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. JOSHUA, THE KING OF SOLDIERS
TALMAGE PREACHES TO NEW
YOKK'S 13TH REGIMENT.
The Greafeat Soldier of Alt Time
Fought Only When God Told Him
to Fight-God Snid Into Hinit
“There Shall Not Any Man He Able
to Stand Hefore Thee All the Dn>n
of Thy Life.”
Brooklyn, N. Y., May 26.—1 n the Em
bury Memorial church a large audience
assembled this evening to listen to the
annual sermon of Chaplain T. DeWitt Tal
mage, of the Thirteen Regiment N. G. 8.
N. Y. The members of the regiment occu
pied the body of the church. Dr. Tal
mage chose for his subject, “The Great
est Soldier of All Time,’ 1 the text being
Joshua 1:5: “There* shall not any man be
able to stand before thee all the days of
thy life.”
The "gallant Thirteenth,” as this regi
ment is generally and appropriately called,
has gathered to-night for the worship of
God, and to hear the annual sermon. And
first I look with hearty salutation into
the faces of the veterans who, though
now not in active service, have the same
patriotic and military enthusiasm which
characterized them, when, In 1863, they
bade farewell to home and loved ones,
and started for the field, and risked all
they held dear on earth for the re-estab
lishment of the falling United States gov
ernment. “All that a man hath will he
give for his life,” and you showed your
selves willing to give your lives. We hail
you! We thank you! We bless you, the
veterans of the Thirteenth. Nothing can
ever rob you of the honor of having been
soldiers in one of the most tremendous
wars of all history, a war with Grant,
and Sherman, and Hancock, and Sheridan,
and Farragut on one and an d
Stonewall Jackson, and Longstreet, and
Johnston on the other. As In Greek as
semblages, when speakers would rouse
the audience they shouted: “Marathon!”
so if I wanted to stir you to acclama
tion, I would only need to speak the words,
“Lookout Mountain,” “Chancellorsville,”
“Gettysburg.” And though through the
passage of years you are forever free
from duty of enlistment, if European na
tions should too easily and too quickly
forget the Monroe doctrine and set aggres
sive foot upon this continent, I think your
ankles would be supple again, and your
arms would grow strong again, and your
eye Would be keen enough to follow the 1
stars of the o’. ; wherever the}- might
u::.' I.
And next, 1 -rtet the colonel and his
staff, and all th niccrs and men of this
regiment. It hub w een an eventful year in
your history. If nevir before, Brooklyn
appreciates something of the value of its
armories, and the importance of the men
who there drill for the defense and safety
of the c|ty. The blessing of God be upon
all of you, my comrades of the Thirteenth
Regiment. And looking about for a sub
ject that might be most helpful and inspir
ing for you, and our veterans here assem
bled, and the elt zjiki gathered to-night
with their good ' I have concluded
to hold up bes ui the greatest sol
dier of all tin va, the hero of my
text.
He was air. nt fighter, but he al
ways fought oi. :ht side, and he nev
er fought unle. told him to fight. In
my text he gets . ■ military equipment
and one would th.nk it must have been
plumed helmet for the brow, greaves of
brass for the feet, habergeon for the
breast. “There shall not any man bo able
to stand before thee all the days of thy
life.” “Oh,” you say, “anybody could
have courage with such a backing up as
that." Why, my friends, I have to tell
you that the God of the universe and the
Chieftain of eternity promises to do just
as much for us as for him. AU the re
sources of eternity are pledged in our be
half, ts wo go out in the service of God,
and no more than that was offered to
Jushua. God fulfilled this promise of my
text, although Jushua’s first battle was
with the spring freshet; and the next with
a stone wall; and the next, leading on a
regimsnt of whipped cowards; and the
next battle, against darkness, wheeling
the sun and the moon into his battalion,
and the last, against the King of Ter
rors, Death-five great victories.
For the most part, when the general of
an army starts out In a conflict he would
like to have a small battle In order that he
may get his courage up and he may rally
his troops and get them drilled for greater
conflicts; but this first undertaking cf
Joshua was greater than the levelling of
Fort Pulaski, or the thundering down of
Gibraltar, or the overthrow of the Ban
tile. It was the crossing of the Jordan at
the time of the spring freshet. The snows
of Mount Lebanon had juat been melting
and they poured down into the valley, and
the whole valley was a raging torrent. So
the Canaanites stand on one bank and
they look across-and see Jushua and the
Israelites, and they laugh and say: “Aha.
aha. they cannot disturb us until the
freshets fall; it is impossible for them to
reach us,” But after a while they look
across the water and they see a move
ment in the army of Joshua. They say,
’• What’s the. matter now? Why there
must 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, thS chieftain of the text, looks
at his army and cries: “Forward, march,”
and they start for the bank of the Jordan.
One mile ahead go two priests carrying
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 without getting their feet wet, over the
bottom of the river, a path of chalk and
broken shells and pebblaa, 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 gained the
other bank. they chip 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 begin
to dash and roar, and with a terrific rush
they break loose from their strange gjf
ehorage. Out yonder they have stopped,
thirty miles up yonder they halted. On
thia side the waters roll off towant the
salt sea. But as the hand of the Lord God
Is taken away from the thus uplifted
waters—waters perhaps uplifted half a
mile—as the Almighty hand is tekec away
those waters rush down, and some of the
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unbelieving Israelites say: “Alas, alas,
what a misfortune! Why could not those
waters have stayed parted? because per
haps we may want to go back. Oh Lord,
we are engaged in a risky business. Those
Canaanites may eat us up. How if we
want to go back? Would It not have been
a more complete 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 re
treat. He clears the path all the way to
Canaan. To go back Is to die. The same
gatekeepers that swing back the amethy
stine and crystalline gate of the Jordan
to let Israel pass through, now swing
shut the amethystine and crystalline gate
of the Jordan to keep the Israelites from
going back. I declare It in your hearing
to-day, victory ahead, water forty feet
deep in the rear. Triumph ahead, Canaan
ahead; behind you death and darkness and
woe and hell. But you say: “Why didn’t
those Canaanites, when they had such a
splendid chance—standing on the top of
the bank thirty or forty feet high, com
pletely demolish those poor Israelites
down in the river?” I will tell you why,
God had made a promise and he was go
ing to keep it. “There shall not any man
be able to stand before thee all the days
of thy life.”
But this is no place for the host to stop.
Joshua gives the command, "Forward,
march!” In the distance there is a long
grove of trees, and at the end of the grove
Is a oity. It Is a city of arbors,a city with
walls seeming to reach to the heavens, to
buttress the very sky. It is the great me
tropolis that commands the mountain pass.
It is Jericho. That city was afterw’ard cap
tured by Pompey, and it was afterward
captured by Herod the Great, and it was
afterward captured by the Mohammedans;
but this campaign the Lord plans. There
shall be no swords, no shields, no battering
ram. There shall be only one weapon of
war, and that a ram’s horn. The horn of
the slain ram was sometimes taken and
holes were punctured in it, and then the
musician would put the instrument tq his
lips, and he would run his fingers over this
rude musical instrument, 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 in
struments, and they were to go around the
city every day for six days—once a day for
six days, and then on the seventh day they
were to go around blowing these rude mu
sical instruments seven times, and then at
the close of t)ie seventh blowing of the
rams’ horns on the seventh day the peror
ation of the whole scene was to be a shout
at which those great walls should tumble
from capstone to base.
The seven priests with the rude musical
instruments pass all around the city walls
on the first day, and a faUure. Not so
much as a piece of plaster broke loose from
the wall—not so much as a loosened rock,
not so much as a piece of mortar lost from
its place, "There,” 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 instru
ments and expecting in that way to destroy
It Joshua has been spoiled; he thinks bo
soring freshet, he can overthrow the stone
wall. Why, It Is not philosophic. Don’t
you see there is no relation between the
blowing of these musical instruments and
tlie knocking down of th© wall. It isn't
philosophy.” And I suppose there were
many wiseacres who stood with their
brows knitted, and with the forefinger of
the right hand to the forefinger of the left
hand, arguing it all out, and showing it
was not possible that sych a cause should
produce such an effect. And I suppose that
night in the encampment there was plenty
of philosophy and caricature, and if Josh
ue had been nominated for any high mili
tary position, he would not have got many
votes. Joshua’s stock was down. The sec
ond day, the priests blowing the musical
instruments go around the city, and a fail
ure. Third day, and a failure; fourth day,
and a failure; fifth day, and a failure; sixth
day, and a failure. The seventh day conies
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
Israelitlsh 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 out to his host:
“Shout; for the Lord hath given you the
city!” All the people begin to cry: "Down,
Jericho, down, Jericho!” 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 tem
ples, the towers, the palaces; the air Is
blackened with the dust. The huzza of
the victorious Israelites 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 of thy life.”
But Joshua’s troops may not halt here.
The command is, "Forward, march!"
There is the city of Ai; 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 regiment in front of that city.
The men of Ai look at them and give one
yell, and the Israelites run like reindeers.
The northern troops at Bull Run did not
make such rapid time as these Israelites
with the Canaanites after them. They
never cut such a sorry figure as when
they were on the retreat. Anybody that
goes out in the battles of God with only
half a force, instead of your taking the
men of Ai, the men of Ai will take you.
Look at the Church of God on the retreat.
The Bornesian cannibals ate up Munson,
the missionary. "Fall back!" said a great
many Christian people. “Fall back, oh.
Church of God! Borneo will never be
taken. Don’t you see the Bornesian can
ntbals have eaten up Munson, the mission
ary?” Tyndall delivers his lecture at the
University of Glasgow, and a great man*
good people say: "Fall back, oh Church
of God! Don't you see that Christian phi
losophy is going to be overcome by world
ly philosophy? Fall back!" Geolog-*
plunges Its crowbar into the mountains,
and there are a great many people who
say: "Scientific investigation is going to
overthrow the mosaic account of the cre
ation. Fall back!" Friends of God have
never any right to fall back.
Joshua falls on his face in chagrin. It Is
the only time you ever see the back of bis
head. He falls on his face and begins to
whine, and he says, •'Oh. Lord God,
wherefore has thou at all brought this
people over Jordan to deliver us into the
hand of the Amorites. to destroy us?
Would to God we had been content and
dwelt oa the other aide of Jordan. For
the Canaanites and all the inhabitants
of th* land shall hear of it, and shall en
viron us round and cut off our name
from the earth."
I am very glad Joshua said that. Before
it seemed as if be were a supernatural be-
ing, and therefore could not be an exam
ple to us; but I find he is a man, h.e Is
only a man. Just as sometimes you find
a man under severe opposition, or in a
bad state of physical health, or worn out
with overwork, lying down and sighing
about everything being defeated. I am
encouraged when I hear this cry of Josa
ua as he lies in the dust.
God comes and rouses him. How does
he rouse him? By complimentary apos
trophe? No. He says, “Get thee up,
Wherefore liest thou upon thy face?’ Josh
ua rises, and I warrant you, with a mor
tified look. But his old courage comes
back. The fact was that was not his
battle. If he had been in it he would have
gone on to victory. He gathers his troops
around him and says: “Now, let us go up
and capture the city of Al; let us go up
right away.”
They march on. He puts the majority of
the troops behind a ledge of rocks in the
night, and then he sends a comparatively
small battalion up in front of the city. The
men of Ai come out with a shout. This
battalion In strategem fall back and fall
back, and when all the men of Ai have
left the city and are in pursuit of this
scattered or seemingly scattered battal
ion. Joshua stands on a rock—l see his
locks flying in the wind as he points bis
spear towards the doomed city, and that
is the signal. The mqn rush out from
behind the rocks and take the city, and it
is put to the torch, and then these Israel
ites in the ( city march down
and thfe flying ‘ battalion of Israel
ites return, and between these waves
of Israelitlsh prowess the men of Ai are
destroyed, and the. Israelites gain the
victory; and while I see the curling smoke
of that destroyed city on the sky, and
while I hear the huzza of the Israelites
and the groan of the Canaanites, Joshua
hears something louder than it all, ring
ing, echoing through his soul, “There shall
not any man be able to stand before thee
all the days of thy life.”
But this is no place for the host of Josh
ua to stop. "Forward, march,” cries
Joshua to the troops. There is the city of
Glbeon. It his put itself under the protec
tion 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 his a three days’
march more than double quick. On the
morning 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; that is
the man who conquered the spring fresh
et and knocked down the stone wall and
destroyed the city of Al. There Is no use
fighting." And they sound a retreat, and
as they begin to retreat. Joshua and his
host spring upon them like a panther, pur
suing them over rocks, and as these Ca
naanites 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 heav
ens w’ith bullets of iron, pounds the Ca
naanites against the ledges of Beth-ho
ron.
“Oh!" says Joshua, "this Is surely a
victory.” ‘.‘But do you not see the sun is
going down? Those Amorites are going
to getaway «Jer all, #nd they will com©
up ’shirho other and bother us, mid
perhaps destroy us.” See, the sun is go
ing down. Oh, for a longer day than has
ever been seen in this climate! What is
the matter with Jushua? Has he fallen in
an apopletic At? No. He is in prayer.
Look out wh#n a good man makes the
Lord his ally. Jitfshua raises his face,radi
ant with prayer .ana looks at the descend
ing sun over Glbeon and at the faint cres
cent of the moon, for you know the queen
of the night sometimes will linger around
the palaces of the day. Pointing one hand
at the descending sun and the other hand
at the faint orescent of the moon, in the
name of that God who shaped the worlds
and moves the worlds, he cries: “Sun,
stand thou still upon Glbeon; and thou
moon, in the valley of Ajalon.” And they
stood still. Whether it was by refractlop
of the sun’s rays, or by the stopping o<
the whole planetary system, I do not know,
and do not care. 1 leave it to the Chris
tian scientists and the infidel scientists to
settle that question, while I tell you I
have seen the same thing. "What!" <ay
you, “not the sun standing still? ’ Yes.
The same miracle is performed nowadays.
The wicked do not live out half their day,
and the sun seta at noon. But let a man
start out and battle for God, and the truth,
and against sin, and the day of his useful
ness Is prolonged, and prolonged, and pro
longed. ‘
John Summerfield 1 was a consumptive
Methodist. He looked fearfully I
am told, as he stood In Old Sands street
church, In this city, preaching Christ, and
when he stood on the anniversary plat
form in New York, pleading for the Bible
until unusual and unknown glories rolled
forth from that book. When he was d ■
Ing his pillow was brushed with the wingj
of the angel from the skies, the messen
ger that God sent down. Did John Sum
merfield’s sun set? Did John Summer
fleld’s day end? Oh! no. He Ilves on in his
burning utterance in behalf of the Chris
tian church. The sun stood still.
Robert McCheyne was a consumptive
Presbyterian. It was said when he preach
ed he coughed so it seemed as if he would
never preach again. His name is fragrant
in all Christendom, that name mightier
to-day than was ever his living presence.
He lived to preach the gospel tn Aberdeen.
Edinburgh and Dundee, but he went away
very early. He preached himself into the
grave. Has Robert McCheyne’s sun
set Is Robert McCheyne’s day ended?
Oh, no! His dying delirium was filled with
prayer, and when he lifted his hand to
pronounce the benediction upon his fam
ily, and the benediction upon his coun
try, he seemed to say: “I cannot die no.w;
I want to live on and on. I want to start
an influence for the church that will never
cease. I am only thirty years of age.
Sun of my Christian ministry, stand still
over Scotland.” And it stood’ still.
But It is time for Joshua to go home. He
Is a hundred and ten years old. Washing
ton went down the Potomac, and at Mount
Vernon closed his days. Wellington died
peacefully at Apsley House. Now, where
shall Joshua rest? Why, he is to have his
greatest battle now. After a hundred and
ten years he has to meet a king who has
more subjects than all the present popula
tion of the earth, his throne a pyramid of
skulls his parterre the graveyards 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 go
ing to be Joshua’s greatest victory. He
gathers his friends around him and gives
I, his valedictory, and it is full of reminis
cence. Young men tell what they are going
to do; old men tell what they have done.
And as you have heard a grandfather, or
a great-grandfather, seated by the evening
fire, tell of Monmouth, or Yorktown, and
then lift the crutch or staff as though it
were a musket, to fight, 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
i 1 through and as he lies there, his white locks
. { snowing down on his wrinkled forehead. I
■ i wonder if God has kept his promise all the
way through—the promise of thp text. As
« | he lies there he tells the story one. two. or
• | three times—you have heard old people tell
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a story two or three times over—and he
answers: “I go the way of all the earth,
and not one word of the promise has failed,
not one word thereof has failed; all has
come to pass, not one word thereof has
failed.” And then he turns to his family,
as a dying parent will, and says: "Choose
now whom you will serve the God of Israel, j
or the God of the Amorites. As for me and
my house, we will serve the Lord.” A dy
ing parent cannot be reckless or thought
less in regard to his children. Consent to
part with them at the door of the tomb we
cannot. By the cradle In which their in
fancy was rocked, by the bosom on which
they first lay, by the blood of the Coven
ant, by the God of Joshua, it shall not be.
We will not part, we cannot part. Jeho
vah Jireh, we take thee at thy promise:
“I will be a God to thee and thy seed after
thee.”
Dead, the'old chieftain must be laid out.
Handle him very gently; that sacred body
is over a hundred and ten years of age.
Lay him out, stratgh out those feet that
walked dry shod parted Jordan. Close
those lips which helped blow th’e blast at
which walls of Jerfeho fell. Fold the arm
that lifted the spfifyr toward the doomed
city of Al. Fold it rfght over the heart that
exulted when the five kings fell. But where
shall we get the burnished granjte for the
headstone and the feotstone? I bethink my
self now. I imagiE that for the head it
shall be the sun tlflt stood still upon Gid
eon, and for the fq6t, the moon that stood
still in the valley of Ajalon.
AFTER VOTE? FOR M’KINLEY.
Grosvenor Going to Mempbis to Fix
the Politicians.
Memphis, Tenn.,*May 26.—Congressman
Charles Grqsvenior of Ohio will come to
Memphis on June i to spend several days.
The object of the visit, according to the
local politicians will be to begin the for
mation of plans that will tend to fix the
Tennessee delegation in 1896 favorably to
Hon. William McKinley for the presiden
tial nomination of his party. The feel
ing among the republicans in this city
is divided, but it is believed that the ma
jority of them favor Gov. McKinley at
present. Especially is this the case
among the politicians who were disap
pointed by Gen. Harrison in the dispo
sition of offices during his admlnistra
tlbn. Those who are not incliiftd to sup
port Gov. McGinley’s candidacy, however,
are divided between the ex-President and
Levi P. Morton for first place on the
ticket. The silver agitation which has
been so general by the democrats in this
section has affected the republicans very
little as yet, their tendency seeming to be
to remain quiet and await the action of
the party leaders in the north and west.
HELPED HIMBELF TO ’pCMD®*
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The Cashier of an Albany Bank
Forced ip Resign.
Albany, N, Y., Mfty 26.—The announce
ment Os . tfca ■ .
GrimnP as cas'iier or the Park Bank was
made on Thursday last. This action was
explained somewhat when the state su
perintendent of banks, Charles M. Pres
ton, gave out to-day the following state
ment: “A regular examination of the
Park Bank of Albany was commenced on
May 16, 1895, and continued for several
days and resulted in the confession of
the cashier, Edward A, Griffin, to the ab
straction of a portion of the bank's funds,
which sum was immediately made good
by the stockholders of the bank, and the
resignation of the cashier was promptly
accepted. .
"No apprehension need be felt concern
ing the entire soundness and stalslllty 6f
the institution, as its affairs were never
in a better condition than they are to
day, which fact is evidenced by the report
of the examiner, which was completed
yesterday.”
The directors and president of the bank
refused to speak to-night and no infor
mation can be obtained from those who
are in a position to know.
CARLISLE TURNS THE TIDE.
His ArgninenU Have Taken a Firm
Held on Kentuckians.
Louisville, Ky., May 26.—The democratic
state leaders of Kentucky, headed by John
D. Carroll, chairman of the democratic
state executive committee, have Invited W.
H. Harvey, author of “Coin’s Financial
School.” to come to Kentucky and make
a speech advocating the free and unlimited
coinage of silver. The object of this is to
counteract the effect of Secretary Car
lisle’s arguments from a sound money
standpoint, which have already set up a
counter tide to the silver movement which
has tak ’.n a firm hold on the people.
JOHN A. MORRIS DEAD.
The Millionaire Lottery King and
Horse Fancier Passes Away.
New Orleans, La., May 26.—John A. Mor
ris, the millionaire capitalist, lottery man
and horse fancier, died this evening at
fi:10 o’clock at his ranch, fourteen miles
from Kerrville, Tex., seventy miles west
of San Antonio. Mr. Morris never recov
ered consciousness and his case from the
first was considered hopeless. He died
from apoplexy, not a stroke of paralysis,
as stated in last night's dispatches. Mrs.
Morris passed through here this morning
on her way to her husband’s bedside
MINERS DEFEATED.
The Strike in the Pittsburg District
at an End.
Pittsburg, Pa., May 26.—That the miners’
strike in the Pittsburg district which has
been stubbornly fought for the past twelve
weeks is at an end, is a foregone con- I
elusion. The district to-night <d- 1
mit that the strike is lost, and that it
I is useless to fight any longer. The miners
struck for a uniform rate of 69 cents.
Several large firms were successful in
running their mines non-union and at
their own rate of wages. The men will
likely all return to work at the 60 cents
rate offered by the operators.
A BANK GOES OUT OF BLSINESN.
The Fifth National of San Antonio to,
Liquidate.
San Antonio, Tex., May 26.—The Fifth
National Bank of this city went into vol
untary liquidation yesterday. Arrange
ments have been made with the Almo Na
tional Bank to pay all depositors, and Pres
ident George Duilnig of the Fifth National
says all depositors will receive their money
in full. He says the bank has not been mak
ing money for some time past and the
present action of the directors in closing
the bank is purely voluntarily.
CAROLINA AND THE COURTS.
THE APPEAL FROM JUDGE GOFF'S
RULING TO BE MADE TO-DAY.
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. The Attorneys for the State to Ap
pear Before the Court of Appeals
at Richmond—Gov. Evans Deter
mined the Constltutional Conven
tion Shall Be Held—The Republi
cans flaying a Waiting- Game—Sen
ator Butler Calls Down the Gov
ernor in a Racy Letter.
Columbia, S. C., May 26.—A1l eyes are
now turned toward Richmond, -the capital
of the confederacy, and it seems a little
strange that that city of all others should
be the place where South Carolina will
make her appeal from the decision- cf
Judge Goff on the registration laws—laws
so intimately connected with events of
the s ; late unpleasantness—a decision in
which frequent references were made to
the causes leading up to this unpleasant
ness. Yet this week South Carolina,
through her attorneys, will appear there
and before a court of appeals of the union,
make her appeal for state’s rights.
The result of the move that has been
decided upon by the state leaves the po
litical outlook a liitle in doubt just now.
There is a possibility that court may re
verse Judge Goff's decision, in which case
the entire situation will be very much
changed. It is not generally thought,
however, that the court will' make any
such reversion, and in that case the un
certainty will simply amount to a delay in
the campaigning. The state is very hope
ful of winning the appeal.
To-morrow afternoon Assistant Attor
ney General Townsend and Gen. Edward
McCrady of Charleston, and Senator Jos
eph W. Barnwell will leave for Richmond
to appear on Tuesday before the United
States court of appeals and argue the
motion to have that court docket the ap
peal and fix a day for a hearing. They
will also oppose the motion in the other
registration case to make the supervisor
of registration of Newberry county a party
to the suit.
Gov. Evans, in an interview to-day, says
he is confident of having Judge Goff re
versed. He says, moreover, that no mat
ter what may be done he proposes to have
the constitutional convention held a«d
the election conducted in such away that
no shadow can ever reSt on the constitu
tion that is made, so far as rite federal
constitution is concerned,
The of the state are pur- I
sqing a waiting pplinjv. T)iey they t
the j
of registration from violating Junge
Goff’s order next Monday, though Gov.
Evans had Instructed his supervisors to
ahead, as if the injunction was never
issued. They are preparing to organize,
State Chairman Melton Bays, republican
leagues for work in the national cam
paign in every section of the state, and
will have a delegation at the national
league meeting in Cleveland next week.
To-morrow morning the State will pub
lish a pretty racy correspondence between
Senator Butler and Gov. Evans, Senator
Butler wrote Gov. Evans on May 15,
the following: “Sir—l notice In the State
of to-day what purports to be an address
to fellow-citizens from you, and find the
following as a part of it: ‘The ex-senator,
who had been holding caucuses in. Colu
mbia at private houses, having the ear of
the court and holding the foot of the chan
cellor, returned to his home, feeling that
his movements had not been detected, but
the responsibility shall rest where
it belongs. Let the people not
blame the poor, lean, hungry
counsel, who are barking merely for a bone
but visit the sin upon the heads of the
arch conspirators.’
"I beg to inquire whether I am the ex
senator to whom you refer? Very truly,
M. C. Butler,
Gov. Evans on the 23rd replied as follows:
Sir: In reply to yours of the 15th I beg
to state that you were the ex-senator to
whom I referred in that portion of my ad
dress quoted in your letter. Absence from
my office prevented an earlier, reply. Yours
truly, John Gary Evans.
Senator Butler, after giving letters from
Messrs. Pope and Caldwell, the counsel
in the cases referred to, to the effect that
he had nothing to do with the matter, ap
pends the following: “I do not like to be
misrepresented, even by a blackguard.
Since my service in the Senate ended on
the 4th of March last, I have been a pri
vate citizen, attending to my own busi
ness, and-this man had no right to draw
me into his scurrilous, sophomoric self
advertisement, which he styles and ad
dresses to fellow citizens.
“He appears to have had me under sur
veillance of one of his detectives who
have become so fashionable under the
late order of the state administration and
betrays himself into the utterance of a
foolish falsehood. The truth Is, he is
badly afflicted with what the doctors call
hydrosephalous, commonly known as
swell-head. He assails judges on the
bench with awkward vulgarity and brutal
coarseness, knowing them to be peace
officers and as such non-combatants. This
he can do with Impunity, but the time
may come when forbearance with his in
solence may cease to be a virtue. His
powers of discrimination between right
aid wrong, truth and falsehood, fair crit
icism and slander, are so vague and filmy
that he ought perhaps to be regarded as
an object of pity and contempt, rather
than indignation and resentment.
“When I set myself before the public
as a target I can stand criticism as well
j as most men, but I have no idea of per
; mitting slanderers to follow me. into pri
vate life to indulge their vicious propen
sities.
“Anothes reason I have for troubling the
public w’ith this matter is that other |
members of the ring have been circulating
slanders and mis representations about
me, on the line of intending to create a
false impression in the public mind, and
I avail myself of this opportunity to de
nounce them.
"They arc trying by a hue and cry about
•White supremacy,’ to frighten the timid
< into their clutches. There is not the least
danger of the negroes getting control of
the government of this state, or of ‘white
supremacy’ being endangered, and they
know it. Whatever of peril there is to
white supremacy has been created by the
ring now trying to dragoon white men
into condoning their corrupt practices.
They are responsible for the menace of
•negro supremacy.’ if there is one, and no
amount of bluster and false pretense car.
conceal it.
“They have rejected every fair and hon
orable overture for reuniting the white
people, and for one, I shall have nothing
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to do with any ring primary. If a primary
could be held on plan of ‘forty’ there
would be no’ objection to it, but
these fellows will not agree to that be
cause It would result in peace and good
feeling—the last thing they want.
"M. C. Butler.”
ITALY AT THE POLLS.
The Government Candidates Support
ed by the Rural Voters.
Rome, May 26.—Elections for members
of the new Chamber of Deputies were held
throughout Italy to-day. So far the re
sults in onlj’ a. few districts a.-f known.
Keen Interest prevails and the streets
in the vicinity of the newspaper offices
are crowded with people eager to learn
the outcome of the political battle.
It is known that despite the fierce oppo
sition of the coalitionists, Signor Crlspi,
the prime minister, has been elected from
the fifth electoral college of Rome, de
feating the Sicilian socialist, Guissepe de
Felice-Giuffrida.
Signor Baccelli, minister of public in
struction, has been returned from the
third college. The other three Roman dis-4
trlcts elect one supporter of the minis
try and two radicals.
Admiral Moriii, minister of marine, and
Signor Sonnino, minister of the treasury,
are both re-elected.
Signor Crlspi, who stood in several dis
tricts, was returned by the second elec
toral college of Palermo, the district he
formerly represented, defeating Barbato,
a socialist recently condemnd by a mili
tary tribune. The prime minister was al
so returned from one of the Naples dis
tricts and from Termini Imerese. Bar
bato, the socialllst above mentioned, was
elected in the Ulimini district.
The returns at 5 p. m. showed the elec
tion of twenty-nine materialists and
twenty-five others of all shades of oppo
sition. The rural voters largely support
ed the government party, while the. oppo
sition received their strongest support in
the large towns. Many reballots will be
necessary. The ex-prime minister, the
Marquis di Rudini, was re-elected in t*he
Caccamo district of Palermo.
Signor Brih, one time minister of for
eign affairs, was again returned from the
First district of Turin.
The well known radical, Matteo Imbri
ano, who, in the last chamber sat for the
district of Corato, Naples, was returned
to-day from the district A>f San Severo,
province of Foggla.
The polls closed at 4 o’clock. Signor
Crispl’s party. In a majority of cases, se
cured the election of their followers as
■ electoral officials at the polling stations,
Indicating that they will probably have a
majority of theji actual poll. Signor Cris
pl’s vote in Rbine was 920 to 720 for De
Felice-Giuffrida:
London, May 26.—A dispatch to the Cen
tral News from Rome says that at 10
o’clock to-night the returns showed the
i election of 83 ministerialists and 5» candid-
■ ate« of the opposition. Prime Minister Gio-
I iUM has been'.ite-elec ted in Drone to, and
ber of DeputWi,Yn Ized.
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A DUEL AT A CHURCH.
One Man Shod Dead and the Other
Mortally Wonnded.
Versailles, Ky., May 26.—At noon to-day
the steps of the Troy Presbyterian church,
seven miles south of here, were convert
ed Into a dueling ground, George B. Mont
gomery killing his brother-in-law, Archi
bald Riley, and being himself mortally
wounded by Riley. “
The murder was the culmination of a
sensation that upset high society in the
Blue Grass section three years ago, when,
it is said, Riley seduced Montgomery’s
sister and fled to Mississippi. He was
brought back and at the point of a pis
tol forced to marry the girl. He imme
diately deserted her and did not return
to these parts until recently.
Both men attended church to-day. There
w’as a large congregation present, the
church having the most cultured and ar
istocratic membership in this part of the
state. Neither man saw the other until
after this service, when they met face to
face on the steps. Both began- firing nt
once and. did not stop until one was dead
with five bullets in his body and the other
dying with an ugly wound above the
heart.
The congregation became panic-stricken
at once, and the wildest confusion re
sulted. Scores of ladies fainted and sev
eral were badly trampled in the stam
pede. The entire thing was done so quick
ly that no one though of interfering. Both
men were astoundingly cool and deliber
ate. Neither is thought to have said a
word before firing, nor to have made the
slightest attempt to shield himself from
the other’s balls.
After firing the lost shot Montgomery
turned to the bystanders and said: “Gen
tlemen, I hated to do this, but was com
pelled to; my conscience is now easy.”
Riley was 30 years of age. Montgomery
Is 29 and unmarried. It is claimed that
Riley had threatened Montgomery’s life
and both men had been carrying pistols
for each other.
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A Fl SILADE AT WACO.
A Man, a Boy and a Horse Killed and
a Neuro Wonnded.
Waco. Tex., May 26.—George Dallas Grif
flee was standing in a door yesterday In
the business center of Waco when George
Washington Anderson his son-in-law, and
Columbus Anderson drove up in a buggy.
Griffice had been warned that his son-in
law intended to kill him and he fired two
Winchester bullets through George Wash
ington Anderson. Anderson fell from the
buggy a corpse and Columbus Anderson
fled. Griffice Airing at him as he ran. The
street was crowded and stray bullets killed
Tow Lewis, a colored boy and wounded
Henry IJays. colored. Another bullet kill- i
ed a farmer’s horse.
George Dallas Grifflee Is the father of
triplets, who were named Ruby, Ga.rnet :
and Coral, by Rose Cleveland, sister of the
President.
George Washington Anderson, the dead
man, eloped with the 14-year-old daughter
of Griffice and married her. He ran away a
short time ago with a pretty girl.
IRISH POLITICAL PRISONERS.
Unceasing Efforts to Secnre Their
Release Prove Fntile.
Liverpool, May 26.—Speaking in this city
to-day, John Dillon, the well known Irish
leader, said that the Irish parliamentary
party had made unceasing efforts to se
cure the release of the Irish political
prisoners. He declared that Irishmen
should not vote for the liberal candidates
at the general election, unless home rule
was placed at the forefront of their pro
gramme.
I MONDAYS
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THURSDAYS
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MARTI’S FATE STILL IN DOUBT.
MIS FATIILY discredit the story
OF HIS DEATH.
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Signorit Marti Refused Permission
to See the Corptie Alleged to Be
T hat of Her Husband— The Report
of His Death Believed in Havana.
A Serious Uprising Expected in
Puerto Principe-*Cromhet's Assas
sin Hanged.
Key West. Fla., May 26.—A private let- ’ '
ter received in this city states that the
report of Marti’s death is not credited.
The writer of the letter visited the fam
ily of Marti on the 24th and was informed
that they had good reasons to’believe the
report was false. Passengers by. the
steamship Mascotte last night, however,
state that the report is believed in Ha
vana. La Lucha Os the 23d published a
letter from Marti’s wife requesting that
she be allowed to view the body of heir
husband. The request w,as refused by
Gen. Arderlus, governor general of Ha
vana.
The steamship Mexico arrived at Ha
vana on the 24th from Gibara with one
captain, two lieutenants and ten soldiers . •
badly wounded. They were prohibited
from carrying any mail.
Rojo, the assassin of Flor Crombet, was
captured by Antonio Maceo and hung.
It is reported in Havana that a serious
uprising is expetded momentarily! In
Puerto Principe, which will led by a
prominent Cuban of the last revolution.
Ramon Herrera, president of the reform
party and colonel of the Fifteenth regi
ment of Volunteers, refused to allow any
of the regiment to go into the field.
A party of young men at. Santiago de
Cuba, finding it impossible to join the In
surgents, on account of a guard placed
over them by the Spanish authorities,
conceived the idea of a funeral proces
sion. They filled coffins with arms and
ammunition, marched to the cemetery,
three or four miles into the country and
left ’from there taking their arms, etc.,
from the coffins.
The socialist party have gbne over to the
Insurgents and will issue a manifesto to
that effect in a few days. Arohtvo So
cial, the official organ of the socialists,
published at Havana, has been suppressed
by the government.
The general belief Is that Sangullly will
be deported.
Reports from the field state that the
Spanish troops lost heavily at the battle
of Jovito.
The towns of Matanzas and Cienfugos
are almost deserted. Many families are
leaving ,the towns and going into the
country. ~
1010 Benitez, the noted bandit and a.
colonel in the Spanish army, has gone to^— ■
the field, notwithstanding a protest of
Spanish officers.
W.. Oen. ,Salcedo and
cape was miraculous. 7 ■
The government has purchased twelve
hundred horses for the use of the caValry
in Sknta Clara and Puerto Principe.
FIGHTING IN FRENCH GUIANA.
Sixty Brazilian Adventurers and Five
Frenchmen Killed.
Paris, May 26.—M. Cahu Temps, minis
ter of the colonies has received a cable
dispatch from the governor of French
Guiana, reporting severe fighting.
The dispatch narrates that some Bra
zilian adventurers captured and robbed.'
a Frenchman named Trajahe, a settler
on the boundary. Other Frenchmen had
been similarly treated and consequently
the govenor sent the dispatch vessel
Bengali and a number of marines to re
store order.
When the vessel reached Mapa fifteen!
boatloads of marines went up the river
fifteen miles. Capt. Lunier and some
of the marines landed and the captain,
carrying a flag of truce, proceeded with
a bugler and a sergeant,, toward the vil
lage where Trajane was held. Intend
ing to demand his release. When they
came into the presence of the chief, Chief
Cabral, the latter treacherously fired at
Capt. Lunier and ordered his followers to
shoot the Frenchmen. General fusilado
was opened on them from all the housaa
in the village.
Lieut. Destoux, hearing the firing, hur
ried to the village from the river with a
company of marines, and a conflict fol
lowed that lasted two hours. Chief Ca
bral and sixty of his followers were killed.
The French lost five killed, Including Capt.
Lunier, and twenty wounded. The dead
and wounded were taken to the Bengali,
which then returned to Cayenne, where
the dead were buried with tnllitary hon
ors. M. Cahu Temps is now conferring by
cable with the government regarding the
measures to be taken in the matter.
CARLISLE’S FREE COINAGE VOTE.
It Warn Cast In Order to Defeat the
Force Bill.
Louisville, Ky„ May 26 Secretary Car
lisle was asked to-day regarding the
truth of the recent statements of Sena
tor Blackburn, ex-Congressman Bryan
and other silver advocates that the sec
retary in 1890 had written a letter to a
Kentucky editor, named Smith, answer
ing in the affirmative a question as to
whether or not he had voted for a free
coinage bill.
"It Is true I wi-ote that letter,” said Mr.
Carlisle, "ejnd it is also true that I
voted for a free coinage amendment in
1890. Mr. Blackburn knows very welt Why
1 did so. And if he were wholly fair, he
would give the facts. This is all I care to
say about the matter.”
The facts referred to are that Mr. Car
lisle voted for the amendment in question
' at the solicitation of Senator Gorman as
■ a part of the programme to defeat the
; force bill, as did Messrs Gorman, Eustis
■ and other senators opposed to free coin
age. There was no danger of the bill be
coming a law. and it was with this un
derstanding that their votes were re
corded in its favor.
WANTS AVAR WITH TURKEY.
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Rev. Joseph Parker Turns Preacher
Militant.
London, May 26.—1 n the course of his
sermon, delivered in the city temple to
day, the Rev. Joseph Parker, D. D., said
that he had not attended the meetings in
London to protest against the Armenian
outrages for the reason that these meet
ings would not come to anything. It was
the time for action, he declared, and the
only action to be taken was a war against
Turkey. Such a war would be the most
holy, humane and righteous one the world
had ever known.
NO. 41.