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m ' -^111 ___ ?- M . . ? n VOL. XLVI. WINNSBORO, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JULY 8, 1891. NO. 47. | ASTRAY BUT RECOVERED. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON THE NECESSITY OF A REDEEMER. Beauty, l'athus and Couifort Found in the Fifty-third Chapter of Isaiah?How and Why Men antf Sheep Oo Astray. I Whosoever Will, Let Him Come. Brooklyn, June 2S.?Dr. Talmage's ! sei raon to-day is of so decidedly evan- | gelical a character as to prove conclu-: sivelv that while so many eminent preachers of the day are drifting away from the old Jashioned Gospel he remains firm in the paths of orthodoxy, r His subject is "Astray, bui Recovered," and his text, Isaiah lii, C: "All we like 1 sheep have gone astray: * * ' and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." ^-?r*ttmrnniefcy vears at the longest all j ' wbo hear or read this sermon will be in j ot^rnif-v. Durin<? the next fiftv vears i you will nearly all be gone. The next ten years will cut a wide swath among the people. The year 1891 will to some be the linality. Such considerations make this occasion absorbing aud momentous. The first halt of my text is > an iudictment, 4;A11 we like sheep have gone astray." Some one says: "Can you not i.rop the ilrst word? That is | too general; that sweeps too great a circle." Some man rises in the audience i and lie looks over on the opposite side J of the house, and he says: ''There is a j blasphemer, and 1 understand how he Las gone astray. And there in another part ol the house is a defrauder, and he * has gone astray. And there is an ira' pure persop, and he has gone astray.'' ?' - Sit down, my brother, and look at home. talses us all in. It starts behind the pulpit, sweeps the circuit ol the room and comes back to the point where it started, when it says: "All we like sheep have gone astray." I can very easily understand why Martin Luther threw up his hands after he & had found the Bible and cried out, "Oh! S my sins, my sins." and why the publiW ean, according to the custom to this day * in ihe east when they have any great grief, began to beat himself and cry as he smote upon his breast, t,f5od be merciful to me a sinner." ILLUSTRATION FROM THE SHEPHERD'S LIFE. I was like many of you, brought up in the country, and I know some of the habits of sheep and how they set astray, and what my text means wnen it says. " 11 we like sheer) have gone astray." Sheep get astray in two ways, either by trying to get into other pasture, or from being scared by the dogs. In the former way some of us got astray. We thought the religion o* Jesus Christ short com-j rnons. We thought there was better pasturage somewhere else. We thought j if we could only lie down on the banks' j of distant streams or under great oaks ! on the other side of some hill we might I be better fed. We wanted other pasturage than that which God through Jesus Christ gave I nnr snnl and we wandered on and we ] wandered on, and we were lost. We I wanted bread and we found garbage. The farther we wandered, instead of finding rich pasturage, we found blasted health and sharper rocks and more stinging nettles. No pasture. How was it in the worldly groups when you lost your child? Did they come around ana rnnsole you verv much? Did not the plain Christian man who came into your house and sat up with your darling child ; give you more comfort than all worldly associations? Dia ail the convivial songs you ever heard comfort you in that day of bereavement so much as the song they sang to you, perhaps the very song-tuai, was sung by your little child /-~-~~~lhe last Sabbath afternoon of her life? * There is a liappy land, far, far away, Where saints immortal reign, bnght, bright as day. i)id your business associates in that /Iott nf rtarknpts nnd trouble ?rive VOU any especial condolence? business exasperated you, business wore you out, business left you limp as a rag, business made you mad. You got dollars, but you got no peace. God have mercy on the man who has nothing but business to comfort him. The world afforded you no luxuriant J pasturage. A famous English actor B stood on the singe impersonating, and thunders of applause tame down from j Ithe galleries, and many thought it was the proudest moment of all his life; but there was a man asleep just in Irout of him, and the fact that that man was indifferent and somnolent spoiled all the occasion for him, and he cried, "Wake up! wake up!" So one little annoyance in life has been more pervading to your mind lhan all the brilliant congratulations and successes. poor pasturage for your soul you found in jtnis world. The world has cheated \ou. the world has belied \ou, the world has misinterpreted you. the world has persecuted you. It never /.nmfr.i-toil vnn Oh' this WOfld is a <TOOd ! {wm>Vi tv\> v/Mt v ??? __ _ rack from which a horse may pick his I hay; it is a good trough from which the swine may crunch their mess: but it gives but little food to a soul blooti bought and immortal. What is a soul? It is a hope high as i the throte of Gcd. W!:<?t is a man? You say, "It is ouly a man." It is only I a man goue overboard in business life. J B What is a man? The battle ground of i * " ? - ? J- *-'1-: 1.^1 J rtforee wonas, wmi nis nanus tan-iuu uviu of destinies oi' light or darkness. A man! No line can measure him. No limit can bound him. The archangel before the throne cannot outlive him. The stars sha l die. but he w!ll watch the^r extinguishment. The world will burn, but l.e v. ill gaze on the conflagration. Endless ages will march on: he " ' \ manl rlM>Q (wui waieu iwu ^v nitiw. a nv masterpiece of Cod Almighty. Yet you say, "'It is only a man." Can a nature like that be fed on husks of the wilderness. substantial comfort will not grow On nature's barren soi.'; All we can bc^st till Christ we know Is vanity and toil. THOSE WHO STRAY IX TROUBLE. Some of \ou got astray by looking for better pasturage: others by being ~ ^ _? *!? " - rrnfc Arftr scaren 01 mt; uuiis. n^umi ^ v?v?. B into the pasture field. The poor things ily in every direction. Iu a lew moments they"are torn of the hedges and jp they are plashed ot the ditch, and the p lost sheep never gets home unless the [ farmer goes after it. Tnsre is nothing I so thoroughly lost as alosVsheep. It may have been in 1857. during the financial panic, or during the financial stress S? in the tall af 73, when you got astray. If You almost became an atheist. You B said. "Where is God, that honest men ^ go down and thieves prosper?'' You k were dogged of creditors, you were dog|| ged of the banks, you were dogged of worldly disaster, and come of \ou went || Into misanthropy, some of you took to strong drink, and others of you fied out B^k of Christian association.' and you got | astray. Q man! that was the last time when you ought to have forsaken God. j Standing amid the foundering of your earthly fortunes, how could you get along without a God to comfort vou. and a God to deliver you, and a God to help you, and a God to save you? You tell me you have been through, euough business trouble almost to kill you. 1 know it. 1 cannot understand how the boat could live one hour in that chopped sea. But I do not know by what process you got astray; some in one way, and some in another, and if you could really see the posiiiou some of you occupy before God this morning, your soul would burst into an agony of tears and you would pelt the heavens with the cry, "God have mercy!" Sinai's batteries have been unlimbered above your soul, and at times you have^heard It^thunder: ikThe wages of sin is death." '*A11 have sinnod and co ye short of the glory ot God." ? ? X>V UiiC iliai-l diu CULCiCU 1ULU LUO ?TVilU, and death by sin; and so death passed uj on all men, for that all have sinned." 'The soul t'lat sinneth it shall die." When Sebastopol was being bombarded, two Russian frigates burned all night in the harbor throwing a glare upon the trembling fortress, and some of you are standing in the night of your soul's trouble. The cannonade and the conila^ration, the multiplication of your sorrows and troubles 1 think must make the wings of God's hovering angels shiver to the tip. But the last part of my text opens a door wide enough to let us all out aDd to let all heaven iu. Sound it on the organ with all the stops out. Thrum it! on the harps with all the strings atune. With all the melody possible let the heavens sound it to the earth and let the earth tell it to the heavens. "The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us -n 11 r -1- .1 A. ??J;,I I a.u." x ixui ^iuu tuiic tut: piupuci. ui<.i not stop to explain whom he meant by "him." Fim of the manger, him of the bloody sweat, him ot the resurrection throne, him of the crucifixion agony. "On him the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all." CHRIST COMES TO THE FALLEN. "Oh," says some man, "that is not i^Ll'SrUUS, LUai. iS U<Jl> lilli; ICL ctcij rnau carry his own burden and pay his own debts." That sounds reasonable. If I have an obligation and I have the means to meet it, and I come to you and ask you to settle that obligation, you rightly say, "Pay your own debts." If you and I walking down the street, both J hale, hearty and well, I ask you to carry me, you say, and say rightly, "Walk on your own feet!" But suppose you and I were ia a regiment and I was wounded in the battle and I fell unconscious at your feet with gunshot fractures and dislocations, what would you do? You would call to your comrades saying, l,Come and help, this man is helpless; bring the ambulance, let us take him to the hospital," aad I would be a dead lift in your arms, and you would lift me from the ground where I had fallen and put me in the ambulance and take me to the hospital and have all kindness shown me. Would there be anything mean in your doing that? Would there be anything bemeaning in my accepting that kindness? Oh, no. You would be mean not to do it. That is what Christ does. If we could pay our debts then it would be better to go up and pay them, saying, 4'IIere. Lord, here is my obligation; here are the means witn wnicn i mean to settle that obligation; now give me a receipt; cross it all out." The debt is paid. But the fact is we h ive fallen in the battle, we have gone down under tho hot fire of our transgressions, we have been wounded by the sabers of siu, we are helpless, we are undone. Christ comes. The loud clang heard in the sky on that Christmas night was only the bell, the resounding bell, of the am'ou4V./-V rvnr tKo Qr\n vicai tuv; nay ivi iu& kw-vu \#* God. lie comes down to bind up the wounds, and to scatter the darkness, and to save the lost. Clear t'le way for the Son of God. Christ comes down to see us, and we are a dead lift. lie does not lift us with the tips of his fingers. He does not lift us with one arm. lie comes down upon his knee, and then with a dead lift he raises us to honor and glory and immortality. "The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity uf us all." Why, then, will no man carry his sin?? You cannot carry l/lIC dlU'lUCdb Siu J\J U committed. You might as well put the Apennines on one shoulder and the AJp3 on the other. How much less can you carry all the sins of your lifetime! Christ comes and looks down in your face and says: have come through all the lacerations of these days and j through all the tempests of these nights. I have come to bear your burdens, and to pardon your sins, and to pay y>ur | debts. Put them on my shoulder; put j them on my heart." "On him the Lord j hath laid the iniquity of us all. NO Ri:ST FOR THE WICKED. i Cm frweyA tKo lif'n nnf kjui.1 UA9 0 bliv iiiV/ V/W*W Vi some of you. At times it has made you cross and unreasonable, and it has spoiled the brightness of your days and the peace of vour nights. There are men w 10 have been riddled of sin. The world gives them no solace. Gossamer and volatile the world, while eternity, as they look forward to it, is black as midnight. They writhe under the stings j of a conscience which proposes to give | no rest here and no rest hereafter; and yet they do not repent, they do not pray, they do not weep. They do not realize that just the position they occupy is the position occupied by scores, hundreds and thousands ol men who never found any hope. It this meeting should be thrown open and the people who are here could give their testimony, what thrilling experieuces wc should hear on all sides! There is a man in the gallery who would say: I had brilliant surroundings. I had the best education that one of the best collegiate Institutions of this country could sive. and I observed all the moralities of i lit'a on/1 1 iroc coif ri<rhtnnns rmrl T j *- "wn' vw* i.3uvw?v, | thought I was all right before God as I | am all rhjlit before men; but the Iloly Spirit came to me one day and said, 'You are a sinner;' the Iloly Spirit peri suaded me of the tact. While I had es] eaped the sins against the law of the laud I had really committed the worst sin a man ewr commits?the driviuu back of the Son ol God from my heart's aiiecuous. Anu l saw L.-iai, my nuuus we:e red with the blood of the Son of God, and I besjan to pray, and peace came to my heart, and I know by exper-! ience that what you say this morning is true, 'On him the Lord hath laid the iniquity ol us all/ " Yonder is a man who would sa\: "I was the worst drunkard in New York; I ; went from bad to worse; I destroyed myself. I destroyed my home: my children cowered when I entered t.ie house; when they put up their lips to be kissed ! I struck them; when my wife protested | against the maltreatment, I kicked her I into the street. X know all the bruises ! and all the terrors of a drunkard's woe. | ! I went on further and further from God 1 until one day I uot a letler saying: "My Dear Husband?I have tried every way, done everything, and prayed earnestly and fervently for your reformation. but it seems of no avail. Since our little Henry died, with the exception of those few happy weeks when you remained sober, my life has been one of sorrow. Many of the nights I have sat by the window, *vitli my lace bathed in tears, watch in? for your cominsr. I am broken hearted, I am sick. Mother and father have been here frequently and begged me to come home, but my iove for you arid my hope for brighter days have always made me refuse them. That hope seems now beyond realization, and I have returned to them. It is hard, aud I battled long belore doing it. -Jiay ?/ou bless and preserve you, and take from you that accursed appetite and hasteD the day when we shall be again living happily together. This will be my daily prayer, Knowing that he has said, 'Come unto mc all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and 1 will give you rest.' From your loving wife, Mary. "And so I wandered on and wandered on," says that man, "until one night I passed a Methodist meeting house, and T ooid +/-? roveolf kT'11 <ri\ in anrl spft what. J. saiu t,\/ i-u. j oyjix, j. *" ?WW they are doing,' and I sot to the door, and they were singing: All may come, whoever will, This man receives poor sinners still. "And I dropped right there where I was and I said, 'God have mercy,' and he had mercy on me. My home is res11 T i J ; toreci, my wire smgs an uay joog uunu^ work, my children come oat a long way lo greet me home, and my household is a little heaven. I will tell you what did all this for me. It was the truth that this day you proclaim, 'On him the Lord bad laid the iniquity of us all.' " THE DRUNKARD AND THE OUTCAST. : Yonder is a woman who would say "I wandered oft'from my father's house; I heard the storm that pelts on a lost soul; my feet were blistered on the hot rocks. 1 went on and on, thinking j that no one cared for my soul, when ! nn?i tiicrhf-Jpsiis met me and he said: "Poor thing, go home! your father is waiting for you, your mother is waiting J for you. Go home, poor thing!' And, sir. I was too week to pray, and I was too weak to repent, but I just cried out; I sobbed out rny sins and my sorrows on the shoulders of him of whom it is said, 'the Lord hath laid on him the inI iquity of us all.'" There is a young man who would say: t-I had a Christian bringing up: I c ime Tv.~ s\r\y*t Y-? fr'TT f rv oifu 1 i "fO T ; J.iUlil IUC \^UUUU j sjkj Vltj iij.v, >. wvMftvvvi well; I had a good position, a good commercial position, but one night at the theater I met some young men who did me no good. They dragged me all through the sewers of iniquity, and I lost my morals and I lost my position, and i was shabby and wretched. I was going down the street, thinking that no one cared for me, when a young man tapped me on the shoulder and said, George, come with me and I will do you good.' I looked at him to see whether he was joking or not. I saw he was in earnest and I said, 'What do you mean, sir?' 'Well,' he replied.'I mean if you will come to the meeting to-night I will be very glad to introduce you. I will meet you at the door. Will you come?' Said I, 'I will.' ;I went to the place where X was tarrying. I fixed myself up as well as I could. 1 buttoned my coat over a ragged vest and went to the door of the onr] tTAIinrf YY> Q n TT1P ULLUil/lJ, aau J WUUg AXiMUi muu ?mv and we went in; and as I went in I heard an old man praying, and he looked so much like my father I sobbed right out; and they were all around so kind and sympathetic that I just gavs my heart to God, and I know this morniQg that what you say is true; I believe it in mv own experience. 'On him the 1 /-.yv-I h-it-h laiH tha ininnifw nf 115 all '" 1JU1U xuiv* '"'I?; Oh, my brother, without stopping to lo?..'k as to whether your hand trembles or not, without stopping to look whether your hand is bloated with sin or not, put it in my hand, let me give you one warm, brotherly, Christian grip, and invite you right up to the heart, to the compassion, to the sympathy, to the pardon of him on whom the Lord had laid the iniquity of us all. Throw away your sins. Carry them jo longer. I proclaim emancipation chis morning to all who are bound, pardon for all sin, acd eternal life for all the dead. Some one comes here this morning, and I stand aside. He comes up these st^ps. lie comes to this place. I must stand aside. Taking that place he spreads abroad hi* hands, and they were nailed. You see his feet, they were bruised, lie pulls aside the robe and snows you nis wouuueu ucaiu jl oay, "Art thou weary?" "Yes," he says, "weary with the" world's woe." I say, "Whence comest thou?" He says. "I come i'rom Calvary." I say, "Who comes with thee?'' He says, "No one; I have trodden the winepress alone!" I say, "Why comest thou here?" "Oh," he says, "I "came here to carry all the sins and sorrows of the people." And he kneels and he says, "Put on my shoulders all the sorrows and all the sins." And conscious of my own sins iirst, I take them and put them on the shoulders of the Son of God. I say, ' Canst thou bear any more, 0 ChristV" lie says, "Yea, more." And I gather up the sins of all those whe serve at these altars, the officers of the Church of Jesus Christ?I gather up all their sins and put them on Christ's shoul.1 ?. nntt UK is, auu x say, u iuu ucai ?iu? mo:e?" He says, "Yea, more." Then I gather up all the sins of a hundred people in this house, and I put them on the shoulders of Christ, and 1 say, "Canst thou bear more?" Yea, more." And I gather up all the sins of this assembly, and I put them on the shoulders of the Son of God and I say "Canst thou bear themV" "Yea," he says, "more." 1IE 1IATII BORNE OUR TRANSGRESSIONS. But he is departing. Ciear the way for him. the Son of God. open, the door and let him pass out. He is carrying our sins and bearing them away. We shall never see them again. He throws them down into the abysm, and' you hear the long reverberating echo of their fail. "On him the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all." Will you let him takeaway your sins to-dayz Or do you say. "I will take charge of them "myself; I will light my own battles; I will risk eternity on my own account ?" A clergyman said in his pulpit one Sabbath. ".Before next Saturday night one of this audience will have passed out of life." A gentleman said to another seated next to him: "I don't believe it. I l mean to wa'cli, and it" it doesn't come ! true by next Saturday night I shall tell I that clergyman his falsehood." The man seated next to him said, "Perhaps it will be yourself." "Oh, no," the other replied; "I shall live to be an old man." That night he breathed his last. To day the Saviour cails. Ail may come. God never pusnes a man off. I (loci never destroys anyuoay. ine man ! jumps off. It is suicide?soul suicide? if the man perishes, for the invitation is, "Whosoever will, let 1>im come." Whosoever, whosoever, whosoever! In this day ot merciful visitation, while many are coming into the kingdom of God.* join the procession heavenward. Seated among us during a service was a man who came in and said, "I don't know that there is any God." That was on Friday night. I said, "We will kneel down and find out whether there is any God." And in the second seat from the pulpit we knelt. I lie said: "I hare found him. There is ; a God, a pardoning God. I feel him here," He knelt in the darkness of siD, He arose two minutes afterward in the liberty of the Gospel; while another sitting under the gallery on Friday night said, "My opportunity is gone; last week I might have been saved, not now. the door is shut." And another from the very midst of the meeting, during the week, rushed out of the front door of the Tabernacle, saying, "lam a lost man." "Behold! the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the world." "Xow is the accepted time. Now is the day of salvation." ,It is appointed unto all men once to aie, and after that?the judgment!" A TALK WITH TILLMAN. The Governor and the Sub-Treasury De bate. Charleston, S C., June 30.?Governor Tillman spent the greater part of the morning yesterday in his room at the Charleston Hotel, where he received quite a number of callers. His time until 4 o'clock was pretty well occupied in this way and in the incidental effort of keeping cool on the shady side of the buildiDg. Among the callers was a reporter for The News and Courier. woo asKea mm some questions ou current topics, which he answered readily. As the next "case" in which Governor Tillman will be one of the parties is the sub-treasury debate at Spartanburg he was asked a few questions about that interesting prospective event. "What about the Spartanburg meeting at which you are to meet Col. Terrell in debate? Will the speeches be heard by members of the Alliance only V "All I can say about that is that when I accepted Col. Terrell's challenge to meet him at Spartanburg I expected the discussion to be in public and for the benefit and enlightenment of all classes of voters. In his tour over the State Col. Terrell's advocacy of the measure was in public, and I cannot suppose that it is intended to restrict my reply to Alliance members only, and to a few at that. Besides, it is too hot to s^eak in any house this time of year; and there is no place in Spartanburg large enough to hold the audience that will be likely to attend except the Grange encampment building. As I understand it this is a friendly discussion between the distinguished lecturer of the National Alliance and myoalf nr\rto o nnoch'ftn affoot.ino' t.hft in JVU 14 MU-VVVtu^ V ?V - ? terest of all classes, Alliancemen, farmers who do not belong to the Alliance and citizens who cannot join that organization. I cannot see any reason, therefore, why the debate should not be held in public." "When will the discussion take place ?" "I don't know, but, I presume on the second day of the session of the State Alliance, which will be about the 22d of July." "Have you heard from Col. Terrell since he left the State V" "Only through the newspapers, but wnen i was at ijeaar opimgs uiso >vee&. I mentioned the matter to some of the leading Alliancemen in Spartanburg, and they said there would be a large crowd present and they wanted the discussion to be in public." "What arrangements have been made for the meeting V" "None that I know of, but I presume mat irresiaeut oi-yK.es uuu mo oixwuiuburg Alliance will take the necessary steps to prepare for it." "Have you any idea of the result of this discussion ?" "Of course not; except that the discussion is to take place iu public, and that the State Alliance will take a vote on it in secret as they do on all matters affecting our Order. I hope to show that the Alliance in South Carolina cannot afford to press the sub-treasury scheme, but as the measure has been endorsed by the Ocala meeting and by one State Alliance may, and probably I will, fail." Thirty Skeletons In a How. CnicAGO, June 28.?Thirty skeletons were found yesterday in an old ice house at the corner of Archer avenue and Hough place. For several days nu jerous complaints have been made to the health oflice and to the Deering street police by residents in the vicinity of Archer avenue and Hough place, who asserted that a nuisance of most aggravated form made life almost unendurable. Investigation was made by both departments, but without locating the trouble. Yesterday the mystery was solved. Several boys found near the corner a human skull and several thigh bones bleached wh.ce. The lads told the first policeman they met of their discovery, and he notified the health office. Dr. Ware, with several assistants, visited the scene and made a more thorough search than had before been made. A bad odor was detected' from fSchineman's ol i ice house on the corner. The searchers ripped up a part of the floor, and were horrified to find rows of skeletons, to some of which shreds of flesh still clung. Who ninnpd t.h^m there is not known. and the authorities will make every effort to find the guilty persons. The theory advanced by the health officers is that some attache of a medical college brought the subjects there to bleach. The bones were allowed to remain until the matter can be more fully investigated. Chicago, J une 28.?It is now learned that Robert A. Ha wes has been carrying on the grewsome business of cleaning human skeletons for the medical profession in the building. The board of health will look into the matter. Crashed and Mangled. Charleston, S. C., June 26.?A horrible accident occurred at the South Carolina Kailway depot hf,re this morning, John Black, a respectable old street J ~ ^ 4-^v Ikn f A car conuuuiur, wcut uu i.uc ^ his daughter off for WalhfUa. In trying to jump from the,, rain after it started his foot was caught in the platform of the car and his body, after being dragged the whole length of the depot, some 500 feet, was hurled under the cars and horribly mangled. All tMs nivnrreri in the Dresence of over 100 spectators, including: a son oi the deceased. They were powerless to help. Black was an old man and was one of the most popular conductors on the city railway. He came here twelve years ago from Walhalla. Drilling for War. Tacoma, Wash., June 25.?It is rumored the strikers displaced by colored men imported from the South at the Gillman, New Castle and Franklin j mines are drilling in the woods daily. They are said to be armed with rifles, and a combination has been effected, so that any attempt to resume work at any of the mines will result in the gathering of the eatire force of armed miners to resist the attempt. Swallowed His False Teeth. Boston, June 29?James Corcoran died in the hospital here last night, from the effects of having swallowed his false teeth. ANOTHER CARD FROM MR. THACKSTON IN REFERENCE TO HiSSCHOOLJOURNAL. lie Explains How He Came to be Mistaken About the Kesolution of the State Board of Examiners. Columbia, S. C., July 2.?Mr. "VV. J. Thackstcn, clerk to State Superintendent of Education Mayfied, has asked for the publication of the following: To the Public: I feel that it is due to myself and to the public that I should say that not until I read the statements of Superintendent Mayfield on his return in flip oitv ?ni' of Prof Johnson, nab lished in the Record of Monday, the 29th ult, did I know I had misconceived the action of the State board of examiners with regard to the Palmetto School Journal. It had been until then my honest impression that the action of the board had been what was stated by me in an editorial in reference thereto, which ap peared in the April number of the Journal, page 2G3. In that editorial, which was widely circulated, but which the board of examiners evidently did not read, if they saw a copy of the Journal, I wrote iis follows: "The State board of examiners adopted a resolution urging the trustees H-irrmrmr.r:4- flip Sfrato tn hprnnip cinKo/?ri. bers, and allowing them to pay for their subscriptions out of the contingent fund of their district." During the meeting of the board of examiners on the 4th of April, of which board I am by law clerk. I made orally the proposition in question, namely, that the board uhould officially endorse the Palmetto School Journal as its organ, and should urge the school trustees to become subscribers, paying for their subscription out of the funds for their districts. That proposition included the rS oil er\n f*fon r\ F nooocco ucv/i KJi an ii^V/ v/i. u^uwg^ary lor the publication of the official matter of the board and of the department of education. I then asked to be excused from the meeting that the board might consider the proposition without my presence. When I returned the board had passed to other subjects and I was Informed that the hoard uad endorsed trie raimetto School Journal. Nothing else was said to me in reference to the matter at that time or subsequently by any member of the board, and knowing of no other proposition, I natually supposed that what was said referred to the proposition I submitted. Under this impression I wrote the editorial in the Journal mentioned, the circular letter to the trustees and the statement recently prepared by me for publication. I had r\r\ i/Joo T txtoo miotol-on nnfil T coot fVio 4JIV/ lU\*C4p Jk. "ttO 1-UJOWlrtVlA JL W<**T UUV statements m Monday's Record. It is inconceivable that I should have attempted to prevent a resolution of the board where deicction and exposure would be so certain to follow. I com* mitted the error of not verifying my impression t imply because I did not suspect the possibility of mistake. Had I entertained any doubt I could easily have done so, as I am clerk of the board and keeper of its record. The proposition was made openly, in perfect good faith and with a sincere desire to advance the interest of public education. It seemed to me to be justified by precedent and to lie within the legitimate powers of the board. Ia this State the State board of examiners on the 17th of April. 1889, passed the following resolution m refernce to the Carolina School Journal: "Resolved further. That the chairman be resquested to subscribe for five copies of tbe Journal for the use of the board." If the board of examiners could subscribe for live copies of the Carolina School Journal, one for each member of the board, and pay for them out of the public funds, they certainly have the right to authorize the trustees to subscribe for a School Journal for their use, and pay for it out of the public funds. If a School Journal paid for by the State ia a ornnH thinf* for thd members of the State board ol examiners, why is it not equally as good for the trustees, who are supposed to need the information it contains much more? The twenty-first annual report of the State Superintendent of Education for 1889 (pajje 20) shows this entry: "Subscription to Charleston \Vorld-$7." If in the past it was thought expedient to pay for a daily ne.vspaper for the head of the educational department of the State out of public funds, what impropriety could there be in paying for an educational journal for subordinate school officers of the State out of the public funds, which journal contains official information from the State board and the department of education? If my information is correct, in several other States, including Pennsylvania and Virginia, educational journals are paid lor directly out of the State funds. The acceptance of my proposition wasaquestion for the board. I felt sure they would adopt no plan which was not advisaole and right, and supposing they had adopt ed my propositions as submitted, I felt at liberty to proceed on their authority. I now sec I committed an error in not verifying their actiun, but I positively disclaim all intention ot misrepresenting the facts. I have acted throughout in entire good Jaith and without intentional concealment. It is due to Superintendent Mayfield that I should sa.y that the editorial in the Palmetto Journal, the circular letter to the trustees and my former statement to the press were written and published withnnf hie L*nA<T71 dr7<tA onrl rlnrinor hie absence. lie was not consulted by me because he had no interest in the Journal and was not responsible lor my action as its editor. It is also due to the members of the board of examiners to acquit them of all responsibility for my mistake. This statemeutis made public as soon as possible after I had discovered that I had been all along mistaken as to the action of the board ol examiners with reference to the Palmetto journal. W. J. Thackston. Kobbed and Leit to siarve. 1?oaxoke, Va., J illy 1? Barney Smith, a mechanic employed for some time at the Ronnoke Machine Works, disappeared last pay day, June 19. He was found to-day," with his bands bound and tied to a tree, in a lonely spot in the Blue Ridge mountains, ten miles from here. He was frantic and half TTa Un/1 /Ynon'O/1 f Sq Korl* frnrrt O LCIL > CU. JlJLC liau ?? UA W t-U cut waia 14V1JU the tree to which he was tied. He was unable to tell how he came to be tied, and now lies in a precarious condition. There is no clue to the perpetrators of the deed. The motive is supposed to have ueen robbery, as Smith was known to have some money on his person when last seen here. A GANG OF YOUNG THUGS. The Recent Assaults and Robberies in Sumter. Sumter, S. C., June 27.?The charges ond thp pvi/^prtpp tioromaf "Vplann thp young negro footpad, are accumulating rapidly and it begins to appear that he was not t he only one connected with the various assaults and robberies perpetrated upon our citizens during the past two weeKs, but was probably the ringleader of a gang of four or five young desperadoes. Nelson was taken out of jail yesterday and brought before Justice Wells to answer to the charge of having entered, on Tuesday morning, between 3 and 4 o'clock, the apartment in which Mr. A. jr au cuipiujcc a\j tuc LUIII %ji IXLL* S. M. Graham, on Sumter street, was sleeping and of robbing him of his pocketlook and the money which it contained, and also of some valuable securities and papers. Mr. Byrd stated that as the night was warm, he had opened all the windows and the door, and had laid down on the bed, intending, as soon as he had cooled off, to get up and shut the door; that he had gone to sleep, however, and between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morni-g was aroused by nearing some one moving arouna in his room, and upon awaking fully he found it was a young negro man, of whom he gave a description which exactly fitted Nelson. He said the negro placed his hand upon his hip pocket, as though In the act of drawing a pistol, and told him not to move, or he would blow outhis brains; and that being tot illy unarmed, he had remained quiet; that the negro deliberately went through everything, took the articles above mentioned and then left. Saturday morning the pocketbook and papers were found amonsr Nelson's things, and he confessed the whole affair, and stated that he had been accompanied by a young negro of the town, named Jim Stuttle. tJtuttle was accordingly arrested and both were sent to jail to await trial at the October term of the court. Nelson also made confessions to the police implicating several other negroes, but they have not yet been arrested, and the police will not make known their names. Nelson acknowledged being the one who came after the policeman earlier on Monday night, just before youns Foxworth was struck. From the time at which Foxworth was struck and that at which Mr. Byrd was robbed, Nelson must have gone immediately from the one to the other.?The State. Cotton Three Weeks Late. The weekly weather and crop bulletin of the South Carolina weather servide, in co-operation with the Unittd States Signal Service for the week ending Saturday, is as follows, and is -very encouraging to farmers. The rainfall for the past week has been below the normal and badly distributed. The temperature has been above the average with very much of sunshine, all of which has been very beneficial to all crops. The cotton has improved very much, where it has been properly cultivated, but there are many gaps or missing i places which give it a ragged appearance, and that portion of the crop is growing very rapidly and is now cov- i ered with blooms. A considerable portion of the crop has been and still is . very grassy, and farmers are making every effort to clean it this hot and dry weather, L-ut labor is very scarce. The yield of an ordinary crop will, to a great , extent, depend upon the success in getting rid of the grass in the next few , days. | The corn crop is now a fair average, but if a drought should now set in, j which present appearances indicate, it will be seriously injured. ; There can be no doubt but that the cotton crop is three weeks late, and it ; will require good seasons from now on i to produce an average crop. The rice crop, whilst but one half of i it was planted early, all ot it is now growing finely, and good stands have ( been obtained'. A Desperate Prisoner. j Washington, June 29.?A special to the Post from Charlotte, U. C., says that Brabham, the negro who is to be i hanged for murdering the Italian, Moc- 1 ca, made an attempt this afternoon on < the life of Sheriff Smith. Since his at- i tempt recently to kill a fellow-prisoner ; named Caldwell, Brabham has been chained to the door of his cell. This af- s ternoon when the sheriff went into the ' cell the prisoner asked for a match, and ] as the sheriff handed it to him Brabham < struck him a fearful blow with the chain I with which he was fastened. The sher- ! iff was felled to the ground, but regained < his leet and grappled with the negro. ; Brabham, however, got him down and ' would have killed him but for the negro prisoner, Caldwell, who lushed in from the corridor and pulled Brabham off. When the sheriff regained his teet he ; jumped on Brabham and beat him se- ! vereiy. The prisoner begged to be kill ed. so he would not live to be 1 anged. Decoyed to the Klver. Vixcennes, Ind.. July 1.?The dead J body of James Baker, Sr., a well-to-do , farmer who lived three miles south of i the city, was found floating in the Wabash river near the foot of Prairie j street, i-1 is upper lip was lacerated, as . if from a blow, and his right arm was , bruised and bore marks of lingers, and , his pockets, which had been rilled, were , turned iuslde out. Baker was aeon- , vivial man of 60, and had been drink- , ing heavily all day. It was currently , reported that he had sold a team of horses and the supposition is that he was decoyed to the river, murdered, ^ mVihp/i and t.hrnwn into the water. , ] Death in a Coal Mine. St. Louis, June 25?A dispatch from ' Hamilton. Mo., says: An accident oc curred at the shaft of the Caldwell Coal J Company's mine, near this city, yestec- ; day, in which one man lost his life, and : four others received serious injuries. J The men were propping up the roof, ! when a rock, weighing a ton and a half, 1 fell, killing Paul Bloise instantly, crush- ' mg jttooeri siewan s uacK, ureitst ituu right arm, almost scalping Frank Doo- 1 ley and crushing John Lewis and Wil- j liam Hall more or less seriously. Killed by a Cloudburst. 1 Jv>:oxvii/le, Tenn.. June 25.?Aro- < port comes from Cherokee County, North Carolina, of a terrible cloudburst there late yesterday afternoon. Two illicit distillers, named Harvey Agnew 1 and Jacob Newton, who happened to j be near by, were instantly killed. A I number of farms for miles below were ' inundated and growing crops suffered : q lrwcj nf ?pvera1 t.hnnsanrJ dollars. * Wannatnaker Offers to Explain. Philadelphia, June 29.?The Bardsley investigating committee resumed < its sittings this afternoon and exam- 1 ined a large number of witnesses. A communication was received from ; Postmaster General Wannamaker, in which he offered to appear before the committee at any time upon twentyfour hours notice. WHERE THE MONEY GOESReceipts and Expenditures for the Past Fiscal Year. Washington, July 1.?The monthly public debt statement was issued today in an entirely new form. It combines both the Secretary's statement of the public debt and the United States Treasurer's monthly statement of assets and liabilities, heretofore issued separately. Comparison with the last monthly statement and the statement issued July 1, 1890, shows an increase in the public debt during the past month of about five millions, and a net redaction during the past fiscal year of twenty million dollars. The surplus in the treasury today, in the new form of statement put out today, is placed at $53,893,808, or about five millions less than a month ago, with no change in the interest-bearing debt of the government during the past month. The bonded debt todav is $610,529,120, made up in round numbers of $560,000,000 fours and $50,500,000 four and a half per cent bonds. Government receipts from all sources during the past fiscal year aggregated $401,530,716, or about one million and a half less than during the preceding year. Customs receipts were $219,900,658, o about ten millions less than during the preceding year; internal revenue receipts were $145,943,281, an increase over the preceding year ot three millions and a quarter, and receipts from miscellaneous sources were nearly thirtysix millions, about five millions greater than in the preceding year. On the other hand, expenditures during the fiscal year just closed were $388,G9G,924, against $318,040,710 during the preceding year. Seventeen millions and a half of this increase is found in the pension charge of $124,145,110 for the past year. Civil and miscellaneous ex penditures during the year amounted to $110,139,339, an increase over the preceding year of nearly thirty millions. Indian expenses were $8,526,198, or nearly two millions more than during the preceding year. Xavy expenditures were $26,115,098, or four'millions more than durin? the preceding year, and war department expenditures were $48,723,116, or four and a quarter millions greater than in the preceding fear, $37,127,201 were paid Jout during the year for interest on the public debt and $10,401,220 in premiums on $114,000,000 bonds purchased and redeemed during the year. SENATOR INGALLS AS A LECTURER. He Discusses Current Problems In His Characteristic Way. Washington, June 30.?Ex-Senator Ingalls made his debut as a lecturer at the National Chautauqua at Glen Echo, near this city. His subject was '"The problems of our second century." and his effort was listened to by a large au dience. The first problem which ne discussed was the danger of paternalism in government, and he paid his respects in his unique way to that class of people who want their debts paid by Act of Congress and who would have money as plentiful as autumn leaves in the forest. He did not believe, he said, in having the government doing everything and the people nothing. Refemng to the problem of unequal distribution of wealth, he said that it was not right that ten million people should never have enough to eat in this country from one year's end to another, nor should it ever happen that a man rT7/"4T"?4- ^nnrryX7 TITOO TTTII 1 r??-?/3 rTCUU UUU^LJ iTu^u nao TY auu able to work. It was quite evident from bis talk, however, that he did not expect the present condition of affairs to 3peedilv change, for he said that if all the wealth in the United States were to be equally divided now, in sis months there would be some people riding in palace cars, some in buggies, some would be walking, and some would be sitting in fence corners watching the procession go by. "Above all," he added, "there would be heard again the voice of the ir repression reiormer earning nis livelihood by the perspiration of his jaw rather than by the sweat of his brow." If some men were rich and others were poor it was the fault of the Creator. He would not disguise the fact th it the present was a momentous crisis in the history of this country, and that all the forces of demoralization were marshalled for the contest. He had no doubt of the outcome of the fight. There would be in the future broader liberty, larger opportunities for happiness and greater prophesies for de velopment of the nation than the mind of man cau now conceive. White Cap Whipping in Indiana. Chicago, III., June 30.?A dispatch from Xew Albany, Ind., says there was another brutal whipping by white caps in crawford county Sunday morning in wmuu a vuuiig wuuiaii ut eigiibecu years was on^ of the victims. "William McGuire and his eighteen year old step daughter live near Lea/enworth, the uounty seat of Crawford county. They were reported to be living in adultery but there was no proof of this charge. About 1 o'clock Sunday morning twenl.y masked white caps, all armed with revolvers went to McGuire's residence, hrntp rfnwn t.hft clnnr an.-! <;pi'/in<7 \T<? Gruire, who is about fifty years old, and his step-daughter dragged them to the woods ana tied them face foremost to trees. Then the clothing of both victims was lowered to the hips and the white caps commenced the cruel work sf whipping them on their bare backs, flaying thsm from the shoulders to the hips. The young woman shrieked for mercy at every blow, but her appeals were in vain until she sunk fainting from pain. She received over fifty lashes. Her shoulders, rack and hips are frightfully larcerated. Old man McGuire was given about seventy-five lashes. He also fell fainting under the 3avage punishment. After the whipping the white caps notified them if they were found in the county twenty Jays later they would be hung up by their necks and left for the buzzards to pick. This infamous whipping of a hrlpless girl has created the most intense excitement in Leavenworth and the neighborhood of that town and is leuouactfu wilu uitLciucaa. A Sad Accident* Blackville, S. C., July 2?Mr. James McDonald, a highly" respected and well-to-do citizen living about a half mile from Elko, went this morning with a party to Capt. W. W. Willis's mill on a fishing expedition. About 10 o'clock he and Ins two grown daughters went out into the pond in a boat, and while paddling up the pond the boat struck a tree, throwing out the younger donap XIa inrt inmnoH nau^ub^i, liv iWLuvvuMvvij j wujyv/u overboard to save her when they both went to the bottom and did not. rise again. The daughter left in the boat managed to get the boat out and reported it. The bodies have not yet been recovered, but they are being searched for.?News and Courier. J A HORRIBLE DEATH. " GEORGE W. MALCOM BITTEN BY A MAD DOG. S He Showed No SIgrng of Hydrophobia Until He Saw "Water?He Begged and Prajed to Die Before the Spasms Came. " iSs Monroe, Ga., June 20.?Mr. George W. Malcom, Sr., one of the most promi- ^ nent men and one of the best citizens of Walton county, met a horrible death at his home nine miles from here yesterday mornins. He died from hydrophobia and the scene at his death bed was terrible. On the morning of the 3d of June, oVrnnf /lorVkyfiolr K/a r\ii4 fA Kio lrtt 4! ak/vuo uajui^aA1 ug ouuMiu vuu w uxo ivu to feed his horse. Ia the public road near the lot he met a dog cominsr down the road in a run. Without the least JaM provocation the dog sprang at Mr. Mai- - ~ corn. catching him through the nose and A face. He held on like grim death, and only turned loose his hold after Mr. Maicom had chocked him nearly to dea&L.? Notwithstanding his mourirand nos? were badly torn by the bite of the dog, and rhe blood was rapidly flowing from his wounds, Mr. Malcom still held on to the dog until he could get a rock, with which he beat the dog to death. He was a brave, gritty man, and seemed to have less fear of hydrophobia than any of his friends. TTfi wnnld alwars snv? t;f dnn'fc think the dog was mad and I don't believe I will have hydrophobia." Tuesday he ate a hearty dinner and ? ' went out oa tne porcn to gee a arinK ox water. As soon as the dipper reached his lips he jumped high off the floor and screamed at the top of his V9ice. As soon as this, the first convulsion, wore off, he announced to his family that he was a dead man?that he had hydrophobia. He sent at once for all his children and had a neighbor to write his will. This being finished, he began having convulsions, which were light at first and atiniervalsofabout one hour. They grew harder and harder and nearer and nearer together until Wednesday even- , ing, wheu he became exhausted and irra- J tional, and remained in this condition until Thursday morning, when he died. -**Tj The physicians could do nothing to relieve him. They gave him morphine, which made him deathly sick, and from , this tune he refused to take any medial no anrt xxrn nl/1 rrn in f/\ nnntrnlcinno wkMVf MMVi II VU.U iiV iUbV WU I UUJiVUO Jwhen the subject was men'ioned. He never drank a drop of water from the time he was taken until he died. He wanted it and talked about it, and e^en bagged for it, but when it was brought into his sight he would shudder and order it carried away as quickly as possible. He frothed at the mouth, and his screams were heartrending. He would ,1 beg to die, and often prayed to die before another spasm came. Me seemed to nave superhuman strength. Sis men around his bedside could not hold him down. Finally, in a convulsion more terrible than any that had preceded it, death came to his relief. * Mr. Malcom was sixty years old, and : "" a deacon in his church. He leayes a-""" wife and ten children, most of whom are grown and married. "The Chinese Most Go." Washington, June 24.?Acting Secretary Spaulding rendered a decision _ today In regard to China that will be widespread in its application. Three Chinamen yesterday came to Detaoit from Canada, and the commissioner in- ?? timated that Canada was the country from whence they came and to which they should be returned. Acting Secretary Spaulding directed that they be returned to China, and in discussing the > points raised by the United States Com missioner at uetron, sent tne ionowing telegram to the Collector there: 4 The act of September 13, 1888, is notin force, as the treaty named in Section No. i not ratified. The act of August 13,1890, makes appropriation specifically for returning to China all Chinese persons il- ^ legally in the United States. It is use~ less to return them to Canada to come back tomorrow. The above act was expressly made to'meet the difficulty. Under it we return unquestioned to China, tu> i/uc cuuiitry waence taey came, v>uinese coming from Mexico and British Columbia, as they make the contiguous foreign countries the avenue for reaching the United Stales. The Attcruo? General gives the opinion that this action is directly in the line of carrying out the expulsion act for which the appropriation was made. It is the practice on the Pacific coast, when the court finds Chinamen illegally in the country, for the marshal to turn taein over to the collec- y* tor at San Francisco for deportation to Phino HPh/a onoo ?a An/>ooinn w**ww. Jk Iiv lUi^UU C^O UV WWWiVU ..?* for different practice at Detroit." The Knights of Labor. -; ',3 Columbus, 0., June 24.?The Gener- J al Executive Board of the Knights of Labor is in session here to-day. The A meeting will continue for several days, and will be an important one in many respects. It will be decided whether Maj. McKinley shall be denounced or IS antagonized because President Harrison had refused to allow the reinstatement of discharged nlate printers at the "Rti reau of Engraving and Printing at fl Washington. Mr. Devlin said this afternoon that no fault could be foua&-?| with McKiDley personally, as he' had ~r expressed sympathy with the men, but if antagonized'at all it would be as a V leader of the Republican party, whose head. President Harrison, had refused the demand of organized labor. A Bruto in the Mountains. Greenville, S. C., July 2.?It is reported from the upper part of this county that on Sunday last "Babe" Durham, a young white man, brutally beat Miss Gos-oell on the head and body ^ with the but1- of his pistol and kicked her because she had promised to marry Durham's rival, whose name is not known. Durham also shot once at his rival, who ran. The young lady may not live. Officers are after Durham, but he is keeping out of the way.?News and Courier. Duet In a Court Rouuj. ^NASHVILLE, ?enn., june <:?.?.a.t Buffalo Valley, Putnam County, two witnesses in .- "murder trial, named Jim Mitchell pd Oscar Piunkett, became involve-:': .. quarrel in the court room Saturday. They drew revolvers and began firing at each other and kept it _ u]> until both had been mortally wounded. The shooting caused great consternation in the court room, the spectators dodging behind doors and under benches to escape injury. Excursion Train Wrecked. Van Bcren, Ark? June 26.?A special excursion train from Little Rock to Fort Smith was wrecked by a broken roil mtloQ ooof nf here* at firSrt last. night, kiUifiofa little babe of Mrs. Walker and/wounding about twenty passeugersy/Conductor Henry Angel had his jjurbroken and Elson Willard, of Little ^Kock, had a leg badly mangled.