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TBE TABKiiNACLE PULPIT. DR. TALMA'?E ASKS THE QUESTION, "WHAT WEH!: YOU MADE FORT"' III? TfXt ThK< M ' iomi .Jollll ?v|l>, .17. "I'd Tlilit Kutl Wh? I Horn"?Ait Able 1>I? COUIKM I'l ??!??<! I ?I l?V Mil i Mi 11 r r m s I v v* DttOOLLYN, Uct. ? A most impres sive scene is ilmi witnessed in the Hrook lytl Tabernacle, win ti at the <>, cuing ol ihu murutuK Rorvlce 7.000 perilous <?? the mum llooi. 111 (wo galleries and the adjoiniug rooms, rU?e and sing the Dox ology. Tin . morning in addition to the congregational -timing Prof. Henry Eyre llrowue rendered from the nrgau, "Theme and Variations iti A," by Cramer* Dr. Tulmatje's text taken Ironi Johu lS:.'i7. "To ihis end wan 1 bout After Pilule had suicided, tradutnu says Unit lllfi body was thrown into Utu Tiber, and buch Morias ?'usued ou and about Ilm', liver M ai tint* body vva-t taki'li out ami ihrown nun Hie Uhoue, and Biiniltii- diati rblllK'ifH swept that river and its banks. Then Hie body w*s Ink* i. out and removed In Laincnnne and )>u In a de? per p?ad, which imuiedi? ately became the e<liter of similar at tuosphcric und aqueous dibtutbauces, Thomm them ure lanuilul and Klse tra 01 lions ihey bbbw ihe execration with which 11 it* a oi Id looked upon Pilule. It waf> I time llus man when he was in full Hie and i <'V ( i iliat Christ was arraigned an in a i? in I ol our and tei miner. Pilate Haid to IiIm piiHUliei: "art Hum a Uns;, then:-" und .lesti.?. answered: "to this end was 1 bum." Sine enough, although all* niih at.<l I ell arose to keep him down. Ho Ib today emp.ilaeid,oulhron? I and i on in led king ol eailh and kin;; of licavti., "To Uns md was I bom." Thai in what ho (.nine for, and that is what I t utc? Di) I it-lud. Bj I lie litre a clttlil reaches leu years ol iil-i' i he put i-tits bey! ti to discover that child'* dt simy, but by the time be or she reacho liitccn wars t>f age,the ?picslion is mi 11 e child's hps: "What am I to be? What um i |t<?ltig to do? What ?vas 1 made I? 1":" It is a sensible and right eous i^uefcliou, and the youth ought to keei* 11 a&kitiu it until it is ho lullj answered that ihu youug r iuu, or the woman can su>' with as i) ach truth as iis author. Lhough ou a less expensive scale: "lo this end was I born." There is loo much divine skill shown m the physical, mental and moral con StitUtiotl ol the o-.diuuty lutuian being lo suppose that he. was constructed without any diviue purpose. Lf you take me out on seme vast piaiu aud show me a pll larctl lemplu surmounted by a dome like Si. Peter's, uud baviug a floor of pre (.(is stints, in.ti ai cites llial must have taxttl ths biatu of greatest draught* mau t?? design, and walls moiled and niched and pniiea d mid waiuscotled uud painted, and should ask what this build ing was 1 lit up lor. and jou answered: "lor i.othingut ail," bow could I believe you? And il is impossible tor me to be lieve that any ordinary human being who lias in his muscular, nervous aud cerebral organization more wonders than Chribtoper Wren lift- d in St. Paul's, or Phidias ever chiseled on the Acropolis, and built in such a way that it shall last long after St. Paul's cathedral is as much a nun as ihe Parthenon?that such a being was 1 onstlUCled for no purpose, and lo execute no mission, aud without uny diTiue intention lovvard some end. The object ol Uns sermon is lo help you to In.d out v>lta: jou are made for, and help you lind yen si liere, aud assist you into that condition where you can say with certainly and tmphusis and enthu siasm und n un pl>: "lo this end was I born.'' Filet, I discharge you from all respon sibility lor most ol your environments. You me not lespousible for your parent* age or grand-parentage. You are not responsible lov an t Of the cranks that ma v bavc lived in y< ur ancestral line, aud who u hundred years before you were born may have lived . style of life that ii.otc or less ullecls you loday. Youaie not itsponsihle lor the fact that your tempi lament is bang .'ne. or melancholic or bilious, or lymphatic, or nervous. Neil her are y?u nsjonsible tor ihe place oi your nativity, whether among the granite bills ol >icw Knglnud, or lb? cotlou platilaliolis ol Louisiana, or ou the I anks ol the Clyde, or ihu Dnieptr, ?r the shannon, or the Sem*. Neither are y?m it spin bibln lor the religion taught 111 your lb .ei's house or the irr? ? ligiuu, uol boilur y outsell about what you cannot help, or about e'rcuni sun ees that you did uol decree, Take Illings as ihey are und decide lite <ptes lU.n so thai yni aliall be able suleiv to lo say : "to tins end was I born." How will v u deck e Ii? Dy dlrectapplicalioii 10 the only being in ilie universe who Is competent lo tell you?the Lord Al mighty. Do you know ttie reason why be is Ihe Olih one who tan tell? liecuiise b<! can see. everything between your era-e die and y?iu M"Ve, though tin yiavc \K 1 lghl> JiatS 1 If. And in sides that, be i the ?nly Leittu wbocuti see^ahatliMS I tin happtlillig lor the last'501) \iars in your unit siiiii In.e, and for ihoustilKls ol years char link to Adam, mid Hare is not one peibon in all thai aiuebiiul line ol 0,00(t jeuib but has sou,chow 11 tfectcd your cbai'UCltr, antl even old Adam himeelf will tome 1 lines nu u up in \uUI' (hspubilioti, 'Jbo only being mat tan lake all things that pet tain to >uu into considt 1 Mtion is Cod, aud be. is the one you can ask. Lite is so short we l.ave no time to experiment with oc cupations and prole sions. 'ihe reasou wt l.ave bo many dead failures is that parents decide mr teildren whatihey shall do, or chlldi? n ihemselves, w rougin on by some whim or luiicy, decide lor themselves without any Imploratlou ol divine guiduuees. So we nave now in ];ulpils men making sermons who OUUht lo 1 iO in blacksmith shops making tdougshares, and we have in the In* those who Instead of ruining the cases 01 their clients ought to he pounding shoe lasts, and o< eiotb who are the Worst hin? di mats lo ibcif palleuts' convalescence, and artists trying to paint landscapes who oujdit ;?i he w Ititewashing board l?i.us. While 1 hue Hie others making Inttkb who ought in be remodeling con* Mitutii iir, or bhoving plane? who ought lo be liansloimitit: literatures. Ask (Jod about Whui worldly business you bbull um ortaku until you uro bo positive yiMi tan in variii bluest smite your baud on your plough bundle, or your CarpOi.U r'n b? neu or your l'.l.u U atOUb's ConimculatleS, or your medical dictionary, or your Doctor Dick's Didac tic Theology, sayitiyi "tor ibis cod was 1 born." Then- are ehildreu who caiiy develop natural alUolties for certain sly leb <n woik. When ihu fallier of the astronomer Korbes was goiug to London, he u^ked his children what present he should bring each onu ol them. The boy who was to be au M< TBE TABKiiNACLE PULPIT. DR. TALMA'?E ASKS THE QUESTION, "WHAT WEH!: YOU MADE FORT"' III? TfXt ThK< M ' iomi .Jollll ?v|l>, .17. "I'd Tlilit Kutl Wh? I Horn"?Ait Able 1>I? COUIKM I'l ??!??<! I ?I l?V Mil i Mi 11 r r m s I v v* DttOOLLYN, Uct. ? A most impres sive scene is ilmi witnessed in the Hrook lytl Tabernacle, win ti at the <>, cuing ol ihu murutuK Rorvlce 7.000 perilous <?? the mum llooi. 111 (wo galleries and the adjoiniug rooms, rU?e and sing the Dox ology. Tin . morning in addition to the congregational -timing Prof. Henry Eyre llrowue rendered from the nrgau, "Theme and Variations iti A," by Cramer* Dr. Tulmatje's text taken Ironi Johu lS:.'i7. "To ihis end wan 1 bout After Pilule had suicided, tradutnu says Unit lllfi body was thrown into Utu Tiber, and buch Morias ?'usued ou and about Ilm', liver M ai tint* body vva-t taki'li out ami ihrown nun Hie Uhoue, and Biiniltii- diati rblllK'ifH swept that river and its banks. Then Hie body w*s Ink* i. out and removed In Laincnnne and )>u In a de? per p?ad, which imuiedi? ately became the e<liter of similar at tuosphcric und aqueous dibtutbauces, Thomm them ure lanuilul and Klse tra 01 lions ihey bbbw ihe execration with which 11 it* a oi Id looked upon Pilule. It waf> I time llus man when he was in full Hie and i <'V ( i iliat Christ was arraigned an in a i? in I ol our and tei miner. Pilate Haid to IiIm piiHUliei: "art Hum a Uns;, then:-" und .lesti.?. answered: "to this end was 1 bum." Sine enough, although all* niih at.<l I ell arose to keep him down. Ho Ib today emp.ilaeid,oulhron? I and i on in led king ol eailh and kin;; of licavti., "To Uns md was I bom." Thai in what ho (.nine for, and that is what I t utc? Di) I it-lud. Bj I lie litre a clttlil reaches leu years ol iil-i' i he put i-tits bey! ti to discover that child'* dt simy, but by the time be or she reacho liitccn wars t>f age,the ?picslion is mi 11 e child's hps: "What am I to be? What um i |t<?ltig to do? What ?vas 1 made I? 1":" It is a sensible and right eous i^uefcliou, and the youth ought to keei* 11 a&kitiu it until it is ho lullj answered that ihu youug r iuu, or the woman can su>' with as i) ach truth as iis author. Lhough ou a less expensive scale: "lo this end was I born." There is loo much divine skill shown m the physical, mental and moral con StitUtiotl ol the o-.diuuty lutuian being lo suppose that he. was constructed without any diviue purpose. Lf you take me out on seme vast piaiu aud show me a pll larctl lemplu surmounted by a dome like Si. Peter's, uud baviug a floor of pre (.(is stints, in.ti ai cites llial must have taxttl ths biatu of greatest draught* mau t?? design, and walls moiled and niched and pniiea d mid waiuscotled uud painted, and should ask what this build ing was 1 lit up lor. and jou answered: "lor i.othingut ail," bow could I believe you? And il is impossible tor me to be lieve that any ordinary human being who lias in his muscular, nervous aud cerebral organization more wonders than Chribtoper Wren lift- d in St. Paul's, or Phidias ever chiseled on the Acropolis, and built in such a way that it shall last long after St. Paul's cathedral is as much a nun as ihe Parthenon?that such a being was 1 onstlUCled for no purpose, and lo execute no mission, aud without uny diTiue intention lovvard some end. The object ol Uns sermon is lo help you to In.d out v>lta: jou are made for, and help you lind yen si liere, aud assist you into that condition where you can say with certainly and tmphusis and enthu siasm und n un pl>: "lo this end was I born.'' Filet, I discharge you from all respon sibility lor most ol your environments. You me not lespousible for your parent* age or grand-parentage. You are not responsible lov an t Of the cranks that ma v bavc lived in y< ur ancestral line, aud who u hundred years before you were born may have lived . style of life that ii.otc or less ullecls you loday. Youaie not itsponsihle lor the fact that your tempi lament is bang .'ne. or melancholic or bilious, or lymphatic, or nervous. Neil her are y?u nsjonsible tor ihe place oi your nativity, whether among the granite bills ol >icw Knglnud, or lb? cotlou platilaliolis ol Louisiana, or ou the I anks ol the Clyde, or ihu Dnieptr, ?r the shannon, or the Sem*. Neither are y?m it spin bibln lor the religion taught 111 your lb .ei's house or the irr? ? ligiuu, uol boilur y outsell about what you cannot help, or about e'rcuni sun ees that you did uol decree, Take Illings as ihey are und decide lite <ptes lU.n so thai yni aliall be able suleiv to lo say : "to tins end was I born." How will v u deck e Ii? Dy dlrectapplicalioii 10 the only being in ilie universe who Is competent lo tell you?the Lord Al mighty. Do you know ttie reason why be is Ihe Olih one who tan tell? liecuiise b<! can see. everything between your era-e die and y?iu M"Ve, though tin yiavc \K 1 lghl> JiatS 1 If. And in sides that, be i the ?nly Leittu wbocuti see^ahatliMS I tin happtlillig lor the last'501) \iars in your unit siiiii In.e, and for ihoustilKls ol years char link to Adam, mid Hare is not one peibon in all thai aiuebiiul line ol 0,00(t jeuib but has sou,chow 11 tfectcd your cbai'UCltr, antl even old Adam himeelf will tome 1 lines nu u up in \uUI' (hspubilioti, 'Jbo only being mat tan lake all things that pet tain to >uu into considt 1 Mtion is Cod, aud be. is the one you can ask. Lite is so short we l.ave no time to experiment with oc cupations and prole sions. 'ihe reasou wt l.ave bo many dead failures is that parents decide mr teildren whatihey shall do, or chlldi? n ihemselves, w rougin on by some whim or luiicy, decide lor themselves without any Imploratlou ol divine guiduuees. So we nave now in ];ulpils men making sermons who OUUht lo 1 iO in blacksmith shops making tdougshares, and we have in the In* those who Instead of ruining the cases 01 their clients ought to he pounding shoe lasts, and o< eiotb who are the Worst hin? di mats lo ibcif palleuts' convalescence, and artists trying to paint landscapes who oujdit ;?i he w Ititewashing board l?i.us. While 1 hue Hie others making Inttkb who ought in be remodeling con* Mitutii iir, or bhoving plane? who ought lo be liansloimitit: literatures. Ask (Jod about Whui worldly business you bbull um ortaku until you uro bo positive yiMi tan in variii bluest smite your baud on your plough bundle, or your CarpOi.U r'n b? neu or your l'.l.u U atOUb's ConimculatleS, or your medical dictionary, or your Doctor Dick's Didac tic Theology, sayitiyi "tor ibis cod was 1 born." Then- are ehildreu who caiiy develop natural alUolties for certain sly leb <n woik. When ihu fallier of the astronomer Korbes was goiug to London, he u^ked his children what present he should bring each onu ol them. The boy who was to be au M< troDomer, cried out "bring me a teles cope!" And there are children w 0111 you find all by themselves drawing on their (dates, or on paper, ships or bouses or birds, and v.mi kuow they ure to he draughtsmen or artists of some kind. Ami \ on tlnd others cluttering out dilll cult problems with rare interest and BUG? cei?b, aud you know ihey are to be math unatkians. Aud others making wheels and strunge contrivances, and you kuow they are going to be machinists. Aud others are found experimenting wiih hoe und plough aud tickle, and vou kn w they will be farmers. Aud others arc ulvrays swapping jack-kuives or balls or bats, and makiog soinetluug bv tho bar nain, and they are going to be mvr chuuls. When Abbe de I'...neu ha<l so advanced iu studying Greek that he could trauslate Anacreon at twelve years of a?e, thcro wa*? no doubt left tbut he was Intended for a scholar. Hut in ahuosi every lad ihero comes a time when he docs uot kuow what be was nutde for, aud his pareuts do not kno ?, and it is a crisis that God aloue < au de cide. Tlnn there are those born for some especial work, and tlieir litneas does not develop until quite late.'When Philip Lhnldr'.dge, whose sermons and books have harvested uncounted souls lor ?lory, begnu to study the ministry, Jjr. Caiumy, one ol the HVIimSI aud bust men, advised 1dm to turn his thoughts to some other work. Isaac Harrow the eminent clergyman and Christian scien tist?his books standard now though ho has heeu dead over 200 years?was tho disheHrtenment of his father, who used to say thut if it pleased God to take any of his children away he hoped it might be his sou Isuac. So some ol those who have been characterized fortheir stupidi ty in boyhood or girlhood, have turned out tho mightiest benefactors or bene factresses of the human race. These things being so, am I not right iu buy ing that iu mauy eases God only know* what Is the most appropriate thing for you to do, aud Uu is the one to ask. Aud let all parents, aud all schools, and all universities, and all colleges recog nize this, and a large number of those who spent their best years in stumbling about among businesses and occupa tions, now trying this aud now trying that, and failing in all, would be able to go ahead with a definite, decided and tremendous purpose, saying, '"to this end was 1 born." I bit my subject now mouuts into the momentous. Lei. me say that you are made for usefulness and heaven. 1 judge this from the way you are built. You go into a shoo where there is only owe wheel turning and that by a workman's foot on a treadle, aud you sav to your self: ''here is some thing n >od beinu done, yet on a small scale;" but if you go into a factory covering many ae/cs, and you find thousands of bands put line on thousands of wheels, - aud shuttles Hying, aud the whole scene bewildering with activities, driven by water, or steum, or electric power, you conclude that the factory w is put up to do ?reut ??oik aud on a vusi scale. Now, I look at you, at d if 1 should tiud that you had only one faculty of body, only one mus cle, only one nerve, it you could see but could not hear, or could hear and aot see, if you had the use of only one loot or one hand, and, as to jour higher na ture, if you had only ouemuutal faculty, and you had memory but no judgment, or judgment but no will, und if you had a soul with only one capacity, I would say not much is cxpecUd of you. Hut stand up, oh man, and let me look you squarely in the lace. Eyes capablo of seeing everythlug. Kurs capable of hearing every thing. lluuds cupable of grasping everything. Mind wiih more wheels than any factory ever turned, more power than Corliss engine ever moved. A soul thut will outlive all the universe except heaven, and would out live ull heaven 11 the life ot other immor tal ?? were a moment short of the eternal. Now, what bus the world a rii?ht to ex pect of you? What has God a right to demand of you? God is the greatest of economists in the universe, and He makes nothing uselessly, aud for whai purpose did He build your body, mind und soul as they are built* There are onls ivvo beings in the universe who can answer thai questlou. The uu^els do not know. The schools do noi know. Your ki dred cauuot certainly know. God knows, aud you ought to know. A factory runniug at an expense of $000,000 a year, aud turning out goods worth 70 cents a year would not he such an incongruity as you. oh man, with such bctul-lutiuite equipment dolug nothing, or next to nothing. In the way ot use luluess. "What shad 1 do?" you ask. My brethren, my sisters, do uot ask me. Ask God, There's some path of Chris tian usefulness open. It may be a rough path, or it may be a smowth path, a Ion.; paih or a short path. Ii may be on a mount of conspicuity. or In a valley un observed, but it is a paih on which you can slarl with such faith aud such satis faction and such certainly that y?*U can cry out in the face of earth and hell and heaven: "to this end wus 1 born." Do 'not wait lor extraordinary qualifications. Philip Ihe Conqueror gained Ills great* est v clones sealed uu a muh*, and if you wail for some caparisoned Bucephalus to tide into the conflict you will ne er vet into the world-wide right ut all. Samson siew ihe Lord's enemies wiih the jawbone ol the stupidest beast creat ed. ShaiUgar ?lew six huudred of the Lord's enemies with au ox-goud. Un der God, spilth* cured the blind man's eyes iu the >iew Teslameut story Take all the faculty you have and say: "O liord heie i* what I have, show .ne l..e held and hack me up by omnipotent power. Anywhere, anyhow, anytime for God." Two men riding on horse back came to a trough to water the horses. While ihe horses were drink ing one of the men said lo the other a lew words about the value of ihe soul, und then lin y rode away, and in oppo site directions, Hut tin- words uttered were the salvation o?' the one lo whom ihey were uttered, and he became tho Hev. Mr. Champion, one of the most distinguished missionaries in heathen lands; for years Wondering who did for him ihe Christian kindness, sud not find ing him cut until iu a bundle of books sent him to Africa he touud tiio biogra phy of lb aim ;il Taylor aud a picture of him, and the missionary recognized the lace in that book as the man who, l the watering trough for horses, had said the thing that saved his soul. What oppor tunities von have had in the past! What opportunities you have now! What op poi (unities yon will luve iu the days to comi! I'u! on your hut, oh woin ui. this afternoon, and go in and comfort that young mother who 1 >st her bane last summer. Put on your hat, oh man. aud go over and see that merchant who was compelled yesterday to make an as signment; and tell him ot the < vyrfastiug lie lien remaining for all those who serve the I.<>.11. Can you sing? Go and sing for that man who cannot get well, and you will help hlni leto heaven. Let St he your brain, your tongue, your j eyw?, your curs, your heart, your lungs, your hands, your foot, your body, your mind, your soul, your lite, your death, your lime, your eternity lor God, fueling iu your soul: "to this end was l boru." It muy be helpful lo some if 1 recite my own experience iu this regard. 1 started for the taw without asking auy divine di rection. 1 consulted my own tastes. I liked lawyers aud courtrooms aud judges ami juries, and I reveled iu heariug the Freliughuysens aud the Hrudleys of the New Jersey bar, aud as assistant ot tho county clerk, at 10 yeurs of age, 1 searched titles, naturalized foreigners, recorded deeds, received the confession of judgments, swore witnesses and juries aud grand juries. Hut alter a while I tell il call to the Gospel minis ry und entered it, and 1 ielt so e satisfaction in the w<*rk. Hut one summer, when I was restiug at Sharon Springs, and while seated iu the park of that village, l said to m>selt. "it I have an espeeUi work to do iu tho world I ou^ht to liud It out uow," aud with that determination I prayed as I had in v? r bet?re prayed, ami got the diviue direction, and wrote it down iu my memorandum book, aud [saw my life-work then as plainly as 1 see it now. Oh do not be satislied wiih general directions. Get specilic direc tions. Do uot shoot, at random. Take aim aud fire. Concentrate. Napoleon's success in battlo came Iro u his theory I ot breaking through the enemy's ranks at one point, not tr>iug lo meet the whole line of the enemy's torco by a similar force. One reason why he lost Waterloo was because, ho did not work his usual theory, aud spread his force out over a wide range. Oh Christian mau.oh Christian woman, break through somewhere. Not a general engagement tor God but a particular engagement, aud make n answer to prayer. If there are sixteen hundred million people iu the world, then there are sixteen hun dred million dillcrent missions to fulfil, different styles of work to do, ditt'ereut orhils in which lo revolve, aud if you do nut gel ihn diviue direction there are at least fifteen hundred aud ninety-nine, ml.lion possibilities that you will make a mistake. On y our kuecs before God get the matter se'tled so that you can tlrmly say: "to this end was 1 born." A od now I come to the climateric consideration. As near as I can tell, ! you were built for a happy eternity, all the disasters which have happened lo your nature to be overcome by the blood of the 1 ami) if you will heartily accept that Christly arrangement. We are all rejoiced at the increase ot human long evity. People live, as near as I can observe, about ten years longer than they used to. The modern doctors do not bleed their patients on all occasions us did the former doctors. In those limes it a man had fever, they bled him, if lie had consumption they bled him, if tie had rheumatism they bled him. and if they could not make out exactly what was the matter they bled him. Oiden time phlebotomy was death's coadjutor. All this has changed. Prom the way I see people skipping about al 80 years of aye, I conclude that life insurance com munes will have to change their table of ' isks aud charge a mau no more pre mium at 70 than they usid lo do when he was (50. aud no more premium at M) than when he was 40. Hy the advance ment of medical science and the wider acquaintance wiih the I iws of health aud the tact that people know better how lo i ike. cure of themselves, human life is prolonged. Hut do you realize what, after all, is the brevity of our oarthly state? In the lime when people lived seven and eight hundred y ears, ihe pa triarch Jacob said that his years were lew. Looking at the life of ihe young" est person in this assembly and suppos ing he lived to he a nonagenarian, how short the lime and soon gone, while hanked up iu front of us is an eternity so vast that arithmetic has not figures ouougb to express its lengl >. or breadth, or depth, or height. For a happy eter nity you were born unless you run your self against the divine Intentions, It slaudiug iu your presence, my eye should fall upon ihe. techiest soul here as that soul will appear when the world lets it up, and heaven entrances it. I suppose I sbo ild he so overpowered thai I should drop down as one dead. Von have ex amined the family Bible aud explored the family records, aud you may have daguerroty pus of some ol the kindred of previous generations, you have had pho tographs taken of what you were iu boy hood or girlhood, and what you were ten years later, and it is very Interest iug to uny one to ho able to look buck upon pictures of what he was ten, or t wenty or thirty y eurs ago; but have y ou ever bad a picture taken of wbut you in i v he und what you will be if you seek alter (Jon and feel the Spirit's regenerating powei? Where shall I plaul ihe camera to lake the pic ture? I plant il on this platform. 1 direct it toward you. Sit still or stand still while I take the picture, il shall be an instantaneous picture. There) I have it. It is done. You can see the picture iu its Imperfect state, and get some idea of what il will be when thoroughly developed. There is your resurrected body, so brilliant ihat the noonday sun is n patch of midnight compared wiih it. There is your soul, so pure thai all the forces of diabolism could uot spoilt with au imperleciion. There is y our being so mightv aud so switt that flight from heaven lo Mercury or Mars or Jupiter aud back again to heaven would not weary you, and a world on each shoulder would not crush you. An eye that shall never shed a tear. An energy Unit shall never loel a fatigue. A brow that shall never throb with pain. You are young ugaill, though you died ot decrepitude. You are well again though you coughed or shivtred yourself into the tomb. Your every-day associates are the apostes and prophets and martyrs, aud most exalted souls, masculine and feminine, of all the centuries. The archangel lo you no embarrassment, (.'od liismsclf your present and everlasting joy. Thai is au inslautaueouB pi lure of what y ou may he, aud what I am sure some of you ?vifl be. if you rea'i/.e thai it is an imperfect pictur-, <uv apology is what the Aposlle John said: "it doth not yet appear what woshull be." "To lliUcud was 1 boru." If 1 did not think so 1 would he overwhelmed with melancholy. The world does very well tor a lil'le While eighty, or a hundred or a hundred and lilly years, and 1 think that human lon gevity may yet he improved up to that prolongation, lor now there is so little room between our cradle and our grave we cannot accomplish much, but who would want to dwell iu this world for ah eternity: Some think this earth will fmally he turned into n hoaven. Per haps h may. but it would have to under wo radical repairs aud thorough elimina tions aud evolutions nod revolutions aud transformations infinite, to make it desir able for eternal residence. All the east winds would have to become west winds, and all the winters changed to spring tides, and the volcanoes extinguished, um I the ocean* chained to their bed*, uud the epidemics forbldeu enhance, and like world so fixed up thut 1 thiuk it would take more to repair this old world t huu to make an entirety uew one. Hut 1 must say I do not care where heaven ia if we can only get there, whether a gar <)eilived America, or an Kmpuradisel I nn ope. or a world central lo the whole universe. "To this end was I born." If euch one ol us could say ?hat, we would go wiili laces shining aud hopes exbi' eruut mid earth's worst misfortuuales aud luiuis. Only a little while, aud thou the rapture. Only a little while and then the reunion. Only a little while and theu the transfiguration. In the seventeenth century, all Eu rope was threatened with a w&vo of . Asiatic barbarism aud Vienna was es ! pecially besieged. The kiug aud Ins ?<-iu i had tied aud nothing could save tbo city Ironi being overwhelmed unless the. king of Polund, John Sobicski, to whom ihey bad sent for help, shou.d with his army come down for the relie, and f.'om every roof and tower the inhabitants oi Vienna watched and wailed aud hop*.I until on the morning ot Sept. 11, the rising sun threw an unusual aud un paralleled brilliancy. It wa* the re flection on the swords and shields and helmets of John Sobicski and bis army coming down over the hills to the res cue, a.id that da.v, not only Vie ma, but Europe was saved. And see you not, Oh ye souls, besieged with sin aud 8 ?r? row, Unit light breaks in, the swords ami the shields uud t ic helmets of divine res cue bathed in the rising suu of heavenly deliverance. Let everything else go rather than let heaven go. What a strange thing it must be to feel one's self born to an earthly crown, but you have been born for a thorne on whioh you may roign after the last monarch of all the earth has gone to dust. Invite you to slart now lor your own corona tion, to come in and take the title deeds lo your everlasting inheritance. Through uu impassioned prayer tuke heaven aud all of its raptures. What a poor land ing Is all that this world can oiler you compared with pardon here and life im mortal beyond ihu stars, unless this side of them, there be a place large enough aud beautiful enough und graud enough lor ah the ransomed. Wherever it be, in what world, whether nearby or far away, in this or some orther constcllu lion, hail homo of light and love aud blessedness! Through the atoning mercy ot Christ may we all get there! Au tiuaimy Vlwltor. Kansas Cty, Mo., Oct. 2.?Kansas City, Kan., now c Jin es to the front with a regulation ghost story. It is not one of the common, ordinary ghost which prowl around deserted houses, but a full-fledged ghost of a policeman, uni form and all. Two years ago a Policeman Henry James was on tho beat leading toward the Southwest boulevard, aud was very regular iu passing sucli points, so much so, in fact that the people used him in place of a clock, for they knew that when James passed it was a certain Inur of the night or day, as the case may be. One morning James was found lying dead on the sidewalk with an ugly hole in tho back of his head. lie had been struck with a pickax**, which was aflerwarda found near by, covered with hair and blood. Not the slightest olua was ever found which would point to the perpetrator of the deed, and after a tune the matter was relegated to the annals of mysteries. It seems, however, that James did not rest easy in hid grave, and it is now said that his form can be Seen ou a moon light, night patrolling the beat just as he did in former days when he was in the flesh. The people living on the beat say that he can be heard walking with the same measurwd trend as formerly, and he ap pears as plainly as if he were alive. He is never seen from the street, but always from the windows of the houses. When the people try to get nearer and see what it is the form vanishes out of sight aud appears no more t hat night. The other policem in were at first dis posed 11) scoff at the so-called ghosr, but oue night on? of them saw the specter, and now Ihe chief is com pulled to have two men walk the beat, for the patrol men wilt outgo alone. One now has to go to protect the other. It is dillicultto find any one who has seen the ghost, but all cau tell what their neighbor saw and what they heard, f/hey say that James walks along every night at the same hour and diappears at the spot where his body was found. The appearance is at 1:20 o'clock in the morning, and it is supposed that lie was murdered at that hour. Oruvnr und tlio 1?" ?. New Youk, October 3.' daughter was born to Mrs. Uro* . Cleveland shortly after midnight. The mother and daughter are doing well. The im portant news did not become known down-town until nearly noou. Then it spread with the utmost rapidity, holh iu the city and to other pans of the country. During the afternoon many flowers were sent into Mrs. Cleveland and both lather and mother received hearty congratulations. Then mes senger boys began to move up the avenue with telegraphic messages from all parts of the country. Kx-l'resident Cleveland was evidently a pleased man w hen seen about the recent addition to his household. He received the press representa'ives in tho drawing room, and anticipating the quiulion that would be asked him said. 'Yes, it is true. My wife was safely delivered of a little girl this morning at six minutes past midnight, and both mother and child are doing splendidly. Mrs. Cleve land llHfl i cm id quietly all day. The child is strong ami healthy aud at its birth weighed eight pounds." A MaiHkcro In Mexlor. San Antonio, Texas, Oct. 5.?John II Parum, an American, who tor the past two years has been engaged iu the mining business near Mclztilnn, in the State of Hidalgo. Mexico, arrived here yesterday, He brings l iloi inalion of a bloodv Indian outbreak, which lias for some time, been in orogress iu the dis trict of Tulamongo, iu that State. The trouble is the ontyrovth of a dis pute between several Colonies of Spun lards and Germans aud tho Indian*. The news settlers attempting to > eitle on the lands of the natives, the Indians resisted their attempts to evict them and iiiti. 11 bloodshed has resulted. Partou sa>t idt?l a lew days before bis departure a scii/s:uif til of whiles was attacked by Indians neaily two hundred people were massacred, including nu n, women and children. The colonist* have appealed lo the Government for protection and several battalions of troops' are ou their way to the scene ,?f the trouble. UoMteil Aliv... Boston, Oct. 5.?The Immense pack ing establish uent of John P. Squire & Co, in Last Cambridge nno Somurville, was partially destroyed by lire to-night. Tho fire caught in tho hog building in which were 1,B00 live hogs. These ani mals wcis>U roasted to death and the building laid Hut., PERISHED IN FLAME. THREE BURNED TO DEATH AND OTHbR3 INJURED. Polio? ?ml Firemen Altled the Inmate* Down th? Fire KAoepe-Fireiuaa Murphy Find? Hin Wir?'? Corpta la tue Hum lot H?h?. Nkw Yoiik, Oct. 5.?Three persons were earned to death early this morn ing in a tire in a five-story brick tene ment house at the corner of Hudson and Dominck streets, aud two others very badly burned, one so seriously that, recovery is not expected. The dead are: Mrs. Annie Murphy, 32 years old, of i,?a Hudson street; Miss Katie Dunn, 22 years old, a dressmaker who boarded with Mis. Murphy; Josephine Ryan, 5 years old, of Washington, D. C, Mrs, Murphy's niece. The injured are: Martlu D. Toohey, 11 ye.ira old, Mrs. Murphys* sou by her first husband; his injuries are pronounced fatal; Johu Toohey 0 {ears o'u, Mrs. Murphy's second son; his d juries perhaps fatal. The tire was discovered at 2:20 o'clock this morning*, when Policeman Mc Urath heard a sound of breaking glass which 1)9 thought was caused by burg; lars. Running up to the store on the ground tloor of 202 Hudson, occupied by J. Kratzensteiu, furniture and uphols tery, hebroke a pane of glass In the window when there immediately poured out a heavy volume of smoke. The po liceman rapped for help and Roundsman llyan and Detectives Cox and Gargau hastened to his aid. They sent out an alarm, then broke in the doors of the main entrance to tho house on the Dom intck street side. Flames aud smoke rushed out aud drove tho policemen back. The stairway leadiug lo the up per tloor was a winding one, the centre forming a shaft that was tilled with a column of llames. It was evident that it would be impossible fur the inmates of the house, tifty iu number, to escape by the stuns. Policemen hastened to the tire escape on the front of the build ing and shouted to the panic stricken occupants not to attempt to descend by the stairs. Then they climbed up the escape and aided men, women and chil dren to descend. In this they were aid ed by the fireme i, who had quickly an swered the alarm. Fireman Lucas on reaching the tilth tloor found In the rear room Matthew Ryan, a box maker, who is a widower, and his three children al most overpowered by smoke and unable to help themselves. He dragged them to the window and with the aid of his comrades succeeded in getting them down the fire escape safely. Just then the hook and ladder truck No. 8 drove up unit one of its lire in en, Matthew Murphy, sprang to the ground shout ing "Great God! Its my house; where are my wile ami child?" Before any one could stop him he rushed through I the llames and smoke and fought his way up stairs to the titih floor. There be found the body of Ids wife burned almost beyond recognition, lying iu the hallway just outside her apartment. a little further away was the burned form of little Josephine Hyan, the dead wo man's m ice. She was still living, but died soon after. The body of Miss Kate Dunn was found at the toot of a ladder leading to the roof. She had evidently been overcome by smoke and hunted to loath while seeking to escape. Two hoys Johu aud Martin Toohey, Mrs. Murphy's step sons, were fouud in the room. They were removed to the rooms of the MonticelloClub acrot-s the street w hero the toil f-dressedtenants had found refuge. Thence the boys were taken to St. Vincent's Uospita.. Mar tin Toohey was terribly burned all over Ins bods and cannot survive. His broth er John is not so badly burned, but it is feared he may be fatally injured by inhaling smoke. Mrs. Murphy was married to Fireman Murphy only one month ago. Sne was the widow of Pol iceman Toohey. Nine familit s resided in the hous- ami each family had au average of three hoarders. The tire broke out iu an un occupied wood house in the cellar, aud the police said this morning that it was ot incendiary origin, hut they would not. say of what tins opinion was bas>sL Che acual damage to the building will not exceed $1,500. John Toohey died at U o'clock in great agony. S< von i*rrnMiiM Klll.U CniOAOO, Oct. 4.?A boiler explosion aboard the steamer C. w. Parker killed Sr-veu persons . nd seriously Injured many others in :ho neighborhood of Archer avenue bridge, on the south bra ich of the river, about 4:110 o'clock this afternoon. Tho tug C. w. Parker, in company with three other tugs, was engaged iu attempting to tow the coal 8'earner U.S. Ptckardsout of a draw of the bridge when the explosion occurred f'bno of tho killed Were employes of the tug, and their bodies have not been discovered. The other persons killed were standing on the. hanks of the river, to which a number of spectators had been drawn to witness the removal of the steamer Pickards, winch arrived on Saturday from Buffalo with a c.trgo of coal. The vessel had run aground in ttio draw, aud tour tugs were milting forth every etiort to move it, when one of them, the C. w. Parker, exploded. In I)mv> j^nc?'? Looker. Montreal,Oct. 2.?a dispatch from St. Johns, N, F., ?ays (hit two vessels, natu' (1 the I'at see and ttie Amazon, re turned from I,abrade, laden with fish, were overtaken l?y the recent violent storm, dtiven ashore and became total wrecks. The captains aud crews, uumbrelng ten or eleven men, were all drowned In the same gain the Blos som, another Labrador vessel, on re turn, struck on Gull island, Notre Dame bay, aud went to pieces. Four or live men perished. Tho loss of the Newfoundland brig Camellia, at Scatterie, has created a painful sensation here, as Capt. Rich ard Harvey, a very worthy and highly respected citizen of St. Johns, with his wire and child, perished in the wreck. Their bodies were recovered. A Sad Fat?. Chicago, Oct. 2.?When the through train on the Rock Island Road pulled into Kugle wood this morning Conduc tor Dickey missed one of his passen gers. She was a lady and had come all the way through from Denver. Alter thoroughly searching his train for the missing woman he lelegraped to Blue Island to the operator there to have the track east and west of Blue Island gone over. About two miles west of Blue Island the body of the missing passen ger was found lying beside the (rack. She hail probably gone out ou the plat form of the car and a-k-ldently fallen off. Nothing was found to identity flu? woman. _ Taken from the Sheriff. iiklkna, Ark? Oct. l ?it is learned that Mieriff Derrick or Mariana, Ark., left Cat Island last night having iu charge nine of the thirteen colored Rlcker |rInters who killed Inspector Miller in Arkansas last Friday. The Sheriff wasou his way to Marlaua where he was going to put hm prisoners In jail, but the party was overtaken late last, night by an armed posse who took i the prisoners after a sharp struggle and hanged the entire party. AN EARNEST APPEAL For ?"??> < > i>r i ill I "i in Aid of the MoYeuiniit for m Prohibitory Law. Columbia, s. c, Oct. 8.?ltev. 11. F. Chreitzberg lias tho following appeal iu the Southern Christian Advocate iu furtheronce of the prohibitory move ment. A bill is pending in the Legislature of our Stute looking to the prohibition oi the liquor trallic in South Carolina. It lias been drafted with care, and will he further amended before it is put on its passage by guarding the weak points in similar billa in others States. II it i* passed it will las the strongest law of the kmd extant. That it will pass there can be no doubt if the friends ot humanity will rally this once more lo the woik. To gain this consensus of effort the Good To uplars of Columbia have appointed a commit tee. That committee has sent out a circular letter aud a number of blank froms of petition to every minister ot the Gospel in the State, Irrespective of denomination or color, whoso address conld tie obtaiued, to every Deputy in (.'nod Templar Ixxlges ami Divisions ot the Sons of Temperance. Twenty odd thousand of the petitions has thus been sent out. Shall we succeed? That depends now upon the willing co-operation of the li icmls of the cause. Will you pardon us if we continue to urge your attention to this in Itter? Tho work is great, but it has been so divided that a thorough canvass can be made and no one bur deued. if 3011 cuutiot give this work your immediate personal attention, will you kindly enlist some of the good wo men of your charge or neighborhood, so that every man friendly to this move ment may be allosved the privilege ol putting Inmselt upon record against the unjust, cruel, lawless, disgraceful trallic iu intoxicating liquors, aud peddling of human souls and family happiness for revenue. Let no name bo or.dtted. Lot every voter, while aud colored, have, an opportunity to sign. Designate them so that the number of white and colored can be ascertained. We are terribly in earnest. We believe that we shall suc ceed; but should we fall, let it he ou the side oi right. Brother, think for a oriel space upon wiuit we arc trying lo do. Think ol the untold number of our people who are in agony on account of this traffic. Think how it antagonizes ami nullifies the work of the church. Think ol the thou sands of souls it shoves oil into the pit ot woe every y ear in our beautiful Slate, aud by a grant Ol authority by the Slate. Think how impossible it is lor this trallic to continu. without levying its victims IrOMQ the present ranks ol the innocent. Think then of the boys ami girls ot the present who must stiller iu a lew 1 bort years to come. O. in the name of high heaven.it these are to be harmed aud destroyed by this curse, of curses, this plague Of plagues, let it be douo in violatl >u of a righteous law euacted by the will ol the people. From our bended knees, supplicating the Diviue blessing, let us press forward in this work of freedom and reform. God will help us to throw off this material, political aud mot it I parasite it we will only help ourselves. For long years methods have been discussed; let us cease talking now and put BOlUe method in operation. This petifiou method is the best we have at hand now. Now for a loug pull, a strong pull, and a pull al together, lor Cod and home, aud beloved Carolina. 11. F. ClIKBlT/.DKlta, One of the Committee. A Letter to tho Purut?r?. Columbia, s. C, Oct. s.?The fol lowing circular letter lo the farmers of South Carolina was issued yesterday. Its object is lo interest the farmers ot the State in the furnishing of samples of agricultural products for ihe Slate ex hibit at the Augusta Exposition, which will be held from November 3d Lo No vember .'Stull instant: To the Farmers ot South Carolina: The powers ami ilmies of the old Hoard of Agriculture have been (Involved upon the Hoard ot Trustees ol Clemsou College. All the energy and money heretofore used by the Department, ol Agriculture iu oilier ways are now be ing directed to the building of that in stitution. Hut the Trusteo* are uolun mindful of the Importance ot utilizing every opportunity wh oh oilers to adver tise our resources. It has. therefore, been determined lo make an < xhihit ol our products and industries at the An gUSia Exposition, which opens on the ?'id and closes 011 the 30lll ol November. The committee in charge of the work respectfully asks the earnest co-opera ttou aud help ot our burners towards furnishing samples of agricultural prod ucts?corn, wheat, rye, oats, rice, bar ley, potatoes, turnips, etc., Lite value ot such exhibits depends upon the pur i.y aud quality ol the 111 licle ami ot Us being (hipluyed iu liberal quantity. Persons willing lo contribute or sell ex tra hue samples of them* tilings will as sist us greatly lf liny will at once noli y the Secretary of Slate, woo will forward lags, and the articles can then be -hipped to Augusta, If the article to ho exhibited is bought only tin; name ot the county will appear; ii it is con tri b< uled the mime ot the donor will be placed upon it. We. ask our brother farmers to give us prompt help in mak ing a creditable display ??! hum pro?'? ucis. Itespoctfully, IL It. Tun,mam, .1. F. Tini>al, J. K. Wannamakkk, Committee, Kllleil by a l)?K llALTlMOHK, Oct. 2. Mrs. Mary Glen den ting, aged ??, was attacked by a bull dog at hOi' home this morning. I he brute bit her three times, and finally fastened Iiis teeth in her side, dragging lu r some distance. Mrs. iless, hearing her screams, came to her aid. and was in turn attacked by the dog, which bit her severely on t he jog. A man pissing rushed in ami beat off the dog. Mrs. Gleiideuiting is dying; Mrs. Hess may recovi-r. Two BlumlvrliiM u> im i?u. CALLAO, via Panama, Sept, 2U.- it now seems, if the report he true, that the Congressionais owe their victory chiefly to a terrible mistake committed by iho generals, llarbosaaud Alcerroca, who took each others' forces for those of the common enemy during the battle of the 21st, aud had ademerute encoun ter In which both generals wore killed and of which the Congressionais took advantage._ Polnonnil hv WIM l>aMOt|Mt Ottawa, Ont., Oct. 5.~Kight child ren, from three to ten years ot age, wore poisoned yesterday by eating the berries of the wild parsnip, and are not expect ed to recover. They w ere playing ab.>ut the streets last evening, and seeing some plants growing with bright red berries ou top, ate a quantity of the ber ries, which were sweet aud pleasant. Shortly after all the children were tak en violently ill. Tili Ucitth uT I'.Ii Iii II. London, Oct. S,?Great Britain and Ireland were startled this morning by I the utterly unlooked for announcement that Charles Stewart Parnell, the noted ' Irish leader, died suddenly yeasterda*1 cveniug at his home In Brighton. it bus been well Kuowu that Mr. Par ncll has not enjoyed the best of health lor years past, and it nas been noticed aud widely commented upou that, since die O'Snea divorce develop ments became a matter of public noto riety, ami since political troubles came upon him, the great Irish member of Parliament had grown thinner, aud that he had perceptibly aged iu appearauce, but uobody expected to bear of his death, and no inkling as lo his Illness had reached the newspapers. Only at this hour, 1 P. M., has it bei n possible to ubtaiu the details in regard 10 the death ol Partiell, lie died al his home. WalsinghamTerrace, Brighton, at 11.30 y esterday evening. His death is suld lo have been indirectly duo lo a chill, which he caught last week, and which al lirat was not regarded as beiug of a serious nalure. Parnell, however, grew worse aud a physician was called with the result that the patient was or dered to take to bis bed. This was on Friday last, and from that time Parue.'.l lost strength and finally succumbed. The exact ntturo of the disease which caused the death of the Irish leader has not yet been made known. From the day he took to his bed, however, the state of his hea.th has heeu such as to necessitate the constant attentiou of two physicians, hut in spite of their luces saut and uutiriug efforts to prolong or save bis lite Parnell gradually sank lower and lower UUtll he expired in the arms of Mrs Parnell, who is Utterly prostrated by the shock txpcricuctd through her husband's death. Flower's Kuociit Ion. NKW Vokk, Oct. '.?.?Tho Demo cratic cluh8 of the city of New York tendered ? reception to Hon. lloswell P. Flower, Democratic candidate lor governor, in the clubhouse, 017 Fifth avenue. Ii was a uotahlc gathering of promiuent Democratic citi/.jus ot ihe metropolis, including ex President ( .rov er Cleveland. When the ex-president entered his ap pearance was a signal lor an enthusias tic outburst ol applaujo, which coutinued lor several minutes. His meeting wiih Mr. Flower was characterized by the heartiest ol good leeling, aud the cheers were redoubled. In response to cries for a speech, Mr. Cleveland said: Probably you arc of the opiulon that ' 1 have been more interested the last lew days with a non-voier than lam with actual politi s. [Laughter aud applause] I regret lo say that that non-voter won't he able to help the Democratic partf Until prohibition against woman suffrage has been repeal ed. | Renewed laughter and applause.] When I come into this home of De mocracy, into the Democratic atmos phere, all uiy enthusiasm for the prin ciples of our grand party is awakened und iutcnsilicd. We are now entering I a contest, in ?hieb 1 do uot waul to be left out. This is a lime when every Democrat must do hid full duty. Never has there been a lime when the Democrats had a greater incentive lo work for parly success. It uives nie the greatest pleasure, to be able, to say that ihe ticket nominated merits aud should receive the earnest support of every tfue Democrat, Our success this fall must be attained by systematic, untiring and intelligent work. The Coincsl must bo won by persona! effort, und I hope that every Democrat ill the city and state will do his utmost for dial success which I am confident we shall obtain. Mr. Cleveland spoke tor about fifteen minutes, and was repeatedly applauded. Victim <>i ltowdylsni. LOUISVILLK. Ky. Oct. 8.?On the Louisville and Nashville tram poster day morning Miss Lena McEwail, of Frankfort, was shot by a drunken ne gro. Miss McEwau had been to Louis ville in attendance upon the Satellites of Mercury ball, and was returning home. The train was crowded, and many occupants were negroes. George Allen and Wcs Watson, colored, had been drinking heavily and were very boisterous. Win. Wiley, a while man, was going with a young lady to his home at Anchorage. He left his seat a moment to get a drink and when he re turned Walsen had taken his place. A quarrel ensued and Wiley jerked Wat son out of these.it. Other negroes hero Interfered and the white men on the train came to Wiley's support. George Allen pulled a knife and Watson drew a pisiol and fired. There w as gn at con fusion for a few moments and when it subsided it was found that Miss Me Fwan had been shot. The ball 100k elTect under the right eye and ranged down ward, bulging iu ttie muscles of the neck. The negroes at the next station left the train and escaped, but wi re re captured and brought, heie to await the result of Miss McEwail'8 injuries. She hi in a critical condition at her home in Frank f 011. Want 11 YrUBt. Chicago, (yd. '.?.?A special from C larlestou saysj A Convention ol plant* ers of sea island cotton in this stale is called lor Thursday next, for the pur pose of organizing a combine against ihe sale o cotton seed. The object is to effect 11 combination by which Georgia, Florida and the ICgvliail growers of long staple cotton wili be deprived ol tho Carolina seed. It is believed that the outside world is ih pendent upon ihn 11 e of the Carolina seed for the quality of their staple, and if they can he prevented from obtain ing Ihe seed, this quality will deterio rate so rapidly that the sea island plant ers of South Carolina will practically control ihe line cotton market ot tin world. The committees have been at work for some lime preparing a plan lor com bin ttlon, and it is believed DO A 1 hat the combine will be effected Thurs day. Growth of inn Allltftiee. Chicago, Oct. 3. -Ex-Congressman Weaver, of Iowa, w ho is stopping hare, said today: "My irip con vi nc- s me that tho Southern people are docking to tho Alliance standard and the Ocala plat form. The Alliance will have a candi date for speaker and Alliance represen tatives will be cl sely watched while 111 Washington by their conntitnents." Suicide .a Mayofcvllle. MAYK8VIM.K, S. ('., Oct. f?. VoUllg Robert May es, who drew large sums ol money Irotn the hanks in this city about a year llgO and lied, but after a few months relurned, shot himself at his homo, in Mayesville, S. C, to-day. The parricitlars have not been obtained, the cause is reported to he financial trouble* with ?rtics In New York. The Graham News very c irrectly says the farmers havo as much right to de mand w hat they need as any other class of people, aud being in the mnjority they can demand and gut it and not leave the Democratic party cither. ON ELECTROCUTIONS. DR. M'DONALD'S STATEMENT ON THOSE AT SING SING. It Fullv t'onl! nun tint ACDOUUta Ulveu I>v the Uultml l*c??*i s.-vti' > ?i i?') i*ii>mtv Inntautatueoua aud i>iwtii sjpoeily. Albany, X. V..Oot. 1.?Or. Carlos P. MaoDonald, who superintended the electrocutionsut singsing, to-day made the following statement which in each particular verrllles the report of the united I .ess sent out on the day of tho electrocution, in this supplementary report ot the details of tho executions which took place at Sing Sing prison last .inly it is staled that iu all thoso cases, one electrode was so nppiiod as to cover the forehead and temples and the other a large one the calf of the right leg, except ill the ease of Joseph Wood, iu which it was applied to the left i*'g, in consequence of the exfttem*** of an ulcer on the right one. T o oloc trodes were thoroughly wet with a solution of salt and witter before tho current was turned on and were mois tened at intervals when the current was interrupted, with the .same solution thrown on them with a syringe. Slocuin entered the execution room at 4:33a. m. and passed at once to the chair. The restraining strap.; and electrodes were adjusted expeditiously and without re sistance, ami the electric circuit was completed for the first time at 4:85. The first contact laited twenty-seven seconds at the end ol which time it win broken but the pulse was still fottud to be heating strongly, and between one, and twelve minutes later a noisy re spiration became, established with con Slderaole regularity, riu; current was Immedi itely rcapplied and continued for -ii'a seconds. Respiration had then ce isett entirely and permanently ana the heart beats had also ceased. After SloCUIll's body had been removed COll BUI tat loll among the med cal gontteuieo present seemed to puiut to ine unani mous feeling that it wusqililo possible that the long com [nuance ol the current was not so signili :unl a factor in pro ducing input cessation of the heart beat, as the sudden impact oi making and breaking the contact uud for that reason the next execution was conduct* ed a little differently. Harris A. Snuler entered the room at 5C11 a. in. The nrs: contact was made at 5 08 a. in , and continued ten seconds; was tilt 11 interrupted to allow of w et ting sponges; was again made lor ten seconds and again the sponges were wet, and a third contact was made for ten si conils. Three contacts ol ten sec onds each were thus made, at the end oi which time there was no ell'ort at respiration, but the pulse was beating so (irmly and itguiarly that it was deemed expedient to again close the circuit for utile ton seconds, at the end ol* which time the bean bad perman ently ceased beating. it will be noticed iltut in the litst case the pressure was applied lor lifty three second's in nil. At tin; end of that time respiration und tliu heart beats had censed permanently. la the sec ond ease at tne end of three contacts of ten seconds each the heart heat was still strong and at tie-end ol toe totirth application ol nineteen seconds that had entirely ceased. It. w.ll appear from this that the duration of the cur reut was quite as important an item as the making and breaking of a contact. It was therefore determined to make the contact in tue next <.*ns ? it little longer, interruptunis being necessary to permit of moistening the sponges. Joseph Wood entered at o.'.Vi and tho electric current was completed at 5.84. Three contacts of twenty seconds each were made at the end of which time respiration had ceased permanently; no pulse could bfi felt at till) w list and no heart beat w as heard on examination. Jttgiro onlered tho room at 0 a.m. At (5.(12 a. in. the current was closed for the llrst time, and three contacts of fif teen seconds each followed, with two in termissions of twenty seconds each. When the current was lin-iily broken a very slight Muttering was reit at the wns:. In this case extreme heat was noticed iu the region of the knee above the point w here the lower electrode had been applied and a thermometer held I against the skin for only litteuu sec onds ran up 115 degrees, the highest point it registered. At017 the chest, was bared and cessation of the heart was confirmed, From the experience had in these cases,the. report says we are inclined to the belief that, while unconsciousness was instantaneous and continuous from the liist moment of contact in each case, yet iu order to insure that death supervene as rapidly as possible it was necessary t-> continue the voltage em ployed in these cases lor from lifty to sixty seconds In each ease the tent I per a tttre ol the water ne.r to and at the edges of the electrodes was raised neat ly,if not quite, to the boiling point, so us to blister the skin more or less ex tensively, i here was absolutely no w here any smoking, charring or burn ing. An I illiniu m Kattier'ii Orlmo. ( Ii a iiLUSTON, S, C, Oct. 5.?Carlo Moi'/.enicr, while. I ills beta an c.sted for shooting his thii'teeii-year-ol I daughter. Mon/.. nier is slated lo have It ft bis wile ami children several mouths. He went to Mount Pleasant in company with sm other man and proceeded lo the resi dence of his wile, Ciil'iyitlif II double bar rel gtlll loaded with bin! shot. His daughter saw htm comiuguud inn away frightened. Mon/.ouicr ordered her to stop which she did not do and hor lather taking deliberate aim lin d. The shot struck her on the lower portion of boby. She. w as Utkoil lip iu an insensible con dition. A Konsul Inn >il \ n niii.. Viknna, Oct. 2.?A profound sensa tion has In en crcattd by a dispatch from K"icbenb;i g, Bohemia, which while announcing the Side arrival at that pi ice ol the Km prior Francis Joseph, also brings the shirtling news that dining last night an altempt was made to blow Up the bridge at ItosGll thai, a suburb of 'leiclieiibi-rg, by means of a bomb. Fortunate!; the plot was discovered and Iruslrated. It is sup posed that the bomb was placed there in hope of killing tue l-'mpcroi, whoso train crossed the bridge iii question, No arrests have be u reported, Smolher.il In Cotton Soeil. Ualkiuii, N. C, Ocl :i -Willloughby Sauls, of Wayne county, ua going into nis barn, wherein a large quantity of seed cotton was stored, discovered his live year-old daughter Mary with her heu l" und a portion of her body in a hole In the cotton dead. She hud Imitated her brother,aged twelvo,in digging ihe hole, und while the hitter won', to too house she deepen..,; the cavity and stuck her bead in if, but owing to the heavy presure of the cotton from all sld?*s was unable to draw herself out and was smothered. (lov. Tillman has called a conven tion to meet in Columbia, "luring Fair week to discuss Ihe World's Fair mat ter. All cities, alliances, boards of trades, etc., are requested to semi dele gates.