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' ' ' BY HUGH WILSON. ABBEVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 4, 1886. VOLUME XXXI. NO. j ABBEVILLE BIBLE SOCIETY. > ITS SIXTY-THIRD ANNUAL MEETING. Notes of n Most Interesting- Re-union or One of Abbeville's* Oldest and Most Honored Inutitntions. The Sixty-third annual meeting: of the Abbeville Disiriet Kihle Society convened in the Methodist church at Abbeville Court House at 11 o'clock, A. M., on the 2stli July, IStSO. 1*resident w. M. Grier, D. D., in the Chair. Opened with prayer by tne ucv.a. ?v eu.or of the M. E. Church. South. The roll of the membership for the last three yeai-s was called, the majority of whom failed to answer. Tlie minutes of the last meeting were read and approved. The Itev. W. G. Neville of the Presbyterian Church, principal, and Rev. W. I). Kirkland Methodist Church, alternate, preachers, hav- j Sng removed beyond the limits of the county, j declined4o fill the appointment of annual preacher, and Rev. S. A. Weber consented to deliver the sermon but subsequently he asked the Directors to allow him to give way to the Rev.C. H. Wiley, D. I)., the Superintendent! *>f the Bible Cause for North and South Carolina, who was with us for the first time since liis appointment. Dr. Wiley's s-ermon was based on the 30th verse of the 18th Psalm. "The word of the Lord is tried;" and immediately afterwards, lie Kave to the Society an exceedingly interesting account of the Parent Society. The American Bible Society in the United States. A hat collection was taken up immediately after the sermon amounting toSll.10. J. C. Klugb, Esq., delivered the annual address uponthe workand benefits of the Amer ican Bible Society. Upon the call for renewal of membership forty-three paid their dues of SI.00 each. A Jarge number of the old members have not yet paid. One new member was enrolled. Branch Societies, Their Delegates and Their Contribution*. "The following branch societies reported: LONG CANE AND CEUAK SPRINGS. ? ' T T>T T? T\ ueiegaies?.i. ij. m-?. j. i>. -u.uo^, ?... \C. Jay, John Lyon, and Leltoy Purdy. Contribution, Sti.bU TROY. Delegates?J. D. Neel, J. F. Videman, W. T. Bradley. Contribution, SI 1.00. OREKSV1I.LE CHURCH. Delegates?Andrew Stevenson, V. T. Cowan and J. L. McCord. Contribution, S5.00. f.EBAXON CHURCH. Delegates?A. J. Woo'lhurst and Samuel Eva us. Contribution, S9.00. ?L*E WEST. Delegates?Rev. W. L. Pressly, D. D., J. I.. Miller, Wro. Hood,It.S. Galloway, J. P. Kennedy and H. K. Bonner. Contribution S29.G6. The following branch societies made no re port: Lnwndesviile, ninety-six, ureenwoou and Cokesbury. The following contributions were rccoivcd through I)r. J. O. Lindsay: Mt. Cnrinei Presbyterian church, SI.OO. Willigton Presbyterian Church, SJ.TO. Hopwwell Presbyterian Church, SI.10. In Memory of lion. A. Burt. Judge J. S. Co I h ran, the Chairman of the Committee to prepare and report a suitable minute to the memory of the Hon. Armsteail liurt, made his report which is hereto appended In Memory of Cnpi. W. Z. McGhce. CapL Jno. T. Parks, Chairman of tlie Committee appointed to prepare and report a suitable minnte to the memory of Capt. \V. 55. McGheo made his report hereto appended. BesolutionM in Reference to the Be* parted Members. On motion of Trot. J. P. Kennedy? It was Resolved, that the reports of the said Committees be adopted, and that a page In the minute book be inscribed to the memory of each of the subjects of the said reports. Further Jicsolveit, that the newspapers be requested to publish the reports. Report of Corresponding Secretary I.. W. White. The Corresponding Secretary made the following report: That in obedience to I he resoliitlitrw nf (huSori^l v jit. its la_-<t iiunual HU'Ct lng be had invited the Superintendent of the American Bible Society to attend tills nniiuni meeting of the Society, 1 hat lie had responded favorably and lie is uow present In person. That lie bail written to the Parent Society in regard to the life membership of Dr. H. T. Sloan, and he had received the following letter lu reply: American Bible Society, Biule House, Astor Place. New York. July c, 188G. Mr. L. ir. White, Corresponding Secretary: Dear Sir?Your favor of the 1st. was received this morning. I find that the ltev. If. T. Sloan, D. D., is recorded here on our book ?s a life member of this Society. As such, he is entitled to the 15. S. Itecord and one dollar's worth ot bibles annually <to be drawn each year) each upon application. We have over <0,0)0 life mombers scattered all over the United States, a large majority ol whom do not care to apply for annual dues, and unless they do so, you see bow impracticable it would be for us to find them and address them. Therefore a standing notice has been published for many years requesting members desiring the "Record, &c.," to give address annually. They liave only to drop us a card stating that they desire the "Record" and "dues in books," either or both, when they are sure of response, and we shall be jelad so to respond to Dr. Sloan on receipt of tJia UUUI C39. iUUiO UUij, O. T. ROWE, General Agent. A letter from Dr. Jas. Boyco was read expressing regrets on account of his inability to attend the meeting of the Society. Dr. ? lidyce's excuse was sustained. Treasurer J. F. t'. IJnPrc's Report. The Treasurer and Librarian made the following report which was referred to an auditing committee, consisting of J. F. Lyon and J. D. Neel: To cash balance on hand, July, 1SS5 $ 15.5S To cash from hat collection 13.00 To cash from members 4">.00 To cash from societies and churches 80.50 To cash from Little iMountaiu through Itev. H. C. Fennel 2.40 To cash from sale of books - l'J.20 $203.68 Dy cash sent American Bible Society and Ex S120.S0 By cash paid fricght on hooks 5.1U By cash sent American Bible Society and expenses 70.10?S202.36 Si. 32 Balance credit in New York $ CI. 13 To books on hand .1 uly 29, 1SS.3 5C.07 To bill Of books Oct. lSt<3 93.it" SloO.M Bj' books donated and sold 70.31 By books on hand23tli July, 1.S5S6 7J.7U?S150.01 Tlie Membership. OLD MEMBERS, WHO PAID A>"D KESEWED. J. M. Gambrell, Rev. J. O. Lindsay, M. L. Bonluim, Jr., T. P. O tiarles, J. \V. Perrin, Mrs. J. S. Cotbran, Miss Clarkle Cotlinui, J. T. Parks, Judge Cothran, Waller Miller, W. II. Parker, \V. A. Lee, Mrs. W. A. Lec, Jj. W. Peri l n, J. S. Perrin, Patterson Wardlaw, Mrs. .Ino. White. Geo. White, Mrs. Geo. White, J. M. Giles, J. W. Thomson, G. C. Hodges, Gen. P. H. Bradley, A. B. Wardlaw, J. G. Edwards, Miss Clark Perrln, \V. C. MoGowau, Dr. J. D. Nell I, W. C. Benet. Miss Lucy White, Miss Nannie White, L. W. White. Mrs. L. W. White, J. T. Lyon, It. H. Wardlaw, lie v. Dr. Sloan, T. P. Colli ran, J. F. c. DnPre, Hugh Wilson, B. 8. Parnxvell, Mrs. T. P. Cotliran, W. Joel Smith, Miss Mary L. Smith. NEW JtEJIJJEUS. A. B. Morse. ' $$&?&&&&".;i:*'a* Various Matters. Judse McGow.in offered a resolution ol thanks to Dr. C. H, Wiley for his able and instructive sermon, and to J. G. Kiueh, Esq., for his entertaining address. Adopted. The Auditing Committee reported the report ol'the Treasurer and Librarian correct and properly vouched. Adopted. ltev. S. A. Weber was elected the principal preacher for meeting in 1SS7 with J. L. Wilson, 1). D., bis alternate. Prof. George C. Hodges was elected the principal, with Prof. J. II. Miller, his alternate, to deliver the annual address. j It was resolved tnnt mis oocieiy remit w I the Parent Society sixty dollars to purchase two life memberships and that wo uow proceed to elect members to receive them. Under this resolution Judirc Samuel McI Gowan and Prof. J. P. Kennedy were designated. Upon motion of Prof. Hood it was decided that the letter from the General Agent of the Parent Society regarding life members be i published. I On motion of Dr. Sloan it. was resolved that this Society is greatly gratified in liavlnsj the Superintendent of the Parent Society, Dr. C. H. Wiley with us, aud that we request his attendance with us at our future meetings. On motion of Prof. Hood it was resolved that the surplus tunds on hand be expended in the purchase of books by the Librarian and Treasurer, with the advice of the Corresponding and Recording Secretary. Election of Oificers. The following ofilccrs were elected for the ensuinsryear: Rev. \Y . M. Grier, D. D., President. R. H. AVardlaw, J. S. Cothran, S. McCowan, Rev. H. T. Sloan. 1") P., and Rev. J. 0. Lindsay. D. D? Vic# Presidents. Directors: Gen. P. H. Bradley, Rev. W. F. t>a??aa n n 'P T Pnnnlntr. lUUtUUiOUIUt.! IIVIJVV., u. ?. ... ? ham, Joseph L. Pressly, G. Mol>. Miller, John T. Parks, W. K. Blake, J. P. Kennedy, J. D. Neel, Rev. \V. H. Hanckel, Rev. R. F. 1!railley, Rev. W. T. Matthews, T. 0. Lipscomb, ana Charles Evans. Vice Rev. W. G. Neville removed out of Ihlsconuty. The meeting was adjourned by prayer by Rev. C. Wiley, D. D. L. W. Perkin, W. M. OR I MR. Recording Secretary. President. &SEAT IN LIFE?HONORED Df DEATH SOME INCIDENT'S IN THE LONG AND USEFUL CAREER OF THE DECEASvn -DTjrcTnPMT Beautiful Tribute to the Memory of the Hon. Armistcnd Burt, I.nte President of the Abbeville Comity Bible Society. It was not my privilege to attend tlio last meeting of the Abbeville District Hible Society, being enuaged at that time in holding n term of the court in another part of the State, hence the delay in presenting this tribute to the memory of the late Armistead Hurt. Mr. Hurt, whose presence with us on these occasions was seldom wanting, was born in Edgefield District on the Kith day of November, HjO*.', and departed this life on the 3dth day of October, lt>S3. This Is not the time, nor the occasion for an extended sketch of his long and eventful life. By .reason of habits of temperance amounting almost to abstemiousness, preserving a strong physical constitution ho was spared to attain by more than half a score of years the allotted period of man's existence on the earth, and even in his case may It be truly said of this excess of years, "yet is their streunth labor and sorrow." It was surely a spectacle worthy of our highest admiration to see him "in the days when tlie keepers of the House snail trcmnie una the strong men sliall bow themselves," fighting with heroic courage the battles of life. Reduced by the common calamity which befell all of us, and which bore with peculiar severity upon the aged, lie remitted not a.single duty of life. His philosophical endurance wit hout a murmur was the highest exercise of fortitude aud courage, atul patience, those high material qualities of the soul which may not be inaptly styled the complement of the Christian's faith, hope and love; and as the greatest of these is love, even so the greatest of the former is patience. Of Mr. Burl's early life I know but little. Notwithstanding our free social intercourse almost daily for nearly thirty years, he was strangely reticent in rccard to it. That his early advantages were few, we all know. He had only an academic education which was obtained at old l'endleton. He went to school though as long as he lived?not in academics *>r colleges?aud the stores of knowledge which he had acquired, attested the tact tuat he was to the last a diligent student. Attractive as is the subject, for it bristles with salient and interesting joints, I shall not undertake toliinu it. At the annual meeting in July, 1881, ns the successor of the lamented Judge Thomson, he became the President of this Society. We do all remember the great pleasure, the delight with which lie received this compliment nt your hands. Some there were who wondered how It could be, that one who had sounded all the shoals and depths of high official position, who had commanded the applause of listening Senates and who had strode like a giant upon the very mountain tops of his noble profession, reapiug at the same time its emoluments and fame, could be so elated with this position, so inferior in the world's estimation, to others that he had so worthily and completely filled. The observation of such had not gone below the surface. It marked indeed, the attainment in some degree, of that profound wisdom which enables its possessor to sum up all of the fleeting, vanishing, empty honors of this world, "as vanity of vanities, all is vanity." As the great ana good Jonn jyicr was at tno time of his deatii, an overseer of the public roads of his native county in Virginia; and as the no less good and great Horatio Seymour died as Chairman of the Hoard of County Commissioners in Utica, so our venerable and distinguished friend, esteemed It no mean honor, but rather as the crowning glory of his useful public life, to be the President of this Society. And was this claim without reason for its support? Was he not Indeed right? Look hack to July 5th, 1823, and onward even down to this day, your sixty-third anniversary?a Noble, a Ward law, a Pcrrin, a Thomson, a Hurt. This is the roll of your distinguished Presidents. How our heard? do burn within us at the hare mention of their names and the remembrance of their virtues. Surely, Mr. President, this was a goodly fellowship lor him. It is a goodly fellowship for you. I cannot close this brief sketch of Mr.Burt's life without alluding to the wonderful manner of his death. It was indeed a merciful Providence tnat ordered this event lust as he desired it should bo. It was perhaps his long and familiar association with, and care of Mr. MclHiflie. during the years of the lattcr's imbecility, that gave him peculiar dread of that condition of dribbling infirmity. lie coveted a death like that of Bertram, aud often referring to the inevitable event, which awaits us all, have I heard him repeat from Rokesby these lines of "the great wizard of the North": "Mine be the eve of tropic sun. No pale gradations quench his ray, No twilight dews his wrath allay; With disk like battle target red, Ho rushes to his burning bed, Ityc's the wide wave with bloody lljilit, Then sinks at once?and all is night." I have already said that lie remitted none of tlx; duties of life. This was exemplified in a most striking manner at its close in the very article of death. Upon the table In his back office, lay an unfinished brief of a case for the Supreme Court, 011 which he had been diligently at work all day. A messenger from the Press and Banner office came in the middle of the afternoon with some proof sheets of the brief to be eorroeted, and found him reclining upon a couch apparently asleep. With _that tender consid grateness, which ali were accusiomeu to show to liim, the boy retired without disturbing the sleeper. Returning alterwards ho was instinctively alarmed, for In the presence of death there is a si illness that moves us, a silence that is audible. Captain I'crrin whose ollieo was hard by was called to comc and seo what was the matter with Mr. Hurt. It was soon discovered that the silver cord had been loosed?the broken wheel at the cistern had ceased to turn, and life was extinct. What a mystery! There in the presence of no one but Hod, his soul like that of Moses of old, from Plsgah's top, had taken its solitary flight forever. The place of his sepulchre, unlike that of Moses, we know, hut what ministering aiitfol attended him there, whether it was Michael or some other, or how he gave his beloved sleep, we know not. Kuough for us, if from the lcsson'of his life, and especially of his death, we may he so taught to number our days as to apply oui hearts unto wisdom. ltespcctl u 1 ly subm l tted, J. S. COTHRAN, Chairman of Committee. 23th J uly, li&C. . THE BIBLE FOR THE WORLD, j n n . A LIVELY CHRISTIANITY DEMANDS A } LIVELY KNOWLEDGE OF THE FOUN- I DATIONS UPON WHICH ? IT IS BUILT. ) ? t. Annual Address Before Itie Abbeville jjj Bible Society, Delivered by J. C. t Jtiugn, .fesq., ?iuiy 'a&i i99v. Tho American Bible Society has been at Its work for seventy years. The idea of circula- c ting tho Holy Scriptures was not a new 0110 in ? 1810; it is as old as tho history of tho Church. ' Tho spread of Christianity h.os in nil ages oar- '' riedwlthltthe recorded Word, and the sea- d sons of the greatest growth of the Church 1 lmve ever been marked as periods when wider dissemination and closer study have been be- v stowed upon God's word. Indeed the history c of Cnrlstlanlty and of the Jewish faith before j Christianity had a beginning, proves that the reading and study of the Bible itself is essential w to the maintenance of purity in tho worship P of God. Humanity cannot hope to preserve e its religion uncorrupt and at the same tiruo 11 forget or ignore the sources from which it de- a rives tho tenets of its faith. The best systems n of religion that have prevailed in the heathen }' world?and some of them, In their purity, arc 11 beautiful, simple and grand enough to suggest a the idea of dlrine origin?have degenerated " into the lowest forms of paganism when their ? adherents have consented to take their doc- 1 trines at second hand. A live Christianity dc- Sl mands a lively knowledge of the foundations 0 on which its laitli is built. And so we see a with what cagernoss in the earliest, days of thfe Church, tho written accounts of our 0 Lord's s<journ and teaching among men to- k gether with the letters of advice and warning 1 written by his apostles, were read and circu- 11 lilted. In those days of "crucial" characters f laboriously scrawled on parchment, it was of ' course impossible to place a copy of the Hible 0 in every man's hand, and yet the need of the r' masses for its teachings was felt, and to bring it in the reach of all to learn its precepts and K blessed truths was a labor of love which early ?! found place even in the imperial heart of J1 Rome. We are told that the Emperor Con* 11 stuntinc ordered at one time an edition of fit- " ty copies to be prepared at his own expense J for the use in the Churches of his capital. 11 It would be instructive to tollow the history B' of the English Bible for a thousand years, tl from Alfred the Great, through the centuries " when WyckliH'c a.id Tyndale and C-onerdale 11 and the Genevan exiles caused the light, to 11 shine in dark placcs, and in giving the Bible 11 to the mass of the English people gave to t! English literature itself a beginning. It was f| reserved for tho eighteenth century, however to ' witness the inauguration, ofa movement so be- 81 ncvolent in its character, so far-reaching in its a alms, so bencflelent In its results, as to stamp " the era in which it exists with the name P Evangelical. We live In thetnid&tOf that em. U That movement In its progress inspired tho ? design in English and American hearts toex- ? tend the circulation of the Holy Bible, and thus was originated the work which through Its two cliler agencies, the isritisn ana I'orewn * ami the American Bible Societies, with their enlarged plan of putting the Hible into the a hand of every man In his own language, has s' become one of the marvels of our time. With the opening year of the nineteenth century there appeared in London a Welsh ?l minister who camo to solicit aid in obtaining ^ a supply of Bibles for liIs destitute country- ? men. He turned naturally to the benevolent o organizations of the metropolis, and soon tj found the executive commitleo of the roll- ' gious tract society. In response to his appeal ? came the reply, "If for Wales why not for the t world?" It wns a live thought, a great si thought. In Its development came the organ- w Ization in 1S04 of the British and Foreign Hi- w ble Society. The leaven worked and soon t( found its way across the ocean to the great English speaking empire then fairly equipped ?' for its place in the march of modern clviliza- 11 tion. In 18()S, in Philadelphia, was organized <:( the first Bible Society on American soil. Oth- P ers followed in quick succession throughout 11 the United States. Out of the union of these "i local organizations came the American Bible h Society. The sole object of its institution was L to encourage a wider circulation of the Holy Scriptures, without nole or comment. This n object has been pursued with a singleness of tj aim that amounts to principle. Rigidly un- tl sectarian, the society yet invites and receives ol the earnest support of nearly every protestant ? denomination. The record of its life through ai seventy years is one of contiguous growth and glorious achievement. In that time it tr ?>?io nnl>liuhrwl <17 (Mfl (XW1 volumes of tllf> Holv Scriptures. Those have been distributed Id ]< every quarter of tlie globe. It has Issued the Bible in whole or lu part in more than eighty a languages. For the past thirty years Its ex- ti pcndltures have averaged over $300,000 yearly, oi and since its foundation it has expended $2-V " 000,000 in its work of publishing and cireninting the Scriptures. Its publications are sold U at the mere cost of production, and arc so >> cheap that every person may own a copy of a' the Bible. Designed In its conception for clrculating tho Scriptures throughout the United b States and their territories, this Society pro- ol claimed in Its organic law the intention tojsi extend its Influence to other countries wlieth- ti er Christian, Mohammedan or Pagan. In d< carrying out these principles It has sought out c< through auxiliary associations and agents of T its own creation, the homes of our land and s< endeavours to leave no family or Individual oi without freest access to tho fountain of God's c< truth. The homes of the poor nnd the lowly tl are the objects of its spccial attention. Into ni the fastnesses of tho mountains, through the tl the swamps and sickly regions of the South- h west, among the wilds of the Western border, oi into the but of the African, to tho "heathen It Chinee" of the Pacific slope, amongst the n: fierce and war-llko tribes of native Indians, it asailn and again the Society has sent its col- si In l> ,, >< rl rn, 1 c ovnr tf bearing the precious word of God and its gospel of peace to bless with its sweet Influences i> all tho homes and families of our land. In ai t lie past lbur years it has visited four million it homes of this country and has carried the Hi- n ble to over half a million families and indi- 01 viduals who bad it not before. And this great bi work shall go forward under its auspices, with gi the help of good men and women everywhere di till no person willing to receive and know the g' truth shall be found without It. II In toreign fields, whether Christian, Moluitn- st medan or pagan, tho Society professes to bo di "simply a sower of seed. It baptizes no con- gl verts, It builds no churches, it founds no ai schools, it tenches no industrial arts,* it main- w tains no hospitals, it publishes no comments pi and treatises, it edits no newspapers." Its H work Is preparatory for all these. It lias es- rr tablislicd and maintains agencies for general 12 superintendence in Mexico, Cuba, Brazil, La- <*i Plata, In the Levant, Persia,Chinaaud Japan, ol In tho past year it has employed nearly four tc hundred persons in the work of distributing tc the Scriptures in foreign lands. It gives the w aid of its money and its Bibles to missionary nrimnlintlnns In mnnv fiiilils. l!v those illld M other agencies at its command it is now aid- al lug iu circulating the Holy Bible in France. gi Spain, Germany,-Austria, Italy,Norway,Swe- ci den, Russia, .Siberia, and tlie Amoor, Greece, n Turkey, Syria, Persia, India, Slam, Cliini, J a- In nan, Mexico, and Central America, Hra/.il, hi Uruguay, the Argentine Republic, Chili, Bo- tc livia, Peru, Africa, the West and the islands si of the Northern Pacific." These all receive h the Word at the Society's hands in their scv- /.< eral tongues and diaiccts. without note or 01 comment. In the prosecution of its work tho ir American Tlihle Society knows 110 rivalry but ? with the apostles of error. It gladly receives st aid from every helpful source and as willing- <1 ly lends its cooperation to similar organize- ri tions. It is a lubor of love which it is engaged ci in aud it hails with Joy the succcsses of other tl Bible Societies whether in its chosen fle ds or li in those to which it is unable as yet to extend U its labors. Thus it joins hands with its great o | congener the British and Foreign Bible Socle- li ty, and these two lend willing hands to help ei along nearly a hundred others of later or less ii vigorous growth. The result of the combined tl elt'orts of these societies since tho year iso-t, h amount to 200,00(1,000 volumes of the Scrip- t< tures which have been carried to over SCO,000,- 01 j OiK) people, more than half the entire popula- c< 11011 OI 1110 glOUC, illlU .* ?:u 11113 mnuiiivui, Dutr pendous though its figures be, conveys scarce- si ly tlio fnl 11 test suggestions of the actual work ii done. It speaks but little of tho labor and o perils which have been met by the faithful w and zealous colporteurs and missionaries a working their way through all lands, througl o every form of ignorance, and prejudice, and n bigotry. It accounts in an ample manner for g< tho millions ot money which have been con- > trlbuted to the cause. Hut what can tigures it tell of tho years of patient study, and the do- tl votion of the profoundest learning to the task | tl of translating the Word of God into the na-1 d , tive languages of all these people ? What of j w I the battles of diplomacy with Mohammedan tl , and pagan and even so called Christian gov-; c: ernmerits to secure for the Bible societies the a 11 poor privilege of offering to their nations this si j Word "without note or comment"? What of j L ; the influences (lint have thus wrought upon ci the minds, and hearts, and lives, and ciiarac- > t< terof all these individuals, and families, and ; \\ , nations ? | n i Hut is it a great work that has been accom- j if plished by these societies, which have been a thrusting themselves upon the world's notice I for three-quarters of a century? Before their ii beginnitig eighteen hundred years of Chris- tl tlanity had given to tho world scarcely more V than four million Bibles. Before the war of < ! lie Revolution r.o copy of the English Bible tad ever been printed in America, and so late s 1816 "the cheapest Bible in this country cost bout two dollars in even the poorest type md bi tiding. Now it is the cheapest book in he world." Then it was a thing unheard of o give away copies of the Bible generally. Cow the Book is carried by the hundred thouand to the very doors of the poor in many Hnds and given a way J wlthoul. money and without price. During the Civil War the American Bible Society redoubled its efforts, icstowlng the benefit of its labors with equal eal upon either side in thatconllict. Atleast ,000,000 volumes were given away to soldiers uring this period, and it is said that at one line an average of nine testaments per minitefor every hour of daily working time were iroduced at the Bible House. In other couIlets of arms before and since, Its object of irculaling the Bible has been consistently - ? 1 T? 11? A I DIMa nv_ III! /.UilUIUMJ l?u.iucu. ?u loin uic uiuiii sted in some fifty languages, ancient and uodorn. Sinee that time nearly three liunreil versions have beon made, for which credL is largely due to IBible Societies. It is scarcely possible to speak of this work rithout associating it with the missionary ause. The two go hand In hand and are muually dependent 0:1 cach other. Without the lible the cause of missions could not exist,, .'hue the Bible Societies would find their rogress exceedingly slow, even at home, but specially so In foreign lands, without the ilssionaiies. The Bible cause is essentially rmissionary cause, and the liible itself a lissionary. There are numerous instances ecorded where this silent preacher has found is way unheralded into pagan communities nd with none to voice the Gospel It reveals or press its claims to recognition as the V'ord of the living God, has sent Its simple ruths straight to the heart of the earnest celter after truth and led to the conversion f hundreds of souls to the worship of God nd to the Christian religion. Of ov.r English Bible one has said. "It lives n the ear like music that can never bo for UIIL'II, lin ii'iiciuva uiiui acuiu iu uu minwn liings rather than words. It Is part of the intionnl mind, and the anchor of national crioiiMiess. The memory Of the dead passes ito it. The power of all the griefs and trials f a man are hid beneath its words. It is the pprosentatives of his best moments, and all luit there has been about him of soft and entle and pure and penitent and good, peaks to him forever out of his Protestant tible.' It is the mirror of our human uaurc in which wo may behold the heart of lau s"rayed and torn by the evil passions hatoiirs by inheritance, throbbing with the mpuhes and aspirations land longing of the pultl.atfain would stand ever pure before lie eyes of its Maker, Ihe battle ground of ood and evil through all the age*. The ruths of that Hook have power to make the oart quake with fear or aelie with keen relorseormelt with the tenderness of chrislin charity all that is good In our nature lay bo called forth to attive life by a single] ne from its pages. Some years ago three mall children aged respectivly ten, seven nd four were compelled to go from Kastcen rusia to the United States to regain their arenls who had found a home in the world y the banks of the Missouri. There was 110 Ider person to accompany them and they lust therefore make the journey alone. A male relative In Derliu gave to each of them Ui.kiII vol iiii m ill wl.ii'll KllA U'mln oil till* rst iKigo the immo, ago, birthplace unci rtesnallon ?r the hearer; and below in German nd Fieuch and English she wrote a sin?le L'nteiico taken from that book. !5hc told the liildren if at any titne they were in need of ssistauecjust to stand stilt and open their ttlo books and hold them up before them, he young travelers started troiu their Gcrlan home, reaehed the seaport, embarked n board the steamer, crossed the great Atlanc, landed in America, traveled by ra il over a lousand miles Westward into the heart of tissouri and safoly reaehed their homo in nut far oil" land. Whenever needful they lowed their littlo passports to all with hom they eanie in contact, and every here they received every kindness and proictioii and tcndcrcst euro. All hearts warmJ with love and every hand strcthed forth to elp the littlo ones thus cast upon the kindess of passing strangers. That book was a jpy of the New Tcstiincnt, that lino which roved for them the open passport to the linlan heart was the saying of our Saviour, inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the :ast of these, ye have done it unto.uio." [II. . Hastings.] For the heathen mind enshrouded in darkess, environed by a wall of ignorance, lost in ic labyrinth of superstition and error which ic evil one knows so well how to weave on t f the waywardness and fears and depravity f the heart of man, the Hi hie is a great light nd a guide to free him from his thralldom nd bring him to a knowledge of the way, the uth and the life. For civilized society It is a easure house whence may be drawn object ssons in all the virtues that make up the hrisUan lll'c, and warnings and terrible exinpies of all the viccs tnat draw in their ain the decay of civilization, thu severance I Hie social lie, uif1 uesuucuou 01 wu j.iiiih^, 10 dfnth of patriotism, tlio overthrow of ivernmenf. unci tlie night of human despair, iven a civilization built upon the principles iculeated by a general and constant reading nd study of God s word?a civilization whose orrn Is in tho bosom of the family; whose ulwark is the purity of the home; whose Lilies is the observance of the Sabbath the lercJnecsand binding power o: the marriage c, and freedom and temperance and fnir caling, and adherancc to tlmt rule of right anduct which the whole world has named ho Golden;?a civilization whos^ temples are jrved by holy men ordained of God to a life r virtue and purity and tender, watchful, impiuslonato regard for the well being of all lelr fellow men, whoso sacrifices are a meek ud quiet spirit and an n;icn confession of lat Saviour whoso life ?I?rills th.ough the cart of the centuries '.iko the divine strains r heavenly musica civilization whose pol* y recognizes the universal brotherhood of lan and constrains the hospitable entcrtainicnt ol strangers, whose politics Issubmlsou to the established authority ami loyally > the government thai secures to us our life nd liberty and all the sweet enjoyment of idividual rights, whose economy Is public ml private enterprise and the promotion of idustry and frugality; a civilization which cognizes in liberal education, in refinement f manners and the gracefulness of art, in a road and deen culture, in the richness and rowlh of literature an J tho meditations of ccp philosophy, agents nod influences for >od to the splrlr. ol' man that shall build up le soul and bring it nearer to the god-like ate;?a civilization which lays broad and aep its foundations in ilom .'stie virtue and Ives I lie place of honor to parental and filial ad social obligation; whoso religion is the orsbip of that all powerful, all wi?e, ever resent, supremely Just, and good and loving cing whom alone the intelligent mind of tan is w.'lling to call God; given such acivPiation, and wo have that state in which man m best realize the end ol his creation, a state f society ever pure and enduring preparatory ) til ! coming of that kingdom and that day ? which the good in all ages look forward 1th anticipations of lioly joy. l>owe need to give reasons and argument, Ir. Preside.) ', to persuade men to lend their Id and their sympathy to the cause of propalting that llible on whose precepts such a uillziLtlon Is hnililnd ? Thn lu st mid creatcst ilmis of our country ami of Christendom :ivc esteemed it not tbo less :i iluty, indeed, ut one of the highest privileges vouchsafed ) man to he permitted to engage In this work j pure from every suspicion of selfishness or npe (>f material gain. To the American c'ii n, who loves his country and desires to see lir institutions perpetuated, and tho blessigs of a free, enlightened, God fearing civiliition secured to generations yet unborn, a udy of late developments in our history i)cs Indeed suggest peculiar inducements to doubled efforts In speeding forward this luse. It is a fact that compels serious lought, that in tlio past thirty years ten milons of foreigners have sought homos in the lilted States; add to these tholr immediate ll'spring numbering not loss than live milons more. Fifteen "millions of persons, forgn in cb,'tractor, ideas and sympathies thus icorporated into our nallonal life;" add to lose the six or seven millions of negroes who ave in the same period been received as facirsintlio political life of our country, Over ne-tbjrd of tho entire population of our iuntry at tho present time to bo assimilated 1 one generation and made like uulo ourilves in opinion, incharaelcr,in sympathies, 1 ideas of government, of society, of morals, f religion, of lav.*, of Ood, In this field tho (irk of the American liible (Society lias been boon to our country. Hundreds of thousand*! I f Kiblcs have been furnished by it to these ewly arrived immigrants and the book has | one with litem to their Western homesnnd ceomo the chart and guide of their new life I their newly found homes. What wonder iat Illinois law as recently proclaimed from le llcneh of that State Is strong enough to tail with the anarchist outbreaks. What 'onder that the new formed Society of ic Western States can stand the shock of soial upheavals! Vhcir institutions are strong ml vigorous and clastic with the all-pervaivc, life-giving principles of the liiblc. reamers in politics and socialogy in forciisliug the future of our country arc accusjmedtosay that the genius of our people rill save us from political and social ruin. Jl lay be and probably is Iruo that (hat genius ; a live, practical, evangelical Christianity, ml the Hiblc is tier chief handmaid. Mr. President, travelers among the Alps tell II glowing language of the magnificence of lie (lawn and sunrise as viewed from those Dworlngsnow'-crowned summits. So we toay Htuud here at the apex as it were of our Nineteenth Century civilization and view the shadows of spiritual darkness steal away a down the hillsides and into tho valleys of tills fair eartli soon to disappear before the advancing sun of righteousness, and as we look forward totlic coming brightness of that perfect day, we, in unison with all the workers in this great Bible cause, breathe with renewed hope and and a deeper, more solemn meaning that prayer which in all ages has gone up as the soul's highest aspiration from anxious, waiting hearts, and shall ascend with increasing frequency and fervor from the ever increasing millions of hearts that throb with Christiau love till a mighty, Joyous shout of triumphant realization shall resound throughout the world, Thy Kiugdom Come! DE. WILEY'S SERMON. The Three Grcnt ami Distinct Periods in Which the Bible lias Been Tried. Dr. Wiley's sermon was upon the text taken from the<Wth verse of the 18th Psalm: "The word of the Lord is tried." Ho said that there were three great and distinct periods, which he would mention, in which the Bible had been tried. First, in its inciplcncy, when resting to all human appearances, on the efforts of a few poor, uneducated and unrenowned adherents it went forth to battle with the combined hos uie iorces ol i'ljiiosopny, iiciiKiuii uuu ouaology?and panned through strengthened. Second, when Luther emerged lrom his cloister with his Bible in bis hand and again defied the religious and the pagan world successfully. Third, what is known as the pamphleting and newspuper period. A hundred years ago 1 it was prophesied by the profane writers that it would be a very rare book, to be found only j in largo libraries and collections of curious books. Upon the contrary, the effusions of such writers which were in number sufficient to fill the church building are scarcely over seen and are only known by their titles, and there are now ten thousand times as many Bibles in circulation as there was then. The Bible emerges from every conflict and trial with enlarged power and influence. It demands a trial with enlarged power and influence. It demands a trial from every one. It courts investigation and even Imposes terrible pains and penalties on thoso who refuse: or neglect to study r.nd try its sacred prayer, lie was not here to defend the Bible. It WAR able to take care of itself, bill to assist in putting it in the hands of every one to be 1 o.,.l t,.|y.,l |>v Htntn THE GREAT STOCK SHOW. THE ANIMAL WEALTH OF THE NINETYSIX COUNTRY TO BE ASSEMBLED, AUGUST 10| 1886 IN COMPETITIVE RIVALRY. The Xamcs of the Committeemen who are to I>cei?le Upon the Merita of the Kespccllve Animal*. MULES. W. L. Durst, Chairman. N. M. Uurklialter, K?J?;eflcld. Mr. Mavs, Greenwood. James l'ratt, Abbeville. J. J. McUuwan. Laurens. L. II. Kusseli, Abbeville. SIIEEP. J. IL Brooks, Chairman. D. II. Tompkins, Minefield. w. r. i-'ihipIiu. Ooronaca. <?. P. O'Neal, Coronaea. J. II. W'hartou, Waterloo. Jolin ii. -Moore, New Market. HOGS. J. D. Fouche, Chairman. L .1. H. Irvln, ciiappolls. \V. G. It leu, Coronaea. W. T. Cowan, Duo West. John Pruilt, Bradley. 1i. It. Hill, Edgellcld. ART. M. L. Bonliam, Jr., Chairman. Mi.ss Ida Green. Greenwood. Miss Klla Cobb. Greenwood. Miss A turn You lit,', Duo West. Miss Matlic Calhoun. Misstialllc Fouclio. HOUSEHOLD DEPARTMENT. H. r. Galphin, Chairman. Mrs. O. M. Anderson. Mrs. G. W. Hill, Greenwood. Mrs. M. H. Coleman. New Market, Mrs. Kliza Brooks, Verdery. Gen. 11. K. Hemphill, Abbevlllo. JERSEY CATTLE. 0. P. Mills, Greenville. GRADE CATTLE. J. T. Parks, Chairman. James W. Hill, Greenwood. It. C. Wilson, Abbeville. David Aiken, Coronaca. John 12. liradiey, Bradley. W ATTV1? PATTI.P. Thos. L. Moore, Chairman. A. C. Waller, Greenwood. W. H. Whltloek, New Market. W. A. Moore, Cokesbury. G. W. Collins, Abbeville. M. B. Lipscomb, Newberry. JACKS AXD JEXXETS. W. A. Sanders. Clialrman. John C. Hill. Edgefield. W. T. Ilun; Ninety-Six. T. L. Haddon, Due West. John Lyon, Abbeville. James F. Coleman, Coronaea. AGRICULTURE. M. R. Smith, Chairman. D. T. Kinard. T. F. Riley, Greenwood. P. 15. Mathews. J. A. McCord, Abbeville. J. 11. Blake, Jr. FRUITS. T. C. Lipscomb, Chairman. Hugh Wilson, Jr., Abbeville. Mai. J. 8. Daley, Greenwood. Dr. J. L. Miller. T. C. Stuart. Dr. II. X. Sloan. HEAVY DRAFT IIOlWEd. AV. T. Henderson, Chairman. Itlciuird Hill, Abbeville. John E. lirownlee, Abbeville. Dr. D. C. Tompkins, Edgefield. Mai. James White, Bradley. It. E.IH11, Abbeville. LIGHT DRAFT IIOUSKS. O. T. Jackson, Chairman. \V. S. Kicliardson. \V. Joel Smith, Abbeville. A. W. Smith, Abbeville. F. W. It. JN'ance, Due West. KLOWKK3. J. Ilenry Klce, Chairman. Miss Helen Smith, Cliappells. Miss Carrie Turner, Greenwood. Miss Ella Grirtin, Ninety-Six. MissTeressa Lipscomb. Ninety-Six. Miss Nannie Kinard, Edgefield. Miss Eliza Heard. Edgefield. Miss Mary Rogers, Ninety-Six. Miss Mamie Stuart, Greenville. FANCY AUTIC'I.KS. Mrs. A. S. Osborne, Chairman. Mrs. Geo. C. 1 lodges, Abbeville. Mrs. J. W. Payne, Greenwood. Mrs.S. P. Uoozer, Greenwood. Mrs. L. T. Hill, Abbeville. Mrs. W. K. Smith, Cliappells. l'OUl.TUY. II. J. Kinnrd, Chairman. I). W'val.t Aiken. Jr.. Cokeslniry. (r. M.'.MuttiSOIl, UlHlilUlS. J. Wnrdluw lVrrin, Abbeville. Dr. T. W. ('lilies, ICdgc-Held. I)r. O. H. Waddell, Coronuca. lie Kind to Your Stock. Kindness and jrcntleness always loll favorably in the rare and management of domestic animals. Therefore mow gently in I ho midst of your stock. Nevor.aoainonsr tlioin nourishing si whip, a slake, or pole, and driving them lo the right and left out of your way as you move along. Keep 110 help about you who is heardshouting and cursing in your barnyard or your stable. Horses and cattle arescnsltivo to kindness and care, and appreciate it fully as much as the average ol human bci IlgS. m ? ? Fans, fans, biucls aud fancy from 10c. toSl.OU. W. li'liell. 5-^0 MARRIED AND SEPARATEI THE WIFE RETURNED TO SERVITUDETHE HUSBAND SENT TO JAIL. Saint Paul said Marriage was Honorab] Among all Men?Our Savior Said "They Twain Shall be Our FleBh . . What God Hath Joined, Let not Ma Put Asunder," but the Trial Tustlc Who Overruled the Supreme Court 1 the Batteau Business Overrules ti Divine Law Giver as to the Ordinance < Marriage. Interesting Report of a Rnnawa Marriage, and the Remarkable At tion.Which was taken to Beparat llnsbnnd and Wife. Lowndesville, S. C., July 20, lftSO. Daring the past week or two mutters ha\ been very dull In this section, and necessar ly so, for the farmers have been very bus trying to get rid of the grass during the h< sunshine that we are now having. The me ciintilc business seems very good, and gooc are being sold at very close Ugures lor tl: Cash. l'olitics have not been revived, an but little interest is likely to be taken in tl coming election. Law has been particular! dull. The lawyers are all off spending tl llie summer at the different fashionablo Wi terlng places. Trial Justice Mosely is quietl spending the summer at "Mount Ararat, while his Deputy is enjoying "sweet sixteen nAnh.1.. Ua vn.i <flll(.-riA tli.ir ttwi lirtf ll'nrtfl ? UU J uu tv 111 ocvj UUVU uiv U?'U n i;ciui er, tlie absence of the lawyers, the Trial Ju tico in his summer quarters and no work ft his deputy makes things rather quiet. Bu however quiet matters driit along, occasioi ally we have a breeze and it comes this tin in the shape of a novel law suit. Althoug the brebze has been very strong and even ru into excitement at times among the people < color, j et peace still prevails and two "bleei ing hearts ' must pay the penalty ol the lax The ease can truly be called a "Novel La Suit," and involved many fine points whic were "expounded" by the learned aud distil guished Trial Justic who presided. it seems that Mr. J. T. Latimer had a colo ed girl named Lucy Alelntoch, in his emplo; and that this girl was bound to him by In mother, Lou Melntoeh as an "apprentice" ui til twenty one years of age. The Indentui was executed in 18S2, and stated that the a] prentice was nine years of age; making lie thirteen years old sometime during this yea In the early part of this year the apprenth began to receive the attentions of a colorc youth whose name was John Patterson. T1 apprentice found out In some way that In master was not friendly disposed towards lit admirer, and, like many other cases, hisopp* billon was us oil Deing poured on ino name About three months ago the allalr wf brought to a focus, and the young couple d cidcd to cast their lot together in the bark < life. In company with several friends til coupic applied to Trial Justice Moseley to b ' united In tbe sacred bonds ofinatrimon, The mother of the apprentice had given hi consent to John Patterson in the presence i witnesses; and this being made known to tl Trial Justice he proceeded to unite the co pie, and pronounced litem man and wife. Tl couple returned to Ibo home of the grooi where they have been spending their hone; moon. Mr. Latimer having no good feeling f< the groom, and as he was not consulted L him on the subject, expressed his Intel lions of trying the forco of the law. A Trial Justice Aloscley was a witness in tl case, Mr. Latluier applied to Trial Justh Uansom for a warrant against John Pattei son for abduction. The warrant was issue and placed in the hands of a constable f( execution. Last Saturday was the day aj pointed for the case to lie heard, and abon ten o'clock the constable Air. Win. Daniel arrived with the bride and groom in his cu tody. The witnesses being present, Jud; Hansom ordered his constable to bring tl prisoner into Court. The trial was held i the depot and as very few knew when would take place, the crowd was not as larf lis it would have been had it been geiierall knftwn. Judge iiansom calling Johu Patte son the prisoner, said: "You are charged b lore me for having unlawfully taken from , T. Latimer oue Lucy Alclntoch, (apprentice without the consent of tbe said J. T. Latimc contrary to Sec., 25S5 of the General StatuU of S. C. The prisoner roplied not guilty, M J. M. Latimer (for wliom Patterson was wor] lnc) appeared ror Patterson. ThcJudgo sia ed that he had only the right to make a pr 11 miliary examination. Mr. J. T. Latim< was sworn and testified as follows: I luu Indenture given me by Lou Mclutoch for Ik daugliter Lucy Mclntoch as an apprentii which I herewith submit." The Court ai copied the Indenture as a legal instrumcn lie stated that ho objected to the girl marrj ing so young and she did it without the co; sent and that John Patterson know mat 1 opposed his marryiug her. Trial Justi< Moseley testified that lie married them upo the ground that the apprentice had hi mother's consent. Jim l)anily testified tbi be went willi tlie "bridal parly," but thei was no one of tlicm who went upon the pr mises of Mr. Latimtr to get the apprentlc That she was out in the road looking IV them. Lucy Patterson, nee Lucy Mclntoch, w; sworn and testified that she knew Mr. Lat iner opposed her marrying, but that Ik moth er gave her consent, so she met John 01 in the road and went down to Mr. Moseley aud inarriod. John Patterson was allowed to make e<n??mon? tvhi/Ot *11*1 nnf. VOW fmm thp nthf evidence. Alter bearing the evidence Judgo Ransoi turned to Section 25*5 of the General statute read as follows: "Whoever, above the ago i fourteen years, shall unlawfully take or coi vey, or caused to be taken or conveyed, an maid or womnn-cliild unmarried, being wlti in the age of sixteen years, out of or from tl possession and against the will of such pe son or persons as then shall happen to liav by any lawful ways or means, the orde keeping, education, or governance of an such maiden or woman-child, shall on coi viction, sutler imprisonment for the soace < two years, or else shall pay such find as sha be adjudged by the Court." He then said: "John Patterson with this Statute as ni guide and with this evidence I will have J require* you to give a $200, bond or go to Ja and await your trial at the next term of tL Circuit Court." Continuing the Judge said: "Lucy Patterson you aro no longer the wil of John Patterson. Heingonly thirteen yeai old you could not lawfully marry. I turn yo over to Mr. Latimer to obey his orders as hi apprentice and you cannot marry until yo are sixteen years old. If you marry theu yo will be required to continue iu his employ i accordance with this contract." Thus did Judge Uansom sever those whor JudiiC Moseley liud solemulv united in hoi wcdlock. When Juduc Uansom linishe his remarks, you could have heard a pi fall as silence prevailed. The friends of th severed couple could not have been more sui prised had an angel appeared, than when III Illlliil! Ul'IIVl'IVll IOi> ucbi <;v. iiiv failing togivc tlio required bond was sen to jail to await his trial, but his "true-love was returned to her master. Although d< clared 110 longer man and wife, they parte feelingly and both looked like sayiug in tLi language of the poet. "Silence, in truth, would speak my sorrow best; For deepest wounds can least their feeling tell: Vet let nie borrow from mine own unrest Hut time to bid him, whom I loved, Farwel This is the tlrsl case of the kind that lnt ever been sent up from here, and it lias cam ed a great deal of comment and more esi>< dally among tlio colored people. The ca.? will be watched with much interest, a stron elibrt will be made to return the prisoner l his young lover, and he may yet be perniitte to ci'J >y the remainder of his honeymoo from under the clutches of the law. Mr. J. A Latimer has employed (.'apt. M. L. lionlnu to defend the prisoner. Judge Ransom being a candidate for matri mony and knowing the feelings that are die is11<I in a lover's lican tounuti very mini i separate I In; .vouux man and wife. Ho sliov e?l unmistakable s-i?u.s of sympathy lor tli prisoner, and during the delivery otitis tit creo lie seemed particularly worriedaboi ?omotliin^. I Sends of perspiration stoo heavy on Iiis forehead when ho mi id "you ar 1110 longer man and wile and, ti;o law iiuu j take lis course.'' Alter the trial the crowd dispersed, but 1 ] will l>c some lime be lore thesupcrslitious co ; ored people will forget last Saturday procret jing*. ' NUNC. Ladies' collars witIi capo from 5c to ISm Win. K. I it'll. l--'l Larue white plaid lawns for dresses, some tiling beautiful at Win.*E.Hell's, 1--1 Stripe Takool, something new for ladic I and cUilUreu'ii dreads ut Wm, li, Bell's. 5KU ? . ... , .r ?c j THE WAY WE BUY AND SELL. Jji Fisnrcs tbat Show the Money Yalne* ^ or the Farms and Village Lots in Abbeville. Alexander D. Smith and Henry P. Mercl$c? -j$ 10 vv 11:1am in. mercier, 10 x 343 ieet, iota towno ship, 850, May 16,1886, bounded by Mrs. MaryA. Covin, N. 1. Morrah, Main and Depotr ^ streets {Mt. Carm el.) : Mary E. Palmer to C. C. Corley, 200 acre& T; ' 16th township, 8450, April 20,1886, bounded by11 Jennings Mining Company, E. A. Soarles, James Nuby. Mary E. Palmer to C. C. Corley. 8300 for onen tenth Interest in Jennings Mining Co., landLfl and mineral deposits, 16th township, April 29,18S6, no boundary given. *" A 3f G. 11. Sibley <fc Co., to T. P. Cothran; I lot 2.5 x 120 feet, 9th township, 8705, assessed valo?T > * 8600, April 23, 1806, bounded by R. W. LI tea- >^',1 and Broad Street. T. P. Cothran to Geo. R. Sibley & Co., 25 X y 120 feet, 9th township, 8705, assessed value 8600. ? April26,18S6, bounded by R. W. Lites and' " Broad Street. - > ? John A. Moore to Julia V. Kinard, 10 acre6, 'I 1st township, $100, assessed value 850, January , > > 1st, 1886, bounded by Wilson's Creek, Mrs. . '.s Cheatham and M. E. Stames. . 'o Thos. L. Moore to Luther Moragne, 10 acre** 1- 1st township, $ 100, assessed value $50, Januiv nrv 30.188ti. bounded bv L. M. Moora P. M. . H Pope and Lewis Caldwell. r- William Cothran to Henry P. McGee, 1 lofc Is 2 acres, 5tb township, S100, assessed value $70. ? le bounded by It. S. Galloway, school bouse lot > and others. d Mrs. Emily Trlbble to J. E. Trlbble, 87 acres, .; ic 2nd township, S300, assessed value $3o0, April ~ ' y 1,188C. bounded by James Hodges, Mrs. E. ic Trlbble, Francis Hill, Mrs, Mary Moore and r*J n- others. ' y W. H. Hays to E. W. Watson, 1 lot 8>/? acred,* - " ? Oth township, S75, assessed value 850, May 27J. > i" 18S6, bounded by Gen. P. H. Bradley, A. Jv , j- Pounds, Augusta and Knoxville Railroad, s- and Mill street. jr W.A.Lee to J. W. Nlckles, 1 lot, S137J20* "C t. n.sRr>RRod value 8100. Janunrv 9. 1888. bounded a- by Washington Street, Cburch Street, Mrs. vJBI le Ajrncs Robertson and others. ;h James It. Crawford to Markoos Martin, ji one-lialf acre, 9th township, $300, assessed val- ] of lie $200, bounded by Sprlggs Street, R. W. '/4 J- Lltes and Vance Street, Troy. ^5 v. Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., to J. H. Lowry, w 1 lot, SI and other valuable consideration. Ju- "ji ill ly 3,18S6, bounded by lot No. 4, block M, 14 . :? l- McOormlck, and that portion of the alley be- 28 tween lots 4 and 17. in said block. . , r- F.J. Marshall to Caroline McKinney, 172 x "j y, 270 feet, llth townsnlp, 8100.assessed value850> *!? ;r May 24, ISSfl, bounded hy Eliaba Jones, W. O; '^ - '*4 ii- Dundii?, Wallingford & Russell. ' e J. C. Kiugli, Master, to John M. Prultt, 1 loti s [>- 50 x 150 feet, 8tli township. 8100. assessed valuo ;r 81,500, bounded by D. W. Jay, Mrs. V. Thomas, S I . Uilll i . 11. l>l Cfcuiej . ^ '-if-rgum :e Mrs. C. D. Saddler to Mrs. Emma M.Starnes *>/i id and Mary Alice Saddler, 47 acres, 1st town* 10 ship, love and affection, April 9, 1880, bounded ; jr by Alta Fouche Mrs. Mary Logan, Mrs. E. Ni ,'V? ir Starnes and C. L. Ivlnard. L&w >- J. W. Litesand 1). J. Wardlaw to A. A. s. Traylor, 1 lot, 30 x 100 feet, 16th township, $300, > is December -i, 1883, known us lot No. 4 In Block ' ** e- "H." )f M. L. R. Sturkey to Wm. N. Mercier, 1 lotj '- * e 30 x 100 feet, lfith township, S700, June 21, 188$v " < ie bounded by Railroad Street, and others 111 . y. McCormick. known as No. 1G, Block L. jy J. C. Klueh. Master, to S. G. Thompson, 284* i)f acres. lOtli township, $2,135, July 2,1886, bound- in ie ed by A. K. Watson, Hunter Brothers and u- others. 10 Henry Rykard to W. B. Mllwoe, 100 acres, . 1 n 7th township, ?500, July 31. 1882, bounded by * y- Edmond Anderson, William Lomax and /jfej Promjse Land. jr Bonnet Reynolds, trustee, to W. B. MJlwee^ ly l'acre, 2nd township, S225, May 7, 18x2, bound- \ii ed by B. Reynolds, I)r. A. P. Boozer, and B. >* lS Reynolds, trustee. io N.K.Butler to Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., 30 one-half lnierest In 2 lots. Nos. 11 and 12, 10th 1 3 - township, S10, May 29.1886, Blook M, lots Noa ' id 11 and 12, in McCormick. >r J. H. Alexander to Cyrus H. McCormick* - / >- Jr., one-half interest in 2 lots. Nos. 14 and 15, i it Block M, 16th township, 510, May 27, 1886, s, bounded by Main Street, Block M in McCor- Jc s- mick, known as Nos. 14 apd 15. ;e J. H. Lowry to Cyrus H, MccormicK, jr., le one-half interest in Lot No. 17, Block M, 16tn pv tt township, SiO.'May 28,1886, bounded by Main : --t'4 it Street, Block M, known as No. 17, In McCor? ;e mlek. y W. H. Yeldell to Cyrus H. McCormlck, Jr.. " ^ r- one-half interest in lot No. 16, Block M, 10th. e- township, 810, June 30,1880, bounded by Main * ' J. Street, Block M, known as No. 16. ..p&gfi ;,) Cyrus H. McCormick, Jr., to James H. r, ander, 2 lots and land between lots Nos. ;s 14 and 15, Kith township, July 3,1888, lots NbS; r. 6 and 7, in Block M. and all that land between ^ Ic- lots Nos. 6,7,14 and 15 in tbe town of McCor- > ,t- mick. J e- W. T. Wheless to Commercial Bank of Au- ' . r custa, 1 lot 30 x 90 feet, 9th township, 81.000, re March 5,1886, bounded by R. W. Lltes, Mrsv sr Caldwell and others. :-e Zelpharlah Harris to Francis Box. 107 acre*, c- love and affection and &>, February 15, ISM, t. bounded by Augusta Road, S. B. Smitb, jr- Zelpharlah Harris. n- A. G. Pressly to W. C. Pressly, 135 acres, ic 11th towDshlp, 81,000, June 15, 1886, Mrs. Mt. '.''t e Mitchell. S. S. Baker, estate J. M. Latimer. n Mrs. Emily Trlbble to J. C. Trlbble,330acres, ;r 82,000, April 1,1880, bounded by \V. R. Morrow^ it H. M. Prince. E. H. Bell, estate of Francis ~ re Hall, and J. E. Brown lee. e- Cyrus H. McCormlck, Jr., to N. K. Butler, e. the portion of land between lots Nos. 9 and 10, ir 2 lots. 81 and other valuable considerations* Juiy 3,1886, lots Nos. 9 and 10, in Block M, li is the town ol McCormlck. i- Cyras H. McCormick, Jr., to C. V. Walker, '" r Trustee of M. E. Walker, 1 lot and all that >. jt portion of the alloy between Lots 8 and 13, 's July 3,1886, Lot Sin Block M, lu the town of McCormick. --<30 a ? . ? v-1 'r The Democratic Nomine^, n Editor Walsh in Augusta Chroniclt. -s Gen. John B. Gordon, having been over- > >' wlielmincly nominated for Governor c* Geor>* gla by a Democratic Convention, has become T the candidate of. tho party, and will be eup;1* ported accordingly. The Chronicle cordially ,'S and squarely endorses the action of tlie con?r* vention, and will strive as zealously for tho J e. election of Gen. Gordon as It did for the nomi'. ination of Major Bacon before the people. y The volccof the convention is the voice of tho i- sovereign rulers of the State. It is our voice. We accept tiio nomination without reserve. 11 Tlie people of Georgia have, with singular unanimity, called upon Gen. Gordon to be . their Chief Magistrate, and he will certainly y be elected to that high and honorable posl? * o tion. We believe that General Gordon 1b a II patriot, and that his administration will be ie shaped for the greater glory of Georgia. He has every incentive to make a useful, brilliant and distinguished Governor. His fame, lo won on many fields of war, and in the forum s of peace, will not be dimmed by his new ca? u reer. It would sccrn to be one of the reIs venges of time, a notable example of poetic u justice, that, after many years, the victor In a u I most memorable political campaign, ho i? should bo clccted to an ollico out of which be wai* once unfairly counted. . C'A 11 All past differences forgotten. The Chrony irle, as becomes its staunch devotion to party . - *: d usage, accepts the verdict of a Democratic ? majority and welcomes the gallant, the illusf trious and patriotic John B. Gordon as the ' party nominee for Governor of this grand e Common wealth. ;r _ -O H 1 " Candidate* Should Express Thclf Views. c A mlcrton Intclllgcncer. Let us have no leaps in the dark in electing County olHcers this year. Every man should not only be known to the people, but what is of much more importance, his views on all important public rpiestions, connected with tiie position for which he is a candidate, should be known. There is no good reason ' why a man who seeks to till a public ollico is should bo unwilling to give the public views s- upon questions with which he is to deal. The > people should know where the candidates for ;c j whom they vote stands with reference to the ^ matters entrusted to his charge. Men who o ! arc unwilling to give their views, and at the j same time want to be taken on faith, are not n ant to be satisfactory to the people when I. I elected. It is safer and bettor to know where u the candidate stands oerore you voie ivr uiiji? than to wait until ho is elected. Ascertain I- thi' candidates' views 011 public questions, r- and then vote for those best quulifled to propo ei'ly transact the business to be entrusted to their charge. e m - m it Tills Is ll?o Way CIiimIoh H. Jones d Makes mi Announcement, ^t Chnrlottc Observer. - ^5 The undersigned, in respons# to hundreds of solicitations, and for which lie feels a grate- ^ i ' | l'til appreciation, hereby announces himself I-i as a candidate for representative iu the Con] grcss of tho United States from the Sixth j O-n-jivsMonal District of North Carolina, in j tin' liftictii emigres?. In due time lie will make an announcement | of iiis viexvs on public questions, and he pro! poses to canvuss every square mile ot the l>ls* *' ? trict, and meet tlie people face to face. . Very Respectfully, is CHAS. tt. JONES. .VCharlotte, If, C-, July 17,15W. ^<4 * ' 2r?