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The text chosen was icBS^xxriJj^ if, KIIe took of the loa#? of thai place and pot them for is pillows sad ky ck>wtf"uTt?at place > sleep, and be dreanfed.^ j ^ Asleep ob a pillow can filed with ntf fathers it is not stmnge one hxM have pleasant drt^m$. Bat we is a pillow o? rock/ana Jacob Ith i?i? bead oa it, a dream, r angeJa, two proo^ons, those, com ur dowis tie stairs met by those go >$f- sp the stairs. It is "the &sfc *ea*& of Bible record. You may sat 'a dream that it is a noctarnai feiJ isia, or that it the absurd combiaa-< ^T^wi%g^4l^shft> a ut of intonation yoc may say, "It is ily a \ dream," bat God has h&ored ?e dream by malting it the ayenae trough whiei? again jmd again Be is marched upon the human soul, jcided the iaie of nations and langed the coarse of the woria's istorfr. God appeared in a dream to Abi- ] mefech, wS^in^-him against as an* rj lawfa] marriage; in a dream to 'Jo-: seph, fortelliog his coming power un der the figtfre of all the sheaves of the harvest bowing dowxjr- to his aheaf, to j t&e chief butter, fortelling his- disim-^ pyisosmen^ to the ckief baker, an nonno ing his decapitaiko; to Pharaoh, I showing him first the seven yews of f plenty and then the seven years of famine, under the figure of the seven j fat cows devouring the seven lean - cows; to Solomon, giving him the! choice- between wisdom riches and , and Honor; to the warrior, under the I figure of a barley cake smiting down a ^tent; encouraging Gideon in his bat BUfe against the Accelekites; to Kebu- i F, UliUTCl :.MM Ugutcvi ? WiW and a bewcrdpwn tree, fere, overthrow of power; to Jo e New Testament, annocn jftkbf ^ ?wa Wpfe persecutions: to Pi apHpfeg Mm not to be WmBI With the judicial lTIOK, ancient qawtios erary&cdj asks, and that is toaaawer, I belief in dwaaia, X? answer is, I do bo lievtt m dreams, bot all I have to say will be aadfer beads. \ rftenarfc Urn First? The Script oreaaieso fail of revelation from pad rr ? ? ^??3eB gfconide "5E YCBUSHFJ) EVERY FRIDAY *> BY **.?* ._>????!. VlUEi'fGri^^ s. d. ? . ~ - - ? ? >a, they saj. Kershaw Conuty nc^y contraries.' t5?an anything else I pat their dreams roads. After eve r^f*- tfceir waking -roads arc. - - diacord. Now, the v .oieksofoll ?f revelatoin that we rboghfr to be aatisfied if we get no for n | ther revelation. Sound sleep received, great honor when Adam sfcpt s<j extraordinary the surgical incision which gave him Eve did not wake him. Bat -th?m. ja no such need for extraordi timber now,* and he who catch eg an Eve most be "wide awake! No Bead of such a dream as Jacob had witn\ ladder against the sky when ten tferasand times it had bee? dem onstrated that earth and heaven are in communication. No such a ream needed as that which was given to Abubsfcecb, warning him against an unlawful marriage, when we have the records of the county clerk's of fice. c i t No need of such a dream as was given Pharoah about the seven yeSrs of femine, for n$w the seasons march in regular procession, and steamer and rail train carry breadstofe to everv famine struck nation. No need" of a dream like that which en couraged Gideon, * for all through Christendom it is announced and acknowledged i and demonstrated that righteousness, sooner or later, will get the victory. ; - . ' If there ahould come about a crisis m y oat life upon which ihe Bible does not seem to be sufficiently specific, go to God in prayer, and yon will get especial direction. I have morefehrl :99 times out . of 100 in ^ directions given yon with the Bible in you> lap and your thoughts uplifted ^ Sprayer to God tfcan in all the information wiH set unconscious on your p&low. i T e . 1 I qui very easily understand why the Babylonians to the Egyptians, With no Bible, should put so much stress on dreams, and the Chinese, vin I their holy book, ghow King, should I tfaftk their emperor gets his directions through dreams from God, and that Homer should think that all dreams came from Jove, and that in ancient times drtame were classified into a science iButlrhy do you and % put so much stress upon dreams when we have a supernal book of infinite wis dom on ail subjects? Why should we harry ourselves with dreams^ Why; should Eddystoue and Bernegat light houses question .a summer firefly? THt MEAJmfG OF DKEAM9. Remark the second ? All dreams have an important meaning. They prove that the soul is compar atively independent of the body. The rt are loosed, the senses are dull, entire body goes into a lethargy; which in all languages is used as a type ofdeaih, and then the soul spreads its wings and never sleeps. It leaps ?the Atlantic ocean and mingles iir scenes 3,000 miles away. It travels great readies of time, flashes back 80 years, and the octogenarian iai a boy bgain in his father's house. If the soul, beiore it has entirely broken ite chain of fleBb, can do all this, how far can it leap, what circles can it cut, when it is folly liberated? * > . Every dream, whether agreeable or harassing, whether sunshiny a or tempestuous, means so muchtba?_ rising down an4 say: r O am I immortal?; Whence? Whither. Two natures. My soul caged now-r what when the door of c the cage is opened? If my soul can -fly so far in the few hours in which my body is asleep in the night, how far can it fly When my body sleeps the long sleep of the grave?" Oh, this power to dream, how startling, how overwhelming! Ijf prepared for the after death flight, what an% enchantment! If not pre pared for the after death flight, what a crushing agony! Immortal! Im mortal I * Remak the Third? The vast ma 'jority of dreams are merely the result of disturbed physical condition and are not a supernatural message. Job had carbuncles, and he was scared in the nights He says, "Tbou sea rest me with dreams and terrifiest me With visions." Solomon had an overwrought brain, overwrought with public business, and he suflered from erratic slumber, and he : writes in Ecclesiastes, M A dream cometh through the multitude of business." Dr Gregory , in experimenting with dreams ' found that a bottle of hot water put to his feet while in slumber made him think that, he was going up the hot sides of Mount Etna, i - . Another morbid pbysic&n, experi menting with dreams, his feet un covered through sleep, thought he was riding in an Alpine diligence. Bat a great many dreamsjare merely narcotic disturbance. Anything that yon see while under the influence of chloral or brandy or "hasheesh" or laudanum is is not a revelation from God. The* learned De Quincey did not ascribe to divine communication what he saw - in sleep, opium saturated; dreams which he afterward described in the following words: "I was worshiped; I was sacrified, I Bed from the wrath of Brahma through all the forests of A3?a. Vishnu bated me. Siva laid in wait for me. I came suddenly upon Isis and Osiris. I had done a deed, they said, that^bade the crocodiles tremble. I was baried for athousand years in stone coffins, with mummies and sphinxes in narrow chambers at the heart of eternal pyramids, t Was kissed with a cancerous kiss of eroco? dilf s and lay confounded with un utterable slimy things among wreathy ?nod Nilotic mod." Do net mistake narcotic disturbance for divine revela tion. A BSSAM|q?Tg?r A PENALTY. But I have to tell you that the ma jority fof She dreams are merely the peMtt ^outraged digestive organs, yoajbfcv? bo E^ht tonastakethe ^d^dare for heavenly revelation. Late to&m we a wan*uty fed M infernal and diabolical. You outrage natural law, and yon in$olt the God who, made those laws. It takes from three to five hours to digest food, and you have no right to keep joar diges tive organs in straggle when the rest of your body is in somnolence. The general role is, eat nothing alter six o'clock at night, retire at ten, sleep on your right side, keep the window open five inches for ventilation, and other worlds will not disturb you much. By physical maltreatment you take the ladder that Jacob saw in his dream; and you lower it to the nether world, allowing the ascent of the demoniacal. Dreams are midnight dyspepsia. An unregulated desire for something to eat ruined the race in paradise, and an unregulated destrg^fcr something to eat keep# it ig&rexf. The world dur ing 6,000 years has tried in vain to digest that first apple. The worfd will not be evangelized until we get rid of a dyspeptic Christianity. Healthy people do not want this cadaverous and sleepy thing; that some people call religion. T^ey want a religion that lives regularly by day and sleeps soundly by nigfct v_ If through trouble or coming on of old age or exhaustion of Christian ser vice you cannot sleep well, then you may expect from God "songs in the night," but theite are no blessed com municatipfl* to those who4 willingly surrender to indigestible. Napoleon's army at Lexpsic, - Dresden and Borodino came near* being destroyed through the disturbed gastric juices of its commander. -That is the way you have lostVbme of your battle. Another remark I make is that; our dreams are apt to be merely the echo of our day thoughts. N I will give yqa a recipe forpleasaiit dreams; Fill your days with elected thought and unselfish action, land your dreams will be set to music. If aJlda^ou are gouging and grasping and avaricious, in your dreams you will see gold that you cannot clutch and bargains in which you were out shylocked. If during the- day you ?are irascible and pugnacious and ^up powdery of disposition,' you will at night < have battle with enemies in which they will get the best of you. If you are all day long in a hurry, at night you ; will dream of rail trains that you want to catch while you can not move one' inch toward the depot RECIPE FOR BAD DREAMfJi' s If you are; always oversuspicious and expectant of assault, you will have at night! hallucination* oT assas sins with daggers drawn. No one wonders , , that Richard III, the ini quitous, the sight before the battle of Boeworth Field dreamed that all those whom he had murdered fitared at bim, and that he was torn to pieces by demons from the pit. The' scholar's dream is a philosophic echo. I The pbet's dream \ is a rhythmic echo. Coleridge composed his "fcubla Khan" asleep ia a narcotic dream, and wak ing np wroW down 300 lines of it. Tartini, the yiolia player, comjposed his %raost wonderful sonata while aslee^ia a dream so vivid that j wak ing he transferred it to paper. Waking thoughts have their echo in sleeping thoughts. 11 a man spend his life in frying to make bthers happy and is heavenly minded, iround his pillow he; will see crippli who have got over their crutch, and pn> cessions of celestial imperials, and hear the grand march roll dowii from drums of heaven over jasper parapets. You are very apt to hear in dreams what you hear when you are wide awake. ! \ j. V NoWjhftWBg-BhoWnjorf that hav .ing-'&Tiiible we ought -to be satisfied not getting any further communica tion from God, and having shown you that all dream 8 have an important ^mission, since they show the compara tive independence of the soul fromjhe body, and having shown you that' the jnajority of dreams are a result of dis turbed phys&ial conditions,^ and hav ing shown that our sleeping thoughts are apt to be an echo of our waking thoughts, I come now to my fifth and most important remark, and that Is to say that It is capable 6t p?K>f thai God does Sometimesiin our day and has oftensince the tflose of the Bible dispensation appeared to people in dreams, j All dreams that make you better are from God. How do I know it? Is not God the source.of aH good? It does not take a very logical mind to argue that oatL Tertullian and Mar tin Luther believed in dreams. The dreams of Johb Hitss are immortal. St. Augustine, the Christian father, gives n^the fact thait* a Carthaginian physician was; persuaded tire im mortality of t&e soul by an argument which he heaid in a dream. The night before his assassination the wife of Julius Caesar dreamed that her husband fell dead across her lap. It is possible to prove that God dioes ap pear in dreamfe to warn, to convert and to save men. l?y friend ,-a retired seaeaptain and a Christian, tells me that one night while on the sea he dreamed that a ship's crew were in great suffering. Waking up from his dream, he put about the ship, tacked in ? different directions, surprised .everybody on ^the vessel? they thought be was going crny? -sailed on in another direction hour alter boor an<f for many hours uiitif he came to the perishing crew and rescued them' and I brought them to New York. VVho [ conducted that dream? The God of iifeejaea. p BE80CED BY MEAN'S OF I>REAMS. ; against tbe ledge of-jrocks dolled the Caskets. The vessftl-wentdawn , the crew clambered tip on the. Caskets to die of thirst or starvation, as they supposed. But there was a* ship boond for Southampton that had the captain's son on board. This lad twice in one sight dreamed that there wasja crew of sailors dyieg on the ! Casltpts. He told his father of his dream. The vessel came down by the Caskets in. time to find and Vto rescue these poor dying men. Who con tacted that dream? $he God of the rocks, the Goft <*f the sea In 1695 a jvftHel Spcthead for the Wei from * ran. twice one, night that 150 miles away there was a company of travelers fast in the snow. He also saw* in the dream rocks of pef^liar formation, and telling his dream to an old hunt er die hunter said: "Why, I remember those rocks. Those rocks are in tfce Carson Valley pass, 150 miles away." Captain Yount iarpelled by ; this dresjni| although laughed at by his neighbors, gathered men together, took mules and blsnkets, and started out on the expedition, traveled 150 mi&, saw those very rocks which he had described in his dream, and find ing the suffering ones at the^ foot of those rocks' brought them back to eon firm the story of Captain Yount Who conducted that dreuq? The God of the = snow, the God of the Sierra Nevadas. * God has often appeared in dreams to rescue and comfort You j have known people ? perhaps it is some thing I state in your own experience ? you ih&ve seen people go to sleep with bereavements inconsolable, and they awakened in perfect resignation be cause of what. theyj had seen in slnm ber.j Dr.CraUnage, one of the most remarkable men I ever met ? remark able for benevolence and great philan thropies ? at Wellington, England, showed me a house where the : Lord had apjpet .red in a wonderful dream poor woman. The woman was rheumatic, sick, poor to the last point of destitution. She was waited on and cared for by another, poor woman, her bnly attendant Word came to her one day, that tk 53 poor woman had died, aud the invalid of whom I am speaking lay helpless upon the ^couch wojyiering what, would become of ber. in that mood she fell asleep.. In her. dreams sfnMaid the angel of the Lord ap peared and took her into the open air and pointed in one direction/ and there were mountains of bread, and pointed in another direction, and therte were mountains of> butter, and in another direction, and there mountains &[ all kinds of Worldly supply. The angel of the Lord said to her^ Woman, all these mountains betotig to yonr Father, and do you | thinik that he will let jou, his child, hunger and die?" Dr Cranage told me that by some divine impulse he went into that des titute home, Baw the suffering there and administered unto it, cariug for her jail the way through. Do you tell me that that dream was woven out =of earthly anodynes? Waa that the phantasmagoria of a diseased b&tn? No. it was an all sympathetic God addressing a poor womacithrough a dream. jruE dbiUm of johw new roN. Furthermore, I have to say that there are people in - this house who' were converted to God through a dream. .The Rev John Newton, tj^e fame of whose piety fills all Christen* dom, while a profligate sailor on ship btetdr in his dream thought that a beidg approached him and ^gave him a very beautiful riug.andput it upon his finger and said to him, "A|s' long as you wear that' ring you will be prospered; if you lose that ring, you wilj be rained." \ln the isame dream another {person age' appeared, and by a strange^ in fatuation persuaded John Newtou to throw that ring overboard, and it san)c into the sea. Tfien the moun tains in sight were full of fire, and the air waa * lurid with consuming wrnth. While John Newton was re*, jpenting of his folly in having thrown over!x>ard the treasure another per sonage came through the dream and told John Newton he would plunge iutothe sea and bring the ring up if he desired it \ He > plunged into 1 the sea and ^bixmght it up and satfl to John New j ton, "Here is that gen^ but I think I will keep it foryoujje&fcyou lose it again," and Jbhn NewWff cd&Sttfted, and all the fire went out from the mountains, and all the signs of lurid,] wrath disappeared from the airland John Nijwtpn said that he saw in his dream that that valuable gem was his soul,and that the being who persuaded him to throw it overboard was satan, and $afc the one who plunged in and restored that gem, keeping it for him, was Chirist, and that dream makes one of the rncfst -wonderful chapters in the life of that most wonderful man. A German was crossing the Atlan tic ocean, and in bis dream he saw a man with a handful of wbtte^flowers, and he was told to follow the r?an who hai that handful of white flowers. The 6<iman, arriving in New York, wandered into the Fulton street prayer meeting, and Mr Lamphiei ? whom jmany of you know? the great apostle of prayer meetings, that* day bad-given to him a bunch of tube rosea.^ They stood on his desk,, and at the close of the relfgious services jie took the tuberoses and started home ward, :ind the German followed him^ and through an interpreter told Mr Lamphier that on the sea he had dream* ed of Si man with a handful of white ftoweni and was told to follow him. Suffice it to say, through that inter view and folio wingt interviews he became a Christian and is a city mis sionary preaching the gospel to bis own countrymen. God in a dream! John Hairiock while on shipboard dreamed one night that the day; of judgment ibad come, and,that the roil of the ship's crew was called exqept his own name, and that thlge people, this crew, were all banisbeg^ ar^d| in bis dream he asked tb?;: r&der why his own name was omitted, and* be was told it was to $ive him -more opportunity for repentance. He woke up!a different man. !He became il lustrious for Christian! attainment If | you dt> not believe these things, then .yov niust discard all| testimony and reft se to accept anf kind of authorita tive witness. God in; a dreamt * CO:*VEBTED THROUGH A DREA5J. Rev. Herbert Menkes was converted to God through a drfam of the last judgment, and I douhjt if there is a man or wdman in this house today that has not )}ad some dream of that great jd ay of judgment w&ch shalf be ? the winding up of the; world's history. If yoik?have not dreamed ofj it, ^per haps tonight you may dream of that day. | There are enough materials to make s dream. Enough voices, for tjjere shall be the roaring- of - the dements' and the great earthquake. Enough light for the dream, for the -world . shall blaze. ?nough ? -? ? W, t&e mountains shall falL Enough ^nter, the ocean shall roar. iEaottgh &^ronomical phenomena, for Itbe star* shall go out. Enough ?populations, for all the races of all the ages will fall Into line of one or two processions? rthe oue ascending, the other descending; the one led by the rider on the white horse, of eternal victory, the ovher led on by Apollyon on the bLick charger of eterna* defeat The dream comes on me now, and I see ti^ lightnings from [above answering the volcanic disturbances .from beneath, and I hear the long, reverberating thunders that shall wake up the dead, and on one side I see the opening of a gate into scenes golden and amethystine, and on the other side I hear the clanging back of a gate into bastiles of etern&i bondage, and all the seas, lifting up their crystal voices, cry, "Come to judg ment! "and all the voices of the?heaven cry, "Come to judgment!" and crumbling mausoleum and Westmin ster abbeys anji pyramids. of the dead with marble voices cry, "Come to judg ment!" And the archangel seises an instrument of music which has never yet been sounded, an instrument of music tliat was made only for one sound, and tferusting that mighty trumpet through the clouds and turning it this way be shall put it to his lip and blow the long, loud blast that shall make the solid earth quiver, crying, "Come to judgment!'' Then from this earthly fcrossnew* quit, Attired in stars we shall forever sit. FOOD FOR THOUGHT. Itimix^d Wivdom from tb? Columns o( the Ram's Horn. All work for &>d is equally glorioas. He who works for God works with God. \ God ift disappointed when a Chris Uin is not happy. No bad man; ever makes himself any better by claiming to be a saint When we comply with God's condi tions He is responsible lor results. It is a dangerous thing to follow anybody who is not following Christ | When people are hired to be gnod they qnit^yyork as soon as the pay stops. ? If we would praise God more, per haps we would blame our neighbors less. ; J < The devil has no better helper than the man with a fault-finding spirit. They know in Heaven liow much religion thfi rich have by the way they treat poor folks. 7 I k If you have the wrong kind of re1 ngjon in the street carsj you don't have the right kind at church. Do good as often as you have op portunity,: and it will not be your fault if you are ? not kept busy. If you want God's fire to burn brightly everywhere, see to it that it never goes%ut in jnur own heart c 1 The recording angel never strikes a 'balance on his hooks by what is said of a man on hi* grave stone, Oue trouble with the world is that there are too many church members 4nd not enough Christians. To "love the Lord thy God with all tljue heart," is the only law God ever made for the government of men. %t probably does the devil more go?pd to put a long face on a Christian, thau it does to burn down a church. There are men who would be will ing to go on a mission to China who let their wives qirry in all the stove wood. When all people are willing to be come as good as they think their neighbors ought to be, the millennium will come. HOKE SMITH'S FIRST DECISION. ? V. > - Many Thousand Acres of L?nd Restored to the Public Domain. Washington, March 24. ? Secret tary Hoke Smith to-day rendered his first land decision. It was a case of the Southern Pacific Railroad Com pany, and involved the question of the right of that company to land within its granted limits and the limits of a gi ant toHhe Atlanta and Pacific Railroad Company, basing its claim on the ground that the littler compa ny never complied with the require ments of its grant in the matter of lo cating its road, and 'the forfeiture of its grant in 1886. The Secretary holds however, that the Southern Pa cific company had acquired no title to the lands in question under its grant. This decision operates to open* these lands, aggregating many thousands of t^cres in Southern California, to settle ment a.ud entry. The Commissioner of the General Land Off^pe was ac cordingly directed to take such steps as may be necessary to restore them to the public domain. WAKING UP IN A COFFIN. Shocking: and Fatal Experience of a Man in ^ Tennessee. Mii^n, Tenn., March 19. ? There is much excitement in the community of Marshal Chapel over the death of Robert Bell. He apparently died after a short illness of typhoid fever. His bgdy was prepared for burial and preparations mac^for the funeral. In the midst of the services a noise was iheard in the coffin. Quickly bursting the lid Bell sat up aud Was removed to his home* and in a few hoars ;wa? Ming mach better. He claimt^ to have been in Heaven and saw many friends. His wonderful story drew many people to the /house. La?t night he became sick an4 sud denly called out: uThey are coming for roe," and ?fell back dead. His sphysician claims that he was in a tranee and awakening in the coffin, his mind was wrecked. !;?; ]j .1; .\ "lay on NeDalf. and Be He tbat, &c '? Washington; D. ?.. March *23 ? The Hon Franklin Calhoun Caughr riian. like Dink BoW, of Georgia, is on the warpath. He received a letter from Governor Tillman lastv night to this effect: "Complaint is being made" about your absence. The fish interest is Su ffering. Return at once to your duty or tender your resignation/* Citughman swears that he intends o) resign and then go gunning tor his excellency's scalp. ? The J&urnal : ' 91E NEW TARIFF SCHEME. DEVISED BY THE REFORM CLUB OF NEW YORK. To be Submitted to Congress as the Measure to Fulfill the Pledge* Contained in**-" the Chicago Platform. New York, March 22. ? A special committee of the Reform Club of this city, consisting of E.Ellery Anderson, Charles S. Fairchild, TJ^ofmas G, Shearman, David A. Weils, John De Witt Warner and Everett i\ Wheeler, j has completed the draft of a bill, which, when perfected, will be urged upon Congress as a substitute for the present tariff laws and the fulfillment { of <be pledges under which the Democracy has obtained control of the National Goverment. This Special committee was appointed immediately after the election of Mr. Cleveland. Its report, which is the product of much labor, assisted by competent expert knowledge, has been submitted to the regular .tariff reform committee of the club for suggestions and criticisms. , Aft^r such further consideration and amendment as may be fcought advisable, a bill drawn in accordance with.the recommendations of the report will be presented to Secretary Carlisle for his information and assistance in the work of formulating a measure which shall constitute the administration scheme for reforming the tariff. The general principles upon which the proposed tariff bas been framed are in the main as follows: Crude material to be used in process of manufacture arfe generally made free of duty. . In taxing other artjcles, the general object has been to fix such rates as would produce the largest amouptxjf revenue in a series of years consistent* * with large importa tions The ^purpose of obtaining the largest revenue has, howeverj been limited by the consideration of the welfare and necessities of the people at large, and especially the poorer classes^ The purpose of obtaining* revenues for the government having been made in good faiths the sole rea son for levying any of t^ese duties, it has not^been thought necessary and hardly proper to reduce ratio merely for the purpose of avoiding some inci dental protection to domestic products. All duties have beeq made strictly ad valorem, except feome of those which have been levied as. compensa tor for internal revenue taxes upon similar articles pfrniuced at home. In order to secure the hottest administra tion of an ad valorein\^ariff, it is essential that the rates of djity upon the great mass of articles /should be kept at very moderate figuis. Upon articles of immense value and small bulk, it is absolutely necessary to im pose very low duties, because other wise they will be smuggled by whole Bale and no revenue will be obtained. Upon other articles experience has Bhowu that duties cauuot be raised above 25 per cent. Without offering dangerous incentives to frauds, while if they are kept at or below that rate, the inducement to fraud are not often sufficient to coni}>ensate for the ris^k of puuishmeut. A few articles of luxury may be ?excepted from the pe rat ion of these geiieral rules, iu deference to the wide snread prejudice on that point, a.1 though it muy well he doubted wheth er a duty of 25 per cent, is bot as much as can wisely be levied upon anything whatever. All foreign arti cles which; if made here, would l>e subject to iuterual revenue taxes, must, of course, be subject to at least an equal tax. ' Reminiscence of Gen. I**aar?-g?r<t. Gen. Rosser is my authority in the narration of an incident at the first battle of Mauassas. in which he played a some what ludicrous part After the rout commenced, Ivosser, who/ was commanding artillery that day, xas so fortunate as to cut off and capture about 1200 Yankees. Not knowing what disposition to make of them, he despatched one of his aides, 'to inform the commanding general (Beauregard) of the capture, and to receive his commands in ttfe premises. Beauregard saw the messenger advancing, with a small guard and the prisoners a little in the rear, and as the blue very decidedly outshone the gray, the General, surrounded by ia small coterie of officers only, thought that the Yankees must be after him. As he quickened his pace in another direction the couriers (with their prisoners) quickened theirs, and the race was a two-mile one before Beauregard ascertained the fact that be was running from his own men and "captured, enemies.' ' ^He was very angry, and -it was with difficulty that they could cool him down enough to take a reasonable view of the matter and to recognize the fact that the mistake was his own. The Agricultnrjtl College. The trustees ofClemson C-ollege, at their meeting last week, decided to establish a system of water works and sewerage, and the work will be done under the direct supervision of Professor Newman. The buildiugs in course of erection will Incompleted by July 1st, ready for the opening of the college. No elections were held for president or resident physician. Over 300 students are certain to attend the college, and the board expects to accommodate all who apply. Every student will be required to wear a mijjlftry uniform, and the dress suit is to be Confederate jrrev cloth, with black stripe on trousers. The contract for uniforms was awarded to the G. Means Company of Anderson, who will furnish dress and fatigue uniforms at $23,75, to l>e paid n each with the entrance tee. I Caveats, and Trade-Marks obtained, and all Pat ient business conducted for moderate Fees. [?Out* Office i*Opposite U. S. patent OmcE [and we can seaire patent in less time than those i remote from Washington. ' Send model, prawing or pboto., with de<crip .tiou. We adviie, if patentable or not, free of ^srge. Our fc# not due till patent it secured. ' Pamph?.et, -Ho\v toObuin Patents,'' with coat of same in the U.S. and foreign countries sent free. Address, c.aIsnow&co. ^ OF^-WTtirr Omcr. WA8m*CTO*, D. C. 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