The Lexington dispatch. [volume] (Lexington, South Carolina) 1870-1917, September 12, 1894, Image 4

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m * ?-?? THY WILL. BE DONE. When earth is reached with sunny blue. And life is but the caroling Of memories of pleasant hue, And thoughts that can no sadness bring, How easy then it is to say, On bended knee, day unto day: "Thy will be done." But when the morning's rosy light We see not through our tear-dimmed eyes. And Peace has winged herself from sight, And bird-songs are but mockeries; How hard a thing it is to say, On bended knee, day nnto day: "Thy will be done." Thrice blessed they, or high or low, Or rich or poor, In youth or age YVJQO cajnuy wais. uiiuu^u ?cai ui And con life's lessons page by page, And with an honest heart can say, And with a child-like trust can pray: "Thy will be done." THE DIVINE RESCUE. Salvation WJtlioat 31 oney?Death Robbed of Its Terrors. Brookta*n, Sept. 2.?Rev. Dr. Talmage, who is still absent in the south Pacific, has selected as the subject of today's sermon through the press "The Rescue," the text chosen being Acts xvi, 31, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Jails are dark, dull, damp, loathsome places even now, but they were worse id the apostolic times. I imagine today we are standing in the Philippian dungeon. Do you not leel the chilJ? Do you not hearthe groans of those incarcerated ones who lor 10 year3 have not seen the sunlight and the deep sigh of women who remember their lather'3 house and mcurn over their wasted estates? Listen again. It is the cough of a c&BSumptive or the struggle of one " * ' ? Vah la me nignimare 01 a great uvuui. j. listen again and hear a culprit, his chains rattling as he rolls over in his dreams, and you say, "G-od, pity the prisoner." But there is another scuad in that prison. It is the song of joy and gladness. What a place tc sing in! The music comes winding through the corridors of the prison, ana in all the dark wards the whisper is heard: "What's thai? What's thai?" It is the song of Paul and Silas. They cannot sleep. They have been whipped very badly whipped. The long gashes en their backs are bleeding yet. Theyllie flat on the old ground, their feet fast in wooden sockets, and of course they cannot sleep. But they can sing. Jailer, what are you doing with these people? Why have they been put in here? Oh, they have been trying to make the world better. Is that all? That is all. A pit for Joseph, a lion's cave for Daniel, a blazing furnace for Shadrach, clubs for John Wesley, an anathema for Philipp Melanchthon, a dungeon for Paul and Silas. But while we are standing in the gloom of the Philippian dungeon, and we hear mmnli'nn TT/\ir>aa nf nnK and OTOfin ( wjuvj i viwu _j??? and blasphemy and halleluiah, suddenly an earthquake! The iron bars of the prison twist, the pillars crack oft, the solid masonry begins to heave, and all < the doors swing open. The jailer, feel- 1 id? himself, responsible for these prison- i ers and believing in his pagan ignorance i suicide to be honorable?since Brutus killed himself and Cato killed himself, ! and Casslus killed himself?puts his ' own heart, proposing with on? st-ong 1 keen thrust to put an end to his excite- 1 ment and agitation. But Paul cries out: * "Stop, stop! l)o thyself no harm. We are all here." Then I see the jailer runniDg through ] the dust and amid the ruin of that pri- 1 son, and I see him throwing himself down at the feet of these prisoners, cry? i ing out: "What shall I dc? What shall i I dc?" Did Paul answer: "Get out of j this place before there is another earth- I quake. Put handcuffs and hopples on i these other prisoners, lest they get i awav?" No word of that kind. His i compact, thrilling, tremendous answer, 1 memorable all through earth and heav- i en, was, "Believe on the Lord Je3us < Christ, and thou shalt be saved." Well, we have all read of the earthquke in Lisbon, in Lima, in Aleppo and in Caracas, but we live in a latitude where in all our memory there has not been one severe volcanic disturbance. And yet we have seen 50 earthquakes. Here is a man who has been building up a large fortune. His bid on the money 1 market wss felt in all the cities. He thinks he ha3 got beyond all annoying rivalries in trade, and he says to himself "Now I am free and safe from all possible perturbation." But in 1857 or in 1873 a national panice strikes the foundation of the commercial world, and crash goes all that magnificent business estabhsement. Here is a man who has built up a very beautiful horns. His daughters have just come home from the seminary with diplomas of graduation. His sons have started in life, honest, temperate and pure. When the evening lights are struck, there is a happy and unbroken family circle. But there has been an accident down at Long Branch. The young man ventured too far cut in the surf. The telegraph hurled the terror up to the city. An earthquake struck under the foundation of that beautiful home. The piano closed; the curtains dropped; the laughter hushed. Crash go all those domestic hopes and prospects and expectations! So my friends, we have all felt the shaking down of some great trouble, and there was a time when, we were as much excited as this man of the text, and we.cried out as he did: "What shall I do? What shall 1 do?" The same reply that the apostle made to him is appropriate to us, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ, and thou shalt be saved." rr" "* a _ _ r irzii Tnere are some documents 01 so ihuc importance that you do not care to put any more than your last name under them, or even your initials, but there are 3ome documents of so great importance that you write out your lull names So the Saviour in some parts of the Bible is called "Lord," and in other part, of the Bible he 1? called "Jesu3," and in other part3 of the Bible he is called "Christ," but that there might be no mistake about this passage ail three names come together, "Lord Jesus Christ." Now, who is this being that you want me to trust in and believe in? Men sometimes come to me with credentials and certificates of good character, but I cannot trust them. There is some dishonesty in their looks that makes me know that I shall be cheated if I confide in them. You cannot put your heart's confidence in a man until you know what stuff he is made of, and am I unreasonTrrV*/art T otAn f r\ nolr rAll tcliA 4 TQ AUIO ITli^U J. OfcVp bv UOA jvu n "v w*v that you want me to trust in? Xo man would think of venturing his Hie on a vessel going cut to sea that had never been inspected. Xo; you must have the cerliOcate hung amidships, telling how many tons it carries and how long ago it was built, and who built it, and all about it. And you cannot expect me to lisk the cargo oi my mortal interests on board any craft till ycu tell me what it is made oi, and where it was made, and what it is. T ool? rrAn orlir? thio ic VOil IT uwu fcutu, X Aorv Jiv/U ?ruv bUitf aw JVM want me to tru3t in, you tell me he is a very attractive persoD. Contemporary writers describe his whole appearance as being resplendent. There was no need for Christ to tell the children to come to him. "SuSer little children to come unto me," was not spoken to the children. It was spoken to the disciples. The children came readily enough without aDy invitation. No sooner did Jesu3 appear than the little ones jumped from their mothers' arms, au avalanche of b*autv and love, into his lap. Christ did not ask John to put his head down on his bosom. John cou'd not help but put his head there. I suppose a look at Christ was just to love him. How attractive his mauueil Why, when tbey saw Christ coming alone the street they ran into their houses, and they wrapped up their invalids as quick ub they could and brought them out that he might look at them. Ob, there was something so pleasant, so invitirg, so cheerlnr in everything ha oid, in his very look. When these sick ones were brought out did he sa}: "Do not bring before me these sc-ret? Do not trouble me with these leprosies?" No, no. There was a kind lock; there was a gentle were; there was a healing touch. They cculd nrtf 1utcov f.-iim him. In addition to tb'13 softness of character there was a fiery momentum. How the kings of the earth turned pale! Here is a plain man with a few sailors at bis back, coming cfi' the sea of Galilee, going up to the palace of the C?iars, making that palace quake to the foundations and uttering a word of mercy and "kindness which throbs through all the earth and through all the heavens, and through all ages. Oh, he was a loving Christ. But it was not effeminacy or insipidity of character. It was accompanied with majesty, infinite and omnipotent. Lest this world should not realize his earnestness, this Christ mounts the cross. I think there are many under the influence of the Spirit of God who are saying, "I will tru3t hisn if you will only tell me how," and the great question asked by many 13, "How, how?" And while I answer your question I lookup and utter the prayer which Rowland Hill so often uttered in the mid3t of his sermons, "Master, help!" How are you to tiu3t in Christ? Just as you trust any one. You trust your partner in business with important things. If a commercisl house gives you a note payable three months hence, you expect the payment of that note at the end of three months. Ycu have perfect confidence in their word and in their abilitv. Or. again, vou go home today. You expect there will be lood on the table. You have confidence in that. Now, 1 ask you ..o have the same confidence in the Lord Jesu3 Christ. He says "You oelieve; I take away your sins," and they are all taken away. "What!" you say, "before I pray any more, before I read my Bible any more, before I cry over my sins any more?" Yes, this moment. Believe with all your heart and you are saved. Why, Christ is only waiting to get from you what you give to scores of people every day. What is thai? Confidence. If these people whom you trust day by day are more worthy than Christ, if they are more faithful than Christ, if they have done more than Christ ever did, then give them the preference, but if you really thiDk that Christ is as trustworthy a3 they are then i deal with him as fairly. "Oh," says some one in a light way, l!I believe that Christ was born at Bethlehem, and that he died on the i :ro8s." Do you believe it with your i head or your heart? I will illustrate the difference. You I ire in your house. In the morning you open a newspaper, and you read < low Captain Braveheart ou the sea risked his life for the salvation of his passengers. You say: "What a grand : fellow he mu3t haye been! His family ieserves very well of the country." i'ou fold the newspaper and sit down at i the table and perhaps do not think of i Lhati ncident again. That is historical i Faith. i But now you are on the sea and it is 1 light, and you are asleep, and vou are awakened by the shr iek of "Fire!" You ' :u3hout on the deck. You hear, amid the wringing of the hands and the fainting, the cry: "No hope! No hope! We ' are lost! We are lost!" The sail puts out its wing of fire, the rope makes a burning ladder in the night heavens, the spirit of wreck hisses in the wave and on the hurricane deck shakes out its banner of smoke and darkness. "Down with the lifeboats!" cries the captain. "Down with the lifeboats!" People 1 rush into them. The boats are about full. Boom only for one more man. You are standing on the deck beside the captain. Who shall it be? You or the captain? The captain says, "You." You jump and are saved. He stands there and ales. Now, you believe that Captain Braveheart sacrificed himself fo: his passengers, but you believe it with love, with tear3, with hot and long continued exclamations, with grief at his loss and joy at your deliverance. This is saving faith?in other words, what you believe with all the heart, and believe in regard to yourself. On this hinge turns my sermon?aye, the salvation of your immortal soul. You often go across a bridge you know nothing about. You do not know who built the bridge, you do not know what material it is made of but you come to it and walk over it and ask no questions. And here 13 an arched bridge blasted from the "Rxk of Ages" and built by the Architect of the whole universe, spanning the dark gulf between sin and righteousness, and all God asks ycu is to walk across it, and you start and you come to it and you stop, and you go a little way on, and you stop and you fall back, and you experiment, You say, "How do I kuow that bridge win bold me?" instead of marching on with fum step, asking no questions, but feeling that the strength of the eternal God is under ycu. Oh, was there ever a prize proti'ered so cheap a3 pardon and heaven are offered to you? For how much? A million dollars? It is certainly worth more than that. But cheaper than that you can have. it. Ten thousand dollars? Less than that. Five thousand dollars? Less than that. One dollar? Less than that. One farthing? Less than that. "Without mcney aad without price." No money to pay. No journey to take. No pennance to sufl'er. Only just one decisive action of the soul, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ aod thou shalt be saved." Shall I try to tell you what it is to be savec? I cannot tell you. No man, no angel can tell you. But I can hint at it for my text brings me up to this point, "Thcu shalt be saved." It means a happy lifeihere and a praceful death and a blissful eternity. It is a grand thing to go to sleep at night and to get up in the morning and to do business all day feelinsr that all is right between my heart and God* Xo accident, no sickDe33, no persecution, no peril, no sword can do me any permanent damage. 1 am a forgiven child of God, and he is bound to see me through. He has sworn he will see me through. The mountains may depart, the earth may burn, the light of the stars may be blown out by the blast of the judgment hurricane, but life and death, things present and things to come are mine. Yea, further than that, it means peaceful death. Mrs. Hemans, Mrs. Sigouraey, Dr. Young and almost all the poets hive said handsome things about death. There is nothlDg beautiful alout it. When we stand by the white rigid features of those whom we love and they give no answering pressure of the hand aJJU LiU L C LUl iiilii; AiOO Ul bUO n v uv not want anybody poetizing around about us. Death is loathsomeness and midnight and the wringing of the heart until the tendrils snap and curl m the torture unless Christ shall be with us. I confess to you an infinite fear, a consuming horror of death unless Christ shall be with me. i would rather go down into a cave of wild beasts or a jungle of reptiles than into the grave unless Christ goes with me. Will you tell me ???HllirTTT r Ml Ml III that X am to be carried out from my bright home and put away in the darkness? I cannot bear darkness. At the first coming of the evening I must have the gas lighted, and the farther on in lite I get the more I like to have my friends round about me. And am I to be put oil' for thousands of years in a dark place, with no one to speak tc? When the holidays come and the gifts are distributed, shall I add no ioy to the "Merry Christmas" or the "Haypy New Year?" Ah do not point dcwn to the hole in the ground., the grave 8iia can it a oeautnui piac?. uniess there be some supernatural illumination I shudder back from it. Mv whole nature revolts at It. But now this glorious lamp is lifted above the grave, and all the darkness is go*e, and the way is clear. I look into it now without a sing'e shudder. Now my anxiety is not about death. My anxiety is that I may live aright, for Ikuow that if my life is consistent, when I come to the last hour and this voice is silent, and these eyes are closed, and these hands with which I beg for your eternal salvation to day are folded over the still heart, that then I only begin to live. What power is there in anything to chill me in the last hour if Christ wrap3 around me the skirt of his own garment? What darkness can fall upon my eyelids then, amid the heavenly daybreak? 0 death, I will not fear thee then! Back to thy cavern of darkness, thou robber of all tbe earth. Fiy, thou despoiler of families. With this battleax I hew thee in twain from helmet to sandal, the voice of Christ soundmg all over the earth and through the heavens: ;'0 death, I will be thy plague. 0 grave, I will be thy destruction." To be saved is to wake up in the presence of Christ. You know when Jesu3 was upon tbe earth how happy he made every house he went into, and when he brings as up to his house in heaven how great^shall be our glee! His voice has more music in it than is to be heard in all the oratorios of eterni'cy. Talk not about banks dashed with till iresceDce. jesu3 is las cmer Dioom 01 Heaven. we shall see the very face that beamed sympathy in Bethany and take the very hand that dropped its blood from the short beam of the cross. Oh, I want to stand in eternity with him. Toward that harbor I steer. Toward that goal I run. I shall be satislied when I awake in nis likeness. Oh, brosen hearted men and women, how sweet it will be in that good land to pour all your hardships and breavements and losses into the loving ear of Christ and then have him explain why it was best for you to be sick, and why it was beat for you to be widowed, and why it was best for you to be persecuted, and why it was best for you to be tried, and have him point to an elevation proportionate to your disquietude here saying, "You suffered with me on earth; come up now and be glorified with me m heaven." Some one went into a house where tbere had been a good deal of trouble and said to the woman there, "You 3eemtobe lonely." "Yes," she said; "I am lonely." "How many in the famdy?" "Only myself." "Have you had any children?" "I had seven children." "Where are the\?" "Gone." "All gone?" "All." "All dead?" "All." Then she breathed a long sigh into the loneliness and said, "Oh, sir, I nave Deen goou a momer 10 me grave." And so there are hearts here that are utterly broken down by the bereavements oflife. I piont you today to the eternal balm of heaven. Oh, aged men and women who have knelt at the thorne of grace for threescore year and ten, will not yourdecreptilude change for the leap of a heart when you come to look face to face upon him whom having not seen you love? On, that will be the Good Shepherd, not out in the night and watching to keep ofl the wolves, but with lamb reclining on the sunlit hill. That will be the Captain of our salvation not amid the roar and crash and boom of battle, nut amid his disbanded troops keeping victorious festivity. That will be the Bridegroom ot the church coming from atar, the bride leaning upon his arm while he looks down into her face and says: "Behold, thou art fair, my love! Behold, thou art fair!" WEATHER-CROP BULLETIN. As Ktported by 0. W. ISauer tor the Week Eadlag Sspf. 3rd, jLutJ temperature was sumswnat ruwer than during tne previous week but there was an average daily excess of temperature of from two to three degrees over the normal,quite evenly distributed throughout the week. The coast regions were relatively warmer than the interior of the State. Highest temperature 96 at Oakwood on the 30th, and 94 at Spartanburg on the 31st; lowest 56 at Greenville on the 28. There was more sunshine than during the previous week. Daring the latter portion of the week there was much haze or smoke, which caused light fleecy clouds to form during the hottest parts of the day through which the sun shed a diffused oranged colored light. The nights were uniformly clear after 9 p. m. There were few rainy days, although the rain that fell on the 28th throughout the greater portion of the State except on the coast where the showers occurred on the?28th, left but small, if any sections of the ^tate without rain. It was generally needed and proved very beneflcia), except that the showers on tbe 28th were very heavy at places washing some lands badly. Cotton bolls are maturing and opening rapidly and picking has by this time become general. As nearly all fields have been gone over, the actual condition of the fields can be judged, for instance, the fruitage and the damage by sh6dding and rust, and the rotting of bolls. Shedding and rust are not as general as nereioiore ar.nouga the reports of damage from those sources continue, particularly from localities having a sandy soil, where, also, there is no top crop, making growth having stopped. On stlffer or heavier soil the plant has attained a very rank growth of weed, but the fruitage is' deficient, owing it is thought to the rapid growth of the plant when the July rainS Began. This luxuriant growth of weed has given crop a deceptive appearance heretofore, and its aggregate condition must be placed at considerable less than an average crop. There is considerable and quite,general complaint of rotting of bolls near the ground. The late corn crop is fast maturing and will not yield as well as the early planted but is nevertheless a fair crop. Fodder about all gathered in very good condition. Considerable hay was made during the past week under favorable weather conditions, although the showers in the fore part of the week drenched some newly cut grass injuring it slightly. Peas are beginning to make pods and are doing very well. Some pea-vine Kqtt KOO Kaon I lOJ ilrtO UOC11 LUt. The rich harvest is still under way and the yield is most encouraging for a good average. Shipments of new rice have already been made to Northern matkets. The yield of sweet potatoes is large, but the growth of the tuber was so rapid that many are split, and a dry rot has affected the crop in places. Ilutabagas and other varieties of turnips are growing finely where a good stand wa3 obtained, which was generally the case. A large portion of the cabbage crop has rotted, but other seasonable garden products are plentiful, having been favored by the weather. On the whole the past week's weather was favorable for growing and maturing crops. A DAUGHTER'S LETTER. A TOUCHING DEFENSE OF A DEAD FATHER'S CAREER. ThePltlfal Side cf the Kecent RIackvllle Tragedy?An Explanation From Constable (Jrlbban'a^ e dent DAughter?The Story. Columbia, S. C, Sept, 4.?There is another chapter of the recent tragedy in Glackviile, in which Liquor Constable Gribben and Mr. Sol Grown iost their lives, that presents a very pathetic side to the picture. The chapter is from the pen of the deceased constable's daughter, and it was received by Governor Tillman Saturday. The constable's daughter, under the caption "A Few ivciuai&s i?u J^Apiaui ^uattno xuui Excellency, Governor 1J. It. Tillman," writes as follows, endeavoring, as any true daughter should, to shield her father's career: You are no doubt aware of the circustances of the butchery ot our dear father. Sudden and unthought of as was the shock or his tragic death?3udden a3 the shock was to his widow and orphan children?it scarcely seems as if it was near so bad or unlooked and uncalled for as the defaming of his character by Col. Mike Brown and Edmund Felder, which neither one of them would have dared to do, or ever did as long as there was a breath of life in his dear body. No one would be surprised at the statement of. Col. Mike Brown, who was the brother of my father's murderers. But for Edmund Felder, who my father has defended from hirpself many and many a time, it looks to any one who knows my father and his character, moral and otherwise, strange and unchristian. He was on their hot tracks the last few days of his life and was expecting liquor at any hour on any train or any conveyance, in any shape or form, to be delivered to them or called for by them at any stations, Blackville or other wheres, as they have been getting it left off at different stations. Of course it was mineral water, but it occurs to me, and no doubt it will to you, that innocent mineral water would rather face its accusers, instead of coming home roundabout ways like an 1 inlluential drunkard who has been painting the town red and not coming home till 2 in the morning. ; My father always did his duty and any other constable you choose to" send here, who tries to do his duty, as papa did, will be served the same way, no doubt, as my father was, as the Jirowns are still at large and at present it looks as if nothing is going to be done to them. As regards my father being discharged by the present town council i for lack of judgment or political faith, owing to pledges made by town council before being elected, there is no truth in such a statement. The present town council was elected by bought negro votes, and old Simon IJrown was the purchaser. As the present ; town council's principles, not political, did not agree with my papa's, he hand- ; ed in his resignation. It wa3 accepted with reluctance, owing to my father's general competency and superinten- i dence for the good of the town. They had no idea he was going to resign and thus avoid collision with Simon Jirown. As he bought the election, it was supposed that he would run the town too, and furthermore he served as town marshal a term during your administration. My father joined the JJritish army when a mere boy. lie did not like it, neither did his friends and relatives like his being there, so he left, owing to the iniluence of his friends and relatives, who where very inlluential with the government, and to prove that it was not desertiun pure and simple, my father went to Scotland, then came to America; then went back to the old country and stayed there two years, ^ : 1 > 1 t T pan, or toe time iu r.iugiauu, Areiauu and Scotland, without any attempt being made to touch him. As to joining the United States troops, that is what brought my poor papa to the South. lie came in 76. He stayed in the army about six months. As before he did not like it, and he applied for his dismissal. Owing to his good behavior and good conduct, Capt. Ciine, of Company C, (so far as lean remember it was Capt. Cline of Company C,) secured his papers for an honorable discharge. I had forgotten the circumstances about my father leaving the Marine Corps. I remember now that he told me about it. lie got the colonel at Edgefield to have his papers straightened. The papers came out correct If the living liars about my dead* father were to take the trouble to find out, they would find the papers still correct instead of using the word deserter." As to being a straggler of Sherman's army, one does not know whether to be amused at or to pity Col. Brown's lamentable ignorance. My father, as far as he can remember, was at that time between nine and twelve years of age. AC mac cime ae was iu juciuuu wicu bis mother. As to his not resenting the abuse of tbe Browns awhile ago, I am reliably informed that my father's murderers were in waiting for young Brown to fight with papa and then come up and butcher him as they did the other day. It was a feud of long standing owing to the fact that my lather did his duty and did not allow the Browns to run the town. No matter how zealous he was in his duty he had always the endorsement of his superiors to support him. When my father opened the box in the freight deopt there was not one word said to trim, but iirown went home and armed the family to be ready to butcher my farther when he made his appearance on the streets again; and they succeeded, but it took four to doit. Before the light my father offered to light all of them one at a time, after trying his best to ward oil the light. If you want to publish this you can, as I think that if my father's murderers and Edward Felder can write lies and untruths. 1 think that, in the absence of any male relative, 1 am justiliedin coming forward with an explanation ot the truth. One ward more. Neither the dispensary or Your Excellency is responsible IkA 4-1-. r*r\A rr TKo Ancnincf At t h P iUi i>uc ua^cuj. luc uj/cuui^ box was only the match to the magazine of their infernal hatred of long standing. 1 hope this is satisfactory to you. 1 will close myiengthy explanation and beg to remain, Yours respectfully, Maggie Guibben. The Alliance in Georgia. Tne statement is going the rounds of the pres3 that the Georgia Alliance has disbanded. This is not strictly true. The Georgia Alliance is badly disfigured, but still in the ring. The Gan- ' caster Jteview, which is an Alliance paper, says the present bad plight of the Georgia Alliance seems to be due 1 to two causes, politics and mismanagement of its State Exchange. When it went into politics as an organization it ; was 80,000 strong, but in a very short time its membership was reduced over l' Cl? ? -v ? ~4- Ho n.-.lif i/io) X7?ir?t"lirA 1X7 QQ ULLy UClil. no j/ununaj ivuuutu but the beginning of the end, It seems. The politicians who captured the organization proved to be too big a burden to carry. The indications are that it i will scarcely recover from its bitter political experience. Its late annual meeting at Dublin was slimly attended, i It elected officers, however, for another year. The State Exchange, in which ; the members had put over ?70,000, was i closed with a debt hanging over it of ?25,000. It is thought that its organ i will soon suspend, as it too has been losing money heavily. The Alliance in this State if wise will profit by the sad experience of its Georgia brethren. 1 f THE COTTON OUTLOOK. Mr. Ilcstor of New Orleans Reviews the Situation. New Orleans, Sept. 3.? Secretary Hester's New Orleans Cotton Exchange report on the cotton crop was Issued in full to-day. After stating that the crop for 1893-04 was 7,319,870 bales, an excess of 840,132 over last year, he says: The largest part uf the gain was in the group of Atlantic States, consisting of Alabama, Georgia, Florida and North Carolina, which ran ahead. The Gulf States, Arkansas, Louisiana Misciacinni and Tpnnin^op innrPSSfd 331. v?4 ~ - ' 000, while Texas dropped olT 59,000. Mr. Hester puts'the average commercial value of the crop at 837.50 per bale, against 812 50 last year, 837.50 in 189192, and the total value was 8283,118,000, against 8284,150,000 last year and 8338,812,000 the year before, showing the remarkable fact that while the output of the last year has been 849,452 bales in excess of the year before. Its commercial value is 81,032,000 less. Mr. Hester says with an average of 7 1-2 cents per pound which the crop brought, planters as a class would have been bankrupt had they adhered to their old policy of all cotton and little food crops ani instances the significant fact that the cotton States produce over 8148.000,000 of corn, nearly all of which was consumed where grown. In reference to acreage, he says the published estimates are still unsatisfactory, and comments on the Intention of a change of the base of comparison on that subject by the United States Agricultural Department being first made known through an Fogitsh source. From this information the statistician of the Washington Department has written to a prominent mem Der oi the nouse giving as nis opinion that the cotton acreage of 1893 was 20,000,000 acres, or more than 3,000,000 acres over the heretofore published estimates. M:. Hester announces the result of his investigations In this movement under a new system, saying that several hundred thousand bales have hitherto been credited by the trade to Gulf States which properly belonged to Atlantic States and that facts show the seat of cotton production has not been moving Westward as rapidly as supposed. The commercial crop in bales is given as follows, in thousand bales for 1893 91: Alabama, 935; Arkansas, G25; Florida, 50; Georgia, 1,125; Louisiana, 400; Mississippi, 910; North Carolina, 425; South Carolina, 750; Tennessee, etc., 275; Texas and Indian Territory, 2,059. Total crop, 7,550,000 bales. In relation to American mills, Mr. Hester says the season has been anything but favorable, North or south. On the heels of their largely decreased Zakings forl892-93 Northernmlll3 show a further reduction for the past season of 80,113 bales. The effect of financial stringency and delay as to tariff legislation also decidedly were depressing in* lluences in thi3 industry, and for the first time since thi war ? set back is to be recorded. Instead of an increase of 37, bales, which with anything like la3t year's crop would have resulted from bringing into full play the new spindles added in the South at the close of last year and the early part of the present season, .Southern consumption ha3 fallen off 25,333 bales. The total takings North as shown were 1,001,173, against 1,087,280 last year and 2,11)0,700 the year before, while the mills in the South report as their consumption (including takings from ports) 718.515, against 743,818 in 1892 93, and 080,080 in 189192. Commenting on the outlook for cotton consumption in the South, Mr. Uest6r says with a return to normal conditions there is promise not only for an increase of 02,000 bales per annum in the products of mills now in operation, but tables show twenty-one new mills not completed with nearly 100,000 spindles, besides thirty-six idle mills with 130,000 spindles, a good part of which would be brought into play. In other words, the South has 2,500,000 spindles with a consumptive capacity of 825,000 bales per annum. Groverand Gorman. Washington, Sept. G.?There wa3 a story back ot the wholesale discharge of employes ia the government printing oilice last week not disclosed in the casual announcement that there had been a reduction of the force because ol the adjournment of congress. Of about 500 employes discharghed, nearly 300 of them had been appointed on the political recommendation of Senator Gorman. The Maryland senator is chairman of the senate printing committee. He has been in a position to make trouble for every public printer who did not honor his requisitions for patronage. Under the last Republican administration he controlled about 200 appointments, although he wa3 then only a majority member of the committee instead of its chairman. Captain II. T. Briau, the foreman of printing, is a Gorman appointee, and lias been retained through several administrations on the MaryIan-! senior's demand. Public Printer Benedict had determined to dislodge Brian when he took charge of the office, but found his own nomination held up in the senate, and Senator Gorman would not permit it to be confirmed until Benedict promised to keep Brian as foreman cf printing. The recent onslaught by the i ublic printer on Gorman's appoin aap. -Of An f??Am fho Whlffl TT Oil 3 A iO UU UIUwLO UU'-u bUw ! ? Uivv xi.vujwi The war between President Cleveland and Senator GormaD, growing oat of the tariff debate in the senate, is getting more seiious every day. The action of the Maryland federal GlUcials recently in resigning from the campaign committee at tee request of the president, although advised by Senator Gorman not to do so, shows that the Gorman-Cleveland factional war in the Maryland Democracy is getting serious for the senator. The entire Maryland delegation in the house stood out against Senator Gorman in the last house caucus and voted againt accepting the senate bill. Congressman llayner, who recently announced a3 a Democratic candidate for governor, will stand as an administration candidate against Gorman domination in the slate ot Maryland. Arrastln^ HJjh 0/ticl?l9. Washington, Sept, 5.? Chief Hasen of the Treasury secret service, received a telegram today announcing the arrest in St, Louis, Mo., this morning or Secretary Smith, ol the St. Louis Bank Note Company. This company, it will oe recalled, pruned ana engraven mc $5 and $2 warrants of the State of Miss issippi, which bore a striking similitude to United states money. The president of the company will be arrested when he reiurus to St. Louis and Agent Holmes, of tire company, who i3 in charge of the Chicago branch, will also ho looked after. In the meantime, the United States district attorney at Jackson, M:.3S., is preparing a case against Lrie Slate oiuoiais o. Mississippi, Governor Stone and others, in the fame case. The Mississippi ollic'als refused to call in the warrants, but the fact that they have been declared illegal by the general government has, it is said, had the ellect of destroying public confidence in them as money, and the banks relusc longer to take them. Whipped by Women, Jacksonville, Fla., Sent. f>?A special to the Ximes-Fnfon from Waldo, Fia., says: hast night J).in Wiggins, a notorious wife-beater, wa3 dragged from home by masked men. Wiggins was carried into the woods and Fashed to a tree. Several woman of the nighborhood, who sympathized with Mrs. Wiggins, were present, and as soon as Wiggins had been tied they began to whip him. Alter beating him unmercifully Wiggins was untied and lelf to make his way home. It is thought that Wiggins will die. m " THE CONGRESSIONAL NOMINEES. Counting the Votes of Congressional Candidates in Etch Distrlc*. Columbia. S. C., Sept. 5.?The State Democratic Executive Committee met last night in the state House. State . Chairman Irby called the committee to ; order shortly before 9 o'clock. Secre- ' tary Tompkins and Treisurer Jones were on hand. A. II. I'atterson of . Barnwell and II. II. Townee of Edge- i lield.sent iQ their resignations as mem- . bers of the committee and the resignations were accepted. The committee = proceeded to tabulate the votes of Congressional candidates in each district and to declare the result. The following is the vote for each district ana the candidates who received a majority were declared the nominees of , the party: first district. Wm. Elliott. Sullivan. Charleston 1,257 1,457 Georgetown 553 lb ; Beaufort 219 17 Williamsburg 350 34 Colleton 250 1 Berkeley 159 140 1 Totals 2,937 1,789 ; SECOND DISTRICT. W.J. Talbert. , Hampton 1,248 i Earnwell 1,584 ! Aiken 1,521 ' Edgefield 2,058 , Total 6,411 ! THIRD DISTRICT. , A. C. Latimer. Abbeville 2,348 Newberry 1,111 ' Anderson 2,057 Oconee 1,380 i'ickens 1,433 ( Total 8.929 I FOURTH DISTRICT. . Wilson. Duncan. Johnson. ' Greenville.... 1,789 293 1,435 Laurens 1,321 54 838 Fairfield 232 454 7 Spartanburg.. 2493 81 404 Union 070 504 243 litchland 398 308 090 , Totals 0 903 1,090 3,028 Wilson's majority over all, 1,579. FIFTII DISTRICT. T. J. Strait. D. E. Finlpy. Soartanburg 314 77 York 710 1,094 Chester... 915 131 Lancaster 1,375 431 Chesterfield 859 542 Kershaw 930 280 Union 303 94 Totals 5,442 2,055 Majority for Strait, 2,787. , SIXTH DISTRICT. Irihn I. \fr?T,?inrin Clarendon 780 Darlington 708 Marlboro 880 Marion 1,571 Florence No report I lorry 792 Williamsburg 411 Total 5,208 SEVENTH DISTRICT. , J. Wm. Stokes. Lexington 1,493 Orangeburg 2,135 Sumter 1,078 ( Colleton 1,580 Berkeley 798 Richland 127 Total 7,217 The Reformers and the antl-Tillman- i ltes each held a primary in Beaufort | county, and the question came before the committee of courting the vote for Congressional candidates. Eich side 1 claimed to be Democratic. The com- , mittee decided to count all the votes in each of the primaries for Sullivan and 1 Elliott. 13sfo-e adjourning the com- < mittee passed a resolution asking the ( railroads to give reduced rates to dele- , gates who will attend the State con- 1 vention this month. 1 -7-R ! a ftevr Jtiaiirng" The Orangeburg correspondent of the 1 News and Courier recently had an interview with Col. Gardner, the engineer of the Atlantic Coast Line system, during the course of which Col. Gardner is reported as having said that he had ] ju3t heard it rumored that the Louis- i ville and Nashville had bought the i South Carolina and Georgia Koad. | Col. Gardner did not vouch for the | statement, but merely gave it as a rumor which had reached him. Discussing the matter further Col. Gardner is ' reported as having said that the line recently surveyed to Augusta would probably be built if the Louisviile and Nashville did not succeed in purchasing the South Carolina and Georgia i property. Iu commenting on the above the News and Courier, of last I Wednesday says: ''The fact that Col. Gardner is ofliclally connected with ] one of the lines which proposes to build | the new road lends a weight to what- ( ever he may say on the subject which it would not otherwise have. There is . rift rnionn f/fti- nroon minrj f h at W iCCWVU XVI yxvoumiu^ vuww . Gardner was speaking excathedra, yet 1 in cases of this kind the public will lind it hard to forget that he 13 an Atlantic ' Coast Line official, and that the name of the Atlantic Coast Line has been ? intimately assoc'ated with that 01 the i Louisville and Nashville system both in the project to build a new route to j Augusta or to obtain control over the < old route. la regard to the rumor that f the Louisville and Nashville has act- j ually arranged to purchase the South , Carolina and Georgia Road, railroad men in this city place little faith in it. ( No one questions that such a transfer . has been and still is one of the possibil- 1 ities, but that any of its details have 1 been arranged at the present time is another question. The present owners 1 have taken possession of their property and are operating it in a manner ( which suggests that they have come t to stay, at least for a period somewhat ( longer than would be the case had they ( sold out to the Louisville and Nash- ^ ville system. Col. Gardner's belief that j the new line to Augusta will be built if the purchase of the South Carolina and Georgia by the Louisville and Nashville is not iinally effected is shared by many people. On this point Col. Gardner's opinion is entitled to ' some consideration. He was selected by his read as the man to make the pre- I liminary survey for the new line, and J he did it. When the road was projected it was stated that It would be built t if it could be constructed within a giv- t en ligure. That Col. Gardner believes it will be done in case the competing ^ line cannot be bought would seem to indicate that his survey had demon- ; strated that the road could be built for a sum falling withia the limit set. J Jut everything pertaining to the subject lias been discussed so often that there is no reason for adding an additional word now. Col. Gardner's statements stand lor themselves." Killed a Tramp. Henderson, Kv., Sept. 4.?Two tramps entered the farmhouse of John Gillespie, near Rriks City, on Green river, and, Hading his wife alone, they demanded -food, which she refused, when they helped themselves and plundered the house. On her husband returningand ascertaining of the robbery, he armed himself with a shotgun and, accompanied by a neighbor, went on the trail. They came upon tae tramps near Congleton, McLean county. Toe ru 111 an s drew their pistols and refused to surrender, whereupon the pursuers opened lire, fatally wounding one, the other effecting his escape. ;<;ofn with th9 Pop*. Washington, Sept. 4.?Today furnished a genuine sensation in political circles by the announcement that Senator John i\ Jones, of Nevada, who has represented his State in the United Slates Senate for over twentyone years as a Republican,has formally renounced his allegiance to that party and cast his lot with the I'opulists. BARN BURNERS KILLED. \n Organ'zjd iiing; of Fiends ShotDown by Iadiguant Clt'z^UB. tl Memphis. Tenn, Sept. 1 .?Six negro ^ oarn burners were taken from the cus- ^ ody of ctlicers at Millington last night ind shot to death by a 120b of unknown a] men. Miliington is a village in the ^ northern part of Shelby County on the w Chesapeake and Ohio and Southwest g, Kailroad. Recently there have been a ^ Qumber of lires in the vicinity of Millington under such circumstance as to indicate that they were the work of an ^ organized gang of iucendiaries. Cotton *ins, numerous b?,rns and other out- " houses and one or two dwellings have been burned and the diabolical work ' :ulminated in the destruction of the buildings on the fair grounds at Mil LlUglA/11. Several negroes were charged with : complicity in these deeds of arson and :: yesterday evening Deputy Sheriff Richarasoa arrested Dan Hawkins, Glenn White, Warner Williams John Hughes Ed IJall and Robert Ilatnes, all colored, on warrants charging them with the crime. The arrests were made at Keevllle, which is a station on the Chesapeake and Ohio and Southwestern Railroad below Millington. The prisoners were to have had a preliminary hearing before a justice of the peace at Millington today. The deputy and one guard, a white man named Atkins 3tarted for that point, carrying the prisoners, who were chained together in a wagon. As the party neared the Rig Creek bridge, a very lonely spot in a dense forest and cane brake, almost a jungle, a voice from out the thicket i was heard to say: " Turn to the right, the bridge is down." The deputy who was on horseback ordered Atkins, who drove the wagon containing the prisoners, to tuin into a narrow road leading to the ford. As he did so, a band of about fifty armed men appeared and de-manded the prisoners. The deputy re- < monstrated with those who seemed to be the leaders of the mob and protested against any violence, but to no purpose. While the ollicer was being held under * cover of revolvers the rest of the mob ? drew their weapons and opened a murderous fusilade on the defenseless prls- r oners. One of the prisoners, IIawkin3, ? threw his arm3 about the white driver, ? imploring protection, when one of the u mob placing a revolver close to his ' bead, blew the top of his skull off. The # men were not masked, but neither the deputy or tbe driver, Atkins, recognized any of them. None of them live in that community and it was quite dark where the murderous work was done. Deputy Richardson immediately * apprised the justice of the peace of what had been done. The jury was summoned consisting of four negroes d and eight white men and an inquest { held. The verdict was in accordance with the facts as detailed by the only * witnesses. \ Judge Cooper of the Criminal Court, ? summoned Deputy Sheriff Richardson I before him today, and questioned him closely concerning the lynching. 4 The J udge is prepared to issue bench warrants for the arrest of all parties with reasonable suspicion of beiDg connected in the crime. At half past 1 o'clock this afternoon, Deputy ~ Richardson was arres'.ed on a bench " warrant issued by Judge Cooper, charged with being an accessory. That Kit's SDHfan. Columbia, s. C\, Sept. * G.?Tne Journal published an arlich a lew days ago saying that it was likely that an extra session of the Legisla'ure would be called to amend the elechon lows otthe Stale. Senator It by was seen at tbe Lrran.1 Central Hotel and when asked for an interview on the subject said: 'T did not come here to be interviewed I C came here to attend the meeting of the $ State executive committee, and when that is over I shall go home." Then w iookiDg in a rather insinuating way he p said: "I do not shoot in the bushes. ^ r w-ftiL until the birds come out." c. "Is that in reference to the proposed a "independent movement?" "Yes, tut I do not think there will tt be cne. When those fellows got sober Lhey wih think the matter over and ^ not put out a ticket. There is no cause for it. The people have spoken and & that settles it." "Do you think there will be an extra ft 3essicn of the Legislature?" "It depends upon circumsances," was the significant reply. XI "What circumstance.4?" "That is private," was the pertinent reply. v "What do you think of the reigistra lion laws?" "They are before tiie Supereme Court, [ am uo lawyer. I reformed and quit -be law, and cannot new give a legal opinion." "Will the registration law3 have any* -hing to do with the calling of the ex,ra session?" "I not know. Go ask Tillman," was the evasive answer. "Do you not think that Governor Tiilraan has been indiscreet in his attacks lpon the Democratic part}?" "As I understand it, he has not at- . -acked the Democratic party. lie gave Jleveland the devil, but Cleveland deserved ten times as much a3 he gave lim. Cleveland is not the Democratic sarty, nor is it represenlsd by such mmVkiim. hA iia Kim* r>f?n n'<? m Smith Carolina seem to think that Cleveland 3 the embodiment of the Democratic Darty. I don't." "Don't you think that Tillman will eave the Democratic party?" "I believe Tillman is as good a Dem)crat as wear3 hair. If anybody leaves ,he Democratic party Cleveland's sort u night. I am convinced that Cleveland ,'ould not have gotten the nomination if ,he Southern States could have known ns linancial policy in advance." "What about the Reform convention idopting the Ucala platform?" "The convention only reiterated what ,he Democrats of this State adopted in ^ LS92 as their platform." "Rut there are those who say thai he platform adopted in 1*92 was not Democratic?" Jy "I thought it was. Democratic then, ind I think so now, acd the people o{ be State ratified it." With this the Senator and the rep.orer parted company. fpmNosTl! 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