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"rajs VaJant chalk." ' DR. TALMAGE , PREACHES ON THE POWER OF ASSOCIATION. ??~? f-? Miltner'? Itei k. ruuil Kittlicr'? Ann Cttik^r Hrlug Vorth Tender lUvimiri? h Whin They Ajre Guuc-.Th. no .Me.??... i. nm.,.< ' French Pmvcrlul Hrrnmiif, -vs / * ? Lakkbidi:, O., July 10.?For many years people huve gtohered io. ujul(i (udrs at this season of the year for a reat out-door assembly.^ TJlo grounds ! are a short sail from ^ndueky. Tho place beautiful beyond description. Ur. Talmnge preached thia morning In dhls delightful place to a vast'multitude. His subject was the Vacant ' Chair, and his text, 1 Samuel xx, 18: "Thou shall bo missed, because thy seat will l;o empty." Set on the cutlery and the chased sil verware of tho palace, for King Saul will give a state dinner today. A distin guished place ;b kept at the table for his son-in-law, a celebrated warrior, David by name. The gueBts, jewelled and plumed, come in and. take their places. When people are invited to a king's ban quot, they are very ant to go. But before tiie covers are lifted from the feast, Saul looks around uud ljnds a vacant sjat t the table, lie Buys within himself, per haps audibly, "Wh .t does this mean? Whoro is my son-in-law? Where is Da vid, tho great warrior? 1 invited him. 1 expected him. What] a vacant chair n't tho king's bnuquot!" The fact was that David, the warrior, had been seated lor tho last time at his father-in-law's I able. The day before Jonathan had ? coaxed David to go and occupy that place at the table, snylug to David in the words of my text, "Thou shall be iniBsed, because thy scat will beemply." The prediction was fullilled. David was misted. His seat wv.s empty. That one vacant chair spoko louder than all the occupied chairs at the banquet. In almost every house tho articles of I'm nituro take a living personality. That picture?a stranger would not see any thing remarkable cither In Its design or execution, but it is more to you than nil the pictures of tho Louvre and the Lux cmbouig. You remember who bought it, and who admired it. And that hymn book ?you remember who sang out of it. And that cradle?you remember who rocked it. And that Biblo?you remember who read out It. And that bed?you remem ber who selpt in It. And that-rodln? um remember who died in it. Hut there is nothing in all your house so eloquent uud so mighty-voiced as tho vacant chair. I suppose tluu before Saul and his guests got up from this banquet there was a great clatter of wiue-plteh ers, but all that racket was drowned out by the Volco that came up from tho va cant chair at the table. Millions have gazed and wept at John Qulnoy Adams' vacant chair in the house b. representa tives, and at Henry Wilson's vacaut chair in the vice-presideucy, and at Henry Clay's vacant chair iu tho American senate, and at Prince Albert's vacant chair in Windsor Castle, and atThioi's vacant chair In the councils of the French nation; but all these chairs arc unim portant to you as compared with the vacuut chairs In your own household. Have these chairs any lesson for ue to learn? Are we any better men and wo men than when thoy first addressed us? First, 1 point out to you the father's vacant chair. Old men always like to sit in the same place and in the same chair. They somehow leel more at home, and sometimes when you are in their place and they come into the room, jou jump up suddenly and say, "here, lather, here's your chair." The proba bility is, it is an armchair, for lit, is not so strong as he once was, and ho needs a little upholding. His hair :s a little IroBly, his gums a little depressed, for in his early days there was not much dentistry. Perhaps a cane chair and old lashloned apparel, for though you may have suggested some Improvement, lath, er does not want any of your nonsense. Grandfather never had much admiration for new-fangled notions. I sat at the table ol ouo of my parishioners in a former congregation; an aged man was at the table, and the hon was presiding, und tho father somewhat ubiuptly ad dressed the con and said: "My bou, don't now try to show off because the minis ter \? herd" Your lather never liked any new customs or manneis; ho pre ferred the old way of doing things, and lie never looked so happy as when, with Iiis eyes closed, ho sat in the armchair in the corner. From the wrinkled brow to the tip ot the Bhppers, what plucicit)! the wave of the past -years ot his life broke tit the foot of that chair. Perhaps, sometimes ho was a little impatient, and . fonictluica told the snmo story twice; but over that old chair how many blessed memories hover! 1 hope you did not crowd that old chair, and tbut It did not get very much in tho way. Sometimes the old man's chair gets very much in the way, especially if he has been bo tin wise as to make over all his property to his children, with tho understanding that they are to take care of him. I have seen In such coses children crowd the old man's chair to the door, and then, crowd It clear into the str et, and then crowd it into the poor-luue e, und keep on crowding it until the old man tell out of It into hiB giavo. Hut your father s chair was a sacred place. The children used to climb;up on tho rungs of it for a good-night kiss, and tho longer he stayed the better you liked it. . But that chair has been vacant now for some time. The furniture dealonr would not give you 50 centB for it, but it is a throne of influence in your domestic circle. I saw In the French palace, and in the throne room, the chair that Napoleon used to occupy. It was a beautiful chuir, but the most signillcnnt part of It was the letter "N " embroidered into the back of the chair in purple and gold. And your father's olu olmir sits in tho throno room of your heart, nod your affections have embroidered into the back of that chair in purple and gold the letter "F." Have all tho projers of that old chair been answered? Have nil the counsels of that old chair been practiced? Speak out! old armchair. History tolls us of an old man whoso threo sons wero victors in tho Olympic games, and when they came back, these threo sons, with their garlands, put them on the father's brow, and tho old man was bo rejoiced at the victories of bis three children that ho fell dead in their arms. Aud are you, oh man, going to bring a wreath ot joy and Christian use fulness and put it on your father's brow, or on tho vacant chair, or on tin? memo ry of the ono departed? Speak $&t| old armchair. With reference to your father, tho words of my text have boon fulfilled! "ThoU/Sualtbe missed, because thy scat will bo empty." L go a little furlhor on in your house und I ilnd the mother's chair. It n> very apt to he. a rocking chair. She had so many earee and troubles to soothe that "rajs VaJant chalk." ' DR. TALMAGE , PREACHES ON THE POWER OF ASSOCIATION. ??~? f-? Miltner'? Itei k. ruuil Kittlicr'? Ann Cttik^r Hrlug Vorth Tender lUvimiri? h Whin They Ajre Guuc-.Th. no .Me.??... i. nm.,.< ' French Pmvcrlul Hrrnmiif, -vs / * ? Lakkbidi:, O., July 10.?For many years people huve gtohered io. ujul(i (udrs at this season of the year for a reat out-door assembly.^ TJlo grounds ! are a short sail from ^ndueky. Tho place beautiful beyond description. Ur. Talmnge preached thia morning In dhls delightful place to a vast'multitude. His subject was the Vacant ' Chair, and his text, 1 Samuel xx, 18: "Thou shall bo missed, because thy seat will l;o empty." Set on the cutlery and the chased sil verware of tho palace, for King Saul will give a state dinner today. A distin guished place ;b kept at the table for his son-in-law, a celebrated warrior, David by name. The gueBts, jewelled and plumed, come in and. take their places. When people are invited to a king's ban quot, they are very ant to go. But before tiie covers are lifted from the feast, Saul looks around uud ljnds a vacant sjat t the table, lie Buys within himself, per haps audibly, "Wh .t does this mean? Whoro is my son-in-law? Where is Da vid, tho great warrior? 1 invited him. 1 expected him. What] a vacant chair n't tho king's bnuquot!" The fact was that David, the warrior, had been seated lor tho last time at his father-in-law's I able. The day before Jonathan had ? coaxed David to go and occupy that place at the table, snylug to David in the words of my text, "Thou shall be iniBsed, because thy scat will beemply." The prediction was fullilled. David was misted. His seat wv.s empty. That one vacant chair spoko louder than all the occupied chairs at the banquet. In almost every house tho articles of I'm nituro take a living personality. That picture?a stranger would not see any thing remarkable cither In Its design or execution, but it is more to you than nil the pictures of tho Louvre and the Lux cmbouig. You remember who bought it, and who admired it. And that hymn book ?you remember who sang out of it. And that cradle?you remember who rocked it. And that Biblo?you remember who read out It. And that bed?you remem ber who selpt in It. And that-rodln? um remember who died in it. Hut there is nothing in all your house so eloquent uud so mighty-voiced as tho vacant chair. I suppose tluu before Saul and his guests got up from this banquet there was a great clatter of wiue-plteh ers, but all that racket was drowned out by the Volco that came up from tho va cant chair at the table. Millions have gazed and wept at John Qulnoy Adams' vacant chair in the house b. representa tives, and at Henry Wilson's vacaut chair in the vice-presideucy, and at Henry Clay's vacant chair iu tho American senate, and at Prince Albert's vacant chair in Windsor Castle, and atThioi's vacant chair In the councils of the French nation; but all these chairs arc unim portant to you as compared with the vacuut chairs In your own household. Have these chairs any lesson for ue to learn? Are we any better men and wo men than when thoy first addressed us? First, 1 point out to you the father's vacant chair. Old men always like to sit in the same place and in the same chair. They somehow leel more at home, and sometimes when you are in their place and they come into the room, jou jump up suddenly and say, "here, lather, here's your chair." The proba bility is, it is an armchair, for lit, is not so strong as he once was, and ho needs a little upholding. His hair :s a little IroBly, his gums a little depressed, for in his early days there was not much dentistry. Perhaps a cane chair and old lashloned apparel, for though you may have suggested some Improvement, lath, er does not want any of your nonsense. Grandfather never had much admiration for new-fangled notions. I sat at the table ol ouo of my parishioners in a former congregation; an aged man was at the table, and the hon was presiding, und tho father somewhat ubiuptly ad dressed the con and said: "My bou, don't now try to show off because the minis ter \? herd" Your lather never liked any new customs or manneis; ho pre ferred the old way of doing things, and lie never looked so happy as when, with Iiis eyes closed, ho sat in the armchair in the corner. From the wrinkled brow to the tip ot the Bhppers, what plucicit)! the wave of the past -years ot his life broke tit the foot of that chair. Perhaps, sometimes ho was a little impatient, and . fonictluica told the snmo story twice; but over that old chair how many blessed memories hover! 1 hope you did not crowd that old chair, and tbut It did not get very much in tho way. Sometimes the old man's chair gets very much in the way, especially if he has been bo tin wise as to make over all his property to his children, with tho understanding that they are to take care of him. I have seen In such coses children crowd the old man's chair to the door, and then, crowd It clear into the str et, and then crowd it into the poor-luue e, und keep on crowding it until the old man tell out of It into hiB giavo. Hut your father s chair was a sacred place. The children used to climb;up on tho rungs of it for a good-night kiss, and tho longer he stayed the better you liked it. . But that chair has been vacant now for some time. The furniture dealonr would not give you 50 centB for it, but it is a throne of influence in your domestic circle. I saw In the French palace, and in the throne room, the chair that Napoleon used to occupy. It was a beautiful chuir, but the most signillcnnt part of It was the letter "N " embroidered into the back of the chair in purple and gold. And your father's olu olmir sits in tho throno room of your heart, nod your affections have embroidered into the back of that chair in purple and gold the letter "F." Have all tho projers of that old chair been answered? Have nil the counsels of that old chair been practiced? Speak out! old armchair. History tolls us of an old man whoso threo sons wero victors in tho Olympic games, and when they came back, these threo sons, with their garlands, put them on the father's brow, and tho old man was bo rejoiced at the victories of bis three children that ho fell dead in their arms. Aud are you, oh man, going to bring a wreath ot joy and Christian use fulness and put it on your father's brow, or on tho vacant chair, or on tin? memo ry of the ono departed? Speak $&t| old armchair. With reference to your father, tho words of my text have boon fulfilled! "ThoU/Sualtbe missed, because thy scat will bo empty." L go a little furlhor on in your house und I ilnd the mother's chair. It n> very apt to he. a rocking chair. She had so many earee and troubles to soothe that il must have* rockers. I remember it well. It was an old chair, and ibe rock* ers wore almost worn out, for I was the youngest, and the chair had rocked the whole family. It made a creaking noise as It moved; but there was music in the Hound. It was just high enough to a low us children to put our heads into her lap. That was tho hank whore we de? posited all our hurts aud worries. Ahl what a chair thut win, 11 was different from the father's chain it was entirely difh-reut. You ask me how? ( I cannot tell; tu, we all felt it was different. Per* Imps there was about that chair more geutleueea, more tenderness, more grfof when we had done wrong. When we were wayward, father scolded, but moth er cried. It was a very wakeful chuir. In the sick days of children, other chairs could not keep awake; that chair always kept awake?kept easily awake. That chair knew all the old lullabies and all those wordless songs which mothers situ; to their sick children?songs in which all p ty, and compassion and sym pathetic influences are combined. That old chair has stopped rocking for a good many years. It may bo set up in the loft or tho garret, but it holds a queenly power yet. Wheu at miduight you went iuto that grog-diop to get the intoxicat ing draught, did you not hear a vol e that said: "My son. why go in there?" And louder than the hoist* rnus encore of the place oi sinful amusement, a voice saying, "My son, what do you bore?" And when you went Into the house of abandonment, a voice saylug, ''What would your mother do h'she knew you wero here?" Aud \ou wore provoked with yourself, aud you charged yourself with superstition aud fanaticism and your head got hot with your thoughts, and you went homo and jou went to bed, and no sooner had you touched the bed than a voice taid: "What? a pray erless pillow? Mun! what is the mat ter?" This: You aro too near your mother's rockiug chair. "Oh, pshaw!" you say, "There's nothing iu that ; I'm 500 miles off from where I was "horn; I'm 3,000 miles oil from the church wlnso bell was. tho Urst music 1 ever heard." I cannot help that; you aro two near your mother's rocking chair. "Oh," you say, "there can't be anything in that; that chuir has been vacaut a great while." 1 cannot help that; it is a 1 tho mightlor for that; it is omnipotent, that vacant mother's chair. It whlspors; it speaks; it weeps; it carols; it mourns; it prays; it warns; it thunders. A young man went off and broke his mother's heart, aud while he was away from homo his mother died, and tho telegraph brought tho son, and he came into tho room where she lay and looked upon hor faco, aud he cried out: "Oh. mother! mother! what your life could not do your death shall effect. This moment I give my heart to God." And he kept his promise. Another vic tory for tho vacant chair. With refer ence to your mother, the words of my text wero fulfilled, "Thou shalt bo missed, boeauso thy seat will be emp ty." I go on a little further, and I come to tho invalid's chair. What! How long have you been sick? "O! I have been sick ten, twenty, thirty years." Is it possible? What a^tory of endurance. There aro in many of tho fnmlllos of my cougregatiou these invalid's chairs. Tho occupants of them think they are doing no good in the world- but that invalid's chair is the mighty pulpit from which they have been preaching all these years, trust in God. The that time I preached here at Lakeside, Ohio, amid the throngs present there was nothing that so much impressed mo 'as the spectacle of just one face?the face of au Invalid who was wheeled in On her chair. I said to her afterwards: "Madam, how loug have you been prostrated?" for she was lying Hat in tho chair. "O!" sho replied: "I have been this way fifteen years." I said: "Do you sutler very much?" "O, yes,." She said: "I sutler very much; I suffer all the time; part of the time I was blind. I always suffer." "Well," I snld: "can you keep your courage up?" "O yes," she said; "I am happy, very happy indeed." Her thee showed it. She looked the happiest of any onu on the ground. O! what menus of grace to the world, these invalid chairs. On that field of human sufferiug the grace of God gols its victory. Edward Puyson tho invalid, aud ltiehard Baxter the invalid, and Koti er i Hall tho invalid, aud ten thousand of j whom tho world bus never heard, but of' whom all heaven is cognizant. The most conspicuous thing on earth for God's ovo aud tlio eye of angels to rest on, is not a lliuouo of earthly power, but it is tho iuvalid's chair. O! these men und women who are always suffering but never complaiuing?these victims of spinal disease, uud neuralgic torture, and rheumatic excruclati n will answer to the roll-call ot the martyrs, and riso to tho martyr's throne, aud will wave tho martyr's pai n. Jlut when ono of these invalids' chairs becomes vacant, how suggestive il is! No more bolster ing up of tho weary head. No more changing from side to side to get an easy position. No more .use of the baudage und the cataplasm, and the prescription. That invalid's chair may be folded op, or taken opart, ot ?'t awuy, but It will never lose its queenly power; It wl'l al ways preach ol trust iu God, and cheer ful submission. Suffering all ended now. With respect to that invalid tho words of my text, have been fulfilled: "Thou shalt be missed, because thy scat will be empty." * I pass ou, and I find ono more vacant chair. It la a high chair. It is the child's chuir. If that chair be occupied, I think it Is the most potent chair In all tho household. All the chairs wait on it; all the chairs are turned toward it. It means more than David's chair at Saul's banquet. At any rate, It makes more racket. That is a strange house, that can bo dull with a child in It. How that child btoaks up tho hard woiidliness of the place, arm keeps you young to 00, 70, and so years of age! If you have no child of your Own adopt one; It will open heaven to your s ail, it will pay its way. Its crowing tho morning will give the day a cheerful starting, and its glee at night will give tho day a cheerful close. You do not like children? Then you had bettor stay out of heaven, for there are so many thore they would fairly make you eruftjj Only about five hundred milhdhs of t iem. The crusty old Phar? isces U Id the mothers to keep the chil dren aWay from Christ. "Yon bother him," they saldi "you trouble the Mas ter." Trouflle him} Ho has filled heav en with that kind of trouble. A plonoer in California says that for the first year or two after his residence in Sierra Nevada county, thore was not a sinulo child in all tho reach of a hun dread miles. Hut the Fourth of July came, and the miners were gathered together and they were celebrating the Fourth With oration, and poom, und a boisterous brass i and; and while the band was playing, an infant's voice was heard crying, and all tho minors wero startled, and the swarthy men began to thiuk of their homes on the Eastern coast, and of their wives and children far away, and their hearts were thrilled with home sickness as they hw.nl the babe cry. But tho music went en, and tho child cried louder and louder, and the brass band played louder and louder, trying to drown out the lufkntUe interruption, wheu a swarthy miner, tho tears rolling down his face, got up and shook his list, and said: "Stop that noisy band, and give the baby a chance." Oh! there was pathos in it, as well an good cheer in it. There is nothing to arouse, and melt, and subdue the soul like a child's voi ??<:. But when It goes away from you, the high chair becomes a higher chair, and there is desolation all about.you. In three fourths of the homes of tins con gregation there Is a vacant high chair. Somehow you never get over it. There is no one to put to bed at night; no one to ask strange questions about God and heaven. Oh, what is the use ot taut I high chait? It is to call you higher. What a drawing upwurd it Is to have children in heaven! And then it is such a preventive uuaiust sin. It a father is going away into mn, he leaves the living of his children with their mother; but if the tuiher isgoiug away intosiu, what is he joiug to do with dead children float ing about him, and hoveriug over his every wayward step. Oh, speak out, vacant high chair, and say: "Father, come back from siu; mother, come back from worldliucss. I am watching you. I am waiting tor you." With respect to your child, the words of my text lmvY been IulI'd led: "Thou shall bo missed, because thy seat will bo empty." My hearers. I havo gathered up tho voices of your departed friends and tried to Intone them into one invitation up ward. I sot in array all the vacant chairs of your homes and of your sociul cir cle, and I bid them cry out this morning: "Time is short, Etcruity is near. Take my Saviour. Be at peace with my God. Come up where I am. Wo lived togeth er on earth, come let ? us live together in heaven." Wo answer that invitation. We come. Keep a seat for us, as Saul kept a seat for David, but that seat shall not be empty. And oht when we are all through with this world, and wo have shaken bauds all around for the last time, and all our chairs in the home circle and In tho outside world shall bo vacant may we be worshipping God in that place from which wo shall go out no more for ever. I thank God there will be uo vacant chairs in heaveu. There wo shall meet again and talk over our earthly heart breaks. How much you havo been through since you saw him last! On tho shining shore you will talk it all over. The heartaches. Tho loneliness. The sleep less nights. The weeping until you had no more power to ween, becauso the heart was withered and dried up. Story of empty cradle and Uttlo shoe only half woru out never to bo worn again, just the shape of the foot that pressed it. Aud dreams when you thought the departed had come back again, and the room seemed bright with their faces, and you started up to greet them, and in the effort the dream broke and you found yourself standing amid-rootu in the miduihgt?-alone. Talking it all over, and then, hand in hand, walking upend down in the light. No sorrow, no tear's, no.death. Oh, heaven! beautiful heaven! Heaven where our friends nro. Heaven where we expect to be. In the East they take a cage of birds ant' bring it to the tomb of the dead, and then they open the door of the cage, and tho birds, flying out, singing. And I would today bring a cago of Christian consolations to tho grave of our loved ones, aud I would open tho door and let them IUI all the air with the music of their voices. Oh, how they bound in these spirits before the throne! Some ehout with glad ness. Some break forth into unc troll able weeping for joy. Sonio stand speechless In their shock of delight. They sing. Thoy quiver with excessive glad ness. They gazo on the temples, on the palaces, on the waters, on each other. The wave their joy into garlunds, thoy spring it into triumphal archeB, thoy strike in ou timbrels, and theu all the loved ones gather in a great circle around the throne of God?fathers, moth ers, brothers, sisters, sons and daughters, lovers and Irieuds, hand to hand around about the thruno ot God?the circle ever widening?hand to hand, Joy to joy, jubilee to jubilee, victory to victory, "until the day break and the shndows flee away. Turn thou, my beloved, and be like a roe or a young hart upon the mountain of Betner." Fatal Sailor*' Frollo. San Dibqo, Cal., July 15.?There was a serious riot hero last evening growing out of an attempt of deputy United States marshals to arrest el even sailors from the war ship "Charleston," who had overstayed .their shore leave. The sailors were carousing in a saloon when Deputy Marshals Breedlove, Webb, "Wilson and Grether entered and arrested one of their number. The other sailors immediately closed in and attempted to prevent the ofllcers from removing the man. Clubs were drawn by the deputies, and a free light ensued. It looked for a timo as if the ofllcers would be killed, but a patrol wagon arrived with reinforcements and the arrested sailor was taken to jail. When the patrol left the crowd again attacked the officers with pick handles, gas pipes and other weapons. The of llcers got away and the wounded were picked up. Robert Brown, sailor on the "Charles ton," died in a lew minutes from the effects of a blow on the head from a olub, said to have been i nil us cd by Deputy Wilson. Another "Charleston" sailor, Paddy Burns, is dying with a fractured skull. Deputies Breedlove aud Grether were badly hurt about the heads and a number of other persons are injured. There is great excitement an 1 threats of lynching all the deputies concerned in the trouble were freely made. The sympathy of the community seems to be with the bailors as it wus said the ofllcers were too ofllclous and for the sake of a reward arrested men whose shore leave had not expired. Warrants are out, for the deputies' arrest, Nloa KtlUd, UkDT Xojarcd. Kenton, Ohio, July 17.?A report re ceived in this town tonight says that Swift's fast running refrigerator meat train collided with a work train ut Hep burn, a small station on the Chicago and Erie Railroad, and that nine labor ers were killed and many others injured. Both ^locomotives and ten or twelve cars are in the ruins. Wires arodown, and it Is impossible to get fuller par ticulars from the scene Of the accident AU thm Statt? Troops Ordarod Oat. i NASHViiiiiB, Tenn, July 20.?Gov ernor Buchanan has ordered tho entire State militia to Brlcevllle, Tenn. to pro tect the convicts at work in tho mines at that place. It is stated that two thousand miners are marching to the seat of war. It is feared there will bo trouble before tho miners will yield to convicts taking their places. THE STATE ALLIANCE MEETS IN ANNUAL CONVENTION AT SPARTAN BURG, 3. C. President Stokes Ksvtew* his Adminis tration?A Slight Drorease In Member ship .Social, Financial and Political As pects and Kecord of the Order. Spartanburo, S. C, July 22.?The city is crowded with delegates to the State Alliance, and their friends. Good humor prevails and sub treasury senti ment is on top an ong Alliancemen. Nothing of special importance has yet been done by the Alliances. Indica tions are that the strictest secrecy is to be observed on such matters as tho Al liance does not want mado public. So far, however, the greatest courtesy has been shown the representatives of the press. Tbe llrst session of the -Alliance was held this morning in the opera housoat 10 o'clock. The annual address of President Stokes was read. The fol lowing is a synopsis covering every point: I president STOKICS's annual address) Dr. Stokes began by referring to t he heavy responsibilities which had weighted him down during his term of oflice, und to the devotion which he hud given to the duties of the position. As a lover of agriculture he had discharged them with "pride and satisfaction." As to tho condition of the order iu South Carolina, he said that although there had been "some loss of member* ship, due to peculiar conditions," it had been "more than compensated by the gain' 'homogeneity and compactness of organization." Reference is made in the address to the spread of the order in other States, and the claim presented that it em braces 4,000,000 voters, one-third of the total population of the Union. Financially, the Alliance has a hand somo surplus to its credit, and it would be wise to invest, this and further bal anoes in some permanent way. The county and sub-Alliances are likewise in good financial condition. The State Exchange has wrought the emancipa tion of the poor farmer from unjust op pression. 1 in perl ant concessions have been wrested from the commercial world. "As a mere menace, the busi ness methods of the Alliance have mado themselves felt even in remote trade centres. The money power has felt it, and bids for Alliance patronage are the result. It is best to leave those skilled in mercantile pursuits the man agement, of their own capital, Let them furnish tho capital and experiejeo and the Alliance the patronage." The suggestion is made that a com mittee be appointed to confer with the Alliance Exchange in "an effort to solidify the entiro business of the order and Bend it through the Exchange on an equitable basis," a board of control, elected by the State Alliance or by a joint board, to conduct it. ltvference is made to the moral, edu cational and social work of tho order and praise is given to oach. As to politics, it is claimed that tho order has maintained its integrity and "adhered to the prescribed line of dis cussion in a non-partisan souse," and that increased attention to political questions has not diminished the suc cess of the members in raising crops. These paragraphs are of interest: "Some few sub-All lances relatively, overstepped constitutional limitations last year at the beginning of the State campaign. The lapse must tie attribu ted, however, to the emergency thrust upon them by a hostile press, intensely unfair in its hostility, rather than to the genius of the organization. The instances of such indiscretion were isolated. As soon, too, as attention was called to its compromising ten dency through the Cotton Plant, the abuse materially lessened; and as soon as political clubs were formed, furnish ing a legitimate and adequate medium of expression to their pent up feeling, the ahuse ceased entirely. "The. outspoken utterances of the leaders was against such action and the order'was reminded that its function was purely in the way of presentation of truth in a non-partisan way and stimulation of thought. Further than this the Alliance in its organized capacity does not and dare not go. It must not and dare not Interfere with the political or religious affiliation of its members." r Concerning the Cotton Plant, it is stated that "the partisan press, with a few exceptions, is against onr de mands," and that this has rendered tho duties of the State organ exceedingly onerous. "While the organ has received generous sympathy and support, it must be confessed that our people do not read it generally, it is of the ut most, importance that some means be devised by this body to get this paper and other approved literature into the hands of every member of the order." It is recommended that the Statu Al liance consider the propriety of estab lishing a propaganda bureau that shall furnish Alliance literature at, cost. He is "authorized to say that while the owners of the Cotton Plant aro not eager to part with it as an Investment, they are willing to sell a controlling in terest in it to the State Alliance upon an equitable basis." Tho over-production of cotton is re ferred to as a most serious quest lab, and it is recommended that, "a commit tee be appointed to confer with other State Alliances with a view tosecutiig the call of a convention of cotton-grow ers?non-Alllanco as well as Alliance, colored as well as white?to meet as soon us possible tor conference and action." The "iniquities environing the marketing of cotton" tire denounced as "outrageous in many instances," and intolerable. " The Alliance should ap point trustworthy men at each cotton market to sample, grado and weigh cotton, and tell tbe farmer, upon the basis of telegraphic quotations, what price it should bring iu the market that day." A feo of ten cents per bale is suggested to cover tho expense. He commendations aro therefore made that the local Alliance appoint its weigher and grader at each cotton market, that arrangements be made in New York for telegraphic quotations daily, and that a committee be ap Eointed to frame and press upon the ?egislature legislation on this point based upon the law in Mississippi and other cotton States. It is urged that the State Alliance ap point a commission to seek co-opera tion and uniformity with other cotton State Alliances in the collect ion of sta tistics. As to the constitution of the order, it Is recommended: 1. That some definite time be fixed for the revision of rods, and that uni form rules be prescribed for dropping names of members in arrears or lost sight of. 2. That the life of a "dee, it card" bo delinately settled. 8. That sin h change be made as shall legalige the lecture system projected by the National Legislative Council. 4. That the formation and holding of Farmers' Alliances within corporate towns be prohibited ,to tho end that the organization of Citlzons' Alliances be encouraged; and that all farmers' A;n juices so existing at present exchange their charters for charters of the Citi zens Alliance. 5. That it dellue the status of female members in respect to.voting and repre sentation in higher bodies. Id regard to lecturing the president re fers to its great importance; praises State Lecturer Talbert highly! says that be has been "flatteringly endorsed" by tlje order, but has been unable to meet the demands made upon him. The de mands are increasing, and National Lecturer Terrell has been engaged for a series of lectures, covering each county, during the late hummer and fall. I Recommendation is made for the pro vision of a lecturer to be constantly in the field, armed with literature sent out by the proposed propaganda bureau. Ue 'would not only eolightetrthe people, but pay his expenses and turn a handsome fund into the treasury. The interest of the Alliance in Clem - Bon College is stated, and It is praise I as "the noblest possible monument to the intelligence, benevolence and patriot ism of its projectors.". Udder tbe head of "the outlook," the address continues: "Despite the wonderful results wrought so far in all the fields of Alli ance work directly, aud Indirectly in the political Held, the signs of the times point to the tact that tbe supremo test is at hand along financial and political lines?existing parties apparently pitch their light npon the financial field. Strange to say that party wntch profit ed most last year by the educative forces of the Alliance, und which should by every token have least to lose by educa tive force, is most bitter in Ps antagon ism, if we are to rely upon the utterance of some ol the leaders and newspaper ex pounders. There is every evidence of a mussing of forces before the financial demands of the order. Foes within and foes without havo been marshalled for a supreme struggle. "As Intelligent men it behoves us to consider all the conditions and bear our selves as men. The past is inspiring, the prospect though stormy, is inviting. The issues have been made up fairly aud joined between the monopolistic element of our population, on tho one hand, and the masses of the people on the other?whether the masses or .the classes shall control the government? whether the iniquitous financial system devised and fastened upon this country by Wall and Lombaid streets shall stand aud continue to rob tbe people." The assertion is made that "tho perpe tuity of free institutions Is hanging in the scale with acorruut and degenerate plutocracy." Assurance is eiven that the other classes are coming to join the Alliance. ."Columbia with its 8000,000 debt, and Charleston with its $3,000,000 debt, .are directly interested in routing this robber hand that is taking out ot their pockets $3 for every $1 loaned them tweuty-flve years ago. The whole peo ple ot this ?t?te are equally interested in removing the abomination of an Ash fey Junction at the gale of ourjehurm ing metropolis by the sea, and in the disruption of the blighting corporate hand that has our beautiful capital city by the throat. The 'bottling up' of a people's capital or metropolis for tho Ratification of corporate greed or spleen should be forever itnpossble in a icee country." I "The money trust," itia alleged, "will it-sort to extreme measures," und the In crease of privato detectives, "military establishments," "new barracks com manding New York and Chicago." are cted in support of the declaration. The issues are irrepressible," and "rom the Lakes to the Gulf, and from Kamschatka to tbe Florida straits thoy cm front the individual citizen. It will take the jvhole people to solve them in a pejeeful way." 1he Duale oMlieittl(fre8sls?~ 'Brethern, let us knit our brother hool together with a closer stitch, and thenreach out our hands to our follow cltizbs of all classes who love liberty and rill stand fonts maintenance." ! COMMITTEES APPOINTED. Affer tho delivery of the address cotn niittds were appointed us follows: OnWlentials?J It Magill, W U El der ?Irl T 3 Robertson. PuWcation--.! W Stokes, B F Miller, W U Bder, E It Walters. President's message?One from each congressional district, to wit: First, L A Harpir; second. S L Iteady; third, .1 A Slighi fourth, N F Walke.; lifih. .1 R Magll\ sixth, ,1 M Waddell; seventh. T S lirpyning. Demauis and resolutions?J E Jar nlgan, J'feMcCall, George Ii Dean, J II [Price, Tbl mas Whatley. The falbwing is t he list of delegates by countlis: Abbeville, J. T. Robert son; Andrson, J. P. Glenn; Harnwell, W. 8. Banberg, J. O. Miller; Berkley, T. S. Brovnlng; Charleston, J. S. Hol brook; Ciester, T. J. Cunningham; Ohesterflep, John II. Tucker; Claren don,.I. L.bnvis; Colleton. L. A. Har per; Darliigton. J. M. Waddell; Edge* lleid, S. LRoady; Fairfleld, J. M. Gal loway; Fltfence, J. S. McUall; George town, J IlDetzees;Greenville,.! It Har rison; llaopton, W .1 Gooding; llorry, J P Dorhorm; Kershaw, .1 R Magill, Lancaster; B F Mllllcr; Laurens, J A Jones; btjxington, P I Rawl; Marion, T B Staff house; Marlboro, J B Green; Newbem, .1 A SUgh; Oconee, W F Whitakei: Orangeburg, E it Walters, W O Tat um: Plckens. W T Odell: Kichland, K M. Stoeber; Spartadhurg, ft P Walker,? B Dean, 11M Smith; ?Hin ter, It M Wilson; Union. D 1* DutHrtrt] WllHaronburcr. G E Graham; York, w U Elder. Every covmty is represented und 1* nl lowed one delegate. Counties that Juve over 1,000 Alliancemen is sllowel one additional delegate for overy 500 nein* bors. Only three counties?IJarriwHJ, Orangeburg and Spartaeburg-h ive more than one delegate. ?-' j TIIUItSDAY'S PllOCKKDtNOS. [ The special order for this morn I Ir, as announced in The State, was tnkei up at the ilrst session to day. With eio or two exceptions the present oncers were reelected. The following ho the olUcers elected: President, .1. \vJliam Stokes, of Orangeburg; vice prejdent, W. I). Ev ma, of Marlboro; socretry, J. W. Heid, of Spartunburg; treaainr, P. P. Taylor, of Chesterfield; chfduin, Hev. James Douglass, of Fairllelj; lec turer, W. .lasper Talbert, of Editield; steward, H. Mcltao, of Marlonjdoor keeper, J. W. Kennedy, of Wipams burg; assistant doorkeeper, A. Ii Wal ter, of Horry; fcurgeant-at-armsjJ. E. Jaroigau. of Mar?'?o Executive committee LueasMc In ter ,; T P. MitWell, of Lancaster; ol Spar tosh, of Darhn FairtleldjS.T tanburg. Of this committee only Mltchjl was re-elected, tho (fibers holding oer for one and two yjirs. At this meeting the constitut n was so changed th/t t ho judiciary con r.ittee was elected iwtead of appointed s here tofore. TheAdlowingiBtheconnittee: Joseph L. KWtt, of STewhorry, looted for one yeai D. K. Norris, of An erson, twd jears;AV. N. Elder, of Vor , three years. / / A comrrfttef was appointed to zet up a convention d* Cotton growers n the South tobe lyld in Atlanta at a early day as ipHsyl*. This convent! n is to be comppse<hj Alliancemen an I nonj Alllancsme: hoth white and e dored The follow'/? la the committee: O. P Duncan, I-lon? chairman; E.,it. WaW ter,-Dranj|0?rg; J. It. Harrlsiyt, Green Tille: W. N. Elder, York; W. 8. Uuu> borg. Barnwell ;G.P. Davis, Clarendor? This oo remittee will make report tu thia meeting' and submit an address to be Issued calling this Convention, und the committee will be continued. The tru8tee-stockboldera have fin ished their work. Nothing is given out for publication except the election oi nine directors of the State Exchange. The board eleoted at this meeting is constitute! as follows: From the State at large?J. A. Sligh, of Newberry; *D. P. Duncan, of Union. First District?G. W. Younglner, of Lexington. Second District? W. II. Timmerman, of Edge Held. Third District?J. M.Glenn, of Anderson. Fourth District?John It. Harrison, of Greenville. Fifth Dis trict?H. L. llicklin, of Lancaster. Sixth District?iJ. W. Ferguson, of Florence. Seventh District?George J. Graham, of Williamsburg. At a meeting of the board held to day J. A. Sligh was elected president, W 11: Timmerman secretary and J. W.Fer ^u son treasurer. The board will hold another meeting to elect a business agent for the State Exchange, and to consider the proposition for the re moval of the exchange to Columbia, and to transact such other business as may come before them. At the meeting this afternoon it was decided to hold the next convention at Columbia. State Organizer J. R. Jeffries made his report which showed that the ordor was iu a flourishing condition. The following were elected delegates to the National Alliance: J. W. Stokes, E.;T Stackhouso, W. J. Talbert; alter nates; J. S. Kettt, D. P. Duncan. A meeting of tho directors of the St alo Exchungo was held this afternoon. M. L.Donaldson, of Greenville, was re-elec ted State Exchungo agent. The consid eration of the question of removing tho State Exchange to Columbia was post poned to the October meeting. An aud iting commltloo was appointed to ex amine the treasurer's books and vouch ers. The committee is composed of three members, with president J. A. Sligh as chairman ex-olllco. Tho other members are. J. It. Harrison of Green ville, D. P. Duncan of Union and J. M. Glenn of Anderson. A committee wasappoiuted at a meet ing held iu Columbia April 23 to pro pose a foimula for the manufacture ot fertahzer for the use of the Alliance and authorized to report to the State Altl ance-at this session. The committee will recomend the following formula for consideration by the Alliance: The fertilizer to be known as the Alliance Draud; four per cent, of ammonia, nine per cent, of acid and two per cent, of potash. Tho committee will also re commend thattho State exchange be authorized to advertise for tho lnanu lacturc of fertilizer upon above form ula. Oswald Wilson, of Now York, for merly of Texas, and secretary of the Na tion il Association of Business Agents, composed of tho business agents of tho several States in which there are State exchanges, dropped in herd Tuesday night, without any ono outside of the Alliance seeming to know that ho was here, or the object of his visit. It is understood that he was here in the in terest ofthat ten million dollar scheme which h; supposed to have been formu lated at a meeting Of prominent. Alli aneemen held in Now \ ork a few weeks ago. It is understood that this meeting proposed to have co-operative stores es tablished in each of the counties, with central headquarters in New York. Mr. Wilson met with the trustees and stock holders of tho board of directois of the State exchange, but they absolutely re fuse to give out any thingfor publication growing out of the conference with Mr. Wilson, or anything about this ten mil lion dollar scheme for establishing co operative stores. Mr. Wilson left, this tncriiinpf for Atlanta, presumably to hold a conference--w+hVJue .Alliance ot Georgia. ?? NEW ENGLAND'S LATEST HORROR. A Beautiful Vouus tatty of n IkIi Social .SIuikIIiiU' Murdered. Hanover, N. IL,July 18.?Ah Miss Christie Wurden, accompanied by her mother, her sister Fail nie and Louise Coodell, was returning on foot to their home, located one mile from the villiagc, at a late hour last night, Frank Almy, about thirty jears of age jumped into the road in front of them, and seizing Christie by tho arm,said: "1 want you." The mother and sister attempted to de fend her. Almy bred at thorn, but missed. They ran for assistance. Then Almy drugged his victim into the bush es from the road and Shot her twice through the head, one shot t earing out berieft eye. When help arrived the poor girl was dead, and her body was stripped of nearly every article of cloth* ing. Almy has lied. Miss Warden was a beautiful and most estimable young woman, about twenty-live years old, a graduate of the {State normal school and a popular teach-, er. Almy was a former t mployo of her father, und Iiis at tent ion to Miss Christie bhd, been repulsed. Sim was the daughter of Andrew Warden, it wealthy farmer audit leading citizen. Sheriff Foster Iks seal out .searching parties in all di rections. The father of the murdered girl offers a reward of S?tK? for the cap-1 tore of the murderer. i ! The murder of Miss Ohii&tie Warden by Frank Aliny has caused tlic greatest excitement 111 tins town, and business is practically suspended today. No trace of the murderei lias yet been found, And largo nutuhers of armed men, among them many Dartmouth profess* ors, are scouring the country. Almy came hei i about a year ago. claiming that Savanah, (ja., was his home. An additional force of men was called out this afternoon, by tho tolling of tho col lego bell, for tho purpoau Of extending the. search. The lectures Iu tho medical college havo been suspended, and many 01 the Students have joined the search ing party. Up to a late hour this evening no very promising clows were discovered. Frank Deiner, who lives on the fair grounds at White Junction, saye that he was awak ened by a man answering Aliny'a de scription, much f digued, who anxiously inquired the way out of the fair ground Inclosuro. An add! ional &5(K) reward has b,jon offered by the town of llanovei for Aliny's capture. An examination shows that one bullet entered the girl's brain and the other severed her spinal cord. Her funeral will take place on Monday. The Niitlotuil Alllumio. BALTIMORE, July 17.?The Ameri can says that the National Farmers' Alliance will hold their encampment in Maryland, near t his city, and that the annual encampment will lie held hero every year, certainly for tho next live vesrs, and it is probable that a cite will be purchu8od and the encampment lo cated here permanently. This year tho encampment will be held in Sep tember. About two hundred acres of land will be needed for the encamp ment and an auditorium will be erect ed which will seat 12.C?0 people. The emcampment will last two weeks and 250,01)0 persons may be expected to be present. The l'eiiiisylvaiila and Balti more and Ohio railroads havo made lib eral offers to secure tho encampment along their lines. v ^ PRESIDENT POLK SPEAKS. HE PLEADS FOR MORE MONEY FOR THE COUNTRY. Tbe Alliance Will Not Form a Third Party Unleea Forced to Do So by tbe Intoler ance of tbe Deuiocratlo leader*?The Speaker U Heoalved With Knthuelaam. Si'artanbuko, S. U., July 22.?This afternoon, however, a public meeting was hohl ami an address was made by President Polk, of tho National Alliance, to which everybody was mvlted. Tho audience was composed largely of (arm ors. President Polk spoke for two hours, and was given good attention and fre quently applauded. He presented for cibly, and in good tone and spirit, tho demands ol the tanners and their griev ances. The entrance, during his speech, of Governor Tillman, who bad just ar rived from Fort Hill, was greeted with applause. President Polk was introduced by President Stokes as a man who needed no introduction to tho Alhaucomen of South Carolina, as ho was already well kt own. President Polk said he cherished no recollection moro fondly than tho kind ies8 received at tho bunds of the people of South Carolina. It were needless to refer to tho ties winch bind tho two Carolinas together?they wore witten in tho best blood of both. If ho were to evade or suppress the truth iu regard to the groat issues of the dav he would bo uuworth of confideuco or respect. Tho farmers have been fed on tull\ long enough; let us havo truth. The growth ot the Alliance was tho marvel of this age. It bad no parallel in history. It hud nourished in thirty-six Stales, nud had 3,000,000 members. The great and underlying cause, ns argued by the speaker, which had given this wonderful growth to the Alliance, was tho financial policy of the government and the distress aud suffering among tho laboring peo ple, caused thereby. All the Alliance asked was an open llold ami a fair light. Take the radroads and manufacturers, tho growth of towns and cities, the nmassiug'of colossal fortunes?nil these were never known to flourish more than at present. Hut when in all your life known the agricultural interests to lan guish us at present? From 1850 to 18?0 the farmers owned 70 per cent, of tho wealth of (ho country; today less than 22 per sent., four-fifths of which was un der mortgage. From 1870 to 1880 the agricultural population increased 20 por cent., while tho valuo of property owned by them had decreased. In 1880 tho total taxable property of tho country was $43,500,000,000, $20,000,000,000 ot which escaped taxation, and the farm ers paid ou $14:000,000,000 of the re mainder. It 1 had my way, said the speaker, I would pass a law in each Stute requiring every assessor to carry With him a sou! and attach it to every note or mortgage on evidence of indebt edness, aud any paper without this seal 1 would declare nou-collcctablc by law. Farmers can't put their land in vaults, and assessors always lind it. The tune was when 1 accepted as true what the big men of the country said if they be longed to my party: but now, tho bigger the man the more I question the statements made by him. We have been in the habit of swallowing whatever the politicians gave .us'u."'1 swear it was good, aud hollof ourselves ndarsc. Hut that time, is ever. When th\rH3 was |52 per capita-in circulation tinh-a were Uwfnmqjoverybody got on woll. Tho farmer wvtu sold his col ion in Spartan burg had to pay a profit to eleven men before he bought it back in cloth. Speaking of the purchasing power ol money, ho said you don't wont to know how much a dollar will buy, but how much debt-paying power Unit dollar pos sesses, In 1870 ten bales of cotton would pay a one. tho isand dollor debt; now it took thirty bales to pay the same debt: and it cost as much to raise cotton today as tken. Wall street, backed by Lombard strcot, London, has taken hold ot the goverenment. The government ot this country has gone into silent partnership with Wall street. You hear a great deal about lint money. I would like to know where you could get any more dot money than national bank bills, based upon bonds which arc based only on tho power of tho govern nent to tax the people to redeem them, with no gold or stiver back of them. The national banking system lends to one class money at one per cent, and license the ha- ks to charge eight and ten per cent, for it. I believe that it this government would stick its name to a piece of leather, or paper, or gold, or anything else, and call it a dollar, it will pass lor one hundred cents anywhere in this country, lie read from the Ucala platform on the silver plank, and remarked: "I am not waiting for Graver Cleveland to tell mo how to vote, and I intend to stand wdh the majority of the White people of the South and vote against Grover Cleveland." This statement was greet* cd with applause. In support oi* the sub-treasury pi auk, he quoted from .lellersoii and Cnlhoun, and said if the Jolt'ersontau struightouts wanted to learn pure. Democracy they bad better come into the Alliance and take their lessous over. Tho Ocala platform was good Jefl'ersonlan Democracy and Liucolntan Itcpuhl.cmism, which made a mighty good combination, I belie.vo that plat form will conduce to tho greatest ^ooA, and intend to stand on it. fite tnrilV is not the great issue, [fit were reduced '2~> per cent, you wouln he no heiler oft" iu five yours. Wo arc not to be sidetracked by the cry of nigger, bloody shirt or anything else. Wo went to congress and asked for ft lief; wo wanted more money to do the business of the country, Practlca'ty wo wcro told 'o go home, work harder, live clos er, keep out of politics, and all would be well. Farmers have gone into politics, and gone there to slay. The Alliance is non-partisan, but it is in politics; and who has more right to go into politics than the farmers? Some peoplo don't than the farmers? Some peoplo don't know tho d! Terence bctw :cn a pnrty is sue and politics. A party issue-means a nice, collar nround your neck with a chain to It. Politics is a science of gov ernment. I want to ask three questions: Are you in lavor ofaoolishmg the national banking system? Are you in favor ol the government issuing money direct to tho people, at a low rnto of interest? Are you opposed to dealing in futures of agricultural products? When the sub-treasury bill was pro sontod to Congress wo did not consider it pet feet, but it contained principles that wo wanted income rated in tho laws. Did our congressman sit down and talk tho matter over with us and nee whoro wo dill'ered, and see if wo couldn't com promise and get relief? It was tho first time du? farmers had ever asked any thing, and it was buried beneath legisla tive oblivion. But now, instead ot send ing petitions, we propose to send men iu sympathy with our demands. They told us our bill was unconstitu tional. This objection was started by Mr. Dates, of Alabama ,who uever saw the bill. This cry was taken up syste matically by others. 1 said, tell us why It Is unconstitutional. The auswar was herum e the government can't loud money. In 187G, when Philadelphia wauled monov for the exposition, the government loaned it, and the Supreme Court of the United Slates decided that it wus a loau. In 1884. wheu the cotlon exposition was to be hold at New Or leans, Mr. Oates said the appropriation was a loan, and made a speech in favor of it, and it passed. And yet, the same mnn will toll you the sub-treasury bill is unconstitutional?the government can't lend money. Talk about class legislation! All the statute laws ou the statute books are eiass legislation aud for the benefit of all classes oxceot the farmer*. Put whiskey iu warehouses, srd furnish a keeper, and give a certiQcato of deposit, aud keep it three years?that Is consti tutional; but when the farmer comes up and says ho wants to doposlt some wheat aud corn with the government, and draw, some, monoy, it is not constitutional. The fight against the sub-lreusury is unmanly, because you kuow it is a light again si a stille ring people Ileally the tight is against a low rate of interest. That is the rub. The sub-treasury bill proposes to obtain money ou non-per ishable farm products aud land, to a cur tain extent. Bring the present bill t<* mo, and 1'Jl tear it up, and you will never htar of it again, provided you will bring something iu your pocket that is better or that will give us relief. Wo wnnt the principles underlying the bill. Until some (hing better is olforod, the Alliancemen in tho South will stick to the sub-treasury. This bill moans that banks and everybody who lends money can't get but 2 per cent, for it. The Alliance Is goii g to take part iu politics and votofor our friends. Auout tho third party, I want to say this: It there is a third party established In these Southern States it will bo on account of tho domineering, proscriptive plan of tho Democratic bosses. You can't point to an Alliancoman who hns gouo into tho third party. No Democratic Al llancemau ever went into n convention and bolted its nominations. These hon est, people who are Interested in this great struggle for humanity claim noth ing but wlint is just; and. living and suf fering as they do, they are going to have relief. We bolievo our struggle is ju9t, aud wo would be unworthy our manhood if we did not stund un for principle. Our evils arc national in their nature and ef fect, and ain't be cured by sectionalism. 1 believe that in tho success of this move ment depends tho lile of the nation. utile?? i.ed into i?u Ambr.sb. MlDDLBSDOROUail, Ky., July 17.?A desperate attempt was made to assassin ate the Midi lesborough police force yesterday afternoon about 9 o'clock. A lot of'disreputable characters who fre quent Gum Springs, alow-drinking and gambling dive just outside the city lim its, concocted the plot, to murder the ollicers. They accordingly stationed about fifteen of their gang in ambush along tho Louisville and Nash ville Rail road, and two of their number began lir ing their Winchesters. These two were Chief'jHf&pies, with a* 'posse of .ofUAera, wont in pursuit of the pair, and they were led into an ambush. Over a hun dred shots were exchanged. Special Ofllcer Dorsey Williams was shot through both thighs, and 1'atrolman Tucker was shot in the leg. Tho police were forced to retire, and they returned to the city. A posse of about one bun urea citizens, armed with rillos. soon captured botli desperadoes and lodged them in jail. About 4 o'clock this morning a crowd of masked men on tored Jailer Point's sleeping apart ments at tho city jail, and, with pistols to his head, demanded the keys to the jail. The jailer was forced to give up tho keys. The crowd then went into t he jail, took Ilossimus out nnd led him to tho big bridge over the canal, where ho was shot several times. A rope was then fastened about his neck and he was swung over tho bridge until 7 o'clock, when he was cut down. A pla card was tacked on the bridge rail just above the body bearing this inscription: "Warning?Tliis is tho fate of all would be murderers." ia.'vcii Men Killed. LlVKRFOOI', July 18.?A terrible ac cident occurred this morning on the line of the Manchester Ship canal. A train passing along the railroad run ning near the canal follovertho latter'a cnbankmont, near this city, killing elcvon men who were working under the heading. In addition to the men killed many of the workmen were injured. The bodies of the. killed wore horribly mutilated. The accident Is probably unprecedent ed in railway annals. Twenty-three cars laden with construction materials were being hauled by two engines down a heavy grade, at l ull speed. The points man, a lad of seventeen years, named 1'ratt, became confused and turned the train upon the short siding leading to the brink of the canal. The distance was so siiort that the engineers bad no time to check tho momentum of the train, and it took a frightful leap over the embankment, a depth of fort y foot, into tho cutting. Pratt lied, shrieking, across tho country, nearly frightened out of his senses by the awful results of his blundor. Ho was captured by the police, and will be held for trial. The management of the line is severe ly blamed for entrusting so important a switching point to so young and inex perienced a person. Dleil from Heart Failure. NRW IIavkn, July 17.?As ofllcer IiOughlin was patrolling East Hock I'ark lust evening his attention was Called to a man who was leaning out of a window in the top of the monument 100 feet abovo the ground. He ascend ed the narrow staircase and found that the man was dead. The policeman de scended from midair witli a corpse on his back, and the Coroner was sum moned. It was supposed that tho man died from hoart failure caused by the exertion of climbing the monument. Ho was John II. Iteid, of New \o:k. who recently came to this city to sell foods for a tobacco house of New York, le was thirty-seven years old. The Itepubllcitn Machlno. PlIILADBLPIA, July 17.?Chairman Quay,of the Republican National Com mittee, has called a meeting of the ex ecutive committee in this city for the 20th instant. It is understood that the full committeo will convene In New York or Washington in November and Ox soino time in May for the. national convention. 11 is stated th it Mr. Qu?y will offer his resignation at tho meet ing this month. His friends say be has no intention of retiring from the' committee, but he will resign tho chair manship absolutely, without giving reasons.