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GAINED 25 PO Brooksvillk, Miss* Feb. 23d, SR$i | Dear Set???Pi* *m?? find cucIonnI P. O. Order fori one Dozen 8CJ10PULA SYKUP-SMITH???S* if 5??? and* in welzht. Youh truly, For sale 38 Writ St.. Atlanta. THE CONSTITUTION. NOW IS THK TIME ???to si'nscni The Weekly Constitutor! iSIncI^ SubHcription, - [In Cluiwof Five, - - 81. 1.00 YOLUME XYI. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 29,1884.???TWELVE PAGES. PRICE STYE CENTS. APOSTOLIC GOOD-BYE. ???THE TIME OF MY DEPARTURE IS AT HAND.??? ???0, Radiant One. How I Would Lika to See Thee, Thou of the Manger but Without Zte Hu miliations, Thou of the Cross but Without Its Pangs,** Etc., Zte. Dr. Tnlmogc preached the following sermon. Subject, ???Apostolic Good-bye.??? Text, II Tim othy iv. 8: ???I am now ready to be ottered, and the time of my departure is at baud.??? The way out of this world is so blocked up ???with coffin and hearse and undertaker???s spade and screwdriver that the Christian con hardly think as he ought of the most cheerful passage in all his history. We hang black instead of whito over the place where the good man gets his last victory. Wo stand weeping over a hbap of chains which tho freed soul has shaken off, and we say: ???Poor man! what a pity it was he had to come to this!??? Come to what? By the time the people have assembled at the obsequies that man has been throe days so hapny that all the joy of earth accumulated would be wretchedness beside it, aud he might better weep over you because you have to stay than you weep over him because he bos to go. It is a fortunate thing that a good man does not have to wait to see his own obsequies, they would be so dfccordaiit with his owu ex perienco. If the Israelites should go back tc Egypt and mourn over the brick kilns they once left, they would not be any moro silly than that Christian who should forsake Heav en and come down and mourn because he had to leave this world. Our ideas of the Christian death are morbid and sickly. We look down upon it as a dark hole in which a man stum blcs when his breath gives out. This whole subject is odorous with varnish and disinfec tadts instead of being sweet with mignonette. Paul in my text takes that great ciod of a word ???death??? and throws it away and speaks of his departure???a beautiful, bright, sugges tivo word, descriptive of every Christinn???s lease. Now, departure implies a starting place and n place of destination. When Paui left this world what was the starting point? It was scene of great physical distress. It was the Tuliianum, the lower dungeon of the Mamer tine prison. The top duugeon was bad enough, it Laving no means of ingress or egress but through an opening in the top. Through that the prisoner waa lowered and througn that came all the food and light and air received. It was a terrible place, that upper dungeon: but the Tullianutn was the lower dungeou and that was still more wretched, the only light and the only air coming through the roof, and that roof the floor of the upper dungeon. That was Paul's last earthly residence. It was a dungeon just six feet and a half high. It was a doleful place. It had tho chill of long turics of dampness. It was filthy, with tho long incarcerations of miserable wretchedness. It was there that Paul spent his last days on earth, and it is there that I see him, in the fearful dungeon, shivering blue with the cold, waiting for that old overcoat which he had cent for up to Troas, and which they had not yet sent down, notwithstanding he had writ ien for it. If some skillful surgeon should go into that dungeon where Paul is incarcerated, we might find out what are tho prospects of Paul???s Jiv ing through the rough, imprisonmeut. In tho fir-** i??l.i(V??? In; is nil old nun,only two years.-hurt of 70. At that vory time when ho most needs the warmth and the sunlight and the fresh air ho: j'.ut eul V041) the sun. Whnfcpr* the*.* sen s on his ankles? Vr???iiy, were gotten when ho was fast, his feet In the stocks. Every time he turned the flesh on his ankles started. What are those scars on his back? You know thirty-nino strokes???195 bruises on tho (count them) made by tho Jews with rods of chnwood. each one of the 195 strokes bringing the blood. Look at Paul???s face, and look at his arms. Where did he get those bruises? I think it was when ho was stri Amidst the shivered timbers of 1 see a gash in Paul???s side. Where did ho get that? I think ho got that in the tussle with highwaymen, for he bad been in peril of rob bery. and ho had money of his own. He was a mo-???ha lie as well as an apostle,and I think the toms he made were as good as his sermons. There is a wanness about Paul???s looks. What makes that? 1 think a part of that camo from the fact that ho was for twenty-four hours on a plank in tho Mediterranean sea, suffering terrible, before he was rescued; for he sayi positively: ???I was a night and a day in tin deep.??? 0, worn out, emaciated old man, surely you must bo melancholy, no constitution could oudure this and be cheerful. But I press my way through the prison until I come up to where he is aud by tne faint light that streams through the ???opening I see on his face a supernatural joy and I bow before him and I say: ???Aged man how can you keep cheerful amidst all this eloom???? His voice startles tho darkness of the peace as he cries out: ???I am now ready to bo offered and the time of my departure is at hand.??? Hark! what is that shuffling of feet in the upper dungeon? Why, Paul has an invitation to a banquet and bo is going to ???dine with the king. Those shuffling feet aro the feet of the executioners. They come and they cry down through the holo of the dun geon: ???Hurry up, old man, come now; get yourself ready.??? Why, Paul was ready. Ho had nothing to pack up. He had no bavgage to take. lie had been ready a good while. 1 tee him rising up and straightening out his stiffened limbs and pushing uack his white hair from his creviced forehead and sec him looking up through the hole in the roof of the ???dungeon into the face of his executioner and hear him say: ???I am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand.??? Then they lift him out of the dungeon and they start with him to the place of exe* ution Theyiay: ???Hurry aloag, old man, or you will feel the weight of our spear. Hurry Along.??? ???How far is it,??? says Paul, ???we have to travel???? ??????Three miles.??? Three miles is a good way for an old man to travel after he has been whipped and crippled with maltreatment. But tney soon get to the ?? lace of execution, Agnes Salvice, and he is jtened to the pillar of martyrdom. It does not take any strength to tie him fast. He makes no resistance. 0 ( Paul, why not now. strike for your life? You have a great many friends here. With that withered hand just launch the thunderbolt of the people upon those infamous soldiers. No; Paul was not going to interfere with his own coronation, lie was too glad to go. I see him looking np in the faee of bis executioner and as the grim official draws the sword, Paul calmly says: ???1 am now ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand.??? But I put my hand over my eyes. I want not to see that last struggle. One sharp keen stroke and Paul does go to the banquet and Paul does dine with the king. What a transition it was; from the malaria of Rome to the finest climate in all the uni verse, the zone of eternal beauty and health. His ashes were put in the catacombs of Rome, but in one moment the air of Heaven bathed from his soul the last ache. From shipwreck, from dungeon, from the biting pain of the elmwood rods, from the sharp sword of the beadsman he roes into the most brilliant as semblage of Heaven, a king among kings, multitudes of the sainthood rushing out and stretching forth bands of welcome; for I do really think that as on the right hand of God is Christ, so on the right hand of Christ is Paul, the second great in Heaven. He changed kinp likewise. Before the hour of dew and np to the last moment be wss under Nero, the thick-necked, the cruel- eyed, the filthy lipped, the sculptured features -of the man bringing down to da to this very day the horrible possibilities of his nature, seated as he was amidst pictured marbles of Egypt, under a roof adorned with mother of pearl, in a dining room which by machinery was kept whirliug day and nignt with most bewitching magnificence; his horses standing in stalls of solid gold, and the grounds around his palace lighted at night bv its victims, who who had been bedaubed with tar and pitch and then set on fire to illumine the darkness. That was Paul???s king. But the next moment he goes into tho realm of Him whose reign is lovo and whose courts atfe paved with love and whoso throne is set on pillars of love and whose sceptre is adorned with jewels of love and whose palace is lighted with lovo and whoso lifetime is an eternity of live. When Paul was leaving so much on this side of tho pillar of martyrdom to gain so much on the other side, do you wonder at the cheerful valedictory of the text: ???The time of my de pnrture is a!, hand???? Now why cannot all old people have the same holy glee os that uged man nod? Charles I, whon he was combing his head, found t gray hair, aud he sent it to the queen us t great joke; hut old ago is really no joke at all For the last forty years you have been dread ingthat which ought to have been an exhila ration. You say you most fear tho struggle at the moment the soul and body part. But millions have endured that moment, and why may no> we as well? They got through with it and so can we. Besides this, all medical men agree in saying that there is probably no strugglo at all in tho last moment???not so muen pain as the prick of a pin, the scorning signs of distress being altogether involuntary. But you say: ???It is the uncertainty of the future.??? Now, child of God, do not play tho infidel. After God has filled tho Bible till it can hold no moro with stories of tho good things ahead, better not talk about uncer tainties. But you say: ???I cannot bear to think of parting from friends here.??? If you are old J ou have more friends In heaven than here. ust take tho census. Take some large sheet of paper and begin to record tho numes of thoso who have emigrated to tho other shore; tho companions of your school days, your early business associates, tho friends of mid life aud thoso who moro recently went away. Can it be that they have been gone so long you do not care any more about tncin, and you do not want thoir society? Ob, no. Thero have been days when you have felt that you could not endure it another moment away from thoir blessed companionship. They have gone. You say you would not like to bring them back to this world of trouble, evon if you had the power. It would not do to trust you. God would not givo you resurrection power. Beforo one day hail passed you would bo rat tling at tho gates or the cemetery, crying ??? the departed, ???Come back to tho cradlo wh< you slept! Come back to the hall whore you used to piny! Come back to tho table wliero to sit!??? And there would be a great burglary in heaven. No, no. God will trust you with resurrection power; but Ho com promises the matter and says: ???You cannot bring.them where you are, but you con go whore they are.??? They ore more lovely now thon ever. Were thoy beautiful here, they are more beautiful there. Besides that, it is moro healthy thero for you than hero, aged man; better climate there than these hot summers and cold winters and late springs; hotter hearing'; bettef eyesight; more tonic in tho air; more perfumo iu tho bloom; moro sweetness in the song. Do you not feel, aged man, sometimes os though you would like to get your arm and foot free? Do you not feel us though you would like to throw the centre of that glittering company???? It is Jesus, the champion of all worlds, tho favorite of ail ages. Do you know whnt is the first questinu the soul will ask when it comes through the gato of heaven? I think the first Question will bo: ???Where is* Jesus, the Savior that pardoned my sin, that carried my sorrows, that fought my battles, that won my victory???? 0, radiant One, how I would like to seo Thee, Thou of the manger but without its humilia tions, Thou of the Cross but without its pangs, Thou of tho grave but without its darkness! Tho Bible iutimates that we will talk with Jesus in heaven just as n brother talks with a brother. Now, what will you ask him first? I do uot know. I can think what I would ask 1???aul first if I saw him in heaven. I think I would like to hear him describe the storm that camo upon tho ship when there .were 275 souls upon the vcsiel, Paul being the only man on board cool enough to describe the storm. There is a fascination about a ship and tho sea that I never shall get over, and I think I would like to hear him talk about that first. But when I meet my Lord Jesus Christ of what shall I first delight to hear Him speak? Now I think what it is. I shall first want to hear the tragedy of His lost hours; and then Luke???s account of the crucifixion, and Mark???s account of the crucifixion, and John???s account of the crucifixion will be nothing, while from tho living lips of Christ the story shall be told of the gloom that fell and the devils that arose, and the fact that upon his endurance depended the rescue of a race; and there was darkness iu the sky and there was darkness in tho soul, and the pain became more sharp and tho burdens becamo more heavy until the mob began to swim away from the dying vision of Christ, and tho cursing of tho mob came to His ear more faintly, and His hands were fas tened to the horizontal piece of the cross and His head fell forward in a swoon as He uttered the last moan aud cried: ???It is finished!??? All heaven will stop to listen until the story is done, and every harp will bo put down and every lip closed and ail eyes fixed upon the divino narrator until tho story is done, and thon at the top of tho baton tho eternal or chestra will rouse up, finger on string of harp und lips to tho mouth of trumpet, thero shall roll forth the oratorio of the Messiah. ???Wor thy is the lamb that was slaiu to receive bless ing aud riches and honor and glory and power, world without end I??? ORR- TAKES THE CAKE. SO ENDED THE STATE WALKING MATCH LAST FRIDAY. A Day of Rare Sport Ends in ??? Vlotory for Orr, Alleged Professional, Who Moved Llko a Deer - Ford Wins the Second Money and Sheridan Takes the Third Prize. awa.v ???EOflHrolei-_aitd canes wul wouMyou notiiitetoft _ CcMbSh" ??? feci the spring and das ticity and mirth of an eternal boyhood? When the point at which you start from this world is old ago and tho point to which you go is eternal.juvenescencc, aged nun, clap your hands at the anticipation, and say iu perfect rapturo of soul: ???The timer of ray de parture is at hand.??? I remark again, all those ought to feci this . oy of tho text who have a holy curiosity to mow what is beyond this earthly terminus. And who has not any curiosity about it? 1'aul, 1 suppose, had the most satisfactory view of heaven, and he says: ???It doth not yet appoar what wo shall be.??? It is liko looking through a broken telescope/ ???Now wo seo through a gloss darkly.??? Can you tell me anything about that heavenly place? You ask me a thousand questions about it that I cannot an swer. I ask you n thousand questions about it that you cannot ansswer. And do you won der that Paul was so glad when martyrdom gave him a chanco to go over and make dis coveries in that blessed cotintry? I hope sorao day, by the grace of God, to go myself; bui ed man, 11 man, no prospered man, I think, wanta to go now. But the time will come, I think, when I shall go over. I want to aee what thoy do there, and 1 want to see how they do it. I do not want to be looking through the gates ajar forever. I want them to awing wide open There are ten thousand things I want ex plained???about you, about myself, about the government of this world, afx>ut God, about everything. We start in a plain path of what wo know and iu a minute come up against a high wall of what.we do not know. I wonder how it looks ovor there. Somebody tells me it is liko a paved city???paved with gold; and uuother man tells me it is like a fountain, and it is like a tree, and it is like a triumphal pro- cesssion; and the next man 1 meet tells me it is all figurative. I really want to know after the body is resurrected what they wear and what they cat; and I have an immeasurable curiosity to know what it is and how it is and where it is. Columbns risked bis life to find this continent, and shall we shudder to go out on a voyage of discovery which shall reveal a vaster and more brilliaut country? John Franklin risked his life to find a passage be tween icebergs, and shall we dread to find a passage to eternal summer? Men in Switz erland travel up the heights of the Matterhorn with alpenstock and guides and rockets and ropes, and getting half way up stumbe aud fall down in a terrible massacre. They just wanted to say they had been on the tops of those high peaks. And shall we fear to go out for the ascent of the eternal hills which start thousand miles beyond where stop the high est peaks of the Alps, and when in that as cent there is no peril? A man doomed to die stepped on the scaffold and said in joy: ???Now, in ten minutes 4 will know the great secret.??? One minute after the vital functions cease the little child that dies knovfa more than Johna than Edwards, or fit. Paul himself before he died. Friends, the exit from this world, or death, if you please to call it. to the Christian, ' glorious explanation. It is demonstration. is illumination. It is sunburst. It is the opening of all the windows. It is shutting up the catechism of doubt and unrolling of all the scrolls of positive and accurate informa tion. Insteadof standing at the foot of the ladder and looking up, it is standing at the top of the ladder and looking down. It it the last mystery taken out ol botany and geology and astronomy and theology. Oh, will it not be grand to nave all questions answered? The perpetually recurring interrogation point changed for the mark of exclamation. All riddles solved. Who will fear to go out on that discovery when all the questions are to be decided which we have been discussing all our lives? Who shall country if it be no better.than through holy curiosity, crying: ???The time of my de parture is at hand???? ??? I remark again, we ought to have the joy of the text, because, leaving this world we move into the best society of the universe. You see a great crowd of people in some street, and you say: ???Who Is passing there? What gen eral, what prince it going up there???? Well. I see a great throng in heaven. I say* ???Who is the focus of all that admiration? Who is When thore was between Paul, and that magnificent personage only the thinness of tho sharp edge of the sword of the executioner, do you wonder that he wanted to go? 0, my Lord Jesus, let one- wave of that glory roll over us. Hark! I hear tho weddiug bolls oi heaven ringing. Tho inarriago of the Lamb has come, and tho bride hath made herscll ready. THE INTERNAL REVENUE. The Statement of the Commissioner Rela tive to the Year???s Huslness. Washington, July 25.???The commissioner of internal revenue furnishes to-day n statement relative to the transactions of tho bureau for the fiscal year ending Juno 30 1884, and a comparison with thoso of tho pre ceding fiscal year. From these it appears that the aggregate receipts for the fiscal year were $121,520,920, a net increase, as compered with the preceding year, of $22,903,305. These sums are mado up as follows: Receipts from spirits of fruit, grain and other materials including also special taxes. $70,905,385, an increaso of $25,300.10. oriteii'. '9 ???' Fermented liquors, $18,08-1,954, an increase of $1,184,338. Taxes undor laws now rcpcoled, $248,150, a decrease of $10,025,744. Penalties, $289,144, a decrease of $14,059. There were withdrawn for consumption du ring the year, 1,137,050 gallons of spirits dis tilled from fruit, and a decrease of116.222 gal- Compared with tho preceding fiscal year; 78,479,845 gallons of spirits distilled from grain, molasses and other materials, an increase of 2,971,000 gallons, 345,501,915 cigars, an increase of 227,730,- 025; 908,213,040 cigarettes, increase of 208,- 101,987; 5,002.045 pounds of snuff, an increase of 3,182,730; 108,593,419 pounds of tobacco, an increase of 3,510,233, ana 18,098,019 barrels o! fermented liquor, an increase of ,240,727. The following statement shows the aggregate re ceipts from internal rovenue by states and territories during tho fiscal year ended Juno 30th, 1884: Alabama $ 85,398 Missouri $ 0,473,800 Tho great state walking match ended nt ten 'clock last Friday nigfit, with Orr, of At lanta, first man, Ford, of Macon, second and 8heridan, of Atlanta, third. A few minutes beforo ten a.m., tho walkers were taken from tho tents and marched up tho track to tho judges??? stand. A bright red string ran across the track above tho heads of tho gayly attired pedes trians. To it was suspended three small satin bogs. Tho one on tho outside was of fiery red and contained three hundred dollars in gold. Next to it was a sock of light grey, containing one hundred and fifty dollars in gold. Tho insldo sack, of deep blue, contained ono hun dred dollars in gold. Temptingly they hung above the walkers. An instant almost beforo the pedestrians started Mr. Turner, speaking for tho Koine walkers, stated that Rome would not start if Orr, one of the Atlanta walkers, was permitted to go. They claimed that Orr was a profes sional and not a resident of tho state. Tho management held that as Orr was the first man entered, and ns the race had never been advertised as nn amateur match, and ns tho Rome pedestrians had been notified that Orr was in, they had no right to complain. The judges helcl that Orr should walk and there upon tho Rome walkers withdrew. This left tho following men on the track: Sheridan Mize, Orr, Seel, Birmingham, Murphy. Wil son aud Prater from Atlanta; Ford, Jacobus, Farmer, Harris aud Haskins, of Macon, and Fain of Gainesville. Mr. Steve Ryan then read tho rules of the match, and as the word ???go??? was said tho po destrin ns dashed oil'. Seel, the wonderful Dutchman, swung ahoad and went whiszing around tho track on a full run amid shouts or applause. Ho scored the first lap ahead of his competitors, mid was dosely pressed by Ford; the other walk ers scoring laps in tho following order: Prater, Orr, Murphy, Jacobus, Sheridan Wilson, Fain, Harris, Hoskins, Birmingham Farmer; Mize. , The pedestrians went to business at once, most of them running constantly, and all of them running more or less. On the fifth Ian Ford went ahead of Seel and was in tho lend, but soon after Orr passed him and took the Arizona 2,714 Arkansas .91,009 California 8,331,766 I'AV.W 9,664 212,327 178,502 378,741 2,631 23,.720,4*1 ???MM 2,757,416 Kansas 167,.Til Kentucky 18,6H3,l?j Louisiana* 660,184 iMaine. 56,609 Maryland 3,146,49! Massachusetts. 2,380,000 Michigan 1,419,3*) Minnesota 013,982 Mississippi 60,449 Colorado Connecticut... Dakota. .... Delaware..... * Florida ...... Georgia Idaho * Illinois ...... Indiana Iowa ** Montana Nobraska*ZWH Nevada... 3,827 N'wIIompsh???re 89,196 New Jersey 8,477,222 New Mexico.... 09,1391 New York 18,760,881 N. Carolina. 1,760,966 Ohio*....,... 18,620,254 Oregon *128,275 Pennsylvania.. 7,888,700 Rhode island... 8. Carolina Tennessee .....*, Texas......* UUb Vermont 130,468 03.896 1,219,995 1202 THE POSTAL RECEIPTS, The second returns received at the postoffice department from 159 letter carrier postoffices.' which produced nearly one half or the postal revenue, show that the gross receipts for the quarter ended June 30, 1884, were $6,169,052, or $350,316 5 7-10 per cent less than the re ceipts from the same offices during the cor responding quarter of the proceeding year. Upon this basis tho receipts from all the postofficea during the quarter would aggregate about $11,000,000, and the receipts for the year would be about $2,000,000 less than the re ceipts for tho previous fiscal year. Sixteen offices show increased receipts. The 'diminu tion is attributed to the reduction of the letter rate from three to two cents, and the result of the year???s business, which is better than ex pected, is highly gratifying to the financial officer of the postoffice department. NONE LEFT TO TELL THE TALE. A Terrible Roller Explosion In the Leliigli Valley. Allbxtowx, Pa., July 25.???The rear part of the boiler of an engine drawing a freight train on the Lehigh Valley /ailroad. near Whitehaven, to-day blew up and killed four persops who were riding on the engine. The victims are J. II. Ilassel, engi neer; Brakeman Ilassel, son of the engineer; Fireman Keubenster, and E. Smith, telegraph operator. Smith was the night telegraph op erator at Mescopec and was riding on the en gine to bis hotel at Whitehaven, when the explosion occurred. The bodies of the engi neer and fireman were found torn to pieces in the woods 100 yards from the wreck. The re mains of Smith were found under the tank of the engine horibly mangled. The explosion occurred in a lonely place and nobody was left to notify the trains going in either direc tion. Shortly after the accident a long train ot coal ran into the exploded engine. The locomotive of the coal tram was badly wrecked and covered with* broken cars. Twenty cars were scattered in different directions and broken into kindling wood. Michael Green igineerof the coal train, was seriously and perhaps fatally injured. The rest of the crew escaped by leaping from the train. A Tennessee Candidate, Cxattaxoooa, July 25.???[Special.]???At the congressional convention at Cleveland, this morning, John R. Neal was nominated for congress from this, the third congressional district. had the most singular gaitsfiownon tho track. With apprently no exertion whatever ho passed around tho track, his face wearing a listless expression and his head turned half to ono side os his eyes were bont upon tho furthest corner of the rink as though ho was earnestly looking for some thing thoro. Ho was dressed in tho simplest suit of whito tights, with a black trunk that fitted him closely. He was decidedly the most interesting man on the track to an ob server. None of tho other walkers had such striking characteristics as Orr. Seel, tho Fly ing Dutchman, was perhaps tho most athletic looking man on the track, was the objeet of glances and tho rocipiont of much ap- Ford, with his ???crow-hop,??? and with his old Indian stride, attracted Attention. .Birmingham struck a six hour dog trot, and bring nn the ?? report got ho win nn imported* pro fess iovfui who had been entered by tho sport ing men. It was expected that he would throw off at tho first of tho race and go to tho front toward the close. It was reported that this would he done in order that tho initiated might buy him cheaply???as third or fourth choice or in the field. Iu consequence of this report, which, liko all reports, flew fast, Bir mingham was pretty freely bought. Orr pressed on and cosily kept In the lead, scoring four miles in * tho first half hour, was closely pressed by Ford, who scored four miles a second or so behind him. There was no material change for the next fow minutes, but soon after it was noticed that a small, wiry-looking fellow like unto a pocket edition of Prater, was passing to the front. Ho was Fain, the Gainesville champion, and he at once became a favorite. Just as tho first hour closed ho scored his eighth mile and stood at tho head of the list. Tnx ELEVEN O???CLOCK SCORE. At 11 o???clock tho score stood: Sheridan -_7*8 Ford 7-12 Mize......... JflOOMtS... - Orr ??? 7-13 KmI M Birmingham Farmer Fain Murphy 6-10 Wilson.. 6-8 Harris 7-2 Prater. 7-8 Haskins 6-13 For tne next hour the attention of the crowd was directed mainly to the now wonder, Fain, who ran very easily but evidently not wit hou exertion. Ills resemblance to Prater, tho mountain wonder anti the fact that they had spent their boyhood in pretty much the same way put many people in doubt as to what he could or might do. This state of af fairs existed until THK TWELVE O???CLOCK SCORE. wss announced and h? was still in the lead. That score was as follows: Sheridan l3-9!Farmcr 13-4 ford * 14-8 Fain 14-11 Mize 12-6 Murphy IMS Jacobus.....* 9-1 Wilson 11-13 Orr...*** 14-8 Harris*. 12-1 Heel**.* * 13-3 Prater. 14-4 Birralexbam li-4j Haskins 12-11 Fain???s friends seeing how be developed put their money ou him quite freely. Jacobus, after completing the score reported above, left the track and did not return. Fain kept the lead and for the next three hours the race was ???s follows: OXK O???CLOCK SCORE. Sheridan 18-51 Farmer.. Ford 17-3 Fain THK Five O CLOCK WORE. ^Atflre o'clock the score stood: Farmer 82-7 Fain * 30-18 Murphy *avo Wilson**. 30-0 Harris 86-1 I'mter JM-Il I Ia.sk lus 31-4 I Sheridan 88-0 Ford 34-12 Mize 8ft-3 Jacobus 9 \ Orr. 87-ft Seel * .jw-o Birmingham 30-2 THK SIX O'CLOCK SCORE, At six o'clock the score stood: Sheridan 43-2 (Farmer av3 Ford 38-2 Fain *. 30-13 Mlie. 40-2 Murphjr** ;o-o Jacobus *....iM Wilson....* jrm) Orr. .43-2 Harris .39-13 Seel........??? 40 9 Prater*.** **....*39-1:1 Birmingham 2U-6 (Haskins.* 39-2 As this last score was recorded it was seen that Orr and Sheridan were on the same lap. Each had made 43 miles and three laps. The interest thou became very great in these two walkers. THE 8RVKX O???CLOCK SCORE, however, showed Orr just a bit in the lead, was as follows: FOR THE CAMPAIGN. BARNUM RE-ELECTED CHAIRMAN OF THE NATIONAL COMMITTEE. Transact fox Preliminary Business, the Body Adjourns, to Meet Clevelaod in Albany, on Monday-Ex-Oovernor St. John Nomi nated far the Presidency. Sheridan *A8 13 Ford*.* * -41-2 Mize 44-10 Murphy. Jncoubs 9- 1 Wilson Orr * 49-1 Harris Seel...** ,4.5-1 Prater Birmingham .31-1 Haskins THE RIQIIT O???CLOCK SCORE. At eight o???clock tho score stood 68-10 Mlzo Jacobus Orr c Heel..* ... Birmingham* 64-2 Fain *ao>ia Mtyphy..??? M-t Harris !.*Ji3-5 Prater 63-12 Haskins..... .60-12 Farmer *.43-33 Fain 30-1 Murphy * 49-6 Wilson . - * Harris .. Prater,*.. ??? Haskins 46-13 As the olectrlc lights Hashed ovor tho crowd the walkers bracedup and redoubled their ef forts. Orr was still in the lead, and THE NINE O???CLOCK SCORE stood os follows: Hherldan .68*10 Farmer. **48-11 Ford 58-4 ** ??? Mlzo 51-7 Jacobus * 0-1 Orr * 50-5 Heel **62-13 Birmingham jil-i ??? THE LAST HOUR. Tho last hour was'truly exciting, as is tho case with all good walking matches. The people stood on thohenchet otidchoered and tho walkers were pressed to their utmost. Seri hail been spurting around in abcautiftil suit of blue tights ana was tho recipient of much applause. Soon after nine he went in his tent considerably used up and did not again get on the track. Font had lost one hour aud a half from cramp colic, but he was pressing Sheridan for the second place. Prater was doing his best to get at least the third prize, but he had little hope. Sheridan was doing his lcvelest. Tho others were doing their loveloNt, hut what for they alone knew, ns with them nil hopo was gone. During tho hour sumo of them dropped out and left tho track to the fast mon. All tho Macon men weroon except Jacobus. When it grow so close between Ford and Sheridan for second place another chance for betting was afforded nml taken advantage of. TnR LAST riPTERX MINUTES, The last fifteen minutes was walked through tho most intense excitement. Tho interest was contered on Sheridan and Ford. Orr wna settlod on as the certain winner. Tho scores of tho two men were watched closely. At on$ period of the last half hour Sheridan had puliod up ou Ford???s gallant 16nd, but his trainer, George Case, gavo him a little Macon grenao on a sponge, and ho dashed off with n determination To win or Almost dio in the attempt. Orr was handed tho American colors and was crowned with o laurel wreath, nd with these ho daubed around tho track iko a deer, amid the shouts of tho four tin and voices. ntly ten tho buglo sounded and declarod at an end. Tho crowd rushed to the judges??? stand, and carried thoir favorite on their shoulders to receive the luoro of their luck, Vol Dunning stepped forward and with stoutorian voice mini result: announced tho following Seel **53-5 Farmer. 52-1 Mlxe 61-7 Birmingham 31-1 Fain 30-10 Wilson * ao-oo Jacobus 9-1 JJ-ll Jacobus 9-1 Orr ???16-1 Seel 171*8 Birmingham **16- J Morphy ** Wilson Harris Prater ...** Haskins.... 164 16-4 18-6 20-7 18-2 . s, r, . 26-10 .... .. 9-1 Wilson JEM I Harris 26-10 27-9 Prater 2M > Haskins. TWO O'CLOCK SCORE. 23-2;Farmer 20-13 19-lOiFain 24*11 Mize 22-6 Murphy 290 Jacobus 9-1 Wilson 20-11 Orr * * 21*2 Harris 22-61 Seel *22*11 Prater ??6, 1 Birmingham * 20-5|HaskIns 22-4 Til EKE O???CLOCK SCORE. Sheridan. 28-2 Farmer**.* * 23-12 Ford*....*.. ~' " Mize Jacobus.....*??? - - Orr W-l Heel 27-9 Birmingham *..*... 2HE|. Fain had by the end of the fifth hour begun to flicker, ana soon after left the track. The audience took things quietly, only ap- dauding occasional spurts, but nevertheless iilly interested in the match. During the sixth hour Orr went considerably ahead. Fain, bis lively young opponent, had left the track and donned his mountain garb. Bir mingham was on hfs last legs; Jacobus had long since left the sawdust and several others already showed that they were walking a hopeless match. Orr, Prater, Reel and Sheri dan were making lively time and much doubt existed as to who would come in first. Judges of pedestrians could easily see that Orr bad tne ability to win the race if be chose to do it but they would not put up money on him. the rocao'clock score. At four o'clock the score stood: Sheridan ???Farmer. .....290 .... 804 9-1 Birmingham..........*28-3 rptr::: Hherldan 62-13 Prater A8-9 Harris 67-8 Murphy **..64-12 Hoskins 64-11 dred. The prizes were paid os soon as the results were aunouuced, and thus emled the great match. Piper, Aycock, Whitmore, White and Ebllng were the Rome Walkers who camo down Thoy wanted even to race tho professionals but their backers would uot allow it. Macon sent up a good delegation and they were loud in their praise of the treatment their men received. Dennis KJating sat on a back seat with smiles back to his cars at Ford???s success, Mayor Jack King, Colonel J. H. Shanklin, Mr. Ben I. Hughes, Mr. W. M. Towers, Mr, Linton A. Dean, Dr. Kntol, Colonel E. J. MacOruder, Mr. R. J. Ragan, Mr. J. A. Smith and Mr. Ponder, city editor of the Courier, were among tho Romans who came down. Tho special wire nut in tho building by Manager Stevens, of tfie Western Union, was one of the big features of the match. Tho in strument was in ebargo of Mr. Choa. G. Da vidson, who was kent busy all day sending specials. Manager Stevens deserves uiucr credit for this enterprise. Protection Proin Violence Asked For. Cixcixxati. July 25.???A petition was pre sented to the mayor to-day by tho proprietors of the stove foundriee, and by the cigar manu facturers. praying for protection for non-union men iu tneir employ. They stated that their men were assaulted and beaten day after day, and receive no protection from the police. If they cannot be protected they will remove their factories to other cities. Train Wrecking In Mississippi. NrwOrlraxr, July 25.???A special to the Timee-Democrat from Vicksburg says the construction train on the Vickaburg, Shreve port and Texts Pacifie railroad, fell through the bridge over Alligator bayou to-day, kill ing Engineer Vanderberg and the fireman. The accment was caused by the rail having been torn up by unknown persons* for tho purpose of wrecking the train. A Itnvlsher Hanged. G'aukrox, July 25.???This morning a negro was found suspended to a tree close to the bridge across Little riyer. An investigation showed that the negro wss the same who re cently robbed the residence of Rev. Mr. Light- foot, and attempted to outrage Mrs. Lightroot. He was captured this morning about 2 o???clock by a reconnoitering party and hung. He con fessed the crime and gave his name as William Smith, from Dallas. Congressional .Nominee*. Sedalia, Mo.. July 25.???The democratic convention of tne sixth district last night nominated John I. Heard for congress on the 389th ballot. Louisville, July 25.???J. E. Halsell was nom inated for congree by the democrats of the third district yesterday. Ilulleta nml Knives. Civcixxavi, 0??? July 25.???In a general fight at a colored picnic at Oakley grove, five per- ???onos were mere or less seriously injuretf by bullets or knives. Two Murderers Hanged. NswOelkaxs, July 25.???Victor Eloi, for wife murder, and Kendrick Holland, colored, for killing bis mistress, were hanged here to day. Naar York. July 34.???The democratic na tion*!'committee met at the Fifth avenue ho tel tn-dny. and was called to order by Senator Gorman, of Maryland r in tho absence of chairman Bn rnu a. 8cnaior Gormen was at once elected! teniiK>n??ry chairman, and F. O. PYlnco waa made temporary secretary. H. 0. Thompson-,??? of New York, made a mo tion whi ih was seconded by W. W. Arm strong, of Ohio* that William Barntim be> elected permanont cbnirmanofthe committee. This was dbne by acclamation and unani mously. F. O. Princo was re-elected secretary* The roll of states was then colled. Alabama was represented by H. C. Temple; Florida, Samuel Pasco; Georgia, Patrisk Walsh; 3Iississippi, G. A. Johnson; North Carolina* M. W. Ransom ; South Carolina, F. W. Daw son; Virginia, John S. Barbour. F. W. Dawson, of South Caroiinn, introduced 1 the following: Resolved, That * committee of seven, of which the permanent and temporary chah-mnn of the committee shall be members, bcnppolntcd to con sider n plan for the organization of tho committee for tho work of the canvass, and report at the next mMtlng ( of the national committee. I ???.After discussion upon tho necessity of a thorough and systematic organization, tho res olution was adoptod, and tne following com mittee was oppointod: Messrs Barn urn, Gor man, Dawson, Smalley, Kelley, Miller and Vilas. ??? Smith M. Week, proxy for Mr. linrnum, stated that Mr. Barnum thought that upon the adjournment to-day of the enmmitteco it would be well to adjourn to meet at Albany on Monday. A resolution was adopted that whon tho committee adjourned it would bo to moot again at 10 o???clock Tuesday morning at the Dclavan house, Albany. * Uurbcrt O. Thompson introduced a resolu tion that a committee of throe bo appointed to scigetaud report upon tno headquarters in this city for the campaign. Tho resoultion was adopted and Messrs. Thompson McHenry and Rose wore appointed as that committee. Mr. Baker, of West Virginia, addressed tho comniitteo by roquest, on tho condition of nf- fairs in that state. lie gave it as his opinion that whatever differenoncet may oxlat on local matters, tho party would bo unitod iu Novomber. Tho committco on organization for tho can vass and tho congressional committee will hold a meeting to consider the plan for tho na tional campaign. Mr. Thompson announced that thero would ho a meeting of tho coramitteo on lieadquar- ter-< immediately after the adjournment. Tim national comniitteo adjourned nt 1:30 p. in. to incot at Albany. the n an or oeoaxiutiox. Tho committee v?? seven appointed nt tho tncoting of tho democratic national comniitteo to consider tho plan for organizing tho na tional committee for campaign work, mot this liter tin* imtiniinl emumit- had adjourned. All members their proxies were present. General discussion took place, and u confor- nco with tho congressional committee was United Htftic* .Senator John K. Ken- nn, of West Virginia, was tho only mem ber of tho loiter committco who was ab sent or not represented by proxy* It was decided that the national committee and that tho cjagrcssional committee look after tho elections in tiio congressional districts. It was estimated that thero 78 congressional districts that nro confessedly closo, and to these tho con gressional committco should givo their par ticular attention. Representatives Stephens of Now York, Murphy of Iowa, and Rosoorans of California, wero appointed a standing corn- initlco ol tho congressional body to work with tho national committee. Tho headquar ters of tho congressional committco will bo in Washington. Tho sub-committco of three, consisting of Thompson, of Now York; Mc Henry, or Kontucky; ami Ross, of Now Jersey, hnvo not yet reported upon tho plnco for permanont headquarters for tho national committees. Thoy will roport at Albany oa Tuesday next^ THE GRBBLYPARTY. The Programme for tlio Future???The Land* Ing nt Portsmouth. Warhixotox, July 24^-According to the programme agreed upon by tho secretary of war and the acting secretary of tho navy, tho vessels of the Grculy relief expedition, with the survivors and tno dead of the Grccly party, will fail from St* Johns on the -???'*11?? and 26th inst, and procrod direct to Portsmouth, N. H., wlii ri* lli'-y u ill bo officially n-o-m-d by tho secretary of tho navy, tho officers o! the north Atlantic squadron, now at that port, and tho state and local authorities. Lieutenant Grccly ami the other survivors will disembark at 'ortfinoiith. and the vessels will proceed New York with the bodies of tho dead, which will be landed at Governors island and idaccd iu charge of Major General Hancock. The Utter will transfer them tothe care of relativMand friends upon appllf ttoa. Tho vessels art expected to arrive at New York about the 1st of August. Should any of the bodies bo unclaimed, which will probably ?? rove to be the case with some of tho foreign am, they will be buried with appropriate ' ceremonies at the National cemotery in New York. The officers of tho relief expedition will probably report in Washington early next month. The chief signal officer has addressed a cir cular letter to the relatives of the dead mem bers of the Greely party, advising them that the bodies will be landed at the military sta tion, on Governors island, New York, about Auguat 1st. The United States will bear tho expense of the transjmrUtion of the bodies to such places as the relatives in each case may select for interment, as well as the cost of bur ial, but the expenses for the journey of rela tives can???t be paid by the government. A FIGHT WITH INDIANS. Sv. Loins. July 24.???The Republican???s Du rango special says CapUin Perrines, com manding a detachment of cavalry in pursuit of the Indians that made an outbreak on tho cattle camp a short time ago, found tho Indians intrenched in their stronghold one hundred miles west of the Blue mountains, on tho 15th Inst. After a sharp fight he was compelled to retire with the loss of one scout named Warrnington, and James Higgins, a cowboy, killed. There were two hundred In dians well armed, and so well protected in the bluffs that ft wss found impossible to dislodge them. CapUin Perrines will await orders from headquarters before miking any further attacks. It Is only throwing lives of his men away ata disadvantage to renew the fight with the Indians. Shot Dead by His Prisoner. Daro, Tex., July 25.???Jas. O. Bonner, de puty sheriff of Iiano county, while having iu custody C. Davis, accused of horse stealing, was surprised by the latter, who *uddenly seized Bonner's pistol, shot him dead and es- <-r*i.??-l. TId* ritu-:ns are in hot pursuit of Davis. Iindistinct Print!