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TRE C&ND1DaTE. in Mule a brayin'; C Man at gate: "Hello! brother." th (Candidate!) T Tow-headed children 1 Watch an' wait; "Bless the darlings!" (Candidate:" - Stump in corn field; d( (Growin' late,) "Raised a farmer," (Candidate!) al Gray-head soldier Served the State; -'Want mcre pensions?" a (Candidate!) U -Old-timed widder, Sad as fate: "Lost-my wife, too!" (Candidate!) ri t< Big church meetin' p Deacons straight, "Born a Baptist!". (Candidate!) L IL . Safe in office, 1R Voters wait: p "Go to thunder!" 1t (Candidate?" e THE BURDENS OF LIFE. An Eloquent and Fore ital Zermon by It'.v, 0 Dr. Talmage. SAN FRANcisco, May 27.-Rv. T. DeWitt Talmage is now in this city, whence he will sail ncxt Thursday on g the steamer Alameda for Honolulu on h his trip round the world. He preached n today to a large and deeply intereeted h audience on the subject of "Heavy i Weights," the text bsing takEn from b Psalms lv, 22, "Cast thy burdens upon p the Lord, and he shall su tain thee." % David was here taking his own mecli- k cine. If anybody had on him beavy a, weights, David had them, and fet out of it his own experience he ac.vises you and. t me as to the best way of getting rid (of burdens. This is a world of burden bear- w ing. - During the past few days tidings d came fromacioss the sea of amihty and ti good man fallen. A man fail of the b Holy Ghost was he, his name the syno- 91 nym for all that is good and kind and a gracious and beneficient. Word comes b to us of a scourge sweeping off hundreds b and thousands of people, and there is a a burden of sorrow. Sorrow on the sea e: and sorrow on the land. Coming into h the house of prayer there may be no tI sign of eadness or sorrow, but where is d the man who has not a conflict? Where is the soul that has not a struggle? And a: there is not a day of all the year when k my text is not gloriasly appropriate, ti and there is never an audience assembled o on the planet where the text is not glo- a riously appropriate, "Cast thy burden h upon the Lord, and he shall sustain o thee." -a In the far east wells of water are so a infrequent that when a man owns a well it he has a property of very great valus, p and sometimes battles have been fought a for the possession of one well of water, t] but there is one well that every man G owns, a deep well, a perennial well a a well of tears. If a man has not a burden on this shoulder he has a burden on the h other shoulder. u The day I left home to look after my- g self ant for myself in the wagon my fa- a ther sat driving, und he said that day di something which has kept with me all tt may life: "DeWitt it is always safe to, p trust God. Ihave many atime comneto a al crisis of difficulty. You may know that, g having been sick for 15 years, it was; no it easy thing for me to support a family, tc but always God came to tae rescue. I a: remembe~r the time," he said, "when I ci didn't know what to do, and I saw a a' man on horseback riding up the farm 0: * lane, and he announced to me that I is had been nominated for the most lucra- a1 tive of fiein all the gift of the people of the county, and to that cffice I was ir elete, and God in that way met all my S wants, and I tell you it is always safe to .E trust him." Oh, my friends, what wewant isa B practical religion. The religion people h have is so high up you cannot reach it. al I had afriend who entered the life of an ti evangelist. He gave up a lucrative al --~ius in Chicago, and he and his ni wially came to severe want. He told me that in the morning prayers he (1 be said: "O0 Lord, thou knowest we c have not amouthiulof food in thebhouse! pi Help me, help us!" And he started TI out on the street, and a gentleman met fit him and said: "I have been thinking of gi you sagood while. You know .1 am a Si flour merchant. If you won't be offend- ri ed, Ishoul'llike to send you a barrel of h: flour." He cast his burden on the 1c Lord, and the Lord sustained him. Now n' that is the kind cf rehigion we want. ft In'the strait of Magellan I have been i: told, there is a place where, whichever h: way a ship captaln puts his ship, he finds b: the wind against bi-n, and there are menuwho all their lives have been run- lij ning in the teeth of the wind, and which w way to turn they do not know. Some of 'w them may be in this assemblage, and I in aldiresasthem face to face, not perfunc- sc torily, but as, one brother talks to an- tt other brother, "Cast thy burden, upon at * the Lord, and heishall sustain thee." w . There are a great many men who have hi business burdens. When we see a man te harried and perplexed and annoyed in in bnsiness 111e, we are apt to say, "He ought not to haveittempted to carry so ci much." Ah, that man may not be to ei blame at all! When a man plants his ni busmes, he does not know what will be 0r its outgrowths, what will be its roots, pi what 'will be its h-siiches. There is th many a man with keen foresight and ". large business faculty who has been w fiung into thio dust by unaforeseeu cir cuamstances springing upon him from se ambush. When to br.y, when to sell, ve when to trust and to what amount of m credit, what will be the effect of this hi new invention in machinery, what will be be the effect of that loss o? crop and a at thousand other questions perplex busi- di ness men until the hair is silvered and deep wrinkies are plowed in the cheek, cc and thestoks go upby muntains and go 1) down by valleys, and they are at their ar * wits' ends and stagger like drunken th men. y There never has been a time when hc there have been such rivalrfes in busi- gr ness as now. It is hardware against Ri hardware, books agamnst books, chand- ty lery against chandlery, imported article ur against imported article. A thousand se stores in combat with another thousand he stores. Never such advantage of light, be never such variety of assortment, never re so much splendor of show window, nev- du er so much acuteness of advertising and be amid all these severities of rivalry in business how many men break down! tr' Oh. the burden on the shoulder! Oh, ce the burden on the heart! Ga You hear that it is avarice which Jc drives these men of basiness through w< the street, and that is the commonly ac- ye cepted idea. I do not believe a word of it. The vast multitude of these business wi men are toiling on for others. To edu. be cate their children, to put wing of pro- D4 tection over their h-useholds, to have pe something left so when they pass cout of he this life their wives ad children will not pt have to go to the poorhouse-that is nc *the way I translate this eneray in the it street and store, the vast majority of hi, that energy. Grip, Gouge & Co. do not pe * do all of the business. Some of ycu re- th member when the Central America was coming home from California it was bu wrecked. President Arthur's father-in- cu law was the heroic captain of the ship ch and went down with most o? the passen- ca gers. Some of them got cff into lifeboats Gi but there was a young man returning wi from California who had a bag of gold we bis b:ni, and as tie last boat shoved E from the ship that was to go down at young man shou'.ed to a comrade in ebxat: "Herei, John, catch this -old. aere are $3,000. Take it home to my d mother. It will mare her comtorta e in her last days." Grip, Gouge & . do nct do all the business ot the rld. Ab. my friend, do you eay that God es not care any thing about your world business? I tell ycu God kuows more )out it than you do. He knows all your rplexities. He knows what mortgage about to foreclose. He knows what >te you cannot pay. He knows whai isailable 2ods jou Lare en Touf elns. He kuows all your trials froul e day you took hold of the fiat yard ick down to the sale of the las' eard oi bbon, and the G d who telped David be kicg. sal who helg d Daniel to be ime mmnister, and! who neiped Have eck to be a soldier wli help yot > discharge all jou: duties. He going to gee ycu Lhrough. Wher es comes and you and your pro erty going, just take this book and pu down by your iecaer and read of the .ernal p::ssessions that will come t< ou through our Lord Jesus Christ nud when your business partner betray! cu, and your friends turn against you, It take the insulliug letter, put it dowr a the table, put your Bible beside the suitinz letter and then read of tbi ieudsbip of him who "sticketh close; an a brother." A joung accountant in New York citj yt his accounts entangled. He knew . was bonest. and yet he could nol ake his accounts come out right, aam 3 toiled at them day and night until h as nearly frenzied. It seemed by those >oks that something had teen misap roprated, and he knew before God hi as honest. The last day came. Hs aew if he could not that day make hii counts come out right he would v t) disgrace and go into banishmen om the business establishment. H ent over there very early, before ther as anybody in the place, and he knell >wn at the desk and said: "0 Lord on knowest I have tried to be honest. it I cannot make these things comf At right! Help me today-help me thii orning!" The young man arose, an( ardly knowing why he did so opened a ok that lay on the desk, and there wai leat containing a line of figures whict plained everything. In other worde e cast his burden upon the Lord, an< ie Lord sustained him. Young man 3 you hear that? Oh, yes, God has a sympathy witt aybody that is in any kind Gf toil. Hi aows how heavy is the hod of bricki iat the workman carries up the ladde1 a the wall, he hears the pickax o thi tner down in the coal shaft, he know ow-strong the tempest strikes the sail e at masthead, he sees the factory air ong the spindles and knows how hei rms ache, he sees the sewing womar i the fcurth story and knows how fe, ence she gets foi- making a garment ad louder than all the din and roar o ie city comes the voice of a sympatbeti d, "Cast thy burden upon the Lord ad he shall sustain thee." Then there are :a great many wh< ave a weight of persecution and abuse pon them. Sometimes society gets i iudge against a man. All his motive :e misinterpre'ed, and all his goo eds are depreciated. With more vir re than some of the honored and ap lauded he runs only against raillery and arp criticism. When a man begins tc > down, he has not only the force of na. ral gravitation, but a bundred handi help him in the precipitation. Mer -e persecuted for their virtues and then ecesses. Germanicus said he had jusi Smany bitter antagonists as he had ad. -nments. The chat acter sometimet so lustrous that the weak eyes of env3 d jealousy cannot bear to look atg. It was their integrity that put Josept the pit, and Daniel in the den, and ladrach in the fire, and sent John the vangelist to desolate Patmos, and Cal n to the castle of persecution, and Johs uss to the stake, and Korah after Eoses, and Saul after David, and Herod rer Christ. Besure if you have any ting to do for church or state and yet .tempt it with all your soul the haht *ng will strike you. The world altrays has had a cross be ren two thieves for the one whc nes to save it. High and holy enter. :se has always been followed by abuse, he most sublime tragedy of self sacri :e has come to burlesque. The graceful ut of virture is always followed by :ff and grimace and travesty. The eetest strain of poetry ever writter is come to ridiculous parody, and at g as there are virtue and righteous. ss in the world there will be something r iniquity to grin at. All along the te of the ares and in all lands the cry is been: "Not this man, but Barab us. Now, Barabbas was a rob-er." And what makes the persecutions o. e worse is that they come from people horn you have helped, from those tC born you loaned money or have started business, or whom you rescued is ime great crisis. I think it has beer te history of all cur lives-the most trimonious assault has come from those ham we have benefited, whom we have tlped, and that makes it all the harder bear. Aman is in danger of becom gynical. A clergyman of the Universalist urch went into a neighborhood for the etablishment of a church of his denomi tion, and he was anxious to find some te of that denomination, and he was inted to a certain house and went erc. He said to the man of the house: [ understand you are a Universalist. I ant you to help me in the enterprise." Well," said the man, "I am a Unmver list, but I have a peculiar kind of Uni :rsahsm." "What is that?" asked the nister. "Well," replied the other. "I Le been out in the world, and I have en cheated and slandered and outraged Ld abused until I believe in niversal smnaton!" The great danger is that men will be me cynical and given to believe, as avid was tempted to say, that all men e liars. Oh, my friends, do not let at be the effect upon your soulsi If cannot endure a little persecution, w do you thmnk our fathers endured eat persecution? Motley, in his "Dutch ~public," tells us of Egmont, the mar r, who, condemned to be boheaded, fastened his collar on the way to the affold, and when they asked him why did that he said: "So they will not detained in their work. I want to be ady." Oh, how little we have to en re compared with those who have gone fore us! Now, if you have come across ill satment, let me tell you you are in ex lent company-Christ and Luther and dlei and Columbus and .John Jay and siah Quincy and thousanos of men end men, the best sp:rits of earth and hea Budge not one Inch. though all hell eak upon you its vengeance and you made a target for devils to shoot at. >you ot think Christ knew all about rsecution? Was he not hissed ti! Was not struck on the cheek? Was he not raed all the days of his life. Did they t exoectorate up~on him? Or, to put n Bble language, "Tney spit upon n And cannot he understand what csecution is? "Cast they burden upon Lord, and he shall sustain thee." Then there are others who carry great rdens i~f ph3 sical ailments. When dden sickness has come and fierce oleras and malignant fevers take the atles of liie by storm, we appeal to d, but in these chronic ailments which tar out the strength day aiter day and hittle resorting to God for solace! Then people de Dended upon their toncs, and their plasters, and their cordials rather than upon heavenly stimulants. Oh, how few people there are com pletely well. Some of you, by, diot of perseverance and care, have kept living to this time, but how you have had to war against physical ailments! Antedilu vians, .without medical college and in rirmary and apothecary shop, multiplied their years by hundreds, but he who bas go~le through the gantlet of disease in cur time and has come to 70 years of age is a hsro worthy of a palm. The world seems to be a great hos pital, and you ran against rheumatisms and consumptions and scrofulas and scrofulas and neuralgias ani scores of old diseases baptized by new nomenela ture. Oh, how heavy a burden sickness is! It takes the color out of the say, and the sparkle out of the wave, * and the sweetness out of the fruit, and 'he luster out of the night. When the limbs ache, when the mouth is hot, when the ear roars with unhealthy obstructions, how hard it is to be patient and chear ful and assiduaus! "Cast thy burden upon the Lord." Does your head ache? His wore the thorn. Do your feet hurt? His were crushed of the spikes. Is your side pain ful? His was struck by the spear. Do you feel like giving way under the burden? His weakness gave way under a cress. While you are in every pos sible way to try to restore your physi cal vigor, you are to remember that more soothing than any anodyne, more vitalizing than any stimulant and more strengthening than any tonic Is the prercription of the text, ';Cast thy bur den upon the Lord, and he will sustain these." We hear a great deal of talk now about faith cure, and some people say it cannot be done and it is a failure. I do not know but that the chief advance of the ehurch is to be in that direction. Marvelous things come to me day by day which make m, think that if the age of miracles is past it is because the faith of miracles is past. A prominent merchant of New York said to a member of my family, "My mother wants her case mentioned to Mr. Talmage." This was the case. He said: "My mot ' her had a dreatful abscess, from which I she had suffered untold agonies, and all surgery had been exausted upon her, and worse and worse she grew until we called in a few Christain friends and pro ceeded to pray about it. We commend ed her case to God, and the abscess began immediately to be cured. She is entirely well now and'without any sur geiy." So that case has come to. me, and there are a score of other cases coming.to our ears from all parts of the earth 0, ye who are sick, go to Christ! Oh,ye who are worn out with agonies of body, "Cast thy burden upon the Lord, and he shall sustain thee." Another burden some have to carry I is the burden of breevement. Ab, these are the troubles that wear us out! If we lose our property, by additional indus try perhaps we may bring back the estranged fortune; if we lose our good name, perhaps by reformation of mor als we may achieve again reputation for integrity, but who will bring back the dear departed? Alas, me, for these empty cradles and these trunks of childish toys that will never be used again! Alas, me, for the empty chair and the silence in the halls that will never echo again to those fam I iliar footsteps! Alas for the cry of wid owhood and orphanage! What bitter Marahs in the wilderness, what cities of the dead, what long black shadow from the wing of death, what eyes sun ken with grief, what hands trembling with bereavement, what instruments of music shut now because there are no fingers to play on them! Is there no relief for such souls? Aye, let that soul ride into the harbor of my text: Thr soul that on Jesus has learned to re pose I will not, I will not desire to its foes. That soul, though all hell shall endeavor to stake, I'll never, no never, no never forsake. Now the grave is brighter than the ancient tomb where the lights were prepetually kept burning. T~he scarred feet of him who was "the resurrection and the life" are on the broken grave hilloek, while the voices of angels ring down the sky at the coronation of an other soul come home to glory. Then there are many who carry the burden of sin. Ahi, we all carry it until in the appointed way that burden is lifted. We need no Bible to prove that the whole race is ruined. What a spec tacle it would be lf we could tear off the masi'of human defilement or beat a drum that would bring up the whole army of the word's trans gressions - the deception, the fraud, and the mur der, and the crime of all centuries! Aye if 1 could sound the trumpet of the resurection in the eoul. of the best men in this audience, and all the dead sins of the past should come up we could not endure the sight. Sin, grim and dire, has put its clutch upon the immortal soul, and that clutch will never reiax unless it be under the heel of him who came to de stroy the works of the devil. Oh, to have a mountain of sin on the soull Is there no way to have the bur den moved ? Oh, yes, "Cast thy burden upon the Lord." The sinless one came to take the consequences of our sin. And 1 know he is in earnest. How do I know it ? By the streaming temples, and the streaming hands as he says "Come unto me. all ye who are weary and heavy laden, and' I will gie you rest." Why will prodigals live on swines' husks when the robe, and the ring, and father's welcorpe are ready ? Why go wandering over the great Sahiara desert of your sin when you are invited to the gardens of God, the trees of life and fountations of living water ? Why be honseless and homeless forever when you may become the sons and daugh ters of the Lord God Almighty ? Shocking Wreck. CUMERLAND, Md., May 27.- The New York and Pittsburg express on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, which left here at 1.30 this morning, was wrecked near Pine Grove, two and a half miles east of Rockwood, Penn., about 3 o'clock this morning. The coaches were filled with passengers and the train was running at the rate of sixty miles an hour. Suddenly, without a moment's warning, the engine dashed into a large land slide, sending the en gine in a twinsling down into the creek, where it still lies, The combina tion mail and express and the regular express and~the regniar express cars crashed Into the engine with terrific force, and in a few minutes were on fire. The coaches with their precious burden of passengers were jammed to ether, but did not leave the track. None of the passengers were injured. As soon as the train quieted from the concussion the passengers rushed to the piled up and burning express car, where they found Messenger Stohl, of the Uni ted States Express Company, struggl ing to escape from ha car, and in a moment he was rescued. He had re ceived serious Injuries about the head and bo~'y and probably internally, but it is thought he will recover. The pas sengers then turned their attention to the derailed engine below in the creek and were horrilied to find no signs of the engineer er his fireman. For five hours they continued their search until at last they found the crushed and dead body of Fireman Rhinheart under the locomotive. One of his feet was entire ly burned off. Continuing their search they came across by itself the remains of the unfortunate engineer, Nicholson These they gathered up and placed in a bucke?t, the rest of his body having been entiriy consumed by fire. Mes senger Stohl was taken to Baltimore, whre he lives, on Train No 6 this af. ternoon. The remains of tne engineer and fireman were taken to Glenwood, Pa., Wrhere they have familes. All traffic was suspended for five or six hours PROIHIBITION ADDRESS, ISSUED BY THE STATE EXECUTIVE COMM;TTEE TO DEMOCRATS. Gott!na Ready t;r the Big Conventiou Which WIll Soon be Reid in Columbia Want the Qneston Submitted to the Feopio. COLUMBIA, S. C., May 28.-The Prohbitiuonists of the SLate are now up anC doing, though it can hardly be saic that they are doing much so far. It has been thought for some weeks, since the accidentrl prohibilion law has been of effect, that the Prohibitionists would take step3 to have the law applied to the men dealina in iquor. But they have not made a move so so far as the genera public is aware. The committee now comes to the fran however, and shows its hand. The committee manifestly wishes to consult with the Prohibitionists of the State and get them all to join in a demand upon city authorities that the prohibition law be enforced. Frida7 the committee pre pa-ed an address to the people of the State along this line and urging a big at tendance at the State Prohibition con vention to be held in this city on June 7 This address was given to the press Fri day but withdrawn and held over till yes terday, when it was made public. Th address reads as follows: To the Democratic voters of Soutt Carolins: We are at this time confronted with f situation which threatens greater peril to all the interest of our people than an; which we have had to face since the dart day oi reconstruAtion and negro domina tion. It is, therefore, the part of tru manhood and loyal citizenship, to mee the emergeuy with a determined put pose to do fearlessly and un'icompromis ingly that which is right in the signt c God and, trusting to him for a safe deli qerance from the impending evils. The State Prohibition Executive Com mittee, voicing the sentiments of the large class of our people who believi that the liquor traffic in an evil agenc: from which flows most of the pauperism crime and suftering which curse our Sat and who are confident in belief tha prohibition of the traffic is the only ade quate remedy for these evils within ow reach, bave issued a call for a conven tion to meet in Columbia on the 7th da: of June to consider the means for apply ing this remedy. We feel that we are but fulfillinz a duty which we owe ti our fellow citizens in urging upon them with all the earnestness of which we are capable, the supreme importance of re sponding to this call and giving the mos thoughtful consideration to the occasioi which demands it. An experiment au thorized by the Legislature, in direc violation of the will of the people a; clearly expressed at the last election has, after nine months trial, just beer closed by the interposition of the Su preme Court, at a cost of bitter politi cal animosity, bloodshed, and a condi tion of unchecked lawlessness on thq part of the representatives of the liquo traffi - unparallelled in the history of th State. The first decision of the Suprem Court has been interpreted by some a in effect, removing all restraints fron the liquor traffic, and the whiskey selle: has been thus advertised that they migh reopen their saloons anywhere in th State without molestation from the an thorities. As a direct result of this an nouncement, the sluice gates of thi abomination have been opened, and a stream of intoxicants is now 'rolling ii upon the State, which, if unchecked, b: the prompt and determined action of a united people, will carry death and de struction to every portion of our devote< commonwealth. If we did not believe that there is suf ficient power in the law, if promptly uti lized, to protect us in a measure fron the threatened evils, the situation woule indsed be appalling, but we confidentl: asurd you fellow citizeas, that you are not left hopelessly to battle with 'ihil merciless foe, thus invited to invade the sanctity of your honies. The meana of protection are within your reach Municipal laws exist in most of the towns and cities of the State forbidding the sale of intoxicating liquors without license and there are penalties to enforce such ordinances. It therefore becomes the duty of all good citizens to demanc of their municipal authcrities that thia prohibition be. applied to anyone whC would attemipt, under the ill-advised as surance of any one, to violate the law o the community as thus expressed. The statute law, which the supreme Court has decided to be of force, pro vides for the punishment of offendcri when convicted, a fine of $200 or sis months imprisonment, or both, in thi discretion of the court. While it is true that these statutes, both in their penal' ties and method of prcceedure, are nol such as arc needed to guarantee the most efiective enforcement of prohibi ton, and only show the necessity foa our present movement to secure the pas sage of a law framed in all its parts tC insure its own summary enforcement, still, the law as it stands is a means oi defense against the illegal whiskey traffic, and should be used for all that it will do, until a more perfect law can be obtaied. It is therefore especially the duty 01 prohibitionists to make this the occa sion when they shall give emphasis to their faith, and assurance of their con~ sistency, by aiding in every proper way to bring such violators under the oper ation of the law. In this way can we most e ffectually show that our denuncia tion of the liquor traffic and our demand for Its prohibition was not an unmeaning clamor but the earnest heartfelt expres sion of truth and soberness. The abandonment of all e fiort to Dre' vent the reopening of saloons, and the romptness with which the liquor sellere have reoccupied his former position in many parts of the State, show unmistak ably that the battle is joined between the law-resp~ecting citizen and the law less whiske5' seller and that the issue can be no longer evaded or avoided. In this crisis we urgently present to you the only alternative by which as it seems to us, the scattered and divided forces can be united for successful resistance to the common enemy, It is for all true citi zens who have the general good at heart to lay aside the animosities which have divided them as a political party in the past, and putting behind them the bitter ness which four years of factional strife hs engendered, remember only that we are Carolinians, whose dearest interests are in jeopardy and meeting as brethren on the common grcund w':ich all can occupy without the least abatement of sefrespect or of iegard for the views of each other on other subjects, and stand together until prohibition is permanent ly engrafted on the fundamental law of the Smate. In the presence of a danger so imminent, all considerations of mere peresonnl or factional dominance or ad vancement should be held resolutely in beace, and those who at such a time oid seek to influence passion or pre vent the healing of existing variances, or introduce new causes for embittering feelig within our political family, should e peremptorily remanded to the rear until the enemy in our front has been ually disposed of. Who can doubt, that if the thought ful coservative men of both factions into which our people have been so un fortuately divided, can be brought to gether in council on a question of such vital moment to them all as this, it will be the beginning of a new era of fraterati y and pmace on devoutly lned for by every true Carolinian. And what should prevent this fraternization? Are there not enough good and true men to be found on both sides, intelligent enough, and patriotic enough, to hold their pre ferences for men in check long enough to give grave consideration to a question T which has been shown to involve not, merely a policy, but the very peace and safety of society and the maintenance of the law and authority under which we are to live? We therefore appeal to the voters of every county to see that they are fully represented in the convention e which has been called to meet in Colum. o bia June 7th, and we earnestly invite , the co-operation of the press and of the ministers of all denominations, and es pecially of the noble women of the State whose peace and happiness are trembling b ia the balance daring this crit'cal pericd. t Let them all unite their efforts and prayers with ours to bring about the happy consummation of our hopes and save us fron the blighting irfiences t which must '.nevitably follow the return I of the saloon, under any form of law, to t power in South Carolina. . I L. D. CHILDS, Ch'm SLate Pro. Ex. Committee. I ASSESSMENT OF RAILROAD. Slight Reductions Made In the Assess ments of N ost of Them. COLUMBIA,S. C., May 31.-The State Board of Railroad Equalization held a meeting 3 esterday and made the assess- t ments on the railroads for the ensuring year. The Board is composed of State Tre asurer Bates as chairman, Attorney General Buchanan, Secretary of State Tindal and Chairman Duncau, of the Rairoad Commission. The session of the Board did not last over three hours but every road in the State was gone over and the assess ments on each fixed. The assessments are not final; at least changes may be " made in some of them. Each road has f been notified of the amounts it was as " sessed at and will be given an opporta nity to enter protests or to ask 'for changes. The next meeting will be held on June 9. Secretary Norton, of the Board, was. too busy yesterday to give the figures to the puplic but from different sour ces it was leared that there has been a slight scaling in the assessements of a majority of the roads. The assessments of some of the new roads, notably the Wilson Short Cut and the Georgia, Carolina and Northern, have been in creased. The object of the Board in j the reductions and increases was to i equalize taxation. The two new roads mentioned have played havoc 1tith the business of some of the old roads and have- consequently diminished the val ne of the latter. It is understood that the Columbia and Greenvillee, the Charlotte, Colum bia and Augusta, the Spartanbuag,Un !on and Columbia and the Piedmont Air Line, all of the Richmond and Danville system, have had reductions made in their assessments. The reduc- I tions run from$2,000 to $3,000 per . mile. The Atlantic Coast Line and the . Port Royal and Augusta roads have also been given reductions. The largest cut was made in the Three C's Road. which will hereafter pay $6,000 instead of 810,000 a mile. The assessment of the South Carolina road will remain as it is, $16,000 per mile. The assessment of the Columbia and Greenville road last year was 310,Z00 per mile; the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta 814,000 per mile; the Pied mont Air Line $18,000 per mile; the Coast Line 813.000. The total reduction will not be heavy probably $200,000 or $300,000 in the en tire State,. The following shows the amount of railroad property by counties in this State, and on which the roads paid in Abbeville................. 1,658,740 Aiken .. ...... .... ....... 1,249,150 Anderson.................. 676,150 Barnwell................ 1,447,375 -Beaufort .................. 512,400 Berkeley......... .... .... 1,301,250 ICharleston................ 530,990 Chester......... .......... 743,990 Chesterfield............... 61,700X) Clarendon.,........... ..... 458.912 Colleton................ 1,173,850 Darlington................ 303,950 Edgefid............... 804;100 Fairfield........ .... ...... 711050t Florence................. 786,260, Georgetown.............. 64,425 Greenville................ 68,870 Hampton................. 775,070 Horry ... ............... 197,370 Kershaw~................. 391,450 Lancaster ................ 401,420 Laurens.................. 916,700i Lexington................ 807,030t Marion................... 5964001 Marlboro................. 185,440t Newberry................5696.040 Oconee. ........... 52.0t Orangeburg............... 1,192,462 Pickens.................. 506,400 Richland................. 1,415,137t Spartanburg.............. 1.302,250 Sumter.................. 1,322,140] Union................... 322,320 C Williamsburg............. 773,935 York...................1219,020s Totals...............26,783,607d Murderer rlanged. MACON, Ga.;May 23>.-Henry Miller, colored, was hanged here Friday for the. murder of Mr. John Braiswell on Septem ber 19, 1893. Thelevidence on which he was .convicted principally circumstantial and he~denied the crime to the last, but t acknowleidged being present when it wase done and robbing the dead man's pock I ets. He also confessed to having kill- 1 ed Pink Ryan, who was iound dead un der the shed of the Mfetropolitan Street1 Railway Company a year and a half ago and whose murder has always been shrouded In mystery. He further con .1 fesse.d that he had killed three other mena on the Ocmulaee river and he belongedr to a band of Kuklux, The drop fell att 12:19, and he died in five inates, hlst neck having been broken. He made no i confession of religion and said he coulda live as wellmi hell as anywhere else.t He was defiaat and sullen to the last andC exhibited no symptons of weakness on the scaffold. The crime for which he1 was convicted was one of the most bin tal committed in this section since the Wooliolk murder. Miller and others waylaid and murdered Mr. Braswell wbile he was on his way home io the country from Macon. His throat was cut from ear to ear and his head was shot full of slugs and b~uckt shot. Silver Instead of Bonds. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 30.- -Con gressman Talbert has introduced the fol lowing joint resolution in the House." Joint resolution enjoining the Sec':e- 1 tary of the Treasury from the further issue of' bonds. Whereas it is currently reported in the o public press that the Secretry of the g Treasury is again considering an issue of United States bonds in addition to the p aifty million dollars sold in the last Jau- a uary; andC Whereas there is now laying idle in the g Treasury a large quantity of silver un coined, the seigniorage of which, whenD comned, will-amount to fifty-five million silver dollars; therefore, be it Resolved by the Senate and House of d R-,presentatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That o the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby g enjoined from a farther issue of bonds, ti and all laws and parts of laws whatso- t< ever on the statute books or in appro- el priation bills giving himauthority so to d do, either directly, by imphcation, infar- ai ence, or otherwise, are hereby repealed. Section 2. That the Sectetary of the Treasury is hereby directed, in order to C meet th.e present pressing need of the ~0 Treasury for money, to at once coin the I slver seigniorage in the Treasury, and CCt tnit into the availah~e Trasunry cah. A BOUNTY FOR BABIES. GREAT SCHEME TO INCREASE CURRENCY. 'he Plays of an Orangeburg Man to Xake Everybody Happy and- to Giva Them Flinty of Money-Governor .Tillman Much Amused at It. COLUMBIA, S. C., May 29.-The lat st scheme for increasing te circulation f monev in this country has been ug ested to G:>vernor Tillman in a letter rhich he aave to newspaper men yester sy. The Governor., did not express imself in favor of the plar ut was amus'ed at it. He thinks, owever, of. advocating a tax or sachelors. If this tax could be added to be suggested bounty for babies it mighl tave the efiect of adding another chairn o the proposed new law. Parents o nore than the average number of chil. rien will probably wish that the pro oeed law could be made retrospective a vell as prospecLive. The author of thi )roposed new law is unknown but hero a his letter: ORANGEBURG, S. C., May 23, 1894 lovernor B. R. Tillman. COLUMBIA, S.C. Dear bir: I have read with interes he replies of yourself and Senator But er to the questions propounded by the tate Aliance, and after a-careful com arison and study of the two papers, i lives me pleasure to accord to -you I iational politics that hearty suppor vbich Ihave always given you in Stati iffairs. Your position is well taken an trore, and I feel confident that you wil Vin. To my mind there is one point yet t( ye settled,-bow to issue money to thi >eople after the government makes it tnd it is-upon this poiht that I take thi berty of vritiog..yod. 'The free coin ige of silver and gold will issue mone: irect to the people of tae West; thi sensions will be a direct issue to al Tankeedom, but the South will have ni noney issued to her except what littli he gets by public improvements. Thi uts "The land we love" at a great dis dvantage as she will have no mone upply except what comes to her in th egular channels of trade. I -vrite to suggest to your matr udgment and experience a plan for thi sn'e of money direct to the people, i lan that will know no North, nor Soutl or East, nor West. It is this: L- t thi overnment issue a pension of $100 it reenbacks- legal tender far all dues ublic and private) to every couple whi ontracts the marriage relation;' also 1 ounty of $10 (greenbacks) to the paren f every child born in wedlock after thi mactment of these Euggestions into law he effect of such a law would be mar relous. The volume of circulation wouli .xpand with the increase of population .ew industries would spring up. Join tock companies.wauld be formed for th nanufacture of cradles, baby carriages otton diapers and soothing syrup. I rreater demand would be created fo ood and clothing, and there would n onger be any danger of over-productioi ilona these lines. Young people couli en'pool their issues and go mto a com me for home productIoL without an ]read of a financial crisis. Woman' suffrage would no longer be a burnin! lestion, and labor would receive its re :ompense. Every w.oman .would be: ilmantites for all time and the ne3 teneration o1 ycung men would alw'ay be ready to go to Darling-town. I submit the above, hoping it ma neet with your approval. In conclusio: [ will say that I am not wedded to thi plan, or anything else. You may accus ne of having "an axe to grind" by thi scheme, but you cannot convict me c he charge till the new law puts me ti he test. Wishing you a long career of succes; mud uselulness, I am, ever, your arden supporter, . "~F Wil soon Pass. It is now said that ithe tariff bill with the income attachment,. will pas he Senate by the middle of next mont] mnd become a law time enough to col ect next year's taxes according to Iti rovisions. A dispatch from Wash dgton under recent date says th ipeech of Mr. Gorman a few days ag<n ni the senate has a peculiar significancn ;o those familiar with the ways of leg slaton. The significance lies more ir ,be fact that he has spoken than it vhat he has said. Bis appearance it he attitude of a leader is a proclama Ion always to those familiar with thi nan and the methods of the senate .at a climax has been reached, and hat a- se';tlement is close at 'hand, )uring all the period of uncertainty onfiict and apprehension, Gorman pre: erves the silence of 'a sphinx, starini ith a steady gaze in search of the se ret spring whicha will set things in or erly motion. Then when he speaks il in the voice and ,.manner of an era le. Hlis love 'of 'the impressive and ramatic is widely appreciated as it le nown, too, that he aims always to a p ear in the attitude of a leader just a' he moment when the end is at hand ls speech, therefore, was a notifica ion in distinct terms, that the Demo rats were united and ready to pass thi ill. Without being so expressed it erms, it was a notice to the Democrats hat the disposition on the part of cer an Republicans to p'rotract the fighi sy filibustering had been .overcoms brough the diplomacy of the Mary and senator. It is understood that the ight of Mr. Qnay is practically over ud that other Republicans who wers Lot disposed to permit the bill'to corns o a vote are now willing to let ths ing be ended. Gorman has stated irivately, or at least is so quoted, thal ,vote on the. bil will occur in abou' wo weeks. The adoption of Mr. aay's amendment to the metal sched ie, the impassioned speech of Mr. Tel er, lecturig those of his own part] rho want delay, follo wed by the speect f Mr.Gorman, are .all significant o: he appioaching end, and it is so recog ized on both sides of the senate chain A Ti Justice Removed. CoLUanrI, S. C., June 1.-It will be emembered that while Treasurer Wal er of Charleston was in the city in at endance upon the diocesan convention .e was instructed by Governor Tillmnar o bring a suit against Vincent Chicc: or perjury. This was to be done upor he ground that Chicco was reported as aving boasted that he sold liquor-dur og dispensary days and on thestrengtl f that made an affidavit-that he had beyed the dispensary law and thereby ot S50 license money from trae county, Vhen Governor Tillmnan read the ne ws aper accounts 'of the trial, he go] rrothy and said that the the time bad ome for Trial Justice Milan's head tc 'o into the waste basket, so the follovr ig little note went to Mr. Milan by thE fternoon's mail: Ir. E. Milan, Trial Justice, Charlestc:i, S. C. Sir: Your a'ction as trial justice in ismissing the, case against V. Chicco, ter a prima facie case had been msde ut, necessitates your removal from 'of ce and you are hereby remcired as -al Justice for the caunty of Charles m. You will turn..over the books, tc., belonging to you as such to Theo. ore . Gilliard,who has been appointed your successor -B. RI. TIL.MAN, Gove~fnor. The notice of the appintment.of ex hief Constable Gillard was'l'orwarded a the afternoon train.:- Go'venipr Till. ian saidl that be has for some time sen wantibg a'trial justice in Charles m who was willing to look -at things THE CURRENCY FIGHT, IdcLaurin Favor- the Repeal of the Ten For Cent Tax. WASHINGTON, June 1.-Committees were called for reports and the House recurred, in committee of the whole, Richardson of Tennessee. in the chair to the consideration of the bill to re peal the 10 per cent. State bank tax law. Black (Dem.) of Georgia had the floor and presented his argument against the constitutionaliy of the law. He spoke an hour, attracting the close attention of members. His peroration was an eloquent recital of the leading part taken by the South in the history of the government and of the nation and a refutation of the assertion that the repeal of the bill was desired alone by the Republicans of the South. At its i close, he was warmly applauded and received the congratulations of his associates on the floor. Walker (Rep.) of. Massachusetts spoke for two hours upon a general fi nancial plan'embodied in a bill intro duced early in the session by himself. He had no defense to mare of the ex isting financial system of the country. What it needed was fle:ibility. The object of his bill was.to force into cir culation every dollarthat could be ad vantageously used. The present sys- e - tem withheld from- circulation $600,- C 000,000 or $800,000,000 of currency. That, he emphatically sail, must stop. McLaurin ot ionth Carolina address- 3 ed the House on th'bill. He told of a the direful results to the cotton mark- 1 et during the financial stringency and c how "King Cotton" was saved from de- t thronement only by the issue of clear- J 1 ing house confidence certificates, which V passed current in South Carolina and C ) enabled the~ -people to tide over the I crop moving period. But the promised - .prosperity when the Sherman Act was repealed had failed to materialize, he said, and the crop moving period was t , again upon them. What werethey do? If South Carolina had to pay a ax I 1 upon her clearing houso certificates he saw no reason to exempt the reat I h clearing house - association of New I York, for while in the use made of the 1 South Carolina certificates there was a I - wide- diffelence, the legal principle was c 7 the eame. He did not believe as some I " did..that State banks would cure all our financial woes, but the repeal of this 5 tax was a step toward a radical change - in our financial system, a step toward L *decentralizing the enormous. and dan- C gerous powers now vested in the na tional banking system. There were, said McLaurin, but two avenues through which the currency 3 could now be increased, to wit: t 1. The coinage of gold, and t 2. Additional national bark notes.- - Every otherchannel had been closed. c He believed we needed a currency I which had both local and national E - characteristics. The old State banks I I were not in touch with the spirit I . of the age. Every section of the I Union was entitled to enough currency E to raise and market its crop, and it 4 was the duty of the governm:,nt to pro- 2 vide the machinery to do this. The I United States might issue enough C Treasury notes to be divi.! ed among ( tha various States in proportion to pop- t ' ulation, the States depositing with the I I government their bonds bearing a suf- I - ficient amont of interest to cover allex- t I penses. It would then be left to each 9 State to provide the method of distri- I ? bution for its quota of money and we ( would have acurrency to do local bus inmess which would pass at par every-3 where. SWheeler of Alabama followed Mr.it McLaurin in an argument favoring the!i repeal of the law. It gas, he declared, a war measure, 'pure and simple, and Shad no foundation other than the nec 8 essity that was then supposed to exist Sfor the national government to controlt 3 the Issue of circulating medium. He f hoped the House would yield to the 4 yeloquent appeal of the gentleman fromt Georgia and give tl4e country an ade-C 3 quate amount of money.. When he t spoke of money he meant money with.at purchasing power. He characterizedt the national banks as - a great trust'. i The presidents of the institutions Int New -York city acted as one man. Be-I fore Wheeler concluded, the commit tee rose and, at 5 o'clock, the House ad-1 jourued until to-miorrow at noon. 1 A FIENDISH PLOT. Its Instigator Promptly Swcng Up by Judge nynch. JACESONVILLE, Flia., May 3.-A special f.6 the Times-Union from Pa latka, Fla., says: The people of this section are very much excited over the disc'ussion of a diabolical conspiracy among the negroes to commit a series of outrages upon white women. The particulars are that about eight weeks ago, a nro preacher. by the name of b I. T. Ba gis camne to the turpentine 1 stills in.. the neighborhood of Patnam Hall and procured -employment. After becoming acquainted with the colored employees he mace damaging remarks J about the daughter 'of a farmer liviLg I near by, and proposed to the negroese that they should seize..the girl and a several other white women and carry b theminto the swamp and make them z -submit to their embraces. 10 is under- i stood that several negrees agreed to I the plan and that preparations.. were3 being made to carry it Into::effect. 11 Fortunately the white people got a hint of the conspiracy and began to ] make an investigation. They secured fl evidence that such a conspiracy did ex- r ist and they took steps to guard their r homes. In the meanwhile the negroes - learned that their diabolcal plau* was known, and secretly they began to leave the country.- sOne of those to leave was Burgis,--who had sugested the outragesupon~the women. Hnfed C just in time to escape from a number a of white men who had gone to secure i him. It was learned that Burgis had gone to Georgia, and the father of the young lady whom Burgis had so vilely slandered awore out a warrant againsts the negro. The Georgia authorities 1 were communicated- with-and Burgis ~ was arrested. A Florida officer Aft to secure the negro Sunday. The offic'r returned with the negro. and, fearing a mob, stopped off at a little station call ed Newburg, intending to secret the prisoner at a friend's home near by. The officer started to this friend's 6 house, but had Dot proceeded more i than half a mile when he was suddenly confronted by bet ween seventy-five and a hundred mounited men. They cover ed him with guns and rifles and de- Y manded the prisoner. -Being over- a powered there was no alternative but a to give him up, and next morning Bar gis was seen hanging from a limb two miles from the place where he was taken from deputy Lane: Burgis is . described as being about - 45 years of ~ age, 6 feet tall and weighing about 180 ~ pounds. He confessed to. Mr. Lane that the report he circulated about ther farmer's daughter was 'untrue; butC that he made the remark about her to interest the negroes in his damnable C undertaking. The white people are wild with rage, and it ia believed that more lynchings will speedily follow. tl A Fatal Wreck.- p MILWAUKEE, June- 1.--A Marsh- C ield, Wis., dispatch says an accident- ti resulting in the loss of eight lives anid b: the injury of'15 to 20 persons, more or. c< less seriously, occurred there at 4.15 a, hl n. A train on the Wisconsin Central n rail way went through an opon switch. ye and was completely wrecked. The ears. rt afterward took fire and were consum- rI ed. Four. persons were taken from, :n the wreck dead and four others are lab missing and supposed to have been In caught'in the mass of -.broken timbers In and consumed. Among the dead[jare e ne o+ the Besdyrothers I AKIN0 POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream or tartar baking powder lghest of all in leavening strength.-La eat United States Government Food Re ort. Royal Baking Powder Company, 106 Wall.St., N. Y. TO FIGHT THE LAW. !he Rpublican Executive Committee Employs its Countet. COLUMBIA, June, 2-The Republican xecutive committee is very bouyant ver the prospects of killing the pres et registration laws of the -State. tate Chairman Webster. came here esterday to consult with Mr. Brayton bout the proposed fight. The com ittee had a consultation with the ounsel in.the case, and it is understood hat motions to show cause in both in unction and mandamus proceedings vill be served Monday morning. The ommittee claims that it will have but Lttle trouble in overthrowing the law. t is understood that the counsel in the ase will be Douglass & O'Bear, of this Ity, and Melton & Melton and ex-Dis rict' Attorney General Lathrop will ict as valuntary counsel. The an touncement is made that the fight vill be on the entire registration law; io fight -will be made on the election aws. The committee has sent out the ollowing circular letter, which would ndicate how the Republican funds are irdinarily raised: Ieadquarters of the Republican State ExecutivesCommittee. Orangeburg, S.C., May 21, 1894. Fo Republicans of South Carolina: At a meeting of the State executive *mmittee held at Columbia - on the .5th instant a special committee was Lppointed consisting of the State chair nan, Hon. E. M. Brayton, Major J. H. Zordham and E. J. Dickerson, Esq., for he purpose of taking some action to est before the courts the constitation ality of the registration law. Th mmittee have consulted with able md eminent attorneys and have been tdvised that there is a strong proba ility of having this unjust and odious aw set aside as unconstitutional. The ;Imes are favorable, and the 'olitical ituation in the State is such 'that an ffort of this kind will meet with the ympathy and support of many of the est citizens without regard- to politi al affiliations. Already the News and Jourier and Tne State have approved he movementand declared the law as >lainly unconstitutional. Funds are mmediately and urgently needed:that he test cases may be started at once md prosecnted with as little'delay as )ossible to the. courts of last resort. xreat interests are at stake, involving lot only your right to vote, but that of rour children for many years to come. a.t the election this fall a vote will be saken on holding a constitutional con rention. 'Every Repuolican .in. the State is Interested, and should contrib lie as he is able to a commnen fund for neeting the expenses of employing the yest legal talentim the State in pushing .hese cases to a speedy adjudication. The county chairmen snould imme [lately take steps to collecta fund for heir various couzities; pastors of ~hurches are earnestly requested to resent this matter to theircongrega ions and to solicit and forward con ;ributions. kFrompt action is necessary 11 forwarding contributions, as a cer ain amount must be raised within the text ten days. All funds should be sent to B. Mi. 3rayton, Columbia, S. C., -or E. A. WVebster, Orangeburg, S. C. -B. A. Webster,State Chairman. It is likely that the State will take to part mn the test of the registration aws.-State. Gaydan'a 5sayer sit. SUMTEE, May 3.-Information was 'eelved here this rmorning that John LeLeod, the desperad~o, murderer and lepo burner,had been shot and mor- - a wounded. The shooting occurred it amnar, a station on the Charleston, ;umter arnd Northern Railroad this norning at about 4 o'clock. The facts if the shooting are these: McLeo'd ad entered the store of M~r. Miis and proceeded to help himselpto the goods te found therein. Some person passing eardthe noise and went to the house i Mr. -Turner, who clerked for Mr. urme, and called him up. Mr. Turner vent to the store and McLeod ran out. le shot at McLeod, the ball striking tim in the abdomen. McLeod, hower r, did not stop, but ran to some woods ,bout 150 yards away carrying with im the goods he had taken. -The citi ens were aroused and surrounded the latch of woods which McLsod'had en. ered patiently wafted for daylight. !hen morning came the party closed n, ani after a few minutes found the tegro in a ditch -mortally wounded. le lived a short while after he was ound- The man who kil1ed him has endered his country a great service is [dding the State of this desperate mani. =State. A Very Expesaive War, 'The civil war coast the North 83,000. 00,000. The -pensios since'have mounded to 31.500,000,000. .?sut this B not all. At the present time,'.nearly birty years after the close df the war, 00,000 more persons are drawibg pen-' ions than there were union troops in he field at any single time during the truggle and 700,000 applications remain o be acted upon. Already, our pen ion expenses exceed those of all the ations of the earth: 'Where will It nd ? What will the war between the tates finally cost us ? In 1861 the tetal 'aue of all the propertyjin the,'States hat seceded. was $5.000,000,000. The iew Orleans Picayune suggests that in lew of the enormous expense of the rar It would have been more economi alif the North and South had settled aeir differences on a cash basis. It boad have saved biliions of dollars and undreds of thousands of lives if the forth had secured the emancipation of te slaves by paying full Drice for en ire 4,000,000 of them. When .we get irongh paying for it history will re ord the fact that our civil' war was ae most expensive conflict in ancient r modern times. To Be Couttmarttid. CotU tBIA, S. C., May 31.-I.t is au iorit rely stated here.that' the re ort of t..e military comtinission to the -overnor and command'er-in-chief of ie result of its inquiry into the culpa ility of the Charlestion :miltary. in nnection with the Darlington affair as been filed, .but owing to the Gover or's absence from the city It. has not et been made public. The gist of the spor'it is said is a- recommendation tat Gent. Thos. A Huguenin, the com Landing officer of the Fourth Brigade e court martialed for disobedience in ot extending tho ordars of the Gover or and Commander-in-Chief to the impanies of his brigade.-Charleston