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mxtm totvtmt. LAURENS, S. C, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1, 1891. NO. 5. ALL MEN MAY BE GREAT. THE WdftLD WILL NOT KNOW IT, BUT ALMIGHTY GOD WILL. Ur.T. I>e Wut TalniHifH 1?)? Of l ).:, ;;> Which Meu wild Women Mn> Do?Nino ? Uuumnboul for Mihvcii nud Ilm l.uril OCKAN QjtOVE, N. J.. AlJg. J !. - This is camp meeting Sunday at Ocean Grove. Ita celebration is always re garded an the Kreut event of the year at tills famouH religions watering place. This year tbc attractions uf its obser vance have been enhanced by the pres ence of Dr. Talma??, who preached this afternoon in the Auditorium. Every seat was tilled and every iuch of stand ing room In the aisles was occupied, and the greatest enthusiasm prevailed. It is estimated that lully till eon thous and persons wcro able to hear the doc tor, and many others were deprived'of that privilego. His text was Danie l xi. 32, "The people that do know their (Jod shall bo strong and do exploits." Antiochus Epiphanes, the old shun r, came down threw tunes with his army to desolate tho Israelites, advaucing *onb tirao with a hundred und two trained elephants, swinging Ihoir hunks this way and that, and sixty-two thousand infantry and six thousand envuh > Iroopa, and thev were driven back. Then, I ho second time, he advanced with seventy thousand armed men, am! had bei n aguiu dcfui U(I. Did the third lime lie laid successful siege until the navy of Home came in with the Hush ot their long banks of oars and demanded thai tho hie?o Ii? Idled. And Auliot-hu* Epiphanes suid he wanted time to con sult with his frieuds about it. and l'opi hus, one of the Roman ombassadoi'S, took a stull and made a circle on tho ground around Antiochus Epiphnncs, and compelled him to decide beton; ho came out ol that circle: whereupon he lifted the siege. Some of the. Hebrews had submitted to the invader, but some. . of them resisted valorousl.y, as did Eleu/id' when ho had swine's llesh lorced into his mouth, spit it out, although ho knew he must die for it, ami did die for it; and others, as my text says, did ex ploits. AM. HAVE TU HEN OPPORTUNITIES. An exploit. I would define to bo an heroic act, a brave leal, a great achieve* ment. "Well," you say, "1 admire such Dungs, but there is no chance lor me; mine Is a sort ol humdrum lite. If I had au Antiochus Epiphnncs to light. I also could do exploits." You are right, so lar us great wars are concern* ? ed. There will probably be uo oppor tunity to distinguish yourself in battle. The most of the brigadier generals ol this country would never have "been heard of had it not beuu for the war. Neither will you piobably become a groat inventor. Niuetccn hundred ami niuety-niue out ot every two thousand inventions found in the putcut office at Washington uCver yielded their authors enough money to pay for the expenses of securing the patent. So you will pro bably never be a Morse or an Edison or a Humphrey Davy or nu Eli Whitney. There is not much probability that you will be the one out of the hundred who achieves extraordinary success in com raercial or legal or medical or literary spheres. What then? Cau you have no opportunity to do exploits? I urn going to show that there are tliioo op portunities open that are grand, thrill ing, far reaching, stupendous and over whelming. They arc bet?re you now. In one, if not all three of them, you may do exploits. The three greatest tilings on eartli to do arc to save a man, or save a woman, or save a child. During the course of his life almost every mnu gets into an exigency, caught between two lires, is ground be tween two millstones, sits nu the edge of some precipice, or in some oilier way comes near demolition. 1l may be a financial or a moral or a domestic or a social or a political exigency. Voll sometimes see it in court-rooms. A young man has got into bad company and he has ollcndcd the law, and he is arraigned. All blushing and confused he Is in the presence ot judge and jury and lawyers, lie call be sent right on inthe wrong direction. He is leoliog disgraced and he is almost desperate. Let the district attorney overhaul him its though he were an old oll ender; lot the ablest attorneys at the bar rcluso to say a word lor him. because ho canuot afford a considerable fee; let the judge give no opportunity for presenting ihe mitigating circumstances, hurry up the case and hustle him up to Auburn or Sing Sing. If he live seventy years, fur seventy years he will be a criminal, and each decade of his life will bo blacker than its predecessor. In the luterreg? nums of prison life ho can get no work, and he is glad to break n window glass or blow up a satb or play Use highway* man so as to get back within the walls where, ho can get something to cat und hide himself from the gaze of tho world. HE MIGHT HAVE BEEN SAVED, Why don't his lather conic and help him? His lather is dead. Why don'; his mother como and help him? She Is dead. -Where are all the ameliorating and salutary influences of society? Thoy do not touch him. Why did not some one long ago in the case understand that there, was an opportunity lor the exploit which would bo famous in heaven a quadrillion of years after tho earth has become ((battered ashes in the last whirl wind? Why did not the district alter noy take that young man into his pri vate ofllco and Hay: "My son, 1 SCO that you aro tho victim of circumstances. This is your llrst crime. You are sorry. 1 will bring tho person you wronged in to your presence, and you wilt apologize and mako all the reparation you can, and 1 will give you another chance," Or that young man is presenUd in tho courtroom, and ho has no friends pres ent, and tho judgo suys, "Who is your counsel?" And he "-answers, "I nave, none.' Aud the judge says. "Who Wfll tako this young man's cum:?" And ihn i! is a dead halt, and lid one offers, and alter awhile tho judge turns to some attorney, who never had a good case in all bis lifo and never will, aud whoso advf^ncy would bo enough to se cure the condemnation of innocence it self. And tho professional incompetent crawls up beside the prisonor, holpless ness to reecuo despair, whetc there ought to be a struggle among nil the best men of the profession as to who should have the honor of trying to help that unfor tunate. How rauch would such an at torney have received as his fee for such an advocacy? Nothiug In dollars, but much fArery way in a happv conscious ness that wouifng the work of thti&T brighter, und^eesville summer soho? er. and hlsojted |n conducting CounttB v sciousness tjtutea at K dgefleld and M DKSTRty m Berl e ley. She will So there iL institutes of Orang*. A very late f^um. MIhs Yeargln'h f maud for ?pt'inohar haa made her Jm f emand all over South & hau and Kpriug appnrcl of all sorts. Hundreds of thousands of people say, "It seems we aro g<">?n*r to have uo spring, and wo shall <.*o straight out of winter into warm weather and we can got along without tho usual spring at tiro." Or there is uo autumu weathor, the heat plunging iuu> the cold, aud the Usual clothing which is a compromise between summer aud winter is not re quired. It makes a dilfere vo in the aalo of millions and millious ot dollars o'" goods, and some, oversauguiuo young merchant is caught with u vast amount of unsalable goods that will never bo salable Again, except at prices ruinously reduced. The young merchant with a somewhat limited capital is in a predicament. What shall the old merchants do as they sec the young raun Ii) this nwful crisis? Hub their bauds and luugh and say: "Good for him. Ho might have known better, When ho ha* been in business as long nu wo have be will not load his shelves In that way. IIa! IIu! He will burst up before loug. Ho had no busi ness to open his store vo uear to ours ans how." Sheriff's sale! Utd tlag In the window: "How much is bid for these out-of-fushlon spring overcoats and spring hats or tall clothing out of date? Vvhni do I hear In tho way of ab:d?" "Four dollar.-." "Absurd; I cnmuH lake that bid of lour dollars apiece. Why, ihcso coats when fust put upon Hu market were ollere 1 ot fifteen dollars ench, and now I am offered only four dolfatS, Is that all? Five dollars do 1 hear? Going at thai! Gono at Uvo dol lars." and he lakes tho whole lot. The young merchant goes homo that night and a ivs to his wife: "Well, Mary, we will have to move, out ot this house aud sell our piano. That old merchant lhal lias had an evil eye on me ever since I started has bought out all that collh lUg, und he will have it rejuvenated, and next .year put it on the market as no*, while we will do well if we keep out of the pOOl'house." The young man, brok en spirited, goes to bard drinking. The young wife with her baby goes to her farlhcr'a house, and not only is his store wjped out, but his Imme, his morals and I is prospects for two worlds?this and die next. And devils make a bnnkquet oj lire and lill theiccupa of gall, and drink deep to the health ot the old merchant who swallowed up the young merchant who got stuck cn mrlng goods aud went down. That is oco way, and some of you have. lrl( d it. sa vi. him in this WOltlil) AND THE nic XT. Uui tl > re is another way. That young merchant who found that ho bad mis calculated in laying in too e any goods of one kind, and been Hung of the unusu al season, is standing behind the coun ter, feeliug very blue and biting his lin ger nails, or looking over his account books, which read darker and worse every time be looks at them, and think ing how Ins young wife will havo to bo put In a plainer bouse than she ever ex pected to live iu, or go to a third rate boarding house, where they have tough liver and sour bread live morniugs out of the seven. An old merchant comes iu aud says: "Well, Joe, this has been a hart''season for young merchants, and this prolonged cool weather has put many in tho dol drums, and I have been thinking of you a good deal of late, lor just alter 1 start ed in busdieas I once got into tho same scrape. Now, i! there is any thing I can do io help you out I will gladly do it. Better just put those goods out of sight for tho present, and next season wo will plan something about them. 1 will help you to some goods thut you can soil for ii e on commission, und I will go down to one of the wholesale houses and tell them that 1 know you and will back you up, und If you waul a few dollars to bridge over tho present 1 can lot you have them. Uc as economical as you can, keep u stiff upper lip, and remem ber that you have two friends, God and myself. Good morning!" The old merchant goes away and the young man goes behind his desk, and the tears roll down his cheeks. It is the Ural lime be bus cried. Disaster made Intii mad at everything, and mad at man and m id at God, Hut ibis kindness melts hliii, and the tears seem to relieve his brain, and his spirits rise irom ten boldW zero '.o eighty in the shade, aud ho comes out ot the crisis. About three years after, this young merchant goes Into tho old merchuui's store and sayti "Well, my old friend, I was iliis morning thinking over what you did lor me three years ago. You hclpi d me out of oU awful crisis In my commercial history. 1 learned wisdom, prosperity haa come, and the pallor has [lotiu out of ray wile's cheeks, and the roses that were there when I courted her in lier lather's house havo bloomed again, and my business Is splendid, and I thought 1 ought to let you know that sou saved a man!" In ft short time ufler, the old mcr chnut, who hud been a i/ood while shaky in his limbs und who laid poor spells, Is called to leave the world, and one morn ing niter he had read tho twenty-third Psalm about "The Lord is my shop. he*(I," he closes his eyes in this world, and an angel who had been for many years appointed to watch the old man's dwelling, cries upward the news that the patriarch's spirit is about nacend log, and 'ho twolvo angels who keep tin: twelve miles of luavcu, unite iu cry ing down to tlii? approaching Spirit of the old man. "Come in and welcome, for it has hern told all over these col estial lands ilnit you saved a man." TUB WOULD AGAINST A WOMAN. rThere lometimes come exigences in tue life of a woman. Ono morniug a few year* mo I saw In tho nowsptper that there was a jotthg woman in New York Whose po<ketbook, containing lliirty-Hoven dollars and thirty-three cents Ik d been SlolcO, and she had been left without a penny at the beginning of winter in a strange city, and no work. And although slio was a stranger, I did not allow the '.) o'clock mall to leavo the lamppost on our corner without carry ing the thirty-seven dollars and thlrty thieo cents, and the cane was proved genuine. .v>w, i have read all Shakespeare's tragedies, and all Victor Hugo's trage dies, and all Alexander Smith'?, trage dies, but I never read a tragedy more' thrilling ilinn that case, and aimiliar cases by tho hundivda und thousands In all our large cities. Young women with out money aud without home and with out work in the great mnels roms of metropolitan life. When auch a caae comes under your observation, how do you Lent ii? "Get out of my way. We have no room iu our establishment for any more hands. I don't believe iu wo "nTcff*-;'U\way. They are a lazy. Idle, worthless sol. .lo'm, please show this person out ot the door.'' Or do you compliment her personal nppe nance und say things to her which il any man said to .your sister or daugh ter you would kill him on the spot? Thai is one way. and it I* tried every day in the large cities, and many of those who advertise for female bauds In facto ries and for governesses in families have proved themsolves unlit to be in any place outside of bell. But there is an other way, and I saw it one day in tho Methodist Book Concern in New York, where a young woman applied for work, and the gentleman in tone and manner said in substance: "My daughter, wo employ women here, but I do not know of any vacant place in our department. You had better inquire at such and such a place, aud I hope you will bo success ful in .getting something to do. Here is my name, and tell them I sent you." The embarrassed and humiliated wo man seemed to give way to Christian confidence. She started out with a hope ful look that I think must have won for her u placo In which to earn nor bread. I rather think that cousiderate aud Christian gentleman saved a woman. New York aud Brooklyngrouud up last year about thii ty thousand young women aud would like to grind up about as mauy this year. Out of all that long proces sion of women who ma ich ou with uo hope for this world or the next, battered and bruised aud scoffed at, and Hung off the precipice, not ouo but might have been saved for home and God and heav en. Hut good men and good women aro not in that kind of business. Alas for thai poor thiugl Nothing but the thread of that sowing girl's necdlo held her, aud Iho thread broke. a contrast. I have heard mcu toll in public dis course what u man Ib; but what is a wo man? Until some one shall give a bet ter definition, I will tell you what wo man is. Direct from God, a sacred and delicate, gilt, with alfectlons so great that no meii. iriug line short of that of the infinite God can tell their bound. Fashioned to refine and soothe and lift and Irradiate home aud society and the world. .Of such value that uo one can appreciate it, unless his mother lived long enough to let him understand it, or who in soiiio great crisis of life, when all else tai.ed him, had a wife to re-cu torce him with a faith iu God that noth ing could disturb. Speak out, ye cradles, and tell of the feet that rocked you and tho anxious faces that hovered over youl Speak out, ye nurseries of all Christendom, aud ye homes, whether desolate or still in full bloom with the faces of wife, mother a id daughter, and help mo to' dcflno what woman is. But as geograph ers tell us that tho depths of the sea cor respond with the heights of the moun tains I have to toll you that a good wo manhood is not higher up khan bad wo manhood is deep down. The grander tho palace the more awful the coufiagra tiou that destroys it. The grander the steamer Orogon the more terrible her gomg down just off the coast. Now I should not wonder if you trem bled a little with a sense of responsibil ity when 1 say that thcro is hardly a person in this house but may have an opportunity to save a woman. It may in your case be done by good advice, or by financial help, or by trying to bring to bear some one of a thousand Chris tian influences. If, for instance, you find a woman in financial distress and breaking down in health and spirits try ing to support her children, now that her h.isbaud is dead or an invalid, doing that very important and honorable work ?but which la llttl? appreciated?keep iug a boarding house, where all tbe guests, according as they pay small board, or propose, without paying any board at all, to decamp, aro critical of everything and hard to please, busy yourselves iu trying to get her more pa trons, and tell her of divine sympathy. Yea, If you see a woman favored of forlu'ie and with all kindly surroundings tindlug in the hollow flatteries of the world her chief regalement, living for herself ind for time as if there were no eternity, strive to bring her into the kingdom of God, as did the other day a Sabbath school teacher, who was the means of the conversion of the daughter of a man of immense wealth, and the daughter resolved to join the church, and she went homo and said, "Father, 1 am going to join tho church, and I wautyou to come." "Ob, uo," he said, "I never go to church." "Well," said the daughter, "it I wcro going to bo married would you not go to see me married?" And he said, "Oh, yes." "Well," said she, "this is of more im portance than that." So he weut and has gono ever since, and loves to go. I do not know but that faithful Sabbath school teacher not only saved a woman, but saved a man. There, may be iu this audience, gathered from all parts of the world, there may bo a man whose behavior toward vornan hood has been perfidious. Kepentl Stand up, thou master-piece of sin and death, that I may charge you! As far as pos sible make reparation. Do not boast that you have her in your power aud that shu cannot help herself. When that lino collar and cravat, and that elegant suit of clothes comes olf and your un covered soul stands before God, you will be better off if you save that wo man. you may save a child. There is another exploit you can do, and that is to save a child. A child does not seem to amount to much. It is nearly a year old before it can walk at all. For the first year and a half it caunot speak a word. For the first ten years it would starve if it had to earn its owu food. For the first llftccn years its opinion ou any subject is absolutely valueless. And then'there are so many ot them. My, what lots of children! And some people have contempt for children. They aro gootl for nothing but to wear out the carpets and break things and keep you awake nights cry ing. Well, your estimate of a child is qul*0 ditlbrcnt from that mother's estimate Who lost her child this summer. They took it to the salt air ot the seashore and to the tonic air of the mountains, but no he p came, and the brief paragraph of its life is ended. Supposs that life could be restored by purchase, how much would that bereaved mother give? She would take all the Jewels Irom her fin gers and neck' and bureau and put them down. And if told that that was not enough she would take her house and make over the deed for It, and it that were not enough she would call in all her investments and put down all her mortgagee and bonds, and it told that were not enough she would say: "I have made over all ray property, and d I can have that child back I will now pledge that I will toll with my own hands and carry with my own shoulders In any kind of hard work and live in a cellar and die in a garret. Only give me back that lost darling!" I am ?lad that there are those who know something of a value of a child. Its possibilities are tremendous. What will those hands yet do? Where will those leet yet walk? Toward what dtsttny will that never dying soul betake itself? Shall those lips be the throno of blasphemy or benediction? Come, chronologiftls, and calculate the decades on decades, tho centuries ou centuries, of its lifetime. Oh, to save a child! Am I not right in putting that among tho great exploits? But what are you going to do with those children who arc worso ot than if their father and mother had died tho day thoy wore born? Thero are tens of thous ands of such. Their parcutage was agaui8t them. Their name is against them. Tho structure of their skulls is against them. Their nerves and mus cles contamiuatid by tho inebriety or dissoluteness of their parouts; they arc practically at their birth laid out on a plank in the middle of tho Atlantic ocean, in an equiuoctial gale, and told to make for shore. What to do with t iem is the questiou ofieu asked. There is another question quite as pertiuent, and that is. What are they going to do with usv They will, teu or eleven years from now, have ns many votes a9 the same number of well born children, aud they will baud this land over to ?narchy and political damnation just as sure as wc neglect them. Sup pose wo each one of us save a boy or save a girl. You eau do it. Will y->u? I will. KNOW GOD AND be STRONG. How shall we get ready for one or all of these thrco exploits? We shall mako a dead'failure if in .our own strength wo try to save a tnau or woman or child. But my text suggests where wo aro U, get equipment. "The people that do know their (Jod scull bo strong aud do exploits." Wc must know him through Jesus Christ in our own salva tion, aud then we shall have his help in the salvation of others. And while you are saving strangers y ou may save some of your ovn kin. You think your broth ers and sisters and children aud grand* children nil safe, but thev aro not dead, and no ono is safe till ho is dead. Ou the English coast there was a wild storm aud a wreck in the olliing, and tho cry was: "Man the lifeboat!'' But Harry, the usual leader of the sailor's crew, was not to be found, and they went without him, and brought back all the shipwrecked people but ono. liy this time Harry, tho leader ol the. crew, appeared and said, "Why did you leave that one?" Tho answer was, "Ilo could not help himself nt all, and wo could not get him into the boat." '?Man the lifeboat!" shouted Harry, "and we will go tor that one." "No," said his aged mother, standing by, "you must not go. 1 lost your lather in a storm like this, aud your brother Will went off six years ugo. and I have not heard a word from Will since, ho left, and I don't know where hois, poor Will, and I cannot let you also go, for I am old and dependent on you." His reply was, "Mother, I must go and save that one man, and if I am lost God will take caro of you in your old days." The lifeboat put out, and after an aw ful struggle with the sea they picked the poor fellow out of the rigging just in time to save his life, and started for the shore. And as they came within speaking dis tance, Harry cried out, "We saved him, and tell mother it was brother Will. ' Oh, yes, my friends, let us Start out to save somo one for time and for eternity, some man, somo woman, somo child. And who knows but it may,directly or in directly, be tho salvation of one o! our own kindred, and that will be an exploit worthy of celebration when the world itself is shipwrecked, and the sun has gono out like a spark from a smitten an vil, and all the stars aro dead! A Walking Barroom. Ham unto, Conn., Aug. 27.?The Prohibitionists of this region are wild over a discovery that they have for years been hoodwinked by an eccentric indi vidual whom they supposed was simon pure in his devotion to their principles. The death, of this Individual, whose name was Kildeer Huff, opened the eyes o' tho Prohibitionists. Huff came to this place several years ago. He was a strange person, who lived ulonc in a rudo hut ou Potato Hill. Ho pretended to be deaf mid dumb, but boy s who havo tantalized him suy that Huff could swear very fluently. Iu addition, he was humpbacked, aud on account of bis de formity he was an object of pity to the townspeople, none ol whom know Where he came from. Lnst Friday Hull* wus fouud dead by the roadside near his hut on Potato Hill. Tho villagers wore surprised to find that he wus not a humpback. Tho d e lorn tit y proved to be a padded sack, itiside of which was tound a dozen pint bottles, containing rum, whiskey and cordial, nnd in his pocket was found $197, mostly in dimes aud nickles. the regulation barroom change. The hump back has been n walking barroom, und the mystery of how he supported him self is solved. Tho town is a no-license place, nnd the Prohibitionists have Hal tered themselves that here, nt least, no drinking was done. It Is remembered that. Hull'used to prowl around lalo at night, during which time ho visited the houses of those who love an occasional nip, and either void them a pint, bottle, or elso a drink, lor which ho charged only 5 cents. Favor a Still Hum. Danvii.lb, Va., August 20.?A po litical circular recently issued by Gen eral Mahonu fell into the hands ot a newspaper man here to-day. The cir cular begins by saying that under the present election law in Virginia a fair election Is impossible and concludes us follows: "Our judgment is that we should not make nominations for the Legislature this fall or for any ofllee whore and so long as tho same aro ex clusively governed by the existing elec tion law but leave the Held to bo ruled by Alliance candidates ami independ ents, reserving our tiro to bo quietly, but resolutely and unanimously, deliv ered agaist tho Democratic nominee wherever there is a chanco so to direct our political Influence with effect." Mother and Children Killed. Louisville, Ky., August 25.?Near Nicholasvllle yesterday a special engine on the lt. N. C. & B. ran down and killed Mrs. Mary Kichardson and two children. Sho was walking across a bridge over the Kentucky Iliver with her three little girls, agod 8, 0 aud I years. Thoy felt sccuro as all tho reg ulnr trains had passed. Shortly un eu glno came upon them. Sho drew ns far to one nido as possible, gatherod tho children by her aldo and all crouched down as low as possible. Tho tender projecting further than the englno struck them and knocked mother nud children oil' the bridgo to the rocks sixty feet bo low. The baby was lying flat upon tho ties and escaped. Tub Georgia Legislature has passed a bill Intended to equalise taxa tion lu that State. The bill provides that the county boards of appraisers shall consist of live members, ail to be freeholders. Their compensation id fixed at $3 per day and thirty days Is al lowed for the completion of their work. THE PAKK PLACE HORROR. DREADFUL SIGHTS AT THE SCENE OF THE CATASTROPHE. Ciowrl? of i > i-t i :i. i. .1 Mournvi-a?>A Nuin l?*r ol BItu's in, in FouimI Under Ouo I'rfu--A Group of lltrla aud u Boy Dis covered lit Another IMac?. New York, Aug. 22.?It uow seems possible that ouo of the worst fatal ac cidents which has ever happened in this City occurred just alt or noon today. From all that can be learned, f nilv us many if not more than fifty peoplo nave lost their lives. Tho accident came: so sudden that it was impossible for the occupants of the two big buildings at 70 ami 72 Patk&'lace to escape from the buildings before tho collapse was com plete. There was but one eyewitness to tho accident, A. A. Johnson, janitor in tho building at 81 Park Place, across tho street from where the accident occurr ed. Uo said that be was standing ou the stops to 81 when ho heard tho sound ot an explosion. It came from across the street. It was not loud. Almost im mediately the front wall of the two buildings collapsed and tho entire build ing caved in wi?h a deafening crash. It came so suddenly that it was impossible for a living soul to escape from the buildings. On tho ground tloor of one of the numbers was a restaurant that was crowded with people. I'ho other Moors were occupied by a metal plate factory; the Southern Publishing com pany; S. Lout el ?Je Co., art designers Ellis <fc McDonald, bookbinders, aud other establishments. Michael Carroll, who was employed in tho metal leaf factory, had been out to lunch and had just readied the door of 72 when he heard the explosion, which dazed him for a moment. He jumped up and ran for life. As ho got- away the front walls of 70 and 72 toppled ov er with a loud crash. As the walls fell Carroll saw many people passing the place were covered Uudsr the brick and stones. It is not known how many girls were at work in tho metal plate factory, but there were a largo number. In the restaurant on the giound tloor of No 72. which was kept'.-- \1. Pe'erson, a crowd of peoplo were at lunch the number being estimated at between twenty-live and thirty. Then there was ten or twelve girls in the washroom in the basement. Trlpp & Co., druggists, in tho building also had a largo number of employees. Three children ol Prank Haggerty, janitor of 01 Park Place, were playing In front ol 72 Park Place. They u, io killed. Their father stood across the street at the time I.toundsman Tay lor was ou his way to din net', passing along l'ai k Place, when he heard" the ex plosion. He ran to the scene and realiz ing that something must be done, ran to a hardware si ore on Vosey street, secur ed a dozen axes and distributed them to the firemen who had already arrived. The firemen and bystanders soon cut a hole in the side, wall of 71, out of which seventeen persons crawled, all of whom boro bruises. The testimony of all the people who were in the neighborhood at tho time is that they were first startled by a deep rumbling sound of an explo sion, which was directly followed by the collapse of the building, Hie wall of which fell outward with a frightful crash. Three alarms of lire were fol lowed by tho arrival of the ambulances from all the hospitals. The reserves were called out from nearly all station houses, but t he greatest difficulty was experienced in keeping the thousands ol peoplo back beyond the lire lines v. hen it became known that there had been a tearful lossot life. New YORK, Aug. 24.?The wotk of looking for the dead in the ruins of Park Place continued uninterrupted through the night except at times when rain poured down In such torrent r.s to render labor beneath it Impossible. Ex cept at those times also the lire lines at either end ol the block were lined with waiting friends or relatives of the miss ing. When they were driven from the Streets by the rain they sought shelter in doorways or wherever protection might be found, but as soon as it ceased their weary and mournful vigil was re sumed. At 8.55 o'clock there was a bustle of citement among the workmen that in stantly communicated itself to the eager watchers at the lirelines. Another body had been found. It was that of a man that lay beside a tangle of presses at No 70. It. was taken out and placed in one of the pinecollins on the sidewalk, it was terribly burned and unrecogni zable unless identity may be disclosed by the tattered fragment of clothing that but partially covered it. Tho work again went on unmarked by any accident until 1 o'clock this morning, when a second body was found, also lhatof a man, near the spot where the first was discovered, Five minutes later the third body, also of a man, was found in nearly the same place. Moth were taken out and placid iu Collins on the sidewalk besides that conti.ining the body found at 3.55 o'clock. Hardly had this been done when the body of another man was found, bnt it. lay beneath a heavy press and it will be impossible to move It un lit a derrick is obtained to hoist the press from tho ruins. There war. ul most simultaneous discovery of a Ifth body, making twenty-one In all, made among brick and paper at 71 It Wn8 t hat of a large man, but although the ince was visible, like the otheis exhum ed, it was unrecognizable, At 0 o'clock Ititljnn laborers were still at work re moving tho bricks that buried the body and hindered it* removal. From daylight on the crowd ol spu? tators at the fire lines gradually Inc ens ed, and at 0 o'clock n densoly packed throng Idled every spot that command ed the slightest view of the blackened ruins. At the ollico of the boiler Insptc torat police headquarters to-day it. was stated that according to the records there llio Taylor building had no steam hollers Of any kind, nor had there been any there for several years past. The steam power used in It was supplied from outside sources. During the morning one of tho Ital ians working In tho rums stooped over i he body of one of tho victims and took a silver watch from his pocket. He was arrested and taken to the station, fol lowed bv a mob, many of whom shout ed, "Lynch him!" "Lynch him!" lip to noon the official account of the nunibor of bodies taken from the ruins as kept by the police is twenty-throe. At that hour there were two bodies vis ible, but they hud not yet been dug out. fhese would bring the. number of bodies actually found up to twenty-five. lietween 3 and 4 o'clock six bodies were found close together. Five were girls, aged from 18 to 25, and three of them woro recognized as press feeders for Eiebler & Moss. Another worked for ltosenfeld, bronze leaf manufactur er, The llfth body was that, or a boy. They all bore tho appearence of having died by suffocation. The odor of decomposing and burned llesh that arise* from tho ruins is be coming horrible and the disinfectants hitherto used seoin to produce little ef fect. (ieneral alarm has been sent out for Louts Hohenfeld, proprietor of a paint store, No 70 Park Place, his bi ??her .stating that since the disaster be has been missing, it is supposed Unit Iiis mind was affected by theterribio scenes he witnessed when tho crash cauie, if he is not actually in the ruins. District Attorney Nichol is alroady considering the question of indicting Hie persons responsible for the Park Place disaster. After long consultation with his chief assistant, Ex-Judge Gun nlngs Belford, he will place the case iu the hands of Assistant District Attor ney Towosend. Up to 7 o'clock to-night thirty live bodies had been recovered from the ruins. Twenty of the bodies recovered havo been identified. Eighty-eight people are reported by friends to bo missing. MADE HAIN BY DETONATION Six Bourn1 Preotuttatlon Follow tiieKx in-1 i ii,(-ii i i In Texan. Midland, Tex., Aug. 22.? Gen Djrobforth's party of rain makers aro jubilant today. Tho first important experiments havo met with great sue cess, A rain fell for more th m six hours yesterday, and thoy declare that it was "undoubtedly caused by the explosion ot oxhydrogen balloons, rackarock pow der and dynamite. Ato'clock yester day afternoon a large balloon was sent up at the C rauch, where tho men of science havo their headquarters. Tue ranch U about twenty live miles from this town. Tho balloon was sent up about, one and a quarter miles and was then exploded. It made a report like a severe clap of thunder. There wore only a few white clouds ilo.iting in the blue sky at, the time, tin sun was shin ing, aud any old farmer or mariner would have s tid that It would not rain in a week. The weather instruments showed t'.iiit the air was remarkably dry und the barometer pointed at "i<d;." Ten in mutes after tho balloon had disappeared In a peal of thunder, kites were set (lying, and attached to their tails was dynamite. This was exploded when the kites were high in the air, and then a great quantity of powdt r, which Was scai tered over the ground for about, two milts, was set off by electricity this made a noisG like a succession of batterios of artillery. Tho smoke rose in the air for about. 200 feet and drilled toward the expert's headquarters, He fore.it reached there, however, it wits driven to the eartli by u torrent of rain. The few lleecy clouds had gathered together, others had formed, tho sky quickIv bad become overcast, and a storm had been created by man's efforts. The barometer began falling ten min utes alter the balloon was exploded. Tho ruin wus very heavy, and the cen tre oi the storm was over the C ranch. According to reports from the ranch men and employees along the line of the Texas and Pacific Railroad tho f*totm ? xioneted over an area of not loss than 1,000 square nines. I' is hard to get definite reports, and it may 1. *'". reached further. The noise of the explosion was heard plainly at Midland.and even at ranches forty miles from the scene of t he ex periments. The people thought it was thunder. At about 7 o'clock this even* ing several more explosions were heard hoio. The ex peri met tors were undoubt edly at work again. The sky became overcast t.iside ot half an hour aud it began to rain at 7:40 o'clock. It looks now as if it would rain ali night. This region, as a rule, is very dry.and it is exceedingly unusual to have much rain nt this season of the year. The rainmakers uro sure that they have stolen the secret of J upiter Pluvius, and say they can Hood this country at an hour's notice. Their greatest experi ment, when they will explode a tremen dous lot of balloohs, kites und dyna mite, will probably not take place until Friday. The ranchmen and town weather prophets don't believe the storm was made by the rain producers, but Gen. Dryenforth says ho w ill con vince the most skeptical in a day or two. KuiMihlleuii PuimIh tor Ohio. Washington, Aug. 20.?T h c amount of money which it, was alleged Xcw York im porter 8 were raising to be spent against McKinley Is a mere baga telle lo tho su n which the friends of Senator Sherman openly boasl here w ill be subscribed by Kasten) capital! )l8 to assist iu securing Ins re-election. It is assorted that whatever stun, no matter how large, may ill the opinion of exper ienced CAmpnigliers be necessary will be forthcoming to elect a Legislature favor able to Mr. Sherman. This subject is daily discussed here bv nun whose opportunities to know Republican plans and expectations are exceptionally good, ft seems to have put them iu u most conitortablo frame of mind. Thev are loud in praise ot the Senator's generalship In disconnecting himself from the tariff part, of tho cam paign discussion and announcing in ad vance that ho will confine his remarks almost exclusively to theliuauclal plunk of ibe platform. They think that by this act ho will not only receivu. leu tiinos the outside assistance he would othorwiso receive, but. thai bis individual campaign will be so much the more a national one. lie has. virtually, they declare, in .do two campaigns ol it--ono with McKin ley and bis turifl'bill involved* and the othi r Sherman and sound money. A leading Demon'nl suhl here to-day Uni be. beard Hie Uoptlblicail managers tu tih o expect tho largest outside con tributions lo llioir campaign fund ever made In Uns country. McKlnloy's ap peal is to the in inulueiurers, Sherman's lb the bankers. Ijolwccn them they expected to reach every rich corporation or Drin in the land. (ire-.?1 Britain Siorav-Sweof, London, Aug. 20,?All night long a tremendous butrlcuno prevailed thron m outGreai Britain. Hvorywhore the lele? graph wires are prostrated, and It is im possible to obtain anything more than the most meagre Information as to the amount of destruction caused by tho fearful wind and sweeping rain. Iu and about London, and the lew outside places that have been heard from, trees have been dragged out of the ground by their mots and the roots ol houses have been ripped up ami burled into the streets, lanes and by-ways. At New casilu the tents of ibe llowov show were blown away like straws and the beauli iUl exhibit which they had enclosed was almost entirely destroyed. A dispatch from Southpor', in Lancaster County, on the Irish Sea, reports that the Norw egian barque Gcuon has been wrecked Olr that place. The crew were, however, saved. Numerous other minor casual ties uro reported. It Is feared that with tho restoration of tho telegraph service will como the news of serious disasters all along the coast. A (Veil Digger Killed. llLAOKBTOCK, Aug. 20.- Sim Kice, a colored well digger, wus instantly killed yesterday evening while digging a well for .James Jones. Ho had worked in the well all day, and was about to quit und let another tako his place, who was to work all night. As they were draw ing up a tub ol mud and water, the tub loll back a distance of somo thirty-five feet, striking him iu the. bead, unu kill ing him instantly.- Slate. COWHIDED HIM IN COURT. Au Augercd Woman** Urveiig?? l'iiou h Prominent Lawyer. Chicago, Aug. 22.?A pretty bru netto ami u swishing rawhide i>Iuyc<l havoc in Jud-o Kohlsoat's court today, aud practically decided a long drawn out and sensutioual litigation over tho custody o|'h child and a if 30,000 estate, which lias occupied tho attention of tho Probate Court lor ninny months. Tho pretty woman who did the raw hiding was Mrs. Ed McMahon, whose husband had been charged with attempt ing to poison his own child and whose mother-'.n-law has been endeavoring to get possession of the child on this charge. The lawyer who was raw'uded is Patrick Mcllugh, a well-known lawyer, who was not long ngo a candidate for the bendh aud who was associated with At torney Hyncsin behalf of the mother In law in the case. Judge llohlsunt was unmoved. Ho simply had tho belligerents removed and refused tho application of indignant At torney Ilynes to impose a penalty for contempt of court. Hut not only did Mrs. McMahon horse whip and her husband pound tho lawyer, she also severely slushed an olliccr of the State, Peter Smith, the guardian ol the child ou behalf of tho State. The whipping occurred about 11 o'clock todav, and was not wholly un expected. Yesterday, when Attorney Hollugh had read an affidavit taken in Canada, in which Mrs. McMahon was charged with beim; a woman of bad repu tation, and with doing immortal acts that lady arose in court and siiouled with Hashing eyes and trembling lips that the allegation was outrageous and a libeloUS falsehood. So, this morning, when the huinUomc woman in black stood up m her scat in the body of tho court and moved quietly in the. direction of Attorney Mitlugh. Clerk HalleriliangUOSSod what was ??inn ing, lie had time only to shout, "L ink out!" however, before Mrs. McMahon was at the lawyer's side. A moment later a black rawhide. w;is hissing through the air and raising livid wells on tho lace and neck ot Attorney Mcllugh. The lawyer dropped his brief and rushed to the corner of the court room on the left of the judge. The woman followed end gave him the length and breadth of the leather once, tw:co, thrice. Then Stale Custodian Pctor Smith jumped und stepped tow aid the corner ill which the sensational thrashing was going on. Mrs. MsMahou wheeled around suddenly and caught him with a Stinging slash across the face. Hound the head and shoulders of Smith fell the rawhide. Meanwhile the husband had taken a hand In the. affair. When his wito" uh'OCtcd her attention to the State custodian he tftc'"!^d the lawyer aud pounded the unfortunate Mchugh all over the court room. At this point Judgo Kohlsa.it called iu tho services of the shorifT, and a couple, of deputies hustled all the parties out ol court. HOW ALMY WAS CAPTURED. a Fl'ftAmnU l'ercli(!<l on it Ladder .Made Turins With tlio (,'rowd. HANOVER, N.H., Aug. 20.?Frank c. A liny, who murdered t he young woman, Christie Warden, under circumstances of peculiar atrocity a week or two ago, was this morning discovered in Mr. Warden's barn. Almy fired fifteen shots at his pursuers and slightly wounded Azro Turner, of Norwich, Vt. A conference was then held whether i he barn should bo burned or an attempt made to capture Almy alive. Tho lat ter course was determined lipon, A committee headed by ex-sheriff Urldg man entered tho barn and opened nego tiations with Almy. The latter said. "II jou will guarantee me protection, 1 will give up my arms and surrender; otherwise, will sell my life dearly." liridgman, after conversing with Al my returned and mounting the ladder leaning against the house said to the crowd: "Fellow citizens: Almy has been fouud. Now 1 call upon you in the name of law and good orderte restrain jour anger and lot the law take its course with tIiis foul murder. 1 say, at the request of the county ofllcials, wo have as good courts as tle-re aro on t he face Of the earth." Thesi) remarks wen: greeted with cihs of "Yes, >es, let tho law takes its course," and it. was Hgteed that Almy should bo left in tho hands of i he law. Brldgman, who was still perched on tho ladd- r, said: "Your assurances that Almy shall be dealt with according to law is satisfactory. I promise you shall have all the opportunity to see him. Form in line pn each side of the road, and he shall pass along between the lines." The lines were formed, and Almy dually walked out of the barn and gave himself up to the sheriff, followed in good order bylheci'OWd. Ho was taken to jail and locked up. Polygamy in onto Lima, ()., Aug. 20.?Residing near Napoleon, Ohio, is Michael Cramer und three wives. They all live on a $50,000 larm, and three houses are used by the three families with one head. Cramer brought his second wife to the larm iu 1870, and placed her in a cosy house he had erected for her. Wile No, 1 oll'ei'ud no objection. Ho was arrested at the tune, however, and tried for bigamy, but escaped on a technicality. In 1881 Cramer brought his third wife to the farm. For some cause, no action was taken until Monday, v> hen the county pi'OSOCUting attorney completed an in vestigation and prepared evidence .to lay beforo the grand jury. Ono ul 1'orlor'it 1.1 u mi. i Charleston, S. C, Aug. 20,?In the special census bulletin issued yesterday the statement is made that the assessed valuation of all property in South Car olina was $1,377,097 leas iu 1800 than in 1880. This statement is utterly with out foundation. The Comptroller Gen eral's report Of Ibis State gavo the total assessed value of all property in 1880 as ?183,002,884, and for 1800 as $150,002, 457. an increaso of more than $17,500, 000. Tho new assessment this year will add thirty millions more to tho assessed values ot the State. The Voiiiik. .ti on Record. HALEIOH, N. C. Aug. Ill--To-day i hero was brought to tho penitentiary the youngest convlot evor convicted of highway robbery iu this state. His name is Will Edwards, aud he is only thirteen years old. lie committed the crime in Orange County In Juno, and was successful in obtaining money iroin ins victim. He gets a sentence of seven years, A Stage Conch Held Up. The Halles, Oregon, Aug.2L?The Princevllle and Canyon stago was held up about thirty miles from hero last evening by a masked man with a Win chester rille. The robber ordered the driver to throw out live small sacks and then drlvo on. The driver promptly obeyed. Tho mall bags contained hov; oral money orders and registered pack ages. RAILROAD ASSESSMENTS. THE RAISE EXTENDS WAY INTO THE MILLIONS. I'! n.i I I'Ik""'* Announced by the Hoard of Kiiuallx.itlon?ComparUon With Th<>*o of I.ait Year?Some Small ltoatle Dou bled. COIATMUIA, S. C, Aug. 22.?The long awaited assessmonts of tho railroads of the State, about which so much has been said, and against which tho rail roads made such a light, have at last been passed upon finally by the Stnto board of equalization of railroads, and yesterday they were at last inado public. Only the bare assessments por mile are given, and no compilations or compar isons announced! Therefore it is im possible to give tho exact amount of the raise, but by a careful confutation from the data given, it is found that the raise will amount to scarcely less than .521,000,000. and may bo a couple of millions higher. This year there is a much larger number of miles of road being operated in the State, and tho to tal raise is in somo measure duo to that, but the actual raise por mile is very large. Tho total valuation of property for each road was not given out by the comptroller, ami consequently cannot bo compared with the ligures of last year. Thi n again several roads, name ly: The Augusta and Kuoxville, Greenville and Laurens, (Jreenvillo, Lauren., and Sp irtauburg, Savannah Valley, Carolina, Kuoxville and Wes tern, und Spartanburg, Union and Co lumbia do not appear on this year's re ports at all as such roads, for they havo been absorbed by others under one name. The raise, however, ii so great as to cause a general belief that tho railroads, especially the big ones will make a light before paying such taxes and carry the matter Into the courts. The ligures, as announced by the Comptroller general, and the compari sons with the liguicM of last year, are given below: Ashley River Railroad L ist, year 811,000 per mile; this year $18,000, Atlanta aud Charlotte Air Line?-Last year 913,500 per mile; this year 518, 0(X). Bluckvllle, Allsten and Ncwberry? Last year 95,000 per mile; this year 90.500. Blue Ridge Railroad?Last year 84, 0(>0 per mile; this year 50,000. Harnwell Railroad -Last year 95,000 per mile; this year 80,500. Rishopvillo Railroad- Last year 8500 per mile; this year9000. Carolina, Cumberland (Jap and Chi cago?Last \ear 95,000 per mile; this year 98,000. Central Railroad-Last, year 88.000 per mile; this year 812,000. Charleston and Savannah Railroad? Last year 912,000 per mile; this vejtr- - 913,000. Ashvillo nnd Spartanburg Railroad? Last year 81,000 per mile; this year 88, 000i Charleston, Cincinnati and Chicago Railroad?Last year 97,500 per mile; this year 8to.ooo. Cheraw and Chester Railroad ?Rast year 92,500 per mile; this year 81,000. Cheraw and Salisbury Railroad?Last, year 84,000 per mile; this year 98,000. Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad?Last year 910,500 nor mile; this year 914,000. Sea Island Branch?93,000 per mile. l'ort Royal and Western Carolina? 810,000 per mile. Chester aud Lenolr Railroad?Last year 82,500 pur mile; this year 94,000. Columbia and Greenville Railroad? Last year 98,000 per mile; this year 810,500. Florence Railroad?Last year 90,000 per mile; this year 810,000. Georgetown and Western Railroad Last year 82,000 per, mile; this year 81,000. Laurens Railroad?last yoar 82,000 j per.mile; this year 95,000. Munches'or and Augusta Railroad? last year 94,000 per mile; this year 85, 001 ?. Greenpond, Waltorboro ami Branch* viII? Railroad- last year 85,000 per mile; this year 87,000. Northeastern Railroad -last year 814,000 per mile; this year 817,000. l'ort Royal and Augusta Railroad? last year 87,500 per mil- : this year 810, 000. Palmetto Railroad?last year 92,000 per mile; this year 81,000. South Carolina Railway?last year 918,000 per mile; this year ?10,000. South Carolina 1'ajilic Railway?last year 95,000 per mile; this year 80,500. Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Railroad -last year 910,500 per mile; this ye-tr914,000. Wilmington, Chad bourne and Con way R illroad?last yoar 83,000 per mile; this year 95,000. Wilson und Summurtoii Railroad? last, year 8L750 per mite; this year 81, 708. " Charleston, Suniter and Northern Railroad - Rust year 84,000 per mile; this year 88,000. Columbia, Nowberry and Laurens Railroad Last year82,000per mile;this year 85,000. Georgia, Carolin?, and .Northern Rail road -Last year 95,000 per mile; this j ear thirty "miles at 910,000 pir* mile; remainder at 85,000. [lartsvllle Railroad -Last yoar81,000 per mile; Ibis year 92,000. If was remarked last night that the.' * investments had not been muds on any llxi'd basis, but that the bonrd had just placed the raises where they saw lit. ? The board, however, has dorn; its work and the ligures are here for any and air to see. I he State. A I'kioliHii Orlute. Ri:i:cki:xkiI)ok,Colo.. Aug 21.??One of the most fiendish crimes over com mitted hero was perpetrated last night - about, 11 o'clock. Some persons pi'idv namlte in tho Methodist churcn bell, and tho bell and bellfry wore blown to atoms, endangering tho lives of more than 100 people. Tho deed is suppose/1 to have boen caused by the ill-feeling engendered against tho Rev. Mr. Pass more because ho wanted tho saloons closed on Sunday. If tho vllllan is caught ho will bu severely deab with. A cartoon is now in possession of friends that was posted on tho Rov. Mr. Pass mores door. '?reunion Hie ICv-SlaveM'1 RAI.KU1II, ST. 0.| Aug. 10.?W. B. Vaughn, a negro orator, Jast night ad dressed a largo andiene? of nogroos at a Methodist church. Ho demands that ? ex-slaves bu pensioned, and said in tho course of his address: "Tho former slaves aro today paying tho pension money that goes to the soldiers and It is high time these ex-slaves were draw ing the pensions themselves. This country bolongs to the negro and, the soldiers but tho negro conn s first,be cause il was his labor that built, up and made it." Vaughn is making'a tour ftfrJfl the country doing this sort of jalking. Train Kobbery, Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 20. The Cou tral train was boarded tonight by three, masked men nt Colliers slut; Ihirnesvlllo, and the express n was held up. Particulars moag got all the money in the sale,, htdiuved it was a good sum.