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1 1^' ^ ^ ^ *1*^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^' t^"" ! ' VOL, XLVI. v . . . WIXXSBORO, S. C? WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 24, 1890. NO. 19. THE TK-KKS UP I'ALKSTLN'K SUBLIME LANGUAGE OF THE SCRIPT UP.ES ON THE CEDARS. ^kl>r. Taiuts^c I>tscri!if> the Scc;i*?s o; ^Momit I.cbuuon uu-l J? Morn gj|E.e*s6i:H T!n-rei"rojn--The l'r?-j?U?ts Loved Ro (?azo I I'or< >ts. jwr x, IJcl-. 14.--To-ilny Dr ^Talmage preached the t-\e;uh sermon cf his series on I'alp.-tirie llie mljoining countries. Dr. Taimaarc anT!fllir>r?f! fi ! riv lti "The cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted." and preachrd thti following sermon: In our journey wechang e stirrup for wheel. It is 4 o'clock in the morning at Damascus. Syria, and we arc among the lanterns of the hostelry waiting for the stage to start. A Mohammedan iaJhigh life is putting his, three wives on board within an apartment by themselves, and our party occupy the main apartment of one of the most uncomfortable vehicles in which mortals were t-ver jammed and half .-.iraiigulated. But we must not let the discomforts auuul or disparage th? opportunities. We are rolling out and up the mountains of Lebanon, their [ lorehead under a crown ui' snow, which coronet ilie fingers of the hottest, sum, mer cannot t-?i?t down. CLIMBING I T LKUANON. We tire ascending heights around ' which is garlanded much of the finest poesv ol'the Scriptures, and :'.re using ^toward the n:ightif*^t dominion that Sbotanv ever recognized, reigntd over gby the most imperial tre-i that ever Riwared a leafy scepter?the Lebanon Kedar; a tree eulogized in my text as Shaving grown from a nut put into the Hground by God himself, and no human sgfeLpri hud anything to do with its gating: "'['he trees of Lebanon Bh he hath planted.'' rale aveiajre height of this mounseven thousand feet,.but in one I.'ts 10 an of" piousand. Xo higher than six ?jnd feet can -egetation exist, i relow that line at the rigfh't season J 'in (.-yards and orchards "and olive es and I lowers that dash themounsice with a very carnage of color ! liil the air with aroniatics that' k, the prophet, and Solomon, the ' lei:ruled ;i> -'the smeil of Le- = 1.'' At a height of six thousand j la grove of cedars,; the only de? j nt* of those- vast forests "from i B&Iomon cut his timber for the j g of Jerusalem, and where at one j H^ro were one hundred thousand suir BgWEes"ihe tervidftf; thus tree Clauds in i Bfexuriance, defying the suiu.mer sun. i ^nd when thesrorms of winter terrify I BBte earth and hurl the r:eks in a.V;i-. Knche down this mountain side, this j Rree grapples the hurricane of snow in ! I-uimph ant! leaves the spent turrat; s feet. From sixty to eighty feet j |eh are they, the. horizontal branches | [great sweep, with Iheir burden of I aves needle shaped, the top of the | [ee pyramidal, a throne <>f foliage on j ihich might i:nd splendor and glory | I. But so contiguously has the ex- j jrmination of trees gone on that fori fe mcst part the mountains of Le- j |non are bare of foliage, while, I am j ifry to say. the earth in all lauds is t |ng iikev. ise denuded. t. BE SPACING OF GOD > TltEE^. ; she ax is slaying the torests ail; pad the earth." To stop the. sFar.gfr- j IEUod opened U:e coal mines oi j K and Scotland and America- and I [world, piacticallv saying by t hat, | ire is fuel; as l'ar as possible let my ! Is alone." And by opening for- the j pan race the great quarries of I pite and showing the human fami- j tow to make brick. God is praciily saying, "Here is building mateklet'iny trees alone." We had betstop-the axes among-the Adiroriks. We had better strip the ax?s in our forests, as it would have Iteen ter lor Syria if the axes had long - been stopped among the rnounis of Lebanon. To punish us for; ireckless assault 0:1 the forests we: re the disordered seasons, and now | [droughts because the uplifted arms j re trees do not pray for rain, th^ir ; jecce according to all scientists dis-; jgg the descent of the shower?, and j liiC au'i- iuy j multiplied in nunii-er and j :itr p^^ethere is iiutMng; to rearymayi:?.^ l".,r-' |hen iiij-.do u:;?n to lookout them.! t * hen: along the bn-r-ks. that u frpc-ui tlie chilor. ri h::\y I'r.ty. i'iant I in your gardei.s. thai as' : ft t;il bow .*); wrote "i.e.:.: s::;: i. i*p;;re ftin* verses v" hioli li jirsyuf have I'd!, like -ti: ^ i:i b< H'C^nn? :rit, w hm i.riiirr the stroke >1 . C aUi.iiUt o: te:: ; ii Wr iUW l'. Woodman, span* that tin-: Twirl! r.ot a si;ic?t *-?;-ixuli! In youth it >helteiv?l mo. And i'ii protect it !!ow. *Twas my forefather *s hand That placed ir near his o<>t. There, woodman. let it stand, Thy ax shall liana it r.ot. When hut an idle hoy. I sought it* -trutotui shade: * l:i all their .uushhv.: joy |lp My father j>ivs>\l iiiy hand ? |?1 My heartstriiii:< vui'.r.ii thiv t'iinj, |||g C'U>M? as *h> bar*, old Irii'iM! H? LI'ic shall the vriid bi:?l jg|[ .Mid >tii! thy > bend. sal Old tree.' the>tom! 5till brave! |j|| And woodman leave the >pc>t; f?j| While I've.a hand to >ave, fUjg Thy ax snail ha nu it |B^ we roue alosg: on Hies** thr rucnuigB|sot Lebanon, we bethink how its i HKBSi ; m Hvrhirs sp.re;id their tranches ant i reisthe thei- arum:; and cast th?ii shadows all through the J?:l>lo. soh> . mon discoursed about them in his bo i tardea! works, when he spoke of tree.5 | ' fro'.n ih<* cedar that is in Lebanon : even uiito the hyssop that sprinjreth , out of the wail."* The Psalmist says, . ' '!*!.i- ri.fhtfoiis ?h:i!! irrow iikf a cedar ' i;: i'.ul'.-tnon," an;! in one of his magnii t'.i-i-u-, doxoloaries calls on the -.-edars to p'rai.if the Lord. And .Solomon says the count -nai'Cft of C hrist is excellent as the cedars, and Isaiah declares. "The ' dav of the Lord shall be upon all the : cedars of Lebanon." Ami Jrremiah : am! E/.ekM and Amos and Zephaniah i and Zechariah weave its fotiasre into ! their suh:imrst utterances. As we rid" over Lebanon to-day there ! is ahowling wind sweeping past and j a dash of ram, all the better enabling | us to appreciate that description of a ' tempest which no doubt was suggested by what David had ?e?n with his own eyrs anion? these heights, for as a sold'.~r ! *' carri(-d his wars clear up to Damascus, and such a poet as he, I ; warrant, spent, many a day on the Lej banon. And perhaps while he was j seated on this very rock against which our carriage joits, ne tvntes tnat won; (ierl'iil ('scription of a thunder storm: "The voice of the Lord is powerful. The voice of the Lord is full of majesjty. The voice of the Lord breaketh ) the cedars of Lebanon. Ye t, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Lebanon, lie lTiakelh them also to skip like a calf, Lebanon and sirijn like a young unicorn. The voice of the Lord divideth itic names c>l nre. J. As the lion is the monarch of the i Ih-ids and behemoth the monarch of [xhe waters, the cedar is the monarch of i the trees. And i think one reason why : it is so-glorified all up and down the I iiible is because we need more of its {characteristics in our religious .life, j ! We have too much of the willow, and j j are easily bent this way or that;'too J j much of the aspen, and we tremble un- j | der every zephyr of assault; too much of I the bramble tree, and our sharp points ! ; sting and..wound, but r.ot enough ot* j : the cedar, wide branched and heaven i I aspiring and tempest, grappling. Hut | the reason thrse cedars stand so well is j that they arc deep rooted. They run j thdr anchors down into the caverns of | the mountain and fasten to the very j foundatious of the e;irth. and twist around and clinch themselves on'the other side of the deepest layer of rocK | they ciin reach. And that is the differ-j ( nee between Christians who stand and j v urisiKir.s jmi. it I? me- cuiisreuce bc-tv/een a superficial character and one -.that has clutched-its., roots deop.d^wn around and unde-r the-Hock of Ages. tin: hock p.ootld christian*. One of the Lebanon cedars w3s examined bv a scientist, and from "its concentric circles it was found to be thirty-live hundred years old and stiii standing, and there is such a thing1 as ovorv oeHnrr cfrcnrrtVi one? onrtk o nfnnnl, V I W JH.KIUq CClViinyUlj C?U14 OltVsIl l\ 1 m:ss ol Christian character "'that all tinie anil all eternity instead of being1 its demolition shall" be its opportunity. Not .such are.- those vacillating Christians who'are so pious on Sunday that < they have no religion left for the" week ' clay. As the anaconda gorges itself ji with food and. then seems for ^ | while toh-u^tiww*^*>,^rusensible^ so"WE-it???e men who will on Sunday get | such a religious surfeit that the re3t of ! the week they seem thoroughly dead to j till religious e ryot ion. Phey \v<?ep in ' church imcler a .charity sermon-, but- if on -Monday a subject of want presents : itself at the door the beggar's safety will depend entirely on. quick limbs ?>? *.I >im nn/\V*cf ?ton?iforr T K i ri.i uuuooci U'i/irv; owe*ii ?a?, 17 takes all the grace they can pet to keep them from committing assault and j battery on those intruders who come i with pfiie faces and stories of distress and subscription papers. The reason ! that God planted tlieso c?ilars in the Bible was to suggest to us that we ought, in our religious character, to be deep like .th?cedar,'high like the cedar, broad branched as the cedar. A trav-1 eler measured the spread of the boughs : of one of these.trees and found it one [ hundred and eleven feet from branch' tip to'b'rauch tip, and 1 have seen ce- j dars oi Christian charities put out one branch to thu uttermost parts of Arne-1 rica. and another branch to the uttermost parts of Asia, .and these wide) branched Christians will keep on mul-! LipiyilljJ lllltii (III IUC SfiUUI lb U\t.'iSUil- I dowed with ruercv. Uut man; you, these cedars of Leba- j r.ou could not grow if planted in mild j climates and in soft air and in care-j fully watered, .gardens. They must have the gymnasium-of the midnight hurricane to develop their arms. They must play the athlete with a thousand winters before their feet are rightly planted and--their foreheads rightly iVtvd arhj tlu-ii- arsis rightly muscled. 1 And it there beany oth?r way for developing strong Christian characters cxcrpt by storm". of trouble, I never heard of it. Call the roll of martyrs,! ca!i thy roil of the prophets,call the roil { of the apustles an<i see which of them! had an easy time of it. Which of these] cedars srew in the warm vaLey ? Not j1 one of them. Honeysuckles thrive i best on the south side of the house, but cedars in a i>vrian whirlwind. Tin; school ron iikkoks. .. j .\ Lebanon cedar! J.ohn Milton on-; his u as-1:p to.the throne of the world's | sacrcd poesy ;hust sell his copyright'of j "I'aradsse L^st" f;*r $72 in three' pay- M nnr.ts. And William Shakespeare on ' hi? r.*;:r up to he acknowledged '^.the 1 dramatist of all ages nVn^t hold horses at the d"or of the London' I for a sixpence.- 'and Homer p i;:-:-t .-tri'^frle through total blindness ; 1 immortality, ami.iohn JJunyan must j ! i r himself or. the way- up by ni'ak-j5 a duteout i?f his prison ' the seld nf'1-, v.vuSt toil ou ? :iroHt*h orplianajj!' moaennpr a non m i i.efqro he couM-?eut his statues M ini:;:?-r.le. A:i?l the 2rent Stephenson ; un-st watch cows iii trie Held for a few 1 then hecotue a stoker, ar.d' iil- rv :-?nl mend clocks before he .puts j1 !!;< hvmiotn'e on its track unit -calls ] !< ;:!: plaudits i'rcm parliaments ard n:?.':h!s l'ros:: kui.-?. Abel Steven- is J !' ! "it up a nesrl-cted child of the!' street. and rises through his coasecra-i in! rceutic? lo ! e one of th(i most il!u? 1:-. rl-T-:;'!;: n and historians of the -.r.\ \-.lanes of the I'l'UrC'i: '<>_* h ??j'I worked his li;-' imiji Irri.n.'ii to America. and on Jo where. in the* bishopric. he was >eeond t->-no one who evvr ; a'iorr-'d it. j Whiie in l:ani?lin;ent Xenophon j wrote his "Anabasis" and TliueyiJi<ies i his "I Ii?tory . <?i" the J*e!opouRi*5>an \Vnr."at:u Victor IIujjo must be exiled , years to the. island of" (im*rn-; ^. v iy;'ni> ? !> come to that height i is: ifu- affections of-his countrmi??n i tiir.t- (Tnwils Champs Elysres ami th*i aiijoinintr boulevards with on." milium : n.-urnefs a& 1:1s hoar^o rolls down to. the reh ?: J h<. Madeleine. Oh, it is . a t.-ujth ' ' d world, and it will'keep you :-;:c-k and keep Vt-u down and keep you oj.dor as lor::as it can! llail so-is and daughters os the tirv! Sta:ul. as the anvil whoa the strokb of stal- iwart men fa!!? tierce and f??t. bat more deeply rout the-tttk whose 1 brawnvatni.s embrace the blasft; Stand like a*n anvil: noise and heat?t-oborn of earth and die with tiflie; The soul, like God, its source and seat, is solemn, still, serene, sublime. I I! Thirty years froai now the foremoi: ! menih all occupations and'professions | will bethose who-are this-hour in an ful struggle of early life, many of them :! without five dollars to their name. So i in spiritual life it takes a course of . bereavements, persecutions, sicknesses ,; and losses to develop stalwart Christain ! charatker. I crot a letter a few davs j ago saying: "I have hardly seen a well ! day since i was born, and I could nut j write my own name until I was ";!> i years of age. and I am very poor; but I j try- trre grace o?Go(I, the happiest I man in Chicago." Tiie Bible speaks of the snows of Lebanon, and atthis season of the year ' the snows then* must be tremendous, j The deepest. sno-.r ever seen In America wnulH h? i n ci ?n i rir-r? in /?nm na*v?f1 \r-iHi the mildest winter of snows on those; Lebanon mountains. The cedars catch j that skyfull of crystals on their brow j j and on their long arms. Piled up in j i great, heaps are those snows, enough to : ; crush other trees to the ground, split-: ! ting the brandies from the trunk ieav-: j ing: them rent iiiicl torn, never to ris?. i 15ut what do the cedars care for these; ! snows on Lei-anon ? They look up to the| winter skies and ?uy : ''Snow on ! j ! Empty the white heaver;.-* upon us, and i ! when this storm is passed let other j processions of tempest try to bury us j ! in their fury. We hare for hve hun- j i dred winters been accustomed to thi-.. | | and for the next five hundred winters j we will cheerfullvtake all you have t o | ! send, for that is the way we develop | ; our sireugtn, ana mat i?< me way we serve God and teach all aires how to endure and conquer." S"< 1 say : Good cheer to all people who are snowed under ! Put your faith in God and you will come out gloriously. Others may he stunted growths, of weak juniper? I on the lower levels of spirituality, but ! you are jjoing to be Lebanon cedar*.! At last it wifl be said of such as you : { "These are they who come out of great j trilinlftHnn un/l horl rr?koo i 1 4-11414. 11 IV 11 I UU?0 M UOitVU 1 and made white :n the blood of the j i lamb." i TIIE GREAT MAN'S FALL. | Jjut while crossing over these moun- i tains of Lebanon 1 bethink myself of i t That an exciting scrne it must be when j one of the cedars does fall. It does not J ? go down like other trees with a slight j f crackle that hardly makes the woods-ij man look up, or a hawk fiutter from a J, nAUl,KAM'n^ W'U^r. ~ ? 1 i uyugn, n iicu a tcuai falls it is the great event in the calen-1 1 dar of the mountains. The axmen tly.' * The wild beasts slink to their tler.-s. '' The partridges swoop to the valley for ^ escape. The neighboring trees go down ^ under the awfnl weight of the descend- * ir.jr monarch. Tho rocks are mored out of their places, and the earth trem- t bles as from miles around all ravines e send back their sympathetic echoes. n Crash .' crash ! cra?h ! So when the rr rrrAMf JV"3 o rr Af PViriefion i ?s V* p.*vilv 1/WftlO V/4. VI U1 V/iil OCl(iU iij- / licence fall it is something terrific*. ^ Within the past few years liow many 1j' mighty and overtopping men have J ?o:;e clown! There seems now to he}? an epidemic of moral disaster. The j" moral world, the religious world, the it! political world, the commercial world, j ' ire quaking' with the fall of Lebanon v cedars. It is awful: We are compelled :o cry out with Zechariah, the pro- li When some great dealer in stock goes j { down the small dealers clap their hands \ \ and say, "Good for him!" When a c great/'.poliUcal leador goes down the j .small politicians clap their hands and ! t sar, "Just as I expected!" When a L great, minister of religion falls many | ' littlc'minlsters laugh up their sleeves j) and think themselves somehow ad- j1 vantaged. Ah, beloved brethren. iio j one makes anything out of moral ship-. 1 1- ~i.rm *i.^ ^r < t wrrcK. ;i umuu wv ujc innsui Damascus, not r. sycamore on the I plainsfof Jericho, not an olive tree in c all Palestine is helped by the f-.il of a j Lebanon cedar. iletter weep and pray s and tremble and listen to Paul's advice I <_ to the Galatians when he says, "Con- j , siderinjr thyself lest thou also be temp-1 ^ ted." Xo man is safe dntll he is dead j, unless.' he' be' -divinely protected. A ' greater thinker than Lord Francis 15a- (J con the world never saw. and he changed the world'? aiode of .thinking for.ull 1. time?his ".Novum. Orearium" a mir- j acle of literature. With S38.000 salary " anu. esi&irs worm minions a:iuiiumi<the highest judicial bench of the world, 11< he goes down under the power of bri- t I'ery and confessed his crime and was j t; sentenced to the Tower and the scorn j fj of centuries. IIowl, fir tree, -or the 0 cedar is fallen! ALL NATIONS TO KlvST IX IIIS SHADOW j j, In my journey up and down Tales-I tine and JSyrianothing more impressed i me than the trees?the terebinths, tlm | sycamores, the tamarisks, the oleanders, j11 the rnulbenrys, the olives, the myrtles;ll the palms, the cedars?all of them ex-1 planatorv of so much of the Scriptures. And the time is nomine when, throusrh an improved arbon-culture, the round b world shall be circumferenced, en^rid- 1 led. embosomed, etnparadised in shade ( trees and fruit trees and flower trees. o Isaiah declares in one place,"Theglory d of Lebanon shall b? given unto it;" and ti in another place : "All the trees of the 0 lield shall clap their hands. Instead of the thorn shall come up the !5r tree, j; Instead of the briar shall come up the n myrtle tree.'-' Oh, grandest arbore1. A/.fVM.. s* V ? 1 1 4 If??A . !)?/ ! ? ' P A<vi fl * T I !truuo ui ci 11 l1.11c. ; jjtkiii . j - : Uh, I am so glad thai the holy land df heaven. like the holy land of i'aiev I ( tine and "Syria, 5s a great place for j r< irees, an orchard of them, a srrove of! 1. ilicrn, a forest of.them. Sr. John s;it j hem along the street*, ;md on both ?id>s of trie river, and every mnrij.iiit) :hey yielded a great crop ofi~',TC- !'' <no\v what an impo5irrST appe?ira:s;*> 11.rees give to' a ciir 1 pari!'., hut h--.rr it,:: =xaiw iu-> H?ea of he.iven nlien >t. j Jolin describes Iht* citT en hlyh a* hav-! c ins its streets and its riv-s iin"d wi-n , d them. Oh, the trec.s ; ?ii? tr-M.' i'iie i I' jasper wall?, lisfountain*, tlie temples i <! were not enough. Th?*re wouhlharejd been something wanting ret So to I ^ complete all that pomp and splendor I j 11 hchold the no branching trees of life. X >t like those stripp-rd trees now; around r.s, wiiich like banished mins-1 treis through the lonir winter night | u* trr their dolorous lament, or in the i h!:ist moan like 1 jst syiri's nanderin? !' ii[> and down the ?;dr. their leaf shall' V never v.ither. Whether von nalkoni* the har.k.s of Ihe- river you will he !0 under trees, or hy the homes of mar-j ~ tvr.s under tree.*. <>r hy the heavenly i * temple under trees, or along t.'ne palare j' of the King immortal nmlrr trees. |. "IJicssed are they that do his com-j , maU'iments tliat thry may hare right | ^ to'the tree of iife." Stonewall .Tack- :J son's dyini-r lUternaee >ras f>?'*i:tifuily ; supr^esiive, "Let us ?,ross over *ud lie [, ilowii under tiif* trres !" ' * XIi?* Interest on i:?r,<ls. . i Ci!aki.kstox. Dec. 17.?SiatoTrc:is-' 1 uivr Date? was ::i the city to-day utul.' had au interview with.the bafik ]>rc>5- ( (lent*, jl ne onjeetoi uievjau u;isn> iiyt , mouey to pav the Interest of the State : { debt due Janurarv 1st. Treasurer' j Dates was leartui that in view of thai postponement of the time for the pay- j ment of taxes till February 1st he mi.-ht; i not have sufficient money in the treas- j j ury to meet the .January payments, jj The Charleston batiks came promptly ! ] to his aid and agreed to furnish the state | ] with all the money it needed. i i ) j END OF THE REPUBLICAN PARTY. ; Senator Kenna Gives Graphic IJrscrjp tion of the Uai>;>y Kvent. Washington*. Dec. 17.?In the Sen ale yesterday Keuna addressed that bod in opposition to the election bill. Tin country was about to witness, he said : ?I.n 1 ,.i ,iu. I i:uai vi l:j*j icau I'l'UbiCa druniii which the liopubliean party h:u . been playing at the rate of star i'or ; | quarter of a century. j The play had beeen loner. It had pai( well. lis receipts had been enormous The last preceding scene had closed if muttering disgust. Whether t!ic performauce should end in comedy or inured\ remained to be seen. Awaiting paitienly the final culmination of the play, the interval inurht be devoted, he said, nut without profit to a somewhat casual review ot the "eticral piot and general performance. Kenna procee ded to sketch the history of the Republican party. be^innin_r with the reconstruction period, much to t!ie disadvantage of that party. lie dc nounccc the policy ot tiie uepuOIican party in regard to the Mormons, public lands, tanll'. navy ami Indians, and then addressing himself to the bili. said that there was no mistake about what it meant. There was no mistake that it was a cunning contrivance to place in the bancs of the minority the control of the institutions oi the people with a hnvoncl.for o.vrrv Imllnl _ The Senator from Massachusetts (Hoar) had told the Senate that no time should be wasted in debate as no one's judgment would be allected by it. Ife (Iloar) had a desire to have the bill passed without discussion, as there was, perhaps, evidence that that desire was concurred in by the other side of the chamber. All that had a tendency to impress on his mind at least the idea that for some good reason it was considered wise for party reasons to smuggle .he bill through Congress; wise to have t invade the statute book, silently as I,/* f.. .1 11V IIUHI KJl CI V.WH.1 u\ Was the bill, lie asked, the producet of i felon or of a fanatic':1 of a Solomon or i fool? Its terms and provisions were, )efore the Senate. Its objects and its mrpose were stamped on its face. 11 vas understood that John I. Davenport vas its author. It sounded like him, ooked like lsim and read like him. Zvery section, evcrey clause and every etter, from one end to the other, spelled uavenport." Its cliief promoter in the Senate was lie distinguished Senator from Massachusetts (Hoar.) and the second in comlaud seemed to be the equallj* distmuisiied Senator from New York Kvarts.) It seemed to be meet and proer that those two distinguished gentleicn should be selected (either by others r by themselves) to lake charge of the ill. One of them had made a part of !C electoral commission and the other ad been the chief Republican counsel efore that tribunal. Keun-a gave a highly graphic descripOIl of the SceilPS hf->fnrn f lip nlp.rfr-,il oflleprepunting in which Evarts was the cental figure addressing the tribunal and in vhich Iloar appears as a member of the :ommis?iou. That picture, lie said, ought not to go ) lown to posterity solitary and alone, n.ere should be a companion picture jainted for it showing an extemporized jastile in which some of the G.300.000 American citizens for whom Davenport iad issued war .ants were packed, xowding each other to look out through >ars. and showing Davenport as the . ? . 1 l!? T L' " * i. / _ _ leiurai imure. j.i au iiouesi man ^as J)av<niport was represented to be) could natch the liberties of 1.000 American itizens by the strocke of his pen, what vas to be the fate ol' the voters when here was to be a bayonet behind every mllot, and Davenport behind every baymot. (Some applause in the galleries.) 11' a scanning of the bill from the title lage to the conclusion alibrded no obection on which to cast a vote against t, its authorship and its source would ondemn and damn its every line and j etler tureycr. It liad . never been inended t-> promote the honesty of elcc- j ions. It had never had associated with j !, any design to promote the honesty: r purity, or freedom of the ballot. After occupyiug some three hours, leuna said that there were other :aturcs of the bill which he would like 0 discuss, but he did n.~-t feel in view of Is health that it would be safe for him j 1 fnn1inni> sncpci' A Lynching Prer?nt??l. C'oLVMr.iA, C., Dec. IS.?The Kegjtfrof to-day says on the night of ti>e 5th instant .Sheriff II. II. Lesesne of larer.don County telegraphed (jovernr Tillman that he li3d Edward Ilolliay in jail for killing John DuI'ose,and lint he had reasons to fear that his prisner would be lynched and asked tlie lovernor whether he should guard the lil or remove the man to some other lore secure place. (iovernor Tillman at once replied as allows: "II. II. Lesesne, Sheriff Planning. S. Use your own judgment as to the ?moval, but there must be no lynching. >efend your prisoner at all hazards. "B. H. TILI.max." Sheriff Lesesne then wrote informing]. It"* V.\U> llliil i!f INH L--US1MW V iru [ a r:s?>:ic*r jTtif arui tire <;>v- ~ r,*??ir yesterday wrote liimtlie l'oliw-jf letter commending his action. II. II. I.esesne ? iiy Dear Sir: Y'ur 0 uiirse in regard to the prisoner 11 Hi- .. ay is heart sly approved, and if allmr j11 eace ollicers shall act ;is promptly .nil J * ecisively our State will be sparedthe ' isgrace of any more lynchings. Ion- 1 -atulate the people of Clarendoi 011 ri riving so ellicient and active an oicer. ^ Yours respectfully, "15. K. Tillman. (lovernor. 0 The Third Party Srhrine. jo Talt.aiiasskk. Fla., Dec. 17.?t a {e letting in Jacksonville last nigh at-1 a &nded by (Jt-neral Master Wurman j li 'owderiy and John Davis, membei'h'ct i tl f Conirrcss from Kansas, on bt-lri f <?f ' ir lie Knights of Labor. President'oik, - i _ . . _r ! . National Lccturor \\ metmenu <;i i " he executive board, Wardwe'll of urtli! l> iakot.i, and others of the Farmo' Al- h iance. it was decided to have i con- t! ention at Cincinnatti on l'ebrua' -3d, j n s had been arranged. j P It was decided ihat the call *' the j o: 'incinnati convention shouKl >t be i n brmally issued, but that in its pad. a . ti onference composed of live fro each j >f the organizations appointed.hould J w ;o held some time in Februaryvhich ; w ih'ould go over the ground caret i.v and j vithout taking formal action pr; icaliy !?-fTrie what, course of action si dd be ,, ir.rsuVd. This is a decided vie1'}* he conservative element m? the j c'( bird party men. - j by Nfj;roe\s. ! r( .Tacksoxvillk. Fla., Dec. ?pan hi iViiliams. an old negro, livii eight j a] niles from Quincy. 1-Ta.. was lyhedby ; et jegroes last uiglit. IT ousts. id out-j p xiildings of several negroes ha'recent-: s; y been burned, and it is tbght be j cl >vas the guilty party. , I w j i j WINDING IT THEIR WORK. | THE LEGISLATURE FINISHES I TS ANNUAL TASKVj i Important Measures rostpoiied as L'snal ? i The Kubli of Private and Local Matters? j | Sume Notable KunctineuU. x 1 Coi.L'3i uia, S. C., Dec. 20.?Special: i i The Legislative session mav now he 1 j said to have ended. The work of the' j three davs of next week will he of ai I very formal and, indeed, perfunctory j | character. Laws will be passed at a j speed limited only by the voc-d capacij ty of the reading clerks. The opportu ililtv f.ir i<? r.imt. Alt th-.it i ;! the"most keen-eyed legislator may now !hopetodoT lies "in the amrudment of pending latvs where their deficiencies are of the most glaring character. The merits of the case cannot now be considered. This haste, incident to the i; rush of business In the last days of th? : j session has bren one of the evils of our | law-making ever since the Legislature) | restored the old rule of adjourning be-i | fore Christmas, "whether jor no." The | I serious aspect of the thing appears in the fact that some?frequently most? of the Important measures go throu rh their last stage* in the closing hours of thesession. Under such circumstances there is constant danger of some clerical error or some informality of procedure. just serious enough to render worthless a very important measures. I iuc yicsciJt scsaiou, <15 ?in nave | been observed by the readers of this ( | correspondence, lias formed no excep , j tioa to the rule that the minor matters j of law-making absorbel the attention , of both branches of the General Assem- . bly for the first two weeks at least. , Something different appears to hare I been expected of the present body, but , the circumstances suggested in this correspondence, as inducing delay, have, t been more than usually operative upon the members. There have, of course. ; been numbers of bills passed. These, ' j however, as already indicated, have t j been cnieny or local interest?measures | r I determined. really, hy the wishes of i,, | the members representing the pa.rticu- | * j lar community affected. The matters [ ' of general interest will now be noted. + NEW" MEASURES. L Among these were the following: Kill to punish frauds or misrepre-11 sentatlons in the manufacture, analy- L sis or sale of fertilizers and commer- L, cial manures in this State. (House.) I.: 11 It - ?: - -1 ' j. ms urn miiKt-s n a rmsuemeanor 10 violate any of tiir regulations as to the n manufacture and analysis of commer- * cial fertilizers, punishable with not more than SuOO lino or one year's im- P prisonment, or both in the discretion a of the Court. n 13111 to provide for the redisricting c of Hie several counties of this State ^ and to provide for the election of '! school trustees. The bill relate* tn the 81 reformation of school districts through- ^ out the State. (House) Bill to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors m this State. ]j( The purpose of this measure is to }J( prohibit the sale of spiritous and malt liquors within this Sta%e^the bill fs a hj | j i i ty m 1 ? ao unaer very I rijfid conditions. They must give a p I bond in the sum of SI,000 to carry out ! the terms of the permit, which cannot { j be granted unless the druggist seeking ! it is a man of good moral character aad f lias not engaged in the .sale of intoxi- q eating liquor for so many y^ars. lie is required to keep a book in which shall \ be entered the amount of liquor purchased, where from and what f-r, "and e must account for its distribution before he can purchase more. The railrnnds nrfi forbidden to fr^nsnnrt, liminr t c 1 v to any one except druggists, and only u to them upon a permit from the county \ commissioners. r In the event of a violation of the ri terms of the l;ivr the bond will be for- r feited and a portion of it will go to the c parties injured by the violation and the c remainder to the school fund. Mr. Norton, from the House commit- n tee on mines and minning, submitted o with a favorable report r.nd with s amendments a bill to create a phos- t rommis.sion nnil fl?linf? its nnvr ers and duties. The bill has been fully described, but the amendments proposed by the committee change it ma- ^ terially. The committee recommend that the P phosphate commissioners shall consist ? of the Governor, Attorney General and Comptroller General aid two citizens to be*appointed by the other three com- 'j missioners for terms of four and six " years respectively. Also that no in- r crease of royalty be made by the com- t1 missioners without six months' notice. Also the commission is empowered to *; inake .contracts with phosphate com- ^ panics on such terms as they see fit for C( periods not exceeding seven ye.nrs. I Next follows a provision for the res- tc toration to the State of the phosphate territory now worked by the Coosaw w Company. s\ TIIE 11AILROAD BILL. C? Mr. Yeldell, from the committee on railroads, reported favorably on the (1j railroad bill with a large number cf amendments. The most important are these: ^ The three commissioners are to be | elected bv the Legislature for a tewa-^Vie (j^crfetlovernor. Only two commis- fj* ioners, however, will be elected at this ^ ession, as the committee has decided hat under the law Mr. Jt-rvey will hold se 'Vt-r for two years longer. The (lovernor is given the power to inc ill vacancies occurring between sesions of the Legislature, such appointee . o hold until the following meeting or he (leneral Assembly, when an election ret; uist be held to (ill the vaeancv. Onn ! inn f the two commissioners to be elected , t this session h for the unexpired term ' f Commissioner IJonham. per Tlie commissioners are to be paid oft ut of the State treasury $2,100 a year , ach, and they are to b? furnished with j ' clerk at a salary of $1,200, and an of- j ot : ce and equipment to cost not more 'j lau SuOO, also to Ik* paid by ihe State jnc] istead of by the railroads. | san The board"is given fulljpower to make j '0p;] P a schedule of rates fur freight and I ' aom-iigtl ijuiu 1U1 i' 'IJ?. rtUll , auis. and for joint hauls over more 1' laii one road, and to prevent dlscrimi- l,C1^ aiion. Flie paople are griven an ap- ^ eal to the Courts l'rom the decisions cu' f the board. There aro a number of j nnv liriur ainrndni'-nts looking to conform ; auc ie h.il to the (Georgia law. ! <pie The fate of these different measures ces: ill have heen decided in some way pos hen this paper readies its readers. tiic THE LA1JOU BILL. Till This bill, which was the lirst intro- due need in the House, was laid on the ma< tide and tiie substitute reported by tlie j pro mimittee n-.-is taken up for considera-; por on. The bill is entitled: A bill tojniai :?Uia-e me nours 01 iauor ol i-nimren j lender J6 year? of acre and lemales inj?un ii cotton and woollen mr.nufacturmg i ? itablishments in this State, and to rovide remedies for violation of the , ime. It limits the time of labor for bce lildren under 16 years of age and for 003 omen to eleven Lours a day, and it son | allows operatives to make up lost tirm : noi exceeding one hun-'red and tei j hours in a year. After som? debat( I the bill was passed and sent 10 th< j Senate. TIIE CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT. w nen trie menace resolution :o rar. i\ ; the amendment to the Constitution | abolishing boards of county commissioners as constitutional orticvrs electI ed by the people came up in the IToi^ ; the friends of the amendment pushed the light. Mr. Ernest- Gary opened the debate with a strong speech favoring the passage of the bill. He took the ground mainly that the people had adopted the amendment at the ballot-box and there r. tK/> O rs ~.*r. a? waa iiui'iuu^ n/i me iv" |;i > rs ui the people to do but- i:> ratify their action. Mr. John Gary Evans also favored the bill, taking pretty much the same line of argument. Mr. Tim merman favored the bill both on the ground that the people had declared in favor of the amendment and because he thought the counties could manage their affairs much more satisfactorily under some other system. Mr. Brennen opposed the biil on the ground that the aaiendment would take away from the people the right to elect officers to manage their own county affairs. Mr Finley opposed the bill. lie took the ground that the adoption of the amendment at the recent election had not been a fair expression of the will of the people. The amendment had been adopted by a vote of 24,000 to 1S.[)00 out of a total vote in the State of j 232,000. As there was strong probability of a constitutional convention short-1 !y he thought it very inadvisable to! Linker vvith the Constitution in the! way proposed. Mr. Ira l>. Jones favored the bill. Ele said thai the fact that boards of j lounty commissioners was a constitu-1 ;ional"office had been an obstacle for j ."ears in the way of county reforms. | L'he county commissioners had enorm)us powers and while it was true that hey did submit the levies they desired o the county delegations in the Geueril Assembly, yet it was not at all im>robable that they had the rijjht residn# in themselves of levying aov tax heysxwfit. Tne people had declared t the recent election that they wanted his office removed from the Constituion. and as Their Representatives he houjjht they should carry out, their j wishes. I, The vote was then taken by yeas and ! ays and resulted in tha ratification of I he amendment by a vote of 97 tn 20. The joint resolution hiring du^i assed the Senate, the ammendiig? waits but the signature of or to be of force. Thid^gP ourse receive. The mcndment is to lea^^ ree to adept anxg| jvernment wh^fl The en Iwfil oth^ jjfl tsieacase in ncumbent. The House iudiciarv committee re icrted unfavorably oa the folio wing : The Charleston" metropolitan police >ill. Report unanimous. Bill to prohibit express companies rom transporting matter for lottery :ompanies. Bill to empower the Governor to re- j nove sheriffs. Bill to provide for the election of an xtra Circuit .JncUe. Each of the above was killed. The joint resolution extening the I, iraefor paying taxes without penalty |; ntil February 1 lias passed both the |, louse and the Senate, and has been ! ( atified and signed by the Governor, j 'he State ollicers hold th ;t the joint j ] fhUlULiUii uriuy pi annual?iia?t tug j ; ounty treasurers will continue to re- j. eive taxes without penalty. , The pupply bill levies a tax of i\$ j] nils for State purposes. To this must, | j f course, he added the constitutional j. chool tax of two mills, the county j \ axes and the special taxes. ! PENITENTIARY OFFICES. i The two houses met la joint assem- * lv on Wednesday to elect a suDerin indent and three directors of the'State enitentiary. The following named entlemen were placed in nomination: ] [enry Massey, of York, X. W. Brook-11 r, of Edgefield, J. T. Gaston, of Aiken, j . 11. Earle of Oconee, and W. J. Tal-1* ert of Edgefield. U Mr. Talbert was easily elected on the j 1 rst ballot by a vote of 112, the remainlg vote being divided as follows: J. I '. Gaston, 17; A. W. Urooker. 10; J. R. ( iarle, U; Henry Massey, 4; T. J. Lips- t )mb, 1. " ^ The joint assembly next proceeded , ) the election of the board of directors. I The following named gentlemenj J' ere placed in nomination, with brief jeeches setting forth the litnees of v uh for the duties of the position. W. A. Xeal. of Anderson; Thos. An- a srson, of Fairfield; T. J. Cunningham, t I Chester; J. G. Gulgnard; of Lexlng- 1: >n; J. L. Kamsey, of York; Henry liver, of Charleston; Absalom Home, ;t I Edgefield. Messrs. Oliver, Cunning- Ji 'fcOuuLJS'ral were declared duly ;cted on ~?n*c_iirst ballot their reectlve ballots as Pe-^ows, 10S, yy and rho election being over the joint as- j n( nbly then dissolved. Messrs. Anderson and Guignard are ! j :umbents. I,. I A New I'roce>s. tV rVASiiiXGTON. Dec. 17.?'The annual -1 >ort of t!ie chief of the chcmi al divis- u_' s of the agricultural department conis an account of the process recently selected at the department as a result m ,he experiment in the chemical laboory with reference to the raanufaclucr sorghum sugar. 7he chemist claims substantial!v an reuse iu the yield of sugar per thou- I ,1 ri galions of juice of from an average ' ibout 10.000 pounds to au average or! r 21.M?7 at ail increase of cost of pro- i tion of for the alcohol which en-'}''] :3 into the new process. .'he report recited some various dilli- ''' ties hitherto found in the economic \; nufacture of sugar Irom sorghum,: ] ' I indicates that t!?e solution ot the !!?j stion was to be toum' in some pro- ra' 3 which would separate, as nearly as . sible, gummy amorphous bodies Irom j juice without precipitating sugar. | i known property of alcohol to pro- j ],,< c precipitation in the juiee was! {n. tie use of in the further study of the m; blcin. The diilicullies. sa_\ - the re- j t. winch have been encountered in : 0lj Dufactunng sugar from sorgum juice ,j;l e been solelv due to the presence of i pr, us. Not only has the removal of the ' na us been efi'ected by the process evolv- I cu Jurini: these experiments, but it has m, n shown that this can be ell'ected at a j t[!( t comparatively trifling by compari- i with the results obtained. i ca, ?; THE ALLIANCE B^NK. *iA !Vvv Facts About It TSmf Will I Jo <> j Coi.r;>n:iA, S. 0. Dcr*. IS.-?Tlur I tee stockholders oi ihr v. ili ' | meet in Columbia 0:1 I ho iis-h ut-xt 11 January to ps-ri'e.?1: ;>rr:ir..u*"i:vrits i. r ' ,. ? . I.I. I : - t .. 1.' ' < : . ' ' i.i*; i .-i; i:i r> i | :t!i<! it is 1* viimp that { every cent of sMb-s-.-ri: <! stshou'd jiie paid ir: on <;r i :r?* tiiut ti:ue. i Brethren. r!tf s>?"stl opera! ion of I the Stale h-trier-*^ ? !' liif .Farmers' Alliance of l'::roii;s:i ii;*pt ud.s iii a great measure r;ur; lh>* prompt payment of this >tr?ek. 1 'aa we not hope that this will b?* doi::\ ami that ot'it-r sub-Aiii;:nces. who Jm-.v do-.- nothing in this direction, wiii m like manner i send in fhw??ninfriii*i.!-iiV The State Kxehanny. desiring to be | just to sub-alii:;i!c*es i;: it:> c-o:;i:ecli\>n. ! at its meeting in fVutud*!:-} urjaninious ly adopted rh<- folio :is resolution: Resolved. That sub-alliances which j have subscribed one or more shares of I 4-r\ 4-W/v 7 " ?r ..U-v ? ? * otuvn. IU uir Olrtic illl'i liilVli paid a part of the same. and have, since, making such payment, been reduced in membership below the constitutional number upon which said subscription was based, that a!i sub-alliances shall have the ben-lit of such reduction in membership and nceive credit from tiie Stale Exchange on tm-ir stock l\?r any amount thus overpaid. At, a meeting to bo held on ti:" liSth of January. liWl. n??r only will the ] I banking biiMiirss '>, discussed, but this will l e discussed in connection with i the future management of the State Exchange, and ir, ii highly probable that many changes will be ma.le in the rules which.have heretofore governed tlie management of the Exchange, i'he whole business will iu? discussed, and a:i effort will he made to reach the wsesL conclusions, every member of the Alliance regard the subject as one in which he is most deeply interested and send in ?nc*h suggestions to the meeting as will in his opinion most likely lead to the be.-i results. But, oyer and beyona e'.vry other consideration. let every true and loyal member of rTi^J^to^put forth nis best ih^rno^^* alliance i>>ufl on or Itcior^H With tjifl bright i J| :mu wild clamor for credit, every intellij^^S person must admit. That no system could be devised or its operation be so guarded :is 10 prevent partiality and fa > VI 1 liOUl 111 A CO UisllllMUViVli . IV J/v.i sonal friends of the loaning ageht, next |1 to iiis political associates, every thought-1! ful man must foresee. That it would create a feeling of help- j less dependence upon government aid by I j those whom it. is designed to benefit* < thereby relaxing their individual effort, destroying their energy and sell-reliance . and rendering them helpless mendicants ^ of government charity, every observer uf human nature .must know. That it ' would lead to thriftless improvident*, j relying upon government aid or govern- i( rnent" forbearence by those whom it! seeks to benefit, and prove a curse in- '< stead of a blessing, is so plainly evident 1 that we are surprised that the National |i Li range should allow itself to be carried j 1 iwav bv the clamor of those who hone ! r :o gain for themselves public preferment i oy holding out a scheme so enticing to :ne ignorant or improvident debtor and ( scheming specula! or. Death on the Itail. t Xewderkv. S. C., Dec. 13.?There = vas a fearful accident on live cons true- v ion train of the Columbia. Xewbcrry i tud Laurens liullroau about o;:c mile ibove here this afternoon, by which con- l lac tor Walling and two negroes were kii- '? ed and several others injured. The engine was pushing several ilats j oaded with iron and crosstics and one I iftlie cars loaded with crosstics jumped i he track and in some way shoved under i 0 he car loaded with the iron rails and J, uriicu u over. vju iu:s car were con-i luetor .James T. Walllu-j: a:id several or' j he hands. Wallinir nr..I two negroes :1 rerc instantly killed. Another negro I0 lad liis arm crushed bv the hoavv iron 1 nd was otherwise injured and will pro- ' = >ably die. Several other* were slightly )' :urt. Walling is from Columbia and leaves s . wile and one child. The inquest was ^ icld this afternoon.?Columbia ueirister. - V Throe of a ICtsi'.l :i:ul Two 2'.sir. \ Pnr.sHUiUr. l5a.. Dee 17.?Mrs. ti ilurne of Allichenv has surprised her . jiiiWvtrs mil her husband liuriui; t!:a | J i>l two years oy giving seven! c lildren. A few day- since Mrs. DliinTb i trl esented her husband wish triplets?j be .'o strappim: hoy babies and a healthy J re tl. Not quite a year a^'o Mr. Blunio j ;is .surprised by twins, and during t!*o eceding year her !:r.-t tw<? children ere horn. The Iripieis. wh are de- ,l rihed as chipper, and ihoir prohli-- jc:; oliicr arc donn: we'd. Mrs. jJiumc ;s i wl woman ofordinary build an ;vr did- !M en are all well tunned and healthy. j n.1 Twelve }Iiinilr<Ml Miners < :> S: rik.-. 4|: Cukykxxs;. \Vy<>:nin_'. Ij.-c. 17.? ; w] rnlvn l.iindi"...! e Hock Springs mine <>: i .: L*niori i jit icific Uailaoad on a :ike and a:v !ili Mir. The cow.- ; il, nv travc 11 oiico S.il:ir?!:iy ;l:;il thev j nposcd p.ivini tiiC vv.>r;::i .i ijv- the ur. A mass w;;> in ;.! vi-s*i!av ami the. 1 vi--1 ;i;. It 1?*' believed il.a:. r.-mpauy in:.-n^-I; \;1] oslallhl^ t!i?; C!??vi t!:*: v 1 _r*>. L hour I v. introduced ;;i :!;< | t : L'ishuuiv. win -h ;> likely t : p;iss. j*? \ !?]isoiSv 'l r:w>!y. Foi:t smitir. ai'ic.. 1 'oc. il.?( liar- ,\'t *.Joplln shot and killed iivo ner*ou? '* lav at ilio .Jonnv lead mine, twelve ' !es from he:v. at;?! I!.? :i r.'i.-.mitlcd e^[ iciuc by shooting himsr);'. i*h"se were .Jol u Miller. i:.s v. ;;'r. !ii> ^rir.vn u^luer. "Lou I>r. Stewart, omment physician. and a man whose ! me is not known. The shooiinir ocred iate in the dav and dirtxis are fu airrc-. The <m:v c!ue to the cause of] i>$ 2 killing lies :n a report that I)r.; vVc 2wart intiiuated iliat Jo;>lin was the j it use of JSiiss 3Iiiler?s trouble. j a ( / r I BETTER THAN GOID. j A DISCOVERY THAT MEANS MILLIONSFOP. AIKEN COUNTY. | T'ib in veil lion o! au Amateur Chemist ihat r.'ill Brinshim Immence Wealth? A Process for Transforming Kaolin Into | Aluminum. Columbia. December 14.?A ?en, iiemnn who registered at the Grand Cenj iral Hotel to-uiijlit has knowledge of a I discovery which when'fully developed ! wil1 make the kaolin beds ol this State j iaiinitely more valuable than the phosI pluue deposits. lie asked the represea- ~N? ! tuLive ol" The Xews and Courier if he | knew Mr P. A. Emanuel of the Aiken | Bar, which be inn answered, he went on | to relate the following facts: It is known that a fortune not to be I reckoned by millions awaits the discoverer of a cheap process for the manufacture of aluminum. About a year ago Mr Emanuel applied himself to this'prei blem. and it is believed that he has ar| rived at its correct solution. The material which he used is the kaolm of 1 Aiken County, the basis with which he i mviavu vu mo discovery Mr Emanuel went to Wash-' ington and submitted his processes to the scientists there, and now has his discovery secure from attack by the proper letters, patent and caveats. Not very lousr ago aluminum was sold at about $20,000 a ton, but by a process which was considered Goal the price was reduced at Pittsburg to two dollars and a half a pound or about $5,000 a ton. The startling announcement is made now that by the ingenuity of Mr Emanuel aluminum can be freed from kaolin at a cost ot about two dollars and a half a ton. being a price two thousand times less than by the Pittsburg process. A.s there is now more demand in fh? for aluminum for mechanical purposes than there is for gold. the immensity of the held and fortune for the discovered will be apparent. tiflBSBflS dollars allocation H&hli6 a Ml^^^on^BristoM BM^eking accident occujjj refffWBraul Street railroad crosslng^^^^ this afternoon, by which four persons were killed, one fatally wounded and one seriously hurt. The accident was caused by the safety sates at the crossing being raised just before the New York westbound train was due. A number of persons had been waiting for a freight train to pass, and as soon as the -rates were raised, started to - ross. John Mcllvaine, a teamster started across with his wagon, in which kvcro liis 13-year-old son, ]S'ea. Mcllvaine Jos. Huessay. about the same age, Hugh Devere, a storekeeper on Pine Street, ui'l -Tno. McGee, about fifteen years old. The express train, which was running it lull speed, struck the wagon instanty killing Xeal Mcllvaine, Jos. Hussey uu: Ilu^h Devere. ,Jqo. Mcllvaine had lis shoulder and leg broken, ribs crushid and was otherwise internally injured, le is not expected to live. Two boys were struck with such force hat they were thrown into the canal, fas. Johnson, who was crossing the rack-afoot, was also struck by the enfine and instantly killed. John McGee, vi'o wn? nlso in Ihp wacrnn was hadlv tijured. The gatekeeper claims that the clatcr of Uie freight trains injpassingdrowned he noise ofthe bell so that it could not >e lu-ard. lie will probably be arrested. A Heavy lilow to Darlington. Daklixgtox, Dec. 17.?About 10 >'clock to-night fire was discovered in he two story frame building of A. C. pain & Co.. occupied on the lower floor iy Mrs. J. S. Swygert's millinery, with he oiiice of the Darlington Harald and ihers up stairs. The flames spread so oiMflltr thof fir;* nnf Vio ovfin. :uished until eight stores and residences t*ere burned. One of the buildings was irick. The burnt portion is on the East iile of the public square. The fire was mly arrested when it reached a large srick building with thick walls. The fire vns extinguished about 2:30 this morn- / ag. The loss is about $35,000 ; insur iiice will cover most oi me losses, j. Boyd, J. J. Ward. 1\ C. Beck & $?3 Jro.'s losses will far exceed the insurnice. Florence was wired for assissm-r. which was gallantly qiven, their^N!^ >ys couim'i^ria with cheers, and'were ceived withcltee'i^. at 12 o'clock. A He Wanted toSWifiigp. A rr. \ vr \ t)pf>._ 19 a -qp%2t0 stoai pair of shoes from a merchant Bk ti:r street, and carried them home-: J|| ilii him. When he reached his house id tried them on he found they were unber eleven, v. hen lie wore the small of thirteen. lie very kindly carried e shoes back to the merchant fiom liory. lie had stolon them, and offered exchange them for a size which would him. The merchant recognized the >k-s. a policeman was summoned and t ne^ro was soon in the lock-up. V."ou:uIc<l by Highwaymen, t'on'MiJiA, s. C., Dec. 13?A few since, Mr. If. Clamp, a wealthy i ii.er living near mythewood, mFairIit county, was. while going home af selling cotton in Columbia, beset by A rang of desperate highway robbers,and ing rendered unconeious by a blow on l* head was robbed of $400. with which _ robbers made off. He was found er by friends and it is now thought will die from las severe wounds. xso iv to the perpetrators has been secur- A Duel IJetween Father aud Son. [;.\ini:sville, Tex., Dec. 11.?Afatal jffw "i took place on Tuesday night in Jm line's Valley, Indian Territory, be- Jb3L 1 T} 1 JH L'Cll OCUdLUi OalilUCX X ttUX VL lickasaw Legislature and his son, Jajfl luL The father received a dangero^j >und in his thigh, but will reco? is said that the difficulty grew juarrel over a woman. ?&?&?&>?i