The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, December 30, 1891, Image 1

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If. S. Cl' 1-1~l MANNk ;.LEl .IG IN Bu1HNiSS. ;R TAL-MAGE SELIEVES IN TRADE1 ANDiN 2NESTTRACERS. St-e.eer,~ Mant;t rAa and Trader* MNtan.? ?a t.ut on Each other's iI~nonen --Ar.-etr4 Cs of the Fiech Pancve Isu; ri. lIiotoLLY, 1). 2,.-Any person tekdL tue: -ecrt of Dr. Talnage's mnarvelous ppAr.tv with the millicns of ermiou i .arr aud sermon readers mav find a ,dew to- it in the sermon he prvecd at the T.a-ernacle this morn m, It his nothmng to do with abstruse dtx trines. bunt givcs a clear view of what may be t e-acd .pphed Christianity. lliL text ua- Proverbs iii. 6. -In all thy cI ?s acki('tildy( Iim and he shall di rec thy paths." --A promise -o-,d onough fr many kmds of iife. ht.," not for any kiou' of lite sas some business maa; -the law ,f :,upply and demand coutrolls the :ushasss world." But I hay. reason -.o that it is a ;rorle to z !1 persorn in an - kind of honest busi 'nere is t o Q a &etweeu religion and ,inese, Ietween ledgers and Bibles, bi Lw e c-i:ches and counting houses. 0:1 the con'mrar;. religion accelerates lusiaess, -iorpeus men's wits, sweetens acerbitv of disposion, fillips the bloc of legmatis and Chrows more velocity into the wheels of -ard work. It gives be ter ba'arcing to the judgment, more stiength to ; he will, more muscle to n dustvy and throws into enthusiasm a inre consi crated "ire. You cannot in ull tIe round of the world show me a man whose honest business has been Cespoiled b: religion. The indu'r:ai classes are divided into tiree groups-poducers, raanufactur ;, traatrs. Producers, such as farmers iaud iMezrs. Manufacturers, such as ,Iese who turn ccrn into food, and wool and Nx mto appartil. Traders, such as !..nake prcfit out of the transfer and ex i anise of ad that which is produced and 11:.t.factured. A business man may be lot a to any one or all of these classes. amit: one is independent of any other. When the- prince imperial of France tel In the Zulu battleitid because the rap fattet.ing the stirrup to the saddle as he ciung to it, his comrades all e-~ tapin but he failing under the lances r te savages. great many people tad rnthe empress for allowing her 1 'o '1P fer- into tha. battlefield, and othe-rs oan d the English government o Iwc4.ing the saeridee, and others Olamed" :Ite Zulus for their barbarism. T 1: one most to blame was the harness maKt-r whbo fashioned that strap of the -siirup out sheddy and imperfect materi al, as it was found to have been after ward. If the strap had held, the prince unperial we-ld probably have beenalive to-day. But the strap broke. No prince 'ndependen: of a harsess maker. g l.. :ow. wise. ignorant, you in one Occupation. I in another, all bound to gether. S:. that there must be one con tinuous line of sympathy with each otier's worx. But whatever your voca ton, if you ;ave a multiplicity of engage m,,nts. if in-.o Tour life there come losses and arnovances and perturbations as well as percentages and.dividends, if you are pursued from Monday morning until Saturday oight, and from January to January by inexorable oAigation and duty, then :y ou are a busmness man or you are a business woman, and my sub ject is appro~priate to your case. In the first plan, I remark that busi ness life w as intended as a school of energy. God gives us a certain amount of raw material out ot which we are to hew our character. Our faculties are to be reset, rounded and sharpened up. Cur young folks having graduated from school or college, need a higher educa tIon, that which the rasping and colli sion of everyday life alone can effect. Energy is wrought out. only in a fire. After a mran has been in business ac tivity ten, twenty, thirty years, his en ergy is not to be measured by.welghts or plummets or ladders. There is no he~ht it cannot scale, and there is no depth it cannot fathom, andi there is no obstacle it cannot thrash. No, my brother, why did God put you in that school of energy? Was it merely tbat you might be a yardstick to meas ure cloth or a s-eijad to weigh flour? Was it merely that you might be better qualitied to charfer and higgle? No. Giod placed yon in that agaocil cf energy that y ou might be developed for Chris tian work. If the undeveloped talents n the Christtan churches of today were brougzht out and thoroughly harnessed, I relieve thy whole world w'uld be con ferted to God in a short time. There are so many deep streams that are turn iOg noG mill wheels and thrat are barness ed to no fat :tory baauds. Now, God de mu~ds tiW best lamb out of ever! tioen. 11e demaa-is the richest sheaf or every hrvest. Hie demands the best men 0! tvry generation. A cause, in which Ne' w oni e d Locke and Mans~ld toiled 'ou and I an afford to toil in. un ior .ewer idlers in the cause of Lhist and ter mere Christian workers rmeoz whoi shall rake the same energy i: rom~ Monday morning to Saturday iiAht thaey put torth for the achievemen~t uti live:ih.ood or the gathering of a for tune, sd on Saitbadh days put it forth .o th~e advautaae of Christ's kiugdom and ithi ir~nging oft mea to the Lord. Dr. iLai, :n South Wales, saw a man who :r nhr.kd agreat fortune. The man ed~it~ to ;itn: "'I ;rud to be ve-rv busy ror urm~ years cfimy r!fe getime. my liveh j40.d~ Ata.r akudle fortune came to .e,. and( t[here has been no necessity that I t>il sitnce. There came a time when I said to mnyeti, -Sirall I now retire trom bu~e s,':-sal I go on and serve the L'.rd in mn., worldly occupation?' " H~e sad: "I resolvedl on the latter, and I have been more industrious in commerci a t circles than I ever was before, arid sece that hour I have never kept a fatling for myself. I have thoudLt it to be a great shname if I couldn't toil as bhrd for the Lord as I had toiled for my self, and all the products of my factories and my commercial estabhshment* to the last fax hing have gone for the Isuild ;r. of Chr:stiaa institutions and support iniz the church of God.'' Oh, if the sme energy tut forth for the world culd be pt ~for:h for God! Oh, it a thousndl men in these great cities who hive achiev ed a tortunle could see it their duty to do ali buiess for Christ and the alleviaioni *f the world's suffering. Again, I remars,. that busmness life is a school of patience. in your everyday lit howi me.ny tenits to annoy and to diquiet! I ;rg.? will rub. Commuer al aien v.ill retim-s fail to mne: tbeir enrZ emnrt. Gash book au floney drab er " l sometimes quarrel. G oods ora'red for aspecial emergency will come :oo late or be daruagedin the transportation. AXople intending no arm. ...,n g- h-pinminnt any mien tion o iurehase. overturning great wI sotck" if goods and insisting that )ou th break the dozen. More bad debts on an the ledger. More counterfeit bills in the eq drawer. More debts to pay for other op people. More meannesses on the part cla vt partners in business. Annoyance af- na ter anniyance, vexation after vexation bu and loss after loss. All that nrocess coi will either break you down or brighten v:>u up. It is a school of patience. Oh. M< that amid the turmoll and anxiety and th, exasperation of everyday life you might trE hear the volcE of God saying "In pati- he ence possess your soul. Let patience po have her perfect work.'' wi I remark again that business life is a th4 school of useful knowledge. Merchants fai do not read many books and do not .I study lexicons. They do not dive into th, prolounds of learning, and yet nearly all I through their occupations come to un- E derstand questions of finance and poli tics and geography and jurisprudence GC and ethics. Business Is a severe school- wt mistress. It pupils will not learn, she co strikes them over the head and the heart pri with severe losses. You put $5.000 by into an enterprise. It is all gone. You th, say, "That is a dead loss." Oh, no- ha You are paying the schooling. That thq was only tuition, very large tuition-I dy told you it was a severe schoolmistress rit -but it was worth it. You learned on things under that process you would not ou have learned in any other way. da Traders in grain come to know some- shi thin; about foreign harvests; traders in fruit come to know something about the tu prospects of tropical production; manu- H1 facturers of American goods coma to of understand the tarift on imoorted arti. th cles; publishers of books must come to se4 understand the new law of copyright; wr owners of ships must come to know W winds and shoals and navigation; and go every bale of cotton, and every raisin lul cask, and every tea box, and every cls- W ter of bananas is so much literature for th a business man. Now, my bretber, O what are you going to do with the in telligence? Do you suppose God put i you in this school of information merely that you might be sharper irr a trade, that you might be more successful as a a worldling? Oh, no; it was that you ac might take that useful informaticn and to use it for Jesus Christ. an I remark, also, that busness life is a he schcol for integrity. No man knows Lc what he will do when he is tempted. an There are thousands of men who have no kept their integrity merely because they a t never have been tested. A man was so elected treasurer of the state of Maine so some years ago. He was distinguished g0 fot his honetty, usefulness and upright- - ness, but before one year had passed he ad bad taken of the public funds for his own private use., and was hurled out of m( office in disgrace. Distinguished for vir- mt tue before. Distinguished for crime at- sa: ter. You can call over the names of inf men just like that, in whose honesty you er. ad complete conadence, but placed in ar certain crises of temptation they went ba verboard. co Never so many temptations to scoun- sa dreham as now. Net a law on the stat- t ute book but has some back door through which a miscreant can escape. Ah! iL bow many deceptions in the fabric of Go goods- so much plundering in commer- stc cial ife, that it a man talk about living a life of complete commercial acduracy str there are those who ascribe it to green- wi ness and lack of tact. More need of th honesty now than ever before-tried Pe bonesty, complete honesty, more than TC in those times when business was a wi plain affair, and woolens were woolens "C and silks were silks and men were men. O.f How mansy men do you suppose there ci are in commercial life who could say tro truthfully, "In all the sales I have everci nade I hs've never overstated the value for i1 goods; in all the sales I have ever atade I have never covered up an im- s perfection in the fabric; of all the thous- las ands of dollars I have ever made I have res aot taken one dishonest farthing?" ml rhere are men, however, who can say lef :t-hundreds who can say it. thousands an' who can say it. They are more honest eve than when they sold their first tierce of eal :ice, or their first firkin of but. :r, be- ceJ ase t'uair honesty and integrity have ar been tested, tried and carried out trium phant. But they remember a time when tey could have robbed a partner, or tave absconded with the funds of a bank, or sprung a snap judgment, or made aw lalse assignsnent, or borrowed illimitan- "A ly without any effort at payment, or got ca: a man into a sharp corner and fleeced thi im. But they never took one step on go1 that pathway of hell fire. They can say Pe heir prayers without hearing the chink mi af dishonest dollars. They can read pr: their Bible without thinking of the time hO when, witu. a lie on their soul, in the b :ustom house they kissed the Book.th They can' think of death and the judg- cai sent that comes after it without any the Lnching-that day when all charlatans ret and cheats and jockeys and frauds shall to be doubly damndd. It does not make Th their knees knock together and it does is tot make their teeth chatter to read "as fal the partridge sitteth on eggvs and hatch- thi eth them not, so he that getteth niches, thi and not by right, shall leave them in the ph midst of liis days and at his end shall be fa th a fool." .d Oh. what a school of integrity busi- ceI ness life is! If you have ever been bal tempted to let your integrity cringe be- en: fore present advantage; if you have ever thi wakened up in some embarrassment and the said: -New I'll step a little aside from in the right path and no one will know it, Sta and Il come all right again. It is only tel once." Oh, that only once has ruined me tens of thousands of men for this life and ly bastsd their souls for eternity. It is ab tremrendous school, business life-a th. school of integrity. Amerchant in w"i Liverp- ol lot a five pound Bank of Eng-01 land note, and holding it up toward the light be saw somne interlineations in what seemed red int. in He finally deciphered the letters, and an found out that the writir.g had been de made by a slave ini Algiers, saying in are substance, "Whoever geis this banknote mi will please to inform my brother, John frc Dean, h~ving near Carlisle. that I amn a on lave of the bey of Algiers." The mer- sh chant sent word, e-mployed government ov oficers and found who this an was thi spoken of in this bank bill. After Di awhile the man was rescued, who forpr eleven years had been a slave of the bey ern of Algiers. He was immediately eman- wa cipated, but was so worn out by hard- Da ship and exposure he soon after died. ac< Oh, if scme of the bank bils that come mi through your hands could tell all the D< scenes through which they have passed, izm it would be a tragedy eclipsing any , drama of Shakespeare, mightier than King Lear or Macbeth. wi As I go on in this subject, I am im- WI preased with the inmportance of our hay ing more sympathy with business men, an It is not a shama that we in our pulpits hai do noL oftener preach about their stug- wi gles, their trials and their temptations? jeg Men who toil with the hand are not apt as to be very sympathetic with those who wi toil with the brain. The farmers who be ,.-ise the corn, and the ata, nd the tiq ieat sonietimes are tempted to thi it grain merchauts have an easy tin d get their profits without giving a uivalent. Plato and Aristotle were posed to merchandise that they < red commerce to be the curse of i tions, and they advised that ciues ilt it least ten miles from the s( ist. But you and I know that there are >re industrious or high minded m in those who move in the world ific. Some of them carry burde avier than hods of brick, and are ( sed to sharper things than the e ad, and climb mountains higher th Alps or Himalayas, and if they t thful Christ will at last say to the Vell done, good and faithful servai >u hast been faithful over a few thin! will make thee ruler over many thin; ter thou into the joy of thy Lord." There are men before the throne >d this day in triumph who on ea, re cheated out of everything but th ia. They were sued, they were i: soned for debt, they were throtti constables with a whole pack of wri ty were sold out by the sherifls, th d no compromise with their credito y bad to make assignments. Th ing hours were annoyed by the sha ging of the door-bell by some impe s creditor who thought it was outral s and impudent that a man shot re to die before he paid the last thi 1Ilings and sispence. [ had a friend who had many mis< nes. Everything went against hi had good business quality and u the best morals, but he was one Dse men, such as you have sometim mn, for whom everything seems to ong. His life became to him a plagi hen Iheard he was dead I said, "Goc t rid of the sheriffs." Who are thc strious souls before the thron hen the question is asked, "Who z )y ?" the angels standing on the a glass respond, "These are they w me out of great business troubles a d their robes washed and made wh the blood of the Lamb." & man arose In Fulton street pray eting and said: "I wish publicly knowledge the goodness of God. is in business trouble. I had mon pay and I had no means to pay d I was in utter despair of all hum Ip, and I laid this matter before t ord, and this morning I went doi ong some old business friends I h t seen in many years-just to ma all-and one said to me: 'Why I a glad to see you; walk In. We ha me money on our books due you d while, but we didn't know whe u were, and therefore Dot having yo dess we could not send it. We a ry glad you have come." And t n standing in Fulton street pray )eting said, "The amount they pa was six times what I owed." Yi r it only happened so. You are kIel. God answered that man's pra Oh, you want business grace. The men here today who fought t tle and gained the victory. Peoi e out of that man's store, and th r, "Well, if there ever was a Christi der, that is one." Integrity kept t ks and waited on the custome: ;ht. from the eternal world flash ough the show windows. Love d and love to m -m presided in th rehouse. lome day people going through t eet notice that the shutters of t adows are not down. The bar it store door has not been remove ople say, "What is the matter >u go up a little closer and you s tten on the card of that windo Ised on account of the death of 01 the firm." That day all through t] les of business there Is talk abo w a good man has gone. Boards de pass resolutions of sympathy, ai .irches of Christ pray, "Help, Lor -the godly man ceaseth." le has made his last bargain, he h Tered his last loss, he has ached wi1 t fatigue. His children will get ti ut of his industry, or if throus sfortune there should be no dolla t, they will have an estate of pray f Christian example which will I triasting. Heavenly rewards f -thly discipline. There "the wicki ise from troubling and the wea Sat rest." Pas Them Aroud. L'he State, of last Monday, publish Sfollowing account of a swindle th s played on the people of Columbi .week ago three neatly dressed m< ne to Columbia and took quarters SWaverly House. Now they a ae, and when this Is read many unsu ting Columbians will be poorer b1 ich the wiser. Mrs. Turner, the pr etress of the boarding house, hi; i pushing the young men for the ird bills, when yesterday mornir y skipped out at daylight and tot early train for Augusta. When th ne here they at once began to canva city for pictures to enlarge. Th uired 50 cents in advance, and we: almost every residence in the cit .ey took a large Dumber of orders, said including one of the GJovernoi nily. When Mrs. Turner went in room yestrday morning she font s note lying on a pile of siXty-ti otographs, some of them showing t :es of the most prominent people Scity: "We thank the owners Se pictures very much for their its. They can have their pictur k, as we are too poor to have the arged." When Mrs. Turner rei 5 she forgot her own loss and enjoy< Sprospects of the fun there would1 many households today. To TJ ite representative she said: "Ju I the owners of these photographs f Sthat If they will come to the WVave house they can have their faces bac t not their money." We are glad th Sthree rascals were caught and cagi die trying to work their little gan the people of Batesburg. Shooting with a Vengean. DAYoN, 0., Dec. 16.-Last eve i Frank Sparks killed I. G. Deloi d Denton Duke at East Barnard. T tails of the kilhing, though meagt substantially as follows: Spar t Delone and Duke a short distan m Eagle Lake. Delone opened f6 Sparks who, with a breech loadi1 ot gun, returned the fire. Delone f! er at once, mortally wounded. Du. m fired at Sparks, who returned ike was seen to fall from his hor sumably dead. There had been se il quarrels between the men. Spar . not hurt. Late last night J ike called Jim Doolan out of his hout :used him of complicity in the abo rder and opened fire on Doola olau returned the fire, killing D~u mediately. 'uE PATENT OF THlE BELL telepho: 11 expire in England in 1892, ai >id expire In this country about t ne time, but the company is makii effort to extend their monopoly te of another patent which th e been granted. Mr. Benthuyse to is said to be an expert on the su :t, says the courts will not allow th the original patent covered t iole. lie thinks the invention w free to public use after the expii ii ot the original Datent. iik THE GELNEIIXLM ASSIE-.1B.LY Le,' s A SPICY DEBATE BETWEEN MESSRS le- HASKELL AND PAT fERSON. he be The uAprestentatIven, -rromptiv Votes a Down a Proposition to R:eeiwc their no Saiaries-Thesession Draw ing to a Closo en The Work of the Past Week. ns COLUMBIA, S. C., Dec 22.-lu the x- House on Tuesday, after the tilt be st tween Messrs. Haskell and Evans, n which is published in another column. re resolutions were presented and passed 33: in memory of Representative Leap it; heart, of Lexington, who had recently s, died. s. The committe on penitentilary sub mitted the following report: "We ol have investigated the penitentiary and t find it self-sustaining, and that it has - been well and economically managed n during the year. [hey carefully exam - ined all of the departments and were ed pleased to note the improvements and ' efficiency of their management. The OY hospital is an excellent building and s, provides comfortable quarters for the 3ir sick. The health of the inmates i- un rp usually good, only a few of them being .u- now sick, and none seriously. The e- death rate has been less than that of ld last year. The books of the institution ee have been carefully examined by a sub committee and found to be neatly and carefully kept. They commend the > present superintendent and officers for m.. their efficient and careful management. as A number of new bills were intro of duced, but they were mostly of a local es nature. go In the Senate on Tuesday Senator Le. Sloan, on behalf of the judiciary con d; mittee, made an unfavorable report on se the Child's prohibition bill. 5? Senator Stokes' cotton weighers' bill re was called up on second reading and a ea motion to lndefiniteiy postpone it pre :o vailed by a big majority. id On the heels of adjoirnment for the -te day, a very pretty fight came up on the "free Dass" bill. Its author, Senator er Woodward, moved concurrence in the to House amendments, and for a few mo I ments a sort of parliamentary tangle By followed, the chair holding that the mo it, tion could not be considered unless the in bill was before him, and a discussion as e to the proper construction of the rules in followed. The question was discussed ad pro and con by several Senators after e which Senator Woodward's motion to m concur went tbrough by a vote of 22 to e 8. Those who voted aye were: Sena a tors Abbott, Bl1, Bigham, Buist, De re Schamp, Dozier, Jenkins, Keitt, McDan ur iel, Mason, Moody, Peake, Sanders, re Sloan, R. M. Smith, Jeremiah Smith, e Smythe, Stokes, Verdier, Williams, er Wilson and Woodward. id Those who voted no were Messrs. )u Bamberg, Beasley, Evans, Ferguson, M Glenn, Hemphill, Strait and Timmer y- man. re The bill to protect and encourage the 3e planting and cultivation of sheIl fish le within the public waters of this State; y for the appointment of a fish commis m sioner; to authorize the granting of te franchises for the use of certain lands s- under water belonging to this State, ,d and to make appropriations therefor, to received its third reading. at The joint committee appointed to in vestigate certain charges of fraud e brought against the clerks of the two e houses of the General Assembly in con >f nection with the award of a certain d. contract for advertising to the Colum ?" bia Register submitted an elaborate re Pe port. The committee, after giving the N, circulation of the two newspapers, con ie demn the action of W. M. Rodgers in 1 practicing fraud and deception on the it clerks of the House and Senate. af The report of the committee was re Ld ceived as information and ordered to d, be spread upon the journals, and the committee was discharged. Before the js reading of the report the resignation of ah Mr. Rodgers as assistant clerk of the ie House was read and accepted, and later ah in the day Mr. Samuel WV. Vance was rs appointed by the Speaker to fill the va sr cancy. >e The bill' introduced in the House to >r change the time of the meeting of the d Leglslature from November to January rywas snowed under on Thursday. IThe Senate sent a message to the IHouse stating that that body had re 'ceded from its p sition with reference s to the anti-free pass bill and-had con t curred in the House amendments .: thereto. a'Mr. Patterson did not wish the re Sport received until the report of the at joint committee of conference had been re made. He wished to know why Mr. s- ~askell, the chairman of the House it section of the committee, had not made 0- a report. Ld Mr. Haskell said that contrary to all ir precedent two members of the Senate tg Committee had been appointed from k the minory or that body, the majority y having expressed in favor of the bill. ss Mr. Patterson had said he was in favor y of killing the bill and he was in the it committee for that purpose. Two 7. members of the Senate section or the it committee had expressed similar inten 's tions. He had asked Mr. Patterson if to he was not in the committee to support d the will of the House as expressed by a o vote of 75 to 11. ie Mr. Patterson interrupted Mr. Has in kell'several times until Mr. Haskell if asked him to sit down until he was 50 through. He could not get a report be e cause it, was necessary for the report to r be sigued by a majority of both sections id of the committee, and a majority of ad the Senate section would not sign It. J He asked if he had not deserved the 16 thanks of the H ouse for his action in st the matter. >r Speaker Jones: You are enltitledl to r- a free pass. k, Mr. Haskell said he had never taken t a free pass in his life, save once, w~ hen aas attorney for the South Carolina 1 Railway he was compelled to go to Charleston and the company sent him a pass, he use:1, and if it had not tbeen sent he would have charged his fare in n his bill. Outside of this he had never ie used a pass save as a railroad official. ie Several queries were here made as to e. whether he was at present a railroad ks oicial. ie Hie replied that he was the president re of a road inl Virginia and that as such he accented trip passes from connect Iing roads, which was but a fair ex change of courtesies. He had never e accepted an annual. Hie had never ' thought ill of any one using a free pass, sunless the person using the pass thought -it wrong todo so. Es Mr. Hlaskell's remarks had acted on ie Mr. Patterson like a spur on a nettle , some steed. H-e said he thought the re speaker bad made a mistake in putting u. two men of such different views on the se subject as Mr. Hlaskeli and himself on the same committee. lie opposed the bill because he thought It an insult to e the members. Mr. Patterson began to id get angry and say some hard things i about Colonel Ilaskell. 1g Speaker Jones said the question of >y privilege, to which M r. Patterson rose, y did not involve an attack upon a memn n, ber. lie was opposed to the bill but b- didi not go into the committee to kill it. is, He thought it most disgraceful for Mr. 1e Hlaskell, being a member of the House, ill to bring free passes there for distribu a- tion and thus attempt to bribe the nmem hrs. Mr". laskeli: W hen ? Th wunv ? Mr Patterson: To Mr. Er&ed G:vy and to )r. P.pe, for instance. Mr. Haskell- I have au istinct re collection of having, when attorcey of a railroad, in response to requests froma members firnished thnm ir:p pises to go home. I iever dreamed thiat I would be accused of atremptng to bribe those gentlen-en. I thought their characti-r was so high as to place them above such suspiciou. Mr. Gary said that since his name had been ir.jected into the matter he would state that Mr. Haskell had had a book of trip passes on the floor of the House for distribution. Mr. Haskell asserted that he had not had a book of passes. Mr. Gary said be had seen the book. Mr. Haskell affirmed that Mr. Gary was mistaken. The report of the Senate was received as information and the anti-free pass bill passes from the arena of legislative discussion. Mr. Mooney moved that the appro priation for per diem and mileage of the members of the General Assembly be reduced from 623,000.to $11,500. He said that If the members meant their talk about reduction of expenses they should begin the act with their own salaries. Tabled by a vote ol 67 to 26. in the Senate on Thursday the follow ing concurrent resolution was offered by Senator Stokes and unanimously adopted: Whereas, The experiment of free mail delivery in rural districts has been in operation during the past year in a large number of rural sections in tbe United States; and Whereas, The said experiments have developed a pronounced increase in the postage cancelled in such rurul districts -so pronounced, in fact, as to warrant the expectation that such aduitional mail facilities will in a few years stim ulate the use of the mails to the extent of making them self-sustaining In these said rural districts; therefore Resolved by the Senate, the House of Representatives concurring, that the Senators and Representatives in Con gress from South Carolina be, and they are hereby urged to advocate the fur ther extention of free mail delivery to rural districts as rapidly as possible. Senator Buist moved to adopt the anfavorable revort by the Judiciary Committee providing for the maturity of paper falling due on Surdays and legal holidays. ~jenator Sloan opposed the motion. and Senators Wilson and Woodward spoke in favor thereof. The bill was, notwithstanding strong opposition, passed to its third reading. The following is the text of the bill reported by the special committee ap pointed to reapportion the Congres sional districts of the State in accord ance with the suggestion of the Gov ernor. The committee, of which Col. James Simons is the chairman, state in their report "that while a majority of the committee are not in favor of any change at this time, in obedi,-nce to the instructions contained in the resolu tion, the bill is reported for the consid eration of the House. The apportion ment is as follows: First Congressional District-Edge field, Aiken, Barnwell, hlampton and Beaufort. I Second Congressional ipstrict-Col leton, Orangeburg, Lexington and Newberrv. Third Congressional Diktrict-Char leston, Berkeley, Georgetown, Horry and Marion. Fourth Congressional District-Rich land, Kershaw, Clarendon, Sumter and Faireld. Fifth Congressional District-Marl boro, Darlington, Florence, Chester field, Lancaster and Williamsburg. Sixth Congressional District-Spar tanbuirg, Laurens, Union, York and Chester. Seventh Congressional District-Ab bevlle, Anderson, Oconee, Pickens and Greenville. In the Hocuse on Friday the bill to change the lines of Charleston and Berkeley Counties passed its second reding. The islands and a small strip of Berkeley County are givert to Char leston and one representative is taken from Charleston an~d given to Berkeley. An amendment was incorporated in the bill making the selection of the new County seat of Berkeley the duty of the people, in an election, instead of a spe cial commission. The bil to establish a normal and in dustrial college for the education of women passed its second reading. The bill provides for the election of seven trustees, wh ose duty it shall be to ad vertise for bids and select a site. An amendment was incorporated in the bill providing that 100 convicts be placed under the trustees to work on the college. The bill to redistrict the State into seven new congressional districts was killed in the House on Saturday. The motion to reduce the pay and mieage of the members of the General Assembly was killed in the Senate on Saturday. In the House on Monday majority and minority reports were submitted by the committee that investigated the ac tions of the phosphate commission. The majority report is signed by Messrs. Harrison, Breazeale, Norton and. Kirkland, and finds after thorough in vestigation that the commission has discharged Its duties honestly, fairly and efliciently; that the Florida rock has dimirished the price of Carolina rock,for which the commission is not to blame; and that the commission would not have been juistitied in raising the royal The minority report is signed by Mr. Haskell and give~s a complete history of the phosphate in'iustry in this State. It inds that the law is defective and has been badly administered, It allirmus that the action of the commission gate Florida rock an op portunity to com pete: with the Carolina article.1 The~ Clemson College matter came up in the Senate on Monday. when Senator1 Donaldson moved to amend the general appropriation bill by insertiuig a provis ion appropriating 565,000 for complet-, ing the work of the buildings and equip ping Clemson College. Senator R. M. Smith moved an indefi-I nate postponement of the amendment, which brought on a general discussion. After which a vote was taken as fol lows: Ayes-Senators Abbott Bing ham, Evans, Glenn, Magull, deetze7 Moody, Sanders, Sloan, Smith', R. M. Smith, J., Stokes, Strait, Williams, Wil son, Woodward-16. Nays-Senators Bamberg, Bleasley, Buist, DeSchamp, Donaldson, Furgu son, Hlemphill, Jenkins, Keitt, Mason, McDaniels, Peake. Redfearne, Smythe, Timrerman, Verdier-16. Asent- Senators Bell, Dozler, Moore, O'Dll. The president voted "nay," so the motion to indefinately postpone was lost. On Monday night in the House Mr. Evans moved non-concurrence in the Senate amendment to the appropriation bill giving $65,000 to Clemson College. Mr. Finley said unless the appropria tion -were made the opening of Clemson would be deterred a year. Hie had never been, an advocate of Clemson, but now it is a settled question, the people want the institution and he was willing to do .1 Ev:,is nai thii w:.s true, but tl.e mioney ns no-t in tLhe, treasiury. -Ir. Ila1kell sa!d it seemed rather ia consistent witb the past action of the Ge-ral As-e.bly to cut off the appr) priation. Mr. Iarden said he was a friend to Clemson. but that he was a greater friend to the taxcayer, and he hoped for non-concurience in the amendmert. The amendment was lost by a vote of 23 to 64, as follows: Yeas-Bissell, Carwile, Fields, Finley, F. B. Gary, Glover, T. A. Graham, Has kell, Hazard, ilughes, Mears, D. W. Mc Laurin, Moses, Patton, Pobinson, Rut ledge. Shanklin, Stackhouse, Stanland, Todd, Tupper, VonKolnizt and Wigg -23. Nays-Speaker Jones, Attaway, Blake, Blease, Bowen, Bowden, Brea zeale, Brennen, Brice, Brown, Buist, Carpenter, Chandler, Connor, Cox, Crum, Dean, DuBosa, Dukes, J. F. Du Pre, Eaddy, Earle. Elder, Evans, Fow ler, Fox, Fuller, Goodwin, S. A. Gra ham, Gregory, Gunter, P. L. Harden, Harrison, Hardy, Hart, Harvey, Hick lin, Holman, Hutto, Jefferies, Kinaid, Kirkland, McMillan, McWhite, Miley, Morton, Norton, Patterson. Rast, Ras e nel, Riley, Rowland, Russel, ;arrat, Scott, Simons, Townes, Wilson, Why'e, Yeldell and Youmans.- 64. TWO TiCKETS NOMINATED. The Demo cracy of Louisiana Split About the Lottery. BATON ROuIGE, La., Dec. 18.-Cha .r man Wells called the regular Demo cratic Convention at 1 o'clock.. There were thirty-five parishes in attendance. The credential committee made a further report seating the McEnery d.l egates from Grant and Caleasien and adverted at considerable length to the outrages and fraudulent methods re sorted to in order to defeat McEnery at the recent primary. After a recess of two hours the convention was called to order at 3 p. m. The report of the c::e dential committee was adopted and nominations declared in order. Hru.d son of Quachita nominated Judge S. D. McEnery for Governor. The mentl2n of McEnery's name caused a wild out burst of applause. Tne roll was called and showed 442 yeas, nays none. Ex Governor Robert Wycliff was then nominated for Lieutenant Governor, the vote being unanimous. The Adams Farmers' Alliance and anti-Lottery Combine Convention held its sessions at the State House lastnmgt adopted a platform, nominated their ticket, provided for the appointment of the new State Central Committee and adjourned sine die. The platform at the outset says: The Democracy of the State of Louisiana, in convention as sembled, do hereby declare their allegi ance and support of the time-honored principles of the Democratic paity which form the foundation of chs gov ernment and the safeguard of the liber ties of the people. It then congralu lates this State and other States on the result of recent congressional elections; ongratulates the people of Louisiana on the p-esent wise, careful and eco nomical State administration, and con zludes with a declaration of unalterable pposition of lotteries and adoption of proposed revenne amendments to the Constitution. The combine candida;es were today in caucus mapping out a plan of campaign. Where the Money Goes. COLrnIBIA, S. C., Dec. 19.-The bill to make appropriations for the ex penses of the State Government for the :ommng year came up in the HIouse nn Wednesday. The following is a abulated statement of the appi-olria ions provided for in the bill: Executive department........ 65,915 Judicial department......... 66,400 Ehealth department........... 11,3.00 r'ax department............ 25,400 -outh Carolina College.......41,500 .itadel Academy........... 20,000 llallin College.............. 4,500 Winthrop Training School..5,250 Penitentiary................ 6,540 Lunatic Asylum............ 97,650 Deaf, Dumb and Blind.......15,915 Jatawba Indians............. 80 [nterest public debt.........383,000 'ublic printing..~....E....20.000 llaims passed by Legislate. 3,000 l'ransportation of convicts..3,000 .overnor's mansion........... 500 ighting the State House...... 1,300~ Eleating the State House....... 900 P~ensions.................50,250 MIanagers of election........15,000 Lhosphate commission........ 5,890 Advertising, electors.... 2,000 lentingent fund: Governor................. 5,000 Senate.................... 600 House.................... 500 Treasurer................. 200 Comptroller General......... 200 Secretary of State........... 175 Adjutant General........... 100 Attorney LGeneral............ 100 State Librarian............. 125 State llouse keeper.......... 100 Supreme Court.............200 Engrossing department... 200 Total............$.854,115 Legislature appropriation bill: Senate............SI1,066 Ihouse.... . ....... 27.340 Engrossing departm't. 3,247 Total............ 41,63 Grand total.........895,768 'A Touchin: Appeal. COLu1BIA, S. C., Dec'. 19.-Yesterday be following was printed and distrib ited in prominent places, being put on he desks of all the members of the ileneral Assembly: "On the night of [h-emnber 15th, 1891, in the city of Col imbia, S.C., a kerosene lamp was acci lentally knocked over and explode:. in he home of J. E. Fora, a painter, late y in the employment of the Richmond ind Danville Railroad Company, but iut of work on the day of this a~ci .ent. TIhe explosion of this lamp re ulted in burning himself and entire ainily. His wife and one child have ince died; he himself is frightfully >urnled, and is probably now in a dying ~ondition, and two other children, aged our months and four years, are badly .urned, and suffering much, need care md attention, and are in destitute cir ~umstances. The aid of the charitable .s solicited. Contributions handed to Mwr. L. D. Childs for this purpose will >e properly appropriated." A Doulie Lynching. JACKSONVILLE, Fla., Dec. 18.-Last 7ight thirty masked men alighted from i train at Live Oak, ran over to the esidence of Sheriff Potsdamer, covered iim with rifles and compelled hini to surrender the keys to the jail. Going x> the jail they took out two negroes yharged with murdering 11. D. Para noure, Valdosta, Ga., at New Bran lord, Fla., bauged them to a tree and :idled their bodies with bullets. There are two new moons in this nionth and it is the first time It has >ccurred during the year. The dirst ne w moon was on the first day of the month and the last one will be on the lstt day of the month. AN ADDRESS By President.Stoket to the Alliancensen of South Carolina. The following address has been is sued to the Alliancemen of South Car olina by Hon. J. W. Stokes, President of the State Alliance: I need not tell you that sore distress prevails throughout the borders of our State among all laboring people, but especially among agriculturists. The fine prices a year ago stimulated activi ty and confidence, and with bounding hope they in many cases passed the lintit of prudence in contracts for fer tilizers and labor. In most sections of the State the crops :ze very short, while the recaipts at the ports would indicate not only an unprecedented but an incredible gener al yield. Large fertilizer contracts, a short crop, and prices below the cost of production, while the manufactured article has actually advanced in price, tells the story with very many of our people. From mountain to seaboard their plaint distress comes up to this of - Lice; but to the honor of those who write it must be said that there is little of the spirit of repining complaint. The spirit of those who write is the spirit of those masses for whom they write. To the everlasting credit of our peo ple, be it said, in most cases they are paying up their contracts just as far as their limited crops will reach at pre vailing ruinous prices. The spectacle of an industrious man surrendering his last blade of fodder and bushel of corn 1 toward the liquidation of his debt, com- 1 pels admiration even in the abstract; but when that man turns his steps homeward empty-Landed to an empty corn-crib and flour barrel, knowing that he must lo3k into trusting eyes, brim ming with anxiety and foreboding, or i dulled into dumb patience under bur dens long endured, inevitable, the case assumes a tragic phase. A hard thing to do, that; but it is a superb thing, because it is the right thing, the honest thing, the manly thing. The contract was to pay to the extent of the crop; and the contract shouid be met as made. It matters not that in some cases there was extortion; or that the living for which the pro duct of a whole yea-" labor and indus try was pledged w. A nieagre living of the plainest sort. The contracts were made that way and should be met as made. This is the right course; and it is also the best policy. Accommodations for another year will be more easily ob tained if the accounts for this year are cquitably adjusted. It puts matters in better business shape to close the ac count for the year by settlement, even if the needs of the customer require the re-opening of the account next day. I trust, however, that as far as possible, our people will avoid going into debt next year, even if they have to hire out for a season or for a whole year. Let us take counsel witn each other in this season of sore distress-a com mon suffering should make a common cause, a common helpfulness. Let our people cling closer together and thus strengthen each others hand, and cling closer to our organization. Great wrongs have been heaped upon agri culture, under which it is languishing or panting for life. Shall we desert the only organization that promises nelp? Shall we desert its principles and sub mit in dumb patience like beasts of bur den, because our efforts to help our selves have stirred up oppositiQn? Rather let us knit ourselves together with a closer tie, take courage from the righteousness of our cause, attend our meetings, discuss these broader ques tions as well as oar individual needs, and a solution will be found in ,God's own good time. "All things come to him who can wait" is an old proverb. No question is settled until it is settled right. We know that existing condi tions are unequal; and no man of intel ligent honesty maintains that they are right. The general concensus of opinion is that they are not right, however wide ly they may differ as to the causes andC the remedies, and a general awakening of the public conscience upon a given matter, is the sure precursor of better things. Attend the meetings, then, and dis uss these broad questions of principle as well as your individual ills anid needs. Let the stronger lock arms with the weaker and thus make a stronger s union, that will tide us over the im- ] pending crisis. Do ai this; but especially should eachJ Aliance man attend his Sub at the last meeting in December; let each talk t freely to the end that delegates to the County Alliance may be posted fully as to the conditions and needs of his mem bers. As soon as delegates are appoint ed let the secretary be instructed to send their names and post offices to this of lice. Then let every member, whether de legate on not attend the Jannary meet ing of his County Alliance. Matters of especial interest will be there presented, and it is hoped that every member, who possibly can, will be there. Let the I January meeting of the County Alli- C ance be a general rallying ground, to the end that in the multitude of counsel ~ the safety of our people may be assured, and the proper measures of relief be de- C vised from the difficulties that enyiron us. . Brethren, let us all bear with forti-s tude the evil day, bear like men the j, burdens we cannot shake off, do our duty. With an abiding faith in the e righteousness and justice of our prmeci ples, and in the existence of our God, ar righteous and just author of the affairs of men, we shall obtain the relief we seek.e Let us attend the December meeting 1 of the Subs and the January meeting of the County Alliances, as far as possi- v ble; and bend our thought and effort to a the establishment of better things. j Fraternally, s J. War.ShToKE:s. t Pres. S. C. State Alliance. c Orangeburg, December 12, 191. An Ugi~y Report Denied. The Augusta Evening 1]erald, of the t 16th instant, published the following: a The Rev. Thomas Leitch whose ser- t mns during the past two years have i startled sinners in Soutti Carolina and c Georgia and put them on the way t towards conversion, fell himself by the v oadside last night. While saving j many from ruin by the fatal thirst for t whiskey, he himself was not able to a stand the temptation, and last night was ordered out of the Augusta hotel y for drunkenness. The fall of this gen- y teman is to be deplored, for had he re mained on the right line and continued hs evangelical services he would have done an immense amount of good." As will be seen, the above report was 1 taken from an Augusta paper and the p same stoxy was telegraphed to other t aers. Rev. L. L. Pickett of Colum- d ba. S. C., informed the Record of that t city that the report is not true. Mr. Pickett was in Augusta on the night in r uestion and says that he was' in Mr. Leitch's company until after 9 o'clock 3 and up to that time he was in his usual 2 condition and he does not believe that any thing could have occurred after that to induce the evangelist to become t lrunk. Mr. Pickett and Mr. Leitc4- a bad both been attending the Noath Georgia Conference and had retyiedla to Auguan from the sessions. ~ I WAR NLWS FR0M CHILE. DUR LEGATION THERE THREATENED BY A MOB. .n Ultinatum to be Sent to the Chilean Government and the Demands Backed up by a Strong Naval Force. NEW XORK, Dec. 20.-A special from Washington to the World says that its -orrespondent was enabled to secure to sight a translation of a cipher dispatch Irom Minister Egan to the State depart ment, in which he stated that a critical state of affairs existed in Santiago. rIhe dispatch states that the Amercan Legation is surrounded by police and a mob, and threats are freely made to )low it up or burn it on account of the refugees there. Copies of the cable .ram, the correspondent says, had been sent to the President and Navy Depart nent, and much consternation had 3een created in the latter by its receipt. The correspondent further states that t cablegram had been prepared to be sent to Minister Egan asking him to make a report on the situation. Itis believed at the Navy Department, ;he correspondent says, that the state of Lffairs around the legation would not xist if proper police protection was riven. If the situation is really as irave as reported, the naval officials .hink that nothing but force can get he refugees oat of the legation. The effects of Mr. Egan's dispatch, it s thought, will result in a demand by secretary Blaine for a prompt decision n the Baltimore case. If this is un favorable, Congress will be called upou ;o act; and if, in the meantime, further iostile demonstrations are made, an ul imatum will be sent to the Chilean Yovernrment and the navy will back it ip. MAY NOT BE IDLETALK. rhat of Contestina Seats of Certain Dem ocratic Senators. WAs IINGTON, D. C., Dec. 19.-The published statements that the republi :an senators have virtually decided to :ontest the seats of Senators Hill, Brice md Whyte attracted some attention imong the senators today. A careful inquiry fails to disclose anything like im organizeI movement in that direc ;ion and in fact, it appears that the re publcan senators have as yet given the subject little thought. 6o far as Sena or .ill's seat in concerned, it is believed ataL when he presents himself to take tie oath of oflice an objection may be orthcoming from nis coileague, Senator liscock, based on the charge that Sena ,or Hill has lost the title to his seat by tbiandonuent. The question so based Nould be purely legal, and some of the :epublican senators who would be re luired to pass upon it as members of 1ne committee on privileges and elec i(ns, say it woula be disposed of, if ?resented, without regard to political :onsidersLions. A republican senator today said the onteaion in regard to Hill's case will )e substantiafy as follows: Tnat his ,ontinuing to'hold until after the 4th of darch, 18V1, (when ne was entitled to be ienator) an ofice admittedly incompati )>e with the senatorship, operated as a enunciation or the latter, and that if it tas not alleady done so an important Luestion arises as to how long one can told the governorship and keep. the enator's position vacant. The foundation for the story touch ng lBric's .seat seems,.so ar as ascer ained, to refer to the action of Senator ;herman when the credentials were pre ented. As to Senator Whyte, of Louisiana, t can not be learned that there is any ntentlon on the part of the republca eaders to make a contest based on harges of illegal voting. Work of a Lunatic NEW YORKr, Dec. 18.-Michael Hiar ey, 34 years old a boarder at No. 183 Fan Dyke street, South Brooklyn, be ame suddenly insane this afternoon ,nd shot John Connerton, Sam Dicker. on and Mamie Dickerson. Catherine )uffy jumped from a second story win ow to escape and she broka her ankle. ohn Connerton and Sam Dickerson s-ere dangerously injured and were aken to the hospital. They may die. ,iamie Dickerson was shot in the arm. Lfter shooting others Harvey placed hie muzzle of the revolver in his mouth ud pulled the trigger and the top of is head was blown off. John Conner on died before reaching the hospital. )nly two days ago Harvey was dis hiarged from the Flatbush Insane Asy im as cured and immediately went to oard with Mrs. Duffy at 183 Van Dyke treer. The fa~mily lived on the second oor of the four-story tenement. Short 7 after noon to-day, while at dinner a razy fit came suaddenly upon Harvey gain; he jumped from the table, ran to he bureau and snatched from the open rawer athirty-t wo calibre British bull og revolver and began firing into the rowd at the table. The.first shot struck ohn Connerton in the head and in less han live minutes he was dead. The econd bullet laid Samuel Dickerson >W. Young Dickerson and Mary )ickerson of 582 Clinton street, had ome to visit Mrs. D~ufy. Dicaerson ras shot through the right arm. He 2ade for the window and before the ianiac could fire again jumped out. liss Dickerson's turen came next. The razy assassin's bullet bored a hole in er right hand. She ran out in the hall r'ay crying "murder." Mrs. Dluffy, who ras in the next room, hearing shots nd cries and suspecting the truth, umped out of the window at once and prained her ankle in the fall. Being den alone the man ac turned the weap ni on himself. A Steamer Wrecked. MENnc1NO, Cal., Dec. 23.-While be steamer West Coast was hauling longside the warf at Point Arena yes Brday her mooring parted and her stern nes fouled the propeller. The captain rdered sails hoisted immediately and de steamer had just gained headway then two heavy seas struck her sending er on the South reef. Ten of the crew Dolk to the ship's boats. The boat cap ized and nine men were drowned. The Vest Coast had a cargo of railroad ties. he will be a total loss. The steamer as valued at about $200,000 and is artly insured. Swapina Pot for Kcttle. COLUmBA. Dec. 16.-Reform Repub cans held a meeting here to-night and repared an address formally bolting te old organization and calling on the ecent people of all parties t'o join bemn. Tihey will hold a convention in opril to elect delegates to the Min eapolis convention. Among those resent are Dr. J. Clayton, Hendrix IcLane, Simneon Corley and Frank licholis. "PEACE ON EART1I AND GOOD will , man" should be the heartfelt song of 11 at this-time; Let us lay aside our rejudices this merry Christmas season nd remember that the Savior whose irth we celebrate died for us all.