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PLAGUE OF INFIDELITY. ~ DR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES ON THE PREVALENT SIN. It Is Belter lor a. xl.tu to IJtli-vo G-. <2 Than i'jo ilutire liuiiiau II .< *? Great Men Think of thi: ?Arguments Ajjainst This I'lnjisc. Xew York, April 5.?Continuing Ills course of sermons o;i "The Tea i'lagues of the Cities," Iiev. J)r. Talmaire to-day took for Lis subject "The PJairue of Infidelity." The discourse was daiivered to large aud appreciative pudiences at the Brooklyn Academy of .Music in the forenoon and the -New York Academy of Mucsic in the evening. The text was Romans iii.: 4: "Let God be true, but every man a littr." That is if God says one thing anu the whole human race says the opposite. Paul would accept the divine veracity. But there are many in our time who have dared arraign the Aimighty for falsehood. In. idelity is not only a plague, but it is the mother of plagues. It seems Irom what we hc.%'- on all sides, that the Christian religion is a huge blunder, that the Mosaic account of the creation is an absurdity lame enough to throw all nations into rollicking guffaw; that Adam and Eye never existed; that the ancient Hood and Xoah's Ark were impossibilities, that there never was a miracle; that the Bible is the friend of cruelty, of murder, of polygamy, of all forms of base crime: that the Christian religion is woman's tuam ULIU UiitU "> suiiuuianun, wai ti;v Bible from lid to lid is a fable, a cruelty, a humbug, a sham, a lie; that the martyrs who died for its truth were miserable dupes; that the Church of Jesus Christ is properly gazetted as a fool: that when Thomas CarlyJe. the sceptic, said, "The Bible is a noble book." lie ,, 7?as dropping into imbecility; that when ** Theodore Parker declared in .Music Ilali. Boston, "Xever a boy or girl in all Christendom but was prolitted by tliat great book,''he was becoming very weakminded; that it is something to bring a blush to the cheek of every patriot, that John Adams, the father of American independence, declared, "The Bible is the best book in all the world;" and that lion-hearted Andrew Jackson turned into a snivelling coward when he said, "That book, sir, is the ro<:k on which our republic rests;" and that Daniel Webster abdicated the throne ot his intellectual power and resigned his logic, and from being the ureal expounder of the Constitution and the great lawyer of his age, turned into an idiot, when he said, uMy heart assures and reassures me that the Gospel of Jesus Christ must be a divine reality. From the time that at my mother's feet, or on my father's knee. I iirst learned to lisp verses Irom the sacred writings, they have been my daily studv and vigliant contemplation, and if there is anything in my style or thought to be commended, the credit is due to my kind parents in instilling into my mind an early love ot - Ly...:?*. ? -1 - - ^tr*n: TT me (scriptures;" anu uiai ? uiuiui. n. Seward, the diplomatist of the century, onlv showed his puerility when he declared, "-The whole hope or human progress is suspended on the evergrowing influences of the Bibic;" and that it is wisest for us to take that book from the throne in the allections of ulcounted mulitudes, and put it under our feet to be trampled upon by hatred and hissing contempl; and that your old farther was hoodwinked, and cajoled, and cheaed, and be fooled, when ho leaned on this as a stall' after his hair crew gray, and his hands were tremulous, and his step shortened as he came up to the verge of the grave; and that Your mother sal with a pack of lies on her lap while reading ot the better country, and ot the ending of all her aches and pains, and reunion not only with those of you who stood around her, but with the children she had huried with infinite heartache. so that she could re id no more until she j took off her spectacles, and wiped from j them the heavy mist of many tears' j Alas! that 1'or forty and fifty years they should have walked under this delusion i and had It under their pillow when they i lay a dying in the back room, and asked j that some words from the old book might j be cut upon the tombstone under "the | shadow of the old country meeting house where they sleep to-day waiting for a resurrection that will never come. This book, having deceived them, and having deceived the mighty intellects of the past, must not be allowed to deceive our larger, mightier, vaster, more stupendous intellects. And so out with the book from the court-room where it is used in the solemnization of testimony. Out with it from under the foundation of church and asylum. Out with it Irom the domestic circle. Gather together all the Bibles?the children's Bibles. the family Bibles, those newly bound, and those with lid nearly worn out and pages r.lmost obliterated by the lingers long ago turned to dust?bring them all together, and let us make a bonfire of them,and oy it warm our cold criticism, and after that turn under with the poloughshare of public indignation the polluted ashes of that loathsome, adulterous,* obscene, cruel and deathful book which is so antagonistic to man's liberty, and woman's honor, and the world's happiness. Now that is the substance of what infidelity prsposes and declares, and the attack on the Bible is accompanied 1**. i 4I LJ JULUMt), iUIU tl LIU liiUUI^V any subject about which more mirlh is kindled than about the Bible. I like i'un; no man was ever built with a keener appreciation of it. There is health in laughter instead of harm?physcial health, mental health, moral health. ? spiritual health,?provided you laugh at the right thing. The morning is jocund. The Indian with its own mist baptizes the cataract Minnehaha, or laughing water. You have uot kept your eyes open, or your ear alert, it' you have not seen the sea smile, or heard the forests clap their hands, or the orchards in blossom-week ag ee with redolence. But there is a laughter which .1 a ~ i .i.i ..Uw.K is ueuwuuu uiure IN ;i wuiun has t'ie rebound of despair. It is not healthy to uij;gle about Clod, or chuckle a';out eternity, or smirk about the tilings of the immortal soul. You know what caused the accident years ago on the HvJsoa liiver railroad. It was an intoxicated man who tor a joke pulled the string ot the airbrake and stopped the train, at the most doogerous point of the journey. But the li^htim: train, not knowmg there was any impediment in the way, came down, crushing out of the mangled victims the immortal souls that went speeding instantly io Cod and judgment. It was only a joke, lie thought it would be such fun to stop the train. He stopped it! And so infidelity is chiefly anxious to stop the long train of the Uible, and the long train ot the churches, and the Ions: tram of Christian influences, while coming down upon us are death, judment. and eternity, coming a. .housand miles a minute, coming with more force than all tiie avalanches that ever slipped irom the Alps, coming with more strength than all the lightning express trains that ever whistled, or shrieked, or thundered across the continent. Now, in this sentiment of infidel thinkers I cannot loin, and 1 vronose to dve you some reasons why I cannot bean ralidel. and so I will try to help out of this present condition any who may have be^n struck with the awful plague of scepdcism. First, I CiiSaoi be :;a iniidel becauae | iUiiUC'il'j 4l;i> iW u .v. tut . 'consolation it promises to lake away, j ! Y'-u know t'.CTO am millions of people j i who -j<:I their chiei <-on?cIai:on from this j j hook. What v. oiiid you think of a cru- j ; MKi-iOi'Jiis Suppose a man should j j that i.o would < >r?iau:/,e a con- ; j sj.iraoy to <! ?troy all the nif-dicines from j cili the npoU.-xaries and Irom al! the ho*- : ; j.itais oi'lhc aria. The work is done. { i The medicines are la km and they are J ! thrown into the river, or the hike, or the j j sea. A palieut wakes up at midnight; | in a paroxysm o!" distress. and wants an j ! anodyne. "Oh." says the nurse, "the ! ano'J\nes are all destroyed: we 3:ave no drops to ^ive \ c J, but instead of that I 'ii read you a took on the absurdities <A [ I morphine, and on the absurdities of all j remedies." JJu: the man continues to j writhe in pain, and the nurse says: "I'll { continue to read you some discourses on i anodynes, llie cruelties of anodynes, the j indecencies oi'anodyues. the absurdities i of anodynes. For your croan, I'll irive ' vcu a lani'I:." Here iu the hospital is a patient having a gauirrened limb amputated. ile says. "Ob. lor ether. Uh. ! for chloroform." The doctor says, ! "Why. they are all destroyed, we don't have any more chloroform, or ether: but I have gotsonsethingagreat deal bet'er. i?l! read you a pamphlet against James Y. Simpson, the discoverer ot' chloroform as an anesthetic, and against Doctors Agnew, and Hamilton, aud Ilosack, and Mott. and Ilarvey. aud Abernethy." "JJut," says the man, "I must have some aua.-sthetics." "No," says th? doctors, "they are ail destroyed, but we have not something a great deal better." "What is that':" "Fan." Tun about medicines. Lie down, all ye patients in Bellevue hospital and stop your sroaning?all ye broken-hearted of all the cities, and quit your crying; we have the catholicon at last! Here is a dose of wit. here Is a stren^thenim: plaster of i +i,?? biircuMii, netu i>viuu ui uu,nui_\ vu.u you are to keep well shaken up and take a spoonful ot it alter each meal, and it that does not cure you. here is a solution of blasphemy in which you may bathe, and here is a tincture or derision. L'ick!e the skeleton of death with a repartee! Make the Kim,' of Terrors cackle! For all t ;c agonies 0f all the aires, a joke! Millions of people willing with uplifted h.ind toward heaven to aflirm that the Gospel of Jesus Christ is full of consolation for them, and yet inlidelity proposes to take it away, giring nothing, absolutely nothing except fun. Is there any greater height, or depth, or length, or breadth or .mmensily of meanness in all God's univer e! Infidelity is a religion of '-Don't know." is there a God? Don't know. I* c.-ml immnrffll"'' Dnn'tknow. If we should meet each other in the future world will we recognize cach other? Don't know! A religion of "don't know" f-r the religion of "I know." "I know hi whom L have believed." ''I know that my Redeemer liveth." Infidelity proposes to substitute a religion of awful negatives for our religion of glorious positives showing right before us a world of '"eunion and ecstasy, and high companionship, and glorious worship, and stupendous victory; the mightiest joy of earth not high enough to reach to the base of the Himalaya of uplifted splendor awaiting all those who ui wing of Christian faith will soar toward it. Have you heard of the conspiracy to put out ail the lighthouses on the coast? Do you kno / that on a certain night ot next month, Eddys tone lighthouse, Dell Dock lighthouse. Sherry vore lighthouse. Montauk lighthouse, Ilatteras light house, New London lighthouse, DameLrat lighthouse, and the CIO lighthouses on the Ai'antic and Pacific coasts are to ' be extinguished* "Oh," you say, '-what will become of the ships on that night? Wuat will be the fate of the one million sailors following the sea? What will be the doom of the millions of passengers? Who will arise to put down such a conspiracy?*' Every man, woraau, and child in America, and the world. Bui. that is only a fable. That is what infidelity is trying to do, put out ali the lighthouses on the coast of eternity, letting the soul go up the "Narrows" of death with no light, no comfort, no peace?all that coast covered with the blackest of darkcess. Instead of the great lighthouse, a glowworm of wit, a lirelly 01 jocosity. Which do you like the better, 0 vovairer for eternity?the fireily or the lighthouse? What a mission inlideHty has started ot! The extinguishment of lighthouses, the breaking up of lifeboats, the dismis- i sal of all the pilots, the turning of the incription on your child's prave into a farce j and a lie. Walter Scott's "Old Mortal:ty,'' chisel in hand, went through the | land to cut out into plainer letters the "ialf obliterated inscriptions on the tomb- i atones, and it was a beautiful mission. < Hut infidelity spends its time with hammer and chisel trying to cut out from the . j tombstones of your d. ad all the story of ' Iinnvfln I> ic- tjm loon. Il IWUUVV/lluaauu uv<*>v,?a? JLO *O WUV oclast ot ever}' vil age graveyard, and of every city cemetery, and of Westmin- < ster Abbey. Instead of Christian con- : solation i?>r tlie dying, a freezing sneer. ! Instead of prayer, a grimace. Instea.l ; 01 Paul's triumphant defiance of death, 1 a going out you know not where, to itop ' you know not when, to do you know not what. That is Id fidelity. i Furt icrmore: I cannot be an infidel, < because of the false charges infidelity is ' all the time making against the Bible, i Perhaps the slander that has made the ; most impression and that some Chris- i t.ians have not been intelligent enough 1 tr> ilnm: Itint. flip favors imlv". I : r.my. Does tlio God of the Bible uphold ' polygamy, or did lie? IIow many wives i did Cod make lor Adam? He made ! one wife. I )'X:s not your common sense < tell you when Cod started the marriage ( institution, he started it as he wanted : it continued? It' God had favored polyiramv lie could have created lor Adam i ike wives, or ten wives, or twenty ; wives, just as casilv as lie made one. ' At the very lirst of the Bible God shows \ himself in favor of monosomy and an- i tagonisiic to polygamy. Genesis 24: t "Therefore shall a man leave his father i and mother and shall cleave unto his I wile." Not his wive-5, but his wife, s IIow man v wives did God spare for Noah t in the ark? Two aud two the birds: two and two the cattle: two aud two the i lions: two and two the human race. If \ the God of the Bible hul favored a mui- * UMiiCil) r.u UUiu iiu \ ^ c?|yttLv;v* a plurality" of wives. When God first. ? launched ihc human race, he iiave Adam one wife. At the second lauchingof s the human race he spares for Xoah one i wife, for I lam one wile, for Shem one t wife, lor Jabhet one wife. Does that > look as though God favored polygamy? ' In Leviticus xviii. IS, God founders his < prohibition of .core than one wife. i God permitted polygamy. Ye?; just t us he permits to-d;iv murder and melt t aud arson and ail kind of crime. lie \ permits t'u-sc things as you well know, i but he does not sanction them. Who ( would dare to say lie sanctions them t liecause the presidents of the United i States lave permitted polygamv iu Utah. i you are no'., therefor*., to conclude tha: i they patronized it, that they approved it ( when, on the contrary, they denounced < it. Ail of God'o ancient Israel knew 1 that tlie (.iotl of t!to Bible was against i polygamy, for iu the four hundred and 1 thirty years of their stay in Egypt there s is only one case of polygamy recorded? i ; only ?ne. All the mighty men of the i Bible stood aloof, from polygamy, ex- > i-r>n! those who. tailing into the cri ne. i ; 7 -y wfiT chastised within an inch of their J lives. Adam, Aaron, Noah, Joseph, ( |Joshua. Samuel, monogamists. But ; ! you su_v: "Didn't David and Solomou 1 ' i'avor polygamy?" Yes, and did they not < L'f-t well puni&hed for it: Reau the lives oftho.se t'.vo i2on. and you wi 1 come to the conclusion'hat 11 the attributes of God's nature- were against their behavior. J)o.v;-i suifercd for his crimes in the caverr.s ol'Aduilarn and M4SS:;!a. "m the wilderness of Mahr.naim. in the bereavem-uts vf Zhilay. Tiie JJedouins after him. sickness alls,:- him, Absalom alter him, Amiiiopcl aiier him. Adonijah alter him, the Edomites after him. the >yrians alter him. the Moabites alter him. death alter him, the Lord God Almighty after him. The poorest peasant in iil the empire married to the plainest Jewess was happier than the kin^ in his marilal misbehavior. How did Solomon i;et along with polygamy? Head his warnings, in I'r >verbs, read his self-disirust in Ecclesiaste.s. lie throws up his hands in loathing, and cries out: * Vanit < nf vinii!P< ;iM i< \- " 1 T i si SPVM1 hundred wives nearly pestered the life out of him. Solomon got well paid for his crimes?well paid. X repeat thai all the might}' men ut' the Scriptures were aloof from polygamy, save as they were pounded and llailed, and cut to pieces lor their insult to holy marriage. If the Bible is the friend of polygamy why is it that in all the lands where the Bible predominates, polygamy is forbidden and in the lauds where there is no Bible, it is favored? Polygamy all over China, all over India, all over Africa, all over Persia, all over heathendom, save as the missionaries have done their work, while polygamy does not exist in England and the United States, except in defiance of law. The Bible abroad, God honored monogamy. The Bible not abroad, God abhorred polygamy. * - i . i ?"i_ r t. J -- x* .7 _ T ? J? i .cvnoiner xaise cnarge wuien luuueiuy has made against the Bible is that it is antagonistic to woman, that it enjoins her degradation and belittles her mission. Under this impression many women have been overcome of this plague of infideliU*. Is the Bible the enemy ot\ woman? Come into the picture gallery, the Louvre, the Luxembourg of the IJiole, and see which pictures are the more honored. Ilcre is Eve, a perfect woman, as perfect a woman as could be made by a perfect God. Ilere is Deborah, with her womanly arm hurling a host into the battle. Here is Miriam, leading the Israelitish orchestra on the banks of the Red Sea. Here is motherly Hannah, with her own loving hand replenishing the wardrobe of her son Samuel, the prophet. Here is Abigail, kneeling at the loot of the mouutain until the four hundred wrathful men, at the sight of her beaut}- and prowess ball, bait?a hurricane stopped at the skjht of the water lily, a devvdrop dashing back Niagara. Here is Ruth, putt ng to shame all modern slang about mothers-in-law as she turns her back on her home and her country, and laces wild beasts aud exile and death, that she may be with Xaomi. her husband's mother, liuib, the queen of the harvest lields. Ruth, the grandmother of Darid. Ruth, the ancestress of Jesus Christ. The story of her virtues and her life sacrifice the most beautiful pastoral ever written. Ileiv is Vashti. defyiug the bacchanal of a thousand drunken lords, and Esther, willing to throw herliie away that she may deliver her people. And here is Dorcas, the sunlight of eternal fame gilcing her philanthropic needle, and the woman with perfume in a box, made from the hills of \ li'nnei mn r>nnHn?' t.'ie holv chrit?;n on the head of Christ, the aroma lingering: all down the corridor of the centuries. Here is Lvdia, the merohantcss ofTyrian purple, immortalized lor her Christian behavior. Here is the widow with two mites, more fatuous '.ban the Peabodys and the Lenoxes of ail a^cs, while here comes in slow of gait and with careful attendants and with csnecial honor and j high favor, leaning on the arm of inspiration. one who is the joy and pride of any home so rarely fortunate as to have | one?an old Christian grandmother. Grandmother Lois. Who has more worshippers to-day than at y being that j ever lived on earth, except Jes is Christ? Mary, for what purpose did Christ perform His first miracle upon earth? To ; relieve the embarrassment of a woman- j Iy housekeeper at the falling short of a beverage. Why did Christ break up the j silence of the tomb, and tear oil' the j sslirnml rmrl rin tin the rocks? It was tO I stop the bereave ment, of the two Bethany sisters. For whose comfort was Christ most anxious in the hour of dying excruciation? For a woman, an old woman, a wriakle-faced woman, a woman who in other days hid held him in her arms, his first friend, his last friend, as is it very apt to be, his mother. All the pathos of the ages compressed into one utterance, "Behold thy mother." Does the Bible antagonize woman? If the Bible is so antagonistic to woman. how do you accounffor the diilerence in woman's condition in China and Central Africa, and her condition in England and America? There is no difference except that which the Bible makes. In lands where there is no Bible, she is hitched like a beast of burden to the ploughs, she carries the hod. she submits to indescribable ind.gnities. She must be kept in a private apartment ind if she come forth she must be care tuny noocieu ana reugiousiy v?ncu -as though it were a shame to be a woman. Do you not know that the very first thing Lhe Bibiedocs when itcomcs iuto a new country is to strike oft" the skackles of a woman's serfdom? 0 woman, where ire your chains to-day? Hold up both four arms and let us sec your handculls; ihey rro bracelets of gold, bestowed by lusbandiy. or fatherly, or brotherly, or sisterly, or loverly allection. Unloosen ,hc warm robe from your neck. O >vonan. and let us see the yoke of your iior.dLiore. Oh. I find the voke acarcenet i )f silver, or a string of cornelians, or a cluster of pearls that must gall you very liuch. IIow bad you must all have it. .Since you put the Bible on your stand n the sitting room has the Bible been to rou, 0 woman, a curse or a blessing? IViiy is it that a woman when she ig roubled will go to her worst enemy the [>ible? Why do you not go for comfort ,o some of the great infidel books, Spiloza's Ethics, or Ilume's Natural Ilisory of lieligion. or i'aine's Age of Itea?on, or Dedro's Dramas, or any one of .he two hundred and sixty volumes of Voltaire? Xo, the silly, deluded woman jersists in hanging about the Bible rerses,"Let not your heart be troubled." All things work together for irood," Weeping may endure for a night," *'I im the resurrection," "Peace, be still." Knrthftrmore: rather than invite I re ;ist this plague of infidelity because it ias wrought no positive good for the vorld. and is alw \ys a hindrance. I ask ,-ou to mention the names of the mcrciul and the edcational institutions vhich infidelity founded and is supportng, and has supported all the way .hrougii; institutions pronounced against .iod and the Christian relligion, and yet ironounced in behalf of suffering hunanity. Wbat are the names of tliem'r Jertaiuly not the United States Christian commission; or the sanitary comnission; for Christian George II. Stuart vas tiie presid -nt o. the one, and Christan Ilcnry W. lielows was the president )f the other. Where are the asylums >~.l 1 frmnrTrxl li^/in-l ;UU u;ui Viiui uiotauivuo ivuiiuw* ^ j idelity and supported bv inliJ-.Iity. projounced against God and the Bible, and ,-et doiuj; work for the alleviation of jui'i'ering'r Infidelly is so very loud in is braggadocio it must have some to neution. Certainly, if you come to ;peak 01 educational institutions it is lot Yale, it is not Harvard, it is not L'rincetou. it is not Middletown, it is not Jombridge or Oxford, it is not anyin>tituttion from which a diploma would | jot be a disgrace. Do you point to the j German universities as exceptions? I , ... -? 5c | have to tell you that all the German | ; universities to-day are. under positive j | Christian Iniln .'P.c-e. t-xcept the I'oiversi-1 1 ty of were l'ie ruffianly I | nude as rut :??>.: man ana mangle ar (i i naurdt-r ear's other a- :i matter of pntle [ : instead o:' :n.'a?ny. iso yea mention ; ; G'rard college. ]'i.i'a?!e:phia. a- an e? i | ceptlou. thai coiu:/e established hy the ! 1 v.'i! ..1 Mr. (Ii*iii*? 1. wh.rii Jurhadc reii-j- : | ious instruction and the entrance oiYler- j j yyincn within hs ifa'.es? My reply is | ] that 1 live I lor sewn yars near that ! i col'^e and knew manv ??:' U< prolrssnrs i to he (,'hris.lhn instructors. and no bet- | ter Christian inilucnces are to lie lound i in any college t'.ian in (Jirar-i eolh-^..'. There .stands Christianity. There ' stands infidelity. Compare what they | 'nave done. Compare their resources. There is Chrintianity. a prayer on her j lip: a benediction on her brow; both hands i lull ol' help: the mother of thousands ot I colleges; the niolher of thousands ol'asy- i lums for the oppressed, t'-e blind, the : sick, the lame, the imbec le: the mother j of missions lor the iinn^itrj back of the j outcast: ths niolher of thousands of reformatory institutions lor the saving o( I the lost: the mother of innumerable Sab- j both schools bringing millions ol'children I under a drill to prepare them for res- I pectability and usefulness, to say noth.- ! intr nf thp rrri^ot. ful nr?? ! tif ntv. litre is infidelity; no prayer on her lips, no benediction on her bro?r; both hands clenched?what lor? To light Christianity. .That is the entire business. The complete mission of infidelity is to light Christianity. Where are her schools, her colleges, her asylums of mercy:1 Let me throw you down a whole ream of foolscap paper that you may fill all of it with -Jic names of her benelicent institutions, the colleges and tJic asylums, the institutions of mercy and ol learning, founded by infidelity, and supported alone by iaficdlity. pronounced auaiust God and the Christian religion and yet in favor of making the world better. "Oh," you say. "a ream of io frtA f\t' institutions." Well, then, 1 throw you a quire of paper. Fill it all up now*. I will wait until you i^et all the names down. "0!u" you say, "that is too much." Well, then, i will just hand you a slicet of letter paper. .Just fill up the lour sides while we are talking of this matter, with the names of the merciful institutions and t:ie educational institutions founded by Infidelity and supported all along by Infidelity, pronounced gainst God and the Christian religion, yet in favor of humanity. "Oil," you say. "that is too much room; we don't want a whole sheet of paper to write down the names." Perhaps I had better tear out one leaf from my memorandum book and ask you to fill up both sides ot it with the names of siw.t, iMjfltniJ.ina (>)! " vrtil CIV "Mint. OUC:i j VM would be loo much room; I wouldn't want so much room as that." Well, then, -uppose you count them on your ten linger*. "Oh," yxi say. "not quite so much as that." Well, then, count them on the fingers of one hand. "Oh," you say. "we don't want quite so much room as that." Suppose, then, you halt and count on one linger the name ot any institution founded by infidelity, supported entirely be infidelity, pronounced against God and the Christian religion, yet toiliug to make the world better. .Not one! Not one! Is infidelity so poor, so starveling, so mean, so unless? Get out, you miserable pauper of the universe! Crawl into some rat hole of everlasting nothingness. Infidelity stanning to-day amid the suffering, groaning, dying nations, and yet doing absolutely nothiug save trying to impede those who are toiling uutil they fall exhausted into their graves in trying - -- * ? -1 "? I- - -L lO IliaKC llllj W'JI'Ul UUlier. UiUIH'f lip all the work, all the merciful work, that intidclily lias ever clone, aud it all together. and there is not so much nobilty in it as in the smallest bead of that sisI ler of charily who last night went up I the dark alley of the town put a jar of : jelly for an invalid .lpptcite on a broken i stand, and then kuelt on the bare lioor, ! praying the mercy of Christ upon the | dying soul. i Infidelity scrapes no lint for the ! wounded, luikes no bread lor the hunj grv, shakes up no pillow for the sick | rouses no comfort lor the bereit, gilds no grave for the dead. While Christ, our Christ, our wounded Chiist, our risen Christ, the Christ of this old fashioned Bible?blessed be his glorious nomufnrucor!?/\n f Ch ri ct. thl<5 hour pointing to the hospital, or to the asylum saying: "I was sick anil ye gave me a couch, 1 was lame and ye gave rne a crutch, I was biind and ye physicianed my eyesight, I was orphaned and ye mothered my soul, 1 was lost on the mountain and ye brought tne home; inasmuch as ye did it to one of the least of these, ye did it to me." But I thank Clod that this plague of inlHelity will be stayed. Many or those who hear me now by the Holy Ghost upon their heaf.a will cease to be scoffers and will become disciples, and the will iirrtv?> when ;i!! natinns will accept the Scriptures. The book is going to keep ri^nt on until the fires ol' the last day are kindled. Some of them will begin on one side and some on the other side of the old book. They will not find a bundle of loose manuscripts easily consumed like tinder thrown into the fire. When the tires of the last dsy arr> kindled some will burn on this side, from Genesis toward Revelation, and others will burn on this side, from Revelation towards Genesis, and in all their way they will not find a single chapter or single verse out of place. That will fie the first time we can afford to do without the JJible. What will be the use of the book of Genesis, descriptive of how the world was made, when the world is destroyed? What will be the use of the prophecies when 11 lev are all f u 1 filied V What wi 11 he the use or tne evangelistic or rauline description of Jesus Christ when we see him face to face? What will be the use of his photograph when we have met him in glory? What will be the use of the JJooli <>C Revelation, standing as you will with your foot on the glassy sea, and your hand on the ring1 ig harp, and your forehead chapieted with eternal coronation, amid the amethystine and twelve-gated glories of heaven? I'he emerald dashing its green against the beryl, and the beryl dashing" its blue against the sapphire, and the sapphire throwing its light on the jacinth, and the jacinth dashing its lire against the chavsoprassus, and you and 1 standing in the glories of ten thousand sunsets. ' * ' " < i tjus tonieus 10 iu?: novuc. Nashville. Tenn., April 2.?At, a meeting of Frank Cheatham Jiivonac Confederate Veterans, yesterday afternoon, the following loiter was ordered, sent to the Secretary or' War: Association' ok Confederate ) Soldiicns, Texxessee Division. [Xasiiville, i'enn., April 2.) Hon. J. ii. Proctor, Secretary of War, Washington: Dear Sir?In case of any serious complications with Italy. Frank Cheatham Jiivoiiac. Confederate Solflicrs, of recnessee Division, ooO sironjj. h^rsby tender its services to the United States. J>y order of the Bivouac. I. W. McMltrrav, President. mi _ 1 >; .1 ir.: leuri" u as vv 11ucu uu ?i j>i\ i/unu | letterhead, with t!ie !la? of the Confed eracy displayed across the top. Italians to Df-stroy I'ittsburj;. Newcastle, l'a., April 3.?A naturalized Italian named Gabbarrio, who owns property at Wampum and is held in good repute, has made public a story of his having been approached by som'e of his countrymen with a proposition to j join 20.0UU Italians in a plot to capture i and destroy Pittsburg, Gabbarrio says ; every Italian in Alleghaney and Beaver Counties has been similarly approached. \ k * BLOODSHED IN THE MINES. BATTLE BETWEEN STRIKING COKE MINERS AND OFFICERS. S< vfss IIu!\tjarlfi!is shot ;t:iu Forty j - ??" More i\ oasinc,!-- xro:tbi:? i. :ti: Aus- | I tri;i rntsilile-A I)e:?cril'tinit <>f the | n?-h!. ilx. Pli:a*ax. J'a., April 2?'J'his town \v;;3 shaken to its wry centre nt o'clock this morning. At that hour seven Hungarian rioters u>rc shot dead and twenty or more wounded by deputy sheriffs. The greatest excitement prevails. The stable in the rear of Yandertakt-r Zimmerman's store was used ior a morgue, and the streets and alleys n;-ar it were crowded with anxious Hungarians and r.oters. As f.tst as tiie bodies were recognized, friends took tiiem, and the moaning and wailing of the relatives was heart-rending.) About 2.30 this morning doubtless 1,000 men gathered around Morewood. The deputies were keeping a sharp lookout. Their orders were delinite: no one w;io to lire unless attacked, or when an advancing enemy failed to halt, at the command. T?ir.,n.. ???- .*1 -> nV.l.xnl' ..liAiit I1113.UJ, <10 CHllUOf O KJ (t^UU 500 strikers arrived on the Morewood road from standard. Tins is thought to have been the last arrival. Each man in the crowd of 1,000, or perhaps more, was armed. .Some carried sticks, some fence rails and some clubs that looked like small battering rams. As the .Standard men and their allies drew up on the road leading past the company's store, the othf-r lorces on the lulls gradually drew nearer trie 15 siiaft. At that time the strikers were stationed, besides the abovenarned places, on the hill west of the works, called Old Tort Defiance, and immediately in front of the store. A United Press reporter followed the Standard crowd, and halted on a lull to the east of the store. Prom there a fair view could be obtained. The moon, which had been hiding behind a cloud suddenly appeared and threw its rays across the scene of the conflict. The column advanced toward the Morewood store. The guards were in charge of Deputy Sheriff McConnell and Capt. Lear. The latter had been sworn in as a deputy, as were also some twenty men lrom Company E. They were stationed at the west siue ot the company's store. The deputies under McConnell were at the east side. As the Hungarians advanced, making but little noise, t!.e deputies re'mained silent. Then the Hungarians passed, but they were bent 011 mischief. The column had not all passed wheu those in front made a dash lor the company's fence. Capt. Lear cried "Halt!" but not a Hungarian stopped, in answer to the captain's command, three revolver shots resounded. Oae bullet whizzed pats Capt. Lear's head, and two men standing near him felt the hot lead pass their bodies. The deputy sheriffs then came to the rescue oi tne soldier deputies. The Hungarians dashed down the road, and broke lor the company's stables. Another command to halt; another answer to the call by pistol shots. The infuriated men kept their course toward the stables. The command was given to lire, and the deputies came to the aid ot C~pt. Lear. The strikers replied, but there were two many shoes from the repeating rules. The air was alive with bullets. IIow many shots wi re fired will probably never be known, but when the smoke cleared away and the men ventured ntar the dead, it was found seven had fallen, and one is now dying from the effects of a bullet. The surviving strikers l!c-d with remarkable rapidity. Soon physicians and undertakers arrived and" the bodies were examined, and those wounded were driven all pos sible aid. The Hungarians were careful -nough to helo those away who wtre able to travel. Xo deputy or guard was hurt. deputies to j;e i'liosecuted. lit. Pleasant, Pa., April 2.?Peter Wise and Mike L>aret.t asked Justice 11cWilliams this evening to issue warrants tor the arr.'St ot the deputies on guard at Morewood, on a charge of murder. The Justice said he was not clear in the matter, and refused to issue the warrants. Wise appealed to another justice, and he also refused. The vice president of the United Mine Workers has bt-en around all day securing the names of the deputies in the fight of this morning. He characterizes it an outrage. He says none of the men killed were found on the Company's property. Every one was found I lriri<* nn thp rnnntv road. Legal action will be taken. Squire McCabb has consented to issue the warrants prayed for, charging the deputies with murder, and the warrants will be issued this evening. General Manager Lynch, of the Prick company, and Superintendent Ramsey, of the Mar wood plant, are made accessories before the fact. Physicians say that forty men were wounded in the light, this morning, some ol them mortally. TliOUIJLE WITII AUSTRIA POSSIBLE. ilt. Pleasant, Pa., April 2.?TheMorewood massacre may precipitate trouble between the United States and Austria. The murdered men were not citizens, and had not taken the oath of allegiance to this government. Secre tary rarker, or tne united ALine ? orK-1 ers, telegraphed Max Sham burg, Aus-1 trian consul at Pittsburg, as follows: "Seven scab workmen were shot in cold Mooil on the public road passing the Morewood mines about 3:20 a. m. Xone have been identified, hut they are not supposed to be citizens." militia ordered ol't. Pittsburg, Pa., April 2.?The Eighteenth regiment has received orders from Governor Pattison to proceed at once to the scene of the Mt. Pleasant troubles and assist the Sheriff of Westmoreland County. It is not yet known w hat time the regiment will get started. tiie coroners inquest. Mt. Pleasant, Pa.. April 2.?Coroner Watchtield arrived her about noon, and, after much difficulty in empanelling a jury, the inquest was begun. The jurymen "are .ill reliable citizens, and the*impression is that the coroner made an excellent selection. Jiobei t Weddell said: Capt. Lear gave his command the order to halt, and as some men started to get on the fence some one else called "Halt"." Then a Hungarian s.iid, "Come on." "Did they go?" asked the coroner. ' They did not havu time. The deputies shot. I did not hear O.pt. Lear give the command to lire, and 1 was within 1CKJ feet of him. He shot twice. I heard that Mr. Ramsy said he would rather have the works destroyed than a loss of life." ineiiuest rcpons piaee uie uuiuuci of persons injured in this morning's riot at fifty, three of whom (names unknown) have since died, making a tDtal of ten deaths. AX EX I'-MiTE OI'IXIOX. 1'iTTSBUiitr, l'a.. April 2.?Vice President Penna and Executive Committeeman Hayes of the L'nited Mine Workers irrived in the city to-night and went into conference with members of the oriii-r. Mr. Penna, in speaking-of what he learned to-day at the scene of the not, said: "When our evidence is developed. Americans will stand aghast. Personal spite is responsible for the occurrence. In the coke region the men go to work early. The marching about of the strikers" is to strengthen the weak-kneed ones and for the moral effect on non-union men. It would be useless for the strikers to march about alter men had gone into the mines. In my opinion, the men had no intention of committing any overt act." A complete Bedroom Suit for .$16.50 freight paid to your depot. .Send for Catalogue. Address L. F. Padgett, Augusta, Ga. HAMBURG REDEEMED. Gofwmor TJeu Tilln?..n Cltwsa Up It* Amphitheatre. Augusta, April 3.?The Chronicle's protest has not been in vain. Hamburg has been redeemed. The sporting U>wn of the two states will now have to retire on its unsavory record and live it down. No more cat and d-?g lights, chicken lights or any oiher kind of lights will be allowed to make night or day hideous. This is what Governor Ti.lman says, and so it must he. This town of ancient business importance, but which has sprung lately into national notoriety because of the cruel animal and chicken fights that have taken place within iLs limits, will now resume its wonted quiet, so far as wildcat and bull-dog lights are concerned. A big cocking main between Xorth and South Carolina commenced yester day m Hamburg and occupied a greater part of the da)', a good crowd being in attendance. Six lights of the main were lough:. These lights were witnessed with considerable interest, as a good deal of money was up on the issue. They resulted 3 to 3, and neither state's cocks could crow over the victory. ''After these "mam" lights fo'ir spirited hack lights took place, which. iD their turn, resulted 2 to 2, leaving honors still easy. Just before the lights were concluded a piece of intelligence was received which caused something of a sensation. The news which somewhat startled the crowd was that an official order had been received by the local authorities ot the town iromtrovernor Tinman, calling on them to stop all such lighting and to arrest those who participated in such sport. This was news, indeed, and ?f the worst convincing sort. It was moving intelligence, with the accent on the move. The main, which was to be continued for three days, it was quite evident, could not go on. Fortunately for the participants, however, they could. And they went. They probably had some uncomplimentary things to say of Governor Tillman. Possibly The Chronicle, whose stand in this matter has brought the question to Governor Tillman's attention, came in for a share of the compliments that were passed. liut the procession moved on, just the same. The light of day will not be heralded in TTamhinvr liiie -mnrninir hv t.hp. r.tnrinn notes of the chanticleer from the oLl North State. The tar heel has dusted, closed up his coops and quietly gone away. No longer is the message from the Governor of South Carolina to the Governor of Xortli Carolina to be one of historic conviviality. Now it is, keep your game cocks on your on duog hill, and don't send them into my domain to enter the prize rinsr. A new battlefield will have to be selected If the fights are to go on to a finish. The authorities are now armed with the law and if any more fighting is carried on, they are compelled to see that it is stopped. This is prettv hard on the sports, but it i6 the edict of the farmer governor. It is understood that i now "c tr> And t.hflfc the lights will be continued elsewhere in Carolina?at some i#oi.it out of the reach of Chronicle reporters.?Augusta Chronicle. only home-made goods for them. Richland's Alliance Bejrlns an Important Movement. Columbia, S. C., April 6.?The farmers of Richland County have inaugurated a very important movement, 1 i.1 avak 4-V^c. wiucu luey uuyc WAU ayicau v?ci uua and all other of the Southern States. They have decided to use only goods manufactured in this State, particularly in Columbia, and will confine their purchases to only those merchants who will handle the home manufactured articles. It looks like the genesis of a big boycott against the Northern manufactures, yet they ask them to build factories here then they will buy. A large meeting of the Richland County Farmers' Alliance was held in Agricultural Ilall Friday and nearly all the members were present. The following resolutions were offered by Mr. .^toeoer ana unanimously auupieu; Whereas, we fully recognize the importance, not only to the farmers, laborers and mechanics, but to the people at large, that mechanical and industrial pursuits be fostered and encouraged in our midst. Resolved, That we pledge ourselves not only to support and sustain all new manufacturing enterprises in this State and county, personally as Farmers' Alliancemen, but will also endeavor to : induce others outside the Alliance to do the same. llesolved, That we pledge ourselves to buy articles of whatever kind manufactured in this State and connty and particularly in the city of Columbia, in preference to imported articles, and j lUH&e XL iUSU UUllgaiAJly upuu i/iac illci.chants with whom we deal to do the same:provided, however, that the home manufactured article is as cheap and as good as the imported. Resolved, That we further pledge ourselves, in case any merchant, except for good and sufficient reasons, should refuse or neglect to purchase and keep for sale any of said home manufactured articles, that we will refuse to trade with said merchant. Resolved, That we request the.several newspapers of the city of Columbia to arouse the people to this important measure, and call public meetings" for the purpose of passing simular resolutions. Resolved, That the secretary is requested and required to furnish copies of these resolutions to newspapers of the manufacturing centres of the Union for publication. Resolved, That we extend the right hand of fellowship to the manufacturers from the North, East, West and South who will confide in these our promises by erecting factories in our midst. Resolved, That the City Council of Columbia be requested to extend such facilities and privileges as may be in their power to graut to s?td manufacturing establishments to bv. established. ?The State. Flanos and Organs. X. W. Trump, 134 Main Street, Columbia, S. C., sells Pianos and Organs, direct from factory. No agents' commissions. The celebrated Chickering Piano. Mathushek Piano, celebrated for its clearness of tone, lightness of touch and lasting qualities. Mason & Ilamlin Upright Piano. Sterling Upright Pianos, from S225 up. Mason & Hamlin Organs surpassed by none. Sterling Organ?, S50 up. Every Instrument guaranteed for six years. "Fifteen days' trial, expenses both ways, if not satisfactory. Sold on Instalments. To Hans O'Malley. New Orleans. Aoril 4.?The vigi lauce committee last evening held-a meeting and considered what disposition should be made of O'Maliey, who appeared in the criminal court yesterday morning to answer the indictments found against him, and was released on 83,000 bail. There was a strong sentiment in favor of hanging him Ironi the Clay statue at once, but it was finally agreed that he should be permitted to stand trial, and if not conyicted, to be S'. mmarily dealt with. As the indictments so far are framed on such llimsv evidence, an acquittal is pretty sure, if aa impartial jury is found. Itandall Tope, the retired druggist of Madison, Fla., says P. 1\ 1'. is the best alterative in the market, :md lie has handled and sold all the sarsaparillas and blood medicines that were advertised. Erysipelas?I, L. Irvin, of Thomasville," Ga., says he was afflicted with Erysipelas for ten years and was only; cured when P. JL\ P. was used. There's the l)ini<er Bell ! J What a clattering ami a chattering as ! the children auswer the dinner bell and j ; rush into the dining room. 0!i! :he ; ! gratification n. siood appetite affords as ' our roou day's meal is set before us. j But this vacant chair, what does it | | mean ? "Oh. that is Uncle Churlev's I scat. Guess he don't 1'eci like eatim;. he's got dyspepsia, you know." Dyspepsia ! horrors ! Deliver us from civs-i | pepsia. What's the use oi beinir plagued ! ! with such an ailment anyway? What's j the use having a stomach so irritated; | and'sore thai even one bit of food gives ! | it distress? Why not heal the soreness and j j allay the irritation and strengthen its ; muscular processes, by usini^ Botanic | j Blood Balm. Will it cure? itccrtanly < : will. Many, many a former dyspeptic j owes his enjoymeut of life to 13. 13. J>. j Give it a trial. S. J. Chandler, Richmond. Ya.. writes: "Xo one can afford to be without E. 13.13. who wishes an appetite. I couid scarcely eat a single biscuit for i breakfast, but since taking 13. 13.13. I clean the whole table, so to speak.7' Another Cure for liheuraatism. Lake City. Fla. P. P. P. Mn'fg Co., Savannah, On. Gentlemen?I had Rheumatism for over six years, and Inst May was taken down and confined to my bed. My legs and feet were barily swollen and the color of a red apple, and I was in a fearful condition. I heard of P. P. P. (Prickly Ash Poke Koot and Potassium), and after seeing what the ingredients were?as the formula is on the hnttlo?T rrtnr'lnriorl to trv if and flftpr taking tnree small bottles was able to go down town and attend to ray business, and I must say that I feel like another man. Am" now taking the large size, and to-day I believe thai I will soon be as likely as any man of sixty-one years of age can expect to be. A. C. Lang. Tetter, Saltrheum and Cancer are all cured by P. P. P. The effects on these diseases are perceptible after the first bottle of P. P. P. was used. NOTICE! Before assuring your life, or investing your money, examine the TwentyYear Tontine Tolicies of THE EQUITABLE LIFE ASSUEANCE SOCIETY OF THE United States, Policies maturing in 1891 realize cash returns to the owners, of amounts varying from 120 to 176 per r>fnt nf flip mnnpv naid in. vv""l X- ? besides the advantages of the Assurance during the whole period of twenty years. The following is one of the manv actual cases maturing this year: Endowment Policy Xo. 04.925. Issued in 1871, at age 27."Amount,?5.000. Premium, ?2G9.90. Total Premiums Pah", ?4,793. ResultS at end of Tontine Period in 1S91: CASH SURRENDER VALUE, ?S,449.45, (Equal to ?176-10 for each ?100 paid in premiums, which is equivalent to a return of all premiums paid, with interest at 1% per cent, per annum.) Or, in lieu o. cash, A PAID-UP LIFE POLICY FOR ?19,470. (Equal to ?403.SO for each ?100.paid in premiums.) OB, A LIFE ANNUITY of ?633.53 One fact is worth a thousand theories There is no Assurance extant in any company which compares with this. The if rtAmrvor?*r in flio 1 UiUiC 10 UlCOUUii^i-OU AiA C4.i\^ world and transacts the largest business. For fnither information address or apply to the nearest agent of the Society, or write i direct to W. J. ROBDEY, GENERAL AUK.H, April8-3H1 ROCK HILL, S. C. THE LARGEST STOCK, MOST SKILLED WORKMEN, LOWEST TRICES. South Carolina larl Ms, F. H. HYATT, PKftPRIKTOK. Is the best place in South Carolina or Southern States to secure satisfaction in American and Italian Marble Woik. All kiuus of Cemetery Work a speciality. TABLETS, HEADSTONES, MONUMENTS, &c. Send for prices and full information. F. H. HYATT, April 8 ly COLUMBIA, S. C. . : LIPPEAX BEOS., Wholesale Druggist*, Sole Proprietor*, Wppman's Ttlcefc. SaTanmdi. Gh. : ?- ---??.?^? - > < ' ~ ~~ - - " ' J? *.-=ahs w?0i* 1 Paaptt Pays tlie Freight. I pa Gtfr.vf OfcKfcj: trat m.v\ not A. gain* f; j?e KKPF.ATr u, ?0 do >"ct delay. ? ^ "Stkikk V?*kij.kthe inon is Hot." % 8 11- r._ / . } , u ? ^ > K \\ rjltt i?" ' ' 'ul'.r ij'.'o , cum; .- i\ v. gpn^'-r you s:r.v triis advertisement in. ? g Remen^K.'! that I sell everything thatg ?g<?es to furnishing a iiorue?manutactnr-a 53 in# .some things and buying others in thej ^largest po>?it>ie ints, which enables me tol f'wipe nut ali competition. g Si!ERE ARE A FEW OF >1Y .START-} % LING- BARGAIN'S | ? A N'o. 7 Fiat, top Choking Stove, full* loxiT inch oven, ritted with21 pieces} j.\'f ware, delivered at your own depot,* j'all freight charges paid by me, for> j.]ouIy Twelve Dollars. fc ? Again, i will sell you a 5 hole Cooking "Range 13x13 inch oven, 3 8x2* inch top, fit-fe ?ted with 21 pieces of ware, for THIR-$ HTEEN DOLLARS, and pay the freight to5 syour depot. " g ?>DO NOT PAY TWO PRICES FOBS 8 YOUR GOODS. | I will send you a nice plush Parlor suit, 3 3walnut frame, either in combination or| abanded, the most stylish colors for 33.50,p 3 to your .railroad station, freight paid. ? J 1 will also sell you a nice Bedromos uit-lj ^consisting of Bureau with glass, 1 high| head Bedstead, i Washstand, l Centres ? table, 4 cane seat chairs, l cane seat andj < back rocker alitor l?j.50, and pay freights 2 to your depot. | i Or 1 will send you an elegant Bedroom ; |suit with large glass, full marble top, forS 1 ?30, and pay freight. ? ?N ice window shade on sDrins roller ? 40; j| 2 Elegant large walnut 8 day ciocx, 4.00a sWalnut lounge. 7.00J vLace curtains per window, l.OOj . r a 1 cannot describe everythiuz in a small] ^advertisement, but have an immense store: ^containing 22.600 feet of floor room, with! ? ware houses and factory buildings in etherj imparts of Augusta, making in all the lar-l gest business of this kind under one man-! agement in the Southern States. These! storesand warehouses are crowded with) the choicest productions of the best factories. My catalogue containing illustrations of goods will be mailed if you will kindly say where you saw this advertisement. 1 pay freight. Address, L. F. PADGETT, ^Proprietor l'adgett's Furniture, Stove a and Carpet Store, |L110-1112 Broad Street, AUGUSTA, GA. \ k Ipnog ieleine I 4 cnp 7!S?0 I - v.i i S 1 i.i I ftSD WOMAN. j*i ?. ?. P. tvjJI purify a'ld vitaliza your s $j fcl.y*^ cr- aT^ a sr**! appetite and give ydor i . v. 110!; <yx>:ni tone an i strength, ii A i.roinincnt railroad susx-rintendent at 5 %* Savannah, suffering with Valaria, Dyspep- [ '* sin, cm) Rheumatism sa; - " ' ~2zing V] P. P. I1, be never felt so well in his life, and | fwLs as if he could live forever, if he could >"? "vr P. I* P." K rs ? ? ? . p If you are tired out g i o1js>; couiiuejueat, take i P. p. 1 If -on rre Jcelin? b'-'cly'in the spring E " j a::d out of sorts, take | j P. P. P. : . | \ Tf ycnrdi^tive organs need toning up, g I 3 P P 3 s i a " a II If vou s:sfT>*r -v!th headache, indigestion, ra debility and weakness, take a 4 9 V V I <jj i m a 2 m 3 If you s::l?i*r with rervous prostration, p! *-3 nerves unsrruug a:;d a general let down SS ?s of the system, take & I F" p" P" I gj For B!<v>d Poison. Rheumatism, Scrof- g ? ula. OM Sores, Malaria, Chronic Female g 3j Complaints, take | _ _ I P P P -| S . 4 ? r > | Prickly Ash, ?ck8 Root I and Potassium. .2 The best b'ocxi purifier in the world. S LIPP2IAN PROS.. TCholesale Druggists, ? 71' j-oie rropnoeors, ?) Lippjus's Sioce, Savannah, Ga. jig LOW PRICES will be made on TALBOTT & SONS' -J ENGINES and BOILERS, Special estimates on Machinery generally at bottom figures. TCTfTO Ol1f ?0"l V WJLv JiiLiiO, tu PLANERS and MATCHERS, ?200 to $1,500. SAW MILLS with Rope Feed, Variable Friction or Belt Feed, ?200 to ?600. We particularly call attention to these Saw Mills. They have patent double acting se: works and are the best mills on the market. Cotton Gins and Presses at low figures. V. O. BADHAM, GENERAL AGENT, Columbia, S. C. Buy the Talbott Engine, it is the best. Feb 10-ly. COMPLETE GI11ERIES. TTPOX THE MOST APPROVED LJ plans, with Suction Fan or Spiked Belt Seed Cotton Elevator furnished; g. competitive prices. + COTTON* GiAS and PRESSES of best makers. Thomas Hay Bakes, Deering Mower, Corbin Harrows and Planet, Jr, Cultivators. A. large stock of Portable and Stationary Ginning and ^aw Mill Engines on hand. * State Agents for C. & G. COOPER & CO'S Corlis Engines Lane Saw Mills and Liddell Company's complete line. W. H. GIBBES, Jr.. & CO.. Is'ear Union Depot, Columbia, S. C. JRKAS> THESE I'KilKKS. Fam Wagons, compiew with body etc. ~v 2 3-4 in Thimble Skin .'....".$39.50 3 in Thimble skin 41.?0 ^ Vyi in Thimble Skin 42.00 One Horse Wagons, $24.30, ?26.56 and 528.50, Warranted second to none. Write for Circulars. Euggies, Carriages, Eoad Carts, &c., at $ 10 per cent less than regular prices. Send for Catalogue. This offer is for only 30 days in order to reduce stock?so order at once. SS | si - "'*ri v. ;> i i '- ; . . f I fi 4 WWffl diQgf* TZnxY Vrpn nfAr ^s IB T,v^ ? ' ~flS