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i, Devoted to Agriculture, Horticulture, Domestic Economy, .Polite Literature, Politics and the Current News of the Day. . , - ?. - - 7" . ? .... - I I .? ! ' ,*l t ^ , I " III iJ "! m Ml V. L * I y' * -*- ? - - - - ? "* ,m ~i?. ^ 1^ '' ' ' "" " ' ' " ' ^ HI- 'i I .l' '"'l "" ' XXI.?NEW SERIES. , '? '.StiM*# t? II^:SWHTOeJWLINA, JULY 18, 1890. * - - mriraip >? 4 ., t ? *l' ' ' ' ' 7 7 7 ' m. w*?i?hiM I | TALMAGE OUT WEST. THE BROOKLYN DIVINE IPREACHING IN NEBRASKA. An Open Air Sermon Delivered to tlie Multitude* From the I'ext, "Wo Are Wltnoii e*." On Sunday Dr. Tulmage preached nt Brent lico' Nebraska, iu tho open aii- to .in iminenso congregation which hid gathered from all tho surrounding country to hear the famous preacher. His text was, "We aro witnesses." (Acts 3: 15.) Following is his sermon: In the days of George Stephenson, tho perfoctor of the loconiotivo engine, the scientists proved conclusively that a railway train could never be driven by steam power successfully and without peril; but tho rushing express trains from Liverpool to Edinburgh, nnd from Edinburgh to London, have made all the nations witnesses of tho splendid achievement. Machinists and navicni.m-H proved conclusively tliat a steamer 1 could never cross the Atlantic Ocean 1 but no sooner had thoy successfully ! proved the impossibility of such an J undertaking than the work was done, 1 and the passengers on tho Cuuard, ! and tho Inman, and tho National, ' and tho "White Star lines are witnes- 1 ses. Thoro went up a guffaw of wiso laughter at Professor Morse's propo- ( sition to make the lightning of heaven ( his errand boy, and it was proved J conclusively that tho thing could \ never be done; but now all the news of the wide world, by associated press 1 put in your hands overy morning and I night, has made all nations witnesses. ( So in the time of Christ it was proved A conclusively that it was impossible 11 . ^ for Him to rise from the dead. It ^ was shown logically that when a man 11 was dead, he was dead, and the hoart * and the liver and the lungs having ^ ceased to perform their offices, tho j limbs would be rigid beyond all * nnwpv nf ~? rw.? W V* iiivuv/u Wl (Viuundl. JL liUJ Hhowed it to be au absolute absurdity ~ that the dead Christ should ever got * up alive; but no sooner had they 8 proved this than the dead Christ e arose, and the disciples behold Him, v hear His voice, and talk with him, 8 and they took tho witness stand to ^ prove that to bo true which the wis- c eacres of the day had proved to be j impossible; the record of the oxper- ^ ience and of tho testimony is in the 0 text: "Him hath God raised from the 8 dead, whereof we are witnessos." Now, let mo play the sceptic for a moment. "There is no God,'' says the sceptic, "for I have never seen him with my physical eyesight. Your Bible is a pack of contradictions, c There never was a miracle. Lazarus n was not raised from the dead, and fj the water was never turned into wine, n Your religion is an imposition on the n credulity of tho ages." There is an t aged man moving over yonder as e though ho would like to respond. 1 Aiuiu uiu uuiiv.ui;un ui ?im j fuccH ft little flushed fit theso an- s nouncemonts, and all through this t usHombly there is a suppressed feel- i ing which would like to speak out in i; behalf of the truth ?f our glorious v Christianity, as in the days of the c text, crying out, "Wo are witnesses!" ^ The fact is, that if this world is L over brought to God, it will not be f through argument, but through tes- r timony. You might cover the whole A earth with apologies for Christianity j and learned treatises in defense of s religion?you would not convert a 1 soul. Lectures on the harmony bo- v tween science and religion are beau- 1 tiful mental discipline, but have never ] saved a soul, and never will save a 1 soul. Put a man of the world and a f; man of the church against each other ( and the man of the world will in all 3 probability get the triumph. Thero i are a thousand things in our religion t m that scorn illogical to tho world, and 1 ^ always will seem illogical. Our weap- i 011 111 this conllict is faith, not logic: 1 faith, not metaphysics, faith, not pro- 1 fundity; faith, not scholastic explora- ] tion. But then, in order to have ] faith, we must liavo testimony, and if 1 five hunched men, or one thousand 1 men, or five hunched thousand men, < or five million men got up and tell me that they have felt tho religion of ! Jesus Christ a joy, a comfort, a help, 1 an aspiration, I am bound as a fair- i minded man to accept their testimony. I want just now to put beforo you three propositions, tho truth of which I think this audience will attest with overwhelming unanimity. The first proposition is, wo art? witnesses that the religion of Christ is able to convert a soul. Tho gospel may have had a hard time to conquer us; we may havo fought it back, but wo were vanquished. You say conversion is only an imaginary thing. Wo know better. "We are witnesses." There never was so great a eliango in our heart and lifo 011 any other subject as on this. People laughed at tho missionaries in Madagascar because they preached ton years without converts; but there are :$:$,000 converts in Madagascar today. 4 n.. a i H?|UU miiKiit'ii iii/ i/i. ivitiuiii iiiu Judson, the Baptist missionary, because ho kept on preaching in Burin ah five years without a single eonvert; but there are 20,000 Baptists in Burniah today. People laughed at Doctor Morrison in China, for preaching there seven years without a single conversion; but thoro are 25,000 Christians in China today. Pvoplo laughed lit the missionaries for preaching at Tahiti fifteen years without a single conversion, and at the missionaries for preaching in Bengal seventeen years without a single conversion; yet in all those lands there are multitudes of Christians to day. But why go so far to find ovidenco of the (Jospel's power to save a soul? "Wo are witnesses." We were so proud that no man could havo bumbled us; we wore so bard tbat no earthly power could have melted uh; angels of God were all around about us, they could not overcome us; but ono dry, perhaps at a Methodist anxious soat, or at a Presbyterian catechetical lecture, or at a burial, or on horsoback, a power seized us, and made us get down, and made us tremble, and made us kneel, and cry for mercy, and wo tried to wrench ? r " uiuocivuu uwuy uom uio grasp, but wo could not. It flung ub flat, and when we aroso we were as much changed as Gourgis, the heathen, who went into a prayer meeting with a dagger and a gun, to disturb tho meeting and to destroy it, but tho next day was found crying, "Oh, my groat sins! Oh, my great Saviour!" and for eleven years preached tho Gospol of Christ to his fellow mountaineers, the last words on his dying lips being, "Free Grace!" Oh, it was free grace! There is a man who was for ten years a hard drinker. Tho dreadful appetite had sent down its roots around tho palate and the tongue, and on down until they were interLinked with tho vitals of body, mind and soul; but ho has not taken any stimulants for ten years. What did that? Not temperance societies; not prohibition laws; not moral suasion. Conversion dul it. "Why, sir," said jno on whom the great cliango had jome, "I feel just as though I wero jomebody else!" Thero is a sea captain who swore all the way from New iTork to Havana and from Havana to San Francisco, and when he was in x>rt he was worse than when ho was m tho sea. "What power was it that , vashed his tongue clean of profanities, md made him a psalm singer? Con- \ 'orsion by tho Holy Spirit. Thoro ire thousands of neonlo in this m. emblaze to-day who are no more ' vliat they oneo were than a water ily is a night shado, or a morning ark is a vulture , or day is night. Now, if I should demand that all hose peoplo hero present who havo elt the converting power of religion hould rise, so far from being ashamed they would spring to their feet vith more alacrity than they ever prang to the dance, tho tears imaging with their exhilaration as they ried, "We are witnesses!' And if hey tried to sing the old Gospel lymn, they would break down with motion by the time they got to the econd line: Ahhamed of Jesus, flint dear Friend Ou whom ray hope of heaven depen d? No! When 1 clash, he thin ray shame: That I no more revere Ills nn nie. When a man has trouble tho world omcs in and says, "Now get your hud oil' this; go out and breathe the reali air; plunge deeper into busiiess." What poor advice! Get your iiiud oil' it! When everything is upturned with the bereavement, and \ cry thing reminds you of what you ; lave lost. Get your mind off it! hey might uh well advise you to top thinking. You eanuot stop liinkiug, and you cannot stop think- ' ug in that direction. Tako a walk j ? !,? r.lv.1 \V7h-r 11. .?* ix luu x x urjii (?u if njj tuuii^ iiiai ^ cry street, or that very road, she \ >uco accompanied you. Out of that ( jrass plat she plucked flowers, or ] nto that show window sho looked, , ascinated, saying: "Come see the | )ictures." Oo deeper into business? , ?Vhy, sho was associated with all our business ambition, and since ho has gone you liavo no ambition , eft. Oh, this is a clumsy world vhen it tries to comfort a broken mart. I can build a Corliss engine, ! can paint a Raphael's "Madonna," [ can play a Beethoven's "Eroica Symphony" as easy as this world can jomfort a broken heart. And yet 'Oil havo been comforted. How was t done? Did Christ come to you and ?ay, "Get your mind of this;1 go out ind breatho fresh air; plunge deeper nto business?" No. Thero was a ninuto when ho came to you?perhaps in the watches of tho night, perhaps in your placo of business, perhaps along tho streets?and Ho oreathed something into your soul diat gavo you poace, rest, infinito :juict, so that you could tako out tho photograph of the departed ono and look into the eyes and tho face of the dear one, and say, "It is all right; sho is better oft'; I would not call her back. Lord, I thank Thee that Thou hast comforted my poor heart." In our sermons and in our lay exhortations we are very apt, when wo want to bring illustrations of dying triumph, to go back to some distinguished personage?to a John Knox or a Harriot Newell. But I want you for witnesses. I want to know if you havo ever seen anything to make you benovo that the religion oi Ulirist can givo composure in the final liour. Now, in the courts, attorney, jury, and judge will never admit mere hearsay. They demand that the witness must have seen with his own eyes or heard with his own ears, and so I am critical in my examination of you now; and I want to know whether j'ou have seen or heard anything that makes you believe that the religion of Christ gives composure in the final hour. "Oh, yes," you say, "I saw my father and mother depart. There was a great difference in their deathbeds. Standing by the one we felt more veneration. By the other, there was more tenderness." Before the one, you bowed perhaps in awe. In the other case you felt as if you would like to go along with her. How did they feel in that last hour? How did they seem to act"? Were they very much frightened? Did they take hold of this world with both hands as though they did not want to give it up? "Oh, 110," you say; "110, I remember as though it were yesterday; she had a kind word for us all, and there were a few meniou toes distributed among the children, and then sho told us how kind we must be to our father in his loneli- si ness, and then she kissed us goodby luid went asleep as calmly as a child in a cradle." What made her so composed? Natural courage? "No," you say, "mother was very nervous; when the carriage L inclined to tho sido of the road, sho ui cried out; she was always very week- d ly." What, then, gavo her composure? & Was it becauso she did not care pi much for you, and the pang of pait- ?< ing was not great? "Oh," you say, ?1 "she showered upon us a ' ealtli of hi affection. No mother ever lu , t i! her pi children morn than mntlw>p ei us. Slio showed it by the way she e{ nursed us when Jwe got sick, and she w toiled for us until her strength gave out." What, then, was it that gave lft her composure in tho last hour? Do ei not hide it; bo frank and let me know. w. "Oh," you say, "it was " because she of was so good; she made the Lord her portion, and she had faith that she would go straight to glory, and that wi we should all meet her at last at the fit foot of tho throne." hu Hero aie peoplo who say, "I saw a Christian brother die,and he triumphod." And some one else, "I saw a l"j Christian sister die, and she triumplied." Some the else will suy, "I saw a Christian daughter die, and she triumphed." Como all ye who 111 have Sben tho last moments of a Clmstian, and give testimony in this j-'1* case on trial. Uncover your heads, put your hand 011 the old family 13iblo from which they used to read tho promises, and promise in the presenco j*' of high heaven that you will tell tho . truth, the whole truth, and nothing m but tho truth. With what you have seen with your own eyes, and from re< what you have hoard with your own we ears, is there power in this gospel to he Ejivo calmness end triumph in the to! last exigency? The response comes m< from all sides, from young, and ftu eld,and niiddlo aged: "Where arc tho witnesses!" tli< You see, my friend, I have not put oeforo you to-day an abstraction, or j,r< jhimera, or any thing like guess-work. "r L present you nfhdavits of tlio best wc noil ami women, living ami dead. P" rwo witnesses in court will establish wc i fact. Here are not two witnesses, jut thousands of witnesses?on earth nilhons of witnesses, and in heaven ?great multitude oljwitnesses that no m? nun can number?testifying that .here is power in religion to convert -he soul, to give comfort in trouble, gh ind to afford composuro in the last bu lour. If ten men should come to thi ug nicicuess, and say' they1' mWiWAj same siekness, and took a certain nit nodicitie, and it cured them, you int vould probably take it. Now, sup- sci lose ten other men should come up Coi ind say, "We don't believe there is tin mything in that medicine." "Well," of [ sav, "Have you ever tried it?" soi 'No, I never tried it, but I don't be- pi< ieve there is anything in it." Of do lourse you discredit their testimony, piIhe sceptic may come and say, "There uii ,s 110 power in your religion." Have (;o pou ever tried it?" "No, 110." "Then, da nvaunt!" Let mo take the testimony Wc of the millions of souls that liavo voi been converted to God, and comfort- eif lhI in trial, and solaced in the last 1 bour. We will take their testimony tri as they cry, "Wo aro witnesses!" co Some time ago Professor Henry, th of Washington, discovered a new fai star, and the tidings, sped by sub- ho: marine telegraph, and all the obser- re vatories of Europo wero watching for th that new star. Oh, hearer, looking Us out through the darkness of thy soul la< to-day, canst thou see a bright light mi beaming on thee? "Where?" you tli say; "where? How can I find it?" on Look along by tlic lino of the cross of be the Son of God. Do you sec it tremb- ailing with all tenderness and beaming tli with all hope? It is the Star of Beth- ar lcliem. cr Deep horror then my vitals froz?. in Death-struck I ceased the tide to stem, When suddenly a star arose , . It wiih tlio Star of Betoleliem. Oh, hearer, set your eyes on it. It ^ is easier for you now to become a Christian than it is to stay away from Christ and heaven. ^i When Madame Sonntag began her H-, musical career she was hissed oft' ^ the stage at Vienna by tho friends of ()j her rival Amelia Steininger, who had already begun to decline through her dissipation. Years passed 011, and uj one day Madame Sonntag, in her ^ glory, was riding through the streets jj, of Berlin, when she saw a little child j leading a blind woman, and she said, j "Come here, my little child, coiue here. Who is that you are leading , by the hand?'' And the little child replied, "That's my mother; that's ^ Amelia Steininger. She used to be a ^ great singer, but she lost her voice, and she cried so much about it that n] she lost her eyesight." Give my love to her," said Madame Sonntag, "and tell her an old acquaintance will call 1( on her this afternoon." The next week in Berlin a vast assemblage t gathered at a benefit for that poor blind woman, and it was said that Madame Sonntag sang that night as j she had never sung before. And she r< took a skilled oculist, who in vain u] tried to give eyesight to the poor blind woman. Until the day of Anie- i lia Steininger's death, Madame Sonnfair took care of her. and her dauuh tor after her. That wan what the queen of song did for her enemy. Hut. oh, hear a more thrilling story at ill. Blind immortal, poor and lost, thou who, when tho world and Christ were rivals for thy heart, didst hiss (| j thy Lord away?Christ eomes now to give thee sight, to give thee a home, '.l | to give thee heaven With more than a Sonntag's generosity He eomes now to meet yoni need. With more than a Sonntag's music He comes to plead c ' for thy deliverance. a BATTLING ON BROADWAYIrlklng nn?l Working Clonk Mnkcrtt Strike Sure Enough?An Kxol ng Scene Hl lu Now York'n Chief Thorough are. New York, July 3.?A crowd of bout 200 striking cloak makers '" nthered on Broadway between iconard and White stroets this 1 loming at the hour when the hands i the Meyer ?fc Jannassen shops at to M and the Mercantile Cloak Com- W1 my's place at 394 Broadway were ^ ling to work. Those firms are two f the largest in the trade and are *ftl ittling iu the front row of the Em- all loyers' Association against the strik- tli s' demands. When their employ- uu is tried to enter the shops thev , ore surrounded, by strikers who a< irbade them with vehement gesticu- Pe tions to enter. Some were fright- ce] led awayJjxthe crovtdAnd escaped Hll bile thcfa*--^vhci,-??er6&TO(t in the ,U( fort to enter tlie shops were seized Vc. id hustled away by force. In a few fja inutes Broadway for two blocks %V) as the scene of a dozen running eu jlits. For a short time the strikers xvi id it their own way but soon tlio sailed men pluckily fought back, * a consequence damaged heads 0q nong the strikers wero plentiful. lie working cloak makers, however, tj1( morally got the worst of it. Around 17] eyer Jauassen's shops the war ged the most liercely. A dozen fikers caught Charles Butler, stock fir, jrk, and dragged him backward oil' ^Hj e steps and maltreated him. Jos. Lerberger, buyer for the house, is beaten. An old operator named lincy was set upon and so badly jjC,, aten that he had to be driven homo ^ai a cab. all William Wisncr, another operator, tie ceived several scalp wounds. He 181 mi tuUon to tlie Cbaml'om Kirooi of ispital for treatment. Neither pis- Bu Is nor knives were used in the 177 dee, the only weapons being firsts fro d clubbed umbrellas. gai When the police arrived in force Ca: oy had 110 dilliculty in dispersing Me D 1110b. They used their clubs ed ;ely. Mr. Moorcroft, of the cloak Tli m, said he had no idea that violence in >uld be used. He had supplied the 177 ices of the strikers, he said, and nci >rk was progressing as usual. da COUNTING UNCLE SAM'S NOSES wit -hlncs TImi iicut tlio Iliimaii Crulii in Jul Computing Returns Oil \Y ASiiiKOTON, July 10.?Nice-looking 0 f1! Is in clean, white aprons arc the sy hands in a machine shop on the son ird lloor of a Ninth street building. jVu ft\s 1 w1 ibtt, tiwi? y;;; ichines, wTiiqh oomo 80 near human , 1 elligence in comjlutiiig the returns <> ; it from all sections of this big untry for the census of 1800. At ^ st glance the machines remind one Jjafc an upright piano. They have hand- 1 l"mo oak cases and each one oceu- ? 1 ?s about the same space a piano ' es. They are, however, eminently M 'j actical machines, and with their . 1 some fifteen young ladies can , unt iiccurately 500000 names a ^ \ y. It is expected that when the iaF >rk of counting tho census returns ce 4 illy begins there will be seventy or ,lllj jhty of these machines at work. , The returns from the census dis- V,ets throughout the country are ming in slowly. There arc more an 50,000 of these districts, and so ^p r only about 2,500 districts have . ut in tho returns. As fast as the V! turns come in they are counted, al- V ough not as rapidly as they will be, ,. it is necessary to train the young lies in the use of the machines. In a king this count, which is known as 4j>.e e "rough count." the returns for eli district are counted twice. After /' 'ing counted on one machine they S? 0 passed over to another, and when e latter count is completed the two 11 e compared, and if there arc dis !UJ cpancies necessary corrections are ^! ade. Following this method, if the tal population of the country is ,000,000 thero will be counted in ?}1 to census olliee an equivalent to l)1 10,000,000 names. 111 The machines, which aro the inven- )!? 3U of Mr. Hollerith, and supplement j s tabulating machines, arc very j mple. A key board, resembling * iat of a typewriter, is at the right the operator. Each key has a H1; imber from one to twenty. The re' lerator has a pile of census schedes at her left side, and, as she turns ie schedules over, she notes the H,? jpires which indicate the number of embers in each family enumerated that schedule. If there are live in family she strikes the key marked ll. ve. When a key is struck an elec- V>1 ic connection is established with iU! ie hands on a dial intho framework 1 1 front of the operator. That dial is marked No. 5, which leans it records the number of fami- (jc es consisting of five persons. Each J> me the No 5 key is struck No. 5 dial ?cords one. When the count is s:l , , i ii i re mipieieu i no recorueu unmoor on i icli tlial is multiplied by the nuruer of the dial, the results added up 1 ml the total number of individuals i that district is ascertained. If the ^sult is obtained by a different opertor, then it is concluded that the s Diuit is correct. It is expected that y the use of these machines the rcults of the census will be known inch sooner than by any other known lothod. ?(lovernor Nicholls, of Louisiana, etoed the bill to submit the lottery uostion to the people, but the House assed it over his veto,and the Sen to sustained the House. So the oil icconios a law. ?During the last year forty two ? alleges received gifts of money imounting to $2,075,000. I ARP AS A PATRIOT. - MORALIZES ON THE GLORIOUS FOURTH. mo Important IIIntorionl I'nrtK ltocnllod ?Let l'? llavo 1'eaee. lauta Couslltutlon. I asked tut intelligent young man -day about the Itli of July and nit it meant, and lie said "Ourforethers liad a big light with old Eugid and whipt it; and after it was over the colonies got together on e 4tli of July, '7<?, and formed a lion and made a declaration of inpeudeuce." A good many young oplo have an idea that this day lebrates the whipping of the light., d the beginning of a new governjnt. This is a mistake, but it is a ry reasonable supposition. Tho y of a great victory that closes a ir and secures neace and indeneml ce is a greater (lay than tlie ouo ou licli it was declared. "Let not liiiu boast that putteth i armor 011 like him who taketh it V' Tho surrender of Comwallis Yorktown virtually closed o war on the liith day of October, SI, and tho treaty of peaco was rued in Paris 011 tho 80th day of >vembcr, 1782. This treaty for tho st time acknowledged and cstablied the independence of the United vtes, and tbe day it was signed juld bo observed as a very notable y. The 1th of July was not tho ginning of the war. The colonies d been lighting for a year or more along the line.Bancroft saysjthebatjof Lexington that was fought on the ,h of April, 1775, was the beginning tlio revolution. Tho Vmttlo of nker Hill was fought in Juno, '5. The colonics had rebelled m Maine to Georgia, and had orrized for resistance. Old North rolina held a secession meeting at cklenburg in May, 1775, and passa declaration of independence, e second continental congress met Philadelphia tho 10th of May, '5, and issued $2,000,000 of contiltal money for war purposes. Canawas invaded and Montreal was ;en in December, 1773. Our fathwere getting along pretty well b the war long before the 4th of y, but the colonies were lighting their own motion, ynd had not aented any settled union. Some them thought that England would m get tired and beg, their pardon I invite tlicni back, and perhaps y would go back, but on the 7th d introduce*! rcsoruiioira in imr itinentai congress that cut the last d that had bound the colonies to cat Britain. The resolutions were isedaud a committee appointed to .xv up a more formal declaration independence; and so it was done, I was reported to congress and a passed 011 the 4th of July, 1770. 4 is well for the children and youth understand these things, so that en they arc asked what all this kct is about, and these annual cbrations and fireworks, they can iwer. diehard Henry Lee was the persofriend of "Washington, and when ishington died Lee was chosen to mounce his eulogy, and it was in it address that he said of him: irst in war, first in peace and first tho hearts of his countrymen.'' nit forget that. rhosc Lees were terrible rebels, lieu Cromwell was dictator they jelled against him and passed a claration of independence for Virlia, and so Cromwell sent over a ft to subdue them, but he couldn't it, and hail to recognize their inpeiulence and make a treaty with cm. The Lees were born to rule, d they have been ruling for 150 ars in this country. It is a grand I family. Henry Lee, a cousin of chard's, was t lie father of our Genii llobert E. Lee. He was known 11.- 1.00 r.w.m 1111^ liir It'YUlUUUU UO -1-il^U V 11V1 I irry. His father must have been a ry extraordinary man, for ho and moral Washington loved and courtthe same girl, Miss Luey Grynies, o "lowland beauty," and Lee outneraled tlio general, and history ys that Wasliiugton^never wholly covered from that defeat. Some ars after he tried a widow with betr luck. She had one son, and that 11 married and died, leaving one .lighter, and our Bob married her. jc Lews all had personal pride and idc of family. They scorned to do mean thing. Their self respect mldn't permit it. They stood up id sat down and rode and walked th a princely dignity that com(uided respect and admiration. Wil mi l'reston Johnson says in a rent letter that he never saw General >e take an ungraceful posture. No utter how worn or weary or sick or <1, his bearing was grace and dignity lined. Tl.is was not affected. It us his nature. A man with a great ind and a good heart can't help being irniticd. His body partakes of the tbility of his miml. Ho becomes nlliko. us wus said of Duniol Weber. If a ninn's body is the temple ' the living God,as the scriptures say, ion it becomes him to be dignified id graceful and courteous. Some >lks affect to despise all this, but ley do not. They are fooling them Ives. Just lot a man or a woman t or stand before tin' camera of the liotographer for a picture and sec ow they lix up for it. and how careil to take a good position. They ill do their best and look then rettiest every time, especially n 'Oman. Light Horse Harry was the most ashing cavalry otVicor of the re vol u ion and Washington depended upon im as General Lee dei>eirded upoi Job Stuart in the Into war. Ho was a devoted friend and a magnanimous foe. After the war he happened to be in Baltimore where a mob had gathered to break up a newspaper and whip tho editor, a man who had been his friend, and he rushed to his rescue and got wounded in the fray and was injured internally and never recovered from it. He went to Cuba for his health and came back by Cumberland island to rest awhile with General Green's family and there ho died and was buried. Georgia was honored with his bones. I reckon that the ltli of July is the fittest day to celebrate, though it was i. il 1 m ... " " " uul mo aay 01 tno nation s birth, nor the beginning of the war, nor the day of the last great victory, nor the day when peace was made. It is a singular coincidence that tlx* battle of Lexington, where tho first blood was shed in tho old revolution, was fought on the 18th of April?the same day of the same month that elosed the late war, ninety years afterward. Sherman and Joe John ston made peace 011 that day at Durham's station, in North Carolina. I11 the beginning of the first revolution eleven of the colonics seceded. In tho second revolution eleven States seceded. Secession ami rebellion began with the fathers and ended with the sons. It began in defense of a principle, a little tax of tlirco pence a pound on tea. All other duties 011 imports jhad been removed, and King George declared that he would keep a little tax on tea, not for revenue, but to show the colonies that England had a right to tax?that was all. Where there is a will to fight, excuses are plenty. The colonies had been quarreling with the parent government for years and were tired. So it was with tho North and tho South. They had been quarreling for fifty years, and the fight had to come. It wasn't tho election of Lincoln, but it was the pent up bitterness of half a century that had to explode. And we are quarreling again, and if WA L'AAD nn fluivn 1w? onnllinv ? " w VJJ VUV1V M 114 (VllUlliVI light some time. Huinau nature is the same now. that it was then, ami there are more causes of quarrel than a little tax on tea. What is the matter with this American people? I wonder if these farmers can't stop the fuss when they get into power. For the Lord's sake, gentlemen, do start us on an era of peace and good will, and let the next Fourth of July celebrate a victory over hate and prejudice and the inordinate love of other people's money. Bill Ann. __?ne. negro kills anotherTho Murderer Arrested. Saturday moteiing Kelly Powers killed Ben Newinan, at Ashland, twenty livo miles from Darlington. Both were colored men. Powers was beating his wife severely, so severely that Newman asked him to stop, when ho turned upon Newman with a large knife and stabbed him in the heart. Newman turned and ran, Powers following and cutting him. After running about fifty yards Newman fell dead. A crowd of negroes gathered at the sceno of the crime and beat Powers severely and were with difficulty restrained from lynching him. A deputy sheriff was promptly dispatched to the scene of the murder and before sunset the murderer was safely lodged in jail. A Whole Township Missed. A Raleigh dispatch asserts that no | ccuauu of South Greensboro', Guilford county, N. O., which lias a population of threo thousand, lias been taken, and ono township in the county had no enumerator. In the township in question a Democratic applicant for appointment as enumerator was appointed over the Republican applicant. Soon after he got to work lie was notified of his removal and ordered to turn his books over to the Republican, but the latter refused to accept the appointment, and consequently 110 census has been taken in that township. There are similar complaints from all over that census district. Superintendent Porter would have done better in this census business if he had paid more attention to competency and loss to politics in the selection of supervisors and enumerators.?Baltimore Sun. A Shocking Accident. A dreadful accident occurred near Chappells Depot,in Newberry county last Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. Dan Holland and a negro woman were driving in a sulky. They were endeavoring to get ahead of a rain storm which was coming up, and in crossing a sumii stream tnosuiKy was i thrown off the bridge, turning it over. Mrs. Holland's foot caught in the | stirrup of the upturned sulky, and the horse, becoming frightened, ran away, killing Mrs. Holland and seriously I hurting the negro woman. Mrs. ' Holland was only 10 years old, and had only been married about two months. The People Will Not Stand It. The American people, North and South, will not submit to being bulldozed and dictated to. Our education for 100 years has made us intolerant of compulsion and of autocratic : methods. Fair play is the lirst principle of the American citizen, and this bill violates fair play in every provision. If it becomes a law, and there is no reason to anticipate that it will not. it will bo a law that will never be put into effect. Tim Sui preme Court will not sustain it and I the people will lot 'stand it. Tom Heed and his gang ^buccaneers may force it through Congress, but they i cannot make the American i?cople i swallow it.?Louisville Post WRECKED AMONG PIRATES. Tlio Tlirlllln^ AdvontiirPM of an American Crow. Charles Stuhr, lately steward of the schooner Gellert, who arrived in this port on the steamship Clyde last Saturday, brought news of the wreck of that vessel 011 the reefs of the is land of Catalinita, in the Caribean sea, April 21: of the attack of pirates and wreckers, of rescue by a passing trader and of the mutinous conduct of the crew. The Gellert, Capt. A. C. Long, sailed from this port Santo Domingo and the San lilas cost with a mixed cargo and carrying a deck load of lumber. A tornado struck the schooner when past the Isle of Pines and made things lively for two days. /1UL 1 V a 1 - - 1 1 but the vessel, still unmanageable was thrown by the surf on the inner reef surrounding Catalinita Island at dawn of April 21. The schooner struck between two rocks ami was lirmly hold. The crew, regardless of discipline, manned the long boat and went ashore deserting the captain, the mate and steward. They collected some Hour and biscuit and when the sea went down went ashore in the dory. The sailors had found neither food nor water and welcomed the provisions. A camp was made. That same night three stark naked natives, armed with swords and pis tols, appeared. After some parley they went away to get help to loot the vessel. The crew, already much exhausted, were frightened, and at. daybreak luuchcd the long boat and went out to the vessel, but were unable to reach her. While trying, a native coaster appeared and a number of armed men put oil' in a small boat for the CJellert. The lirmness of Capt. Long and the mate, backed by a pair of pistols, kept them oil". The savages went ashore, stole the dory and the clothes of the wrecked sailors and went back to their vessel. The captain and mate, by jumping and swimming from rock to rock, got out on board of the (Jcllcrt safely. Wreckers, who were meanwhile Hocking to .the shore, failing to entice the sailors ashore, threatened to kill them and began building rafts. Then too, the pirates from tile coaster made another attempt to board the schooner, bat the captain and mate made a good light. The sailors, thinking, as they say, that both were killed, put out to sea. They were at sea on their oars for trader from Santo Ponnugo~hiaf7?7rfcd for. When the captain heard their story he straightway changed bic mi 1 went, to llii' wreck. There they found the captain mid mute alive, who hud driven olT the pirates, wounding several. The two captains decided to transfer Iho whole or part of the cargo 1<> the trader and take it to Santo Domingo, 150 miles away, but the crew of the Gellert refused to work, claiming that their pay stopped when the schooner was wrecked. They said the captain had no authority over them, and that they wero too sick to work anyway. Threats of shooting did not budge them, so the cargo was left on the wrecked vessel and the trader with the Gillcrt's crew, sailed for Santo Domingo. At that port Cupt. Long charged his crew with mutiny, and the men were tried before the .British consul and ucuuittod.?New York Herald. Herveil Ijoiiger Hum .lacoh. W. A. Pollard, a farmer who lives in this county, was in the city a few days ago, and to some of his friends he told the following story, which is vouched for by those living in his neighborhood: About nineteen years ago Air. 1'ollaru inrcci iniiiseii 10 1110 Into Alex. Spiders, a well td-(lo farmer of this county. The lirst month he received n suit of clothes us pay. Mr. Pollard was then employed permanently as a farm hand, lie had been with Mr. Spiders but a short time when a girl child was born to Mrs. Spillers. An hour after it was born Mr. Pollard asked Mr. Spiders to give him the child as his wife when she arrived at the proper age. Mr. Spiders consented, and said if Mr. Pollard stayed with him he should have hisdaughterat sixteen. Through sixteen years the young man worked with his employer and at. sixteen I claimed the young lady as his ihuico and was soon after married to her. He is now the father of two children, and at Mr. Spider's deatli lie left his son in law SI,(>()<) in cash for the sixteen years he had so patiently waited for his wife.?Greenville News. Some Tilings Thai Stanley Saw. Mr. Stanley fairly rivals old Homer's famous catalogue of ships in enumerating the inhabitants of the central African forests. He found J 1 here the elephant, buffalo, hippopotai niuH, crocodile, wild pig, bush ante! lopes, coneys, gazelles, chimpanzees, baboons, monkeys of all kinds, squirrels, civets, wild cats, genets, zebras, ichneuinos. large rodents, while the air swarms with parrots, paroquets, suiibirds, finches, shrikes, wliipporwills, hoopors, owls, guinea fowl, blackbirds, weavers, kingfishers, divers, kites, wag tails, oeo eaters, pipits, cockatoos, hornbills, ja.vs, harliets, woodpeckers, pigeons, and finally the rivers teem with lisli, oysters and clams.?Boston Herald. ?The price of ice has been nd1 vanced in St. Louis to SI per 100 (pounds, and nothing less than t'-n pounds is sold.