The Manning times. (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, July 18, 1894, Image 4
THE TIRELE5S LITTLE TODDLER.:
lie toddles, toddles all the day
And never seems to tire.
- This little iran in baby c:othes
Who's full of youthful fire.
He jabbers, jabbers all the day
And never will be still,
This little boss with flaxen hair
Who lives at Copenhill,
lie wanders underneath the treV
With his beloved Pat,
A little fuzzy dog
Who's death to every rat.
ie talks about the su and nnon
In his peculiar way
I [is m ania understands him, though
In all he has to say.
lie isjutt the dearest little chap
Who loves to laugh and peep
At one and all and littl'arms
Around my neck will creep.
And then he always has to grunt
le loves so awfully hard:
This little nian in baby clottes
I pray the Lord to guard.
FROM YOUTH TO AGE.
PR. Dr. Taimagts InterestlIng D~scourae
Through the Pre as.
ERCoKLYN, July 8.-Rev. Dr. Tal
mage, who is now nearing the antipodes
on his round the world journey, has
selected as the subject for bie sermon
through the press today "Thi Rustic In
the Palace," the text beieg taken from
Genesis xlv, 28, "I will go and see him
before I die."
Jacob had long since passed the hun.
dred year milestone. In those times
people were distinguished for longevity.
In the centuries afterward persons lived
to great age. Galen, the most celebrated
physician of his time, took so little cf his
own medlcine that he lived to 140 years.
A. man of undoubted veracity on the
witness stand in England swore that he
remembered an event 150 before. Lord
Bacon speaks of a ccuntess who had cut
three sets of teeth and died at 140 years.
Joseph Crele of Pennsylvania lived 140
years. In 1857 a book was printed con
tainmg the names of 37 persons who
lived 140 years ana mne names of 11 per
sons who lived 150 years.
Among the grand old people of whom
we have record was Jacob, the shepherd
of the text. But he had a bad lot of boys.
They werejealous and ambitious and ev -
ery way unprincipled. Joseph, however,
seemed to be and exceptisn, but he had
been gone many years and the probabil
ity was that he was dead. As some
times now in a house you will find kept
at the table vacant chair, a plate, a knife,
a fork, for some deceased member of the
family, so Jacob kept in his heart a
place for his beloved Joseph. There sits
the old man, the flock of 140 years in
their fight having alighted long enough
to leave the marks of their claw on fore
head and cheek and temple. His long
- beard snows down over his chest. His
eyes are somewhat dim, and he can see
farther when they are closed than when
they are open, for he can see clear back
into the time when beautiful Rachel, his
wife, was living, ad his childrren shook
the oriental abode with their merriment.
The centenarian is sitting dreammng
over the past when he hears a wagon
zumbling to the front door. He gets up
- and goes to the door to see who has ar
rived, and his long absent sons from
Egypt come in and announce to him
thas Joseph, instead of being dead, is
*living inaniEgyptian palace with all the
investiture of prime minister next to the
king in the mightest empire of all the
world! The news was too sudden and
too glad for t'2e old man, and his cheeks
whiten, and he has a dazed look, and
his staff falls out of his hand; and he
would have dropped had not the sons
canght him and led'nim to a lounge ard
put cold water on his face and fanned
hnma little.
In that hal delirium the old man
mumbles something about his son Jos
eph. He says: "You don't mean Jos
eph, do you-my dear son, who has been
dead so long? You don't mean Joseph,
do you?" But after they had fully re
sncitated him and the news was con
firmed the tears begin their winding way
down the crossroads of the wrinkles, and
the sunken lips of the old man quiver,
and he brings his bent fingers together
as he says: "Joseph is yet alive. I will
go and see him beforelIdie."
It did not take the old man a great
while to get ready, I warrant you. He
put on the best clothes that the shep
herd's wardrobe could afford. He got
into the wagon, and though the aged are
cautious and like to ride slow the wagon
did not get along fast enough for this old
man, and when the wagon with the old
man met Joseph's chariot coming.down
to meet him, and Joseph goc out oi the
chariot and got into the wagon and threw
his arms around his father's neck, it, was
an antithesis of royalty and rusticity,
of sunplicity and pomp, filial sfection
and paternal love, which leaves us so
much mn doubt about whether we had
betterlaugh or cry that we do both. So
Jacob kept the resolution of the text, "I
willlgo and see himbeforelIdie."
What a strong and unfailing thing is
parental attachment! Was it not al
most time for Jacob to forget Joseph?
The hot suns of many summers . had
blazed on the heath; the river Nile had1
overflowed and receded, overflowed and
receded again and again; the seed had
been sown and harvest reaped. Stars
rose and set. Years of plenty and years
of famine had passed on, but the love of
Jacob for Joseph in my text is over
whelmingly dramatic. Oh, that is a
cord that is not snapped, though pulled
on Dy many decades! Though when
the fittle child expired the parents may.
not have been more than 25 sears of-1
age and now they are 75. yet the vision
of the cradle, and the childish face, and
the first utterances of the infantile lips
are fresh today, in spite of the passage of
a half century. Joseph was as fresh in
Jacob's memory as ever, though at 17
years of age the boy had disappeared
from. the old homestead. I found in
oar family record the story ofan infant
that had died 50 years before, and I said
to my parents, "What is this record,
and what does it mean?" Their chief
answer was a long, deep sigh. It was
yet to them a very tender sorrow.
What does that all mean? Why, it
means our children departed are ours
yet, and that cord of attachment reach
ing across the years will hold us until it
brings us together mn the palace, as Jacob
and Joseph were brought together. That
is one thing that make old people die
happy. They realize it is reunion with I
those from whom they have long been
seperated.
I am often asked as pastor, and every I
pastor is asked the question, "will my I
children be children in heaven and for-<
ever children?" Well, there was no I
doubt a great change in Joseph from the1
time Jacob lost him and the time when
Jacob found him-between the boy 17
years of age and the man in midlife, hisi
forehead developed with the great busi
- ness of state, but Jacob was glad to geti
Joseph back anyhow, and it did not<
make much diference to the old man I
whether the boy looked older or looked I
younger. And it will be encugh joy for
that parent if he can get back that son,
that daughter, at the gate of heaven,
whether the departed loved one shall
come a cherub or in full grown angel
by that cricaal climi te and by those
supernal years, but it will only be from
loveliness to more loveliness, and from
health to more radiant health.
O parent, as you tMink of the darling
pantimn and white in trembraneous
crcup, I want ycu to know it will be
gloricusly bettered in that land where
there has never been a death and where
all the inhabitants will live on in the
great future as Goc! Joseph was -1 oseph
notwithstand the palace, and your child
will be your child notwithstandinz all
the raining splendors of everlascnrr
noon. What a thrillin- visit was
that of the <ld shepherd to the
prime minister, J.Yseph! I see the
old countrman seated in the palace
locktng arcund at the mirrors, and the
tcuntains, and the carved pillars, and
oh, how be wishes that Rachel, his wife
was alive and she could have come there
with him to see their sot in this great
hous(! "Oh," ssys -he cid nan withiu
himself, "I do wish ibechel could be
here to see all this!"
j I visited at the larmh use of the fa
ther of Millard FAIlmore when the son
was president of the United States and
the octogenarian farmer entertaiced me
until 11 o'clock at night, telling me
what great things he saw in his son's
hcuse at Washington, and what Daniel
Webster said to him, and how grandly
Millard treated his father In the White
House. The old man's face was illum
ined with the story until almost the
midnight. He had just been visiting his
son at the capital. And I suppose it
was something of the same j->y that
thrilled the heart of the old shepherd as
be stood in the palace of the prime min
ister.
It is a great day with you when your
old parents come to visit you. Ycur
little children stand arcund with great
wide open eyes, won dering how any body
could be so old. The parents cannot
stay many days, Icr they are a little
restless, and especially at nightfall, be
cause they sleep better in their own
bed, but while they tarry you somehow
Feel there is a benediction in every room
in the house. They are a little feeble,
and you make it as easy as you can for
them, and you realize they will proba.
bly not visit you very often-perhaps
never again You go to their room after
they bave retired at night to see it the
lights are properly put out, for the old
people understood candle and lamp bet;
Ler than the modern apparatus for illu
mination. In the morning, with real
interest in their health, vou ask them
ow they rested last night.
Joseph, in the historical scene of the
text, did not think any more of his fa
iher than you do of your parents. The
probability is, before they leave your
ouse they half spoil your children with
kindness. Grandfather and grandmoth
.r are more lenient and indulgent to
your children than they were with you.
nd what wonders ot revelation in the
ombazine pocket of the one and the
leeve of the other. Blessed is that
iome where Christian parents come to
risit! Whatever may have been the
ityle of architecture when they came, it
s a palace before they leave. If they
isit you 50 times, the two most memo
-able visits will be the first and the last.
hose two pictures will hang in the
iall of your memory while memory lasts
ind you will remember just how they
ooked, and where they sat, and what
hey said, and at what figure of the car
>et, and at what doorsill they parted
iith you, giving you the final goodbye.
Do not be embarrassed if your father
ome to town and he have the manners
f the shepherd, and if your mother
ome to town and there be in her hat no
ign of costly millinery. The wife of
he Emperor Theodosius said a wise
hing whlen she said, "Husbands, re
nember what you lately were, and re.
nemnber what you are, and be thankful,"
By this time you all notice what kind
y provision Joseph made for his father,
acob. Joseph did not say: "I can't
ave the old man around this place.
Eow clumsy he would look climbing up
bee marble stairs and walking over
ese mosaics! Then he would be put
ing his hands upon some of these hies
oes. People would wonder where that
>ld ereenhorn came from. He would
hock all the Egyptian court with his
nanners at table. Besides that he might
get sick on my hands, and he might be
inerulous, and he mIght talk to me as
iough I were only a boy, when I am
he second man in all the realm. Of
:ourse he must not suffer, and it there
famine in his country-and I hear
bere is-I will send some provisions,
>ut I can't take a man from Padanaram
Lnd introduce him int- this polite Egyp
in court. What a nuisance it is to
iae noor relatione!
Joseph did not say that but he rushed
>t to meet his father with perfect aban
ion of affection and brought him up to
be palace and introduced him to the
~mperor and provided for all the rest of
he father's days, and nothing was too
~ood fo: the old man while living. And
when he was dead, Joseph, with milita
y escort, took his father's remains to
e family cemetery. Would God all
~hildren were as kind to their parents!
If the father have large property, and
i be wise enough to keep it in in his
wu name, he will be respected by the
eirs, but how often it is when the son
nds his father in famine, as Joseph
ound Jacob in famine, the young people
nake it very hard for the old matD! They
Ire so surprised he eats with a knife in
tead of a fork. They are chagrined at
is antediluvian habits. They are pro.
roked because he cannot hear as well as
is used to, and when he asks it over
gain, and the son has to repeat it, he
>awls in the old man's ear, "I hope you
ear that!" How long he must werr
he old coat or the old hat before they
et him a new one! How chagrined
bey are at his independence of the En
lsh grammar! How long he hangs oni
seventy years and not gone yet! Seven
y five years and not gone yet! Eighty
~ears and not gone yet! Will he ever
ro? They think it is of no use to have a
loctor in his last sickness, and go up to
be di-g store, and get a dose of some
hing that makes him worse, and econo
nise on a coffin, and beat the undertak
r down to the last point, giving a note
or the rednced amount which they never
>ay I have officiated at obsequies o
iged people where the family have been
o inordinately resigned to providence
hat I felt like taking my text from
?roverbs, "The eye that mocketh at
ts father and refuseth to obey its moth
tr, the ravens of the valley shall pick it
>t, and the young eagles shall eat it."
n other words, such an ingrate ought
o have a fiock af crows for pallbearers!
congratulate you if you have the
onor of providing for aged parents.
['he blessing of the Lord God of Joseph
nd Jacob will be on you.
I rejoice to remember that, though
ny father lived in a plain house the
most of his days, he died in a mansion
rovided by the filial piety of a son who
tad achieved a fortune. There the oc.
ogenarian sat and the servants waited
in him, and there were plenty of car
isges to convey him, and a bower in
rhich to sit on long summer afterncons,
reamimg of the past, and there was not
room in the house where he was not
relcome, and there were musical instru
ents of all sorts to regale him, and
when lhfe had passed the neighbors came
>t and expressed all honor possible
nd carried him to the village Machpe
a and put him down beside the Itach
1 with whomn.he had hved more than
ialf a century. Share your successes
qith the old people. The probability
that the principles they inculcated
chieed your fortune. Give them a
ation. Lei Josep% dcvid wit1 Jacob
the pasture nelds oi Goshen and the
glories of the Egypiiau court.
And here 1 would like to sing the
praises of the sisterhood who remain
unmarried that they might administer
to aged parents. The brutal world
calls these self sacriticing ones peculiar
or angular, but if you had had as mr y
annoyances as they have had Lantippe
would have been an angel compared to
you. It is easier tj take care of
live rollicking, romping children, than
of one childish old n'an. Among the
best woman are those who allowed the
bloom of life to pass away while they
were caring for f"eir parents. WVhile
other maidens *ere sound asleep they
were soaking the old man's feet or
tucking up th covers around the in
valid mother. While other maidens
were in the coijllon they were dancing
attendance upon rheumatism, and
spreading plasters for the lame back
of the septenarian, and heating catnip
tea for insomnia.
In almost every circle of our kindred
there has been some queen of self
sacrilice to whom jeweled hand after
jeweled hand was offered in marriage,
but who staid on the old place because
of the sense of filial obligation until
the health was gone and the attract
iveness of personal presence had
vanished. Brutal scciety may call such
a one by.a nickname. God calls her
daughter, and heaven calls her saint,
and I call her domestic martyr
A half dozen ordinary woman have.
not as much nobility as could be found
in the smallest joint of the little finger
of her left band. Although the world
has stood G,000 years, this is the first
apotheosis of maidenhood, although in
the the long line of those who have de
clined marriage that they might be
qualified for some especial mission are
the names of Anna Ross and Margaret
Breckinridge and Mary Shelton and
Anna Etheridge and Georgiana Vil
letts, the angels of the battlefields of
Fair Oaks and Lookout Mountain and
Chancellorsville, and though single life
has been honored by the fact that the
three grandest men of the Bible-John
and Paul and Christ-were celibates.
Let the ungrateful world sneer at
the maiden aunt, but God has a throne
burnished for her arrival, and one side
of that throne in heaven there is a vase
containing two jewels, the one bright
er than the Kohinoor of London Tower,
and the other larger than any diamond
ever found in the districts of Golconda
-the one jewel by the lipidary of the
palace cut with the words, "Inasmuch
as ye did it to father;" the other jewel
by the lapidary of the palace cut with
the words, "Inasmuch as ye aid it to
mother." "Over the Hills to the Poor
house" is the exquisite ballad of Will
Carleton, who tound an old woman
who had been turned off by her pros
perous sons, but I thank God I may
find in my text "Over the hills to the
palace."
- As if to disgust us with unfilial con
duct, the Bible presents us the story of
Micah, who stole the 1,100 shekles from
his mother, and story of Absalem, who
tried to dethrone his father. But all
history is beautiful with stories of filial
fidelity. Epaminondas, the warrier,
found his chief delight In reciting to
his parents his victories. There goes
saeas from burning Troy, on his
shoulders Anchises, his farther
The Athenians punished with
death unfilial conduct. . There goes
beautiful Ruth escorting vener
able Naomi across the desert amid the
howling of the wolves and the barking
of the jackals. John Lawrence, burn
ed at the stake in Colchester, was cheer
ed in the flames by his children, who
said, "0 God, strengthen thy servant
and keep tny pormise!" And Christ in
the hour of excruciation provided for
bis old mother. Jacob kept his resolu
tion, "I will go and see liim before I
ie and a little while after we figd them
walking the tesselated iloor of the
palace, Jacob and Joseph, the prIme
minister proud of the shepherd.
I may say In regard to the most of
you that your parents have probably
visited you for last time or will soon
pay you such a visit, and I have won
dered if they will ever visit you in the
king's palace. "Oh," you say, "I am in
the pit of sin!" Joseph was in the pit.
"Oh," you say, "I am in the prison of
mine iniquity !" Joseph was once in
prison. "Oh," you say, "I didn't have
a fair chance. I was denied maternal
kindness!" Joseph was denied maternal
attendance, "Oh," you say, I am far
away from the land of my nativity!"
oseph was far from home. "Oh," you
say, "I have been betrayed and exas
perated!" Did not Joseph's brethren
sell him to a passing Ishmaelitish car
ayan ? Yet God brought him to that
emblazoned residence, and if you will
trust his grace in Jesus Christ.you, too,
will be empalaced.
Oh, what a day that will be when the
ld folks come from an adjoining man
sion in heaven and find you amid the
alabaster pillars of the throneroom and
livmng with the King! They are com
ing up the steps now, and the epauleted
uard of the palace rushes in and says,
Your father's coming, your mother's
oming!" And when under the arches
of precious stones and on the pavement
of porphyry you greet each other the
scene will eclipse the meeting on the
Goshen high Ray, when Joseph and Ja
ob fell odl each otner's neck and wept
a good while.
But, oh, how changed the old folks
will be! Their cheek smoothed into
the lesh of a little chIld. Their stooped
posture lifted into immortal symmetry.
Their foot now so feeble, then with the
sprightlines of a bounding roe, as they
shall say to you, "A spirit passed this
way from earth and told us that you
were wayward and dissipated after we
left the world, but you have repented,
ur prayer has been answered, and you
are here. And as we used to visit you
ou earth before we died now we visit
you in your ne w home after cur ascen
sion." And father will say, "Mother,
on't you see Joseph is yet alire ?" and
:other will say, "Yes, father, Josheph
s yet alive." And then they will talk
ver their earthly anxieties in regard
to you, and the midnight supplcations
in your behalf, and they will recite to
each other the old Scripture passage
with which they used to cheer their
staggering faith, "I will be a God to
thee and thy seed after thee." Oh, the
palace, the palace, the palace! That is
what Richard Baxter called "the saints'
verlasting rest." That is what John
Bunyan called the "Celestial City."
Tat is Young's "Night Thoughts"
urned into morning exultatlons. That
s Gray's "Elegy In a Churchyard"
urned to resurrection spetacle. That
is the "Cotter's Saturday Night" ex
hanged for the cotter's Sabbath morn
ing. That is the shepherd of Salisbury
plains amid the flocks on the hills of
eaven. That Is the famine struck Pad
maram turned into the rich pasture
fields of Goshen. That is Jacob visit.
ing Joseph at the emerald castle.
Burned the Tent.
WILKESBARRtE, July 1.--The great
est excitemsent prevails in Miners Mills
bree miles north of here, owing to the
urning of the Moody gospel tent. The
tent was being pitched in various por
tions of the Wyoming valley for the
past month, and by an alliance of all
the clergymen and united chorus choirs
ogether with the'personal efforts of
oody and Sanky. Major Whittle, Mr.
Bliss, Mr. Stebbins and a dozen other
assistants, several hundred people h~ave
been led to the churches. The night's
eeting was the first for which the
tent had been used at Miners Mills, it
aving just been taken there from
shley. After the servidce Watchman
eorge Thompson was left in charge
t midnight he saw two suspicious 1
baracters around. They were sur
rsed at seeing a watenmnan, and ran
of without replying to his challenge..
ater the same two appeared and en
gaged his attention at one side of the
tent, while an accomplice crept tip and I
brew a quantity of oily waste on the1
ranvass and set it on fire, and escaped
without his identity being discovered
md Watchman Thompson can only 1
giv4 a gner.a description of the men,
AcSESSMENT OF REAL ESTATE.
The State BOard ot Eqiualizit tons R1ise8 J
Seven Per Cent,
CoiLnuMti, S. C., July 14.-The Stat
IFcard of Equalization completed it
work of adjusting the tax assessmen
on all real property in the State. Th
result isan average raise in the values
as reported by the County Auditors. o
7 per cent. for the whole State, whici
is equivalent to an increaso of the valui
of all real taxable property of abou
SC.000,000. This makes the total valu,
now about $101,000,000.
The Board met at 10 o'clock and re
sume(1 the consideration of the distric
committee reports. At 1:30 p. m. thi
Board adjourned and reasembled at 3:31
p. m. and continued its labors until :
completion of them was reached at 5:31
p. m., when it adjourned sine die.
The following are the charges mad,
as to the County Auditors' reports.
Abbeville-2 per cent. added.
Aiken-5 per cent. added.
Anderson-2 per cent. added.
Barnwell-i per cent. added.
Beaufort- 5 per cent. off.
Berkeley-5 per cent. off.
Charleston-5 per cent. added.
Chester-2 per cent. added.
Chesterlield-5 per cent added.
Clarendon-12 per cent. added.
Colleton-5 per cent. added.
Darlington-5 per cent. added.
Edgefield-10 per cent. added.
Fair field-10 per cent. added.
Florence-; per cent. added.
Georgetown-5 per cent. added:
Greenville-2 per cent. added.
Hampton-5 per cent. added.
Horry-10 per cent. added.
Kershaw-13 per cent. added.
Lancaster-5 per cent. added.
Lsurens-6 per cent. added.
Lexington-15 per cent. added.
Marion-15 per cent. added.
Marlboro-5 per cent. added.
Newberry-2 per cent. added.
Oconee-12 per cent. added.
Orangeburg-10 per cent. added.
Pickens-12 per cent. added.
Richland-5 per cent. added.
Spartanburg-2 per cent. added.
Sumter-17 per cent. added.
Union-2 per cent. added.
Williamsburg-5 per cent. added.
York-2 per cent. added.
On motion of Colonel Stokes of Colle
ton a committee was appointed to pre
sent the following memorial to the Leg
islature:
Whereas the Legislature in its wis
dom and liberality at its last sessioi
suspended the collection of taxes in th4
storms swept region of our State for thi
fiscal year 1893, and extended the timt
for the payment of the same to the fal
of 1894; whereas the distruction of th
property was greater and the scope o:
territory far exceeded in extent, injur3
to property and damage to crops, s(
that our paople were reduced in a greal
many instances to want and absolut
destitution, depending upon the aid o
others for meansof support the pasi
year; whereas the action of the Legis
ature was only partial in the sense o
relief; therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of thi
Board that the said taxes of 1893 shouli
be remitted altogether, and that a com
mittee of our body be appointed to me
morialize the Legislature upon th
ubject of relief indicated and any kin
:red matter.
The following gentlemen compost
the committee: Theron Earle, Green
ville; W. D. Scarboro, Sumter; F. P
Hlardee, Beaufort; J. E. Pettigrew
Florence; Dr. H. Baer, Charleston.
The following resolution offered b3
Colonel Stokes was adopted:
Whereas, there is some misunder
tanding in relation to the scope of da
ties of this body in respect to persona
"property, and tbe right of appeal as t<
where it vests the appellate court as t<
the special subject of taxation, includ
ing banking property of a personal na
ture, and character; tberefore be It
Resolved, That in the opinion of oul
Board that all appeals by the taxpaye1
an only be from the Board of Assess
ors to the County Board of Equaliza
tion, which B'oard has cognizance o
the subject matter and its decision it
final. That there is an underlyiha
principle of law that the right of thi
State to appeal does not exist .
T[he gentlemen who composed thi
Board have performed a work of greal
mportance. The work was hard ant
the strain severe. They deserve th'
thanks and commendation of the peo
pie for the thorough and satisfactor:
manner with which it was done. Thej
were all glad when their labors were
completed and nearly all of them lef|
for home on the first train.-Register
Many Lives Lest by Earthquake.
CONSTANTTNoPLE, July 11.-Fou:
rresh shocks of earthquake were felt hera
today. Up to this morning many house:
bave fallen at Stamboul. At Grant
Bazaar, thejiewellers' quarter fell thi:
morning~ occasioning the greatest con
fusion. The merchants fled in terror
leaving their valuables behind them
Many shop-keepers and passers-by wer'
bured beneath the ruins. It is impossi
ble as yet to give the number of peopli
killed and injured, but it is known tha
over 150 people are buried beneath the
debris. The Regie tobacco factory ant
other houses at Djouvali have been seri
ously damaged and several persona havt
been killed in that quarter. The shocd
was very severe at the Princes Island
At Prinkipo the Orthodox church ani
many elegant houses and villas wert
destoyed. In Constantinople four houset
ell and a nu uber of others were dam
iged. Five people were Ellled. Al
lalatea ten were killed and great dam.
age was done to property. At the vil
lage of Stefano the Catholic church ani
monastery fell, burying eleven persont
beneath its ruins. From nearly all the
illage in the vimicity came similar re
oorts, except from about the Bosphorni
where the damage was slight. Publn
buildings generally escaped. No newt
s to be had fr,)m the provinces, as the
wires are all down, It is reported that
he village of Adabazaar has been com
plately wiped out of existence. Nc
English or American victims are reported
rom any part of the earthq1uake.-shaker
listrict. Many houses nave collapsed
ncludng several foreign villas in Soythe
md Missi, where four persons were
illed. Ca the Island of Halki nearly
ml the houses were wrecked. A portior
f the Ottoman Naval College fell, kill
g six people and iniuring several oth
rs. At Monastir the Orthodox churcb
md a portion of the seminary fell, kill
ng one of the priests and injmiing sev
ral others. Ca the Island of Antigon
ill the buildings except the monasteries
were wrecked.
Race Riot.
SCOTTDA LE, Pa., July 9.-One hun
red armed negroes marched into
Scottdale today. They carried revolv
3rs and clubs. When Burgess Robinson
rdered them to disperse they opened
ire on him. Then Burgess called a
aumber of citizens to his assistance
md a general riot resulted. The ne
troes ran pursued by 1,000 citizens.
Fully 200 shots were fired. Two ne
roes were shot, one fatally and others
were badly beaten. They escaped to
ayette county and went to McClure's
Works, where they are said to be re~
~ruiting forces, preparatory to making
m attack on the town. The wildest
~xcitement prevails. The Burgess has
isked the citizens to arm themselves to
epel the anticipateu attack, One of
ne negroes who was shot in the head
vas brought to Scottdale. Threats of
ynching are heard on all sides, The
uns of Veterans, armed with rites,
ave been called out and are on guard
it the lockup. The negroes are headed
>y 5anford white, superintendent of
he 31cClure Coke Company. They are
iow at the borough limits and an
irmed body of citizens have just gone
. meet them. A battle is expected In
hormt time.
HLE IS V ERY MAD.
t
WADDILL, GIVES THE GOVERNOR A
PIECE OF HIS MIND.
s He ."ys a Great Many Hard Thioge About
t Tiliman--He Wan Oace a Friend of the
Governor'm, bat Now He in a Hitter
Enemy.
CoLrumrI, S. C., July 11.-The tol
lowing letter explains itself:
3 To the Public. A few days ago Gov
ernor TIllmau cowardly attempted to
hold me up to the scorn of the people of
my country. I was denied the oppor
tunity to reply to this charge oi hs The
Governor denied callinz me by name,
but his friends and coat-tail swingiers did
it for him.
1 had information of the matter the
day before, hecce lie is guilty of false
hood and cowardice in the same breath.
My former advocacy of Tillman and
prominence in Alliance work and pres
eat position cause me to become an ob.
ject of Tillman's hate and vindictive
ness.
I wish to retire from active partici.
pation In'politics, but before I do I want
to put myself right before the people of
Darlington county and the State at large.
Governor Tillman charges me with being
in the pay of Wall street. I sell flour
for J. A. 0. Moore, broker, Darlington,
and one of Tillman's best friends. 1 am
also agent for the Home Supply Associa
tion of Chicago. Because I will no lon
ger worship the false and ugly God,
Tillman, I am to be slandered by this
selfish, mean fraud; for he is nothing but
a fraud, a traitor to the Reform Move
ment and to the Alliauce.
One of the first acts of treachery was
to the Reformers of Darington county
in making an appointment which was in
violation of his solemn pledge made in
his first address at this place in 1890 and
reiterated to several gentlemen in his of.
fice in Columbia. Then violation after
violation of his pledges to the Alliance
at Spartanburg in 1891, and May con
vention, 1892. Tillman is in the inter
. est and I believe, in the pay of Tam- t
many Hall. Tillman denies voting for
Hill at Chicago. I don't believe he can t
prove it, and, if he does, he can not dis
prove his advocacy of Hill before the
convention at Chicago, for he took the
delegation (all that he could influence)
one night to Tammany Wigwam, where
we weie introduced to Croker, Bourke
Cockran, Cummings, et, al, wined and
cigared Tillman. and it he gets to the
Senate he will only have Hill to welcome
him. He has vilified and abused Popu
lists, Democrats, and Republicans alike.
Tillman wrote one of his henchmen here
that I was traveling in Edgefield in the
interest of General Butler. General
Butler was kind to me in the war and I
prefer Butler to Tilman, thereby no
principle involved. Butler is an honor
able, brave soldier and an old soldier
knows how to meet Euzh a man. Ex
perience of four years, often in contact
with Tillman has lead me to judge him
a cold, selfish, crel and cowardly man. t
I thought at the time that I saw evi
dence of his cowardice at Florence in
1892, and so stated to a f 5w friends at
the time, and I have seen more evidence
of his cowardice at Cbester and Oats.
If the Alliance of South Carolina will
support such a man, who plainly te'ls
them why they can do so, I, fer one,t
will draw the line right here and say It
will support Butler until a simonpure
Allianceman is put out. If the true
Ailiancemen of Darlington county will
-allow an office holder, coat-tail swinger,
-dependent on Tillman, to carry thsm(
-into a packed caucus to push aside true
-and tried Aliancemen for a shyster law
.yer, an eleventh hour conver~t, why they
. can do it, but I will oppose such raethods
and fight such a candidate. One word
Sto the true one-gallus boys who followed
Tillman on so blindly and who swallow
every word he says. If you, the poor
tenant white farmers, who rent lands
and to whom Governor Tillman is so1
tondof apealngif you lived in Edge-:
feenerGoveruor Tillman's tenantry
place, and wanted land of him, you could
not get it. Be has not a white tenant,
all are negroes and his neighbors say
that he will not have a white man on
his place. Any further information on
-this line will be furnished on application
to ]D. C. Bullock, E q. (farmer,) NEne
ty-Six, S. C, He is a man of integrity
and high standing, a descendant of Revo-t
lutionary ancestors, and lives on land ofi
SSires who fought in 1776 at Ninety-Six.
I In conclusion I ask the Reformers of
J arlington county, what has Tillman
- done for you? Has he cut of his abun- 1
,dance, contributed one cent to anythinr 4
. here? Our paper went down; did he ever'i
Spay his subscription? Has any Reform
- enterprise or work every gotten a cent
from Ben Tillman; and in the least of
Sthe epithets cast upon him, so justly,
Scannot I add one more any say stingy
I Ben Tillman? Who will follow longer
-a shelfish, crael. cowardly and stingy
man, however able he may be? In thee
end he will disappoint us.c
JOHN M. WADDTLL.
IDarlington, S. C., July 7.t
Praise for the Citadel.
CHARLESTON, July l.-One oi the
issues in recent political campaigns in
South Carolina has been the education
al institutions which have been sup
ported by the State. It was feared at i
one time that in the general work of
reconstruction, the South Carolina Mili- 1
tary Academy might be upset, but Gov-(
ernor Tillman and the Legislature have
not withheld State aid from this institu I
tion and as the report of Lieut. Col. G.
H. Rurton, inspector general of the
United States Army, declares, they
have acted with rare good judgmenttv
In this report, after setting forth in de- t
tail the phyiscal condition of the acad s
enty, Col. Burton says: I
"The discipline, military instruction, s
bearing and general appearance ot the p
cadets; the general care and c idi un ti
of arms and equipments, and the enLdre a
military aspect of the military depa'rt- b
ment of this academy, admit of no n ti
parison to any of the colleges with which t
I have had experience. It is so superior
ini all its methods, scope, appointments c
and its distinctive military features, that p
it must be classed alone, and can only a
be compared to our national military d
academy. In the military bearing, cohe- I
sion and drill of all kinds in the mnfantry
tacics,this battalion equals any organiza
tion in the army and is but little short of
thatsuperb excellence generally believed
tobe possessed by the national cadets."
After extolling the work and merits t
of Lieut. .Jenkins, the military instructor '
assigned to the academy by the war de.
partment, Col. Burton says: "The col- c
lege merits the best support the govern- c
ment can aive to the most advanced
of the civil institution where the art of b
war is taught, for the reason that the na- tl
tion receives from it results correspond ti
ing to its greateat demands."n
' Verdict for $5 ,O00 . el
COLUMBIA, S. C., July 12.-The wid- I
ow of J. WV. Walling, a conductor on ti
a material train, killed several years C
ago while engaged in the building of a
the Columbia, Newberry and Laurens al
railroad for the Congaree Construction t<
Company, obtained in the Rtichiland C
County Court of Common 1'leas today ci
a verdict for $8,00 against the latter v;
company, the largest verdict of the d:
kind obtained here in many years. The fi
plaintiff obtained a verdict for tive ce
thousand on a former trial, but the de- ci
fend vts appealed and obtained a new ai
trial wi-h the result given above.
STAND FROM UNDER.
The President.M Proclamation of Warning
to the People of Ilitnc is.
WASHINGTON, July 8.-At a late
,our tonizht Prceidert Cleveland issued
the following proclamation:
Whereas, by reason of unlasful ob
3tructions, combination and assemblages
)f persons it has become impracticable
n the judgment of the President to en
orce by the ordinary course of judicial
proceedings the laws of the United
States of Illinois, and especially within
.he city of Chicago within said State:
And whereas, for the purpose of en
orcing the faithful execution of the
aws of the United States, and protect
ug its property and removing obstruc
rions to the United States mails in the
State and city aforesaid, the President
las employed a part of the milhtary
orces of the United States:
Now, therefore, 1, Grover Cleveland,
President of the United States, do hereby
idmonish all good citizens and all per
ons who may be within the city and
State 'aforesaid, against aiding, counten.
mncing, encouraging or taking any part
n such unlawful obstructions, combina
.ions and assemblages; and I hereby
varn all persons engaged in, or in any
?ay connected with, such unlawful ob
ftructions, combinations and assem
>lages to disperse and retire peaceably to
;heir respective abAdes on or before 12
)'clock noon, on the 9th day of July in
tant.
Those who disregarded this warning
md persisted in taking part with a riot
)us mob in forcibly resisting and ob
tructing the execution of the laws of
he United States or interfering with the
unctions of the Government or destroy
ne or attempting to destroy the proper
y belonging to the United States or un
ler its protection, cannot be regarded
ther wise than as public enemies.
Troops employed against scuch a riotu
us mob will act with all the moderation
md forbearance consistent with the ac
:omplishment of the dasired end, but the
tern necessities that confront them will
iot with certainly permit discrmination
etween guilty participants and those
vho are mingled with them from curiosi
;y and without criminal i'itent. The only
iafe course, therefore, for those not ac
,ually unlawfully participating is to
ibide at their homes, or at least not to
)e found in the neighborhood of riotous
issemblies.
While there will be no hesitation or
racillation in the decisive treatment
)f the guilty, this warning is especially
ntended to protect and save the inno
ent.
In testimony whereof I have hereunto
et my hand and caused the seal of the
nited States to be hereto affixed.
Done at the city cf Washington, this
fth day of July, in the year of our Lord
me thousand eight hundred and ninety
our, and of the independence of the
jited States of America the one hun
[red and eigteentb.
Grover Cleveland.
By the President; W. Q. Gresham,
ecretary cf State.
The proclamation was communicated
o Gen. Miles by Secretary Lamont, who
elegraphed as follows: "In view of the
)rovisions of the statue and for purpose
>f giving ample warning to all innocent
Ld well disposed persons, the President
ias deemed it best to issue tiie accom
Janying proclamation tonight. This
loes not change the scor.e of your au
hoiy and duties, nor your relations to
he local authorities. You will please
nake this known to Mayor Hopkins."
Three People Shot Down.
DANV:LLE, Ill., July 9.-Mrs. Mitchel
ilennan and Miss Clara James were
tilled and one unknown man mortally
wonded and at Westville this after
ioon by a volley fired over the heads
>f a crowd of rioting miners by a com
yany of militia. The miners had been
ioting in this vicinity since yesterday
ftertoon. During last night a number
f freight cars were destroyed on the
astern Illinois yards by incendiary
lires. This forenoon a number of cars
nere derailed at Grape Creek on the
helbyville branch. Where the wreck
ge had been cleared the in-bound pas
enger train proceeded without molesta
jion until Westville was reached.
hen it stopped there it was surround
d by a crowd of miners and word was
elegraphed to Danville and a special
rain with a company of State troops
tarted at once for the scene of trouble.
bout one mile from Westville a large
~rowd of miners had collected and upon
he approach of the train bearing thel
niitia began warlike demonstrations.
everal pistol shots were fired at the
oldiers, who retur'ned the fire, shooting
mver the heads of the mob from the
rain, Intending to snare them. Miss
1araJame, the 17 year old daughter
iJonas James, was standing in the
loor way of her home. A bullet struck
ier just below the right breast'and she
lied almost instantly. Mrs. Milchael
lennan, a widow, standing in her own
rard, was also struck and died in ive
ninutes. An unknown man received a
nortal wound and will die beforenight.
Lhe militia then left the train and
harged the crowd, securing three pris
ners. After this the crowd dispersed
,nd no further resistence being offered,
le troops returned to their train which
iad been coupled in front of the pas
enger and made the tripto Danville
vithout further delay.
Want's a Joint Dabate.
The Columbia State says the ball y
og letter was written Monday and for
rarded from that city and will go down
ao history as one of the curios of South
aroina politics:
Columbia, S. C., July 9th, '94.
Ion. J. William Stokes, Orangeburg,
S. C.:
Dear Sir: The number of candidates
rho are now in the State campaign for
arious oilices, demand so much time
hat it is impossaible for thle Congres
ional candidates to have the time which
nessary to discu i the questions which
o essentially concerz the welfare of our
ople, upon the national questions of
be day. I write to say to you that I
m anxious to meet you in four joint de
ate, one in each oi the following coun
tes: Richland, Orangeburg, Lexing
n and Sumter.
I hereby extend to you the courtesy
f asking you to name the time and
lace in each of the aforesaid counties,
t which you would like to have the joint
iscussions take place. Address me at
lxington Court House, S. C.
Yours truly,
F. C. CAreIIMAN.
Troops Ditched.
SACASW3TO, July l1--The lirst
rain to leave sacramento with troops
ras ditched on a trestle eight miles
com Washington, Yolo county. The
recked train was bound for San Fran
isco. Regular troops were stationed
n the engine and upon each car. Re
orts differ, one is that fish plates had
een removed from the rails, allowing
1em to spread, and another is that
e timbers of a trestle had been sawed
early through causing it to collapse
der the weight of the train. The
gine and four cars went down.
here was nr ,nooting at the train as
rst reported. The killed are Engineer
larke and privates Burns, Lubbarden
nd Clarke. Private Dugan lost both
Ems and is likely to die. All belonged
battery L, Fifth Artiliery. Private
larke was drowned. The others were
rushed in the wrrek. Another pri
ate named S;mith is missing. Tne
isaster occura.d only a short distance
:om Srarmez;o. T wo companies of
valry thoroughly skirmished the vi
nity af ter wards but made no captures
ad met with no resistance. The train
smroise l'ra te, Sacr-mento.
A MAN NOT EASILY KILLED.
'he New 1inister to Uruguay Has Hail
31ay.v Narrow Lcaje'. in the Ve-t.
A tall. ilender man. with irngra:
lea rdi :ind hair :rl~ pierinlg eyes which
r"vid aroulnd iider a pair o. hei:
gra eybros.saunltered through1 Ihl.
.\rliniOn ldbV at \Vashingtoi the
tliei dlay. '*Tiat is Granville Stnart,
if l.ntaina. I lie new ininister to) ri
u iatii(I araargua V.* snill ana oli-ti liti-'
141a Star reporte~r. -.11k is- on hlis wayv
Ihis new p')t,. aid this is lit firs:
1i - -e has b 1 . cast -f the . tiissippi
for <ijlarter of a century.. lle hans had
mo.re startling adventures al Iinir
breth:il escape" than :noit an:. man
v..'n tVert heard I f. I retinber i-n'>
theni well. Stnat was one of I lie firt
'iners in the territory of -\ nta i1
;nd was qiartz erazy like the rist 17
t!liti. liv was 4ut 0in :a pro jht Ini
tri 1llcu11 all h:il liifiuntid friiu Ili
horie. h-avinzg'is rifle raIppei t. i III
sldle. whieii til- ail rlial aVw:i I t
wa:s late in the year and that night
snow began falling. lie was iii
away fronm :av habitation. ini th. heart
,If tbi- m ititains. an(I in soareliit fo. r
his iorse he l his hearings. lie -I:I
(nily a sniall pIkethniif' and his lu
s::fe only contai nel tw or th ree tirt
makers. The first niglit he was out it
grew very cold1 alnl he made a fire.
whieb attracted somie sniall birds.
Stuart caiuglt about a dczII if t hem
and coiked them. Fo)r tell l:tys lie
w'nidereil through the moiintains with
noithing else to eat but those little
birds. One day an elk rubb ued against
. tree within two yards of hii. but he
badth t- kill it with. Then a
frog crossed his path. but he was not
strong enougih to catch up with it.
When he was narlv dead two Indians
found him and took him into their
camp to have fun with him. They fed
him up so as to get strong enough to
run while the, could beat him with
tepee poles. One night lie escaped.
stole a horse and got away. Ie got
lost in 'the mountains again, and dog
goned if his second horse didn't get
awa from him: Ue wandered around
a.rfain for three or four davs. and thea.
when he had given tip completely and
lain down to die. some of the party who
had gone out to hunt him up came
across him and carried him to camp. It
is devoutly believed in Montana that
nothing can kill Granville Stuart. lie
was a mighty hunter in those days. too.
lie has the record of killing sixteen elk
from one spot. without getting up. Ile.
is a man of powerful mind, and will
uphold the stars and stripes and al
that they mean in his new position."
A QUAKER HEARSE.
It Is esed By the Rich and Ithe Plainet t
Hearse in This Country.
The hearse that carries the remains
of the ordinary New York man to th
grave may be bedecked with waving
pluies and conspicuous festoons cf
inmurning. but the New York iillior -
aire. if he follows the example of dea l
and gone millionaires, makes his jour
ney in a plain black vehicle with n,
unnecessary ornamentations. This is
called the Quaker hearse.
The Qua rer nearse. sys a New Yor'
exchiange. is let out only to people who
want to be buried as befits the rich.
Strictly, speaking. there bave been a
number of Quaker hearses, for these
vehicles, like all others, will wear ou-:.
but as soonf as one shows signs of goin:
1o pieces another precisely like it is
built, and it is a preious fiction of the
undertakers that the Quaker hearse
v~i:-h cai'i:ed i'. e'rim load to G;reeni
w:iid recently Ns the same Quaker
ii.:: rrse behind which the sad procession
:f bygonie generation marched slow
Iy t.> the cemetery. It is called the
<utu:ker heiarse because of its extreme
siumic~iit V. which has endeared it to th e
Quakers. They and the millionaires
always use it.
I t is drawn by a span of black horses
driven byv a black driver. Johna Gil
mrt in. who has been drivingr it for1 the
l*w t wenty years. has a soleum face
th ii maitchles well the melancholy Ince
of his. clothles. ( ccasrinlly. specially
n in ruted.1 dinh puts idraped cockadles
onhi hrses and ani extra w ideI werd
h i hat. lint he conirsidercls phiainne:s
ilirale to an atteenpt at effect in
tSi fr ai s is known,. no Quakeir hiear's
'veri disgraced a funieral by brmeakinrg
dlown while carrymilg a body. 4 nce t he'
.Ju::Reri had a narrow escape. That
wei years ago. when .laye vilia e-~
moy I died. Theii ,Juaket' cairriedi the
h.rirv saifeilv. but no' sone'r hail itr
tii'raed toi thet stable tha~n the re'ar aie
5:::v w:iv anud t he h e'a r-t.ile ine dwii
will a 'i'aslh. Thie prlesenlt Quaker' ha-,
.iutrVi.iru thriee sets ot whls. Sinci'
ithei rig'inal Qia c ;:ir: : t out on I! s
tr'avel's it hais carr'ii die r'eminls of
thre Va:nderliil t;. A'stiiis. .iay I ouldh.
-thrarinie WolIfe. th li'Stewvarts. ilave
mierls. andi mnanyt iithers. I I'iury. S.
Ivyes iiade his last jouifrney in the
Quaker. It is thre pliest and Jip
hearse in this countr'y.
Two Great l'ost 01Hiee.
Foir several years piast the po.4 4hee
depairitienit at Washitngtoni has Ibeen
Pre in itg against the iniferioir aceom
miodat~tins iof the New. Yor'k and C'hi
engo i llier's. which are the giovernl
miient's chilef moniteyt makers. Ihithi
buiiilingsai'e ownted by' the federal
governmencit. and~ 1both are conducted
niot fromn their liberal postal revenutes.
bin t' appropriation made byecongr'ess.
The New York post otilee. in use since
105. is on land eeed by New York to
the feideral government. The receipts
of the New York office in a y'ear are
seveni million doillars. The expeur 's,
including eight thousand dIolladrs to lie
postmaster anil seventy-five thlousm :
(1(l1irs for' gas. fuel aindl other detai ih-.
items. aret two miilliin tive hlun !red
thioiusaniId ollars. leav'ing a nect pir. fit,
ti thle giovern:necnt fromn its IOiperat ion
of four million live hundred li thosandii
ifdllar's. The~ i'eceip~ts iif the Chicago
of1cee are four million dollars a year.
and the expenses (including six thou
sand doi hllarils for piostmaister) ar'e onfe
millioin five hundred thousand ii. illars.
le::ving a net proifit to the government'!i
of two million five hundred thiousandl
dollar::: so that New York and Cieugo
together net seven million doilars.
,Two Brothers Executed.
RALEIGHI, N. C., July 13.-Two
rothers, Tom and Calvin Coley, white
en, aged 20 and 22, were hanged today
at Louisburg, the execution being pri
ate. The rope used to hang Calvin
ad been used on seven prior occasions
uring the last ten years.
The condemned men were unable to
ead or writ2, had never been to school
or inside of any church. They re
fused to make any statement but indi
cted that they had not intended to
ommit murder. Two ministers visited
hem in the jail, andi they expressed
he hope of being forgiven for their
in.In Juns,1892,th ese men and Charles
Thcker, a Jewish peddler, met at the
ouse of two negro women in Franklin
ouinty, N. C., and all drank. Calvin
oley incited his brother, and they kill
d Tucker with an axe and carried his
ody into a neighboring thicket and
~overed it with brush. Finding in his
ack 81,69, they went to Norfolk.
A year after wards the crime was d is
~overed, the entire party was arrested,
:he wcmen turned State's evidence
nd the men were convicted. An im
ense cro~wd gathered around the jail
>day to see the execution, which, ho w
er, was strictly private. T1he men
iet their fate without emotion. The
eck of Tom was broken by the fail;4
alvin died in eighteen minutes ofi
i-onanltn.
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Highest of all in leavening strength.-La
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106 vall St., N. Y.
IMPROVED CROP CONDITIONS.
The Weekly Bulletin of the Weather and
Crope.
CoLUiA, S. C.. July 11.-The fol
lowing is the weekly bulletin of the
condition of the weather and crops
about the State for' the past weez, as
issued yesterday by Observer Bauer of
the State weather se:vice:
The weather during the past week
favored the rapid growth of all. crops
and continued to afford opportunity
for repairing and planting minor food
and forage crops, such as peas, pota
toes and turnips, and so forth, and
the acreage of such crops promises to
be the largest ever known in many
sections. Such crops deserve greater
attention than is generally accorded
them in the system of economy of the
Southern planters and farmers, and
togethpr with vegetable and fruit gr
dens should more largely suppant
strictly "money crops' tban Is at
present the case. The increase in acre
age is, therefore, an encourag sign.
The temperature for the week ranged
below the normal, averaging about 4
degrees a day on the coast to about 1
degree a day in the interior and wes
tern portion, and thIs with more than
double the usual cloudiness has devel
oped a tendency in cotton to shed its
fruit in a few localities, and favored
an almost too rapid growth of "weed"
everywhere. The rainfall was more
general than heretofore and in the
southeastern portions of the State was
excessive to the point of serious im
pairment of the crops. Portions of
Pickens, Fairfield and Spartanburg
counties are comparatively dry and
need rain.
Cotton made rapid growth and is
generally fruiting well, but the wet
ground has prevented ploughing to a
considerable extent and consequently
some fields are becoming grassy. As
yet no material injury has been done
by the grass or lack ot sunshine, and
the crop is in fine condition over the
whole State.. It needs more sunshine
to favor fruiting and to check its ten
dency to grow to weed.
Corn improved very much and even
that of early planting is responding to
the nushing weather, althougn the
stalki of such corn are in many places
reported "spindling". "Laying by" Is
being delayed by the wet weather, but
will soon be general. Peas are still
being sown but seed are getting scarce.
Early sown a poor stand, that sown on
stubble since the rain set in, growing
nicely. Potato slips or vines in de
mand for settings, the planting of
which continues quite general. The
melon crop falls below expectations,
being a small crop of small melons, al
though so'me fine fields are reported.
Rice, tobacco, sorghum, potatoes and
gardens as well as grasses all show
marked improvement over their condi
tion a week ago.
Farm work generally behind hand,
owing to rainy weather. The adverse
conditions were washing rains in Sam
ter and Aiken counties, and a severe
and destructive thunder storm in Ab
beville, which bEsides damaging crops,
killed considerable stock. There were
some high winds in various portions
of the State but the damage resulting
was, even in the aggregate, not very
great.
The following heavy rainfalls are re
ported: Charleston, 5.71; Chera, 2.72;
Florence, 266; Greenville, 1 00; Sar
tanburg, 2.75; Batesburg. 2.75; Blc
yille, 2.20; Greenwood, 2 97;Hardeeville,
3.41; Kingstree, 3.87; "Saint Matthews,
4.48; McCormick, 1.75; Elloree, 3.45;
TrIal, 2.34; Liberty, 1.75; Easley, 2.58;
Statesburg, 4.14; Oakwood, 2 90; Pino
polis, 3.07; Howe, 1.12; Central, 1.01;
Port Royal, 4.02; Ried, 1.00; Heath
S prings, 2.00; Efingham, 1.34; Society
Hill, 2.54; Con way, 3.81; Waverly Mills,
3.30; Chesterfield, 2.04; Longhr,1.35;
Holland's Store, 1.54; St.8 Seen, 4.30;
Camden, 1.69; lla, 1 80; Tle'Ferry
1.87; Trenton, 2.53; Beaufort. 6.95.
bomne of Our Future Teachers.
The following circular to School Comi
missioners has been given out for pub.
lication by the Superintendent of E I1
cation:
Columb :i, S. C.. July 9th, 1894.
D)ear Sir: As re quired by law, I here
by beg to calh vcur attention to the fact
that at the c. ing of the recent session
of the South Carolina Mlliitary Acad
emy, several beneficiary cadets were
graduates fromu that institution, a list
of who.-e names I fu:sl 3 ou herewith.
These graduates are under obligation
to teazh two years in public schools of
the State. I respectfully ask that you
do what you can to secure for them suit
able positions in your Cor'nty. Should
vou need the services of any ol these
gr.diuates who do not reside within your
county, and will make known the fact
to me, I will be glad to assign them to
your county, provided they are not en
gaged at the time you send in ycur re
quisition. Call the attention of the trus
tees of your county to the fact, that they
may have the services of these young
men, provided they need them, and upon
proper requisition made to me.
Very truly,
W. D. MAYFIELD.
State Superintendent of.Education.
Following is the list: S. J. Barriss,
Anderson, W. S. L*.e, Jr., Anderson,
0. F. H~unter, Hartzog, J. P. Smith,
Mt. Pieasant, b. J. DuPre, Mt. Pleas.
ant, W. W. Clenient, Enterprise, J. A.
Moroso, Charleston, D. Kearney
Charleston, C. C. Fshbourne, Charles,
ton, T. E L. Lipsey, Cheater, T. C.
Stevenson, Rossville, W. P. Witsell,
Walterboro, B. R Hiers. Bell's P. 0.,
W. P. Odom, Chesterfield, J. E. Pen.
ifoy. Harvirdsville, P. S. Norris, Aiken,
it. H. McMaster, Winnsbbro, F. Hn
nant, Winsboro, F. W. Gregg, Claus
en, J. T. Wes t, Chandler, R.L. Hughes
Brunson, J. W. Rouse, Brunson, H. E.
DePass, Camden, L. L. Gregory, Taxa
aw, RI. IE. Robb, Lturens, W. G. Fike,
lau:ens, P. E. Hlutto, Leesville, St. C.
J. Gw ynn, Spartanburg, E. R. Tomp
:is Reck I1ll1, Geo. M. Stackhouse,
onoho, J1. G. Jjhnston, Newberry, J.
J. Cazby, Newberry. ___
Mlade A state.
WasinINOTON, July 12--The house
as concurred in the senate amendment
o the house bill for the admissIon of
tab. This passes the bill and sends
to the president for his approval
?ne senate amendments to the postof
ce appropriatons bill was also concur
~ed in. The army appropriation bill was
aken up; the committee amendment
triking out of the house bill the item
f "'12,000 for the general services of
lerks and messengers." and which also
~epeals the law of 1886, authorizing
iek employment, wa agreedA to.