VOL. VII. MANNING-, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECELMEI1 80 ~.3
THE WATERS OF MERO31.
SUBJECT OF SUNDAY'S SERMON B)
REV. T. DE WITT TALMAGE.
He Tells of Cities That Were Taken b2
Joshua Under God's Guidance Whez
the Children of Israel Entered the Hol:
.and.
BROOKLYN, Dec., 21.-Dr. Talmago
preached the following sermon thi,
morning in the Academyv of Music it
this city, and again in the evening a
The Christian Herald service in Ne"
York. His text was Josh. xi, 5 -"An(
when all these kings were met togeth
er they came and pitched together al
the waters of Merom to fight againsi
Israel."
We are encamped to-night in Pales
tine by 'the waters of Ierom. After E
long march we hive found our tenti
pitched, our fires kindled, and thougl
far away from civilization a variety o
fqod that would not compromise a firsl
class American hotel, for the most of
our caravan starts an hour and a hall
earlier in the morning. We detair
only two mules, carrying so much o:
our baggage as we might accidentalil
need and a tent for the nooniJay lunch
eon. The nalarias around this Lake
Merom are so poisonous that at any
other season of the year encampmen
here is perilous. but this winter night
the air is tonic and healthful. In this
neighborhood Joshua fought his last
great battle. The nations had banded
themselves together to crush this
Joshua, but along the banks of these
waters Joshua left their carcasses.
Indeed itis time that we more min
utely examine this Joshua of whom
we have in these discourses crught
only a momentary glimpse, although
he crossed and recrossed Palestine, and
next to Jesus is the most stirring and
mighty character whose foot ever
touched the Holy Land.
JOSRUA READY TO TAxEMOSES' PLACE.
-Moses was dead. A beautiful tradi
tion says the Lord kissed him, and in
that act drew forth the soul of the dy
ing lawgiver. He had Deen buried,
only one Person at the funeral, the
same One who kissed' him. But God
never takes a man away from any
place of usefulness but he has some
one ready. The Lord does not go look
ing around amid a great variety of can
didates to find some one especially it
ted for the vacant position. He makes
a man for that place. Moses has pass
ed off the stage, and Joshua, the hero,
puts his foot on the platform of history
so solidly that all the ages echo with
the tread. He was a magnificent
fighter, but he always fought on the
right side, and he never fought unless
God told him to fight. He got his mil
itary equipment from God, who gave
himthe promise at the start, "There
shall not any man be able to stand ba'
fore thee all the days of thy life." God
fulfilled this promise, although Josh
ua's first battle was with the spring
freshet, and the next with a stone wall,
and the next leading on a regiment of
whipped cowards, and the next battle
against darkness, wheeling the sun
and the MGQn into his battalion, and
the last agains&itC ~~ ' - 1 J,
death-five great victor es.
For the most part when the general
of an army s ' out in a conflict he
would like have a small battle in
er th he may get his courage up
and y his troops and get them drill
ed for greater conflicts; but this first
undertaking of Joshua was greater
than the leveling of Fort Pulaski, or
the thundering down of Gibraltar, or
the overthrow of the Bastile. It was
the crossing of the Jordan at the time
of the .spring freshet. The snows of
Mount Lebanon had just been melting,
and they poured down into thevalley,
and the whole valley was a raging tor
rent. So the Can-anites stand on one
bank, 'and they.- look across and see
Joshua and the Israelites, and they
laugh and saiy, "Aha! aha! they cannot
disturb us in time-until the freshets
fall; it is impossible. for tuemi to reach
us." But after a while they look across
tbe water and they see a movement in
the armey of Joshua. They say: "What's
the matter Dow ? Why, there ir ust be
a panic among these troops, and they
are going to fly, or perhaps they are
going to try to march across the river
Jordan. Joshua .is a lunatic." But
Joshua, the chiefain, looks at his army
and cries, "Forward, mareh!" and they
start for the bank of the Jordan.
TRE ?AING OF JORDAN.
One mile ahead go two prnests carry
ing a glittering box four feet long and
two feet wide. It is the ark of the
covenant. And they come down, and
no sooner do they just touch the rim
of the water with their feet than by
an Almighty fiat Jordan parts. The
army of Joshua marches right on with
out getting their feet wet over the bot
tom of the river, a path of chalk and
broken shells and pebbles, until they
get to the other bank. Then they lay
hold of the oleanders and tamarisks
and willows and pull themselves up a
bank thirty or forty feet high, and
having gamned the other bank, they
clap their shields and their cymbals
and sing the praises of the God of
Joshua. But no sooner have they
reached the bank than the waters be
gin to dash nd roar, and with a terri
fic rush they break loose from their
strange anchorage. Out yonder they
have stopped, thirty miles of distance
they halted. On this side the waters
roll off towards tbe salt sea.
~ut as the land of the Lord God is
ta~ en away from the thus uplifted
W tT-aters perhaps uplifted half a
pn'ile-as the Almighty hand is taken
away those waters rush down, and
sognie of the unbelieving Israelites say:
"Alas, alas, what a misfortune! Why
could not those waters have staid part
ed ? Because perhaps we may want to
go back. 0 Lord, we are engaged in a
risky business. These Canaanites may
eat us up. flow if we want to go back ?
Would it not have been a more com
plete miracle if the Lord had parted
the waters to let us come through and
kept them parted to let us go back if
we are defeated ?" My friends, God
makes no provision for a Christian's
retreat. Hie clears the path all the way
to Canaan. To go back is to die. The
same gatekeepers that swing back the
amethystine and crystalline gate of the
Jordan to let Israel paiss through now
swing shut the amethiyst'ne and crys
talline gate.
THIs Is No PLACE TJO STOP.
pBut this is no place for the host to
top- Joshua gives the command,
'Forward, marc-h!" In the distance
there is a long grove of trees, and at
the end of the grove is a city. It is a
city- It is a city of arbors, a city with
walls seeniing to reach to the heaven,
to buttress the very sky. It is the
metropolis that commands the moun
tain pa's. It is Jericho. The city was
afterward captui-ed by Pompey, and it
Sas alterward captured by -ilerod the
i-eat, and it was afterward captured
y thelMohammedanls; but this cam
pign the Loi-d plans. There shall be
no rwords. ho shields, no battering ram.
here shall be only one weapon of war,
apd that a ranu's horn. The horn of
$p slpin rapi was sometines taken,
pnd lioles were punctiured in it, and
then the musician would put ihe in
srument to his lips, and ne would run
is ainger over this rude musical in
strument and make a great deal of
sweet harmony for the people. That
was the only kind of weapon. Seven
priests were to take these rude rustic
musical instruments. and they were to
go around the city every day for six
days-once a day-and then on the
seventh day they were to go around
blowing these rude:musical instruments
seven times, and thenl at the close of
the seventh blowing of the rams horns
on the seventh day the peroration of
the whole scene was to bo a shout at
which those great walls should tumble
from capstone to base.
ROUND THE CITY's WALLS.
Tb seven priests with the rude musi
cal instruments pass all round the city
walls on the first day, and a failure.
Not so much as a piece of plaster broke
loose from the walls; not so much as a
loosened rock, not so much as a piece
of mortar lost from its place. " 'here,"
say the unbelieving Israelites, "didn't
I tell you so? Why, those ministers
are fools. The idea of going around the
city with those musical instruments.
and expecting in that way to destroy
it! Jobhna has been spoiled; he thinks
because he has overthrown and de
stroyed the spring freshet he can over
throw the stone wal. Why, it is not
philosophic Don't you see there is no
relation between the blowing of these
musical instruments and the knocking
down of the wall? It isn't philosophy."
And I suppose there were- many wise
acres who stood with their brows knit
ted and with the forefinger of the right
hand to the foretinger of the left hand
arguing it all out and showing that it
was not possib!e that such a cause
coald produce such an effect. And I
suppose that night in the encampment
there was plenty of philosophy and
caricature. i.nd if Joshua had been
nominated for any high military posi
tion he would not have got many
votes.
Joshua's stock was down. The second
day the priests blowing the musical
instruments go around the city, and a
failure. Third day, and a failure;
fourth day, and a failure; fifth day, and
a failure; sixth day, and a failure. The
seventh day comes, the climacteric day,
Joshua is up early in the morning and
examines the troops, walks all around
about, looks at the city wall. The
priests start to make the circuit of the
city. They go all around once, all
around twice, three times, four times,
five times, six times, seven times, and
a failure.
There is only one more thing to do,
and that is to utter a great shout. I
see the Israelitish army straightening
themselves up, filling their lungs for a
vociferation such as was never heard
before and never heard after. Joshua
feels that the hour has come, and he
cries to his host, "Shout, for the Lord
hath given you the city !" All the
people begin to cry, "Down, Je'icho!
down, Jericho I" And the long line of
solid masonry begins to quiver, and to
move, and to rock. Stand from under !
She falls! Crash ! go the walls, the
temples, the towers, the palaces, the
air blackened with the dust! The
huzza of the victorious Israeliters and
the groan of the conquered Canaanites
commingle, and Joshua standing there
in the debris of the wall hears a voice
saying, "There shall not any man be
able to stand before thee all the days
HAB S 1OUS, SrI
Only one house spared. Who lives
there? Some great king? No. Some
woman distinguished for great kindly
deeds? No. She had been conspicuous
for her crimes. It is the house of Ra
hab. Why was her house spared? Be
cause she had been a great sinner? No,
but because she repented, demonstrat
ing to all the ages that there is mercy
-for the chief of sinners. The red cord
of divine injunction reaching from her
window to the ground, so that when
the people saw that red cord they knew
it was the divine indication they shoald
not disturb the premises. making us
think of the divine cord of a Saviour's
deliverance, the red cord of a Saviour's
kindness, the red cord of a Saviour's
mercy, the red cord of our rescue.
3Mercy for the chief of sinners. Put
your trust in that God, and no damage
shall befall you. When our world shall
be more terribly su'rounded than was
Jericho, even by the trumpets of the
judgment day, and the hills and the
mountains, the metal bones and ribs of
nature shall break they who have had
Rahab's faith shall have Rahab's de
liverance.
When, wrapt in fire, the realms of other
glow,
And Heaven's last thunder shakes the
earth below; -
Thou, undismayed, shall o'er the ruins
smile,
And light thy torch at Nature's funeral
pile.
But Joshua's troops may not halt'
here. The command is, "Forward,
march !" There is the city of Al; it
must be taken. How shall it be taken ?
A scouting party comes back and says,
"Joshua, we can do that without you;
it is going to be a very easy job; you
just stay here while we go and capture
it." They march with a small regi
ment in iront of the city. The men of
Ai look at them and give one yell, and
the Israelites~ run like reindeer. The
northern troops at Bull Run did not
make such rapid time as these Israel
ites with the Canaanites after the-n.
They never cut such a sorry figure as
when they were on the retreat. Any
body that goes out in the battles of God
with only half a force, instead of your
taking th~e men of Ai, the men of Ai
will take you. Look at the church of
God on the retreat. Bornesian canni
bals ate up 3Munson, the missionary.
"Fall- Lack !" said a great many Chris
tain people. "'F41l back, 0 church of
God ! Borneo will never be t'ken.
Don't you see the Bornesian cannibals
have eaten up M1unson, the mfissionl
aryv?" Tyndall delivers his lecture at
the University of Glasgow, and a great
many good people say : "Fall back, 0
church of God ! Don't you' see that
Christian philosophy is going to be
oyercome by worldly philosophy ? Fall
back !" Geology plunges its crowbar
into the mountains, and there are a
great many people who say : "Scien
tific investigation is g ing to over
throw the Mlosaic account of the crea
tion. Fall back !" Friends of the
church have never had any right to
fall back.
50sHUA IS CHAGRINED.
Joshua falls on his face in chagrin, It
is the only time you ever see the back
of his head. Ile~ falls on his face and
begins to whine, and he says : "Oh,
Lord God, wheretore hast thou at all
brought this people over Jordan to de
liver us into the hand of the Amorites
to destroy us? Would to God we had
been content and d welt on the other
side of Jordan 1 For the Canaanites
and all the inhabitants of the land shall
hear of it. and shall environ us round
and cut otY our name from the earth."
I am very glad Joshua said that.
Before it seemed as if lie were a super
natural being, and therefore could riot
be an example to us; but I find he is a
man, he is only a man. Just as some
times youifind a man under seyere .op
po.sition, or in a bad state of physical
health, or worn ou4t with over work lying
down and sighing about everything
being deleated. I am encouraged when
~I hear this cry of.Joshumaas he lies in
the dust.
God comes and rouses himi. Ilow
Idoes he rouse hunm? By complimentary
I apstrophe? No. T~eaysr: "et theea
up. Wherefore liest thou upon thy
face?" Joshua rises, and I warrant you
with a mortified look, but his old cour
age comes back. The fact was that
was not his battle. If he had baen in
it he would have gone on to victory.
Ile gathers his troops around him and
says, "Now, let us co up and capture
the city of Ai; let us go up right
away.
They march on. lIe puts the majori
ty of the troops behind a ledge of rocks
in the night, and then he sends coi
paratively small regiments up in front
of the city. The men of Ai come out
with a shout. The small regiments of
Israelites in stratagem fall back and
fall back, and when all the men of Ai
have left the city and are in pursuit of
these scattered, or seemingly scattered,
regiments Joshua stands on a rock-I
see his locks flying in the wind as he
points his spear toward the doomed
city, and that is the signal. The men
rush out from behind the ro-ks and
take the city, and it is put to the torch,
and then these Israelites in the city
march down, and the flying regiments
of Israelites return, and betw' en these
two waves of Ibraelitish pro%% ess the
men of Ai are destroyed, and the Is
raelites gain the victory. And while
I see the curling smoke of that de
stroyed city on the sky, and while I
hear the huzza of the Israelites, and
the groan of the Canaanites. Joshua
hears something loader than it all,
ringing and echoing through his soul,
"There shall not any man be able to
stand before thee all the days of thy
life."
ON TO THE CITY OF GIDEON.
But this is no place for the host of
Joshua to stop. "Forward. march!"
cries Joshua to the troops. There is
the city of Gideon. It has put itself
under -he protection of Joshua. They
sent word, "There are five kings after
us; they are going to destroy us; send
troops quick; send us help right away."
Joshua has a three days' march at more
than double quick. On the morning 1
of the third day he is before the enemy.
There are two long lines of battle.
The battle opens with great slaughter, ]
but the Canaanites soon discover some
thing. They say: "That is Joshua. I
That is the man who conquered the i
sping freshet and knocked down the
stone wall and destroyed the city of Ai.
There is no use lighting." And they
sound a retreat, and as they begin to
retreat Joshua and his host spring
upon them like a panther. pursuing
them over the rocks: and as these
Canaanites with sprained ankles and
gashed foreheads retreat, the catapults
of the sky pour a volley of hailstones
into the valley, and all the artillery of
the heavens with bullets of iron pound
the Canaanites against the ledges of
Beth-horen.
"Oh!" says Joshua, "this is surely a
victory." "But do you not see the sun
is going down? Those Amorites are
going to get away after :.1, and then
they will come up some other time and
bother us, and perhaps destroy us."
See, the sun is going down. Oh, for a
longer day than has ever been seen in t
(this climate! What is the matter with
Joshua? Has he fallen in an apoplectic
ft? No. He is in prayer. Look out t
when a good man makes the Lord his s
ally. Joshua raises his face, radiant r
with prayer, and looks at the descend
n_ Int
crescent of the moon, for you know the
qdeen of the night sometimes will
linger around the palaces of the day.
Pointing one hand at the descending
sun and the other at the faint crescent
of the moon, in the name of that God I
who shaped the worlds and moves the ,
worlds, he cries, "Sun, stand thou still t
upon Gideon; and thou moon, in the ,
valley of Ajalon." They halted. a
But Joshua was not quite through.
There was time for five funerals be
fore the sun of that prolonged day set.
Who will preach their funeral sermon ?
Massillon preached the funeral sermon
over Louis XVIL Who will preach the
funeral sermon of those five dead kings
king of Jerusalem, king of Hlebron,
king of Jarmuth. king of Lachish,
king of Eglon ? Let it be by Joshua.
What is his text ? What shall be the
epitaph put on the door of the tomb?i
"There shall not any man be able to
stand before thee all the days of thyi
life."
But before you fasten up the door I
want five more kings beheaded and
thrust in-King Alcohol, King Fraud,
King Lust, King Superstition, King
Infidelity. Let theix1 be beheaded and
hurl them in. Then fasten up the
door forever. What shall the Inscrip
tion and what shall the epitaph be?
for all Christian philanthropists of all
ages are going to ,.ome and look at it.
What shall tne inscription be ? "There
shall not any man be able to stand be- 1
fore thee all the days of thy life."'
TIE FOR JOSHU~A TO GO IIOME.
But It is time for Joshua to go home.
He Is 110 years old. Washington went
down the Potomac, and at Mount Ver
non close'l his days. W ellington died
peacefully at Apsley hlouse. Now,
where shall Joshua rest ? Why, he is
to have his greatest battle now. After 3
a hundred and ten years he has to meet |
a king who has more subjects than all|
the present population of the earth, his
throne a pyramid of skulls, his parterre
the grave yards and the cemeteries of
the world, his chariot the world's
hearse-the King of Terrors. But if
this is Joshua's greatest battle, it is
going to be Joshua's greatest victory.
He gathers his friends around him and I
gives his valedictory, and it is full of
reminiscence. Young men tell what
they are going to do;~old men tell what
they haye done. And as you have
heard a'grandfather or great-grand
father, seated by the evening fire, tell of
Monmouth or Yorktown, and then lilt
the crutch or staff as though it wcre a
musket, to light and show how the old
battles were won, so Joshua gathers
his friends around his dying couch'.
and he tells them the story of what he
has been through, and as he lies there,
his white locks snowing down on his
w~rinkled forehead, 1 wonder if God
ri
has kept his promise all the way
through.
As he lies there he tells the story one,
two or three times-you have heard
old1 people tell a story two or three
times over-and he answers: "I go t
the way of all the earth and not onet
word of the promise has failed, not one
word thereof has failed; all has comea
to pass, not one wordl thereof has
failed," And then he turns to his3
family as a dying parent will and says:
"Choose now whom you will serve, the
God of Israel, or the God of the Amo- f
rites. As for me and my house wet
will serve the Lord." A dying parent
cannot be reckless or thoughtless in t
regard to his children. Consent to part
with them forever at the door of the i
tomb we cannot. By the cradle in a
which their infancy was rocked, by the
bosom on which they first lay, by the
blood of the covenant, by the God of
Jushua it shall not be. We will notr
part, we cannot part. Jehovah .Jireh,:
we take thee at thy Promise "I willa
be a God to thee and thy seed afterg
thee."d
Dlead, the old chieftain must be laide
out. Handle him very gently; thati
sacred body is over a hundred and teng
years of age. Lay him out, stretch outc
those leet that walked dry shod the t
parted Jordan. Close those lips which :1
helped blow the blast at which thes
walls of .Jericho fell. Fold the arm h
that liftedl the sear trowarrl the rdnnm- f.
ed city of Ai. Fold it right over th
heart that exulted when the five king.
fell. But where shall we get the burn,
ished granite for headstone and the
footstone? 1 bethink myself now. I
imagine that for the head it shall bE
the sun that stood still upon Gideon
and for the foot the moon that stood
still in the valley of Adjalon.
Bill Howard Killed.
Gi EENvi. i E, Dec. 23.-W. 11. How
ard, better known all over GreenvillE
County as "Big 1Uill' Ioward, is dead.
The revengeful mountain bullet has
again got in its work, but this time the
victim appears to have received the
wound face to face with the man who in
flicted it and there was no lurking in the
dark or behind bushes on the hillsides
and a fatal blow by unknown persons,
as is usually the case.
The particulars received here yester
day were very meagre, but the killing
of "Big Bill" occurred not far from
where Ben 1toss was shot to death and
the slayer is the son of Ben lRoss' wid
ow. lis aiime is George Center and he
is well known in the mountain sections
of this county.
There were no witnesses to the affair,
but it is said that Sunday afternoon
about 4 or ; o'clock "Big Bill" and Cen
ter met in the road in the neighborhood
of where both lived. What passed
between tlem is not known, but Big
Bill was shot with a Remington rile, the
ball shattering the right arm and going
into the abdomen. T'he wound caused
a constant flow of blood from the mouth
and floward died some time yesterday.
Late yesterday afternoon Sheriff Gil
reath received notice that Center was
ready to surrender himself. The Sher
iff left shortly afterward and will prob
ably return to-day with him. The scene
f the killing is twenty-live miles above
the city. .
Several rumors are current as to the
:ause ot the killing, the principal one
being that Howard informed on Center
who was engaged in the "blockade"
whiskey business. Two of his stills
iave recently been destroyed by the gov
rnment and he believed that Howard
1ad something to do with directing the
evenue officers to the blen-Kade stills.
Death is generally the infoimer's fate.
Kews.
Her Income and His.
CHARLOTTE, N. C., December,25
Che World's San Francisco special in
-egard to the marriage of Miss Maggie
.icDowell, of Charlotte, to Baron Von
daltzahn, of Berlin, Germany, in con
iection with his alleged letter in reply
o the California joker's advertisement
>f rich American brides for European
ioblemen, has been the all-absorbing
heme of conversation in social circles
iere to-day.
It is said the Baron declared that the
:ause othis resignation from the German
rly was his bride's re-usal to li;e
.broad. A circumstance by sorae
hought significant in this connection
vas told the World correspondent this
vening by a person quite intimate with
he McDowell fanaiy. This informatioi
teted that soon after Miss McDowell's
eturn from Europe the Baron in one of
loselv about her income and said that
t would be impossible for them to mar
.y if she was not wealthy. The story
-uns that J. B. McDowell, a brother of
;he Barone's answered the letter, saying
hat his sister's income was $4,000 a
ear and that it would be necessary for
lie Baron to write at his earliest con
renience and declare what his income
w'as. It is said tile Baron replied as
ollows:
"You ask what my income is. That
ias never troubled me, and I have nev
~r thought to ask my mother in what
dad of financial condition she would
eave me in at her death.
Preached to a Jury.
KANSAs CITY, Dec. 17.-A special
'rom Wichita, Kansas, says: The jury
n the case of Nellie 3Iayers, charged
vith robbing John Yost, and then throw
ng 1dm while in a drunken stupor from
Sthird story of a house of ill repute,
iad been out fifty-two hours last night,
vhen Judge Balderson announced his
ietermination to have a verdict before
nornn.
He did not reveal his plan, but at 3 a.
n. took R1ev. N. E. Iharmon to the court
10use. The bailiff ushered the reverend
~entleman into the jury room. 3Mr.
-iarmon then commenced a religious
ervice, the jury joining in tile singing.
-ie then delivered an hour's discourse
ipon the immortality of the soul, and
ifter the closing prayer left the jury to
hemselves. When court opened thle
>ailitT announced that the jury had ar
ived at a verdict. It was "guilty."
One of tha jurors said the verdict was
eached on the first ballot after the close
f tile religious service.
The defense will appeal thle case, al
eging misconduct on the part of tile
udge and his bailiff.
Accident to Col. Lee Hagood.
Co~t-3zIA, S. C., Dec. 23.-Informa
iol: was received hlere yesterday of a
ery serious accidenlt to Colonel Lee
lagead. It seems from the particulars
btained last night from our Sumter
orrespondent that Colonel Ilagood,
ho has been over at Sumter for some
.ays past on insurance business, acci
entally sh~ot himself in theC left arm
:ith a pistol Monday night in his room
t the J ervey Ilouse. Tile bail fractured
oth bones above the wrist. M1edical
ssistance was summoned at once and
he wound wvas dressed. Yesterday
iorninlg upon re-examination it was
oun~d necessary to amputate 11is arm.
hr Ihagood is now doing tolerably well.
Irs. Ilagood and her son1 left'for Sum
er yesterday evening.
The intelligence of this sad accident to
olonel Ilagood was a great shock to his
riends in Columbia, but they have been
eassuiredi by tihe information that re
ctionl had set in.-Columlbia Riegiste r
"The Old Reliable."
Cnl~ILEsrox, D~ec. 20.-Tile first an
lull rep~ort of Receiver C'haniberlain of
he Southl Carolina R ailway was filed in
hie Uniited States Court to-day. The
et earnings for the year are 8530,TIt
gainst $:312,t;74 in 188-t, an increase of
2tS,057. The I rep~ort is up to October
1, 1890.
Th le expense account shlows a corres
onding decrease, notwithstanding the
act that the road has added materially
o its rolling stock and motive power.
The receiver says that tile inicrease ill
he earnings is not G.ue especially to any
reat inicrease ill the crop~s but to tile
atulral developemlen~t of the counitry
lid to its columectionis.
A l'oss'ible Floodl at Wheeinzg.
WH IEELIx(I. W. Va. D~ee. 18.-Thfle
riust terrifle snow storm for six years
as been raging for 24l hours, and a large
mount of damiage resulted. All tele
raph conununication was cut ofT all
ay yesterday. The city telephane, tel
graph and lire alarm systems are corm-~
fetely wreckedl, and railway traini
retly delayed. 'ThIe loss is large. Street
ars are not runniling and hack lilies are
akinig ti heir place. Lit tle business h as
>en done. TJiere are lively appreheni
ions of a ilood in the citv. 'There isa
'ast amount of snow about the headwa
INGALILS SCHEME.
IHE WILL CARRY HIS FIGHT TO THE
UNITED STATES SENATE.
If he is Defeated for Re-election he will
Alleze that the Kansas House of Rep
resentatives Ix Illegally Constituted.
Tol::KA, December. 26.-The Sena
t(rial contest in Kansas is at this time
attracting much attention. owiug to the
prominence of Senator Ingalls. The
Times recently gave an account of the
preliminary steps being taken for a con
test to be made in tile United States
Senate. An interview has :ocen had
with a gentleman of national reput ation,
who fully and freely expressed his views
upon thi' subjest. and gave con firmatorv
evidence a'; to the conspiracy revealed
by the Timcs. For political reasons his
nanic will 1:e withheld. He is in a posi
tion to know absolutely the workings in
the inner circles of'politics. This gentle
man said
"The struggle for the Senatorial suc
cession to John J. Ingalls bids fair to
outrival in stubborn fighting, in persis
tent offort. and in fertile expedients all
others in the history of such elections.
Gathered around and supporting Senator
Inualls in li's offort at re-election are
some of the strongest and most active
minds in the West, men who for a quar
ter of a century have so managed the
politics of the State that Kansas had
outstripped all other Northern States in
piling up majorities for Republican can
didates in Presidential years. And
while Ingalls would not be their first
choice in the event of an open field and
fair fight, they recognize that his re elec
tion means an extraordinary triumph
for them and a continued supremacy in
the management of their party.
"The Kansas Legis!ature as now con
stituted consists of 40 Senators and 128
members of the House of Representa
tives, Classifying them politically there
are 38 Republican Senators, 1 Democrat,
and there is one vacancy to be filled at a
special election December 30. The va
cancy in all probability will be filled by
an Alliance man, instructed against the
re-election of Ingalls, so that the Senate
will stand 38 Republicans, 1 Democrat
and 1 Alliance Senator. The House
contains 91 Alliance, 9 Democratic and
28 Republican members. This gih es
an Alliance vote of 92, a Republican
voftof 66 and a Democratic vote of 10.
There is no doubt that four of the ten
Demo'cratic votes are for Ingalls to the
bitter end, and that the very great pro
babilities are that as against a distinctive
Alliance candidate, all ten of the Demo
cratic votes will be given to Ingalls.
"The Alliance people to bridge over
this difliculty could secure five of the
Democratic votes by taking a candidate
with strong Democratic antecedents, and
one who upon all political questions, ex
cept silver currency and tariff, would
range himself on the De side of
the chamber. Such electionwould
S Me T, if they coulfhO
their men; but here one of their main
difficulties would occur. Their total
number of members is composed of
mixed and diverse materials. Nearly
two-thirds have heretofore been active
Republicans. Seven of their number are
Knights of Labor and are free lances in
politics.
"Aain, the Republcan leaders allege
that the Ihouse ofRepresentatives ought
to contain under the plain terras of the
Constitution. 144 members instead of
123, that nineteen counties are disfian
chised by the legislative apportionment
of 1885. This claim is based upon a
provision of the Constitution of the State
that declares that the number of Re
pcesentatives and Senators aball be reg
ulated by law, but that it shall never
exceed 128 Representatives and 40 Sea
ators. From and after the adoption of
the amendment the House of Represen
tatives shall admit one member from
each county in which at least 250 legal
votes were cast at the next preceding
general election, and each organized
county in which less than 200 legal
votes were cast at the next preceding1
general electioa shall be attached to and1
constitute a part of the Representatives
district of the county lying next adja
cent to it on the cast.' This amend
ment to the Constitution was adopted at
the general election in 1873.
"In the apportionment bill of 1885 no
provision was madle andl no margin left
for counties orangized after that time,
the wl'ole number of 128 members being
assigned to counties then organized. It
is now asserted that the true construe
tion of this amendment is, that as the
Constitution expressly provdes in an
other section that each organized county
shall have at least one Representative,
that the first part of the amemdment 1
was a direction to the Legislature in
making an apportionment, and that the 1
second was intended to give each of the ]
new coca ties a Representative in the I
session of the Legislature succeeding its I
organization, and this without reference
to the apportionment in force at the
time.
"Since 1885 nineteen counties have
been organized and are nowI
and have been since 1885 excluded
from representation on the floor of the
House. The matter was recently
brought before the Supreme Court of
the State by an application for a man
damus against the board of State canvas-t
sers on behalf of a person electied to the I
House in one of the excluded counties to 1
compel the board to issue to him a cer- C
tificate of election as a member of the
House. The Supreme Court, following
some old decision refuised to grant the
writ. This application wvas urged by
two of' the strongest lawyers in the (
State. and their, airguments are held by c
the public generally to be coinclusive of t
the question.
"Another argument supp)orting this
proposition is founded on Chapter 57 of
the General Statutes of Kansas, which -
requires that in all elections by a joint a
convention of both houses thxe personr
elected is requiredl to receive a majo-:ity1
of all tile members elected to the two
houses. The claim will be made that
each one oft these persons receiving a 1
maiority or plurality vote ila the nine f
teen recently org!anizedl counties are (
members elected according to the mean- I
i of' this statute.
"it is doubtful whether Ingalls and t
his legal friends really wanted the Courtt
Lii grant the wi'it or whiether they did r
this solely' or the purpose of'makingr ther
reccord. believing that the Coui't wvould
adhere to its previous opinion. At all
events. they have raised a question that
the Senate of the United States may(
have ultintely to decide. because their
thieoi'y is that if Ingalls is beaten by a r
llouse thius constituted tiiey will contest
on the ground that the 11ouse not hay- g
ing been legally constituted, there was c
no electior. This question would be de- a
termined by the Senate at its called ses- L
"If the Senate should decide, as it is
confidently believed by Ingalls and his
advisers, that there was no election, the
State Legislature having adjourned, and
there being no session for two years,
Governor Humphrey would have the
power to appoint, and Senator lugalls
would be appointed and hold until Janu
ary. 1892. when the Legislature wouid
again be in session. If the legal theory
of this scheme is sound. there seem to
be no escape for the Allhance men. un
less they could so manage as to give their
candidate so large a vote that he would
have a clear majority. admitting that
eve-v one of these disfranchised members
would have voted for Ingalls if they h4d
been admitted to their seats. This
would requeire on Alliance candidate to
receive 93 votes, and this is cons'dered
impossible. They have this scheme to
fall back on, if they do not succeed iu
getting the required 93 votes for Ingalls
and a Legislature as at pressent coi
posed.
"It may be said that if ingalls doesn't
receive ninety-three - otes ihe other side
may contest on the same ground, but It
must be recollected that while after the
4th ot March next the Senate will be
very close it will still be Republican, and
in view of modern political act'on it would
be strange indeed if the Republicans
would so weaken themselves, but I do
not care to discuss such probabilities,
my effort being to acquaint you with
some of the schemes and political move
ments that are now g'oiu on in a State
that has been so prolific of Senatorial
sensations."-New York Times.
AFOUL MURDER IN NORFOLK.
Shootingan Old Soldier to Death in the
Presence ofhis Iife and Grandchildren.
NORFOLK, Va.. Dec. 25.-There Was
a most brutal murder here to day shortly
after 12 o'clock. A veteran of two
wars, C. J. Calcutt, an Ex-Confederate
and a brave soldier in that war and the
war of this country with Mexico, was
he victim. Until very lately he was
>ne of the most trusted members of the
police force and for the past few months
le has been a private watchman on a
wharf of the Boston and Battimore line
)f the Merchants' and Miners' Trans
portation Company.
At an early hour this morning a man
iamed J. E. Brady, a fireman employed
)y the Cotton Compress Association of
;his city, apphed to Calcutt to arrest
i man in the street who had been offen
live to him. Calcutt replied that he had
iot seen the affair, and in addition, did
lot think his jurisdiction extended out
dde of the wharf.
Brady left but came back just as Cal
:utt was eating his dinner, which had
>een brought him by his wife dad two
ittle grandchildren, who remained to
ielp cheer up what would otherwise
lave been a lonely Christmas meal.
iVhile the meal was in progress and han
)y laughter and briaht joke were going
,he round of the little circl.e, Brady re
:arned, and, entering the office where
,alcutt was eating, applisd a vile
het to him and called on another W
was refused. Brady then made at Cal
utt. but the other watchman interfered
and separated them.
Calcutt went out into the yard to put
Brady out, so that his vile language
:ould not be heard by his wife and little
randchildren. Calcutu put his hand on
Irady and the latter jerked away, arew
a pistol from his overcaat pocket and
Fired, the ball striking Calcutt in the ear
and coming out on the other side of his
iead. Calcutt fell and ('eath was al
nost insiantaneous.
Brady was at once arrested by those
tround and taken to the station house.
rhe affair soon became noised about and
Brady would have fared badly if tl e
rowd that iathered could have gotto:1
iold of him. The police authorities a e
trong enough, however, to prevent any
ummary proceedings, and the law will
ake its course, though there is great in
lignation. ________
Illnois Senatorship.
CHICAGO, Dec. 24.-Chairman "Long"
jones, of the Republican State central
ommittee, gave notice to-night that
he right of five Democratic State Sena
ors-elect to sit in the Legislature
vould be contested.
This is the latest maneuvre in the
ight for the United States Senatorship
rom Illinois. The notices were with
ield until the last moment allowed by
aw, the motive for the delay being, it
s understood, to avoid stirring up the
Jemocrats to possible reprisals.
State Senators upon whom notice
vas served are Nooman, of the First2
listrict; Caid well. of the Thirty-ninth:
i.rnold, of the Fifteenth; Dawkins, of
he Seventeenth, and Coppinger, of the
forty-first.
General charges of bribing voters
vith money and promises of oflices in
he organization of the General As
embly are the india grounds for con
ests, except as to Dawkins, who is al
eged to be ineligible because of foreign
>irth. With the contest against 31er
itt, of Springfield, there is now a con
roversy raised as to an even half dozen
)emocratic seats and a pair of Republi
ans.
The legislature is almost evenly di
ided between Democrats and Repub
cans on the joint ballot with three
~armers' Alliance men apparently
olding the balance of power.
The avowed candidates so far are
en. John M. P'almner, Democrat, and
shas. B. Farwell, Republican, who is.
he present incumbent. The struggle
romises to be fully as fierce as the onei
a which the late Gen. .John A. Logani
efeated Wim. R. MIorrison, now mem
er of the interstate commerce coim- l
11ssion.
The New Assointe Jusice.
s
WA $mIXa ToN. Dec. 23. -The Presi
ent to-day nominated Ihenry B. Brown
tf MIichigan to be Associate Justice of
te Supreme Caurt of the U'nited States,
ice Samuel F. M1iller deceased.t
Judge Brown is now United States
)istrict Judge for the third district of r
Lichigan; also Col. Charles Sutherland,
argeon, to be Surgeon-General. with
mnk of Brigadier-General, vice J. .* e
iaxter, deceased.r
An Explosion of Dynamite.
PITTsarun;, Dec. 21.-A special from
Vheeling, W. Va., says: "On the Nor
1lk and Western Railroad in Wayne
'onnty yesterday a gang of men hand
een at work on line blasting and sever- r
1 sticks of dynamite were placed around
ae tire to thaw out. In sonme manner,
:iey were exp~loded tearing everything to
ieces in the immediate vicinity. Two
ien were killed, an Italian and a negro; ~
ames unknown. Ten others were in-.
ared, several very seriously."
Fell Into 3Iolten 3Xetal. t
P~OTrTsvlL LE, P'a., Dec. 20.--Wmn. MIc
konigle, a pit boss in the employ of the
'ottsville Steel works, met with a ter
itle accident, ie was moving about
i the discharge oIf his dutties, when he
eidentally slipped and fell inito ia pilen
f m~olten steel. When removed he
ras in a pitiful condition, being very Ib
adly burned from head to foot. Hie I;
a nnot recover.
A GENERAL CANING.
Deserved Tributes to Distinguished Re
presentatires.
COLniIA, S. C.. Dec. 23.-The mem
bers of the General Assembly tendered
a banquet to' Senator-elect Irby this
evening. Previoi;sly he was pre.ent
ed with a handsome ebony gold head
ed cane in the parlor of the Grand Cen
tral llot-..
Ain:fl: those present were: Messrs.
ELruest Gary and J. L. McLarin, Sen
ator Evans. Lieutenant Governor Gary,
Attorney Geueral Pope, Mr. J. Gary
Evans and Speaker Ira B. Jones.
By the way, the General Assembly
buys its gold-headed canes in Charles
ton, the Senator's cane being from Mes
iers. Carrington, Thomas & Co. Mr.
McLaurin, making the piesentation
_peech, said:
Sir: It is with feelings of pride and
pleasure that your friends in the Gen
eral Assembly, through me, propose to
pzestnt you a memento of your servi
c:-s as Speaker of the House of Repre
sentatives. Your rapid elevation t:
the highest office in the gift of the peo
ple of South Carolina is not only a com
pliment to your ability, but is charac
teristic of the time-an age of steam
and electricity.
By a single stride yotr have attained
the position that heretofore was only
reached after the energies of youth
were tamed and devitalized by age.
You have not yet reachtd-the-meridiin
of life. You have the grandest oppor
tunity that has ever befallen a citizen
of South Carolina-the opportunity of
bringing to bear a manhood and brain
untouched by the withering blight of
age to the service of your people in the
most august legislative body in the
world. Our hopes and our prayers go
w~th you, and we feel that South Caro
lina will never need to apologize for
her young representative in the United
States Senate, if the same nerve, the
same brain, the same tenacity of pur
pose and devotion to duty which have
heretofore characterised you will still
enable you to expand and meet the re
quirements of every occasion.
You are a fit type of the new era
which is dawning all over this broad
Land, and in every way worthy to catch
the mantle as it falls from the states
man and soldier now wearing it, and
who is a grand type of the past genera
tion.
Let the dead past bury its dead:
Act! Act in the living present, Faith
within and God overhead.
Go to that Senate adorned by the
statues of the noblest men this country
)r the world ever produced and the
scene of the splendid triumphs of Clay,
Webster and Calhoun, and we fear- not
:hat you will sustain the honor and
glory of the whole country.
Mr. Irby replied:
Gent'emen and friends: Permit me
>riefl' to thank you for this testimo
hial of your high esteem and confidence.
Were I not profoundly grateful to you
md to the General Assembly of
South Carolina,-I would be unworthy
)f the high esteem and confidence 'you
iave reposed in me.
At the beginning of the present ses
;ion of the Legislature, which Wil
Wable in t& b istory
our State Te~er of the os
Representatives, who are the represen
tatives of the people, unanimousl
elected me to preside over the delibera
tions of that body. Subsequently the
General Assembly, by a most flatter
ing vote, electe 1 me to the highest of
[ice within the gift of thepeople of thi
State.
While presiding as Speaker my sole
efforts have been to insure to each
member a fair and impartial presenta
tion of any 'views he might desire to
Dring to the consideration of the House.
As your representative in Congress I~
promise unqualilledly that the peoplel
f South Carolina shall never have just
Muse to say that I have been untrue toi
:he interests of the people of a State'
wvhich I nam proud to say is not only thei
lace of my nativity, but that of miyi
mncestors for over one hundred years.
As the chairman of the Democratici
arty of' South Carolina permit me to,
ndulge the hope that all political differ
mnces will be buried at once. Under!
ur existing forms of government the:
sa jority must control and the minori
;y must submit. The hope of thei
south and nation is in the success of
he Democratic party.
In spite of division the Democracy
>f South Carolina has triumphed, and
nust and will continue to be trium
)hant so long as intelligence, truth
md virture ar~ held in higher esteem
han ignorance, vice and corruption.
Again thanking you for this token
f esteem and friendship, and wishing
ach and every one of you a safe return
ome and a merry Christmas, I bid
rou'adieu.
The inscription on the cane is:"1890.
['he General Assembly of South .Caro
ina to the Hon. J. L. M. Irby."
Mr. J. Gary Evans was also present
d with a handsome cane by his friends
brough Representative T oumans.
Representatives jBr. eale and Bow
Len, of Anderson, also ame in for two
legant gold-mounted native canes
rom admiring friends.-News and
Ijourier. __________
The Beauties of The Tariff.
A practical illustration of the beauties
f the new tariff law was given to the
louse recently says a Washington dis
ath in the shape of a letter from the
ecretury of the Treasury, asking that
ni appropriation of 825,000 be made in
irder to enable the lighthouse board to
ay duties upon imported articles used
n the establishment of lighthouses, and
ni which the goverment has to pay duty.
'he secretary says the illuminating ap
aratus used in lighthouses is not made
a this country. "Tl'e duty on the parts," I
e adlds, "which are mostly of glass, is
U per cent. and on the parts made most
of metal 45 per cent. The foairth or- 1
er apparatus, the ones which i're most- 1
-used, cost, say, 10,000f. in France, or 1
ay S-1.00, the duty upon which will be, 1
av, half that amount. Certain other
rticles needed in the establishment of I
ghtlouses, and not made in this coun- .
ry. i're also imported and are subject to 1
eduty under the new law." The see- 1
etary adds: -'Free entry on articles im
orted1 for government use is no longer
llowed, and the appropriation will have
> be made in order to enadle the gov- I
rnmment to pay duties to the govern
1ent."
Three Tramps Lynched.
WALLA WALLa, Wash.. Dec. 24.
iews has reachea here that three
ramps were lynched near Huntington,
pregon, on the Oregon short line by
ailrox'Imen. Four tramps boarded a
reight train near Fry's, Idaho. They
rere put off, but afterwards got on the
:ain and o)verpowere?d the brakeman1
thom they threw under the t-rain, both
f his le~ being broken, he dying soon
tter from injdiries. The report says:
ne tramps were caught near Hunting
mf and three of them were lynched.
'he fourth escaped.
Lynched by Negroes.
JACI~soNvILLE', Fla., Dec. 12.-Dan
Villiamns. an old negro, living eigh
iiles froni Qunicy, Fla., was lynch~
egroes last night. Houses
uildings o:: several negroes hay
been burned, and it ~ii
-as the gu ilty nartm
WINDING UP THEIR WORK.
THE MEETING OF THE LEGISLATURE
DRAWING TO A CLOSE.
The End of the Session of 1890-A Sum
mary of Some of the New Laws of Public
Importance and What Was Done With
Them.
COLUIBIA, S. C., Dec. 2.-Spe31al:
The Legislative session of 1890 may
be said to have virtually ended. To
morrow, together with the portion of
Wednesday which will be employed
will be occupied with business of 'rou
tine character, necessary to wind up
the work of the session. Already t4he
proceedings have lost much of'their
interest.
As has frequertly happened in the
past fourteen years, some of t66 most
important measures have undergone
discussion .in the last days of the. ses
sion. This is of course to be regretted,.
but it is sometimes unavoidable. ThJs
yeai there appears to..have been uun
sual deliberation in bringing forward
the more prominent measures..-..These
have, in some. instances.at least, been
rushed through with what must ap
pear unseemly haste. Below is given
a summary of the most -prominent
measures that have met their fate In
enactment or rejection.
THE PHOSPHATE BILL.
The new phosphate law carries out,
in some things at least, the ideas of
Governor Tillman, as'expressed. in his
inaugural For many years there have
been, among those interested - in' or
familiar with the subject, differences
of opinion as to the general plan on
which the State should dispose of tle
phosphate territory. On one side It
has been urged that the Sta retain
ing ownership and control of all the.
territory, should let it to be mined la
any area or to any parties that shoutd
be concluded best by the officials in
control-each party digging the rock
to choose his own field of operations;
and to work for one year only This-is
the outline of what is called the "gen
eral-rights" scheme. On the other
hand many have thought it best-for
the State to let out the territory in
large defined portions, for a long term
of years. This latter .plan was that
urged by the commissioners that.re
po:ted to the Legislature three years
ago, but whose report was summarily
rejected in the House. Governor Till
man favors the 'general rights" idea,
though he appears to favor also'the
power, in the Commission, to lep out
particular territory for a term longet
than one year. This power was coi
tained in the House bill, but was
stricken out in the Senate. The law.
generally stated, restores thse "general
rights" plan, subject-only to the rights.
which the State may have given to
corporations. In this connection inter
est attaches to the fact that it is claitn
ed for the State that the franchise of
the Coosaw Mining Company expires
in March. The termination of this
franchise will open the most desirable
territory to general operations.. The
lom it is said, will elWn
Westsatu'
w , fte way, was almoe
repealed in 1883. This ~new statuts
gives the Railroad Commission the
power to fix rates for the carrying of
both freight and passengers. It gives
general supervisory control of the rail
roads, and-is regarded a very stringent
law. It carries out Governor Tillman's .
suggestions made in his inaugaraL. '
An attempt to graft on the bilE a.
provision for separate cars for the races
was promptly defeatedin the Hotise
as was also the separate bill for''the.
same purpose.
The bill to require mail train( i
stop at every post-office station was
killed in the Seniate.
OHTER IMPOETANT MEA UBE.
The constitutional amendment abol
ishing the county commissioners, bais
been duly ratified. No attempt uis
been made to devise any new system.
Meantime the present system continues.
in force by operre.tion of the existIng
statutes. .a
The Senate refused to pass the..join.
resolution calling a ennstitutionalcond -
vention. The matter was not moetN~4
i-1the House.
The Act abolishing the Departinn
of Agricultu-e becomes a .law. .4.
transfei-s all the work~ of the. Depait,
ment to the Clemson College. .
The Act* to reduce the salaries .of
State officers has passed 'both> houses
and will, of course, be approved by the
Q~overnor. .Its provisions have been
yven in this correspondence.
The Act to reorganize the U~niverui
by, mares that institution to comprise
Ihe South Carolina College here-a lit
arary and scientific institution, with a
aw school annexed; Clemson College.
Citadel Academy. and Clafiin Univer
5ity. The Citidal remains under the
nanagemnent of the .Ioard of Visitors
md the effort to reorganize thatTard
.vas killed in the Senate. The College
1ere is to be reorganized on or after the -
tst July, 1891. The provision, in tha
>riginal bill, requiring the P'resident to
e a minister of the Gospel was killed,
is was also an amendment requiring
uim to be a member in good standing,
>f some Christian Church.
The House bill to limit working
ours in cotton factories was killed in
he Senate.
The Act requiring the several coun
ies t~ pay the cost of maintaining pa
.ienl sent, by the county authorities,
o the lunatic asylum, was passed, to
ake effect on the 1st January, 1892.
The bill authorizing the Governor to
emove any sheriff who permits thd
ynching of a prisoner was continued
ill next session. Similar action was
aken on the bill to authorize certain
f the State officers to designate an offi
ial ne wspaper in each county. Such,
iso, was the fate of the bill to estab
ish a college for women.
Trhe-usual number of local measures
i-as passed. K
A Barroom Tragedy. -
DAXvIL LE, Va., Dec. 23.-A shocking
ragedy occurred here to-day. Edward
?noch, a railroad man, and James Gra
ett, a carpenter, were in a saloon, and
oth under the iultuence of liquor. They
egan to quarrel about some tritiing~
Latter and Gravatt insulted-.Enoh:
then the latter knocked him down and
iterally stamped him to death with .his
eavy boots. Gravett's face was crush-.
d and he died almost immediately.
inoch was arres
Smo
NEWA
he bum
Irs.