University of South Carolina Libraries
LIKE SHEEP ASTRAY. ~ AND REV. DR. TALMAGE SAYS IT MEANS EVERYBODY. Half the Text In an Indictment?The Other Opens the Door to Heaven?A Olad Gospel Sound at the Nation's Capital. w.aorvnTnv M.iroh 1?Th* trnsDel sends out its gladdest sound in this sermon from the nation's capital. Immense throngs pack and overflow the church to which Dr. Talmage preaches twice each Sabbath. His text this morning was Isaiah liii, 6: "All we, ' like sheep, have gone astray. We have turned every one to his own way, and the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." Once more I ring the old gosp?l bell. The first half of my next text is an indictment, "All we, like sheep, have gone astray." Some one says: "Can't you drop that first word? That is too general; that sweeps too great a circle.' Some man rises in the audience, and he looks over on the other side of the house and says: "There is a blasphemer, and I understand how he has gone astray, and there in another part of the house is a defaulter, and he has gone astray, and there is an impure person and he has gone astray." bit down, my Dromer, auu look at homo. My text takes us all in. It starts behind the pulpit, sweeps the circuit of the room and comes back to the point where it started, when it says, "All we, like sheep, have gone astray." I can very easily understand why Martin Luther threw up his hands after he had found the Bible and cried out, "Oh, my sins, my sins!"and why the publican, according to the custom to this day in the east, when they have any great grief, began to beat himself ana cry as he smote upon his breast, v "God be merciful to me, a sinner." I was, like many of you, brought up in the country, and I know some of the habits of sheep, and how they get astray, and what my text means when it says, "All we, like sheep, have gone astrav." SheeD pet astrav in two wavs ?either by trying to get into other pasture or from being scared by the aogs. In the former way some of us got astray. We thought the religion of Jesus "Christ put us on short commons. We thought there was better pasturage somewhere else. We thought if we could only lie down on the banks of a distant stream or under great oaks on the other side of some nill we might be better fed. We wanted other pasturage than that which God, through Jesus Christ, gave our soul, and we wandered on, and we were lost. We wanted bread, and we found garbage. The farther we wandered instead of finding rich pasturage we found blasted heath and sharper rocks and more stinging nettles. No pasture. How was it in the clubhouse when you lost your child? Did they come around and help you very much? Did your worldly associate console you very ? T^i/i rvlQin Pliwafioii UIUVUI X/iU XiVU buv ^/JLHIU WAA& AUVAVVU I * man who came into your house and sat up with jour darling child give you more comfort than all worldly associates? Did all the convivial songs you ever heard comfort you in that day of bereavement so much as the song they sang to you?perhaps the verv song that was sung by your little child on the last sabbath afternoon of her life? Qri There Is a happy land Far, far away. Where saints immortal relga Bright, bright as day. Did your business associates in I '1 i that day of darkness and trouble give you any especial condolence? Duaincso ca&s Derated you, business wore you out, business left you Jimp as a rag, business made you mad. You got dollars, but you got no peace. God have mercy on the man who has nothing but business to comfort him! v ' The world afforded you no luxuriant pasturage. A famous English actor stood on the stage impersonating, and thunders of applause came down from the galleries, and many thought it was the proudest moment of his life, but there wap a man asleep just in front af liim. and the fact that that s^trl was indifferent and somnolent spoiled all the occasion for him and he ; cried: "Wake up! Wake up!" So one little annoyance in life has been more pervading to your mind than all the brilliant congratulations and success. Poor pasturage for your soul you find in this world. The world nas cheated you, the world has belied you, the world has misinterpreted you, the world has persecuted you. It never comforted you. Oh, this world is a good rack from which a horse may pick his food; it is a good trough from which the swine may crunch their mess, but it gives but little food to a soul blood bought and immortal 1 What is a soul? It is a hope high as the throne of God. What is a man? You sav. "It is onlv a man." It is only a man gone overboard in sin. It is only a man gone overboard in business life. What is a man? The battleground of three worlds, with his hands taking hold of destinies of light or darkness. A man I No line can measure him. No limit can bound him. The archangel before the throne cannot outlive him. The stars shall die, but he will watch their extinguishment The world will burn, but he will gaze at the conflagration. Endless ages will march on. He will watch the procession. A man 1 The masterpiece of God Almighty. Yet you say, "It is only a man." Can a nature like that be fed on husks of the wilderness? Substantial comfort will not grow On nature's barren soil; All we can boast till Christ we know 1j vanity and toll. Some of you got astray by looking for better pasturage, others by being scared by tne dogs. The hound gets over into the pasture field. The poor things fly in every direction. In a A- ryf iVvo lew moments mwy are iuiu ui mo hedges, and they are plashed of the ditch, and the lost sheep never gets home unless the farmer goes after it. There is nothing so thoroughly lost as a lost sheep. It may have been in 1857, during the financial panic, or during the financial stress in the fall of 1873, when you got astray. You almost became an atheist. You said, "Where is God that honest men go down and thieves prosper?" You were dogged of creditors, you wered dogged of the banks, ycu were dogged of worldly disaster, and some of. you went into misanthropy, and some of y?u took to strong drink, and others of you fled out of Christian association and you got astry. Oh, man, that was the last time when you ought to have BsftT. forsaken |tGod! Standing: amid th foundering of your earthly failure.' how could you get along without God to comfort you. and a God to d< liver you, and a God to help you, an a God to save you? You tell me yo have been through enough busines " trouble almost to kill you. I kuow il l I cannot understand how the boa could live one hour in that choppe ' sea. But I do not know by what pr< cess you got astry, some in one wa. and some inanotner, and if you couli really see the position some of you oc cupy btifore God your soul woul< burst into an agony of tears, and yoi would pelt the heavens with the cry "God have mercy!" Sinai's batterie have been uniimoereu aoove yuur auu and times you have heard it thunder 'The wages of sin is death." "A.1 have sinned and come short of th< glory of God." ' 'By one man sin en tered into the world, and death by sin and so death passed upon all men, fo; that all have sinned." "The soul tha sinneth, it shall die." Wheu Sevasto pol was being bombarded, twoRussiar frigates burned all night in the har bor, throwing a glare upon the trernbl ing fortress, and some c.f you, fron what you have told me yourselves some of you are standing in the nighi of your soul's trouble, the cannonade ana the conflagration, and the multi plication, and the multitude of youj sorrows and troubles, I think, musi make the wings of God's hovering an gels shiver to the tip. But the last part of my text opens a door wide enough to let all out and tc let all heaven in. Sound it on the or gan with all the stops out. Thrum it on the harps with all the strings atune. With all the melody possible let the heavens sound it to the earth and lei the earth tell it to the heavens. "The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." I am glad that the prophet Hirl nnt. stnnt/i pTnlain whnm he meant by "him." Him of the manager, him of the blood sweat, him of the resurrection throne, him of the crucifixion agony. "On him the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all." "Oh," says some man, "that isn't generous, that isn't fair; let every man carry his own burden and pay his own debts." That sounds reasonable. If I have an obligation, and I have the means to meet it, and I come .to you and ask you to settle that obligation, you rightly says, "Pay your own debts." If you and I are walking down the street, both hale,hearty and well,and I ask you to carry me, you say rightly, "Walk on Jour own feet." But suppose you and were in a regiment, ana I was wounded in the battle and I fell unconscious at your feet with a gunshot fractures and dislocations, what would you do? You would call to your com/ades, saying: "Come and help! This man is helpless. Bring the ambulance. Let v: i 5i A ~,i T us utno iiiui tu mo uuapiuii. auu ? be a dead lift in your arms, and you would lift me from the ground where I had fallen and put me in the ambulance and take me to the hospital and have all kindness shown me. Would there bemeaning in my accepting that kindness? Oh, no. You would be mean not to do it. That is what Christ does. If we could pay our debts, then it would be better to go up and pay them, saying, "Here, Lord, here is my obligation; here are the means with which I mean to settle that obligation. Now give me a receipt. Cross it all out." The debt is paid. But the fact is we have fallen in the battle; we have gone down under the hot fire of our transgressions; we have been woundel by the sabers of sin; we are helpless; we are undone. Christ comes. The loud clang heard in the sky on that Christmas night was only the bell, the resounding bell of the ambulance. Clear the way for the Son of God. He comes down to bind up the wounds and to scatter the darkness and to save the lost, Clear the way for the Son of God. Christ comes down to us, and we are a dead lift. He does not lift us with the tips of his fingers. He does not lift us with one arm. He comes down upon his knee, and then with a dead lift he raises us to honor and glory and immortality. "The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." "Why, then, will a man carry his sins? You cannot carry successfully the smallest sin you ever committed. You might as well put the Apennies on one shoulder and the Alps on the other. How much less can you carry all the sins of your lifetime? Christ comes and looks down in your face and says: "I have come through all the lacerations of these days and through all the tempests of these nights; I have come to bear your burdens and to pardon your sins and to pay your debts. Put them on my shoulder, put them on my heart." "On him the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all." Sin has almost pestered the life out of some of you. At times it has made you cross and unreasonable, and it has spoiled the brightness of your days and the peace of your nights. There are men who have been riddled of sin. The world gives them no solace. Gossamery and volatile the world, while eternity, as they look forward to it, is black as midnight. They writhe under the stings of a conscience which proposes to give no rest here and no rest hereafter, and yet they do not repent; they do not pray; they do not nrAAit TKnrf /l/-v v> ^4 iU.l uu uul realize mm jubi the position they occupy is the position occupied by scores, nundreds and thousands of men who never found any hope, If this meeting should be thrown open; and the people who are here could give their testimony, what thrilling experiences we should hear on all sides. There is a man who would say: "I had brilliant surroundings. I had the best education that one of the best collegiate institutions of this country could give, and I observed all the moralities of life, and I was self righteous, and I thought I was all right before God as I am all right before man, but the Holy Spirit came to one day and said, 'You are a sinner. The Holy Spirit persuaded me of the fact. While I had escaped the sins against the law of the land I had really committed the worst sin a man ever committs?the driving back oi the Son of God from my heart's affec tions?and I saw that my hands were red with the blood of the Son of God, and I began to pray, and peace camc to my heart, and I know by experi ence that what you say is true." ''Or him the Lord hath laid the iniquity oi us all!" Yonder is a man who woult say: "I was the worst drunkard in the Aifwi T TnATif funm V\orl tcnrQf T Hft V/lbJ ) X. noub JXV/U-L wuu tv ?i V* ww ^ ? ?*w stroved myself; I destroyed my home my children cowered when I enterec the house; when they put up their lip: to be kissed, I struck them; when mj wife protested against the maltreat ment I kicked her into the street. ] know all the bruises and all the ter rors of a drunkard's woe. I went or ie farther and farther from- God s, one day I got a letter saying: a "My Dear Husband?I hav< 5- every way, done every thing an< d ed earnestly and fervently for u reformation, but it seems of no s Since our little Henry died, w t. exception of those few happy .t when you remained sober, my li d been one of sorrow. Many nights I have sat by the windov y my face bathed in tears, watchi i your coming. I am broken h< i- I am sick. Mother and father 1 been here frequently and begg l to come home, but my love fi , and my hope for brighter days s always made me refuse them. 1 hope seems now beyond reali; : and I have returned to them. 1 hard, and I battled long before ? it. May God bless and preserv - and take from you that accursed , tite, and hasten the day when wi r be again living happily tog t This will be my daily prayer, - ing that he has said, 'Come un i all ye that labor and are heavy - and I will give you rest.' Fron - loving wife, "Mai i "And so I wandered on and wi , ed on," says that man, "unti t night I passed a Methodist m , house, and I said to myself, 'I'll and see what they are doing,' got to the door, and they were t ing: "All may come, v hoeva r will? This man receives poor sinners s i "And I dropped right there w > was, and I said, "God, have m and he had mercy on me. My he i restored, my wife sings all daj during work, my children come s long to greet me home, and my 1 : hold is a little heaven. I will te! ; what did all this for me. It w; truth that this day you proclaim him the Lord hath laid the in: of us all.' Yonder is a woman would .say: 'I wandered off froi foflior'a hniieft- T lipatvl fhft stnrrr pelts on a lost soul; my feet wen tered on the hot rocks; I went o on, thinking that no^one cared f< soul, when one night Jesus me and he said: "Poor thing, gob Your father is waiting for you: mother is waiting for you. Go 1: poor thing!' And, sir, I was too to pray, and I was too weak to tc but I just cried out?I sobbed oi sins and my sorrows on the shou of him of whom it is said, 'The hath laid on him the iniquity all.'" There is a young man who v say: "I had a Christian bringin I came from the country to citj I started well; I had a good pos: a good commercial position?bu night at the theater I met some y men who did me no good. They ged me all through the sewers o quity, and I lost my morals, and my position,and I shabby and wi ecL I was going down the i thinking that no one cared fc when a young man tapped me o: shoulder and said, 'George, with me, and I will do good.' I looked at him to see w er he was joking or not. I sa' was in earnest, and I said, 'Wh you mean, sir?1 'Well,' he repli mean that if you will come to the i ing tonight I will be very glad 1 troduce you. I will meet you al door. Will you come?' Said will.' I went to the place wt was tarrying. I fixed myself 1 well as I could. I buttoned my J L J T i L over a raggea vesi, ana i weui i door of the church, and the y men met me, and we went in, a I went in I heard an old man ing, and he looked so much lik father, I sobbed right out, and were all around, so kind and so pathetic that I just there gave heart to God, and I know that you say is true; 1 know it in my experience." "On him the Lord laid the iniquity of us all." Oh brother, without stopping to whether your hand trembles oi without stopping to look whether hand is bloated with sin or not, in my hand and let me give yoi warm, brotherly, Christian grip invite you right up to the heart, I compassion, to the sympathy, 1 pardon of him on whom the hath laid the iniquity of us all. T away your sins. Carry them no er. I proclaim emancipation 1 who are bound, pardon for all sii eternal life for all the dead. Some one comes here today, ; stand aside. He comes up three i He comes to this place. I must i aside. Taking that place, he sp abroad his hands, and they were ed. You see his feet; they were 1 ed. He pulls aside the robe shows you his wounded heart. 1 "Art thou weary?1' "Yes," he "weary with the world's woe.' say, "Whence comest thou?" says, "I came from Calvary." ] "Who comes with thee?" He "Noone; I have trodden the press alone." I say, "Why c< thou here?" "Oh, he says, "I here to carry all the sins and soi of the people." And he kueels. says, "Pat on my shoulders al sorrows and all the sins." And, scious of my own sins first, 1 them and put them on the shoi of the Son of God. I say, "( thou bear any more, 0 Christ?' says, "Yes; more." And I gath the sins of all those who serve these altars, the officers of the cl of Jesus Christ. I gather up all sins, and I put them oa Christ's s ders, and I say, "Canst thou bea more?" He says, "Yes; more." I gather up all the sins of a hu: people in this house, and I put on the shoulders of Christ, and "Canst thou bear more?" He "Yea; more. And 1 gather the sins of this assembly and put I on the shoulders of the Son of and I say, "Canst thou bear tl "Yea," he says; "more." But > departing. Clear the way for the Son of God! Open the dooi s let him pass out, He is carryin; s sins and bearing them away. I shall never see them again l throws them down into the abysi i you hear the long, reverbrating of their fall. On him the Lord 5 laid the iniquity of us all." , you let him take your sins tod; ? rlr? Trnn ma v "T will falrt* Viarnro r>( myself, I will fight my own bat i will risk eternity on my own ac( I I know not how near some o I have come to crossing the line. i A clergyman said in his pulpi - Sabbath, "Befere next Saturday ; one of this audience will have ] ( out of life." A gentleman ss 5 another seated next to him: "I r believe it. I mean to watch, ar doesn't come true by next Sat [ night I shall tell that clergyma - falsehood." The man seated n i him said, "Perhaps it will be I, until self." "Ob, no," the other replied. "I shall live to be an old man," That 3 tried night he breathed his last. Today the I pray- Saviour calls. All may come. God your never pushes a man off. God never avail, destroys anybody. The man jumps ith the off; he jumps off. It is suicide?soul weeks suicide?if the man perishes for the fe had invitation is, "whosoever will, let him of the come," whosoever, whosoever, who7, with soever! While God invites, how blest the day, ^rieu, w 8weet tjj0 gospel's charming sound! bave Come, sinner, haste, oh, haste away fed me While yet a pardoning God is fonnd* In this day of merciful visitation Thlt while many are coming into the king^aai dom of God join the procession heavsation. enwar(j Seated in my cnurch was a , . 1S man who came in who said, "I don't d01n? know that there is any God." That ,e y?u wa-3 on Friday night. I said, "We ' a^ri kneel down ana find out whether e shall fhn-p, is flnv God." And in the sec* ond seat from the pulpit we knelt. He Know- "i have found aim. There is a ' God, a pardoning God. I feel him lvour here-" He knelt in the darkness of sin. He arose two minutes afterward ander *n l^rty ?f gOSpel, while , ? " another sitting under the gallery on eetinff Friday night said: "My opportunity <ro in *s ?one- Last week I might nave been = , T saved; not now. The door is shut." sine- 4'?e^0^ ^he lamb of God, who taketh * away the sin of the world." Now is the accepted time. Now is the day of .... ? salvation "It is appointed unto all } ' men once to die and after that the hereI judgment." ercy!' >me is A WONDERFUL GIRL. t long OUt a ^>jaretta N Avery Preaches to an Im louse- J 11 you ' mense Congregation. 13'On Columbia, S. C., March 5.?There i'quity were ^Uy 2,500 people at the First who Calvary Baptist church, colored, last m my to hear Claretta N. Avery, a young i that colored girl, apparently about 13 years a blis- of age, preach. She has, during her a and short career, created a decided sensa>r my tion throughout the north and south, t me, in many of the cities in which she has Lome 1 preached to thousands of persons, both your white and colored. lome, Her mother, a woman apparently weak about 55 years of age, travels with her spent, and last night sat beside her on the it my rostrum and seemed to take interest lders in all that she said to her auditors. Lord Before the young girl commenced of us her discourse a collection was taken up and hundreds liberally contributed, rould After the singing of several hymns gup; the pastor, Rev. J. C. Daniels anlife; nounced that the "wonderful little inatmmAnt in t.hft hands of God" would ;t one again preach at Calvary this afternoon oung at 3 o'clock in order to allow the hundrag dreds who had'been denied admittance if ini- to receive the benefit of her powers. I lost This service will be especially for the etch- whites. 3treet Little Claretta is from Carthage, >r me North Carolina, but her pronuncian the tion is distinctly different from that of come the southern ne^ro, being doubtless you due to her long journey through the heth- northern States. She spoko in a low w he voice, though clear to those near her, at do and the immense c ongregation was ed, 'I aroused to a high state of enthusiasm meet- when sbe so intended them to be. She to in- seemed to hold them as in a trance and t the they appeared deeply touched and I, 4I strongly impressed by her prayers to lere I God and her interpretation of His lp as word. coat It was with the greatest difficulty o the that Rev. Daniels and his assistants oung could restore quiet when those in the ad as audience became so enthusiastic over pray- the young girl's teachings as to give e my vent to exclamations of approval and oViq titqo in fnr?f tptviitpHfv intprnint luwjr uuv ~~c j r - . sym- ed during her discourse and the pastor | i my found it necessary to appeal for quiet, what In her preaching she said that the own Lord sent many into fields to work for hath him and that satan attempted, often , my with success, topersuade them to work look against him. There were hundreds of r not, unbelievers who had fallen by the your wayside by the persuasion of the devput it il. The sinners needed to come to Jeu one sus in order to appreciate their real and condition. It was dreadful to be a to the sinner and unconverted to the cause ;o the of Jesus Christ, for death comes at Lord any moment and perhaps at a time hrow when it is too late to prepare for an long- entrance into the pearly gates. This ,o all cause should be championed until He 1 and forbids us to proceed further. She pictured hell as vividly presentand I ed in the mind of a dreaming sinner, steps, as a place where writhing, hissing serstand pents found their habitation within reads the living breast; where the soft spots nail- refused to rest the weary limbs of a jruis- traveler, for in ''hell there there is no and rest." The sinner then called upon I /-i J f J TXTU . say, UOU lor UlU. yv UCii tuc uicamci says, awoke, the visions of damnation still ' "I fresh in his mind, he deserted the banHe ner of satan and fought under the col[ say, ors of Jesus. I says: She appealed to her now thoroughly wine aroused and enthused auditors, to do )mest as the dreamer had when he "washed came in the blood of the Lamb." Old worrows men in the congregation called to the He young girl in tones of approval, stand1 the ing up and gesticulating wildly and con- even applauding at times. The entire [ take assemblage gave vent to their feelings ilders by murmurings of delight as she deZJanst scribed the asce*t to the heavenly gates 1 He and the entrance to the kingdom of er up Jesus Christ. Men and women lost all at control of themselves in mad enthusilurch asm at the girl's words when she their begged them to fight for God and preihoul pare themselves for the fields of happir any ness above the clouds. Some pressed Then toward the front of the church and ndred endeavored to get nearer to the girl, them throwing up tneir hands before her I say, and lingering between a smile and a says, tear of joyful belief. ?11 A f nlnca r\f V?at* covmnn CVIP aqlrprl UU ttiL lib bUO V/IV/OV v/i uui DV1U1VU muv ?? them those who desired to profesn their conGod, version to the cause to stand, and fully lem?" 100 arose. he is Claretta is undoubtedly a wonderful him, girl, and to hear her is the only way r ana in which her powers of speech can be I our properly appreciated.?State. We Diaaatroas Storms. s, and London, March 2.?A dispatch reecho ceived here, dated Brisbane, says that hath gales and floods have caused a great Will deal of damage in and about ay, or the seaport of Townsville. Sevenl them teen vessels in that harbor have foundties, I ered and one of them went down with ;i- ?j TT ? JOUnt'f us passengers auu urew. jj.uuodo vu f you shore were razed to the ground. . The loss by the foundering of four passener it one steamers is estimated to be 12,500,000. night passed A Bridegroom Suicides. tid to Manassas, Va., March 2.?C. II. don't McAuley, 31 years of age, committed id if it suicide at Marshall yesterday afterurday noon, by shooting. He was married n his on Wednesday last. No cause is apext to parent for the act, which was comyour mitted in the presence of his bride. X . X BAD STATE OF AFFAIRS, ?>j i att THIEVERY AND LACHESE IN THE sch COUNTY OF EDGEFIELD. ^ tre * ' wil The Grand Jary Makes a /'resentment Which Reflects on a Former County Cer fro Treasurer and the Present Sheriff and his Baacally Deputies. tht thi Edgefield, March 2.?Court con- c vened here today, Judge Ernest Gary presiding. The following special pre- gU sentment, which created a sensation, Qf ] was made by a committee of the out- ajr eoinggrand jury. The criminal dock- an( fit ifl licVitftr than usual fhfi f.hflnrfiS being that it will occupy only a portion of the week. mc A STARTLING EXPOSE. . The grand jury submits as its pre- c}u sentment the following report of its special committee: fer Gentlemen of the Grand Jury: Your so special committee to investigate the books of the different county officials for has submitted reports at each term of the court since our appointment, but ur on account of the deiay of the sheriff's ^ returns on executions and the treas- ty urer's final settlement, we could not make our report complete in Novem- tre ber. Commencing in the office of the jia, treasurer with the fiscal year 1892 93, j we ascertained that the annual settle- w. ment with the treasurer had been made from the original assessment i furnished by the auditor, and know- by ing that money had been collected from parties whose property had not jj0 been assessed, we proceeded to the la- 0f ^ borious task of aggregating the stubs of every receipt given in the county for money collected as taxes. We t found that the suras of the stubs p, amounted to $1,043.23 in excess of the rv amount that had been charged in the p original assessment. r_ For the fiscal year of 1893-91 the ' same state of things exist, and with a ntmilAK i ** rrnnf 1 r? n tvta vma/Ia /~\ f oiixiiial mvcobigabiuu ao yrc mauo ui the previous vear we found that the treasurer haa collected $508.37 more i than charged to him by the assessment, thus making for the two years $1,551,60 that has been collected by the treasurer and has not been accounted for. These amounts for both years were collected from parties whose property had not been assessed, but voluntarily :came forward to pay their taxes. Upon examining the settlement sheets we find no additional reported. The present treasurer has already collected from a similar source about $600 and lias the amounts and names of parties properly entered upon a book for this purpose. This fact itself bears out the correctness of our examination. The tax executions are given out by q the sheriff to a lot of deputies, and in a great many cases to men unworthy j, of such trust, as the facts below will ? show. From various townships, h without expenses and with very little t effort, we have the following facts: a In Higgins school district an execu- p tion for taxes went out against Wess Q Samuels and the books of the sheriff and treasurer are both marked "Non ? est, nulla bona," and we have in our * nnecccsinn tho WM*Mnt nf t.Vlft ftaniltv. .T_ " *wwwr. w. w? J J - ' ? R. Webb, showing that he collected $7.40 from Wess Samuels. ^ In Pine Grove Township the taxes n of Sophie Burt is marked "Nulla bo- p na," and we have the deputy's, J. Q. 0: Cogburn, receipt showing that he col- p lected $3.50. ai In Moss Township Wiley Blanchard has been marked "Non est, nulla bo- S na," and we have the receipt of A. V. t< Morgan, constable, for $5 for taxes P and penalties of Wiley Blanchard.. Ci In Mobley Township D. W. Harris 81 is returned on the books nulla bona * aiid we have the receipt of W. L. " Rhoden, deputy, for $9.35, collected ? from D. W. Harris for taxes and penalties. W. GK Wood was given the execu- 8tions for Collier Township. Execu- VM tions were given to him against him self and brother, T. B. Wood. Instead of navine his. he marked it as Jo having been paid by receipt 1,170 of B treasurer and marked T. B. Wood, with receipt of treasurer, 5,053. We r? examined the stubs and they show ([ that the receipts for these numbers r were for other parties and that Wood has defrauded the county. X This same deputy had an execution v against a negro, Lewis Holmes; sold V; his clock, bought it and he or hisfath- i er, has the clock to day, and returned V: Lewis Holmes "Can't be found.1' A These facts gathered without expens e /I convinced us that something should be X done and not wishing to assume the v responsibility of involving the county ]?[ in the expense of investigating every A township in the county we decided to ]<[1 investigate one township thoroughly, A and we employed a reliabe man sent V him to Merriweather Township, with ! ;! no intimation from any one that it 1!1 was worse than any of the forty town- |\ ships and school districts in the county. 1! > We found in Merriwether Township X on the execution book Jesse Schultz, i Jj i j marked "Non est, nulla bona," can't find, and we have receipt of the depu- II' ty, W. E. Bussy, for $8, collected V from Jesse Schultz for taxes and pen- ! J! alties. ' |? Tom Johnson is returned on the OC books "Non est, nulla bona, can't find," and we have the receipt of W. E. Bussey that he collected $5.65 from Tom Johnson. Jack Johnson and Richard Johnson are both returned on the books N. E. and N. B., and we have the receipt of W. E. Bussey showing that he collected $5.65 from Jack Johnson and $5.52 from Richard Johnson. Oliver Patten is returned N. E., N. B., and we have Bussey's receipt show- ?, ing that he collected $5 40 from Oliver Patten. We have positive evidence that W. E. Buzzey collected in Merriwether Township more than thirty executions and returned them all "N. E., N. B."and that more than $150 was paid to him in this township, of which not one cent, was turned over to the county. The sherifF certainly ought to have known that Bussey was not making a proper settlement and should have refused to accept his returns without investigating the matter. We have given a thorough investigation of this township and from it you can judge of the balance of the count v. December 5, 1893, the county commissioners approved a claim in favor of J. C. Kinard for $3.40 for four shovels. The claim was entered on the book $34. February 20, 18SU, a check was given to J. C. Kinard for $34. We called Mr. Kindard's attention to this matter during last summer, and hoped that he would return the money, but he has failed to do so. We recemmend, that suit be brought against Mr. Kinard for the money and in case it can not be made out of him that suit be bought against the county nmissioners. !d our August report we called the ention of the treasurer to seven tool cetificates, amounting to $150, ich were forgeries. The present asurer never having been served th such an order, has paid $150 to s Farmers' Bank for tnese forged tificates, taking an indemnity bond m the said bank. We recommend it suit be entered at once against s Farmers' Bank for the recovery of s money. Since ou?* investigation commenced, t July, we have found errors, irre: [arities and shortages to the amount $3,248.95. Some of this amount has eadv been returned to the treasury, I all of it will go back to our treas7 if our county gets its dues, and ire is very little doubt but that the mey can be made out of the parties. e tax execution uusiuess is noi inded in this $3,248.95. Ne find the books used by .the difent offices to be very unsystematic, much so that we earnestly urge an mediate adoption of a systematic m. Especially do we recommend s in the offices of the auditor, treas)v and sheriff. V(j have examined all of the counofficers for two years, bringing im up to August 1, 1895, except the asurer's and sheriff's, which we re brought up to October 1.1895. tespectfully submitted: AlvinHart A. Strom, Harry S. Hill, Jas. T. ns, J. C. H. Rauch, Committee, 'his report'and presentment is signed "H. B. Gallman, foreman," who Is: "We extend thanks to your nor, the solicitor and other officers he Court for courtesies," etc. Three Killed by a Train. rwin, Pa., March 2.?Miss Pauline trke and Miss Mary Greeves, both Westmoreland City, and Richard rland, of Shafton, were run down a freight train near here and killed. A $25 Cooking Stove WITH A COMPLETE OUTFIT FOB ONlirsr $12.00. Delivered to your railroad depot, 11 freight charges paid. Read this escription carefully. This splendid looking Stove is No. 8; has four 8 ich pot holes; 16x16 inch oven; 18 ich fire box, 24 inches high; 21x25 ich top; nice smooth casting. I ave had this stove made for my "o/lo mtT rvTiTT* irlflo Anmhlnlnef 1C4V4V) (Mbgi VTTU lUVWj 11 the good points of all medium riced stoves, and leaving out the bjectionable features. Beyond all doubt the best No. 8 ooking Stove made, for the price, itted with 2 pots, 2 pot cover*, 2 kellets, 2 griddles, 3 baking pan*, joints cf pipe, 1 elbow, 1 collar, 1 fter, 1 scraper, 1 cake polish, 1 iron ia kettle, 1 shovel. We want to lake customers and friends in every art of the South, for the purpose f introducing onr business to new eople, and to renew our acquaintQce with old friends. We will ship this splendid Cooking tove and the above described ware > any depot, all freight charges aid, for only $12.00 when the ish comes with the order. Thla :ove is a good one, well made, and ill give entire satisfaction. Our iuscrated catalogue of Furniture, toves and Baby Carriages mallea -co. AddresB S Xj. 2*. PADGETT, | 10 Broad Strket, Augusta, Ga. i I* these d?y? of 11 TALL TALK Actual Achlerements often seem to beat a dls-11 ?unt, but after all Actual acaiktkkints are i" :&e only things that count. i It la easy to talk In Otrural Termt about tbe i merits of PIANOS, bat?be more specific? i1 THE MATHUSHEK Tki grut faitbin pitarlta. Established 90 years. 80,000 new In use. i ] (old by us for SB years. Note these Valuable i j Patented Improvements? i J Patent Repeating; Aetloi. < Patent Sonndlng Board. Patent Toning Pin Boshing. J1 Patent Improved Agraffes. i| Patent Soft Stop. ]? One of the only twe Pianos made oomplete *, (every part) In Its own Factory. One of the | best made In tbe U. 8. Sold lower than any i jther High Grade Piano. One profit only from to purchaser. WRITE US. LUDDEN & BATES,| SAVAHWAH, OA. < Boooooococoooeoeecoooori j BE ( DON'T GET EXCITED ! KEKP CC IT IS ALL KI \ 'the 1439 and 1443 M*in Streit, Are still d ?intj bin! tesa atjthe )ld at ia 1 where we are prepared to cater ti? your e CLOTHING-, SHOE'S, UA.TS, INGS, CA.U1'ETS, DRY*C AND ALL SM.1 You can buy your dommtlc o iV><? mnot l.ll/V? ja*f III toil' ill all of o CUUCU bllO UIV/JU ouvwwu??. j ... to thank our patrons generally throa^lioa ronage, and ask for a cuntinaauce of tlw! a dollar's worth of giodi for a do I ir. attention to all. VVrlto for what you w i! "THE OPPOSITE GRAND OOLUMB LIFE for the Liver and Kidneys. Laxative, Cathartic, Diuretic aad TodIc. Its action is ml'd. and pleasant. Dyspepsia and Indi* gestlon are at onco relieved by its use-. Bad feelings from a sluggish liver are dispelled, h is a most agreeable, easy and certain <e-nedyin Habitual Constipation. In kidney troubles its benefit) become apparent with the first >l?Me .or two. Try It? Sold -vtiolesale by The Murray Drug Co.t COLUMBIA, 8. C. Delightful Results. LETTEK tfROM JUDGE BALDWIN, OF MADISON, GA. Dr. W. Pitts, Thomson, <*?. Dear Sir:?After having sought in vain for varlons remedies for the ills of teething I tried your Carminative with most satisfactory and delightful results. It is pleas nt to take assuages pain and produces rail without stupor. No parent should be with' out it during the tee hing period who has once tried it, for It Is indeed a magic medicine for babies. Very respectfully, JUDGE- H. W. BALDWIN. For Bale by THE MURRAY DRUG CO., Columbia, S. C. Strawberry Plants And in fact all kinds of plants can be SET OUT by using the McSHERRY A TTmAif A mm A U 1UM A.1 lly TRANSPLANTER. A good driver and two children are alt the force necessary to set from three to flvo acres of plants in a dar*, and ' ?V?RY PLANT IS WATERED at tae time It Is set out, and some dry soil Is dra'/n around the plants ao that tye ground will not bake. No waiting for rain Set out your plants when they are ready Get a machine and plant for yanr neighbors. You can earn enough in one season to pay for the machine. Easy terms. Send for circulars, prices and testimonials. SOUTHERN FARM IMPLEMENT (JO., 249 Meeting St., Charleston, S. <J. Mention this paper. MACHINERY. ENGINES, BOILERS, SAW MILLS, CORN MILLS, ROLLER MILLS, BRICK MACHINES, PLiNING MACHINES and all kinds of woodworking ra*ci>ia-*ry. Also Shafting, PuJlles, Bjx-w. etc. JL tt111 tut) VJtmcim lui TALBOTT & SONS, THE LIDpELL COMPANY, WATERTOWN EN?NE COMPANY. H. li. SMITH MACHINE COMPANY,. and can furnish full equipment in thn above lines at factory prices. V. C. Badham, COLUMBIA. S^O. OSBORNE'S ABB V ohool of 0}a.ox-tlx??.xxdl f^mt^lSS^^TiS3rSUSSTS^ nTM yAJL/LU, )0L I 3T8A.DY YOUR NBRVE3. GHT NOW I HUB" 0 JfilJM8[A, SO. OA. , I, oppinit-i tii ?xrAH 1 Ojiir?l ilital, vary wiat We ar* Inaiqiurton for :S, VILUSS, tS^ri'S FORMl. rOODS AND NOTION, JjL WIRES. ? in at fij'ory prlojj. Wd li iva Just ur InulntWi ctraar, for which w-i wi-m ttheStita for t-ioic in )st lit)jr.il pitiiuid. O.ir r?il) iuv-irUbiy is tj '' - w. ? . .? Ij Art I r\.\ht % uur iii >vi*i M a i ta* v '11 #u 1 it, aui don't tw&t tilt) place. HUB," CENTRAL HOTEL ;ia, s. c.