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THE BURDENS OF LIFE.
An Eloquent and Fore ital Zermon by It'.v,
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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
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lghest of all in leavening strength.-La
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ort.
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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