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^rustic the Philistines
i ^ufa Phoenicians and Moab.rJsmonites
and Edomites and
j trembled.
s was a lawgiver, Daniel was a
f' Isaiah a courtier and Dav'd a
but Amos, the author of my text,
a peasant, and, as might be suped,
nearly all his parallelisms are
.toral, h:s prophecy full of the odor
new mown hay, and the rattle of
jcusts, and the rumble of carts with
.heaves, and the roar of wild beasts devouring
the Sock while the shepherd
came out in their defense. lie watched
lie herds by day, and by night inhabited
a booth made out of bushes, so that
through these he could see the stars all
owl was mnrp far/iHinr with
c~- them than we who have tight roofs to
i cur houses and hardly ever see the
i stars, except among the tall bnck chim^
neys of the great towns. But at sea1
sons of the jear when the herds were in
1 social danger, he would stay out in the
/ open field all through the darkness, his
only shelter the curtain of the night
heaven, with tbe stellar embroideries
and silvered tassels of lunar light.
What a life of solitude, all alone with
his herds! Poor Amos! And at 12
o'clock at night hark to the wolf's bark,
and the lioas roar, and the bear's growl,
find the owl's te-whit-te-^>ir>, and the
" ate PS I
^"PtnTTa hiss, as he unwitfingfr^^?i >
too near v?hile moving through the thicS-"
: ets! So Amos, like other herdsmen, got
: the habit of studying the map of the
] heavens, because it was so much of the
* lime spread out before him. He noticed
/ some stars advancing and others recedJ
iug. He associated their dawn atd setJ
tmg with certain seasons of the year.
He had a poetic nature, and he rend
night by night, and month by month,
and year by year, the poem of the constellations,
divinely rhythmic. But two
^Bttes of stars especially attracted his
intion while seated on the ground or
ng cn his back under the open scroll
"?e mi '"^ght heavens?the Pleiades,
- Seven btars, and Oricn. The former
oup this rustic prophet associated with
~ spriDg, as it rises about the first of
The latter lie associated with the j
, as it comes to the meridian in I
^arj. The Pleiades, or Seven Stars,
lected with all sweetness and joy;
the heral d of the tempest. The
"3 were the more apt to study the
nomy and juxtaposition of the
y bodies, because they thought
' a special influence upon tbe
'.perhaps they were ri?ht. If
" ? ^fiy-tew^'hours lifis and lets
* - glides of tbe Atlantic ocean,
the electric storms of the sun, bv
^ientlfic admission, ail'ect the earth,
not the stars have proportionate
Irolcgy, after all, may have been
? ~ more than a brilliant heathen
wonder ;nat Amos 01 me
. \ heard tbese two anthems
put down the stout rough
erdsman and took into his
?d cut and knotted fingers
. . ophet and advised the re
-us time to return to God,
- . him that maketh the
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and world
^kphazzarc and
iistration! The
worlds in right
vrscan cer'.ain
: :ndividuals and :
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<?e of the seven
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a prodaoIytaB^
? ' e inhabit.
' your mission,
s!;you can, and
i things are all
3 your brain is
.get some one
starlight and
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observatory,
see further
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in
. this herds<,ther,
a shepaat
there had
... ; lifetime. And
, SnftusteiS iian^iover the celesarbor
now just as thev were the
first night that they shc~\ on the
Edenic bowers; the same ah-when the
Egyptians built the pyramids, lx>m the
top of which to watch them; the~j*inie J
as when the Chaldeans calculated the
eclipses; the same as when Eiihu, according
to the book of Job, went out to
Study the aurora borealis; the same uarter
sv?t(-rr> nrw! i Wrnir>an
system; the same from Calisthenes to \
Pythagoras, and from Pythagoras to
Ilersciiel. Surely, a changeless God
must have fashioned the Pleiades and
Orion! Oh, what an anodyne amid the
ups and downs of life, and the 11 ux and
rellux of the tides of prosperity, to know
that we have a changeless God, the
same '"yesterday, today and forever!''
Xerxes garlanded and knighted the
steersman of his boat in the morning
and hanged him in the evening of the
same day. The world sics in its char-!
iot and drives tandem, and the horse j
ahead is Huzza and the horse behind is
Anathema. Lord Cobham, in King
James' time, was applauded, and had
thirty-five thousand dollars a year, but
was afterward execrated and lived on
scraps stolen from the royal kitchen.
Alexander the Great atter death remained
unburied for thirty days, because
no one would do the honor of
shoveling him under. The Duke of
Wellington refused to have his iron
xence menaed because it had been
broken by an infuriated populace in
some hour of political excitement, and
he left it in ruins that men might learn
what a fickle thing is human favor.
U13ut the mercy of the Lord is from
everlasting to everlasting to them that!
fear him, "and his righteou^j^g"'^
I the of such as keep
his covenant, and to those who rememi
ber his commandments to do them."
! This moment "Seek him that maketh
the Seven Stars and Orion."
Again, Amos saw, as we must see,
that the God who made these two beacons
of the oriental night sky must be
a God of love and kindly warning. The
Pleiades rising in midsky said to all
the herdsmen and shepherds and husbandmen,
''Come out and enjoy the
mild weather and cultivate your gardens
and fields." Orion, coming in
winter, warned them to prepare for
tempesu .dm navigation was reguiiaeu
by these two constellations. The one
said to shipmaster and crew, "Hoist
sail for the sea and gather merchandise
from other lands." But Orion was the
storm signal, and said, "Beef sail, make
things snug or put into harbor, for the
hurricanes are getting their wings out."
As the Pleiades were the sweet evangels
of the spring, Orion was the warning
prophet ol the winter.
Oh, now I get the best view of God I
ever had! There are two kinds of sermons
I never want to preach?the one
that presents God so kind, so indulgent,
so lenient, so imbecile that men may
do what they will against him and fracture
his every law and put the pry of
their impertinence and rebellion under
his throne, and while they are spitting
in his face and stabbing at his heart,
he takes them up in his arms and kisses
their infuriated brow and cheek, saying,
"Of such is the kingdom of heaven."
The nther kind of sermon T never
want to preach is the one that represents
God as ail fire and torture and
thundercloud, and with red hot pitchfork
tossing the human race into paroxysms
of infinite agony. The sermon
that I am now preaching believes in a
God of loving, kindly warning, the God
of spring and winter, the God of the
Pleiades and Orion.
You must remember that the winter
is just as important as the spring. Let
one winter pass without frost to kill
vegetation and ice to bind the rivers
and snow to enrich our fields and then
hays to enlarge v.our hospitals
Land your cemeteries. "Agreen'ohrisrmas
makes a fat graveyard" -was the
old proverb. Storms to purify the air.
! Thermometer at ten degrees above zero
to tone up the system. December and
January just as 'important as May and
Tni-io T toll vrtn wp nppd the storms of
j life as much as we do the sunshine.
There are more men ruined by prosperity
than by adversity. If we had our
own way in life, before this we would
have been impersonations of selfishness
and worldlinessand disgusting sin, and
puffed up until we would have been
Hike Julius Ciesar, who was made by
sycophants to believe that, he was divine,
and the freckles on his face were
;is stars of the firmament.
| One of the swiftest transatlantic
voyages made last summer by our
swiftest steamer was because she had
a stormy wind abaft, chasing her from
New York to Liverpool. But to those
going in the opposite direction the
storm was a buffeting and a hindrance.
It is a bad thing to have a storm ahead,
pushing us back; but if we be God's
children and aiming toward heaven the
storms of life will only chase us the
sooner into the harbor. I am so glad
to believe that the monsoons and typhoons
and mistrals and siroccos of
the land and sea are not unchained
maniacs let loose upon the earth, but
are under divine supervision! I am so
glad that the God of the Seven Stars is
U! t'liUUi jlo nao uuo vt i
Dante's suffering: came the sublime
"Divina Commedia," and out of John
Milton's blindness came "Paradise
Losr ?nd out of miserable infidel attack
came the ''.Bridgewater Treatise"
in favor of Christianity, and out of David's
exile came the songs of consolation,
and out of the sufferings of Christ 1
come the possibility of the world's redemption,
and out of your bereavement,
your persecution, your poverties, your
misfortunes may yet come an eternal
heaven.
Oh, what a mercy it is that in the
text and ail up ana down the Bible
God induces ns to look out toward
other worlds! JJible astronomy in
Genesis, in Joshua, m Job, in the
Psalms, in the prophets, major and
linor, in ^t. John's Apocalypse, pracally
saying: "Worlds! worlds!
'ds! Get ready for them!" We have
little world here that we stick
though losing: that we lose all.
Afraid of falling oft' this little
world. We are afraid that
iric iconoclast will some
\ and we want everything
-d it, and are disappointthat
it resolves around
f the sun revolving
'uss we make about
rld, its existence i
en two spasms, j
it was hurled!
5 tliij noniY. !
"exts
- ? "* _ e
; - ,-T off ixov:- this world
'pilotage. iJon't letus
. i about o>:r own going off
.rge or sloop or canal boat
to get on some Great Eastneavens.
Don'c let us persist
Jg to stay in this bam, this
- " r Vis outhouse 01 a, world v.hen all
~/!g's pakces already occupied bv
- or our best friends are swinging
open their gates to let us m.
hen 1 read, "In iny l-'ather's iiou:ie
; many mansions,'' 1 do not know
at that each world is a room, and as
nanv rooms as there are worlds, stellar
, stairs, stellar galleries, stellar hallways,
i Stella windows, Stella domes. How our
; departed friends must pity us shut up
in these cramped apartments, tired if
we walk fifteen miles, when they some
morning, by one stroke of wing, can
make circuit of the whole stellar sys
tenx and be back in time ior matins!
Perhaps yonder twinkling constellation
ie fho nf Hip marhvrs- that.
group of twelve luminaries is the celestial
home of the apostles. Perhaps that
steep of light is the dwelling place of
angels cherubic, seraphic, archangelic.
A mansion with as many rooms as
worlds, and all their windows illuminated
Tor festivity.
Ob, how this widens and lifts and
.stimulates cur expectations! How little
it Piakes the present and how stupendous
it makes the future! How it
consoles us-^bout our pious dead, who,
instead of bei^ boxed up and under
! the ground, have th^range of as many
rooms as there are worlds^and welcome
everywhere, lor it is the Father's house,
in which there are many mansibo?. Oh.
Lord God oi' the Seven Stars and Orion,
how can I eudure the transport, tfltJ|
ecstasy of such a vision! 1 must obey"!
ray text and seek him. 1 will seek him.
1 seek him now, for I call to mind that i
it is not the material universe that is [
most valuable, but the spiritual, and j
that each of us lias a soul worth more \
than ail thf; worlds which the inspired j
herdsman saw from his booth on the I
hills of Tokoa.
I had studied it before, but theCathe- i
dral of Cologne, Germany, never im- j
pressed me as it did the last time I saw i
it. It is admittedly the grandest gothic
structure in the world, its foundation
laid in 1248, only eight or nine years
ago completed. More than six hundred
years in building. All Europe taxed
for its construction. Its chapel of the
Ma?i with precious stones enough to
purchase a kingdom. Its chapel of St.
Agnes with masterpieces of painting.
Its spire springing live hundred and
eleven feel into the heaveus. Its stained,
glass UiP jVunm^i -\e ni
cncirclrag the pillars and encir
! cling all. Statues above siatucs, unut
sculpture can do no more, but faints and
falls back against carved stalls and
down on pavements over which the
kinss and queens of the earth have
walked to confession. Xave and aisles
and transept and portals combining the
Vendors of sunrise. Interlaced, interfoliated,
intercolumncd grandeur. As
I stood outside looking at the double
range of flying buttresses and the forest
of pinnacles, higher and higher and
higher, until I almost reeled from dizz
ness, I exclaimed: "Great doxology
in stone! Frozen prayer of many na-1
tions!"
But while standing there I saw a poor
rnau enter and put down his pack and j
kne^l beside his burden on tiie hard floor j
fhof Sko t Vkusi-eol A n/1 f-Ofl rQ nf
VJL iuau V/amr,uica. ~ ? c
emotion came into my eyes as I said to
myself: "There is a soul worth more
than all the material surroundings.
That man will live after the last pinnacle
has fallen, and not one stone of
all that cathedral glory shall remain
uncrumbled. lie is now a Lazarus in
rags and poverty and weariness, but
immortal and a son of the Lord God
Almighty, and the prayer he now offers,
though amid many superstitions, I believe
God will hear, and among the
apostles whose sculptured forms stand
in the surroun'ding niches he will at
last be lifted, and into the presence of
that Christ whose sufferings are represented
by the crusifix before which he
bows, and be raised in due time out of
all his poverties into the glorious home
built for him and built for us by 'Ilim
who maketh the Seven Stars and
Orion.*"
Aa Unfortunate Afiair.
Pinkville, N.C.,March 1(.>? lirown
Rogers, a young man who has been in
Pineville about three months attend;~~
7>*AfAf.?/sr fo cMmnl 1P f f". Slid
HI? i. ivicoaci ^ ?
denly and unexpectedly Wednesday
night, under rather peculiar circumstances.
He was from Van AVycke,
S. C., and is a son of Turner Rogers,
one of the most prominent citizens of
gays before he left
he received a letter from his ??uTc'r^elfj
in? him that be had disgraced his
family, and that he never wanted to |
see him again and forbidding him to
ever come to his house. The" day he
left he wrote to his sister telling her '
about getting the letter and that he
would carry oat his father's wishes and j
that he nor any of the family should
ever see or hear from him again. The
letter was a great surprise to the fami-1
ly as the father had not written the J
letter spoken of above to his son. lie i
was overwhelmed with grief and came
at once to Pineville to see about his!
son. He telegraphed to several points
to-day but could not hear from him.
The letter young Rogers received was
a forge-v, and it is supposed to have
been written by some one as a joke on
the young man. lie was a quiet, sober
young man and made many friends
during his stav here. I lis family is
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almost overcome wuu guci uu aauuun
of the unfortunate affair- and are
anxious to communicate with him.
liurglars In Lexington.
Lexington, S. C., March 23.?Yesterday
morning between 3 and 4 o'clock
the large iron safe m the store of \V. P.
Koof was blown open by burglars.
The safe, manufactured by Ibe Hall
Safe and Lock Company, oi Cincinnati. j
had its large outer doors drilled and I
blown open, as was also the inner door,
which separated the outer doors from
the vault. The heavy steel vault, secured
by an additional combination lock, withstood
the heavy attack and remains un
injured. Ttie robbers were unaole to
rtacii the contents of the vault, but succeeded
in getting a small amount of
change whi.h had been leu out 01 tue
vault.
Two chisels, a large hammer, a brace
and a drill were left on the scene. The
side door of the store house was found
open and the drawer in which the
change wr.s deposited was found under
the wagon shed in the lot, about tweuty
yards from the side door. A small stick
of dynamite, which could easily be slipped
through the hole made by the drill,
and the iuse accompanying it, were
picked up near the safe. The wrapper
of the stick of dynamite may furnish a
clur, as there are certain well defined
marks on it.
l'liiuled by Grip.
V K KSBl'liO, JMISS., -Niarcil ii.-iWO
cases of sudden blindness resulting
i'rom grip have occurred here recently,
the sufferers being weil known persons.
One lady has consulted the most eminent
oculists ia .New Orleans, who
unite in declaring her casc;. hopeless,
and admitted that thev - > ignorant
of the causes that " ' i the loss
of sight. Th? ">i" a boy
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TILL31 AM ON PRIMARY.
I THE GOVERNOR EXPLAINS HiS POSITION
FULLY.
j Strong Presentation of the Sitn.itlou and
j li^.isop.s Why a J'ritnary is not Wise?It
i Would Work <Jrv.:it iujuritlM to liic
| Lower Countries.
Columbia, S. C. March 24.?In view
| oi'the fact that mimbers of anti-Till
man meetings, wmen nave eiecteci delegates
to the convention which meets
to-day, have adopted resolutions demanding
a direct primary, a reporter
for The Register sought an interview
with Governor Tillman to near what he
had to say on that subject. The scribe
began his probing with the question:
Governor, what is your attitude and
opinion in regard to'a direct primary?
lie answered: "I am surprised that
you should ask this question when the
matter was fully discussed by me during
the last campaign. I am one of the
pioneers in theagita'ion in advocacy of
;i State primary, and in 1888, on two
oce.-isicns. in both State conventions. I
i made speeches advocating the nominaI
tion of State officers by this method. Ia
j both conventions the matter was over|
whelmingly defeated and after careful
| analysis and study of the situation I so
i far modified my opinion as to advocate
I the plan, now in vogue, of electing del|
egates by a primarw The demand for
| a change was made in the March platwhich
I wrote, ana it was
incorporation the party constitution
in oeptember/^-tMi^pw.* add cry
for a direct primary is a piece of political
clap-trap by which ray enemies ser'<
to place me in a false position. If it
were carried out they would be the first
to regret it and advocate a change.
They don't want it. But I desire to say
right here that individually I am willing
and was in 1890 to submit my candidacy
to a direct vote of the white
Democrats of the State. I have every
reason to believe that my strength
would be more clearly shown and I
would have a more emphatic endorse
ment uncer tnat plan tnan i couia under
the existing one. The Counties of
Georgetown, JJeaufort, Sumter, .Richland
and Fairfield, which are all debatable
and which for the sake of argument
1 will say will sro against me,
would in that event be counterbalanced
tP
t0^^Z7z5uxaj<Ji itj~~ UOtuiii ILL
either Spartanburg or Greenville. The
demand for the primary arose in the
white section of the State and was designed
to break up ring rule. It was
never intended to take any advantage
of the brave Democrats of the negro
Counties.
"What caused you to modify your
opinion and change from a direct pr^
mary to an election of delegates by primary
V"
"Well the primary system looks to
obtaining the popular voice by allowing
the individual voter to express his
personal preference and the present
sj(5Leui jjives ui<tu i urn <iuu onvo^o
have been in favor of the people selecting
their own rulers."
The Governor here put his hand in
his breast pocket and drew our, a note
book, and said: Here is a table which
I have prepared for campaign pui poses.
This is my basket of "rocks," he laughingly
added, and I will chunk one into
the enemy's camp before the campaign
opens. It is a table giving the white and
colored population with the delegates
in the State Convention of fourteen
{ Counties, and will show very clearly
what a disturbing factor in State poli!
tics a direct primary would be. Here
is the table. The first two columns of
I figures show the white and colored
population of the counties named in
1SW and the cutside column the number
of delegates each is entitled to in
State Conventions:
White. Colored. Delegates. J
iUken 13,570 is,244 s I
.Anderson... 25,184 18,522 12
Chesterfield. 10,902 7,5u5 <i
Florence 10,400 14,027 (*>
r>?ot -?7i 1<: 10
V/IUCIH iilC>*a mI )U< j j a w
Hoijy 13,029 5,017 f>
Lancaster... 10,338 10,422 ti
Lexington... 13,705 8, -475 0
Marion 14,434 15.524 x
Oconee 13,041 5,045 0
Pickens 12,194 4.195 0
Spartanburg 30,729 18,052 14
Union 10,874 14,4X9 X
York 18.03S 20,733 79
231,015 179,027 114
The totals are as follows:
Whites. Colored. Delegates.
In State 45S.454 092,503 320
Deduct 231,015 179,020 114
'$ ^^^natfouri ee c Counties
jvconkui!ii^only 17(J,02G of the colored
population wouiu overuaiauue L?cm,vOjie
which are compelled to control
543.*77 negroes; or Spartanburg, entitled
to fourteen votes in convention,
wonld overbalance Beaufort, Berkeley,
Fairfield, Georgetown and Sumter, entitled
to lifty votes in convention, and
yet have 750 votes to spare.
"By deducting the population of
these fourteen Counties from the total
white and colored population of the
State we find that these fourteen Counties,
containing only 17'.?,000 of the colored
population, would overbalance
twenty-one Counties which are compelled
to CDntrol 513,000 negroes, or
that Spartanburg, entitled to fourteen
votes in the convention, would in a
primary overbalance Beaufort, Berkeley,
Fairlield, Georgetown and Sumter,
entitled to lifty votes in the convention,
and yet have 750 votes to spare.
You perceive at onc? that a direct primary
would destroy the political
equilibrium of the State. It would do
more. Tlie uemocrais in toe uenvy
negro Counties who are now asked to
adopt this system of nominating State
ollicers will be expected to control the
colored vote in their respective Counties,
and send Democrats to the Legis{lature,
although they would never have
a chance to obtain any of the State offices
by reason of a small while vote.
| Is it either reasonable or just? I don't
I think so. and hence my change of
opinion."
"Utit, Governor, if one white man in
iierkeley has as much pohticall power
in the State Convention as five white
men in Spartanburg will not that breed
dissatisfaction V"
"At the lirst blush it appears to be
wrong, but we must take thing-* as we
find them. This sauie argument is the
stock in trade of the Foraker-Sherman
j wing of the Itadical party, which de'
mancl that the Southern electoral vote
I and representation in Congress shall be
[ based on the votes cast, rather than
the population. They claim that one
[ white man in South Carolina has three
times as much political power
i as a white man in Ohio or Kansas.
! Now, if we, ignoring all precedent and
; law, recognize 'be justice of their argument
in our party management, how
are we to expect that they will stop
I tViof- lino smrl hnw
I 0>1VU^ bunv 11UV) ..
j would we answer their orators in Congress
and on the stump? Kepresentaj
tion in all political bodies is based on
! the legal representation according to
population: where the conditions are
| so unequal and the equilibrium, that
exist would be so violently disturbed
! by a change. 1 cannot believe that
| such change would add much to the
I harmony and unity of the party which
seems so dear to these same patriots.
It is a matter for the party to deterj
mine, and I am ready to submit to the
I verdict of the people."
1
Leap Year Enforced.
Pittsburg, March \>
j has been inaugurated in'this town
' i well-to-Jo widow, who took a sudden
liking to a young farm hand, who has
been employed in this neigh borhood lor
mouths, says a special from Edgerton,
, Kansas, to the Pittsburg Times, Mrs.
! Mary Watson owns a line farm about
j two miles west of this place, and, while
i she has never given the neighbors cause
j to gossip, she has been recognized as a
strong-minded woman, and one wbo
was perfectly capable of attending to
her own business. Her husband died
! about five years ago, and left her worth
i in the neighborhood of ?20,000. Her
j farm has been kept in a high state of
j cultivation, she managing the whole
business herself.
About a week ago she came to town
to market, and when here she met John
Xorthrup. who works on the farm of
William Johnson, about two miles beyond
the farm of Mrs. Watson. Mrs.
Watson had never seen the young man
before, but appeared to be taken with
his appearance, and asked the storekeeper
who he was, and when she
learned that he worked for her neighbor,
asked to be made acquainted with
jhim. The young man was much snr|
prised when she told him, after being
I with him about half an hour, that she
i wanted a husband, and if he was will
ing to take the position she thought
they would do well together as man
and %vife.
lie was a little taken aback at the
suddenness of the oil'er, but as he knew
h?r circumstances he concluded that he
i could not do better, and accepted witnj
out any shyness. Th?y immediately
the iiccn.-e and were made raau and
I wife.
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A Chance for Young Farm* irfl.
j Prof. II. A. Strode, President of the
Clemson Agricultural College, has
written a communication to the Cotton
riant in which he says: "I would like
to know how many young farmers of
the State would take an interest in a
short summer session at Clemson of a
month or two to receive instruction in
! nrHMir-nl unrl l"ir? t'Mrrr.inc This
r*?VV*VW* A.V4MV ?
session, if held, would be confined to
those over 21 years of age. There
would be no charge for tuition and the
charge for board would only be what
might be found to be the actual cost.,
L would like to receivel^iJ^g-^^"
thofs.e feelipg an suggestion
j^ri.-rlirinrin^ length 0f SPS.
sion preferred in weeks Irom four to
eight." It seercs to us that this is a
capital suggestion. It has alretdy
been favorably received by the board
of trustees of the College and it will
again come before the Board for tinal
action. It is the duty of farmers feeling
an interest in this matter to let
Prof. Strode hear from them. The
Board in reaching a linal decision will
doubtless be inlluenced to a great extent
by the letters he receives. His
address is: I'rof. II. A. Strode, Fort
Ilill, S. C.
An Awful Fate.
Akron, 0., March IS.?Guy Clifton
Wright, of this city, a traveling salesman,
entered a saloon here late last
niffht and called for a ^lass of seltzer.
lie poured into it three' drams of chloral
hydrate and cooly stirred the mixture
as he laughed and talked. Then he
drank the deadly poison. Turning to
the proprietor he said, with consummate
coolness:
"I'll be dead in five minutes. I waDt
one more drink. I'll shake you dice
for it."
Thinking Wright was joking, the saloon-keeper
replied banteringly:
"I don't like to take chances with a
dying man, but I'll go you."
"The game began. Wright won the
first "horse" and the saloon-keeper the
second. The latter smiled as he threw
four trays in the final round. Wright's
first dasn yielde l a piir of fives, his
seoond did not better them. Calmly
he tossed the dice the last time.
"Four fives," said he: "I win," and
placing his hands convulsively to his
head he dropped to the floor unconsciI
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UU2> rtllU U1CU. Ill a iimiuiw.
wile's desertion of him led to thesuiI
cide.
Joyfully Welcomed.
Libau, March 19.?The American
steamer Indiana, Captain Sargeant
which brought to this port gifts of Hour
and provisions sent by Americans for
relief of llussian famine sufferers, has
since her discharge been lying some
distance off shore. Last night she was
towed into the harbor by the Concerdia
and Vorwaerls. Certainly
ed popular enthusiasm j^ofofa?
preclation the olUcers^j ?rew of t?e
lT&'ffijSTill ^FiTi yfom this country a
lively recolectioii of the gratitude of
liuss'ian people. When the Indiana
passed the Jetty she was greeted with
loud and enthusiastic cheering by a
crowd that assembled on the Jetty.
The steamer was received by the common
authorities and a large delegation
of leading merchants of the port. After
she was moored a number of the
nrt.lmdnx Creek clersrv proceeded aboard
of her and held a thanksgiving service
which concluded with the formal and
impressive ceremony of blessing the
ship.
Over-Productlon of Cotton.
Washington, March IS?The March
report of the statistician of the Department
of Agriculture, issued to day,
shows that the production of cotton of
the world exceeded the consumption
more than 1,500,000 bales in 1890, and
further greatly enlarges the excess in
IsOl, glutting the markets, increasing
visible stocks during the past year more
than 10O,000 bales, and reducing the
Liverpool price of middling upland
from 0 1 lGd in January, 181H), to 4 1 8d
in January, 1802. It states that in two
years this'country has produced an excess
above normal requirements of
more than 2,(XX),000 bales, and indicates
I roHiiotmn in lirAiwlt.h fhfi
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I agriculture of the South will suffer
worse than Western agriculture ever
lias. It declares that the cotton States
must introduce new crops, as the agricultural
population ha3 outgrown the
capacity of cotton to support it.
L'ucle George's Creed.
Washington, March 23.?In speaking
of his position on silver coinage today,
Representative Tillman said:
"1 am sorry to see the stand that
Brawley and Elliott are taking. They
are against the free coinage bill, and in
| that respect they do not represent their
constituents.
"I am for free coinage and against
Grover Cleveland. I was against his
nomination in 1888, and predicted his
defeat. Ilill is the man to lead the Democratic
party. lie is a true leader, and
has never been defeated. lie has given
us New York State, and his services
should be recognized.
"The Bland bill will have thirty majority
in the House, and will also pas3
the Senate."?State.
Loses a Leg1.
.ninety-six, jaarcn so.? xtus turning
about 11 o'clock Col. W. B. Utsey
accidentally shot himself through the
leg about four inches above the ankle
with a 44-calibre Colt's pistol. Both
bones were completely shivered. Drs.
Bozeman and Holland were at hand
and did all they could to relieve his intense
suffering. Dis. Maxwell and
Xeal were telegraphed for and arrived
on the 12:30 train. They found that the
]p, -m hare to be amputated, and
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Away. ?sLaruuens,
S. 0., March 18.?Nofone
in the up-country would ever hrbpe
thought that the Rev. Charles R. Will>eford,
of Union Cou>- v^uldjDej^^fc
oi a crime, .tie nas arrays co
the utmost respect or everyo*. i
knew him and accounts of his a]
irregularities have come like a thui
bolt to his friends.
"What! Mr. Willeford is guilty
forgery! That seems incredible.' \Y>he
was one of the best men I ev. .'^.
knew."
They say it has not been more than
two or three weeks since the Baptists
of Clinton, Laurens County, invited
Mr. Willeford to take charge of the
congregation at that place. He has been
stationed at Santuc for some time, and j
ilmner prvn?irlpi'rnh1ft fMiwiifc trnrlr viaif\_
ing points in Union, Spartanburg, Lancaster
and other counties. It was
about two weeks ago that the first reports
of Mr. Wiileford's shortcoming
were circuJated. V?ry few persons
knew anything of the matter, and since
that time several more charges have
come out against him, and it is said
that others will be forthcoming.
The most serious and ugly accusation
th*t the liev. Mr. VViliford secured
five huEdred uoilars from the Bailev
Bank, of Clinton, through the instrumentality
of forged endorsements to a
note. It is said that the names are
those of the very best Baptists in that
section.
Cashier Bailey thought the note extra
good and while in conversation wittj^
one of the endorsers made somesug^gs.
tion in regard to it. The suppc^dendorser
was dumbfounded at tj?e news.
investigation ionowea aoa; as the result,
it is said the entire l^st of names
was found to be fraudulent. The bank
authorities immediate}^ began to arrange
with the relates of Mr. Willeford
for payment.?r
. found to be in
[ Lancaster County, at Kershaw. The
Kev. Mr. Willeford had been there on a
[ visit to his lather, she Kev. A. C. Willeford,
had preached there to large audiences
and was highly thought of. He
went to the bans and had a draft for
three hundred and fifty dollars cashed.
Advices were received from the bank
in Laurens, where Willeford claimed to
have an. account, that there was no
money-?here t<\ his credit. The Kersl~si
man can "^here to-day to see what
h' do Protect his interest.
0 ^ .-^ller amounts came
' v~=?-nere for payment and
" -ed. ;
was waiting in the station
fo.- *tor two gentlemen, one or ;
thei. . of Court Wharton, of Laurens,
* 'talking of the reports, and
said tney had heard the report about a 1
week ago. if-would seem rather strange
but the gentleman who cashed the draft
told me that on the night before he
paid the draft Air. Willeford preached
an able sermon "on embezzlement and
hypocrisy."'
Mr. Willferd, it is said, is also engaged
in mercantile business, being a member
of the J. L. Ray Company, doing business
at IIuntir*Jton, on Enoree River. '
Be is "avsou-n law of Mrs Ray, of
this county, am. has a wife and children
at Kershaw in Lancaster County.
There seems ti ">e some uncertainty j
about Mr. Will- >rd's whereabouts, f
Some say he is at o ituc and his indig- j
nant creditors says e has gone to New ]
York, via Charlestc *na steamer, jur. (
Willeford's brother Lamar, Sumter y
County, and his fat; - the Rev. Mr. ?
Willef ord. of Kers ha- are trying to ar- i
raDge the shortcomings; which are said j
to be growing daily. Gae gentleman said
he wouldn't be surprised if this ,
should aggregate several thousand
dollars.
It is claimed that Mr. Willtford was
in bad health, and that if thtre are
irrigularities that was the caus&< It
was said that Mr. Willeford had"3ust
resigned from the Baptist Church to as
to devote his entire time to mercantile
business.
The above account of the queer do
ings of the Rev. Chas R. Willeforl waspublished
in the News and Courier of
la3t Saturday. In the same paper it
was stated that The News and Courier
Willeford. dated from the Read House, j |
Chattanooga, Tenn., declaring his innocence
and asserting: that eternity would
prove it, it it couldn't be proven here.
The letter was not published at the
time of its reception fr?- obvious reasons.
Here it is verbatim:
Chattanooga , Tenn, March 10.1892.
The News and Courier, Charleston,
S. C.?Dear Editors: I left my home,
Santuck, S. C., on March 9, unexpectedly
to all and very much to my regret.
I have never before had any trouble in
any way, but instead prosperity has I
smiled upon me. Troubles have, however,
come upon me at last. Last fall
I concluded to merchandise, and in order
to conceal myself as the owner of the
business I associated J. L. Kay and my
wife, Sara E. Willeford, forming the
firm of The J. L. Itay Company, Huntington,
S. C. So far as money is concerned,
J. L. ltay nor Sara 11. Willeford
has any invested In the store. They
are scot free.
The business moved along nicely for
a few months, until a bill for dry goods
*/\ c WittbnwQW of flhfirlntte. "N".
fell due. He at once began to push me.
I gave him, as I thought, satislactory
paper?a note lor $1,700, endorsed by
one Solomon Gregory. This went on
all ruht for three weeks or longer, when
Wittkowsky came to my county atd began
an investigation, soing to the wrong
Solomon Gregory. lie then reported
all over the country that I had Gorged
the name ot Solomon Gregory, which,
I am glad to say, was a lie. Wittkowsky
being dissatisfied I went over to
Mrs. Kaj's, my mother-in-law, and 1
asked her to endorse a paper with me,
which she readily did. I then thought
everything all right until October, 1892,
but, to my surprise, two oi t^ree days
ago Wittkowsky and Jim Lor_, an uncle
of my wile, got together in Union,
S. C., and agreed to have me arrested
on the charge of forgery. Thi3 they
could not have proven, but before I
would lie in jail for two or three months
I would run away, which I have now
done, and when I am caught it will
make tnac trinmg rascai, dim ?jvu%, i
laugh.
1 wish to say to my friends that I
shall never return to South Carolina,
but be assured every one to whom I
owe one cent that I shall certainly pav
you. Don't be uneasy, for I have the
money in the banks and will pay you.
To Heath, Springs & McDonald I wish
to say that the $350 gotten from them
will be returned w* interest. I had to
keep the amoun order to get away
is tl.e reason thnr-ra^ check will not be
honored. I will pay that, however. I
have made these statements, not Knowing
that it will be appreciated. However,
I state the truth.
Now to my friends, I 3ay, farewell.
T have a wife, one of the best women in
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Murder in Clarendon.
Manning, S. C., March 21?Mr. Butler
B. DuBose was killed from ambu3h
loot SvatnrrtQT7 nirrht r\n tha tvtiKHa kioH
uu mi, -?isuu,
about eight miles from this place. The
inquest was held yesterday, and the
jury brought in the following verdict:
"The deceased came to his death from
wounds inflicted by a shotgun in the
bands of J. Carson Stukes." The only
witness was Mr. JDuBose's little nine5-ear-old-boy,
who ran to the house and
reported to his grandfather that Mr.
Stukes had killed his father. Mr.
Stukes is one of the best men in the
county, being known as a hard-working,
quiet and peaceable citizen. It is,
indeed, hard for one who knows Carson
Stukes to believe that he would waylay
i man and shoot him to death without
warning.
A. Walk-OTer for Mills.
Austin, Texas, March 18.?Mr. Culberson
has withdrawn from the Sena;orial
race. His friends say this is not
n the interest of anv other candidate.
[t is believed, Mowerer, that a number
>f his supporters will go over to Mills,
vhlch will insure Mills' election. It is
taid that Chilton will come from
fVasbington shortly to withdraw from
ie Senatorial race.
A Gbeat Oefeb that miy not Again
be Repeated, so do not delay,
"Strike While the Iron is Hot."
Write for Catalogue now, and say wha
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it,3aember that I sell everything thai
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some things and buying others in tht
largest possible lots, which enables me U
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j I will send you a nice plush Parlor suit, 1
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I banded, the most stylish colors for 33.50,1
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