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|OTIMES| |wWEEK| VOL. 45. . 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 i THE MORNING NEWS I ■I Established 1860. - - Incorporated 1888. > « J. H. ESTILL, President. J tvccluii A cwc. 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 SAVANNAH, MONDAY, MAY 27, 1895. —■■«, 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®* - -• > . - ’|| 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. ——i. , . 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 J WEEKLY 2-TJMEB-A-\yEEK $1 A YEAR ) < 5 CENTS A COPY. I ( DAILY, $lO A YEAR. f 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. ’fca,.. ■ w . ... ■»«— 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. - -- -■ - 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 ANO THURSDAYS - MARTI’S FATE STILL IN DOUBT. MIS FATIILY discredit the story OF HIS DEATH. ♦ 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. • ■—S .Hl 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.