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PLAGUE OF CRIME, DR. TALViAGE DISCOURSES ON LAW BREAKINO* i'ulle* iUporta of New York aod Ilrook lyu More Sugg-eMlvo Than Dantw's lo feruu~W?yM Outlluod lu whluh Cltrla IUbi Should Work to Arrest Tola I'lajmo. New York, April 12.?J)r. Tal range, la continuaneo of the course of sermons on 4kTbo Ten Plagues of the Cities," to day preached to largo audionces in the Brooklyn Academy of Music In the fore noon and The Christian Herald service at the New York Academy of Music In the evening, on "The Plague of Crime." Ho took for bis text Exodus vli, 20, "All the waters that were in tho river were turned to blood." Among all the Egyptian plagues none could have been worse than this. Tbo Nile Is the wealth of Egypt.' Its ilsh the food. Its waters the irrigation of gar den and fields. Its condition decides the prosperity or tho doom of tho empire What happens to the Nile happens to all Egypt. An.l now in tho text that great river is Incarnadined. It is a red gash across an empire. In poetic licenso we speak of wars which turn the rivers into blood. But my text is not a poetic licenser It was a tact, a great crimson appalling condition described. The Nile rolling deep of blood. Can you imoglno a more awful plague? Tho modern plague which nearest corresponds with that is tho plaguo of crime in all our cities. It halts not for bloodshed. It shrinks from no carnage. It bruises, und cuts, and strikes down, and destroys. It revels in the blood of body and soul, this plaguo of crirao rampant for ages, and never bolder or more rampant than now. The annual police reports of theso cities as I examine them nro to me more suggestive thnn Dante's Inferno, and nil Christian people as well as reformers need to waken to a present and tremeu dous duty. If you want this "Plague of Crime" to stop, there are scrveral kinds of persons you need to consider. First, the public criminals. You ought not to bo surprised that these people mako up a largo portion in manv commuul ties. Tho vast majority of tho crim inals who tako ship from Europe come Into our own port. In 1809, of tho 49,000 peoplu who were incarcerated in tho prisons of tho country, 32,000 wore of ioroign birth. Many of them wero the very desporadoes ot society, oozing into tho slums of our cities, waiting lor an opportunity to riot and steal and dabauch, joining tho largo gang of American thugs and cut throats. Tlioro are In this cluster of cities?New York, Jersey City and Brooklyn?4,000 peo ple whose enliro business in life is to commit crime. That is as much their business as jurl&prudcnco or medicine or merchandise is your business. To it they bring all thoir energies of. body, mind, and soul, and they look upon tho intervals which they spoil'! in prison as SO much mi fortunate loss of time, just as you look upon nn attack of influenza or rheumatism which fastens you in the house for a few days. It is their lifo-tlme business to pick-pockets, and blow up safes, nud shoplift, and ply tho panel game, and they have as much tiride of skill in their business as you invo in yours when you upsot the argu ment ot an opposing counsel, or cure a gunshot irncturo which other sur geons havo given up, or forcsco a turn of the market as you buy goods just be fore thoy go jp twenty per cent. It is their business to commit crime, aud I do not suppose that once in n year the thought of tho immorality strikes them. Added to these professional criminals, American aud foreign, there is a largo class of men who nro moro or less Indus tious in crimo. In ono year the police in this cluster of cities arrested 10,000 people for theft, and 10,000 for assault and battery, aud 50,000 for iu toxirattion. Drunkenness is respon sible for much of the theft, since it con fuses a man's ideas of property, and ho, gots his hands on things th&t do hot belong to him,Jtum -Hrrcsponsiblo for puch-oi' the assault and battery, Inspir ing men to sudden bravery, which they must demonstrate though it bo on tho lace of the next gentleman. Ten million dollars worth of property stolen In this cluster of cities in ono year. You ennnot, as good citizens, bo Independent of (hat fact. It will touch your po2ket, since I havo to give you the fact that theso three cities pay about $8,000,000, worth of taxes a year to ar raign, try and support tho criminal pop ulation. You help to pay the board of every criminal from tho snoak-thief that suatches a spool of cotton up to somo man who swamps a bank. Moro than that, it touches your heart in the moral depression af tho community. You might as will think to stand in a closely confined room where there are fifty pco pie and yet not breathe tho vitiated air, as to stand in a community where there is such a great multitude of the depraved without somewhat being contaminated. What is tho fire that burns your store down compared witli tho conflagration which consumes jour morals? What is the theft of tho gold and silver from your money safe compared with the theft of your children's virtue? We are all ready to arraign criminals. We shout at tho top of our voice, "Stop thief!" and when the police get on the track wo coroo out, hatlcss and in our slippers, and assist in the arrest. Wo come around tho bawling rulllnn nud hustle him off to justice, whon ho gels in prison, what do wo do for him? With great gusto wo put on t'*o hand cuffs und tho hopples; but what prepara tion are wo making for the day when the handcuffs and the hopples come off? Society seems to say to theso criminals, "VHlaln, go there and rot," when t ought to say, "You are an offender against the law, but wo mean to give you an opportunity to repent; wo mean to help you. Here nro Bibles and tracts and Christian influences. Christ died for you. Look, and livo," Vast, improvements havo been mndo by introducing industries into the prison but we want something more than ham mers and shoo lasts to reclaim these peo ple. Aye, wo want more than sermons on the Sabbath day. Society must im press those men with the fact that It does not enjoy their suffering, and that it is attempting to reform and elevate tbem. The majority of criminals sup pose that society has n grudge against them, and they in turn havo it grudgo agalnat soctoty. They are harder in heart nud moro infuriated when they come out of jail than whon they went in. Many of the peoplo who go to prison go again and again and again. Somo years ago of fifteen hundred prisoners who during the year had been in Sing Sing, four hundred ..ad been thcro before, in a house of correction In the country, where, during a certain reach of time there had been (Ivo thousand peoplo more than three thousand had been there beibro. So, in ono case the prison, and In tho other case the house of cor rection, left them just as bad ns thoy wero before The secretary of ono of the benevolent societies of New York saw a lad fifteen years of age who had spent three years of his life in prison, and ho Paid" to tho lad. '-What havo they dono for you to make yon bettor?" "Well," replied tho lad, "the llrsttimo I was brought up before the iudgo he said, *You ought to be ashamed o! >elf.' Again, and I was brought up before the saino judge, and he ?aid, 'You rascal V Aud after a while I committed some other crime, .and I was brought before the sumo judgo, and he said, 'You ought tobe hausred.'" That is all they had done for him in Uie way of reformation and salvation. "Oh," you say, "these people are incorrigible." I suppose there are hundreds of persons this day lying in the prison bunks who would leap up at the prospect of reformation, if society would only show thorn a way into decency and respectability. "Oh," you say, "I havono patience with these rogues." I ask you in reply, how much better would you have been under the same circumstances? Suppose your mother had been a blasphemer and your father a sot, and you bad started lite, with a bod v stuffed with evil proclivities, and you had spentmuch of your time in a cellar amid obscenities and cursing, and if at teu years of age you had been compelled to go out and steal, battered and banged at night if y? u came in with out any spoils and suppose your early manhood and womanhood had been covered with rags and flilh and decent society had turned Its back upon you, and lfii you to consort with vagabonds and whart-rats?how much better would you have been? I have no sympathy with that executive clemency which would lot crimo run looso, or which would sit iu the vallery of a court room wcoping because some, hard-hearted wretch is brought to justice; but I do say that the safety and life of the commu nity demand more potential intlucnce in behalf of public offenders. In some of tho city prisons the air is like that of tho Black Hole in Calcutta. 1 have visited prisons where no air swept through tho wickot; it almost knocked mo down. No sunlight, young men who had commited their first crime crowded in amomg old offenders. I saw in one prison a woman, with one child almost blind, who had been arrested lor tho crimo of poverty, who was waiting until tho slow law could tako her to the 'almshouse, whero she rightfully belonged but. she was thrust in there with her child nmtd the most abandoned wretches ? of the town. Many of the offenders in that prison sleeping on the floor, with nothing but u vermin-covered blanket over them. Those people crowded and wan and wasted and half suffocated and infuriated. I said to the men, "How do you stand it bore?" "God knows," said ono man, "we. havo to stand it." Oh, they will pay you when thoy got out. ?Where they burned down ono house thoy will burn three. Thoy will striko deeper the assassin's knife. Thoy are this minuto plotting worse burglaries. Some of tho city jails are the best places I know of to manufacture foot-pads, vagabonds, and cut-throats. Yale col lego is not so woll calculated to make scholars, nor Harvard so well calculated to make seien lists, nor Princeton BO well calculated to make theologians*, as many ol our jails aro calculated to make crimi-! nals. All that those, men do not know of crimo after they have been in that dnngcon for somo time. Satanic machi nation can not teach them. In the sut forablo stench and sickening surround ings of such places there is nothing but discaso for tho body, idiocy for the mind, aud death for tho soul. Stifled air and darkness and vermiu never turned a thief into an honest man. Wo want men liko John Howard and Sir William i; lacks tone, and women like Elizaboth Fry, to do for the prisons of tho United States what thoso people did iu other days for tho prisons of England. I thank God for what Isaac T. Hopper and Dr. Wines and Mr. Harris aud scores of others havo dono in the way of prison roforu; but wo want some thing more radical beforo will come the blessing of him who said: "I was in prison, and yo camo unto mo." Again, in your clfort to arrest this plague of crimo you need to consider un trustworthy oillcials. "Woo unto theo, O lamb, when thy king is n child, and thy princes drink in tho morulng." It Is a great calamity to a city when bad men get into pnblic authority. Why. was it that in New York thero was such unnarulleVctl crimo between 18CG and ^?71? It was because the judges of police in that city, at that tamo, for tho most part, woro as corrupt as the vaga bonds that came beforo thorn for trial. Those wero tho days of high carnival, for election Inuds, assassination and forgery. Wo had all kiuds of rings. There was one man during those years that got ono hundred aud twenty eight thousand dollars in ono year for serving tho public. In a fow years it was esti mated that there were fifty millions of public treasure squandered. In thoso times tho criminal bad only to wink to tho judge or his lawyer would wink for him, and the question was decided for tho defendant. Of tho eight thousand people arrested iu that city in one year, only thrco wcro punished. These little matters wero "fixed up," while the in terests of society were "fixed down." You know as well as I do that one vil lain who escapes only opens the door for othor criminnlltes. When tho two pick pockets snatched tho diamond pin from tho Brooklyn gentleman in a Broadway stage, aud the villains wero arrested, and tho trial was set down for tho general sessions, and then tho trial nevor came, and never anything moro was heard of tho case, tho public officials wero only bidding higher for moro crimo. It is no compliment to public authoiity when wo havo in all tho cities of tho country, walking abroad, men and women notor ious for criminality, un whipped of jus tice They arc pointed out to jouln tho street day by day. There you find what aro called the "fences," the men who stand between tho thief and tho honest man, sheltoring tho thief, and at great price handing, over tho goods to tho owner to whom they belonged. There you will find those who aro called tho "skinners," the men who hover around Wall street, with great sleight of hand in bonds and slocks. There you find the funeral thieves, tho poople who go and sit down and mourn with families and pick their pockets. And thero you find the "confidence man," who borrow money of you be came they havo a dead child in tho house and want to bury it, when they never bad a house or family; or they want to go to England aud get a largo property there, and thoy want you to pay iheir way, and thoy will send the monoy back by tho very uoxt mail. Thero aro the "harbor thieves," tho "shoplifters," the "pick-pockots," famous all over tho cities. Hundreds of them with their faces In tho "Hogues gallery," yet doing nothing for tho last five or ten years but do fraud society to escapo justice. W.ien these, people go unarrestcd and unpun ished, it is putting a high premium upon vice, nnd saying to the young crlminnls of this country, "What a safe thing It is to bo a great criminal." Let the law swoop upon them. Let it be known in this country that crimo will havo no aunrter, that tho detectives are after it, le the polico club Is being brandished, that the Iron door of tho coll is being opened, that the judge is ready to call on tho case. Too great leniency to criminals is too great severity to socie ty. Again: In your effort to arrest this plaguo of crimo, you need to consider tho idlo population. Of cource, I do not refer to people who are getting old, or to tho sick, or to thoso who cann ot get work; but I tall you to look out for those athletic men and women who will not Work. When tho French nobleman was asked why ho kept busy when ho had so large a properly, he said, "1 keep on en* graving so I may not hang mysolf." I do not care who the- man is, you cannot afford to be idle. It Is from the idle vbJ99es that the criminal classes are made up. Character, like water, gets putrid if It stands still too long. Who can won der that iu this world, where there Is so much to do, and all the hosts of earth and heaven and hell are plbotrlng into the conflict, and angels are flying, and God Is at work, and the universe Is aquake with the marching and counter marching, that God lets his Indignation fall upon a man who chooses idleness? I have watched these do-notlnugs who spend their lime stroking the)/ heard, and retouching their toilet, and criticiz ing Industrious people, and pass their d&ys and nights in barrooms and club houses, lounging and smocking and chew- j log and card-playing. They are not only useless, but they are dangerous. How bard it is for them to while away the hours! Alas for them! If they do not know how to whilo away an hour, what will they do when they havo all eternity ou their bands? Theso men for awhile smoke tho best cigars, and wear the best clothos, and move In the high est spheres; but I hive noticed that very soon they come down to the prison, the almshou80, or stop at the gallows. The police stations ot this cluster of cities furnish annually between two and three hundred thousand lodgings. For the most part these two and three hun dred thousand lodgings aro furnished to able-bodied men and wqmeu?peoplo as ible to work as you and I are.' When they are received no longer at one police station, because they are "repeaters," they go to somo other station, and so they keep moving around. They get their food at house doors, stealing what they can lay their hands on in tho front basemont whilo the servant is spreading the bread in the back basement. They will not work. Time and again, in the country districts, they have wanted hun dreds and thousands of laborers. These men will not go. They do not want to work, i I have tried them. I havo set them to sawing wood iu my cellar to sco whether they wanted to work. I ottered to pay them well for it. I have heard tho saw going for about three minutes, and then I went down, and 'o, tho wood, but no saw! They aro tho pest of socie ty, and they stand in the way of tho Lord's poor, who ought to bo helped, and must bo helped; aud will be helped. Whilo there are thousands of industrious mon who cannot got any work, those men who do not want any work come iu and make that plea. I am in favor of the restoration of the old-fashioned whipping-post for just this ono class of men who will not work; sleeping at night at public expense in the station house; during the day, getting their food at your door-step. Imprisonment does not scare them. They would like it. Black well's Island or Sing Sing would be a comfortable home for them. They would have no *bjebtion to tho alms house, for they like thiu soup, if they cannot got mockiurtlo. I propose this for thorn; on ono sido of them put some healthy work; on the other sido put a rawhido, nod let them take their cholco. I liko for that class ot peoplo tho scant bill of fare that Paul wrote out for tho Thessalonlan loafers: "If any work not, neither should ho eat." By what law of God or man is it riglit that you should toil day in and day out, until our hands aro blistered and our arms acho and our brains get numb, and then be called upon to support what in tho United States aro about two million loafers! Thoy are u very dangerous class. Let the public authorities keep their eyes on thorn. Again: Among the uprooting classes I piaco tho oppressed poor. Poverty to a certain extent is chastening; but after that, when it drives a man to the wall, and ho hears his children cry in vain for bread, it some times makes him desoer ato. I think that there are thousands of honest men lacerated Into vagabondism. There aro men crushed under burdens for which they are not half paid.- While there Is no excuse Jbrrcrhivfnality even in oppression, ! ata'te it as a simple fact that'much of the scoundrolism of tho community is consequent upon ill-treat ment. There are many men and women battered and bruised and stung until the hour of despair has come, and thoy stand with tho ferocity of a wild beast which, pursued until it can run no longer, turns round, foaming and bleeding, to light the hounds. Thcrois a vast underground New York and Brooklyn lifo that is appalling and shameful. It wallows and steams with putrefaction. You go down tho stairs which aro wot and decoyed with filth, and a( the bottom you lind the poor vic tims ou tho floor, cold, sick, three-fourths dead, slinking into a still darker corner undor tho gleam of tho lantern of the police. There has not been a breath of fresh air in that room for five years, literally. Tho broken sower empties its contents upon then, and they ho at night in the swimming filth. There they aro, men, women, children; blacks, whites; Mary Magdalen without hero re pentance, and La za run without his God. Theso are "the dives" into which tho pick-pocket and the thieves go, as well as a great mauy who would liko a dilfer cnt life but cannot get it. Theso places nro the sores of the city, which bleed perpetual corruption. They are tho un derlying volcano that threatens us with a Caracas earthquake. It rolls and roars and surges and heaves and rocks aud blasphemes and dies. And t here, aro only two outlets for it: the police court and tho potter's fleled. In other words, thoy must either go to prison or to bell. Oh, you never saw it, you say. You never will see it until on the day when those staggering wretches shall come up in the light of the judment throne, and whilo nil hearts aro being rovealed, God will ask you what you did to help them. There is another layer of povcrt'/ and destitution, not so squalid but almost as helpless. You hoar tho incesssint wail ing for bread and clothes and Are, Their eyes aro sunken. Their cheek-bones stand out. Their hands aro damp with slow consumption. Their flesh is putted up with dropsies. Tneir breath is like that of the charnel-house. They hear tho roar of tho wheels.of fashion over head, and the gay laughter of men aud maidens, wonder why God gavo to others so much and to them so little. Somo of tiom trust into an infidelity liko that of tho poor German girl who, when told in the midst of her wrotchedness that God was good, said: "No, no good God. Just look at me. No good God." In this cluster of cities, whose cry of want I interpret, thero are said tobe, as far as I can figure it up from the roports, about 300,000 honest poor who aro de pendent upon individual, city, and state charities. If all their voices could come up at onco, it would be a groan that would shake tho foundotlons of the city and bring all earth and heaven to the rescue. But, for the most part, it suf fers unexpressed. It sits in silence, gnashing It*teeth, and sucking the blood of its own arteries, wa.tlng for tho judg ment day. Oh. 1 should not wonder it on that day it would be found out that some of us had some things that belonged to them; some extra garmt nt which might havo made them comfortable in cold days; somo bread thrust into tho ash barrel that might have appeased their hunger lor a little while; some wasted candle orgaa-iet that might havo kindled up their darkness; some iresco ou the coiling that would have given them a roof; Borne lewel which, brought to that orphan girl In time, might havo kopt her from being cro vded oil' the precipices of anucleanlife; somo New Testimentthat would have told them of Ulm who "came to seek and save that which was lost." < >U, this wave of vagrancy and liungor I anil nakedness that kashes sadly agalast our Iron t doorstop! If the roof of all the houses of destitution could be lifted so we could look down into them just as God looks, whose nerves would be. strong cuough to stand 11? Aud yet there they are. The flfiv thousand sowing women in these threo cities, some of them in hunger and cold, working night after night, until some times the blood spurts from the nostril and hps. How well their grief was voiced by t'mt despairing woman who stood by ber Invalid bus band and invalid child aud said to the city misslouaty: "lam down-beart d. Everything's against *u*; and Uioa thero are other things." " Whatother thing?" said tho city missionary. "O," she re plied, "mystn." "What do you mean by that?" "Well," she said, "I never hear or sec anything good. It's work from Monday morning till Saturday night, and then when Sunday comes I can't go out, and I walk the tioor, and It makes mo tremble to think that I have got to meet God. O sir, it's so hard for us. We have to work so, and then we have so much trouble, and then we are getting along so poorly; and seo tills wee little thing growing weaker; and then to think we aro not getting nearer to God, but tloating away from him. O, sir, I do wish I was ready todio." I should not wonder if they had a good deal better timo thou we in the future, to mako up for the tact that they had such a bad time here. It would be just like Jesus to say; "Como up and tako the highest seals. You suffered with me on earth; uow bo glorified with mo in heav en." O thou weeping Ouo of Bethany! O th >u dying Ono of the cross! Havo mercy on tho starving, freezing, home less poor of theso great cittca. I have preached this sermon for four or five practical reasons: Because I want you to know who aro tho uproot ing classes of society. Because I want you to be more discriminating iu your charities. Because I want your hcartf open with generosity and you hands open with charity. Because I want you to bo mado the sworn friends of all oity evangelisation, and all newsboy's lodg ing houses, aud all children's and so cieties, and Dorcas societies, under the skillful manipulation of wives aud moth ers and sistcjs and daughtors; let tho sparo garments of your wardobes bo fit ted to tho limbs of tho wan nud shiver ing. I should uot wonder if that hat you give should come back a jeweled coronet, or if that garment that you baud out from your wardrobe should mysteriously be whitened, and somehow wrought into tho Saviour's own robe, so iu tho last day ho would run his hand ovor it, and say: "I was naked, and ye clothed me." That would bo putting your gar ments to glorious uses. But more than than that, I have preached the sermon because I thought In the contrast you would see how very kindly God had dealt with you, and I thought that thousands of you would go to your comfortable homes, and sit at your well filled tables, and at the warm registers, and ]< ik at the round faces of your children., and that then you womd hurst, into tears at the re view of God's goodness to you, and that you would go to your room and lock tho door, and kneel down, and say: "O Lord, I have been an ingrate; make me thy child. O Lord, there are so many hungry and unclad and unshel tered to-day, I thank thee that all my life thou hast taken such good care of me. O Lord, there are so many sick and crippled children to-day. I thank thee mine are well, some of them on earth; some of them in heaven. Thy goodness, O Lord, breaks mo down. Take me once and forever. Sprinkled as I was many years ago at the altar, while my mother held me, now I conse crate my soul to thee in a holler bap tism of repenting tears, "For sinners, Lord, thou carii'?tio bleed, And I'm a sinner vilo Indeed; Lord, l-befteve thy grace is frco, O magnify that graco to me." Wlioae Fault Wan It. n New York, April 9.?The agents of tho Fahre Liuo of steamships, which bring most of the Italian immigrants to this port, havo involved themselves in serious complications with tho United States authorities because or tho viola tion of the immigration laws. Tho superintendent of tho immigrant station, Col Woher, several days ago ordered that twenty-four Italians, who arrived on the steamer Burgundia should bo taken back to Italy ns they wero deemed to have come hero ia violation of tho laws. The steamer agents pro tested against this action, and yesterday Col. Weber sent an inspector to tho steamer to seo if tho barred immigrants wero on board, as the vessel was to sail at 4 o'clock this morning. Tbc Inspec tor found only three of tho immigrants there, but ho was told by the officers of the steamer that tho others were lounging around somewhere mid would turn up in tlmofor tho steamer's sailing. Tho inspector remained aboard till tho Burgundia sailed and then roportcd to Col. Weber that thelmlsslng twenty-one immigrants had not turned up and their whereabouts is unknown. Col. Wober will report the matter to tho Secrotary of tho Treasury. Weakness. How many suffer from weakness. And what a distressful ailment it is. Always praying for strength and yet feeling oneself growing weaker and weaker* There is great virtue in B. B, B. ( l Jot aide Blood Balm) as a strength ening as well as a healing medicine. Try it as a tonic and seo how much better you will feel. It will improve both appetite and digestion. It Is an excellent remedy to use while con valescing. It aids a natural and rapid recovery. In cases where an Invalid has remained long in bed and bed sores or other ulcers break out, this remedy will afford quick relief. W. M. Cheshire, Atlanta, Ga., writes: "I had a long spell of typhoid fever, which at last seemed to settle In my rue lit leg, which swelled up enormous ly. An ulcer also appeared which dis charged a cupful of matter a day. I then gave 11. B. B. a trial und it cured me." Death of a Youns Groom. VVii.siiNQTON, Del., April 13.-Count Keidhold A. Lewenhaupt died sudden ly at his homo, No. 1017 Adams street, in this city shortly alter 0 o'clock this morning of typhoid fe?*er. His illness was short and no ono outside of his i iu menial e family was aware that his life was in peril until tho sad news of his death was announced. He was married April 2 to Miss Ellen, young est daughter of ex-Secretary Bayard. He was attached to the Swedish Lega tion during Cleveland's administra tion, but came to Wilmington some timo ago to learn praotlcal shipbuild ing and iron working in the shop of Harlan & Hollingsworth. He was titled, wealthy and handsome and a society favorite, but he was ehiployed as a mechanic and had his bench among the rest'of the employees. He had becomo an excellent workman. Horrible Death. Milwaukee, W is., April IS.?Joseph Hammen, an employee in the Schlitz brewery, met a horrible death yesterday by falling Into a yat of boiling water. When he was missed the wator was drawn off and his parboiled body found In the bottom of the vat. How the ac cident occurred is not known. Rheumatism.?James Paxton, of Sa vannah, (ia., says he had Rheumatism so bad that he could not move from the bed or dress without help, and that he tried many remedies, but received no relief until ho began the use of F. P. V. (Prl kly Ash, Poke Boot and J'otas sinm), and two bottles restored hint i ? i i ' ? i iii i i !!? ? -i ? \m .??? ? ? ? ? ui ^ito MACHiMESRV. W. H. GEBBES, Jr., & Co., COLUMBIA, S. C. SOLE AGENTS for LIDDEL & CO. Also Dra.i.kks In Eaglues of ihm rial I in ike, Ijoomotlye mid Tubular B ill.irs, Traution .ml oili er Mounted Engines of tbe best and latost improved style, Haw Milla.Uriat Mills, Qins, Moss Cotton Presses, Sbingle Maohinea, Platnera and Wood Working Ma chinery, Brick Machinery. Cotton Seod Oil outfits, Ac. A large Stock or ENOIVK Ktttiims, of all kinds and hIzos, in Slock for prompt dolivory and at Hook Bottom Pricos. BELTING and PACKING at LOW Figures. A large atook ?.f Punipa, of ?II si/.es and atyloa. DEABING Mrwora, Benpera and Bakes nlwaya in stock aTVOur Mr. K. B. BAUGHAM, Laurens, 8. C, who la fully eonipotent. will ba ploaaed to call to aeo you. or anawor any communication directed to him, and will s<-ii you a8 cheap as 11 you wero hero in Poraon. Wo buy for oaah and pay our Travoling Men a Salary, thereby saving tha Con aumer Agont'a Commission?Quick Sales and So.a! I Pro?ts la our Fort. Write to Mr. Bauitfiam. or to us direct, and got pricos and discounts. JH^Old Enginea traded tor. K. R. BAUGHAM. ) W. II. G1BBES, Jr., & CO., Traveling Salesman, > Laubbns.8. C. ) COLUMBIA, 8.0 KENNEDY BROS UNDERTAKES NORTH SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE, - - - LAUREN S, S. C Over KENNEDY BROS., Store. Keep constantly on hand a large assortment of Coftins and Caskets oth Wood andMctalic, which will be sold low down. Furnished at ny hour day or night. Hearse sent when desired, viyo KENNEDY BROS.. Successor to J. M Robertson. A REIGN OF TERROR. RACE RIOTS GROWING OU F OF THE MURDER OF MACCA. The Nuri-ooh Flro Upon tho Military from a Church?Tho Solcllerd Kl.ldlo tho llulltlliiff With llullots?Threats of Incendiarism. Ciiaklottk, N. C, April 18.?Char lotto is considerably wrought up today over a distantly murder, committed Saturday night about lt:30 o'clock, in an Italian fruit store on West Trade street, near the Richmond and Danville depot. John Macca, an Italian, and owner of the store, while in the act of drawing a glass of cider for a negro, was struck on the back of the head witli a freight car coupling pin and his skull was crushed, and he was robbed of $230. So quietly was tho act committed and so stunning the blow that tho murder was not discovered by the police until twenty minutes thereafter, when Ser f;eant Rigler heard the groans of tho dy ng man "from the street and wont in and found hini prostrated. He was car ried to his bed upstairs, and Sunday morning at 10 o'clock ho expired, fie never was conscious from tue time he receiyed the fatal blow. The assassin's name is Henry Brand ham, a nogro gambler, well known in the police courts of Charleston, Savan nah and Atlanta. This negro had beon hanging around this fruit store all day, and a few minutes before he committed the murder Macca's son saw him in the store, and identiiled him Sunday morn ing. On his person was found a hand kerchief, in which the pin was wrapped before the murder. The handkerchief was soiled with rust and a plain imprint of the pin. Last Saturday night he sold the suit of clothes he wore at tho store to a porter at the Buford Hotel, and Sunday morning, when captured, ho had on a $7 silk hat, a fine black serge cut away, and a handsome pair of patent leather shoes. These clothes were in pawn, and Saturday night he redeemed them with the money, and only 85 was found upon his person Sunday. News of Charlotte's excitemont has spread rapidly, and all trains leading in to the city were crowded this afternoon with people from the neighboring towns. The streets are crowded with a lively mass of humanity, surging back and forth, and excitement is at a high pitch. The negroes of the city are holding a mass meeting to-night to decide what they will do. The African Methodist Episcopal Church was tilled all night long with a crowd of angry negroes, seemingly de termined on mischief. About 2 o'clock this morning a squad of negroes went to the jail and askeel for protection, stating that the lives of their fell owmen were in emminont danger at the church. Col. J. T. Anthony at once despatched a portion of the militia to the church, and as the men were being drawn into line, some negroes who were in the cupalo of tho church opened fire on tho soldiers. This so incensed the military that tho Uro was returned and the negro church was riddlod with bullets. Today it presents an appearance not unlike that of a sifter. All the stained glasses in the front were smashed by the Hying bu'lets, and it is reported that several negroes were badly injured. Mayor P. B. McDowell issued a proc lamation this afternoon that all the bar rooms of the city should be closed at 5:30 o'clock, so that whiskey should not lead tho Infuriated mob to uncalled for violience. An extra police force of 200 men have just gone out from polico headquarters to guard the jail. It is not thought ad Visible to put the military on guard again tonight, as they wore up all last night. The hardware stores have been raided to-day by citizens in search of any kind of firearms, and young men, boys and all havo guns. Never before in the history of tho city has such excitement existed as during the post twenty-four hours. Crowds of men have abandoned their business to join the mobs nbout the streets. Tho ladies of the city are frightened terribly. The negroes say that they expect to burn every white church in tho city but what they will have revenge for what transpired last night. The minds of the whites ha\ o some what wandered from the idea of lynch ing, and : ow it is a contest of white su premacy against negro domination. Crowds of South Carolinians are swarming into the city from all sides, with their blood fairly boiling with in dignation, and grave fears are appre hended for the safoty of tho city. The importance of purifying the blood cannot be over-estimated, for without pure blood vou cannot enjoy food healh. 1*. P. P. (Prickly Ash, oke Hoot and Pjttassium) Is a mirac ulous blood purifier, performing more oures in six months than all tho sarsa parlllas and so-called blood purifiers put together. Rheumatism is cured by P. P. P Pains and aches In the back, shoulders kii.iri ankles, hips, and wrists are THE LAURENS BAR. H. Y. SIMPSON, attorney at law. _ LA JKENS, _ _ - _-_R_.JP. VT. H. MARTIN, attorney at law. la Dur-. in... - - S. C J . johnson. W.U. RICH K JOHNSON ? RIOHKY attorneys at law. Offj.uk?Fleming's Corner, Northvrea sido of Public Square. LAURBNS, II., - - S.C. BALLtvBALL, Attorneys at Law, LAU RENS.B.C. Ott. 22, 3m AY. AV. KENNEDY. ATTeitNST AT LAW Special atteutlen glren te the Investi gation of tftlai. Lauren* C. U. B. C. April THE HOME~FOR~BAPflST ORPHANS It Will lio Located lu the Town of Or eou woud, COLUMBIA, S. C, April 10.?Green wood is to bo the home of the Baptist orphans of South Carolina, and tho lit tle ones will soon be gathered into anjiu stilution where they can bo clothed, ed ucated and raised to become citizens that the State will bo proud to own. Yesterday morning tho committee ot twenty-two, appointed by tho last Bap tist Association met in the First Baptist Church and began tho consideration of the oilers of location they had opened the night before. A sessiou lasting until 2 o'clock in tho afternoon was held. After a full consideration it was decided to accept tho offer of property at Green wood. Tin i oiler embraces $2,200 in cash, ten acres ot valuable land, a mortuary title to 470 acres, six acres on which is located the handsome residence of Dr. Maxwell and n bequest of other valuable property. This offer is by far the beBt presented, and the property is consider ed some of the most valuable in the State. A sub-committee consisting of J. L. Vnss, W. II. Lyles, 11, M. Pratt, N. N. Burton and J. D. Pitts was appointed to meet at Greenwood on Monday for the purpose of receiving the deeds to tho property. An afternoon session was held aud hirthcr details of the establishment of the institution were dlecussed and ar ranged. Last night the final session was held and thereat tho organization ot the in stitution was completed. The following wero elected trustees of tho orphanage: J. C. Maxwell, J, K. Durst, J. W. Sprowles, S. P. Brooks, Greenwood; Ed Llpscomb, Ninety-Six; H. P. McGhee, Duo West; Itov. J. D. Pitts, Lnurcus; liov. W. T. Hundly, Johnston; Ucv. J. L. Vass, Darlington; W. II. Lylcs, Columbia; B. P. Smith, Charles ton; W. F. Cox, Anderson. Tho oillccrs of the institution wero elected as follows: President J. C. Max well; vice-president, W. D. Hundley; seecrctary and treasurer, J. K. Durst. The Rey. J.L. Vass was elected sup erintendent, and Ins salary fixed at$l, 500 per annum. It Is net known whether ho will accept or not. A resolution was passed calling on the Bnpt-:?t denomination in the State lor $10,000 as a building fund. Tho homo will consist of a number of small airy, convenient and carefully arranged cottages, which Wilt bo erected from timo to timo as required. Tho executive or main committco then adjourned to meet again at Greenwood on next Tuesday, for tho purposo of ar ranging for tho early opouing of the or phanage.?The State. A Lightning Shnve. Louisville, April 15.?During a thunder storm, J. F. Kooinson.a prom inent merchant, was being shaved in Taylor's harbor shop In Jeffersonvllle. Direct over head was an incandescent electric light. Suddenly there was a flash of lightning, and the customers in the shop were astonished to see names playing around the razor In Taylor's hand. The barber dropped the Instru ment, and in a flash the lights were out. A lamn was lighted and Robinson was found lying unconscuous in the harbor's chair. He soon recovered, however, and hns experienced no ill effects. The electric light fixtures were found to> have been burned out. It is supposed that lightning struck the electric lights wire and leaped from the carbon point of tho lamp to the steel razor on the' man's face. Negroes mm i.yucnar?. Kansas CitV, Mo, April 9.-A crowd of live hundred negroes lastnijfht attack ed the county jail with tiio iutentlon of lynching William McCoy, who brutally murdered Nellie McGruder last Sunday night, by beating her to a jelly with stones. An attempt to lyuch McCoy was made last Monday, at tho t^rae of his preliminary trial, but the prisoner' was so well guarded that the attempt was aSaudoned. Tbe sheriif coucluded that the excitement, amot g the uegro population had subsided sutllciently to warrant tho withdrawal < f tho extra guards, and when tbe attack was mado last night it was wholly unexpected. The negroes gathered quietly about the building and at 12.4-3 twenty of their number, masked and other*? ise disguised, broke in the outer door aud immediately proceeded to that part of the building which was partitioned oil for a jail. This is separated - from the rest of the build* ing by a stout irou door. Only ono guard was on duty. He drew bis revolver aud threatened to shoot tho first man who approached tho door. The com mitt- e of twenty( after somo parleying, with drew and joined their comrades outsido. After fUrther parleying tho eutiro mob dispersed. The guards havo been doubled in anticipation of a further at tack. Piano? and Orcana. N. W. TnuiiP, 134 Main Street, Co lumbia, s. C, sells Pianos and Organs, direct from factory. No agents' com missions. The celebrated Chickering Piano. Mathushek Piano, celebrated for its clearness of tone, lightness of touch and lasting qualities. Mason & Hamlin Upright Piano. Sterling Up right Piauos, from 8225 up. Mason & Hamlin Orguns surpassed by none. Ster ling Organs, 850 up. Every Instrument guaranteed for six years. Fifteen days' trial, expenses both ways, if not satis* factory. Sold on Instalments. A complete Bedroom Suit for 810.50 freight paid to your depot. Send for Catalogue. Address L. F. Padgett, Augusta, On. NOTICE ! Before assuring your life, or investing your mon ey, examine tho Twenty Year Tontine Policies of THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSURANCE SOCIETY OF THE United States. Policies maturing in Ib'Jt realize cash returns to tho owners, of amounts varying from 120 to 176 per cent, of the money paid in, besides tho advantages of tho Assurance during tho whole period of twenty years. Tho following is one of tho in an v actual cases maturing this year: Endowment Policy No. 04,1)25. Issued in 1871, nt age 27. Amount, ?5.000. Premium, 9239.00. Total Premiums Paid, $4,798. R E S U L T S at end of 'iontlnc Foriod in 1801: CASH SURRENDER VALUE, 98,440.45, (Equal to 817010 for each 3100 paid in premiums, which is equivalent to a ro? turn of all premiums paid, with intorest at lyi per cent, por annum.) Or, in lieu o cash, A PAID-UP LIFE POLICY FOB119,470. (Equal to ?405.80 for each 8100 paid in premiums.) OR, A LIFE ANNUITY of 8033.55 One fact is worth a thousand theories Thero is no Assurance extant in any com pany which compares with this. The Equitable is tho strongest company in tho world and transacts the largest business. For further Information address or apply to tho nearest agent of the Society, or write direct to W. J. RODDEY, April 8-3ni ROOK HILL, S. C. THE LARGEST STOCK, MOST SKILLED WORKMEN, LOWEST PRICES. South Carolina Marble Works, T. JET. HYATT, PROPRIETOR. Is tho best placo in South Carolina or Southern States to secure satisfaction in American and Italian Marblo Woik. All kinds of Cemetery Work a speciality. TABLETS, HEADS I ONES, MONUMENTS, Ac. Send for prices and full-information. F. H. HYATT, April 8 ly COLUMBIA. S.**C. ?J-AsU for cutalofrue. TERRY M'F'G CO "whviii- t-.. Paflptt Pays the Mill I IA GllKAT Ohr-k? that MAY NOT \0Alf>| ?k Rgl'katkd. po do not Dkl.at, "Stuihk Whii/uthk Iron 13 Uot." Wiito for Catalogue now, ami **y wha* 'paper you saw this advertisement ui. I Remember that I eoll everything that! fwoes to furnishing a homo?manufaotur tlng oome things ami buying others in the [largest possible lots, which enables mo to [wipe out all competition. I1ERK A U ?'. A FEW OK MY STAKT LING BARGAINS A No. 7 Flat top Cooking Stovo, full slxo, 15x17 inch oven, fitted with 21 pieces of ware, delivered at your own depot, all freight charges paid by me, for only Twotvo Dollars. A pun, 1 will sell you a 5 hole Cooklnl Range 13x13 inch ovon, 18x2? Inch top, fit ted with 21 plooes of waro, for TU1R TKEN DOITLARS, and pay the freight to your depot. |DO NOT PAY TWO PRICES FOR YOUR GOODS. I will send you a nice plush Parlor suit, walnut frame, either la combination or bauded, the most stylish colors for 33.60, to your jailroad station, freight paid. 1 will alsosell you a nice Bedrouios ult consisting of Bureau with glass, 1 high head Bedstead, 1 Washstand, 1 Centre table, 4 cauo seat chairs, I cane seat and back rocker all for 10.60, and pay freight to your depot. Or 1 will send you an elegaut Redroom Jsu.lt wUh largo glass, full marble top, for |f 30, and pay freight. Nice window shadu on spring roller 8 40' Elegant large walnuts day clock, 4.00 Walnut lounge, 7.00 Lace curtains per window, 1.00 1 cannot describe everything in a small advertisement, but have an immense store contain in;; 22,(500 feet of lloor room, wltli waro houses and factory buildings in other parts of Augusta, making in all the lar gest business of this kind under one man agement in tho Southern States. These storoaaud warehouses aro crowded witli the choicest productions of the best facto ries. My catalogue containing illustrations of goods will be mailed if you will ktudiy say where you saw thlsadvortlsement. 1 pay freight. Address, L. F. PADGETT, Proprietor Padgett's Furniture, Stove and Carpet .Store, 1110-1112 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA. i Vf. 3 ? ui mi urn WOMAN. .?>', I' P. will purify and Tltnltze your ?': bio vi, create a uood appetlteand give your y wbeluHystuni tone anil Btix hkiIi. r\ A prominent railroad r.upnrintendentat .& Buvauoah. stUTering with IValnrla, Dyspop. ?R, Bin, and Uaouinatlsnfi8a5' ' rtr*t ? .iug Q V. P. P. lie nover r.-lt bo well In his life, and ? : feels as if he could live fc rover, if he could < always get 1\ V. IV >'. If you are tired out fr ..^v..?. '....?.and V clovu coufluoMtout, take P. P. P. If you nro feeling !>? >!'y fu tho eprlng CUld out of soi ls, take 1 p. p. p. if your digestive organs need toulng up, p. p. p. If v >a biuTit with headache, Indigestion, debility 11110" weakness, take P. P. P. if you minVr with rervoua prostrAtlou, nerv?s unstrung ami a general lot dowu of tho syuteni, tako P. P. P. For Rlood Poison, Rheumatism. Rerof. \iln, Old Bores. Miliaria, Chronic Fumalo Complaints, take P. P. P. Prickly Ash, Poke Root $ and Potassium. ffl The best Mood purifier In tho world. 51 LIPPMAN Bltoa, Wholesale Druggists, 4 .^.i!'? Proprietors, Lippuan's Block, Savannah, On, LOW PRICES will bo made on TALBOTT & SONS' ENGINES and BOILERS, Special osttmntos on Machinery generally at bottom figures. CORN MILLS, - - ?ll? to 8117.-.. PLANERS ami MATCHERS, S200 to 51,000. SAW MILLS with Rope Feed, Variable Friction or Belt Feed, 8200 to 8000. Wo particularly call attention to these Saw Mills. They have patent doublo act ng set works and arc the best mills oil tho market. Cotton Gins and Presses at low llguros. V. C. BADHAM, GENERAL AGENT, Columbia, s. c. Buy the Talbott Engine, it is Hiebest. Fob 10-ly. , COM I??dBT K G1 > \ s: IHK?. UPON THE MOST APPROVED plans, with Suction Kan or Spiked Bolt Seed Cotton Elevator furnished; ? competitive prices. COTTON GIMSnnd PRESSES of best makers. Thomas Hay Rakes, Decring Mower, Oorbin Harrows and Planet, Jr , Cultivators. A lar>;e stock of Portable and Stationary Ginning and baw Mill Engines on hand. State Agents for O. & Q. COOPER A COS Corlis En gines LftllO Saw Mills and l.iddcll Com pany's complete lino. W. II. OIBBES, Jtt? & CO.. Near Union Depot, CohUMiHA, S. C. RiL\l? TIIRSll P14 .1 ll I It,JP,w-.- - Farm Wagons, complete with body etc. 2 3-4 in Tllhuble Skin.939.(10 8 in Thimble skin. 41.00 s% In Thimble skin. 42.00 Ono Horse Wagons, 124.50, 820.50 ami $28.50. Warranted second to none. Wrlto for Circulars. Buggies, 'ejarrlages, Road Carts, fte? lit 10 per cent loss than regular prices. Send for Catalogue. This offer is for only 30 days in order to reduce stock?so order at oiico. HOLLER & ANDERSON BUGGY ?O.. ROCK HILL, B. C. In writing mention this paper, sWrerewBrMsa^ ' - LIFTMAN BB09., Whohealan" SOU l'roorletori, Llppraaa't niock, Han