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H_y Blbrlitt n i? |gl (;r?-:it frest in |)r. Tailour i:i pel lf>SMlCVtT the-fro Has tod.iv He my of at The Khe even bject was fflthe text, Sftaxareth, gTollowiug I had last 1 my firs^ ng Jerus treated as I aud his [that way! iterhood of red bright out to sing ious! This ? Steps Ui. tllB e most beauEne, its houses ftss its name! reth, one of Ball Christian R1 that they f-cainely, Bethaareth." Baby[od of him for e fifty, million if it were rele, whether unoc!s or straight Nazareth, even Hrd associations. Hand that can be Ktal villages. Its Nablouf is the BK-.v. although its manufacture of B of it. Nazareth H clean the mornRve rode into the before the shows' macintoshes to oods through all Inand of the clouds, pet commissioners, reth has been the ling it from Israen and from J\lohamthe most wonder - - I . m luiii'u S^nd Turks were Bue hundred French, Fte commanding, that |men walking these gh which Jesus walk:r years, the morals ;ipodes, the snows of agues of Egvpt aptong the one, the dox|i the hallelujahs of jpl^v following the gLtown is so .beaujsgkat green bowl, surrounding! j^^ature who I Dwfc|l i i 1 Mfcd se ~ E9HH9BI^^Biree WBBrtv jam Bst's He:.! flat' BMKi any the BBRpos: young ^MRunch their ^Voreit is ready, WP:n the first cyWRre as a subordiBpfuo roughly equipHffioploye in your trade MElitied to be an employ??>;th V >7-ir?th nnt.il g^^iy for the bulletins of JepRm. You may get so gloriously fcipped in the thirty years that you I do more in three }"ears than most5 & can accomplish in a prolonged Rime. These little suggestions I am to put into my sermon, hoping to fc people for this world, while I am fcfiy anxious to have them prepare Khe next world. || W11EKI-: CHRIST WAS A BOY. B] Christ's boyhood was spent in gj village and its surroundings. Ire IS U:e very wen cuueu j uc fctain of the Virg;D,' to which by bis her's side he trotted along holding hand. 2so doubt about it; it is the I well in the village, and it has been only well for three thousand years, s morning we visit it, and the hers have Their children with them .asthen. The work of drawing ?r in all ages m those countries has women's work. Scores of them vaiting for their turn at it, three t and everlasting springs rolling into that well thrir barrels, their iheads of water in tloods gloriously [dant- The w*ll is surrounded by I:grove.sar.a wiue spares ui wmui le talk aid children, wearing ms on their heads as protection bst the "evil e}e." are playing, and pn with their striiigs of coin on t side of their face, and in skirts (;e and scarlet and white and green !von with water jars on their heads. 1 suppose, almost always took I the boy with her, for she had no pe couhi leave him with, being in tie circumstances and having no pants. 1 do net believe there was fc the surrounding fifteen hills that by Christ did not range fiom l.ot[6 top. or one cavern in their sides I not explore, or one species of bird r 5-crcss the tops that he could not |y name, or one of all the species ?na browsing on those steeps that II tiut icu'jjsiiitu. l >ee it all through his sermons, f.-.n becomes a public speaker, in ttioiis or discourses you discover tly whereabouts. What a boy Kwten 7 and IT alwnvs sticks to \\ l.tri the apostl? Trier preaches e the lishing nets with which he j em his earlist da\s been familiar, hen mos delivers bis prophecy : ar in it the bleating of the herds j i he had in boyhood attended. ' I our Lord's sermons and conver|t u>u see ail the phases of village j I the mountainous liiesurrouim-: They raised* heir own chickens i reth, and in after time he cries: .isaleni ! .Jerusalem ! how often ] 1 have gathered thee as a hen I cl her chickens under her. lit- had seen his mother open liilv wardrobe at the close of t and the moth millers ti\ing Lir^g destroyed the garments, i [fter years he says: -Lay not Yourselves treasures on earth. SnS?r bad seen a mile of llowers, ^Bgathe snow, or r*-d as the rianie. Mkis the &yy. or gre?n as the tree |gjl no wonder in his niaiihood I ' " " - : as to llurry his hair the partridge and /he hoopoe and the thrush and the osprey and the crane and the raven, j land no wonder afterward in his man-1 j hood sermon he said. "JJehold the j i fowls of the air." In Nazareth anc ^n j i the road to it there are a great many I ; camels. I see them now, in memory | ; making their slow way up the zigzag j i road from the plain of Esdraelon to J i Nazareth. Familiar was Christ with ; i their appearance, also with that sinaii i insect, the gnat, which he had seen his j | mother strain out from a cup of water ! >r pail of milk, and no wonder he j brings afterward the large quadruped j and the small inject into his sermon and, while serine the Pharisees careful j about small sins and reckless about: large ones,.cries out: "Woe unto you | blind, guides which strain out a jrnat! i and swallow a camel!" HE KNEW ABOUT TIIE SIIEEI'. lie hud in boyhood seen the shepj herds get their flocks mixed up. and to ! one not familiar with the habits of j j shepherds and their flock?, hopelessly ! mixed up. And a sheepstealer appears j ! on the scene and dishonestly demands j some of those sheep, when he owns not | i one of them. "Well," say the two hon- j i esTSiia^iy^s, "we .vil! soon settle this j matter,"' ancTvr.e shepherd goes out in one direction abjLthf* other shepherd goes out in the otht^!5atiion..a:u' I sheepstealer in another dr^&l?n' anr* j each one calls, and the flocksolwj?h?f i the honest shepherds rush to^??i>, owner, while the" sheepste;iler call an^ calls again, but gets not one of the, flock. Xo wonder that Christ, rears Bfter, preaching on a great occasion and illustrating his own shepherd qualities, says: "When he putteth J torth his own sheep he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him, forj they know his voice, and the stranger they will not follow, for they know not i the" voice of the stranger."* The sides I of these hills are terraced for grapes The boy Christ had often stood with great round eyes watching the trim [ ming of the grapevines. Clip ! goes xne KDiie anu oc iaus h uraxicn. .uu; child Christ says to the farmer, "\Vh2>t do you do th'at for?" "Oh "says the farmer, "that is a dead branch and it is doing nothing and is only in the *?vav, j so I cut it off." Then the farmer with his sharp knife .prunes from a living branch this and- that tendril and the other tendril. "But," says the child Christ, "these twigs that you cut off now are not dead; what do you do that for?" "Oh," savs the farmer, "we prune oft' these that the main branch may have more of tue \sap ana so oe more fruitful." Xo worker in after years Christ said in his sermon : ''I am the true vine and my fattier is the husbandman; every branch in ;me that beareth not fruit he taketh awfay, and every branch that beareth * fruit he purgeth it, that it may b/ring forth more fruit." Capital! Xo ooe'who had not been a country boy woujfd have said that. I Streaks of nature all through Christ's j sermons and conversations*! When a I pigeon descended upon Christ's head I at bis baptism in the JordonVit was not [ the first pigeon he had seen. \Anci then he has such "wide sweep of c^jscojuxseI as you may imagine from one/' who has I stood on ih'e hirls that overlook Xaza; reth. As far as I mderstaind, Christ visited the Mediterranean / sea only oner, but any clear morninar he could rju up on;"a hill near Xafcareth and look ou- ci^he west and^gee the Mediteranean, 'while tjjfiggin the north is snowy MotAnt'JbeDa^on, clad as in white robe of asocnsloD. and younder on the east andr southesat "Mount Gilboa, Mount T|bor and Mount Gilead, and yonder "t'le south is the plain of Esdg^Jon over which we rode yester<^Syon our way to Nazareth. Those lUUUULtWUS VI IJiO *IUJ iiuuu m iU?) tnviu ory, do you wonder that- Christ when he wanted a good pulpit made it out of a mountain?"seeing the multitndes he went up into"the mountain." And when he wanted especial communion with God he took James anu John and Feter into "a mountain apart." HE WAS A COTNTIiY BOY. Oh, this country" boy of Nazareth, come forth to atone for'tne sins of the world, and to correct the follies of the world, and to stamp out the cruelties of the world, and to illumine the darkness of the world, and to transfigure the hemispheres! So it has beeu the 'mission ofthe country boys in all ages to transform and inspire and rescue. They come into our merchandise and our "court rooms and our healing art. and our studious and our theology. They lived in Xazareth before they entered Jerusalem. And but for " that annual influx our cities would have enervated and sickened and slain the rare. Lafe hours and hurtful apparel and overtaxed digestive organs and crowding environments of city life would have halted the world; but the valleys and mountains of Nazareth have given fresh supply of health and moral invigoratlcn to Jerusalem, and the country saves the town. From the hills of New Ilumpxhire and the hills of Virginia and the hills of Georgia come into our national eloquence the j Websters and the Clays and the Henry j t f2r??#ivc Vrnm th*n!ain homes of | Massachusetts and Maryland come into I our national charities the George Tea- j I hodvs and. the William . Corcorans. ! From the cabins of the.lonely .country j regie r.s come into our', national desti- j nies the Andrew Jacksons and the; Abraham Lincolns. From plow boy's J furrow and village counter and black-) | smith's forge come most of our city i | giants. Nearly all the-Messiahs in all I j departments dwell in Nazareth before | |they came to Jerusalem. I send this! [ day thanks from these cities, mostly made prosperous by country boys, to i ! the farmhouse and the prairies. and | J the mountain cabins, and the obscure j j homesteads of north and south and; I east and west, to the fathers and j | mothers in plain homespun' if they j | be stiil alive or the hillocks underj 1 which they sleep the long sleep. Thanks i ; from Jerusalem to Nazareth: j But alas!-that- the city should so ofj ten treat the country hoys as of old the one trom Nazareth was treated at 7er-! usalem! Slain not by hammers and I j spikes, but by instruments just as cru- j j el. On every street of every city the ! ! crucifixion goes on. Every year shows \ ! its ten thousand of the slain. Oh, how j we grind them up! I'nder what wheels, j : in what mills, and for what an awful ; erist! Let thecitv take better care of ! j these boys and young men arriving: j i troni the country. Thev are worth; | saving. They are now only the preface I j of what they will he if, instead of sac- j j ritlcingr. you help them. JSoys as grand as the one who with his elder brother j ; climbed into a' rhurch tower, and not | knowing- their danger went outside on 1 some timber?, when one of those tim-i ! hers broke and the boys fell, and the | older boy caught on a beam and the : younger clutched the foot ol the older.! The older could not climb up with the younger hanging to his leet, so the : younger said. "John. I am going to 1 lot go:-y?)u can climb out into saretv, i but you can't climb up with me holdins: fast: 1 am going to let go; kiss mother lor me and tell her not to feel badly; good-by!" And he >t go and was so hard dashed upon the ground he was not recognizable. Plenty'of such brave boys coming up from .Nazareth! Let Jerusalem be careful how I it treats them! A gentleman long ago j entered a schooi in Germany and he bowed very low before tiir- boys, and j the teacher said. ''Why do you do i that?" ''Oh," said the "visitor, "I do ! not know what mighty man may yet' be eloped among1 them." At that, instant the eyes of one of the boys j tlashed lire. Who was it? M-artiu Lu- j thcr. A lad on his way to school pass ea a aoor siep on which sat .1 i.uuv ; invalid child. The passing hoy said '<> j him, ''Why don't you go to* .school!" j "Oh, I am lame and J can't wall; to school." "(Jet on my back," siid Unwell boy, "and I will carry you to school." And so he did that day audi for many days until tin* invalid was j fairh started on the mad to an eduea-i * in.. 11 /!:.-!!. llOIi. H J1U \\<is tut; \>cu turn ..... i that kindness? J don't know. Who was the invalid ho carried?, it was Robert Ilall, the rapt pupil orator of j all Christendom. better give to thj*j( boys who come up from Nazareth to , Jerusalem a crown instead of a cros*. j ( CANA IX OALILKE. In about two hours we pass through j Cana, thevillageof 1'alestinr where the |1 mother of Christ and our Lord attended i' the wedding ot a poor relative, having j come over from Nazareth for tint. 11 purpose. The mother of Christ?for j] women are first to notice such things j ' ?found that the provisions hail f.illen : short and she told Christ, and ho to I relieve the embarrassment of thrj; quests' J^caxtib the butler of the occasion, and L fout'-of a cluster oi' a few sympathetic | words squeezed a beverage of a hun-M I dred and twenty-six gallons of wine irj 1 | which was not one drop of intoxicant, j j or it would have left that party as; j maudlin and drunk as the great cen-! tennhu banquet in New-York, two I years ago, left senators, and governors, 11 and generals, and merchant princes, j ihe difference between the wine at the wedding in Cana and the wine at the ! banauet in New York being, that the J Loru made the one and the devil made ' the other. "We got off our horses and examined some of these water jajs at I Tann <??>ir) to lip the verv ones that'held the plain water that Christ turned into: / the purple bloom of an especial vi.n- ( tage. I measured them and found them eighteen inches from edge to j edge and nineteen inches deep, and de- < i clined to accept their indentity. But]! j ?ve realized the immensity ol' a supply. of a hundred and twenty-six gallons of wine. What was that for? frobably , one gallon would have been enough, tor! it was only an additioned installment of what had already been provided; and it is probable that the housekeeper i could.not have guessed more than one j gallon out of the way. But- a hundred land twenty-six gallons! What will J they do with the surplus? Ah, it was f just like our Lord! Those young peo- i pic were about to start in housekeeping j, anu their means were limited, and that j i big supply, whether kept in their pan! try or sold, will be a mighty help You see there was no strychnine or j logwood or nux vomica in that bever-; age, and, as the Lord made it, it would | keep. lie makes mountains and seas 1, that keep thousands of years, and cer? thinly he could make a beverage that, j i v/OaJd keep four or fiv?.years. Am^g j j tjifc arts ana ln.lli , hope there may be Soihie1 one that can]: prrss the juice? from the grape ami so j' mingle them and without oue drop of! damning alcoholism that it will keen! for years. And the more of it you|J take "the clearer will be the brain aiid j.| the healthier the stomach. And here]' {is a remarkable fact in my recent], journey?I traveled through Italy and r Greece* and Egypt and Palestine and Syria and Turkey, and how many intoxicated people do you think I saw in * all those five great realms? Not one. We must in our Christianized lands have got hold of some kind of beverage , that Christ did not .make. OT.A.) HE WAS TIIEIIE. , ! Oh, I am glad that Jesus was present ^ I at that wedding, and last December, j standing at Cana, that Wedding.camp back. Night had fallen on the village and its surroundings. The bridegroom , had put on his head a bright turban ' and a garland of iio\ve.rs, ;ind his garments had been made fragrant with ( frankincense and camphor, an odor which the .oriental especially likes. * Accompanied by groomsmen, and pre- . ceded by a band of musicians with lltites and drums and horns, and by torches in lull blaze, ne starts lor tue bride's home. This river of fire is met by anoth. r river of fire, the torches of the bride and bridesmaids, flambeau answering flambeau. The bride is in | white robe and her veil not only covers j her face but envelops her body. Her | trousseau is as elaborate as the resources of her father's house permit. Iler attendants are decked with all the ornaments they own or can borrow; but their own personal charms make tame the jewels, for those oriental women eclipse in attractiveness <:ll. others except those of our own land. ] The damson rose is in their cheek, and ' 1 ~ ~ +K/-1 1 ? i c- f tv r\-f t H cA r Dt'fiC * U1C UliliUUlIU 111 Lliu j.uoi.ti Wi Uivii and the blackness of the night in their long Jocks, and in their step is the gracefulness of the morning. At the tirst sight of the torches of the bridegroom and his attendants coining over the hill the cry rings through the home | of the bride:. :-They are in .sight! (.let ready! Behold the bridegroom cometh! Go ye out to meet him." As the |t\vo processions approach each, other [ the timbrels strike and the songs com-: j I mingle, and then the two processions i become one and march toward the bridegroom's house, and meet a third !urocession-which is made up of the ' ^~ ~ on lvri/lnrprArMYl .irienus ui uum, unuc <mu uiuitj.jvi.iu. i j ' Then all enter the house and the dance j begins and the door is shut. And all I j this Christ uses-to illustrate the joy with which the ransomed of earth shall i j meet him when he conies grarlanded j with clouds and robed in the morningj f and trumpeted by the thunders of the i last day. Look! There ho comes down j; off the hills of heaven, the bridegroom! j And let us start out to hail hi:u sound- " ing: "Behold; the bridegroom-cometh! . ? .i;n.i?>u,in).,ianr nf ili.ici. wliri ' -.VliU uic iti.uiv.il<, vi uiwv. .. ...# have declined 'the invitation to the gospel wedding is presented under the figure of a door heavily closed. You hear it slam. Too lat<*. The door is shut! i Do you see how the Holy Land and the Iloly Book fit eajh other? God with his left hand built Palestine and with his right wrote the Script tires, the two hands of the same being. And in proportion as Palestine is brought under, close inspection, th? Jiii>le will | be found more glorious and more true, j Mightiest book of the past! Mightiest I book of the future! Monarch of all j literature! ! The proudest works of p^nius sliail'dceay, j j And reason's brightest luster fade away; : Tiie sophist's art, the poet's boldest {Light, i ' Shall Milk in darkness and conclude in ^ night; j But faith triumphant overtime shall stand, j Shall grasp t!ie sacred Tolunje in her hand;!' Back to its source the heavenly <: if r convey; :< Then in the tfood of glory melt away. ' !' Fatalities of the Sea. i ] London. Xov. 20.?Xliej>riuslisic...a- (. j or West bourne, from Feodosia, llussia,j ; for Hull, has been wrecked in the JJlack j ; Sea. Six of her crew were drowned, : j twelve died from exposure, and live ;! | landed .at Feodosia. The jJrjtish ship : Sudbourne, from Hamburg, Xuvemberi i-bth, for Rangoon, has been sunk in col-!: j lision off Hungeness. Eleven ol her j 1 crew are missing. ri!K(iovi'i:Noi;'S}iKSA(iE.j A SYNOPSIS OF A VERY IMPORTANT : STATE PAPER. I Coventor iiiciiardsoiiN Kcvicw oi* (he. Condition ol i'iil>li<: .1 llairs i < <1 uii!i Sundry Kecoitsiiwmi-'ttious?A l'hiln iinainr.vi J.iKe Dociiiiieiii. COLl'MIHA. S. C. XuY. 2ii.?Special: In accordance with cast on: t i-e annual i message of t!ie Governor of S:>uth Car-! olina to the funeral Assembly was) presented in each ! ranch of that hody j this morning. The paper is of usual j length and touches upon all the differ-j ent departments. A synopsis of its; contents must suMce lor the purposes ! of this correspondence. FINANCES. The expenditures of the State ?0vprntnent lor the fiscal year ending on the 31st October amounted to ?1,100.leaving a balance in the treasury, on that date, of The ixpcnses of the several counties and of the schools are not included in the above. The lotal^State debt reported by the Comptroller General and tho*Sin?e-frr-asurer r.s outstanding on th^SfSfoi ^ tober. I V.id. is ~vor nor snjrrfrarfrn'nrn'ilv of j LhcM)pemio5r?^^new law for the! summary sale of property for non-payment oi" taxes. That law lias reduced the number of forfeitures of land for non-payment ol'taxes from about 1,100 to 57 for the entire .State. The amount due the State on account ^f old forfaited lands appears in th<* present Jieport of the .-inking Fund Commission to be over S&K),00u. An effective law for its collection seems to have Leen it last dev> -d. and. i.s now operative. Under this law the dues can lie collected through a trial justice ivherever the amount involved is less than ;?loO and in the Court of Common L'lens where the amount involved ex;ecc's 61UU-.". Tin-: ruBLu: schools. On this all-important subject the Sovernor gives some interesting and ncouragihg figures, as. follows: T-he Report of the Department for 1880 gives as number'of School Districts 5uT J'lie Report for lbUo foots up... TOT Increase 150 InibStttlie number of PublicSchools 3.H60 In lhfo the figures make them. 3,MS Increase 287 j In lbbD the total enrolment of pupiis was 183,900 The licport i'or 1890 gives, . 201,260 Increase 17.2f4 Average attendance in IsS'j.... 120,09(5 Average attendance in 1890..147,799 Increase 21,103 Teachers employed in 1880 3,835 S* umber of school houses in 1890 3.'lyDj Increase 297 i In addition to those owned i?y thestate therear tTi7o~v j. Valuation of school buildings in : 18si> 6393,903 In 1890 487,252 Increase S 93,349 Estimated value of graded school- buildings now under contract 50,000 r The University, at Columbia, the L'itads-l and Clailin University are shown each to lie in a prosperous condition. He recommends that the State continue its support of these institu:ions. : T11K CI. KM SON* COLLKG K. ! j Af>r stating1 the result of the litiga-; j aon'over Mr. Clemson's will, the ac rual to the State of the property valued at 872,283.24,-and the commencement >f worK at Fort Hill, the Governor >ays: Contracts were made for the manufacture of tiiree millions of. brick, and rorsawinsr all suitable lumber to be round on the Fort Hill place. The contractors lor the brick manu fact ure gave up their c -ntract October ! L 1890,.from having filled with their irst three kilns. * The matter was compromised by the Board's buying the contractors' machinery and outfit, and. continuing the work on the College account. To prevent delay in the wo;rk 'rom this failure, 20G.0U) bricks Were m mediately purchased and the manufacture of brick on the place largely increased. Tne completion of the laboratory, two professors', houses and the experiment station building before the 1st of Janu lry, 1SJJ1, l ive now been secured, and ivith the opening ol' Spring ail the work )n the buildings is expected to be actively pushed. The plans of the JJoard , ?ni brace .the erection of a large College niildiiig, a mechanical :fiftll. ten resilenccs for professors besides the two , low in course of construction,- and smaller houses for foremen, three lormitory buildings, a mess hall, kitch-n, laundry and infirmary, with com- ; ;>lete barns. for the experimental arm. The I3oard states "that the comple;ion of the whole in time fur the openng of the College; on October the 1st , lext, wili depend on the decision 01 tne legislature to grant at once the appro:>riatiojis_neeessa.ry for the entire conjunction "contemplated. ' If t.he appropriations are spread out over two years n.stead of one, the College can still be >ariially opened October 1st next, and he work on the buildings still go on. fhe use oi" convicts in the work has up ; .(> this time, been the oc -;:sion of great , if?ving in cost and delay?.. and an in- : rense of this help will greatly facili- , ate-the completion of the buildings in 1 iure-. At this date everything is mov- j \ ng satisfactorily, with a very fair {^ ihance lor a full realization of all ex- j! sedations, Whilst me expenmuiressu ; ar have not been large, most of the i noney is in a shape "winch shows the 1 icononr, that lias bm-n itsed, and all of , t can be easily traced to expenditures ; hat were proper. The briclv on hand 1 L.nd in course of manufacture, the lum- . jcr in the buildings and on thex^itevf eady to be used, the various uiachjtn- i rry, with wagons and mules, and lni\-1 Irtds of other tilings in value at a rea-\ ionable-. a-pgiraiscmeut ? iv;ill .even now 1 imqu^tto more than all the money, .hat has been expended. No' mistakes iave so far been made which haye jrought any loss to the State or Col- ( j, OTIIIIK SCHOOLS. ] Tlie Winthrop Training School lor ' iYachers. located at Columbia, is re pre-: ,ente;i as already having none a splen- j lid work, ami is especially commended j .0 the fostering can.' of the (ieneral I Assembly. The Institution for the Deaf and | Dumb and the Dlind, located ;it Cedar i Springs in Spartanburg County, continues its most excellent work. rill-: DKl'AKTMKNT OK AOlilCl'LTUKE. \ The work of this tlep:tri.ment is summori/.ed as follows : Under the Department's supervision i the phosphate beds of the state during j the fiscal year ending August !!. j yielded in royalties the handsome sum j oi' ?237,l50.ui. This is 1 >y ?23,iI4S.03 the ! largest stun ever realized in a single : year by the State from this source, and j its collection and payment into the State Treasury has been made at no j expense to the' public beyond theordin- I ary expenditures by the Department of; Agriculture. I would commend to the serious con-1 sideration oi the Legislature the- recom- i mendations oi'.the Keport that returns j of phosphate rock mined be first made ; to the oflict* of the .Special Assistant, j and by him tran.-mitt.ed to the Comp- J troller (lein-ra!. and that the amount of . bond now required from persons min-j in? under general right licenses in the j navigable waters of the State beiucreased. Experience has shown that the present bond required?85,OUO?is entirely inadequate to afford the State protection in all eases against loss of royalty. The Quantity of commercial fertili- j zers used upon the piesent crop by our) farmers has been unusually large, near- j ]y 37,(.HX> tons in excess of any previous year, and it is shown that, iri consequence of the . efiicient inspection and supervision exercised by the Department, less than one per cent, of this material was fraudulent. "The introduction of contagious diseases among the live stock of the State by the indiscriminate importation of animals from other States is discussed, and a system of inspection is suggested as a protection. The Report, of the Director of the .experimental ^tatiori-i g-ives ;i sunrment of the work performed upon the two State Farms under control of the Board of Agriculture. The State Farmers'Institute held at Ridge Spring last. July under the auspices ot the Department, proved a very successful and instructive meeting. It isJoipossible to overestimate the vajue of such gatherings to our agricultural interests. A full report of the interesting proceedings is embodied in liie Department's Report. During the past liscal year the Department has continued the State Weather Service which, co-operating iU.. r>.fnrni.K/w I Willi UIK ^><lLluii<n iiuicnu, luiui-iui/o i the; people of the State with daily t weather predictions nil warns the I planters ot' threatened freshets. The .Report presents some valuable < information as to the infant oyster industry of the State, and I would urge upon the Legislature the enactment of such regulations as wili conduce to its development. If the proper steps are taken, it can unquestionably be :y:ide to yield the State a handsome revenue. The Commissioner of Agriculture recommends the inauguration of a r 4-v.,. ..v,I survey, nut UIIIJ mc iniwpiiaog ug.io | in her navigable waters, but a geolo-ri- J cal survey of the entire State, in order I to ascertain as accurately as possiible the value of our phosphatic deposits as well as our other mineral wealth. The necessity for such a work becomes yeariy more apparent. TI1K r EXi xi:xT i A it v. The number of convicts is 791. of whom 59 aie white and 73- are colored. Of these GO are at work on the Clemson College: there have hern an average of 201 employed in farming1, and an avernn the Columbia Canal. In the opinion of fTre'-^ritrefnor, the institution has been well managed. He givi-s the following summary of its work during the past twelve years: Improvement of prison -8105,000 00 ! Labor expended on Col una_ bia Canal........ ..;.. ?.. 125,000 00 Cash expended cm i_ omnium Canal 44,579 % Cash to State Treasurer 42,U34 01 Jlailroad Scrip received for hire of convicts, as per Act of the Legislature l-i,9S7 33 Land purchased lor the prison 10,200 00 Live stock, cattle, hog-s, improvements. ivC. on State Farms 7,000 00 Work on State House Grounds for five years 3,000 00 Total 8442,720 02 ! From which deduct ali appropriations for the twelve years 155,581 47 IJalance of profit to the .suite 8287,139 42 Hesides the entire support of the prison lor twelve years. TILE LUNATIC ASYLUM. The number of inmates is 778, (445 white and 333 colored) an increase of 22 over the number ;it the b.-ginning of the fiscal year. Tiie cost of maintaining the patients has been 37 cents per day. OTJIEK MATTKUS. The report of the railroad Commission is commended to especial consideration more particularly their suggestions that the law regulating passenger tolls be amended, and that "tickfckscalping" be prohibited by law. The Stfrte militia is 1:1 good condition, and thcHiovernor commends it to the fostering c;te$ of the General Assembly. \ The appropriation^ for the State House for the past tlif^ years aggregate 6341.5Uy.ilU?of whic-ih there is an unexpended balance of Sl4.2y0.88. The Governor recornrliends the continuance of the appropriation lor the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society. ' ^ Attention is called to the Act of Congress, approved August 30. lS'JO, pro*-i<linrr fnri mnro Pomr.Wt;' finflOWnifint of agricultural an.il nitchanical colletres. The work o/f the State Board of IleaLth is coinmeiu^v^s oi especial value to Jill tfie J^p? * ho State. . i . Xo^ xils Little lioat. Xkw > Nov. 21.?CaptaiuE. L. Norton/started oil' from Tompkinsvillc yesterday afternoon in the fifty-eightfoot/' yawl-rigged steam lilehcat that jea'rs his name, on his voyage of 4.0U0 l^iles to Toulon, France. The great Mature of the little craft, wniea is me skuallcst steamboat that ever started on iiich a lengthy trip, is her buoyancy and stability, which comes l'roin her double Ixottom. This is divided into six ballast z< Dmpartmcnts iviuy 011 each side of the keel and extending around the bends. I "hey arc of galvanized iron, Trained in and cciucntcd. and each has a seveninch opening fitted with a water-tight lead sleeve. Tiic weight of the boat thn water into the compartment*. ihe air escaping through automatic J'a Ives on the main (leek, and the boat Jherefore lioats on her inner bottom And sails on the outer, the water in the < JulL'e keeping trim and true. I She carries a little surface condensing .compound engine that one ton of coal J keeps tor three days and the bunkers j ilold enough fuel to last her for thirty ! ('lays. she has canvas enough to drive j ifiit rind hns i iiiCi tlb ll n-u-nuvv ! tjwo lifeboats?on thedoubtle-bottom sys-1 tjem also?lashed amidships. She has 1 tiwo large hcrmcticolly sealed a;r cliatnb ers, and would t'oat if every open space 111 her became tilled with water. With ('aptain Norton are his wife, his niece, a V irl of sixteen, two engineers, a sailing i laster, two seamen, two stewards and a t errier. The Norton witl stop at St. - dichacl's in the Azores to recoal. LAWMAKERS AT WOliK. WHAT THEY DID IN THE SESSION'S FIRST WEEK. TIie >'<iu Otiicors of the House anil the Senate?A Clean Sweep in lioth JJraiiehes?Few Important Measures thus Far Mooted. Coloiisia, S. C., Nov. 2(j.?Special: The first week of the Legislative session (except, perhaps, in ''off years,".) is always anticipated with more than J\t fSAm UllilUUlJ ?? 4iv-? H.UVU od the course of public affairs, it goes without saying that this has been more than ordinarily the case with the General Assembly which met on Tuesday. There wereguesses and surmises and predictions in abundance?but these are now of the past, and we are confronted with some of the actual work of the lawmakers. There have been many changes in both branches. The "hold-over" Sena-j tors are about all that are not new in j the upper branch. The House is "fresh from the people," as the saying goes? the number of old members being, perhaps, smaller than that of any House since 1S76. It follows from these conditions that in each branch there is a i . -r y. i r..1l k uuciueu lurtjuril-,/ ill iUJl lupamjr nivu Governor Tillman and the measnres he has urged. In the organization of each branch, the dominant element made a clean sweep?the caucus nominee being chosen in every instance, and all the subordinate places being filled with those in full sympathy with the "Farmers' Movement." The Senate. The Senate was called to order by i Lieutenant-Governor Wm. L. Mauldiri, who made a brief address of welcome. He made a touching allusion to the late Senator Edwards "of Darlington, who died a few months ago. The new Senators being duly sworn, the President declared the body ready for business. The first business in order was the election of officers. The result is given below: Clerk, II. A. Gaillard (incumbent) of Fairlield, 12; Dr. Sampson Tope of Newberry, 21. Reading Clerk?A. D. Goodwin of Columbia (incumbent.) 14;F.C. Caughraan of'Lexington, 19. Serjeant-at-Arms?Drayton Sm i t h of Newberry (incumbent,) 19; J. C. Elliot of Lancaster, 14. J>ir. I . .jones was appouucu juuin', al clerk, Mr. W. J. Moore bill cierk, and Mr. Robert X. Townes assistant j clerk. Masters Win. L. Hemphill and W. C. I Irby were appointed pages. '1 he important bills thus far intro-j duced are as follows: JJy Senator Smythe, charters for the River and Seacoast Railroad Company, and for the Colleton Land and Improvement Companv; to amend jury law; to charter Macon and Atlantic Railroad. By Senator Stokes, to charter Branohvilleand Bowman Railroad. Ry S^rsVor Glenn, to amend statute reiati(M?iw^Statc House and grounds; to aboiisn intro fSce' iurv and devolve the duties thereof oir county auditors, to amend Act relating to compensation of board of equalization. JJy Senator Hemphill, to amend Sec lion 1 of an Act entitled an Act to provide for the payment of township bonds issued in aid of railroads in this State. J5v Senator Stokes, to provide for a new school district in Orangeburg and the levy of a special tax therefor. 15y Senator Dozier, to amend the law touching the rights and liabilities of married women. Senator Meetze, of Lexington, was elected president pro tem. The Governor's message was read and referred to appropriate committees. The standing committees were announced by the president. There are notably few changes. The memorial of Mr. W. I). Scarborough, claiming to have been elected Senator from Sumter, was presented and was properly referred. Mr. Scar* -i 1 1 1.. borougn was ueciareu eieuteu uj me county board of canvassers. Dr. Abbott appealed to the State beard, and that body awarded him the seat. Mr. Scarborough went into the Supreme Court, asking that the State board be required to give him the certificate of election, but that tribunal decided in favor of Dr. Abbott. The only question in the case, it seems, arises" out of the action of the County hoard in counting for Mr. Scarborough about fifty votes as having been cast for him at Kafting Creek precinct. There was no Senatorial box at that poll. It was shown, by afiidavits, that voters, to the number above stated, would have voted for Scarborough. These votes the county board allowed to that gentleman, thus giving him a majority over Dr. Abbott, The contest of E.J. Dennis, of .Berkeley, who claims the seat of Senator 11. K" Jenkins of that county, was also referred. House of Representative*. The House was called to order by Col. Jno. T. Sloan, Sr., the Clerk. On motion of Mr. uucnanan 01 i-air-1 field. Mr. John Gary Evans of Aiken was made temporary chairman. When the enrollment of members was completed, the Chairman announced that the first business in order was the election of a Speaker. Mr. Earnest Gary of Edgefield nominated Col. J. L. M. Irby of Laurens. Mr. J. C. Blease of Newberry seconded the nomination. There were no other nominations. Col. Irbv received all the votes cast ?118? and was declared elected. Oa bring sworn in, he spoke as follows: "Gentlemen of tiie House of lierrerentatives: Permit me briefly to return my sincere and heartfelt thanks for the Mattering and complimentary manner in which 1 have been elected to preside over the deliberations of this House. Indeed, gentlemen, it is a distinguished and grand compliment to 'oe elected to preside over the deliber ations of the Representatives of the people of South Carolina. Permit me to say. too, that I dare not hope to equal, much less to excel, the distinguished gentleman who preceded me as Speaker of this House* it is conceded all over our State that he is among the ablest, if not the ablest, parliamentarian in South Carolina. Put. gentlemen. I allow no man to excel me in fairness, faithfulness and impartiali ty. Having said this much i aaK your earnest co-operation in the discharge of the responsible duties of this responsible ortice. ,;I again thank you for your distinguished compliment, and announce that this ilouse is now ready for business." The other oiiicers were elected as follows; I Clerk?Gen. J. Walter GrayofGreenIvillp Vn other nominee.: i Beading Clerk?j. C. Wilborn of i York. Xo opposition. ( j>ergeant-at-arrns?'\\\ II. Stansell of j Barnwell, 85; J. I). Brown of Barnwell i (incumbent.) 3t>. The following appointments have been made: / j Assistant Ch-rk - ' V. M. Hudson* oL"! j Greenville. J>i!l Clerk IT. 1 lamer J i of Marlboro. Tiu\se are all new men? i : as, indeed, are all the other appointees.! United Stutvs .Senator. Much interest is maniliested in the j 1 approachiner election of a Senator to ; 'succeed General Hampton. The pre-] | vailing' impreseiou is that som^ new j ! man will be cho.sen. though many of the frienrls of the Ex-Governor main-; .tain that he will be re-elecied. The; j gentelemen most prominently mnntion! ed for the succession are.ludge Wallace | : of I'nion. Mr. Speaker lrby. Congress- j : man Hemphill, and Co!. Ellison Keitt j j of Newberry. Congressman Hemphill j j has bi-st recently been sppken of. Col. ! j Keitt is not regarded as a possibility, j j The weight of opinion is that if Senator j j Hampton be displaced. Col. Irby will i i be the successor. Either -J;:! V.'al | lace or Congress ma a Ilemphill won!-! j j be regarded as a ''compromise man." j I If a square fight be mads. 0:1 tiie lines j laid out in the clioice of officers of the j j House and the Senate, it. would seem j certain that such light will narrow j t down to a contest between General j j Hampton and Colonel Irby. li. S. J. MAKE A NEW CENSUS! Will Itesist lie-apportionment Until an j 1-'...! iioncai v.uuui jr? ixuu* ? "Washington, .Nov. 20-Senator Yoorhees, of Indiana, backs up the decision of Senators Blackburn and I\IcFherson and of representatives Bynum and Springer that a new apportionment bill shall not be passed by the Republican majorities in the Senate and House until the taking of an honest and accurate census, in an inteview to-day he said: "I have looked into the way in which ' Mr. Porter took the census of New York oikI ?*rnTmri-lipi!S:Vf,lV HS I - '"Z> UiUOViJ (ill\A ^ ^ _ could, and am obliged to entertain stiri-' ous doubts of its correctness. Tln-r-e'are good gaounds for believing that some two hundred thousand of the inhabitants of the city were not counted. "The municipial authorities of Xew York have got together a weighty mass of evidence tending to prove that such is the case. I low have the Secretary of the Interior and the Superintendent of the Census treated the case'? Like fair and impartial men anxious to do justice and ready to hear honest complaints? Xo: they have behaved as if they were a Louisiana returning board of 1870, whose only business was to count Republicans in and Democrats out. i" "There certainly should be an investigation by Congress of the way in which the census was taken. The Republicans cannot in decency refuse to make i it. "Many Republicans reprobate the eonduct of Secretary Xobie and Mr. Porter toward the Xew" York authorities. and. moreover, they have not confidence that the census was accurate in other parts i of the country. Republicans in < )regon assert that an "incorrect census was taken | there and they complain loudly. ' I am sure'that the Democratic Senators and Representatives are resolved tlmr new apportionment bill shall not pass until it shall be made clear that a correct census has been taken. Jf it should turn out that' the recent census was incorrect, then it must be rectilied before a new apportionment for Concessional representa^jM^^iatie. It is too important a matter to beTnrfeJ ivJii. 'To deprive a Stat'e of a Congresstnan and a presidential elector, as the census seems to deprive Xew York, is an act of injustice which strikes at the foundation of our system of government, which is built upon the theory of equal representation of the people in the government. It will not be submitted to. j "Xo apportionment bill must be passed which does not give honest represen- , ------ill... +1, A ' tation. iJie ucinocracy wax jcm?c nitpassage oi such a bill with all the parlimentary weapons they may possess." Accident to Senator Hampton. Columbia, s. c., Xov. *27.?Senator Wade Hampton's numerous friends in i Columbia were pained to learn yester- . day by a telegram, received by Colonel ; John C. Haskell, that the Senator had met with an accident while out hunting ! with Mr. McDullie Hampton, at or near I the old Hampton place in Washington ] County. Miss. It seems, as faras can be learned, that as the Senator was about to mount his ' - - I horse lie uniortunaieiy c;une hiuuu mo son's line of lire, as that genfleman was in the act of shooting, and received a part of the charge of shot in the face. : two of the little missiles striking him ; 011 the left eyelid. The wound has partially obscured his vision and he is at present confined to a darkened room. . but the injury is not regarded as anyways serious and will probably not keep him to his room more than a few days.v ~ <* tl-.A JL IllS J5. ilS \> ?u uv; aiuuiuvivu, m*. second hunting accident that the Senator lias met with since lbTi). but it is fortunate that this little one is by 110 means as serious as that which cost him one of his legs. As is usually the case on such occasions the facts were at lirst greatly exaggerated by street rumor, but the'true statement of the case became soon generally known and quieted the anxiety of Senator Hampton's friends ? Columbia Register. 1 a Model for South Carol inn. Mii.lkdgkvili.i:, Ca.. Xov. 22.? [ The citizens are making great prepara| tions to celebrate, in a becoming way. the laying ot the corner stone of t!ic college next Thursday. 1 Ixo 27th instant. It will be a great day hi the history of Georgia. The Georgia Norm a I and Industrial College, lor t?ic education of white girls, was established by the Legislature in I l v'Cn ?-o< !if M'l'Ci! wille. X O C *J &UIU ?vv ; - - I Sixteen acres of land, known as the \ I old penitentiary pronerty, together with j j the old executive mansion, were appro- j i priatcd by the State 10 this movement ! so wisely started by Mr. Atkinson. | The State also appropriated s-i^.nOO, to : be paid in three annual installments. { To this the people of Milie<i-_:eville gen- j erously donated $10,000. I The building which fs now i:i course j J of erection will, when completed, cost j $ 15.000. Inside the building will be the Ieslurc j rooms, the library and oilices of the j faculty, while the old executive mansion j will be lilted up lor the bo:u*din_r apal't-, meals ot the school. | This is the lirst step /k-onria has! i taken to give higher advantages to her j i girls. She lias been helping the boys j j lor a century. The purpose ? : this college is to educate thegirfs. and especially those unable to take the expensive course in other colleges. It v.*111 equip tkeia thoroughly its ! teachers and ni once prepare them to j become self-sustaining, and give to ! Georgia's schools better trained teachj ers. It is to be the corner-stone of our j common scuooi system. n *un _<><| special tratnutr t<> irirl> in typewriting, j bookkeeping. telegraphy, stenography, j dressmaking ami such other lines ot in! dustry as women mav properly engage ' in to make a living. 'j Should the Alliance in Kansas fail to down Ingalls this time through the , treachery of some of its members, it ! will scare lain nearly to death. J>ut we 1 hope it will down him. A 1'IiOl'ifKCY RECALLED. WHAT MILLS ONCE SAID TO THE RAMPANT REPUBLICANStV?mls About the Turifi IJill Which ->ict:it<?i* Kecrf :iud His Partv 3Ii;;ht lietter II.ivo Heeded?A Candidate for Hie Speakership. Washington. Nov. 26.?Representative Ro_rer Q. Mills lias come to Wash- " ingtou ahead of mosl ol' the Republicans and r>; his friends of the despised Democratic minority, and he is looking ruddy and more vigorous than he has anytime since lie began his tariii speech-making in l^SS. lie is a willing candidate for the Speakership, but not'an obtreperous one. an we promptly announces that he does not intend to open headquarters in which to "round up" his supporters. lie has heard some talk about President Harrison calling an extra session of the Fifty-second Congress. He does not consider it necessary ana ne scarcely believes that the President will find it judicious for his personal or party interest. If the Republicans are deter- _ mined to have an extra sessiorjjjfiey can force it. An early j<rssion w*>uld im? pose responsibilitv-upon the Democrats sooner than they had expected, but they ought not to be frightened by that prospect* If the Republicans hope to profit by aband&ning their responsibilities the piro'pTe who rebuked them at the polls in November will not all die before the next election, and they will administer more medicine to these pretenders who have been plastering the country with their pictures of the way they do business in Congress." -- J Mr. Mills has not yet recovered from . - > the astonishment he left at the result of the election. lie looked for a Democratic victory, but he did not imagine that the party would sweep the whole country so completely. lie had seen some indications of dissatisfaction with the tar; 11'. bill and intimations were thrown out to him in the West that many Republicans would not vote for the men who had so mistaken the desires of the party as to attempt to revise the taiiH up .vhen it ought to have been 1 U ? iCV/U uu 11 * VVVUvJiVUUiiJ iiV liVUtv* remarks, that showed that the people were watching Reetl, and that the}* were fully aware not only of his cheekiness, but of his tyrannical disposition. "Yes, he's very smart," a mau would say, "but I reckon we don't want military rule just yet. do we? There were rather more than usual of the common references by managers ot the meetings to the fact that there were large numbers of Republicans present, but that was so frequently heard by speakers for both parties that it did not at the time make a deep impression. Mr. Mills says the people of this country have a fondness for the under do^ in ? .r* ]\o/l InoAn f ruiTY* '.nCY ; ! Wvi.lj. the reports of 'how Reed was run- 1 cing tlife xfo?JS?*-.jyith his sjvcl. and how J liis men were unseating democrats who had liken elected, and^J^j^ttlredof Democrats down, but was kicking^e^ prostrate body and treading upon it ia its helpless condition. "Then there were other things," he added, "thank fortune, all Republican blunders, which the people bore in mind, ivheti we fellows in Congress were regarding them as wornout questions. Come to think of it, I was a better prophet than I thought I was when I made my tariff speech on May 7. I told the N Republicans of the House that I wanted them to pass their biil and then ?0 to the people of lllinos, Indiana and Wisconsin to tell why they had put a bounty on sugar ships, and silks, and no bounties m things that they produced. I told Lhcm that they would have to meet such questions, and that the majority of 100,j00 for Grover Cleveland had told them what the people of the country wanted." When the closing words of Mr. Mills's speecii arc examined uiey iaKe on a new and prophetic meaning in view of the results of the elections. He said: 1 wont you to pass your bill and go with it out West. Take it. with hair. Iiidc and wool all over it, and discuss it there. I want you to meet the people * whom you have not hesitated to tax W from 100 to 200 per ceut. on the neces- 1 saries of life. I want you to confront | them and tell them what you have done, and if I am not very much mistaken, when you shall have rendered an account of your stewardshisp and told thein how ^ood you have been, and how in their name you have destroyed their markets, lowered the prices of their products, cast out ibe dead, and raised the devil, they will say to you, 'Get thee V;! behind me, Satan.' "\Vc promise our frinds that we will examine their bill. We will discuss some of its provisions, for thev intend to cut oil' our debate and prevent us l?|3i from discussing all of them. It needs discussion, and will get.whatever we are j permitted to give it. and then, when we A have done that, you will pass it- ^m will content ourselves by givin'g our votes against it, and when you leave this House and Senate with this enormous load of guilt upon your heads and appear before the great tribunal for trial, |q[ may the Lord have mercy on your souls." Mr. Mills and Mr. Carlisle are now A very well satisfied that the Republicans JBk adopted the programme in the last scsr 1 1- - si }ii 01 iuiusjulj iu jicnuit uiu uciuuauo of individual Republicans 10 be re- AH yarded when they asked i'or amendments. In retaining the" symmetry" of tiie bliyfl the Republicans were insuring the tility oi the people, who saw thatj^fl a contrivance bolstered up by so^ of combination, in which^j? nothing ibr the common country. Even a man.hte^B Illinois, who spoke agamst tflj not holdMHH^^HBH and his majority of 2.400M H.A.-, n?.*A/l ?nl A 1 T~\nrv)JHfl_ _ - ?iW lUtUUliuwv I jority for a low tarilT DeraocB The less the bill was ainA Carlisle thought, tlie bette? ; tor jjiiiposes of the Dcmflgj ' soundness of his opinion isufl York Xews. ^ J>e:idly Giant Ni;w Yokk. 2s ov. 26.?By the aeei- . ! denial explosion of giant powder, four ; Italian laborers were blown up Tues- JH i.^rnin^r Tiv/l ll'ur.o IHllp/1 nn<^ U<IV ll.vnii.ip. a. .. v f, ' two were badly mangled, out may recover. - ^ I Ti 11:1:1-: is great scr&fiufing for the j places at the disposal-of Gov. Tillman and the Legislature. The saddest part ! of it is that there are not half enough ; places to supply the hungry patriots : who think they ought to be rewarded i for the part they took in the campaign. jM