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MANNING. CLAEN1)ON COUNTY, S. .. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 1880. NO. . VOL. V. TIELY TOPICS. Col. Alfred Rhett, a distinguished figure in Carolina military annals, died at his home in Charleston on Tuesday morn ing. He was in charge of Fort Sumter when it was attacked by the Yankee monitors. The Woman's Christian Temperance Union, now in session, in Chicago is af ter Vice-President Morton with ven geance because he owns and has leased a fine hotel and signed his consent to the sale of liquor in its saloon. It is a pret ty issue between the Christian.Union and the Vice President of "the grand old party of moral ideas." At the Paris Hippodrome the c'.: attraction for the season has been the spectacle sf a lion taking equestrian ex ermM, the- animal realiy mounting on the back of a horse and being carried several times around an inclosure. The receipts accruing from this novel per formance are stated t-) amount up to the present to mote than $500,000. Heavy rains fell at Johnstown, Pa , last Friday night, and the river rose about five feet. The temporary bridge crossing the river at Cambria City was swept away. Saturday morning the bridge crossing from Millvale to Johns town was in danger of going out. All other bridges are in great danger. Wood vale was overflowed, and several houses were surreunded by water. Elmer Labodie, a Frenchman about 45 years old, while on trial at Franklin, Mass , last Saturday, for assaulting his daughter, killed himself by cutting his throat with a jack-knife. The testimony had been- concluded, and the justice said: "This matter is beyond my juris diction." "Mine, too!" exclaimed Labo die, as be drew a knife from under his clothing and slashed his throat before the officer could interfere, severing the jugular vein, and died before assistance could be rendered. His three daughters witnessed the tragedy, one fainting away. . A dispatch from Washington says "The question as to whether North or South Dakota was admitted first into the Union by the President's signature, cannot be verified. The Star to-night says the President, in order to create no jealousy in the states, took both procla mations, covered them with paper, then shuffled them together in three-card monte style without uncovering them, signed each in the proper place; then there was more shuffling. Thus he or no one else knows which proclamation of America had to be pacified like two spoiled children, or that the president of this great Republic eould descend to such jugglery is ridiculous if not mortify ing. Postmaster General Wannamaker has awarded the contract for furnish ing adhesive postage stamps for four years, beginning on the first of Janu ary next, to the American Bank Note Company of New York. The award was made for stamps of a reducert size, the new stamps being about one eighth smaller than those in present use. The designs will be changed to conform to the reduction in the size of the stamps, and new engravings will be made throughout. The new con tret also calls for some changes in the colors. The one cent stamp will con tinue to be printed in blue; the two cent stamp, now printed in green, will be primed in bright carmine, and changes will be made in some of the other denominations. Lathani, Alexander & Co., in their "Cotton movements and Fluctua tions," just out, indirectly call atten tion to the change that may result in the cotton business from the steadily increasing prosperity of the Southern farmers, which enables them to hold their cotton and sell it as they like. Their publicationis are standard in the cotton trade, going all over the world and this statement will probably turn the thoughts of persons seeking profit able employment in agricrlture in this direction. It comes in sharp con trast with the universal complaint of the discouraging conditions on the farms in all parts of this country both the South and throughout the old countries. The Southern farmor- has a good deal to complain of, but all the facts and figures indicate that he is in better position and has more to hope for than any farmer in the world. WESTWARD THE STAR 0 1' EM! PIRE" Has anybody taken notice that the Republicans have won in every Fed eral election since the war by running a western man f or President against an eastern man, and that the only general election they have lost in thirty years was that in which they ran an eastern Republican against an eastern Democrat?. Lincoln, of Illinois, defeated Mc Clellan, of New Jersey; Grant, of linois, defeated Seymour, of New York and Greely, of New York; Hayes -of Ohio, secured the seat over Tilden, .of New York; Garfield, of Ohio, de feated Hancock, originally of Penn sylvania, later of New York; Cleve land, of New York, defeated Blaine, of Maine; Harrison, of Indiana, defeated Cleveland, of New York. If the political history of recent years means anything it means that the strength of the country is in the West, and it guides the Democratic party westward. The West and South are the virile, growing sections, and they could form a powerful alliance with the conservatism of one balanc ing, blending with and guiding the knervous strength and aggressive power f theoter.-Greenville News. TALMA(E'S FAREWELL. L'he Brooklyn Divine Bids His Mil lions of Friends Good-Bye. Why He Goes to Enrop6 anEl What He Expects to See in the Holy land-How to' Fit Out and Sail a Ship Bound for the Port of Heaven. On his embarkation for the Holy Land by- the steamer City of Paris, Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage addressed his millions >f friends through the press. taking for is text Acts xx., ::S: "Aid they ac -ompanied him unto the ship." Follow :ng is the sermon: To the more than twenty-five million people in many countries to whom my sermons come week by week, in English tongue and translation. through the kindness of the newspaper press. I ad ress these words. I dictate them to a ;tenorapher on the eve of my depa. or the Hoy Land, Palestine. When ro read this sermon I will be mid-At antic. I go to be gone a few weeks on t religious journey. I go because I want [or myself and hearers and readers to nee Bethlehem. and Nazareth, and Jeru salem, and Calvary. and all the other places connected with the Saviour's life ind death, and so reinforce myself for ;ermons. I go also because I am writing the "Life of Christ." and can be more accurate and graphic when; have been in eyewitness of the sacred places. Pray or my successful journeying and safe return. I wish on the eve of departure to pro nounce a loving benediction upon all ny friends in high places and low, upon yongregations to whom my sermons are read in absence of pastors. upon groups gathered out on prairies and in mining istricts, upon all sick and invalid and aged ones who can not attend churches. but to whom I have long administered through the printed page. 'My next ser mon will be addressed to you from Rome, [taly, for I feel like Paul when he said: "So. as much as in me is, I am ready to preach the Gospel to you that are at Rome also?' The fact is that Paul was ever moving about on land or sea. He was an old sailor-not from occupation, but from frequency of travel. I think he could have taken a vessel across the Niediterranean as well as some of the ship captains. The sailors never scoffed at him for being a "land lubber." If Paul's advice had been taken the crew would never have gone ashore at Melita. When the vess4 went scuddi.ng under bare poles Paul was the only self-pos sessed man on board, and turning to the excited crew and despairing passengers. he exclaims. in a voice that sounds above the thunder of the tempest and the wrath of the sea: "Be of good cheer." The men who now go to sea with maps and charts and modern compass. warned by buoy and lighthouse, know nothing of the perils of ancient navigation. Horace said tlhat the man who first ventured on the sea m.ust have had a heart bound with oak and triple brass. People then ventured only from head land to headland and from island to isl and, and not until long after spread their sail for a voyage across the sea. Before startingt&e weather was watched, and the vessel, having been hauled up n the shore, the mariners placed their shoulders against the stern of the ship and heaved it off, they at the last mo ment :eaptng into it. 'vessels were then chiefly ships of burden-the transit of passengers being the exception: for the world was not then. migratory as in our day, when the first desire of a man in one place seems to be to get into another place. The ship from which Jonah was thrown overboard. and that in which' Paul was carried prisoner. went out chiefly with the idea of taking a cargo. As now. so then. vessels were accustomed to carry a flag. In those times it was inscribed with th e name of a heathen deity. A vessel bound for Sracuse bad on it the inscription "Cas tr and Pollux." The ships were pro. vided with anchors. Anchors were of two kinds, those that were drooped into the sea. and those that were thrown up onto the rocks to hold the vessel fast. This last kind was what Paul alluded to when he said: "Which hope we have as an anchor of the soul. both sure and steadfast, and which entereth into that within the vail." That was what the sailors call a "book anecbor.'' The rocks and sandbars, shoals and he'adlands. not being' mapped out, vessels carried n plumb line. They would drop it an" find the water fifty fathoms. and drop i again and find it forty fathoms. and dror it again and find it thirty fathoms. thus discovering their near approach, to th' shore. hr the spring, summer and au tumn the Mfediterranean Sea was white with the wings of shins, but at the first wintry blast they hied themselves to the nearest harb'or, although now the world's commerce prosners in .Tanuary as well as in .Tune. and in mid-winter. all over the wide and stormy deep, there float palaces of light. tramplir'.g the billows under foot, and showering the sparks of terrible furnaces on the wild wind: and the Christian passenger, tippeted and shawled, sits under the shelter of the smokestack. looking off upon the phosphorescent deep, on wh ich is written. in scrolls of foam and fire: "Thy way. 0 God, is in the sea. and Thy'path in the great waters"' I't is in those days of early navigation that I see a group of men.\ women and children on the bench of the Mfediterra nean. Paul is about to leave the con gregation to whom he had preached and they are come down to see him off. It is a solemn thing to part. There are so many traps that wait for a man's feet. The solid ground may break through. and the sea-how many dark mystP'ries it hides in its ho--m.! A f~- counsels a hasty good-hye, a last look. an d the ropes rattle, and the sails are hoisted, and the planks are han-led in. and Paul is gone. I exect to sail over some of the same watrs over which Paul sailed. but be fore going I want to urge you all to em bark for Heaven. The church is the dry-dock where souls are to be fitted out for Heaven. In mak ing a vessel for this voyage, the first need is sound timber. The floor timbers ought to be of solid stuff. For the want of it, vessels that looked able to ren *their jibbeoms into the eye of any -temn pest, when caught in a storm have been crushed like a wafer. Trhe truths of God's word are what I mean by floor timbers. Away with your lighter ma terials. Nothing hut oaks, hewn in the forest of divine truth, are -staunch enough for this craft. You must have love ior a helm to guide and turn the craft. Neither pride nor ambition nor avarice will do for a rudder. Love. not only in the heart. but flashing in the eye and tingling in the hand-love married to work, which many look upon as so homely a bride love, not like brooks, which foam and rattle yet do nothing, but love like a river, 'that runs up the steps of the mill wheels and works in the harness of fac tory bands-love .that will no't pass by on the other side. but visits the man wvhc fell among thieves near Jericho. not merely saying, "Poor fellow: you are dreadfully'hurt." but like the good Sa maritan, 'pours in oil and wine, and pays his board at the tavern. There must alsc be a prow, arranged to cut and over-ride the billow. That is Christian persever ance. There are ihree mountain surges tiat sometime dash against a soul in a minute-the world, the flesh, and thc devil: and that is a well-built prow that can bound over them. For lack of this many have put back and never started again. It is the broadside wave that sc often sweeps the deck and fills the lv an' : ,: inount uIini. ~,andl on the nro.. anti as you wino off the spray of the solit surCe, cry out with the apos tle: "None of these thins- movo me." Let all our fears stay aft.. The right must conquer. Know that Moses, in an ark of boh-ushes, can run down a war steamer. Have a good, strong anchor. "Which hope wo have as ;n anchor." By this strong cable and windit hold on to youranchor. "If any man sin, we have an advocate with the Father." Do not use the anchor wrongfully. Do not al ways stay in the same latitude and lon gitude. You will never ride up the har bor of eternal rest if you all the way drag your anchor. But you must have sails. Vessels are not fit for the sea uni they have the flying jib. the fore-ail. the topgallant, the skysail, the gaffsail. and other can vas. Faith is our canvas. 1 loist it. and the winds of heaven will drive you ahead. Sails made out of any other can vas than faith will be slit to tatters 1y the first northeaster. Strong faith never 4oste battle. It will ctsri foes, -Drast rocks, quench lightnings. thresh moun tains. It is a shield to the warrior, a crank to the mo -t ponderous wheel, a lever to pry up p" i mids. a drum whose beat gives strength to the step of the heavenly soldiery, and sails to waft ships laden with priceless pearls from the har bor of earth to the harbor of Heaven. But you are not yet equipped. You must have what seamen call the run ning rigging. This comprises the ship's braces, halliards. clew lines and such like. Without these the yards could not be braccd. the sails lifted nor the can vas in any wise managed. We have prayer for the running rigging. Unless you understand this tackling you are not a spiritual seaman. By pulling on these ropes. you hoist the sails of faith and turn them every whither. The prow of courage will not cut the wave. nor the sail of faith spread and flap its wing. un less you have strong prayer for a hal liard. One more arrangement and you will be ready for the sea. You must have a compass-which is the Bible.. Look at it every day. and always sail by it. as its needle points to the Star of Bethle hem. Through fog, and darkness. and storm, it works faiifully. Search the Scriptures. "Box the compass." Let me give you two or three rules for the voyage. Allow your appetites and passions only an under deck passage. Do not allow them ever to come up en the promenade deck. Mortify your members which are upon the earth. Never allow yourlower nature anything better than a steerage passage. Let watchfulness walk the deck as an armed sentinel, and shoot down with great promptness anything like a mutiny of -iotous appetites. Be sure to look out of the forecastle for icebergs. These are cold Christians floating about in the church. The frigid zone professors will sink you. Steer clear of icebergs. Keep a legbook dur ing all the voyage-an account of how many furlongs you make a day. The merchant keeps a day book as well as a ledger. You ought to know every night. as well as every year. how things are going. When the express train stops at the depot, you hear a hammer sounding on all the wheels, thu s iA tingthe safety of the rail train. Bound, as we are. with more than express speed toward a great eternity, ought we not often to try the work of self-examination? Be sure to keep your colors up: You France and Spain by the ensigns they carry. Sometimes it is a lion, sometimes an eagle, sometimes a star, sometimes a crown. Let it ever be known who you are and for what port you are bound. Let "Christian" be written on the very front with the figure of a cross. a crown and a dove: and from the masthead let float the streamers ,f Immanuel. Then the pirate vessels of temptation will pass you unharmed, as they say: "There goes a Christian. hound for the port, of Heaven. We will not disturb her, for she has too many guns aboard." Run up your flag on this pully: "I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God and the wisdom of God unto salvation." When driven back, or laboring under great stress of weather now changing from starboard tack to lar board, and then from larboard to star board-look above the topgalnts, and our hearts shall beat like a war drum as the steamers float on the wind. The sign of the cross will make you patient, and the crown will make you glad. Before you gain port you will smell the land breezes of heaven, and Christ, the pilot, will meet you as you come into the narrows of death, and fasten to you and say: ."'When thou passoth through the waters 1 will be with thee: and through the rivers, they shall not over flow thee." Are you ready for such a oage? MTake up your'minds. The gagplanks are lifting. The -bell rings. All aboard for lheaven: This world 1s not y our rest. The ch affinch is the sil liest bird in all the earth for trying to make its nest on the rocking billow. 0, how I wish that as I embark for the 11oly Land in the East all to whom I pre~ch by tongue or type would emhark for Ileav'en. What you all most need is God, and you need him now. Some of you I leave in trouble. Things are go ing very rough with you. You have had a hard struggle with poverty or sickness or persecution or bereavement. Light afer light has gone out and it is so dark that you can hardly see any blessing left. ~Nay that Jesus who comforted the widow of'Nain and raised the deceased life, with 11is gentle hand of .sympathy' wipe away your tears! A-11is well. When David was tleeing through the wilderness. pursued by his own son. he was beyng prepared to become the sweet singer of Israel. The pit and the dun cons were the best schools at which vp evr graduat<.a. The hurricnm,' that upset the tent and killed Job's chil dren prepared the man of Uz to writ~e the magnificent poem that has astounded the ages. There is no way to get the wheat out of the straw but to thresh it. There is no way to purify the gold but to burn it. Look at the people who have alays had it their own way. Thepare proudl, diseontented. useless and un happy. -If you want to find cheerful folks, go among those who have been purified by the fire. After Rossini had rendered 'William Te11" the five hun dredth time, a company of musicians came under his window in Paris and serenaded him. They put upon his brow. a golden crown of 'laurel leaves. But amidst all the applause and enthusiasm, Rossini turned to a friend and said: "I would give all this brilliant scene for a few days of youth and love." Contraist the melanholy feeling of Rossini, who had everything that this world could give him, to the joyful experience of Isaac Watts. whose misfortunes were innu merable, when he says. The Hill of Zion yields A thousand sacred swcets Before we reach the heavenly ficldS Or walk the golden streets. Then let our soags abound, And every tear be dry: We're marching through Emmanuel' ground, To faircr words on high. It is prosperity that kills and trouble that saves. While the Israelites were on the march, amitlst great privations and hardships, they behaved well. A fter awhile they praved for meat, and the sky darkenied with a large flock ot quails, and these quails fell in great muil titudes all about them: and the Israelites ate and ate, and stuffed themselves unti] they died. Oh! my friends, it is not hardship, or trial, or starvation that in jures the soul, but abundant supp-ly, It is not the vulture of trouble that eati up the Christian's life; it is the quails: it is the quails! I can not leave you until once more)] co-es m-, +ith ii the avinne whom' 1 ave : ii ism -:1. owe n;1. .. 1 grace o: ..,n most men. W this ardent to: :ramenta if I hal _one overboard .1 ';ould have' gone to tii very depths. You know r: can do nothing by halves. 0 to ,race how great a debtor Daily Um constrained to bc! I think all will be well. lo not be worried abm: t::e. I know ti:t :n Ro deemer liveth. any 'f any t.,!.:y should befall me. I think Ishot I eu straight. I have I". ,t most unw-.-:iy. and would be sorry tr., -ink that any one of my friends : t- as unworthy a Chris tian r.- But God has helped a great. ; * rough. and I hope Ile will help w. ": - a :h. It is a long account of norteimings, but if HIe is going to rub any of it out, I think Ile will rub it all out. And now give us (for I go not alone) your benediction. When you send letters to a friend in a distant land, you say via such a city, or via such a 'steamer. When you send your good wishes to us, send them via the throne of God. We shall not travel out of the reach or your prayers. There is a scene where spirits blend, Where friend holds intercourse with friend; Though sundered far, by faith we meet Around one common mercy seat. And now, may the blessing of God come down upon your bodies and upon your souls, your fathers and mothers, your companions, your children, your brothers and sisters and your friends! May you be blessed in your business and in your pleasures, in your joys and in your sorrows, in the house and by the way! And if, during our separation, an arrow from the unseen world should strike any of us, may it only hasten on the raptures that God has prepared for those who love him! I utter not the word farewell: it is too sad. too formal a word for me to speak or write. But, con sidering that I have your hand tightly clasped in both of mine, I utter a kind. an affectionate and cheerful good-bye! WAYS OF SCORPIONS. They Are Born Vicious and Have Never Been Known to Reform. It is a fact that scorpions-or alcarans, as the Mexicans call them-are at cer tain seasons of the year as numerous, almost, as flies. The- are within the cracks of the walls. oetween the bricks of the tiles on the floor hiting inside your garments. dartinz ever; vh :re with inconceivable rapidity, their t::ils. which hold the sting, ready to fly up wlta dan gerous effect upon the slightest provoca tion. Turn a corner of a rug or table-sproad, and you disturb a flourishing colony of them. Shake your shoes ii the :Aiwrn ing, and out they flop. Throw your bath sponge into the water, and half a doze-n of them dart out of its cool depths, into which they had lain themselves away during the night. The average scorpion is two or three inches in length. but they occasional grow to five or six inches. There is a smaller variety, known as the yellow scorpion, but ten times more vicious and dangerous than the mahogany-hued follows. It is at midday that the bite or sting of the venomous little pests is most feared, as the natives say it is then the most poisonous. The deserted old mills of Durango are simply scorpion hives, they having bred and increased there undisturbed for centuries. A scorpion is born vicious and never reforms. If there is no one else to fight a scorpion will fight himself. If one orion is ronseing by n'nnthor one and happens to touch it, there's a fight at once, and two dead scorpions are the re sult. Put a hundred scorpions in an in closure, and throw a little stick or piece of dirt among them. and the scorpion that is nearest to where the stick or dirt falls will turn and dig his spur into his nearest neighbor. and in less than two seconds the entire hundred will be mixed up in the fight. The way their stingers and claws and legs fly is a sight to see. As long at there is one scorpion alive the fight goes on. for if one hap pens to survive the other ninety-nine, he will pitch in and have it out with himself, and the first thing he knows he is dead. The effect of a scorpion's bite is rarely fatal except to infants or very old .pee ole. Victims of the yellow scorpion's iite have been known to lie for days in convulsions, foaming at the mouth and with stomach and linmbs swollen as in dropsy. Others su1fer no worse conse quences than they might from and ordi nary bee sting. Brandy, taken to stupefaction, is the general r'emedy. but ammonia taken in ternally is just as efficacious. Many natives carry a brass tube, and, in case of a bite from a scorpion, it is pressed over the wound, in which it acts like the cupping-glass of the surgeon and draws the poisoned blood out. A hollow key has been used successfully in the same way.--Golden Days. -Always say a kind word if you can, if only that it may come in, perhaps, with singular opportuneness, entering some man's darkened room like a beau tiful fire-fly whose happy circumlocu tions he can not but watch, forgetting his many troubles.-Friends in Council. -Life is much reduced in simplicity when we resolce to live one day at a t~ime, and to make that day blessed to others. The cares and the vexations and the troubles of life are allayed or banished under the spell of this central purpose.-Christiani 1 eister. -Men are never soi likely to settle a question rightly as when they discuss it treely.-Macaulay. Locked in Ig Enudins. An oflicer who was found in lower Drodwaty had miorc p'ouoal knowl edge of~ such cases than either the sergeant or roundsmian. "Yes," he said, "it often happens that men and sometimes women are locked in buildings in this neighborhood. Once I was called to a building in Church street. A young man came to a third story window, and said that he and a oung worman were both locked in. ey had been there about thiree hours, and had tried every way they could to pick the lock and get out. They were afraid to stay thiete all night for various reasons, but chiefly on account of the scandal it would make. "I tried the lock and then asked about the man who had the keys. The young man said the keys were carried by the proprietor, who was out of town, and the porter, who had lived in Brooklyn, but had moved the week before "to New York, he didn't know where. Finding it would be impos sible to send for him I went for a lad dr. I found one in about half an Ihour. Then camne the difficulty. The young woman was afraid to come down that way. The young man beg ged her to try it, and I did my best to help him, but she wouldn't stir a step. Finally the young man came down nd went to his home, which was in the next block west, and got his wvife to go up the ladder and stky- all night wit the grl. That was the best we ould do -New York Sun. Who the Other Fellow Was. "Joe, you were up with Miss Jenk ins until~12 o'clock last night." "Yes. I was trying to outsit an ther fellow." "Oh, that was it, eh? re been there myself. Who was the other fel "He fat+er-Epoch. THE STATE FAIR. L GREAT GATHERING OF PEOPLE AT COLUMBIA. ncrenaed F xhibits in .II I)epartment' 1'nprecedente:t Crowds i People from all -Parts' of the gtnte--Some Account of the r.xhibition. COLUMBIA, November 14. -Those who mticipated that the State Fair this year veutd surpass all its predecessors in the rariety and extent of exhibits, in the nagnituae of the crowds in attendance, Lnd in being a big success all round, have ot been disappointed. As early as last Saturday, it was noted hat Columbia's streets were uousually ull of strangers-a fact which evidenced in unusually large number of people cady to enter animals or articles for ex ibition. Before Saturday afternoon nany of the departments were crowded. n the department of live stock it was -emarked that the specimens were not )nly more numerous, but much finer hat, usual. This department, it ap )ears, formed a leading feature of the rair throughout. Monday was nominally the opening lay, but there were comparatively few rrivals. That evening, however, the iotels began to look lively, and by luesday morning the actual crowd be ar to appear. Every train brought lots >f people-men, women and children. )n Wednesday came the rush. In every .ain there was "standing room only," and very little of that. Thursday was a epetition of Wednesday in the matter )f the crowd. . Friday showed a falling off in num ers. but none in enthusiasm. The Fair wrounds seemed as lively as ever. On Saturday the crowd melted, those only remaining who had to look after their nimals or something else that had been )n exhibition. As already intimated, the department f live stock was larger and better than ver before. In cattle there were De ons, Durhams, Ayshires, Jerseys, Guernseys, Holsteins and Herefords. Each breed had its advocates, and be tween the friends of each there was much useful discussion on the merits of each. HORSES. The number of thoroughbred and st..ndardbred horses was quite up to that of former Fairs, while there ap peared to be evidence of decided im povement in grade. The premiums in tbese departments were as follows: For best thoroughbred stallion, 3 years old, R. C. Richardson, of Clarendon, first premium; J. G. Brown, of Laurens, second. Best thoroughbred stallion, 2 years old, G. M. Whittaker, of York, first, and A. Fludd, of Orangeburg, second premium. Best thoroughbred stallion, 1 year old, J. D McCarley, of Fairfield, first; T. D. Owings, of Fairfield, second. Best thoroughbred mare, with sucking colt, J. D. McCarley, of Fairfield, first. Best thoroughbred filly, 3 years old, J. C. Witherspoon, of York, first; Henry Black, of Barnwell. second. Bcst brood mare, with sucking colt, W. A. Clark. Columbia, first; John W. Shelor, second. Best filly, 3 years old, M- E. White, of Chester, first; Perry Bros., Greenville, second. Best -filly, 1 year old, Perry Bros., Greenville, first; John W. Shelor, Oco nee second. Best fhlly under 1 year, John W. She Best pair matched geldings, South Carolina raised, David Aiken, of Abbe ville, first, and E. R. Mclver. of Dar ington, second. THE MAcHINERY DEPARTMFNT is unusually full. Among the most nota ble exhibits is that of the Cheraw Iron Works -an establishment only recently founded, by already doing a great deal of work. ana doing it well. The fol lowing are the principal exhibits: Acme cotton press; corn mill, with corn and meal elevator and grain eleva tor. Eureka saw mill; fifteen-horse power engine and boiler, besides several arti cles of which the company are agents. Mr. John A. Willis, of Columbia, whose establishment is one of the best in the State, shows a handsome, eight bore engine and boiler, both of his own make. The Sullivan Hardware Company, of Anderson, show a cotton-seed crusher of their own make,-and some articles for which they are agents. Mr. W. H. Gibbes, Jr., of Columbia, has the largest exhibit of the fine ones he has always made, including the Lid dell stationary engine and boiler, fifteen horse power, an Elliott gin, made at Winnsboro, S. C., a self packing power press, and a variety of mowers and reap ers. It is a capital collection of ma chinery. There are several o'her exhibits in this department, all interesting and credit THE FIELD CROP EXHIBIT is exceptionally fine. The show of pumpkins of all kinds, colors and sizes is finer than at any former Fair. A mammoth one raised by 3. F. Perry, of Greenville, attracts spe cial attention. Chester county shows corn, wheat, oats, rye, barley, sorghum, beets, cotton on stalk and in bale, sorghum cane, mil let and several kinds of vegetables. Greenville county exhibits hay, baled shucks, wheat, oats, rye, barley, two varieties of corn, Irish and sweet pota toes, beans, peas, two kinds oif pindars, goods, numerous kinds of tobacco, sor ghum, popcorn, cabbage and other vege tables. Fairfield county has a large and varied exhibit, consisting of pumpkins, tobacco, cotton in boll and on stalk, four varieties of hay, rye, barley, .wheat, oats, rice, sorghum. corn, eleven varieties of peas, two varieties of Irish potatoes, three kinds of sweet potatoos, turnips, two varieties of oats, cabbage, beets and other vegetables. Laurens county shows cotton, corn, sorhum, wheat, oars, rye, barley, pin ders, hay, Irish potatoes, peas, beans, sweet potatoes, cabobage, turnips and otir vegetables. .t. W. J. Ellison, of Statesburg, has an exceilent exhibit of bees and honey. The collection embraces not only the honey in comb and after it is canned, bu also empty comb and some fine .peimens of beeswax. THE FINEsT CORN. The News and Courier announced in advnce of the~ oilicial statement that the "South Carolina bread corn," a fine fiinty grain on an unusually small cob, had taken the award for the best food corn. It is exhibited by Mr. T. A. Irwin, of Spartan burg. THE sH1AM BATTLE, A big feature of the Fair was the sham battle o WeAdneay. 'The following" companies participated: SAmter Light Infantry, Darlington Guards, Palmetto Rifles, (Aiken), Richland Volunteers, Governor's Guards, (Columbia), Manning Guards, Columbia Flying Artillery, and the Gatling Gun Squad, from Charles ton. The battle was fought on the grounds directly to the torth of the Fair grounds. On the height to the west were stationed the Columbia artil lery and the Gatling gun, supported by the Sumter Light Infantry, the Manning Guards and the Darlington Guards, all under the command of Col. D. J. Auld. Upon the hill to the east of the valley below the height mentioned. was the ral lying point of the attacking forces, which at the. start were stationed and partially screened by the woods to the north. These forces comprised the Richland Volunteers, the Governor's Guards, and the Palmetto Rifles of Aiken. Colonel Willie Jones was in command. The mock combat was carried out in true style, and ended in the capitulation of the party attacked. The exhibition was witnessed by ten thousand people. A BIG SUCCESS. The Fair is universally accounted a great success. The attendance, the ex hibits and the accessories all contributed to make it such. SALOONS vs. PRAYER MEETING. Six Leading Saloons Beats Six Prayer Meetings in Point of Attendance.- . Atlan ta -Journal. Last Wednesday night twelve young men from the Young Men's Christian Association reported to the secretary, Mr. C. A. Licklider, for duty. Six of them were assigned to half a dozen leading saloons, and six to the prayer meetings of different churches, with instructions to count the number of young men at each place. The first six went one to each of the selected saloons and stationed them selves just inside the door. They began counting at 7,30 and continued it until 8.30, and the total number of young men between twenty one and thirty visiting the saloons footed up 1,000. At one saloon there were 375, at another 225, at a third 90, at a fourth 90, at a fifth 75, and at the sixth 53. These young men, so the watchers reported, seemed to be the flower of Atlanta, and another noticeable fact was the conspicuous absence of old men. The young men detailed to report the prayer meetings felt lonesome when their figures were compared With those from the saloons. The whole number of young men attending the prayer meetings was 114. The Young Men's Christian Asso ciation has estimated the number of young men in Atlanta at nine thous and, 11i per cent, being at the salons and 11 per cent, at the prayer meet ings. These figures will be used by the Association in the meetings for the week of prayer to be held every night next week in the building on Pryor .Street. The Murderer Arrested. Riplcy Johnson, colored, who shot and killed J. J. Heffernan, at Aiken, has been captured, and is now in jail. He will probably be tried tis week.' Ke ferring to this affair, the Greenville News says: "Mr. Heffernan, formerly of Augusta, -.ho -,was shot and killed at Barn well by a negro named Ripley John son, appears to have been a good and popular citizen, but the evidence so far as published indicates that he was in the wrong in the affray in which he was killed, and that the case was one of self defence. He was pursuing and seeking Johnson, after having threatened to kill him, and entered a room where the neigro was, whereupon the latter shot. Fair play is a jewel." *A Successful Author. chicago Times. The best paid literary worker in America to-day is Mrs. Frances Hodg son Burnett. The sale of "Little Lord Fauntleroy" has already brought her $20,000 and for months the dra matic right-to tne play increased her bank account from $1,000 to $2,000 a week. The profits of "Sara Crewe" to date are somewhat over $11,000. She has a $15,000 contract with some New York publishers to write a story for their weekly paper, and also has at her disposal an offer of $10,000 for a grown up "Lord Fauntleroy." So it will be seen that this remarkable woman has little cause to complain of the appreciation in which she held by the public. P. C. McClure, postmaster at Louisa, Ky, complaint .to Postmaster General Wanamaker that he had the handsomest fourth-class postoffice in Northern Ken tucky until his enthusiastic constituency learned the news from Ohio. Then they testifed their joy by wreckingz McClure's postofiice, caving in the front door, smahing the windows, and firing a few dynamite cartridges by way of a leas ant winding up. McClure appeals for protection, redress and detectives, and no doubt John will send them: which induces the Greenvilie News to say that the fourth-class postofiice is about the only remaining principle and weapon of the grand old party, and should be pro tected at all hazards. CHARLESTON'S GALA WEEK. It was a Week of' Innocent Pleasure and Good Cr-owds. Hion. Patrick Walsh of the Augusta Chronicle went to Charleston where he was the guest of the city during its gala week. Mr. Walsh is enthusiastic about the goodly old city by the sea. He sars: "There were about 25,000 visitors brought into Charleston during the week, and thc city was mn holiday attire and good humor all the- time. It was a week of innocent amusements. There was no heavy expense attached to the displays, but there was daily some pleasant diversion and entertainment for the crowds. "I never saw more orderly and good humored crowds. Ev'erybody seemed to be in good spirits, and the whole city entered into the holiday spirit of the ac casion. And a notable fact is that djur ing the whole week I never saw a drunk en man. "The trades display and the fantastic display were both good, the fireworks dipays and the illumination of the har bor were fne, and the entire week's pro gram was interesting and pleasing. "Of the h-'spitality of the people it is unnec ss y ino speak. I can say noth ing sr o ger than that the city thor oughly upnueld its fame in this particu lar. It was a week of rare pleasure. THE ELECTIO0NS. THE TERRIBLE THRASHING GIVEN THE REPUBLICANS. The Lesson to be Learned From the Result on Last Tuesday. From the Washington Gazette Republican. To say that I,in common with m any millions of Americans, was profoundly astonished at the general result of the elections last Tuesday is to state what everybody, or almost everybody, has felt. There were differences of opin ion, of course, as to the magnitude of the victory or the defeat in each of the States, but very few persons none that I know-believed that the Democrats would carry Ohio and Iowa, while there was a general be lief on the part of Republicans, sup. plemented by a fear entertained by thousands of Democrats, that Mahone would carry Virginia by a heavy ma jority. The absolute defeat of Fora' ker in Ohio, however, was not dream. ed of by either party, greatly reduced though his majority might be. as many Republicans feared, as many Democrats hoped. But that he would be "snowed under" by the decisive majority of 13,00, and that a Demo cratic Legislature would be chosen was something that even the imagina' tion of a Tuscarawa county politi cian never conceived. Still more improbably was the idea that Iowa would be carried by the Democrats. The latter themselves, in the wildest fantasies induced by smuggled whiskey, never fancied they could carry that State. Had they be lieved such a thing even possible they would have "humped" themselves and swept the State, Legislature and all, like a cyclone. To sum up: Massachusetts is kept in the Republican column by the slightest of pluralities. It was a Pyrrhic victory for Republicanism there. We can imagine the ghost of bluff old John .Andrew, as he remem bered the 70,000, or S0,000 majorities he used to roll up, turning uneasily in his grave and swearing as deeply as a Puritan ghost's conscience would allow him at the decay and decline of the G. 0. P. WEST OF THE HUDSON the Republican defeat was complete. New York was overwhelmingly Demo cratic. New Jersey went back to the ancient faith with a whoop and a bound. Pennsylvania stood firm, but doubtless it was because the Demo crats there didn't try to do anything. Ohio and Iowa astonished everywhere. There are no Democrats in Nebraska, consequently the Repubicans had a one sided aght there. In the South the triumph of the "Unterrified" was equally as great. In Maryland the only consolation the Repuli~ans find is that they carried Prince George's county by a small ma iority. Virginia rolled up the :r.est Democratic majority she ever gave, and henceforth is as "solid" as Missis sippi or Missouri, in which States there are no republicane. to make any light. Tte1%%%itcvictoryJ amfee. To put it in another form, the Republi can defeat is crushing. ITS CAUSES. When President Harrison on that memorable second -Tuesday in last November carried the ~ Republican standard to victory the party achieved a noble victory. Only two Northern States failed to wheel into the Repub lican ranks, while in the South Vir gniai N ta little over a e - garly thousand vo- csigher electoral vote for him. West Virginia was in doubt for a long time, and Sen ator Gorman, of M1ary land, felt great ly thankful that he had saved his State to the Democracy, though it was done by the skin of his teeth, to use a homely eld Maryland saying. How is it this year? Seven north States voted, and four went overwhelmingly Democratic only one of which last year voted for Cleveland-while the South has utter ly repudiated Republicanism. Yet the standard bearer of last year was the standard bearer of this. What then are the causes of this defeat? Lack of practical wisdom in politics of the Administration. Intrusting the guidance of impor tant public affairs and important po litical matters to Sunday school su perintendents and Prohibition cranks. Want of faith and ingratitude to the earnest and devoted workers of his party. AN OHIO WIDOW IN LUOK. About to Wed John Jacob) Astor- ned a Fortmne of 1DO,000,000. From the New World. According to what appear to be trustworthy reports John Jacob Astor, the elder, is engaged to .be married to Mrs. Bowler, of Cincinnati. The sto ry comes trom the otner side of the Atlantic, where both Mr. Astor and Mrs. Bowler now are; and from the fact that Mr. Astor is a very domestic old gentlemen and has paid Mrs. Bowler devoted attentions for a year or more, society is inlclined to cretdit the semii-otlicial announcement which has been made. Mrs. Bowler has been in Europe for some mont hs with her two children, and John Jacob Astor during the past summer has taken two trips abroad, presumably in order to have the pleasure of being in her com pany. Mrs. Bowler has been a widow live or six yeairs. Her late husband was a nephew of George H. Pendleton. of hio, who at one time was the Vice Presidential nominee of the Demo cratic party, and was minister to Ger many durizng the Cleveki admninis tration. Mr. Bowler inherited a hand some forttune and invested itjcuiiious ly in railroad properties. At (I dah iews a tlarge owner of tae:-or. teofteKentuck:: Central Raumwad of which that exeicent :ailroad man. M. E. Ingalls, was one of the early presidents. Some' fifteen years ago he m iarriedi Miss Williamnson, one of the belles of Cincinnati society. She i~s a very handsome woman now, very bright and intellectual and a charm ing conversationalist. She is weli known in New York society, andi it was he-re that Mr. Astor met her. She has been a guest at the house of Hen ry F. Vail many times during the win ter season just passed and has also visited otherhomes in New York. John Jacob Astor, who. according to announcements already made, will be set down by Thomas A. Shearmian in the November issue of the Forum as the richest man in this country, having control of about $150,000,000 is about 68 years of age. He is tall, hands .me and vigorous and bears his years well. In society he is re arded as- the finest specimen of man hood the Astor fbaily have ei er ut SI.1t1 Aru1 . LL:3J V C' 1 IV 1 aJVJJ/ lud the Happy Days that are Gone Now Forever Atlanta conmtitut ion. I wish I was a boy and had as much man's sense as I have got now. It makes me right sad to see Carl and his schoolmates plotting and planning for their Saturday frolics. I want to go with them, but I can't. I see them eleaning out their guns and loading up their shells, and patting the point er dog and talking so merrily about the birds they are going to kill, but I can't go. I want to climb a walnut tree-and shake the limbs and hear the music of the walnuts rattling down. [ want to go chestnut hunting and cut oft' the top limbs with a hatchet, or, if the trees are large and tall, show my skill in knocking the burrs down with sticks as I used to do on the old acad emy hill. We boys used to take our bundle of sticks with rs to school and hide them under the house until play Lime. I wart to go 'possum hunting and hear the music of the dogs on the track and the welcome bark when they had treed one of the dusky var mints up a 'simmon tree or a black gum or under a clay root. What a glorious frolic it was to cut him down or dig him out, and then split a stick for h:s curly tail and shoulder him and move on for another victim. I war.. to go coon hunting and see the figat. I want to go rabbit hunting in the snow. I want to climb a muscadine vine and hunt for black haws and May pops. I want to go to the mill and rut' a horse race back and cry "school butter" -s I pass the country school house. en the way. Then the boys would lay for us the next time and surround us and attack us with sticks and rocks and thrash poles, and the way we ran the gauntlet was thrill ing. I think , of all these youth-aul frolics wh n I see these boys start out, and I want to go, but I can't; I'm too old; my time's out; I couldn't keep up. The si irit is willing but the flesh is weak, very weak. It makes me puff and blow to run or fox trot a hundred yards now. My 14 gs are overloaded with corporosit , but my arms are all right. I can chop wood on a wager with most any man, and win it. I was looking at the races at Pied. mont yesterday, and it carried me back to the good old times when we boys used to mn'nt our nags and ponies and slip down the Covington road to the race tracks-not your round course nor an oval, but two long straight paraiel tracks about ten feet apart, and the bushes cut away like the right of way on a railroad.. From long use the tracks had worn into two little narrow paths; and the horses bad nothing to do but keep them. We always rode bareback, and it good riders of us. It w young life iL thoseAav '?*U6 -ia-now, forye didn't wear shoes much, or-coats, nor undershirts, nor drawers, ad a hone made eap'.a-a sealskin cap would last twor years, and then be hande& oss the next boy. Sore toes bruises and burrs in the feet o n ters in the fingers were common. to every boy, for there was no aristocracy then. Three yards of nankeen and a shirt and a pair of galluses set a school boy up pretty well for summer, and a suik of country jeans and a pair of mighty fine for w * mothers cut our ga meets and made them, and it ,didn't cost more than five dollars a year for a boy, all told. But now it takes about three suits a ycar of store clothes for the boys. Tnen there are ten dollars more for hats and shoes. And there are c7>llars and cuffs and cravats and handker chiefs and gloves and gold buttons and so forth. I went into a store in Atlanta i esterday to buy me a- coat, and a young man measured me and got out a coat, andlI put it on, and he said it fit me beautifully, and I said it didn't, and he said it was not the fault of the coat, but my shoulders were awkwardly built. I asked him if he thought I was deformed, and he said ,o, not exactly deformed. but out of the proportion,and so I departed those coasts. I tried another store, and they jerked me into a bobtail cuta way, and said it was just splendid, I looked so nobby and genteel. I told him I wanted a frock coat-a black cloth frock coat, and he curled up his lip and said that. nobody but lawyers and preachers wore them now, and they diidn't have my size. So I de parted those coasts and kept on try--. iug until I got what I wanted, but had to have the sleeves cut off a little to... suit my arms. Mrs. AXrr told me to huv her a hat-a black velvet hat witb bight, modest trimming, and so I crowded in among the women, and told them what I wanted. They sized me up pretty quick, and sized my pocketbook, and showed me a ha. that I thought would do, and asked me $1S for it. They hurt my feelings iini I departed those coasts. A friend met me and I asked him if such Lhings had tone tm that way on accouint of the 'Exuosition, and he said he reck oned not, and took me to another place, whiere the same hat. or another one just like it, was oifer::d for $9, and as I didn't thin k it prudent to go home without the ha, I bought it. It looked ike a black velvet hat to me, but whn I got it home it had changed to a bottle green, which I thought made it all the prettier, but my wife said no, that black would match a dress of any color, but green would not. And so I had to take it back and change it, and now everything is cal and serene. It has' been a lo'ug tme siace she had a 6hat, ad it does~ lo->k exravagant, but she says nay be it is the last one that I will' ever buy for her. tor her heart has been'~ flutteric . very strtage of late. I tol her the ine~ had too. ad I reckon w e rculd1 .oth pass away siultaneo: lx, and not be separated at all. Weh i a bgt'ime at the Exposi. tion. There were folks and peo pe innumei able. Thou:.ands, aud all of ihemn were sober, and none sad. A woudering countryman said to me: "Stranger, J never seed so many peo ple in all my life, aud naty two of them alike." Another man said, "I can see now why land ha.s gone up so. God Almighty aint maki. any more lad, but he keeps on makir' pecople." w1oma~n's way. Fan ny-"The Browns are still lov ers, altl' agh married ten years." Frank-"Oh, don't talk that kind of' stuff." Fanny (in dignantly)-"Stufl indeed! I saw her run down the stens last night and kiss M1r. Brown when he came home." Frank-"Pshaw! She wanted to +id o.t wat hed been drinking."