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REV. DR. -ALMAGE FAVORS AT~ CONGREGATIONAL SiNG!NG. The Importance of S.acred Mn-e sud some of theObstacles to Its Advar cement- -A Singing Church Is Ahways a Suee'ssful One. Dr. Talmac en hi di'r churches to more heartcon ing and calls upon in-trume join in the praise Cf Gi. The Chronic es v, 1. 'It eA:--- eve:' ' a the trumpeters and s'i-ers u-' - make one sound to be hea.rd in pra u- a thanking the Lord.~ The temple was done. It wa- the -ery chorus of all magnificance anp ponp S eu dor crowded azadus: sl iendor- It waS -Z, diamond necklsee of the earth. huge piilars crown-, with leaves ani and rows of pomegranae wn t-t burnished metal, down even tot .e :it at-i snuffers made out of pure .d. eve-' t'. was as complete as the )d d-eet aci tect could make it it seemed as; it a vi-on from heaven had alighted en the ioun:ains The day for dedication came- Tradint:e says that there were in ani around al:out the tempnle onthat day 20,1 0 Kilver trump ets, 40,600 harps. 4o,000 timbreIs and : 000 sinzers. So that all modern den'ra tions at'Dusseldorf or Boston seem nothixz compared with that. As thi. g reat sAird surged up amid the precious stone, ot tue temple, it must have seemed 1ike- the river -: life dashing againzt :te anethyst of tie wall of heaven. The sound a rose. an Id as if to show that he wal well ieased with the music which his caildren i ke in a! ages, dropped into the iid f the temtla. cloud of glory so overpower j inat the o'i ciatiug priests were ob'iged to z-op i the midst of the services. The e has been much drscussion as to where music was born. i thiuk that at the beginning. "when the morning tars sang togetherand all the son. of G )d seuted for joy," the earth heard tie echo. The eloui on which the a:zels :0od to celet-rate the creation was the birthplace o7 song. The stars that glitter at night are (1 so many keys of celestial pearl en which 'os tin gers play the music of spheres ILaimmie nature is full of God'- stringe I and wind in struments. Silence itself-perfect sience is only a musical rest in God's great authem of worihip. Wind among the leave, iu-el humming in the summer air, the rush ofhil low upon beach, the ocean fir out und its everlatting psahn, the laolink on tv edge of the forest, the quali whi1'in : u; from the grass are music. While izin Blackwell's island I heard. coming " a window of the lunatic asyium, a very swece song. It was sung by one who had l'.he reason, and I have conie to beheve tuat even the deranged and disordered elements or na ture would make music to our ear if we only had acuteness enough to listen. I suppos that even tne sounds in nature that are d: cordant and repulsive make harmony in God's ear. You anow that you may come so near to an orchestra that the sounds are painful instead of pleasurahle, and i think that we stand so near devastating storn and frigthful whirlwind we cannot hear that which makes to God's ear and the ear of tie spirits above us a music as complete as it is tremendous. I propose to speak about sacred music first showing you its importance and then stating some of the obstacles to its advance ment. I draw the first argument for the import ance of sacred music from the fact that Goc comaanded it. Through Paul he tells us to admonish one another in psalms and ihymnm and spiritual songs, through David he cries out, "Sing ye to God, all ye kingdoms of the earth." And there are hundreds of othet passages I might name. proving that it is as much a man's duty to sing as it is his duty to pray. Indeed I think there are more commands in the Bible to sing than ther( are to pray. God not only asks for the hou man voice, but for the instruments of music. He asks for the cymbal and the harp and the trumpet. And 1 suppose that in the lust days of the church the harp, the lute. the trumpet and all the instruments of mush that have given their chief aid to the theatet and bacchanal will be brought by their mas ters and laid down at the feet of Christ anc then sounded in the church's triumph or her wsy from sttfering into glory. "Priise ye the Lord !" Praise him with your voices Praise him with stringed instruments anc with organs. 1 draw another argument for the impor tance of this exercise from the impres' siveness of the exercise. You know some thing of what secular music has achieved You mnow it has made its impression upot governments, upon laws, upon literature. upon whole generations. One inspins national air is worth 30,000 men as a stand ing army. There comes a time in the battl< when one bugle is worth 1,000 muskets. In the earlier part of our civil war the govern ment proposed to economize in bands ot music' and many of them were sent home but the generals tn the army sent word -, Washington: "You are making a very gree mistake. We are falling back ar d fallic~ back. We have not enough music." I have to tell you that no nation or church can af ford to severely economize in music. -Why should we rob the programmes oi worldly gayety when we have so many ap propriate songs and tunes composed _in out own day, as well as that magniticent inheri tance of church psalmody' which has comt down fragrant with the devotions of othet generations-tunes no more worn out that when our great-grandfathers el tmbe.I up ou them from the church pew to glory'.' Deat cld soul,, how they used to sing: And in those days there were certain tunes marria' to certain hymns, and they have lived it peace a great while, these two od people. and we have no right to divorce t hem. Born as we have been amid this great wealth o: church musie, augmented by the composition: of artists in our day, we ought not to be tempted out of the sphere of Christian har imony and try to seek unconsecrated sounds It is absurd for a millionaire to steal. Many of you are illustrations of what sacred song can do- Through it you were brought into the kingdomn of Jesut' C~ri-t You stood out egainst the warning and the argument of the pulpit, but wien in ti sweet words of Charles Wesley,. or.tr-hn New ton, or Toplady, the love < t Je:-us was siun; to your soul, then y cu surrendered, us a armed castle that could tot te .taken [y host lifts its window to iisten to a h'.rp-s mre There was a Scotch soldier dyi::g in N'.e' Orleans and a Sc-,tch in-ster eane ini t, give him the consolations ot tie g'ospei. Tis man turned, over on hi- pillw and saili + Don't talk to me about religiou.-oTt the minister began to sing a faimn iar bym: that was composed b' 1L-i -'ick ensun be ginning with the word: Oh, mother dearI Jeu alem, When shall I come t- thee: He sang in to the tune o Dun-dee, an everybody in Scotland knows that andI as h began to sing the dying soicier turned ceve on his pillow and sai to the n-ir-iter "Where did you learn that:" "Why." ri plied the minister, "my mother :aug'ht r that." "So did mine." said thed i dier, and the very foundation of mi., acar was upturned, and then and there he il himself to Christ. Oh, it has an irre--iu power! Luther's sertmons have been uorit ten, but his Judgment liymn -ing 0' through the ages and will keep on -iugin' until the b:ast of the archiangel' trumpe shall bring about that very day which tu, hymn celebrates. 1 woun- 'to God that yeti would take these songs of --alvation a- mi sages from heaven, for "ust -as certanly a the bird brought toodl to Eij- by the 0roo Cherith so these wingedI har'--nie- i e are dying to your soul wit-' the '-reaofle Open your mouth antake it, C i un r' jah: I have also notice- thbpwe of-sareois to soothe perturb-aton. Youny ha-ve -'e. in here with a great "in-'y w- rri-n a anxieties, yet perhaps in-h ig;o : first hymn you lost the" a-L 'io--haver.: in the Bible of Saul, and how -e wa- er n angry, and how the boy David~ cam- n n played the evil spirit out o"'t"m. "A- Spni king was melancholy. The w'ndows wer ali closed, flu sat in the darkde-ss. ing cout.- bin hi.L rhuni 0n and discoursed mrusi' f'r thre -: - to him. On the four"' da-y u:e and wept and rij.ced, an i. th' -w Cus of dea. I whe the en viyo hear th'e faint h1m a ni:.ter of ChriLt who i n ered c~~~~~~~ L1 2" ' 2 ire Ct IO"b e. to 'have a very t (onOnt-'ution Jktt Ch c Oi r . lie n1 " -int nl "thle grace of Grod, but uerves i e wha'l ne. 11 is 'amaz ing houw eine0 pei" wi'h voic-e enoug to li--er'e a mtheir du du.1 I re sl be'eve that if the churc o. Chri' 'could rtie 'up an1 ih iu ast o'1". n to th er eio f C rith whou - e ro " ile wZ it ine'.i 6W lem necd !vC WO I e .l ie :T' :i vaw 'ti e (Of t t:-acre muri, and~ te i:-chr is s v. Iecu 1:2r,e i nto the Crvic -1 o I'll lip arrneIv iba: muo :1d r 1as .ene laces where mus has t il . [0 t' 1t01 (I E and: the ter ductot v e e lf our ci viin. t d . ici o bs * 0. uch: i.t io lrre I LAUr r !rdenS Sot o i e we. hv t he gdttg of :erand wind~ ~ ~~' "lwiastb ln eer ps-lt ofthe ei ai the head, and the heart, ha ft~e been impitressed into the service ot rror. Tartini, the musical conmp"er, d reavned hane -g:t th It sutan snatched r ' hi i d 'an instrutuent aud played up2on it 21me [it,g very sweet-a dream that har otten been fiiled in our day, the voice and th lastru nts1 that ought to h tve been de Vted . atiris are captured from the church and appnied te ie p nurpoes of sin. Ano2thert ointac'le has been anf itrorditnate ear ori isz"n. vas.t :ajhe m ority of per e sincin ot la ' thc never want an body t h e L he n l1*r.1 "1ig ElerybUti is "aii-Cfr "c i.n l e to 'do his jutyt. I we '. :l: in ' thn te i.cracies th:a atre .xent weln ody a few sing would hed drwuei t. a- ou to do a- well a vou tcn a" teni ypuou get the wrong cn or ke r ton tile e he wil forgiv 'p" heaeese of t ear and impercrdie vai, .ne wanot laugh if y:" 1ho I io-e your pl'ace n the musical seaie or UZ-L inI 't the. ba'r behind. There are three -cho isofinginzt, 1 am told-thn German .e!o . ti.e .2ian school and the French hL o ng'ng. Now. I would like to add a fonrth choo.n thn eat is the sehool or Crist. The voice of a contrite, broken heart. athough it ma 0e a'le to stand hu-n oan cri cti. cmakes better music to God ear than the Mess ati1ie perortuance when the heart is wantnt. God micas on the beasts. on the cattle, on the drgons to praise him, and we ought not to be behind the cattle and the dragons Another obstacle in the advancement of this art has been the erroneous notion that tis part of the service could be conducted by delegation. 4. hurches have said, "'Oh, what an easy time we shall have: The min ister wil do the preaching ani the choir will do the singing and we will have no ing to do." And you know as well as 1 that there are a great multitude of churches all through this land where the people are not expected to sing. The whole work is done by delegation of four or six or ten persons, and the audience are silent. In such a church in Syracuse an old elder per sisted in sining, and sc the choir appoirted a committee to go and ak the eder if he would not stop You know that in many churches the choir are expected to do all the hineine, an the at mass of the people are'extiectedl to be- silent, and if ycu titter your 'voice you are interfering. In that ebarch they s:anld, the four, with opera gasses dangiing at their side, singing --Rock of ages. cleft for meC," with the same spirit that the night before on the stage they took their part is the "Grand Dtuchesse" or -Don Giovanni.' My Christian friends, hare we a right to delegate to others the discharge of this duty which God demands of us: Suppose that four wood thrushes propose to do all the singing some bright day when the woods are ringtng with bird voices. It is decided that four wood thrushes shall do all the singing of :he forest. Let all other voices keep silent How beautifully the four warbl It is really tine music. T;ut how long will you keep the forest stijll' Why, Christ would come into that forest and look up as he looked through the olives, and he would wave his hand and say, "Let everyt'ing that hath breath praise the Lord" and, keeping time with the stroke of innumerable wings, there would be ~>,OLU bird voices leaping into the harmony. Suppose this delegation of m'usical perfor mers were tried in heaven. Suppose that four choice spirits should try to do the sing ing of the up.;er temple. IHush now, thrones and dominions and principalities: David be still, though you were the "sweet singer or Israel-" Paul, keep quiet, though you have comie to that crown of rejoicing. Rich rd Buxter. keep still, though this is the -Sans' Everlasting lest." Four spirits now do all the singing, but how long would heaven be .;uief' liow long: --IIal!eiuiah? Iwould cry' some gloiieid 1erihodi-.t from under the altar. -'l'raise th~e Lord:- would sing :h~e martyrs from amngnc the thrones. "Thanks be unto God who giveth us tihe vic tory'":a cry. myriads of voices coming into the harmony and th~e 14 LQ U breaking forth into onte acclamation, Stop that loud sin" ino: sto: Uh. no. They cannot hear mie. ou nmight as well try to dro'Ia the thunder of the sky, or beat back the roar of the sea for everys oul in heaven has resolved1 to do t own siging. Alas, that we should have id on earth that which they ca". >t do in heavent and, instead of joining all ,ar voices . thec praise of the most high Gou, delegait inito reiaps to uncolnseerlted men and wom e'h :no-t sc:mn and rmost delightful ser alugc echtto r::sh from the audience lik ne w.uer ,romi a rock--clear, brght, a~er~a:. If1Pte 'ther part of the church aemee 2i d' . 1 'av the ni-. e dul!. twyuith "a2'' drawonli' aioupid wa: T1.ere pu1pi an iook "~f on n-uiece it t2~aheir to a.lar audieLce "n-i al' t'he :'u-ic theyv wwe ogter did ot21 eq1 the skyhirk ople do no' -'leet ' corona'tion. Do niot ltu:.epwhea we corne to a Savio2ur'5 conin; In order. to a proper'~ dincarge of his uty let us stand up. sav'e als age ora wetknesA -r fatigue excuses us. &eatedi an e-sy pew we e innot do this dutry hati so we a1" w.hen ui righ: we throw our whole iitoi.Let our song be like an acela n~ .:In '. v:cry. Y ou have a right to si. * n ii: urrnder your prerogative. W e wat to rouse alour families upon thi sije:.We want each family 01 our -"toE reition to b~e a -inging school. Cild i ohtilance, eb iueracy and intracta:ity wol *.e >oth~ed i' we had more singing in the 2cusehhcd, andi thou our little ones wol be prepat' re-d fo the great congrega to on S'a bich day, their voices unticn wi'" ou" voi'es i'n the praises of the L'.r'i. M~era :howr terearescores ot :i-temis ta come down 'he 'iountain sile with vo'ces "ripli- and "'lv"ry, orimng into one t"sa. "'o * would baye all the f"nie s in al i"aise. upcurin' itin2tthe gre: tiCiAo ;1 l'' wor-uhipV to ro:s o" and on to e21tp ""ca'. wi'le "rst of *1 Nee :it an rouse upl theol -1" i, i 2h1 ie n .t...... ... W - Iw > i. - WEATHER AND CRC P Weeliy bulettiu of tlie Ve:htr Bu-k-ar IPued Last Wceek. The foliowing is t t e weekly buletir of the condition of thi weather anc crops issued by the Sc-uth Carohns section of the Unitcd States clh.rate and erno service for last we-: A ie ra Ir art p a ee , vit' 0 ert r-S fron to d de res bel w11 IUrwt:1, e , * lv t e rorma i Te'era' r i l e sr cf the 22 23I 'as ;Us'y Co d wit minimLm lexera1ure uncetr 50 ov i sll the Stal exc'-p n-Nr 1-- co' s whete it ws betw en 5 and 5 5 Tf lowest reporte.i %as 40 on ihe 24h a Kingystre-, and the ighst 19. on the 1-i hrt Fie'rence The wttxiy reaL was 65 ard the. Lrnial for tte san. period is spprex~ira'ei3. The long txisting and 'ee r drog was broken by slowers ear:y in t:i sreek. a.'i a 1c2.er>l heavy r:I on ti. 2st ar d 22d. The rain w-as cccm paried bv high wirds over treeisterr pirti(n ef the State. Tie raitfai messuremerits we;e ger eral'y hcsvy only 5 nlaces hiving amourts of ies than the inch. 10 had fr:am one to Iwk irches and 26 had ver two iches witn a nsximurm mEasurement of 6 2. at OaklaLi Tie avm-adeuf al mea, u!e;i ents was 2 ba; and the no, a: il fo the week is annut re Ii -h. GENERAL STATE.1ENT. The severe drought was broken b t're rairis of the week, SL th.e ewi0. :iate is now well walered, and tbi round in fine ccndation for plowing aIitd sowing fli ca's, rye atd barley which work has sctiely begun. Peas turnips, late potaict-s aLd pasure wi-re greatly bnented bv the rain -1 d also fall vegethb.'s, gar ens au< trUck, but it came tco .ate to matetrial '- benefit corn er cotton, excpt ver. !ate tields of the former and your. imature bolls of the latter of whic: there are comp2ratively few Cotton reports are featureless foi the week, except that much open cot ion wss blown to the ground on th 21st and 'i2.2d, and beat into the dir and staintd by the hea ty rains. Cot Ion picking was delaytd from one t< three da3s by the unfavorable weath er and the heretofore rapid opeLiL o immature bolls was largely checked Ctherwise the rain was of no benei to cotton, which is now so far ad anctd as to be beyond liability of in jury by frost. there being practicall' no "top crop." Cotton in many place is nearly all open and over half of thi crop has been gathered. The yield i reported to be smaller than expectat and generally disappointing. There are many sections which w*1 no doubt make a fu'l crop but such re ports are cutnumbered. two to one, b: reports of yields falling below an av -rage. Sea Islan d cotton was not in j ared by the storm, on the cntrar: the rain will materially hel p t be "tcl cron' of whi.:h there is a fair promnise Corn is being gathered and the crc is generally reported to be a full ora and in places an extra fine one. Ii ne extreme northwestern countie where corn was planted late, Icdder i still being pulid but even there tb ears are matured and no longer sa b ject to weather condition. Ri~e harvest was some what delay et erly in the week oat was resumt' during the latter portion and is nos practically complett d. There are fet reorts indicating poor yields of rice but generally the crop is a full aver age one, and has been secured in ex celent condition, it having been no at all damaged by the storm. Thresb ig is well under way. P'eas were helred by the rain an are generally fruiting w ell, w ith ex ceptions over little areas where pea are complete failures. Sweet potatoes show improvemen since the rains and look more promis In the truck i'aisintg districts, plow ing and planting winter vegetablesi now under way, with the ground ni excellent condition fcr this work. Pastures which were pa:ched as brown have started a new growtnl Stock water is again plentiful. Crops having completed their growtl except a few comparatively urimpor tat ones, the issue cf tht se buletin will end, for the seson of 1697, witJ this number. Correspondenis wil therefore, please discontinue thei weekly teports. Murdered for his5 Honey. John H~rris a resp-eted and well to do negro of Binridge, Ga., wa nrdered Saturday. and direct eri dence points to Sirt o 2 Hop kinis, an oher negro. as the a~Ssasinl. Harri was a batcner, and by frusality bra accumulaned a neat little fortune. H tarted out Saturday to buy scm beaves and was xnurzered in Gritlin oastre. abiut two miles from th. ci'. lie was the~n robb-d and hi bor was throvw into F1iat river No trace of hita~ was discovered unti vserday, when a searching psrt: found tt~e bedy. Hi.kira, who charged with the cri"'t, has been si rested arnd is now iti j -iL at the place 'here has been c ~tibrable talk a lynching among the ne-dr)s Hung oy N- gr--e A special fromr ' ro:an's deniot. R~ ci inham coutnty, Va., rais: News of hastly disc >very in the Massanutal miountains, six f~les east of here ha just been rec ir'ed. Tu;.esday sivera nunters found the b. dv of Feb Fall a notorious white woman dangling a ne end of a rope faste: ed to the ii~n f a tree. When discvered the? bod: -s in the Iirst stage of de compos:ioa t is supposed the womoan wais natnae b regrees, who hiad been he.r comf pnions lateiy. No etfort has bge mnade as yet to r p;rebend the guilt; narties. She was a married womau out for years her reputation has bee! utsavory, and :inally: she was drive: to te mnountait'a. w?:ere mhe slept I. the fields arid in tne woods. A newly aprpointed Georgia j 2sti of eace was infornied tiat sorie on had stcien his horsc during trne night He was not long in lcating the crimn ial, wt'o was speedily brr ught to tria Iwhen the j isti te sr:d: "I atst gqli norse was ine: hut Ia Goin' to ii the bail:h? u-eside, an' wh'le hei a-trin of tbe crimuina! hil be out van de a-stretchtna'of the rope *n Icce~tia uf the tree?'" A decided earti.uuak" ashock wa's fel t o~tel Alma:in on larus Mountair W ~edneday mocrnic'z abut 1 o'clock the proprietor a ets of the hote were arc uaed by the shokn' cf th, buildng, but no trouble resulted. It a room adjoining Mr. Ahas~one' th plastering was broken and fell with.; GONE0'-WE1 N Y-"WO YEARS, MsAnah .eobr,.L ofi o ervs . h ua i(L JpeI t vr arn o ta2 an., e, i Gree~e' henae cont y N.Y., an, rom, Lwhomt. rning ha since Ue' heair. a j'a t rtcei'vd informatio from-i- the ue-sion departrnnt that he ha.ard is liviun in Builalo. Sinc Mrs .Jacoby has b-en drawin r-pon aliowance due to a so dier's widow. it being r-sumed fror the v ran'-s lor-- absence ar.d his fai ire to draw his monthly pension th ie was d-e. A short time ago be at :lie for a renetral of his p)ension a aeblo, and this was the means c 1. Arning his whereabouls by hi A~afrd J~ey, or Ilurtr Jtrvis. rf.h 1nnc. --m Zv- 'ilemrt No York N-* ul.t- ers, on A ril 0, 1861. atd r. rchrdi July. 1S64 T,:c vear ]a-te a ;ansion of -,5 a zmonthl T-3 I ranted him dating 'romn te dlay nt ci char'e onecour. of s.bil ties it curred ina tie G-tUnbere cam p aign. In sp'emler, 1875, th veie: : rd I1 wife -.ereliviun at GrtenE N. , zl-wa nys-ically stronez, b-j he we trouhlad by iner-ssing deal ne~s atd oa sionalJ spelt or cespor dency. One day after dhinrer be 1ei houe, tellia: his w ' tat he wa oo az to C11 on : frier d .ho live, 'atut a mile frWm the Vi;ia;E E wes seen by ne gr.b rs 2oing in th dinte ion indica-ted, ard slne. B ever reached the friend's bouse an rem that day to this, so far as noW1n, he myV r was seen dead c liIve. He disappeared from a wel travelhd high.(av, within sight of c osiderable village and at neoanda3 Jacoby '-rs erainarily secretive cx cerive his inleatious, and it wo suggt-td that he 'as seized with suc de. imoule and had gone to vis smare reautives. Wheu this theor o1(d te-n dispelled, relatives of Ur: Jacby iunduc'd her to apply for widow's peLsion. previously, howeve: nakin a search and ir quiry for th mi ig husband trrougu the Grar 1j Army and the police.authorities the neigahboring towrs. The pensio de partnnt rejected te wid >W'S clain Th en Represenatative Lewis Beech C Port Jervis got a special bill passe ,v congress granting her a pf--ision inis was vetoed by President Cleve lano, but another bill was gotre through by Representative M D. Sti' -rs, and was signed by President Hai ris)n. Mrs. Jacoby has opened commun cation with her husband, and, bein assured of her forgiveness for his d sertion, which he attributes to mentu derangement, he will return to Poi Jervis on Wednerday. There are tw children-a son who was six years c age when the father disappeared, an a daughter. who was born six monti after, and who is married to Matt Pei ry, a prosperous y5oung residEnt Sullivan county. Death Rather than A po.-t 4 cy. Gen. Barron Von Shaek, of th I Russian army, Governor General < Odessa as well as commander of tb ereat military district of which thI the greatest of all Russian ports.: the center recently committEd suicid in consequ1'ence of having been con pelled by orders from the war depar ment to abandon the Lutheran faiti Sin which he had been reared. Ti -general, like so many others of hi ran k in the Russian arm y, was< German extraction,and had been bred Lutheran, altbough born in Russi: He ereatuy distinguished himselfi the last war ag .inst the Tu-ks, an subsequently obtained still greate fame in connection with the real ha roisrn which he displayed during th subjugation of the mcuntain tribes< the Caucasus. Many marks of imperi; favor were lavishea upon him by A exander HI and Alexander HI. Governor Eliem o Thanged. Fo> 'rdering the orginal packas establishments closed in several of it - dry" towns of the state, Govern< Eiler be is being thanked by the inha b tanats of such p~aces. Many person; com munications have been received b the governor from citizens. but Thur day an expression of thangs froi seventy-six citizmns of Woodruff can in the shape of an open letter. Fo lowing is the communication: Soqrtanaburg Countv, Sept 27, 189: To Hs Excellency, Governor W. i E lerbe: We the undersigned citizens of 1i town of Woodruff desire to expre: cu- hearty thanks to your excellene for t our prompt action in closing u the original piackage house here, ar. we would most earnestly and respec f ully ask thatycou em ploy every e tfa k nown to the law to prevent the sa. of liquor in or around our town. GOld.Blooded Crime. Parties from A p f achic -.la say s thei was a serious riot there Wienesda: IE appears that a white engineer c hbe steamer C. D. Ovens, a river boa -ent a ziegro bay to a shoemaker ft his shoes. The shoemaker told tU tov he could not a et the shres will tun, the morney. The boy carried 1U mressaae to the engineer, whoattacre him with a knife, cutting his throa r'ne bov died in a fe~ n inutes. Tt regrods became terribly excit,:d. The ottered in lsrae numbers arnd a n1..pad io lya ch the engineer. TI Fr:klin County Gaards wecre ondere ut, and with the assistance of cit z tn remoustra tng with the negroes, 'neainie was prevented and ord'-r rn: so oed. The mnurdiertr was safely jaile at d at 5 c'clock this morning quit regedin the to wn Tr . rc ker Trng-dy. John Boecker, the murderer of h site and five cenildren, a't Carrol Iowa, still lives. Ihough his recover s impossie. The son Henry shov -igas of returning strength, but h pnysiciares say his wound is fata itbe bodies of' the mother and childre 'as piepared for burial at B'ed Wednesday Tr.e coroner's jur which was en pane!led Monday h; djourned till bhursday. I: is no snoin that Boecker baught a suppl of col'oroform at Breda I M wee osensiblv to doctor ho2s fr-r choler: With this he threw th~e fa-laily int heir fatal sleep and was et abied1 commit the murder without resistarnc hose who kuow him hsst say Boeci er's mind has been aicted for son BSuru. d ait sea The schoomr JLhn H. Cannot Captain Harrison frcem Jacksonvilli F'a, for Baliinore, loWad ivit eils was oismas-.ed irn a gue c * ae 213:nsu"it. 170 mii.! tS of Ca ieston. She wats aba:cdned and on tire o3 the 21 h. The cre w of tL Can on w ere t:oen orf by the schoona Gre nleaf Jhouson and landed toda A i-ac aly O li e er. T~he atoney geera: of Iow-a, wh is aY caien republ~can, is now a trctg conside-raie attention by tb dieocery- that he has been drawin :i';e cents Lern m:ile mileage mone! wie tr' ~anin arcund the state wit is pokt crammend with free pamn wcve c y tbe law of thai, state are pr< oa uto aolio holdes SOLMVNG A M YST ERY. Meo: ha~ AgO. Thr noia State says er quiries have .-Fu 's-t on fxi-t 1 the last few dan to uaravel the msTerv of the dis appearare o' on app-arenti wealthy vt ur Pbiadelphian, remed Sieg frie4, who -,-s 12st seen alive in Georgetown iu this State, ab:ut to r start out with a regro and a boat on a duck shooting expedition at the time SPresideut Cleveland was down here last winter. Exactly why his family have never instituted these inquiries before dces not appear unless it be that the young man was of a roving disposition and was in the habit of go ing away on pleasure expeditions and giving no account of Dimself for months at a time. It is said that his trunk is now in the depot at George 'n. ard that al! leters sent to him tr-erp, corla'nirg h:s remittancfes, Iave be#n returned to his neOple through the medium of the deid letter S It appears that at the same time that Prt-,'dent Cleveland was ernjoying eock shootinz at Georgete.vn iast winter, a party of about 18 South Carolinians were near Georgetown. s'a en'.aged in the same spert. A.rong them were Mr. N W Brooker of the StatP sinkiug fund commission. atd Mr Miller of Sumter. Thisyoung moan, h is described es having a fair cemnl-ion and blond moustsche, weighir.t about 130 pounds, and dress in t x-edingly well, j ined them by eccident at Bryan's plantation, re emaining several days in their com piny Then Mr. Brooker went on to Georgetown. having to leave the party rn Taursday aft-rnoon. The ycung r Pniladelphian said that he would j in a Mr. Brooker in Georgetown on Fr-day evening. Instead of caming on the evening train he came down at mid day and call d to see Mr. Brooker, but s that gentleman was then out hunting. In the atternoon he came again and found Mr Brooker. Mr. Brooker in the meantime found that he could not stay over to hunt the following day and parted with the young man. He says that Siegfried told him that he was going to get a negro and a boat and go to the hunting grounds the fol lowing morning. That was the last that has ever bean heard of him so far as any one know. He promised to send Mr. Brooker some ducks and a dog; neither ever came, but Mr. Brooker thought noth ing of that. In fact he thought no were of the stranger at all until a few days ago, when Mr. Miller, of the par y, wrote Mr. Brooker a letter in which Le said tbat he had a communication from the young man's family stating that he bad never been heard of since he went to Georgetown, and asking if any of the South Carolina party could 0 give any information. The young man had a fine shotgun d with him when last seen. It some d tro killed him on account of his sup posed wealth he probably hid the body and no one would have missed him, inasmuch as he was travelingalone. A gentleman from Georgetown, who has undertaken to institute an e investigation when he gets home, said if Thursday that it would have been an e easy matter for the negro boatman to s bave killed the young man and no s one ever miss him. The body cculd e easily have been put out of the way. .- Again, if he accidentally shot hinrs af, tthe negro in the absence of witnesses, ,would almost certainly hide the body e to shield himself from the charge of s murder. Thoe ragedy at North's. a As was published last wer-k Dr., B. H. Kootts, of North, shot Mr. J. R. ' Lessath, of the same place, on Tues 0 dey morning, the 28th of Septembe'. r . card in tbe Columbia State, signed 'Citizens of North," flatly contradicts e the first published account of the un fortunate a ifair, which made Mr. Ley "sath the aggressor, and gives the fol lowing as the facts in the case, which the "Citizens of North" say can and will be proved: "Mr. J. R Leysath held a lien on Dr. Knotts' crop and e the latter was attempting to make eaway with said crop without apply ing r the proceeds to lien. Mr. Leysath, hearing of same, approached Dr. LIIKnotts here in town, kindly called yhim aside and asked him if he did not intend to pay his lien. D:. Knotts nsaid he did not intend to pay it, that ehe could not see his family suffer and must look out for them. Mr. Laysath replitd, "Since you propose looking out for your family I will have to look out for mine" and turii.d to walk away, whereupon Dr. lKnotts e dre w a revolver and fired. Mr. L'y - s sath fell to the ground and Dr. Knotts Skept ii-ing, drawing a second revolv Per. Mr. L<-ysath was unarmed and d was never known to carr y a revolver nor to resent an insult. Dr. Knotts is -considered a good, quiet citizen. The e shooting has cast a gloom over the entire community. 'CiTIZENS OF Nc)RTH " e The state Fair Booming. The State fair of 1897 is rapidly ap Sproaching an d on all sides preparations a re oeing made far in advance of the r usual period, and every indication p in's to the most successful fair ever a~ hd in the St ate. The exhibitions are g ing to be large and varied. Clem d son college will have a working datry on the fair grounds during the fair e managed by Prof. J. WV. Hart. An 3 exhibition in the arena in milking by ~tuients of the college would draw e wel, showing tbe young misses that d when one of these boys is secured as a Spartner for life a milker also would be a obtained. The agricilturl exhibit will be under the supervision of Prof. d J. S. Newman, and the mechanical 4 will be controlled by Prof. Worthing ton. From the interest manifested by the college professors, and members of the board as well, it can be confIi s deutly exptcted that the exhibits ei 1 exceed by far any hither:o seen on the g rounds. Secretary Holloway writes s that Mr, Geo. F. Weston, manager of s the Vanderbilt farms at Biltmore, N SC., expects to br'ing down a fine lot of Jersey cattle for exhibition only, and asubsequently offer them in the annual sale of stock. Tnis, Col. Hollow'ay s says, will t ffard a fine opportunity to purchiase Jerseys of fancy strains ~Mr. Weston will also bring a few choicely bred Berkshire boars. 0 L -t It Alone. 0 Fabulous sto-ies are being published -about a so called African variety of -cotton owned by a Mr..T'. A. Jack e son, of Atlanta. Ga. A few weeks ago we published a long article about thbis cottt a and some weer s later pub lishe d a letter from the Secretary of ,Aericulture, of Georgia, who~ had test ,ed the cotton, saying the cotton was h nothing extra and advised farmers f not be to humbur ged into pay ing 'ancy prices for it. Trus cetton is again be 1t ng boonatd in the newspapers and we e would advise our farmeis to let it r alone. It is no better than any gocd Y '.ariety of cotton and not as goed as some. It is claimed b~y those who are tnioig to sell the se:d that ibe stalks are from eight to ten feet, and the o yield is from two to four balhs per L acre that it is limbless and th e boils e grow close to the stalk from the ground g to the top, and a hundred and one ,other great things. Toe s ted are sold at one cent a piece to any who wil t, bite at the hait. Again we advise our farmers to let Mr. Jackson eand his so ,alled Afrian coton severeiy alor.e. Tht-Fror-tiDz Coton F's. S eraryhi He~s'er. of the N w eam: C3tTou exchane, is - n of the nc nccuraite staticians that fi, ure on he cton crGp, and in cors( i, c! :nytirzr that oromes froa his pen n ita suH c is iters in.-. In his O. ober stement issued on Satur'a, U .iLes the mrt move'nent of otton uto sight, for round ticures. 379 00 -iEs behind last Septenjber, 527,000 head of :vear before .lst. and 391,000 Lhead cf September, 1894 the latter he first month of the 9 901 000 crop r. The third largest September ncvnmnt was in 1890, when itreach d 85G,0O bales, the crop of th- year eCing, in round flgures: 8.653,000. The staternent sbows rec'eipts at orts for the month, 773 4:7 ba!e , *tainst 9IS 465 bist Near, 3S2.818 year .,fore last. and 517.241 same time in 6.14: nt-t shipmeuts by rail, cverlard. 7 093, against 55.669 last year, 9.398 ear before last, and 31 297 same time a 1S-4; southern mili takiogs, exclu vy of n:;unt consumed at pirts. 70, aanst 91.:.70 last year, 7S,420 -ear before hs,, aua 70.7.35 .-are time n 1"" interior stccs iT' Excesss of oiunts lik-ld Septeumber 1. 155.379, jinst 175,723 1ast y-ar, GJ,'59 year wfore last, ad 51 26a sa-ne time in 894; the totA in s; to for SepPmb-r mountirg to 1 1*t 939, agains: 1,241, 27 ia-t vr, 5:%.735 year befkre last, ad 670 537 same time in 1894. . American wills hare taken during he month 258,82o bales, agaicst 249, 0l last year, of which by northern ini.ers and Ca, a la, nverland, 150. 04, against 155,S95. F raign exports orSprpt~'ner were, 293.891, sbow ug a decrease under the same ptriod ast year of 9j 172, and an incPes ver the year before last of 186 956 )ocks at the seaboard at d Mw~te ine leading southern interior mar :ets, at the close of September, were 35.799, against 946 600 last year, and 78,335 the year before last. Includ g stecks left over at ports and inte ior tcwa, and the number of biles of he new crop brought into sight dar ne september, the supply to date is .,178 473 bales, against 1,579,986 last -er, and 841,749. the year before. Be Careful WIth MX dicine. Be careful of the medicines. E very Louse should have its locked cabinet or such things. So many fatal acci lents have happened through caretess Less. A writer in the Columbia Reg ster says only last week, in my home own, a lady recommending a certain ill to a friend as a good tonic left the >ox on the table while she accom >anied her caller to the door. Half n hour later she spied the bx of ills cut of which six or eight had ken taken. Qiestioning her little >y, two and a nalf years old, he ad nitted having eaten some of the "pret y pink caLdy." An eme'ic was >romptly given, a doctor summoned, mnd every possible means taken to :unteract the effects of the medicine, >ut to no effect. The child died in pasms within ten hours. Fancy the nother's fee.ing as she locked on the ifeless body of her only chid! There re risks enough in the raising of :ildren be we as careful as we may. 5arely we should take none as regards he three deadly periis I have named. [he consequences of carelessness-just imple simon-pure careiessness-are 3 often irredeemable, no matter how itter our self reproaches. A Family Poisoned. A special from Schuyler, Neb., siys: )uring the forenoon, Fran~k Steinad ame hastily in from Spell Creek pre :inct, nine miles northwest, to sum non a physician to the home of Frank )avis, where he said the whole fa nity ad been poisoned. D:. Sixta has ened out anid found four of the seven hilren in the family and their nother dead, afifth child in a dying ondition atna a. sixth person sick, Mr. )vis and his oldest son went away .arly in the morning, leaving before he rest of the family breakfasted. Nten the meal was prepared all sat own, and early in the course of th neal Mrs. Davis made some such re nark as: ''Eat a good breakfast, and e'll go together." An older son's nind was affect-:d by the remark to he extent that he dia not appease his ppette. A daughter, younger than e son, after drinking a halt cup of :otfe. b' came sick and vomited. The -est of the family continued the morn g meal, altnoug h t ae children made ery wry faces and said the ceiffe did lot taste gocd. S;rychnine had been >t into the coitee Ground to Pleces. The Charleston Post says Henry irdan, colored, was killed recent~y >y a Charleston and Savannah traiu ~ear John's Island. The full narticu rs of thbe killinls culd not be obtained his morning from the r ailroad office, u from what could be learned it eems that it was a case of suicide, as se negro sto d, or rather threw his ody across the track in front of the Lp;r~aching tresi: and was ground to neces by the pcL.J~rous wheels. The Ict of jordan seems to have been pre neditated as no attention was paid to he bic wing of the whistle. An ef -ort was made to dind out something bout Jordan no one seems to know Lng tinl about him. A Novel Salt A novel suit has been brought by E. & Clark and Fannie B. Clsrk. bis ife, against James Havdan, of Tibu -on, Col. They want $l5,000 damages or in ju'ies sustainedi by Mrs Clark while riding a hobby horse at El Cam >o, a summer resort. The horse, which was on a me rry go round owaned >y the defend -nt, be::ame unmanage ule through the coilapse of the ma ~hinery. Toe lady was to- wn and badly hurt that she may be. d:tabled >r life. Have Be. n1 Removed. Gov. Ellerbe has removed 'de etropolitan police of Charleston a. he city now has the puice entirely nder its o evn supervision. With the removal of thae metropolitarn p ihe'- i i hareston, the mayor of it cet' nade a statement to the pu blic of his iermiation to give strict orders to ;eplice to use e ery e ifirt to su p ress the ilicit sale cf liquor in the Eck In Twt... The turded~o boat des. ers Lynn ud Trasher gorundied Wedn-sday hurn a fog, on Dodman'i P dnt. L'he Tr rasher broke in two. 'ree okers were killed and tw : M-rs cjured by the burstir gof a steam p n board the Thtrher shortly after Le grou'ided. Tne Lenn n.is bren owed (if 2:. t ken to FIL.LCjLZ senator 'reuan' Festtion In a conversation r'cenitly, in Co umbia, Senator Timin reimerated e sh.te:nett toat if the indications were such n*X. sear lis to warraut hims .o believe taa:.1e silepeasary law was act going to be perpeuu.uted he would -ca:gn his seat ii thle senate and run or governOr. I).ah o;f ii :n. H L Farley. Gen. Hugih L Farley died at his oie at Spairtanburg on Thursday. >u. Farley was adj itnt and inspec r eneral of the Sae during botn of s... Tillman's a.dministre~tions, ac eas a gallant Confederate soldier. Hie Royal Makes the food pure, whiolesome and delicias. IOYAL IVG K IE POWDER Absolutely Pure ROYAL aA.%C PONDER CO., NEW YORK. A R. vival of Poppycock We are ha-ing another taste, says t1e Washington Post, of the gold bug t3 le of logic. We have it in various publications setting forth the fact and he details of the gre' t fall in the price f slver bullion. According to all lhis, silver is on the doxn grade and will soon cease to rank among the prcious metals, and so we are told, with a gravity tco beautiful to be de :rioed in words, that silver has seen its best days and that the advocates of ree coinage may as well abandon their fond dreams forever. It re mind us of the lively campaign of 196. It recalls all the ignorance and stupidity of that never-to-be forgotten episole. We hear once more the str' dent bray of Bynum and Cackran ai d he frantic imprecations of the New York Sun. Silver is even more worth ess than it was ten months ago, they tell us. Then "the dollar was worth but ti ty cents," and now it is ':forty tbree cents." And all the wiseacres and the parrots and the owls are prat irg, echcing. and looking wise, until one begins to question the wisdom of a Providence that lets such things con tinue. 'Silver is depreciating every day I' screams one miracle of human intlligence. "l'he silver dollar is lcsing i's purchasing power!" yells another. The whole collection of the gold bug chorus proceeds to bay the moon until the welkin fairly rings. ne hesitates to interject into this in sne hallabalooeven so much as a sug gestion of common sense and reason. It seems a wicked waste of time to ask these red-faced yelpers why silver has depreciated-in the market, and wheth er, if gold were suojected to the same rcess, it would not lose its commer ial value in like ratio. Intrinsically, he proposition is simple enough. The mnts of the civilized nations are losed to silver; the same mints are pen to gold. In this way the only hing that makes money of aray metal is bestowed upon gold and withheld ecm silver. In this way gold at uires a fictitious and artificial worth nd silv.?r is reduced to the standard f its essential usefulness. In the, ame way, were the process reversed -were the mints closed to gold anid pened wide to silver-gold would de reciate and silver would appreciate, n value. It seems to us the most log al result imaginable that silver, be reft of its money attribute, should de-. reciate in the market. Like gold, it has but a limited adaptabiity to the uses of mankind. It cannot be ap.. plied to any practical purpose. It is not susce otible of conversion into im 2lements of husbandry, into machia cry, into tools, etc. It is fit only for rnament or for coinage into money, Robbed by legislation c f its latter quzal ty, its range of usefulness is sadly arro wed. We do not ask the gold bug shriekers what would become of oid under like circumstances. It ould be cruel. Tney do not know,. Death anad Destruction. The prairie fire which raged all over anitoba Saturday, b:iag fanned and driven by a gale of wind, died out during the nigh~t, and Sunday morn og's sun dawned upon a scene of death and devastation. Farm houses, mplements, crops and live stock were verwb ere consumnid ao d many farmers lost their ali A lamentable sory com's fromn Beautejiur, forty miles east of this ci-y. where two1 vomen and five chi'de:a, na ned 16 rski, were barnrd to death. Fire came upon their house, w riichi was in ne woods, from tnvo durec.ians siamul ite usly, and sav t off alt means of scape. O atly a few enared remains were found this morning. At Big ot, miles west, the Canadian Pacific railroad station and seven cars, the ominion Grain Comos~nis elevat"" ri 20,000) bushels of w test, L. A. Wrisers store, HiggenboLbtIema. ink's and Buckanan's sta'>les, a cold torge warehouse and Farmer Wald ron's farm build ogs and crops were totally destroyed. "'e little to en wast rctically wiped out of exience. A' Stooy Mountaio fi e ran up to tne Cadian Pacifi: ralrca.l p t oarr, en re, by desperate t ffr s. Itsp se was staye(. Mi~ch lay and rain was consumed in taiIs dstr~c. In the Like Francis district, north vest of the city, there was also ex t-n ive destruction o' c -ops. A yuag farmer named Marsham evs terrinly ourned while trying to save his~ pro9s -rty. At Oakland, on rne Prtage brach of the Nurthern Pacitic rail -ad, several hundred cords of wood and thousands of tons of hay were :cked up. Just south west of Winne eg there is a large hay marsh, and dre was driven over this in a terrible nanner, consuming every'hing in its urse. Neariy every farmner l sL his any and many also lost teeir grain d implements. There were large auds of horses and cattle p isturiua on the marsh an-d to day theo charred carcsses of ..he arimi dct ie ground * every few pac's. Jack rabolts aud prairie chickenls were also arnihilati d. he people in this city were auXiausi or some hours as it was feared that the tir-e would come in'o the suburbs, vhere many valuable residences are lcated. A timely change of tne wind vorted this impending danger. gioocy Friday. NLariy a score of unfortunates met ra ic death in and about N:: York , .ty Fiday. It was suicide day. No sv within recent years h-as neen so repete with tales of weak human na ire. FIVE MaSKED R BP3ER Eardits rcbbed the south b-a Rck Island passs:er tra d ali its t panenaers at 11 o'cicck Yr'day fr-re 0oon1 at siding No. 1. aboIt Le r south of Mi co, in tle nda.u TLrri tory. The railroad ard express ofli cials have feared a hold-up in that section for several weeks, and armed guards were put aboard all nicht trains at El Reno and carried through to 3 Chickshaw. It had not been thouaht that the outlaws wvere bold enough to C attack a train in midday. This morn iug the trainmen were completely surprised and they were not prepared to otfer any resistance when the five masked men came upon them at the lonely siding. The place ,s urirhabited, and the only utrsons ii 'he v:cinit7 -ttle time wEre four !ection .Thes men l3gged the trai, th robh>rs s having cinnpeled them to closo Tt e bandits we r, hidden at it e t::ue in a brushi pile, and j ipiu cut. as soon qs1 the pas-eveaer train had tsen the id i: g. Under the pre sure cf Winche: ter and ugly looking six shooters, int trainmen, the express mestenger. and all of the score or more of passengers were made to climb down from the train and stard in a line, bar di ,on the prairie along the raijw-v Whi!e three cf the robbers c ver. d the bidly t iriebttne d crowd wIun titt-jr suns. the other two ccoly and carefu;ly rcbbEd them, passing frcn one paszenger to another down the line. The bandits secund about $400 in cash and such other valuables, in the way of watch es, pins ard jewelry. as were in sight. The passengers and trainmen hav ing been thoroughly plucked, three of the bandits turned their attention to the express and mail coaches, the* others stardine guard over the help less crowd on the prairies The regis tered mail pouches were quickly rified, r but the through safe in the express t car iesisted all the force and the inge nuity of the road agents. The mes- I senger having convinced the bandits 3 that te could not open the strong box. they resorted to dynamite. Several heavy charges were exploded but the safe proved bandit proof, and though 1 it was badly battered, its contents f we e saved to the express company. Having taken forcibly posses~ion of i everything they could carry away, i the bandits mounted their horses and t rode off to the west. As soon as the trainme-? could col- t lect their wits they got their scared I passengers aboard and hurried on to e the next sation south, Chickshaw, I rom which point the ra.lroad officials t were notified cf the hold up. At I Chickshaw a posse of citizens was hur- r riedly formed. These ciuzans set out t in pursuit of the gang and officers j have been dispatched from El Reno, and cther points in this section. It is hardly possible that the bandits can t be'overtaken in the prairie country, s aad they will probably be able to i reach the Wichita muntains, to the west of the scene of tne hold up. Offi cers here believe the gang to be the same one that held Santa Fe trains up t at Edmunds twice during last month. WHISKEY STILLS RAIDED. They are Located in Orangeburg and L4'x ington onties. I' C-rangeburg and L 'xington Coun ties keep on they will soon vie with the mountain section of Nrth and South Carolina in the manufacture of moonshine whihkey. Just a short time ago a moonsnine still was seized over in Lexington County, and now comes the report that two more moon shiae stills have been seized, one in Orangeburg County and one in Lex ing'on County. The following par ticul ars of the raid we take from the - Columbia Sate of Saturday: After flaundering about sometimes waist-. deep in mud and water in the sw amps of tne North Elisto river, for three days and nights, without sleep, Maj Hal Rienardson of the United States revenue service, De puty ,.Collector Holland and Deputy Marshal Reese, have just succeeded in making one of the most successful revenue raids ever recorded in middle Carolina. A 2 strange feature of the matter is that the wife of one of the moonshiners unkn-owingly gave a way the location of the stills, which subsequent events prcved her own husbana had been running without her kno wie dge. The stills were in Lexington and Orange burg counties, located on the North Edisto; one on one side of the s ream and the other on the opponite side Tney were about fire miles apart. The nearest was seven miles away from a railroad line and both were far off from the publi:: roads. D.epu ty Holland came up from Edge field in t his baggy. The tnree revenue men had great difficulty in getting about, having to kill two large snakes int their path. They arrested six ma~n, two of whom were negroes. On ITnursday morning at daylight four ofi the moonshiners were captur ed ; they surrendered without resistanc-, ther officers having slipped up ahead and awaited their coming. The otrier twof were caught in the same way Friday morning. Recently a letter w.. received from a certain lady in the neighborhood. Wbile on the raid M-j ar Richardson came came up to a nouuse. A lady came out. Major R chardson told her his busi ness. Sne said she was so glad of it; she would have written to him had she known his address; recently her children had been playing down in the woods; they saw several men with blackened faces come out, frighting them badly ; she felt sure a still was in a certain place. Tne rnext mcrn ing the raid was made an d four men captured. The cilicers were not a lit tle suprised, Myj jr Richardson says, to find that one of the moonshiners was this lady's own husband. The two stills, both large copper ones, witn their cats and worms, together with1 700 gallons of sorghum beer and 600 gallons of grape pomace, were de stroyed by the raiders. A M1onument to Lee's Mo.ther. A bszaar is to be k eld in Alexandria, Va., this autumn. for the purpose of securing funds for the erection of a monument to the memory cf Mary Ann Lte, the mother of the southern chief tain. The monument will adorn the intersection of two of the princi pal streets in Alexandria, and will probably. be in the vicinity of nis:ori:2 old Christ Church, where both Gen eral Lee and his mi tter wvorshiped. a Goiaen Cannon. A cannon miade of solid gold, mounted upon a carriage of rosewood,1 and inlaid with costly gems, is the unique bauble of warfare that has come into the possention of the imnperi ai army of Berlin. This singualar auin was presented to the Berlia army by the managers of the H imburg Museum in whose keepicg it has bee'n for two cnturies. It is va-~lued at M. O ' Three, Children 15urned. Near Alma, Neb , te b-rYnose of A. L.. Gordon wa bori Wedaesday night. conbsumn three :nC r.T chldren were -eft al -vwt thel houie while the fa ' we >a barn. He re'.a-ne in xemy minues to tind his hiome in ii'uts. Cr edon I was dangerously ourne'i in his efforts j tom av hsnArn and may die. I y