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AT THE TABERNACLE. . * * 1 X TALMAGE DISCOURSES ON THE Tfce MaAel* at Um Deep Afford Farther Y*oM<ft Sod's Power and Wfe Seoojclyn, Oct 1. ? In bis sermon - this forenoon in the Brooklyn Taber-^ nacfe, ate ' in many other discourses, Kev. T. De Witt Talmage took his hearers and readers through an on tried region of thought add found a subject for most practical goepeiiza tion in "The Garden of the Sea." The text wa& Jonah ii, 5, "The weeds were wrapped about my head." "The Botany oi the Bible; or God among the Flowers" is a fascinating subject I hold in my hand a book which I brought from Palestine, bound in oJive wood, and within it - g~> pressed flowers, which have not <*&ly retained their color, but their ajoma. Flowers from Bethlehem, sfowers from Jerusalem, flowers from Gethsemane, flowers from Mount of Olives, flowers from Bethany, flowers from Siloam, flowers from the valley of Jehoehaphat red anemones and wild migjKmette, buttercups, daisies, cyclameiiHP camomile, bluebells, ferns, mosses, grasses and a wealth of tlora that keeps me iaseinated by the hour, and every time I opegtit it is a new revelation. It is the New Testament of the fields. But my text leads us into another realm of the botanical kingdom. Having spoken to you in a course of sermons about God everywhere ? on "The Astronomy of the Bible; or, God v Among the Stars;'' The Ornithology of the Bible; or, God Among the BindU"_ MThe Ichthyology of the BibS^^pr, God Among the Fishes;" "The Mineralogy of the Bible: or, God Among the Amethysts;" "The Concholoy of the Bible; or, God Anwjng the Shells;" "The Chronology of the Bible; or, God Among the Cen turies" ? I speak now to you about * The Botany of the Bible; or God In the Gardens o t the sea." GAROCKSbf THE SEA. v dmn? Joaah"s Submarine Dis coveries? A Sew Fie? investigation. BOTANY OP THE BIBLE. Although I purposely take this morning for consideration the least observed and least appreciated .of all the botanical products of the worklt we aboil find the contemplation very absorbing. In all <x r theological seminaries whecg we mike ministers there ought to be- processors to give leaaons in natural history. Physical [ science ought to he taught side by side witb revelation. It is the same CJod who inspires the page of the natural world as the page^of the Scriptural vndi What a freshening up H would be to our sermons to press into them even a fragment of Mediterranean seaweed! We should have fewer ser mons awfully dry if we imitated oar blessed Lord, and in oar discourses, jwe would let a lily - bloom, a hen wood her of religion, in many of our ,* |ine^who are 30 dry themselves they4 never could get people to come and (ear them preach are now ? trying tar teach young men - preach, and the student i*put between two great presses of dogmatic theology and squeezed until there is no | life left in him. * Give the poor victim at least one lesson on the bot any of tkeSSible. That was an awful plunge that the Recreant prophet Jonah made when, dropped over the gunwales of the Mediterranean ^hap, he sank $any "fathoms down into a tempestuous sea. ' :'Bath before and after the .monster of the deep swallowed him, he was en tangled in seaweed. The jungles of the deep threiw their cordage of vege tation arcmnd him. Some of this sear speed was anchored to the bottom ctf the watery abysm, and>Some of it was afloat and swalIow^i4*y the great aea monster, 90 that while t&fcprophet was at the bottom of the de^after he was horribly imprisoned be could exclaim and did exclaim # the words of my text, <vTlm wewftwere wrapped about my head." > " ? ? .<?> '? ? JONAH'S StTBMABIJHB DISCOVERIES. Oh, theae midnight lanterns of the' ocean caverns; these processions of flame over the white floor of the deep; ti*ese illuminations three miles down: under the sea; these gorgeously up holstered castles- of the Almighty in the underworld! The author -of the text felt the puli.of the hidden vegeia-' tion of the Mediterranean, whether or $tot he appreciated it? beauty, as he parsed out, "The weeds were wrapped about my bead.? '* TUB 8EPCXCHER OF THE SEA. V Let my subject cheer all those who had friends who have been buried at or in oar great American lakes.; Which of us brought up on the At San tic coast has not had kindred or frfonds thus sepukbered? We had the useless horror of thinking that they were denied proper resting place. We said: "Ob, if they had lived to conle ashore and had then expired! What an alleviation of oar trouble it would have been to pot them in some beautiful family plot, where we could, have planted dowers and trees <5ver them." Why, God did better for them than we could have done for them. They were: let down into beanti-1 ful gardens. Before they had reached the bottom they had garlands about their brow. In more elaborate and adorned place than we could have afforded them they were put away for the last slumber. * Hear it, mothers and fathers of sailor boys whose ship went down in our last 3 August hnnicane! There ax^ -no; Greenwoods or Laurel HiBsJer Mount ! Auburns so beautiful on t^lind as there are tanked and ^temce d and scooped and hqng in the dep&s of the sea. The bodies of owr foundered and sunken friends are gftd3$i and can-; opied and housed with sac& glories; as attend no other Necropolis. They were swamped in lifeboats, or! they struck on Goodwin sands or Deal* teach or tl^ Skerries, and were never[ heard of, or disappeared with- the City of Boston, or the Ville de Havre, or j the Cymbria, or were run down in a j fishing smack that put out^from New- ! foundiand. But dismiss yoar previ ous gloom, about the horrors of ocean entombment. ' 1;:;H When Sevastopol was besieged in the Anglo-French war, Prince Ment chikof, commanding the Russian oavy^ saw that the only way to keep the English oat of tbeharbor was to sink alfof the Russian ships of war in roadstead, and so 100 vessels sank. When, after the war was over, oar, American engineer, Go wan, descended to the depths in a diving bell, it was an impressive spectacle. \ SUBLIME BURIAL. One huiulied buried ships! Bat it is that way nearly all across the At lantic ocean. Sups sank not by com mand of admirals, bat by the con* maud of cyclones. Bat they all bad sublime banal, an? the surroundings amid which they sleep th$ last sleep are more imposing than die Ta] Mahal, the mausoleam with walls in crusted with precious stones and builfc by the great mogul of India over his empress. Year departed1 ones wore buried in the gardens of the sea, fenced by hedges ^T^e^agaJiaj^OBeqaies ever known "on Use iaad were those of Moses, #hereno one but God was present The sublime report of that., entomb* ment is io the book of Deuteronomy, which says that the Lord buried i^bim: and of those who have gone down to slumber in the^eep the same may be said? "The Lord buried them." As Christ was baried in a garden, so your shipwrecked friends and those who coald not survive till they reached j port were pat down amid irxde* scence ? "In the midst' of the garden there was a sepuicher." It has always been a mystery what was the particular mode by which j George G. Cooknftn, the palpit orator of the Methodist church and the chap*, lain of the American congress, left this life after embarking for England on the steamship President March 11, 3.841. That ship never arrived in port: Ncone ever signaled her, and ^oijJkoth sides of the ocean it has for 50 years been questioned what became of her. But this I know about Cook man ? that whether ' it . was iceberg or conflagration midsea or collision he had more garlands on his ocean tomb than if, expiring on land, each of his million friends had put a bouqoet on his casket In the midst of ihe garden i was his sepnlcher. i . ? ; '|| JONAH'S MISTAKES. [;? But that brings me to notice the misnomer in this Jonah itic expression of. the text The prophet only made a mistake by toying to go to Tarshish when God told him to go to ^ Nineveh, bo* he made a mistake when he styled as weeds these growths that i enwrapped l^m on the day he sank, ; A weed is somethingthat is useless. [Hi ia something you throw out irom l]H? gawfea. It is something that [chokes the wheat It is something 10 It ifsomething; unsightly to the eye. It is an invader of the vegetable or floral world. Bui this growth which sprang up from the depth of the Med iterranean or floated on its surface was among He most beastiful . things that God ever makes. It waa a water plant known as the It comes from the loom of m&mte jfbeaii^ ft ? }**?** M love, -It k the star- of .$ mnkm fijjm Ifedkd. "j? meat house. They swelter in summers when they see not one blade of green grass, and shiver in winters that allow them not one warm coat or shawl or shoe. ' ?? : I ; Soch the city missionary found in one etf oar city rookeries, and when the poor womaar was asked if she sent iief chil<freif to school she replied: "No, sir, I never did send 'em to sehool. I know, it, they ought fcq learn, bat I couldn't I try to shame him sometimes (it is my husband, fir), but he drinks and then, beats me ? look at that bruise on my face ? and I tell hi m to see what is copiin to his children. There's Peggy, goes seliin fruit every night in thpee cellars in Water street, and., they're hells, sir. She's learnin all sorts of bad words there and don't get back till 12 o'clock - at night If h wasn't for her eatnin' a shiljin or -two in them places, I ahoaid starve. Ob, I wish jthej|was out of the city. Yes, It is the truth. "I would rathar&ave ail my I children , dead than on the streets, but I can't help it" | SAVED BY DEATH, head Sn the mortal of I woe, aM the c ciaite tfceir ioore t?L Another one- of those poor women, found by a reformatory association, recited her story of want and woe and looked up and said, "I felt so hard Jx> lose the children when they died,: bdK now I'm glad they're gone." Aflk any one of a thousand such children A the streets, "Where do yon livef and they will answer, "I don't [live nowhere." They will sleep tpnigfet in ash barrels, Or ander outdoor stairs, or on the whprf, kicked and b and hungry Wio cares ibr Once in a while a city missions - Jl; ? le cor ateaeherof' ragged* rescuc one of theroi, but they are onl did not more red .algal, IJT Jteranean ;|han most people misjudge these poor and forlorn and dying ! children of the street They tie a# 'weeds? They are im fi0W?f8. of God dome to appr^ value, there will be Braces and more Van more angels, of mercy *heir fortunes and their lives in, the rescue. ? { ;H . ; j Hear it, jO, ye philanthropic and Christian and merci&l souls? not ? ^ SAr*; r adjure you ^ - of all newsboys' lodg* jaf all industrial ' schools, * for ^friendless girl# and for the maiy reformatories and hu mane associations now on foot. How Wch they have already accomplished! Out of what wretchedness, into what gdorf homes! Of 21, 000 of these packed up out of the streets and sent intoiceuntr* home?, only ?2 children turned out badly. . <f In the last 30 years a number that no man can number of the vagrants have beeur lifted" into respectability and usefulness and a Christian life. Many of them have homes of their lownf? though ragged boys once and { street girls, no# at the , head of proe * on earth and Some of have been governors . Of states. are ministers of the all departments of life who were thought to be'dlkds 1 irn^d out to be flowera* One rescued lads from the streets of our ; cai^ - ? -11- ; 1 " * ' ' 'I ha- , mjnistr wrote to another -saying: rd yon are studying for the r8o am I.":!'; My hearers, I implead you for the newsboys of the streets, many of them the brightest children of the city, but with no chance. Do not, step on^theirj bare feet ; Do not, when they steal a! ride cut behind. When t&ie paper is! 3 cents, once in a while give them a 5 cent piece and tell them to keep the change, t like the ring of the letter the newsboy sent back from Indiana, where he had been sent to a good home, to a New York newsboys' lodg ing houses "Boys, we should show ourselves that we are no- fools; that we can: become as respectable as any of the countrymen, for Franklin and Webster and Clay were poor _ once, and even George Law and Van derliilt and Astor. And now, boy stand up and let them see you hai got the real stuff in you. Comtf oi Sere and make respectable and honor able men, so the/ pan say, 'There! thgt boy was once a newsboy."? My hearers, join the Christian philanthi ' pis ts who: are ?changing organ grindf and boo&lacks and newsboys a street arabs and cigar girls into the who shall Tae kings an<f queens unl God former. It is high* time thi Jonah finds out that that which fe about him is' not weeds, bat flowers. "it-- ' if'. ? ?' ^ !' ? A WONDERFUL GOD. w as about the recreant prophet down in the Mediterranean depths when in the words of Ay text he cried oni, "The^weids were wrapped abont mjr head/' and I am led thereby to fuc ther examine this submarine WoiiJ I am compelled to? explain, What i wonderful God we have! I am glaif that by diving bell, and "Brook*' deep sea sounding apparatus," an! ever improving machinery we are per mitted to walkv*ti*e-ffeor o? tte-oceau and report the wonders wrought b;r. 8iudy these gardens of the :sej? Easier and easier shall tHe profowH; 3 of the oceaa become to ti$ aod mftie and mo^ to opulence of color ani plant! uaroll, especially as "Vffieiys ypM&ax&iie boat" has i)eea constructed BBTOlU g^i legible to navigate under i,;-' H^ae. weU as o? the m - of ^ andimlmOod hi his : Not one waives are all covered wt h . fauna. Sunken j Alps ai5* 9 and Himalayas afAtlinticJ So oceans. A continent th it ^jed^oro^eatid America, .u&sitfte jor Tas Gk sol that in tile ages past men foot across from where T where we now stand, all now coverecHrith the gro sea, as.it once was < growths of the land. England and Ireland once all one piece of land, but now much of it so far sunken as to make a channel, and L eland has; became an island. Tbe is ands for tbe most part aiie only the lo reheads of sunken continents. Tbe sc& conquering tbe land all along the cc asts pnd crumbling the hemispheres, wider and wider become the sub a< [ueoua dominions. Thank God that si illed hy^rographere have made us maps and churls of the rivers and Is kefcand seas and shown us something 01 the work of the^lMal God in tbe water worlds. " L ^ Thank God that the great Virginian/ I ieutenantMaury , lived -(to give us rbe Physical Geography jof the Sea," a id that men of genius have gone forth to gtudy the so called weeds that wrapped about Jonah's head and have found them to be coronals of beauty, and when: the tide receded these & pientists have waded down and picked up divinely pictured leaves of the ocean, the naturalists-- Pike and Hooper and Walters gathering them f*om the beach of Long Inland sound, a nd Dr. SlodgeU preserving them from ^t le shores of^Key West, and Pro fessors Emerson and Gray finding t bem along Boston harbor, and Pro fassor Gibbs gathering them from (Charleston harbor, and j formal! the < tber triumphs of ajgology", orHhe f cience of sea wood. J*r Evidence of the |se aST Why confine ourselves j to the old jind hackneyed illustrations of the < yonder workings of God when there i tre atleast five great seas full of illus trations as yet not marshaled, every : oot and frond and cell and color and ! novement and habit of oceanic vege ation crying out: God! God! He nade vis. He clothed us, He adorn ed us. Hei was the God of our ancest >rs clear back to the fimt sea growth, iriien God divided tbe waters which irere above tbe firmament, and shall be the God of our descendants clear down \to the day when tbe sea shall give ip its dead. We have, heard his command, and- we have obeved, Praise tbe Lord, dragons and%\l There is a great oomfort that rolls Lover upon us from this study of the so called seaweed> and that as the demon strated doctrine of a particular Provi dence. if WJien I find that the Lord provides ia the so called seaweed the pasturage : for tbe thronged marine world, so that not a fin? or scale in all that oceanic aquarium suffers need, I conclude he will feed us, and if be suits tbe algse to the animal life of the deep he. will provide the food for our physical and spiritual needs. ? And if he clothes: the flowers of the deep with richness of robe that looks bright as fallen ? rainbowsby day and at night makes the Underworld look as though the seasVere on lire, surely; he will clothe you, "O ye of little faith!'1' r And what fills me with unspeakable delight is that this God of depths and ijieights, of ocean and of continent, j mfcv through Jesus Christ, the divine ly appointed ifceans, be yours and mine, to : neipA to cheer, to par don, to save, to impifiSifcse^^Kb&t matters who in eaith or hell is against us if he ijs for us?. Omnipotence to defend us, ommpfcJseBeaJff^sompanion us and infinite love to infold and up lift and enrapture us. . And when God does small things so well, seemingly taking as much care with tbe coil of a seaweed as the out branching of a' Leabnon cedar, And with the color of a vegitable growth which is bidden fathoms out of sight kis he does with the solferino and purple of a sqmrner sunset, we will be determined to do well alll we are called to c&}, though no one see or appreciate us. Mighty God! Roll in upon our administration and holy : appreciation more of the wonders ofltbls submarine world! a REVEIJLTIONS AFT^R DEATH. My joy is that after we are quilt of all earthly h in de ranees we may come back to jthis world and ; explore what we cannot bow folly investigate. If we shalL have power to soar intoHhe atmospheric without fatigue, I tSink "we shall have power to dive into the aqueous without p&ril, j and that the pictured and tesseliiated sea floor Vill be as accesible as now is to the travel er the floor of the Alhambra, and all ||ie gardens of the deep will lien swing open to us their gates as noW "to the tourist Chatswcirth (pens on public days its cascades and statuary [and conservatories for our | entrance. ["It doth not yet appear what we shall be." *You cannot make me believe that God hath spread out all that garnitolfe of the deep merely for tie polyps and cru8ta< ea to look aiL And if the unintelligent creatures of th#' Mediterranean and the Atlantic ocean he surrounds With such beMuti fol grasses of the deep4*what a heaven we inay expect for oiy uplifted and ransomed souls wfcen we are bnchaoned of the flesh and rise to realms beattSfic. Of the flora of that "sea of glass mingled with fire" I have no power to speak, but I shall always be glad When the prophet of the text, flung over the gunwales of the Mediterranean ship, descended injt-o the boiling sea, that whioh he supposed to be weeds wtap ped about his head were not weeds, iut flowers. I'. i And am I not ri ght in this glance at - the botauy of the Bible in ad ding to Luke's mint anise and cumin and Matthew's tares, and John's Vine, and 8olomon'3 cluster of cam pV, ire, .and Jeremiah's balihj and Job's bul 1 nwK iuul v lonrl RIOT IN THE COUNTRY. v i r AN UNUSUAL OUTRAGE IN UPPER RICHLANDiSOUNTY. An Old White Man and Ills Wife Severely Treated by ltufltanx Who tlad li jeu Or "1 1 I ! ? dered Aw?t, A very peculiar story of serious trouble at a point about twelve miles above this city, near the Camp Ground precinct, reached the city yesterday morning. It will doubtless be investi gated and, if the lawlessness occurred as reported, it will be punished. Mr. T. S. Arthur, who was the vie- ! tiru of the outrage, was seen at the Capitol yesterday, where he had gon? to St e the Attorney General and the Governor and reported to them what he considers the misconduct of a Rich land trial justice. He said, that he lived with his wife and son on the farm about twelve miles from the city near Taylor chapel. On Tuesday he and his wife aud son got in their wagon and drove out to one of their fields. When they arrived they found Elleu Washington, a ue gre8s, and her crowd of negroes whom he had forbidden to come upon his land, in the field picking cotton- He <lrove up close to the field, got out aud hrtphed his horse. - Then his wife and boy got out and he took "his double barrelled shot gun from the wagon, leaning it against the tree in order to to prevent any possibility of its dis charge in case the horse should run away. He then went down in the field to where the negroes were pick ing the cotton aud told them he wassur prised to see them there as he ordered them never to come on his land again. He said to the woman, however, as they were there they|couId go ahead and pick the cotton provided they brought j* aili'e* ^im weigh it and place it in lift gin house, giving them the weights, in accordance with an agree ment he had made with the father of the woman. The woman, who seamed' to be in charge of the party, said that they were going to pick that cotton and take it away with them. She said that two white men had told her to pick it and carry J it oft.'; When pushed for tbeir?nam<? she Paiti Trial Justice Stack and Mi> Ruif He told her that it was his Cotton aud she could not take it away. Then he went to take the basket to weigh it. As soon as he put his hands upon the basket the negroes gathered around him. The woman called out to one of thenPto get the gun. He thougjbt she referred to his gun, but looking, saw Walter Washington go under a bush after a gun he had secreted there. Seeing the negro make for this gun he started to run to the tree and get his. He got about half way when he was trip ped from behind and the negro Wal ter fell upon him, and held him down. Olie of the women then ran and got his gun and preseuted it at his head. Walter told her to shoot Bbe had her hand on the trigger. Hev man aged to strike the gun down with a powerful blow, breaking the breech so that the gun would not discharge. Walter then got the gun and pointed it at him, but did not seem willing to do murder. ' Mrs Arthur was sitting on the basket ot. cotton almost over come. One the women got the other gun and pointed it at her. About this time Mr Arthur says he heard a jeering j laugh from the bushes and looking to see from who it came, no. ticed Zack Jones, a big black negro, who lives on Mr Rurs place, and whom he had ordered not to come on his land again, walk forth. Mrs Arthur told the negro to leave the field ( This negro substantiated what the women had said about the two white men. Walter then ' went off about 100 yards and then fired the gun and Mrs Arthur said he shot at him. Walter then went ofF. - Mr Arthur says that a young white inau named Rowell, came up about this time. His wife was very nearly exhausted and he went to get her some stimulant from the wagon, ask ing this young man to look after her and the lad. When he returned about half an hour later he found everyone gone from the field and his wife lying face downward in a cotton row in an un conscious condition. His little son was close by crying. When his wife was restored to consciousness she said that as soon as her husband left the negroes surrounded her, took her by the arms and feet and dragged her around until she became unconscious. He said that he came to the city to ask the Attorney General whether a trml justice had any right to practice in his own court and incite negroes to such behavior as this. The Attorney General referred him to the Governor whom he called to see but could not ?1 be was engaged. He says he will see the Governor later. He has em ployed Mr C. A. Douglas to prosecute the uegroes. The negro Washiugton, he says, plants the land and he takes the pro ceeds under a lien. There is some trouble pending in the courts about it now. ? State. THE SOUTH ALL RIGHT. Her Sti?p<>ndo<l BhiiIch Rapidly Resuming Ba?ln?8S. Baltimore, Sept. 2ft. ? A list of the banks in the Southern States which suspended since January 1st, has been compiled by the Manufacturers' Re cord. The inventory shows the num ber, capital, and per cent condition of the banks, the information having been obtained by direct correspond ence with the officers, receivers and other equally good authority. Oiy, of suspensions aggregating in round numbers S 16,980,000 in capital, banks representing $12,500,000 have resumed or about to resume. Out of 150 banks in Alabama, only two closed permanently. Of Diorida 94 banks, five are closed. Cfeorgpi ? charged with but six per manent closures out of the two hun dred and thirty banks in the Slate. Louisiana and Maryland emerge from the panic with not a faiiure. Mississ ippi and South Carolina are dotted for ooe failure each. ' Virginia has five closed of her total number of one hundred and sixty-five banks. IT' : : ^7 liow Hugh Wilson Would Have It. Abbeville Press and Banner. While his breach of the peace was a proper subject of newspaper com ment, yet we doubt the propriety of publishing drunks. It has not here tofore been the custom to do so. The fact of the Senator being helped out of the sleeping car, the presenting of his pistol in the foce of the hackman, the hanging feet, the steepiness of the passenger, the indictment in the city court, were all proper subjects of newspaper remark, but we doubt the propriety of saying that the Senator was drunk. < y An article copied from the Laurens ville Herald into The State caps the climax by saying that that paper re fuses to believe that Senator Irby was drunk, and could not be induced to believe it, until the Senator himself should confirm the story, or words to that effect The act of getting drunk can only be excuse*!. It cannot be defended. The old story of not believing any thing that is not found in a regular Tillman paper is one of the oldest chestnuts, and! is a trick which we thiuk no longer passes current in this section. It was next to crqpl in The State to copy any such article* The brother who had thus attempted to defend the Senator had gone wrong, and The State might have saved the esteemed brother the mortification of his seeing- his foolish thing copied into The State. Whether the Reformers will excuse .the Senator for his coudnct is a mat ter for them to determine. But they [ certainly cannot defend him. To ex cuse is an act of grace, but to defend is to place their own notions of pro priety on a level with the act which they would defend. Pity from the Pee l>ee. Cheraw Reporter. Ever since J. L. M. Irhy defeated Wade Hampton Jtar the United States Senate, the friends of the latter have had the utmost* con tempt for him (Ir by), but that -Wintempt is now last changing to pity/^He is going down about as fast as a man^poesibly could, and in spi|e of the siris ot which he has been guilty, the old hero, who is now on top again, wUi doubtless join in the general pity"for the man who is as much the object of, the nation's charity as any within the wide bor ders of the United States. John Lawrence Manning Irby has probably begun to realize at this late day what a big job he undertook when he put on the official robes of Wade Hamp ton, the degradation which he has brought on his native State must cause him many a pang of sorrow if he has any feeling left. His last of fense is sufficient to arouse the tender feelings of people of all classes, and, if he continues his dowuward course, which he is likely to do, it will be useless for his opponents to fight him longer, as it is cowardly U> fight a mau when he is down. Poor Irby, but what else couldf have be*m ^expected from a man with such a record. A Companionate Conservative. Newberry Herald and News. Mr. Bob Harris has been confirmed as postmaster at Union in spite of the protest of Senator Irby. Maybe that is the cause ofcthfc pitiable condition of Senator Irby when he came through Columbia the other day. It is a great pity that Senator Irby made ^Buch an exhibition of himself. If he wanted to drown his sorrows in that way it would have beeu tenfold better if he had done so in private. This would have been better for the honor and reputation of South Carolina. Atid also better tor those who put him in his present, position by their .votes. Poor South Carolina and poor Mr Irby, both have our profound sympathy. A great many learned men and men who hold high and | honorable positions have been known on occasions to take too much of the stufflflf which maketh merry, and it must be said not to their credit, but we do not remember to have heard of their making such an exhibition of themselves. Certainly no South Carolinian. ^ Not At All Shocked. Marion Star. Under ordinary circumstances this would have been regarded as a very shocking and disgraceful allair; but that time is past, for the present, in South Carolina. Mortification culmi nated in this State with the election of such a character to distinguish official position. Since, she has l>eeu so drug ged through the mire and subjected to such a series of degradations under her new political dispensation as have destroyed all sense of further humilia tion. By the way, the Reform organs re mind one rather strongly of the small boy that the calf ran over, in regard to this little incident; but that goes for nothing. It is exactly the course that the uugans can l>e invaribly de I>ended upon to pursue whenever any of the "faction" happen to do anything particularly outrageous. Plenty of ??Ifs" atul "Buts " Anderson People's Advocate, Reform. If the reports are true as to Sena tor I rby -appearing in Columbia last week iu a state of beastly intoxication and flourishing his pistols in the de pot, we must say such conduct is most reprehensible on the part of any man holding any exalted position, whether Senator, Governor or what not. There j are other public men who cannot i throw stones at Senator I rby, but that does not help the matter. We must put the seal of our condemnation on record df such conduct on the part of officials, regardless of who they may "be. At the same time we are free to \ say that Senator I rby is not the only \ nor the vilest sinner in the lot. But j we condemn anything of that kind in I anybody. John l>arg?n Hits With H Club Sumter Freeman, Alliance. Irby, a U. S. Senator, pretending to represent "reform" i a South Caro- j lina, has been drunken^tf^fea.-tTiness . and tlourishing a 1)race of pistols around at the Capital City! A dig gusting, nasty creature. 'Twas he who but a few weeks ago, struck Con gressman Shell in a neighbor's parlor, i The faction that supports such as he I 1 ? v : r .j What ? 9 ? tiHini tor laflmw Castoria is Dr. Samuel Pitcher's prescript aud Children. It contain* neither Ojplnm. Mofp other Narcotic substance/ It is a [harm for Paregoric, Drops, Soothing Syrdps, an f ^ It is Pleasant. Its guarantee is thirty yea's Millions of Mothers. Castoria destroys Worms an feverish doss. Castoria prevents vomiting Soar cu^cs Diarrhoea and Wind Colic. Castoria teethings troubles, cures constipation anu\j^atu ency. Castoria assimilates the food, re^ruiates the stomac and bowels, giving healthy and natural sleep. toria is the Children's Panacea? the Mother's Frica - I Castoria. / "Castorii is an e?* I'lent medicine for chil dren. Mothers h? .vpeatedly told me of its good effect upon t?_.*ir children.'* . Da. G. C. Osqood, \ Lowell, Ma*s. , . " Oastoria Ls the bo*t remedy for children of which I ain acquainted. 1 hope the day is not far distant \rhea mothers will consider the real intetvst of their children, and use Castoria in stead of the variousquack nostrums which are destroying their loved ones, by forcing opium, morphine, soothing syrup and other hurtful agents down their throats, thereby sending 'hem to prematuro graves." Da. J. F. Kikchklok, Conway, Ark. ! ' Castora " C-arforia fa bo well adaptrd to children that I nvoramend it as superior to aajrpraKript?y known to uie." H. A. Ascant, M. D , 111 So Oxford St, Brooklyn, N. T. " Our ph jsk'atw io the children's depart ntont bavt? spoken of tbefr erpm ence in thwr outside practice with <"Woriv and although we only hare aatou* medical , supplies Art is known ss i^pil r products, yet weawfree to coofos that the merits of Gutoria has Hon ua to look with faror upon it.n U.VITIO IIOOTfTAL AMD IftSKMAKT, Boston, Kaos. ? A ixwr C. Snmi, i>?#w Tlx? Centarur Company, T7 Murray Street, New fork City. for high office may be sure that tha downfall of the faction into confusioy and shame is hut a short way off. Tile idea of such a person as Irby daring to claim connection with such a*noM< cause ay that of the Farmers' Allancfc The Alliance should and will spun him when he offers f??r re election. Shocking I cviiy In Edgefield. Edgefield Advertiser. The Anti papers have been assum ing that Tillman and Irby are at outs because for several months Irby had not "dropped in to see Tillman," but even this cause of congratulation is denied them for lie dropped in to see the (iovernor last Tuesday and came very near dropping a negro en route. Doenn't "Strain at a Gn*t7' Aiken Journal and Review. We are not disposed to t&ke much stock in Senator Irby's little drunkest frolic in Columbia the other day, when he is said to have pulled his pistol on a liackman. If oiher things Irby has done can be overlooked, surely this! may be forgiven lam. A Confection in Verne. Edgefield Farmee, Refawn. It 'pears that ' Johnnie had his 4!jug and gun," The backman had palpitation; The Antis ha^alj the fun, We Reformers^ humiliation. CalU Hirn^H "MauvaiH MntJ?-u" Edgefield Chronicle. Senator Irby, the infiuite&jimally small successor , of Wade Hampton, has beeu drunk and disorderly. Head about At on our first |>Hge. Irby is' beyonc doubt a bad subject, v . Brief ftut A mple. Yorkville Enquirer. Poor Senator Erby. br.fu.HLL aSLE m. CO. IKDIAuAPGUS, I HID. M A^\ KliS OF BEN-HUR PKEUM&l 1Q TiHE, ? - SfOO.BO 2 CUSHION use; - - - 75. CO \ yVOliN'r^ WANTKM. j* -A- ? * ? " ^ 1 Ripans Tnhu'cr. are com pounded fn>:n " iiuion widely used;! v ;!u i judi cal authorities .r.J ;::o pre sented in a u>:i:i thai i . be coming the cvviy where. Ripans TVruiles net gently but promptly upon the liver, stomach mis . intestine;; cure dyspepsia, constipa tion. otT( ns:i'o and head ache. One|tabiiU; taken at the first svmpt^m of indigestion, hiii<.usnessj dizziness, distress after catinij. or depression of spirits, wiilsurely anil quickly remove the whole difficulty. Ripans Tabules may be od tained of nearest druggist | , Ripans Tabules | are. e:isv tjo take, \ quick to act, and/ | save many) a doc-i I tor's bill | Mnwrntumaavin. fflW FLOWER SEEDS BR*?? vim hfc ?****?*?.????? U?Trif?t]k ?Mh wtMtar ?? ?M ?k? i ?^ss?s?=, ?-? rfarltr ? ??>?. r *?? 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