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^a mmW*^?mb^HBMM? ?^__K?n?wmmmmmmm?Mmamnaua VOL XLY. WINNSBORO, S. G., WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1888? * ~ ^ N<xj>. - ? 1 ;; ; ,.t ;t , ALL CHAINS CAN BE BROKEN. DR. TALXAGE'S PBRVID SERMON AT THE BROOKLYN TABERNACLE. Gambling, Drinking, Smoking, Infidelity, Unclean lines*, Avarice and Irreliglon Are All Links In the Chain of Sin Which Shackles the Mind and Soul. An unusually large congregation attended the Brooklyn Tabernacle Sunday. The Bev. Dr. Talmage never preached with greater vigor. He took for his text, Ezekiel vii., chap. 23, "Make a chain." Having spoken of the * ' * a A_ 3 many uses to vmcu cnams were aaapiea sndits symbolic character, * the golden chains that were used as gems of honor in older ages, he said: "What I wish to impress upon myself and upon you is the strength in right and wrong directions, of consecutive forces, the superior power of a chain of influences above one influence, the great advantage of a congeries of links above one link, and in sH family government and in all effort to rescue others and in all attempt to stop iniquity, take the suggestion of my text and make a chain. "That which contains the greatest importance, that which incloses the most tremendous opportunities, that which, of earthly things, is most watched by other worlds, that which has beating against its two sides all the eternities, is the cradle. The grave is nothing in importance compared with it, for that is only a gully that we step across in a oArtrmd- hnt tliA /vrarilft hftA within -it a new eternity, just born and never to cease. ""When, three or four years ago, the Ohio Biver overflowed its banks and the wild ireshets swept down with them harvests and cities, one day was found floating on the bosom of the waters a cradle with a child in it, all unhurt, wrapped up snug and warm, and its bine eyes looking into the blue of the open heavens. It was mentioned as something extraordinary. Bat every cradle is, with its young passenger, floating on the swift current ol the centuries, deep railing to deep, Ohios and St. Lawrences and Mississippis of influence, bearing it onward." Having spoken of and pointed out the means of properly educating and instructing the young, Dr. T&lmage went on to show that so great were the temptations to which young men were open and the sooial follies of young women that the first eighteen years of their life should be tenderly cured for, he illustrated it by picturing the wandering of a young man through wildnees and dissipation, but the molding of * ? ? ? i _i * _ mi wnoee nome me ana instruction sou cling to him. "What a rough time that yonng man has in doing wrong," said Dr. Talmage, 'carefully nurtured as he was! His father and mother have been dead for years, or they are over in Scotland, or England or Ireland; but they have stood in the doorway of every dram shop that he entered, and under the chandelier of every house of dissipation, saying: 'My son, this is no place for you- Have you forgotten the old folks? Don't you ^ ^r^^ge&^e wrii^^and^s^^^ id? Go home, my boy, go home! t -?the God to whom we consecrated : a, by the cradle in which we rocked /Ou, by the grass-grown graves in the old country churchyard, by the heaven V11W3 WO uvyo J OH W lUTOD JWU, 6V home! Go home, my boy, go home!' And some Sunday you will be surprised to find that young man suddenly asking for the prayers of the church. Some Sunday yo2 will see him at the Sacra- I meat, and, perhaps, drinking from the same kind of chalice that the old folks 1 drank out of years ago when they com- ; memorated the sufferings of the Lord. ! Yes, my lad, you do not have so much fun in sin as you seem to have. I know what spoils your fun. You cannot shake off the influences of those prayers long ago offered, or of those kind admonitions. "At last that young man turns through the oonsecutive influences of a pious parentage, who out of prayers and fidelities innumerable made a chain. That is the chain that pulls mightily this morning on five hundred of you. "The first chain bridge was built in Scotland," said the pastor, after describing a weak link in the chain of life. "Walter Soott tells how the French^ imitated it in a bridge across the Biv?$i' Seine. But there was one weak po'? in that chain bridge. There was a ztndV~l4. Ant <mc Af TV\Ar maforifll Vint. - UiU UUID UiMV WW V* WM. , they did not know how much depended on that middle bolt of the chain bridge. On the opening day a procession started, led on by the builder of the bridge, and when the mighty weight of the procession was fairly on it, the bridge broke i and precipitated the multitudes. The bridge was all right except in that mid. die bolt. So the bridge of character may be made up of mighty links strong enough to hold a mountain, but if there be one weak spot, that one point unloosed lifter may De the destruction of v everything. "And what multitudes have gone ? t n _x L. < down lor au tune ana au ewnuty w v cause in the chain bridge of their character there was lacking a strong middle bolt. He had bat one fault and that was avarice; hence, forgery. He had bat one faalt and that was a burning thirst for intoxicants; hence, his fatal - -debauch. She had but one fault and that an inordinate fondness for dress, and hence her own and her husband's bankruptcy. Sbe had but one fault and that a quick temper; henoe the disgraceful outburst. What we all want is to have put around us a strong chain of good influences. Christian association is a link. Good literature is a link. Church membership is a link. Habit of prayer is a link. Scripture research is a link. Faith in God is a link. Put together all these influences. Make a ~ chain!" Dr. Talmage then spoke of how a link was made on the downward path, and with characteristic humor described it. "First let him smoke, he said. "If 1? nirroria lftt him fcrv liU VXUiUV/? oiauu * - -j ?* , ^ cigarettes. Let bim drink light wines or ale or lager, and gradually he will be able to take something stronger, and as! all styles of strong drink are more and! more adulterated, his progress will be facilitated. "With the old-time drinks a man seldom got delirium tremens before t>0 or 40 years of ag*v; now he can get the madness by tbe time he is 18. .Lei Lira p'.nj card.-", enough nsonry putup always to add interest to the game. If the father and mother will play with him that will help by way of countenancing the habit. Have a membership in some dub where libertines go and tell about their victorious sins, and laugh as loud as any of them in derision of those who belong to the same sex as your sister and mother. "Pitch your Bible overboard as olaI fashioned and fit only for women and phildwin- Bead all the magazine articles that put Christianity at disadvantage, and go to hear all the lectures that malign Christ, who, they say, instead of being the Mighty One he pretended to be, was an imposter and the implanter of great delusion. Go, at first out of curiosity, to see all the houses of dissipation, and then go because you have felt the thrall of their fascination. Getting along splendidly now. Become more defiant of all deoenoy, more loudmouthed in your atheism, more thoroughly alcoholized, and instead of the small stakes that will do well enough for games of chance in a ladies' parlor, put up something worthy, put up more, put up all you have. Well done. You have succeeded. "You have made a chain?the tobacco habit one link, the rum habit one link, the impure club another link, infidelity another link, Sabbath desecration another lint rmnleftnliriASfi annfhfir link, and altogether they make a chain. And so there is a chain on your hand, and a chain on your foot, and a chain on your tongue, and a chain on your eye, and a chain on your brain, and a chain on your property, and a chain on your soul. Some day you wake up and you say, 'I am tired of this, and I am going to get loose from this shackle.' You pound away with the hammer of good resolution, but cannot break the thrall. Your friends join you in a conspiracy of help, bat fall exhausted in the unavailing attempt. "Now you begin, and with the writhing of a Laocoon, to try to break away, and the muscles are distended, and the great beads of perspiration dot your forehead, and the eyes stand out from their sockets, and with all the concentrated energies of body, mind and soul ; you attempt to get loose, but have only made the chain sink deeper. Ail the devils that encamp in the wine flask and < the rum jug and the decanter?for each one has a devil of its own?come out and sit around you and chatter. In some midnight you spring from your couch and cry: *1 am fast. 0 God, let me loose! O ye powers of darkness, let me loose! Father and mother and brothers 1 and sisters, help me to get loose!' And you turn your prayer to blasphemy, and then blasphemy into prayer, and to all : the din and uproar there is played an i oiMAmnonimnnt r^Af or* a/?/?AmrkanimAnf MW VXU j^OUiXU VMII) MVV MM by key and pedal, but the aocompani- j ment is a rattle, and the rattle is that of ; a chain. For five years, for ten years, : for twenty years you have been making a chain. ; "Is there a drunkard here?" asked i Dr. Talmage. "You may, by the Saviour's grace, have that fire of thirst 1 utterly extinguished. Is there a de- 1 frauder here? You may be made a . saint. Is there a libertine here? You 1 may be made as pure as the light. When < a minister in an outdoor meeting in j Scotland was eulogizing goodness there 1 were hanging around the edge of the i audience some of the most depraved ] men and women, and the minister said < nothing about mercy for prodigals. And < a depraved woman cried out: 'Your rope < is not long enough for the like of us.' ] Blessed be God, our Gospel can fathom ] the deepest depths and reach to the farthest wanderings, and here is a rope ] that is long enough to rescue the worst: i 'Whosoever will.' "Bat why take extreme cases when we all have been or are now the captives of sin and death? And we may, through h-,q drop oar shaeEfes aftd take a throne;?Yuir irave- ^ looked at your hand and arm only as ] being useful now and a curious piece of \ anatomy, but there is something about ] your hand and arm that makes me think f they are an undeveloped wing. And if j you would know what possibilities are j suggested by that, ask the eagle that has ' looked close into the eye of the noon < day sun. or ask the albatross that has ] struck its claw into the black locks of < the tempest, or ask the condor that this t morning is descending to the highest j peak of Chimborazo. Your right hand i and arm and your left hand and arm, ] two undeveloped wings, better getreacy j for the emovrean." < "Rise, my soul, and stretch thy wing; Thy Tetter portion trace." ^ The Wolf, the Pox and the Lion. ) A Wolf one day Sought out a Fox who 1 had been particularly Recommended to him for his Astuteness, and said: "I have passed the Lion on several Occasions, and he does rot Deign to ! Notice me." V- i "And you want Bevenge, of course?" 3 "I do. I want to make His Heart Sad? 1 very Sad." - "He is Honest in Business?" 1 "Oh, yes." ] "Pays his Debts Promptly?" "He does." . 1 "Goes to Church and keeps clear of Scandal?" 1 "Yes." "And is too Strong for you to Attack?" ; "Exactly; you see how I am Situated." "I do. There is but one way for you to get Even. Pitch in and secure his Nomination for office, and then Lie about and Defeat him." VAT? A T. It was shown during the Campaign that the Lion was an Embezzler, Defaulter, Horse Thief, Liar and Sneak?that his Father was a Convict and his .Mother a Ballet Dancer?that his Grandfather was Hung and his Brothers sent to Prison for Life, and he was duly Defeated.? Detroit Free Press. A Girl's Composition. Several good compositions written by boys on the subject of girls are going the rounds. Here is a little girl's composition on boys, in which she shows that her sex, no matter how young, can get ahead of the boys every time: t?"R<-vTra a-rtx mAn fhftt Vtavw nnt tr>it ftR vut.w *?- T V W QV big as their papas, ar.d girls are young women that will be young ladies by and by. Man was made before woman. When God looked at Adam He said to Himself, 4Well, I guess I can do better if I try again,' and then He made Eve. God liked Eve so much better than Adam that there has been more women than men ever since. Boys are a trouble. They are wearing on everything but soap. If I had my way half the boys in the world would be little girls, and the rest would be dolls. My papa is so nice that I guess he must have been a girl when he was a boy." The New York World observes: "The man who claims to be the youngest war veteran in the country is Charles L. Stone, of Philadelphia. He was 14 years of age when he carried a gun at tlirt battle of Getty .burg. At that battle 1?.- wj-.R wonaded in the arm by a rills f i> r n... 4KV.0,1 tn jL i\i V UI buu muv j ks\juu xi6?\.4 w cut away, arid ho says that his appreciation of a joke is not as vivid as it should be. But he still lias the humerus of his right arm. That ought to help him a good deal in keeping up with American wit." An Australian football club has arranged with an aocident insurance company to pay any of its members who are disabled while playing the game 37.50 per week as long as thev remain on the sick list, and $1000 to the relatives if the injuries received in the football field should terminate fatally. TALE OF A SAVAGE -BRAVE. RED SHIRT TELLS OF MEN AND BABIES MURDERED. Right to Kill Women and Children In War-Bad Hearts from Troubled Brains? A White Woman Captive?Wonderful Indian Revelation* Made to Whiten. In reply to questions put up by a PostDispatch correspondent, Red Shirt said his Indian's name was Ok-le-sa; that he was 41 years old and had been chief of I his tribe eleven years. "When asked about the traditions of the Sioux he gave a brief outline of his tribe's history, which was interpreted as follows: ' 'The old men have told rco that many ages ar,/\ tins T.on/~vtaa fSinnY,\ HvaH hprA hv the side of the great waters. They fcraght with other tribes who had many lodges and great warriors, and long, long before the white men came they were driven toward the setting son and made their homes beyond the Smoky Water (Mississippi River). How long ago this was I do not know; but I know it is true, for the old men have told me so. After a while the white men came into our country. They hnnted bnflalo and killed antelope upon the plains. They came into the camps of the Lacotas and slept in their tepees. They were well treated, for they were welcome. By and by more white men came, and then they came thick. They took the Lacotas' land and drove them from their hunting grounds. "Then the heart of the Lacotas got bad, for their brains were troubled. They thought everything would be taken from them and their hearts were broken. They * ? i n i _ i?J # ii __ I thougnt no land wouia ue leic ior tnem to live upon, so they began to fight. They took white men's scalps, and the white men's tepeee, and scalped their women and children. They fonght for many years, but the white men were too strong. If an Indian got killed no Indian came in his place; but the white men grew thicker all the time. The Lacotas had no hope left, so they had to quit fighting and submit to the whites. There will be no more wars between the white men and the Lacotas, for the white men are many and the Lacotas few." Bed Shirt then related how the trouble began between the whites and his uncle, the noted Sioux chief, Young-ManAfraid-of-His-Horses. He said that about twenty-five years ago an emigrant train was crossing the plains a short distance from Fort Laramie. One of their steers became lame, and it was left behind on :he trail. In a short while a Sioux . t- * L XI J aunimg party came upuu mo ttuouuuueu steer and killed it A few days after a jompany of soldiers from Fort Lar smie jame to the Sioux camp on the North Platte to arrest the Indians who had dlled the steer. The tribe refused to surrender them but offered to pay for the steer. A long strangle followed, and finally the officer in command of the troops made an ittempt to forcibly take the Indians yhom he wanted. He charged upon the pillage; but he had miscalculated the ?treBgto-oi^tli^_ Sionxr- fQS there ircrct SaSylodg'es benind a hill close by which le had not seen. The Indians fell upon ?e troops on every side, and the com- . pany of thirty-two men were killed and scalped. The great Sioux chief Conquering ?ear was killed in the fight, and the interpreter, a Frenchman, was also killed. That night the Indians had a big scalp iance, and a long, bloody war followed. Red Shirt neapt told some oi his personal experiences while on the warpath, and spoke of the men he had killed with as xrach apparent satisfaction as a hunter would exhibit in relating his exploits. Eia first fight with the whites was tweniytive years ago, and this was his version )f how the trouble came about. A band of Cheyennes attacked an emigrant train, and after killing all the men, jarried off a white woman captive. In their wanderings over the plains they met a party of Sioux, to whom the woman was sold, the chiefs, Two Face and Black Feet, paying two horses for her. Afterwrard a detachment of soldiers from Fort Caramie came upon the Sioux band, and, finding the woman in their possession, sensed them of murdering the emigrants and carrying off the woman. Two Face and Black Feet were tried and hanged at Fort Laramie, and the balance of the band to which they belonged were ordered to remove east of 11 ' TliAtr Ant Lilt? iZUUKUim mvui* xugj QvaiWA* VU? under guard of two companies of soldiers, and got as far as the Junction of Horse Creek and the North Platte before any trouble occurred. Here some of the Indians who were in irons complained of being tired, and that their legs were swollen" from the chafing of the iron bands. They asked to be allowed to ride in one of the wagons, but the request was refused. Then all of the Indians got angry and secretly concocted a plan to turn upon their guards at an unexpected moment. Just as the troops were preparing to break (amp on the following morning the Indiana attacked them. Bed Shirt killed the commandment of the detachment, and this was the signal for a general assault. The soldiers were completely taken by surprise, and five of their number were killed in the first charge. The others saved themselves by jumping in the river and swimming across. Two men were killed in the water as they were faying to escape.. After this fignt the entire band of Sioux went on the warpath, and it was many months before they surrendered. Bed Shirt says he has made bnt one attack upon a wagon train. This occurred at Pole Creek, in Montana, about nineteen years ago. A party of five men, with three teams, were pushing their way through the hostile country when they were discovered by Bed Shirt's band. The Indians bore down on them, and, after their usual fashion, began to circle around to draw their fire. The doomed men abandoned their teams and attempted to run to a high hill which was close by, but they were all shot i down before they could jeach the cover I they were making for. JKea ?nirt trunks the men were not experienced in Indian warfare or they would have kept under oover of their wagons instead of trying to reach the hill. The usually solemnlooking chief smiled as ho related the easy task the Indians had in shooting down tho men as they ran. The dead men were scalped, the wagons destroyed and the mules driven off. lied Shirt has been in several bloody battles between his own tribe and the Omahas on the Upper Missouri River, and he thinks they* are better fighters than the white men. In speaking of fighters among his own people, he says that Crazy Horse was the bravest man he ever saw. He never went into a battle without taking a scalp, and during his life killed more than sixty men with his own hands. When asked about his own deeds, Eed Shirt seemed ashamed to admit that he had no greater number of dead men on his list. He said that he had taken only eight scalps in his life, five of these being of white men and the other three Omaha Indians. His first scalp was that of the officer whom he killed in the fight at the junction of Horse Creek and the North Platte Eiver. When asked why the Sioux scalp those slain in battle, he gave the following reasons: In former times the Sioux cut off the heads of their victmis, but when they began to fight the white man they took to scalping, the same as they saw the white man do. The scalp is taken as indisputable evidence that a man has been killed, and whenever an Indian warrior recounts his bloody deeds he must produce the scalp to prove that Mwn 4a i-*TiA i t V?a foila fn rln ytj-iou ug oaj a xa ujl uui u juv awhu w ??*w < this he is not believed. The scalps are usually kept for a time and then thrown away. Some of the old men wear scalps on their shirts or leggings, and have them buried with their bodies when they die. In concluding his remarks on scalps, Bed Sliirt said, with a touch of sadness in his expression: "I don't like to keep scalps to look at them, for they always make me think of fights in which some ! of my friends have been killed." In reply to the questions, "Are you sorry that you have no opportunity to increase the number of your scalps?" he said: "No, I am glad that war is at an end. There are too many white men. The Indian mast do as they say. I do not want to see any more of my people killed. It is useless to shed their blood, for in the end they must lose." "Why do you have scalp dances?" was asked. "When we come back from a big fight with many scalps we make a big feast. Each man tells what he has done in the war, and we rejoice. If we take no e?alps and have some of our people killed 1 1 J J 1 MA 11 wo come uavh- sau turn xi?ve xiu .utuiuo. "In the 'Omaha,' or war dance, what does each man say in his song?" "He says: 'I have killed a man. I am very glad. I have another scalp. I have ?- scalps now (mentioning the number), and I am going to get some more.' " i "Does an Indian feel bad when he kills a woman or child?" ' i "No, not when he does it in war. Oar i enemies kill our wives and children and we do the same. If an Indian kills one of his own people he feels very bad, be- i cause it is wrong. It is not wrong to 1 kill an enemy." "What is your idea of heaven?" At this question Red Shirt's face i assumed a very puzzled expression, and 1 for some minutes he seemed to be in a i study. He then answered very slowly: i "I have heard the old men say that there i is a heaven somewhere above us. I have seen many dead men; but all that I have 1 seen went down into the ground. ? have i never seen any of them go up to heaven, j I don't know what becomes of them." .I This speech was greeted with grants j of approval all around the circle, and his remark must have been funny in the : Sioux language, for all of the Indians J x 1 T- - -1 T. present xaugaeu mucu mure lluuul mey generally do. Mr. William Irving, one of the interpreters present, said that if the Sioux Indians had any conception of heaven he had never been able to find it oat, although he is married to a Sioux woman and has lived for many years among the tribe. He says they believe in the existence of a God, and when one of-the tribe dies the relatives punish . f&mselves by cutting their~bodies with knives, and call on God to vent his wrath upon the living, to spare the departed spirits. Notwithstanding this, they see m to have no idea of any kind of future existence. Red Shirt was last questioned as to the impressions made upon him during his stay in England, and his reply was a characteristic one. "I liked the people," said he, "because they were good to me; I like them better than the people here, but this is my own country and I wanted to come back." During the interview Bed Shirt did not refuse to answer any of the questions which were asked him, and it was evident ] that he tried to be accurate in everything i he said. " I The President Fishing. ] "He goes at it with ardor, rises early, i and wants to be off as soon as necessary preparations are made. Frequently he 1 will run away, very early in the morning before breakfast, while the other mem- ' bers of the party are still in bed. And < his luck in fishing is due to the fact that ' he devotes his whole time to it, as he 1 does to other things he tackles. He un- > derstands the habits of game fish thor- < oughly, and takes as much pride in his i tackle as the most devoted disciple of 1 Izaak Walton oould desire. He knows 1 allabout tackle, too, and insists on having i everything just so, and once he makes a cast there is nothing in the world for 1 him but fishing. He is never very talk- < ative, and after he has settled, down for i a day's sport with rod and line he becomes even more silent than usuaL Gooa- ) sionaliy ne wiu iook up ana guzeuruujuu him, especially if he is not getting many < strikes, and make a remark in that sub- -j dued, thoughtful - tone habitual with } anglers and hunters. When he gets a ' strike he seldom fails jo land his fish. He : is a man of wonderfully steady nerve* j as the politicians have learned, and when 3 he makes a move it usually means some- thing. He is never reckless or willing to. take chanoes with a fish, but plays him carefully and skillfully, and when he gets him just where he wantr him ii is; ~ all np wiih the fish. Watertmry American. ' ' - " SInrtler at a Hot Supper. On Saturday last, on Mr. W. F. Hogarth's plantation In Hampton county, i. Peter Brooker was mortally wounded and his brother Mose was seriously stabbed. There was a dance at a house on the place, at which were present Eddy Johnson (a young Georgia buck well-known here), Peter Brooker, Mose Brooker (a brother of Peter), and Eugenia Rivers. The Guardian riven the following account of the fracas: ."The woman, Johnson and Peter Brooker engaged in a dispute about some trifle (the woman no doubt), when Johnson drew his pistol and told the^womaa to shoot. (Here our information conflicts as to whether Johnson or the woman did the shooting.) Pdter Brooker was shot in the stomach and in the groin, and in the row Mose received a fearful gash in the head with a knife, and he says the woman cut him. This performance broke up the supper, and the wounded men were carried home and their injuries examined and dressed. Peter Brooker lingered until Monday night and expired in great agony. Tuesday morning Eddy Johnson, the woman and two negro men?Patrick Mitchell and Richmond;Stevens, who were active participants in the terrible fracas? were committed to juil to await trial. Captain Eivers, of the ship A. G. Bopes, that recently left New York for San Francisco reports from Providencetown that while sailing with a six-knot breeze from the east-northeast, the top spars suddenly began falling. There was no perceptible change in the wind ' or atmosphere before or after the accii dent, and he can account for it only on > the supposition that a whirlwind passed, just high enough to strike the spare, of whioh he lost nineteen. i A ten-dollar bill never looks bo big as when we cannot see how to get at It. 9 [ AUGHT BY THE COMBINE. TB?!PLANTERS can'T "WHIP THE ^k&gging thust xurs teak. P^Eaw and Osnaburgs May Take the ; I^Vof Jnte In the Fulare-A Practical T^^of Cotton Bagging for Cotton Bales at New Orleans?A Factor's Advice to the Fanners. - (From the News and Courier.) The cotton-growers of the South have certainly no reason to complain of the newspapers of the country, for, without exception, these have all taken sides affair,at, .Tnte T^accnnc Trnst. This is true of the newspapers North as well as those of the South. Even in distant Vermont the Legislature has called on Congress to abolish the duty on jute. The United States department of agriculture has interfered in their favor, the merchants generally are co-operating with ?tk?&efcafies to wo|)j^'produce a cloth suitable for baling; and. the underwriters suggest that iJore closely woven cotton bagging is superior to jute and less dangerous. The News and Courier has been at pains to describe every substitute for jute bagging that has been presented since'the outrageous squeeze commenced, and has also given to its readers the result of all the experiments that have been made. The only two substitutes that have thus far given any promise of success are the osnaburg bagging from.New Orleans and the pine straw; fabrUR&om Wilmington. As was stated in the News and Courier yesterday, however, there is only one way in which these substitutes can be subjected to a thorough test, and the quicker this tes^fcoade the better for the farmer. . to fill the bill a bale of cotton m^^Hable to stand the compress, the onrJ tlin an/1 nWonslr th9Vway to test it is to try a bale of cotHBbaled with osnaburgs or pine iBsg to the pine straw fabric, <he WilMtton Star says: "An interesting' ex^^Bnt was made at the Exchange to inflammability an compared wi^^Be bagging. A piece of each was ! ign^Vat the same time with a match, anpSt to bnrn. While the jute fibre bur* freely and was entirely con- ' sumll the pine fibre burned slowly, and finally the fire died out before scarcely any of it had been consumed/' ... This was entirely at variance with the test made at the Cotton Exchange here, i and the result of which was published in the News and Courier yesterday. In : this experiment the conditions were exactly reversed. The jute blazed up and ' wrent.ont at once, while the pine straw retained the fire which smouldered for : Eully fifteen minutes. It is proper to ; add that the experiment was conducted by the representative of the News and ' Courier, who visited "Wilmington last j cAftr and wrote no tha t>ine straw in lustry at Gonly. But, it is repeated, the test was not a Eair one. The pine straw will doubtless 1 pas&the compress and the cotton hook a requirements. The only question now J ia.a?K; its inflammability, j&nd the only ' sray in which that oa?T De^iesteu in co ] put up two bales of cotton; one in jnte "] ind one in pine straw; call in the under srriters and apply the match. 1 Of the Lane Mills osnaburgs the New s Orleans Times-Democrat says: "The 3 jest made of the cotton bagging pro- i lueed by the Lane Mills of this city, < proved it to be the full equal in all re ipecfcs of the jute bagging, hitherto j generally used. It has been experi- < n en ted with until a material has Anally , been obtained, which will bear the | roughest handling, can be jerked. , iround, headed and reheaded and i pressed without danger of any injury, j Of its other advantages in keeping out ; tho -t and water we have already i 3poken; while as to price it can and will be sold cheaper than the jute is now : selling." The experiment is thus described by the Times-Democrat: \ "The trial began in the pickery. Theie three bales of cotton were shorn j of tipir jute coverings and covered with ; sottJn cloth by means of an old hand- ] worled press. The bagging was differ- j ant ftom that tried Wednesday. It was j somposed of heavier cords with larger ] meshes, and averages thirteen ounces to ; the ^ard, After being roughly baled in the jickery it was rolled with hooks on to i flast and carted to the compress yard, dgam the ties were cut off. A bale was trucked into the jaws of the great ma- : ehiite. The jaws crunched together with & force of 700 tons. The cotton was , made smaller and smaller, from four feet to as many inches. Every thread was searched by anxious eyes for signs of bursting. There was no injury, and, , lab JUT ttO hue Mi.CDOJULjg wuywu^ the olofch was effective. Bat the tests , were hardly begun. The bale was palled Eromthe press, rolled, headed, reheaded almost lifted by sheet muscle of stalwart negroes. Where ahook was caught in fee threads alone it at times, bat not always, tore its-way out; when the hook was gripped into the cotton staple, as is customary in handling it, the cords held firm, and and no unsightly tears re* suited, as is usually the case with jute bagging. Water was thrown on the ootton bagging. It rolled ofl^ leaving but little dampness behind. Another bucketful was emptied on a bale covered with jute. Every large mesh acted as a pore, through which the water got into, the cotton and wet it to a depth much greater than in the case of the cotton covered bale. Then a practiced negro of magnificent strength planted his hook into the jute bagging oi a bale, braced himself, and Jerked. A long tear was the result He tried the same experiment on the cotton cloth. It gave way, but the tear was only a few inches in length. All being satisfied with the superiority of the Lane bagging, the bales, three in number, were carried to the scales and weighed. The first weighed 553 pounds, the second 427, the third 496. "The Lane Mills," says the TimesDemocrat, "can now turn out 12,000 yard 8 a day, or 72,000 a week of this new baggiDg, enough to cover 7,000 T'kair olnno ncm nr/vlTinfl <vnnncrJi UOJCOl MAVUV WW** JW*V>*V*VV to break the power of the combine, and it is probable that Mr, Maginnis and others will begin the manufacture of the bagging at early date. Samples of the cloth have been sent to some of the planters in the countrv, in each case enough to cover one bale, and it is likely that in a day or two some cotton will arrive dressed in the new bagging. One of the beauties of the cloth that its makers are proud of is the fact that after being used it is as useful as when new. Arrived in England it is already in the form of cord, and as such may be applied to many uses. It is good when second-hand for sacks of various kinds, and its utility becomes more apparent every day." As has been before said in the News and Courier, these substitutes, even if they are accepted by the powers that .. t i dictate the requirements x>i mercnantable cotton, can hardly bd available for this year's crop. There is but one power that can help the farmer now, and that is the Congress of the United States. If a resolution or bill could be passed at once admitting jute bagging free, the Trust would probably go to pieces. ' Like all other combines, it is an iniquitous and oppressive Trust, just 1 one of those trasts which, according to the Plumed Knave from Maine, are private enterprises, and not subject to Government control. Strange to say, too, aDemocratic Congress seems to take the same view of the case. It is not probable that any relief can be had from any substitute bagging tins year, at least, and hence the cotton merchants, factors and buyers who have at heart the interests of the farmers as well as their own, which interests every thinking man will admit to be identical, are advising their correspondents to pay the tribute to the Trust, and send their cotton to market now when the prices are higher than they probably will: be two Q? feeiiee^~~ ?. , . Sdd.a <jottoh man yesterday : "Ihave no hesitation in adwng my correspondents to snbmitr.to the squeeze, as outrageous as it is, and to buy jute bag-gingand ship their cotton to market. Sentiment' is a very good thing, but farmers don't plant cotton for Bentiment. They plant it to get the beet returns they can for hard and honest labors.they1 get the best they can out ofc the-fioil thev cultivate. The people with whbm-I-deal know that I have no interest in the Jute Bagging Trust, thattfcjir interests are mine, and that I am telling them the truth when I tell them to .pay the tribute to these estimable gentlemen who now lord it over KiDg Cotton, and send their cotton to the ports. . The yellow fever in Florida and the' rains and the floods seem to be a special dispensation to help the farmers out fijf their troubles. Cotton is going up every day and will continue to go up, in my judgment^ for a month or more^come.' In my opinion it is better for ali?n to submit to this extortion an4.niarfcet jjjg cotton now, wnenrtfce marfcet is on tne flood tide, than to hold hack fur a substitute which, m thaoS&ary course of events, cannot pojjtfbly^e available this year. We have learned a lesson and; o? coarse, we have to pay for it, but it will b^all- the betterfdr its .^ost. Next year, please Gd<3, we hcpe io'te.. independent of the jute combine,'Snfcftbr without the. aid of Cpngress."' % ' (%rom the News and Courier, Sept. 21.) Another test wssmade'at the Cotton Exchange here yesterdayyof the pine straw bagging sent from ^-Wilmington, with results that were considerably more favorable than those attained at the first trial several days ago and published in the News and Courier at tfcetime!^ r The first experiment, it-will be remembered, was made with a square foot of pine straw and a square foot of jute bagging,y The first held the fire and the-last; threw it o?E. On-that occasion a piece 6f*jute bagging was cut from a bale of cmon lying on the wharf. It was perfectly nei&bagging. Yesterday sev&nPof the members of the Exchange repeated the test, taking i piece of the pine straw fibre and a A UA?\_V>ArfA%*.? ATI n r\f picw Ui juw vuu majktua/uiuu jlxv/ajx vuu va the bales, on the wharf. ' Fire was applied to bath. ffiags-laal --ik-vy- yerft placed on the counter and watched. Both pieces retained the fire for some time. The conclusion was reached that >o far as the inflammability of the two materials was concerned, the difference, if any, was too infinitesimal to take into consideration. But, as has been said, there can be :ao fair test except such as was tried in New Orleans with the osnaburgs, and an aosount of which is given above. This test will be made to-day, at least so far is the cotton compress and cotton hook ire concerned. The roll of pine straw bagging will be taken to the Hydraulic Press, on Church street, and a bale of cotton will be covered with it and tlier "handled." This will show whether the new covering will stand &e compress f and the hooks, and after that the underwriters will be asked to apply the fire test. The factors and buyers of Charleston are anxious to aid the fanners in their just light against the jute bag combine, and should the pine straw fibre stand the test will do their share in recommending it to the powers that have the regulation of cotton baling in their keeping. A Review of the Treats. Here is a list of the trusts that exist in the United States in consequence of high tariff: 1 Thfl Steal-Rail Trust, buttressed by a tariff tax of $17 per ton. 2. The Nail Trust, by a tax of ?1.25 per 100 pounds. 3. The Iron f*ut and Washer Trust, by a tax of$2per 100 pounds. 4. The Barbed Fence Wire Trust, by a tax of 60 cents per 100 pounds. 5. The Copper Tru3t, by a tax of $2.50 per 100 pounds. 6. The Lead Trust, by a tax of $1.50 per 100 pounds. 7. The Slate-Pencil Trust, by a tax of 30 percent. R The "NirtltftT Trnfrf;. bv a tax of S15 per 100 pounds. - 9?. The Zinc Trust, by a tar of $2.50 per 100 pounds. 10. The Sugar Trust, by a tax of $2 per 100 pounds. 11. The Oilcloth Trust, by a tax of 40 per cent. 12. The Jute-Bag Trust, by a tax of 40 per cent. 13. The Cordage Trust, by a tax of 30 per cent. 14. The Paper Envelope Trust, by a; tax of 25 per cent H 15. The Gutta Percha Trust, by a tax of 35 per cent. 16. The Castor Oil Trust, by a tax of 80 cents per gallon. 17. The Linseed Oil Trust, by a tax of 25 cents per gallon. 18. The Cottonseed Oil Trust, by a tax of 25 cents per gallon. 19. The Borax Trust., by a tax of $5 per 100 pounds on borax and boracic acid, ?3 per 100 pounds on crude borax and borate of lime, and $1 per 100 pounds on commercial boracic acid. 20. The Ultramarine Trust, by a tax of So per 100 pounds. The efi'ect of monopoly tariff on capitalistic combinations does not stop with those above enumerated. The tendency of the system is to foster trusts of all kinds, and to encourage close combinations of capitalisis hostile to the interests of labor and to individual business enterprise. ^ Moving' 01<1 Monitors on the James. Washington, September 19.?Prepara tioua'are being made for the removal of the ?even Monitors now in the James River at City Point up to within three miles of Rich inond. This is to-be done for severareasons, principally to get them nearer to a city where provisions can be easily obtained and also to put them in a more secure place. They are single turretted, and have been at-<?{*y Point for a number of years. Their names are the Ajax, Canonicus, Mahopac, Manhattan, Wyandotte, Catskill and Lehigh. 1 lilE rULlTlUAL l'Ui. POLITICAL PARTICLES THAT RISE TO THE SURFACE. Quay's Failure to Fry Fat?Tlie Mupviiiui>s Propose to Support the President but to "Iloast" tlie Governor-Attempt to Gef Up a Yellow Fever Scare?Mysterious Murderous Assault on Broker Bennett. New Yoiik, September 17.?The disma: failure of Senator Quay's begging tour among the iron barons of Pennsylvania-, has furnished a good deal of sport f<>r I lit gentlemen at the Democratic hca'd quarters. That delicate operation described with rx culiar plcturesqueness by Deacon Foster, the high priest of the Republican clubs, :sS "frying the fat out of the manuf?ctu;vrs" seems somehow to have missed conucction this year. Especially is this the.case witb reference to thejaenwho have , built up Colossal; fartnnes^frora. tlie ircn fotmtfrfejp?j iPennsylvacia, while their half-stai ved operatives have been engaged in a desperate " struggle for the necessaries of life. ' Following up Frier Foster's invocation, Senator Quay promptly dispatched a trusted emissary to do the begging act, and it it said upon tolerable authority that the trip netted all totdless than $5i000:in cold cash,to-say nothing of innumerable snubs and rebuffs -calculated to try the soul of any ChmUfl^HStatesmaa.'. . -j To~au& .that Bos? Quay was hidignan:; gives only a- hint of the storm that ra-e< in the^enemy's camp upon the missionary 2 , retiirn. Scorning the proffered services <>; other, trusted agents, the shrewd Pennsyl , vstifi&xi-seized his'gripsack and started , to try his own luek^ HelKis been gom< now .some days,.and, if thfe Democratic -managfrsareto be believed, iias met with 1 "a most frigid-'reception, :ryamusing phase'JtjfHhis dilemma! iSHhe.altitftde ofi the-Republican Senate or 1 the. -qu^stic^^f' tariff legislation. Quay, disgusted i/or "good cause, insists Jiat a 1 ;cero be=put upon Senator Allison, or there .will be an immediate end p the fa: fryiop ; jpsineas. ' The best tariff bill fox the It-o- i publicans, be asserts with great earnest ness, is no tariff bill; while Senator Sherman's recent, talk indicates that in spite of , this solemn protest, which has about it a '( ring of desperation, some sort of a tariff < offspring will be evolved from all this Sen- ( aiorial travail. After -fcitt the Republican blowing about 5 the greatVvictory in Maine, you may be * suiprisedrto learn that the Democratic ? managers are actually using the returns as 1 a campaign document. And well they 1 may in the plain light of common seDse. i The fact that out of an increase of about 1 4,000 votes since the election of 1884, the l Republicans have taken only about 15 per i centfy while the Democrats received 40 per j cent., is certainly not discouraging to the i latter a cause. t Politicians are still discussing with en- j ergy the effect of Hill's nomination foi j Governor. I met a Mugwump of cousid j erable note the other day and asked him what he thought of it. "Hill will havc_? hard row to hoe," was the solemn Mug-" ' wumplan response, "but with Warne? : Miller on the other side he may puii ' through by the skin of his teeth. To me it looks like a good year for the Independ- 1 ents to vote in the air as regards the Slate ' ticket Of course we.wil.1 a|tU?e.wiib:fh< s 'FrS'iuoiit; arid now luan^ Uoes. are fiihWii ' so sharply between the policy he stands for > and that upon which Governor Hill rest* * his claim to public consideration, we Mug- i wumps will do all in our power to sustain . the one and rebuke the other." i This seems to be a very fair presentment of the case. If the Mugwumps can beat j Governor Hill," I believe they will do it, e even though they have to vote for Miller, and that makes them all the more zealous * in their support of the President to emphasize, if possible, their own importance. On the other hand, there are a great many Democrats of the old school who 1 have the greatest faith in Bi'l, and believe that he will help the national ticket. No . is more popular with the masses in city and Brooklyn, the great Demo- < , , , j strongholds. ( * here was an effort last week to get up a yellow fever scare here ou the strength of the death of Professor Proctor, the emi- ' vr "\T 1- i i_ ? I cuut usuuuuiuur. new lurh. una siicii a \ vigorous way of dealing with contagious ' diseases that no other case has teen report- 1 ed and no apprehensiou is felt by the 1 people. ; There has been considerable excitement i here for some days over the peculiar cir- < eu instances surrounding ifce case of wealthy ; stock-broker Bennett, -who was murder- \ ously assaulted in his bed, and is hovering : l)etween life and death. The ease has , many features in common with that of the t celebrated Nathan murder case, which all . the craft of the Metropolitan police was ] never able to unravel. As in that case, the party most generally suspected is the sou of the victim. Though little circumstances tell against him strongly and the police are convinced of his guilt, the atoence ; of any apparently sufficient motive for so ' .J ^ l.i'm r, aucMjiuus a uc^i ucips uim wuxmziaukj in the matter of public opinion. Old man I Bennett, though be has been conscious < much of the time since the act was com- I mitted, seems to be unable or unwilling to : give any information to the police. It is i next to impossible that he can live more ] than a few days, his skull having been fear fully crushed by a succession of powerful , blows with some heavy instrument. Agricultural Department Notes. , I The Department of Agriculture received today for the State exhibit at Augusta a i fine lot of domestic wine from Mr. J. A. Daniel?, of Anderson; splendid cotton otoll.-o with -fruit frnm riant .T A Peterkin; fine com from Dr. R. R. Hudgins, of Clarendon, and fertilizers from the < Stono Phosphate Company. The Commissioner has-been advised of other shipments of faim products from various : counties. The monthly report of the Department of Agriculture for September is just out In addition to the usual matter it contains a stenographic report of the proceedings of the State Farmers' Institute held at Spartanburg in August and the essays in full read at the Institute. The report of the special assistant of the Department of Agriculture for the year ending August 30. shows that the royalty due the State on phosphate rock removed during the year is $193,900.74, against $203,772.41 last year. The slight decrease in the royalty is duie to the advance in freight rates on foreign shipments of rock. Diagnosing the Case. "I've got an awful attack of rheumatism," said an elderly gentleman to his physician. 4'How do you know it's rheumatism?" was the response. "It is in your right leg, isn't it?" "Yes, sir." "Have you any daughters?" "Yes, sir; four." "All of them have young men calling on them?" "I should say they had." "'Humph. It isn't rheumatifm that ails you. It's the result of excessive muscular exertion. Send your daughter out of town and take a rest."?Merchant ; Traveler. He who is scared by words has no heart for deeds. 1U& D1U 3AL.J1U3 ir UDDIm The Laziest Scheme Ever Invented tor ! Capturing the Finny Tribe#. The man who invented the Colombia ' River salmon wheel waa a genius, says the Livermore Herald. The laziest fisherman who ever Raited a hook ooaid a*k no easier way of landing fish. And the only fact that it can only be used at certain points on the stream prevents this machine from exterminating the salmon in one season. Imagine a common undershot wheel with the buckets turnedthe -1 wrong way about. This is set in a high, narrow flume near the bank of the river, where the current is very swift. From . the down stream end of this flame, extended ontward an angle of forty-flve degrees, are two upright fences, formed by pickets driven closely together into the bottom of the river, and wired to keep them from washing away. J oat above the wheel?which is some ten feet in diameter?at the up-stream end, is it. platform, from which a bc x flume nana" '; to the shore. - Now ictns see how Hr^StKs. Wijea^ the salmon are running^ as everybody knows, they ccme^p^j'' the Columbia Biver by millionsjpff&fitream is ^iwy - ? deep,-$gui a I&|^pereentagfe always*^ sueceecL^h. ;gettcoj| to the breeding;^-* groun<J| in .safety; When the salmou "' ire rmjaGng up the river they are constantly on the lookout for small streams in which to spawn. Also, where the v.j current is very swift they are suable to make headway in the center of the ' stream, ?Std conaeqaently seck'the more. cfttiet wataafenear the bank. Q? these' Gwb instiiS?. the invention ef the fish wheel toowtr mean advantage. At the. sascadesr-for instance, where the water is very swift, he seta his wheel. Here jome the fish, hugging the bank by thousands?great black fellows, from :wo to four feet long, heading resolutely up stream. Nothing can turn them back* ward. That wonderful instinct of nature which insures the preservation of species is nowhere better developed than iu almon. But in this instane j it prove# iiis destruction. Now they are just below that widespread fence." The current which is rashmg through the flame and turning the. )ig wheel at a lively pace attracj%Jtheir ittention. The upper fence, wlaeffigeta nearly square across the 5'iiet water here and this fl^w aeett^^to jome from the bank. This, to the sainoa'a mind, is evidently, the mouth oi a ihaliow creek. Here is a spawning jronnd to our liking and np this" little stream we go. So they crowd ap between :he two narrowing fences toward the :e.tal wheel. The first fish reaches it, !OdB with a roah to overcome tbe current, a caujht by a bucket and up he goes ligh in the air, while every backet brings ip another and another, till there is a jrocession of ascending fish. At the top ihe velocity throws the fish violently ou ;he platfoim, from which he shoots down Jie flame to a great tank on the shore. Sere come the Hah crowding each other :orward to that busy wheel. None can go uuder nor to one side. will rrr\ A atiaa o artY* aa( itarts for a~wheeiTtheowaerecndsriwder ;hat he Las a title deep to the entire lot."? Jne wheel will run a cannery. Day and light, while the run lasts, they come ljujg up the wheel and shooting down ;ne flame in a continuous stream. Fortunately taer^Sre b<rfe places on the : :iver wiicre the wheels can bo worked tvith thib result. Where the fish can keep n the middle of the river few c*u be aught in this way. But the men who control these points are making fortunes, is it is, salmon are rapidly diaappeajjng :rom the Colum bia. Many canneries ure idle this season and the fisherman's price per fish is raising every year. Surey this engine of destruction is largeiy iue cause. Pile Sharpshooters of McGowau'i Brigade. The following letter has been written >y Captain W. S. Dunlop, State Aaditor )? Arkansas, to Mr. David Moore, of Columbia: I have been engaged for some time in anting up the campaigns of the Battalon of hliaroahootern of Mctiowaii'a Brigade, and have about completed the iret draft, which will have to bo revised ind re-written before publication. I regret, at every step, that I cannot recall ite names of the gallant corps, and have included to write to you and every Sharpshooter that I can hear of in order co supply this deficiency. I want you to put on your studying-cap and gather ap every name you can, and send the list to me, with the rank and postofiice Idress of each, it living; and the date md circumstances of deaui, if dead,jthat [ may be able to make a roll of the whole command. Every man of the battalion was a hero, and his name ihoold be embalmed in the history of owe struggle. l>o this, and let me hear rom you without delay. If you remembe; any incidents connected with our campaigns where any of our men be: tiaved with distinguished gallantry or performed any feat of daring in. any of >ur Dnmerous tights, I would like to tiavethem. Sergeant B. K. Benson, of Branson's sompany, calls to see me very often. He is a drummer, and lives in Dallas, Texas. Dr. L. K. Robertson, another member of the Battalion from Abbeville, is living in Scott county, this State. I spent two nights and a day with him last May. He is a successful physician and has accumulated a good property in Scott county. These are the only Sharpshooters 1 know of in Arkansas; I would like to have a re-union of the Battalion, what do you think of it? Any information responsive to the above may be sent to Mr, David Moore, Colombia, S. C., or to. Captain W. 8. Dunlop, Little Bock, Arkansas A Little Woman Did It, When Edison, genius and inventor as he is, had givc-n two weeks of his valubie time to going up and down on the New York Elevated railroad, trying to discover what caused ita noise and cure for it, he gave op the job. Then a little woman took it. She rode on the cars three days, was denied a place to stand on the rear platform, laughed at for her curiosity and politely snubbed by the conductors and passengers. But she discovered what caused the noise, invented a remedy which was patented and ahe was paid a sum of ?10,000 and a rovaltv torever. Her name is Mrs. Marv Walton, and she lives in New York city. ?New Orleans Picayune. The Silver Bags Kottirj. The large new silver vault in the Treasury Department is so damp that the canvas bags containing the silver stored there are actually rotting away. Measures are being taken to improve the ventilation of the vault and arrangements are alio being made to substitute small rough pine boxes for the canvas bags ior noiamg tne stiver, inese boxes will each hold 3,(MX) silver dollars and it is proposed to store 3'.),000 of them in the vault. The rilver is still coming in -it the rate of $500,000 a day.