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-f -?v-. ?;??( !R' v.'. \ N x'vvt6.''- \ \ a v , ? , _ THE WEEKLY lW OHI0I TIMES. Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic Economjv P^JMtPoJIjfo and <h? <JUTT?lrt New? ?f th^. XXI.?NEW SKltlKS. UNION U. II., SOUTH UAKOLINA, JULY 4, IS'.M). CENSUS LEGISLATION. A REVIEW OF THE ACTION OF THE i STATE SENATE. t l] TIik St'imton From t'liiirlcHton (ilv? n History <>f tlio l'ror< ?'<IIiikh in Tlml Itoily mid | In Hie IfoiiHr in Itopresentiitiv> k. To tin* I'M Lor of the News and e Courier: (Japi. Tilluiiiu has on several occasions seen lit to denounce jti those members of the State Senate 11 who voted against the census and d reapportionment bills. We havo waited to see whether any one, other t>, than ourselves, would give the reasons ct for such action. We arc unwilling w longer to have such reasons unstated, especially in view of the recent at .tack on that upright soldier and j gentleman, Judge Izlar, whose* position necessarily forces him to keep / silence. THE FACTS HUE A3 FOLLOWS. ^ The General Statutes of the State Yc contained and now eonlnin 11C| oral provisions for taking the census, jj. About two or three days before the close of the session of 1H8-1 n bill j came over from tho House to the jov Senate, amending in certain particu- ^ lars the general law, on the subject w<v of tho census--principally as to tho '1 rate per capita to be paid and in ~ ot her minor points. "While, however, '1! is left tho duty on the Governor of !u<> having an enumeration made, neither 'mv this bill nor the general law appro- J*0.1 printed any money to enable him to 'nn have tho work done. The bill, there- ? fore, as it passed the House, was incomplete, and would have effected no ?\ 1 result. wdl On inquiry it was ascertained that n... i?..ubi? c.vin>iiM) uf ii estate cen- 101 ' would amount to some $50,000 ? ( $00,000. This was the estimate coui made by careful men, who were stun supposed to be in a position to insp know. sour The majority of the Senators, nearly stur all of whose counties were unaffected- four by the result, did not feel justified in 1 putting upon the people this heavy erect expense. And as the House, which And< was the body whose membership was with in question, had not deemed it prop- A. H or to take the responsibility of mak- there ing the appropriation necessary for State the work, these Senators, acting on dress the bill sent them by the House, re- 'j j( cteil it. Wodi Tho counties wli/wn i-'* would ho nffoctod I850 I wm, ..bout otJlllUljr l-yC,! ><1J Wow majority of the s,I y. J If ^ ? - ^VvOlS Id ? not aflfrct Tneir coXimioH in any way. ]v A majority of those disinterested 1 Senators voted against the bill, and .1 t* by their votes it was defeated. In 1HH5 the amendmont of the fdiin (Constitution was proposed allowing Carol reapportionment on the basis of the .1 /. United States census of 1N')() and .? thereafter. This was adopted by the coinj rote of every Senator present except 1 1 one, Mr. Reynolds, of Beaufort. It ^huti was i>roposcd and passed as a fulfil- U1)j,(1 mcnt of the requirement of the Con- r stitution providing for reapportionment, but as saving the taxpayers of the State the heavy expenses ol' talc- ' U1UJ ' iug tlio census by the State. IUI1' 1 At the same session, 1 HH,r?, the House ngain sent over a bill for talc- f"m( iug the census by the State authori- f ties. But as the amendment to the to the Constitution had been passed l'v 11 providing the other method for re- J c1 apportionment, as a measuro of *J,U* economy tXf the State, the Senate J\1K'C did not f(|P called 011 to pass this hon. bin. ri ? There was another serious objee- Tyh t ion, to wit: "Whether an extra ses- fata sion of the Legislature could legally you: be called to reapportion in time for roiu the election iu the tall ol I8su. j mih III II1 had duo consideration. Hut tliftt The which determined the matter was that him rtuojlmr method of reapportionment stoj huuTieen provided, l?y which the j foin taxpayers were saved some $50,000 or , *ku $00,000. I i??t? The matter then came before the j die< people of the State at the general t . election in I88i>, when this amend- N ment was submitted for their decis , . ^ ion. It was adopted by an over- ., whelming popular vote. The people 11 of the State thereby ratified and ap- ^N,!' proved the action of the Legislature Vj J in substituting this means of reap- ? portionment, and saving them the heavy tax and expense of taking the census by the State. And the peo- il"( pie themselves having thus acted . on the (iiiestion, it was settled fin- ^,1V ally. j'111 During the session of 1886 the bill to latify this constitutional amend- ,l" ment came before the Senate. It was passed by the vote of (-very Senator . except one. ? in 1887 and again in 1888 lulls were j." introduced into the Senate to reap- ,u portion on the basis of the census of j1 i 880. These were opposed as not ' i..ii i?? wi111i,i tin. sjcoiic of the amend I i.icut, which provided Unit the lirst. 1,1 lcappoitionmciit should hp made nil (.' dor tin* census of IHDO. There were 1 also practical difficulties, us for iu- V( hiiiiicp with ('harleston count v. which " hud been divided since Unit census into Charleston and Berkeley. This prevented any accurate or pro|>cr re- ;? apportionment on the basis of the t| census of 1HK0. The Senate, therelore, by a decided majority, rejected r< 1 he hills. p This is a simple statement of the i, fc^i',1 i Who do iii>i propose li> :i temperate lan^ua^e or to ft iperation or recrim- d Hn?H^|^s<>le|y the Senate r t y SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. ?Col. Robert Aldricli of Barnwell " s out in tui interview in tlie Clmrlesou World, squarely favoring Tillniin. ?A commission lias been issued to lie Capital City Guards, colored, of -s Columbia. The company comprises rj. ijrlity three members. ^ ?Alexander Noisette, colored, is in p, til at Charleston charged with the \\ under of John Wnrtliv /..-.Ir,,...-! ... . ^?vv, lV> n, riving an iron pin ito lii? head. o< ?Preparations are beiDg made to St egin the work of erecting the cotton wl impress at Sumter, the stock for P< hioh was subscribed a month ago. M ?Napoleon Levelle, who killed his C?1 ife and nearly murdered his uncle Charleston on Febuary 17th, was "V nvicted of murder, and sentenced ^ri lie hung September 5. ?One of the census enumerators j?l pointed for Catawba township, os >rk county, claims to have found a 11 gro woman who gave in her age as Jr!" I, and is still right spry. ^ j] ?Steel McLeos,tlic only son of the wj, low McLees, living ten miles bei Anderson, was drowned in Bur- j,jH Pond on Saturday afternoon. He CfU1 3 caught in a suck hole. cvc -Work on the new Cathedral in tha irleston is progressing. The boh hod windows on the west wall whe e been about llnished, and the ton k is )iushing forward all over the A I diilg. -.Newberry lias been selected as f??rn place of this year's encampment beft the Citadel Cadets. The eorps nor use the grounds of Newberry livel lege?these havir.c lw>?i? offerod piot the purpose. ,?un Mr, L. Ij. Harris, of Chesterfield heel: lty, saw a peculiar looking old half up the other day, and after close ker j ection concluded then; must be oflie< ething in it. He turned thy ting< up over, and in tlu; bottom of it to id 93 leather-wing bats. they The new and handsome building am:d led by the Masonic fraternity of 318011 was dedicated on Tuesday imposing ceremonies. Col. j. "ll'JI oyt, a Past Master of (he lodge "hirk ' and a Past Grand Master of the j c , delivered the dedicatory ad- * here i. frioiu L'he meeting at Lexington on j?. lesday was attended by about i Iv persons. Speeches were made f, * J ipt. Tillman, Gen. Bratton, Gen. \ lil_;. , Col. IVIavsliftll-Hig1 < W -,a(.hang h*Mr. Tillman. . advisn mV'es Bond and Simonton, in ,lvKue nited States Court, at Charles- lllltlct.i u Wednesday, decided tln'tONSU- th;vt i railroad bond cases in ?>? i the T Mia. The suit was brought n> sUbje< harleston, Cincinnati and C? hlent. lilroad against the Bontou liust titicat vmv. The validity of the h<mds witli?l jeeii attacked by the townships woah issued them,but their validity is ftmj t. r . ment. fhe Charleston World of Wed- mafic ivy says: "Soon after the rain suggt thunder and lightning yesterday, piob: especially after the severe clap I'osti under, thousands of dead lish event ; to the surface on Ashley river, wouh ; were of all kinds, large aud relnil 1, and lined the shore and lloat- f(> ea 1 the stream for a considerable more nice. The tugs and vessels which to run up and down the river sintered them in every dirccA C On Sunday morning, Mr. It. E. it* ?r, of Aiken county, met with a J)i 1 accident. After harnessing a trica ng pony for the first time to n mori I cart, he attempted to get in, two got his foot hung in the spring, mile pony dashed off and dragged the 1 for some distance. After it was light >pod and lie was released it was dio ml that lie was fatally injured,his sou; 11 being fractured, with numerous cycl null and external hruises. lit* of 1 on Monday morning. hrid Move Against Clinirinuii Kriee. ?k\v Yokk, June 25.?There are sW(l ts that some intluential persons ilk that Senator Calvin S. Ifricc .)., uhl do well to resign his ollice of '^ju airman of the Democratic National jju, mmittee. and that such a move jj uhl he of considerable advantage (),, the party at large. His railroad WC1 1 other financial connections and um] > lukewarm tarifl* sentiments are en as the reason for making a unge desirahle. The position of ad of the committee is no sinecure, d it may he rather ditlicull to get roj" y one to till Mr. llrice's place. (IJ H hile nominally favorahle to Mr. ovcland's 1 ('nomination and ro-oleo j >11, lie has born accused of really jj((( voring the nomination of ox Score ry William (5. Whitney, although at gentleman has over and over rain stated his refusal to bo a caudate. Taken with other early indi it ions of the campaign, such a eon j(( overay would seem ripe to add a new (j miplieaiion the many now surround j.<| ig the Democratic situation here. An l'hiiluciit Voting <??M?rgian. en l'at Calhoun of Atlanta.though but sh t years of age, is general counsel for S|J ic great Richmond Terminal system, U l hich stretches over K,uno miles of hi >ad. He was strongly talked of for resident of the system. Mr. Cali a grandson of John ('. Calhoun nd of (teneral Duff (?reen who gured in Washington journalism luring President Jackson's adminis- ? ration, both his ancestors were renarkable men. and young Calhoun 11 las the characteristics of both. His { s kdvance has been extraordinary. Ten ] '' ears ago he was poor and just he t tinning his law practice1. To day lie i }' s a lawyer and railroad attorney of he first rank, and wealthy, with a',' ive biisim eapaeit \ t he est order REPUBLICANS SNUBBEDlow Kx-Coiicrc?ftitinii Small*, Miller an<l CumiinKhaiii Were Treated by Wniinmakvr. Washington, June'iU.?Postmaster reueral Wanainaker is said not to l>o inking many friends for the admin tration anions the colored people, he colored politicians who come ?re from the Southern States are irticularly displeased with Mr. "anamaker and accuse him of gross civility towards them on in.ir",v>ns easions. A few days ugo i.,...* nith Carolian Republicans, one liite and two colored, called at the istoflice Department to consult r. Wanamaker on the subject of aiming the Democratic postmaster. Charleston in favor of a colored publican. The South Carolina o consisted of ex-Congressman ?b Smalls, now Collector of Cus ns at Beaufort: Tom Miller, coolant for Congressman Elliott's it in Congress from the nth Carolina District, ami United itcs Marshal Cunningham, one of 1 wealthiest ami most popular * ite llepubhcans in South Carolina. i llor was a little shy about calling t )ii the Postmaster Geuernl be- \ se of former experiences. How- 1 r. Smalls insisted it was desirable \ t they should make an ell'ort in t alf of their colored brother,Crum t ) is an applicant for the Charles- v postmasterslnp. t l riving at the door leading to Mr. s uainaker's oflice, they were in ( ned they must send in their cards tl ire obtaining admission to the in- si chamber. This was resented in b y terms by Smalls. In spite of s( ?sts, however, he and his com- t( ons were obliged to cool their T s in the hallway fir more than hi an hour. Finally Mr. Wanama- w ippeared at the doorway of his tli ?, and the South Carolina con- F: nt arose, expect ing to be invited th walk into my parlor." In this in were disappoint ed, for Mr. Wan- vo :er stood directly in tlie door- ki: and informed his callers that el: might unburden themselves and there. Miller promptly re- tin ed that he had no business with tin Post master-Genera), and was soi simply to accommodate his coi 1 Smalls. The latter managed hex miner out something about the fits est on postollice, but was chok- wa with an emphatic declaration tio he present puidanuet<Ni*?*d -? ? ?c** ' c at thin time - d''Tio Th nails was disposed to X"t M' - V.ma- ??? 'out him short bv hilhu..tniB XA f ho .liil uot like the ruhnKof s ostom.-o Do l>iut mo 11 t on thlH fc ho mitiht. appoal to the roi i Overcome with rage ami mor- iuh ion, ttnmlls and his companions 1 >il: row, the former vowing mat lie liai 1 go directly to the President cln omplain of Waiiainaker's treat- ha Miller who is more diplo- Ch because of hi j pending contest wn steil that the President would <pi d)ly sustain the action of the til muster-General, and in that in: a trip to the White House OH I simply be a double barreled sa V. Miller therefore declined, 1111 II upon the President.?Haiti th Sun. lis A DELUGE AT DUBUQUE. W 11 Ity Smitten by tin Kl?etrieitl Slorm ? 111 tin at the lint? of an Inch an llnnr. ;i jiji*01'j:,Iowa.. June 20.?An elec hi 1 storm struck Dubuque Tuesday G ling two inches of rain fell in <>i hours and the \\ind bh w forty t< s per hour down town and on t! Iiills with greater velocity. The I] tning and thunder were terri 1 and incessant. Many families n flit, refuge in cellars, fearing a n oiu'. iii lloekdale Valley, south a the city, the llood carried away h - 4ln? nunnli' to till1 S IP'M 1 I I i l I UIUM MM |M wj ? for safety. At Thompson's Mill ;i ivned cattle and horses were i pt through the lirst story win ;i ,'s of Mr. Tit/.itf's residence mid i fiiniil.v sought relume ?>n thehills. bridge at W ashington Mills, on \ Chicago. Milwaukre A St. 1'iiul t lway, went down with a crash. 1 th" Illinois Central two bridges I e washed uwav between |)ul>u<|ile 1 I Julien ami f>00 feet of truck were died out near Farley. The Chicu 1 St. l'uul A Kansas City Kails' was washed out for forty miles st and north of Dubuque and the d has not been in operation except :t of Dubuque. In the city the imtfe done was ^rcat. Many houses the upper part of the city are i?dcd with water. The damage done this county is estimated at over no.nuu. Trnnslhril by a Piece of Wood. NT.w Yokk. dune 2fi. -dolin Killer, years old. met a strange death to y in the planing mill ru :tur>:tlu evenlli avenue, wlicro ho was mi j nyed at work. Mr was near a cir lav saw which was in operation. A ver of wood was whirled oil' the w. It had a sharp point and the nod passed through lliller's neck ie an arrow.completely severing tlie pillar vein. 1 tiller only lived a few linutes. TolMiccf ?'illilire in Norl li Carolina. As an evidence of how the culture f tot>a 'co has increased in Nash aunty. N. ('., where the culture was itroduced in lss|. a local paper tates that one thousand tobacco urns have already lieen creeled in hat county, and that many more will ie erected liefon the crop matures. >1 any of the farmers of that section iave ch ared from s*dOO to $tun an .ere on t heir tobacco, li^ures whirl) ire rarely ever cspialed anywhere. ORPAII'S STRUGGLE. ; , /> LESSON FROM THE STORY OF } NAOMI'S DAUGHTER-IN-LAW I 1 In-. Tn1mugr'i? Striking Sertuon mi nStrlk- d lug t linplvr in lllhl<> lIlHtory. ) Dr. Talmage took for his a ' text on Sunday liuth i. 12: Sl "Ami they lifted up their voire S) ami wept. an Orpah kissed her uioili- n ' r in law. hut Ituth clave1'unto her." ai >wing is tnr sermon; Moab nas a heathen land. Naomi is about to leave it and go into the () land of Bethlehem. She has two lu daughters in-law, Ituth and Orpah, hi who eonelmle to go with her. Naomi w' tells them they had better not leave *h their native laml and undertake the p*' hardship of the journey, but they hi will not be persuaded. They all i>< three started out on their journey. r?' After awhile, Naomi, although she Bn liighly p.ized t lie company of her two j?:l laughters in law. attempted again to "u lersuade them to go baek because of NV(1 he hardship ami self denial through ahi vhieh l hey would be obliged to go. be* b.it.h responds in the words from "Ci vhieh I once discoursed to you: "En- wa Mir iidi i<> leave thee, or to re- wu urn from following after thee. for '01'. choro thou goest. I will go, and where l;:u lion lodgest 1 will lodge. thy people vhu hull be mv people and thy Clod my f?u toil, where thou diest will I die and ^.v< lore will I be buried, the Lord do pih ) to me and more also if aught but w'" ut death part thee and me." Not urt' > with her sister Orpali. Her do- thu' rminatioH had already been shaken. he length and peril of the journey shu '.Win to appeal her, and she had l'*' ' orshipped the pods of Moab so long lat it was hard to give them up. tlhc mm that point Orpah turned back, thin e parting described in the words of brie y text: And they lifted up their Bib] ices and wept again, and Orpah tirm >sed her mother ia law. but liuth ns '? ive unto her. the Learn from this story of Orpah attoi it some of those who do not leave theii Moab of their iniipiities are per- ,m 111 is of line susceptibility. It was want n passion for Naomi in her widow to b< rxl and soiTow that led Orpah t<> A1 rt with her toward Bethlehem. It js 11 ^ s not because of any lack of afl.ee- jjltf XwiMYtt. rnU she [J J alKl irage and persist^nee o bcr MsL ^ ^ at there are many *iJh uh tin leeptibility as Orpsih w ? ^ 11 not ^ e up their cross and o j j t 'njt, urou, k truth which needs but little ^h, ^ nstration. Many ? . r 1S slam tv become the followers of J< .t. but very little imtur.il ill:ll ity. draco often takes in tli rdest heart and the most unloyly iraeter iimi tan siorms u. n is a ? miner Unit breaks rocks. In this time rist often shows His powers. It dosti lit si but little generalship to eon- a,l/t or a flat, country, but. might of ur- >uigl lory ami heroism to take a fort alt in mncil ami reaily for raking can- Hide mule. The great Captain of our f'? 1 lvation has forced his way into hi s| liny an armed castle. I doubt not the.v at Christ could have found many a AIoii iherman naturally more noble- vigh anted than Simon. Peter, but there hies as no one by who.-o conversion hut e could more gloriously have mag- hi god His grace. The conversion of hoi score of Johns would not have il H k ist rated the power of the Holy ter iiost as much as the conversion of tua lie Peter. It would have been easier j?el ? drive twenty lambs like John into hi i ic fold than to tame one lion like \ 'eier. (iod has often made some of am lis most ellicienl servants out of is i a n naturally unimpressionable. As wh ien take stiff ami unwii ld.v timbers, sol ml under huge handed machinery it i * 1 - o 1 ..11. .4 /.I Hllll tlielll lino I IK' 11111IV III f.;i I III X I, lii| is, 1 litis (!<h1 Ints often shaped wh ik1 hent into His ser\ iee the most ('it inwieldly natures, while those lifitur chile impressionable tire still in their hu melintioed state. in* Oh, how mmiy, like Orpali, have lii varm aflee lions and yet never become wl diristians.' Like Orpali, lliey know so low to weep, hut they do not know pe now to pray. Their fineness of feeling i wi leads them into the friendships of the th world, hut not in eotnmunion with Hod. They ean love everybody hut. a: Him, who is altogether lovely. All fr< other sorrow rends their heart, hut () they ale untouehed hy the woes of a ta dyiiiti Christ. Hood news tills them th with excitement, hut the ylnd tidings hi of ^reat joy and salvation stir not tli their soul. Anxious to do what is j?i ri^ht, yet they roh Hod. Hrateful ' tfor the slightest favors, they make j s< no return to Him who wruiitf out the I d last drop of hlood from His heart to i h deliver them from ^oiiitf down to the j a pit. Tliev would weep at the door of . ii ' ' ' i. i ! .. a prison :il tin' siurin oi n wn-mu mf i |? live in chains, 1 >111 no comp'issioii for j |i their own souls, over which satan. ( like u grim jailer, holds the lock and t! key. When repulsive, niasping, uu p j sympathetic natures resist the story ! ] of a Saviour's love, it docs not excite n our surprise; hut it is anions the 1 1 greatest of wonders that so many t i *ho exhihit Orpah's susceptibility 1 ' also exhibit Orpah'simpcnitency. Wo > i are not surprised that there is bar- t I l'enness in a desert, but a strange i ! tiling is il that sometimes the Uose of | Sharon will not fjrow in a garden, i (hi a summer inornim,' we are not i surprised to and a rock without any i 1 dew on it but if, iroiim anioin; a tloek of lilies, we saw in them no ^littering drops, would say. "What foul sprite has been robbing these vases?" i We are not surprised that Herod did i not become a Christian, but how i strange that the youiu? man .lesus loved for his sweetness of temper hould not have loved the Redeemer Hunl-hearted Felix trembled, prom S'ebuehadnezzar reixmtod, inul erue dnnasseli turned unto the Lord, but uany n nature, affectionate and geu le, has fought successfully against livine inllueiiee.s. Many a dove hio efus.'d to eoinein the window of the rk although finding 110 rest for tin i>le of her foot. Again, the history of Orpah imprests upon me the truth that there are inny who make ft good starting, but fter awhile change their minds and irn back. When these three mourn s start from their home in Moab icre is as much probability that rpali will reach Bethlehem as that r sister Ruth and her mother-inw. Naomi, will arrive there. But liile these continue in the journey ey commenced, Orpah after awhile ts discouraged and turns hack lis is the history of nianv a soul. .,.1....... o ? 11, was uunujj a revival of li^ion tliev resolved upon a Chris ,n life, ami made preparations to tve Moab. Before that they were lillerent to the sanctuary, ehurehes re necessary evils. The minister nost always preached poor sermons, ;*ause they had not the heart to ir theiu. They thought t he hreatl s not. jjood because their appetite s poor. Religion did very well invalids ami the a^ed, but they 1 no desire for it. Suddenly a .iitfe came upon their soul. They nd that something must be done. ?ry night there wasa thorn in their ow. There was a gall in their ie. They found that their iileus s were only false lights of a swamp t rise out of decay and death. ;ing their self control they were i tied by their own prayer, "God ) iiereiful to me a sinner." They > not suspect it. but the Holy 1 >st Was in their soul. Without I king what, they were doing they i shed the dust oil' their family ? le. The ground did not feel as ? under them nor did the air seem < right. They tried to dam back 1 Hood of their emotions, but the a nipt failed, and they confessed n * anguish of soul before they I at to. The secret was out . They ^ Led to know what they must do tl saved. a as! Alas! Starting out for heaven b rery dillerent tiling from arrLv-, ? A\bYftes toil tier, and its salt itl brimstone gather on her gar o! s until they are so stitVeiied she \\ ot proceed, nor can she lie down, ei use of this dreadful wrapping u ml lier garments and liinhs; and s after her life has gone she still p Is there so covered up by the 1; ige storm that she is called a '1 r of salt as some sailor on ships fl e wintry tempest stands covered d a mail of ice. Ten thousand o s ten thousand men have been e royed half way between Sodom f the City of Refuge. Orpali v it as well never have started as j. wards to turn back. Vet niiilti n s have walked in her footsteps, t Huong those the least interested . tered things and you will find that t were once out of the land of i ib. 10very one of tlieiA prayed t heartily and studied their 15i j ; and frequented the sanctuary, j Lot's wife looked back wistfully Sodom, and Orpali retreated a the company of Ruth and Naomi, sun impressive thought that at' Orpali had gone so fai as ue lly tolook over.into the land of hlehem she turned back ami died Vloab. Ve talk about taking up the cross i I following Je-us. luit that cno ; tot half so heavy as I'm burden i?*li the sinner curries li isa very emu thing to be a Christian, but s a more solemn tiling not to be a ristian. There up- multitudes 0. afraid of the self denials of the ristian, ru.di into the harder self nials of the unbeliever. No yoke { Christ's, however light and gall j! Orpali goes hack to her idol i es. but she returns weeping;and all 10 follow her will lind the same now. Just in proport ion as gos1 advantages 1 a.c been numerous 11 In the disturbance of the heart at will not come to Christ. Again: This subject teaches that r< hgious choice and the want of it pipieiitly divide families. Kiithaml rpah and Naomi were tenderly at elied. They were all widows, ami leir life had been eonseeruted by a iptism of tears. In the tir?* of trial leir affections had beni forged. To ther they were so pleasantly uni 1, you can hardly imagine them painted. Vet a fatal line is drawn ividing them from each other, per lips forever. Miiomi cannot 11 v?* n heathen country. She must g< ito Hi t hleln in. that there among! Ik ions she may worship tin- true God tilth malms a similar choice, 1 >11 )rpah rebels. "Ami they 1 ifI< ? 1 ij heir voice and wept again, and Or all kissed her mother in law, Imi tilth clave unto her."' The hist or; >f this family of Klimeleeh is th listory of many families of this daj low often it is that in a circle of r< atives. while they look alike, an valk alike, and talk alike, there is reiiicndoiiH difference. Outward! inited in th< affect ionnl relations i this life, they are separated in tl most important respect. Some no arc the children of the light. and otl ers the children of darkness. The; are alive in Christ, and those are de;i in sin. Kuth in the land of Jh thl hem, Or pah in Moah. Of the san family are David and Solomon, we shippers of the most High God. ai Adonijah and Absalom, who live ai die the enemies of all righteousnet Belonging to the same family \r . the holy and devout Kli. ami tho M 1 reckless Phinens, atul Hopluii. Jona- te 1 than Edwards, tho good, ami Pierre- le t point Edwards, tho had. belong to wl the same family. Aaron llnrr, the joi t dissolute, had a Most exeellent hither, wi ; Dying, yet immortal hearer, by the so 1 solemnity of the parental, and lilial. dr and conjugal relation, by the saered- eh ness of the family hearth, by the lion- tin or of the family name, by the memo wc ry of departed kindred, 1 point out frc this parting of Until and Orpah. lai Again: This subject suggests to tin me two of the prominent reasons bo< why people refuse the kingdom of mi Christ. There may have been many noi other reasons why Orpah left her arc sister and mother-in-law and went pe< back home, but there were two rea of i sons which 1 think were more promi- in i nent than the rest. She had been she brought up in idolatries. She loved her the heathen gods which her anees aw: tars had worshined. Sm.i n.??.. iuwiif;ii IIIU | till se blocks of wood and stone could I a f Hot, hear, she thought tlicy could l?ro hear, and, though they could not see. rani she thought they couhl see, and sull though they could not feel, she unn thought they could feel. A new reli thai gion had been brought to her atteu hntl tion. She had married a godly man. lien She must often have heard her moth tin > er in law talk of the Cod of Isreal. life She was ho much shaken in her origi- rem lial belief that she concluded to leave reus her idolatries, but, coming to the is w margin of the land of Bethlehem, her W determination failed her, and speed men ily she returned to her gods. This tlnais the very reason why multitudes of chit persons never become Christians, then They cannot bear to give up their ed ii gods. Business is the American.)tig a inn geruaut that crushes marc men than in th the great ear of the Hindoos. To it ine n hey say their morning and evening conn irayers. A little of Christ's religion eeive nay creep into the Sabbath, but what Holiday, Tuesday, Wednesday,Tliurs t lion lay, Friday and Saturday are the main lays devoted to this American idol, all 111 livery hour there is a sacrifice on the Is 1 if. liar. Home duties, health of body, plagi iiaiily strength ami immortal alicc- ami i ions must all burn in 1 his holocaust, knew Icn act as though they could take lu lu ! Iiuir bonds and mortgages, and saws, to liii mi trowels, mid axes, ami day multi ooks, with them into the kingdu'woh , srss*** ^ I the trowel, mm o? Hi" mh> ' ons u hat will become of you if llu> \ lu iM the great day when tin i ai o houses to build, and no 1 p wardi ell. and no bargains to make 1 |,]llUll ossible to ?U*V<?t< onesell even 10 it twflll ciilliliir lint il it becomes sinful. , 'hero is no excuse oil earth or under b?ry. lie earth for the neglect of our 'or w eathless spirit. Jjydiii wits it seller oust I f purple. yet she did not. itllow tier 4,tJ xtensive occupation to keep her w hat roni becoming :t Christinn. I>miiel wdli ou secretary of utate an 1 attorney Cod general in the empire of Jlubylon, Moid tnd vet three times a day he found wouh inie to pray with his face towards lernsalem. The man wlm lias no TUC inie to attend to religion will have 10 pine to enter heaven. Jhit there are others who, while their worldly occupation lias no par ^t ticular fascination over them, are en tirely absorbed in the <juins that c,,iu come to that occupation. This is the worship of Mamiiiou. The rin?? "| of dollars and cents is the only litany jjH, they ever utter. Though in the last, ip,., day the earth itself will not be worth jm|| a farthiiio. a heap of ashes scattered ju |] in the whirlwind, tiny are no.voiviiuf tj;iv their time and eternity for tlie ?c h, ' ..nit it ion of so III 11 <*) i of it as \Ol! mi^lit :ii last hold in the hollow *?i" | 11M. our limit 1. The American IikIihii | jM. j w ho gavw enough hllltl lo make ilj|hn si ale out of for a siring of brads.' pj-Jn maile a princely barman compared w ith I lie speculation of thai man no ( who gains the whole world and loses ,mn l is ow n soul. How much comfort do I lie men lake who died nnforgivcti j|l(1 I' D years ago. leaving large fortunes j . to (heir heirs/ Dot hey ever collie vvj(j up to count the gold they hoarded or walk through the mansions (hey built/ Though they could have f()n bought an empire, l!:ey havciiot now ! as much money as you have this mo j1(l, ' uient in your pocket. Solomon look ! ed upon his palace and the grounds jj,., ! surrounding it, pools rimmed with (.(1 gold, and circling roads along w hich, j(>1] at times, rushed his fourteen linn (>f tired chariots, while under the out- p.,. branching sycamores and cedars i 1 he apes and peacocks, which by the .(J.( navy of Hiram had been brought Imi from Tarsliish, and from the window an ( hi ta.us with embroidered gold and | ro purple through which came out. tiieij,, i thrill of harps and psalteries ming |(< > ling with the song of the waters.! When Solomon saw that all these) . luxuries or sight and sound had , I been purchased by his wealth, he > '.broke forth in the exclamation, ' i' '' " l?..i I j "Money answeretn annum;*. i>m j,, t I we cannot receive it as literal. It j-n v ' cannot still the voice of conscience, ijj c It cannot drown tlie sorrows of tho j| r. soul. It cannot put a bribe in the m j hand of death. it cannot unlock the ^ <1 >?ate of Heaven. The tower of Si i,a loam fell ami killed eighteen of its r| y admirers, but this idol to whose wor . >i ship the exchanges and banks and,' ic ! cusloni houses of the world have v w been dedicated, will fall and crush to h | death its thousands. Jiut I cannot y ic ' enumerate the idolatries to which id men tfive theniselvcs, They are e- kept by them from a religious life, ic i "Ye cannot serve God and Mammon," ?r and the lirst tiling that Christ does|i id when He cornea into the temple of 1 id the soul is to drive out the cxehftn j t is. gC8. , i us - Hut it was not only the tfods of J IN' (JMIitiR 27. toab t lint made Orpah leave her sisr will mother in-law. She doubt ss had a dread of the hardship to lich they would be excised on the iirtiev to Bethlehem; and Orpah is not alone in the fear. Doubtless me of you have been appalled and iven back by the self denials of the ristian life. The aunt of the world i? charge of hypocrisy which they mhl sometimes be obliged to eon >nt, has kept, many away from the ul of Bethlehem. They sjH'iid Mr life in couuting the cost and, cause a christian life demands so icli courage and faith, they dare I begin to build. lVrhaps they courageous in every other res *t. They are not timid in presence imy dangyr except that of trusting the infinite mercy of Christ. The ep are more afraid of tln? shop d than of the wolves. They shrink i.v from the presence of Christ as ugh lie were a tryant rather than ieml who stickcth closer than a ther. They feel more safe in the ks of the enemy, where they must or infinite defeat, than in the v of Christ, which shall be more i conquerors, through him that i loved them. Men shiver and able before religion as though were commanded to throw their awnv. Hi.? ? . . .. ii nric ;i siir l< r of honor and manliness, and on :nid self rcsimcf, and all I liat <n lli keeping. hat. has (lot! over done that. His 'V should ho don Mod.' Was 0 over a sorrow of His frailest, 1 that Ho did not. pity'? Was 0 ( vor a soul that Ho loft imliclp 1 the darkness? W as there ever i t.vi t n.it 111* did not strengthen e Haines? Was there ever a dy nan to whose relief lie did not > at the cry of" Lord .Jesus re my spirit.'" Aye, my soul, has (iod done that so basely . hast doubted him? Did lb* the whole earth a desert ' Are ic skies dark and stoiin swept? e all sickness? Is the air all ie? Ate then notlung but rods scorpions and furnaces' (.iod how many suspicions and nil s men would entertain in regard u and I herefore, aft or making a tilde of plaj^, 1 mW. my itu.ie, thv neglects, and Christ ,od against thee, but His weap re tears, are calls to mercy, ami lattlccry which He this day , over thv soul as lie rushes l<? , the is - savt thee from going to the pit for I have found a in." I would not envy thy vie () hearer, if thou dost conquer hat wilt thou do with the weap lion has snatched from the arm deemer. what with the tears with his dying agonies, what His calls for mercy? Would Hint Orpah would get tired of ,! Would (iod t tint Orpah 1 <ri i in I ' lilrlu'lii. STATE EXECUTIVE COMMITTt E* I-1 it 111 Action of i iii! Itoily, 'I'oncliiliK I lie I'fiitUiij; CuiiiimIkii. Hit* meeting of tin* I )einoerat ie , Kxecutive (lominit Iee, lichl in nihia on W ednesday ni^ht, the win*; rcsolut ions were adopted: tesolved, That it convention of Democratic party of Sottih Cam is hereby called to meet, in the of the liouso of lie present alive.s le eity of Columbia oil W etlnes , the Kith day of August, at 12 for I tie sole and exclusive purpose elei nnniiiK wln t lu r delegates to Stale nominating eoiivention to n-ld on the'JOt h day of September rafter, sliall o e lee ted by a jury fiction to oe held on a day ain tlirouuhoill the State, and for it her purpose whatsoever; aiul thti d>rr of d'h Elites to be elected by !i County shall lie equal to double iniiuber of representatives in each lieli of the (ielieial Assembly to eh each eotint \ is entitled. Resolved, Thill the call for a te nominating convention heretou ordered to meet in Columbia on itembcr lotli, be and the same is < by eonfirnu d. Resolved. That the several conn t of the State be earnestly request not to fleet delegates to the Sep nber eoiivention until the question electing by primary election is demined. " V silb-eoininittee was itpjHiinled to pare and distribute "such printed itter us they may consider wise d proper. The sab-committee inpiises Colonel lloyl. Secretary nes, and Messrs. C. S. Me.Call,.John Haskell am! J. K. Motrin. Hlioi lag Affray in <Jol?mhl?. ('oi.i'miua, S. C., June IP.- - At ten imites after six o'clock thin ovengscven or eight pistol shots were ( (1 in cpuek succession in front of a- Opera House in Main Street, ami len two men were seen grappling, hey were Dr. \V. \V. Kay, of Conurce, this county, and Trial .Justice 11. Weston, recently appointed, lie men are cousins and both are oung. Weston was shot in the left i?h? and left thigh. Kay got a scalp round. The tiring was at close an go, the combatants being almost rithin arm's length. The trouble is eported to he over a private matter. ?Professor F. N. Crouch, the com* M>ser of Kathleen Mavoumeen, is iearly 90 years of age, but was able o march in the procession at the inveiling of the Lee monument at Ltichiuond.