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> POETRY. Wona?.n or, Proposal a L* 5Jo4?*. Perh.tf>? at N-jwp-m it '*:curred. Oral ( >r?ik/e^.irg 'he Maiden heard. The ff^ueiice or forth ij1 gush ? And Nature iu a hu?h. Listened too, -Oruo) even -there. But oiajhaps in pure*ir (.Jut of view ? Down in the oepta of the forest, Whart I he quail had her nest. Where the d<>ve <**a cooing. And aii thing* betokened rest. Across the glen sylvan shades were cast By setting sun wbope yellow plumage, last, Wm struggling faintly its course to stay From realms other and far away. There under the shading tree, Unsullied by the breath of the rearing sea Were the hearts breathing melody, A swell of the swells is he, A daisy of the darlings is she; On her badly smashed is he, A fisher for a man of $$ is she. All tiie balmy summer weather They ih*4 sweetly spent together? ife had also spent the $S in hia-store, And of the "Governor's'' many $S more; So his fate he resolved to teat, And find out if she loved him best. ??With language whose excess did impart The fowee he felt so wel J*? To \M inmost sougfitng ?well ? Pleaded he in accents sweet and clear, She iu aighiag tones whispered ? - O ' ? " Summer again comes on ? Swelling afain is he, Angling agiin is she, A generation of generation are we! He on railed hia loving heart ing ke&rt Winter's come and gone ? THE WALL OF HEAVEN. DR. TALMAGfc INTERPRETS THE SUB LIME IMAGERY OF THE APOCALYPSE The Foundations and the Twelve Wornler- j ful Stones? Ancient Superstitions About^ ? ibe Amethyst? And This is tjwt th zJ Ontside of Heaven. M i *T-^r Tafeage " : : !. K#*. omK B\rdsr &&& j3p*Tbe Pre-' ; ;- ||j ' ^ ? sgMnBibie; or, God : ' 'll ^object, : ^ il'fr *' ;< jf5|fip." Text, Keve : kpflMHEbmVfoandations of the Sg|flEre garnished with 8tone8*" and tell jK>a what SpB on you to-day? They |ffiM|Koa homesick- for heaven; HEu concerning your de ^HBBstian friends by giving BBjflmdea of the brilliancy of the which they now commingle; 8j.jJ who love the Lord a more Ba idea aa to where they are go jflb ]?? the most of the yeare of ?rex;?tence, and to set ail the in ETerent and neglected to quick ' and Enmedkte preparation, that they may Uw?it likftwigp ^ Y eft, it is to induce maiiy of our ; young people4o study a volume of God that few ever open, bat without i some acpaaintance with which it ia impossible to understand the Bible ? I ! mean the precious stones, their crys j tallization, tl^r powers of retraction, their cleavage, their fracture, their luster; their phoephoresenee, their | transparency, their infinity of color ! and shape-, and what they had to do { with the welfare and doom of families ] and the destiny of nations ? aye, the positive revelation they make of God himself. My ?xt stands in the presence most stupendous splendor of, universe, and that is the wall sa yz of its foundations nailed with all man of pterioniTsteBss. All the in dues had walls fo? safety and jn haa a wall for^verlastsng safe You may say that a wall "aiade all manner of precious stones* jrative, bat yoa cannot under the force and significance of the mless yon know something * structure and tolor and - stcfes- men b?, I propose this morning, so far j K. Lord may help me, to attempt ?b not the wall of heaven, but j Plndktions of the wall, and I ask j Ho join me in the attempt to scale j ie cf the heights. We shall only part of the way up, \but better Ltlan to stay down on the stupid kfrhere the most of uA have all Ijtt been standing. We begin Bps at the bottom an$ ^here :v WALL, T The Jr |jg? of the fcrcndation, reach all arod^|he ojty and for 1,500 miles, is jasper. In deed ihe?e is more ^Jasper in the w$ll of heaven than ot Another bril liant, because it not only exposes a part of the foundation, but aa^es up the chief part oftbes^glCjRRKj e. \m&*M *' 66R?R|a5on of many colon*. It & brown, it is yellow, it is green, it ? vermilion, it is red, it is purple, it is black; and is so striped with colors that much of it is called rifcbcn jasper. It is found in Siberia and .Egypt, | but it is rare in meet lands and -of \ great value, for it is so hard the ordi- \ nary processes- cannot break it off from 5 the places where it has been deposited. j The workmen bore holes in the rock ] of Jasper, then drive into these holes sticks of dry birch wood, and then saturate the sticks and keep them sat urated until th?y swell enough to split the rock, atfd the fragments are brought out and jJDiisheel anc. trans r- ported and cat into cameos and put behind the glass doors of museums. The portraits of Roman emperors were cut into it The finest intaglio ever seen ia^n the Vatican museum, the h^igd of 5fkerva in Jasper. By p" divine" arrangement .jasper adorjaed the- breastplate of the high priest in tfce ancient tewiple. But its most sig nificant position ^s where it glows and burns and darkens j^dibrightens and jpre&cbes from th& ^bwesf '.'Stratum of She wail cf heaven. Glad am I that f .. ; - V * r' . ._ ? ? the very first row of stones' in the wall of heaven is jasper of many colore, and if jou like purple it is purple, aud if youliite brown it is brown, and if you iTke green it is green, and it you like ocher yellow it is ocher yel low, and if yoojike vermilion it is vermilion, and if you like blacky ? black. It suggests to me that hewfefl j is a place of all colors ? colors of j opinion, colors of creed, colore of skin, < colors of taste. THE BLUE SAPPHrBE. Bat we must pass up in this inspection of- tjje foundations of fhe great wall of heave^^nd after leaving the jasper the next precious stone reached ia -;apphire, ami it sweeps ground the city 1,500 mi&e. All lapidaries agree in saying that \the sapphire of the Bible is what weNoow call lapis JazuIL Job speaks with enWion ot "The place of sapphires," -and thooght so much of this precious sto3jfcii4?(?t he put it in the breastplate of thenf^k^ priest, commanding, -'The second row j shall be an emerald, a sapphire and a I diamond." * . ? The sapphire is a blue, but varies j from faintest hue to deepest ultrama- ! rine. It is found a pebble in the ! rivers of Ceylon. It' is elsewhere in compact masses. Persia and Thibet and Burmah and,' New South *vV ales ' itpd North Carolina yield exquisite ! specimens. It? blue eye is seen in the yalley of thefjfoine. After a buri of thousands of y&rs it has brought t^sight itf ^^7P^ian Oieats ajfid Assyrian cylinder^^^g^^ Loecow and St PeterjWSP-W itinople I mmil 'r I**' ;tar masses ?re^j lapis pl/re commonJy i ?""j. ;ts veins Jz uJt The clMer.TW ^ j do not more eDcoaw^^L ;0 \ntn m j It ,ZW&? called i-"' T? " JSifrfS of heareH tbe foun Lfc except ine uiamunu. fg^ppiu're based on jasper, a blae laky a fieiV sunset. St. John joints to it in Revelation and says, second, sapphire," and this sug [ gests to me that though our earth and its furniture of mountains and Hp and atmospheres are to collapse Kd vanish we will throughout all eternity have in some way kept the most beautiful of earthly, appearances, whether you take this sapphire of the second layer as literal or figurative. The deep blue of our skies and the deep blue of our seaa must not, will not, be forgotten. If a thousand years after the world has gone to ashes vou or I want to recall how the earthly skies looked in a summer noon or the midocean in a calm, we will have only to look at the second row of the foun dation of the wall of heaven. Oh, I am ao |lad that St. John told us about it^ "The second, sapphire!" While we are living in sight of that wail spirits who have come from other -^worlds and who never saw our earth will visit us, and will visit them, and 8?me time we will be in converse about this earth when it .was- yet afloat and aswing, and we shall want to tell them about how it looked at certain times, and then it will be a great ob ject lesson for all eternity, and we will say to our visitor from some other world, as we {feint toward the wall of heaven, "It looked like that stratum of foundation next to the lowest." John, twenty first chapter and nine teenth verse, "The second, sapphire." CHALCEDONY AND EMERAJ.D. A 3f?p higher and you come to chalcedony, anqjkfcer layer in the foun dation of the wall and running 1,500 miles around the heavenly city. Chal cedony! Translucent. A divine mix tare of agates and opals and cornel ians. Striped with white and gray. Dashed of pallor bl i9hing into red and. .darkening into purple. Iceland and the Hebrides hold forth beautiful specimens of chalcedony. But now we must make a swift as cent to the top of the foundation wall, j for we cannot minutely examine all j layers, and so putting one foot on the I chalcedony of which we have been speaking, we spring to the emerald, ; and we are one-thiraof the way to the topOof the foundation, for the fourth^ row is emerald. That, I would judge, is God's favorite among gems, because ifcjiolds what seems evident i* I. is iavorite color on earth, the green, since that is the color most diffused across all the eartif* xouti nents ? the giyss, the foliage, the j everyday dress of nature. The emer- j aid! Kings used it as a seal to stamp ^roatfnciamentos. The rainbow around the throne of God is by St. John com pared to it. - Conquerors have considered it ihe greatest prize to capture. What ruth lessness when the soldiers of Pizarro pounded it with their hammers! Emeralds have had much to do with the destiny of Mexico. Five of them were presented by Corfcez to his bride, one of them cut into the shape of a rose, another into the shape of a trum pet, aactherlntOL the shape of a *bell, with tongue of pearl, and this pre sentation aroused the jealousy of the throne and caused the consequent downfall of Cortez. But the depths of the sea were decorated with those emeralds, for in a shipwreck they #ent down off the ooast of Barbary. i Napoleon wore an emerajd at Auster ,he Kremlin museum at Moscow there%re crowns and scepters and out spread miracles of emew&L '^Ireland is callep the Emerald Isle not lieaiose of its verdure, but because it was pre sensed to Henry il of England with an Emerald ring. Xero had a magni fying glass of emerald through which he looked at the gladiatorial contests at Rome. But here are 1,500 miles of emerald sweeping around the heaven ly city in one layer. SARDONYX AND 8ARDIUS. Bat upward still and you put your foot on a stratum of sardonyx, white ahd red, a seeming commingling of ; snow and "fire, the snow cooling the | Sre, the fire melting the snow. Another climb and you reach the sardius, named after the city ot Sar . dius Another climb and you reach ; the chrysolite. A specimen of this, | belonging to Epiphanus, in the Fourth century, was said to be so brilliant that whatever was put over to conceal it was shone through, and ihe emperor I of China has a specimen that is de scribed as* having '^uch penetrating radiance tHKt It mokes the night as j bright as the day. \ .. . ... A Libber climb and you reach the bervl. T?" thou saw* jeara ago the I (ireeks used fhis precious stone Jor en graving purposes. It was accounted among the royal treasures of Tyre. : The hilt of Murat's sword was adorn ed wiih it. It giows in the imperial crown of Great Britain. Luther thongiit the hery] tW thf- heavenly wail ( was turquoise. Kalisch thought it twas chrysolite. Josephu.s thought it a goltfenflfcolored Jewel. The w heels of fEzekieis wsion flamed with bery] an?i were a revolving fire. i * o i The. beryl appears To six sided [ prisms, ?nd is set in seals and in ; tag] ros, in necklaces and coronets. It was the joy of ancient jewelry j ornamented the affluent with eardi i Charlemagne presented i^.to-his | ites. Beautiful * beryl! ' ~)yqt ; shaped bervl! Divinely colore! Peorne to Iden hue and bard ClinJgf j acintib-- | It seems like congealed looks like frozen fire. ^ But stop not here, and you come to ment of beauty island of the Jv Climb chrysop you reach the ffter the flower Oddish blue. THE AMETHYST. le more step and you -reach ; BJJ]jL11J not of the wall, but the top of ^inundations of the wall, and St. j ion cries out, "'1 he twelfth an ? oethvst!" This precious stone when i fouDd -tiT" "Australia or India or Europe stands in columns and pyramids. For color it is a violet blooming in stone. For its play of light, for its deep mysteries of color, for its use in Egyptian,", in Etruscan, i in Roman art it has been honored, j The Greeks thought this stone a pre- j ventive of drunkenness. The He- j brews thooght it a source of pleasant ' dreams. I For all lovers of gems it is a sub ject of admiration and suggestiveness. i Yes, the word amethyst means a pre- | vention of drunkenness. Long before the New Testament made reference to ; i the amethyst in the wall of heaven the Persians thought that cups made out of amethyst would bind^F any kind of liquor contained thereifc from becoming intoxicating. But of all the amethystine cups from which ; the ancients draflrfc; tfot one had any such i result of prevention. For thousands of years the world ! has been looking in vain for such a preventive amethystine cup. Stag gering Noah could not find it. -Con- ! j vival Ahasuerus driving Vashti from the gates could not find it. Nabal breaking the heart of beautiful A hi gail could not find it. Belshazzar, the kingly reveler, on the night that ^ the Chaldeans took Babylon could not ftnd it. Not oue of the millions of inebriates whose skulls pave the c >n tinents and pave the depths of the sea could find it. There is no such cup. ! : Strong drink from hollowed ^ruethyst imbrutes the same as stroug drink, i fr<#n pewter mug. It is not the style ? oi cup we drink ?out of, hut that which the cup contains, which decides j the helpful or damning result of the beverage. All around the world last night and to day, out of cups costlier than amethyst, men and women have been drinking their own doom and the ; doom of their children for this life and the next. Ah, it is the ame thystiue cups that d > the wildest aud worst slaughter! The smash of the filthy goMets of the rummeries would loDg ago have taken place by law, but i the amethystine ehafcees prevent ? the i chalices out of which legislatures and I congresses drink before and after they I m^ke the laws. Amethystine chalices | have been the friends of intoxication I instead of its foes. Over the fiery lips of the amethystine chalices is thrust f the tongue of that which bitelh like a serpent and 9tingeth like aj adder. Drunkeaness is a combination of apoplexy and ^lernentia. The 400,- . 000,000 victims of opium come out to meet the 150,000,000 victims of alco- ! ho], and fhe two agents take -the con tract i*>r tumbling the human race in(<? perdition, but whether they will suc<vv. I f:i I filling the contract de- ! on action of the amethystine itn? iia ethvstiue demijohns, the am?*I&.s'jne aie pitchers, the amethys tine fi igon?, the amethystine wine ceilwrs. < >h. Persians! Oh, Assyr ians! < K). Greeks! Oh, Egyptians! S\ou were. iu thinking that a cuj> at ?n einyst wonld prevent inebria tion. j \ 'j H K HEBREW SUPERSTrriO^ But, standing on the top dj^ this! amethystine layor of the foundation of the wall of heaven f bethink myself of the mistake that many ot the ancient Hebrews made when they thought that the amethyst was a ^pro ducer of pleasant dreams. Just jvear a piece of amethyst over your heart or put it under your pillow, and you \ would have your dreams filled witthj everything beautiful and entrancing. No, no. The style of the pillow will not decide the character of the dream. The only receipt for pleasant dreams is tafftTYrg-ht ami think right when -you are widq awake. Conditions of physical disease may give a good man nightmare, ^but a man physically well, -if he behaves himself aright, will not be troubled with bad dreams. Nebuchadnezzar, with eagle's down E}|uader his head and Tyrian purple over itijBtruggled with a bad dream that:] made hiuk -shriek opt for. the soothsayers and astrologers to come and inteqpet it. - Pharaoh, amid the marble palaces of Memphis, was con founded by a dream in which lean ! cows ate tfp the fat cow3 and the small I ears of corn devoured the seven large ears, and awful famine was prefigured. : Pilate's wife, amid clouds of richest I uphols?$ry, had a startling dream, he Cause of which she sent a messenger in hot haste to a courtroom to - keep her husband from enacting a judicial outrage- But Jacob, at Bethel, with a pillow of mountain rock, had a blissful dream o!-' the ladder angel blossoming. O ^ I Bunyan, with his head on a hard plank -1 of Bedfoid jail, saw i the gaJ.es of the celestial city. St John, on the barrenest island of the -Egean sea, in his dream heard trum pets au<T saw cavalry m?n on white horses and a new heaven and a new 1 earth. No amount of rough pillow can disturb the night vision ofasainl J o and no amount of amethystine chai can delectate the dream of a misery hut, some one will say, why^ you brought us to this ametj top row of the founddUl heavenly wall, if you a re> accept the theory Greeks, who eaid t was a charm if you are Dot theorv of the the ameth^ ant tire; , 1 have i row, the foun walfr of* amethyst, position where you of heaven f to let you have Climbed strata of glory you ;&re only of the eternal grandeurs; net; you, with enchantment 01 soul, j Bok far down and look far up, and to I force upon you the conclusion that ii all our climbing has only shown us the foundations of the wall, what must^he wall itself be; .and if this is the outside of heaven^-what 'roust the inside be; and if all this is figurative, what must the reality be? Oh, this piled up magnificance of the heavenly wall! Oh, this eternity of decoration! Oh, this opalescent, floreseent, pris matic miracle of architecture! What ' enthronement of all colors! A ming ling of the blue of skies, and the .surf o?>seas, and the green of meadowsi and the upholstery of autumnal for ests, and the fire of August sunsets. All the splendors of earth andjheaven dashed into those twelve rows of foun dation wall. All that, mark you, only typical of the spiritual glories that roll over heaven like the Atlantic and Pacific oceans swung in one bil low. j f( ^ I)o you not s&e that it was impossi ble that you understand a hundredth part of the suggestivene^s of that twenty first chapter of Revelation without going into some of the . par ticulars of the wall of heaven and dip> pin^ up some of the dripping colors, aud running your eye along some of its wondrous crystal izaiions, and ex amining some of the frozen light in its' turquoise, aud feeling with your own Snger the hardness of its sap | phire, and shielding your eyes against | the shimmering brilliance in its beryl, and studying the 1.500 miles of truer aid without a flaw? Yet allthisonly ^ie i outside of heaven, aud the poorestrpart of the outside; not the wall itseft,, but only the foot of the wall, for my ti^t gays, ' The foundations of the wall o? the city were garnished wiih all man ner of precious stones." Oh, get down your harp if you can play one! Get down a palm branch if you can react) one! ,\Vhy, it makes us all feel, like crying out with James Mont gomery:! Wherishall these eyes thy heaven built walls Anil pearly gates behold? Oh, my soul! If my text shows us only the outside, what must the inside be? While riding last summer through the emperor's park, near St. Petersburg, I was captivated with the groves, transplanted from all zones, * and the flower beds ? milts j^iis way and miles that way ? incarnadined with beauty, aud the fouutaius bound ing in such revel with the suulight as j nowhere else is seen, I said: " I his is beautiful. ? I never saw anything like this before/' But when I entered the paiace aud i saw the pictured walls, aud the long i line of statuary, ami aquariums i alioat with all bright scales, and the : inner doors of the palace were swung ; back by the Chamberlain, and I saw the er.uperor and empress aud princes and princesses, and the-y greeted me with a cordiality of old acquaintance ship, I forget all the groves aQd floral bewitchment I had seen outside be* foreentrancf. Add now I ask, it the outsid? of heaven attracts our souls to day, how much more will be the up lifting when we get inside and see the King in his beauty aud all the prin ces and princesses of the palaces of amethyst? Are you not glad that we did not stop iD our ascent this morning until we got to the top round of the foun daiion wall of heaven, tthe twelth row, the. amethyst? Perhaps the- ancient Hebrews were not, after all, so far out ; of the way when they thought that . the touch of the amethyst gave pleas ant, dreams, for the touch of this hour gives me a very pleasant (i reams : Standing on this amethyst I dream a ! dream. \I close my eves and I see it all. We are there. This is heaven! I Not the outside, but the inside of heaven. With what warmth of welcome our long1 ago departed loved oDes have kiaSed us My! How they have changed in looks! They were so sick when they went away, aud now they are so well. Look! Yonder is the palace of our Lord the King. Not kept a moment outside we are ushered into the throneroom. Stretching out Jhis scarred hand he says, "I have Wved thee with an everlasting love," and we respond, "Whom have I in heaven but thee? CHILDREN IN HEAVEN. But, look! Yonder is the play ground of the children. Children do not want a throne. A throne would : not tit a child. Tin.- re they are on the ; playgrounds of heaven ? the children. ; Out of the sick cradle of earth tHgjr-; came into this romping snirth of the eternal playgrotffids. f'.; clap my hands to cheer them in the glee. Yondar tire the palaces of the martyrs, aud before their doorway the flowers, crimson as the bloody mart\*doms through which they waded uf> into j glory. Yonder is Apostolic row, and ' the highest turret is over the home, i of cFaul. Hepe. is Evangelist place Yonder are the concert halls in which the musicians of earth and heaven are taking part ? Handel with organ, and David .with bftrp, and -Gabriel with trumpet, and four and twenty elders with voices. - And arc angel of C\od says: "Whete ; 5?hall I take you? Oju what street of heaven would you lik^ to live? What ; celestial habitation would you like to occupy And I answer: "Now that I nave got inside the wall made up of j alt-manner of preciou3 stones I do not j care where you put me. Just show 4 me h here iuv departed loved ones are. I have Sren the Ix>rd. and next j I want to see them. !? i ^Dd with whom 'I of God on earth. 1 fey old parishes at racuse and Phi lad el vn, and from magv both sides the sea where I q permitted to work with for them. Give them the places you caii tind. I will help eadv them as they mount the thrones. I will help you burnish their coronets. "Take these,; my old friends, to as good rooms as you can get tor tnem in the house of many mansions, and with windows looking out upon the palace of the great King. As for myself, anywhere in heaven is good enough for met Halleluiah to the Lamb that was slain." But I awake. In the ecstasy of the moment my foot slipped from the layer of amethyst, that so called producer of dreams, and in the effort to catch myself the vision van ished. And, lo, it was but a dream!3 SOME SENSIBLE TALK ON A VERY TIMELY TOPIC. t. ? The Farmers and the Town People? The Kind or Reform Needed In this State. To the ' Editor of The News and Courier: There are many citizens in this State who can remember when the planters of upper Carolina, Geor gia and Alabama carried their cotton to Hamburg to sell and hauled back their annual supply of sugar, coffee, salt and iron. Hamburg was the only market for all that section, and at one time the most important cot ton market in the South. During the fall and winter the four and six mule teams with jingling bells and white covered wagonc crowded the I* v ^ streets and extended "fit rout on the plank road. The fcuaners in those days did not consider the middleman and speculator a 41 ui?auce, when they had to journey so far and lose w^eks rot' time frfom farm work in ordefto | find him. They were glad- enough | when the railroad enabled them to sell their cotton nearer home or ship it to Charleston. So the farmers of these times, notwithstanding the cry against the towns and commercial classes, like to go to the market where the middle men and speculators are most numerous and give the last one a chance to bid on their cotton. The first consideration with every producer is a market. Manufacturers are always on the lookout for new channels of trade1 and new uses for their wares, and welcome every# pos sible customer with tW utmost cour tesy "and kindness. But in this State we have the Btrange 'spectacle of the farmers fighting, witK^j)ie apparent aim of ex. .er ruination, every interest which can enhance the value of our crops while raising to excesS those which make us more dependent on other communities. Truly we deserve to be called "fool farmers," there is no other term to describe such folly, and our daily supplication ought to be "O, wad sonife pow'r the glftle gie us, To tee i ureeVs as itbers seo us." A friend of mine, who sells milk in a neighboring town, told me thai the j town people kept too many cows and i that iujured his business. Another said there were t<>o many gardens and consequently no market tor vegeta bles. .Now, here is the line on which the farmers shouljl tight the towiis: Let us encourage, by our good will and friendly votes, their growth ; help | to cover ail those gardens with fac I tories, dwellings and stores; extend ! the town limits and destroy the cow pastures; confine the town people to their regular business of shoving the J yard stick and pen. Then the farrn j ers would have better markets for their diversilied crops, the larms ror i miles aruuud would increase in value, tuxes would be decreased by the in- j crease of taxable property, and farm- j era' sous and others who do uot wish to farm could easily find good employ- j ment. The experience of the past two years should admonish us that the day is not j distaDt when cotton plauting on a large scale iu South Carolina will be a thing of the past. Cotton as a lint producer is a sun plant, and no appli ance of agricultural art or science can atiect those climatic conditions which develop the bolls and staple. As com petition increases the cooler sections of the cotton beit will be the first to succumb. There are vast sections of the globe where climate, soil and j cheap labor are more favorable to the production of cotton thau ours, aud our own history furnishes many ex- | amples of the transposition of staple 1 crops. South Carolina has no coal or iron mines to develop, and in this we are ! fortunate, for they bring an undesira- j ble population, but she presents the most desirable field for the manufact ure of cotton, and the people who fol- i low the railroads ana factories are an : intelligent, thrifty and law-abiding class. The s}stem of farming, which supplies an industrial population with the necessaries and luxuries oi life, is one which cauld not be wrenched from us, and for which our State is peculiarly adapted. Reform in this direction is the only hope for the future prosperity of the I State, and the chief condition for its early accomplishment is a just and sentiment on the part oJf the i'loriJpL" C., Jan. 17, 1893. Got* Turney Inaugurated in Bod. Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 16. ? At ft' noon to day a special committee of the Legislature and officers of the Supreme Court we?bt to the home of Governor elect Turney, at Winchester, and swore in the new executive. Gover nor Turney was unable to leave his bed, and only the briefest ceremony of induction was performed. This is the first time in the history of the State ! that the Governor was ever inaugu [ rated except at the capitol. Declared Cncoostitutional. Duluth, Minn, Jan HJ. ? Judge j R. R. Nelson, of the United States ! Court, yesterday declared the Chinese ! exclusion act unconstitutional in a ca3e brought _ before him on habeas j corpus proceedings in the arrest of a Chinaman of seven years1 residence in | the United States.? Greenville News, R. B. HATES DEAD. (' RHEUMATISM OF THE HEART THE Fatal malady. The Last but One Ex-President or the United States Goes to His Last Account. ? Fremont, 0., Jan. 17. ? Ex-Presi dent Rutherford B. Hayes died at 11 o'clock to-night Early in the even ing an enquiry ? elicited the respouse that the General Bad passed a fairly well day and was resting nicely this evening. The ehauge from better to worse was rapid, and at 11 o'clock the ex-President passed away. The lirst intelligence of this was received when Webb C. Hayes came down town aud announced that his father had just died. Ex-Presideat Hayes was brought here last Saturday, suffering from an attack of rheumatism of the heart, with which he had been stricken at Cleveland. It was the second attack of the kind he bad suffered within two weeks, and although his condition was regarded somewhat serious and excited the alarm of the family, the encour agement given them by I)r Hilbest, the family physician, led them to be lieve that the patient would soon re cover.* For this reason all knowledge of the ex- President's illness was kept from the public, and the fact that he was suffering from heart trouble did not become known till yesterday after noon. While Dr Hilbest remained almost constantly at the patient's bedside, no alarming symptoms appeared until this evening, when he became rapidly worse. The Dead Ex-President'a Funeral. Fremont, 0., Jan. 18. ? The funeral of ex-President Hayes takes place Friday afternoon. Hi* remains will be buried in Oak wood cemetery, be side those of his late wife. I Action of the Cabinet. Washington, Jan. 1 <S. ? A meet- j iug of the cabinet was held this after- j noon, an executive was order drafted ; and adopted announcing the death of j ex- President Hayes, andorderiftg that j the executive mansion and executive ! departments at Washington be draped j in ^mourning and the tiags thereon i placed at half staff for thirty days,| and that on the day of the funeral all j public business in the departments be suspended and that suitable military j aiid naval honors, under orders of the j secretaries of War and Navy, be ren- | dered on that day. The President j expressed his regret that he would ! not be able to attend the funeral in person, but expressed a wish that he should be represented by some of his j official associates. It was thereupon j determined that Secretary Charles Foster, of the Treasury, Secretary Noble, Secretary Rusk and Postmaster General Wanamaker should proceed to Fremont as representatives of the President Cleveland will Attend Funeral. e Lakewood, N. J., Jan. IN. ? At a late huwr t h is afternoon Mr Cleveland decided to attend the funeral of ex President Haves at Fremont, ' Miio Friday. It v. as n<>t until lale thi? morning that Mr Cleveland learned of the death of Mr Hayes, and although he had received no formal invitation to the funeral, he immediately - telegraphed Private Secretary < )' Brien, who was in New York, to secure a compartment on the W estern express, leaving the Grand Central ! depot in New York at 10 40 tomor ! row morning, and also to make | necessary prepartaion for his journey. | Mr Cleveland said he was well | acquainted with the ex President and ! had often met him. lie has sent a lispatch of condolence to the familtv. Mr Hayes's death upsets nil Mr Cleve land's plans, as he will be forced to be i way from home until Sunday night. | >r possibly Monday morning. K ailfoad Holocaust in Knssia. St. Petersburg, Jan. 17. ? A i train tilled with recruits was running from Slatousk to Samara when liames i hurst from the foremost car. l he j train was going full speed, and in a j few minutes all the cars were blazing, j The engiueer, for some unaccountable | reason, did not stop the car until lie j had run a considerable distance. 1 Many of the recruits jumped from windows and doors. Some landed uninjured in.the snowbanks, but others were killed. Those unable to get out were burned to death, as the train was entirely consumed. Forty nine lost their lives and twenty were in jured. Tragedy on a Train. Atlanta, Ga., Jan. 17. ? A sensa tional shooting allrav occurred this afternoon on the Atlanta and Florida traiu inMie suburbs of this city, when Sheriff Hewett, of Fayette conn ty. shot and instantly killed J. N. Mc Eachern, a prominent citizen of the same county. There has been bad blood between the men for some time, growing out of the recent county elec tions. 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