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TAIM aGS MDU. DR. TALMAGE'S ELOQUENT SERMON ON "EASTER IN GREENWOO--" Where sh' Wound of DStb 14 Ba4d..n d by Foliage-ChritsL' Beaurrection 1. Ouir Resurrection if We Are Hia-The "Good MornhUi g or Ou- Savtour. BRooKLYN, March 25.-The Easter services in the Tabernacle today were attended by immense audiences. Beau 1 fl i -ral decorationa almo't bid the pul pit fro.m view. and the greas organ e ave forth its most rep-urous strains in honor ot the ?3y. In the forenoon Rev. Dr. Taimage delivered an elcquent se- mon on "Easter In Greenwood," the text being taken from Genesis xxiii, 17. 18. "And the 1le -f Hebron, which was in Machpelah, which was before Mamre, the field, and the cave whicn was there in and all the trees that were in th ield that were in all the borders round about. were made sure unto Abrstham." Here is the first cemetery ev:' laid out. Machpelah was its name. It was an arborescent beauty, where the wound of death was bandaged with foliage. Abrauam, a rich ma--, not being able to brine the king of terrors, proposes here as far as possible to cover up the rav ages. He had no doubt previously no ticed this region, and now that Sarah, his wife, had died- that remarkable per son who at 90 years of age had born to ber the son Isaac and who now, after she had reached 127 years, hac expiref -Abraham is negotiating fr a famil; ...plot for her last slumber. Epbron owned this real estate, and after, in mock sympathy for Abraham, refusing to take anything for it, now sticks o., a big price-400 ahekels of all ver. The cemetery lot is paid for, and the transfer made in the presence of witnesses in a public place, for there were no deeds and no halls of record in those early times. Then in a cavern of limestone rock Abraham put Sarah, and a few years af er himself followed. and then Isaac and R.-bekah. and then Jacob and Leah. Embowered, pictureEqus and memorable Machphelah! Tnat "'Goa's acre" dedicated by Abraham has been the mother of innumerable mortuary e.0 servances. The necropolas f every civilized land has vied with its mertropo lia. The most beautiful hills of Europe outside the great caies are covered with obelisk and funeral vase and arched qate ways and coluwns and parterres in bonor of the in- umated. The Appian wa- uf Bome was bordered by sepulcbral e, memorations. For thi purpos~e Pis. has its arcades of m irble scuptur.d:nto excellent has reliefs and tt.e features of dear taces that have vanished. Genoa has Its terraces cut into tombs, and Con stantinople covers with cypress the sient habitations, and Paris ias its P;re Ia Chase, on whsw% tteibts rest B -zi and David and Marshal Nay and Cuvie -ad La Piace and Moliere and a might% group ot warriors and poets and painters and musIcians. In all foreign nation" u* most genus on all asides is expended in the work of intermtnt, mummifcation and itcimeraion. Our own country consents t6 be sec oned to Done in respect to the lifeless body. Ever% city and ..own and neixh borsood of any in ellIgence or virrure has, not man' miles away, its sascred in closure, where sftrtion has ongaiwe sculptor's chisel and flerist's sprade ad I aruficer in metals. Our own city has shown its religon as wollas its art in the manner which it holds the memoryo of those who have iased forever a ray by its Cypress Hills, and its Evergreens, and its Calvary, and Holy Cross, and Friends' cemeteries. Al the world knows of our Green wood, with now about 270 g inbabi tats sleeping among the hills thab ov'st look the sea, and by lakes embosoame" in an Eden of St-vers, American Wrat mins--er abbey. an Acropolis of mortuary architecture, a Pa'itheon mighty ones ascended, eleebes in stone, Iliads in mar ble, whole generations in peace waiting for other generatiosa to join them No dormntory of breathless sleepers in all the world has so many mighty dead. 4mor-g the preachers of the gospel, Bethune and Thomas DeWitt, and Bis hop James and Tyng, and Abeel, the missionrry, and Beechier and Budding ton, and Motaintock and Inskin, and Bangs and Chapmn, and Noah Schenck and Samuel Hanson Cox. Amone2 unann, the renowned Gottschalk snd the holy Thomas Hastings. Among philanthropists, Peter Cooper and Isaac T. Hopper, and Lucretia dott and Isa bella *raham, and Henry Bergb, the apostle of mercy to the brute creation.1 Among the hitteratI, the Carys, Alice and Peabe; James K. Paulding and John G. Saxe. Among journalists, Bennett -and Raymond and Gre'elev. Among scientists, (Yrasby Mitchell, warrior as well as astronomer, and loy inl aldby his soldiers "Old Stars;" Pbofesor Proctor and the Drapers, ' splendid men, as I well know, one of the my teacher, the other my class mate. Among inventors, Elias Howe, who, through the sewing macbines, did more to alleviate the toils of womaabood than any ma'ib'as ever lived, and Professor Morse, who gave usb- tagnetic tele graphy, the former doing his work with th needle, the latter with the thunder bolf, Among physicians and surgeons, Joseph U. Hunchinsnn and Marion Sims and Dr. Valentine Mott, with the fol lowing epitaph which be ordered cut in .honor of Christian religion. "My im plicit faith and hope is in a merciful Be deemer, who is the resurrection and 'ne lite. Amen and amen.." This is our Amenican Machpelah, as sacred to us at' the Machpelab in Canaan, of which 3ac.ob uttered that pastoral poem in one verse, "TLhere they buried Abraham and Sarah, his wife; there they buried Isaac and Bebekah, his wife, and there 1 buried At thisEasterservice Iask and answe, what may seem a novel question, bu ; will be found, before Iget through a orec tical and useful and tremendous ques tion. What will resurrection dsy do for the cemeteries? Firist, I remnark, ia will be their supernal beutfication. At cer tain seasons it is customiory in all baa dz to strew fi ,wers over the ii ounds of the departed. It may have been surgee by the fact that Cbris"A tomb was in -. garden. And when I say gare>n I du Lot mean a garden of these latitudest. The late frosts of spring and the easrly frosts of autumn are so near each other that~there are only a few monthzs of f-. w era in -.le field. Al! the flowers we sc. today ha to be petted ad coaixed and put undersetehr or they would riot have bloomed at all. They are the children of the conservai~ories. But a; tis sea -son and throoagh the most of tbc- year the Heiy Land is all ablush with fioral opu ler-ce. 'You find all the royal family of flow ejrs there, some that you supposed indi genous to the far north and others indi genous to the tar scu h--the daisy and hyaicint", crocus and anemone. tulip and and water hily, geraniiumi and ranucclus, -mignonette and sweet merj;'a n In the college at Beirut to may see Dr. Pest's collection of abou; eighteen hundred kinds of Holy L--na flowers, while anmong trees are lbh- -> - of frozen climes, and the tamarisk of a tropics, walnut and willow, ivy and hawtt'ora, sat anid elder, pine andE 35ca more. If such floral and botanmcal bei-.u ties are the wild growth of the fields think of what a garden must be in Pal estine! And in such a garden Jesus Crist slept af'ei, on the soldier'asnear ais last dop of b'ood had coagulated. &nd then see how appropriate that all )ur cemeteries shouh be floralized and ree shaded. In June Greenwood is Brnoklvu's garden. "Well then." yqu say, "how can you nake out that the re.rrrection day wil meauLi y the cemeteries? Will it not eave them a plowed up ground? Oa ,hat day there will be an earthquake and vill not this split the polished Aberdeen' ranite as well as the plain slab that :an aff.rd but two words--Our Mary' )r 'Our Charle%?'" Well, I will tell Tou how reentrection day will beautify ill the cemet:.'s. It will be by bring s4 up twe faces that were to us once and n our memiories are to us now more >eautiful than any c.da lily and the orma %hat are to us inare graceful than my willow by the A aters. Can you .hink ot anything more beautiful than he reappearance of those from whom we have been parted? I do not care which way the tree falls in the blast of he ju'gment hurricane, or if the liow hare that day shall turn under the last ose leaf and the last china asser, it out >f the broken sod shall c )ae the~ bodies f car loved ones not damaged, but irra :iated. The idea of the resurrection gets eas er to understand ac I hear the phono raph unroll some voice that talked into L a year ago, it before our friend's de :case. You touch the lever, and then :cme forth the very tones, the i the person that breath e >at is now departed. If a hat, cannot Almighty God rying return the voice of you Lad if he can return the vol he lips, and the tongue, and t hat fashioned the voice? A ips, and the toogue, and the thr ot the brain that suggested the Kud if the bram, wny not the nerv I which the brami is headquarters? t he can return the nerves, why not nuscles, which are less ingenious? A the muscles, why not the bones, thn u-i less wondertul? And if the voic4 md the brain, and the muscles, and the )ones, why not the entire b-dy? If man an do the phanograph, God can do the eurrreon. Will it be the same body that in the ast day vhall be reanimate"? Yes, bu' :?enitvey 'mproved. Our b-dies change very seven years. aad in one sense it is be satre body. Oa my wrist and the icond fiager of iay right hand tuere is a mar. I made that at 12 vears of age, rben, disgusted at the presence ot two warts, I took a redhot lion and burned ,em off and burned them out. S.*-ce hen my body has changed at lest a lalf dozan times, but those scars prove t is the same body. We never lose our identity. if God :an and does sometimss rebuild a man ive, six, ten times in twis world, is it nysterious toat he c in rebuid him oic nore and that in tbe resurrection? f he :an do it 10 times, I think be. can do it L1 times. Then look at the 17 y ear 1o 'usts. For 17 years gon.e, a,. the eu- ot L7 sears they appear, and by ruabitne ,ne nind leg awtnsL ths wiog make that attis at wbinc all the tu.aa.,daen and rie dresst-rs trenble as the ine-la :ost takes up he nite.'ch of d vA'tauoAUn Iurrection <:very 17 years, woed-rtul -SUL Another c: nsideration makes the idea ,f resurrection easier. God made Adam le was not tashioned after nov moel. C'ere had never been a human organ m, and so 'tiers was nothing copT A: he thst o.- e'npt God madle a p-fc nan. He made him out of ;ne dust or .he earth. Ii out of ordinary dust 0? the arth and without a m>:zlel God could nake a perfect man, surely out of the 'xtraordinary dust of mortal body and with the millhons of models God can nake each one of us a perfect being in .be resurrectien. Surely the last under .aking would not be greater than the irst. See the gospel algebra-ordinary 'st minus a model equalssa perfect man extraordinary dust and plus a model equals a resurrection body. Mysteries moot ii? Oh, yes. That is one reason wh I believe it. It would not be much >t a God who could do things only as far can understand Mysteries? Oh yes; aum no more about the resurrection Of roar body than about its present exIst I will cxplain to yri. the last mystery >f the resurrection and make it as plain ~oyousthat two and two make four if you will tell me how your mind, which s entirely independent of your -ody, can mct upon your body so that at y'-ur will pour eyes open, or your iaot walks, or our band is extended. Sa I find noth ng in the Bible statement concerning .he resurrection that staggers me for a noment. All doubts clear from my nind. I say the cemeteries, however yeautiful now, will be more beautifal when the bodtes of our loved ones come 2p in the morning of the resurrec ion. They will comne In improved condi tion. ~They will come up rested. The mst ef them lay down at the last very tired. How often you have heard them my, "I am so tired!" The fact is, it is a tired world. It I shourd go through this audience and go round the world, I could not find a persmn in any style of life ignorant of the sensation ot fatigue. I do Dot believe there are 50 persons in this audieneie who are not uired. Your head is tired, or your back is tired, or your foot is t re , or y'our brain is tirt'd, or your Derves are. Long journeying, or bus'uess appheration, or bereavement or sikaess has put on you heavy weights. So the vast majority of those who went out of this world went out fa tgued. About the poorest place te rest is in this worid. -Its atmosphere, its nrroundngs, and even its bilarities are exhausting. So God stops our earribly ife, and mnercifully clo-es the eves, and more especially gives quiescence to th. iu:) andJ heart, that have not had 10 mmues rest trom the first respn.auon d the, first beat. If a drummer boy were compailed in the army to beat his druto for 24 houirs without stopping, his oicer would be court martialed for cruiny. It the dram mer boy should be c->mmandedi to beat :is drum for a week without ceasing day ad night, he would~ die in attempLtog it. But u: der your vestment is a peoor heart tbat began it's drumbe.at for the march of hfe 30 or 40 or 60 or 80 years ago, and t has bad n.e furuonghi by day or night, md whether in conscious or c -.naton tate it wt at right on, tor if it had topped seven seconds your 1:fe saiud have closed. And our heart will keeg,. nau~g unti some ti ne after .your -.rrit has fo.n for the ausauao say~ 'hit tter th. last expiratioen of lung aud :he last throb of oulse. and 't'-r ihe ..pirke -released, ta heaM. k--ps ..'-. -- m for a timne. Wbiat s a: y ,. Una as that the erave is the pie tbere that wondrous m tchinery ef ven - trice eund artery cai n dt! Uadet the healhbful chemnisu:v of 1' soil all 4A wear aodi 'ear ' eerve a'-d me!e un bone wi'i be su' .ra'e ae both '<goort :r'na clean soil will wasii off the 1 - .. d-cZe, and then some of thie same st3yle of dust out of wnicn the body of Adam was constructed may be infused into the resurrection body. How can the bodies of the human race, which baye had no replenish ment from the dust since the time of dam in paradise, get say recupera tion en~r the storehouse from whicn he was constructed without, our going b'ack mto the dus:,? That ofIglnal, ife giving material having been add ed to the body as it once was, sad lt the detects left, behind, what a body will- re the resurrec' ion body! And wi~t not hundreds of thousands of such af.pe ring~ above the Gowanus heights masks Greenwood more beauiti ful than any June morning after a the original material for the fashioning of the first human being, we have to go back to the same place to get a per fect body. Factories are apt to be rough places and those who toil in them have their garments grimy and their hands smut ched. But who cares for that when they turn out for us beautitul musical ustrulments or exquisite upholstery ? What thougna the grave is a rough place, it is a resurrection body man ufactor, and from it shall come the radiant and resplendent forms of our friends on the brightest morning the world ever saw. You put into a facto r-; cotton, and it comes out apparel. You put into a fac.ory lumber .and lead, and they come out pianos and organs. And so into the factory of the grave you put in pneumonias and con sumptions, and they come out health. You put in groans, and they come out halleluiahs. For us on the final day the most attractive places will not be the parks, or the gardens, or the palac-s, but the cemeteries. We are not told in what season that day will come If it should be winter, those who come up w:l be more lustr ous than the snow that covered them. f in the autumn, those who come up will be more gorgeous than the woods after tLe frosts had pen ciled them. If in the spring, the bloom on whicn they tread will be dull com pared with the ruoicund of their cheeks On, the perfect resuprrection body! Al most everybody has some defective spot in his physical constitu tion-a dull ear, or a dim eye, or a rheumatic foot, or a neuralgic brow, or a twisted muscle, or a weak side, or an inflmed tonsil, or some point at which the est wind or a season of over work assaeults him. But the resurrection body shall be with uot one weak spot, and all that the doctors and nurses ani apothe caries of earth vill thereafter have to do will be to rmn. without interuption after the broken nights of their tarth ly existence. Not only will that day be the beantification of well kept ceme teries, but some of the graveyards tuat have been neglected and been the pas tare ground for cattle and rooting places for swine will for the first time have attractivenes given them. It was a shame that in that place un gratefal generations liuited no trees, and twisted no garlands, and seculp tured no marble for their Christain an cestry, but on toe day of whica I speak tbe resurrected siati make the place of their feet glorious. From under the shadow of the caiarch, where they slum bered among nettles and mullein stalad and thistles an I slas asan., they snail rise with a glory that shall flush the windows of the villaze church, arid by the bell tower that used to call them to worsnip, and above toe old spire be side whica their prayers formerly as sended. What triumpbal procession never did for a street, what an oratorio never (no tor an academy, what an or ator nver did for a orillint auditory, what ooelisk never did for a king, re surrection morn will do for all the cem eteries. This E ister tells us that in Christ's r-surrection our resurrection, if his, 40d the resurre-ioa of all the pious dead, is as-ured. for ne as "the first fruits of them that s'-Dt." Renan says Pie did not rise, but 580 witnesses, 60 o :bem Chrls,'s enemies, say he did rise, !or tho-y saw him after h- h-ad risen. if a,- did not rise, now oid 60 armed sol ders let him get away? Surely 60 liv ing soldlers ough. to be able to keep on- dead man! Blessed be God! He did get away. Af:er his resurrection Mary Magda lene saw nim. Oleopas saw ti'm 'n discipl- ain ain upper room at Jerusalem saw him On a mountain the 1t saw hn. F:va riu.idreli at once saw him. Professor Ernest Renan, who did not see him, will excuse us for taking the testimony of the 580 who did see him. Yes, 'yes, he got away.. And that makes me sure that our departed loved ones and we ourselves shall get away. Freed hirselt from the shackles of cold, he is not going to leave us and ours in the lurch. There will be no doorknob on the inside of our family sepulcher, for we cannot come out of our elves, but there is a doorknob on the outside, and that, Jesus shall lay hold of. and opening will say: "Good morning! You have slept long enough! Arise,arise!" And ten what flutter of wings, and what fashing of rekindled eye, and what gladsome rushing across the family lbt with cries of "Father, is that you?" "Mother, is that you?" "My darling, is that you?" "How you all have changed! yhe cough gone. the croup gone, the consumption gone, the pa ralysis gone,the weariness gone. Come, let us ascend together! The older ones first, the younger ones next! Quick now, get into line! The skyward pro ession has already started! Steer now ovr that. embankment of cloud for the nearest gate!" And as we ascend on one side the earth gets smaller until it is no larger than a mountain, and smaller until it is !V> larger than a palace, and smaller until it is no larger than a ship, and smaller until it is no larger than a wheel, and smaller until it is no large than a speck. Farewell, dissolving earth! But on the other side as we rise heaven at first ap pears no larger than your hand. And nearer it looks like a chariot, and near er it looks like a throne, and nearer it looks like a star, and nearer it looks like a sun, and nearer it looks like a universe. Hail, scepters that shall al ways wave! H sil, anthems th it shall roll! Hail, cozr-.utonships never again to part! That is what resurtection day wid1 do for all the cemeteries and grave yards from the Machpelah that was opened by Abrahiam in Hebron to the Machpelah yesterday consecrated. And that makes Lady Huntington's immortal rhythm most apposite: When thou. my righteous Judge, shalt come To take thy ransomed people home. Shall I among them stand? Shll Auch a worthie's worm as L, V ho sometimes am afrai to ale, Be found at thy riott haud? Among thy m.aiuts ier, me be ro nd. Wes .'er th' arehangle's trumpet stall sound To see thy smiling face. Tbn, loudest of the throne, I'll sIng While heaven's resound ng arches ring With shouts o. sover'zn grace A DIg ac the Begiste'r. E litor R--gtster: Your report of the Spartanhurg meeting in today's liue of the R-:ister 1s very meagre, but there is enough in it to call forth a few remarks frain me. Y 'u report that Congressman M L-urio saii that be would support Gv.-roior Tillmnan only co .dionally, I qunote tbe wnole paragrapti: "Gantt t ried to claun -nas this was not a di rec' answer, but the cen wd evidently cncurred *n tne opinion 'at McLau rn was right in saying .at 'iimnuus ougut ';nly te tbe suppon. d just so .;g a t h stack to the principte of t~e farmers' ui.svement and no lonr,~ and commended his postot o/refus-al o say he would Dliadly support Ti!! tutn without any rieernce to mis prm .No'r, Mr. Editor, you have evEry reaen to believe toat I am withuout prejtir. I u~w no word of con .oi nleutou S. anyuv . reformer. I "ave never had. Siy judgment is tbat Mc Lauin and Shei~ nad better have staved away tratm .Spartanburg. Your report of what they sid is very damaging to the Register. There is no way ror you to get '-ut of it. You have committed the Riestister to Shell and McLaurin. Well, my opinion is, we will not go with you. Theidea of a man like McLaurin or Shell making conditions to Tiliman. Lbe thing is aosolutely absurd. If any one of tuese gentlemen had said that he favored Butler as against Tillmaa I would not raave had a word to say That is their right. To put conditions to their support of Tillman is siiiy, compromising and treacherous. W. N. MAntcEANT, Graonitevlme Aikren C., March 25, '94. GOING INTO POLITICS. The Colored People of Columbia Held a Mettiur. COLUMBIA, S. C., March 24.-Tbe negroes of the city met to night in the Cooper & Taylor Hall to adopt some action looking towards taking a hand in the coming municipal general election. There was an attendance of about fla hundred men. June S. Mobley, who is sued the call and inaugurated the move ment, called the meeting to order, and R.atcd the object (f the meeung. The i Rev. R. E. Hart was elected permanent I ionairman. I gather from the converio.1 I Linat wue negroes intend to see ex-ith'% wha;; strength they can develop ju Lu registration books, and then if they deem such streugLh sufficient they will place a ticket in the field againts the regularly nominated Democratic ticke They appointed the foiliug committee of three from each ward, whose duty it shall be to go from house to house anc see that cvery colored voter regim.earS: Ward 1. James Robinson, Cyrus ls-. ton and Nomh Johnson: Ward 2. C. F. Holmes, Hnry Johnson and Ah--am 6oore: Warri 3. . J. Miller, J. S Mob ley and R E. Hart: Ward 1, J L. Simons, E. B. Thompson and Alesan de; C)ultry. This committee is to keen one man at eacu registration place and a complete list of every colored voter who registers is to be kept and the voting strength of the negroes thus secure! in advance. A committee of one from each war.] was then appointed as below whose du-.y i& shall be to decide after due delibera non whether the negroes should place a full ticket of their own in the ield oc support certain men of the Democratic ticket, or suppori. this we ticket or do something else. The- ( :ided, no mat ter what this committee ta-.ught best, to use their whole voLinz strength as a writ. This committee will meet on Monday evening next at 6 o'clock at the chairman's residence, to decide upon some course of action. The .:ommittee consists cf R. E. Avery from Ward 1, Dr. C. C. Jobnson Irom Ward 3, the R v. J. H. Johnsou from Ward 2 and J. L. Simons from Ward 4. The other commL?.ee will meet ou Wednesday night ner.. and the tvo e.:amittees wili then call anot'ier c >n vention. The atte.ntion cf the neroEs was cilled to tne fLem uaat only cer'adi ceries secured in the nerx few days would be of use in the elec-ion. Hart in a epsech. told the nezro-s to re urrn b-r that they were not seekig offic-ts hut measu-e3. There were do offit* '.o be secured. The call 'nean: buiiaess, t think more and say iess. He said their move meant a chapter in the history ot beir lives. June Moblev. the orwiinator of to mov.emenL in his speech at the orieg oet nad bteo asleep. He hi looked over ,he siu-ikoa and he hari carme to the conclusion that it wis suicide to them - selves und children i remain ael-eL-. He had noticed the r'lA-s of the piop'e in power whocared nottang f ir them on their labor. He wanted everybody to) know that June Mobley wa not satistirl with the Government as it was. He had prayed, and -ben he feit it w is hir d itv to go to every m-t and ca.ch bin ny &be sh ,uider and make him. They had been going backward. He said J.>hn Gary Evans had w.)n his applause by saymg that no race was any race was at all unlees it participated in politics rhe great n,.e d ->r the race was to ..hiuk. We are not here to defeat the presen' nominees, but we want some show in the Government and went to let all know that we are dissatified with t'e past Government. He said that iit the duty of the colored people to pay oil ministers who would not lead them to the ballt-box as well as to heaven. He had nothing to say against Mr. Slaan. Uuitmited Sl1ver Coinage. WASHINGTON, March 28.-Senator Stwarr ut Nevada this moruing took the preliminary steps in the fig~ht~ tr the free and unlimited coinage of silver tiat is to be inaugurated, according to common gossiip, as soon as the Presi dent sends ini his veto cf the Bland egnorage bill. Mr. Stewart bad his bill laid upon the table instead of par -itting it to go to the committee on fin ance, as it would in the ordinary course of business. "I do not propose that this bill shall be put to sleep, as have all that have preceded it ofithe same charac ter," said Mr. Stewart. "It has gone to the table, where it can be called up at any time for remarks, and so-sne re marks wil' be very likely made by my self and othaer silver men on this sub ject" Mr. Sewart will not have to de pend upon Republicans for his support in this matter. The proposition to in troduce and push to a final passage a free coimage bul, absolute in its provi sions, has been brawing for some Cava, and a leading member of the finance committee, who belongs on the Demo cratic side, said this morning that he beleved such a bill would pass the Sen ate by a fair majority and that, too, without extended debate, if tlie Presi dent vetoed the Bland bill. He was ositive such a meaisure would pass the House, and was equally certain that an other veto would be interposed. ThIs Senator, however, towg the ground that the subject of free cot"age wcuid not be permitted to stand in the way of the speedy consideration of the tariff bill. The silver men wno had fought all the time for the free cninage of that metal, and protested against what they please to term as makeshifts and compromises, are willig to believe in the veto, t'ir the reason that from that point of view it only adds to the tuiction in other cir cles and make the passage of a free coin aze bill edr Briduaud G-.. Muradered. PENSACOLA,. abruh 28 -A terrible traedy was enacted in tnis city last rignt, in which C. S. Huff and his bridi-, who were married but unree bours, lost their lives. Mrs. Huff v is ormerly the wife of a man named G d igher, who died a few years ag-i. Some time after she mnarried Thom--s Trainer, a sr.-amboast captain Lvet tall she obtained a dtvta ce trom T1> er and yesterdaiy married Huff After, the divorce, Trainer continn-d t: visit the home of his form-er wife and kep - his clothes there. 1i. Is not known wheher marraige relations were re s'.med i-u' it is tho;g'it they were Irainer ..J-:ns that : -.t to ildff's house to uotam bis e.otlhes and was or dered out by Huff, wco refused to ler. him ave thenm. He refused ro) gy w'n' o" the clothes. fluff advanted to wards him witni a kuife in his ha.nd. Iraner dr.w his pistol and *ibo ri'm .4Id. H'lao clai m ibat Nirs. Hatf as shot acc~dentally ny g -ing bet ween nimn sud Huff. Both used instantly. aier is in jail. The Late mr-.ezei CHARLEsTON, March 29--The c-ld .Yave camre as. oredictied and has dam aged crops I' to e ignb)orh-'ol to a g eat extent. i'ne freezt, was se-vere ini this section and many thousands of dollars would not repay the damages doe In the single night. Not or'iy tnat however, but tonight an even more se vere front if expected and this may add much to the damage. The farmers of the NecJk, Mount Pieasant and Young~'s Island report the killing of cucumioer, watermelon and squash tines. Tnese will have to be planied over. The young strawberries and Diossatna are dead-this means berries i fres weeks at. Peas are perhaps half ki:ed, that is to say half the crop wilt be made. Potatoes that were not too far advanced won't suffer, except for a week's delay getting out of the ground again, here, however small potatoes were already forming; that lot is a total loss-Sun. THE FREEMAN REPLIES. Why It Accned Jadse Benet of Gimb ling at sumter. Oar readers will find in another col imn a matter of extreme interest to !very good citizen, touching Judge Benet's conduct and reputation and what he had to say, from the bench, in reference to thet ztructures of the Free nan. By reaaing carefully what we said. reprinted today, which drew forth he Judge's remarks, it will clearly ap ear that things are taking the course we were seeirog to have them take, a horough ven'i!ation-and of course we are pleas- to tisd the issue sri iquareiy met by the Judge. There was ealiy no other course left for him. Eis remrnrks are as pointed ia denial ind challenge to further investigation is we could wish. We sent hLa, as is >ur rule, a marked copy, bec.use me de ired his special attention to i.*is mat :er, which more concerns bn than any )rne else. He saw w4 meant what we aid. The Manning Times appeared to is to b; trying to "boost" a judge of s faction for purely factional advan -age, at a sacrifice of truth in regard : his reputation in this town an ru nors concerning his conduct ant' we iclieved, as we said, "that it was es ential to truth and to a future proper dministraiion of justice" that we ihould report the rumors we were iearing of a very different character from those reported by the Times. We sk for a careful examination of what .e said. We do not charge that Judge Benet actually gambled here, but we iav hat we hear-that is, it was com iirn rumor-tbat he was playing card dlmr.st every mgait with persons cnc-vn as professi "-als, that is reputed :o be professinal4s, and that it was hstrossing to ihi. 0hat he had not, as as hoped, mend -d his ways, since his levation to the he ich, as before his levation everybody had he.:rd of him s a notorious gam'tler. Now we su') nit that his previous reputation, cou ylea with his card-playing since his rrival here, witti persons reputed to )e mn who play for money, was nough to cause remark and set ru nors 1iving thick and fast, to the great iurt of the diguity and efficiency of he judcial office andi to a future prop r administration A the law. WA re rarded his e!ection. to the nench a pan ic ealaniiy an.d tined found, as.,, ;houcht, tha.4. even his card DI-iygiu ahir, was not ro he abated for the sAke )fjudicial proprieties. A-4 we have no ersunal feeling whatever agaivst fudg- Benet, (have no cause to have as ie has correly stated). we suppose hat we are made as glad by his point )n denial of the correctness of the ru nors as any other good citiz-n in the ir.ate will be. All we desire is a good idge, a j idge not oily of good char screr previous to his election, 011t Of poO. condauc, aft-tr 1iis elecrio i and %e nust. say that Judge Benet's eager, -arnest and emphati- deaial of his r-iobliug, or ass.ciation With gamolers diuce his stav here, is a melp to good norals amoug our peoole, because i ows that he thi.sks gamnblers are peo e ro shun, when on- ia.s oeen el-cted , *ffi- o! honor, dignity aria trust ud that he has made up his miud to _pu-iste su-n asocia'es in the future. WR want all our young men to mark ;hi- The judge is ashamed to asso tiate with gamblers. We know that Ul the good people will r- j ice at this nformation and it is to ba hoped that he judge will be so out of the wav of la-ing fvor moey and of playing with hose who pl-ay for money that when ie is reuired~ fecm the bench, tie will iever resort to such evil ways again nd companions of such malodorous haracter that they are unfit for a well ehaveid judge to associate with. Then, oo,.It is a great gain for Sumter to iae the test.1mony of a j udga from the :nch that the persons he has been playing cards with are not gamblers hat is they do not play cards for mon sy-as has been generally supposed by yur people. As to whether there was a "semblance af truth as a fa;undation" for the arti :le in the Freeman on Tuesday we will ay that the foreinan of the grand jury stated to the editor of this paper the-se umnors had come to him. (One report ir of the Freeman, Mr. Peebles, the Latter part of the first week of court said that he had heard of it as a c im mon rumor around town that Judge Benet was gambling at night. The same general rumor was also spoken of to the editor of the Freeman names given on demand), and the fact that the fellows around town were guy. ng "Rosy" about playing so much with thae Judge. It was also sitared to he reporter of the Freema.'i. by a good ~iuzen whose name we are regitsted to wit hhold, but it will be given if de. manded, that Judge Benet was seen playing cards at tne residence of Mr. IU. Rosendorf, several nignits to a late sour during the first week of court Mr. Peebles, the reporter of the Free. man, in passing Mr. Rosendorf's s lence last' Monday nmght about 10 30 r'ulock, saw in the open parlor Judge B-net, Mr. H. C. Moses, Judge S. W. Melton and Mr. D. R >sendorf, seated at a tabte engaged in a game of caids. rhe matter being talked of around to wn as the reporter well knew, this ircumstance wa-. mentioned by the reporter to thc editor for his intormsL tic in the matter. Mr.8S. A. Nettle told the reporter of pie Freeman, Mr. Peebles, in defense f Judge Benet, v.at the Judge had toldi him tnat he :rad been trying to avoid Mr. Rosendorf as much as possi ble. The Judge stee:.ed to iou, that the companionship oif Mr. RLiendor~ would turnish the "semblance of the foundation" that tie was gamblinw, and so did we, and hence we demiaded a further investigation and are exceed ngly happy to nave the Judge's word under m-ost soleun obligations that ir. Ros-odorf is not a gamb -r and n futrure he need not avoid him o'm hbs account, no- ..g-i otu'rs su=P um necause ut suah ass',wa'.o'. te' ~ed it is evident now tnat Sumt~er e. ho arnb1.rs. JudgIe B&uet's testi'odoy ftrom ybe benen ~ :- eps the toen ele-m Af u~e suspicion that we nave. IPose who onc,- pliged for m 'ney do so ;su nore-they now leave out the salt that ave the say..-e aud take it frees of s'itulants. L e. us all rej->ice at the icovery. rue Judgae intimates that he could punish the editor of the Fre-mac, but ~erously stays his han-i. WV- ask no :uiderat ion at his hands. We have r.oated no lia' and :ss~ it full vli. H.. sriouild. not talk baneomioe .* peatle are a turally averse to al awiog the-im -aes for publi ation 3u :ntecs of Lh- ahovr character '.he -'1or of th- Freeuw has m ide au uns sp.-ificaey sttedl, to enarvle J ad ge 1:,hi inito tnle ivesi 'ara of' troe ~h res mmda by tue Freeman ?nat diJavt Jfake B3enet cant get by ask o for it. We have no mese's oi mak og people iatiy to aiupl-asant t.hiogo. [ he wishes the names of tne per.sons o furnish ams Ims information 'e an get gie.. i a ii ab )ve manner. Sumter Freewnu. ____ A BILL has been introduced into the fasacusetts L'-gislature prohibiting woen from appearing upon the stage n tights, or la dresses which do not ~ome withinl four inches of thrfi:or >n which are cut~decol-te. 1.'n Bionton aoe Journal suggests that the next ove will be to pr-ombit hotels and oestaurants fron serving low neck iams without some kind of dressing. A member h.-a teen expelledi fromn he Louisville city councli for taking noney to vote f,.r a c.-rtain uian as city weigher and sealer. Four other mem >ers are being tried on the same charge. hat is the world coming to anyhow nen a city councilman can po longer useant a brihbe? AFrER.SENATOR HOAR. Gov. Joues, of Alabama, Haul Him Over the Coa!s. MONTGoMERY, Ala., March 28. Tbe Nefw York Sun on Saturday came out with an exposure from Boston of the attempt of the Home Market Club there to raise $5.000 for Kolb to use in carrying Alabama next August. The circular sent out contained a letter from Senator Hoar warmly endorsing the plan because he regard.d Koib's movement as uoromiing to break up the ballot box stoffin and to forward the cause of pr-iaecron. The circular which Senator Hloar letter accompanied also states F .-t Kolb caried the Stare by 45,000, but counted out. In conseq -ence of this publication, Governor Jones, i.ho defeated Kolb today, sent Sena..or Hoar the following telegram: State of A labama, Office of the Governor, Montgomery, Ala.. March 24. Hon. George F. Hoar, United S~ates Senate, Washington, D. C. The New York Sun of Saturday last publishes a confidential circular of the Home Market Clu,), of Boston, appeal Mg for contributions throughout New Eogland to raise money to control the next State election here. Toe circular asserts some ialse and scandalous accu sations against the State wovernment and the peop-, o' ila'tama. You art represented cs erdersing the author of the slanders and 4pprovirig the contents and purposes cf ithe circular. The pubIlcatie'., if true, presenst :the case of a senator from Massachuse'ts eadorsing grave accusations against tre Governor of Alabama in order c inflms the, feelings o his people against him that money may be the better coic ed :ut ot these passiois to raise a lfuud in Mtssachusetts to icfluenca the people of Alabama in the selection of offi.ers to administer their own S:ate govern ment. A senator like yourself, who has so lon and so conspicuously guarded the honor and dignity of the Statehood will, I am sure, concede the right of the Governor (f Alabama, who owes a like duty to her, to ask whether the letter purporting to be fhom von is genuine -ind c irrectly satIE. ,lwar vc-!on. (Signed) Thos G. JoNEs, GV r - of At..uama. HOAR'S REPLY TO JONES WASILNGTON, &Arch 28 -Senator Hnar uiwr ct to Goverar Jones. n! O.eb ama, the followlag telegram in re ulv to ue Novernor's telezramn as it uI pears ia the murai ,g paoers: Was ington, March 27, 1894. Go ,ernor Jones, Montgomery, Adl. Ltter in New Y'rk Su , genuine: I daud by ever%; syllable (f it. [ha, --o concern with your tcetl aff irs, bu %iten Alabama elec:s senators or rep - resentatv-;s wbOes votes may bring rut n m the in,!u-rries an I misery to the home -f Ne- E zland, we bave a rigbt a& ima-ufactu:erd to addreqs arguments t Atabama to show her that her interests ee the same as ours, and to urge ber inat her trai voice shall be utered and not suifl-d. We Jlaim the game right to do Y. ha we bone., 1. thuk oest; to submit. our ciuse to our bretbren of Alabama as to the people of Maisachusetts. No person in Massachusetts, so far as I know and believe, prop)ses to raise Taoney for any other purpose than to -unmit argumenrs to your peQple ou .atiooal ques sions. Whether your seat was gained by any other means than an honest and fair vote of your people you know and Ala bama must settle for herself. I say nothing in my letter on that sub.ject. (Signed) GEO F. HOAR. JACK FROST'S WORK. The Fruit Crop ,n G eerata H as Be en N ip ped in tne Bad. ATLANTA, March 27.-Reports from every section of the state upon the ef fects of the.cold areof a very discouragings *yature. The peach crop has been destroyed in mani v places, and, in the lower part of the stake, melons and early vegetation which were well up and on the way have t. n completely diestroyed. In the northwestern part of the state. the news comes of the almost total de struction of wheat and oats. Colonel Felix Corput, of Floyd county, one of the largest grape growers in the the south reports his loss at $2 500. WBECK IN TENNESSEE. NASHVILLE, Marco 27 -Last Saitur .'av mi.nis gdling f:ost hao been fol lowed by a freeze, which has about des troyed all prospects for truit in this sec tion. All the early planted Irish pots. toes and much garden truck bas been kied. The thermometer stood at 19 degrees above zero, and it is expected to drop to 15. This cold snap was colder t:an it has been this late in March in 2.3 years. LOW DoWN~ AT NORFOLK. NORFOLK. Mme:.u 27.-Tne thermom eter went dovwn to 24 degrees in this section during ti e night, causing ice to ~om half an inch thick. The hi:ih winds prevented i heavy fr ist, but the cid has injured the strawberry and pea crop'; but to what extent cannot be as ertaItued. The principal loss will be to thosS two cvon.s. IN NORTH CAROL INA. GREENSIORO March 27.-This sec ton vas vIatted by a severe freezz L.uL has ruiced the f -nit and early vegeta bles. It is fead also that the wheat crop. w'iich is remarkably advanced, is badty damoa'ed. WHEAT IN THE WEST. CHICAGO MI c- c' 7 -R po:'ts from m5a wjomtS ii 'he wneat growm~g re cton vest aMr north qest iuistify dh sta" mn-t t't wir -r whe.a-. is ,.ea U -- Ly du.u - -- te - -onr:tt v'io. NEW YORK GRAPE CROP. BttFFALo M..icG 27 --a p .s fo Cha~u a..qu4 couaty sta..a that tts col ~rai:e crop. Ta- u~aods of acre: vie rd ar ,' a p--d'an'. NIPPED THE VIRGINIA FRtJIT. LYNCHBURG Maucti 27 - Q?e tuer mut nr,. down to 18 during th. iht. Alt early fruit is killed. R prts trom sauthwest Er.:tnia say tar' Lermzoineter Weut to 13 ' A Vee r t-u-r-, sc-rr. CoLUMBIA, :5i. C. dI-re'i 27 - A- re malir&;a., s .)ry comies mro a if .uceho S ( A fe-i n'gis e > Tm nnS o'r oake Imnm and told him that his corn houote wa.o opeo. He' aroused hmnseif at m-nue forgetow that ;i was 1n h's eig -- (te < d ,%~* ou fee" * , is im"? thir sacks stacking and saleiC coren. He called ior heiD sad whenf Ri4 tid - son, . white man living tear taa yard came, they tied trne two .'.. iSs.mlfena in to aeep sem til mornwng. r'ae aevo 'hlevesa no s n-ga:: begglug wrigon t:. -, u epathi. s of tn old cprain to be rceixsed from the fetters and declared that they would remain there in cnarge oz a trusty colored man. All agreed to it finalty and they took ne fetters off. When the captain went iLO bis own home the negroes all lay dowo, some on oedsrteads -and some on naas on the floor. WVnea all seemed to ' -s asle'ep, one of the thieves, $imon leauty, tooe his knife and cut the mroat of the orner tnief, (Fiarvy Miles) cutting the wind pipe half in two and severmng some small arteries, and bare: ly miesirg the jukgalar. Tae small bloon vessels discharged a large quan Itity of blood. The wound and tne loss of blood makes his recovery very un certain. The tneif that did the bloody aeed u ade good his escape to parts not Fruit Destroyed. CoLUMBIA, S. C., March 28.-The weather daring the past twenty-four hours has been the most remarkable ever known in this section of the South, and as for the last week, noth- I ing has been heard of to equal it. Da ring Monday night the mercury fell as low as twenty-four degrees, and the mean temperature for the twenty-four hours was just one degree above the freezing point. The temperature did not fall so low as it has in previous Marches, twenty degrees being record ed last y ear and twenty-one degrees in 1890. But these records were made the first week in March. Never before after the 20th of March has the mer cury gone below thirty degrees. Thus it is seen that this March is keeping up its display as a record-breaker. The most remarkable fact about it all is that the range has beer in the last five days from ninety to twenty-four de grees, something unparelled in the his tory of the weather service. The re markable weather has been caused by a storm similar to the storm in Februa ry. It developed off the coast east of Florida and moved inland,thus attract ing the influence of the co'l wave which was at iht- same time moving up the Mississippi Valiey, and drawing it into a combination by what is techai cally known as the "suction" process. Weatner 0 sarver Bauer says that the damage to the crnps and other vegeta tion cannot be estimated as yet. He says that all fruit, with the exception of apples, is killed beyond a doubt, and the farmers are going to be very heavy losers. He says that corn has been planted some time and most it it is up -sprouting. All this, he says, will be killed, as will early potatoes and wheat and oat crops. Mr. Bauer says the far mers throug.out thb State had planted earlier aca much heavier than usual this year, and they are going to suffer a great deal. He says they had brighter prospects this year than has been known in years before. The Seigniorage Many readers are doubtless curious to know the exact defination of the term "seignior4gp," as used in the Bland biNl which passed both houses of Cogress and is now only waiting tb signature of Presirtnt Cleveland to be come a law, or his veto which wil practically nullify the decision of the l-gilative arm of the government. As good a d-fi.ution as can be given is furiished ny the New York Post, anu is as follows: *Seiguiorage is that part of any given amount of bulion brought to ta,- minz for cAi-nage by private individuals, which is taken by * he 'seignior,' the lord, the sovereign, or the state, as a compensation for hem. It may be merley the actual cost of coining, in which case the seig niorage is nominal. R'i seignorage is wheie the sum charged or taken from the bullion is in excess of toe cost. It is usually very sm-ill. Und-r the cola age act, of 1873 the setgaiorage on gold was fixed atone fif.h of one t cent. There was no seignierage o, silver rxuept f.>r trade d:dlars, because none was c ined for private persons. The charge for, coining truie dollars was the ac-ual cost of the work at the mint where the coining was done. It is a nisase of the ord seigniorage to ap ply it to a case where privAte individ ules do not bring bullioin to t-ie mint, but where the government Uti,. buil- >n and coins the same for its o wa account Ir, is in tne latter case, ho wever, that r,he term is used in the Bland bill. Ac cording to this bill the seignorage is the difference betweent).e price paid for the bullion and the uamber of standard dollars of 412% grains each that can be produced from it. Where th.eS'uth's 1 oney Goes. UNDER the above heading the Savan nah News preaches a .sermon against the aisposition of Southern people of all classes, from cotton planters to cot ton commission merchants, to speculate in cotton. The Ne ws very truly says that speculating in cotton on the part of Southern people Is almost as m uch a waste of money as investment in lot tery tickets. Prices are not regulated by the la w of supply and _demaind, ex cpt In the long run covering a period of years, when they may move up or do wn on a general average, as supply and demana may regulate, but the speculator who attempts to make mo ney on short time operations is very generally left. The south annually dumps into Wall Street millions of dol lars of good hard money to pay for cotton losses and yet very little is heard of it. ~ft is within bounds to say that within the last t wenty years the Soth's net lojsses on cotton specula tions have run up to a hundred mnillion or more. This money, had it been kept at home and invested in development interprises, would have added vastly to the wealth of the whole South, fur nished employment to many thousands of hands and brought prodt to those who owned it. Producing a~s the South does, not far from $2,000,300,000, of agriculture, manufacturing and mining profts a year, there onght to _a very large surplus, and this suirpl us, will constantly increase as speculation in cotton futures decrease Orangeburg the past year has contrib uted her futll share to Wail Street, if reports we hear are to be credited. They Choose Death. OSKALOOSA, Ia., March 25.-John Reed, 17 years old, and Etta Shaw, aged 1, memoers of two wealthy families, contracted an affection for each other that time only served to intensify. The parents of the girl thought nothing of the boy's attentions until ai few months ago, when he surprised them by asking for their daughter's hand. While enor ouhly satis~ed1 with their daughter's choice, the parents thought both the children too youag too young to marry and told them to wait a few years long er. At tne same rine they thought it prueut to check the visits of young Reed to i he house. Phis didl not seem to have the desired effect, as the young strs wuld me-er, 'la:.des'.in :y dlespire te pa czeat '.pp-; -.:x. A.s l-s hr srt Miss Shaw's p--rts decided to ad ner away for a fea; mon'%. to the E .st hopa:.g tnat me enainge of sc'.nes ..d as-ce4.ious w-:mia resuit. b-med cally. It is believeu~ th s. ratner trian ue partt*d tone ehddren resolved to die :uethier [Tnic me , anid went ouit rid ir.g They drove to a clump o wood, ahda thr-w a rope over tce limt of a tree. E sch ezd of the ro- h-ad a run ug noose iu it, and t hese they pAced -round their neeks Trien a shun -ut of 'he wh.p sent the h-rses ar, . ol !:erward, leaving the bay aid .v grl Angling in th" eav T Le fa ,,ii-s o .:th he ser 1. re nry c t ze ohv-k I'OLUJMPIA, S C. -3 rcb24-GV Jo : .'-. Jame. w was corvicte.. et .2viar ciU-ei i.he znar 0. '.4 -- T e a~urder oc.:urced in D ,:in1..: countyj bur or live ,ears ngy and cre and' much talk at the timne. Old man Jrmes wvas wealthy an.d it was thouitt "at he .v murdered for h:s money. Hs son cfl'ered a te :. of $i,000 for ce detection and convieuien of ta mur daere. Suispicianl tially' >ointed to the son. He was cnvicted after three trials and sent to the peoitentiary where he has been t wo years. He is about thirty. ive or frty years old. Siace his convic. ion there his b.een a revlusion of senti ment and the people do not believe tha James is guilty. He was convicted on the tesuimny principally Uof a negro named Bili Seatt, a notorious e-coundrel ad thiel. A monster petition was got en uO in Jamss' beualf which was signed by Sjlicivor Jo.hnson. Judgre Watts in vestiated the mitter ar-d he al.w recom mended the pardlon. A commaittee from D rlington coasisting cit Messrs. W. T. Eatiy, B. A. E arly, Rev. J. S. DuBose called on the Governor today and urged, the pardon. James is worth $25,000. Having Hard Times. SAN ANTONIO, Tex., March 28.-The )outhern Pacific officials here today re :eived news of a startling nature from he agent at Sierra Blanch where the inited industrial army, comraande. ',y ieneral Frye, is camped. This news a to the effect that at lea.st 400 of the nembers of the army art in a starving :ondition, and that they a -e so weak for ack of food that they are unable to walk and some of them c nnot even itand up on their feet, j.aving gone without a bite of food for three days. [here is a large number of merc boys n the army and these are the greatest ufferers. There is absolutely nothing >ut a desert of sand of cacti for mb,'iv niles around Sierra Blanch and the irmy has no means of obtaining sup lies or food of any kind. Their suf erlng is so intense that open threats were made by the men to-day that they ommence committing depredations ipon the railroad companies trains and 3:operty if they were not hauled out of Aie place within the next few hours. ruese threats bave caused great uneasi aess among the railroad officials and 2egotiations were closed this evening with the people of El Paso for the re moval of the army to San Aritonio on a pecial train, which will leave Sierra. Blancn to-night. The railroad company as paid by the people of El Paso for 2auling the men to this city. A hun ired memners of the army left Sierra Blanch last night via the Texas and acific Railroad for St. Louis via Tex arkana and the Iron Mountain. There is still 500 men to come to San &ntonio. Gen Frye has again joined bis army, arriving at Seirra Blanch last aig:it. He is doing his utmost to prevet he men from committing depredations nd will ac-ompany them to S in An onio. rhe police authorities here state that if the army comes here as paid pas sengers, they will have no authority to orral the men and make them continue their way West. A dispatch was received here to-night from Sierra Blanch describing the con dition of the industrial army which left that place to-night at 9:30 o'clock on a special train, provded by the peo pie of El Paso, for San Antonio. This ispaten states that when the army ar rived at Sierra Blanch, some of the men wore so faint from hunger aud exposure tt.t.! ;iey dropped in their tra.ks and were picked up and carried tn cmp by the-ir comnraded. A beef ard 400 pounds of fiour were at once purchased by the Div izens of Si-rra Blanch, which made one good meal. Toe men were so fam Ghed that -heir stomachs would not ret in tue food. Yesterday morning, anotber beef Nas slaughtered and the men had another meal. General Frye erideavored to get tne men Lo leave on foot last evening, bat his followers could not walk, owing to the weak ness. The dispatcri furthrr states that rie men are gen:.Le-nanly and that there are minis:*rs, Ia vyers, merchants and mechanics am ng them. "Bad Newa from the Whit H-Mae." In discussing the rumor that Presi deat Cleveland would veto the Bland coinage bill the Greenville News indul ges in some very plain talk, which we commend to these benighted people who depend altogether on The News and Courier for their political views. The News says "the veto of this meas are will sustain the claim of the Presi dent's enemies that he. has an unrea soning prejulice against silver and will contradict his o wn assurances that he is a friend of that metal. It will disappoint and dishearten. thousands of his loyal friends throughout the. country, will widen the breach already developed in the party and will in crease the danger, already impending, of a division of the country in politics on sectional lines. It will strengthen the opponents of the Wilson bill by lending popularity to all opposition to the admistration. Mr. Cieveland has exacted concessions from members of his party in both Houses of Congress. Men sacrifice their own political for tunes to help him in the execution of his policies. The Wilson bill can be passed only by the continuance of such concessions and sacrifices. Eke Fresi dent cannot fairly-demanld thzt every thing be yielded by his fellow Demo crats while he yields nothing. If he wishes tc have good and safe legislation he must give the majority of the Democrats of the two Houses credit for some sense and honesty. It is time for the people of the East to learn some sense. If by continual re fusal uf aUl concessions to the prejudi ces, wishes, feelings and interests of othet sections the South and West are forced Into firm alliauce, there will be a cyclone of trouble. If the conserva tive people of the two sections become convinced that there is no conserva tism in the present admioirtration, except the conservatism of exist ing wrongs, tbey will turn loose all holds and let things go and money cen tres will find that they have deliberate ly created, roused, provoked and equip ped a raging, uncontrolable devil." Tne Grenville News is as ably conducted and as staunch a Democratic journal as there is in the South, but it sees very plainly that the President is slowly but surely destroying the Democratic party, and It does not hesitate to warn him to desist. Won't some old riioss back now rise him and read the News out of the Demnocraic party ?' Accord ing to their theories it is going entirely too far. A Tragic Fate. CANNEs. Marchi 25 -An araonaut named - Wilson, well ltaown iai Ame rica, met a tragic death here to-day in an ascension. No car was attached to the balloon, anid Wilton aqcended hang ig to a rope. Waeu 1,503 te-t high the balloon was caugh?. iu a current of air that carried it. rapinly saard. It' as apparent tnat Wilrim c vd not cotfrol tbs vave at to- t -p of oe O! 1000 &let 40 -nis h 'Id .,f the rope ve or-itv. The ec;d~.t ',enurred in fu I vow# of thousanids of sp'ee~:ors, amnd a uter om a'om-n fainte'd away. A um' r of pleauire b>its hurriedly madelf bheir a'ay to thie place wnere Witoni had faller', anti arL'-r a sho'rt search his ntody was r-ecovered. IHs death must hnye h-en atlOst instan taneo us. TH E ~xraor i nairj am)-t'iiy of' our al remar ov e :?i pt ss s.:ca G-:aeral Early- d-ta ti:rougt it to nmd Thie f il G --mra~s nave all "crosed overT 'e riv." and there are but tour of re~ L suyn~ - Gen'freis l-ft. O f the eigh trul' (G'- se, A lbert sdey John-un L-o-dia' fok anid ma a ago w-ek:led in ba te, while R1 )e-' E Lee, Braxton Bragg, E. Ki-ov :Sm et, B3auregard and SamueIl Cooper nave died Siuce rDe cloe of iLhe war. T aere were amete Lieutenant Geaess m~ t.oe C.afecerate urmy, aud mr thess all ares de ad save J mee L' '-utreer, Wade II -u.Aon, the last to die Ds og J .to i u.E .iny. THEt Matabeles never desnai'red and let Oown ansilutely timi now. \They sustained as bad a drunbing as -ever the British gave a tribe of barbarians and still kept up their savage courage. Even after their tierce old Ktog L - bengual was slain they retained their \ warlike spirnt for a time. Bat when the qestion of who was godg to sup port L absngula's widows i seed them in all its grim terrors then tney weakeoed all in a bunch and came :a and surren dered. SENATOR Colqilt, of Gergia, died last Monay from a stroke of paralysis He was a good man,'and will be missed y his State.t