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VOL. VI. MANNING. S. C., WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1890. NO. 22 ter. The God of nature is the oud el the Bible, and in all the uiiverse, and in all the eternities, He has never once contradicted Himself. Christian merchants endow universities, wd in them Christian professors instruct the children of Christian communities. The warmest and most enthusiastic friends of Christ are the bravest and most enthusiastic friends of science. The church rejoices as much over every discoveryas the world rejoices. Good men have found that there is no0 wU b'etweeni science and religion. That which at first ihts seemed to be the weapon of the infidel has tun ed out to be the weapon of the Chris tian. Scientific discussions may be divi ded into those which are concluded, and those which are still in progress. depending for decis -on upon future investigation. Those which are con cluded have invariably rendered their verdict for Christianity, and we have faith to believe that those which are still in prosecution will come to as favorable a conclusion. The great systems of error are falling before these discoveries, which have only demonstrated the truth of the Bible, and so ;reinforced Christianity. Mo hamnedanism and paganism in their 10,000 forms have been proved false, and by great naturUd laws shown to be impostors. Buried cities have been exhumed, and the truth of God found written on their coffin-lids. Bartlett, Robison and Layard have been not more the apostles of science than the apostles of religion. The dumb lips of the pyramids have opened to preach the gospel. Ex peditions have been fitted out for Palestine, and explorers have come back to say that they have found among mountains, and among ruins, and on the shore of waters, living and undying evidences of our glori ous Chlistianity. AtHawarden; England, Mr. Glad stone, while showing me his trees du ing a prolonged walk through his magnificent park, pointed out a syca more, and with a wave of his hand said, "In your visit to the Holy Land did you see any sycamore more im presdve than thatV' I confessed that I had not. It was to such a tree as that Jesus pointed when He would illustrate the power of faith. -Ye might say unto the sycamore tree, Be thou plucked up by the root and be thou cast into the sea,, and it would obey you." One reass.n why Christ has fascinated the world as no other teacher, is because instead of using severe argument He was always tell ing how something in the spiritual world was like unto something in the iatural world. Oh these wonderful likes" of our Lord! Like a grain of mustard seed. Like a treasure hid in a field. Like a merchant seeking goodly pearls. Like unto a net that was cast into the sea. Like unto a ouse-holder. Would Christ teach the precision with which He looks after you, He says He counts the hairs on your bad. Well, that is a long and tedi ous count if the head have the average endowment. It has been found that if the hairs of the head be black there .e about 120,000, or if they be I faxen there are about 140,000. But, od k-nows the exaest number; "The airs of your hoadi tie all numbered." Would Christ impress us with the ivine watchfullness and care. He1 speaks of the sparrows that were a nisance in those times. They were aught by the thousands in the net. They were thin and scrawny, and :omparatively no meat on their bones. They seemed almost valteless, wheth er living or dead. Now, argues~ Christ,. f my father takes care of them willi e not take care of you?~ Christ would have the Christian despondent ver his slowness of reliuious develop ment go to his corn-field for a lesson. He watches first the green shoot pressing up through the clods, gradu lly strengthening into a stalk, and ast of all the husk swelling out with the pressure of the corn. "Fiirst the blade, then the ear, after that the full crn in thle ear.' Would David set forth the fresh ess and beauty of genuine Christian hracter-he sees an eagle starting from its nest just after the moulting season, its old feathers shed and its: wings and breast decked with newv own and plumes, its body as finely feathered as that of her young ones just beginning to try the speed of their wings. Thus rejuvenated and replumed is the Christian's faith and hope, by every season of commumion with God. "Thy youth is renewed like the eagle's." Would Solomon represent the annoyance of a conten tious woman's tongue. he points to a leakage in the top of his house or tent where throughout the stormyv day, the water comes throt gh, falling upon the floor-drip! drip! drip! And he says: -A continual dripping in a very rainy day and a contentious wvo man are alike." Would Christ set forth the character of thioae who make great profession of piety, but hav e no fruit. He compares them to barren tigt-rees, which have very large and snowy leaves, and nothing but leaves. Would Job illustrate deceitful friend ships, he speaks of brooks in those climes, that wind about in different diretions, and dry up when you want to drink out of them: -My brethren have dealt deceitfully as a brook, and as the streama of bm0@ksw they pass away." David when he would im press us with the despondency into which he had sunk, compares it to a quagmi'e of those regions through which he had doubtless sometimes tried to walk, but sunk in up to his neck, and lhe cried: "I sink in deep mire where there is no standing." Would Habaikkuk set forth the capa city which God gives the good man to walk saflty amid the wildest perils, he points to the wild aninmal called the hind walking over slippery rocks, and leaping from wild crag to wild crag, by the peculiar make of its hoofs, able calmly to sustain itself in the most dangerous places: The~ Lord God is my st rength, and He will nmy feet like hind's feet." Job makes all natural - objeots paLy tribute to the royalty of his boo0k. As you go through some chapters ini I Job you feel as if it were a bright| sprdng miornuag, and, as yeu see the'l glittering drops from the grass under your feet, you say with that patriarch, "Who hath begottam the drops of dewV And now as you read on, you sem in the silent midnight to be (GLORY OF LEBANON. DR. TALMACE PREACHES ON "SCIENCE AND RELICION." H-ow Chr,' Taught on Earth and why His Teaching :;et "o Faseinating to Mankind Dicovery and Itesearch and Their Effect on Reigion. Dr. Talinage on Sunday announced :Is his text Isaial lx. 13: "-The glory Of Lebanuon shall come unto thee, . :it-<. the pin.I-tree. an1d the ., t.o I.. to beatutify the place of - samtuary. Folowing is his ser nzon in fidll: 0u oar wa.ty from D.taseus we saw the mou..tams of Lebanon white with :.nov, and theplaces from which the ordLrs were hewn. and then ,irWI b% ox-te:as dotwn to the Med itt.rrau1e's.j sea, tai then floated in -reat rafts to Joppa. and then agam dirawn by ox-teaUns up to Jerusalem to build Solomon's temple. Those unhty trees in my text are called the -Glory of Lebanon." Inanimate na ture felt the effectAs of the Iirst trans vesson. When Eve touched the forlidden tree, it seems as if the sin iul contact had smitten not only that tree. but as if the air had caught the )olutiOl from the leLves, and as if L sap had carried the virus down Into the very soil until the on tire earth reeked with leprosy. Un der that sinful touch nature withered. The inanimate creation. as if aware of the damage done it. ient up the thorn and brier and nettle to wound, and tiercely oppose, the human race. Now as the phyical earth felt the effects of the first transgressions, so it shall also feel the effect of the Savior's mis sion. As from that one trea in Para dise a blight went forth through the entire earth, so from one tree to Cal vary another force shall speed out to interpenetrate andcheck, subdue and override, the evil. Inthe end it shall be found that the tree of Calvary has nore potency than the tree of Para dise. As the nations are evangelized, I think a corresponding change will . effected in the natural world. I yerily believe that the trees, andA the birds, and the rivers, and the skies will have their millennium. If man's sin affected the ground, and the vege tation, and the atmosphere, shall Christ's work be less powerful or less extensive? Doubtless God will take the irrega lariay and fierceness froIL the ele ments so as to make them congenial to the ra.e., which will then be sym metrical and evangelized. The ground shall not be so lavish of weeds and so grudgeful of grain. Soils which now havu pecular proelivities toward certain forms of evil production will be delivered from their besettimg sis. Steep mountatins, ploughed dowa into more gradual ascent, shall be girdled with flocks of sheep and shocks of corn. The wet uush shall become the deep-grassed meadow. Cattle stball oat unhanmed by caveins once haunted of wild beasts. Children will build play-houses in what was once a cave of serpents; and, as the Scripture saith, "The weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatieo s den." Oh. what har-vests shall be reaped when neither drouth, nor excessive rain, nor mildew, nor infesting insects shall arrest -the growth, ano the ut most capacity of the fields for pro ution shall be tested by an nmtelli ent and athletic yeomanry. Thrift aud competency characterizing the world's i'nhabitants, their dwelling plces shall be graceful and healthy and adorned. Tree and ambor and rove around about will -,ok as if: Ada&m and Eve had got backy Para dise. Great cities, now neglented and unwashed, shall be orderly, adorned with architectmial symmetry and con nested with far distant seapoits by present modes of transportation car ried to their greatest perfection, or by new inventions yet to spring up out of the water or drop from the air at the beck of a Morse or a Robert Ful ton 1belongig to future generations. Isaiah in my text seems to look for ward to the future condition of the physical earth as a condition of great beauty and excellence, and then pro phesies that as the strongest and nmt ornamental timber in Lebanon was brough t down to Jerusalem and constructed into the ancient temple, so all that is beautiful and excellent in the physical earth shall yet con tribute to the church now being built in the world. -The glory of Lebanon shall comefl unto thee; the fir-tree, the pinetree, and the box together, ,to u .4jtify the place of my sanctuary." eliof this prophecy has already al eadyv-een fulfilled, and I[ proceed to seine practical remuark~e upon the c.otributions which thme nat ural world is making to the kingdom of God, and draw some inferences. The first con ibution that Nature gives to the Church is her testuimony in behalf of the truth of Christianity. This is an age of profound research. Nature caniot evade men s inuires as once. In chemists laboratory she is p~ut to torure and compelled to give up her mysteries. Hidden laws have come onii of their hiding place. The earth and the heavens, since theyhave been raisacked by geologist and botanist and astronomer, appear so different from what they once were that they may be called -the new heavens and the new earth." This research and discovery will have powerful effects upon the religi on; world. They must either ad vac'i or arrest Christianity, make mien better or make them worse, be the church's honor or the church's overthrow. Christians, aware of this in the early ages of discovery, were nervous and fearful as to the progress of science. They feared that some n~atual law, before unknown, would suddenly spring into harsh collision with Chr-istianity. Gunpowder and .it geai of swords would .not .so much have been feaxed byrehgionists as electric batteries, volcanic piles ad astronomical apparatus. It was f'ared that Mfoses and the prophets wold be run over by~sceptical chemn mits andl philosophers. Some of th followers of Aistotle, after the inetion of the telescope, refused t< look through that instrument, lest what they saw would overthrow the teachings of that great philosopher. But. the Christiani religion has n< such apprehension now. Bring on your telescopes and ieroscopes and - ~s.,onn -and the more the bet hold the waving of a great11ght upon your path. and you look up to find it the aurora borealis, which Job do scribed so long ago as "the bright light in the clouds and the splendor that cometh out of the north." As you read on, there is darkness hurl ing in the heavens. and the showers break loose till the birds fly for hid ing place and ;,he moum in torrents in red fury foam over the rocky shlv ing: and with the same poet, exclau, "Who can muniber the clouds in wis doa. or who san stay the bottles of heavent" As you read on. you feel yourself roiing in frosty climes, and, in fancy, wading through the ilow, you say with that same inspired wri ter, --Hast thou enterted into the treasures of the snow!" And while the sharp .,luet drives into your face, and the hail stings your chleek, you quote him agatin; --Hast thou suen the treasures of the hail?" In the Psalmist's writins I hear the 'voice of the sea: "Deep calleth unto deep; and the roar of forests: The Lord shaketh tie wilderness of Kadesh;" and the loud peal of the black tem pest: -The God of glory thunder eth: and the rustle of the long silk on the well-filled husks: -The val eVvs are covered with corn;" and the cry of the wild beasts: --The young lions roar after their prey;" the hum of paln trees and cedars: --The right cous shall flourish like the palm-tree, Le shall grow like a cedar in Leba non;" the sough of wings and the wirl of fins: "Dominion over the fowl of the air and tho fish of the The truth of the gospel might have been presented in technical ternn, ind by means of dry definition-, buw uider these worlds would noQ [mve listenened or felt. We walk forth in the spring time," ind everything breathes of the Resur -ection. Brigut blossoms and spring ng grass speak to us of the coming Lip of those whom we have loved, vhen in the white robes of their joy iua coronation they shall appear. Lud when in thu autumn of the year 'ature preaches thousands of funer 1 serwons from the text. -We all do ade as a leaf." and scatters her ele ies in our path, we cannot help but Iink of sickness and the tomb. Even vinter, --being dead," yet speaketh." I [ho world wil not be argued into jhe righit. It will be tenderly illus rated iUo the right. Tell them Phat religion is like. When the nother tried to tell her dying child hat heaven was, she compared it to ight. --But that lurt. my eyes, aid the dying girl. Then the moth r compared heaven to music. --But ny sound hurts me: I am so weak," aid the dying child. Then she was old that heaven was like a mother's rms. -Oh take mc there!" she said. If it is lixe a mother's arms take me here!" The appropriate simile had )en found at last. Another contribution which the iatural world is making to thu king lon of Christ is the defense and aid Ivhich the eleients are compelled Ao give to the Christian personally. here is no law in nature but is worn for the Christian's defense. In lob this thought is presented as a argain made between the inanimate ~reation and the righteous man; Tnou shalt be in league with the tones of the field." What a grand hought that the lighitnings, and the emess. and the hail, and the frosts, 'hich are the enemies of unright ousness, ai'e all marshalled as the bristian's body-guard. They fight for hum. They stiike with an arm of ire,or clutch with their fing.ers of ice. LEverlasting peace is declared between he fiercest elements of nature and le good man. They may in their ury seem to be indiscrlU~iminte, smit ng down the righteous with the wick 'd, yet they cannot damage the Clh-is ian's soul, although they miay shrivel b. body. The wintry blast that iowls about your dwelling, you may all your brother, and the south wind ~oing uip on a June day by way of a oweir garde'n, you call your sister 'hough so mighty in circumference ud diameter, the sun and the moon ae a special charge concerning you. The sun shall not smite the by day, or the moon by night." Elements nd forces hidden in the er'th are ow huarnessed and and at work in aoduLcing for you food a~nd clothing. ome grain field that you never saw is resntng you this day with your' orning meal. The great earth and he heavens are the busy loom at hvork for you. Now I infer from this that the 4udy of natural objects will increase ur religious knowledge. If David od Job and John Paul could not aif ord to let go' without observatica ne passing cloud, or rift of snow, or priig blossom. you cannot afford to Let them go without study. Men >f God most eminent in all ages or faith and zeal, indulged in such >~bsrv~tions-Payson and Baxter udt Dodridge anid Hannah Moore. 1hat man is not wor'thy the name of (ji ristian who saunters l istlessly unoing these miagnticetnt disclos5ures f divine power around, beneath and above us, stupid and uninstructed. [hey ar not worthy to live ini ades ert, for that has its fountains and. alm-trees; nor in r'egions of everlast ug ice, for there the stars kindle their lights, and auroras flash, and the huge icebergs shiver in the morn og light, and God's power sits upon them as upon a great white throne. Yet there are Christians in the hurh who look upon all such ten (lencies of mind and heart as soft sententaities, aid because they believe this printed Revelation of God are content to be infidels in re gard to all that was syritten in this great Book of the universe, wi'itten in lettei .' of sttu-s. in paragraphs of cnstellations. and illustrated with sunset and thiunde'r-cloud an2 spring morning. I infsr, also, the transcendent im portance of Christ's religion. Noth ig is so far down, and nothing is so high up, and nothing is so far out. but God makes it pay tax to the Christian i'eligion. If snow anid temn ~est and dragon are expected to praise Godi, suppose you He ex pets no0 homage from your soul? Wheni Gotd has written his truth up onl e'verything1 around you, suppose yu He did not mean you to open your eyes and read it Fmnally, I learn from this subject what an honorable position the Ohr'is great and glorious in nature but it is made to edify, defend and instruct him. Hold up your heads, sons and daughters of the Lord Almighty, that I may see how you bear your honors. Though now you may think your self unbefriended, this spring's soft wind, and next summer's harvest of barley, and next autun's glowing fruits, and next winter's storms, all seasons, all alemlents, zeplhyr and our Melvdon. rose's breath and thunder cloud. gleaming light ainJ thick dark ness, tre sworni to defend you. and cohorts of aigel, would fly to deliver you frowu the peril. and the great God would unsheathe His sword and arm the universe in your cause ratlr than that harm should totch you with one of its lightest lingers, "As tle mountains around about Jerusalem, so the Lord is around about His peo ple from this timie forth forever more. Oh for more sympathy with the nat ural world, and then we should al wayrhave a Bible open before us, and we could take a lesson from the most IIeeting circum-stauces as Wheln a storm came down upon England Charles Wesley sat in a room watch ing it though an open window, and frightened by the lightning and thun der a little bird flew in and nestled in the bosom of the sacred poet, and as he gently stroked it and felt the wild beating of its heart, he turned to his desk and v. rote that hyinm which will be sung while the world lasts: Jesus, Laver of my soul, Let me to Thy bosom fly, While the billows meur me roll While the ternpest still ligh; Hide me rue, o my savior, hidu, rill tihe storia (f life te past, Salfe into the haven guide, U rec eve my il at last. THE OKRA PLANT. It is ikely to Take a Proauinent Ikee In the 'uture. There sons to be a strong proba bility that the plant known as okra Abelmosehus esculentus) will be tnade to furnish a valuable fiber. The plant grows wild all through the outhern States, and has been known ror years to farmers and stockmen as apable of producing a very strong lber, which in Texas and other local ties is now used for making lariat. Ton years ago the Department of Agriculture had samples of the plant grown in in its green-houses, and a -eport was made on the quality of the tiber. but nothing seems to have come A it. Recentlyhowever, the subject bus been revived, and the Commis sioner of Agriculture of South Caro tina, Col. A. P. Butler, seems to be very confident that a new industry ith vast possibilities is about to be pened up. A specimen of the fiber vhich has been received from Mr. Butler through the department at Washington shows a long, strong and lossy thread somewhat resembling 2emp, though darker in color. The -nruit which this okra plant produces s prized as a vegetable, the mucila rinous pods being used for thickening 5oup and to form a peculiar Southern lish called gumbo. The Southern ioil is especially adapted to growing :he plant, as the abandoned rice fields mud undrained lands generally could ae utilized for raising vast quantities >f it. Okra is also a native of the West Indies, n'otably Cuba, where it gows5 in almost all soils, and is in ligenous to Africa, where it growm vild. It is abundant ou the White Nile and near the Victoria Nyanza, mnd has long been naturalized in In la, where it is cultivated for its edi Ale pods. The fiber which has been prodluced abroad is described as long mnd silky and generally strong and pliant, its breaking strain accordiing ;o Roxburg being seventy-nine potmads Iry and ninety-tiv~e pounds wet. When vell prepared, as in the Southern Presidency of India, it is adapted for anufacture of rope, twine, sacking md paper. It is used to adulterate jte in Decca and Mymeuig. In France the manufacture of paper from the fiber is patented, and here it receives only mechanical treatment md produces a paper called bandat, which itt said to be equal to that mrade !rom pure lags. It is claimed for the okra fiber, that, inasmuch as the wood surrounds the fiber instead of being mixed with it, as in jute, and ailso that the work of prej'aration can be done by ma ehinery, the cost of production can be reduced to one cent per pound. Jute can only be profitaily produced in eountres where manual labor is very cheap, as in India and China, because ao machine has been devised for sep arating the wood from the fiber. Vast luantities of jute are imported by the United States, and it is used in mak ng gunny cloth, cordage, shirting, coat linings, anti it is extensively en ployed in mixing with silk, cotton and woolen fabrnes and ini paper making. It is' believed that okra fiber can be substituted for jute in the coarser of these lines of manufacture, and some1 even claim tnat it wil' be found avail able wherever jute is new emp~loyred. It is easily to be S')en from this that if the okra fiber semds the test of further experiment, a flew and most important industtry will spring into being. The Agricultural Department at Washington states it has not yet been determined how the plant will bear cultivation and propagation, and the depaitment is now gathering the seeds and roots to experiment wi next year. As the okra now grows luxuriantly in all parts of the- South, the production of it even in the large quantities which would be required in case the fleer comes into general use will not probably prove a serious barrier to progress in this direction, while the well-known inventive genius of Americans can be depended upon to devise machinery for preparing the iber. and to make constant improve ments upon it.-St. Louis' Home Journal. Burned to D)entb. A'ronT, Ga., April 30.-Miss Fan nieMalker, a young lady residing on Fair Street, was burned to death this afternoon. She was cooking dinnier and hex- dress caught fire from the stove. She rushed into the 0open air. and nearly all her clothing was burned from her. body. It was a horrible spectacle. The fire department turn ed out. She lingered in gr-eat agony till 10:30, when she died. She was only 17, and the daughter of a widow lady. A BIG SHAKE OUT WEST A SEVERE EARTHQUAKE SHOCK IN CALIFORNIA RECENTLY. It Oomes at Early Morn and Does; a Littlc Dainage-A Railroad Bridge settled. SAx F.ANCisco, April 30.-One o: the most severe shocks of earthquak< experienced here for a long tiro was felt in this city and neighborin localities a litt4be after 3:30 o'clocl Friday morilng. Buildings were shaken perceptibly and persons aroused from their sleep Plastering fell from the walls ii places. but no serious (lamage is re ported yet. A BRIDGE DAMAGE1). A dispatch from Maytield saym that the shock was very severe there The railroad bridge was rendered impassable. as the piers, sixty feet high. settled a few inches and the rails spread about a foot. The ground in places settled six tc twelve inche". Railroad travel will be delayed a fewhours. THE SHoCK WAS OENERAL. SAN FnAclsc,April 24.-The earth quake which was felt hero early this morning was general in this sectior of the State. The shock was very sharp in this city, but no serious danmage was done. The walls of a few housos, including the United States appraisers build ing, in which Federal courts are held, were cracked, and there was considerable alarm felt by persons who were AoUsFD FROM SLEEP. The most severe damage is reported from Pajoraro, where a railroad bridge was thrown two feet out oj line and the approaches to it dam aged. Gas mains were disjointed at Gilroy and many chimneys thrown down in the neighborhood of Watson ville. In soie localities as many as :1 dozen distinct shocks were felt. RESCUED AT THE ALTAR. A lanylaud Girl *aved From Wedding a Married Man. BArImor, April 30.- Viss Victo ria Wright. a handsome eighteen year-old brunette, of Worcestor county, was saved at the altar from a would-be bigamist a few days ago, t1rough a letter from his wife. The discovery was so great a shock that she has been ill with nervous pros tration ever ince, and it is feared she will lose her reason. About six years ago Henry C. Ler catelle. of Salisbury. went to Mapps burg, Acconiac county, Va.. and marr.ied an estimable lady of that placo Thoylived happy together until several months ago, when his wife began to suspect him of being too attentive to a youug woman in Worcester county. Recently be told his wife he was go ing to Salisbury to visit, relatives. Duriug his absence she found a love letter to him from Miss Wright. The wife wrote to her husbands' aunt at Salisbury, who soon learned that Ler catelle and Miss W~right were about to be married. The gi ha.d nmot the slightest idea her affianced was a married man. The aunt hurried to the little churen biek in the country, where the cere many was to take place. When she arrived tilre the minister had nearly finished the cer-emiony. ~-Stop)! stop!" crimed the old lady as Mihe bustled up to the altar. -Read this" she exclaimed. thru-tsting the wife's letter into the hands of the astonished preacher. Before lhe had finished reading the tell-tale message Lercatelle was hur rying out of thie church and Miss Wright had fallen et ine feet of the minister in a dead faint. At last ac counts the wife and three children were still looking for the missing husband. Thte New Riv~al for Jute. IFarmers everywhere aLre interested in the reported invention by an Au gusta muan of a macline for utilizing the Iibre of the cotton stalk in the manufacture of a covering for cotton bales, said to be equal in all respects to jute. The discovery, if it proves practicable, will settlo the fight be tween the jute trust and tihe farmer in favor of the farme.r, and will make the cotton growver th mtost independ ent agriculturist in the world. A gentleman in this city who visited Augusta a few days ago broughlt back with himi a specimen of the strands of bagging woven from the cotton stalk fibre which had first been decortic'ated by tile machine just inv~enteCd for that purpose. The strands resemtblo jute very much~ibtt are a tr-ifl darker. The ilbra seemus to be fully as strong as jute if not stronger-, munch supert- ior- to either the cotton or pine strawv suibstitutes for jute.-Gr-eenville News. Thme C)harlestont Sunt to be a Tillmani organ. OKnaLHsTON, 5. C., Apr-il 25.-It is rumored that the Ch arleston Daily Sum is to be purchased by John D. Murphy & Co., tihe farmer-s who r-e presented Charleston in the Shell convention in March last, with the intenitioni of publisiniugit ill the inte-r est of thle Tillmanu muovemlen t. The Sout~lhorn TeacherW-~ Exposition. The Souther-n Educational Exposi ion, to be held at Morechead1 City. N. C.,in connection withi the Teachecrs Assembly, this sunner, promises tc be a great suc~ess. Neiarly all the avadlable space in the-Assembly build ing has been engaged for exhibits by pominient mianufacturecrs. publishors and schools. The art exhibits fr-on some of the seminlaries and colleget of the State will be unusually inter estng. -Edwin Booth says in his letter tc the New York Tribune, that there it no trutih in the report of Lawrenc Barrett's failing health. He will re turn to the United States in June and resume his dramatic season in Sep MILLIONS OF METHODisr - Quadreidal Conference of the Southern Branch of the Great Wesleyan Church. One of the greatest religious bodies in the world will meet in St. Louis May 10.The General Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church, South, meets quadrennially. Such has been the growth of the church during the past decade that it now stands second among the great Protestant religious assemblies of the world. The Gene ral Conference of the Methodist Church alone excels it in the number of communicants represented and the value of property owned by Pro testant Church authorities. The Methodists in this country, white and blaok and of all kinds, number more than live millions (actual communi cants.) The Methodist Episcopal Church has nearly three million and the Methodist Episcopal Church, Soutn, has about one million eight hundred Ihousand. Prior to 1844 there was no division among the American Methodists. One General Conference represent ed the whole Church. At the quad reunial sessi.>n of that conference in New York in May. 1844, a division oc curred, caused by the slavery agita tion, ending in the withdrawal of all the delegates from the slaveholding States and Territories. After a very animated and long-protracted debate, the final separation was arranged, and the Methodists of the Southern States were no longer under the same juris diction as those of the North and East. The seceding delegates called a convention at Louisville, which was held in May, 1845, which permanently organized the "Methodist Episcopal Church in the South," adopted a book of discipline similar to that of the old General Conference and contain ing exactly the same doctrinal teach ings and the same forms and ceremo nies: in fact, no other difference than that of jurisdiction then existed between the two branches of Metho dism. The Conference will be called to order at noon onthe 10th day of May, when the senior bishop of the churck, the venerable J. C. Keener, will read a Scripture lesson and offer prayer, and then formally open the proceed ings. He is ex-officio president of the Conference, though all the bishops will preside in the order of seniority. There are eight bishops. They hold office during lifetime and receive an annual salary of $3,000 and traveling expenses. Bishop J. C. Granberrv will rank next to Bishop Keener. He is a Virginian, but has made St. Louis his home for several years. The secretary will doubtless be the Rev. Johu S. Martin, D. D., of Baltimore, who succeeded Dr. Sum mers, and was elected at Richmond. Bishop E. R. Hendrix of Kansas City is the junior bishop Qf the Church. He has taken the phee of the lament ed Bishop Marvin in the estimation of Missouri Methodists. He will be a conspicuous figure both in the chair and among the delegates. He was president of the Central College at Fayette when elected bishop four years ago. The'denomination he churches in foreign lands as well as in t he United States. It carries on ar .xtensive publishing business at Nashville, Tenn., and has missionaries in China, Japan, Mexico, Brazil and several countries. The niIssionary opera tions are all directed from Nashville. Winnie D)avis to be Married. Inquiry among the relatives of the lady fully confirms the report of the approaching marriage of Miss Win nie Davis toM.ikno of Syracuse She had beeni engaged to Mr. Wilkin son for some time, but woul not miarr~y during the lifetime~ of her father, Jellerson Davis. to whoma she was so devoted, :dlthoughi the pro spective marriage met with his' full approval. M[iss Davis w~ill leave Paris for home on the 10th inst. A Respite for Kemmiler. The lawyers for Kemmler the New York murderer,. condemned to die b y electricity, have procured a writ of habeas corpus from the Judge of the TUited State Court, staying the execution. The ground taken i~s that the proposed manner of execu tion is contrary to the provisions of the Constitution of the United States. The prisoner will go before the United States Judge on the third Tuesday in June. Meantime the execution is stayed. EscapMje(1 Burning to Drown. The steam engine and saw-mill of Charles~ Lawrence. situated in Spark ly county, three miles from~ Rolling Fork. Miss., was burned Saturday night. The loss is small. Fifty or sixty of Lawrence's tenants were quartered in the gin and in their ef forts to escape from the fdames seven were drowned. T he building was surrounded by water seven feet deep. They had takeni refuge there from the overflow and is is stated that their carelessness caused the fir'e.The replort that several lives had been lost in the vicinity of Gobdel has been confirmed. A family named Watson, numbering five persons, were drowned.I States Can't ishut out Liquor. The United States Supreme Court. through Chief Justice Fuller, has rendlered an opinion adverse to the constitutionality of State laws pro. iding for the seizure of liquor broght into a State in original pack ages. Such laws, the court holds, arc interferences with inter-State commnerce. After liquor becomes the property of the importer the State maay, under its po lice powers, regulate or prohibit its s le, but it has no power in the ab sence of express congressional au thority to prohibit the transportation of an article from another State and its delivery to the importer. The case in which the decision was made was that of Gus Leidy & Co., plain tiff in error,vs. A. J. Hardin, brought here on appeal from the Supreme Court of Iowa, and this court re verses the decisioni of the State court. Justices Gray, Harlan and Brewer dissented. The case is one of great importance to prohibitionists and liquor dealers. -Chauncey M. Depew was 58 years old on April K3 THE WAITER STOOD ACHAST A Comedy of Errors Euactea ii a ah ington Reeat.uriuat. A good story in which two distin guished Louisianians, and a no less distinguished Georgian.tigured some what conspicuously in a restAurant in Washington. D. C., a short time ago, was related to a newspaper man. The Louisianians were Hon. Thomas J. Semmes and Mr. James Legendre of this city, and the Georgian was Hon. Ben Hill, son of the late senator, and himself a prom inent Georgia politician. The party were en route to New York city to attend the centennial of the Supreme Court of the United States. On the arrival of the train at Washington, 1). C., the usual time for breakfast was announced, and Messrs. Senimes and party, taking advantage of the opportunity thus of fered, hastened to the nearest res taurant. Each ordered as his taste and inclination prompted, and set tled his own account. Messrs. Semmes and Hill attacked the bill of fare to the extent of $1. and Mr. Legendre contented himself with a 75-cent meal. Breakfast ended. the three gentle men each handed the waiter a silver dollar -the exact amount of money due by Messrs. Semnies and Hill. Twenty-five cents were duo Legen dre, however, and this amount the waiter returned to him on his tray. Mr. Legendre had enjoyed his break fast and, being in a good humor, he replaced the quarter on the tray to "tip" the waiter. The waiter, placing the money ia glass on his tray. passed in to Mr. Semnmes as a gentle reminder of what was expected of him. Mr. Semmes was, however, busily conversing with his friend.Mr.Hillat the time,andin an absentminded sort of way quietly ap propriated the tip money under the impression, no doubt, that it was his change. The waiter was dumbfound ed, and M11r. Legendre, somewhat em barrassed, beckoned to him and dropped an additional quarter on tne tray to soothIe his feelings. This the waiter passed to Mr. Hill with the hope that lie at least, had "caught on," and that Mr.Semmes night final ly be brought to a knowledge of his mistake. But he again made a seri ous error. Mr. Hill dealt -with the tip money just as Mr. Senimes had done in the first instance' and the conversation proceeded in the ordi. nary way. Mr. Legendre was already out 50 cents in the scheme, and was conse quently not further inclined in that direction. and before the waiter could recover sufficiently to explain the mistake the three strangers left the restaurant and were on their way to New York.-New Orleans Times Demoeg.at MURDER WILL OUT. The Asassin of Clayton of Arkau'4.s Tells the Tale of the Murder-The Crime the Results of a Feud. A dispatch from Los Angeles. Cah fornia, says: Regarding the report that Thomas Hooper, the rancher, who died at Ranchito, near here last winter, was implicated in the murder of John M. Clayton of Arkansas. the following facts are learned: Last June. Charles Lewis called on Sheriff Aguirre and said that in the latter part of 1888 he had made the acquain tance of Thomas Hooper and cared for him when he was sick. Hooper wa often moody, and Lewis asked him the reason. Hoope: replied, in timating that in 1S68 lie killed two men in Conwvay County. Arkansas, whose mes Lew is caught as' Thomas and May. Little by little he told Lewis that several years befoi-e his father had ben killed in Arkanis is by a body of meni. who took bim from jail anid lynzehed hin. IbL swore ven geance upon the lyneber~s and' told Lewis the nu ni whom hie had illed were two of the r'ileaaders in thel paty while Clayton was the third.! If you ever hear of Clayton dying with his boots on."' Hooper remarked to Lewis. "you will know who killed lim." During D~ecember, Hooper disappeared and soon after Lewis read of the assassination of Clayton, and Lewis called at Hooper's house and Hooper's son said lie did not know where his father was. Later, Lewis learned that H~ooper had reap pared and bought a ranch at .Ran chito. During the investigationi by sheriff letters were received from Governor Eagle of Arkansas stating that Tom Hooper was brought up in Conway County. Arkansas, and went through the war in the Confederate army; that he was in Eagle's regimient when q1ute a boy. He left the State in 1868 or 18t8, and has not been there since to live. The Governor's description is said to it Rtanchito Hooper. He also said Hooper's fath er was murdered about the time stated. The sheriff was about to ar rest Hooper last waiter, when the floods came and e'ut off' connection with Ranchito for several days. D~u ring that time Hfooper~ was taken down with pnIeumkonia and died. Governor Eagle. in rep~lyig under date of March 31, 1890. to a conunii cation from Shieriff Aguirre of Los Angeles County. requests specimiens of Hooper's writing. He emeludos b saying: --Tlie circumiskuices that have comie to light point to Hooper as the probable person who committed this crimae. If he did, and is now dead. hie cannot be convicted in the courts, but I hiope you wdll immmedi atly take this up and help us rush it to a conclusion." 1s Ajkken's -freasurer Short. AIKEN. S. C.. April 29.-It has been kiiown for~ a week or two that Treasurer Murray. of Aiken county, was~ short i cash. The grand jury found two wveeks ago that something was wrong. T2he county auditor wvas put upon the case anid to-day it is de veloped that the treasurer is at least $17000 short after all deductions for salary and other things have been made.Mr.Murrayhas turnedoverevery thing to his bondsmen. who will make the loss good. It is not known what became of the money in the treas ury. -The Hamiburger Nachric.hten again asserts that Prince Bismarek will appear in Parliament, but with the sole object of sending his vote to he Comnif dState. "THE FORT PiL.OW MA/SACRE." & story ff the War Again Proved Faise. Myths die hard, but the alleged -Fort Pillow massacre" received a Ilow in the Nashville Round Table >f March 8 that must prove absoluto: ty fatal-in the minds, at least, of persons not wholly impervious to Politicians during the war, and Re ublican partisans since have per istently chargedGeneral Forrest and 3eneral Chdmers, his subordinate, vith having massacred the garrison >f Fort Pillow after the surrender md while prisoners of war. Mr. LIharles W. Anderson, formerly adju xtmt and inspector-general of Gener I Forrest's cavalry corps t'he only stati officer present with Forrest at the storming of the fort, shows in -he Round Table that there was no massacre, that the fort was not sur :endered, though its surrender was hirce demanded and refused, and that the loss of life during the fifteen uinutes of the action was due to the otal ineapacity of the command ing officer. Fort Pillow was a fortified position 3n a bluff overlooking the Mississippi_ river. In its rear was a deep ravine, which could be swept by the guns of the New Era, a vessel which lay breast to the mouth of the ravine, below the fort. Higher up the stream: nd near the fort wre the empty barges ready to receive the garrison in ease of need. There was an understanding it is shown between Major Bradford, the commandant af the fort, and Cap tain Marshal, of the New ErA, that, if driven fr.>m the fort by the Con rederates, the garrison should take refuge under the bluffwhere it would. be effectually protected by the Now Era's canister. Anmmunition was placed under the bluff in readiness for use by the garrison in case the works above could not be held. A iscalculation as to the grit of the -aptain of the New Era spoiled tais plan of the defense. General Forrest's first operadon was to drive the New Era from its position oommanding the Ravine 4cross which the Confederates were to advance. This he effected by placing two pieces of artillery on the bluff below the ravine. The Confed arate line was then, under a heavy tire. closed in rapidly around the works. Having sounded a bugle call' or a truce and a parley, General For :est now sent forward a white flag to leman I the unconditional surrender >f all the troops at Fort Pillow. He oiew," says Adjutant Anderson, that the place was practically in-his' possession, as the enemy could not lepress their artillery so as to rake onstant fire of our sharpshooteis orced the besieged to keep down be ind their parapets." The demand was renewed twice, when rejected, In the belief that the federal com atander must see the folly of resist ing under the circumstances a force so much larger than his own. Major Bradford, however, relying upon his arrangements with Captain Marshial for protection undere the bluff when the fort was taken,refused il offers. Meanwhile the sight of three steamers ascending the river with reinforcements led General For-' rest to place a force of 150 riflemen under AdjutLt Anderson in a posi tion on the face of the blutf. Tiii force not only served to prevent the troops on the steamers from effect ig a landing, but, being within sixty cards of the south entrance of the rort. it commanded the line of re reat upron which Major Bradford re liedl. This was the situation when Gen curl Forrest gave the signal to as sault the fort. At once the yells all iong the line oi charging Confeder ites. followed by a terrible discharge f the batteries and small arms of the garrison, A few moments later a ortion of the garrison rushed down owards the river and were met with a lestructive lire from a det whatent un ier Adjutant Anderson. The -r amphant yells of the Confederates as hey moutned the enemny's parapets were heard again, and followed this :imec in a moment by the whole force f the g arrisoa pouring over the slope f the bluff, with arms in hand, seek ug the protection of the New Era's .ms. Under the fire of AdjutantAn erson's men they fell thiek and fast [eing in utter dismay and confusion it finding the appointed place of ref. age in the enemy's hands. Under this ire and that of their pursuers of he assaulting line sonic 250 were killed within a few minutes. There had been as yet no surrender. Nor ws~ there any. As soon as General Forrest entered the fort he hauled down thellag, and that was followe'd immnediately. by a ecssation of the firing. -The mo nent." says Adjutant Anderson, "the federal colors cam ie down I oirdered ~ring to cease, and it was promptly What has been called a "msace was this tiring of Anderson's men upon armed force doing battle, such irmed force not having surrendered nd being without intention of sur' rendering. It is an obvious abuse of bnguage, of course, to call a special ly destructive collision of armed men a massacre. The assault on the works. the at tempted retreat to the river, the woe ful disaster conseqjuenlt upon the fail u'e of the New Era to do its appointed work-all this occupied, Adjutant Anderson tells, not over fifteaimin After the battle every effort was made to treat the wounded and pris oners in the best manner. In sup port of this story of the battle Adju tant Anderson publishes a number of letters fronm Confedratesand Feder als who took part in it. Tneir teati ony is wholly to the point that there was no massacre-only a disas er such as every ar'my might expect sometimes to encounter. The Radicals appear to mean busi n~ess this year. It is stated th Chairman B'raytoni hias called a S Convetion. 10o une- !I ('harles at :,n eiarh da:e, to~ noincaiis a Sta~t' ticket. It i-~ said the e complement of Celegates 'have been elected.