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^ . .>.- . - - - -.."i - , ' ' ' r-:^vI x ? ;~j?>, VOL. XLVI. WINNSBOKO, S. G, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 24, 1891. NO. 45. I - -l^?a TADIAlfK OX THE CREEDS. HE GIVES HIS OPINION IN ANSWER TO Tv'ANY QUESTIONS. ^atun Hinv.ielt I* th<- Chitl ln?ti;:aJor of tlie Controv?-i!?> Now iu Many Churches ami X:tri>fi?t Work for Christ Is the Ktinedy. Brooklyn, jut.e- 14.?Dr. Talmage dealt in Lis stinion this morning with | the very t'.meiy topic?the Battle of, | Creeds. After so long and exhaustive t a discussion in clerical circles and iu the secular press there seemed nothing more i to be said on the subject. Dr. Taimage, however, has his own way ot looking at all subjects, and eve:, people who thought' they knew all that could be said on both j sides received light from the Iresh and j original contribution which he made to the controversy. IIis text was taken from Proverbs xxvi, 17. "He that passeth by and meddleth with strife be- j longing not to him is like one that taketh j a dig by the cars.'' Solomon here deplores the habit of rushing in between contestants ot taking part in the antagonisms of others, of joining in lights which they ought to shun. They do no good to others and get damage for themslves. He compares it to the experiment of taking a dog by the ears. Nothing so irritates the canines as to be clutched by the lugs. Take I them by the back of the neck and lilt them and it does not seem to hurt or oll'end. but you take the dog by the ear, and lie will take you with his teeth. In M 'i - tA )r>tnl 1 irrp*t ail IHR IHSIWJ VI i\vuuCIO nv . | or spirited dog will stand that. "Xow," says Solomon, "you go into quarrels or controveisics that are not yours and you : * will mi lacerated and torn and bitten, j kIie that passeth by and meddleth with strife he-louring not to him is like one ^ that taketh a dog by the eats.'" THIS IS THE AGE OF CONTROVERSY. This is a time of resounding ecclesias tical quarrel. Never within your memory or mine has the air been so lull of missiles. The Presbyteriau church has ou hand a controvarsy so great that it finds it prudent to postpone its settlement for at least one more year, hoping that something will turn up. Somebody might die or it new general assembly may have gra^'C to handle the exciting questions. The Episcopal church lias cast out some recalcitrants, and its tfivii/l t a ])< - UigCSU \ C vji ai ^ w w.? most in tr> lug to assimilate others. "Shall women preach';" "Ur be sent as delegates to conferences?" are questions that have put many of our Methodist brethren ou the "anxious seat." And the waters in some ol the great baptistries are troubled waters. Because of the controversies throughout Christendom the air is now like an August afterno n agout 5 o'clock, when it has been steaming hot all day. and clouds are gathering, and there are lions of thunder with grumbling voices and Hashing eyes coming forth from their cloudy lairs, anci people are waiting for the full burst of the tempest. I am not much of a weather prophet, but the clouds look to me mostly like wind clouds. It may be a bis.blow, but I hope it will soon be over. ^ In regard to the Battle of the Creeds, I am every day asked what I think about it. I want to make it so plain this mornincr what. T think that no one will ever ask again. Let those who are jurymen in the ^ case?I mean those who in the different m ecclesiastical courts have, the questions put directly before them?weigh and de* cide. Let the rest of us keep out. The most damaging thing oh earth is religious controversy. INo one ever comes out of it as good a man as he goes in. Some of the ministers in all denominations who betore the present acerbity were good and kind and useful, now seems almost swearing mad. These brethren I notice always open their violent meetings with prayer before devouring each other, thus saying grace before meat. ^ 1 that. J.11C) iicl > C O, U.1KJI C*.i ujuiv^uvwiw* makes us think they have taken a dog by the ears. They never readthc imprecatory Psalms of David with such zest as since the Brings and Xewtcn and MacQueary and Brid^man and Brooks questions uot . into full swing. May the rams of the sheepioid soon have their horns sawed oil! Belore the controversies are settled a good many ministers will, through what they call liberalism, be landed into practical inlidelitv, and others through what they call conservatism will shrink ud into biiiocs tight and hard as the mummies of Fjrypt wlii ;h got through their controversies three thousand years ago. SATAN STIRliKl) IT Ul'. This trouble throughout Cln\steudom .vas directly inspired by Satan. lie saw that too much trood was being done. Recruits were being gathered by hundreds of thousands to t he Gospel staud ? ard. The victories oi' God and the truth were too near together. Too many churches were being dedicated. Too many ministers were be'.ng ordained. To;, many philanthropies were being fostered. Too many souls were being saved. It had been a. dull time in the ne*he: world, and the arrivals were too few. t>o Sat:;n one day rose upon his throne and said. " Ye powers oi darkness, hear!" And all up and down the caverns the cry was, Hear! Hear!" ' s?id? "There is that American i Board of Commissioners i'or Foreign I Missions. It m^st cither be demolished or crippled, or the first thing you know j . they will have nil natiotis brought to j God. Apollyon the Youngei! You go up to Ar.dover aud get the professors to discussing whether the heatheu can be saved without the Gospel. Divert them from the work of missions aud net them in anary convention in a room tic Young's hotel Boston, and bv the time they adifium the cause of foreign missions will be gloriously and magnificently iuiured. Diabolus the Younger! You go up and iiet Uniou Theological Seminary ot NewYork and the general assembly of the Presbyterian church at Detroit at swords' points and diverted fiom the work of making earnest ministers of religion, and turn that old Presbyterian church, which has been keeping us cut of customers for huudreds of 3 ears, into a splendid pan-; demonium on a small scale. Abaddon j *u~ rr*u?'" iri\ i-o on/1 ncsnnlt that I LI1V JLUUU. i v/vi jjv v. old Episcopal church, which has been storming the heavens for centuries with the sublimes! prayers that were ever uttered?church (if lJishrp I.eighton. Bishop White and liishop MJlvaine, aud uet that denomination discussing men instead of discussiug ihe eternities. Abaddon I :e Fourth! You go up to that old Methodist church, which has, through j her revivals, sent millions to heaven j l which we would otherwise have added to I ft our population: the church of Wesley and Matthew Simpson, agaiust which P we have aa rspecial grudge, and get L them so absorbed in discussing whether! 1 women shall tnke part in her conference | Ithat they shall not have so much time to discuss how many sons and daughters she will take to ^.ory." What amazes me most is that all peo-! pie do not see that the entire movement | at this time all over Christendom is Satanic. Many of the infernal attacks are sly and hidden and strategic and so ingenious that they are not easily discovered. But here is a bold and uncovered attempt of the powors of darkness to split up the churches, to i.ret ministers to j take eacli other t>y ttie tnroas, to raase ; | religion a laughing stock of earth and j hell, to leave the Bible with no more j respect or authenticity than an old almajnac of 1822. which told what would be I the change of weather six months ahead j and in what quarter of the month it is | best to plant turnips. In a word, the I eil'ort is to stop the evangelization of the | world. It seems to me very much like this: There has been a railroad accident and many are v> ouuded and dying. There are several drug stores near the | scene of casualty. All the doctors and ; druggists are needed and needed right away. Bandages, stimulants, anjesj thetics, medicines of all sorts. What are the doctors and druggists doing? Dis| cussing the contents of some old bottles { ,on the top shelt, bottles 01 meuicine which some doctors aDd druggists mixed two or three hundred years ago. "Come doctors!" *'Come druggists!" cry the people. liand help these wounded and dying that are being brought from beneath the timbers of the crushed rail train. I a little while it will be too late. Come for God's sake! Come right away!" %iXo," says the doctor, "not until we have settled whether the medicine on that top shelf was rightly mixed. I say there were too many drops of laudanum in it, and this other man says there were tor) many drops of cam>1A it.Q miief nrof tiiia nnpetinn <jpf> ^ fl L1\X >? UO w w uiuw W ?v?.* MW? tied before we can attend to the railroad accident. DOCTORS DISPUTE WHILE PATIENTS DIE. And one doctor takes another doctor by the collar and pushes him back against the counter, and one of the druggists says, "If you will not admit that I am right about that one bottle I will smash every bottle in your apothecary store," and he proceeds to smash. Meanwhile, on the lower shelf, plainly * ' AftAnKAA/tUnt?Q ?1 11 fKa HJUriveu UUU wiuiiu taoy icavuui& an medicines needed tor the helping of the sufferers by the accident, and in that drawer, easily opened, arc bandages and splints for the lack of which tifty people are dying outside the drug store. Before I apply this thought every one sees its application. Here is this old world, and it is off track. Sin and sorrow have collided with it. The groan ot agony is fourteen hundred million voiced. God lias opened for relief and cure a great sanitarium, a great house of mercy, and all its shelves are filled with balsam?. V-ftlr\ AHiAtiO WILLI ULS% ?itu ^ivxivuo help, tremendous help, help so easily administered that you need not set upon any step ladder to reach it. You can reach it on your knees and then hand it to all the suffering, and the sinning, and the dying. Comfort for all the troubled! Pardon for all the guilty! Peace for all the dying! But while the world is needing the relief and perishing for lack of It, what of the church? Why, it is full of fighting doctors. On the top shelf are some old bottles, which several hundred years ago Calvin or Arminius, or the members of the synod of Dort, or the formers of the Xicene creed filled with ncuy mixtures, auu uuw ?c a itvisioa of these old bottles and find out whether we must take a teaspoonlul or tablespoonful, aDd whether before or after meals, let the nations sutler and groan and die. Save the bottles by all means, if you cannot save anything else. Now, what parts shall you and I take in this controversy which fills all Christendom with clangor? My advice is, take no part. In time of riot all mayors of cities advise good citizeas to stay at home or in their'places of business, and in this time of religious riot I advise you to go about your regular work for ~ ? -r xr. i ItOci. jLeave tue uuiues uu tuc ui^uci shelves for others to fight about, and take the two bottles on tiie shelf within easy reach, the two bottles which are ail this dying world needs: the one filled with a potion which is tor the cleansing of all sin. the other filled with a potion which is for the soothing of all suffering. Two gospel bottles! Christ mixed them out of his own tears and blood. In them is no hu iiau admixture. Spend no time on the mysteries! You, a man only five or six feet high, ought not try to wade an ocean a thousand feet deep. My own experience has been vivid. I uevoieu llie lllU3t Ui ui> umu 1U1 icaio iu trying to understand God's eternal decrees, and I was determined to find out why the Lord let sin corne into the world, and I set out to explore the doctrine of the Triuity, and with a yardstick to measure the throne of the Infinite. As with all ray predecessors, the attempt was a dead failure. For the last thirty years I have not spent two minutes in studying the controverted points of theology, and if 1 live thirty years longer I will not spend the thousandth part of a second in such exploration. I know two things, and these I will devote all the years of ray life in proclaiming?God will through Jesus Christ p trdon sin. and he will comfort trouble. KKEP OUT OK THE SijUABBLK. Creeds have their uses, but just now the church is creeded to death. The young men entering the ministry aregoini; to he launched in the thickest fog i that ever settled on the coasts. As I i am told that in all our services students of Princeton and Union and Drew and Other theological s iminaries are present. and as these words will come to tiious- : atds of young men who are soon to en- 1 t?v the ministry, let me say to such and 1 through them to their associates, keep out oi'ihe bewildering, belittling, destroy- 1 ing and ar>gry controversies abroad. The questions cur doctors of divinity are tryiuy; to settle will not be settled until the day after the day of judgment. It is such a poor economy of time to spend years aud years ir> trying to fathon the unfathomable, when in five minutes in heaven we will knor all we want to Woit- till \va .rpt. nnr throne. KUU'" .."W WW. Wait imtii the light of eternity flashes j upon our newly ascended spirits. It is use-ess for ants on diil'erem sides of a mole hill to try to discuss the comparative heights ot Mount Blanc and Mouut Washington. Let me say to all young j men about to enter the ministry that { soou the greatest novelty in the world will be the unadulterated religion of Je?us Chrst. Preach that and you will have a crowd. The world is sick to regurgitation with the modern quacks in religion. The vorld has been swinging oil'from the old Gospel, but it will swing back, and by the time you young men go inio the pulpits the cry will be eoming up from ail the millions of mankiud, "Give us the bread of life; no sweetened hread. uo bread with sickly raisins stuck here and there into it, but old fashioned bread as God our mother mixed it and baked it!" You see, God knew as mueh when be made the Bible as he knows nov. He has not learned a single thing in six thousand years. lie knew at the start that the human race would go wrens and what would be the best means of its restoration and redemption. And the law which was thundered on Mount Sinai, from whose ton 1 had the two tables of stone in yonder wall transported, is the perfect law. And the Gospel which Christ aunounced while dying on that mount from which I brought that stone in yonder wall, and which Paul preached on that hill from which I brought yonder granite, is the Gospel that is going to save the world. Youmr man, put on that Gospel armor! Xo other sword will triumph like that, Xo other shield will protect like that. Xo other helmet will glance off the battle axes like that. Our theological seminaries are doing glorious work, but if ever such theological seminaries shall cease to prepare young men for this plain Gospel advocacy and shali become mere philosophical schools for guessing about God and guessing about the Bible and guessing about the soul, they will cease their usefulness, and young men, as in olden fimo fliAv wnnlf] sfnr?v for the Gospel ministry, will put themselves under the care oi some intelligent and warm hearted pastor and kneel with him in family prayer at the parsonage, and go with him into the room of the sick and the dying, and see what victories the grace of God can gain when the couch of the dying saint is the marathon. VITAL 11ELIGION IS THE KEMEI>Y. That is the way tne mighty ministers of the Gospel were made in olden times. Oh, for a great wave of revival to roll over our theological seminaries and our pulpits and our churches and our ecclesiastical courts, and over all Christendom! That would be the end of controversy. While such a deluge would lloat the ark of God higher an 1 higher, it would put all the bears and tigers and reptiles of raging ecclesiasticism fifteen cubits under. Xow, what is the simple fact that you in the pew and Sabbath school class and reformatory association and we in the pulpits have to deal with? It is this: That God has somewhere, and it matters not where, but somewhere, provided a great heaven, great for quietness for those who want quiet; great for vast assemblage for those who like multifmlps oreat for architecture for those who like architecture; great for beautiful landscape for those who like beautiful landscape; great for music fo>: those who like music; great for processions for those who like armies on white horses, and great for anything that one especially desires in such a rapturous dominion; and through the doinss of one who was born about five miles south ot Jerusalem and died about ten minutes' walk from its eastern gate all may enter that great heaven for the earnest and heartfelt asking. Is that ail? That is all. What, then, is your work and mine? /"\ ?" J ? i S\ f A \JUZ WUIK IS W jJUiOUiiUC w muv, that way and start thitherward and finally go in. But has not religion somethins to do with this world as well as the next? Oh yes; but do you not see that if the people start for heaven on their way there they will do all the good they can? They will at the very start o.' the journey get so much of the spirit of Christ, which is a spirit of kindness and self sacrifice and generosity and burden bearing and helpfulness, that every step they take will resound with good deeds. Oh, get your religion oil' of stilts! Get it down out of the high towers! Get it on a level with the wants and woes of our poor human race! Get it out of the dusty theological books that few people read, and put it in their hearts and lives. uood thing is H to proress religion wnen you join the church, but every day, somehow, we ought to profess religion. A peculiar patchwork quilt was, during the civil war, made by a lady and sent to the hospitals at the front. She bad a boy in the army, and was naturally interested in the welfare of soldiers. But what a patchwork quilt she sent! On every block of the quilt was a passage of Scripture or a verse of a hymn. The months and years of the war went by. On that quilt many a wounded man had lain and suffered and died. But one morning the hospital nurse saw a patient under that blanket kissing the iigure of a leaf in the quilt, and the nurse supposed he was only wandering in his mind. But no; he was the son of the mother who had made the quilt and he rofnorni'/eH thnl- of a leaf as nart of a gown his mother used to wear, and it reminded him of home. "Do you know where this quilt came from?" he asked. The nurse answered, "I can find out, for there was a card pinned last to it, and I will find that." Sure enough, it confirmed what he thought. Then the nurse pointed to a passage of Scripture in the block of the quilt, the passage which says, "When he was yet a great way oft' his father saw him and ran and fell on his neck and kissed him." "Yes," said the dying soldier, "I was a sreat way oil', but God has met me and had compassion on me." "Shall I write to your mother and tell her that the lost one is f:>und and the dead is alive?" He. answered, '*1 wish you would, if it would not be too much trouble." I)o you suppose that woman who made that quilt and filled it with Scripture passages h:id any trouble about who Melchizedek was, or how the doctrine of God's sovereignty can be harmonized with man's lree agency, or who wrote the Pentateuch or the inconsistencies of the Nicene creed? Xo; uo; so to work for God and sullerin^ humanity and all your doubts aud fears and mysteries and unbeliefs put together will not be heavy enough to stir the chemist's scales, wnich is accustomed lo weighing one-fiftieth part of a grain ot chamomile ilowers. Why stop a moment to understand the mysteries when there are so many certitudes? Whyspend our time exploring the dark garrets and coal holes of a great palace which has above ground one hundred rooms llooded with sunshine'r It takes an my urae 10 aosoro wuai iius uucu revealed, so that I have no time to upturn and root out and drag forth what has not been revealed. The most of the eil'crt to solve mysteries and explore the inexplicable and harmonize tilings is an attempt to help the Lord out ot theological dilliculties. Good enough intention. my brother, no doubt: but the Lord is not anxious to have you help him. He will keep his throne without your assistance. Don't be afraid that the Bible will fall apart from incc usistencies. It J hung together many centuries before you i were born, and your funeral sermon will be preached from a text taken from its undisturbed authenticity. LAY HOLD OX GOD'S \VOKI>. Do you know that I think that if all ninisters m all denominations would stop j this nonsense of ecclesiastical strife and i take hod the world of God, the only question with each of us being how many souls we can bring to Christ and in how short a time, the Lord would soon appear for the salvation of all nations? When the young queen of England visited Scotland many years ago great preparations were made for her reception. The vessel in which she sailed was far out at sea, but every hill in Scotland was illumined with bonfires and torches. The night was set on lire with artificial illumination. The queen, standing on ship's deck, knew from that that Scotland was k.ii 1. luuui iiearucdb ncx^uuiu, auu tuc muuder of the great guns at Glasgow and Edinburgh castle woke up all the echoes. Boom! they sounded out over the sea. Boom! the}* sounded up among the hills. Do you know that I thiuk that our king would land if we were onty ready to rece ive him? Why not call to him from all our churches; from all our hospitals, from all our homes? Why ncu all at once light all the torches of Gospel invitation? Why not ring all the bells of welcome? Why not light up the long night of the world's sin and suffering with bonfires o? victory? Why not unlimber all the Gospel batteries and let them boom across the earth, and boom into the partin. heavens. The King is ready to land if we arc ready to receive him. Why cannot we who are now living see his descent? Must it all be postponed to later ages? Has not oar poor world groaned long enough in mortal agonies? Have there not been martyrs enough, and have not the lakes of tears and the rivers of blood been ^deep enough? Why cannot the final glory roll in now? Why can not this dying century feel the incoming tides ot the oceans of heavenly mercy? Must our eyes close in death and our ears take on the deafness of the tomb, and these hearts beat their last throb before the day come id? 0 Christ! Why tarriest thou? Wilt thou not, before we go the way of all the earth, let us see the scarred feet under some noonday cloud coming this way? Before we die let us behold thy hands that were spiked, spread out in benediction for a lost race. And why not let us, with out mortal ears, hear that voice which spoke peace as thou didst go up speak pardon and emancipation and love and holiness and joy to all nations as thou comesidowD? But the skies do not part. I hear no rumbling of chariot wheels.coming down over the sapphire. There is no swoop of wings. I see no llash of angelic appearances. All is stil1. I hear nothing but the tramp of my own heart as I pause between these utterances. Tl;e king 'Iocs not land because the world is iiuu ruiiiiy, aim uiu tuuitu is uvi> icauj. To clear the way for the Lord's coming let lis devote all our energies of bodv, mind and soul. A Ilussian general riding over the battle lield, his horse treading amid the dying dead, a wounded soldier asked him for water, but the oflicer did not understand his language and knew not what the poor fellow wanted. Then the soldier cried out "Christos," and that word meant sympathy and help, and the Russian officer dismounted and put to the lips of the sullerer a cooling draught. Be that the charmed word with which we go forth to /-vl n. Tm mrtnv lon/YJlQrrfiO UU UUl VYUUJLO UUtJ J.U. LX10.U.J it has only a little difference of termination. Christos! Its stands for sympathy. It stands for help. It stands for pardon. It stands for hope. It stands for heaven. Christos! In that name we were baptized. In that name we took our first sacrament. That will be the battle shout that will win the. whole world for God! Christos! Tut it on our banners when we march! Put it on our lips when we die! Put it in the funeral psalm at obsequies! Put it on the plain slab over our grave? Christos! Blessed be his glorious name forever! Amen! A Runaway Train. A T/rnnvA. Pa.. .Tune 12.?A serious accident occurred at 1 o'clock this morning on the Pennsylvania and Northwestern Ilailroad, at a point near Bellwood, which resulted in the death of three men. A freight train ot' thirty cars, heavily laden with coal, left Llovdsville, followed by a pusher. After reaching the summit the train commenced to descend the mountain side at a high rate cf speed. The engineers and crew applied the brakes, but they failed to work on account of the slip pery condition 01 tue iruc* uauscu uy the rain. The runaway train keep on in its made flight until a speed ofsentylive miles per hour was reached. The trainmen struggled with the brakes, trying to save themselves and the train. At Iloat's trestle, which is a curve, the engine left the track, followed by twenty-nine cars, which were pild up and broken into all shapes. A hunt for the missing employees was instituted, when Engineer John Simonton was found dead between the sand box and bell. Fireman Millard Frazier and Conductor VanScone were taken out from under the tender, horribly disfigured, ikakemen Dunn and l'atrick jumped from the train when at its highest sbeed. The former, going over a steep embankment, was forced through a stout fence. Ilis escape from instant death was miraculous. lie only received a slight wound. Patrick was not so fortunate, and recei *-e 1 a number of injuries, but none of them of a serious nature. Struck by Lichtninz. St Louis, June 1G.?Durmg a severe storm which came up between 1 and 2 o'clock this afternoon some twenty-five picnickers were huddled together in an AiitUiMioa in V/irncf- T^rL- ro-ir flip nfilif'P UUl??U^ ?, "w - X station, for protection from the rain. They had scarccly got inside the building when it was struck by lighting. Nearly all the occupants of the outhouse were more or less injured, one being killed and three very seriously hurt. Following is a list of casualties: Miss Sadie McArthur, age 12 years, dead; Mrs. Lizzie Golden, badly injured; Miss Kate Bender, burned and otherwise scvi Ant! linvf. \r-cc T.nnro seriously injured. All the injured were taken home and medical as-sistance summoned. None or them are fatally Injured. Suicide of a School Girl. Augusta, Ga., June 14.?Miss Anna Bugg, the eighteen-year old daughter of Mr. Sam Bugg, a respectable farmer of this county, who lives two miles from Ilephzibah, committed suicide this morning on the Augusta, Gibson and Sandtrsville liaiiroad train, while going home from Augusta, by taking an overdose of arsenic. Miss lings: would l>o,-r> rrr-,rt no ? ?><> +>11.2 frrtlYl thP IJCJ ? ^lUUUU VU V1_IW ?? V.VU. Ai. v V... Ilephzibah High School with honors, but came to Augusta yesterday to meet and inarry her cousin, a young man of 25, named Clarence Iihodes. The young man 1 ailed to meet her. and seeing no escape from disgrace, the young lady committed suicide as above stated, lihocles lives at Hephzibah. There is loud talk to-night against him, but he has not been seen since this morning.? News and Courier. A.11 Outrage. Aiken, S. C., June 12.?Although a good audience greeted revivalists Leitch and Marshall at their first meeting in Graniteville last Monday night, some malicious parties cut a number ot' the ropes holding their tent. It'foui;d out the full extent of the law will Le given them. ? J ' ^ I THE LOWEST PRICE COTTON HAS REACHED IN THIRTYSIX YEARS. Deplorable Condition of the Cott?n Market?The lies alt of Overproduction?A Talk With >Ir. S. M. Ioman About Future Prospects. Atlanta, Ga.. June 18.?Recently spot cotton in New York reached 8% cents, the lowest price since 1855. The price of August futures was 8.26, the lowest figure in the history future contracts. The trouble is that the crop,has gone 1,250,000 bales above the conservative estimates at the beginning of the season, and we begin the new cotton year with an enormous surplus. Intelligent estimates of the crop last September were 7,500,000; now experts think a croD of 9,000.000 bales was actually gathered. In this state of affairs the price of cotton is lower than it has been in thirty-six years. The only years; j in that long period when spot cotton has approached the present quotations were 1855, when it was 8 cents, 1858 when it was 8;^, 1878 when it was 8 113-16 and 1886 when it was again 813-16. The acreage for this year, which was supposed to have been much reduced, turns out to be only 2}^ per cent less than that of last year. The large acreage in Texas has counteracted the decrease in the acreage elsewhere, and it is estimated that we have now planted 20,779,205 acres against 20,852,320 in 1890. The government's report of the condition of the crop is 85.7 against S8.S last year at this time. If these conditions continue a crup of not less than ~ /v\n mou ]io ovnor>tpr? t'nr thiq I uaiw Kf\s v?.w year, in addition to the large surplus carried over. The Atlanta Constitution prints interview on the situation with Mr. S. M. lnman, of the firm of S. M. Inman & Co., whose long experience, immense business and close connection with the great markets undoubtedly enable him to speak with more weight on this sub-* wnn i T-> f^Oi Qmi M"? jcub tuldu any jjjo?li jlu i/uv> >jvuuu. When Mr. Inman was asked what he thought of the situation and the outlook, he gave his views a3 follows: "The situation is something almost unprecedented in the history of the cotton trade. The American crop, which was believed by many conservative people in the beginning of the year to be not over 7,250,000 to 7,500,000 bales promises to turn out nearly 8,750,000; that is, about 8,750,000 will be sold off the plantations and come into sight, while there will probably be 100,000 to 200,000 bales which will never leave the plantations this season on account of the low prices prevailing in the mar kets. Hence it looks now as it tne viel i of this crop, gathered between September 1, 1890, and August 31.1891, if it could all be counted, would be somewhere between 8,800,000 and 9,000,000 bales. "The crop of India will turn out 300,000 to 400,000 bales short this year? in pounds about equal to 300,000 bales of American cotton. ".Now take the increase of the American crop?lay 8,800,000 bales, against 7,300,000 last year, giving an increase of 1,500,000 bales?and deduct the 300,000 shortage in the crop of India, and you have an increase in the world's supply ' ' * ' i i r?/\n /v\A | A,, lor r.^-.syear or prooaoiy uaico of cotton. Whiie there will be a large increase in consumption this year, it will be nothing like sufficient to absorb this enormous increase, and it will be necessary to carry a great deal of old cotton into the new year. This would not be so bad if the producers had only exercised ordinary business prudence in planting another crop: but nearly all evidence points to the fact that the acreage in cotton this year is approximately the same as last year, and while there has been some trouble with the crop in the Carolinas, Georgia and Tennessee, the crop in the balance of the cotton-raising States is doing very well and unless some disaster occurs we will have another reasonably large crop. "It is the fear of another large crop which is at present depressing prices, j more than the burden of the cotton that; j has been made during the past year, Decause, if the world were assured that the next crop would not be over 7,500,000,1 think there would be a considera- j ble rally from the present prices, "As to the future of the martket, it appears to me about this way: That if we make another crop, in any wise approximating the size of the one just grown, we may look for a year of ;the lowest prices which have ever prevailed. You see we are on untrodden ground. The future is one of uncertainty. As I said before, with another large" crop we may look for very low prices, while on the other hand, with anything: like a general disaster to the | growing" crop, prices may be re-estab- j lished and producers may secure re-! munerative figures for their cotton next I winter. " I "While it would seem to be a calami- j ty to have another crop made approxi-1 mating the size of the one we have just j made, it may result in a blessing in the! end, in turning the attention of the Farmers' Alliance and other organizations to the matter of controlling the amount of cotton produced from year to year. As I have said before, this is the only hope of the South's growing rich in eotton producing. The consumption of the world is steadily increasing and the South has a monopoly of the increase in production, and if it could only be used wisely instead of increasing the production at double the rate of the increase of consumption, all would go well. The matter is in the hands of the planters themselves and they are the only parties who can control it." Coi. Isaac Lipscomb Dead. Columbia, S. C., June JG.?A private telegram received hen tonight aa nounces the death or uoi. jsaac 3. Lipscomb, ex-secretary of stat";, at Bryson City, X. C. The deceased was a native of Xewberry; served as a gallant officer in the calvalry in the Conlederacy, was a member of the State Senate from XewLerry county, selected secretary ot state in 1882, holding the office until 188G. lie was also master of the State Grange for many years, and held other prominent nositions Under Cleveland, he j was head of the interior department at "Washington. More l)ea<l iloilie* jb'ound. Uasle, June 10.?The lower one of! the tworaiiroad cars suspended over the broken bridge near Moenchenstein where the accident to the excursion train took place Sunday was lifced today and more dead bodies were found. The exact number of dead and wounded is not yet accurately known. The total number of dead is now placed at 130 and the number of injured about 300. *4 T)PltUOt. New York, June 17.?Mail advices from Chile state that President Balmaceda's Congress has invested him with despotic povveis, giving him authority to confiscate any and all property, to dispose of public luads at will, to suspend the right of assemblage and the freedom of the press, and to arrest and fix the residence of ail citizens. These powers expire in September. / IT WAS THE GOVERNOR. Surprise of Two Travelers Who Had Been Conversing With a Carolinian. Axlaxta, Ga., June 12?Mr. .John Carey tells a good story at the expense of two well known Atlanta men, one of them Mr. Carey himself, and the other nis ineDa j?ir. v auguu. '\Mr. Vaughn and I were coming through South Carolina the other day," said Mr. Carey, in telling the story, "and were naturally keeping our eyes open, discussing the looks of the lands, its possibilities and its probabilities. .Behind us sal a one-eyed gentleman who seemed to listen quite attentively, ana who, as we discussed matters particula ly partaining to the farmers and agriculturists, Jeaned over and joined in our conversation. He talked of the fertility of the soil, the possibilities with the intensive system of farming, and of the use of fertilizers in a way which showed that he was thoroughly posted. Both of 113 put our new found friend down as being a fertilizer agent. Then, naturally enough, we branched off on politics. Mr. Vaughn expressed in pretty strong language his opinioa of the Governor of South Carolina. He said he hadn't much confidence in Tillman. Our friend suggested that possibly 1 - - * 1 ?- /"AtTAMrtAW 4-hnf we (HQ HOT. KIIOW lilC UUYCiuyi ? wail possibly we did him an injustice. "Yes"' said Mr. Vaughn, 'but I haven't much use for a man who will go around in a political campaign with a body guard of great red shirt followers to help him out intimidating the other crowd, and all that.' "Well,' laughed our friend, 'you didn't believe that, did you?' " 'I saw it in the newspapers; it was ( Anpr?iiv reported' said Mr. Vaughn, 'and I think I have every reasoD to believe it is true.' "The other gentleman laughed heartily, and turned off the conversation by saying: "You don't oelieve everything ycu see in the newspapers, do you'?' "Our talk was on ttie same iine for a few minutes," said Mr. Carey, "our Carolininn all the time speaking tather charily of Governor Tillman," but defending him mildly whenever he was suggested. Finally we got to his getting-off place, and shaking bands with us he moved off. While he was standing on the platform we noticed that he seemed to be very popular, and every body seemed to know him. Turning to some gentlemen who had beeo laughing considerably as they overheard our conversation, we asked who that gentleman was. You can imagine how we felt when they told us he was none other than Governor Tillman. "As I said," continued Mr. Carey, "what struck him particularyabout the Governor' was his readiness at answering us, his evident large information upon the subjects we touched upon, hie -Fnma unri m arm prof rmttin??t,hin?S. lie wasn't inclined to call a spade by any other name than that used in the hardware stores and he talked right out once or twice about some charges we referred to, calling them lies in very plain language. They tell me that his enemies respect him now that he is in the chair, and that he is a good Governor."?Constitution. A Terrible Accident. 13erne, June 15? Further details received from the scene of the terrible railroad accident which occurred yesterday at a village near Basle Kailroad, show that two engines and three carriages loaded with excursionists fell into the stream which flowed beneath an iron bridge which gave way and caused the disaster. These carriages and engines now form a hopeless heap of wreckage beneath the bridge structure and by its own size prevented two other carriages, which were suspended practically m the air, rrom falling and still further increasing the number of kill e and wounded. At this hour eighty excursionist are known to have been drowned, though many of the bodies have not been recovered yet. Of the large number of persons injured many have suffered so seriously that it is considered likely that their injuries torminotft fatally as thev consist of bad lacerations, and in some cases limbs have been completely severed. The bridge or viaduct which collapsed and caused the accident had only recently been built and had just been strengthened after sustaining damage. Cold-Blooded Murder. I Lexington, S. C., June 14.?Sheriff j Drafts returned this evening from the Hollow Creek section of this county, where he had been in search of William Woods, who killed Lizzie Dreher yesI terday, as reported exclusively in The j State this morning. Woods could not he found. When last seen he was go: ing in the direction of Columbia. From what can be ascertained of the circum! stances, the killing has the appearance j of being a cold and premeditated murI rni? vutraoloH tViO aer. x ae wiuuci a iu^u?v i v-??,.v, fact that the girl was ai ciente. She and Woods had been sweethearts for some time, and he had promised to marry her. He became enamored of another damsel in the neighborhood, and the conclusion is that in order to free himself from the consequences of his courtship with Lizzie, he decided to put her out of the way. Yesterday, just after dinner, she went down to the spring:, about 300 yards from her house. Woods followed her and shot her in the head. It is very likely lie will be caught, as several are in pursuit ol' liirn.?The State. Repudiates the Movement. Chicago, 111., June 15.?A Topeka, Kansas, special says: Returns received by the Alliance Executive Committee from sub-Alliances which were asked to pass judgment on the work done by the Cincinnati convention, are far from encouraging the People's Tarty politicians. It is known that twenty-five sub-Alliances have repudiated the third party movement. Fifteen of these have reported to the State Alliance and ten to the Republican Central Committee. Cloud County Alliance has adopted the following resolutions: Whereas the South was not represent- j ed in the Cincinnati convention; and Whereas we believe that the third party will disrupt the Republican party to the benelit of the Democratic party, therefore be it resolved, that we abandon the third party to return to our past affiliation. These resolutions, it is said, have doubled significance, because Cloud County is tho home of Senator Wheeler, the only Alliance member of the Senate, and has always been considered a People's Party stronghold. A l>lorynn Af T.rtPIl London, June 18.?The most thrilling stories come from Algeria of the ravages of the locusts. In many districts not a sprig remains on a farm, and the inhabitants are in a famishing condition. Their only resort for food is the locusts themselves, of which vast quantities are being consumed. The French colonial authorities are taking steps to stay the plague as much as possible by the use of scientilic means. The Chamber of Deputies has voted 60,000 francs to be used in destroying the locust plague in Algeria. MAKING AN EXAMPLE. A Colored Jlilitary Company Disbanded and Disarmed. The following correspondence in relation to the disarming of the John's Island company, the members of which produced a disturbance in Charleston some time ago and who have been un dergoingexaminatioD, will be read with interest. Among the records is a transcript of the testimony, which need not be repeated. The letters are: City oy Charleston, ? Executive Department, May 7, '91. ^ Hon H. L. Farley, Adjutant and Inspector General, Columbia. S.C?Sir: On the 4th inst the National Guard was inspected in the city by you, and I regret to say that after the inspection a serious riot was nearly participated by the outrageous conduct of one of the companies from the adjacent island. It is a matter of gratiiication to know that the affair was not participated in by the city companies. "I beg to enclose you the testimony which I have had taken and request that you will take such steps as may i 1 rtnilfrr TlQrflAa OA>AAnnf OTI/? UiiJU? lliU gUiiwJ" uxw vv uvvvuuv uu\a as will in the future prevent a repetition of such outrageous conduct on the part of those who are supposed to be the defenders and supporters of the officers of the law. Alderman O'Xeill also informs mc that he was interfered with by one of the city companies on Caltioun street i.-iof i-cri/ir tn the ir>anor?tir>n \ rAniiA^t. JCiOU l/V jfvwv?vw? * N/?J V?v? W that this matter be also investigated and such action taken as you may deem advisable. I am very respectfully yours, G. D. Bryan, Mayor. Executive Department, ) Office Ad. and In. Gen'l. [ Columbia, S. C, May 15,1891. ) lion Geo D. Bryan, Mayor of the City of Charleston?Dear Sir: Your communication of the 7th. relative to certain conduct on the part of the XaI tional Guard, or certain command thereof, has been duly received at this office with accompanying papers, and proper steps have been taken, upon consultation with his Excellency, the Gover jor, fnv o TK-rrvm-nf inTrocHcrMt.inn 51 rra??rn r 1PTIt, XVI Ul i.U I V?k of the parties alluded to. Unless the matter is presented m a different light from that in which it now appears it is the intention and desire of this department to make a proper example of the parties involved in order to prevent a recurrence of such' scenes, and to show that of all the citizens of the State the militia are more smi 1 ?-s ?r r*r\n n? f.a/1 f CllOtoin yai biuuiaiij ltv-jiuitu tu )jugbvuu vuv Vi. iicers of the law and to preserve peace and good order. I am very respectfully your obedient servant;. " II. L. Farley, Adjutant and Inspector Genreal. Charleston, S. C. May?, 1891. lion G. D. Bryan, Mayor?Dear Sir: I respectfully forward the testimony, under oath, of the policemen wno were present and arrested Julius Richardson for being drunk and disorderly and improper conduct on the corner of Meeting street and South Battery, and which nearly culminated in a serious disturbance by the action of a James Island militia company called the Hunter Volunteers, Capt Isaac Ferguson in command. They attempted to rescue the above prisoner and behaved in a very disorderly and riotous manner, threatening 4Ua orwl inm'finrr tr* TxrV?l^h l/LLC UlIIUwIO C4r IX ci. XUV/IUU^ tv i. XV Vj tva-i~lns*a by the firmness and forbearance of the police was avoided. Julius Richardson was tried by the Recorder and sentenced to five dollars fine or fifteen days in Jail. The fine was paid and the prisoner released. Julius Richardson lives on Mr Charles Rivers's place or plantation. 1' ours respectfully, Joseph Golden, Chief of Police. Official: Charles Liebenrood, Orderly Sergeant. Columbia, S. C., June 18,1891. Gen H. L. Farley, Adjutant and Inspector General, Columbia, S. C.?Sir: Your letter of June 16, with enclosures, is received. After a careful investiga tiori and consideration or me mauer jl agree with you that something must be done to enforce discipline and to prevent a second occurance of such unseemly insubordination of the military to the civil authority You are therefore ordered to call in the arms of the company in question and suspend its officers, until further orders. Yours respectfully, 13. R. Tillman, Governor and Commander-in-Chief. Columbia, S. C., June 18,1891. Special Order, Xo 14:. The Hunter Volunteers, of Berkeley County, Capt Isaac T. Ferguson commanding, having on the 4th of May, 1891, been guilty of improper conduct and violation of the law by attempting to interfere with the civil authority of the City of Charleston in the discharge of their duty, it is hereby ordereu: That the officers of the above named company, Hunter Volunteers X. G., be suspended, and Capt Isaac T. Furguson, commanding, will on the receipt < ? this order without unnecessary delay turn overall uniforms, arms and equipments and other property received from or belonging to the State now in his possession to Col W. II. liobinson, who is hereby authorized to receive and hold the same until otherwise ordered. J3y order of the Governor, If. L. Parley, Adjt and Ins Gen, S. C. Official:- J. Gary Watts, Assistant Adjutant and Inspector General. Col. I'olk for President. Atlanta, June 10.?President Polk of the .National Alliance took dinner in Atlanta to-day, on his way to Missis, sippi, where he goes to make speeches along with "Brer" Livingston. President Polk talked a little while in town. His theme was the "People's Party," and he praised it to the skies. Xottiing could, in his opinion, be urged against the Cincinnati convention and its output. The new party stood upon equality of rights and those great principles of justice on which the American government is founded. The permanency of the movement and of the party he did not doubt. Neither did he believe that the farmers of the South would falter to support it. They, in common with all the farmers, North, East and West, were common sufferers from a common evil, that, vicious, partial and discriminating legislation which robs the many to "enrich the few, and which has dwarfed unjustly the rights of the citizens and magniiied unduly the rights of the dollar. Referring to the mention of his name in connection with the People's Party nomination for the Presidency, Col. Polk, of course declared that he had no aspirations, would not seek office, etc., at the same time, if the lightning chose to strike in his direction it should find ( that he was no dodger, not a bit or it. The Colonel s own words were: "I am at the call of my people. I have never yet shirked any duty they have imposed upon me, and when they call me I am ready to serve them." VERY MUCH LIKE A JOB. m A PERVERSION OF THE SCHOOL FUNDS OF THE STATE. II The Colombia State Exposes a Little - Game that Should be Broken Up? ' * V Attempt to Subsidize a Private Enter- ' prise. Columbia, S. C., June 12.?The following circular letters have been sent . to the school commissioners of the several counties of South Carolina by W. J. Thackston, the chief clerk of the State Superintendent of Education: "Office of ) "Palmetto School Journal, [ "Columbia, S. C., J une 4/1891. ) "Dear Sir: The State board of examiners, at their meeting in April, made the Palmetto School Journal the official means of communication between the trustees and the department of educa- . " . t ion. The State superintendent of education designed to aid and instruct trustees in the department which he will conduct. In this way trustees will not only have their attention drawn to the laws governing the public schools of the State, but will also be helped and encouraged to improve their schools in many ways which he will indicate and make practical. The enclosed letter, which tully explains itself, I beg you to sign and return to me at once. I will uavc cupies uiaue aau. manea to eacn board in your county. "Your" cordial assistance is most "-cii? earnestly solicited iu this effort, believing that the interest that will most surely be aroused will repay you a hun- "^1 dredfold in the help it will give you in - your efforts to improve the schools committed to your keeping. ' You are especially invited to send items of interest concerning the schools . , of your county. I send you a copy of the Journal. As each number ot the Journal will contain vifcAl infnrmat,iAi> ??? that will appear only once, it is important that you give attention to this at once. "Very truly, "W. J. Tiiackston. ' Editor and Owner Palmetto Journa (Enclosure.) U _ "Dear Sir: The State board of examiners has adopted the Pallmdtto School Journal as the official means of communication between the department of education and school officers. A special department will be edited by the State Superintendent ot' Education, in which school law and questions relating to the government and improvement of the schools will be discussed. ''The State board, with ourselves, most earnestly desire that every trustee should receive the Journal, and by resolution of the State board trustees are authorized to subscribe for the same rtuu iaouc ah uj.uci uu uuuuuy ueasuier in payment for same. "Enclosed you will find claim partial- ^ ly filled out tor the three (3) trustees of your district. Have these claims signed by your board and return them to me in order tliat your name may be forwardel to the State superintendent and have your names put on the mailing list of the Journal. Yery truly, u yy This is a very interesting situation indeed! The State superintendent of education and his chief clerk have a little alliance among themselves, and a n<~t kno vv whether the superintendent of journal is issued by the latter, of which tne lormer eaits a department. we ao education is a "silent partner" in the enterprise or not, or whether he is to receive compensation for editing his department or not. That is a side issue. ^ We do know that an attempt is being made to make one department of the State government at once a public office and a private "trust"?to take the money of the people and put it into the pocket of an officeholder?to make the taxes of the counties support Mr. Tbackston's journal. The declaration that the State board --- 1 - "** of trustees has passed a resolution authorizing this perversion of the public funGS does not come directly, it will be seen, from Mr. Thackston. He puts it in the moutbs of the county school commissioners. If it be true, the board has done an act which it will find it very hard to j ustify. If it is true, there is leception as well as jobbery. I?ut no. matter how it stands, this affair is scandalous. It compels the tak.'ns? of three copies of the Palmetto School Journal in every school district of the State at the expense of the tax payers, and the money goes into the pockets of Mr. Thackston individually, or Mr. Thackston and his backers. It is estimated that the sum thus proposed co be drawn from the connty treasuries will amount to from S3,000 to $5,000 annually.?The State. Will Ficht the Pistol License. Charleston, S. C., June '16.?The State is about to have another vexatious iaw suit thrust upon its hands, growing out of an Act of the last Legislature. The law providing for a license of $200 - ^ xor tne sale 01 jjisluis auu pisuji cartridges, which goes into effect on the 23d instant, will r>e resisted by the manufacturers of these articles. They have retained Mordecai and Gadsden, law- J yers of this city, and have instructed them to resist the payment of license M in every County in the State where an attempt is made to enforce the collection of the tax. Dealers throughout the State will be notified that the manufacturers will pay all the expenses of the litigation. The fight will probably be transferred to the Federal courts The ground upon which the law is tobe resisted is the decision of the United JZ Stites Supreme Court known as the original package case, in which it was new tnai a uceuse ou guuus scul iiuux one State to another in the original package was unconstitutional. The tight promises to be as interesting as the Coosaw case and the railroad and bank assessment cases. The fight will be made by manufacturers in Xew York, Boston, Hartford, Chicago and other cities.?Columbia Register. About an Ox. Ciieraw, S. C., June 19.?In Mount r,ra<rham townshio. in this county, about nine miles from Chesterfield Court House, J. B. Jordon was killed yesterday by one Miles. Jordon had bought an ox from Miles, and had only paid him a part in cash. When Miles caine for the rest of the money Jordan tcld him he could not pay him the rest then. Whereupon Miles told him he must have the money or the ox. Jordan objected, and Miles went into Jordan's field to get the ox, which was T 3 *1" vmfU n plowing. <Joraiiu S'.ruca. jjxuco muia small stick, Miles, in retaliation, stabbed him in the face, heart and back, which resulted in his death. Miles, at last account had not been captured. Both men are white.?State. A Pleasure Party Drowned. Petekboro, Ont., June 18.?A party of eleven persons living at Hiawatha went sailing in a small yacht on Kice Lake last evening. A sudden squall i capsized the craft, and John Foote, his nineteen-vear-old daughter and three year-old "baby were drownea. xne others were rescued. The bodies of the drowned were recovered. i