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VOL. IIMANNING, CL.ARENDON COUNT', S. C ,WEDNESDAY, DECEMBERNO29 BEAUTY OF THE GOSPEL. DR. TALMAGE DISCOURSES ELO QUENTLY ON DIVINE SCRIPTURE. The Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris Made the Subject of a Striking Compari son-The Symbolic Myrrh, Aloes and Uasia.-Some Rich Metaphors. At the Brooklyn Tabernacle on Sun day, the Rev. T. De Witt Talmage preached an eloquent sermon on "The Fragrance of the Gospel," taking for his text: "All thy garments smell of myrrh, and aloes, aid cassia, out of the ivory palanes."-Psalms 45:8. He said: Among the grand adornments of the city of Paris is the Church of Notre Dame, with its great towers, and elabo rated rose-windows, and sculpturing of the last judgment, with the trumpeting angelsand rising dead; its battlement of quarterfoil; its sacristy, with ribbed ceiling and statues of saints. But there was nothing in all that building which more vividly appealed to my plain re publican tastes, than the costly vestments which lay in oaken presses-robes that had been embroidered with gold, and been worn by popes and arch-bishops on great occasions. There was a robe that had been worn by Pius VII, at the crowning of the first Napoleon. There was also a vestment that had been worn at the baptism of Napoleon IL. As our guide opened the oaken presses and brought out these vestments of fabulous cost, and lifted them up, the fragrance of the pungent aromatic in which they had been preserved, filled the place with a sweetness that was almost oppressive. Nothing that had been done in stone more vividly impressed me than these things that had been done in cloth, and embroidery, perfume. But to-day I open the drawer of this-text,-and I look upon the kinglyrobes of-Christ, and as I lift them, fiabinwith eternal jewels, the whole bQuaed fied *ith the aroma" of these garments, which "smell of myrrh, and aloes, cassia, oat of the ivory - In icy text t King steps forth.~ His robed rustle and blase as He advances. His pinp and= power and glory over mastr Jhe s tor. More brilliant is moving amid the Per~ans princes: than Mary Antoinette on the day when Louis XVL. put upon her the necklace of 800 diamonds; than Anne Boleyn the day when Henry VII.. welcomed her to his palace; all beauty and all pomp forgotten, while we stand in the presence of this imperial glory, King of Zion, King of earth, King of Heaven, King forever! His garments not !orn out, not dust-bedraggled; but radi ant, and jewelled, and redolent. It seems as if they must have been pressed a hundred years amid - the flowers of heaven. The wardrobes from which bhave been taken must -.have. been sweet with lussers of camphire, and frankincnn, and all manner of precious wood.. Do you not inhale the odors? Ay, ay. They qmell of myrrh, and aloes, and eaiajoet of the ivory palaces. Yxzoufirenriosity is to know why the robes of Christ are. odorous. with myrrh. pln.It w l ted. The ]gyptians, Bomans and. Jews bought and sold it at ,a gigh price. The first present thawas-ver giveiito Christ was a sprig' of myrih, threwn 'on Eis inf an tile bed in Bethlehem, and the last gift .tbaha brit:verhad was myrrhXpressed into the cap of His -ernaitixion. - The natives would take a stone and bruise the - tree, and then'it would exude a gum -that would saturate all the groung be - larger than a chestnut, would whelm a whole room with odors. It was put in <Trawers;~in rooms, an ' wasanywhate near 'w eiin-mr Met' re htiat Chriarla prn niell. 'i myrrh, I 'me~ 0cneg 4lie - eq'isite sweetness of Jesus. [ know that to many He is only like any historical person; -anottier ,J~bh H'ward; another philan thropi Oberlin;. another Confucius; a grand subject for a. painting; a heroic theme for apoem; a beautiful form for a statue: ba to tnose who- have heard His voice, an& fefdis-prd'on, and re ceived.His benediction, He is music, and light, and warmtb and thrill, and eter mal fragrance. Sweet as a friend sticking to you when all else betray. Lifting you np while others try to push you down. Not so much like mornmg-glories, that bloom only when thre sun is coming up, nor trke'"forro'clocks"that bloom only when the sun is going down, batt like myrrh, perpetually aromatic-the same .morixing, -noo, dd. iiht-yesterday, to-day, forever, ~It seems a s it we can mot wear Him out. We put on Him all our burdens, and afflict him with all our griefs, and set Him foremost in all our battles, grndget.Be is ready to- lift, and so sympa~im and to heip.. 'We~have so impoed upon Him that one would think it eternal affront if He would quit our soul; and yet to-day He-addresses us with~the same tenderness, dawns- upon us with the same smile, pities us with the samegcompassion. hie as no name like his for us. It is more impe~a than Caessar's, more musi cal than ~thoven's, more conquering than Charlemagne's, more eloquent than -Cicero's. Itthrobs with alllife. It weeps with pathos. It groans with all pain. It -stoops with all condescension. It breathes with all perfume. Whio like Jesus to set a broken bone, to pity a bomneles orphan, to tiurwe a sick man, to take a' prodfg. back without any scolding, to illumine a cemetery all ploughed with graves, to make a queen *unto God out of a lost woman of the street, to catch the sorrow in a lachry matory that shall never be broken? Who has such aneeto see our zieed, such a lip to kiss awayour sorrow, such a hand to snatch us out of the fne, anch a foot to trample our enemies, such a heart to embrace all our necessities? - therobesofJesasaegodorous wth aloes. Thie sadome 'difference of opinion -about wheE-these -aloes grow, what is the color of $he.flower, what is tha par .$ieouaapposiance of the herb. Suffice agm a n na:Ne~nawtm les divinity who have been studying theo logy half a century, and they have give me no satisfactory answer, I have turned over all the books in my library but got, no solution to the question, and to-day I come and ask you for an explanation. By what logic was Christ induced to ex change the ivory palaces of Heaven for the crucifixion agonies of earth? I shall take the first thousand million years in heaven to study out that problem. Meanwhile and now, taking it as the tenderest and mightiest of all facts that Christ did come, that He came with spikes in his feet, came with thorns in His brow, came with spears in His heart, to save you and me. "God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believed in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life." 0 Christ, whelm this audience with Thy compassion. Mow them down like summer grain with the harvesting sickle of Thy grace. Ride through to-day the conqueror, Thy garments smelling "of myrr, and aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces." 0 sinner, fling everything else away and take Christ! Take Him now, not to-morrow. During the night following this very day there may be an excite ment in your dwelling, and a tremulous pouring out of drops from an unsteady and and affrighted hand, and before to morrow morning your chance may be gone. A DEAD LOCK OF FIFTY YEARS AGO. How Democrat' and Whigs Quarrelled in Organizing the House and How the Knot was Cut. (From the Baltimore American.) It was just fifty years ago when the Fifty-first Congress met. The Twen ty-sixth Congress assembled for organ ization on December 2, 1839. Hugh A. Garland was clerk. The question arose over the contest for the seat of five Rep resentatives-elect, who having the com mission of the Governor, had been placed upon the roll by the clerk. These men were Whigs, while their opponents, who contested the seats, were Democrats. These representatives were from New Jersey. The importance of the question arose from the fact that the House was near a tie politically, and a Whig major ity would be secured by the admission of the members holding the commissions of the governor. The admission of the contestants, on the other hand, would give the Democrats a preponderance. The rule of the House then was what it is now being that the statute of 186'7. incorporated in the Revised Statutes, section 31, has converted a usage into a law. The reading of the roll ha3 proceeded until the State of New Jersey was reached, when the clerk stopped and an nounced that he had received a different return as to the five members sent to him by the Secretary of State of New Jersey, as he had certifiedto the election of five Democratic members not on the roll. The clerk, on being requested to proceed with the reading of the names on the roll, refused. The scene of disorder wlich ensued continued for three days, and on the fourth day the case was started to the House by John Quincy Adams, who ap pealed to the majority of the House to act. Mr. Rhett in consequence made the motion which was submitted by Mr. Adams that the House should appoint a temporary chairman and organize with out the clerk. Another long contest en sued when this was done, at the end of which the House passed a resultation or dering that the names of those be read whose rights to seats were not contested. In this way the House was organized, and R. M. T. Hunter elected s3peaker. The five Democrats were then admitted to membership, to the exclusion of the five Whigs who bore certiffcates. This action called for the severest cen sure from the public, which criticised harshly the unconstitutionality of the whole proceeding. There is, therefore, as precedent for the action said to be con. terglated by some Republicans. But there is little probability of a repetition of these scenes. The Republicans have fairly and honestly elected a majority of the represenatives, and that majority will organize the Fifty-first Congress. Senator Quay, chairman of the Repub lican National Committee, said to day that the Republicans would have a ma jority of nine in the next House. "I do not believe," he added, "that the Dem ocratic Governors of States will give cer tificates of election to Democrats simply because they agree in political faith. I shall refase to believe that any such thing will be done until I see it."I Jail-Breaking at Newberry. NEwIl-:nr.; Dec. 5.-This evening at 0 o'clock the alarm of fire was sounded, and the department responded promptly. No ire was to be found. Trhe sound of the alarm came from the neighborhood of the jail, and it was discovered that instead or a fire there wa's an effort of some of the prisoners to escape. Old man Martin, the negro who attends to feeding the prisoners, went up as usual, and on opening the cell three of the prisoners made sn assault on him, knocking him down, and attempted to throw him from the thiird-story window, but he caught hold of the lightning rod and held to it. Two of the prisoners leaped from this window to the ground, a distance of fifty feet. These were Silas Kennedy, awaiting trial on the charge of forgery, and Doinglas Coleman, under sen tence of death, having been convicted at the last term of court of the mutrder of isaac Boozer. Kennedy made his escape, bt Coleman was found lying on the ground b-idly hurt. He was carried back in the jail. How badly he was hurt could not be learned tonight. The Sheriff thinks the whole affair was planned by Kennedy. -Special in News and Courier. The Negro SatIsfied. The New York Work' has had represen tative negroes in all the douthern States interviewed' concerning the political con dition of the negroes in the South. From only three points are there complaints that negroes are interfered with in the exercise of their rights as electors--Baltimore, Rich mond, and Greenville, S. C. In every other section of the South the negroes say that they are not restricted in their rights as citizens. They are satistied with the ex isting order of things. They ask no inter fereice upon the part of the incoming ad ministration. They are, as a rule, content with what has been accorded them, and their testimony is in the main highly com plimentary to the white people of the South. A guilty weight upon the heart takes the sn out of the sky. mean bitterness the world over, and when Christ comes with garments bear ing that particular odor, they suggest to me the bitterness of a Saviour'ssufferings. Where were there ever such nights as Jesuslived through -nights on the moun tains, nights on the sea, nights in the deart? Nvho had such a hard reception as Jesus had? A hostelry the first, an un just trial in oyer and terminer another, a foul-mouthed, yelling mob the last. Was there a space on His back, as wide as your two fingers where He was, not whipped? Was there a space on his brow an inch square where He was not cut of the briers? When the spike struck at the instep, did it not go clear through the hollow of the foot? Oh, long, deep, bitter pilgrimage. Aloes! Aloes! Your third curiosity is to know why these garments of Christ are odorous with cassia. This was a plant that grew in India and the adjoining islands. You do not care to hear what kind of a flower it had or what kind of a stalk. - It is enough for me to tell you that it was used medicinally. In that land and in that age where they knew but little about pharmacy, cassia was used to arrest many forms of disease. So when in my text we find Christ coming with garments that smell of cassia, it suggests to me the healing and curative power of the Son of God. "Oh," you say, "now you have a superfluous idea. We are not sick. Why do we want cassia? We are athletic. Our respiration is perfect. Our limbs are lithe, and in these cool days we feel we could bound like the roe." I beg to differ, my brother, from you. None of you can be better in physical health than I am, and yet I must say we are all sick. I have taken the diagnosis of your case, and have examined all the best authorities on the subject, and I have come now to tell you that you are full of wounds and bruises and putrefying sores which have not been bound up, or mollified with ointment. The marasmus of sin is on us-the palsy, the dropsy, the leprosy. The man that is expiring to-night on Fulton street-the allopathic and home opathic doctors having given him up, and his friends are standing around to take his last words-is no more certainly dyingas to his body than you and I are dying unless we have taken the medicine from God's apothecary. All the leaves of this Bible are only only so many pre scriptiohs from the divine physician, written not in Latin like the prescrip tions of eartly physicians, but written in plain English, so that a man, though a foolneednoterrtherein. Thank God that the Saviour's garments smeil of cassia. You know, or'if you do not know I will tell you now, that some of the pala ces of olden time were adorned with ivory., Ahab and Solomon had their homes furnished with it. The tusks of African and Asiatic elephants were twist ed into all manner of shapes, and there were stairs of ivory, and chairs of ivory, and tables of ivory, and floors of ivory. and pillars of ivory, and windows of ivory, and fountains that dropped into basins of ivory, and rooms that had ceilings of ivory. Oh! white and over mastering beauty. Green tree-branches sweeping the white curbs. Tapestry trailing the snowy floors. Brackets of light flashing on the lustrous surround ings. Silvery music rippling to the beach of the arches.. The mere thought of it almost stuns my brains and you say: "Oh, if I could only have walked over such floors! If I could have thrown my lif'in such a chair! If I could have heard the drip and dash of those foun tains!" You shall have something better than.that if you only let Christ intro duce yo. From that place He came and to that place he proposes to trans potyou, for His "garnients smell of myrrh, andl aloes, and cassia, out of the ivory palaces." Oh, what a place Heaven must be! The Tuilleries of the French, the Wind sor Castle of the -English, the Spanish Aharmabra, thie Runsian Kremlin,--dun geont' compared with it. Not so many castles on either side the Rhine as on both sides of thre river of God, the ivory palces. One for the angels, insuffr ably bright, winged,.fire-eyed, tempest charioted-; one for the martyrs, with blood-red robes, from under the altar; one for the king, the steps of His palace tha crowns of the church militant; one for the singers, who lead the one hun dred and forty and four thousand; one for you ransomed from sin; one for me, plucked from the burning. Oh, the ivory palaces! It is not a dead weight that you lift when you carry a Christian out. Jesus makes the bed up soft with velvet prom iees, and He says: "Pat her down here very gently. Put that head, which will never sche again, on this pillow of halelujabs. send up the word that the procession is coming. Ring the bells. Ring~ Open your gates, ye ivory palam~s!" And so your loved ones are there. They are just'as certainly there, having died in Chnrist, as that you are here. There is only one thing more 1hey want. In deed, there is one thing in Heaven they have not got. They want it. What is it? your company. But, oh, my brother, unless you change your tack you cannot reach tnat harbor. You might as well take the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, expeting in that-' direction to . reach Toronto, as to go on in the way some of you are going and yet expect to reach the ivory palaces. Your loved ones are looking out of the windows of heaven now, and yet you seem to turn your back upon them. You do not seem to know the sound of their voices as well as you used to, or to be moved by the sight of their dear fae Call louder, ye departed ones. Call louder from the ivory palaces. When I think of that place, and think of my entering it, I feel awkward; I feel as sometimes when I have been exposed to the weather, and my shoes have been bemired, and my coat is soiled, and my hair is disheveled, and I stop in front of some fine residence where I have an errand. I feel not fit to go in as I am and sit among polished guests. So somne of us feel about heaven. We need to be washed-we need to be rehabilitated before we go into the ivory alas Eternal God, let the surges of Thy pardoning mercy roll over us. I want not only to wash my hands and my feet, but like some skilled- aliver, stand ing on the pier-head, who leaps into thre wave and comes up at a far distantce from where he went in, so I want to go down andso I want to come up. O Jesus, wash me in the waves of Thy salvation! And here I ask you to solve a mystery ae beehan annrmnng efrtit TIE GENERAL ASSEMBLY. WHAT OUR LAWMAKERS DID IN THE SECOND WEEK OF THE SESSION. Both Bianches Seem inclined to Hasten Slowly---Few Measures of General Public Interest Yet Iutroduced---Synopsis of the Proceedings. CoLumIA, S. C., December 8.-It is the subject of general observation that the first two weeks of the Legislative session of 1888 have brought forth fewer results, whether in the passage or the introduction of important measures than almost any previous session. Both houses seem inclined to "jog along," and await rather than suggest measures of greatest public interest. The Senate does its work very rapidly generally clearing its calendar every day, with some little time left for the Con script Fathers to gather editication (at leisure) by attending the sessions of the lower but larger branch. ]n the House there is always a flood of bills. Among these are numbers of measures of no public interest. But they must go through all the stages, from reference to some committee to their survival or their death on one of the two subsequent readings. The calendar soon becomes crowded, and it looks as if there is to be no end to the law-making. In the midst of this apparently small business (though some of it is very important to the communities affected) there are cer tain topics whose consideration very intimately concerns the public welfare. Some of these will now be noticed. THE CLEMSON BEQUEST. It was generally supposed tbat some measure would be early introducedlook ing to the formal acceptance by the State of the bequest made in the will of the late Thomas G. Clemson, for the purpose of founding a separate agricul tural college. Col. B. W. Simpson, the executor of the will, has submitted a copy of that instrument and asked the General Assembly to signify the State's acceptance or rejection of the bequest. The proceedings incident to the pre sentation of the communication were nowise significant of the sentiment of either branch. The will was ordered to be printed for the information of the members-nothing further. A caucus of the friends and active movers in behalf the Clemson College was held at the Grand Central Hotel. Between thirty and forty Senators and Representatives were present. Senator Y. J. Pope, of Ne-7berry, presided. The plans to be pursued in bringing the measure before the Legislature and pushing it there were thoroughly dis cussed and a committee consisting of Senators Edwards, of Darlington, and Ferguson, of Laurens, and Representa tive W. C. Benet, of Abbeville, was ap pointed to prepare a bill to be presented simultaneously in both houses. The bill has been framed to include the ac ceptance of the bequest with a small appropriation to begin work so as to comply with the provisions of the Clem son will- It has already been intro duced-in the Senate by Col. Edwards of Darlington, and in the House by Mr. Bennet of Abbeville. REDUCING SALARiES. The first movement towards a reduc tion of salaries was embodied in a bill' offered in the House by Mr. Fowler, of Union, to reduce the salary of the Cir cuit Judges from $3,500 to $2,500. The bill was unfavorably reported by the judiciary committee. Mr. King, of Ab beville, suggested by way of compromise $3,000 instead of $2,500 as a yearly stipend. Then followed a long debate, consuming well-nigh the whole time of the House for two days. The majority of the members were inclined to the compromise; so, after considerable talk, the bill was passed to its third reading by a vote of 66 to 47. its fate in tbe Senate is doubtful. Mr. Barkley has introduced a bill to fix the per diem and mileage of the members. Col. Barkiey says that his bill fixen the per diem at $1 and the mileage at one cent a mile. The economists of the House, it is said, held an informal emucus Thursday night arnd decided to push on with all their reform measures. It is on the cards to pass a bill reducing the Gov ernor's salary to $3,000, and that of all State officers to $1,800, cutting down clerical assistance funds proportionately. It is also said that they have decided to push the reapportionment bill through at once, and all other economic meas ures; that no appropriation will be made for work on the State House, and that appropriations will be reduced horizon tal. THE SCHOOL TAx. There was also a brief discussion on the bill by Mr. Thompson to increase the constitutional 2 mill educational tax to 3 -mills. This bill had been reported unfavorably by Mr. D)antzler, of Or angeburg, chaininan of the new commit tee on public schools. Mr. Thompson, its author, made an earnest appeal for the bill. It was ad mitted that there was in many counties a very great lack of public schooling. In many cases the system was a farce. The only way that he could think of to improve them was by an increase of the taxes. Mr. D)antzler said the committee agreed that the public school system needed impi-ovement, but they did not think that it could be accomplished by an additional levy of one mill. An extra tax would not be well received by the taxpayers, and besides would not im prove the schools. It would require much more radical legislation to im prove the public school system. The bill was rejected. TowSSHIP BONDS. The recent decision of the Supreme Court declaring void bonds issued by Ninety-Six Township in subscription to the capital stock of the Greenville & Port Royal Railroad has not only ex cited general public interest but has in duced action on the part of the House. That body has passed a resolution re nin itinennininircommittee to b~y should take in the premises. That action, it now seems probable, will take the form of a joint resolution prohibit. ing the further collection of township railroad taxes, and directing the refund ing of such taxes of that character as have already been paid. REAPPORTIONMENT. The same reapportionmebt bill that was up last session has come up in the House again. It was introduced by Mr. Wilson, of Sumter, and is said to be based on the censue of 1880. The ap portionment is as follows: Abbeville . 4 Hampton . .. 2 iken........ 3 Hory........2 Anderson ....... Kershaw......3 Barnwell ... .... .5Lancaster. 2 Beaufort ...... 4 Laurens...... Berkeley ......5 Lexington . 2 Charleston... 8 Marion .......4 Chester ..........3 Marlboro . 3 Chesterfield ......2 Newberry. 3 Clarendon......2 Oconee.......2 Colleton ......5 Spartanburg . 5 Darlington. . 3 Sumter .......5 Edgefiel .o....... . .3 Fairfield ........Williamsburg .3 Georgetown. .....2 York Greenville ..:.... 4 Mr. Wilson made an effort to get the bill referred to the judiciary committee, but failed, the House by a vote of 49 to 47 referring it to the committee on privi leges and elections. He states that the friends of the bill do not purpose press ingitLatthis session, but will let it go over to the next. LEGAXLI7JNG PEMAEXS. Tbe bill introduced by Senator Buist, of Charleston, to protect political pri maries and conventions goes pretty much to the extent of providing, in these contests, the same machinery, safeguards, privileges and penalties that the law now fixes. in regular elections provided by statute. The notice pre liiinary to the election; the swearing of managers and voters; the count of the vote, including the declaration of the result; the form and manner of cast ing the ballots; 1Wie manner of making returns; the rigLt of challenge, with rules in the case of challenged votes; the qualification of voters and election of officers, and the penalties for any infraction of the law touching the pri maries-all these matters are included in the proposed bill, which is modeled after the existing law of New York. OTHER MATTERS. Senator Moody of Marion has intro duced a bill to create the new county of Florence, out of parts of Darlington, Marion, Williamsburg, and Clarendon. There will be a lively fight between the friends and the opponents of this meas tre. Senator Hemphill, of Abbeville, in troduced a joit resolution to amend the Constitution so that no new county shall be formed without first submit ting the question to a vote of the people in each county from which the territory should have to be taken to form the new one. The resolution was unfavorably i reported by the judiciary committee, an was defeated by a heavy vote. Among the maters of interest crop ping out in the title of new bills intro duced is a proposition by Senator Patterson of Chester to have the com mutation tax increased to $4 from $2, and fixing the time required to be worked on the roads at not less than six nor more than twelve days. Representative Smith, of Marion, has a bill in the House, providing for bring ing cotton seed fertilizer under the priv heou ha be tas fertilit zerond the ading of itoeest crop lageout inreae thte Soft renewil fnrom Satr ofyChete o Charetoncoas muintaireaed ablaprrting$th fundS2 adfrecvringo the mreUied Stoae wovred ntate Mlrod adoey thean sesno This bilan acelvedancy its. rcm Rerendatifte Bmith, of Maritors has ablntheeadem, proites, after paing thingcesarn seeertioze condect thev zerund, the maine of itthe 77,000ilo thae ollwngprpcs:Fre.uidn itouedswn anid rapprrting deoudl lrngoeredrmaiero ntheatiloven, pige derment of athmaeito and eginerig, $2n358;cordnew the prtentm ochmisdtrnd hyoard $10,340;toro the ctessary draing, ofcolting Ttal, fThe lroviingero of as77000tin igthe ollowing purposes:eFororebsildin vithe fs isqalifyregairimg and ree qiing o thei nme tof te eraseding, t51482 fuevor ofrarystr,000; fom theip rpingtedartiontooks patedmts secnd ending, 238 o tedprmn Coicemstry adcphysicrss0,d0 for the etmoratsng, M1,r7o. Couan, Theailed providngasod of .Bgamcerain Mionngais the namest of be votrsicon vinte non Cosuntiying whcieh Hon re-C qoodyiwa thec ared ob eleced atr haegistatin bookseased ebtmms eod the enaet eosedt wit thearitn ion j" nctonainin a showthm arondde Thied protest coses wihame follw Maing: "Agndt the Eeutivte Prmittry enorsed Cthe elcion which was.pT.vC. orrdpt wand decared etoae Mearior, Countybdisrcedvedereseters intf lesnate, hallse f the tetben man inot "nomnd uer the euies goveringa enorimrslcoad the election wihwspoe whic admitted was b fraudulent and corrupt."n eie t aeMro Ct iagratioed andrersnted in the leltier hicalsof thpae ltat bhry mat no'ctc noitedune the alcruloes. overn the pritea ciod oetthe efleiono whenic w he wats fraudulenwa and The irsnceuat of onorssmby Johe 1 o'clockr wth the ulvereies.ua Ther wa qita cwe-iid, onfeorsmos wel ithen aie. The oath oof fice was mit mniseterdbyty Chief Justice oi thprsneothe joint assembly.dcac The orned, theSnat etired bits amraad wrttnd eabdperoTeed itho isc rwuar business. Paper bags, in which many articles are sent from the grocery store, should be saved for use when biacking a stove. You can slip the hand into one of these, and handle the brush just as well, and the hand will not be soiled, and when through with them they enn hb dropped into the stove. TIE MISSISSIPP1 COLLEGE. WHAT THE FARMERS' COMMITTEE SAY OF THAT INSTITUTION. Report of the Committee Sent 1,y the Farmers' Assoclatiou of South Carolina to Iupect the Agricultural College Under General Lee. The report of Messrs. Tindall and Norris, the committee appointed by the Farmers' Association, to visit the Agri ealtural College of Mississippi and re port their observatio ns, is as follows: To the Farmers' Association of South Carolina: Your committee appointed to vi: and report upon the Missisappi Agricultural and Mechanical College, have performed that duty to the best of their ability, in the limited time at their command. We have only to regret the inability of the members of the Board of Agriculture, who were invited, to join us iu this investigation and report. The plant conzsibts of One brick Dormitory, capacity 250 students.............. $50,000 Academic buridtng equipped for 300 students with recitation rooms, assembiy hall, etc... 20,000 Laboratory.................. 8,500 President's Residence........ 3,000 Six Professors, $2,000 each... 12,000 Dining Hall, Society Rooms, etc 3,000 Hospital......... ..2,000 Four small residences for olli cers....................... 1,950 Two servant houses.......... 600 $101,050 Equipment of College build ings (original)................ 19,165 The farm was a worn out cotton plantation of 1762 acres, mostly abandoned hills and deserted low lands which cost 18,038 Cost farm buildings (original). 10,835 Equipments (original)........ . 6,882 Total cost............ $35,750 These buildings and equmipments in clude barns for the accommodation of several hundred of stock, room for the storage of hay, grain and ensilage, etc., for creamery, steam engines, mowers and other far.n implements. A portion of the farm is devoted to experimental station work, the remain der to the production of beef, milk but ter, corn and hay, fruits and vegetables. It his been operated more for educa tional purposes than for profit, but has been self-sustaining for the last four years. The statement for the present year t h.ows $1,000 to its credit, with over $1,500 worth of beef cattle on hand. It should be stated here that the trustees require its products to be furnished to the college for less than the market price. There are on hand in addition to the beef cattle about 130 head milk cows and 100 calves. The different breeds serve as object less(s to the boys in the study of stock bret.lng. in addition to ianishing beef and mil to the college and cream to the creamer. The feeding is done by the students in experimenting to test the value of various foods for the production of beef and milk as well as to test the capacities of different breeds, is at once instructive and profitable to them, while it shows forcibly the ad vantage of the college being situated on the farm. There is a president, sixteen prcfessors and assistants and two hundred and eighty students. Many were kept away by the yellow fever quarantine. The college is under military government, andtactics are taught b~y a United States officer. There are live classes, one prep atory and four collegiate. Agriculture is taught from the beginning, and we were much sirprised to find that the boys of the preparatory class understood better what they had gone over in that tudy than others and were more inter ested. About one third of the students in attendanye belong to this class. No oreign language is taught, but special pains are taken to thoroughly teach English and Composition. 'The laboratory is well equipped and affords ample facilities for the study of chemis try. The course in mathematies is as norough and extensive as in colleges generally. All the siiences which in clude agriculture, are tiught specia ly and paitically illustrated in t 2e labora tory and on the farm. - Special attentt:on is given to horticultire, book-keeping and farm management. The hospital is well supplied with tmained nurses and pys cians. The mess ball furnisats ex elnt board, done mainly from t ae farm at about $800 per month. This varies with the cost of the raw material and is charged t- the stadents st act tad cost The robustntss of the students is as much to be attributed to the fine qualsty of tie bread, butter and beef, as to the exercise given them in physical labor. LABOR Is required from all students and is directed to all branches of agricultaral work, such a draining, cu~tivation, milk ing, the care of stock, hoiticuisure, et .. it is claimed to be egaally importtut vs ilustrative of farm operations, to keep the boy s in sympathy with farm life, as to furnish thie means by which they are enabled to materially reduce their ex penses. From the best information at our disposal, we do not think it inter-. feres t all with the course of study. 'The ststistics prove that those students who earned most by tneir labor, also st .nd highest in their classes. T1he location here of the experimerat d st stion with theS18,000 given by Coegress, furnishes, nt only object kss~ns to all of the stu dents, but remiunernt ve, praet'.cle woik to to many of t 2e me st sktiff, and to the seniors who have just comnpkted t ie sciences involved a grea.t deal of work in this line, :s given, taut s of value. We were impressed w.t i t-ie care and inteiii gence d- splayed by the st tdents in this work. The Dire< t >r has oversight ana cottrol of stat.out work, but assigns station work to the heads of various de partments of the college who control its Lktails and the appointments of assist ants in their respective depaitmients. The lines of station work mapped out are such as are demanded for the imme diate benefit of the average farmer, and the .. tion of agricultural problems of great. t present importance-as the feeding of forty-seven iets of cows, turse in each lot, to deterna;ue te best returms for butter; the feeding of forty-seven 1io af ta thraeneanh lot to do termine the best ritarns for beef, and like experiments wit a hogs; dairy work to t-st the best methods of making butter. Experiments with corn, cotton and horticulture are planned and experi meLts with a view to find some species of grasses for winter pasture. 'The students perform most of the work necessary except plowing, and are assisted thereby to reduce their expense. while they become as much interested in the experiments and results as the director himself. The analysis of fer tilizers for the State is done also in the college laboratory and by the professor of Chemistry and his assistants. The students do not perform the actual work in this line, but they may observe and be instructed in the methods and prin ciples. Any farmer may send here a sample of fertilizer and have it analized without cost. The fertilizer companies pay a laboratory fee. ATTENDANCE AND ExPENsE. The average attendance during the eight years of its existence is 315, whicn is one-third larger than the attendance at any other male college in the State. Notwithstarding, hundreds of boys were turned away for lack of accommodation. Over 1,600 boys have attended since its inauguration. Of these 80 per cent. are sons of farmers, two thirds of whom are sons of farmers of small means, many of whom could not have attended, bat for the opportunities furnished of reducing their expenses by labor at the college, for which they are paid8 cents maimum an hour. The actual expenses of a student at tending this college is about $125. The earnings of the students on an average reduces this amount to $100; wlbilst maty reduce it to about $65 on Less. Tie large number of students ttending th . college has in no way lessened that o the other colleges.' On the contary. the University aind eoinioa college at Clinton havebothhadalrger sinc.e attendance its existence, hs high schools all through theStatearen iargely attended, which woid 'go to ii-' dicate that its influence has been to awaken the educational interest though out the State, and that it has actually been the cause of the partial -e of hundreds of boys who woldotiave otherwise received any at all. The report says the committee, by in vitation, selected and submittedeabjecta for essays to the first class and wa as tonished by the excellence of many of tie essays, especially when. it was re membered that the smdents had&entered with no requirements but "to'end nd write and cipher through fractions. - The career of many astdents is traced, showing that some of them have beonme professors, while many are saperi4.sn ents of stock farms, creameries etc., at good saleries. A table is given, showing the percente age of graduatas that have adoped, farming as their busines in life. Of stu dents who spent one year at the college the percentage is 58; of two-year stud ents 55; of three-year students 46; of four-year students 56. Of the whole number of students 56.6 per cent. are farming and going to farm. Twelve per cent. of the one-year men, 9 per cent. of the two-year men, 9 per cent of the three-year and 22 per cent. of the four-year men became farmers. Much is said of the college and'lts students in improving the. agriculture and farming of the State which is shown to be wonderfullly strong and valnable and the report closes with a - statement of.the causes of the opposition to the college, which proceeds chiefly from those opposing any' appropriations for education except forcommon schools. Of more than 100 newspapers in the State only 5 oppose the college. An Anarchist Murderer. INDIANAu'oLs, DcC. 3.-Perhaps the most desperate .and coldest blooded attempt to commit murder that eyer occurred mn this city took place between 1 and 2 o'clock . this morning in the bakery of John ,P. Bruce, at 593 Virginia avenue. AbouL three years ago Bruce took into his employ a poor German named George Hacker and learned him the trade. Hacker gradually devel oped into a full-blown Anarchist and Socia list and when conversing on the subject of anarchy would grow excited and abusive. Bruce is an ardent Republican and every time he would mention the election of General Harrison and exhibit any gratifi cation over the result Hacker would be come violently enraged. He was tolerated about the bakery, his ill temper being re garded with leniency. *This morning when Bruce entered the bakery to mix the tieur for his bresa, Hacker, who had concealed himself In the room, sprang on him with a hatchet and a long knife. He struck Bruce about the eye ~ with the sharp edge of the hatchet and on the head with the blanit side; and then he crw ~ded his victim against the wall and deliberately plunged the dagger nine times into Bruce's neck and face. The victum tinally cried out for his wife and the brave little woman rushed into the dimly-lighted room and grabbed the bloody Anarchist about the neck, dragging him away from her husband just as he was lifting the hatchet to brain him. A terrible struggl~e took place. He was wild with murderous hate, and, holding his bloody knife in hand. he rushed about the room, endeavoring to again get at the dying Bruce. He finally did get by the shielding wife and reached Bruce, when the latter, who is of giant frame, struggled to his feet in a dying et fort and grabbed him, striking Hacker 4 blow on the head which made a coward of him, as he fled, dodging the police outside, and. is still at large. Bruce is still at the h)sptal with slim hopes of living through the night. The fiendishness of the attacK cule1d witb the base ingratitude of the Anarchist, creates intense feeling among B~ruc's friends. An Incendliary Fire. Tec barn and stable of Hon. C. T. Con :or wams burned to the gro'und on Monday mirning last. His fine haorse and tvo capm i young mules were burned with ih: building. He also lost by the fire ab.,at 3,00 bundles of fodder, 700 bushels of corn one bale of seed cotton, 300 bushels of cot ton seed and a new buggy and a set of new harness. is losses aggtregate about $2, ou0. He had no insurance except about $250, on the building. The tire was dis covered about 6 o'clock. It seemed to have originated in the fodder as the Ilames were contined to the second story of the build ing when the fire was first observed. The origin of the lire canuot be accounted for except that it was the work of an incen diary.--Lncaster Ledger. An "accessory efter the fact," is nothing mrec or less than a commnon every-day nwsapner reprter.