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|~A NEVER MIND IT. Never mind the weather, If U>s wet or dry; Sinsln? oa together,? Be springtime b? an7 b>! Never mind tbe weather, If it's hail or snow; Somewhere stars are sbinin'? Somewhere roses grow. ji - Never mind the weather, When the fire-flakes tali; Winter time's a comin'? | Ice enough for all! Never mind the weatherWorld is mighty bis; Keep up with the li^htnin'? Let the thunder dance a jig; Never mind the weather, Take the good an' il?, Good Lord made it for joa. An' He's runnin' of it still! ?? ESTHER THE ORPHAN. Dr Talma^e Finds Many Lesions In the Eximple of the Jewess; - Brooklyn, Oct. 7.?Rev. Dr. Tal?mage, who it. still absent on his round the world tour, has selected as the subject of today's sermon through the press j "Hadaitah," the text chosen beicg Es- j ther iu 7, "And he brought np Hadas- j sah."* A beautiful child was born in the capital of Persia. She was an orphan and a captive, htr parents having been Ptolen j from their Israelitish home and carried I to Shu&han and died, leaving their daugh?ter poor and in a strange land. But an Isreialile who had been carried into the same captivity was attracted by the ' case of the orphan. Ke educated her in Qr?r? nnfl?r the roof of 1110 UUJJ lOUfUvu) ? **% ? _ that good man this adopted child began to develop a sweetness and excellency of character, if ever equalled, certainly never surpassed. Beautiful Hadassab! Could that adopted tather ever spare her from his household? Her artlessness, her girlish sports, her innocence, her ^ ^ orphanage, had wound themBelveTtHcH oughly around his heart, just as aroufl each parent's heart among us there aH ; tendrils climbing and fastening and bicfl soming and growing stronger. 1 expeH he wjis like others who have loved onB at home?wondering sometimes if sicH ness will come and death and bereivH meni, Alas, worse than anything tH c-*.t? v,OT?T>or>o tn hia adontfll jst-.--- child! Ahasuerus, a princely scoundxH demands that Hadassah, the faires^ol in all the kingdom, become his wiH Wore 8 than death was marriage to suH & monster of iniquity. How great tH change when this young woman left fl home where God was worshipped aJH religion honored to enter a palacs cS votec. to pride, idolatry and censualllH "As a lamb to the slaughter!" H Ahasuerus knew not that his wife vS a Jewess. At the instigation of the in famous prime minister the king decrsH that all the Jews in the land should slain. Hadassah pleads the cause jH her people, breaking through the ruH of the court and presenting herself W the very face ot death, crying, '-If I pflB ish, I perish!" Oh, it was a sad tifl among that enslaved people! They hg| all heard the decree concerning n death. Sorrow, gaunt and ghastly, mI in thousands of households, and mothers wildly pressed their infants to their breasts as the days of massacre hastened on, praying that the same sword stroke whicn slew the mother might also slay the child, rosebud and bud perishing, in the same blast. But Hadassah Is busy at court. The bard heart of the king is touched by her story, and although he could not reverse his decree for the slaving of the Jews he ^ sent forth an order that they should arm -themselves for defense. On horseback, ou' muiBg^~uii flfomeiuuc.B, umrewigw sped through the land bearing the king's j dispatches, and a shout of joy went up from that enslaved people at the faint hope of success. I doubt not many a ruaty blade was taken down aDa snarpeneci. Unbearded youths grew stout as giants at the thought of defending mothers and sisters. Desperation strung up cowards into heroes, and fragile women, grasping their weapons, swung them about the cradles, impatient for the time to strike tne blow In behalf of household and country. The day of execution dawned. Government officials, armed and drilled, cowed before the battle shout of the oppressed people. The cry ot defeat rang back to the palaces, but above the moun tans of dead, above 75,000 crushed and mangled corpses, sounded the triumph of the delivered Jews, and their enthusiasm was as when the highlanders came ^ to the relief of Lucknow, and Lhe English army, *?hich stood in the very jaws of death, at the sudden hope of assistance and rescue lifted the shout above belching cannon and the death groan of hosts, crying, "We are saved! We are saved!" My subject affords me opportunity of illustrating what Christian character may be under the greatest disadvantages. There is no Christian now exactly what he wants ta be. Your standard is much higher than anything you have attained unto. If there be any man so puffed up as to be thoroughly satisfied with the amount of excellency he has already attained, I have nothing to say to such a (Hie. But to those who are dissatisfied wita past attainments, who are toiling under disadvantages which are keeping 1?them, from being what they ousht to be, % I have a message from God, You each of you labor under difficulties. There is something in your temperament, in your calling, that acts powerfully against you. A all T t7An f AUUUbbUJg (tu liUiC) JL. uiwivuuvv jvm uv Hadassah ol the text, a noble Christian, notwithstanding the most gigantic difficulties. She whom you jnight have exi>ected to be one of the worst of women, one of the best. In the first place, our subject is an illustration of what Christian characrer may be under orphanage. This Bible line tells a long story about Hadassah. "She had neither father nor mother." A nobleman had become her guardian, bat: there is no one who can take the place of a parent. Who so able at nignt to hear a child's prayer or at twilight to chide youthful wanderings or to soothe youthlul sorrows? An individual will go through life bearing the marks of orphanage. It will require more strength, more persistence, more grace, to make such a one the right kind ot a Christian. Ee who at 40 years loiies a parent must reel under the blow. Even down to old age men are accustomed to rely upon the counsel or be powerfully influenced by the advice of parents if they are still alive. But how much greater the bereavement when it comes in early life before the character^ self reliant and when natu* lALij buo uooib to uuoyjj-uuLaicu and easily tempted! And yet behold what a nobility of disposition Hadassah exhibited. Though father and mother had gone, grace had trramped over all disadvantages. Her willingness to self sacnfics, her control over the king, her aumility, her faith! ul worship of God, s'.iow her" to have been one of the best *)f the world's Christians, There are those who did not eDjoy remarkable early privileges. Perhaps, I like the beautiful capttve of the text, \ you were an orphan. You had huge * sorrows in your little heart. Y oa \ sometimes wept in t.!ie night when you - kn?w not what was the matter. Yen felt sad sometimes even on the playground. Your father or mother did not stand in the door to welcome you when you came home from a long journey. Iis .. / is Ytu 3tilJ fjel th'j e?l?c: of early disadvantages, and ycu have sometime cfTsred them a3 a tor your not b.':iQ2 a3 thoroughly reii^iou? a<? vou wou]d Ilk? frt K? "Rn<- f'no?/* ftr? nnf. R!lfTj? IV VJVJ* JLfU-) fcvcv V?^wuwvv ? ? v cent? GoJ'd graca will triumph if yeu seek it. Hs knows what obsitcles you have fought asainst. and the more trial the more hslp Af-er all there are no orphans in the world, for the great, God is the Father of us all. Again oar eubjsci is an illustration oi what religion may be under the pressure ol poverty. The captivity and crushed condition of this orphau gui and of the kind man who adopted her susgest a condition of poverty. Yet from the very first acquaintance w e had with Hadassah we find her the same happy and contented Christian. It wa3 only by comoulsion she was afterward taken into a j sphere (f hoaor and i fHience. la the | humble home of Mordecai, her adopted father, she was a light that illurniaed every privation. In some period iQ almost every man's lifo there com;s a season of straitened circum3tarc;s, when the severest calculation and most scraping economy are necessary in order to subsistence and respectability. At the commencement of business, at the entrance upon a profession, when friends are few and the world is afraid ot you bjciu?e there is a pos3io'lity of failure, many of the noblest hearts have struggled a?alnst poverty and are cow struggling. T.) sush I bear a measaae ot good cheer. You say it 13 a hard thing for ycu to be a Christian. This constant atx'ety, this unresticg calculation, wear out the buoyancy ot your spinfc, and, although you have told perhaps no ene about it, cannot I tell that this is the very trouble which keeps, you ought to be? Ycu have no time to think about laying up treasures in heaven ween i :s h runner oi jJiemuouji wue* ther you will be enabled to pay your next quarter's rent. You cannot think of striving after a robe of righteousness until you can get means enough to buy an overcoat to keep out the cold. Y ou want the bread of life, but you think you UH3MBHK0U SsbSBHBB RBBdHHH i ft? MyRs. Ha T rl of ;n of of re 5at >d ir ?D e. it >u :h le cannot afford to smoke, you can afford to whistle. Bat merely animal spirits are not sufficient; the power of the gospel?that is what you want to wrench despair out of the seul and put you forward into the front cf the hosts incased in impenetrable armor. Again, our subject illustrates what religion may be under the temptation of personal attractiveness. Toe inspired ? _ - - n -.1- . 1 . _ r i l record says 01 lue ceroiuo ui my ie.x.i, "She was fair and beautiful." Her very name signified "a mvrtae."^ V~*t <*10 ?r>world did not blight her humility. The simplicity of her manners and behavior equaled h:r extraordinary attractions. It is the same divine goodness which puts the tinge on the rose's cheek, and the whiteness into the lily, and the gleam on the wave, and that puts color in the chesk, and sparkle in the eye, and ma jesty in the forehead, and symmetry into the form, and gracefulness into the gait. But many through the very charm of their personal appearance have been destroyed. What slmperings and effects tions and impertinences have often been the result of that which God 3enc as a blessing! Japonicas, anemones and heliotropes never swagger at the beauty which God planted ia their very leaf, sepal, axil and seamen. There are many ftowers that bow down so modestly ycu cannot see the color in their cheek until you lift up their head, puttin? your haad under their round chin. Indeed any kind of personal attractions, whether they be those of the body, tha mind or the heart, may become temptax? ?zi j ?w:*. :? nous vj priue auu acuiuauu-is sou iww ish assumption. The mythological story of a man who, 80sinz himself in a stream, became so enamored of his appearance that he died of the ejects illustrates th6 fatalities under which thousands of both sex?s have fallen by the view of their own superiority. Extraordinary capacities cause extraordinary temptations. Men who have good moral health down in the valley, on the top of the mountain are seized of consumption. Monimia, the wife of Mithndates, was strangled with her own diadem. While the most ot us will not have the same kind of temptation which Hadassah mu3t have fait from her attrac tiveness of personal appearance, there may be some to whom it will be an advantage to hold up the character of the beautiful captive who sacrificed not her humility and earnestness of dispoiton to the world's admiration and fl alter. The chief sceret of the beauty of the violet is that away down in the grass from one amJ *-a narrof miofrrtofo I VYCC&'S CUU tu auVCLigi lit LJ OTU but9viug?o that it is a violet. Again, oar subject exhibits what religion may be under bad domestic influences. Hadassah was snatched from the godly home into which she had been adopted and introduced In the abominable associations of which wicked Ahasnerus was the center. What a whirl of blasphemy and drunkenness and licentiousness! No altar, no prayer, no Sabbath, no Gcd! If this captive girl can be a Christian there, then it is possible to be a Christian anywhere. There are many of the best people of the world who are obliged to contend with the most adverse domestic influences, children who have grown up into the loye of fJrv?nnrfp.r t.h? frnwn r>f r>q.rpnt:? nnr? tin? der the discouragement of bad example. Some sister of the family having profess ed the faith of Jesus is the subject ot unbounded satire inflicted by brother ahd sisters. Yea, Hadassah was not the only Chritian who had a queer husband. It is no easy matter to maintain correct Christian principles when there is a companion disposed to scoff at them and to ascrioe every imperfection of character to hypocrisy. What a hard thing for one member of the family to rightly keep the Sabbath when others are disposed to make it a slay of revelry, or to inculcate propriety of speech in the minds of children when there are others to offset the instructions by loose and profane utterances, or to be regularly in attendance upon church when there is no more household work demanded for the Lord's 3 xi i ^ j T"\ _ T aay man ior auy secular aay. ?jv jl speak to aay laboring under these disadvantages? Mv subject is full of encouragement. Vast responsibilities rest upon you. Be faithful, though you stand as much alone as did Lot in Sodom, or Jeremiah in Jerusalem, or Jonah in Xineveh, or Badassah in the court of Ahasuers. There are trees wliich grow ???BBM !!! ? the b?st when their roots clutch among the lagged rocks, and you verily have bat poor soil id which to develop, but grace is a thorcuzh husbandman and can raise a crop anywhere. Glassware is molded over the fire, aid in the same way yoa are to be fitted as a vessel of m?rf>"C7 'T'h* K(?at. t.imhfr mnut have on it saw and gouie and beetle. The foun! dation etone of yours and every other house came cu* only under crowbar and blast. F.les and wrenches and hammers belong to the church. The Christian victory will b5 bright jun in proportion a3 the battle is hot. Never de3 pair being a thorough Christian in any household which is not worse than the court of Ahaauerus. Fmaliy cur subject illastrates what religion may be in high worldly position. The last we see in the Bibleof Hadissah is that she has become the queen of Persia. Prepare now to see the departure of her humility and 3elf sacrifice and religions principle. A3 she goes up you may expect grace to go down. It is easier to be humble in the obscure hou3e of her adopted father than on a thorne of dominion. But you misjudge this noble woman. What she was before she is now?'.he myrtle. Applauded for her r>eauty and her crown, she forgets not the cause of her sufferiag people, and with all simplicity of heart still remains a worshiper of the God of heaven. Noble example, followed only by a very fe.v. I address soma who, through the goodness of Go3, have risen to positions of ioflaencs in the community where yon live. In law, io msrchandise, ia medicine, ia m;chanic3 and in other useful occupations and professions you hold an influence for good or for evil. Let us see whether, like Hadassah, you can stand elevation. Have yon as mnch simplicity of character as once you evidenced? Do you leel as much dependence upon G-od, as much your own weakness, as much your accountability for talents intrusted? Or are you proud and overdemanding and uagrateful and unsympathetic and worldly and sensnal and devilish?- Then you have been spoiled by your success, and you shall not sit on this throne with the heroine of my test. In the day when Hadassah shall come to the grander coronation in the presence of Christ and the bannered hosts of the redeemed you will be poor indeed. Oh, there are thousands of man whn pan v Minora to bfl knocked down of misfortune, who are utterly destroyed if lifted up of success. Satan takes them to the top of the pinnacle of the temple and shoves them ofi. Their head begins to whirl, and they l03e their balance, and down they go. While last autumn all through the forests there were luxuriant trees with moderate oulbranch and moderate height pretending but little, there were foliage plants that shot far op, looking down with contempt on the whole forest, clap, ping their hands in the breezsand shouting, . "Aha, do you not wish you were as high up a3 we are?" But last week a blast let loose from the north came rushing along, and grappling the boasting oaks hurled tnem to to the ground, and a3 they went down an oid tree that had bean singing p3lams with the thunder a hundred summers cried out, "Pride 2oeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before a fall." And humble hickory and pine and chestnut that had never said their prayers before bowed their heads as much as to say, "Amen." My friends, "God resisteth the proud, but giveth grace to bumble." Take from -my subject encouragement. Attempt the 8ervr??_of God whatever your disadvantages, anii-*?hatever our lot let us seek that grace whicfcrd&shone all the splend?r3 of the palaces oFSkushan. THE STATE'S SCHOOL?v \ How Many PopllB Are Schoole In the Counties. Columbia, S. C., Oct. 12.?State /I r_i J L T?l J If A*- ^ n 1J OaperiQlBUUSUi Ul jDJm;si<ivu iuajuoiu has now received the reports of the county school commissioners of all the counties in the State save Barnwell, Bsrkeley, Aisen, Anderson, Laurens, Lexington and Marion, giving the number of children enrolled in all the schools of the S;at9. The following are the figures, showing a pretty good increase oyer last 'year, and also showing the comparitivs number of white and colored pupils: Abbeville?Pupils enrolled, 10,184; average attendance 7,365; white 3,870; c&lored 6,314. Barnwell?Pupils enrolled, 8,830; ayerage attendance 6,008; white, 3,342; colored, 5,484. Bsaufort?Pupils enrolled, 6,435; average attendance, 5,084; Waite, 550; colored, 5,885. Charleston?Pupil3 enrolled, 5,498; ftvera<?a attendance 4.821: white. 2.545: colored, 2,953. Cbe3ter?Pupils enrolled, 5,551; average attendance 3 401; white, 1,923; colored 3.620. Chesterfisd--Pupils enrolled, 3,139: average attendance, 2,230; white, 2,069; colored, 1,070. Clarendon?Pupils enrolled, 3.436; average attendance, 2,597; white 1,352; colored, 2,084. * Colleton?Pupils enrolled, 5,917; average attendance, 4.895; white, 2,780; colored, 3,137. Darlington?Pupils enrolled, 4,786; average attendance, 3,363: white 2,548; colored, 2,238. Edgefield?Pupils enrolled, 9,496, average attendance, 300; white, 4,230; colored, 5,266. Fairfield?Pupils enrolled, 5,708; average attendance, 4,464; white, 1,553; colored, 4,155. Trtl TTfc M- or o. JMOrence?Jtrupua euruneu, u,o<jo; average attendance, 4,912; white, 3,138; colored, 3,220. Georgetown?Pupils enrolled, 3,362; average attendance, 2,873; white, 884; colored, 2,478. Greenville?Pupils enrolled, 12,145; avetage attendance, 7,672; wh:t3, 7,981; colored, 4,164. Hampton?Pupils ?rolled, 3,499; average attendance, 2,520; white, 2,110; colored, 1,389. Kershaw?Pupils enrolled, 4,402; average attendance, 3,140; whits, 1,988; colored, 2414. Lancaster?Pupils enrolled, 4,455; average, 1,774. Marlboro?Pupils enrolled, 3,439; average attendance, 2,440; white, 1,190; collorea, 1,250. dewberry?Pupils enrolled, 6,186; average attendance, 4,418; white, 2,325; colored, 3,861. Oconee?Pupils enrolled, 4,180; average attendance, 3,021; white, 3,212; colored, 968. O-Ancrphnror?Pnntls ?nroll?d. 11.651 r I average attendance, 7,722; white, 4,210; colorel, 7,441. Picksns?Pupils enrolled, 4,292; average attendance, 2,988; white 3,262; colored, 1,030. Richland?Pupils enrolled, 6,460; average attendance, 4,541; white, 2,094; colored, 4,364. Sumter?Pupils enrolled, 8,019; aver- t age attendance, 5,220; white, 2,414; ' colored, 5.605. Union?ropus enrolled, 4,171; average attendance, 3,085; white, 1,769; colored, 2 412. Williamsburg?Pupils enrolled, 4,136; average attendance, 3,377; white, 1,555; colored, 2,581. York?Pupils enrolled, 9,301; average attendance, 6,984; white, 4,093; colored, 5,203. The Georgia Elec'lio. The election over in G?or*is last week wa3 not as decisive a Democratic victory as we had hoped for. The populists nude decided gains all over the State, and we fear tnat they will capture two of the Congressional districts, which the Democracy can ill afford to lose at this time. We have "inn OQT7<3I?O1 rmonna Qoatnrno^ -for the OCCU OU?V,lU* iVAJVUU A.V*. VUV result of the election, but the nearest to the true reason for the heavy Populist gains we think are those advanced by tbe Spartanburg Herald. The Herald thinks that one of the main causes that led to such a material re duction of the usual Democratic majority is to be found in Democratic apathy, which caused many Democrats to stay away from the polls. "There has," says the Herald, "been a sharp fight made for and against the administration of Mr. Cleveland in Georgia and this has had the effect of driving many into the Populists' ranks. There 13 an element in Georgia that persistently refuses to see any good in the national administration. Envy, jealousy and disappointment are at the bottom of this but it has had its weight no doubt. Then again, there are those who not only insist on fighting anything that appears to be a criticism of the administration, but In contending for Mr. Cleveland's financial views have misrepresented the Democratic party, and this we believe to be responsible very largely for Populist gains in Georgia. If these people persist in the attempt to make it appear that the Democratic party is pledged to the single gold standard, with its attendant tram of evils, paralyzing trade, grinding the poor, oppressing the weak, yirtVionH fho riAfvr LUOJkllig UUO ll^U i.IVUV^ m*v? wuv poorer, we may expect as many of the honest farmers, mechanics and producers of Georgia as are thu3 misled to seek the Populist party for relief. If we believed the Democratic party stood for the John Saerman, Eastern gold bu? policy, we would join the Populists or some party that did rep u diate these views. The Democratic party is not the party of contraction and centralization. It opposes the concentration of power in the hand3 of the few, it calls to the protection of the masses and the enactment of such measures as will bring: the qneatest good to the greatest number." These are strong word3, but they are as true as preacaiog. The people are deter mined to have relief from the oppression of the money kings. They would like that relief to be obtained through the Democraticparty.butif that party fails to give it to them they will seek it through some other party. Some States Statistic . The population of South Carolina as rannrfuH Htt tha loot-. s?onqiia iQ 1 1K1 _ UJ uuu AMWU vwuuuu AW 149, the 23rd iQ population of the States of the Union. From 1830 to 1890. the increase of population was 15.63 per cent., while that of the two States which hem us ia, Georgia was 19.14 per cent, and North Carolina 15.59 per cent. Florida has outstripped a"ny of her Southern sisters in a gain of 45.24 per cent, ia the decade. The greater percentage of gain is that of Washington, 365.13 per cent. There are only two towns in this State of more than 8,000 inhabitants, Charleston (54,955.), and Columbia (15.353-) The male inhabitants of the State number 572,337, and females 578,812. Of the weaker sex there are 6,475 more. The native bom are 1,144,879, and the foreign born are 6,270. There are 226,926 more negroes than whites. The proportion has been greatly decreased in favor of the whites for the past 20 years. We have in our population only 34 Chinese, no Japanese and 173 civilized Indians, all of whom are counted in as colored population. There are males unmarried, 378,798, and females, 352,076. The chances 9Mm tn hp in favor of f.ha women, but. I there are widows to the number of 40,617. while the widowers only n^moer 10,637, which changes the scale. Oar ft tote has no divorce law, vet thergpxs. ^Hvorcea meir numbering2l(T,~anawomen 483. The illiteracy of our entire population over 10 years old is 45 per cent., which is equalled by only one fctate, that of Louisiana, which is 45 8. Oar white population are only illiterate to the extent of 17.9, while our colored population has 64 per cent, of illiteracy. Illiteracy among our native whites is 18.1 per cent., while that of the foreign is only 6.3 per cent. The total number of occupied dwellings in the Slate are 217,195. The average size of families is 5.30 persons. In 1850 the number of farms in the State was 29,967, and in 1890'the number had increased to 115.008, showing that the large farms ht /e been divided up and there are more people fixed and interested than while the land was held by a fewer number. The average size of farms is 127 acres. The unimproved lands amount to 60.1 per cent, more than half of the whole land. The number of farmers who cultivate their in '1 A OQ Thfl TMlimKor U W LI J.diUJO IO JL uo uuuivv? rented for money rent is 31,913 and for part of crop 31,667. The value of farm lands and improvements and implements is S113,276,862. Ttie value of farm products in 1890 was estimated at S51,337,985, and ?3,867,418 of this was paid for commercial fertilizers. South Carolina has lost her first position in the product of rice and Louisiana has taken is up. She has been steadily decreasing since 1850 from 159,930,613 to in 1890 30,338,951. ... A Serious Charge. ua toe ytn cay 01 r eoraary last one Mac C. Wilson came lo this quiet section c'aiming to be a medlcar doctor, having graduated- at the Atlanta Medical College, and asked fjr a situation here. After looking over the conntry for several days he located at one J. H. Fender's ana was allowed to stay there and practice medicine and surgery until three weeks ago. While residing there news came that he die? not have proper credentials and upon investigation it wa3 found that he had an old diploma bearing date 1857. It was five years older than the man himself. After this development, together with other bad conduct on the part of Wil3on, Fender told him to ieave his place, he, Wilson, having paid no board and when told to leave flatly refused to pav it. Wilson then went to one D. R. Steedley's and remained there until last Tuesday. Steedlev left home on the morning of that day, leaving no one there except Wilson. Later in the day Steedley returned home and tburitl that Wilson was gone, also that 5 lbs of tobacco, 70 cents in cash, the house key and Hi 1 ~ T m;, u V.!m ouctuicjra ucow uab wm ^uuo miu mm. He came here from Harleyvill3, S. C., and is a married man. He left a note at Stcedley'a house saying he would see Fender and Trial Jastlce Smcak in h?-1 before he would pay board. We publish this to warn other good people that they may not be taken in as we have been by such an imposter as this man Wilson. J. A, McCormick, R. J. Steedlev, J. H. Fender, J. W. Zsigler, D. S. Hunter, J. Or. Rjntz, R. E. Steedley, D. 0. Steedley. J. S. Rhoad, D. H", Rhoad, T If t>. ixLa xai&cL, D. R. Steedley, ST. B. Rhoad. N. R. Rhoad, ; Harlzog, Sept. 29,18S4. CoNGEE3SiiAN W. Jasper Talbert seems to have made a unique and not unamlable reputation in Washington. It is said that "he neither attends the theatre, plays cards, drink, smokes of chews. He has a habit, however, or never passing a blind man or a beggar on the street without giving him a nickel. The small change which other ( men spend on themselves he give^To"' others." j * GREENVILLE'S TROUBLE. The H-Jnse Searched "bat the Coat-?bvcd ' Whlukfy H?1 Disappeared. Columbia.,S.C,Ojt. 10.?Tae Dis- ( pensary trouble in Greenville enaed TTootarHoo htr o ooori^h r?f fhn hnnoa of Sol Edel, or rather of H. G. Mark, who owns it. Mark is an ex-alderman of Greenville and is related to many of the prominent Hebrews in this Slate. 1 Ot course the search was fruitless. The 1 contraband goods which are supposed , to haye been stored m the building were spirited away Monday night. The 1 following telegrams were sent and ie- 1 ceived by Governor Tillman yesterday: 1 Greenville, S. C., 11 a. m? Ojt. 9. j Governor B.R. Tillman: Constable Workman,accompanied by , Sheriff Gilreath, Is now searching ^ Eiel's house without resistance. The ; city is quiet and ttie law reigns su- i preme. J. W. Gray. i Greenville, S. C, 11.55 a. m.,Ojt. 9. Governor B. K. Tillman: ; Workman, accompanied bv Sheriff, ' ha3 searched E lei's house. No resistance offered. Xo contraband liquors ; found. J. W. Gray. must do iiis duty. The following telegram was sent by Governor Tillman: Columbia, S. C, Oct. 9. P. D. Gilreath, Sheriff, Greenville, S. C.: ODDortunitv to move liniwr having been given, of course none was found Ocher raids will be made, and I a3k for your own sake that you assist the constables promptly In making searches and arrest all who resist or interfere. B. R. Tillman, Governor. - monday's telegrams. The first telegram received on Monday was from Constable Workman and explained the facts of the affair and the refusal of the Sheriff to make a search of the premises. Governor Tillman sent Sheriff Gilreath the following telegram: Columbia. S. C., t)2t. 8,189i. To P. D. Gilreach, Sheriff: If you do not execute search warrant against Marks will have to report it to General Assembly, and ask your removal. (Signed) B. R. Tillman, Governor. other telegrams. The other telegrams sent and receiv ed during the day were as follows: Greenville, S. C, 03t. 8. Governor B. R. Tillman: Upon refusal of Sheriff to execute warrant, had warrant issued to myself. Sheriff refused to accompany me. Mayor could fiot be found. Attempting to execute warrant, Marks consenting, was openly resisted by oneEdel, his son-in-law, who was cheered by a large crowd which was standing around. Eicheiberger was arrested by Chief of Police and required to give bond. Mayor refuses to permit police to assist in search until city attorney is consulted, and for fear riot wQ be brought on. Sheriff now offars to execute original warrant, provided no constables go with him. No search yet made. Wire instructions. J. B. Workman. Greenville, Oct. 8,1894. To Go7. B. R. Tillman, Columbia, S. C.: I do 'not refuse to execute search warrant but under the excitement and circumstance:} will not do for constables to accompany. I can execute warrant without trouble Constables re fase to allow ma to go alone. Mrs. Edei is in a delicate state and very much excited and under treatment of physicians. (Signed) P. D. Gilkeath, Sheriff. Columbia, S. C., Oct. 8. P. D. Gilreath, Sheriff, Greenville, S. C.: You may refuse to do your duty and aid the whiskey sellers, but unless I am mistaken, the Legislature will make you regret it. Constables must bej^otected and assisted and must see B. R. Tillman, Governor. Greenville, Oct. 8,1894,6.30 p. m. To Gov. IS. R. Tillman, Columbia,S. C.: Sheriff refuses to serve warrant with constables accompanying him. Mayor refuses assistance of police od the ground that an attempt to execute the warrant by the constables with Mrs. Edel in house and in two months of confinement, would cause open resistance and a riot. It is the opinion of some of our best citizens that if warrants are to be executed without assistance of the Sheriff or police constables will need other force to protect. Strict guard is being kept over the premises. " (Signed) J. W. Gray. Columbia, S. C., Oct. 87" J. W. Gray. Greenville, S. C.: It is hardly probable any liquor will be found now, but Sheriff will not make thorough search without constables accompanying him, and it had just as well be understood that the militia will be used if necessary. The Supreme Court bas j us*, rendered a decision sustaining the law and if the Sheriff and Mayor will not do their duty the city will get no more revenue, and I will ask the' Legislature to-remove the Sheriff. B. R. Tillman, Governor. Governor B. R. Tillman: Whilst on tne streets watching Edel's premises to prevent removal or wniskey until arrival of warrant an armed mob of 300 prevented me from doing my duty. Edel dared me to enter premises and threatened my life with a gun. Whilst attempting to get to me to sboot me I drew my pistol and was arrested by t&e police force of this city and placed under bond of $50. Wniskey supposed to be now hidden away. Was carried before Mayor by Chief Kennedy and was arrossly insulted by Mayor; A. Y, Eichelberger. Greenville, S. C., Oit. 8. . Governor B. R. Tillman: Eichelberger 3nd Jackson refuse to guard premises tonight. Have put other men on only in their place. Will keep premises guarded until search is ? a A ma nrifk 1 LLiaUtr. XI. lit UJUUOOillUt; nmu uouuai Gray. J. B. Won khan. TJtie Womi&'j Nerve Failed. Dallas, Texas, Oct. 12.?A special to the News from Clarkesville, Tex., says: Heary Dyke's crib was tired and as be ru3hed oai; of the house to save hi3 agricultural implements his lace and brest were filled with bucksbot, killing him instantly. The assassin was recognized by Dike's son who bad followed his father into the yard. A posse wa3 organizad and Andrew Jackson, the accused man, was captured Mrs. Dyke asked the posse to let her shoot the assassin when captured. Jackson was taken to her home and she was handed a double barreled shotgun loaded and cocked. She raised the gun to her lace, took aim, hesitated and lowering the gsn asked that the law be allowed to takft its conre. The oosse started for the county jail with the prisoner but were overtaken by a mob. A rope was placed arcuad tbe prisoner's neck and while the mob was in ths act of hanging him, the sheriff and his deputies dashed up and took the prisoner from the lyncher", and hurried him off to jail. There is intense excitement, but the cheriff is confident, A Disaster. New Toek, Oct. 10.?A SsveD-3tory bricK building, unfinished, at 74 Monroe street was blown down in last nteht'a ,T- ito fall a amftllftrl auu iU AMAJk VI v? w. tenement Inuse at Xo 76 Monroe street The small home was occupied by Hebrew tailors and their families. Five of these have been taken out dead and fourteen iDjared, some of whom are likely tojlie. Five ot the occups^is of the tenement are missing. All are believed to be boned in the rains. WILL ENFORCE THE LAW. mat is Wint the ai*7or ot Florence S*ys He W1J1 Do. "Florence, S. C, OcS. 10,1894. 'His Exseilencj-, 13. R. Ti'ltma, Gov eruor am unairraan ot iua owie Board of Control, Columbia, S. C. 'Honored Sir: I notice through the papers that the Ac!; of 1893, known as the Dispensary Act, has bsen declared jooa and valid- by the Supreme Cjurt 3f this State. You no dou:3t remember that jast previous to the rendition of the decision in McOullough vs. Brown, in which the Act of 1892 was declared unconstitutional, I called at your cffice in obedience to a sum mans from you and, while there, the situation in Florence was discussed relative to the profits which, under the law, should be turned over to this city. I endeavored then tostate to you fully my action relative to the enforcement of the law at this place,to wit: That wa had always furnished the constables with all the aid desired by them for their protection and assistance in the performance of their duties here; and that the County Board of Control, who had Kept a sharp watch over my conduct, had stated to you by letter that we should receive our profits as they had made thorough investigation of the matter and were satisfied that the city authorities had done what they could to suppress the illicit traffic of liquors in tms cicy. xouno doubt remember statin? to me on that occasion that you would order our profits turned over to us and desired our co operation in the enforcement of the law. The next day the above decision was filed and since then everything has been taking its own course here and elsewhere, and nothing further has pissed between us concerning the profits and the enforcement of the law. Since this law has now received the sanction of the highest court in the State it will be necessary for all citizens to bow to it. To enforce it will be a difficult task to those who have it in charge and it wiil take no doubt the combined efforts of the State, county and city autnorities to give the law the effect aimed at, to wit: Absolutely confining the sale of whiskey to the Dispensaries, but with the co-op?ration'"bf these it occurs to me that it might be enforced without friction and without mucb expense. My reason for saying this is as follows: Numbers of the best people in this city are in sympathy *b<a lom lr>H TX71II QaQ1 <31" in lf.Q PT1 forcement if properly treated and will aid in the conviction of tbe parties who violate it. 1 am quite satisfied that if the State Board of Control will turn over to us tbe profits now due U3, which we are justly entitled to, and we get our portion of the profits hereafter made, the illicit traffic in whiskey in the city of Florence can be suppressed with the aid of one State Constable. The reason is that when our best citizens find that they will be benefited and their taxes lessened by the profits derived from tbis source they will heartily join in with^the city authorities and S2e that this law is properly carried out and by that meaos we will all b9 benefited. I would like to hear from you as to whether you do not think that the views herein expressed reason- i able and whether the request mide not just and proper. Your kind attention will be greatly appreciated by "Your obedient servant, "W. W. Hursey. Mavor." The council of Florence backed Mayor Hursey Id his letter by passing the following ordinance: "Florence, S. C.. Oct 10,1891 "JBe it resolved by the Mayor and Aldermen of. the city of Florence in council assembled, and by the authority of the same: "First. That the letter written by Hon. W. W. Hursey, Mayor, dated October 10,1894, and addressed to his Excellency, JB. R. Tillman, Governor and of _the_State Board of ControI7be adopted as'the'a'cir ju ui mis- council. "Second. That a copy of this resolution accompany the letter to the Governor. "E. H. Lucas, "Clerk of City council.' the governor's answer. Governor Tillman yesterday sent tbe folio wing answer to Mayor Hursev: "Columbia, S. C., Oct. 11,1894. < "Hon. W. W. Hursey, Florence, S. C. "Dear Sir: Your letter of October 10, enclosing a copy of tbe resolutions passed by your city council received. After consultation with the Attorney General who is a member of the State Board of Control, I desire to say that it is the purpose of the State Board to encourage in every way possible the enforcemsnt of tbe Dispensary law by the municipal authorities of the different cities and towns in the State. "We would be glad to dispense with the use of constaoles entirelv if possible* 'In reference to the profits whlcb would have been due to the city of Florence had the law been enforced there to our satisfaction, and wbich you ask to have paid to yOu now, we cannot agree that it is either just or proper, because the State, solely by reason of the nesdect of duty.on the part of the police, suffered a heavy loss by the looting of the Dispensary at Florence last April. Bat we are willing to let bygones be bygones and if the city authorities will act in good faith in the future, the share of the profits to which you are entitled under the law will be cheerfully paid you. We do not want it, and would never have ordered it withheld last spring had we not felt that the police of your city were derelict. I must presume that your offer was made in good faith and hope there will be no cause of complaint on either side In the future. One.of the best constables on the force is now in Florence, and if you will co operate with him there is no doubt that the illicit sale of whiskey can be stopped, and the morals and good order of your town improved. I am,? Very respectfully, "R. R TlLLilAN, "Governor." The Candidates for Congress. The Republicans of South Carolina are energetically on tbe move. Up to this time their "slate" has not yet been completed, but as it no w stands it looks like this: First District?Democrat, William Elliott; Republican, Geo. W. Murray. Second District?Democrat, W. J. Talbert; Republican, H. Dickerson. Third District?Democrat, A. C. Latimer; Republican, Robert Moorman. H. H. Evans is runcicg as an Independent. Fourth District?Democrat, Stan yame Wilson; Republican, Lawson D Melton. Fifth District?Democrat, T. J. Strait; Republican, C. J. Pride. Col. W. R. Davie is running as an Independent. Sixth District?Democrat, John R. .5iirin Ponnhilrtan. nnf. vetnamed. Seventh District?Democrat, J. William 5toke9; Republican, E. M. Brayton, contested by Col. T. B. JohnstoD. In two of the districts, the 1st and 7th the Republicans have an idea that they can win at the polls. With anything like the usual work, however, the Republican candidates in both of these districts can be easily defeated. Let every'Democrat in the two districts do ail t&ey canr to pull their candidates through, and the result will be a full Democratic delegation from South Carolina in the next House. Only a Small Boy. Brownsville, Tenn., Oct. 11.? Grundy Moore, 10 years of age, was OrOUgQXj 111 iroui X>eil OUanuu guai^cu with having thrown the switch that dirched the D. & N. vestibule train at Bells.two days ago. The tralh was running 40 miles an hoar. Foot persons were seriously hurt. He says he was playing with the switch, turned it, heard the train coming and fled into the wood. He was bound over for trial. . i ; DAMAGE ON LAND AND SHA. A Karr can Vit>16? X-;w Ya?k a: <1 Viclcliy. JJeav York, 0it. 10.?The storm which broke upon this section shortly after midnight has done great damage on sea and on land. Tricks oE New Jersey Southern Railroad, between Sebright and highland Beach, N. J., have been covered with sand washed np by the waves. The Fishing Smack Louise was driven ashore at Highland Beach aod is a total loss. Her crew of ten men were taken cff by the Jife saving ere sr. A steamship, app irently m distress, was sighted sood after daylight at anchor some distance off Long Branch. While the sea was running so high no effort was made to estalish communication between the steamsfcip aod the shore. At 10 a. m the wind shifted and tne storm somewhat abated. The steamship does not seem to be in aoy immediate danger. In Seabnght and vicinity a number of buildings were unroofed. At Lon g Island City the bis iron tank belonging to the Eis*; River Gas Company was blown down to within five feet of its foundation. The tank was 200 feet high and 185 wide. Police wires were all blown down and small boats all along the shore from Long Island City to Bowery Bay Beach were broken and thrown up on the beach. Trees and t-lephone wires were broken aad twisted and at .North Baach a number of boats were wrecked. The trolley wires of the Brooklyn railroad at North Beacn a* e all broken and the cars are not now being run. The ferry boat Harlem of the Ninety-second street ferry was disabled. New York, Ost. 10.?A seven story brick building unfinished at 74 Monroe street blew down in last night's gale and m its fall crushed a small tenement housi at 76 Monroe street. The small house has occupied by Hebrew tailors and their familes. Five of these h$ve been taken out dead and fourteen injured, some of whom are likely to die. Five of the occupants of the tenement are missing. All are believed to be buried in the ruins. Huntington, L. I., Oct. 10.?During the heavy gale last night seven barges loaded with coal, bound East, and the large 3team tuar Belle Mc Williams went ashore at Lloyd's harbor and a woman and two children were lost. Some men belonging to the crews were missing and are oelieved to nave been drowned. Most of the barges are a total wreck and the beach for a mile is covered wich wreckage. The woman who lost wasaooard. the barge Jennie Hughes, whose Cap-, tain, James Murphy, was her brother. With her were her three children. At the height of the storm the woman and children took refuge in the cabin, which was built in the deck. A wave tore away the cabin and carried it into the sea. The wrecked cabin, in wnich lay woman's body, was afterward found about a mile from where the barge went ashore. One of the children, an eleven year old boy, still alive, was found on the beach and was taken aboard the tasr. which lies high and dry on the beacb. He will probably recover. The bodies of the other children "have not-yet been found: The actual loss of life and properiy canD ot be ascertained until the searchers return from the scene of the wrecks. The gale was the fiercest tver witnessed by dwellers on the bay. Lloyd's Harbor is considered the safest along the coast. The tug is not much damaged. almost a riot. Constables Attempt a Search Bat are Arrested by the Folic*. Greenville, Oct. 8.?Much excitement was caused here today by the attempt ~oT State mi&tauiea imam tnc private premises of Sol. Eiel, who kept bar at the Manson House, where be had been pulled half a dozen- times. His residence is five or six blocks from the bar and is a very handsome cottage with vines and flowers about the piazzi and in the front yard. It wjis the scene of a very exciting situation, which naro jrly missed culminating in a bloody riot. ^ 'Win MAAwAm/W OOl'fT ft/1 O LUU314U1C9 01119 uiuiuiu^; u trunk beinjj hauled from Eiel's residence to the Manson House and found i i full of export beer. They were informed by the driver that th^re was other liquors at Eiel's house. They obtained a warrant to search, but the Sheriff refused to execute it The constables then went to his house. Elel had heard of the affair and had gone home, sending the negro ahead of him with a double-barreled shotgun. A. crowd had gathered in front of the house when the constables reached there. The chief of police fearing trouble. concentrated the whole force on the scene. Edel from his piazza announced that he would blow out the brains of the first man who tried to enter. People who by this time had filled the streets cheered him wildly. On going back into the house E lel found his wife, who is neariog confine ment. in a faint and got the idea she was dyiHg. Some of nis friends had hid his gun and he rushed from his house empty-handed, but apparently half filled with rage. He struggled des perately with soms of his friends who were on tb* piazza and who seizad him. Constable Eichelbeiger, who was on the outside of the fence waiting tor Constable Workman, who had gone to have an error in the warrant corrected, supposed Eiel was coming with his gun and drew his pistol. The crowd im mediately closed in on him and many men were prepared to shoot the constable if h8 made a move. The police gathered about him, howeyer, and the chief put him under arrest charged with drawing a pistol on a citizen. This action prevented trouble. When the people saw the constables in charge of the police they dispersed.. Eichelberger gave S50 bail for his appearance in th8 Mayor's Court to-morrow. The SnerifE offered to make search if allowed to go to Edel's alone, but the constables iosist ed tnat one of them snoma accompany him and he refa&ed to consent, claiming that he needed no help, and that-the presence of the constable would canse a liot unnecessarily. The Mayor also declined to give the constables police assistance. The constables reported to the Governor and are awaiting instructions. . There is a goo J deal of suppressed excitement. Some? people Say that the search of Edel's. house should be submitted to on the ground that ne ,was using it as a storage place for liqaors to be sold-at his bar. A-great majority contend that all searches of .private houses of respectable people should be resisted to the'last extremity. Constable Workman seems to think he'could have made the search it he had been allowed to go aione and quietly as he intended and thatConstabl&EichelDenr er's gomg to the house spoiled his plans. The .determination .to resi.3t searches of' residences by constables seems to b8 very general?Register.. Senator Faulkner, chairman of the Democratic congressional, committee, went to New York the other day to look over ,the ground in that State, and,, in an inserviewvjaspressed the opinion that "tbeife has fcweh a more remarkable change in the situation within forty days than in any pother forty days in the history of the country. At the beginning of this period everything looked blue enough. Now I believe we shall have a good working majority in the next House. The revival .or business following the passage of the tariff Dili nas oeen marvellous, ana with it Uas come the knowledge to business men. and citizens generally that- it was to the McKinley bill that the country owed its long lack of trade and prosperity." A BiUrosd Deal. The News and Courier says the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad has bought the Coarieston, Sunter and Northern Railroad. When the ne *s first reached Charleston of the s alt* the editor of The News aoci Courier seat a dispatch to rr trr y ^ _ _ _ j - a. r ai i air. r?. w aiders, president 01 i,ae au?utic Coast Line system, telling hfm of the " raoior current there, and asking him what the purchase of the Charleston, Sumter and Northern meant for that city. The following dispatch, confirming the news that has already been given in The News and Courier, Has been received from Mr. Walters at Petersburg: "The Charleston, Sumter and Northern liailroad Company is an insolvent company whish has never v--. earned its operating expenses. Our friends have purchased soms of its se-^^H curities. If it passes into our control we will endeavor to make it possible V to maintain it as a railroad and every interest that Charleston can have in the business along its line will be safer than when at the mercy of an insolvent company." While Mr. Walters does not commit himself to the positive statement that the Atlantic Coast Line will operate the Charleston, Sumter and M Northern, no one who has read the dls- ; ^ patch will doubt that such will be the ??& : I case. ItiSLhigbly improbable that the ] Atlantic Coast; Line would have acquired any oiher than a controlling interest in an insolvent company, and aB it m*y be taken as a fact that it is WSM < ..cm. * ~ 4-KA Pka.taafnn ucreauei iu upeiatc wo uuouw "! Sumcer and tfortbern Road. pr? MB^ETf PATS TBI FRIIOT -& iota* Pdw far G?fc! y? fer ithH>g06 ut $ WW Y? CM SMl ?? ?<i:?c. ill prjc?s?. $69 ?**-~$37 1 Just to Introduce them. . S? X^?.'3 So flreijriit paid on thw OrK**3 Ga*r?nteed to b? F**1 ontu * *aoney to 0?:- | fcodod. ? ? jt 3$^| ~ a A sa?ai s "jjMjt IjL P!n*h PA-KJbOK 8 CITS, coid^titif of s?>f-. * rii? 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