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VOL, III. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1888. NO. 30. OUR LIVING DEAD. SERMON OF THE GREAT BROOKLYN FREACHER ON SUNDAY. Text: "And When He saw the Wagons which Joseph had -nt to Carry if im the Spirit of Jacob their Father Re vived. And Israel Said, It is Enough Joseph~my Son is yet Alive." The Be,. T. De Witt Talmage, D. D., preached Sunday on "Our Departed Still Living." His text was Genesis 45, 27and 28: "And whenhe saw the wagons which Joseph had sent to carry him, the spirit of Jacob their father revived. And Israel said, it is enough; Joseph my son is alive." Dr. Talmage said: The Egyptian capital was the focus of the world's wealth. In ships and barges, there had been brought to it from India frankincense, and cinnamon, and ivory and diamonds; from the north, marble and ron; from Syria, purple and silk; from Greece, some of the finest horses of the worid and some of the most bril liant chariots; and from all the earth that which could best please the eye, and,charm th.e ear, gratify the taste. There were temples aflame with red sand-stone, entered by gate-ways that were guarded by pillars bewildering with hieroglyphics, and wound with brazen serpents, and adorned with winged creatures their eyes, and beaks, and pin ions glittering with precious stones. There were marble columns blooming into white flower-buds; there were stone pillars at the top bursting into the shape of the lotus when in full bloom. Along the avenues, lined with sphinx, and fane, and obelisk, there- were princes who came in gorgeously upholstered palan quin, carried by servants in scarlet, or elsewhere drawn by vehicles, the snow white horses, golden-bitted, and six abreast, dashing at full run. There were fountains from stone-wreathed vases climbing the ladders of the light. You would hear a bolt shove, and a door of brass would open like a flash of the sun. The surrounding gardens were saturated with with odors that mounted the terrace, and dripped from the arbors and burned their incense in the Egyptian noon. On floors of mosaic the glories of Pharoah were spelled out in letters of porphyry, and beryl, and flame. There were orna ments twisted from the wood of the tamariak, embossed with silver breaking into foam. There were footstools made out of a single precious stone. There were b '% A.i;. a .... ..s '.a -.w jionin bronze. There were chairsspotted with the sleet hide of leopards. There were sofas footed with the claws of wild beasts; and armed with the beaks of birds. As you stand on the level beach of the sea on a summer-day, and look either way, and there are miles of break ers, white with the ocean foam, dashing shoreward; so it seems as if the sea of the world's pomp and wealth in the Fgyptian capital for miles and miles fung -itselfup ;into white breakers of marble temple, mausoleam, and oblisk. This was the place where Joseph, the shepherd boy, wascliedto stand next to Pharoah in honor. What a contrast be tween this scene and his humble starting, and the pit into which his brothers thew him Yethe was not forgetfulof his early home; he was not ashamed of where he came from. The Bishop of Menrz, de nddAa from a wheelwright, covered his house with spokes, and hammers, and wheels; and the King of Sicily, in honor of his father, who was a pote, refused to drink out olanything but an earthen vessel. So Joseph was not ashamed of his early surroundings, or of his old-time father, or of his brothers. When they came up from the farine-tricoleand zo. get corn from the king's orn crib, Joseph, instead of chiding ihem for the way they had mal treated and abused him, sent them back with wagons, which Pharoah furnished, laden with . corn: and old Jacob, the father, in the very same wagons, was brought back, that Joseph, the son, might see him, and give him a comfort able home all the ress of his'days. Well, I hear the wagons, the king's wagons, rumbling down in front of tne palace. On the outside of the palace, to see the wagons go off, stands Puaroah in royal robes; and beside him prime minister Joseph, with a chain of gold around his neck, and on his hand a ring given by Pharoah to him, so that any timsahe wanted to sap the royal seal upon a documienthe could do so. Wagon after wagon rolls on down from the palaceladen 'with corn, and meat, and changes of raiment, and every thing that could help a famine struck peop~le. One day I seesaged Jacob seated ini front of his house. He is possibly thinking -of his absent boys (sons, however old they got, are never to a father any more than boys); and whilehe is seated there, he sees dlust arisig, and he hears wagons rumbling, and he wonders what is comiuing now, for the whole land haci been smittea with the famine. and was in silence. But after a while the wagons have come near enough, and he sees his sons on the wagons, and before they came quite up, they shout: "Joseph is yet alive!" 'The old man faints dead away. I do not wonder at it. Tile boye tell'thestory how that the boy, the long absant Joseph, has got to be the first man in the Egyptian palace. While they unload the wagons, the wan and wasted creatures in the neighborhood come up and ask for a handful of corn, and they are satisfied. My friende, we are in awodld by sin famine-struck; but the King is in con stant commumeation with us, his wagons coming and going perpetually; and in the rest of my discourse I will show you what the wagons bring and what they take back. In the first place, like those that came from the Egyptian palace, the King's wagons now bring us corn and meat: and many changes of raiment. We are aptto think of the fields and the orchards as feeding us; but who makes the flax grow for the linen, and the wheat for the bread, and the wool on the sheep's haek Oh, I wish we could see through every grain Aeld, by every sheep-fob, under trees of every orchard, the King's wagons. They drive up three times a day-morning, noon, and night. They fruits from the topic, and bread from the temperate zone. The King looks out, and he says: "There are twelve hundred millions of people to be fed and clothed. So many pounds of meat, so many barrels of flour, so many yards of cloth and linen and flannel, so many hats, so many socks, so many shoes," enough for all,save that we whoare greedy to get more shoes than belong to us, and others go barfeooted. None but a king's corn-crib could appease the world's famine. None but a king could tell how many wagons to send, and how heavily to load them, and when they are to start. They are coming over the frozen ground to-day. Do you not hear their rumbling? They will stop at noon at your table. Oh, if for a little while they should cease, hunger would come into the nations, as to Utica when Hamilcar be side it, and as in Jerusalem when Vespa sian surrounded it; and the nations would be hollow-eyed, and fall upon each other in universal cannibalism; and skeleton would drop upon skeleton; and there would be no one to bury the dead; and the earth would be a field of bleached skeletons: and the birds of prey would fall dead, flock after flock, without any carcasses to devour; and the earth in silence would wheel around, one great black hearse! All life stopped because the King's wagons are stopped. Oh, thank God for bread-for bread! I go to hunt up Jesus. I go to the village of Bethany, and say: "Where does Mary live?,' They say: "Ycndor Mary lives." I go in. I see where she sat in the siting-room. I go out where Martha worked in the kitchen but I find no Jesus. I go into Pilate's court-room, and I find the judges and the police, and the prisoner's box, but no Jesus. I go into the Arimathean cemetery; but the door is gone, and the shroud is gone, and Jesus is gone. By faith I look up to the King's palace, and behold I have found him! Joseph-Jesus is still alive. Glorious religion, a religion made not out of. death's heads, and cross bones, and undertaker's screw-driver, but one bounding with life, and sympathy, and gladness. Joseph is yet alive! "I know that my Redeemer lives What comfort tais sweet sentence gives! He lives, He lives, who once was dead, He lives, my ever-living Head! "Be lives to grant my daily breath, He lives, and I shalt conquer death, He lives my mansion to prepare, He lives to bring me safe-y there. "He lives, all glory to His na'me; He lives, my Jesus still the same. Oh, the sweet joy this sentence gives I know that my Redeemer lives!" The King's wagons will after awhile unload, and they will turn around, and they will go back to the palace, and I really think that you and 1 will go with them. The King will not leave us in the famine-struck world. The King has ordered that we be lifted into the wagons, and tnat we go over into Goshlen where there shall be pasturage for our largest flock of joy, and then we will drive up to the palace, where are glories awaiting us which will melt all the snow of Egyptian marble into forgetfulness. I think that the King's wagons will take us up to see our lost iriends. Jacob's chief anticipation was not of seeing the Nile, nor of seeing the long colonnades of architectural beauty, nor of seeing the throne-room. There was a focus to all his journeyings, to all his anticipations; and that was Joseph. Well, my friends, I do not think Heaven would be worth a great deal if our brother Jesus was not there. If there were two Heavens, the one with all the pomp and paraphernalia of an eternal monarchy, but no Christ, and the other were a plain Heaven, humbly thatched, " nth a few daisiesin the yard, and Christ -re there, I would bay: "Let the King's wagons take me up to the old farm house." The King's wagon took Jacob up to see his lost boy, and so I really think that the King's wagons will take us up to see our lost kinared. How long is it since Joseph went out of yourhousenold? How many years is it now last Christmar, or the fourteenth of next month? It was adark night when he died, and a stormy day it was at the burial; and the clouds wept with you, and the winds sighed fcr the dead. The bell at Green wood's gate rang only a few moments, but your heart has been tolling, tollimg, ever since. You have been under a de lusion, like Jacob of old. You have thought that Jacob was dead. You put his name first in the birth-record of the family Bible, and then you put it in the death-record of the family Bible, and you have been deceived. Joseph .is yet alive. 'He is more alive than you are. Of all the eixteen thousand millions o: children that statisticians say have gone into the future world, there is not one of them dead, and the King's wagons will take you up to see them. You often think how glad you will be to see them. Have you never thought, my brother, my sister, how glad they will be tosee youl Jacob was no more glad to see Joseph than Joseph was to see Jacob. Every time the door in Heaven opens, they look to see if it is you coming in. Joseph, once standing in the palace, burst out crying when he thought of 'Jacob-afar off. And the Heaven of your little ones will not be fairly begun until you get there. All the kindness shown them by immortals will not make them forget you. There they are, the radiant throngs that went out from your homes! Does not the subject of to-day take1 the gloom out of the thoughts that would otherwise be struck through with midnight? We used to think that when we died we would have to go afoot, sagging down in the mire, and the hounds of terror might get after us, and if we got through into Heaven at all, we would come in torn, and wounded, and bleeding. I remember when my teeth chattered and my knees knocked together when I heard anybody talk about death; but I have come to think that the grave will be the softest bed I ever slept in, and the bottom of my feet will not be wet with the passage of the Jordan. "Them that sleep in Jesus will God bring with Him." I was reading of Robert Southey, who said he wished he could die far away frem his friends-like a dog, crawling into a corner and dying unobserved. Those were his words. Be it ours to die on a couch surrounded by loved ones, so that they, with us, may hear the glad, sweet, jubilant announcement: "The King's wagons are coming." Hark! I hear them now. Are they coming for you or for me? A thrifty animal is the snake: it can al ways make both ends meet. TRADE IN DOG-SKINS. An Important Item in the Export Business of China. Mr. Edgar, the Commissioner of Customs at Newchwang, in Mantchuria, in the last Chinese Customs Yellow book, referring to the trade from that port in robes and mats made of the skins of dogs and goats, says it is gen erally supposed that dogs are picked up promiscuously wherever they may be found straying, destroyed, and their skins sold to dealers. This, however, is ni, the case, for, although the busi ness may have had its origin in this way, it is now as systematically carried on as sheep-farming. There are thou sands of small dog and goat-farms dotted over Mantchuria and the eastern borde's of Mongolia, where from a score to . some hundreds of dogs rare annually reared on each farm, and where they constitute a regular source of wealth. A bride, for in stance, will receive as dowry a num ber of dogs proportionate to the means of her father. It is probable, says Mr. Edgar, that in no other part of the world are there to be found such splendid dogskins for size, length of hair, and quality, the extreme cold of these latitudes, where the thermome ter registers 30 degrees Fahrenheit be low zero, developing a magnificent coat. It is difficult to understand how the dog-farmer can afford with profit to rear the animals when the price of the robe is taken into consideration. For one full-sized robe, say 80 inches by 86 inches, at least eight animals are required. Putting the price real ized at $3.60 for a robe, this would only allow about 45 cents per skin, including the selection, for the skins must match in color and length of hair, and cost of sewing. The animals are generally strangled in mid-winter, but not before they are eight months old, and then the skins taken in a frozen condition principally to Mukden and Chinchow, where they are cured, assorted, and made into robes, mats, etc. Last year the robes are said to have been decid edly inferior in quality. The reason given is that orders went forward too late, and the farmers, waiting till they had news of some demand, kept the animals alive until their winter coats began to fall off. The value of the trade from Newchang last year was about ?40,000. against nearly ?60,000 the previous year. The decline was due to depreciation in value and a de creased demand from the United States.-London Times. STEAM VERSUS MUSCLE. The Immense Gains in Force of the Men of the Present Time. What science and invention is doing for the human race was tersely and plainly presented. Note the following illustration: Compare a gaiiey, a vessel propeled by oars, with the modern Atlantic liner, and first let us assume that prime movers are non-existent and that the vessel is to be propeled galley fashion. Take her length as some 600 feet, and assume that place be found for as many as 400 oars on each side, each oar work ed by three men, or 2,400 men; and al low that six men under these condi tions could develop work equal to one horse power; we should have 400 horse power. Double the number of, men and we should have 800-horse power, with 4,800 men at work, and at least the same number in reserve, if -the journey is to be carried on continuously. Con trast the puny result thus obtained with the 19,500 horse-power given forth by a large prime mover of the present day, such a power requiring, on the above mode of calculation, 117, 000 men at work and 117,000 men in re serve; and these to be carried in a ves sel less than 600 feet in length. Even if it were possible to carry this num ber of men in such a vessel, by no con ceivable means could their power be utilized so as to impart to it a speed of twenty knots an hour, vreighing as it would some 10,500 tons gross. Prime motors can do what human muscle can never accomplish. Take a railway locomotive-500 horse-power developed in a wagon which does not ocnpy fifty square yards of space, and that fies at the rate of sixty miles an hour with its heavy train! How weak and puny human muscle toward at taining such results!-Sir PFredBram bull to the British Association. A Spider That Was a Spider. A correspondent of the Calcutta E ti glishaman sends a description of an enormous spider which was killed in a house. The creature was found cling lg to a door curtain, and when alarmed emitted a grating sound, but whether with its mandibles or with its feet could not be ascertained. It showed no disposition to run away, or even to move from the spot where it was till it was thrown down, when it was killed with a blow of a stick. It is quite two inches in length and half an inch in breadth, and the two segments of the body are equal in size. It is dis tinctly short legged for a spider, but the eight legs are very strong and heavy. The body, too, is covered with fine short hair, and is all of a dark brown color. The two fangs are like a sparrow's claws, and exceedingly sharp, and if stretched out straight would, with the fleshy part, measure nearly half an inch each. I find it difficult to convey an adequate impres sion of the terrible i.nd formidable ap pearance of the monster. The com mon large running spider, to be found in every house in Calcutta, unhesi tatingly tackles and destroys the largest cockroach. Judged by this standard this spider ought to make its prey of a ==a11brdoremonam, NOTES OF THE SESSION. A GLANCE INTO SOUTH CAROLINA'S LEGISLATIVE BALLS. Some Important and Many Unimportant Measures Considered-A Great Deal of Work with Rather Little Speech Mak ing. COLUMBIA, S. C., December 15.-The third week of the Session of 1888 has been a busy one. The law-makers have settled down to hard work, and they have put in a good deal of it. Below is given a synopsis of the 'proceedings. THE CRIMINAL COST BILL. Half of a day's session of the Senate was consumed in debating and voting on the bill to provide for the payment by the State of the expenses of all crimi nal prosecutions. Several amendments designed to render it fairer and more affected were adopted. Then the real fight began. Senator Murray offered an amendment to the bill, providing that from and after the passage of the Act the salaries of all trial justices in the county of Charleston be, for such as are in incorporated cities and towns, $200 per annum, and for those outside of such towns $100 per per annum, in lieu of all fees. Senator Smith's motion to indefinitely postpone the amendment was adopted by a vote of 20 to 10. Senator Wilson, of York made a bold attack by moving to indefinitely post pone the bill itself. He showed by the recor ds that some of the smaller and poorer counties incurred greater Court expenses than some of the larger ones. The bill was therefore not a just one. It would also necessitate a delay of about a year in the payment of the money the officials depended on for a living. It would unsettle legislation and require twenty Acts to be placed on the statute tcoks to carry it into effect. Senator Smith, of Horry, the author of the bill said that no one had denied that the proposition that the expenses of State prosecutions constituted properly a debt against the State. Equity and justice were with the bill. Senator Dozier of Georgoto wn thought the principle of the bill good, although he did not see his way to approve all of its details. It was now time to harmonze the laws so that we should have a law for the State of South Carolina instead of separate laws for thirty-four govern ments. Why call on his poor and small coanty for three times as much to en force the S.ate criminal laws as we exact ed from other larger counties with larger means? If sabst quent legislation was re quired to make tue law effective, let us manfully engage in it. After further discussion Senator Pat terson, of Chester, i.oved to table Senator Wilson's motion. There was a tie-vote 15 to 15. President Mauldin voted "no," so that tae motion was lost. After further debate by Senators Mur ry and Smith Senator Wilson's motion was lost-14 to 16. Then the Senator fcom York moved reconmit the bill. Sernauor Smith, of Horry, moved to table. Lou-14 to 16. A vote was then taken'on motion to recommit, and it prevaled-lu to 14. A COUNTY ROAD BILL. The bill to prov.de a more efficient system of working the pubhe roads in Laurens County has passed the House, with amendments making it app!y also to Lexington, Edgefield, N ew berry, and Marlboro counties, and Sen~ator Murray gave notice of an amendment on the third reading including Andersoii Coanty in its provision. ii :s a bill modelled on tat passed a couple of 3 eatrs ago with reference to Anderson (.ou..ty, aibd wich, although exciting muca oppo sition at first, bas resula~e in a gr.:as un provement of the roadis of t.'at coiunty. .Tne pending bill is an improvement un the Andlerson one, inismuch aus it in creases the commutation tax iromn $5 to $6, and contains provisions compeluing te county commissioners to enforce it. It will not be very long before all tha' counties adopt this stringent latw iu place of the present taulty and ineflicient one. lIMPORTANT RiEPOI;Ts. Among the reports were the following: Favorable on Senator W'~oodward's bll to restore the power of the railroad cam aussioners to lix the rat.:s of ieiht and traffic in the State. Unfavorable on the bill to repeal the agricultural lien law. Favorable on Senator Murray's bill to restrict the "gobbling" or coniolidation of railroads without Legisleative author COTTON sEED MEAL. There are several bills on the Calendar looking to the classilication of cotton secd meal with other fertilizers that are liable to analysis, and to the payment of the privilege tax, one of winen camne up to-day. 'The farmers seemed divided on the subject, and there was a brief but spirited acussion. It turned out, nowever, that the bill in question was directed at the wrong section of the Act, in that it provided for a tax and not for an analysis, and the debate was finally adjourned. MARRIED wOMEN's CONTRACTS. The House has passed to its second reading a bill to revise Section 2,037 of the kRevised statutes relating to the power of married women to mako contracts. here was a short di::cusion, during which Mr. Mower, of Newberry, the autor of bill, Mr. Brawley and others took part. It was explained that the bill is intended to settle the law on that much vexed questicon by repealing the Act of 1887. Th~e amended bill is as follows: Ieton 1. .a married woman shall have the right to purchase any species of property in her own name, and to take proper legal conveyances therefor, and to contract and be contracted within the same manner as ii shea were unmar ried. Provided, that the husband shall not be liable for the debts of the wile contracted prior to or after their mar riage, except for her necessary suppor,. Section 2. All the earnings and inc >me of a married woman snall be her separate estate, and shall bs governed by tue same provisions of law as apply to her other separate estate. Section 3 repeals the Act of 1887, and all other Acts and parts of Acts, &c. TEE CLEMSON BEQUEST. T oedulea..f ,a real a1nd personal property of the late J. C. Clemson has been printed. According to the sworn return of the appraisers, the aggregate value of the estate is $106,179 61, of which $25,000 is in real estate and the balance personal property. Fort Hill real estate, 814 acres.................... $15,000 00 Personal property at Fort Hill not to be sold............. 29i 25 Personal property to be sold . 663 95 Real estate in Maryland (Bladensburg)........... .10,000 00 Silver plate and table silver... 1,800 00 39 oil paintings; no means of valuing. 9 family porraits; no means of valuing. Books aed maps in house and library; no means of valuing. Stocks and bonds, $49,370. .. 52,328 00 Bonds secured by mortgage of real estate................. 24,861 53 Notes foung among Mr. Clem son's papers............... 1,228 88 Grand total ........... $106,171 61 MONEY FOR THE CITADEL. The Senate struck the bill appropria ting the funds from the United States Government for damages to the citadel to repairs and improvement of the cita del academy in its progress through the calendar. A shower of amendments fol lowed. The committee had recommend ed that $15,000 of the $77,250 received be covered into the State Treasury and that amendment was adopted. On ac count of numerous changEs in the meas ure Senator Donaldson sought to have it made a special order for Friday and failing in that, moved to recommit the bill, which motion was lost. Several other motions to postpone consideration were lost and Senator Smythe, wfio had charge of the measure, charged that the intent was to endanger the bill by delay, which charge was denied by Senator Donaldson and those who voted with hum, Senator Edwards announceing in cidentally that he was in favor of the bill as he was in favor of any measure to promote the true interests of eduction in the Sate. The bill finally passed a sec ond read as amended, notice being given of amendment on third reading as amended, notice being given of amend ment, on third reading. STATE PENSIONS. Mr. Williams, of Hampton, has introduced his pension bill, of which mention has been made in this correspon dence heretofore. The pension is fixed at $30 per annum, payable in two equal, installments, viz: on January 1 and July 1. The persons entided to pensions are solders and sailors now citizens of the State who were in the service of the State, or the Confederate States, in the late war. L order to obtain the pension the soldier or sailor must show that he was a bona fide soldier or sailor and that he lost, while in such service, a leg or an arm or received other wound causing a permanent disability and and incapaci tating him from earning a livelihood; that neither himself nor his wife are in receipt of any income exceeding $250 per annum. Applications for pensions must be made in writing, sworn to and endorsed by two or more credible wit nesees. Widows-are entitled to the pen sions while they remain unmarried. All applications are to be submitted in each county to a board composed of two responsible citizens and a physician, the board to be appointed by the State board of pensions. The conuty boards are to report to the State board. The rest of the Act is devoted to throwing safe guards around the granting of pensions. Discounting or shaving certificates is made a misdemeanor and an attempt to secure: a fraudulent certificate is also made punishable. Fifty thoumand dollars iP appropriated for the payment of pen sons R~FoBM IN PRTMAXY EOTIONs. The jaateiary comamittee introduced a bill of their own, ia hieu of -the others, whieh had been submitted to them pro viding for reforms in primary elections. The following is a summary cf its pro vneons: Section 1. All primary elections shall be presided over and conducted by the rults of the party having them, and by managers r~ho shall take oath to couduct them fairly, impartially and honestly.; Should any manager fail to appear at the polls, the~ remaining managers shall select another in his stead, and he snall take the requisite oath before a notary public, or if nc.t, before the other mana gers. who are empowered to adminis ter it. Section 2. Before the polls are opened or any ballots received, the ballot-box is to be opened in public and exhibited publicly, then closed and locked and not opened again until the close of the election. Poll lists are to be kept and each voter is to be sworn as to certain requisites for his voting. The managers must certify the result of the election and transmit such certificates with the full poll lists, all ballots and boxes and papers pertaining thereto to the proper executive committee of the party. Section 3 deals with immaterial de tails. Section 4 provides that any manager guilty of violating any provision of this law or any duties devolving on him be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and unished by tine or imprisonment, or ~oth. Any manager or any voter guilty oi fraud or corruption in regard to the election is subjected to similar punish ment. THE LICENSE QUEsTION. Mr. Bradley, for the judiciary com mittee, reported yesterday a substitute tr General McCrady's anti-license bill. The substitute permits municipal cor porations to impose licenses, but forbids imprisonment for non-payment of such licenses. It is said the friends of the anti-license bill will accept this comn or misc. I- JOINT AsSEMBLY. At 12 m. on the 12th inst., the joint assembly convened, in accordance with law, to declare the vote for United States Senator. Lieutenant Governor Mauldin presided. The journals of the two houses recording the balloting for Senator were read by the respective clerks, after which declaration of the election of Senator M. C. Butler was made b-; the presiding officer, and the joint assembly declared adjourned. The assembly then went into the rs maining elections in the order given beow Senator Pop. in a few words, nom " ated for superintendent of the penitentiary Col. T. J. Lipscomb. The nomination was seconded by Col. J. G. McKissck, and, there being no further nominations, Col. Lipscomb was unani mously.elected, receiving 141 votes. It appears that the anticipated opposition to Col. Lipscomb failed to materialize. Mr. J. R. King received one compli mentary vote. For directors of the penitentiary (3) the following names were placed in nomination: By Senator Meetze, N. W. Brooker, of Lexington; 'y Senator Wuodward, Thos. Anderson, of Fair tield; by Senator Patterson, C. W. Mc Fadden, of Chester; by Mr. Wharton, J. G. Guignard, of Aiken; by Mr. Has kell, Geo. A. Shields, of Richland. Of these Messrs. Brooker, Guignard and McFadden are incumbents. The ballot resulted as follows: Whole number of votes cast 145; necessary to a choice 73. Mr. Anderson received 96, Mr. Brooker 94, Mr. Guignard 91, Mr. Shields 90, and Mr. McFadden 63. The first three named were declared elected. The next election was for Judge of the 5th circuit. Judge Kershaw was na minat . to succeed himself by Mr. W. Trantha -; and the nomination hav ing been seconded by Senator MctIas ter, Jndge Kershaw was re-elected unanimously,-receiving 143 votes. The next election was for five members of the board of agriculture, viz: One from th' State at large, and one each from the let, 33, 5th and 7th judicial circuits. The following were the nomi nations: For the State at Large-By Mr. Mc Kissick, D. P. Duncan, of Union; by Mr. King, *D. K. Norris, of Anderson. First Circuit-By Mr. Pringle, J. Stoney Porcher, of Birkeley; by Mr. Dantaler, *F. C. Bates, of Orangeburg. Third Circuit-By Senator Bird, Jas. McCutcheon, of Williamsburg. Fifth Circuit-By Mr. Thompson. W. A. Ancrum, of Kershaw; by Mr. Bean, *B. R. Tillman, of Edgefield. Seventh Circuit-By Mr. Cleveland, T. J. More, of Spartanburg; by Sena tor Pope, *Rev. J. A. Sligh, of New berry. *'hose marked thus constituted what is known as the farmers' ticket, having been suggested to the Legislature by the State Farmers' Association. The first ballot resulted as follows: State at Large-Duncan 94, Norris 45. First Circuit-Porcher 104, Bates 33. Third Circuit-McCutcheon 139. Fifth Circuit-Anorum 101, Till man 38. Seventh Circuit- Moore 114, Sligh 26. For the position of trustee of the State University Col. Haskell nominated Senator E. B. Murray, of Anderson. Mr. Brawley seconded the nomination, and there being no other nomination Mr. Murray was unanimously elected, receiving 114 votes. This finished the elections and the joint assembly dissolved. Commenting on the new members of the Board of Agriculture, the Columbia correspondent of the News and Courier says: "The election especially of the five members of the agricultural board was a surprise all around. There can be no doubt that the economists were most astonished at the result. Their candi dates, Messrs. D. K. Norris for the State at large, and Messrs. Bates, Tillman and Sligh had been agreed upon before hand. The vote in the House on the Judges' salary bill seemed to indicate that they had a clear majority of 25 to 30 in that body, and the election of the economic candidates was most confidently coc nted upon. Mr. Beam, who nominated B. R. Tilran for the 5th circuit, said that Mr. . n;an was not a candidate for the position, but that if the Legislature elected him he was sure that he wouki obey the call to duty. "The votes for thre economic candi dates ranged from 26 for Sligh to 45 for Norris; Mr. Tillman received 33. A significant feature of the election was the vote of the Sc'..te. Ln that body the Economic tickta po.lled 7 votes, and the Conservative ticke . votes. Four Senators voted scratched tickets. "it appears that there was also an at tempt to run somebody in o pposition to Col. Lipscomb for superintendent of the Penitentiary, but the movement appears to have faulen through. Is should be mentioned that the use of the name of Col. D. F. Bradley, as the economic candidate for that position, was unan thorized by him. CoL Bradley called on the News and Courier Bureau and requested that this statement be made public." THE BoNDs OF THE THEE C's. When the bill to refund the taxpayers moneys paid by them under the levy of one and one-fourth mills in DeKalb township, Kershaw county, for railroad purposes, came up in the Senate a mo tion to recommit it was lost. Senator Wilson, of York having given notice of general amendments on the third read ing, he offered amendments so that the bill shall read: "A bill forthe relief of taxpayers from payment of taxes levied to pay interest on township bonds issued in aid of the Charleston, Cincinati and Chicago Rail road Company by the townships of Catawba, York, Ebenezer and Broad River, in the county of York." This bill, as amended, by Senator Wilson, passed its final reading. It affects $193,000 of the bonds issued and deposit ed in trust. The other $24,000 in bonds issued in York county were the subject of the test case in the Supreme Court, which declared them invalid. The DeKalb Township bill, mentioned above, was improperly ratified, and Senator Alexander, fearing that the Governor would veto it, reintrodiuced it, and it passed a second reading. it was found, however, that the defect could be cured in committee room, so that Sena tor Wilson seized the opportunity to, subsitute his bhil. This Jatter bai re straihs county treasurers from collecting taxes to pay interest on to waship bonde, and orders the refunding of taxes already paid for tnat purpvae. THlE CIEMSON BEQUEST. There was manifestly an increase of in terest in the House proceedings on Thursday, when the hour approached for the special order on the bill to accept the Clemson bequest and establish the separate agricultural college at Fort Hilt. Mr. W. C. Benet of Abbeville led the fores in favor of the measure. The niret issue raised was the motion of Mr. Brawley, of Charleston, to con inue the bil to the next session of thej General Assembly. After a short debate this motion was defeatei by a vote of 62 nays to 50 yeas. The bill was afterwards passed by about the same vote. The following is the text of the bill: Section 1. That the State of South Carolina hereby expressly declares that it accepts the devise and bequest of Thomas G. Clemson, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in his said last will and testament, and that the treasurer of the State be, and he is here by, authorized and empowered to re ceive and securely hold the said property, both real and personal, and to execute all necessary papers and receipts there for, so soon as the said executor shall convey and transfer the said devise aw! bequest to the said State. bection 2. That upon the execution of a deed and transfer of said property by said executor, in accordance with the provisions of said will, an agricultural and mechanical college shall be, and the same is hereby, established in connection with aforesaid devise and bequest, to be etyled the Clemson College of South Carolina, and to be situated at Fort Hil, in Oconee County, on the plantation so devised, in which college shall be taught all branches of study pertaining to prac cal and scientinc agriculture and other in dustries connected therewith, and such other studies as are not inconsistent with the terms of said will. Section 3. That said college shall be under the management and control of a board of thirteen trustees, composed of the seven members nominated by said will and their successors and six mem bers to be elected by the Legislature every fourth year after the first election, said board to elect one of their number to be president and to elect a secretary and fix his salary. They shall organize the college and put it in operation as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act; shall prescribe the course of study; shall declare the professorships, electthe professors, of whom the number shall not exceed ten, and define their duties and fix their salaries, and make all rules and regulations for the govern ment of the college. They may employ such superintendent, head workman, laborers for the farm, shopsandgrounds, as may be necessary; and fix their com pensation. They shall charge each student a tuition fee of $4) per annum; provided, that said fee shall not be charged until the funds arising out. of the said bequest shall be exhausted in accordance with the terms of the said wil; provided, further, that indi gent students shall not be required t. pay said tuition fee. Section 4. That the said board of trustees is hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, nde the name and style of The Clemson Agricultural College of South Carolina.. They shall have a corporate seal, which they may change at their discretion, and in their corporate name may contract for, pur chase and hold property for the pur poses of this Act, and may take any property or money given or conveyed by deed, devise or bequest to said college, and hold the same for its use and benefit;provided, that the conditions of such gift or convexance shall in no case be inconsistent with the purposes of this Act, and shall -nour no obligation on the part of the State. They shall securely invest all funds and keep all property which may come into their possession, and may sell any of the personal property not subject to the trust, and reinvest the same in auch way as they may deem best for the interest of said college. They may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in their corpo rats name, and may do all things neces sary to carry out tile provisions of this Act, and may make by-laws for this purpose if they deem necessary. section 5. Tlhat it shall require a two thirds vot a of the said Board of trustees to authorize tile expenditure of any moneys appropriated to said college by the State, or to authorize the sale or transfer or reinvestment of any property or moneys arising from tne sale of any property under the provisions of this Act. Section 6. That for the purpose of erecting buildings on said Fort Hill plantation and of purchasing stock and implements theref or and any expenses as herein provided, the sum of $8,000 be, and the same .is hereby, appropriated, if somuch be necessary, to be paid by the State treasurer upon the order of the board of trustees signed by the pres ident and secretary; provided, that not more than $1,500 thereof shalilbe used in erecting buildings, fixtures or perma nent improvements on said Fort Hill plantation pending litigation in resyect to said property; end provided further, that all personal property purchased with the money appropriated by the State shall be taken and held by the board of trustees as property of the State of South Carolina. And it shall be the duty of the said board to make to the Legislature an annual report of the c >llege and of all farming operations and test and experiments, and of all re cipts and expenditures, with a state ment of the condition of the property and funds of said college, and of all the receipts and expenditures of money appropriated thereto by the State. Section 7. That all Acts and parts of of Acts inconsistent with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. BEGULATING RATE~OADs. The bill introduced by Senator Wood ward of Fairfield, to restore to the Railroad Commission the power to fix rates of carriage for passenger and f reight was passed and sent to the House. yhe only change made is that allowing the railroad companies afected to appeal to the Circuit Court for Richland coun ty-the rates fixed to remain of force in the meantime. A Finn and Bold Executive. Gjovernor Seay of Alabama is only 653 years of age. He is regarded as one ot the orightest and most promising young men of the New South. During his first candi dacy for Governor he was opposed_ on the ground of comparative youth and inexpe rience. but his renomination and re election without substantial opposition prove the wisdom of the people of 4labama in elect ing him their Chief Magistrate. His prompt approbation of the course of Sheriff Smith in the Birminghomi affair marks him as a man bold enough to do right in the face of clamor. He is now at Birming Lam, and his presence seenis to have quelled ill excitement and to have insured the or derly operation of the machinery of the law .....w York Star, Dec. 12.