Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

Below is the OCR text representation for this newspapers page. It is also available as plain text as well as XML.

A/4 I I7 03 - Nz- p -7-Z ~ "hI.~~' NA N E~ d~ I*''9 DECE- f-- -- - AN ELOQ. :.NT H T b BY T o . A MagnIfie. -t D. i. JL L tions to hic' re j..cted---+- Ex - ia to ..c.1iftS - the Bible Tru An Ajmore. i., la. - ~. citizens in es oe hoerr 'araiil mng Dr. Taa.ceoIs u e City by inaktin zhJ : of 0. S" university. His ' was i'overbs 17, "Surely, in -v .th in the s ight i! an:i .". ~Early inm nng i w,,:: utW*m,' a towler 0? ': ' . W" I hastened -ro7 ..I'e mou:n eorIeh and into ths f We p out h - ue;, aucd coverd V th e oI as weil as we couli. WVe arru;ed the call bird, its fee:. ta .::d 1; wins RappIne in inY!tatia to fow~ s heaven to sett!e down there. We redred into a booth of branches a-;i Vn waie,.d . .ter a Lil. 190.2n ou. of tC door of the booth. we saw - fe of brdf in te sk". Thev came : 7. 1 nearer, m-! en Ue J Ld di V t: d16arte dL away. Altnia .%e waite~d .-,!I!er a whide , w. sa- a .mbcx tock i Mrd They cane _,'acrr and l rer uri i at the mUmCr whe iel were O o "oop B the.y darted away. The lowler was very -,:ch disaT,- d pot:atedU' as --ei 'la. e Qaid to o ee::h a,' a hat is the m E" and I "Why were rot these biids et::ht?" c We went out and exarmined the net and s( bi a 11uitr of a raucht of a tree part of tl tbe net nad beeu Conspicu(usly exposed. C aLxd the birds coming very ::ar had seen b their peril and dArted aw::y. When I S: saw that, I said to the old towler, "That W reminds me of a passage f bcripture: 'lurely in vain is the net -,,read in the rc sight of any bird'" No v the ne t rn my text stands for temptation. y The calf bird .a sm ten pts men on p from point to point and fromni ora:.h t- P bran2ih uni:l they are about to dro.p into s( the net. If a ma3 finds out in time that I it is the templaticn of the devil, or that P evil men are nttemptm to cawmtre his a soul for tinmz ani tot eternity. the man steps back. - He says, "I aM not to be I caught in :hat way; I see what ycu are about; spurely in *ain is the net spread a( in the sight of an; bird." h 4 There are two classes of temptations p -the superhcial :-ad the subterraneous di -those above !ound, those ander d ground. j": a manz could see sin as it is, o he would no ate em .race it than he t( would emb:ace a per. Sin is a daLg.i- 1] ter of bell, et . is garlanded and rohed and trinke ed. voice is a warble. t Her cheek is the Fting sun. Her fore- i head is an auro. She says to mel: C( "Come. wak t?: path with --e. It -s I: thymed an pri..sed, nc the r s- tl wiached w h t.- cdors o te hang t ardens o0 hesve The rivers are r> t< era of Wine. and . you have i.' do is 'o W drmk thean t uahees upast sparkie c< with diam u a .ets. and chr,.-'- e prasus. -e! 1 -s all bloomrn and r seate clouA and ven.v Oh, my ient for one moment 1le " choiring oi all i eoncerted voices of a sin ,:ould be husl. I, we should see te IS orchestra e:the r wit h ot bre .to blo ;- f ing through fier4i te, andI te skelet.'n arms on drams e thunder andi darkness o beating the chomus, "The end thereot is Is It is not the -impty vessel; but the t laden merchanuaan that is the temnp:as. ti tion of the pirate. Aud a young man empty of bead, emptj~y of heart, empty e or life-yo~u wi.s no Toung Men's a Christian Association to keep nim safe; he is safe. He ill not gamb'e unless a it is with somebiy else's sta.kes. He c, will not break th:e Saboath unless some-* a body else. pays ne horse hire. He will y not drink unles ;some one else treats b him. He will usng aroandi the bar hour ~s after homt waldiag for some aenerous t: voung maa to come int. The generous a youngl man~ come. in and1( accosts him. v and says, "Weil. wiL you have a drink a with me todas?" The mni~t, as though it were a sude.n thing for him, .sas, a "Well-weil, 11 your Sist sa it, .I wilt Too mean to go to perdition~ unless e somebody else pays lhis e.xpenses: For t: such young men 'we will not tight. We a y ould no( miore 'contend :or them than e Ttar and ?.hiopia wom:;d iht as to wosQ'ou! id ave the great &ara ds er;bt.or those youn~g men who are t-uoyantL and eunusiasL.i, itc e whbo are c detemn.ined to l. c.omeihing ior time and e l.'r eternity-Xor thets? ve wi t h:, and d We nlow deci.are everiassius war against a all the induenr~ces that assa.1.them. and a we ask ali gooua men and iuth~roists e to wheet .!fto line, and all th~e a:mi.ies of heaven to 'bcar down upon the fee. and u we pray Almignity Godx *.iat with the , hnerbAlts of us wrath hil strike down aind consume ah~ these induences L1hat are attemaptung to dlestroy tie etung i, nmen lor w;homi (inst died. The ziret ciass of te.:p'taions that as-1 t saults a young mtan is led on by the e skeptic. He wih t d:.tiiL that hei a ant inmdel or atheist. O., noi he is a r Tiree thinker;" he isa- ofn you. "ho.- 11 eral" men; he is Iree and sty in relig- f, ion. Oh, how uceral he is he is o0 -liberal" :.hat h will giv.e anyv h~s Bi ble; he is so "ibera" thatt he will give away the thront or eterred justi e; he is to -lioerai" thao. he wol be :vi'!!u te give God cut a iC .n'verse he :5 so0l "hiberal" that a.. wouu g- e up hi ow soul and~ the eds oi a'll hs rriercs y Now wha:, more could yo*u as in e way of hber .r Te veim CI t~ds ekeptic 1:a pre. ly just orc troma the e country. Thro; ih tne inte vnu' , iriends be has e.ni placed in a hop. s On Sa; rdaz . ekeptic s' 'to L::n, r "W~ell, w hat xt: wou going t; :1o toor ur- .n row?" h.: says l am go* o. iure .." 1: 'Is it poss; na .; ske .c. t "Well, 1 *ised a do th~osa ti-:::gs; I a~s s brought iup, i -: xpse. sa voa ne-. in' i a religius fam.. , and i. Miee all - those thigs,. L got. over :tthe act t :s, sinee. car. -~ . o tow yae read a t great det,. an. :iave Ic' Ln ..ha .ore t are a great in . 15 thin.g' in the J~nle that are :.dieu. ss. 3o0, .r instar ce, r all that .-Out .' serpen. 'bing cused .J to crawl 12th ardet, o! rd c iser:ase .s had t: tante':rs ae 'a. you see d t - v'on.ei irom th~ e veray Ltul itt ,r pent tha.. It eau.s.iv ~ tore it v4as et d .t .e crawled aftev i2rn *c organza o '~r'tanizauon' of the s-t that stor. al~u h'o s allor~ng . Jonah,c0: Jo::.. nwalacrite wiue, t aiYc-h Vas. it ont nz. tuvnydif ference, ie ma rg is absr .t is ridia ~ous to suppo :.at a mnai could have ,spiratin would have been hindered; e would have been digested; the gas -ic jeice would have dissoived the i riue and coagulated albumen. and oniah would have been changed from ropi et nLo chyle. Then all that story jout the miraculous conception-why. is 1erfectly disgraceful. Oh, sir! I be eve mr tie light of nature. This is the ineteenth century. Progress. sir; pro ress. I don't blame you, but after you ive been in town as longas I haveyou ilt think just as I do." . Thousands of young men are going awn under that process day by day, aidj there is only here and there a young sn who can endure this artillery of orn. They are giving up their Bibles. he light of nature! They have the Zht of nature in China; they have it in mudostan; they have it in Ceylon. lowers there, stars there, waters there, mds tbere. but no civilization, no mes. no happiness. Lancets to cut and iggervants to fall under and hooks to ing on, but no hapnes% I teil you, my young brother, we have take a -elgiona 01 some kind. We re to choose between four or tive. 2all it be the Koran of the Mohamme iu, -r the Shaster of the Hindoo, or ie Zndavesta of the Persian. or the oniucwus' writmngs of the Chinese, or the 'cy QSeriptures? Tate what you will; od heping me. I will take the Bible. ;ht t)r ail darkness; reck for all foun uici:; balm for all wounds. A glory at h:Ls its piares of fire over the wil rnes; march. Do not give up your iblea Ask them what infidelity has ever >ae z, lift the fourteen hundred millions : hc race out of BarbarisTa. Ask them hen :riidelity ever instituted a sanitary )imnssion, and before you leare their >ictv once and forever tell them that :ev lave insultel the memory of your Lristan father, and spit upon the death 1d of your mother and with swine's lout rooted up the grave ofyour sister, ho died believing in the Lord Jesus. 1. these people scoff at you as though ligiona and the Bible were fit only for eakminded people, you just tell them >u are not ashamed to be in the com mny of Burke the stateman. and Ra 2ael the painter, and;Thorwaldsen the :uptor, and Mozart the musician, and lackstone the lawyer, and Bacon the ilosopher, and Harvey the physiciau, id John Milton the poet. Young man. hold on to your Bible. ; is the best book you ever owned. It ill tell you how to bargain, how to t, how to live. how to die, how to dress. )w te walk. Glorious Bible! Whether on rchment or paper, In octavo or duo cimo, on the center table of the rawing room or in the counting room the banker. Glorious Bible! Light our feet ad lamp to our path. old on to it! The second class of insidious tempta ns that comes upon our young men is d on by the dishonest employer. Every >mmercial establishmeDt is a sekool. i nine cases out of ten the principles of te employer become the princioles of i employes. I ask the older merchants > bear me out in these statements. If, hen you were just starting in life-in >mmerdal life-you were told that hon ty was nbt marketable; that, though might sell all the goods in the shop, u must not sell your conscience; that, bile you were to exercise all industry 2d tact, you were not to sell your con ;ience; it you were taught that gains tten by sin were combustible, and at te moment of ignition would be blown 2 by the breath of God until all the ,endid estate would vanish into white hes scattered in the whirlwind, then iat instruction has been to you a precan on and a help ever since. There are hundreds of commercial stablishments in. our great cities which :e educating a class of young men who ill be the honor of the land, and there ie other establishments which are edu iting yolung men to he nothing but tarers. 'Wnat chance is there for a ung man who was tauzlht in an esta lishment that it is right to lie, if it is nart, and that a French label is all iat is necessary to make a thing French, ad tat you @ught always to be honest -en it pays, and that it is worng to .eal unless you do it well? Suppose, now, a young man just r ting in life enters a place ot that kind here there are -ten - 9eng mien, all rilled iv the infamous practices of the tablishment. He is ready to be mght. The young man has no theory comercial ethies. Where is he to 't his theorvy He will get the theory .om his employers. One day he pushes is w:t a little beyond what the establish leut demands of him, and he fleeces a astoner until the clerk is on the verge i eciug seized by the law. What is one in the establishment? He is not real::ned. The head of the establish int says to him, "Now, bs careful; be tretu, young man, you might be t;~~fbut really that was splendidly oe; you will get along in the world. I rarrant you." Then that yong man des up until be becomes head clerk. [e has found there is a premium on in One morning the employer comes to 2e establishmient. He goes into his untis room and throws up his hands ud sho~uts, "Why, the safe has beeni >bbed!" What is the maattir? Noth i nothing; only the clerk who has been racticing a goodl while on customers is racticing a little on the employer. No ev principle introduced into that esta lishment. It is a poor rule that will o work both ways. Teu must never tal ualess you can do it well. He did well. I am not talking an abstrac on; I am talkiug a terrible and a crush ig fact. I stand before young men this morn z who are ander this pre~ssure. I say, ~me out of it. "Oh!" you say, "I m't; I have my- widowed mother to apport, and if a man leyes a situation ow he can't get another one." say. come out of it. Go, ome to your mother and say her, "Mother, I can't stay in that1 biep andt be upright; what shall I do?' nd it she is worthy ot y'u she will say,~ Come out of it, my son-we will jast~ arow ourselves on him who hath proa. ted to be the God of that widow and te fatherass; lie will take care of us." LI tell you no young man ever per ianentiy autlered by such a course of ondut. A man said to his employer. "I can't 'ash the wagon on Sunday morning; I m wiling to wash it on Satnrday after .oon, ut, sir, you will please excuse se. i can't wash the wagon on Sunday 0ning." His employer said, 'You as: w ash it; my carriage comegs in ver Saturday night, and you have got o wash it on Sundlay morning." "I a do it," the man said. They parted. The Lord looked after him-grandly vooed atter him. H~e is worth today a u.dr.d told more than his employer e was or ever will be, and he saved right. There are young nia im thU house today who, under this storm of temptation, are striking deeper and deep er their roots and spreading out broader heirbranches. They are Daniels in Ba bylon, they are Josephs in the Egyptian court, they are Pauls amid the wild beasts of Ephesus. I preach to enecour age them. Lazy hold oi God and be faithful. There is a mistake we n.,ke about yeang men. We put them in two clas ses; the one class is nioral, the other it dissolute. The moral are -:afe. The dissolute cannot be reclaimed. I deay both propositions. The moral aie not safe unless they have laid hold of God, and the 'dissolite may be rec:himed. I suppose there are self righteous men in this house who feel no need of God. and will not seek after him, and they will go out in the world, and they will be tempt ed, and they will be flung down by mis fortune, and they will ao dvvn. down, down. until some night you will see them goinx home hootinz, ravin::. shut ing blasphemy-going home to their mother going home to their sister. going home to the young companion to whom, only a little while ago, in the presence o1 a brilliant assemblage, flashng lights amd orange blossoms, and censers swing ing in the air they promised fidelity and purity. and kin daess perpetual. As that man reacbes the door,- she ill oven it, not with an outcry. but she will stagger back from the door as he comes in, and in her look there will be the prophecy of woes that ar' com ing, want that will shiver in need of Eire, hunger that will cry in vain for bread, cr uelties that win not leave the heart when they have crushed it, but pinch it again and stab it again, until scime night she will open i.he door of the place where her companica was ruined, and she wilt fimig out hcr arm from under her raggEd shawl and s-1y, with almost omnipotent eloquence: 'Give me back my husband! Give me back my protector! Give me back my all! Him of the kind heart and gentle words and the manly brow-give him back to.me!" And then the wretches, bese and filthy, will pus% bact their matted locks and they will say: "Put her out! Put her out!'' Gh! self right eous man, without God you are in per'. Seek after him to-day. Amid the ten thousands temptations of life there is ao safety for a man without God. .But I roay be addressing some who have gone astray, and so I assault that other propositition that the dissolute iannot be reclaimed. Perhaps you have nly gone a little astray. While I speak are you troubled? Is there a voice witbin you saying: "What did you do that for? Why did you go there? What lid you mean by that ?" Is there a memory in your soul that makes you remble? God only knows all our earts. Yea, if you have gone so far as to commit iniquities and have gone through the whole catalogue, I invite you back this hour. The Lord waits for you. "Rejoice!% young man in thy youth, and let tby heart cheer thee in the days of thy Youth; but know thou hat for all these things God will bring thee into judgment." Come home, young man, to your rather's God. Come home, young man, to your mother's God. Oh! I wish that all the batteries of the Gospel could to-day be unlimbered against all those influences which are taking down so any of our young men. I would like to blow a trumpet of warning, and re eruit until this whole audience would march out on a crusade against the vils of society. But letkone of us be disheartened. Oh, Christian workers, my heart is high with hope. The dark horizon is blooming into the morning of which prophets spoke, and of which poets have dreamed, and of which painters have sketched. The world's bridal hour advances. The mountains will kiss the morning radiant and effulgent, and all the waves of the sea will be come the crystal keys of a great organ, on which the fingers of everlastuag joy shall play the grand march of a world redeemed. Instead of the thorn there shal come up the fir tree, and instead of the briar there shall come up the myrtle tree, and the mountains and the hills shall break forth into singing, and all the trees of the wood shall ciap their hands! A Spilt In The Z'urty. NEW ORL~EANS, Dec. I.-The lot ter question has caused a sphit in the Democratic party of the State. It is the most serious that has ever occurred inILouisiana. Both factions of the lotter y wig and the anti-lottery wiag held aucuses last night in Baton Rouge. The caucus of the latter lasted nearly all night and was very exc~ing. It was finaly decided to ask the lottery men t~i put an anti-lottery p'lank in th'e party platorm, threatening to bolt it it -.as re jected. It was rejected, and! the bailt was declared. The State central committee aet this morning, but none of the antis attended. The codmmittee appointed hunted up the absent members and were told that they had left the party for go'od and had started a new party, and would hold a separate convention. The regular Jemocratic conventoa. composed of pro ~ttery men, met at Ihke's IHall. Fiity parishes and wards were represented and 544 delegates were present. The antis met with thirty-nne parishes and eleven wards and 474 delegates in at tendance. Both conventions deyoted themselves mainly to organizing. The Regulars will nominate ex-G'overnor McEnery and the antis will vote for Mr. Adams, president of the Farmers' Alli ance. Xurdered in Their Cottage. JACKsoNVILLE, Fia., Dec. 12.-A New Smyrna special to the Times Union says: Miss. A. IL Brnce, Mrs. L. D. IHarch andi her little son and Mas ter Frank Packwood were found mnur dered late this afternoon i the cottage recently leased by them for the winter six miles: below this town on the East coast of Florida. The throats of all four were cut from ear to ear and they had been dead apparently from 18 to 30 hours. There is no clue to the murderer. As several tramps have Leen seen in this neighborhood lately suspicion na turally rests on them. A posse of nearly lifty men has been organized and it started to-night on horsebacK and afoot for the scene ot the tragedy. The vic tims had recently come from the North to spend the winter here and were not known generally. No further particu ;ars are procurable to-night as the Pack wood cottage is nearly seven miles from a telegraph oflice. A suicidai Mania. CHARLEsTON, 5. (2., D'-cember 9. John Mehaffey, a stone cuttr employed on the government building here, at tempted suicide to-night by shooting himself in the left breast. ~le had been married bout one month a~n( brought his bride with him wheii he. came here about a month ago. Bothi he and his wife are said to be from Atlanta, Ga. Had steady employment, go pay and was not a drinking man, and no do mestic troubles. No cause is assigned for the act. The city seems to have a kind of suiidal mania. A RUW IN IE H USE. AN ANGRY DISCUSSION BETWEEN HASKELh, EVANS AND OTHERS. The :ew CourTy Bill the Causo t. the Row-What Was Said and Hew the Membors Vote-d-The Binl xinled and Then Eeconsidered. coLmrU, 6. C., Dec. 17-T'Ie bil to provide a new system of county gov ernments, the full text of which yu published a few weeks ago, corae up in the House Tuesday as a special order. After four or five sections of tlhe bill had been read Mr. lasxell moved to strike out the enacting clause. Senator Beasley, of the confvence committee, thooght it would ne icetter to wait to hear what the conference committee had done. The President doubted if iny ac.1tion noula be taker. on a hill not on the President's desk, Senator Wilson referred to Joint! Rule 4, and argued th:at under it tle amendments from the Hlouse.eonstitu tiug the message of the louse to the Senate, could be considered. Senator Smythe proposed '.o re ove all doubts with a motion that th06 ' ate require the conterence to returnt to the Senate the bill and all amendmeint. Senator Evans suggested that the conler-Ces be alo wed to report m dua form. The IPresident repliei orielr to Sen ator Wilson. explainug his ru'ina and its propriety, and then proceecca wo put Senator Smytho's motion. Senator Evans moved to adjou nd uvon the President declarinw tht mio tion lost demanded a dtvie'oi. The Senate iby a vote of IS to ' r'fused to adjourn. Senator Evans then moveu as a sub stitute for Senator Smythe's imotion that the Senate conferees be requ!red to report the results of the conference. He again demanded a divisi-m and was again defested. Senator Snvthe's motion wras then adopted and Senator Be ssley h;iaded up the bill and amendments. v.hich were read by the clerk. Senator Evans moved to contin-e tbe debate until to-morrow. Lost-lb to 11. Just here SenatorBighai arose. Two or three hours before, while Senator Bigham was innocently perambulatingi the lobby with an enrolled bill in his arms, the famous fish patrol-amend ment had come up in the monotonous course of business and been ruthlessly assassinated under the very ears of its parent. Senator Dozier hving offered' a motion for non-concurrence, which went through by default. Being in formed of this, Senator Bigham had been on pins, and in the midst of the filibustering on the free pass bill arose with the untimely suwgestion that- the vote of non-concurrence in the fish patrol bill be reconsidered. A romr of laughter greeted this unexpected in terpolation of extraneous, ancient and iish-like matter. Senatbr Bigham was informed of the fact and sat down. Senator Woodward then spoke on the free pass bill. He said a Senator who had voted for the bill had told him he would support it no further, as It was a lap in the face of the Admlnistra- 1 tion. Nobody had the right to say the bill was a slap In anybody's face; but he wanted to know if the time had come when Senators of South Carolina were to be controlled in their action on the Iloor by the fear of slapping sonie body's face; when anybody was to be treatetl as a Czar and have his feelings and wishes deferred to by the represen tatives of the people in the conduct of public business and the execution or their sworn duty. Senator 6trait, a member of the con ference committee, made a peppery speech in reply- He said lie stood on record as against free passes. Hie had always refused them. Bt he believed the matter should be left to the people. It was for them, not for the Senate, to say who should or should not receive free passes. That was a matter for every man to decide for himself. Oniy a few years ago, as the Senator from Fairfield had said, an anti-free pass bill had been passed through the Senate and pigeon holed in. some of the House comittees, he supposed by some of the men who issued free passes from the Speaker's desk 'and wanteQ to continue doing so. There were men, he saio, wo gave out free passes with their own hands. He wanted to see them exposed. Some of the very men who were now urging andt lllibustermfg -and trying to get this oill through had voted against it when i' was up in pas years. inorher element was in nower now; that explaimed their- change of thought., . He thought hinm-elf that th v ernor had been uwar; mn acestimg the passes, but the Governor was ready toI go before th-e people and anse. H~e b elieved and the Pole beneved~ thiat men in the Legishe' ure had bee~n burm boozed and debaiuch.ed byv such means. "The Movemnt" had p0u mos a tese out and would purge yet further. On or two i'ces for ,bam'onezing r'no deba chng remaged rin tlus eCy. Men were carried to the wine. cubS arid other place', and '-hen thu- had Ob!n drenched theyv were ln ('fldin t promise anythig, an. die th"y - overed they foudl themsel-ve bouni. Sen ator Smythe said he did not Know who the Senator alluded to. Hie and his colleague, two of the Senators who were inathe Senate wh-'n tiie bill alinwe to was offered before,. had voted for it. Senator Buist said he had beeni comn ing to Columbia frm Charleston~ twelve years and had never a' cepAe(!or iven a tree pass, and had voteu for Senator Woodward's bill nhen it was offered before. Senator Dozier, as one or the oh Senators, declared that he had never accepted or used a free pas and had voted for Senator Woodwa'rd's bil le fore, Hie proceened with some remnarks which seemed ve" rueek. but carried some pepper. lHe spoke of the war of the Reform element agains~t the dlan-! erous custom of free piises, of Giov-I enor Tillman's denunciaLtion. of it, and o the hue and cry raised when the newstpapers annlonneed' that the Gov ernor himself used the passes. Hie tught the sentimtent of the people on the suject had been fully expressea. Senator Timmiermnan moved tond jurin. Lost on call of ynis and nays-12 A vote was then~ talken on Sentm~ Wood ward's resolution toconeor i she House amentdments to the free pa:ss bll, and the resolutton~ was~ agreed to as ollows;_eaosAI "} am. uist, escha!up, Dozier, Jeu kns Keitt, Mausou, McDMir:, Mcodv , Peake, Sanders, Stoan, Smiith. R. M. Sith, J., S sythe, Stokes, Verdier, Willlam?, 'Wisoo and Weed vard-. NasSenatorn JDaabeg, Deasl' -, Eans, Fergusoin, Gleni, Hem'phi, Srait andi Timnmer :nn4 n justice to absent Senators it may be aid that theire was a general beliet that nothing would be d.one atter the railkationt of buis~ an~d the spronging~ of Seuattor Wood ward's re::outionr wasl onplete surprise.I The usual reconsideration~ clinch was pt on and the Se-nat." au.journed until .Uigham on the lloor making a point of order because the body was declared adjourned just as he was moving the lish patrol into position. OTIER PROCEEDINGS OF TIIE SENATE. Lieutenant Governor Gary again pre sided to-day, his throat being again in satisfactory working condition. The resolutions of the Methodist Conference regarding the opening of the Workl's Fair on Sunday and the running of Sunday trains were read and referred to the committee on A'ed eral relations. The judiciary comr.mittee rel)cL'wd favorably on bills to amend .iection 1,326. Gen.Stat.; to authorize the keeper ot Elm wood Cemetery to arrest tres passers without warrant; to regulate the number ard pay of trial justices in Oconee; to authorize the cowmssioners of Beaufort to advertise for and pay claims against old Peaufort and to ap ply the surplus, if any, of the fund in their hands, to flx the compensation of trial justices in Lancaster County when acting as coroners; to amend the Act relati.ng to trial justices in York and Spartanbrg counties: also on joint resolution to provide for the payment of the sheriff of Georgetown County. The same committee reported un favorably Mr. Child's bll "to regulate the saleof liquors," (the prohibition bil.) and bills to fix the day for pay merit of notes, etc., maturing on Sua day or legal holidays; granting the use o1' ovster beds in Cape Romain to a private company: to amend the Act for'ikig the sale of liquors at Jones Ville, Union County. All went on the Calendar. An uifavorabl" report from the same cormttee on the bill to amend the Act regulating the sali of pistol cart.ridges by addicg rifle cartridges and brass kuekle9s was acted on imnrceiateiy and tu bill was killed. The linance committee reported fatorably en bills to provide for nse of the 1o wner fund in tne State treasury; t:> anthorize the )tate treasurer to in vest the proceeds of etLiin securities of the ClmCruso4 estate in State secu ities. Mr. Ernest Uary said that ha thought when the geutleman from Richland rose to 3peak he had some objection to the bill. To his surprise he had taken the opportunity, but to disciuss the Chief Executive. If there bad been whippers In here and they had whipped him (Mr. Haskeil) our ot power, it was a grand day for South Carolna. I have served with him in the House when he had power that was surpass ing. What brought whippers in? No fact contributed more than the power which he exercised. It was a proud day when he was whipped out of the domnain in which he exercised so much power. I hurl back his insinuations with contempt. I-could not sit quietly and allow him to regard me as whipped. The people have by popular vote taken the county commissioners out of the Constitution, and there is a necessity for some such legislation as this bill. The system works well in Georgia. Why will it not work equally well in South Carolina? Mr. Evans rose to a question of priv ilege. "I wish," he said, "to reply to the false insinuations of the gentleman from Richland." Speaker Jones: "The pendidg ques tion is to strike out the enacti~ clause of the bill." Mr. Evans: "I did not call him to order and stated I would reply and he made no objection. If ever a man de served contempt as a whip. it is the eatleman from Richland. I desire to ling back into the teeth of this man, who comes like an ass in a lion's skin." Mr. Haskell: "I will not call the gen teman to order, but approbrious epi thets must cease." Mr. Evans: "I aum responsible for anything 1 say." iMr. H askell: "P'shaw" I was fight ing for my State before you were born." M1r. Evans: "Oh! yes, you were fight ing like a good fellow. Like a wasp whse head has been crushed tries to use its sting, so the gentleman from Rihland acts. For ten years the State suffered, but at last she rose and whipped out all such irom: her halls of legislation, which should have been sa cred. Ar. we to submit to such epi thets? lHe attempts to reflect on the character of the Chief Executive be ause he has interfered with a co.rpora tion in which hei tad money invested.". Mr. Ilaskell: "That statement is ab solutelv false. .I have not a dollar in vested in any ccrporationi in this State. and never have bad acy money invest ed In phosphates." Mir. Evans: "Phosphate legisittion, like that adopted by the General As s~mbly last winter, has been demanded by every Attorny General since 18763." Mr. Hiaskell: "That is not true." MIr. Evans: "Did not Attorney Gen eral Conner ree~mnmend it? TIhe gen te:r';m is getting up this discussion. simly for the~ newspape'rs. but the peo pe of South Car olina are not governed by what the m-spap;ers write, but by a. tree and honest ballol. The ge-ntieman fromn Riciilan has not mentionled any objections~ to the bill.' Mir. Ilaskeli: "I mentioned a fe w ob jtVins. but perhaps thcty do not count. it would double county expenses." Mr. Evans: "You did niot show it." .r. ilaske!!: "1 gave it as my opin ion and cne cpinion of. soire shrewd inacers, who have studied the sub jet. Perhaps it is an objection that does :'ot appeal to the young muan. The reports say he presented'Admin .sraton bills,' and he pushed them as far ae his light weight would allow. The young tec atemupts to talk about th ich, but when he :;ete ecol he wal rconize the fact that. that is all bun com be- that no one would attempt that withm me. I do niot like to speak of my on servic*es. which have been given :thout rewvard, asked or received, from~ th State. When a boy I went in the~ ar-my -nd served as best I might. HiT pers'inal ilings I will treat with the c-ontemupt the! deserve. IUts state ment that I had money invested in a ptshate corporation is untrue." air. Evans: "I did not state you had. I said I imaigimed it." Mr. ilaskell: "'I never owned a cent of stock in any phosshate corporation. The gentleman in his cooler moments will withdraw his attempted insults, ad I will then withdraw :ny con temt." Mr-. Evans: "It'll withdraw nothing." The next passage was amid much ex citement, and co':ld not be heard plain l. It seerms that Mr. Evans insinuated that a newspap'er stenographer bad been in the ballduring one of Mr. Has ke's speeches and was taking it do-wn. Nlr. Evans insinuated that Afr. Hiaskell had brought him there to report his speech, and had teld him to omit cer tsin portions. Mr. Hlaskell, in tones like ice and with a steely look in his eyes, asked Mr. Evans what he meant to insInu Mr E vauis exlaned hIs utterances as b~t he mmght. Mr Hlaskeli then stated that the stenographer was in his employ. ans be wrte sornewhat poorly owing (with a pc liar smile) to a sight. accident. H~e bad given the stenographer some pri vae directions wh-u he spoke to him and had said nothing to him about any work he was doing fur a paper. Mr Norton next advanced to the de-. chairman of tle onme MIn a and mining Le wishe.td to rehe the m sinuationl tnat the phosphate commis siou ,-ill was prepared in the Govern or's office. Mr liasleii: "I did not saY in ihe Governur's o:Iice. bit down stairs.' When Mr Norton returned W th charize Mr Iaskell impetuously askea if it was not true that Governor Till man had himscef tesulied that he pre-( pared.the bill. Mr. Norton: 'ie cLuly prepared thi first part." Mr Hfaskell: "The tes-irnony befo the phosphste investigat;og committCe is that he pre'ared the bill and th't the amendmeats were brred ty Messrs Smith and Aldricl, the attor neys of the -'Arrmers' and Caroinra manufacturing eompanies. Mr Norton c-opped thi3 subject, A n asked it It was not true that t'he trs nrer of iichland County ',Rd te $1600 or 601,70 behind ien he came( to settle with the COiptroli:rG ana was it not true tht tholsands of t doilars had bee'n turnrd ito the treas urv frcm discovered frauds. Mr Jones attempted to call th p ers to order, but Mr Haskell s.id tha in justice to Richland's treasurer, who was as honest a man as ever hved. he would say that if Mr Norton meant to say tliat the treasurer was a defaulter! the assertion was untrue. Speaker Jones said th 'ocadig ques tion was a motion tc strike out :.u en act.i-. clause. - Mr F ysaid he si un,. rstoo s" and -,ould coie1! I!s r e1ia:k t th. quesLi,xi. IIe opposcd l'!. becinse it wo!cd increas county various ly from 1%' to 5 miA DS the variUS counties. T". 'dL to->, i o"mid be * pf'!s!bie to get good :nen the v -u townhips to serve on an r I. (ut pay. The State wa n1t ready foz the measure. It s -ud 't: be g'ed nor, but sho"ld hle sub tI' o a C)o7 stitutional convention. Mr Giove opposedi ti : hu he admaitted sonme of "s provisions -.vere good. Mr Evans moved to ta the '1- otion to qtdk out the eractiu"' ctuse. Car ried by a vote of 52 to 2? The furthec consideratio th hil 1 was then postponed zutil e ay, when it- w1s afai a takea ;p. A good deal of discussic: occkrrd when the section ralating to 1he Lown ship road com issiorier came up. The bill provided that tiiese cornmssioners should be appointed by -hr Governor; that on refusal to srve hey should forfeit $50. The only privilege provic ed for them was that they should be ex ampt from road and jury druty. This was amended so that the furfeit was made 825. Mr Harden moved that they be given $2 per day for their services. Mr Evans contended that it should remain as it was; that the idea was :at if no compensation was given, good I men would consent to serve. The memoer from Alkeni was sharp ly plied with questions as to whether he would serve as road commissioner without pay, and on his saying he would forreit $50 first. there was a gen eral laugh, and it was evident that Mr Evans had broken the back bone of his argument. 31r Wilson moved to amend !o that each commissioner draw :2 per lay for not more than ten (lays in the year. Mr Evans move(l to table this. Iis motion was lost and he moved to ' amend by making it .1 per day. Mr Dean spoke in favor of, Mr. Wl son's amendment and his forcible and practicable remarks evidently had great effect. This amendment pre- i vailed. I Mr Connor moved to amend the bond of the county supervisor by making it 20,000 instead of $5,000. He supphrted his motion very strongly, .bukt accepted an amendment by Wilson to mage it $10,000. Mr Evans moved to table. This was carried. The bill provided that $1.30 could be t paid by persons liable to road duty as a comutationi tax, in lieu of ro-ad di utyi A motion was rua'i to change ths to $3.1 31r Kirkland said he wished in behalft of his county to enter a protest again t this, the mo-ct vicious system he could think'of. The plant in tne bill for work ing the roads was based on a radialy C wrong system. The county supervisor, like the little bose that n.- will be. w'.1 have power to assign any uuant ii thea I county to a conti:tetor for road auay and the contractor could put him slongf sde of a convict asc provioed irn the bili Hie entered nis personal protes. Ths was an attempt !. corupe!C, against a consttutional prcvisui, mnen to pay a per capita tax. It was a rounda?bout I c way to evadie the constituio. Mr Fowler said he had- rov-ar ex'w-t t ed to see a boy a.- 'ln;; iel: -~ m"a, wrk so hbe to ri'ia p- r lbrar. e This would I)? an~ unc'u j:s' ar mi ded coniiradctio" to thaL, un. Mr S A Grah-am em-2 to indeficia y postpone the bil'i.' Ti- was ca'i by a v'ote of 46) to 44 as flicO: Yeas-Attaway, Barkley, bi se---, Bowen, Brennen, Erown. C->rp.-.'t'er. Ce'nor, Grum, D~ean, Eady, Eidcr; Fiey,, coiA, Fwler. Fox. S. A. Gra!m Hari m Hart, Harvey, flaske. 11a'a, Huges I Kirkland, Mears, M.:Mil~o M:!y,' Mooney. Moses, Patton, avenel, RLo W land, Rutledge R-usse, Sarrtt, Simo"n Sullivan, Tupper. UEme:.' onKolunit, Whatley, Wilsou, Woods, Whye, Zt::- i man-46. Nays-Speaker Jones', Aiermau, Ierea~ Boozer, Liowden, Breazae, Browni;, t Buist. Cox, DuBose, D)ukes, D~urc Fre ar. Evans, T. A. Grnham., G:e- r, Gutr,' P L Harden. Hlutto. Jeffeis iad McCall, McFaddin, Meatyre. D) W~ 'e Laurin, McWhile, Moseey, orPt terson, Riley. Robertsonu, Scott Snanin, ' Stackhouse, Taylor, Todd, Townes, Tray o, Watts, Wcife, Wuoodard, deii A MOTiON TO ADiJaiURN. Matters began to gyt interesting about this time. Mn. Evans jumipeai to lhs feet]r and began to speak, saryIi tis was a pe uliar way to do. Mr. Hw.:hes interruptedal with a motion to clinchc the vote just taken, , and Mr. Evans moved to adjourn, ami~d much laughter. . T1he motion to ad journ was put, and dur-' ing its progress thiere~ was much~i bustling around. Tlhc vote was the' exact opp~osit of the former Tote, being 4ri to 4.4, in favor of adjournit:g. On T'hursdaa the vote by' which the bill was killed the day before was recon. idered and the Lill restored to the calenarai. WVAYreoss. (3., D~c. 12.-.c N-w lratord. F"la., last mght, G . Meci. more, a traelling s~alsrm. was aiss:s snated and robed. H-e wa ns Ott cn a colecting tour. and was sciocesi to' hae on his pe~rson~ aoutZ1.0 - L*:: ing the hotel in the direction of th depot to take the train, he had to ps by a watri tank, where he wacs found afterwards, wit Fia'-ead crushed. mi a dying condition, dad wih his wpre!t turned insid' ont. A ar -cial tra infra-m the young ma'n's haome, with lity fiends. arrived her- t r-ay T o2 groes were ar.recta c~ 'u p',icn ad oe was ricdled wi'u b-ll-. Th. other s gua-rded in jai..- s r. abilities he ..vi 1- yh . to~-ni- . Felirig Is rning ver h' SE;NATO!: TUi'i' . a IN'IA introducei z-. bit: in e Ccros to '.rnd the coustitution sc that the' Plresidett mai'y be el'cted bcy direec: vote of th pec ple. Such a change~ t is most desir ,a $IOGUTH CAROLINA SUCKERS. w . earta.bur= Gentlemen Invest $1,000 in "Green Goods." J;Isltv CITY, N. J., Dec. 16. lic,.el C. Frisby and Gar-ison Ferruth, oth from Spar anhurg County, S. C., .er arested by Detective Kilcanley at he Central 1.ailroad station in Jersey ity to-day while they were waiting f~r train that would take them home. hev had with them a neat box filled ied with nackages of green paper cut the exact size of bank notes, with ood bills on the outside of ca .h pack e. They were taken to police head carters where they told the supzrinten ent their story. Several monthas ago they got circulars inued -G. Watts of No. 141 Mott treet. New York." telling them how a cw dollars vould buy lots of others un listinguishable from those issued by :ncle Sam. Stolen plates were used o make the bills, and they were all iWnt. The men sent on f6r some of the .tuiL and received word that it had been brwarded by express. It did not come o haud and they reluctantly concluded hat the express company had lost it. LClen they sent for more. 'That, too, ras lost in transit they supposed, for atts assured them that it had been xircsset to them. They made up he~r minds to trust no longer to express morpanies. They would g to New Cork themrselves. Tliy wrote to Watts and were in rucLed to go to the Columbia Hotel, So. 111 North Broad street, Philadel >hia. where they would be met by an enUt of Watts. This , they did and e:e met yesterday by a man called 1ip." He tock them to a place on lot:. street where they met one Harry ma;er and a man named "Big Bill," hose name was Miner. They gave up ,c00 in good money for, as they sup osei, $ ol,000 ol coanterfeit and started er :Iwme by way of tie New Jersey lentral. Whran they saw the box )pene~d and lound that there was only in it they were as much disgueted as her were surprised. They were sure that the "goods" ere there. as they had seen the box )rei)ared and nailed down. They were LUxIous to punish the gang who had got o much ot their money, and Superin endent Smith, remembering that a batch >f Southern gentlemen arrested by Kil. :aniev ha, gone to Mott street and had >een entertained by "Harry Miner" ud Big Bill, sent them to the Superin :endent of Police Murray in New York. Dropped dead from Fright. GREENVILLE, S. C., Dec. 16.-Mil on Leatherwood, a prominent colored nan of the Pelham neighborhood, drop )ed dead ias* Saturday from fright. The ase is one of the most peculiar ever re orded. Three or four weeks ago a large og began fighting a small dog belong ag to Leatherwood. The dogs were ighting under Leatherwood's house. Zecuring a stick Leatherwood went un ler the house and separated the animals. Ls the large dog ran trom under the Louse, it snapped Leatherwood in the ice, Itdicting a'painful wound. It was eported that the dog was mad, but this as found to be untrue and Leatherwood aid no more attention to the niatter, xcept to express some uneasiness. On don'day of last week, Leatherwood went .way on a trip. He returned Thursday, nd while on his way home met a white (cnd, who jokingly said to him: "Leath rwood, the dogs that that dog bit have one mad. You had better look out." eatherwood took what h~ad been said o him seriously, and when he went to iS home told his family he wouldgo nad. He paced backward and forward his room and talked about nothing lse. His family and friends told him ha t the dog that bit him had not gone sad and no other dogs in the neighbor. tood were afflicted with hydrophobia. othng could dissuade Leatherwrood rom the idea that he would die from hy. ruphobia. Hecontinued to move ner~ ouly and excitedly in his room and on at urday the exertion and suspense told n him and he dropped dead in his room. I was 53 y ears old and was the most roient colored man in his neighbor o .-News. ______ !,eathx in the Window. Ni.:w Yonx, Det. 15.--From last aztrday morning until this afternoon, : vassengers, conductors, and guards a the elevated ratilroad have noticed an 1 man. wearina :IpcOtacles leaning on esill of a .windo w on the sixth iloor of 'e tenement house No. 645 Greenwich eet. Hais arms were crossed on the semet, and upon theim rested his cad, with the face turned sideiways, as botg wtching something going on in he str't Hour after-hour, as the uberless trains sped by, the motion Ss Iigure of the man stIll remained. and Sfr nemale it a point tQ look up ud son:e;thnes remarked to puaengers ete pclir position the old man as ,ed;r loking out .of the window. -hc e raea that lie had been rn'th al ttie, but supposed it was a tit is to come to the window at qu' nt atervais. This afternoon, a amman up;on nearing the old man's b.d, looked ut. . The old man's at rwidow acaln," he remarked. A pai c':er, who chanced1 to be' Dr. Donlin, hc coroner's assistant, glanced in the recii indicated. His professional y dcc eted ia an insta.nt that the man asdad. that he would remain there stl :ay untess disturbed. The ucor al'.bted at the next station, sum toed a couple of policemen, and going a the 01(d man's apartments, found that s suraise was correct. The old man, :ho proved to be Richard harvey, tlfty even ears old, was focundl kneeling on t loor, with his head resting on the jndow-sii, as already described. He ad pr'ably died of apoplexT. and was arnty stricken down as he strug cd t theu window for air. M:'ims, Tenn., Dec. 12.-Detectives aIs morninagarrested Talion Hlall, alias todtes, alai Booton. The prisoner sai~d e a killed ninety-nine men prmi-l r in Kentutcky and West Virginia, xe :Sst victim being a sergeant of po ec in Maysville, Ky. Hail is wanted a Boonvile on the charge of having e't tire to that townl a number of years go. It is said that Hlall killed his pres lit wi fes first, hus~band in order to get i: ont of the way that he mIght mar yher. I- is about forty-live years of o, six feet till and an athlete. IL mars a black~ beard, and is altogether dsprs: looking character. Plaved Fool Once Too Often. BDio;;:, Dec. 10.-Lieutenant anid,~ a. :amateur parachutist, who aesl droppedlC sacely from a balloon ;.0 leet in the air. to-day undertook > clse that. per'ormance and hun ced of !ashionable socty people and houd of cthers assemibled to see E.n do itt the bight of 40'0 feet, osever Lis balloon burst and as his achute was unprepared. Mans old ebi and was dasheod to pieces on the rumd w-cor ihe eyes of his friends. A .LUKIWA TIAUEU. THE 0ARKEST PAGE IN THE TERRI BLE HI . ORY OF CRIME. A Mother and Her Two Childres and a Young Lady Murdered-Evidence of Heroic Resistance on the Part of the Victims. JACKSoNVILLE, FLA., Dac. 17. The details of the trxgedy e - New Smyrna are coming in slowly. Packwood left home Fr-ay moru li, for Maitland to be gone two days. lirs. L. D. Hatch, a neighbor and dear friend of Miss Bruce, came to spend a day and night with her during Packwood's ab sence. L. D. Hatch is a carpenter and orange grower and has lived near .ew Smyrna for the past fifteen years. Both he and his wife came trom Maine. Irwin Jenkins was the first to discover the crime. He is a negro who calls at the Packwood house every Saturday to do errands and light jobs. At 9 o'clock in the forenoon he knocked at the- door and got no answer. He saw the w n dow smashed in and then called . he neighbors, who made an lnv:stigaeL-on and notified the sheriff and coroner. No positi e clue as to the murderar has as yet been found. Several footprints were found in the sana under the window. Some were made with No. 7 or 6 boots, box toe, the wear on the outside )f the heel being mr-h deeper than .side, which would in-.cate that the wearer was bowlegged. It was first L.hobght that the crime war the work o. tramps; but this was subsequently (ispelled by finding a trail leadiuz aronaa. te yard to the north and then iro,'uo the ham mock south to the coac. conrtry.- Pack wood has suspicions o someoody, but r ases to disclose them uatil the proper time arrives. There are rumors or a discarded lover, who had sworn. Yen geance and that robbery was not the object of the crime, but that it was rape and murder. The murder or Mis. Hatch and her two children was- undonbtedly to destroy evidence of an assauls uPon and the killing of Miss Bruce. The e volver and shot gun were the property oi Packwood, and either Miss Bruce or Mrs. Uatch had undoubtedly used.them in self defence. The negro, Jenkins, has been arrested, but nobody. 'lieves that he knows anything 6f 'the crme. The coroner's j urv has not yet rendered a verdict. Two hundred armed citizens with blood hounds, and on horseback, are scouring tne country. One of the first men to reach the scene' atter the alarm had been given, tells this story-of the crime: --When- we reached the house we all crowdedround the broken window and peeped in. Be fore our eyes was the appalling specta cle. On her face by the window in a pool of blood, Airs. Hatch lay with a bullet wound in te inside corner of her left eye. Her face was blackened with powder. The other bodies lay.nearber. When the crash.came she had evidently. been near the window. - When the mur derer entered her little son, frenzied with fright, had probably fled, as'aiibild would, and had sought refuge in the bed clothes of the bed lounge at ths othei end of the room. He was torn from there, shot over the left eye, and his throat was cut in three places...: His head was almost severed from his body. The bed clothes were stained crimson. While the murderer was entering the window, Mis Bruce had apparently se cured an old pistol, Smith & Weisson, which was bandy, and tired at him. 'The ball rook effect in the window frame. The murderer, heedless of, this! on slaught, continued his terrible work. By this time Miss Bruce had gone to the closet and secured a double barrelled shot gun. Sus levelled it at the mur derer as he approached, butunfortunate ly both hammet s snapped on the shells that had been exploded many days be fore. He overpowered her and ac4 plished his devilisb purpose, probably after killing her little nephew. 'After. this part of the tragedy, the -murderer shot her through the right cheek, the ball crashing through her teeth, strik ing the walls and falling on the:.bed. There must have been another straggle for possession of the gun. He tore it from her grasp, and swinging it around his head with both bands clutch.'ng the barrel. drove the stock against her- face with terrible force. The blow struck her between the forehead and nose, mnd crushed in her skull. Every bone in her face was broken. Thea with a kee'i read knife he stabbed her in the neck,, cutting out a square section of flesh and finishing'iwith two terrible gashies on her throat. "Frankie P.ackwood, a beautiful gold en haired chiid of five years, was found on the floor at the foot of the bed with his throat cut. His features had been marred. The floors of both rooms were' completely covered with blood, aqd4 the mattress on the bed on which Mls& .tsruce lay was soggy with blood. . The curtains and walls were spattered free "When the neighbors cleaned up the: premises the blood had to be carrid from the rooms in dippers. It was then ecooped up in masses-and thrown ent; then the remainder was sopped up with soap and the spots were scrubbed and strewn with flour; but even this did not hide evidences of the bloody crime." A New Smyrna special to the Times Union says: "The ::onvictio'n is grow ina here that the murders at the Pack wood house were committed by some body belonging to this neighborhood, or at least familiar with the premises and surroundingr country. All the victims had their day clothes on, which shows that the crime was committed in the day time. The victims had evidently spent Friday night unmolested, as the beds remained unmade and slops were still standing in the chamber jars. A batch of yeast or dough on the dloor benind the stove continued to 'rise' till 5 o'clock p. m., an d in a pot on the stove was-a half boiled ham in water showing that the fre must have gone out, leavmng it so. It was 9 o'clock when the negro discov ered the broken window. [t was 10.30 o'ceck when the neighbors first enteredi the house. One of the women who washed the bodies (about noon) says that the backs of Miss Bruce and Mrs. Hatch were stili perceptibly warm, for the bodies had laid on their backs un dstrbed. "The thcory is that the murders were cmmintted just after breaktast Saturday mo, ning about C.30 or 7 o'clock. Pack wood saill refuses to state whom he sus pects, and none of the neighbois appear to know anything of Miss Bruce's love affair, if she had one, and nobody, as far as known, is missing from the neigh borhood. "The coroner's verdict will not be rendered until tomorrow. The funeral of the victims took place from D). L. Hatch's house this morning. Nobody here in New Smyrna knows what part of Maine Hatch and his 'dead wife came