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VOL. VII. MAN NING, S. C., WEDNESDAY, JUL .181 O.2 ASTRAY BUT RECOVERED DR. TALMAGE PREACHES ON THE NE CESSITY OF A REDEEMER. Beauty, Patbos and Comfoit Found i the Flifty-third Cbapier of Ialah---Hov and Why Men and Sheep Go Astray Whosoever Will. Let Him Come. BROOKLYN, June 28.-Dr. Talmage'; sei mon to-day is of so decidedly evan gelical a character as to prove conclu siveiv that while so many emineni preachers of the day are dritting awa3 from the old fashioned Gospel he re. mains firm in the paths of orthodoxy His subject is "Astray, but Recovered,' and his text, Isaiah lii, 6: -All we like sheep have gone astray: * * * anc the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity o us all." '"Within ninety years at the longest all wbo hear or read this sermon will be iu eternity. During the next fifty yearE You will nearly all be gone. The nexi ten years will cut a wide swath among the people. The year 1891 will to some be the finality. Such considerations make this occasion absorbing and mo mentous. The first half of my text iE an indictment, "All we like sheep have gone astray." Some one says: "Car you not drop the first word? That is too general; that sweeps too great a cir cle." Some man rises in the aueience and he looks over on the opposite side of the house, and he says: "There is a blasphemer, and I understand how he has gone astray. And there in another part of the house is a defrauder, and he has gone astray. And there is an im pure person, and hehas gone astray.'' Sit down, my brother, and look at home. My text takes us all in. It starts behind the pulpit, sweeps the circuit of the room and comes back te the point where it started, when it says: -All we like sheep have gone astray.' I can very easily understand why Mar tin Luther threw up his hands after he had found the Bible and cried out, "Oh! my sins, my sins." and why the publi can, according to the custom to this day in the east when thy have any great grief, began to beat himself arid cry as he smote upon his breast, "God be mer ciful to me a sinner." ILLUSTRATION FROM THE SHEPHERD'S LIFE. I was like many of you, brought ul in the country, and I know some of the habits of sheep and how they get astray, and what, my test means wnen it says, - U we like sheeu have gone astray.' Sheep get astray in two ways, either by trying to get into other pasture, or from being scared by the dogs. In the formez way some of us got astray. We thought the religioa of Jesus Christ short com mons. We thought there was better pasturage somewhere else. We thought if we could only lie down on the banks of distant streams or under great oaks on the other side of some hill we might be better fed. We wanted other pasturage than that which God through Jesus Christ gave our soul. and we wandered on and we wandered on, and we were lost. We wanted bread and we found garbage. The further we wandered, instead of finding rich pasturage. we found blasted health an d sharper rocks and more sting ing nettles. No pasture. How fas it in the worldly groups when you lost your child? Did they come around and console you very much? Did not the plain Christian man who came into your house and sat up with your darling child give you more comfort than all worldly associations? Dia all the convivial songs you ever heard comfort rou in that day of bereavement so much as the song they sang to you, perhaps the very song that was sung by your little child the last Sabbath afternoon of her life? There Is a happy land, fa3r, far away, Where saints immortal reign, bright, bright as day. DLid your business associates in that day of darkness and trouble give you any especial condolence? Vusiness ex asperated you, business wore you out, business left you limp as a rag, business made you mad. You got dollars, but ycu got no peace. God have mercy on the man who, has nothing but business to comfort him. The world aflorded you no luxuriant pasturage. A famous English actor stood on the stage impersonating, and thunders of applause came down from the galleries, and many thought it was the proudest moment of all his life; but there was a man asleep just in front of hin, and the fact that that man was in different and somnolent spoiled all the occasion for him, and he cried, "Wake up! wake up!" So one little annoyance in life has been more pervading to your mind than all the brilliant congratulations and suc cesses. poor pasturage for your soul you found in ;this world. The world has cheated s ou, the world has belied 3 ou, the world has misinterpreted you, the world has persecuted you. It neve r comforted you. Oh! this world is a good rack from which 'i horse may pick his hay; it is a good trough from whbich the swine may crunch their mess; but it gives but little food to a soul blood bougzht and immortal. What is a soul? It is a hope high as the throne of God. What is a man? You say, "It is only a man." It is only a man gone overboard mn business life. What is a man? The battle ground of three worlds, with his bands taking hold of destinies of light or darkness. A man! No line cani measure him. No limit can bound him. The archangel before the throne cannot outlive him. The stars sha'l die, but he will watch their extinguisbment. The world wil burn, but Le will giaze on the contiagra tion. Endless ages will march con; nie will watch the procession. A man! The masterpiece of God Almighty. Yet you say, "It is only a man." Can a nature like that be fed on husks of the wilderness?; Substantial comfort wi!l not grow On nature's '>arren sOil; All we can bct.st till Christ we know Is vanity and toil. THOSE WHO STRAY IN TROUBLE. Some of you got astray by looking for better pasturage; others by being scared of the dogs. The hound gets over into the pasture field. The poor things fiy in every direction. In a tew mo mnents they are torn of the hiedges and they are plashed of the ditch, and the lost sheep never gets home unless the farmer goes after it. There is nothing so thoroughly lost as a lost sheep. It may have been in 1857, during the finan cl panic, or during the financial stress in the fall af 1873, when you got astray. You almost became an atheist. You said. "Where is God, that honest men go down and thieves prosper?" You were dogged of creditors, you were dog ged of the banks, you were dogged ol worldly disaster, and come of y on went into miisanthropy, some of you took to strong drink, and others of you fled out of Christian association, and vou got astray. 0 man! that was the last time when you ought to have forsaken God. Standing amid the foundering of your earthly tortunes, how could you get along without a God to comfort you, and a God to deliver you, and a God to help you, and a God to save you? You tell me you bave been through, enough busi ness trouble almost to kid you. I know it. I cannot understand how the boat could live one hour in that chopped sea. But I do not know by what process you got astray; some in one way, and some in another, and if you could really see the position some of you occupy before God this morning, your soul would burst into an agony of tears and you would pelt the heavens with the cry, "God have mercy!" Sinai's batteries have been unlimbered above your soul, and at times you havejheard itithunder: "The wages of sin is death." "All have sin - ned and co ie short of the glory of God." "'By one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed ul on all men, for that all have sinned." "The soul that sinneth it shall die." When Sebastopol was being bombard ed, two Russian frigates burned all night in the harbor throwing a glare upon the trembling fortress, and some of you are starding in the night of your soul's trou ble. The cannonade and the conflagra tion, the multiplication of your sorrows and troubles I think must make the wings of God's hovering angels shiver to the tip. But the last part of my text opens a door wide enough to let us all out and to let all heaven in. Sound it on the organ with all the stops out. Thrum it on the harps with all the strings atune. With all the melody possible let the heavens sound it to the earth and let the earth tell it to the heavens. "The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." I am glad that the prophet did not stop to explain whom he meant by "him." Him of the manger, him of the bloody sweat, him of the resurrection throne, him of the crucifixion agony. "On him the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all." CHRIST COMES TO THE FALLEN. "Oh," says some man, "that is not generous, that is not fair; let every man carry his own burden and pay his own debts." Thst sounds reasonable. If I have an obligation and I have the means to meet it. and I come to you and ask you to settle that obligation. you right ly say, "Pay your own debts." If you and I walking down the street, both hale, hearty and well, I ask you to car ry me, you say, and say rightly, "Walk on your own feet!" But suppose you and I were In a regiment and I was wounded in the battle and I fell uncon scious at your feet with gunshot fractures and dislocations, what would you do? You would call to your comrades say inz, "Come and help, this man is help less; bring the ambulance, let us take him to the hospital," and I would be a dead lift in your arms, and you would lift me from the ground where I had fallen and put me in the ambulance and take me to the hospital and have all kindness shown me. Would there be anything mean in your doing that? Would there be anything bemeaning in my accepting that kindness? Oh, no. You would be mean not to do it. That is what Christ d,>es. If we could pay our debts then it would be better to go up and pay them, saying, "Here, Lord, here is my obligation; here are the means with which I mean to settle that obligation; now give me a receipt; cross it all out." The debt is paid. But the fact is we hive fallen in the battle, we have gone down under the hot fire of our transgressions, we have been wounded by the sabers of sin, we are helpless. we are undone. Christ comes. The loud clang heard in the sky on that Christmas night was only the bell, the resounding bell, of the ambu lance. Clear the way for the Son of God. He comes down to bind up the wounds, and to scatter the darkness, and to save the lost. Clear the way for the Son of God. Christ comes down to see us, and we are a dead lift. He does not lift us with the tips of his fingers. He does not lift us with one arm. Hie comes down upon his knee, and then with a dead lift he raises us to honor and glory and immor tality. -'The Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all." Why, then, will no man carry his sin-? You cannot carry successfully the smsllest sin you ever committed. You might as well put the Apennines on one shoulder and the Alps on the other. How much less can you carry all the sins of your lifetime! Christ comes and looks down in your face and says: "I have come through all the lacerations of these days and through all the tempests of these nights. I have come to bear your burdens, and to pardon your sins, and to pay yo~ur debts. Put them on my shoulder; put them on my heart." --On him the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all. No REST FOR THE WICKED. Sin has almost pestered the life out of some of you. At times 1thias made you cross and unreasonable, pnd it has spoil ed the brightness of yonr days and the peace of your nights. There are men wv io have been riddled of sin. The world gives them no solace. Gossamer and volatile the world, while eternity, as they look forward to it, is black as midnight. They writhe under the stings of a conscience which proposes to give no rest here and no rest hereafter; and yet they do not repent, they do not pray. they do not weep. They do not realize that just the position they occupy is the position occupied by scores, hundreds :nd thousands of men who never found ay hope. If this meetmng should be thrown open and the people who are here could give their testimony, what thrilling experi ences we should hear on all sides: There is a mani in the gallery who would say: "I had brilliant surroundings. I had the best education that one of the best col legiate Institutions of this country could give, and I observed all the moralities of life, and I was self righteous, and I thought I was all right before God as I am all right before men; but the Iholy Spirit came to me one day and said, 'You are a sinner;' the Holy SpIrit per suaded me of the fact. While I had es caped the sins against the law of~ the land I had really committed the worstI sin a man ever commits-the driving back of the Son of God from my heart's aections. And I saw that my hands we:e ted with the blood of the Son of God, and I began to pray, and peace came to my heart, and I know by exper ience that what you say this morningz is true, 'On him the Lord hath laid the in iquity of us all.'" Yonder is a man who would say: "I was the worst dIrunkard in New York; I went from bad to worse; I destroyed my self, I dest royed my home; my children cowered when I entered tile house; when they put up their lips to be kissed I struck them; when my wife protested against the maltreatment, I kicked her into the street. I know all the bruises aal enm terrors of a drunkard's woe. I went on further and further from Go( until one day I got a letler saying: "My DEAR HUSBAND-I have trie every way, done everything, and prayed earnestly and fervently for your refor mation, but it seems of no avail. Since our little Henry died, with the Excel) tion of those flew happy weeks when yot remained sober, my life has been one o sorrow. Many of the nights I have sat by the window, with my face bathed in tears, watching for your cominz. I am broken hearted, I am sick. Mother and father have been here frequently and begged me to come home, but my love for you and my hope for brighter days have always made me refuse them. That hope seems now beyond realization, and I have returned to them. It is hard, and I battled long before doing it. M1ay God bless and preserve you, and take from you that accursed appetite and hasten the day when we shall be again living happily together. This will be my daily prayer, knowing that he has said, 'Come unto me all ye that labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.' From your loving wife, MARY "And so I wandered on and wandered on," says that man, "until one night I passed a Methodist meeting h'use, and I said to myself, Il go in and see what they are doing,' and I got to the door, and they were singing: All may come, whoever will, This man receives poor sinners still. "And I dropped right there where I was and I said, 'God have mercy,' and he had mercy on me. My home is res tored, my wile sings all day long during work, my children come out a long way to greet me home, :ad my household is a little heaven. I will tell you what did all this for me. It was the truth that this day you proclaim, 'On him the Lord bad laid the iniquity of us all.' " THE DRUNKARD AND TH1E OUTCAST.: Yonder is a woman who would say "1I wandered off from my father's house; I heard the storm that pelts on a lost soul; my feet were blistered on the hot rocks. I went on and on, thinking that no one cared for my soul, when one nignt Jesus met me andi he said: "Poor thing, go home! your father is waiting for you, your inother is waiting for you. Go home, poor thing!' And, sir. I was too week to pray, and I was too weak to repent, but I just cried out; I sobbed out my sins and my sorrows on the shoulders of him of whom it is said, 'the Lord hath laid on him the in iquity of us all."' There is a young man who would say: "I had a Christian bringing up; I c tme from the country to city life; I started well; I had a good position, a good commercial position, but one night at the theater I met some young men who did me no good. They dragged me all through the sewers of iniquity, and I lost my morals and I lost my position, and I was shabby and wretched. I was going down the street, thinking that no one cared for me, when a young man tapped me on the shoulder and said, George, come with me and I will do you good.' I looked at him to see whether he was joking or not. I saw he was in earnest and I said, 'What do you mean, sir?' 'Well,' he replied.'I mean if you will come to the meeting to-night I will be very glad to intro duce you. I will meet you at the door. Will you come?' Said I, T will.' 'I went to the place where I was tarrying. I fixed myself up as well as I could. I buttoned my coat over a ragged vest and went to the door of the church, and the young man met me and we went in; and as I went in I heard an old man praying, and he looked so much like my father I sobbed right ut; and they were all around so kind and sympathetic that I just gave my eart to God and I know this morning that what you say is true; I believe it in my own experience. 'On him the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all.'" Oh, rmy brother, without stopping to ok as to whether your hand trembles r no't, without stopping to look wheth r your hand is bloated with sin or not, put it in my hand, let me give you one warm, Drotherly, Christian grip, and nvite you right up to the heart, to the ompassion, to the sympathy, to the pardon of him on whom the Lord had laid the iniquity of us all. Throw way your sins. Carry them ao longer. [ proclaim emancipation this morning to all who are bound, pardon for all sin, ad eternal life for all the dead. Some one comes here this morning, ad I stand aside. He comes up these steps. He comes to this place. I must stand aside. Taking that place he spreads abroad his hands, and they were ailed. You see his feet. they were ruised. He pulls aside the robe and shows you his wounded heart. I say, Art thou weary ?'' "Yes," he says, 'wearv with the world's woe." I say, 'Wh~relce comest thou ?" Hie says. "I ome from Calvary." I say, -Who omes with thee ?' He says, "No one; have trodden the winepress aloneV" say, "Why comest thou here ?" "Oh," e says, "I came here to carry all the sins and sorrows of the people." And he kneels and he says, "Put on my shoulders all the sorrows and all the sins." And conscious of my own sins irst, I take them and put them on the shoulders of the Son of God. 1 say, Canst thou bear any more, O Christ ?" Ee says, "-Yea, more." And I gather p the sins of all those whe serve at hese altars, the officers of the Church f Jesus Christ-I gather up all their sins and put them on Christ's shoul ers, and I say, "Canst thou bear any ot e?" He says, "Yea, more." Then gather up all the sins of a hundred people in this house, and I put them on the shoulders of Christ, and 1 say, Canst thou bear more ?" Yea, more." And I gather up all the sins of this as sembly, and I put thern on the shoul ders of the Son of God andI I say Canst thou bear them ?" -"Yea," he says, "more." IE HIATH BORNE OURi TRiANSG RE.SSIONS. But he is departing. Clear the way for him, the Son of God. Open the door and let him pass out. Ie is carrymng ur sins and bearing them away. We shall never see them again. H~e throws them down into the abysm. and you hear the long reverberating echo of their fall. "On him the Lord hath laid the iniquity of us all." Will you let him take away your sins to-dayz Or do you say, "I will take charge of them myself; I will fight my own battles; I will riskc eternity on my own account ?" clergyman said in his pulpit one Sab bath, "Blefore next Saturday night one of this audience will have passed out of life." A gentleman said to another seated next to him: "I don't believe it. L mean to watch, and if it doesn't come true by next Saturday night I shall tell that clergyman his falsehood." The man seated next to him said, "Perhaps it will be yourself." "Oh, no," the oth r replied; "I shall live to be an old man." That night he breathed his last. To-day the Saviour calls. All may :ome. God never pushes a main oil'. God never destroys any body. The man jumps off. It is suicide-soul suicide if the man perishes, for the invitation is, "W~hosoever wIll, let him come." Whosoever, whosoever, whosoever! lIn this day of merciful visitation, while many are coming into the kingdom of God. .ioin the procession heavenward. Seated among us during a service was a man who came in and said, "I on't kenow that there is any God." I That was on Friday night. I said, "We will kneel down and find out whether there is any God." Arid in tlhe second seat from the pulpit we knelt. Ile said: "I have found him. There is a God, a pardoning God. 1 feel him here," Ile knelt in the darkness of sin. He arose two minutes afterward in the liberty of the Gospel; while another sitting under the gallery on Friday night said, "My opportunity is gone; last week I might have been saved, not now, the door is shut." And another from the very midst of the meeting, during the week. rushed out of the front door of the Tabernacle. saying, "I am a lost man." "Behold! the Lamb of God who taketh away the sin of the worll." "Now is the accept ed time. Now is the day of salvation." dt is appointed unto all men once to ie, and after that-the judgment'" A TALK WITH TILLMAN. Tine Governor and the Sub-Treasury De bate. CHARLEsTON, S C., June :30. -Gov ernor Tillman spent the greater part of the morning yesterday in his room at the Charleston Hotel. where he received quite a number of callers. I1is time until 4 o'clock was pretty well occupied in this way and in the incidental effort of keeping cool on the shady side of the building. Among the callers was a reporter for The News and Courier. who asked him some questions on cur rent topics, which he answered readily. As the next "case" in which Governor Tillman will be one of the parties is the sub-treasury debate at Spartanburg he was asked a few questions about that interesting prospective event. "What about the Spartanburg meet ing at which you are to meet Col. Ter rell in debate? Will the speeches be heard by members of the Alliauce only?" "All I can say about that is that when I accepted Col. Terrell's chal lenge to meet him at Spartanburg I ex pected the discussion to be in phblic and for the benefit and enlightenment of all classes of voters. In his tour over the State Col. Terrell's advocacy of the measure was in public, and I can not suppose that it is intended to re strict my reply to Alliance members only, and to a few at that. Djesides, it is too hot to sieak in any house this time of year; and there is no place in Spartanburg large enough to hold the audience that will be likely to attend ex cept the Grange encampment building. As I understand it this is a friendly dis cussion between the distinguished lec tuier of the National Alliance and my self upon a question affecting the in terest of all classes, Alliancemen, farm ers who do not belong to the Alliance and citizens who cannot join that or ganization. I cannot see any reason, therefore, why the debate should not be held in public." "When will the discussion take place ?" "I don't know, but, I presume on the second day of the session of the State Alliance, which will be about the 22d of July." "iave you hear. from Col. Terrell since he left the State?" "Only through the newspapers, but when I was at Cedar Springs last week I mentioned the matter to some of the leading Alliancemen in Spartanburg, and they said there would be a large crowd present and they wanted the dis cussion to be in public." "What arrangements have been made for the meeting?" "None that I know of, but I presume that President Stokes aid the Spartan burg Alliance will take the necessary steps to prepare for it." "IHave you any idea of the result of this discussion ?" "Of course riot; except tbat the dlis cussion is to take place in public, and that the State Alliance will take a vote on it in secret as they do on all matters affecting our Order. I hope to show that the Alliance in South Carolina cannot afford to press the sub-treasury scheme, but as the measure has been endorsed by the Ocala meeting and by one State Alliance may, and probably will, fail." Thirty Skeletons in a Itow. -CmiCAGO, June 28.-Thirty skeletons .ere found yesterday in an old ice house at the corner of Archer avenue and Hough place. For several days numerous com plaints have been made to the health office and to the Deering street police by residents in the vicinity of Archer avenue and Hough place, who asserted that a nuisance of most aggravated form made life almost unendurable. Investigation was made by both de partments, but without locating the trouble. Yesterday the mystery was solved. Several boys found near the corner a human skull and several thigh bones bleached white. The lads told the first policeman they met of their discovery, and he notitied the health ollice. Dr. Ware, with several assistants. visited the scene and made a more thorough search than had before been made. A bad odor was detected from Schine man's ol I ice house on the corner. The searchers ripped up a part of the floor, and were horrified to find rows of skel etons, to some of which shreds of flesh still clung. Who placed them there is not known, and the authorities will make every ef fort to find the guilty persons. The theory ad vanced by the health of ficers is that some attache of a medical college brought the subjects there to bleach. The bones were allowed to re main until the matter can be more fully investigated. CiCAGO, JIune 28.-It is now. learned that Robert A. Ilawes has been carrying on the grewsome business of cleaning human skeletons for the medical pro fession in the building. The board of health will look into the matter. Crushed and Mangled. CHARLESTON, S. C., June 20.-A hor rible accident occurred at the South Carolina Railway depot hetre this morn ing, John Black, a respectable old street car conductor, went to the dcepot to see his daughter off for Walhalla. In try ing to jump from the train after it started his foot w~as caught in the plat form of the car and his body, after !)e-1 ing dragged the whole length of the depot, some 500 feet, was hurled tunder the cars and horiribly mangled. All this occurred in the presence of over 100 spectators, includingt a son of thel deceased. They were powerless to help.I Black was an old man and was one of the most popular conductors on the city railway. lIe came here twelve years ago from WValhalla. Drilling for War. TrAcon, Wash., .June 2>.-It isru mored the strikers displaced by clored men importedl from the South at thfe G illmian, New Castle and Frankliu mint-s are drilling in t he woods daily. Tney are said to be armed with rille-s, and a combination has been effected. so that any attempt to re-sume wvork at any of the mines will result in the gather mug of the entire force of armed niners to resist the attenmp~t. Swallowed is Falise Teeth. BJosTON, June 29.-J ames Corcoran died ini the hospital here last night, from the effects of having swallowed his false teth. ANOTHER CARD FROM MR. THACKSTON IN REFERENCE TO HiS SCHOOL JOURNAL. Ife Explains How He Caine to be MIstak en About the Resolution of the State Board of Examiners. CotlnInA, S. C., July 2.-Mr. W. J. Thackston, clerk to State Superinten dent of Education Mayfied, has asked for the publication of the folloving: To the Public: I feel that it is due to myself and to the public that I should say that not until I read the statements o Superintendeat Maylield on his return to the city and of Prot Johnson, pub lished in the Record of Monday, the 29th ult, did I know I had misconceived the action of the State board of examiners with regard to the Palmetto School Jour nal. It had been until then my honest im pression that the action of the board had been what was stated by me in an edi torial in reference thereto, which ap peared in the April number of the Jour nal, page 263. In that editorial, which was widely circulated, but which the board of examiners evidently did not read, if they saw a copy of the Journal, I wrote as follows: "The State board of examiners ador t ed a resolution urging the trustees throughout the State to become subsc::i bers, and allowing them to pay for their subscriptions out of the contingent fund of their district." Dur:ng the meeting of the board of ex aminers on the 4th of Anril, of whlth board I am by law clerk. I made orally the proposition in question, namely, that the board should officially endorse the Paimetto Schoel Journal as its or gan, and should urge the school trustees to become subscribers, paying for their subscription out of the funds for their districts. That proposition included the offer of all space free of charge neces sa ry for the publication of the official mat ter of the board and of the department of education. I then asked to be ex eused from the meeting that the board might consider the proposition without my presence. I When I returned the board had passed to other subjects and I was Informed that the board had endorsed the Palmet to School Journal. Nothing else was said to me in reference to the matter at that time or subsequently by any mem ber of the board, and knowing of no other proposition, I natually supposed that what was said referred to the pro position I submitted. Under this im pression I wrote the editorial in the .Journal mentioned, the circular letter to the trustees and the statement recently prepared by me for publication. I had no idea I was mistaken until I saw the statements in Monday's Record. It is inconceivable that I should have attempted to prevent a resolution of the board where detection and exposure would be so certain to follow. I com mitted the error of not verifying my im pression simply because I did not sus pect the possibility o:' mistake. Had I entertained any doubt I could easily have done so, as I am clerk of the board and keeper of its record. The proposi tion was made openly, in perfect good faith and with a sincere desire to advance the interest of pubhi education. It seemed to me to be :ustified by prece (ent and to lie within the legitimate powers of the board. In this State the Staite board of exam iners on tihe 17th of April. 1889, passed the following resolution in refernce to the Carolina School Journal: "Resolved further. That the chair man be resquested to subscribe for five copies of the Journal for the use of the board." If the board of examiners could sub scribe for five copies of the Carolina Schiool Journal, one for each member of the board, and pay for them out of the public funds, they certainly have the right to authorize the trustees to sub scribe for a School Journal for their use, and pay for it out of the public funds. If a School Journal paid for by the State is a good thing for the members of the State board of examiners, why is it not equally as good for the trustees, who are supposed to need the information it con tains much more? The twenty-first annual report of the State Superintendent of Education for 1889 (page 20) shows this entry: "Sub scription to Charleston World-$7." If in the past it was thought expedient to pay for a daily newspaper for the head of the educational department of the State out of public funds, what improp iet y could there be in paying for an edu ational journal for subordinate school oflicers of the State out of the public funds, which journal contains official in formation from the State board and the department of education? Ii my information is correct, in several other States. including Pennsylvania and Virginia, educational journals are paid or directly out of the State funds. The acceptance of my prop~ositie n was a ques tion for tile board. I felt sure they would adopt no plan whichi was not advisaole and right, and supposing they had adopt edi my propositions as submitted, I feit at liberty to proceed on their authority. I1 now see I committed an error in not verifying their action, but I positively disclaim all intention ot misrepresent. ing the facts. I have acted throughout in entire good faith and without inten tional concealment. It is due to Superintendent Mayfleld tilat I shoul say that the editorial in the Palmetto Journal, the circular letter to the trustees and my former statement to the press were written and published without his knowledge and during his absence. IIe was not consulted by me bcause lie had no interest in the Journal and was not responsible for my action as its editor. It is also due to the mem bers of the board of examiners to acquit them of all responsibility for my mistake. This statemeut is made public as soon as possible after I had discovered that 1 had been all along mistaken as to the action of the board of examiners with reference to the Palmetto Journal. W. J1. TIIACKsToN. Robbed and Left to Starve. R1Aoio ,Va., July 1.-Barney Smith, a mnechiamei emp~loyed for some time at the Roanoke MIachine Works, disap peared lust pay day. Juine 19. lIe was found to-day, with his hands bound and tied to a tree, in a lonely spot in the Blue Ridge mountains, ten miles from here. lie was frantic and half starved, Ie had gnawed the bark from the tree to which he was tied. IIe was unable to tell how lie came to be tied, and now lies in a precarious condition. There is no clue to the perpetrators of thie deed. The motive is supposed to have been robbery, as Smith was known to have somie money on his per. son when last seen here. A GANG OF YOUNG THUGS. The Recent Assaults and Robberies in Sumter. SUMTER, S. C., June 27.-The charges and the evidence against Nelson, the young negro footpad, are accumulating rapidly and it begins to appear that he was not the only one connected with the various assaults and robberies perpetrat ed upon our citizens during the past two weexs, but was probably the ringleader of a gang of four or five young despera does. Nelso-. was taken out of jail yesterday and brought before Justice Wells to an swer to the charge of having entered. on Tuesday morning, between 3 and 4 o'clock, the apartment m which Mr. A. F. Byrd, an employee at the mill of Mr. S. M. Graham, on Sumter street, was sleeping and of robbing him of his pock etbook and the money which it con tained, and also of some valuable se curities and papers. Mr. Byrd stated that as the night was warm, he had opened all the windows and the door, and had laid down on the bed. ntending, as soon as he had cooled off, to get up and shut the door; that he had gone to sleep, however, and between 3 and 4 o'clock in the morni-g was aroused by hearing some one :noving around in his room, and upon awaking fully he found it was a young negro man, of whom he gave a description which ex actly fitted Nelson. He said the negro placed his hand upon his hip pocket, as though in the act of drawing a pistol, and told him not to move, or he would blow out his brains; and that being tot .lv unarmed, he had remained quiet; that the negro deliberately went through everything, took the articles above men tioned and then left. Saturday morning the pocketbook and papers were found among Nelson's things. and he confessed the whole affair, and stated that he had been accompanied by a young negro of the town, named Jim Stuttle. Stuttle was accordingly arrested and both were sent to jail to await trial at the October term of the court. Nelson also made confessions to the police implicating several other ne groes. but they have not yet been ar rested, and the police will not make known their names. Nelson acknowledged being the one who came after the policeman earlier on Monday night, just before young Foxworth was struck. From the time at which Foxworth was struck and that at which Mr. Byrd was robbed, Nelson must have gone immediately from the one to the other.-The State. Cotton Three Weeks Late. The weekly weather and crop bulle tin of the South Carolina weather ser vide, in co-operation with the United States Signal Service for the week end ing Saturday, is as follows, and is very encouraging to farmers. The rainfall for the past week has been below the norr.al and badly dis tributed. The temperature has been above the average with very much of sunshine, all of which has been very beneficial to all crops. The cotton has improved very much where it has been properly cultivated, but there are many gaps or missinL' places which give it a ragged appear ance, and that portion of the crop is growing very rapidly and is now cov ered with blooms. A considerable por tion of the crop has been and still is very grassy, and farmers are making every effort to clean it this hot and dry weather, :ut labor is very scarce. The yield of an ordinary crop will, to a great extent, depend upon the success in get ting rid of the grass in the next few days. The corn crop is now a fair average, but if a drought should now set in, which present appearances indicate, it will be seriously injured. There can be no doubt but that the cotton crop is three weeks late, and it will require good seasons from now on to produce an average crop. The rice crop. whilst but one half of it was planted early, all of it is now growing finely, and good stands have been obtained. A Desperate Prisoner. WAsHINGTON, June 29.--A special to the Post from Charlotte, N. C., says that Brabham, the negro who is to be hanged for murdering the Italian, Moc Ca, made an attempt this afternoon on the life of Sheriff Smith. Since his at tempt recently to kill a fellow-prisoner named Caldwell, Brabham has been chamned to the door of his cell. This af ternoon when the sheriff went into the cell the prisoner asked for a match, and as the sheriffihanded it to him Brabham struck him a feartul blow with the chain wIth which he was fastened. The sher iflf was felled to the ground, but regained is feet and grappled with the negro. Brabham, however, got him dcwn and would have killed him but for the negro prisoner, Caldwel, who iushed in from the corridor and pulled Brabham off. When the sheriff regained his feet he jumped on Brabham and beat him se verely. The prisoner begged to be kill d, so be would not live to be Langed. Decoyed to the Rtiver. VINCENNES, Ind.. July 1.-The dead body of James Baker, Sr., a well-to-do farmer who lived three miles south of the city, was found fioating in the Wa bash river near the foot of Prairie street. ilis upper lip was lacerated, as if from a blow, and his right arm was bruised and bore marks of lingers, and his pockets, which had been rifled, were urned inside out. Baker was a con ivial man of 60, and had been drink nig heavily all day. It was currently eported that he had sold a team of orses and the supposition is that he as decoved to the river, murdered, obbed and throwvn into the water. Death in a Coai Mine. S-r. Louis, June 25.--A dispatch from [amilton. Mo., says: An accident oc urred at the shaft of the Caldwell Coal ompany's mine, near this city, y-ester ay, in which one man lost his life, and four others received serious injuries. The men were propping up the roof, when a rock, weighing a ton and a half, fell, killing Paul Bloise instantly, crush ng Robert Stewart's back, breast and ight arm. almost scalping Frank Doo ey and crushing John Lewis and Wii iam Hall more or less seriously. Killed by a Cloudburst.1 KNOXVILLE, Tenn.. June 25.-A re ort comes from Cherokee County, orth Carolina, of a terrible cloudburst here late yesterday afternoon. Two llicit distillers, named Harvey Agnew md Jacob Newton, who happened to e near by, were instantly killed. A iumber of farms for miles below were nundated and growing crops suffered ' loss of several thousand dollars. Wannamaker Ofiers to Explain. III L ADELPIIIA, June 29.-The Bards ey investigating committee resumed its sittings this afternoon and exam ned a large number of witnesses. A ommunication was received from ostmaster General Wannamaker, ini hich he offered to appear before the] ~ommittee at any time upon twenty WHERE THE MONEY GOES. Receipts and Expenditures for the Past Fiscal Year. WASH INGTON, July 1.-The monthly public debt statement was issued today in an entirely new form. It combines both the Secretary's statement of the public debt and the United States Treas urer's monthly statement of assets and liabilities, heretofore issued separately. Comparison with the last monthly statement and the statement issued July 1, 1890, shows an increase in the pub lic debt during the past month of about five millions, and a net reduction during the past fiscal year of twenty million dcllars. The surplus in the treasury today, in the new form of statement put out to day, is placed at $53,893,808, or about five millions less than a month ago, with no change in the interest-bearing debt of the government during the past mouth. The bonded debt today is $610.529,120, made up in round numbers of $560,000, 000 fours and $50,500,000 four and a half per cent bonds. Government receipts from all sources during the past fiscal year aggregated $401,530,716, or about one million and a halfless than during the preceding year. Customs receipts were $219,900,658, o about ten millions less than during the preceding year; internal revenue re ceipts were $145,943,281, an increase over the preceding year of three mil lions and a quarter, and receipts from miscellaneous sources were nearly thirty six millions, about five millions greater than in the preceding year. On the other hand, expenditures dur ing the fiscal year just closed were $388, G96,924, against $318,040,710 during the preceding year. Seventeen millions and a half of this increase is found in the pension charge of $124,145,110 for the past year. Civil and miscellaneous ex penditures during the year amounted to $110,139,339, an increase over the pre ceding year of nearly thirty millions. Indian expenses were $8,526,198, or nearly two millions more than during the preceding year. Navy expenditures were $26,115,098, or four millions more than during the preceding year, and war department expenditmres were $48,723, 116, or four and a quarter millions greater than in the preceding year. $37,127,201 were paid *out during the year for interest on the public debt and $10,401,220 in premiums on $114,000, 000 bonds purchased and redeemed dur ing the year. SENATOR INGALLS AS A LECTURER. He Discusseb Current Problems In His Characteristic Way. WAsHINGTON, June 30.-Ex-Senator Ingalls made his debut as a lecturer at the National Chautauqua at Glen Echo, near this city. His subject was "The problems of our second century," and his effort was listened to by a large au dience. The first problem which he dis cussed was the danger of paternalism in government, and he paid his respects in his umque way to that class of people who wnt their debts paid by Act of Con gress and who would have money as plentiful as autumn leaves in the forest. He did not believe, he said, in having the government doina everything and the people nothing. Refeiring to the problem of unequal distribution of wealth, he said that it was not right that ten million people should never have enough to eat in this country from one year's end to another, nor should it ever happen that a man went hungry when he was willing and able to work. It was guite evident from his talk, however, that he did not ex pect the present condition of affairs to speedily change, for he said that if all the wealth in the United States were to be equally divided now, in six months there would be some people riding in palace cars, some in buggies, some would be walking, and some would be sitting in fence corners watching the procession go by. "Above all," he added, "there would be heard again the voice of the ir repressible reformer earning his liveli hood by the perspiration of his jaw rath er than by the sweat of his brow." if some men were rich and others were poor it was the fault of the Creator. He would not disguise the fact th it the pre sent was a momentous crisis in the his tory of this country, and that all the forces of demoralization were marshall ed for the contest. He had no doubt of the outcome of the fight. There would be in the future broader liberty, larger opportunities for happiness and greater prophesies for de velopment of the nation than the mind of man can now conceive. White Cap Whipping in Indiana. CHICAGO, ILL., June S.-A dispatch from New Albany, Ind., says there was another brutal whipping by white caps in crawford county Sunday morning in which a young woman of eighteen years was one of the victims. William M1cGuire and his eighteen year old step daughter live near Leavenworth, the county seat of Crawford county. They were reported to be living in adultery but there was ns proof of this charge. About 1 o'clock sunday morning twen .y masked white caps, all armed with revolvers went to McGuire's residence, roke down the door and seizing Mc Guire, who is about lifty years old, and iis step-daughter dragged them to the woods and tied them face foremost to trees. Then tbe clothing of both ictims was lowered to the hips and the, white caps commenced the cruel work. >f whipping them on their bare backs, faying them from the shoulders to tihe ips. The young woman shrieked for mercy at every blow, but her appeals ere in vain until she sunk fainting from pain. She received over fiity ashes. Her shoulders, rack and hips tre frightfully larcerated. Old man NlcGuire was given about seventy-five ashes. He also fell fainting under the avage punishmert. After the whip ing the white caps notitied them if they were found in the county twenty lays later they would be hung up by ,heir necks and left for the buzzards to ick. This infamous whipping of a ielpless girl has created the most in ense excitement in Leaven worth and he neighborhood of that town and is tenounced with great bitterness. A Sad Accident. BLACKvILLE, S. C., July :2.-Mr ames McDonald, a highly respected nd well-to-do citizen living about a ialf mile from Elko, wvent this morn ng with a party to Capt. W. W. Willis's ill on a fishing expectition. About 10 'clock he and his t wo grown daughters ~vent out into the pond in a boat, and w'hile paddling up the pond the boat truck a tree, throwing out the younger aughter. lie immediately jumped verboard to save her when they both ~vent to the bottom and did not rise gain. The daughter left in the boat nanaged to get the boat out and re orted it. The bodies have not yet een recovered, but they are being. ;erche far..-uNe and Courier. A HORRIBLE DEATH. GEORGE W. MALCOM BITTEN BY A MAD DOG. He Showed No Signs of Hydrophobia Un til He Saw Water-He Begged and Pray ed to Die Before the Spasms Came. MONROE, Ga., June 26.-Mr. George W. Malcom, Sr., one of the most promi nent men and one of the best citizens of Walton county, meta horrible death at his home nine miles from here yesterday morning. He died from hydrophobia and the scene at his death bed was terri ble. On the morning of the 3d of June, about daybreak, he started out to his lot to feed his horse. In the public road near the lot he met a dog coming down the road in a run. Without the least provocation the dog sprang at Mr. Mal com, catching him through the nose and face. He held on like grim death, and only turned loose his hold after Mr. Mal com had chocked him nearly to death. Notwithstanding his mouth and nose were badly torn by the bite of the dog, and ihe blood was rapidly flowing from his wounds, Mr. Malcom still held on to the dog until he could get a rock, with which he beat the dog to death. He was a brave, gritty man, and seemed to have less fear of hydrophobia than any of his friends. He would always say: "I don't think the dog was mad and I don't be lieve I will have hydrophobia." Tuesday he ate a hearty dinner and went out on the porch to get a drink of water. As soon as the dipper reached his lips he jumped high oft the floor and screamed at the top of his voice. As soon as this, the first convulslon, wore off," he announced to his family that he was a dead man-that he had hv drophobia. He sent at once for all his children and had a neighbor to write his will. This being finished, he began having convulsions, which were light at first and at int erval; of about one hour. They grew harder and harder and nearer and nearer together until Wednesday even ing, when he became exhausted and irra tional, and remained in this condition until Thursday morning, when he died. The physicians could do nothing to re lieve him. They gave him morphine, which made him deathly sick, and from. this time he refused to take any medi cine, and would go into convulsions when the subject ias mentioned. He never drank a drop of water from the time he was taken until he died. He wanted it and talked about it, and even begged for it, but vhen it was brought into his sight he would shudder And or der it carried away as quickly as possible. He frothed at the mouth, and his screams were hearrending. He would beg to die, and often prayed to die be fore another spasm came. He seemed to have superhuman strength. Six men around his bedside could not hold him down. Finally, in a convulsion more terrible than any that had preceded it, death came to his relief. Mr. Malcom was sixty years old, and a deacon in his church. He leaves a wife and ten children, most of whom are grown and bmrrie. "The Chinese Must Go." WASHINGTON, June 24.-Acting Secretary Spaulding rendered a decision today In regard to China that will be. widespread in its application. Three Chinamen yesterday came to Dettoit from Canada, and the commisioner in timated that Canada was the country from whence they came and to which they should be returned. Acting Secre tary Spaulding directed that they be re turned to China, and in discussing the points raised by the Unmted States Com missioner at Detroit, sent the following telegram to the Collector there: "The act of September 13, 1888, is notin force, as the treaty named in Section No. 1 not ratified. The act of August 13, 1590, makes appropriation specifically for re turnmog to China all Chmnese persons il legally in the United States. It is nae less to return them to Canada to cow'e back tomorrow. The above act was ex pressly made to meet the difficulty. Un-* der it we return unquestioned to China, as the country whence they came, Chii nese coming from MIaico, and ]Sritij Columbia, as they make the contiguolrm foreign countries the avenue for reach ing the United States. The Attornoy General gives the opinion that thisactlon is directly in the line of carrying out the expulsion act for which the appropriation was -nade. It is the practice on the Pacific coast, when the court finds Chi namen illegaliy in the country, for the marshal to turn themn over to the collec tor at San Francisco for deportation to China. The department sees no occasion for diffe.-ent practice at Detroit." The Knights of Labor. CotuMIs, 0., June 24.-The Gener al Executive Board of the Knights of Labor is in session here to-day. -The meeting will continue for several days, and will be an important one in many respects. It will be decided whether Maj. McKinley shall be denounced or antagonized because President Harrison had refused to allow the reinstatement of discharged plate printers at the Bu reau of Engraving and Printing at Washington. Mr. Devlin said this af ternoon that no fault could be found with McKinley personally, as he had expressed sympathy with the men, but if antagonized at all it would be as a leader of the Republican party, whose bead, President Harrison, had refused the demand of organized labor. A Brute, in the Mountains. G REENVILLE, S. C., July 2.-It is re ported from the upper part of this county that on Sunday last "Babe"~ Durham, a young white man, brutally beat Miss Gosnell on the head and body with the butt of his pistol and kicked her because she had promised to marry Durham's rival, whose name is not known. Durham also shot once at his rival, who ran. The young lady may not live. Officers are after Durham, but he is keeping out of the way.-News and Courier. Duel in a Court Roons. NASIIVILLE, Tenn., June 29-At Buffalo Valley, Putnam County, two witnesses in a murder trial, named Jim Mitchell and Oscar Plunkett, became involved in a quarrel in the court room Saturday. Tbey drew revolvers and began firing at each other and kept it up until both had been mortally wounded. The shooting caused great consternation in the court room, the spectators dodging behind doors and under benches to escape injury. Excursion Train Wrecked. YAN J3UREN, Ark,, June 2.-A special excursion train from Little Rock to Fort Smith was wrecked by a broken rail three miles east of here at 0:30 last night, killing a little babe of Mrs. Wal ker and wounding about twenty passen gers. Conductor Henry Angel had his jaw broken and Elson Willard, of Little Rok, had a leg badly mangled.