The Fairfield news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1881-1900, March 02, 1892, Image 4
Terrestrial?Joy in Ffeaven Over the
Kepontinz of One Sinful Soul.
Osxaloosa, Peb. 21.?Rev. Dr.
t Talma^e preached here today to an
enormous ?.udience. He expects to be
absent from home about ten days, during
which period he speaks in as many
cities. T^e subject ot his sermon was
'T'avenl} Congratulations." His evident
intention was to make worlds that
seem a great way cu iiom eacti otuer appear
very near. Ilia text, was takeD
from Luke xv, 7, "Likewise joy shall
be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth,
more than over ninety and niue
just persons who need no repentance."
A lost sheep! Nothing can be more
pi* thoroughly lost. I look through the
window of a shepherd's house at night.
Tb? candles are lighted. The shepherd
has jus,; plLiScrlhs stall' against the
mantel. lie has taken o2' his coat,
shaken out of it the dust and hung it up.
I see by the candlelight that there are
neighbors who have come in. The shepherd,
tagged out with the long tramp, :
sits down on a bench, and the wife and
children and the neighbors say to him,
"Uome, now, tell us how you iouau me
poor thing?" "Well," he says, "this
morning I went cut to the yard to look
~ at the flock. Xo sooner had I looked
over the lence than I saw something
wronsr. The fact was they did not count
1mr right. Ninety-live, ninety-six, ninety-1
seven, ninety-eight, ninety-nine?only
ninety-nine. McDonald, you know we
had a hundred. And I wondered which
one was gone, and I began again, and I
^^^^^^^^^^ninety- j
the best fare that the cabin could affor
I and they sat up very late that nigfc
L and they talked, and thsv laughed, ai
jig they sang, and they ate, and they dran
111 and they danced, and told over and ov
and over again the sfcory of the lo
sheep that was found.
With such tenderness and rusticity
illustration does Christ represent tl
. soul's going off and the soul's comli
back, when he says, "Likewise there
juy in uu&vcu tue is ui \jrv
over one sinner that repenteth, moi
iuan over ninety and nine just persoi
?Lac need no repentance." To repei
is lo feel that you are bad. and to t
sorry about it, and to turn over a ne
leaf, and to pray lor forgiveness as
"""* help. Just as soon as a man does tha
they hear right away ot it in heaven.
There are no gossips in siory goin
around to chatter and laugh when a ma
falls, but there are many souls in jilor
who are glad to run about and tell
when a man is saved. The news goe
very quick irorn gale to gate, and iroi
as* north wall to south wall, and from eas
wall to west wall, and in three minute
Sitea. every citizen of heaven has heard of ii
111^ for "there is joy in heaven among th
||||y angels of God over one sinner that r<
I can very easily understand hoi
} there should be joy in heaven over
. I Pentecost with three thousand soul
saved in one da??no mystery abou
Ithat; I can understand how there shoul
he joy in heaven over the Parish c
Schotts, when four hundred souls wer
saved under one sermon of Mr. Living
ston; I can understand how there shouli
be joy in heaven over the great awak
ening in the time of Harland Page, whei
in one year four hundred and seventy
I tnree tnousuna souls were brougnt t<
God in the United States; I can under
stand very easily how there should b(
joy in heaven over five hundred thous
and souls converted in 1857, in this
country; but mark you, my test announr
ces there is joy in heaven among the
angels of God over one, just cue, sinner
that repenteth.
Some cathedrals have one tower:
seme cathedrals have two, three, foui
towers. Did you ever hear them all
rinf at I dm to!rl flint flip hpll in
the cathedral of St. Paul rings only on
rare occasions, for instance, at the death
i or the birth oljj kia^- Have you seen
& f')ur towers, and have
^^^^^'"^youhcard them all strike into one great
chime of gladness? Here is a man who
is moral. He is an example to a great
many professors of religion in some
things; he never did a mean thiDg in his
?H life; he pays all his debts, and is a good
Iciuzen and a goou ne:gnoor, out he says
he is not a Christian.
?S? Some day the II0I3" Spirit comes into
his heart and he sees that he cannot depend
upon his morality for salvation,
lie says: ilO Lord God, I have been depending
upon my good works; I tind I
am a sinner. <md I want thy salvation.
H Lcrd, for Jesus' sake, have mercy on
me!'' And God pardons him, and im
PLueuiiiLeij uuc ui tae Luwers ui ueaveu
3trikes a silvery chime, for there are
four towers to the heavenly temple.
\ Here is s man who is bad; he knows he
is bad, and everybody else knows he is
bad, but he is not an outcast?far f'rem
being an outcast. He moves in respectable
circles. But one day, by the
power of the Holy Ghost, he rouses up
j.v 3tt iiio oiu.uiutrjo <iuu lie " \J
Lord, have mercy! 1 am a wanderer,
and without thee I perish. Hare rnercyl;'
God hears him. and immediately
two of the towers of heaven strike a silvery
chime.
But here is an outcast. He was
picked up last night out of the gutter
and carried to the police station. He
has been in the penitentiary three times,
lie is covered and soaked with loathsomeness
and abomination. Arousing
from his debauch, he cries out: 4'0 God,
have mercy on me. Thou who didst |
pardon the penitent thief, hear me cry
for mercy." And the Lord listens and
pardons, and no sooner is the poor .
wretch pardoned than three of the great
towers of heaven strike up a silvery
chime. But here is a waif of the street.
She passes under the gaslight, and your
soul shudders with a great horror. Mo
pity for her. Xo commis?ration for her.
As she passes down the street she
Sears a 3ong in a midnight mission, and 11
as she listens to that song she hears: 1
All may corap, v.'hoevor will,
This Man receives poor sinners still.
She puts into that harbor: she kneels J
by the rough bene i nvar the door; she .
says: "O Lord! Thou who didst have ]
mercy on Mary Magdalen, take my ,
blistered 1'eet oil' the red hot pavement ,
of hell." God says, ilMy daughter, toy
sins are forgiven thee; go in peace." '
Xow, all the lour towers of heaven j
strike a silvery chime, and they who ]
pass through the celestrial streets say:
"What's that? Why, the worst sinner (
must have been saved. Hear all the !
four towers ring and ring and ring!" ;
' And there is iov in heaven among the '
angels of God over one sinner that re- :
penteth."
My subject impresses you, I think,
with the thought that it is possible for
us to augment the Happiness of heaven.
People think that souls before the throne
are as happy as they can be. I deny it.
Look at that mother before the throne
of God. When she died she left her son
in this world a vagabond. That son repented
of his iniquities and came to
God. The report of that salvation has
reached heaven. Do you tell me that
mother before the throne of God has not
her joy richly augmented? There is
many a man in this house today who
could go out with a torch ana xinuie a
new bonfire of victory on the hills of
heaven. If you would this day repent
and come to God, the news of your salvation
would leach heaven, and then,
hark! to the shout of the ransomed.
Your little child went away from you
into the good land. While she was here
you brought her all kinds of beautiful
presents.
Sometimes you came home at nightfall
with your pockets full of gifts for
her, and no sooner did you put your
night key into the latch than she began
at you, saying. "Father, what have you
brought me?" She is now before the
throne of God. Can you bring her a
to Christ
BpM^ng!"l5ut if this lion
j^^Roul should come to God, nothin
uc could stop the shouting of the armies c
d, God before the thrcne; for "there is jo
it, in heaven among the angeis of God ove
id one sinner that repenteth."
k, In some families they keep a vacan
er chair aad a vacant plate for the departed
i l. :i i -1 -t^
Si out ii id some 01 your uouseuuius yo
kept a vacant chair and a vacant plat
of for those who have gone away from yoi
ie into the next world, the vacant chair
ig and the vacant plates would outnumbe
is those which are occupied. I once sail
>d to you there are no vacant chairs ii
re heaven, but I recall that. Eight besidi
is your loved one in that good land then
it is a vacant char, not made vacant b:
>e death, for death never enters there; i
w is a vacant chair for you. Will yoi
id take it?
t. My subject also>impresses me witt
the idea that heaven and earth are ir
ig close sympaty. People talk of heaver
ii as thought it were a great way off
y They say it is hundreds of thousands o
it miles before you reach the first star, anc
:s then you so hundreds of thousands o
n miles before you get to the second star,
st and then it is millions of miles before
!S you reach heaven. The say heaven is
t, the center of the universe and we are on
;e the rim of the universe. That is nol
the idea of my text. I think the hear!
of heaven beats very close to our world.
y We m .-asure distances by the time taken
a to traverse those distances.
s i It used to be a lonsr distance to San
it Francisco. Many weeks and months
d were passed before you could reach that
>1 city. Xow it is six or seven days. It
e used to be six weeks before you could
voyage from here to Liverpool. Xow
d you can go that distance in six or seven
- davs. And so T measure the distance
i between earth and heaven, and I find it
- is only a flash. It is one instant here
) and another instant there. It is very
- near today. Do you not feel the breath
i of heaven on your face? Christ says in
. one place it is not twenty-four hours'
5 distance, when he says to the penitent
. thief, "This day, this day, shalt thou be
; | with me m paradise." It is not a day,
. I it is not an hour, it is not a minute, it is
not a second.
; ' Oh, how ne^r heaven is to earth. By
oceanic cable you send a message. As
[ it is expensive to send a message, you
: ' compress a great deal of meaning in a
. few words. Sometimes in two words
; you can put vast meaning. And it
, seems to me that the angels of God who
: carry news from earth to heaven need
to take up this hour in regard to y?ur
soul, only two words in order to kindle
with gladness all the redeemed before
the throne, only two words, "Father
saved," '"mother saved," 'kson saved,"
uaugnter saved." And "there is joy
in heaven among the angels of God over
one sinner that repenleth."
My subject also impresses me with
the fact that the salvation of the soul is
of vase importance. If ycu should make
$200,000 this year, do you suppose that
news would be carried to heaven? It
would not be of enough importance or
i.~ i.- *? i
siguiuuaiuw lu ue cameu ueaveiiwaru.
If at the next quadrennial election you
arc made president of the United States,
do you suppose that news would be
carried to heaven? Do you suppose
that the news of a revolution in France
or Spain would be carried to heaven?
These things are not of enough impartance,
but there is one item that is sure
to be carried. It is the salvation of
your soul. It is your repentance bc-fore
| God.
The il}iug hoofs of God's couriers
clash through the gates aud ihe news
goes from gate to mansion, and from
mansion to temple, and from temple to
throne, aud ''there is joy in heaven"
among the angels of God over one sin
ner :orgiven. it must oe 01 va3t importance
to be Oi any moment in heaven,
your salvation, in that land where glad-' i
nesses are the everyday occurrence, in ,
that land where the common stones of 1
the field are jasper aud emerald and i
chrysoprasus aud carbuncle aud .sar- '
donyx. And yet the news o'your salva- 1
tion makes joy before the throne of God. '
You remember years ago, a stage
driver 2n the White mountains became j
very reckless, lie had a large number 4
oi passengers on the stage, and the j
stage was drawn by six horses, wild and \
ungovernable, and he drove near the j
precipice, and he drove off, the stage j
With its precious Ireightrolling down the i
smbankment, and many were slain, but
few were saved. I suppose when they j
wrote home they wrote wiUi con-!
;ratulation at their rescue. The j
iu^eis o( God look down and they j
Lhcy see men driving oa the ( dge oi
jreat prceipiccs of ruin aud danger,
Jrawn by wild, leaping, learning and
ungovernable perils in mis iue, auu u j
any shall escape before they capsize, do
you not suppose the anyels oi God rejoice.
crying: tkGood, good! Saved
from siD, saved from death, saved from
hell, saved forever!"
The supreme court ot the United
States does not adjourn for anything trilling.
It must be the death of a cabinet
minister, or the death of a poesident, or
some matter of very great moment.
When I iind all heaven adjourning its
other joys for this one joy I make up
rorw errant-, importance
my uiiuu to vi i v*j I
if heaven can aflord to adjouru all other
festivities to celebrate this one triumph.
Do you wonder that so many of these
Christian people have toiled night and
day in this work of soul saving, if it is of
such vast importance:-' Do you wonder
that Xettleton and Finley aud Bishop
Asbury and John Wesley and George
Whith field aud Paul and angels and
Christ and God stripped themselves for
the work? Around that one soul circles
the mist, the lire, the darkness, the joy,
the anthem, the wailing, the hallelujah
and the woe of God's universe. If the
1 : O.an lin wrniM Ifi irumtJCt
SUU1 19 3(1* buvu j' v /*mvw ?v ?.? ? ^
and fiDgers to harp and hammer to bell
and "there is joy among the angels of
God over that one soul forgiveu." For
such a soul I plead
Having found in my own experience
that this religion is a comfort and a joy,
I stand here to commend it to you. In
the days of my infancy I was carried
by Christian parents to the house of
God, and consecrated in baptism to the
Father, and the Son, and the Iloly
Ghost; but that did not save me. In
after time I was taught to kneel at the
Christian lamily altar with father and
mother and brothers and sisters, the
most of them now in glory; but that did
not save me.
In after time I read Doddridge's "Rise
j^y^ggss^an^Baxter's "Call to the J
gggflfe^nouseno: u,
a hospital, "It is strange to me that Jesi
ir doesn't see me when he goes throuj
g here at nights and takes others to hit
>f self. He goes through here and he do
y not see me. I must be asleep and 3
r deesn't know I want to go.
"Now, I tell you how I'll arrange ;
t I'll go to sleep with my hand up at
I then when Jesus comes through tl
J hospital bv night he will see my har
e lifted, and'he will know by that I wai
? to go with him." So it was done. F<
that night Jesus went th.-ough the ho
3 mfcui anH trtnlr tV>A ?nfferin<7 lad. an
!: the next morning the nurse pas
1 ing through the wards of the ho
2 pital saw a dead hand lifted brace
e on one side against the pillow, and ti
a left hand holding the elbow of the rigi
p arm. Jesus hnd seen the signal an
11 answered it. Ob, sick soul, woundt
i soul, dying soul, canst thou not gi\
some signal? Wilt thou not lift oe
j hand or one prayer ? God grant thi
fV>io ^-jtr lJioro mat? ha invinhftavp
^ I O VAC* J \ UVJ.V VV jv; ~ ? * ~
among the angels of God over your soi
forgiven!
f Senator Irbj 011 the Call.
\ Wa siiixgton, Feb. 22.?Senator Irb
was engaged with his constantly-grov
| ing correspondence when I called at hi
apartments in the Metropolitan IIot(
i today.
' "I see in the Carolina papers," said ]
' "a call for a convention to nominate
man to defeat (iovemor unman. a
chairman of the party have you anv
. thing to say concerning the call ?"
"Xothing," said he, ''except to sa;
; that I am amused at the inconsistent
, of these leaders. In 1890, when thepeo
pie of the State, who believed in re
forming the State Government
thought it necessary and wise to call ;
convention and nominate a candidate
these same meo, whose names are ap
3 - J * ~ 4-U:~
peuueu wuis mh, Li.ii.cv> uy uicn
hands in holv horror and cried out
'This is treason to the Democracy o!
this State; this is Mahoneism, and thai
they ought to be read out of the party.
Tha ounnoco nf fhyf r.finpAnHnn nrrtv<.ri
that it was right. I am glad that this
Convention has been called; first, because
it means that our troubles shall
be settled in a sensible way inside the
Democratic party, and second, it justifies
what the ring politicians and ne^g.
papers claimed to have been irregular
and undemocratic in the farmers of
1890. I hope that the campaign will be
conducted in a quiet, conservative and
TITO T? 'jn^ t Vt of TTD TT7111 OQD
HC* J j UUU ?f V If liA MVIV4 WW
again in South Carolina, during a political
campaign, what we saw at the
'Columbia meeting in 1890. I3ut for the
patriotism and wisdom of the Tillmanites
at that meeting, aud the pluck of
Governor Tillman, there might have
been bloodshed. Any man who is nominated
will receive my hearty support."
?News and Courier.
>"o Hill-Tillman Deal.
Columbia, S. C.. Feb. 18.?Governor
Tillman was slightly indisposed today,
and being fearful of an attack of the
grip did not leave the Executive mansion
daring the day.
The Bureau man called on Governor
Tillman during tbe evening, and in a
conversation inquired what information
there was at this end of the line
concerning the "Hill-Tillman deal,"
which was reported in the Washington
dispatches.
Governor Tillman stamped it as a
iciiijr uuc un iuc paio ui uae uune&puu- i
dent.
"What in the world do we want
money here for in our campaigns?" he
said. '"We can carry everything without
money. I did not know that Dr.
Pope was in Washington until I saw it
in The Xews and Courier, and if Senator
Irby wanted to see Mr. Hill or bis
emissaries be could very easily have
done so in Washington, it occurs to me.
1 do not know a thing aboui the visit.
I certainlv have never heard of anv
deal."
Governor Tillman was asked who
was his preference for the Presidential
nominee of the Democratic party. He
said that'he had not yet decided, but
that he was not in favor of Cleveland.
When asked who, he thought, would
oe the preference of the South Carolina
ielegates to the nominating Convention,
he replied: "'Further than that
;hey will not be in favor of Cleveland
[ could not prognosticate." Governor
FiUman did not seem to think that the
people had exactly made up their minds
is to their candidate.?News and Courer.
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uuJl ?Miiiiiimwji Jli Ji .MBPghwiJU UMWLi!
" THE THIRD PARTY CONVENTION. |
j
Called to Sleet 2a Orsaha <m Ike Jt'ourth
Day ?>f July.
St. hoc is, Feb. "j.j.?The joiut contitiillee
ia whose charge the matter was i
pjuc^u uy trie xiiuusvii.ti wuiciciitc j uju
ended here met this morning, and after !
an all day's session selected Omaha, ;
Neb., as the place of holding the norm- J
nating: convention of the newly born !
third party. July 4 was last night se- 1
lected as the date, and that action was <
reaffirmed. The following formal call i
was issued:
"The National Committee of the Peo- *
pie's party of the United States acting ]
in conjunction with the following: 0. <
H. Van Wyck, of Nebraska; C. W. Ma- !
cune, Texas; M. J. Branch, Georgia; J.
II. Powers, Nebraska; II. M. Humph- :
rpv Te*?<i- Tj. T). Laurent. Louisiana; i
Marion Cannon, California; T. H. Mc* <
Gaire, Mew* York: J.II. Williams. Kansas;
L. L. Polk, Mortli Carolina; Tierce
Ilackett, Missouri; M. M. Garrett, Illinois;
John Seilz, Ohio; Mary E. Leass,
Kansas; Anna L. Diggs, District of Columbia;
Anna Dobbs, Texa*; A. P.
1'arksen, Florida, :tnd Ben TerriU,
Texas, representatives of a certain
meeting of members of various organizations
of this country, held in the city
nt T.finis Mrt nn t.htt 2-ith daV Of !
February, 1892, respectfully submit to
the people oi' the United States the
preamble and platform of the conference
of said labor organizations of our
nation, held on the 22d, 23i and 24th I
days of February, 1892, in the city of
St. Louis:
"We urge that all citizens who support
those demands shall meet on the
last Saturday ia March next, in their
respective towns and villages, and hold
public meetings and ratify these demands,
and take steps to organize preparatory
to electing delegates to the
national convention, and we call upon
ali duly qualified voters of the United
States "who are in favor of these principles
and of nominating candidates
for President and Yice-rresident on
the above platform to send delegates
to the convention of the People's party
to be held in Om iha,Xcb, July 4.1892,
at 10 o'clock in the forenoon.
"The executive committee of the
People's party in each State is charged
with the duty of promulgating this
call aod of lixing the time, place and
method by whicn said delegates shall
representation
JfeM^^hCon
. 'hell, Texas, sSSj
3e II. M. Loucks, South Dakota.
US Another Fight Opened.
jh Columbia, S. C., Feb. 20.?At i
n- again. The railroads seemed to be d<
es termined to give the Attorney Genera
ie and his assistant as much work as the
can do. Another big law suit is abou
[t. to be began and it will be a length;
id one.
ie Yesterday Mr. B. L. Abney, repre
senting the Richmond and Daaviil
system, Mr. Barron, representing tin
3r Atlantic Coast Line, and Mr. McQueen
3.. the agent of the South Carolina llai]
>cj way, visited the office cf County Treas
s_ ure'r Campbell and rendered him in casl
s. the same amouut of taxes that the]
a paid last year, and ignored the assess"
ie ment of their property that was mad<
^ and that so signally differs from th<
d returns made by the roads.
Id Treasurer Campbell informed then
e that he could not accept the amount:
ie that were tendered as they were belou
the amounts at which the roads were
n assessed. Upjn this the parties pickec
,i up their cash . nd departed.
Thi3 was done, it is said, in everj
County of the State. In this Countj
the amount to be collected from the
y roads is very lar^e, the taxes of the
South Carolina Hail way being about
$4,500 and the others proportionately
s large. The Columbia, Newberry and
jl Laurens Railroad was the only road
taxable in this County that offered the
, full amount of its taxes according to
L' the revised assessment, ine bourn
a Jiound Koad is not jet taxable. All
s the other roads in this County offered
r_ to pay the same amount of taxes that
they ottered last year. Of course the
Treasurer bad no alternative and could
y do nothing but refuse the amounts teny
dered as they were below what the
- roads were charged with.
uy mis uLiuy" yu tuc pan ui wic iauroads
the State failed to receive about
i S175.000 that is due it. Tbe result of
i this big deficiency cannot yet be foretold.
: When the matter comes to trial it is
: probable that all the roads will bunch
f their case*, and malie a test case of one
; of them. The railroads will fight the
' matter vigorously and will employ emil
nent legal counsel to represent them,
i A Iiegister reporter called at Comp
troller General Ellerbe's house yester
, day afternoon to ascertain his views on
; the subject and enquire what would bs
done. The Comptroller was unwell
and couid not grant the interview, but
' it is stated that he will fight vigorously
on this q uestion .?Register.
Thiakn It Is Hill.
Washington, Feb. 18?Senator
James L. Pugh has written a letter to
the David B. ilill Club of Lauderdale
County, Alabama, on the Presidential
situation. He says that Senator Ilili
is a self-made man, who has been in
full view of the people during his entire
career, and has had uninterrupted
success in all his aspirations. "All
elections in New York, a doubtful
State," he continues, "have been hotly
contested, and Hill has never been defeated
a3 a candidate. Xo man in
history has been subjected to severer
scrutinv and attack hv a mora rrnwer
I'ul and marvelous adversary than
David li. Hill."
Senator JL'ugh also says that Hill
closed his splendid career as Governor
by an achievement that has attracted
attention for the ffreat skill and remarkable
benelits attached to it fcr the
Democracy. The credit of securing
New York State for the Democratic
party was due to him.
The Senotar closes hy making the
prediction that David ]J. Ilill will be
carried to the National Democratic
Convention by delegates from Xew
loik, ^ew jersey. Connecticut ana
Indiana, and that with this support he
| will be nominated, with Gray of Indiana
for Vice President. The ticket,
the Senator says, will be invincible.
They Want thg Karth.
San Francisco, Feb. 19.?The State
Department will be astonished when it
gets in a few days the formal claim ot ,
the sailors on the Baltimore who were ;
wounded by the Valparaiso mob. Law
yer Alleyne Orr has the cases of twen- ,
ty-four rneu who were a)l wounded in
tne streets of Valparaiso. They we.re
sailors or coal heavers, but they want
big money i'ur their rough handling by i
the Chilians. Their combined claims 1
foot up $1,305,000. The- largest sums (
are demanded by Johu Hamilton,^sail- j
or, and Jerimiali Anderson, eoai heaver. '
They apply for $15u,000 apiece. Ham- i
ilton has three bad wounds and declares i
tnere is stiil a piece of a Chilian d;igger 1
in one and that it refuses to heal. An- s
derson is disabled by several wounds, c
the most serious being in the lfcng. j
Other claims vary from 810,000 to &30,- t
000. ; - | i
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WA^nixcrox. Feb. l:i ?The W;:sh- j
ingt-m ex-Con fyde rale Association roe I
H Union Hall to night, the president,
l?. W. Anderson, presiding. Representatives
John M. Alien, of Mississippi,
and Clifton lireckenriJe, of Arkansas,
Senator Berry of Arkansas and Col.
Dickinson of New York made addresses.
Mr. Allen in addressing the meeting.
said:
"lam not an old Confederate; I am
one of the youngest alive at most. In
tact, I was asked to come here to meet
Did Confederates and make a little talk.
L don't mind talking, and it is a pleasare
to meet you. I will not pursue the
regular order I usually do in speaking
to ex-Confederates. It is customary to
devote most of a speecn 10 expiamiug i
why the war was fought. What I take
pride in is how we fought. I never
stopped to think why l went in. I had
do grievance, no negroes to lose, but
when the Northerners came down and
started after us, 1 found a disposition
among my people to resist, and went
with them.
"I don't know that I can improve very
much on the little speech I made in Congress
on this subject. Of course you
have all read it. 1 take some little
pride in referring to that speech.
It was made on the pension bill. That
tells the story briefly of how we fought.
So far as I am concerned, I would not
swap the record of having been a private
Confederate soldier for any pension
the Government might give. I
don't fear that someone will suspect me
of having fought well. I have no apol
ogy to make for the little pare 1 tosk in
tL-i r" nionf ?r\ \\Trifu mP
ICcAl/ W&F. -LI tiiCJ v>autu iv H?*w w.
down as a traitor, then I am one of the
traitors who followed Lee. No man
who ever walked God's green earth was
possessed of nobler attributes than
Robert E. Lee; no man ever had more
of the attributes of true greatness.
What better vindication could we have
than that we marched in the columns
of Stonewall Jackson?
"Some men make a great racket about
such meetings as this. These men don't
rise to the dignity ot my contempt; they
cannot make me mad; he has got to be
a man of more dignity to make me mad
These meetings mean nothing to harm
any one. We take great pride in them,
and no power on earth can rob us of
that pride.
"As I am a representative of that class
to sav a word aoout tee priNo
one will detract from
Hta^wc^rjmtthey double
WP^B^uSput tnis down as wh;
^^ink they will do: On the 29th <
^^nne, in the city of St. Louis, will 1
^ held a National Convention of the Fr
hibition party, delegates to which wi
, be from every State and territory In tt
I Union with a fair intersprinkling <
\ women among the delegates, and ths
II 11 ,1 n
ijuuveiiuuu win &ciiu uuu o. jLuatiuiiu,
y heart of oak in every plank, sound o
1 economic principles, treating of G01
y ernment ownership of all highways an
means of communication, also of moi
etary reform, ownership of land, pr<
e hibition and woman suffrage.
e "Theplatform will mean what it say
'? and says what it means. Candidate
" will be chosen for President and Vic<
' President, and we will have the spect*
1 cle presented of two tickets in the fie'
7 among the divided ieform forces wb
seeks the people's good.
I "The Prohibitionists," said Miss Wi
J lard earnestly "would have been willin,
ana glad to meet the reopie s part
J half way, and the method we had i;
3 view was that the St. Louis Xatioaa
7 Industrial Conference would put lilt
* its platform a woman suffrage plan!
1 and a plaDk for suppression of th
r liquor traffic"
' lie Had the Whole Car.
i Indianapolis, Feb. IS.?Severa
' weeks a o the friends of William Royse
' a well-known attorney of this city, no
Liced that h'13 mind was laiiing, and hi
was sent to a private hospital at Oxford
' O., lor treameat. Last ni^ht he es
, cayod and boarded a Cincinnati, Ilamil
ton and Dayton train for home. Jus
before t e train reached Hamilton
Iloyse went into the sleeping car and
flourishing a revolver, drove the portei
tuiu paoscugcis uui. xuc tuuuuiiui aui
trainmen made an efl'ort to captme the
maniac, but were deterred by his threats
to kill the first person that advancec
upon him. The police of this city were
notified of the state cf ailairs by wire,
and Eoyse was taken m charge at the
depot. This afternoon he was adjudged
insane and sent to the asylum.
Neither Cleveland or Hill.
Washington, Pa., Feb. 25.?Henry
Watterson lectured here to-night. To
a reporter he said: "The way things
have been shaped iriixewl oik it'^ould
be suicidal for Democracy to nominate
either Cleveland or Hilffor the Presidency.
Senator Hill as a Presidential
candidate will encounter difficulties
which never presented themselves during
his previous candidacies. lie cannot
carry a single Northern State, unless
it be New York, and Mr. Cleveland
cannot carry New York at all.
Kentucky will instruct her delegates to
vote for John G. Carlisle. Next to
Grover Cleveland he is the most prominent
exponent of the tariff reform."
Shortened by GO Miles.
Wilmington, N. C., Feb. 19.?The
Atlantic Coast Line today laid the last
rail upon their Fayetteville Branch in
North Carolina, which connects the
Wilmington and Weldon and Florene
railroads at the State line between
North and South Carolina. This
shortens the Atlantic Coast Line sixty
miles and brings Charleston, Savannah,
Florida, Columbia and Augusta that
much nearer to Washington and New
York. It gives practically an air line
between Charleston and Norfolk, with
grades not in excess of forty feet to the
mile and a maximum curvative of four
degrees. The Atlantic Coast Line is
the West India fastmail route.
Bursting of the Big Sua Spot.
Washington, D. C., Feb. 18.?Observation
made at the 2s aval Observatory
today by Frof. Edgar Frisby showed
that the large spot hitherto observed
011 the sun, which covered a space equal
to one-sixteenth of the sun's surface,
or an area of 140,000 miles long by 100,000
miles wide, has by some great cataclysmic
operation been broken into
about twenty smaller spots. In addition
to this other spots have appeared,
which are situated a vast distance from
4-l> ~ ..../I ...A 4- ~
W1C UllglllcU sput illiu BIG CVlUCULl^ tutally
independent from It. This newdevelopment
on the sun's surface has
attracted the attention oi the astronomers
at the observatory and will be
closely observed by them.
I>ld Xot Waat It.
Atciiisox, Kan., Feb. 18?Iiobt. li.
Rose, a poor m in of Tatan, Mo., who
Sell through a nole in a sidewalk in this
Jity and sustained permanent injuries,
*ot a verdict against the city for 62,500.
rhe money was paid to the plaintiff's
ittorneys last week, and when they
i f? /> 1 i nn f r\? hie rrnnH I'Artnnft
le surrendered himself to the Sheriff,
laying that he was a perjurer, lie
ienied that he had received any inuries
and said he planned the accident
a defraud the city. He is undoubtedly
csafte.
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FOREIGN NOBILITY.
. >
Tjie king- of Greece is a do in uunv- ; <
five years ol^! lie has a complexion as ! (
clear as a baby's and speaks with flu- I j
eney a dozen languages.
Napoleon's handwriting was so de- ' (
cidedly illegible that it was said of his | j
letters, written to Josephine, during ?
the German campaign, that they re- ]
sembled nothing so much as war-maps. The
aged Louis Kossuth, the Hun- 1
garian patriot, knows English remark- j
ably well. He learned the language ,
while a prisoner, with only a diction- !
ary, a Bible and a copy of Shakespeare <
to aid him. 1
Stanislas Zalewski, a noble Pole, <
. ^ -r>?J v:*. nor. 1
has jusl cneci <it< vu w?
tificatc at Warsaw showing that he was
born in 1780. lie was a great smoker 3
and an amateur in pipes. His memory
was clear to the end of his last year,
112th.
Princess Metternich has been elect
ed an honorary member of the Imperial ,
Austrian fire brigade, in recognition of ]
the heroism and presence of mind she j
displayed at the great fire at Banja, in i
Hungary. She rescued the lives of
three persons with her own hands.
' NOT GIVEN IN WEBSTER.
Taut at sea?Hopes. , 1
Just a line?Fishing. '* *
Jump into notice?Frogs.
Acrimonious food?Tarts.
Cold comfort?Water ice.
Ends in liquor?Deco-rum.
Good all round dessert?ne. <
The commercial center?Mer.
Shine in the city?Bootblacks.
Not a poem?The lay of a hen.
The pink of perfection?Salmon.
Result of a squeeze?Lemonade.
The real tennis blazer?The sun.
Seaside breakers?Hotel waiters.
A dangerous eruption?Vesuvius.
Lines in dismal places?Epitaphs.
A bright scheme?Polishing1 silver.
Caught by the ear at dinner?Corn.
The most imposing month?August.
A game it takes two to play?Chess^i
Solicited to divulge?Williat|^M
Coolness between people?
"Down in the swamp''?Crajfl
Talk better than they taA
rots.?Mail and Express,
SHORT SOgH
Rbig one. I
Ji^^eing prepared i:
devil's children,
at Suffering is a chariot drawn
of horses -whose faces are toward Heaven
^6 The man who willfully continues ii
sin is conscious that he deserves n<
help.
^ It is better to rejoice in tribulatioi
^ than not to have any tribulation to re
a joice in.
n We sing1: "Take my silver and mj
7- gold," and immediately go into oui
d pockets hunting- for pennies. ? Earn':
l- Horn.
FARM FACTS AND FANCIES.
s
;g The cheapest foods, such as grass.
I. clover and vegetables, make the bes1
[. pork, for it makes lean, not grossly fa1
d pork. The latter is happily going out
o of fashion. -
.a poultry journal aavises oeginners
l* in chicken-raising not to expect to get
o rich on a few dozen fowls. If the iny
vestment is doubled every year the business
may be regarded as profitable.
0 The milch cow will need something
[j besides corn meal this winter. If you
e have neither ensilage nor roots, b'-an and
oats should be fed, and the animal will
respond handsomely to the gift of oilmeal.
From experiments made with blue
uj tiiw: w CL vr.vpcAlJULiciit rjiiiuuu
it appears that this grass is richer in
e albuminoids and crude protein than tim'
othj, red top, orchard grass or low
meadow hay.
* A cow that jumps fences needs attention.
but not so much in the way of
' pokes, blinders, knee bands, etc., as
' plenty of food. Cows don't jump fences
, just to show their skill, as boys do when
I they stand on their heads the day after
' a circus leaves town.
| ECHOES FROM EUROPE. "?
An* English peer cannot resign his
? peerage.
[ Crime is very rare among women in
Scotland.
From 25.000 to 30,000 letters are posted
every year in England withoutJst?y~
addresses. ? ~~
France?possesses 1,100 mineral
Springs, of whioh over 1.000 are made
use of in France.
1 In" the public gardens of Milan, Italy,
is a gothic building containing twelve
milch cows from which the visitor can
get milk at two cents a glass.
St. Malo has an omnibus conductor
who is a marciuis: a count who earns I
his living1 by making mouse traps, and
a bathing man whose title is Count
Raoul de la Uegace, Marquis de ChamberJ
.
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THE WORLD'S METROPOLIS.
Tiiere arc 1,250 miles of water pipes
in London.
A London notion is to insure houses
against burglars.
London* has taken up the deceased
American craze of roller-skating.
One-third of the crime committed in
London is perpetrated on Saturday
nights.
IX London there are half a million
houses and nearly a thousand miles of
streets. ^
Thirty million dollars has been expended
on London's drainage system in
the last thirty-three years.
Confessed.
Montgomery. Ala., Feb. 18.?About
seven years ago John Cunningham
was killed in his dooryard here at niguD|
while in the act of detecting a chicken |
t-uiei. x>o one ever Knew wao aia me
killing, bat it was suspected that a negro,
John Hubbard, who afterward fled
the city, committed the crime. A few
days ago a negro, Frank Brooks, was
arrested, suspected of the murder. lipis
now in jail here. Wm. Cunningham,
brother of the deceased, voluntarily
went to Chief of Police Gerald and admitted
that he was the one who killed
his brother. He did it accidentally, and
asked that the negro be released. The
clearing ud of the loner mvsterv created
a sensation.
JPrivatc Crematory.
Montreal, Que., Ont., Feb. 21.?One
Adolph Lawse, %vho lives in St. Cunegorde,
a suburb of Montreal, recently
lost a child and burned its body in a v
cooking stove to save f aneral expenses.
Magistrates were applied to, but they j
decided that he acted within his rights.
The Rev. Father Sequin called upon
Mr. Lawse, who said in defense of his
act that both in France and in the
United States dead people were burned
in big ovens and accordinly he thought
he was justified in burning his dead in
his own cooking stove.
Kl?:tas i(i
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Why suiler cr fs's-ase j
vhcn you bo jr1! o~-cklv
:urtd wilboa? rordiclno the us-? ? ? i
he Lieclrop":^.
.\. W. ! 11:?: i: :-J -i. Su ?i?j. S.J
J., Wilting 11 JAM- t: :lf 01 .May IV.\>.
>ays: For two K'Uf.s p;;st Mrs. K. has
suffered with. uhut w;;s r^ard- fi us
aialarial attacks, wiiiuli bi*-g>;n absut
May and continued through th- sum- J
ner and fall. Iltr sickness last summer
was more severe ami morn protracted
than that of the year before,
md we, therefore, looked forward with
apprehension to us return ins present \
season. Early m the year she began
the use of the Eiectropoise, and has
continued to use it ever since without
the use of other remedies. At present
tier health is excellent, and there are no
indications oi' the return of her malady.
Aiken*, s. C., Sept. 19,1800.
The ElectroDoise has worked wonders
in my household. I introduced it
to ilrs. Cuthbert last March as a remedy
lor rheumatism, and since then she
lias laid aside stick and crutches and is
able to attend to all of her household
j ? a mamhflp iit mv t'amilv
UUI/1C3. iluuiiiC! lii'-muvi.
by using It is better than she has ever
been, ana I myself Cnd it an admirable
tonic when tired out after three services
on the Sabbath. Several parties
have investep in this instrument because
of our experience and expression
of opinion. Very gratefullv.
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Hard on a Doc!or.
Chattanooga. Tenn., Feb. 25.?Dr.
W. C. Townes, one of the best known
physicians of Chattanooga, was horsewhipped
in Market street, a leading
business thoroughfare, this morning by
Mrs. John Volistadt, a painter's wife.
The woman stepped up to the doctor
and, exclaiming: '"You have murdered
mv child, now I shall kill you,"
jstruck the doctor several heavy blows
Wills built the Tabernacle, ivhich cc
1 S-IOO.OOO. The amount of his jtulgine
is the unpaid balance. Thesaleissu
7 ject to a mortgage of Russell Snge.
The51>od7 in si Trunk.
1 El Paso, Tex... Feb. 18?It isrumc
3 ed on the streets here that the body
the missing lawyer, E. X. llouquil
i has been found in a trunk at Las V
- gas, X. A!., which had been shlppi
from here. The trunk remained it! tl
T depot uncalled for until the order <
1 the body attracted attention, when 11
t fit r\ 1r ii'ufj ?? v> s\ f K a fAmnii
11UUA ? rtO CliiU ti-ic iULLiail
found. liouquillo's son states that ti
family received a letter saying the bcc
had been shipped from Albuquerqu
but he did not give the writers nam
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i A rREAT OEFEB. THAT MAY NOT AGAI>
4 iRepeated, so do not delay,
1 4 "Strike While tee Iron is Hot."
; a Write for Catalocna now. and sav wh:
fpaper you saw this advertisement in.
. | >.t2nember that I sell even-thing thai
? gees to furnishing a home?nianuiactur|ing
seme things and buying others in the
?largest possible lots, which enables me tc
| wipe out ail competition
iHERE ARK A FEW OF MY STAR'J
LING BARGAINS
| A No. 7 Flat top Cooking Stove, fuii
I size, ] 5x17 inch oven, lilted with 21 pieces
(of ware, delivered at your own depot,
if ail freight charges paid by ms, for
gorily Twelve Dollars.
* Again, 1 will sell you a 5 hole Cookia
I Range 13x13 inch oven, 18x26 inch top, he
ted with 21 pieces of ware, for THIRTEEN
DOLLARS, and pay the freight to
your depot.
DO NOT PAY TWO PRICES FOR
YOUR GOODS.
I will send you a nice plush Parlor suit,'
walnut frame, either in combination ori
!inded, the most stylish colors for 33.50,j
your jailroad station, freight paid.
1 will also sell you a uice Bedromos uit;
nsisting of Bureau with glass, l higisj
iad Bedstead, 1 Washstand, l (Jentre:
ble, 4 cane seat chairs, l cane seat andj
ck rocker all for 16.50, and pay ireigisj
your depot.
Or I wiil send you an elegant Bedroom [
it with large glass, full marbio top, ioij
), and pay freight^-*- ?-??j
^-^ina?w shade on soring roller % ool
Emit &Se[l geanwtar day alclocK, i.ur
8 Walnut lounge, 7.00 ]
gLace curtains per window, l.ooj
I 1 cannot describe everything in a small!
Badvertisement, but have an immense store!
Scontaining 22,600 feet of lioor room, with!
aware houses and factory buildings in other!
gparts of Augusta, making in all the lar-l
|gest business of this kind under one man-|
ill LUC ovucnoiu. j* uwwz
toresand warehouses are crowded with#
be choicest productions of Uie best facio-I
ies. My catalogue containing illustrations!
f goous will no maiied if you will Kinaiy jj
ay where you saw ciiij advertisoiiieui. IJ
ay freight. Address,
L. F. PAD8ETT,
'ropnetor Padgett's Furniture, Stove j
and Garnet Store,
110-1112 liroad Street, AUGUSTA, GA.I
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Planing Machines ?200 and upwards. fl
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Plans and drawings for construction furnished,
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and at low prices.
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GENERAL AGENT,
COLUMBIA, S. C.
Feb 19-lv.
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