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ASTRAY BUT RECOVERED. DR. TALMAQE PREACHES ON THE NE CESSITY OF A REDEEMER. ???i?nly, Pathos and Comfort Found In Um Vittjr-tblrd Chapter of Isaiah?How and Way Men and Sheep iio Astray. Whosoever Will. I<?t If Im Come. Brooklyn, June 28.?Dr. Talmagc'e termo? to-day is of so decidedly evan gelical a character as to prove conclu sively that while so many eminent | preachers of. the day are drifting away from the old fashioned Gospel he re mains firm in the paths of orthodox v. : Us subject' la ''Astray, but Recovered," aruf his text, Isaiah Hl, C: "AH we like sheep have gone astray: ? * * and the Eotd hath laid on him the hiirp y of ninety years at tho longest all wbo hear or read this sermon will bo iu eternity. During the next liltv years you will nearly ail be gone. Tho next ten years will cut a wide swath among the people. The. year 1801 will to somo be the duality. Such considerations make this occasion absorbing uud mo mentous. The first half of my text Is an Indictment, "All we like sheep have gone astray." Some one says: "( 'an you not drop the first word? That is too general; that sweeps too great a cir cle." Some man rises in tho audieucc and he looks over on the opposite side of the house, and he says: "There is a blasphemer, and I understand bow he bus gone astray. 1 And there in another Eart ot the house is a defraudcr, and he as gone astray. And there is an im pure person, and he has gone astray." Sit down, my brother, and look nt home. My text takes us all in. It starts behind the pulpit, sweeps tho circuit Of the' room and comes back to the point where it started, when it says: ?'All we like sheep have gono astray." 1 can very easily understand why Mar tin Luther threw up his hands after he had found the Bible and cried out, "Oh! iriy?Wi??A my-sms;" and why the publi can, according to Ute custom to this day in the east when they have any great grief, began to beat himself and cry as he smote upon his breast, "Qod bo mer ciful to me a sinner." ILLUSTRATION FROM TH e8heimi KRiVh v ' i,ikk. I was like many of you, brought up iu the country, and I know some of the habits of sheep and how they get nslruy, and what nay text means wheu it says, 4* UW?, like sheep have gone astray.' Sheep get astray in two ways, either by trying to get, into other pasture, or from being scared by the dogs. In the former way some of us got astray. Wo thought tb? religio.? of Jesus Christ abort com mons. We < thought there was better pasturage somewhero else. Wo thought If we could only he down on tho banks of distant streams or under great oaks on the other side of some hill wo might bo better fed. We wanted other pasturage than that ] which God through Jesus Christ gave our soul, and we wandered on and we wandered on, and we were lost. Wo wanted bread and we found garbage. The further we wandered, instead of finding rfch pasturage, wo found blasted health and sharper rocks and more sling ing nettles. No pasture How was it an the worldly groups when vou lost vour child? DlcTthoy come around and console you very much? Did not tho plain Christian man who came into your house and sat up with your darling child give you more comfort than all worldly associations? Dia all tho convivial songs you ever heard comfort vou in that day o| bereavement so much as the song they sang to you, perhaps the very song that was sung by your lilt le child the last Sabbath afternoon of her life? There is a happy land, far, far away, Where saints immortal reign, bright, bright | a* day. Did your business associates iu that day ~ of darkness and trouble give you any especial condolence? Dusincss ex asperated you, business wore you out, business left you limp as a rug, business made you mad. You got dollars, but you got no peace. God have mercy on the man who has nothing but business to comfort hirhi Thfe world afforded you no luxuriant passage. A famous English actor stood^'on the stage impersonating, and thunders of applause came down from the galleries, and many thought it was the proudest moment of all his life; but there was a man asleep just in front of him, and the fact that that man was in different and somnolent spoiled all the occasion for him, and he cried, "Wake up! wake up!" So one little annoyance in life has been more pervading to your mind than all the brilliant congratulations and sue cesses, poor pasturage for your soul you found in jthls world. The world has cheated you, the world has belied 3011. the world has misinterpreted you, the world.- has persecuted you. It never oomfbrtcd you. Oh! this world is a good rack from which 1 horse may pick his hay; it is a good trough from which the swine may crunch their moBs; but it gives but little food to a soul blood bought and immortal. What is a soul? It is a hopo high as the throne of God. What is a man? You say, "It to only a man." It is only a man gone overboard in business life. What Is a man? The battle ground of three worlds, with his hands taking hold of destinies of light or darkness. A man! . No line can measure him. No limit ban bound him. The archangel before, tt^e' throne cannot outlive him. The stars shall die, but ho will watch their extinguishment. Tho world will burn, but Le will gaze on tho conflagra tion. Endless ages will march on; be Will watch the procession. A man! The masterpiece of God Almishtv. Yet you say, "It is only a man." Can a nature like that be fed ou husks of the wilderness?; Substantial comfort will not grow On nature's barren soil; All wo can boast till Christ we know IsvaAtyand toil. THOSE WHO STRAY IN TROUBLE. Some of you got astray by looking for better pasturage: others by being scared of the dogs. Tho hound gets over into tha pasture field. Tho poor things fly in every direction. In a few mo ments they are torn of the hedges and they are plashed o! the, ditch, and the last sheep never gets home unless the farmer goes after It. There Is nothing so thoroughly lost as alostfheep. It mat have been In 1867, during the finau uaf J2?bic,.>r during the financial stress la the) fall af 1873, when you got astray. You almost became an nthebt. You said. "Where is God, that honest men go down and thieves prosper?" You wer? dogged of creditors, you woro dog ged of the banks, Von were dogged of worldly disaster, and come of you went into misanthropy, some, of you took to strong drink, and others of you tied out of Christian association, and you got ASTRAY BUT RECOVERED. DR. TALMAQE PREACHES ON THE NE CESSITY OF A REDEEMER. ???i?nly, Pathos and Comfort Found In Um Vittjr-tblrd Chapter of Isaiah?How and Way Men and Sheep iio Astray. Whosoever Will. I<?t If Im Come. Brooklyn, June 28.?Dr. Talmagc'e termo? to-day is of so decidedly evan gelical a character as to prove conclu sively that while so many eminent | preachers of. the day are drifting away from the old fashioned Gospel he re mains firm in the paths of orthodox v. : Us subject' la ''Astray, but Recovered," aruf his text, Isaiah Hl, C: "AH we like sheep have gone astray: ? * * and the Eotd hath laid on him the hiirp y of ninety years at tho longest all wbo hear or read this sermon will bo iu eternity. During the next liltv years you will nearly ail be gone. Tho next ten years will cut a wide swath among the people. The. year 1801 will to somo be the duality. Such considerations make this occasion absorbing uud mo mentous. The first half of my text Is an Indictment, "All we like sheep have gone astray." Some one says: "( 'an you not drop the first word? That is too general; that sweeps too great a cir cle." Some man rises in tho audieucc and he looks over on the opposite side of the house, and he says: "There is a blasphemer, and I understand bow he bus gone astray. 1 And there in another Eart ot the house is a defraudcr, and he as gone astray. And there is an im pure person, and he has gone astray." Sit down, my brother, and look nt home. My text takes us all in. It starts behind the pulpit, sweeps tho circuit Of the' room and comes back to the point where it started, when it says: ?'All we like sheep have gono astray." 1 can very easily understand why Mar tin Luther threw up his hands after he had found the Bible and cried out, "Oh! iriy?Wi??A my-sms;" and why the publi can, according to Ute custom to this day in the east when they have any great grief, began to beat himself and cry as he smote upon his breast, "Qod bo mer ciful to me a sinner." ILLUSTRATION FROM TH e8heimi KRiVh v ' i,ikk. I was like many of you, brought up iu the country, and I know some of the habits of sheep and how they get nslruy, and what nay text means wheu it says, 4* UW?, like sheep have gone astray.' Sheep get astray in two ways, either by trying to get, into other pasture, or from being scared by the dogs. In the former way some of us got astray. Wo thought tb? religio.? of Jesus Christ abort com mons. We < thought there was better pasturage somewhero else. Wo thought If we could only he down on tho banks of distant streams or under great oaks on the other side of some hill wo might bo better fed. We wanted other pasturage than that ] which God through Jesus Christ gave our soul, and we wandered on and we wandered on, and we were lost. Wo wanted bread and we found garbage. The further we wandered, instead of finding rfch pasturage, wo found blasted health and sharper rocks and more sling ing nettles. No pasture How was it an the worldly groups when vou lost vour child? DlcTthoy come around and console you very much? Did not tho plain Christian man who came into your house and sat up with your darling child give you more comfort than all worldly associations? Dia all tho convivial songs you ever heard comfort vou in that day o| bereavement so much as the song they sang to you, perhaps the very song that was sung by your lilt le child the last Sabbath afternoon of her life? There is a happy land, far, far away, Where saints immortal reign, bright, bright | a* day. Did your business associates iu that day ~ of darkness and trouble give you any especial condolence? Dusincss ex asperated you, business wore you out, business left you limp as a rug, business made you mad. You got dollars, but you got no peace. God have mercy on the man who has nothing but business to comfort hirhi Thfe world afforded you no luxuriant passage. A famous English actor stood^'on the stage impersonating, and thunders of applause came down from the galleries, and many thought it was the proudest moment of all his life; but there was a man asleep just in front of him, and the fact that that man was in different and somnolent spoiled all the occasion for him, and he cried, "Wake up! wake up!" So one little annoyance in life has been more pervading to your mind than all the brilliant congratulations and sue cesses, poor pasturage for your soul you found in jthls world. The world has cheated you, the world has belied 3011. the world has misinterpreted you, the world.- has persecuted you. It never oomfbrtcd you. Oh! this world is a good rack from which 1 horse may pick his hay; it is a good trough from which the swine may crunch their moBs; but it gives but little food to a soul blood bought and immortal. What is a soul? It is a hopo high as the throne of God. What is a man? You say, "It to only a man." It is only a man gone overboard in business life. What Is a man? The battle ground of three worlds, with his hands taking hold of destinies of light or darkness. A man! . No line can measure him. No limit ban bound him. The archangel before, tt^e' throne cannot outlive him. The stars shall die, but ho will watch their extinguishment. Tho world will burn, but Le will gaze on tho conflagra tion. Endless ages will march on; be Will watch the procession. A man! The masterpiece of God Almishtv. Yet you say, "It is only a man." Can a nature like that be fed ou husks of the wilderness?; Substantial comfort will not grow On nature's barren soil; All wo can boast till Christ we know IsvaAtyand toil. THOSE WHO STRAY IN TROUBLE. Some of you got astray by looking for better pasturage: others by being scared of the dogs. Tho hound gets over into tha pasture field. Tho poor things fly in every direction. In a few mo ments they are torn of the hedges and they are plashed o! the, ditch, and the last sheep never gets home unless the farmer goes after It. There Is nothing so thoroughly lost as alostfheep. It mat have been In 1867, during the finau uaf J2?bic,.>r during the financial stress la the) fall af 1873, when you got astray. You almost became an nthebt. You said. "Where is God, that honest men go down and thieves prosper?" You wer? dogged of creditors, you woro dog ged of the banks, Von were dogged of worldly disaster, and come of you went into misanthropy, some, of you took to strong drink, and others of you tied out of Christian association, and you got astray. O mau! that was the last time when you ought to have forsaken God. Stauding amid the foundering of your earthly fortunes, how could you get | along without a Ciod to comfort vou, and a God to deliver you, aud a God to help you, and a God to savo vou? Yo? toll i mo you buvc been through, enough busl- j ncss trouble almost to kid you. I know it. I cauuot understand how tho boat could livo one hour in that chopped sea. I3ut I do not know by what process you got astray; some in ono wnv, and some in another, and it' you could really see the position some of you occupy before God thiu morning, your soul would burst Into an agony of tears and you would pelt the heavens with tho cry, "God have mercy!" Siuni'a batteries havo been unlimbcrcd nbovo your soul, and at | tunes you havojbeard Itjthunder: "The wages of sin is death." "All have sin ned and co ue short of the glory of God." ?*By ono man sin entered into the world., and dcuth by sin; and so death passed | u| on nil men, fortbat all have sinned." "Tho soul fiat siuueth it shall die." When Sobnstopol was being bombard ed, two Russian trigatcs burned all night In tho harbor throwing a gl ire upon the trembling fortress, and some of you aro standing In the night of your soul's trou ble. Tho cannonade and tho contlagra-1 Uou, tho multiplication of your sorrows and troubles 1 think must make the wings of God's hovering angels shiver to the tip. But the last part of my text opens a] door wide enough to let us all out and to let all heaven in. Sound it on the organ with nil the stops out. Thrum it | on tho harps with all tho strings atune. With nil the melody possiblo let the heavens sound it to the, earth and let the earth tell it to tho heavens. "The Lord hath laid on him tho iniquity of us all." I am glnd that the prophet did not stop to explain whom ho meant by "him." Him of tho manger, him of the bloody sweat, him ot tho resurrection throne, him of the cruclllxion agony. "On him tho Lord bath laid the iniquity of us all." CIIK1ST COMES TO THE FALLEN. "Oh," snys some man, "that Is not] gemrous, that is not fair; let evory man carry his own burden and pay his own debts." That sounds rensouablo. If I have on obligation and I have the moans to meet it, and I corao to you and ask you to settle that obligation, you right ly say, "Pay your own debts." If you und I walking down tho street, both bale, hearty aud well, I ask you to car ry me, you say, and say rightly, "Walk on your own feet!" But suppose you and 1 were iu a regiment aud I was wounded in the hat tie. and I fell uncon scious at your feet with gunshot fractures and dislocations, what would you do? I You would call to your comrades say-1 irif, "Come and help, this man is help less; bring tho ambulance, let us take him to the hospital," and I would be a dead lift iu your arms, and you would lift mo from tho ground where I had fallen and put me in tho ambulance and lake mo to the hospital and have all. kindness shown me. Would there bo anything mean In your doing that? Would there bo anything bemoaning in my accepting that kindness? Oh, no. You would be mean not to do it. That is what Christ does. If wc could pay our debts then it would be better to so up and pay them, saying, "Here, Lord, hero is my obligation; here arc the means with which I moan to settle that obligation; now givo mo a receipt; cross it all opt." Tho debt is paid. Hut the fact is wo Ii ivo fallen in the battle, we have gone down under tho hot tire of our transgressions, we havo been wounded by tho sabers of sin, wo aro hei?1-v. wo ore undone. Christ comes. The loud clang heard in the sky on that Christmas night was only tho bell, tho resounding boll, of the ambu lance. Clear tho way for tho Sou of I God. lie comes down to bind up the wounds, and to scatter the darkness, and lc save tho lost. Clear fie way for the j Son of God. Christ comes down to see us, and wo are n dead lift. Ho docs not lift us with the tips of his lingers. He does not lift US with one arm. He comes down upon his knee, and then with a (load lift ho raises us to honor nod glory and immor tality. "The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." W hy, then, will no ] man carry his sins? You cannot carry successfully tho smallest sin you ever committed: You might as well put tho Apennines on one shoulder and the Alps on the other. How much less can you curry all the sins of your lifetime! Christ comes and looks down In your ] face and says: "I havo come through all the lacerations of these days and through all tho tempests of these nights. I havo come to bear your burdens, and to*pardon your sins, and to pay your| debts. Put them on my shoulder; put them on my heart." "Ouhim the Lord hath hud the iniquity of us all. NO REST FOB THE WICKED. Sin has almost pestered the life out of] some of you. At times it has made you cross and unreasonable, and it has spoil I ed the brightness of your days and the penco of your nights. There aro men w io have been riddled of sin. The world gives them no solace. Gossamer and volatile the world, whilo eternity, as they look forward to it, is black as midnight. They writhe under the stings of a conscience which proposes to give I no rest here and no rest hereafter; and yet they do not repent, they do not pray, they do not weep. They do not realize that just the position they occupy is the position occupied by scores, hundreds I and thousands oi men who never found j any hope. it this meeting should bo thrown open land the peopl i who ore here could give their testimony, what thrilling experi ences wo should hear on all sides! There is a man in tho gallery who would say: "I had hiilliant surroundings. I had the best education that ono of the best col llegiato Institutions oi this country could "i vc and 1 observed all the moralities of I life, and I was self righteous, and I thought 1 was all right before God as I [am all right before men; but tho Holy Spirit camo to me one day and said, 'You aro a sinner;' tho Holy Spirit per suaded mo of tho fact. While I had es caped the sins against tho law of the I land I had really committed the worst sin a man <?-/. r commits?tho driving back of tho Son of God from my heart's affections. And I saw that my hands wo.eicdwith the blood of the Sou of God, and I began to pray, and peace came to my heart, and I know by exper ience that what you say this morning is true, *0n him the Lord hath laid the in iquity ot us all.'" Yonder is a man who would sa>: "I was the worst drunkard in New York; I went from bad to worse; I destroyed my self, I destroyed my homo; my children cowered when I entered toe house: when they put up their lips tobe kissed I struck them; when my wife protested against tho raaltreattnont, I kicked her into tho street, I know all the bruises md all tho terrors of a drunkard's woe. !a I went on further and further from God until one day I trot a letler saying: "My Dear Husband?I have tried every way, done everything, and prayed earnestly and fervently for your refor mation, hut it seems of no avail. Since our little Ilonry died, with the excep tion of those few happy weeks when yon remained sober, ray life has been one of I sorrow. Many of the nights I have sat by the window,' *viU* ray face bathed in { tears, watching for your cominir. I am broken hearted, l am sick. Mother and father have been here frequently and begged me to come home, but my love for you ami my hope for brighter days have always made me refuse them. That hope seems now beyond realization, and I havo returned to them. It is hard, and I battled long before doing it. May God bless and preserve you, and take from you that accursed appetite and hasten the day* when wo shall be again living happily together, This will be my dally prayer, knowing that he has said, 4Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, ami 1 will give you rest.' From your loving wife, Mary. "And so I Wandered oh and wandered on," says that map, "until one night I passed a Methodist meeting louse, and I said to myself, M.'ll go in and see what thoy are doing,' and 1 got to the door, aud they wero singing: All may come, whoever will, This man receives poor slnnors still. "And I dropped right there where I was and I said, 'God nave mercy,' aud he had mercy on me. My home Is res lured, my wite sings all day long during work, my children come out a long way to greet me home, and my household la a little heaven. I will tell you what did all this for me. It was the truth that! this day you proclaim, 'On him tho Lord bad laid the iniquity of us all.' " THE DRUNKARD AND THE OUTCAST. Yonder is a woman who would say "I wandered oft" from my father's house; I beard the storm that pelts on a lost [ soul; ray feet were blistered on the hot rocks. I went on and on, thinking] that no one cared for my soul, when one night Jesus met me and he said: "Poor thing, go home! your father 1b waiting for you, your mother Is waiting for you. Go home, poor thing!' And, sir, I was too week to pray, and I was too weak to repent, but I just cried out; I sobbed out my sins and my sorrows on the shoulders of him of whom It Is said, 'the Lord hath * ' '?*?? ????? in iquity of us all.'" There is a young man . "I bad a Christian bringin, from the country to city 1 well; I had a good posit commercial position, but Ou. the theater I met some young did me no good. Thoy dragg through the sewers of iniquity,. lost my morals aud I lost my positu and I was shabby and wretched. I was going down the street, thinking that no one cared for me, when a young man tapped me on the shoulder ana said, George, come with me and I will do you good.' I looked at him to see whether he was joking or not. I saw he was in earnest and I sald: 'What do you mean, sirV 'Well,' he replied.'I mean if you will come to the meeting to-night I will be very glad to intro duce yon. i will meet you at the door. Will you come?' Said I, 'I will.' "I went to the place where I was tarrying. I llxed myself up as well as I could. I buttoned my coat over a ragged vest and went to the door of the church, and the young man met me and we went in; and as I went in I heard an old man praying, and he looked I so much like my father I sobbed right out; and they were all around so kind 1 and sympathetic that I just gave my heart to God, and I know this morning that what you say is true; I believe it in my own-experience. 'On him I the Lord bath laid the iniquity of us all.'" Oh, ray brother, without stopping to look as to whether your hand trembles or not, without stopping to look wheth er your hand is bloated with sin or not, put it in my band, let me give you one warm,, brotherly, Christian grip, and invite.. you right up to the heart, to the compassion, to the sympathy, to tho pardon of hi.m on whom the Lord had laid the iniquity of ua all. Throw away your sins. Carry them ao longer. I proclaim emancipation this morning to all w;ho are bound, pardon for all sin, aud eternal life for all the dead. Some one comes hero this morning, and I stand aside. He comes up these steps. He comes to this place. I must stand aside. Taking. that place he spreads abroad his hands) and they were nailed^ Ydu see his feet, they were bruised. He pulls aside the robe and shows you his wounded heart. I say, "Art thou, weary?" VYes". he says.l "Weary with the world's woe." I say, | "Whence contest thou?" He says, come from Calvary." I say, "Who comes with thee?" He says, "No one; I have trodden the winepress alone!' I say, "Why comejt thou here?" "Oh,' be saysj "I came here to carry all the sins and sorrows of the people." And he kneels and he says, 'Tut on I my .shoulders all the sorrows and all the sins." And conscious of my own sins first, I take them and put them on the shoulders of the Son of God. I say, "Canst thou bear any more,0 Christ?' He says, "Yea, more." And I gather up the sins of all those whe serve at these altars, the officers of the Church of Jesus Christ?I gather up all thoir sins and put them on* Christ's shoul ders, andi I say, "Canst thou bear any moief" He Jtoys, "Yea, more." Then I gather up all the sins of a hundred I people In this house, and 1 put them on the shoulders of Christ, and 1 say, "Canst thou be?f mpre?" : Yea, more." And t gather up all the sins of this as sembly, and. I put them on the shoul ders^y "Ih^.^on of God and I say "Canst thou bear them?" "Yea," he says, "more." r /;?\ >, HE HATH liORNEOUR TRANSO HUSSIONS; But he Is departing. Clear the way for him, tho Son of God. Open tho dem and letAM?Sfla ?xtf? fta is carrying our sins arid bearing them away. We shall never see them again. He throws them down into the abysm, and you hear the long reverberating edho Of their fsl(,v;?0n. him tboXord hath'laid, the InlqUfey ?f us all* Will you let will risk eternity on my own account?" A clergyman said in his pulpit ono Sab bath, "Befor*> newBfftiTrday night one of this audience will have DnsfHSd out of life." ^ArW^^f^f^m 'o another seated next to him: "I don't believe It. I mean to wa/clKand if it doesn't come true bv ney.tS'rttu?dfty night I shall tell that olornMMb |is falsehood." The man seated.next to him said, "Perhaps it will be youtfloir* "Oh, no," the oth er replied; "I shall hve tobe an old man." That night be breathed bis last. To day thejHfft?ur calls. All may come. God nevlc pushes a man off. God never destroys anybody. The man jumps off. It Is sulcUW?soul suicide - if the man perlshea. for. the invitation Is. "Whosoever1 will, let him come." Whosoever, whosoever, whosoever! In this day of/merciful visitation, while many are coming Into the kingdom of God, join the procession heavenward. Seated among us during a service was a man who came in and said, "I don't know that there is any God." That was on Friday night. I said, "We will kneel down and find out whether there Is an - Ond." And in the second seat from tue pulpit we knelt. Ilesatd: "I have found him. There is a Cod, a pardoning God. 1 feel him here," lie knelt in the darkness of sin, He arose two minutes afterward in the liberty of the Uoapel; while another sitting under the gallery on Friday night said, "My opportunity is gone; last week I might have been saved, not now, the door is shut," And another from the very midst of the meeting, during the week, rushed out of the frontdoor of the Tabernacle, saying, "lam a lost man." "BeholdI the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the worll." "Now is the accept ed time. Now is the day of salvation." alt is appointed unto all men once to ie, and after that?the judgment!" A TALK WITH TILLMAN. Tue Governor and the Sub-Treasury lie bate. Charleston, 8 C, June HO.-Gov ernor Til11nan spent the greater part of the morning yesterday in his room at the Charleston Hotel, where ho received quite n pumber of callers. His time until 4 o'clock was pretty well occupied in this way and in the incidental effort of keeping cool on the shady side of the building. Among the callers was a reporter for Tho News and Courier, who asked him some questions on cur rent topics, which he answered readily. As the next "case" in which Governor Tillmsn will be one of the parties is the sub-treasury debate at Spartanburg he was asked a few questions about that interesting prospective event. "What about the Spartanburg meet ing at which you are to meet Col. Ter rell in debate? Will the speeches be heard by members of the Alliance only V" "All I can say about that is that when I accepted Col. Terrell's chal lenge to meet him at Spartanburg I ex pected the discussion to be in phbllc and for the benefit and enlightenment of all classes of voters. In bis tour over the State Col. Terrell's advocacy of the measure was In public, ond I can not suppose that it is intended to re strict my reply to Alliance members only, and to a few at that. Besides, it is too hot to hi oak in any house this time of year; and there is no place iu Spartanburg large enough to hold the audience that will bo likely to attend ex cept the Grange encampment building. \s I understand it this is a friendly dis 'on between the distinguished lec of the National Alliance und my pon a question affecting the in ; of all classes, Alliancemen, farm no do not belong to the Alliance dtlzens who cannot join that or nation. I cannot see any reason, efore, why the debate should not be . in public." "When will the discussion take place?" "I don't know, but, I presume on the second day of the session of the State Alliance, which will bo about the 22d of July." "Have you heard from Col. Terrell since he left the State?" "Only through the newspapers, but when I wa? at Cedar Springs last week I mentioned the matter to some of the leading Alliancemen In Spartanburg, and they said thero would be a large crowd present and they wanted the dis cussion to be in public." "What arrangements have been made for the meeting?" "None that I know of, but I presume that President Stokes and the Spartan burg Alliance will take the necessary steps to prepare for it." "Have you any idea of tho result of this discussion r* "Of course not; except that the dis cussion is to take place In public, and that the State Alliance will take a vote on it in secret as they do on all matters affecting our Order. I hope to show that the Alliance in South Carolina cannot afford to press the sub-treasury scheme, but as the measure has been endorsed by the Ocala meeting and by one State Alliance may, and probably will, fail." Tblrtv Skeletons In a Row. Chicago, June 28.?Thirty skeletons were found yesterday in an old ice house at the corner of Archer avenue and Hough place. For several days numerous com plaints have been made to the health ofilce and to the Heering street police by residents in the vicinity of Archer avenue and Hough place, who asserted that a nuisance of most aggravated form made life almost unendurable. Investigation was made by both de partments, but without locating the trouble. Yesterday the mystery was solved. Several boys found near tho corner a human skull and several thigh bones bleached white. The lads told the first policeman they met of their discovery, and he notified the health ofilce. Dr. Ware, with several assistants, visited the scene and made a more thorough search than had before been made. A bad odor was detected from Schine man's ol i Ice house on the corner. The searchers ripped up a part of the floor, and were horrified to find rows of skel etons, to some of which shreds of flesh still clung. Who placed them there is not known, and the authorities will make every ef fort to find the guilty persons. The theory advanced by the health of ficers Is that some attache of a medical college brought tho subjects there to bleach. The bones were allowed to re main until the matter can bo moro fully Investigated. Chicago, June 28.?It Is now learned \ that i tobert A. Ha wes has been carrying on the grewsome business of cleaning human skeletons for tho medical pro fession in the building. The board of health will look into the matter. Crushed and Mangled. j Charleston, 8. C, June 2*5.?A hor rihle accident, occurred at, the South Carolina I tall way depot here this morn ing, John HlaCk, a respectable old street tar conductor, went to the depot to see his daughter off for Walhalla. In try ing to jump from the train after, it started his foot was caught in the plat form of tho car and his body, after be ing dragged the whole length of the depot, some 000 feet, was hurled under the cars and horribly mangled. All this occurred in tho presence of over '100-spectators, including n son of the deceased. They wero powerless to help. Black was an old man and was one of the most popular conductors on the city railway. He came hero twelve years ago from Walhalla. Drilling for War. Taooma, Wash., June 25.?It is ru mored the strikers displaced by colored men imported from the South at the Clllman, New Castle and Franklin mines are drilling in the woods daily. They nre said to be armed with rifies, and a combination has been effected, so that any attempt to resumo work at - ,ny of the mines will result In the gather ing of the entire force of armed miners to resist the attempt._ Rwallowad His False Teeth. Boston, June ?James Corcoran died in the hospital here last night, from the effects of having swallowed his false teeth. ^ ANOTHER CARD FROM MR. THACK8TON IN REFERENCE TO HIS SCHOOL JOURNAL. He Explains How He Came to ?>? Mistak en Aboat the Kesolntlon or the State Board of Examiner*. Columbia, 8. C, July 2.?Mr. W. J. Thackston, clerk to State Superinten dent of Education Mayfled, has asked for tho publication of the following: To the Public: I feel that it is due to myself and to tho public that I should say that not until 1 read the statements of Superintendent Mayfleld on his return to the city and of Prof Johnson, pub lished in'the Record of Monday, the 29th ult, did I know I had misconceived the action of the State board of examiners with regard to the Palmetto School Jour nal. It had been uutil then my honest im pression that the actlou of tho board had been what was stated by mo in an edi torial in reforence thereto, which ap peared iu the April number of the Jour nal, page 2C3. In that editorial, which was widely circulated, but which the board of examiners evidently did not read, If they saw a copy of the Journal, I wrote as follows: "The State board of examiners adopt ed a resolution urging the trustees throughout the State to become subscri bers, and allowing them to pay for their subscriptions out ot the contingent fund oi their district." 1 hiring the meeting of tho board of ex aminers on tho 4th of April, of which board I am by law clerk. I mado orally the proposition in question, namely, that the board should officially endorse the Palmetto School Journal as its or gan, and should urge the school trustees to become subscribers, paying for their subscription out of the funds for their districts. That proposition included the I offer of all space free of charge necessa ry for the publication of the official mat ter of the board and of the department of education. I then asked to bo ex cused from tho meeting that tho board might consider the proposition without my presence. When I returned tho board had passed to other subjects and I was informed that the board had endorsed the l'almct to School Journal. Nothing else was said to mo in reference to the matter at that time or subsequently by any mem ber of the board, and knowing of no other proposition, 1 natually supposed I thut what was said reforred to the pro position I submitted. Under this im pression I wrote tho editorial in the Journal mentioned, the circular letter to the trustees and tho statement, recently prepared by me lor publication. I had no idea I was mistaken until I saw the statements in Monday's Record. It is inconceivable that I should have attempted to prevent a resolution of the board where detection and exposure would be so certain to follow. I com mitted tho e: or of not verifying my im pression simply because, I did not sus pect tho possibility of mistake. Had I entertained any doubt I could easily have done so, as I am clerk of the board and keeper of its record. Tho proposi tion was made openly, in perfect good faith and with a sincere desire to advance the interest of public education. It seemed to me to be justified by prece dent and to lie within the legitimate powers of the board. In this State tho State board of exam iners on the 17th of April. 1889, passed the following resolution in refernco to the Carolina School Journal: "Resolved further. That the chair man be resqucstcd to subscribe for five copies of the Journal for the use of the board." If tho board of examiners could sub scribe for live copies of tho Carolina School Journal, ono for each member of tho board, and pay for them out of tho public funds, they certainly have the right to authorize tho trustees to sub scribe for a School Journal for their use, and pay for it out of the public funds. If a School Journal paid for by the State is a good thing for the members of the State board ot examiners, why is It not equally as good for the trustees, who are supposed to need the information iu con tains much more? The twenty-first annual report ot the State Superintendent of Education for 1889 (page 20) shows this entry: "Sub scription to Charleston World-$7." If in the past it was thought expedient to pay for a daily newspaper for the head of the educational department of the State out of public funds, what improp riety could there bo in paying for an edu cational journal for subordinate school officers of tho stale, out of tho public funds, which journal contains official in formation from the State board and tho department of education? If my information is correct, in several other states, including Pennsylvania and Virginia, educational journals nro paid for directly out of tho State funds. The acceptance of my proposition wasaques tion for tho board. I felt sure they would adopt no plau which was not advisaole and right, aud supposing they had adopt ed my propositions as submitted, I felt at liberty to proceed on their authority. I now sco I committed an orror In not verifying their action, but 1 positively disclaim all intention ot misrepresent ing tho facts. I have acted throughout in entire [good faith and without intcn i tional concealment. It is due to Superintendent Mayllold that I should Bay that tho editorial in tho Palmetto Journal, tho circular letter to the trustees and my iormer statement to the press woro written and published without his knowledge and during his absence. He was not consulted by mc, because he had no interest in tho Journal and was not responsible, tor my action as its editor. It is also duo to the mem bers of the board of examiners to acquit them of all responsibility for my mistake. This statement is made public as soon as possible after I had discovered that I had been all along mistaken as to tho action of the board ot examiners with reference to the Palmetto journal. W. J. TlIAOKSTON. ltobbed and Left to Starve. Roanokk, Va., July l.?Barney Smith, a mechanic employed for some time at the Roanoke Machine Works, disap peared last pay day, June 19, -Ho was found to-day, with his hands bound and tied to a tree, in a lonely spot in the Blue Ridge mountains, ten miles from here. He was frantic and half starved. He had gnawed . o bark from the tree to which he was tied. He was unable to tell how he came to be tied, and now liei in a precarious condition. There is no clue to the perpetrators of the deed. The motive Is suppoaed to have been robbery, as Smith was known to have some money on his per son when last seen here. A GANG OF YOUNG THUGS. The ftcceut AtuulU and Uobberles In Humter. Sumtek, S. C, .1 unc 27.?Tho charges and the evidence against Nelson, the young negro footpad, are accumulating rapidly and it begins to appear that lie was not (he only one connected with the various assaults and robberies perpetrat ed upon our citizens during the past two weeas, but was probably the ringleader of a gang of four or live young despera does. Nclaov was taken out of jail yesterday aud brought beforo Justice Wells to an swer to the charge of having entered, on Tuesday morning, between 3 and 4 o'clock, tbo apartment in which Mr. A. F. Byrd, an employee at the mill of Mr. S. M. Graham, on Sumtcr street, was sleeping aud of robbing him of his pock etbook aud the. money which it con tained, and also of some valuable se curities aud papers. Mr. Byrd stated that as tbo night was warm, he had opened nil the windows and the door, and bad laid down on the bed, intending, as soon as ho had cooled oil", to get up and shut the door; that ho had gone to sleep, however, and botweon 3 and 4 o'clock in the moral'g was aroused by hearing some one aioviug around in his room, and upon awaking fully ho found it was a young negro man, of whom ho gave a description which ex actly lilted Nelson. He said the negro placed his hand upon bis hip pocket, as though in the act of drawing a pistol, and told him not to move, or lie would blow oUt bis brains; and that bolug tot illy unarmed, be bad remained quiet; that the ucgro deliberately went through everything, took tbo articles abovo men tioned aud then left. Saturday morning tbo pocketbook and papers were found among Nelson's things, and he confessed the whole allair, aud stated that he bad bceu accompanied by a young negro of the town, named Jim Stuttle. Stuttle was accordingly arrested aud both wcro sent to iai! to await trial at the October term of tho court. Nelson also made coufessions to the, police implicating several other ne groes, but they have not yet been ar rested, and the police will not make known their names. Nelson acknowledged being tho one who camo after the policeman earlier on Monday night, just beforo young Foxworth was struck. From the time at which Foxworth was struck and that at which Mr. Byrd was robbed, Nelson must have gone immediately from the one to tho other.?Tho State. Cotton Three Weeks Late. The weekly weather and crop bulle tin of tho South Carolina weather ser vide, in co-operation with the United States Signal Service for tho week end ing Saturday, is as follows, and is very encouraging to farmers. The rainfall for the past week has been below the normal and badly dis tributed. The temperature has been abovo tho average with very much of sunshine, all of which has been very beneficial to all crops. The cotton has improved very much where it has been properly cultivated, but there are many gaps or missing places which give it a ragged appear ance, and that portion of the crop is growing very rapidly and is now cov ered with blooms. A considerable por tion of the crop has been and still is very grassy, and farmers are making every effort to clean it this hot and dry weather, but labor is very scarce. The yield of an ordinary crop will, to a great extent, depend upon the success in get ting rid of the grass in the next few days. The corn crop is now a fair average, but if a drought should now set in, which present appearances indicate, it will be seriously injured. There can be no doubt but that the cotton crop is three weeks late, and it will require good seasons from now on to produce an average crop. The rice crop, whilst but one half of it was planted early, all of it Is now rowing finely, and good stands have een obtained._ A De?i>erate l'rlsoner. Washington, June 29.?A special to the Post from Charlotte, N. C, says that Brabham, the negro who is to be hanged for murdering the Italian, Moc ca, made an attempt this afternoon on the lifo of Sheriff Smith. Since his at tempt recently to kill a lcllow-prisoner named Caldwcll, Brabham has been chained to the door ofnis cell. This af ternoon when the sheriff went into the cell tho prisoner asked for a match, and as the sheriff handed it to him Brabham struck him a feartul blow with the chain with which he was fastened. Tho sher iff was felled to the ground, but regained his feet and grappled with the negro. Brabham, however, got him down aud would have killed him but for tho negro prisoner, Caldwcll, who litshod in from the corridor aud pulled Brabham oil'. When the sheriff regained his leet ho jumped on Brabham and beat him se verely. Tho prisoner begged to be kill ed, so lie would not live to be 1 anged. Decoyed to the Itlver. VlNOENNES, Ind., July 1.?The dead body of James Baker, Sr., a well-to-do farmer who lived three miles south of the city, was found floating in the Wa bash river near the foot of Prairie street. His upper lip was lacerated, as if from a blow, and his right arm was bruistd and bore marks ot fingers, and his pockets, Wbloh had heon rilled, woro turned inside out. linker was a con vivial man of IH), and had been drink ing heavily all day. It was currently reported that he had sold a team of horses and tho supposition is that he was decoyed to the river, murdered, robbed and thrown into the water. Denth In a Ooitl Mine. St. Louis, June 25.-?A dispatch from Hamilton. Mo, says: An accident oc curred at the shaft of the Caldwell Coal Company's mine, near this city, yester fi?.j, lr. which one man lost his lifo, and four others received serious injuries. Tho men were propping up the roof, when a rock, weighing a ton and a half, fell, killing l'aul Bloise instantly,crush ing Robert Stewart's back, breast and right arm, almost scalping Frank Doo ley and crushing John Lewis and Wil liam 11 all more or less seriously. Killed hy a Cloudburst. Knoxvillk, Tenn., June 25.?A ro Sort cornea from Cherokee County, forth Carolina, of a terrible cloudburst there late yesterday afternoon. Two illicit distillers, named Harvey Agnow and Jacob Newton, who happened to be near by, were instantly killed. A number of farms for miles below were inundated and growing crops suffered a loss of several thousand dollars. Wannatnaker ?fters to Kxplaln. Philadelphia, June 20.?The Bards ley investigating committee resumed its sittings this afternoon and exam ined a large number of witnesses. A communication was received from Postmaster General Wannamaker, in which he offered to appear before the committee at any time upon twenty tour hours notice. WHERE THE MONEY GOES. KecelpU aud Kxpendltares for the Fast Fiscal Year. Washington, July 1.?Tho monthly public debt statomeut was issued today iu an entirely new form. It combines both tho Secretary's elatement of tho public debt and tho Uuited States Treas urer's monthly statement of assets ami liabilities, heretotoro issued separately. Comparison with tho last monthly statement and the statemeut issuod July 1, 1890, shows an increaso in tho pub lic dobt during tho past month of about live millions, aud a uet reduction duriug tho past fiscal yenr of twenty million dollars. The surplus iu tho treasury today, iu the new form of statement put out to day, is placed at $53,893,808, or about five millions less than a month ago, with no chauge in tho interest-bearing debt of the government duriug the past month. The bonded debt todav is $010,529,120, made up iu rouud numbers of $500,000, 000 fours und $50,500,000 four aud a half per ceut bouds. Government receipts from all sources during tho past fiscal year aggregated $401,530,710, or about ouo million aud a half less than during the preceding year. Customs recoipts were $219,900,058, or about ten millions loss than during the preceding year; Internal revenue re ceipts were $145,943,281, an increaso over tho preceding year ol three mil lions and a quarter, and receipts from miscellaneous sources were nearly thirty six millions, about live millions greater than in the preceding year. On the other hand, expenditures dur ing tho fiscal year just closed were $388, 090,924, against $318,040,710 during the preceding year. Scvenleon millions and a half of this increase is found iu the pension charge of $124,145,110 for the past year. Civil and miscellaneous ex penditures during the year amounted to $110,139,339, an Increaso over the pro ceding year of nearly thirty millions. Indian expenses were $8,520,198, or nearly two millions more '.ban during tho preceding year. Navy expenditures wore $20,115,098, or four millions more than during; tho preceding year, and war department expenditures wcro $-18,723, 110, or four and a quarter millions greater than in tho preccd i>g > ear, $37,127,201 were paid 'out during the year for interest on the public debt and $10,401,220 iu premiums on $114,000, 000 bonds purchased and redeemed dur ing the year. SENATOR INGALLS A3 A LECTURER. Ho IHsciisseb Current l'roltlcniH In Ilia CharactorlHtlc Way. Washington, June 30.?Ex-Senator Ingalls made his debut as a lecturer at tho National Chautauquaat Glen Echo, near this city. His subject was ''The problems of our second century." and his effort was listened to by a large au dience. The first problem which he dis cussed was tho danger of paternalism in government, and lie paid Iiis respects in his unique way to that class of* people who want their debts paid by Act of Con gress and who would have money as plentiful ns autumn leaves in the forest, lie did not believe, he said, in having tho government doing everything and the people nothing. llefeiring to the problem of unequal distribution of wealth, he said that it was not right that ten million people should never have enough to cat In this country from one year's end to another, nor should it ever happen that a man went hungry when he was willing and able to work. It was quite evident from his talk, however, that bo did not ex pect the present condition of affairs to speedily change, for he said that if all the wealth in the United Slates were to be equally divided now, in six months there would be some people riding in palace cars, some in buggies, sonic would bo walklug, and some would bo silting in fence corners watching the procession go by. "Above nil," be added, "there would be heard again tho voice of the ir repressible reformer earning his liveli hood by tho perspiration of Iiis jaw rath* er than by the sweat of his brow." If some men were rich and others were poor it was the fault of the Creator. He would not disguise the fact lb t the pre sent was n momentous crisis in the. his tory of this country, and that nil the forces of demoralization were, marshall ed for the contest. He had no doubt of the outcome of the fight. There would bo in the future broader liberty, larger opportunities for happiness aud greater prophesies for development of the nation than the mind of man can now conceive. wiiito can Whipple in Indiana, Chicago, 111 , June 30.?A dispatch from New Albany, Ind., says there was another brutal whipping by white caps in crawford county Sunday morning in which a young woman of eighteen years was one of tho victims. William McGuiro and his eighteen year old step daughter live near Lenten worth, the county seat of Crawford county. They were reported to be living iu adultery but there was no proof of this charge. About 1 o'clock Sunday morning twen ty masked white caps, all armed with revolvers went to McGuire's residence, broke down tho door and seizing Me (luire, who is about fifty years old, and his step-daughter dragged them to tho woods und tied thuin face foremost to trees. Then the clothing of both victims was lowered to tho hips and the white caps commenced tho cruel work of whipping them on their bare backs, flaying them from the shoulders to the hips. The young woman shrieked for mercy at every blow, but her appeals were in vain until she sunk fainting from pain. She received over filty lashes. Her shoulders, i ac and hips are frightfully larcerated. Old man McGuiro was given about seventy-livo lashes. He also foil fainting under the savage punishment. After the whip ping tho white caps notified them If they wero found in the county twenty days later they would bo hung up by their necks and left for tin: buzzards to pick. This infamous whipping of a helpless girl has created the most in tense excitement in heaven worth and the neighborhood of that town and is denounced with great bitterness. A Sad Accident. BlAOKVILLR, S. C, July 2?Mr James McDonald, a highly respected and well-to-do citizen living about a half mile from IClko, went this morn ing with a party to ('apt. W. W. Willis's mill on a fishing expedition. About 10 o'clock he and his two grown daughters went out into the pond in a boat, and while paddling up tho pond the boat struck a tree, throwing out the younger daughter. Ho immediately jumped overboard to save her when they both went to the bottom and did not rise again. The daughter left in the boat managed to .get the boat Ollt and TO ported It. Tho bodies havo not yet been recovered, but they aro be'"' searched for.?News and Courier. A HORRIBLE DEATH. george w. malcom bitten by a mad dog. lie Showed No Slft-us of Hydrophobia Un til II? Saw Water?He negated end Pre/ ed to Die llefore the Spasins Game. Monroe, Ga., Juno 20.?Mr. George W. Malcoiu, Sr., ouo of Uie most promi nent men aud ono of the best citizens of Walton couuty, mot a horrible death at Iiis homo nine miles from hore yesterday morning. Ho died from liydropbobia aud tho scctic at his death bed was terri ble. Ou tho morning of tho 3d of Juno, about daybreak, ho started out to his lot to food his horse. In tho public road near the lot he mot a dog coming down tho road iu a run. Without tho least provocation tho dog sprang at Mr. Mal? com, catchiug him through tho uoao and face. He held on liko grim death, and only turned looso his hold after Mr. Mai* com had chocked him ucarly to death. Notwithstanding his mouth and noae were badly torn by tho bite of tho dog, aud the blood was* rapidly llowlng from bis wouuds, Mr. Malcoiu still held on to tho dog until he could got a rock, with which he boat the dog to death. He wae a bravo, gritty man, and seemed to have less foar of hydrophobia thau any of his friends. Ho would always say: '*! don't think the dog was mad and I don't be lieve I will have hydrophobia." Tuesday he ate a hearty dinner and went out on tho porcli to get a drink of water. As soon as the dipper reached his lips he jumped high oil the floor and screamed at the top of bis voice. As soon ns this, the first convulsion, wore oil", he announced to bis family that lie was a dead man?that bo bad hy drophobia. He sent at onco for all his children and had n neighbor to write his will. Tins being liuishcd, lie bogau having convulsions, which were light at first and at intervals of about ono hour. They grow harder and harder and nearer and nearer together until Wednesday even ing, when he became exhausted and irra tional, and remained in this condition until Thursday morning, when he died. The physicians could do nothing to re lieve him. They gave him morphine, which made him deathly dek, and from this time he. refused to tako any medi cine, and would go into convulsions when the subject was mentioned. He never drank a drop of water from the time he was taken until bo died. Ho wanted it and talked about it, and even begged for it, but when it was brought into his sight he would shudder aud or der it carried away as quickly as possible. He bodied at the mouth, and bis screams were hcar.rcnding. Ho would beg to die, and often prayed to die be fore another spasm came. He seemed to have superhuman Mren: Ii, Six men around his bedside could uot hold hlm'down. Finally, in a convulsion more terrible than any that had preceded it, death came to his relief. Mr, Malcom was sixty years old, and a deacon in Iiis church. He leaycs a wife and ten children, most of whom are grown and married. ??TheChinese Must tlo." Washington, June 24.?Acting Secretary Spauldlng rendered a decision today In regard to China that will be widespread in its application. Three Chinamen yesterday came to Detiolt from Canada, and the commissioner In timated that Canada was tho country from whence they canio and to which they should be returned. Acting Secre tary Spauldlng directed that they be re turned to China, and in discussing tho points raised by the United States Com missioner at Detroit, sent the following telegram to the Collector there: "Tho act of September 13, 1888, is not in force, as the treaty named iu Section No. 1 not ratified. The act of August 13,1890, makes appropriation specifically for re turning to China all Chinese persons il legally iu tho United States. It is use less to return them to Canada to come back tomorrow. The above act was ex pressly made to meet tho difllculty. Un der it wc return unquestioned to China, as the country whence they came, Chi nese coining from Mexico and british Columbia, as they make the contiguous foreign countries the avenue for reach ing the United States. The Attornoy General gives the opinion that this action is directly in the line of carrying out the expulsion act for which the appropriation was made. It is the practice on the Pacific coast, when the court finds Chi namen illegally in the country, for tho marshal to turn them over to the collec tor at San Francisco for deportation to China. The department sees no occasion Cor different practice at Detroit." Tho Knights of Labor. Columbus, ()., June 24.?The Gener al Executive Hoard of the Knights of Labor is in session here to-day. The meeting will continue for several days, and will be an important one in many respects. It will be decided whether Mai. McKinley shall be denounced or antagonized because President Harrison had refused to allow the reinstatement of discharged plate printers at tho Bu reau of Kngraving and Printing at Washington. Mr. Devlin said this af ternoon that no fault could bo found with McKinley personally, as he had expressed sympathy with the men, but If antagonized at all it would be as a leader of the Republican party, whose head. President Harrison, had refused the demand of organized labor. a IIrittn In tho Mountains. GREENVILLE, S. C, July 2.?It is re ported from the upper part of this county that on Sunday last "Babe" Durham, a young white man, brutally beat Miss Gosnefi on tho hoad and body with the butt of his pistol and kicked bor because she had promised to marry Durham's rival, whose name Is not known. Durham also shot onco at his rival, who ran. The young lady may not live. Officers a? after Durham, but.be is keeping out nUho way.?News and Courier, * l ?in i In n Court Room. Nashville, Tenn,, June 29.?At Buffalo Valley, Putnam County, two witnesses in a murder trial, named Jim Mitchell and Oscar Plunkett, became involved in a quarrel in the courtroom Saturday. They drew revolvers and began tiring at each other and kept It up until both had been mortally won ided. The shooting caused great con. ?! nation in the court room, the spectators dodging behind doors aud under bonchos to escape injury. Excursion Train Wrecked. Van BUREN, Ark^*.!"**'- ' special excursion train' to Fort Smith was wr' rail three miles ea* night, killing a lit ker and woundln gers. Conduct '?"?ken e