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A SEVERE STRUCIGLE. -AEV. DR, TALMAGE ON WRESTLING WITH THE SUPERNATURAL. He Draws Lessons of Remarkable Power From a Strange Bible Scene-The Strug glee of Life-It Is Prosperity bls and Trouble Saves. WASHrsGTox, Nov. 1.3.-Oat of this strange seene or Bible times Dr. Tal mage, in his sermon today, draws re markable lessons of good cheer and triumph. His subject is "Wrestling With the Supernatural" and the text Genesis xxxii, 25, 26: "And when he saw that he prevailed not against hit he touched the hollow of his thigh, and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint as he wrestled with him. And he said, Let me go, for the day breaketh. And he said, I will not lel thee go except thou bless me." There is a cloud of dust from a tray eling herd of cattle and sheep and goats and camels. They are the pres ent that Jacob sends to gain the good will of-his brother. That night Jacob halts by the brook Jabbok. But there is no rest for the weary man, no shin ing ladder to let the angels down intc his dream, but a severe struggle that lasts until morning with an unknown visitor. The unknown visitor, to re veal his superior ower, by a touch wrenches Jacob's tigh bone from its sockets, perhaps maiming him for life. As on the morning sky the clusters of purple clouds begin to ripen, Jacob sees it is an angel with whom he has been contending and not one of his - brother's c,.adjutors. "Let me go,' cries the angel, lifting himself UD into increasing light; "the day breaketh.' You see, in the first place, that God allows good people sometimes to get into a terrible struggle. Jacob was a good man, but here he is left alone in the midnight to wrestle with a tremen dous influence by the brook Jabbok. For Joseph, a pit; for Daniel, a wild beast den- for David, dethronement - and exile; for John the Baptist, a wil derness diet and the executioner's ax; for Peter, a prison; for Paul, ship wreck; for John, desolate Patmos; for Christ, the cross. For whom the racks, the gibbets, the prisons, the thumb screws? For the sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty. Some one said to a Christian reformer, "The world is against you." "Then," he replied, "I am against the world." I will go further and say that every Christisa has his struggle. With fi nancial misfortune some of you have had the midnight wrestle. Redhot disasters have dropped into your store .,_from loft to cellar. What you bought you could not selL Whom you trust ed fied. The help yon expected would not come. Some giant panic, with lon arms and grip like death, took hold of you in an awful wrestle, from which you have not yet escaped, and it is uncertain whether it will throw you or you will throw it. Here is an other soul in struggle with some bad appetite. He knew not how stealthily it was growing upon him. One hour he woke up. He said, "For the sake of my soul, of my family, of my chil dren, and of my God I must stop this!" And behold he found himself alone by the brook of Jabbok, and it was midnght. That evil appetite seized upon him and he seized upon it. and, oh, the horror of the conflict! When- once a bad habit hath roused itself up to destroy a man, and the man has sworn that by the help of the eternal Godhe will destroy it, all heav en draws itself out in long line of ' ht to look down from above, and helstretches itself in myrmidons srgle, and they have bitten their lip, and clinched their fist and cried with a blood red earnestness and a rain of scalding tears, "God help me!" From a wrestle with habit I have seen men falback defeated. Calling for no help, but relying on their own resolutions, they have come into the struggle, and for a time it seemed as if they were getting the upper hand of their habit. But that haoit rallied again its infernal power and lifted the soul from its standing, and with a force borrowed from 'the pit hurled it into darkness. But, thank God, I have often seen a better termination than this. I have seen men prepare themselves for such a wrestling. They laid hold of God's help as they went into com bat. The giant habit, regaled by the cup of many dissipations, came out strong and defiant. They clinched. There were the writhings and distor tions of a fearful struggle. But the old giant bento waver, and at last, in thie midmght alone, with none but God to witness, by the birook Jabbok, the giant fell, and the triumphant wrestler broke tha darkness with the cr,"Thanks be unto God, who giv et us the victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ.". . There is a widow's heart that first was desolated by bereavement and since by the anxieties and trials that came in the support of a family. It is a sad thing to see a man contend ing for a livelihood under disadvan tes, but to see a delicate woman, with helpless little ones at her back, fighting the giants of po'verty and sor row is more affecting. It was a hum ble home, and passersby knew not that within those four walls were dis plays of courage more admirable than that of Hannibal crossing the Alps, or -in the pass of Thermopylae, or at Bal aklavo, where "into the jaws of death rode the six hundred." These heroes had the whole world to cheer them on, but there was no one to applaud the struggle in that humble home. She fought for bread, forclothing, for fire, for shelter, with aching head and weak side andexhausted strength, the long night by the brook Ja ~Could it be that none would give her help. Had God forgotten to be gracious?- No, contending soul. The midnight air is full of wings coin mngto the rescue. She hears it now, in the sough of the night wind, in the ripple of the brook Jabaok, the prom ise made so long ago, ringing down the sky. "Thy fatherless children, I will preserve them alive, and let thy widows trust in me !" Some one said to a very poor woman, "How is it that in such distress you keep cheer ful?" She said: "I do it by what I call cross prayers. When I had my rent to pay and nothing to pay it with - and bread to buy and nothing to buy it with,I used to sit down and cry. But now I 'do not get discouraged.- If I go along the street, when I come to a corner of the street, I say "The Lord help me:" I then go on until I come to another crossing of the street, and again I say, "The Lord help me!" And so I utter a prayer at every crossing, and since I have got into the habit of saying these cross prayers I have been able to keep up my courage." Learn again from this subject that people sometimes are surprised to find ut that what they have been strug with in the darkness is really an 1 of blessing". Jacob founli in the m ing that this strange person age wasit an enemy, but a Gocd dis patched messenger to promise pros perity for him and for his children. And so many aman at the close of hi trial has found out that he has been trying to thrw down his own bleing. oua a Christian man, ever hapoened to yo0 u'savy a vm trials. Nothing short 01 scourg imprisonment and shipwreck cou have made Paul what he was. Whe David was fleeing through the wilde ness, pursued by his own son, he w being prepared to became the swe singer of Israel. The uitand the du Ieon were the best schools at whi Joseph ever graduated. The hur cane that upset the tent and kill( Job's children prepared the man Uz to be the subjent to the mauiticei poem that has astounded the age There is no. way to get the whe out of the straw but to thrash it. The is no way to purify the gold but burn it. Lok at the people who hai always had it their own way. The are proud, discontented, useless at unhappy. If you want to find chee ful folks, go among those who has been purified by the tire. After Ro sini had rendered "William Tell" t' five hundredth time a c:mpany i musicians came under his window J Paris and serenaded him. They pi upon his brow a golden crown of la rel leaves. Bat amid all the applau: and enthusiasm Rosqini turned to friend and said, "I would give all th brilliant scene for a few days of youl and love." Contrast the melancho: feeling of Rossini, who had ever; thing that this world could give hin with the joyful experience of Isai Watts, wnose sorrows were grea when he says: The hill of Zion vields - A thousand sacred sweets Before we reach the heavenly tieltd Or walk the golden streets. Then let our sons: aboun-l And every tear Ie dry. We're marching r'!ouh iiinrnuel- grom To 14drer worlkon h-igh. It is prosperity that kills and tro ble that saves. While the Israelit were on the march amid great priv tions and hardships they behav< well. After awhile they prayed f< meat, and the sky darkened with great flock of quails, and these quai fell in great multitudes all abot them, and the Israelites ate and a! and stuffed themselves until the died. Oh, my friends, it is not har ship or trial or starvation that injur the soul, but abundant supply. It not the vulture of trouble that eats t the Christian's lire. It is the quail It is the quails. You will yet find o1 that your midnight wrestle by t brook Jabbok is with an angel of Gc come down to bless and to save. Learn again that, while our wres ling with trouble might be triump] ant, we must expect that it will lea its mark upon us. Jacob prevaile< but the angel touched him and lh thigh bone sprang from its socket,ar the good man went limping on h way. We must carry through th world the mark of the combat. Wh: plowed these premature wrinkles i your face? What whitened your ha before it was time for frost? Wh silenced forever so much of the hila ity of your household? Ah, it is b cause the angel of trouble hatn toucl ed you that you go limping on yot way. You need not be surprised th: those who have passed through th fire do not feel as gay as once the did. Do not be out of patience wit those who come not out of their de pondency. They may triumph ovE their loss, and yet their gait shall te yoni that they have been troubl touched. Are we Stoics that we ca unmoved see our cradle i-ed of tI bright eyes and the sweet lips? Ca stand unmoved and-ee our garder of earthly deligh~t uprooted? Wi: Jes:is, who wept himself, be angr with us if we pour our tears into tb grayethaVapen to swallow dow~ met we~Toved best? Was Lan rt more dear to him than our belove dead to uni No. We have a right I weep. Our tears must come. Yo shall not drive them back to scald th heart. They fall into God's bottle Afflicted ones have died because the could not weep. Thank God for th sweet, the mysterious relief that come to us in tears. Und~er this genle rai the flowers of hone put forth thei bloom. God pity that dry, withered parched, all consuming grief tha wrings its hands, and grinds its teeti and bites its nails into the quick, bi cannot weep. We may have found th comfort of the cross, and yet ever a: ter show that in the dark night and b the brook Jabbok we were troubl touched. Again, we may take the idea of th text and announce the approach ofth day dawn. No one was ever more gla to see the morning than was Jacob al ter that night of struggle. It is al propriate for philanthropists ani Christians to cry out with his angelc the text, "The day bi-eaketh." Th world's prospects are brightening Superstition has had its strongest prol: knocked out. The tyrants of earth ar falling flat in the dust. The churc of Christ is rising up in its strength 1 go forth "fair as the morn, clear as th sun and terrible as an army with har ners." Clap your hands, all ye pe: ple, "the day breaketh." As I look around about me I se many who have passed through wave of trouble that came up high~er tha: their girdle. In God's name I prc claim cessation of hostilities. Yo shall not always go saddened an< heartbroken. God will lift your bui den. God will bring your dead to life God will stanch the heart's bleeding I know he will. Like as a fathe pitieth his children, so the Lord pitie you. The pains of earth will end The dead will rise. The morning sta trembles on a brightening sky. Tb gates of the east begin to swing operi "The day breaketh." Luther and Melanchthon were talil ing together gloomily about the pros pects of the church. They could se no hope of deliverance. Afte awhile Luther got up and said to Mel anchthon "Come, Philip, let us sin; the Forty-sixth Psalm, 'God is our re fuge and strength in every time o trouble.'" Death to many - nay to all --is struggle and a wrestle. We hiav many friends whom it would be hiar to leave. I care not how bright ou future hope is, it is a bitter thingt look upon this lair world and knov that we shall never again see its blos soming spring, its autumnal fruits, it sparkling streams and to say farewel to those with whom we played in child hood or counseled in manhood. that night, like Jacob we may have t wrestle, but God will not leave us un blessed. It shall not be told in heavel that a dying soul- cried unto God to help, but was not delivered. The Iat ticemay be turned to keep out the sur r a book so todim the lig'ht of th' midnight taper, or the room may b~ illed with the cries of orph~anage o widowbood, or the church of Chris may mourn over our going but,i Jesus calls, all is well. The stron; wrestling by the brook will cease. Ti hours of death's night will pass alon; -1 o'clock in the morning, 2 o'cloci in the morning, 41 o'clock in the morn ing 5 'o'clock in the morning-"th day breaketh." S3o I would have it when I die. am in no haste to be gonet. I woul ike to stand here a y ars and preacl this gospel. I have no' grudge agains this world. The only fault I have t find with this world is that it treats mn too. weil. But when the timte comes i go I trust '.o be ready, my worldly a id others. I wam then to be sure of their :foive In that last wrestling, :r :uy ari -1nfeebied with sickness and a, V im had faint, I want Jesus beside me. id II there be hands on this side of the n m oad stretched out to hold me back, I r- wart the heavenly hands stretched Is out to draw me forward. Then. 0 et Jesus, help me on and help me up: a- Unfearing, undoubting, may I step h right out into the light and be able to i- look back to my kindred and friends, ,d who would detain m(- here, exclaim of ing: "Let me go: Let me -o! The at day breaketh." S. A CALL TO THE MINISTRY. at re 1' teiaif of the Sufrnring Armenlan z. to isued at Orangeburg. v The Ministerial Union of range td burg, South Carolina, to their breth ren of the Christian ministry in the re State of South Carolina, -Grace unto s. you and peace from God our Father, .e and from the Lord Jesus ChrisL." f We join in the widespread sym [ paty now expressing itself in prayers and contributions on behalf of the u persecuted Christians in Armenia. se Bat we feel that the massacres and a outrages and destitution which the is fanatic hate of the infidel Turk con tinues to inflict upon unhappy Arme 1 nia in mocking response to "diplo matic notes of remonstrance" call for more effective relief than that of in d ividual sympathy and gifts. The t positive demand of United Christen dom that these atrocities shall cease is the only apparent means of salvation for Armenia. Were the government of the United States to urge upon oth er Christian powers the necessity for such a demand, it should be made, and Armenia would be saved. Without assuming to dictate, we id therefore earnestly and prayerfully invite every minister interested in a. this subject to attend, if possible. on es Tuesduy, the first day of December a. next, at the Y. M. U. A. hall in Co ,d lumbia, S. C., at 12 m , either for )r himself, or as the representative of a a ministeral union, to consult with ls these who shall meet him upon the advisability of attempting to arouse e the public sentiment of our whole country by mass meetings or other wise, and to bring that sentiment to - bear upon the government to induce it to unite with other Christian powers in saying to Turkey: Christians shall not be molested for their religious faith. Respectfully, ae J. L. McLees, President, N. D. Bodie, le Secretary, P. F. Stevens, E. 0. Watson, John Owen. t Brethren who will respond to this call will confer a favor by notifying at once, Rev. N. D. Bodie, secretary, Orangeburg, S. C. i Orangeburg, Nov. 20, 1890. d A Knotty Question. is The Columbia Register says a very Is interesting aid important question in It reference to ne- counties has arisen . by reason of the fact that some of the ir new county schemes will clash as to the t territory wanted, and even should the' r- election be orderel on different days or on the same day, it is questionable a- how the qualified electors shall vote. tr The subject came up in reference to It the formation of Dorchester and Edis ie to counties. Both will have to take a Y a slice olf of Colleton in order to get ,h the necessary area. It so happens s- that Edisto and Dorchester want a r part of the same township of Colle 11 ton. The two-thirds majority of the e qualifled voters of that particular n' toynship may want to .go in Dorcher e- ter or Edisto, or even remain as they n are. Now if an election is ordered for is Dorchester, for instance, how will [1 the people in that township who want y to go to Edisto or remain in the old Le county express their will? They must n either vote for Dorchester or against 1s it, and under the circumstances neith d er might suit them. If the ele-:tion 0 for Dorchester and Elisto was order u ed for the same day, would a man be .e entitled to t wo votes, provided there Swere two boxes, one for or against y Dorchester or one for or againat Edis e to, as his interest might dictate? Or Sif he wanted to vote against both,how n is he going to do it? These knotty r questions hove been submitted to the ~questions have been submitted to the t Attorney General, and he and the As 4, sistant Attorney General will have to It unravel them before any elections are .e ordered. Whatever scheme may te f- decided on by the Attorney General, it y appears that it is impossible to prevent .e the formation of any ne w county u a der the circumstances as stated. .e Though the formation of another e county may be desirable to the majo'r d ity of the qualified electors, it can be Seasily seen how a single township can )defeat any scheme when that town d ship is wanted by both new counties. f Edlisto County proposes to have e Branchville as the county seat, and it -includes in its territory portions of s5 Orangeburg, Barnwell and Colhon e counties. h i~one by Dastards. e -i. os, Nov. 13.-A special from Montgomery, Ala., says: The 2:30 a.1 m. train on the Louisville and Nash ville R ailroad, bound for Ne w Orleans, ewas wrecked this morning four miles efrom this p'ace, in a very wild coun-1 s try, by train robbers. The engineeri saw an obstruction on the track, but< atoo late to stop the train, which wvent Scrashing down a steep embankment. 1 -A rail had been torn up and nailed1 do wn again three or four inches out1 of line. The train, comprising two mail coaches, baggage car and 'two rfirst class coaches, were completely swrecked. The track was torn up for 'fully 20fl yards. Three persons were r seriously infured -Mr. JTohn Thwatt, eof Atlanta, bound for D~allas, Tex., -and W. G. McGovey, of Monroe, be ing the most seriously hurt. Two < other passengers were pinioned under the smoking car, an d only after an e hour's hard work were they extracted.i Their names could not be ascertained, Sbut both came from LouisvIlle. 'Bloodhounds have been set on the trail of the wreckers by railroad de- - tectives, but as yet no clue has beeni aobtained to the guilty parties. Suspi e cion, however, rests on a colored - track walker who was captured near 1 the place. IHe claims to have been r posted to watch for train wreckers by Sthe company. Hie has been held. The damage is fully $5u, 000.i S The South Carolina Vo 1Comcmi\Nov. 8.-The state board t- of canvassers has not yet gotten at the a ollicial results of the recent elections o in this State. Approximately the fig- I -- ures are about as follows for the sever a al electoral tickets: Bryan, 58,000 r Palmer-Bucker,8S25; 'Webster Repub- I -lican, 4,-40U; Melton R epublican 5,225. It is thus seen that the State went even e more overwhelmingly than was ex-J e pected for the free silver, and that the r Reorganized Union Republican party tis on top in the faction fight. The to- I f tal anti-Bryan vote was only 10,450 less than was estimated-while the to- I e ta! vote is but a very little larger than was estimated. The full registered SRepublican vote lacked several thou - sand of coming out. -State. E e sieuen(u a ma-l inley ProI4Jerity. Prrrsuv: , I ., Nov. 19.--The joint 1 I wage scale committee c f window glass a i workers and mianuifactea-,rs ad journed a tonight after a two dlass confurence t without having rea-he~d any agree 0 ment. The result of this failure means ( e i e continued idleness of 1S,u00 men Sthroughout the country who have al- t -readly been without work for the past 5 -~ sixmonths 6001) FOR A (GObITE. EDWARD ATKINSON SPEAKS T SOUTHERN EDITORS. The Banking Laws-Aimits their Iniquil and Suggestq their ReconstructIon-S. verItes P'resent Grievances. erIMon~b, Nov. 18.-The Souther Associated Press met in annual sessio at the Jefforson hotel, this city, th morning, transacted considerable rot tine business and re-elected the old o ficers. Mr. M. Glennaan of the No folk Virginian was added to the exe< utive committee. Mr. Edward Atkinson, of Bostor who was in the city, addressed th meeting at some length and amon other things said: "I need make n excuse for being here. I came her for rest, but when I find myself befor the Southern Press association ther is a word which must be said. I hav my finger on the centre of the nerv of the soutuland whence the influenc may come that may make or mar th mighty future of this nation. I knoT not what all your views may hav been; with some of you I have held ; somewhat bitter contest in the lat war; others have been with me-'le the dead past bury its dead.' At th beginning of the financial reconstru< tion of this nation on you falls a ster responsibility. "Several years since the presiden of the largest bank in -- came to m: ollice. He put to me this question 'What will be the end of the purchas of silver bullion under the Shermai act! to which I replied: 'A financia panic such as this country has neve seen and a paralysis of industry suc as we have never witnessed.' " 'When will that happen' T which I replied: 'No man can fix tih date; when the doubt passes throug] the land of the ability of the treasur; of the United States to maintain th payment of all its obligations of th lawful unit of value-a dollar mad of E old.' He noted this prophecy an went away preparing like myself fo the future. That crisis has come an< from that paralysis we are now emerg ing-the verdict of the nation ha been rendered. I impute no wrong ful motives to those of your sectioi who hav3 sustained the acts whicl have brought on this contest. It i ended; 'let the dead past bury its dead. May we not join together hand t band in the efforts to restore condi tions under which all may make pro gress to prosperity alike? Years ag< I thought that I had found in there strictions upon banking the cause o the danger which we have just sur mounted. In our section of the coun try we have more banking capita than we can use. In your sectien an< in the far west it is lacking. You people are distrustful of banks an< bankers, not knowing or believing i the service which banks render to th< community, yet subject yourselves t< the worst and most costly system, be cause you have no other. Your peo ple depend upon traders at the foui corners, taking advances from them a excessive rates of interest, put yoursel iuon obligations to sell their product! to them at as much as they may fi and paying to them double price foi all their supplies. People canno prosper under these conditions and th restrictions of the present bank act sitable for the period of war, and perhaps. justifiable, preventing tha unutu~al service which banks and bank ers might render to your community "It has been dilli cult for the men o he north and east to comprehend the ral grievance under which you have uffered while they deplore y-ur mis aken effort ini tne recent election t< ring bad money not only upon your elves-but upon us-money which re luired a force bill or act of legal ten ler to make it circulate at all. "We now ask you to formulate y ou eeds, to state your case and-to joit with us in such a reconstruction af tht >anking system of the country as shall nake this nation a unit, knowing nc ectional wrong to prejudice, each erving the other according to its abil ty and its needs. There are many nethods by which this can be done. he adjustment is a matter of detail. tre we such incapable people that, >ossessing the greatest resources of the vorld, we are smothered in our owi ~rease because we cannot organize ystem by which we can serve each ther "The lawful unit of value. surviving enturies of struggle throughout the sorld is now the unit of commerce, tc s'hich this and every other country nust adjust it own conditions, or else utfer loss. Shall not our unit of val e, the stand of our commerce, be the aual of any in the world? Then, as~ said, 'let the dead past bury its dead. [lt us join hands. The solid south it roken, even color line is broken. Il s the most '-opeful period that I have itnessed since the civil war. Right inded men may now lay away thei ~rejudice with the struggle that has ust ended. Find out wherein we may econstruct the filnancial system of the ~ountry and then join together, and by he force of the united public opinion ring about the removal of the artifi ~ial construction to our mutual bene it. Of all the issues which must come o the front in the immediate future,I elieve that the reconstruction of the anking system is the most important. [ad that been undertaken when it be ~ame so manifest to the few as it dida ew years since, we should have had o silver craze, or we might have beer aved the disaster and panic of recent ~cars. "Upon y ou rests the great responsi iity. As you may mould publi pinion of your section through your ress association, so may be the wel' are or the illfare of the nation in the mmediate future. But let us rememn er we dilfer, and that, struck through e shoulder by the sparks that are licited, the l ight of truth is extended. ~Vhatever might have been our errors a the past we may now work heartily 'or the honor, the integrity and the efare of our common country. I hank you for the opportunity which ~ou have given me, and leaving you ow I would again try to get a little est whiea I betake myself to the sea a going home from Norfolk." The members of thte association pent the afternoon visiting the points I interest in the city, and they were ntertained at the Westmoreland club. 'onorrow they will take a trip to ()ld 'oint and (line at the Chamberlin ho el. The local mtembers are making it leasant for the visitors. A Conviet Killect. GAIEsvicts, Fla., Nov. 19;. -While ames Jordan, an escaped negro con 'ict from South Carolina, was resist g arrest today hte was shot and killed v Marshall D avis. Jordan threw an e at the O!!!cer, who immediately red and killed his man. Kilued by Celerating. MttEt:ot:. Ky., Nov. 17.-in cel hrating McKinley's victory at Clint ood, Dickinson county, Virginia, e~sterday, an anvil exploded killing ~ellamn Cc ley and Preston Mullins nd frig htfully injuring three other s. Used PoIson. Sv. P~AUL, Minn., Nov. 1%-Rev. J. ..H ull. the preacher on trial charged ~ithi attempting to poison his wife, his afternoon pleaded guilty and was mienced tn the State prison for six GOL D BUG PROSPERITY. A Sample of What We May Expect Un S-Its Rule. NEIV Yong, Nov. 17.-It was a nouuced in the tanestry mills of i Alexander Smith & Son Carpet Co pany in Yonkers tonight thas one-h: of the force employed in the mi would be laid off Friday and the : mainder by Wednesaay of next wee n and th it the concern would shut dos .1 until January or later. It was a] Is nnnounced that probably the oth mills of this company would do lil - wise within the next two weeks. this occurs, about 7,000 hands will thrown out of employment. The cai given is that there is no market I 4 carpet and that the compauy had i e hand manufactured stocK far in s vance of any probable demand. T o New York .lournal in commenting, e the above says: Hardly had the e: e ployes of the A. Smith & Sons' Carr e Company, of Yonkers, N. Y., hac e chance to rejoice over the restorati e of the 10 per cent. reduction, whi e was made in their wages previous e election, than they are confronted 7 the statement that the mills wou e close down, to renew work possibl a but not positively, by January e This is a severe blow to the workii t people, who were given to understai e that by the restoration of that redi tion they were to taste the sweets 1 the so-called "good market," broug about by the election of McKinl t and Hobart. The announcement w 7 made in what is known as the "tapi : try mills," situated on Palisade a' e nue, yesterday, and it was immedia1 2 ly circulated throughout the enti -1 city, creating much gossip and co r demnation. This mill employs abo 2,500 hands, who are paid on an av age of $1. 25 a day. A large numb D of these employes are men with fan 3 :s relying upon the mills as the a only support. Beginning Frid: 7 ev'mning, when the hands are paid o e one-half will be thrown out of ei B plcyment, and by Wednesday nig e of next week the looms will ha I ceased to operate. Not only does tI r apply to the tapestry mills, but, it w learned, on good authority, that . the 'Smith factories in Yonkers w s cease operations within two weel thus leaving no less than 7,000 peop 1 without any source of revenue. Ha ' old 3rown, treasurer of thecompan; s refuses to be interviewed on the m ter, but it is generally known that tl 2 cormpany has kept its looms at wo: - with practically no market for i goods. The Smith carpet is sold e 3 tensively in the West, where ban' refuse to make loans even to the mc f reliable until business has revived : - that section. The Smith Carpet Col - pany is easily the largest carpet ma ufacturing concern in the world. turss out between 40,000 and 50,01 r yards of carpet a day and has a pg I roll amounting to nearly $60,000 1 week. The weavers receive betwec 3 $1.20 and $L40, which is the highe ) pay of any of the laboritig class , - employes. The company is at pr( ent carrying a tremendous stcck. T1 r business men and merchants are mu< t disturbed over the pending depressic f of business. They Stick to Bryan. NEW YoRK, Nov. 20.-The O'Brit Democracy has made public a seri of resolutions it adopted, of which t1 following are a part. Resolved, That the Young Demo tracy of the city of New York reallir . their support of the national platfor of the Democratic party, and pled, themselves anew to the support that party and to the principlesc which the Presidential campaign w conducted. Resolved, That we recognize in WV . am J. Bryan a statesman worthy .the best days oT the Democratic part; .fitted to lead patriotic men in this c. sis, and we offer him our renewed at .contirnued support. Resolved, That the traitorous acic of men who have heretofore claimi to be Democrats, and in the last car paign were supporters of either M Kinley or Palmer, was in violation< every principle of honesty and Demi cratic loyalty. Resolved, That the use of large sun of money by the trusts, syndicate corporations and individuals to cc rupt voters at the late election, ai the system of coercion employed1 intimidate employes in the exercise< the right to vote as their conscient might dictate,was criminally base an unworthy of American citizenship. Resolved, That in our opinion Day B. Hill. William F. Sheehan, Roswe -P. Flower, William C. Whitney, Pe ry Belmont, Thomas F. Gilroy, Hus J. Grant, Jacob A. Cantor, John 1I Fellows, WV.~Bourke Cockran, Fred eric R. Coudert and William I Grace have forfeited all claim to 1 hereafter recognized as Democrats. Resolved, That we congratulate tI Democratic party on the fact that il cilicial existence of Grover Cleavlan will terminate on the 4th of Marc next. Bryan Wil Lecture. LINCOLN. Neb., Nov. 17.-It h. been definitely arranged that Williai J. Bryan is to take the lecture pla form and his first address will be di livered at Atlanta, Ga., early in D, cember. His route as far as it h: been arranged will be, after leavin Atlanta, Jacksonville, Savanna] Charleston, Augusta, Birminghal and New Orleans. After leaving ti latter city, Mr. Bryan will go throug Texas, then on to California and Ort gon and will not reach the cities of th East before the latter part of February 1897. The man behind the enterpris is V- E. McBee of Norfolk, Va., th superintendent of the Seaboard Ai Line. On election night Mr. Mc~et who had been a hard worker for th~ Bryan ticket, wired to this city offel ing Mr. Bryan a very large amour for a series of lectures in case the ele< tion should turn against him. No al tention was paid to the matter at th time by Mr. Bryan, but after the de feat of the Democratic ticket had bee: formally acknowledged by the D~emc cratic leaders, Mr. McBee once mor renewed his offers, negotiations wer begun and the result has been that Mr Bryan has signed contracts for a serie of lectures under the manaigement o Alexander Comnstock, who is the rei resentative and associate of Mr. Mc Bee in the enterprise. The terms c the agreement from a financial stand point have not been made public, bu it is reliably understood that the re muneration which Mr. Bryan is to re ceive is to exceed the salary lie woul have receivedl as P resident of the Unit ed States In the event of his electior to that ollice. Arrangements are al ready under way to have the deliver, of Mr. Bryan's first lecture in Atlanti made the occasion of a great demon stration, which will be in the natura of a monster reception. The lecture: to be delivered by Mr. Bryan will bi non-partisan in their character anc will for the most part be upon govern mental and social topics, as it is expressly stipulated in the contrac that the tour shall have no politica aspect or color. Fatal Fire D~amp. BF.RLIN, Nov. 19.- An explosion o fire-damp which has occurred in a col liery at Recklingheusen, Westphalia caused the death of a large number o miners. A score of bodies have beer taken from the mine. Fifty miner are still missing aind are thought t0 WRECK AND RUIN. ]er Torridle HtardshIp4 Caused by Floods and S Storms In Washington. n SEATTLE, Nov. IS -Rsidents of he Seattle and Vicinity, who by reason in- of the llocdi and snow have been vir- U ilf tually prisoners in the fastnesses of t lUs the Cascade mountains since Friday v re- last, are coming in. some on gravel t k, Irains, some afoot and others by boat 0 vn They tell harrowing tales of sutfering so devastation and destruction. The , .er situation as described in these dis ;e- patches from day to day has not been If exagerated in tne least, if indeed the b be fierceness and fury of the storm has V Ise been fully portrayed. There has been or human suffering and no doubt many t on miners and prospectors in the Cas- t Ld- cades have been either drowned or 1 he have met death from snow slides. Y on Four prospectors, headed by Jos. 2 m- Nicholson, operating a claim on the n et Snoqualime pass, arrived this' after- s a noon. One of the men is a raving n on maniac by reason of the suffering and e ch hardships endured in their efforts to Y to get out of the mountains. Saturday e by night to prevent being swept down Id the mountains by snow slides they e y, lashed themselves to trees, where they 7 1. remained in the drenching rain for 7 a- six or eight hours. Meanwhile great g ad boulders of earth and huge sections-of 7 ic- snow kept sliding down into the can- 0 of yons and gulches below. Trees were Y ht torn up by the roots and carried away h ey by the avalanche and the noise was e, as indescribably horrifying. At day- s %- break on Sunday the prospectors tore 0 re- away the lashings and began their te- perilous journey out of the moun- e re tains. They followed Gold Creek to Ix n- Lake Keechsler, tramping through g ut snow four and five feet deep, crossing tl r- small streams on logs; finally finding er their way to the point where the P ii- Northern Pacific crosses the Cascades ti ,ir and thence proceeded down the rail ty road track to this city. h ff, Two Seattle business men were % n- caught at Index Thursday. They were C ht three days walking 35 miles to Snoho- aj ve mish, crossing small streams by means ri tis of driftwood and the larger ones in 0 as row boats. They report that the ei tIl Great Northern westbound overland ill passenger train with 41 passengers, :s, due here last Friday morning, is stall- g le ed between Wellington and Madison, J r- owing to great washout on both sides. st y, When last heard from 12 first class ri tt- passengers on the train were supplied s1 ie with half rations from the dining car, si rk while the day coach and second class d ts passengers, including 24 Chinese, p x- managed to procure scant food sup- st ks plies from Wellington. The gentle. I st men giving this information say there d, in are 10 washouts on the Great North- 01 n- ern between Index and Sultan, a dis- a] n- tance of four miles; that the upper P1 It falls of the Skihomish river two bridg 30 es are gone, together with 1,200 feet of ai ty track. a When the flood was at its height, s m the Great Northern line between Mon- Y, st roe and Skihomish, a distance of sev. a! of en miles, was inundated to a depth of st s- from 6 to 15 feet. Today's advices, ti 2e however, are to the efYect that the *h waters of all rivers have receeded ex mn cept at Snohomish. In the flats and bottoms, water covered thousands of ei acres of rich farm Iand, leaving noth- a m ing but wreck and ruin behind. The w es Great Northern is making no attempt tj eto run trains, save on the coast line p north of Stanwood. Large forces of men are now at work on the coast c-and main line, but there is little pros- C m pect of early resumption of trafic. On D mSunday three minutes after the North- 1, ern Pacific passenger train from Port- x Sland had passed Ainslee half a mile N in of track and roadbed near that place o Sslid into the Cowlitz river. The east- Si Iera mails due here Saiturday and Sun- y Sday were received today, but there v Shas been none from San Francisco and ~the south since Saturday night. The SNorthern Pacific by transferring is Ldnow running overland trains east from ci iTacoma and is also making steamer tt connections from this city to Port- C -land. ________D Big Platform Fans~. Ii >f Macos, Ga., Nov. 19.-Thirty peo- IK o- plc, three thousand bales of cotton N and hundreds of tons of heavy timber 0 is all went down in one loud crash at S s, 7:30 o'clock to-night at the Central ' r- Railroad compress in this city. Four Ld teen injured people, all employes of ~o the compress, have been removed ~f from the wreckage, but it is thought ~e others are beneath the cotton:and lum .d ber, if so, they are dead or will be be- M fore they can be extricated. Several tr id employes are missing and it is feared fu 11 they are beneath the wreck. The th r- platform was 20 feet high, 850 feet h long and 140 feet wide, Over 500 feet t. save way without warning, the sup i- ports being rotten. It is believed that h t. two teams and their drivers were e caught beneath the platform, as it ex tended over Poplar street, a public f0 ie thoroughfare, and the teams are said ie to have been seen going under the h d platform just before it fell. So great to h was the noise made by the falling ac platform that it was heard a distance de of a mile and many people in the t neig'hborhood were badly frightened. td SAll f the injured were taken to their e Shomes and hospitals and given atten -tion by surgeons, who pronounced the Sinjuries of some of them perhaps xa- in -tal. The wrecked platform cover sev-se Seral acres of ground and presents an appallingr sight in the moonlight. It is Swill cost several thousand dollars to w replace the platform. The hunt for th the dead bodies supposed to be buried beneath the wreckage will not begin until to-morrow, as derricks and other Sappliances for raising cotton and tim- Pu ber cannot be procured before then. t e "Assassinated by Negroes. r WVVADLr, Nov. 1 .---The particulars. A, of a horrible murder at Ilodo reached Il e here yesterday. Joe Smith, a young bo -white man in the employ of Captain ho t T. J. .James, on Saturday night, at un about S o'clock, locked the commnissa- bei Sry door and had just turned away su< e from the door when the top part of foi Shis head was shot away. The report cel n of the gun brought men, but they an i could do nothing for the dying man. wi e Ie did not speak after he was shot, and i e died in a few minutes. A posse with -boodhounds immediately began the s search for the murderers. F-inally f the dogs came to a negro house and W two negro n.en jumbed out of a wvin- roi dow and lIed, but were captured. They t'ev fwere identified as Tony Spikes and un his son Bill. It seems that young be1 t Smith had a quarrel with one of the :~i negr-ocs Saturday morning, hence the M - cr-ime. Young Smith was steady go- onl wa mig <Min For Demeoc-racy. a WAHIGToN, Nov.19.k-The receipts of the returns of the late election in ] South Dakota makes it possible to comi- gre -plete the list of members of the house mc of representative; of thL Fifty-first mc Scongress. This shows a total of 205 yei Republicans, 137 De-nocrats and 15 wi] SPopulists. Of the Republicans five cor are-said to favor ihe free coinage of dai silver-Messrs. IMilborn of California, flu Brode-rick and Curtis of Kausas, in- bli~ Iney of Nopth Carolina and Beach of par Ohio-and of the Democrats two - int Messrs McAleer of P'ennsylvarila and mo Elliot of Sou'.h Carolina, are sountd :;lt mone-y mie. So that upon the silver lin; -question the house will stand -Sound wir money, 22; free silver, 15~5; mnajority one sound money, -17. In the pr--eint con - beg argiess the totals are: Republicans ih 253 Democrats 92, P'opulists ;, inciudi- add ing fusionists and si I v-erttes is v:aan- tioi j c;. wil APPEALED TO WATSON. omuf,;hu:'m That Will Lay Tommy on th, Shelf. IVASHINGTON, Nov. 15. -Senator Iarirm Butler, chairman of the P.p list National Campaign committee, )day made public the followine letter 'hich he addressed to Mr. Watson Tvo days after tie receipt of his letter f acceptance: Washington, D. C , Oc 16 iomas E. Watson, Thomson, Ga. Dear Sir-Your letLer of acceptance ,as received Saturday night. It had een detained in the postoflice for ,ant of sufficient postage. You, in effect, advise Populists not support the joint electoral tickets iat have been arranged in a large umber of States. It is possible that ou fully appreciate the effect of such ivice? At least upon reflection, you Lust know that if enough Populists iould follow such advice, it would kean the defeat of Bryan and the ection of McKinley. Besides, if our advice should be followed by aough Populists the People's party 'ould not have a single elector in the estoral college. In the States where e have joint electoral tickets, we 'ill gain every elector that we do t; and, besides, it is in those States 'here we will get the bulk if not all the People's party congressmen. In our own State and other States which ave followed your advice against ectoral tickets, we will not geta ngle elector and I fear not many >ngressmen, if any. You cannot certainly mean, how rer mucn you may have favored a Liddle-of-the-road policy in -the be nning, to advise your friends to do Lat which at this time would be the ost effective agency in placing in wer McKinly and his backers-the 'usts and monopolies. Can any personal or party injustice, )wever great, justify us in being re >onsible, either directly or indirectly, >r placing in power the stock jobbers, onopolists. trusts, the British gold ng and all of the combined robbers the people and enemies of good gov nment? In the name of outraged and suffer g humanity, whose prayers today up from millionsof homes for Wm. Bryan, in his heroic and marvelous ruggle against the minions of corpo ,te greed and the hellish gold con >iracy, let us sink every other con eration and hold up his hands and >the full duty of Americans and triots. Let us remember that it is a fering people and a betrayed repub and not Democratic politicians to Ly that call for our help and demand tr services. Bryan will be elected id the government redeemed if every triot does his duty. LEt usdo ours. Therefore, I beseech you to change, least that part of your letter which ves advice which if followed would rely help the common enemy. If )u do not, then you, yourself, must sume the responsibility of giving ch a document to the public at this ne. Yours truly, MARIoN BUTLER. It Was Close. For the comfort of Bryan's support s, the Washington Post figures how ahange of 25.393 votes in nine States ould have given him a majority of ree in the Electoral College. The >st's figures are as follows: Electoral Majori votes. ties. ilifornia............ 9 5,000) elaware..........3 2,500 dana.............15 ~22,000 entucky.......13 500 orth Dakota........3 5,000 regon............. 4 3,000 >uth Dakota.........4 300 rest Virginia........6 12,000 ryoming............ 3 200 Totz electoral votes..60 Total McKinley majorities, 50,500. Now, suppose there had been these anges from McKinley to Bryan in e different States respectively: lifornia.................. 2,510 elaware.................. 1.255 tdiana..................11,100 entucky.................. 251 orth Dakota............... 2,510 regon.................... 1,505 >uth Dakota............... 151 es igna........ 6,010 yomning.................. 101 Total.................. ..25,393 Curry Talks Straight. RALEmnH, N. C., Nov. 19.-Dr. J. L. .Curry, ex-Minister to Spain and istee of the Peabody and Slater nds, made an address today before e colored students of Shaw Univer y here, in which lhe used this rather trtling language: "I don't believe much in the idea of .ving the United States flag over our iools. i'd like to know what the ited States government has done e our public schools in North Caro ta to demand that the flag should .ng over them. It never gave a cent North Carolhna schools except to the ademy and music colleges. It is a ception and a fraud to put the fiag ere. It is the State that gives you ucation. Speaking of the negro he said: "I never could understand why the gro population remains so compact the South, instead of becoming tttered all over the Union. The >rthern men freed the negro. Why it the negro does not go North to be th his friends, instead of staying in 3 South among his enemies." Xs to suffrage, Dr. Curr; said: "I don't believe a man who cannot d his ballot ought to be allowed to t it in the box. (Applause among negro students.) Hie ski pped. INSTON, N. C.. Novi. 19--Mr. J. B. xton, a prominent la e er of Wilkes ro, is missing. lHe disaLppeared from me a few days ago and some very leasant developments h yve since au made. A warrant ha<c 'een is rd for his arrest, oharging . m with 'ery and embezzlement, sig mug the tif icates of the county cour t. e lerk I register upon a nmortgage deed by ich lhe obtained monev from A L h1 irdson of New York A Fatal J1amp. ITTSl:UR(a, Pa., Nov. 19.-While irden McCre a of Erie, Pa., was en ite to Riverside Penitentiary with tythree prisoners, Thomas Cronin Ler live years wm!nce for car rob -y, made a dash .e~ liberty and nped from the t.s .z>')ing train. Crea followed him but., alighting his head, brok~e his ui. Cronin s seriouslm', bu t not fata in jured. was later removed to to wniten *v to serve out his sentence. at wveather prophet Il iiek says.' the imih of D~ecemnb r will be one of tue t severe we have experienced in rs. It is not likely that thme storms I be dangerous becAuse they do not rie at the period of the year when igerous storms are to be expected. Syou will get all the old fashionedi ;zards you want during the latter, t of the month. Things will grow eresting about the 19th of the nth and continue until D~ecember i. We wil have a good sprink e of oad weather before that, for iter will begiu early and be a cold ,but thme centre of the worst period ins about November i:mh. Duringf time the influence of Mars will be( ed to others, producing a commro- s in the earthm' atrmospere which Is POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream of tartar baking powder. Highest of all in leavening strength. -LZalest United States Gocern ment Fool Report. ROYAL BoI PowDER Co., New York City. The March of a Dead I*ane. Some of 'the Southern papers are making themselves rediculous by echoing the cry of the Eastern gold organs that the silver question has been settled and that Mr. Bryan and his supporters are imperilling the business interests of the.'country by refusing to accept the defeat of No vember3as final. The Colutmbia State, which is one of the ablest advocates of silver in the country, hits the nail squarely on the herd when it.says that it finds "that the papers which are doing most of this sort of talking are those that lately served in the Democratic ranks as reluctant con' scripts, with the bayonets of their sub scribers behind them to keep them from running away. They were not very useful soldiers. The muzzles of their guns wabbled sc widely that half the time they were ficing at our forces instead of the enemy; they had more to say during the battle of the merits of the enemy's cause thin of their own, and instead of cheering on to victory they were continually com plaining of the route they were obliged to follow, discovering incompetency and treachery among their generals and promoting a -panicky feeling among their comrades. Now that the campaign is over it is entirely natural that they should proclaim that the cause in which they were conscripted is lost forever, and be seeking amnesty bf tumbling over each other in their haste to swearallegiance tothe money power." The State then goes on to say that these "'logal' Southern papers are very much in evi'ence ia the columns pf the Eastern press at .his time. They are quoted as gravely as dertain other released conscripts were thirty years ago in proof that the South had seen the error of its way, was penitent, humbla and resolved never- again to offend its conquerors. We make the prediction that in time these penitents, like those of 1866, will find their way into the Republican party. The rest of us, the majority of the Southern people, will stand firm in the faithre sisting now as then the effort to make of this- government a centralized des potism. To yield to the majority for the period in which that majority has. gained the right to rule is one thing; to adopt as our own.the tenets of the majority at one election is quiteanoth er. There would be no political par ties after a first election if this latter course obtained. One defeat would kill forever the most. essential princi ple; no party, no policy would be alive today, because we have no party and no policy that has not at some time been defeated." Tnese are burning words and we thank the State for them. But let us quote again from the State: "We have yet to find one paper in the South that supported Bryan and silver 2romi conviction which is now in favor of abandoning the leader or~ the cause. In South Carolina, among the ne wspa pers of-this class, there is but one sen timent-that the struggle for bimetal lism must go on and that the man wh> so grandly led it this year must be the leader until the fight sha 1 be won. Nobody contemplates a 'hurrah' cam paign for the next four years. There is no occasion for it, and it could not be had if it were desired. Only in the final charge is their stimulus to fever and fury. Demonstrative enthusiasm cannot be kept up for yesrs. But. what can be and will be maintained is a resolute purpose to persevere and finally win, and to that end hard, ear nest, quiet work will be steadily done." E very paper in .Sa+rthrar lina that supportest Bryasu from con viction will say amnen to the above. Trying todSave Murphy. The Orangeburg correspondent of the News and Courier says 'still another effort is to be made in the in terest of D)aniel Murphy, who is now contined in the State Penitentiary at Columbia to await sentence of death. It will be remembered that Murphy was convicted of the murder of Treas urer Copes at the May term, 1895, of the Court of General Sessions, Judge B~uchanan presiding. An appeal was taken to the Supreme Court and stay of proceedings was obtained pending the appeal. During the past summer a decision was handed downu by the Su preme Court overruling the objections raised in the appeal and confirmiug the verdict of the lower Court. Then the :ase would have come up before Judge rownsend in September for a resent ence, but an order was obtained from Justice Pope staying the remtittur un r~il three days af ter the November term >f the Supreme Court. Col. Malcolm [. Browning. the attorney for Mur Thy, has filed notice of a motion be ore the Supreme Court for a reopen ng of the whole case, and the [motion ~ill probably comec up for argutnent rery soon after the meeting of the jour-t next week. Should this motion ye refused Murphy will be br-ought >efore Judge Witherspoon in Janun -y for resentencing, as it is not proba >le that anything further can be done >y Cot. Browvning for his client ini a egal way." ii'ew ie wVas a sioaa ~.. Ri' oIMNo, Va., Nov. 17. -Tno city ounicil tonight by a vote of 21 to 22 r used to accept the~ res~guation of Mr. . V. Meredith, city attorney, lie re igned the o ee because an declined to upport Bryaun for President and Dem