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BRODIE r Rust, of the Kieedmen's A id-Society oi the M.ihod ist Episcopal Church, Hun. Justus K. .IiMm n. State superintendent ofeduca ?udn. and wiJ'o, Senator I!. J.'Maxwell, of Marlboro, Rov. Dr. 11 .1. Fox, of Charleston, ilev. V. II. Bulkh-y, llev. II. J. Ihjualdsoa. Senator Jamison,of (>iangebuig. lion. Wilson ('ouk, of Greenville, Mr. Harris, of Columbia. Ju lge Kuowlton and ex Represent! vo By as, uf ?rangeburg, Rev Mr Middle ton. Rev TiUe Whit tier aud Rev Mr Sasportas. This institution is under the supervi sion of Dr A Webster D D President, who gives special instructiuu to those students who desire to prepare themselves for the ministry; The binde? ta of the preparatory department were examined Tuesday by Superintendent Jilhson. Mian Fisher, formet ly of Cumdvn, is the instructress in this department The ready answers educed showed that tbey had been faith fully taught. 'Ibis morning chapel exercises wore begun at 9 o'clock. The chapel hud been tastefully decorated by tho etu dents. Festoons of evergreens, inter twined with cape jessamine blossoms, Stretched front pillar to pillar, and were beautifully set off by native moss aud pendent rings of choice flowers. He hind the platform aud above tho desk w.?re tastefully displayed the words, lu evergreen: "1873, Cluflin University We aro rising!" # Morning devotions were conducted by Bishop Ilavcu. Tho examinations yesterday progroiB cd finely. Owing to the limitod titno given, the students could not bo examin ed in every brauch tuught; but it was appurent that in those upou which they were examined thore had been labor and care put foith. The primary depart in cut, under Miss Mary Row man, was quite up to the mark. The collegiate department is under the charge of Pro fessor E A Webster, a gruduato of Wcsleyan University of Connecticut, w'bo is well qualified to discharge its exacting duties. Ho is assisted by Rev Mr Dunton, Irom tho Syracuse Univer sity of New York. No hotter ttachers, perhaps, can be fouud in the State. Their department passed tho ordeal of a severe aud searching examination in u manner creditable to more pretentious institutions. The following woro onnounced *s ''hon^r studonts," having received the highest number of marks in all tho depart ments combined; Jacob Evans, Luoy Almau, T Moses, Ella Cooper, Thomas Robinson, Albert Simdiir, Abraham IIurn and John Allen. At the close of tho examination tho various prises were distributed. Among them was a large family Bible, presented to Master Jacob Evans, of Chesterfield, for general excellenceiu scholars/tip. Addrenes ware then made to the '? m ? students by Bishop Unven nud llov Dr ltust. Tho Bishop's remarks were very interesting and plcnsing, lie said that thcro wore three things the enemies to | the advancement of the colored pcoplo j bowed to. They were money, position i and cducutiou, but most ofall education There was no reason why, in a few years, there should not be a demand from the North lor teachers aud professors from I among the colored people of the South, j Everybody bad beard of South Carolina, and be rememdernd bow often she was spoken of in the pieces be recited wheu a boy. Massachusetts and South Caro Una were generally linked together. It bad been said by u former President that it woubj bo better for the oountry if they were sunk with a millstone around their necks in mid ocean. South Carolina had bad her ducking, b id been immersed, nnd cuino up purified. Tbc colored people, however, who have al ways done tho bard lubor for the State, bad'to put her back into the Union. At 7 P Ml, a large andieueeassembled in the chapel, to attend tho exhibition given by. the students, The exercises consisted o!' declamations, recitations and dialogues, interspersed with music. The music was under the leadership of Pro fessor ? D Fox, of your city, and iu eluded a number of slave melodi?s, Which were rendered with characteristic pat bos. The recitation of Hood's "One More Uufortunato," by .Miss Ella Cooper, of Columbia, was the crowning piece of the evening. It"h? seldom that more feeling is exhibited on theatago Thcrcital drew tears from many of the audience. Mr Robinson's declamation was well delivered, as was the valedictory by Jacob ?jVhiis, id' Mi-s Fisher's depart' 'incut, which abounded in trite sayings. I Alter the valedictory, addresses were mndo by several visitors present, auiony them Hon. J K Jillson, Senator Max j well, ox-Bopreseututivu Byas, Bishop ' Huven and I>r Kust. Suod and hearty words of advice were spol.en. I At u lute bom the exhibition closed ; To day. at 10 a M , tltfl trustees of Claflin University bad their meeting, The following coiniuit tees were appoint ed to itiiiko provitjuu for the payment of outstanding claims against tho Uni vor tdty and to Ulakc provision for a b >ard of instruction 'or tho next 3-car : lion William ? Claflin, of Massachusetts. Bishop (jilbc-t Haven, of Atlanta, Rev K 0 Haven, I) D.j Rev R S Rust, D D., nad Rev a Webster. I> H .Oflicers or tbo hoard of trustees for the cusuiug year were elected as follows: Hun Henry Cardoso, president; Rev 11 J T'ox, D "P., vice president ; Rev R .1 Dounldi-ou, secretary ; lion J J Wright, treasurer. The prudential committee, is to consist of tbo following : R v II .1 Fox, 1). 1)., Hev V II Btilklcy and Rev Abram Middlcton. The board adjourned, to meet FuLjeet to the cull of the secretory, as instructed by the prudential committee. Associate Justic Willard arrived to day to attend tbo meeting of the board of the Agricultural College and Mechanics' Institute, which takes place at 1 p m. Gil ? L'n ion- flerrtltl. Poking Fun ill a Railroad. Mr. I)-writ s as follows a>bout the ruilroad between Richmond' and Petersburg: But about this railroad. Of OursoT want it abolished, every one does. Tbo reckless velocity with which the trains run between here and Petersburg is absolutely frightful. 1 was delighted years ago when this road was establish ed, because 1 thought we bad got rid of tbo old rickety nud dangerously fast stn?:o couches, but tbo speed they are he ginning to run tbo truinb ou this road, is worse yet. Now, every one knows thut Petersburg is twenty-two union from. Richmond, if it is un inch, and u day and a half is plenty quick enough for tbo trip, hut tho managers havo already reduced the scbudulu to one day, nud with making th-j engine fires to i hot, and racing with cows along the road, and all that, the conductors are oven cutting thut time down. Why, it waa only the other day, on the home trip, \W happoucd to spy old Jim's mule about two uiilos from Man ohestcr. What should tho reckless wretch of an engineer do but to clap on full steam and race every foot of the way into town. . We didn't exactly pass the mule, but we caught up with him twice, and came to the Manchester crossing neck uud nock; nod which was puffing the most, the aiulo or tho euginc, you couldn't huve told to save your lifo. Now it was exciting and all that, I know, but I hadn't purchased an accident ticket, aud I dou't believe tho other four passengers had either. This is all wrong, Mr. Editor, tfll wrong/ And then on auothor oco*sion, I ro metnber, we came within a hair's broadth of having a very serious accident. Tho j engineer had got off to snowball* a chip, munk, and the. conduator was minding a young widow's baby for her?tho result was that the train happened to get on a down grade and was started off at a terrific rato, every bit of four milos an hour, I should think. We wore just half a mile above Chester, and tho first thing we knew, there being no one to whistle and wake up the switehtender, we were turned off into tho Coalfield road, und went.down the track at full speed. Imagine our consternation when just at this moment we henri the this tle, not half a mile ahead of us, of the up coal train. Wo were paralyzed with terror?hero Were two trains on the same track, approaching each other at tho dizzy speed jusjt mentioned. Evidently our time had ttorao. Inn few short hours the engines would meet, and thcu ?destruction; With prescQ've of mind, a ministor on board organized'a prayer meeting. Tale but calm, t\\ L-r and thou over the cngiue. It was very interesting and thrilling to see her climbing tho wheels and braSs things On her way to t the cowcatcher. It reminded tn-; of a country girl getting over a wire fence. Hut never mind about that now. Let me see where I was. Oh ! yes, on the OOWtaloheV Iloldi.ig on by the cross bars with one hau 1. the noble maiden t ed the bustle on tlu sharp with the other. You can gu-ss the result. Tn tin course of tho afternoon the collision came oir. Protected by the bustle, the engine received a gentle bump, and we were saved. I took up a collection fjr the woman on the spit. I always take up a collection on such occasions?always. Aud what's more, I never forget to g'n-e the object something nice out of it ? never. There is nothing ireau about mo. I suppose you have noticed my clothes. They are from A. Skinner's, Hartford, Couuocticut ?Weh. Guide. Perilous Feaits. A correspondent writes to the New York Times that there are two perform auccs nightly going on in that city "which should c >mc within the prohibi tory scope of tho law." lie describes one : '"In one case a young girl is shot from a catapult into tho air for a dis taneo of nearly thirty feet. She stands on the head of a monstrous eugino, which shows just abovo the stage, and in an instant is thrown into the air to a platform, the supports of which she grasps on reaching it. Ono can tanoy what would happen if her nerve gavo way for an instant, licr limbs must be perfectly rigid when tho blow comes, else, she would be either mangled or instantly killed : A .?\?ry slight thing might cause loss of norve?an alarm, a cry, the falling of anything behind the acencs, or the Inast physical weakno.ss. Nothing in all she does, before or after, in acrobatism, is as horribly dangerous." This feat is performed by a woman who calls herself "Lulu," and occurs during the new pantomime at Niblo'a Garden. It is to all intents the same as young Leo, the boy, was attempting when be was recently t>o severely injured at tl>c Grand Coutral. The other case is described as follows : "At another place atiiun stands ou one side 'of the stago with a blue w'idc glass on his bead; another, on the opposite side, fires a rifle ball and shat ters tbo glass to pieces. An apple, placed in the same position, is pierced by the marksman. A silver dollar held between the thumb and linger is shot away by the ball ; and, finally, a silver dollar, held upright in a bit of thin wood, is placed on the head and shot away, the ba'l passing within an inch of the skull. The man who fires is a good marksman ; but fancy what his compan ion's chance of lile would be if anything occurred to disturb him at the instant bis aim was complete. It is too hazard ous. He could use a lay figure to as fjood advantage, and not risk life and limb." The simplicity of the ooin inunic.itinn writer is refreshing. Fancy a "lay fi-uro" taking the place in this act of daring of flesh and bloo 1 ! Why, the trick would loso all its interest. Not ten people would go to sec it. No, the dear public delight in d.mgcr, so long as it does not affect themselves. Nothing charms more than the sight of a follow creature perilling life and limb. County Subscriptions to Railroads.', The Supreme Court of Ohvo rendered a decision some timo ago in which it pronounced unconstitutional a law of that State empowering communities to levy taxes for the construction of rail roads. The grounds of this decision wete that such taxation was not for y.ublic purposct, for which alcno faxos could bo constitutionally levied, itios much as tbo railroads belonged to pri vate stockholders, and were not public highways. This 'Jeci.-iuu lias been ex tensively copied, nud has been made a great deal of by those who are opposed to the subscriptions to railroads proposed by many of the counties in the tipper pint of this State. From tho New i'ork Herald we get the following decision of the Supremo Court of the United States on this very point, mado at the recent session of the court : The Supreme Court of the (Tutted States h :s just delivered an imp rtdUt decision regarding the Bt itus of railroads as public highways. Tbc cue before the court was an appeal from the Supremo Cuurt of Wisconsin, and involved the question whether a State bad the right or not to levy taxes for the purpose of aiding in the construe tion of railroads. The opinion.of the court was that railroads are public high* ways, no matter whether they are built and operated by the State i r by private corporations. Being such then, th. decision is that it is just as lawful to levy taxes for railroads as for other pub lic work, and that the collection of taxes for the purposo cannot be resisted by authority of the Coustitution of the United State.-, which provides that pri vuto pr< pcrty shull not be taken fur \ ub lie use without ju>i compensation. The importanceo! hia decision reaches much further than the railroadi and State ol Wisconsin. As public highways the railroads are subject not only to State supervision, hut to supervision and con trol, as far u< public interests are invol ved, of the. Federal GovcrnuionL It is tho application of the principle that wn b ?ve contonded for when urging Con gress to legislate for the protection of the public as against railroad monopoly and exacious Regarding tho railroads as publio highways, it is within the power of Congress to c wtrol them, and this power, if it needed auy additional support, einbj fjuud in the Constitu tion, which authorizes the Federal Government to regulate commerce among the several Stales, the railroad lines being tho arteries of commerce bo tweou the States. Tho great issue of Government control over the railroads is looming up, and this deoision of the Supremo Court will tend to infuse it in to it fresh vitality. A newly elected squire in Lake City, Florida, having occasion to perform tho ccroniony for the first timo, got the affair considerably mixed, and wound up by saying "Suffer little children to coino unto them ;" at which the bride remarked, ' Thank you ; John let's go ; that's all we mm't." ??? s? The old maxim that "man proposes" is flatly contradicted by Massachusetts spinbters, who only wish he did. LagnrBeer Does Not Intoxicate. BV JOSHUA BILLINGS, ESQ. 1 have finally onm to th<; conclusion that lager beer as a boverage is not intoxicating. 1 have been told so by a (Herman who said he bad drunk it all nitc long, ju turns that a man ever had and kept saber. In tho tir.-t place it was about 80 rods from where I drank tho lager beer to mi bouse, and I WUt jest over two hours on the road, and had a hole buste 1 through each one of my pantaloon neez, and didn't have any h it. and trie i to open the door by the bell pull an 1 hic cupped awfully and saw everything in the r< om tryiug to get round on tho ba.k ov me, and in sitting Iowa on a chair, 1 did ur at a dreadful speed, bald the whcls length of the spine, und with a wild look in his eyej Aud for an hour afterward ho stood back of the barn, scratching his ohin, and trying to rccal all the circumstances of the uuforlunatc affair?Danbury News. Tho Value of a Receipt, A case recently same btjfbre flio Judge of. Probate in Milwaukee, which was more than usually intcros'iog and important. A certain gentleman, whose name wc will not mention, died about five years ago. 'He lefts considerable, though not extensive estate, which was not admiuistcrcd until certain parties filed claims against it, which would have expired by limitation at the end of sir ycais. The estate was brought into crurt, and the claims were taken up in regular order. They were quite numer ous, aud embraced a large variety of interests, workingmen, trades peojdoand prolesaio-?! men. Tho individual amounts of tho claims, ranged from $15 up to $5,000. ^ The 05,000 claim was filed by a maa who asserted that he had been interested in certain real estate transactions witla the deceased, that a considerable amount of mom-y was made, but that he (tho elainiant)%ad not received h;sshare. A m number of witnesses were sworn and a ? '^rcat deal of evidence was taken which went to substantiate the validity of the claim against the estate. It was gener I ally known that the gentlemen had been associated together in real estate specu lations, au 1 that they hid made mo a cy. , * . ;v.5 Th-: attorney for tho heirs, after hav ing listened to all the evideucc that was brought to prove the claim, came for ward aud produced a receipt, which, thuuga-uot for ?5,000 ,was proved to bo a receipt in full for the actual share of the claimant. This w as a brief defence but it was effective. Of the other claims we will tuuke no mention, as they were -'?nailer und less important than the one detailed. Suffioo to say that of claims to the amount of $7,000 which were put forward, only $35 was allowed. The estate ol the deceased was found to be ia excellent order, he had receipts for all expenditures, and the property was sav ed to the heirs. Wc have recited this care for the purpose of illustrating two things, viz; first, the advisabitiy, in fact lim du'y, which a man owei to his fami ly of taking a receipt for every cent laid out, aud socondly, tho necessity for hav ing uouo but au honorable and upright judge, wlu.se conscience is uot as a coiu aud whose fidelity is a characteristic uot jefs prominent than his ability. The Editor of the Maeoo Eutcrpriso, we should judge, decs his own thinking, and is generally about correct. Speak ing of tho dull times, he hits the nail square upon the head in the following: Tho causes arc easily explained ! Al to et the k^t one of us have been living beyond cur inc -ucs since tho war. Wo have, or at least a great many have, been getting poorer aud poorer, sacrifi cing now this picco of property and thcu that in order to kenp up with that devil iu tho human haart known as "style/* until at last wc find nothing left o!' the slightest value for sale. The l>ry Goods man and the Grocer give j you a polite bow aud decline filling any e orders without the money. There is unc certain and safe way for everybody tu wdlk straight out of such difficulties: ?;o to work. Pitch in at seven in the morning and quit at twelve ut night. Ard if the lazy goo J for nothing whelps of both sexes would to day abandon their habits of loafing, shinning ?round towu trying to Jget eo dit, and, monkey like, spending all their thought and actions upon vain efforts to imitate thus: who by honesty earn their daily bread and clothes, would take our advice, thoy would speedily experience, as tbo Methodists say at their revivals, "a great changeJ'' The Supremo Court of the United States bus decided that where a life insurance policy has been assigned'to -ecure uMebt, tho party to whom it is assigned has no right, in case of death to tho insured, to the money derived from the policy in excess of the amount nes cessary to make good the debt it was intended to cover. A Panhury man once gotan~ry be cause his girl's mother wanted her t> j^lj^dc^he ws?d\ ng. She now doe* \% for the neiglifeoTT,?-?