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k?m asp-.;' FOOTSTEPS OF GOD.!? ; w Rev. Dr. Talmage Finds His lm* I j print Everywhere. j V j 3< THE BEAUTIES OF NATURE \V ? Furnish a Theme for a Powerful f; Sermon. Would Abolish All ^ Creeds and Denomi- t: nations. t ... t Dr. Talmage in his discourse takes }] *s with him on a journey to the Pacific \ and finds ';the footsteps of the Creator'' ~ everywhere, as Hugh Miller found them j in the old red sandstone; texts. Isaiah t xxxv, 6, '"Streams in the desert; Psalms g civ, 32, "He toucheth the hills and they smoke." e My first text means irrigation. It y means the waters of the Himalaya or c the Pyrenees or the Sierra Xevadas poured through canals and aqueducts for the fertilization of the valleys. It ~ means the process by which the last mile of American barrenness will be t made an apple orchard, or aa orange | j grove, or a wheat field, or a cotton plantation, or a vineyard?"streams in j the desert." My second text means a t okano like Vesuvius or Cotopaxi, or ifc means the geysers of Yellowstone park or of California. You see a hill calm and still and for ages immovable, but the Lord out of the heavens puts j his finger, on the top of it, and from it ^ rise thick and impressive vapors. ';He j toucheth the hills and they smoke!" Although my journey across the con- t tinent this summer was for the eighth j, time, more and more am I impressed with the divine hand in its construction and with its greatness and grandmnro *nr! more am I thrilled i CUi, auu v with the fact'that it is all to be irriga- j ted, glorified and Edenized. "What a j. ehange from the time when Daniel 0 Webster on yonder Capitoline hill said j to the American senate ia regard to * the center of this continent and to the g regions on the Pacific coast: "What do / you want with this vast, worthless area, this region of savages and wild beasts. * of deserts and cactus, of shifting sands and prairie dogs? To what could we ever put these great deserts <v these y smut. Trinnntains. impenetrable and cov- " ered with eternal snow? What can we I * ever hope to do with the western coast, , rock bound, cheerless and uninviting ^ and not a harbor on it? I will never ? vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific coast one inch nearer Boston than it now is." What a mis- 2 take the great statesman made when j he said that! All who have crossed the ; continent realize that the states on the g Pacific ocean will have quite as grand t opportunities as the states on the At- ^ lantic, and all this realm from sea to ? sea to be the Lord's cultivated possession. | Do you know what in some respects is the most remarkable thing between * the Atlantic and Pacific? It is the ^ figure of a cross on a mountain in Colorado. It is called the "Mount of the r Holy Cross." A horizontal crevice filled with perpetual snow and a perpen- , dicalar crevice filled with snow, but both the horizontal line and the per- j; pendicular line so marked, so bold, s# | significant, so unmistakable, that all who pass in the daytime within many ? miles are compelled to see it. There , are some figures, some contours, some mountain appearances, that you grad- ? ualiy make out after your attention is * called to them. So-a man's face on tne rocks in the White mountains. So a ^ maiden's form cut in the granite of the Adirondackg. So a city in the moving , clouds. Yet you have to look under ^ tie pointing of your friend ?r guide for some time before you can see the simi- * larity. But the first instant you glance at this side of the mountain in Colora- ^ do, you cry out: ':A cross! A cross!" r Do you say that this geological in scrip- ^ tion just happens so? Xo. That cross on the Colorado mountain is not a human device or an accident -cf nature or ? the freak of an earthquake. The hand of God cut it there and set it up for the r nation to look at. Whether set up in * * ? ~ ~ A# 1TOC CAt ^ tock Deiore me cruas m >wv%* > , up on the bluff back of Jerusalem or j set up at some time since tliat assassi- ? nation, I believe the Creator meant it to suggest the most notable event in all c the history of this planet, and he hung s' it there over the heart of this continent c to indicate that the only hope for this nation is in the cross on which our Immanuel died. The clouds were vocal at "jj our Saviour's birth, the rocks rent at his martyrdom, why not the walls of ' Colorado bear the record of the cruci- ' -?' fixion? First, consider the immensity Si " - ' * a_ l ;? u e ot tms continental possessiuu. u were not only a small tmct of land, eapable of nothing better than sage- * brush and with ability only to support , prairie dogs. I should not have much enthusiasm in wanting Christ to have ^ it added to his dominion. But its im- , nensity and affluence no one can imag- c ine unless in immigrant wagon or stage- ^ eoaeh or in rail train of the Union Pa- % cific or the Northern Pacific or the Canadian Pacific or the Southern Pacific he has traversed it. w But while I speak of the immensity ^ of the continent I must remark it is c< not an immensity of monotone or tame- ^ ness. The larger some countries are ^ the worse for the world. This conti- ^ nent is not more remarkable for its * magnitude than for its wonders of con- ^ sfcrtictfton. Yosemite and the adjoining California regions. Who that has seen S.1 them can think of them without having his blood tingle? Trees now stand- n< ing there that were old when Christ ^ lived. These monarehs of foliage reign- tc ed before Caesar or Alexander, and the next 1,000 years will not shatter their *r fcepter. They are the masts of the cootinent, their canvas spread on the ** ? winds, while the old ship bears on its way through the ages. That valley of the Yosemitc is eight ? miles long and a half mile wide and 3,000 feet deep. It seems as if it had n been the meaning of Omnipotence to crowd into as small a place as possible " some of the most stupendous scenery P1 of the world. Some of the cliffs you " do not stop to measure by feet, for 113 they are literally a mile high. Steep so c; that neither foot of man nor beast ever w scaled them, they stand in everlasting C3 defiance. If Jehovah has a throne on earth, these are its white pillars. Stand- S( ing down in this great chasm of the ai -v valley, you look up, and yonder is Ca- m thedral rock, vast,- gloomy minster i ^ biult for the silent worship of the J C mountains/ Yonder is Sentinel rock, D: 3,270 fe^tnigh, bold, solitary, stand- ni icg guai)a among the ages, its top selSffiUgn^^^dom touched until a bride one Fourth p: QUttXy mounted it and planted the na- 01 KL standards, and the people down a< ^ BPe valley looked up and saw the K HLof the mountain turbaned with I) and stripes. Yonder are the Three pi ^Mj^4^000 feet high; Cloud's rest. E flnmo VlAVorbt.S IS ^?err??nvrvrr^! tierr bey o- N Hlffgr, i< Hcd is Hkc ii t iseUcUi&g. Muuataios auckad by j jousiaiss. >ioticta?8S ?plit, Moua> ! tins ground. Mountains fallen. Moun-! lins triumphant. As though Mont i tlanc and the Adirondacks and Mount Washington wore here uttering thenislves in one mugniticent chorus of Dckand precipice and waterfall. Sift ag and dashing through the rocks the ater comes down. The Bridal Veil alls so thin you can see the face of he mountain behind it. Yonder is Tosemite falls, dropping 2.634 feet. ]0 imes greater descent than that of Xiaara. These waters dashed to death on he rocks, so that the white spirit of hese slain waters ascending in robe of iist seeks the heavens. Yonder is s'evada falls, plunging 700 feet, the rater in arrows, the water in rocks, the rater in pearls.the water in amethysts, he water in diamonds. That cascade tJiA rnelrs #?nmi?rll iewel to rrav all the earth in beauty and rushs on until it drops into a very hell of raters, the smoke of their torment asending forever and ever. "Wide reaches of stone of intermin:led colors, blue as the sky, green as he foliage, crimson as the dahlia, white ,s the snow, sp'jttjd as the leopard, awny as the lion, grizzly as the bear, n circles, in angles, in stars, in oronets, in stalactites, in stalagmites, lore and there are petrified growths, or he dead trees and vegetables of other ,ges, kept through a process of natural nbalmment. In some places waters as ? ' "lilinfr ic o fViilrl mak'intr 11 LIUV/U LI L auu v? v?..v. c , first attempt to 'walk from its mother's ap. and not far off as foaming and renzied and ungovernable as a maniac n struggle with, his keepers. But after you have wandered along he geyserite enchantment for days and >egin to feel that there can be nothing nore of interest to see you suddenly :ome upon the peroration of all majesty ind grandeur, the Grand can}'on. It is lere that it seems to me?and I speak t with re/erence?Jehovah seems to rave surpassed himself. It seems a ;reat gulch let down into the eternities. Jere. hung up and let down and spread ibroad, are all the colors of land ~nd ea and sky. Upholstering of the Lord >od Almighty. Best work of the Architect of words. Sculpturing by 1 "I"/.-, ,T An.ninnt. nc jumnite. juxiisuiii'jf uy au vuiui^uw 2 nt trowel. Yellow!' You never saw rellow unless you saw it there. Red! iTou never saw red unless you saw it here. Violet! You never saw violet mless you saw it there. Triumphant >anners of color. In a cathedral of )asalt, sunrise and sunset married by he setting of rainbow ring. Gothic arches, Corinthian capitals md Egyptian basilicas built before hunan architecture was born. Huge fortiications of granite constructed before rar forged its first cannon. Gibraltars md Sevastopol that never can be aken. Alhambras. where kings of trength and queens of beautyi-eigied >efore the first earthly cr-.-wn was em >earled. Thrones on which no one rat the King of heaven and earth ever at. Fount of waters at which the hills ire baptized, while the giant cliffs stand ;round as sponsors. For thousands of 'ears before that scene was unvailed to tuman sight the elements were busy, .nd the geysers were hewing away with heir hot chisel, and glaciers were bounding with their cold hammers, and rarricanes were cleaving with their ightning strokes, and hailstones giv aT. ? fnnnlioc !>n^ it ftPT all Ug LLLC ilUiOI-LlUC^ ivuvuvuj MMV. *?.?? ?? hese forces of nature had done their est in our century the curtain dropped, ,nd the world had a new and divinely aspired revelation, the Old Testament rritten on papyrus, the New Testament rritten on parchment and this last Testament written on the rocks. Oh, the sweep of the American continent! Sailing up Pugot sound, its hores so bold that for 1,500 miles a -S-/VTTT TT-^-nlr) *nn/>V> fllA qVlfYTP hp UJ.JJ >3 WVU1U WUVA* w?w ? ore its keel touched the bottom! On ne of my visits I said. "This is the Iediterranean of America." Visiting ^rtland and Tacoma and Seattle and Victoria and PortTownshend and Yanouver and other cities of the northwest egion I thought to myself, "These are he Bostons, New Yorks, Charlestons nd Savannahs of the Pacific coast." Jut after all this summer's journeying nd my other journeys westward in ther summers, I found that I had seen nly a part of the American continent, or Alaska is as far west of San Franisco as the coast of Maine is east of it, o that the central city of the American ontinentis San Francisco. I have said these things about the ^ao-nirnrlA nf the continent and given ou a few specimens of some of its woners to let you know the compreheniveness of Christ's dominion when he ikes possession of this continent. Beides that, the salvation of this contin t means the salvation of Asia, for we re only 36 miles from Asia at the northest. Only Bering straits separates us :om Asia, and these will be spanned y a great bridge. The 36 miles of ater between these two continents are ot all deep, sea, but have three istnds, and there are also shoals which ill allow piers for bridges, and for the lost of the way the water is only about 3 fathoms deep. The Amcrico-Asiatic bridge which ill yet span those straits will make .merica, Asia, Europe and Africa one )ntinent. So, you see, America rangelized, Asia will be evangelized, urope taking Asia from one side and .merica taking it from the other side, our children will cross that bridge. A cio "RnrrvnA all nnft. fliUVi MWV* V|/v ?7 hat subtraction from the pangs of seackness and the prophecies in Revelaon will be fulfilled, "there shall be 3 more sea." But do I mean literally tat this American continent is goin? i be all gospelized? I do. Christocter Columbus, when he went ashore cm the Santa Maria, and his second rother Alonzo, when he went ashore om the Finta, and his third orotner incent, when he went ashore from the ma, took possession of this country in ic name of the Father and the Son and le Holy Ghost. Satan has no more ght to this country then I have to 3ur pocketbooK. To hear him talk on le roof of the temple, where he proosed to give Christ the kingdoms of lis world and the glory of them, you light suppose that satan was a great ipitalist or that he was loaded up ith real estate, when the old mis:eant never owned an acre or an inch : ground on this plant. For that rea >n I protest against something i neara ad saw this summer and other sumicrs in Montana and Oregon and Tyoming and Idaho and Colorado and alifornia. They have given devilistic ames to many places in the west and orthwest. As soon as you get in Yellowstone irk or California you have pointed it to you places cursed with names > "The Devil's Slide," "The Devil's kitchen/' "The Devil's Thumb," "The "evil's Pulpit,"' ';The Devil's Mushr?t " 4<Thft Devil's Teakettle," "The | 'evil's Sawmill/'; "The Devil's Machine hop," "The Devil's Gate" and so on. ovr it is very much needed that geo>gical surveyor or congressional comtittee or group of distinguished tour-. its go through Montana and Wvomig and California and Colorado and give other nuTnes to these places, All ; theis region* balong tG the Lord ?n-J to j a Christian natioa. and away with snoh I Plutonic noi-jenciature. But how. i.s i this continent to be gospslized? The j pulpit' and a Christian printing prcss ! harnessed together will be the mightiest j team for the first plow. Not by the i power of cold, formalistic theology, not j by ecclesiastical technicalities. J. am j sick of them, and the world is sick of j them. But it will be done by the warm \ hearted, sympathetic presentation of j the fact that \.'hr,'si ready to pardon j all our sins, and heal all our wounds, j and save us both for this world and the j next. Let your religion of glaciers : crack off and fall into the Gulf stream j and get melted. Take all your creeds j of all denominations and drop out of I them all human phraseology and put in i only scriptural phraseology, and you | will see how quick the people will jump | after them. On the Columbia river we saw the I salmon jump clear out of the water in j different places. I suppose for the purpose of getting the insects. And :f when we want to fish for men we ?-U 1 nf CUUiU Uiii) iiavt uiu Uplii/ ftiuu v*. v j they will spring out above the flood of ! their sins and sorrows to reach it. The Voting Men's Christian associations of American will also do part of the work. They are going to take the young men of this nation for God. These institution for God. These institutions seem in better favor with God and man than ever before. Business men and capitalists are awaking to the fact that they can do nothing better in the way of livin locf. *u"i 11 n nfl i Lli^ UCUCUUtlJVV Vi xu iMfc) v ?f AA* ?wwvment than to do what Mr. Marquand did for Brooklyn when he made the Young Mens Christian palace possible. These institutions will get our young men all over the land into a stampede for heaven. Thus we will all in some way help on the work, you with your ten talents, I with five, somebody else with three. It is estimated that to irrigate the arid and desert lands of America as they ought to be irrigated it will cost about $100,000,000 to gather the waters into reservoirs. As much contribution and effort as that would irrigate with gospel influences all the 1 i? ll ? 1! 4. T waste places 01 cms comment, uci us by prayer and contribution and right living all help to fill the reservoirs. Ycu will carry a bucket, and you a cup. ^nd even a thimbleful would help. And after awhile God will send the floods of mercy so gathered pouring down over all the land, and some of us on earth and some of us in heaven will sing with Isaiah, '"In the wilderness waters have broken out and streams in the desert/' and with Da^id, ''There is a river the streams wfcreof shall make glad the sight of God." Oh, lill up the reservoirs. America for God! A DASTARDLY MTJBDER. Mrs- J. 0. Atkinson Assasmatea item AmbushThe news of the tragic assasination from ambush of Mrs. J. 0. Atkinson was brought to the city last night by traveling men who were at Edgefield Court House where the crime was perpetrated. They say that the excitement in Edgefield village and the surrounding country is very great and if the assassin is found he will be dealt with in a manner that will not add to the court calendar. The story as gained from traveling men is as follows: lne assassination occurred luesaay night on the Martintown road, in a remote part of the county. Mrs. Atkinson was in Augusta Tuesday with her husband. They transacted their business and left for their business and left for their home about dark. Their home is in Edgefield county, thirteen miles from August? and fourteen miles from Edgefield Court House. Mr. and Mrs. Atkinson were ^rivirtcr nnifp cilnwltf The?v Viarl tvpa ceeded up a slight hill and were descending on the other side when from a group of blackjack bushes a gun was fired. Mrs Atkinson gave vent to a scream of apparent pain and fright. The shot had been fired at very close range. Mr. Atkinson threw his arm about his wife and felt blood falling on his hand. He then noticed that Mrs. Atkinson had apparently swooned. He threw both arms about her and lowered her to the seat of the vehicle. She was dead in a few seconds. The load was No. 2 bird shot, fired at close range from apparently, a shotgun, that the shot did not have opportunity to scatter, striking the lady in a clump in the neck, reaching vital points, and producing doath almost instantaneously. As soon as possible, Mr. Atkinson gave the alarm. In two hours and a half Edgefield county was on the hunt forthe cowardly and craven assassin or assassins who was or were guilty of this dastardly deed. There is absolutely no clue so far as can be learned. Mr. Atkinson, of course, gave his attention solely to his wife. If there was a movement in the bushes after the shot, he would not have noticed it. The officers and citizens beat about all night, making the most diligent inquiry, that some clue, some trail of the assassin might be secured. Tbey have not, so far as learned, been in the least successful. The bands, who are still roaming over the country, are determined to leave nothing undone. The assassination was so heinous, so brutal, that the cry of vengeance is heard. All that the possees desire is to get hold of the assassin and to be sure that he is the right man. The deceased was a woman of lovely character, of handsome mien, a good wife and the mother of several chtldren. She is about 38 years of age. Her home is one of the happiest in the south. Mr. Atkinson is a well-to-do farmer and an honorable and splendid gentleman. This terrible affair that has come into his life is wringing his heart with anger and grief. There is no suspicion. It is taken that the assassin aimed his deadly fire at Mr. Atkinson.?Columbia Record. Scalded to Death. The torpedo boat Davis which started on its official trial trip Thursday was disabled by the bursting of a number of boiler tubes. Eight of the crew were i--ji 1.1 -.3 ?j ?1??e oaaiy suaiueuj ituu mia ui cucm soon after reaching Astoria, Ore. The dead: C. MeNeely, P. Luithleo, II. Wood. The seriously injured: W. Woods, 1>. Ryan, A. Johnson, A. Buehl. Luitheo was a coal passer and Woods superintendent of the boiler room. The others were firemen. The accident occurred in the Columbia river, about 20 miles above this city. The nature cf the explosion has not been made known and the examination of the boilers will be required to determine exactly what part of the boilers burst. The best theory obtainable is that some or the tubes of the outward boiler exploded owing to a derangement of the automatic water gage which per mitted the water to get too low. Excepting for the havoc wrought in the boiler room the boat is uninjured. Late \ Thursday night the four injured men died, making a total of seven dead. THE ROLL OF HONOR.! Difficult to get a Roster of Con-! - i to federate Regiments. j co j pa SOUTH CAROLINA RESERVES, jS1< uu W Golonel I homas Desires to Get ta the Roils of all the Companies j?aa that Were Cailed Out. m Col. Thomas, State historian, has is- m sued the following appeal for informa- 61 tion concerning several missing mili- co tary records: th To All Whom it May Concern: 11 The undersigned having virtually th completed the work of collecting the di Confederate rolls proper, now desires di to make the war record of South Caro- wi I'" k,- o^rl inrr I + liUct lliUIU T ^ VJ UUUtU^ vv Wf the rolls thus far received, of the State jo troops, known as reserves, called into p< service 1S61-65. He propses further w to make more full the roster of what S< may be designated as the general staff 11 ?engineers, surgeons, quartermasters, 01 commissaries and chaplains, as well as lo ordnance officers, not attached to regi- Y ments, battalions or brigades. In the matter of the general staff, the State ai historian has received the valuable aid D of the llev. Dr. Jchnson, of Charleston, P S. C., formerly the distinguished major Si of engineers, C. S. A., to whom additional names may be sent of such men as come under the title of the "general R staff." There were about eight regi- D inents of reserves or State troop?, making SO companies. There are now on file in this office about 50 companies of this class. These additional rolls now called for must be handed in by November 15th next, when it is proposed to tl close the record and make up the re- D port for the general assembly of 1899. tl John P. Thomas. R 0 In making out the muster rolls of the regiments to be disbanded from the volunteer army, five copies are made. One for the war department, two for u' the paymaster, one for the adjutant jr general of the State and one for the D. regimental adjutant. So in future q| years there will be no trouble to obtain records of those who served. Pity it ^ is, but 'tis true that the rolls and re- u. cords of those who made the most glorious struggle in the world's history are u very hard to obtain. The State histo- cj riau, Col. Jno. P. Thomas, has had C1 much difficulty in getting rolls of those st from South Carolina who served in the jr Confederacy, and the time will comc when these records can?ot be found unless they are sent in now. Follow- g, ing is a list of company rolls recently gj received by Col. Thomas. Additional rolls may be sent in up to c( Nov. 15, 1898. h. Companies A and B, Battalion State rc Cadets, Citadel. b, Companies A and B, Battalion State tj Cadets, Arsenal. ' ai South Carolina College'Cadets. * m a?? lk_ Stono Scouts. tj St. Helena Mounted Riflemen. w Greenville Home Guard. . w Marion True Blues. p( Capt. Percival's company of Mounted g Men. _ u Capt. Russell's company of Detailed a] Men and Boys. St. Paul's Home Guard. Capt. Keating Simons' company?in- C1 dependent. Capt. Forster's company. C( Edgefield Reserves?Abncy. Walhalla State Guards. Capt. Moss' company?Bomares. Brooks' Home Guards. , Arsenal Guards?Charleston. ; Ordnance Guard?Charleston. . Capt. Shiver's company?Columbia. J?1 Capt. Dougherty's company?Char- *( leston. c J{ rianh Ahrjim .Tnnes'comnanv?Ed ere field"*"' "" * " ~ gCompanies B, C, H. land K. Second regiment. e, Company D, Third regiment. Company H, Fourth regiment. Companies E and I, Fifth regiment. ^ Company H, Eighth regiment. Company C, Ninth regiment. ei Company A, Eleventh regiment. Company A, First battalion, regiment not named. Company A. First battalion, rer- ^ ment not named. Companies E and F. Second battalion. S2 regiment not named. ai Company C, Fifth battalion, regiment not named. Company A, Capt. Hoiman, regiment not named. Company A, Capt. Hipp, regiment not named. Company I, Capt. Brooks, regiment ^ not named. rJ Company ?, Capt. Kay, regiment er not named. Under call for special quota: ~ Capt. Barton's company, from First ^ regiment S. C., militia. or Capt. King's company, from Fifth Q| regiment S. C.. militia. 0I Cant. Smith's company, fiom Fifth regiment S. C., militia. Capt. Maher's company, from Eiev- ^ enth regimentS. C., militia. U? Capt. Wise's company, from Elev- uenth regiment S. C., militia. Capt. Dantzler's company, from !,( Fourteenth regiment S. C., militia. jj] Capt. Tyler's company, from Fif- ^ teenth reeimentS. C., militia, Capt. Mellett's company, from Twentieth regiment S. C., militia. " Capt. Brown's company, from Twenty-Third regiment S. C., militia. Capt. company, from Twenty- ?* Fourth regiment S. C., militia. ^ Capt. company, from Twenty- "C Fifth regiment S. C., militia. Chesterfield Eagles. Capt. Evans' company, from TwentyEighth regiment S. C., militia. Capt. Wood's company, from Twenty-Xinth regiment S. C., militia. ^ Capt. Gibson's company, from Thirtieth regiment S. C., militia. Capt. Chapman's company, from I* Thirty-Ninth regiments. C., militia. ?e There being no record on hand in the State archives of the State troops or reserves called out in South Carolina? ?c 18(51 to 1S65?the above list is published lfc to stimulate the handing in of addi- to tional rolls to make more complete this st< State's record in the war between the States. Jno. P. Thomas, State Historian. Columbia, S. C., Oct. IS, 189S. Sc vi Asiies As A Fertilizer.?All m; farmers know that wood ashes are valu- th able for fertilizer. But this value, as hi many know, is due very much to the ca material from which tlie ashes came, re Thus ashes made from hard wood are at more valuable than ashes made from soft wood. Ia fact, some aj?fe from soft wood have not enough^rtue to as make it worth, while to bother with le them. It has also been found that the pi value is largely governed by the part ar - -* ^ i<>c\i TO morlo cn OX llie H UG uurn vi mvu uou i-j wi.?v 0. It is declared by chemists that the ash ti: of the young twigs is of more value of than the ash of the trunk of the tree, ;m and the ash of leaves still more valua- w: ble. st The Best Congress. j f The New York Joui'nil prints a con- \*rvative estimate of results in every j ate which show a working majority ; <r r the Democratic party in the nest! ngress. The figures have been pre-! red. after a careful canvass, from inie information, received by the Demratic congressional committee at 'ashington. and compiled by an atche, who came within three of fore- V .sting the Republican majority in the st congress. These figures elect * emocratic congress this fall by a mini-: um of seventceu majority. A sum- j ary of the Fifty-sixth congress giv?s j . doubtful votes. Of these, if 41 are needed to the Republicans and 20 to a Dpmncrstn tliA result will be 170 ^ epublican. opposition 187. Now, if 0J :e Republicans carry all the doubtful V stricts and the opposition the dis- ir icts credited to them, the next house [iuld stand Republicans, 1!?0; opposion. 167?total 357?a Republican marity of 23. This is not regarded as , )ssible, and by the method of figuring ith the present information in hand, P ;cretary Kern cannot see how the & epublicans can win. "We have them ? l the run," says Kern, "and cannot 11 se the next house." Here is the New ^ ork Journal's table: A conservative summary of the FiftytrfVi nnnffTAto ic oe 'Pnllrtirs AlU ww< *v**viiwt emocrats 150 opulists 13 P liver Kepublicaus 4 ^ Total 167 n epublicans 129 F' oubtful 61 g Total .....190 * Grand total 357 ? Of the 61 doubtful the chances favor le Republicans in 41 districts and the ? emocrats in 20. If it splits that way le next house would stand: ? epublicans 170 11 pposition 187 ' An Impprtant Decision ? The News and Courier, of the 30th t Itimo, gives an abridgement of a very > uportant decisiou, relating to street j? iving, which affects all municipalities ^ : the State. We can give no more j, lan a brief statement. It seems that t; le city council of Greenville levied a pon a citizen an assessment of two- e lirds the costs of laying a sidewalk pon which his land abutted. The e tizen sought and obtained in the cir- t lit court a perpetual injunction, re- j ;raining the city council from collectig the assessment. b On appeal to the supreme court the f ecision of the circuit court was af- n rmed. The following is the conclu- 0 on: n In concluding Mr. Pope says: "'This b )urt has announced that this State j( is repudiated and still continues to jpudiate the doctrine of supposed i suefits to owners of lots of land abut- p ng on public streets in levying taxes. ^ ad we are now satisfied that such for- <* ier decision when it upheld assess- Z tents made upon owners of lots abut- ? ng on streets when improved side- i alks and drains are constructed was c rong and should be reversed, as op- a ased to our present Constitution. c uch conclusions on our part renders it c nnecessary that we should pass upon q ay other question raised by the ap- J sal. It is, therefore, the judgment of a lis court that the judgment of*the cir- s lit court be affirmed." t All of the court except Justice Jones D )ncur in the opinion. His Happiest Moment. vi "John," she asked, cuddling up to n im, for it was the seventh anniversary a their marriage, "what was the hap- g iest moment of your life?" "Ah, s 2ar, I remember it well. I shall never r >rget it. If I live to be a hundred t: jars old that moment will always stand s it as plainly as it does tonight." She b ghed and nestled a little closer, look- g 1 1? U/mAcf Kind I f Ig longingly up 1LJIU HiO uwugov uiuv v res. After a moment's silence she c rged: ''Yes, but John, dearest, you t iven't told me when it was." "Oh," t 2 answered. "I thought you had p lessed it. Surely it ought to be easy I lough for you to do so. It was when u )u came to me last fall, if you remem- p 2r, aud told me that you had decided ?trim over one of your old hats so as i make it do for the winter." Then L le celebration of the seventh anniver.ry of their marriage became formal ^ id uninteresting. ?( Union or Secesh. tJ Many Northern women visited the C; >rder hospitals during the war, bear- j( 0 tn the sick and wounded Union t-] jroes pics, preserves and numerous ~Ql ilicacies, and to the Confederate he- ^ ?es tracts on the evils of human slav- ^ y. They would ask a sufferer: "Are n )u -Union or Secesh?" The sufferer t] ho answered "Union" got the goodies; t] ic one who answered "Secesh" got << ily a tract. One day a Confederate ^ foreign birth happened to be placed t] 1 a Union bed. and there he lay when le of these angels, bearing piety and t( eserves, began her hospital rounds. n lien she came to him she asked, as ~ sual, "Are you Union or Secesh?" f Veil," replied the poor devil, "uf j m gif me a dract, I ish Secesh; butuf a; >u gif me shicken und bie, I ish Union ^ Co hell!"' He got the "shicken und c, e " e" P Good Sense. t] Since the election the newspapers 2' 1 1 *- T ?v?UlicVtm/y 'nor/lc n' ive Deen Kept uu>> ^uuncum^, v thanks' from the successful, as well j( the unsuccessful candidates. We ei >pe the season for all these gushing r< anks is over, and we could wish it not si return. These cards are all the pro- h tct of a pernicious sentiment, that is, s< at the people elect a man to office for s own personal benefit, whereas the ue principle is, or ought to be, that ey elect him for their own benefit. u 'e can hardly see how a man with a oper appreciation of the duties and ?r sponsibilities of office can believe or el that his personal thanks are due e public for giviDg him one. We >pe the custom will be abolished, for ^ ' -- -"J? C( IS 1Q Keeping Willi nu iucu. ancau/ o prevalent, that office is a favor in- SI sad of a trust.?Gaffney Ledger. 81 ai Death of Col. Alston. ri Col. Jas. K. Alston, of the First ^ lut'u Carolina Regiment, died at Yorklie Friday morning at 2 o'clock of alarial complications, contracted in e camps. He had been confined to al s bed since October 14. The end was sa lai and peaceful, death coming as a Q freshing sleep. Col. Alston vras lout thirty-eight years of age. A Hixt to Girls.?A bachelor once di ked a married man who had an excel-1 it ir-Pn frl-io-ro lie frmnrl her. The re- I t y was- "At home with her mother, li id not'on the streets." Of course d; rls have business on the streets some- si mes, but they .should haye as little d: that kind as possible. Men who na ake good husbands in looking for (h ives, go to the t omes and not to the * si reets for them. d )OIH SIDES ARMING.! 'rouble Expected in North Caro-1 lina on Election Day. ! & IJ SOME VERY PLAIN TALK. ^ Ih /hat the Wiimington and Char- I a lott# Paper* Say About the ^ Situation. The Whites 1 Will Win. | I " It is reported ia our Charleston cor- | ispondence that the hardware houses j ^ P that city are "filling lar.se orders for t ? rrns aud ammunition for white people I 1 Wilmington and other cities of east- i rn North Carolina to defend themilves in case of negro outbreaks of vio;nce in the November election." The Wilmington papers say that the negroes lere are also arming; in fact, they have j rinted an order for arms sent by ne- i roes to a northern manufacturing firm t nd forwarded by them to their agents i that city. The following editorial from the v niminctor. Messenger of Thursday ? bows the critical tension of affairs here: There is nothing truer in history or olitics than that the white men of Wilmington are resolved to continue to c e white and free and indendent of the j egroes. They have been bossed, terarized and oppressed by the fellow "iu j. lack" just as long as they intend to be. j. ooner than submit to past conditions nd have continued present conditions, hey will make it very hot for all trans- r ressors and offenders. This is not luster, but plain fact. The man who : oes not know this is either blind or a aol. The white race from the dawn of ivilizniinn and the besinnine of histor Records to now has been The ruling j ace. All that is worth the name of ivilization, progress, humanity, beevolence, mercy, justice, righteousess. wisdom, power, have come from hrough and by the white man. The legro has not been remotely in it. He 3 a barbarian in his native woods and rilds. He is not very much improved s a the "land of the free and home of he brave1' after 300 years of tutelage , nd association and example and govrnment of the whites. He is barbaric eep down in his nature. Arouse his vii passion and he is hardly better han his kind beyond seas in the deep ungles of the Black continent. The white man is weary of bad rule c y negro votes. He is becoming dreadully restive under the outrage and ani- e losity. Of 46 States, our own is the nly one cruelly, destructively domiated by wicked, vicious, degraded lack bossing. This will be stopped or t will be known why. It is the simple truth that "Wilmingon means to be free. The millions of roperty here cannot be wantonly, t nVl-pHlv sacrificed to eive Dlace for , rub to incompetent and offensive Nig- ^ ers. This is more than will be longer r ubmitted to. Think of 5 per cent, of i axpayers governing and taxing 95 per ent of taxpayers. It is an outrage t nd disgrace beyond all tolerance or g omparison. The white men will prove j ravens and time-servers who will uietly submit and let the five use the r Jegroes for the spoliation and ruin of ^ city. That is indeed breaking the j ubmissive camel's back. Do not put hat last feather on or something heavy t f A ' r?/\TV " ia v uc ucdiu iu uwy. ^ This goodly city settled by white t len is to be henceforth governed by rhite men. Let that be understood and luch trouble will be avoided. If by ny combination of circumstances Nero rule shall continue here, there are ^ ome people who will be sternly held t esponsible for the disgrace and affiic- ( ion. A word to the wise ought to be i ufficient, But there is none so blind f ut the one who will not see. If Xe- i ro rule were fixed for two years after t he first of January next, many a good j itizen and family would leave.f'or other t owns and some for other States, where i he whites are respected and can live in i eace and safety among white people, f * * * rr l. _ ; _ J J Ti. Suttne ruieox camDO is aoomeu. jlus j seless for him to kick against the r ricks.. t If we cannot defend our do r from ihe do?> t i-.*t ua bj worrie 1" . | Even the Charlotte Observer, one of ? he most moderate and calm and sweet- )j jmpered of our contemporaries, makes j his prediction; Ve believe the Democrats are, to r nAvf mnnth. The ma )rity against them is formidable, but * here are cases in which obstacles T onnt for nothing. Talking recently t itli a Democratic citizen of a county hich in the last election gave an enor- ? ious fusion majority, he declared to ~ he writer, with the utmost confidence, j. bat it would go Democratic this year. r ? *.0!* i Bat how are you going to carry ic: i e was asked. ;'I don't know,': was ' ae reply. Ubut we are going to carry j That is the spirit which wins vie)ries, removes mountains or does al lost anything. When tho Anglo-Saxon ills to do a thing he finds a way. 'hat is the history of the race, and the Lnglo-Saxon people of North Carolina re aroused now as we never have nown them to be before. Their dear- 1 5t interests are at stake and they proose to safeguard them. The Observer is right. The unity of le whites in this State won against 0,000 Xegro majority in 1876; any ap- j roach to unity among the white ma- | )rity in North Csrolina will win anothp such victory. We hope that this isult will be reached without bloodied; but tint it will be reached some- I ow, now that the race issue is made. ] >ems inevitable.?Columbia State. Hilton s. q Ddoform Liniment is the "nee plus D Itra" of all such preparations in re loving soreness, and quickly healing \ esh cuts and wounds, no matter how j ad. It will promptly heal old sores f long standing. Will kill the pois3 from "Poison Ivy" or "Poison ak" and cure "Dew Poison." Will s mnteract the poison from bites of' lakes an stings of insects. It is a ire cure for sore throat. Will cure 1 jy case of sore mouth, and is a supe- I or remedy for all pains and aches. ^ )ld by druggists and dealers 25 cents a jttle. Paying the'Penalty. Seven Mussulmans, who were^ tried id convicted of the murder of JLJntish j] ildiers during the recent outbreak at p andia, Crete, were hanged Wednes- v t Look Out For It.?The great perio- 1 teal shower of stars which is seen at itervals of thirty-three and one quar;r years is due November 12 or 13, 599. This year, however, on the same ( ates a considerable display of star ^ lower is expected. Astronomer preict that the meteoric display will be lost brilliant and that every star in the eavens will seem to have unfixed and | loot about in the firmament like a rud- ' { erless ship on a shoreless sea. ? I What Is tha Matt?r ? Tho -Bepublican party, says the ! .ouisvilie Dispatch, and its allies, j lieir newspapers, their orators and ; iieir statesmen, have told the people )r years that all we needed to make rosperity widespread and general so bat everybody would enjoy it who was 'illing to work, was that we should ave a protective tariff, the gold standrd and a restoration of confidence. As if to show the people of the Jnited States the fallacy and falsity of lieir claims. Providence blessed this ountry with bountiful crops last year, chile short crops ana famines abroad urnished us a profitable market This ear our crops are unprecedentedly ood. The national treasury is overflowing ritli money. We have the gold standard. We have the protective tariff. Confidence is restored. We have the balance of trade in ur favor, bringicg in hundreds of milions of dollars annually. We have the largest crops in our hisory as a people. . Cotton is 5 cents a pound. Wheat is sagging around 65 cents, rith a tendency toward the 50-cent nark. Real estate is dead on the market. Farm products are on the decline. ,nd will go lower. Manufactured products are on the lecline, except where production is j imited and prices are upheld by trusts. ' 'Atta*. An' offli/?fo nc I V? vi J/ivUVV/blVU auuvw lundreds of thousands are idle and mngry ' "because we produce so much md produce so cheaply." On the other hand, millionaires are nultiplying. Trusts are distributing large divilends and accumulating large surpluses u their treasuries. The banks are prospering. Some of the. railroads are paying landsome dividends, and all are inireasing their earnings. Street railroads, water and gas companies are flourishing. The people of the United States are _ i x : 2 naming wonuenuny great earuiugs auu l comparative few are getting all of the urplus. What is the matter? General Prosperity has not returned, >ut Special Prosperity is here. What is the matter? Let the Republicans answer. Let the gold bugs answer. Let the protectionists answer. The monopolies, the trusts, and tl e lombines are all supreme. The American laborers and produces are their slaves. And slaves are not expected to hint. They are expected to obey. And still they have the ballot and sleet their own lawmakers. Bryan a Model Soldier. Col. William Jennings Bryan is a iq moAs* IIUUC1 CUlUiLi. Aut ova^ui^ub ?<j xllwvi'U in the authory of Adjutant General Jorbin. who set at rest all the efforts to nisrepresent Bryan, according to the Washington correspondent of the News tnd Courier. General Corbin declared hat Col. Bryan has asked no favors at ill from the war department, that there las never been a suggestion of a desire m his part to resign or have his reginent mustered out; that in short a11 he stories which the R( publican prei > lave been printing in tueir desire to eflect upon B?yan are each and all < f hem ucire. Tie adjutant general vound up his statement by declaring hat Bryan has been in every respect a nodel soldier. Offers a Reward. Gov. Ellerbe has offered a $350 reYard for the arrest of the party or paries who so foully assassinated Mss. J. ). Atkinson in Edgefield Tuesday light, the harrowing details of which iendish piece of vandalism were given n The State of Thursday. Wherever ;he news of that terrible tragedy has eached, it has stirred the feelings of lie law-abiding citizens, and no reward s necessary as an incentive to make nen try to find the fiend incarnate who, 1 t t_?ii _ j mi. rom amDUsn, smea a womac. j.iu3 )eople ia Edgefield are said to be ter'ibly aroused and determined to avenge ,he murder.?Columbia State. The Empire of the South.?One >f the handsomest publications we lave seen is entitled ''The Empire of he South. Its Resources and Resorts." Cbis beautiful book has just been pubished by the Southern railway. Its luthor, Mr. Frank Presby, was for many nnntlie f>nfra<rprl in th<? ftollefition and >reparation of the material for this Fork, and he has succeeded in doing 'aluable service for the south as well aa he Southern railway. A more compete exposition of the resources of the :reat region east of the Mississippi and outh of the Ohio and Potomac rivers tas not been published. The book is rinted, illustrated and bound in very landsome style, and would make an rnament for any library or center table, t is a store house of information for 11 ?-L . J?:? 4.- i-_ *T 4.U ,11 \viiu ucaixc tv iiuu? >Yuat tins suuuu 5, what the south has and what its rospects are. COME M SEE IT! = We will exhibit at the State Fair to be held here Nov, 13th to 19th, in operation a COMPLETE MURRAY fi INNING COMPLETE IflURRAY WINNING System, YSTEM, milt by Liddell Co , Charotte, N. C. Thii will afford all infested aa opportuuiy of seeing the most in-idem phd r> est of lirminor \Jar?hincro. Yoll caii'l nff rd to lias iu N. H. GIBBES & CO. Mactin. tj aid Mill supply Bead quarters Columbia, S. 0., Noir Uni*n Depot, fWunabia 8 C. . C. Agents LiddeH To. Cr<*rlotte. N. 0. THE CITY BY THE SEA. . [he Keeley Institute, E. Corner Vanderhorst and Smith Streets, CHARLESTON, SO. CJ, Atlantic Ocean Surf Bathing, Yatchag, Boating and Fishing. Trolley and Wrv Rid?s. 1. IS and 28 miles. Sulli an Island and The Isle of Palms all i o be enjoyed while under treatment for j Whiskey or Morphine Addio-! tion. )pens 3rd October and lill be the only Keeley Institute in the State. h> .:ix- J,:-; ?sii A Happy Horn** J *'J Ja \i iinreaMvl tfti-foU* h* g?x?<i Msk tb? mo?t Qf life b? provgrurg s gi?; j -;_M piano on or^'Ja-. I i tttaic baa ? r?flai*e LaSaeatt. aO'l k?ej.? our children %i komt. ... J 1 Foa only inTeet omc? . 11 is ? ?>?: * ed you leleot & goou ios'.?no #;? I CHALLENGE y j Anyhoase in A.aj?n a to heni ffij pnc? M TEKM. * To thO*f tJOt '0 5?v I ri: jive rea*onsMe tic e <v? ??h*h> iiferrt'-e Warranty,1 1| I folly guarantee my Isaira^eut* v> MDHMD^d. DON'T FAIL -|| To write for price# aad 'em*, and for tHus (rated catalogue*. TOURS FOB PIX- ' ? .4 v :1 i?H*t - N S M. A. MALONE, ' i1809 MAIN STREET, mu.iitonii ? i> V /MV.*: . Take Care of 1 Your Property. 1 Save money by keeping your Gins in thorough repair. Yon get better results please the public 4 and save your rurm rn k "VTTV T A "DAT> U YY TUM-JJi Ai\JL; JjADUIV. Fourteen years practical experience in the ELLIOTT GUN SHOPS at Winnsboro, S. C., is a guarantee of good work. Send your gins at once to tlie undersigned, W. J, ELLIOTT, I COLUMBIA, s. c. located adjacent to the To zer Engine Work. Jnly27 3m M Saw Mills. % ?_j*-. ' ;*"! If yoa need % saw mill, any gixe, write ^ . me before buying elsewhere. I hare the rooet complete lime ?f id ilia #f saj 'i dealer er a*aaf*ctur?rii the Soath. Corn Mills. J Very highest gr?d? Vtene^, a* anu?a > IT low prices. V : -<f? Wood-Working Machinery. Planers, Moulders, Rd^ar. as-Sawi. s?aa LAtns, sic. Engines and Boilers, T&ibolt and Liddell, En glebe rg Rice Holler, is stock, quick delivery, low prices. V. (Y BAD HAM, &?tt I, 1526 Main Street. or# ttmkja S. cl From /taker Direct tc Purchaser. 5*^ ? ~i 7F* jb ? H A Good ? - M ? 33 ^iBBr 3$ ? m mmmm m Jg The ^aS&vaMion. g S Natbuskk 1 ? Is always Good, always Reliable, ^8 flfS always Satisfactory, always Last- j3K J BBS ing. You take no chances in bay- 288 v" * iDRit. m ^ acS It costs somewhat more than a r flfiB cheap,poox_viano, but is much the Hi ^ 3K cheapest in fbe end. MC NoothorKlgbGrade Pianosoldso Jfij aE? reasonable. Factory prices to retalVfflB buyers. Easy payments. Wrlt^tflU Hi LtlDDEN & BATES, (P hnutli, G?n ud New York CJty. || I HMM99 Address: D. A. E&ESSLEY, Agent. Columbia, S. C. I HILTON'S & U'K KOR THS o'V S i AN KIDNEYS, as Its namei-aparts,w la a etiroilaror *nd rs?o!*y>r u.|Ri ^ cr* in* i-.tw bmrt vi^. aR VI tatMvla medicine to ai<5 qiumB- r BK ^ Ifrevenio cfc.es. Cor& jgp; adJioa?De?p' Arts -?5 il?*' i&.) neyt within Thirty adnata afcer w taking, ?eiiC"Vtn? toase In wj9| back from disorder c* tuw eu^jH * " CUMTIftfL 9B gins. Reueves <w ? oH titrable*. 1m ectlrey vegetable, H /.J B ?x, .soc ai)d |i CKj a bo UK Sold 98 ^| y in&isu, general!}, aau b? The! |B| Murray L rag Co , CoJy ajbla, 8, Bfc sh ^ ut h Beai. Qumle. sod ? Sold by dealers generally and by I THE MURRAY 3)RUG CO.,, Columbia, ?. C. -*