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A l111 IABP.RN CULE "WHERE'S MOTHEN?" WAS REV- DR. TALMAGE'S SUBJECT SUNDAY. A Queen Unto G -d For. v.r-0:d FashIoned Mothers IRestlug In a G ud, Eisv. Com fortable Heaven aL d Waitlg atte Path ace Wirdow For thtr L,-ve d Oaes. 8Ro0LYN, Jan, 14.-This novel and unioue turj c. was preseotedby Dr. Talinaze tils rorenooa to the usual tbrongs crovdiun the largest Protestant chureh in America. The congregation led by orzao and c rnet. sang a gcepel hymn to the zur:e of -Home. Sweet HEome." Tex!, Ju,'-es v, 28, "The mother of Sisera locked out at a win dow." Spiked to the rcuna of Jel's tent lay the dead cotmlaner in chief of the Canaanitish Los', General Sisera, not far from the river Khon, which was only a dry bcd of peb >s hen in 1889, in Palest-te, we crossed it, but the gu! lies and iay:ies uh-ch ran into Lit u. cated the possibihty cf freshets Lke the one at the time of the text. General Sisera had gone out with 900 iron chariots but he was defeated. and, his chriot whels interlocked with the wheels of o'her chariots, he cou'd .not retreat fast enottb, and so he leaped to the grouan and ran till ex hausted, te went into Jaet's tent ft safety. Sne had ju-t been churnzin. and whcn he aslEd f r watcr she gave him buttetwoik, :biu; :,*t east is con sidered a most ree!ue dilok. Very tred atodzsupac.-;he was safe, be went to ,eevo '1 the djor, but Jael wh !:a resolvcd upor his death, took a tent p:-., long and rout:d and sharp, in one bat;d and ai hmmer im her other hand, and puLting the sharp end ot the tent pin to the forehead of Sisera with her other band she lifted the ham. mer and brought it down on the head of .the-pin with a stout stroke, wben Sisera struggled to rise, -ind she struck him again. and he strnggld to rise, and the third time she ,;truck h:m, and the com mander ia chiet o' the Canaaoitish host lay dead. ieeanwbue in ihe distance Sisera's motter sits at;id-urre undings of wealth and pomp and see, s palaial waiting for his return. Eve y mother espects her eon to be vicor - us, and this mother looked expectnmz to ee him dr.ve up in his chariot, tolilowet b. wt,!ons loaded with embrc'- rts alIso by re-iments Ot mn vat q.-!oLd avd cuslaved. I see her now sita *g * tt- wrndow in bi!b expectati*n Sbc watches the farthest turn of the road. S'- looks for the fi, ing dust of tine sv f, boots. fVte first fish of the bit ot the bortt's bridle she wi'l catch. The ladies of her court standround and she tells th-rm of :bat hey she'i have whe-n be'r son c-mies up-chains of gold and carcarers tf or-au and d-esses or such wondrou- tabre and splendor as the biAe oulv hints at. tut leaves us 'o imaine. --He oubi to be here by tbL 'Tinrsi ihts mo:hr. "That battle is surely over: I bor'e that fresbet of the river Kiohon has cot impeded him. I hope those stanze apuearances we saw last night the sky were not orni nous when the s'ars seewed to fight in their courses. No, nL! - He is so brave in battle I kro v be bas won the day. He wll aoon be here." But alas for the d.sappointed mother! She will not see the glittering headgear of tbe horses at full eallop brmg~ing sOr. home from gictorious hat le. As a sol itory messenger arrving in hot haste r'des no to the window at wh:cb the mor? r of Sisera -sts he cries, "Your e?mies age defeat ed, and your son is dead'." There is a s~ene ot horror and anguish from which we turn away. Now yiou see the full meaning of my short text, "The mother .A Sisera looked out at a window." W ell, my friends, we are all out in the battle of .lsfe.ateisarging now, and the.most of shaeamother watching and waiting for news of cur victory or- defeat. If she be 'not sitting at the window of earth, she is sitting at a window of hes en, and she is going to hear all about it. By all the rules cf war bisera ought to have been triumphant. He had 900 iron chariots and a host of many thous ands vaster. than the armites of Isreal. But God was on tbe other side, and the angry freshets af Kilshon, and the hail, the lightning, and the unmanagable war horses, and the capsized chariots, and the stellar panic in the sky discomfited Sisera. Josephus in his history de scribes the scene in the following worde: "When they were come to a close f~gEt, here came down from . heaven a, 'great stor wt'h at vast quantity of rain and hail, and the wfnd 41.ew the rain in' the face of the Canaanites ied so dar -' ened their eyes their arrows an sgs were of no advantage to them, nor would the colanens of the air permit the soldiers to make use of their swords, while this storm did not so much in commode the Isrealites because' it came on their backs. They also took such courage upon the apprehension hat God was assisting them that they fell upon the very midst of their enemies and slew a great number of them, so that some of them fell by the Isrealites, home fell by their own horses which were put into disorder, and not a few were killed by their own chariots." Hence, my hearers, the bad news brought to the mother of Sisera looking out at the window. And our mother, whether sitting at ai window of earth or a window of heaven, w.ill hearthe news of our victory or defeat, not ac ording to our talents or educational qupmedt or our opportuniies, but according as to whether God is f or us r agatnst us. "Wnere's mother?" is the question most frequentl; tyked in many house olds. -It is a~ked by tbe husband as well as the chila cnming in at nightfall. 'Where's mot her ?" It is asked by the ittlones when they get hurt and come rying with the pain,"'Wnere's moth-. r?"- It is askeo by those who have seen some grand sight or heard some good news or reeeived some beautiful gift, "Where's mother ?". She sometimes feels wearied by the ustion, for they all ask it and keep asking it all the time. She is not only the first to hear eviry case of perpfex:- I y, but she is the judge im every court: f domestic appeal, ahat is what puts al the premature wainkles on so manyI maternal I aces anid pow ders white so many maternal foreheads. 'You see it is a question that keeps on for all theI year of childbood. It comes trom theI nursery, and from tne evening stand where' the boys and gir ls are learning their school lessoni, ann f rom the start ing out in the m armtng, when the tipj pet or nat or sP--te or book or overshoe is lost. until at night, all out of breate, 1 the youngsters come in and shout until you can hear them from cellar to garret i and from tront door to the back fence f the back yard, "Where's mother ?" indeed a child's life is so fuli of that uestion that if he be taken away one of the things that the mother most1 misses and the silence that most op Presses her 13 tnle absence of that ques tion, which she will never hear on earth1 again except she bears it in a dream4 which sometimes restore the nurseryj 3ust as it was, and then the voice comes back so natural, and so sweet, and so4 inquiring th3,t the dream breaks at the words, "W here's mother ?" If that question were put to most of us this morxgng we would have to say if we spoxe trathtuully,like Sisera's month er, she is at the palace window. She has become a queen unto G4d forever and she is puliug back the rich folds of the king's upholstery to look down at us. Yv e are not told the particulars ont the resirdence of Sisea's mother but therels in that scene in the book of Judges so much about embroideries and needle.wcrk and ladies in waiting that we know her residence must have been princely and palatial. So we have no minute and particular description of the palace at whose win dow our glorified mother sits, but there is so much in the closing chapters of the good old book about crowns and pearls big enough to make a gate out of one of them, new songs and marri age- suppers, and harps, and white horses with kings in the stirrups, and golden cand!esticks that we know the heavenly residence of our mother is su pert, is unique, is colounadel, is domed, is em owered, is fountained. is glorified beyondthe power of pencilor penor tongue to present, and in the window of that palace the mother sits watch ing for news from the battle. What a contrast between that celes tial surrounding and her once earthly surroundings! What a work to bring up a family in the old time way, with but little or no hired help, except per haps for the washing day or for the swine slaughtering, commonly called "the killing day!" There was then no reading of elaborate treatises on the best modes of rearing children and then leaving it all to Nired help, with one or two visits a day to the nursery to see it the principles an nounced are being carried out. The most of those old to.ks did the se-wing, the washing, the mending, darning the patching, the nillinery, the mantua making, the housekeeping and in hur ried harvest time helped spread the hay cr tread down the load in the mow. They were at the same time caterers, tailors. doctors, chapl-ios and nurses for a whole household ah together down with measles or scarlet fever, or rourd the house with whooping coughs and croups and runround fiagers and earaches and all the iafantile distem pers which at some time swoop upon every.large household. Some of those mothers never got rtsted in this world. Instead of the self rocking cradles ot our oay, whicb, wound up, will go hour after hour for the solace of the young slumberer, it was weary foot on the rocker sometimes half the day or half the night-rock-rock-rock-rock. Ins! ead of our drug stores fi'lea with all the wonders of materia med ica and called up throuah a telephone, with them The only apothecary short of fout miles' ride was the garret, with its bun cher of pepperment and pennyroy'tl and catnip atnd mustard and camomile dowers, whrch were expected to do everything. Just think of it! Fifty years of preparing breakfast, dinner and supper. Rhe chief music they heard was tnat of spinging wheel atd rocking chair. Fagged'out; bead achy and with ai kles swollen. Those old fdsnioned mo tiers-if aay persons ever litted appropria-ey into a good, easy, comfortable heaven they were the folks, aL d they got there, and they are reste. Uhey wear no spectctl-s, for they have their third sighit-'s they lived long enogh on earth to get their second sight-..nd they do not have to paitt for breath after going up the emerald stairs of the E ternal palace, at whose window they now sit waiting for news from the battle. But it any o:, keeps on asking the question. "Where's mother ?" I answer, she is in your pr'esent character. The probability is that your physical feat ures sugge-st her. If there be seven childreD in a household', at least six of them look like their mother, and the older you get the more you will look like her. But I speak now . especially of your character and not of your looks. This is easily explained. During the first ten years of your life you were almost all the time with her, and your father you saw only mornings and nights. There are no years in any life so important for impression as the first 10. Then and there Is the impression made for virtue or vice, for truth or falsehood, for bravery or cowardice for religion or skepticism. Suddenly start out from behind a door and frighten the child, and you may shatter his nervous system for a lifetime. During the first 10 years you can tell him enough -spook, stories to make him a coward till lie dies. Act before him as though Friday were an unlucky day, and it were baleful to have 13 at the table, or see the moon over the left shouider,and he will never recover from the idiotic superstitions. You may give that girl before she is 10 years old a fondness for dress that will make here a mere "dummy frame", or fashion plate, for 40 years. Ezekiel xvi, 4.4, "As is the mother so is her daught er." .Bfore one decade has passed you can decide whether that boy shall be a Shy lock or a George Peabody. Boys and girls are generally echoes ot fathers and mothers. What an incoherent thing for a mother out of temper to punish a child for getting rmad, or a father who smokes to shut his boy up in a dark closet because.-be has found him with an old1sump of a cigar In his mouth, -fthat mother to rebuke her daugh .,rfor staring at herself too much in the lo'oking glass when the mother has der own mirrors so - arranged as to re peat her form from all sides. The great English poet's loose mnoral char acter was decided before he left the nursery, and his schoolmaster in the schoolroom overheard this conversa fion: "Byron, your mother is a fool," and he answered, "I know it." You can hear through all the heroic life of senator Sam Houston the words f his mother when she in the war of 1812 put a musket in his hand and said: "There, my s6n, take this arnd never disgrace it, for remember I had rather all my sons should fill one hon 3rable grave thain one of them should urn his back on an enemy. Go and ememzber, too, that while the door of ny cottage is open to all brave men it t is always shut against cowaras." a~grippinae, the mother of Nero, a mur iereas, you are not surprised that her ~on was a murderer. Give that child in overdose or catechism, and make iim recite verses of the Bible as a pun- 1 snment, and make Sunday a bore, and ie will become a stout antagoms~t of Juristianity. Impress him with the tindness and the geniality and the oveliness of religion, and he will be its 1,dvocate and exemplar for all time and ~ternity. A few days ago right before our ex ress train on the Louisvill-' and Nash rille railroad the preceding train hadi ~one down through a broken bridge, 12 ars fallung a hundred feet and t hen -e onsumed. I saw that only one span f the bridge was down and all the e. ther spans were standing. Plan a good t >ridge of morals for your sons and laughters, but have the dsrt span of 10 e ears defective, and through that they t nill crash dOwD, though all the res; :eep srtanding. 0 man, O woman, if it ou~ have preserved your integrity and a wre really Christian, you have first of t LII to thank God, and I think next you| iave to tas your motber. |t The most impressive thing at the in- !t Luguratiou of James A. Garfield as It resident of the Unitea States was that v ier ne had taken the oath of offi':e he c utned round, and in the presence of f he Supreme Court and the Senate 01 u he United States kissed his old moth- o 'r. If I had time to take statistics out a >f this audience and I could ask what 1, roportion of you who are Christians a >we your salvation under God to tila- t ernal fidelity, I think about three ourths of you would spring to your e feet. "Ha! Ha!" said the soldiers of he regiment to Charlie, one of their e ~omrades, "Wt at has made the changet n you? You used to like sin as well i is any of us." Pulling from his pock :t his mother's letter, in which, after elling of some comforts she had sent t iim, she concluded, "We are all pray- t *ng for you, Charlie, that you may be .i .Christian," he said, '-Boys that's the sentence." i The trouble with Sisera's mother was 2 that while sitting at the winaow of my< text watchiug for ne ws of her son from .1 the battledield she had the two bad3 gualities of being dissolute and being Bible account says: "Her wise ladies answered her yea. She returned an swer to herself: "Eave they not sped? Have they not divided the prey-to every man a damsel or two, to Sisera a prey of divers colors-a prey of divers colors of needlework, of divers colors of reedlework on both sides?" She makes no anxious utterance about, the wounded in bF.itle, about the bloodshed, about the dying, about the dead, about the principles involved in the battle going on-a battle so ir'port ant that the stars and the freshets took part, and the clash of swords was an swered by the thunder of the skits. What sbe thinks most of is the bright colors of the wardrobes to be captured and the needlework. "To Sisera a prey of divers colors-a prey of divers colors or'needlework, of divers colors of nee dle work on both sides." Now, neither Sisera's mother nor any one else can sav too much in eulcgy of the needle. It has made more useful conquests than the sword. Pointed at one end and with an eye at the other, whether of bone or ivory, as in earliest time; or of bronze, as in Pliny's time; or of steel, as in modern time; whether laboriously fashioned as formerly by one hand or as now, when a hundred workmen in a factory are employed to make the different parts of one needle, it is an instrument divinely ordered I or the comfort, for the life, for the health, for the adornment of the human race. The eye of the needle bath seen more domestic comfort, and more gladdened poverty, and more Christian service than any o.her eye. The modern sewing machine has in nowise abolished the needle, but rather enthroned it. Thank God for the nee diework from the time wheu the L'rmd Almigi ty from the heavens ordterrd in regard to the embroide ed door of the ancient *ab!rn-ile, 'Thou shalt make a hangitig for the door of the tent of blue ata purple and scatler and fiv:e twined linen wrought with needle work." down to the womauly hands wnch. this winter in this Taberuacle are presenting for benev lent purposes their ueedlework. But the-re was notning except vanity and worldliness and sacial s -lash in what Sisera's mother said anout the needlework sne e-xp-,cied her son would bri g nome from the battle. An i I am not surorisedl to find that S sera fought on the wrong side, when his mother at the window of ny text, io that awful exigency, had her chie'I thought on dry goods achiev-ment and social display. God onlv knows how many homes. have made ship wreck on the wardrobe. And that mother wno sits at the window watching for vanglorious triumpi -f miliuery and i.:e colors and domestic pageantry will aft-er awhile hear as* bad newvs frow ver chiloreu out in the battle of life ms S.S-ra's mother heard from the stnrg g'e 4t Esdraelon. 1. if you still press the question. "W.--re's mother?" I will te.i you wieie she is not, though once she was Morr. Some of you started with her liken-ss in your face and her prinz1 pies in your soul. But you have cast her out. That was an awrul thing for you to do. but you have done it. .uat hard, grinding, dissipated look you never got froaA her. ,If you had seen any one strike. h.r, you would have struck him down without much care whether the- Olow was just sufficient or fatal; but, my boy, you have struck her down-struck her innocence from your face and struck her principles from your soul. You struck her down! The tent pin that Jael drove three times into the skull of Sisera was not so cruel as the stab you have made more than three times through your mother's heart. But she is waiting'yet, for mothers are slow to give up their boys-waiting at some window, it may be a window on earth or at some window in heaven. All others may cast you off. Your wife may seek divorce and .have no more patience with you. Your father may disinherit you and say, "Let him never again darken the door of our house." But there 'are two persons who do not give you~ up-God and mother. How many disappointed mothers waiting at the window! Perhaps the panes of the window are not great glass plate, bevel edged and hovered over by exquisite lambrequin, but the window is made of small panes, I would say. about six or eight of them, in summer wreathed with trailing vine, and in winter pictured by the Raphaels of the froat, a real country window. The mothersits there knitting or busy with her needle on homely repairs, when she ooks up and sees coming across the bridge of the meadow brook a stranger who dismounts in front of the window. He lifts and drops the heavy knocker af the farmhouse door. "Come in!" is the response. He gives his name and tays, "I have come on a sad errand." 'There is nothing the matter of my son in the city, is there?" she asks. 'Yes!" ,.he says. "Your son got into mn unfortunate encounter with a young man in a liquor saloon last night and s badly hurt. The fact is he cannot tet well. 1 hate to tell you all. 1 am torry to say he is dead." "Dead!" she tries as she totters back. "On, my son! my son! my son! Would God I had lied for thee!" That is. the ending of ill her cares and anxieties and good tounsels for that boy. That Is her pay ~or her self sacrifices in his behalf. L'hat is the bad news from the battle. lo the tidings of derelict or Corisrian ons travel to the windows of earth or he windows of hdaven at which moth rs sit. "But," says some one, "are you not nistakeri about my glorified mother earing of my evildoinigs since she vent away ?" Says some one else, Are you not mistaken a'iout my glor dled 1nother hearing of my self sacri ice and moral braver; and struggles .o do right?" No! Heaven and earth ire in constant communica'ion. There ire trains running every five minutes -trains ofimnmortals ascending and lessending-spirus going from eartsi o heaven to live there. Spirms de cending from heaven to earth to min stern and help. They hear from us nany times every day. Do they he'tr rood news or bad news from this '-at ie-this Sedan, this Thermopyhe, this Lusterlit z, in which every one or us is izri' ing on. the right side or the wrong ide ?" Oh, God, whose I am, whom I am rying to serve, as a result of this ser non, roll over on all months a ne w -Lse of their responsibility, and upon 'Ilenildren whet her still in the nursery r out on tbe tremendous Esdrealon of awlife or old age, the fact that their ictozies or defeats sound clear out leoir up to the windows of sympatheic 2aternity. Oh, is not this the minute rhen the cloud of olessing tilted wi h te exhaled tears of anxious mothers tall burst in sfiowers of mercy on his audience! There is one thought that is almost :o tender for utterance. I almost fear > start it lest I have not enough con rol of :ny emotion to concludie it. As rhen we were children we so often amne in from play, or from a hurt, or com some childisn injustice practiced pon us, and as soon as the door was pened we cried, "Where's nmother?" mid she said, "Here I am," and we bur ::d our weeping faces in her lap. So fter awhile when we getthrougth with he pleasures and hurts of this life, we till, by the pao doning mercy of Christ, nter, the heavenly home, and among he first querstions not the first but mong the first, will be the old question hat we used to ask, the question that i being asked in thousands of places ,t this very moment--the question Where's mother ?" And it will not, ake long for us to fnd her or for her o find us, for sne will have been watch ng at the window for our coming, and rith the other children of our house told of earth we will again gather ound he , and she will sap "Well hojw lid you get through the battle di ife? .have often heard fromi .atiters aba& lou but now I want to hear a tfromn rour own souls. Teli me all about it;,I ny rchildren:' And then we will tell her of all oar earthly experiences-the holidays, the marri-ages, the birth hours, the burials, the heartbreaks, the losses, the gains, the victor ies, the defeats-ani she will say: "Never mind. It is all over now. I see each one of you has a crown, which was given you at the gate.- as you came t.b rougb. Now cast it at the feet of the Christ who saved you and saved me and saved us all. Thank God we are never to part, and for all the ages of eternity you will never again have to ask, 'Where's mother?'" Animther Atlanta Sens2ationD ATLANTA. Jan. 17.-William Givens, who has no settled occupation, was ar rested here this afternoon for attempt ing to kill hits wife. About 3 o'clock this morning, Mrs. Givens was w iked from a deep sleep by the loud report of a p3t01 in her room. She sprang up wildly, instantly awake. She screamed aloud and threw out her arms for her husband, whom she supposed to be sleeping by her side. le was not there and she screamed all the louder at find ing herself all alone and unprotected. A second and a third pistol shot quick ly followed and Mrs. Givens felt a stinging sensation about her head. She fell b-ck upor her p How which was rapidly reddeuring with her own blood. She heird the voice of her husband a few feet aw;ny callimg to her not to be frigbtened and not to scream. She fell back upoa her pillow exhausted and t;ging for mercy. Her husban:d made a light and very much excited, walked ovrr to her side and discovi red that she was shiob. He helped her to stop tMi fliw of blood and after day lighI went in searen uf a physician. It wnas not until 9 o'c:ock that Givenstel e phored to the poirce. - Officers Barrett andi Bone olaced him uid r arrest and carried hi u to poliie headquarters sus pezting him of having done the shoot ing. Giv. ns proteste i innocence and said that he was awakened by the shots. He sprang out of bed at the sound of the first shot and could dis. tinctly see that sams one was firing through the window from the outside. Hetried to shi-ld himself from the fly ing bullets. and not until the firing ceased did he make any noise. Then he called to his wife admonishing her n quiet herself and stop screaming. Mrs. Givens indicated to the officers r.er belit-f that her husband had done the shooting. She felt morally certain of it, although the evidence was mainly circumstantial. Oflicer Bone believes there is no dount of Given's guilt. He says he carefully measur-a some foot prints beneath the window and compared the reasuremeuts with tne dimensions of Givefns' feet and the two correspond exactlv. He also accurately measured the horse tracks in the yard and after wards measured the feet of a horse in a lot which adjo:bs Givens' home, and found that the feet and tne tracks were of the same size exactly. Officer Bone says he thinks Givens took the horse out of te lot and tied it outside his' gate intending to made his escape on it after killing his wife. An. exhaustive search was made for the pistol, but it was no- found.. He has employed Mr. F M. Mitchell to defend him. Mrs. Givens s:3 s that her husband was al ways jealous of her and frequently ac cused her of receiving visits from a -reli known, physician, which insinua tion she denounced as without founda tion. This feeling of jealousy was a frequent source of trouble. A Rera Avis In the Senate. WASHINGTON; January 18.-Senator Walthall, of Mississippi, has resigned. The followring is the letter of resigna tion: SENATE CHAMBEn, WAsUINGTON, January 17, 1894.- ro the Hon. J. M. Stone, Governor of Mississippi-My ~Dear Sir: The condition of my health compels me to seek a milder climate for the remaind'er of the winter season. The alternative is presented me of re signing my present position cc ahsent ing myself from my post of duty at a time when it Is important that our State should have two Senators in their seats. It best accords with my sense of pub lic obligation to pursue the former course, and I trust that it may seem to my constituents, as it does to me, that in adopting it I am affording them the highest proof of my appreciation of their confidence and good will. Ilam Indebted to the people of Mis sissippi for the highest honors in their gift, repeatedly bestowed under cir cumstances which greatly enhanced their value in my estimatibon. To hold to the high trust which they have committed to me when unable from any cause to discharge 'its duties according to my own standard of faith ful service-would be an unfit return for their generosity and fidelity. Therefore I enclose you my resigna tion, and beg through you to repeat to the people of the State the expression of my gratitude and obligation for their kindness, constancy and support. I can take no action no w in relation to the Ssnai'orial termn beginning March 4:, 1895, for which I was elected in Jan uary, 1892. Eminent statesmen and awyers here, to whose conclusion I can find no answer, advise me that I| have no such present connection with that term as warrants me in dealing with it before it commences. Wneii I may lawfully act in- that matter I shall be governed, as. I am now in surrendering my commission for the current terw, by what shall ap-i ear ',o be my duty to the people ofi Missiesippi under conditions existing a, the time. Your friend and obedient 1 servant, - E. 0. WALTHALL . Tbe present term of Senator -Wal hall would expire on Maich 3, 1895.~ Troubte'at R1 ,ase. AUGUSTA, Ga., Jan. 17.--Word :o.mes to Augusta from Rouse, settle ent near Jackson -Station, S. L., on be Part R ',al and Auausta road, of I roub:e between w te and blacIks. At, tiueixpt ,was made to arrest Jese Jade, n egro desperado, but his friends sur ourded his house and ambushed thbe osse, wcu jdinir three of the constables, ne seriously. It is not known if any ci t'e- negroes were burt. More trouble1 vas teared tonight, but later advices say - ati is quiet so iar. . AvUsTA Jan. 18.-The iiot aE rackeon S ation, on the Port Roy al and t Augusta Ratiroad, nmght before last, baa I >roven more serious than was at first hou. bt. T wo ot the men in the figbt ave ied, ar d another is not expected .o live. Paul Green. white, who was snot in the abdomen, died yesterday orning at his home near the scene of he fi. ht, and his brother. Rihett Green,. as brought to August a this morning for nedical attention. He is shot in the< ee, stmachi and shoulder, and there re doubts cf his recovery. One of thet :eroes died yesterday morning. Mr. I reen, when seen this afternoon, statedi hat the trouble was the result 01 a law uit brought by Mr. Enoch Beaufort inainst Jesse Jade, the leaders in the ( ight. Alter the trial of the case Bean fort had some words with Jrade, who kocked him down. Later in the day Beauiort s wore out a warrant for the ar est of Jade, Owing to the bad reputa ion cf Jade ten young men were sworn n as de puties, Pat Chisolm, Enoch and ,) enry Beautort, Rhiett, Paul and Frank I ren, Alvin Tally and Glover Mc- f lvin. They had no idea of the ambush C hey were running into and did got sus- ~ ect anythIng until they entered the house and the shooting began from both ~ nside and out. It is understood that ' he negroes were infor-ned of the pro osed arrest by a white man, who put ifem on their guard and told them to of er~ resistance. The name of the man is :nwn but is withhelai from publication, I ut'it is understood he will be arrested I to-ay a~nnnuticc administered. I Cheap Telephones Now; NEw YoRtK, Jan. 1.-After the 30th of this month you will be able to buy a telephone for a few dollars, and for $85 you can purchase a complete system, with all the necessary implements for both ends of the line. Httherto it would have been impossible to pur chase the instruments at any price, as they were controlled by patents own ed by the American Bell Telephone Company. The fundamental Bell telephone pat ent expired on March 7, of last year. The Bell Company, it was found, how ever, still owned the patent on the re ceiver, and no telephone system would be of mucn use without a receiver. Among other concerns which entered into the telephone business upon the expiration of the original Bell patent in March was the Shaver Corporation, of Pittsburg, Pa: The Bell Company brought suit against the Shaver Corpo ration on the receiver, citing the pat ent of Alexander Graham Bell of Jan. 30, 1877, a3 the one infringed. An in junction was promptly granted and that put an end to the opposition tele phone business for the time being. But the patent of January 30, 1877, is now about to expire, and thus both the re ceiver and the transmitter will be free to ths public. Aftce the 30th of this month tele phones will be sold like hats or cigars. Instead of paying $240 a year for the rent of an instrument you can buy one outright for less than a tenth of tnat sum. If you only wish to use it be tween your house and office, or bet ween the house and the stable, or from office to factory, you can have a line put up for a trifling sum and yon will own your system outright and can stop pay ing the exorbitant prices now charged by the Bell Company. If, hawever,vou wish a telephone for general use and have to depen'd upon the exchange, you will still be at the mercy of the Bell Company.at least for some time to come. It is evident frow the' preperations now being made in thi city and else where by manufactu rers of electrical apparatus that a big boom is expected in the sale of tele phones. A large number of instru ments have been made and these will be put on the markes January 31. Many large contracts have been maie for the supply of telephones after that date. All these new instruments will be sold outright. None will be rented. They do not differ in appearance from those of the Bel Companv,and, in fact, are smaller. Being new, they are supe rior to most of the instruments cup plied by the Bell Telephone Company, and which have been In use for years. In view of the expiration of this pat ent, the Bell Company, it is said, has about decided to abandon the private line business and the indpendent tele phone system in the smaller country towns. At present the Bell CompaLy charges $150 a year for a privat line in this city. A rich field awaits the capitalists who will engage to fight the Bell Com pany in this city, which is its strong bold. The enormous revenue which it derives from the people of New York may be judged from the fact that it charges $240 a year for a telephone in a business house. and that it has 10.000 subscibers. In Brooklyn, Jersey City and adjacent suourbs there are 10,000 additional subscribers. But from the people of this city alone it is obvious that $2,000,000 a year is taken for the use of instruments which did Dot Cost $50,000.- -World. A Rancorus Ex-Plest. KANSAS CITY, Jan. 16.-The city is wild with excitement tonight, the re Blt of a riot precipitated by an ex-priest who bitterly assailed the _Catholics. An address was delivered by J. V.~Mc Namara, said to be irom Rome. He commenced by making a rancorous at ta.k o'n the Catholics and the institu tions they hold so dear. He had not proceeded far with his harrangue when he was interrupted by groans and hisses from the audience. These only seemed to add intensity to the bitterness of his remarks, and the meeting son became a scene of howling-, excited men, and broke up in disorder. After the hail had been rleared a crowd of men gathered on the street and waited for the speaker to ap pear. When he came down from the ball he was greeted by* vells of derision, and there were cries of "hang him." His friends collected about him, and an attempt was made to pusha way through the crowd. As the angry mob crowded about McNamara and his band of sup porters, pistols were drawn and some one fired a sliot into the air. This seemed the signal of a general fight and everal shots were exchanged. One man was shot, bet he was taken away by his friends. During the gen ~ral melee McNamara, the cause of the dot, managed to escape and is hidIng somewhere in the city. After the shoot nrg, the police made an assault upon the strugaling mob and many -persons were irrested. On all of those taken into lustody. pistols were four d an d it is evident that a fight was anticipated by yoth sides and that they were prepared ; shed blood to case the difficulty re ched that stage. The city ise in a state f wild uproar and more trouble is feared >efore morning. A Successful Holid Up. ST. JOSEPH, Mo., Jan. 18.-Train NTo.i t on the Kansas City, St. Joseph and )ouncil Bmufs Railroad was held up Lad robbed at 12:.20 o'clock this morn. ng by five masked men at Ro5's Land- I ng, one mile north of this city, the icene of the attempted robbery of Sep. ember 25 last. The train was stoppsd e >y a torpedo and a red lantern signal Lnd when the engineer had slo wed up, ie and the firemen were covered by re rolvers and frced to go back to the e xpress car and demand admittance. 'he express messenger, C. E. Baxter, ras covered by revolvere in the hands if the robbers and they proceeded to >lunider the car. The safe was opened and the contents rere transferred to a saca which was r: arried bygone of the gang. The rob- I pers then assembled-all the train cre w c n a bunch, marched them about half I ray down the train and ordering them s o stand still, made their escape in a resterly direction through the dense e viliows which line the track at that oint. The robbers could not be de- d cribed. but are supposed to be the gang hat held up and robbed the Chicago ast train, the "Eli," on the Hannibal, ust a week ago tonight. T wo of the men, a tall and short one, s s wer the descrIption given of the two e 'Eli"' robbers. Sheriff Carson and a t arge posse of deputies are hot on the I rail of the robbers, and every as ailable~ - nan has been pressed into Service. As g non as the robbers left the train it was f aceked down into the city and the offi- a ials notified. Nothing can be ascer- t ained in regard to how much money t he robbers secured, but coming on the a eels of the last robbery it has created v tense excitement all over the city. I Roy's Landing, where the hold up oc urred, was the place where two train 'i obbers were killed and four capt ured t n September 25- by a dummy train sent a ut by the officials of the road in place r f train No. 3., the train that was at- I acked last night. 5 A Fiendish Crime.r BIR3IIGHIAM, Ala, Jan. 16.-John E. ohnson, a negro, murdered his entire amily at Somerville, Morgan county unday night, and tried to cover up his t rime by burning the house. His wife ad two children, aged respectively 5 a ,nd 3, were the victims. Johnson first / ut their throats and then satur- 2 ted the room with oil and set fire to i he house. Oily charred portions of a he bodies were found In the debris. t ealousy and another woman figured in i he case. Johnson is in jail, and is 5 >retty sure to De lynched, as excite- i nent among the nogroes is intense t 'hey are gathering in large nnmbers to r mane the horrible crime. Deep Water for Charleston. CHARLESTON, S. C., Jan. 18.-In O tober last Captain Frederick V. Abbott the United States engineer in charge of the government improvements in Charleston harbor, announced in his annual report that the fifteen-foot channel of 1884 had become a twenty foot channel in 1892. A new survey of the harbor and the jetty channel was completed by Captain Abbott in De cember and has just been chartered. It shows that in two months the channel gained a depth of one foot of water. rhis means that a vessel drawing 21 feet of water can pass through the jet ty channel at high water-the least depth anywhere. in the channel being 158 feet on a smaller shoal at the har bor end of the passage. OE of thli shoal the depths in the channel are 18 3 feet next the shoal and 18.9 feet at the entrance from 'ie sea, with a depth of 27.2 feet half way between these two points. So that with the small inner shoal removed a vessel drawing 23 feet could now come into the harbor at high water with some inches of water clear under her bottom at the shallowest points and several feet clearing the rest of the channel. Considered fram every point of view, therefore, as Captain Abbott says, the latest chart "is the most favorable showing yet obtained," and it appe ir to give certain promises that. the 23 foot channel from deep water outside to deep water inside will be- obtained aL a very early day. even earlier than was expected last October. It is not safe to make predictions in regard to events occurring under water, but there has been a gain of ona foot in depth since the survey in Optober, and tere is much less work for the tide to do now than there was then. It is ex;ect ed that the small shoal which is no % iz, the way will disappear in its turn in the next sixty or ninety days, and that the nexrt official survey willsnow twen ry-three feet of water throughout the jetty channel at mean high tide. HMnt ninx her Ci tm. SAN FRANCISCO. Jan. 18.-In a c m munication receiv< d here by the steamer Australia there was Lhe assertion that Lhe deposed queen has iven iup the con est and will eue the United States tor damages for the part taken by the for mer representatives .of Lbis country at he time the provisional government was substituted. Samuel Parker, pime minister of the ex-queen and minisler Ai foreign aflairs, A. Peterson, attorney reeral, and two aembers of the catiuet t the time ofthe change in the govern ent, came 'v the same steamer. They briefiy denied the statement, depmin2 that it was important. They noticed in the telegraphic dispatces from Wash Lnton that c nsiderable weight is givea t the capital to tbib i eport. Ia consequence, Mr. Parker sent a trong teleg am to Sscretarv of S;ate Cresham, signed as prime minister of Foreign aflairs, positively denving those assertions, and declaring ttt the queen had submitted her case to tLe aroit-a Lion of the United Siates, and will pa tiently await that verdict. Mr. Parker and Mr. Peterson said that they saw the queen half an hour before they left on the steamer Australia. and she was firm in her determination to claim throne. At no time did she or any of her advisers mention the possibili tv of presenting a claim to the United tates for pecuniary assistance. HOW WOULD SHE SUE? WASHINGTON, Jan. 18.-The cfficials of the ;state departmen t scoff at t:e story that ex Queen Liliukalana is c )n temlating a sutt far idamagess against the United States government for hav ing ousted her from her th.-one and hay ing taken her government from her. It is inquired very pertinently. "w here will she bring suit?" There is nO' czurt in which she has the privilege of bringing sit. The only means of enforcing a lecision would be to wage war. Sae night, indaed, file a bclaim with con dess, but she would bs entirely de pendent upon legislation for and return:. A Picnic'tor tha L awyar s. GRtEENVILLE, Jan. 18.-A. curious will came to light today by the death > Elizabeth Waters, near Rteidville, partanburg County. James and An thony Wakefield, two,. old bachelor rothers, started a town which they wanted named Wakefield, but it was ~alled Reidville. They determined to rill the town, and at their death left all her large estate to their neice, Mrs. Waters, for her life and at her death ~he property goes to the clerk of Court f Spartanburg County and his suc essors, to be held in trust for one hun red years. At the expiration of that ,eriod it is to be divided among the iearest relatives. Today .Mrs. Waters ied and under the will the clerk of Jourt will take possession. It is stip ilated that only so much of the land hall be worked daring the huadred iears as will produca a sutlicitn 1mount- to pay the taxes. The land :ompletely surrounds Riedville, cut ,ing it off from the entire world, and s valued at one hundred thousand dol ars, which may not ne halif the actual alue. It is supposed that the lawyers lill have a picnic in the litigation 'hich will be opened. Eadorses senator Irby. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 17. Editor Register: I1 will state that I a not willing for the impression to irevail in South Carolina that I will ndorse any man who had violated a led.;e to me. Congressman G. W. heil promised me that he would notn 2ake any endorsement ia my distric'. ithout first having consulted me or rith my previous eudorsement. To mv arprise I found that he had endorsed Haskelhte for postmaster ia my das ict in cot~nectiomn with ex Congressme~n J. Hempniill, George Jjhastoae and enator M. C. Butler. I am a friend to Senator Irby and do ot propose to move in this mutte:r s) >n as .ie is chairman of the S..ate ese tive committee. I do not propose to' )llow the iead of any man wrhom I con ider untrue and seli-constituted. Congressmen Talbert, Latimer and I udorse the letter written by Senatoz rby and pubhisued in The Register to - ay. T. J. STRAIT, M. C. Double eMarder. MONTGOMERtY, Ala.. Ja-n 17-A peciat to the Advertiser from LaFay te, Ala., says: Ne ws has just reached rils place of the killing of Mr. Clay Eudson by Bob Foster, in Bhat 13, this fternoon; also another killiag of a ne ro by Foster. The particulars are as oll-ws: Huason and Foster had a lawv uit Saturday about the line be ween their plantations. Hutdson won he suit. Today Foster rode to Hudi-1 on's field where he and some negroes ere working, and called to IRudson. ludson started, on nearing Foster ne I 7as told to halt. He then turned toi ralk away. Foster then shot him in he back of the bead, killing him In tantly. Then he turned and killed a egro and tried to kill another one, but ailed. Hudson was one of the most< roinent men in the county. The heriff with dogs is in pursuit of the iurderer. Wholesale Aasasit ation. CHICAGO, Ill., Jan. 17.-A special to he Herald from Valdosta, Ga., says: L wholesale attempt at assassination< t the turpentine distillery of McCloud : Young, in Clinch county, is reported 1 ine negro workmen were shot while camp. The attacking party had I hot guns and Winchester rifles. It is I .ot yet known who formed the attack-1 ag party, but it is believed that they ere squatters, whose rights had been I f ringed on. Another theory is that he shooting was done by employes of ival firms who have attempted to pre- 1 'nt the istillery beingr rnn.-1 A Hog Cholern Remedy. Dr. T. J. Dodge, of Hamillton, I writes as follows to the Iowa Hon stead on the subject f hog cholei As the price of hogs Is sutfiiently hii to pay the farmer to use every means protectinz them from the ravages of t cholera I deem it my duty to give to t public, free, my recipe for the care what is termed hog cholera. I ha used this remedy for thirty-five yea1 and raised hogs on my ranch in ' braska, and never lost a hog. Ha experimented by placing one well h with a lot of sick ones and keeping well by the use of this remedy. Y will confer a great favor upon the f mers of our country by publishing tI recipe in full in your valuable pap 1 am now engaged in other busine and has been for sixteen years, and E willing to let others prosper by the lo: years of experience of mine with a ; medy I discovered myselt for the cure this disease. Tne prescription and rections are as follows: Arsenic, on half pound; cape alloes, one-half 'oun blue vitriol, one-fourth pound; blai antimony, one ounce. Grind and m well the remedy before using. The f lowing are the directions for use: 1. Sick hozs in all cases to be separ ed from the well ones and plazed in d pens with only ti7e or eight in ean p'en. 2. Feed nothing b-,t dry feed but 1 water, only the slop containing the i me ;y until cured. 3. When hogs refuse to eat tu them their b teks, and with a Ion, handled spoon pl': the dry medici: downtbm'.r tbroats. 4. Dost for large hogs, one teaspoo lull three times a day for three day then mIs3 one day and repe-it tl a'ocant until cured. Shoats or pi on"-half the amount. 5 As a preventive one teaspoonf once a week wilt keep N our hogs in heAthv conliton to take on fat. I ca place one weil hog in a pen with oi huudred sick cues, ard with this re: edy keep him well. 6 Let no other stock but hogs ha acces.s to this rewedy, as it is to them deadly poison. Dr. Dodge adds that for many yea he sold tnis reoei pt for $5 and tre tt thousands of nogs at the rate of $1 pt lead. paying th- owner 10 ceats pounid for all that died after treatme began. FlopptagS i % a. The Biltimore Sun preaches this sE mon to the rew Sena ore on the Dem cratic side of the chamter wno seein I clined to forget that io not supportir the Wilson bill they are violating ti pledges made to tne people, especial when tneir motives seem to be to re resent special intereits instead of ti principies of the party. Savs the Sul For any Democratic Senator to way or weaken in the support of his par1 at this juncture will be an act of s preme ani unpardonable disloyalt The citadel of protection was storm' and carried by an overwhelming m jority of tne American people in 189 The national government a as put i the full possession of the Democrat party, charged with the duty of era ing the McKinley tariff from tl statute books and liberating the Himt of capital and labor alike from the fe ters of unjust and crushing taxati ) If now,'in the crisis of the legislatil effort to perform that duty, traitors al found within our gates, dickering wit enemy, parleying with the protect( special interests and me iitating a su render of the key of tne position-tt Senate-to the Republican enemy, sJ millions of Democratic voters will d mand a stern reckoning with then The cause of tariff reform and of Den ocratic national supremacy are or and the same. The Demnocra:lc Sent tar who proves false to the former wi be playing the part of Benedict Arno] to both. We cannot believe it possib that any Democratic Senator will pro' recreant to his duty in this emergene Some of them will probaibly attempt 1 amend the bill, but if their ideas al not accepted we believe they will al quiesce in the judgment of their Den ocratic colleagues. Any Senat< who would do less is unworthy to I called a Democrat. He would be tNitor in the camp. smail Fox inl8 Nerk. NEW YORK, Jan. 18.-Small pox h: broken out in the charity hospital an the big institution, with its 800 an odd patients, has been quarantined shut off from the world. No perso will' be allowed to leave it without ti consent of the health department, an no visitor must enter it. All the mi: chief was caused by the admission of patient named Smith who died in ti hospital last week, and whose illnes was-not recognized by the doctors un ti the post mortem revealed it wa nall pox. Then every precaution w: taken, but too late. Among the vit tims is the warden, Robert Robert! who was todlay removed to the sina pox hospital at North Brother Islan mnd his apartments at the Charity ho pital were fumigated by some of th ianitary corys from the health depart nent. ~Mr. Roberts is 58 years old, an ias been a warden of the Charity hosp :ai for several years. This is th ~welfthn case of smnall pox which ha een reported from that institutio wthin the, last few days. P0888 and Crimaas Kliitd. BLUEFIED, WV. Va., Jan. 18.-Tot mna Fraut Mullins, who were' impi satedi in the murder for which "Doc Laylor was hanged in Virginia si: nome hs ago, have been hiding 'n thi :onty several weeks. A reward c 52,00 was offered for their capture inriff Jonnson and Deputy Hall wen resterday to caoturie them. Both th< vullins openied fire with Winchesters ineri Johnson was shot through th iead at the dirsS volley and H4ll wa: :nocked senseless. Neither &iullius vere hurt. Vney left Hall for dea< nd sat down in front of their cabin -al regained consciousness, and with . t moving put a ulleti arough Franl dullius's heart. Tne same instan l'um Mullius snot away nearly all a I:1rl11 lwer j a ., Oat not before Hamil econd aim miad been taken whic i sn ball throumgh T'.ms head. Hiall can i . recover and was Dardly able to re ate the story or the iight. Busines- Iruprovior. BALTIMORE, M'1., Jan. 18.-The da-u actarers' Record of Friday wi] ay: The slight general improvemen eported in business is more pro iounced in the South than elsewhere .n that section several money centre: eport money more plentiful and aJ rcreaing demand for the staple goods . good many cotton m'lls are behiuC ith their orders. Cotton- and ric, mare risen in price, and the market fo: ach has more tone. Several large en erprises are nowe de-finitely determine ipoi, including a .$400O,000 cotton mill $ 100,000 hosiery lactory, an addi ional 575.000 of capital to a cotton ml or improvements; five lumber com anies with an aggregate capital c ~20,00e0; a $25,000 carriage company $100.000~ marble mill and a quarr ompany; 5 100.000 lock company, ~5,000 iron company and a $500,00( ompany to build cigar factories. uniearthed. 1PETEilsIURG, Va, Jan. 18.-LasS vmuig while Timothy Griilith, owne f the Crater farm, in Prince George ounty, about one mile and a half fronr etersburg, was ploughing up his lann irectliy in front of the crater he un artheid the bodies, or rather the skele ons, of five Union soldiers. The skel tons were all clad in tile Federal uni orm. Oa one. of the soldiers wa: ound a cartridge box filled with car ridges, and in his pockets a photograpi .nd a bottle of ink. There was noth ng found by wmich tile names of thn oldiers could be as::ertained. They re, however, believed to have belonged o a Massachusetts regiment, which nnkirtv in the Crater fight. The World'a Fa-ure. II The editor of McClure's Magazin ie- has performed good servica in colleci *a: ing from distinguished men sentiment of and forecasts for the immediate futur he Charles A. Dani sends this word'"Obe he God and never fear the devil." W. 'I ef Stead's message.is, Work for the unio of all who love, in the service of thos c- who suffer." John Tyndall wrot ye shortly before his lamented death s 3g follows, quoting from Emerson th it ou lirst three words: "'I covet trnth.' Tb Ir- gladness of true heroism visits tt 1s heart of him who is really competer to say this." Washington Gladde m writes, "I hope men are slowly learnin; ig that no man liveth to himself alone, e; In bitter contradistinction to this ei . Senator John J. Ingalls.observes, "Tb e- disappearance of evil from the earth I ,d; not probable." Huxley quotes one c , his own utterances of 17 years ago t the effect that America has a great ft ture before her-great in glory or grea Lt- in shame. Then he says, "The one cor ry dition of success-the sole safeguar -is the moral worth and the intel lec o ual clearness of the individuil citizen. -e- Talcott Wiiliims declares that a spir itual renaissance is about to mark th rn next great development of thought ie Professor Max Muller's sentiment i signiicant: "We are told that th a- world will be Slavonic or Teutonic 's; True. The Anglo-Saxon race in Aneis sr ica will have to decide which it is to be As to the future of society in materia ul things, only one forec -s, is gioomy a that of Elisee Reclus, wvho says the le small farmers will beco ne exti t. u a. n- less they unite and defeud themselves It is interesting to note that two of th a prophets, Professor Thomp3oa of tho rnompson-Hiaston Electric company rs an electrician, anl Pr resso - Ras~ser chemist, bala oredtet t'i,. 4 a) dis a tan.t day fool will be m ide ar ifiltally at directly from the original elements, b combining togetner in due proportioi its proper components. Professo: Hruston says this will be doue oy eleC . tricity; Professor Remsen, by chemis n. try. Perhaps both are rignt. Prol ke Houston Is also sure tiat soon mankin ie will be able to pr.duce electrical enei p. gy directly from the burning coal e then the steam engiae wil be relegatei 1: tothe scrap heap. Eiward Atkinsoi predicts that science will gain contro over t ie nitrogen of tue atmsphere y. then goodby to the slow, sour and cru id el wtays of earning a liviog-welcom ease and abundance. Professor Thur4 ton also forecasts discoveries and In ic ventions that will reduce the hou- o s- struggle for life and needs and giv ie every citizen time for rest, thought an > eijoyment. n. Gptting Bsck to Work. re PITTsBURG, Jan. 18.-The Sligo roll re ing mill has started up a non-unior ;h plant, the management hiaving refuse d to pay scale rates aay longer. The pud r. diers who went to work will be paid $ Le a ton, a reduction of 75 cents a ton x The officials of the firm claim thal e. most of the old hands agreed to tht . new terms and that a majority of the ~. men are at work. The puddling Da ie partment of Moorhead Bros & Co.'a . mill, at Sharpsburg, 'has resumed il The guide mill will start up in a few [d days' New timbers are being put un le der the plate mill engine, and thiu re department will continue idle for few days. The rolling mill of Chess, o' Cook & Co., at Rankin, which has beer 'e closed for two months has also gone in e. to operation. The plate mil in %liver's 1.. South Fifteenth street plant went or >r again, the men having agreed to accept ae a12 per cent reduction in wages. Thi a mill will run on doable turn for the -present. BIRADDOCK, Pa., Jan. 18.-The- wire drawing department of the Pittsburg Wire mill has resumed operations, d About 100 men went to work. The rod d mill started up on double turn, when -over 2C0 men resumed work. The"rip. npers" in the wire drawing department Le -were told on Saturday by Superinten d dent Pitch that they w ould be paid the .same rate of wages as the "rippers" at athe Braddock Wire mill. They refused to go to wvork and their p~laces were Sfilled with new men. BRIDGErORT, Conn., Jan.18-Warner s Bros.' big corset fa::tories and the Wheeler & Wilson Sewing Machine company gave started up to run full time, with a full complement of em jployees, aggregatingc 3.000 hands. Since d last summer these concerns have beer . running half time, at half price. TARENTUI. Pa., Jan., 18.--The fIres .in all the furnaces of the No.2 works of Sthe Pittsburg Plate Glass company . have been lighted. Tns works willrme same in full, but at greatly reduced wages. They have Deen idle since last July. Eighti hundred meni wil be emn ployed. -. AMSTERDA.M, N. Y., Jan. 18.-San ford & Sons' carpet mills in tnis city started up on full time. T wo thous and persons are now employed and ,3.000 will be at work in a few days. Wages have been reduced about 20 per C cent. 3 PmLA'IDELPHIIA, Jan 18.-D abson's fblanket mius haVe resu~ned operasio-is -givmng employment to a,) ut 500 per. sons at a reduction of 15 psr cent in. Swages. _______ For the Pro reettonu "f G -me. The following lav WwaS pa-s-d at the session or the Legislature just ended. As will be seen, its provisions are in .tended to prevent the off-ri nf game for sale or export~ation, anti to prevent i uon-residents from snooting certamn e ikinds or game in tais State: Sec. 1. Be it enacted. oy toe Senate ,and House of Represent~a ives of the t State of South Carolina, no w met and sitting in general a's-moly and by tne .authority of toe same, That it shall not os lawful after the passage of this act, o sell, or expose for sale, any partridge, quail, woodcock or paeasant, deer, or wuld turkey, witnmn the State of South Catolina. Any perex' so doing, snal be deemed guilty of a inisdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof', shad be fined not more tnan ten dodiars, or bs im -prisoned for not mare tn tea days. for each offence. Sec. 2. Ii shadl not be la wful to export out of the limits of the State of South Carolina, any partridge, quail, wood. cock or pheasant, deer or wil turkey.. Any person doing s a shall os deemed guilty of a misdemeanor ad upon con viction thereof, shall Os tiael not m 're than ten dollars or ne imprisoned for not more than ten days for each of fense. Sec. 3. All persons not citizens of the State and visiting mn the state for the purpose of shooting game of any kind, sbail pay a license of 825 to the county treasurer of the county wuere the vis itor may be, the money to be devoted to the public schools. Any person not obtaining said license berore hunting or shooting, shall be deemed guilty of la misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be fined not more than f ifty dollars, or be imprisoned not more than thirty days for each offense: Pro I vided that the act shall not apply to any person hunting or tillmig on his own land. Fatat Fighi. Ho'sioN, Tjzx, Jan. 17.-This after noon auout 5 o'clget John F. Moris was shot and kifled by James McCane. B~oth men had private detective agen cies and furnished watchmen for pro perty. Same tune ago they were in partnership but dissolved, McCane buy ing Morris out and working up a good business.