The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, October 06, 1897, Image 4
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
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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.
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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