The Camden chronicle. (Camden, S.C.) 1888-1981, January 01, 1892, Image 1

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GOD JlND our native land. CAMDEN, S. C., FRIDAY, JANUARY i, 1892. bath school. Rational lesson fob January 3, 1892. I there shall '?me forth a ro1 out 1*0? Jesse, an' J a Branch shall fit hi* root*.'' The prophets were 1 ? - ft ""CJO 1 of J*bovah to tbf> people to to God that t tafey mijcht in sincerity, and manifest the land true God to other nation*. Israel her ^in?, warned them yygment 1 f nnpenitrnt, reminded ff** love to t.iem, and always Pf**rrt to a restoration and glori ?Jh. Tn?> R>i or Suoot and Branch l?th? Mini'' that was promised to Pnam. vu.. 12, 13. He is the Son Wains. vi?.. H; ix., *5, 7. See also ll Rev. v.. 5. Spirit of the Lord nhall rest ^he spirit of wisdom and under we spirit cf counsel and might, M knowledge and of toe fear of R? Here is the fullneoi of the l>i R. See Co?, i.. 1$; i ?. 9; John iii., r? of <*od ?"'< the power ?*??., 24h In there seven state OBmin^ the Spirit in this verae we fffcouaiiesa of JebQvah, the power Jfce nature of things, and the dif thiug? (ww lom and understand (?wer to form right conclusions jg?t rij^ht purposes (counsel and thorough acquaintance with God pre adoratioa of Him (knowledge * All fully found in the coming ?>??? , ' ? I shall make Gim of quick under - fc^the fear of the Lord: and He ?dge after the sight of His eyes, prove after the hearing of fib e R V. says: "His dahghtsa&U. tar of the Lord." or, according toN The fear of Jehovah is fragrance iaPK xl, ?, John viii., 29, the ? apon the first datr-?e. And in He Himself seems to refer to j ?rt of the verse, when He tells Jajee not according to the ap w hat a glorious administration , affairs there w>U be when such ill ait on David's throne and be AM. the earth. See Zech xi r., % *W7th righteousness shall He judge ! aod reprove with equity for the tee earth; and He sbaJl smite the Ik the mi of His month, am i with m af His lips shall Ho s!ay the ? Be wia be incerrnptibly righteous sofortunate ami heart-broken IB Hiai a tru; friend. On the first Ifa Verse read Ps. lxxii., 2-4. The ' of the verse makes its very clear kfcjtdom of righteousness on earth tut ^t*j|fejKondcoming of % ^?fcjjPKes'*- it., #. in connection xix. tl-16. f-ss shall be the girdie faithfulness the girdle of 11 His doings shall be bound up 2^2^- (*? an<* faithfulness, and the ^ vhall be peace, quiteaess and er (Jsa.xxxri, 1&-18). When firstborn higher than the shall mercy be built be established It isrthe privilege of y tru.: believer to antedate t&e kingdom vnjoymg this peace even now. "Xbo wolf also shall dwell with the Uasfe^and the leopard shall lie down with tbe kid; and the calf. and the young lion, and the fatltog together; and a little child ohall lead them There m no naed to spirit ualize this, and the next two verses, as so many do. The simple statement is that the animals heiv mentioned, which now devour aach other, shall in the days of the kingdom five in perfect peace together T^as no doubt they did before sin entered this world. See Isa. lx>., 17, 25; Roro. viii., 21. 7, 8. "And the cow and the beap-sT:aIt feed; their young ones shall lie doyii together; tad the lion shall eat straw like the ox; and the suckling child shall play on the hole oil the a>p, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the ?-ockatnce den Fierce and bloodtlursty. conflicts now ra;;e atnong all iTwatuVes. rational and irrational, but the peace ofj^ara list? shall l? restored; and this pro|>hecy shall be real ; zed on this eartb. aJthou gb we are taught to expect a. pelt burning and shaking, nevertbeles we look for a new heaven an?t earth wherein dwdl^th - righteousness :Heb. xii.? "27. 26: If Pet. iii.. llS.TVn shall man have tht> dominion 'irst gi ^ W^im iu Kdei?, an l promised to bd re stored tfflum i.. 2R; Han. vii., 2r. />Fhej shall not nurcnor destroy m all My holy mountain; for tbe earth be full of the knowledge of the Lord, a* the waters cover the see." Jerusalem sh ill be a city ?*' truth and holiness; Israe!, as a people^ -Jiali be all righteous, and Pal ?stne shall be tbe happy ami honored center <x t ie whole earth tZeclv viii,, 3; Lsa. !x., 21, xsva.. ?ft. In those days, as completely an the water cover the sea, leaving not a ?re* jc* unfilled, so shall the glory of tbe Lord till the whole earto (Mum. xiv., 21; Hab. i?.. 14; Pr. Ixxii. , ls-'jiv. Then shall God's wi-l be done on *art,h as in heaven, and the km ;iiom OO0K. 10. "And in that ilay there shall be a root cffJecae, which shall stand for an e isi . ? of the people; to it sl?ail the Greutiles s" ? >nd H* rest -hali be glorious."' Toe e*^ . >n "cfcat day."' wherever found in Sen .re. has its own peculiar significance. See it arixi tim >s in chapter x. to xii. The com In* Knu is not only a branch from Jesse, but alsr? the root of Jes-e; the root and off suf.ugof David (Rev. xxii.. 16), David's son an> 1 >*vid s Lor.l; the Golman. truly God ami trulv man. He is tho sou of Mar v . son o? iHvid. <r?n of Abraham, son of Col," to sit on David's throne, draw all nations unto Hlf i. and give them the rest of His glory (lfatb. I, Luke i., 32-35, Is?. ii If we are now reJeened by His b!*>\ and overcoming by the ?me, we reign wit:\ Him in His kingdom (|Uv. xr., 11. v.. 5>, 10; iii., 21). That all nations shall seeic unto Him. an. I to Israel ise of Him, is evident from many testi ies of thu Sfftnl through the presets, shine, for t^y ligh* w come, anltho risen upon thee. Ami co?n j t> thy light, and Tightness of thy rising." "At jShall call Jerusalem the L >r !. aa 1 ait the nations shall few gathered unto iu to the name of the Lord fc> Jerusalem." ttsn. ?*., 1, o, Jer. iii., 17i. fJee afao Lsa ii., 1, 3; Uic. iv.. 1,2. As to the giorvof His rest, think of a Urns when there 'Sail l>e no more pain, uor sickness, Htf&r sor j?tr". nor death; no more curse on all tin the devil forever banished, and all and natiotis worshiping Jesus Priooe 0i I'Vice, Wno shall then be ?>t only King of but King of K-ug-an l Lonl of Lcr.ls. |5bi ; llev. xx.. xx?.. xxd., and select the you w.mu for cAe three chapters are It shall b^ earth's Sab'oath, prjce-ling toa New Earth . ?Lessor Helper. On<\ ?f til? H'tVa Tho<*> with only aneien oeotary kootrl aefffe of chemhLrv are a. rare thit there more thar, forty reco mi /. * 1 metals. J i lar^e nu:u >er of t'uc?e c in only " :>2 l^garded ;is curio-ttiss of the laijfrrofcH-y, fot there is no specific >i?c for taen; ia "daed, they are found in nature tn s;ich gusutv-^uantities th.it some of them are pfrjnwtg precious than gold. L^^m-tng these rare metal* is woHrum, tr tungsten, a u>e for w.jich ha* bsea re gnas of eaonnou* calibre TOs^ne. 'nnfortunaw'.j a : natter of ccvn ^teo-wied'^e that &25e guns are fe_lo fracture; but it ha^tK^n found "bv add i a s s very small p eree.,ta.^e Iftcnjjsten to the tine steel ?>f which the a^jbuw lining :s rnade *n e**sticity con- I farced upon the metal which ft (it rf not ! : ? -^wwi before, so in: it will heir ex and confection urier heavy ir;?es withon: *"av. |Tuii2sten w # 'Wfi' of vpry | le quality, an \ ;?;is a triflMes* tnan that oi ^d. ? Journal. i - DECEMBER DOINGS. Tie Latest News From a Trio of States. f | Interesting News Items From Many Points in Our Own and Neighboring States. . 4 VIRGINIA. A girl died in- Chesterfield who had eaten nothing for five weeks. A deputy United State* marshal- is chared with murder io Smith county. The Piedmont Hotel in Louisa was sold fdr $*2,000 to W. E. Bibb. Two thieves were capcured in Wash ington cwincy, putin jail, but escaped. Two hundred and fifteen people at the sbops of the Richmond & Danville Rail roaa in Manchester were discharged last week. Congressman WiWc has l>een elected president of Kfcbrriond Co' lege. A convention of the postmasters of Charlotte county was held at Smithville, the object being to secure increased pay for fourth-class postmasters. The first annual session of the State Temperance Convention met at Richmond last Tuesday. The Hon. John E Ma$h sey was elected chairman. Mayor Elyson addressed the body. City Councilman M. T. Page, of Rich mond, was a-rested Thuralny for en gaging in a turk??y raffle. He was try-' ing his luck in a crowd whf-n a police man- ordered the crowd to desist. Page *fl^glined and was arrested. Nevef^efore was there such an Odd Fell<s*5r lodge as that instituted in Nor folk last week. The new orgauizatio o has a charter membership of 319 and promises to grow even larger. A special frpm Roanoke says: The Norfolk & Western has ordered 15,000 tons of steel rails to be used in the con struction of the Ohio division. Ten thousand tons are to be furnished by tlie Pittsburg steel works and 5,000 tons by Sparrow Point, Md. Tho Roanoke and Southern have driven the last spike in the completion of their road. At the session of the Grand Lodge in Richmond Grand-Master J. Howard [ ^ a ^aUn^on> declining to serve a bsgg^d term, Wm. H. Pleasants, of Hol rfins^Institute. was eke ted grand master of MsSWJS of Virginia: Ma*?$ Page, of Prince Ge^/sje, was elec)ed deputy grand master; J P/Fitzgerald, of Farm vile, grand senior warden, A. R. Courtney, grand junior" warden ; \V. "Tr-- 4^en, grand treasurer; \ W. B. Isaacs, graQU secretary; F. A. Reed. Alexandria, grand senior deacon; R>T. W. Duke, Jr., Charlottesville,. grand junior deacon. NOBTH CAROLINA. Gov. Holt gave his first reception in the Governor's Mansion, Thursday. A company has been organized to build a $75,000 hotel in Winston. Forty-five of employees of the Ral eigh & Gastoa shops, at Raleigh, were dropped last week. A N. Y. company has purchased the bed of the Uwharrie river and will dredge it for gold with the latest improved ma chinery. * The Mecklenburg county commission er have decided against "all applicants for whiskey license and Charlotte will be 4 dry" next year. The Wilmington, ^Chadbourne and Couway Railroad has been purchased bv the Atlantic Coast Line. Warren G. El liott becomes presideut and J. R. Kenlv general manager. The- various orders of King's Daughters of Raleigh have inaugurated a movement to e tablish a home for aged and infirm ladies there. ** ? -o Rev. R. O. Burton, D. I) , for over fifty years a member of the Noith Caro lina Conference, died at his home near Littletbn, Thursday morning, in his 79th year. He leaves several sous, among whom are Robt rt O. Burton, a disting uished lawyer in Raleigh, and Andrew J. Burton, i member of the Asheville bar. jVdvjKicc notes of the returns of prop erty~Tu the State for the current year says that the total of .all property, including valua^on of rail* vs. is $257.0' >2, ( 00. This shows an increase in the valuation of railways alone this year over last year I of nine millions. bhelby has a mechauica! prodigy in the | person of young Lector Esk ridge, the j fourteen -year- ol<i son of Webb Eskridge, i the well-known machinest Young Esk' i ridge can unlock an;,* safe in town in two ; minutes without knowing the com'oina ] tion He was subjected to several se vere tests this week and was victorious | in every instance. He is also an expert i telegraph operator. Wtlsningtop is greatly excited over the arrest of J no. Davis, projnincnt in church affair* and principal promoter of tbc ele gant new Fifth Street Jfethodist church, ou the charge of false pretense to an amount approximating $100,000. Much of the m mey was church funds. Wid ows. orphans and laborers have suffered at his hands. Claims of $60,000 are al ready iu the lawyers' hinds for collec tion. and Davis is in custody of the sher iff. / SOTJTH CAROLINA. The new County Government bill failed to pass the Legislature. A national bank has been organized at , Anderson, capital stock $100,0?;<X The massive stone wharf act; pie) at the Custom House in Charleston have been completed. Barrooms are not ^rofitsble in Abbe I vitfe. That of F. C. Perry was closed last week under mortgage of $1500. ' A new social club fcas been srgantted in Charleston known as the Button Club. Thev have handsome quarters on King street". The executive committee of the board of trustees of Clemson College at a meet ing in Greesville informally agreed that they wili not attempt to open the College : at the time fixed if the Legislature does not pass the appropriation of $65,000 for 1 the institution The Legislative committee reported i favorablv cn joint re-olution to provide \ \. | for the erection of marble headstones i over the graves of the South Carolina , dead at Franklin. Ya. Ross A Smith, president of the Char Ies:ou Poultry and Pet Stock Association, is enthusiastic over the prospects of the . success of the exhibition to r e given by i the A solution next month. K* The Legislative committee on federal ! relations reported fivoruNy joint ntsolu- | to permit tii' French CaUe Company to '' j ' ; t" " " 1 ^ land its lines at some point on the coast of this State. The Duke de Litta is in Charleston and will remain two-or three months. He one of the direct decendints of the seven distingniehed Dnkes of Milan, and arrived in New York from Italy in Octo ber, since which time he has been trav eling through the South. Speaking of the quality of the South Carolina tobacco, II. E. Harman. editor of the Tobacco Journal *ays: "The lit tle tobacco colony around Florence - has grown rapidly. I have seen the tobacco grown there come in cfirect competition ' on the ware house floors with the tobac ce grown in North Carolina and Virginia,-, and I have proudly seen the Palmetto State product lead all others in high prices/' The South Carol iua Legislature has been asked for a chatter for the Norfolk, Wilmington and Charleston Bailroad This Company has been acting under a North Carolina char.er, and now needs another to further its pjaus. It is re ported that his road is to be built from Norfolk to Kiaston, N. C., from which place the main division will continue down the coast to Charleston, while an other will be built to Camden and Colum bia. Both Capitular and Cryptic Masonry" are making rapid progress, and several new councils have recently been institu ted in the State. The Grand Royal Arch Chapter and Grand , Council both meet in Charleston on the second Tuesday in February. Sloan Oglesby. colored,/ and Belle llugdius, white, convicted (>f arsoi and ^jntenced to 15 years impTisonmet, io 1885, were pardoned by the Governor The pardon of Belle Hudgins was mainly ob ained through a lady of Columbia. OTHER STATES. A bill has been introduced in Congress p^ovi?Ung for the appropriation of $10, 000,00 ? for the improvement of the Mis sissippi river. The planters of Decatur and other counties of Southern Georgia have found that they can raise tobagto of fine quality of the Cuba cigar-leaf variety, and are preparing to add that to their usual crops . IN HOUK'S MEMORY. Tire House, After a Short Session, Adjourns Until Saturday. Washington, D. C.. f Special. ]? In his opeuing prayer the chaplain of the house invoked divine protection of the House against the assaults of the insidu ous disease now p rvading the land. Tlie speaker announced the appoint ment of the committee on rules 'as fol lows : The speaker (chairman), Messrs. Mc Millin, Catchings, Reed, and Burrows. Mr. Burrows, of Michigan, presented the report of the boarfH#if visitors to the military academy. Referred* to the com mittee on military affairs when appointed. Mr. Gates, of Alabama, offered a reso lution providing for the appointment of a 8 tan ding committee on order of busi ness, to consist of fifteen members, of which the speaker shall be ex-officio chairman ; ( j ^ \ Mr Bartine, of Nevada, who hat been absent on account of illness, appSfred nt the bar of the House and took the oat)> of office Mr. Taylor, of Tennessee, rising, said that it was his mournful duty to announce the death of his lr.tiul and colleague. Hon. Leonidas C. Houk. who died sud . denly from accidental poisoning at his home in Knoxviilc in May iust." He paid a tribute to hiflftolleaeue. '1 he House tft&i, as a mark of respect to the memory of the deceased, adjourned uniil Saturday. As nothing can be done in the House until after Holidays the major number of Southern Congressmen left for their homes. Representative McCleHan. of Indiana, I says Governor Gary will be a candidate j for vice president in the Democratic con vention, with a solid delegation at his back. Seuat r Call, of Florida, wants Cuba to become a republic. He has introduced a resolution in the Senate to that effect. The President sent to the Senate the nomination of Stephen B. Eikins of West Virginia, to be Secretary of War, vice Redfih! Proctor resigned. A Minister Charged With Wife Stealing. Winston, N. C., [Special.]? Intelli gence reached Winston that Rev. Harri son Biankenship, a Baptist preacher, was arrested on the Blue Rigde Mountain, in Wilkes county, upon the charge of de serting his faiaily la.->t summer and "skip ping with the wife of his neighbor, Thos. Walters, both leaving at home j sevefiU anyiiJUfcfeifdren. Biankenship, at 1 the time of his sudden departure, was ! pastor of several churches in Wilkes and | Ashe counties, and although his educa ! tion was limited, he was gaining consid erable popularity as a minister. Besides | his pastoral charges he left a wife and : eight small children, four of whom have ; since died, and it is said by the attending physician tha*: deatn was brought on principally by the inability of the mother to properly provide and care for them, as the husband and father was their sole dependence for support. Biankenship came back to his father's, in Wilkes, i where he was arrested, claiming that he ; had secured a divorce from his wife and i bad married the woman with whom he j had gone away, lie has been turned I over to the authorities in Ashe, by whom he W?s wanted. The neighbors are sa:d to be greatly wrought up over the man ner in which the preacher has acted. Two estimable and prominent ladies I died here. The rirst was MrV. M. M. Stockton, who passed away at the age of 70 years. Five sons who are well-known business mer. of the county survive her. The second was Mrs. W. p. Sides, who j dropped dead frcm heart disease. HOW THEY WILL TRAVEL. Managers of the Negro Exodus Fiac Their Route. Raleigh, N. C\, [Special.]? The scheme of the negro exodus managers is revealed. They propose to run three ex cursion trains from Goldsboro to W.sy cro;>s. Savannah and Atlanta. Ga. For those: who go to*prk under contract for farmers there wi 11 Oc .vno charge for the trip. The trains aiE to leave immediate ly after the holidays: * The object is to evade the Noith Carolina law against the removal of lal>orer$. 4 Kansas CTty,-3To., has tr'ea to lessen the evil of midnight cats by stringing electric wi^s along the back fences. ? : i ? THE BROADENING OUT Of Southern Development. -vSigns of Improvement Everywhere. The Manufacturers' Record, of Balti more, of December 19, in reviewing the industrial progress-of the South, says : The signs of a general improvement 10 industrial development and in lar^e investment operations throughout the South noted in the last issue of the Manufacturers' Record are even mor# no ticeable this week, notwithstanding the near approach of the holiday' season when business menfgenerally wuk for the -next year before going iuto new\enter pnses. There is a decided revival Ui the projection of new mining, manufacturing and railroad enterpises, and, despite the very jow price of cotton, the general out look m the South is daily growing "bet ter, though collections in mercantile lines may lor a while continue slow. A gen eral survey of the field shows that good progress is being made towards securing the full $800,000 required for the pro posed steel works near^irmingham, while one or two other steel enterprises J are in a fair way to secure the requisite capital. Important cotl-mining enter prises are coming ttfhe front in Texas, ftn<i while one company reported last ue 18 Pitting in a plant to mine 1 000 tons per day, another company with a capital stock of $400,000 is preparing for active work. The opening up of coal mines in Texas will give a great impetus to the whole State. Extensive railroad Z?lu Pl,8hed> and -the openibg of the Norfolk & Western's bridge acro^ the Ohio river marks the beginning of another era in the South's foreign com merce and domestic trade as will brin? foto operation another through line to the est and open the way for pushing v lrgima and West Virginia coal into ter ritory now controlled by Pennsylvania coal. At Norfolk this road will at once commence th$ construction of very larire machine shops, and additional piers and warehouses for the^trtp'ping trade. The maiding of a road/rom Roanoke through I* mcastle to Clifton Forge, which is ?to Ik* pushed, will connect the two mea' systems, the Norfolk & Western ant P the he peaJie& Ohio, and open, in connec nectiou with other lines, a direct route botween/HPittsburg and the South. In eve-y direction such signs as these tell of t i?' rapid advance which the South is m i king. The fact is also emphasized bv the report of industrial enterprises men tioned in this week's is^ue of the Manu facturers Record. Among some of the :n re important ones are the near com pletion of large tinplate works at Balti more to make 1,800 boxes a week, and of the cotton-tie and rolling mill at Denison I exas, giving that State cotton-tie mills'; fiie organization of a bridge-building company at Anuiston, Ala. ; a $250,000 coal-mining company at Parish, Ala ; a $2>,000 lumber company at Perdue Ilill Ala ; a 600,000 phosphate company a ? >.*<>,000 phosphate company and a $10 ? COO phosphate compauy in Florida, 1arce phosphate works in the same Stute to be ? "lit by a Georgia company; a $10,000 elevator-building company.* Atlanta, and "c removal from the west to Chattauoo g.i of a similar company; a $12,000 lime and fertilizer company, Augusta, Ga. ? a canal-coal company, Mavsvillc, Kv ?? *500.000 fuel-gas company at Newport, - ? i a $25,000 tool-manufacturing com pany at Baltimore, Md.; a $100,000 min ing company at Chattanooga, Tenn. ; a *50.000 coal-mining company at Dallas 1 exas; a $535,000 contract for extension of water works at Fort Worth, Texas. ? a $50,000 lumber company at Leggett ' Texas; the sale of 80,000 ?ci*s of timber ?and in rexas; a $50,000 ice-iiictorv com pany at San Antonio, Texas; a $25,000 lumber company at Newsoms, Va.; a $25,000 woodworking company at Rad f<>:d, \ a. ; a $50,000 shoe-factorv com pany at Charleston, W. Va. ; a $10,000 ? on-manufacturing company at Hunt ington, W. Va ; a $50,000 glass- wqrks company at Kanawha City, W. Va. a $200,000 coil-mi&hr^ ^company at Fort Smith, Ark. ; removal of hardware works from New Jersey to Martinsbur" W Va . etc." / b' ' MILWAUKEE IS WIDE AWAKE. She Will Deluge Washington With Beer to Get the Demo cratic Convention. j I Milwaukee, Wis., [Special.]? A j hundred citi/.ens signed their names to a I guarantee fund of $100,000 to pay the j expenses of the Democratic National | Convention, should it ho secured for Milwaukee. A booming committee has been selected and hotel quarters secured. | in Washington. Milwaukee will make a j big elfurt to secure the prize, and the j representatives, who are to present the j figures to the National Committee at its meeting next mouth, will go to Wash iugton in style. Each member of the committee of one ? hundred will wear a dark suit with cri am- j j colored trimmings, and one of the big i breweries will send a car lo d of beer to j the cap tal for free distribution. An ! architect who examined the Exposition building reported that 'here would be a j seating capacity of 22.000. with standing ; room for 5,000, and 4$ delegation rooms, j -Twenty thousand dollarg will be spent in refitting the building. telegraph brevities. Reports of the ravages of influenza in j various parts of Europe are constantly 1 received. order has been issued ordering all j telegraphers on the Pacific system of the Southern Pacific road to strike. John P. Richardson, one of the lnr gest and Uest known cotton planters in in the South, died at Dallas. La. The new tariff bill introduced?3?n the chamber of deputies in Lisbon is strong- 1 ly protectionist in character. The Portsea Island Building Society, of London, has suspended- The estimated securities held by the society amount in j value" to ?700.000. The Russian minister of war ha? sum* moned all the chiefs of the general stntT to attend a council to make a new dis position of Russian forces. The amount of silver offered for sale to the treasury department Tuesday was 720,000 ounces, and the amount pur- c? chased 2">0.000 ounces at 95 cents. The steamer Advance, ?which has ar- 1 rived .in New* York from South An.e ica, reports'tfca* on November 2S'th C". II. Nelson, quartermaster, died of yellow fever and was buried at sea. The steamer Herbert, of Chattanooga, from St. Louis, was sunk at Florence. Ala , after having successfully pa-sed through Muscle Shoais canai. ALLIANCE DEPARTMENT. i / ? n ? "V? ' i The Movement Has Spread Over to England. The Liberal Party There Takes Up The Cause of the British Tenantry. A London cablegram says; : The Lib eral Leaders in the English Tarliamcnt are determined that something shall be doutfcfor the farmers. One of the prin cipal Liberal jouuials says: "The magnitude of the Librral victory in South Molton and the conviction that the capture of the rural vote by Efberals will lead to overwhelming success in the general elections has lifted the measure in fuvffr of tenant farmers into the frout rank of the Liberal proposals. This resolution on the part of the Liberals has been hastened by! a movement of the 1 Conservatives in the same direction. The j history of the Conservative party presents Sao-chauge more surprising or mote sud den than thaC which has occurred on the English land question under dread of what would happen to landlord's interest"1 through the uprising of the Liberals aud farmers under theLibcrals. Since thc^outh i Molton election the London -194vfee has led in advocating the adoption in Eflg | land of the Irish laud purchase act. The laborer must have power to acquire small plots of land cheaply aud through simple i methods, aud the State must also assist fanners to become owners against a cer tain number of years without paying more than the customary reots. It is un certain to what length the Liberal lead ers will go iu shaping the tenant farmers' | bill. Opinion of the National Liberal ! Club is in favor of giving the farmers judicial rents ts in Ireland for a defindte peviod, aud purchasing powers similar to those granted by the Ashburn act.w From the above it appears that the fanners are making trouble in other countries besides Auieiica. T- i ^ ****** The Farmers' Advocate (Charleston, W. Va.) savs: -J "How much longer will it take for the majority of the people of this country to realize the fact that- what promotes the prosperity of the faimcr solves the prob lem of national prosperity. Truly, when th? demands of the Alliance arc clcarly and fully understood the present antago nism will disappcarJjLkc morning vapor befoj^/ the rising sun. If every one wouki read iu an earnest search for the truth, fh*$LWOuld not be long in grasp ing the situation." ****** Vice-President 11. L. Loucks wa% elec ted president of the National Alliance at St, Louis in December, 1889, and terved one j ear. Last year he was compelled to have one leg amputated and he now iibes | crtches. lie is a very able and true j man. , j In the United State*, Europe, Canada and Australia, we find 209,000,100 people depending upon agrieultwe for support. In this pursuit there is invested the enor mous sum of $40, 000, 000, 0> 0. The table below will give sonic idea of the magni tude of the farming interests of our coun try: Farm products of the United States (-r),?56,624,ut Value of farming land l-i.VW.OCttOUU Value of agriculture Interests 13.2j6.6Kul Total taxable wealth 4?.l,4T2.a0i>.IK|O Real estate of oltles and towns 1 4,0Uii, 0CX\l?t) Railroads of t he United States ?,'XI(I,(HO,000 Manufactures | 9,"Oty>VOO The lesson taught by these figure? should be carefully studied by every man who \ft>uld gain a true idea of the gratify of the reform problems now up for solu tion, especially that embraced in the money question. When we reflect that the true function of money is to "repre sent the value of property it exchange" we discover the importance of this ques tion to the American peopie. It is found that all the precious metals, t?d they are called in the country do not amount to one-third of the annual hay crop alone. It cannot be questioned that with this immense value of products to be ex changed. a speedy and immense increase of circulating^iffedium .should at once be furnished the people. " Christmas Joys. First Darling? 44 Wfcit ili?i you do oa Christmas day?'' Second Darling ? "I sucked the paint of! a red horse.'' First Darling ? "I swallowed a cent and a handful uf sawdust." Preached Against Free Mason#. Washington, Pa., j Special.] ?The Rev. \Y. L. Weaver has resigned as pas tor of the Presbyterian church of Hur gettstown. He attended the meeting of Presbyteriau General Assembly and ob tained from a brother preacher a book purporting to be an exposure of Free Masonry. Mr. Weaver read the book, oid became fanaiipl on the subject. In .i sermon he vic!ently allocked the Ma sons. II is congregation,, 'which includes several membeis of the Masonic order, severely censur-jd him, and he resigned. Adulterated Honey. "They arte now making honey out of su~ar, mineral acids and water. It both tastes and smells like honey, an 1 is s*i7 to be wholesome. Tue time seems to be coming when many articles of food mil ; be made by che:ui$ts out of strange sab stances, instead of raised on the farm. The door of the laboratory will soon open into the kitchen." ? .V?f;r Fork Jour aii. \ The President Bardontd Them. Washington, D. C.. 'Special.] ? The president h^s granted a pardon t> John F. Weathei s, convicted in Georgia of vio lating the internal revenue laws, and alto to Ben Wright, convicted ia Tennessee of violating the postal laws. i ? i . GREEN GOODS-GREEN GEESE. I Two Men from SpoH&nburg, S. 0., Caught ly New York JUac&ls Sharper than Themselves. Jrrsbt City, N. J., [Special]? Mich ael C. Trislev and Garrison Peftuth, both froip: Spartanburg county, ! 8. C., "were arres^a by Dectectivc Kilcauley at the Central Railroad station in Je^sy;City while fhey were waiting for a trai^ that would \tnke them home. They had] them a' neat box filled with package greeu/paper cut out to the exact s| bjjjaJf notes, with good bills on th^ out side of each package. They were ^aken to the police headcuartera, where told the superintendent their story. "ft ? ji._ it _! 1 ?' 3 Ize of they y ulars Se-apral months ago they got cirqu sign^l4G. Watt*. of No. 141 Mott st?eei, New York, ^telling them ijow a few dollars would buy lota of other*, in distinguishable ftom thoBe issued by Uncle Sam; stolen platqe were used to Lmake the bills, and they were all light. I The men sent on for some of the; stuff and received word that it had beeti for* warded by express. It did not come to band and they reluctantly concluded that the express company had lost it. Then they sent for more . That, too, wai loat in transit, they supposed, for Watts as I sured them that it had been expressed to thenf. They made up their miida to trust no longer to the express companies. They would go to Nev York themselves. [They wrote to Watts and were instructed to go to the Columbian Hotel, No/ 111 Korth Bro\d street, Philadelphia, ' ^herei tbey would bo met by an agent of Vfatts. This they did "and were . met by a man called "6kip." He took them to a place on Mott street, where they met one! Har ry Miner and a man namtftKUBig Bill," whose name was Miner, ^ney gate up $1,000 in good money for). as they: sup posed, $20,000 of counterfeit and started for home by way of the New Jersey Cen tral. ? ? | | . I "? When they saw the box openeXflnd found that there was -only $30 in it they wcie as much disgusted as they were sur prised. They were sure that the "goods" were there, as they had seen the bpx prepared and nailed ; doton. They were anxious to punish the gang who had got so much of their money, and Superintendent Smith, remembering that the hist batch of Southern counti^men arrested by Kilcaulcy had gone to Mott street and bad been entertained *>y "Har-. ry Miner" and Big Bill, sent them tq Superintendent of Polic Murray, In New York. EDMUNDS IS RETAINED. r - Vermont's Ex-Senator Bu Charge of Davidson's Case in the TJ. 3. Senate. Aixkn, 8. C., [Special. ]? Ex-United States Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, is at Aiken for bis health, and has been here for some time. For the past few wteks he has been I busily engaged jn studying the case of Mr. Davidson, of Florida, who is con testing Senator Call's scat in the United State's Senate. Senator Edmunds has been retained bj Mr. Davidson, and it is said he will do his utmost to convince the Senate that Call should be unseated for Davidson, who Edmunds believes is entitled to the seat. ^Senator Edmunds positively refuse? to ft into the merits ef the ease or to ?ay anything about it, and expressed great surprise that it had been ascertained that he had been retained as as council for Davidson. He has been in conference with Mr. Davidson, but all that lias been said has been private and confidential, ?ud he will not reveal the nature of what has trans pired between them. THE LAMP EXPLODED. A Lady and Child Both Dead, and ?the Father Fatally Injured. Columbia, S. C., | Special. J? A horri ble and doubly fatal accideut occurred in this city Tuesday night at the home of J. E. Ford, a painter in the Richmond and Dsaville 'shops. lie and his wife and child were sitting around a lamp, which from some unaccountable reason exploded. The clothing of the mother and child caught tire and they were hor ribly burned, all tlieir clothing being burned from their bodies. The husband, in attempting to- extinguish the flames, had his face and hands and arms fearful ly burned. The mother and her son were so badly injured that the skin and flesh peeled off. The child was more se verely injured than either and presented a most pitiable sight. Dr. Kendall was called in to attend the family and he did all that medical science could to alleviate their sufferings. Mrs. Ford and her child both died in themori# ing, the child first and the mother soon after. Mr. Ford is now in a critical con dition, though strong hopes are en'er tained that he will r. cov'-r DISGRACED HIS CALLING. A Preacher Who Posed a? An Evangelist Is Put Out of An Augusta Hotel. Augusta, Ga , [Special.]? Rev. Thos. If. Leth, of Charleston, 8. C., the greit evangelist who crealed so much religious excitement throughout South Carolina last year, was put out of the Augusta hotel here for being beastly intoxicated. Mr. Leitb is a preacher of the ultra s; nsational fltripc aud his sermons last vear drew immense crowds. He used the most aggressive language in his dis courses, and made a specialty cf society evils. In a sermon at|_Williston, 3. C., last year he seriously ^offended maay of , his hearers by declaring that no man ever waltzed w ith a woman without havipg in his heart inipiire and unholy desires. As a frtrange coincidence, one of the gentle men whom he offended on that occasion w as present at the hotel and witnessed the maudlin sceue in which the reverend gen-leman was the disgraceful actor. Mr. Leith whs foftcd to hunt for another hotel. Flogged and Blacked in Valdosta* Savannah, Oa., j Special. ] ?At Val dosta in the night Dr. Benton Strange whs taken from his ro rai by a mob $nd after being flogged was given a QOSt of ink. Til-; citizens objected to Strimge's^ conduct while on a spre^. He was not' lerionsly hurt and has TEE WONDERS OF ALASKA ! LOVELY GARDENS IN THE MIDST / 1 OP* VAST FIELDS OF ICE. ? J - ! ' Field* of Luscious l<>nit Along a : Glacier's Kdge? Experiences of ! an Exploring Party, Strawberries and mosquitoes ^eem to be equally plentiful in the neighborhood of Mount St. Klias, according to the tes timony of Mr. Israel C. who has just returned to Washington fnjra that region of eternal ice and snow in Alaska, ? where tne highest peak in KortK America I rfjaes to an altitude of 19, 000 foet from s glacier 1000 square miles |n area and as big as all those of the Alps put together. Along the edge of the glacier, a\l the way from Icy Bay to Yakutat Bay, there extends a strip of green coast \Ktich is covered with luxuriant vegetation. Strawberry vin .s cover the ground for miles, and tih$ verdant fields are reddened aa far the eye ? can reach with luscious fruit, which compare* favorably in poin of 'size and flavor with the finest gvowij in t(?iMGate latitudes. There are huckle JjepriesTtoo, and Vsalmon berries," which ; ar* something between blackberries and -. rasp^ef ries, but at giant size) measuring nearly two inchea in diameter. All the lowlands ate carpcted with violets, but teacups, yellow inonkey flowers, and otharwild blossoms. Here and there, in th\midit of the vast ice fields, are the loveliest gardens watered by the melting snow. I There are plenty of grizzly bears li| the vicinity of Mpunt St. Elias, but Mr: Runell did not fljnd them very danger^ ous. He says thiit his encounters with them, reminded him oT killing pigs.# Ol brown and black! bears he saw and shol a great many. The expedition met with enough perils, however, to satisfy thf moat adventurous geographical explorers. Nearly all of the climbing had to be donf up steep walls of ice and anow by cat ting steps. At almost any time a slip would have precipitated the party down the frozen precipices thousands of feet On one occasion they were descending when they found that an avalanche haa carried away the iteps which they had made ingoing up; The impromptu stair case wafc destroyed for 300 feet, and they had io lower a man by a rope to chop out another, there being no other way of getting down; 8uch. accidents a4 ?this wgre not uncommon, Avalanchei were continually falling, rushing d^wn the slopes with the apeed of railway trains and with a roar like thunder thai could be heard twenty miles away. One night about Vt o'cloek the part} was passinj^ver a bad^Tace in the Agas siz glacier. Two men were in the lead, drawing a sled. Suddenly they disap* peared from sight, having fallen into s | fissure in the ice. Luckily tney wer? j caught upon a projecting ledge at the depth of about twenty feet, else they would never have been seenagiin. They were hauled out with ropes. The nexl day, in the same neighborhood, Mr. Ru*-? sell chanced to looked behind him and saw that the ice field ove^'which he had just passed was gone, leaving an enor mous hole of unknown depth* Another time one of his men tumbtfcd into a crevasse, and was only saVed by"the pack fastened to his shoulder^ whit& Tnttfr**. rupted his progress thro<toh a twist in the frozen tunnel that had yawned for him. The Agassiz glacier is one of the four great glacieis which, together with about a thousand small ones, flow out from the mountains at the north to the mighty Malaspina glacier, pouring their streams of ice continually into this va3t~ frozen sea. Tim glacier of Malaspina, from i500 to 2000 feet thick, is interesting , not merely because of its enormous size, ! but uiso by reasou of the fact that it is | the only one now in existence of the | same type as the glacier which formerly I covered all of this continent a? far south | as Philadelphia and St. Louis, leaving j traces that are visible to this day in scratches on the rocks \\ here the land in that region is bare oi ice the vegetation attains an almost tropical luxuriance, and the Arctic jun gles arc well nigh impai-able to the ex plorer. One of the chief obstacles en countered in threading them is a planl known na the "devH'a club," which grows to a height of ten or rifteen feet, its s.ems running aloujj the ground foi .some distance and then turning upward. Every part of its. surface, even to the ribs of the leaves; is thickly set with spinel* which inflict painful wounds, and, breaking off in the flesh, cause fes ter ;ug gore>. In the Lucia Glacier oc* i curs a most interesting feature, in th< j shape of a glacial river which comes oul j from a mountain through an archway oJ I ice, Sows for a mile and a half in plain | view, and then is lost to sight in another tunnel. here the stream emerges finally "s unknown. No explorer has aa yei been bold enough to enter the tunnel aud drift through, after the fashion of Alian Quatermain and Uimlopogaas. Tfie J greatest risk in auch an undertaking would be from falling blocks of ice. At the moutb of the tunnel thert are al ways confused noises aud rhythmic vi brations to be heard from the dark re cesses within. The air is filled with I pulsations like deep orga^ not-w, and it j rcju ros but little imagination to trans ? fonn these strange sounds into the voices j and songs of inhabitants of the nether j woii l. It u->e 1 to be supposed that I Mount St L ias was h volcaa >, and sea I <r.;:?:aijn s rling on the Pacific have often I Oe'atld what they imaijinei to be smoke ixvuiui; fr j n its f-UTjrnit; but this is s mistake, and if i< probable tba? tae al leged smoke was really ava'anche dull . blown upward by the wind. ? St o York Too Many Insane Persons m Maine. i : ; JfUsooa, [BpeciaVl? The t. tuition at th* M-icc Insane Hospital at August* is becoming serious. Tlae initiation was I crowded with patients twe years ago, and a bill for the rtUMishmetit of a new asylum at Bangor introduced in the legislature, but it refused to make any ?l>piupriation for the[ purpose. In the .Wlum are 678 patieew^lia*). the numWr i~ increasing rapidly. The authorities are at their wits' end to know *hat to do with the next batch of luoatirs, all the cells being occupied, while many pa- ; tients are obliged to sleep on cots in the hallways. ,| A new naptha spring of immense ca - pacity was recently opened in Bi'<oo, Russia. If it continues with the same power3 as at present, it will be the rich est naptha fountain in the tforld. SELECT jElfTOfQS.' | Lake Erie is said to be drying up. In Palestiae thereiare now 78,000 He brews. Only one Atncricitf la 261 J ?i4 feet/in height Tea per cent, of the populattonof ln? dik are widows. ' A Nuremburg (Germany) watcV in thf form of an acorn has a liny pistol which serves m an alarm. ' The oak and elm hate figured i i Uteri atnre more frequent y than any* Other of the native forest tre< i. % " Specttloles invented in Um ji 32J, b 4 were.:. not1 la' general ow! i nearly 200 rears tab ?. I ; 1 The ratirca of he Frundl, spend most of thei tide faMta* They are great swinmert aadijivj This yearten bo; of ten and sere a Royal Knmaae ing life. The annual am of this icountry, if cars, between: received the '* medal t of sawed Jumbei ? OpOBihC ' a train wpuld const . miles lohg. w Thunder and liglitaia?:are o lv rare on the P^cittc coosti i ! thunderstorm has visited Callfbi twice injitwelve yeiw. The oldest m%ujto the w$cldl is be lieved to be Michael ttalU, a lilf breed living in Bogota, in* San S4lv*dorf It fa certain that he is 130 years oh}. I Carina i, Me., a heavy horse am strength of! the train war* almost a, ? : His friends claim hi is in 2?aint). I k tap the County of land miles in {100 fee icoit $2,000,000. ! (Jn ier thje deat. bourne (Australia company North and reclai by bnild length, ei ; in wid c w\V > follow t&obody far The undertakers addresses and telephone limbers*! j A recent traveler jii all tho small silvft have holes in the' American dimes an J foration 1 is done tc _ moQcy, iii the country. hjles in a piece doel not appetr : its excUangeable value. Tbo Ipngth of the structure tru Mississippi at Memphis Teno. is to 800t> fcet-brid^, 2B00 T 'J "" viaduct. '4300; timWer trestle, Its eight piers are to bo 117 tgi If in height, The defcpeit fotffrj 131 feet below low-w<tef central spaa is to Ik 63L feet with cantilever ar?i* 169-feet IhJltjngtiO Deposits of mectchsum har4 found on tbo Si?j>ello Creek, tw^nty*!^ V miles north af Silvtjr City, Ns* Jiexlco, and near the aluta deposits ie| tbo Gila River. The principal veiii,li eight C inches in width, and cubical blocks, with faces six to seven inches in length, hare been obtained. Oue block eight Inchet S thickness by three feet in width tod five feel in length! the deposit. Over sou book containing $7j the empty pocketboi would be returned a son received an an has been saww from UU(IU?R -.1 )ver sixteen yean ago Nic'ujta'l Ty? , of Manistee, b icb., lost rv p>ckct p>ckct A fe.v dm later t?k was toss dd into his ? wagon with a nofce,Uying thatths iimey s soon as the finder could aftord it. Tie other day Jft. Tf ptiymous note road* ing: "Here is yoir $7. ^ spent tho ' money and never w;|s able to jjise it back until now. Much Obliged for the use of it." . { A noted medical jpraotitioneir once told a newspaper man that there was no need of bathing. "You; might as well grease jourself all over," said hu. ''Look at the noble Comaucllfe. Where will you find a more lithe and lusty speoitnon of Jgiie, muscular ntaahood? lie never cuthes. He hatei tiw tater with as keen v an antipathy as doii a m%d ^og. Take . my advice, young maul, imitate the Cj manehc. What he| knows hi knows b/v experience just as u bear kuo;vs*that his place is on dry laid and a* a beaver ksowshe can Uveijt the wet.'' ^ ; A Rush Tor Dangerous Occupations. One of the curiois feature* of modem life is the extenc to which the most has- - ardous trades are overrou by applicants for work. The electric light companies never find auy difficulty iq/bbtaining all the linemen they need, notwithstand ing the fact that the dangers of that kind of business have been demonstrated times without ntunber. The men who work in 'factories where wall paper i* made fre ij ueD tl y joke ode another over the tnvlitiar" that a man's life, in this *rvlo,"is short ened ten years. A similar belief is prevalent in factories where leather papers are *tnade, andv imonir tiiuii who have to handle them ind whose lungs are said to become uu? jv | hv inhaling the dust arising from uic. j papers, la cerutin other factori^^^ where Ifrass ornaments and fittings jtn i made, the air is laden with very ftae v ;)r;t/.'!n particle*, which are.wheo inhaled^' specially irritating to the lungs. But jne of the most singular advertised calif for employes that was ever printed aft peared recently in a Connecticut nc*f paper, jigucd by a firm engaged in uie business of building towers. / ; It called for applicants only among those who are youeg.strongaud courage ous. and. closed by! skying: s ' We waru tli seekers for this job that it is of the m^*. dangerous .nature, an-l that few men continue in \i more tntu a few I years. in f*et, it i\almotf certain death I t<> tiie worUm in w'aN-?rollo*J this occtt ! .?ation." ? Sic (fail 'A jrJr i "*) A Mercury Mine, i ? The San Antonio fctf.ra 1 says that ffit discovery of a mine of quicksilver is re ported in the mineral region of 'Cexas, kuuwn as the L!upo district. Th? metal issues, it says, fr?>;n spring that flaws from a figure in tha rocks oa a hillside, and is found in onsideraole ipiantitiei in the bed of the spring. This wonder ful spring is sai l to to; located not a great distance from the receus find of gold on ,'ieaver Cre?^. ? JVitrvns.