The Pickens sentinel. (Pickens, S.C.) 1871-1903, January 21, 1892, Image 1

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V* PICKENS, S. C., TF1IURSI)AY, eJANUARY 21, 1892. NOlS THE FLIGT OE TIME. DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON THE SUNDIAL OF AHAZ. The hadows Are Controlled by the Hanta of Ornnipotence-Tine's F1itht Marked by the Sunrises--Daybeak on the Moun tain Tops. ' BRoOKLYN, Jan. 10.-Dr. Talainge's sermon this mo.ning was full of bright ness and good cheer. le might have called it a recipe for happiness. The buoyancy and elasticity of temperament which characterize him were conspicu ous throughout, and must have been imparted to his hearers. Ilis text was I[ King xx, 11, "And Isaiah the pro. phet cried unto the Lord; and he brought the shadow ten degrees backward by which it had gone dowo in the dial of Ahaz." Here is the frst chek or watch or chronometer or timepiece of which the world has any knowledge. But it was a watch that did not tick and a clock that did not strike. It was a sundial. Ahaz, the king, invented it.. Between the hours given to statecraft and the cares of oflice he invented something b which he could tell the time of day. it took the world six thousaind years to make the present chronometer. So with the measurement ol longer spaces than minutes and brvrs. Time was calctlat ed from hew rtUon J! nev moon; then Ir >m harvest t harvf. 4. Theu the year was pronxiccd to b, three hundred and fifly-f'our (ys and then three hundred snd sixty davs, and not until a long while after tl ce huvied and sixty-live dys. Then event4 were calculated from the foundation of Rome, afterward from the Olympic games. Th11en the Babylonians had their measurincut ol the year and the Romans theirs aid the Armenians theirs and the Ilindoos theirs. ChroniologV was busy for cen turies studying monunenits, inscriptions, cons, mummies and astronomy, trying to lay a plan by which tll question Of dates might be settled and events put in their right place in the procession of the aces. But the chronologists only heaped u- at mountain of confusion and bewil dcrient tintil in tile Sixth century IDionvsius Exiguus, a R{oman a'bot, said, "Let everything date from the hi.th at Bethlchem of the Lord Jesus C'hrivt, the f%*g*'ir of the world." The abbo proposvd to have tliii,,b dated b:lkward and forward froin that great event. What a splendid thought for the world! What a mighty thiig for Chris tianity! It would have been most nat urt to date everything from the crea tioi ol the world. But I am glad the chronologists could not too casily guess S liw old the world was in order to get te tnatloios in the habit of dating fromr that o'urrence inr its decuments and his teiies. Forever fixei is it that all his toy is to be dated with reference to the birth of Christ, anld, this matter scttled, Males, tb chief chronologist, declared that, the world was made live thousand four hundred and eleven years before Christ, aid tire deluge came three thous and one hundred and fifty-five years be fore CIrrIH, and all the illustrious events of the las61 nineteen centuries nnd all the great evemts of all time to come have beep or shitil be dated from the birth of Christ. We are told that Ilezekiah the kin was (lying of at boil. It must have be i one of the Worst kind of carbuncles, a boil withiNt any ceDis a,"o' e and somne tunes dea* FzA-- 'A liz was put upon01 it, as a pQt . Hiezeklh (did not want 9' i IIej is son, whro was to take the kingd . n had not, yet been born, an(l Ileze.kiah death would have been the deat,h of t e nation. So he prays for re covery an is i.old he will get we:ll. But hre wants mefl miraculous sign to make h in sur l'f it. iIe hans tihe choice o1 avnth shadow on the sunidiail of Ahaz dvarce or iretreat. IIe rel.ed It, would not 'be so woniderfuil to have tire sun go dow)1, for it always (does go dIowa 2' sooner or lay1. IIe arsks that it go b)ack stad.I *O oin r words, let the (day in Bad go towa onr toward sundowi, turnr lid kig to d sunrise. I see tihe inva ldngetsloo teredi up anid wrapp~edl ini blaesdia ing out of tire wimdo(w upon watces ti ithe courtyard. Wieh shadow bensaoontedath gigotJ nis to retreat. Instead of 8450E " ''ard six o'clo ak ini the even mig it goes fb.k toward( six o'clock in tire mormin1 Th'e bifg poultice hiad beenr 4 drawing f" soetflOimet, and suire enough the boil br't.ke0 andi Mezckiahi got, wveil. Now I expeC(. you will comue oni withi 3our highrer 1-rificism aind t,ry t o explain aiino say it, was an optical deC seemned to go dt anti tire shadow 0only arid it was 5 k or a cloudt Jamne over shadowv did( go~ ~ert:am wich wvay the ed It to go ba' .ad as IIezekiahi ex; iet oxn mind lit e took tire action of ils o ~flilrill r tire retrograde moyen, omnt. dilo; tire 5adow wvent back on all tire thSof Chtl- landI and other lands. Turn .two off it 11les xxxii, 31, and find that thevr. oalc l~h' ylonI tie mighty men of non. Am I otced tic same pheno)me thotrity turn if you dro not like Bible au tus nd fmi ver your cop)y ot HIerodo peioplei( ntid that away oil' m Eg ypt the thirg e .Ot :ed that there wats some Lhirg ire atter with tire sun. 'Thle upon Iod th tie whole umrverse waits aroc o, ve(1 suns tand moons anid stars can with hi l things to hinm, and ihe enttire worl litt,le linger turn back au bahck tire hr as easily as you could set your cockIo rhantd or minut,e hand of you cloce oe wa~m. Atl tre mopra ing of' tire new year preo You nil feel sivng on t,he flight, of time. ward sunde tat 3 on are moving on to. der a conise n and many of yon are un -j thlis mornit tent, delsreasion. Ipropose wartchies and t,o set the hiands on your wy'I pro clocks to going the ot,her rpiiy make t >ose to sihow you how you t,uJ shradowy o - shadow of your dilal like ~ng forward r the dial of Ahraz to stop l o thnk hand make It go backward. hand t,n It ave a big undertaking on Lord bwho ret 'an be done If tie same kLarh coreyr rsed the shadow in Heze laoki aout t rd moves upon us. While wooing t tb suidial of' Hezekah and toarn tt iadhow retreating we ought eare all God controls the shadows. rayto acknowledgehi maniagemtent of the sunshine. We sta in the glow of a bright morning and say in oul feelings if not with so MR words, -This life is Irom God, t warmth is from God." Or, we hav rush of prosperity and we say, "Th successes are from liod. What a p vidential thing it was I bought that just befbre the rise of real estate! I1 grateful to God I am that I made ti investment! Why, they have declai 10 per cent. dividend! What a merc3 was that I sold out my shares befl that colialse!" Oh. yes; we acknowled God in the sunshire of a bright (lay the sunshine of a great prosperity. I suppose the day is dark? You have light the gaq at noon. The sun d< not show himself all day long. The is nothing but shadow. How slow are to realize that the storm is from G and the darkness from God and the cli from God. Or we buy the (ay bef< the market's retreat, or we make an vestment that never pays, or we pi chase goods that we cannot dispose or a crop of grain we sowed is ruined drought or ireshet, or when we took t Count of stock on the 1st of January lound ourselves thousands of dolli worse oil than we expected. Who i tler Vch circumstances says, "This b is irotm God. I must have been allow ti go into that unfortunate enterpr ior som6 good reason; God controls I e ata wind as well as the west wind?" My friends, I cannot look for one n: mncit on that, retrograde shadow Ahaz's dial without learning that G controls the shadows and that less we need all to learn. That he contr ,he sunshine is not so neccessary a I ,;on, for anybody can be happy wh things go right. But for those In jt opposlte circumstances mv text con in with an omnipotence ~of meanii The Shadow! Oh, the shadow! Shi ow of bereavement! Shadow of sit uess! Shadow of bankruptcy! Shad 1f mental depression! Shadow of p iecut,ion! Shadow of death! Spev out, oh, Su:1 dial of Ahaz, and tell die people that God manages the shi ow! As IIezekiah sat in his pau window wrapped in invalidism and s rounded by anodyues and cataplasi aud looked out upon the black hand the only clock known at that time a saw it move back ten degrees, le learr a lession that a majority of the hum race need this hour to learn-tbat 1 hest friend a man ever had controls t shadow. The setbacks are sometin tIe best things that can happen. '1 ,reat German author, Schiller, could r work unless lie hiad in his room the se( of rotten apples, and the decay of I fruits of carthly prosperity may beco an inspiration instead of a depressi Robert Chambers' lame fect shut 1 up from other work, and lie became world renowned publisher, and hell fashion the best literature of the ag The painful disorder like that of Ilezek called a carbuncle is spelled exactly 1 same as the precious stone called !-arbuncle, andh te pang of sull-ering n become the jewel of immortal val Your setback, like that of' Ahaz's st dial, may be recovery and triumph. never had a setback but it turned out be a set forward. You never woi have become a Christian if you had I had a setback. The highest thrones heaven are for the setbacks. But I l1r mise to show you how J shadows might be turned back. Fir by going much among the young peop In moit family circl, a there are gra children. By this divine arrangemt most of the people who have passed I meridian of' life can compass themnsela b)y juvenility. It, is a bad thing for old man or 01(1 woman to sit looking the vivacity of t,heir grandchildren sho mng, "'Stop t,hat racket!'' ]etter join the fun. Let t,he eighty year-old grai lather join the eight-yeat youing gram son or grandldaughter. IRemain youi IHang ul)'your stoa'kings in Christnr time. Help the boys fly the kit.e. Ter t.he girls how to dIress their (1ol1s. B ter t,ban arnica for your stiff joiints a catnip tea .01' your sleepless5 nights v he a laree (lose of yout,hful compani< Set, back the clock of human l Make tihe shadow of' the sundial of AL retreat ten dleg[ee.. Pecople make the selves old b)y always talking about iog old and wishmii for thme good dlays, which were never asgoodi as thi days. From all I can hear the gral children are not hal f'as bad as the grat parents were. Matters have b( hushedl up. Rtevive your remembrat of what, you were between live and 1 years of' age, and with patience capa of ever3 fling join with the young. 1 back t' e shadow of' the dial not teni ''recs, but fifty andi sixty and sevei Set back y on clocks ailso by eater] on new ain absorbing Christiani wo 1(n our desir'e to inspire the young Imave im 0ou1 essays~ l'ad much to e abo.ut whluat has been accomp1)1ished I le youngr. Young min for action,4 meni for counsel. Insteadt of any of y i)eginingi to) 11(1 up your energies, arot aneIw your energies. With the expt <-rce you mave obtained and the oppor mt,ies of observation you have, had iI fing a long life, you oughlt to be ab)le do in one y ear now more tban you 4 in ten year's right, after you had pasm out of your teens. Physical power le: your spiritual power ought to ,he mo het, me say to those in the afternoon liic: D)on't. be p)utting off'the harne when Go'd wants ft off lie will take off'. D)on't. he frightened out of life thme grip as mianty are. 4t the first anet of an Iiflutenza many iM up all as Jo %o new terror has come on the eari 'Thei mficrobes as5 thie cause of diser were descrt bedl in the Talmud sevente hundred *ears ago as~ "inivisible legio of danger ous ones." D)on't he scar out of file by all t.his talk about her f ailure. T1hat trouble has always be in the world. '[hat is what all the pt pIe that 'iver passed out of this 1t have died of--heart, failure. Adam hi it and all of' his descendants have h ft or will have it. 1)o not be watchi for sympt oms, or you willI have syn: toWs of everything. Some of you iv yet (lie of symnptoms. Symptoms hi often only what we sometimes see the country-a dead owl naIled or barn door to scare living owls. 1P your' trust in God, go to bed at t o'clobk, have the window open six I ches l'o let in t.he fresh air, sleep on yo ,nd right side, and fear nothing. The old ' we maxim was right, "Get thy spindle and ly distaff ready, and God will send the Ilis Ilax." a But while looking at this sundial of TI se Ahaz and I see the shadow of it move, ro I notice that it went back toward the lot sunrise instead of forward toward the sunset-toward the morning instead of' toward the night. That thing the )at world is willing now to do, and in many ed cases has done. There have a great it many things been written and spoken ire about the sanset of life. I have said go some of them myself. But my text m or suggests a better idea. The Lord who ut turned back that day from going toward el to sundown and started it toward sunrise cl es is willing to do the same think for all - ire )f us. The theologians who stick to (old religious technicalities until they a od become soporifics would not call it any. d thing but conversion. I call it a change se from going toward sundown to going h re toward,sunrise. That man who never te n- tries to unbuckle the clisp of evil habit e, lr- and who keeps all the sins of the past at f, and the present freighting himn,and who c( by ignores the one redemption made by el kc- the only one who could redeem, if that ,ve man will examine the sundial he will si rs llnd that the sha low is going forward 0 n- and lie is on ths way to sundown. Ilis tV s day in on the road to night. All the a c<ivatches that tick, all the cloc.:s that strike, all the sand glasses that empty P, themselves, all the shadows that move cl e on all the sundials indicate the approach sI of darkness. But now, in answer to ti o. prayer, as in my text the change was in On answer to prayer, the pardoning Lord s! od reverses things and the man starts to- u on ward sunrise instead of sunset. ie c turns the other way. The captain of 1r salvation gives him the military coi- ii sniand, "Attention! Right abou, face!" el en lie was marching toward indilierence, tI Ist marching toward hardhess of heart, nY ies marching toward prayerlessness, m arch- p ig. ing towad sin, marching towaro gloom, U: Ld. marching toward death. Now he turas 1. :k. and marches toward peace, marches to- f iw ward light and marchos toward coin- W r- fort and marches toward high hop iand a k, marches toward a triumph stul undous eC all and everlasting,itoward hosan:is that u . ever hoist and hallelujahs that e' er roll. ti Ne Now if that is not ihe turning of the r- shadow on the dial of Ahaz fromn going el ,r- toward sundown to going to ward sun- al ns rise, what is it? w of I have seen day break over Mount T nid Blanc and the Matterhorn, over the e< ed heights of Lebanon, over Mount Wash- d; an ington, over Sierra Nevadas, and mid- w he Atlantic, the morning after a dupai ted ! ,le storm when the billows were liquid tI Les Alps and liquid Sierra Nevadas, but 'he the sunrise of the soul is more effulgent IH Lot and more trans-a'rtig. It bathes all l !nt the heights of "N" soul, and illunnies ei ahe ll the depths f the soul, and whelms g all the facultiW, all the aspirationi, all v the ambitions, all the hopes with a ii m- light that sickness cannot eclipse, or ii M; death extinguish, or eternity do any- c ,he thing but augment and magnify. I 1 led preaca the sunrise. As I look at that e es. retrogra(le movement of the shadow on ti ah Ahaz s dial, I remember that it was a y he sign that Ilezekiah was going to get 0 he well and lie got well. So I have to tell el aly all you who are by he grace of God hav- I. .e, ing your day turned from decline to- i in- ward night to assent toward morning, ti that you are going to get well, well of to all of your sins, well of all your sorrows, ti well of all your earthly distresses. 0. mId Sunrise! (1 kot But, says, some one, all that you say 6 in may be true but that does not hinder f] the horrors of dissolution. Why, you c< he who are the Lord's are not going to is die. All that the grave gets of you as c; compared with your chief, your im e. mortal nature, is as the clippings of c, your linger nails as compared with your rt It whole body. As you run the scissors si lie along the edge of your thumb nail and c( es cut off that which is of no use but, a. an rather a hinderance, .01u (1o not mourn oi at over the departure of that fragment et it- which tlies away. D)eath will be only p: in~ the scissorsing off of that which could at d(. be of no use, and the soul has no funer- ii id- al over that which would be an an ful tr nuisance if we could not, get rid of it. as Tlhis body as it now is, wvhat a failure it is as would make of heaven if our departing g. lisoul had to be burdened with it, in the~ n' next world. WVhiile others there go ten si dthousand miles a minute we would take el ilabout an hour to walk four miles, and ct n- while our neigh bor immnortals could( see ii a hundred miles we could see only ten tI c. mniles, andi the fleetest and the health- v aziest 0.f our bodies if seen there would p .make it necessary to openf in heaven an b easylum for cripples. No, no; one of b )0the best possible things that will hap- s dpen to us will be the sioughing oIlf of 11 se this body when we have no more use t,i d-1 for it in its present state. Wh'len it et id- shall come up in its resurrected form si en we will be very glad to get. it, back c< ice again, but not as it is now with its linm en it,tions and bedwarfiments innumetr- y' >le able. Sunrise!0 ut There shall I bathe my wveary soul o Ic- lIn seas of heavenly rest,e ty And not a wave of trouble roll d Across my peaceful breast.( Sunrise! But not like oneo of thiosey ng miornilngs after you had gone to bed late t1 -k. or (lid not sleep wveli, and you get uip a we chilled and yawning and the torning e ay bath is a repulsion anid y'oi ie like b aigto the morming sun shtiminig into ( yur indw, I dnotsee what you , id< idtosmileiabout;iyour bright,ness is ot ea mockery." liut the inrush of ti is. the next world will be a morning after a ri- a sound sleep, a sleep thatt not i.tmg cai y, ,u- dlisturb, and you ill rise, the sunshmne g, tir- in your faces; and In your lirst morn to ing in heaven you wVill wadel inito the ti lid sea of glass mingled with lire, the foam Tp Cdl on fire wiltl a splendor youi never saw s is on earth, andt the rolling waves are j -c. doxologies, andl the rocks of that shore . of are golden and the pebbles of' that, beach hi .are pearl, and the skie's that arch tue scene are a commingling oif all the col by orsthiat St. .Johni saw on the wall of Sheaven---the crimson, andl the bhie, and(i tthe saffron, and the oranlge, and the h' prpl andthegoldl, and the green hwroult on those skies In shape of' gar-- c( en lands, of banners, of ladders, of chariots1 aof crowns,.of thrones. What a sunrise. ed -1Do you not feel Its warmth on your rfaces? Scoville McCollum, the d'yIng nboy of our Sunday school, uttered what, n o0- shall be the peroration of this sermnon, b "Throw back the shutters am(i let the (sun In!" And so the shadow of Ahaz's dsundial turns from sunset to sunrise. 'ig Methodiwuts Comning. cl p- VIENNA, ,Jan. 7.-A number of Rts- th ili sian Methodists have escaped from im re Rtussia and have reached this country h( in or Germany, with the intention of emi a grating to the United States. They cn ut state that all their co-religionists, who C, m reside along the banks of the Volga, St n- are also taking steps to emigrate to the IIa ur i Jnitel Statea. n 1E EMOCRATIC CHAR'. AE NEW CONST ITUTION-REORGAN IZATION OF THE PARTY. locntient Tint Should le Rund by Every Democratic Voter and Then Cut Jut and LAdii Aside for' Reference. ATIrrwLi 1. There shall be one or ore Democratic clubs organized in ,ch township or ward, each of which ubs shall have a distinct title. "The -- D-mocratie elub,"-and shall elect president, one or more vice-pre.ii mts, a recording nti a corresponding cretarv and a trca-mrer, and shall kvei the following working Commit es (if not, less tlian three ieinbers ch, viz: A committee on registration, I executive comittee and such other miittees as to eauh club way see mt zpedient. A ir. II. The meeting of the clu)3 iould be fru(ptent alter the opening the canvas4, anld so ie lilember of we club or ii vitf (I speaker deliver ait tdress at vach metting if practicable. Awr. I I. 'he preswlent. shall have myer to call an extra meeting of the ub, and one-ourth of the mmiembers lall colistit:te -l lorumi for the alsactiol of bwisineSl.i .AizrT. IV. I'l ub litis in. eaC.:h county tall be held togethor and operate nler tho cont rol fa -UInnt ex. itivvo >lmimttee, which shali consist of one ember trot caci c'ib, to be noi Ited by the reslective club3 and ected by the county convention; but iese powers to the said executive com ittee (1o not carry with them the )wer to l;i up'on the election of et bers to the coui ty convention or eir Ilualiticatiol to sit, as iembers, ir this power betoigs to the members the convent:in throigi tiho appoint ent and acte ioi (1 a cmmitteo on edentials, whose roport. shall he acted pon as to the members of the conven oi may seem) proper. 'he .Xecutivul cominittee, w hen ected, shall aM>oitt its owi ollicers id till all vae:ricies which may arise hile tlie vonveit ion is nt, in session, te tiur oe of flive of the executive >nimittee siall be mntil the first Mon ty i'i May of eavlh election year, at hiCh time t, couti- coniventions mial be eallti together to reorganizo I e pa 1r ty. :very vVnsLetial elecion year ese cotuity Con!vent1i!-. in May shiall ect lv!vites to t he >t:ato conilv'ietion tiled for the imrpose of electing dklv tes to tie iiattional Democratie en mtion aid tii -eet tlt- member of tho ational De.i,(vratic ex,-utive com iittee from tlii. ,ttv, and such Staitt >iventioll shall exercise it) other OWefr. This State convention shall be tiled by the St-t' CX1 ClitiVt CoMm111it !3 to meet every prvoi;lential election u-ar on the third Monday inl May. An ther State Dln crati. notai'nating nivention shall ie eal ld by I he Stato leuocratic executive committee to iect un the tird \\ 4-<ilesday inl Sep inher of each election ye;ir. Au-r. '. Couwmy Denioe-atit coiven ons shall be composed of <delegates veted by the stveral local club", 1111 ,legate for every twenty-five met1 ,rs, and ove dieii'gate for a ma joritv action thereof, with the right to eaefi >nty convention to enlarge or dimin h the representation according to cir istances. The county uonventiois shall be died together by to chairman of the spective executive coiimittees mider ich rules, not incoisietenit with t:i institution, as each count y may a(l opt, id wheni assemibled sh;al bie cialledl to der by the chair:nan of the executive iminiittee, and1( t conivetioiin shall Oceed tio niolinilat I and elect frotia nong its mlemfbers a plresidlent, 01ne or ore vlce-presidlents, a lecretary and1( Th'le clubs recogii'e bly the rept-l(t ti counoty conveintionis whlichi sent del ites to the Sitate con11venition wich et on t lie 1l:t.h dayv of A ulgust, 1890i, iall1 be cceogni zil Ia-s thle onily iegal )unlt y conlventio m iy permilit, the for initjion et a new. chth or clubs b)y a vo-thirds vote of its inieinbeirs; pro 1(ded,1 furthier, that. in all ci ties wvith at Ipu lation (of ~, 00i andl over, there may t two cIlbs ini (1ach ward;l thbey shall 3 orgzaii/. inl (hbedience to tis conl ithut ion, as are Iihe cil1u1 bs elewh ere in iis St ate, aind in org.nizinig said club s iey shia li hae re pre1en tationl ill the liinty Oi cont itions , resei( ively as5 LII coniveniti111ons ;ll c'elare in ac >rdanice with t his iconstiltlition. Alar T .'l'The Mte nom irniti ig con. lieu111 tfigverIliOr aiitl othler Stilte lIleers ini 18'i, .Ii the11wrcaftei, andl for eeltors fori pre'Sic-nt andi vict-pIresi lIt (of the sime year, adl everFy prtesi nitial year thier'afte1 r, shall be comn ).edi of1 delegaites fromli 1'eh ci)ounty ini ch(cun1 (ti 1ut ;idin hot II h bitranchies the gene(ral diemi!ly.; 55a(lti(legates 1 hi) hbe choltn b Iirimiary electionis he bhl oni It he lat lTusday in Aui 1st of ach i-t in yiiea(jr, the ilelegates he (leCtI.d to CeC'ivet a inaijority oIf C votes( (ca4. At ti elec'Itionr ionly hite D)omoc-rats shalt b- lIlow-ul to 31)', except thatS. 1I-g iocs w ho voted r G eneral ll;untiton in 1 7u an who V it 've vo).edthe ii )-'mot c rat i tcket (con1 imousiily since Iluy. bel alloiwedl ht vot.e. lhe ehiih rolls of thle part v shall con ituile the registryV liet andu ibl open to spcCtiuon byv ayv ineliher oft th~ pat v. at the eleteutio :alor tihis clause sha~ll bIeq~uet' aicts f the le-gislatumre of is bl.ate. >.e(ond pr iiitauhs when -exissary shalil h Ie tild t wo'' week s Iler A iTi. \'II. The ollieis olf thle Stat.e >nietC o hllli! bie a president, One ce'-presuidetl~ rOni iatch 'onigrestsioiial strict, twoV( teiretare an 1( d a t reas ART. l i tli T esta I t lOxecutietm actedl, saidi e-xecuitive c-ommiitt ee shall oo.e its owni ollic(rt; shall meet ait e ca'l oft the cha;irmanii or any live embhers, and at su ch iime1 anid place as I or the~y in ty appot int. T1he nmemu r olI lhe national Demlo atice execultiv(t conan tittee from Souith irolina shlIl be elected by the May ate conmventioni ini 1892, and every re years theri'after, atnd when elected tall he nr.oleiO a member of thae itate executive committee. Vacan 'is on sz;td executiNe committce by leath, resignation or otherwise shali )e filled by the rspective county execoi iveo cointmittee.,. Thm State executivo committee is .harged with the execution and direc ,on of the policy of the party ini the state, subject to this constitution, the )rinciples declared in the platforin of rinciples and such instructions by .esolution and otherwise as a State vonvention may, from time to time, idopt, and shall continue in ollice for ,wo years from the time of election, ) until the assembling of the State iominating convention which meets n Septemiber of each election year. if any vacancy shall occur on the state icket or for electors, by death, reimoval >r other the cause, co[nmitteeshall have .he power to fill the vacancy by a ma ority vote of the whole committee. Air. IX When the State conven ,ion atsenibles, it shall be called to )rder by the chairma'i of the State -xecutlv, committee. A temporary president shall be nominated and ,lect ed by the convention, and af ter its organization the convention shall proceed immediately to the election Af permanent otlicers and to the trans aetion of business; when the business has been concluded it shall adjourn line die. AiT. X. There shall be a primary election in each congressional district in this State on the last Tuesday in Augusta, 1892, and e%ery two ye:trs thereafter, to nor.iinsto candidates for Congress, to be conduicted and man aged as is heretofore provided in the election of delegates to the State con vention; the vote to he received, tabiu lated and announced by the State ex ecutive committee, to the chairman of whom the result is to be transmitted by the respective county chairmen by the iirst Tuesday in September, 18912, and every two years thereafter. I'lhe election for solicitors of the different cIrcuits shall be by primary, subject to t lie same rules and regulations, and to be announced in the same way as before set forth for congiessmen. XI. Before the election in 1S92. and each election thereafter, the State )em ocrati(, execuitive committee shall is sue a call to all candidates for State olices to address the people of the dif ferent counties of the State, fixing the dates for the meetings, and also invit ing the candidates for congress and solicitor in their respective districts and circtits to be present and address the people. At such meetings only the candidates above set forth shall be allowed to speak. Ai.T. XII. It shall be the dtuty of each colnty executive vomniittee to appoint meetings in their respective counties to be addressed by the candi dates for the (eneral Assembly and for the different county otlicts all of whom. including trial justic"s, shall be elected by primary on the last Tiesday in August of each election 3ear, minder the saime rufles and regim lation.s hiereinbefore provided. Au. XIII. Eaci county delegation to a State convention sh:ll have pow er to fill any vacancy therein. Ant'. XI'. This constitution nay be anecied and altered only by the State nominating convention which meets in Septeiber of each election year. Ai'. XV. As to organizing under this constitution by co1uty conven lions, any county faiihng or ret uising to organie mider the provisions of this constiti tion shall not have repre iont-atlon In the State Democratic con vent ion. Lco and Mi]cEnery. The Chicago Inter Ocean says: " -The regular Democratic conservative ti-k t,' which is the ticket of t hat faction of the D)emocratic party ini Loui sha thiat has nominated Ml-, Lnerv at the commanid of the lofterv coin pany, 1s e'mbellisht e by a portrait. of thme late ltibeit E. Lee. TIhe back otf the ticket H' exactly the same as the back of the lottery ticket. This truly inicateis its oJrigini. Ini the nlame of the helpless dead we make a protest. I n his lIife cime the great captain of the Conf edler ate armies was subj"ct to no such ini suIt., nor wvouild he have brokedi it. lie camie out, of the war a very poor inan, but he kept his homior arid his pr1( iai-n soiled. Whlen the lott ery company of iered him a bribe of 510,000) a year for the use of his name as an inspector of its monthly drawings he s tornifully re jected it, and went oni to the day of his death earning a very moodest livelihood by teaching in a Virginia c,ollege. ilad 1h0 been judicge of the su premne court of L ou isiana lie woiuld iiot have reiidered a dlecision in contravenition of pubilic po>licy and public morals anid in invor of a great gamubling trust. F"ar less woulId lie have accepted a niomi nation to the governiorship I [rom the lottery coi may as the reward of his pirositu.. tlin of the j udicial olliee. WVe (do hiiii the simp)le jusmtice to believe that ihe rat,ber wvould have lived by beggary and biIIeeui carriedl to a pau per's grave thban have fatled sumptuously in life anad lain in a rich man's tomb1 in deth~iII by mioney or pilace bestowed as5 a me wardl for personal servIce to a horde of pu nblers. TIhe 'reguhair D emnocratic '3onservat.ive ticket' has the bust of ltOb)ert, E. L ee, oncte~ general of t lie oul hiern'l armies, and1( Same 1) )ou gl as MlcEnery, no0w the lottery company's t(o iintie for governor ofi Lou isianta, ligravedl uipon it. One or the other ol Lbhe portraits should be 'rasedl. '[he imii )eriouts L ee iand the stibservient Ac IEnertiy (10 nt conisort eveni ini their countterfeit presentment '.' i':m. io-:1.z, S. C., .Jan. 13.- The tol o wing ar'e the tax returis of (;ov. 'Till nan. JI e retumrns piropertyV in t wo towin ipso Miriwether, where he lives, awiil ~ooper, where he owns a plantat.ion. I (Uve (off some machinery that he re urns hirieter township: 4mles, $75 (each... .. .....300 tX) 4I htorses, at $t;2.5(: cach . ... 250 (X) 15 hogs---..--.......... .... 20 1 watch...................0 00 I piani...................0 0 2 vehicles.... .... .........5) 00 m.tsehoi,ld furniture ... . . .... 200 00) 7 acres land........ .....,700 (JO d cow....................3000 3 iimles.... .... ....... ... 150 00 )o hogs.................... 7500 10 hogs............... .....0000 i wagon........ .... .... 0O ,125 acres land.............. ,800 00 A new year has rolled around upon is; let us try to make it a happy amnd meesaful OnA in every way. THE SILVER ISSUE. IWhat ft Deamocrtlc Concrns,maa 4-1 oil the IlIject. WASiLINOTON, . a#. 7.-A silver bill means a force bill: Thit paradox is be ing placed lpfore the Southern mem hers by the New England Congressmen who are just. returning to ashington after a trip home during the holiday season. A group of Congre.ssinen were gath ered on the floor of the House this morn ing before the hour of assembling, and were discussing tho outlook. In the group were lRepresentat ives Williams and Ioar, of Mlassachusetts, and Atc Kinney, of New IHampshire, while the Sotith amid West were represented by some Texas members and Mr. Mansutr, of' Mane. The conversation between the- men were at times quite emphatic aind was always earlest. 1Representative Williams began tho talk by telling a clever little story on 15land. the great free silver champion, and then the dialouge naturally ran to silver. " l'here are fourteen Demoerati in the Ilouse,".said Nir. Williams,"from New England, but there will not be one oin the next louse if a free silver bill passes this Congre s. I never heard such revolut-lonary sent iments as were expresse(d by Democrats, and men of national prominence, two, when I was home in Mas.;aclusetts during the past two weeks. Thme'y will break with our party and vo*- fr th1m lipublican candidate is iuick as thorlht if this House passes a free silver bill. With such a bill all hope of' keeping New Eigland inl the Democratic column, will be lost ." The Southern aml.Western men list eii (,d, vith eye wide Cpeil, to this tall-. epr'esentati vejchinne('s 5words were still more interesting. "I tell yoti what it it," he sai(, "if you pass a free silver bill it ineans ia force bill in t h next, Congress as sure as I am li vinig. We New Englanld Demnocrats have stood by the South-" - "So you have," interrupted Uepresen tat Ive Iailey, of ''e xas, "and I take otT my i.it to a New Enghand )eItoerat every time. It takes coura,,o to be a Democrat in New Eiaglaid." We have sto.d by you," continied ir. McKinney, "and we will not desert you in the future. You in ight as well make up your minds to olne thing, how ever, if a free sliver bill is passed bv thizi Congress it not only means the loss of every Democrat from New England but it also ineans th( defeat of mn.iy Demo. crats in the North, New York eecial lv. The ntext Co:)gress will then bo liepu' lican, a I telpblican 'residert will1 have Ibeen elected, anld you will have a forev bill passed lere that will put the Soith baek I weNiy years, if, in deed, it does not aise ai revu.t ion. Gentlemen, you have got to take your choice. It is ith(r to be no silver or ypu iunst take the conseq'uenccs, aid the comsequemie will be a force bill as sure as we are s;itting here." "'it,'' said Represent at.ive Ad bbott, r)f T'exas, "we wait Iloret loney in circu lation." -Are you certain that you will get it with a I rce silver bill?" asked Mir. AI% Kinney. Is it, not a fact tmt tle trou. be is ite to the robberv of the people by an extortionate system of tax-. tion ?" NJr. A bbott. admitted that this lild a good deal to do with il, in hii opinion. " I'hen why not, strike at the root of the evil," continued Alr. McKiiiney, anid break down this high tariff. We hayo got the eneny on the run on that issue, and we can keep him running. 'The situation will be very different, how ever, if we havo to pla:-e ourselves on thie dlefenive wVith a free silver bOi."' "Th'lere is aniothier' poinlt."' sid I tepre Senltative Illoar, "anid thamt is if you1 give Iliarrison an opp)ortuniity to Veto a fr'ee silver bill lie will mnake th1ei ve(to ine.i sage a stu inip speech againtst, the e vilIs of in flation. Ii L ill be history, ini the case of President G rant, r'epe(atinug it sell anid it will muake II arrison thew next l'esidenot iof the I'nited States." "Y onu ist not forget, either," added Mlr. WVilliams, "thai, the Denmocratic pa rty' has niot ai nntneed its Posit ion on th e sil vier <luestion sincme 1858, ai ii thle I >cinocrats in Conigress ought not, to foi'ce a pomlicy uipon1 the party when th'm National C onvenmtion is ont the eve of imeetinig. The i mmiense D emnocratic majority in tImus Congress is niot, duei to a silver senitimient , but to anti-lig h tar iff senitimwent,. You)1 have o0 ri ght to) foree 'upon01 the mn iwhlio werie eleet.eid oin a low tariff latform the discusI-siin of thle silver <iiesm i in. By keeping t,he tariff issue to the~ front we can win the next election. WVe canmiot, if' silv~er' is iniade an issue. W\hy cannot it be i '"The pe'ople of thle "'outhI aind \Vest areO look inig for frmee silver' legislation,'' said R epresentat ive Al ansu r. " Thme whole01 South is hioineycoimied w,, ith tha~t, idea." "WIll a sinugl' is trict, ini the South(I go Iliepli icani if the silIver <piestilon is postpoiied 't"' askedl \lr. \Alc' i nniey. The Te'ixas ime'mbeitrs dhid not ilmhink that It, woibl inake, any diffenorece in thieirm State if the pe'ople uindferstood thfat thle declay was temiporary anid a miatter' of' part y policy. Alr. Alarinsi' thought t ha-t perhaps t wo districts ini Mlissouiri might. beo lost to the D emo. cr'ats. TIhi'n thme contversat ion ce'ased, s0ome oft thme meuiber's being (calledl away. Wh ileI the Souat.h'ern andl Western muen (lid nOt ack nowlIedge thaet they had been coinvert ed thmey (lhi adl mitI that thie miiat ter' hade been piresented(1 to t hem in a n''w light.--News alm( Couriir. E:x iroess iCobber.v' in Tm''sI. I lot .-Tu ', Te'x:ts, .Jan. 8.--ate 'Tum s iihay nmighit it branch ollie of thie WVell. F"argo l''x ress. at the ( iranid Centr'al d.epiot, wals ro)bbed' of four packages of' imoney, amouintinrg to $ 10,009 or muore.. T[he exact, stun is unmobinirable on ac 'oun lt of limit ret i(ence ol* oflicials. TIhe~ night clerk had received thme money f rom the muessenger, who had come in on the night train, anid plalced it on the~ safe without locking it. lie steppe:l out for a moment through or.e dfoor amnd through another' on the opiposite side ot the room a thief cinte ed, gettinug the money and making hits escape lie f ore the clerk returned. Heo was seen, by cue of the driver's, to cross tie street with time money packages in his arms, but hue thought ft was a biaggnge man with letters. Tlhere is nio other' clue. 'THE GASTrONmA UAZE'TiC says ft has yet to believe that army man who was worthy of anm oflice ever sought It. We dliffer with our cotemporary. We think that many men have sought ot ace and were worthy of them too. A MEXICAN REVOLUTION, A CHURCH PARTY MOB CAPTURES A TOWN. Tho Mayor and Three of the Revolution IAt Killed and Mauy Others on Both Sides Fatally Wounded -More* Trouble Expected. Di;n.ii, N. M., Jan. 10,-Couriers who arrived here yesterday from Ascen sion, a town on the Mexican border, In tile State of Chihauhaii, bring reports of a terrible uprising which occurred on Thursday. Tihe town is the most ira portant on the line, contalniuQ 2,000 In habitants. The Mexican custom house is also there. For some time past bad feeling has existed between the adher ents of the church party and the officials and supporters of Diaz. The church 1men1 ire composed of the lower classes, and the Garza disturbances have made them more than usually dis contented. Allairs reached a crisis Thursday, when the election of the president or mayor of the town was held. Rafael Anchielor, a prominent politician, who had twice held ollice, was re-elected by a few votes, after a most exciting contest. Anclhelor was distasteful to the people on account or his efForts to inaugurate reforms, and threats were openly made agamst his life. Signs of trouble were iailfesi all (ay, but little or no atten tion was paid to them by the officials. About .1 o'clock in the afternoon a mob of over 200 mien suddeDly appeared in the 4rcets and at once surrounded the city building(. Without warning they iicied fire with shotguns and pisLols on ti. pe>ple. Anchelor was instantly killed. The mob then took possessIon ot the town, but not without a hard ight with tihe 1riends of Anchelor. Dur iog the battle three revolutionists were kiil!cd and many on both sides fatally wounded. Franco Sanzo, one of the leaders of the mob, was among those killed. Tihe impression prevails here that this is a movement in suipport of Garza. The church party -wre sympathizers of Garza, but Juan de Malta tVaustiunes, second iml colinand of the Mexican custom holise ,uards oil the border, expresses th" (Ipiion that the disturban,-3 is purely lo,al, and will soon be sum,pressed. Senor Pasalhkgua, the Mexican consul here, has gone to Juarez inl order to be m1l itlmmfediate Commlnicat,ion with his governitmeit. Troops are reported to he laste:fin from Chihuahua to the 11oint of the outbreak. In the mean whioe the town is inl possession of the miob, and further bloodshed is expected. WhatThey Did. WAs i i i N<rroN, Jan. 8.-At the ses mima t -day of the National Conference of State presidetnts of the Farmers' Al 1-ce the following resolution was an aiiinoimusly a(Ifpted: Resolved. That it is the sentiment amd desire of this conference of presi. denits of the Farmers' Alliance and In dustrial Union that the delegates of those orgalizations who attend the in 'dustrial conifirence to be held In St. Louis on F.bruary 22, 1892, use their influ enCe and votes to establish and perfect fraternal relations with all labor organ izfations reprcsented in said meeting, with the Ocala demands as a basis for the ilatform of principles, and that such platlorim be presented to the national conventionmis of the Democratic party, Repubeanm party and P'eple's party this year, with an earnest, request that the Primciples involved be engrafted into their Iplatforams for the coming national elections of 1892; but, that they carefully refrain Iromi comlmitting our ~Orier, as such, to alfliliation with any political larty or piarties. The conference was p)residled over by P'residcnt Polk, with WV. F. Gwynneoas secretary. A memorial to Congress has been adfoptedl which delores agricul tuIral deplression atnd asserts that it is thie imamaly to p)artial and unfriendly he!sfationl. It asserts that the present fimancial sysitem is dlefective; that all mooney sholOld be issuedl directly by the G'overnment to the people at a low rate of mnterest andl in suflicient volume to mueet legitimaite (denmands, andi that silver sho>uld have all the rhmhts in coinage and iualities of legal tender that gold pos sesses. Ely HIls Ownx iland. .MA iioN, Jan. 10.-Early this mnorn ong (our townm was shocked by the intelli. gence that tihe lifeless body of' Mr. W. 1I. Jh.thea, a pirominent, resident of Marion, had been found in Catfish cwampl, abot, a mile from town. A mnmuber of citizens hastened to the spot, am found Mr. Bethea lying (lead on the i due of the a wamip. T wo stabs were (is co vered, one on each side of his neck, oneIL of which severedl the jugular vein. tihe knife used lay beside,him. All the clreumilstances p)oinlted to suicide. Thme veridict. of tihe eoroner's jury was that he caime to his (leath by his own hand. Mi. Bethea was at one time a leading mferchaint of the town, but his health failmiii, he retiredl from business. His hiealthi has smece been steadily growing worse, le was subhject to spells of great inervous depression. IIis conduct was reLgarded by his frineds on yesterday as peulliar. iIe left his home about 8 (o'clock last night, telling his wife that he 111(ui bineliss aippointmenlt up town. Il e n1ever retrnmed.-Tfhe State. Fo,r Torturinig a Poor Cat. CAl'1; M AY, N. I., .Jan,6.-Alderman .Johnm G. Ware, at the instigatIon of Hlerberr WV. imunds, counsel for the Society for the Preyention of Cruelty to Amimals, issued wvarrants to-day for the arrest of Walter Coverdale. Ed wa:rd1 iIolanid, Claude Doughty, Thomn as5 lolland and John Johnson to ap pe:mmr before the Alderman Monday to answer a chuarge of tormenting, tortur ing and crdielly and needlessly, ill treat Ing amid killing dfumb) aninmalis. It Is said that a cat was horribly burned and killed at the roundhouse -of the West Jersey Railroad here last Saturday by lie use of red hot locomotive pokers. The cat, it is alleged, wias held In the air and the pokers forced through the body. The shrieks of the cat the tor turers seemed to enjoy. The boys range from flfteeen to twenty years Ia age.