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VOL. XLVL ~ WINNSBORO, S. CM WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1890. NO. 38. 8 ? . . r GLORY OF LEBANON. DR. TALMACE PREACHES ON "SCIENCE AND R?LIC!ON." How Christ Taught ou Karth and why HI> ? " -* Tfacliiii.> :wo so i iiM iuituu^ n> -l>I*>vov4-ry :ui<i Urwwfh ami Theli Kffwt on K?*ll<;ioii. Dr. Talmage on Sunday announced as Lis text Isaial lx, 13: -The glory of Lebannon sliall come unto thee, the fir tree, the pine-tree, and the i> >\* together, to beautify the place of my sanctuary." Following is his sermon in full: On our way from Damascus we saw the luoiiutams of Lebanon white with .snow, and the places from which the cedars were hewn, aiul thcu drawn by ox-teams down to the Medilterraji^a?" sea. and then floated in great rafts to Joppa. and then again drawn by ox-teams up to Jerusalem to build Solomon's temple. Those ' * 11 .3 *1.,. mighty trees m my text are CZUirti tur "Glory of Lebanon." Inanimate na ture felt the effects of the tirst trails ;*res?'on. When Eve touched the forbidden tree, it seems a.- if the sin ful contact had smitten not only tliat tree, l>^t as if the air hail caught the pollution from the leaves, and as if the sup lnuI carried the virus down into the very soil until the entire earth reeked with leprosy. UniW that sinful touch nature withered. The inanimate creation, as if aware of the damage done it, sent up the thorn aud brier and nettle to wound, and L fiercely oppose, the human race. Now ax the~fmysicai earth felt the effects of the first transgressions, so it shall ;dso fed the effect of the Savior's mission. As from that one tro*i in Paradise a blight went forth through the entire earth, so from one tree to Calvary another force shall speed out to interpenetrate and check, subdue and override, the evil. In the end it shall >..? f'tmtd t.l?at the tree of Calvary has p more potency than the tree of Paraili so. As the nations are evangelized, I think a corresponding change will Ik. effected in the natural world. I verily believe that the trees, and the birds, and the rivers, and the skies wdl have their millennium. If man's sin affected the ground, and the vegetation, and the atmosphere, shall Christ's work be loss powerful or less extensive? tv^,will trtVo fbp irres-u 1'UUUUtOO uuu .. ^ larity and fierceness froiL the ele menta so as to make them congenial to the race, which will then be symmetrical and evangelized. The ground shall not be so lavish of weeds and so grudgeful of grain. Soils which now have pecular proclivities toward certain forms of evil production will be delivered from their besetting' sins. P Steep mountains, ploughed down into more gradual ascent, shall be girdled with tloeks of sheep and shocks of | corn. The wet marsh sliall become the deep-grassed meadow. Cattle f vili:ill eat unharmed by caverns once ^ haunted of wild beasts. Children will build play-houses in what was once a cave or serpents: and, as the j Scripture saith, "The weaned child j shall put his hand ou the cockatrice's i den." j Oh, what harvests shall be reaped when neither drouth, nor excessive ruin, nor mildew, nor infesting insects shall arrest the growth," and the utmost capacity of the fields for production-shall be tested by an intelhfe gent and athletic yeomanry. Thrift p* and competency characterizing the , world's inhabitants, their dwelling j places shall be graceful and healthy ! i - 'IViwi oiul ?vlmv fltwl ' JUKI HUUIllWl. grove around about will look as if Adam and Eve Lad got back to Parard i so. Groat cities, now neglected an d unwashed, shall be orderly, adorned wilh architectural symmetry and connected with far distant seaports by present modes of transportation car1 ru>vfrw?fnm nvliv rieu u> nwii ,v , new inventions yet to spring up out of the water or drop from the air at! the l>eck of a Morse or a Robert Ful-1 ton belonging to future generations. Isuijih in my text seeius to look forward to the future condition of the . physical earth as a condition of great k beauty and excellence, and then proB. phesies that as the strongest and P?* moit ornamental timber iQ Lebanon L was brought down to Jerusalem and constructed into the ancient temple. so all that is beautiful ami excellent in tue physical earth shall yet contribute to the church now being built in tin* world. "The glory of Lebanon shall come unt o thee; the fir-tree, the pine-tree, and the box together, to beautify the plact* of iuy sanctuary." Much of tliis prophecy has already $P? al eady been fulfilled, and I proceed to some practical remarks upon the contributions which the natural world T is making to the kingdom of God. and | drew some inferences. The first conI tnbution that Nature gives to the r Church is her testimony in behalf of I the truth of Christianity. This is an P 1?,..,1 Votiivu rUiJO OI pnilUUUU ir.icanu. cannot evade men's inquires as once. In chemist's laboratory she is put to torture aiul comix-llcd to give up liw mysteries. Hidden laws have come out of their hiding place. The earth and the heavsns, since they have been i ransacked by geologist and botanist and astronomer, appear so different from what tlmy once were that they ?? ^ *?fuv heavens and 1.K7 Muivvi ...... the iuw earth.'* ' Tiiis research and discovery will have powerful efforts upon thy religion world. They must either ad vuuee or arrest Christianity, mate men better or make thtim worse, be tlie church's honor or the church's overthrow. Christians, aware of this in the euvlv ages of discovery, were * 1 x- ^ +1WA _ nervous ami leuom ?? w L / of science. They feared that hoiik W J natural law, before unknown, would K ' j suddenly spring into harsh collisior vitb Christianity, Gunjxwder and Br tl a jrleam of swords would not sc much have been feared by religionist: as clectric batteries, volcanic pile? and astronomical apparatus. It was 1|| - feared that Mosos nasi the prophett would be run over byjsceptical cliem V mists and philosophers. Some o: B il;e followers of Aristotle. after th< ||f| invention of the telescope, refused tt g| look through that instrument les what they saw would overthrow tin (teachings of that great philosopher But the Christian religion has n< such apprehension now. Bring 01 your telcscopcs and microscopes am spectroscopes?and the more the bet ter. The (rod of nature is the Goi flu* Bible. and in all the uniwr.se and in all the eternities. He has new) 1 once contradicted Himself. Christiai merchants endow universities, ami ii th&m Christian professors instruci * i-ii ! /ii. ^ I lllf ClUiUlCll <->l K'lll 'imimi v yiuiinu unto p The warmest and most entliusi:isti< J friends of Cliri.st are the bravest am , most enthusiastic friends of scienc e 1 The church rejoices as much ovei every discovery as the world rejoices , Good men liave found that there if no war between science and religion. That which at lirst has seemed io Ik the weapon of the infidel lias turnJ ed out. to be the weapon of the Chris I tian. Scientific discussions may be divided into those which arc concluded, and those which jiro still in progifss. depending for decis-on upon future investigation. Those which are con eluded have invariably rendered their verdict for Cliristianity, and we have * ' 1 ' ' |V 1*1 ffiiltil to believe tliat Htose which .-instill in prosecution will conic to us favorable :i conclusion. The .ureal systems of error arc falling before these discoveries, which have only demonstrated the truth of the JJible. and so % reinforced Christianity. Mo hammedanism and paganism in their 10,000 forms have been "proved false, and by great natural laws shown to be impostors. .Buried cities have been exhumed, and the truth of God found written on their eofiin-lids. Bartlett. Hobison and Layard have been not moi\> the apostles of seieneu than the apostles of religion. The dumb lips of the pyramids have opened to preach the gospel. Kxpeditions have been tilted out for .i,^A Avnlnviiiv /*Aln?? J. ilifftllilt", iliUl f AJ/HAI V 1 o back io say that they have fount! among mountains, ami among ruins, and on the shore of waters, living and undying evidences of our glorious Christianity. AtHawarden, England. Mr. Gladstone, while showing me his trees during a prolonged walk through his magnificent park, pointed out a svca more, and with a wave of his hand "* - - 1 1. II.. "LT ..1.. T 1 said, "JLii your visit 10 iue xiuiv juuuu did you sot* any sycamore more impressure than that?" I confessed tliat I had not. It was to such a tree as that Jesus pointed when He would illustrate the power of faith. "Ye might say unto the sycamore tree. Be thou plucked up by the root and be thou cast into the sea,, and it would obey you." One reason why Christ has fascinated the world us no other teacher, is because instead ot lining severe argument He was always telling how something in the spiritual world was liko unto something in the natural world. Oh these wonderful "likes" of our Lord! Like a grain of mustard seed. Liko a treasure hid in a lield. Like a merchant seeking goodly pe*u"ls. Like unto a net that was cast into the sea. Like unto a 1*; ruien Would Christ teach the precision with which He looks after you. He says He counts the hairs on your head. Well, that is a long and tedious count if the head have the average endowment. It has been found that if the hairs of the head be black there jtre about 120.000, or ii' they be flaxen there are about 140,000. Bat God knows the exact number; "The hail's of your hoad are nil numbered.7 Would Christ impress us with, the divine watchfullness and care, He speaks of tlie sparrows that were a nuisance in those times. They were caught by the thousands in the net. They were thin and scrawny, and comparatively no meat on their bones. They seemed almost valteless, wheth er living or dead. Now, argues Christ, j r-i-i. 11 1i1v i;i,uuci uin.cn uuc vi lui ui ?. He not take care of you? Christ would have the Christian despondent over his slowness of religious development go to his corn-field for a lesson. He watches tirst the green shoot pressing up through the clods, gradually strengthening into a stalk, and last of all the husk swelling out with the pressure of the corn. "First the blade, then the ear, after that the lull corn in the ear." Would David set forth the fresh ness and beauty of genuine Christian character?he sees an eagle starting from its nest just after the moulting season, its old feathers shed uiul its wings and breast decked with new down and plumes, its body as finely feathered us that of her young ones just beginning to try the speed of their wings Thus rejuvenated and 1 r..;n, ,.,,.1 i&?UUJIlt'Vl III*" viiliouiiu o uuvii .vnvt hope, by every season of communion with God. "Thy youth is renewed like the eagle's." Would Solomon represent the annoyance of a contentious woman's tongue, he points to a leakage in the top of his house or tent where throughout the stormy day, the water comes tln'ov gli. falling upon the floor?drip! drip! drip! And lie says: "A continnal dripping in a very rainy day aiul a contentious wo man arc alike." Would Christ set forth the character of those who make great profession of piety, but have no fruit. He compares them to barren figt-rees, which have very large and snowy leaves, and nothing but leaves. Would Job illustrate deceitful friendships. he speaks of brooks in those climes, that wind about in different directions, and dry up when you want to drink out of them: "My brethren have dealt cieceitiuiiy as a oroos. una as the stream of b]QO is I hoy pass away." David when lie would impress us with the despondency into which he had suuk, compares it to a quagmire of those regions through whi?h he had doubtless sometimes tried to walk, but sunk in up to his tvn.l ]h> -I sink ii* dern mire where there is 110 standing." i Would Hulnikkuk s<-t forth the c:ipa city which (rod gives tht> good m.-tu I to wjilk safely amid the wildest perils, i he points to the wild animal called [ the hind walking over slippery rocks. > leaping1 from wild cnur to wile! ? cray, bv the peculiar make of it? < hoofs, able calmly to sustain itself ii tht* most dangerous places: Thy Lore i God is my strength, and -He will nn . feet like hind's feet." f Job makes all natural- objects p:y ? tribute to the royalty of his book ) As* you go through some chapters h t <)ob you feel as if it were a bri^li i spring morning, and. as yqu see tin . glittering drops from the gra^s unde: > your feet, you say with that patriarch i . "Who hath begotten the drops o 1 dew?" And now as you read on, voi - seem in the silent midnight to be \ 1 hold the waving of a great light upon . your path, ami you look up to find it i* the aurora borealis, wliicli Job dei scribed so long ago as "the bright i light in the clouds and the splendor t that coineth out of the north." As . you read on. there is darkness hurl ing iu the heavens, and thd showers i break loose till the birds fly for liid. ing place and vhc mountain torrents in iv(I tary team over ine roeicy sneiv. ing: aiul with the same poet, c:.riaim. ; Who can number tlie clouds in wu. dom, or who san stay tlie bottles of licavon?" As you read on. you feel yourself roniing in frosty climes, and, in fancy, wading through the snow, you say with that s;tine inspired writer. "Hast thou enterted into the treasures of the snow?" And while the sharp sleet drives into your face, i and the hail stings your cheek, you j ln'ni "Hast thou seen i x "o - ^ the treasures of the bail.'" In I lie j Psalmist s writings I hear the voice ! ef the sea: "Deep ealletli unto deep: j nu?l the roar of forests: The Lor;! shaketh tlio wilderness of li.adesh:" j and the loud peal of viitt black tein pest: "The (Jod of glory thunder etlu" and the rustle of the long bilk ouiiie well tilled husks: "The valleys ave covered with corn:" and the 1 ... i ?i -i i j rn? cry ot tliewihi beasis: - ine young lions roar after their prey:" the hum of palm trees and cedars: "The right eons shall flourish like tho palm tree, lie shall grow like a cedar in Lebanon:" tho sough of wings and thy swirl of lins: "Dominion over tho fowl of the air and tho tish of the m sea. The* truth of the gospel might have been presented in technical terms, and by means of dry definitions, but under these worlds would not have listenened or felt. We walk forth in the spring time, and everything breathes of the Resurrection. Brigut blossoms and spring ing grass speak to us of the coming up of those whom we have loved, when in the white robes of their joy :uid coronation they shall appear. And when in the autumn of the year Nature preaches thousands of funeral sermons from the text, "We all do fade as a leaf." and scatters her elegies in our path, wo cannot help but think of sickness and the tomb. Even winter, "being dead," yet speaketh." Tho world will not be argued into the riyht. It will be tenderly illustrated into the right. Tell them what religion is like. wnen tne mother tried to tell her dying child what heaven was, she compared it to light. "But that hints my eyes," said the dying girl. Then the moth* er compared heaven to music. "But any sound hurts me; I am so weak." said the dying child. Then she was told that heaven was like a mother's arms. -Oh take me there!" she said. ' If it is like a mother's anus take me -i f in., ;-i? i,o/i l ilt'IX". J. ill' dpi iui-r oiuuir uiui been found at last. Another contribution which the natural world is making to the kingdom of Christ is the defense and aid which the elements are compelled to give to the Christian personally. ' There is no law in nature but is ' sworn for the Christian'* defense. In , Job this thought is presented as a bargain made between the iuanimate creation and the righteous man; , "Thou slialt be in league with the : stones of the field." What a grand , ;thought that the lightnings, and the : tempests, and the liail, and the frosts, , which are the enemies of unright- j eousness, we all marshalled as the Christian's body-guard. Thev tijht for him. They strike with an arm of ! fire.or clutch with their fingers of ice. | Everlasting peace is declared between the fiercest elements of nature and the good mail. They may m tiieir . fury seem to be indiscriminate, smiting down the righteous with the xriek- : ed, yet they c;umot damage the Chris- , tian's soul, although they may shrivel the body. The wintry blast that howls about your dwelling, you may call your brother, and the sout h wind coming up on a J ime day by way of a flower garden, you call your sister Though so mighty hi circumference and diameter, the sun and the moon shave a special charge concerning you. r*The sun shall not smite the 1>3* day, 'nor the moon by night." Elements and forces hidden 111 tne e:irm are now harnessed and anil at work in !>ao('hiring for you food and rlotbmg. Some grain field that you never saw is presenting you this day with your morning meal. Thereat earth and the heavens are the busy loom at work lor you. JNow I infer from this that the study of natural objects will increase our religious knowledge. If David and Job and John Paul could not afford to let go without observation .m<> n-K^inf (-loud, or rift of snow. 01* spring blossom, you cannot afford to let them yo without study. Men of Clod most eminent iu all ages for faith and zeal, indulged in such observations?Payson and Baxter and Dodridge and Hannah Moore. That man is not worthy the name of Christian who saunters listlessly among these magnificent disclosures of divine power around, beneath and above us, stupid and uninstructcd. They are not worthy to live in adesert, for that lias its fountains and palm-trees: nor in regions of everlasting ice, for there the stars kindle their lights, and auroras flash, and the huge icebergs shiver in the morning light, and God's power sits upon them ;is upon a great white tlirone. Yet there are Christians iu the church who look upon all such tendencies of mind and heart as soft sentimentalities, and because they ; believe this printed Kevelation oi i (ti.k! are content to he in ti dels in regard to all that was written in this great l>ook of tho universe, written , in letters of stars, in paragraphs of , constellations, and illustrated with [ sunset and llimulcr-cloud and . spring morning. i j I infer, also, the transcendent im> portanre of Christ's religion. Notli' ? *v "v?l n/i+liinc ic <irv ' lilji .*>*? IttI iVAAVl i!UHi.u6 ??, ,.-v , i hijrh up. hinI nothing is so far out, ' but God makes it pay tax to tlie ! Christian religion, If snow and tenif pest And dragon arc expected to . praise God. suppose you He ex poets no homage from your soul? t When God has written his truth up? on everything around you. suppose r you He did not mean you to open . your eyes and read it? f Finally, I leam from this subject s what an honorable position tlio Christian occupies wlicn nothing is so t groat and glorious in nature bui it is made to edify, defend and instruct j him. Hold up your heads, sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty, that I may see how you bear your honors. Though now you may think your * * ? <*j [ self un befriended, tins spring s son ; wind, and next summer's harvest of barley, and next autumns glowing; fruits, and next winter'* storms, all j seasons, all elements, zephyr and curoclydon, rose's breath and thundercloud, gleaming light and thick dark! ncss, are sworn to defend you, and j cohorts of angels would fly to deliver you from the peril, and the great God would unsheathe His sword and aim j the universe in your cause rather than I that harm should touch you with one i of its lightest fingers, "As the j mountains around about Jerusalem, so tlie Lord is around about His people from this time forth forevermore." ())i for more sympathy with the liat ural world, and then we should always have a liible open before us. and we could take a lesson from the most Jleetiny circumstances us when a storm came down upon England Charles "Wesley s;it in a loom watching it though an open window, ami frightened by the lightning and thunder a little bird How in and nestled in the bosom of the sacred poet, and as he gently stroked it und felt the wild beating of its heart, he turned to Ids desk und vrrote that, hymn which will be sung while the world lust s: Jems, liOMT (if my soie, Lftt nte to Ttiy bosom tly, '.V tillP I lit? Ulliiws M0:ir mfr loll While the tempest sllli Is hi^h. Hide me me, U my Savior, hide, Till the storm of lii'e he past. Sale into the haven guido, 0 ro<; eh o my soul at last. ? THE OKRA PLANTIt Is Likely to Take u Prominent IMaee In the Future. There seems to be a strong probability that tiie plant known as okra (Abelmoschus esculentus) will be made to furnish a valuable fiber. Tlie plant grows wild all through the L? i.1 1 1 1 1 ouumt'in ouut's, unuiius ut'tu KLLU wxi for years to farmers and stockmen as capable of producing a very strong fiber, which in Texas and other localities is no\v_used for making lariats. Ten years ago the Department of Agriculture had samples of the plant grown in in its green-houses, and a report was made on the quality of the fiber, but nothing seems to have come of it. Recently, however, the subject has been revived, and the Commissioner of Agriculture of South Caro liiift. Col. A. P. Butler, seems to be very confident that a new industry with vast possibilities is about to be opened up. A specimen of the fiber which Lmi been roceived from Mr. Butler through the department at Washington allows a long, strong and glossy thread somewhat resembling hemp, though dsirker in color. The fruit which this okra plant produces is prized as a vegetable, the mucilaginous pods being used for thickening soup and to form a peculiar Southern dish called gumbo. The Southern soil is especially adapted to growing the plant, as the abandoned rice fields und irn drained hinds srenerallv could be utilized for raising vast quantities of it. Okra is also a native of the West Indies, notably Cuba, where it grows in almost all soils, and is indigenous to Africa, whero it grows wild. It is abundant on the White Nile and near the Victoria Nyanza, aud lias long been naturalized in India, where it is cultivated for its edible pods. The fiber which has been produced abroad is described as long and silky and generally strong and pliant, its breaking strain according to Roxburg being seventy-nine pounds dry and ninety-live pounds wet. When well prepared, as in the Southern Presidency of India, it is adapted fur manufacture of rope, twine, sacking and paper. It is used to adulterate jute in Decca and Mymeusing. In France tho manufacture of paper from tho fiber is patented, and here it receives only mechanical treatment and produces a paper called bauda, which is said to be* equal to that made fvrm* vmvj* 1 nxru l""1- * It is claimed for tlie okra tiber, that, inasmuch us the wood surrounds the fiber instead of being mixed with it, ;is in jute, and also that tlio work of preparation can be done by machinery, the cost of production can be reduced to one cent per pound. Jute can only be profitably produced in countries where manual labor is very cheap, as in India and China, because no machine has been devised for separating the wood from the fiber. Vast quantities of jute are imported by the United States, and it is used in mating gunny cloth, cordage, shirting, coat linings, and it is extensively em: nlnv^d ill iiiirimr TvitVi Mill,-, rntt.mi HTld woolen fabrics, and in paper making. It is believed that okra tiber can be substituted for jute in the coarser of these lines of manufuctui*e, and some oven claim tnat it will be found available wherever jute is now employed. It is easily to be wen from this that if the okra fiber stands the test of further experiment, a new anu most important industry will spring into being. The Agricultural Department at Washington states it has not yet lmitr r\lrtnf WCVIl UUliUXiilUi^Vl HV/ tiiV TT bear cultivation and propagation, and tht department is now gathering the weeds and roots to experiment with next year. As tho okra now grows luxuriantly in all parts of the South, the production of it eren in the large quantities which would be required in case the tioer comes into general use will not probably prove a serious barrier to progress in this direction, while the well -known inventive genius of Americans can be depended upon to dense machinery for preparing the , fiber, and to make constant improve? OA T * . XT merits upon it.?oi. .uouis huuk Journal. Burned to Death. Atlanta, Ga., April 30.?Miss FannieSWalker, ayoung lady residing on Fair Street, was burned to death this afternoon. She was cooking dinner and her dress caught lire from the stove. She rushed into the open air. and nearly all her clothing was b urned from her body. It was a horrible spectacle. The lire department turned out. She lingered in great agony till 10:30, when she died. She was only 17, and the daughter of a widow lady. IA liSU SHAKE OUT WEST. A SEYERE EARTHQUAKE SHOCK IN CALIFORNIA RECENTLY. It Com.-* at Karly Moru and Does a Little Damage?A Iiailroati Iiridgo Settle*. Sax Francisco, April 30.?One of tlie most severe shocks of earthquake experienced here for a long time, was felt in this city and neighboring j localities a little after 3:80 o'clock j Friday morning. i Buildings were shaken perceptibly, i and persons aroused from their sleep. rlastermg it?ll irom tlic walls 111 places, but no serious damage is reported yet. A BRIDGE DAMAGED. j A dispatch from XLiylield says that tin* shock was very severe there. The railroad bridge was rendered impassable, as the piers, sixty feet hii,'it. settled a few inches and the rails spread about a foot. The ground in places settled six to twelve inches. Railroad travel will be delayed a few hours. i x 1 xl. mumh ? am (lamiilul. San Fraxoisoo.April 21.?The earth quake which was felt here early this morning was general in this section of the State. Tiie shock was very sharp in this city, but no serious damage was done. The walls of a few houses, including the United States appraisers building, in which Federal courts are held, were cracked, and there was considerable alarm felt by persona who were aroused from sleep. The most severe damage is reportgjl from : -rare, where a railroad bridge w as thrown two feet out of line and the 'approaches to it damaged. Cras mains were disjointed at Gilroy and many cliinmcys thrown down in the neighborhood of "Watsonville. In some localities as many as a dozen distinct shocks were felt. RESCUED AT THE ALTAR A Miuiyland Girl Savt>?l From Weddiug; u Married Man. Baltimore, April 30.? Viss Victo riu "Wright, a handsome ighteenyear-old brunette, of Worcester countr. was saved at the altar from a would-be bigamist a few days ago, through a letter from his wife. The discovery wa? so great a thock that she has been ill with nervous prostration ever since, unci it is feared she will lose her reason. About six years ago Henry C. Lercatellc, of Salisbury, went to Mappsburg. Accomac county, Ya., and married an estimable lady of thai place Tliey lived happy together until several month* ago, when his wife began to suspect him of being too attentive to a young woman in Worcester county. Recently he told his wife he was going to Salisbury to visit relatives. During his absence she found a love letter to him from Miss "Wright. The wife wrote to her husband's aunt at Salisbury, who soon learned that Lercatelle and Miss Wright were about to be married. The girl li.id not the slightest idea her affianced was a married man. Tlt#? mint, h 11 wind ?r? lit.tlft r?Vmmh back in tlie country, where the ceremony was to taka place. "When she arrived there the minister had nearly linishtd tiio cercmony. "Stop! stop!" cried the old lady as she bustled up to the altar, "llead this!" she exclaimed, thrusting the wife's letter into the hands of the astonished preacher. Before he had finished reading the tell tale message Lereatelle was hur 41... ,.1 TVTIau (.MIL (71 IUI' V1K11WU uijll Alxma Wright li:ul fallen nt tno feet of the minister in a dead faint. At last accounts t.lie wife and three children vrere still looking for the missing husband. The New lllval for Jute, Farmers i-ven'where are interested in the rei>ortcd invention by an Augusta man of a machine for utilizing the fibre of the cotton stalk in the manufacture of a covering for cotton bides, said to bo equal in all respects to jute. The discovery, if it proves practicable, will settle the fight between the jute truyt and the farmer in favor of the farmer, and will make the cotton grower tli most independent agriculturist in the world. A -jrentleman in this city who visited Augusta a few days ago brought back with him 21 specimen of the > > ? ? r? j.I.? strainik or oaggmg woven num uio cotton stalk fibre which liad first been decorticated by the machine just invested for that purpose. The strands resemble jute very mueh.but are a trifle darker. The fibre seems to be fully as strong as jute if not stronger, much superior to either the I cotton or pine straw substitutes for ] jute.?Greenville News. The Charleston Sun to 1k> a Tillman Organ. Charleston. S. C.. April 25.?It is rumored that the Charleston Daily Sun is tf> be purchased by John D. Murphy Co., the farmers who represented Charleston in the Shell convention in March last, with the intention of publisliingit in the interr??jf of* !?*? Tillman movement. The Southern Teachers' Imposition. The Southern Educational Exposi-. ! tiou. to by held at Morekead City. N. C.,in connection with.the Teachers' Assembly. this summer, promises to be a great success. Nearly all the available space in the Assembly build lUJ^ ilciS UUCU Cjuya^v*.!. i'/l (r.^uiUiia JJ prominent manufacturers, publishers anJ schools. The art exhibits from some of tlie seminaries and colleges of the State will be unusually interesting. ?Edwin Booth says in his letter to the New York Tribune, that there is no truth in the report of Lawrence Barrett's failing health. He will re turn to the United States in June and resume his dramatic season in September. MILLIONS OF METHODISTS j Quadrennial Conference of the Southern Branch of the Great W?slcyan Church. One of the greatest religious bodies in the world will meet in St. Louis May lO.The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church. S^utli, Sm-n litis hrf-Tl tiie growth of the church during the past decade that it now stands second among the great Protestant religious assemblies of the world. The General Conference of the Methodist Church alone excels it in the number of communicants represented and the value of property owned by Protestant Church authorities. The Methodists in this country, white and black and of all kinds, number more than five millions (actual communi ciiiirj. ; xii^ *iJtv i.uuvu?Ti; Church lias nearly three million and the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, has about one million eight hundred thousand. Prior to 1K44 there was 110 division among tin* American Methodists. One General Conference represented the whole Church. At the quadrennial session of that conference in Npw York- in Mrv. 1S4-1. a divisionoc curred, caused bv the slavery agitation, ending in the withdrawal of all tin; delegates from the slaveholding States and Territories. After a very animated and long-protracted debate, the final separation was arranged, and the Methodists of the Southern States were no longer under the same jurisdiction as those of the North and East. The seceding delegates called a convention at Louisville, which was held in May, 1845, which permanently organized the "Methodist Episcopal Church in theSouth,'" adopted a hook of discipline similar to that of the old General Conference and containing exactly the same doctrinal teachings and the same forms and ceremonies; in fact, no other difference than that of jurisdiction then existed between the two branches of Methodism. The Conference will be called to order at noon on the 10th day of May, when the senior bishop of the cliurck. the venerable J. C. Keener, will read a Scripture lesson and offer prayer, and then formally open the proceedings. He is ex-officio president of the Conference, though all the bishops will preside in tlie order of seniority. There are eight bishops. They hold office during lifetime and receive an annual salary of $3,000 and traveling expenses. Bishop J. C. Granberrv will rank next to Bishop Keener. He is a Virginian, but has made St. Louis his home for several years. The secretary will doubtless be I the Bev. John S. Martin, D. D., of ! Baltimore, who succeeded Dr. Suni! raers, and was elected at Richmond. Bishop E. R. Hendrix of Kansas City isthe junior bishop of the Church. He has taken the place of the lament. ed Bishop Harvin in the estimation i of Missouri Methodists. He Trill be a conspicuous^figure both in the chair and among the delegates. He was president of the Central College at Fayette when elccted bishop four years ago. The denomination has churches in foreign lands as well as in the United States. It carries on an extensive publishing business at Nashville, Tenn., and has missionaries in China. Japan, Mexico, Brazil and several countries. The missionary operations are all directed from Nashville. Winnie Davis to be Married. Inquiry among the relatives of the lady fully confirms the report of the approaching marriage of Miss "Winnie Davis toJMr. Wilkinson of Syracuse She had been engaged to Mr. "Wilkinson for some time, but would not marry during the lifetime of her father, Jefferson Davis, to whom she was so devoted, although the pro spective marriage met;with his full approval. Miss Davis will leave Paris for home on the 10th inst. A Respite for Kemniler. The lawyers for Kenimler the New York murderer condemned to die by electricity, have procured a writ of habeas corpus from the Judge of the United State Court, staying the execution. The ground taken is that the proposed manner of execution is contrary to the provisions of the Constitution of the United States. The prisoner will go beforethe United States Judge on the third Tuesday m Juno. Meantime the execution is stayed. I\kcApe<l Burning to Drown. The steam engine and saw-mill of Charles Lawrence, situated in Sparkle I'finnfv fliven Tuilnw frnm Rnllino' i Fork, Miss,, was burned Saturday i night. The loss is small." Fifty or sixty of Lawrence's tenants were quartered iu the gin and in their efforts to escape from the flames so von were drowned. The building was, surrounded by water seven feet deep. They had taken refuge there from the overflow and is is stated that their carelessness caused the lire.The report; that several lives had been lost in the vicinity of Gobdel has been, confirmed. A family named Watson, numbering live persons, were drowned. State* Cau't Shut out Liquor. The United States Supreme Court, through Chief Justice Fuller, has rendered an opinion adverse to the constitutionality of State laws providing for the seizure of liquor brought into a State in original packages. Such laws, the court holds, ? --j.?t y+o+r. JVTC lllltTlt'i eiluej"* ?mi ulj-vktl commerce. After liquor becomcs the property of the importer the State may, under its police powers, regulate or prohibit its Kile, but it luis no power in the absence of express congressional authority to prohibit the transportation of an article from another State and its delivery to the importer. The case in which the decision was made i ' - " -r i o ry _ _i_r_ I I was tuat or u-us jueiuy oc v^o., jmuutiii* in error, vs. A. J. Hardin, brought here on appeal from the Supreme Court of Iowa, and this court reverses the decision of the. State court. Justices Gray, Harlan and Brewef dissented. The case is one of great importance to prohibitionists and liquor dealers. ?Cliauncey. M. Depew fras 58 years old on April 23. THE WAITED STOOD ACHASTA Coinedy of Error* Enacted iu a Wash- , in?to:i licstauraut. A ov-v/vl cf/ivv iti wlnVli fwn i guislied Louisianians. and a 110 loss ! distinguished Georgian, figured some- j what conspicuously in a restaurant in Washington, D. C.. a short time | ago. was related to a newspaper man. The Louisianians were Hon. Thomas J. Semmes and Mr. James Legendre of this city. and the Georgian was Hon. Ben Hill, son of the late senator, and himself a prominent Georgia politician. The party were en route to New York city to attend the centennial of the Supreme Court of the United States. On the arrival of the train at Washington, D. (J.. the usual time for breakfast was announced, and Messrs. Semrnes and party, taking advantage of the opportunity thus offered, hastened to the nearest restaurant. Each ordered as his taste and inclination prompted, and settled his own account. Messrs. Semmes and Hill attacked tho bill of fare to the extent of ?]. and Mr. Legendre contented himself with a 75*eent meal. Breakfast ended, the. three gentlemen each handed the waiter a silver < loiijir?nie exact amount ox money due by Messrs. 801 nines ami Hill. Twenty-tive cents were due Legendre, however, anil tliis amount the waiter returned to him on his tray. Mr. Legeudre had enjoyed his breakfast and. being in a good humor, lie replaced the quarter 011 the tray to "tip*' the waiter. The waiter, placing the money in glass 011 his tray, passed in to Mr. Semmes as a gentle reminder of what was expected of him. Mr. Semmes was, however, busily conversing with his frien d3Ir.Hill,at the time,andin an absentminded sort of way quietly appropriated the tip money under the impression, no doubt, that it was his change. The waiter was dumbfounded, and Hr. Legendre, somewhat embarrassed, beckoned to him and dropped an additional quarter on the tray to sootke his feelings. This the waiter passed to Mr. Hill with the hope that he at least, had "caught on," and that Mr.Scmines might finally be brought to a knowledge of his mistake. But he again made a serious error. Mr. Hill dealt with the tip money just as Mr. Semmes had done in the first instance4 and the conversation proceeded in the ordinarv way. > ?%. T ,TTO. J.TA.J. . V "t?U MAAVUVAJ VM.W VV cents in the scheme, and was consequently not further inclined in that direction, and before the waiter could recorer lufficiently to explain the mistake the three strangers left the restaurant and were on their way to New York.?New Orleans TimesDemocrat. MURDER WILL OUT. The Assaesin of Clayton of Arkansas T?ll* th# Tale of tke Martier?The Crime tho IUkuIU of a Fead. A. dispatch from Los Angeles, California, says: Regarding the report nPliAmoo TT/>Ar?m? 1/JUtfcV XUViUao XiWJ/VA * tJUV xuuvuvJUj who died at Ranchito, near here last winter, was implicated in the murder of John M. Clayton of Arkansas, the following facts are learned: Last June, Charles Lewis called on Sheriff Aguirre and said that in the latter part of 1888 he had made the acquaintance of Thomas Hooper and cared for him when he was sick. Hooper was often moody, and Lewis asked him the reason. Eoope: replied, intimating that in 18#8 he killed two men in Conway County, Arkansas, whose names Lewis caught as Thomas and May. Little by little he told Lewis that several years bofore his father had been killed in Arkansas by a body of men, who took him from jail and lynched him. He swore vengeance upon tho lynchers and told Lewis the men whom he had killed were two of the ringleaders in the party, while Clayton was the third. "If you ever hear of Clayton dying with his boots on," Hooper remarked i T ?Ml 1 "L _ U11.3 lo juewis, "you wm kiiow who b_uu?u him."' During December, Hooper disappeared and soon after Lewis read of tho assassination of Clayton, and Lewis called at Hooper's bouse and Hooper's son said bo did -not know where his father was. Later, Lewis learned that Hooper had reappeared and bought a ranch at llanohito. During the investigation by sheriff letters were received from Governor Eagle of Arkansas stating that Tom Hooper was brought up in Conway County. Arkansas, and went through the war i* the Confederate nrrny; that he was in Eagle's regiment when quite a boy. He left the State m 1868 or 18G8. and lias not been there since to live. The Governor's description is said to fit Ranchito -Hooper. Ho also said Hooper's father was murdered about the time stated. The sheriff was about to arrest Hooper last winter, when the Hoods came a] id cut off connection with Ranchito for several days. During that time Hooper was taken dovrn witn pneumonia find died. Governor Eagle, in replying under date of March 31,1890, to a communication from Sheriff Aguirre of Los Angeles County, requests specimens 1 of Hooper s writing. He concludes i hy saying: "The circumstances that have come to light point to Hooper as I the probable person who committed this crime. If he did, and is now dead, he cannot be convicted in the courts, but I hopo you will immediately take this up aud help us rush it to a conclusion." Is Aiken's Treasurer Short. Aiken*. S. C.. April 29.?It lias boon known for a week or two that Treasurer Hurray, of Aiken county, was short in cash. The grand jury f omul two weeks ago that sometlring was wrong. The county auditor was put upon the case and to-day it is developed thai the treasurer is at least ?17.000 short after all deductions for salary and other things hav> been made. Mr. Murray has turnedover every thing to bis bondsmen, who will make the loss good. It is not known wliat became of the money in the treasury. ?The Hamburger Nachrichten again asserts that Prince Bismarck will appear in Piirliament. but with the sole object of sending his vote to the Council of State. | "THE FORT P1L4-OW MASSACRE-" i A Story cf the War Affain Prored Mvths die hard, but the alleged 'r9 "Foil Pillow massacre"' received a blow in the Nashville Round Table of March 8 that must prove absolutely fatal?in the minds, at least, of persons not wholly impervious to Politicians during the war. and Republican partisans since have persistently chargedGeneral Forrest and General Chalmers, his subordinate, with having massacred the garrison mk of Fort Pillow after the surrender and while prisoners of war. Mr. Charles W. Anderson, formerly adjutant and inspector-general of General Forrest's cavalry corps, the only stall' officer present with Forrest at the storming of the foil, shows in the Round Table that there was no massacre, that the foil was not surrendered, though its surrender was thirce demanded and refused, ?jid that the loss of life during the fifteen minutes of the action was due to the total incapacity of th*> commanding officer. . ; Fort Pillow was a fortified position oil a bluff overlooking the Mississippi vivpr Tn it.? rp;ir was n. dr?er> ravine. which could be swept by the guns of the New Era, a vessel which lay abreast to the mouth of the ravine. below the fort. Higher up tho stream and near the fort were the empty barges ready to receive the garrison in ease of need. There was an understanding it is shown between Major Bradford, the . 'A commandant af the fort, and Captain Marshal, of the New Eta, that if ilin'ron ft' ?m fnri i\v f]<?> federates, the garrison should take refuge under the bluff, where it would 1 be effectually protected by the New Era's canister. Ammunition was i placed under the bluff in readiness for use by the garrison in c*se the works above could not be held. A miscalculation as to the grit of the captain of the New Era spoiled tnis plan of the defense. General Forrest's first operation was to drive the New Era from its position commanding th? Ravine across which the Confederates were TVllfl V)A V>T placing two pieces of artillery on the bluff below the ravine. The Confed- I erate line was then, under a heavy fire, closed in rapidly around the trorks. Havi-ig sounded a bugle call for a truce and a parley, General Forrest now sent forward a white flag to dernani tho unconditional surrender of all the troops at Fort Pillow. "He knew." says Adjutant Anderson, ??. x "that the place wan practically in his ^ possession, as the enemy could not ^ depress their artillery so a? to rake the slopes around the fort, and the constant fire of our sharpshooters forced the besieged to keep down behind their parapets.'" The demand -? i . _ . J. _ n was renewed twice, wnen rejecieu, in the belief that the federal commander must see the folly of resisting under the circumstances a forc? so much larger than his own. Major Bradford, however, relying upon his arrangements with Captain Marshal for protection under the _ bluff when the fort was taken,refused J" all offers. Meanwhile the sight of three steamers ascending the riyer with reinforcements led General Forrest to place a force of 150 riflemen under Adjutant Anderson in a posi?" * iv . 1-1?ixr nru:_ tion on tne iace 01 me oitui. lms force not only served to prevent the troops on the steamers from effecting a landing, but, being within sixty yards of the south entrance 01 *ue fort, it commanded the line of retreat upon which Major Bradford relied. This was the situation when General Forrest gave the signal to assault the fort. At once the yells all along the line of charging Confeder- . ates. followed by a terrible discharge of the batteries and small arms 01 tho garrison, A few moments latent portion of the garrison rushed down towards the river and were met with a r"* destructive fire from a detichment under Adjutant Anderson. The tri umphank yells of the Confederates as they moutned the enemy's parapets were heard again, and followed this time in a moment by the whole force of the garrison pouring over the slope of the bluff, with arms in hand, seeking the protection of the New Era's guns. Under v;ho fire of Adjutant Anderson's men xliey fell thick and fast beinj in utter dismay and confusion at finding the appointed place of refuge in the enemy's hands. Under this fire and that of their pursuers of the assaulting line some 250 were lolled within a few minutes. There had been as yet no surrender. Nor was there any. As soon as General Forrest entered the fort he hauled down tlietlag. and that was followed immediately by a cessation of the liring. "The moment," says Adjutant Anderson, "the federal colors came down I ordered firing to cease, and it was promptly done/* "What has been called a "massacre" was this firing of Anderson's men upon armed force doing battle, such armed force not having surrendered and being without intention of surrendering. It is an obvious abuse of language, of course, to call a specially destructive collision of armed men The assault oil the works, the attempted retreat to the river, the woeful disaster consequent upon the failure of the New Era to do its appointed work?all this occupied. Adjutant Anderson tells, not over minutes. After the battle every effort was made to treat the wounded and prisoners in the best manner. In support of this story of the battle Adjutant Anderson publishes a number of i " J*- /> .1 ieiters Il'OHiii v,-uweuiu.t.cc>iuiu. jl tuuai ids who took part in it. Tneir te%tiI nxmy is wholly to the point that j there was no massacre?only a dis&sI ter such as every army iniyht expect sometimes to encounter. The Radicals appear to mean business this year. It is stated that Chairman Brayionhas called a State C'onventioD, to m?tt n- Charleston at a:j early dat<>, to nomiiiaJe a lull State Vickes. Iv is said the entire commccaent of ce'egates have aready beeii elected.