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i.' The Press and Banner. bbeville, s. c. Wednesday, April 20, 1887. The School 'Form. Again. The Newberry Observer gravely charges that the State Superintendent of Kducution. "as his predecessor am. (icuunan-i.> uun,,,..,,., one ?t the duties required of him in the State Constitution, viz.: 'There Khali tie kept open at lest six months in each year one or more schools in each school district."' The Observer further says: "The superintendent, probably thinks, a* each of his predecessors evidently thought, that lie knows better how the schools should be run than the framers of tiie constitution: and perhaps lie does know better. Hut Hint Is not the question. The Constitution is mandatory on this point, and leaves no room for discretion. This requirement tnav be mi unwise one?we do not say it Is. If so, it should be repealed; but until repealed, it should be obeyed. A public officer should obey all law, more especially the organic law." Leaving out the quest ion whether the abovequoted paragraph of the State Constitution is mandatory or merely directory, it is plain that it connot operate upon any executive officer. It is in the nature of legislation, lugf:ed Into the Constitution to show the zeal of ts framers in the cause of its popular education. But, as a legislative enactment, it cannot have force unless it is recognized by the General Assembly. No duty is enjoined upon any State or county officer? the provision thus di fieri mr essen- J tially from the regular two-mill tax, the levy of wnlch Is, by the terms, of the Constitution, made one of the duties ot tlie County Commissioners. The levy made, the statutes provides the machinery to enforce collection. It the levy be withheld, the Courts can compel it. Now, if the Superintendent is required, by a mandate of the Constitution, to run the schools six months in each year, and if he is neglecting that duty, the may compel performance. We should like to see some en-J thusiastlc advocate of long school-terms, stretched by means of starvation salaries to teachers, test the question whether, indeed. Superintendent Ilice "deliberately disregards one of the duties required of him in the State Constitution.-'? Columbia Record. nnsitinn or statements may he good law, or It may be merely "chimney corner'' la\r. But plain common sense people j will find it hard to see why one part of tinConstitution is not binding while another is of full force. The framers of the Constitution clearly laid down the law. The question is, will the State officers?under the influence of | the State and county organizations whose] main object seems to be to get the public money for the least labor?set aside the law. The mandate which requires one or more schools to be kept open in each school district may furnish a pretext to those officers who may be under the influence of, and working for the benefit of the iteachers and the town schools to shut up all^country schools. Of one thing the Record and the teachers may rest assured, that the people intend to elect school officers who have at heart the interests j of the children, and who are not the willing J tools of the teachers and town schools. The school fund Is for the benefit of the children, and is not. intended as a bounty to any man or woman who may be able to stand an examination before the School Board. We think it about time that the teachers were working to earn their living. They have no right to be pensioners from the public treasury. If the people will not pay them their fancy price, then let them go at any work which is more profitable. The people ot Abbeville county at least, can excuse all such as not satisfied with the money which they and the public are willing and able to pay. The people as a rule, waut to cut down official salaries, but the organization, or teachers unions,-misnamed teachers institutes-would raise the salary of the great army of teachers. At present we believe the teachers unions constitute the only organized raiders on the public treasury. Lynctiing: may be Prevented. Since the disgraceful lynching at Yorkville of five negroes the newspapers have said much about the evil of lynching. The Sherift told the usual tale of how he was overpower ed and the prisoners taken from the jail. In our own humble opinion, there are instances where Sheriffs may wink at such crimes. If the Sheriff in custody of a prisoner really means to protect him, why not aim him so that the prisoner may give his would-be :nur derers a warm welcome. If the Sheriff of York hat1 been really in earnest about protecting his prisoners, he could have done so pretty effectually by putting in each of their hands a good Winchester rifle. A Sheriff it; Mississippi a few years ago adopted this plan of taking care of his prisoner, and alter the piisoner hud shot a few of his assailants the mo:> rut) its became men who were si-uius m<worst ot a bad job. Arm prisoners with good Winchester rifles, willi instructions to shoo! the first man who approaehes their cell, and we venture to suggest that the cowardly practice of lynching unarmed men who are in the custody of the law will cease. We hope to see every Sheriff, who is not in conspiracy with the lynchers, act upon this suggestion, and arm such prisoners as he may have reason to believe will be attacked. This will stop lynching. To Be in Charleston. All the Calliouns, lineal and collatteral, are expected to be in Charleston next week, to do honor to their distinguished ancestor, John C. Calhoun, in the unveiling ceremonies of the "Calhoun Monument." We presume the gathering, In point of numbers will surpass any assemblage of a single family that ever met at one time in this State. If all the distinguished statesman's distant relatives should come together, the grand old City by the Sea, will be full of visitors. We presume, too, besides the military companies, there will be many persons present who arc not at all related to Mr. Calhoun. It is cmi.' nently right that tiie relatives of Mr. Calhoun should pay him this tribute of respect and affection. The Cotton Plant. Every farmer in Abbeville County should subscribe for the Cotton Plant, a monthly paper issued from Greenville by Williams AMcKerall.at sixty cents a year. It is an eight-page paper, five columns to the page, compactly printed in clear type, and every number contains an excellent variety of valuable articles in reference to every depart meat of the farm, including all the grasses and the cultivated crops, horses, cattle, liogs, poultry, bees, etc. Send for sample copy We think if Messrs. Williams & McKcrali v.'ould print a patent inside for other newspapers that they might do well for themselves and others. We don't understand it. We see that Judge Kershaw has raised the murder bond toSo.WO. Ua.aIaAmia tnnwlaffli'u liovo hoon ImUi'd for SI,000 to 82,500. Docs Judge Kershaw really mean to discourage pistol practice in tlift State, or was Allen's a more aggravated case ? By a strict construction of the Constitution the Judges have norifht to bail in every case. The action of the different Courts in glviug easy ball has done more to encourage" the commission of homicides and to promote perjury on the part of jurymen tbnn anything else. Cheering Outlook for School Children. We are glad to note that the subject of dividing the public school fund among the teachers Is beginning to receive tlie attention of the people of the State. They begin to realize that the Teachers Union?commonly fuiiort Tpnfiiors Institutes?have for their! chief object the closing of the public schools at the earliest clay possible. This end to he accomplished by the exhaustion of the public fund. The people are beginning to open their eyes to the fact that their school money has been most extravagantly wasted, and that In consequence, their schools^liave been of but little benefit. ^ ^ We assure our contemporary the Palmetto Post that we meant no unkindncss or injustice in republishing what Mr. Williams was re- j ported to have said to a newspaper reporter , about Port Royal. i wtmmammmummmmam a? mwwbmwmwwm ROBBIE THE RAILROAD. | Organized Band of Thieves at Work.; A COMMERCIAL EARTHQUAKE WHICH i SHAKES OREEVILLE FROM CENTRE TO CIRCUMFERENCE. The >IosJ Lucrative Enterprise isi t!i(>: City Completely Broken I'p?The | Chief SliM'Utioliti'rs ll.iailniired. j mill 'I'alicii to Jail. Stolen Goods, Like the MeasleB, to be Found in Many Parts of the City?Sensational Stories Based on Facts, with Superstruc tnre Consisting Largely of DGtective's Imaginings, Greenville Xews, April 17. lairing tlu- past five months the Richmond vt Danville railroad company haa su tiered much annoyanceand loss from robberies of its freight cars occurring at regular and frequent intervals. The perfect machinery 01 the system for tracing freight was put into opt rat'on ami it was gradually discovered that the robberies were committed in or near this city anil from the cars of through trains ami were the work of a wull organized gang proceed ins systematically. Depot Agent Watson and Mr. Wall, the tracer of the company, proceeded to investigate and communicated with the policeot this city. Police Otllcer Schlapbaeh, who had previously shown very decided detective ability, witii put to work on the case and he has been given much time and attention to it and gradually unravelling It. About three months ago he struck a club and has been following it up gradually until I witiiin the hist few weeks when the case was in such a condition that Railroad Detective Kellars was sent hero to take charge. Mr. Kellars has been very quiet and very few people knew of his presence here, most of his work having been done at night. Theolllcers found that the gang of thieves was located here and that either by the eonnivancc of some railroad man or by the operations of a particularly sharp and alert out sider, the through ears of the night freight were broken into before their arrival here. These cars are not locked, the doors being se cured with pieces of wire run through small lead seals which are closed and stamped at the shipping point and properly opened only at the receiving place. It is almost certain that the work was done at Grecrs, fourteen miles north of here, that being the only station at which freights coming south regularly stop after dark. Wherever the doors wenOpened, a man got into the broken ear and selected such goods as he wanted. These were piled near the door and as the train readied tlie outskirts of this city the goods were tumbled out at a point previously agreed upon and immediately hauled away by men waiting there or concealed close by until the hauling could be safely done. The man in car could, meanwhile, jump out as tt.e train slowed up before running into the yard, and make oir undiscovered. The plan is not so difllcult or so dangerous as it would seem to be at tlrst thought. The conductor in his caboose at the rear ot a train of fifteen or twenty cars could see nothing oi what, was being done and at tlie station would probably be busy on one side of a train while tlie entrance was being forced at another; tlie brakemen are on top or in the ?f>iuuiK<> nnil might walk over or around a broken car a dozen times without seeing anything. The rattle and roar of the train would drown all sound and as it whirled by even on a bright moonlit night nobody on It would notice packages tumbled into a ditch or down a bank or in a lield. To the thieves the crime, no doubt, seemed to be absolutely safe. They probably bad little idea of the system in use on all tir?t class railroads by which a package of freight or a car can be tracted from station to station along a thousand miles ol railroad and tlie point at which It has been lost or injured located within a few miles. It doubtless seemed tothem that along hundreds of miles of road, with scores of trains and tons of freight moving each way every day there was not one chance in a thousand that the stealing of a few packages bound from I New York to the far south or west from a moving train would ever be detected. It was very easy for the olllcers to find out how the robbery was done and Officer .Schlapbach had the evidence to show who hud been offering the stolen goods for sale and selling and delivering them. Hut the difficulty was to find who was doing the stealing and t?? make a ca<e which would insure tho conviction and punishment. <>t the thieves. Potee- ; live Fellars, John Ilillhouse. who is a special officer, Officer Xchlapbach, Mr. Watson and ; Mr. Wail have all been on the watch ami nightly exehangingjlhe results of theirobuer vations. The houses of suspected men have i ticen watched all night: the incoming night trains have been watched at various points near the city to see where or when freight was dropped and who got it. i Friday night Detective Fellars and Mr Ilillhouse were going cautiously along the railroad track alt- r the night freight had ' come in. when they ran upon a hug* number of boxes of plug tobacco at the side of the track where the track runs lb rough Johnson's i brick yard. A wagon was also there; likewise a ilgure which suddenly emerged from < the darkness, proccded by a cautionary lilsl!" and an enquiry: "Who is thai?' "Who are jou?" was ttie reply of the deter- < live. With some muttereii worus 01 apoio;:y or explanation Ihe stranger suddenly turned mid disappeared. The detective and Mr. I Hililiouse walked away apparently bound somewhere else. They coueealed themselves i and alter a while heard the boxes being loud- J t-d into ihe wagon, then the wagon drive off. i They followed at a safe distance, hearing the creaking of the wagon distinctly ana Ihe voices of what seemed to be three men drlv- I ing it. At one time one of the boxes fell out < and the thieves stopped and replaced it. The wacon drove into the Buncombe road, . through Dr. J. IT. Maxwell's grounds and into i the lane leading from his place around Ihe lence of the fair grounds into the Rutherford ; road, and the wagon disappeared. Three of the stolen boxes had been left i where they were tumbled out of the train, ; About twenty-live, it is supposed, having beer. ! carried away, while another was found early I yesterday morning in a diteh near the house ol" Joe Harris, a colored farmer who lives near i the Richmond & Danville depot and who was suspect d of being one of the gamr. The i finder of this box, a colored man, came down town to advertise it. lie went to the HnpH.il i Courier office, mistaking it for t he Daily Xews I and was sent by Mr. Keys, of the Courier, to I ( apt. lteilly, of (Jower & Keilly, who was i thought to have lost some tobacco, ('apt. I Keilly immediately drove up and got the box | which is marked to a person in Wotumpku, A In. Mr. Watson swore out, on information and i belief, warrants against John Caldwell, Joe i Harris, Porter Wlmby and William Froneberger, charging them with larceny and re- I ceiving stolen goods. Deputy Sheriff Gil- i reatli, Chief or ronce Kennedy, uincer schlapbach, Deieetive Fellars and John i 1 lillhouse were assigned the duty of making i thearrests. I All the men were found but Winiby. lie i could not l?e found and the woman there said i lie had not been home for ten days. Wimby is the most dangerous man and the most in- I telligent of all. He Is a graduate of the At- 1 ianta university for colored students. He 1 came here some years ago from Georgia and I got work with Gower & Keilly who found him : a valuable man because of his brightness, i beautiful handwriting and remarkable quick- I ness at figures. They were made suspicious, I however, by the fact that he bought freely of ' tine furniture and used to have ids baby < trundled around in a handsome carriage by a < hired nurse. After some watching they dis-11 missed him, having caught him in theft. I Joe Harris Is a farmer. He was arrested at I his house and a search of the premises result- < ed ill the finding of .'500 pounds of "Split Silk" bruud i f flour in fifty pound sacks. He said i he bought this flour of Mr. Tlnsley, but Mr. i Tinsley says that while he did sell Harris 20n < pounds of flour it. was liof'Split Silk." 11 John Caldwell Is a white man. well known here. He is of small size, dark complexion ' and smooth face and abort SO years old and ' wears spectacles. The standing collar, white I cravat and white plug hat he has worn recent- t ly gave him something of the appearance of a i theological student which was contradicted I by tlie reed stem pipe lie almost constantly i smoked. He is a machinist and a skilled draughtsman, and worked for a while with t Long iSc Co. lie has since been driving a sow < ing machine wngon for T. \V. l>uvls but has I more recently been living with his father-in- < law, Mr. Johnson, in whose brick yurd the i tobacco was (lumped. ( William Froneberser is a colored man known to everybody in (ireonviile. Probably 11 jio man in tiiis city could prove a better char- 1 ncter than his and the news of his arrest j t came I general surprise and regret. He is porter for Lipscomb & Husscll and was arrested J by Deputy Sheriff Gllreath In tlielr store. lie j i was carried to jail but quickly gave bail in j \ the required sum of 8250, Mr. Husscll and Wii- 1 son Cooke signing his bond, and he went 11 home. When seen by n reprsentvtive of the 1 Xetvs lie seemed to be in good humor and cheerful and said if he had ever had anything i to do with stolen goods he didn't know it. * Mr. Lipscomb said He had employed Krone- > berger social years and would trust hitn with t the Inst nickel he had. He added: "If Billy If Froneberger isn't an honest man I don't be- J < lievo there is one. If he has been mixed in :? any dishonesty he was Jed into it without bis i knowledge." 11 liy daylight the mystery of the wagon was s cleared up. It had simply turned Inlo tlie| I fairgrounds. It was tracked In the grounds * and around them but no trace of the stolen 11 tobacco could be found. Mr. Johnson'8 prem-J 1 ises were also searched but nothing was found , there. I s Two hales of plaids identified ashaving been . a stolen from a Richmond <fc Danvllletruin were : v fouud by Mr. Wall late yesterday afternoon In I s the store of R. C. Foster. 123 Main street. Mr. | s Foster *ays they aro part or a lot sola him uv u Caldwell several weeks ago. ile says Culd- v well, whom he knew very slightly, represent- r ed himself as the agent of a western house and said he had u few bales of plaids left over a from a lot and would sell them very cheap. I They are G'< rents goods and were ottered at 4 cents lit which price Mr. Fostor took tliein. A quantity of stolen tobacco wa* found in Lipscomb >? 'Russell's store. They also bought from Caldwell on much !tic same representations, lie churning to be the am lit of the manufacturer, with special facilities lor Kottlntr low rates. All tlie.-e goods were handed over to the railroad authorities and stored In a warehouse. Mr. Wall thinks the goods stolon amount to about.$5,000 In value and the thieves were gettint: rich very fast. The robberies have been going on since November. It is believed most of the stolen goods were sold outside the city. Greenville Xcu's, April I9th. l'robahly nothing that has happened in the history of (jreouvillu lias siiric-i the city no 1 . I.. 1 ! iknmn?l,]i. ciiiiiini.'ii'i.y aim iiiu-iisim n. nw , the discoveries and arrests in connection wltli the robberies of the Richmond A Dunvllle freight trains. All day yesterday little else was talked about when men met. When the Greenville Hews men began to pick up the case again yesterday morning they ran into a perfect whirlwind of rumor and gossip. Kver.vbody knew more about it than anybody else and was ready to volunteer or yield to gentle pumping a remarkable fund of information involving mysterious anvsts, the implication of scores of people and general upheaval and sensation. I,at<T in the day the thing had become a Joke and by night most of the jokes were chestnuts. They consisted generally of walking into a friend's establishment and asking him what the detcetives had got from him; or 1 where his Caldwell goods were hid ; or how mnch bail he had given; or enquiring if the warrant against him had been served y<-t. etc. About the guard house there was a shift- 1 ingcrowd nearly all day and idle men stood there hours at a time, swapping gossip with ill comers and staring at the buiiding and i the police, one yielding about as much to gratify curiosity as the other. I As will be remembered, John Caldwell, * white, and Joe Harris and William Froneberger, colored, were arrested on Saturday while Porter Witnby. colored for whom a warrant was issued, escaped. Yesterday i morning Detective Kellers, his assistant John i llillhousp, Chief of Police Kennedy and Orticer Schlapback, with a volunteer or two, went on another raid with another batch of warrants. George .Tohnson, a younp white man and brother-in-law of John Caldwell, was nrrestPd at his house near the Richmond A Danville track and on the opposite side of it from where Caldwell lived, and locked up. The next haul was certainly a big fish in piiy.sicaiguiiiK iinujis nuiu m n ....v in the case. It was J. G. Grlflin, who has charge of the stable of race horses, belonging to Keith A Co., of Cincinnati, 'hat wintered at the fair grounds. His bulky figure in familiar on the streets here, where he generally appeared driving a spirited horse to a light racing sulky. His "uct up" is that of a prosperous sporting man, a sack coat being generally closely buttoned about his very large body, lie and his men and horses have beeu almost the only occupants of I lie fair grounds since the races of last November. C. D. .Moore, a younsr white man who keeps a small store at the fork of Rutherford and Buncombe Ftrects, was the next victim. He was brought in handcuffed, like all the others, and locked in a cell to himself. Hary Leman, a well-known youug white jockey who litis been employed by Griflin in the stables at the fair grounds, was also arrested and brought in. Press Brooks, colored, was arrested next, but he was released later in the day as it wan found he was not the man wanted. There was activity Inotherdirections. Five caddies of the tobacco taken from the tiain on Saturday night were found on Sunday above the depot near Johnson's brick yard. Moore's arrest was caused by the fact tlwt when he was visited late on Saturday evening he turned over to Detective Fellers twelve aales of plaids, stating that they were all the goods In his possession that he had any reason to believe were the property of the railroad. Mr Fellers had good reason to know better, however, and when he returned yesterMay morning lie was armed with a search warrautand a warrant of arrest against Moore for buying stolen goods. A search resulted in the discovery of a sack of parched coffee, several boxes of cigars and cheroots, and a number of empty tobacco boxes identified as having been taken from the Uichmodd and Danville through freight cars. The detective had reason to believe that Mark & Eiulel had bought a quantity of the i stolen goods and went to them. The members of that tirm answered promptly that t hey had bought goods of Caldwell and held his bill and receipt for them, and gave the brands of the cloth, etc. they had bought. Mr. Wall was unable to identify these goods as having been stolen from the railroad, but telegraphed i for information. Mark & Kndel say Caldwell t brought them samples and offered the goods nt about, market prices with a discount for cash. Mr. Mark drove to Caldwell's house i und inspected the goods, bought them to the j mount of vJST.i*') aud they were delivered and ) paid for in broad daylight, an invoice and re- i u'Cipt being given. The invoice is tnaue out i in the name of John S. Caldwell and dutcd i March 21sl, 185>7. Most of these goods have I been sold or mixed in with other stock in the course of business. I About twenty bolts of plaids were found in 11 tlie store of ]$. M. McfSee, West Greenville. There is no possible doubt that these goods i were bought "straight." and in open market, I Mr. Mcliee having purchased them ot Lips- i I'umb it ltussell who bought them of Cald- < well. Not even the charge of carelessness i ran be made against Mr. MeCiee. < Detective Fellers says his ease is now rimy worked ami complete. There arc more devciipincnss to come, he says, but I hoy will come gradually as there is now no occasion for Inirry. lie said, when asked if any con felons hud Iiooii made, tiiat he talked very Utile with the prisoners and made no effort to induce them to conf'-ss as he had his case in ;ood shape without having to go to the jail laiKor evidence. He added that he had been materially helped by the boldness of some of the prisoners?probably referring to Caldwell ?who had approached honest anil acute men In such an unguarded way as to cause suspijlon and furnish evidence which Is now being voluntatilyloirered for the use of the State. Mr. Fellers would not say so, but there Is good reason to believe that there has been some leaking somewhere among the accused since yesterday morning. The olllcers have a satisfied expression which confirms their stateincut that they arc inside the whole business ind know its head and tail and sill its rami'ications. Detective Fell? sulci lust night lie was prepared for the llrst long and sound >leep he had had in some time and would Lake it easy; he thought he had his men kvhere he wanted thein aud as for the goods they were located along with the quantity :ol(land the dotes delivered and he could make the holders account for every piece of Lliein. so that he could take his time collecting them. Without doubt many of them are In the country around here. A representftliveof the <Vr?r? heard of them in several places oil yesterday and Detective Fellers probably has similar information. The olllcers seem to doubt very much if any railroad men are in the Job ami say it woulil liave been easy for smart thieves to work It without such assistance. They were probably smarter than they knew as they had met md neutralized the usual system of guarding, ...? .?I.i? ?i ? ii.... i . SCailllg, I'lK'CKUli; illUI 11 L'l Lflli IUI > I I ind much time was lost while Mr. Kellers was s getting into operation a new system or lils i liis own wheieby freight In through ears was i xamincU unU cheeked here instead ol at it* ? lestination. Hy this system, however, tlic t Jeteclive know the very day an article was i lost, and where It disappeared, and when, i ivithin a few days that article was on sale In < (ireenviile two ends of the string were in s liand. It was known where the thinys were 1 stolen and where ihey went; then there only ? remained to till in the details of handling, t Isaullng and storage and the persons doing t Lliat work. Much time and patience were de- i k-oted to these matters and it is likely the { criminals will bo astonished when the time > monies to know how often the watchful eye of t [lie law was actually on them and how many s times the hnd of the law impending over r them was stayed to await ' further devel- r jpinents." n As has already been stated, the case was I uotijuite as ripe as it was wanted on Satur- i lay, but it was sprung because the otlicers I me of their watching expeditions stumbled f nto a nest and feared the alarm would spread, c The \V>?? \v:ik In error in savins? tlie wairon r with the tobacco was lost on Fridav night, a l'he truth was the ollicers felt sure It had j :urned from the lane into the fair grounds r md in following to see whero it went on Its s eturn ran almost on it. Tlieu it was that f :hcy turned and cut across the fields, hoping j leceive the thieves. t In ail the talk on the matter nobody seems c] ,o have a good word for Caldwell, and in Jail >n yesterday his demeanor went to confirm I lie unfavorable impression of him. lie spoke A >f bis ease with an attempt to be humorous, i md while perfectly civil showed that lie either v lid not appreciate the gravity of his position li or inti tided to brave it or.t. lie referred the t eporter to his counsel, I'crry A- Hey ward and ii trwln A Mooney, and said th<-y told him not u .o talk, lie i.s in the front cell down stairs. F Joe Harris, the colored man, is up-stairs, t uid gave evidence of being frightened and Ii incasy although lie denies any connection t villi the robberies except; some knowledge li .vhichhc seems willing to relnto to discreet u tersons. He has engaged ex-Judge Cooke as t lis counsel. s Gritlin. Johnson and Moore were carried d lown to jail yesterday afternoon. Urllllnwas a Jancy and defiant when arrested and after- r< vard and seemed for a time disposed to give b he ofllcers s< me trouble. He "kicked" vlg- t' irously aualtist being hand-eurt'ed and Chief ft >f Police Kennedy had to give him some very ;traiglit talk. The ollicers say the yoods as o s'tilected along the track when thrown from b lie cars, usually beginning at the Buncombe n treet crossing, were generally hauled through b jr. i>iu.\weu ? grove unu lino me luirgiuuuu* u vhere they wore stored In the stalls or stables v in111 they,were sold or a good opportunity to mul them away. w Deputy Marshal Williams on yesterday tt erved United States warrants on Johnson tl nd Caldwell for selling whinkey and tobacco si without licence. These warrant a were issued ai oine time ago and were 011 tin* point of being n erved, when the oflieers on the railroad ease st icnrd of it in the nick of time and had them h withheld to prevent the whole Job being si ulned. 4 F Griffin has, it Is stated, secured Judge Cooke pi k counsel. w ?aa??aa????i?tmmm EASTER SERMON. - CHRIST'S RESURItECTION AND THE MIRACLES WHICH HE PERFORMED. Tlic Supernatural I<aw Set* In Whore our Ignorance Heelnn Miracles are Only the Ke-c*tabHnhiiieiit of Natural I.hws. In the morning Mr. Jackson delivered the following sermon In the Metodist .Church at Abbeville on Jiaster evening: Why shotiM It he thought o thing Incredible with you that GoshouM raise the dead!?Acts xxvi: 8. The Christian religion affirms a resurrection from the (lend. Against this affirmation materialistic science, nature Interpreted without God as a factor, interposes a strong negation. Christianity atllnns. materialistic science denies. If you will nclmlt the premise of this materialistic theology?If you will consent to Interpret nature withoutGod as a factor?then as I see it, the conclusion Is inevitable?there will be 110 resurrection. If Paul hud left the idea of God out of his question to Agrlppa then he would have given up the Christian doctrine of a resurrection, and mado its defence Impossible. But when he introduces God Into the problem, he changes the whole uspectof the question and gives theadherents of the doctrine a vantage ground from which it seems to me it is Impossible to drive them. I<et us make a short statement. The resurrection is taught in connection with the existence and active energy of God?never apart from him. It is not taught as a simple result of nature*, ns for Instance the germination und growth of a plant, but as a result which Is wrought out of nnture by the will and energy of God?a mlrncle. Upon this ground It Is defended and Is defensible. The text points to a re<=?lt and the question Is asked, why the possibility of that result Is doubted. This enables ns to discuss t he resurrection as a result, und to make un argument for its possibility along the line of cause and effect. NATURE ACTING IX ITS ORDINARY WAY. The classes of results of which we know anything ore three. There are first,thesimpie results of nature acting in its ordinary or usual course. For instance, the growth, development and maturity of the vegetable kingdom, nnd its decay. The results produced by the action of heat, the law of gravitation. atmospheric influences, and many such phenomena. It is Important that we notice two things in connection with this class of results. First, they contain mysteries beyond the srnsp of the strongest minds. Take gravitation for instance. It is often supposed that we have a known something nnswerlng to that name, when- the fact is that we know no more or what gravitation Is now, than we did before Newton named it. It Is only a name that spans a chasm of ignorance?the sign of an unknown quantity. Of phenomenaattributed to gravitation we know much, but of gravitation itself?nothing. Don't slur over that. fact. He:pfrinber It means something. At present our whole system of philosophy Is buttresod upon an unkuown quantity, and if when found out it should prove to be some thing different fruit what it now Is conceived to bo, it may require a thorough over-hauling of our eon elusions. Another thine to notice in thlK class of results is the power of the human will to interfere with thein. The acorn comes up, crows and develops into tho oak without the aid of the human will, l>nt It Is In the power of that will to Intercept Its growth at any stage: It may crush It In infancy, it may destroy or utilize it in maturity. The law of gravitation does its work without the aid of human aeency, but It i? interrupted and overcome by that agency every day, hour aud moment of life. Two thins* then we have learned from this ela?sS of results. First, that they contain my>tcries, anil second that they may he Interfered with by a higher power,?lite human will. And yet despite the mysteries no body iloubts the possibility of (lie results, and despite the Interference by the human will no body claims that, a rent has been made In these laws. Our faith staggers not here. Wo are all very ( rednlous scientists. HIE RESULTS OF NATL'KE UTILIZED BY MAN. We have another class of results In the world wblch we must notice. The results of nature utilized by the mind and will of man. This church is one. Nature can grow thousands of forests but she can never make a house. This house taken as a result, predicates the powers of nature utilized by the powers of man. The steam engine Isanother. .Nature gtvps uh in proiusion me raw maieriniHof which the engine Is composed, but it Is disorganized, lying in scattered ftastmenta over and in the earth, or diffusing Itself into every atom of matter throughout ttie universe, The higher power?man's will and Intellect?takes hold of these scattered forces !ind combining thetn together gives us a result at once the marvel and blessing of tb9 Nge, and soon through the whole. I he sum total of all that has marked the progress of the rare Involves as antecedent the forces and powers of simple nature guided and utilized by the higher will and Intellect of man. There are two things In this class of results that we must notice. First, In none of I hem lias nature been violated. Utilized, but never violated. The mindof man lias takfn hold of the laws and forces of nature and utilized them, but has he violated them? Heguides the elect l ie current along a pathway over the i-arth and under the sea, Hashing his message from continent to continent with the rapidity :>f thought, but has a rent been made In the law of electricity? He has harnessed the en r?iesof steam and goes whirling across the continent in mighty triumphovcr the laws of gravitation, anil yet 1ms any law been violaied? Gravitation you say. Is It not that very law that holds his rail-track on the arth, his en nine on the track, and himself on iiis seat! No, not violated but used, utilized l>y a higher power. Has any law of acoustics :>een violated by the telephone? How have mr.ii rwu>hi>rt resiiltn f In averv Instance t>y obeying the laws of nature. \Vlien you jbcy these laws, you make them subject to rou. They then become your servants, and J four knowledge of them enables you to lay i'ov.r hand upon them and make them (lo four bidding. Thus men having found out the laws of acoustics, of electricity, of dymoilc?, by obeying them and not violating Jiem, by using them and not crushing them, uive reached wonderful results. There is another thing to notice in these renlts. The lesson that is contained iu the fact if their increase in niunbpr and ingenuity ivith the Increase of the knowledge and expedience of the race. There was a time when lie idea of a locomotive hud never entered lie human brain, a time, and not very fur jack either, when a message transmitted from leie to New York with electric flash would invo startled men as much as a resurrection rom the dead; a time when the ability to ;pcak in the ear of your friend miles distant .vould have been denounced by men unacjuaiated with the prophetic possibilities ot (dunce, as impossible, because a violation of lature's laws; a time when the things which foil and I look upon to-day as familiar invenions would have been hooted as a dream of a lisordered brain. And why? Because the I nen of that day were doing what wo so often lo to-day? making a mistake In estimating lie unknown quantities. They were ignorant >f the possibilities that lay enshrined in mind iml matter awaiting the proper moment i vhen they should astonish and bless the i ,vorld by tholr resurrection. They were Igno- i ant, and mistaking tlieir ignorance for poslive knowledge, they doubled and denied the ,'e.-y facts with which we are so familiar tolay. But this Is notall. He reads the history \f lilu rfioo with llttlp inslcht who ilrtcK nnt ice in these lessons n prophecy of something; arger and grnnder yet to come. Who will | ;av that the cannon of human Invention has i )e*en closed i n this century, never to be open- i ;d again? That the possibilities of mind and natter have been exhausted? Thatotherand ;rander results will not come out In the on- | vr-.rd progress of the world as far surpassing ( ho highest achievements of to-day, as these i iurpass the grandest results of two centu- | Its ago? Who shall measure the stretch of > oad that lengthens out before a race of men, , i world of mind holding such mighty uncrown forces? Who will go forward to the > ihlmate goal of human progress and rear a < mrrier that shall stay the onward march of i oiees that grin power and Intensity with j aeh advancing step? 8hall we, because igno- | ant now ol the matter and manner of future ( ichievements, be silly enough to place our i >uny veto upon the Inherent forces of the i ase Inspired and guided now and ever by the plrit and wisdom of him whose highest ( iliasure is our greatest advancement? And j et this is just what Is done when we declare ] hat In the future this or that will never be s Icne. Brethren, my heart thrills with Joy as look forward to the future of my race. Vlien according to the prophecy of the past t shall stand upon higher heights than these, rhen It shall have marched nearer up to leaven, and so much that is now dark shall hen be floodfd with a glorious light, I would r>ve to live then and Join in the bymn of latitude that will be sure to ascend to the '"u titer of all Lights, and feel the swell of Joy j hat will sway my race to the motions of the ifHivonlv* T wmiM Invo to livn tllPll. killt. c he world ts leaving mo, nutl I shall not see It II this life. Go on, oh ray race, go on, ever 5 pward, ever Goilwurd, until you shall reach ?. lie heights above us where we ?o long to tand. Brethren, we are content to dwell and ^ leln the valley below, If only our race shall t last climb the heights before it, and love, eeeive, and enjoy Ood more than we do. We id you (iod .speed. We have not noticed fc wo classes of resnlls. Let us sum up the c lets we have found In them. n III the first class we found that they li nntalned mysteries, and that they could n e interfered with by a higher power?the hu- h lan will, and yet no body doubted the possi- 1! lllty of these results, or thought of asserting 11 lat the Interference by the human will was a v iolatlon of nature. I* In the second class we found that the results ere produced by the combined forces of na- 6: no and the mind of man. That In none of b icm was nature violated, but In every In- 0 atice the results were reached by obeying j| nd thus utilizing the laws of nature; that C( mny of the results reached, viewed from the <j andpoint of uvo centuries passed, would ave been counted as miracles, and as lmposble, because they would violate nature, 5 rom these Tacts wo gather two broad prlncl- n lea. First, that mind and will does operate itb the forceu of nature, and roust therefor# S . I be considered in estimating results where they are required; and, second, that there are unknown forces and quantities, and about these we are liable to mistake our Ignorance for knowledge. DIVINE MIRACLES ACCOUNTED FOR ON NAT-j URAL PRINCIPLES. We now come to a third class ot results which we must notice?Divine miracles. For Instance the restoration of sight to the blind, and speech to the dumb. They are not the simple results of nature by Itself. They are not the results of the forces of nature, utilized by the will and Intellect of man. 1 IIUJ U1C 1IUWVC CllllCii Jl UCIIC?t the results of, to us, unknown forces utilized by divine power. For Instance take any miracle that Christ performed, say the giving of sight to a blind man. Now whether we have stopped to think of it or not. there is a force somewhere in nature that gives sight to every eye that has sight. To iip, it is an unknown force, Just as other forces, that we now recognize were at one period of Ihe earth unknown forces. Christ lays Ills hand on this unknown force and by utilizing It according to his will he produces a result which we ca'l a miracle. And so with any other miracle thut. he works. Is there anything absurd or irrational in this? Take any of the known forces of to-day, say electricity, and let an operator go far enough back to reach the period In which It was not known, and begin producing results by an application of that force, and what have you? A man working miracles to the men of that day, and yet is there anything absurd or irrational In the result today ? Where lay the absurdity to the men a few centuries past? In their Ignorance. To your supposed operator everything was rational, nuiural. Only to the men who were Ignorant of the law of electricity was It incomprehensible, and If the world shall ever discover the force that gives eye sight to the eye, then the results that were produced by a Savior, by utilizing that force will appear simple and natural. And If the world shall ever recognize the force that gives life to these organisms of ours, then the results produced by the Divine will utilizing this fores will be at once simple and natural. In other words, the absurdity, the Irrationality of the resurrection is in our ignorance of the forces that produce that result. We call these results supernatural. The word is only a name for our . ignorance. We see just so far up the chain of nature, and when wo can see no farther, we draw a line and call all beyond supernatural. It 18 an arbitrary division. Nothing of the kind exists In reality. The supernatural is only the other end of the chain ol the natural hid in the darkness. The higher wo rise the larger becomes the natural and the smaller the supernatural. Continue to rise until you lay your hand upon laws and fofces that are now the outlying, unknown, quantities by which a miracle Is wrought and all this then becomes uatural. Truly as Jeau Paul Rlchter says, "miracles on earth are nature In heaven." But this you say is assuming. The point of elevation only is assumed, the principle, the upward trend of the human race, we are compelled to postulate of the future by the lessons of the past, and that, the principle is the thing at last. But while miracles are to us snpernatural, are they a violation of hature? Hume says they are, but the Scottish philosopher only did what so many others have done?mistook bis Ignorance for positive knowledge. I nave already answered this question in part, but there are some other things that will help to settle the question. First From what we know of the violation of laws, what results follow? Are they beneficial results, or otherwise? The violation of the laws of nature In your own being ends in sickness, disease, death. The violation of the law by which sight Is given to the eye produces blindness. The results that come from violated laws so far as we know them are marked with ruin. It is only In obedience to these laws that bencflclal and desirable results are reached. In the second class of results?human miracles?this was the principle by which men worked. They first found out the law and then utilized it. In all that we are able to know of the Divine miracles this principle is still seen as the rule of action. Take the giving: or sight to the sightless eyes. It is unnatural that a man should have eyes aud not be nble to see?the natural thing Is that he should see. Some violation of yie law by which sight is given, caused the blindness. When the Savior comes and gives these sightless eyes the power to see, men set up a howl and say nature has been violated, when in fact it has ouly been le-establlshed?It is natural to see, unnatural not to see. Here is a man with the organs of speech. Nature ail around him has given the power of speech. To him she has given organs of speech and yet not allowed him to speak. Is this not a violation of nature? The Savior comes and breaks the fetters that have bound the dumb tongue. Is that a violation or simply an establishing of nature? The moment these miracles are wrought, the subjects Uike their place in the orderly movement of the natural aud give to the men who have the honesty or sense to read It a demonstration that God controls the forces of nature, and utilizes them for purposes of mercy to men. Now brethren the next step is simple and logical. Death is unnatural. It is a violation of nature's laws. When you have examined the laws of being, when you have considered the prophecies of an unending existence contained in the mighty powers and possibilities of the human soul, when you have turned upon human life the highest light of science and the still high- i er light of Revelation, theu death the force that cuts all this shorthand drops around the race a veil of leaden darkness, and renders life a fearful enigma, becomes a violation of nature. J nis is Lilt' limit) view Hi/ icti>u i/cniii comes by sin, sin Is a violation of the laws of being, mid death Is the result of that violation. Then, my brethren, the resurrection Is a triumph over death, a re-estnblishing of nature's laws. Somewhere up the chain of nature, veiled in the mists of the supernatural, lie the forces of life. God's hand Is upon them, and when the appointed hour comes, Adam's entombed race shall feel It* quickenIns: power and respond to the touch of the Divine hand that sends a thrill of eternal life coursing along the veins of a burled humanity, and bursting the fetters of death It shall rise Into the harmony of the life God. These emblems point us to the hour, when he who spoke Lazarus to life and gained through himself on that first great Easter morn a victory over death, shall lead our race to a glorious conquest, and enter us upon the eternal life or glory and victory. Hall Jesus, King eternal. Immortal, invisible, hail, to thee, with i the Father and Holy Ghost, be glory now aud ! forever, Amen. BREERWOOD'S BRISTLING BAYONETS. , Spring's Beauty and Fr?iliiicM?Cot- j ton Seed and Mcasley Sirkne^? Brier** Intellectual Stomach?The ! Calhoun Monument Oration?Ante ? Mortem Obituaries, Etc. Bbierwood, April IS, 18S7. ! Spring, though long delayed, has at last burst with all its beauty and freshness upon ue. i Everybody bu?y planting cotton, except the few who have finished. The delightful shower of rain with which Greenwood and vicinity was favored lust Friday evening, missed oh. Rain Is much needed. The measles are on the Increase. Several new cases within the last week. A Sunday School picnic Is brewing. I will write It up when It takes place. Your Due West correspondent ought to be morecarcful with his compliments. By looking again he will discover that it was the dls- f tlnguished "J. P. G.," of Phoenix, who fur- , nished the readers of the Press and Banner ' with a list of the many papers read by him. : 'Brier's" small intellectual stomach would , hardly digest the Immense amount of matter jontained In J. P. G.'s list of papers. At least \ not In addition to the amount of "book larn- ' Ing" that two of the best teachers in Abbe- ^ ville county endeavor each day to fill the , aforesaid stomach with. } I rather think the committee did right to ipluctan orator not related to the distinguish- . ?il statesman to deliver the oration at the F invelllng of the Calhoun monument. An iddress of tills kind would be a strange one ' f it did not consist in part of a eulogy of the F lead statesman. Such a eulogy will sound aetter coming from one not a lineal descond- , int. Your reprinting the article written by you J luring Col. Aiken's Illness reminds us of the ' 'act that upon rending it the first time it np- ^ seared we thought how much better it was to tay the kind things contained therein then, ' ;hnn to wait until the eyes of the noblo man ivere closed in denth and then say them. , How much better it would be if we made it , irulo to speak the kind things we have to . ipeak, while the subjects aro living. There ire those who are famishing to hear the kind ^orJs that are held In check now, but that vlll bb poured forth like water when they are jone hence. Jr During Mr. W. D. Melton's recent illness, ? II r. Martin filled his place on the railroad. Owing to Prof. Griffin's illness school was j-, uspended a few days last week. Mr. J. W. Fife Is the delegate to the County |' Sunday School Convention from Tranquil j Sunday School; V. R. Htnton, alternate. j , Mr. T. N. Smith looked in upon us at Sun- j,, lay School Sunday. BRIER. Our friend Hugh Wllsou, 011 April 1st, cele- T iriited the twenty-eighth anniversary of his I' onnection with the Abbcrillr Pre'.1 and Dan- t< ier. Mr. Wilson Is one of the most enterprls- n g newspaper men In the State. By good w uanagement, enterprise and tireless industry el p has mado newspaper publishing both a Iterary and financial success. He deserved , ,1 l,n Kou Mshcs for ills continued success.?Laurens(lie Herald. Iv The country is safe again. It is noble to li ?vc one's country without dying for it. Al- n ert Ordway, chief of the Military committee. |> f Washington, having iu charge the great iter-State Drill In May, says the colored :>m panics will bo In separate camps and rill separately. Dy using one can of prepared carriage paint, ou can paint your buggy for 81.00 no varnish , eceasary. Sold by. P. B.Speed. 4-20 >' Ice cold sodu water, only 5 cents a glass at peed's drug store. 1*20 al ' -'. '*, ', * *2 LIFE AT DUE WEST. WHAT A WIDE-AWAKE CORRESPONDENT HAS SEEN AND HEARD WITHIN A WEEK. ? I'ollnrdN and Prcacliers?Street Loafem aii<l Beantirnl Woman?New Doctors Ornvc Yards, and Dead People ? April Fool* and Nanta | ClaiiH Experiment!* ? Prewbyterlal j Mcetlnsx and IIOMi>ltal People. Due West April 18, 1887. Tra la In, Winter. Rev. D. K. Haddon preach In the Associate Reformed Presbyterian church yesterday. Mr. J. F. Calhoun has young collards "large enough to break." Cattle are dyingi? and around Due West. Mis* f.ucretia Drenuan is visiting her sister, Mrs. Samuel Agnew. Mr. Louis Drennan of Abbeville spent yesterday with his daughter, Mrs. A. D. Kennedy. A moonlight ride was Indulged in last week by some of the laities. Our citizens are becoming clamorous for the usual calcsthenic exhibition. Mis< Statla Wideman, of Troy, is visiting her relatives in this summer resort. The barn of Mrs. H. M. Johnson was set on tire twice last week, but the fire was extinguished before much damage was done. Rev. II. D. Lindsay, of Delaware, is expected liere on a visit to his parents In a week or two. A small quantity of hail fell in this vicinity last Friday. There Is a general desire for a good rain. Only a small shewer yesterday and one this morning. t n .. r. lUI. ?. ?l. liUiincr, unci ucmik ruuijuru iw the liouse a few days last week, Is out again. Mr. and Mrs. Burton of Lovrndesvllle, were at Mrs.^as. Magill's last week. Mr. John II. Wren spent yesterday with his family. He relumed to Anderson this mornIntr. Mr. F. I. Bell win assist Mr. Wren at Anderson for a few weeks. Mr. J. H. Holcomb of Martin's Mills passed through our town last week. The farmers this delightful weather are vieIng with each other In the enjoyment of their seed-timo labor. The acreage prepared for cotton planting seems to be as extensive this Spring ns ever. The new town council took charge of the city's affairs last Wednesday night. Everything being in good repair the machinery moved off nicely. Our grateful acknowledgement to "Dixie" of the Messenger for the kindness of her compliment. The silken cords of matrimony were drawn tightly and appropriately around a pair of dusky lovers In our town last week. This Summer-like weather lias persuaded Mr. Samuel Agnew to furl his cold wave flag. The squirrel hunters are bagging stacks of game these pretty mornings. A party of Jolly boys took In Martin's Mill pond seining la3t Friday night. They returned Saturday with the usual fisherman's luck The following deaths occurred last week near Due Weit, Mrs. Robt. Bracher, Miss Nancy McCain aud an Infant of Mr. and Mrs. Comntl \Tori/?/i Wc heard a gentleman remark that selling cotton the middle or April la like having watermelons on Christmas. We thought the comparison seasonable. Mr. Robt. McKay Is probably the most compassionate monser within a radius of say, well, modestly put it, "twenty thousand leagues" from Due West He delights to entrap rats just to enjoy the pleasure of seeing how happy the rodents are when liberated. Dr. Lindsay says "the street loafer is the most contemptible of men." We cheerfully and heartily endorse the remark. An economical resident of our town has his children taken to ride these pretty arternoons in a wheelbarrowThe container that bottled the hot weather last autumn suddenly exploded here Tuesday,-12th. Theomometer 82 degrees. There is a report current in our section that glanders prevail among the stock in the Martin's Mill neighborhood. Two bales of cotton were sold here on the 13th. This may seem increditable but It is positively true. What seemingly impossibility will happen next? "Margin" a tine stallion owned in an upper county was exhibited on our streets last week. We areglad to see our people turning their attention to thoroughbreds In this the finest stock raising country in the Union. Mr. It. S. Galloway will go this week into the Anlrevllle neighborhood as an appraiser In a homestead case. Rev. W. "F. Pearson and Mr. W. T. Cowan will attend the Grand Lodge of the Knights of Honor at Anderson this week. Rev. Mr. Carter has been invited to preach to the colored Baptists of this place next Sunday night. He will probably preach. Kev. D. F. Haddon and family, of Laurens, spent a few days with relatives here last week, on his way to Presbytery. Messrs. D. G. Phillips, J. P. Knox and T. G. Boyce are in attendance upon the Y. M. C. A. State Convention at Newberry, as the representatives of the Y. M. C. A. ot Ersklne College. Dr. .T. J. Lindsay has entered Into partnernership with Dr. Saillie, of Augusta, in the drug store business and also in the practice of his profession. Dr. A. E. Miller has received au appointment in the hospital at Philadelphia in which ci!y he has recently graduated in medicine. The*ermon of Rev. Dr. Lindsay last Thursday evening was attentively listened to and well reodved hy a full.house. Suturday, the 25d has been fixed as the day for cleaning oil' the Associate Reformed Presbyterian cemetery and church grounds. Let not only the members of this church, but all who may have relatives or friends Interred here, deem it a duty to assist in this important matter. The city of our dead should not be neglected. The meeting of the Second Associate Reformed Presbytery which met at Generostee church, Anderson county last Friday was well attended by the citizens of this place. Among the number arc Revs. Drs. Boyce, ;Grier ana Pressly. Revs. Messrs. Stewart, Blakelyaud Grier. Prof. W. S. Lowry, and Messrs. T. \V. T l? 7.MIC W W Similar ni'ri J f. Press! y. Sr. One of our young men, who Is too feminine to allow us to use his nuine, certainly received [in ' April fool," so called about the lotli lust. This white whiskered chestnut consisted of sundry articles, from samples of crochet to some of her papa's 'bacco, but the intervening Items were therein rich profusion. And while the fair donor is doubtless growing fat In fee'ings of having; done a good job, the young man lives, a little disfigured but still an the carpet. A spccial friend of ours, a few nights neo, had af real Gordlon knot problem to solve. To amuse himself and some friends by som- ' mersaulting on the trapeze he bolted the i :he front door of his store and made his exit , therefrom through a back window closing the , self-locking shutters behind him. When :hrough with the athletic performance he 1 stood basking in the moon beams till the "wee ' <ma' hours ayont the twal" mopping his | sweat producing brow in determining the best . node of entrance to the well-locked store. ! I'he Santa Clans method was finally hit upon mdalthouh lie imagined it somewhat sooty I tnd did not fancy the precedent he came to < he conclusion that It beat staying out all ' light. . The citizens and students of the town were j xeatod to a lecture last Wednesday evening ? >y Prof. J. r. McCain. It would be superflu- t >us to say that the lecture was an excellent f >ne, for the name of the lecturer Is in itself , lulticient evidence of ill it. ' The Elizabethan \ge'' was treated in the most Interesting and nstructi ve stylp. and the dry facts of history t vere coupled with logical elegance and occa- t ional flashes of wit, to perfect delight of the f urge audience, and the only regret was that c We flml tiic following In an exchange of re- 11 ent date. As Kev. Mr. Donnelly was so well I mown wcare sure it will bo read with pleasire: "About 50 years nzo, Bro. Dannelly was t reaching in the Methodist church at Pendle- i on, S. U., on a warm day. Thechuroh was ' rowiied. A wealthy lady, sitting near the a >ulpit, bad her negro servant bring her water t n a large sliver cup several times, to the t trencher's annoyance. Finally the old man topped his discourse suddenly and said: s Sal, you needn't bring that silver cup iu any i note?everybody has seen It now.' The cup t auished from sight at once. t The meeting of the Second Associate Re-1 ^ ormed Presbytery last week. Is said to have! * >een one of the fullest for several years?near- j r y all the ministers being present, andian un- a isually large delegation of elders. The re-1 s orts from the congregations relative to every ! j| epartment of the church's work were ex-j eedingly cheering. Nothing specially out- ! Ide the routine business was acted upon, ex- j 11 opt the election or appointment of an evan- n elist. Kev. Dr. ii. T.Sloan was chosen for 11] Ills now feature of work, provided It was 1j, greeable to his people for him to absent himelf in hunting up the "scattered sheep"' and 11 rganized them. Sermons were delivered by n >v. (\ K. Todd. J. S. Mills. Uev. Dr. Grier, ii lev. Dr. Phillips, Rev. 11. ! '. Bradley and the ? [leoloslcnl student, Mr. T. \V. Sloan. The ? ospltality of the people was unbounded. ? hey are ministered to by the Kev. Calvin 11 ressly, and coo.I reports co'nie from both pas- p >r and people. The Presbytery will hold its ext session with the Mt, ("armel church and e will expect u complete report from brothr "M." B. C. D. Lexington, April 16.?A. Marks was J| bot this morning, at 2 o'clock, in J. W. p larhurt'a barroom, by Dr. C. IS. Leap- w art. The ball entered about the right fi ipple and was cut out noar the hackuna. Marks is resting well to-night ti ud it is hoped he will not die. a] Seeds of evergreen trees may bo sowed 0< ? early in the spring as the ground < an c( e worked. Sow thinly in beds of line, indy loam raisod about lour inches bove the general eurface. r( f ' -1 I r f ~ *;vr : r1-:ff^'-w^vi-v- 2^r-_ ? ~ ^i?w5 . ? - < . ,. - -. ' . . .- '. ????fc,^?h^MT"^?? Death from Crlininnl Ciiolessnesn fu the lTNlne of Fire Arms. Savannah, Ga., April L".?Frank M. Fonda, Superintendent of fhe main stem of the Georgia Central rail, lad, was shot and instantly killed to-day, on board of the tug VViiliam C. Tumor, by J. J. Abrams. a Drominent law\ t-r of this citv. Superintendent Fonda u.ii-1 a party of friends, among whom were Abrams, Police Magistrate M. P. Molina, Andrew Anderson, private secretary to General Alexander, President of tbe Georgia Central, Col. John T. Gaynor, contractor for the Savannah Iliver anil Harbor Improvement Company, and John H. Griffin, General Travelling Passenger Agent of the Chicago & Eastern Illinois Kailroad, left the city this morning on the tug for a trip to Tyinbee beach. The party was in high spirits and w v? laughing and joking continually on the trip down the river. While crossing the sound Fonda left the party in the pilot house and went back to the cabin. Half an hour later he rejoined them. As he started up the ladder, leading from the deck to the pilot house, he called to Abrams, who was leaning out of the window: "Jack, I'm coming." Abrams laughed and replied: "No you're not." "Yes, I am," Fonda said, and climbed up to the window. Abrams picked up a VVinchester rifle, which lay on the seat in the pilot house, and pointing it at Fonda, not knowing it was loaded, pulled the tripjrer. The weapon was discharged and Fonda, who- was half wav up the ladder, let ^o the rail to which he held and fell bac'i dead. The rifle which Abrams though? was not loaded had been loaded bj I mda himself soon after the tug left the < ty. The ball entered just under tl e eft eye and pierced the brain. Death was instantaneous. Magistrate Molin < was in the pilot house and saw Ab-au.s pick up the rifle, but he did not ki.o\' that it was loaded. As soon as the C roner arrived, the body was removed o i'ixon's undertaking rooms, and a ju-v of inquest was summoned. The exrinitiation of witnesses was begun, and a verdict of accirlAitiol nrno ran 1. arl /loorl U^llbOl OIIWU^IU^ "UO 1 VII ? vU( A uo uwu ?. Superintendent's remains will be removed to the Central railroad depot in the morning, whence thov will be taken to Nashville, Tenn., f<>r interment at ten o'clock. He was formerly Superintendent of the Henderson Division ol the Louisville and Nashville railroad, but was appointed to the Superintendency of the Georgia Central on April the 1st. History Repents Itself. Barnwell Pe^le. Boomlcts are about to strike Greenville and Spartanburg. The population of each of those embryo cities is likely to be increased by tho immigration of a couple of Yankee capitalists. These gentlemen have made much money up North and, it. ie tn h? nrpanmflri pnmo Srnit.h fcn malctt more in less time and wih less trouble, but from tho rejoicing of the Piedmont escarpment it would appear that they were coming with the philanthropic purpose of making evorybody there rich and happy and good looking. Many centuries ago the Trojans pulled down tho walls of their city that had resisted tho valorous attacks and wise strategy of tho Greeks for ten years and pulled the fatal wooden horse into the cica-'el that had so long been impreguable. And wo are inclined to believe that the utoresaid wooden horse was nothing more or less than Northern capital lent out i?t high rates of interest and secured by iron-clad mortgages of real property. History repeats itself. Air (if* n Pulverizer. Erastus Wiman, of New York, has concluded the purchase hom Raymond Brothers, the inventors, of all the improvements upon the pulverizer which some time ago he investigated at Montreal, and which, it is claimed, illustrates an entirely new principle in niecnanics, groming out of the application of the natuaral principal developsJ in a cyclone. * Tlie results show that iron slag can be reduced to powder, and t.iat other refractory substances can be treated with equal facility. Tests are at ouce to be made with machines ready for the purpose in . various parts of the country on ores, fertilizers and various other articles of commerce, whicli, if successful, it is claimed, will revolutionize the present mode of grinding and qulverizing. A test madq with a half barrel of nails showed the iron ground into the finest powder without the aid of tooth, stamp or roller, and with nother but air. The Bri<le of Death. Shelbyville, Ten>\, April 7.?One of the saddest accidents occurred last night . ' that has ever taken place in town. Mr. * Allie H. Ruth and Miss Carrie Sharp were to be married to-morrow morning at 8 o'clock, all tho preparations for the happy event having been made. Mr. Ruth called last night to spend a few hours with Miss Sharn. He was getting reaay to leave for home * and had put on bis overcoat and muffler, aud laid a revolver that Ik had brought with hiin on a table. She told him to put it into his pocket, ns she was afraid of it, and handed it to him, .vhen the trigger caught somehow in !i r wrap and exploded. the bullet entering her heart, killing her almost instantly. Sho made an effort to call her lover's name, but fell in his arms and expired. Open the Dun. Lexington Dinxitch. We are reliably infnrircd that numbers * i>f persons have been dni v, seen for some time past, catching vl?;??' just below Salu la f actory uam wmi-i- iniuiu iicw, nucm the fish congregate In large numbers, being unable to ascend the worthless fishway which was sometimes since put over the dam. As no fish are found in the riv;r above the dam it is. theduty of the State Fish Commissioner t<> investigate tho matter and see that th? fisliway is so fix?d that the fish can assend above the dam. rhlsisa matter of much concern to the leoplo living above the dam, and as the aw contemplates that they should have ;he benefit of tho mignitory fish in tho itream, the fishway shoul be in accordance vith law; and if it then fai's, a passage-way ihould be made throuf/fi the dam. Now i>? he time for the State Fish Commissioner o investigate the matter, is he can see tho ish in quantities in the river below the lain mi#) fi?nf tiiov timl it iniDossible to issend the lishway. Washington, April 10.?'To-morrow lie Sunday closing laws n ill be enforced.. I'he chief of police to-d iy issued to his mbordinates an order instructing them o see that the proprietors of all places of msiness, such as gr ceries, butcher hops, confectioners, cig- i stores, dc., do lot keep open their ropnctive places of msiness for the sale of vny article or aricles of profit during li;<? Sabbath day. sews stands for the s.dc of newspapers nay remain open until 1 o'clock, P. M., nd newspapers may b"- cried upon Uio treets until that hour. All licensed eatnn houses, and also restaurants with bars ttached?said bars to I < kept closed? nay remain open for t he furnishing of iieals to customers. When the bar is in lie same room as the restaurant it must e separated therefrom 1 y a securelv-fasi^ii A riAtlwinrtHtr Autni\lictl. Jlicru ^ainuv/u. n|n;nivi ai J vnitt?/u.-??? _ icnts may remain open for the dispells- H lg of medicines only. Barber simps fl mst be kept closed during the entire B abbath. The delivery f bread, ice and H lilk, as well as other articles previously H urchasod, will not bo interfered with. B A Grave Oin-ncc. 9 May a clergyman who-'l his own baby B l a perambulator ? One would supposo B lat lie might, but not so. think the peo- B le of Edinburgh. A deryman there fl as seen carrying his baby. His horri- H ed congregation presented him with a H erambiilator, but his last state was worse H jan his tirst, for he wheeled this vehicle 9 long the streets with his baby in it. This lsult to the genteel su sceptibilities of his H jngregation was too much, and he ro;ived a letter politely informing bun fl lat whilst his abilities gave satisfaction fl is pastoral services would no longer be fl >quired. fl