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VOL. V. MANNING, CLARENDON COUNTY, S. C., WEI)NESDAT. AUGUST 14, 1889. NO. 86 A GOSPEL AR BOR. Rev. Dr. Talmage Tells How to Construct It. Olie Branches for Pace. Pine Branches for Health and Palm Branches for Victory-A Rural Sermon at a Rural Resort. The subject of Rev. T. De Witt Talmage's recent sermon atTheHamptons, N. Y., was: "The Bower of Tree Branches." His text was Nehemiah viii. 15: "Go forth unto .the mount and fetch olive branches, and palm branches, and myrtle branches of thick trees, to make booths." Following is the sermon: It seems as if Mount Olivet were un moored. The people have gone into the mountain, and have cut off tree branches, and put them on their shoulders, and they come forth now into the streets of Jerusa lem and on the housetops, and they twist these tree branches into arbors and booths. Then the people come forth from their com fortable homes and dwell for seven days in these booths or arbors. Why do they do that? Well, it is a great festival time. It is the feast of tabernacles; and these people are going to celebrate the desert travel of their fathers and their deliverance from their troubles, the experience of their fa thers when, traveling in the desert, they lived in booths on their way to the land of Canaan. And so these booths also become highly suggestive-I will not say they are necessarily typical, but highly suggestive of our march toward Heaven, and of the - fact that we are only living temporarily here, as it were, in booths or arbors, on our way to the Canaan of eternal rest. And what was said to the Jews literally may to-day be said figuratively to all this audience. Go forth into the mountain and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of.thick trees tounke booths. Yes, we are only here in a temporary resi dence. We aremarchingon. The merchant princes who used to live in Bowling Green, New York, have passed away and their res idences are now the fields of cheap mer chants. Where are the men who fifty years ago owned New York! Passed on. There is no use in our driving our stakes too deep into the earth; we are on the march. The generations that have preAeded us have gone so far on that we can not even hear the sound of their footsteps. They have gone over the hills, and we are to follow them. But, blessed be God, we are not in this world left out of doors and unsheltered. There are gospel booths, or gospel arbors, in which our souls are to be comforted. Go fortb unto the mountain, and fetch olivebranches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches, and palm branches, and branches of thick trees, and build booths. Well, now we are today to construct a gospel arbor, or gospel booth. andhow shall we construct it? Well, we must get all the tree branches and build. According to my text we must go up intothemountand bring. olive branches. What does that mean! The olive tree grows in warm climates, and it e. hto gv wenty-t -and- a wine, than liness and sin. and we are all sin, ~justenl, there must be there must be a treaty, there must be a stretching forth of olive branches. There is a greatlawsuitgoing on now, and it.is a lawsuit which man is bringing against his Maker; that lawsuit is now on the calen dar. It is the human versus the divine: it is Iniquity versus the immaculate; it is weak tes versus omnipotence. Man began it; God 'id not begin the lawsuit. We began it; we issaulted our Maker, and the sooner we end shis part of the struggle in which the finite attempts to overthrow the infinite and om nipotent, the sooner we end it the better. Travelers tell us there is no such place as Mount Calvary, that itis only a hill, only an Insignificant hill; but I persist in calling it the mount of God's divine mercy and love, far grander than any other place on earth, grander than the Alps or Himalayas, and there are no other hillsas compared with it; and I have noticed in every sect where the cross of Christis set forth, itis planted with olive branches. And all we have to do is to get rid of this war between God and our .selves, of which we are all tired. We want to back out of this war, we wanttogetridof this hostility. All we have to do is just to get up on the mount of God's blessing, and p luck these olive branches and wave them bfore the throne. Peace through our Lord Jesus Christ! 0, it don't make much difference what the world thinks of you-what this king. that queen, thatSenator thinks of you. Butecome into the warm, intimate, glowing and ever lasting relationship with the God of the round universe; that is the joy that makes a hallelujah seem stupid. Ah, why do we want to have peace through our Lord Jesus Christ! Why, if we had gone on in tenthou sand years of war against God, we could not have captured so much as a sword or a cav alry stirrup, or twisted off one of the wheels of the chariot or his omnipotence. But the moment we bring this olive branch Godand all heaven come 'to our side. Peace through our Lord Jesus Christ; and no other kind of peace is worth any thing. But then we must have that other olive branch, peace with man. Now it is very easy to get up a quarrel. There are gunpowdery Christians all around us, and one match of provocation will set them off. It is easy enough to get up a quarrel. But, my brother. don't you think you had better have your horns sawed off! Had you not better make en apologyf Had you not better submit to a little humiliation? 0, you say, until that snan takes the first step I will never be at veace with him; nothing will be done until he is ready to take the first step. You are a pretty Christian. When would this world be saved if Christ had not taken the first step? We were in the wrong. Christ was In the right-all right and forever right. . And yet he took the first step. And instead of going and getting a knotty scourge with which to whip your antagonist, your enemy, you had better get up on the radiant mount where Christ suffered for his enemies, and just take an olive branch, not stripping of the soft, cool, fragrant leaves, but leaving them all on, and then try on them that gos pel switch. It won't hurt them, and it will save you. Peace with God; peace with man. if you can not take those two doctrines you are no Christian. Blest be the tie that binds Our hearts in Christian love; SThe fellowship of kindred minds Is like to that above. * From sorrow, toil and pain, i Andsinwe shalbe free: Ad perfc.ct love and friendship reign - Through all eternity. But my text goes further. It says: Gc uipintothe mounitainland fetch olive branches and pine branches. Now what is suggestel by the pine branches? The. pine tree il healthy; it is aromatic; it is evergreen Bow often the physician says to his mnvai patients: -'Go and have a breath of thn pines ! That will invigorate you." Why d uch thousands of people go south every yer It is not merely to get a warmer cli mate, but to ,:et to the influence of the pine. There is health in it, and inis pine branch of the text suggests the healthfulness of our holy rellgionr it is full of health, health for all, health for the mind. health for the soul. I knew an aged man, who had no capital of physical health. He had had all the dis eases you could imagine; he did not eat enough to keep a child alive; he lived on a beverage of hosannas. He lived high, for he dined every day with the king. He was kept alive simply by the force of our holy religion. It is a healthy religion: healthy for the eye, healthy for the hand, healthy for the feet. healthy for the heart, healthy for the liver, healthy for the spleen, healthy for the whole man. It gives a man such peace, such quietness, such independence of circumstances, such holy equipoise. 0 that we all possessed it, that we possessed it now. I mean that it is healthy if a man gets enough of it. Now, there are some people who get just enough religion to bother them, just enough re ligion to make them sick; iut if a man takes a full, deep, round inhalation of these pine branches of the gospel arbor, he will find it buoyant, exuberant, undying, im mortal health. But this pine branch of my text also sug gests the simple fact that it is evergreen. What does this pine branch care for the snow on its brow! It is only a crown of glory. The winter can not freeze it out. This ever green tree is as beautiful in winter as in summer. And that is the characteristic of our holy religion;. in the sharpest, coldest winter of misfortune and disaster it is as good a religion as it is in the bright summer sunshine. Vel, now that is a practical truth. For if I should go up and down these aisles, I would not find in this house fifty people who had had no troublo. But there are some of you who have especial trouble. God only knows what you go through with. 0, how many bereavements; how many poverties, how many persecutions! How many misrepresentations! And now, my brother, you have tried every thing else, why don't.you try this evergreen religion! It is just as good for you now as it was in the days of your prosperity ; it is better for you. Perhaps some of you feel almost like Muckle Backie, the fisherman, who was chided one day because he kept on working, although that very day he buried his child. They came to him and said: "It is indecent for you to be mending that boat when this af ternoon you buried your child." And the fisherman looked up and said: "Sir, it is easy for you gentlefolks to stay in the house with your handkerchiefs to your eyes in grief; but sir, ought Ito let the other five children starve because one of them is drowned ! No, sir, we maun work, we maun work, though our hearts beat like this hammer." You may have had accumulation of sor row and misfortune. They come in fiocks, they come in herds upon your soul; and yet I have to tell you that this religion can con sole you, th ik it can help you, that it can deliver you if nothing else will. Do you tell me that the riches and the gain of this world can console you! How was it with the man who had such a fondness for money that when he was sick he ordered a basin of gold pieces to be brought to him, and he put his gouty hands down among the gold pieces, cooling his hands off in them, rolling of these gold entertain ywith yields sand sacred sweets. re we reach the heavenly fields Or walk the golden streets. But my text takes a further step and it says, "Go into the mountain and fetch o1 branches, and pine ' c es, and palm branches"..W. the palm tree was very marktfiinored by the ancients. it had three hundred and sixty differentuses. The fruit was conserved; the sap was a beverage; the stems were ground up for food for camels; the base of the leaves was turned into hats, and mats, and baskets; and the leaves were carried in victorious processions; and from the root to the top of the highest leaf tlapre was usefulness. The tree grew eighty-five feet in height sometimes, and it spread broad leaves four and five yards long; it meant usefulness and it meant victory; usefulness for what it produced, victory be cause it was brought into celebrations of triumph. And 0, how much we want the palm branches in the churches of Jesus Christ at this time ! A great many Chris tians don't amount to any thing. You have to shove them out of the way when the Lord's chariots come along. We don't want any more of that kind of Christians in the church. The old maxim says: "Do not put all your eggs into one basket;" but I have to tell you in this matter of religion you had better give your all to God, and then got in yourself. "0," says some one, "my busi ness is to sell silks and cloths." Well, then, my brother, senl suiisana cloths to the glory of God. And somie one says: "My business is to raise corn and carrots." Then, my brother, raise corn and carrots to the glory of God. And some one says, "My business is to manufacture horse shoe nails." Then manufacture horse shoe nails to the glory of cod. There is nothing for you to do that you ought to do but for the glory of God. Usefulness is typified by the palm tree. Alh, we don't want in the church any more people that are merely weeping willows, sighing into the water, standing and admir ing their long lashes in the grassy sprmng. No wild cherry, dropping bitter fruit. We want palm trees, holding something for God, something for angels, something for man. I am tired and sick of this tiat, insipid, satin slippered, namby-pamnby, highty-tighty re ligion ! It is wor-th nothing for this world and it is destruction for eternity. Give me five hundired men and women fully consecrated to Christ, and we will take any city for God in three years. Give me ten thousand men anid womien fully up to the Christian standaird; in ten years ten thousand of them would take the whole earth for God. But when are we going to begin? Ledyard, the great traveler, was brought before the' Geographical Society of Great Britain, and they wnted him'to make some explrations in Africa, and they showed him all the perils, and all the hard work, and all the exposure, and after they had told him what they wanted h'm to do in Africa, they said to him: "Now, Ledyard, when are you ready to startl" He said: "To-morrow morning." The learned men were. astonished; they thought he would take weeks or months to get ready. Well, now, you tell me you want to be earnest for Christ; you want to be earnest in Christian service. Wher, are you going to begin. 0, that you have the decisionto say, "To-day ! now I" Go now into the mount and gather the palm branches. But the palm branch also meant victory. In all ages, in all lands, the painm branch means victory. Wo are by nature the servants of Satan. He stole us, he has his eye on us, he wants to keep us. The words come from our Father that If we will try to break loose from -this doing of wrong, our Father will help us; and some day we rouse up, and we look the black tyrant in the face, and we fly at him, and we wrestle him down, and we put our heel on his neck, and we grind him In the dust, and we say, Victory, victory, through our Lord Jesus Christ ! 0, what a grand thing it is to have sin under foot and a wasted life behind our backs. "Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, and whose sin is covered." "But," says the' man, "I feel so sick and worn out with the ailments of life." You are going to be more than a conqueror. "But," says the man, "I am so tempted, I am so pursued in life-" You are going to be mere than conqueror. "I, whoc have so many ailmenmts and heart aces,going to be more than conqueror f' Yes mune you aren seif-concelted that you want. to mana;e all the afTairs of yolk' life yourself iinstead of letting- God manar them. Do vou want to drive and have God take a good seat' 0, no. you say; I want God to he my leader. Well, then, you will be more than conquerer.' Your last sickness will come, and the physicians in the next room will be talkingabout what they will do for you. What difference will it make what they do for yout You are going to be well, everlastingly well. And when the spirit has fled the body your friends will be talking as to where they shall bury you. What difference does it make to you where they bury you ; The angel of resur rection can pick you out of the dust any where, and all the cemeteries of the earth are in God's care. 0, you are going to be more than conqueror. Don't you think we had better begin now to celebrate the com ing victory? In the old meeting house at Summerville my father used to lead the singing, and he had the old-fashioned tuning fork, and he would strike it upon his knee, and then putting the tuning fork to his ear catch the right pitch and start the hymn. But, friend, don't you think we had better be catching the pitch of the everlasting song, the song of victory when we shall be more than conquerors? Had we not better begin the rehearsal on earth? "They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed thenr, and shall lead them to living fountains of water; and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes." City of Eternity, to thy bridal balls From this prison would I flee; Ah, glory ! that's for you and me. My text brings up one step further. It says, go forth into the mount and fetch olive branches, and pine branches, and myrtle branches. and palm branches, and branches of thick trees. Now, you know very well that a booth or arbor made of slight branches would not stand. The first blast of the tempest would pros trate it. So then the booth or arbor must have four stout poles to hold up the arbor or booth; and hence for the building of the arbor for this world we must have stout branches of thick trees. And so it is in the gospel arbor. Blessed be God that we have a brawny Christianity, not one easily upset. The storms of life willcomeupon us, and we want strong doctrine; not only love, but justice; not only invitation by warning. It is a mighty gospel; it is an omnipotent gospel There are the stout branches of thick trees. I remember what Mr. Finney said in a school house in this State. The village was so bad it was called Sodom and it was said to have only one good man in all the village, and he was calld Lot; and Mr. Finney, preaching, described the destruc tion of Sodom, and the preacher declared that God would rain destruction upon his hearers unlessthey, too, repented. And the people in the school house sat and ground their teeth in anger, and clenched their fists in indignation; but before he was through with his sermon they got down on their knees and cried for mercy while mercy could be found. 0, it is a mighty gospel; not only an invitation, buta warning; an omnipotent truth, stout branches of thick trees. Well, .my friends, I have shown you here is the olive branch of peace, here is the pine-branch of evergreen gospel consolation, here the palm tree branch of usefulness and victory, and here are the stout branches of thick s. The gospel arbor is done. The air is aro eaven. The leaves rustle with od. Come into the arbor. erent times with a fowler to catch pigeons; and we nd we sat in that booth, ound fiock' in the sky, and "after a while they dro ed into the net, and we were successfu So I come now to the door of this gospel booth and I look out. I see ocks of so a tying hither and flying thither, O, t t they might come like clouds and as dov to the window. Come into the booth. Co e into the booth. ABOUT ETIQUETTE. oncessoiom That Are Absolately Neces sary to Social Harmony. In arranging their methods of living and social intercourse men are striving to so re press and regulate their baser lives as to make them of as little prominence as possi ble, and offend in the least degree the finer sensibilities. It is desirable to make the service and eating of meals not a mere feeding to which we shall go with dread and from which we shall come with dis gust, and, if possible, not only inoffensive, but a positive source of refined pleasure. Hence have grown -up these little laws and customs which have excited the contempt of our thoughtless friends, If it offends my neighbors to see me shovel my food into my mouth with a knife, I will learn to use my fork, even if I do not at first feel that there is sufficient ground for his feeling. He will doubtless reciprocate by refraining from dipping his lingers into certain arti les of food which it distresses me to see eaten that ways And so we shall establish s little code of forbearance, desiring to give the least possible offense to each other, and this will grow, as others come into our cir le, into an elaborate code of etiquette. It is much easier and better for us to subscribe to and observe these little things, even when they appear to us unnecessary and even silly, than to go on in a course that we can not help seeing is offensive to our friends and gives them pain without giving us any corresponding satisfaction, and final ly makes us disliked or pitied.-Good House. keeping. _________ --There arc glimpses or Heaven granted to s by every act or thought, or word, which raises us above ourselves.--Stanley. -Exactness in little duties is a wonderful source of cheerful ness.-Faber. A Strange Coincidence. A curious feature of the escape of thbe Black Dianmnd is found to be thatml two years ago preisely the same operat ion, under the same circumnstances, was successfully practiced upon thle same govermlenit vessel, thle Richardl IRsh, by a sealing schooner fromn the samet port,.Victoria, which was also the pro perty, it is said, of those who own the Black D)iamond. In that case tile -Alf red Adams, having been overhauled 1by the Rush, had been ordered to Sitkt, and two men were put aboard as a prize crew; but instead of going to Sitka she quietly returned to her home port, the "prize crew" sub~mitting with duch grace as was possible. The reason why this incident attracted so little atten tion at the time was perhaps thmat it occurred near the end of the sealhng season of 1887. when also the capture of about a dozen other scalers by the Rush made that capture appear of less con sequence. Its repetition, however, has now occurred in the very first seizure of the season; and since dluring last year~ arrests were not made, thmere is a f-tir chance that the disobedieclle of captive vessels in bttaking themselve.s else where, inistead of submiissively repair ing~ to Sitka for fine, llimpriloet ad confiscation, Wid! becoime the regmular practice, provided thle Rush con tinu tes to be as frugal as now in the size of her prize crews. -L'ew York Times. Trading in the Congo Country. Lieutenant Dhanis has just returned to Brussels after a sojourn of three years in the Upper Congo country. Hec reports that commerce is growing r apidly in that Iregion and that the trading stations are poprous. Nineteen steamers ply 0on the riverm. The natives pre eager for traffic. During a journey of eighteen days on foot betwveen Leopoldville and Matahdi, Lieutenant D~hanis met thirty white travelers. A trading popudlat in 1-alogte rvrr banis is fast developnu. A CELEBRATED CASE. VERIFYING THE OLD ADAGE TRUTH IS STR &NGER THAN FICTION. The Remarkable Story of the Life and Crime of Mrs. Florence Maybrick, Now Under Sentence of Death in England for the Murder of Her Husband. (Philadelphia Telegraph.) Although there has been a difference of opinion in England as to the result of the trial of Mrs Maybrick for the poisoning of her husband, the general belief .las been that she would be ac quitted, and her conviction and sen tencc to death has created much sur prise. The trial, which began on the 1st inst., has attracted widespread at tent ion. No similar ease, it is sail, has been on trial in England for many years. The last affair of tne kind was the trial, thirty years ago, of Madeline Smith for poisoning her lover. Miss Smith, like Mrs. Maybrick, was a young lady of some social consequence, and resided at Glasgow. While still a mere girl her affections were won by a mere tricious fellow, who proved unworthy. ier perception of this and his per sonal treatnieit of her caued a revul sion of feeling. The allegation made against her was that she she had invei led him to her house and had poisoned him. The evidence against her, although ircumstantial, was very compromising. wing to the brilliant defense made by her counsel she was acuitted, and is now happily married and living in Lon lon. on the 18th of last May Mrs. Florence Elizabeth Maybrick, the wife of James aybrick, a rich cotton merchant of Liverpool, was placed under arrest, Aharged with poisoning her husband. rhe arrest was brought about in a re rnarkable way. Mrs. Maybrick's little irl had dropped a letter in the muddy treet; the nursemaid in charge of the bhild picked it up and opened the soiled ynvelope, intending, as she declared, to glace the inclosed letter in a fresh en velope. She took the trouble, however, :o read it, and found its con tents to run is follows: "DEARF.ST: Your letter under cover to 3. came to hand just after I gave them or you on Monday. I did not expect o he:r from you so soon, and delay )ccurred in giving him tte necessary structions. "Since my return I have been nursing ill day and night. Hie is sirk unto death. t'he doctors held a consultation yester lay. Now all depends upon how long is strength will hold out. Both my >rothers-in-law are here, and we are crribly anxious. 1 cannot answer your etter fully t-)-day, darling, but relieve four mind of all fear of discovery now )r in the future. M. has been delirious since Sunday, and I kno'w he is ignorant >f verything, even of the name of the treet, also that lie has not been making my inquiries whatever. The tale he told ne was a mere fabrication, and only in (end.d to frighten the :~uth out of me. in fact, he be ieves my statement, at lough he will not admit it. "You need not, therefore, go abroad ) this ground, dearest; but in any case lon't leave England until I have seen you once again. You must feel that chose two letters of mine were written nder circumstances which must ever excuse their injustice in your eyes. Do fou suppose I could act as I am doing if merely felt what I inferred? If you svishi to write to mnc abont anything do o, as all letters pass through my hands it present. "Excuse this scrawl, my darling, hut [dare niot leave the room for a mo inent, and I do not know whien I shall be ile to write to you again. In haste, your own FLORIE." Within a few hours after the nurse aid opened the note Maybrick was a lead uiaii. The girl gave the letter to Edwin Maybriek, a brother of James, who allowed the funeral to go on with :>uit alrousing suspicion, but lie watched te widow closely and consulted with the p)olice. Eleven days after Mr. May r ick's deathi, while his widow was ill in bed, professing to be prostrated by len husband's (death, the police made ier a risoner and removed her to the hospital ward of Waltham jail. She was not told of the intention to charge er with iurdler, but that she simply was required as a witness to clear up he suspicions nature of her husband's leath. When it became known that Mrs. Maybrick was actually charged with poisoning her husband the evidene 'n which the charge was based seemed o flimsy and purely circumstantial that her neighbors felt indignant against the police andl the relatives of the dead man For taking so harsh a course. But the :letectives knew their ground, and the evidenee againist the accused woman at te Coroner's inquest, which was held a the 28th of the same month, showedl tiat there was at least aL strong cireuma t antial ease against the woman. TinE EvIDiENCEs OF GUILT. The evidence brought out at the in 1uest has been repeated ini an amplifled rormu at the trial, which h'is just been sonclude'd, and need not be detailed at .ength in this connection. Mr. May >ick's death was sudden and unex ected, and the post mortem examina ion1 dijselosedl the presence of arsenie in rge quantities. There had been fre juet quarrels between husband and Ate, and the woman's unfaithfulness svas piroved by incriminating corres pondence and direct testimony, as well is by her own confession in open court :wo dlays ago. A motive was thus fur ished for the alleged crime in her de ;ire to he released from marital bonds which had become distasteful to her. As she was suspected by her husband's rothers of entertaining designs against is life, she had been wat ched by phy ;icians, nurses and servants, and neaurly :verv inmate of the house had some thin~g to say against her. A nursemaid, is already stated, intercepted a letter which she had written to her paramour. The nurse saw her stealthily mixing one f the last (loses taken by Mr. Maybriek. An aarst testified that spots found on her tressinig-go wn, handkerchiefs, apronsii and the cover of her dIressimg iroomu stand were arsenic stains. llous~e miaids elated her enurious habit oif soak ing tly-papers in lhen room. Every onme in the house seemed to have distrusted her and to have beeni commissioned to spy out all her ways, and to keep her ap'art from her husband. With unmis takable traces of arsenic in the hus band's body after an inexplicable death, and also in nourishment given to him from her hand, and in her own clothing andl dressing room, the prosecution ap parently had an easy task in convincig the jury of guilt. The defense, as conducted by. Sir Charles Russell, was skillful and plausi ~le. Mr. Mavbrick was shown to be an habital arseilic eater. When sick at a hotel ini Norfolk, Va., lie had repeatedly sent to ,1,dru store for dosesnf arse nic. American witnesses testified that he was in the habit of taking the drug for malarial disorders as far back as 1877. He had been seen to put arsenic oowders in beef tea-the same nourish ment which his wife was accused of tampering with. A London druggist had frequently provided him with "pick-me-ups," in which arsenic was an ingredient. An ex-Mayor of Liverpool repeated in court a conversation in which Mr. Maybrick had admitted two months before his death that he was in the habit of taking poisonous remedies habitually. All these details created reasonable grounds for the presumption that the arsenic found in his body had been self-administered, especially when experts asserted that months would be required for its elimination from the system if taken only twice in small quantities. At the same time the de fense produced medical testimony to the effect that death had not resulted from arsenic, but from natural oauses, thereby counteracting the expert evidence for the prosecution. The delicate task of explaining away the arsenic stains on Mrs. Maybrick's clothing and toilet stand and of account - ing for the mysterious powder which she administered with the beef tea still remained. Sir Charles lRussell obtained permission from the court to introduce a written statement read by the prisoner herself. In this she admitted having habitually used a face wash containing arsenic, and having brought and soaked fly paper in order to obtain a substit.ute for a favorite American prescription. As this improvised cosmetic was apphed with a handkerchief, the stains on her clothing and toilet articles which the analyst had identified were plausibly accounted for. As for the powder mixed with the nourishment, she asserted that her husband had begged her to let him have it in that way; that she had yielded to his importunities when he assured her that. it was harmless; and that she had prepared it for him, but on finding him asleep, when she returned to the bedside had not given it to him. The inference which the defense desired the jury to draw from this recital was that Mr. Maybrick had called for one of the arsenic powders which he was in the habit of taking as a cure-all, and that his wife was ignorant of the real char acter-of the dose. This presumption was strengthened by the fact that she left the bottle on the table where, it was found after . her husband's death. To these explanations was added, un doubtly at the suggestion of Sir Charles Russell. a distinct statement that before her husband's death she had con fessed her unfaithfulness to him and had re ceived his forgiveness for the wrongs which she had done. With this aston ishing revelation of the amenities of married life the wretched woman sank into her chair and listened with a blanched face to the eloquent plea made for her innocence by her counsel. Ac cording to the first report by cable the Judge's charge to the jury, which was given yesterday, was favorable- to the accused, but our dispatches this after noon indicate just the reverse. The conviction of Mrs. Maybrick for the murder of her husband is only one startling episode in a remarkable family history. Mrs. Maybrick is an American by birth, about 26 years old, and her maiden name was Chanler. Her grand father on the maternal side was Darius B. Holbrook, a wealthy New Yorker, and one of the best known men of his day, who died in 1858. His daughter, Carrie E. Holbrook, the mother of the murderess, went to Mobile, Ala., about 1856, on a visit to her uncle, the Rev. J. 11. Ingraham, the rector of St. John's P. E. Church in that city,- andl famous as the authorot the "irince of the House of David." She was very popular in society, being a good conversationalist. handsome, though not pretty, and quiet and prepossessing in demeanor. Among those who joined her troop of admirers was young Wmn. (G. Chanler, son of otse of thme most prominent merchants of the city. Chanler was educated and refined, andl successful in business. The two young peole were mutually taken with one another, and he followed her to her home in New York city, where they were married. Returning to 3fhbile they lived in good style, and Mirs. Chan er increased her influence in society. She was as much of a belle as before marriage, and her society was especially sought by young men. It was at the beginning of the war that Mrs. Chanler's path was crossed by Frank ')ubassy, who is said to have been a, French Vicomte, andi who, at that time, was a captain of ordnance in the Confederate army. He was a remnakably andsome man, and a dashing officer. He fell in with the Chanlers, and soon there was some talk of his attentions to the lady. Suddenly Mir. Chanier fell ill. lie grew rapidly worse, and his relatives went to offer their assistance, but were ref used admittance to the house. Chani er died~attended by nosone but the young wife, and the report arose that lhe had been killed by her. There wams no of icial investigation of the charge, but it affected her position, which became so unpleasant that she took her two chil tlren and moved to Macon, Go. In less than a year she married Dubassy there. Shortly afterwards Dubassy was ordered to go to Europe as a representative of the Confederate government, lHe and his family took passage on a blockade runner out of Charleston or Savannah, it is not known which, 'nd had pro eeeed but a couple of days when Du bassy, who hatd been complaining, sud dely died. The captain of the steamer proposed to return to port in order that the officer might be interred, but the widow strenuously insisted that the vessel should continue. She said that shdid not like the risk of turning the vessel back, and demanded that the body be cast overboard. This was done, and the vessel reached Europe in due time. In a year or two Mrs. Dubassy drifted back to New York, where she was in volved in a scandal wvith some actor, which was published in the papers at the time, aind created a great sensation. After this she went again to Europe, and met and married Baron Von lloque. There was shortly a scandal with him also, as it is said lhe was not faithful t o her, and at one tinie lie gave her a beating, so she left him. It seems that they led an adventurous life together. After separating from Von Rloquc the lady became a wvomuan of the worldl, aind when last heard from was tilling the equivocal position of "wife" of an at tache of the British iegationl at Teheran, Persia. The widow ocf Darius Holbrook, the maternal grandfather of Mrs. Maybrick. had died in New York city in 1876. At the time of Mr. Holbrook's death in 158, his estate was valued at fully $1,000,000, but it consisted largely of property in Cairo, Ill., and throughout the Southwest, which greatly depreciated in value after the war. The estate had been bequteathed by Mr. Uolbrook to his widow and daughters, anid before 4b eath of Mrs. Holbrook she and the latter united in placing the renmniis, which embraced some valuable real estate on Fourteenth street in New York city, in a trust for benefit of the two Chanler children - a son name I folbrook, now dead, and Florence, the present Mrs. Maybrick. This trust was attached in 1879 by a Trieste banker named Rosenthal, who had lent money to Baron Von Roque on notes indorsed by his wife, and the Baroness came to New York with her son and daughter to defend it. The suit terminated in 1880 with the defeat of the banker, and the Baroness and her daughter. who was then about eighteen yoars old, at once returned to Europe. On the voyage they made the ac quaintance of James Maybriek, who had been for a number of years in the cotton business in Norfolk and Baltimore, and in 1884 Florence became Mrs. Maybrick. From the evidence brought out at the trial of the latter, their married life does not appear to have been very happy. Mrs. Maybrick seems to have given her husband abundant cause for unhappi ness. Her acknowledged paramour, to whom the letter intercepted by the nursemaid was addressed. was named Brierly. le is a dissipated looking man of about twenty-eight years, with red dish hair and whiskers, and Mrs. May brick's wanton affecion for him is one of the strangest features of this strange story in real life. THE CONDITION OF THE CROPS. . As Revealed by the Reports to the De partment of Agriculture From Its Cor respondents All Over the State. The reports of the State Weather Ser vice show that (luring July, 1888, the rain was 3.63 inches, and the reports from eighteen stations for July, 1889, show it. to have been .86 inches. The mean temperature for July, 1888, was 78.8; for July, 1889, 79.6. Replies have been received from 233 special corre spondents of the Department of Agricul ture regarding condition of crops on August 1, 101 of whom report the weather as favorable. Following is a summary of their replies: COTrON. There has been a slight improvement in the condition of cotton during the month et July, though forty-three cor respomdenes report damage from excess ive rainfall, which, in some localities, has caused the plant to shed. It is esti mated that the crop is from ten days to two weeks late, caused by bad stands in early part of season. Tne condition is reported as follows: Upper Carolina, 95; middle Carolina, S; lower Carolina, 89-average for the State 90, ag.inst 88 on July 1 and 86 on August 1, 1888. CoRN. Corn is generally reported in fine con dition, though some damage is reported to cotton lands, caused by the recent heavy rains. It is estimated that the crop is the best since 1882, and some correspondents state that in their locali ties the vieh "wiU be all the land can produce.'" The condition is reported as follows: Upper Cirolina 10:3; middle age for the State 101, against 97 -An the 1st of July and 70 on the 1st of August, 1888. RICE. The condition of rice is reported as follows: Upper Carolina 92; Middle Carolina 92; Lower Carolina, where 95 per cent. of the crop is produced, 97 average for the State 94, against 90 on the 1st of July and 85 on the 1st of Au gust, 1888. The heavy rains since July 1st may somewhat change these esti mates. ,OTHER CROPS. The condition of the other crops is reported as follows: Sorghum 95; sugar cane 97: pease 93; Irish potatoes 87; sweet potatoes 94. Mississippi's Opportunity. Shuggler Jno. L. Sullivan has been ar rested in New York on a wvarrant issuedl by Governor Hlill in obedience to a re quisition fromi Governor Lowry of Mis sissippi, and it is fair to pr-esume that he will b~e remanded and tried and pun ished in Mississipi. This is a rare opportunity for the State of Mississippi to vindicate her own ignity and authority and give a death blow to the brutal prize ring by, the prompt conviction andl punishmnen t of Sullivan. If Sullivan, Kilramn and their immediate triainers and backers were covitedl, sentenced to the implrisoni ment fixed as the penalty and hired out in prison stripes with the other convicts to work on public improvements for aL year, it would do more to end the prze tighting than thousands of moral lessons from the pulpit and press. The fact that prize-fighters and their brutal surroundings select a Southern State for a great battle is in itself a re proach upon the State that should be resented to the utmost; andl now is Mis sissippi's opportunity to assert her dig nity and ipajesty or her laws and to) end( the prize-ring in the country. Let the treatment of sluggers 1)e short, sharp and decjsive.-P'h iblIph in ime.. A Train Held Up by Grasshoppers. A dispatch from Savannah, G'a., says: "The grasshopper does not at tack small matter like crops in Chatham County, but he has exhibited capaicit~y enough to stop a train. Friday night the slight and agile fnseet tackled the mogul and won the tight. The Tybec train was pushing its way through the marsh when it suddenly stopped. Thle passengers imagined that brigands from the .marsh had sprung upoii the engineer anil thirot ted him, but it was not so. A grass hopper had held up) the iron monster. On the island there is to be seen a cane brake thick enorgh to furnish out with arrows all the archers of the world. These unused weapons in nature's arse nal arc bent down with the burdensome grasshopper. lie is large and numierous to an extent beyond imagination. Fri day night he conceived a~ wild fancy. Lyng low and thick upon the rail, he chirped gleefully as the train howled along. 'Greasing the track with his blood, the wheels went round,. but the engine, tendler anid coaches stood still. The grasshopper conquered and died. and~ at last the train sped oin. Hanged for the Murder of His TMistress. MINxwIouts, August 9.-The Joutr narx Boulder, Montana, special, says: Geo. I)uncan Bryson wa hanged here to-day. The drop fell at 10:50 a. mn. Bryson was pronounced dead in seven minutes and was cut down at 11:0)3. Brson was calm and collected to the last and maintained his innocence of the crime for which he suffered the death penalty. Bryson was hanged for the murder of Annie Limdstrom, near Helena, Mont., in September, 1888 The woman was his mistress andl formerly lived in Minneapolis. Bryson pecrsuadled her to go with him to) Montanam. She was possessedl of a few hundred dollars, which Bryson sq uandered. It is supp~losed that lhe then tired of her and illed her in order to get rid of her. THE JOINT SUMMER MEETING. Of the State Grange and the State Agri cultural Society-Interesting Addresses on Various Subjects. l'ENDLETON, S. C., August 7.-The Agricultural and Mechanical Society and the State Grange met this morning at ten o'clock in the building of the Pen dlcton Male Academy. The meeting Was called to o ler by Colonel J. B. Ifum bert of Laurens, the ex-president of the society. The exercises were opened with prayer by the Rev. N. B. Clarkson, the Method ist minister in charge of the Pendleton church. Colonel R. J. Simpson. on behalf of the citizens of the town of Pendleton, extended the welcome of the people to the bodies in session. lie assured them that the people of Pendleton would make every possible effort to cont:ibute to the.comfort, convenience and I.:easure of each delegate present. Following Colonel Simpson, the lion. A. T. Smythe assured the delegates of the welcome which awaited each on his arrival. He considered it an honor ti be privileged to speak on behalf of Pen dleton. Every one in the assembly had known of Pendleton in the past and he trusted that through the efforts the peo ple were now making she would be as favorably known in the present. Pen dleton had always been known as a centre of intelligence and refinement and foremost among the agricultural communities. She now wants to show the peo le from other parts of the State that sh is up and abreast of the times. lie wags glad to see these meetings, to hear the interchanges of experiences, which were beneficial to .ll. Such gath crings were doing more to educate the farmer than anything that could be done otherwise. Major Smythe closed by bidding the delegates a moat hearty welcome at the hands of Pendleton's people. President Humbert, in reply, said that he returned hearty thanks to the Pen dleton people for the invitation to the society and for the cordial welcome they had received. Such hospitality is in dicative of the people of Anderson Codnty, where fine school buildings, thriv'ng banks and manufactures, good p - blic roads and fine railroad systems mark the industry of the citizens. Every delegate won~id look upon this occasion as a cause -f perpetual pleasure, for it afforded abundant opportunity for the study.of stock raising, of grass growing and the manipulating of the gilt edged products of the dairies successfully. The place is sacred as the home of the greatest American statesman. George Washington has been called the father of his country, but Joini C. Calhoun might be called the defender of the Con stitution. "When Time has shorn our locks," he said, "may this occasion be a pleasant page on memory's tablet, and may the richest blessings rest on this glorious Piedmont section." Maj. D. K. Norris, the representative of the ancient and honorable Pendleton Farmers' Society, welcomed the Grange. Mr. Norris said he was anxious for the niUny_ ~cl the I* jti n of.-,rho 1rmners to Lca on d sres an water robbed valleys and for the mem bers to give their experience. It was needless to say that agricultural interests were under a ban. it was needless to say that 93 per cent. of our educated young men were leaving the farm for other occupations. These were ques tior~s that concerned every farmer. - Ile was anxious that scientific research should be put alongside of practical experience that information of value might be evolved. Closing, Mr. Norris said that if the proverbial latch-string was not found on the outside it was bcause it had becat broken by use on fo -mer ocas'ons, but they might be sure that the door was open. Major Norrs then presented to the president a gavel made from cedar grown on the g ,>unds of the late John C. Calhoan s pro'c .y. Colonel Hum bert accepted the muemento with thanks on behalf of the society. The lion. W. B. Thompson of Kerahaw responded to the welcome to the State Grange. Ie said he voiced tlbe sentiment of all the delegates present when he said that when they met the people of this grand old town with open hearts and open home, "they were glad they had come." They were not here for their own glori fication, but to advance the interests of agriculture, lie hoped that this meet ing would do much in fighting trusts andl all monopolies which threatened to injure the best interests of the agricul tural peCople. The first paper on the programme was "Terracing vs. Hillside Ditching," read by.Dr. T. J. McKie, of Edgefield County, who has experimented with terraces for the past quarter cf a century. The pa per was a very able one and brought ou t a lively discussion, whlmich was entered into by Aaron Cannon, of Laurens; Gen. Johnson hlagood, of Barnwell; .Col. B. F. Craiyton .nd D). K. Norris, of Ander son; Col. J. Wash Watts, of Laurenms; lion. A. T. Smnythe, of Pendleton; Esqnire MBee, of Greenville; lion. W. K. Thiompsonm, of F'airfield; Col. D). P. D)un (can, of Uon, and L. N. Iloleomtbe, of Anderson. The questioni being one of considera Ile interest, the dliscussion was left open to be taken up at a future- meet ig, and~ the meeting was adjourned to 3 o'clock. The Agricultural and Mechanical So ciety and Gatnge met again this after noon at 3 o'cleek. An essay on grape culture and wine making was readl by Major .J. J. Lucas of D~arlingtmon. Dr. W. B. Burney. State Chemnist, read an exclusively seientific article on cotton seed meal as a food for stock. Thme discussiorn was exceedingly inter esting and was entered into by a Number of menmbers presenit.-L-eceille~ Newsi~. A Ludicrous Incident. Quite a ludicrous incident occu rred to some newly-arrived visitors at the Grenbrier Wihite Sulphlur S-prin. Mr. and Mrs. Mitchell IIarrison and Mrs. Gecorge iarrison are a party of -Phila delhians who arec making a touri of the Virginia springs in their wagonett. A \t Stauntoni they werec recei~ved withl over whehning deomnmst rationis of lotyaltyv, fo the townspeople, fully in the~ fa ithi that at was thle Pr(esi dta parity. and ta Mrs. llarriison's infant was "Bhaby Me Kee," tendered an ovation of welcomne. gieatly to the chagrin of Mr. Ih~arrison, who is a miodest millionaire sugar refiner. A Shrewd Irishman. Mr. Thoms lHonahan, an Irish mil lionaire, who lived in Melbourne for half a century, died recently. lHe was one of the :360 poor Irish immigrates who sailed for Australia in 18:39, and the ship was in such a terrile sanitary condition that n inety of thiem died an the voyage. Hionahian shrewdly in vested his little savings in land around Melbourne, with the result that blocks for which lie paid ?50) in those eary davs are- now wormh ii350).000) -ech. IIlis a:rga.t~e wealth is estimated' at i, A COTTON OIL REFINERY TO BE ESTABLISHED EITHER AT COLUMBIA OR CHARLESTON. It Will Cost Fifty Thousand Dollars-A Committee Appointed to Secure Options on Proposed Sites-Application for a Charter, Etc. CHARIYrFE, August $---[special to The Register.]-A convention of eapi talists interested in various cotton oil mills in the two Carolinas, met at- the Buford Hotel here to-night. It was composed of H. H. Newton of Beunetts ville, S. C., chairman; D. A. Tomp kins and Fred. Oliver of Charlotte, and A. F. Bizzell of Laurinburg, this State. Besides H. -i Newton, the chairman, R. E. Hill - of Abbeville, G. A. Norwood of Marion, ; J. C. Watson of Ridge Spriag, U. G. Desportes of Winnsboro, J. A. Brock.of Anderson, J. T. Rice of: Belton, C.M. Covington of Florence and W. L. Durst of Greenwood, represented South Caro lina. The convention unanimously decided to establish at once a mammoth refinery at some point in South Carolina. and a committee, consisting of C. S. McCal lough, W. L. Durst and I. A. Tomp kins, was appointed to visit Charleston, Columbia, Florence and Greenwood and secure options -m sites. C. J. Hargin and L. J. Walker of Charleston were ',resent and invited the convention to locate the refinery at Charleston, promising the co-operative action on the part of the city should it be located there. The refinery will cost $50,000, and it is very likely to go either to Columbia or Charleston. An application was prepared and for. warded to the Secretary of Stateof South Carolina, and when the charter is obs tained another meeting will be called at Columbia, when a permanent organiza tion will be perfected. HE ISSUED BOGUS STOCK And Hypothecated it in Various Banks - for $125,000 or $130,000. NEW YORK, August 7.-President Ellen S. Allen of the Forty-second street and Grand street Ferry Railroad any - was arrested this afternoon No. 025 West Forty-seco charge of defrauding was locked up at George Ii. Prentice, William street, ha company's shares and had made fore paying own na office tra a i ee pon speI yrnes without delay and laid tihe- matter before him. By the Inspector's order Detective Sergeant Rogefs went up to the office and arrested Allen. He confessed to the Inspector without much urging.. He was engaged in the iron business, outside of his connection with the com pany, he said, and became interested in some -inventions-one of -a patent.fire escape, and the other of a clothes post system for use on the roofs of houses. Both promised well, but the officials of the Bureau of Buildings refused to allow - their use, and the schemes fell flat. Allen became embarrassed. and to relieve him self took blank certificates of the rail road stock, filled them out with his own name, or that of some other person,and hypothecated the bogus shares in various banks. lie thinks he has scattered 700 shares or so about in that way and bor rowed about $125,000 or $130,000. Only half of these shares and their innocent holders have-been placed so .far. The directors request every stockholder of the company to have his stock verified at the office without delay, that the full extent of the fraud may be known. Allen repeated his confession to the directors in Inspector Byrnes's office later in the afternoon. He has been twenty-five years with the company as treasurer and president. Work at the State House. The work of putting in fireproof floors in tihe Secretary of State's office is-going forward rapidly. The Clerk and the Libra rian of the Supreme Court have been notified that they will be obliged to move out temporarily at once to allow fireproof flooring put in their roomis. They will move across the corridor into the Supreme Court consul tation room. The entire library will have to be moved, which will be a task of sonie magnitude. The work proposed is very necessary, as tne ofnices referred to arc immediately over the engines in t lie basement used for heating the build ing and the dlanger of a conihtarration is to) be thus4 avoided. The library is worth from $25, 000 to 4:10,00)0 and is insured for but $20,000,. while in the lerk's office are many original r~cords~ which could never be replaced if destroyed. Smart, but Not Smart Enough.. The following story conmes fromi Geor gia: A young man living in one of the dry Counties killed a large rattresnake, amnd just as he (lid so the Savannah, Americus andl Montgomery train rolled into the station. H~e noticed that his father, who was a passenger. had a bottle of brandy, and he wanted some. of it. So he got the rattler, took his pocket-knife, cut a gash ou his lland, and ran to the father, exclainming: "Sec here, I killed himi! But he bit me. and 'lildie!" The fond parent saw the~ blood dripping from the boy's hand, and, without lookingr at the wound, forced the bottle into the son's nmouth, oured: all the brandy down hism thro~at, tndl thn sent for a dloctor. The boy was soon stupidlly drank, and when the dcor arrived lhe looked at the woun~l~d hand, then at the (lead s-nake.:and gal 4tIvsaidl: "~No snake ever hit that hand. Why, it's a deep gash, :and i ut with a knife, too. lie is no t p iiwnedi frioni a snake-bite. bt lhe is dea* Id denok,"'and forcing a strong emnetc down, him. the wise oldl doctor left. A Boy Killed by Showmecn. CLEvELAND, 0., August . -X ednes day eveiniug ('harles Obe.r * er old(, of Twenutv-t hirdl avnu. h ereeping uinder a eiriius ie o ihe' '\ Side, was siruck oni the neck by~ one to the shiownmen. H1is n iidpipe was frae t ured,. and after sull'oring~ t -rribl agoniy all night he dlied to-da.. 11i 1ly oi acoeouint ofl thle oecapie a hih sotthl ha.' giio into i h I;;.. was twice its norma! size wheo be diied4. 'rec ShQm..n arm und.er airrest.