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AT THE TABERNACLE. DR. TAVM^GE DEUVERS A TRIBUTE TO ^ WOMANLY INFLUENCE. ' i j The "Gicff Woman" of the Text Was Only u Type of the Chrfetiaa Mother of To ^ day? T be Virtues of Hospitality * Brooklyn, Aag. 20. ? Rev. Dr. Tfdmage choae for his subject today one of special interest to the gentler sex, the announced topic being Great Woman," and the text II -Kings iv, 8: "And it fell on a day that Eliaha passed to Shunem,. where^wsg a great woman." The hotel of oor time had no counter part in any entertainment of olden j muafc k Rtyorityrof traveler i 1 entertaiaed su privstft *7?"?* Here comes Flifdia, * servant (>t tie luord, on a divine mistrioa ^ and be mvst find shelter. A balcony over looking the valley of Esdraelon is otfered him , in 'a private house , and it is especially furn'mhed for hie oc cupancy ? a chair to sit on, a table from which to eat, a candlestick by 7 "? fj) which to read ana a oeu <>u ~ _ slumber , the whole establishment be longing to & great and good .woman. Her husdand, it seems, was a good man, but be was entirely overshadowed by bk wife's excellencies, just as now you sometimes find in a household the wife the center 6f dignity and in fluence a ad power, not by any arrogance or presumption , but by superior intellect ami force of mora] nature wielding domestic affairs and at tie same time saperviring all fin M <miy be?u* there home why they are succeafuL >? THE*VlFEkY INFLUENCE. If a msua marry a good, honest soul, he makes his fortune. If he marry a foci, the Lord help him! The wife ^fn ay be the silent partner in the firm, there may be only masculine voices /flown on exchange, but there often time comes from the home circle a potential and elevating influende. t a This woman of my text was t iw superior of her husband. He, as far as I can understand, was what we often see in our day, a man of large fortune and only a jnodicum of brain, ; intensely quiet, sitting, a long while in the same place without moving hand or foot ? if you say "yes," responding "yes* ? if you 3ay "no," responding "no" ? inane, eyes half shut, mouth w$e open, maintaining his position in society only because he has a large patrimony. But his wife, text says, i was a great woman. _ ^ x Her name has not come down She belonged td that collection of peo ple who need no name to distinguish tfrem. What would title of duchess or princess or queen ? what would escutcheon or gleaning diadem be to this woman ot my text, who by her intelligence and her behavior chall enges. the admiration of all ages? Long aftec the brilliant women of the court of Louis XY have been forgotten, * and the brilliant women of the court / of Spain have been forgotten, and the v brilliant women who sat on_ mighty thrones have been forgotten, some grand father- will put on his spectacles. >tad holding the book the "Other side ?yBjfM.gli! imuI gran^isiHren / &&%tory of this great Womaji--' of Shunem who was ao kind and courteous and Christian to the good prophet Eliaha. Yesr^was a great woman. In the first place>she was great in ' her hospitalities. Uncivilized and barbarous nations honor this virtue. . Jupiter had the surname of the hos pitable, and he was said ^especially to aven^s the wrongs strangers. ^ Homer extoDed it in his verse. The Arabs are punctilious upon^ihis sub ject, and among some of their tribes it . is not until the ninth day of tarrying that the occupant has a right to ask guest, "Who and whence art thou?" If this virtue is so honored eyen among barbarians, how ought it to be honored ''among those of us who believe in the Bible; which commands us to use hos pitality ?ne toward another without grudging? , RELIGIOUS TRAMPS. ^ Of course I do not mean under this cover to give any* idea that I approve of that vagrant claaB who go around from place to place, ranging their whple liie time perhaps under the aonpices of some benevolent or philanthropic society, quartering them selils on Christian families, with a great pile of trunks in the hall and carpet bag portentoua/of tarrying. There id many a country parsonage 4hat looks out week by' ' week apon the ominous arrival oi Wagon with creaking wheel and lank horse and dilapidated driver, come under the auspices?!' some charitable institution to sp8n*i a few weeks and canvass the" neighborhood. Let no such religious tramps take advantage of this beauti- i pfal virtue ^Christian hospitality. - t Not 90 nfbeh^he sumptuouaness of yrour diei^ and the reality of your ^abode will impress the friend or the stranger that steps across your thres hold as the warmth of your greeting, the informality of your recepticfc, the | reiteration by grasp and by look and by a thousand attentions, insignificant attentions^ d# your earnestness of wel come. There will he high apprecia tion of your welcop^e, although you have' nothingJ?t^?he braasen candle stick aj^Kthe plain - chair to offer EJi?&3Cwhen he comes to Shunem. ' '?'Most beautiful is this grace of hos pitality when shown in the . bouse of j God, I am thankful that I am pastor of alchurch where strangers are al ways welcome, and there is not a state of the Union in which I have not heard the affability of the ushers of our church complimented. But I have entered^ churches where 'there was no hospitality. A stranger would ' stand in the vestibule for awhile and \theri make pilgrimage ujjf the long akle. No door opened to him on til, flushed and excited and embarrassed, he. started back again and coming to some half filled pew with apologetic air entered it, while the occupants glared on h?m with a look which seemed to say, "WeB, if I must, I musL,>: * Away with such* accursed in decency from tlje house of GodV Let every church that would maintain large Christian influence in communi ty culture Sabbath by Sabbath this beautiful grace Chriatlan hospitali ty. CHE1STIAN HOSPITALITY. A good man traveling in the tar west in. the wilderne* was overtaken by night and stona, and he put in at a cabin. He saw firearms along the beams of the cabin, and lie felt alarm ed. He diid not know but th*t had fallen into a de$ of thieves. ^ fa e at there greatly '^u"r^fItie awe awhile the man of ^"sboa}deT and j home with a ?* f bestnoger -t it ^n?n i? ? After I /was still more Awhile the man of the boose whispered with his wife, and the stranger thought his destruction was being planned. j 'hp. house came j Tbeu tne maU ? forward and said to the stronger: "Stranger, we are a rough and rude people out here, and we work bard make oar living for a living- wLea m come to the biht&U?we are tired, and we are apt bed early, and before raring we are ai<?/8 m the baW of reading a chapter from the word of God and making a prayer. If you don't Jike sueh things if you will just step outside the door until we get through I'll be greatly obliged to yoa." Of coarse the stranger tarried in the room, and the old hunter took hold of the horns of the altar and brought down the blessing of God upon his household and upon the stranger with in their "gates. Rude but glorious Christian hospitality! Again, this woman in my text was great in her kindness toward God's messenger. Elisha may have 'been a stranger in that household, but as s^e found out he had come on a divine mission he was cordially welcomed. We have a great many books in our day about the hardships of ministers and the trials of Christian ' ministers. I wish somebody woul^ write a book about the joys of the Christian minis ter, about the sympathies all around him, about the kindnesees, about the genial considerations of him. Does sorrow come to our home/and is there a shadow on the ccadie, there are hundreds of hands to help, and many who weary not through the long night watching, and hundreds of prayers going up that God would restore the sick. Is there a burning, brimming cup of calamity placed on the pastor's table, are there not many to help him drink of that cup atnd who will not be comforted because he is stricken? Oh, for somebody to write a book about the rewards ot the Christian Minister ? about his surroundings of Christian sympathy. ONLY A TYPE. | JEhis woman of the text was only a type of thousands of men and women who come down from the mansion and i from the cot to do kindness to the Lord's servants. F suppose th? -men of Shunem had to pay the bills, but it was the large hearted Christian sympa thies e of the women of Shunem that looked after the Lord's messenger. Again, this woman in the text was gTeat in her behavior under trouble. Her only son had died on her lap. A very, bright light went out in that household. . The sacred writer puts it very tersely whfca he says, "He sat on her knees until*"- noon, and then he died." Yet the writer goes ofi to that she- exclaimed, uIt is well!" Great iri^rosperity, this woman was great in trouble. . ! j Where are the feet that have not been blistered on the hot sands of this great Sahara? Where are the should ers that have not been bent under the burden of grief? iWhere is the ship sailings over glassy sea that has not after awhile been caught in a cyclone? Where is the garden of earthly com fort, but trouble hath hitched up its fiery and panting team and gone through it with burning plowshare of disaster? Under the pelting of ages o4 suffering the great heart of the world Jhas burst fith woe. Navigators tell at about the rivers, and the Amazon and the Danube and the Mississippi have been explored, but who can tell the depth or length of the great river of sorrow made np of tears and blood rojpng through all lands and all ages, bearing the wreck of families and of communities and of empires ? foaming, wnljang, ^boiling with the agonies of . 6,000 years? Etna and Cotopaxi and Vesuvius have been described, but who has ever sketched the volcano of suffering retching up from its deptlis the lava and the scoria and pouring them down the sides to whelm the nations? Oh, if I couid gather all the heartstrings, the broken ' heartstrings, into I a harp I would play on it a dirge such as was never sounded. GREATER THAN GOROON. Mycologists "tell us of Gorgon and" Centaur and Titan, and geologists tell us of extinct species of monsters, but greater than Gorgon or megatherium, and not belonging to the realm of iable, and not of an extinct species, is a monster with irn jaw and iron hools walking across the nations, and his tory and; poetry and sculpture in their attempt to sketch it and describe it have seemed- to sweat great drops of blood. . , But, thank God, there are those who can conquer as this woman of the text conquered and say: "It is well! Though my property be gone, though my children be gone, though my home be "broken up, though my health be sacrificed, it is well, it is well V There is no storm on the sea but Christ is ready to rise in the hinder part of the ship and htfsh it. There is no dark ness but the constellations of God's eternal love can illumine, it, and though the winter comes out of the northern sky you have sometimes seen the northern sky ' ail ablaze with auoras that seem* to say: "Come up this way. Vp this way are thrones of light, and seas o! sapphire, and the splendor of an eternal heaven. Come ap this way." We may, like the ships, by tempest be tossed <)n petrous deeps, bat cannot be lost. Though Satan enrage the wind and the tide, The promise assures us the Lord will provide. I heard aa echo of my text in a -very dark hour, when my father lay dying, and the old country minister j said to him, "Mr. Talmage, how do j you leel now as you are about to pass the "^Jordan of death?"- He replied ? . fcwaa the last th hM$x\ wm turn,;* I piay h|^?ver mid well; all is in abenedic ictbn, wbi*h lay go dtnni ??????? It was weJi c>f I text ir?s it ww well .-mr Ag^thb^j^c dau?. ill her&vp}&*ttoa. ? home p^SSf' ['Every 'picture ia - whether she is entertaining an I or whether she is giving careful atten j tion to her sick boy, or whether she is J appealing for the restoration of her / property ? every picture in tetr case is a home picture. These are not {jig. ciples of the Shunemite won^m j going out to attend to ties, neglect the duty of wife, of m I Ao faithfulness / No iaizmu**?? ? ever atone THE HOfTHKRV] There has been man* a mother who by indefatigable toil has reared a large &m2j; of chiHraL eqoipping them for the duties of lift with good manners and iarge intelligence and Christ* a principl^ starting them out, who has done more for the world than many another woman whose name has sounded through all the! lands and throogfi aU centuries, I remember when Kosauth was in this eouairy there were some ladies who gotl-eputation, honorable reputa tion, by presenting him very graceful ly with bouquets of dowers on public occasions, but what was all that com pared with the work of the plain Hungarian mother who gave to truth and civilization and the cause of uni versal liberty a Kossutht Yes, this woman of my text was great in her simplicity^ When this prophet wanted to re ward her ior her hospitality by asking some preferment trOnj the king, what did she say? She d^cTiged it She said, "I dwell among my okp people" ?as much as to say: "I ajrf satisfied with my lot All I wapt are my fami ly andLmy friends around me. I dwell^iong my own ^^ople." Oh, what a rebuke to the strife for prece dence in all ages! .How many there are who want to get great architecture, and homes fur nished with all art, all painting, all statuary, who have not enough taste to distinguish between Gothic and Byzantine, and who could not tell a figure in piaster oi paris from Palm er's u White Captive," and would not know a boy's penciling from Bier stadt's "Yosemite"? men who buy large libaries by the square foot, buying these librariee- when they have hardly enough education to pick' out the day of the almanac! ' Oh, how many there are striving to have things as well as their neighbors, or better, than their neighbors, and in tee struggle vast fortunes are exhausted . and business firms thrown iato bankruptcy, and men of reputed honesty rush into astounding forgeries! Of course I say nothing against refinement or culture. Splendor of abode, sumptousness oi diet, lavishness in art, neatness in apparel ? there is nothing against them in the Bible or out of the Bible. God does not want us to prefer mud hovel to English cottage, or ufltanned sheepskin to French broadcloth, or husk to pine apple^or tlie clumsiness of a boor lo the "manners of a gentleman. Goa^ who strung the beach with tinted shelly and the grass of the field with the dews of the night, and hath exquisite ly-tinged morning cloud and robin red-breast/wants us to kee(p our eye open to all beauiiful sights, and our ear open to all beautiful cadences, and our heart open to all elevating senti ments. But what I want to impress upon you is that you ought not to in ventory the luxuries of liie as among ifie indispensables, and y tia ought not to-depreciate this womaji of the text, who when offered knigly preferment, responded, "I dwell among my own people." GREAT IN HER PIETY. / Yea, this "woman of the text was great in her piety. Faith in God, and she was not ashamed to talk about it. before idolators. Ah, woman will never appreciate what1 she owes to Christianity until she knows and sees the degradation of her sex un der paganism and Mohamedism. Her very birth considered a misfortune. Sold like cattle in the shambles. Slave of all the work, and at last her body fuel for the funeral prey of her husband. Above the shriek of the fire worshipers, in* India and above the rumbling of the juggernauts, I hear the million voiced groan of wronged, insulted, broken hearted, downtrod den woman. Her tears have fallen in the Nile and -Tigris and the La Plata and on the steppes of Tartary. She has been dishonored in the Turk ish garden and Persian palace and Spanish alhambra. Her little ones have been sacraficed in the Gangeg. There is not a groan, or a dungeon, or an island, or a mountain, or a river, or ar, lake, t>r a sea but could tell a story of the outrages heaped up on her.*"" But, thanks to God, this glorious Christianity comes forth, and all the claims of Ihi9 vassalage are snapped, and she rises up from ignominy to ex alted sphere and becomes the affection ate daughter, the gentle wile, the hon ored mother, the ?useful Christian. Oh, if Christianity has done so much for woman surely woman will become its most ardent advocate and its sub Ernest exemplification. " When I come to speak of womanly influence, my mind always wander off to one model ? the aged one, who 27 ; years ago we put away for the resur rection. About 87 years ago, and just before their marriage day, my i father and mother stood up in the old meeting house -of Somerville, N. J., and took upon them the vows of the Christian. Through a long life of vicissitude she lived harmlessly and usefully and came to her end in peace. No child of want ever came to her door and was turned empty away. iio one in sorrow came to her but was comforted. No ooe asked her the ; way t# be sayed, bofc she poiate&Jaim to the cross. When the angel of^life came to a neighbor's dwelling, she was there to rejoice at the startling of another immortal spirit When . the angel of death came to a neighbor's dwellings she was there to robe the departed for the burial. We had often heard her, when lead child**. k tbst ? of *r TF.m Now, Lord, ktteat thou ^ , servant depart in peace, for mine eyes have aeenjhy salvation." The prayer ooq "answer^. | i^iTHAT GLORIOUS WORD "MOTHER." jit was an autumnal day when we gathered from afiur and found only the h<kise from which the soul had fled forever. , She looked very natural, the hands very much as when they were employed in kindness for her chjldfen. Whatever else we forget, we^iever for get the look of mother's /hands. As we stood there by the caiket we could not help but say, "Dftn't she look beautiful V It was a cloudless day when with heavy heartf we carried her out to the last restin j place. The withered leaves crumbled uuder hoof and wheel as ye passed^. and the sua shone on the , Ran tan; river until it looked like fire. But more calm and beautiful and radiant was the setting sun of that aged pilgrim's Hfe. No more toil, no more tears, ^o more sick ness, no more death. Dear mother ! Beautiful mother! - j Sweet is the slumber beneath the sod, While pare spirit rests with God. I need not go back and show you Zenobia or Semiramis or Isabella, or even the woman of the text, as Won I ders of wpmanfy excellence or great ness, when 1 in this moment point to your own picture gallery of memory and show you the one face that you i remember so well and arouse all xour | -holy reminiscences and start you in new consecration to God by the pro nunciation of that tender, beautiful, glorious wojd, "Mother! Mother!" ! A Ferer Ship at Ph'latlelphia. Philadelphia, Pa., August 16. ? The schooner Betty M. Lister, from . Charleston, S. C., was detained at the local quarantine station last evening, with three cases of suspected yellow fever on board. The sick seamen were taken to the hospital the lazaretto, where tme of them was foui\d to be suffering from a well developed case of the dread disease, while the others are suspects, and show symptoms of the early stages of tjie fever. The schooner sailed^ from Charles ton, S. C-, a week ago. On the sec ond day ont one of the crew ol eight men became ill with fever. He passed through the various stages and was reported this morning to be convales cent, The man was a foreigner and unable to tell Dr Boenning where he had been prior to shipping from Char leston. The doctor said the disease has not developed far enough in- the other men to enable him to" say 'posi tively that it is yellow fever. Tpr fumigation - of the vessel is beilg performed to day.. She is loaded fWitli lumber, which makes the work ^^disinfection easy. J Dr Boenning has caused the other men in the crew to be taken ashore, and they will be detained until the period for the development of the fever shall have passed. It takes at' least ten days for the disease to de velop. i How the vessel passed the govern ment quarantine is not stated, bat it is claimed .that the presence of the disease on ; board should have been discovered there. i ! SQie Didnt Sail From Ch&rleMtoo. Charleston, S. C., Aug. 16. ? Dr. city health officer, said to night! ijf regard t6 the reported cases of yelW fever on board a schooner at Philadelphia, that no ships of any de scription whatever bad left this port with any sickness oa board; that there had not been here, or at any point in this State, any case of yellow fever, or any case of the slightest suspicion of yellow fever, in the year 1893;/md that it would have been impossible for any vessel to have sailed from here with sickness aboard. The list of vessels sailing from Charleston since August 1st does not contain the name of the . Betty M. Lister. There is evidently a mistake in the name of the port from which the vessel sailed. Much Ailo About Nothing. Philadelphia, August >6.? The schooner Carry Hall Lister, not the Betty M. Lister, as previously re ported, is detained at State quaran tine. Her crew were reported to be suffering from yellow fever, but it is now - believed that it is malarial or swamp fever, common among sailors trading from Southern pQtls at this season of the year. The Lister brought a carg6 of lumber from Georgetown, S. C., a port from which no yellow fever cases have been reported. The schooner will be held at quarantine several days for observation. TILLMAN ON RICE BEER. He SayH What h? Will <lo lender Certain Circumstances. There has been much speculation spoilt what Governor Tillman intend ed to do about the sale of rice beer or what action he would take in refer ence to those who have been selling it should an analysis prove tjpftnt is in toxicating. He , expressed himself clearly on the subject Monday before leaving f&r Chicago. He wm asked by an interested person whether he eould sell it dr not and the Governor ? re ported to have said that if it shotsld be found to be- intoxicating he ^ Would prosecute to the foil extent of the law every man who deals in it This would go -hard with those who have begun the sale under *the impression that they would not be interfered with. The sale has certainly been knoton to the Governor and yet he has taken no action to ascertain whether the sale is leg?d or not and this has induced many to enter! upon the sale. ? State. " ? Chicago, Aug. 14.? A hotel fire re sulting in tbe death of a number of guests occurred this morning. The fire was in the Senate Hotel, a three ^ry^fl^fccfcure on Madison street near Fifth avenue. Oue man jumped from a window in the top story and was killed. About half a dozen of others were suffocated and burned to death. The loss on the building and con tents is practically total, but as the structure was old and the furnishing cheap, the amount will not exceed a few thousand dollars. A restaurant occupied the . ground ~H<!>or and the Senate Hotel the two uppe^r ones. It contained thirty-six rooms and held thirty' guests when the fre broke out shortly after 6 o'clocMihis \noni ing. The rooms were Separated by flimsy wooden partitions ^ud pioved first class food for the lire. He blaze started in the office . on the second floor and spread so rapidly through the halls aud upper rooms that it ctfttW^not be checked. Before the guests were warned the flames had cut off their esca]>c from the stairway and they were caught like rats in a trap. The scene iluring the fire was an exciting one. Mrs Ohren aud her daughter Annie who slept in the front part of the store, discovered the fire first. A moment later they and the other occupants were flyiug about seeking an avenue of escape. Annie and her mother gr<>j*d their way through the sniffling smoke to the win dow and out on the sill. The crowd below yelled to them not to jump. With desperation the women clung to the frame work, dropping as far ?out aa possible while the smoke and flames burst through the windows around them. Although badly burned, they retained their position until the arri val of the hook 'and la Ider company. A ladder was raised and they were rescucd. A man, whose identity is unknown, next reached the window. The flames were already scorching his almost nude body and he jumped to the stone pavement. He was picked up in an unconscious condition. It was at this juncture the firemen arrived, ladders were raised and the work of rescueiug the imperilled in mates systematically begun. The work of rescue was boo late, however. The fireman found dead bodies rather then living people. The fire is said to have started from an overturned stair lamp. In all five people were killed and three othere so badly injured that they can scarcely recover. At the Cook County and Mercy Hospitals others were suffering with pains and so badly injured as to be<yjnable to tell their names. j C List of killed: Harry Godfrey, seven year-old-son of J. Godfrey, a hardware merchant of Little Rock Ark., burned, Edward Short, of Chicago, burned and jumped from the rear window. An unknown woman, five feet six inches in height burned, removed from bed by the fireman! An unknown man five, feet in height, burned in the bed. An unknown man, removed to Cook County Hos pital unconscious, died in fifteen minutes after arrived. The injured ^numbered eight and were immediately conveyed to the hospitals whare their injuries were promptly attended. Three of the in jured were from Little Rock, Ark., two from Lake City, Minn., one from Syracuse, N. Y., and the remainder could not be fully identified but are thought to belong to Chicago. liett^r Times Coming. The Baltimore Sun puts it this way; But better times are comiug with our return to sounder monetary and tariff doctrine. This country has enormous powers of recepe ration. It presents tempting opportunities for the invest ment of foreign capital. The incoming of such c capital has been the cause of very much of our past prosperity, and it will return to us when once assured that investments of gold will not be repaid in depreciated silver. The Sherman law has since 1890 acted as a scare-craw to foreign investors. Its repeal will cause them to flock back to a country where capital and '>labor win the largest returns. Several years may elapse before the full harvest, that its coming will cause the present hard times to be forgotten. "I can see only .prosperity of our people," says Mr. Wells, "when our economic con ditions are settled." Washington, August 15.? The continued business depression is felt 110 where more sensibly than by the gov ernment Its revenues rise and fall in touch with business. So far. this month its receipts are three million dollars less than last month, ami. during the past three day's the falliugl off' has been very heavy. Business men are taking out of bonded ware houses as few goods as ]>ossible, while importers have not only curtailed the imports but are taking advantage of all the delay possible in jwiying custom duties. At the present rate, the Treas ury receipts will not be over $27, 000, 000 for the month, instead of $35, 000,000. To Fnty for Better Times -* Denver, August 15. ? The ministe rial alliance of Denver has prepared a memorial to be sent to the President asking that he set aside a national day of prayer and fasting. The ad dress cites the existing financial dis tress and the great leagalized sins of the nation, and petitions the President to set aside a day when the people shall gather in their accustomed places of worship and pray that the nation may be rightly guided in its present sore distress. The memorial will be read at a great religious mass meeting here next Sunday. : , - ?? ' : ? ~ r"? " TERRIBLE RAILROAD- DISASTER. Two Passenger Coaches and a Sleeper Kjsill Sixty Feet Into a Creek. Danville, Va., August 16. ? Au awful accident occurred at the county line trestle, just east of Milton, this morning at 2:50 o'clock, by which two passenger coaches and a sleeper were precipitated into the creek below, a distance ol sixty feet, resulting in the killing of seven persons outright and the wounding of a number of others. The train left here at 1:35 this morning, and was the regular train bound for Portsmouth. After passing through Milton, and going over the trestle, the engineer, Peyton Tuustall, who says he was running at the rate of ten miles an hour, felt the bridge giving way. He threw open the throttle, and the eugine, tender and a box car got safely over, but the pass enger car was too late, and the sj>an went down under its weight, the sec ond passenger car and sleeper follow ing. A MIRACLE HOW ANY ESCAPED. The cars were shivered into kind ling wood, and the escape of any of the passengers was a miracle. The water iu the creek had risen to the depth of twelve or more feet, and it is the general belie! tbat the rise had undermined the foundation of the iron piers, causing the trestle to settle. On the train at the time there were sixteen persons, including the train hands. In the sleeper was Mrs. Har vey Giersch, two children and nurse, of Winston, N. C.; Conductor J L. Sizer, of Richmond, and J. R. Townes, the colored porter. The nurse was drowned and the conductor and porter I were slightly, injured. Mrs. Giersch was on her way to Lawrenceville to ! visit' friends. THe depot agent at Milton heard the crash and immediately gave ?: the alarm by tolling the l>ell. The peo ple turned out in full force and went to work at once to rescue the dead and injured from the debris. THE FULLMAN CONDUCTOR'S.*! ORY. Mr. J. L. Sizer, the Pp'lman con ductor, in speaking of the accident, Siiy8: "I had just gotten through with my collections and had reported to Capt. Morris who had jmsaed for ward on the train, and was preparing to retire when the crash came. For tunately, I was in the forward end of my car. Mrs. Giersch's nurse was in the rear end of the car, where she was found with her head and chest under the water, and was probably drowned, | as there were no heavy timbers or anything else on her body that might have caused her death." The little thirteen-year old daught er of Mrs. Giersch, not realizing the danger through which she had passed, said to the rescuers: "Dou't mind, me; I am not hurt, but please take mama out" t The following is the list of the killed and wounded: THOSE WHO WERE KILLED H. Morris, conductor, Portsmouth, Va. W. R. Eliasou, Alton, Va. J. G. Davies, a farmer, of Basker ville, Va. W. R. Elam, of Durham, N. C. James S. I?we, a railroad conduc tor from the West, who was a passen ger. Thomas I^ee (colored), of Winston, N.C. ? Francis Lee (colored), of Salem, N. C. THE WOUNDED. Mrs. Harvey Giersch, of Salem, N. C., slightly. J. L. Sizer, of Richmond, Pullman conductor, foot mashed and hurt slightly in side. J. R. Townes, colored porter on the Pullman, slightly bruised about the , body. ; Davis, ailaginan, hurt about the head and face and foot sprained. The injuries of none of the wounded will likely prove serious. The ^iead were removed to the railroad dej>ot at Milton, w he re they were kept until the arrival of the coroner from Halifax C. H., the acci dent occuring on the Halifax side of the creek. { HEAVY LOSS. The loss will be very heavy to the railroad company, as the cars and a full span of" the bridge are a tofal !<*s The passenger?, mail, baggage frieghts, etc., are passing on through, they being transferred at the creek. Messrs. Elam and Davis who were killed, were in Danville yesterday, and the former had concluded at one time not to leave for home until today, but afterwards changed his mind, and went by the early morning train. A number of persons from the two Danvilles went to the scene of the wreck, several going on bysicles from North Danville. Capt. Morris was chief of the R. E. 'Lee division of the Order of Railroad Conductors, and leaves a wife and grown son and daughter. A DARING HOLD UP. A Thi?*f Pos?"? ft* u Doctor? Rolm HI* l'fttionl ftiul Skips. Denver, Col., Aug. K>. ? A hold up occured here early this morning which beats the record. P. Casham of Pensacola registered at the Welling ton Hotel last night. At 2 o'clock this morning he rang for the clerk and said he was very ill and feared he was going to die. The clerk reached the street at a Nancy Hank gait and meeting a man at the corner asked the way to the nearest physician. The stranger replied he wa* a doetor and was immediately taken to the sick man's room. The doctor asked fur a pitcher of ice water and while the clerk was after it the alleged doctor robbed his patient of everything he had and skipped. When the clerk returned, Cashman had died, presuma bly of fright. The poliece were at once notified and the robber arrested an hour later. He gave his name as J. E. Stevens. \ for Infants and Children. i ^ THIRTY yea.r?' observation ofCjfcgtorijt with the patronage of ; n^?lu Par*flB'Li^wUJ" to tpralr *? It witkwt imda^ ? gjjg_nnqne?ttonnbly the be?t remedy tor ? * Chlldi^ f ^ L^grjjThgaeyer kno^n. It in harmlow. Children like it. It j girtm them With, It wlU ,ave tWy Ja jfolliof hay ^Sg^^g_which i. absolutely mqft> and practically perfect as % ? oWWWedicine. Castoria destroy Wormn. Carto^alJay.jreverWme?.. ? tori* Pwent. vo?<HW(f ^vrj*nr<t, ^ Castaria <, ur^a^arrhoBaand Wind Colio. relive. Teething Trouble.. Cwto g^jjL?B^^on.tipation and Flatulency. V. ~ effect ? of carbonic acid gas or poitonon? air, 1 ~doe* ^icogtainmo^hine, opinm. or other narcotic property. ^ toria aufcimilateH the food, regulator the stomach and bowel*, ^5?^?^yjtodnatn?tU^. Don~ ^ ^ Pnt Up^n^JoW?. onJf^It b not sold Intbulfc. ~~ " yanypge to ??Mjron anything el? on the pi? or promi? s "jn?t as good " and u ? 111 ** ~ ? Kooa and will answer every purpose." get C- A -S-TrfUP -T- ^ . - X" x The ?4fl-natnre ot Children Cry for pitcher's Castorlft THE TILLMAN COCKTAIL. Establishing ol IMsitousari*** Kasy ?? Charleston. Charleston, August 15. -Another dispensary petition bobbed up- today, with 7*5) names to iL Charles F. Stenmeyer is the applicant This makes four alrea<ly in. The other six. making ten, to which Charleston is entitled, are in process of preparation. The intimation comes from Columbia that ten dispensaries must be establi shed in Charleston, and the process of getting up the names has been very much simplified. There are about 200 well known freehold voters in the city who will sign their names to almost any petition that is presented to them. These form the nucleus. The pe titioner then hands his list to a col ored lawyer, wbo is an ex{>ert in the business, and he tills it up to the re quired number, 751, by copying down the names of colored freeholders of the tax Woks. The liquor men seem to have given up the fight, and nobody seem* willing to make it, although it is probable that at least half of the. names signed to the petition are bogus or copied from the tax 1st, or some other list. Ripans Tabules. ^ Ripans Tabules hrc com pounded from a prescription widely used by the best medi cal authorities and are pre sented in a form that is be coming the fashion every where. [ Ripans Tabulcs net gently ; but promptly upon the liver, I stomach and intestines; cure r dyspepsia, habitw.il constipa : tiuii.nflcnMvol rc.uli andhead \ a. he. One tabule taken at the ; In > t svmptom of indigestion, ; biliousness, dizziness, distress \ after eating, or depression of | spirits, will surely and quickly [ remove the whole difficulty. \ RipansTabules may be on j tained of nearest druggist. RipanA Tahules are easy to take, quick to act, and, save many a Joc-( tor's bill. ! CEHTH4L CYCLE MF3. CO.;., INDIANAPOLIS, ISO. Nl A l\ ki;s ??F ?BEN-HUR ^ ->? 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