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OF A HEART. Dear heart-dear heart! the sweetest he.art that ever Gave one quick throb for me: I do pray God that your kind steps may never In paths of darkness be: But it they were-O, dearest eye of b'ue I would walk there throudh all umy life for you! Dear heart-dear heart: th gentiest heart, that. beating, Felt for my heart one day: 1 trust that there shall be a tender meeting For our hearts, far away: lIut if there should not-O' my love, my dear: Since you were happy, I the grief would bear! DO THYSELF NO HARM. Rev. Dr. TaImage Discourses Upon the Evils o Suicide. BROOKLYN, Aug. 12.-Rev. Dr. Tal mage, who is now abroad, has selected as the subject for today's sermon through the press the word "Suicide," the text being Acts, 27, 28: "He drew cut his sword and would have killed himstif, supposing that the prisoners had been fled. But Paul cried with a Icud voice, saying, Do thyself no harm." Here is a would be sucide arrested in his deadly attempt. He was a sher:ff. and according to the Inman law a ailidf hImself must suffer the puuishment due an escaped prisoner, and if the prioner breaking iail was sentenced to be endun gveoned for tbree or four years then the sher-ft must be endungeoned for three or four years, and if the prisoner break ing jail was to have suffered capital pun isbment then the sheriff must eufer capi tal punishment. The sheriff had received especial charge to keep a sharp lookout for ?aul and Silas. The government had not had confidence in bolts ano bars to keep safe these two clergmen, about whom there seemed to be something si-ange and supernatural. Sure enough, by miraculous power they are free, and the sherif, wakfng out of a sound sleep, and supposing these ministers have run away, and knowing that they were to, die for preaching Christ and realizing that he must therefore die, rather than go under the executioner's ax on the morrow and sufer public dis grace resolves to precipitate his own de cease. But before the sharp, keen, glit tering dagger of the sher:ff could strike his heart oae of the unloosened prison era arrests the blade by the cmmand, "Do thyself no harm." In olden time and where Christianity had not interferea with it suicide was considered honorable and a sign of cour age. Demosthenes poisoned himself when told that Alexander's embassador had demanded the surrender of the Athenian orators. Isocrates killed him. self rather than surrender to Philip of Macedon. Cato, rather tha'i submit to Julius Casar, took his own life, and af ter three times his wounds had been dressed . tore them open and perished. Mithridates killed himself rather than submit to Pompey, the conqueror. Hannibal destroyed nis life by poison from his ring, considering life unbarable. Limraus a suicide, Brutus a suicide. '2fter the disaster of Moscow, Napoleon always carried with him a preparation of opium, and one night his servant heard the exemperor arise, put something in a glass and drink it. and soon after the groans aroused all the attendants, and it was only through utmost medical skill -he was resuscitated from the stupor of the opiate. Times have changed, and yet the American conscience needs to be toned up to the subject of smicide. Have you seen a paper in the last month that did not announce the passage cut of life by .one's owin behest? Defaulters, alarmed at the idea of exposure, quit life precipitate ly.Men losing large fortunes go out of the world because they cannot endure earth .ly existence. Frustrated aflection, do-1 mestic infelicity, dyspeptic anger, re. morse, envy, jealousy, destitution mis anthropy, are consIdered sufficient causes for ateconding from this life by paris green, by laudanum, by belladonna, by Oth~ello's dagger, by halter, by leap from - the abutment of a bridge, by firearms. - More cases of "felo do so" in the last two years of the world's existence. The evil is more and more spreadmng. A pulpit not long ago expressed some doubt as to whether there was really anything wrong about quitting this lie when it became disagreeable, there are foundin respectable circles people apolo getic for the crime which Paul in the text arrested. I shall show you betore I et through that suicide is the worst of all crimes, and I shall lift awarning unmistakable. But in the early part of tbis sermon I wish to admit that some -ofiie best Christians that ever lived have committed self destructien, but always in dementia and not responsible. I have no more doubt about their eter nal felicity than ,I have of the Christian who dies in his bed in the delirium of tya phoid fever. Whule the shock of the cat astrophe is very great I charge all those who have had Christian friends under cerebral aberration step off the boun daries of this life to have no doubt about their happiness. The dear Lord took them right out of their dszid and frenzied state into perfect safety. How Christ feels toward the insane you may know from the kind way he treated the demo niac of Gadara and the child lunatic and the potency with which he hushed the tempests either of sea or brain. Scotland, the land prolific of intellec tual giants, had none grander than Hugh iMiller, great for science and great for God. He came of the best highland blood, and he was a descendant of Don aid Boy'a man eminent for his piety and the rare gift of second sight. His attain ments, climbing up as he did from the quarry and the wall cf the stonemeson drew forth the astonished admiration of Buckland and Murchison, the scientists, and Dr. Chalmers, the theologian, and held universities spellbound while he told them the story of what he had seen of God in the old red sandstone. That man did more than any being that ever lived to show that the God of the hills is the God of the Bible, and he struck his tuning fork on the rocks of Cromarty until he brought geology and theology accordant in divine worship. His two books, entitled "Footprints of the Creator" and the "Testimony of the Rocks," proclaimed the banns of an everlasting marriage between genuine science and revelation. On this letter book he toiled day and night through love of nature and love of God until he could not sleep, and his brain grave way and he was found dead with a re volver by his side, the cruel instrument having had two bullets-one for him and the other for the gunsmith who at the coroner's inquest was examining it and fell dead. Have you any doubt of the-beatification of, Bush Miller after his hot brain had ceased throbbing that wmi ter night in his study at Portebellc? Among the mightiest of earth among the mighties of heaven. No one ever doubted the piety of Wil liam Cowper, the author of those three great hymns. Oh, Fo~r a Closer Walk With God!" "What Various Hin~ drances We Meet!" "There Is a Fon tain Filled With Blood," William Cow per, who shares with Isaac Watts? -and Charles Wesley the chief honors o Christian hymnology. In hypochon dria he resolved to take his own life and rode to the river Thames, but found a man seated on some goods at the very point from which he expected to spring, and rode back to his home and that night tnrew himself upon his own .knife, but the blade broke, and then he hang.d himself to the ceiling, but the lore parted. No wonder that when God mere'fully delivered hiu from that awful demcntia he sat down and wrote that o her hymn jast b memorable: G od moves in a myterious way His wonders to perform. lle plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm. Blind unbelief is sure to err And scan his work in yain, God is his own interpreter, And he will make it plain. Whi e we make this merciful and righteous allowance in regard to those who were plucged into men'tal incoher ence I declare that the man who in the use of his reason bv his o n act snaps the bond between his body and his soul goes Ptraight into perdition. Shall I prove it? Revelation xxi, 8, "Murder era shall have their r'rt in the lake that burneth with fire and brimstone." Rev elation xxii, 15, "Without are does and sorcerers and whoremongers and mur derers." You do not believe the New Testamewni Then perhaps you believe the Ten Commandments, "Thou shalt not kil." Do you say all these pas sages refer to the taking of the life of othern? Then I ask ycu if you are not as responsible for your own lite as for the life of others? God save you a spe cial trust in your life. ie made you the custodian ct your life as he made you the custodian of no other life. He gave you as weapons with which to defend it two arms to strike back assaillants, two eyes to watch for invasion and a natural love of lile which ought ever to be on the alert. Ar-sassination oi others Is a mild crime comnDared with the assassina tion of yourseli, because in the latter case it is treachcry to an especial trust; it is the surrender of a castle you were especially appointed to keep; it is trea son to a natural law, and it treason to God added to ordinary murder. To show how God in the Bible looked upon this crime I point you to the rogues' picture gallery in some parts of the Bible, the pictures of the people who have committed thts unnatural crime. Here is the headless trunk of Saul on the walls of Bathshan. Here is the man who chased little David-10 feet in stature chasing 4. Here is the'man who c.nsalted a clairvoyant, witch of Endor. Here is a man who, whipped in battle, instead of surrendering his sword with dignity, as many a man has done, asks his servant to slay him, and when the servant declines then the giant plants the hilt of the sword in the earth, the sharp pbint sticking upward, and hs throws his body on it and expires, the coward, the suicide! Here is Abithopel, the Machiavelli of olden times, betray ing his best friend David in order that he may become prime minister of Absa loin and joining that fellow in his at tempt at parricide. Not getting what he wanted by change of politics, he takes a short cut out of a disgraced life into a saiside's eternity. rhere he is, the ingrate! Here is Abimelech, practically a sui cide. He is with an army bo nbarding a tower, when a woman in the tower takes a grindstone from its place and drops it upon his head, and with what life he has left in a cracked skull he commands his armor bearer, "Draw thy sword and slay me, lest men say a wo man slew me." There is his post mor tem photograph in the book of Samuel. But the hero of this group is Judas Is cariot. Dr. Donne says he was a mar tyr, and we have in our day apolgists for him. And what wonder, in this day when we have a book rereallng Aaron Burr as a pattern of virtue, and in this day when we uncover a status to George Sand as the benefactress of literature, and in this day when there are betrayals of Christ on the part of some of his pre tended apostles-a betrayal so black it makes the infamy of Judas Iscariot white! Yet this man by his own hand hung up for the execration of all the ages, Judas Iecariot. All the good men and women of the Bible left to God the decision of their arthly termInus, and they could have said with Job, who had a right to com mit suicide if any man ever had, what ith his destroyed property and his ody all alame with insufferable car uncles and everything gone from his ome except the chief curse of it-a pea iferous wile-and four garrulous people elting him with comfortless talk while e sits on a heap of ashes, scratching his cabs with a piece of broken pottery, et crying out in triumph, "All the days f my appointed time will I wait till my hange come." Notwithstanding the Bible is against his evil and the aversion which it cre tes by the loathsome and ghastly spec acle of those who have hurled them elves out of life, and notwithstanding hristianity is against it and the argu ments and the useful lives and the illus riens deaths of its disciples, it is a fact aarmingly patent that suicide is on the icrease. What is the cause? I charge pon infidelity and agnosticism this whole thing. If there be no hereafter r if that hereafter be blissful without eference to how we live and how we die hy not move back the foldinz doors etween this world and the nexit And hen our existence here becomes troub esome why not pass right over into Ely-! in Put this down among your moat olemn reflections and consider it alter ou go to youir homes: There has never een a case of suicIde where the opera- 1 or was not either demented and there fre irresponsible or an infidel. I chal enge all the ages, ani I challenge the hole universe. There has never been aecse of self destruction while '.n full ppreciation of his immotality and of the act that that immortality would be lorious or wretched, according as he ccepted Jesus Christ or rejected him. You sav it is business trouble, or you I ay it is electrical currents, or it is this, 1 r it is that or it is the other thing. Why 1 ot go clear back, my friend, and ac- 1 nowledge that in every case it is the bdication of reason or the teaching of 1 ifidelity, which practically says, "If ou don't like this life, get out of it." 1 nd you will land either in annihilation, I here there are no notes to pay no per- I ecutions to suffer, no gout to torment, r ycu will land where there will be I verytning glorious and nothing to pay or it. Inidelity always has been apol getic for self immolation. After Tom 1 aine's "Age of Reason" was published 1 nd widely read there was marked in tease of self slaughter. I A man in London heard Mr. Owen I ever his infidiel lecture on "Socialism"C ad went home and sat down and rote these words. "Jesus Christ is one of the weakest characters im I istory and the Bible is the g:reatest ossible deception," and then shot imself. David Humne wrote these words: "It would be no crime for me to divertt he Nile or the Danube I rom its natural bed. Where, then, can I e the crime in my diverting a few1 rops of bloodi from their ordinary 1 hannel ?" And having written the es ay he loaned it to a friend to read it ho wrote a letter of thanks and admi ation and then shot himself. Appen ix to the same book. Rousseau,Toltaire,Gibbon, and Mon aigue, under certaln circumstances, ere apologetic for self immolation. nfidelity puts up no bar to people's ushing out from this world into thei ext. They teacn us it aoes not make ] ny difference how you live here or goi ut of this world, you wil] land either n an oblivious no where or a glorious omewhere. And infidelity holds the pper end of the rope for the suicide, ad aims the pistol with which a man lows his brains out, and mixes the trychnine for the last swallow. If in fidelity could carry the day and per sade the majority of people that it 1 oes not make any difference how you I go out of the world yu wil1 land safe- I ly the rivers would be impeded ir their progress, and the crack of a suicide's pistol would be no more alarming than the rumble of a street car. Ah! infidlity, stand up and take thy sentence! In the presence of God and angles and men, staind up; thou mon ster, thy lip blasted with blaspemy, thy cheek scarred with lust, thy breath foul with corruption of the ages! Stand up, satyr, filthy goat, buzzard of the na tions, leper of the conturies: Stand up, thou. monster inlidelit) ! Part man part panther, part reptile, part dragon, stand up, and take thy sentence: Thy hands red with the blood in which thou has washed, thy feet crimson with the human gore through which thou hast wadded, stand up and take thy sen tence! Down with thee to the pit and sup on the sobs and groans of families thou hast blasted, and ro)l on the bed of knives which thou hast sharpened for others, and let thy music be the ever lasting miseries of those whom thou hast damned! I brand the forehead of infidelity with all the crimes of self im molation for the last century on the part of those who had their reason. My friends, if ever your life thought its abrasions and its molestations should seem to be unberable, and you are tempted to quit it by your own be heat, do not consider yourselves as worse than others. Christ himself was tempted to cast hi mself from the roof of the temple, but as he resisted so re sist ye. Christ came to medicine all our wounds. In your trouble I prescribe life instead of death. People who have had it worse than you will ever have it have gone songful on their way. Re member that God keeps the chronology of your life with as much precision as he keeps the the chronology of nations, your death as well as your birth your grave as well as your 3radle. Why was it that at midnight, just at midight, the destroying angel struck the blow that set the Israelites free from bondage? The 430 years were upat 12 o'clock that night. The 430 years were not up at 11, and 1 o'clock would have been tardy and too late. The 430 years were up at 12 o'clock, and the destroying angle struck the blow, and Isreal was free. And God knows just the hour when it is time to lead you up from eirthly bondage. By his grace make not the worst of things, but the best of them. If you must take the pillp, do not chew them. Your ever lasting rewards will accord with your earthly perturbations, just as Caius gave to Agrippa a chain of gold as heavy as had been his chain of iron. For your asking you may have the same giace that was given to the It alian martyr, Algerius, who, down in the darkest of dungeons, dated his let. ter from "the delectable orlhard of the Leonine prison." And remember that this briet life of ours is surrounded by a rim, a very thin but very important rim, and close up to that rim is a great eternity, and you had better keep out of it until God breaks that rim and seperates this from that. To get rid of the sorrows of earth do not rush into greater sorrows. To get rid of a swam of summer insects leap not into a jungle of Bengal tigers, There is a sorrowless world, and it is so radiant that noonday sun is only the lowest doorstep, ahd the aurorathat lights up our northern heavens, con founding astronomers as to what it can be, is the waving of the banners of the procession come to take the conquerors home from church triumphant, and you and 1 have ten thousand reaons for wanting to go there, but we will never get there either by self immolation or impenitency. All our sins slain by the Christ who came to do that thing, we want togo in at just the time divinely arranged and from a couch divinely spread, and then the clang of the sepul chral gates behind us will be overpow red by the clang of the opening of the solid pearl before us. 0 God, what ever others may cboose,give me a Christ an's life, a Christian's death, a Christ an's burial, a Christian's immortality! CAPTURE OF BLUEFIELDS. Rundreds of People Leave for Fear of Their Lives. MOBILE, Aug. 15.-Steamer Semniva .rrived here at 9 o'clock tonight from Bluefields, Mosquioto reservation. She oft Bluefields on the morning of August 0. Tbe Samniva brings the following ad rices: The Nicaragnans arrived at Blue ilds Monday, August 6th, and moved mn Bluefields August 8th. Their force mmnbered 800. Bluefields was occupied eaceably. The Mosquito lag was owered, loaded into a cannon and fired ith a saluts to the Nicaraguan flag which had been hoisted to the top of the ~tafi. The British and American marines ere notilied by Gen. Gabezas to re :rn to their vessels. The order was ibeyed. Tbe British offered to take the ramaicans and natives to Port Limon roe of charge if they desired. Six bun led of these subsequently accepted the vitation, as there were rumors that he 3~Icaragnans intended to kill all amaicans and natives. There was for time a reign ot terror among this class f inhabitants. They ran through the treets, the women screaming and the bildren crying, the men hurrying hither ,d thither, carrying their household ~oods. Some left all that they had and ushed to the wharves willing to go in ny sort oi a craft, tiheir only desire be ng to get away from Blueflelds at once. The scene at the wharves was one :ng to be remembered. The Mohawk ook as many of the refugees as she ould carry and others went in rDrivate )ats. General Cabezas assumed con and of Blueflelds and issued a preca ation declaring martial law in force. he Americans felt much disappoint ent at the action of the commanders f the American vessels, the Marblehead ~nd Columbia. They thought the tmerican marines had been landed to rotect American lives and property, ~ut at the supreme moment, these had ~een abandoned. The officers claimed ey were compelled to obey the orders f Cabes as, but would nevertheless ~rook no interference with American iterests. The Americans who attend o their own affairs and have taken no art in the present intrigues are not in e least molested. Those Americans ho were involved in the political in igues have left. They went to Captain )'Neal, of the United States man-of-war farblehead, and implored his protec on. He told them brielly that if they ad violated the laws of the country he ould not affoid them protection, and if ey took refuse on his vessel and a de and was made for them he would be ompelled to give them up. Captain )'Neal remained firm in his position espite the appeals and entreaties of ose American intriguers who sought s proteetion. The Mohawk was not in port when e Semniva left, having gone to Port imon with her load of natives and Ja acians, from which port Capt. Stewart ated that he would continue his jour ey to Coilon for instructions as to whe er to let Spaniards in or drive them ut of Blueiields. shocking Death. NASHYVILLE, TENN, Aug. 10.-& orrible tragedy was witnessed by a large rowd of spectators at Glendale Park, iar this city this evening about 0 o'clock iss Lulu Randall, of Detroit, Mich., ho has for some time past has been mak :g balloon ascension was almost instant y killed. She ascended safely to about wo thousand feet altitude. When the ignal was given sbe cut the parachute oso. It opened and she descended safe y until she was about seventy-lve feet om the ground, when the parachute ited into a tree with such force that she ras thrown against 'a limb and her hold roke. iShe iell to the ground, and though hysicians were summoned died soon af r the fall. The remains will be sent A BRISK FIGHT BETWEEN TWO POLITICIANS IN A HOTEL LOBBY. Editor Koester and W. Gibbes Whaley Come to Blows-The Origin of the Trou ble-Cowardly Attack on 3rr. Koester Ircm the Rear. COLUMBIA, S. C., August 1.-A per sonal dilliculty in the lobby of the Jerome Hotel yesterday afternoon be tween George I. Koester, editor of the Register, and W. Gibbes Whaley of Charleston, a delegate to the State convention, caused some excitement on Main street. It is unnecessary to go into details. The following is an ac count of the trouble as given to the reporters of other papers by the princi pals: FROM MR. WIIALEY. Mr. Whaley being asked for a state. ment of the causes leading to the trou ble between himself and Editor Koes ter, said: "I sent Mr. Kiester a note this afternoon at about 5 o'clock, stat ing that in an editorial on the 14th instant he had willfully perverted a conversation with me and that he had told a deliberate falsehood. Mr. Koes ter called at the hotel this afternoon and had a conversation with me con cerning this note. He stated that he had in a measure implied in a conver sation whilst in Charleston that T was a coward. I told him I would ask him a simple question: 'Did he mean to say that I was a coward?' le begged the question and I had to repeat the ques tion several times,stating that he must give a positive answer, yes or no. He finally answered 'yes.' I at once slap ped his face. Ile struck at me, slightly grazing me. The crowd in the lobby at once rushed in and separated us. I regret to say that one of my friends in separating us struck Mr. Koester. I 1 would have preferred attending to the matter myself. I stated that I was i then and there entirely willing to finish i out the matter with Mr. Koester. 1y ] that time the crowd had collected in the lobby of the hotel, and I got upon one of the benches w'id stated to the crowd that Mr. Koester had made a statement in one of his editorials j which I had denounced as absolutely I false; that I had desired to slap his face and I had done so." FROM MR. KOESTE R. Tuesday morning I published in the 1 Register an editorial severely criticis- 1 ing Mr. Whaley for the part he had taken in the 'ring' tactics adopted at I the meeting of the Tillman Reform Club, in Charleston, Saturday night. Among other things I stated that an outsider (myself) had told Mr. Whaley that he was too big a coward to repeat to any one of the men excluded from I the meeting an insinuation he had j just made to me that they were not 6 there in good faith. Today I received i a letter which will be found elsewhere i in the paper in which Mr. Whaley ob I jects only to that part of my editorial f containing a statement above narrated. < The statement that he had been called a coward he denounced as a falsehood. As soon a3 I received this letter I i walked ov .r to the Jerome Hotel and t saw Mr. Whaley engaged in conversa tion. Wnen he was through I walked 1 up to him and told him that I had re- i ceived a letter from him,which I would ( like to discuss for a few moments In i public or private, with or without < friends being present. ie said that either a public or a private discussion suited him but finally decided on hav- ( ing the matter ventilated in the hotel lobby. He commenced calling up va- 1 rious members of the Charleston dele- t gation, while I asked Mr. W. WV. Price to be present as my friend. There is no necessity for going into all that was said. It amounted to this: That I stated to Mr. Whaley that possibly I had not used the word coward butt that I had used words to the same effect and that I had certainly called up one of the gentlemen whom he had a insinuated was not at the Charleston meeting In good faith and had told a him that he did not dare repeat to him t the insinuation he had just made to y me. Mr. Whaley kept asking did I e mean to say he was a coward. I told j him that I did. He then struck at me. He struck at me again and I gave him a a lick. Friends then interfered and c pulled us apart. While I was being i shoved away I was struck three or fonr times from behind, one of which was t exceedingly severely, landing upon the a neck, jus' below my right ear. I do not g know what outsiders interfered in such e a cowardly manner.' MR. WHIALEY'S CARD. o The following is the card of Mr. t Whaley which brought on the trouble: t CowLMBIA, August 15. t G. R. Koester, Esq., Edlitor the Colum- f bia RegIster. Dear Sir: I have only today seen an c ditorial in ypour Issue of the 14th inst.r The editorial Is an attack upon my- a self, and amongst other things you say:: tl 'Mr. Whaley said to an outsider that he men whom he had excluded wer,.. ot there In good faith. He was a romptly told that he was too big a oward to repeat that slander to any n one of those men face to face." The b utsider you rafer to is yourself a nd a ou will recollect that the conversa- o ion was as follows: I told you that c: ou knew that a combination had been tI formed by yourself, Terreli and. F. WV. q Wagener by which a number of men were to be rushed up to the meeting at c he last moment with the intention of a apturing the meeting and that the i en were not there in good faith. You a aid in a high ilo wn style: "You will it ot undertake (or you will not dare) to si ay so to these men." I laughingly b and satirically replied: "Oh, no, 1 have p o intention of saying anything of the R ind to them." You know well that be he word coward was not used.- You e, ave wilfully perverted the conversa- se ion and In my opinion told a deliber- tl te falsehood. I must request you to ive this note equal publicity with our editorial, but as I much doubt our doing so, I will give a copy to r nother paper. Very truly, s W. GIBBEs WHALEY. g MR. PRICE'S STATEMENT. I wish to say under my own signa- .1 ure that when Mr. Koester asked me o be present as his friend I did not an- g icipate anything serious.Even after the t lows had passed between them 1 did ot consider that it was my business al o interfere. I was simply present to ti ee fair play. I did not see Mr. Koester m truck from the rear as he was some istance from me and I was watchIng g r. Whaley,who had been jerked near- o y to the floor by Mr. Koester. I did 2: ee a demonstration by two men as if 1, hey intended to attack Mr. Koester ]L nd I called them down. They accused p e of trying to be a bulldozer. I did t ot know even then that Mr. Koester , ad been struck from the rear and told di hese excitable men to keep cool but Ii ot to interfere in the trouble. Later I a was told that one of these same men g ad been the person who had g, een so cowardly as to strike Mr. g, oester from the rear, and was further c old that he made a motion to draw a a istol, presumably to use on me. I ad not the remotest idea at the~ time 0: hat there were any cowards in the rowd or I would naturally have look d more carefully after the interests of y friend. The only satisfaction I al fter ward had was to denounce public- e~ y as a coward whoever had struck Mr. g oester. That is all 1 have to say on his line. 1 also desire to say that Mr. T Coester's face was not slapped and a hat Mr. Whaley struck him on the forehead with his fist. W. W. l'RICE.c Killed by L'.;btflIng- c CIx'INNATI. 0., Aug. 12.-The He- al ron, Ky., baseball team was playing a a: ame with a nighboring club yesterday bi fternoon, when the sky became over- vi ast. John Tanner, pitcher for the Ie- la rons ran to catch a rly. As the ball w as settling into his hands, there was t( flash of lightning and Tanner dropped T ad.b MIGHTY HOT WEATHER. [Ls Efracts Upcn the Crops--Twa Diviilone In the State. COLUMBIA, S. C., Aug. I.-Tiie fol lowing is the weekly weather crop re port: There was a decided change from cool to excessively hot weather in the past week, the average temnerature varying from one to nine degrees a day in excess of the normal, except on the 7tb, when it was slightly below; on this date the minimum for the week, 54, was reported from Batesburg. Friday, the 10th, was the hottest day with maximum generally above ninety and reaching 100 at JBatesburg, Columbia and Spartanburg. Few higher temper atures in August have ever been re corded. During the greater part of the week there was a plenty of sunshine, that was highly beneficial in drying the soil, permitting plowing of late corn and cotton, which should have been done two and three weeks earlier, and generally favorable for haying opera tions and curing the fodder that is be ing stripped. On very wet or partially mubmerged land it proved injurious, Irops firing badly. There was but little rain after the Rth until Saturday and Sunday, when showers occurred in the Northern, cen 'ral and Southwestern counties, ae ,ompanied by some hail and high wind hnat did considerable damage over lim ted areas, blowing down a house near t. Matthews and injuring cotton and ,orn slightly. The State can be divided into two listinct divisions. In the first the -rops are uniformly good and promis ng,the only exception noted being cot :on on which has grown too much to weed and not fruiting as heavily as it should. A correspondent who has nade careful and extended inquiry, ;tates that it is over-estimated, owing ;o its line stand in this division. The Lbove conditions exist in the Western. :entral and North central counties, 15 n all, while in the other division, com >rising Abbeville, Aiken, Barnwell, Berkeley, Beaufort, Chesterfield, Char eston, Clarendon, Colleton, Darlington, Edgelield, Florence, H1orry, Hampton, Kershaw, Lexington, Lancaster, Mar on, Orangeburg and Sumter counties nost crops are doing well, but cotton ias been materially injured by the ex ,essive rain fall. Some fields were ,ompletely submerged and ruined, but >y far the greatest damage resulted rom excessive shedding of shapes and ruit Fand leaves. In some counties the alling off in condition is estimated at 'rom 10 to 40 per cent. The foregoing tpplies more particularly to low and andy lands than to upland fields, which are generally tine and promis ng. Caterpillars are attacking the )olls in the lower part of the State. 3olls are begining.to iopen in the more outhern counties. At Society Hill the ain fall in forty-eight hours was 7.57 nches, and it ranged from that down o about three inches, and until the ubmerged and washed lands have a :hancA to make a partial recovery no tpproxiniate estimate of the damage ;o crops can be made, although reports ndicate that it was serious and ex ended. Peas are shedding their leaves on ret land and growing too much to rine. Sweet potatoes and other root rops doing well. The sowing of tur tp seed continues under favorable :onditions. Sugar cane and sorghum eemingly doing well, but poor yield of yrup reported from Newbery county. ardens growing well, except cabba es, which are rotting badly. A heavy Lay crop being secured under favora le conditions. J. W. BAUERt, Director. A Gold Bag Plan. The European papers are very gen rally discussing the announcement hat the Rothschilds are about to buy Lp the Transvaal gold fields in Africa. 2he combined English, French, German nd Austrian branches of the family ontrol thousands of millions of dcllars, nd their power is really greater than hat of any existing government. A sading German paper says the Roth hilds have a financial monopoly in kustria, Hungary and Brazil, and en eavor to rule the copper, quicksilver nd oil margets. People who pointed at that this infinence of the Rothchilds idangerously great have been In dan er of attacks from financial papers, ut the news that this firm is about to ssume control of the Transvaal gol elds causes grave concern even to the rgans of the stock exchange. These old fields are at present in the hands f a large number of companies, and 2ey represent approximately one tird of the whole gold production of he world. It Is, therefore, Impossible >r any other house to attempt a control t these mines. If the Rothchilds suc sed In buying the Transvaal mining ghts, free competition would cease, ad they could, regulate the supply of ie yellow metal according to their leasure. They would settle the mIne orkers in the places which would best sist in a regulation of the sale of ianufactures and provisions. Nostore. o hotel would be safe from a sudden aycott at the order of the monopolists, ho could organize every business in Snear the mines themselves. A Roth ilds gold monopoly would also rule ie financial politics and the currency aestion of all civilized countries. This only another turn to the screw that is ~ushing the life blood out of the masses the people of this and all other clvi ed countries. The end will be reached ter awhile, and thie people will arise their might and get the relief by the vord that they have failed to secure y legislation. The masses of the peo .e have some rights that even the othuchilds and other money kings are )und to respect. If revolution sis the 1y means by which the people can cure their righte, the quicker It comes e better. The Black Death. It Is thought that the pestilence ging in Hong Kong, China, is the .me disease that ravaged the whole orld about the middle of the four enth century under the name of ack Death, and which under the name the I'lague scouged Europe so fear-i 1lly again in 16165. if this be so it is me for all civilized nations to begin stematic efforts for its restr iction d extirpation. lhe Black D)eath was e most fearful scourge to whichi nu < anity has ever been subjected. Ini e fourteenth century it killed 13,000, 0 people in China, 24,000,000 in other riental countries, and not less tnan ,000,000 in Europe. Germany alone had 44,431 recorded deaths from this cause aly had quite one-half its entire po ilation a wept away, and in London, ten a comparatively small city, there ere no less than 100,000 victims. The sease is directly infectious, is spread g rapidly from every place of its ( >pearance. It is attended by fear ti suffering, and is so nearly always ,tal that where it has been epidemic t eat numbers of the agicted have mmitted suicide rather then endure( suffering so sure to end In death] ithin a week or t go. The birthplacei the Black Death was in China, I hence it spread literally all over the .habited world. If this outbreak at on Kong be indeed a new appear- 1 ice of this disease the nations of the irth cannot too soon ascertain the ,t or too vigorously act for its con 1ement to the region of its origin.( o that end our own State Depart .ent and the foreign ofmces of other overnments should at once take easures for united action. No trouble 1 in be too great, and no expenditureJ mn be extravagent which will prevent iother journey of this pestilence I -ound the world. No quarantine can Stoo harsh which Is necessary to pre- 1 int its entratice into any civilized nd. No sacrifice of commerce should( eigh against humanity's right to pro tion against this merciless scourge. I he time to stop its ghasly march is 4 Jfra that march begins. OVANS AN 1BASY WINNER. (XNTINiUED FR031 FIRST PAGE.) nerve and ability to stand by them, and that man shall be the man to represent us. (Cheers.) That is ths voice of South Carolina which will prevail next November in spite of, you might say. the assiduous attempt to array one class against another class or one people against another people. But we are united. We have canvassed the entire State of South Carolina; there is no dis sension in our ranks, but our opponents are alert; they are auxious to make it eppear that there are dissensions. When I look before me and see my father's old soldiers-when I look and see before me lawyers, doctors, mer chants, farmers and laboring men when I see before me the bone and si new of popular government, I think it is a rebuke to our opponent3 when they say that the Reform movement of South Carolina is composed of any par ticular class. Now one word as to my comnetitors. We nave fought this fight; we have fought as brothers; we have not fought as enemies, as our opponents tried to impress upon you, and I have this to say about the noble Reformers who went into this Slght, who opposed me. they never hit below the belt. (Cheers.) I know we are brothers; we are arm in arm, ighting for your cause, and when the peopie express their opinion, their choice, there is no dissension, and when the attempt is made to make dis sension these opponents of mine are ready to rise and say, "Thus far shalt thou go and go further." This is the voice of tht people. (Cheers.) We have fought for our principles upon one platform, and the people of South Carolina are unanimously, I might say, in favor of those principles. When I say the people, I don't mean those who are actuated by prejudice and animosity, because they are beyond the pale of citizenship. They cannot reason, and have no right to be called true citizens. (Cheers.) I will not detain you longer. At a future occasion I will announce the policy of my administration. I have been connected possibly more intimate ly with your movement than any other man In your midst, and I have been unswerving in my principles. I shall hew to the line mapped out by you, and as advocated by me on this floor, and I shall stand on those principles until they are writter in letters which can not be mistakta; in letters which will be written over the world, and when the history of this movement is writ ten they will say in unmistakable char acters bEhold the administration which has but one object, the happiness and prosperity of the entire people of South Carolina. (Prolonged cheers.) Mr.Evans concluded his speech amid a perfect; storm of applause. 'UR LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR. The chairman of the convention then introduced Dr. W. H. Timmerman, the nominee for Lieutenant-Governor. As the doctor, who had fixed himself up for the occasion, mounted the speaker's stand, and began to glance around.very much as would an elephant upon a crowd in the menagerie of a circus, a slight titter was heard about the hall, which in a few moments developed in to a general laugh. The. doctor's face and shape, which he has been running on through the campaign, were too much for the crowd. But he stood it and proceeded to make a bright speech. Dr. Timmerman said: Gentlemen of the Convention: I have read somewhere, in some book, at some time, where a dog of Venice went to visit the court of Louis XLV, in FraNce. He stood about and seemed to be thoroughly surprised and be wil dered. When asked what surprised him mest, he answered "To find myself here." (Cheers and prolonged laughter.) Gentlemen that is the way it is with me today. Here, in the presence of this assemblage, I can well say I am surprised at the unanimity with which I have been endorsed for the office of Lieutenant Governor. For this confi dence, I sincerely thank you, and ask you to bear to your constituents my most grateful acknowledgements. As my distinguished young friend has claimed to be the representative of the young men,I claim to stand here as the representative of the older men. (Laughter.) And I shall uphold him in all his efforts for the honor of South Carolina. (Cheers.) I am but an humble citizen. I have lived on a farm always, but my heart always beats in unison with all the people. I don't profess to be an orator, but a pure and loyal Re former. (Cheers.) My destiny is with the Reformers or South Carolina. It will be my pride and glory, in the dis charge of the duties of my office, to represent the whole people of South Carolina. Dr. Timmerman at the con clusion of his address was loudly ap plauded. There were repeated calls for lEllerbe. He had just come in and taken his seat near the front, and he responded by going upon the stand. Mr. Ellerbe said: Gentlemen of the convention: I don't know that I can thank you for what you have done today, (Laughter) but I do say that I am not mad with you, nor am I sulking. We have had a iight inside the i-anks. My distinguished opponent, whom you have nominated, knocked down the persimmon, and I not only congratulate him, (applause) but pledge him the hearty support of my friends, as well as that of myself. [ will prove to you that I am a Reform r from princIple, and that 1 can work as well for Reform at home as in office. Niy distinguished friend will have my so-operation to make h.s administra ion a success. (Voice: "Bravo!" Calls were then made for Mr. Tindal. ir. Klugh of the committee announced that Mr. Tindal was absent from the 3ity. Mr. Appelt then stated that he ook the responsibility of endorsing for Mr. Tindal what Mr. Ellerbe had said. mnis announcement was greeted with niuch cheering. A motion to adjourn was made but withdrawn. A vote of thanks to the >hairman and secretaries was passed. FINIsIIING UF THIE WORK. Before another motion could be put ;o adjourn P'rofessor Marchant got up md made a red hot speech in favor of ominating a full state ticket. Wheni 1e finished a motion to adjourn was nade. Those in favor of nominations ~alled for the ayes and nays on thisj notion. Professor Marchant demand d that every name be put down. Ita was decided to call the counties and et the chairman of each county an-t ionnce the vote of his county. The notion to adjourn was carried by a ote of 190 to 125. The counties voting for adjourn nent were Aiken, Abbeville, Berkeley,c Jarleston, Chester, Chesterfield, Clar- 1 mdon, Colleton, Fairfield, Florence,t ieorgetown, Ihampton, Hlorry, Ker-i haw, Laurens, Marlboro, Marion, sewberry, Oconee, Orangeburg, Sum er, Union, Williamsburg, York. Those against adjournment were An lerson, Barnwell, Beau fort, Darlingtonl, t Sdgeield, Greenville, Lancaster, Lex-. ngton, 1'ickens, Richland, Spartan-r >urg. Colleton and Laurens at first voted gainst adjournment, but changed t heir votes. Aiken had one vote gainst, Clarendon several votes aind ~ewberry several. Just at this juncture, before the votec ~ould be announced, Mr. ,Jordan of- t ered th~e following resolution, which 1 was unanimously adopted: Resolved, That this convention I inanimously endorse the candidacy of 3. 1. Tillman for the United States senate, and pledge him our earnest and iearty support. This was the signal for cries for Till- t nan from P'rof. M'hre'iant and others. nd Mr. JIordanu b r~sted out to get theg overnor, cryiug -fIl bring him." In t few nueutes Mr. .Jordan returned, t ringinig Governor Tillman. The Gov. t rnor appeared to be in an excellent I; mmo. Iin taking the sttand the Gov ernor glanced around him with a srije on his face. Ile saJ: Gentlemen of tLe Conve-ntion- am sure this is quite unexpected to me,but I have heard so many who&ps and yells in the campaign that I hnve become accustomed to them. I suppose some of you fellows were in tne crowd. ([Iur rahs.) I congratulate you on the har mony which has charadterizsd your proceedings today. If the Reformers all over the State will act as you have done today I expect we will continue to march on to vit'tory. You are all aware of the f-sct-that is I suppose you are-I don't kno x that you are that I. am going to the United States Senate. (Laug'ier and applause.) You know we are p:ssiog through a tran sition stage in national poliLics now, and I tell you I intend to go there with my pitch fork, too. "Voice-You had better carry it sharpened too.) As I said in my interview for the New York Herald the other day. the nation al Democracy is doomed to defeat in the next election, for under the present rotten leadership they don'c deserve anything but defeat. (Applause.) In that interview for the Herald, I said we must cast about for our new lead ers. Your salvation rests in the union of the South and West againet the money power of the North and East. I thank you for my endorsement, and when elected to the Senate, I promise you I will do my whole duty, as I have always attempted to do towards you In the past. Mr. Slattery, as the Governor was leaving the stand, called to him through the applause and told him that the convention would like to hear his views on the tariff. Governor Tillman replied that he had expressed himself In the interview, and that he thought it a fraud and a sham. Governor Tillman tnen retired from the hall; the vote given above was an nounced, and the convention was de clared adjourned. Still in the Rice. NEWBERR-T, Aug. 14.-Dr. Sampson Pope is determine-i more than ever to go to the general primary, and he will announee his delegates next week in the county papers. Ile will head the list himself. Ile will have a ticKet in every county in the State. Dr. Pope was interviewed by your correspondent today, in view of the re sult of the Reform convention held here yesterday, and the foregone nomi nation to be made in Columbia on Thursday. The interview was as fol lows: Doctor, I would like you to explain your position in refusing to go before the Reform primary ? "1 am standing squarely on the Re form platform in refusing to go into the preliminary primary. "The March convention in 1890 de clared for a primary of the white peo ple of the State-not Reformers alone, but all of the white people. The Demo cratic convention which met in An gust, 1890, composed almost entirely of Reform delegates, compromised with the low country by having a primary for delegates in each county in.ead of a direct primary because these people claimed that a direct primary would be unfair to them,as the bulk of the white vote was from Columbia up to the mountains, consequently they claimed that they would nave but little voice in the selection of candidates. The representation agreed upon was double the members of the General Assembly. This was followed in 1890 and 1892. In 1890 the Conservatives had two candi dates, Messrs. Bratton and E arle, both went into the general primary, the lRe f armers had but one. In 1892 each had one candidate and both went into the general primary. "In 189)4 we had four, the Conserva tives had nonie. They simply asked that the four be put in the general primary,and that they be allowed their choice of the four. "The four Reformers refused and called a preliminary primary to weed out to one. I found that it was a packed machine, as the result has proven, and I rerused to go Into it and will run at the general primary. I am therefore on the original Reform plat form and the others are not. I will beat the race in this county and in the State. "We left the other wing because of ings and bossism, and we have got a bigger ring and a more domineering boss than we ha'l under the old re gime."-State. ______ How H'3 Expects to Win. The following appeared in the News andi Courier one day last week: "Exc-Collector T. B. Johnston, of Sam ter, is in the city for a short visit and is staying at the St Charles Hotel. Col. Johnston is making the race for Con gress in the new 7th district as the Re publican nominee, and his friends think that he is going to be the next Representative at the National Capital from that section of the State. Col. Johnston is In line health and spirits and is conlident of election. When asked yesterday who was going to be the next ongressman from the 7th he replied nhesitatingly, "I ami." -i Ihe went on to discuss the situation in an interest ng and animated manner. lie said hat just now he is trying to find how many registered votes his party has In he district, but he added that he did ot depend exclusIvely up-in his own party vote for his election. Hi- was onfident that there were many Damo rats who were not satisfied with any f the en.ndidates of their own party who had so far announced themselves who would vote for him. There would e a great many Democrats who would ot vote at all. Dr. Stokes would have o get the main part of his strength from Orangeburg and Lexington, while the diatrict was a large one. No mne, he thought, supposed thait cal. ~Jaughgman would be elected. Oa the hole he was satisfied with the outlook ond he considered that he had a right o be reasonably hopeful of success." So It seems that Col. Johnston ex ects to go to Congress by the aid of emocratic votes. Democrats should bink well before they vote against the ominee of their party on any ground hatever. There is nothing in common etween the white people of this sec ion and Col. Johnston. ie may be ver so nice a gentleman, yet he is a [epublican and endorses, no doubt, all ~he policies of his party, including the force bill and the ab-)minable tarill'. he duty of every man in the district rhlo claims to be a Democrat is plain. Ie should go to the polls and deposit is ballot for the candidate of his party hether that candidate is his personal ~hoice or not, ie is not voting for he candidate, whoever he may be, but ~or the maintenance of white suprem cy in South Carolina. The days of '76 hould not be lost sight of. Col. ,John ton was then among the worst enemies f the State, and the Democrats shouild e very carefu! now how they assist him o wa'rm to life again the insidious oe that we stiilled then.-Tlmes an.d )emocrat. The Fagte of jflien. JAc~SONv Ir.LE, Aug. 13.-A special o the Times-Union from Luraville, 'ila., says: T-ie two negroes who out aged Miss Potts in L afayette county a ew days ago, were caught near McAl n early this mnorning. Tne'y confessed heir guilt an:1 were carried to the :ene of their crime and lynched. Miss otts, the victim of the negroes, is only >urteen years old. She was- assaulted nl August 6 anid left unconscious in e woods. She recovered and dragged erself ho-ne and told what had hap ened. Since then poss 'i:V~ hCvebee in ursut of the brutes. I:VATE Cedarquest of the regular rmy refused to otbey an order to) prac ice target shooting on Sunday and was ied and convicted of the dis'obediance. 'asident Cleveland released Cenar est when informed of the fac's and ad the ollser who caused the arrest imself arrested under an order issued y President Lincoln which is still the w of tne army and which forbids F'OY POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream or tartar baing powder Highest of all in leavening strangth.-La cest Cnited States Government Food Re port. Froyal Baking Powder Company, 106 Wall St., N. Y. NOW FOR 1 ME PRIMARY. Wh-st This Primary Means su What IC has to Do, On next Tuesday, 28th instant, the next politic i event of no te in South Carolina will take place, say a the Colum bia S'ate. It will b the biennial Demo. cratic primary election, and it is for the purpose of choosing dalegates to the State c)nvention-Retorm or Con servstive, Evans or Pope, as the case may be-nominating all county officers ia each county, from Senator on down through county supArvisor, and nomi natiog men for C)ngress on the Dam ocratic ticket. In view of the many factional pri. maries, c nventions and what not, a large proportion of the voters seems to be all mixed u:>, and there is but a crni aratively small number wh> seem to undertand what it all means. Bs low will be found a summary which will probably make it all clear. But be. fore this is given, attention is called to the following-one of the rules govern ing the primary-which affects a good many candidates who come only Indirect ly before the people: Rule 8. Candidates for the. General Assembly and for county offices shall. ten days previous to the primary elec tion, file with the chairman of the county executive committee a pledge, is writting, to abide the result of the primary and support the nominees of the party. Candidates for ofter offices shall file such pledge with the chair man of the State Democratic executive committee. N) vote f~r any candidate who has not complied .vith this rule shall be counted. Last Friday was the last day of grace, under this rule, for the filing of these pledges. Pledges of candidatis for State offices have been filed with the secretary of the State executive committee, as follows: For Governor-J)hn GAry E vans a-d Sampson Pope. For Lcutenant Governor-Dr. W. H. Timmerman. For State Treaeurer-W. T. C. Bates. For Attorney Gentral-0. W. Buch For Secretary of State-Hairrison, Hill and Tompkins. For Gomptroller General-A. W. Jont s, Norton and Darham. For Sap.arintendant of E tue ition - Keitt. Maylield and Whitman. For A/jntant General-John Gary Watts, Minus and R chbourg. For Ri'road Cjmniisiioners-E vans, Sligh, Tb )maa, Wilb )rn, Yeldell and Grav. All the candijates for Congress have also filed their pledges, with one except tion. Tie above candidates are of course, the only ones whose names can be considered at the September conven tion composed of the electors to be chos en in tis prima3y. The Senatorial fight will be fought ut in this election in the choice, by the people, of members of the Legislature. The gubernatorial and Stat, ticket fight will be fought cu'; in the chozce of elec tors to the State cornvention, which meets September 6. The whole thing is looking culy to the putting u. of the nominees of the D~emocratic party--Conservatives in. eluded-which goes before the entire people in the general ele i~ion in No vember. In the primary no person can vote unless he has been cnrolled on a regu lar Democratic p wi c. c'uh lhst at leasc live days betore the election. This is importact, and all should see to it. To become a clu > member the applicant. must be 21 years of age by the suacee 1 - mna gencral election, and must take the, pledge required by the rules of the Dem ocratic party-to support the nominees of the prim vis ao I ab'ds the result. Negroes who vor.ed f >r H ampton in 1876 ad hava v ,td the Democratic ticket continuound y 0- :ce, can also become club members. The polls e o i- tie 28 .h, at 8: a. mn., and w'i: di ie at 4 p. mn., at every precocet in the S i'e. I'ne reeule have to be for mde rit I o the cou yty eneutive committees t a f iety - igh'. h ,urs alter the close o1 Lhe p)olls. Tha county committees will meet at 11 a. mn., on the 29:,h, and declare the results, forwarding thema to the chair n of the State comn nittes imnmedi teley. A mej->rilty vote is required to 10innate camaldates and elect eloutors to the State convention. [Ca asecrnd yrimiary is neceseavy, must be beld ex actly two weeks later. In the election v -tes wIll be cast for Delegates to thi. Smp'emnbr cn~Ver ' . t Ei fU. .5yer. . .ives. Ju Ige of Probate. Ctunty Supervisor. Cor'ner. (Every fou'th year.) S -.hool Comnmissiur.~ Treasurer. Au'hitor. Clerk of Court. (Every fourth year.). Suir If. (Every i'oarth year.) Jast now taie si .u4.ion Is vary pecu iar. John Gary Evans has a~he Re ctom nomination fur Governor, given: >y a convention representing about lue third of the R sform strength of the itate. Dc. Pope, by fling his pledge viti the comumiitee, cannot go beyond .he prImary or Soptember convention in tsc e udidacy for Goveroor. There are at east 40,000 lu tormn -:oters who have sot exp~ressed their prefereuce, and 30, )00 Ccnserva ives wh>) will have a say. ['his vote Is the usknowo quantity in .he coming primary, and no one can i)osibly t5dl to whom~ it, will r) or even whetiher !.will tu:a. out at all or not. As to the muen whso will g) on the state ticket, of course no one can at emp;. to say what the result will be, ,ave in those instances where no op >ositLion has developed. Tee as yet t akoown September convention elect )L have this matter in their hands, mnd ms my a candidate is on the anxious >encb. Thea thre is the Battler-Till. nan ri.ht for mnembers of the L'gisla ,u:e. it is all now ve:Sy muc'h in the dark. It is safe, however, to say tnat the gu >ernatoriai race, so for as the )rimary s concerned, will be between only Evans and Pope. No third man ise nin., to be put in the field