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VOL. V. MANNING. CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEDNES)AY, FEBRUARY 13, 1889. NO. 10. OSEPH F. RHAME. ATTORNEY AT LAW MANNING. S. C. JOHN S. WILSON, Attorney and (ounselur at Law, MANNING, S. C. F. N. WILSON, INSURANCE AGENT. MANNING. S. C. A. LEVI, - ATTORXEY AT LAW, MANNING. S. C. :l Notary rublic with seal. J. BRAGDON. t1 AL ESTATE AGENT, FORESTON, S. C. Offers for sale on Main Street, in business portion of the town, TWO STORES, with suitable lots; on Manning and R. R. streets TWO -COTTAGE RESIDENCES,. 4 anl 6 rooms; and a number of VACANT LOTS suitable for residences, and in different lo calities. Terws Reasonable. Max G. Bryant, Jrs. M. LEL.nD, South Carolina. New York. (Grand Central Hotel. BRYANT & LELAND, PnoPaIETops. Columbia, South Carolina. The grand Central is the largest and best kept hotel in Columbia, located in the EX ACT BUSINESS CENTER OF THE C1T, where all Street Car Lines pass the door, and its MENU is not excelled by any in the South. Manning Sbaving Parlor. HAIR CUTrIG ARTISTICALLY EXECUTED. and Shaving done with best Razors. Spec ial attention paid to shampooing ladies beads. I have had considerable experience in several large cities, and guarantee satisfac tion to my customers. Parlor next door to Masn-ZIG Tutss. E. D. HAMILTON. NEW WAVERLY HOUSE IN the Bend of King Street, Charleston. The Waverly, having been thoroughly renovated the past summer and newly fur nished throughout, makes its accommoda tions unsurpassed. Incandescent Electric Lights and Electric Bells are used in all rooms and hallways. Rates $2.00 and $2.50. G. T. ALFORD, Proprietor. PAVILION HOTEL, CHARLESTON, S. C. First Class in all its Appointments, Supplied with all Modern Improvements Excellent Cuisine, Large Airy Rooms, Otis Passenger Elevator, Elec tric Bells and Lights, Heat - ed Rotunda. RATES, $2.00, $250 AND $3.00. Rooms Reserved by Mail or Telegraph THE BEULAH ACADEMY, Bethlehem, S. C. B. B. THOMPSON, Principal. Fall Session Begins Monday, Oct. 29. -0 Instruction thorough, government mild and decisive, appealing generally to the student's sense of honor and judgment in the important matter of punctuality, de portment, diligence. &c. Moral and social influences good.. Tuition from S1.00 to $2.00 per month. Board in good families $7.00 per month. Board from Monday to Friday per month $3.00 to $4:.00. "irFor further particulars, address th Principal. J. G. DINKINS, M1. D. RI. B. LORYEA. i, i, Diokdis & Co., Oruggists and PhariacistS, PURE DRUGS AND MEDICINES, PERFUTMERY, STATIONERY, FINE CIGARS AND TOBACCO. Full1 stock of PArVs, Oris, GLAss VAiRmSE and Wmrr LEiD, also Par and WHmTEWASH BRUSHES. An elegant stock of -SPECTACLES and EYE GL ASSES. No charge made for fitting the eye. Physicians Prescriptions carefully compounded, day or night. J. 6. Dinkins & Go., Sign of the Golden Mortar, MANNING, S. C. [Gzo. E. ToA.E. HEinRY OLIVER.] Geo, E, Toale & Co. MANUFACTURERS AND WrHOLESALA Doors, Sash, Blinds, Mouldings, - Mantels, Grates, etc. Scroll Work, Turning and Inside Finish. Builder's Hard ware, and General Building Material. OFFICE AND SALESROOMS. 10 and 12 Ilayne Street, REAR CHARLESTON HOTEL, C1harleston, S. C. All Work Guaranteed. m"Write for estimates. REV. DR. TALMAGE Preaches a Sermon to the Foes of Evangelical Doctrines. How Different Rel~gious Creeds are Dis torted by Those Who Do Not Un derstand Them-The Ignorance of the Sooffers - A Terrible . - Plague. Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage-s recent sermon was on "Slanders Against Religion An swered." His text was: -And I took the little book out of the angel's hand, and ate it up; and it was in mouth sweet as honey; and as soon as I had eaten it my belly was bitter. And lie said unto me. thou must prophesy again before many peoples, and nations, and tongues, and kings." Rev. x. 10-11. The eloquent divine spoke as follows: Domitian, the Roman Emperor, had in his realm a-troublesome evangelist who would keep preaching, and so he exiled him to a barren island, as now the lkussians exile convicts to Siberia, or as sometimes the 1 English Government used to send prisoners to Australia. The island I speak of is now called Patmos, and it is so barren and un productive that its inhabitants live by fish ing. But one day the evangelist of whom I speak, sitting at the mouth of a cavern on the hill-side, and perhaps half asleep under the drone of the sea, has a supernatural dream, and before him pass. as in panorama, time and eternity. Among the strange things that he saw was an angel with a little book in his hand, and in his dream the evangelist asked for this little book, and the angel gave it to him, and told him to eat it up. As in a dream things are sometimes incon gruous, the evangelist took the little book and eat it up. The angel told him before hand that it would be very sweet in the mouth, but afterward he would be troubled with indigestion. True enough, the evange list devours the book and it becomes to him a sweetness during the mastication, but afterward a physical bitterness. Who the angel was and what the book was no one can tell. The commentators do not agree, and I shall take no responsibility of interpretation, but will tell you that it suggests to me the little book of creeds which skeptics take and chew up and find a very luscious morsel to their witticism. but after a while it is to them a great distress. The angel of the church hands out this little book of evangelism, and the antagonists of the Christian Church take it and eat it up, and it makes them smile at first, but after ward it is to them a dire dyspepsia. All intelligent people have creeds-that is, favorite theories which they have adopted. Political creeds-that is, theories about tariff, about finance, about civil service, about government. Social creeds-that is, theories about manners and customs and good neighborhood. .Esthetical creeds that is, theories about tapestry, about bric a-brac, about styles of ornamentation. Re ligious creeds-that is. theories about the Lity, about the soul, about the great fu -re. The only being who has no creed about any thing is the idiot. Thts scoffing against creeds is always a sign of profound ignoranceon the part of the scoffer, for he has himself a hundred creed% in regard to ther things. In our time the beliefs of evangelistic churches are under a fusillade of caricature and misrepresentation. Men set up what they call orthodox faith, and then they rake it withthe musketry of their denunciation. They falsify what the Chris tian churches believe. They take evangeli cal doctrines and set them in a harsh and re pulsive way, and put them out of the asso ciation with other truths. They are like a mad anatomist who, desiring to tell what a man is, dissects a human body and hangs up In one place the heart, and in an other place the two lungs, and in another place an' ankle bone, and says that is a man. They are only fragments of a man wrenched out of their God-appointed places. Evangelical religion is a healthy, sym etrical, well-jointed, roseate, bounding life, and the scalpel and the dissecting knife o[ the infidel or the atheist can not tell you what it is. Evangelical religion is as differ nt from what it is represented to be by hese enemies as the scarecrow which a farmer puts Into the corn field to keep off he ravensa Is different from the farmer him self. For instance, these enemies of evangelism say that the Presbyterian Church believes Go.d Is a savage sovereign and that Hemade some men just to damn them, and that there are infants in hell a span long. These old slanders come down from generation to gen eraton. The Presbyterian Church believes o such thing. The PresbyterIan Church believes that God is a loving and just sover eign and that we are free agents. "No no! that can not be," say these men who have chewed up the c-reed and have the conse quent embittered stomachs. "-That is im possible; if God is a sovereign we can't be free agents." Why, my friends, we admit this in every other direction. 1. De Wltt Talmage, am a free citizen of Brooklyn. I go when I please and I come when I please, but I have at least four sovereigns. The church court of our denomintion; that is my ecclesIastical soveregn. The mayor of this city; be is my municipal sovereign. The Governor of New York; he is my State soy ereign. The President of the United States; he is my national sovereign. Four sovereigns have I, and yet in every faculty of body, mind and soul 1 amn a free man. So. you see, it is possible that the two doctrines go side by side, and there is a com. mon sense way of presenting it, and there, is a way that is rep~ul-ive. if you have the two doctrines in a worldly direction, why not in a religious direction ?If 1 choose to morrow morning to walk into the 31ercan tile Library and improve my mind, or to go throu'gh the conservntory of my friend at Jamaica, who has fiowers from nll lands growing under the arches of glass, and who has an aquarium all aswim with trout and gold fish, and there are trees bearing oranges and bananas-if I wvanted to go there I could, I am free to go If I want to go over to Hoboken and leap into a furnace of an oil factory, if I w ant to jump from the plat form of the Ph iladelphia express train, if 1 want to leap from Brooklyn bridge, I may. But suppose I should go to-morrow and leap into the furnace at Hoboken, who would be to blame'i That Is all there is about sover eignty and free agency. God rules and reigns. and he has conservatories and he has blast furnaces. If y'ou want to walk in the gardens. walk there.. If you want to leap into the furnace, you may. Supoose now a man had a charmed key with which he could open all the jails, and e should open Raymond street jail and the New York Tombs and all the prisons on the continent. In three weeks what kind of a country would this be? all the inmates turne'1 out of those prisons and peniten tiaries. Suppose all the reprobates, the bad spirits, the outrageous spirits, should be turned into the new Jerusalem. Why, the next morning the gates of pearl would be found off hinge, thelinchoin would be gone out of the chariot wheels, the -'house of many mansions" woald be burglarized. As alt and battery, arson, libertinism and as sasination would reside in the capital of the skIe.. Angels of God would be insulted on the streets. Heaven would be a dead failure if there were no great lock-up. If anl people without ro'oned to their character when they leave this world go right into glory, I wonder if in the temple of the skies Cha:s Guiteau and John Wilkes Booth oc cupy the same pew I Your common sense demands two destinies! And then as to tho Presbyterian Church believing there are in fants in perdition, if you will bring me a Presbyterian of good morals and sound mind who will say that he believes there ever was a baby in the lost world, or ever will be, I will make him a deed to the house I live in, and he can take possession to-mor row. So the Episcopal Church is misrepresented by the enemies of evangelism. They say that church substitutes forms and cere monies for heart religion, and it is all a mat ter of liturgy and genufexion. False again. All Episcopalians will tell you that the forms and creeds of their church are worse than nothing unles the heart go with them. So also the Baptist Ch'rch irns been mis represented. The enemies of ensngelism say the Baptist Church believes that unless a man is immersed he will never get into Heaven. False again. All the Baptists, close communion and open communion, be lieve that if a man acoept the Lord Jesus Christ lie will be saved, whether he be, baptized by one drop of water on the fore head, or be plunged into the Ohio or Susque hanna. although immersion is the only gate by which one enters their ea:rtbly com munion. The enemies of evangelism also misrepre sent the Methodist Church. They say the Methodist Church believes that a man can convert himself, and that conversion in that church is a temporary emotion. and that all a man has to do is to kneel down at the altar and feel bad and then the minister pats him on the back and says: "It is all right," and that is all there is of it. False again. The Methodist Church believes that the Holy Ghost alone can convert a heart, and in that church conversion is an earthquake of conviction and a sunburst of pardon. And as to mere 'temporary emo tion," I wish we all had more of the "tem porary emotion" which lasted Bishop Janes and Matthew Simpson for half a century, keeping them on lire for God until their holy enthusiasm consumed their bodies. So all the evangelical denominations are misrepresented. And then these enemies of evangeli' m go on and hold up the great doctrines of Christian chnrches as absurd, dry and inexplicable technicalities. "There is your doctrine of the Trinity," they say. "Absurd beyond all bounds. The idea that there is a God in three persons. Impossible. If it is one God he can't be three, and if there are three, they can't be one." At the same time all of us-they with us-acknowl edge trinities all aro:nd us. Trinity in our own make-up-body, mind, soul. Body with which we move, mind with which we think, soul with which we love. Three, yet one man. Trinity in the air-light, heat, mois ture-yet one atmo-phere. Trinity in the court room-three judges on the bench, but one court. Trinities all around about us, in earthly government and in nature. Of course, all of the illustrations are defective for the reason that the natural can not fully illustrate the spiritual. But suppose an ignorant man should come up to a chemist and say: "I deny what you say about the water and about the a!r; they are not made of different parts. The air is one: I breathe it every day. The water is one; I drink it. every day. "You can't deceive me about the elements that go to make up the air and the water." The chemist would say: "You come up into my laboratory and I will demonstrate this whole thing to you." The ignorant man goes into the chemist's laboratory and sees for himself. He learns that the water is one and the air is one, but they are made up of different parts. So here is a man who says: "I can't understand the doctrine of the Trinity." God says: "You come up here into the laboratory after your death and you will see-you will see it explained, you will see it demonstrated." The ignorant man can not understand the chemistry of the water and the air until he goes into the lab oratory, and we will never understand the Trinity until we go into heaven. The igno rance of the man who een not understand the chemistry of the air and water does not change the fact In regard to the composition of air and water. Because we can not un derstand the Trinity, does that change the fact! "And there is your absurd doctrine about justincation by faith." say these antago nists who have chewed up the little book of evangelism, and have the consequent embit tered stomach; "justifieation by faith; you can't explain it." I can explain it. It is simply this: When a man takes the Lord Jesus Christas his Saviour irom sin, God lets the offender off. Just as you have a difference with some one, he has injured you, he apologizes. or he makes reparation, you say: "Now, that's all right; tnat's all right." Justirication by faith is this: aman takes Jesus Christ as his saviour, and God says to the man: "Now, it was all wrong before, but it is all right now; it is all right." That was what made Martin Lutber what he was. Justification by faith, it Is going to conquer all nations. "There is your absurd doctrine about re generation." these antagonists of evangel ism say. What is regeneration! Why, re generation is reconstruction. Anybody can understand that. Have you not seen people who are all made over agein by some won derful influence? In other words they are just as different now from what they used to be as possible. The old Constellation, man-of-war, lay down here at the Brooklyn navy yard. Famine came to Ireland. The old Constellation was sitted up, and though it had been carrying gunpowder and bullets it- took bread to Ireland. You remember the enthusiasm as the old Constellation went out of our harbor. end with what joy it was greeted by the famishing nation on the other side the sea. That is regener ation. A man loaded up with sin and death loaded up with life. Befitted. Your obser vation has been very small indeed If you have not seen changes in character as radi cal as that A man came into this church one night, and he was intoxicated, and at an utterance of the nulpit he said in a subdued tone: "Tha's a lie!" An officer of the church tapped him on the shoulder and said: '-You must be silent, or you must go out." The next night that stranger came, and lhe was converted to Go b. Hie was inathe liquor busi ness. lHe resigned the business. The next day he sent back; the samples that had just been sent him. He began to love that which he hated. I bap'tized himt by immersion In the baptistry unde-r this platform. A large salary was offered him it' he ,vould return to his formier business. He declined it. He would rathei- suier with Jesus Christ thanI be prospered in the world. Hie wrote home a letter' to his Christian mother. The Chris tian mother wrote back congratulating him, and said: "If in the change of your business you have lack of means, comec home; you are always welcomie hcme." He told of his conversion to a dissolate companion. The disolute companlioni said, '-Well, if you have become a Christian, you had better go over and talk to that dying girl. She is dying with quick consumptn in that house." T he new convert wout there, All the sur rundings were disselute. He told the ding girl that Jesus would save her. "0," sad she. "that can't be, thiat can't be ! What makes you think soP' "I have it here In a bookia my pocket," he replied. He pulled out a New Testament. She said: "Show it to me 1f Tanbha =dtshow i&Qt molin that book." He said: " have neglected this book as you have neglected it for many years, and don't know where to find it, but I kn. w it is somewhere between the lids." Then he began to turn over the leaves, and strange and beautiful to say, his eve struck upon this passage: "Neither do I condemn thee; go and sin no more." She said; ' It isn't possible that is there!" "Yes," he said, "that is there." He held it up before her dying eyes, and she said: "O, yes. I see it formyself; I accept the promise: 'Neith er do 1 condemn thee; go and sin no more."' Io a few hours her spirit sped away to the Lord that gave it. and the new convert preached the funeral sermon. The man who a few days before had been a blasphemer and a drunkard, and a hater of all that was good, he preached the sermon. That is re generation, that is regeneration ! If there are any dry husks in that, where are theyI All made over again by the power of the grace of God. A few years ago a ship captain came in here and sat under the gallery. He came in with a contempt for the church of God and with an especial dislike for Talmage. When an opportunity was given he arose for prayer, and as he was more than six feet high, when he arose for prayer no one doubted that he arose i That hour he be came a Christian. He went out and told the ship owners and the ship coilimunders what a great change had been wrought. in him, and scores and scores navo been brought to God through his instrumeutality. A little while after his ccn"rsion he was on ship off Cape Hatteras in a thick and pro longed fog, and they were at their wits' ends and knew not what to do. the ship irifting about hither and thither, and they ost their bearings; and the converted sea :aptain went to his room and asked God for the salvation of his ship, and God revealed to him while he was on his knees that at a :ertain hour, only a little way off, the fog would lift; and the converted sea captain ^ame out on the dleck and told how God had heard his prayers. He said: "It is all right, boys, very soon now the fog will rift," men Cioning the hour. A man who stood there tghea aloud in derision at the idea that iod would answer prayer; but at just the hour when God had assured the captain the tog would lift there came a tiash of lightni ng hrough the fog and the man who had jeered md laughed was stunned and tell to the leek. The fog lifted. Yonder was Cape -Iatteras lighthouse. The ship was put on .he right course and sai ed on to the harbor n safety. When in seaport the captain spends most )f his time in evangelicai work. He kneels lown by one who has been helpless in the bed for many months. and the next day she alks forth in the streets well. He kneels beside one who has long been decrepit, and e resigns the crutches. lie kneels beside one who had not seen enough to be able to read for ten years, and she reads the Bible hat day. Consumptions go away, and those ,ho had diseases appalling to behold come 2p to rapid convalescance and to complete ealth. I am not. telling you any thing see )udhanded. I have had the story from the ips of the patients in this very house, those yho were brought to health of body while Lt the same time brought to God. No sec )nd-handed story this. I have heard the ;estimony from men and women who have )een cured. You may call it faith-cure, or mou may call it the power of God coming Iowa in answer to prayer; I do not care what you c dl it, it is a fact. The scofling lea captairj, his heart full of hatred for "hristianity, now becomes a follower of the neek and lowly Jesus. giving all the time to angelica. labors, or all the time he can are from pther occupations. Tuoat is re eneration, that is regeneration. Man all nade over again. "There is your absurd doctrine of vicari us sacrifice," say these men who have hewed up the little book of creeds and have ,he consequent embittered stomach. "Vi arious sacrifice I Let every man suffer for iimself. Why do I want Christ to suffer or me? I'll suffer for myself and carry my >wn burdens." They scoff at the idea of vi arious sacrifice, while they admire it every shere else except in Christ. People see its )eauty when a mother suffers for her child. eople see its beauty when a patriot suffers for his country. People see its beauty when t man denies himself for a friend. They can see the beauty of vicarious sacrifice in every me but Christ. A young lady in one of the literary insti utions was a teacher. She was very reti ent and retired in her habits, and she nrmed no companionships in the new posi ion she occupied, and her dress was very ~lain-sometimes it was very shabby. A f r a while she was discharged from the ~lae for that reason, but no reason was giv . In answer to the letter di-chargmng her rom the position, she said: "Well, if I have railed to Dlea-se, I suppose it is my own ~aul." She went here and there for em-t ~loyment, and found none. and in despera tion and in dementia she ended her life by icijde. InvestigatiOgrats made, andi it wvas round that out or her small mecans SheC had uupported her father, eighty years of age, md was paying the myi of her brother in ~Tale College on his way to the minmstry, It vas found that she had no blanket on the ed that winter, and she had no fire on the very didest day of all the season. People round it out, and there was a large gathler ig at the funeral, the largest ever at any uneral in that place. and the very peopie who had scoffed came and looked upon thlat ale face of the martyr, and all honor was lone her; but it was too lato. \'icarious acriie! All are thrilled with such in itances a~s that. But mlany are not moved y the fact that Christ paid his poverty for ur riches, his self-abnegation for our en. ~hronement, and knelt on the shlarp) edges of aumi'liation that we might climlb over his acerated shoulder into peace and Heaven. Be it ours to admire and adore these doe ~rincs at which others jeer. 0. the depths f the riches both of the wisdoma and knowl edge of God ! How unsearchable is His wis lon, and His wvay.s are past finding out! O, the height, the depth, the length. the areadth, the infinity, the immensity, the eternity of that love!i Let our earnest pray rs go out In behalf of all those who scoff at :,hese doctrines of ygrace. When the London lague wvas raging in the year Is'5, thlere svas a hotel near the chief burial p.ace thalt xcited much comment. England was in right and b ereavemnt. Tihe dead carts went through the streets day aud night, an~d the cry: "Bring out your dead " was an twered by the bringing out of the forms of the loved ones, and they were put twenty or thirty in a cart, and the wagonls went on to the cemetery; and these deal were not turied in graves, but in great trenches in great pits, in one pit e'leVen hundred and ourteen burials! Thle carts wouli come up with their great burden of twenty or thirty to the mouthI of the pit, and the front of the mrt was lifted and the dcad shot into the pit. All the churches in London were open for prayer day and night, and England was in a great anguish. At that very time, at a totel, at a wayside3 inn near the chicef burial ?lace, there was a group of hardened inen, who sat day after day :md night ifter night blaspheming God aind imitating the grief-struck who weont by to the turial place. 'These men sat there day after lay and night after night, and they scoffed ~it en, and they scoffed at women, and they scofed at God. But after a while one of hem was struck with the plalgue, and in wo weeks all of the group were down in he trench fronm the margin of which they ~ad uttered their ribaldry. My friend, a reater plague is abroad in tine wonld. Mill tons have died of it. Millions are smitten with it now. Plague of sill, plagu~e of sor rw. plague of wretchedness, plarue of woe. A nd consecratecd wvomnlt and meon from all 'hristendo~n are going out trying to stay he plague and alleviate the anguishl, and there is a group of men in this country base enough to sit and deride the work. Thie' scoff at the Bible, and they scoff at evan relism. and they scoff at Jesus Christ, and ihey scoff at G.od. If these words .shall reach them, either while they are sitting iere to-day or through the printing ,ress, let me tell them to remember the fate if that group ill the wayside inn while the )lalgue spreads its two blaek wings over the loomed city of London. 0, instead of being. scoffers let us be disciples ! "Blessed Is the nan that walketh not in the counsel of the mgodly, nor standeth in the way of sinners, .o sittth i.n the ats of the scornfnu O0R FARMER FRIENDS. sE-:sm OF THE. srAvri (:R4NOlE P.1TONs OF il!S15iNDitY. priug Meeting of the. sate Agricultural and .iechnnical society-l resident It aOmlwrt's A ithlress-Report of the .ecre tary and Treasurer-Meeting of the F.ecutive comm1.ittee. (Fromz the Columbia Daily Register. Feb. 7.. The seventeenth annual session of the State Grange of the Patrons of lus bandry was held in this city yesterday at the Agricultural Building. There was a very good attendance, there being present representatives of fifteen (rages from the Counties of Aiken, Chester, Kershaw, Marion, Flor ence, Newberry and ()onee. 1The session of the State Grange was with closed doors. but the following par titulars of the proceedings were learned from the officials of the organizat ion: The President, Mr. W. K. Thompson of Liberty Will, presided and delivered nt addr s, which is highly spoken of by t hose who had the pleasure of listening to it. Ile spoke of the condition of the ortder in i he St:ate as on t he whole satin Factory atd of the prospect for the future :s eteitirazing. Ief( made appro primte allusion to the death of the Worthy Master of the National Grange, 'Mr. Put Darden of Mississippi, who died in .July of last year. The reports of the Secretary and the Treasurer were presented and the finan eial condition of the order shown to be excellent. While the past year. for va rious reasons. such as the prevailing political interest and the formation of Farmers Alliances, has been a trying one, the order has held its own and in some Counties there has been an increase oif membership. A considerable amount of routine business was transacted, and various matters pertaining to the good of the order received due attention. The matter of the time and place of the summer meeting was left to the executive committee t decide in con ference with the executive committee of the State. Agricultural Society. The election of officers for the ensuing year resulted as follows: Master, W. K. Thompson, Liberty hill, Kershaw; Over seer, B. B. McWhite, Florence; Lecturer, L. L Clyburn, Kershaw; Steward, E. M. Atkinson, Chester; Assistant Steward, J. H. Stone, Tugaloo; Chaplain, Rev. J. G. Richards, Liberty" Hill; Treasurer. A. M. Aiken, Cokesbury; Secretary, T. W. Holloway. Pomaria; Gate Keeper, W. B. Allen, Marion; Ceres, Mrs. T. W. Holloway, Pomaria; Pomona, Mrs. M. A. Love, Chester; Flora, Mrs. R. C. Gard ner, Kershaw; Lady Assistant Steward, Mrs. S. W. Thompson, Liberty Hill. The term of W. F. Russell of Camden 2s member of the executive committee having expired, he was re-elected to the position. Two sessions were held, the first be ginning at 11 o'clock a. m. and conclud ing at 2 p. m., the second was from 3 to 7 p. M., when final adjournment was made. State AgricuItural and Mechanical So ciety. The spring meeting of this society was held in the old Senate chamber at the Agricultural Building last night, i.e tween thirty and forty members being present. President Humbert. presided and Col. Thos. W. Holloway, the Secretary and Treasurer, was at his post, as is always1 the case. Among others present were noteabie the, following: G. Leaphart, Lexington: A. P. Butler of Columbia, B. F. Cravton of Anderson, J. Wash Watts of Laureiis, C. S. AleCall of Bennetts ville, W. G. Hinson of Charleston, E. R. 1 Melver of Pailmetto, Darlington County; 1 .J. C. F. Sims, L. D. Childs, J. S. Dunn of Columbia; E. L. Rochi of Charleston, Thomas 0.i Snders of liagood, R. A. Love of Ce~ter, T. W. Woodward of Fairfield,. N C. Robertsofl of Winnsboro, Samuel Vne~ of Laurens and Gov. J. P. Rich-t adon, C l. J. P. Thomas, Charles 1on and others of this city. As son as the meeting waes called to or r Pres'idt Hiumbert d]elivered his Iy annual adldress, wvhich was as follows: ( . u.m,;n ., the ..tate Agricatturl and M.e- i it becomes my pleasant duty to meet on again on this occasion. But three1 short months have pas,.ed since we se'p arate. I see before me many who were 1 present at our last meeting. who are still active in pressing forward the va rious industries of our State, while some have pa~ssedl away The angel of death has made his levy upon our raniks, and ini ad~ness we submit to his unerring wisdom. lion. B. If. Massey. who has rendered effective service othecially, and J. . Kinard. a faithful superintendent arc no more. Their familiar faces and~ wise cohlnsel will be greatly missed, and he duties they performed will fallI pon others less qualified to fill their lcs; but we have a rich legacy left us in their high appreciation of charact er. H~aving performed the work assigned them as faithful soldiers, we place them aside in their honored robes, to await the reward of the Master -- Well (lone. We leave the past, with its ,adness andl misfortune, and closing our rnks wve go forward in the work of ad vancing the objects of our society. Apparently, the miore (lone, the greater ~ the research and investigation: often we gather truths as dliamonids from the great deep, that prv to be but pebbles ofY the shore, and life is too short to be sent with such failures. The questionI then arises, how can we accomplish the greatest good to the greatest num ber." As to the present condition of I be ar icultural and mechanical interests( afthe State, with its snccess or failure,i evils nd remiedies, we must leave for a 'l more onv enienit time. In referring toi our 1last exposition. while upon the whole it was dleemed( quite a "success,s sttill in s.ome departments there was a wnt of interest manifested., I alludet especially to the field crop department.i Since my connection wiih the society that department has never been repre sented as its importance demands and the interest of the State requires. c Therefore, 1 would suggest that in-. case imducements be offl'h ltetter ti A GOSP'EL TAHERNACLE. In W1hiiI Commendable Chi istian. work i to be Carried On. SFrom tie Columija Daily Register, Feb. S.) Some time since a charter was se cured by parties in this city and else where for the establishment here of a Gospel Mission for the carrying on of a Christian work in a field now almost wholly neglected. Prominent among the moving spirits of the enterprise were the Rtev. R. C. Oliver and his estimable wife, Mr. C. D. Stanley, R M Anderson and others, some of whom have been identified with the South Carolina Holiness Association. The Rev. Mr. Ohver and his wife, who are really at the head of the move ment, have removed to this city, which they intend to ma'e their future place of residence, it is understood, -and-it further stated that the chartered com pany or its representatives now have de posited to their credit some .45,000 in a Columbia bank, and that the proposed work is to be at once inaugurated. The fine lot on the Southeast corner of Assembly and Taylor streets has been purchased for a site for the buildings to be erected, and a contract. has been awarded to Mr. J. G. Feaster, the cou tractor, for the erection of a six-room cottage on the Eastern end of the lot referred to. This cottage is to be built of wood, and work upon it will be commenced at once. When completed it will be used as a residence for the superintendent of the mission. Upon the front end of the lot, facing on Assembly street, with a side entrance on Taylor street, will be erected a brick building, 40 by 82 feet and three stories high. This building is to be known as the Gospel Tabernacle, and a space forty by sixty feet of the front portion of the ground floor will be used s a reception room and a ball for the holding of religious services. An arrangement of a movable curtain or of folding doors will be put in to enable the size af the hall to be regulated to the proportions of the meeting held. At the rear of the building a basement will be put in and this room will be utilized as a press room for the printing office, which will be a part of the equipment of the Mission. From this printing office, the compos ing room for which will be located on an upper story, probably, a weekly re ligious paper will be issued, and large quantities of religious tracts will be printed. The paper, the name of which has not yet been fully determined on, will dis cuss all religious themes from a non denominational standpoint, and will ad vocate prohibition. On the second story will be located a printers' home for the residence of the employees in the printing office, and the' third story will be utilized as may be found most desirable. The object of the mission will be the carrying on of evangelical work among the classes that do not attend any church and who are not visited by any clergymen or in any way now approached, with a view of improving their moral welfare and awakening in them a desire to lead a better life. No class'and no individual will be ex cluded, but among the poor and needy, the abandoned and depraved, the work will go on, and in the work the aid of volunteers will be asked from among the Christians of every denomination in the city. Bible readings will be held at the Tabernacle, as well as prayer meetings an preaching services. Those enlisting in the work will be expected to visit any and all who may be likely to be bene itted by the stretching forth of a hand. to save and the carrying to them the promises held out to repentant sinners in the Word. It is not proposed to make the insti tution a home for those "plucked like brands from the burning," but such will be secured homes elsewhere where they will have an opportunity to begin a new life, and all possible encouragement wil be given to any and all into whomn can be instilled a desire for reformation or - the leading of a tmore religious life. The institution will depend for its support on an endowment, atn encour aging nucleus for which has already been secured, and upon voluntary con tributions from any one who may see fit to aid so noble a work as that to which it is dedicstcd. Certainly the proposed iustitution is one deserving of success andl of all th3 aid and co-operation which can be given t, and it cannot be doubted that Co umbia's citizens will not be behindhand n doing what they' can to advance its usefulness. THE CAUSE~ OF DtPHTHERIA. it i Believed the DlIsease Can be Pre vented by Means of Vaccine Virtue. PARIs, Feb. 5.--The Figaro says that two professors connected with the Pas teur Institute have succeeded in identify ing the gencrative microbe of diphtheria. The discovery of a prevenItire of this disease by maans of vacemel virus is expected to follow. Gov. Thomnp"on's Appointmen~t. It is said that the President desires to appoint Assistant Secretary Thompson of South Carolina to the vacancy exist ing in the Civil Service Commission, and his nomitnation was to have been~ sent to the Senate last week; but several Re publican Senators were consulted on the subject, and stated that while they had no personal objection to Mr. Thompson, they were inclined to believe that the oumittee on civil service would refrain from reporting the ?onun~faton. L'nder the circumstnces the i'resident is un willing to' subject Mir. Thompson t o the possibity of rejection in that way. - West Virginia Deadin-k. CHARLEToN, W. Va., Feb. .-Cne allot was t.tken to-day in joint assen.bly ror United States Senator and resu.:ed is follows: Goff 39, Kenna 38S. Cart 2, attg 4- naeeart a oie 42, and, also, that premiums be offered to the amateur farmers and gardeners. I would make the same recommendation for the household department. As a State. we are sadly deficient in our dairy product. 1 would suggest that induce inents be offered to manufacturers of dairy implements to exhibit their goods that the farmers may be posted as to the success on that line in other sec tions, for we believe that to be the coming industry of our State, and we shall strive, with your help, to make our next fair better than any preceding one. We cordially invite aid and sup port from every enterprise, remember ing that the prosperity of the State de pends upon the success of her varied industries. At the conclusion of this address Col. Rolloway presented his report as Secre tarv and Treasurer, referring to the report of the auditing committee for letaiis. Colonel John P. Th omas for that com it:ee reported that the books and ronehers of the Secretary and Treasurer ad been examined and found in every va correct. The following classification of the re eipts and disbursements for the twelve nonths from February 1. 1888. to Feb -ary 1, 1889, was presented: RErIwts. Balance, Feb. 1, 1888........$1,272 03 ife members............... 90 00 "trance fees .............. 238 00 rading privileges........... 499 75 Lutheran bazar.............. 47 00 Ladies' Baptist Society........ 19 20 lent ....................... 25 00 lace receipts................ 1.056 00 rate receipts................ 1,890 74 'oupons for admissions....... 3,471 83 state appropriation.......... 2,500 00 Total ..................$11,109 55 DISBURSEMENTS. :mproements...............$1,912 51 lace purses and expenses track ................... 1,454 90 Insurance................... 217 48 usic ...................... 150 00 rinting .................... 321 75 rperts..................... 198 40 drayage .................... 182 25 Incidental expenses.......... 85 20 .xpenses of officers....... .. 308 10 lerks ...................... 196 00 )ther employees............. 517 57 ecretary and Treasurer...... 600 00 remiums................... 4,838 87 Total..................$10,981 03 Balance................. 128 52 $11,109 55 This report was accepted and ordered pread on the minutes. On motion of Col. J. L. F. Sims, J. J. Robertson of Columbia and Richard ingleton of Eastover were elected nembers of the society. President Humbert announced in the tbsence of the chairman of the com nittee appointed at a previous meeting o investigate the status of the society's itle to its property in Columbia, that he original title had to be made to olonels Palmer, J. P. Thomas and m. Wallace as trustees, the arrange nent being that they should turn it >ver to the society when it should be ome an incorporated body; that a >roper deed for the transfer of the )roperty to the society had been drawn ip and would be executed at once. This was received as information and )rdered spread on the records. Some discussion ensued as to the echnical right of the society to elect a rice President in place of B. H. Massey f Fort Mill, deceased, but finally Col. . A. Love of Chester was unanimously ~lected to fill the vacancy. Mr. A. H. White of Rock Hill was elected a mem er of the executive committee to fill he vacancy created by Col. Love's pro notion. The matter of the time and place was -eferred to the executive committee and Scommittee of three, consisting of Col. ..ove, G. J. Patterson and W. G. Hinson, as appointed to draft memorial resolu ions in relation to late Vice President kassey. The meeting then adjourned. A meeting of the executive committee vas held immediately after the adjourn nent of the society, and the premm st for the fair next fall was discussed n detail and at such length that ad ournment was tinially found necessary o conclude the task at a meeting to be meld this morning at 9 o'clock. The only department completed was hat of field crops', in which an increase f about $60 was made, and a special >remium of $100 to first and $50 to econd was authorized to be offered for le County making the largest and best isplay in this department. The offer of $500 for the largest yield: f corn on one acre of ground made-by he American Agriculturist, and to rhich $500 more will be added by the tate Department of Agriculture if won y a South Carolina planter, will be rinted in the premium list of the ociet y. Several of those in attendance i last night's meeting expressed an atention to try for this prize. te L was decided that all entries forth air must close on the Friday night pre eding the opening of the fair. Pendleton was decided upon as the 'lace of the summer meeting and the rs Wednesday in August as the time herefor. A resolution was adopted in iting the State Grange to unite with he Society at that meeting. A committee of three was appointed, onsisting of J. B. Humbert, E. R. Me ver and A. T. Smythe, to prepare a rogramme for the summer meeting. Holocaust in Harry. On Monday three children of J. B. ridges, a colored tenant on Mr. 0. B. iranger's place, five miles from Nichols, a Horry County, were burned to death. 'he father went off early in the morn ag, and the mother left the children bout 12 o'clock. When she returned he found the house burnt to the ground nd two of the children in the ashes and e third was laying a short distance off a a dying condition. Earthquake on the Pacifie Coast ak Fa .ctsc'.i11 at 9:20 latnigt uae hdro'm Los Angeles and San Kriiidino. At Colton, Cal., two dis net shock-s were felt. No damage