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AT IME TABRNAICLE. REV. bR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON A VISION OF HEAVEN. The Elaquent PreAcher Sp o.ke O Impres sons of Heaven-Wbat He Saw In a Dream-A Glowing De.cription-The L-sson and the Exihortatoa . BRo<xLYN. Feb. 4.-I the Brook lyn Tabernacle tbis forenOn the hymns, the Scripture lesson and the prayers, as well as the sermon, were about the future world more than about this world. Rev Dr. Talmige Look for his sub-ject "A Vision ot Heaven," the text being Ezekiel i,1, "Now It came to pass as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar that toe heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God." Expatriated and in far exile on the banks of the river Chebar, an affluent of the Euphrates, sat Ezakiel. It was there he had an Imm)rtal dream, and it is given to us in the Holy Scriptures. He dreamed of Tyre and Egypt. He dreamed of Christ and the commg heaven This exile seated by that river Cbebir had a more wonderful dream than - on or I ever have had or ever will have seated on the banks -tf the Hudson or Alabaina or Oregon or Thames or Tiber or Danube. But we all have had memorable dreams some of them when we were half asleep and half awake, so that we did not know whether they were born of shadow or sunlight; 'whether they were thoughts let loose and disarranged as in slumber or the imagination ef faculties awake. Such a dream I had this morning! IL was half past 5, and the day was break Ing. It was a dream of God-a dream of heaven. Ezekiel had his dream on the baks of the Chebar. I had my dream not far from the banks cf the Hudson. The most of the stories of heaven were written many centuries ago. and they tell us how the place looked then cr how it will look centuries ahead. Would you not like to know how it looks now? That is what I am going to tell you. I was there 'this morning. I have jast got back. How I got into that ci:.y of the sun I know not. Which of the 12 gates I entered is tv me uncertain. Butimy first remembrance of the scese is that I stooo on one of the main avecues, lookina this way and that. lost in raptures, and the air so full of music and redolence and laughter and light that I knew not which street to take, when an anael of God accosted me and offered to show me the objects of greatest interest, and to conduct me from street to street, and from mansion to mansion, and from tempie to temple, and form wall to wall. I said to the angel, '-How long hast thou been in heaven?" and the answer came, "Thir ty two years, according to the earthly calendar." There was a secret about this angel's name that was not given 'me, but from the tenderness and sweetness and affe tion and interest tak-n in my walk Through heaven, and more than all in the fact of 32 years' residence-the number of years since she ascened-I think it was my mother. Old aue and decrepi tude and the tired look were all gone, but I think it was she. You see, I was only on a visit to the city and had not yet taken up. residence, and I could know only in part. I looked in for a few moments at the great temple. Onr brilliant and lovely Scotch eceavist, Mr. Drummo~nd, esys there is no church in heaven, but he did not look for it on the right street. St. ,ohn was right when in his Patmosic viion, recorded in the third chapter of Bevelation, he speaks of "the temple oi my God." I saw it this morning-the -lagst church I ever saw, as big as all the churches and catbsdrals of the earth put together-and it was thronged. Oh. what amultitude! I had never seen so many people together. All the audiences of all the churches of all the earth out to gether would make a poor attendance compared with that assemblage. There was a fashion in attire and headdress that immedtately took my at tention. The fashion was white. All in white save one. And the headdress was a garland of rose and lily and mig nonette, mingled with green leaves culled from the royal gardens and bound to gether with binds of gold. And I saw some young men with a ringon finger of the right hand and said to my accompanying angel, "Why those rigs on the fingers of the right hands?" and I was told that these who were them were prodi alsons and once fed swine in the wildernesand lived on husks, but they cangetsome, and the rejoicing father 'ad "P19t a rine on his hand." exception to this tashion of white perva4in all the auitorium and clear up through allibe~ galleries. It was the attire of the one who presided in that immense temple the chiefest, the mnightest the lovei et person in all the place.. His cheeks seemed to be - -flushed with iinfinite beauty, and his lips were eloquence omnipotent. But his attire was-of deep colores. They sag geted the carnage through which he had passed, anid I said to my attending angle, "What is that crimson robe that that he wears?" and I was told, "They are dyed garm ents form Bozrah," and "He trod the wine press a lone." Seon after I entered tais temple they began to chant the celestial litany. It was unlhke anything I had ever heard for syestness or power and I have heard the most of the great organs and the most of the great oratorios. I said to my. accompanying angel, "Who is that aanFn yong with the harp?" and the answer was, "David." And I said "Who is that sounding that trumnet?" and the answer was, Gabriel." And I sai, "Who is that at the organ?" and the answer was, "Handle."' And the music rolled on till it came to a doxology eztoing Christ himself~, when all the worshipers lower down and higher up a thousand galleries of them, suddenly dropped on their knees and chanted. "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain." Under the overpoweing harmony [ fell back. I said: "Let us go This is toe much for mortal ears. I cannot' bear the overwhelming symphony." But 1Inoticed as I was about to turn away that on the steps of the altac was something like the Iachrymal, or tear bottle, as I had seen it in the earthly museums, the lachrymals, or tear bot tIes, into which the orientals used to weep their griefs and set them away as sacred. But this lacbrymal, or tear bot tIe, Instead of earthenware as those the orientals used, was lustrous and fierv, with many splendors, and it was tower.e ng and of great capacity. And I sald to my attending angel, "what is that great lachrymal or tear bottle, standing on the step of the altar?'' and the an gel said: "Why, do you not know? That is the bottle to which David, tae psalm ist, referred In his fifty-sixth psalm when he said, Taut thou my tears into thy bottle.' It is full of tears from earth -tears of repentance, tars of btereave ment, tears of joy, tears of many cen tories." And then I saw how sacred to the sympathetic God are earthly sor As I was coming out of the temple i~ saw all along the pictured walls there were shelves, and golden vials were be ing set up on all those shelves. And I said: "Why the eetting up of these vials at this time? They seem iustu-ow to h~ve seen filled," and the attending an gel said, "The week of prayer all around the earth has just closed, and more sup plications have been made than have bee g. a lng while. and these new vials, newv set .o, are what the Bible speaks of as 'glelden yia8 full of odors, which are the prayers of saints."' And I said to the accompaapiug avgel, "Can it he o'issible that the prayers of earth are worth ot beinz kept in such heav. enly shap' " "Why," said the angel, -tere is nothing that so ."oves heaven as the prayers of earth. and they are set up in sight of these inb.'ute multitudes, and, more than all, in the sight of Christ, and be cannot forzet them, and they are before him w orld without end." Teen we came out, and as the temple is always open, and some worship at one boor and o.hers at other hours, we passed down the street amid the thrones cring and going from the g)eat temple And we passed through a street called Martir place, and wve met there or saw sitting at the windows the souls of those who on earth went thro.ugh fire and flood and under swtrd and rack. We saw John Wiclif. whose ashes were by decree of the ccuncil of Constance thrown into the river; and Rogers, who bathed his bands in the lire as though it hail been water; and Bish )p Hooper and McKail and Litimer and Ridley and Polycarp, whom the flamea refused to destroy as they bent outward till a spear did the work, and some of the Albizenses and Haguenots and consecrated Qnqker; who were slain for their reliiion. They had on them masy scars, buttheir ecars were illuminated, and they bad on their faces a look of especial triamph. Then we passed along Song row, and we met some of the old gospel singers' "That is Isaac Watis," said my atteni ant. As we came up to him he asked me if the churches on earth were still singing the hymns he composed at the house of Lord and Lady Abney, to whom he paid a visit of 36 vear3, and I told him that many of the churches op ened their - Sabbath mornig servIces with his old hym, "Welcome Sweet Day of Rest," and celebrated their gospel triumphs with his hymn, 'Salvation. Q the Joyfmi Sono!" and often roused their devotions by his hymn, "Come We That Love the Lrd." While we were talking he introdneed me tv another (t the song writers and sa.i, "!his is Charles Wesley, who he lon-ed on eanrth to a diff.reit churcn fron mine, but we are all now members of the same church, the temple of God and the Lamb." And I told Charles Wesley that almost -very Saboath we sang one of his old hymns, "Arm of the Lord Awake!" or "Come. Ltt us Join Our Friends Abve," or "Love Di vine, A;1 L->ve Excelling." And wnile we wer-i talking on that street called Sonz row Kirk W hite, the consu'npuve college student, now everlastingly well, and we talked over his old Christmas hymn, "When Marshaled ot the Night ly Psin." And William Cowper came up, now entirely recovered from his re ligious melancholy and not looking as it be had ever in dementia attempted sui cide, and we talked over the wide earth ly celebrity and heavenly power . f his old himns, "Wh-n I Can Read Mv Ti tle Clear" and "Tuere is a Fourtain Filled 'Vith Woo0." And there we met George W. B? thuoe of wondrous Brooklyn nastorate, and I told him or how his comfortlog hymn had been sung at oosequies all around tae world- --IL is not Death to Die." And Toolady came up and asked about whether the church was still making use of his old hymn, "Rock of Ages Clett For Me." And we met also on Song row N.ewton and Hastines and Moutnomery and Horatio B mar and we heard floating from winidow to win dow snatcre~s of the old I ymns which they started 0a earth and started never to die. "But" says some of my hearers "did you see anythmng of our friends in heav en?" Oh, yes t did. "Dd you see my children there?" says some one. "and are there any mark" df their last sick ness still upou them?" I did see them, but there was no pallor, no cough, no fever, no languor about them. They are all well ani ruddy and songful and bounding with eternal mirth. They told me to give their love to yon that they thought of you hour by hour and that when they could be excused from the heavenly playgrounds they came down and hovere 1 over, and kissed your cheek. and filled your dreams with their glad faces, and that they would be at the gate to greet you when you ascended to be with them forever. -"But," say other voices, "did you see our glerified friends?" Yes, I saw them and they are well mn the land across which no punmomias or palsies or drop sies or typhoids ever sweep. The aro ma blows over from orchards with trees bearing 12 manner ot fruits, and gardens compared with which Chatsworth is a desert. The climate is a mingling of an earthly June and October, the balm of the one and the tonic of the other. The social life in that realm where tfhey are is superb and perfect.- 3To controversies or jealousies or hates, but love, univer sal love, e.verlastmne love. And they told me to tell you not to weep for them for their happiness knows no bound, and it is only a question of time when you shall reign with them in the same palace and join with them in the same exploration of planets and the same tour of worlds. But yonder in this assembly is an up turned face that seems to ask how about the ages of those in heaven. "Do my departed children remain children or have they lost their chiidish vivacity? Do my departed parents remain aged, or have they lost the venerable out ct their na ture?" Well, from what I saw I think chidhood had advanced te full maturity of faculty, retamnmg all the resilience .f' childood, anid that the aged had re treated to midrife, freed from all decad - ence, but still retaining the charm of the venerable. In other wo-ds, it was fully developed and complete life of all souls, whether young or old. Some one says, "Will you tell us what most impressed you in heaven?" I will. I was most impressed with the reversal of earthly conditions. I knew of course that there. would be diflerences of attire and residence in heaven, for Paul had declared long ago that souls would then differ "as one star differeth from another," as Mars from Mercurv, as Saturn from Jupiter. But at every step ,mi my dream in heaven I was amazed to see that some who were ex pected to be high in heaven were low down, and some who were expected to be low down were high up. You thought, for instance, that those born of pious parentane, and of naturally good disposition, and of brillhant faculties, and of all styles of attractiveness will moe in the hiahest range of celestial splendor and pomno. .N-, ni! I founa the~ highest thrones, the brightest coronet s,ine richest mansions were occupied by those who hadI repro bate father or bad mother, and who in herited the twis'ed natures of 10 gen eratons of miscreants, and wno had compressed in their body all depraved appetites and all evil propensities, but they laid hold of God's arm, they cried for especial mercy, they conquered sev en devils within and 70 devils without and were w'ashed in the blood of the Lamb, and by so much as their contest was terrido and awful and p.rolix trheir victory was consummate and resplend ent, and they have taken places Im measurably higher than those of good paretage,wh-o could hardly help being good because they hao 10 generations of preceding piety to aid them. The steps by which many have mounted to the highest places in heav en were made out of the cradles of a corrupt parentage. When I saw that, I said to my attending angel: "rIhat is fair; that is right. The narder the struggle, the more glorious the re war." Then I pointed to one of the most colonaded and grandly domed residen ces in all the city and said, "Who livs there?" and the answer was, "The widow who gave two mites." "And who lives there ?" and the answer was, "[he penitent thief to whom Cnrt said, 'This day shalt thou be with :nt in paradise." "And who lives there?" I said, and the answer was, "l'he blind beggar who pras ed, 'Lord,that my eyes may be opened." some of those professz'rs of religion who were famous on earth I asked about, but no oue could tell me any tiintg concerning them. Thi-ir names were not even in the city directory of the Nea' Jerusalem. The fact is that I suspected some of them bad not Lot there at all. Many who had 10 talents were living on the back streets of bf-aven, while many with one talent had resid-nces fronting on the King's park anid a back lawn sloping to the river Clear as Crystal, and the highest nobili-y of h-aven were guests at their table, and often the white horse of him who "hath the moon under his feet" champed its bit at their doorway. In finite capsize of earthly conditions! All social life in heaven graded according to earthly struggle and usefulness as proportioned to talents given! As I walked through those streets I appre-ciAted for the first time what Paul said to Timothy, "If we suffer, we shall also reign with him." It sur prised me beyond description that all the great of heaven were great suffer ers. "Not all?" Yes, all. Moses.him of the "-le sea, a great sufferer. David, him of Absalom's unfilial behavior and Ahithophel's betrayal, and a nation's dethronement, a great sufferer. Eze kiel, him of the captivity, who had the dream on the banks of the Chebar, a great sufferer. Paul, him of the dis eased eyes, and the Mediterranean shipwreck, and the Mars Eill derisiou, and the Mamertine enducgeonmant, and the whipped back, and the head man's ax on the rojad to Os ia, a great sufferer. Yea, all the apos'les after lives of suffering died by violence, beaten to dexth with fuller's club, or ararged to death by mobs, or from th:; tt.st of the sword, or by exposure on barren island, or by decapitatiuii. All the high up in t.eaven great suf firrrs and women mor-- than men Feli-iras and -:. Cecelia are )t. Agnes and St. Agatha and Sr. Lucia and women never heard of ouzide their Qwn neighoorhood, queens of needle, and tne broom,and the scruobing brush, and the wash tub, and the diary, re ward-d according to hov weli they Iid tneir work, whether to set a tea ta ble or govern a nation, whether em pressor milkmaid. I could nt get over it as in my dream I saw all this, and that some of the most unknown of eart i were the most famous in heaven, arid that many who seemed the greatts'; farlures of ear' h were the greatest suceesses of heaven. And as we pass-d along one of the grandest boulevards of heaven there approached us a group oi persons so radiaat in countenauce and apparel I h-.a to shade my eyes with both hands ,ecause I could not endure tne luster, and I stnid, "Angel! do tell me who they are?" and the answer %as, "Tnese art they who came out of great tribulation and had their robes washed and made wnte in the olood of the Limb!" My walk through the city explaineo a thousand things on earth that had been to me inexlicable. When I saw up there the supernor delight and the superior heaven vf m-ny who had on earth bad it hard with cancers and Dankruptcies and prosecutions and trials of all sorts, I said: "God has equalizad it all at last. Excess of en chant ment in heaven has more than made :p for th- dedcits on eartr'." "But," I said to my anielic e cort, "I wu'i go now. It is Sabbathx morning on earth, anid I must preach today and he in my pulpit by half past 10 o'clock, ''Good by" I said to the atte-ndini angel. " rhants for wvhat you have shown mec. I know I have seen only in part, but I hope to return agema through the aton ing mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ." "Goodby." Then I passed on amid chariots of salvation, and along oy conquerers' thrones, and amid pillared majesties, and by windows of agate, and uinder arches that had been hoisted for re turned victers. And as I came toward the walls with - the gates, the walls flashed upon me with emeralds and sapphires and chrysoprases and am ethysts until I trembled under the glory, and then I heard a bolt shove and a latch lift and a gate swing, and they were all of pear], and I passed out loaded with raptures, and down by worlds lower and lower and lower still I came within sight of the city of my earthly residence, and until through the window of my earthly home the sun poured so strong upon my pillow that my eyelids felt it, and in bewilder ment as to where 1 was and what I had seen I awoke. Reflection the first: The superiority of our -heaven to all other heavens. The Scandinivian heaven. The depart ed are in everlasting battle except as restored after being cut to pieces. They drink wine out of the skulls of their enemies. The Moslem heaven as described by the K~oran. "There shail be houris with large black eyes like pearls hidden In their shells." The Slav's heaven: After death the soul hovers six weeks about the body and then climbs a steep mountain, on the top of which is paradise. The Tasma nian's heaven: A spear is placed by the dead that mayliave somnetning to fight with, and after awhile they go into a long chase for game of all sorts. The Tahitian's heaven: The departed are eaten up of the gods. The native Af rican heaven: A land of shadows, and in speaking of the departed they ny "All is done forever.'' The A~merican aborigine's heaven: happy hunting gruinds, to which thei soul goes on a brige of snake. T ie philosopher's heaven: Made out of t. shick fog or an infinite don't know. lBut hearken and behold our heaven, a htch,. though mstly described 'by figures >f speech in the Bi ble and oy parable rf a dream in tris discourse, has for its chief char acteristics sepnration from all that is vile, ab'sence from all that can discom fort., presence or all that can graitulate. No mountains to climb, no chasms to bridge, no night to illaemine~no tears to wipe. Scandmnivian heaven, Slav's heaven, Tasmanian heaven, Tahitian heaven, African heaven, aborigine's heaven, scattered into tamneness and disgust by i glimpse of St. John's heaven, of Paul's heaven, of Christ's heav'-n, of your heaven, of my heaven! R-flecionthesecond: You nad be' er take patiently and cheerfully all pangs, affronts, hardsoi ps, persecutions and trials of earth, since if rightly born they insure hevenly payments of ecstasy Every twinge of physical distress. every lie told about you, every earthly sutraction if meekly born,will be heav enly addition. If you want to amount to anything in heaven and mnve in its best soc'ety, you must be "perfected through sufferin." Trie only earthly urrency worth anythimg at tne gate ot eaven is the silver of tears. At the top of alil heaveti sits the greatest suf fered Cnrist of the Bue~hlenem caravan sary and of Pilate's oyer and terminer and of the Calvarean assassination. What lie endured, oh, who can tell, TIo save our ouls from death and hell. 0", :, of the oroaken heart, and the disappoins d ambun~ion, and the shat tered tertune, and the blighted life, take comfort trom what I saw i2 my Sjbwi morning dream. Rfl'ction the third and last: How cesirole that we all get there! Start this moment with prayer and peatence and faith in Christ, who came from heaven to earth to take us from earth to neaven. Last summer a year ago 1 preached one Sabbath afternoon in IHyde park, Lonon, to a great multude that no man could number. But I heard noth ing from it until a few weeks ago, when Rev. Mr', Cook, who for 22 years has presided over that Hyde park outdoor meeting, told me that last winter, go ing through a hospital in London, he saw a dying man whose face brightened as he told him that his heart was chang ed that afternoon under my sermon in Hyde park, and all was bright now at his departure from earth to heaven. Why may not the L'rd b:ess this as well a? that? Heaven as I dreamed about it and as I read about. i :s & o be ning a realm you cannot any of you af ford to miss it. Oh, will it not be transcendently glor. ious after the struggle of this life is over to stand In that eternal safety? Samuel Riathrford, though they vic iously lrned his books and unjustly arreste,:. olim for treason, wrote of that celestial snwctacle: The King there in his beauty, Without a veil. is seen; It were a welI spent journey, Though seven deaths lay between. The Lamb with his fair army Doth on Mount Zion stand, And glory, glory dwelleth in immanuel's land. startling Flau rea. George K. Holtres, special census agent on mortgage statlstics, ap proaches the concentration of wealth in a recent number of the Political Science Quarterly. Instead of attempt ing to coimpute the preperty holdings of the rich he strives to ascertain how much of the national wealth the masses of the people poss->ss. The census bu reau took fi on every family in twenty two states and territories answers to the questions whether it owned or hired the farm or home occupied, and the ex tent of the incumbrance on owned farms and homes, if any, with the value of the property. The results are 'e lieved to be fairly representative of the wholA conntry. Assuming this t o -e so, 32 per cent of the farm families and 63 per cent of the home families in the country are tenants. Among farm o wring families .30 per cent carry mart gage deb's averaging $1.130 "n farms whose aversge value is 83,180; amiong home-owning families 29 per cet-r carry incumbrances averaginz $1139 An homes valued on the average at 23,254. The census will show the numbrr iof farms t be about 4.500,000. leaving 8,196,152 fataihes occupyiug U im's tnat are oot farms. Mr. H.Imes conic:s his Wilth estimates here to properties valuei at less thau 85,000 Sucl; farms inc;abered constitute 80 per cent in nuti-r and 52 per cent in value of all incumbered farms; and such incum bered homes constitute 82 per cent in number and 46 per cent in value of all incumbered nom- s. The census did not take the values of unincumbered farms and home-s and the percentages in the other cas" are adopted here as probanly the is( n. Accordin to the e-stimate tabulaled by Mr. Holmeo 91 Der cent of the families of thm country own no more than about 29 per cent. of the wealth, and 9 per cent own 71 ver cent of the wealth. And Mr. H >lmes believes his es:imates do not oversta'e the cise against tne poor. These conclusions are about as dubious as any that. have ever been reached in the study of this question. Proceeding to divide the ricnr 9 per cent of the fami:ies as between the rich and toe moderatelv well off, Mr. Holme3 takes the New York Trinune's list-of million aires (4.047) nd gives them an average of about 63,000 000, this estimate being al'so pardy based upon Thomas G. Shearnan's claim.s in the same line. This gives to the 4,047 very rich fami lies,or three hundreamas of on- ter cent of all the fnamilies, about $12,000,000, or 20 oer cent of all the natioa's wealth; and leaves the remaining property of the nation (51 per cent) to 9 per cent of the f Imilies, including the very few millionaires. The' resuit seems i'lcred ibe to Mr. Holmes. That 4.047 tami lie-s should possess nearly as much wealth-s-ve-n-tenths as much, at ;ast -.es 11.593.887 familmes, is indeed, rataer eart!iug. But it is probable, he con tez4d-, that the statement is approxi mnately correct. Escluding the m~llion aires,'the wealth of the 1,092,218 .arni lies lying between them and the great mases of peopl" holding pro perty-vait-ed at less than $5,000, becomes an average of $28,003 a family, which seems large for so many, but which, Mr. Holmes goes on to demonstrate, must be about the case. The Farmer Boys' College. ComtT ? S. C., Feb. 1.-The board or trustees of Clemson College met tonight at Wright's Hotel. The session was a long one and considerable business was transacted. At 11 o'clock it was announced that the board would continue in session until 2 A. M. A great deal of timeS was spent discussing financial matters and subdividing and3 arranging the work of the cmmittees on experimental station and executive. The trustees decided to elect a board of visItors, consisting of one from each Congressional district, to be elected every two years by the board of trustees at their December meeting. The board ot visiors are to visit the College the first Wednesday in August and mnstitute a rigid inquiry into its working condition and suggest to the board ot trustee.s.w bat changes, if any, they may deem neces sary. The first board of visitors con sists of: 1st district, Thbeo. D. Jervery; 2d, B. B. Watson; 3d, D. F. Bradle3; 4th, T. L. Brice; 5th, W. H. Ed. 'ards; 6th, W. D. Evans; 7th. E. R. Walter. The members of tne board have lead with agreat deal of interest the interview of Prof. Newman. They must have thought a good deal about what was so tersely said by him, but were not talking for publication. It has been learned t.2at a movement was on foot to bring the mat tet- up to-night, and have the action of the board reconsidered and a genera] reconciliation. The interview no doubt piut an end to all such planls. Prof. Newman is no win Atlaata, where he owns a valuable tract of land in thie sub mrbs, whib hie will de-vel.op into a herteural garden. He will devote considerable time to the writing ot text. books and general literature on South ern ericulture. The board has a stack of applicst~ions from which to make selection. Sevr.al of the candidates are here. The follow ing directors are at the mee.tini: R. E. Bwen. J. E Brad~ey, D. N. N rra, the the 1t-v. Mr. Simpson, J. E W anna maker, Jesse H Htrdin, D T. Red fearn, W. H. Mauidmn, M L D~nald-. son, G weernor Tillman, Secretary of State Tmrdsl, UI. 1.. Sackhouse. Prezi dent Craihead and Secretary Sloan are also here. G-n. Ke--shaw to Do Ir. COLUMBIA, S. (., Fe-b 8.-For the past year Adjt. Geni. Farley, wi'.h a small appropriation and with the as sistance of many Confederaite veterans ineristed in securing an accurate re vised list of the rolls of the various companies representing Siuth Carolina in the late war has been hard at work trying~ to get such a list. As was showni by his las. annual report to the G-neral Assembly he has the work well aavnced. Within the next twelve montns it is s-fe to say that these val uable historic records will be complet ed and printed along with a sketen of the m-st valuable historic incidents pertaining to the civil war and the part South Carolma played therein, from tbe pen of G-n Join B. Kershaw of Camden. At its an sessi >n, the Leg islature appropriated $1,300 for the pupose of employing Judge Kiershaw and a clerk to superiatend and prepare tese rolls and write such a sketch as has been outlined. Gen. Kershaw will very shortly enter upon the work. -state. A Terr..r 10 M1.onsblers. LImTE ROcK, Ark., Feb. 7.-Collect or Cock today rec' ived a telegram frow Deputy Collector L. McLutre at Fort Smith, who reported that tie had just returned from a fifteen days raid on mooshiners in Polk and Servier coun ties capturing fifteen wild wild catters and nine illicit stills. This makes lifty illcit stills captured in Arkansas under IN.TERESTING TO ASSESSORS. Some Correspondence as to the Work of To.wnship R 0ards. COLUMBIA, S. C., Feb. 8.-Comptrol ler Gcneral Ellerbe is making every ef f.>rt to zet all of the work possible out of the vario.2s township boards of asses sors in the S'ate. He is anxious to have them make an itenzel list of all real and pesronal property in the State, and with that view has had printed a number of blaski which have been sent over the State with instructin.-s for their use. fi. appears that one cf the members of a twonship board in Newbsrry conn ty ha, sounded an alarm, and so as to quiet i. elsewhere Comptroller General EUlerbe today gave out the following corzesponJence, wh-ch will be self-ex planatory: St Like's. Feb, 6. 1894. Hon. W. H. Ellerbe, Comptroller Gen eral: D.ar Sir: I see that you ha e sent out abstracts fir the twonshin board ot assessors. I want to know if the board will have to i1 out the blanks with the name of each taxpayer and add up the a noun' and Iben turn them over to the auditor, or will the auditor have to fill them out and the board sizn them, it the township board has to fill out the blanks it will take our board at least two weeks to do it, and as the townsbip board gets no pay, it is more time than I can give without pay. Please Iet me know what is the Cut, ot the board, and oblige, Yours truly, R, T. C. HUNTER. The followiog is the reply: Mr. R. T. C. Hunter, St.. Luke's: Dear Sr: Repi',iog to %ours of the 6th instant, I be- -.o say that I cannot fully understand how or why it will take two weeks to fill out these blasks. It ycur board do their work thorou~rly they munt -f necessity evsmlnc each seperat. item and piece of pr-perty, personai and real, returned in their t.>wnship or tax distriet, and a this is d.>oe how easy f.r one member of the b iard to enter the item of property as assessed under tk head as asse:-se3. This done in a line with name of tax paacr and you will have your work, as you pro:re .t, beore you in at intelligent and c:,ncrete from, which will enable or aid you in aejusunz and fixing the pro per va-ues upon the property ot your to enship. If, however, your board tf assessors can do this work b3tter and vith more accoracy in the assessing -w property without the aid of the blanks then, of course, do not use them. Oar purposoe was to aid these boards, and that purpose to aid is based upon actual experience and o* t rvations in this work of the to vnship board cf assessor.s. Tie auditor Is not expected to have anytbing to do with the work except such eid as his position and iniormation can 2iva, which we are assured such aid wl be cheerfully rendered. The Gampiroller seeks the co.opera tion, aid and fall sympathy of these boards cf assessors in the proper assess rnent and quslzaon of the taxable pro perty of the State, and has contidence in their intelligenci, patriotism and devo tion to dity, right and justice to do tbeir work in a most thorouzh and satis tactory manner to themselves and the interested poublic. With the hope that you may under stand and appreciate the eftorts of :his (f;ce, and act in the matter as judg ment of your board indicates and the public interest demands, I arn, Yours respectiully, W. H. ELLERBE, 'ompiroller General. A New Comm2Fston. COLU31BIA. S. C., .Feb. 8 --Gverno r Tilinman today appoinred H. E. Youn g of Charleston, R. WV. Boyd, of Darling too, and J. H. E irI, of Gre'enville, com missioners under the act No. 286, ap nrowed Decatnber 18. 1893. entitled an act " for the promotion of legislation in the United States." These gentlemen are to serve four years with'out emolu ment, and as this is a new commission created, and no.. generally understood we quote the law on the subject, dlefn ing their duties, which reads as foi lows: "It shall be the duty of said board to examine the subject of insolvency, the the form of national certifi cates and other subjects; to 'ascertain the best means to effecct an assimilation and uniformity in the laws of the States an act with the other States of theUnion in the same endeav or in a convention to draft uniform laws to be submitted for the approval and adoption of the several States, and to devise and to recommend such mes ures as shall best accomphls the par pose of this act. That until the Senate meets in 1894 the Governor shall ap point such commissioners with full power to-act, subject, nevertheless, to the consent of the Senate at its next meeting. That such commissioners shall serve without pay or emolument and shall continue in office for the pe riod of four years. The governor, in like manner, shall fiIl all the vacancies which shall at any time occur in said 'board by the death, resignation or withdrawal of any one or more of said commisioners."-Journal. A Devastatinlg Storm. MIEMPHrs, Feb. 8.-A cyclone passed over the nor thwesteen portion of Miss issippi late this afternoon and laid waste everything inits path. Plantations were devastated, farm houses were wrecked and ths debris scattered over the coun try for miles around. The telegraph wires were prostrated and it is impossi ble to o!:tain particulare from the stricken distrct tonight, but it. is known that one life has ibeen lost. On the plantation of Col. W. L. Nogent, four nailes north east of Greenville, Miss., William Brady and. wife, color-rd, were in the-ir cabin, whichi was blown down, killing the wo man instantly. Wben found s se was ing underneat~h the wrecked cabin, her ead being wedged between the sills and several lois, which mangled her beyond reeognition. Her husband was blown several hundred teet and received serious, if not fatal inijures.- The ein bouse and tenement bonses on the Nugent place were all blown down and Iarge trees were twisted irom their stumps and car ried away.________ For science. COLUMIBUS, 0., Feb. 3-Dr. C. S. Py) le, of canton, appeared before the nouse committee on prison refor~m in support of his bill to appropriate con detnoed persons for the uses of science. tIe argued this would be a proper way or the 'elon to pay his debt to society. To illustrate his idea, Dr. Pyle said e would take an aporopriated crim in al cut open his stomach, put him under the influenice or the drug till the open ig he'ale~d, and keep him alive for a time, studying tae process of diges ion by aire-ct observation, or he would re move a parrion of tne skull, and pr-si ing on the brain, note the sensations. Sucn sensations, he held, would not ne cessarily oe accompanied by pain, and facts concerning the brain, never to be secured in any other way, would be secured. Finally, the subject should be iled by opiates. A SIDE show attached to a clicus which stiowed in a country town in West Virginia this winter had a big sign: "Only ten cenits to see the most wonderful thing in the world." Per ons curijus enough1 to pay the dime found a man sitting in a chair inside whitiing a piece or wood. As he cut away, with an outward sweep oi his knife, he remarked: '-Gentlemen, al ways whittle like this and you will be in no danger of cutting yourselves." This was the whole show. People who had been duped were so anxious to have company that they went out and advised their friends to go in, and it is claimed that the side show did more business than the circus. Thus do we see how "man's inhumanity to man makne counntiae thousands mourn." An importa2t BilL Mr. R DeWitt Warner, of New Y ork introduced in the House of Representa tives Monday a bil for the removal ot the tax on the circulation of State banks on certain conditions. The bill is an effort on Mr. Warner's part to solve the problem of how to provide a safe and elastic currency for the people of this country, a problem which has long demanded the attentioh of Con gress, which has so far baffled its wis dom, and which becomes the more pressing as the United States bonds, on which the national bank circulation is based, nature. The provision con tained in Mr. Warner's bill for the re peal of the tax on State bank circula tion is intended to provide the desired elasticity of circulation, and the con ditions are intended to secure the neces sary s ifety. Those conditions. in a general way, make the State banks sub ject to the same governmental control as the national banks. Tnat is to say, there is a certain limitation of the cur rency in pronortion to the capital of the bank, the banks are required to the comptroller of the cur rency at stated intervals, and their books and ca3h are liable to examination by Federal au thority. The News and Courier in commenting on the bill says "such Federal saDervistOu of a State institu tion is contrary to the spirit of the Con stitution of the United States but so is the discriminating tax on the circula tion of State bank, which is simply an exercise by indirection of the uncon stitutional power of forbidding the State banks to issue notes. It is, therefore, scarcely worth while to question the power of Congress to ad pt this system of control if it sees flt so to do. The real question before Corgress in regard to the State banks is whether it is wiser to adoptthis sys tem of Federal control, thus parLially removing the injustice done them by the discriminating tax on their circu lation, or simply to repeal the tax and leave the State banks to the exercise of their constitutional rights. It is not a question of power, but of expediency. It must not be forgotten that Federa control, while acting as a restraint on the State banks, would also. naturally strengthen their credit. If the Repub licans were in power they would tioubt less devise some means of enlarging the number and circulation of the na tional banks. The Damocrats should be careful to leave no excuse for snon a course in case i hey have to maae way for a Republican majority. Ai in the matter of the tariff it is not a theory hut a condition which confronts them. A reconstruction, or at least a revision of the banking system is necessary, and they should undertake the task at once and adopt a system that, while preserving State iudependence as far is possible, should have all the stability and credit to be derived from Federal autorization and supervision. We are not prepared to say that Mr. War ner's plan is the best that can be de vised, nor that it has no radical defects, not having had time to study it critic aly, but it apDea-s to us to at least ai'o at the true objects needed to be accom plish d by firancial legislation in Con gress at the prese at time." The Eesding Frxamer. He needs books and papers that treat of topics h-it coancra hiat as much as the physician and lawyer, who find them indispensable. The Farmer's Re iew, in replying to a correspondent who asks "What is the first thing that a Lman going into farming should do?" say3: This is a question to the point, and one that we think is easily an swered. The first thing he should do is to subscribe for two or three good agri cultural papers. He wants to com menee right, and to commence right he must he placed in a position where he can take advantage of the experience of others. This exDerience of others will set him to thinking. One of the troubles with many unsuccessful farm ers is that they do not think enough They work too much, perhaps, with their hands and not enough with their heads. Take the unsuccessful farmer and it will frequently be found that he does not increase his knowledge from year to year. That at the end of ten years he is where he was at the beginning of the ten years. They are content to follow in the footsteps of tbeir fathers, who maie little succese of the same busi ness. As they do not read their minds become fixed on a few old ideas, and those old ideas they repeat in theii' op erations from year to year. It is this sort of farmer that despises the agricult ural editor or writer. They aks, "How do these fellows know ?" They seem to forgeG that the work of the agricultural editor and writer is not to give the world his own experience and opinions. but to collect the valuable experience of other farmers and bring them into the home of every subscriber; to gaither the rich opinions of the most progres sive men and place them in a shape where they can be known and used by the masses. The agricultural paper is a continual school, and, If rightly used, will prove of great value. As a general thing, the successful-farmer -is a read ing farmer. Go to his home and you will find that he takes one or more good agricultural papers, usually more than one. He is also a book farmer of the most approved pattern. The farmer that farms only with his muscle has not only an unprofitable business be fore hjm, but one that is very unpleas ant. lie has no great expectations for the future. The reading farmer sees in his soil great possibilities. He Is ready to seize on the good thoughts of others and make tuem bring forth on his farm a hundred fold. He is the man who makes the farm ouse a true home, to w;hich the s'aus and daughters will, in the future, look back with pleasure. The reading farm er is not tthe farmer of whom his chil dren will some day be ashamed, because o his rude and untaught ways." Flfy Sit1iaon Taken. WAsEINGTON, Feb. 4.-Secretans Carlisle toaay authorized the ioUllong statements reaarding the allotment of the bonds: The Secretary of the Treas ury has considered~ the propoosals sub mitted for the new 5 per cent loan, and zas accepted all bids naming a higher price than 11'7,223. The proposals submitted at the upset price have been scaled down 5 331 per cent, and the amunt of bonds allotted under thi~s reducion, togetnier with the subscrip tons accepted in full, is $50 000 000 A notice will be sent to each subscribet. advising him of the acceptance ot his subscription, informing h'm when the onds will be ready and stating the amount to be deposite : in payment o1 the principal and premium. Tne ac crued interest to date of deposit at the rate of interest real zed by the subscrip tion will be added - the rssistant treasurer with whom the deposits are to be made. The bonds will delive:-ed by the department atter payment is made to the address given by the subs :riber or they may be sent to the assistant treasurer with whom deposit is made lbr delivery. There were several b:ds which were riot considered, some of them not havinuz been received in time, some were irregular and others were condi tional.. "GEi-. Thomas 0. Smith," according to tne Philanetphia Press,"is the most noedl and picturesque lunatic in Ten nessee. He is conilned in an asylum not tar from Memphis. He was at one time the youngest bridgadier general in tne Confederate army. While mak ing a charge at tne battle of Franklin le recelve-d a sabre cut from a Federal trooer which wreckled his mind. His hobby to-day is that he is an Indian chief constani ly on the war path." As maters of fact there was no Confederate brigadier named Thomas 0. Smith, and the youngest brigadir general in the Uonfederate army was G-en. Thomas Mundriun Lon, of South Carolina. KILLED MIS FATHER To Prevantl Him from Beating His Mothe. COLUMBUS, Ga., Feb. 4.-East Highlande, a suburb of Columbus, was the scene of a terrible tragedy early this morning. James Thompson. a ma chinist, returned home last night con. siderably under the influence of liquor, quarrelled with his wife, and finally drove her out into a furious rain storm at midnight. She sought refuge at a neigbbos's house, with three little chil. dren. Abnut 3 o'clock, a son, Cliff Thompson, aged 23 years, who is a printer by trade, returned from his work and went to bed knowing 3otaiag of the treatment o? his mother. Cliff is deaf and dumb. This morning at 6 o'olock Mrs. Thompson returned to her home, and attended to her children, who re turned with her. Thompson was aroused and finding his wife in the house renewed his quarrel with her and ordered her to get out. The woman pleaded with her brutal husbaad, who, losing control of himself, made a savage at tack on her. At tbis juncture, Cliff, the deat mute son, appeared in the room and sprang to the assistanc3 of his moth er. His father turned on him to drive him off. The boy jerked his mother away, when Tbmpson reached for a pistol, intending, it is prasu-ned. to shoot either his wife or son, possibly both. Cliff grabbed a razor from the top o? a bu reau and a daadly struggle ensued be tween him and his fatber. Thi boy made a lnge at the infuriated man, slashing him across the throat, severing the carotid artery and cutting him se verely in several other places. Thomp son, the elder, fell to the floor in a pool of blood and expired in a few minutes. The son proceeded at once to the police station, wrote a statement. of the trag edy on a piece of paper and ourrendered himse'f and was phaed under arrest. The affair has created intense excite ment and hunareds of people surround the place. Public seniiment is with the son, who was an industrious man and was fured to commit the horrible act in defense of his mother. Horse Talk. Don't ask me to "back" with blinds on I am afraid to. D=n't lend me to some block head that has less sence than I have. Don't think because I am a horse that iron weeds and briars wont hurt my hav. Don't be s: careless with my harness as to find a great sore on me before you attend to it. Don't ran me down a steep hill. for if anything should give away I might break %our neck. Dmn't whip me when I get frightened along the road or I will expect it next time and may make trouble. Don't think because I go free under the whip I dont get tired. You would move up if under :the whip. Dgn't put my blind bridle so that it irritates my -ye so leave my fore lock thv. it will be in my eyes. Don't leave me hitched in my stal all night with a big cob right :where I must lie down. I amr tired and cant select a smooth place. Don't forget to file my teeth when they are gaged and I cannot chew my food. When I get lean it is a sign my tenth wants filing. Don't matte me drink ice cold water or put a frosty bit in my mouty. Warm the bit by holding it a half minute against my body. Don't compel me to est more salt than 1 want by mixiag it with my oats I know better than any other arimal how much I need. Don't say wshoa unless you mean it Teach me to stop at the word. It may check me if the lines break anp save a runaway and smashup. Don't trot me up-hiill, for I have to cary you and a buggy and myself, too. Try It yourself sometimes. Run up hill with a big load. Don't forget the old Book that is. a friend of all the oppressed, and says "The righteous man is meifutll to his beast," The Sinver Question Again. WASHINGTON, Feb. 3.-The silver question again presented. itself to the House today, when Bepresentative Band, chairman of the House commit tee on coinage, weights and measures, made a favorable report on his bill to coin the silver seignorage in the Treas ury. At the same time Charles W. Stone of Pennsylvania presented an ad verse report from the minority of the committee. Bland's proposition is ad vanced with a view to supplying the Treasury with $56,000,000 of silver cer tifcates to meet current expenses. It was originally intended that the coinage of this amount of silver seignorage would prevent Secretary Carlisle from issuing nonds. The reports are volum inous, and deal with the silver question broadly as well as its relatton to the seignorage and bonds. sworn In. COLUMBIA, S. C., Feb. 4.-Internal Revenus Collector Webster turned over his office yesterday to the now Collector, Capt. S. A. Townes. Tliere was not much ceremony about the transfer. General Sewell, chiet of the revenue bureau at Washington, was p esent and superintended the change. Mr. Townes was sworn in by W. A. Carr, a government commissioner. The swearing in took place at2 o'clock in the afternoon. The affairs of the ex-col lector were found to be in good shape and the new officer takes charge with things running smoothly. There will be no chanae in the office force for a abort time, it is understood. Captain Litle will continue to act as chief deputy. Mr. Webster will remainar 'und the olice for several days to give the new appointee any assistance he can in zetting "the run" of the business. Register. A Mystery Explained. NASUVILLE, Teno., Feb. 7.-On the furth or' Jan. last, E. A. Sonner. of L yens Pa , mysteriously disappeared rom a Louisville and Nashville rail road tr~in in the vicinity of Big Stone Gap, Vs. He was largely interested, in mining industries in Southern Virgmnta ad east Tennessee and at Middleboro, Ky. Today the body was found fioating in the Clinch river. It Is surmised that in fit of temporary aberation be jumped from the train into the water and that the body remained at the bottom until dislodged by the recent high waters. Wreck- d. WASHINGTON, F&,. 8.-T~he old cor vtte Ke-arsage was wrecked on R an ador reef' Fe 2 while an route from Prt an Prince, Hayti, to Bluefield Nicaragua. TLoe officers and crew were s ved. This news reached the Navy Deparment this mording in a cable message dated Colon and signed by Lint. Brainard of the Kearsarge who reached Colon this morning. The Kear sarge sailed from Port au Prince,Hayti Jan. 30, for Bluefield, Nicaragua. A WOMAN was killed lately on the railroad near St. Joseph, Mo., and her husband has written to the company reciting her virtues as a helpful wife, with a special word as to her qualifica tions as a cook, and saying that the company ought to pay him at least ten dollars damages. He might have got ifteen dollars if he had struck for it. A DECISION was lately reported from Iowa which may interest owners of dogs. The supreme court of that State sustaIned a decision of a lower court whereby damages to the amount of 1.500 were awarded a man who was ijred by being thrown from his bug gy in a runaway caused by the barking of a neigbhor's dog. The Coming Campaign. During a recent visit to Washington Editor A. B. Williams, of the Green ville News, was interviewed by the cor respondent of the Atlanta Constitution who speaks of the Greenville Editor as "one of the most independent and strongest writers on the South Carolina press." Among other things Mr. Wil liams said: "The signs in South Caro - lina are propitious from a journalistic point of view. It looks as if we are to have the most complicated, venomous, lunatic political tarantula dance ever seen in this country. We haven't got a very big floor but its powerful hot. Some States can show up more voters than we can but we can count out more voters per capita and work out more devilnient to the voter than any people on earth. We have: "1. The Bowden Reformers. "2. The John Gary Evans Reformers. '.3. The Tillman element, which will go with him. "4. The Alliance. "5. The third party. "6. The Butler Conservatives. "7. The anti-Batler Cons3rvatives. "8. Some thousand men up a tree. "That is a fairly good complication among 80,000 voters. Now add in the Tillman anti-dispensary people, the anti-Tillman dispensary people, the prohibitionists, Wage Workers' League, some scattering Republicans, advocates and opponents of a constitutional con vention, and the normal supply of gen eral kickers and floaters and dead beats, agi hating each other like sin and if we haven't got a political hell broth I want to know where you are going to find one. Yet the old State will scuffie through it some how and turn up all right, just as she came through recon struction stage and the row in 1876, when we had one solid riot lasting six straight months and dropped out of it into a boom. You watch. Our lucid interval is coming out of all this thing." An Awful Experlence. COLUMUS, Miss., Feb.8--William Purvis, the young negro, who was sen tenced to hang here yesterday, for the alleged assassination last July of Wil liam Buckley of Marion county. He was duly hanged, but is yet alive. The noose parted and Purvis neck, instead of being broken, was only slightly ab raised by the rope. He fell on his back and remained perfectly still for a few moments A man rushed forward and bending over the negro asked: "Are you hurt?" From under nis black cap Purvis replied: "For God's sake get me out of this." Others came up and Sheriff-Hagee made ready to conduct Parvis back to the scaffold for a second attempt. Four of the board of super visors were present, and they called the sherif into the court house for a con ference. Rev. Mr. Susley of the Colam hia Methodist Ch'ch, made an impas sioned plea to the spectators and it was decided by unaninmous vote that the execution be postponed. The negro was today taken to Meridian and the facts telegraphed to Governor Stone. Stock That Uciize Waste. Sheep and hogs may be considered as utilizers of waste upon the farm, says Eural World. The sheep eat - weeds that other animals reject, gather them for themselves and enrich the land where they are kept. Toe swine will eat food of nearly all kinds that would be rejected by anything else, possinly excepting hens, and they will leave be hind them a rich iegacy in the form of feriliz-r for the.land. And both con vert all they eat into profitable pro ducts. But it does not follo w because of this that farm animals are only scavengers, or that the best results are obtained by using them as such. What the farmer wants in live stock is a ma chine that will take the raw material on his farm and convert it into manu factured goods. He can utilize the weeds, briers and all other by-products in doing this, but as by-products and not as stable food. The mast success f ul stockman is a heavy feeder. A Pltical Bamor. CoLUKBIA, 5. C., Feb. 8.-Col. F. M. Mixson has returned from a trip to Barnwell County. In talking yester day with the -newspaper men he said that there bas been no diminution in the Reform ranks in Barnwell County, which he says. is the banner Reform county of the State. He says that while the Dlis pensary has caused a lew people to leave the ranks miany more Conservatiyes have become Tillmanites beeiuse of the law. Then he said: "There are many eformers who want to see Governor Tillman put back in office for a third term and if he wants the place again he can get it without turnmng his fingers. These Reformers feel that the Gover nor's strong hand will be needed in this State for several years to come. This is the feeling. L is a spontaneous one, and the Beformers bate to see the Gover nor release the reins of his office" Convicted. ATLANTA, Ga., Feb. 3.-Harry Hill, Atlanta's beauty, was convicted of for gery tonight. The jury was out only a few minutes. Tha verdict was made so quickly that the defendant had not re turned from taking a drink at a neigh bormng bar when the jurors filed into the court room. Hill was sumprised, for he had expected either a mistrial or an acquittal. He was senit to jaill for the night. A motion will be made for a new trial Hill was indicted for frg mue the name of Mrs. Fanny Porter, w:fe of a bank president, to notes. His dfense was that she authorized him to sgn her name. She admitted that she had given him money to aid him a--d had signed some6 notes for him, but denied having signed six no es which Hill had discounted. FataL Explosion. CCcAGO. Feb. 7.-A special from Indianapolis says: At 1 o'clock this morning the residene of Louis Kuehier on South Madision street was wrecked by a natural gas explosion. The building had brick front and frame rear, lower floor front being occupied as a saloon with sleeping rooms over head. There were eight people in the house; Kuehier, his wife, three sons and daughter and two boarders. The two boarders escaped unhurt. Rosa the twelve-year-old daughter, was taken out dead; Charles seven year-old boy was taken out unconscious and will probably die; Julious, twelve years old son, worked his way out apparently unhurt; Lewis, tifteen-year-old son, was taken out badly crippled, being nable to walk. THrERE is a story to those calic o prints of cats and dogs and rabbits, which se wed together and stnffed with cotton, serve as admirable toys for small children. The idea of such a toy occurred to a woman and she tried vainly to convince eeveral calico print ers that the thing would be profitable. She found, at length, a manufacturer who was willing to undertake the ex periment of printing her toys, iand he has since paid her many thousands of dollars in royalties upon the patent. A Bank Burglarized. TOLEDO, Ohio, Feb. 7.-Burglars en tered the Dleshier Bank building last night, broke open the vault, and, witb dynamite, blew open the safe and got away with $1,200 in gold and 8300 in silver. The exylosion tore $500 in pa per money into fragments. B~eside~s they obtained $100 in stamps and $100 in cash belonging to the Dleshier post office. Their tracks sno ved that three ersnsa were in the gang.