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WHERE SH -LL THE SOUL FIND REST Tell n e, yP winged winds, That round my pathway roar, Do ye not know some spot Whe e unrtals weep no niore: Some lore and pleasant dell, Some valley in the west, W-ere, Iret from toil and pain, The weary soul may r. s' The loud wind dwindled to a whisper low. And sighed for pity as it answered, "No!' Te'l me, thou mighty de, Whose billows round ioe play Krow'st thou some savored spot, Some island far away. Where weary man may find The bliss for wh'ch he :hhs? Where sorrow never 1 ves, And friendship never die.? The loud waves, rolling in perpew i 1i, Stopped for awhile, and sighed t, answer, "No!" And thou. serenest moon, That with such holy face Dost lock upon the earth, Asleep In night's embrace, Tell me, in all thy round Hast thou not seen some sp >t, Where miserable man Might find a happier lot? Behind a cloud the moon withdrew In woe, And a voice, sweet but sad, responded, "So!" Tell me, my secret soul, 0, tell me, hope and faith, Is there no resting place Fr. m sorrow, sin and death? Is there no happy spot Where mortals may be blest, Where grief may find a balm, And weariness a rest ? Faith, hope and love-best boons to mor tals given Waved their bright wings, and lhi-p -red, "Yes, in Ht aven:" A BROKEN Et'GAGEMENT. When I first started in life it was as salesman in the very small estab lishment of Mr. Brusle, stationer. It was not a very remunerative situa tion, but old Mr. Brusle was a kind old man, Mrs. Brusle a nice, talka tive old lady, and Dolly Brusle often came into the store on busy days and stood behind the counter beside me, and just for this last reason I would not have taken double wages with Mr. Throgmorton, the only other sta tioner of the town. Dear little Dolly: she had brown eyes and a dimple in her chin, and sang like a prima donna. She had lessons from a German Fraulein and from an Italian Signor, and the old man quite forgot Throgmorton and his gilt window when he sat with his handkerchief over his head of an evening and listened to her. The pi ano was old and tinkling, but none of us ever thought of that. Old Mr. Brusle and my father had been friends, and I was not a clerk only, but a priv ileged friend as well, and all the ex cuse I needed for coming every night was given in the words, "I want to hear the singing." Well, any one might have wanted to hear it, for that matter-not merely a boy who was in love. Things went on in this way for three years, when one afternoon old Mr. Brusle, shutting the drawer of his desk with a bang. said: 'It's no use, Tom, I may as well give in. Throgmorton has beaten me. I'm not making a cent, and I shall break up. The old woman and I can manage on what I have, with only one child, and I can rest and stop fidgeting. I suppose Dolly can teach a little, too. There's no other music teacher in Hamilton. But the old shpisamockery, and I've known it a godwhile." Sthat was the end of Arcadia. The stock and fixtures were sold out. Throgmorton bought the stock, and the shop was altered into a parlor; and I wrote to my uncle in New York who had proinused to take me into his business if I wished it, and he tele graphed, ''Come next week." And then one day I asked Dolly to walk down into the-mesadows and see if the blackberries were ripe. Before we -picked one, I drew her to a quiet place under a great maple and put my arm about her waist, and said: "Dolly, you know just how I feel toward you, don't you?" She nestled up to me a little closer, and I took both her plump brown hands in mine. "WiL you wait for me a little while Dolly? Will you think that I am do ing my best all the time to bring the day nearer when I can ask your fath er to give you to me?" She said nothing for a while, and in the pause I heard a bird sing a whole song through, Then camne her voice: "Yes, Tom, I'll wait." And we picked the blackberries and went home again through the meadows. "We'll not speak of it yet, Tom," said Dolly. "At home I mean; they think me such a child yet. I don't want to break the charm. In time they'll guess that I'm a woman; and thylike you, Tom." F ra while I was bewildered in the city, then very busy, then flushed with the prospect of being rapidly advanced and of being ableto ask Dolly to be my wife sooner than I expected. I wrote her joyous letters. She wrote pleasat ones back to me. We did not make them open love let ters but both understood the love at the bottom of them. And so the months glided by. For six I had no holiday. Then a grudgingly given week was given me, and I hurried down to Hamilton. I visited my old friend and had a glorious time. Dol ly was xovelier than ever. She walked over to the depot with me when I left, leaning on my arm. The train had not comeinyet-the oneforNew York; but the other had set down some passengers from the city. One. a stout gentleman of 35, dressed in fine style, having given his portman teau toa potr,avanced to Dolly. "How do you do, Miss Brusle?" said he. She held out her hand shyly. "How do you do Mr. Holly ? Tomn, this is Mr. Holly. Mr. Holly, Mr, Hear." He bowed; so did I. But the fel low had such an air with him that I hated him. How did she k-now him? I had never seen him before. "Who is he?" asked I, in a whisper, as the porter called Mr. Holly back ~for directions. "He has something. to do with the opera, I think," said Dolly. Then came the shriek of the whis tle. "All aboard!" yelled a voice. "Good-by, Tom," said Dolly. "Good-by," said I, and lhurried awatihrust my head out of the win dow. Dolly was walking away on Mr. Holly's arm. I made a fool of myself next day. I wrote Dolly an indignant ~letter. She wrote me a spirited answer. I demanded an explanation as to how she came to know Holly, in the next; and before any answer came to this old Mrs. Brusle walk-ed into our p lace with her .shopping bag in her hand one morning. "I 'wiiT'otr-to take me to some nice store, "Tom," she said, " if you can spare an hour or so. I'm going to buy a silk dress for Dolly, and she told me to tell you all about it. as you seemed to be upset." I asked the permission necessary and called a carriage. Once within it the old lady began: "You see, Dolly will need to be dressed handsomely. She starts next month." "Starts for whereC' said T. "All over, mostly," said the old lady. "ICs all settled. you know, be tween her and Mr. Hollv." "Settled :" cried 1. -Yes." said the old lady. "I knew you'd be pleased with the good news. She xas singing in the choir. and he happened to go to church, and he asked an introduction and got it, and called next day. It's very sud den, very; but she wouldn't engage herself to him without our consent: and it's such a fine thing, that we can't refuse; so we've consented. She'll feel homesick, no doubt, away from us; but we musn't think of that. I try not to," and then the old lady put her handkerchief to her eyes. "She told you tell me :" I said. "Oh, yes," said the old lady. My heart was on fire, my blood was boiling, but I made no sign. . "You stay in the city all night, don't you :" I asked. She~ said she would, and gave me the number of her stopping place. After the shopping was over I went home and took from my trunk a little parcel of letters, a lock of hair, a ribbon-Heaven knows what trashy bits of treasure-put them in a large business envelope, and walked over to the old lady's boarding house with them. "Tell Dolly that I sent her that, and wish her all the happiness that she deserves," said I. The old lady heard no sarcasm in my voice. "I will, Tom," she said: "and do come to see us soon. We'll be lonely without Dolly." So it was over; and the thing that was most terrible to dream of had fal len on me, and I lived. Of course I made no confidence, and I worked as hard as ever. The work of a wholesale woolen house does not slacken because a clerk is crossed in love. Bales and boxes and bundles went out and came in all the same: and what did it matter if I looked pale and lost my 'appetite, so that I did my figuring and all the rest of it correctly? But one day, as I looked up from a box I had been marking, 1 saw a sight that made me sick with rage. Holly, and no one else, with his side whiskers and his glossy hat and mar velously square shoulders. He was talking to my uncle, and appeared to be on intimate terms with him. I stood still and stared at him. In a few moments lie saw me, and putting up his eyeglasses, bowed. I made no bow in return. Then he came across the room. "I don't think it's a mistake," said he. "I met you at the depot'at Hamil ton, with Miss E.asle." "I remember," I said. "She's very well, and in a little flutter, of course." said he. "I sup pose you've had letters?" "Excuse me, I'm needed elsewhere," I said, and dashed away. An hour after, my uncle coming across me, said: "So you know Holly, Tom? He's not a bad fellow, though a bit of a puppy. He's made a good deal of money in the theatrical line: man ager and all that, you know. Married a sort of cousin of my wife's two years ago." "Is he a married man? "Oh, yes: why not?" "Uncle 'Harold," said I, "you must let me run up to Hamilton to night. I must go." '"What is the matter, Tom ?" said my uncle. "I can't tell you," said I, '-but I must go." "Then you must," said my uncle: "but if it wasn't you, you'd never come back. Don't be longer than you can help, as it is." I traveled on. the night train, and reached the dear little brown cot tage when its windows were golden in the sunrise. The old lady was getting breakfast. Douty was milk ig; her father at work in the garden. It was a sweet pict'ure, and I had come to turn its joy into sorrow; but better that than to let worse sorrow come. "You, Tom?" cried Mrs. Brusle. "Why, Tom !" cried the old lady; "so you thought you'd see our girl off after all? You know she starts to-morrow ?" Dolly did not look at me, but I saw her face flush crimson. "I'm sorry to say that I have come down to bring bad news," said I. "Bad news!" said Mr. Brusle. "I'm sorry for that, my boy. What is it?' "It affects you, sir," said I; "not me. I come only because worse would happen if I were silent, and I beg you tohelieve that I am actuated by no spirit of revenge. You may not credit me, but I wish that any other man had this to do Mr. Holly is, and has been for two years a mar red man." I turned my face away from Dolly as I uttered thiese words, and dropped it upon the hand that rested on the vine trellis. I expected to hear her scream, but my news did not seem to produce as great an effect as I ex pected. I looked up again; all eyes were fixed upon me. "Ah!" said the old man. "Well?" said the old lady. "Go on, Tom," said Dolly. "His wife is a cousin of the lady my uncle married," said I. "If you don't believe me, I can offer proof of the fact. He is married." "Of course I knew that," said Dolly. "His wife is quite a celebrated contralto." "Knew that he was married ?' said I. "I don't understand you." "It's a gr-eat deal nicer for Dolly," said Mrs. Brusle. "Mrs. Holly and she will travel too-ether. But, 0, dear: perhaps Mrs. Ifolly isn't nice. Is that it:" I started fr-onm one to the other. "Mrs. Brusle," said I, "what did you tell me when you came down to New York? As I understood you, that Dolly was engaged to Mr. Ifolly and that you were buying the wed ding dresses" "Gracious me:" cried the old lady. "Nothing of the sort." "Did you think that, Tom C' cried Dolly. I asked her to explain. "Oh, dear me: Why. Tom, Ihiave engaged to travel with him as one of a quartet he has just formed. A foreign gentleman and our tenor at church Mr. Motley, and Mrs. Holly and I: and I shall make a great deal of msney, and-Oh, Tom, that's whly you sent back my letters.' I opened my ar-ms, and Dolly ran into them without thinking of the old folks "You see how it is sir," I said to Mr. Brusle. "I'm not rich, but I love Dolly: and if she'll take me as I am I shall' be the happiest fellow under the sun. And for heavens sake, Dolly, dont mind breaking your engagement with that fellow 1 don't want you running about the country, no matter how much money you make by it." So the engagement was broken; and though my uncle said it was most imprudent, Dolly and I were married that winter. Two Thonsand Homeles. BERLIN. July 11.- A disastrous con flagration occurred at Briterode, a vil lage at Hausse Nassau. Three hundred and fiftv houses were destroyed and ten of the villagers were killed while seeking to rescue their valuables. BUSINESS TROUb'LES. REV. DR. TALMAGE PREDICTS GREAT GENERAL PROSPERITY. lie say, We are :tt th1e Opettin:: b oor of Good Timex -WhIy So Mnv 1en Ial by the Ways'.ide--ThueVlue (if :e IlI1an Soul. NEV Y)lK. i.lv 7.--In his sermon for today Dr. Talniage. who is still ab sent on his western lecturimg tour, chose a subject of uni c ersal interest - viz, "Business Troubles"--the text se lected being EzPkiel xxvii, 24, "These were thy merchants in all sorts of things."' We are at the openiig door of re turning national prosperity. The com ing crops, the re-establishment of pub lic confidence and. above all, the blessing of God will turn in upon all sections of America the widest, great est prosperity this country has ever seen. But that door of success is not yet fully open, and thousands of busi ness men are yet suffering from the distressing times through which we have been passing. Some of the best men in the land have faltered, men whose hearts are enlisted in every good work and whose hands have blessed every good chari ty. The church of God can afford to extend to them her sympathies and plead before heaven with all availing prayer. The schools such men have established, the churches they have built, the asylums and beneficient in stitutions they have fostered, will be their eulogy long after their banking institutions are for gottten. Such men can never fail. They have their treas ures in banks that never break and will be millionaires forever. But I thought it would be appropriate today and useful, for me to talk about the trials and temptations of our business men and try to offer some curative prescriptions. In the first place I have to remark that a great many of our business men feel ruinous trials and temptations coming to them from small and limit ed capital in business. It is every where understood that it takes now three or four times as much to do business well as once it did. Once a few hundred dollars were turned into goods-the merchant would be his own store keeper, his own salesman, his own bookkeeper: he would man age all the affairs himself, and every thing would be net profit. Wonder ful changes have come: costly appa ratus, extensive advertising, exorbi tant store rents, heavy taxation, ex pensive agencies are only parts of the demand made upon our commercial men, and when they have found themselves in such circumstances with small capital, they have sometimes been tempted to run against the rocks of moral and financial destruction. This temptation of limited capital has ruined men in two ways. Sometimes they have shrunk down under the temptation. They have yielded the battle before the first shot was fired. At the first hard dun they surrender. Their knees knocked together at the fall of the auctioneer's hammer. They blanched at the financial peril. They did not underetand that there is such a thing as heroism in merchandise and that there are Waterloos of the counter and that a man can fight no braver battle with the sword than lhe can with the yardstick. Their souls melted in them because sugars were up when they wanted to buy and down when they wanted to sell and unsalable goods were on the shelf and bad debts in their ledger. The loom of their countenances over ihadowed even their dry goods and groceries. Despondency, coming from limited capital, blasted them. Others have felt it in a different way. They have said: "Here I have been trudg ing alone. I have been trying to be honest all these years. I find it is of no use. Now it~ is make or break." The small craft that could have stood the stream is put out beyond the light house, on the great sea of speculation. He borrows a few thousand dollars from friends who dare not refuse him, and he goes bartering on a large scale. He reasons in this way: "Perhaps I may succeed, and if I don't I will be no worse off than I am now, for $100, 000 taken from nothing nothing re mains." Stocks are the dice with which lhe gambles. H~e bought for a few dollars vast tracks of western land. Some man at the east, living on a fat homestead, meets this gambler of fortune and is persuaded to trade ofi his estate for lots in a western city with large aventues, and costly pala ces, and lake steamers smoking at the wharves, and rail trains coming down with lightning speed from every di rection. There it is all on paper. The city has never been built, nor the railroads constructed, but -everything points that way, and the thing will be done as sure as you live. 'Well, the man goes on, stopp)ing at no fraud or outrage. In his splendid equipage he dashes past, while the honest laborer looks up and wipes the sweat from his brow and says, "I wonder where that man got all his money." After awhile the bubble bursts. Creditors rush in. The kaw clutches, but finds nothing in its grasp. The men who were swin dled say, "I don't know how I could hae ever been deceived by that man," and the pictorials in handsome wood cuts set forth the hero who in ten years had genius enough to fail for $150,000. And that is the -lprocess by which many have been tempted through limiation of capital to rush into laby rinths from which they could not be extricated. 1 would not want to chain honest enterprise. I would not want to block up any of the avenues for honest accumulation that open before young men. On the contrary I would like to cheer them on and rejoice when they reach the goal, but whjen there are such multitude of men going to ruin for this life and the life that is to conie, through wrong notions of what are lawful spheres of enterpr'ise, it is the duty of the church of God, and the ministers of religion, and th~e friends of all young men to utter a plain, emphatic, unmistakable pro test. There are the influences that drown men in destruction and perdi tion. Aain, a great many of our business men are temuted to over anxiety and care. You k'now that nearly all com mercial businesses are overdone in this day. Smitten with the love of quick 'gain, our cities are crowded with men resolved to be rich at all haards. They do not care howv money comes, if it only comes. Our best merchants are thrown into compeh)ti tion with men of more means and less conscience, and if an opportunity of accumulation be neglected one hour some one else picks it up. From Jan uary to December the struggle goes on.' Night gives iio quiet to limbs tossing in restlessness nor to a brain that wvill not stop) thining. The dreams ai'e lbarrowed by imaginary loss and lushed with imaginary gains. Even the Sabbath cannot dam back tle tide of anxiety: for this wave of worldliness dashes clear over the churches and leaves its foami on Bibles and prayer' books. MIen who are liv ing on salaries or by the cultivation of the soil cannot understand the wear and tear of the body and mind to when they do not know but that their livelihood and their business honor are dependent upon the uncertainties of the next hour. This excitement of the brain, this corroding care of the heart, this strain of effort that ex h:usts the spirit, sends a great many of our best men. in middle life, into the gravetheir life dashed out against money safes. They go with their store on their backs. They trudge like cam els, sweating, from Aleppo to Damas cus. They make their life a crucifix ion. Standing behind desks and coun ters, banished from the fresh air, weighed down by carking cares, they are so many suicides. Oh. I wish I could today rub out some of these lines of care: that I could lift some of the burdens from the heart; that I could give relaxation to some of these worn muscles. It is time for you to begin to take it a little easier. Do your best, and then trust God for the rest. Do not fret. God manages all the affairs of your life, and lie manages them for the best. Consider the lilies-they always have robes. Behold the fowls of the air-they always have nests. Take a long breath. Bethink betimes that God did not make you for a pack horse. Dig yourselves out from among the hogsheads and the shelves and in the ligit of the holy Sabbath day resolve that you will give to the winds your fears and your fretfulness and your distresses. You brought nothing into the world, and it is very certain you can carry nothing out. Having food and raiment, be there with content. The merchant came home from the store. There had been a great disaster there. He opened the front door and said in the midst of his family circle: "I am ruined. Every thing is gone. I am all ruined." His wife said, "I am left." And the little child threw up his hands and said, "Papa, I am here." The aged grand mother, seated in the room, said, "Then you have all the promises of God besides, John." And he burst into tears and said: "God forgive me that I have been so ungrateful. I find I have a great many things left. God forgive me." Again I remark that many of our business men are tempted to neglect their home duties. How often it is that the store and the home seem to clash, but there ought not to be any collision. It is often the case that the father is the mere treasurer of the family, a sort of agent to see that they have dry goods and groceries. The work of family government he does not touch. Once or twice in a year he calls the children up on a Sabbath afternoon when he has a half hour lie does not exactly know what to do with, and in that half hour he discip lines the children and chides them and corrects their faults and gives them a great deal of good advice, and then wonders all the rest of the year that his children do not do better when they have the wonderful advantage of that semiannual castigation. The family table, which ought to be the place for pleasant discussion and cheerfulness. often becomes the place of perilous expedition. If there be any blessing asked at all, it is cut off at both ends and with the hand on the carving knife. le counts on his fing ers, making estimates in the intersti ces of the repast. The work done, the hat goes to the head and he starts down the street, and before the family have arisen from the table he has bound up another bundle of goods and says to the customer, "Anything more I can do for you today, sir?" A man has more responsibilities than those which are discharged by putting competent instructors over his chil dren and giving them a drawing mas ter and a music teacher. The physical culture of the child will not be attend ed to unless the fathierlodks to it. He must sometimes lose his dignity. IHe must unlimber his joints. He must sometimes lead them out to their sports and games. The parent who cannot forget the severe duties of life sometimes, to fly the kite, and trundle the hoop, and chase the ball, and jump the rope with his children.ought never to have been tempted out of a crusty and unredeemable solitarines. If you want to keep your children from places of sin, you can only do it by making your home attractive. You may preach sermons and advocate re forms and denounce wickedness, and yet your children will be captivated by t'he glittering saloon of sin unless you can make your home a brighter place than any other place on earth to them. Oh. gather all charms into your house: If you can afford it, bring books and pictures and cheerful entertainments to the household. But, above all, teach those children, not by half an hour twice a year on the Sabbath day, but day after day and every day teach them that religion is a great gladness, that it throws chains of gold about the neck, that it takes no zaring from the foot, no blitheness fronm the heart, no sparkle from the eye, no ring from the laughter, but that "her ways are ways of pleasant' ness, and allher paths are peace." I sympathize with the work being done in many of our cities, by which beau tiful rooms are set apart by our Young Mn's Chr-istian Associations, and i pray God to prosper them in all things. But I tell you there is some thing back of that and before that we need more happy, consecrated, cheerful Christian homes every where. Again I remark thiat a great manyof our business men are tempted to put the attainment of money above the value of the soul. It is a grand thing to have plenty of mioney. The more ou get of it the better, if it come onestly and go usefully. For the lack of it sickness dies without medi' cine, and hunger finds its coilin in the empty bread tray, and nakedness shivers for lack of clothes aiid lire. When I hear a man in canting tirade against money-a Christian mian -as thought it had no possible use on earth aiid lie had no interest in it at all. I conme almost to think that the heaven that would be appropriate for him would be an everlasting poorhouse While, my fi'iends, we do admit there is such a thing as the lawful use of money-a profitable use of money let us recognize also the fazt that money cannot satisfy a man's soul; that it cannot glitter in the dark valley: that it cannot pay our fare across the Jordan of death:; that it cannot unlock the gate of heaven. There are men in all occupations who seem to act as though they thought that a pack of' bonds and i'tgages could be traded off for atitle to heaven, and as though old -would be a lawful tender in that place where it isso common that they make pavements out of it. Salvation by Christ is the only salvation. Treasures in heav'en are the only- in crruptible treasui'es. Ihave you ever ciphered out in the rule of loss and gain the sum, "What shahl it profit a mnan if he gain the whole woi'ld and lose his own soul: However fine your apparel, the winds of death will 11 utter it like i'ag. H oime spun and a threadbai'e coat have some times been the shadow of coining robes made w'.hite in the blood of the Lamb. The pearl of great priice is woith moi'c than any gem you can b'ing from the ocean, than Australian 01' Brazillian mines strung in one car canet. Seek after God, find his right eousness. and all slfall be well heire: all shall be well hereafter. Some of you re~member the ship wreck of the Centrail Amer-ica. That nobl stamehnd, T. think about 500 passengers aboard. Suddenly the storm came, and the surges trample the decks and swung into the hatches. and there went up a hundred voiced death shriek. The foam on the jaw of the wave. The pitching of the steamer as though it w.-re leaping a mountain. The dismal flare of the signal rockets. The long cough of the steam pipes. The hiss of extinguished furnaces. The walking of God on the ware: The steamer went not down without a struggle. As the passenger statior:ed themselves in rows to bale out the vessel. harp to the thumb of The buckets, as men unused to toil, with blistered hands and strained muscle. tug for their lives. There is a sail seen against the sky. The flash of he distress gun is noticed ; its voice heard not, for it is choked in the louder booming of the sea. A few passengers escaped, but the steamer gave one great lurch and was gone: So there are some men who sail on prosperously in life. All's well; all well. But at last some financial disaster comes-a euroclydon. Down they go! The bottom of the ccm merical sea is strewn with shattered hulks. But because our property goes do not let your soul go. Though all else perish, save that; for I have. to tell you of a more stupendous ship wreck than that which I just mention ed. God launched this world 6,000 years ago. I has been going on under freight of mountains and immortals, but one day it will stagger at the cry of fire. The timbers of rock will burn, the mountains flame like masts and clouds like sails in the judgment hur ricane. The God shall take the pas sengers off the deck, and from the berths those who have long been asleep in Jesus, and he will set them far be yond the reach of storm and peril. But how many shall go down will never be known until it shall be an nounced one day in heaven; the ship wreck of a world ! So many millions saved: So many millions drowned : Oh, my dear hearers, whatever you lose, though your houses go, though your lands go, though all earthly pos sessions perish, may God Almighty, through the blood of the everlasting convenant, save all your souls. SUMTER CONSERVATIVES. They Propose a Division of the Delegates from that County. SMTER. July 12.-The Conserva tive county convention was called to order by County Chairman Marion Moise at 11 o'clock today and H. G. Osteen and J. C. Strauss were request ed to act as temporary secretaries. When the roll had been called the or ganization was made complete by the election of Maj. Marion L oise as chair man, Hon. R. A. Purdy as vice presi dent, Messrs. Osteen and Strauss as secretaries. Major Moise made a fifteen minute speech that covered the situation in a comprehensive manner. He expressed his belief that the Conservatives of Sumter county would perform their duty like men. Mr. Richard I. Manning offered the following preamble and resolutions: "The Conservative Democracy of Sumter county in convention assem bled, desiring to place upon record its earnest purpose to promote, as far as in its power lies, the peace and welfare of the whole State, and to foster a sin eere and honorable reconciliation of the discz'rdant factions of the Democratic party, to the end that the constitution al convention shortly to convene may be non-partisan in its composition, so that its work may be characterized by a deep sense of justice to all citizens of South Carolina, and at the same time to secure by honest and lawful methods the continued supremiacy of the white race in this State, do~es hereby "Resolve. That we, the Conser va tive Democrats of Sumter county in convention assembled, make the fol lowing proposition to the members of the Reform faction of the county, vlz: That we will nominate, in such man ner as we shall decide upon, three men as delegates to the constitutional convention, and propose to the Reform faction to nominate, in such manner as they shall decide upon three men as delegates to the Constitutional conven tion, and that the six men so nomi nated, three Conservatives and three Reformers, shall constitute the nomi nees of the Democratic party of Sum ter county as delegates to the Consti tutional convention to be voted for at the election to be held on--August, prox, "Resolved, further, that the presi dent of the convention shall appoint two members of the same who with himself shall be a committee to con vey this proposition to the Reformers and report their answer to the Con servative executive committee, through its chairman, Mr. Marion Moise." Mr. J. E. Carson made a strong speech against a division, taking the ground that the Reformers want a di vision only in the counties controlled by the Conseivatives. Col. J. D. Blanding took the floor and said that inasmuch as the leaders of the Reform faction had repudiated their agreement with the Forty con ference we could not rely on any agreement we might enter with them, and lie moved that we stand by our true Democratic colors and nominate and elect a f al .et of delegates to the Constitutionali convention. Col. R. D. Lee spoke in favor of a di vision of delegates. Mr. W. E. Cain said lie wanted to place himself on record as opposed to any compromise. He said he despised the word "Conservative," that he was not a Conservative. Tne resolutions of Mr. Manning was passed by a vote of about S0 to :30. On niotion of Col. Lee, it was re solved that when this convention ad journs it shall reassemble at his call to nominate delegates to the constitution al convention-three delegates if the Reformers accept the division, or six if the proposition is rejected. A Fatal Fire. DETROIT, Mich., July 11.-Fire started in Case's livery barn, a four story brick structure, No. 41 Congress strecet, shortly after 2 o'clock this morning. Two hours later, when the firemen had succeeded in getting con trol of the fliames the barn was a com plete wreck; five men at least, had either burned to death or smothered: one fatally injured by jumping from the burning building; two horses burned to death and $60,000 worth of property destroyed. Rich Silver Find. DENvER, July 5.-A special to The Times from Steamboat Springs, Colo., reports great excitement in the neioh borhiood of Hahn's peak, over the ais covery of an immense blowout of sil ver bearing rock said to come from a blanket vein. The ore is said to run several hundred ounces of silver to the ton. There is already 400 or 500 men on the ground and hundreds of claims have been staked off, A Fatal Bolt. MuNmaoMisa, Ala., July 10.-A special to the Advertiscr fromi Dade ville, Ala., says: A son of Dr. Banks and a negro boy were killed by light ning near- this place yesterday after noon. The boys were at a grindstone in the yard when a bolt struck a tree and passed to where the boys were standing. They were both killed in A BRUTAL MURDER. An JgInrenin. YUnoii White Man Shot Down. PE-IrMUr. S. C.. July 12.-Last Monday night the peace and quietude of our town was again broken. Just as the 4 o'clock train was rolling up to the depot. Ira Johnson, a young ne gro man. shot and mortally wounded Frank Langford. a young white man of Marietta. S. C. Mr. Langford was visiting relatives here and went out to the depot just before train time with some other young men. When they arrived they found the negro quarreling with and abusing a boy about twelve years old, whose father and mother are both dead. One of the young men ordered the* negro to stop abusing the boy and to abuse him if he wanted to abuse anybody; the ne gro then produced a pistol, and plac ing it hcar the young man's face swore he would blow his brains out. Mr. Langford was standing near and ordered him to put up his pistol and have no further trouble, and without further ceremony the negro turned and fired two shots, one taking effect in the upper part of the right breast and the other in the right part of the stomach. The negro then tried to make his escape by running, but was so closely pursued that he took refuge in a house on upper Main street. He was promptly pulled out and his hands tied and in less than thirty minutes at least 300 people were on hand, some armed with shotguns, pistols and ropes, shouting, "lynch him," and for a short time it looked as we would have a dead negro on our hands and a coroner's inquest would be in order. Earnest solicitation of cooler heads to send him to jail and await the re sult of Mr. Langford's course, at last quieted the crowd to a certain extent. Three buggies were soon on hand and five well armed and determined men were on their way to Greenville jail with him. Some threats were made to follow and lynch him and a report was circulated that a mob of negroes were waiting on the road and would take him from the officers, but no dan ger of that nature was apprehended, for in less than an hour and a half after the shooting the guard started with him and of course did not give time for the mob to collect. Mr. Langford was moved to the house of a friend,and was attended by Drs. Donald and Richardson, who did everything in their power for him, but after lingering in great agony until this afternoon he died. Mr. Langford was a young man of a quiet and sober disposition and my information is that he was never in any way connected with such troubles before. He was a son of one of the leading men of Ma rietta. Greenville county. Johnson is considered a bad character and has been in the hands of the law several times on similar offences. The pistol that he shot young Langford with was a 3S-caliber hammerless Smith & Wesson. THE PRIMARY ELECTION. Rules Governing the Election of Delegates to the Constitutional Convention. The following resolutions adopted by the State Democratic Executive Committee at its meeting held on the 15th of May, 1895, to govern the elec tion of delegates to the Constitutional Convention in the Democratic primary which takes place July 30th1 1895, are published for the information of the public: "A primary election is hereby or dered to be held in every county in this State on the 30th day of July next, at which every white voter it this State shall be entitled to vote, who will make pledge to the mana gers conducting the election that he will support the nominees of such election on the day of the election te be held on the 3d Tuesday in Augusi for delegates to the State Constitu tional Convention. Each county ex ecutive committee shall appoint three managers and one clerk to hold such election. Twvo of the managers shall be Reformers and one manager and the clerk shall be Conservatives, 02 vice versa. The polls shall be oper from 8Sa. m, to 4 p. m. "Each candidate for the Constitu tional Convention shall, at least ter days before the said primary election, file his pledge with the chairman or secretary of the county Democratic ex ecutive committee that he will abide by the result of the election and sup port the nominees of the party, and nc vote for any candidate shall be counted who has failed to sign such pledge. "To prevent the single popping of candidates no vote for delegates shal] be counted which does not contain the names of candidates who have signed the pledge of the same number as the number of deleo-ates to which such county is entitle<I under the Act call ing the Convention. "The second primary shall be held on August the 13th, 1895, if necessary, according to the rules of the party, and the same managers shall serve. All e~di rules of this committeE heretLofore adopted are hereby reaf firmed when not inconsistent with the foregoing. "The counties of Horry and Lexing ton having already acted under the previous resolution of this committee, are exempted from the operation of these resolutions, unless they shall hereafter determine to act in accord ance therewith. "The State Democratic Executive Committee, recognizing the fact that there are factional differences exist ing in the Democratic party, earnest ly suggests to the Democrats of the State to square such factional ditfer ences in the election of delegates tc the Constitutional Convention and let each candidate stand on his merits. A Georgia Sensation. SAVANmu, Ga., JIuly 12.-A Morn ing News dispatch from Dublin, Ga.. says: A few weeks ago Carrie and Elen P'adgett, sisters, strolled into the neighborhood of Pullen's bridge, on the 01 oopee River. in Johnson county. Their conduct was such as tc cause moral men and women to become disgusted and they were asked to leave. They failed to observe the warning. Yesterday morning a party of fisher men, while seining in the shallow part of the river, cas:: their sein for the sec ond time. As the net was very heavy as they were drawmng it out of the water, the fishermen thought that it was sure to contain a large quantity of fine fish, but they were shocked on hauling it to the bank to find in it the decomposed body of a women. Slit was recognized as Carrie Padgett. The men found her hands and feel bound securely by strong ropes at tached to the body was a huge rock. The hands were tied behind the body. The supposition is that several women residing in the neighborhood assisted by some men, carried the girl to the river and pushed her in. Ellen, the drowned girl's sister. is also missmng and it is thme general belief that, she met the same fate. Nothing to indi cate murder was found on the body. The at fair is shrouded in deep mystery. The oilicials will at once take steps tc fix the crime on the guilty parties. It is rumored tonight that the main cause for the killing was the fact that she h parted a ahand and wife. THE WEATHER AND CROPS. The Weekly Report of the United States Observer. CoLUMBIA, S. C., July 9.-The great er number of reports, and including nearly every county, are of a favorable tone, and indicate that although the weather was slightly cooler than sea sonable, it was on the whole good for all crops and that crops made satisfac tory growth, are in excellent condition generally, and with a few exceptions are clean and well worked. There were a few places that had not enough rain, and where the staple crops were small and unsatisfactory, but the late rains of the 7th and 8th (Sunday and Monday no doubt reached most of those places, causing marked improve ment. There are reports from Pickens, Greenville, Laurens, Union, York and Chesterfield Counties of serious injury to the cotton plant by lice. These insects have appeared in locali ties where they were never before known. Whole fields are said to have been ruined in a short time, as the lice spread with marvellous rapidity. Lice have about disappeared from other portions of the State. Worms still in juring corn in the northern and wes tern counties. The temperature ranged below the normal on every day of the week; the depatures were from 6 to 8 degrees on the 2nd and 3rd, and gradually be came less until on the 8th (Monday) there was but little change from sea sonable. The temperature deficiency was small on the coast, but increased rap idly toward the upper portions of the State, where it was very marked, although not particularly injurious except to cause lice to appear on cot ton, wire worms in corn, and worms on tomatoes, and bugs on vines gener ally. The highest temperature reported was 95 on the 6th at McCall; the low est, 56, on the 4th at Cheraw. This is a very low temperature for the first week in July. The mean temperature of the week for the State was about 77.5, and the normal for the same period is approximately 81. The rainfall of July 1st, which was not embodied in last week's bulletin but appears in the average for this, was quite general over the greater portion of the State except possibly on the middle coast. It proved high ly beneficial, having been generally needed. During the week there were but very light showers at best, or none at all, until the rains on the 7th and 8th, which were very timely. The extent of those rains cannot be deter mined at this writing, but will be dis cussed in the next bulletin. There were 15 places that had over 1.00 of rain; 5 that had over 2 inches. These heavy rains were distributed over widely separated portions of the State. The heaviest fall reported was 4.00 inches at Elloree, Orangeburg County. The average of 41 places reporting rain, and including the rain of the 1st but excluding about half of the 7th and all of the 8th, was 1.00, and the normal for the same period is approximately 1.32 inches. No destructive wind or hail storms were reported during the past week. There was scarcely an average amount of sunshine, although includ ing the whole State, nearly so. There was least cloudiness in the central and northeastern counties, and most in the Georgia border and extreme wes tern counties, and in Berkeley where there was but 25 per cent. of the possi ble, while in Horry there was 90 per cent. There is but little change to note in the condition of crops, but what change there is, is towards betterment generally, except over a comparatively small area where insects and want of timely rain cause positive injury or re tarded-growth. Of cotton, it is universally said that it is very small but healthy, and where -well fertilized looking promising. It is putting on squares freely, but is slow to bloom in the up country; blos soming is general in the eastern por tions of the State. The crop is gener ally well worked and free from ograss. Aside from its being undersized, its condition is all that could be desired. Corn is doing well generally. Early planting is being laid by in excellent condition. In a few localities it was too dry, but this is exceptional. Later corn looks fine. Some corn planted in stubble land just coming up and some still being planted. In the eastern counties the crop is almost Small grains nearly all harvested and thrashed, with a yield below an average crop for wheat and oats, con sidering the State as a whole. Watermelons are ripening and will be ready to market, from the south ern portions of the State, this week. The crop is not uniform, being large in localities and only fair in others. The indications are that there will be a large acreage devoted to peas this year, both as a forage crop and for fertilizing purposes. Sugar cane and sorghum as well as rice are growing well and look prom ising. The acreage devoted to rice is larger than last year. The tobacco crop is a fine one, and is being harvested and cured. It will be a very remunerative crop, it is said, where properly handled since plant ing. Some fields were partially ruin ed by injudicious cultivation. Expe rience and observation will indicate the proper treatment for this crop. V egetables continue in abundant supply. Truck shipments to the Northern markets from the coast re gions have aboutended for the season. In comparison with other portions of the country, this State has been exceptionally favored by good grow ing weather and immunity from de structive agencies, whether winds, excessive rains, floods, or insects, since the growing season began, and as a result there is possibly no State where the crops are uniformly more promising at this time. Liquor Dealers Sentenced. CoLLDIBIA, July 5.--A special from Charleston, S. C., says- Because of the fact that the grand jury in Charles ton refused to find true bills ag-ainst any of the liquor dealers in Charleston accused of violating the dispensary law, seven of the 138 contempt cases for violations of the law were trans ferred to Sumter for trial before Judge Buchanan there. Cases against Bow en and Wyman, t wo dealer, were tried. Both men were found guilty, and Judge Buchanan sentenced Bowen to pay a fine of $200 and to hard labor in the penitentiary for four months. The decision in tihe Wyman case was rserved. These cases are under a re cently inserted section of the law which allows the circuit judge to issue an injunction against a person violat ing the law and upon a second accu sation to try the case without a jury and pass upon it himself. Not Yet Fnled. RocK HILL, July 11.-The board of trustees of the Winthrop Normal Col lege have been in session here since last niocht and a great deal of routine work as been accomplished. The principal object of the meeting~ was to till the chairs in the faculty 0still va cant. After discussing the matter however, tile board decided to refer these selections to President Johnson. He has not yet annonneed his selec POWDER Absolutely Pure. A cream or tartar naring powder' Highest of all in leavening strength.-La - test United States Government Food Re port. Royal Baking Powder Company, 106 Wall-St.,N. Y. They are Mad. COLUMBIA. S. C. July 12.-The fol lowing card from the Colored Minis tereial Union shows that the negro politicians captured the State confer ence of the negroes on Wednesday, and got the upper hand of the ministers issuing an addres of which they did not approve: To the Editor of The State: You will please allow me to say that the Min isterial Union of South Carolina is not in accord with the tone and spirit of the address issued by the confer ence of the 10th inst. W e assume none of the responsibility, and take this method of telling the friends - of our cases that the work of yesterday is the selfish work of politicians and such pliant tools as are void of common sense, and blinded to the negroes' best interest. The sensible ministers of this State can see clearly that the con dition of affairs in this State must be settled by the citizens of this State and not by the Northern people, nor the Federal government. We are fully aware that we must rise in proportion to the sentiment made in our favor among the white people of the State in which we live. We stand to the principles promulgat ed by the Ministers Union and ask to be measured only by our intelligenceand property and to this extent vwe ask for representation. We reiterate that we are not wed ded to any political party. We want peace, prosperity and good govern ment. Let the parties and politicans go to Hinders. We are considering the advisability of calling the Union together that the voice of the people might be heard and not the will of those who are bid ding for the loaves and fishes of '96. Wm. D. Chapel, Chairman Ministers' L nion. H. W. Raiford, Sec. ANOTHER PROTEST. Secretary Raiford, of the Union, hands in the "*ollowing additional card : To the Editor of the State: Many of the ministers of thought and following were purposely denied the floor. They were not allowed opinion or word in the meeting; hence they feel and de clare themselves free from any part or responsibility in some of the wild and extravagant demands and declarations of the convention on the 10th inst. H. M. Raiford. He Was Mistaken. When we thihk of the teeming pop ulation which now fills many portion of our country west -of the Rocky Mcuntains, and remember how fam ous, all over the world, is their singu lar beauty, and their incomparable value to the tourist, the health seeker, the agriculturist and the horticultur ist, as well as the miner, it is interest ing to read what so intelligent a states- - man as Daniel Webster thought of them just fifty years ag-o, and to know that his views were sh~ared by many other prominent public men of the time. In a speeh delivered in the United States Snate in 1844, with re gard to the proposal that a mail ser vice should be established between Missouri and the Pacific coast, Web ster said: "What do we want with this vast worthless area, this region of savages and wild beasts, of deserts, of shifting sands of whirlwinds of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts or these endless mountain ranges, im penetrable, and covered to their bases with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of three thousand miles, rock bound, cheerless and uninviting, with not a harbor on it? What use have we for such a country? Mr. President, I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific coast one inch nearer Boston than it is today." We publish the above to show the fallacy of the people following blind ly the lead of any so-called wise states men. Simply because a man hiappens to be in Congress as a representative is no sign that he knows anything more about the tariff or currency question than those people at home who read upon these questions. No doubt Mr. Webster thought he knew all about the subject he was speakinga of, and no doubt thousands of his blind fol lowers accepted his statement as law and gospel, and yet there is not an eight year old school boy in all this country, who, when lie reads Mr. Webster's remarks quoted above, but what knows now that Mr. Webster was perfectly ignorant of the subject he was talking about and that the old man was simply talking through his hat. Follow no man blindly. Read, think and act for yourself.. How to) Foretell the Weather. The ditferent colors of the sky are caused by certain rays of light being more or less strongly reflected or ab sorbed, according to the amount of moisture contained in the atmosphere, Such colors do, therefore, portend to, some extent, the kind of weather that, may naturally be expected to follow. For instance,' a red sunset indicates a. ine day to follow, because the air when dry refracts more red or heat making rays, and as dry air is not per fectly transparent, they are again re flected in the horizon. A coppery or yellowy sunset generally foretells rain:: but as an indication of wet weather approaching nothing is more certain than halos round the moon, which are produced by the refraction of light in the suspended globules of water., and the larger the halo, the mearer the clouds and conseouently the more likely to fall. The following has been advocated as a fairly successful way of prognosticating: Fix your eye on the smallest cloud you can see, if it decreases and disappears the weather will be good ; if it increases in size rain may be expected. The reason given is: when electricity in the air is on the increase larger clouds attract all the less ones, but when it is decreasing even large clouds will be seen breaking up into small pieces. Death of Capt. Webbh. SAtN Fa~xecisco, July 5.---A special to a morning paper from Coeur d' Alene, Idaho, says that Capt. Paul Webb, the swimmer, lost his life near there yesterday in an attempt to ride down a three hundred foot chute into Lake Coeur d'Alene in his barrel. The barrel left the chute and struck the