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VOL. III. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 9, 1889. NO, 33 A VACATION SERMON ev. Da Talmage Preaches About Job's Comforters. people who are Incompetent in the Work of Giving Comfort In Time of Sorrow and DIstree -God the Only True Comforter. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage. D. D., who gen fissily spends part of'his -summer vacations "athEst Hampton, N. Y., took for the subject ect his resent sermon there, "Plasters That Will Not Stick." His text was: "Miserable comforters areye all."--Job xvi. :. Follow "The man o z'naa a great many triae -.th. lose of his family, the loss of hii&pro *W, the los f pperaa hnsamei upon him was "Ie~ tantalizing talk of those who ought to have sympathized with him. Looking -round upon them, and weighing what they sad said, he uttered the words of my text. Why did God let sin come into the world? I is a question I often hear discussed, but .Dever satisfactorily answered. God made fie world fair and beautiful in the start. If our first parents had not sinned in Eden, they might have gone out of that garden, and found fty paradises all around the psth-Europe, Asia, Africa, North and B)Ut America-so many flower-gardens, or orchards of fruit, redolent and luscious. I "e pose that when God poured out the Gihon .and the Siddekel, He poured out at the same time the Hudson and the Susquehanna; he whole earth was very fair and beautiful -to look Upon. Why did it not stay so? God had the power to keep back sin and woe. Why did he not keep them back? Why not every cloud roseate, and every step a joy, and every sound music, and all the ages a long jubilee of sinless men and sinless woman? God can-make a rose as easily as he can make a thorn. Why, then, the pre . dominance of thorns? He can make good, *, ripe fruit as well as gnarled and sour :ait. Why so much, then, that is gnarled and souri He can make men robust in health, Wh', then, are there so many in * validst Why not have for our whole race -perpetusl leisure, instead of this tug and .tol and tuessle for a livelihood? I will tell you why God let sin come into the world when I get on the other side of the River of Death. That is the place white such questions will be answered and such mysteries solved. He who thi- side that river attempts to answer the qamtaon only illustrates his own ignorance and ncomapeteney. All I know is one great le, and that is, that a herd of woes have somein uponus, tramplingdown every thing fait and beautiful. A sword at the gate of Mae, and a sword at every gate. More yeople ruder ground, than on it. The reeards in vast majority. The six thousand winters hav made many more .ears than the six thousand summers can -ever up. Trouble has taken the tender heart of this world in its two rough hands . and pinched it until the nations wail with the agony. If all the mounds of grave 'yards that have been lifted were put side by stiyou might step on them a- -- .n5 .--sae world, and waound again and around again. These are he faci. And now I have to say that in a world like this the grandest occupation is that of giving condolence. The holy .science of-Imparting comfort to the troubled we, eught all of us to study. There are many ad you who could look around upon some of jour very best friends who wish you well and are very intelligent, and yet be. able uthfuly to say to them in your days of boale, "Miserable comforters are ye all." Isminark, in the first place, that very vol aile people are incompetent for the work of giving comfort. Bildad and Eliphaz had the gaft of language, and with their words almost bothered Job's life out. Alas for Sbese- voluble people that go among the houses of the afflicted, and-talk, and talk, and talk,. and talk! They-rehearse their own sorrows, and then they tell the poor ugbrers that they feel badly now, but they 'm feel worse after a while. Silence! Do you expet, with a thin court-plaster of words, to heal a wound deep as the soul? Step very gently around about a broken beet., Talk very softly around those whom God albeet. Then go your way. Deep sypth s ndt much to say. A firm gia fte hand, a compassionate look, Jus one word that means as much as a 'whole diagionary, and you have given, per haps, all the comfort that a soul needs. A men has a terrible wound in his arm. The ,.r eouesnues and binds it up. "Now," he says, "carry that arm in a sling and be very careful of it. Let .no getouch it." But the -neighbors have heard~of the accident, and they comein, and they say, "Let us see it." And the bandage is paned a, ad this one and that one must feelit, and-see how much it is swollen; and tere is Irritation, and infammation, and esasperatio, where there ought to be heal ing and cooling. The surgeon comes in, and says, "What does all this mean? You have ne- business to touch those bandages. That wound will never heal unless you let It alone." So there are souls broken down in aorsow. What they most want is rest, or very cereful and gentle .treatment, but the neighbors have heard of tne Dereavemenut er '- ..i t'*- **mO in to sympa daise, ad they .say, "Show us now the wound.- What were his last words? Re teaenow the whole scene. How did you deel when you found you were an corphan?" Tearing off the bandages here, and pulling . them off there, leaving a ghastly wound that the balm of God's grace had already begun to heal. 0 let no loquacicus people, with *ever rattling tongues, go into the homes of the distressed! Again I remiask, that all those persons are 1uip ent to give any kind of comfort S otmerely as worldly philosophers. tbey eome in and say: "Why this is what ~ea eught to have expected. The laws of nature must have their way;" and then they get eloquent over something they have .geon In post-mortem examinations. Now, :away with all human philosophy at such a - the -What difference does it make to that father ad mother what disease their son died .of? He is dead, and it makes no dif fotren)s whether the trouble .was in the epi ~gteo orhypogastric region. If the philos ophr be of the social school he will come -and say: "You ought to control your feel ings. You must not cry so. You must culti -vats a cool.er temperament. You must have self-reliance, self-government, self-con trol;" an iceberg reprpvinlg a hyacinth for having a drop of dew in its eye. A violinist hashisinstrumlen't, and hc'swe~eps is fingers across the strings, now evoking strains of 1eand now strains of sadness. Ie can uot slyall the tunes on one string. The human soul is an instrument of ten thousand strings, and all sorts of emotions were made to play on it. Now an anthem, now a .disge. It is no evidence of weakness when .ose is overcome of sorrow. Edmund Burke se found in the pasture-field with his :arms around a horse's neck, caressing him, and some one said: "Why, the great man abas lost his mind!" No; that horse be. -donged to his son who had recently died, and his great heart broke over the grief. It is no sign of weakness that men are over 'came of their sorrows. Thank God for the of es. Have you never been in yo. u sonia noa wn adion would have given anything for a good Cam David did well when he mourned for Abs lout, Abraham did well when he benOan Sarah, Christ did well when he w4p SW Lazarus; and the last man I want to p! come anywhere near me when I have a kind of trouble is a worldly hilosopha Again I remark, that thole personS are incompetent for the work of comfort-bear ing who have nothing but cant to offer. There are those who have the id, a that you must groan over the distressed and afflicted. There are times in grief when one cheerful face dawning upon a man's soul is worth a thousand dollars to him. Do not whine over the afflicted. Take the promises of the Gospel and utter them in a manly tone. Do not be afraid to smile if you feel like it. Do not drive any more hearses through that poor soul. Do not tell him the trouble was foreordained; it will not be any comfort to not take cast iron. Do not tell them it is God's justice that weighs out grief. They want now to hear of God's tender mercy. In other words, don't give them aqua fortis when they need valerian. Again I remark that those persons are poor comforters who have never had any trouble themselves. A larkspur can not lecture on the nature of a snowflake-it never saw a snowflake, and those people who have always lived in the summer of prosperity can not talk to those who are frozen in disaster. God keeps aged people in the world, I think, Mr this very work of sympathy. They have been through all these trials. They know all that which ir ritates and, all that which soothes. If there are men and women hcre who have old peo ple in the house; or near at hand so that they can easily reach them, I congratulate them. Some of us have had trials in life, and although we have had many friends around about us, we have wished that father and mother were still alive that we might go and tell them. Perhaps they could not say much, but it would have been such a com fort to have them around. These aged ones who have been all through the trials of life know how to give condolence. Cherish them; let them lean on your arm-these aged people. If, when you speak to them, they can not hear just what you say the first time, and you have to say it a second time, when you say it the second time do not say it sharply. If you do, you will be sorry for it on the day when you take the last look and brush back the silvery locks from the wrinkled brow just before they screw the lid on. Blessed be God for the old people! They may not have so much strength to go around, but they are God's appointed min isters of comfort to a broken heart. People who have not had trial themselves can not give comfort to others. They may talk very beautifully, and they may give you a great. deal of poetic sentiment; but while poetry is perfume that smells sweet, it makes a very poor salve. .If you have a grave in your pathway, and somebody comes and covers it all over with flowers, it is a grave yet. Those who have not had grief themselves know not the mystery of a broken heart. They know not the meaning of' childlessness, and the having no one to put to bed at night, or the standing in a room where every book and picture and door t p, 0 ,rmu- ao mat where she sat, the cup out of which she drank-the place where she stood at the door and slapped her hands-the odd figures that she scribbled-the blocks she built into a house. Ah no, you must have trouble yourself be fore you can comfort others. But come all ye who have been bereft and ye who have been comforted in your sorrows, and stand around these afflicted souls, and say to them, "I had that very sorrow myself. God com forted me and he will comfort you;" and that will go right to the spot. In other words, to comfort others, we must have faith in God, practical experience, and good, sound common sense. But there are three or four considerations that I will bring this mo rning to those who are sorrowful and distressed, and that we can always bring to them, knowing that they will effect a cure. And the first con sideration is, that God sends our troubles in love. I often hear people in their troubles say, "Why, I wonder what God has against me?" They seem to think God has some grudge against them because trouble and misfortune have come. 0, no, do you not remember that passage of Scripture, "Whom the Lord loveth Ee chastenethi" A child omes in with a very bad splinter in its and, and you try to extract it. It is a very painful operation. The child draws back from you, but you persisg. You are going to take that splinter out, so you take the hild with a gentle but.fi~rm grasp; for al though there may be pain in it, the splinter must come out. And it is love that dictates it and makes you persist. My friends, I really think that nearly all our sorrows in this world are only the hand of our Father extracting some thorn, If all these sorrows were sent by enemies, I would say, arm yourself against them; and as in tropical climes, when the tiger comes down from the moutains and carries off a ohild from the village, the neighbors band together and go into the forest and hunt the monster, so I would have you, if I thought these misfor tunes were sent by an enemy, go out and battle against them. But no; they come from a Father so kind, so loving, so gentle, tat the prophet, speeking of His tender-I ness and mercy drops the idea of a father, aa may, "As ens whom hir, mother ee forteth so will I comfort you." Again I remark, there is comfort inathe thought that God, by all this process, is go' ing to make you useful. Do you know that those who accomplish the most for God and Heaven have allkbeen under the harrow? Show me a man that has done anything for Christ in this day, in a public or private place, who has had no trouble and whose path has been smooth. Ah, no. I once went through an ax factory and I saw them take the bars of Iron and thrust them into the terrrible .furnaces. Then be sweated workmen with long tongs stirred the blase. Then they brought out a bar of iron and put it into a crushing-machine; then they put It between jaws that bit It In twain. Then they put it on an anvil, and there were great hammers swung by ma chinery-each one.a half ton in weight-4 that went thump! thump ! thump! If that iron could have spoken, it would have said, "Wll all this beating? Why must I be pounded any more than any other Iron?" The workmen would have said: "We want to make axes out of you-keen, sharp axes; apes with which to hew down the forest and build the ship, and erect houses, and carry on a thousand enterprises of civiliza tion. That's the reason we pound you." Now, Giod puts a soul into the furnace of trial, and then It is brought out and run through the crushing machine. anid then it comes down on the anvil, and upon it blow after blow, blow after blow, and the soul cries out: "O, Lord, what does this mean'V" God says: "I want to make something very useful out of you. You shall be something to hew with and something to build with. It Is a practical process through which I am putting you." Yes, my Christian friends, we want more tools in the church of God. Not more wedges to split with; we have enough of these. Not more bores with which to drill; we have too many bores What we really want is keen, sharp, well-tmpered axes, and if there be any other way of making them than in the hot furnace, and on the hard anvil, and under h havy bamr I do not know what ib iL; Remember that if God brings any kind of okastisement upon you, it is only to make you useful. Do not sit down discouraged, andsay: "I have no more reason for living. I wish I were dead." 0, there never was so much reason for your living as now! By his ordeal you have been consecrated a priest of the Most High God. Go out and do your whole work for the Master. Again, there is comfort in the thought that all our troubles are a revelation. Have you ever thought of it in that connection? The man who has never been through chas tisement is ignorant about a thousand things in his soul he ought to know. For in stance, h-?e is a man who prides himself on his cheerfulness of character. He has no patience with anybody who is depressed in spirits. 0. it is easy for !,"" to be cheer ful, with his fine house, his tiled wardrobe, and well-strung instruments of music, .ianey in the bank waiting for some permanent investment. It is easy for him to be cheerful. But suppose his fortune goes to Qieces, and his house goes down under the sheriff's hammer, and the banks will not have anything to do with his paper. Sup pose those people who were once elegantly entertained at his table get so short sighted that they cannot recognize him upon the street. How then? Is it so easy to be:cheer ful? It is easy to be cheerful in the home, after the day's work is done, and the gas is turned on, and the house is full of romping little ones. But suppose the piano is rhut because the fingers tat played on it will no more touch the keys, and the childish voice that asked so many questions will ask no more. Then is it so easy? When a man wakes up and finds that his resources are all gone, he begins to rebel, and he says, "God is hard; God is outrageous. He had no busi ness to do this to me." My friends, those of us who have been th-ugh trouble know what a sinful and rebellious heart we have, and how much God has to pit up with, and how much we need pardon. It is Daly in the light of a flaming furnace that we en learn our own weakness and O lack of moral resource. There is also a great dea' ',onfort in the fact that there will be a family reconstruc tion in a better place. From Scotland, or England, or Ireland, a child emigrates to this country. It is very hard parting, but he comes, after a while writing home as to what a good land it is. Another brother comes, a sister comes, and another, and after awhile the mother comes, and, after awhile the father comes, and now they are all here, and they have a time of great congratula tion and a very pleasant reunion. Well, it is just so with our families; they are emigrating to a better land. Now, one goes out. 0, how hard it is to part with him! Another goes. 0 how hard it is to part with her! And another, and another, and we ourselves' will after a while go over, and then we will be together. 0, what a reunion ! Do you believe that? "Yes," you say. You do notl You do not believe it .as you believe other things. If you did, and with the same emphasis, why, it would take nive-tenths of your trouble off your heart. The fact is, Heaven to a great many of us is a great fog. It is away off somew bp-". R"VaA wt an. " certain and indefinite population. That is the kind of Heaven many of us dream about; bt it is the most ti-emendous fact in all the universe- this Heaven of the Gospel. Our departed friends are not afloat. The resi dence in which you live is not so real as the residence in which they stay. You are afloat, you do not know in the morning what will happen before night. They are housed and safe forever. Do not, therefore, pity your departed friends who have died in Christ. They do not need any of your pity. You might as well send a letter of condolence to Queen Victoria on her obscurity, or to the Rothschilds on their poverty, as to pity those who have won the palm. Do agM say of those who are departed, "Poor child!" "Poor father!" "Poor mother!" They are not poor. You are poor-you whose homes have been shattered-not they. You do not dwell much with your families In this world. All day long you are off to business. Will it not be pleasant when you can be together all the while? If you have had four children and one Is gone and anybody asks how many children you have, do ..not be so infidel as to say three. Say four-ca in Heaven. Do not think that the grave is unfriendly. You go into your room, and dress for some grand en tertainment, and you come forth beaubi fully appareled; and the grave is only the place where we go to dress for the glorious resurrection, and wve will come out radiant, radiant, mortality having become immor tality. 0, how much condolence there is in this thought ! I expect to see my kindred in Heaven; I expect to see them as certainly as I expect to go home to-day. Aye, I shall more certainly see them. Eight or ten will come up from the graveyard back of Somerville; and one will come up from the mountains back of a~oy, China; and another will come up from the sea off Cape Hatteras; andthirty will come up from Greenwood; and I shall know them better than I ever knew them here. And your friends, they may be across the sea, but the trumpet that sounds here will sound there. You will come up on just the same day. Some morning you have overslept yourself, and you open your eyes, and see that the sun is high in the heavens, and you sfay, "I have overslept, and I must be up and off." So you will open your eyes on the morning of the resurrection, in the full blaze of God's light, and you will say, "I must be up and away." 0 yes, you will come up, and there will be a reunion, a reconstruction of your famIly. 1 lIke what Halburton, I think it was-good old Mr. Halburton-said in his last moments. "I thank~ God that I ever lived, and thkat I have a father in Heaveni,. and a mother in Heaven, and brothers in Heaven, and sisters in Heaven, and I am now going up to see them." I remark once more, our trouble In this world are preparative for glory. What a transition for P'aul-from the slippery deck of a foundering ship to the calm presence of Jesus! What a transition it was for Latimer -from the st ake to a throne ! What a tran sition it was for Robert Hall-from Insanity to glory! What a trau'sition it was for Richard Baxter-from the dropsy to the 'saints' everlasting rest "' And what a transition it will be for you-from a world of sorrow to a world of joy. John Hol land, when he was dying, said: "What means, this bright ness in the room? Have you lighted the candles?" "No," they-r plied, "we have not lighted aniy candls. "Then." said he, " Wecome, Heaven !" the light already beaming upon his pillow. O, ye who are persecuted in this world! your enemies will get off the track after a while and all will speak well of you among the thrones. Ho! ye who are sick now, no medicines to take there. One breath of the eternal hills will thrill you with lim mortal vigor. And ye who are lonesoms now, there will be a thousand spirits to we), come you Into their companionship. 0 ye bereft souls! there will be no grave-digger'6 spade that will cleave the side of the hill, and there will be no dirge wailing from that temple. The river of God, deep as the joy of Heaven, will roll on between banks codor ns with balm, and over depths bright with jewels, and under skies roseate with glad ness, argosies of Hght going down the stream to the stroke of glittering oar and the songs 'of angels! Not one sigh in the wind; ne one tear mingling with the waters. - 'There shall I bathe my weary soul, *In seas of heavenly rest,_ ad not a wave of trouble rou , Aaenan mypneaceful w'as THE LAWS OF THE STATE. RECENT WORK OF THE SOUTH CARO LINA LEGISLATURE. The Act to Protect Primary Elections and Political Conventions. Among the important Acts passed at the recent session of the General Assem bly was the following. law to protect primary elections and political conven tions: An Act to protect Primary Elections and Conventions of political parties and to punish frauds committed there at. Section 1. That every political pri mary election held by any political party, organization or association for the purpose of choosing candidates for office, or the election of delegates to conventions, shall be presided over and conducted in the manner prescribed by the rules of the political party, organiza tion or association holding such a pri mary election by managers selected in the manner prescribed by such rules. Such managers shall before entering upon the discharge of their duties each take and subscribe an oath that he will fairly, impartially and honestly conduct the same according to the provisions of this Act and the rules of such ps rty, organization or association. Should one or more of the managers appointed to hold such clection fail to appear on the day of election the remaining manager or managers shall appoint others in their stead and administer to them the oath herein prescribed. The managers shall take the oath herein preseibed before a notary public or other officer authorized to administer oaths; but if no such officer can be conveniently had, the managers may administer the oath to each other. Such o sths shall, afterbeing subscribed by the managers, be filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for the county in which such election shall be held within five dayb after such eiestion. Section 2. Before any ballots are re ceived at such election, and immediately before opening the polls, such managers shall open eicn ballot-box to be used in such election, and exhibit the same pub licly, to show that there are no ballots in such box. They shall then close and lock or seal up such box, except the opening to receive the ballots, and shall not again open the same until the close of the election. They shall keep a poll list with the name of each voter voting in such election, and shall before re caiving any ballot administer to the voter an oath that ne is duly qualified to vote according to the rules of the party, and that he has not voted before in such election; and at the close of the ekction they shall proceed pulinhi to couint the votes'and declare the result; they shall certify the result of such election, and transmit such certificate, with the poll list, ballots, and all other papers relating to such election, within the time prescri bed and to the person or persons de signated ly the rules of the party organ ization or association holding such elec tion. Section3. Every such primary election shall be held at the time and place, and under the regulations prescribed by the rules of the party, organization or asso ciation hold:ngthe same, and the returns shall be made and the result declared as prescribed by such rules, butthe returns of the manager, with the poll lists, shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of Court for the county in which such election is held within five days after the final dec laration of the result thereof, and shall remain there for public inspectian. Section 4. Any manager who shall be guilty of wilfully violating any of the duties devolved upon such position here under shall be guity of a mhihmeanor, and upon conviction thereof -'all be fined in a sum not to exceed five hundred dollars or imprisonment for a term not to exceed twelve months, or both, in the discretion of the Court. Section 5. Any voter who shall swear falsely in tahing the prescribed oath, or shall personate another person and take the oath in his name, in order to vote, shall be guilty of perjury, and be pun ished upon conviction as for perja~ry. The Law on Corporations. The following amendatory Act to the general corpq~ations law, passed by the Legislature, will be of especial ierest to the legal profession and to capitalists. An Act to amend Sections 5, 8, 14 and 34 of an Act entitled "Au 'ct to pro vide for the fcrmiation of certain corp orations under General Lzws," ap proved the 23d day of December, A. D. 1886. . Section 1. That Section 5 of an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the for mation of certain corporations under general laws," approved the 23d day of December, A. D. 1886, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereto the following proviso, to-wit: "Provided, that in case of building end loan asnoci ations where, by the terms of the decla ration, the capital stock is to be paid in instalments, the certificate herein provi ded for may be issued when 50 per cent. of the first instalment of such capital stock shall have been paid in and the provisions of this Act in other respects complied with; and the certificate so issued may make such provision for tbe winding up of such corporation as is em bodied in such declaration," so that said section as amended, shall read as fol lows: "Section 5. Upon the completion of the organization of the company ana the ayment to the treasurer of the company, or some officer designated for that purpose, in cash of at least 20 per cent. of the capital subscribed and payable im money, and the being secured to be paid in such instalments and at such timeo as may be p)rovided in the written dt clara tion required by &ection 1, and also the delivery to such officers or oficoer of at least 20 per cent, of the property so sub scribed to the capital sto2k, with seceurity for the delivery of the remainder of said property so subscribed to the capital as may be promised in said written decla ration required by Section 1, the board of corporators shall in writing over their signatures certify the same to the Secre tary of State, who shall issue to the company a certificate that they have beeni fully organized according to the laws of South Carolino, under the name and for the purpose indicated in their written declaration, and that they are fully authorized to commence business uder.+heir carter a copy of whic cr tificate shall be filed and recorded in the office of the register of mean conveyance for each county where such corporation shall have a business office: Provided, that in cases of building and loan asso ciations and other corporations, when, by the terms of the declaration, the cap ital stock is to be paid in instalments, the certifileate herein provided for may be issued when 50 per cent. of the first instalment of such capital stock shall haye been paid in and the provisions of this Act in other respects complied with; and the certificate so issued may make provisions for the winding up of such corporation as is embodied in such writ ten declaration." Section 2. That Seciion 8 of said Act be, and the eame is hereby, amended by inserting after the word "contracts" on line six the words "loan money and," So that :a"d section as amended shall read as follows, to-wit: "Section 8. Among the powers of such bodies corporate shall be the following; 1. To have perpetual succession. 2. To sue and be sued by the corporate name. 3. To lave a common seal, and to alter the same at pleasure 4. To rt nder the shares or interest of the stockholders transferable, and to prescribe the mode of making such transfers. 5. To make contracts, loan money and acquire and transfer property, both real and person al, possessing the same powers in such respects as individuals now enjoy. 6. To establish b5-laws and make all xules and regulaions deemed expendient for the management of the affairs not incon eisterat with the Constituion and laws of this Stare or the United States." Section 3. That Section 14 of said Act be, and the same is hereby, amended by inserting after the word "subscrip tion"online 26 the following,to wit:"Ex cept in cases of building and loan asso ciations, pnd other corporations, when by the terms of the charter the capital stock is to be paid in instalments; so that said section as amendee shall read as follows, to wit: "Section 14. The corporation shall have a lien upon the stock of each share holder for all amounts which. may be due upon his subscipti )n for stock, and in case of failure by him to pay within thirty days after the time appointed any instalment requirtd to be paid by the terms of the subscription, such corpora ton, after thirty days' personal notice, or if that cannot be given, notice by mail, addressed to the place of residence of the subscriber, if known, and by ad vertisement by publication in the public newspaper publilhed nearest to the place of business of such corporation once a week for four successive weeks, may, at its option, consolidate into as many par shares as the mcuey paid by such defaulting subscriber will amount to, and issue to such stockholder and certificate therefor, and declare the frac tion-of a abare romainiing unpaid forfeit ed to the corporation, or may proosed to collect what may remain unpaid of the original subscription by suits; but if such subscriber be dead at the time of default, such forfeiture shall not be de clared till after the expiration of the time when the represenative is exempted from from suit. If such subscription for stock be declared forfeited, such corporation may proceed and sell the forfeited share, and the shares subscribed but Lo. paid for by such defaulting sub scriber, at public or private sale and the purchaser shall become the owner there of, subject to the terms of the original subscription. No stock shall be issued by any company incorporated under the provisions of this Act until fully paid according to the terms of the subscrip tion, except in cases of building and loan asociations and other corporations, when by the terms of the charter the capital stock is to be paid in instalments, and ~o transfers of stcck shall be valid, except as between the parties thereto, until the same shall have been regularly entered upon the books of the company, o as to show the name of the person by whom and to whom the transfer is made, the number and other designation of the shares and the date of the transfer." Section 4. That Section 34 of said Act be,. and the same is hereby, amended by inserting after the word "Carolina" on line 13 the following, to wit: "An Act to provide for and regulate the incopo ration of building and loan associations in this State, approved the 22d day of December, 1885." So that saidsectionas amended shall read as follows, to wit: "'Section 34. That the following Acts and sectioner-and all Acts and parts of Acts amendatory thereof, be, and the same are hereby. sepealed: 1. An Act to define the terms upon which manufac turing companies shall hereafter be in corporated, ratified December 17, 1847. 2. AnAct to authorize and regulate the creation of private corporations within this State, apr >ved December 20, '1886. 3. An Act to regulate the formation of corporations, appoved December 10, 1869. 4: An Act to provide for granting of certain charters, approved February 20, 1874. 5. An Act to provide for and regulate the incorporation of manufac turing companies in this State, i.pproved December 24, 1885. 6. Sections 1,862 and 1,364 to 1,404 inclusive of the Gen eral Statutes of South Carolina. An Act to provi le for and regulate the incorpo r~tion of building and loan associations in this State, approved the 22d day of December, 1885: Provided, the pro visions of this Act shall not affect the corporate existence of any corporation heretofore formed under any general or tuecial law; but all such corporations snaall be subject to all provisions of this Act that are made applicable thereto." Suicide in Greenville. GnrEvmIL, Januray 1.-Miss Fan nie Hildman of this city committed sui side this afternoon at 6.30 o'clock by 3rowning herself in Reedy river. She had made the attempt before, and her riends kept her locked up, knowing her o have lost her mind. She was to have been married to a gentleman of this aity. Her father, in going to the place -f auicide, fell through a trestle and broke several of his ribs. An arms house-The U. S. Arsenal. To preserve the elastioity of India-rub ber, wash it five or six times a year with sightly alkaline water. In watching fashionable people waltz iow a days one is led to believe morals are sot improved by the recreation. Horses and dqgs need exercise every day just as much as men and boys do, .and it is ....eu to keep them shut up in houne or sta CRIMES AND CASU.iLTIE. A Number of Both Reported in a Single County. (From the Lancaster Ledger. A brakeman on the 3 C's had his toes of one foot mashed off at the depot at this place on the 19th by a car wheel. Re had started up on a box car while it was in motion and slipped and fell back, his foot getting on the track. SERIOUSLY HURT. A negro man on Mr. D. W. Brown's plantation was seriously hurt in a diffi culty with Jack St )kes, colored, on Thursday night last, by being hit on the head with a ro:k. ACCIDENTALLY SHOT. Barnett Crockett, a little son of Col. J. N. Crockett, accidently shot himself while handling a pistol on the night of the 20th of Decmber. The ball entered in the palm of his hand and came out ab.>va his wrist inflicting a painful wound. ACCIDENTALLY BLOWN UP. It is reported that a fearful accident occured to Mr. Wallace and his family at Waxhaw Station, on the G. N. & C. Road, one dny last week.-Mr. W. was engaged in loading cartridges near the tire, when a qu:nity of powder near him was exploded, seriously burning himself, wife and iwo children. A BLOODY FIGHT. A despirate encounter occoured on our streets Monday last, between Mr. Minor Blackmon, white, and Helt Cly bur, colored, in which the form:.r was considerably worsted. Eye witnesses state that Blackmon attacked Ciyburn and aimed a fearful blow at him with a etick which he dodged, when he in turn struck Blackmon several times on the head with a pistol, felling him to the ground and beating him severely. The pistol was broken into pieces. Both parties were arrested and put in prison. CUT HIS OWN THROAT. Mr. Jas. Slagle, of Indian Land town ship, in this county, in a fit of temporary insanity, attempted to take his life by cutting his throat with a razor one day the past week. The wound was a very serious one, his wind pipe being par tially severed.-For several days his life was despaired of but some hopes for his recovery are now entertained by his physicians. A NEGRO BOW AT KEBSHAW. On Saturday, 22d ult, a number of drunken negroes landed at Kershaw from Camden, where they had spent the day. Being in bad spirits they concluded to thrash out the negroes they found at the station. Ben Segers started the racket by telling Jno. Wil lims of their purpose. Between 20 and 30 pistol shots were fired and knives and lightwood knots were freely used. When the smoke of battle had cleared away. Ben Segers was found to be shot in the breast, through his hand and in the head, besides also be ing cut. John Fleming was severely cut. Weary Clyburn, interferring as a peacemaker, was cut in the head by Andy Segers. A number of others, we are informed, were cut and wounded but not seriously. TWO CHILDREN BURNED TO DEATH. Luthetus Small, a two year old child of Mr. N. B. Small, who lives -near Pri ms in this county, was burned to death on Sunday afterncon, December 23d. The parents were visiting a neighbor, who lived about 250 yards from their house, and left their children (five in number) at home.-Lnthetus' clothing accidentilly caught fire. The other children raised the alarm and the father ran t his home and found his child burned to death. Coroner Davis held an inquest and the verdict of the jury was in accordance with the above facts. Coroner Davis held an inquest over the body of Mattie Ingram, a little col ored child, on the 20th ut, which came to its death from accidental burning. Verdict of the jury accordingly. IT 1s EsTIMiATED that the number of wcmen who voted for school committee in the recent election in Boston was about 17,000-being about S0 per cent. of the number registered. There was quite a faling off also in the number of femule yoters registered, as compared with the number entitled to register. It is steted that the falling off occurred chiefly amiong Roman Catholics-the clergy of that church having used their influence against the par ticipation of womuen in the elections. Hlow ever this may'be, the praise is due as well to the women who declined to dabble in public affairs as to those who sought-to influence them to such a course. The fe male vote cast was a heavy one, however, and it has set the politicians of both par ies to thinking of the best means to get the women on their side.. Once let it be understood that the women inteud to do their fur. share of voting, and'their vote will become an important factor in popu lar elections. Possessing that much power. it is natural to expect that it w.ill become an object of the attention and the desire of each of the political parties. The New York Evening Post informs us that many students of the subject have hehd that the movement would ultimately be carried to success through being taken up as a party measure, and the samie paper thinks that it is at least possible that Massachusetts will ultimately give woman the suffrage because the Republican politicians have become convinced that they can in that way strengthen their party. THE PAP'AL ENcYCLICAL thanks God for the consolations~whichi the jubilee rejoic ings have brought to the Pope, and nis Ho liness thanks the Catholic world for its to kens of affection and devotion. Turning to religiots matters, the encyclical comn plains thbat the tendency of the age is toward material interests, and that the tendency is strengthened by wordly pride, ann evil press and the drama, the demoralization of arts and the changcd education in schools, the materialistic and atheistic teachings, obscu ring the true notions of right socialism, ni ilism and communism, it says, 'are also outcomes of this addiction to material things. Lamp oil well rubbed in will remove the white spots on tables caused by hot plates. In Russia where blinders are never used on horses a shying horse is almost un known. Coffee is improved by keeping in a cool, dry place, but loses its tlavor If kept long after browning. What this country needs is more hus bands to keep their wives' scissors and THE SOUTH IN TiE 5.1DLE. Eighteen Solid Southern Republicans and what they are Golog to do. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, Rep.) WASHLNGTON, December 3.An extraordinary phase of Solid South pre sents itself. It confronts the President elect and the candidates for Speaker wits a condition, or rather several conditions. There will be eighteen Southern Repub licans in the next House, that is counting Missouri and Marylandas Southern, and they count big in the present arrange ment. These eighteen members-elect are standing together. Their front stretches from Maryland through the Virginias, Tennessee and Kentucky to Missouri. Not a weak spot appears in. the line. These Southern Republicans are as solid as their States were in No vember. If the combination holds and so far it has shown wonderful vitali ty-it will yield a great intluence after the 4th of March. The tirot test of its cohesiveness came when Mahone's friends attempted to swing the whole Southern Republicin infi'ence to his support for the Cabinet. The meeting caled here was composed mainly of Mahone's friends, but wte Southern members-elect controlied its action and prevented endorsement of anybody. This will be the policy of the eighteen. They will call upon Gen. Harrison at the proper time with their united regnest for the recognation of the South in the Cabinet, but they wl not ask the appointment (of any p irticular person, and in this way the solid eigh teen smoothe rather than roughen the way of the President-eket to the selection of his Southern Cabinet officers. But with the candidates for Speaker the eighteen are pursuing different tac tics. They are insisting on an under standing definite in detal. Eighten votes cast solidly mean much iu such a Speakership contest as is going on now. -It may almost be said that these Sonth ern Republicans can dictate who will te Speaker if they hold together. The cah didates know this, and they are ,dealing very considerately with "The Little Solid South," as one of them has named thecombination. So faras can be learned, the eighteen are not asking too much. They want one of the four principal offices in the organization of the House, and they want certain committe appoint ments. The office they ask is that of doorkeeper. Tae committee appolnt ments they desire are not so important in general estimation as they are im portant to the section which the eighteen represent. There seems no good reason wiy the organization of Southern hie publicans.stould not hold together, and if it does it will get about all it is asking for. The eignteen have good leadership. McComas of Maryland, Wade of Missouri, and Honk of TenneS see, are not only old members, but shrewd managers. If they can make tie new members-elect appreciats the sit i at'on as they themselves see it, t ien tue eighteen will remain solid, not only un til the House is organized, but afterward, sn. they will be able to secure mo-e legislation and morepatronage than t iey would if scattered. Sect onalism is not a very good thing, but it is necessary to some extent for self-protect:on. What a Baby Can J)o. What a baby can do is explained by "Five Talents of Women," a new work just Published: A baby can beat any alarm clock ever invented waking a family--up in the morning. It can make more fuss over a simple brass pin, than its mother would over a, broken back. It can fall down oftener and with le:s pr(vocation than the most expert tumb er in the circus ring. Give it a chance and it can smash more dishes than the most industrious servant girl in the country. It can choke itself black in the fae with greater ease than' the most accom plished wretch that was ever executed. It can keep a family in a constant tur - moil from morning till night and _nmght till morning without once varying its tune. It can be relied upon to sleep peace fully all day when its father is away at busmness, and cry persistently at nighs . when he is particularly sleepy. It may be the naughtiest, dirtiest, ugliest, moet fretful baby in the wortl, but y ou can never make its motnler be lieve it, and you had better not try. It can be a charming and model infant when no one is around, but when visitors are present it can exhibit more bad temper than both of the parents togeth It can brighten up a house better thei all the furnoiture ever made, make sweet er music than the finest ochiestra .tvet? organized; till a larger place in its . parents' breast than they knew they had, and when it goes away it can causie a greater vacancy and leave a greater blan.x than all the rest of the world put togesh er.-Indianapolis News. The Baptist State Missione. The State Mission Board of the Stait. Babtist Convention have been in annual session in tbis city for two days pas+, engaged-in the transaction of business oi importance to thne cause they hnvei ini charge. The Board met at the residence of Julius 0. Smith Tuesday evening, being in a body at a delightful teathere-. The visiting members spent yesterday morning in visiting old friends or in driving about the city, and second ses sion was held in the afternoon at the residence of Col. Jas. A. Hoyt, having been preceded by a dinner at the Colo ne's hospitable table. The following members of the Board have been in attendance from abroad: The Revs. A. A. Marshall, of Anderson; N. N. Buit-n of Edgefield; E. J. For 'ester,'soI Darlington; R. W. Lids, of Charleston; A. J. S. Thomas, of Orange burg; W. T. Derienx, of Spartainburg, and W. C. Lindsay, of Columbia. There are also eight local members. The Board have the appointment and supervision of all the missionaries and colporteurs employd by the State Convention, and are charged with the fixing of their salaries and the location of their fielde. The work is reported steadily on the in rease, there being now 80 missionaries nd colporteurs employed in it. The last Convention recommended that $15, 00 be spent in the work the present year, which will permit still greater en jargement, $12,000 having been spenit last year and only $,(00 the ,year be fore.-Grennille Naarm