The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, March 11, 1891, Image 4
PLAG17ES OF THE CITIES.
THE SECONO SERMON 1N D-. TAL
MAGE'S PRESENT SERIES.
Drunkenness is the Topic and Th"; is
the Text, "Noah Plants a viiuaid,
and He Drank of t he Wine aml Wa,
Drunken."
NEW YorK. March .-r. Taiuwz
continued to-day the series of sermons
he commencsd last Sunday on the "Ten
Plagues of New York and the Adja
cent Cities." The plague whicn he
places second on the Jist is intemper
ance, and on that subject he discours
ed this morning in the Academy of
Music, Brooklyn, and this evening In
New York. The text of the doctor's
sermon was taken from Genesis ix. 20,
21: "Noah planted a vineyard, and he
drank of the wine and was drunken."
This Noah did the Lest and the worst
thing for the world. lie built an ark
against the deluge of water. but intro
duced a-deluge against which the hu
man race has ever since been trying to
build an arx-the deluge of drunken
ness. in my text we hL ar his stagger
ing steps. Sheni and Japhet tried to
cover up the disgrace, but there he is,
drunk on wine at a time in the history
of the world, when, to say the least,
titere was no lack of water. Inebrid
tion, having entered the vorit4 has not
retreated. Abigail, the fair and heroic
wife, who saved the Ilocks of Nabal.
her husband,from conscation by in
vaders, goes home at night and finds
him so intoxicated she cannot tell him
the story of his narrow escape. Uriali
came to see David, and David got him
drunk and paved the way for the des
poliation of a household. Even the
church bishops needed to be charged
to be sober and not given to too much
wine, and so familiar were people o!
Bible times with the staggering and
falling motion of the inebriate that
Isaiah, when he comes to describe the
final dislocation of worlds, says, "The
earth shall real to fro like a drunkard."
Ever since apples and grapes and
wheat grew the world has been tempt
ed to unhealthful stimulants. But the
intoxicants of the olden time were ani
innocent beverage, a harmless orange
ade. a quiet sirup, a peaceful soda
water as comnared with the liquids of
modern inebriation. into which a mad
ness, and a fury, and a gloom, and a
fire, and a suicide, and a re.ribution
have mixed and mingled. Fermenta
tion was always known, but it was not
until a thousand years after Christ that
distillation was invented. While we
must confess that some of the ancient
arts have been lost, the Christian era is
superior to all others in the bad emi
nence of whisky and rum and gin. The
modern drunk is a hundred fold worse
than the ancient drunk. Noah in his
intoxication became imbecile, but the
victims of modern alcoholism have to
struggle with whole menageries or
wild beasts, ard jungles of hissing ser
pents, and perditions of blasphemimg
demons.
An arch ifend arrived in our world,
and he built an invisible caldron or
temptation. He built that caldron
strong and stout for all ages and all
nations. First he squeezed into the
caldron the juices of the forbidden
fruit of earadise. Then he githered
for it a distillation from the harvest
fields and the orchards of the hemis
*pheres. Then he poured into this cald
.ron capsicomn and copperas and log
,ood and deadly nightshade and as
isult and battery and vitiiol and opium
and rum and murder and sulphuric
acid and theft and potash and cochi
neal and red carrots and poverty and
death and hops. But it was a dry com
pound and it must be moistened, and
it must be liquefied, and so the arch
fiend poured into that caldron the tears
of centuries of orpanage and widow
hood, and he poured in the blood of
twenty thousand assassmnauions.
- and then the arch fiend took a shov
e that he had brought up from the
-farnaces beneath, and he put that
shovel mnto this great caldiron and be
ganto stir, and the caldron began to
heave and rock and boil and sputter
and hiss and smoke, and the nations
ahered around it with cups and tank
ards and demijohns and kegs, and there
was enough for all, and the arch fiend
~cried: '"Aha! champion fiend am II
I'ho has done inore than I have for
coffins and graveyards and prisons and
innne asylums, and the populating of
theost world ? And when this calairon
semptied I'll fill it again and i'll stir
igt again, and it will smoke again, and
hat1 smoke will join another smoke,
the smoke of a torment that ascendeth
~for ever and ever. I drove fifty ships
nthe rocks of Newfoundland, and the
~Skerries, and the Goodwins. I have
Zruned more senators than gather this
winter in the national councils. I
have ruined more lords than are now
gathered in the honse of peers. The
?cup out of which I ordinarily drink is
a bleached human skull, and the up
olstery of my palace is so rich a crimt
-son,.because it is dyed in human gore,
adhe mosaic of my dioors is made up
of the bones of children dashed to death
bydrunken parents. and my favorite
music-sweeter than Te Detum or tri
umphal march-my favorite music is
the cry of daughters turned out at mid
Inight on the street beer ase father has
come home from the carousal, and the
sve'i hundred voiced shriek of the
inking steamer, because the captain
~warnot himself when he put the ship
on the wrong course. Chamnpion fiend
am I! I have kindled more fires. I have
~wrung out more agonies. I have stretch
ed out more mi-inight shadows, I have
-opened more Golgothas. I have rolled
more Juggernauts, I have damned more
souls than any other emissary of dia
olism. Champion fiend am II
Drunkenness is the greatest evil of
hs nation, and it takes no logical pro
cessto prove to this audience that a
drunken nation cannot long be a free
nation. I call your r ttention to the
fact that drunkenness is not stubsiding,
certainly that it is not at a standstill.
but that it is on an on ward march, and
itis a double quick. There is more rum
swallowed in this coount-y, and of a
worse kind, than was ever s wallowed
since the first distillery began its work
of death. Where there was one drun
ken home there are ten drunken
homes. Where there wvas one
drunkard's grave there are twenty
drunkards' graves, It is on the in
crease. Talk about crooked whiskey
by which men mean the whisky that
does not pay the tax to aovernment
I tell you all strong drink is crooked.
Crooked Otard. crooked Cognac, crook
ed schnapps, 'crooked wine, crooked
beer, croolked whisky-because it makes
a man's path crooked, and his life
crooked, and his death crooked, and his
eternity crooked.
If I could gather all the armies of
the night key in the door long after the
last watchman has gone by and tried
to see that everything was closed up
for the night:!
Oh! what a change for that voting
man, who we had hoped would do
something in merchandise or in a-rt
sanship or in a profession that would
do honor to the family name, leng after
mother's wrinkled hands are folded
from the last toil: All thbat exchianged
for startled look when the door be il
rings, lest something has happened;
and the wish that the scarlet fever
twenty years ago had been fatal, fur
then he would have gone directly to
the bosom of his Saviour. But alas:
poor old soul, she has lived to exp'eri
ence what Solomon said, "A foolish
son is a heaviness to his ruother."
Oh! what a funeral it will be whben
that boy is brought home dead: An~d
how mother will sit there and say:"s
this my boy that I used to fondie and
that I wvaked the floor with mi the
night when he was sick ? Is this the
boy that I held to the baptismal !ont
- for baptism ? Is this the boy ,orv wo
- I toiled unt d the blood burst 'frola thet
tips of my fingers, that heC niiht have
why hast thou let me live to see this?
Cani ie that these swollen hands are
tl e ones that used to wander over niy
face wheu rocking him to sleep? Can
it bc that this swollen brow is the one
that i once so rapturously kissed?
loor bov.how tired he does look. I
wondier 'vho struc% himi that blo
acro,s the temples? I wonder if he
utiteie.t iin prayer? Wake up. mv
s1n: d O Iou ar Me ? wake u:h
he can'Lt har me: Dead: dead: dea:i!
'Oh, \bsa-om, my son, my son, would
God thit I had died for thee, oh, Ab
Salod:, illy sOl, son
I 'aml n much of a mat hemiaticialn
and i cannovt estimate it, but is there
ai' V ci e h1ere quick enough at tigures to
eate how many mothers there are
w aiti for something to be doue? Ay.
1here are many wives waiting for do
mesc'tic rescue. lie promised some
thn vdiffe-rcnt from that when,after
the long acquaintance and the careful
scrutiny of character, the hand
a.I the heart were oftere- and
accepted. What a hell on earth a wo
i wan lives in who has a drunken hus
band! 0 death, how lovely thou art to
her. and how suft and warm thy sliele
ton hand! The sepulcher at midnight
in winter is a king's drawi"g ruoil
Icmpared with that woman'e hon.e. 1L
is no; so much the blow on the heau
timi hurts as the blow ou the heart.
i'ihe rum iiend camne to the door of
that t.xautiful ione. and opened the
door and stood there ant said: "I curse
this dweuling with an unrelenting
curse. I curse that father into ai ma
iae, I curse that motir into a pauper.
I cuise those sons into vagabonds. I
curse those daughters into proiligacy.
Cursed be bread tray and cradle.
Cursed be couch and chair, and family
Biule with rterd of marriages and
births and deaths. Curse upon curse."
Oh, how many wives are there waiting
to see if sowthing cannot be done to
shake these frosts of the second death
01' the orange blossoms! Yea, God is
waiting, the God who works through
ruman instrunmentalities, waiting to
.e whether this nation is going to
overthrow this evil, and if it refuse to
do so God will wipe out the nation as
he did Plhwnicia, as'he did Rome, as he
did Thebes, as he did Babylon.
Ay, he is waiting to see what the
churen of God willdo. if the church
does not do its work, then he w ill wipe
it out as he did the church of Ephesus,
church of Thyatira, church of .ardis.
The Protestant and Roman Catholic
churches to-day stand side by side, with
an impotent loo'-, gazing on this evil,
which cost this country more than a
billion dollars a year to take care of
tbe SUO,000 paupers, and the 315,000
crimirals, and the 30,000 idiots, and to
bury the 75,000 drunkards. Protagores
bouste d that out of the sixty years of
his life forty rears he had spent in
ruming youth;'but this evil may make
the wore infamous boast that all its
life it has been ruining the bodies,
minds and souls of the human race.
Put on your Fpectacles and take a
candle and examine the platforms of
the two leading political parties of this
country, and see what they are doing
for the arrest of this evil and for the
overthow of this abomination. Reso
intions-ob! yes, resolutions about
Mormonism! It is safe to attack that
organized nastiness two thousand
miles away. But not one resolution
against drunkenness, which would turn
this entire nation into one bestial Salt
Lake City. Resolutions against politi
cal corruption, but not one word about
drunkenness, which would rot this na
tion fro n scalp to heel. Resolutions
about protection against competition
with foreign industries, but not one
word about protection of family and
church and nation againest the scalding,
blasting, all consuming, damning tarihf
of strong drink put upon every linan
cia], individual, spiritual, moral, na
tionel interest.
I look in another direction. The
Church of God is the grandest and
most glorious institution on earth.
What has it in solhd phalanx accom -
pished for the overthrow of drunken
ness? Ihave its forces ever been mar
shalea ? No, not in this direction. Not
long ago a great ecclesiastical court as
sm bled in New York, and resolutions
arraigning strong drink were offered,
and clergymen with strong driuk on
their tables and strong dIrink in their
cellars defeated the resolutions by
threating speeches. They could not
bear to give up their own lusts.
1 tell this audience what many of oui
may never have thought of, that to-day
-not in the millennium, but to-day
thc ehurch holds the balance of power in
America; and if Christian people-the
men and the women who profess to
love the Lord Jesus Christ and to love
purity and to be the sworn enemies of
all uncleanness and debauchery and sin
-if all such would march side by side
and shoulder to shoulder, this evil
would soon be overthrown. Think of
three hundred thousand churches and
Sunday schools in Christendom march
ing shoulder to shoulder! IHow very
short a time it would take themi to put
down this evil, if all the churches of
God, transatlantic and cisatlantic, were
armed on this subject?
Young men of America, pass over
into the army of teetotalism. Whiskey,
good to preserve corpses, ou-.tht never
to tarn you into a corpse. Tens of thous
ands of young men have -been dragged
out of respectability, and out of purity,
and out of goo character, and into
darkness by this infernal stuff called
strong drink. D~o not touch it: Do not
touch it!
Gather up the money that the work
ing classes have spent for rum during
the list thirty years, and I will build
for every workingman a house, and lay
out for him a garden, and clothe his
sns in broadcloth and his daughters
in silhs, and stand at his front door a
prancing span of sorrels or bays, and
secure him a policy of life insurance so
that the present home may be well
maintaned after lie is dead. Tne most
persistent, most overpowering enemy
of thr- workihg classes is intoxicating
liquor. It is the anarchist of the cen
turies, and has boycotted and is now
boycotting the body and mind and soul
of Amecrie:mn labor. It annually swin
des industry out of a large percentage
Iof its earnings. It holds out its blast
ing solicitations to the mechanic or
operative on his way to wyork, and at
the noeon spell, and on his way home at
eventide. On Saturday, when the
wag- are paid, it snatches a large part
of tihe money that might come to the
Ifamily and sacrifices it among the sa
loon keepera. Stand the saloons of this
country :dide by side, and it is carefully
estimated that they would reach from
New York tQ Chicago.
This evil is pouring its vitrielic and
dannable liquors down the throats of
hunreds of thousands of laborers, and
while the ordinary strikes are ruinous
both to emp'ayers and employes, 1 pro
claim a univer..,al strike, against strong
strogz drink, which article, if kept up,
wil be the relief of the working claeses
and the salvation of the nation; I will
undertake to say that there is not a
heathy laborer in the United States
who, within the next twenty years. if
he will refuse all intoxicating bever
ages and be saving, may not become a
captlst oil a small scale.
Oh, how many are w ai:ing to see if
Isomehing cannot be d:one for the st;op
ig int-:mperance! Thousands of
IdrunkardCs waiting who cannot go ten
minutes in anv direction without hav
ing the tempd~tion glarig before their
ees or apperling to their nostrils, they
lighting against it with enfeebled will
andi diseaseduappetite, conquering, then
surred(erng again, and crying. "How
long, 0 Lord: how long before these
inaouls solicitations shall be gone!"
And how many mothers are waiting to
er- if this nationmd curse cannot lift?
Oh is ht the boy who had the honest
beath who comes home with bireathi
vtiated or disguised ? What a change!
11y 'u'nikly those habits of earlyvcom
nI home have ben exchanged for the
ratin- of the night key in the door
ong ater' theO list wattchman has gone
by 'and tried to see that everything was
In the front door of our church in
Brooklyn a few surnmers , this
scene occurred: Sabhbath monm a
young man Was enteri nr uim
worship. A friend pasi ';' n g he
street said, "Joe. conie along wit" N,:
I mn11 going- down to Cney I
we'I hav a gay Sirsdav. "No. -
plied .o'; "1 have started to go her to
church. and I am going to attend :w
vice here "Oh.,hJo," his rie sa
"you can go to church any iim Tihe
day is bright, and we'li go to Coiwy Is
and and we'll have a splenui tin.
fEie temptation was to great, and l
twain went to the beach, spnt the da
in drunkenness and riot. The eveni n.
train started up from Brighton. The
young men were on it. Jr, in ht in
toxication, % hen the t rain was ia full
speed tried to pass around fromsi One
seat to another, and fell and was
crushed.
Under the lantt rn,as Joe lay leding
his life away on the grass, he said to
his comrade: "John. tlat was a 'Nd
business, your taking me away Iroin
church; it was a very bad business.
You ought not to have done that, John.
I want yoN to tell the boys to-molrr
when you :-ee them that rumi ad Sa1 -
bath breaking did this for in( A .d
John, whiie \sou ate telhing thei i will
be in hell, and it will be, \ our fant
Is it not time for me to pill out from
the great organ of God's word, with
many bainks of keys, the tremolo stop ?
"Look not upon the wme when i. 1.
red, when it moveth itself aright in.tl
cup, for at last it biteth like aserptent
and stingeth like an adder."
But this evil will be arrested. ao
cher catne up just betfore nigit and
saved the day at Waterloo. At 4
o'clock in the afternoon it looked very
badly for the English. Generals Pon
sonby and Pickton fallen. Sabrus
broken, lags surrendered, Scots Grays
annihilated. Only forty-two men let t
out of the German brigade. The Efung
lish army flling back and falling back.
Napoleon rubbed his hands togethr
and said: "Aha! aa! we'll teach that
little Englishman a lesson. Ninety
chances out of a hundred are in our f.
vor. Magnificent! magnificent"' lie
even sent messages to Paris to say he
had won the day.
But before sundown Blueher caui
up, and he who had been the conqueror
(,I Austerlitz became the vicim of
Waterloo. The name which had shdkcn
all Europe and tilled even Amria
with apprehension, that name went
down, and Napoleon, muddy and hat
less, and crazed with his disasters, was
found feeling for the stirrup of a
horse, that he might mount and resitue
the conflict.
Well, my friends, alcoholism is impe
rial,and it is a conqueror, and there are
good people who say the night of na
tional overthrow is coming, and that it
is almost night. But bet ore sundown
the Conqueror of earth and heaven will
ride in on the white horse, and alcohol
ism, which has had its Austerlitz of
triumph, shall have its Waterloo of de
feat. Alcoholism having lost its crown,
the grizzly and cruel breaker of human
hearts, crazed with the disaster, will be
found feeling in vain for the stirrup on
which to remount its foaming charger.
"So, 0 Lord, let thine enemies perish:"
A LOSS TO THE CHURCH.
Death of Dr. J. C. Furman, the Emineut
Baptist Divine.
GREEr VT,LE, S. C., Iarch 3.-Rev.
James C. Furman. D. D.. died at 6 a.
m. at his home three miles from thIs
city from a general break down of his
system. caused by a deep cold.
Dr. Furman was born in Charleston m
109, and was SI years old on December
5th, 1890. His pareints were R~chard
and Susan Furman, and lived in Charles
ton for a long time. IHe was educateu
at the Charleston College and was ..re
paring himself for the practice of' medi
cine. In his nineteenth year he was
converted to Christianity, and was b~ap
tized the by eider Dr. Basil Matnly, who
was thcn 'pastor of the First Baptist
Church of Charloston. Ills conversion
changed the current of his life and he
commenced to prepare himself for the
mistry. He wvas at one time pastor of'
the church at Society Ilill, and remamued
there for a number of' years. F'ronm
there he connected himself' with the
Furmatn Theological instttution then
located near Winnsboro. ie began to
labor as a professor in 18413; and smuee
then he has been connected with Fur
man University as an edlucator and has
at no time during that time been idie in
the pulpit. IHe has been, to a certain
extent, the lil'e of Furman L niv'ersity,
and partly thlrouih his etl'ort, broughtt it
to where it now stands-as one of the
foremost denominational colleges o1 the
State.
For a number of years he tilled the
pulpit of the First .daptist Church of this
city, and he was associate editor of the
Baptist Courier, lIe leaves four living
children. C. M. Furman, Dr. Davis F~ur
man, Mrs. Peter II. Goldsmith, of Gai
lantin, Tenn., and Kineaid Furman. He
lost two children by death. His widow
survives him. The t'uneral services
over his remains will be hel in the First
Batist Church on Thursday next at
3 p. m.-Columnbia Register.
Democratic Vi1ctoriesi in Iowa.
Cme mo, .\arch 3.-Re-ports fromi the
municipal 'elections held throughout
Iowa yesterday show that at Iowa City
the Democrats made a clean sweep of
all officers except one trustee. Their
mayor had :300 majority. At Fort Mand
ison the Democrats were successful.
The city council will stand eight D)emo
crats to two Republicans. At Altumner..
the Democrats elect the mayer by 400
majority and make again of four in the
council,' which botty will stand t'igit
Democats and four Republicans. Th~e
Democrats elect all other city onieers
over the Republican and citizen tickes
At Creston the D~ei'ocrats elect thec
mayor and three out of Ii; e alermen.~
At Burlington only one liepubliec
candidate ran in the city elect ion. an
he wvas defeated by a smalt majority i
the eleventh ward. The other cani-~
dates were Democrats. At Mason City
the citizens' ticket was elected almost
unanimoaslv. At Waterloo S. L. H ook
was re-elected mayor by a vote of ZA0 to1
4t. Twvo years ago 11ook was workinv;
on the cobbler's bench w'hen he was
elected manyor largely through the votes
of the Knights of Labor. The emtire
ticket elected is D~emocratic except the
Treasurer. The council, however, is
largely Republican. At Cedar Falls a
Republican mayo ' was elected. A t L a
port City a straight ltlepublican~ ticket
was elected.
An Indians Chief in Chais.
IlunoN, S. D., March 5.-Lo w D)og,
one of the moost desperate Indians (of
the Sioux tribe, reached h-re last even
ing from Fort Bennett, in charige of
Liut. Kennedy and two aides fromn the
3d United States infantry. The pris
oner was heavily ironed and wvas beig
tken to Fort Snellinir for safe keeping.
He is a brother of the noted Sioux Chief
Big Foot, killed during the r-ecent In
dian troubles, and is charged with
stealing two of Big Foot's childi'en
from the l'ndian school at F"ort li-'n
nett. He refuses to give any inforam
tion concerning themi and, as they catn
not be found, it is thought tihat he'
murdered them.
They Died Together..
CINCINNA TI. March 4.-Frtmet Siil
ner alnd Isadlor Frankembhal, students
Iin tie Hebrew Union College. entered
into a compact yesltay to cnd their
troubles by suicide, and sorl :1e
o'clock this mlorninig they wer c-c
foud sdead at their boardini hise, No.
4U Race street. The young men rr
chased a revolver Vesterdayv with wh~c
to accomplish their self-detuedon.
Salinger shot Limsell ini the. e't d,
ost below the heart. I'rankseubai.n
seed the weapon and ired a bule
BUTCIILi I) HE L BABIES.
H .-UZLE DEED OF AN INSANE
MO;1TH ER MN PCKENS.
.-1 -::the- .Ac o:K-iiiu~r one Cild
.in an -A nuoter ound Chocked
o it 'i iD.lel Dcveloplenlt oif
C:::::vi~:.S. C.. March I.Th
h I >niitr of the muitirdCr of two
d o'ep DaViw .14i 11 wife. Sallie
D nEei in the Pcter's Creek see
ion o . " conty. Tliursday after
noin a nihor who chainced to pass by
the e *( the Dawson Iamilv was
hoided insee \Ir;. Diawon making an
atack ol one of ier yoounger children
Wiih aNtx. The nei.;hlihor sueceeded
i;a p the auttack before the child
h bZI n killd *o ,right, but the little
on Lhr on -- -round with bloed stream
1in om it's he -ad. The bloody axe was
wre ed from themother's hand and
other piopillo c i). ainvestigation
W mad;041 at !)h,- hou, and lying on the
h ws v oumi hc dead body of' the in
.mt..hh.o th. y.- m1ortler. It had
cieed t') deatli and the blue
ar n s thro-t showed plainly the
eemie'i work. The woman
wa :n once icebed ini a-oom to prevent
hvr ron 1- iurther hjrni.
Th deail the shoekmi allair could
n be !eained here vesterday, but it is
sjup Ld xthaair. Dawson first chock
c.i Lhe baby to icath and wet to the
sriu- anId lshig place. not thr from
the house, taking' the axe with her.
Thee e lound the older child and
imia ly-i attacked it. The child struck
with thc axe was not dead yesterday
m11,611n1::, ,, thier ik no probabity
at iWl! ie. I L 6kull is thountit to
be* crui.hh
An liuest was behcl Frlday by the
.:*orone o 1ickens nty, who lives
10t 1a ir 1 1 tile ) Dawsons. The verdict
o. th iry Ii not kMnOWn.
The'u'lere.s is a daughter of John
julianu. a respece ble farmer whe lives
nea Dausili. n Pckes ouny.She
has no' been of sound mind for soma
tim," but it was not thought that she
was d ous auid no growu person was
le' ui:*' thc liusband's absience to
%Va~clhw heactionls.-'News.
m -.'wife" Was- a iiani.
( i . t lil.. March 2.-Henry Sew
ers, a mid-agd ma,11, who lives at
No.)'- W t 1 tudolph stree, irsmorurn
iig the loss of a supposed wife and S150
Ik! courted .1 olnmna Sebus by letter and1
a week ago yesterday he- married her.
sh~ let him as soon as the ceremony
was over to hurry to the bedside of a
dyiing fa.ler. le gave her 6150 when
e went away ant oromised to give her
.ly vesterday morning, whien she
said she wouild return if her parent was
better.
Yesterday morning she came back and
commeice d to urge Sewers to give her
the moiiey. Ie told her to wait a fe.v
days. and sie became angry. A light
oliowed, during which Sewers discor
ered that his -wif'e" was a man. and
that the imposter was simply trying to
swindle him out of his money.
Sewers, last July, came from New
York to Chicago. He secured a posi
tion with George sellenger, a commis
sion imercix t, at No. 183 West Ilan
dolph street. Two ionths ago his aunt
died in Germany anid left him $2,000
whichi he recieved shortly afterwards.
When he received the .oney pe deter
mined to take V-ito himelf a wife. in
an advertisemnent wi ch he inserted in
several nlewsp~apers, lie stated his age
and the amount of money lie was worth.
He wanted to marry at once. This was
consented to, and the wedding was set
for Februar.v 22.
About 7 o'clock last night Sewers's
friendls came to the house. Johanna
kept asking for the money and Sewers
beame angry. Hot words were ex
changed and soon a light was in pro
eress bet ween husband and wife. Dunr
E n the struggie. in which Johanna was
the aggressor, "her" skirt fell off, dis
playing a lpair oIf black trousers._ Every
one s:or at a glance that the bride was
a man, and before any one could inter
fere hie rushed from the house and es
capedi.
P' nmb Scores .iorril and lhi'dmUnds.
W A suIIIxoToN. MIarch 2,-During the
debate over thecsorghum sugar paragraph
othie ae"'ri-ultural -appropriation bill to.
iar Plum '-b made a caustic attack upon
1rrill of Vermoint anid also upon
}:tmunds for their insistance upon a
boiuntV be'ig paid to maple sugar pro
duce cts as a part ol the 31cKinley tariff
il. He declared that for a time the
whole bill had revol ved around tihe pay
ment of twelive cents ai poundl bounty to
the mai~ple sugar~t :en. MIorrill inter
ruped Piumub with same ironical re
marks and the Kansas Senator said he
woldI renoeat that it might go into
peranen't history that the bounty had
ieen put in as a matter personal to
Senator 31orrill, the miembets of the
Finanee Conuaittee stating it would aId
Seater 31orruil in his re-election. On
their pesoa solicitation lie (Plumb)
had vo'tedi for the bouuty on a distinct
unersandin~g that it would he rejected
Sthe conference but Edmxunds hiad then
a written lette2r, which was now in Sen
ator Cullom's pocket. saving that if the
male sugair bounty wais not rectamueu lie
(Edimuns) would be IIair'ed against the
Itaii bill. -
II is W.unids P'rored Fatal.
Cn''iusPIs-rox. . C., Feb. 27.-Paul
3eNeil, tie co'"r'e Biremian who was
>tatGaams. oin the South Carolina
alwa' by Town MIarshal it. C. Hard
*ik ~ ~i: 21st '1 JIanuary, is dead.
It 'ih ie remembere~id that on1 that (late
ani e--nte of h rilay fo tr running
his rid LhrouiAhl 1 lra:unlS at a faster
raeepe ta h n allowvs. WVhile
The shotin wa aie by Wet and
cImil to1 *have been eutirely withot
cause. Dr ithe t l- hodt iste
ik -C r ew-r DeXve-aux held an in
qu in the a casen tisafte~irnoo-n, andl the
ver~e vasin accordanice witih thiese
Mpt- A way in hi-i Store.
I~ D \.:i o. (al.. Feb. 27.-Several
de1.ts h.r- Letd Iromn thme flood at
i Juan. Mt1eicant was drownedl
IV''le "11tempting to asist others. A
a buildm ?1t lita 'ning uponi its founda
tin Tihe Rus- house is thle only build
in 1ta ha not been~ comletely
wee. and that is batdly diamaged.
TI~emae::uren of:heTia Juarai river
rus 1un' th tow.' Th'ile valley is
etc i num of' cattlc, hmogs and
Mrses ae 'kn-w to have perished.
Thee asben 'o comunitcatioln with
toi t- ! the. dama.:eo or- number of lives
.- \ met-sie 11rom1 Des Cause
st -e 'h:: .::; *-. inee Ie rain has fallen
w'hi :~ V hours at Stonewall,
hehie i :~.aidl ceer known in that
3I 1 nomi for Puliic tIuidinigs.
WsmsTrox lrch' 4.-The state
io ren a.b the (lerk of the House
Qualut~e on~auble lidings and
I (n*CrI.s .1 b ills for the erection of
pa -bli ali:. w .r ntroduced. carry
n I t t~. ia~ pe op'it ion of 676u.m525;.
Fthis ;m o2 be~.r ninet-th-lrelpassedtboth
n oc- leeiaue law save fotir, wvhich
wee ete bhe Presidnt.
CLEMSON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE.
The Doors Will be Thrown Open in Feb
ruary Next.
PENI)LETOX, S. C., March 5.-The
board of trustees of the Clemson college,
in session here to-day. decided to press
the work in all the departments and pre
nare to onen the colle-e Feb. 1. 1 $02.
The sessions will be from Feb. 1 to Dec.
I fievery year. making ten mou-iths for
st udents to stud v and work. There ; ill
he no Saturday holhday. as in other
schools, aid the school days wilh he si:
in everv week.
No student 'ur.der fifteen years of age
will be admitted unless the student has
an older brother in attendance.
Every student will be required to
work two hours of each working (lay at
manual labor and will receive such com
pensation for his work as the borad of
trustees can atlord and shall hereafter
determine upon.
The students will be required to live
and board at the institution, except
where they live near ciough to attend
from their homes.
Board will be furnished at r.etual cost,
which will not be over $7 a month. and
books and stationery will also be furn
ished at actual cost.
The college will be under military dis
cipline. and every student will he re
quired to wear a uniform of adet grey.
The board also fixed upon a list of
studies, but they will be -,ivcn to the
press later.
There will be two general departme. ts
in the college, the agricultural and tech
nological.
For entrance into the college the ap
plhcant must have a thorough knowle dge
in arithmetic, history, geography and
grammair.
The agricultural cou rse will be thor
ough and the student will be given a
complete education in practical farming.
The technological department will be
as complete as that of any technological
school in the country. [le standard
will be high, and every facility will be
iven for a thorough course.
The board has determined to provide
a preparatory department, on account of
the present condition of the public
schools; but the same limitation as to
age will apply in this department.
The college will be able to accommo
date 300 students. There are already
over 200 applications on file. and they
are being received every day.
The board has not decided what the
.tuition fees will be.
The committee on the selection of
professors has been continued, and the
committee will take plenty of time he
fore making the selections, in order to
get the bes, men to be had.
There are now 100 convicts at work
on the grounds. The experimental sta
tion, the only ail-wood building to be
put up, is nearly finished. Two brick
houses for the use of professsors are also
beinz finished. They are eight-room
builings and are covered with slate.
The laboratory. a three-story brick
buildin, 100 by 50 feet. is now being
coveretd with s ate and will soon be done.
A new stockade for the convicts has
been built, and five dwelling houses, now
used by mechanics, have also been coin
pleted.
The historical old Calhoun house, in
which Thomas Clemson lived and died,
has been recovered, repainted and re
paired inside and outside.
The trustees are making ta.cir own
bricks, and have 400,000 ready for use,
and 4,000 cords of wood on the ground
for burning more. There is also a large
quantity of stone en hand for laying the
foundations of the other buildings.-The
Stats.
THE PEOPL.E'S MONEY.
A Contrast of the Appropriations of the
30th and 51st Congress.4
WasmINGTox, March-5.-The follow
ing is an approximate statement of the
appropriations made at both sessions of
the Fifty-first Congress prepared by
the clerk or the Senate Commnittee on
Appropriations: Amonu~t of regular
bills, including deficiency and miscel
laneous appropriations for the first ses
sion, S361,700,000; amount of regular
bills, including deficiency andl miscel
laneous appropriations ::or the second
session, .S405,000,000; permanent appro
priations for the first session, about
101,000,000, and permanent appropria
tions for 189)1 estimated at $122,000,000.
This makes a grand total of $9,897,000,
000. senator Allison expects to have
a detailed and positive statement of
th-se appropriations completed in a
few days.
Sayers of Texas, the leider of the
Democratic minority on the House A p
ropriations Committee, has prepared
a statement of the appropriations du
ring the Fifty-first Congress as comn
para with: the appropriations during
the Fiftieth Congress, which shows
that the total appropriations made du
ring the Congress just closed were S1,
000,270,471 against 5817,963,859 during
the preceding Congress. These amounts
inltde the permanent annual appro
priationas. The total appropriations for
the tirst sesson of the Fiftieth Con
gress were 5422.620,343, and for the
second session 5395.337.51G, and for the
first session of the Fifty-il~st Congress
464.442510, andl for the second session
$541,827,961; to which Sayers' estimate
that 5800,000 should be added for va
r ious small items.
The total appropriations for each of
these Congresses were made up as fol
lows:
50th Con- 51st Con
p ress. gress.
A gricultural appro
priation bill...$ 2,38S5,780 $ 4.827,253
Army............. 4,787,915 48,810,0I00
Dilo..tie and con
silar............3408,40 3,3GT,740
D~istrictof Columbia 10,728,819 11,372,669
Fortifications.... 5,25,9'4 8,007,G38
Indians........... ,ti4,153 23,380,016
Leislative, exteu
tive and judicial.. 41,601,703 43, 084,273
Militar y Academ.iy.. 1,217,80" 537,300
Pensions.........-175,017,400 233.ii72, 246
P 'ostoflice.........1 27,45,577 150,135,920
liver and haroor
(one bill)..... 22,207,16 25,13G,295
Sundry civil.....51,62,145 69. 483,I;45
Deficiencies..... 24,9,9O1 76.617,445
Miscellaneous...20-20,42,57 27,737,905
Permanent annual
appropriation..2231,3.224,115,301
included in the 3:ppropriations for
thm Fifty-first Congress are 5157,727.
00 for tihe refundling of the~ direct tax,
and 510,000.000 for the sugar bounties,
this latter being included among tihe
peranenit annual appropriations.
Horrible Masnacre.
Pa. ris, Mlarch 4.-News of a horrible
mnassa cre comes from MIadaiascar.
R amiasatra, Governor of the province of
Balanond, presenting a petetion from
the populace to the government to de
fend them from cruelties, massacred 275
persons, including moen. women and
children, belonging to leading families.
The slaughter continued for several days
The agonies of the victims were in many
cases protraictedl. Sometimes their limbs
were gradually dismembered and heads
were sawed off, and their bodies were
thrown to the dogs. .Many of the wo
men were outraged. The survivors were
forced to erect a trophy composed of the
heads of the victims. The popular fury
h~s forced the government to announce
that the offenders will be punished.
The Connecticut Muddle.
IARTFORD, Ct.. March 5.-The IHouse
to-day took a ballot on the nomination
of wight Loomis Jo!f iolhand as .Jud:e
of the Supreme Court. The vote re
suited in favor of conirmation-il10
arainst 2, no quorun-.. and the Ihouse
day att 1:30'o'clock. The Democrats re
msta' to vote on the qluestioni of con
firmnation], carrying out their purpose
no to recogniz Blklcy as Governor.
OSEPH F. RHAME,
ATTORNEY A' LAT,
MANNING, S. C.
OIN S. WILSON,
Allo'e;j aw(10 Cmonselor at Law,
MANNING, S. C.
A LE VI. u
A* .TT|SE1 'A T' L W
MANNSNG. s. C.
-Net:y V l'ublic w.th -eal.
G Al,!A.N HfUGGINS, D. D. S.,
o CHERL1W. . . c.
f \rVisits Manning every month or two
professiorally.
FORESTON DRUG STORE,
FORESTON, S. C.
I keep tiways on hand a full line of
Pur Drugs and Medicines,
FANCYAND TOILET AR1TICLES, TOILET
SOAP:-, PERFUMERY, STATION
ERY, CIGARS, GARDEN SEEDS,
ani such articles as are usually kept in a
first class; drug, store.
1 ha ve j uSt added to my stock a line of
PAINTS AND OILS,
) . I to- 'IUTS, OILS
and amn preparedl to s-ll PAINTIL
LEAD, VARN\ISHES, BIRUHES,
in quantities. to suit puichasers.
L. W. NETTLES, M. D.,
Foreston, S. 0.
A. S. J. 1i'.i.mY. pl. L. sijoNS. R. A. PRINGLE.
Johnston, Crews & Co.,
-WHOLESALE
JOBBERS OF DRY GOODS,
Nations and Small Wares,
Nos. 4) Hayne & 112 Market Streets,
CHARLESTON, S. C.
r T. MCGA HAN. A. s BROWN. ROT. P. EVANS.
McAHAN, BRON & EVANS,
JOBBERS OF
Dry Goods, Notions,
Boots, Shoes and Clothing,
Nos. 226, 228 & 220 Meeting Street,
CI.ARILESTON, S. C.
JOB PRINTING.
T HE TIMES OFFICE IS FITTED UP IN
a uanner that warrants it in soliciting
your patronage for job printing. Send us
your orders which shall hive prompt atten
tion. Prices as low ai the cities. Satisfac
tion g laranteed. Keep us in mind.
BIUNSON HOUSE,
S CMT ER, S. C.
First class accommodations and excellen
table. Convenient to the business portion
of the town. 25 cents for dinner.
J1. H. DINON, Proprietor.
M. Drake & Son,
-WHOLESALE
BOD~TS, SHOES, & TRUNKS.
235 Meeting St., CHARLESTON, S. C.
L.rgest stock, best assortment, lowest prices.
GRAND CENTRAL HOTEL,
COLUMBIA, S. C.
Is. the larges.t hotel in the city, and has,
duriig the past year, been thoroughly reno
vated, remodeled, and refitted with all mod
ern improvements. Centrally located, and
offers inducements for the accommodation
of its patrons. Has (G spacious, light, and
airy sample rooms. Hot and cold baths, el
eator, &c. Cuisine undter supervision of
Mr. E. E. Post, late of Lookout Point Botel,
LooouL Mountain, Tenn. The proprietor
hopes by strict attention to the wants of his
patrons to merit a share of patronage. ;-S
F. W. sEEGERS, E. E. POST,&M
Proprietor. Manager 3
''0nDWGRK9 AffAHME 4
0.28 UNION SQUARE,NY NFA%
c A-T LANTA. g CAL. ,l)5CO
ST.LOUIS.MD. DALLAS.TEX.
. E. BROWN &~ CO., Manning, S. C.
PHILADELrnma SINGER.
High Low
Arm, Arm
$28. $20.
FIFTEEN DAYS' TRIAL
IN YOUR OWR HOUSE BErORE YOU PAY ONE CENT.
Dc nt Day an agent $55 or $S0, but send for circular.
TU C. A.WOODC,'7.3?,:'.%
ShotCuns. Revovers,
-~ ~.~~Rfles
L r ocoJZLIs. Uena ioribUnrh,1:.
SEINES, NETS, TENTS, AND SPORTINC C(00DS
Double Barrel Brech Loading Shot Guns,
eloke bored. $8 to $100. Single Breech Lcad
ing Shot Guns, $4 to S25. Every kind of
lchc Loading and Rtepeating Rifles, $3 to
$10. Muzzle Loading D~ouble Shot Guns,
S. to S$35. Siugle Shot Guns. $2.50 to S12.
Rtevovrs. S1 to S$20. Double Action Self
Coers. 5.35 to $10. All kinds of Car
tridgs, Shells, Caps, W~aus. Tools, Powder
l"asks, Shot Pouches, Primers. Send 2
ents for illustrated Catalogue. Address
J. H. .JOIINSTON, GREAT WESTERN
GUN WOlRKS, Pittsburg, Pa.
M~anning Shaving Parlor.
H Ul CI'TTING ARTISTICALLY EX
eeuted. and shving done with best
razors. Sprc eia attention paid to shampoo
ig :li.s' lgeads I hitve had considerable
eCt-rieceC oi several large cities, ana guar
a'to satisfaction to my~ customers. Parlor
n~xt door to Manning limes.
ADGER SMrYTH. F .J. PELZEUi, Special Partner
SMYTH & ADOER,
Factors and Commission Merchants,
1NTortL Atlantic -W arf
CHARLESTON, S. C.
OTTO F. WIETERS,
WHOLESALE GROCER,
Wholesale Dealer in Wines, Licurs and Cigars,
No. 121 East Bay, Charleston, S. C.
OTTO TIEDEMAN & SONS,
Wholesale Grocers and Provision Uaaiers,
172, 174, and 176 East Bay Street,
CII ALM]3 ST l\T., S. C.
MOLONY & CARTER,
COMMiISSION MERCHANTS.
Dealers in Corn, Oats, Bran, Hay, Flour, Feed,
244 & 246 Meeting St., Opp. Pavilion Hotel, CHARLESTON, S. C.
00-Contracts made for car load lots or less.
W. E. HoIxEs. LELAND MOORE.
W. E. HOLMES & CO.,
-DEALERS In
White Lead and Colors,
Oils and Varnishes,
Glass and Brushes,
Mill and Naval Stor6 Supplies,
STREET LAMPS and LANTERNS ofALL KINDS
OFFICE, 207 EAST BAY, CHARLESTON, S. C.
ESTABLISHED 1844.
Charleston Iron Works,
Manufacturers and Dealers in
Marine Stationary and Portable Engines and Boilers, Saw
Mill Machinery, Cotton Presses, Gins, Railroad, Steam
boat, Machinists', Engineers' and Mill Supplies.
sRepairs executed with promptness and Dipatch. &ndfor price lists.
East Bay, Cor. Pritchard St.,
Charleston, S. C.
PUCKHABER BROS.,
Wholesale Bakery and Candy Factory.
AGENTS FOR HOLMES & COUTTS SEAFOAM WAFERS AND ENGLISH BISCUIT,
464 and 466 King St., CHARLESTON, S. C.
P=EROIV.AL M'Er. 00.
S ECORS AND BLINDS 478 to 486 Meeting St., CHARLESTON,S. C.
THE BEST AND TH CHEAPEST.
All meg gods gurned Esrie furp.he by return mail. Large stock, promp;
Geo. E. Toale & Company,
YAFcTURERs OF AND WHOLESALE DEALERS IN
Doors, Sash, Blinds, Moulding, and General Building Material.
Office and Salesrooms, 10 and 12 Hayne St., CHARLESTON, S. C.
OLD CLOTHES MADE NEW.
sEND YOUR DYEING TO THE
CHARLESTON STEAM DYE WORKS,
All work guaranteed. 310 King St., CHARLESTON, S. C.
SMOKE HENO CIGAR, THE BEST NICKLE CIGAR SOLD.
B. A. JOHNSON, Sole Agent, Manning, S. C.
S01 ISEMAN, Wholesale Grocer, Stale Agent,
1m8 mast mar. Cnaareeston1. S. C.
Lilienthal & Blohme,
And dealers in Prepared Flour, Grist and Meal, also Hay, Grain, Flour, Mill Feed,
etc. Send , frpis32, 34, and 36 Beaufain St., CHA RLESTON. S. C.
S. THOMAS, Jn. J. M. THOMAS. BOLLM~ANN BROTHERS,
Stephen Thomas,J3r.& Bro.
Wcroms, Wholesale
JEWELRY, SILVER & PLATED WARE, Grocers,
Spectacles, Eye Glasses & Fancy Goods.
.eWatches and Jewelry repaired by 157 and 100, East Bay,
copetent workmen.
257 KING STREET, CHARLESTON, S. C.
CH ARL ESTON, S. C. JoHN F. W\ERNYE. L. H. QUxotra
ESTABLISHED) 1S36. JOHN F. WERNER & CO.,
Carrington, Thomas & Co., WTholesale Grocers
-DEALERS IN- --AND
Provision Dealers,
EWELRY, SIL.VERWARE AND FANCY GOODS,
164 & IS6 East Bay and 29 & 31
No. 251 King Street,VedeRne
CHARLESTON, S. C. OILiRLESTON, S. 0.
CHARLES C. LESLIE A cO B r
Wholesale & Retail Ccommission Dealer in Mc BB Jr
General Commnission Merchant
F'I I-IAND DEALER IN
~ ~A~i~, A~ ~ UME, CEMENT, PI.ASTER PARIS, HAIR, FIRE
Conignent ofpoutry egs, nd ll BRICKS, AND FIRE CLAY, LAND Pj)S
nd of countr produce a're respectfulaly TER, AND EASTERN HAY.
OfcNos. 18 & 20 Market St., E. of East Bay Agent fo Wht' Els Potad eet
CHESTON S. C. 194 & 196 E Charleston, S. O