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jf" Bcj - ,,, ? i r. mii i I I ??? hhirol. xl VI. winnsboro, s. c., Wednesday, july 10, is do. no. 48. OKLYN DIVINE IPREACHING IN NEBRASKAlir Sermon Delivered to the MulTrom the Text, "We Are Witnesncb> Jr. Talmage preached ice" Nebraska, in the open immense congregation gathered from all the g country to hear the falter. Sis text was, "We ses." (Acts 3: 15.) Folis sermon: ys of George Stephenson. )T of the locomotive en cientisis proved conclui railway train could nevi by steam po^er successithout peril; but the rushtrains from Liverpool to or?/-} ^vrvrr* PrliriVkiTrcrli +A DUUIUUU^U) CMJAA i-LVtU JJVUUUUgU w London* have made all the nations witnesses of the splendid achievement. 3 ilachinists and navigators proved c onclusively that a steamer could ne rer cross the Atlantic Ocean but no s( >oner had they successfully proved tl le impossibility of such an undertaking than the work was done, and the ipassengers on the Cunard, and the ] hman, and the National, and the "SThite Star lines are witnes1 ses. Thejre went up a guffaw of wise laughter alt Professor Morse's proposition to n^ake the lightning of heaven his errand! boy, and it was proved <x>nclusiveily that the thing could never be done; but now all the news of the wide' world, by associated press put in your hands every morning and night, has made all nations witnesses. So in the time of Christ it was proved conclusively that it -was impossible for Him to irise from the dead. It was shown logically that when a man ) was dead, lie was dead, and the he^rt and the livir and the lungs having ceased to Perform their offices, the limbs wor|d be rigid beyond all power of faction or arousal. They I . % showed it ti be an absolute absurdity that the de|d Christ should ever get up alive; ljut no sooner had tney , proved this than the dead Christ arose, and t te disciples behold Him, hear His vo le, and talk with him, ^ and they to' k the witness stand to prove that t>be true which the wiseacres of "th day had proved to be impossible; lie record of the experience and offche testimony is in the text: "Him lath God raised from the dead, wherof we are witnesses." Now, let ne play the sceptic for a ^ moment. u?liere is no God," says H the sceptic, tfor I have never seen . him with m] physical eyesight. Tour : H Bible is a iack of contradictions. : JSf There never vas a miracle. Lazarus ; was not raisjd from the dead, and the water wife never turned into wine. ; is aji imposition on the : ages." There is an 1 ^^^^agecnman moving~over--yonder as 1 though he would like to ^respond. ] Here are hundreds of x>eople with faces a little flushed at these an- nouncements, and all through this ! assembly there is a suppressed feel- < I ing which would like to speak out in : behalf of the truth of our glorious i Christianity, as in the days of the s text, crying out, "We are witnesses!" \ The fact is, that if this world is i ever brought to God, it will not be i thrn??h argument, but through tes- ] Ftimony. You might cover the whole ] earth with apologies for Christianity and learned treatises in defense of religion?you would not convert a soul. Lectures on the harmony between science and'religion are beautiful mental discipline, but have never I saved a soul, and never will save a \ soul Put a man of the world and a man of the church against each other 4-t-?r\ ty?ot? lltA rrArl.^ Will i"r? t?ll CbiJLli. LUJL^ mail I Vi LIJLL^/ M ViiU MiU JJLL MJU. ' probability get the triumph. There are a thousand things in our religion 1 that seem illogical to the world, and i always will seem illogical. Our weap- t on in this conflict is faith, not logic: i faith, not metaphysics, faith, not pro- ( fundity: faith, not scholastic explora- i tion. But then, in order to have 1 faith, we must have testimony, and if 1 five hundred men, or one thousand ? men, or five hundred thousand men, 2 or five million men get up and tell c i.T i. 2.1 t i.1. i: ?; 1 me uiat tiiey nave ieib me religion ui .1 Jesus Christ a joy, a comfort, a help, i ail aspiration, I am bound as a fair- < minded man to accept their testimony, s I want just now to put before you c three propositions, the truth of t which I this audience will attest t with overwhelming unanimity. t The first proposition is, we are i witnesses that the religion of Christ is able to convert a soul. The gos- f pel may have had a hard time to conquer us; we may have fought it back, 1 but we were vanquished, lou say r conversion is only an imaginary thing, "v We know better. ""We are witnes- c ses." There never was so great a t - change in our heart and life on any \ other subject as on this. People c laughed at the missionaries in Ma- c dagascar because they preached ten "* years without converts: but there are t AAA I ^ r. -1 - J 1 3<5,uuu converts in .aiauagascar toaay. j People laughed at Dr. Adoniram i Judson, the Baptist missionary, be- * cause he kept on preaching in Bui- 3 mail five years without a single con- 1 vert: but there are 20,000 Baptists in t Burmah today. People laughed at ? Doctor Morrison in China, for preach- 1 ing there^even years without a sin- 1 w yniilFNi L^rsion: but there are 25,000 i Christians in China today. People i f laughed at the missionaries for r nrpftnhins- at Tahiti fifteen vears ] r? cy ^ without a single conversion, and at 1 the missionaries for preaching in 5 Bengal setenteen years without a < single conversion; vet in all those 1 lands there are multitudes of Christians to day. 1 But why go so far to find evidence i of the Gospel's power to save a soul? ' %'We are witnesses." We were so ; proud that no man could have hum- < Wl-J ? 1 j , uieu. us; were su u>uu wiuu uu eartlilj' power could have melted, us; : angels of God were all around about us. they could not overcome us; but ; one dry. perhaps at a Methodist anxious seat, or at a Presbyterian cat- : eclietical lecture, or at a burial, or on horseback, a power seizeu us, and made us get down, and made us tremble, and mad? us kneel, and cry for mercy, and we tried to wrench ourselves away from the grasp, but : we could not. It Hung us flat, and when we arose we were as much 1 changed as Gourgis. the heathen. < I . U wlio went into a prayer meeting with a dagger and a gun, to disturb the meeting and to destroy it, but the next day was found crying. -'Oh, my great sins! Oh, my great Saviour!" and for eleven years preached the Gospel of Christ to his fellow mountaineers, the last words on his dying lips being, "Free Grace!'' Oh, it was free grace! There is a man who was for ten years a hard drinker. The dreadful appetite had sent down its roots around the palate and the tongue, and on down until they were interlinked with the vitals of body, mind and soul; but he has not taken any stimulants for ten years. "What did that? Not temperance societies; not prohibition laws: not moral suasion. Conversion did it. "Why, sir," said one on whom the great change had. come, "I feel just as though I were somebody else!" There is a sea captain who swore all the way from New York to Havana and from Havana to San Francisco, and when he was in port he was worse than when he was on the sea. What power was it that washed his tongue clean of profanities, and made him a psalm singer? Conversion by the Holy Spirit. There are thousands of people in this assemblage to-day who are no more what they once were than a water lily is a night shade, or a morning lark is a vulture , or day is night. Now, if I should demand that all those people he*se present who have felt the converting power of religion snouia rise, so iar irom oeing asnamed, they would spring to their feet with more alacrity than they ever sprang to the dance, the tears mingling with their exhilaration as they cried, "We are witnesses!' And if they tried to sing the old Gospel hymn, they would break down with emotion by the time they got to the second line: Ashamed ot Jesus, that dear Friend On whom my hope of heaven depend? No! Wheal olush, Le this my shame: That I no more reyere His name. When a man has trouble the world comes in and says, "Now get your mind off this; go out and breathe the fresh air; plunge deeper into business." What poor advice! Get your mind off it! When everything is upturned with the bereavement, and everything reminds you of what you have lost. Get your mind off it! They might as well advise you to stop thinking. You cannot stop thinking, and you cannot stop thinking in that direction. Take a walk in the fresh air! Why, along that very street, or- that very road, she once accompanied you. Out of that grass plat she plucked flowers, or into that show window she looked, fascinated, saying: "Come see the pictures." Go deeper into business? Why, she was associated with all 70ur business ambition, and since she has gone you have no ambition 'eft. Oh, this is a clumsy world : svhen it tries to comfort a broken ieart. 1 can build a Corliss engine. [ can paint a Kaphael's "Madonna," [ can play a Beethoven's "Eroica : Symphony" as easy as this world can ; comfort a broken hesrt And yet roii have been comforted. How was ; it done"? Did Christ come to you and 1 say, "Get your mind of this; go out 1 md breathe fresh air; plunge deeper i nto business?" No. There was a ' xtmute when he came to you?per- J laps in the watches of the night, perhaps in your place of business, \ perhaps along the streets?and He ! wreathed something into your soul ] ;hat gave you peace, rest, infinite luiet, so that you could take out the < photograph of the departed one and < .ook into the eyes and the face of the J lear one, and say, "It is all right; 1 she is better off; I would not call her * ?ack. Lord, I thank Thee that Thou c last comforted my poor heart." ^ In our sermons and in nnr lav ev- ? lortations we are very apt, when we J vant to bring illustrations of dying :riurnph, to go back to some distin- ? juished personage?to a John Knox * >r a Harriet Newell. But I want you * 'or witnesses. I want to know if you 1 lave ever seen anything to make you 1 relieve that the religion of Christ can * jive composure in the final hour. * Sow, in the courts, attorney, jury, c tnd judge will never admit mere ^ learsay. They demand that the wit- ? less must have seen with his own t ?roc r\t* v/3 xnfV? a r\rr?r> oorc on/J \ -J VO VTXi/J-L JLi_LO V>IU. Vl*J. O* C*J~LVl ;o I am critical in my examination t >f you now; and I want to know e vhether you have seen or heard any- t hing that makes yon believe that 3 he religion of Christ gives compos- t ire in tiie final hour. a "Oh, yes,*' you say, "I saw my f ather and mother depart. There vas a great difference in their death>eds. Standing by the one we felt nore veneration. By the other, there vas more tenderness/' Before the i me, you bowed perhaps in awe. In c he other case you felt as if you 1 vould like to go along with her. How lid they feel in that last hour? How r lid they seem to act? "Were they a 'ery much-, frightened'? Did they 1 :ake hold of this world with both r aands as though they did not want 1 ;o give it up? i;Oh, no," you say; } mo, I remember as though it were i resterday; she had a kind word for \ is ail, ana tnere were a lew memen- t ;oes distributed among the children, J uid then she told us how kind we \ nust be to our father in his loneli- t less, and then she kissed us goodbv s md went asleep as calmly as a-child ? n a cradle.*' . . . ] "What made her so composed? Natu- 1 :al courage'? "No," you say, Mother c t*n c "rnvir oviran o tt* tV?n* aavmaoa _ ?> ? VJL J >T litU l/JLL^ \ nclined to the'side of the road, she ( 3ried out; she was always very week- c !y." What, then, gave her composite'? ] Was it because she did not care ? much for you, and the.pang of part- } ing was not great? "Oh,"' you say, i ;;she showered upon us a wealth of 1 affection. No mother ever loved her ] children more than mother loved us. She showed it by the way she nursed us when jwe got sick, and she toneciior us until ner strengtn gave ] out." What. then, was it that gave ] her composure in the last hour? Do ; aot hide it; be frank and letnie know. -Oh," you say, "it was because she i was so good: she made the Lord her I < portion, and she had faith that she ' would go straight to glory, and that; i we should all meet her at last at the j: foot of the throne." . < Here are people who say, "I saw a Christian brother die.and he triumph- : ed." And some one else, "I saw a A 1 Christian sister die, and she triumphed." Some the else will say, "I saw a Christian daughter die, and she triumphed/' Come all ye who have seen the last moments of a Christian, and ffive testimony in this case on trial. Uncover your heads, put your hand on the old family Bible from -which they used to read the promises, and promise in the presence of high heaven that you will tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. "With what you have seen with your own eyes, a?"1 from Vhnf, rnn lmv* heard with Your < ears, is there power in this gospel to give calmness ?nd triumph in the last exigency? The response comes from alj sides, from young, and old,and middle aged: "Where are the witnesses!"' You see, my friend, I have not put before you to-day an abstraction, or chimera, or anything like guess-work. I present you affidavits of the best men and women, living and dead. Two witnesses in court will establish a fact. Here are not two witnesses,. Vm * +1-. nncorwle rvf Yt-ifnASCPS?ntl Parth I I millions of witnesses, and in heaven ! ajjgreat multitude ofjwitnesses that no man can number?testifying that there is power in religion to convert the soul, to give comfort in trouble, and to afford composure in the last horn*. If ten men should come to you when you are sick with appall ing sickness, and say they had the same sickness, and took a certain medicine, and it cured them, you would ra-obablv take it. Now, SUT> pose ten other men should come up and say, "We don't believe there is anything in that medicine." "Well,"' I _say, "Have you ever tried it?" 'No, I never tried it, but I don't believe there is anything in it." Of course you discredit their testimony. The sceptic may come and say, "There is no power in your religion." Have you ever tried it?" "JMo, no." "Then, avaunt!" Let me take the testimony of the millions of souls that have been converted to God, and comforted in trial, and solaced in the last horn*. "We -will take their testimony as they cry, "We are "witnesses!" Some time ago Professor Henry, of Washington, discovered a new star, and the tidings, sped by submarine telegraph, and all the observatories of Europe were watching for that new star. Oh, hearer, looking out through the darkness of thy soul to-day, canst thou see a bright^ light beaming on thee? "Where?" you say; "where? How can I find it?" : Look along by the line of the cross of the Son of God.'Do you see ittremb- . ling with all tenderness and beaming ! uri+Ti all Virmo? Tf. ic f.li?> Sf.flr rif TSpfV) lehem. Deep horror then my vitals froze. Death- struck I ceased the tide to st em, [ When suddenly a star arose It was the Star of Betelehem. . Oh, hearer, set you r eyes on it. It i is easier for you now to become a i Christian than it is to stay away from i Christ and heaven. < "When Madame Sonntag began her 1 musical career she was hissed off s the stage at Vienna by the friends of ] her rival Amelia Steininger, who had i already begun to decline tnrougnner dissipation. Years passed on, and one day Madame Sonntag, in her glory, was riding through the streets ] of Berlin, when she saw a little child Leading a blind woman, and she said, ::Come here, my little child, come here. Who is that you are leading ? by the hand?7' And the little child ] replied, "That's my mother; that's j Imelia Steininger. She used to be a t *rpa.f, sino-pv hut, she lost hpr vmV.P. t md she cried so much about it that ? ?he lost her eyesight." Give my love a ;o her,v said Madame Sonntag, "and \ ;ell her an old acquaintance mil call t >n her this afternoon." The next t veek in Berlin a vast assemblage t gathered at a benefit for that poor -v :lind woman, and it was said that v Vladame Sonntag sang that night as c ihe had never sung before. And she v ;ook a skilled oculist, who in vain t ;riA,'] to envp pvesio-ht to thft nnor ii ~" O" ' " "?o ? r-')lind woman. Until the day of Ame- j ia Steininger s death, Madame Sonnag took care of her, and her daugh- a ,er after her. That was what the s lueen of song did for her enemy, ij 3ut, oh, hear a more thrilling story a till! Blind immortal, poor and los t, r hou who, when the world and Christ h vere rivals for thy heart, didst hiss s Liy juuiuawttj?V^JLLLI^U J-LU>V tu o jive thee sight, to give thee a home, o o give thee heaven. With more than a i> Sonntag's generosity He comes now ^ o meet your need. With more than ^ s Sonntags music He comes to plead q or thy deliverance. ? I A Served Longer than Jacob. ^ W. A. Pollard, a farmer who lives i n this county, was in the city a few 1 lays ago, and to some of his friends i le told the following story, which is 1 ouched for by those living in his leighborhood: About nineteen years igo Mr. Pollard hired himself to the r QVM'U firo O Troll 4-o -foT* I .. CXJUL^yV.. ^WUJVi.s)? CC ?T V/U UU UV 1U1 ner of this county. The first month ^ le received a suit of clothes as pay. ^ Hr. Pollard was then employed permanently as a farm hand. He had >een with Mr. Spillers but a short ime when a girl child was bom to , tfrs. Spillers. An hour after it was ; >orn Mr. Pollard asked Mr. Spillers ^ r\ mm 4-V>n oclncmf/i titTi^ <\y gitv A ill** CJU.*_ VJUULLV4. JLUwO >T AAV *T U^/U ihe arrived at the proper age. Mr. ? Spillers consented, and said if Mr. E Pollard stayed with him he should , 1 ave his daughter at sixteen. Through sixteen years the young man worked ? vith his employer and at sixteen . ;laimed the young lady as his fiance ^ md was soon after manied to her. 3e is now the father of two children, ? md at Mr. Spiller s death he left lis son-in-law 81,600 in cash for 7 ;he sixteen years lie had so patient.y waited for his wife.?Greenville Sews. c a ?The latest fashionable "fad" is From Yalesville, Pa. At a village improvement entertainment eleven ^ voung ladies personated slaves and 1 were put up at auction. They -were ? cirapect in sneets so as to be unrecognizable, and brought from 40 to cents eacli. That quotations ran so low is explained "by the fact that c it was incumbent upon each pur- 2 chaser to buy for his slave all the ice cream, cake and lemonade she de- c manded, and to escort her home after ( the entertainment. c COUNTINC UNCLE SAM'S NOSESMachines That Keat the Human Brain in Computing Returns Washington, July 10.?Nice-looking girls in clean, white aprons are the hiiw Vinrirlc: in ft. maoTii'np sVinn nri t.hfi third floor of a Ninth street building. It is the census bureau, and the girls work on those wonderful counting machines, which come so near human intelligence in computing the returns sent from all sections of this big country for the census of 1890. At first glance the machines remind one ^ ->n upright piano. They have handsome o:ik cases and each one occupies about the same space a piano does. They are, however, eminently practical machines, and with tlieir aid some fifteen young ladies can count accurately 500000 names a day. It is expected that when the work of counting the census returns really begins there will be seventy or eighty of these machines at work. The returns from the census districts throughout the country are coming in slowly. There are mo^e than 50,000 of these districts, and so iiu viiij auuub a,OV\J uiBiaxuts nave sent in the returns. As fast as the returns come in they are counted, although not as rapidly as they will be, as it is necessary to train the young ladies in the use of the machines. In making this count, which is known as the "rough count," the returns for each district are counted twice. After being counted on one machine they are passed over to another, and when the latter count is completed the two are compared, and if there are discrepancies necessary corrections are made. Following this method, if the J 1 _ J.* 11. . J. * total population 01 trie country is 60,000,000 there will be counted in the census office an equivalent- to 120,000,000 names. The machines, which are the invention of Mr. Hollerith, and supplement his tabulating machines, are very ' simple. A key board, resembling ! that of a typewriter, is at the right ; of the operator. Each key has a i number from one to twenty. The < operator has a pile of census sched ules at her left side, and, as she turns ; the schedules over, she notes the J figures which indicate the number of ] members in each family enumerated in that schedule. If there are five in < a family she strikes the key marked five. When a key is struck an elec- ( trie connection is established with , the hands on a dial in the framework ( in front of the operator. , That dial is marked No. 5, which < means it records the number of fami- [ Hps finnsisf,ir>ic nf fivp -nprsons. T5n<Vh 4 time the No 5 key is struck No. 5 dial , records one. When the count is completed the recorded number on < each dial is multiplied by the num- ( ber of the dial, the results added up < and the total number of individuals j (T? is ocrtArloi'nT-P'+Vic* UU. UJLXC&U UiOliXVU lO JLX UJLlt> ( result is obtained by a different oper- ( it or, then it is concluded that tlie ? ;ount is correct. It is expected that by the use of these machines the results of the census will be known \ nuch sooner than by any other known T nethod. j * * *" ( THE COTTON CROP- ? Reports Satisfactory From Euerywhere? j Condition the Best, With one Exception, i In Five Years?The Average by States. Washington, D. C., July 10.?The l statistical report for July for the ' Department of Agriculture shows im- i Y?*/VT7<^YY>/vr? o4*o "fTI c? 1 JULL U-U.O OLKAUU.O VJL WWtVJUj J he average of condition having advanced from 88.8 to 91.4. There was i generally excess of moisture until j ibout the tenth of June -with fine c weather since, giving opportunity for c he destruction of grass and for f horough cultivation. On the Atlan- c ic coast the crop generally is in ad- c ance while it is late in the south- t rest, where planting was delayed by a overflows and by heavy rains. That j fhich was planted early began to c (loom from the loth to the 25th and ] a the southwest some bolls are re- e lorted as early as June the 20th. c Vhile the plant in various stages of ] dvancement, from the wide range of \ eeding, it is now almost invariably ( dl full vigor of growth, of good color, e nd high promises, very free from t ust, free from worms, except weak c ivasions of first breeds in the more s outhem belt. The present average r f July conditions has been exceeded j nly once in the last five years. It is t tated as follows, by States: s 'irginia 92 forth Carolina 95 " iouth Carolina 95 F Georgia 95 a Florida 91 dabama 9o a Iississippi 89 jouisiana 86 b i'exas 89 ^ irkansas 89 c Tennessee ? 93 I Nearly throughout the cotton area wo or three weeks of dry weather is eported,but scarcely any injury from rought. Since the first of July eavy rains have been reported on the dlantic coast. A. i oung ijaay jnissing. Oil Tuesday morning Miss Mary loiris, the 15 year old daughter of ^ Ir. J. TV. Morris, who lives on the g ialuda side of No. 9 Township, al>out ^ ix miles from Prosperity, went out ^ o a pinder patch to do some hoeing. g ?he time for her return having passed ier parents called for her, but re- t eived no answer. They then insti- ? uted search for her but with unavail- ^ ag effort. The search was continued ^ luring the afternoon and night and ? esterday, and the latest information * hat we obtained yesterday afternoon ras to the effect that she had not ( seen found. ^ No reason is assigned for her sud- j len disappearance?Newberry Herald nd News. ^ ?Governor Nicholls, of Louisiana. j etoed the bill to submit the lottery < [uestion to the people, bu t the House ' >assea it over ms veto, ana me oen ^ ,te sustained the House. So the oil )ecoines a law. j ?During the last year forty-two j :olleges received gifts of money , imounting to ?2,675,000. Col. H. D. Floyd is hereby announ- ^ :ed as a candidate fct re-election as ! bounty Treasurer,suWct to the action >f the primary election. 1 - . V ARP AS A PATRIOT. HF. MORALIZES ON THE GLORIOUS FOURTH. Some Important Historical Facts Recalled ?Let Us Have Peace. Atlanta Constitution. I asked an intelligent young man to-day about the 4th of July and what it meant, and lie said "Our forefathers had a big fight with old England and whipt it; and after it was all over the colonies got together on the 4th of July, '76, and formed a union and made a declaration of independence.1' A good many young people have an idea that this day fli/i TCVIino- nf flio "ficlif. and the beginning of a new government. This is a mistake, but it is a very reasonable supposition. The day of a great 'victory that closes a war and secures peace and independence is a greater day than the one on which it was declared. "Let not him boast that putteth ?*?vmav A-n KVa mrlia J-LLO O.I. UiUi uii i.nr .11 I Hi VV JUL V ICfcZ^VT C-Ll JLV off." The surrender of Cornwallis at Yorktown virtually closed the war on the 19th day of October, 1781, and the treaty of peace was signed in Paris on the 80th day of November, 1782. This treaty for the first time acknowledged and established the independence of the United States, and the day it was signed should be observed as a very notable day. The 4th of July was not the beginning of the war. The colonies had been fighting for a year or more all alon^the linp.Ranp.roft savsthebat tie jof Lexington that was fought on the 18th of April. 1775, -was the beginning of the revolution. The battle of Bunker Hill was fought in. June, 1775. The colonies had rebelled from Maine to Georgia, and had organized for resistance. Old North Carolina held a secession meeting at Mecklenburg in May, 1775, and passed a declaration of independence. The second continental congress met in Philadelphia the 10th of May, 1775, and issued ?2,000,000 of continental money for war purposes. Cana-1 da was invaded and Montreal was I 1 T\ 1 1 rrrrrt A caiien m j^ecemoer, xi to. v_/ur iauisrs were getting along pretty well with the war long "before the 4th of July, but the colonies were fighting on their own motion, ynd had not cemented any settled union. Some oi them thought that "England would soon get tired and beg their pardon md invite them back, and perhaps they would go back, but on the 7th lay of June, 1676, Eichard Henry Lee introduced resolutions in the rm+inonfal ^nnm'oco fViof. ^nf. fViolacf V4ULVW W V?AU VMViMWU ;ord that had bound the colonies to Grreat Britain. The resolutions were passod and a committee appointed to iraw up a more formal declaration )f independence; and so it was done, rad was reported to congress and was passed on the 4th of July, 1776. It is well for the children and youth ;o understand these things, so that when they are asked what all this acket is about, and these annual jelebrations and fireworks, they can iDSwer. TV* _1 n TT T X"L xucnara jaenry j-iee was me jjersolal friend of Washington, and when tVashington died Lee was chosen to pronounce his eulogy, and it was in hat address that he said of him: 'First in war, first in peace and first n the hearts of his countrymen.7' Don't forget that. Those Lees were terrible rebels. fVhen Cromwell was dictator they ebelled against him and passed a leclaration of independence for Virginia, and so Cromwell sent over a ieet to subdue them, but he couldn't lo it, and had to recognize their inlependence and make a treaty with hem. The Lees were bom to rule, jad they have been ruling for 150 rears in this country. It is a grand >ld family. Henry Lee, a cousin of Richard's, was the father of <3ur Genral Robert E. Lee. He was known Luring the revolution as Light Horse larry. His father must have been a -ery extraordinary man, for he and xeneral Washington loved and courts d the same girl, Miss Lucy Grymes, he "lowland beauty," and Lee outgeneraled the general, and history ays that Waslnngton^never wholly ecovered from that defeat. Some ears after he tried a widow with betpr Inclr She had one son. and that on married and died, leaving one laughter, and our Bob married her. .'he Lees all had personal pride and ride of family. They scorned to do , mean thing. Their self-respect wouldn't permit ft. They stood up nd sat down and rode and walked ritli a princely dignity that cornlanded respect and admiration. Wiliam Preston Johnson says in a reent letter that he never saw General jee take au ungraceful posture. No latter how worn or weary or sick or ad, ins bearing was grace ana aigmiy | efined. This was not affected- It j ras his nature. A man with a i *reat aind and a good heart can't help t >eing Lignified. His body partakes of the lobility of his mind. He becc >mes ;odlike, as was said of Daniel "* tVebter. If a man's body is the te mple >f the living Go&asthe scripture s say, hen it becomes liim to be dig oified nd graceful and courteous. Some oiks affect to despise all this , but hey do not. They are fooling themelves. Just let a man or a v roman it or stand before the camera of the A! A <V\4 A T V ?AA mULUgittpJLiei JLUI a oj IU. acc 10w they fix up for it, and ho w careul to take a good position . They vill do their best and loc jk their prettiest every time, esp< >?ially a voman. Light Horse Harry was ti?s most lashing cavalry officer of t1 i-e revolu;ion and Washington depe nded upon lim as General Lee depe nded upon Feb Stuart in the late wa r. He was A/3 i- %?i VI /~3 O W> - - - - ? ? I UCVULCU iilCjUU. ?WJ.U. a Ud i^UctLLLLUCUS !oe. After the war lie 1 happened to ?e in Baltimore where a mob had gathered to break up a newspaper md whip the editor, a r nan who had seen his friend, and lie rushed to lis rescue and got wo unded in the iray and was injured internally and lever recovered from . it He went tc 3uba for his health and came back by Cumberland isla? ad to rest awhile svith General Gre .en's family and lt j i :. j iilUJit; lit: uieu cuiu > vas ouneu. vjreui*ia was honored vr ith. his bones. I reckon that th e 4th of July is the fittest day to celel jrate, though it was i I t ? - not the day of the nation's birth, nor the beginning of the war, nor the day of the last great victory, nor the day when peace was made. It is a singular coincidence that the battle of Lexington, where the first blood was shed in the old revolution, was fought on the 18th of April?the same day of the same month that closed tne late war. ninety years arterward. Sherman and Joe Johnston made peace on that day at Durham's station, in North Carolina. In the beginning of the first revolution eleven of the colonies seceded. In the second revolution eleven States se ceded, recession and rebellion began with the fathers and ended with the sons. It began in defense of a principle, a little tax of three pence a pound on tea. All other duties on imports had been removed, and King George declared that he would keep a little tax on tea, not for revenue, but to show the colonies that England had a right to tax?that was all Where there is a will to fight, excuses are plenty. me colonies naa Deen quarreling with the parent government for years and were tired. So it was with the North and the South. They had been quarreling for fifty years, and the fight had to come. It wasn't the election of Lincoln, but it was the pent up bitterness of half a century that had to explode. And we are quarreling again, and if we keep on there will be another /> 1 i i tt 1 ngnt some time. joLuman nature is the same now that it was then, and there are more causes of quarrel than a little tax on tea. What is the matter with this American people? I wonder if these farmers can't stop the fuss when they get- into power. For the Lord's sake, gentlemen, do start us on an era of pcace and good will, and let the next Fourth of July celebrate a victory over hate and prejudice and the inordinate love of other people's money. Bill Aep. ONE NEGRO KILLS ANOTHERA Brutal Murder in Darlington County? The Murderer Arrested. Saturday morning Kelly Powers killed Ben Newman, at Ashland, twenty-five miles from Darlington. Both were colored men. Powers was beating his wife severely, so severely that Newman asked him to stop, when he turned upon Newman with a large knife and stabbed him in the heart. Newman turned and ran, Powers following and cutting him. After running about fifty yards Newman fell dead. A crowd of negroes gathered at the scene of the crime and beat Powers severely and were with difficulty restrained from lynch ing him. A deputy sheriff was promptly dispatched to the scene of the murder and before sunset the murderer was safely lodged in jail. The Newspaper of the Future. The newspaper.- of the future will rid itself of the smartness and llippancy with which the newspaper of the present is to often disfigured. Its writers will be selected for their learning, careful literary training and fairness of judgment. Verbosity is one of the most dreaded terrors of the average newspaper reader. He is likely to think that an erudite, thoroughly informed -writer must needs be dull and piosy. Let us admit that we cannot endure loner, dull editorial articles, and that -we Will not have a colorless, dry statement of facts in the news columns of the journal of our choice. But it is asking too much of human nature?newspaper human nature?that the paper shall be crisp and bright without malice, learned and intelligent without dullness.?IS oak Brook in the Forum. A Whole Township Missed. A Raleigh dispatch asserts that no census of South Greensboro', Guilford county, N. C., which has a population of three thousand, has been taken, and one township in the county had no enumerator. In the township in question a Democratic applicant for appointment as enumerator was appointed over the Re publican applicant. Soon after he got to work he was notified of his removal and ordered to turn his books over to the Republican, but the latter refused to accept the appointment, and consequently no census has been taken in that township. There are similar complaints from all over that census district. Superintendent Porter would have done better in this census business if he had paid more <ibi/cxi.iavxi iJ\J vkzxjlUJ UU-LU. xvoo tv politics in the selection of supervisors and enumerators?Baltimore Sun. The People Will Not Stand it. The American people, North and South, vnll not submit to being bulldozed and dictated to. Our education for 100 years has made us intolerant of compulsion and of autocratic methods. Fair play is the first principle of the American citizen, and tins bill violates fair play in every provision. If it becomes a law, and there is no reason to anticipate that it will not, it will be a law that will never be put into effect. The Supreme Court will not sustain it and the people will not -.'stand it. Tom Reed and his gang ofjtruccaneers may force it through Congress, but they cannot make the American people swallow it.?Louisville Post. Some Things That Stanley Saw. Mr. Stanley fairly rivals old Ho mer's famous catalogue of ships ii enumerating the inhabitants of th( central African forests. He founc there the elephant, buffalo, li ippopota mus, crocodile, wild pig, bush ante lopes, coneys, gazelles, chimpanzees baboons, monkeys of all kr ids, squir rels, civets, wild cats, gene ts. zebras ichneumos, large rodents, while th< air swarms with parrots, paroquets sun Dirus, jjm.cju.tJE>} ^.lll iacoj \> xxxjjjjv*. wills, hoopors, owls, gxiinea fowl blackbirds, -weavers, king/fishers, di vers, kites, wag-tails, bee-eaters - pipits, cockatoos, hornbills, jays, bai bets, woodpeckers, pigec-ns. and fin , ally the rivers teem with fish, oyster > and clams.?Boston Herald. ?On Tuesday afternoon a win . storm swept over Cleveland, Ohi< unroofing houses and doing othc damage. At one time the dust wa ) so thick as to completely obscure tt i sun. \ r7<\ ^ WRECKED AMONG PIRATES. The Thrilling Adventures of an American , ? Crew. Cloarles Stuhr, lately steward of the schooner Gellert, who arrived in this port on the steamship Clyde last Saturday, brought news of the wreck of that vessel on the reefs of the is land of Catalimta, in tJie (Janbean sea, April 21: of the attack of pirates and wreckers, of rescue by a passing trader and of the mutinous conduct of the crew. The Gellert, Capt. A. C. Long, sailed from this port Santo Domingo and the San Bias cost with a mixed cargo and carrying a deck load of lumber. A tornado struck the schooner when past the Isle of Pines ^ -w-v ^ ^ KTTAITT -ftTTO ^OTC CLHU. lUliUC L I I I I IQO 111 tij UTIV The lumber was thrown overboard, but the vessel, still unmanageable was thrown by the surf on the inner reef sufrounding Catalinita Island at dawn of April 21. The schooner struck between two rocks and was firmly held. The crew, regardless of discipline, man1at?/? Vvnof or?*-1 vr-orvf. ojslinrp ilCU JLVALLg wutiu U04.VI. IIVMV v* ^ deserting the captain, the mate and steward. They collected some flour and biscuit and when. the sea went down went ashore in the dory. The- sailors had found neither food nor water and welcomed the provisions. A camp was made. That same night three stark naked natives, armed with swords and pistols, appeared. After some parley they went away to get help to loot the vessel. The crew, already much exhausted, were frightened, and at daybreak lauched the long boat and went out to the vessel, but were unable to reach her. "While trying, a native coaster appeared and a number of armed men put off in a small boat for the Gellert. The firmness of Capt. Long and the mate, backed by a pair of pistols, kept them off. The savages went ashore, stole the dory and the clothes of the wrecked sailors and went back to their vessel. The captain and mate, by jumping and swimming from rock to rock, got out on board of the Gellert safely. "Wreckers, who were meanwhile flocking to ^the shore, failing to entice the sailors ashore, threatened to inn them and began building rafts. Then too, the pirates from tne coaster made another attempt to board the schooner, bat the captain and mate made a good fight. The sailors, thinking, as they say, that both were killed, put out to sea. Tl-i/vrr woro of. CM nn fit PIT OaTS fOT over twenty-four hours, when the exhausted men were picked up by a trader from Santo Domingo and cared for. When the captain heard their story he straightway changed his course and went to the wreck. There they found the captain and mate alive, who had driven off the pirates, wounding several. The two captains decided to transfer the whole or part of the cargo to the trader and take it to Santo Domingo, 150 miles away, but the crew of the Gellert refused to work, claiming that their t>av stormed when the schooner was wrecked. They said the captain had no authority oyer them, and that they wera too sick to work anyway. Threats of shooting did not budge them, so the cargo was left on the wrecked vessel and the trader with the Gillert's crew, sailed for Santo Domingo. At that port Capt. Long charged his crew with mutiny, and the men were tried before the British consul and acquitted.?New York Herald. ' j FATE OF/THE FORCE BILL Conflicting Rumors of What Will be Done With It. Washington, D. C., "July 12.?Republican and Democratic Senators have arrived at an informal agreement by which the tariff bill is to be passed within ten days after it is taken up and the election bill post rw-morl rmf.il Dfifpmfoer next. A caucus of Republican Senators will be held during the present week, at which the agreement will be formally ratified. The Democratic Senators have plainly told their Republican colleagues within the past few ^days that unless an understanding was arrived at by which the elections bill should be abandoned, they would so prolong ^ Y)r\ QCDcVCfi UpUil OJJ.C iOiixL k^iu iiuuu vote could be had for many long weeks, if at all. The Republicans appreciated the fact that the Democrats held the whip hand, and they surrendered. The members of the Finance Committee have been very much worried at the strong opposition that has cropped out to the bill whichjthey have reported, and have been at their wits' ends to devise some means of saving it from defeat. The vote in cjoT>o+/i Tosfwvlfl.v Tit' which the | ClJLLtP KJVJOWWV j XSKSWW? consideration of the Tariff bill was postponed frightened the friends of the bill badly, and they are willing to make any deal to bring about its passage. The Democratic Senators have determined that the elections bill shall not be considered, even if the session is prolonged into Decem her, and have plainly made known r their view to the Kepublicans. The . result is that the friends of the tariff 1 1 ?i- "n^mA/ivofc > Dili X1& Yfc? JJJLLi-LLLLlL-eU. tU LULU i/^uivvxuivw that if the tariff bill is allowed to pass the elections bill will be 1 ft unacted upon. It is confidently asserted by leading Republican Senators that, in view of this agreement, Con[ gress will be enabled to adjourn by | August 1st. A New Cotton Pest. , A new and very destructive cotton - nest has appeared in Madison parish. , Louisiana, doing great harm to the 5 young cotton plant. The insect. , which has never been seen before, is - a small beetle, about an inch long very active on the wing, and able tc hop about like a flea. It lias devoured j, almost everything green wherever il - has appeared, but particularly th< i- young cotton, which it totally de s stroys. while the older plants look a; thoucrh thev had been frost-bitten Tlie cotton beetle is as yet confine*. >1 j to only a portion of Madison parish ), and an attempt is being made to ex ,t ! teiminate it with Paris green ,s Specimens will be sent to the Unite< Le States ^Entomologist at "Washingto] for classification. l & THE CROWiNC CROPSHow They Appear to theCorrespondents iu South Carolina. The estimate given below are based upon reports received from 237 special correspondents of tlie Department of Agriculture in every part of the State. Eighty correspondents report the weather tavoraoie anatwenty-hve unfavorable. OOTTON. The condition of the cotton crop, reported at 103 one month ago, is still very high. The warm, dry weather that has prevailed over the greater part of the State has been most favorable for the growth of the plant and the destruction of grass. The crop has been well worked and is exceptionally clean. At this date the condition is in upper Carolina 101, middle Carolina 101, lower Carolina 100. Average for the State 101, against 88 at the same date in 1889. CORN. The outlook for the corn crop is not so good as on June 1st, as the early planting has suffered for rain in some sections. The condition in upper Carolina is reported at 95, * middle Carolina 89, lower Carolina 90. Average for the State 91, against 97 for the same time last year. BICE. The rice crop is generally in good condition. j_The acreage, including the June planting, is reported as 2 per cent., less than for 1889. The condition is for upper Carolina 99, middle (Jaroima yo, lower uaroiina 95. Average for the State.96. against 96 at the same time last year. ? WHEAT AXD OATS. The small grain crop was harvested in fine condition. "Wheat was seriously injured by rust. The yield is ^ ; estimated at six bushels per acre. The product is estimated at 40 per cent, less than last year. Thirtysix correspondents report the quality as good as last year and eighty-three correspondents as better than last year. The yield of oats is estimated at eleven bushels per acre. The yield of fall and spring sown was about the same. The total product is estimated at 22 per cent, less than last year. The quality is reported better i? a J ?x- - .1 1 i on Dv o currt'b rjyuueu is. as gwu uy xou and inferior to lust year by 61 correspondents. SMALLER CP.0PS. The smaller crops are reported in generally good condition: Sorghum at 97, sugar cane at 98, sweet potatoes at 96, Irish potatoes at 96, garden products at 89, peaches at 25, apples and pears at 46, grapes at 83, berries at 81 and watermelons at 95. THE VALUE OF TURNIPS- ?^ Suggestions on One of Our Most Importan Crops?When and How to Plant. In cool climates the turnip cz-op is quite an important one, being used quite extensively fo!r feeding sheep. The climate of the cotton States does not suit the turnip sufficiently well to ? warrant its being ranked as a staple crop. Other crops, like the sweet potato, can be raised more easily and profitably ior stock feed. Still the turnip has some value as a succulent stock food in winter, and contributes something to the health of stock, though not very nutritious. For table and for stock it should claim at least a patch on every farm. Success in raising the turnip de pends very largely on the preparation of the land, almost as much as in the manure applied. Perhaps no crop demands finer tilth. It is important, _ z therefore, to begin the preparation of turnip land early. It is none too early now to begin. The first thing is to break the land thoroughly and deep. If left all cloddy the roller and harrow should follow the plow at Affov fVio -novf rainfall rilnw again across the first, and follow as before with roller and harrow. If one has no roller, make a drag, by nailing lumber 10x2 to two slides sloped upward at front, nailed on weatherboard fashion, and drag it over the land. It will grind and pulverize the clods very nicely. About five pieces eight feet long will suffice. This is a very valuable implement on a farm. Next to preparation comes manuring. Turnips will not grow on poor land?it should be made exceedingly rich. Cow-penning is excellent for the purpose, but this practice, is be- ^ coming less practiced than it used to ^ ^-1-1 06. >50H1C btctu.l<2 UL 1ULi nuu,i,uic onvmvA be put on the land before the first plowing, with a view to getting it fined and well mixed with the soil. Before the second plowing this should be supplemented with a heavy dressing of phosphate?say, at the rate of 1,000 pounds per acre. This fertilizer is peculiarly adapted to the tur? -i j nip. some nitrogen uuu. suiue are needed also, but phosphate is the chief manure it calls for. Not only should a liberal dressing of this be given broadcast, but if the seed are drilled a little phosphate should be put in the drill also, to push the crop forward rapidly out of the way of the flea bug. A moderate dressing of cotton seed meal and some ashes or Vaim'f. should be siven also. On excessively rich land fine crops ' of turnips may be raised by sowing seed broadcast but on ordinary land better results will follow sowing in drills two to two and a half feet apart, thinning out the crop and working it with plow and hoe. Our experience is, that in our hot, dry climate the turnip should not be sown early? from first of August to middle of September is the best seeding period The rutabagas first ana me fiat jl?uicu afterwards.?TV. L. Jones in Atlanta Constitution. ! A Fortune in a Horse. t Maj. Campbell Brown. Spring Hill, ? Tenn., lately paid ?12,500 for a half r interest in the trotting stallion Mc> Ewen. which got a record of 2:18^ 1 ' - !- ! -v L last year as a -at-^ear-oiu.. JitJuncu ^ was sired by McDurdy s Hambleton? ian (2.26i), son of Harold. His dam, " ilary M., is tlie darn of Annie W., 5 (2:20) and Andaute (2:26*.) I ?Mr. Noah Clements, an aged and , highly respected citizen of Darling ton county, died Sunday night last of . hydrophobia. He died forty-three 1 days after having been bitten by the i rabid animal, and his death occurred under peculiarly sad circumstances. ^ . 1 _ i