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. .MANNING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 1890. NO. 51. VOL. AMO T OLY ! . INUES HIS HOLY DR. TALMAGE C RIES. LAND - ,. where' Christ The Village ot Naz rs Descriptive Was a Boa-lTe tExcite Grea DiscourSes Ccuti) interest. The iittele;, BitooK LYN, Nov. which Dr. Ta i the series of sermo ec; !,t tour In mage is describing r -ogospel lcs Palestine and menu. .me increases sons suggested by hi ,ere was never from week to week. >ne of the pre so large a crowd at iere was today vious eight sermons Academy ot around the Brookl and at The Music in the mor in the even Christian Herald ser Itssuidject was ing, the ninth sermo " and the text, "Among the Iholy Ii1 to Naxareth Luke, iv, 16. "He car olowing where he was brought is the sermon: I had last What a splendid S -ent, my first night in a Catholic :aving Jerus sleep within doors sin, y treated as alem, and all of us as pe aud his though we had been t '?that way ' college of cardinals P sterhood of Last evening the geni - red bright the convent ordered a out to sing eyed Arab children br ious! This for me, and it was -teps of the morning I come out O' ost beau. convent and look upon its houses tiful village of all Pale its name, of white limestone. th, one o Nazareth,historical Na Christian the trinity of places that that the3 travelers must see or f ely,Beth have not seen Palestin h. Baby. ieei, s N. him fo: hood, boyhood, manho ty millio. whom 1 believe there ar were re. people who would now. hether ur quired, march out and di r straigi der ax or down in the floo through the fire. T11. THE VILLAGE OF NA' th, ever Grand old village is e iations putting aside its sacred t can b( First of all, it is clean; an ges. It said of few of the orienta is thi neighboring town of Na ugh it, filthiest town 1 ever saw, cture 0: chief Industry is the ma. azarett soap. They export all of il e morn was perhaps unusually cle nto thi ing 1 speak of, for as we ro e show village the afternoon befo hes t( ers which had put our mia gh al: the test thad poured floods clouds the alleys under command o ioners those thorough street com en thi Besides that, Nazareth ha Israe scene of battles passing it f oha'n lite to Mohammedan and fro nder. medan to Christian, the mos -hiel f ul of the battles being that we;( twenty-five thousand Tu ench beaten by twenty-one hundr thal Napoleon Bonaparte comma hesi greatest of Frenchmen walk alk very streets through which J ral ed for nearly thirty years, t. o of the two the antipodes, the ap Russia and the plagues of x propriately following the one, 0 ologies of earth and the halle ht heaven appropriately follo' au other. And then this town is wl tifully situated-in a great gr inj the sides of the bowl the sur .h< fifteen hilis. The God of na t = si Sep ed out this valley for privacy .ire< aration Irom all the world duri.irt most important decades, th t years of Christ's boyhood an for of the thirty-three years o n stay on earth he spent thirty t in this town in getting ready ung rebuke to those who have. tience with the long y ears of p .tion necessary when they enter special-mission for the church world. The trouble is with nmes men that they want to laune hpfrmthe dry dock beforeilt1 anu enc so anysink in the lone. stay in the store as a s nate until you are thoroughly ped. Be a goed employ ei our0 until youl are quahlied to be an el er. Be content with .Nazareth you are ready for the buffeting 4 rusalem. You may get go glor equipped in the thirty years tha can do more in three y ears ,than men can accomplish in a pro] lifetime. These little suggestion: apt to put into my sermon, hopi help people for this world, whil chiefly anxious to have them p for the next world. wBERE CHRtIsT wAs A BOY Al] Christ's boyhood was s] this village and its surrour ~'here is the very well called f'ountain of the Tirgin,' to which mother's side he trotted along . her hand. No doubt about it; it only well in the village, and it h; the oply well for three thousand This morning we 'nsit it, at mothers have their children wi. now as then. The work of d water in all ages in those coud been women's work. Scores are waiting for their turn at great and everlasting springs out into that well their barrels hogsheads of water in iloods glc abundant. The well is surrour olive groves and wide spaces im people talk si a children, ' charms on their heads as prc against the -evil eye," are plhi women with their strings 01. either side of their face, and i; of blue and scarlet andi whitc an move on with water jarson thii Mary1suposealmost alwai: ne she could lev dkn havs, humble circumstane ondev h<y teldats. 1 do ntblieven ti ne Qf the surroundinig ..tefl' the boy Christ did not range th fom to top, or one cavern in cie he did not explore or one speeci ying across th o tall hec call by name, or one tosel te of fauna browsing on toe5 he had not recognized.hhi You see it all th~gh i If a man becomes a public sp' his orationis or discourses yoa his early whgreabouS .hime betiu the apostle 1'etl asee the fihn nets wlit hd from his earhist day s been And whenl Amos delivers his you hear in it the ubatg gof Ad in our Lor(gs seriions at satios5 you see al th .hae ife and the mountamious lf n t. They raised their Owl n azareth, and in alter tiu O Jerusalem 1 Jerusaletl wud 1 have gathered th gthered her chickens e igat !' He had seen his im the family wardrobe at tt outg having desr o he - ad in atter y ears he says:. p for yourselves treasur. where motni doth carrup~ hood he had seen a mile white as the snow, or red ~ or blue as the sea, or gree tse oand no .oner i While one ga on a ai' now stands the tomb of he had seen winging past ::s to ilurry his hair the partridge and the hoopoe and the thrush and the osprey and the crane and the raven, anMd no wonder afterward in his man hood sermon he said, "Behold the fowls of the air." In Nazareth and on the road to it there are a great many camels. I see them now in memory making their slow way up the zigzag road from the plain of Esdraelon to Nazareth. Familiar was' Christ with thei r appearane, also with that small inscct, the gnat, which he had seen his iA her strain out from a cup of water or pail of milk. and no wonder he briras afterward the large quadruped and the small insect into his sermon and, while seeing the Pharisees careful about small sins -and reckless about large ones, cries out : "Woe unto you blind guides which strain out a grat und 5w Jiow a camel !" HE KNEW ADOUT THE SHEEP. Ile had in boy'ood seen the shep herds get their flocks mixed up, and to one not familiar with the habits of shepherds and their flocks, hopelessly mixed up. And a sheepstealer appears cn the scene and dishonestly demands some of those sheep, when he owns not one of them. "Well," say the two hon est shepherds, "we vill soon settle this imatter," and one shepherd goes out in one direction and the other shepherd goes out in the other direction, and the sheepstealer in another direction, and each one calls, and the flocks of each of the honest shepherds rush to their oxvner, while the sheepstealer call and calls again, but gets not one of the flock. No wonder that Christ. years efter, preaching on a great occasion and illustrating his own shepherd qualities, says: "When he putteth torth his own sheep he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice, and the stranger they will not fol'ow, for they know not the voice of the stranger." The sides of these hills are terraced for grapes. The boy Christ had often stood with great round eyes watching the trim ming of the grapevines. Clip ! goes the knife and off falls a branch. The child Christ says to the farmer, "What do vou do that for?" "Oh," says the farier, "that is a dead brr-nch and it is doing nothing and is only in the way, so I cut it off." The'a the farmer with his sharp knife prunes from a living branch this and that tendril and the other tendril. "But," says the child Christ, "these twigs that you cut off now are not dead; what do you do that for," "Oh," says the farmer, "we prune off these that the main branch may have more of the sap and so be raore fruitful." No wonder in after years Christ said in his sermon: "I am the true vine and my father is the husbandman; every branch in me that beareth not fruit he taketh away, and every branch that beareth fruit he purgeth it. that it may bring forth more fruit" Capital ! No one who had not been a country boy would have said that. Streaks of nature all through Christ's sermons and conversations! When a pigeon descended upon Christ's head at his baptism in the Jordon it was r.ot the first pigeon he had seen. And thea he has such wide sweep of discourse as you may imagine from one who haz stood on the hills that overl6ok Naza reth. As far as I understand, Christ visited the Mediterranean sea only once, but any clear morning he could run up oi a hill near Nazareth and 'ook of to the west and -ee the Medi hile there in the north is snowyY 3Iu tarocaa as in whkite robe of ascension, and younder on the east and southesat Mount Gilboa, Mount Tabor and Mount Gilead, and yonder in tie south is the plain ol Esdraelon over which we rode yester. day on our way to Nazareth. ThosE -mountains of his boyhood in his-mnem ory, do you wonder that Christ whet he wanted a good pulpit made it out ol a mnountain-"seeing the multitndes hE Swent up -into the mountain." And !when he wanted especial communion with God he took James and John and 1Peter into "a mountain apart." UIE WAs A COUNTRtY BOY. Oh. this country 1:oy of Nazareth coine fo.rth to atone for tne sins of thE viorld, and to correct the follies of thE world, and to stamip out the cruelties o~ the world, and to illumine the diark ress of the world, and to transfige the hemispheres! So it has been thE mission of the country boys in all ages 0to transform and inspire and rescue Trhey come into our merchandise and our court rooms and our healing ail !and our studious and our theology ~hey lived in Nazareth before they en ered Jerusalem. And but for thai nnual influx our cities would havE 'nervated and sickened and slain thE enace. Late hours and hurtful appare: dind' overt axed digestive organs and bysowding environments of city lifi 01culd have halted the world; but thi 'i alleys and mountains of Nazarett is dave given fresh supply of health anc .oral invigoratIon to Jerusalem, ani e country saves the town. From thi t is5~ of New Ihampshire and the hillh Virginia and the hills of Georgih linto our national eloquence thE -bsters and the Clays and the HenrI eerradys. From the plain homes c: rochuse~tts and Maryland come int< thir ainlcharities the George Pea, riil'and the William Corcorans ddythe cabins of the lo iely countrl hich ns come into our national desti the Andrew Jacksons and thE aci am Licolns. From plow boy' dkv ana village counter and black 'ai n ,s forge conme most of our citI sk.irts. Nearly all the Messiahs in al. 'tments dwell in Nazareth beforn r geens ame to Jerusalem. I send this anks from these cities, mostlI prosp~erous by country boys, t< aig n rmhouse and the prairies anc ogno untain cabins, and the obscur ls that rid west, to the fathers and r sie alive or the hillocks undel of bird vhiey sleep the long sleep. Thank! uld not 1grusalem to Nazareth. species 'asi that the city should so of *.s that the country boys as of old thE Nazareth was treated at Jer rmns latin. not by hammers and ker in tby instruments just as cru ic'e very street of every city thE -byc1goes on. Every year shows .g o usand of tihe slain. Oh, ho~ rces them up: Under what wheels amiiar gr th ciy tkebetter care ol rophecY thi and young men arriving he heros tr(.country. They are worth ttended-.ae r now. ol the prefacE d conlver- of ey will be if, instead of sac of village rit help them. Boys as gran ~urroad-d as v'ho with his elder brothe! chickens c eig huc towver, and nol ehe cries: k rieir danger went outside or ow oiten soi s, when one of those tim 10s a hen ie~ d the boys feil, and thE n.er her 01.jught on a beam and thE ther open I *ohed the foot of the older e close 0f 'h Id not climb up with thi lers tiv ing \ o. gimg to his ieet, so thE gatfni-t ~o4 "John, I am going t( L1a' nut ec g climb out into safety Sa tartil but '.m up with me hold in chld- in~ Egoing to let go; kis (f iiV er, motiend tell her not to fee sthe diamez, Ibadli" And he let go an~ -b the tr ee was hled upon the groun ahodhe o0gmzable. IPlenty o pon here arel alem be careful hov ~eby Ismail, it tre- . gentleman long agE hi; so near 1enter~ in Germany and hi bowed very low before the boys, and the teacher said, "Why do you do that?" "Oh," said the visitor, "I do not know what mighty man may yet be developed among them." At that instant the eyes of one of the boys flashed fire. Who was it? Martin Lu ther. A lad on his way to school pass ed a door step on which sat a lame and invalid child. The passing boy said to him, "Why don't you go to school' "Oh, I am lame and I can't walk to school." "Get on my back," said the well boy, "and I will carry you to school." And so he did that day and for many days until the invalid was fairly started on the road to an educa tion. Who was the well boy that did that kindness? I don't know. Who was the invalid he carried? It was Robert Hall, the rapt pupil orator of ,l Christendom. Better give to the boys who come up from Nazareth to Jerusalem a crown instead of a cross. CANA IN GALILEE. In about two hours we pass through Cana, the village of Palestine where the mother of Christ and our Lord attended the wedding ot a poor relative, having come over from Nazareth for th-it purpose. The mother of Christ-for women are first to notice such things -found that the provisions had fall en short and she told Christ, and he to relieve the embarrassment of the housekeeper, who had invited more guests than the pantry warranted, became the butler of the occasion, and out ot cluster of a few sympathetic words squeezed a beverage of a hun dred and twenty-six gallons of wine in which was not one drop of intoxicant, or it would have left that party as maudlin and drunk as the great cen tennial banquet in New York, two years ago, left senators, and governors, and generals, and merchant princes, the difference between the wine at the wedding in Cana and the wine at the banquet in New York being, that the Lord made the one and the devil made the other. We got off our horses and examined some of these water jars at Cana said to be the very ones that held the plain water that Christ turned into the purple bloom of an especial vin tage. I measured them and found them eighteen inches from edge to edge and nineteen inches deep, and de clined to accept their indentity. But we realized the immensity of a supply of a hundred and twenty-six gallons of wine. What was that for? Probably one gallon would have been enough.for it was only an additioned installment of what had already been provided; and it is probable that the housekeeper could not have guessed more than one gallon out of the way. But a hundred and twenty-six gallons! What will -they do with the surplus? Ah, it was just like our Lord! Those young peo ple were about to start in housekeeping and their means were limited, and that big supply, whether kept in their pan try or sold, will be a mighty help. You see there was no strychnine or logwood or nux vomica in that bever age, and, as the Lord made it, it would keep. He makes mountains and seas that keep thousands of years, and cer tainly be could make a beverage that would keep four or five years. Among the arts and inventions of the future I hope there may be some one that can press the juices from the grape and so mingle them and without one drop of damning alcoholism that it will keen for years. And the more of it you take the clearer wafl be the brain and the healthier the stomach. And .here is a remarkable ract In my recent journey-I traveled through Italy and Greece and Egypt and Palestine and Syria and Turkey, and how many in toxicated people do you think I saw in all those five great realms ? Not one We must in our Christianized lands have got hold of some kind of beverage that Christ did not make. GLAD HIE WAS THiERE. Oh, I am glad that Jesus was present at that wedding, and last December, standing at Cana, that wedding came back. Night had fallen on the village and its surroundings. The bridegroom had put on his head a bright turban and a garland of flowers, and his gar ments had been made fragrant with frankincense and camphor, an odor which the oriental especially likes. Accompanied by groomsmen, and pre ceded by a band of musicians with 'flutes and drums and horns, and by torches in full blaze, he starts for the bride's home. This river of iire is met by anoth,:r river of lire, the torches of the bride and bridesmaids, flambeau answering flambeau. The bride is in white robe and her veil not only covers her face but envelops her body. IIer trousseau is as elaborate as the re sources of her father's house permit. Her attendants are decked with all the ornaments they own or can borrow; but their own personal charms make tame tIhe jewels, for those oriental women eclipse in attractiveness all others except thiose of our own land. The damson rose is in their cheek, and the diamond in the luster of their eyes, and the blackness of the night in their long locks, and in their step is the gracefulness of the morning. At the first sight of the torches of the bride groom and his attendants coming over the hill the cry rings through the home of the bride: "They are in sight! Gel ready! Behold the bridegroom com eth! Go ye out to meet him." As the two processions approach each other the timbrels strike and the songs com mingle, and then the two processions become one and march toward the bridegroom's house, and meet a third procession which is made up of the friends of both, bride and bridegroom. Then all enter the house and the dance begins and the door is shut. And all this Christ uses to illustrate the joy with which the ransomed of earth shal. meet him when he comes garlanded with clouds and robed in the morning and trumpeted by the thunders of the last day. Look! There he comes down off the hills of heaven, the bridegroom! And let us start out to hail him sound ing; "Behold, the bridegroom cometh! And the disappointment of those who have declined the invitation to the gospel wedding is presented under the nigure of a door heavily closed. You hear it slam. Too late. The door is shut! Do you see how the Holy Land and the Holy Book lit each other? God with his left hand built Palestine and with his right wrote the~ Scriptures, the two hands of the same being. And in proportion as Palestine is brought under close inspection, the Bible wil. be found more glorious and more true. Mightiest book of the past! M1ightiest book of the future! Mlonarch of all literature! The proudest works of genius shall decay, And reason's brightest luster fade away; The sophist's art, the poet's boldest flight, Shall sink in darkness and conclude~ iu But faith triumphant over time shall stand, S halt grasp the sacred volume in her hand; B ack to its source the heavenly cift convey: Then in the flood of glory melt away. Fatalities of the Sea. LoNDoN, Nov.26t.-The British steam er Westbourne, from Feodosia, R ussia for Hull, has been wrecked in the Blaci E Sea. Six of her crew were drowned itwelve died from exposure, and livi landed at F-eodosia. The Britishi shi1 -Sudbourne, from Hamburg. Novemibe - th, for Rangoon, has been sunk in col lision off Dungeness. Eleven of hei TILE GOVElINOUSl MESSAGE. A SYNOPSIS OF A VERY IMPORTANT STATE PAPER. Governior Richardxson's Ieview' of the Condition of Pu1bic A ffairs Accompain1 ed with Sundiry Recoinien(lations--A Plain B usino. s Like Document. COLUMm A. S. C., Nov. 26.-Special: In accordance with custom the annual message of the Governor of South Car olina to the General Assembly was presented in each branch of that body this morning. The paper is of usual length and touches upon all the differ ent departments. A synopsis of its contents must suffice for the purposes of this correspondence. - F INAN C ES. The expenditures of the State gov ernment for the liscal year ending on the 31st October amounted to $1,110, 036.23, leaving a balance in the treas ury, on that date, of :77,933.93. The expenses of the several counties and of the schools are not included in the above. The total State debt reported by the Comptroller General and the State Treasurer as outstandinaon the 31st of October, 1890, is 36,992,919.49. The Governor speaks favorably of the operation of the new law for the summary sale of property for non-pay ment of taxes. That law has reduced the number of forfeitures of land for non-payment of taxes from about 1,100 to 57 for the entire State. The amount due the State on account of old forfeited lands appears in the present Report of the Sinking Fund Commission to be over $300,000. An effective law for its collection seems to have been at last devised and is now operative. Under this law the dues can be collected through a trial justice wherever the amount involved is less than S100 and in the Court of Common Pleas where the amount involved ex ceeds $100. THE PUBLIC SCHOOLS. On this all-important srbject the Governor gives some interesting and encouraging figures, as follows: The Renort of the Department for 1886 gives as number of School Districts........ ..... 557 The Report for 1890 foots up... 707 Increase................... 150 In 188; the number of Public Schools................ 3.660 In 1890 the figures make them. 3,948 Increase................ 287 In 1886 the total enrolment of pupils was.... ........ ...... 183,966 The Report for 1890 gives...... 201,260 Increase................... 17,294 Average attendance in 1886.... 126,696 Average attendance in 1890.... 147,799 Increase................... 21,103 Teachers employed in 1886..... 3,835 Teachers reported in 1890...... 4,364 Increase................... 529 Number of school houses in 1886 2,858 Number of school houses in 1890 3.155 Increase................ 297 In addition to those owned by the State there are now rented 126 Valuation of school buildings in 188G........... ...... .....$393,903 In 1890................. .... 487,252 Increase...................893,349 Estimated value of graded school buildings row under contract................. 50,000 The Uniiversity, at Columbia, the Citadel and Claflin University are shown each t o be in a prosperous con dition. Ie recommends that the State continue its support of these institu tions. THlE CLEMSON COLLEGE. After stating the result of the litiga tion over 31r. Clemson's will, the ac erual to the State of the property valu ed at $72,283.24,tand the commencement of worK at Fort Ihill, the Governor says: Contracts were made for the manu, facture of three millions of brick, and forsawing all suitable lumber to be found on the Fort Hill place. The contractors for the brick manu facture gave up their c'ntract October 1, 1890, from having failed with their first three kilns. The matter was com promised by the Board's buying the contractors' machinery and outfit, and continuing the work on the College ac count. To prevent delay in the work from this failure, 200,000 bricks were immediately purchased and the manu facture of brick on the place largely in creased. Tniecomnpletion of the laboratory, t wo professors' houses and the experiment station building before the 1st of Janu ary, 1891, have now been secured, and with the opening of Spring all the work on the buildings is expected to be ac tively pushed. The plans of the B1oard embrace the erection of a large College building, a mechanical hall, ten resi dences for professors besides the two now in course of construction, and smaller houses for foremen, three dormitory buildings, a.mess hall, kitch en, laundry and infirmary, with com Iplete barns, &c., for the experimental farm. The Board states "that the comple tion of the whole in time for the open ing of the College, on October the 1st next, will depend on the decision of the Legislature to grant at once the appro priations necessary for the entire con struction contemplated. If the appro priations are spread out over two years instead of one, the College can still be partially opened October 1st next, and the wvork on the buildings still go on. The use of convictsin the work has up to this time, been the occasion of great saving in cost and delays, and an in crease of this help will greatly facili tate the completion of the buildings in time. At this date everything is mov ing satisfactorily, with a very fair chance for a full realization of all ex pectations. Whilst the expenditures so far have not been large, most of the money is in a shape which shows the economy that has been used, and all of it can be easily traced to expenditures that were proper. The brick on hand and ini course of manufacture,the lum ber in the buildings and on the sites ready to be used, the various machin ery, with wvagons and mules, and hun dreds of other things ini value at a rea sonable appraisement will even now amount to more thani all the money that has been expended. No mistakes have so far been made which have brought any loss t3 the State or Col lege." (OTHIER sCHOOLs. IThe Winthrop T.raining School for ITeachers, located at Columbia. is repre sented as alreadly having done a splen did work, and is especially commended' to the fostering care of the General Assembly. The Institution for the D~eaf and :Dumb atnd the 1Blind, located at Cedar iSprings in Spartanburg County, con tinu.es its most excellent work. THlE DEP'AI:TMENT OF AG;RICU'LTURE. IThe work of this department is sum morized as follows: Under the Department's supervision the phosphate beds of the State during the fiscal year ending August 31, 1800, vielded in royalties the handsome sum f $237,150.01. This is by $25,048.05 the largest sum ever realized in a single year by the State from this source, and Its collection and payment into the State Treasurv has been made at no expense to the'public beyond the ordin ary expenditures by the Department of Agriculture. I would commend to the serious con sideration of the Legislature the recom aiendations of the Report that returns f phosphate rock mined be first made to the oflice of the Special Assistant, md by him transmitted to the Comp .roller General, and that the amount of bond now required from persons min ng under general right licenses in the iavigable waters of the State be in ,reased. Experience has shown that ,he present bond required-85,000-is mntirely inadequate to afford the State protection in all cases against loss of oyalty. The quantity of commercial fertili ers used upon the present crop by our armers has been unusually large, near v 37,000 tons in excess of any previous ear, and it is shown that, in consequ nce. ot the efficient inspection and upervision exercised by the Depart nent, less than one per cent. of this material was fraudulent. The introduction of contagious dis ases among the live stock of the State >y the indiscriminate importation of mnimals from other States is discussed, md a system of inspection is suggested s a protection. The Report of the Director of the Experimental Stations gives a state nent of the work performed upon the :wo State Farms under control of the Board of Agriciulture. The State Farmers' Institute held at [idge Spring last July under the aus >ices of the .Department, proved a very ;uccessful and instructive meeting. It s impossible to overestimate the value )f such gatherings to our agricultural nterests. A full report of the inter sting proceedings is embodied in the Department's Report. During the past fiscal year the De )artment has continued the State Weather Service wnich, co-operating vith the National Bureau, furnisbes he people of the State with daily eather predictions :ind warns the )anters of threatened freshets. The Report presents some valuable .nformation as to the infant oyster in lustry of the State, and I would urge ipon the Legislature the enactment of such regulations as will conduce to its levelopment. If the proper steps are aken. it can unquestionably be made o yield the State a handsome revenue. The Commissioner of Agriculture recommends the inauguration of a survey, not only of the phosphate beds n her navigable waters, but a geologi al survey of the entire State, in order o ascertain as accurately as possiible he value of our phosphatic deposits as well as our other mineral wealth. The necessity for such a work becomes yearly more apparent. THE PENITENTIARY. The number of convicts is 791, of whom 59 are white and 732 are colored. Of these 50 are at work on the Clemson College; there have been an average of ?91 employed in farming, and an aver ge of 196 on the Columbia Canal. In the opinion of the Governor, the in titution has been well managed. He gives the following summary of its work during the past twelve years: [mprovement of prison......$195,000 00 Labor expenaed on Colurn bia Canal................. 125,00000 Dash expended on Columbia Canal..................... 44,579 58 Cash to State Treasurer..... 42,954 01 Railroad Scrip received for hire of convicts, as per Act of the Legislature..14,987 33 Land purchased for the pris on.................... 10,20000 Live stock, cattle, hogs, im provements, &c, on State Farms................. 7,00000 Work on State House Grounds for five years.. 3.000 00 Total.... ...........442,720 92 'rom which deduct all ap propriations f or t h e twelve years............k15,581 47 Balance of profit to the State.................287,139 42 Besides the entire support of the prison or twelve years. THE LUNATIC ASYLUM. The number of inmates is 778, (445 white and 333 colored) an increase of 22 over the number at the beginning of the fiscal year. The cost of maintain ng the patients has been 37 cents per lay. OTHER 3MATTERS. The report of the rallroad Commis sion is commended to especial consid eration more particularly their sug gestions that the law regulating pas senger tolls be amended. and that ticket scalping" be prohibited by law. The State militia is in good condi bion, and the Governor commends it to he fostering care of the General As sembly. The appropriations for the State [Iouse for the past three years aggre ate 5341,599.90-of which there is an anexpended balance of $14,290.88. The Governor recommends the con tinuance of the ap propriation for the State Agricultural and Mechanical Society. Attention is called to the A ct of Con ress, approved August 30, 1890, pro iding for a more complete endowment >f agricultural and mechanical col .ees. The wvork of the State Board of [ealth is commended as of especial alue to all the people of the State. ____________R. S. J. Norton and is Little Boat. NEW YORK, Nov. 21.-Captain E. L. Norton startedl off' from Tompkinsville ~esterday afternoon in the fifty-eight oot yawl-rigged steam lifeboat that >ars his name, on his voyage of 4,000 niles to Toulon, France. The great 'eature of the little draft, which is the suallest steambcat that ever started on such a lengthy trip, is her buoyancy and stability, which comes from her double ottom. This is divided into six ballast :ompartments lying on each side of the eel and extending around the bends. rhey are ot galvanized ircn, framed in mad cemented, and each has a seven nchi opening fitted with a water-tight cad sleeve. The welebt of the boat rives the water into the compartments, .he air escaping through automatic alves on the main deck, and the boat herefore floats on her inner bottom md sails on the outer, the water in the blge keeping trim and true. She carries a little surface condensing :ompound engine that one ton of coal keeps ier three (lays and the bunkers 10ld enough fuel to last her for thirty lays. She has canvas enough to drive' ir along at a ten-knot gait, and has two lifeboats-on the doubtle-bottoma sys ten also-lashed amidships. She has two large hermeticolly sealed air chamn bers, and would float ifevery open space i her became filled with water. With C'tain Norton are his wife, his niece, a girl of sixteen, two engineers, a sailing master, two seamen, two stewards and a terrier. The Norton witl stole at St. Mihal's in the Azres to reconl LAWMAKERS AT WORK. WHAT THEY DID IN THE SESSION'S FIRST WEEK. The New Onilcers of the House and the Senate-A Clean Sweep in Both Branches-Few Important Measures thus Far Mooted. * COLUMBIA, S. C., Nov. 29.- -Special: The first week of the Legislative ses sion (except, perhaps, in "off years,") is always anticipated with more than ordinary interest by those who watch ed the course of public affairs. it goes without saying that this has been more than ordinarily the case with the General Assembly which met on Tues day. There were guesses and surmises and predictions in abundance-but these are now of the past, and we are confronted with some of the actual work of the lawmakers. There have been many changes in both branches. The "hold-over" Sena tors are about all that are not new in the upper branch. The House is "fresh from the people," as tlie saying goes the number of old members being. per baps, smaller than that of any House ince 1876. It follows from these con litions that in each branch there is a decided majority in full sympathy with [;overnor Tillman and the measures de has urged. In the organization of each branch, the dominant element made a clean sN eep-the caucus nomi nee being chosen in every instance, and all the subordinate places being filled with those in full sympathy with the Farmers' Movement." The Senate. The Senate was called to order by Lieutenant-Governor Win. L. Mauldin, who made a brief address of welcome. Ele made a touching allusion to the late enator Edwards of Darlington, who lied a few months ago. The new Senators being duly sworn, "he President declared the body ready or business. The first business in order was the lection of officers. The result is given below: Clerk, H. A. Gaillard (incumbent) of Fairfield, 12; Dr. Sampson Pope of Newberry, 21. Reading Clerk-A. D. Goodwin of Columbia (incumbent,) 14; F. C. Caugh man of Lexington, 19. Sergeant-at-Arms-Drayton Sm it h Af Newberry (incumbent,) 19; J. C. Elliot of Lancaster, 14. Mr. J. T. Jones was appointed journ l clerk, Mr. W. J. Moore bill clerk, and Mr. Robert N. Townes assistant clerk. Masters Won. L. Hemphill and W. C. Irby were appointed pages. The important bills thus far intro duced are as follows: By Senator Smythe, charters for the River and Seacoast Railroad Company, and for the Colleton Land and Improve ment Company; to amend jury law; to charter Macon and Atlantic Railroad. By Senator Stokes, to charter Branch ville and Bowman Railroad. By Senator Glenn, to amend statute relating to Stat e House and grounds; to abolish the office of jury commissioner and devolve the duties thereof on ounty auditors, to amend Act relating to compensation of board of equahza tion. By Senator Hemphill, to amend Sec tion 1 of an Act entitled an Act to pro vide for the payment of township bonds issued in aid of railroads in this State. By Senator Stokes, to provide for a new school district in Orangeburg and the levy of a special tax therefor. By Senator Dozier, to amend the law touching the rights and liabilities of married women. Senator Meetze, of Leington, was elected president pro tem. The Governor's message was read and referred to appropriate committees. The standing committees were an nounced by the president. There are notably few changes. The memorial of Mr. W. D. Scar borugh, claiming to have been elected Senator from Sumter, was presented and was properly referred. Mr. Scar borough was declared elected by the county board of canvassers. Dr. Ab bott appealed to the State board, and that body awarded him the seat. Mr.1 Scarborough went into the Supreme Court, asking that the State board bel required to give him the certificate of election, but that tribunal decided in favor of Dr. Abbott. The only ques tion in the case, it seems, arises out of the action of the County board in count ig for Mr. Scarborough about fifty votes as having been cast for him at Rafting Creek precinct. There was no Senatorial box at that poll. It was shown, by affidavits, that voters, to the number above stated, would have voted for Scarborough. These votes the county board allowed to that gentle man, thus giving him a majority over Dr. Abbott. The contest of E. J. Dennis, of Berke ley, who claims the seat of Senator H. K. Jenkins of that county, was also re ferred. House of Representatives. The House was called to order by Col. Jno. T. Sloan, Sr., the Clerk. On motion of Mr. Buchanan of Fair field, Mr. John Gary Evans of Aiken was made temporary chairman. When the enrollment of members was completed, the Chairman announ ced that the first business in order was the election of a Speaker. Mr. Earnest Gary of Edgefield nomi nated Col. J. L. M. Irby of Laurens. Mr. J. C. Blease of Newberry seconded the nomination. There were no other nominations. Col. Irby received all the votes cast -118- and wvas declared elected. On being sworn in, he spoke as follows: "Gentlemen of the House of Repre rentatives: P'ermit me briefly to return my sincere and heartfelt thanks for the flattering and complimentary man ner in which I have been elected to preside over the deliberations of this House. Indeed, gentlemen, it is a distinguished and grand compliment to be elected to preside over the deliber ations of the Representatives of the people of South Carolina. Permit me to say, too, that I dare not hope to equal, much less to excel, the distin guished gentleman who preceded me as Speaker of this House. It is con ceded all over our State that he is among the ablest, if not the ablest, par liamentarian in South Carolina. But, gentlemen. I ailow no man to excel me in fairness, faithfulness and inmpartiali ty. Having said this much I ask your earnest co-operation in the discharge of the responsible duties of this re sponible office. "I again thank you for your distin guished compliment, and announce that this House is now ready for busi ness." The other officers were elected as fol lows: Clerk--Gen. J. Walter Gray of Green ville. No other nominee.; Reading Clerk-J. C. Wilborn of York. No opposition. Sergeant-at-arms-W. H. Stansell of Barn well, 85; J. D. Brown of Barnwell (incumbent,) 36. The following appointments have ben made: Assistant Clerk--W. M. Rodgers o0 Greenville. Bill Clerk-J. 11. iIamei of Marlboro. These are all new men as, indeed, are all the other arpointees United States Senator. Much interest is manifiested in the approaching election of a Senator to succeed General Hampton. The pre vailing inapreseioa is that some new man will be chosen, though many of the friendls of the Ex-Governor main tain that he will be re-elected. The gentelemen most prominently mention ed for the succession are Judge Wallace o Union, Mr. Speaker Irby, Contress man Hemphill, and Col. Ellison Keitt of Newberry. Congressman IHemphill ias best recently been spoken of. Col. Keiti .s not regarded as a possibility. The weight of opinion is that if Senator Hampton be displaced, Col. Irby will be the successor. Either Judge Wal lace or Congressman HIemphill would be regarded as a "compromise man." [f a square fight be made, on the lines laid out in the choice of oflicers of the [Iouse and the Senate, it would seem ertain that such fight will narrow lown to a contest between General Hampton and Colonel Irby. R. S. J. MAKE A NEW CENSUS. Will Resist Reapportionment Until an Honest Count is Had. WAsImNGToN, Nov. 20.-Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, backs up the deci ion of Senators Blackburn and McPher on and of Representatives Bynum and pringer that a new apportionment bill hall not be passed by the Republican majorities in the Senate and House un il the taking of an honest and accurate ensus. In an inteview to-day he said: "I have looked into the way in which .Ir. Porter took the census of New York is closely and comprehensively as I ould, and am obliged to entertaid seri )us doubts of its correctness. There are good gaounds for believing that some wo hundred thousand of the inhabi :ants of the city were not counted. "The municipial authorities of New York have got together a weighty mass f evidence tending to prove that such s the case. IHow have the Secretary of he Interior and the Superintendent of he Census treated the case? Like fair nd impartial men anxious to do justice nd ready to hear hone. complaints? Ko; they have behaved as if they were a Louisiana returning board of 1876, hose only business was to count Repub icans in and Democrats out. "There certainly should be an inves igation by Congress of the way in which he census was taken. The Republi ans cannot in decency refuse to make "Many Republicans reprobate the con uct of Secretary Noble and Mr. Porter oward the New York authorities, and, moreover, they have not confidence that he census was accurate in other parts f the country. Republicans in Oregon ssert that an incorrect census was taken here and they complain loudly. "I am sure that the Democratic Sen tors and Rlepresentatives are resolved hat a new apportionment bill shall not >ass until it shall be made clear that a orrect census has been taken. If it hould turn out that the recent census was incorrect, then it must be rectified >efore a new apportionment for Con essional representation is made. It is too important a matter to be trifled with. "To deprive a State of a Congressman nd a presidential elector, as the census seems to deprive New York, is an act f injustice which strikes at the founda ion of our system of government, which s built upon the theory of equal repre entation of the people in the govern nent. It will not be submitted to. "No apportionment bill must be pass d which does not give honest represen ation. The Democracy will resist the assage of such a bill with all the par imentary weapons they may possess.'' Accident to senator Hampton. CommIBa, S. C., Nov. 27.-Senator ade I lampton's numerous friends in olumia were pained to learn yester ay by a telegram, received by Colonel ohn C. Ilaskell, that the Senator had et with an accident while out hunting ith MIr. M1cDutlie IHampton. at or near he old Hampton place in Washington ounty, MIiss. it seems, as far as can be learned, that s the Senator was about to mount his orse he unfortunately came within his ion's line of lire, as that gentleman was n the act of shooting, and received a art of the charge of shot in the face, wo of the little missiles striking him n the left eyelid. The wound has par :ially obscured his vision~ and lie is at ~resent conlined to a darkened room, ut the injury is not regarded as any ays serious and will probably not keep aim to his room more than a few days. This is,-as will be remembered, the econd hunting accident that the Sena orn has met with since 1876, but it is otunate that this little one is by no neans as serious as that which cost him ne of his legs. As is usually the case on such occa ~ions the facts were at lirst greatly ex ggerated by street rumor, but the true statement of the case became soon gen erally known and quieted the anxiety f Senator Ihampton's friends.-Colum bia Register. A Model for South Carolina M1ILLEDGEVILLE, Ga.. Nov. 22. he citizens are making great preparae ions to celebrate, in a becoming way, the laying of the corner stone of the col ege next Thursday, the 27th instant. t will be a great day in the history ol eorgia. The Georgia Normal and Industrial ollege, for~ the education of white girls, was established by the Legislature iu 189, and was located at MIilledgeville. Sixteen acres of land. known as the old penitentiary property. together with the old executive mansion. were appro priated by the State to thus movement o wisely startedl by M1r. Atkinson. The State also appropriatedl $25,000, to e paid in thrce annual installments. o this the people of Millledgeville gen erously donated 810.000. The building which is now in course of erection will, when completed, cost 345000. Inside the building will be the lecture rooms, the library aud oilices of the faculty. while the 01(1 executive mansion will be fitted up for the boardiug apart ents of the school. This is the lirst step .;eorgia has alen to give higher advantages to hiet "irIs. She has been hielping the boys for a enutury. The purpose of this col lege is to ediucate the girls, and especial ly those unable to take the expensive ourse in other colleges. It w'll equip thenm thoroughly as teachers and at once prepare them te become self-sus taing. and ive to eorgia's schools better trainedl teach ers, It is to be thme corner-stone of out ommon school system. it will give special training to girls in typecwriting, )ookkeeing, telegraphy, sstenography. dressmaking and such othmef lines at in dustry as women may properly engage in to make a living. SoULD the Alliance in Kansas fail to down iiigalls this time thrmugh thct treachery of some of its imem bers, it will scare him nearly to death. But we hope it will down him. A PROPIECY RECALLED. WHAT MILLS ONCE SAID TO THE RAM PANT REPUBLICANS. Words About the Tarift Bill Which Oie tator Reed and His Party Might Better Have Heeded-A Candidate for the Speakership. WASHINGTON, Nov. 2.-Represent ative Roger Q. Mills has come to Wash ington ahead of most of the Republicans and o1 his friends of the despised Demo cratic minority, and he is looking ruddy and more vigorous than he has any time since lie began his tariff speech-making in 1888. He is a willing candidate for the Speakership, but not an obtreperous one, and he promptly announces that he does not intend to open headquarters in which to "round up" his supporters. Ie has heard some talk about Presi- - dent Harrison calling an extra session of the Fifty-second Congress. He does not consider it necessary and he scarcely believes that the President will find it judicious for his personal or party in terest. If the Republicans are deter mined to have an extra session they can force it. An early session would im pose responsibility upon the Democrats sooner than they had expected, but they ought not to be frightened by that pros pect. If the Republicans hope to profit by abandoning their responsibilities the peopie who rebuked them at the polls in November will not all die before the next election, and they will administer more medicine to these pretenders who have been plastering the country with their pictures of the way they do busi ness in Congress." Mr. Mills has not yet recovered from the astonishment he left at the result of the election. He looked for a Demo cratic victory, but he did not imagine that the party would sweep the whole country so completely. He had seen iaie indications of dissatisfaction with the tariff bill and intimations were thrown out to him in the West that many Republicans would not vote for the men w ho had so mistaken the de sires of the party as to attempt to revise the taliff up when it ought to have been revised down. Occasionally he heard remarks that showed that the people were watebIng Reed, an fully aware not ouly- -f his cheekiness, but of his tyrannical disposition. "Yes, he's very smart," a man would say, "but I reckon we don't want military rule just yet, do we? There wtre rather more than usuil of the common references by managers ot the mdetiugs to the fact that there were large numbers of Republicans present, but that was so frequently heard by speakers for both parties that it did not at the time make a deep impression. Mr. Mills says the people of this coun try have a fondness for the under dog in a light. The papers had been teem)p,....-e with the reports ofthow Reed was run ning the House with his gavel, and how his men were unseating Democrats who had been elected, and they got tired of being told that he not only had the Democrats down, but was kicking the prostrate body and treading upon it in its hepless condition. "Then theie ve: e other things," he added, "thank fortune, all Republican blunders, which the people bore in mind, when we fellows in Congress were re garding them as wornout questions. Co.me to think of it, I was a better pro phet than I thought I was when I made my tarff speech on May '7. I told the Republicans of the House that I wanted them to pass their bill and then go to the pcople of Illinos, indiana and Wiscon sin to tell why they had put a bounty on sugar ships, and silks, and no bounties on things that they produced. I told them that they would have to meet such questions, and that the majority of 100, 000 for Grover Cleveland had told them what the people of the country wanted." 'When the closing words of Mr. Mills speech are examined they take on a new and prophetic meaning in view of the results of the elections. He said: "I wont you to pass your bdll and go with it out West. Take it, with hair. h'de and wool all over it, and discuss. it there. I want you to meet the people whom you have not hesitated to tax from 100 to 200 per cent, on the neces saries of life. I want you to confront them and tell them what you have done, and if I am not very much mistaken, when you shall have rendered an ac' count of your stewardshisp and told them how good you have been, and how in their name you have destroyed their markets, lowered the prices of their products, cast out the dead, and raised the devil, they will say to you, 'Get thee behind me, Satan.' "We promise our frinds that we will examine their bill. We will discuss somie of its provisioas, for they intend to cut off our debate and prevent us fiom discassing alt of them. It needs discussion, and will get'whatever we are permitted to give it, and then, when we have done that, you will pass it. We will content ourselves by giving our votes against it, and when you leave this Ihouse and Senate with this enormous load of guilt upon your heads and ap pear before the great tribunal for trial, my eLord have mercy on your MIr. Mills and Mr. Carlisle are now very well satisfied that the Repubhicans adopted the programme in the last ses sibn of refusing to permit the demands of individual Republicans to be re gar ded when they asked for amendments. In retamning the" symnme try" of the bill, the Republicans were insuring the hos tility of the people, who saw that it was a contris ance bolsteredl up by some sort of combinatiod in which there was nothing for the common folks of the country. Even a man like Payson of Illinois, who spoke against the bif and' voted for it, couldh not hold his seat, and his majority of 2,400 two years ago was turnedlinto a Democratic ma jority for a low tariff Democrat of 900. The less the bill was amended, Mr. Carl~slc thought, the better it n ould be for pulposes of the Democrats. The soundness of his opinion is proved.-Newv York News, neat'uy aut rowaer. NEWv YoRK, Nov. 20.-By the acci dental explosion of giant powder, four Italian laborers were blowvn up Tues day morning. Two were killed and two wvere badly mangled, but may re cover. TiEREu is great scrambling for the places at the disposal of Gov. Tillman and the Legislature. The saddest part of it is that there are not half enough places to sup)ply the hungry patriots who think they ought to be rewarded . ~for the part they took in the campaign.