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LAURENS, S. C, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11,1891. NO 2 SfiHMON IN TUE WEST. TALMAQE D1SCOUR8E8 FROM A CHAP TER IN RUTH. Soirow ni.il si. i i 1 i i<:: l>4v?lopes Cliurac ter? 1 111 111 n? i 111;; 1 , |< nriihlp m Olorloua ? Virtue?The l)?aut> uf 1 i nmio Inrinatry. Ghkkn Mountain * Fam-s, Col., Au<?. 2.?Dr Tahnago preached here to day to an immense audience. 111 West ern tour has been oue continued ovation. Never before has ho becuso cnthusiustl cally received or have llio people como to hi'nr him la - u ill vast numbers. Ho mrivtd hero Iron) I'm bio, which city ho Infton Wednesday lust in a car provi !? cd by the railroad company exclusively tor tlio use o.l Dr. Talmage and his sec retary. In this cor ho will visit cities in Colorado, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Kansas and Utah, it is side-tracked at places whero Dr. Tal mage has arranged to stay to preach or to lecture. His sermon redolent,wjih the breath of the grcut harvest Held ?>f iho West, indicates that tho popular preacher bus read in Iiis surrounding suggestions of Uospel lessons. His text is tuken from Huth 11; 3: "And she went and camo and gleaned in tho field after the reapers; and her hap was to light on u part of the field belonging unto Www, who was ((if the kindred ?*.< rXinieleo'i." Within a lew weeks I have been in North Carolina, Virginia. Pennsylvan ia, Mew York, Ohio. Michigan. Canada. Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Missouri, and they me one great hi: vest field, and no season can be more enchanting in any cpuuliv than tho season of harvest. The time that Huth and Naomi arrive at Bethlehem is harvest time. It was the euMoin when a shout' fell from a load in the harvest field for the reapers to ro luso lo gather it up; that was to bo left lor the poor who might happen to come that vs.i'.v. It there were handt'uls of {.'rain scattered across tho field after the main harvest had been reaped, instead of raking it, as farmers do now it was, by tho custom ol the land, left in its place, so lhat tho poor, coming along that way. might glean it and get their bread. Hut, you say, "What is the use of all these harvest fields to Ruth an?' Naomi? Naomi is 100 old and fecblo to go out and toil in the suu; ami can jou expect that liuth, tho young and the beautiful, should tau her cheeks and blister her hands in the harvest field?" Konz owns a large farm, and he goes out to sto the rtapeis gather lu tho grain. Cowdug there, right behind the swarthy, sun-la owned reapers, he be holds a beautiful woman gleaning?a woman more lit to bond to a harp or sit upon a throne than to stoop among the sheaves. Ah, lhat was an eventful day! It was love at first siuht. Hoax forms an attachment lor tho womanly gleaner ?an attachment full of undying interest to the church of (?od in all agts; while Itulh, with an ephuh, or nearly a bushel of barley, goes homo to Naomi to tell her the. successes and adventures of the day. That Hutli, who left her uative laud ol Moab in darkness, aud journeyed through an undying affection for her mother-in-law, is i.. the harvest-Held of Boast, is affianced to one of the best fam ilies in ,lud ah, and becomes in after-time the ancestress of Jesus Christ the Lord of glory! Out of so dark a night did Micro ever dawn so bright.a laoraUagV 1 lentil, in the lirst place, from this subject how trouble devclopcs charac ter. It was bereavement, poverty aud exile that developed, illustrated and an nounced to all ages tho sublimity ol Kuth's character. That is a very un Ibrlunalc man who has no trouble. It was sorrow that made John Hunyan the better dreamer, and Doctor Young the belter poet, and O'Connell the better orator, and Bislrtp Hall the better preacher, and Havelock tho better sol dier, and Kitto the better ei cyclopedlst, and Kuth tho l otter daughter-in-law. 1 once asked imaged man in regard to his pastor, who was a very brilliant man: "Why is it that your pastor, so very brilliant, seems to have so little tenderness in his sermons?" "Well," he replied, "the reason is, our pastor has never had any trouble. When misfor tune comes upon htm, Iiis stylo will be different." After awhilo the Lord took a child out of that pastor's house; and though the preacher was just af? bril liant as he was before, oh, the warmth, the tenderness ol his discourses! ? The fact is lhat trouble is n great educator. You s< c sometimes-a musician sit down nt an instrument, aud his execution is cold and formal aud tin eeliUff. The reason is that all his life ho has been prospered. But let misfortune or be reavement como to lhat man, und he sits down at the instrument, and vUu discover the pathos in the first sweep of the keys. Misfortune and trials are great educators. A young doctor comes into a sick room where there is a dying child. Perhaps ho is very rouzh in his prescription, and very rough in his man ner, and rough in the feeling of the pulse, und rough in his answer to the mother's anxious question; but the years roll on, and Ihero bus been one dead in hisown house; and now becomes into the sick room, and with tearltil eye he looks at the <l> in / child, and ho sa>e: "Oh, how this reminds mo of my Char lie!" Trouble, tho great educator! Sorrow?I sec its touch in the grandest painting; I hear its tremor In tho sweet est song; I fiel its power in tho mighti est argument. Grecian mythology said lhat the foun tain of Hippocrene was struck out by the toot of the winged horse, Pcgusua. I have often noticed in life that t <e brightest and most bcau'.i'nl fountains ot Christian comfort aud spiritual life have bet n struck out by tho iron-shod hoof of disaster aim calamity. I see Daniel's courage Ust by the flash of Nebuchadnezzar's furnace. I see 1' .ul's prowess best when I find him on the foundering ship under the glaro of the lightning in the breakers ot M< 'tia. God crowns bin children amid tho bowling of wild boasts and the chopping of blood splashed /uillotino and tho crackling fires of martyrdom. It took the perse cutions of Marcus Aure?us to develop Poly carp aud Justin Martyr. It took the pope's bull and tho card.mil's curse, aud the world's anathema to develop Martin Luther. It took all the hostili ties against the Scotch covenanters and the fury of Lord Claverhouse to develop James Ken wick, aud Andrew Melville, and Hugh McCall, the gloriouB murtyrB of Scotch history, it took the. stormy sea, ana the December blast, and the desola " Now England coast, and the war-hoop of savages, to show forth tho prowess of tho Pilgrim fathers? When ant id the storms they sang, And tin- stars heard ana the sea; And the sounding aisies of tho dir. wood Hang to the anthems of thu free. It took all our pant national distresses, and It takes all our present ualtonal sor rows, to lift up our nation on that higli career where it will march along after the foreign despotisms that have mocked and the tyrannies thai have jeered, shall be swept down under the omnipotent wrath of God. who hates, oppression and who, by the strength of his own rea right arm. will make all men free. Aud so it is individually, and in the family, and m the cnurcb, and in the world that throughklarkness and storm and trouble men. women, churches, nations, are de* velopcd. Again, I 11 am from ray sub|ect that events which seem to be most insignifl cant may be momentous. Can you im agine anything more unimportant than the coming of a poor woman from Moab to Judwa? Can you imagine anything more trivial than the tact that this Ruth just happened to alight?as they say? just happened to alight on that field of Hoax? Yet all aues, all gene-at'ons, have an interest in the fact that she wa? to become an ancestress of the Lord Jesus Christ, and all nations and klng domB must look at that one little Incl dent with a thrill of unmistakable and oternal satisfaction. So it is in your his tory and in mine; oveuts that you thought oi no importance at all have been of very great moment. The min imi conversation, that accidental meet ing?you did not think of it again for a long while; but how it changed all the current of your lifel Again, I ace in my text the beauty of unialteriug friendship. I suppose there were plenty ot friends for Naomi while she was in prosperity: but of all her a :? qu8intauces, how niauy wo>e willing to trudge off with her toward Judica, when she had to make that lonely jo?rney? One?the heroine of my text. One? absolutely one. I suppose when Nao mi's husband was living, und they had plenty ol money, and all things went well,'they had a great many callers; but I suppose that after her husband died, and her property went, aud ehe got old and poor, she was not troubled very much with callers. All the birds that sang In the bower while the sun shone have s.onc to their nests, now the night has fatlon. Oh, these beautiful sun flowers that spread out their collor in the moaning hour! but they are always asleep when tho sun is going down! Job had plenty of friends when he was the rtchestmau in Uz; but when his properly went and the trials came, thou there were none so much that pestered as Eliphaz the Tc manite, and I3ildad the Shunite, and Zo phar the Naamathite. Life often seems to be a mere game where the successful player pulls dowu all the other men into his own lap. Let suspicions arise about a man's charac - ter and he becomes like a bank iu a panic and all the imputations rush ou him aud break down in a day that character which in due time would have had strength to defend itself. There are reputations that have been halt a cen tury iu building, which go under some moral exposure, as a vast temple is con sumed by the touch of a sulphurous match. A hog can uproot a century plant. In this world, so full of heart lessness and hypocrisy, how thrilling it is to find some friend us faithful in days of adversity as in dajs of prosperity! David had such a friend in Hushat; the Jews had such a friend in Mordecai, who never forgot their cause; Paul had such a friend in Onesiphorus. who visted him in jail; Christ had such iu the Marys, who adiiered to him ou the cros6; Naomi had BUC&* a one'iu Ruth, who cried out; "Entreat me not to leave thee, or to re turn from following after thee; for whither thou goest I will go, and where thou lodgest I will lodge; thy people, sliall be!my people and thy God my God; where thou diest will I die, and there will I be buried the Lord do so to me, and more also, if aught but death part thee and me." Again, I learn from this subject that paths which open in hardship aud dark ness often come out iu places of joy. When Ruth started from Moab toward Jerusalem, to go along with her mother in-law, I suppose the people said: Oh, what a foolish creature to go away from her fathcre house, to go of with a poor old womon toward the land of Judwa! They won't live to get across tho desert. They will be drowned in the sea. or the jackals of the wildernesa will destroy them." It was a very dark morniug when Kuili started off with Naomi; but behold her iu my text in the harvest-field of lioaz, to be affianced to one of the lords of the land, aud become one of the grandmothers of Jesus Christ, the Lord of glory. And so It oft^n is thut a path which starts very darkly ends very brightly. When you started out for heaven, oh, how dark was tho hour of conviction? how Sinai thuudered, and devils tor mented, and the darkness thickened! All the sins of your life pounced upon you and it was the darkest hour you ever saw when you first found out your sins. After awhile you went into the harvest field of God's mere): you began to gleau in the field of divine promise, and you had more sheaves than you could carry as tho voice ot God addressed you, huy : "Bh used is the man whose trans gressions are forgiven and whose sins are covered." A very dark starting in conviction, a very bright ending in the pardon and the hope aud tno triumph of the Gospel! So, very often in our worldy business or in our splrlual career, we start off on a very dark path. We must go. The flesh may shrink hack, but there Is a voice within, or a voice from above, saying, "You must go," aud we have to drink tho gall, and we have, to carry the cross, aud we have to traverso the desert and we ure pounded aud flailed of misrepres entation and abuse, and we have to urge our way through ten thousand ob stacles that have to be slain by our own right arm.. We have to ford the river we have to climb the mountain, we have 10 storm the castle; but blessed bo God tho day of rest and reward will come. On the tip top of the captured battle ments w i will bhout the victory; if not in thin world, then In that world where there is no gall to drink, no burden to carry, no buttles to tight. How do I k.iow it? Know it! I know it because God says mi "They shall hunger no moro, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun lighten them, nor any heat, for t .e Lamb which is iu tho midst of tho throne shall lead them to liviug fountains oi water, and God shall wipe all tears from their eyes." It was very hard for Noah to endure the scoffing of the people In his day while he was trying to build the ark and was every day quizzed about his old boat that would never be of any practical use; but when the deluge came, and the tops o' the mountains disappeared like the hacks of sea-monsters, and the ele ments, lashed up in fury, clapped their hands over a drowned world, then Noah iu tho ark rejoiced In his own safety and in the safety of his family, aud looked ou the wreck of a ruined earth. Christ, hounded ot persecutors, den'. :<l a pi.low, worse maltreated than the thieves on either side of the cross, human hate smacking its lips In satisfaction aft er it had be??n draining hut last drop of blood, the sheeted dead b iratmg from the sephulchrea at his crucifixion. Tell me, O Gethsemane and Golgotha! were there ever darker times than those? Like the booming of the midnight sea against the rock, the surges of Christ's anguish beat against the gates of eternity, to be echoed back by all thrones of heaven and all the dungeons of hell. But the day o reward comes for Christ; all the pomp aud dominion of this world are to be hung on his throne, uncrowned heads are to I >?.w before him on whose head are many crowns, and all the celestial worship is to come up it his feet, like Hie humming of the forest, like the rushing of the waters, like the thunder ing of the seas, while all hoaven, rising ou their tbroneB, beat time with their sceptres: "Hallelujah, Hallelujah, tho kingdoms ot this world have become the kingdoms of our Lord Jesus Christ. That song of love, low and far, Kre long shah swell from star to star; That light, the breaking day which tips The golden-spired Apocalypse* It seemed to be of no Importance t ha Jubul Invented rudo instrument of music, calling thorn harp and organ; but they were the introduction of all tho world's minstrelsy; and a*) yon hear tho vibration of a stringed instrument, eveu after the llugors have been taken away trom it. so all music uow of lute aud drum aud cornet is only the long-con tluued strains ot Jubal's harp and Jubal'-j organ. It seemed to be a mutter of very little importance that Tubal Cain learned the uses of copper and iron; but that rudo foundry of ancteut days has its echo in the rattle of Birmingham machinery, and the roar and bang of tnclories on tho Merrimac. Again, I see in my subject an illustra tion of the beauty of female industry. Behold Ruth toiliug in the harvest-field under the hot sun, or at noon taking plain bread with the reapers, or eating the parched corn which Boa/, handed to her. The customs of society, of course, have changed, and without tho hardships an I exposure to which Ruth was sub jected, every intelligent woman will fiud something to do. L know there is a sickly bentimentalitv on this subject. In some families there arc persons of u > practical service to tho household or community, and though there are so many woes all around about them in the world, they spend their time langulilung over a new pattern, or bursting into tears At midnight over tho story of some lover who shot himself! They would not deign to look at Ruth carrying back the baney on her way home to her mother-in-law, Naomi. All this fastidi ousness may seem to do very weil while they are under the shelter of their father's house; but when the sharp win ter ot misfortune comes, what of these buttcrtlics? Persons under indulgeut parentage may get upon themselves habits of indolence; but when they come out into practical life their soul will recoil with disgust and chagrin. They wlil feel iu their hearts what the poet so severely satir zod when ho said: Folks are so awkward, things so impolite, They're elegantly pained from mom till night Through that gate of indolence how many men and women have marched, useless on earth, to a destroyed eternity! Spinal a said to Sir Horace Verc; "Pf what did your brother die?" "Of having not .ingto do," was the answer. "Ah!" said Spinola, "that's enough to kill any general of us." Oh! can it be possible in this world, where there is so much sutler ing to be alloviated, so much darkness to bo enlightened, and so many burdens to be carried, that there is any person who cannot Und auvthing to do? Mada ue do Stael did a world of work iu her time; aud ono day, while she was seated amid in -t rumen is of music, all of which she had mastered, und amid man uscript books which she had written, some one said to ber: "How do you tiud time to attend to all these things?' "Oh!" she replied, "tluse are not the things I am proud of. My chief boust is in the fact thnt I have seventeen trades, by anyone of which I could make a livelihood if necessary." And if in sec ulur spheres there is 60 much to bo done, in spiritual work how vast the Held! How many dying all urouud about us without one word of comfort! We want more Abigails, more Hannahs, more Rebeccas, more Mary's more Deborahs consecrated?body, mind, soul,?to the Lord who brought them. Once more I learn from my subject the value of gleaning. Ruth going into the harvest-Held might have said: "There is u straw, and there is a straw, hut what is a straw? I can't set any barley for myself or my mother-in-law out of these separate straws." Not so said beautiful Ruth. She gathered two straws, and she put them together, and more straws, until she got enough Lo make a sheaf. Putting that down sho went and gathered moro straws, until she had an other ?hea*', and another, and an other, and another, and then sho brought them all together, and smoothed them out. and she had an ephnh or barley nigh a bushel. Oh, that we might all be gleaners! Elihu Burritt learned many things while toiling in a blacksmith's shop. Abeacromble, the world-renowned [ihilosopher, was a physician in Scot, and, and he got his philosophy or the chief part of it, while, as a physician, he was waiting for the door of the sick room to open. Yet how many there are in this day who say they are so busy they have no time for meutrl or spiritu al improvement; the great duties of lifo cross tho field like strong reapers, and carrv off all the hours, and there is only here and there a fragment left thai is not worth gleaning. Ah, my friends, you could go Into the busiest day and busiest week ot your life and find golden opportunities, which, gathered, might at last make a whole sheaf for the Lord's garner. It is the stray opportunities aud the stray privileges which, taken up and bound together und beaten out, will at last (111 you with much joy. There are a few moments left worth the gleaning. Now, Ruth, to tho field! May each one have a -neasure full and running over! Oh, you gleaners, to the field! And If there be In your house hold an aged ono or a sick relative that I It not strong enough to come forth aud toll in this field, then let Ruth take home to feeble Naomi this sheaf of gleaning: "He that goeth forth and weepeth, bear ing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, briuging hlsshcaveB with him." May the Lor.) God of Ruth and Naomi be our portion forever! KlM*d Her lM?t Oood Bra. {>,Ualvkston, July 30.?Miss Maude Chrtrude Smith, aged 17, daughter of Captain Alonzo Smith of this city and whI knowu iu the west, committed suicide by shootlog herself just above t he heart. She was with her aunt aud sister tit the time and kissed them both before she expired. No cause can b<-> assigned lor the act, although her re lations state that she had been morose and melancholy for some time preious* A BLACK EYE FOR COOSA W. CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER DECI?E8 IN FAVOR OF THE 8TAT E. The Motion Continuing* the Preliminary Injunction und Appointing a Ita-wlver Granted?nJr.dc? Slinonton Concur*?The Coomw Oetopua Knocked Out. Greenville, S. Um Aug 3.?The decision of Chief Justice Fuller in the Coosaw case was received today, and Judge Simonton added hie concurrence this afternoon. Tho decision, as will bo seen, Is a completo kuock-out for the. "Coosaw octopus," and a signal victory for the State. Tho following is the de cision in full: State ok SOUTH Carolina, ex rel. '1'i i.i.man et al. vs. The Coosaw Mini no Company. Two motions have been argued: 1. To remand. 2. To continue the order granting a preliminary injunction and appointing a receiver. My conclusions are: 1. That upon tho face of this record tho motion to remand ought not to be eutcrtained. Tho question? of jurisdic tion was adjudicated by this court on the 21st of April, 1891, and cannot be reexamiued at this stage of the nroceed ings. Hut if the question were open the result would bo the same, as I concur in tho opinion of the district judge, tiled here on April 21, 1891. (45 Fed. ltep., 804). Tho motion to remand is there toro overruled. 2. As to tho motion to continue, &c. the contention of the defeudant is that it has, by contract with tho Stale, in virtue of tho act of 1870, the exclusive right to mine all the phosphate rock within a defined part of the Coosaw Itlvcr, for all time, at a royalty of one dollar per ton. Tho defendant carried ou its mining operations prior to 1870, n tho particular locality, under an act of 1870, which gave the right to mine lor the full term of twenty-one years at $1 per ton. Tho act of 1870 made the right exclusive, aud, it is argued, per petual, because it was provided that de fendant (as well as other companies) should have the right, "so long -and no longer," than it should make tho returns and pay the roval*y prescribed. The royalty thus referred to was fixed by tho act of 1870. It was decided in State vs. Pacific Ouano Company (22 S. C. 50,) lhat the rulo of construction applicable to the right to mine in the beds of nav igable streams containing phosphate de posits is the ordinary one in the instance ot grams of public rights, namely, that, the graut is to be construed strictly in favor of the State and against the grau tee. I concur in that view, and apply ing the rule hero, It forbids the conclu sion that the legislature inleudcd au in definite grant by the terms used. The uct of 1870 must necessarily bo read in connection with that ot 1870, aud this being done, it seems clear that the du ration ot the exclusive right, as claimed, was not tliereby enlarged. This conclu sion is strengthened by au examination ol tho many acts in relation to phos phate mining referred to on the heurinjj ol this motion, which show the policy of the State to have been to limit the dura tion ol the right to mine?a policy which it cannot be properly held the State in tended to depart from by tho Act ot 1870. It follows that the claim of the delendcut to the exclusive right to miuo within the mentioned territory, indefin itely, at one dollar per ton, cannot be sustained. 3. This being so, and in view of the provisions of the Act of 1890, an in junc tion ought to go against tho defendant, restraining it, as prayed, until it shall take out a license under the latter Act and otherwise comply therewith, and such an order may be substituted for the order made by the Stato court, which should be vac .led, so far as is inconsist ent with tho order so entered. 4. Pending the tiling wf tho foregoing memorandum and the entry of the order therein agreed to, tho parties having agreed to submit tho case on the hear ing already had, as on the merits, and their stipulation In that behalf having ht en duly considered, a final judgment and decree may lie entered in accordance with the result above indicated. Melville \V. Fullek, Augusts, 1891. Chief Justice. Judge Simonton concurs in the above opinion. Shot In t? Sleeper. ClIAKLOTiKSVILLE, VA,, August !.? A cowardly attempt was made upon the lite ot i;. F.Connell, of Portsmouth. Ohio, by an unknown white man on a 1 'nilin,in sleeper on train No 2, on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad, near Basic City, due here at 3 o'clock this morning. The assassin approached the berth of Connell, who reseute i the intrusion with a kick, when the would be murderer tired a pistol ball, taking eeffct in the abdomen of Connell. Conned was brought to this city and lies in a precarious condition. Many rumors are rife as to tho cause of toe shooting. The ball was extracted today. The assassin escaped and has not been captured. May mill December. Rochester., N. Y, July 30.?A spe cial to the Morning Herald from Medina, N. Y., says: Stephen L. White, of Shelby, who is seventy five years of age, and little lOtla liissell, who Is fourteen, are the characters In a little romance interesting this vicinity, as they are now rmmand wife. The Missel! girl's parents claim that White persuadej the little girl to elope with him, aud driving to a neighboring village had the knot tied by claiming that the girl was over seventeen years of age. White was promptly arrested on the charge of abduction, but releas ed on his own recognizance and escaped No trace of him can be found. Kentnckv Election. Louisville, Aug. 3.?The voting is proceeding quietly all over Kentucky with indications lhat tho proposed con stitution, against which a strong fight has been made, wilt be ratified by a very large majority, aud that the plurality for Brown and tho other Democrats will be between 30,000 and 35.000. There are four tickets in tho field, and it is esti mated that the Third partyitcs will poll about 30,000 votes. The next legisla ture, will, of course, be Democratic, with a big representation of tho farmer elemtnt. _ ThoMftlooua Muat Uo. Benton, III., July 31.?Farmers of tho Kastern part of this County have served notico in tho merchauts of Thosoaptonvilio, a small placo whero they do most of their trading, that if three saloons, which are all thero aro iu tho Country, located in that placo. aro not closed at once tney will boycott the town. Parties Interested have promised to comply * ith the demand to-morrow. DEMOCRACY DIVIDED Intense Bitterness Between the Factions in Charleston. Chahleston, S. C, July 29?The uo terrlfled Democraoy of Charleston went to pieces today without bloodshed, but with more bitterness than ever known even in t he days of active Republican ism. A dual convention was held and two executive committees are now in the Held. The reformers, with a large number of bogus delegates, met in an other part of the city and marched down to Hibernian hall in a body, head ed by ex-Mayor W. A. Courtenay. They rushed into the h ill capturing most of the chairs and started in to elect Mr. Courtenay chairman before the chair man, of the Democratic executive com mittee had called the convention to or der. The chairman, however, called the body to order, and then left theotmtr with nobody to preside over the conven tion. The regulars jumped in then and then elected R. P, McCabe chairman, and captured the books, records and gravel. Tho reformers then elected Courteney chairman, and the two con ventions proceeJed with business. Futile efforts were made by the con servatives to bring about a compromise. The regulars offered to elect a reform chairman if both McCabe and Courte nay would vacate. Mr. Courtenay de clined, and the two conventions went on, both in the same hall, and elected each one an executive committee. W. A. Doyle was elected chairman by the reg ulara and T. D. Jervey by the reform ers. The split in the party is now regarded as hopeless, and the feeling between tho two wings is intensely bitter. It is re garded as almost certain that two tick ets will be in the Held for the mayor alty. Mr. Courtenay will probably head the reform widg and Mayor Bryan the regular. Doth wings will endeavor to get the recognition of i he state execu tive committee.?Augusta Chronicle. Gaunt Famine in IleHHarublu. IjONDON, July 30.?A St. Petersburg dispatch states that the greatest misery exists in Dessarabia, owing to the fail ure of the harvest and tho scarcity of food. In the villiage of Koushany the people broke out In a riot and plunder ed shops of provisions. Tho local po lice tried to restrain them and were badly beaten, one of their number being killed. Reinforcements arriving from the town of Mender, tho rioters wore at length dispersed, and a large number were made prisoners. Two of the pris oners were shot to death in the public streets, us a warning to their lato com panions, and six were selected for Im mediate deportation to Sibera. The wives and children of the exllts wore not permitted to spoak to them before keparting, and nothing was spared that would be likely to st rike terror into the unhappy peasentry. At Klshenau, the chief place, place of the province, it is said that not less than twelve persous nave died of starvation and pedury this mouth. Not Jews alone, but many Russians, have buried across the front ier into Roumauia, in order to escape the severe measures instituted since tho outbreak. A?i>b)xlated in a Tunnel. PORTLAND, Oregon, July 30.?En gineer Jack Rocheford, of the through express, south-bound, met doath-lfl an unusual manner iu tunnel 11, sixteen miles South of Ashluud, yesterday mow ing. Two engiucs arc required to tako the train over the Siskyous. Rocheford had the front engine. When the train was nearly through the tunnel the coup ling between the mail and express cars broke. Twenty minutes were consumed in making a now coupling, Tho smoke and gas from the second cuginc blew directly into the cab of tho one ahead, suffocating tho engineer and Qreman, It was decided to back out of tho tunnel, and when tho train stopped outside tho engineer and fireman of the front engine vere. missing. A scni'lh revealed the engineer lyiug dead by tho track, with his loll arm cut oil' by the engine. Fire man Fitzpatrick was lying unconscious by the track, but revived later on. Doth got off the engine to escape suffocation aud were asphyxiated by the time they reached the ground. Rocheford fell with his arm across the. track, aud bled to death. _ Dragged to Death by a Home. Chicago, July 80.?Arthur Thomas, t he nine-year-old son of Manager Ar thur Thomas, of tho "County Fair" Company, was thrown from the back of the Dude, ono of the horses used in the play, Monday morning and was almost instantly killed. With his lather and a party the boy was out riding. His horse ran. Mr. Thomas pursued him ou Queen, but though Queen is the fast er horse of the two, she could not gain on the Dude. The boy lost all control of the horse, and dropping the reins tried to keep on by holding to tho mane. He lost his balance, falling to one side, but his foot stuck in the stirrup aud for full two blocks ho hung suspended, bis head striking tho pavement at every jump made by tho horse. His head struck the horse's feet at ono time and the animal gave a vicious kick, which caused tho boy's foot to slip from Iiis shoe, and he fell to the pavement dead. Liability of the Alliance. ChakIjKSTON, S. c, July 31.?The Farmers' Allianco storo in Sparlauburg County failed some time ago, and, al though the storo was undor tho auspices of tho County Alliance when the failure came, the Alliance dis.laimcd all res ponsibility, holding that it lay with the managers personally. The creditors, a Dallimoro linn, finding they could not collect the debt, have entered suit in the United States Court lor $2.(125. It Is expected that tho caso will soon come up. It is one ot i he lu st ot its kind over hud in the. country, and the decision will probably define tho liabilities oi tho Al lianco organizations, _ It Killed Her at Laut. PiTTSiiUKG, Pa., July 31.?While in l'uris with her parents lour years ago Martha Fr'.ck, then aged two vuars, swallowed a pin. To-day she died at ('lesson Springs as the result. She was the daughter of Henry C. Frick, the millionaire coke operator and steel .nan uCacturcr. Sho felt no ill effects until the winter of 18H0, when, after much Hud'cring from a pain in tho side, an ab cess formed aud the p'.n was discharged. It leti her tho victim of a jieculiar dis ease, which has ever since battled tho best physicians in the country. A Trlpie Lynching. MONTGOMKKY. Ala., Allg. t . Last Friday night, in Henry County, a short distance from Gordon, a mob took from u Ulcers four negroes?two men and two womou?who were charged with burn ing a dwelliug houso. On t><o wav to tho river ono of tho men escaped and wus shot at. He rolled down tho bank of (ho river, aud by feigning death es caped into Georgia. Tho others were /placed on the bank of the stream and shot. Tho body of one of tho women was recovered. A SIKEET KNCO?NTER BETWEEN TWO WELL KNOWN COL UMBIA NEWSPAPER MEN. Newapitper Arllolee Cause Had 11 loo d Ba t?Mtt Mr. N. O. (loDMlM of The State and Mr. M. K. Tlghe or The Newa and Courier. Columbia, S. C, Aug. 4.?The quiet monotony of summer lite in our city was suddenly, but not unexpectedly, broken yesterday afternoon by a per sonal eucountei between Mr. M. F. Tighe, the Columbia correspondent of the News ami Courier, and Mr. N. (5. Gonzales, managing editor of Tho State. The affair occurred about half-past 0 o'clock in front of the Newa and Courier bureau olllce, and naturally enough Ina few minutes after its occurrence it was known from ono end ot the town to the other, and was the theme of all tongues. The casus belli, as the lawyers say, was primarily certain newspaper articles which have latterly appeared in the column of the News and Courier over the initials of Mr. Tighn and certain editorial utterances in Tho State. Mr. Tighe intimated that a Columbia dally, persumably The State, had Republican tendencies and always received the tlrst news of any important Republican movements. To this The State respond ed yesterday morning in an editorial In which, among other things, the follow ing references were made to Mr. Tighe: "Mr. Tige has had the opportunity to know, and knows, that The State is owned exclusively by Democrats; that its editorial policy is absolutely con trolled by the man whose name appears at the head of its editorial columns, and whom no one dare accuse to his face of beinir other than a Dein, erat of "the 8traightest sect;' that it advocates tho Democracy of Jefferson without swerv ing or cessation, and that it has no con nection whatever with any other paper, Democratic or Republican, directly or indirectly. ??In making what every one will recog nize as insinuations to the contrary, Mr. Matthow P. Tighe, the correspondent of the Charleston News and Courier in this city, lias been guilty of asneaking slan der, unredeemed by the semblance of truth. '?If Mr. Matthew P.Tighe, in w hat he has sent to the News and Courier, did not intend to insinuate that The Slate was in some manner tainted by Repub lican connections, and for that reason introduced it into a business differeuce between the owners of the Record, then he Is an idiot. "If, on the other hand?and his refer ence to The State as an 'alleged Demo cratic paper bears out the supposition? he did intend to impugn the Democracy of this newspaper, he is a knave." The editorial in question also charged that Mr. Tighe had sought a position on the staff of The State, and had assorted that he was not in sympathy with the Till man party, and that if be had voted in tho general election ho would have voted for Judge llaskell. It also charged that Mr. 'J'igln desired to take stock in The Siate, an J as late as the month "? May was still seeking a position on its staff. Yesterday afternoon Mr. Tighe sent Mr. Gonzales a note in whkh ho told him that ho could not escape a light with him as be had escaped one with Mr. Talbert and Mr. Gaudy, and that al though ho did not go armod, he would meet Mr. Gonzales wherever and when ever he pleased and with any weapon he pleased, ami that he did not carry "tho siill>tJo of the Spaniard;" at least such is said to be the contents of the letter, but as neither the sender nor the re ceiver of it have given it otit, for pub lie ition, the above may not be literally accurate. Upon receipt of the letter Mr. Gonzales procured a cowhide, and, in company with \V. H. Gi.bbes, Jr., sought Mr. Tighe, who was at the time sitting in front of tho News and Courier olllce. Sheriff Rowan, who had a few minutes previous can o up, see ing Mr. Gonzales approaching with the cowhide sticking out of his pocket, said hurriedly to him, "None of that, N. G.," and as he spoke Mr. Gonzales struck at Mr. Tighe, and they imme diately clinched. They were separ ated momentarily by the SherilT but got together again, and according to the ac counts of several bystanders, including, the SherilT, Mr. Tighe struck Mr Gon zales seveial blows in the face, and by that time they were again separated, and neither of them appeared to be much I ho worse for tho encounter. Roth of them were summoned to ap pear before the Mayor this morning for disorderly conduct and lighting on the streets, but thus far no further steps have been taken to prevent any repe tition ot ttie encounter. SherilT Rowan stated last night to a Register repor tor that the rumor that he had pouted himself at the News and Courier ollice for some time before tho dilliculty in anticipation of it, was positively with out foundation in fact. Ho says that he left, bis ollice to go home by a hack street, and remembering some buianess matter, changed his mind and went round on Main street, and had been at the ollice only a few minutes when the encounter took place as above men tioned. 'I'Ih lint a Seheine. Columbia, s c., July 81.- -Alliance lecturer J. II. Kinsler, has to day made public a letter from Capt. Richard O'Noil, ex-mayor of Columbia, who has for some years been classed with Re publicans. In this letter Capt. O'Xeil suggests as a remedy for the existing depression by reason of tho reduced price of cotton, the skipping of a cot ion crop in the whole South next year. His plan, in brief, is for the tanners to refuse to sell but half the present crop during the next, twelve months, de manding 1214 cents per p ?und, plant no cotton at all next season, but laise food crops only. In this way the new Mul berry Sellers liguroi that the farmers would be able to once for all free them selves from bondage to the West as to being dependent thereon for supplies, and would make something handsome on col ton when next they choose to plant it._ A I'olltlOMl I'M, nil I ,'. Kansas City, Mo, August 4.?The Star's Topeka special says: A letter from Harrison Kelly, Kx-Congressman from this district, In Which he re nounces tho Repuplican party and de clares that in future he will ho found lighting wi'h I'effer, 1'olk and Simpson has created more talk than any event of the kind in tho pas . few months, Kelly says he has turned to the new party,the People's party, as the in at medium throngh which to accomplish the re forms favoring their measures, and bc leivlng their enactment would result in great benellt to the people and both the old parties having rejected him he thinks tho logical thing to do is to up port the new party._ Struck by Lightning Raunwkll, S. C, Aug. 4.?During a thunder storm this afternoon the steeple of tho Presbyterian church was struck by lightning. Tho bolt, after ut terly' demolishing tho steeple, passod on down and tore away tho front part of tho church, stunning two negroes who were on the porch at tho time, and kill lug two cows which were grazing in the vicinity. This goes to snow that a 'negro is harder to kill than a cow. THE TRIANGULAR FIGHT IN OHIO A Third State Ticket to Kuter the Field Today. Sri; i n<; i-11:i,i?, O., Aug. 5.?When the People's Party convention was called to order today by Hon. II. T. Harnes, at least 450 delegates occupied sob Is in the beautifully decorated hall. A more orderly and in tell i ent convention Is seldom seen. Many ladies were on tho floor of the ball and several of them oc cupied scats on the stage. The proceed ings were opened with prayer by Joshua Crawford, and Chairman Barnes then read letters of encouragement Irom Sen ator Pell'er and Hon. II. Gaithcrs, mem ber of the national committee of Ala bama. Hugh Cavauuugh, of Cincinnati, was introduced as temporary chairman, and when he advanced to the front of the stage ho was greeted with hearty ap plauso. Cavanaugh said this was the most important convention held by any party for many a year. It is composed of men who bavo no axes to grind.' We propose, said he, to serve notice on dom inating parties that thoy have ^rvod nut their time. Wo differ from both tho other State convcutious which have been he'd this year, notably from the ono in Columbus, in that wo have not so mauy senatorial candidates In the Held. We ate hero to represent n principle which must in the end prevail. Politicians bavo been saying, 11 You till tho soil a id wo will attend to politics." Cavanaugh said that John Sherman, liko Ingaiis, would bo relegated to pri vate life. "If tho Mansfield iceburg fully uudcrstood his position he would say, with Woolsey: 'Had I but served the people with half the strongth I have served Wall street, it would not uow leave mo in my old ago.'" H. B. Hutchison was selected as temporary secretary. Various committees retired, and pending their return to report Rob ert Schilliug addressed the conventiou. Afler receiving reports Iroiu committees, the convention adjourned until to-mor row. The committee on resolutions has been wrestling with a platform since 3 p. in., and at 10 p. in. adjourned until tomorrow morning without having reached a conclusion. Tho sticking points arc the prohibition, land tax aud farm product loau features. The city districts insist that a prohibition plank would cost tho party thousands of votes, and they will fight it to the bitter end. Regarding a ticket, everything is chaos. There or? a dozen candidates, and their respective advocates are not sanguine. There Is beneath the surface considera ble feeling between the Federation of Labor men and iho Knights of Labor, which causes tho farmer element to sus pect both. Teuinerauco Men at Mautuc. Union, S, C, July 31.?The annual meeting of the grand division of tho Sons ot Temperance was held last Wed nesday and Thurday at Santuo. Six subordinate divisions were represented by delegates. The reports of the Stato Scribe and organizer showed an in crease of six new divisions during tho past year. The plans of the ensuing year, bespeaks a decided growth of the order by the next annual meeting. Much interest was manifested by the representatives present. The follow ing officers were elected and installed fv r the ensuing year: Grand worthy patriarch, John Alex ander, Columbia. Grand worthy associate, D. B, Paid. SiaOtUC. Grand scribe, P. >S. Dibble, Orange burg. G rand treasurer, S. S. Stokes, U**' " Grand chaplain, .). W. Gregory! Sin. tue. Grand conductor, J. II. Rau^?h)h, San i nc. Grand sentinel, C. W. Davis, Marion. Tho order is on a steady growth, and while the representation was small, those having the management of tho order In this State feel somewhat en couraged as to the f ut-ure of it, and they ask all interested iu tho growth of the temperance cause to exert themselves during the coming year and help ad vance tho interest of the cause by their individual efforts. The local division at SantUC enter tained the representatives in a very hos pitable manner, and they left for their homos highly pleased and witli renew ed zeal for the cause.?Groenville News. Two i)o?truetlve Wreck*. Lexington, Ky., July 30.?Two of the worst and most destructive wrecks that have occurred in a long time took pla e on the Cincinnati Southern Rail* road this morning, in which several peo ple where in aired and one or two ehrusli ed to death. The first wreck occurred one mile south of High Bridge, when a freight train coming north to thin city was thrown from the track by a broken axle and five heavily loaded cars went tumbling down the embankment. The construction train at La Deville was ordered logo to High Bridge and render all possible assistance. When the train arrived at a deep cut near Doncrail it collided with a freight train. The en gines and a large number of cars were badly demolished. The engineer and fireman of the construction train jumped from their engine and were uninjured. Den Carroll, engineer of the freight, and his fireman, William McKinley, were both caught in their engine. Carroll re ceived slight cuts and bruises and Mc Kinley was buried beneath t'.e engine. When extracted he was mashed into a pulp. All trains are blockaded, and a big excursion that was to leave here this morning for Niagara Falls hud to go over the Kentucky Central. A FalHe Im m Killed. Jacksonville, Fla, July 31.?A Zellwood, Fla, special to the Times? Union says: "Lato last night Miss Myra Puncher, a beautiful girl, only 10 years old, shot and instantly killed A. C. Jones, sec tion foreman on tho Florida Central and Peninsular Kailroad. She lay in wait for him at a street corner aud when he approached blew hH brains out with a revolver. "For nearly a jear past Jones had been paying devoted attention to Miss Puncher, aud common report designated them as engagod to be nurr cd. About two mouths ago, however, Jonei dis carded her and married another girl. Since then Myra has been d spondcut, and at limes revengeful, but no one sut pected that she intended any violence on Jones. "Sinco the shooting she says that Jones became, criminal y intimate with her under promise of niarrige and she could stund her disgrace no longer. Sho was immediately arrested and taken to Orlando, tho county seat, for preliminary trial. Public sympathy is entirely on her side. Jones's remains wcro taken to Lake City for burial." Tiio.sk papers that have been making fun at Gov. Tillman for presuming to light the Coosaw octopus has had the laugh turned on them. FACULTY OF CLEMSON. SOUTHERN INSTRUCTORS FOR THE CAROLINA YOUTH. Theoretical aa Well aa 1'ractloal Ioatrno tion Will be Olvetii bat all Theorie? Will be Kcduced to PraaMee?-Work Done i> v the Uoard of Trutteea. Tendleton, S. C, J uly 30.?The board of trustees of Cleiuson collegu held its I'm ill meeting this m?rning and today tho various members left for their homes. The long session of the board was caused by tho difliculty of the selection of professors from the multitude of applicants, all of whom came with un exceptionable leferencos and recom mendations. The board proceded slow ly aud with tho greatest care* The va rious credentials of the applicants wero read and every endeavor made to secure the very best possible men for tho posi ions.for tho trustees recognized that upon their selections, in great measure, would rest tho fate of the college for successor failure. It took several ballots in each case to agree upon the men for tho different chairs. The board not only endeavored to so cure the men host qualified for tho posi tions, as far as possible,ua' ivo South Car olinians, and men who has been active supporters of the movement for the establishment of a separate agricultural and mechanical college in .South Caro lina. The application of this hist rule caused great difliculty in several cases in the election of a professor. thk faculty. The following were tho professors elected this morning: Professor of English?0. M. Furman, of Oreenville. Assistant Professor of Fnglish?T. P. Harrison, of Anderson. Professor of Physics -C. W. Welch, of Now berry. Professor of History?W. S. Morrison, of Oreenville. Professor of Agriculture and Horti culture?.!. S. Newman, one of tho fac ulty of the Alabama Agricultural and Mechanical college. Assistant Professor of Horticulture? J. C. Dupre.of Abbeville. Professor of Mechanics?A. V. Zaue, of the United States navy. lie is a native of Maryland. Instructor in Drawing?William Welch, of Newherry. Professor of Mathematics?President Strode, a native of Virginia. Associate Professor of Mathematics? J. G. Cllnkscales, one of the faculty of tho Methodist Female college at Colum bia. He Is a native ot Anderson. Assistant Professor of Mathematics? T. P. Perrln, of Abbjville. Associate Professor of Chemistry It. N. lirackett, of Charleston. Associate Professor of agriculture? W. C. Wellborn, of Greenville, Miss At previous meetings of the board II. A. Strode, of Virginia, had been elected president ; Dr. M. 11. Hardin, of Virginia, professor of chemistry, and Messrs. Shiver and Symmes, of Colum bia, assistants in the analyzing of fer tilizers. All of the faculty are Southerners, and the major portion are natives of the Palmetto state. With such a strong and learned faculty, with such a brainy, courteous gentlemen as Professor Strode at its head, tho success of Clem son college is assured. It will do noble work in training the young men of the state to be true and faithful citizens; it will well equip them tor the stern bat tle of life, and lit them to increasHt.be wea'Hi ??>d npygQr-Qfr Vfeft binto. Year wisdom of the founders _?re and more apparent, a. ? generations f.wywlll J be Ik neu and patriots. ,t INOT l'AKTIKs. Kl iliS -ting of tba board there were two distinct parties. One favored practical education alone while the other wanted somo theoretical instruc tion in tho curriculum. The advocates of practical, industrial education were victorious. Theoretical instruction will bo given at Cleiuson college, but all the theories taught will be reduced to practice, The trustees have, not arranged the curriculum and will not do so for somo time, hate in the summer a joint meet ing of the trustees and the professors will be held, aud then the course of study and work will he mapped out. If the buildings are completed in time and judging from tho present rate of progress they will he, the college will commence work February 1, 1892. The session will be nine months long. The brick residence of the professor ot chemistry, another brick residence, the chemistry building, the barn and live wooden residences tor the foremen and professors have been completed. The mechanical building is almost fin* Ished. Very little work remains to be done i " it. The elTorts of the laborers will nov. - concentrated on the main building, the foundations of which have been laid, and the dormitory. Work has been commenced on a wooden cow barn. After the dormitory has been completed, work on the kitchen and dining room will he commenced aud also on the president's house and the residence for the professor of agricul ture. Quite a little town will he formed at Fort Hill by the buildings ol Cleiuson College.- -Charleston Wor.d. What Doen the President Waal? iVaCOMA, Aug 1,?George Hazard, Secretary of the Democratic Central Committee, has received from the gov ern went Quartermaster at Vancouver a ticket from Tncoma to Washington and return, sent by order of President Harrison. Hazard was formerly a lead ing Republican in Indiana, and politi cians heio believe that the Prsidcnt needs his services in tnc coming cam paign and will try to win him from his party. The result of the visit causes much speculation." LOOIiat I'lugun In Colorado. Dknvkk, .July 30.?Recently the wind blowing in from the west brought with it thousands of Rocky mountain lo custs. Thoair was Idled with them un til the elccme. lights were dimmed by their covering the globes. Stores were oblighted to close their doors to keep the pests from covering and destroying their ffOOds. The streets wero for hours covered with them and thousands were swept off in the sewers. Tho hoppers were going east toward Kausas and Ne braska, and the main body continued their journey without stopping. The last time Colorado was visited by the locusts was In 1874, when they went into Kansas and Nebraska and- destroy ed the crops to such an extent that the govcrnnienv was obliged to come to the aid of the settlers. Heath of Kx-Seiintor Hawrrr. Siiawnke, Tenn., Aug., 1.?Ex Unlted States Senator Sawyer of South Carolina died here last night. He was a prominent figure in the South during tho reconstruction, and had amassed a largo fortune in realty. ^