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BY CLINKSCALES ? LANGSTON. ANDERSON, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 31, 1900. VOLUME XXXV-NO 39 Tu? bad a story to toil, one that you knew was true, one you wanted believed. How would you tell it ? Use big ad jectives, high sounding phrases, or tell it quietly? You would tell it quietly, wouldn't you ? We will, at least. Our 25 per Ct. Discount Sale Is still going on and the people are taking advantage of it, too. Lots of people have bought from us during this sale, but we still have too much Clothing, too many odd Pants and too many Overcoats. Buring this sale you save 25c. on every dollar you spend with us. That's just what it means. One quarter off, mind you. You get our 34.00 Suits or Overcoats, 25 per cent off, for $3.00. 5.00 Snits or Overcoats, 25 per cent off, for 3.75. 7.50 Suits or Overcoats, 25 per cent off, for 5.63. 10.00 Suits or Overcoats, 25 per cent off, for 7.50. 12.50 Suits or Overcoats, 25 per cent off, for 9.38. 15.00 Suits or Overcoats, 25 per cent off, for 11.25. Remember, we include in this sale every Suit, Overcoat or odd pair of Pants in our entire stock. Supposo you come in and investigate. B. 0. Evans & Co, THE SPOT CASH CLOTHIERS. WHITE FI?ONT. ?nelmoment of your time, please : WE propose doing a heavy business this year on the smallest possible ?spense. Every shrewd buyer knows what that means for him. We are carnying a splendid line Dry Goods and Shoes, With special attention to HEAVY GROCERIES and FARM JUPPLIES. We believe we carry the best line of FLOUR, COFFEE, TOBACCO and MOLASSES to be found anywhere-the kind that will please you and satisfy your hands. Be sure to see us on that Spring bill. Youis for more business, VANDIVER BR08. P. S.-We can accommodate a few gilt-edge, prompt-paying time cuetomers. THE HUSTLING CITY OF ANDERSON Is still Booming, and KING BROS. BARGAIN STORE is Booming with Bargains. WE bave never hfl fore hsd BO muon to offor our customers and friends aa we have now. You will remember the way we Bold JEANS laat Fal). We have bongbt another lot at old price and are Belling right and left. School Boy Jeans iii4c yard. We nave bought the Bee Hive Stools of Goods at prie \ that tickle us to think about. Now, If you want the best Over anti Undershirt -<m ever boupbt for the money get one of oura. Our 10a. Wuspenders are golDg cu oy the dozen. Come be fore they are all gone. Socks, tucka, Socks! That's enough ! Come and seo the roBt. We want you to see our 5c. Comb Jf you ever expect to buy-it's a dandy. A few more Spittoon? to go at 6?. Dont i'nn 5?. Patty Pans 5o. a dozen. Never forget us when you oeea. CROCKERY, GLASSWARE and TINWARE For 8pice, Soap and Starch we are the people. Yours very truly. KING BROS., BARGAIN STORE. Two Doora from Post Office, p. fl.-If not enid at private sale before we will sell to highest bidder Sale day in Februarv one Lot containing o.ne-ha'f HO/P, situated on Franklin Street, ad joining lots of Mrs. H. H. Edwards and John T. Btirri-s. E G. EVANS, Jr. R. B. DAY, M. D. PENDLETON. 8. C. IDI^TTC3-S_aiid 3^n^B3DIOHsTE!S5 Perfumery, Toilet Articles, Fancy Soaps, Sponges, Combs, Hair and Tooth Brashes, Bubber Goods and Druggist Notions, Paints, Oils, Varnishes, Dyes, Buists' Garden Seeds. ! Ii L I A Hui.ST SEED HOUSE .. ? Ml S OU TM are largely used In every Southern State end have achieved tho highes t repu tatton for quality, productiveness and adapta* bili ty to our Southern soil and climate. THE HEW GEMTORY ISSUE OF WOOD'S DESQRSPTIiri OATAtOOQS ia fully abreast of the times, and gives the fallest infor mation about all Seeds For Southern Planting. It should be in the hands of all who plant seeds, and we. will mail it free upon receipt of postal request. T. W. WOODS SONS, Seedsmen,. ?SM0W, - . _ VfMIIM. FROM THE NATION'S CAPITAL. From Our Own Correspondent. WASHINGTON, D. C., Jan. 20,1000. Tho visit of Col. W. J. Bryan to the East has resulted in tho adoption by the Democratic leaders in Congress of a concerted plan on tho subjects of ex pansion and trusts. This agreement was not reached until af tera somewhat heated debate which gavo rise to the rumors of serious disagreement which were sent broadcast over tho country by the correspondents of Republican papers. Th?ro was, however, no real trouble. All those present were genuinely anxious to reach an agree ment that would be satisfactory to all and on which tho "antis" of both par ties would stand in preference to the Republican platform. After a good deal of talk, the members got together and formulated a policy which will hold until the National Convention meets. Until that time, none of the members will make speeches, or give out interviews antagonizing the pro visions of the agreement, even though they do not quite suit all of them. On expansion, the agreement may be summed up as follows: The rebellion is to be suppressed; immediately there after a Republican form of government is to be established in the Philippines; as soon as this is done, the army is to be withdrawn; the United States is to relinquish sovereignty, retaining coal ing stations, etc., and retaining a pro tectorate BO as to prevent foreign inter ference; the Philippine republic is to issue bonds to pay back our $20,000,000 and the incidental expenses of govern ment there. On trusts it was found e asierro reach an agreement, there be ing general approval of Mr. Bryan's plan to extend the jurisdiction of the federal government over trusts engag ed in business in more than one State, and, therefore, really coming underthe meaning of interstate commerce. All such are to be required to take out li censes, to publish statements of their a ccounts and to have their books al ways open to the inspection of govern ment officials. This, by the way, is practically what will be recommended by the Industrial Commission. On sil ver no agreement was necessary, as that is already a shibboleth of Demo cratic faith. Mr. Bryan declared that in his further journeying through the East, he should discuss all three issues in bis speeches. He said: "I shall talk about trusts and imperialism and free silver. I have Rot pretty tired of hav ing ono particular topic suggested to me by a person who likes to hear it talked more than any other. Let every one arrange them in order of importance as he sees fit. I won't" Montague White, consul general of the Transvaal to Great Britain, has been in this city for several days. Fri day he called on Secretary Hay, and stated that he came merely asa citizen, having no credentials authorizing him to act as agent for tho Boer govern ment, as had been supposed. Unfor tunately for the administration, semi official warnings had already been given out by the State Department to the ef fect that he would not be received, the excuse being that England was tho "sovereign" of the Transvaal and that consequently the latter country could not bo considered independent. This excuse was evidently a mere subter fuge, designed to prevent Mr. White from obtaining a pince of vantage from which ho might obstruct the British in their efforts to use this country as a'de not of military supplies. The excuse that the Transvaal is not independent was a most remarkable one in view of tho fact that tho United States has for years accredited three consuls to Presi dent Kruger, all of whom havo acted under ^xequators issued by his govern ment. However, when the senior mem ber of tho Anglo-Saxon partnership makes demands on its junior partner, it can always depend on the present administration responding, no matter nt what sacrifice to the liberties of oth er people. Mr. White, by tho way, was consul general of the Transvaal in Lon don when the Jamieson raid took place. While lying ill in bed his house was attacked by a mob and ho was forced to flee for his life. This furnishes an excellent example of the English ideas of fair play. "Owing to aireara of work," said Commissioner Duell of tho Patent Of fice, to-day, "an application for a pa tent will not be reached in this office ! until About a month after it has been tiled. Attorneys nearly always make their claims too broad, with the entire ly proper desire to do their best by their client?, and we have to return 05 i per cent, of themforamendment. The I attorney may either accent our objec- ' tiona, modify his application in accor dance with them and hurry it back, or tie may keep it longer and study it inore carefully before^returping it. Of ?osrse, tbs breeder tu? cl??iiu that he ?n get granted, the more valuable Iiis patent will be. It requires some two peeks to finish it after it comes back, io that at least seven weeks, in all, is ?quired to get a patent through, and t can be done in that time, only by tho attorney for the claimant conceding all iie objections of this office." Another effort is to be made to return to its owners the proceeds of the cotton captured and sold in the South soon af ter tho Civil war. Senator Money, of Mississippi, is giving especial attention ?o the subject, and Senator Davis? of Minnesota, has introduced abill grant Ag one year additional for presenting ?roof of ownership before the Court of Claims. Some twenty million dollars svere collected and paid into the Treas ury from the sale of captured and con Iscated cotton, and less than nine rail lions have been paid over to tho heirs md their heirs. i OUR COLUMBIA LETTER. COLUMBIA, Jan. 29. Probably tho most interesting devel- ! opmonts of the past week at clio capi tal is the move of tho opponents of Mcsweeney to discredit him before tho people, and they have chosen a most subtile mode of attack. This is an effort to make it appear that the Gov ernor is trying to get control of tho dispensary, and is ussuming the role of "boss," which role is not tho most at tractive that a public man can assume in South Carolina just now. The whole matter hangs ou a caucus which is said to have been held in the matter of tho dispensary, at which the Gov ernor's friends fell in line with him in his suggestion that tho executive be made the head of the dispensary of the State. This, to most people, means a return to thc good old days of Tillman and John Gary Evans, when the first dispensary scandals were developed. This was a Hank movement of the opposition, but what effect it will have on thc Governor's position in the cam paign, cannot yet be foretold, for he has taken but slight notice of it as yet, and if it can bo traced to an "-animus" it will have but little effect. The Assembly has been working hard recently, but there is not a great deal .to show for their labors. During the week tho dispensary bills have taken up the greater part of the time of the Senate. So far littlo progress has been made, and we are at sea as to what the future will bring forth. There seems to be unexpected devel opments at every turn. Wo are moro than ever inclined to think that tho Assembly will adjourn without having done anything at all in regard to the dispensary. One matter of very great interest was the passage by the House of the old bill that makes its appearance an nually to reduce the privilege tax on fertilizers. This fund furnishes the chief source of,' revenue for Clemson College. It looks very like this As sembly is trying to pass all the old bills that have grown grey in the com mittee rooms of the two houses for years. This privilege tax bill is one of the most ancient and hoary of tho lot. It was passed on the assumption that the farmers would get the benefit of the reduction from tw enty-five cents to fifteen on the ton. As a general thing the friends of the phosphate workers are found in the ranks of the support ers of this bill, and if they would sup port it as a measure of; relief to these men, who pay a pretty good tax any how, the people of the State would feel a great deal more confidence in the utterances of their statesmen. Another of those bills that como very near*passing,*.was the one that forbids the manufacture and sale of cigarettes in the State. In opposition to this bill Citizen Josh Ashley scored a big point when be announced to the House that "Hit's nonsense ter try and legislate good habits inter bad boys." This was the measure that the people of the Pee Dee section were so greatly in terested in. lt was finally killed when it became plain to what ridiculous ex tremes the law would be carried. The compulsary education bill was killed in the Senate af ter a spirited de: bate, and this bill promises to keep knocking at the doors of the halls of legislation until it is admitted to the Statute books. Mr." Gause's bill to forbid the sale of ahad outside of the State was defeated after a spirited debate in which the only black member of the House, the fruit of Georgetown's fusion, took a leading part as against Citizen Ashley, who told him on ono occasion: "Sit down, you nigger you." This debate convulsedtheHouse, but the "nigger's" homely eloquence proved more forcible than Josh's rugged philosophy. Tho "child labor" bill, which appears with timid knock at the temple of laws was refused admission again this year, it having been decided that it would be unwise to interfere with the cotton mills. The present week will bo taken up rory probably with the dispensary dis cussion. The sentiment of both Houses seem to be to kill rather than pass any new laws. Both Houses have contri buted very largelj' to the legislative graveyard already. Tho end of the session is not yet in sight, and there is a disposition to seo if the members cannot draw pay for a longer Hmo than forty days, in which case it is pretty safe to say that the session will bo as long ns any since the adoption of the new constitution. HARTWELL M. AYEK. - United States Deputy Marshal Rowell arrested at Florence John M. (Vise, Jr., twenty years old, and got warrants for several other white men tor counterfeiting. They have flooded lint section with excellent imitations >f silver quarters, halves and dollars. The officials think there is an organized jang and that the leaders with the nolds are still undetected. There io moro Cat?rrh io this section of th* XHiotnr than ali other diseases put together, and inti! too lut few yean was supposed to bo Incur? ible. For a greet many years doctors pronounced t a local dUeaae, and prescribed local remedies, md by constancy falling to cure with local treat* nent, pronounced lt Incurable. Science has prov in catarrh to bo a constitutional disease, and hereford requires constitutional treatment. Hall's Catarrh Cure, manufactured by F. J. Cheney A Co. Toledo,Ohio, ls tho only constitutional cum on bo market. It is taken Internally in doses from 0 drops to a teaspoonful. It acts directly on the >lood and mucous surfaces of tho system. They iffir one hundred dollars for any case lt falls to ure. Send for circulars and testimonial. Ad ir?e?. F. J. CHENEY A CO., Toledo, O. kSJSold by Druggists, 75c Hall's Family Pills are the best. STATE NEWS. - Columbia is soon to have u furni ture factory. - Work has boen begun on the ud dition to the Walhalla Cot ton Mills. -- Bishop A. \V. Wilson,of Baltimore, Md., will preach tho Commencement sermon at Welford College on J imo 10th. - Greenville county 7 years 7 per cent, bonds sold last week for ISO, tho highest price that has yet been paid for them. - The decomposed body of an un known white man was found a few days ago in the Wateree Uiver swamp, Sumter County. - Sherill'Creech, of Barnwell, who is a one armed man, lost the other by falling under the southern vestibule at Hampton recently. - Tho Greenville Daily 'JHmea has suspended after live or six months' struggle, lt requires a big amount of cash to maintain a daily paper. - Alreudy in the first month of this year $1,400,000 is the amount which represents tho applications for charters for cotton mills in South Carolina. - Candidates are announcing them selves through tho papers in Edgeiield county. Will tho old proverb "Tho early bird catches the worm" hold good? - Tho Charleston Fost says that El dred S. Pickling, who was tho tallest man in tho Confederate army, is still living in Beaufort County. Ho meas ured ? feet 10 inches in height. - lt is said that Representative J. A. McCullough, of Greenville, is se riously contemplating entering the race for congress this summer in the Fourth district against Congressman Wilson. - Tho cotton mill fever seems to have developed in almost every town in South Carolina. Thel prospect is good for another mill in Laurens and also one at Johnston in Edgeiield coun ty. - In a special message tolthe Legis lature Governor Mcsweeney in dorsed and advocated the official support of the General Assembly for the proposed exposition to be held iu Charleston in 1901. No State appro priation is asked for. - Mr. Frank V. Capers, an old Co lombia printer, who published the Voice of the People, a weekly news paper, at Newberry, has received an appointment to'a place in the compos ing room of the Government printing office at Washington. - The original flag of tho Darling ton Guards has been sent to Columbia to be put in the archives of the State for safe keeping. This was done at the instance of tho survivors of that com maud who passed a resolution to that effect at their meeting last year. - Nicholas Ittner, of Atlanta, has been awarded the contract for building Columbia's new city hall, which is to contain a modern opera house with a seating capacity of 1,000. There were bidders for this contract from four States. Ittner gets the job at $42,872. Tho opera house is to be ready for next season. Columbians city hall was burned last March. - Suit for $10,000 against the Knited States was flied in the United States Circuit Court at Charleston last week by Arthur Lynah, ct al. The dam ages are asked for the destruction of a rice plantation on tho Savannah river. When the Carter improvements were made at Savannah, it is claimed that the water level was raised, causing the complete destruction of the plantation and making it unlit hereafter for rico cultivation. The suit involves a deep interest to rice planters generally. - A little girl live or six years old, daughter of Mr. John Vaughn, who lives in the Bethlehem neighborhood, while playing around the lire, ignited her dress and ran from the house. lier mother saw her and caught her and tried to tear off the child's clothes and extinguish the flames', burning her hands in so doing. She had presence of mind and grabbed the child and soused it in a tub of water which was standing conveniently near and put out the Are. The child, fortunately, was not burned; except her hair.- Picken* Sentinel. - The post of li co department, in pre paring blanks for bids for carrying the mails in South Carolina, inserted two propositions. One was for carrying the mails according to the old star route, method, the other tho application of tlx? rural free delivery service. A number of contractors submitted bids and the officials were agreeably sur prised to find upon examination of them that tho cost of rural free deliv ery was but $0,000 more per year than by the old method. This is considered one of thu strongest agreements in favor of rural free delivery throughout the United States. - Congressman Stokes writes the Secretary of State that he proposes as soon as possible to introduce a bill in Congress providing for the publication of the colonial records of tho State of South Carolina, in which this State is rich. Congressman Stokes has been supplied with much valuable informa tion by Mr. W. Ross Smith, of New York, who has recently been carefully going over all these records. He now writes for further information and more exact statements to the amount ?nd scope of the records. Tho publica tion ot' tliCH.o splendid documents is something that has long been desired and needed, and all will join in tho hope that tho bill can bc gotten through Congress.-Columbia State. (?moral News Iteras. i - There are ??,000 Auiericans located il) Havana. - John Ruskin tho English author and essayist isdead. He was 81 years old. - The annual pension appropriation bill passed by Congress aggregates $?145,000,000. - Tho newspaper correspondents have planned tho next war between Japan and Russia. - Subscriptions to tho Twentieth Century Education rund in tho South ern Methodist Church now amounts to $673,021. - The University of Georgia will celebrate its centennial in Jun?', 1001. An elaborate program will be arranged for the occnsian. - The Hoer war is costing England $2,000,000 a day, to say nothing of thc priceless blood of heroes shed. This it costly boer hunting. - An epidemic of smallpox has boon raging at Alabama City, Attalla ant Gadsden in Alabama and there is alsc an outbreak at Rockingham, N. C. - Tho Mississippi legislature electee ex-Governor McLnurin United Statei senator for tho long term and re-elect ed W. V. A. Sullivan to the short term - A Georgia fanner mado this re turn to a tax assessor: "Ono wife rill red hair, two steers-that's a pair: oin horse-she's aman*, that's all, I swear.' - It is proposed by members of con gress to create two now cabinet oflicora establishing tho department of com moree and the department of miues am miniug. - Smallpox is becoming a seriou menace in North Carolina, intorferinj with the session of schools and havim already prevented two courts froi being held. - A New Jersey girl, sixteen yeal of age, h.i s been arrested on a'charg of bigamy. The girl bigamist, ma furnish a new problem for the bo statesmanship. - There is a famine in India. Th official estimates from Calcutta shoi that forty million people aro now i need. More than three millions ai n ow receiving relief. - A special from Greenville, Tenn says Mrs. M. J. Patterson, the only liv ing child of Andrew Johnson, is criti cally ill at her home there and not es pected to live. She is over 80 years c age. - The inhabitants of southern Ca if om in are greatly alarmed. Recen tl steam began tolissue from the base c mount Tauguitz and still continuel and the inhabitants are leaving th locality. - The official census'of Puerto Ric has been finished. San Juau has 32 500 inhabitants. Ponce has near! twice as many residents, tho numb? being 50,000. There aro 957,000 inhab tauts on the island. - Details have been received of tl killing of tho Captain and crew of th Mika Mara on one of tho islands of tl Admiralty group by tho natives, wb are cannibals. 11 is said that all of tl victims were eaten. - The news from tho Philippine tells of an American victory, and you will only read a little further dow the dispatch says that tho town tin captured was deserted. Tho Hriti* are not Uncling deserted towns in Soul Africa. - The agents and operators emploi edon tho Southern railway have aske the company to adjust certain griei ancos and to adopt rules and regal; tiona similar to those governing tl employment of conductors, t minnie firemen, and engineers. - An epidmienf abscesses luis spren among tho men employed in the mil of Muncie, Ind. Most of the sor come upon the hands and forearm Physicians explain the ailment by sa; ing that thc excessive heat of the fu naces disorders the blood. - In the senate tho other day. Sen tor Tillman referred to Senator Cham 1er as a grasshopper, and Senat Chandler replied that grasshoppc were safe from pitchforks. The new papers say that Senator Tillman's r joinder was lost in the laughter. - Over 100,000 bushels of sweet pot toes were shipped North fromllickor N. C., last year, mostly to Huston, a though some went ns far as Toront Canada. The yield in Catawba Cou ty is fiuiii '^i>3 to SOO bushels per* acr and thc net price paid tho farmers w .'15 cents per bushel. - The executive committee of t! Monetary League has decided to ho a national convention at tho samo tin and in the same city as the democrati silver republican and populist nation conventions. The object of the leagi ?san endeavor to write th" i:nr.ric; plank of the democratic national pin form. - Ex-Congressman David G. Cols? shot and killed Ethelbert Scott, Luth Demareo and Charles! Julian in tl Capitol hotel at Frankfort, Ky. The was an old feud between Colson ai Scott. They both belonged to t Republican party. The recent ele tion excitement had nothing to do wi tho affair. Colson surrendered. - Tho Virginia penitentiary anthe ities are puzzled over the discove that, counterfeit nickels are in eire lation within tho prison walls. Th are satislied that tho "quoer" islmm in the institution, but so far have n been able to lind tho plant, or cornie any particular prisoner with tho wor Or Interest to Pensioners. Township Hoards of Pensions will meet ut their usual place of meeting at 2 o'clock p. m., Feb. 10, liKX). All pen sioners must report to their own Town ship Hoards, and tim Hoards will make complet?' list of all pensioners in their Township. The County Hoard of Pensions will meet in tin? ellice of .1. .1. Giltner, Sec retary, on Feb. 10, and all Township Hoards will jilease make their report? on or before that lime. JOHN T. GUKKN, Chm'n Hoard. J. J. GlI.MKlt, Secretary. Ailee i'hnmlelt's. lt is extremely cold at this writing. Mr. E. G. McAdams, accompanied by his friend, Mr. Hass, of the city, came down last third Sunday and worshiped nt Rocky River Church. Miss Ella McAdamsandbrother went to Townville last week to visit Miss Annie H. Dalrymple, who has been quite sick. Rev. N. G. Wright will preach at the Institute every fourth Sunday at 11 o'clock a. m. Miss Nellie Hall, who has been spend ing the past month in this section, has 1 returned to her home near Helton. Magistrate Jones was called to the residence of Mrs. Hethanie. Leverett last Monday, 28th inst., to hold au in quest over the dead body of .lohn W. Leverett, who shot himself in the head with a Colt's 38-calibro pistol about 10:30 o'clock that morning. Tho de ceased came to his mother's that morn ing about 0 o'clock and had a short conversation with the family. Ho gave his sister Jane eighty dollars and told her to buy a mule with it. Bidding her good-bye, ho said, "Janie, you will never seo mo again in this world." Ile then walked out, and MissJane watch ed him until ho passed out of sight in the rear of the barn. In a short whilo she heard the pistol tire. Ho was brought to tho house and lived about an hour. Ho had been threatening to kill himself. This writer prevented him from cutting his throat last April. Shortly after that ho was sent to the Statu Asylum, where he stayed until last September, when he was released. Mr. Leverett was about 40 years of agc and unmarried. Ho was a member of Rocky River Baptist Church. The body will bo buried to-day (Tuesday) at the family burying ground, near Mr. Bartley Hall's. The Jury's verdict was that John W. Leverett came to his death from a pistol shot wound inflict ed by his own hands. FA Wllliamston Items. Williamston is on a building boom. Rev. John Attaway is enlarging and remodeling bis dwelling, which will add greatly to the beauty and attrac tiveness of "Strong Heights." Mr. J. L. Stanccl has purchased a de sirable building site from Rev. Mr? Attaway, adjoining Mr. J. F. Griers and is preparing to erect a neat dwell ing thereon. Mrs. Charles, who has been occupy ing the Boozer house on Main Street the post year, is building ou a beauti ful lot in the grove north of the Bap tist parsonage. Tho contractor, W. K. Davenport, has u force of hands at work, and thc building will bo complet ed in a short time. Kev. and Mrs. J. J. Novillo, of An derson, are now boarding with Mrs. C M. Cox. Mr. J. N. Sutherland and family, of Lonoak, are quartered in the Daniels : house, on Church street. I Tho Holcomb place, which was re I cently sold at publie outcry, was j bought by .Mr. John McAllister, of I Brushy Creek, who intends removing the present buildings and erecting a nice residence. Miss Willie Bell Munnerlyn, of Augusta, visited the Misses Anderson last week. The ladies of tho town have organ ized a weekly prayer meeting, which is quite well attended and great inter est is manifested. The meeting this week will be held at tho residence of Mr. C. B. Owens at 3:510 o'clock this afternoon. A prayer meeting for men will be hold ait Mr. A. W. Clement's to night at 7:150 o'clock. Rev. Mr. Osborne lilied the Baptist pulpit on last Sunday night, Hov. Mr. Tate being unwell. Dr. John T. McBride tills his last appointment nt tho Presbyterian Church the second Sunday in February. Dr. McBride has labored faithfully here for the past t wo years, and it is with much sorrow and regret that he is given up. He has accepted a call from a Church nenr Spaitanburg, and will go to his new fields of labor in a short while. Jan. 30,1000. _H. G. - Sn comparatively recent is thean Soaranceof woman in tho pulpit that the rat woman in tho world to oe ecclesi astically ordained is still living in New York. She is tho Rev. Antoinette Brown Blackwell, and was ordained bv a council called by the First Con gregational Church, of South Butler, N. Y., in 1852, a Methodist minister {?reaching tho ordination sermon. The lev. Olympia Brown was tho second woman ordained, though her ordina tion did not occur until eleven years later. In tho samo year tho Rev. Au gusta J. Chapiu was received into the ministry. She was tho tirst woman to be honored with tho degree of doctor of divinity. Sinco these women were ordained nearly a hundred of their sisters have followed them into the ministry. So common is tho appear ance of a woman in thc pulpit to-day that on a recent week in Chicago no less than three congregations heard sermons from women, and nothing was thought of it. .