The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, January 08, 1891, Image 2

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VOL. XX. PICKENS, S. C., TIIURSDAY, JANUARY 8. 1891 N A CIIRISTMAS SERMON c PREACHED BY DR. TALMAGE ON SUN- I DAY, DEC. 28. r a An intensely Iuterestling Discourse by 0 the Brooklyn Divine-The Text. Luke n1, j 15: "Let Us Now Go Even Unto 13eth lehen"-The Sermon in Full. BROOKLYN, Dec. 28.-Dr. Taliage's 0 sermon to-day was appropriate to the 0 season. Its subject was the ChriAfmas b Jubilee. His text was Luke Ii, 15: "Let us now go even unto Bethlehem." Amid a thousand mercies we give t each other holiday congratulations. I] By long established custom we exhort P each other to healthful merriment. By , gift, by Christmas trees which blossom 0 and fruit in one night, by early morn- 0 Ing surprise, by clusters of lighted ti candles, by chil(Iren's processions, by t sound of instruments sometimes more blatant than musical, we wake up the night and prolong the day. The event commemorated is the gladdest of the centuries. Christ's cradle was as won- It derful as his cross. Persuade Ie of n the first and 1 am not surprised at the 3 last. The door by which he entered was as tremendous as the door by which lie went out. S WHEIE JESUS WAS IN EGYP1T.& 1 was last winter at the house where " Jesus lived while he was in Africa. It was iii Cairo, Egypt, the terminus of t that terrible journey which he took when Joseph and Mary fled with him ti from Bethlehem to Egypt to esc,-pe the massacre of Ilerod. All tradition, as well as all history, points out this o house in Cairo as the one in which 0 these three fugitives lived while in Africa. The roomn is nine steps do-wns from the level of the street. I mneas- j -ured the room and found it 20 feet long t and 7% feet high. There are three shelvings of rock, one of which I 1hink was the cradle of our Lord. There is no window, and all the ;ght must have come from lantern or candle. 9 The three arrived here from Bethle- ( hem, having crossed the awful desert. s On the Mediterranean steamer going 0 from &thens to Alexandria I mnet the u eminent scholar and theologian, Dr. Lansing, who for thirty-five years has l been a resident of Cairo, andl he told me that he had been all over the road that the three fugitives took from Bethlehem to Egypt. He says it is a desert way, and that the forced journey of the infant Christ must have been a terrible journey. Going up from Egypt Dr. Lansing met people from Bethlehem, their tongues swollen and hanging out from the inflammation of thirst, apd although his party had but 2 one goatskin of water left, and that was important for themselves, he was I so moved with the spectacle of thirst in these poor pilgrims that, though it excited the indignation of his fellow travelers, he gave water to the stran. gers. Over this dreadful route Joseph and Mary started for this land of Egypt. No time to make much prepa- v ration. Herod was after them, and s what were these peasants before an L irateking? Joseph, the husband and father, one v night sprang up from his mattiess in y great alarm, the beads of sweat on his c forehead and his whole frame quaking. t Ile had dreamed of massacres of his v wife and babe. They must be off, that i night, right away. Mary put up a few I things hastily. and Joseph brought to I the door the beast of burden, and helped a his wife and child to mount. Why, a those loaves of bread are not enough, d those bottles of water will not last for v such a long way. But there is no time I to get anything more. Out and on. o Good-by to the dear home they expect t never again to see. Their hearts break. It does not need that ours bo a big house in order to make us sorry to t: leave It. c A 'rEumIIlLE wAY. tl Over the hills and dlown through tihe d deep gorge they urge their way. By ti Hlebron, by Gaza, through hot sand-, o under a blistering sun, the babe crying, y the mother faint, the father exhausted. v How slowly the (lays andl weeks puss! t Will the weary three ever reach the n banks of the Nile ? Will they ever see v Cairo? Will the desert ever end ? ' When at last they cross the line beyond n which old Hierod has no right to pursue r their joy is unbounded. Free at last ! v Let them dismount and( rest. Now e they resume their way with less anx-r lety. They wvill find a p)lace Some where for shelter andl t he earning of t their bread. IIero they are at Cairo, t Egypt.( They wind through the crookedt streets, which are about ten feet wide, t , and enter the humble hiouse where Ir have been to-day. But the terminus ( of the journey of thlese three fugit.ives a was not US huImble as their starting e point at Bethlehem. If that journey t across the desert ended in a cellar it i started from a barn. Everything s humble around that barn, buti every thing glorious overhead. ' Christ's adlvent was In the hostelry . called the house of Chim 11am; the t night with dliamondled linger p)oint- a Ing down to the place; tihe dloor of heaven set wide open to look ouit; I from orchestral batons of light (drip-i ping the oratorios of tihe \lessiah; ont e lowest doorstep of heaven the hm- t strels of God discoursing of glory and good will. Soon after the white beard- I ed astrologists kneel, and from le*athern l pouch chink the shekels andl from 0pen1< sacks exhale the frankincense and rustle out the bundles or myrrh. 'rho loosened star; the escaped doxology of celestials; the chill Decembher nIght afiush with May morn; our world a losmt star, and another star rushing dowvn 1 the sky that night to beckon the waln-1 derer home agailn, shall yet make all c natIons keep Christmas. ( NEw UNHIACK(NEYED) LESSONS. $ Are there no new lessons from the c story not yet hackneyed by oft re- e peatal? Oh, yes! Knew in the first 1 place, it was a side-real appearance i that led the way. Why not a black t cloud in the shape of a hand or finger s pointing down to tihe sacredi birt.h- a place? A cloud means trouble, and the world had had trouble enough. c -Why not a shaft of lightning quivering and flashing and striking (town to the sacred birth place ? Lightning means r destruction, a shattering and consum ing power, and the world wanted no m more destruction. But it was a star, and that means .joy, that means hope, that mieanIs go.>dl a cheer, that means ascendency. A star! g That means creative power, for didt niot the morning stars sing together when the portfolio of the worlds was ( pened ? A star! That means defense or did not the stars fight in thei ourses against Sisera and for the ,ord's people? A star! That meani rilliant continuance, for are not the ighteous to shine as the stars forevei nd ever? A star! That means the pening of eternal joy. The day stai ri the heart. The morning star of the ,edeemer. WHAT WAS THE STAR The unusual appearance that night ily have beent a strange conjunction f worlds. As the transit of Venus in Ur time was foretold many years age y astronomers, and astronomers can !ll what will be the conjunctions of 'orlds a thousand years from now, so :ey ean calculate backward; and even ildel astronomers have been com elled to testify that about the year 1 icre was a very unusual appearance i the heavens. The Chinese record, f course entirely independent of the Vord ot God, gives as a matter of his >ry that about the year 1 there was a Lrange and unaccountable appearance i the heavens. But it may have been a meteor such i you and I have seen flash to the orizon. I saw a few years ago in the orthern sky a star shoot and fall with ich brilliancy and precision that if I ad been oni a hill as high as that of ethlehem, on which the shepherds ood, I could have marked within a iort distance the place of the alight ig. The University of Iowa and the ritish museum have specimens of ieteoric stones picked up in the fields agments flung off from other worlds aving a fiery trail on the sky. Sc lat it is not to-me at all improbabh he stellar or the meteoric appearanc( n that night of which we speak. I nly care to know that It was bright bat it was silvery, that it flashed and wayed and swung and halted witl >y celestial, as though Christ in haste D save our world had rushed dowr ,ithout his coronet, and the angels of od had hurled it after him! CHRISTIANITY A STAR OF 0111OP-. Not a black cloud of threat, but a leaning star of hope, is our gloriom hristianity. One glimpse of that teller appearance kindled up the sou] f the sick and dying college student ntil the words flashed from his pal ngers and the star seemed to pour its ght from his white lips as Kirk( Vhite wrote these immortal words: Then marshaled on the nightly plain The glittering hosts bestud the sky, 4ie star alone of all the train Can fix the sinner's wandering eye. Lark, hark to God l the chorus breaks From every host, from every gem; hut one alone, the Saviour, speaks It is the Star of Bethlehem. )nce on the raging seas I rode. The storm was loud, the night was dark Lud rudely blow the wind that tossed i; foundering bark. )eep horror then my vitals froze. Death struck, I ceased the tide to stem Vhen suddenly a star arose it was the Star of Bethlehem. Notice also in this scene that othe orlds seemed to honor our Lord ani taster. Bright star of the night ilheel on in thine orbit. "No," said thi tar, "I must come nearer, and I mus end and I must watch and see wha ou do with n-.y Jesus." Anothe orld that night joined our world It ,orship. That star made a bow o beisance. I sometimes hear peopl Ulk of Christ's dominion as though i ere to be merely the few thousani tiles of the world's -,ircumference; buil believe the millions and the bil ions and the quadrillions of worlds ar 11 inhabited-if not by such creaturei s we are, still such creatures as Go( esigned to make, and that all thesi ,orlds are apart of Christ's dominion saac Newton and Kepler and Ifersche nly went on Columbus voyage to int boe continents of our king's domain TIIEY WERE WISE MEN OF 'THE EAST. Bunt this scene also impresses me witt ae fact that the wvise men of the easi rue to Christ. T1hey were not fools icy w1ere not imbeciles. The recor< istinctly says that the wise men caim< > Christ. W~e say they were the magi r they were the alchemists, or the) rere the astrologists, and we say ii rith depreciating accentuation. Why icy wer the most splendidl andh mag ificent men of the century. Thmey rere the natutralists and the scientists 'hey knew all that was known. Yom must remember that astrology was thn othier of astronomy, and that alchem) ras the mother of chemistry, and lbe ause childlren are brighter than the mther you (1o not despise the mother I1. was lifelong business of these as rologers to study the stars. T wenty wvo hundred and fifty years befor< Thrist was born the wise imen knen he precession of then eqinioxes, aml hey fhad calculated the orb)it and thi eturn of the comets. Professor Smiti eclares that he thinks they uinder toed the distance of the sun from i arth. We find in the book of Jol liat the men of olden time did not sup~ ose the worldl was flat, as sonie hay aidi, but that he knew, and the men o is time knew, the world wars globulai .ho pyraids were built for astrolog cal andl astronomical study. Ther he alchemists spent their lives In thi tudy of metals and gases and 11(1uod nd solids, and in filling the worldh ibrary with their wondlerful discover a's. They were vastly wise men whi anme fromi t.he east, and tradition say lie three wisest caime-Caspar, a younj aan; llalthiazar, a min In mid-life, anc bleichior, an octogeniarian. Th'le threi visest men of all the century. Trhe; ame11 to the manger. rimIRIsT WILL~ lIAL IN sTOnRY TrmIMES It was closing D)ecember that he wa orn to show that this is a Christ o cnople in sharp blast, for people undo louded sky, for people with frostei opes, for people with thermometer be ow zero. Ihmat is the reason he is si ften found aniong the (destitute. Yoi an find him on any night :coming of he moors. You can see him any nigh oming through the (lark lanes of th ity. You can see him putting hi landl under the fainting head in th auper's cabin, iIe remembers hos he windl whistled around the caravan ary in Biethilehem that December nightI ndl he is in sympathy wvith all thos r'ho in their poverty hear the shutter latter on a cold night. It was this December Christ tha Vashington and his arm y worshipe ~t Valley Forge, when without blank te they lamy down In the Decembe now. It was this Christ that the ii rim Fathers a'ppealed to when th 4ayflower wharfed at Plymnouth Rtoel nd in the years tha&t went by th ~ravs digged were more in numbe han the houses built. Oh I tell. yot ye want a December Christ not lhri St for fair weather, but a Christ to dark days clouded with sickness, and chilling with disappointment and suf focating with bereavement, and terri flc with wide open graves. Not a spring time Christ, not a summer Chrimt, not an autumnal Christ, but a winter Christ. Oh, this suffering and struggling world needs to be hushed and soothed and rocked and lullabied in the arms of sympathetic Omnipotence! No moth er ever with more tenderness put her foot on the rocker of the cradle of a sick child than Christ comes dow to us, to the invalid world, andt he rocks it in- I to placidity and quietness as he says, ".My peace I give unto you; not as the world giveth give I unto you." ALL TIl E WORLD IS 1118. But notice also in this account the three Christmas presents that are brought to the inanger-gold, frankin cense and myrrh. Gold to Christ that means all the afience of the world surrendered to him. For lack of money no more asylums limping o1 their way like the cripples whom they helped, feeling their slow way like the blind I people whom they sheltered. Millions I of dollars for Christ where there are 4 now thousands for Christ. Railroads I owned by Christian stockholders, and t governed by Christian directors, and t carrying passengers and freight at Christian prices. (eorge Peabodys and Abbott Lawrences and Jaines Lenoxes no rarity. Bank of England, Bourse of France, United States treasury, all the moneyed instittitions of the world for Christ. The gold for Christ. Gold not merely paid the way of ;Joseph and I Maly and the divimle figitive into < Egypt, but it was typical of the fact I that Christ's way shall he paid all 4 around the world. The gold for Christ. the silver for Christ, the jewels for Christ. Australia, Nevada and Golcoii da for Christ. i'he bright, round, beau tiful jewel of a world set like a solitaire ion the bosom of Christ. But I notice that these wise men also shook out from the sacks the myrrh. The cattle came and they snuffed at it. They did not eat it becaise it was bit ter. The pungent gu in resin of Abys siana called myrrh brought to the feet of Christ. That means bitterness. Bit ter betrayal, bitter persecution, bitter ] days of suffering, bitter nights of woe. I Myrrh. That is what they put into his i cup when he was dying. Myrrh. That is what they put under his head in the wilderness. That is what they strewed his path with all the way from the cat tle pen in Bethlehem to the mausoleum at Joseph's country seat. Myrrh. Yea, says the Psalmist. "All thy garments smell of myrrh." That is what the wise men wrapped in the swaddling clothes of the babe. That is what the Marys twisted in the shroud of a cruci fled Christ. The myrrh. Oh, the height, the depth, the length, the breadth of the Saviour's sorrow! Well might the wise man shake out the myrrh. FRANKINCENSE MEANS WOnSHIP. But I notice also from another sack they shake oit the-frankincense. Clear up to the rafters of the barn the air is filled with perfume, and the hostlers and the camel drivers in the farthest part of the building inhale it, and it floatsout upon the air until passersby wonder who in that rough place could have by accident dropped a box of ala baster. Frankincense. That is what they burned in the censer in the an cient temple. Frankincense. That means worship. Frankincense. That is to fill all the homes, and all the churches, and all the capitals, and all the nitions from cellar of stalactited cave clear tip to the silvery rafters of the starlit dome. Frankincense. That is what we shake out Irom our hearts to-day, so that the nostrils of Christ once crimsoned with the hemorrhage of the cross shall be flooded with the perfume of a worldl's adloration. Frankincense. Frankincense in song and sermon andl offertory andl hand shaking and dlecoration. Praise him, mountains andi hills, val leys e:Ad seas, and skies and earth and heaven--cycloneo with your truimpets, northern lights wvith your Ilaming en sign, morning with your castles of cloud, and evening with your billow ing clouds of sunset. D)o you knowv how they used to hold the censer in the olden time, andi what it wvas made of ? IIlere is a nmetal pan and the handle by which it was held. In the inside of this metal pan were put Iivinmg coals, on the top of them a perforated cover. In a square box the frankincense was brought to the temples. TIhis frank in cense was takent out and sprinkled over the living coals, and then the perfora. tedi cover was put oni, anid wvhuen they were all readyv for worship, t hen tihe cover was lifted from the censer and from all the other censers. and the per famedi smoke arose until it hung amid all the folds and d rop)ped amid all the altars, and then rose in great columnm s of p)raise ouitside~ oa above the temple. rising clear up towvard tihe throne of God. So we have two cenisers to-day of Christmas frankinicenise. Ihere, is the onle censor of earthly frankinicense. On that we put our thanks for the mercIes of the past year, the mercies of -all our past lives, individual mercies, family mercies, social mercies, national mercies, andl our hearts burning with gratitude send aloft the incense of -praise toward the throne of Christ. liBring on more incense, andl higher aind Shigher let the jcolumns of praise as cend. Let them wvreathe all these pil lars and hover amid all these arches, andl then soar to the throne. But here is the other censor of heavenly thanks giving andi worship. Let them bring all their frankincnse.-the chierubimi bring theirs, anti the serapThimn theirs and the one hundredi and forty-four r thousand theirs, and all the eternities -fume on this heavenmly censer until the cloudi canopies the throne of 0od. Then I take these two censers-the censer of earthiy frankincense anti the cneofheavenly irankincense--and 1 tswing them before the throne, and then I clash them together in one great Shallelujah uaito him to whom the wvise men of the east brought gold andi the myrrh and the frankincense. Blessed -be his glorious name forever! Capsized at Sea. s Pmi~LAi)ELP'fuA, D)ecember 3i.-The sechooner A. D). L4amson, which arrived t here to-dlay, has on board the body of :1 Capt. ECvans, of the schooner Lucinda - i. P'otter, from Bioston for Norfolk. r The captain of the Lamson states that - the Potter capsized at sea on December a 28, about twenty-eight ndies off Fort , Barnegat, IN. ,J. Thme captain and one a seaman wore taken off the capsizied yes r' 8e1 by the Lamson by 4 A. Mt., but the , Icaptain died sooni afterwards. The re m iainder of the Potter's crew weore r drowned. A SENSATION IN THE SENATE. ilo Republican schism lecomes More ' Patent. WAS1INGTON, December 30.-The ceno in the Senate this afternoon was t nemiorable in many respects, but the ij ilef interest lay in the fact that the Re mblicans held a caucus in the open Sen ite. The day had not been propitious t or the friends of Cie force bi! in the nornine and an hoar had been wasted n the effort to obtain a quorum. Then f 'enator Wolcott made an eloquent and e( !arnest speech against the bill ; then the 0 neasure had been laid aside while Sen ttors Stewart and leagan discussed the inancial question. Finally the climax was reached when ( enator Teller began to abuse his col eagues for not bringing the measure to t vo,e, and charing that it was bein-. lelayed by Eastern Senators in order { hat a Senate financial measure Ilight r lot be passed. As Mr Teller proceed- r d with increasing emphasis, despite the e hct that his voice trembled with weak- a iess (uc to a recent illness, the Sela- C ors on both sides be--an to regard him 1: vith the closest interest. The cloak 9 ooms were speedily emptied and.1 Sen itors hurried from their committee When IMr Teller had concluded. after V ttlacking the proposed closure bill, Mr s loar rose to reply. le twirled a book m his desk in at nervou s mainer. and in inl apologetic speech threw the blame i 'nonl-action on Senator Allison, whose ibsence, lie said, had prevented the con- a ideration of aiendients to the bill in I omillitee. C Senator IUale then arraigned Senator . Ioar for his maiagement oft.he bill, and ' 4enator Iloar retorted by denouncinh ill the Senators who had paired with the Democrats. Senator Mitchell, with a smile i_a his y arown-bearded face, suggested that his tepublican colleagues had better hold a aucus. Finally, when nearly the whole t 1epublicsn side was in the snarl, Sena or Hawley moved that the Senate go 1 nto executive session, and this brought lie debate to a close. During the whole time not a Demo ratic Senator openied his mouth to peak, although all of them enjoyed to he utmost the display of lack of harmo- C ly in the enemy's ranks. The Demo- c rats are jubilant to-nighlt over the out )urst of bad I'celing, aid are encouraged, t aspecially as Senator Teller openly ad Vised them to leave. the chamber and t break a (11uorum11 if such action would de- t ieat the bill. The action of Senator A ldrien in ofler ing the closure resolution yesterday had caused the Democrats to seriously con sider the necessity for united resistance, but to-night they are more hopeful of' the .future of the country.-News and Courier. A Convleit's Christmas. COLUMnIA, S. C., Dec. 31.-It is rath or unusual for a convict to spe'<I his Christmas at home with his family, but there is now one case oil record. Dr. Sloan, the secretary of the Cleison college board, is authority for the story, andi he voulhes for its absolute cor rectness. Ilere it is: Onenight.shortly before Christmas a negro convict work ing in the sIiad at Clemson college, and seeing io prospects of a pleasant Christmas at the college, was missed. Search was made for him, but no trace could be found. The authorities de cided that he had made good his escape J nd thought no more of it. As soon as Christnas was passed, however, he eamle to tile stockade and knocked at3 thew door. When the guard openled it hie was surprised to see the escape. Th e fellow saidi: "1 'so comie back. I mnhy wenlt homle to spend the Christmas holidays anid l'se had a good time. l'se come back no0W you see.' 'The guardt saw~ buIt lhe was too mu Lchl astonished to say mulch, and he <quietly took the rey 31er in. iIe is now working ais usual. l{ecord. - -- Poisoned by a Cat. WEI;I.M AXN, lai., Dec 3t.- A Strange case of piioimg occurred nlear here th'e Ather day. 11 arry Y oder, aged three years, sawv his pet cat catch a mouse. lie took thle mlouse froml her and( began playinig n ith it~. An hour11 afterward he becanle deathly sick, his eyes swelled so that lie could not openi them and lhe sufIlered terr'ible agonly. Mr. YI oder for I uiiately returined hlomle ablout that ti me aind kniew the~ boy haid been ploisonmed. lIhe gave him a q aantity of sweet creamt to drink and( senit for a phiysician. A fler twenty hours of dread fuil su fTerinig thle boy was saved. The dhoctor exlainmed the case as follows: The cat iin it.s battile with thle noue thmrew outI, a poisonious I uid, wvhich the hoy afterwardl got onl his hands from hiandling the mioumse. .liubbing his eyes and put11 iig his lingers mi hits imouth IiarliriedI thei potisoni t.o his system. Tiihite of a cat is niot ploisoin whlen it is after a mlouise for dinnier it is as deadlly as a rattlesnake. Massy Skters )rownie, LAINDiON, D ec. :iI.---A terrible accidenmt is reportedl from Walrwick-oni-the-Avoni. While sev'eral thiousandI skaters were disporting thlemlselves on the river at that place the ice sud(denily and( withlout a wordi of warniing cracked ini the iddil(le of the river. An immense f issure openel, through whichl five hundred of the skaters were pIlunIged inito the icy wvaters. A cry of horror arose Ifrom the s pecta tors, while the fortunate skakers lost no time ini reaching the river banks. When the first shock was over, a number of peop)le hlurriedl to the rescue of the drowvlnng skaters and1( a nuhmb)er of them Were pull11ed out, blut it Is feared manly were drowned, as a large number are missing. TIhie latest reports state that seventeen bodies have beeni recoveredI, anmng them several wvomen. A S 100,000 Firec in Augusta, (Ga. AUOV$'rA, (h., Derc. 31l.-Augustai had a $100,000 fire thIs miorning at 5i o'clock. L. A. IH. Rload, dealer in wvhfskies, loss $30,000; insuredl for $20, 000. .T ames .J. Ilaile, car pets, $14,00(0; Insurance 88,000. Nichiolas Kahrs, gro ceries, $37,000; insurance $1,000). 1). Sancken, groceries, $14,000. D)amsge to the lRoberts' building $2,000. An Unofortunate Rlesuit. 1R0c1 ISLA ND, I LL, J)Pu!lmber 31.-A special election, held in the 21st, Sena torial.district yesterday, resulted in thet election of Wmn Payne, Riepublican, byt abouut 1,500 mlajority over WV. C. Wil son, Farmera' AllIanceacndidate. IN THE LEAD. It Rapid Strides Madle in the Southern States. BAurImon, Dec. 31.-Th1e Manufac tirer's Record publishes in this week's isue its annual review of the induistrial rogress of the south for 1890, showing reat activity and prosperity throighout hat sectoion. The total assessed value of property or 1890 is nearly 84,500,000,000, a gainl f $270,000,000 over 1889 and of $1,600, LX),000 over 1880. The number of national banks in the auth is 590, with anl aggreato capitol f 8200,76;3,705, an increase dIuring tile ear of 10.1 banks and 310,635,M capi il. Teun years ago the south had 220 ational banks with a total capital of 15,108,985. According to the report of lie I nited States comptroller of cur ency, the net. earnings of all southern ational banks for the twelve months iided Nov. :10, 1890, were $10,523,793, or n average 1I1, per cent. on the total apital. Only two southern national an]ks ailed du1ring the year. and both f these failures were due to dishonesty management, according to govern lent reports. During the year 2.-199 miles of railroad ,ere built in the souuth. against 2,296 lies in 1889. Gross earnings of all uitheri railroads for the first eleven ionths of IS!) were G- .8!1.517 against (01,21R170 for the same time in [881 an Irase of $11l0,601.017. h'le total valme of foreign exports from 11 soithern 1 ports for the firstf eleven lonths of' 181t), was i2ll.29:I,iMMi, an inl rease of $2 I,-I ,IO over the correspond ig months of 18811, while tihe increase I tle balaice of the country was only 4,831,177, the increase at sout hern ports eing live times as great as tihe combined ain at all other United States ports. The production of pig iron for Ie year aots up to about 1,960,000 tons, a gain f 39o,(XX) tons over 1889, of 830.(X15 ois ver 1888, and of more thani ip0.usi) mis over 1887. The total production of cot ton for the ist six years has been -12,(K0X)u bales, ,orth, including the value of seed sold, bout 82.300,MX),M)0, or an averago of early 1$-),(XX),000 a year. 'The consuimption of cotton by sou! h rn mills was 549,-187 bales last year gainst 216,(XX) bales in 1885, a gain of ver 100 per cent. Dhuring the year 3, 17 new manuifacturing enterprises, cov ring every variety of industry from ,ck works to steel works, were organ red in the south, making a total dvriig lie last live years of over 17,0M5) new en erprises. Com enting upon the statistics of the outh's progress, The Mannfacturers' tecord says: The past twelve months have been a >eriod of nprecedented activity in every lepartment of industrial and commerci il enterprise in the south. Every factoi ii business reflects general activity. The 'ailroads have been cro wded with treight >eyond their capacity. The banks have raisacted an enormously increased vol ume of business and have earned laud ome returns upon their capital; agri mItural l and manufacturing prodticts ave been put forth in great. <inatity md there has been a tremendlous Ilow apital from every direction to the south eeking investment. 'The past year has ot been one of booming iior abnormal levelopement, but it has been essential y a period of steady growth upon a solid omidation. The south hats been put to evere tests during the past year, but it as stood them all without, strain or in ury, and stands better in the eyes of the vorld than over beforo. A i abundance if everything that. fields or actories ield, has given the sout h maple re ouircs with which to stand( all strains tid to meet all dlemanids. F'ighmt for Poulitical Lie. To,'l-:l A, 1{an., I ec. 31 .----Senator I n alls caime to ToI)Cka to-day for' the pur >ose of holing a consultation with his annager's. To-day is also the lifty-sev nthi anniversary of his birth, buit this act was not knownm whicn the (late for lie conflerence was set by Chiairmanu Bluchian, of' the Republean Central Com mittee. Th'le coinfereince was extenlsively idvertised andi( the (city is full of' lipub Iean politicians. Senator I igalls ha' aeda suit.e of rooms aut the Cope. and IIot-el uintil after the Legislatur las ad journed1. Neither Senator 1igalls tor Mr. Ilunchan, who is mnanagin g hid :~ampaign, wvould give any statemnent for pulblicant.ion to-dlay. "You see I have made quite a repuata hon for discretioni withiin thie past two weeks and do not wish to blast it,' remtarked Senator I ngalls. IMr. I ugalls will remaIn in TJolekm to-mnorrow, ret.urning to A tehiisoni on am evening train., iIe will return to thie dity alter the L.egislaturie conIvenes5, ti remain until afer thew Senaattorial cr Lion. The Allbance leaders aire consider ably disconicertedi by the 'onIfidhene( which Senator' Inigalls's managers aire hsplay'ing. F"rank McGrath, presidlent A> the Alliance, said to-daLy : "The onbl thing we have to fear is that some of ow repiresentatives may be6 suddenly calleci iponi to leave the Capitol.'' State Senator WV. J. Buchian, 1(ansasu City, Chairman of' the Rtepublican State C:entral cuAttA, is r'epom'ted as hy ing said td-day to a supposed supporter of Senator Ingalls that the great work before the~ friendms of' Intgalls now is to prevent, It' possible, tho Alliance rnembers of' thme Legislature from going nito) a concus, If' a caucus can he pre renited, lie holds thmerme is a fair ptroba >)ihity ofre-electing Ingalls. But if the Alliance mnembersgo into a caucus there 5 no0 possibl e hope ; thme muau they nomi iate will be elected on the first ballot. An JIdin Tragedy. F R W A v NE, D ecem ber 21.-Wesley fl'lis, a pIromlUinent young biusiness manu f New C'orrydon, a town forty miles outhi of her'e, shot and instantly killed kiiss Verona E. Travel this morning md( then commnitted( suicide. Tullis has or a long time been paying attention to he girl. 11er mother objected to the natch. T1his morning lie entered a ~rocery kept by Mrs. Trravel and asked he girl to marry him. She referred him o her mother who ordered him out of he house. H'e drew a revolver and shot lerona through the heart, Hie then urned u pon her-mothuer, firing at her wice without effect. Tullis then blew mt his brains, and fell lifeless upon the leadbhndoat the girl THE INDIAN BATTLE. The Repoort of the Fight and the Death of Captain Wallace Confirmed. OMAHA, Dec. 30.-Col. Forsythe reached Pine Ridge Agency this m'orn ing with the Seventh Cavalry and the surviving prisoners. lie reports twen ty-live of his men killed and thirty four wounded in the light at Porcelain Creek yesterday. Gen. Brooke has since the fight revoked his orders for trains to carry prisoners South under guard. There is only a remnant left. I A spiecial to the Bee from Rushville, t 8:ys : "At daybreak this morning r thirty Indians belonging to Two t Strike's band tried to capture a pro- v vision train of the Seventh Cavalry t two imiles from Pine Ridge. The c Indian-i were all k illed. "The reinains of Captain Wallace ur- t rivud heret at noont to-day. ildt(,he bodply a will be sent, to Fort Robinson. 'he v people are llocking into town by the s himdreds from the territory bordering b on the reservation." 1 V.nIN)TON, Dec. 30.-The Coi- 1 iissioner of Indian A flairs this morn- 'I ing received the following (lispaitclh frot A gent 1). F. Roger, dated 11ine lRidge, Indian Agency, I)econber 29: I "On Wounded Knee Creek this morn- t ing while the soldiers wero disarming i Big Foot and his band, after their sur- I relider, a light took place which result- I ed in the killing of about 300 Indians and several of the soldiers, including Captain Wallace, with a number t wounded. 'I'wo Strike and his party, i who are camped on White Clay Creek, i just below Red Cloud's house, opened lire on the agency from the hill tops opposite the boarding school, wound- t ing two soldiers. The police returned the fire, killing two of' Two Strike's I Indians and wounding two others. Two Strike an his band have retreat- l ed in a Northwesterly direction and it i is slipposed is t.rying to make Ils way I hack to Baad lands. "'luiis far the I Pine R idge Indians have taken no ac- 3 tive part in the war, but Big Foot, r Slow Bear, Kicking lear and Two % Strike have been and are still making t disturbances." (ioNE0 Vo(IlE r B OD)Y, Coin tA., S.C., Doe. 31.-Among1 the passengers who changed trains at 'J the timion depot this morning was Col. It. M. Wallaee, of Sumter, andl he went north. lIe is bound for the Pine Ridge t Indian agency, soie distance from i Omaha, Nebraska. lie is going on a sad mission which I is no less than to bring back to South Carolina the body of his brothor, Capt. t Wallace, of company K of the Seventh United States cavalry. u1ast night lie received a telegram irom the agency stating that couriers froim the ISad Lands had arrived there stating that a desperate conflict had occurred on l'orcelian creek hetw(een the United States troops and ilig Foot's band of ind ials. The Indians had been captured and were being disarimed by Col. Forsythe's troops, when they revolted and pounced upon the troops. Then Capt. Wallace was killed and Lieut. Garlington, also a native of this State, was wounded in the arni. Several soldiers were killed before the troops could repel the at tack. Many Indians were also killed. Gtreat excitement prevailed, and fears were entertained that the friendly tribe would rise and destroy the agency. CHANGED HANDS. The Agricultaral Departimint Transter real to Clommon College. Co.1n IlA, S. C., De. 31.-The agri cultural department has at last chang- I ed hands. A very long session of the board of triustees oif Clemison College was biehi last night iln (overnor TIill-. man's ollie, G overnor Tillman being presen('ft. lI)elinite ac(tioiI was taken 0on I t.he I ollow inig matters: Governor Tlilhnain, Secretary of State Tinachd andl MIr. .l. E . WVanamiaker were appointed a sub-committ.ee of the board, wit,h powers to look after the State's interests in the dlepartment of agriculture until the property is finally in poss5ession of Clemisoni Colle'ge. 'They have also duties to pe'rfoirm in relation to (Clenmson Colleg -, bei ng, in fact, thle represenitativyes of the tirls tees. M r. ,1. I'. Smi thi, of A nderson, was elected chief clerk of the diepar'tment, vice Mr. A. IC. Gowles, who resigned. Mlr. Smit.h will probably report for duIty to-mlorrow. Mr'. W\ithers, who was assist ant clerk under Col. Ditier, has been retained by the suIb-coml n it tee. It is unde'rsood that Mir. Withers's salary hais been raised<lfronm $50 per 11non1thio 1(3l25 per imonth , lbhe rat,e at whlichi the chief clerk was paid. Tihe followinrg gentlemen were se leeted as gliuino samnpl'rs: Messrs. C rossiand, fromi the northeast section, Sheanklin, of' l'endleton, Ilardlin, of Greeniville. A foulrth membuer will lie' appoi ntede by Governor Tililman aind It was determlined to gI 0on wVit h the work at. (Clninoi C (ol lege as far as t he I 'rof. liaredIin, (of Clemson College, was placed ini charge of the dlepartmient oft chemistry. Ilie was at work in his new ollicei to-day. lIe said that it would hbe several days yet before he wvoil be able to familiarize himself wit,h the muatters of detail. TIhero are two assistants in his department, who colme over from the 01h1 regime, Prof. I lardin was instructed to continue11 the anialyst's of fertilizers. Seretary Sloan was instructedl to take charge of thme uxperimient station here, lie visitedl the puaco this morn inig and receivedi the books, other pro perty, etc. P'rof. lIardin will probably receipt for the chemical property at thue expe'rimnent station to-morrowv. The dlepartment building will be sold by the siniking fund commission and all of the removal p)roperty except thre museum will be transferred to the Clemson College some time in March. (Governor TIillman. Mr. J1. E. Wanna maker and Secretary Slon pushed things to-day in order to relieve the situation with regard to the shipment of fertilizers. There are nowv on file with the chief clerk of tho trustees abiout a dloz/en applications for tags, which applications include a great number of tags. By the construction of the Act for the abolition of the department it is held to be the rule that tihe applications for tags accompanied by the cash must be sent to State Treasurer Bates, who will notify the clerk of the trustees of the applications andl instruct him to issue the tags. The business wIll run along smoothly when this information is rad ..-Mama n an ore. THE INDIAN WAR. NFORMATION OF THE BATTLE WITH THE TROOPS. ['welve Indians Deliberately Attach Ntre Htndred Moldiers-The FrIend421/86kt Join the Hostlies--No Doubts of rarthor Fghtimng-Camp Lights Plainly Visible. OMAIIA, Dec. 31.-The ijee correspon. lent at Pine Ridge telegraphs : "en. 3rooke has just received news from he scene of the fight at the Catholto aission on Clay Creek which states hat six men of the Seventh Cavahy rere killed and many wounded. Fur her particulars have not yet been re efved. "First intimation of the trouble at he mission was bought lato yesterday fternoon, by a courier who rushed in ith the startling news that the mis kon building, where there are a num er of Catholic priests and sisters and tndreIs of children, were surrounded y hostiles and had been set on fire. 'lie cavalrymen, who had scarcely had ny rest for four days, were instantly n the saddle, and with a couple of lotchiis guns started on a gallop for lie ImliSSiOnl. As the di4patch was be nig written the roar of guns could be ivard, indicatig that a light was in >rogress. "Two Strile. Little Wounded, Short 3-all and othi chifefs rai away from he agency Monday night, after hear ng of the Woundtd Knee Fight. tak ng with them a liuinidred warriors. rhey also compelled the old chief Ited 'loud to accoipany theni under the hreat of death. .t is these Indians vho attacked the supply train and aided the Catholic mission." The Ninth Cavalry was an hour be ind the Seventh in reaching the spot .nd they found the Seventh in a tight lace surrounded by the Indians. The itter disappeared, however, when they aw rein forcement arrive for the caval y. The infantry were also ordered, but vere not needed. The danage done to he troops is small, Lieutenant 'Mann f Company E, Seventh Cavalry, was rounded throigh the side. The first ergeant of Company K. was also rounded. 'RiEACHEI)tOUs ACTIONS OF T11E1 ONIAIIA, Neb., Dec. :1.-A special to he Iee from Itushville says: "A dlinding snow storm, which is fast as uming the proportions of a blizzard, )egan falling here and at the agency it 9 o'clock this morning. Advices are hat the light was kept up nearly all light at the late battle ground within few miles of the agency. By reasons of the suspicious actions >f the alleged Friendly Indians in the .anp near the agency, troops werecall ed in from the field. It transpired late yesterday evening that the large camp of Friendlies, loOated Siuth of the agency, is ma(de up almost entirely of old men, sqiaws and children. The question is what has become of the supposed large number of Friendly bucks located there until yesterday. A half breed cour ier who was through that camp last night reports that nearly every able bodied Indian in this Friendly outilit ha"l slipped tway after dusl( and joined the hostiles. rhe Friendly Indians at Pine Ridge low, he says, are principally squaws, id those not able to light. Up to 11 'clock this morning, however, every hing is reported to bi qtiiet, both sides esting on their arms and each waiting or some move from the opposing orces. That further fighting will oc mr there seens no doubt. If the ndians should make an onslaught luring the storm, they would undoubt d(ly have a great advantage. The langer is that they will nowv break itway to strongholds ini ladi Lands and te reinfrorced by the Rosebtid, Stand ng Itock and other Indians. Indian signal lights were again plain 13' visible last night in tie rough coun.. try twenty miles North. t'.\RLiT.iAs OF TillE FilLT. Bright andi eaurly w~ere the troops up this morning. At 8 o'clock they were ordleredh to be in readiness to move. At thatt hour the cav'al rY and dismountedl troops were imassed abouit the Indian y'lllage, t lie lIotchkiss gun is overlook ing the campO not many y'ards5 away. I olonel Fotrsythlit ordered all the In dlirns to comeW forwardl fromt the tents. 'ITey camei( alma sa in a hlf -eircle un til tcounited. Thlue dlismoun ted troops were then thtrowni aroun id them, Com panny K. C'aplain Wallace, and Coim painy B. Captain Varnum. 'Thle order wats thmen givyea to twenty Indiaiins to) go and( get thir guns. Up tIn returnin g it wvas seen that only two oif themn hadt guns. A detachment at oInce' began to search t h village, re suilting ini thtirt,y-eighit guns being found. As I lie search was about com pleted the Indians, surrounded by Com panies K aInd Il, began to move. All of a sudden they threw their hands to the grotuiel anti begani to lire rapidly at the troops ntot twenty feet away. Thie troop)s were ait a great disadvantage, fearing that they wvould shoot their ownt comrades. Tihie Indian men, wo meni andi caildren thien ran to the South battery, hiring rap)idly as they-ran. Sooii the mounted troops werg ~er/ them shooting themi down on every side. 'The engagement lasted fully an hour and a hall'. To the South many took refuge in a ravine from wvhich it was diflicult to dislodge them. It is esti mated that the soldiers killed and wounded, numiber about fifty. Just now it is impossible to state the exact number of dead Indians. Trhere are many more thun fifty, however, killed out right. The soldiers are shooting the Indians down wherever found1, n6 qularter be ing given by any one. Captain Wal. lace, K Troop, Seventh Cavalry, was killed andl Lieutenant Garlington, of Arctic fame, was shot throng the arm at the elbow. The troops are still firing from the camp and pursuing the enemy in every direction, To say that It was ai most daring feat, twelve Indlians attackin g5 cavalry, expresses the situation but faintly, it could only have been in sanity which prompted su.chi a deed. it is doubtful that if before night either a buck or a sqjuaw out of all of Big Foot's band will ue left to tell the tale of this (lay's treachery. The members of the Seventh Cavalry have once more shown themselves to be heroes in deeds of daring, ilngle handed conflicts were seen all over the field. The death of Captain Wallace. causes much regret. The poor fellow -~ met his death by a blow on the ifead i from a war cln.