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VOL. XXI PICKENS, S. C., THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1892. NO 23. DR. TALMAGE'S CREED. A SERMON SUGGESTED BY CURRENT THEOLOGICAL DISCUSSION. No Matter Ilow Uicertalii l the Belief of the So Called Advancedl Clergy, Dr. Talmage's Faith Im Securo atud Ea.ily Understood by All. 3RooKYN, Feb. 14.-At the Taber nacle service tils morning, aftLer the usual reading of the Scriptures, the con gregation sang Jesus shall reign where'er the suin Dotl his successive journeys run. The Berion which followed was ap parently suggcsted by the storm of the ological controversy now raging il the churches. Ill these tImes, whvn it is quite uncertain what many of the clergy really do believe. this sermon makes it very plain what the pastor of the Brook lyn Tabernacle believes. Iis text was taken from Loke vi, 17, "And he came down with them aid -,tood InI tle plain.') Christ on ': e mountains is a frequent study. We have scelni1 oni the AIN0lount of Olives, lMoun, of Ie.1titudes. Monllt Morlah, Moumi, Calvarv, Alount of As cention, and it is glortous Lo study him 1 on these great iatutir11 clevations. But t how is it that never before have we no. ticed him oil the plailn? Aiiid the rocks, high -up Oil the mounton11mi, Christ had passed the nigt, hut now, at carly dawn, he is comigti down with some es pecial friends, btel))ing from shelviin' to shelving, here and (ltee a loosened stoue rolling down the stcep sides ahead C of him, until lie gets in a level place, so that he can be ippro., ched without climb Ing from id sides. lie is on tile level. My text say, "IIe came down with them and stood in the plain.'' Now that Is wiat the world wants to day more thi m Iything else-a Christ on the level, easy to get at, no aseend ing, no descending, approachable fromi all sides-Christ on the plain. The question among all consecrated people today is, What is the matter with the inimister!e Many of' them are engaged in pickinug holes in thLe llible and apolo giz!ng for this and apologizing for that. In an age When tihe whole tendency is 9 to pay too little reverence to tile B:ble, 0 they are imhting against Bibliolatry, or too much reverence for the Bible. They are building a fence on the wrong side t of the road; not on the Eide where the S precipice is and oil' .ioclh multitudes are falling, but on the ui 4er side of itc road, 8 so that pe-ople will 11"t fall uip hill, of 8 which there is no danger, ' What a spectacle we have In our do nominations todax; coitmiteies trying r to patch iu) an old creed made two or three hundred years ago so that it will t Lit on the Nineleenth century. Why do not our millinery establishments take out o the tarrets the coal scuttle hats V which your great-grandmothers wore and try to it them on the head of the v modern maiden? You cannot fix up a thi:c-hundred-year-.old creed so as to fit our time. Princeton will sew on a lit- 11 tle piece, and Union seminary will sew 11 on a little picce, and Alleghany se Ili- U nary and Danville seminary will sew on t other pieces, and by the time the creed I is done it will be as variegated as Jos- c eph's coat of many colors. 'Think of c havim" to change an old creed to make ii it clear that all infants dying go to leav- 'j en! r As we are now ill process of chang- 0 ing the creed, and no one knows what ( we are expected to believe, or will two W4 or three years hence be expected to be- t] lieve, I could nlot wait, and so I have iw made a creed 11 imy ownl wich I mitend ( to observe the rest of my hfe. I wrot.e 'l It down in my memoraindum book some ( six months ago. and it reads as follows: tl "My creed: Th'ie glorious Lord. To p trust him, love him and obey him is all b that is required. TIo that creed I invite c all mankind. T. lie Witt Talmae The reasonl Christianty has not made p more rapidl advanice is biecause the peo- a pie are asked t) blieve~ to many things. ai There are, I believe, todav millions of fi good Christians who have nev'er joinied y S the church amid are not counted aimong i' the Lord's friends because thiey cannlot t. believe all the things that they aire re- e quired to believe. One-hialf (lie .hiinas 11 a man is expected to believe ill oirder to y enter tile church and( reach heaven havee no more to (10 withI his salvation (hail g the question, IIow nmany volcanioe ar'e a in the moony or', Ilow far apart from il each other arme ihe rimgs o1 Saturn? or, IIow many teethI there were in (lie inw- c bone witih whiich SamrfSon smote' (lie a Philistines? I believe tenI thlousand a things, but no'ne oi theni have aui3 thing t to (10 Withl lmy salvaionm, c:)ee'i these (1 two-I am ai sinner andi Christ came to e save me.r Muisicianis tell us that the octaive coil sists only of five tones and two sei-i tones, and( all tlCheIIndlels and IIaydu tli and Mozarts~ and Wagners and1 Schiu- d~ m.anna of all ages must (10 their work ~ within the ranige of those flive tones anid di * two semitones. So .1 have to tell you eI that all (lie theology (lhat will lie of practical use ini our world is made out h] of the two facts of h unan sinfuIlness and1( a divine atonemient. Within that octave v swing "The Sonig of' Moses and (lie I Lamb,"' (lie Chriistmais chianit above fi ilethlehem and the I lallelu,jahi of all the V choirs standing on seas of glais. t Is there not some miodle olgetting ouit f of the way these nonessenitials, these b superflulties, theseC div'ergencies f rom (lie n main issue? Is there not some way of t bringing the church -down out of (liei mountain of controversy and conven- y~ tionalism and( to lput it on (lie plain v where Christ stands? Th le present ati- 11 tude of' things is like this: In a famine d struck district a table has been provided and It Is loaded with food( enoogh for all. a Tile odors of (lie meats 1i11 the air. I Everything is ready. The platters are 2 full. 'The chalbces are fumll. The bask- t eta of fruit are full. Why not let the e people in? The door is open. Yes but t there is a cluster of wise men blockinwr I up the door, (discusasing (he contents oi t time caster standing midltable. They are b shaking their fists at each othmer. h One says there is too much vinegar in ti that caster, and one says there is too b~ much sweet oil, and another says there a is not thle proper l)roportion of redl popI- ta ner. I say. "Get out of' (leay- a .. et the hungry people come in." Now, >ur blessed Lord has provided a great 5u)per, and the oxen and the fatlings ave been killed, and fruits from all the fineyards and orchards of heaven crown ,he table. TUhe world has been Invited ,o come, and they look In, and they are jungry, and people would pour in by the nillions to this worldwide table, but the loor is blocked up by controversies and nen with whole libraries on their backs md disputing as to what proportion of weet oil and cayenne pepper should nake up the creed. I cry, "Get out ot he way and let the hungry world come U." The Christian church will have to :hange Its tack, or it will run on the -ocks of demolition. The world's popu atlon annually increases 15,000,000. go one pretends that half that number >f people are converted to God. There ire more than twice as many Buddhists i ts Protestants; more than twice as many 1 Btuddhists as Roman Catholics. Pro estants, 135,000,000; Catholics, 195, )00,000; Buddhists, 400,000,000. There ire 175,000,000 Mohaminedans and I ,20,000,000 Brahmins. Meanwhile, nany of the churches are only religious lubhouses, where a few people go on 4uday morning, averaging one person o a pew or one person to a half dozen iews, and leaving the minister at night o sweat through a sermon with heire tid there a lone traveler, unless, by a unday evening sacred concert, he can et out, an audience of respectable rize. The vast maj ority of the church mem ership around the world puts forth no irect effort for the salvation of men. 1 id I say there would have to he a hange? I correct that and say, There ifll be a change. It there be fifteen lillion persons added every year to the orld's population, then there will be 1irty million added to the church and )rty million and fifty million and sixty Auilion. How will it be dono? It will e done when the church will meet brist on the plain. Come down out of lie mountain of exclusiveness. Come own out of the mountain of pride. 'ome down out of the mountain of for Lialisn. Come down out of the moun ain of freezing indiflerence. Astronomers have been busy measur ig worlds, and they have told us how reat is the circumference of this world nd how great Is its diameter. Yea, iey have kept on until they have ,eighed our planet and found its weight >be six sextillion tons. But by no .ience has the weiyht of this world's :ouble been weighed. Now, Christ Landing on the level of our humanity tands in sympathy with every trouble. 'here are so many aching heads. Iis ched under the thorns. There are so many weary leet. His were worn with ie long journey up and down the land hat received him not. There are so iany persecuted souls. Every hour of is life was under human outrage. The rorld had no better place to receive im than a cattle pen, and its farewell ras a slap on his cheek and a spear in is side. So intensely human was he that there as not been in all our race a griefor in rnity or exhaustion or pang that did ot touch hm once and that does not auch him now. The lepers, the pa-'a ytIcs, the imbecile, the maniac, the ourtesan, the repentant brigand-which no did lie trnl off, which one did he ot pity, which one did he not help? 'lie universal trouble of the world is ) aavement. One may escape all the ther troubles, but that ro soul escape. )ut of that bitter cup every one must I ike a drink. For instance, in order iat all mightknow how he sympathizes itth those who have lost a dauahter, hrist comes to the house of Jairus. here is such a big crowd around the *oor he and his disciples have to push iont way in. From the throng of pea 1e I conclude that this girl must have eeni very p)opular; she was one of those biildren whom everybody likes. Only twvelve yeary of age! So f air. so I romnismng, so full of life a feiw days ago, nd now so still! Oh, what it is to have I daughter dead! The room is full of I >1ks, but yonder is the room where tihe I oung sleeper'is. The crowd cannot go there. Only six persons enter--five esides Christ-three friends, andl of ourse the lather and mother. They ave the first right to go in. The hea iest p)art of the grief was theirs. All yes in that room are oin the face of this irl. There lay the beautiful hand, whitet ndI finely shapen, but it was not lifted 1 greeting to any of' tile group). Christ st elpe(1 forward and took hold I f that hand and said1, with a tone and(l ccent,uation charged with tenderness< ad command, "Damsel, I say unto iee, arise!'' And without a moment's clay she arose, her eyes wide open1, her hoeks turning from white lily to red :>se, andl the p)arents cry, "She lives! lie lhves!'" and in the next room they ike up the sound, "She lives! Sue ves!l' aind the throng In front of the aorway repeat it, "She hives! She lives!" Vill not all those who have lost a I aughter tee! that such a Christ as that ani sympijathize' On aiiothecr occasion lie showed how e felt about thie loss of a son. Here re the obseqjuies. A long pocession, a idowed mother following her only son. know not how long the husband andl ithier hiad beeni gone, but upon this soni, ho had now* come to bo a young man. 10 leadership of that household had I mlen. I think lie had got to be the I readwinner. Ho was proudl of' his1 iother, and she should never lack alny hing as long as lie lived. And there 1n0 grander spectacle on earthl than a onig miani staudhing between want andi a lidlowed mother. .But that young man adl fallen lifeless under accident, or isaster, an:1hie was being carried out. Only a very ht.w hours in that land areI llowed to pass beitwveen decease and uirial. It, is the same (lay or the niext.r knd there they move on. Christ meets b0 p)rocess'in. hils eye picks out the I hIel nmourner. ie puts lisa hand on lie bier as much as to say to the pall- I carers: "Stop! There will be no urial today. That broken heart must Ii healed. That mother must have her ome rebuit.'' And then :looking into 10 face of the young man L(for in those mods the face Is always exposed In such procession), Christ speaks one son mee, before which Death fell prostrateb uder the bier, "vou. ... sa ut thee, arise." Ie sat up, while the o ter. Joved moher wrapped himin her arms and well night smothered him with her caresses, and the air was rent with con gratalations. Can any one who has over lost a son doubt that Christ sympathizes with such woe ? And how many there are who need that particular comfort. It was not hollow sentiment when, after Edmund Burke, the greatest orator of his time, had lost his son, and the be reaved father, crossing the pasture field, met the horse that had belonged to that deceased son, that the orator threw his arms around the horse's neck and kissed the dumb brute. It was not lollow sentiment when David, the psalmist, cried out at the news of his ion's death, although he had been a lesperately bad boy: "Oh, Absalom, nyson! ny son! Would to God I had lied for thee. Oh, Absalom, my son! ny son!" But for such and all other )ereavement there is divine condol mce. Christ on the plain. I care not from Vhat side you approach him you can ,ouch him and get his help. Is it men al depression you suffer? Remember fim who said, "My God. my God, Why ias thou forsaken me?" Is it a strug le for bread? Remember him who fed he live thousand with two minnows md live biscuits, neither of the biscuits arger than your list. Is it chronic ail nent ? Remember the wioman who for dghteen years was bent almost double, mud lifted her face until she could look nto the blue sky. Are you a sailor and ipend your life battling with the tem iests? Remember hiin who ilung the empest of Genesareth flat on the crys a,l pavement of the quiet sa. That Christ is in sympathy with all who have trouble with their eyes, and ;hat is becoming an almost universal rouble through much reading in rail 3ars and the overpressure of strdy in the schools where children are expected to be philosophers at ten, boys and girls :t fourteen with spectacles. I say with ill such trouble Christ is in sympathy. Witnessblind Bartimens. Witness the ;wo blind men in the house. Witness ,he two blind men near Jericho. Wit. iess the man born blind. Did lie not ,irn their perpetual midnight into nidnoon till they ran up and down ,lapping their hands and saying, "I iee! I see!" That Christ is in sympathy with those who stammer or have sil meed ears, notice how promptly lie ,ame to that man with impediment of ipeech and gave him command of the ,ongue so that lie could speak with lase, and putting his fingers into the ars retuned the tympanum. Is there a lack of circulation in. your irm, think ot him who cured the defec Live circulation and the inactive musc. Les of a patient who had lost the ise Af hand and arm by saying, "Stretch rorth thy hand!" and the veins and muscles resumed their oflices. and though in doing so the joints may have Dracked from long disuse, and there may have been a strange sensation from elbow to inger tip, he stretched it forth! And nothing is the matter with you, but you may appeal to a sym pathic Christ. And it you feel yourself to be a great sinner, hear what he said to that repenting Magdalen, while with i scalding sarcasm he dashed her hypo 3ritical pursuers. And see how lie made an immortal liturgy out of the publican's cry, "God )e merciful to me a sinner," a prayer io short that the most overwhelmed )>Tender can utter it, and yet long mough to win celestial dominions. It vas well put by a man who had been .onverted, and who remembered that n his dissolute days lie found it hard ;o get occupation, because he could not >resent a certificate of good character. .n commending Christ to the people lie iaid, "Bless God, I have found out that ~esus will take a man without a charac er!" Christ on a level with sulering rumanity. My text says, "iIe caine lown with them and stood in the;plalii." To climbing up through attributes you :annot understand. No ascending of he heights of beautiful rhetoric of rayer. No straing after elevations roul cannot reach. No hunting for a sod that you cannot find. But going ight straight to hiim andl looking inmto uis face and taking his hand and ask ng for his pardon, his comfort, his race, his heaven. Christ on the' level. When diuring he siege ot' Sebastopol an ollicer had ommanded a private soldier to stand in the wall exposedl to the enemy and eceive the amniunition as it was harnd id up, while he, the olicer, stood in a >lace sheltered fromi the enemy's guns, seneral Gordon leaped upon the wall o help and commanded the oflicer to ollow him, and then closed with the vords, "Never order a man to (10 any hing that you are afraid to do your cif." Glory be to Ghod, the captain of mr salvation has himself gone through ill the ex posures in which he corniuanda is to be courageous. Ile has been ,hrough it all, and now ofTers his sym >athy in similar struggles. One of the kings of England one ight in disguise walked the streets of london and not gi ving account of him elf, was arrested anid put in a iniser ible prison. When released and getting >ack to the palace, lie ordiered thirty ons of coal and a large supply of food or the night prisoners of London. Ouit f his own experiences that night lie hid this. And ouir Lord the king afore imne endungeoned and sick anid hun ~ry and persecuted and slain, out of us own experiences Is readly to help all md pardon and comfort all and rescue Oh, join him in the plain. As long LB.you stay uip In the mountain of' your >rndo you will get no help. Trhat is the ceason so many never find the su1 ation of the Gospel. Trhey sit high ip in the Mont Blanc of their opinioni. tiveness, and they have their opinion bout God, and their opinion about the ouil, and their opinion aborut eternity. lave you any idea that youir opinioni vill have any efTect upon the twvo tre nendous facts, that you are a sinner, nd that Christ is ready at your earnest, rayer to save you ? In the final day of accounts how nuch will your opinion be worth? i7our opinion will not be of much imi ortance before the blast of the arch ngel's trumpet. When the life of this 'laaet shall be thrashed orit with the ail of thundlerbolts nobody will ask bout yorir opinions. Come dlown oput f the moruntain of' opinionativeness mnd meet Christ on th~e plain, where 'ou mrist meet him or never iieet him it all, except as you meet him on the uidgment throne. A Christ easy to get at! No armed oentinel to challenge you. No ruth less )flicer to scrrutinizo tIme paners you pre. sent. Inmediate response. Immediat forgiveness. Immediate solace Through what struggle people must g( to get a pardon from worldly authori ty! By what petition, by what hind rance, by what nervous strain of anx iety, by what adroitness. A count o Italy was condemned to be put to deatt at Milan. The countess hearing of thi sentence, hastened to Vienna to seel his pardon. The death warrant was al reaty on its way. The countess, arriv ing in Vienna in the night, hastenet to the palace gates. The attendant forbade her entrance at all, and espec ially at ijight, but she overcame then with her entreaties, and the empre was awakened, and the countess plead ed before her for the life of her husband and then the emperor was awakened tc hear the same plea. Cumimutation of the sentence wai granted, but how could she overtak( the officer who had started with thi death warrant, and would she be to( late to save the life of her husband By four relays of horses and stoppin$ not a moment for food she reached th city of Milan a.s her husband wan oi the way to the scaffold. Just in tim4 to save him, and not a minute to spare she came uap. You see there were tw difliculties in the way. The one was t get the pardon signed and the othe to bring it to the right place in time Glory be to God, we need go throug: no such exigency. No long road t travel. No pitiless beating at a palac gate. Pardon here. Pardon now. Pai don for the asking. Pardon forever A Savior easy to get at. A Christ o: the plain! A Rovance of Two Continenta. WASHIN(;TON, February 17.-Ther has been a rather romantic marriage ii the family of Chief Justice Melvill W. Fuller, of the Supreme Court of th U"nited States. Ile has eight daughter and four of them have married eithe contrary to his wishes, or in such a wa as to create the impression that all o the Misses Fuller are extremely self willed in love affairs. Miss Mary, th eldest daughter, is the latest victim o that sly rogue Cupid, and the happ: bridegroom is Mr. Colin C. Manning, son of Ex-Governor Manning, of Soutl Carolina. Young Manning came to Washing ton several years ago to act as privat secretary to Senator M. C. Butler, o South Carolina, and at the same tim take the law course at Georgetowi University. Ile at once became popi lar in social circles, and, at the instanc of the Breckinridge family of Ker ttcky, was introduced to the daughter of Chief J ustice Fuller. It was soon ar parent to all who knew him in Wash inaton that he was deeply in love wit] Miss Mary Fuller. This affection wa reciprocated and they made no attemp to conceal the fact. For reasons not known Chief Justic and Mrs. Fuller did not look with er tire favor upon the young Manning a a prospective son-in-law. They kne him to be a member of an estimab: South Carolina family, but they probi bly thought he had not made sufficier progress up the ladder of fame an prosperty. They also recalled the fac that one of their daughters, who pa ticipated in an elopement, might hav made a more desirable choice in selec ing a husband. In spite of the mild but determine opposition on the part of the youn lady's parents young Manning cor tinued his attentions to Miss Mary ur til it was thought best for all concerne that she should be sent to Berlin t finish her musical education. All o the Chief .Justice's daughters are mor or less accomplished in musical or lit erary affairs. It was thought absene might make the heart of the younj lady grow fonder of some one else So she went abroad to take a musica course at one of the famuous conserva tories at Berlin. In the meantime she kept tip a con stant correspondlence with~ Manninj and never for a momnent allowed thei love to grow cold. Several weeks agi Mr. Manning wvent abroad and joined Miss Fuller. About the same timi Mrs. Fuller learned that her (laughter' health was not good, so she also won to Berlin wvith the intention of bring In g her home. While travelling in Italy,so thestor' goes, Mr. Manning met Mrs. Full andl her diaughter and without dela indtced( the young lady to marry hini When Mrs. Fuller learned what c curred she expressed her surprise anc dilsappointment. but finally gave hin her blessing and after attending th weddling iminmediately started home ward, leaving the young coup)le ti spend( their honeymoon in Furope anm come back to America at their owi sweet will.-Newvs and Courier. ilown Up b,y Gunpowder. CoIXMnIA, S. C.. Feb. 17.-Quite comtmotion wvas occasioned this after ter noon in Main street by the expic sion of a keg of gunpowder. It wa shortly after 5 o'clock when Charle Beck, a draymnan, walkedl into the stor of WV. TL. Martin. le went up to counter by which WVm. Radcliffe, clerk, was sitting. IIis cigar havin gone out, Beck took a match from hi p)ocket and drew it across the countem Inustantly a tremlendlous explosion to] low/ed. Beck was thrown on the floor, hi clothing on lire and himself badi burned, iIe man)agedi to get outsid and pull off his overcoat, which wa burning. An alarm was sotunded, bu before the engines arrived the fire ha been extmnguished b)y the employees o the store. The window glasses, hot on the front atnd side, were blown oul Over half of the plastering in the stor was knocked down and the groceries I' the store was damaged. A numbher o p)ictures andl some plastering in t rooms above were knocked (down. Th upper rooms are occupied by Mrs. Al len, who owns the property. The (hamage to the stock is estimnate< at $200, coveredi by insurance. TIh dlaimage to the building small. Bet) Messrs. Beck and Rtadcliffe were badi burned. TIheir hair was badly ecorchedi their faces burned, their hands bruise< andI burned. Their injuiries are seriou but not fatal, and were given immedi ato medieal attention. I)umrinig the excitement a small bey r.amed WilhoeIIolland, tripped eve the hose and fell into a ditch whici was lilled with pieces of glass, and h was badly cut. The cauise of the explosion is not ex actly clear. A twenty-live-pound kel of powder was undler the counter bu there was only about live pounds c powder in it. A pihce of the mate head Is thought to have ignited loos powder nar the keg. HOLDING THE FORT. AGRICULTURAL HALL NOW GUARDE1 BY A CONSTABLE. Its Puroha"er Tenders Blue Ridge Ilond tIn PaVment of the Two-Thirds Uf III Cost, Treasurer Bateo4 Refuses the Ten der-The Governor Acts Promptly. COLUMBIA, S. C., Feb. 18.-A bomb shell was burst Tuesday by the put chasers of the Agricultural 1Iall, whicl was recently sold by the State. (Iov ernor Tillman was equal to the emc gency and put forth the strong arm o the State. Shortly afternoon Tuesday J. A Alexander, through his attorneys, W II. Lyles, Esq., gave the State Trea urer a check for one-third of th amount of the purchase price of Agri cultural 11all, which was $16,105. 1 3 was accepted and the title deeds of th I building turned over to the purchase 3 with an order for the parties occupyin , the building to vacate the premises. As soon as the deeds had been ot ) tained the attorneys of the purchase r tendered Blue Ridge bonds or revenu bond scrip to the amount of $10,810 i 1 payment of the balance of the amouri 3 due on the building. This was of cour. B refused and Attorney Ilayneswort then served the following notice o Treasurer Bates: 1 The undersigned, J. W. Alexande; having executed and delivered to yo as Treasurer of the State of South Carc lina his bond, dated February 2, 189: conditioned for $10,776.67, with intere 1 from said date, and having execute his mortgage of the real estate in C a lumbia on which is situated the builC 3 ing known as the Agricultural lIall t r secure said bond, and having the priv V lege under the terms of sale in conipl f ance with which lie executed said bou . and mortgage, and also under the term E of the bond itself, to anticipate the im: f turity of said bond and to pay same a , any time before maturity, elects now I a pay the same, and herewith tenders t 1 you as said Treasurer in payment c said bond and satisfaction of sai mortgage Treasurer's certillcates of ir a debtedness of the State of South Cart f lina, otherwise known as "Reveni a Bond Scrip," issued under the Act c March 2, 1892, 15 Statutes at Large, 1 79, to the amount of $10,810, an should you decline or fail to accept sai . tender, the said J. W. Alexand( a hereby gives you notice that lie wi keep said tender good and gives noti( to you and the State of South Carolin 1 through you that by said tender lie advised and claims that the lien on sai t mortgage is liquidated and the runnin of interest on said debt is i4spended. s Treasurer Bates referr( a the matti to Governor Tillman and he acted wit 3 his usual promptness. Attorney Gen V ral McLaurin was absent at his hon e in Marlboro and the Assistant Attorn( General was absent on State busineE t In this emergency the Governor o d tained the counsel of Judge Melton, ar t after receiving his advice on the situ tion. Governor Tillman appointed M e Coullette Special State Constable an put him in charge of Agricultural Ila with orders to admit no one. The Go, ernor also rescinded the notice for tl: parties occupying the hall to vacate ti premises. POSSESSION REFUSED. This ended the matter until yestei day, when Mr. Lyles, as attorney ft f Mr. Alexander, went to Agricultur E 11all and demanded possession, whic . was refused. Thereupon he opene a the battle by sending to Governor Till man the following, which explains i1 self: To IIis Excellency B. R. Tillman, Go .ernor State of South Carolina: SIR-On yesterday, as attorney for,J . WV. Alexander of Lincolnton, N. C., completed the purchase of the build ini and lot adjoining, situate oni the wen side of Richardson street in this city between Gervais and Lady street: known as the "Agricultural Ihall," ani Sto-day I called at the building, stil acting for Mr. Alexander, and found i locked. Upon knocking at the doo Mr. G. W. Coullette op)ened it frot within, and, upon stating that I hal e come to take possession of the build , ing, informed me that lie had order .from you to prevent my entering amr -to refuse to surrendler possession of I hi building to me. I dhemanided to see hi authority, if it was in writing. s HIe handed me a commissioun execute< . by yourself as Governor of the State ti y him to hold during your pleasure, bu: I it did not state for what purpose, and i now write to you to know if lie wa correct in his statement that you ha< instructed himn to refuse the possessio1 of the building to me. i About the close of the conversatijo - b)etween Mr. Coullette and myself, Mi - David C. Means, the clerk of the boar< B of commissioners of the sinking funt 5 came up, and, upon my exhibiting t a Mr. Coullette the orders given nme oi a yesterday to the occupants of the build I ng to recognize me as the represent: i tive of Mr. Alexander as their land a lord, he (Mr. Means) informed mne t.hr .In pursuance of instructions from yo - he had revoked the orders. I beg to know if ho was correcti 5 making this statement. Respectfully, B W3r. II. LI,vr.:s. S Attorney for .J. W. Alexander. t (OVERNOR TILLMAN's RPY I About 2 o'clock Mr. Lyles receive f the following reply from Governor TJil 1 man: -STATrE OF SOUTH: CA ROLINA, EXECUTIVE CJIA MiER, COLUMnIA, Feb. 17, 189r2, f W. II. Lyles, Esq., attorney, Columbi: B S.CU.: a In reply to your letter of this dat - asking whether or not Mr. Couliett had been instructed by me to refias I possession of the building knowna a Agricultural IIall, to you, I reply: Yet i he i8 instru:cted to hold possess ion1 f( f the State against anyone claiming th: ,property, and Mr. bleans was also Ir I structed to revoke the orders to th: 3 tenants in the building to recognil you, or anyone, as owner, except th State. Respectfully, B. R. TILLMAN, r Governor. 1 SAYs THlE OOvERNORL IS LIAnLE. a Mr. Lyhes in reply to the foregoin wrote the Governor as follows: - Iis Excellency, B. R. Tillman, Glove: [ nor of South Carolina. I. Sir: Tour letter of this date statiri f that Mr. Coullette and Mr. Means we, a acting under your instructions in tI s matter referred to in my letter of th date has been handed to vne. On behalf of Mr. Alexander, I desire to notify you that he considers your action unwarrented by your oflicial po. sition, and will consider you individu- A ally liable for any damages he may suf fer thereby, and will proceed according ly. Itespectfully, T \\ IL LIAM .11. LYLEM. SOME 1'LAIN ENOLISlI. About 6 o'clock yesterday afternoon the Governor sent the following to Mr. Lyles, wherein he acknowledges his in dividual responsibility in the matter: Wmn.11 . Lyles, Esq., Attorney: Si it:-Your letter of this date inform- cU i ing me that you consider my action in "P refusing to suerender possession of "Ag. si ricultural Half" unwarrented by my w f ollicial position, and will consider me 01 "individually liable for damages," re- it ceived. I desire to notify you that 1, as Gov ti ernor, am chairman of the sinking,fund til e commission, and that acting for the b( .. commission. I have refused to consu- at t mate the sale of the property or deliver n 3 it to you in my dual capacity. til r I am resisting an attempt to swindle 01 g the State out of' 10,000 of deferred pay. 01 ments; and to preveit litigation, No la e one knows better than yourself that the r Revenue Bond Sorip, which you tender e ed for the balance due, is worthless; and n if my action in resisting this initiatory t stop to bring in question the settlement e of the State's debt by the bond court t h and saddle several millions of illegal n Radical bonds on the taxpayers, is "uItn- u warrented" by my oflicial position. A r, .1 cheerfully assume the responsibilit y P L and all individual liability and will h leave the question to be decided by the 'a courts. Respectfully, 01 t B1. R. TiL3%AN, I Governor. P - UTiIEi. 0F-'ICI AL ACTION. The following, Iled at the clerk's of- ti o lice yesterday morning, explains itself: 1 Mr. EdWard 1R. Arthur, Clerk of Court, n lichland county: ti DI:An Sin-Please return me, by Mr. v s ). Means mortgage left with you yes. r( . day, and oblige yours respectfully, so IV. 1. C. A-ri:s, V o State Treasurer. o Later Mr. Arthur received the fol- 0 f lowing, with which be complied: g ji Mr. E. I. Arthur, Register Mense Con- C voyance, Columbia, S. C., - DEAt Sit:-You are hereby notilied E e that a (eed issued by the Sinking Fund C ,f Commission to .1. W. Alexander for ( >. Agricultural liall and premises, situate d in the city of Columbia, is considered d invalid, and the delivery of' possesion r will be refused. The validity of the ti- r 1 tie will be contested in the courts, and e you are hereby notilied not to record I a the deed. Respectfully, is . It. TILL'MAN, d( Governor. 9 TO TE.: A'irolt, TOo. 0 The following is a copy of the instruc- V r tions received by County Auditor Mar- e h shall during the morning, which shows c B. what the Governor intends to do: c ke Mr. L. 11. Marshall, county auditor, 'y Richland: ' s. D:AR4 SItR-You are hereby notified t L. that the deed given by the Sinking d Fund Commission to ,J. W. Alexander t I. for the building and lot known as Ag r. ricultural Hall, in the city of Columbia c d is considered invalid and delivery of 0 11 the property will be re.sisted. Motion y r- will be made in the courts to annul the e deed, and you are hereby ordered not t] 0 to certify the transfer for record by d the clerk. Respectfully, B. It. TiiLLM .AN, -lov. and Ch'rm'n. Sink. Fund. Coin'n. n A Bi Swindle in Texam. DA LLAs, Texas, Feb. 17.--The power- d fiu lever of curiosty, excited to the high est pitch by sensation, is pryitig deeper b and deeper into the crooked transaction and sudden mysterious flight of Col..J .S. Simpson, who for years has b)eenl re- L. garded as one of the solid pillars of' D)allas. iIe w:as presidlent of the F'ourth jNational Ihin k of IDallas, and tried to A mortgage that concern, but was pre t vented by the directors. 11is real estate deals wvere on a manmmoth scale, and peo-. ( 'ple to whom hM sold1 property 'mly upon jhis word of perfect tit,les, began to in I vestigate aind lind that their hoimes 8] t were mortgaiged. r The~ only op)erationi upon0 whiah di a eteience of frryhats bneen traced1 tal is int a transaction upon01 which be real- V . Ized $3i,000 oii a duplicate note, of' s which the original hta(i been p aidl. (One of' the losers is the WVeir P'lough Coim- M~ e pany, of' Monoiuth, Ills., They sold at s him a stock of carr-iages on time with out security, which he sold for soite 1 thing like $20,0J00. Attaichmtents aire () e piling uip in tihe county clerk's oflice by 3t, t the dozen. Ti wo of the heaviest losers are the Fdlinburg-American Land and ,.. s Mortgage Cotmpany $51,581 ana the iScottishi-Atmericani Land and Mortgage Company, $50,000, anid other claims of thousands. WVhen Simpsoni was last st ,heard of lie was in hanisas City, where il it is suipposed he was visiting E. 1'. w Coweni. F"rom letters received, lhe is w Itrying to create thme impression thait lie fr a has coimmiitted suicide, bitt people do st a not believe it. p1 Tihe st',eaker Not in thie wVay. WVAsi iN(iTOEN, Feb,. i7.--T'he leaders li of the contest in the flouse for thei free a t coitasgo of silver have receivedl from th Spea.ker Crisp assurances that at special ti order will be brought in the I louse in th~ fl fas or of the free coinage bill. Th'le tl Sr eaker toldl thetm that as soon as Mr. i C&tchings, who is at present in New t( 'ork on busitness, retiirns to WVashitng- w .on, flhe rules conmmittee wvill meet and di will take prompt,L action oni the Bland w Li resolutIon, mnakiung the silver bill a L' special order. TIhe Speaker has assured' them that lie is in favor of the consid eration of the bill and of its being final ly disposed of' ini the Ilouse within a reasonable time. One of the most n L, earnest supporters of free coinage in ci the I louse said this afternoon that h I h, believed that next week a special order ir e would lbe brought inA firing the time C, e for the considlerationi of the silver bill, ci s andI it was his opinion that by the c< I0 middle of March the fi ee coinage ques- a r tion would have been passed upon by t e thei h ouse. That, he stated, however, a was tmerely his opintion. So far as can c e be learned nothing was said by the e Speaker to the silver men to indicate e whether or not the rules committee would recommend that silver bie given A pr ity consideration over tariff ( bls, and Mr. Cr1isp himself said to-day I that no determin ation had been reached I g as to this matter. -Tar Reduetion,. IWASHINOTON, Fob, 17.-The bills t gi placing wool, binding twvine and cotton t eties and bagging on the free list and v ie reducing duties on manufactured goods I is Iwere agreed to to-day by a majority of 13 the committea on waysa nd mans. A CONVENTION CALLED. N OLD LINE REPUBLICAN RALLY IN MAY. lie Oiciat Call for the Machine Politi clans of thO (. 0. P. to Come Together and Sing Their Tale of Woo and Elect Delegates. COLU3n1tA, .S. C., Feb. 15.-Thepoliti J pot of the Iepublicans, the regular rand old party" meii, has begun to miner, and in a short time, now, it ill be boiling. Tho Republican party South Carolina has, In short, issued 3 manifesto. Ever since the meeting of the Fxecu ve committee, about six weeks ago, e address, or whatever it may be, has !ei anxiously awaited by the Brayton id Clayton factions of the g. o. p., but )thing being forthcoming, it was ought that it had fallen into innocu is desuetude. Tho follownig, how. 'er, is the docliment, which was issued st Saturday, and was secured in the rm of a proof by The State yesterday: II1-:A DQrA li1-:is 1I 1-:1TLCAN ( STAi 1-: I M': TI v I.: COM 31.rriE. Coll aI I A , S. C.. Feb. 13, 1892. A call is hoereby miade for a conven on of the Iepublican party of South trolina, to ho hold at the city of Col mbia on Tumsday, the 19th day of prial, 1892, at 12 o'clock i., for the irpose of electing four delegates at rge anld four alternato delegates at rge to represent the Iepui blican party . said State in the N ational Republi Lm convention *o be held at Ilinnen Alis, Alinn., on 7th day of June 1892. lie Republicans of the various coun es and all voters, without regaid to :st political attiliations, who believe liepublican principles and endorse in Ilepiblican policy are cordially in ted to unite unde the call of their -spective cotinty chairmen in the lection of, delegatl s to said State cont mition. ''lie cmivention will be composed of ie hundred and twenty-live (125) dele ates, apportioned among the several )milties of tie State as follows, viz: A bheviIle 5, Aiken -1, Anderson 4, arwell 5, Ileaufort 1, Berkeley fi, hiarleston 7, Chester 3, Chesterlield 2, larendon 3, Colleton 5, )arlington 3, dgefiebl 5, Vairield 3, Florence 2, eurgetown2, reenvHille 5, lampton 2, [orry 2, Kershaw 3, JLancaster 2, Lau 1n5 4, Lexigton 2, Marion 3, Marlboro , Newberry 3, 0conee 2,0rangeburg 5, 'ickeiis 2, Iicham I 1, Spartanburg 5, uiter 5, 1 .ion :, Williamsburg 3, ork 'I. At least tei days' notice shall be given f county or comuity Congressional con entions by advertising the same in one r niore newspali.rs pulblished iin the ouit,y, or by notices posted ateacl pre ict in tlie couty, and such notice hall state the tihie anl place of meet 11g, and tht ir!ose of suchl conliven M101. A copy of the call of each convein ion, as soon as th,e :inme is issued, hould be seat to Hit s :retary of this oummittee, who should also be notified f the delegatvs elecl i to the State con ention. E:ach Coigressioial district is enti ed to tiwo delegates and two altern-ite elegat('9 eectedi to I lie National con eNttion, who shIiall be chosen at conven oils called by the Congressional com ittee of each such district in the same ianner as the noinination for Itepre ntative in Coigress is made in said istrict. The Congressional co iventions shall 3 conlstitluted as follow ;; F' i :,T I' i T c n i-:- 25 iE]-: : AX TES. Charleston 11), -1erkeleyN 1, Colleton ., exinigtoni.1, Oranigeb,urg f1. Si-:00N1> 1>is'iTici;T- 28 l)-:LI:( ;A'ri.:s. C'ollet on I, Illamptont -, IUnrnwell8, ikeni d, Ilgefield 9. AbI .'il'e 9, Ne.v berry 5, Am'erson 7, conee 3, 1l'icke as 3 Greenvyillo 9, 1 Ai ''ens fi, l'air,ield 5, >artanlbuirg 7, 1 leio 1, 1ltlchland1 4. I VTiii lilsT' iUU'iT---25 1-:11.:cuAT '.:s. Y ork 7, Chester .~, Li nes te r 3, Spar nburg 2, Chesterlield1 :, Kershiaw -4, 1i10.1 1. Clarenidon I, I ) trhin gt:n 5, lorence -1, arlboiro I, A larion 5, IIlorry 3, Willi nsbuurg 2. 41':V i;':NT11l)isT'i'nr '--39 r.:i:(1A'l'.s Geor'geton~ .i -, I eait tort di, Sumter 7, Charlest.on I, B erkeley 10), I lich land 2. h. A. Wi:insT::n, Chairman. II. .J(blNsON, Secretatry. A Tharillinlg sioery of the Sea. lIA ..i lA , N. S , Feb. 15.- -A thrilling Dry cones I romn St. .John's, N. F., of e resenie of the crew of the P'rince Ed ard I slanid schooner Avenger. She as driven on the rocks twenty miles oin St. Joh ii's ini a blinding snow ormi. While she was pounding to eces, the boat was launched and( imi ediately swam ped. Murdock Gilli idlertoiok to swiim shore with a lifte ae. lIeI was (carried ashore on big wav(, but could not land, i' coast being so pirecipi mii. IIe was driawni back ont board ut vessel, where lie rested an hour,aiid en triedI again, and successfully, lie ew hiinsel f lip from one p)oinit of rock another uni ti1lihe reached a place here lie cou1ldl fasten a line. Then hie 'Ow ashore a larger line, by means of biichi the captain anid cr'ew all got fely to shore. TJo lInvestigat,. eorge's resolution for the appoint.. ent of a coiilmit tee to in(lutire into the mae of the low price of cotton and ie depressed conlition of agricultutre the cotton raising States was consid 'ed by the Senate committee on agri titure today, with the result that the )mmittee dleci(dad to report to the Son Lo a substitute directinig the commtt se to make a general investigation to icertlain the present condhitlin of agri Llture In the Uniite'd States. I incendlarles5 Lynched. fonday night at R omumlus, Tuscaloosa~ ounty, two negroes broke open D). . obertson's store, robbed and burned to the ground. They were arrested nid tried before a Justice and commit 3d to jail. On their way to Tuscaloosa body of masked and armed men took he negroes from the guards and swung hem to the nearest tree. T1he bodies ,'ere left hanging until yesterday. 'ublc sentiment has become aroused y the frequent occurrence of similar rines in that neighborhood.