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VOL. III. MANNING, CIARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1868. NO, 22. JOSEPH F. RHAME, ATTORNEY AT LAW, MANNING, S. C. JOHN S. WILSON, Attorney and Coun elur at Law, MANNING. S. C. F. WILSON, INSURANCE AGEYT, MANNING. S. C. A. LEU, ATTORNEY AT LA W1, MANNING. S. C. 1Notary Public with seal. W M. H. INGRAM. ATTORNEY AT LAW, Office at Court House, MANNING, S. C. m. CL'hTON LUCHAT, PBACTIC3s IN CoURTS oF CHARLESTON and CLARENDOt. Address Communications in care of Man ning TIMEs. JO6. H. MONTGOMERY, ATTORNEY AT LAW Main Street. SUMTER, S. C. iCollections a specialty. W. F. B. HAYSWoRTH, Sumter S. C. B. S. DI-xnss, Manning, S. C. AYNSWORTH & DINKINS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW,' MANNING, S. C. R. G. ALLEN HUGGINS, DENTIST. - OFFICEs - MANNING AND -KINGSTREE. . -FIcE Dars Kingstree, from 1st to 12th of each month. Manning, from 12th to 1st of each month. -OrzCa Horns 9A. M.tol P.M. and2to4P.M. J J. BRAGDON, REAL ESTATE AGENT, FORESTON, S. C. Offers for sale on Main Street, in business portion of the town, TWO STORES, with suitable lots; on Manning and R. R. streets TWO COTTAGE RESIDENCES, 4 and 6 rooms;and a.number of VACANT LOTS suitab'te foi residences, and in different lo calities. Terms Reasonable. ESTABLISHED 1S52. Louis Cohen & Co. 224 King Street. CHARLESTON, S. C. hIporters, Wholesale and Retail Dealers in Dry and Fancy Goods. -0 M-Samples and prices cheerfully sent on application. Orders entrusted to me will receive my prompt personal at tention. Will be pleased to see my friends from Clarendon County. ISAAC M. LORTEA, With Louis Cohen & Co., C2RARL STO, S. C MAX G. Bryant, JAs. M. Lszwzs, South Carolina. New York. Grand Central Hotel. BRYANT & TELAND, PsoPEmETo5s. Columbia, South Carolina. The grand Central is the largest and best )e t hotel in Columbia, located in the El $heOree C pOF TH CIT and its ME.NU is not excelled by any in the South. Jiatics of Appuication for Charter. TOTICF,ISHER BY GIVEN THAT AN cappiotianl ~i 4made to the Gen~eral ~'Ahtt etate 'uth Carolia, for a e rioa ~Ri $~, to be known as the and Sunmmerton Enil Road, leading frm point at. or near Wilson's Mill on Aba .tralB4J~ of South Carolina, inC ~tonl , in skid State, to or near?- to SieItnin said County, and thence, ed expedient, to a moioryte ese n Augusta Es 'Road, St 'V iear Antioch, in said County. CORONER'S NOTICE. - N OTICE IS HEREBY GiVEN THAT I have made arrangemients with Mr. W. K. Bell, of Manning, to prompltly forward me any telegrams or other ollicial conmni eations. By this mjeans I shiall be able, in a few hours, to attend any inque st. P'.C. COCHRAN. o,fpeF Clayendon County. F. VON SANTEN & SON, FANCT GOODS, TOYS, CONFECTIONERY, CR A DL ES. Children's Carriages Costing from $4.50 to $40 each. $63 King Street, 1OHARLlSTON, S. C. Mo68ban, Brown & Evans, Jobbers of Dry Goods, Boots, Shoes, and Clothing. Nos. 224, 226 and 228 Meeting St. Cha rle s ton, S.. C. Win. Burmnester & Cc. HAY AND GRAIN, Red Rust Proof Oats, a Spe cialty. Opposite Eerr's Wharf, * OHIARLESTON S. C. TALMAGE ON SELF-DESTRUCTION A VERY STRIKING SERMON IN THE BROOKLYN TABEiCNACLE. Suicide in Olden 1 ime Was Considered Honorable and a Sign of Courage--Mod ern Apologies for This.Crhine--Genuine Science and Revelation In Accord. At the Tabernacle last Sunday morn ing, the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage, D.D., took for his text, Acts xvi. 28 and 29. "He drew out his sword, and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had fled. But Paul cried with a loud voice, saying, Do thy self no harm." The sermon was as fol lows: Here is a would be suicide arrested in his deadly attempt. He was a sheriff, and according to the Rem an law, a bailiff himself must suffer the punish ment due an escaped prisoner; and if the prisoner breaking jail was sentenced to be endungeoned for three or four years, then the sheriff must be endungeoned for three or four years; and if the pris oner breaking jail was to have suffered capital punishment, then the sheriff must suffer capital punishment. The sheriff had received especial charge to keep a sharp lookout for Paul and Silas. The government had not confidence in bolts and bars to keep safe these two I clergymen, about whom there seemed to be something strange and super- 1 natural.e< Sure enough, by miraculous power, F they are free, and the sheriff, waking out of a sound sleep, and supposing t these ministers have run away. and ] knowing that they were to die for < preaching Christ, and realizing that he must therefore die, rather than go under I the executioner's ax on the morrow and suffer public disgrace, resolves to pre- I cipitate his own decease. But before c the sharp, keen, glittering dagger of the sheriff could strike his heart, one of the a unloosened prisoners arrests the blade c by the command: "Dothyself no harm." t In olden time, and where Christianity r had not interfered with it, suicide was i considered honorable and a sign of 1 courage. Demosthenes poisoned him- a self when told that Alexander's ambas sador had demanded the surrender of I the Athenian orators. Isocrates killed e himself rather than surrender to Philip s of Macedon. Cato, rather than submit r to Julius Caesar, took his own life, and v after three times his Wounds had been a dressed tore them open and perished. a Mithridates killed himself rather than c submit to Pompey, the conqueror. v Hannibal destroyed his life by poison I from his ring, considering life unbear- c able. Lycurgus a suicide, Brutus a suicide. After the disaster of Moscow, i Napoleon always carried with him a a preparation of opium, and one night his o servant heard the ex-Emperor arise, put something in a grass and drink it, and t soon after the groans aroused all the c attendants, and it was only through the a utmost medical skill he was resuscitated s from the stupor of the opiate. ( Times have changed, and yet the r American conscience needs to be toned t up on the subject of suicide. Have you a seen a paper in the last month that did i: not announce the passage out of life by one's own behest? Defaulters, alarmed f at the idea of exposure, quit life pre- I cipitately. Men losing large fortunes a go out of the world because they cannot 1 endure earthly existence. Frustrated 1 affection, domestic infelicity, dyspeptic t impatience, anger, remorse, envy, jeal- e usy, destitution, misanthropy, are con- 1 idered sufficient causes for absconding ] from this life by Paris green, by lauda- r inum, by belladonna, by Othello's dsg- t ger, by halter, by leap from the abut- e nent of a bridge, by firearms. More r ases of felo~de se. in the last two years s han any two years of the world's exist- t mee, and more in the last month than o n any twelve months. The evil is more s and more spreading. c A pulpit not long ago expressed some i oubt as -to whether there was xeally E mzythinig'wrong about quitting this life c when it became disagreeable, and there re found in respectable circles peoplee pologetic for the crime which Paul in t he text arrested. I-shall show you be- I ore I get through that suicide is thee worst of all crimes, and I shall lift at warning unmistakable. But in the early 1 art of this sermon I wish to admit that I ome of the best Christians that have 1 ver lived have committed self-destruc ioni, but always in dementia, and not responsible. I have -no more doubt i aout their eternal felicity than I haveC f the Christian who dies in his bed in t the delirium of typhoid fever. While i the shock of the catastrop~he is ver-y gre-at, I charge all these who have had r Cbristian friends uuder cerebal aberra tion step off'the boundaries of this life, to have no doubt about their happiness. a The dear Lord took them right out cf their dazed and frenzied stato into per fect safety. Hfow Christ feels toward I the insane you may know from the kind1 way he treated the demoniac of Gadarat anfl the child lunatic, and the pctency ti with which he hushed temnests either of'] sea or brain. Scotland, the land prol;ic of intellec- 1 'nal giants, had none grarnder than Hugh Mile'r. Great for sWiene and great for - Gcd. Ho came of the best Highland I blood, and was a descendant of D~onald I Roy, a man eminent for piety and the I rare gift of second sight. His attain ments, climbing up as he did from the I quarry and the wall of the stonemason, drew forth the astonishe d admiration of Bukand and Murchisona, the scientists, and Dr. Chalmers, the theologian, and I held universities spellbound while he I told them the story of what hie hadL seen of GI'd in the old red sadstone. Tihat man did more than any being Ii that ever lived to show that the Glod of the hills the God of the Bible, and he struck his tuning fork on the rocks of Cromarty until he brought geology and theology accordant in divine worship. His two books, entitled "Footprints of the Creator" and the 'Testimony of the Rocks" proclaimed the bans of an ever lasting marriage between genuine science1 and revelation. On this latter book he toiled day and night through love of nature and love of God, until he could not sleep, and his brain gave away, and he was found dead with a revolver by his side, the cruel instrument having had two bullets-one for him and the other for the gulnsmith who at the fell dead. Have you any doubt of the beatification of Hugh Miller. after his hot brain had ceased throbbing that winter night in his study at Portobello? Among the mightiest of earth, among the mightiest of Heaven. - To show how God in the Bible looked upon this crime, I point you to the rogues' picture gallery in some parts of the Bible, the pictures of the people who have committed this unnatural crime. Here is the headless trunk of Saul on the walls of Bathslan. Here is the man who chased little David-ten feet in stature chasing four. Here is the man who consulted a clairvoyant, Witch of Ender. Here is a man who, whipped in battle, instead of surrendering his sword with dignity, as many a man has done, asks his servant to slay him; and when the servant declines, then the giant plants the hilt of the sword in the earth, the sharp point sticking upward, and he throws his body on it and -expires, the. soward, the snioide.: Kere isAfiithopel, the Machiavelli of dlden tiaer, betray ing his best friend David in order that 'o may become prime minister of Absa om, and joining that fellow in his at empt at parricide. Not getting what he wanted by change of politics, he takes a hort cut of a disgraced life into the suicide's eternity. There he is, the agratel Here is Abimelech, practically a sui :ide. He is with an army, bombarding tower, when a woman in the tower I akes a grindstone from its place and f Irops it upon his head, and with what I ife he has left in .his qre k~d .skull he 3 ommands his armor- rer' "Draw thy i word and slay me, lest men say a wo nan slew me." There is his post mor- t em photograph in the book of Samuel. C 3ant the hero of tis group is Judas Is 1 ariot. Dr.'Jonne-says he was a martyr, I nd we have in our day apologists for C im. And list wq der, ink this day rhen we have a bok reivealin'g Aaron < 3urr as a pattein of-virtue, and in this 1 lay when we uncover a statue to George t and as the benefactres of literature, 1 and in this day when theta are betrayals t "f Christ on the part of some of his pre- ' ended apostles-a betrayal so black it r sakes tite infagy of .udas Iscariot a rhitel Yet this man by his own hand a aung up for thejexecration of all the ges, Judas Iscarot All the good men and women of the t lible left to God the decision of their t arthlyteriinus, and they could have f aid with Job, !wh6,had a right to com- 1 sit suicide if any man ever had-what I rith his destroyed property, and his body .t 11 adlame with insuffrable carbuncles, I nd everything gorie frcm his home ex-. t ept the chief course of it, s pestif -rous I ife, and four garrulous people pelting r im with comfortless talk while he sits a n a heap of ashes scratching his scabs t rth a piece of broken pottery, yet cry- i ig out in triumph: "All the days of my a ppointed time will I wait till my charge t ome." -- c Notwithstanding the Bible is against c his evil, and- the aversion which it - reates by the loathsome and ghastly ( pectacle of those who have hurled them- ( elves out of life, and notwithstanding t lhristianity is against it, and the argu ents and the useful lives and the illus rious deaths of its disciples, it is a fact larmingly patent that suicide is on the a serease. What is the cause? I charge upon in delity and agnosticism this whole tl4ing. c f there be no hereafter, or if that here- s fter, be blissfil without reference to 1 ow we live and how we die, why not a ove.back the folding doors between I his world and the next? And when our d xistence here becomes 1froubleso~me, Is thy not passit' over into Elfsiuf6? it 'cit this down amoung your most solemn) elections, and consider it after you go a o your homes: there has never beenat .ot either #eienecand.,thezefore irre+ i ponsible, or an infidel. I challenge all lie ages, and I challenge the whole uni- e erse. There never has been a case of c elf destruction while in full appreciation a f his immortality; and-of the fact that egaliyul eorius or wretch d. ho~~ ~sb eegptedJesus Christ You say it is trouble, or you say it is! bat, or itis jhe ther~ thinig. Whjilt5 :0 clear back, my friend, and acknowl dge that in every case it is the abdiea ion of reiton or the teaching of intidel-t by which practically says: "if you don't I ige this lite get out of it, and you willd mnd either iu annihilation, where there t ro no notes t~o pay, zto persecutions to I ufl'er, no gout to torment, or you will la mnd where there will be everything glori- '] 'us and nothing to pay for it." Infideli y alway has been apologetic for selfs mmoiationa. After Tonm Paine's "Age I ,f Rteason'? was published and widely s cad thee Was aimnarked increase of sei, laughter. - - - ? - j A man in London heard Mr. Owend iver his infid- lecture en socialism, and a out home, sat down and wrote thes orQ.: "Jesus Christ is one of the weak- i st characters in history, and the Bible s the greatest possible deception," and hen shot himself. David Humse wrote e hese word's: "It would be no crime fort no to aivert the Nile or the D)anube com its natural bed.' Where, then,~ cane >e the erin.e in may diverting a few drops >f blood from their ordinary channel f' s mtnd having wrntten the essay he loaned ( t to a friend, the friend read it, 'arote a etter of thanks and admiration and shot dmself. Appendix to the same book. i Rousseau, Voltaire, Gibbon, Mon- a aigne, under certain circumstance-, werei spologeticlor self immolation. Infidelity 4 >uts up no bar to people's rushing out t rm this world into the next. They each us it does not make any difference ow you live here or go ont of this world,1' rcrn Wih land either in an oblivious no- r :here or a glorious somewhere. Andt nidoiyro theupptetlenlr end of the rope ortesuicide, and aims the pistol with a hich a man blows his brains out, and nines the strychnine fer the last swallow. t f infidelity could carry the day and per uade the majority of people in this ~ountry that it does not make any di! erence how you go out of the world ou will land safely, the Hudson and he East rivers would be so full of corpsest ~he ferryboats would be impeded in their ~rogress, and the crack of ,s snicide's itol would be no more alarming thani he rumble of a street car. Would God that the coroners would be brave in rendering the right verdict, and when in a case of irresponsibility they say: "While this man was demented he "Having read infidel books and attended infidel lectures, which obliterated from this man's mind all appreciation of any ting like future retribution, he commit ted self slaughter!" Ah! Infidelity, stand up and take thy sentence! In the presence of God and angels and men, stand up, thou monster, thy lip blasted with blasphemy, thy cheek scarred with lust, thy breath foul with the corruption of the ages! Stand up, Satyr, filthy goat, buzzard of the na tions, leper of the centuries! Stand up, thou monster Infidelity! Part man, part panther, part reptile, part dragon, stand up and take thy sentence! Thy hands red with the blood in which thou hast washed, thy feet crimson with the ha man gore through which thou hast waded, stand up and take thy sentence! Down with thee to the pit and sup on the sobs and groans of families thou hast blasted, roll on the bed of -knives which thou hast shapened for others, and let thy musc ie-the everlasting miserere of those whom thou hast damned! I brand the forehead of infidelity with all the crimes of self immolation for the last century on the part of those who had their reason. My friends, if ever your life, through ts abrasions and its molestations, should seem to be unbearable, and you are enpted to quit it by your own behest, lo not consider yourself as worse than )ther. Christ himself was tempted to cast aimself from the roof of the temple; but is he resisted, so rest ye. Christ came to nedicine all our wounds. In your trouble prescribe life instead of death. People vho have had it worse than you will pver have it have gone songful on he way. Remember that God keeps the hronology of your life with as much >recision as he keeps the chronology of iations, your death as well as your radle. And remember that this brief life of pure is surrounded by a rim, a very thin ;ut very important rim, and close up to hat rim is a great eternity, and you had ptter keep out of it until God breaks hat rim and.. separates .this from that. Co get rid of the sorrows of earth, do not ush into greater sorrows. To get rid of swarm of summer insects, leap not into Sjungle of Bengal tigers. There is a sorrwless world, and it is o radiont that the noonday sun is only he lowest doorstep and the aurora hat lights up our northern heavens, con ounding astronomers as to what it can e, is the waving of the banners of the procession come to take the conquerors tome from church militant to church riumphsut, and you and I have ten housandreasonafor. wanting to go there, mut we will never get there by self im- I Holation or impenitency. All our sins lain by the Christ who came to do that hing, we want to go in at Just the time livinely arranged, and from a couch ivinely spread, and then the clang of he sepulchral gates behind us will be overpowered by the clang of the opening f .the solid pearl before us. 0 God, I rhatever others may choose, give me a )hristian's life, a Christian's death, a hristian's burial, a Christian's immor ality. THE SUN DANCE. L FestIva1 Celebrated with Self.Torture by C the Crows. a The Crows have a sun d'uce of their t w, writes a Cincinatti Enquirer corre pondent. The dance originates in a pint of revene, and through it they r eek to secure the assistance of the t upreme Being in carrying out their lans for vengeance and in prosecuting Swars and horse stealing expedi Besides the strings by which the lancer is fastened through the sinews of he ehest and back to a long pole, the >rave endeavers to produce good luck by I itlstJigfled with knives in many 'arts of the body. Some of the young aen fasten buffalo heads to the muscles ,f the back and dance themselves free 1 ud through and about camp. 'Tfieir legenids say that God made them irstoft'iil huisan beings, the other I ~Idrianianext; and therwhite man at the sat as rptflnishinent'for some offenses. Hoy much bodily pai one of these. u 180, er thi post It wasntef1 if that year, when Hon. Carl Schurz (the ' hen secretery of the Interior) visited he captured Sioux and Cheyennes near 'ort Keogh. The honorable gentlemin tesired to observe the natives at 'one of 1 heir dances and feasts, and General Sles oiacommatiding officer, conducted i to the neighboring encampment. 'he writer accompanied the party, whichC rent on horseback. As we neared the pot we beheld several hundred of ndians squatted down on the grass, inging, shouting and drnmming They ,ereidt dancing just then, but were en oying a~star perfoonnance by a solitary rarrior. -a Crow Indian-somethir g of I n excruciatingly humorous character- ~ ,highly seasoned and palatable side dish a the feast, so to speak. The stalwart Crow stood in the center f the. c~rcie, entirely naked with the ex eption of the proverbial breech cloth; he blood was streaming from a hundred rshes which he was self-inflicting upon :hst, shoulders, abdomen, arms and legs rith sharp-edged knives, handed to lum lternately by some of the Sioux and Jheyenne braves. The sight was too much for the some rhat sensasive organization of the fastid ens Secretary, and, giving his horse the purs, he soon escaped from the disgust-3 ng spectacle. The attending Indians njoyed the performance hugely, for hey were chatting away and laughing ~ayly while the horrible anil certainly ery painful mutilation was going on. Lhe interpreter informed me that it was m atonement ceremony on the part of be Crow, who had in the preceding vnter killed a Sioux. From the samei ource I learned afterward that the very eights of the festivity was reached by 1 he audience when the performer finally ermitted his body to be washed with inegar, after which he iled in dis nd convulsions. The fist man at the poles on election1 lay-The barber. The poisonous nature of tilth should iever be lost sight of. A man jumped into the Ohio River re ently and left behind him this note: "Cuss be rich, durn the poor, and may I bring p in a warm anid comfortable place!" A man must have a firm and abiding faith when he believes that he can find a nice mal lire at the bottom of a river. JUDGE THURMAN'S ACCEPTANCE Of the Democratic Nomination for the Vice Presldoncy-A Concise Statement of the Tart Issue. The following is Judge Thurman's letter of acceptance as given to the press. The first draft of the letter was in the Judge's handwriting, and the typewriter copies showed only a few changes in the punc tuation from the original: Hon. Patrick A. Collins and others, committee. Gentlemen: In obedience to custom I send you this formal accept ance of my nomination of the office of Vice President of the United States, made by the National Convention of the Democratic party at St. Louis. When you did me the honor to call upon me at Columbus and officially no tify me of my nomination, I expressed to you my sense of obligation to the conven tion, and stated that although I had not sought the nomination, I did not feel at liberty under the circumstances' to de cline it. I thought then, as I still think, that whatever I could properly do to promote the re-election of President Cleveland I ought to do. His administra tion has been marked by such integrity, good sense, manly courage and exalted patriotism that a just appreciation of these high qualities seems to call for his re-election. I am also strongly impressed with the belief that his re-election would power Eully tend to strengthen that feeling of raternity among the American people that is so essential to their welfare, peace nd happiness, and to the perpetuity of he Union and its institutions. I approve the platform of the St. Louis onvention, and I cannot too strongly mprees my dissent from the heretical Teachings of monopolists, that welfare >f people can be promoted by a system >f exorbitant taxation far in excess of he wants of the government. The idea hat the people can be enriched by heavy nd unnecessary taxation, that a man's ondition can be improved by taxing iim on all he wears, on all his wife and hildren wear, on all his tools and imple nents of industry is an obvious absurd ty. To fill the vaults of the treasury with in idle surplus, for which the government ins no legitimate use, and to thereby leprive the people of our currency need d for their business and daily wants, bnd to create a powerful and dangerous timulus to extravagance and corruption n the expenditures of the government, eems to me to be a policy at variance ith every sound principle of govern nent and political economy. The necessity of reducing taxation to >revent such accumulation of surplus evenue and consequent depletion of the irclating medium is so apparent that to party (tares to deny it; but when we me to consider the modes by which a eduction may be made, we find a wide ntagonism between our party and the monopolistic leaders of our political op onente. We seek to reduce taxes upon he necessaries of life; our opponents eek to increase them. We say give to he masses of the people cheap and good lothing, cheap olankets, cheap tools ad cheap lumber. The Republicans, by heir platform and their leaders in the senate, by their proposed bill, say in rease taxes on clothing and blankets ad thereby increase their cost, main ain high duty on the tools of the farmer nd mechanic, and on the lumber which hey need for the construction of their modest dwellings, shops and barns, and hereby prevent their obtaining these ecessares at reasonable prices. Can any sensible man doubt as to rhere he should stand in this contro -ersy? Can any well informed man be eceived by the false pretense that a ytem so unreasonable and unjust is for he benefit of the laboring men? Much ssaid about competition of American tborers with the pauper labor of Europe, >t does not every man who looks around m, see and know that the immense cajority of laborers in America are not ngaged in what are called protected in tustries? And as to those who are em loyed in such industries, is it not un teniable that the duties proposed by the )emocratic measure, called the Mills bill, ar exceed the difference between Ameri an and European wages, and that there ore if it were admitted that our work rgmen -can be protected by tariffs gainst cheaper labor, they would be ally protected and more than protected >y that bill? Does not every well in ormed man know that the increase in he price of home manufactures, pro Luced by high tariff, does not go into he pockets of the laboring men, but inly tends to swell the profits of others? it seems to me that, if the policy of he Democratic party is plainly present , all must understand that we seek to aake the cost of living less, and at the sie time increase the share of the labor rg man in the benefits of national pros merity and growth. If am, very respect ally, your obedient servant, ALLEN G. THURtN. Is Marriage a Failure? The discussion "Is Marriage a Fail trey' has called out the following pre ription: I will try to give matrimo ially inclined young men a prescription hich they need not get compounded in he drug store round the corner, but hey can do it themselves. It is a sure ntidote to failure in marriage. Take a Lealthy, truthful, good, common sense irl, not too tender, not too tough, not o good looking, nor too extremely ugly. ut hrin apot in the shape of a nice, leasant home. Be sure to use only pots :nown as housekeeping. Avoid carelully I imitations known as boarding. Fill oar pot with the pure water of true, nanly love. Salt it occasionally with de otion. Pepper it when you have just u~s, with strict "no funny busines- in nine," in a quiet, dignified way. But >e careful, only using the coarse but ealth black pepper known as "no secrets etwen husband and wife," and avoid he sharp Spanish cayenne pepper known s "jealousy." Lut the pot near the gate ire of your own "humble home." Be ure and watch the boiling carefully by ersonal presence. After you have boiled is dish for a lifetime never let it cool ff the mutual affection and interest in ah other. Serve the dish always warm vith home instinets on the family table, nd you will be successful in cooking rour own happy marriage.-Troy Times. MIore than fifty thousandl pian.:s were nade in America last year. Few were mported, because the home-made article a fte best YOUNG LADIES' SMALL TALK. Conversation Overheard on a Hotel Piazza. "What on earth did you do with my needle, Lou?" "It wasn't me. I had Lillie's. Don't pull the floss like that!" "Can I help it? Do move your chair a little so I can get my feet up." "Jen's shoes are just like yours!" "Jen's shoes never saw the day they'd look like mine; nor Jen's feet, neither.' '"Just see how my hands are tanned. The sun was blazing on the water." "You had gloves on." "I hadn't." "You had, too. I saw them." "What! Yesterday?" "Yes-yesterday." "No such thing-not yesterday." "Well, I've got eyes, I hope. When we stood on the pier there, before you got into the boat you had on those long brown chamois." "That was Thursday." "It was yesterday ! Maud, didn't Lil have gloves on yesterday?" "I guess you're thinking of me. I wore old dark ones." "I'm positive Lil had gloves on when we stood on the pier, anyway." ' "No, that's a mistake. I didn't really. My brown gloves were in my gray coat pocket. Honor bright!" "Oh, I suppose I've got to believe you. I must have been hallucinated then, for I certainly saw those gloves." "No; you saw mine; your brain's all right so far, Nell. You mistook the hands, that was all." "There goes the Maggie. Who took her out this morning?" "That isn't the Maggie." "Will Manning took her out." "Of course it's the Maggie. I should think I ought to know the Maggie." "You ought to, but you don't. That's the Mystery." "Oh, listen-the Mystery! It's the Maggie. "It's the Mystery." 'It's the Maggie and Will Manning. He's got those Reilly girls on board. I hope he'll steer them back to their na tive isle." "Will Manning couldn't sail the Maggie. He couldn't sail a tub." "He'd be a mighty clever seaman if he could, Miss Lil." "I know I'd be awfully scared to go out with him." "So would I." "I, too." "I wouldn't dare to go out with Will Manning. Would you, Laura?" "Well, that's too bad. He wants as all to go. He told me to ask my party, and he'd run us down to Cliff House for lunch." "Oh, my, he didn't. Did he really?" "Yes, he did, and it's the jolliest place for lunch-lots of Yale boys. But, of course, if you are all afraid-" "Afraid?" "Who's afraid?" "There isn't any danger in the Maggie." "I'll go." "I'm going." "The idea of being afraid! I never said I was." "Well, he's putting in now." "Goody ! sure's you live." "Let's go down to the pier. "Oh, let's!" Rustle, scamper, general stampede and grateful silence. Proverbs from the Talmud. The cat and the rat make peace over a carcass. Hospitality is an expression of divine worship. Rabbi Jochanan said: "He who gives becomes rich." Commit a sin twice and it will not seem to thee a sin. If thou tellest thy secret to three per. sons ten know it. Do not to others what you would not have others do to you. Rabbi.Eliazr said: "Charity is moi-e han sacrifices." Many a colt's skin is fastened to the saddle its mother bears. He who increaseth his flesh but multi plieth food for the worms. A simple light answers as well for a hundred men as for one. The camel desired horns, and his ears were taken from him. Two pieces of coin in one bag make more noise than a hundred. The doctor who prescribes gratuitously gives a worthless prescription. The rose grows among the thorns. Latin, Cepe uope sub sepe crescit.) The place honors not the man; 'tis te man who gives honor to the place. Thy friend has a friend, and thy friend's friend has a friend; be discreet. The thief who finds no opportunity to steal considers himself an honest man. Man sees the mote in his neighbor's ye, but knows not the beam in his own. Rabbi Jose said: "I never call my wife 'wife,' but ,home,' for she makes my home." A Sad Story from Lexington. RIoHTwnrJr, Lexington Co., Oct. 14. t is with sadness that we chronicle the eath of Miss Carrie Miller, a very esti able young lady. About a year ago he drank some concentrated lye through istake, thinking it was wine. It seems er mother had a jug of wine and one of ye in the same pantry. She poured out glass of wine (as she thought) and tasted it, but it proved to be the lye instead. s soon as she had swallowed it she ex laimed: "Oh, mother, I have drank the ye instead of wine, and now it will kill e!" With these words she fell fainting o the floor. Everything that human ands could do was done for her. At imes she would appear to be all right, hen would relapse again. For the last four months nothing has entered her tomach in the natural way, as the canal hat carries the food was completely losed up. Her funeral was preached y the Rev. Marks at Mount Pilgrim hurch, October 10th, 1888.-Special to lhe World. Accidentally Sht Last Saturday, in the Toby Creek neigh >orhood, Clarence Crawford. colored, was accidentally shot and seriously wounded y Mr. Andrew Owens. Mr. Owens was andling a pistol, aud it was accidentally ischarged, the ball going through Craw ford's body. The wound produced is a ainful and serious onc, but is not consid red fatal.-Marion Index. Telegraph operators get a great deal of sond advice thrnogh their instruments.! EVOLUTION IN THE CHURCH. A Concise Statement of the Action of Synod on a Troublesome Question. (From the Greenville News, October 17.) The Rev. J. lM. Rose, pastor of the Washington Street Presbeterian church, of this city, who was the defeated can didate of the anti-Woodrow party of the South Carolina Synod, returned here yesterday from attending the meeting of Synod at Greenwood. While a stout upholder of his side of the controversy, Mr. Rose is not partisan and takes a thoroughly good-humored view of the matter. He says the majority of the Woodrow men steadily increased from 12, which it was on the first test vote in the electiot of Moderator, to 25 which it had reached yesterday afternoon on the departure of the up train, the increase being catised chiefly by new arrivals. During night before last and yesterday morning there was earnest debate on a resolution disapproving the action of the faculty of the Theological Seminary in forbidding its students to attend Dr. Woodrow's lectures at the State Univer sity. The resolution was supported by Doctors Flinn, Adger and Crosby and . J. Holmes and opposed by Ductois Girardeau, Mack, Blackburn and Thomp son and D. S. Henderson, of Aiken, rep resenting the trustees. The speeches were earnest and powerful. The resolu tion of disapproval was adopted by a decisive majority-scoring another point for Dr. Woodrow. The Synod, after another earnest de bate, refused to accept the new professors elected, postponing that matter a year. Yesterday afternoon -the Synod was considering a paper offered by br. Crosby instructing the stated clerk to inform the Synods of Georgia, Alabama and Florida that the Synod of South Carolina will resist by all lawful means any effort to remove the Theological Seminary or any part of it from Columbia. It is the judgment of many Presbyte rians that the action of the South Carolina Synod will cause a movement by the Georgia, Alabama and Florida Synods to dissolve the copartnership by which the Seminary is maintained and with draw their support from it. (From the Columbia Daily Record, Oct. ir.) The session of the South Carolina Synod of the Presbyterian Church concluded at Greenwoood Tuesday night. The next session of the Synod will be held at Spar tanburg on the Friday before the fourth Sunday in October. The Columbia dele gates returned yesterday evening. The outcome of the session was a com plete victory for the "Woodrow men," the intis being defeated in every instance by a majority of from 20 to (t. The leaders admit that Greenwood was their Waterloo. A prominent leader of the antis said yes terday: "Yes, we were whipped. I sup pose turn about is fair play." In regard to the resolution passed by Charleston Presbytery forbidding public contending against the decision of the Gen eral Assembly in'Dr. Woodrow's case, the framers and advocates thereof said that the others had mistaken their meaning. It is understood, however, that Dr. Woods re fused to accept their construction of the meaning of the resolution, given at Green wood, and denounced their motive severe ly, charging them with having persecution at the bottom of it. Two of the members of the Bodas of Directors of the Columbia Theological Seminary are now "out and out" Wood row men. At first it was believed that Charleston Presbytery would appeal to the General Assembly to reverse the decision of the Synod annulling its resolution passed at Aiken. Accordingly the Synod appointed Dr. Woods and the Rev. 'T. S. Whaling to defend their action. But Charleston Presbytery decided not to appeal' or com plain, but to let the question go before the General Assembly in the records of the Synod. This, by the law of the church, precludes the Synod having representatives to defend the records. The antis have here an advantage, and have appointed the Rev. Drs. J. L. Girardeau and J. B. Mack to defend them before the General Assdm bly. Serious atabbing Affray. A serious difficulty occurred at Dillion Station last Thusday night between Wilson Conner and R. B. Webster, of this conuty, both white. The men were sitting in a ,bnggy to gether when a dispute aros& Conner, it is said, struck at Webster with a knife and the latter sprang from the buggy dragging Conner with him. In the fight on the ground both men used their knives freely. Conner's right leg was broken, and he was severely cut in several places. Webster was cut mneeveral laces also, but his wounds are not as seri ous those of Conner. Dr. Weatherly dersed the latter's wounds, and he is now doing well. Webster is a constable for a Trial Justice. Too much whiskey caused the difficulty. The doctor says the break ing of Conner's leg bone by the knife is the first instance of the kind in his expert ence.-Marion Index. Shades in Vogue. Here are some of the shades adopted by a syndicate of Paris mnufacturers for the goods they will make for the winter trade. Emeraude-A deep, rich emerald green. Scarabee-A dark, yellowish green. Cuoroncou-A shade lighter than scarabee. Peupliere-A shade lighter still. Nil-A light watery green. Coquelicot-A rich blood red. Boulanger-A brighter shade of re 1. Bouton d'Or-A golden yellow. Mais-Straw color. Volcan-A reddish terra-cotta. Alezan-A dark reddish brown. Pactole-A light golden brown, Oxide--A dark slate. Lionceau-A dark fawn. Heron-A grayish drab. Luciole-A gendarme blue. Notwithstanding the large business done t the post office, there are only four letters in town. Young Doctor-They don't bleed people now-aday's as they did twenty years ago, (10 they. Professor? P'rofessor-Not with the lancet. A correspondent asks, "Would you or ny of your many readers inform a con stant reader how to learn to play a flute?" Not if we know ourselves. In oneO of the cantons of Switzerlind all the school children are prov~ided with slip pers at the public expens-r, in order that their damp boots may be taken oif and rierd by the tire during school hours.