The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, October 03, 1890, Image 4
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THE CROOKED SHALL BE MADE "
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I)r. Tiiliuitgo'a I)iHrourM< nt the Arailfniy li
of Mimic? A Series of Sermons on tho ''
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Holy I.mint to bo I?ollveretl. t
Brooklyn, Sept. 21,?Preliminary J
to his sermon at the Academy of Music v
In this city, tins forenoon,b{cv. Dr^Tal- I
mage announced that, initil the new t
Brooklyn Tabernacle was ho *
would preach In the Brooklyn Academy v
ot Music, on Sunday mornings, lie wns f
_i i i- -.i.i .i?i i... .... f
glUU IU aim iiuii, uy uu auuu^viuviav made
through The Christian Herald, of 1
New York city, he would he enabled to c
preach in the New York Academy of f
Music, on Fourteenth street, on Sunday s
evenings, beginning with the evening of J
September 28th. lie also announced t
that on next Sabbath morning, Scptciu- |
her 58th, he would begin a series of scr- <
inons entitled: "My Recent Jouruey 1
Through the Holy Land aud Neighbor- *
ing Countries: What 1 Saw and Learned." .
The subject of to-day's sermon was : ;
"Crooked Things." Text, Isaiah xl, 4:
"The crooked shall be made straight." !
Geometry, from the time it was d;->- 'J
covered on the banks of the Nile, which,
by its overflow annually obliterated t' e \
landmarks, and the restoration of the c '
landmarks made such a science neccs- I
sary?I say, Geometry, ever since the. ,
has been busy with lines, straight lines, ;
curved lines, lines in angles and cones i
and spheres, hut has never been ab'o to i
evolve any beauty from a lino that was i
merely crooked. The circ'o and the i
square were always considered adm* able.
Isaiah recognizes the circle and i
says: "The Lord sits upon the circle of
the earth." The altar of the nucieni ]
tabernacle was "four square," aud t! ? i
breastplate of the priest "four square. ' i
and heaven, according to John, Is "foi i
square." Hut '".e lhblc has no ndnur:
tion for lines I. .1 are merely crooked.
Indeed, my te:;t in prophesying ti e
world's complete rcctitication declares :
"The. crooked sliall he made straight. '
There have been - *. - "
quakes that many things iuu 'vJ"0TJ
tcrrihlc twist?crooked laws, crooked
governments, crooked fortunes, crooked
dispositions?and many of the ef'orts to
straighten th'ngs have o n'y in- e ?'iein
more crooked. And some good people
sit down in despair and become pessimistic
and give up lite and the church and
the world as dead failures. With such
lachrymose behavior I have no sympa
thy. It is a promise ol the Lord Almighty.
"The crooked shall be ma< J
straight." 1 propose, as I may be divinely
helped, to mention some of the
crooked things that are going to be
siraightened.
Much of the wealth of the world is in
the hands of the profligate while many
of the best people are subjected to d'*tressiug
privation; nud there is going fo
be a redistribution of pt'oYierbvV' If-it
wr-re possible, it would "be a hiTd thing
have things divided ^<yiaIfy3C^?j?ic ,
men are able to endure more,
than others, and prosperity-Rhat
not unbalance you, might destroy njeV|l
The Declaration of American Independence
declares th$ 'alT men are boh/
equal, but the jOi^&te i
Is this more evident than irrtlfcir capacity
to endure success, liuaucial or social.
I have seen men hv the aeouisition ol
lifly thousand dollars made arrogant ai d
overbearing, and I have known otliei *
with their millions of .dollars cViUmjia^
and unassuming and Christian, We
would all be atllucnt but the Lord cannot
trust us. 1 am glad there are tho e
lie can trust. Much is said against
capitalists, but the world would be a
shaky world without them. Who built
railroads which, while they give such
facilities ot travel, employ tens ol thousands
of laborers supporting them and
their families ? Capitalist". Who built i
great ships that stir the rivers and bridge
the ocean? Capitalists. Who reared
the thousands of factories all over the |
land in which hundreds of thousands ol ]
employees earn theii daily bread? Capi- ,
talists. Who endowed your colleges, and
opened free libraries, ail'd built asy- j
lums for the orphan, the crippled and i
the insane? Capitalists! But for them ]
there would not l>c an Academy ofM -- i
ic, or a picture gallery or a tree library |
or a steamboat, or a railroad in Americ . 1
Who put the world on seventy-live ye. |
beyond what it would hayc been in i
enterprise, in comforts, in educational
advantage, in good things wit .out ]
number? Capitalists! The more mo.ic/ j
a man gets the better, if it co ne hones:- i
lv and is emnloved ricrhteonslv. .
thelcss we nil sec that there needs to he ]
a redistribution of pioperty. Com- j
muuism proposes to make that diatribe- .
tion by torch and dagger and dynamif n. |
Throw the midnight express train otl'tl e .
track and put the factory into cont'agri- |
tion. Disrupt society. Jiurglarize. As- (
sassinate. Such people believe neither j
in God nor man nor woman and they t
know how to make things worse but (
never have made and never can make
anything better. i
I tell you how there will come a re- f
distribution of property. Under the di- 1
vine blessing good people will get more *
alertness and acumen and assiduity, r
Many good people are kept in straiten- (
cd circumstances because they have been t
indolent, or lacked courage to take lion- >
est advantage of circumstances, and (
were too stupid to get on. With the t
very same surroundings others went ou t
to competency. In the better days to i
come good men will have their faeult'a s t
wakened, and will in consequence ri <e to <
larger share of property. On the other <
hand, estates wrongfully accumulated, i
will dissolve. If not the sons, then the
grandsons will make the money lly. and <
it will gradually scatter in their hands, '
and become a part of the general wealth.
Then, as to vast properties righteously s
gathered?and there are thousands ofl.J
them?such estates, will contribute to- s
ward helping the unfortunate, not more t
by charities than by helping struggling a
I?cople into lucrative business* and the s
man who has amassed enough and a sur- a
plus will say : "There is a young mer- g
chant without any capital. I will start v
him on Fulton Street," and "there is a h
young mechanic who has no means of v
his own, and I will put him on a career t;
of prosperity," and "There is a farmer v
witi| too big a mortgage on his land, and a
I will help him lilt the encumbrance." f<
The fact Is that if the kindness and gen- 'i
erasity manifested by moneyed men to- tl
word the struggling during the last fifty jf
years, increases in the same ratio >r the ei
next fifty years, there will be a condition ti
of society paradisacal. We are going to A
have a multiplication of William E. tt
> it <
>odges, ami Peter Coopers, aud James
cnoxcs. and George l'cabodys, So will
Dine redistribution, and the crooked
ill be made atraight.
Mind this: God never yet undertook a t
rilurc. The old book which .is worth
11 other books put together, makes it
>lain t'oni. God has undertaken to reguitc
this world by gosi>cl iufl icnccs, and
f lie has the power He w:!l do what He
ays He'will, and no one who amounts
o anything will deny His power. God
ins said a hundred times "I will," but
lever once has t-.id l-I cannot " We may
r:tli our tack-hammers pound away, try- (
ng to mend and improve and st^ai ?hteu
he financial eond liou of the wor d, uud '
m hi die result, because
ur arm is too weak and the hammer we
ireild too small, but the most defiant dilleulty
will flatten and disappear when
iod with a hammer made of. summer
hunderbolts strikes it, saving. "The
rooked shall be made straight. '
In your business concerns there are inluenees
perplexing. Your affairs may
coin all right to outsiders, for business
inns do not advertise their private
roubles, but where one firm lias cverybing
just as they waut it there are a
nmdred firms at their wit's end what to
lo with that partner who draws more
,hau his share of the profits, or with that
stockholder who conies in just often
uiough to upset things, or wiili that disippcornncc
of fuuds which you cannot
iccouti t for, although you have suspicions
you cannot mention, or with that -nvestinent
which was made contrary to your
judgment because there was a dctermi
nation to push it through, <>r becnus? v
you arc going behind month by month *
ivithout any prospect of extrication, i
i'lie tronl)lc is putting a wrinkle on your t
forehead that ought not to appear there i
or ten years yet, and you will he forty i
years old when you ought to be only K
thirty, or sixty when you ought to lie *
liityor seventy when you ought to lie ii
only sixty, Stop worrying. Either l>y~t! c 1
dissolution of that tirm. or by re-adjust- n
ing matters you will he brought safe" v (
through if you fut your trust iu God. v
When commercial houses fail (he sih- i;
peusion is advertised, but oi the tens of si
thousands ol men. who are every da.v ex- i
Iricated no public mention is made. Yes- t
lerday was Saturday and I warrant that <
at tho windows of hauks. and in count- t
ing-rooms of stores and on every street <
of every city, God appeared for the de- i
l'.vcrancc of good men, as certainly as i
when with Ilis right foot he trod Lake i
j?i? placidity and made Daniel ?
lions as though tliey^ i
had been house dogs asleep oh a rug he- j
fore a winter's lire. Throw yourself on :
the promise of the text, or a hundred i
other texts meaning aboi.t the same- i
tiling. ~ l
1 never yet asked God to do anything 1
but He did it, if it were best, and in all '
tho cases where my prayer has not been )
answered, I have found out afterward
that it was best not to have been answered
iu my way. Hut none of us have
tested the* lull power of prayer. It is a ;
force very like some of the lorces of nature,
that were in existence hut not cm- '
ployed. For ages electricity was
thought good for nothing but to burn '
barns, and kill people with fell strokes. 1
The liglittiiug rod on the top of houses
was the spear with which the world
charged on the thunderstorm, as much
as to saw "'If you dare to come this wnv
r-will liurl you into the ground." ]iut
uow electricity lightens homes, and
thfirfchcs, and cities, and Christendom,
n^ul.moves rail cars, and he is a rash man '
who .mentions anything as impossible to '
tiiis .natural energy. So tiie uow?(, of '<
Kit \JUWCf, II it was any power at all. 1
Hut that has been changed, and men '
begin to use it in some things, and the '
time will come when it will be used in '
all things, and there will be a Uible in
e eery counting room, and supplication '
will ascend trom every commercial establishment,
and when business linns 1
are formed the question will not only be
asked as to how much this one and that '
one put in of capital, the question will i
be asked: '"Ho you know how to pray?" 1
Mightier agent than any natural force '
yet developed will be tins (Jospel elee- *
trlcity, Hashing heavenward lor help, '
Hashing earthward with Divine response. '
God in business life. God in agricultural '
life. God in mechanical life. God in ar- t
listic life. God in every kind of life. Your 1
religion for the most past is hung up so 5
liigh you cannot reach it. It is hungup ?
3ii the cloudy ratters of the sky where '
you expect to snatch it up as you dually go v
Lhrougn for heavenly residence. Oh, have your
religion within easy reach now! He- t
iigion is notfor heaven, but for this world.
ijw in iivarvu) ?tu uiii m uii uu , I 1
or we slin.ll have everything we want. <
We will need no repentance, lor we shall i
liave forever got rid of our sins. We *
ihall have no need of comfort, for there r
will be no trouble. The Chaistian re- >
ligion is not for heaven where everything ?
is all right, but for this world where so 1
many things are all wrong. I
Washington Allston, whose name you a
recou,nize as that of a great American 'J
painter, was reduced to extreme poverty, t
:tnd one day got on his knees and asked <
For a loaf of bread for himself and Kg 1
starving family. While he was bowed in 1
that prayer there was a knock at the I
loor and a man came in and said: "IIow 'I
ibout your painting, the 'Angel Uriel,'
hat received the prize at the roy acad- | ?i
;niy? lias it been sold!'" "No " sn:d ?'
AI Is ton. "How much do you want for s
Allston replied: "I am done lixing ?
i price for I cannot tell." "Will four ?>
liindml pounds ho enough?" asked the y
itranger. "Why that is more than I S
iskcd," said Allston. The 400 pounds, t
$2,000) were paid and the purchaser in- '
roduced himself as Marquis of Stall'crd, ,i'
vho thereafter was one of ilm mn?i lil._ I<
ml patrons of the rescued artist. "Oh. J
,hnt all just happened so!" Didit? Tell a
hat to some ignorant man. some bo- <
lighted woman, who has ncv . read tlie >
lie promise: "Call upon me in the day b
)f trouble, I will deliver thee." or that'
ther promise: The crooked shall be !
nade straight." t i
"Well," says one. "you don't apply n
bis in every direction." Yes. 1 do. 'I
Pake the most uncertain thing on earth b
?the weather. The Hible distinctly I.
ays that prayer controls the weather, ti
lames 5th. and 18th: "Elijah was a man II
object to like passions as we are and he b
aayed earnestly that it might not rain, w
nd it rained not on the earth lor the h
pace of three years and six mouths; a
nd lie prayed again and the heavens w
ave rain." I)o you say that was the b
weather of olden lime? There have been d
t-Lances in modern limes .ist as mar- n
clous. There is not a Christian shipcap- o
tin but could give you instances of di? a
inc interference with the weather in I't
nswer to j>rayer. It has hecn my good si
>rtune to know many ship captains,
'hey are in all our services. Thoy leave t<
icir vessels on Sunday mornings and n
>in us in worship. I warrant there are S
nough of them present this morning to ui
ike a whole tleet in safety across the s<
itlantic. Whenever 1 have heard them w
'slify, it has mightily confirmed mc in si
hat 1 kuew before, that God answers h
layer concerning tho weather. And ti
icrc have been cycloucs that, started t
p from the Carribbeau sea, sweeping s
own every sad and every smokestack ]
ad every mast in their eoursc, which in i
nswertospec c peti' !on have end"- n
cried ami made to curve around some o
articular ship, leaving that in cu'*n w ?
;rs, and then resuming their or'gur' t
nth o des.ruction. Tie weather ii
robabi' ties ngain have nnuoi ced a i
jmpeH mul we were all ready for it, but t
j the surprise of mosi fcoplc, tho next t
ay we saw the announttmcuV that the i
tmosphcric lury had ebuaged its course, t
'ho ji. iUsii'iv '>o ?c. struck a prayer and j
lanced oil. it Kiijalrs prayer eliectcd \
10 weather ot' Palestine for forty-two 1
souths, I should think somebody now I
?ml?t have a prayer that would otiect t 1
>r a couple ot days. ?
John Paster was many years a^o an- ]
vangelistin Virginia. A large out-do ; t
looting wus being held in that stn1 \ t
lany thousands had assembled in the 1
pen air and heavy storm-clouds begau <
o gather, 'ihere was no shelter to i
thichthe multitudes could retreat. The 1
ain had already reached the adjoining 1
ields when John Paster cried oul: i
brethren, he still while I call upon Cioil 1
o stay the storm till the Gospel is i
>i cached to this multitude." Then he i
.nclt and prayed that the audience might i
ic spared from the rain and that alter
..cy hud gone to their homes there might
onto refreshing showers. Heboid the
louds parted as they came near and
assed to cither side of tho crowd and
l?uu cloned ttgttin, leaving the nlacc dry
vnerc no audience laid assembled, and
:i? next day the postponed showers
nine upon the ground that had been the
lay bclorc otuihed. Do you say it only
lappcued so? 1 cannot see what you
;eep your bibles tor. and the God y?'u
vorship is not my God. Your Goii is
in auvocrat, and lie is so far ofl' aud so
ar up that the world cannot touch Him,
ind .lis throne is an eternal Iceberg. My
tod is a lather. I.ere and now, and a lather
vill give his child what he asks tor, it'it
s best for him to havo it. l'rav
ibout everything that concerns you, scjd.uities
as well as spiritualities. Take
0 God allyoui annoyances and perplexi.cs.
The crooked shall be made
'Iraigln. Some people talk as though
iod controlled things in general but not
i particular; that He started everything
aider certain laws aud let it take care of
1 self, as an engineer might start his lo omolive
011 an 11011 railroad track and
lien jump ofl. What would happen to
Tu-1 a IbcBttvotive what - would- lowg'
o) have happened to our world il God
l:ad started it and allerwanls allowed it
look out for itselt, There is 110 such
iiiug as a general providence. It Is a
[ articular providence. God lias no gen ral
care for a forest. It is a c.u-e of
very cell, of every leaf and root in that
oresl. God has 11 > gcueral care of the
conn. I. is a care o! every drop of war
in the liquid magnitude. God has
.0 general care for the human race. It
a care of every indiv iual ot that race,
and of every iieiii of individual history.
I nreach llini, 0 God in infinitesimals,an
every-day (iod, a God responsive, and
01 e breath of earnest prater, tbougli that
breath should not be strong enough to
make a caudle :cker. will abs- rb more
in the divine attention than if tne arciiangcl
slnrdiug at llic loot of the throne
siiouhl (lap bt: tit wings.
ii i.au
tk.ngs are in the providence ot God bci.ig
made straight. About thirty years
ago our national affairs were as yrockcd
is depraved American uolilirjur.-j*iHtti!
the top of Maine to the foot of Florida,
Llic nation was red with wrath, it was
wrangle and light all the way throng,
met one of the mi'dest things that the
North and Seutli promised each other
was assasiualion. During this summer
I have traveled through New York, and
Gi.'.o, and Illinois, and lud'ana. and
Minnesota, and Kansas and Nebraska,
mid Missouri, aud Texas, and Louisiana.
and Georgia, and North and South
L'a.oliiui, and Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
and 1 have shaken hands with tens
>1' thousands of people, and talked with
men of all sections aud degrees, and I
.avc to tell you it is all peace, and in
nl the states of the Union you could not
taw marshal a military company ot 100
>oldiers to tight against the United States
government, unless you got your men
>ut of the penitentiary. Did the corrupt
ind gangrened political parties do this
vork of rectification and pacification?
S'o! It was oy divine interposition that
lie crooked has been made straight.
On December 2, 1851, Louis Napoleon
Uonapartc rode down the Champs Elysee
)f l'aris, and under tbe hoofs of his horse
i Republic was trampled as the rider
vent to take a throne. It was the outilL'e
of the cnullirv. Dnr ninntucn !<??>.. I
ears the wrong triumphed. The will of
.nc man who wanted to remain emperor
:opt down a nation who wanted a lte?ublic.
Jlut September, 1870, arrived,
ind Sedan unrolled its crimson scroll.
I'hc emperor surrenders with 83,000
roops, 419 field guns, 0,000 horses and
>0,000 muskets. From that day the balot-hox
was up and the throne was down,
'ree institutions have, been substituted
or an infamous monarchy. Thank God!
Plio crooked has been made straight.
Jlut why go so far to find fulfilment of i
ay text. In all our lives there are
rooked things that need to be made |
I might, and each heme" or reader will
numerate for himself or herself. With '
ne it is delapidated physical health, and 1
on are saying, "Why cannot I be in 1
ood health when 1 have such opporluni* 1
es and such responsibilities?" Alas lor .
I e sick headaches and the rheumatic
[>mts. and the neuralgic thrusts, and the J
one foot! Hut you will be well soon. 1
/ fc at the longest is an abbreviated dur- 1
nee. There is a black doctor that will
ore you. Some people call him Death. |
so disease was ever able to Stand before
is touch. ITsc a ' the means afforded
r physical recupe.ation. but if they fail ;
e nour 01 release ? not iar away. ]
'licre need be no incurables. There ir> i
o .-orrow (hat liea\en cannot cure.
'Iiose who in t! 's world liave always
eon well will not get (lie best part of
eaven. They will not have the advanugc
of contra*!. They were well before
liey left this world and why should they
e so gral dialed at being well la the next
orld. Hut to those who on earth were (
indered or broken down in health what (
contrast as they step into that domain ,
'here there has never been an aching |
row or lame foot or in Named muscle or (
isordcrcd nerve! For forty years there
lay have been a stooping in the track, <
r a twisted muscle, or a curved spine or I
crooked limb, but the promise has been
ilfilled. '"The crooked shall be made
Iralght."
In many a domestic lite arc difllcultics j
) lie removed. There are thousands of
latches that arc not made in heaven. |
ome of the loveliest women have been j
nitcd to some of tlie meanest men, and |
>me of the grandest men to the most {
orlhless women. There may be 110 1
iftlcient cause of divorcement, but there |
as never been any accord. For them
he wedding march ought never to lmyc
een p'ayed. Tho Ivrr'u dive eat in 'se
entin eiu. the north po'o an. e bouth te
)le might just as we'I have been mar- M
d. A tw.st oTnc.lle3 would have been m
rore a >piopri .to than a garland ol' wi
nangebio* ?oin?. Theunut; -;.?b"e mis- 8t
ako was ma e to please parent, or for St
he acquisition of est:Le. or for heighten- in
ug of social position or thorough though.- fo
pssncss. I ca'l the attention of such to tc
rapi^Jlssolutiou o.' families. This gti
iyUgljL JyliWh is a sadness to ahappy **
shfy might be donsnlalOrv to y<
.Ifn'se unequally yoked. A very short si
i)ath is the path of life. The rolliug yi irs ai
will give quick emancipation. lCverv- re
JOilv. or Uisc'pline, must have some ai
tind of trouble, and that is your trouble, tc
L't.t in a song now and llicu to cheer s".
lour spirit. Make tho best of things. A
find in God that pence which no one si
ilse cau bestow. The days and months O
rod years are crowding past, and the di
last of the proeessiou, so far as you are L
concerned, will soon huvegoneby. He- c:
member that some of the best men and a
women who ever lived have had the same tl
lifetime misfortune. Tlicy bore up under d
it and so can you. The expiration of the w
life of one of you. will, after a while, re- q
move the affliction. Let the one that ^
remains make no hypocritical mourn- h
ing at the obsequies of the one that goes
or imitate those whom we have all noticed
who fought like eats and dogs all ^
their married state and then could not "
get organs to sound dirges doleful en- v
ougli, ov iurnishing stores to prepare ?
weeds b^juik enough, or tombstone cutters
to cnisel epiiapns'culogUttc enough. u
It is a inat'er of congratulation that the J
unhappio8t conjugal relations will tcrnvnatu.
The crooked shall be made "
straight. In the ages of the world, when "
the people lived live or six or eight or _
nine hundred years, such consolation for {.
any kind of trouble would have been inant.
It would have brought 110 relief to \j
some of those old patriarchs to say, \
"You will have only 700 years more of (l
this." Hut life has been abbreviated by J
the cutting oft' of century alter century
until we can console people, whether f
their troub'e be financial or domestic, by '
saying it will not lie long before the. *
crooked shall he made straight.
JL. s1
DISGRACEFUL SCENES C
At tll? Anilitul i:.ll<?rlnl> r. f till. So...
dy SprliiRH Camp Meet I. ?.
Anderson, S. C., Sept. 22 - Sandy >
Springs camp meeting has been for ?
Trlirs .-ifHwtd# [
of people. Religious services are con- |
ducted morning, noon and night t'or |
four days, but there are a great many 1
who go there that never hear a word? J
they gothere for thesocial feature only, ,
and it has always been very pleasant, t
Everybody went?the very best people 1
of the town and County, and at times i 1
some disturbing elements were found ! j
there also. This year the meeting w-s i
unusually largely attended, and ir. be- f
gan under the m >st favorable 'isp.ce-; !
but to-day there is a cloud as black as 1
the darkness of Egypt, over the puny, '
and there is no more fun there. This 1
ii-is been caused by a long list of tragi ?,ies,
all of whieh occurred i n b ss than
twenty-lour hours and tinned vhe festive
scene in to one of gloom ami sorrow j
and withered the gay garlands or pleasure.
Two of these may result in
murder and one is a fatal accident.
The dretof this bloody list is the accident
which has probably even UU1V Jj.'-;
v.dOrey-'on TTilliamston. M. Cooley
drove over to Saudy Springs to attend ,
the meeting yesterday, lief ore he
reached tlic camp grounds his horse ,
took fright an?l Mr. Cooley lo.si com ml ,
of the reins, and in the runaway which j
fallowed he was thrown out of the hag- ^
gv and his head dashed against a stone ,
and the skull fractured. He was taken
up and carried to a gent leman's house >
near by and medical aid summoned. <
It was thought then that lie would die.
The latest reports received were up to ,
last night, there being only an occa- ;
sional chance of getting news from '
there. He was then still alive, hut t he ,
doctor thought he would be dead by this '
morning. J
William Simpson and Hob Frasier, s
two employees of the Pendleton factory,
became involved in a row whieh
may end fatally to both. Simpson told t
his sister not to go with Frasier he- t
cause lie was drunk. Frasier heard ,
this from the girl and sought Simpson ?
to lay him out. In the row which followed,
Frasier shot Simpson below th?
right eye, the ball coming out at the
temple. Siinpnc^o.^iolied Frasier's skull >
witlra roek*T Frasier died in the after- '
noon Simpson is still alive. The bnl- ?
let went below the eyeball without cut- *
ting it. So far thesight is not'mlb-ved ?'
lo i?e impaired it' the wound does not
prove fatal. v
It is probable that after this series of I
accidents the annual camp meeting at 1
Sandy Springs will be discontinued. Ii 1
was a decided relief to everybody when 11
the meeting was over.?Columbia Keg- n
ister. t
A BARON'S DEATH. 8
A Kiiroppxii N oblemnu MpoIh hii IkiiiiIiIo ;i
Death. V
San Fkancisco, Sept. 21.?The ^
steamer Walla Walla, which has arrived
from \'ictoria and l'uget Sound ports, p
brings news of the discovery by hunters
of the remains of an Austrian r.olde[11
an in the Morau mountains. lie was 1
known as Karon Von Strauss. Twohun- (1
Lcrs, named (Jentie and Hartenberg, f
were the discoverers. They were on a f
pheasant shooting expedition, and were 1
attracted to the bottom of a dark can- |
on by a tierce light in a pack of coyotes. 1
The brutes tied on the approach of J1
the hunters, ami the latter discovered :
that the cause of the battle was the 1
mangle:! and half-devoured body of a ^
human being. One leg was gone J;
irid both ar?na were torn off. Jloth 1
hunters bad seen the unfortunate man
luring his wa? derings about the mor itains.
g
He left his ho tie in lhida l'< th, A a
tria, two years ago to make a tour a e r
world. His father's estate was in pro- k
i ess of settlement and his start wis e
eade with the first instalment of his a
inherit.:nee. Ills lirst stop was in New t
York, arid f orn there he wear to Chi- ri
c tgo, where he \\4A. iwgood deal of mon- u
ey in real estate speculations, lie r
[ ame to San Francisco last spi ng arid ji
lost mo.e money. When near the end ?
of his purse, he wrote home for funds, (
hut his appeal to his relatives only resulted
in the discovery that his brother
had misappropriated and sold the family
estate and had iled to I ndia.
The baron worked his way to Spokane f
Falls and then gave himself up to the (
life of a tramp, lie made several efforts o
to obtain and hold employment, but he >
was unfitted for work of any sort and p
finally became a decided vagabond, o
living on the charity of farmers and c
hunters. He was well supplied with t
fashionable and expensive clothing, s
much of which he used to reward pe> a
pie who fed and housed him. t
^ 'w
Met After Thirty Yearn.
1'iqva, O., Sept. 24.?Two sisters
paratcd for thirty years mot here yes- o
relay by accident. Thirty years ago 11
[nry Wyatt'of Ironton, O., married a J
an named lllcvins, who soon afterward '
eut to California. A dozen years later *
u-nli Wyntt married the ltev. John
lyder aud went to Michigan. In the
eantime all trace of the sister in Cali- 1
rnia had been lost. The Snyders at- J
r spending hvc or six years in Mlchi- \
in were sent to establish a mission i
??on8 the. Ulackfcek Indians, Seven *
jars later they went to Oklahoma on a 1
miler mission. Last June Mr. Snyder
id three children died. With the three (
:inniiiing children, a horse and buggy. ;
id a little money, Airs. Syuder started r
i drive to Michigan. At Marion, Ind., t
ckness came and her money gave out.
accidentally Mrs. Snyders learned her
ster had some years ago lived at Lima, |
'. After many hardships and being re- ^
need to beggary Mrs. Snyder reached (
,ima only to find her sister gone toCiunnati.
At this place Mrs. Snyder
gain gave out and a Mrs. Weaver took
letn in and kept them a week. Yeslerny,
as Mrs. Snyder atul lier children
ere about to leave, a remark led to
uestiouing which resulted in proving
Irs. Weaver and Mrs. Snyder were the
mg-scparated sisters.
X I'rinrrly <iift.
Chicago. Sept. 22.?A pledge of
1,(100.000 to the University of Chicago
fas conveyed to the trustees of that intitution
to-day in a letter from John D.
tockfeller. who has already given to lite
adversity S000(000. The magnificent
roller was promptly accepted by the
loard and a committee appointed to
irrange for tilling the conditions of the
ift. Kockfcllcr stipulates that $800,i00
of tlie amount shall he used for nonprofessional
graduate instruction and
eltowships; $100,000 for theological ititruction
in the divinity school and
1100,000 for the construction of tiie
livinity buildings. Except the last
inllloil K 1 On llOO v I OflO OOll n.<inoi.\nl io
? Y?vv,.-v, S '.V""|VVV I"""")"11
o remain iutnct, the income alone to be
xpended. The present llaptist Thc logicnl
Seminary is to be part of the
miveraity. and tiic Seminary buildings at
dorgan Park are to be utilized as an
icademy. The new university begins its
r ccr with endowments making $1,800,>00,
all of which are in had or pledged.
I'. I*. I*. Khvik I.I TO.
Says will live forever. A prominent
sivannahiiio, formerly superintendent
)f a railroad, says: was crippled in
ny feet and arms so that Leonid not
valk without crutches, nor cat without
laving a servant to feed me. 1 tried
ihvsicians every wher . but. to no pur>ose,
and finally went to New York,
vhere my doctors, at one t'"ie, decided
o amputate my arm, but . umd that
curse impracticable, on *ount of a
rvound 1 had received during the war.;
[ returned to Savannah complete'
.vreck, and my case seemingly hopeless.
\s a forlorn hope 1 began to take P. P.
1*., and am rejoiced to say that alter
ising three bottles, my limbs began to
straighten out, my appetite and heabh
>oon returned, and I now feel like a
new man; really, as if I had been made
over again, and as if I/Tould live forever?so
long as I can get P. P. P."
This gentleman will not give bis
nanr e for publication, but authorizes
us to re! canybody to him for a verification
of the facts, who will apply
lo us. Yours tru'y.
LIPIW1 AN BROS.
Wholesale Druggists,
Proprietors of P. 1*. P.
Savaunali. Ga.
Ulll'pl lilnj. Testimony.
Many physicians who hav examined
into the merits of 11. 11. P. (llAanle
Blood Jlalm), have been confronted
ivitn testimony wliich they deemed surprising,
and ti us being convinced of
is wonderful eflieaey. have not failed
? prescribe it in their pr.ictice ;is occasion
required.
II. L. Cassidy, Keunesaw, Ga., writes;
'For two years mv wife was a great
lulTerer. Skillful idiysicidus did her
io good. Iler mouth was oiie solid
ilcer. her body was broken out in sores,
ind she lost a beautiful head of hair,
three bot tles of 15. li. B. cured her completely,
incredible as it may sound, and
ibe is now the mother of a healthy
hree months old baby clear from any
icrofulous taint."
A. II. Morris, Pine Bluff. Ark., writes:
Hot Springs and several doctors failed
a cure me of several running ulcers on
nv leg, J{. B. B. effected a wonderfully
piick cure after everything else had
ailed."
An Unusual
Xkw Bkdfokd, Sept. 17. After live
fears in the Antnrtic seas, the whaling
iark Petrel, Captain Edwin J. Heed, is
nice more in port. Captain Heed savs
hat while off Patagonia several months
igo a gale came up from off the shore,
luring which large quantities of line
vhite powder came on the ship, choking
hose who inhaled it. Next day one of
he crew was taken sick and his feet
?egan to swell. The swelling continued
mtil his whole body was effected. One
ifter another of the crew was similarly
aken, until thirty-four had the disease,
iacli swelled to almost twice his usual
i/.e and the tlesli assumed a yellowish
me. With nine men mortification set in
nd they died. Two others of the crew
rere washed overboard in the gale and
irowned. Physicians here report the
pidemic as beri lieri. It is the first
ase on record of its having come on
ioard a ship in a gale.
imioiuh hihi oi'bxiih.
N. W. Tbitmp, i:u Main Street, Coumbia,
S. O., sells Pianos and Organs,
lirect from factory. No ae'-nts' cniifnissions.
The celebrated ( bickering
'iano. Mathushck Piano, celebrated
or its clearness of tone, li/htness of
..?.i ? ii.s-... ?? "
tmi.il hum innin; 11t if*. jwhslin cc
Inmlln I'prigli 1'iut* ?. S-.-rlinx lTpight
Pianos, from &&iip. Arion Piaios,
t'rom 9200 up. > son Sc Hamlin
)rgans, surpassed by not Sterling
)rgarn, 9f>0 lip. Evuy i.strument
uaranteed for six veins, j teen days'
rial, expenses both wajs, i not satisactory.
Sold on Instalmen s.
Ch|U. <1. I?. lolinson.
To all whom it may concern: I take i
;reat pleasure in testifying to tliej
tticueioua qi? ilities ot the popular
em ly for eruptions of the skin, j
nown as 1*. 1'. I*. 1 suffered for sevral
years with an unsightly and dis-!
gr able eruption on inv face, and
md va' ious nn dies to remove it,
loneof which coin pushed the object
intil th? valuable prej ration was
esorted to. After taking three bottles
n accordance with directions I am new
ntirely cured. J. I). Johnson.
>f the firm of Johnson & Douglas.
Savannah (la.
A Peurful Accident.
Chicago, Sept. 21. One of the most
rightful railroad wrecks the Illinois
'entral has experienced for some time
occurred about 7 o'clock to night at
Vestern avenue, in which at least ten
icrsons were killed and a number seriously
hurt. The fated train was an exureion,
and had left this city early in/'
he morning with several littmlred unions
on hoard who went tp FVnwiJxL
, small station on that line, to spend
he day.
\
^ Kilted by a Copper Cent. | f?
GatIkS. C.. Sept. 10.---An infant son J
>f J. upson died last Satufdoy |
light from thu effects of swallowing-a j.
jper cent ai few weeks ago. As Mr.
r.ao npBo 1 is a iintivo of Greenville
bounty, his relatives will real this
vith sorrow.
A
Tim reappearance of Kx-Govornor
tobinson, of Kansas, tlie leader of the
'ree State iiglit, an Abolitionist and lieaublican,
as the Democratic and ltesub- "
nissioniBt candidate for Govenior is a
lotable event in the political history of
lac timow.
Everybody laughs except Padgett's
< nil peti tors. Padgett pays height 011 (
.:i Furniture. btoves. Gar pets and kind- V
cd go?>d?. rid for Catalogue. AdIress
L. F. Padgett, Augusta. Gu.
Last ykau the cotton seed oil mills
>aid out for seed alone 818.702,450. This
aarge sum was almost a cleat*gain to the
'arinere of the South. But the Conger
nil may kill ail that.
PaflletTPays the |reijlt. | \
A Grkat OrvF.n that mat not Aoain|
bt repbatkd, bo do not dki.at, n
i "Stkikf; Whii.kthb Iron ibHot."
Wnte for Catalogue now, and say what!
paper you snw this advertisement in.
Remember that I sell everything thai*
goes to furnishing a home?manufacture _
ng some things and buying others in the!
largest possib.e lots, which enables me to*
wipe out all competition.
Ill F RE A11E A FEW OF MY START-*
LING BARGAINS. I
A No. 7 Flat top Cooking Stove, full;
size, 15x17 Inch oven, fitted with 21 pieces*
of ware, delivered at your own depot,',
all fieight charges paid by uie, fori
only Twelve Dollars. H
Again. 1 will sell you a 6 hole Cooking '
Range 13x!3 inch oven, 18x26 inch top, fit.ed
with 21 pieces of ware, for THIRTEEN
DOLLARS, and pay the freight to'
your depot. tj
DO NOT FAY TWO TRICES FORI
YOUR GOODS. f
I will send you a nice plush Parlor sult.N
wnlnuRlraine, either In combination orij
banded, the most stylish colors for 33.50,ii
to your .xa;,ro:i I station, freight paid. M
1 will also sell \ou a nice Bed room suits
consisting of Bureau with glass, 1 hlgbg
head Led lead, 1 Wash stand, 1 Centn j
table, 4 cr.no scat cliaiis, 1 cane seat nndl
back locker allfor 16.50, and pay freight]!
to yor depot.
O I wilt send you an elegant Bedroom i
jsuit iv.Mi large glass, full maihletop, for '
30, and. pay i raight
ij.N'ice window shade on spring roller f 40^ ?
lElognr t l.vguwalnuts day clock, 4.00j j]
jlVninut lo mge, 7.00H
jLace curtains per window,
j Ic- mot des-iiho eveiytlilug in a smal l]
advei t'scinenl, but have an immense stori H
containing 22,600 feet or floor room, withn
jw.ire houses and factory building-, in otheiH
'p .rta of Augusta, making in nil the lar-8
?est business of this kind under one in an 4]
jugement iti the Southern S.a.es. These!
jstorenand w uvliouses are crowded with
[the choicest P ??' ictlonsof the best facto
ies. My ca'ulogue containing Illustrations
cot goods wi'l ho mailed if you will klndb
' ay whero you saw this advertisement. J
! jay freight. Address. t
L. F. PADGETT,
(Proprietor Padgett's Furniture, Stove
j r nd Carpet Store, e
'ni0?"w|1BII 11 ! ^11 ('' U S'''A ' GA
PB'i'T'ft CARHDIAT1VK!
IpOU CORRECTING NAUSEA
Dysentery, Diarrhoea nnd Cholera Infantum.
A pleasant medicine of Incnlcuahle
merit in the home circle for child or
adr't. It Is popular, pleasant and efficient.
Tre y a .nothcr's fiiend. It soothes and ;
lie.i'slhe mucous membranes; and checks
the mucous discharge from head, stomach
and bowels. Tlio mucous dlsclr.rgo from
the head nnd lungs arc ns promptly relieved
by it as liie mucous discharge from
tho bowlrS. It is made to relieve the
mucous sv-tc'.ii nnd cure nausea, and it
noes it. it makes the Critical peiiod oT
teetningc IHren s i.'e and easy. it invigorates
and buii.ls no ;.ie s\stem while it is
relieving and cu; Jito wasted tissue, it
is recoiumen 'e:l and used largely by pu.\?.(
an . For i j 1?\ Wannamaker& Murray
Co, Columbia, IS. C , and wholesale by
Howard & YVil ett, Augusta, Ga.,
WRITE TO
li OLL-EK i A N iXErtS ON 1
BUGGY CO., ROCK 11 ILL, S. C.,'
IT^Olt Til Kill CATALOGUE GIVL
ini? Prices. Terms and References < f
I ueeies, Carriages, Wagons, Road an i
Phaeton Carts, Harness, et\ All tl?- cl
ass work nude by hand and warrantee.
Pi ices lower than any other of same grade.
Our Vehicles are running i.r every count: i
i i South Carolina, and in raam counties of |
North Carotin a. Georgia nnd "lorlda. A I
inquiries promptly answerer*. In willing
please mention this paper and don't forget
to fjlro yottt PooWnibU ttUOrWRJ HIKl nl?ll
your name plainly.
HOLLER, ANDERSON BUGGY CO.,
Manufacturers.
Rock lllll, S: C.,
3GMPLETE GINNERIES,
ITT PON THE MOST APPROVED ,
UJ plans, with Suction Fan or Spiked Belt
Seed Cotton Elevator furnished at |
competitive prices.
COTTON GINS and PRESSES of best
makers. Thomas Bay Rakes, Ducting
Mowers, Corbin Harrows and Planet, Jr.,
Cultivators.
A largo stock of Portable and Stationary
Ginning and Saw Mill Engines on band.
State Agents for
C. & G. COOPER & CO'S Corliss Engines
Lane Saw Mills and Liddell Com
pnny's complete line.
W. II. GIBBES, Jr.. A CO., .
Near Union Depot,
Columbia, S. ,C. J
PARENTS ;
Who have Daughters to educate should
send for circular of tlio
SOU | H CAROLINA CULLtiitruii
WOMEN,
COLUMBIA, S. C.
Three Departments, Preparatory, Aer.cn
inIc and Collegiate. Art and Music Departments
unsurpassed. Boarding Department
unsurpassed in its appointments. For
< irculars or any information address,
REV- W. It. ATKINSON,
Aug 30-1 President.
UPPMANBBM., WkolaoaU Dr^gtts,
Solo Proprietors,Uppaua'sBlock. fUrtansh.Ui.
W&fc:, jm.
v v
r - ?
:albott son's
NGINE3 BOILERS, SAW MILLS AND
GRIST MILLS
re acknowledged to be the best ever sold
In this State. ^
rhen you buy one of them you are satisfied
that you have made no mistake.
Wrlto for our prices.
Cotton Gins and
Cotton Presses
AT BOTTOM FIGURES.
I can save you money.
J, C. Badham, Gen, Agt,
iOLdm GIU, M. .
EST"lloino oilice and Factory,
RICHMOND, VA.
f k Spring Medicine
' ft)B TIRED
! MAW AND WOMAN.
I P. P. P. will purify and vitalize your
t hlood, create a good appetite and give your
J whole system tone and strength.
1 A prominent railroad f>'u?-rintendentat
j Savannah. Buffering with "?'aria, Dyspep?
sin, and Rheumatism sa; '' " or lzLiag
i P. P. P. bo novor felt ho well In his llfo, ana
* feels as If ho oould live fc rover, If ho could
S always got P. P. P."
"5 If you aro tired out fr ^ut? and
j closo confinement, tako
i p. p. p.
M
If you aro fooling ty dty In the spring
and out of sorts, tako
; p. p. p.
! Tf your digestive orgs ns need toning up,
Lake
p. p. p.
If you suffer with hoadacho, Indigestion,
debility and weakness, tako ,
p. p. p.
If you suffer with rervons prostration,
nerves unstrung and a general let down
of the system, take
p. p. p.
For Blood Poison. Rheumatism, Bcrof- H
I ula. Old Bores, Malaria, Chronic Female I
Complaints, tako
p.p. p. i
Prickly Ash, Poke Root K
and Potassium. |
The best blood purifier In the world. t j
LIPPMAN BUOa, Wholesale Druggists, I
Sole Proprietors, S
Ijpfvan's Bi-ock, Savannah, Go.
The Tozer Inaine worn,
(Successor to Dlnl Holler Works,)
JOHN A. WILLIS" PROPR.
117 W EST G K R V A IS STRE ET,
Manufacturers of
lozEit Steam Engines
Ami all sizes of both Locomotives and return
Tnblar Boilers.
rSTToundry work in Iron and Brass Retail
lux promptly executed.
9EPOSIT YOUR StmPLUS MONEJ^
IN
THE COMMERCIAL BANK,
op
COLUMBIA, S. C.
One. dollar and upwards received. Inei
est at the rate of 4 percent, per annum,
^ahl quarterly, on the first days of Pebruay,
May, August and November. Married
Aoinen and minors can keep account in
ihelrown name. Higher rates of Interest
illowcd by special arrangement.
C J. IREDELL, President.
Jno. j?. Lraphaht, James Ibedbll,
Vice-President. Cashier.
<s;i.cr(to;'iELDS'"
Jrf FEMALE- \
SI?PEGlilATOR
W.f-JSTR U AT ION
on m'jhthlv kil'kncss
D numsr. CMfcUftt at \AI*
UKHviLH**c 3dHT PRE* Will BEkVCBDLQ
jbook TO"W G M hw'wuorau
bradfulD regulator ci Atlantaba.
*/?/ n ?-? * t vt'fr '
*JrA?k for caUlom*.
TERRY M'F'Q OO.. NA?HvikUC. Ten*