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Dr, tnlniugo fcoliycrs a timely .Dis course ou tho IUaen Savior, A X?ro?hooy ?n Our oWnllCHOirn?tlori -A? Christ na? HIMOU SO Will Hi? ?'oi>v*o ?iac-i?o im? .. mortui Holly. ICopyrlght. lOOJ. by Xiouis 7'1 v ? * Washin?ton, April 7. Christian festlvqV celebrated in nil tho ehurches ia tho thoxuo of Dr. \ fl discoures; I. Corinthians, 15:20: "IsoW ia Christ' risen from tho dead and be come tlio first fr ulta of them that slept." . Ou thia glorious Enster morning, amid tho muslo nnd tho Howers, I give you Christiau salutation. This morn ing, KusBiau meeting Busslan on tho Btreots of St. Petersburg, hunls him with th? salutation: "Christ is risen 1... nnd is answered by his friend in salu tation: "He is risen iudoedl" Insomc parts of England and Ireland to GIAB very day there is tho .luperstition that on Easter mornlug tho Bun dances in the heavens. And well may we forgive suoh a superstition, which illustrates tho fact that tho natural world seems to sympathize with tho spiritual. Hail,. Easter morning! Flower?! F?owersl All of them n-voiec, nil of thom a-tonguo, all of them full of speech to-day. I bend over one of thc lUies, and I hear.it say? "Consider thd Hiles of tho valley, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin, yet Solomon in all lils glory Was not ar rayed like ono of these." I bend over a TOBO, and lt scenw to whisper: "1 ani the roso of Sharon." And then 1 stand and liston. From all sides there comes tho chorus of Howers, saying: "If Qod so clothed the grass of Hie Held which to-day is and to-morrow ls east into the oven, shall Ho not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?" ' Flowers! Flowers! Braid them Into tho bride's hair. Flowers! Flowers! Strow them over tho graves of tho dead, ?weet prophecy of th? resurrec tion. Flowers! Flowers! Twist them Into a garland for my Lord Jesus on Easter morning, and "Glory bo to the Father, end to the Son, and to thc Holy Ghost; as it was iii tho beginning, is now and ever ?hall be." Thu women cam ft to the Saviour's tomb, and the.y dropped spices all around thc tomb, and those spices were tho seed that began to grow, and" from thom came nil the flowers of this Easter morn. \Tho two angels robed in white took hold of the stone at the Saviour's tomb, and they hurled it with such force down tho hill that it orushed in thc door of the world's sepulcher, and thc ht ark and tho dead must como forth. I caro hot how labyrinthine the ninu Holoum or how costly the sarcophagus or however beautlfully parterred thc family grounds, wo want thom all broken up by tho Lord of tho resur rection. . $ They must come out. Fa ther and mother-they must como out. Husbaxvi ttTi?-^ito^?hTy^?m?Tc^me "''out. Brother and sister-they must come out. Our darling children-they must come out. Tho eyes that we closed with such trembling Angers must open again in tho radiance of that morn. The arms wc folded in dust must join ours in an embrace of rc union. The voico that was hushed in our dwelling, must be returned. Oh how long some of you seem to be wait !ng for tho resurrection! And fo theso broken henrts to-day I mnko a soft, cool bandago out of Easter flowers. This morning I And in tho risen Christ a prophecy of our own resur rection, my text setting forth tho idea that' as Christ has risen BO His people will rise. He, the first sheaf of the resurrection harvest. He, "the first fruits of thom that slept." Before I get through this morning I will walk through all the cemeteries of the dead, through all thc country grave yards, .where your loved ones aro buried, and I will phi ck off these flow ers, and I will drop a sweet picmi.se of the Gospel-a rose of hope, a lily Of Joy-on every tomb-t ho child's tomb, the husband's tomb, the wife's tomb, the father's grave, thc mother's grave. And while we celebrate the res urrection of Christ we will nt the same time celebrate tho resurrection of nil the good. "Christ, thc first fruits of them that slept." If t should come to you and ash you for tho names of the great conquerors of the world, you would say Alexander, Caesar, Phillp, Napoleon I. Ah, you have forgotten to mention the name of a greater conqueror than nil these .-a cruej, a ghastly conqueror. Ito rode on a black horse across Waterloo and Chalons and Atlanta, the bloody hoofs crushing the hearts of nations. It ls tho oonqueror Death. He enrries a black flag, and he takca no prisoners. He digs a trench aorons tho hem isphere* and fills it with the carcasses of nations. Fifty times would Gie Avorkl haye been depopulated had not God kept making now generations, ?lfty limes the world would have awong lifeless through tho air-no man on the mountain, no.man.on tho nea, an abandoned ship plowing through Immensity. Again and again lias he done this work with nil generations. He is a monarch as well as a con queror; his palace a sepulcher; his fountains the falling tears of a world. Blessed be God! l?'^lhe light of this EaBter morning I soe the prophecy that his scepter shall be broken and his palace shall be demolished. Thc hour ls coming when all who aro in their graves shall come forth. Christ risen, we shall rise. Jesus, 'Allie iirst fruits of thom that slept." Now, around this doctrine of the res urrection there arc a great many mys teries. You como to niCviind fifty: "If the bodies of the dead arc tobe raised, how is this and'how is that?" And you .sk me a thousand questions I am in? Frolicsome Students. Sovonty fivo fltudonts of tho Armour ioatituto, in Ohioago, woaring night gowns outflido their othcrj garments, took posaosflion of a South Sido olovat od train Thursday night and boforo thoy woro ojootod by tho polioo thoy 4 oftunod Bovoral wonion pagsongor* to go '?unto hystorios and othorsviso oroatod pandemonium. Tho fltudonts woro oelobrAting tho gift of $1,000,000 to tho instituto by Mrs. P. I). Arm: ur and J. Ogdon,Armour, f.widow and sou of tho founder. , Coming Homo. Tho Philadelphia Timos says: "A Oon?ootiout abaoondor, guilty of defal cation, is working his Way baok to this oountry as a stoker on a morohant steam or, although ho know? that a tone of imprisonment awaits him. This looks patriotio, at leant. A man who would rather bo in j iii in Amorioa than f roo in ?orno other oountry should bo a valu able objdo'tlosBori to Amorioans who por sist in spending their monoy abroad. Mi. Orqkor and Mr. William Waldorf Astor may bo ploaaod to hoar of this ro< piwkablo por?on from ?onn?otiolit. ?omfroUnt to nutwofi But there ure ? great mp ey thlugs you bellcvo that you uro not able to oxpluin. You would be H. very foolish man to Hay: "I won't believe anything I can't understand,' WJiy, putting down ono kind of flower1 ?eccl, comes there 'Up this flower of this color? Why. putting down another llowor aeod, comes there up a flower of this color? Ono flower whtto, an other flower yu'ilotv, another fiuwer crimson. Why tho difference when the Bccds look "lo bo very much alike-aro very muon alika V Expluin those things, lixpluin that wurt on tho Unger. Ex plain tho difforeuco why tho onie leaf is different'from tho leaf of tho hick ory. Tell me how tho Lord Almighty eau turn tho charlot of His omnipo tence oh u rose leaf. You ask mo ques tions about tho resurrection I cannot answer. I will ask you a thousand questions about everyday lifo you can not answer.. . I find my strength In this passage: "All who aro lu their graves shall como forth." I do not protend to make tho explanation. You go on and say: "Suppose a roturnod mis sionary dies in this oity. When ho was in China, his foot was ampu tated; ho lived years after in Eng land, and thero ho had an arm ampu tated; ho is burled to-day in yonder cemetery. In tho resurrection will tho foot como from China, will tho arm como from Eugland, and will tho different parts of tho body bo re constructed In tho resurrection? How is that possible?" You havo noticed, I suppose, In reading tho story of tho resurrection that almost ovcry account of tho Biblo gives tho idea that the charac teristic of that day will bo a great sound. I do not know that it will bo vory loud, but I know it will bo very penetrating. In tho maxisolcum where .silence hus reigned a thousnnd years that volco iiipst penetrate. In thc corni cave of tho deer) that voice must penetrate. Millions of spirits will come through tho gatos of eternity, and they will como to the tombs of tho earth, and they will cry: "Givo us back our bodies; wo gavo them to you in corruption; sur render them now in incorruption." Hundreds of spirits hovering about tho fields of Gettysburg, for there tho bodies arc buried. A hundred thousand spirits uoming to Green wood, for there the bodies nro burled, Waiting for the reunion of body and soul. All along the sea route from New York to Liverpool, at every few miles whoro a stoamor went down, depart ed spirits coming back, hovering ovor tho wave. Thoro is whoro tho City of Boston perished. Pound nt Inst. Thero is where tho President per ished. Steamer found at last. Thoro is -where the Central America wont down. Spirits hovering, hundreds of spirits hovering, walting for the re union of body and soul... Out on thc prnirio a spirit alights. Thoro is whoro a traveler died In tho snow. Crash .goes Westminster abbey, and tho poota and tho orators como ^itW^.^w?ndorful mingling of good and bad. ???sh7"g0 iiia~^3r_amJds of Egypt, and tho monarchs ooino forth... Who can sketch the scene? I sup poso that ono moment before that gcnoral rising there will bo an entire siloncc, ?ave as you hear the grinding of a wheel or tho clattor of tho hoofs of a procession passing into tho cem etery. Silence in all the caves of the earth. Silence on tho Bido of the mountain. Silence down in tho val leys and far ont into the sea. Silence. But Iii a moment, in tho twinkling of an eye, as tho archangel's trumpet comes pealing, rolling, crashing, across tho mountain nnd sea, the earth will give ono torriflo shudder, and tho graves of tho dead will heave liko tho waves of tho Be?, and Ostond, Sevastopol and Chalons will Btalk forth In the lurid air, and the drowned will oom? up and wring out their wet looks above tho billows, and all the land and all thc sen become ono moving mass of life-all faces, all ages, all conditions, gazing in one dlreotlon and upon one throne-tho throne of resurrection. "All who aro in their gi-aves shall oome forth.' "But," you say, "if this dootrlno of tho resurrection is truo, as prefigured by this Easter morning, can you tell us something about tho resdrrected body?" I can. There aro mysteries about that, but I shall toll you threo or four things In regard to tho res urrected body that aro beyond guess ing and beyond mistake In the first place, I remark In re gard to your resurrected body, it will be a glorious body. The body wo have now is a mero skeleton of what it would have been if sin had not marred aud defaced it. Take the mont exquisite statue that was over made by an artist and chip it here and chip it there with a ohisel, and batter and bruise it hero and there and then stand It out in tho storms of a hundred years, and tho beauty would bo gone. Well, tho human body has been chipped and battered and bruised and damagod with tho storms of thousands of years-the physical defects o-f other generations coming down from generation to gen eration, wq inheriting tho infelicities of past generations. But in tho morn ing of tho resurrection the body will bo adorned aud beautified according to tho original model. And thoro is no such difference between a gymnast I and an emaciated wretch in a laz arotto as thero will bo a difference between our bodies ns they aro now and our resurrected forms. Thore you will seo tho perfect eye after the water? of death havo washed out tho stains of tears and study. There you will see the perfeot hand after tho knots of toll have berm untied from tho knuckles. Thero you will seo tho form erect and elastlo after tho bur dens havo gone off tho shoulder-tho very lifo of God in the body. ' In this world tho most, impressive thing, tho Somo Now Decisions. North Carolina has dooidod that when an injury is infliotod upon an om ployoo or passongor, that tho burdon of proof is on tho railroad to show that it was not tho railroad's fault. Now a oourt in Ohiongo has givon a verdiot for $7,500 against a prominent attorney for not eonduoting a lawsuit with propor oaro. Af tor a whilo thoy will hold doc tors rosponaiblo for a wrong diagnosis of disensos and druggists for mistakes in filling proscriptions. Thon thoro will bo fewor diplomas sold by tho modioal col lcgos.-Spartanburg Herald. Will Bo In tho Raco. In a rsoont conversation with a re porter of tho Oolumbia Rooord ox Govornor Evans said that he would likoly bo in tho senatorial raoo to suo oood Sonator MoLaurin. Ho has not positively dooidod, but tho prospoots aro that ho will bo in tho rao ). Tho othor gcntlomcn who have deoldcd ot mako tho raoo aro Ooh Wilio Jones, Senator B. H. Henderson and Con gressman Latimor. But thoro aro others who havo tho boo in their bonnets, but aro waiting on dovolopmonts. moat ?i'CRNlvi) th?iifc in'tho h'it?aa ?aco, bill that Moo 4M Voih?d with th? griofs Of h. ihoUBtUid yeul's. Hut Iii tho resumption mbl'll thut Voil will bo taken awiiy fro?ti tho face, nnd tho noonday ?un In dull nnd dim and ?tupid compared with tho oulflaming glories of the countenances of tho BHvod. . Wh?h thone faces of tho righteous, tlioso resurrected faces, .urn toward tho guto or look up to ward tho throne, it will bo like tho dawning of a now morning on tho bosom of everlastlng"d?y. O glorious, rOHUrrccted body I But I romnrk, also, lil regard to that body which you aro to get in tho rosur* root lon, it will bo an important body, Theso bodi?s aro wasting away. Some 'body has said that as soon as we begin to live w? bogin to die. Unices wo keep putting tho fuel into tho furnaco th? furnuco dies out. Tho blood vessel? oro canals taking tho brcadstuffs to ail parts of tho systom. Wo must bo reconstructed hour by hour, day by day. Sickness and.death ara all tho time trying- to got thoir pry undor the tenement or to push us oil' tho ombank mont of tho gravo. Jiut, blessed be God, in tho resurrection Wo will get a body immortal, No malaria in tho air*, no cough, no nouralglo twinge, no rheumatic pang, no fluttering of tho heart, no shortness of breath, no unv bxilanco, no dispensary, no hospital, no invalid's chair, no spcotaelos to int? provo tho dim vision, but hoalth, im? mortal health I O yo who havo achos and painu indoscribablo this morning, yo who ?re novcr well, yo who aro laooratod with physical distress, lot mo tell you of tho resurrected body, freo from all disease Immortal! Im mortal! I /jo furtkor and say in regard to that body which you aro to got in tho resurrection,it will bo a vigorous hody. Wo walk now eight or tcii milos, and wo aro fatigued; wo lift a few hundred pounds, and wo aro exhausted; un armed, wo meet a wild beast, and wo must run or flee or climb or dodge bo causo we uro Incompetent to meet it; we toil eight or ten h^prs cncrgcnticnl ly, nnd then wc aro weary. But in tho resurrection wc are to havo a body that never gets tired. IB it not a glori ous thought? Plenty of occupation in Heaven. I supposo Broadway, New York, in tho busiest season of tho year at noonday is not so busy as Heaven is all tho timo. Grand projects of mercy for other worlds. Victorien to bo cele brated. Thc downfall of despotism on earth to be announced. Groat songs to bo learned and sung. Great expedi tions on which God shall send forth His children. Plenty to do, but no fatigue. If you aro seated under tho trees of lifo, lt will not bo to rest, but to talk over with some old comrade old times-tho battles whero you fought ; shoulder to shoulder. Sometimes in this world wo feel wo would like to haye such a body ns that. There is so much work to be dono for Christ, there are so many tears to bo wiped away, there are so many bur dons to life, there is so much to bo achieved for Christ, wo sometimes wish that from the flrst of January to the last of December wa could toil on without stopping to sleep or to tako vfcoy recreation or to rest or even to takt,f ood'-that we could toil right on withouts stopping a moment in our work of cohrmsndlng Christ and Heaven to all the peopfSoowiswyo all get tired. It is a chnractcr?sliosAtho human body in this condition; wc must, got tired. Is it not a glorious thought that wo are going to have a body that will never grow weary? O glorious resurrection day! Gladly will I fling aside this poor body of sin and fling it into tho tomb if at thy bidding I shall have a body that never wearies. That ia a splendid resurrection hymn that wo have all sung; Bo Jesus slept. Clod's dying Son Passed through tho gravo and blessed the bed. Host here, blest saint, till from Ills throne Tho morning breaks to pterco tho shade. 0 blessed resurrection! Speak out, sweet flowers, beautiful flowers! Whilo you toll of a risen Christ tell of tho righteous who shall risc. May God ??1 you this morning with anticipa tion! 1 heard of a father and son who among others wero shipwrecked at sea. Tho father and tho son climbed into the rigging. Tho father hold on, b\it the son after awhile lost lils hold on the rigging and was dashed down. Tho father supposed he hod gone hope lessly under the wave. Tho next dny tho father waa brought ashoro from tho rigging in an exhausted stato and laid on a bcd in a fisherman's lint, and after many hours had passed he carno to consciousness and saw lying beside him on the same bed his boy. Oh, my friends, what a glorious thing it will be if we wako up at last to find our loved ones beside us, coming up from the same plot in the graveyard, coming up in the same morning light-the fa ther and son alive forever, all the loved ones alive forever, never moro to weep, novcr moro to part, never moro to die. May the God of peaco that brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus, that great Shepherd of the shcop, through the blood of the ovei'lnsting covenant make you perfect in every good work, to do His will, and lot tho associations of thia morning transport our thoughts to the grander assem blage before tho throne. Tho ono hun dred and forty and four thousand and tho "great multitude that no man can number," some of our best friendo among thom, we after awhile to join the multitude. Glorious anticipation! Blpst Aro the saints beloved of God; Washed are their robts In Jesus' blood. JBrlghter than angels, lo, they shine, Their wonders splendid and sublimo. My soul anticipates the day, Would stretch her wings and soar away To aid the song, the palm to bear, And bow, the chief of sinners, there. Work on the flrst factory for tho manufacture of American shoos in Mexico began last month. Mexican leather will be used. Something Up. Tho Stato says tho dispatohos toll us that Aguinaldo io buying diamonds and jowolroy-ovidenoo that hohasmonoy to sparo. , Evidently thoro is an objoot in this announoomont, whioh has, it must bo romemborcd, passed tho connor. Doos tho administration tako this mo thod to iutinuto that Aguinaldo's capturo was seourod bv bribery? In that oaso, Funston's fanlastio feat was a fako. Or is it tho purposo to dis credit Aguinaldo in tho oyos of tho Amorioan pooplo. We aro not euro nliAL ii is, but thoro is something up. Who Got This Gold? On tho arrival at Cherbourg. Tuos day of tho North Gorman Lloyd, steam or Kaisor Wilhelm der CJxoseo, Ohpt. Eoglohardt, Now York April 2, it was announood that tbroo geld bsrs, worth 4,000 pounds oaoh, had been stolon dutin? tho voyago. All tho b?ggago landen boro was rxaminod With tho utmost osTo by tho oustom'6ffi?Wd and detectives but tho gold Was h?t dis? oovorecl. Oao hundred and.fltyy passen? gors landed for Paris, and- several dc tootive? traveled in tho .opooial rtrain Who Havo Represented this Stato In tho United Stat?? Oonato FROM THE BEOINNINQ. In the Early Day? of the Repub lic lt Wa? Not Unusual for a Senator To Resign. Sino o tho formation of this govern ment, South Carolina has had 3? repre sentatives in tho United State? nonato. Somo of the'eo ?amos aro illustrious in national history as woll as beloved and rovered at homo. Thero wore sovon of this number who died in omeo: John Ewing Col houn, John Gaillard, John O. Calhoun, Franklin II. Elmore, Androw P. But lor, Josiah J. Evans and Josoph H. Earle. John Gaillard sorvod longor than any other senator from this Stato, nearly 22 yoars oontinnusly. Franklin ll. Elmoro, who Buoooodod John 0. Cal houn, sorvod but 40 days boforo his own death. Thoso sonators who also HOI ved tho Stato as govornor aro Charl on Pinok noy, John Taylor, S. B. Miller, Gc oreo MoDuffio, J H. Hammond, Wade Hampton and B. ll. Tillman. Thoro woro quito a number of sona tors who roflignod. In tho oarly days of tho ropublio it socmod te bo tho proper thing for a senator to resign bo foro his torna expired. Those who from one oauso or anothor resignod aro Pierce Butlor (twice,) John Huntor, Oharlos Pinoknoy, TbomaB Sumter, John Taylor, Rober? Y. Hayno, Stephen D. Miller, John C. Calhoun, B. E Huger, William U. Proston, George Mo: Bullio, ll. B. llhott. James Chestnut, Jr., and .JMUCH H. Hammond. Tho largest number of senators in any ono year was in 1850. Calhoun diod Maroh 31; Ehnoro diod May 20; Barn well was appointod Juno 4, and was suco:oded by llhott Dooombor 18th. Judgo A. P. Butler was tho junioi Aonator who was tho contemporary of thcao senators in that year. ' Thoro woro from tho beginning two sonators. Pioroo Butlor waa allottod tho four year toimjand Ralph Izard tho six year term. At tho expiration of tho four year torm, it too became a nix year term. This waa in ordor to keep tho two oiiioos from hoing ooterminal. Pioroo Butlor sorvod sovon yoars and resignod. Lator ho Borvod two yoars and resigned again. William Smith sorvod sovon years. Lator ho Bervod five years. John 0. Calhoun sorvod 10 yoars and rosigned. His sucoossor. aftor two years' sorvioe, rosig nod and Calhoun was roturnod to his old scat, solving fivo years-until his doath. Thoso aro tho only cases of sonators 1 oing roturnod after once rotiring from tho senate. Senator Tillman today oooupioB tho seat onco held by Pioroo Butler; and Senator MoLaurin suoaeodstotho ohair of Ralph Izard. Following hi tho list of sonators who suoocodod Pieroo But or: BUTLER'S SUCCESSORS. Pieroo Butler, soivioo commonccd Maroh 4, 1789; roelootod 1793; resigned 179G. J ?j " ^ohn Hunter, Poo.jyth, 1796, rosignod Charles Pinoknoy, MaroK 4, 1798; clootod for full torin in 1799ijrosignod 1810. v v . Thomas Sumter, Dtc 3,?801;inl805 clootod for full t mn; rcoiguod 1810. John Taylor, Boo. 19 1810; clootod in 1811 for full term; rosignod in! 1816. William Smith, Deo 4,1816; ?lcotod in 1817 for full torm. ltobort Young Hayno, Maroh 4, 1823; ro-clcotod 1829; and resigned in 1832. John 0. Calhoun, D40. 12, 1832; oleotcd for full term in 1835; rb eleoted 1841. ItoBignod 1842. Ro-olootod 1845 Daniel Elliott Hugor, Deo. 15 1842; resigned in 1845. John C. Calhoun, Doo. 26, 1845 to GU out Hugor's torm; oleo tod full torm in 1847; diod Maroh 31, 1850, Franklin H. Elmoro, April ll, 1850, appointed temporarily by govornor to till out Calhoun's term, and died May 20th. llobort W. Barnwoll, June 4, 1850, appointod temporarily by govornor to fill out Elmoro's term. ltobort Barnwoll Bhott, Deo. 18, 1850; clootcd by logislaturo to porman ontly fill out Calhoun's torm. Resigned in 1852. Wm F. DeSauBSure, May 10, 1852. Josiah J. Evans, Maroh 4,1853; diod May 6, 1858. Arthur P. Hayno, May ll, 1858, ap pointod by govornor temporarily. Jamos Chestnut, Jr., Doo. 3, 1858; eleoted full torm in 1859. Rotirod from Ronato Nov. 10 1860. For tho noxt four years thoro was a hiatus-during tho War Botwoon tho States. Sonator Chestnut's torm would have expired in 1865. Bonjamin F. Porry and John Ii, Manning wcro oleotcd in 1865, but never qualified. Then followod tho period of recon struction. Thos. J. Robertson and Frederick A, Sawyer woro ole oto tl on Juno 25, 1868. Robortson had tho seat which oamo down from Pieroo Butlor, and in 1871 suoocodod himself, solving until 1877. M. 0. Butlor, Maroh 4, 1877; ro o'eotod 1883 and in 1889. B. R. Tillman, Maroh 4, 1895, ro olf oiod in 1901. IZARD'S SUCCESSORS. Ralph Izard, Maroh 4, 1789, six years. Jacob Road; Maroh 4, 1795. John Ewing Colhoun, Maroh 4,1801; diod Nov. 3, 1802. Pioroo Butlor. (who had rosigned in 1796.) Nov. 1802; rossignod 1804. John Gaillard, Doo. 6, 1804; oleo tod for full torm in 1807: in 1813; in 1819 and in 1825. Diod Fob. 26, 1826. William Harper, Maroh 8, 1826, ap pointod by govornor to suooood Gail lard. Willam Smith, olootod by legislature to suooood Gaillard. Nov. 18,1826, Stophon D. Miller, March 4, 1831, Resignod in 1833. William 0. Proston, Nov. 26, 1833: oleotod for full term in 1837. Rosigned in 1842 (at tho samo timo with Cal houn. , Geo. MoDuffio, Dec. 1842; eleoted in 1813 for full term; resignod in 1846. Androw Pickons Butler, Deo. 21. 1816; olootod 1849 for full torm; and again in 1855. Diod May 25, 1857. Jarnos Hammond, Deo. 7,1857} re tired from nonato Nov. 101860(at oamo time with Chostnut.) After tho intorlm oooasloned by the war, Frodoriok A. Sawyer was oleotcd Juno 25,1868 for fivo years. John J. Patterson, March 4,1873. Wado Hampton, Maroh 4,1879; re olootod in 1885. . John L. M, Irby.VMaroh 4,1891. . Jos. H. Barlo, Maroh 4, 1897; died Juno 1897, John h. MoL'a?tIn, appointed to lue*, c?od JOB. II. Karlo la 1807 end olootod in 1898 to AU out torin expiring Marou 3rd, 1003. . COLI??BIA'BI?SSIO FESTIVAL. ".-? Prop oration s Complote d for a Moot Attractive TtentartAisto???*. Columbia, April 12.-~ Spoolal: Tho omiaont BUOOOBB of tho concerts given last spring, has induood tho Columbia Festival Association to pr?vido tho peo ple of tho city and Stato another ontor tainmont not only equaling but sur passing last y oar'o in tho numbor of performers and in tho oharaotor of tho eoloetions. Tho loading porformors, will bo tho following: Oompanani, tho world ronownod bar? tono. Mrs. Mario Kunkol Zimmorman, Soprano, Miss Fielding Rosollo, Contralto. Miss Mario Moli?lo, Bolo Violin. Mr. Glonn Hal), Tonor. Mr. Gwilym Miles, Bar?tono. Mr. Louis Homo, Violoncello. Mr. A. B. Hoger?, Harp. Tho roading of this list of Haolf sug gests an entertainment of suoh oharao tor and varioty as to ploaso tho audi . onoo, ovon though thoro woro tobo no othor partioipants-no othor features than tho high olasn mueio, vooal and in strumental aliko, whioh thoBO ominont soloists will furnish. But thero aro othor foatures-among them suporb orchestra of fifty musi oians. Suoh a porformanoo is raroly Boon in this sootion. Cortainly nono liko it has boon witnossod in Columbia, Wo havo had tho famous marino band, and Philip Sousa's oollootion of lino musioians, but noither of thoso equals, oithor in numbor or instrumentation, the orohoetra that will play at tho com ing May Festival. Not tho least attraotivo foaturo of tho Festival conoorts will bo tho Bing ing of tho mixod ohorus of 200 VO?OOB undor tno dirootion of Mr. Goo. L, Kit (rodge, tho head of tho depart mont of music in tho Presbyterian CollogO' for womon. Tho voices in this chorus havo boon oArofully Bolootodj and they havo for somo timo boon in training undor Mr. Kittrodgo, whom ?kill and tasto aro fully recognized. Gontddorcd SB a wholo tho Fostivel premises tc afford music, of tho differ ent kinds indioatod, of BUoh a oharao tor as to dolight tho largo audionocs that aro alroady aseurod. Tho sovoral railroads will givo spcoial ratos, and it ?B oortain that quito a numbor of IUUB?O lovers will como to Columbia for tho oooasion. Thoro will bo tbroo consorts-tho first in tho ovoning of Mav G, tho BOO ond in tho afternoon of tho 7th, and tho third in tho ovoning of tho 7th. Lottcrs in relation to tho Festival, addroBBod to Mr. Goo. L. Kittrodgo, Proabyterian Oollogo for Women, this oity, will roooivo prompt attention. FIR8T CROP REPORT. Condition of the Young Crop. Facts of Interest to tho Farmers* Last wook tbo first wookly bullotin of tho soason of tho weathor and oiops in South Carolina was ?ESUod by Diroo tor Bauor of tho South Carolina sootion of tho olimato and or op BOivioc of tho Unitod States weathor bureau. It will be of special intercut. It reads as fol lows: Tho week onding Monday, April 8th, avoragod about sevon degrees per {day ooolcr than usual, with light frost on thc morning of tho 4th over praotioally tho ontiro y tato, that retarded growth of vegetation, but was not oHiorwiso injurious. Thoro waa a deficiency in sunshine. The rainfall was oxoossivo over the wholo State, and tho amounts lor the wook, at difforont points, ranged from ono to noarly four inches. In tho up country, lands wore badly washed and lowlands flooded. Tho wot condition of tho soil stopped tho plows tho great er part of tho week, thus delaying tho preparation of lands and planting op orations, although farm work is woll advanced for tho soason. It has bcon gonorally too wot for plowing over tho woatorn half of tho Stato sinoo Maroh 25th, Corn, rico, molona, oano, gard o no, and minor oropa generally, havo boen extensively plantod over tho custom and oontral coundon, but germination is slow, and oom is ooming up to poor stands. Over tho west?rn oounlios planting operations havo undo less progroBB, although somo oom, minor oropa and gardons havo bcon plantod. Most of the lands for ootton havo boon made ready to plant, and somo ootton has boon plantod, but tho lattor work will not beoomo general until tho middle of April, or until tho woathor conditions aro moro favorablo, exoept that muoh sea island ootton is alroady plantod. Tobaooo plants aro unusually small, plontiful in plaoos and acareo in oth ers, but none havo boon transplanted. Wheat and fall Bown oats are both promising, but aro small, having only rooontly a? ar tod to grow; spring sown oats aro poor. Somo bosnian flios aro roportcd on wheat. With tho exception of Kdgoflold county, whore less than a full orop of poaohos is indioatod, tho fruit pros pects arc unimpaired, and tho troon aro in bloom from tho mountains to tho Boa. Tho moisturo conditions aro favor, ablo in tho ooast truok heida, but tho tomporaturo has boon too low for quick, germination of scods, and for rapid growth of tho young plants, although truok looks healthy. Somo potato bugs havo appoarcd on whito potatoes. Heavy shipmen ta of cabbages, and' a few shipments of strawberries, havo boen mado to northern markets from Charleston. Ia goneral, truok is from ono to two wocks lator than usual. Eaton by an Alligator. Tho military authorities at Montorey, Mexioo, havo roooivod confirmation of tho report that Liout. JOBO Carraonia, a popular young offloer of tho Moxioan army, has boon devoured by an alliga tor whiio bathing in tho Tamesin river, noar Tampioo. Liout. Carmona was a momber of tho department of onginoors and had boon stationod at Tampico for some timo past. Ho and a numbor of other army o iii o om woro enjoying a plunge in tho Tamosin river, whon a monsterous aligator was soon to be mak ing for Lieut. Carmona. Ho was givon warning and made a desporate effort to esoape, but tho alligator ovortook him and tho young officer was devoured in tho prononoo of his oomponioni. Liout. Carmona graduated at ino government military aoadomy at Chapultopoo four years age. He Was a loader in nooioty in tho oity of Mexioo during his resi dence in that oity. You say advertising won't help youl Doos overy newspaper roador in this sootion know just wnat you do? No! Woll, if thoy did. would thoro not bo s?mo that would havo now business for you immediately? A the. CHino$o Planned todkill Evory . . . . . Foreign ttoaldont. -- gt HAD IMPERIAL SANCTION. Report of tho American} Bib!? Society Show a.M ow Oh In oso Murdering Was Oirectod Against Christiana. 1 (Tho annual roport of tho' AmerioaW Uiblo eooioty rolativo to tho situation* in China will oontain tho following in teresting statements from its agonts in China,, tho Hov. John R. Hykos, D. D, : "Thoro was a deep and., .cunningly laid plot; under importa! sauotiou, to oxtirpato (Jhrifitianity, expel all foreign ors and dostroy all foreign intorests. No ono divined the full extont of tho iaquity whioh was diliboratoly contem plated. ''In all 183 Protostant miaBBonarios, inoluding 60 mon, 75 women an 48 ohildron, havo boon maasaorod. With tho oxooption of tho massaoros at Ku Ohoo, in OhinosoKian, whor'o ll portions wore killoe!, and.at Hong Ohoo, in Hu-Nnn. all of tho deaths ooourrcd in tho northam proviuoos. "Tho quoBtion has boon raisod at homo as to whether tho Boxor uprising was anti-missionary in its oharaoter. No doubt exists in tho minds of any w oil-inf or mod person in Ubina. Tho movoment was undoubtedly against foroignora ai) suoh, and tho orusado waa directed against everything foroign, Christianity, of eourso, included. Hsu Ohing Ohon and Yuen Chang, 'two ministors of tho foroign offico, would not transmit tho awful' odiot whioh roitoratod tho oidor to 'painfully'ex tirpalo foroignora,' but obangod it sb os to protoot all foreigners,' and tbon sent it-hying over tho wiroa to tho romotost provinces. Thoy wore sontonood to bo out in two. MisBionarios woro tho olass that bonofitod by this act of heroism. Tho fact that evory missionary escaped from 14 out of tho 18 provinces wo' indioato that tho orusado was not spooially anti-missionary. Un tho prov?noos ?hih Li and Shan Si ovory sohool, hospital, ohapcl and dwolling was looted and burned by tho Boxer? and imporial troops, tho only oxoeption hoing tho proporty in the foroign sottlemont at Tien Tsin. So oomploto was tho demolition' ' of proporty by thc no ni ad fanatics that not a vestigo was loft to mark tho sito; ovon tho' foundations woro dug up and oarried away. Thero was also dostruotion of mission property in tho provinoo of Shon Si; Ho -Tan, Hu . Nan,, Hupo. Chang Si, Oho Kiang and K san Tung. Jlolativo Christians havo boon tho worst sufforors. Thoso who osoaped tho gonorol slaughtor in tho northorn prov?noos lost absolutely ovorything, and many of them aro poriehing.from oold and starvation. .'Tho Scriptures doBtroyod will. ag gregato not less than 100 volumes, and tho actual loss to tho uooiotv will not bb loss than oight or ton thousand gold dollars, inoluding tho necessary osponso of got ting workors to places of safoly and baok again to their stations. Ail of our foreign superintendents wore saved. Wp havo to mourn tho lona..of many robl? and dovotod native workors. Th?y woro wained of tho risks ' they woro runing, but not a man of tho noblo banid of 18 flinohoil. Their reply was: "We go on a oolportBig? tour. . God's will Will bo dono?' ' Only four of tho 18 roturnod from that journey. . Tho homes of theso martyrs woro looted and burned and thoivf ami lion extermi nated. Those who survivod escaped to mountains, whoro thoy sufforod terriblo privations and managed to got baok to Pekin after' it aas oaptuiod by tho allied armios. Of tho oolportours ur.dor missionary suporvision I havo not heard of ono that esoaped. Storno othor parts of China complain bi'tori y of tho same treatment, "Moro than 40,000 nativo oonvortB (inoluding Hornau Catholic?) mot death in a heroism worthy of tho best ago of tho ohuroh. ''While tho total number of. volumes tho Soriptures published is 6,700 les? than provious yoaiB, the number Of pages is slightly in exooss. Tho mini bor of pagos printod in 1899 was 76, 932,200; this year it was 77-616,700, Or about throo quartors of a million moro. This is tho largest numbor of pages over printod iu ono year by the China agonoy, and will givo somo idea of tho proportions to whioh tho work has grown whoo, in common with all other.-. forms of Christian work, it was sudden-. ly interrupted by tho events of tho.past yoar. Tho numbor'of mandarin JdUpdos manufactured is worthy of splioial notice. Thoro wo reooived from tho printers no less than 16,500 oomploto Uibloe and 5,000 eopioB woro in press on Pooombor 31." Texas Cotton. The stato of Toaas raisod'-'last year moro cotton than Was produced by tho wholo world not vory many years ago. Year boforo last tho Texas orop 'amount ed to 3,555,000 bales, but oven't heno onormous iiguros woro cxoollod in 1900. Sinoo the first of last Soptombor 3,400, 000 balos of cotton havo beon mtyrkct od in Texas and a eonsoryativo ostiinate puts tho amount of Texas ootton.of tho last oreo not yot marketed . at 250,000. bales, V'horo is a vory striking differ enoo in ti.o amount of money paid for the orop of 1898-99 and that whioh tho last orop in worth. Tho formor brought about $89,000,000. Tno avorago t"rioo paid for it was 5 oonts a pound. Owing to tho groat advance of tho prioo the last Texas orop will bring about $169, . 000,000, Or nearly twieo as muoh as tho prooeding orop, though it was only about 100,000 balos largor. Tho great cr part of tho last orop was sold at.9 oents a pound, lt is gratifying to know that tho inorossod cotton aoroago of Texas will not bo as largo as was cx pooted a fow wooka ago'. Tho Texas papors generally predict that tho orop of ootton in that stato this yoar will not bo any largor than that of In nt yoar, Tho farmors of that stato noona to real izo that overproduction means a doolino in prioo and aro refraining from con tributing to that result. It is tobo hopod that tho ootton planters of other states will aot with equal wisdom,- - -At lanta Journal. Killod His Sweetheart,. T. L. Arrington, a woll known young man of ?ummorvillo, Ga., Wed nesday afternoon shot and Killed Miss. Mamie Cleghorn, a prominent young lady .of that town, and then killod himself. Arrington had boen ongagod to tho young lady but bcoauno of par ental objection tho engagement had boon brokon, Arrington Tuesday notified tho parents of th? girls that unless objections wore withdrawn [ would do something rash. < 1 -'./' "?'. .'.--'..'....:' . . ' .-'?>'.u:'.-?s < Vtt'.'if'i'Mi'urfU An Artiolo That VSte Want AUUm< bands to Eead. . Ono of tho most timely, most pruoti oal and wisoBt artiolos we have ro*d lately appoars in Harpor's B?zzar fot thia week'from tho pon of Margaret Hamilton Woloh. It ie entitled ''Tho Wife's Sharo of tho Ineomo," Wo oau not roi rain from quoting tho following paragraphs, though qvory , word. and ovory riontimont of tho intiro osaay are truo and juet: ?'yho wife whoso husband ie Just onbugn to accord to hor as her right tho unrestricted uso of a share of tho family inoomo can soaroely approoiato the eon* tinuouB suffering of nor Bister whoso matrimonial finaooos aro arranged on tho opposito plans. Tt makos little dif ference who thor tho establishment bo ol ab or ato or sim plo. Womon who ejah soloot Paris gowns and roso dimonds aro ofton as dofifcituto of tnonoy in ibo purse to buy a theatre tiokot, to bestow a gift or oven to p?rcha?o a bunoh of violets at tho s tro ot corner as tho Uhr fortunato littlo housekeeper who has novor tho sum of a oar f aro to oall hor own. Eioh woman is equally humili?t od and each undoubtedly has ruomouta in oommon when all tho virtuos of her othorwiso kind and ovon loving spouso fail to outweigh in tho eoalo of hor self* reapoot tho bittornoss which her igno miny produooB toward tho inan who oausos it. It would bo a rovolation to Bomo mon, domestic tyrants in this way, if thoy could look into tho hearts of thoir non-rosisting, a coop ting wives and eoe tho positivo oontompt and hatred that is, at timos, written thoro for thoir partners ita wedlock. Is it to bo wondorod at?. Oan'a woman wholly love a man whoso notions in making her a worso dopondont than hor servant must orouBo. oonternpt? Tho high opiritcd woman wiU not subrnit, it will bo said. ; Sho dods, though, all ovor tho land, every day in tho yoar. Sho will remonstrate, porhaps, but tho nat uro of tho man wno puts, this yoko u [ion his wife is not, as a rulo, ninon ablo to rcmonatranoo, and tho poaeo of tho homo, tho respect of tho ohildron, tho gossip of servants and the epoooh of people must all bo considered and teryo to keon tho soroly tried woman from auy radioal stop. If tho lives of ur!?!U?peQted myrtyrs aro ever Winton thoso unhappy partners of many a good but unconsciously oruol man should bo sot forth in oharaotors of gold for thoir years of unnoacBsary, torturing ondur anco. "Tho injustico of tho hu band who doles out a rigidly to bo-accounted for Btipond for tho household oxponaoB, al lowing tho wifo not a. pou ny for hor private,, iudopendont purse, ip. as fla grant ns it is unmanly. In any buoi noss partnership tho share of profit is in proportion to capital investod Certainly sho who leaves hor father' house to assist tho man of her choice in tho upbuilding of a. homo in whioh both Bharo contributes by her preseneo hor thought, her labor, her rosponsi bility, hor effort and management in i thousand ways aa equal sharo with the mau in tho new invostmont. It is her right that this should bo.recognized in tho e uitroi of tho firm's1 money receipts." How many husbands who road thoso words mi b feol that thoy apply to thom I In most oases it is though tl o sa ne ss which oausos husbandt to aubjoot thoir wives to tho inoonvonioneo and humiliation which Miss Woloh doaoribos in torms nono too sovcro. By her force ful portrayal of this evil and her strong pica for its nba tc mont Miss Woloh may do much for tho- ro??of of laoso unfor tunate wives to whom bot heart ' joes o?t ia'sympathy. . ' . . - , j_. FIGHTING WIIH MURDERERS. A Bh riff, After Chasing A Gang ' ? . ' Comes to Battle.. Two mon wtro killed and two wt und" cd in a fight between Sheriff J?Kn W. Wright and his deputies, On ono side, and tho desperadoes who robbod and murder od agod Mrs. Jemima Hall and h<r son, on tho other. The fight oo ourred on tho mountain top botwoon Boono's Fork and M?listono oreok, Ky. Wright and his i posse started out several months ago to oapturo tho gang who oruelly tortured tho arced widow and after scouring her monoy murdered her and her. lion and bu mod hor. body with tho littlo hut in whioh sho livod. Citizens havo boon daily expecting to hear of a pitohed battle botwoonjuho two orowds thal already had aevoral small sorim mogos. .??..'. Friday John and Morgan Royn?lds, Iaaao and Creed.-Porter . a?d Qoorge Newsomo Were looatod by tho pos JO in a rendezvous on top of . thc motntaita; Morgan Koynolds, No WM) me and . Iaaao Porter wpnt-away) and while thoy wero go.io tho officers tuddonly confronted Crood Petter and John Roynoldn, and all of til om, 10 in nnn>btr, oponed fire TJm desperadoes ropliod with rift MI and rovoivora and inoro than. 300 shots, wore exchanged at ? distanoo of lesa than a dozen pacos. :" V ' . J ohu Hoy nokia roo?ivod a serious if not fatal wound in' tho loft ohou'dor and rotrcaicd,''lcavin>'Portor alono, Tho latter's ammunition soon gavo out, and ho too, wont into hidinc Of thc posso Willid Wrightj agod 18, was killod by a steel bullo? whioh passed through his abdomen, and l?aao' Millard, aged 21. wau shot through tho h o a rt. A third man namod Osborne was struOkitr. the right leg and severely hutt.1 .. ?#> : [~ , Young Wright who waB killed at. the first firo, joined tho posao-about-ajmonth ago to avengo tho mut dor of his father VV. 8.? Wrigut, whom tho gang assagai nated about a year aig'o, Th? firing was hoard for a distance of thrco milos. It was at first thought that tho posno hid boon defeated and;dov. Bookham was telegraphed to send Stato troops to oap turo tho gaug. .' When it was loarnod however, that tho posflo had not boon y?otorieua and moflsngo wft? sont'to 'trio governor i6 tho oil'oo, that no troops* Were niaintair. od.'- ' " .. . . W- - Thoro is mord Catarrh in thia flootlon of tho .country than all other diseases put togo thor, and untij tho- last few years was supposod to bo mourabie For a. groat many, years doctors pro nounood lt a looal dlsoase, and protcrlh oA looal remodios, and j)f od?fltantly failing to ouro with looal treatment, pronounced it inourablo. Solenoo ? lias provon oatarrh to bo a oonstitutional disoaso, and therefore roqnires ootastitu tional tr?atmont? ' IlaU'a Catarrh O?ro manufactured by P. J* Ohonoy ?& Go Tolodo, Ohio, is tho only oonntitutiona ouro on tho markot. It is taken inter nally in dosqs from 1-0 drops to a teas poonful. It aots dirootly oh tho and muooua surf aeon of tho system They offer ono huntlrod dollars for oarjo lt falls to euro: Bond for oiroul ?n,d t'ostiihonials. Address. : F. J. OHBWJBy & 00.. toledo, 0; Sold by Pru^iBts, Wo/r Hall's family Pil)p aro tho beal. Friday w?s an ovontful dfty I? IHtii* burgr Pa, Thomas I). Kabno, a Mount Washington groo?v was shot ned? ; Juli? d in hld homo'by throe burgla?/?whilo <lo foudlng his wiro; who was hoing chlo roformed. A fow hours later tho ren doavoua of tito felons ?ras dicov?rcd st . " 82 Fulton streot, ao4 a fordo of dotoc tivos put to work on tho caso? In a desperate fight which followed, City ?etootlv? Vatrlok E.Fitzgorald was in stotly filled and ooo of tho alleged. tObboro, who gave his name aa Edward Wright wh? fired the shots that killed Ifitzgoraldi was badly wouuded. Two malo and two f?malo members of tho alloged robber gang woro aircstod and diamonds and other booty^v/orth from 13,000 to $1000 roeoverodV Tho wholo of tho gong is boli9ved to, bo iii custody and tho detootives havo ovldonoo that the mon aro responsible for tho numer ous burglaries of tho past month or two in and around this city, Tho wouuded prieonor was. removed to, Morey hoepiial whoiro it is,,said ho may rooovor, al? : though ho* wai eliot throo times. 1 Tho others arroBt<d gavo their namco as R?bortWiloox and his wife, Jonb?? B. Wright, a bro thor of tho alleged mur derer and a woman said to bo his wife Thoy woro taken to Central. station, whero it was learned that all Were from Chicago. A Merchant Assassinated. J; A dispatch from Union to Tho State Bays nows has just reach thoro of a horfiblo murder'obtomittcd at Whit mire, 18 milos south of Union, Mr, V/. S- Leo is the vietim. It appears that Mr. Leo, a ^merchant and a oripplo, Blooping in his storo house, was awak ened somo limo during Thursday night and admitted somo parties, supposed to b? oustomor?. Whoa ho Was fo?nd to day his hoad was boat into a jelly ana ho wau in his night olothos. H?B store wan robbod and a considerable amount of money and tbrco pistols had boon taken. TKoro is no clue at. this tinto as to who woro tho porp o tr atora of this orimo. No Dispensary for Hock Hill. / Rook Hill, by a vote of 56 to 170, dooidod last Friday against tho eatab liahmont of a dispensary iii that ' oityV Somo advooatos of tho. dispensary havo olaimod that those vol i UK againBt tho m?vomont wcro but encouraging tho Balo of blind tiger whi?koy. ; To show ?their sinoority tho auti's ?. fbllowo4>#P.> their victors by oiroulating a subsorip-^ tion list to bo used to fight th? .illegal'' salo tf whiekoy in tho city. A/Vigor ous i ff ort will bo mado to stamp out tho ovil. 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