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V,. WO) C5.M tL p. K. MAYERS, Proprietor. LOVE FOtt OUR FRIENDS; COURTESY FOR ALL ; FEAR FOR NONE. Terms Two Dollars per Year in Advance VOLUME 48. SCR ANTON, MISSISSIPPI, FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 1802. NUMBER 18 PROl-'KSSIONAI.. AI.HKIST M. I-ka. W. 0. Evans, Jr. L EA & EVANS- rROCTOKS IX ADMIRALTY, Office : Miniwippl CHy, Mitt., Will practice in tlie District Court of the ITnited Stutes lit MisHiHsippi City, nnd iu the Court of Appeals for tlie Fifth Circuit in Ailuiimil.v mid Maritime cuitaes. IIXI-ViM It. KEIiL PHYSICIAN AM) SUKflUOS, Offers his professional services'.to the peo ple of Puscugonla, hVranton anil vicinity. Olliee in C'ox's Drugstore, Kcriiiiton, Miss. Office hours fni m H to 1U II. Ill , li'oni 12 in. to '2 p. in., untl 6 to 7 p. in. 0 It. W. A. COA- rilYSICIAN AND DRITOGIST, Office : Opputile Court-home. Will utnd to all culls promptly. KoiiKiiicK 8i:.M.. hoiiacu iu.oomkiki.d. nEAL & liOOMFIELI 0 ATTORNEYS & C0UXSEL0RS-A1-L W. Si'rauton, Mint. Will practice in nil the Courts of Jack mill uoiinty. Each partner will couti'iite the praclii'V in his iiuliv iiltuil capacity iii ull tho Courts of the Second Judicial District. Tiios. S. Font) J. I. Foltli. pORI & FOKD- ATTORNEYS AND COtWSEI.ORS-AT- LAW. , Will practice in the comities of Jachson ami Ilurri.son. Offim : Scrantan, Mist. It. EV KHITT- ATTORN E Y-AT- LA W, Scranhn, Mien. -Will practice in till tho courts of the Second Judicial district, and the Federal siicl Supreme courts of tho State. c MIAS, S. MUltlWKTUEK- ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR-AT-LAW, ScrantoH, Mist. Ollico nt his residence. Q II. WOOD ATTORNEY & COUNSELOR-AT-LAW, - Mms Vuiiit, Mint. Practices in the courts of JacUsoii, Har rison, Hancock, Perry mid Greene. C. VAUGHAN- DENTAL SURfiEOX, 0tT(iM Spring, Mint. Will attend to ull calls mid practice ilouff the Gulf Coast, i) se.vl ii. ATTORNEY & COUXSELOR-AT-LAW, MisHMipiii t'ii, Mitt. Practices in the courts of the Second Judicial district. Fritz D.: 23 eclit' n ICREBS AVENUE, SCRANTON, MISS. 611 AVIXO AXD HAIRDRESSINO IN THE HIGHEST STYLE OF THE ART. HOT AND COLD BATHS. I am now prepared to give hotniid eold baths at short, notice. My on 1 tit is ull new anil of the most improved patterns, HE SCRE AXD GIVE ME A CA il. V V. D. BECHT. JOHN J. DRISGOLL 5 DEALER IX sicks Staple & Fancy Groceries, Canned Goods, Wines 8s Liquors, CIGARS & TOBACCO ' A Specialty. 225 Ic 227 S. Sampart and 2S3 Girod Sts NEW ORLEANS, LA. January 8. 1802. 4r. lv H. F. RUSSELL, Ocean spkings, miss., ' ' , DEALER IN pTJ-R.-lsriTTJ-K.-B, STA-TIOlsTEIRY" CONFEOTIONEKV, ALL KINDS OF - SEWING MACHINES. Patronage of th, surrounding couutry sulioited. 8cplBmbnr27.iaB9. HI if Job Printing-. WE FR1NT, 9 where in the South, Curris, I) T 1 Ttlll 1T...I- lower iuiea iiiiiu eisi veloncs, Programmes, Post ers. Briefs. Blanks. Pnmnh- U lets, and every other class i, of printing. Send us vonr ) orders. Satisfaction given. DemocntStir Job Office. I Job Printing:. 1 MSillLPlllli Ycend Potters? I One-Price Cash House, BLUE STORE, 28 Dauphin St., MOBILE, ALA. SPECIALTIES THIS SEASON s ROY'S LOTIIIA SEK OUR BEST VALUES. 75c. $1.00, fil.2r, 81.45. tl.73, ii.00 & $i.2.-. jiu.v VWTS- SKR OUR BEST VALUES. Jeans ut Jiic. $1.00. f l.ii" anil f l.'iO. Casimeres ut $1.50, 17., fiM mill $2.r0. 1ll,'SOVI.:S!IIIM s. SEE OUR 1JKST VALUES. 2.Vi, :ific. Mhi. 7.".c uml $1.00 to $3.00. Visitors should compare our values before purchasing. Nov. l:l, 18111 38-ly The Following are Some of the Principal Iiusinexs Houses and Enterprises in the Toim of Svranton. CIIAS. E. CllIDSEY, Justice of the Pence and Notary Public, J. L. Ostium, Contractor and Builder. - W. F. A. PARKER, General Merchandise, (ICtohs Avenue.) J. A. MILLER'S Euting-IlotHri, Oysters and Lodging. CIIAS. L. KREIW, (west ofCourt-llonso) Live v Stable. Teams to Hire. LINDINGER HOUSE, Board and Lodging ut Reasonable Rates. DAISY BEER SALOON, (Colored,) li'obt. L. Whitaker, Proprietor. SUKANTON BEER SALOON, Lvons & Powell. Primrictors. A. SCHM1TT, Delm.is Ave,, Manufacturer ol Boots anil Shoes. MOSES SEYMOUR. Dealer in Beef, Pork, Mutton. Etc. ROUT. WESTERBERO, (at. Noy's Hotel), Livery Stable. Teams to Hire. CIIAS E. CllIDSEY, Dings. Medicines, Perfumery, Etc. HON. A. E. KREBS, Justice of tho Pence, District, No. 3. J. W. COX, Groceries, Feed, Wines, Liquors. Etc. M. V. B.CAREY, Groceries. Feed A Liquor, Free delivery, VOLNEY BROWN. Scranlon Hotel and Exchange W.J. E. GERARD. Wholesale Retail Dealers in Evorvlhing, O. G. EILAXD, Agency for tho Singer Manufacturing Co. MRS. E. BARRUS. Millinerv. Dry-Goods Etc. C. H. DELMAS, Shipper of Raw Oysters, ' J"-. OKU. IKKSlt, fciiipynru. Vessels Built, Hauled Out anil Repaired. W. M, Geu'l Mcrchunilise. CANTY, Slayer of high prices, NOY'S HOTEL, B. J. Juno, Proprietor, Best, of Wines' and Liquors. U. V. PICKETT, SCR AX TO X, MISS., , Keeps on hand a complete stock of Caskets, Cases, Collins. Robes, Liu ings. Handles, Etc. His stock con sists of everything needed in this locality for burial purposes. He guarantees satisfaction in every case nil runted to his care. Calls night or day at my residenco or place of business will receive prompt atten tion. THE STAR STABLES. For good tennis, prompt Attention, and oni) price to nil, call at tho Star Stables, 11. F. Pickntt, Propritor, foot of Krobs Avenue, In sight of the Do not; mid Nov's Hotel, uud especially equipped for tho uceominodotiou of the traveling public A nice class enclosed Hoarse is also htent, at the Star Livery 8tables,which Isalwnysar, in st.rvice i hiu ,uunu, with a careful driver.ou short notico Mr. J W. Btrwakt Is my only suthnrlsed llffellt St MOSS 1 Olllli Ml itt.o ui-uoia iw, ,no IVI.nlK.r4. ltWI. W-lT UJLDOLFS BEKZ, AND CIVIL Unflertatintt Estalilisnment. NO. M ROYAL ST. MOBILE, ALA Februiirr 86, 1302. - l-m Editorial andOtherwise. A liar cannut be trusted. Parliament nil! be dissolved on the 28th. A great person is known by his calumniators, Seuntor Hill did nut attend the Convention. It dues '.onie people so much pood to tell a lie. The Osnjre Indians are again giving trouble in Oklahoma. A Texas paper declares "itself for "Hogg, Hell and High Water." II. L. I.ouks of South Dakota succeeds to the presidency of the Alliance. Those who do not read tho Democrat-Star every week lose a great deal. The various State campaigns are this week lost in the elm (He at Chicago. What is forgiveness? It is the odor which flowers yield when trampled upon. Foraker says that he would like to see the office seek the man once in awhile. Ground lias been broken for the new Queen and Crescent railroad shops at Meridian. The new Republican ticket is called by the printers in New York as the "hat and rat" ticket. The Texas Sittings Bays never tell an editor how to run his paper. Let tho poor devil find it out himself. ' The nomination of Harrison creates about as much enthusiasm as the purchase of a ceme tery lot would. A hail of a story comes from Omaha to tho cflcct that the frozen pebbles fell there to a depth of two feet. The Third party in this State is only an in nocent unoflensire Hobli(v) and will in due time Lvnch itself. Next! Gen. KM T. Stackhousc, a prominent Alliance Congressman from South Carolina, died in Washington on the 1 1th inst. Twitting on facts Is prohibited in Fiance, i It is unnecessary to state that church sewing societies are not in it over there. In New York theatres refreshments between acta will be served in the future and "the man" on the outside will be given a rest. Our country people can only be satisfactori ly communicated with by means of their own county paper, the DKMOCRAT-SlAn. Rev. J. W. Nicholson, a well-known and popular preacher from Natchez has becoinevio lenllv insane and is confined in the nsvlum. On the 13th hist., thirteen carloads of to matoes were shippers from Crystal Springs. This is an unprecedented shipment for this earlv date. South Carolina has 6000 acres planted in watermelons and it is needless to say that there is no thought of a negro exodus from that State. A "dull thud" is very clearly defined in the manner in which Harrison's nomination was received by tho Republicans outside of the of fice-bidders. Twentyflro tons of gold arc produced from the mines of the world every week, but like lost umbrellas, no one kni- what becomes of tho precious metal unless it is all horded by newspaper men. Some of the papers arc mentioning as an item of news that tho typewriter girls are forming a union just as though they had not been busily forming unions ever since they became an institution. Proctor Knott of Kentucky in his address before the Vandcrbilt college class at Nash ville, protested against tho humbug phrase, "The New South," arguing that the results achieved aro only natural evolutiou. A Danger, Me., dispatch says that lllaino is now entirely out of polities and is devoting his time to tho cultivation of flowers. , As to his political retirement the peoplo becamo aware of that fact at the Minneapolis convention. The Clarion says that np to dato about 100 claims against the Direct Tax Fund have been registered by tho. Commission, aggregating about $5,000. Tho Commission to pass on these claims will meet in Jackson August 22. After fighting union labor for years Mr. Reid made peace a few days before his nomi nation. But workingmen will not be deceived by this they know his true attitude to be now as he has shown it to bo toward them in the past. Judge Robert Lcachnyin, who In Radical times was Circuit Judge of this district, died at Anniston. Ala., on the 15th inst. He was a lawyer of snmo ability and was as kind and gentle as a woman. For many years he ro- sided at Meridian. Peace to his soul I Young women Sunday School teachers in the northern cities who try to convert the Chi naman too often marry their student. It hap pens nearly every week until it has becomo a question, Is John Chinaman becoming chris tianized or our fair American girls heath enized? It is generally commented upon that al though present at all tho sessions of tho Re publican convention John J. Iugalls never ad ill eased the chair except to announce the vote of Kansas. This is very little like the mnn but then one who has been beaten for re-elec tion to the Senate by Whiskers Toffer ought not to be too ubiquitous Judge Trougec known as the Chicago writer with a wheel in his head, predicts ft massacre surpassing in extent tho French revolution, if the attitude toward the negro in tho South is not changed. Bo further Intimates, in his rattle-brain wav, that tho Republican party has not been doing it" duty to the colored man. But all this comci from Albion Trou gee and amounts to about as much as the va porings of Eliot F. Sheppard. Gen. J. R. Chalmers, In a published letter, exorcises his disgust at the nomination of Harrison whoae triumph over Blaine he char W aoterizea as "mediocitv over brilliant stales manshlp unequalled since William Henry Harrison was nominated over the matchlcaa Clay." He thinks the hopes of the Republi can party in tho South lias been seriously set back, if not forever annihilated. Ono doesn't even have to "read between the lines" to guess J the trick in Chalmer's game Democracy will have take a narcotic botov. embracing to "Little Giant." ONLY A WORD. Only n word may leave a stieg To wound soma kind and loving heart, It may be but a trilling thing That cuts us deeply as a durt. Only a word may stir np strife And quickly cause a bitter Unto, Tho deepest sorrow make for life, Then ir.uy repeiitauce come too late. Only a word may be a blow Of torture keen as any pain, And cloud a bright young life in woe, From w hich it ueVr can rise again. Only a word may be a ray Of sunshine iu some dismal room, -And help to brighfeu nmny a day Which is spent in bonis of gloom. Only a word, but iu it lies Power to change full many a fiito. How lltt.lo do we realize In but one word may await f Only a word may lead the way From clouds of darkuess to tho light, May help some weary ono to pray And guide tliein to the path of right. THE SIAMESE TWINS. A NEIGHBOR TELLS OF THEIR (IEER n.lKHIED LIFE. ' Richmond Dispatch. The recent death near Mount Airy, N. (J. of Mrs. Sallie Bunker, willow ol Ent: Bunker, one of the worlJ-renownid Siamese twins, re calls to mind much of the domes tic history ol those gentlemen and I heir lamilies, but comparatively little of which has ever lonnd its way into print, and which now comes direct from one who lives in I he neighborhood of their home in the Old Nui'ih Si ale and who was n personal friend of the twins from his youth up. Cham: and Enz were born in the year 1811 in the lowlands of Siam, of humble parentai:?, tmd at an early use lost their father. As soon as they were old enough lo he of use to their widowed mother die put them to the light work of tending a large Hock of ducks, which they used to carry out every inoniiiii in tt boat to a neighboring marsh, where the wild rice was plentiful; there they remained all daj-, and at night, at the blowing of a horn, the ducks would waddle back to the boat, crawl aboard and then the I wins would paddle them home." When the boys wero pro- ablv 12 or 13 years of age an English traveler named Bunker happened that way, ana alter view ing them with amazement, for a stipulated consideration with lluir mother, secured posession of them. Leaving the east shortly after, Mr. Bunker for teveral years ex hibited the twins in nearly every part of the known world, Healing litem will) great ktudnei-s and making money by them wherever he went, until 1832 he had amass ed a fortune, and the twins being by this time ol age, he consider ately gave them I heir freedom, with permission to adopt, bis name and with enough ready cut-h to start them comlortablv in life. This happened m Kaleigh, N. O., Hirl ttie young men, though they loved their protector well, loved freedom belter, so with a friendly patting on both sides. I hey started out lo make their way alone and yet together. Whilst in Kaleiah they heard some talk regarding the excellent hunting to be found in the mountainous part of the blale, and wishing for a little recreation they journeyed to the Piedmont section, where they finally took up their residence at the house of a well-to do farmer named lales, living in the county of Wilkes, at the foot of Blue Ilidga Mount im;, Keventy-flvo miles weft of Greens boro'. , Farmer Yates was fond of the chase. Living in good, old-fash ioned style, with plenty of negroes and dogs raising supplies of all kinds, and surrounded by a large family, he took lile easy and made it pleasant for the twins, who boarded with him lor a considera ble I itr.e. Whilst there Eng Bun ker become greatly attached to Miss Sallie Yates and Chang lost his heart to Miss Adelaide. Some time between 1835 and 1840 a double marriage took place nt the residence of Father-in-law Yates, and the twins commenced their married lile on a farm which was in easy distance of their wives' old homestead. Here they lived happily, farming part of the time and at intervals going on tho road with Bar nit m and ol hers, returning home occasionally to Ihejr families and firesides with well-filled pock els. But the farm on which they lived did not suit the twins, so they purchased about 2,000 acres in the adjoining county of Surrey, within three miles ol I he then litl le village ot Mount Airy. On this estate thev erected a large, comfortable frame house, with all the necessa ry out-houses, and made many im provements. Being of a cheerful, kindly disposition, their lives pass ed smoothly for many years, whilst several children were born to each wife. Some of the children were near ly grown when one day, from some cans or other, a squabble ensued, iu which the mothers took part; subsequently Chang and Eng who, being men ot spirit and courage, drew knives and were about tn at tack each other, wli?n the wives, seeing the danger, begjed them to delist. The twins ceased strug gling, but decided that they would I hen and there be separated, and at onc9 sent to Mount Airy for their family physician, Dr. Llol linsworih, a man with quite a local reputation as a skill t ut surgeon, lie arrived with his instruments, and being told what was wanted, remarked: ''Very welt, just get up on that laid and I'll fix you; but which would you prefer, that I should sever the flesh thai con nects you or cut off your heads? One will produce much the same result as the other." This brought the twins to their senses, lor they knew very well that ihe great surgeons in London, Paris and New York had decided that il would be death to separate them. In a perplexity f mind how to guard against, future warfare in I heir household, the twins called in Dr. llollinsworlh, and Messr-'. Gilmoie and ltawley of Mount Airy, as arbitrators. These gen llenien. afier revolving the prob lem in llieir minds, drew up a legal contract whose principal provis ions were that out of Ihe money owned by the twins a similar man sion and like out-buildings as those which they then owned should be built nn the large estate about one mile from the existing homestead ; that Ihe land should be equally ill vHleirbeUveen the bio1 hers bv a competent surveyor; that no trans actions of a busiuc.-s nature should take place on these farms between the two brothers; that the family ol Chang should live in one house whilst that of Eng should live in the other, nnd whilst the wives oc casinnallv visiled ecch other ills worth noting that for many years the children did not interchange visits though l hey met nt church or in the village It was nlso agreed that Eng should spend three davs nnd three nights with his folks and that Chang (who of course could not help from being present) should during that lime remain passive nnd not in any way inlerlere with tli3 a flairs -of Eng ; then Chang should tpend three days and nights at his own house, Eng being during that time as mindful of attending strictly lo his own business, nnd not that of his brother, as Chang had been These provisions wen accepted and religiously observed by Ihe brothers until death, they allernat ing every ihree days in their vi-ils to their family. Indeed, so partio ular were they in not having busi ness transactions with each other that if, for instance, Eng needed corn for tho cattle, and Chang had il for Bale, Eng never once hinted at busing for his brother. And Rgain, as sometimes happened, if one brother received an invitation lo dinner or tea, Ihe other would, of course, go, but upon leaving would remark to the host, '-I will pay my visit to you at some future lime." During their travels the twins accumulated much money, and in their absence from home their wives managed their property in an excellent manner.' Several children were born to each wile and these all received a first-class education, and were biought up as members ol the church, principally of the Baptist denomination. All the children save one deaf and dumb daughter, were healthy and strong, have married nnd are count ed as some of the best citizens in that section of Ihe State, and in herited about $200,000 lelt by their fathers. The last fcene in the history of the twins was as pad as it was re markable, and without precedent. Whilst wiih Barnum in 1873 Chang had suffered from a slight stroke of paralysis, but after medical treatment and rest had apparently recovered, and Christmas was merrily spent at home. About Ihe 15ihor 16ih of January, 1874 the twins were over at Eng'a bouse, and after a comfortable supper, followed by their usual pipe, they retired in seeming good health. Early the next morning liaig woke up and calling to his wile, nsked hov In nsfortnin what, ailed Cliansr. llCl IU itaCWIIMIII Wllill. UIICU VIMIHK, as he could not be awakened, Mrs. Sallie Bunker, very soon real izing that Chung was no more, de spatched a boy on horseback to the village, tome three miles distant, lor Dr. llollinsworlh. After the messenger had gone, Eng com plained ol feeling numb and cob! in his extremities, and his family did all they could lo restore the circulation. He rapidly crew cold er, and within an hour alter awak ening and before the doctor arriv- must not redeem the precious mo ed. he had joined his brother ou ment in talking tn vou about the the farther shore. A RICH OLD SERMON. 1 COnPAJIOI PIECE TO THE BMP OF A THOlsl.VD bTRIYCS. dipt. G Sylvester iu the State Ledger. Brother Thrngmoitoii was a hardshell Baptist preacher, about lorly years ago, and lived in South west Mississippi. Owing lo his peculiarities and eccentricities he was often invited to preach nt the neighboring towns where vast con gregations assembled to hear him. Now, in ordPM k ve our renders a better idea ol this quaint charac ter we will nlienipt a description of his appearance at Lawrence Cnuit Iloue when invited there lo preach. He was about forty-five years of nge, six feet high, stoop shouldered, lean, lank and swarthy, long iron-gray hair hanging un kempt around his neck and slioul ers, wearing an old stove-pipe hat, mashed in on one side, a swallow tailed striped coat reaching down to his knees, but two sizes too small for him, a double-breasted old black vest, copperas breeches with legs having Ihe appearance of being sewed lo the skin and stuck into Ihs boot legs, no cravat; and when he took the stand, and after depositing his sadlle-bags under his seat, unbuttoned Ins collar, pulled off his coal, spit in his hands, and then began this wonderlully characteristic sermon : Mv Brkthkring According to the re cords I came into these low grounds of sorrow nigh unto forty years ago, or thereabouts, within about seven and three-fourths miles of this locality, but passing strange lo say I never had the ma jestic pleasure of preaching a gos pel sarmon to my blethering of this locality since this locality was was located here-ah. Whv this should have been thus and overcome me like a autumn shower bath I can hardly tell ; but my brethering for lo ihese many years my heart has been yearning and panting like a water brook pants for a young hart to come un to you and lo talk to you and lo wrestle with you on Mount Any rat as old Sampson the young He brew inlidel wrastled with the young wolfrf in big Spring Swamp, about the things which daily and hourly consarn your final damna tion and eternal resurrection be yond the lomb-ah. When I was a little fair-haired btixutn boy, with golden locks streaming in Ihe winter breezes, playing sticK-it-to him with com panionsof my er.rly youth, in the twilight of the midday sun and hunting t lie wild-eyed possum nt dawn of day amid the blue hills of old Lawrence, around Ihe family altar my heart's daily yarning was to preach Ihe gospel in furious tri umph and knock :he eagle's eye from Ihe craggy peak on old moun tain's base nnd preach everlaslin' sin and final damnation to the peo ple of this ere town as did my old glass-eyed father in the long days gone by of the far away distant lutti re-ah. Them times, my brethering, was grand old- times-ah. The wild cat roamed with learlul pomposity amid the huckleberry bushes of beaver dam creek-ah; tho little dog with fleece a9 white as snow rau through the tater patch and chased the chicken cock with bat ed breath and smoking nostrils while the catfish and the sunny trout played hide nnd seek with Ihe wild gazelle in the muddy brook just behind Ihe old smoke house where daddy's gold lay in hidden piles deep beneath Ihe old lard barrel-all. Yes, my brethering, them limes were grand old limes, and often at the close of day I sit and sing and laugh nnd cry and smile away wiih tearful eye Ihe long winter days that glide adown the stream of tittle with horse-race speed and endless fury-ah. Yes, my brelherine, them was grand old limes, and if 1 had the patience and you Ihe time and the shrill wislle of the dinner horn was not so soon expected 10 wake the citizens ol this ere town from Dan even unto Bethesheba, I would tell you all about them-ah. Yes, 1 would tell you how Joseph and Samuel and John and James, my four eldest brethern, the other twelve jpere lit tie tow-headed fel lows then, how I used to preach to ihe wild healhens of Chickasaw Mountain, where flows the rippling and seething nnd smoking waters ot the gentle hepsidam just be yond the Alps-ah. And how the tmor sinners fell around with heavy thugs and deep groaninss and boislrous laugnter tnal could not lie heard for miles around up on the ground was kivered with their blood, until not a single man was left to tell Ihe story in the cave of Askelon or tn publish it in Ihe streets or Ualh-ah. But, my brethren, time is pass ing every hour are golden and I t fleeting glories of the past -ah.. But PAY CASH FOR YOUR CORSET, YOU GET BETTER VALVE. Our P.kicty CORSET, 2.1c, white. " NO. 817 iitk!, white. " NO. A " Mlc, white. " NO. M19 " T.-ie, whit or tan NO. m Jt.no, white only. " NO. Ki7 ' Vi white or tan. r " NO. K4S " 1.50, white or tan. BLUE STORE, One-Price House for Cash Oily. HI Dauphin St., Mobile, Ala, Nov. 13. 1S91. ' 3H-lv as I remarked in the beginning of these ere remarks I was born in' about seven miles or thereabouts-' of this locality, and have lived t hare or near I hare ever since this locality was located here ah. And now with these ptisillani--nious remarks I will begin my au dacious sarmon from the text "Twinkle, twinkle little star, how I wonder what you i, up above Ihe ground so high, like a diamond in the cloiids '-nh. This text is found in the 7th chapter of St. Paul's letter to the Sing-Sams and Ihe 94th verse-nh. Now, my brethren, St. Paul writ great many texc, but this ere let is the grandest lex he lias ever writ nh. And when he uttered the fiendish words he was an out cast living in Ihe wild woods of Hepsidam, eating biscuit and raw Inters for dinner, and drinking coal oil and swine's milk lor sup--per and breakfast, and his ward robe was a leather strap tied round his waist and sleeping at nights where the wild mule layout under Ihe tall pine tree just back of olJ lleroct s corn-enb-ah. "Twinkle, twinkle little star.'' Oh, my brethering, them words it mortal words and will live lonif alter this world is drowned out and lies deep beneath old ocean' wayes-ah. Yes, thev is greater" than them other words, Mary had a lime sneep, ins wool was reel like crimson," or them other which my father used to teach mw on bended knee and bowed head nnd silent breath beneath the riv er bank, "I had a little pig and fed him on clover, but when he died nil over"-nh. And my brethering, I always did feel sorry for that lit tle pig he onten to have died-ab. It was a false stroke of policy that killed him and not the clover, nnd today he would have been eating clover if he hadn't have died alu But mv brethering, we've all got to die sometime-nh. 'lY've got lo go the way the little piggy went sooner or later, and unless we can sing in lender strains, "twinkle, twinkle little star," as we enter (he yarning gulf of death it ware better for us-and for this locality, had we been borncd before this lo cality was located here-ah. But my brethering, as 1 said in Ihe beginning, times fleeting, the sun is sinking and I must bring these blood-thirsty remarks to a villiauous close, and thus end (his mighty tragedy on "twinkle, twink le little star," such as never hap pened beloro to any other little star in this locality since this lo cality was located here or herea- bouts-ah. At the close of the sermon a collection was taken up for his benefit amounting to one ten cent piece nnd three nickles which were handed over to him. He firsfc looked over the contribution and then at the audience and with a moan of anguish says : "My breth ering of the two-bit crowd-nh I It cost me 50 cents to come here-ah. I am 25 cents out of pocket, but I am thankful to get away alive and hope never to be caught in this locality again while this lo cality is located here ah." And mounting his old gray horse he slowly rode away amid Ihe shouts ot the mtiliilude. IirrlMi'i RefrtT Now Yorlt World. Benjamin Harrison has made of the public service a partisan and personal machine. Benjamin Harrison used the whale power of his office to compel Congress to pass tho odious force bill. Benjamin Harrison made laws of subsidies and bounties to fav ored interests. Benjamin Harrison signed the new 'Tariff of abominations." Benjamin Harrison promoted Woods, shielded Dudley, appointed Elkins and retained Kaum. Benjamin Harrison is the first President who ever secured a re nomination by nu open and un blushing use of the power and pat ronage of his great office. Benjamin Harrison bulled a weak uud afflicted sister Republic wit h n menace of war after he knew dr-niight have known that she had offered honorable amends for an injury. ' ,