tebes.is the Bile true ?" "True" re spond Memphis and Thebes. "Babylin, is the Book of Daniel true ?" "True:" respond Babylon. 'Ruins of Palestine and Syria, is the New Testament true ?" "fru&!" respond the ruins all the way from Joppai to the Dead sea and from Jerusalem to Damascus. What a mervy that this tkstimony of the dead cities should come at a time when the Bible is especially assailed. Aua this work will go on until the v racity of the Scriptures will be as ct-r Lain to all sensible men and women as that two and two uiak. four, as thatt an isosceles triangle is one which has two of its sides equal, as that the diametter of a circle is a line drawn through the center and terminated by the circum ference, as certain any mathematical demonstration. Two great nations, Egypt and Greece, diplomatized and almost came to batle for one book, a copy of "Eschylus." Ptolemy, the Egyptian king, discover ed that in the great library at Alexan- 1 dria there w-s no copy of "iEschylus." 1 The Egyptian king sent up to Athens, Greece, to borrow tne book and make a copy of it. Athens demanded a deposit seventeen of thousasid seven hundred dollars as security. The Egyptian king received the book, but refused to return that which he had borrowed, and so for feited the seventeen thousand seven hundred dollars. The two nations rose in contention concerning that one book. Beautiful I and mighty book indeed: But it is a book of horrors, the dominant idea that we are the victims of hereditary influi ences from which there is no escape, and that fate rules the world, and al- i though the author does tell of Prome theus. who was crucified on the rocks for sympathy for maikind, a powerful suggestion of the sacrifice of Christ in I later years. it is a very poor book com pared with that book which we hug to our hearts, because it contains our only guide in life, our only comfort in I death, and our only hope for a blissful immortality. If two uations could af- I ford to struggle for one copy of ".Eschy lus," how much more can all nations 1 afford to struggle for the possession 4 and triumph of the Holly Scriptures? Bit the dead cities strung along the Nile not only demolish infidelity, but thunder down the absurdity of the 1 modern doctrine of evolution which says the world started with nothing I and then rose, and human nature began I with nothing but evolved into splendid I manhood and womanhood of itself. Nay, the sculpture of the world was 1 more wonderful in tne days of Menm phis and Thebes and Carthage than in the days of Boston and New York. 4 Those blocks of stone weighing three < hundred tons high up in the wall at Karnac imply machinery equal to, if 1 not surpassing, the machinery of the i Nineteenth century. Ho0w was that statue ot Rtameses, weighing eight hundred and eighty seven tons, transported from the quar ries two hundred miles away and how l was it lifted? Tell us, modern ma chinists. Ho0w were those galleries of rock, still standing at Thebes, filled with paintings surpassed by no artist's pencil of the present day? Tell us, artists of the Nineteenth century. The 1 dead cities of Egypt, so far as they have i left enough pillars or statues or sepul chers or temple ruins to tell the story Memphis, Migdol, Hlierapolis, Zoan, Thebes, Goshen, Carthage-all of them< developing downward instead of up- I ward. They have evoluted from mnag- I nticence into destruction. The Gospel 1 of Jesus Christ is the only elevator of I individual and social national charne- I ter. Let all the living cities know that - pomp and opulence and temporal pros. 1 perity are no security. Those ancient cities lacked nothing but good morals. Dissipation and sin I slew them. anid unless dissipation an dl< sin are hailted, they widl somne d.:y slay1 our mode-rn cities, and leave our p~alaces of merchandise and our galleries of art and our city hall as flat in the dust as we found Memphis on the afternoon cf that Tihanksgiving day. And ii the i1 enies go diown, the nation will go down. -Oh," you say. "that is limpos sie; we have stood so long-yea, overi a hundred years as a nation." Why, what of that ? T1hebezi stood live hun-1 dred years. Memphis stood a thousandl years. God does not forget. One day' with the Lord is as a thousand years1 and a thousand years as one day. Rtum and debauchery and bad politics are more rapidly working the de-strne tion of our American cities than sin of aiy kind and all kinds worked for the destruction of the cities of Africa, once so mighty and now so prostrate. But1 their gods were idols, and could do nothing except for detiasement. Our God malie the heavens and sent his Son to redeem the naioins. And our cities will not go down, and our nation will 1 not perish because the gospel is going to triumph. F'or ward: all schools and colleges and churches: Forward:.all reformatory and missionary orgamni tions. Forward! all the iciliences mar shaledi to bless the world. Let our modern European and American cities listen to the voice of those ancient cities resurrected, and by hammer an'd hisel and crowbar be compelled to speak. I notice the voice of those ancient cii es is hoarse from the exposure of orty centuries and they accentuate sloly with lips that were palsied for ages, but all together those cities along the Nile intone these words: "H~ear us, for we are very old, and It is hard for us to speak. We were wise long before Athens learned her tirst lesson.1 We sailed our ships while yet naviga tion was unborn. These obelisks, these pyramids, these fallen pillars, these w recked temples, these colossi of black~ granite, these wrecked sarcophagi un der the brow of the hills, tell you of what I was in grandeur and of what I am c iming do wn to be. We sinined and we fell. Our learning could not save us. See those half obliterated hiero glyphics on yonder rall. Our architec tre could not save us. See the painted coluns of Phila:. and the shattered temple of Esneb. Our heros-s could not save us. Witness Menes, D iodorus .lmeses and lPtolemy. Our Gods Am mon and Osiris could not save us. See their fallen temples all along the four thousand miles of Nile. Oh, ye modern cities get some other God; a God who cn heapn Goad who can nardonn a od who can save. Called up as we are for i little while to give tt-stmouy, agam the sands of the desert will bury us Ashes to ashes, dust to dust!" And a.,; B hese voices of porphyry and granite 'eased, all the sarcophagi under the 'ills responded, "Ashes to ashes!" and T the capital of a lofty column fel grina ng itself to powder ain;ig the rocks, ind responding, "Dust to dust?" !NHUMAN SCOUNDREL. 4. S.arve% asei Maitreata Orphanage COIdren. DUBtix, O3ct. 28.-:Some start ling tes- s imony was given to-day at the trial of [Rev. Samuel Cotton, a rectcr at Car logt, County Kildare, ciargced ritht :riminal neglect and ili treatment of mhildren in the Carnogh orphanage. itev.Sainuel Cotton, who has conducted ti :he affairs of the orphanage for many ti rears, has made many appeals to tie ai )ublie for financial aid and has received p arge sums of money by subscription r ,vr the maintenance of the orphanage. O wing to numerous complaints which s iave been made against that institu- a ion, tne Society for the Protection of ti hildren recently made an investiga ion into the manner in which the cr ;hanage was conducted and thereby a iorrible state of affairs was revealed. 0 rhe agents of the Children's Society, a luring their investigation. found that S .he eniloren of the orphanage were in i in emaeiated, filthy and ragged condi- ai ion and that they were covtred with a' mrasites. The toes of one of the chil ren. it, was testified to, had rotted off. al Lnother. a girl, had been chained by r he legs to a log. The rooms of the or hanage were also found to be in the ilthiest possible condition. In the kitchen of the orphanage was C ound a baby, six weeks old, covered P with dirty rags and dying of cold and nattention. Other children were found S n the same apartment crouched around r( L small fire almost frozen and half e, tarved. All were weak and sicKly and heIr growth bad been stunted by the reatment received under Rev. Mr. Cot- T on's management. The sanitary condition of the whole lE stablishment was found to be perfect- 0 y horrible. The walls and floors were a beastly condition and some of the t( eds used by the unfortunate children vere merely old boxes and packing a :ases filled with stale hay. It was shown that all the children di vere kept in a perpetual state ot terror m y Rev. Mr. Cotton and that it would Ir )c difficult even to imagine a more de- di >orable or blamable state of things. al Cotton was committed for trial, bail, ai iowever, being allowed in order to en- i tble him to attend the Synod of the e iocese, of which body he is a member. k A Ra&scaly Treasurer. ci BEAUFORT, S. C., Oct. 22.-A mass p neeting of the citizens of Beaufort was ti ild at the hall of the Washington iteam Fire Engine Company to con- m ider the report of the committee ap- di )onted to investigate the indebtedness T >f the town and the deficit in the ac- ei ounts of the absconding ex-treasurer. E ajor W. II. Lockwood was called to T he chair. Mr. E. W. Bailey, of the ommittee, read their report. The total bonded debt of the town as stated to be $9,900. The total deli- - it caused by the operations of the late b reasurer amounted to $5,432 32; of this B i,361 99 is based on orders for pay en- o lorsed by him and received and held c< >y the merchants of the town in pay- P nent of accounts. It seems that all C :hecks for salaries have to be signed by n he intendant according to the ordi- S, lance, so that these orders are probab- ai y worthless. The rest of this deficit F onsists partly of false balances. A ash balance of $115. reported to be on and at the time of his leaving, was ound wanting. The total amour~t of he floating debt of the town is $15, 2.65. ci .Mr. Thos F. Walsh, of the commit- Si ee. stated that a check for $313. in favor e! f "E. A. Scheper or order," had been in ssued by the intendant and had been c dtered by Taylor to be p)ayable to "E. pi L Scheper or bearer" a'id been cashed. m hIr. E. A. Scheper stated that the inter- et st on his bonds which the check was upposed to have represented had never een paid. It was stated by the com nittee that their investigation of the leit had not extended back more 01 han thirteen months, and that the in- Ic lications were that an investigation oering the time previous to that ~eriod would disclose a much larger de cit. Mr. W. H1. McLeod offered a mo ion to request the intendant to offer a eward of 8500 on behalif of the town - or the apprehension of S. E. Taylor. r i.fter considerable discussion the mo ion was rejectet'i. Taylor is reported to be now in PhIl- T telphia, his old home. S. .J. Bamp-a id. the colored clerk of Court, read ana rdinance wbh shiows that all checks st or diisbursements of the town funds d oust be signedI by the intendant, of i' vblih he said the intendant seemed to ps >e in total ignorance. The responsibility for this deficit mayci est either on the intendant or the indi- ci idual members of council, as Taylor B lid not give bond as r'equired by law, tnd he was elected by the counc. his may relieve the taxpayers from he burden. 'n. Hatznpton. on the Anifance. BALinm-, MId., Oct. 24.-Ex- d nited States Senator Wade llamnpton s visiting in this city. ie says he is ut of politics, andi intends in the uture to ke-ep in the backcgound. The-I armers' Altiance, he said, is rapidly f isintegrating in the So uth, and within he next four years it will completely isapear. "This will be the case not o onli South Car >lina, but throughout g le whole South. The people there are apidly awakening to the absurdity of he demands that the organization has E >romulated, and are gradually drop d~ ing off and forswearing all allegIance h< the Alliance. In my own State the at ;overnor who was elected by the senri- ci nent that secured my defeat for re- n lection to the Senate has already q, >oken away in a great measure from st ie Alliance measures and is catering oj n his administration of the affairs of he State to the conservative and better inking element. The uprising was ounded on demagoguery and fanati- a Ism, and therefore cannot have a long di ostence. We are too conservative a s >eope, and too fair minded in ourm udgment of right and wrong in popu- ti ar government, to permit any sway by g ecret societies. lIn my opinion it isn oly for any one in this country to en- f er into a controversy with a Farmers' i liiance adherent on the sub-treasury~ lan. The measure is so palpab l *vrong on its face as to make it absurd ,o all who have the prosperty and wel. a1 are of the country at heart. This h eture of the Alliance has never been 'ully accepted in the South, and I have tl o0o mucih conidence in our people to o1 lnk that it ever will be." t JDr. itond P'ardionedl. COLUMBIA, Oct. 21.-lDr. .lohn II.t ond, who was convicted before .i udge orton in .June, 188, at Charleston aud ho will be remembered as a m:ember )f the corpse trust, a coInspirac:y to de ?raud insurance companies in two cases, 11: md was sentenced to thie penitentiary ra or four years, pardoned by Gov. Till- aul ian to-day. The .pardon was recom- i nended by the board of directors and 2( OUR FLAG INSULTED. UT UNCLE SAM WILL TEACH THE INSULTERSA LESSON. he United States Formally Demands Sat isfaction For the Murderous Assault E Made Upon the Balthznore's Sailors at Valpara;iso-There May Be War. WASHINGTON. Oct. 24.-Secretary racy said this morning that further udy of the cipher dispatch received oin Capt. Schley of the Baltimore, on t hursday, showed that, in addition to I te killing of one man and seriously ounding six others, thirty-five other .merican seamen were arrested and de ined by the Chilian authorities at the me and that they were afterwards ex nined and dismissed, as there was no I coof that they had been guilty of any c is behavior. This conflirms Capt. Schley's oLher atement that the Americans were un med, sober and well behaved at the me of the trouble and also indicates at at least 40 men out of the Balti- t ore's contingent ot 275 men were the >jcts of the rage of the mob. It also >pears now that up to the date of Capt. hley,s report the Chilian authorities id taken no steps to arrest and punish iy of the Chilians responsible lbr the fair. An official, thoroughly familiar with N 1 the ficts in possession of the Govera- t eat. pointed out this morning that it t as altogether different in its material ature from the Italian affair at New I rleauzs, the men in one case being atically citizens of the United States, hile in the other they wore the United ates unform and were attacked for that r ason. He said that it was a delib- a ate insult to the American flag. t REDRESS DEMANDED. : SANTIAGO, Chile, Oct. 26.-John urnbull. another of the Baltimore's s en, died today. He had received no t ss than twenty stab wounds, several a -thern penetrating his hugs. Acting on instructions from Washing n, Minister Egan today, after making brief but pointed summary of the facts volved in the recent trouble, formally manded reparation from the govern ent of Chile. Mr. Egan expressed r distinct terms the feeling of great in- C gnation which the State Department s Washington feels at the whole affair, a id informed the Junta that this is no I formal suggestion; that his govern- t ent expects some kind of satisfaction r r the assault upon the Baltimore's t ew, and demands an immediate ex anation of the whole affair and repara >n for the inj uries inflicted. The opinion privails among foreign inisters that the Junta will imme ately make the reparation demanded. he sympathy of the foreLn residents is t itirely with Capt. Schley, and Minister t gan's action gives great satisfaction. t E NAVAL FORCE WE COULD MUS- f TER. NEW YoRK, Oct. 26.-At the Brook n navy Tard no further orders have en received to fit out ships sInce the oston nailed for Valparaiso. In case necessity, there are nine vessels which uld be fitted out for servi:e-the hiladelphia, Atlanta, Bennington, onord, Petrel; the Monitor Mia'itono- s ah, now at the yard; the Chicago, ofi ated Island; the Newark at Boston, .d the Kearsarge, in the North river. c ive or six of these vessels could be ade ready in three or tour (lays, anda Le others with very little delay. ANXIETY TN ENGLAND. LONDON, Oct. 20.-The n< ws of thet itical relations between the United :ats and Chile bas excited lively inter t here, especially in circles interested South American trade. As English t ~pital virtually controls the nitrate de- i >sits, and is established in that controli ore lrmly than ever by the result of e war, there is a general Jesire on the Lrt of those interested for 3eace. War ~tween the United States and Chile ould mean, soonecr er later, a blockade Chilean ports and intet furence with reign trade. Destitution in Me:ctee. SAX ANTONIO, Texas. Oct. 23.-W. T. obertson, the contractor for the con ruction of the Durango extentlin of ' Le Mexican International Railroad, ar ved here yesterday. The destitution ~ nong the people of that section of Mex o, he says, is even worse than reported. . te drought not having been broken. be government has removed tempor ily the duty on corn in the famine ricken district. A few days ago agc wealthy land owner living near Tor on, named B~aleras, received a big as enment of corn, the price of whIch hE tced at $4 per bushel. When theC cr, starving cattle herders in the vi- ~ nity learned e f his action, a mob ofr em got together, an:l proceeding to ~ ~lera's home took him out and shot m to death. The Oldest Man on lEarth. 310DooLor, Ga., October 21.-Old E nee Hii-rn Lester, the oldest livingb a on earth, who is nearly one hun- S -d and thirty years 01(1, and a Mrs. 1 osley, lef t on the u p trair. to-night for b tlanta, in care of Profsssor Davis.v rs. Miosley is seventy yel.rs old. Mr. e ster procured a marriage license be- I re he left, and they will 'e joined in r e holy bonds of matrimony at the .Y 'and stand out at the exposition ouns next Saturday at :ligb noon. Strangled by a Quid of Tobacco. d LPmturswstG, N.J., Oct.22 -George isenhart, aged sixty-nmne, was found ad in bed yesterday morning at his >me, near Rittersville, Pa. Hie was b dicted to tobacco, and usiually took a C ew before retiring, lie did so the r ght of his death, and a portion of the E id got into his windpipe and he was ranged to death. Hie was a veteran I the late war and lef t seven children. e White Ma. Lynched. ! COL31BIA, La., Oct. 21.-John Rush, young white man, was lynched Mcn- c v night for the murder of Hager d rling, an old colored woman. The E rder was a very brutal one and en- o rely unprovoked. The case excited a 'eat deal of indignation, and Monday o ht a mob of masked men took Rush I omn the jail and hanged him from the b u of a tree in the jail yard. b Speak ing of snake Stories. c IioLTON, Kans.. Oct. 21.-A most tonishing discovery in the snake line is just been made here. A den con inmg thousands of blacksnakes, rat.. t nakes, blue racers, copperheads and ti her varieties has been found, and for e o days the men who made the dis- a vr have been killing snakes. The 2 pilies are wound together in a gigan- i bal. Rattlers have b~en killed from b hi~h eighteen rattles have been taken. E Murderer to Bang. CH ARLEsTON, S. C., October 28.-Wil- s' ms, the negro who shot Mayor H-en- h man, of Spartaniburg, some weeks r' o, was today convicted of murder a id sentenced to be hanged November r . The jury was out only ten min- r A PRETTY TOUGH STORY. L Game of Cards in Which Invisible B Persons Played. PHILADELPIA, Oct. 20.--This story vas told me by a young medico, and we l know that medical students are of a )eculiarly reserved, reticent and sober CI ace, averse to exaggeraticon and re narkable for the veracity of their anec- Cl lotes. He who related the following ic ,stonishing experience.itold me that it r ook place at St. Bartholome w-s or per iaIs it was at Guy's or St. Thomps's fe he essential thing is that it took place T t a hospital. s( It was evening, and not late. One of he resident house physicians-a young T nan, with a friend also a young medi- fr al man whose evidence can be procur- ir d to corroborate the story-was play- c ng a double dummywith an accom- fi >animent of tobacco and whiskey and 1 vater. They had been playing some G ime, nothing unusual happening. t They were seated at a square table. ei )ne of them at the beginning of a new ane had to deal with his own dummy, ! s is the rules at double dummy. When P e had finished a most wonderful thing it tappened. The cards of the two dum- S nies were taken up by invisible hands, le vich arranged them and held them in 1B he usual fan-like torm. It was said r( he cards were in the air. The two tj en looked at each other and at this 0 ihanomenon with a stupefaction. If h hey had not been men of science they a vould have fled, shrieking. Then one f the dummies' hands were sharply apped on the table. "That means lay," whispered one of them, and, with S gasp, he led. The play of the invisi- al le dummies was all right. The lead- T up partner took the trick and return- le d, changing the suit to show the hand si he held. I say she, because by this h inie there were visible the hands and ei ,rms that held the cards but nothing 6 nc-re. One of the players was a wo %an with bare arms showing from a leave of white lace; her fingers had ings upon them. The other was a arn's, with an ordinary coat sleeve le nd white cuff. The men put down their pipes and di emoved the whiskey and water to an- G ther table. They played the game in tt olemn silence. Presently it became it ,pparent that the lady played a master- hi y game. She held good cards; so did E er partner. They scored in the first h, ub-double, treble and the rub, and in ki he second-treble. single and the rub. cl "Never," my narrator told me, "did I ti lay with a finer player. She seemed to V, :now by instinct where every card in le he pack was. At the end of the dou ile rubber the arms disappeared. They ti vent away as they came. I have never een them since, though Ioften invited fr hem to come by dealing the cards on he table. I have often wondered who W he lady was; young, as I gathered fil rom the appearance of her arms; a gen- ti le woman, as was shown by the taper tt gers and the rings and the lace and flu certain way of carrying her arms. u rolicsome, as proven by her sitting T own to play with only her arms visi le; unmarried, from the absence of a vedding ring. "Who could she be? Why was she Z rought to the hospital? What is her t tory? Why did she die so young? P, Lbove all, how could she, at her early a] ge, have acquired such a knowledge a( 'f whist? It 13 very rare to find a girl fu laying whist even decently. Perhaps, bi fter leaving the hospital," he aaded, rith some delicacy of experience, "she ti ay have found opportunities tor prac- rc ice. As for her companion, he was oparatively uninteresting. He had halsed stones on his fingers, and lhe ras only a mediocre player. He neglect d his partner's lead, he bottled her& rumps, and once he threw away the le :ing of trumps, not even trying to save W Sby any obvious finesse. But the lady o1 -the lady-she, indeed, was divine:" tc Train Robbers Cauliht. i DEA L lRio, Texas, Oct. 22.-Full de ails of the pursuit and capture of the d' kothern Pacific train robbers reached h ere to-day. The pcsse struck the trail h t a place near Juno Tuesday, caught t igt of the robbers in a deep canon onT he Live Oak, near Griersor. Springs, in 'rogett County. The posse approached mse en to within ahundred yards of the en, when Captain Jones ordered a TI harge and a running fight followed. angsdon soon weakened and gave up nd Tom Fields soon after wards find ng himself hard pressed surrendered. Villington and Flint ran several miles then the former's horse was shot from t nder him. He left the animal and tookC p the side of the mountain but Cap-W in Jones was right upon him and cut C if his retreat, whereupon he surren- ta ered. Flint then ran at full speed a istance of ten miles, iiring back upon sc .is pursuers as he went. The fire was re eturned and he was mortally wounded me a the left breast, Hie fell off his horse T ni sitting up in the road coolly pro- be uced a pencil and paper and wrote a o ill bequathing his effects to his broth r. He then pulled a pistol from his et and blew his brains out. Sixty or = eventy dollars In g;old coin was found i hi belt around his body. Langsdon tl adS:600 in greenbacks in his vest pocket tL then searched. A sack on a pack horse re ontaned $400 of Mexican silver. 0r 'lint's body was buried. The posse ar- ti; ived at Comstock, this County, to-day as ith the prisoners, and will go West ti y to-night's train to El Paso. Sheriff leffer went up to-day with warrants p or the meu. Captain Jones refused to g eliver them to him. The Reformors Win, to CHAR LESTON, S. C., Oct. 22.--Ficken cel as a majority over aryan for mayor to f 217. The reformers elect 15 alder- ciJ en and the Regulars 9. The alder- Sc en re-elected are; C. S. Gadsden, J. A. of mythe, A. J. Riley and H. L. Cade, all ht seguars. Smythe and Gadsden are re- a ected by majorities of 2 and 28 res- y ectively. The Reform aldermen have v mjorities ranging from 4 to 292. The Reformers elect 4 out of 6 school ommissioners. On the Board of Al- 511 ermen there are 7 Germans, 2 Irish en, and the rest natives. There are S ly 3 Roman Catholics on the board. [U The total vote polled was about 3400, ut of a total club list of 6571. The tu tegulars failed to poll the full strength he y about 1800 votes and the Reformers ly y about 800. The Regulars take the is efeat cheerfully, and there is no talk bL f a bolt.-__ he A Gallant Octogenarian, to SnOALs, Ind., Oct. 28.--A farm house su wo miles East of this city, belonging :William Elliott, was burned last vening with all its contents. Elliott nd his wife, both about 80) years old, Ti ero doing work on the farm whF2 the sa oue was aiscovered on !fire. Elliott. ml eing an Invalid, was scarcely able toP et t.o the house. Ihis wife ran int o tile urning building to save one of them eds and some clothing, but as she ar arted out the roof fell in and crushed th er to death. Elliott attempted to PC escue his wife, but was too feeble th nd was also burnett so badly that he is ac ot expected to live. Neighbors ar- Ifo tved on the scene too late to be of any TI READS L!KE ROMANCE. Ow a Convict, Convlctcd or Forgers Secured Freedom. JERSEY CITY. N. J., Oct. 2. ,w and most remarkable feature in thD Lse of Charles B. Stoddard, now con led in Hudson County jail .o: 1rin; iecks, has just come to light. A litth ss than two years azo Stoddari;. thei asquerading under the name Ki Henr: Davis, was convicted of sin:iiar oi nces in Nashvilie., and was seat t< racy City, a branch prison in Tennes c, to serve a term of six ycars. He was put to work in the mines his year, however, he ob;ained hi aedon by one of the boldest and mos genius ruses that criminal imieuuit rer devised. The discovery o ih and has led Governor Buchanana, C ennessee, to make a requisition o1 overnor Abbott, of New Jersey. i1 der that the prisoner may be tried fo e crime by which he secured his lib ty. It appears that Governor Buchanan, w months ago received a petition pur )rting to be signed by tifty of the lead g resideuts of Coviigton, asking R) oddard's release, accompanied by : tter, presumably signed by N. W abtist, of the firm of tJabtist & J3eadle putable and well-known attorneys o at place. This letter weaves a stor: romance about Stoddard or Davis, a: was known in the Tennessee prisAn id recites in great detail how he wa e victim of a conspiracy planned an gineered by a wicked and avariciou: epfather named Jas. Sherrill, an< )etted bj the latter's wicked brother his step-father's cruel conduct, thi tter alleged, drove the prisoner to dis pation, and the step-fat -er by frau Ld him convicted oi forgery so he migh joy the estate of Davis' mother, somi i0,000. Babtist was made to say that he ha< cured the dtvision of Sherrill's esta;t hich would give the prisoner the snu; rm of $37,000 to begin life anew. Thi tter also stated that a note of a confi stial character had been sent to thi overnor to hand to Stoddard, becausi e lawyer .could not consist-ently han< to him, and then continued: "Givi m kindly admonition and godspeed e has some money with him, ar d shou need more, and not be suitably clad udly meet his needs and I will send i eck. He is a Mason and a member o .e Alliance, and his brothers here ar( rv anxious to hear of his prompt re ase. "I trust that the acknowledaement o is letter will be the news that Davis i! After this charming bit of naive' hich paved the way for Stoddard < tch money and a suit of clothes fron .e Governor, the unique document say at Davis and his friends will be satis d with the punishment oi Sherrill, an( at the signature of every citizen 1 opton County could have been obtain Ito the petition. The "signers,'' i >es on to say, "are all first-class citi us and deeply interested in the mat r. Justice demands his immediat rdon, and I ask it as a personal favor id whatever I can do to render you: ministration successful and for you ture advancement in political life wil done, as von know. cheerfully." The signatures attached to the peti yn include the names of S. L~. Cock ft, attorney general; T. 1). Fiippen idge of the Circuit Court; Daniel Smith eriff of Upton county, and mana hers, including the law firm of Babtis Beadle, to which the writer of th< tter was supposed to belong. Stoddar' as duly released, and tire Governo: ly discovered the fraud when he spok one of the supposed signers of thi tition, who deaounced the whole thini a fraud. Stoddard's trial will ceme off in a fev ~ys, and under the laws of New JTerse~i can he sent to the State prison toi n years. After that he can be sent t< unessee, but not before. POPE BEGINS REFORM. e zNmber of Solictors and Cieras to b1 Cut Down. Cotu.LBA, S, C., Oct. 27.-Th< ivernor today issued a requisition or e governor of North Carolina fo: aarle~s Christopher, col oredi, who I: mnted for larceny in Spartanburg, bristopher is in Asheville and will b< ken to Spartanburz tomorrow. The "Assembly," one of the leadinf cia'. organizations in the city, was organized today and will signalize its rganization be giving a cottilior esday night of the lair week. It wi a very large affair and will make the nnectmng ink in the continuous ront social festivities dluring the State' la. The comptroller general is on iris met in regard to thre insurance companies at have made returns of their gross eeipt for taxation and today lie issue( ders to auditors to immediately inves ate this matter thoroughly, by havia! ents appear before them for examina >n under oath. Attorney General Pope today coim eted a plan for reorganizing the en ossing department of the legislature. Eter mature retlection lie has decide( redluce the number of solicitors and rks. IHe will call upon the followins serve: J. M. Johnson, of the fourt!: -cult; HI. Nelson, of the fif th: 0. L hirapert, of the sixth; M. F. Ansel, toe eiighth. The number of clerks s been ~cut down and the followin: pontments made: ai. F. Covinigton, orence, chief; H. T. Wardlaw. Abbe .'e; William lKeiley, Charleston; mes Furz, B3arnwell; D.. H. Wither oon. Blacksburg; S. A. Vance urens; Maury Sims. Columbia: W. l} ack, jr., Columbia; 10. T. To.Dnend, lion. General P'opo says if after the legisla ce convenes; he linds it netessary t ye others they wi:.l be secured promipt ,le believes this 5 we pingreduction demanded in the interest of ecconomyi t if after a practicatl demonst ration see~s he is in error he will take stp see that the pubhic: interess do not ffer.-Greenville Ne ws. Po wder 31111 :xpiodes. P~rrTsuna. Oct. i.h ChrcoLicie ys: Shortly be tore three o'clock~ thih rninfg the glaze mill of tihe Ohic >wder Works. locmated four !iiiles rthi of here, exp! cded, kiing twc n, Thomas M~aasgs :srl Ben somers d completely destroying the mill. At e time the mill comairned 300 Regs of wder, and the mutilated remains of a men were scattered all over a ten: re field. The mrll has been running r months and is comparatively new, te men killed wvere thre only two em yed in the mill this morningr. A TEIl!!IFIC EXPLOSION. DISASTROUS RESULTS OF THE COL LAPSE OF A BOILER. . One Man KMied, Several IDjured and a lalf M1H emDonars Worth of Priper I tv Dcmloycd. Losvi:,. KY., Oct. 26.-By a boil er explosion nere this afternoon one . aa was 'ki!Ied, several persons injured . and nea:ly half a rillion dollars worth of propert', destroyed. At 6 o'clock - Willian I. Adains, a fireman at the electric light plant of the Louisville Gas Copa y, was throwing coal in - the furnace when one of a nest of seven i uoilers bu-st. The shock in the vicin t ity was lie.' an earthquake. Adam waa thrown to the ground with terrific force, and received such internal injur ies that he will die. 'Ihe shed in which the boilers were located was completely demolished and 1 pieces of iron and of timber and show ' ers of red-hot coals were thrown in - every direction. A. great mass of iron and a deluge of burning coals were thrown across the narrow alley into the - rear of Kauffman & Strait's big retail . dry goods store, and the wall of the store was carried away. Half a dozen clerks were gathered about the book keeper, Sol Dreyfus, at the back of the store. All were caught in the wreck age, but it is believed all escaped alive. Dreyfus was seriously injured but not dangerously, Carrie Dinkelspeit, Hattie i Ennis and Lena Sickles were islightly injured. in a moment apparently the whole I buliding was in flames. The weather 3 has been very dry for two weeks and I the wreckage and goods burned like tinder. An alarm was turned in from the au tomatic lre alarm box in the Courier Journal building and the department was quickly at work. The fire in the wrecked building was at once beyond control and attention was turned to saving the Courier-Journal building, two doors north, and the Polytechnic Library building, two numbers south. A water tower was manned and the hose in the Courier-Journal building - were attached and turned through the side and rear of the building, and four teen fire engines were put in position and set to plaving upon the flames. With all this force it was half an hour before the flames gave way and an hour before they were under control. At one time it seemed that the Courier Journal would certainly be burned. The few printers who were in the com posing room left and the reporters and editors who were on duty gathered - their valuables and prepared to escape, most of ;them actually leaving. But f the wind was from the north and car ried the heat in the opposite direction. By strenuous efforts the Polytechnic building, on the south, was saved with heavy damage by water to the books, pictures and other art collections. The tire caught and burned out the two up per iloo'rs of J. V. Escott & Sons, deal era in pictures, fine mirrors, wall paper and photographers' supplies, and the t wo l~ower floors were flooded with wa ter till hardly anything was saved. On t the south Crerone's confectionery and - Porter's millinery store were slightly - damaged. The princinal losses are nearly as can now be learned is about as follows: Kauffman & Strauss, retail dry goods, stock :30,000. nearly covered by insur ance; Baml)erger, Bloom & Co. owners of building, $80,000. insured; J. V. Es cott & Sons, iine wocd work and sup -plies, $30,000, insured; Polytechnic Li brary, building, books, ete, $1,000, part ly insured; Louisville Gas Company, $7.500, covered by insurance. 'f his evening the miners decided to call cut all the men in the district. This will include one thousand men Iworking at the advance. John Mattei, with his wife and in fant child, applied to the authorities to ~night for food. Ile said he was a strik ing miner and they had walked from Connellsville here, having tasted noth ing for nearly forty-eight hours. Tnle mother was too weak to suckle her babe, aud, to save the little one's life Mattel said he cut his finger and allowed the chil'i to drink his blood. The couple were terribly emaciated, and the child 'was al most dead. Fodd and lodgings were funished them. Mattel telis an a wful story of privation and suffering among the miners. The Famine in Enszsia. ST. PETEntsBURG, Oct. 22.-Reports from the provinces of Sunbirsk and Sa mara show that the local government is unable to cope with the prevailing distress and that relief has not reached the more remote districts. The work of distribution is not properly or ganized. Numbers of prosperous per sons are receiving help while many who are entirely destitute are dying of hun ger. The authorities have forbidden the local press to record the state of af fairs. The Zeimtoos (or provincial as sem blies) are panic stricken and are ut terly unable to remedy the disorder. IThe sa pposed reserves of grain are miss ing. It has been discovered that when the Czar ordered the distribution of the rejer ye grain in the government gran aries, the oflicials did not dare acknowl edge that the stores were empty and tried to make up the delicency from the military granaries, in order to conceal their peculation. It is feared that this wi greatly hamper the military comn maissariat in the event of Russia engag lug in war. Funds for the relief of the starving people have also been deplora bly mismaniaged. In some districts which are under powerful patronage there is more than an abundance of re lief, while in other distcicts no heed is paid to starving peasants. Many gov ernmients employees complain that their superiors deduct a certain amount fromi thteir wages for a relief fund, there by leaving them poverty stricken. The Earth Trembled. LoNIoN. October 28-A private tele gram dated at Iliogo reports a disas trous earthquake in Japan. A severe shock was e xperienced at Osaka, a sea port town of 3~>,000 inhabitants, on the island of IRondo, and in many things one of the first cities of Japan. The destruction of life and property wa eygreat. So severe was the throwr. t th ground and many occu pants were caught in the falling build migs and (rashed to decath, A large nube pJsonIs succeeded in es c.apng frou their tottering homes only tome et in the( streets. There is n men at)resent of estimating the ttal l 's of life; in fact details of the catastro' ar v."ery meagre as all the teIlegrapui wi.res in the districts af -c fdn r hroke iy the falling of i.* y>.. The disptch, however, states tha i isknwn thiat in Osaka alone th et u~ ontains the names of thr c unre of residxents of that city. R~was~tie2.James Paxton, of Sa vanm:ah. Gat., s ays he had Rhbeumatism so 'Lad tha~t he could net move from t!:e Led or dress without help, and that he tried macy remedies, but received no elief until he began the use of P. P. P. (Prickly Ash. Poke Root and Potas sium), and two bottles restored him to fheah.