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NOL 0 XI PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, DECEMBER-1, 9.N0.
MERCIES 1 O' THlE LORD.
SERMON DY TH REV. T. DE WITT
TALMAGE, SURAY, NOV. 29.
Cot laSm 11,e v , r4 h Pr opto M)i.
i:K t140 ye.t -41 by Thtaek IIFn
Dav-L-t A -' tI h Ctr eattiru-m of the Ezrt
P'ralsoe ihe j,ord.
Si{oKLY*N, Nov.'29.-Dr. Talage'S
seruion tliA mi had a distiactly
Tialnksgiving charac- ter. Tle appear
ImCC <> 'the Taberanvle was in keepingI
with it. Th do.-.tor's text was taken
from Psaln cxlviii. 10, 12 and 13,
".'ieasts, and fall c111.tle; Cree)iLg t,hings
:111d flviny lfowl; both yount men, and
mlaldewi; oi inmen, and children; let
thevn prai Cse the naMIItk. of' the Lord."
What a sc'ie it was whlien last Thurs
day, ll, tle call ot Llt president anld
4overnors, this nation assembled to
chant the praises of' God. But the dlay
was too short to celebrate the divine
oo(dness of stch i year. Thle sun (lid
not rie over .lrooklyn until one minute
i)eforc seven o'clock that morning, and
4 st four o'clock and thirty-five iiinu
tvs ihm evenin. What a small space
o t.mie im which to meditate upon twelve
mnth'dis of ) eniejactions. Soo I add to
that day thi1 Sabbilath mlorning service,
111d v th tlie friits and harvests of the
vnrft still ;lorityin- the pelpit and the
-Ali,rics, ask .vou to contimu the re
cua- U1 the divine goodness.
By a sublile egotism mati has come
to ippropriate this world to himself.
when "' Lat is that our race is in a
smnill ininority. The instances of iu
MaIl; life. a's compared With the instances
%)J 'ainal lif'e, are not one to a million.
We sill vilaruve our ideas of' God's
goodness and come to a better under
statill g of the text If', before we come
to look at the cup of' our blessing, we
look at time roodl(aiss of' Godl t the irra
tional creation.
Althou *.hI nature is out of jomnt, yet
even inl its disrutition I anm surprised to
find the atilost universal happiness of
the aiiimial ej cation. On a summer (lay,
when the air and the grass are most
.popul,us with life, you will not hear a
sound t distress tiiless, perchance, a
heavtless schoolboy has robbed a bird's
nest, or a liunter has brokent a bird's
wt% or a 1:1stulre h-'s beenl robbed of' a
amb and there gcwcs up a bleating from
he Ilocks.
The wt10hole Cath i"s tilled Widith anilial
,e liht-jov feathuewd and scatled and
lolied :nd hoole'<. Tle bec iiis it:
ilhe Irm- crt,vis it: the squirrel chiatter
1the quail u histli it; the lark carols
i; the whbaN. sIot,.4 it. The snail, the
!thiinoccro:i. 'ie !-,ri;zl/!y bear, the toad,
he IT .sp I sl'idvr. the shellfish have
heir hoinely veh!!h:.s-joy as great to
t a as our .ov is :n us. Goat cliib
ing the rocks:. anlaccnda virawhing throug-h
the jtiie,; blflu pliunging across the
rairie; cro, dil :iskh in tropical
-al; -svai ptulll Iin, n th ive; ostrich
tridm acri -i ti" de'sert are so imlanty
hunidics o, ".IN; the y do nlot -o n11opinl'
or. mie):meht1 o..\; thc are not- 11iOnly hallf
upplied; (d says they are tilled with
The worm Fqnirming thrtough the sod
pt1purn-e14-d of plowshare, antd the ants
rAckiit,v uip ;trid dowii the hillock are
happy by3 d; and happy by night. Take
up a drop 01 water tuder the iilicroscope
ind you find that w.thin it there are mil
llois of creatires that1 swim in a hallelu
ii of' --ladw s. T:.e s Minds in nature
that are repuilsive 'o ourl. CarA are oftenl
canly utteran es of joy-the growl, the
crtoaik, thle bark, thet howl. The good
God mal'de these creaturles, thinks of
t hem inir, and4 wi!t nlot let a plowshare
trn uip a1 mlel's nest, or' .ishierman's
0ook translix a wormu, tint i, b)y eternal
lcecree. its time has conlie. G'od's hland
ked alt thetse brioods, aund shiepherds all
Ii(hot deks, and tetnds all these herds.
Hfe sweetens the clover tolp for the ox's
tashte and pou.trs ont crt'ystalline waters
II mossed0 cupIls of r'ock for' the hliint >
drumik out of' on his way downi the craigs.
and1( pouilrs niectar inito the culp of t i
ho .yu~sucle to refresh tihe hiutnutng
haO mal spreadsll a b)anuet of it hun
dra Hels oh buc'kwheIlat, and lets the
honoy ben liut is imouith to ally clup of
allh thi' bainqutet. and tellh the iZ'asshiop
meir to 2 a vn here lie hikes, and gives
the :1l*eks of fItiaven the choice of a111 thle
r'lam liels. Thle sea ainmono, halfI an
:nut. nail lower', chliging to the rock in
'lidocean, with its tentaicles sp)read( to
catch Its 10ood, has the ownter of' the tu
vere proideii fttt' it. W' ar'e i'epulsed
a &t tihe hti(IeousnessC5 of the elephant, but
God, for thle comtfort andt conivenience
ofl then mlonte(r, hIlts for'ty touisnd (his
fincet tmutscles in his~ probosis.
- go diown otn the 11ar" eI seaishuore andi
* y, 'No animal can livo in this lace
oin desodtltion;"' bult all thrtough thle sands
arie miyriads of' little insects that leap
with hiapply life. I go diown b)y the malrshl
and say'~, "Inl tIs dhamp place and1( in
thiese loalthsomle pools of stagniat wa
te r there will lie the quietnless oif death;''
hiut, lo! I see the turtles on tie rotten
log sluning themselves ai hear' the
bogs quake with mltitinous life.
When the unfledged robbins arc hungry
God shows the old robbin where she
canil g(t food to put into t heir oj en
''IThe anIiuil cr'eationl also has its army'
and1( navy. 'Thei mlost insigideiantL has
it meanOlis of defen,se-thie wasp its sting,
flhe teptile ils tooith, the hter' its paw,
the dlog its muuzzle, the elephanit its tttsk,
the ih its evtale, thIt b)ird( its swift wing.
hot. .We are replted at, the thlouight,
oh $1n andr; mm tumsk and hoof, butt Go;d's
Yca, God in thme ible anniounlces hmis
4'atr' :or thes~'e cr'ders of' tcationim. Hie
tiap that, lht has1 heaved'~ tup forti ficationis
tot' their deft se--l 'atlm civ, 18, ''Thec
hzigh hills i't a re(!uge.~ for the wild goats;
andi~ the tocks ihr the conies.' lie
watcbes tie bird's iiest-P'sahnt CIV, 17,
'"As fir the stork, the fir trees aure cOer
house.'" lie sees that the cattle have
enough gr'a- s-ialm civ, 14, "'Ile cauis
eth the grass to gr ow for th.r icattle'"
lIe sees to it that the0 cows and sheepl
and hiorses hamve eniough to drink-P'salmi
civ, 101, 11: "lIe atendeth the springs
into the valleiys, whIeh run amiong tile
hillk; they give drink to ever'y beat of
the field. The wild asses quench theic
thirst.91
Amid the thunders of Sinal God ut
tered the rights of cattle and said that
they should have a Sabbath. "Thou
shalt not do any work, thou nor thy
cattle." IIe declared with inuite em
phasis that the ox on the thrashing floor
siould have the privilege of eating some
of the grain as he trod it out, and mnz
zling was furbidden. If young birds
were taken from the nest for food, the
despoiler's life depended on the mother
going free. God would not let the moth
er bird suIer in one day the loss
of her young and her own liberty. And
he who regarded in olden time the con
duct of main toward the brutes to-day
looks down from heaven and is interest
ed in every minnow that swims the
stream, and every rook that cleaves the
air, and every herd that bloats or neighs
or Iow8 in the pasture.
Why ldid God make all these, and why
make them so happ)? How account for
all this singing and dancing and frisking
amid the irrational creation? Why this
heaven for the animalcule in a dewdrop?
Why for the condor a throne on Chim
borazo? Why the glitter of the phos
phurus in the ship's wake on the sea,
which is said to be only the frolic of mil
lions of insects. Why~perpetual chant
ing of so many voices from the irration
al creation in earth and air and occan
beasts and all cattle, creeping things and
flying fowl, permitted to join in the
praise that goes up from seraph and
archangel? Only one solution, one ex.
planati5n, one answer-God is good.
"T'heearth is full of the goodness of the
Lord."
I take a step higher, and notice the ad
aptation of the world to the comfort and
happiness of man. The sixth day of
creation had arrived. The palace of the
world was made, but there was no kinX
to live in it. Leviathan ruled the deep:
the eagle the air; the lion the field; but
where was the scepter which should rule
all A new style of being was created.
Heaven and earth vere represented in
his nature. His body from the earth
beneath; his soul from the heaven above.
The one reminding L.im of his origin,
the other speaking of his destiny-him
self the connecting link between the ani
mal creation and angelic intelligence.
In him a strange commingling et the
temporal and eternal, the finite and the
infinite, dust and glory. The earth for
his floor and heaven for his roof; God for
his Father; eternity for his lifetime.
The Christinn anatomist, gazing upon
the conformation of the human body,
exclaims, "Fearfully and wonderfrIly
made." No embroidery so elaborate,
nio uauze so delicate, no color so ex
qiisite, no mechanism so graceful, no
vandiwork so divine. So quietly and
mysteriously does the humna body per
form its functions that it was not until
five thousand years after the creation of
the race that the circulation of the blood
was discovered; and though anatomists
of all countries and ages have been so
long exploring this cast'e of life, they
have only begun to understand it.
Volimes have been written of the
hand. Wondrous instrument! With it
we give friendly recognition, and grasp
the sword, and climb the rock, and write
an( carve and build. It constructed t:,e
pyramids andi hoiste.1 the Parthenon. It
made the harp, and then struck out of
it all the world's minstrelsy. In it the
white mar ble of Pentelican mines dream
ed itself away into immortal sculpture.
It re'ns in the swift enginie; it 1101(18 the
steamer to its path in the sea; It snatches
the fire from heoven; it feels the pulse
of the sick child whith its delicate touch,
and makes the nations quake with its
stupendous achievements.
What power brought down the forests,
and made the marshes blossom, andI bur
dhenedl the earth wvith all cities that thun
dler on with enterprise and power? Four
fingers and a thumib. A hundred mil
lion dollars wouldl not purahase for you
a machmne as exquisite and winderful as
your own hiand1. Mighty hand! In all
its hones and muscles and joints I learn
that. God is good.
Behold the eye, which, mi its phloto
graphiic gallery; in ani instant cat,ches the
mouiitain and the sea. This perpetual
telegraphing of the nerves; these joints,
that, are the only hinges that (10 not wear
out; these hones and muscles of the bodw
w ith forten thousand (difl'erent, adapta'
tions; these onte hundredh thousand
glands; these two hiundredI million pores;
this mysterious heart, contracting four
thousand times every hour; t,his chemi
:cal process of digestion; the laboratory,
b)eyond t,he understanding of the aoost
skillful p'hilosophy; this furnace, whose
heat is kept, up from c.radlec to grave; this
factory of' life, whose wheels and spin
dIles andI bands are God dliiecuad. If we
~ouild1 realize t,he wonders of our physical
organizauion we would be hypochion d
riacs, fearmig every moment that. some
p)art, of the machine would break down.
But there are men herie'who have lived
thirough seventy y ears, and not a nerve
has ceaised to thrill, or a muscle to eon
triact, or a lung '.o breathe, or a hand to
I take a step) higher and look at man's
ment al constitut on. Behold the benevo
hence of God ini p)owers of perception, or
thie facult,y of transporting this outside
world int,o your own mind-g'athering
io( youir brain thme majesty of the st,orm
and the spilenldor of the day dawn, and
lift,ing into your mind t,he ocean as casily
as you ihIt, put a glass of water to
your lips.
WVatchi the law of ass ceintion, or t,he
mysterious linkiing toget,hor of all you
ever thought or knew or felt, and t,hen
giving you the( power to take hold of the
clew line andI draw through your mhind
the long train wit.h iindescribable veloci
ty'-one thought stairtinig up a hundred
and( this again a thousand-as the chirp
of' one b)ird sometimes 'wakes a whole
fores t of voices, or the~ tIu um of one
string will rouse an r'rchiestra.
'M.atch' your memory-that sheaf bin
dher, that Loes forth to gather the-harvest
of thie past and bring it into the piresent.
lYour pow" and velocit,y 0f thought
thought, f the swift wmig and tihe light.
ming fool; thought tbat outspeeds the
star anid circles through the heavens and
weighs worlds. and, from poising amid
wheeling coinstellat,lons, comes down to
count the blossoms in a tuft of migio
nette, tien starts again to try the fathom
ing oft the bottomless, and the scalin
of the insurmonta,t be wall..n
up in the Incomprehensible and lost in hi
God! bi
In reason and understanding, man is
alone. The ox surpasses him In strength, C
the antelope in speed, the bound in keen- It(
ness of nostril, the eagle in far reaching dl
sight, the rabbit In quickness of hearing,
the honey bee in delicecy of tongue, the le
spider In fineness of touch. Man's el
power, therefore, consisteth not in what dt
ho can lit. or how fast he can run, or t1
how strong a wrestler he can throw-for
in these respects the ox, the ostrich and
the hyena are his superiors-but by his
reason lie comes forth to rule all; through D
his ingenious contrivance to outrun, out
lift. outwrestle, outsee, outhear, outdo.
At his all conquering decree the forest
that had stood for ages steps aside to let
him build his cabin and cultivate his w
farm. The sea which rared and foamed m
upon the race has become a crystal al
pathway for commerce to march on.
The thunder cloud that slept lazily above
the mountain is made to come down and te
carry mail bags. Man, dissatisfiled with at
his slowness of advancement, shouted
to the water and the fire. "Come and
lift!" "Come and draw!" "Come andb
help!" And they answered, "Aye, aye, w
we come," and they joined hands-the hi
fire and the water-and the shuttles fly. v,
and the rail train rattles on, and the
steamship comes coughing, panting, a
flaming across the deep. le
I take a step higher and look at man's i
moral nature. Made in the image of pi
God. Vast capacity for enjoyment bi
capable at first of eternal joy, and
though now disordered, still, through n
the recuperative force of heavely grace, ml
able to mount up to more than its orig.
inal felicity; faculties that may blossom 0
and bear fruit inexhaustibly. Immor- at
tality written upon every capacity: a fl4
soul destined to range in unlimited
spheres of activity long after the world '
has put on ashes, and the solar system ii
shall have snapped its axle, and the stars 0
that, in their courses, fought against 0
Sisera, shall have been slain and buried th
amid the toilling thunders of the last t
day.
You see that God has adapted every- cE
thing to our comfort and advantage. n
Pleasant things for the palate; music fo
for the ear; beauty for the eye; aroma S
for nostril; kindred for our affections;
poetry for our taste; religion for our th
seul. We are put in a garden, and told at
that from all the tress we may cat ex- pc
cept here and there one. lie gives the bi
sun to shine on us, and the waters to re
fresh us, and food to strengthen us; and la
the herbs yield medicine when we ate C<
sick, and the forests lumber when we hi
would build a house or cross the water
in a ship.
The rocks are transported for our
foundation, and metals upturned for
our currency, and wild beast must give I
us covering, and the mountains must be
tunnelled to let us pass, and the fish of
the sea come up in our net, and the birds V
of the air drop at the flash of our guns,
and the cattle on a thousand hills come 0
down to give us meat. For us the peach L
orchards bend down their fruit and the 0
vineyards their purple clusters. To feed ci
and refresh our intellect, ten thousand s
wonders in nature and providence- $1
wonders of mind and body, wonders of
earth and air, and deep analogies and i
antitheses, all colors and sounds, lyrics tc
in the air, idyls in the field, conflagra
tions in the sunset, robes of mist on the
mountains and the "Grand March" of
God in the storm.
But for the soul still higher adapta
tions; a fountain in which it may wash; al
a ladder by which it may climb; a song D
of endless triump that it may sing; a sC
crown of unfading light that it may
wear. Christ came to save ite-came with
a cross on his back; came with spikes in i
his feet; came when no one else would 3
come, to do a work which no one else to
would do. See how suited to man's con
dition is what God lias done for him. e'
Man-is a sinner; here is a pardon, lie hi
has lost God's image; Christ retraces it at
Hie Is helpless; Almighty grace is prof. te
fered. lie Is a lost wvanderer; .Jesus w
brings him home. Hie Is blind, and at u]
one touch of him wno cured Bartimeus, re
eternal glories stream Into lisa soul. es
Jesus, 1 sing thv grace! Cure of worst
disease! 11am mer to smite off heavi- lo
est chain! Light for thickest darkness! of
Grace divine! Devils s'.off at it and 'T'
men reject it, but heaven celebrates iti! h
I wish you good cheer for the nation- ki
al health. Pestilence, that In other years W
has come to drive out its thousand sa
hearses to Greenwood and L'iurei 11111, fl
has not vis'ted our nation. It in a glor.' thi
rnous thing to be well. How strange w
that we should keep our health when
on breath from a marsh or the sting of ai
an insect or the slipping of a foot or w"
the falling of a tree branch might fa- e
tally assault our life! Regularly the i'
lungs work, and their motion seems to I
be a spirit within us panting after its h(
immortality. Our sights fail not, It
though the air is so full of objects uI
which by one touch could break out the gi
soul's window. What ship, after a year's ho
tossing on the sea, could come in with 1
so little damage as ourselves, though sg
we arrive after a year's voyage today?y
I wish you wood cheer for the nation
al harvest. Reaping machines never
swathed thicker rye and corn husker's co
peg never ripped out fuller ear, and Prm
mow poles never bent down under
sweeter hay, and windmill's hopper
never shook out larger wheat. Long rel
trains of white covered wagons have n9
brought the wealth down to the great a
thoroughfares. The garners are full, n1
the storehouses are overcrowded, the int)
canals are blocked with freights press- joi
ing down to the anarkets. TIhe cars thi
rumble all through the darkness and sqi
whistle up the flagman at dead of night ry
to let the western harvests come down dlit
to feed the mouths of the great cities. trc(
A race of kings has taken possession of all
this land--King Cotton, King Corn, u
King Wheat, King Rice, King Grasse
King Coal. sti
I wish you good cheer for civil1 and "
religious liberty. No official spy watch. hai
es our entrance here nor does an armed
soldier Interfere with the honest utter
ance of truth. We stand here today b
with our arms free to work and our b
tongues free to speak. This Blible--it cu
Ism all unciasped. Thi.s pulpit-there is plh
no chain around about it. There is no Mil
snapping of musketry in the street. Ar
1Blessed be God that to day we are free ret
meni, with the prospect and determina- ov<
tion of always being free. No establish- a c
ed religion-Jew and Gentile, Arminian sui
and Calvimist, Trinitarlan and Unita- ly
rian, P'rotestant and Roman Catholic Ag
on the same footing. tio
If prosecution 8hould come against coi
the most unpopular of all the sects, I me
believe that all denominations would fai
band togrether and arm themselveand 1n81.
,art would be stout, and blood would
) free, and the right of men to worship
ad according to the dictates of their
insciences would be contested at the
int of the bayonet, and with blood
owing up the bits of the horse's bri
es.
For ineicies temporal and spiritual
t consecrated lives be offered. Where
,er God's light shines and God's rain
scends and God's mercy broods let
e thanksgiving arise!
WIND AND RAIN STORM.
I
anage and Loss of Life Reported from I
Difterent Places.
WAsiIINGTON, Nov. 25.-A terriac
ind and rain storm amounting to ai
oat a hurricane, passed over this city
>out 12:30 o'clock, doing a great deal
damage to buildings, in the ruins of
n 9f which several peoWie were buried
ad completely prostrating the tele.
aph wires. The storm seems to have
en quite general. The worst damage
as done to the fine Metzerott music
I1, the walls of which were well ad
Luced to completion, and were at that
age of progress when they ofler the
ast resistance to it. The wind swept
to the high walls of this building and 4
trt of the structure went Into a crash,
eaking into several stores on F street
ar Twelfth, adjoining the Metzerott
usic store. One of these stores was
cupied by George White, ladies' tailor,
id the second by Gude & Brother,
>rists.
Four persons were in the rear of
'hite's e stablishment, and were buried
the ruins. Three persons were taken
it not very seriously Injured, but the
e in Prottrietor ihite's body was ex
ict when he was reached.
A number of persons had narrow es
pes, but, the accident occurring at the
ion hour, workmen and others were, i
rtunately, at lunch at the time of the I
orm.
A section of stone balustrade around
e white house root was blown down
Ad crushed through the roof of the
>rtico at the eastern entrance of the
LseIent.
The east portico was also wrecked by
lling stone. The accident caused
mnmotion in the president's household,
it it was soon found that no one was
jured. The president was receiving a
Limiesota delegation at the time, and
s first action was to hastea to the pri
ite part of the house to reassure the
dies of his family. Lightning struck
nie of tie large gas reservoirs of the
(ashington Gas company, in George
)Wn, near the water front, snappint
ae of the tall iron columns surrounding
ie tank; the gas was ignited and 500,.
30 feet, stored in the reservoir, was
msumed befcre the fire had spent It
If. The gas company's loss is about
i0,000; no insurance.
Many buildings were unroofed and a
imber were partly blown in. The
tal loss will considerably exceed $100,
0.
A Human Holaeaust. 4
DETROIT, MiCh., Dec. 2.-The most
ipalling catastrophe that has visited
strolt since the burning of the Tilden I
hool, two years ago, took place about
D'clock this morning. Fire broke out
the grocery store of George J. Reis,
2 Orleans street, and communicating
the dwelling house overhead, smoth
ed to death Charles Rels, aged 22, and
s brothers Josie and Eddie, aged 11
Lid 7 years. The latter children were
und in their bed and the older boy
as discovered by the firemen lying
>on the floor before a windiow as if he,
slizing the danger, had attemp)ted to
cape by that egress.
The father and mother were found
eked in each other's arm at the head
the stairs leading out into the yard.
ley wvere burned to a crisp. Why
ey took the rear steps may never be
iown, for if they had taken the front
iy they would undoubtedly have been
ved. As it was they rushed into a
ry f urnace, for the conflagration (lid
e most damage where their bodies
are found.
Tlwo other children-Max, aged 15,
id Troney, aIgedl 12, and a hired girl,
hose name could not be ascertained,I
capedl by jumping out of the windows
to t.he arms of the police andi firemen.,
iere was no means of finding out just
1w the lire started. WVhen first seen
was Issuing from the front windows
stairs, but an examination of the
ocery store showed an overturnedl
)ve, and the damage done to the
wor story would indicate that the tire
arted in the store.
The RCevolution Na China. t
SuIANoifAI, Nov. 26.--The special
rresp'ondent in China of the UnIted
ess is able, on the best authoi ity, to
ite that the rebellioni (for it is really &
>ellioni) is spreading~ rapidly In the
rthern p)rovinices, so that there is con
erable alarm felt at P'eklnf and its
ighborhood. The rebels are advane.
mi masses upon Pekin, and are being i
ned( en route by reinforcements from
people0 and( from the army. Several f
Jadrons of' the so-calledl reg'ular caval- t
,have already joined the rebels, in ad
ion to bands of dleserters from the f
'ops classed a regular infantry. Fin.
y, the rebels have been joined by a
mber of mandarins, and eaeh day their.
ength and audacity have been increas
:. All the Christians at Kinchiow
no been massacred.
flTinE of starvation. tl
TI. PETEn8nhUno, Nov. 26.-A nuim. a
of deaths from starvation haye oc
rred among the famine stricken peo- 0
in the province of Samaria. Rev. a:
.Francis, pastor of the Anglo- (<
nerican Church in this city ,has just 1
elved from Col. Chas. J. Murphy,
er 300 pounds of IndJian corn meal as 1,
ontribution for relief of the famine t<
Yerers. Col. Murphy, who is special- r<
eomnmissionedl by the United States ri
ricultural D)epartment to call atten- tI
n in Europe to the value of Indian tI
n1 as an article of food, promises Ii
Ire contribut,ions of corn meal for u
ine relief if the use of that received ti
iroved n
THE LEGISLATURE.
IHE GENERAL ASSEMBLY GOES T(
WORK WITH A WILL.
What Has Boen lone In Iloth Ioeis.
Several Important 1111s Introduced ant
Referred and Others Voted Upon ant
Killed.
COLUMUIA, S. C Nov. 24.-Boti
>ranches of the LegIslature assemble(
oday at twelve o'clock. In the House i
nultitude ot new bills has been intro
luced, but up to this time decisive ac
ion has been taken on very few o:
hem.
The first debate in the House wai
orought about ly Mr. Ficken's bill t<
rovide for marrige licenses in thi
;tate. The measure had been discusse(
n a measure at the last session an(
vould probably have gone through bul
or the tinkering that almost invariabI3
ollows the passage of a bill which has -
ow vigorous opponents. After som(
liscussion the bill was indefiniteli
>ostponed.
The next bill to get a black eye wa
,he bill to authorize the Governor t<
emove sheriffs from oflice in certait
ontingencies. This was generall3
:redited with being an Administratioi
neasure, but it does not appear thal
,he Governor or his friends made mucl
>t an effort to get it through. It wa.
cilled without discussion. In the Sen.
Lte there was nothing of special impori
mo in this the opening day.
Among the bills introduced was on
o permit the construction of a privat(
-ailroad from Glovers in this county t<
,he Ashepoo River.
By Senator Evans, to provide for th(
'eapportionment of the I1ouse of Itep
'esentatives under the census of 1890.
ly Senator Stokes, to incorporate thi
own of Prewit, Orangeburg County.
Senator Stokes gave notice that h(
vould ask to make the bill on the sub
ect of Calhoun County confirm to th4
ines of survey on the map before tho
'enate.
On Wednesday in the House the mar
-iage license bill was reconsidered ant
)assed to a third reading, and the meas
ire is now likely to become a law. Il
)rovides for a license fee of lifty cent.
Bills requring railroads to provid(
!eparate coaches for the races and foi
he prohibition of trains on Sunday ha,
Jwen introduced.
An invitation from President Valsh
)f the Augusta Exposition Company
or the Legislature to be present oi
'arolina Day was, on motion of Nlr
Evans, accepted.
The bill to provide a fee of fifty cent!
per diem for coroners' jurorR was indeli
"iitely postponed on motion of Nir
Evans. There would probably hav,
Jeen a lively light over it if Mr. le
liaurin had not stated there was i1
3ourse of preparation a bill to reorgan
ize county matters and that this wouli
be treated therein.
The following were introduced. Join
resolution to extend the time for th
payment of taxes for the fiscal yea
lommencing November 1, 180, to th
1st day of February, 1892.
Bill to license persons or corporation.
o sell clocks or patent medicinei
hrough the State, declaring them ped
Ilers and imposing a line of 500.
Bill to amend the act providinfr for i
i 3ense for the sale of pistols and pisto;
artridges so as to include rifle cart
idges.
Bill to amend section 1,0(3 of tht
zeneral Statutes relating to the com.
>ensation of county school commission
>rs, so that they shall receive annually
n addition,such sum. as may be neces.
ary to pay the actual ex penses incurred
ty him In attendling meetings called fo
lie purpose of advancing educational
nterests and in visiting schools.
Bill to prohibit the giv ing as security
and the taking as security any lien or
nortgage an any ungathered crop.
ill , with petition, t.o inicrop)orate the
own of Vance's, Orangeburg county.
In the Senate on WVednesdlay the in
citation of the Iloni. Pat Walsh, l'resi
lent of the Augusta Exp(siotn, ior
he Legislature to attend on Carolina:
)ay was communiicatedl by message
'rem the Governor, and( accep)tedl.
A joint resolution extending the(
ine for the paynment of' State and
ounty taxes to the 1st .Januiary, i1W
vas introduced.
A bill to empower the governor to re
nove sheriffs from oflice who willfully
>r negligently alio w prisoners to escape,
>r to be injured or killed by lynhingm
r other wise, while in the custody of
aid sheriffs was indefinately post
oned.
Among the third reading bills on the
alendar is a joint. resolution calling
or a constitutional convention. At
lie reqjuest of Mir. Meetze it w as passed
ver for the present.
Another third reading 1)ill on the cal
ndar is the bill to reduce the salaries
I the State officers, clerks and em ploy.
Os. it was recommitted to then comn
aittee together withi the amiendimenmts
roposed during the closing scenes of
lie last session.
TIhursday being Thaniksgiving 1)ay
here was no session of the llouse or
hat day, but on Friday the regLar
pork of the session was resumed.
TIhe bill to require the several Coun
Les to pay all expenses of their luna
ics in the State Lunatic Asylum, and
o provide for keeping separate ac
ounts of the same by the Comptroller
leneral, was killed after a short hut
reezy debate.
A memorial wats receivedi setting
orth the necessity of South Carolina
aving proper represenitation at. thme
V'orldi'a Fair. T1his was ordered re
srred to a special committee consist
g of one from each Congressional
'istrict to be ap pointed by the Speaker.
Mir. John C. hIaskell introduced the
llowing resolution: lResolved by the
louse of liepresentatives, Th'lat a coam
uittee of three be appointed by the
peaker to investigate and repiort to
711s Jouse upon the conduct and man
gemuent of the phosphate interest of'
to State for tbe past year, and that the
>mmittee have power to sendi for per
me and pa pers, and to take such stepvs
will enable them to make a full in
:iiry into the management by the
oard of Phosphate Commissioners.
The Senate bill to amend Section
584 of the Gieneral Statutes relating
the Lunatic Asyluam passed its third
>ading and was ordered enrolled for
itification. This bill provides that
0e Governor shall appoint, by and with
es advice and consent of the Senate,
ie regents of the Lunatic Asylum,
ho shall hold office for six years from
e day of appointment, except upon
en occnrrence of a vacancy ,a hn
Governor shall 1111 the same by an ap
pointment for the unexpired term only.
that for the purpose of conforming th(
administration of the Lunatic Asylum
to the foregoing Section, as soon a
practicable after the approval of thig
Act, the Incumbent regents shall de
cide by lot on four of their number, whe
shall thereupon cease to be regents, and
I the remaining live shall for the present
constitute the board; that of the re
maining five, two shall be selected by
lot to serve for two years, two to servt
i for four years, and one to serve for six
i years, their successors to be appointed
t by the Governer as above.
The ouse bill to authorize and re
- quire the Governor, Lieutenant Uoy.
r ernor, Attorney General, Secretary of
State, T.reasurer and Superintendent of
i Education to designate annually in
> each County a newspaper in which all
i official advertisements in that county
I must be inserted was indefinitely post
i poned.
A bill to amend Section 2,120 of the
General Statutes in relation to the sal
t arles of Circuit Judges by making the
) same 82,000 instead of 83,500; also, to
abolish costs of attorneys in civil ac
tions was introduced.
The Senate, like the House, held no
> session on Thursday, but was hard at
work on Friday.
The following new business was in
troduced:
A bill to establish a bureau of geolo
gy and mines, to provide for an agri
cultural, geological, mineralogical and
physical survey of the State and for
other purposes.
A bill to amend section 517 of the
General Statutes of this State and to
provide for the appointment of an ex
aminer for banks of the State and bank
ing Institutions.
A bill to repeal the tax on fertilizers
and a bill to incorporate the Orange
burg Railroad Company.
In the House on Saturday the follow
ing bills were introduced:
1111 to provide salaries for sheriM
and clerks of court, in lieu of nulla
bona costs in criminal cases. The bill
provides annual salaries of $700 for
sherifts and $550 for clerks of court, in
place of nulla bona costs in criminal
I cases, except sheriffs' accounts for diet.
- ing persons, which shall be paid as here
tofore.
1till to require court stenographere
i to furnish free of charge certilled copiev
of proceedings and evidence taken in
appeal cases.
Bill to amend section 1,636 of the Gen
eral Statutes, relative to legal holidays,
I'l h atmendmnent adds September I tc
k the list of holidays.
Bill to prevent the moving, destroy.
mng or leaving down of fences, bars
I gates or drawers, providing a penaltj
- of from $10 to $50 or imprisonment foi
thirty days. This bill does not appI
s to th owner.
In the Senate on Saturday the m1os
1 interest centred around tle report or
- the bill to establish the new county o1
1 Calhoun. Thero were two bills befori
the Senate to establish this new coun
t ty, and one, the old bill, was rejected
i The other one goes on the calendar wit
r the unfavorable report of the judiciar
3 committee.
Senator Woodward, of Fairfield, ha
i introduced i bill to prohi bit State ofl
cers and members of the Legislaturf
ac.epting free passes on railroads.
Ai"took Morpilaion for Quinine.
(wREENVILLE, S. C., Dec. 4.--W. ji
Anderson, a well known and highly re
specled young man of the Cedar Grove
section of Laurens County, died Mon
day morning from a inistake in takin
medicine. lie had not been well, and
Monday morning got ill) out of bed to
take some quinine. It seems from
what can be learned that there was a
bottle containing morphine near the
one containing quiinine, and the two
bottles were much alike. A fter taking
what lie supposed was quinmne Mr.
Anderson started from home. About
half a mile from is home he became
sud(denily ill and was takent into a
neighbor's house. Before anything
could lie done for him the morphine had
(lone its work, iIe was about 26 years
old. Mir. Anderson wvas givenl tihe dose
of supposed quinine by his mother, who
took it from among some medicine that
had beeni left several years ago by her
husband, the late D r. Anderson. Sheu
supposedC1 it i.0 be qiini.
Tweivy, inntantly Killed.
Tl'ACOM A, Washiington, Nov. 25.-One
of t,he worst accidients ini the history of
the Northern Pacific Itailroad occuirred
at noon to-day at Canon station, on
Gjreen ltiver, about 100 miles east of
Tracoma. About sixty workmen were
sent to the locality of the recent land
slides to repair washouts on a branch
of the miain~ line, and while thus em
ploy ed at the base of a high bluiff sev
eral ihousanud yardis of shell rock su'd
deinly tumbled on those beneath, iit'
stanItly killing twelve, wrecking about
300 yards of road bed, carrying two men
mrto the river and burying several
others, somie of whom it will be Impos
sible to rescue alive.
Fanine in Mexlco.
DlR-ANoo, Mexico, Nov. 25.--TIhe to
tal failure or the corn and bean crops
in this state, owing to the drouth, is
causing intense suffering among the
p)oor. The price of corn has risen to an
Immense figure, selling in some p arts
of the state at over one dollar per bush
el. The laboring element of Durango
have nleither work nor feed. The bets
ter classes, who are so fortunate as to
have food, are compelledi to guard their
supplies closely to prevent the famish
edl horde froml robbing thlem. Only thle
severe measures of tile government sol
dliers keep the people in subjection.
Sensation in Charleston.
CuIAlR Ll-;sTrox, S. C., Nov. 20.-There
was something of a sensation in the
Sessions Court to-day. Trhe grand jury
im their presentment charged specifical
ly that prisoners were kep'. in jail with
out warrant of law. Solicitor Jervey
to-dlay asked anld got leave from Judge
Witherspoon to put on record a state
ment sho wing thaut there was absolutely
no truth in the charges and claiming
that lie had proven to a committe, of
the grand jury that the statements of
thle prisoners in question were false
long before they handed in their pre
sentment. ______
Five Killed.
ST. PAUL, Minn. Nov. 30-Informa
tion has re'ached ilere that a span of a
bridge on the Great Northern railway
extension at ICalispel, Mont., fell to-day,
taking down with it fifteen men. Five
men were killed and the other ten in
u1red. Some of the injured may die.
The fall was 150 feet.
WILD SCENES IN JAPAN.
DETAILS OF A TERRIBLY FATAL
EARTHQUAKE.
Railroad Irons Twisted and Myor Has
bankaments Thrown Dowa--New Lake
Formed at the footof Moustains-GreaS
FIssures and Craeks Appear.
SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 28.-These
details have been received of the Japan
earthquake of Outober 28: The up and
down trains en the Tokiado Railway
were just meeting at GitN station, the
centre 9 t disturbance, when the first
shock occurred. The shock was ac
companied by a rumbling sound and was
violent.
People on trains thought a collision
had occurred. On looking out of the
windows, however, th3y beheld the sta
tion in ruins. Some of the passengers
made their way into Fifu and found im
mense heaps of ruins.
Many houses had fallen, while others
were so shattered that succeeding trem
erg of the earth threw them to the ground.
In almost every house some unfortunate
was buried and the chances of escape
were diminished greatly by conflagra
tions in many places.
The railway line was too much dam
aged '.o allow of the moving of trains,
and passengers were accordingly com
pelled to make their way on foot to the
neighboring towns. The roads were
found to be almost impassable by s
sures and landslides.
The town of Kano was found to be
wholly in ruins, not a house remaining
standing. Kassamatsu sufrered a like
fate, every dwelling being a mass of
debris. Everywhere survivors were dig
ging out the dead and wounded and fight
jug againstconflagrations on all sides.
At Ichinomva and Kiyosee the people
managed to save a few mats and were
preparing to pass the night in the fields.
Throughout the day and night the work
of carrying the wounded to Nogoya,
proceeded, a continual stream of bearers
passing along the railway, which was
the only available route.
The inhabitants of the ruined town
say that the first sensation was that the
houses were being shaken and then sud
denly lowered two or three feet. In
fact there was a ruarked subsidence of
the earth's surface for a considerable
area about Gifu, showing that this town
was the centre of the disturbance.
Very soon after the houses were
thrown down and while hundreds of peo.
ple were buried in the debris, fiames
burst from the ruins of silk factory and
in a short time spread to such an extent
that the citizens were compelled to desist
in their work of rescue. The conflagra
tion burned out in one direction, but
three other fires broke out and soon joined
together, sweeping from street to street,
[anned by a strong wind.
The police, aided by normal school
studenta and prisoners in Jill, fought the
fire all night, but It was not subdied Uh
til the forenoon of the next day, when
almost the whole town had been burned
over. Potteries in the prefectures of
Owari and Mino, great centres in porcel
ain manufacture in Japan, and those at
Seto and other towns were almost en
tirely des.royed, and it is reported that
there is no prospect of resuming their
industry this year.
The shock was so severe that scar"ely
a sound house is left standing, with the
exception of the castle. The Gobo tem
p)le, belonging to the Shin sect of Bladd
hists, was crowded with worshipper.
when it fell. burying at least fifty people.
Thue ruins took lire and the shrieking
victi ms were consumed before the eye.
of the horrified en-lookers.
A slight sheck was felt at Nagoya on
the might of Sunday, October 25. On
Wednesday morning, while forty Chris
tians were assembled in one of the build
ings of the Methodist school, the struc
ture began to totter and the worshippers
dod1(. One Christian and his wife were
killed an I two .Japanese were fatally in.
.lured., Mr. and Mrs. Van Dyke, mis
sionaries, and one other white person
were dlangerously hurt.
Out of doors the city was in an up
roar, wildl shrieks and indescribable
noises filled the air, while every few
moments caime terrible thunder from the
angry earth. Many streets were blocked
with fallen houses and others were
choked wIth fleeing people. A thread
factery andl a large brick building caved
in, killing hundreds of persons, but the
old cast,le, despite In its four hundred
years, stood firm.
The loss of life in the three towns
wiichi go to make up the city of Nagoya
is Ustimatedl at ironm 950 to 1,000. Up
to the morning ot Friday, October 80,
368 distinct shocks .were reported as
followriog ,tat of Wcdheiav
As the wounded we* - 15 a'ne , a
the city from surroundi'g4?Pn
ports continued to come o
dlamage done and stirring inciae,,.,
Reports were also, received of dleseres
in the earth two feet wide and several
feet deep. Railway rails were twisted,
iron bridges, river embankments crum
bled and fields flooded. A lake six hun
dred yardls Iong and sixty yards wide
was formed at the foot of the Hlukusan
Mountain, in the Gifu prefecture, and
great cracks were formed In the ground
beside t,he hills in Gifu.
Water sprang from the cracks in the
ground, and the water in the wells was
changed In color to a brownish tint and
was rendered unfit for drinking. The
embankments of most of' thle rivers were
destroyed, and in this city's prefecture
250 miles of embankment must be re
built.
Express Robbery.
S'r. LOUIs, Dec. 4.-The Adams' Ex
p ress Company, it Is now stated, will
lose about $75,000 by the robbery of the
"Frisco" night express car near Glen
dale Monday night by six masked men.
The safe of the express company was
completely rifled and althougt yester
day Superintendent Damsel plcdthe
loss in the neighborhood of 02.0.it is
not known that the safe contained far
more than that amount. Superintend
ent Damsel refuses to deny or confirm
the story that the total loes reaches
8 ,00,but admits that it exceeded the .'
amount he first gave out as the osm
pan.y's loss. Titer. is still no clue to