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Viti, NIT MA'TING, AwiiT\E T7NiiEiSDii - O.21 V X'-a -= s BAPTIST CONVENTIO N HOLDS A MOST INTERESTING SCS SION IN CHARLESTON. A Large Gathering-A Getiercwus We lcomeia and Bountiful Hcspitali ty-trat;fy.n Progress in Dennminatol Werkc !n the State During the Year. The folloving proceeding of the Baptist State Convention, which was recently held in the cty of Charles ion, we cull from the Greenville . -untaineer: The session of the Convention began on Wednesday night with the preach ing of the introductory sermon by Rev. C. S. Gardner. After the .er mon delegates were enrolled and the organization completed by the elec tion of Hon. J. H. Hudson, of Ben nettsville, as president, vice Rev R. W. Sanders, who declined re-election Rev. G. T. Gresbam was re-elected secretary, with Rev. C. P. Ervin, as assistant Thursday morning's session was opened with addresses of welcome to tho body by Dr. D M. Ramsey, on behalf of the Baptists of the city, and Mayor J. A. Smyth, on behalf of the cit:. At the call of the president Dr. C. Manly made response to these ad dresses. Invitations to the body tc visit the Charleston Museum, the office of the News and Courier and tc -,o upon an excursion around the har bor on Sqturday afternoon were ten dered and accepted. The body now settled down to busi ness, and the leading interest of the denomination, the State Mission Boar, presented through Dr. T. M. Bailey it annual report. The report of the treasurer showed that $9,924 47 ha been received and $11. 147.73 expend ed during the year, and that the Board was still buraened with a debtof $3,500. Rev. J. L. Vass, as superintendent. presented the fifth annual report o: the Connie Maxwell Orphanage show ing among other things that ther were now one hundre d children in thai institution, and that about $8,000 hac been received, in cash and donations orti their maintenance. This repor was referred to a special committee. In connection with this work cam( the report of the president of the boar of trhstees, declining to recommenC the present superintendent for re election, and requesting that this mat ter and the revision of the rules fo: management of the Orphanage be re ferred to special committees, one o which committees was nominated The report elicited an animated dis cussion, after which' the whole matte was referred to a special committee composed of one member from eac] association. A pleasant talk followed in the in terests of the American Baptist Put licationSociety by-Dr. R. G. Seymour its representative, in which he spok of the Society's new buildings, th publishing work done by it, its Gospe car work by Rev. A. J. Diaz. and it general missionary work in distribui ing literature. A very suggestiv statement as to the great work to b Ilone was made to thb ffect that ther ,-weiin'-acscountry 13,00,000 c young people and children who wer outside of church or religious inii ences. The report on the Relief Fund fc aeed ministers showed that the inte: est in that work'was growing, an that twenty two beneficiaries wel now being aided by that board. Ti report of the board of ministerial ed' cation showed that twenty-four sti dents had reeived aid. Heretofoi this board has been providing for 1i support of students for the ministry: both the Seminary at Louisville at the Furman;Univei-sity. But it wa decided to so change matters as1 commit to this board the care of ti University students only, and give the representatives "of the Seminai the opportunity to solicit direct co: tributions for its Students' Fundc the fioor of the Convention. A ver gratifying result of this change method was seen when, at a lat< stage of the proceedings. Dr. Kerfoc of the Seminary. presented its clain and received pledges for its Student Fund, amounting to somewhat mc than $1,000. The session of Thursday night w devoted to the interest of the Sunda School and of the Foreign Missic work. The report of the committ on the first subject was presented its chairman, Rev. 0. L. -Martin, a: was followed by a presentation of t claims of the Sunday School Board the Southern Baptist Convention, Nashville, by Dr. J. Me. Frost, its s< retary. Rev. C. P. Ervin, of Bamb~n whom by the grace of the boar d trusteees of Furman University must henceforth address as D. D., p sented the report of the committee Foreign Missions. The gifts of Sot Carolina Baptists to this cause w< ..~inted out as being about one-thi M whnzat had been hoped for fr< them. Rev. H. R-.toseley spoke the subject, and was follo wed by R1 R. J. Willinghtam. D. D secretary Fereign Mission Board ofthe Sou ern Baptist Convention. In conn tion with the subject the report of central commnittee of the Woma Mission Society was presented ar'd< cussed. The body by a rising v adopted a resolution to try to rs $12,000 during the conven'.ion yeal carry on the foreign mission work to pay off the debt of the board. fore the vote could be annoneed < of the delegates began to sing, "Dr me nearer, blessed Lord," in which was heartily seconded by the la audience, while standing. The session of Friday was charac ized by the report of the trustees Furman University and.he Greenv Female College, and the attend discussion. After referring to thej the board had sustained in the de of Rev. J. A. WV. Thomas, who: been connected with the board many years, the attendance at University was stated to be 153, that at the Female College 158, an crease in both instances over the tendance of the previous year. WV in the equipment of the colege ae of $3,5000 had been incurred, the terest on the debt had been reguls paid, and $1,500 of the principal expected to be paid by June, 1897. pressing demand for additional dor tory facilities at the college was strc ly emphasized. The gratifying suc< attending the work of the tinan agent, Rev. Rt. N. Pratt, was no and the importance of raising the ~ed $4,000 for the endowment of iversity' was urged. Annou ~ent was made that the board confered the degree of D. D). u Rev. C. P. Ervin, of Bamberg: I J. W.TPerry, of llortosvilae and]1 U. S. Giardnc-. of G(reenvIlle. Dr. Riley. 1 tv. R. N . Pratt, Jud-)e I lludson, and Prof. 1. W. Boat wrigIit, t president at Richmrond College, sproke to tie report- President Boatwright. ,aid that, if any one wislird to know Iwhy he was here. h would rerly, he Icause he was at Richiioud Golke :1 with Dr.Ramsey, becuse he wanted to I hear Dr. Gardner preach,and because 1 1 he wanited to bEcome acauaintd with I the editors cf lie Baptist Courier, t which was so prominent a factor in furtherinz the interests of t he Uive sitv and the College. Why B3ptis.tsI should be educated was urged on the 1 ground that they are the only nep that do not have bridles put on them, and as they are thus turned loose theyI ought to learn how to go rightly. The increased power of the trained mind by reason of the enlarged field given it by means of the press. whereby the words of the orator reach many more than the .30,000 persons, whom the voice of Demosthenes reached, was in dicated, and tthe inatrtenance of our free institutions, as being dependent upon our being educated christianly, was strongly urged. Rev. H. R. Moseley referred to his work in connection with the building of an alumni hall and the difliculty of enlisting the old students in that work. He explained this seeming in difference as partly due to the fact that there was an unintentional non recogniioa of the old students in the anpointment of trustees and professors. Ile, therefore, introduced a resolution, which was after reference to a com mittee passed by the convention, pro viding for such changes in the charter of the institution as to allow the elec tion of the trustees in groups of five, the whole number to be elected the first year, but five to hold otdie for five years, another five for four years, and so on. The election to be by bal lot and two thirds of the entire numn ber to be old students of the Univer sity. On November 23, 1SG, the Citadel Square Baptist Church was organized, and in ccmmemoration of the fortieth anniversary o! the church it had been decided to hold some special services I during the session of the convention. The evening of Fiday was partially devoted to initiatory exercises con nect ed with this celebration. Rev. B. L. Whitman, D. D., president of the Co lumbian College, Washington, D. C., bad been requested to make and ad . dress on the occasion, and it was the . general sentiment of those who heard . him that it would have been ditficult indeed for a better selection to have been made. Splendid in physique, imposing in appearance, fluent of speech, profound in thought, Dr. Whitman charmed his hearers as he spoke of "Our Possessions in the Bi ble." The three points made i treat ing the subject were that the Bible was the divine word of revelation for illuminating life and for the interore tation of nature; that it is the divine power for salvation, and that it is the divine sword for conquest and de fence. - Dr. Kerfoot, of the Theolocical Sem e inary at Louisville, folic wed this ad e dress with a strong plea for contriba e tions in aid of the Students' Fund of f that institution and obtained as before e said over $1,000. In connection with this evening's service, Dr. Kerfoot presented to the conven!ion a zavel, r brought by Rev. R. J. Williams from Palestine. The mallet is made of d olive wood from the Mount of Olives, -e while th'e handle is of cherry from the e banks of Jordan. President Hudson L- appropriately received the gavel on the part of the convention. -e The report of the board of Ministe e rial Education claimed attention on t Saturnay morning and over S-20 were d contributed for that object.- A com Ls mittee w~as appointed to confer with o the trustees of the Yorkville High e school as to what is best to be done o with reference to that property. The y committee is to report through the 1- Baptist Courier. n A deep interest mingled with much y anxiety bad been felt as to what the omnibus committee on the Connie Max r well Orpanage would report. Their 't, report was mnade ',n Saturday morning is and was unanimously adopted, and s' clinched by singing 'Praise God, from re whom all blessing flow." The report exonerated Superintendent J. L. V ass. as and recommended his re-election to 'y that position until July. 1897, when the >n new board of trustees will elect for ee themseleves a superiutendent. It so >y changes the rules of the Orphanage id that the fifteen trustees shall be elected he on the rotation method, five for three of years, five f or two, and the other five at for one vear, and upon this method c- trustees ~were named for the institu tion. Other changes in the by-laws g were also made. of in response to a request from t'.i w'e Anti Saloon League, two delegate! re- from this body were appointed to :he on convention of the league, which is tc .th be held in Washington, D. C., on De re cember 8 10. Congressman WV. J. Tal rd bert and Mr. W. H. Lyles, of Colum >m bia, were appointed as the delegate on called for. iv. The committee on hospitality had of provided for a free excursion to thi th- delegates and visitors. Saturday af ter e- noon was devoted to that interestin he feature of the convention's stay ii n's Charleston, and about 20o'clock a larg is- party left Accommodation wharf oJ ote the steamboat Planter. The weathe hie was tine, a bounteous lunch had beer -to providedi and the trip embraced a visi .nd to historic cld Fort Sumter, 'he jettie Be and a jaunt up Ashley river. To man; me of the delegates from the upper cour aw ties the whole excursion was a com he plete novelty, the scenery along th ege river something unique and altogethe the trip to Charleston's big mill-non' er- was a charming episode. And, ther of too, on the way back a number of ther ille stepped in to see the big presses of th mnt Ne ws and Courier at work on the Sur ss day edition of that paper, and some c athi them wvent thence to visit the histori lad First Baptist church, the oldest churc for in the State. the During the session of tne conventio mnd many of the delegates visited th in- musseum connected with the Charle: at- ton College, and the fine specimens< 'ie the many curious, interesting amima. ebt and the other thiuas to be found thei in- were ful of charmi and instructio1 ,rly But there is such a thing as wearine: was of the flesh, and then, too, Baptis lhe somehow get mighty homesick at the. ni- gathei ings of the denonminatici g- This was perhapa the reason why; ~ess Saturday night's session tnere we cial comparatively so small an attendancs ted, State Missions occupied the time, at aro- was discussed by Rev- U. L. Mart. the and Dr. C. S. Gardner. An interes ace- ing feature of the oceAsion was a senm had ble talkb'vyRev-. E. R. R abertscolore pon who is working in con nection with tU ter State Mission Board. HeI stated th 0ro to reimain amoie the while peo ie of the South, to whose wiluence he negro owed much already and on vhose help and friendly guid T .Ice his future good so largely de )">Aded. To the suggestion of the seWs and Courier the the neg.;roes niigrate in a body to Africa, he would C epl: in the language of scripture, "I -ould rather be a doorkeeper in the iouse of the Lord, than to dwell in the ents of wickednes." The negro, he aid, did not want to leave and as they vere hie.e with us, he besought for hem our continued interest and help o make them better fitted to live anong us. A collection, amounting to more a hen $100, was taken to help in build- b ng a church at Summerville. e The pulpit of the Citadel Square t hurch was occupied on Sunday morn- 0 ng by Rev. R. J. Willingham, wno rom the text, "As for me and my ouse, we will serve the Lord," gave a i practical, imoressive and eloquent G alk on -Religion in the family." Memorial services were held on Sun lay af'ernoon in connection with the eport of the committee on obituaries. r During the conventional year thirteen beralds of the cross passed from this lower sphere of work to their heavenly bome. Remarks bearing on the re )art were made by Rev. I. W. Wingo r ad Dr. J. W. Perry. a On Sunday night the convention :losEd its session to meet next year s with the Rck Hill church. THE EVIL OF SMALL COUNTIES. c rhe State of Georgia Finds them Very S Burdensome. C ATLANTA. Ga., Dec. 9.-Oar Legis Latute is now in session, and it would C like to find some way to lesson the I burden imposed on the State treasury C by the great number of small counties that draw more money from the State s than they pay in taxes. In a long n statitical statement published todav 1 The Journal shows that the burden of government in Georgia is borne en- C tirely by forty-seven counties. The C other ninety counties draw out for 1 schools and pensions more than they a pay in taxes. This is the situation t with the present year's disbursement. Wben the school fund is increased to 00 000 as proposed, the number of 9 small counties which will be a t burden to the larger ones will be in creased to over one hundred. The follo wing counties now pay less than they draw out of the State treas - urv: Baker. Baldwin, Banks, Bartow, Brooks, Bryan. Burke, Butts, Calhoun, Carrell, Camden, Campbell, Chatta hocchee, Cherokee, Chattooga, Clay. Clayton, Colquitt. Columbia, Craw- 1 ford, Dawson, Decatur, Douglas, Echols, Elbert, Fannin, Fayette, Forsyth, Franklin, Gilmer, G lasscock, Gorden. Greene, Gwinnett, Haber ham. Hall, Hancock. flaralson, Har ris, Hart. Heard, Henry, Jackson. Jasper, Jefferson, Johnson, Jones, Liberty, Lincoln, Lumpkin, Madison, Marion, McDullie, McIntosh, Meri wether, Miller. Milton, Mitchell, Mon roe, Murray, Newton, Oconee, Ogle thorpe. Pauldine, Pickens, Pike, Pu laski, Putnam, Quitman, Rabun, Ran dolpb, Rockdale, Schley, Screven, Stewart, Talbot, Taliaferro, Taylor, Telfair, Towns, Twiggs, Union, Up son, Walton, Warren, Washington, Webster, White, Wilkinson and Woth. The following twenty-eight small counties get more from: the State school fund than they pay into the State treasury for all purposes: IBaker, Baldwin, Barke, Calhoun, Camden, Columbia, Crawford, Fan nin, Gilmer, Glasscock, Greene, Hen ry, Johnson, Jones, Liberty, Lump kin, Madison, McIntosh, Meriwether, Oglethorpe, Paulding, R abun, Screv en, Talbot, Taliaferro, Towns, U nion and Wilkinson. The six counties of Fulton, Chat ham, Bibb, Richmond, Museogee and Floyd pay $69~0,000 in tax this year, or miore than a third of th~e levy. Ful ton alone pays a quarter of a million or one-eighth of the levy. The small counties are riding on the backs of the larger ones. They are a curse to th~e State. Bit we have them and there is no way to get rid of them. Shot Down in Cold Blood. LITTLE ROCK, Ark., Dec. 9.-Last Tuesday afternoon, about mid way be tween Camden and Bearden, on the line of the Cotton Belt Railroad, oc curred one of the foulest and most damnable massacres of negroes that has ever blackened the records of that lcality. A gang of section men,.com posed principally of negroes, with a white foreman, were engaged in their labor of improving the roadbed, when a gang of unknown persons made their appearance upon the scene and with out warning began to immediately fire into the crowd of helpless and unsus pecting negroes, which resulted in the death of five of them. The foreman claims that he did not recognize any of the assassins. Many believe that he knows whc they are, but on ac count of the probability of personal danger to himself, he is afraid to give out any information that would lead - to their arrest. The section where these last murders occurred is occu tpied almost entirely by the sawmills San is filled with lawless characters. The She rif of Ouachita county is ex erting himself in every way possible to apprehend the guilty ones, and the t Cotton Belt Company has otfered a reward of $250J for the capture of the i murderers. If they are captured it is believed that the courts of Oluachita. -County will mete out s wift justice to e them. Taxpayers Must Pasy UP. ,G REEVIL LE, S. C, Dec. 10.-Comnp a troller General Norton was in the city e today, and made the first oilicial an -- nouncement that there would be no f extension in the time for payment of c taxes. lie said: "The time for the payment of taxes for the year expires December 31st-that is for payment without penalty. The Legisiat'ire e does not meet early enough to extend s- the time, and the Governcor and Corn if ptroler General will not extend, and s5 therefore there will be no extension, e Heretofore, on account of the fre u. quent extensions, no objections werf is oiered to county treasurers receiving s taxes after the 31st of D)ecember for ;e few days. This year the treasureru i. will be advised to deiiver their dupli it cates on the 1st of January to Count3 is Auditors, who will immediately maki . up the penalty book. In other words d the law will be rigidly eaforced an< n treasurers required to collect withou ;t- regard to former customs." This wil ,i- doubtless create a stir, as the taxpay 1, er-s seem to be relying on the custom ie ary few days' grace, as shown by thi at small receipts up to date. The penal s.1 ty wil mmombtle at tach in man y easm~S ()ITiH CAROLINA MASONS. HE SECOND DAY'S SESSION OF THE I GRAND LODGE. al. .1. T. Harrov. of Columbia. Elected Girand Master of South Carolina-A De ghtfui Excursion Around the Harbar The Night Session. CHARLESToN, S. C., Dec. 10.--The rand Lodge was called on at 10 clock yesterday morn ng. The Grand aster ruled that where a brother was Knight of Pythias and requested to 3 buried with Masonic honors he was titled so to be buried, the Masons Lking charge of the body after the ,her ceremonies were over, and not iinling with the other bodies. W. Bro. Dabney, of Macedonia Idge, requested the loan of jewels id property of a defunct lodge. The rand Master ruled that the Grand odge would lend tie property, but ould not be responsible therefor. . . Bro. Sheppard moved that the quest be granted, Macedonia Lodge eing responsible for any loss or dam ge- Adopted. W. Bro. W. L. Glaze submitted the -port of the committee on appeals ad grievances. W. Bro. W. A. Giles moved that the 'rand Master be allowed to draw a am not exceeding ,450 to pay his ex enses in visiting lodges during the oming year. Adopted. Bro. Giles moved that a sufficient am be appropriated to furnish each >dge with stationery. Made special rder for 11.30 o'clock. Bro. Mahaffey requested that dues f Williamston Lodge be remitted. >ostponed until the Grand Master ould visit the lodge. On motion of R. W. Bro. Wither poon it was resolved that the next an - ual communication be held in Cbar !ston. The Grand Master extended a wel ome to Grand Representatives from ther grand bodies to this Grand odge and commented on the utility nd iiportanc, of these representa ives. The following wEra present: anada, L. H. White; Cuba, John R. Bellin :er; Delaware, John R. Smith; Dis riet of Columbia, Manitoba, Missouri, ew Jersey, New York and Quebec, harles Inglesby; England, Ohio, hode Island. J. Adeer Smyth; Illi ois, J. F. Ficken: Maine, Claude E w Prince Edwards Island, D. i erspoon; Scotland, A. W. &arshal; Victoria, J. T. Barron. On motion of M. W. Bro. Ball the ule in the constitution in relation to lie election of oflicers at high twelve vas suspended by unanimous consent Lnd the election was proceeded with. 1 resulted as follows: Grand Master, i. T. Barron, of Co nmbia. Deputy Grand Master, B. J. With rspoon, of Lancaster. Senior Grand Warden, Orlando Theppard, of Edgefield. Junior Grand Warden, W. M. uhitehead, of Charlesion. Grand Treasurer, Zimmerman Dav s, of Charleston. Grand Secretary, Charles Inglesby, f Charleston. Bro. J. H. Hambleton submitted a eport from the committee on unfin shed business and it was adopted. Bro. Whitehead offered a resolution hat an approp:-iation be made for pre paring and printing a digest of the laws of Masonry in South Carolina. He moved that the work be done by ro. Inglesby and the printing given t the lowest bidder. This was adopt ed and an appropriation of $500 was made for the purpose. At 12:45 the lodge was called off until S P. M. The Grand Lolge was called to la bor at 8 o'clock P. M. R. W. Bro. Barron submitted the report of the committee on redistrict ing the State, and it was adopted. M. W. Bro. A. H. White submitted the supplemental report of the com mittee on by-laws. Adoptel. R. WV. Bro. Sheppard expressed the thanks of the lodge for the courtesies extended by the Grand Lodge and for the courtesies extended by the lodges in Charleston, and moved that the thanks of the body be extended to them. Adopted by a rising vote. R. W. Bro. W. C. Miller, Grand Representative of Colorado, was pres ent; also WV. Bro. A. W. Taft, Grand Representative of British Columbia. The Grand Lodge was then closed in sihort form and opened in like man ner oni the E. A. Degree. The Grand Officers were then instal led. The following appointments of oflices were then made: W. Brothers A. H. Doty, c f Char leston and J. C. Watkins, of Ander son, Sm~oir Grand Deacons. W,. Brothers E. C. Secrest, o& Ln caster, and W. A. Holman, of Barn' well, .Junior Grand Deacons. W. Bro. C. P. Q attlebaum, of Con way, Grand Marsnal. W. Bro. L. M. Nettles, of Foreston, Grand Pursuivant. WV. Brothers J. L MIickle, of D~ar ington, and S. E. Moore, of Harts ville, Grand Stewarts. WV. Bro. W. A. Winktler, of Char leston, Grand Tiller. All of these were duly installed. The M. W. Grand Master announc ed the following e mmittees: Hall Committee-.J. Adger Smy th C. F. P'anknin, W. F. Strong, Joht P. Strohecker. On Cemetery-A. T. Snythe, R. P. Evans, WV. C. Miller, W. H. Prioleau Charity Commiitee-Joseph Bock C. S. Bennett, L E Williams, Ii. A. DeSaussure, I W. Hirsch. The Grand Master appointed the fol lowing District Deputy Grand Mas ters: First distri t, W. G. Mazyck, Char leston. Second district, G. M. Backner Ridgeland. Third district J. R. Bellinger, Bamn berg. Fourth distric', WV. A. Gyles, Grar iteville. Fifth district, S. J. Watson, J ohn ston. Sixth district, F. E Harrison, Al beville. Seventh district, T. F. Hill, Andel son. Eighth district, R. S. Porcher,Clen son College. Ninth district, F. E. Nichols. Greer ville. Tenth district, J3. M. Linham, Ne bitt. Eleventh district, J!os. H{. Hiamiltoi Lrnion. Twelfth district, J1. W. ArdreyFo Mill. -Thirt'eenth district, J. WN. Seigle~ Winnsboro. - IFourteetnthi dis-trict, I'. Leshe ZI amn Fifteenth district, .ohn A K-ly, ,ingstree. Sixteenth district, W. E. -lones, )arlington. Seventeenth district, F. ). Bryant. Jarion. Eighteenth district, W. L. Glaze, )rangeburg. All were installed except Bro. Ar [rev. The new Grand Master then return d thanks to the Grand Lodge for the ioncr conferred in his election to the ilice, and made an earnest appeal to he brethren to fully inform them elves upon the secret work and con orm strictly to it. He commended Tidings from the Craft" to their con ideration, and advised them to be ome subscribers to it. M. W. Bro. White submitted the ollowing resolution: Resolved, That a committee of three >e appointed to confer with the busi iess organizations of Charleston and mndeavor to induce them tn select as a Xala Week in 1897 the week of the innual communication of this 'rand dge. Adopted. The following committee was appointed: Zimmerman Davis, J. kdger Smyth, Charles Inglesby and W. M. Whitehead. On motion it was resolved that a ommittee be appointed to purchase a suitable jewel or momento, to be pre ;ented at our next annual communi ation to our honored, respected and beloved retiring Grand Master, Claude E. Sawyer, etc. This was adoptEd and ,he committee appointed as follows: J. P. Quattlebaum, Joseph Bock, 0. heppard. On motion of Bro. Sawyer all ofli ers of the Grand L-dge who have not been installed were authorized to be installed in any lodge which they may rEspectively select. Bro. Sawyer movcd that the foreign correspondence report of the Grand Secretary be dispensed with for the coming year. Adopted. The Grand Lodge was then closed in ample form. LEAPED TO HIS DEATH. Clerk of Court for Lancaster County Takes His Own Like. L.%-ASTER, Dec. 9.-Clerk of the Court W. W. Perry committed suicide this morning about 10 o'clock by jumping into Bear creek from the Ohio River and Charleston railroad trestle, three fourths of a mile south west of town. The whole community was shocked when the news came in that Bill Perry had drowned himself. Mr. Perry was a great sull'erer from dyspepsia and since his defeat last summer in the primaries for re-elec tion has been very much depressed. He ate his breakfaft as usual this morning and about 9 o'clock came intc his ollice and asked his deputy. Mr. Jones, if he was busy. Mr. Jones re plied thal he had some work ahead. Mr. Perry then left the ollice and weni to the creek, on the track of the rail road, but on reaching the trestle turn ed and came back in the direction o: town, but soon returned to the creek A school boy saw him walking hur riedly on the trestle with his hat off On-eachi,*& -Thmidde-6Nti stru ture over ihe channel of the creek, hi climbed down carefully to some plan: nailed about 10 feet from the top an< jumped off into the swollen waters be low. The boy who saw him gave thi alarm and a man on the public roat ran down the creek to render help He succeedtd in getting below Mr Perry, who by this time had on th< public road ran down the ceek. Whei he saw Perry he was holding hi; head above water with one hand grasp ing a bush and had his hat in the other. The man called to him to hol< on and he would help. Mr. Perr: turned his head, looked at him fc a moment, turned loose the busl and sank for the last time. Partie with boats and hooks have been drag ging for the body all day but u to this time (S:30 p. mn.) the search ha been unsuccessful. His hat was foun 200 yards below where he was seeni sink. The creek is very full and th water swift. The search will be kep up all night. Mr. Perry was 45 years of age. H was a cadet at the King's Mountai Military Institute just af ter the wai Several years ago he held the othi of county auditor and was elected cler of the court four years ago. He mad a model clerk. He was generous an kindhearted to a fault and was heldi high esteem by all who knew hin He leaves a wife but no children. Ma W. L. Porter, the newly elected, wi take charge in a day or t wo.-State. South Carolinas Delegation. WASH1NGToN, D. C., December 9. Representative Strait arrived here ti day, and was welcomed back to th House by his Congressional associate: He has not yet received a formal ni tice of contest from his rivel, John I Jones, although he has been inforn ed by friends of Jones that a conte will be made. It is understood th; contests are expected from every Sout Carolina district, and the pleas> every case will be based on the unco: stitutionality of the State registratic laws. Dr. Stokes says he is not wc red by the Johnston contest at tl present session, nor does he belie the contestant will be able to mal out a good case in the next Congres Dr. Stokes has prepared his case, at he will be able to stand upon ther turns of the election managers th there were not more than about 3,0 rejections in his district on account failure to register. Conceding these votes to Johnston, Dr. Stok claims that he will have a handson majority over his competitor. E. Webster, who is here looking aft the political interests of his faction the Republican party, says he supp< es Johnston is making a conte againt Dr. Stokes at this session a test. 1f he fails to succeed ont ground of the unconstitutionality, the registration law of South Carohi he will probably abandon his cont< in the next Congress. Mr. Webst does not claim to speak authoritatia ly on this subject, and therefore, it probable that M& Johnston has view the financial .llowance in a cc tested case. lde can hardly hope have two al o wances in the same Cc gress and, therefore, the committee elections mr.y decline to consider 'case at the present session.-News a Courier. Calhoun County Defeated. eort to establish a new county to i, known as Calhoun out portions Orangeburg and Lexington Count t was voted last Tuesday, and was feated in both counties. Orangebt , gave for Calhoun county tso; agair '25. L.-ington gave for Calhc p, county, -!.; against, 55. All p heardfrom A S[ARP DEBATE. SILVER SENATORS OUTWIT REPUBLI- sf CANS ON THE DIG.EY BILL. The Popullmt Senators of Nebraska Moves to Taike up the Deferred Tari!Y Bill for Action and Brings on a Discusslon. WASIT1TON, Dec. 9.-- The Dingley h bill was brought urder discusston af- I ter the calendar had ban disposEd of, Y( by a request from Mr. Allen for unan- c imous consent to have the bill taken r( up for consideration. t1 Objection was made by Mr. Aldrich tI Rep., of Rhode Island in the phrase, ti "Let it Yo over." Mr. Allen moved b that the bill be taken up, notwith- P standing the objection." "Let the bill a be read," said Mr. Platt, "so that the 0 Senate may know what it is voting t upon." a The bill was thereupon read in full, with the free silver sabstitute reported for it last session from the finance committee. After the reading Mr. Aldrich with- E drew his objection to take up the bill and the objection was renewed by Mr. Palmer, Dem., of Illinois. Mr. Allen desired to make a brief statement, but objc..tion was made and the Senate proceeded to vote by yeas and nays on the motion to take up the bill. The motion was adopted by a vote of 35 to 21. The bill having been taken up, Mr, 1 Aldrich moved that the bill be recom mitted to the finance cornmittee with instruction to report it back without amendment. Mr. Harris declared his opposition to the instructions and after some dis cussion Mr. Aldrich withdrew that part o4 his motion. Mr. Chandler. Rep., of New Hamp- I shire reminded Mr. Allen that the pec- t ple had decided in the recent election I that they would not have the free coinage of silver alone, and that if the free silver substitute were voted down the Senate could go on and act on the Dingley bill proper. He asked wheth er Mr. Allen would give his vote for I tho bill without the free silver amend ment. Would he help to remove the obstruction to th:, passage of the bill? Mr. Allen denied having said that he would help to remove any obstruc tion to the passage of the Dingley bill. He had said that so far as he was con cerned no obstruction should be placed in its way. He did not reg;ard the question of free silver as havizg been settled at the last election. It was a very important question and had had - (,000,0W0 votes in its favor. He did not believe that the country could re ceive relief from any kind of a tariff act. Prosperity could not be brought to the country by increasing the bur dens of taxation on articles whiih the people consumed. He was so thor oughly convinced of that f act that he wanted to see his Republican friends - get into the saddie as soon as possible. But he did not believe that they want ed to revise the tariff. "Then why not co-opei ate with us," Mr. Chandler asked, "and get frei - silkeroti-b? '-I will co-operate with the senator and his party," MIr. Allen rejoined, "in my own way. It is not necessary - for me to bow my head and wear a Republican yoke and follow the dic tation of the Republican party, and 1 will not do it. I will say, howeyer, that no obstruction in the nature of Sdilatory tactics, so far~ as I am con 2cerned, will be put in the way of tak ing up and considering a tariff meas ure at an early day." S"We can pass this bill in 15 min jutes." said Mr. Aldrich, "if the sena tor and his friends will allow us to do it." a"Will you present to the Senate and the country," Mr. Allen asked, '-a tar-iff bill that you will consent to be pbound by for the next four years--at |this session of congress?" dThis inquiry elicited laughter among oRepublican senators and shouts of e"No." t"My question," Mr. Allen resumed, "provokes atmost universal laughter on that side of the chamber. You said to the country this fall, that you would, at the first moment, take up ethe tariff question and settle it, and know you laugh when your attention eis called to it. What is there in the tarifY question that would require con gress to spend six or seven months in -. an extraordinary session to consider - it? Why not introduce the McKinley 11 bill,the panacea for all evils, and have it reported here within the next 10 days and passed within the next 60 days? Do you want to threater. the - country with an extraordinary session of congress? Do you want to sit here e 90 days practically idle, and let the - country suffer when you have it with 7 in your power to put a tariff bill on - its passage and have it discussed intel t "tme ask the senator." Mr. Al tdrich broke in, "whether he will vote for this bill as it came from the house of representatives or for the McKinley nor for any other bill that may be pre sented by th eulicans, now, or at any other time?" e'No," said Mr'. Allen,. "I will not evote for thsbill in its present shape. ~You can, however, put it in such dshape that I can vote for it. and that other senators can vote for it who are tnot members of your party." "Does the senator see," said Mr. ofHale, Rep., of Maine, now breaking linto the clloquy, "that it is an en stirely different thing to ask the Repub lican party, which is in a mii~ority ehere-as it clearly is-to take up and rconsider and perfect a general bil]. rwhen the conditions are expected to be entirely changed in congress? The st Republican party expects to have an sabsolute majority in the senate ther." he "Where will y ou get your majority f from?"' Mr. Allen queried. n"I say," repeated Mr. Hale, "that tthe Republican party expects to have r a Repub'ician majority in the senate rnext congress." le "Epets" r Ale hoed with a i"Then,"Mr. Hale weton, "we can otake up a general tariff bill ;and I have tono doubt that we will. All that we ask~ nnow is the passage of the Dingley bill. - hc sa temporary measure, a mea-s as retha ws itededtoendow a De mdiocratic administration with enough revenue to pay the housekeeping bills of the government. If the senator and he his friends were in favor of it a vote be could be had at once, without further of discussion. The senator from Rhodt ies Island could ..withdraw his motion tc c- r-efer and a yea and nay vote on the irg free coinage of silver substitute had ist, If that were vcoted in the bill would g< n to conference, and it would be seer 11s whther smohinio would -not com< " Why is not the senator ready to : tree to that," he asked. "Does lie not :e that the Republican party in this nate is not, as it hopes to be in the I ext con-ress, able to report a general riut revision bill:" "I believe," was Mr. Allen's corn ent on this point. "that the Repub- A can party is in better shape than it ill be in the next congress. (Laugh r.) Continuing Mr. Hale expressed is belief that in the next congress epublican senators would be able to 1i port a 9neral tariff bill which they a( )uld not do now. Bat they were ci adv to come to a vote at once on fl< ie Dingley bill-tirst on the proposi- re on for free coinage of silver; and if tt iat were voted down, on the house ti il. While the discussion was still in fe rogress the morning hour expired st cd the whole matter went over with- w at action. It does not come up again c, morrowv. under any rale of the sen- nr te, but the motion to take up the bill ei nd proceed to its consideration may h e n.ade at any time. a si TERRORIZED BY TRAMPS. t1 l' [oboes Hold Up a Town in True Western Style. Ew YoRK, Dec. 10.-All New Ro- G helle, so to speak, stood at its guns t] ist night. Monday night a gang of tl ramps held up the town in true V Vestern style. and a,; a result there d ras not a man in the town yesterday d -ho didn't admit that he was afraid e bere would be a repetition of the raid st night. n New Rochelle has long been a favor- b Le stopping place for tramps bound b or New England. The town force of f, ue-coats is only six strong, so it is asy prey for the hoboes. V An average of twenty tramps are c ounded up every week even by this a neagre force, and once during the a eight of the tramp traveling season t his autumn sixty were put in the s ockup in two days. Things have s een rather quiet of late and the peace ul suberbanites and commoutors did c iot expect anything like a concerted r -aid. t Taose tramps were nothing if not e iold. They reached town at dusk t Lnd began their work at once, not in i iuiet by-streets, but in Main street, s he heart of the business quarter. "Gimme an overcoat, an' be blame uick about it !" yelled a frowsy, tat- i ered individual, bursting into the e lothing store of Samuel Cohen at No. t 27 Main street. "If you don't I'll mash the whole place up !" Cohen yelled; his wife screamed. Spstairs lives a policeman, and the ;hop keeper lost no time in leaving is wife to face the tramp while lie ummoned help. The tramp didn't wait for his coat but disappeared down he street, while two other hoboes who ad kept guard outside made off too. Smash, crash, bang I It was a stone -ipping through the window of the 1 aome of Mr. Wells in Home Park. A I second later in piled a grimy tramp, I who knccked over table and chairs, yelling for money. The family was I sitting in the next room. He didn't righten them for a cent, and when I they made a concerted rush for the ] came in. Robbery was holding high carnival down on Main street all this time. William Weinstein had a case of rub bers stolen from under his nose. Two ilk waists were taken from the coun ter of a dry goods store. Butchers and grocers were streaming into the police station and telling of sudden onslaughts by hoboes, who made off with whatever they could lay their hands on. Other people were com plaining that the hoboes had been holding up passers-by and demanding money. Altogether the town was de moralized. "Catch him! He's run off with a coat !" cried a small boy, running into the clothing store of another Cohen at No. 243 Main street. "'I'd have told before hut he said he'd kill me!" Sure enough, there was a tramp making off with one of Cohen's $20 overcoats. He couldn't be caught. Ten the other Cohen up the street had another visit from tramps. They demanded hats all arround on pain or demolishing the place, but they were frightened off. At 11 p. m. a strapping big fellow walked into Meyer S. Nathan's hotel No. 145 Huguenot street, woke Mr. Nathan, who was dozing in a chair, and roared "Gimme a drink; I'll hock my shoes for it!" Nathan was thoroughly terrorized and handed cut a glass of beer. Then the fellow began to curse everybody and started to clean out the place. Nathan got back his courage, and with the aid of his waiter threw out the invader, who put up a stiff tight The next minute a stone came crash ing through his $125 plate-glass - win "Help!" yelled Nathan, and the tramp was arrested and locked up after half the force bound him hand and foot. He was 'James Gordon, twenty- eight years old leader of the gang. He said that he was from Albany, and that he' been drinking acohol. The po lice got Fritz Miller, Mount V eanon; James Bvbee, of Cincinnati, and John Ken ney,~of No. 3 Laight street, New York City. Gordon was identified as the man who had broken into Mrs. Welles's house, and yesterday Justice Lamb den fined him $50 and seat him to jail for six months. The others got fifty nine days apiece in' the Westchester County jail at White Plains. All dlay long the tradespeople talked of their adventures. Then they pol ished up their old guns and pistols, peaetostand any sort of a raid. Ne \Yr World. Our Congressmen. WASHINGTON, D. C. Dec. t.-,The members of the South Carolina dele ation responded to their names when Congress assembled yesterday, except Senator Irby and Representatives Strait and Murray. Dr. Strait is con fined to his home by sickness, and Senator Irby and Murray are expected here daily. One of the incidents o. the day in the House was the swearing ii of Dr. Stokes. It is unusual for one man to be s worn in tv wice during Ithe Same Congress, but it will. be re Imembered that at the last session the House decided that there was no elec tion in Dr. Stoke's district, so a new Aection was ordered and the result w as in favor of Dr. Stokes. Repre setatve Litiimer called the attention -of the House to the fact that Dr. Stokes had been duly elected, so he was requested to come forward and. take oa. Accompanied by Mr, Lat .miner the Doctor advanced to the >Speaker's desk and held up his hanc twhile Speaker Reed administered tne Soath after which he was a full-tiedged Cge.man nagmn. A CHERAW AIR filr. EMARKABLE INVENTION OFA SOUTH CAROL!NA GENIUS. Flying Machine With the Power to go With or Against Air Currents, Upward )rDownward. as Directed. CHER.mw, S. C Dec. 9.-The pub :ity given by the New York World's count of the mysterious air ship. ex ting so much atiention on the Paci coast causes your correspondent to port the work of a Cheraw man in is direction. As yet he has men ned the fact of his discovery to but :w, and this article will be as great a rprise to citizens of this place as it ill elsewhere. The inventor or dis >verer or perfector of this strange Lode of navigation of the air has giv i considerable time to the study and as shown his drawings to the writer, ad from his limited knowledge of ich things he is constrained to say iat the thing is a success, particular since he has read the description of ie capabilities of the California ship. Everything claimed by Attorney 'reneral Hart for the western ship e speed, the propelling power, the ie moving against currents of air as ,ell as with them, and the power to art from side to side and forward, ownward or upward, are all possess I by the Cheraw ship. The inventor asserts that he would ot hesitate to take his family up in is ship and that it can be controlled y a child, so simple are the devices >r increasing or lessening the speed. A comparison with the claims made rth the rival shows that the carrying apacity of the Cheraw ship is greater nd capable of much larger freight nd passenger carriage. It is hoped iat he will carry out his idea and oon have a ship constructed to demon trate all that he claims for it. For reasons satisfactory to your orrespondent and the inventor his ame is for the present withheld from he public, but will be furnished inter stedparties who might be of assistance o him in the completion of the work te has undertaken. When a man ees a thing with his own eyes he :nows it and the writer has critically xamined the Cheraw ship and if here is a weak point about it he fait d to discover it, nor does he believe hat such exists. The Cheraw genius has confidence n it those who have seen it likewise nd a litile more time and encourage nent only are needed to surprise the world. That the air will be navigated re long all admit. Attorney General Hart says: "I = of the ooinion that his air ship vill be a success, and its success is far nore probable at this time than korse's telegraphy was at the time lorse first offered the same to the >ublic." So the writer.believes about he one here. Why not South Carolina lead in his? Why not Cheraw lead South arolina? It can do it-it will do it if he matter is rushed. The invnr aere is not on the u.-e, he - t iven the suiet from sCuary standpoint; he is p A an inventive mind and has spen; nuch time gratifying it, and today is tbout ready to astnish the world with .he production of a great human need )ne that is a reality and not an idle .ream of one vainly speculating on an mpossibility.-News and Courier. Hoke smith's Hug. ATLArTA, Dec. 11.-Ex-Secretary Eoke Smith appeared in Magistrate Foute's court today as counsel for Mrs. M. L. Henson, who was charged by Dr. F. T. Powell with robbing him of his pocket book. The doctor states that Mrs. Henson had visited his office to get a prescription. As she was leaving, he asked her if she would not kiss him. He declared that .she did kiss him and at the same time picked his pockets, getting a purse containing $45. The defendant denied te statement and declared that she ran out of the -office when the doctor became amorous. Mr. Smith invited the doctor, who weighs 225 pounds, to hug him and show the justice how the woman picked his pockets. The doctor accepted the invitation, threw his arms around the ex secretary and they hugged each other tightly, but the doctor could not reach Mr. Smith's hip pccket, for he is too stout. Nor could Mr. Smith reach the doctor's gun pocket and the magistrate decid ed that it was impossible for Mrs' Henson to have robbed the physician even if she had hugged him, and dis missed her. Suicide Does Not Vitiate. MILWUKEE, Wis., Dec. 11.-In the supeior court Judge Austin has ren dered a decision in favor of the plain tiif in the case of Bertha Bugabr a-ainst the Supreme Lodge Knights of Pvthias of the World. This case was made a test case in the settlement of nearly one hundred similar cases pending in all parts of the United States; from Maine to Mexico, and on the Pacific slope. The amount in volved is estimated to be upward of $100,000 in sums of from $100 to $500 each. In the present case suit was brought to recover $1,000 insurance on the life of the plaintiff's husband who cmmitted suicide in Noyember 1893, while laboring under an attack of in sanity. Payment of the claim was ref used on the ground that by the terms of the by-laws adopted by the board of control of the Endowment R~ank of the Knights of Pythias it was provided that if a member committed suicide, whether he be sane or insane, or the act be voluntary or involunta ry, he shall forfeit all his right under his certificate of membership. A Gruesome Find. SAVANNAH. Dec. 10.--A special from Albany to the Morning News, says: A ferry fat containing the corpses of three negro men and two others near ly dead from cold and exposure was ircoverd this morning on the bank c f the Flint river, about 10 miles above Albany. John W. Burke, a lumber man, and 15 negroes were conveying a fe ry boat heavily laden pith shin gles across the river near Warwick about S o'clock last night. The rear guide rope of the fiat was arawn too tight. causing the ilet to dip water and break the guide ropes, Mr. Burke and six of the negroes clung to the terry . and reached the shoe. The flat and eight negroes drifted down the river. Three of the negroes jumped over board. Only two of them resehed shore, while the third went ander. The two surviving negroes stAte that the negroes fund dead on the flat this morniga froze to death aft surviving until sunrise this monpg The fiat ,.;ad drftd on the r-iver about 3:>