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j^P^^tn^week. If s aaraBPTlor Southampton ant in that direction and ihe other six dajs in other directions, ho*v fig long beiore the steamer will get to SoutH hampton? It will never get there. And though a man mar seem to be [voyaging heavenward during the hoi}' Sabbath day, if durirg the following six iajs of the week he is going toward the *orld, and toward the tlesb, and toward the devil, he will never ride up into the peaceful harbor of heaven. You cannot eat so much at the Sabbath banquet :hat you can afford religious abstinence the other six cays. Heroism and princelv behavior on great occasions are no apology for lack of right demeanor in circumstances insignificant and inconspicuous. The genuice Christian ili'e is not spasmodic; dees not go by fits and starts. It toils on throus n heat and cold up steep 1 Mountains ana a ong aan^erous activities, Its ere on the everlasting bills crowned with the castles of the blessed. In the first place, we want to bring the religion of Christ Into our conversation. When a dam breaks, and two or three villages are overwhelmed, or an earthquake in South America swallows a whole city, then people begin to talk about the uncertainty of life, and they imagine that they are engaged In positively religious conversation. 2\o. You pay calk, about these things and have no race of God at all in your heart. We scht-Ttrvery day to be talking religion. ft 4L. u ??w: ~ i:i?iu auvut iv, aur il about it, anything imit, we ought to be contm>ing it. I have noticed that proportion as their Chrise is shallow, talk about ravejards and tombstones . The real, genuine Chris> ch'elly about this life and rnity beyond, ana not so -he insignificant pass be\ro rcsiaences. And yet ihere are where the re V/Uiisa ifc cle ev?n of Christian peor are full of jov and h:!arbut Christ or heaven ana Lmediatelj silenced. As h, when the forests are Hp and chirrup and caroi Krus ol bird harmony, gi|h. an orchestra?if a B? sky erery voice stops |H still; just so I have lg?us circle silenced on Sfcything like religious Wr?np. l'Hfi anTthin"- to IBW3P ? ' J 1 J old patriarch U room, who really pBig ought to be said I?ce$, so he puts oca and heaves a long ^F?)h, jes; that's so, Us, th?; religion of Je*us nethmg to talk about with a It is brighter than the v.aore cheeriul than the sunot io arouud groaning a '-out f/\ Vn es: r\ , r ?> U^Li J VU VU^U^ UV WV mg it in cheerful lones <?1 often is it that we find men e utterly inconsistent, who kik religion, and always re of it! My friends, we ton, or we cannot talk it. Inky and cross and uucon in his dealings, and then about Christ and heaven, Hailed by it. In urd such Ca6n stlV. lli We are miserable siaord bless you," "The i on you," their converL with such expressions. Lhin^ but canting, and Hkst form of hypocrisy. Eg felt the religion ot Hr. let us talk it, ana gated countenance, reBkheju V^o Qfnstlan KB especial attention Ht they say. Mal&> that fearfcd the ?8r another; and ggkd beard it, and a Hp must bring the Hu: emplo}meats. His very well if a MB of money, or it Hpallic, but ia mr H in my trinamini: Hiumble work in BaLho sphere is too fflSueh grand. hc:ivwtoldjouso'r Do ' i*"f Mk?Urikce as crrli of a blaziuc iifo'reep np the ^Rnuch imprc^|k>s the waving Hue ban on cedar; Kinder the cow's pGod's ear as the fiagratioa. When tlo in life, however : to be, God :'s alu to do it. Hkhurches snouiu oe ppfj> iirst turn of the g| ck.'lT ilr, I tell ^B;reat sticklers :or B&hey * ?.?: "1 ou BRllaBfflB&HLaiul surplice ami oh like an angel, iere and attenu x thiols. Dou'i |u in the same L vour matters rs." Xhe}T do jtery cheat thev 6?S* f f would do it. bat we can't in this every- j son^M j day life." TheSB^rWB - Do not think ibai any work God gives incense, and the^H?| J you to do in ibe world is on too small a river looks like th^Suo? scale for you to do. The whole univers e sacrifice. Ob, that we is not ashamed to take care of one little i sive. i'et who thanks ( flower. I sav: "What are vou doin<r Uer gushes up m th ~ ^ 1 ^ ? Q ! do^*_ here m the grass, you poor little LUim,i1u luc ? flower? Are vou not afraid nights.-1 ?3er ro^itl' ^n(! : *?? wUI be Ejected, you will die of thMte God thirst, you will aot oe fed. Voor little follotainoflife,thebrid flower!" ';>o, says a star, "im watch tne path of sound, the over it to-night. v*^o, sa,ys a cloud, hot summer's day? W - * ^TJll ?? J* V yv J? COT'O fV.A iu:- j ^ 1 -i ' I J. ii ^l>fc! It UliUrw fajj kuc ^1115 WUUU.fcUi.Ui pu^'SJ ; sun, "I'll war in it :n my besom." Then this sweep of the visior : I see the pulleys goins:, and the clouds harmony struck into tt are drawing water, and I say. '"What tread of a myriad deligti ' are you doing there, 0 clouds?" And vous tissue, this rolling ' the reply. 1 * We are giving drink to that tide through artery and i flower." ming of the heart on on , mi * - i . , , , mortality? We take a luen the wind rises an.! comes bend- as a ma&? of cottr5. mg down the wueat and sounding its j;,u suppose God sh j psalm through ttie lorest. anc i cry, these common blessing "Whither awey on such swift wing, 0 would become an inquisi wind?" And it replies, "We are going the cloud would refu: , to cool the cbeek of that flower." And green thing would crum then I bow down and say, "Will God earth would crack op' Lake care of the grass t)f the Geld?" And feet. Th ; air would cea a flower at my foot responds, "Yes; he circulation, pestilence clothes the lilies of the field, and never anc^ e-?,6ry house would ^ -Violin ^fraomo ye, h?.s forgotten me. a poor little flow- w1. 3xv.uixo. _ >?u er." Ob, when I see the great heavens v'ermm aQd thendr bending themselves to what seems in- a^nf^rl ; secant ?ticns, when I had . out th.it God does not forget anj bios- liye this morning with som 01 the spring or any snowflake of about you! xs it not ti the winter, I come to the conclusion every word of our lips ai that we can afford to attend to the min- of our life, we began t( ute things ii life, and that what we do these every day merci we ought t> do well, since there is as ye eat or drink, or what* much perfection in the construction of a all to the glory of God." spider's eye as in the conformation oi a> or a woman this f flamino' calnvips. has not rendered to Go* r t~j r 11 *? r t'ering of thanks? Piato had a faole which I aave now x preaching one oearl? forgotten^but it ran something dav and announced my like this: lie said spirits of the other thanks unto the Lord, world come *>ack to his world to find a tor his merc< endureth bodj and find a sphere of work. One not know whether there i trtrit came and took the body of a king ing on the sermon or n( and did his work. Aaotber spirit eamS went straight to a youi and took the body of a poet and did his He said to himself, as I work. After awhile Ulysses came, and '! '9k> 2*v.e ^janks ,un^c be said. "TV'iiv, all the dee bodies are D|is&ooci wny.inavt takeQ, and all the grand work is taken. *** kirn There is nothing left for me." And ? wi^i .Hi,! .1 ^ u.ot brother, that you have l some one replied. Ah. the best one cr0od hand of God all tl pas been left or you." Llysses said, vou have had clothing , , "What's thau-" And the replywas, ^ beQe(icient surrount "The body of a common man, doing a bave never offered your 1 common work and for a common re- Ob, let a sense of the d ward." A good fable for the world and shown you in the ever just as good a fable for the church, melt your heart, and if j , Whether we eat or drink, or whatsoever before uttered the ea we do, lot us do it to the glory of God. tnanKsgiving let tms oe Asrain, we need to brin.: the religion shall hear your son?. ^ of (Jurist into our commonest trials, one I say to all of this ai For severe looses, for bereavement, for ' kis Pracical religion I trouble that shocks like an earthquake :ner3C*?Kl Into your everyc and that blasts like a storm, we prescribe lacramentlmd everv ro< religious consolation; but, business man, h . f h0iies we a'l for the small annoyances of last week, do/letus be ^iUiag t0 now muca 01 tnc grace o. God ~ia you ^ave sorrows to bear; le apply? "Oh," you say, "these trials . fh ,,. are loo smalt for such application!" .My Ks coSa^ud fl jht brother, they are shaping your character, j- you t<>' dfe ri ihey are 3curing your temper, they are iiVe right. Negligence wearing oat your patience and they are will rcin the hiss of eve making ym less and less of a man. I while faithfulness will ^oiuto a sculptor's studio and see him lands and wave its sceptt shaping a statue. lie has achisel in one its throne long after thii hand and a mallet :n the other, and he on ashes and eternal ag gives a verv gentle ^stroke?click, click, their march, "i ou^ go h< click! 1 say, "Why don't Jyou strike attend to yoor little sp, harder?" "Oh," he replies, "that would go home and atte shatter ;he statue, i can't do it that ^ fP - - ... Diane. So our ev^rv sten way; I must uo it this way!" aS5mptaToa^;i?< , sofce wonts on, and alter awhile the footstool on which We ai featrues comc out, aod every body that willboacounqueror'sth eaiers the studio is charmed arid tasci nated. Wed, God has jour soul under ^"hT Chin Apoio process of development, and it is the lit- London, Jan. 28.?Tf Lie annoyances and vexations of life that lished the following disp are chiseling out your immortal nature, from [Santiago, Chili. * It is click, click, click!* 1 wonder why reads: The' llian Cab some sreat providence does not come, cussing its reply to the u % * ' ' A w tritt?K \ oK if- ^o qvi land witn oae stroKe prepare you ior i iu ^ wj heaveD. Ah. no (ip?: ?avs that "Way.' And so he keeps on by "strokes | A*1 ii'i^r'Shf dlJ of little annoyances. little sorrows,'lit- E ^ tie vexations, until at last you shall be c|l, ? j a glad spectasle for angels aud for mtn. of th~ UaitedW* S lou know that a large fortune may be XotMng however, is as spent in small change and a vast amount known But for the I of moral ch&riictcrmsy ?0 civrsiT In small \mprif>?in r*nn depletion. It is the little troubles of lile AUanfe thS sudden r" | that are having more effect upon you the difficulty might be c | inau UUC5. ix. svycxiujl Ui iin/UoU) ao vuc ui i/iiu mauj % [ will kiil a grain lieH sconer tkan the in- which this strange crisis Icursioa of three or four cattle. ing for months, zccordir You say, "iincel lost my child, since American home poll I lost my property, I hare beea a differ- pending arrival of an A ent man." But you do not recognize roa ^ alp&raiso, howe the architecture ot little annoyaoecs that ?lernen^ Ol danger. The ?** *: * taph?i A^f; ..pi.tting auu .QcerjOinin? your moral yantia^o says: "It Is qua hues. Ivats may sink a ship. One Grmedtothat (he Chilian ] luci.er muica qteKsena oes'-ruciion ter, in accordance with through a block ^ ^re-houses. _ Cath- riVed at by President: M< } enne ue ncr ueaia xruiii j net, aner consulting \*i smejlinr a poisc^Wkia^ Columbus, of State, has replied to by slopping and asking lor "Srpl^cc cf j ultimatum in terms trhi bread and a drink of water at a Francis- the President and gove can convcnt, was led to the discovery of United States. In view the New World. And there,is an inti- between the forces of tb mate conucc'ien benveen trifles and im- %ould seem that Chili h rnensiLie?. between nothiags and OTery- scurce than t,o make sac i thir.?r? ty necessary to satisfy a ! u , nation." { DC CUrCIUi tO ICt LIULiC Ui tucac j - anaoyauces no through jour soul uoar-! Th? $*b-Trf>a: rained. Cum pel them iu administer { Washington, Jan. 2* 10 your spiritual wealth. The scratch I s^?n of Georgia introdu< j oi a isixpciiT.j ua:l sonic times produces i -House today providing' : | i?\:kja*\ &ud the clip of a most imiuites- suh-treasuries for stori: j cuilai-ijOjaucc may da.ru3-*e 70u forever. measure ij Do not let nnv annojance orpp-pIexitT '" - t> Produced. hy , fTjZSZr'>oai with0lA w ^ I f wu commonest blessiugs/taefore it can be entitled J W hen the autumn comes and the har- rurv. HP: Ch WTt?' a ^o: pre as girl *op for the >va- ^?^^^^H8HBB^PBedies. amon?' VeI1> and that .tafm iuade her UDC'?u ad that laugl s ^tnselj sick am^Sieau of imnrovin^ SQi^ ; patters in the *h? ?rew rapidly WOrse. Two more phvIte hands in the siciaiw of the same neighborhood were mode for the air, the called ia. Each had n diflerent idea of tears ' - hprai geor sunueuns, uis-Jiise num. wuioii iuju nw suuciiusi auc] 1j great fan on a and each would hare prescribed differ- at j0 no thanks Gcd enc medicines. Nothing appeared to do surr01 ical organism? the patient anr good aud she began to \ove i, this chime of sob like a cha'stised chiid. This con- ^.a3 a ie ear, this soft n^ued through the dar, but at nighL^|^j tsover the ner- would nearly cease and she would sleefflHlSsff oi the crimson g0UQ(j]y until morning. .She began t? v.:, ,v irmarch to^m- comPla~ia ?/upaiDv3 m,the hre^\ and thou? ,, I?L? stomach ana her head began to jsrk con " UJ'U"3 vulsirelr. " " very ould withdraw , The physicians iinally dmd?d that her ? s! Your body t'ier0 was n0 k?Pe *or tue cailu? Other t^ey ( ition of torture, physicians were called in, ?.mon? them h pp, se rain, eveiy Dr. J. R. Wilkinson, of this city. All of gjft pie up, and the them decided that the girl could not kneVy en under your live. The. medicine and food which was ] ise Its healthful jivea her ?ras not retained. I3y t:iis easiiv would swoop, time the girl declined to take any more secUr( become a place fo^d or medicine, saying that medicioe a{j0ut uld lirst swim not beuelit her. She vrai a mem- ne(i , y up, and thirst ^ 0fthe church and said nothin; but Lue nj Obfcoafpare h!5:... ........ ?or.i 1 the life you oomsu.mpva a. muu,,u ,ai? a.ic w? Au;;u tour families take? nl sne complained of the light Sever me that, with burting her eyes and it was not long aatj w id every action before she lost her sight. For a while sob;J, 3 acknowledge she could see objects bat everything ap- storT. es? "Whether peared black to her. Then she began to <^)je loerer ye do, do lose the power of speech. Two months Loiug Do I address after a physician had been called in all fa^ier i morning wh^ rather stomach would retain wa? the j'a4 donesmgl , juice of watermelon and the water that th2 (; , . . melted from ice put in her mouth. For ~v < Thsmlrsmvn.cr 1 ? ? ,,? very s live momns sne am no; s^ano^v a unas , for he is V^de Ox water. Her father bought ice by the ^ forever" *1 do hUQdreds 01 pounds in this cilj. He did <ouL was any b'ess- no1 SiTe up hope and apeat everything haG {c )t, but the text ^t he had saved and ?rbat he could dec^t ig man's heart. borrow. The neighbor* srere kind and ue't0 read the text: assisted hiru. The death of the child as ^ > the Lord, for was expected every day arc' c^ery hour. ti)e A s never render- She had lain in bed ninety four days ^{qoi, what an m- ^itheut touching a morsel of food and u* _ 5s 'aa ^ ,^e? c,y for months without bein^ able to ?peak ?on . eenfea by the 0r see. Her sense ol heariorr remained Tv^'nt lese days?.ha^ antj S;,?DS her parents understood anr.nr ?li?n she wamtdiceor watermelon 'p'?' juice. The physicians had attempted fivine goodness 10 k,eep "P h? Ipjc-cLin?c French y~yx vday blessings oranc:j and tod liver oil. ^ _7C rou have never One day after the girl had been ill live t ^ rnesi note cf months, breath seemed to leave her and him j the day which her father, who was at work, was sent ' ' iVhat i say to for. The ?ad preparations for burial * idience. Take were begun. Xot a muscle of the child , ' have recom- moved, and there was not the least siirn rt_ ?r lay life. Make 0r life. She had been sick so long that n-.h, l every meai a jlftr eyas had sunk deen in her head. __ -n. ^h^val-nrL-61^ sores covered her body and she did not doit We?H weigh over twenty pounds. The neigh- ~1t } t us cheerfully bors catno in 1.0 express 'heir sympathy Carrpe , ; tor the afuieied lami'v and oiler iheir asthpm5 sistane?. The girl remained in the trance, ,"rf gilt von rnnst j?r V"? wafvfor I'oura. She ; b, and "indolence nenr{* tlie lamentations, ol nc-r parents, :rlastin-ii scorn, words of sj mpathy o{ friends, but she gather its'gar- could cot speak or move. Suddenly life -Eli *r ana sit upon ser.mcd to return to iior and for the first tensi\ s earth has put time in months she feebly nv.ltered that J , ~i< es have begun .-he was hungry. The fa !,er heard the , Dine today and muttering?. lie was rejoiced and asked ^-1+ here of duties. Lis child whai she wanted. She sad she f0 s nd to my little wanted some fish un i wanted everybody ar*e~ir] in life sh*U be 10 Pray for her' : Ir-. C'ompion did not of a v lthehnmblest ;vait t0 ?el thc adn?- 01 a PhJSician efiort re called to sit abo,ut d* Vrdcnt ^h, but hur- Still i rorie ned to the Enoree r:ver. lie met a time ?11 neighbor who gave him psrt of an eel flame tized. which he had . aught. ilr. Compton the si le Times pub- returned, had the fish prepared and gave endar iatch yesterday i- to his daughter. She sucked the juice stean; The "dispatch from it and swallowed small bits of the i-npr still r'is- flesh. SLrantre to sav. 3hft retained this an^ i ltimatumfrom food. The little girl be?an slowly to what she wanted. The physicians still "feet** lerences men- gajd sjic Wouid not live. The father ^har i delivered on ^.ive i^g everything she asked front; [misters them- ^5 the power of speech returned coopr oreme Court t'?e girl's sight grew better. The power putni PIC 6 A.u.ninrr r.VT?C TlftOT 1 i yet definitely "^"'"7 "V: ^-j^i - ?----- appearance of her, but the lias were pulled open and of mf sing from the closed by her parents. They remained stiils ?crndescrnce of in whatever pos'tion they were left. a?Sre onsidered oniy Weeks passed and the little girl continihases through ued to strengthen, iler sight and the J)u: > has been pays- power oi' opening and closing the eye Collej ig to exigencies lids returned, and for two months she Assoc tics. The i in- has beeu in good health, but is still weak. Chun merican squad- jjcr ioa^ iiicess and the lact that her Only Vur, imc0/' -inibs remained in nearly the same po- board I S!tl0a all the nine, made her le^s slight- theole ) to-dav from two 1 f *.Y UCJUi 111CU i*~3 iiv? *? itvv? viina, . . confidently at- from this dcformllj. She does not feel lb ? Foreign Vlnis- an~T Ja" cuects of her stranre illness ?95^ the decision ar- and has felt no pain* for two months. "t^' j mtfc and Cabi- During her illacss twelve physicians ar.a. tl th t he council visited her but her case bailled them all. on th< the American ^"earh everj Sun-.hy persons from miles and tl ch srill satisfy around ".rent to .Mr. Complon'* home to resun rament ol the learn the condition 0: ihe child audio ie?e c of the disparity jiear fn0 rno:-t marvelous story that had years e two powers it ever been told them. best s ad no other re- jjefore the lit tie i^irl recovered, one ^ cc m'o'e rovr^ffai large stone bruise ou each heel caused Thee *" hr>r infrnsr. suileriuff. Oiten before she became speechless she said that she felt Coi .,RrT" . . something ia her throat like a worm und to Th |viQ?" tried to reach her lingers to it to pull it Chest ;ea a bill in the ouc< }Tcr COastant request vra* that she conte ?! praved for aud she believes do a- thai 2;o*clc sfdenticai^Ith 11 ">?*?> ; God restored her *S? tlirln"the^Iast sho '=> 1 little g:rl, apparently reduces from no'L 0V2r cigu^ or umu uiu, m sh'pa 3 value of pro- answered intelligently and pleasantly jg 3d by a countv all luestions asked iier by tbe reporter, two'h to a sub-treas- iloaey was left for her while she was 0f wo /ill and her lather brought her to the city once. gPPren the train rsaehed t-e ? _ , pp^y were put under arrest and CE it Pathetic_tel_e did i\e_hear_i troni ( D^iVLnf A^out tw^ ps 01 me jouuu ?iri, auu wane u information was received : >eing told the man sat apparently that, the Auditor and Trea icerned ia a rocking chair calmly ion Countv were guilty of i ing a cigar. that needed attention. I S3 Blaton is a very pretty sir!, Thursday,the 14th instant, st, and was nicely dressed. With investigation, but was ca in her eyes, she told the story of business of importance, an rror. She said she was IG vears old finest Hop. \V. J). Mayfie ved with her father and his family investigation for me, and 1 hnson, where she was happy and miu herewuh his report. o ReSPCCtfUllV. anueu wim jrujjius, ouincuiuc m | - ^ p ^ mber last she met Carpenter, who j Com'ptrolh .t the time depot keeper for the j Mr_ May(ield's report is a ?tio, Columbia and Augusta lload. I Office of State Supt.Ei new him to be a married man, as j Columbia, J ife was living in Johnston, but she Hon. W. il. Ellerbe, Compi ht he was divorced, as he was not ral, Columbia, S. C. with her. Ths two soon becacno Dear .Sir: As request intimate. He finally proposed to went to Union on Thursday > go with him to Georgia, where pose of examining into th :ould easily be married, and live t^a,t .Friday an lv together in some quiet place. J?!'1 aru' l^th insfant, wc ecided to go with him and as she xcumQV her parents would seriously object SU^nHi^i889"01 aadto escape secretly This was " The" CountF Tourer done. Larpeoter and his vicliia 0{]jce for ihe last six years id a buzgy and drove to Trenton, Auditor for the last eight y seven miles distant. They stop- C]erk, who serves botn th at the hotel in Trenton aDd spent and Auditor, (which shoul ight in the same room. In the lowed) for the last two ye; hg they took the train and came to as I am informed. They a sta. Then the arrest followed, miliar with their books ani ai times she could hardly speak, of their respective ofiices. as forced to slop co keep bacK her as might be expected iron md tears while telling ner sad ar.? .Dea*,}y kept. I I hp I rMcii"Ar c was turned over to her uncle, Mr.! stl(nv *ue following: Russell, of this city, until her | original asseSSSJ^ came for her. I 0a ?2,837,3 in io:erriew with a reporter oi Additional assesshronicle Carpenter said he was incuts on 111,7 sorry he had gotten mixed up -n 15 per ccnt. penalty on 13,2 in aflair, but he was entirely icu <In the first place he was married. county taxt-s is not separated from his wife. lie Original assessments )st his position in Trenton and h:ul on ....... ?2,S37,3i :d to go to Thomson, Ga., to work. Additional a ssessId the girl of his proposed trip, and meats on 111,7: > ?rauted to come to Augusta to see Original assessments armiral he was perfectly willing io AdSnalTssess- " her, leaving her m Augusta with ments Special latires, while he went cn to Thorn- County on 111,7-3 mi.?? 1"npr cunt ncnrtltr i UCJf U1UYC # HKJLLX U V/IJUOLVu ,W w. on, but missing the train they Ordinary County, the nigntat Trenten. He had not ; L"=23 ;sed to marrj her for ho was al- "sVciaf ciS" on 13,2! married. H e said the case looked lgly pgainst him. hut he thought iuld come out ail right, as he did . . school taxes ink they could prove much against, Original assessments^ >ut if the; did Ik could stand the AfcaYiS^rt*837'* quences. 011 111,7on3table arrived iu^the city Tues- l.i per cent, penalty on ' 10*2] ad took carpenter back with him Original polls edncsday. Additional polls } unfortunate girl relumed home 13P'^cent, penalty on lesday. She told the same tale to other that she told in Augusta, idding that she bad been ruined by titer before. When asked vyL.it Total d her to run array with Carpenter, Recapitulations ol the c spited that she wss induced to do v-dditional assessments wil his "street chat."?Chronicle. '|es? ??ven a'oove, were m county ireasurcr settled fc a Great oil Fire. as appears from the settler zABETn, N. J., Jan. 28.?The ex- with the County Commissic e plant of Borne, Scrymser & Co., Commissioner," County A ;ating oil manufacturers, at jbiiza- comptroller general on tne ort, was almost entirely destroyed J uly, 1891. e to-night, An explosion of one A further investigate: ; stills occurred soon after the day revealed the fact that the Ti had left their work. The works collected other taxes tha i the suburbs, where there is lack which he had set-led. The vater supply, and this made tbe included in the recapitulate s to quench the flames ineffectual, the Auditor on the Treasu ifter still exploded and in a short [ and did not enter into tne much of the plant was a mass of made July 10, though they v s. The blazing oil floated out on on the Treasurer's books lrface of Staten Island bound and and were, in fact, collectei igered the tug boats which had l ana spring previous; nor, v ied to the scene to be of assistance. J portHl to the Comptroller itaten Island meadows were fired the Auditor in his abstract < jnited the trestle of the Baltimore erty and persons in Union C >hio bn^^ghich spans the sound for taxes. The. ^StractV 1 :!iis p? fckworks covcr-'d whi/:!i V?.e comptroller < villa' (IWPJH'WPff1 iri ?Tty other oilicers settled was frontage on the sound. The the extent that it did not ii ves along the full length of this taxes. The entry of thesi age were consumed, also the t^e back part of the Treas 1 ^ Kit/*.. ond on/1 n a r-.i f 111 n t i rvo r\f fh T 3 a Up ttUU UaiiClJLiU^, liUCl l c*^V4 aw ivvwv^.uuuvii V* ) houses. Forty-five thousand been made. I found them carrels, many thousands of barrels log off the names of cert inufactured oil and six immense who had paid their taxes were destroyed as well, the loss receipts in my possession) v gating 8300,000; Dartly insured. were thought not to be oa Erskln? Collate liuraed. , Ic ^ PfhaDS Well ?10U r,. wf^t s r Tan ?? FMki'iG e that 1 found all of the \V Jw i , T' ? f thr boons except ei^ht, an p, the theological seminary of tne be there entered in the wroi ,.ate Informed 1 re3b\ten-m Which is sometimes done :h, was burned this morning, jniormatioa. I examined a few benches, desks and bi^cK- shios where the Dersons re! s were saved, ihe library of the acij-oiRlnfr ones, but did nc >gical seminary, containing over t0 Jexanii'De th0^ of tbe v,, thousand valuc.ole volumes, a. as amount of each ct' the e >yed together with the col iegc* U- is sm*ill one? fnrntfnro Thf? 1$ flVf-r X) and no insurance. The halls of t ' " uesa.i cu iterary societies, exhibition Inll ^'.V ?.1J iV- ' le chappl, three separate buildings mh^Alro ^ s college campus, were not injured, fvi,L.u tie exercises of the college will bo c : l(" %?if' led without delay. Erskine col- ^u^ca ' i,r elebrated its semi-centennial t-vo pTvp.-o,.L? .1*1 ago, and is one of the oldest and c^m/?i?1o chools in the c>outh. It is under Vi mtrol of the Presbyterian Church. r"A.-.P/^pf.r. rigin of the Ore is unknown. thrJt ! kl!e >0" => lion given me as to hov; Factory linrned. ! came Ui)Out. The Tre.'ISl .umtjia. S. C,Jan. 2G.?A special that it was the Auditor's e Register from Chester says: The i properly making up his er Cotton Factory, with all its i Auditor says that he was si nts, was burned this morning at! the time the books were coi jck. The fire caught iu the dry- j left their completion to lus >om and fanned by a brisk breezy ; cierk, who as I have bet'or ly spread to the rt<=; of the hrge I vt s both the Auditor and incr a n +h? matlc machines ?:nl ! snvs that at the time he v.* X) worth of ginghams, ready for in? the oooks for' he Trea; lent, were destroyed. Totai loss i are but duplicates of th 10,000; insurance, ?151,000. Over books, he received a telejr undred operatives are throw out him home on account of th >rk. The company will rebuild at his mother, and that he sup ] got i?, He says he did not it surer Ox^H rregularitieS'lM appointed t-SM to make the nr^^HB| Ilea away on the oS^SSBI ^ 'V* J " been done before, thereSW hpo^cn^f Republicans of the StateT"^^!IH . uec 10 suo- ven?j0ri would be held during ttu month of March or April, when a Stati ticket would be "suggested," or somi , understanding had with reference t( c a?..c- the make-up of a ticket. With thesi MTATinv "suggestions" the Republicans would g< ?n is before the people and advance th< all. 10, I5J-. nloimc r\f tVio Tho ^niinfu nr frr>!W (iopp. wu.vu. uuua u.lc ganizations couia arrange the counts >d i v vnn t ticket- ^oon afLer the Democratic pri th mary the Republicans would hold theirs Q rno^ if The poll lists wouid be filed with th< d ^ativrHar COUQtv clerk an(' every detail of the le a csaturaay, ^ prjmary election strictly adhered to This plan would draw out the larges I I did not ^ePut)^can vote ever polled, and, sau v^uairmau ?v eu&i/ci, juulisk sucu eumu . , . . siasm in the Kepublican ranks as ha: nas been in never keen seen Sjnce 1ST6. , tne touoty ?j[f we can p0n a very heavy and le ears, ana tne gitimate vote, ('there need not beani e ireasurer tight, boxes,' suggested Mr. Lathrop. a not oeai- an(j then present our ticket to the voter: *rs or more, in November, I think we ought to re' ?et5u J,, ceive a good support," said Mr. Webster Th h if3 tic^et ttiat can show such strengtl ti 7k0. ' as we would exhibit at a primary ough; i the above, t0 meet %vitb some consideration frbn fn- iQcri on general voter." ur ioc. ju jjut Chairman Yvebster docs not hop< for success with a .state ticket. If th< plan he has outlined is to be pursued i1 rn susoru is very likely for an entirely differen * ' purpose than that of securing the con 40 5S6 64 troi 01 me state .cvamimscrauon. wna 10 ' 10*40 Mr. Webster and his committee wouk '? want would be to show to the world a' ?15,493,18 large what they claim as their voting population. The returns would be usee in possible Congressional contests. Mr CO ?12,708.12 Webster claimed that in Orangeburg County alone there were 1.200 vote: iO OU-.b3 -f'/AT* Ij oTTJr.ri or>'? Caob 1VI UUU O -r iW bUUli IjUCi-iJ ,n , - ft0,1 r signed a petition stating that they wen ' not allowed to vote for different rea sons. The executive committee evi to 070.44 deiitlv thinks it can prove such a stat* of ali'airs by holding a primary. Th< candidates on a possible State ticket .0 8.92 suggested Mr. "Webster, would be of th< best Kepublican material in the State. .0 11.89 Mr. Webster was of the opinion thai TTT77~ the entire South Carolina delegation iS>i>*5--45 no matter who might constitute it would be in favor of Harrison for re jo ? (5,7(33.00 nomination. ussaia ne pus noiaitc m the reported disaffection la the Re 10 230,20 publican ranks and saw no difficulty L0 " iCG ahead of him in the way of rows. 2,458-00 Mr. Webster evidently has not an] 310-00 unusual amount of sympathy for the Independert ^Republicans of the State 2^-15 He does not think much of their ac compnsnmems or or tneir possiDinues 9,oip.ai jjie corivention for the nomination o1 ?3G 7C 07 delegates to the National Republican irininal and Convention will lie held in April, anc h the penal- there will not be many weeks befor< iade and the ^e ? ?- P- heelers will at work. T the Same, Another Southern Outride. me-s School Washington, J an. 28.-There is anIvHhlr ir j other Southern outrage 1'or iienato] Hoar to try to make party capital oui ' ^ of. It is an outrage for which a mem ber of the Hour family is rc-sponsibie . ,,. .15 Will the Senator have* the courage tc frtr expose It V In his mail one morning H I nV^ IrH hist week Representative Shermar Jm ,iJ hI iIoar found the following letter: -My Dear Papa: "I shot my black sett lerrent doii's heud off with ^ POPffun.-^ ; was great fun." "Jtogtr." ioDff^before TLe letter was ia "Pri^~g letters,' i ^nrhpf^li sucl1 as small boy&jSfst learning t< rere th'ev re- wrlte' Senerall;?^e- l-?ut because th< General by been committed by hi; of the projii^^jear-oM son Sherman lloar wa: '(Muft^o-irahiriP0-t0 oe deferred from doing his duty >erelore bv Spartan-like hc-roism h? placec V' i ' j the following endorsement on the let ripfpVrivp m ter' aa(1 calling a page directed him t( vii-rip thpco take it to his venerable uncle at th< a , ..LS in other end of the Capital. This was Mr u^books Hoar's endorsement: pm naq pvpr .Respectfully referred to the Lon whi'pfhprk- George Frisbie Hoar, United States u Spriafnr with thp rppnnimpnflat.inn thai fhnv?no-Sth* the within communication seems to be .L,, 1rc a matter which should be properly in the books vestigated by the Senate commit tee on i?-h to sfat? Privi^ges and elections, as it is evidenl ? ri.,mPern that there was a discrimination made h t'ipv itpv against this doll on account of its j uicj u-.dy color." ifno^-ivrnmr Hoar. the liepresenUti ve, not the the town" ^enator, sa*(* later: "This shows the ;d<? and th? ttlects ~arlv training. Sons of cler!t have time gymen generally make up for theii . lathers ?xr.essive metv ov beinar ex iooVrr^in'* tremely rapid, and I ara afraid, that ? k Roger has commenced to commit thest rt-hof Southern outrages thus eiriy in hit j ' " (..jifin career simply because his graadunck ho^tno inn* has made so many 'outrage' speeches , a^i-pT-ites It is too bad, but I considered it m> C* unity and' ^ .t0 ref.er l!.ie mtter t0 tr'c -enatoi St>56; total for his acuorv; it, 61,002.54, E:trtliqaak? in liomc. .inted and is Rome, -Jan. ?X?There were severa shocks of edithquake here about 1] for your in- o'clock last night, which caused a pank the exolana- throughout the citv. The inhabitant; the matter thought their dwellings were abcii* t.c rer ch'.ims fall, and they rushed intc fault in not the street?, many of them books. The not waiting to :><ive their perick in bed at sonal effects. The theatres shook anc upleted, ami the persons present at the perioral clerk. The ances were greatly frightened. e sfated ser- : Treasurer, Killed by a FhIIIujj Koof. as compiet- St. Feteiisurno, Jan. 22.?Darius surer, which service In the church at iSlo'uouskoi i: e Auditor's the government of Vialka the roof gave 1 ? - - - "?J K/i. TSUQ CU-HlDg j "A <iy (tuu UUUAX WC >? Uiouipciij w e sickness of aeath. The wreckage was soon ciearec poses he for- away when it was found that fifty perinclude it in | sons had been either killed or in jured. 0 ? others more ?unrortunate. Citizens ; turned in to help in the work of rescue. 3 Cots were rudely constructed from s mattresses and strong armed policemen 3 picked up unfortunate ones and carried s them across the street to,the new ansex - but recently purchased by Doctors Al7 len and Wilson. An immense crowd gathered about i. and great anxiety was felt, for it seemed ; lmprooaDie tnat every one cocId have - gotten out of the burning mass alive i. and their fears were justified: t Two women jumped from windows. i One .of these was,-badly injured, but . another who was caught by a man 5 standing in the crowd escaped serious inj ury. Two others threw out their bawhich tupra cqiiotM Vvrr V kVW It " V4 V vuuguu k/J U ii UUi V^l-1 1 r One or two men jumped from the roof ) and were badly hurt. Many rescued i 5 people were taken to the nearest shelter. 1 . Two large restaurants soon had live or * >. six hundred inmates, among whom i scenes were indescribably pitiful. The l majority of patients in the hospital . were children under treatment for deformities or disease which rendered i them helpless. A very large number 5 had been more or less burned in addition to their former misfortunes and had be- ? .uva t come separated from their mothers . nurses. Among these occurred -?5ost t pitiful and touching scenes. 1 ~ Griffith's restauraunt held the irreat t, est number of sufferers. It is hardly ; possibie to teii how many owing to the I confusion. The bouse is unadapted tq the use to which it is put in emergency by three or four hundred. Seventy or eighty more fouad shelter in the Waddill House restaurant. Nineteen bodies so far have been taken from the ruins. Escaped a Horrible Death. i jl vxi& ra., o zn.za .? ijasc mgnt j acoD Studebaker, a traveling laborer, who reI cently came here from Westminster, .ilcl., was recently found terribly in j ured - on the Frederick Division Railroad crack, in the rear of the alms house. He ' was supposed to have been struck by a. ! train. lie was removed to the alms j house, where it was ascertained that his . injuries were caused by a blacksmith's WL , hammer.. His head was a perfect mass --^k o? clotted blood and cuts and abrasions, v r Investigation followed, and it resulted , in the arrest of Elisha Jobnson, a col- fl ored man, who was last seen with him, fl and who was snendiner monev freelv. M It is claimed that Johnson induced fl I SLudebaker to accompany him to the L above lonely spot and beat and robbed I him of about S35. He then placed him fl j on the track face downward, presum- V ably either to give rise to the supposi- fl lion that a train had struck him, or in fl order that a train should run over him 9| - This afternoon Studebaker became con- S : scions enough to remember what hapt oened.and Johnson was taken to - alms house, where Studebaker id&&med . him as the man who beatartra robbed > him. Johnson was comjs^tfted to jail. ; Studebaker is in jparttlcal.condition. 1 ThpTtfould Not Marry. ' e, Ya., Jan. 23.?News has ~rn&ched here of a double suicide in Franklin county. John T. Pinkard, ? the son /.f a well-to-do farmer or Franklin county, was engaged to be .. ^ married to Miss Delia Nicholas, an at: tract: re young lady of the same com- 'j&r \ munity. Miss Delia's parents objected ? s to the match and guarded against every i ; opportunity of elopement. The young^ lady procured a rope yesterday morn-' " ing, preceded to the woods near her [ home, and, after making two attempts, ' was successful in hanging herselt to a ' tres. A voun^er sister, who missed her from the house, went ip. search and : discovered her before VJfe was extinct, I but not in time to^f&ve her. Young , Finkliard soon hear/a of his sweetheart's ; untimely taking-off, and at once took a ' dose of arsenic, from which he soon : died. The bo/jies of both unfortunates M [ were burie^. today. JB /A Gale off New York, ML Xeu^Yokk, Jan. 28?The tug Webster jznd lour scows containing stree^B c^e%ing refuse were blown out to S6m Tuesday beyond Sandy Hook hejavy oil shore gale has blown^M siaice". It is scarcely possible ' ire still afloat aad ten men on tn^^^* a?id eight on the scows are supposed to ha*yr<? ceen drovrned. Searching tugs were scarcely able to live today. The i?"f r?/I KV : + ^ An.% Vinnrl f UJIV ClJfUlV IU UUC il U.ii VU. V.VI l"??w . an hour.. Ten scows of the same kind have beeaj anchored in Gravesend I3ay since yesterday witu fifty men aboard, and nothingc^has been * able to reach 1 them short ofa^-K?gboat. They are in I , great danger of freezirrg-^o death if not ; of being drowned. ^ ! Steamer* liurnrd at Sea. ? > London, Jan. 22.?It was generally i admitted today that there was no doubt . that two American steamships have rei ceutly been burned at sea, and it is^| . probable that in both casesevery soul ogfl hnsrr? nf fhr-m lost their lives. Tb^l incoming steamers have reporte^M ing burning steamers, and tbe^fl expressed is that they were . tank steamers, conveying pey? Europe. But this fact is tabiished in tiie case ofor^H ed steamers; there second vessel mayfl passenger stearne^H