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. * ?- *- ' ... ,. ,?.,,, _ ' t r VOL, VII._ L AURENS, S. C TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1891. ~~ NO. 50. GOSPEL OF THE WEATHER. DR. TALfvHGE PniACHE8 ON THE COMPLAINTS ABOUT THE RAIN. The Wonderful Imagery of the Hook of Job?How the Study of It Has Made Weak Men Into Infidels-Never Wade Into a Myslerv Over Yoni Head. BROOKLYN, July 5.?Dr. Talinage's sermon today is on a kind of gospel in which few people believe. The weather is a common object of complaint and fault Unding, but Dr. Talmage finds a gospel in it, which today he proclaims from tho text, "I huh the rain a father?" Job xxxviil, 28. This Hook of Job has been the sub ject of unbounded theological wrangle. Men have made it tho ring in which to display their ecclesiastical pugilism. Home say thut the Book of Job is a true history; others, that it is an allegory; others, that it is an epic poem; others, that it is a drama. Some say that Job lived eighteen hundred ycari before Clir'iBt, others say that he never lived at all. Some say that tho author ot this book was Job; others, David; others, Solomon. The discussion has landed some in blank infidelity. Now, I have uo trouble with tho Books of Job or Revelation?tho two most mysterious hooks in the Dible?because of a rule I adopted somo years ago. I wado down into a Scripture passage as long as lean touch bottom, and when I ennnot then I wado out. I used to wade in until it was over my head and then I got drowned. I study a passage of Scripture so long as it is a eomfort and help to my soul, but when it be comes a perplexity and a spiritual up turning I quit. In other words, we ought to wado in up to our heart, but never wade in until it is over our head. No man should ever expect to swim across this great ocean ol divino truth. I go down into that ocean as I go down into tho Atlantic ocean at East llamp tou, Long Island, just far enough to buthc; then I come out. 1 never had any idea that with my weak hand and foot I could strike my way clear over to Liverpool. mod's mysterious GOVERNMENT, I suppose you understand yom- family genealogy. You kuow something about your parents, your grandparents, your great giandparonts. Perhaps you know whero they were born, or where they died. Have you ever studied the par entage of tho shower, "Hath not tho rain a lather?" This question is not asked by a poetaster or a scientist, but by the head of the universe. To hum ble end to save Job God asks him four teen questions: About the world's ar chitecture, about the refraction of the sun's rays, about the tides, about tho snow crystal, about the lightnings, and then ho arraigns him with the interroga tion of the text, "Hath tho rain a fath or?" With 111 $ scientific wonders of tho rain 1 have nothing to do. A minister gels through with that kind ot seroious with in the first three years, and it ho has piety enough he gets through with it iu the first three months. A sermon has come to me to mean one word of four lottcrs, "help!" You all know that the rain is not an orphan. You know it is not ensi out of the gates of heaven a foundling. You would answer the ques tion of my text in the alllrmative. Safely housed during the storm, you hear the rain beating against the window pane, and you find it searching all the crevices of the window sill. It first comes down in solitary drops, pattering the dust, and then it deluges the Heids and angers the mountain torrents, and makes tho traveler implore shelter. You know that tho rain is not an acci dent of the world's economy. You know it was born of the cloud. You know it w is rocked in the cradle of tho wind. You kuow it was sung to sleep by the storm. You know that it a flying evan gel from heaven to earth. You know it is the gospel of the weather. You know that God is its father. If this be true, then how wicked is our murmuring about climatic changes. The flrst eleven Sabbaths after I enter ed the ministry it stormed. Through the week it was clear weather, but on the Sabbaths the old country meeting house looked like Noah's ark before it lauded. A lew drenched people snt be fore a drenched pastor; but most of the farmers stayed at homo and thanked God that what was bad lor the church was good for the crops. I committed a good deal of sin in those days in denounc ing the weather. Ministers of the Gos pel sometimes fret about stormy Sab baths, or hot Sabbaths, or inclement Sabbaths. They forgot the fact that the same God who ordained the Sabbath and sent forth his miuisters to announce sal vation also ordained the wei ther. "Hath the rain a father?" inck8sant com plaints OK TUB WEATHER, Merchants, also, with their stores Iii 1 ed with new goods, and their clerks hanging idly around the counters, com mit the samo transgression. There have been seasons when the whole spring and fall trade has been ruined by protracted wet weather. Tho mer chants then examined tho "weather probabilities" with more interest than they read their Bibles. They watched for a patch of bluo sky. They went complaining to the atoro and camo com plaining home again. In all that season of wet feet and dripping garments and impassable streets they never once asked the question, "Hath tho rain a father?" So agriculturists commit this sin. There is nothing moro annoying than to have planted jorn rot in the ground bo cause of too much moisture, or hay nil ready for the mow dashed of a showor. or wheat almost ready for the sickle spoiled with the rust. How hard it is to hear the agricultural disappointments. God has infinite resources, but I do not think he has capacity to make weather to please all the farmers. Sometimes it IB too hot, or it is too cold; It is too wet, or it Is too dry; it is too early, or it is too late. They forget that the God who promised seed time and harvest, sum* mer and winter, cold and heat, also or dained all the climatic change*?* Thero in one question that ought to bo written on every barn, on every fence, on every haystack, on every farmhouse, "Hath the rain a father?" If we only knew whtt a vast enter prise it is to provide appropriate weath er for this world we should not be so critical of the Lord. Isaac Watts at ten years of ago complained that ha did not like tho hymns that were sung in the English chapel. "Well," said his fath er, "Isaac, instead of your complaining about tho hymns, go and make hymns that are better." And he did go and make hymns that were better. Now, I say to you if you do not llko the \> cat he get up a weather company and have a president, and n secretary, and a treasur er, , and a board of directors, and ten million dollars of stock, and then pro? vldo weather that will suit us all. There is a man who has a weak head, and he cannot stand the glare of tho sun. You must have a cloud always hovering over him. I hko the sunshine; 1 cannot lire with out plenty of sunlight, so you r ust al ways have enough light for me. Two ships meet In mid-Atlantic. The one is going to Southampton and the other is coming to Now York. Provide weather that, while it is abaft for one ship, it is not a head wind for the other. There is a (arm thut is dried up for tho lack of rain, and thoro is a pleasuro party going out for a Held excursion. Provido weath er that will suit tho dry farm and tho pleasuro excursion. No, sirs, I will not take one dollnr of stock in your weather conipauy. There Is only one Being in the universo who knows enough to provide the right kind of weather for this world. "Hath tho rain a father?" CJOU IS INFINITE IN INFINITESIMALS, My text also suggests God's minute supervisal. You sco tho divine Sonship in every drop of rain. The jewels of tho shower nro not flung nwny by a spend thrift who knows not how many he throws or whero they fall. They arc all shininr princes of heaven. Thoy nil havo an eternal lineage. Thoy aro all thoehlldrcn of a king. "Hath tho rain a father?*' Well then. I say if God takes notice of every minute raindrop ho will take notico of tho most insignificant affair of my life. It is tho astronomical view of things Mint bothers mo. We look up into tho night heavens, and wo say, "Worlds! worlds!" and how insignilicnnt wc feel! Wo stand at the foot ot Mount Washington or Mont Blanc, and we fuel that we arc; only in sects, and then wc say to ourselves, "Though the world Is so large, the sun Is one million four hundrend thousand times larger." "Oh!" we say, "it is no use, it (Jod wheels that great machinery through immensity he will not take tho trouble to look down at me." infidel conclusion. Saturn. Mercury and Jupi ter are no more rounded and weighed and swung by tho hand of God thau arc tho globules on a lilac bush the morning aller a shower. God is no more in magnitudes than he is in minutitc. if he has scales to weigh the mountains, he has balnuces delicate enough to weigh the infiuitcsimul. You can no more sco him through the tele scope than you can seo him through tho microscope; no more when you look up than when you look down. Are not the hairs of your head all numbered? And if Himalaya has a God, "Hath not the rain a lather?" I take this doctrine of a particular Providence, nud 1 thrust It mto the very midst of your everyday life. If God fathers a raindrop, is there anything so insignilicnnt in your nllairs that God will not father that? When Druysc, tho gunsmith, invented the needle gun, which decided the batllo of Sadowa, was it a mere accident? When a farmer's boy showed Bluchcr a short cut by which he could bring his army up soou enough to decide Water loo for England, was it a mere accident? When J,ord Byron took a piece of money and tossed it up to decide whether or not he should be alllanced to Miss Mill bank, was it a mero accident which side of tho money was up and which was down? When tho Christian army was besieged at Be/.lcrs, and a drunken drum mer came in at midnight andrang tho alarm bell, not knowing what ho was doing, but waking up the host in time to iigth their enemies that moment arriving, was it an accident? Whcu in one of tho Irish wars a starv ing mother, Hying with her starving child, sank down and fainted on the rocks m tho night nud her hand fell on a warm bottle of milk, did that just happen so? God is either in tho affairs of men or our religion Is worth nothing at all, and you hand better take it a vny from us, and instead of this Bible, which teaches the doctrine, gives ub a secular book, and let us, as the famous Mr. Fox, th > mem ber of parliament, in his last hour, cry out. "Bead me the eighth book of Vir gil." Oh! my friends, let us rouse up to an appreciation of the fact that all the af fairs of our lite are under a king's com mand, and under u father's watch. Alexander's war horse, Bucephalus, would allow anybody to mount him when ho was unharnessed, but as booh as they put on that war horso Bucephalus, the saddle and tho trappings of the con queror he would allow no one but Alex ander to touch him. And II a soulless horse could havo so much pride in his owner, shall not we immortals exult in the fact that wc. are owned by a king? "Hath the rain a father?" GOD'S WAYS ARE PAST FINDING OUT. Again my subject tenches me that God's dealings with us arc inexplicable. That was the original forco of my text. Tho rain was a great mystery to tho ancients. They could not understand how the water should got into the cloud, and getting there, how it should he sus pended, or falling, why it should come down in drops. Modern science comes along and saye there arc two portions ol air of different temperature, and they aro charged with moisture, and the ouo portion of air decreases In temperature so the water may no longer be held in vapor, and it falls. And thoy toll us that some of the clouds that look to be only as largo as a man's hand, and to bo almost quiet in the heavens, aio great mountains of mist four thousand feet from base to top, and that they rush miles a minute. But atlcr all the brilliant experiments of Dr. James Hutlon, and Saussurc, and other scientists, there is an inllnito mystery about tho rain. There is an occau of tho unfathomable in every rain drop, and God says today as ho said in iho time of Job, "If you cannot under stand ono drop of rain, do no bo sup prised if my dealings with you arc inex plicable." Why does that aged man, decrepit, beggared, vicious, sick of the world and the world sick of him, live on, while here Is a man in mid life, consecra ted to God, hard working, uselul in every respect, who dies? Why <loes that old gossip, gadding along tho street about everybody's business but her own. have such good health, while tho Chris tian mother, with a flock .Mittle ones about her whom she is preparing for usefulness and for heaven?the mother who you think could not be spared an hour Irom that household?why does she lie down and dio with a cancer? Why does that man, sel?sh to tho coro, go on adding forluno to fortune, consuming everything on himself, con tinue to prospper, while that man. who has been giving ten per cent, of all his income to God and tho church, goes into baukruptcy? Before we mnkq stark fools of ourselves., let us stop pressing this everlasting "why." Let us worship whore wo cannot understand. Let a man take that one question, "Why?" and follow it far enough, and posh it, and he will land in wretchedness and perdi tion. w? want in our theology fewer t 1 ol \ interrogation, marks and more exclama tion points. Heaven is the place for explanation. J5ar?l? is the place for trust. If you cannot understand so minute a thiug as a raindrop, bow cau you expect to understand God's deal ings? "Hath tho rain a father?" Again, my text makes me think that the rain of tears is of divine origin. Great clouds of trouble sometimes hover over us. They are black, and tboy are gorged, and they are thunderous. They are more portentous than Salvator or Claude ever painted?clouds of poverty, or persecution, or bereavement. They hover over us, and they get darkor and blacker, and after awhile a tear starts, and we think by an extra pressure of the eyelid to stop it. Others follow, and after awhile there is a shower of tearful emotion. Yea, there is a rain of tears. "Hath that rain a father?" OOD SEES QUM TEAKS. "Oh," you say, "a tear is nothing but a drop of limpid lluid secreted by the lachrymal gland?it is only a sign of weak eyes." Great mistake. It is one of the Lord's richest benedictions to tho world. There are people in lilack well's Island insane asylum, and at Ulica, and at all the asylums of this land, who were demented by the fact that they could not cry at the right time. Said a mauiac in one of our public institutions, uuder a Gospel ser mon that started tho tears: "Do you see that tear? that is the first 1 have wept for twelve years. I think it will help my brain." There arc a great many in the grave who could not stand any longer under tho glaneler of troublo. If that glacier had only melted into weeping they could have endured it. There have been times In your life when you would have given the world, if you had pos sessed it, for one tear. You could shriek, you could blaspheme, but you could not cry. Have you never seen a man holding tho hand of a dead wife, who had been all the world to him? The temples livid with excitement, the eye dry and frantic, no moisture on the upper" or lower lid. You saw there were bolts of anger in tho cloud, but no rain. To your Christian comfort, ho said, "Don't talk to me about God; there is no God, 01 if there is I httte htm; don't talk to me about God; would ho have left mo and ttieso motherless children ?" Uut a few hours or days after, com ing across some lead pencil that she owned in life, or some letters which she wrote when he was away from home, with an outcry that appals, there bursts the fountain of tears, and as the sun light of God's c jnsolation strikes that fountain of tears, you tlnd out that it is a tender hearted, merciful, pitiful and all compassionate God who was the father of that rain. "Oh," you say, "it is absurd to think that God is going to watch over tears." No, my friends. There are three or four kinds of them that God counts, bottles and eternizes. First, there are all parental tears, and thero are more of these than of any other kind, because the most of tho race die in infancy, and that keeps parents mourning all'around the world. They never get over it. They may live to shout and sing afterward, but thero is always a corridor in tho soul that is silent, though it once resounded. My parents never mentioned tho death of a child who died fifty years be fore without a tremor in the voice and a sigh, oh, how deep fetched! It was better she should die. It was a mercy she should die. she would have been a lifelong invalid. Hut you cannot argue away a parent's grief. How often you hear tho moan, "Oh, my child, my child." Then there are tho filial tears. Little children soon get over the loss of par ents. They are easily diverted with a new toy. But where is the man that has come to thirty or forty or fifty years of age,'wbo can think of the old people without having all the fountains of his soul stirred up? You may have had to tako care of her a good many years, but you never can forget how she used to take care of you. There have been many sea captains converted in our church, and the pecu liarity of them was that they were nearly all prayed ashore by their 'mothers, though the mothers went into tho dust soon after they went to sea. Have you never heard an old man in delirium o* iomo sickness call for his mother? ' he fact is wo get so used to calling for her tho first ten years of our lifo wo never get over it, and when she goes away from us it makes deep ior row. You sometimes, perhaps, in days of troublo and darkness, when the world would say, "You ought to b'i able to take care of yourself"?you wake up from your dreams finding yourself saying, "Oh, mother! mother!" Have these tears no divine origin? Why, tako all the warm hearts that ever boat in all lands, and In all ages, and put them together and their united throb would bo weak compared with the throb of God'8 eternal sympathy. Yes, God also is father of all that rain of repentance. Did you ever seo a rain of repent ance? Do you know what it is that makes a man repent? I see pooplo go ing around trying to repent. They cannot repent. Do you know no man can repent until God helps him to re pent? How do I know? By this pas sage, "Ulm hath God exalted to be a prince and a Saviour to givo repent ance." Oh, it is a tremendous hour when one wakes up and says: "l am a had man. 1 have not sinned against the laws of tho land, but I havo wasted my life; God asked me for my services and I haven't given those services. Oh, my sins; God forgive nie." When that tear starts it thril's all heaven. An angel cannot keep his eye oil it, and the church of Goi assembles around, and there is a commingling of tears, and God is the Father of that rain, the Lord, long suffering, merciful and gra cious. TUB QRY OF A MOTHER'S HEART, In a religious assomblange a man arose and said: "1 have been a very wicked man; I broke mother's heart, I became an infidel, but I havo seen my ovil way, and I have surrendered my heart to God, but it is a grief that I never can get over that my parents should never have heard of my salva tion; 1 don't know whether they aro liv ing or dead." While yet lie was Standing in the audience a voice from tho gallery said, "Oh, my sonl my son!" He looked up and he recognleed her. It was his old mother. She bad been praying for htm a great many years, and when at the foot of tho cross the prodigal son and the praying mother embrace 1 each other, thero was a rain, a tremendous rain, of tears, and God was the Father of these tears. Oh, that God would break us down with a sense of our sin, and then lift us with an appreciation of bis mercy. Tears over our wasted life. Tears over a grieved spirit. Tears over an injured father. Oh, that God would move upon this audience with a great wave of religious emotion. Tho king of Carthage was dethroned. His people, rebelled against him. He was driven into banishment. Ills wife and children were outrageously abused. War., went by,and the king of Cartha go made many friends. He gathered up a great army. He marched again toward Carthage. Ileaohlng the gates of Carthage the best men of the place caire out barefooted and barehoaded. and with ropes around their necks cry ing for mercy. They said: "Wo abused you and we abused your family, but we cry for mercy." The * 'ng of Carthage looked down upon the people from his chariot and said: "I came to bless, I didn't como to destroy. You drove me out, but this day I pronounce pardon for all the people. Open the gates and let the army come in." The king marcbed in and took tho throne, and the people all shouted, "Long live the king!" My friends, you havo driven the Lord Jesus Christ, the King of the church, away from your heart; you have been maltreating bim all these years; but be come back to-day. He stands In front of the gates of your soul. If you will only pray for his pardon he will meet you with bis gracious spirit and he will say: "Thy sins and tbiue iniqui ties 1 will remember no more. Open wide the gate, I will take the throne. My peace I give unto you." And then, all through this audience, from the young and from the old, there will be a rain of tears, and God will bo tho father of that rainl MORE DEVASTATION. A Cyolono In Mississippi ami a Storm In Texas. New Oulkans, La? July 7.?A Times-Democrat, Madison Mississippi, special says: A cyclouo struck this place about 11 o'clock yesterday. It was preceded b> a fearful rumbling sound that came from tho southwest. Disas ters are reported as follows: II. E. McKay's plantation, destroying negro cabins, killed Wesely Young, colored and, wounded several others, Dr. J, II. McKay's building was wreck ed. Tho s'.orm than passed across tho rail road levelling telegraph poles. Tho resideuces ofGlascock and Brown were first reached in town. Both houses wero. wrecked, and much of the furuituro was destroyed and stock injured. Tho Presbyterian church and school building wero completely swept away and onjA. M. Jones' place outstanding buildings were destroyed and stock was injured. Trees, orchards and shrubbery were ruined. Pasung out of the town to the northwest, tho cyclono completely de stroyed two colored churches and the residence of Handy Lee, colored. Gaijvbston, Tex., July 7.?The storm which raged here Saturday night and Sunday culminated Sunday even ing about 9 o'clock. A driving south southwest wind, accompanied by rain, caused much of tho lower portiou of tho city to become practically inundated. At 7 o'clock the wiud readied a velocity of lifty-livo miles per hour. The electric light plaut was useless, and the darkness, added to the fury of tho storm, made anything like travel impossible, and causad many to fear a repetition of the storm and lloodot 1885. The most damage dono was along the gulf beach where the terrific force ot tht surf carried away almost everything within its reach. The breakwater In front of the Beach hotel was completely wrecked and destroyed. Tho electric railway tracks wore undermined and curried on the shore. At the east shore end, wt.ich is ex tremely low and fiat, the heavy sea did much damage. Buildings were greatly damaged. In many instance'* the occu pants were compelled to asccud to the second floor to avoid tho water. On tho bay side of tho city, or cast end, small boats were called into requisition for travel, but boating was dangerous nud but lew attempted to get about in that way. Much uneasiness is felt for the steamer "Franklin" from the Blue Fields, (the banana fields of Nicaragua) duo since last Friday. Tho occupants of Pagodas and many of the beach resorts had to be assisted here by means of life saving lines. Through out the city houses wero blown down, and steps and stairs were carried away. Pcoplo wero blown against houses and fences, and fractured arms were tho re sults :n several cases. Amass of twist ed polrs, timbers and debris o :cuples un army of workmen today. Taken in all, it was the most disastrous storm which Galveston hos seen for years, and it will toko thousands of dollars to repair the damage. C*ntWell la ?tili Supervisor. Charleston, s, c, July 2.?Judge Wallace rendered his decision in tho Cantwell case this afternoon, speaking brielly but emphatically on tho points of law. He reviewed the case as made out against Cantwell, and also the au thority of tho governor to remove. It was in tho power of the governor to ap point, with the approval and consent of the Senate, and jt was also in his power to remove, with exactly the same con ditions. They must bo contemporane ous. There was a special act by which trial justices, auditors and treasurers could be suspended, pending a meeting of the Senate, but no general law. On tho letter of the governor about tho two otlices, the judge said that the law had been decided unconstitutional in the Supremo Court relating to appointive olllces; that the discharge of tho duties of clerk of the county commissioners did not at all conflict with those of su Eorvlsor; that they were not incompati lc; and that ho must grant tho prayer of Mr. Bryan in favor of Mr. Cantwell. ?State. _ Kell Into the Glowing Crater. Home, July 2.?Vesuvius has renewed its volcanic activity, and the torrent of lava rushing down the mountain sido is rapidly increasing in volume. Yester day two Brazilian tourists nsconded tho mountain, and had just reached the sum mit and wero standing on the verge of the crater when they wero suddenly en veloped ina dense cloud of smoke which rushed out upon them from the volcanic depths. When tho outburst bad sub sided it was found that one of the gen tlemen had become asphyxiated and had fallen into the mouth of the crater. His companion was only saved by the presence of mind of the guido who had accompanied them. As tue sulphurous smoke puffed out from the crater's mouth he rushed forward and dragged one of his patrons out of dangor, but was unable to save the other. The vic tim of the accident was Dr. Silva Jar din, of Bio Janeiro, Brazil, a journalist. He fell a sheer distance ot 170 feet into the glowing lava of tho erat* r. The Itata Case. San Dieqo, CaL, July 8.?U. S. Marshall Guard says ho will seize the Itata today. Tho office? of tho.Itata offer to pay $500 penalty for sailing without clcaran.'.o papers, und it is re ported here that orders havo bcon re ceived from Washington to accept it and discharge Ofilcers Mauzel and Tejeda. Tho United States District Attorney is now proparing papors upon three charges: First, clearance without prop* er papers; second, kldnapp:ng a doputy United States marshal; third, violating the neutrality law. He will tako pos session of the Itata immediately upen her release by the customs officers. He says t le action Is against the vessel aud not against tho men. Mauzel and Tej eda went to Los Angoles yesterday to consult with their attornoy. A RAILROAD MASSACRE. AWFUL DESTRUCTION OF LIFE AT RAVENNA, OHIO. A I'assenger Train Kun Iuto from the Uear l>7 a Freight Train, Train Fright fully Wrecked and Set on Fire?Num bers of the Dead ltoasted to a Crlan. Ravenna, ?., July 3.?The worst railroad accident ever occurring in this vicinity happened at 3 o'clock this morning. The horrible calamity has fairly appalled the town aud neighbor hood. Twenty people were killed aud their bodies burned to a crisp. More than that number were injured. The charred remain:? of the dead were taken from tho ruins of the demolished pas senger train as fast as tho flames could be subdued t>y the townspeople who rallied to the rescue. _Such terrible sights us were witnessed in the early morning hours made the people almost sick. ? An express, loaded with sleeping pas sengers, was run into by a freight train whilo the express was at a standstill in this city. Tho wreck of the passenger train was terrible rnd complete. To add to the condition of the unfortunate pas sengers who were imprisoned in the de bris the train caught lire and was con sumed. In this way death fairly swept through the wrecked train. By day light twenty bodies, nearly all of them charred in a horrible manner, were tak en out. Twenty-three injured had also been rescued. A large number of the killed were glassblowers who were on their way east from Findluy, The freight train that telescoped the express is the dressed meat express from Chicago, and was running about thirty miles an hour when it struck tho pas senger train. Tho accident was due to carelessnees in leaving a switch open. The passenger train, which was the vestibule express with eight coaches from Cincinnati to New York, on the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Railroad, was forty-six minutes late, and tho engineer w'as trying to remedy the fault In tho engine when tho fast freight was sighted in the roar. A brakeman was sent back, but the heavy freight train of twenty-four cars could not be stopped on tho down grade in time, and it crashed into the rear of tho passenger train. Tho rear coach contained forty-six passengers, all glass-workers recently employed at the Richardson Glass Works in Findluy. who .were on their way to their homes In New York State. The car was completely demolished, and a terrible slaughter occurred. George Holman, tho engineer of the freight, said to a reporter: "1 cannot see that I am to blame. Oh, my God, if I could have got sand I could have stopped, the train, but the rails were wet and the sand would not take. I Was not warned in time, and could not see the lights on the rear of the passen ger, owing to the darkness and fog. I reversed the lever as quickly as possi ble, and with the fireman jumped from the train, sustaining a severe fracture of the right hand." Air. Holman seems to think that the man of the passenger train, Fred Boynton, could have Hugged from a greater distance. Tho lire department of Ravenna was soon on the scene, and extinguished the Uauies, but not before terrible havoc had been wrought. Resides tho victims in tho rear coach, four passengers in tho Pullman car next forward were killed. Two men and one woman were burned to death in this car, whilo their bodies wero partly out of tho windows, their at tempts to escape having been fruitless. Oue woman was heard screaming hor ribly while being burned, but she could not bo reached. Two headless bodies of men could bo seen caught in the out rigging of tho locomotive inside the telescoped car, and another dead body was suspended from tho cow-catcher. The brakeman who was sent buck had got only about fifteen yards before he met tho freight train. The scenes hero at the wreck this morning wero heart-rendering. A nurse girl, whose name is unknown, and a baby about a year old, which she was caring for, wero burned to death before the very eyes of tho horror stricken spectators. Heroic ettorts wero made to save them, but they were apparently bound down by the broken timbers of the car. Tho poor girl pleaded piteously for somebody in mercy to kill her. Tl e ilames almost enveloped tho car and repeatedly drove the rescuers away. Finally tho workers were compelled to fall back and aban don the girl to her awful fate. This was but one of the awful scenes being enacted. When the groat freight locomotive ploughed through the rear coach, it mangled into unrecognizable masses of ilesh and bones several of the passen gers. Their deaths, horrible though they were, wero cosy compared to that of some of their friends. When the locomotive had come to a standstill, live forms were seen to bo pinioned between the head of tho boiler and the torn and twisted timbers of tho coach. Two were undoubtedly dead or unconscious, but the other three weakly swayed their bodies and waved their hands in an agonizing endeavor to free themselves from tueir frightful position. Quickly the debris of the coach caught lire, and in a few minutes the forms of tho poor fellows wero enveloped in smoke and ilames. ANOTHER RAILROAD DISASTER. 1'lftoen l'or-ot>H KID.xi and Fifty-Bight Injured. 0lIARLB8TON| W. Va., July 4.- Tho greatest disaster In tho history of this community was tho wrecking of a Kun awha and Michigan train at Farm, a villago eight miles north of this city, this morning. There is a trestle there thirty-live feet high, wnlch caught liro at some time during the night f rom an unaccountable cause, probably from a cinder from an engino passing about midnight. Whilo tho bridge was not consumed, its foundations wero so bad ly damaged as to render it unsafe to cross. No notificatian of the fact was received here, however, and the train, the first of tho day, attempted to cross it as usual. Tho engino, tern or and baggage car passed over safely, but the two coaches went through. Engineer Pat Connor seemed to realize the sltua tion and pulled open tho throttle, in the hope of pulling all over safely, but it whs too late. Roth coaches wore crowded, and scarcely any one in them escaped Injury. The station is three miles from tho nearest telegraph olllce, but as soon as possible a relief train was sent from this city, which returned about 2.15 p. m , bearing the dead and wounded. One of the most pathetic incidents of the accident was that, of the annihila tion of the Welcher family. Mr. Welch er, his wife and little child wero on their way to Point Pleasant to visit friends, being their first trip outside of the city for years. Mr. Welcher was instantly killed, and his wife was brought hero a few hours later so badly inj used that she dlod shortly after her arrival. Their littio child, aged two {ears, was somewhat bruised and bleed ng, three fingers of its right hand balng cut off. Tho care were crowded, and it is a wonder that there wore not more fatal ities. Scarcely any one in them es caped unhurt. The list of injured numbers 58: killed 15. HANGED FOR HIS CRIMF.. Hrauhaiu. th? Negro Murderer of an Ital ian. Will Kill No More. Charlotte, N. 0., July 2.?The hanging of Brabham, the negro who murdered the Italian Mocca, took place at 10:4-1 this forenoon. A day or two ago he expressed a deslro that his execution take place about 11 o'clock that he might take din ner "in hell," yet he changed his irrev erent mood this morning and had a con versation with three clergymen, to whom ho confessed repentance and nope of pardon. He met his fate with firmness in the presenco of about 200 persons. He made no remarks to the crowd himself, but ltev. I'. P. Alston, the colored clergymen, at Brabham's request said that he had confessed his guilt of the crime for which ho was to be hanged, and that he was also guilty of the rob bery which occurred at the Buford house some days before the murder. Brabham, however, declined to betray an associate in the robbery, who, he said, was in possession of some of the stolen goods. He refused to go further in his confession. He bade farewell this morning to all his comrades in jail with the exception of Caldwell, who had twice assisted Sheriff Smith in defeating his attempts to escape from jail. He had. however, on tho previous day included Caldwell in Iiis rarewell. Ho ate nothing since yesterday morn ing, and also declinedstimulants, which were offered him. He slept well last night, and seemed to have good control of himself when ho was brought to the ! scaffold. He was the seventh victim who has been hanged on tho same scaffold. The drop was cut, and the fall was four and a half feet, which did not sullice to break his neck. Death ensued in eleven minutes. Tho hanging caused much interest hero through tho brutality of tho crime, threats of lynching which followed, and a con "let between whites and blacks in the neighborhood of the jail In which he was imprisonod. The fact that he has only recently made a des perate attack on Sheriff: Smith with his shackles, which, but for the intrepidity of that ollicer and tho interference of Caldwell, a prisoner in jail for gam bling, would have proved successful, added to the public interest in the af fair. There was no race feeling, however, tho justice of tho sentence having been acknowledged, quito a number of wit nesses being negroes. A novel feature of the occasion was that tickets of admission to the jail, issued by the sheriff were eagerly sought, being pedaled around at from 50 cents to S5 each. The crime for which Brabham was executed was committed last April. He entered tho small store of an Italian named Mocca, where calling for a glass of cider, he drew a car coupling pin, concealed under his coat and dealt the death blow while Mocca's back was turned drawing the cider. This occur red at 11 o'clock at night, and Brabham today, said he had the pin concealed un der bis coat from 1 o'clock on the pre vious afternoon, awaiting his oppor tunity. _ Tho Davis Monument. Nashville, Tenn., July 2.?Capt. John W.Childers, chairman of the com mittee from the Southern Press associa tion, delegated to collect a fund and at tend to the details of erecting a monu ment to tho memory of Jefferson Da vis, is just back from a meeting of the committee at Atlanta. He says that the committee feel much encouraged at the progress of affairs. About 820,000 have already been raised, but before the actual work is com menced on the monument they expect to raise $50,000. Active measures will bo taken at once in soliciting for the fund. It was decided to select a general agent to look after collections, whoso name will bo announced in si low days. The committee determined to request President Screws, of tho Southern Press association, to call a meeting of the association at Nashville not, later than October. At this meeting tho committee is to report S?O.000 raised, that will insure tho erection of a monument, to submit plans and specifications, und to receive full instructions. An Honor Declined. Columbia, S. C, July 2.?Previous to the appointment of Dr. Babcock as Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum, an account of which appears elsewhere, tho position was tendered to Dr. W. H. Naruin of Anderson, who declined the honor in the following letter: lion. II. It, Till man, Governor, Co lumbia, S. C. Dear Siu: Your esteemed favor of tho 27th Inst. to hand. Please accept my thanks for the honor conferred up on me l>y your selection for the high and lesponsible position tendered, and it is with regret that 1 am forced to de cline the honor, first from a sense of my unfitness for the position, and second the unwillingness to raise my growing family thus surrounded. With highest esteem and hoping you may mid one more worthy. I am with respect vours truly, W. II. NA It DIN. T.rrlblc Storm in <;nrm><ny. Berlin, July 2.?A terrible storm ol thunder, hail and rain passed over a large part of Germany, last night, caus ing immense damage to property and loss ol life in tho villages of Suchtellon, near D?sseldorf and Siltard. In the Crofeld district, also near the D?sseldorf, many houses were com pletely wrecked and tho inmates buried in the. ruins. Thirteen bodies have al ready been recovered. The tori.ado caused terrible destruc tion throughout the lower I thine dis trict. Riflemen's hall at Crofced was lifted Irom its foundations and carried clean away. The circus was blown over and the pavilions wero damaged and thci. contents shattered. Several at taches sustained injuries. Murriercu* Negro Klllril. Savannah. Ga.. July 8.?Osnus Lee, colored, ran amuck the Kastern part of tho city to-night and attempted to kill half u dozen people, among them Po liceman Andrew Clayton, wliom he shot twice through tho body. Policeman Neidlinger ran to tho rescue and as he came up Leo snapped an empty pistol in his face, having emptied tho cham bers in attempting to kill Clayton. Neidlinger returned the fire, killing Leo Instantly with a bullet through his heart. Konnd Dead In lied. AUGUSTA. Ga., July 8.?Julius Neil son, a young Dane who has been over five months in Augusta, was found dead in his boarding house to-day with five wounds in his stomach, three of which were fatal. He had been unwell and it is not known whether It is a case of suicide or murder. HORRORS OF THE ELECTRIC CHAIR. 't'?.r11 Mo Work or tho Deadly Current on the Victims. New Yokk, July 8.?The Evening World, iu its sporting edition, says: The body of Murderer Harris A. Sin Her was brought to Ulis city this afternoon. The body had been claimed by Smiler's widow, the woman he married and de* serted for tho womau whom ho atter wards murdered. The body was takeu Irom the train to tho undertaking estab lishment at 205 West One Hundred and Twenty-tilth street. Three or four huu drcd people were gathered Micro to wit ness the arrival of the body. By a pre vious arraugemont with tho undertaker, an Evening World roporter was in wait ing at the rooms to see the body of tho executed murderer. The coffin was taken to the basement by the undertak er's assistants, and tho lid was quickly taken off, exposing the dead man's face. The reporter stood close bv, and was horrified at the sight that mot his eyes. Smiler's face had been burned nud seamed by the electric fluid until it pre sented tho appearance of haviug been broiled. Tho hair on the front of tho head, tho moustache and eyebrows had bceu Kinged and burned oil'. The tace was furrowed and scarred as though with a hot iron. These marks were not tho80 oi a dissecting knifo or scalpel. They were palpable burns. Prcssiug closer to see. the dead man's face plain er, tho reporter attracted the attention of the undertaker's assistants, and they seized him by the slum.der and com pelled him t> leave the place before any other portion of tho body was exposed. In reply to repeated requests to be al lowed to see tho body, tho reporter was informed that no one but the undertaker and his assistants would be permitted lo seo It until it had becu fully prepared for burial. It was learned through one of the undertaker's rssistnnts that Smiler's left leg was burned to the bone and the eyes were badly burned. A Terrible Tale of the Seu. London, July 7.?A dispatch from Auckland, Now Zealand, reports that the bark Corn padre, bound Irom Calcutta for Chile, recently caught fire at sea. After an ineffectual effort to subduo the flames the captain steered bis course for Bluff Harbor, a seaport of tho province of Olaga, New Zealand. He had suc ceeded in bringing his burning vessel to tho mouth of the harbor when a tremen dous hurricane overtook iier. Tho ex hausted crew spent their last energies iu attempting to keep dowu the ragiug flro and at the same time force tiio un fortunate bark to face the tremendous winds and seas which beat upou und rushed over her. It was, however, all to no avail. After a desperate struggle witli tho opposing elements, tho Com pndro became waterlogged and was driveu with tearful force upon the rocks of the lesolatc and uninhabited Auck land Islands. Atter incredible suffering, tho crew of tho bark succeeded in swim ming ashore. Here, in one of the latter years of tho nineteenth century, l ho miserable men were forced to spend 103 days and nights, suffering the oxtrcmcst wretchedness of exposure and starvation. On the one hundred and fourth day of their being cast away their distress sig nals were observed by a passing scaling Vessel, and the sorely tried sailors were taken oil' in safety, but in a distressing condition of weakness and emaciation. During their enforced stay ou the island one of their number wandered into the bush and was never heard of again. It is supposed that suffering drove the man mad. Look up Your tax ltecolpts! COLUMBIA. 8. C, July 8.?Accord ing to the reports made to the Secretary of State the agents of the sinking fund and land agents are doing splendid work in their respective fields. Dr. A. E. Williams, the agent for Beaufort, Collc ton and Hampton, was in f he city to-day to make a monthly report. His terri tory Is very large and the greater part oi his time is spent in making the rounds. Secretary Tindal made the interesting and suprising statement to-day that Dr. Williams had discovered and is now rec tifying fully three hundred errors in tax receipts, tax executions, etc., and in re claiming lands to the State. In a case called to attention to-day executions were levied and collected against a tract of land in Collcton in which the owners held receipts but were not entered on tho treasurer's books. This is shown to be not the fault of sherilfor treasure!, but of tho carelessness of the deputies who were charged with the collection of taxes. This is only one of a great many of the same kind. It is evident that the State must be out the amount of such unroturned collections. Secretary Tin dal says that it is paying the State well to employ these agents, and that the way they arc working is very satisfac tory to the property owners. Williams left hero to-day for Wolterboro and will continue his work the following week in Beaufort.?News and Courier. I'lniit I .cum Cotton. At a meeting of Marlhor > County Al liance held at Bcnnettsvillc, on July 3, 1801, the following resolutions were passed: Resolved, First. That we pledge our selves to plaut only ten acres of cotton to the noi80 in 1802, provided we can get the co-operation of the cotton State,, so as to decrease tho production oi' cot ton and so obtain a due reward for our labor. Second. That we request tho State Alliance to call for a convention of the cotton growers of the South, irrespect ive of class or color, to meet at-> not later tlinn December lirst, next, to consider tho same. J. U. Thomas, J. J. Lane, Secretary. President. Itroke Her Spinn. Boston, July <},?On Saturday last Mrs. Jennie C. Crockett, aged thirty four, of Boston, a professional balloon ist under tho name of Nellie Wheeler, made an ascension from the grounds or tho Waverly Land Company as a means of advertising a land sale. At a height of 1,200 foet she grasped her parachute and descended, Whed about thirty feet from the grountl site became fright ened at the prospect, of landing in a {greenhouse, and lotting go of tho t?ndle, fell on her back, breaking her spine. She cannot survive, Mrs. Wheel er had made many successful ascen sions. She is the mother of u boy of twelve. Her husband is said to live in Providence, IL I. A Female Aeronaut Killed. Cleveland, July 4.?As Mmo. Zo otta Bentley was making a balloon as cension at Elyria, O., to day, a strong gust of wind caught the air ship and dragged the trape/.e upon which she was sitting through tho trees. She was not able to retain her hold, and fell to the ground, a distance or sixty foet. she was instantly killed. Every rib in her body was broken. SWEPT BY A CYCLONE. DEATH AND DESTRUCTION IN LOU ISIANA'S CAPITAL CITY. The Factory and Hospital ut the 1'enttea tlury DeUAOlUhod?Ten Persona Killed und Thirty Injured?-Damage In tho citv. Yb\V Orleans, July f.?A cyclono at i lud in llouso this morning brought death ami destruction to that city. The steamboat Smoky City was blown to pieces thoro being nothing leit of her but the hull. Several of horcrow wore bad ly Iu lured. Two squares in tho east side of Baton ltougo woro destroyed. Tho cyclono passed ovor the lower portion ot the town, unro 'ing housos, tearing up immense trees 1 carrying missies along the air for n .ny blocks. Tho governor's mansion was directly in the path of tho hurricane, which made a clean swoop of ovcry chimnoy aud clear od the front lawn ot its largo trees. Tho roof of a haudsome residence belonging to Mr. Marsh, was carried away, and other damngo dono to tho place. Tho boulevard is ono mass of treos that havo been torn up by the wind, and tho street is tilled with pieces of bouso tops and other timbers of almost every descrip tion. The penitentiary walls woro Mown down and ten persons killed and thirty wounded. The factory building was de molished and the hospital of the peni tentiary blown down. What household goods bare not beon carried away by the wind have boon ruined by tho water. Strcots aud cel lars are Hooded, nnd it is feared that some persona have been drowned In tho lower part of the city. At tho penitentiary tho sccuo was a terrible one. Without any warning the I walls of the factory, in which 101) con victs were at work, were crushed iu as it' they had been mere pasteboard. The guards were helpless, and as most of tho men at work wero either killed or wound ed, little could bo done toward extricat ing tho unfortunate victims until help arrived from the main prison building. To add to the horror of the situation, the ruins caught lire from the fuanacc iu tho engine room, but owing to tho heavy min which was falling the threatened holocaust was averted. Tho rescuers went quickly to work and besjan tho task ot extricating the dead and dying from beneath the ruins. Of the lorco at work when the storm struck the build ing, it was discovered that ten bad been killed and thirty seriously injured, and all the others more or loss bruised. This was not the worst. The hospital of the penitentiary in which was lying a number of maimed and helpless con victs, was leveled to tho ground by the fury of the storm. The work of res cue from the factory buildimr, where a larger number of lives were in danger, diverted attention from the uuforfunates In the hospital, and it was not uutil most of the working force had becu res cued that tho prison ollicials found time to turn their attention to tho hospital. Here the work was even more difficult than at the factory, owing to the weak ness of the in m nies, who were uuable even to give the rescuers an indication of their presence In the debris by shouts. The work therefore, proceeds but slow ly. Up to noon, however, it is beliovou that most of the patients have been res cued. The rain is still falling in torrents and shows no signs of abating. The storm approched from a south western direction and swept a path three hundred feet or more In width diagon ally across the city, levelling everything ns it went. The southern portion of tho city, styled "Catfish Town," suffered great loss and damage to property. It is the greatest loss Baton Kongo, has ever sustained, whether from a cyclone or a fire. The total damage done Will reach several hundred thousand dollars. Full Two Hundred Feet. New Lisbon, ??. July 4.?Fully } .000 people were assembled here today to sec Prof, Brady, of Cleveland, mako n balloon ascension and parachute leap. When the word was given and the bal loon shot upward, the multitude was horrified to see a man hanging head downward immediately below the car of the balloon. The man whose leg was entangled \\ a rope disentangled himself and droped to the parachute, striking It iu such r way that the knife cut the rope, detached the parachute from the bal loon, and he and the aeronaut fell to the ground with great force. The upper man fell about 200 teet and was instant ly killed. The parachute broke Brady's fall, but he was seriously, though not fatally, hurt. The name of the man killed was William Hcnnessy, a resident of this place, who was helping to 'milate tho balloon, He was nlly years old and leaves a widow and four childjcn. Died Clutching: lila Gold. San jose, Cal., July 0.?Prof Herman Kottinger, who up to twenty yeuis ago was tho leading violinist on the coast, and well known as a writer of prose and poetry, died yesterday in a squalid hut on Colfax street. He was worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, ac quired by a lifetime of miserly. Hut one child, William Kottinger, was pres ent at tho death. When the old man, in his death throes raised himself iu bed, tho son rushed to his side. His father, inistakingtho act, with a frenzi ed yell waved him back, and clutching at t he bed clothes pulled them back, dis closing to view a quantity of gold coin. He mad a grab at it with both hands, and, with tho bright pieces in his lin gers, fell back with a gaspjtnd expired. A Mud Accident. Blaokvillb, s. C, July 2.?Mr. James McDonald, a highly respected and well-to-do citizen living about a half mile from F.lko, went this morn ing with a party to Capt. W. W. Willis's null on a fishing expedition. About 10 o'clock ho and his two grown daughters went out into tho pond in a boat, and while paddling up the 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 aud did not rise again. Tho daughter loft in the boat managed to get the boat out and re ported it. Tho bodies have not yet beon recovered, but they are being searched for.---Nows and Courier. Ax Had ii? ii ItattM, .p-ft.* t( Sydney, N.1s. W.. July ?.?Tho Brit iah war ship Cordelia, Capt. Harry T. G'renfell, ten guns. 2,280 tons and 2,420 horso porter, has iust returned to this port after a most disastrous trip to sea for target practico with her big guns. Capt. Oronfell reports that while prac ticing with one of the Cordelia's six inch breech-loading guns the latter ex ploded, killing Lieut. Wm. B. Hillyar. Lieut. Cordon and four ser.men ana wounding three midshipmen and ten seamen. Tho Cordelia is a single screw corvette, built of steel and iron, cased with wood. She Is attached to the Au stralian station.