Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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< ^ *>0'i*iCS 3flC* ^0 ^UPren* ^0W8 ?^ ' TAIjMAGE OUT WEST. I proud that no man could have hum- j toes distributed among the children, | BATTLING ON BROADWA Y* I 4 r?r* ? ? . ^ 1 """ 1 * | bled ub; we were bo hard kh*f. i ??*' ** ? ~x-~ a-1j ? THE BROOKLYN DIVINE IPREACHINC IN NEBRASKAAn Op?n Air Strmon Delivered to tl?? Multitude* From the Text, "We Are Witneeeee." On Sunday Dr. T aim age preaolied at Breaf l ice' Nebraska, in the open air to an immense congregation which had gathered from an the surrounding country to hear the famous preacher. Sis text was, "We are witnesses." (Acts 8: 15.) Following is his sermon: In the days of George Stephenson, the perfeotor of the locomotive engine, the scientists proved conclu- 3 sively that a railway train could nev- > er be driven by steam power success- 1 fully and without peril; but the rushing express trains from Liverpbol to ] Edinburgh,'andfrom Edinburgh to ' London, have made all the nations 3 witnesses of the Bplendid achievement. Machinists and navigators ? proved conclusively that a steamer 1 could never cross the Atlantic Ocean 1 but no sooner had they successfully * Twwnu? - jMWfVM DUO UUUU oHiuujij oi such an 11 undertaking than the work was done, c and the passengers on the Cunard, 8 and the Inman, and the National, 1 and the White Star lines are witnes- j see. There went up a guffaw of wise * laughter at Professor Morse's propo- c Bition to make the lightning of heaven c his errand boy, and it was proved 8 conclusively that the thing could never be done; but now all the news ^ of the wide world, by associated press put in vour hands every morning and E night, has made all nations witnesses. 0 So in the time of Christ it was proved v conclusively that it was impossible a Jt for Him to rise from the dead. It v was shown logically that when a man a was dead, ho was dead, and the heart 8 and the liver and the lungs having ^ ceased to perform their offices, the j1 limbs would be rigid beyond all 11 power of friotion or arousal. They showed it to be an absolute absurdity ^ that the dead Christ should ever get up alive; but no sooner had they 81 proved this than the dead Christ 8 arose^and the disciples behold Him. ^ near ma voice, and talk with him, 8J and they took the witness stand to ^ prove that to be true which the wis- ? eacres of the day had proved to be ^ impossible; the record of the exper- ^ ie 1 and of the testimony is in the 6] ttxfc. 'Him hath God raised from the 81 dead, whereof we are witnesses." Now, let me play the sceptic for a moment. "There is no God," says the sceptic, "for I have never ra?ti him with my physical eyesight. Your Bible is a pack of contradictions. c< There never was a miracle. Lazarus m was not raised from the dead, and fr the water was never turned into wine. n< Your religion is an imposition on the in credulity of the ages. There is an ti aged man moving over yonder as e1 though he would like to respond, h Here are hundreds of people with T faces a little flushed at these an- si nouncements, and all through this tl assembly there is a suppressed feel- ii ing which would like to speak out in ii behalf of the truth sf our glorious v< Christianity, as in the days of the o: text, crying out, "We are witnesses!" g The fact is, that if this world is ii ever brought to God, it will not be fi through argument, but through tes- p timony. You mignt cover the whole v earth with apologies for Christianity y and learned treatises in defense of el religion?you would not convert a 1< soul. Lectures on the harmony be- * tween science and religion are beau- h tiful mental discipline, but have never I saved a soul, and never will save a I soul. Put a man of the world and a S man of the church against each other o and the man of the world will in all y probability get the triumph. There if are a thousand things in our religion a ? that seem illogical to the world, and a *' always will seem illogical. Our weap- ii on in this conflict is faith, not logic: n faith, not metaphysics, faith, not pro- h fundity; faith, not scholastic explore- p tion. But then, in order to have p faith, we must have testimony, and if b five hundred men, or one thousand tl men, or five hundred thousand mem q or five million men get up and tell t me that they have felt the religion of I Jesus Christ aJoy, a comfort, a help, d an aaniraftnn T am 1v\nn<l aa a #?i?- ~ minded man to accept their testimony, t T want just now to put before you 1 three propositions, the truth- of which I think this audience will attest 1 with overwhelming unanimity. The first proposition is, we are witnesses that the religion of Christ is able to convert a soul. The gospel may have hpd a hard time tooonquer us; we may have fought it back, but we were vanquished. You say conversion is only an imaginary thing. We know better. "We are witnesses." There never was so great a change in our heart and life on any other subject as on this. People laughed at the missionaries in Madagascar because they preached ten years without converts; but there are 88,000 converts in Madagascar today. People laughed at Dr. Adoniram Judson, the Baptist missionary, be cause be kepi on preaching in Bur- i mah five years without a single convert; but there are 30,000 Baptists in j Burmah today. People laughed at ' Doctor Merrison in China, for preach- | ing there seven years without a sin- i sie conversion; but there are 25,000 Christians in China today. People < laughed at the missionaries for 1 preaching at Tahiti fifteen years without a single conversion, and at < the missionaries for preaching in < Bengal seventeen years without a single conversion; ret in all those lands there are multitudes of Christian h to day. But why go so far to find evidence of the Ooepel's power to save a soul? "We are witnesses." We were so earthly pow&i could have melted us angels of Qod were all around about us, they could not overcome us; bui one dry, perhaps at a Methodist anx ious seat, or at a Presbyterian cat echetical lecture, or at a burial, or 01 horseback, a power seized us, and made us get down, and made ue tremble, and made us kneel, and cry for mercy, and we tried to wrench ourselveB away from the grasp, bui we could not. It flung us flat, and when we arose we were as much changed as Gourgis, the heathen, who went into a prayer meeting with a dagger and a gun, to disturb the meeting and to destroy it, but the next day was found crying, "Oh, my great sins! Oh, my great Saviour!" and for eleven years preached the Gospel 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 rears a hard drinker. The dreadful ippetite had sent down its roots iround the palate and the tongue, md on down until they were interinked with the vitals of body, mind ;nd soul; but he has not taken any itimulants for ten years. What did hat? Not tflmrwranKo ? 1 rVA MUV/V 0\A>1OWCO) JLlUb inhibition laws; not moral suasion. Conversion did it. "Why. sir," said ?ne on whom the great change had tome, "I feel just as though I were omebody elsel" There is a sea capain who swore all the way from New fork to Havana and from Havana to lan Francisco, and when he was in ort he was worse than when he was n the sea. What power was it that r ashed his tongue clean of profanities, nd made him a psalm singer? Conereion by tho Holy Spirit. Thero re thousands of people in this asemblage to-day who are no more rhat they once were than a water ly is a night shade, or a morning irk is a vulture , or day is night. Now, if I should demand that all' hose people here present who have I lit the converting power of religion tiould rise, so far from being ashamd, they would spring to their feet rith more alacrity than they ever prang to the dance, the tears mingng with their exhilaration as they ried, "We are witnesses!' And if ley tried to sing the old Gospel I ymn, they would break down with notion by the time they got to the ttond line: Ashamed ot Jeans, that dear Friend On whom my hope of heaven depen d? Not Whon 1 olneh, te thla my shame: That 1 no more revere Hlpoa me. When a has trouble tne world imes in and says, "Now get your iind off this; go out and breathe the *?oV? ?;?. i udu nu, tiiuiifjo uocjltu lilVU UUH1B88." What poor advice! Get your ind off it! When everything: is upumed with the bereavement, and rerything reminds you of what you ave lost. Get your mind off it! hey mi^ht as well advise you to x>p thinking. You cannot stop unking, and you cannot stop thinkig in that direction. Take a walk i the fresh air! Why, along that ary street, or that very road, she nee accompanied you. Out of that! runs plat wie plucked flowers, or ito that show window she looked, iscinated, saying: "Come see the ictures." Go deeper into business? Vhy, she was associated with all our business ambition, and since ao has gone you have no ambition >ft. Oh, this is a clumsy world rhen it tries to comfort a broken eart. I can build a Corliss engine, can paint a Raphael's "Madonna," can play a Beethoven's "Eroica ymphony" as easy as this world can omfort a broken heart. And yet au have been comforted. How was i done? Did Christ come to you and sy, "Get your mind of this;' go out ad breathe fresh air; pluage deeper | lto business!" No. There was a linute when he came to you?per-1 aps in the watches of the night, erhaps in your place of business, erhaps along the streets?and- He reathed something into youriioul bat gave you peace, rest, infinite [uiet, so that you could take out the ihoto graph of the departed one and ook into the eyes and the face ot the lear one, and say, "It is all right; he is better off; I would not call her >ack. Lord, I thank Thee that Thou last comforted my poor heart." In our sermons and in our lay exlortations we are very apt, when we vant to bring illustrations of dying riumph, to go back to some distinguished personage?to a John Knox >r a Harriet Newell. But I want you or witnesses. I want to know if you lave ever seen anything to make you >elieve that the religion of Christ can five composure in the final hour. now, m tne courts, attorney, jury, md judge will never admit mere learaay. They demand that the witless must have seen with his own syee or heard with his own ears, and jo I am critical in my examination >f you now; and I want to know whether you 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 eras 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 the? very much frightened? Did thov take hold of this world with both hands as though they did not want to give it up? "Oh, no," you say: "no, I remember as though it were yesterday; she had a kind word foi us all, and there were a few memen , uicu suu wjia us now land we ; must be to our father in his lonelit ness, and then she kissed us goodby t and went asleep as calmly as a child - in a cradle." What made her so composed? Natu| ral courage? "No," you say, "mother I was very nervous; when the carriage ? inclinod to the side of the road, she I cried out; she was always vory week1 ly." What, then, gave her composure? J Was it because she did not care much for you, and the pang of parti ing was not great? "Oh," you say, i "she showered upon us a wealth of 1 affection. No mother ever lovt i! her 1 children more than mother loved 1 us. She showed it by the way she nursed us when Jwo got sick, and she toiled for us until her strength gave out" What then, was it that gavo her composure in the last hour? . X>o . -hot hide it; be frank and let me knoW. "Oh," you say, "it was * because she was so good; she made the Lord her portion, and she had faith that she would go straight to glory, and that we should all meet her at last at the foot of the throne." Here are people who say, "I saw a Christian brother die,and hetriumnh mere ib power in religion to convert the soul, to give comfort ill trouble, ( and to afford composure in the last 1 hour. Xf ten men should come to t ing sTclraewjVand say' tR&f" J same sickness, and took a certain i medicine, and it cured them, you i would probably take it. Now, sup- e pose ten other men should come up c and say, "We don't believe there is f anything in that medicine." "Well," c I say, "Have you ever tried it?" a "No, I never tried it, but I don't be- j lieve there is anything in it." Of c I course you discredit their testimony, j The sceptio may come and say, "There ? is no power in your religion." Have c you ever tried it?" "No, no." "Then, c avaunt!" Let me take the testimony ^ of the millions of souls that have i been converted to God, and comfort- t ed in trial, and solaced in the last hour. We will take their testimony t as they cry, "We are witnesses!" c Some time ago Professor Henry, t of Washington, discovered a new j star, and the tiaings, sped by sub- f marine telegraph, and oil the ohsnr- i vatories of Europe wero watching for j that new star. Oh, hearer, looking t /\t> 4 il>A AA?1 1 vsuu uuuunu ituc luu&ucdo ui i?iijr buui j to-day, canst thou see a bright light ] beaming on thee? "Where?" you j say; "where? How can I find it?" ( Look along by the line of the cross of j the Son of God. Do you seo ittremb- ( ling with all tenderness and beaming \ with all hope? It is the Star of Beth- t lehem. , Deep horror then my vitals froze, ] Death-struck I ceased the tide to stem, , When suddenly a star arose It was the Star ef Betelehem. 1 Oh, hearer, set your eyes on it It 1 is easier for you now to become a Christian than it is to stay away from 1 Christ and heaven. When Madame Bonn tag began her ( musical career she was hissed off , the stage at Vienna by the friends of ( her rival Amelia Steininger, who had . already begun to decline through her \ dissipation. Tears passed on, and , one day Madame Sonntag, in her 1 glory, was riding through the streets of Berlin, when she saw a little child leading a blind woman, and she said, "Come here, my little child, come ; 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 she lost her eyesight." Give my love to her," said Madame Sonntag, "and tell her an old acquaintance will call on her this afternoon." The next week in Berlin a vast assemblage gathered at a benefit for that poor blind woman, and it was said that Madame Sonntag sang that night as Ko/1 navai* aunfi Ka/ava Anil oKa tool: a skilled oculist, who in vain tried to give eyesight to the poor blind woman. Until the day of Amelia Steininger'a death, Madame Sonnt&g took care of her, and her daugh> ter after her. That was what the i queen of song did for her enemy, i But, oh, hear a more thrilling story > still. Blind immortal, poor and lost, thou who, when the world and Christ were rivals for thy heart, didst hiss r thy Lord away?Christ comes now to i give thee sight, to give thee a home, i to give thee neaven. With more than ; a Bonn tag's generosity He comes now i to meet your need. With more than a Bonn tag's music Ho comes to plead for thy deliverance. ea." And some one else, "I saw a Christian sister die, and she triumphed." Some the else will say, "I saw a Christian daughter die, and she triumphed." Come all ye who have Stoen the last moments of a 1 Christian, and give testimony in this ' case on trial. Uncover your heads, 1 put your hand on tho old family Bible from which they used to read tho promises, and promise in the presence . of hicVl VlPftvon A-" lL ? will juu nui liOll biiu . truth, the whole truth, and nothing 1 but the truth. With what you have seen with your own eyes, and from i what you huve heard with jraur own ' ears, is there power in this gospel to 1 give calmness and triumph in the i last exigency? The response comes i from all sides, from young, and ? old,and middle aged: "Where are the witnesses!1' i You see, my friend, I have not put J before you to-day an abstraction, or ' chimera, or anything like guess-work. ' I present you affidavits of the best 1 men and women, living and dead. ! Two witnesses in court will establish 1 a fact. Here are not two witnesses, but thousands of witnesses?on earth millions of witnesses, and in heaven a?great multitude oifwitnesses that no i man can number?testifying that XI l " Striking Mid Working Cloak Makers Strike Sure Enough?An Excl ng Scene HF. In New York's Chief Thorough are. New York. July 8.?A crowd of about 200 striking cloak makers 0,1 gathered on Broadway between Loonard and White stroets this morning at the horn- when the hands I in the Meyer & Jannassen shops at to-< 334 and the Me*antile Cloak Com- wh pany's place at 394 Broadway were / . going to work. Theso firms are two of the largest in the trade and are battling in the front row of the Em- all ployers' Association against the strik- the ers' demands. When their employees .tried to enter the shops they . were surrounded by strikers who * forbade them with vehement gesticu- peo latlmifright- celt effort to^rierfte^Mpflwere seized j.1 and hustled away by force. In a few fay minutes Broadway for two blocks waI was the scene of a dozen running enc fights. For a short time the strikers had it their own way but soon the ? assailed men pluckily fought back. hi8 As a consequence damaged heads 0flf > among the strikers wero plentiful. at' The working cloak makers, however. ^]10 generally got the worst of it. Around ng Meyer & Janassen's shops the war gjg, raged the most fiercely. A dozen Not strikers caught Charles Butler, stock clerk, and dragged him backward off ii8h bhe steps and maltreated him. stai Jos. Lerberger, buyer for the house, g^o was beaten. An old operator named day Quincy was set upon and so badly kCg beaten that he had to be driven homo had n a cab. alia William Wisner, another operator, tlo'c eceived soveral scalp wounds. Ho 18tl woo Wuon to the Cham\>oro Btroot of t hospital for treatment. Neither pis- Bur tols nor knives were used in the 177( nelee, tho only weapons being firsts fror rnd clubbed umbrellas. gan When the police arrived in force Car hey had no difficulty in dispersing Mec he mob. They used their clubs ed 'reely. Mr. Moorcroft, of the cloak The arm, said he had no idea that violence in ] would be used. He had supplied the 1771 places of the strikers, he said, and nen work was progressing as usual. da -i tak< COUNTINC UNCLE SAM'S NOSES- ers wit! Machine* That Beat the Human Brain In Jub Computing Returns On t Washington, J uly 10.?Nice-looking c^ firls in clean, white aprons are the >usy hands in a machino shop on the hird floor of a Ninth street building. fV ' cont ntelligence nrcompHIig the returns cQT^ lent from all sections of this big Qre ountry for the census of 1890. At g irst glance the machines remind one >f an upright piano. They have hand- ^ ome oak cases and each one occu- (iuq >ies about the same space a piano Wftg loes. They are, however, eminently jt nactical machines, and with their u kid some fifteen young ladies can , iount accurately 500000 names a rftC^ lay. It is expected that when the ceje vork of counting the census returns g, eally begins there will be seventy or iighty of these machines at work. naj The rfihimd from Hin onrxiiia ricts throughout the country are joming in slowly. There are more p,roj ban 50,000 of these districts, and so ar only about 2,500 districts have ?ent in the returns. Ar fast as the ^ *eturns come in they are counted, al- Vp though not as rapidly ae they will be, ,yf is it is necessary to train the young , ladies in the use of the machines. In r, naking this count, which is known as . . the "rough count," the returns for jach district are coimted twice. After ~jeo. oeing counted on one machine they 4? 1 ire passed over to another, and when r,ep the latter count is completed the two ^ ire compar ed, and if there are dissrepanoies necessary corrections are made. Following this method, if the total population of the country is , 50,000,000 there will be counted in the census office an equivalent to ^ir 120,000,000 names. The machines, which are the invention of Mr. Hollerith, and supplement ^ his tabulating macnines, are very simnle. A kev board, resemblim? that of a typewriter, is at the right geu of the operator. Each key has a Ba^ number from one to twenty. The rec< operator has a pile of census?schednles at her left side, and, as she turns '~cr the schedules over, she notes the 8,on figures which indicate the number of members in each family enumerated . in that schedule. If there are five in pn< a family she strikes the key marked a 1 five. When a key is struck an elec- wo! trie connection is established with the hands On a dial in the framework in front of the operator. S That dial is marked No. 5, which ai means it records the number of fami- ?on lies consisting of five persons. Each time the No 5 key is struck No. 6 dial ma, records one. When tho count is 8a~ completed the recorded number on each dial is multiplied by the num- ^ ber of the dial, the results added up *r and the total number of individuals 3 in that diatriet is ascertained. If the no1 result is obtained by a different oper- K.?( ator, then it is concluded that the H v* count is correct. It is expected that ?} by the uso of these machines the resuits of the oensus will be known much sooner than by any other known ?? method. ?Governor Nicholls, of Louisiana. vetoed the bill to submit the lottery P question to the people, but the House * , passed it over his veto, and the Sen ate sustained the House. So the oil becomes a law. ?During the last year forty-two da colleges received girts of money tic amounting to $3,675,000. hii aiir AO A rATlilUT. MORALIZES ON THE CLORIOU FOURTH. no Important Historical Facts ltocallc ?Let Us Have Peace, aula Constitution. . asked an intelligent young ma lay about tlio 4th of July an at it meant, and he said "Ourfori Ucrs had a big fight with old Enj, d and wliipt it; and after it wa ovor the colonies got together o 4th of July, '76, and formed on and made a declaration of ir icndence." A good many youni pie have an idea that this da: sbrates thejy hipping, of iho fight i??u nwRimuug ui & new govern at. Tins is a mistake, but it is i y reasonable supposition. Tin of a great victory that closes a and secures peace and independ e is a greater day than the one or ch it was declared. Let not him boast that puttetl armor on like him who taketh i1 ' The surrender of Oornwallit Yorktown virtually closet war on the 19th day of October I, and tho treaty of peace wai led in Paris on the 80th day o rember, 1782. This treaty for tin t time acknowledged and estabed the independence of theUnitec bes, and the day it was signet uld be observed as a very notabh . Tho 4th of July was not tin inning of the war. The colonies been fighting for a year or more long the line.Bancroft saysjthe bat >f Lexington that was fought on the i of April, 1775, was the beginning .bo rcTuVuticm. Tho battle ol iker Hill was fought in June >. The colonies had rebelled a Maine to Georgia, and had or ized for resistance. Old North olina held a secession meeting at sklenburg in May, 1775, and pass a declaration of independence i second continental congress met Philadelphia the 10th of May >, and issued $2,000,000 of conti tal money for war purposes. Cana was invaded and Montreal wat m in December, 1773. Our fatk were getting along pretty well l the war long before the 4th o] r, but the colonies wero fighting lioif AWTT\ ??-1 1 1 aavuu. unu Uiuuuij, ynu nau noi ented any settled union. Some liem thought that England would 1 get tired and beg. then* pardon invite them back, and perhaps ' would go back, but on the 7th TEffbduCOiT TbSOTtravEns?m-oire omental congress that cut the lost I that had bound the colonies to at Britain. The resolutions were ted and a committee appointed to v up a more formal declaration idependence; and so it was done, was reported to congress and passed on tho 4th of July, 1770. , is well for the children and youth nderstand theso things, so that n they are asked what all this ret is about, and these annual brations and fireworks, they can sver. ichard Henry Lee was the porso friend of Washington, and when 3liington died Lee was chosen to lounco his eulogy, and it was in . _ .1 i ii?i i. _ ?: i -t u:? i uuuiess unit uu nuiu ui mm: rat in war, first in poaco and first bo hearts of his countrymen.' 1't forget that. hose Lees were terriblo rebels en Cromwell was dict?to? tlioj elled against him and passed t laration of independence for Vir a, and so Cromwell sent over i t to subdue them, but he couldn'i it, and had to recognize their in endence and make a treaty witl m. The Lees were born to rule they have been ruling for 15( rs in this country. It is a grant family. Henry Lee, a cousin o: hard's, was the father of our Gen i Robert E. Lee. Ho was knowi ing the revolution as Light Hors< rry. His father must have been i y extraordinary man, for he ant leral Washington loved and court the same girl, Miss Lucy Grymes "lowland beauty," and Lee out leraled the general, and histor: s that WashingtoiCnever wholl: overed from that defeat. Som< rs after he tried a widow with bet luck Bhe had one sou, and tha married and died, leaving on ighter, and our Bob married her 0 Lees all had personal pride am 3o of family. They scorned to d mean thing. Their self-respec uldn't permit it. They stood u 1 sat down and rodo and walke h a princely dignity that coir nded respect and admiration. WI n Preston Johnson says in a r< it letter that he never saw Genert 3 take an ungraceful posture. N tter how worn or weary or sick c 1, his bearing was grace and dignit ined. This was not affected. ] 9 his nature. A man with a grer id and a good heart can't help bein mified. His body partakes of th jility of his mind. He become Hike, as was said of Daniel Wei r. If a man's body is the temp] bhe living God.as the scriptures sa; >n it becomes nim to bo dignifie I graceful and courteous. Son: ks affect to despise all this, bi >y do not. They are fooling then ves. Just let a man or a \woms or stand before the camera of tl otographer for a picture and s< w they fix up for it, and how car , to take a good position. Th< II do their best and look the sttiest every time, especially iman. Light Horse Harry was fhe mo shmg cavalry officer of the revol >n and Washington depended up< m as General Lee depended up Jeb Stuart in the lato war. Ho was a doYoted friend and a magnanimous foe. After tho war ho happened to s be in Baltimore whero 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 rescuo and got wounded in tho fray and was injured internally and n never recovored from it. Ho went to d Cuba for his health and camo back 3- by Cumberland island to rest awhile with General Green's family and there he died and was buried. Geor8 gin was honored with his bones, n I reckon that tho 4th of July is tho a fittest day to celebrate, though it was t. not the day of tho nation's birth, nor the beginning of tho war, nor the ? day of the last great victory, nor the f day when peace was made. It is a, singular coincidence that the. 1 5 ?oF lioxington, wnero the first blood 4 was shed in the old revolution, was Q fought on the 18th of April?the t same day of the same month that . closed the late war, ninety years nft terward. Sherman and Joe Johnston made peaco on that day at Dur1 ham's station, in North Carolina. In k tho beginning of the first revolution } eleven of the colonies seceded. In 1 the second revolution eleven States soceded. Secession and rebellion began 3 with the fathers and ended with the f sons. It began in defense of a princi* nle. a littlo t.at of tWn o ' on tea, All other duties on importsjliad { been removed, and King George de1 clared that ho 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 quar3 reling with the parent government . for years and were tired. So it was ; with tho North and the South. They ( had been quarreling for fifty years, [ and the fight had to come. It wasn't . tho election of Lincoln, but it was t the pent up bitterness of half a cen , tury that had to explode. And we are quarreling again, and if ve keep on there will be another ' fight some time. Human nature is tho same now. that it ^*\s then, and [ there are more causes of quarrel than . a little tax on tea. What is the mat3 tor with this Ajnerican people? I . wonder if these farmers can't stop [ tho fuss when they get into power, f 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 ovor hate and pre[ judice and the inordinate love of t other peoplo's money. Bill Arp. r ONE NEGRO KILLS ANOTHERThe Murderer Arrested. | Saturday motoring Kelly Powers , killed Ben Newman, at Ashland, , twenty-five miles from Darlington. Both were colored men. Powers was boating his wife severely, so severely that Newman asked him to stop, when he turned upon Nowman with a large knife and stabbed him in the i 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 scene of the criino . and beat Powers severely and were t with difficulty restrained from lynch, ing 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 ' of Sou th Greensboro1, Guil1 ford county, N. O., which has apopu" lation of three thousand, has been * takon, and one township in the t county had no enumerator. In the " township in question a Democratic 1 applicant for appointment as enum? erator was appointed over the Re publican applicant. Soon after he J got to work he was notified of his ref moval and ordered to turn his books over to the Republican, but the latl ?i (U/, . 1 IUI iuiuncu tuu m^Tuuiiuiuuij | 9 and consequently no census has been J taken in that township. There are 1 similar complaints from all ovor that r census district. Superintendent Por' ter would have done bettor in this ~ census business if ho had paid more ^ attention to competency and less to P politics in the selection of supervisors 0 and enumerators.?Baltimore Sim. t e A Shocking Accident. A dreadful accident occurred near Chappells Depot,in Newberry county 0 last Tuesday afternoon. Mis. Dan Holland and a negro woman were ? driving in a sulky. They wero en (j deavoring to get ahead of a rain storm which was coming up, and in |_ crossing a small stream the sulky was j. thrown off the bridge, turning it over, j Mrs. Holland's foot caught in the 0 stirrup of the upturned sulky, and tho )r horse, becoming frightened, ran away, ? killing Mrs. Holland and seriously fit hurting tho negro woman. Mrs. it Holland was only 1G years old, and g had only been married about two e months. )S } The People Will Not Stand It. le The American people, North and y, South, will not submit to being bulld dozed and dictated to. Our educate tion for 100 years has made us intolit orant of compulsion and of autocratic a- methods. Fair play is the first prinin ciple of the American citizen, and le this bill violates fair play in every bo provision. If it becomes a law, and e- there is no reason to anticipate thai By it will not, it will be a law that will >ir never be put into effect. The Su a preme Court will not sustain it and the people will not (stand it. Tom st Reed and his gang of 4buccaneers may u- force it through Congress, but they in cannot make tho American people an swallow it.?Louisville Post. WRECKED AMONG PIRATES. The Thrllllii|( Adventure* of an American Crew. Charles Stulir, lately steward of tho schooner Gellert, who arrived in this port on the steamship Clyde last Saturday, brought news of tho wreck of that vessel on tho roofs of the island of Cataliuita, in tho Caribean sea, April 21; of tho attack of pirates and wreckors, of rescue by a passing trader and of the mutinous conduct of tho crew. Tho Gellert, Capt. A. C. Long, sailed from this port Santo Domingo and the San Bias cost with a mixed cargo and carrying a deck load of lumber. A tornado struck tho schooner when past tho Isle of Pines and made things lively for two days. i. i ? AJ? 1 a. but the vessel, still unmanageable was thrown by the surf on tho inner reef surrounding Catalinita Island at dawn of April 21. mi ? * .me 8cnooner struck between two rocks and was firmly held. The crew, regardless of discipline, manned the long boat and went ashore deserting the captain, tho mate and steward. They collected some flour and biscuit and when the sea went down went ashore in tho dOry. The sailors had found neither food nor water and welcomed the provisions. A camp was made. That samo night three stiuk naked natives, armed with swords and pistols, appeared. After some parley they went away to get help to loot the vessel. The crew, already much exhausted, were frightened, and at daybreak lauchcd the long boat and went out to tho vessel, but were unable to reach her. While trying, a native coaster appeared ant! a number of armed men put oft* in a small boat for tho Gellert. The firmness of Capt. Long and the mate, backed by a pair of pistols, kept them oft". Tho savages went ashore, stole the dory and tho clothes of the wrecked sailors and went back to then* vessel. Tho captain and mate, by jumping and swimming from rock to rock, got out on board of the Gellert safely. Wreckers, who were meanwhile flocking to i the shore, failing to entico the sailors ashore, threatened to kill them and began building rafts. Then too, the pirates from tne coaster made another attempt to board the schooner, bat tho captain and mate made a good fight. The sailors, thinking, as they say, that both were killed, put out to sea. Thoy were at sea on their oars for trader from Santo JJomingo nhVi cKS ed for. When the captain heard their story ho straightway changed his course and went to the wreck. There they found the captain and mate alive, ;vho had driven oft the pirates, wounding several. The two captains decided to transfer the whole or part of tho cargo to the trader and take it to Santo Domingo, 150 miles away, but the crew of tho Gellert refused to work, claiming that their pay stopped when the schooner was wrecked. They said the captain had no authority ovor 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 tho Gillert's crew, sailed for Santo Domingo. At that port Capt. Long charged his crew with mutiny, and tho men were tried before the British consul and acauittod.?New York Herald. Serveti Ijonger than Jacoh. W. A. Pollard, a farmer who livos in this county, was in tho 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 Mr. Pollard hired himself to tho lato Alex. Spill ers, a well-to-do farmer of this county. The first mouth he received a suit of clothes as pay. Mr. Pollard was then employed perinnn<i7-iflv na n form bnml TTn been with Mr. Spillers but a short time whon a girl child was born to Mrs. Spillers. An hour after it was born Mr. Pollard asked Mr. Spillers to give him the child as his wifo when she arrived at the proper age. Mr. Spillers consented, and said if Mr. Pollard stayed with him he should have his daughter at sixteen. Through sixteen years the young man worked with his employer and at sixteen claimed the young lady as his fiance and was soon after married to her. Ho is now the father of two children, and at Mr. Spillor's death he loft his son-in-law ?1,600 in cash for the sixteen years he had so patiently waitod for his wife.?Greenville News. Some Things That Stanley Saw. _ Mr. Stanley fairly rivals old Homer's famous catalogue of ships in enumerating the inhabitants of tho central African forests. Ho found there the elephant, buffalo, hippopotamus, crocodile, wild pig, bush antolopes, coneys, gazelles, chimpanzees, baboons, monkeys of all kinds, squirrels, civets, wild cats, genets, zebras, ichneuraos, largo rodents, while the air swarms with parrots, paroquets, . sunbirds, finches, shrikes, whipporI tvilla liAAnnru Alula miinoA frnul I v n.M, - blackbirds, weavers, kingfishers, di[ vers, kites, woe-tails, bee-caters, i pipits, cockatoos, hornbiils, jays, bar[ bets, woodpeckers, pigeons, and fin. ally the rivers teem with fish, oysters [ and clams.?Boston Herald. r ?The price of ice has boen ad' vanced in St. Louis to $1 per 100 i pounds, and nothing less than ten pounds is sold.