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TH[E SCAPE OF I"'L. DR. TALMAGE DESCRIBES IT IN HiS MCS1LE SERMO.10N He Chose a-4 HM ' et "*U ppPe 't t Sezviceb"--How Gr-ai IR'u NitI aan on Slender Thread-- Mny H-lpfal ICfln ence Never Acknuwledge d. MOBILE. March 1I.-Rev. T. De. Witt Talmage, D D . who is now vtsit ing te Pru.h, sclictcd as the submet of toda3's verWn "Unappreciated Ser. vices," the text being taken from II Cormthlians xi. 33. -Throu'dh a window, in abasket, was I let diwn by !h!all.' Bamascus is a c'v (i whone alnd elis toning architecture-semEtimes calleJ "the eye of the cast," sometimes called "a pearl sourrounoedVC by : ," a one time distinguish -~ syor7ds o the best material, called D . bsc is bladse, and upholstery o1 richest tabc calle% damasks. A horseman of the name of Paul, rid ing toward this city, had ben throwr from the saddle. The horse had drou ped under a flash from the sky, whieh a the same time was so bright it binde the rider for many days, aud, I think so petmanently iniated his eyesin that this defect cf vision became thc thoron in the flesh he a!terward speaks of. He started for Danaacus to hutche, Chrtstians, but after that hard fall iron his horse he was a chaned man ant preached Christ in D ,ascus til th city was shaken to is fuadation. The mayor gives authority for h's ar rest, and the popular cry is: "Kal him Kii him!" The cityis surrounded by high wall, and the aates are watched b, the police lest the Cilician preache escape. Many of the houses are built oz the wall, and their balcenies projectei clear over and hovered above the gar dens outside. It was customary to low e baskets out of these balconies and pul up fruits and flowers fiom the gardens To this day visitors at the monastery u Mount Sinai are lifted and let down i: baskets. Detectives prowled around from Lous< ,to house looking for Paul, but his i.endi hid him now in cnn place, now ii another. He is no coward, a 50 incidents in his life demon strate. But he feels his work is no done yet, and so he evades assassiwa tion. "Is that preacher hers?" the foam ing mob shout at onc house door. "I that fanatic here?" the police shout a another house door. Sometimes on th street he passes incognito throurh i crowd of clinched fists, and sometime he sectetes himself on the house top. A last the infuriated populace get on sur track of him. They have positive evidence that he I in the house of one of the Christians the balcony of whose home reaches ove the wall. "Here he is! Here he is! The vociferation and blasphemy an howling ef the pursuers are at the fron door. They break in. "Fetch out tha gospelize!, ad let us hang his head 0 the city gate! Where is he?" The emer gency was terrible. Providemially ther was a good stout basket in the heuse Faul's friends fasten % rope to the bas ket. Paul steps into it. The basket i lif ted to the edge of the balcony on th wall, and then while Paul holds ont the rope with both hands his friend lower away, carefully and cauniously slowly but surely, farther dow1 and farther down, -until th basket strikes the estra, and thi apostle steps out and afoot an' alone starts cn that famous missionar: tour, the story of which has astonishe< earth and heaven. Appropriate entr: in ?aul's diary of travels-"Through window, in a basket, was I let down b the wall." Observe first on what a slender tenur< areat results hang. The ropemaker wh< twisted that cord fastened to that lower ing basket never knew how much woul< depend on the strength of it. How if had been broken and the apostle's liti had t'een dashed out? What would hayi become of the Christian church? A] that maunificent missionary work ii Pamphylia, Cappadocia Galatia, Mace domna, would never .have been accom plished. AlU his writings that make uj so indispensable and enchanting a piar of the New Testament would never havy been written. The story of resurrectiol would never have been so gloriously toki as he told. That examplAe of ha roic an; *triumphant endurance at Phi~ppi, in the Mediterranean eurocly dan, un eer flagel lation and at his beheading, wooid no have kindled the courage of 10,000 mar tyrdoms. -But the rope holding thal basket-how much depended on it! S< again and again great results have hung on what seemed slender circumstances, Did ever ship of many thousand toni crossing the sea have such imuportan1 passenger as had once a boat of leaves, from taffrai! to stern only three or fcm feet, the vessel made waterproof by coat of bitumen and floating on the Nile with the infant lawgiver cf the Jews or board? What if some crocodile shouli crunch it? What if some of the cattli wading in for a drink should .sink it: Vessels of war sometimes carry 40 guni looking through the portholes, ready tC open battle. But that tiny craft on the .Nile seems to be aimed with all the guns of thunder that bombarded Sinai al the lawgiving. On how fragile crafi sailed how much of historical import. ance! The parsonage at Epworth, England, is on fire in the night. and the father rushes through the hallway for the res. cue of his childfren. Seven children are out and safe on the ground, but one re. mains in the consuming nilding. ?bat one wakes, and finding his bed on fire and the building crumbhing comes to the wmndow, and two peasants make a lad der of their bodies, one peasant standine on the shoulder of the other, and down the human ladder the boy descends John Wesley. If you would know howi much depended on that ladder of peas ants, ask the millions of Methodists on both sides of the sea. Ask their mission stations all round the world. .Ask the hundreds of thousands already ascended to join their founder, who would have polished but for the living stair of pea' sant's shoulders. An English ship stopped at Pitcairn island, and rizht in the midst of sur rounding cannibalism and equalor the passengers discovered a Chrisuian colond of churches and schools and beautiful homes and hizhest style cf religion any civilization. For 50 years no missionary and no Christian influence had landed there. Why that oasis of light amid a desert of heathendom? Sinyv years be fore a ship had met disaster, andi one oi the sailors unable to~save anything else, went to his trunk and took out a .[ibI6 which his mother had place there and swam ashore, the Bible held in his teeth. The book was read on ali sides until the rough and vicious population were evangelized, and a church was started, and an enlightened commonwealth es tab lished, and the world's history has nc more brilliant page thani that which tells of the tranntormatiiu of a nation by one book. It did not seem of muchi import ance whether the sailor continued to hold tbe book in his teeth or let it lall in the breakers, but upcn v, hiat small cir cumnstance depended what mi-.:hty re Practical inference: There are no in significances in cur lives. The minutes! thing is part of a manitude. Intimiry is made up of infinitesimals. Great things an aggregation of small thmnas. .Bethie hem manger pulling on a star mn the eastern sky. One bo )k im a drenched alno-'s month thie evangelizastion of n u"itudJe. One boat ot papyrus on the N" c';chted with events for all ages. The "ate of Christendom in a basket let 1a from a window on the wall. If )OLu make a rope, make it strong and trua, vor you know not how much may epnd on your workmanship. If you fashion a boat let It be waterproof, for you know not who may sail in it. I Tot) put a Bible in the trunk of your boy as he Loes from home, let it be beard in your prayers, for it may have a mission as farreaching as the book which the sailor carried in his teeth to the Pit zairn beach. The plainest man'a life is tun island between two eternities-eter nitv past rippling against his shoulders, e*trnitv tocome touching hib brow. The cas'ual, the accidenLal, that which mere ly happened so, are parts of a great t'lan, and the rope that lets the fugitive apole from the Damascus wall is the c Lde tbat holds to its mooring the ship ot the church in the northeast storm of the centuries. Aais, notice unrecognized and un recordecd services. Wbo spun that rope? Who tied it to the basket? Who steadied the illustrious preacher as he stepped into it? Who relaxed not a muscle ot the arm or dismissed an anxious look from his face until the basket touched the ground and discharged its maggifi cent cargo ' Not one of their names has come to us, but there was no work done that day in Da.nascus or in all the earth xmpared with the importance ot their Swork. What if they had in their agita tion tied a knot that could slip? What it the sound of the mob at the door bad led them to say, "Paul must take care of himself, and we wdl take care of our selves." No, no! They held the rope, and in doing so did more for the Christ ian church than any thousand of us will ever accomplish. Bat God knows and has made eternal record of their under taking. And they know. How exultant they must have felt when they read his letters to the Ro mans, to the Corinthians, to the Gala tians, to the Ephesians, to the Phillip plans, to the Colossians, to the Thessa lonians, to Timothy, to Titus, to Phile mon. to the Hebrews, and when they heard how he walked out of prison, with the earthquake unlocking the door for him, and took command of the Alexan drian cornsbip when the sailors were nearly scared to death, and preached a sermon that nearly shook Felix off his judgment seat! I hear the men and wo. men who helped him down through the window and over the wall talking in pri vately over the matter and saying: "How Olad I am that we effected that rescue! In coming imes others may get the glory of Paul's work, but no one 3 shall rob us of the satisfaction of know t ing that we held the rope." There are said to be about 69,000 min *isters of religion in this country. About 50,000, I warrant came from early homes which had to struggle tor the ne cessaries of life. The sons of rich bank ers and merchants generally become bankers and merchants. The most of those who become ministers are the sons of those who had terrific struggle to get their everyday bread. The, colle giate and theological education of thart son took every luxury from the parent al table for eight years. The other chil dren were more scantily appareled. The a son at college every little while got a ' bandle from hbme. In it were the socks that mother had knit, sitting up late at Snight, her sight not as good as once it was. And there also were some delica Scies from the sister's hand for the vora cious appetite of a hungry student. The years go by, the son has been or dained and is preaching the glorious gos pel, and a great revival comes, and souls by scores anrd hundreds accept the gospel from the lips of that young preacher, and father and mother, quite old now, are visiting the son at the vil lage parsonage, and at the close of a Sabbath of mighty blessing father and Smother i-etire to their room, the son lighting the way and asking them if he can do anything to make them more comfortable, saying if they want any thing in the night just knock on the wall. And then all alone father and mother talk over the gracious influences of the day and sly: "Well, it was worth all we went through to educate that boy. It was a bard pull, but we held on tlih the work was done. .The world may not know it; but, mother, we held the rope, didn't we?" And the voice trem ulous with joyful emotion, tespdnds: "Yes, father; we held the rope. I feel my work is done. Now, Lord, lettest thou thy servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have seen thy salvation." "Pahaw," says the father, "I never felt so much like living in my life as now! I want to see what that fellow is going on to do, he has begun so well." Oh, men and women here assembled, you brag sometimes how you have fought your way in the world, but I think there have been helpful influences that you have never fully acknowledged. Has there not been some influence in -your early or present home that the world cannot see? Does there not reach to you from among the New England, hills, or from western prairies, or from southern plantation, or from English or Scottish or Irish home, a cord of influ ence that has kept you right when you would have gone astray, and which, af ter you had made a crooked track, re called you? The rope may be as long as 30 .years or 500 miles long or 3,000 miles long, but hands that went out of mortal sight long ago still hold the rope. You want a very s wift horse, and you need to rowel him with sharpest spurs, and to let the reins lie loose upon the nec, and to give a shout to a racer, if von are going to ride out of reach of your mother's prayers. Why, a ship crossing the Atlantic in seven days can not sail away from them! A sailor finds them on the lookout as he takes his pl'ces anc finds them on the mast as he climbs the ratlines to disentangle a rope in the tempest, and finds them swinging on the harpmock when he turns in. Why not be frank and acknowledge it? The most of us would long ago have been dasned to pieces had hot gracions and loving hands steadily and lovingly and mightily held the rope. But there must come a time when we shall 'find out who these Datnascenes were who lowered Paul in the basket, and greet them and all those who have rendered to God and the world unrecog njzed and unrecorded services. That is going to be one of the glad excitements of heaven-the hunting up and picking out oi those who did great good on earth and got no dredit for it. Here the church has been going on 19 centuries, and this is probably the first sermon ever recog nziog the services of the people in that Damascus balcony. Charles G. Finny said t9 a dying Christian. "Give my love to St. Paul when you meet him." When you ana I meet him. as we will, I shall ask him to introduce me to those peope who got him out of the Demas - cene periu. Once for 36 tours we expected every moment to go' to the bottom of the ocean. The waves struck through the skyligbts and rushed down into the hold of the ship and hissed against the boilers. It was an awful time, but by the blessing of God and the faithful ess of the men in charge we came out of the cyclone, and we arrived at home. Each one before leaving the ship thanked Captain Andrews. I do not think there was a man or woman that went off that ship without thanking Captain Andrews, and when years af ter I heard of his death I was impelled to write a letter of condolence to his family in Liverpool. Everybody recognized the goodness,. the courage and the kindness of Captain we never thanked the engineer. He stood away down in th! darkness amid the hissing furnaces d-oing his whole duty. Nobody tharked the engineer, but God recognrdd his heroism, and his continuance. his fidelity, and there will be just as high reward for the engineer who worked out of sight as the captain wh, stood on the bridge of the ship In the midst of the howling tempest. A Christian woman was seen going along the edge of a wood every ever - tide, and the neighbors in the country did not understand how a mother wi:!: so many cares and anxieties should waste so much timp as to be idly saun tering out evenlag b- Tvening. I, was found oUt afterwaras thar she went there to pray for her household, and while there one evening she wrote that beautiful hymn. 1mous in all ages for cheering Christians hearts: I love ro steal awhile away From every cumbering care And spend the hours of setting day In humble, grateful prayer. Shall there be no rewad for such un pretending yet everlasting service? We go into long sermon to prove that we will be able to recognize people in heaven when there is one reason we fail to present, and that is better than all-God will introduce us. We shall have them all pointed out. You would not beguilty of the impoliteness of having friends in your parior not in troduced, and celestial politeness will demAnd that we be made acquainted with all the heavenly household. What rehearsal of old times and recital of stirring reminiscences. If others fail ito give introduction, God will take us through, and before our first 24 hours in heaven-if it were calculated by earthly timepieces-have passed we shall meet and talk with more heavenly celebrities than in our entire mortal state we met with earthly celebraties. Many who made great noise of usefulness will sit on the last seat by the front door of the heavenly temle, while right up within arm's reach of the heavenly throne will be many who, thought they could not preach themselves or do great exploits for God, nevertheless held the rope. Come, let us go right up andaccost those on thiscircle of heavenly throne. Sars ly they must have killed in battle a million men. Surely they must have buried with all the cAI.-edrals sounding a-dirge and all the tovers of all the cities tolling the national grief. Whc art thou, mighty one of heaven? "1 lived by choice the unmarried daughter in a humble home that I might take care of my parents in their old age, and I endured without complaints all their querulousness and ministered to al] their wants for 20 years." Let us pass on round the circle of thrones. Who art thou. mighty one ol heaven? "I was for thirty years a Christian invalid and suffered all the while, occasionally writing a note of sympathy for those worse off than , and was general confidant of all those who had trouble, and once in a while I was strong enough to make a garment for that poor family in the back lane.' Pass on to another throne. Who art thou, mighty one of heaven? "I was the mother who raised a whole family of children for God, and they are out in the world, Christian merchants, Christian mechanics, Christian wives, and I have had full reward of all my toil." Let us pass on in the circle of thrones. "I bad a Sabbath school class and they were always on my heart, and they ll entered the kingdom of God, and I am waiting for their arrival." ,But who art thou, the mighty one of heaven on this other throne ? "lat time of bitter persecution I owned a house in Damascus, a house on the wall. A man who preached Christ was hounded from street to street, and I hid hin from the assassins, and when I found them breaking in my house and I couid no longer keep him safely I advised him to flee for his life, and a basket was let down over the wall with the mal treated man In it, and I was one wht elped hold the rope." And I said, "Ii that all ?" and he answered, "That is all." "And while I was lost in amazement I heard a strong voice that sounded as though it might once have been hoarse from many exposures and triumphant as though it might have belonged tC one of the martyrs, and it said, "Not many mighty, not many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the weab things of the world to confound the things which are mighty, and base things of the world, and things which are despIsed hath God chosen-yea, and things which are not-to bring to naught things which are, that no flestb should glory in his presence." And]I looked to see from whence the voice came, and lo! it was the very one who had said, "Through a'window in a bas ket was I let down by the wall." Hencforth think of nothing as insitr nificant. A little thing may decide your all. A Cunarder put out from England for New York. It was well equipped, but in putting up a stove in the pilot box a nail was driven too near the compass. You know how that nail would affect the compass. The ship's officer, deceived by that dis tracted compas3, put the ship 200 mIles off her right course, and suddenly the man on the lookout cried, "Land, ho!' and the ship was halted within a few yards of her demolition on Nantucket shoals. A sixpenny nail came near wrecking a Cunarder. Smaall ropes hold mighty destinies. A minister seated in Boston at his table, lacking a word, puts his hand be hind his head and tilts back in his chair to think, and the ceiling falls and crushes the table and would have crushed him. A minister in Jamaica at night, by the light of an insect called the candlefly, is kept from stepping over a precipice a hundred feet. F. W. Robertson, the celebrated English cler gyman, said that he entered the mmnis try from a train of circumstances started by the barking of a dog. Had the wind blown cue way on a certain day, the Spanish inquisition would have been established in England, but it blew the other way,and that dropped the accursed instaution, with 75,000 tons of shipping, to the bottom of the sea or fiung the splintered logs on the rocks. Nothing unimportant in your life or mine. Three ciphers placed on the right side of the figuie 1 make a thous and, and six ciphers on the right side of the figure 1 a million, and our nothing ness placed on the right side may be augmentation illimitable. All the ages of time and eternity affected by the basket let down from a Damascus bal cony! _______ A Woman's Body 1NIAGARA FALLS, March 9-A big cake of ice floating down the river to ward the Horseshoe falls, whirling in the rushing current and on it lay the body of a woman, her head hanging half over the edge of the cake. As it was swept past Loretto convent the nuns were notified by a sister who dis covered the dead woman, and as. the ice floated ny with its dead burden the nuns prayed for the dead and dying. For an instant only the ice paused at the brink of the falls and then it was swept over into the seething mass of water below. The body must have been frozen to the ice, for several hours later it was seen in the rapids near the Am ercan.alorey by a number of, people. The only way it would have gotten down there was by passing under tne big Ice bridge which has formed. No attempt was made to reach the body, for it could not have been secured .under any cireumstances. It will not be rescued before the ice melts. It is supposed the woman's body came from up cte laae somewhere. I was clad in a dress of dark stuff. MR. Robert Bonner gives to the pu'b ic a letter he received from Hlenry Ward Beecher years ago in which the latter says concerning a visit to Lin coln. "Abraham told me three staries, two of which I forgot and the oth~er orn't boe telling." A CLOSE ELECTION. THE RACE FOR CONGRESS IN THIS DISTRICT VERY CLOSE. A Ntwy L'ght Vcte Polled Throughout the Districz--The R'pubIcans Take VerT i Little Interest in the Election and Cast 'Few Voteq. The election for Congressman to fill the unexpired term of Brawley caine off last Tuesday. The vote throughout the district was light, not more than two thirds of the Democratic vote be ing polled. In this county tL3 vote was as follows: Precinct. Izlar. Stokes. Orangebrg ....... ..299 199 IUranchville .......... 35 53 Ro w-sville............... 27 46 Jamison ........... ..... 12 62 North................... 30 113 Quattlebaum ............. 5 53 Ayers.................... 14 130 Cedar Grove.............. 1 92 St. Matthews............. 1 4 Corbetzsville ............. 66 168 Gleaton ............. 49 126 Zeialer................... 14 129 Easterlin............ .... 4 149 Connor................... 25 48 The total vote in this county is 1,985 divided as follows: Stokes ............................1,372 Iz ar.............................. 8 Majority for Stokes............. 790 It is estimated that about 150 colored votes were polled in the county, of whiea Gen. Izlar received 100 and Dr. Stokes Z0. In the primary election of 1 92 Dr. Stokes received 1,916 votes and Mr. Brawley 758, making a total of 2,673 votes in 1892 against 1,554 this year which shows a falling off in the vote in the present election of 719. Deduct the colored vote, which is estimated at 150, and the falling off in the vote in the county is 870. Dr. Stokes received 544 votes less in the present election than he received in 1892, and Gan. Izlar received 176 less votes than Mr. Brawley received in 1892, making a total falling off in the vote of 870 as above stated with the colored vote deaucted. A special from Barnwell to the Co lumbia Register says at Corbettsville several fist fights occurred, and that one man was arrested for trying to vote five times. This is the only dis turbance that we have heard of any where in the county. CHARLESTON COUNTY. The vote in the city of Charleston fell off about the same ratio that it did in the other counties, the vote being as follows: Izlar..............................1,995 Stokes........................... 112 The outlying precincts in Charleston County will increase Izlar's majority to about 2,000. COLLETON COUNTY. The following is the vote in Colleton County as far as heard from: Precincts. Izlar. Stokes. Walterboro...............102 29 Reevesville..... ..... 44 5 Georges.................. 97 115 Summerville......... 32 3 Ridgeville................ 9 13 A special to the Columbia Register says the Summerville box will be con tested on the ground of illegal voting. It is claimed that the managers al 10 wved registered voters of Berkeley and the Seventh District to vote at this box. A dispatch from Summnerville to the Ne ws and Courier says the vote at that precinct was very light, consIdering the amount of electioneering done. No poll was opened on the Colleton side of Summerville, which lost Izlar a good vote. The ballot boxes was not re ceived, although r.,norted as having been expressed fromi, Walterboro on the 8th instant. At the polls opened here on the Berkeley side of Summer ville izlar received 32 and Stokes 3. It ; s claimed that there is no authority in the statutes for the opening of this poll, and a contest will in all probabil ity be made if their votes are received and cauvassed by tb~e election commis sioners at Mount Pleasant. Ten precincts out of the fourteen in this county gives Gen. Izlar 120 major ity. It is thought that the four pre cincts yet to hear from will reduce Izlar's majority to about fifty in the entire cunty. LEXINGTON COUNTY. The vote mn Lexington County, like in all the other counties, was light, be. ing about a two-thirds vote. The fall* ing off injures Dr. Stokes. The total vote polled, in the county was about 1,700, of which Di-. Stokes received something over 1,000. Thes9e figures are not official, but are estimated by the Columbia Register correspondent at Lexington. The following is the detailed vote in Lexington County as far as heard from: Precincts. Izlar. Stokes. Batesburg............. 49 39 Lexington ............ 72 166 Swansea ....,......... 45 79 New Brookland........30 34 Peaks ................ 13 68 Estimating from half the precincts in the county heard from the vote falls off one thousand from the Congressional primary of 1892. Iziar's vote is 25 per cent. less than Brawley's and Stokes 35 -per cent. less than his vote of that year. This will give Iziar about 600 and Stokes 1,200votes in the county. THlE YERY LATEST. The very latest news indicate that Gen Izlar is elected by a small majority. Only a small portion of Lexington County has been heard from, and these returas indicate that Dr. Stokes has carried that county by about 800, but his majorities there andf in this county will not be sufficient to offset the ma jorities Gen..Izlar received in Charleston and Colleton Counties, which is put down at about 2,050. GEN. IZLAR ELECTED. All the counties have been heard from, and the returns elect Gen. Izlar by a majority of 500 at least. Turned Fiend. NASUVILLE, Tenn., March 9.-George A. Smith, a farmer, about 35 years o f age, in the edge of Pickett county, sev eral miles above Celina, went home drunk Wed'nesday night, and brutally murdered his youngest child, after which he beat his wife in a horrible manner, cutting her thorat and then crushing her head. Leaving his bleed ing victims, he repaired to the house of. his sister-in-law, a short distance away, and finding her sick in ben, grasped her by the hair and dragged her on to the loor, stamping her. She managed to escape from him and alarmed the neighborhood, who soon discovered Smith's terrible crime. Smith has fied the neighborhood and his whereabouts are- not known. Hie will very likely be lynched if captured. YI:ollABLY some American -citizens are ignoraut of the reason why the bankers of New York turned at first a cold,deaf ear to Secretary Carlisle's appeal to themn to suocribe tor his $50. 000,000 bonds, then charged their minds suddenly and In 24 hours took the whole loan. The reason was~ that they found out Secretary Carlisle was going to coin some of the silver bullion in the treasury and put it into circulation in case he failed to secure the loan. R~ath tn see the currency expanded by sver they took the bonds xn a hurry Lyncthett.. STRoiJpSBURG. PA, March 15. Richard Puryear, who murdered Chris Lian E biers, near Tanriersyile about a monh av, escaped trom jail here this m'ning. A crowd gathered and Pur year was ctugh in Cherry Hollow woods. He fought desperately, but was over powered and taken to ralmer Island by he mob. A rope was obtained and the murderer was hanged to a tree until THE BLAND BILL PASSED. A Mjirity ot Thirteen Given in byThe Senate. WASHINGTON, March 15.-A resolu tion wai offered by Gallinger (Rep.) of New Hampshire and laid ovar tempora- I rily zalling on the Secretaries of the Treasury and Interior for the names of all clerks appointed, promoted, reduced or dismissed in their respective depart ments since March 4, 1893, with the State to which each is credited. At 12:30 the Bland sei.,niorage bill was taken up and Carey (Rep.) of Wyoming 0 continued his speech begua yesterday y against it. He characterized the bill as k the worst blow aimed at silver since the G demonetization of bilver in 1873. ti The next speech on the subject was ii made by Dnbois(Rep.)Df Idaho. He said 'I that he took no comfort in voting for the ' bill. It was not the kind of silver legisa- s tivn that suited him. 'He should like to e vote for a free coinage measure. V The next speaker was Mitchell (Rep.) of Oregon. He said that he should vote for the bill, not because he believed it s went so far as it ought to go in the in- P terest of silver as a money metal, but because it was a move on the legisla- , tive checker board in the right direction. q Like the Senator from Idaho, be would t much prefer that it was a free coinage g uill and then he would vote for it with s great olaeasure. tj Palmer (Dem.) of IIinois opposed the 8 bill, and quoted Hewitt's statement that s it proposed to coin a vacuum. It was, 1 indeed, he said, a vacuum, for it was admitted that if the whole mass of sil- 8 ver purchased under the Act of 1890 were put on the market today it would bring many millions less than the amount necessary to discharge the Trea- s sury notes issued for its purchase. 0 He believed the bill to be so defective c that the silver which it required to be 1 coined would remain inert in the Trea sury, and that not a single silver dollar could be put into circulation under it. Pettigrew (Rep.) of South Dakota had just begun an argument in favor of the r bill, when Harris rose and in his most t impressive tones said: "Mr. President, I tbe hour of 2 is recorded by that clock f (pointing to the clock over the main I doorway) and at that hour the unanim ous agreement of the Sanate is that the t final vote shall be taxen on the passage 3 of this bill. I ask for that vote." I Davis (Rep.) of Minnesota asked that I Pettigrew should be allowed to finish his r speech. f Harris: "I object. If I were to yield 0 to the Senator from South Dakota I t would feel bound to yield to other Sen- r ators. I vield to nobody." (Laughter.) U Kyle (Pop.) 'of Sougi Dakota asked that Pettigrewmight be allowed to have e all.his speech printed in the Record. The presiding offices, Vilas (Dem.) of S Wisconsin, declared the question to be: t "Shall the bill pass?" a The vote was taken and the bill was t passed, yeas 44, nays 31, as follows: Yeaa-Allen, Bate, Berry, Black- 9 burn, Blanchard, Butler, Call, Cockrell, Coke. Colquitt, Daniel, Dubois, Faulk- t 1 ner, George, Gordon, Hansbrouth, Har ris, Hunton, Irby, Jones, of Arkansas, Kylev, Lindsay, * McLaurin, Martin, e Hills, Mitchell, of Oregon, Morgan, 0 Pasco, Pefer, Perkins, Pettigrew, Pugh, t Qaay, Ransom, Roach. Shoup, Stewart, reller, Turpie, Vest, Voorhees, White, s Wolcott-44 Nays-Aldrich, Allison, Brice, Caf- t fery, Carey, Chandler, Cullom, Davis, c Dolph, Frye, Gillinger. Gicson. Gor- t man,- Hale, Bawley, Higgina, Lodge,i McMillin, McPherson, Manderson, a Mitchell, of Wisconsin, Morrill, Mur. c phy, Palmer. Platt, Proctor. Smith, t Stockbridge, Vilas, Washburn, Wilson, C -31. When the result was announced, there was hand-clapping in the crowded galle ries, which breach of order was rebuked y by the presiding officer. Then the spec- a tators began to desert the galleries; and the Senate chamber resumed Its air of quiet languor and respectability. The i Republicans who voted for the bill were; s .Dubois. Hansbrough, Mitchell of Ore- e son, Pettigrew, Power, Quay, Shoup, 3 Stewart, Teller and Wolcott. E The Democrats who voted against it were: Brice, Caffery, Gorman, Mc Pherson, Mitchell of Wisconsin, Mur phy, Palmer, Sinith, and Vilas. The three Populist Senators-Allen, Kyle and Peffer-voted for it.. Hill: (Dem.) bf New York announced his pair' e with Dixon (Rep.) of Rhode Island. I A joint resolution heretofore intro- t duced by Harris (Dem.) of "Lennessee v~ for the appointment of a commission tb r be - composed of the Secretary of tbe I Treasury, Secretary of War and the At- '. torney General for the settlement of ~ United Statetes government and the ~ State of Tennessee, arising out of the transfer of railroads, was taken up and passed. Teller gave notice that he would try i to get the McGarrahan bill up for ac tion next Monday. t After a short executive session the f doors were reopened at 3.20 and busi- r ness was resumied and continued until s 4.10, when the senate adjourned until a Monday. No business oi general inter est was transacted after the executive ~ session. The Seignmorage bill cannot t reach the President before Monday, as, it was not signed by the presiding of-r ficer of the two houses at the time of 3 adjournmrnt. t vaetory for the state.b CHARLESTON, March 13.-Th e state -r gained a decisive victory over the rail- s roads in the United States Circuit d Court today, when Judge Simonton o filed a decree in the much htigated rail road tax cases. Last. year the assess- n ment on all the railroad property was d arbitrarily raised by the board of C equalization. The railroads ref used to g pay the taxes on the increased assess- b ment and carried the case into the si United States courts. They, however, a tendered the amount of taxes on the o old assessment. The case decided to- si day was brought by D. H.. Chamber- a lain, receiver of the South Carolina Railway, to test the constitutionality of the assessment. made tby the board of equalization. .The court, in a lengthy t, opinion, decided that the assessment was not unconstitutional and orders ; the receiver to pay the State the bal- s ance due and'also costs of the action.- 1 State. i THE Spartanburg Herald says th at "Mr. Cleveland's closest friends say he g will veto the Bland bill. We have had a suspicion to that effect all along. He v would veto a law repeaiing the taxon a State banks just as readily. -The presi- ti dent is an honest man, a great man and a statesman, but he is not infallible. His y fnancial views are not such as any in- a telligent Southern or Western man can ti accept. They go well on Wall street, ci bt just as a law for the especial bez.e- si fit of the debtor works a hardship on b the creditor, so contracting the curren- gj cy cannot hlelp . those who are pr o- a ducers."p -A Mystery. PENSACOLA, March 10.-A body of s an unknown 'nan was discovered dloat - 1. ig in the day this morning. He was t. of medium height and had light hair, tl wegnled probably 160 pounds. He had c in his pocket a leather trunk check, s hearing the name of C. .L. JacoDbs, San Diego, Cal.' No marks of violence was found on the body. 4 A Vease! in Danger.P BEAUFTORT, N.- C., March 14.-A- 5 large three mast s'chooner, unknown, is ~ anchored about four miles off shore. t~ It is blowing a gale from the south- 0. west, and the vessel is dragging to. ci wars lookout Shoals. T A ROW BEWING. ROUBLE BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND THE STATE. tio Naj-nal G vorncant Ofticsrs Want lo Take Some z.--ed Whiskey from the Dispensary-Goverzor T1iiman Doesn't Like I. COLUMBIA, S. C., March 13.-The nited States government and the ,ate government are about to "mix" ver seizures of contraband whiskeys. lhat will be the outcome of itno one nows and it will take time to decide. overnor Tillman does not like the in -rference of Uncle Sam's odlicers, and i a letter which he sent to Collector ownes yesterday he says so. Collector ownes is probably acting under in ;ructions from Washington and what ver he does in the matter in dispute ,ill be after hearing from headquart Is. The trouble now on hand is over the %izure, in Charlesion last week of nine ackages of whiskey which nad been irected to L. Elias of that city. The hiskey was shinped here and is now i . the State Dispensary. Collector 'ownes wrote to Commissioner Traxler ying claim to the whiskey on the round that it was shipped into this tate in violation of section 3449 of ie Revised Statutes of the United tates. This section provides for the izure of any whiskey shipped In any ianner other than under its proper ame. For instance, in case a person 3ips whiskey into this State or any tate in a box labeled "Bacon," or la eled any way except wiskey, the ship ient is liable to seizure. The p3ckages seized in Charleston are ild to have been shipped in violation f the section named. In answer to the aim of Collector Townes Governor 'illman sent the following letter: " (olumbia, March 12, 1894. Hlon. S. A. Townes, U. S. Collector, Columbia, S. C. Sir: Your letter of March 10th, refer ng to a seizure made by State Consta le Gailard of nine packages of dis Iled spirits found in the store of L. iias, Charleston, S. C. has been re rred to the State Board of Control by ir. Traxler. You say that ihese packges are liable o seizure under U. S. R. S., section 49. We acknowledge this, nad the nited States revenue officers found the quor and made theseizure, but inas iuch as the State constables seized it rst and it has come into the possession f the &ate Commissioner as "contra and" under our Scate law, we deny the ight of .he government to take It from .s on the following grounds: First. This liquor was not being shipped, transported or removed," but .ad alredy reached its destination. Second. It was smuggled into the tate - to evade the State law, and not e United States law, because it bears 11the stamps showing that all revenue axes have been paid. Tnird. It is now in possession of a tate officer, under confiscation proced 3gs, and is to all intents and purposes he property of the State. It came into er possession by due process of law nd this fact should prevent the rev nue officers from interfering since sec Ion 3449 could have no other purpose ther than to secure the pxyment of the ax. We will be glad to have the matter etteled once for all; first, by the deci ion of the commissioner at Washing on, D. C., and if that is againts our laim then we will make a test case in he (courts by giving bond and defend og suit to sho~w that our title is good gainst yours. I simply add, in con luslon, thiat we want the matter set led as soon as possible. We have every esire to co-operate with the Federal uthorities in the saippression of the icit traflic in whiskey, but we cannot e expected to tamely submit to such n unjust claim as this. The United tates government encourages men to reak the State law by letting them ay special tax for privilege to sell. Vhen they smuggled in whiskey' on hch tax has been paid to avail them elves of the privilege, and the State onstables seized it, it belongs to the tate, if there is the least regard for quity and fair play. If we cannot old it we will dump it into the streets i the future. Vrery respectfully, B. R. TILLMA . overnor and Chairman State Board. PAYING BACK TIIE GOVER~NMENT. The State got even with Uncle Sam esterday. During the morning the gov rment sold at the Federal building-a yt of whiskey which had been seized y revenue oflicers. Col. F. M. Mixson ras present at the sale and bought iost of the whiskey for the State Dis ensary, paying $1.15 a gallon for it. here were several private bidders, owever, and they bought some of the rhiskey at $1.25 a gallon. These per ans were Sam Harmon, who bought a ms ef crataining forty-seve gallons. [enry Dart, who bought two kegs and . P McCartha, who bought six gal yns of apple brandy. Before the purchasers had paid for as whiskey a warrant was sworn out >r its seizure and for the arrest of the ien who bought it. The warrant was worn out before Trial Justice Stack ni was placed in the hands of Deputy heiriff Civil. That officer went to the 'ederal buildins in the afternoon, but ae whiskey remained unmoved. The rchasers had not paid for it and had t called for it. They had probably qtten wind of the Intention of the tate- to seize the "stuff" and arrest aie if they attempted to take it out. Constables were pluced around the uilding during the afternioon and were sady to pounce upon the whiskey so yon as it was roiled out of the front oor of the building .md got from oug the hands of the government. It is not thought that the persons ientioned will go for the whiskey to y, and the government will resell it. ollector Townes says that it cannot o out of his ofice except during office ours, from 9 a. mn. to 4 p. in. He also iys that he has nothing t > do wi';h the hiskey after it is paid for and gets ut of the builing. The constables can 17. it then and do what they please th it so far as he is concerned. Au Albamsza Sanat ion, MHIS, Tenn., March 9.-A special The Commercial from Birmingham. a., says the biggest sensation of the abama campaign has just been >rung. Some time ago the Alliance erald, th~e official ergan of the Klob es began a warfare on Ben D.41a, mos, scretary of tne State Republican Cam aign Committee. 1n reply he pub. shed a card in several~Damocratia pa ers threatening to mare public the ouchers which would show that ioney was paid to him from the Na onal Republican Committee two .ears go to IKolbites to help out the leaders, herecy the Weaver electorol ticket ras first supported i->y these two par s, elected, v .s to vote for Harrison in ise a vote was needed to insure Uarri n's election.- The Alliance Hi erald ttterly denied these charges. The -reenville Truth, a straight out Popu st paper edited by J. M. Whitenead, robate judge of Butler county, who 'as on the Weaver electoral ticket, but ho has since guven the Kolbites the iake, comes out in a lengthy publica on exposing the deal. Tne effect of ie exposure will be a stunning blow to ie Kolbites-l'opulist comblLinC. Demo aic leaders say that this in itself is ~flicient to defeat Koib for Goveruor. Tested. SIREVEP'ORT, L'a., March 10.-Uni d States Circuit Judge Boardman esiding on a jury trial, gave judg ent to the heairs of J. Leman vs. nights ot Pythias, for the amnount 01 e policy in that order. The payment the policy was contested on the sul dal clause. The amount was $3,000. The Evil of the Times. The Greenville Mountaineer, which is anti-Tillman to the backbone, never uttered a more truthful thing when it said that "the constant misrepresenta tion of ?ublic affairs is an alarming ev il of our times. The disposition seems to be growing that the most unfavor able light is to be thrown upon any and everything with which we do not agree. This is an era of extravagant assump tion and recxless statement concerning the opposition, whether political or otherwise, but it is especially true in our politics that heedless and hurtful assertions are made without regard to the boundaries of truth. Pernaps the dispensary law and its administration has borne the brant of more needless distortions in this way than anything fo recent times. At any rate it will do for an illustration of the evil to which we have called attention, and we will cite a few facts to sustain the position. "The assertion is constantly made that a dispensary constable has the right to enter private dwellings and search for liquors even in the most pri vate apartments without a warrant. A great deal of righteous indignation has been turned loose against this alleged provisions of the law, when the fact is that there is no such authority given to the constables under the law, and the instructions issued by the State board of control expressly states the law to the contrary as follows: "The right to serach without a warrant applies only to the places of business and public places -and in all cases where liquor is be lieved to be in private residences and is being sold, search warrants must be is sued." It has been denied time and again that constables are. clothed with the authority to enter private dwellings and yet scarcely a week passes that we do not come across the most bitter de nunciation of the law because private residences are open to search without warrants being issued. "The State board of control has or dered that raids shall be made upon places where liquor is stored away in quantities greater than five gallons unless the owner shall secure certifi cates from the liquor commissioner en. titling them to hold the liquor in their possessession. This order is at once construed to mean that private resi dences are to be searched to asnertalt whether more than dve gallons of li quor are kept for private use, when there is not a sylable to justify such a conclusion. The provision of the law under which the order has been issued plainly reveals the object, which is tc ascertain where liquor is stored in large quantities, and as a consequence tc keep it under survielance hereafter No private rights are invaded, and the State is perfectly justiable in keeping an eye upon stored liqnor'. "On a certain day not I ng ago twC or three dispensary coosraroles visited Newberry, and it was h-ralded ovei the country that they were parading the streets with Wixichester rifles, when there was not a word of truth in th( statement. Newspapers pitched int< the constabulary and compared them te the minions of Scott and Moses trying to overawe a free people. Correction were made, it is true, but the false im pression- created has not been over taken. "The story is frequently repeated that the constable in Charleston, wh< was pardoned immediately after con viction, had slapped a woman in thi face, when the proof was that he had struck her upon the shoulder, which ho claimed was entirely accidental, an that he was not cognizant of the facl at any time. But the story got starte that it was a slap in the face and it i: still doing duty for the exhibition o0 choleric bluster In regard to the pro tection of women in South Carolina. The Mountaineer concludes its arti le by saying that these four example are sufficient to establish the fact tha there is a tendency to exagerate all thal concerns the administration of the dis pensary la w, and the consequent out: come of such reckless and unfounde( assertions is to plant resistance to thi constitnted authorities in the breast o. the people, many of whoin are opposec to the law itself. nit Coming. The St. Lsuis Republic, which is thi leading Democratic paper of the West says "Europe is uneasy about silver. The debt ridden and tax-bled nation: of the Continent are w ondering whether they can stand a greater ap preiation of gold. England has fo: many years congratulated herself or the gain she has reaped as a credito: from the gold standard, but since her trade with India has become demoral ized and her exchanges with all silver using countries shaky, her exportern are asking questions of the bankers who have taught the statesmen all the finance of the past hundred years. One of The Republic's financial correspond ents, who has always been conservative in making predictions, writes that Europen war, forced by the intolerable trade depression of the gold standarc is almost certaina to come very soon, The discontents of all classes are pres sing the Government into war, because the expedient of peaceful finance have all been exhausted. The war will end he believes, in a generally rcconstruc tion of the money standard on a bime tallic basis. War or not, the Europe ans are realizing, as3they have not be fore since the short-sighted a~tlon of Germany in 1871, that the business ol the world cannot get albng without silver. The alternative before the European nations is siver tender with free coinage, or an enormous issue of paper currency. The latter m'ght be a temporary relief, but it would be soon felt as a terrible stra:in e' credit, ad at the first convulsion th~e inpcos sibilty of gold redemption would pre cipitate panics of unparalleled magni tude. In reality there is no alternative Europe is not rich enough to retain monometallism much longer without revolution and repudiation. We have followed the blunder of Europe, and the bimetallist has not been admitted Into the coneils of the nation. But to-day the bimetallist has the satisfac tion of seeing that the intellect of the whole worlds is with him." A Preacher Arrested. BIRMINonAM, Ala., March 14.-Rev. A. M. Thompson, in charge of the Methodist Church at East Birming ham. was arrested near the close of his sermon Sunday morning by two police men in citizen's cl ,bes, and will be taken back to Jackson, Miss., where he will serve out a life se'ntence imposed upon him five years ago for the assassi nation of a brother minis'er in his puil pit while preaching to a large corngre gaion. The cause of the k tling wa~s the appointment of the murdered w'an to the pastorate of Thompson. He was sent t'o the penitentiary for life, but soon made his escape. He came here about two years ago, calling himself Rev. W. M. Thompson1 and assisted in qite a number of revivals, proving himself an earnest exhorter and preach er. His congregation was horrified at his arrest and can hardly believe that the pastor Is guilty of the crime al leged. He is in jail at present and will be taken to the Mississippi penitentiary at once. Rtank Treasen. The Columbia State says: "If the statement attributed to Pre sident Cleveland that* the passage of the Bland bill will be destructive of the repoe,whien noivsurrounds the finan cial condition of the country was really made by him, it Is an unfortunrte re mark. The 'linancial repose' of the country is the repose of stnagnation. The money centres may be satisined with this 'repose' but the rest of the country isn't, and the sooner the Pres ident understands that the better it will be for him and his party. A veto of that bill, approved by fourfnfths of th Democrats in Congress. will give an impetus everywhere. The repeal of the State bank tax may be objected to on the same ground; but it has to come Prospperity for the ceuntry is better thn 'nrepoe ror Wall street.'' Gen. Iziax'a Thanks. CHARLESTON, S. C., March 17.-Mi. W. K. Sieedman, who took so active a part in the recent Congreisional cam paigi in this city, representing the inter este of G,:-. .James F. Iziar, has received the folhwiaz letter Irom Gen. Izlar thanking him, and through him the peo ple of Charleston, fir their good work: ORANGEBUG, ;S. C., March 15.-My Dear Sir: The canvass is over, and it seems now to be reasonaly sure that I have been selected by the good people of the 1st CongressIonal district to fill out the urexpired term of the Hon. W. H. Brawley. I write, therefore, to thank ycu, your committee, and all persons who took an interest in my behalf, and who in any way contributed to my suc cess. I am exceedinly 2rateful to you especially. You did noble and good work. I can never forget the good peo ple of Charleston, I do not know how I will succeed ma my new role. I shall enter upon the duties of the office with many misgivi'ygs as to my fitness for the position. It is a position fraught with much labor and great responsibility. All that I can promise my constituents is that I will endeavor to gave in return f)r the honor conferred my bcst judgment and my best ability. I know that I shall make mistakes, because it is hu-man to err. I trust, however, that I may be able to render much and valuable service to the Dsmocratib pirty, and to the people of the 1st Congressional district, who have seen fit to honor me with the confidence and their shftrages. Again I thank you and all of my friends. I am very respectfully, JAS. F. IZLAR The Whole Truth. The Columbia State, in commenting on the report that President Cleveland would veto the seigniorage bill now be fore the United States Senate, says. President Cleveland has some sap porters in the South who are his worst political enemies, and are likely to do much hurt to the Dsmocratic party. They are the men and the papers that endorse everything he says and does and encourage him and his Eastern friends to make no concessions to public senti ment here or in the West. They are playing into the hands ot the Popu lists. They are loosening the hold of the Democracy upon our people. We are not of that sort. Tne Democratic party cannot afford to have it believed that there is no difference between its financial policy and that of the Repub lican party. That conviction once firm ly established in the minds of the peo ple, Populism and Republicanism will absorb the sundered elements of the party. The true course of the party is along the safe middle road between the camps of its enemies; the best policy is a policy broad enough for all honest seekers after the public good. South ern Democrats helped to repeal the Sherman Law mainly because they be lieved that repeal was necessary for the termination of the pante. 'che East must not think that because they made a patriotic concession to the good of the country they have any intention of adopting the New York and Boston idea of finance. They propose to have an improvement in our system of cur rency; they oropose that the Democrat ic party shall keep its pledges. Hits Them Hard. For sometime past the Lancaster Review and some of its subscribers - 1 have been having a controversy about certain utterances of the Review. Liast week communications were publishe4 in the Review from Messrs. J. F. Nis bett and James Cullins pitching into -the paper. The editor replies in a twio 5column article and among other things says: "Brothers Nisbet and Caltins seem to be nursing a grievance of some kind, but why do they come to the Re view with their jeremaide? If they Idon't like the Review why do they read It ? Suppose that the Review is not run as they think it should be run, what right have they to complain of Its management? One of these broth ers is not even a subscriber to the Re view and the other, though he has been taking the paper for two or three years has never paid us a red cent for it. And yet they have the cheek to tell us, through our o wn columns, that the pa per is not being run to suit them-that it hasn't done this and it hasn't dono, that, which In their stupendous judg ment It ought to have done. We are always glad to receive suggestions made in good faith by paying subscri bers, In regard to the management and editorial conduct of the Review, but it makes 'that tired feeling' come over us to have persons who do not contribute anything whatever to the paper's sup port rear up on their hind legs, jerboa like, and patronizingly tell us how to attend to onr own business." A Millionaire Man iac. NEW HAVEN, Conn., March 9. Hoadley B. Ives, the millionaire bank president of this city, one of the most influencier ot Connecticut, became violently insane this afternoon.' The deplorable fact soon became generally known and caused the biggest kind of a sensation in business circles. It was first discovered that he had gone mad when about 1:15 o'clock he entered the house of President Wilbur F. Day, of the New Haven Dank and demanded that he be released so that he might prepare his dinner. He then rushed out, came back with two boiled eggs and a plate. After eating he became so violent that the poli-e had to be notified. A detail of three patrolmen was sent to the house, which is next door to his oilice. His wife Is out of town but friends came and medical assistance was called inl. If he ds not recover soon, steps will be taken to to take him to an asylum. Hie Is 60 years old and is rated to be worth from two to fivei million. He is president of the Yale National bank, president of the Fair Haven and Westville Horse Railway Company and is a heavy stock holder in the New York, Ne w Haven' and Hartford Railroad. Their 3lodoat CaI*In. NEW YORK, Marc'1 14.-Heirs of John .DeHaven are tr yig to secure pay ment from the government cf $400,000 with interest fcom 1776. Tney say De Heaven loaned the government that amount when it was in great. need and was never repaid. DaHeaven was a wealthy Frenchman, who came to this country betore the revolution and es poused the cause of the patriots. Af'Ar tis death papers were fud, it is claimed, giving evidence of the loan. The clainm was first presented in 1859, and received same favorable considera tion, but was lbat sight c f by the com mencement of the civil war. Recently the matter has been revived, and $5,000,- - 000 is the amount demanded. There are 30 heirs of John D~Eaven living in Lancaster, Warren and Venango coun ties, Pennsylvania. .John DeiHaven. a grandson, is the head of the family. He is 80 years o!d, and lives in Harris burg. His daughter, Mrs. John Falker, lives at 430 West Forty-fourth etreet, in this eity. Scot. CARTER~SV ILLE, March li.-Yes tar day atternoon while out in a boat on Lynche's river, near this place, fishing Mr. D. P'. Hlumpnrey was accidentally shot. Hie had his gun in the boat with him, and the boat turned over and in fallng the gun fired under the water. discharging a load of ten buck shot into his thigh. Mr.unmphrey exercis ed a powerful nerve by swiming out and walking home after being snot. State. THE cost of the world's wars since the Crimean war ii is been $13,265.000 , 000, or enough to give a $10 gold piece to every man, woman and child on the globe. An enterprising man might - sell pools~ non rture peace.