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VOLUME. VII. REV. DR. TAIMAGE. i "7 " V VIIIS NOTKD l>KV!NK'8 SUN1>AV K?OIM1(*N. at Uantl."? Rojnwu mJ?wu from1,hft mountains and tho seasldo, vSP l({3> a,1<* t,i0 farmhouse, your ?,?fi bronnjd h,ul your spirits lighted, I Ball you homo again with tho words of -ueitmji to tho Shunnmmlto: "Is it well with waiV' it? }li wi"1 ,l,y htisbaudV la It well with tho child? ' (>a so mo tuoos I sea ot *'6ci6nt but all along tho I.. > tears 1 seo tho story of roaurrootion ?0u reunion \vh<m nil tears are dono; tho aeon plowing' of tho kr>ol, followod by tho Hash of tlu> phosphorescence, Now that I ?*V0 hakeu you in regard to your welfare, 5?i? naturally ink how I am. Yory woll, thank you. Whether it was the tracing air <ot tho mountains, or a bath in the surf ot fj OOg Island b, ;U!h, or vrhoihor it is tho joy ot standing in t hi.s groat group of wnrm nearjert friends, or whether it U* a new op preolation of tho goodness of God, I can not tell. I simply know I am happy. - Lt^*.w,y? en}d that John MofTatt, the groat Juethodlst preacher, occasionally got fast In his Bomon, aud to extricate himself would <uy Hallelujah. 1 am In no such prodlca mout to-day, but I am foil of tho same rhap _ ?godi<> ejaculation. Stalling out this morn pg on h now ecclesiastical yoar, I want to give you the keynote of my next twelve* Months ministry. I want to set it to tho tuties of ' Ant loch," ,lArlel" and ''Corona ?lo?ij X want to put a now tr\\cnnet stop 'Into ray sermoUs. Wo do wrong if woailow our personal sorrows to interfere^ with tho glorious fact that tho Kingdom is coming. We are wicked if we allow apprehension of National disaster to put down our faith in God and the mis-ion of our American peo f?l?. Tho Qod who hat I* been on tlio sido ot hie Nation since the 4th of July, 1776 will ?oo to It that this Nation shall not oommit suicide on November 3, 1800. By tho timo the unpaial o'e,i harvests of this summer got down to tho sea-board, wo shall bo standing in a sunburst of National prosperity that will .paralyze tho pessimists, ayIio by their evil (prophesies ftro blaspheming tho Qod who riath ble3t this Nation as llo hath blost no other.' In all our Christian work you aud I want < more of tho element of gladness. No man liftd a right lo Kay that Christ novor laughed. Do you suppose that Ho was glum at the /wedding in Cana of Galilor? Do you sup pose that Christ whs uurosponsivo "whon tho -children clambered over His knoo and shoulder at Hia own invitation? Do you snpposotliat tho Evaugolht meant nothing when ho said ot Christ: "He rejoiced in spirit?" Do you bolievo that tho Divlno Christ who pours all tho waters over tho rocks at Yornul Falls, Yosemito, does not bollovo in tho sparkle and gallop aud tumul *U0?3 J?y end rushing raptures of human life? I beiievo not only that tho morning . ? . laughs, and that tho mountains laugh, and that. tho eons laugh, aud that the oasendes laugh, but that Christ laughed. ? Moreover, tho outlook of tho world ought to stir us to gladness. Astronomorsdiaturbed'many people by tell ing them that ihero was danger of stoliar collision. Wo were told by theso astrono mers that there aro worlds coming very near together, unci that we shall have plagues and wars and tumults aud perhaps tho world's destruction. Do not l>e soared. If you have over stood at a railroad centre, whore ton or twenty or thirty rail tracks oross eaoh otlior, and seen that by the movement of thoswitoh one or two inches, tho train shoots this way and that, without colliding, then you. may J utiderstaud how fifty worlds may come with in an inch of dlsnstor, and that inoh ho as good as a million "-miles. If a human switch-tender can Bhooh the trains this way and that without harm, cannot tho hand that for thousands of years lias upheld tho universe, keep our littlo wOrld out of barm's way? Christian geologists toll us that this world was millions of years In building. Woll, now, T do mot think Qod would take millions of yearslto build a house whloh was to luet only six thousand years. There is nothing In tho world ojc outside tho world, terrostrlal or o-stronomfcal, to ex cite dismay. I wish that some stout , Gospel breezy might scatter all tho malaria of human foreboding. The sun roso this morning at about 0 . o'clock, and I think that is just about the hour in tho world's history, "The day Is at hand." Tho first rav of tho dawn I seo in tho gradual Bribstitulion of diplomatic skill for human bUlehery?Withintho last twoniy flvo years there havo been v international dif fereuces wbleh'wonld have*. brought a shook ot arms lu any other day, font whtoli woro poacofully adjusted, tho pon taking the placo of tho sword. The Venezue'an controversy in any other ago of tho world woutff hnve brought shook of arms, but now is heing so quietly adjusted that no ono knows just how It is being ftttltiod. Tho Alabama question in any other nge of X tho world would have caused war between tho United State.? and England. How was it sol tied? By men-of-war off tho Narrows, or off tho Mersey? No, A few wiso inon got Into a quiet roOm at Geneva, talked tho matter ov.r, and tologiaphoJ to Washington and London, "All so! tied." Peace! Poace! England pays to tho Unitod States tho amount awarded ? pays really moro than sho ought to have paid. But still, all thht Ala bama broil is scttlod ? settled for wrovor. Arbitration intend of battle. \ So tho quarrel about tho Canadian dlUh erlrs in any other ago would havo caused war between tho Unitod Stntoa and England. Bo theS.'iinoan controvorav in any other age would have brought Germany and tho United States into bloody oolllsion. But all is settled. Arbitration instead of battle. Franco will hover again, 1 think, through the peccadillo of an Ambassador, bring on a ~ battlo with other Nations. She sees that God, in punishment ot Sedan, blotted out the French Empire, and tho only aspirant - for that throne who had any right of ?x peoiation dies In a war that has not evontho dignity of hefng respectable. What In the leaf that England would llko to tear out Other history? Tho Zulu war. Down with tho sword and up with tho treaty. Wo in this ac?untry might better havo sot tlod our eeotioni\l difficulties by arbitration than by tho trial of tho sword. Philan thropy said to tho North: "Paydown a oer tain amount of money for tho purohose of tho slaves, and l?t all thoso born after a cer tain timo oo born free." Philanthrope said to tho South: "You sell your slave*, aud get - rid of ihln.great National content and trou ble." Tho North replied:. "I won't pay a oent." Tho South roplled: "I won't ?ell." -j ?? Warl Warl A million dead men, aud a Na "IhJhfil debt which might havo ground tbt? Nation. to powder. Why did we not let William H. Seward, of Now Vork, and Alex ander II. Stephens, of Georgia, go out and tpend a low daya under the treej on tho ?/banks of tho Potomao and talk tho matter 'OTWrirntl-flettle ifra* -?itl(f ft they oould, 7;-father than tho' North j?ay fn Wst of- w*? four billion peven hundred million dollar*, - and tb* flbath pay four, billion seven hun dred and. fifty million dollaxvrthe destroying angel leaving tho flr?t-born dead In ao.maay - houwi nit the way from ?he Penobscot to tne ^Alabamrf. Ye aged men wtrtwr botj? frtl la ? do younolthlnk thtit would hare Men Mtor? Oh. yr?! Wh have eomolo (m> ? II vr% t think, i i this. country, that arbitm* tloh a better th.tn battle. f Q?ay he ihUtnken, but X hope that tha last wpr between Christian Nations la ended. - jBerharlapa may, mix their war end Ctilnew and Japanese go ioto whoteeaata rtfaHa* w?4 'enad awo^f, but l think Chriwlan NattoM V hie* jrmdttally leArned that W*r ta Jlw^u - tlOWr f&WZll w TW^utehad. as4 that of oetfrtftctog *ay rt>o?? brare qiawal j 1 there will bo no more arrows shot out from i tho ftwl>\i?hov9UU/ AGtmoifld of the United States Army in high repute throughout this land, and who, perhaps, hal boon In mote Indian wars than any other officer, and who had be oi\ wounded a'uin and attain in behalf of out Government in batUo against tho In dians, told mo that all tho wars that had oyer occurred oetweon Indians ami whito men had boon provokod by whito mon, and that thoro was no oxeoptlon to tho rule. ^ While wo are arbitrating with Christian N'a-' tions lot vis toward barbarians carry our selves in a manner unprovoeativo r>I eon toft,) Ii^t mo put myself in their place; I in horit a largo estate, nod tho waters ato rich Jvlth fish, and tho woods uro songful with Idrds, and my cornfields are silkov an t goldon. llonj is my jaavo, Out vendor, uiulor tho largoTroo, my rather died. An invader comes, and proposes to drivo mo off and take possession of toy property- II * crowds mo back, ho crowds mo ou, and crowds mo into a closer corner, until, after a wHtlo, I pay; "Stand back, don't crowd mo any more, or I'll strike. What right have you to como here and drivo me off my prom ises/ I got this farm from my father and l\e got It from his father. Whntv-right have you to como hero and molest meV" You bland ly say: "Oh, I know more than you do. I belong to a higher civilization. I out mv lialr shorter than you do, I could put this ground to a groat deal bettor use than you do." And you koop crowding mo baok and crowding me on into tno closer oornor and closer corner, until ono jiay I look around upon my suffering family? and flrod by their hardships I hew you in twain. Forthwith all i he world comes to your lu noral to pronounce ouloglum, comes to my exocutlon to anathematize mo, You nro the hero, I am tho culprit. Behold tho United States Government and the North American Indiau. Tho rod man has stood more wrouge than I would, or you. Wo would | havo struok sooner, deeper. That which | is right in dofoneo of a Washington home is right in defence of a hotuo on top of tbo Biorra Nevada. Beforo this dwindling red race dies completely out, I wish that this generation might by oomtnou justice atono for tho Inhumanity of Its predecessors. In tho day of God's Judgmout, I would rathor bo a blood-sm oared Modoc than a swindling Unltod States oftlcor on an Indian reservation! Ono was a barbarian ,und a savage, and never pretended to bo anything but a barbarian aud a savage. The other Frotonded to bo a representative of a Chrls ian Nation. Notwithstanding all this, the general disgust with war apd tho substitu tion of diplomatic skill for tho glittering odgo of koon stool is a sign unmistakable that "the day is at tanud.'V, I find another ray of dawn In the com pression of tho world's distances. What 11 slow, snail-like, almost impossible thing would have boon tho worlds rectification with fourteen hundred millions of popula tion aud no facial moans of communication; but now, through telegraphy for the oye and telophonio intimacy for tho oar, nud through steamboating and railroading, the twouiy flvo thousand mites of the world's circum ference are shriveling up into insignifant brovityl Ilong Kong Is nearer New York than a few years ago New Haven was; Bom bay, Mosoow, Madras, Melbourne, within sneaking distance. Purcha30 a telegraphic chart, and by the bluo lines scyvjho tele graphs ot tho Ian ', and by lh>j rdd'Hnes tbo cablos under the oJoan. V'ou see what op portunity this is going to give for iho final j movements of Christianity. A fortress may be monihs or years in building, but after it Is oonstruoted it mny do a'l its work iu twen ty minutes. Christianity has boon planting itf, batterlos for nineteen contnrlos, uud may go on in the work through other centuries; ;but when those batteries aro thoroughly ?planted, thoso fortresses aro fully built, they ?may all do thoir work in twonty-fonc hours. Suppose Christ should descend on tho Nations ? mauy expect that Christ will como among tho Nations personally? suppose that 'to-morrow morning tho Son of God from a 'hovering oloud should descend upon these jollies. Should not thatjfact bo known all tho world over in twenty-four hours? Hupposo 'He should present His Gospel In a fewwoids, 'snylugi "I am tho Son of God; 1 camo to pardon all your sins and to lieal all your sor row; to provo that I am a supernatural .being, I have just descended from theolouds. JDo you believe Me, and do you bolievo M'* mow?" Why. alt the telegoph stations of the earth would bo crowdod as none ,of thorn were ever crowded just after a shipwreck. I fell you all these things to *how yiAi It is not among the impossibilities or even the im probabilities that Christ will couquor the whole earth, and do it instanler, whou the timo cornea. Thoro are foretokenlngs in the air. Some thing groat is going to happen. 1 do not think that Jupiter is going to run us down, or that tho axle of tno world is going to break: but I mean something groat fat tho worlds blessing and not for tho world's damage is going to happen. I think llio world has bad It hard enough. Enough, tho famines and plagues. Enough, tho Aslatlo choloras. Enongh, tho waip. Enough, tho sblpwrcoke. Enough, the conflugratiors. I think our world could stand right well 11 procession of prosperities and triumphs. Bettor be on the lookout. Better havo your observAtorles open toward the heavens, and the lenses or your most powerful toloscopes woli polished. Better have all your Loyden jars ready for sorao new pulsation of mlghtv influonce. Bettor havo new fonts of typo in your printing offices to sot up some astound ing good news. Better havo somo now ban ner, that has never been carried, ready for sudden processions. Hotter have tho bells in your church towor well hung, and ropo within reach, that you iriny rin? out tho marriage of the King's Son. Cleanse all your oourt houses, for tbo Jitdgo of all tho earth may appear. Lot all your legislative halls be glided, for tho great Lawgiver may be about to come. Drivo oft* tho thrones of dopotlsm all the occupants, lor the King of .heaven and earth may bo about to roJgn. The darkness of the night is blooming nnd whltoning intiV tho lilies of morning clouds, and the lilies reddening into the roses of stronger day?lit garlands, whether white or red, for Him on whoso head ore munv crowns. "Tho duy Is at hand." One more ray o^ the dawn I seo in facts chronological apd mathematical. Come, now, do not lot us do another stroke of work until wo have settled ono matter. What is going to be tho final Issue of this grout con tost betweon sin nnd righteousness? Which Is going to provo himself tho stronger, God or DiabolusV Is this worlif going to bo nil garden or all desert? Now lot us have that matter settled. If wo holievo Isaiah, and Ezokiel.and Hosea.and Micnh.nnd Malnchl, nnd Johu, and Tctor, nnd Taut, nnd tho Lord Himself, wo bolievo that it is going to be all garden. But let ua havo It settled. Lot us know whether wc nro working ou toward a success or toward a dea-i failure. If there is a child In your houso sick, and you nro nut* bo U gofng to got w.elt, you sympathize with present pains, but all tfie foreboding is ? gone. . ' Now, I want to know whether wo nra com ing on toward diarchy, <lnrkn???# and dofeat, or on toward light and blcssodutws. You and I believo tho latter. an<< if no every year -wo spend is one year subtracted from the world'* woo. -and every event that passes, whether bright or dark, brings us ono nvont nearer *.- happy consummation, and by all that is inexorable in chrondldgy AIT (I Mathc- ! roattos, I commend you to good ohoer and oocrage. If there is anything it arith metic, If yon subtract two from five and . leave, tbw*, t hag, by a very rolMng sun we are eoming on .toward ^'magnTITcent terminus, Xbeo every wi?w# pawed is one sararity ten for our poor world. Thwi every sum mer gone by brings us nearer unfading ar boresoence. Pat yonr algebra down on the top Of your Bible and rejoice. II it fa nearer morning at three o'clock than It to at two, it is neartr morning at four o*etoetr than it is at three, then wa*r? uoarerthe dawn of - ttw wjjrM's Mwnn?, dod'i eioek teems to go vvr slowly, hot the pendalaa swings and tb*? hands move, and ft will yet strike noon. Than* and the ?ooa stood stlil oaeei they will never At and anil again wattt th^r forevrr. It 7*+ I fwHev* arithmetic a* well as yonr Bible, yon [ nrwi htlUte we ar? a*ar<Mfr+ dawa, ?'J?? \ 4*9 * ? *a?d." IV ?*?? ^6 ??*? There Is a class of phenomena whleh nmVicH n:o think llt.U ih>> spUUlWtl tnd hfiHVonly world way, after a \vi\llo. make a demonst ration i n this war I 1 which will bring all mortal ah I ftpirltu tl things t?"> it cllin tx. Now, 1 am n<> f>plrltu disi , hut every intelligent man lias noticed that j there aro strange nod mysterious things whloh tail! oft to to him taut perhaps tho spiritual world is not ko fur off as .s..mu. tlinvs WO conjecture, mi I mat n'(>i ftWhO ?, from the spiritual an I hotvouly world thero may fco a demonstration upon our world tor it* betterment. Wo call it m.ut notlsm, or wo call it mesmerism, or wo call It electricity, because wo want some term to co vox- up jfir ignorance. 1 niit Kn<"nv what it b. ruftvor h mr I an an tihte vol- o from tho other wot hi. I a n persuade 1 of thin, however: I'llftt tho votl lt->lwr??n th.s world and th<> ileitis got tin--; thinnei an 1 thinno**, and that perhaps aft'M awh'lo, at tho rtall of God? not at t:io.?>all oi tho l)av? ' on port Brothers, or Andrew Jaskson Davis? ? so mo of tho old ftcriptural warr'ora, somn of tho sp rits ofotlct day* mlgh'y for God -a Joshua, or a Caleb, or a D.tvia, ?>v a Paul ? , may como down and help us in ihn battle against unrighteousness. Oh, h >w I would liko to have them here? him of tho Rc l Sea, him of the valloy of AJalon, htm of Mars' Hill! English history says that Robert (May- ! ton, of tho English cavalry, at tho clo-o of tho war bought up all tho ohl cavalry horses lost thoy should bo turnod out to drudgery j avid hard work, ami hem ah t a piuooof ground nt Knavosmiro Heath and turnod out those old war-horses into th> thickest and richest pasture to ?pend tho rest of their days as compensation for what they ha l douo In olhor days. One day a thunderstorm came up and these war-horses mistook tlio thunder of tho s*kles for tho thunder of battle? and thoy whoelod Into line? iio riders on their back* ? thoy wheeled Into lino roaoy for the fray. And 1 doubt mo whether, whon tho last thunder of this j battle for God and truth goes booming i through tho heavens, tho old Scriptural war riors oau keop Utoir places on their thrones. Mothinks thoy willspring into tho fight and exchange orown for hoi mot, tho palm branch for weapon, and como down out of tho King's gallorios into tljo arena, oiling: "Mako room! I must tight in this great Armageddon." Tho old warhors?? mingling in tho fight, ltoloved people, I prcaoh this sormon be cause I want yon to toll with tho sunlight in your faces. I want you old mod to under stand before you die that all tho work you did for God while yot your ear was alert and your foot tloot ts going to ho counted up in the final victories, I want all th03o younger pooplo to understand, that whon thoy toil tor God tlwiy always winthoday, that all prayors are answered and all Christian work is in somo way effoctual, and that tho tide Is Betting In tho right direction, and that all hoavon is on our side? saintly, ohorublo, arohangdllo, omnipotent, chariot and throne, doxology and procession, principalities and dominion, 0? who had the moon under His feet, and all tho arnitos of hea von on white horses. Brother! brother! all I am afraid of i.*; not that* Christ will lose the battle, but that you and I will uot got into it qulok enough to do something worthy of our blood bought im mortality. O, Christ, how shall I meet Tho *, Thou of tho scarred brow and tho scarred baok aad tho soarrod hand and tho scarred root aid tho soarrod breast, ii I havo no scars or wounds gotten in Thy service? It shall not bo so. I stop out to-day in front of tho battlo. Como on, yo foes of God, I dare you to the combat! Como on, with pons dipped In maligaucy. Como on with tongues forked j and viperinv. Come' on with types soaked ! in scum of tno otornal pit. I dofy you! Come | on! I bare my brow, I uncover my lumrt. Striko! I can not sou my Lord until I have boon hurt for Christ. If wo do not snffot iwith Him on oarth. wo cau not bo ?lorlfle(l ,with lilm in heaven. Take good heart. On! On! On! See! the skies have brighteued! Bee! tho hour is about to come. Pick ont all tho cheeriest of tho nnthoms. Lot tfio or olH stra string thoir best instruments. "The night is far spent, tho day is at hand," SPKCUFjATKI) IN WHEAT Husseltlne, Assist a ntfi/' ashler, Skips With Hank founds. Ernost Hassoltinc, acting as oseiptant cashicr iu tho Bank of IjaticuKter and a young man only 18 years of ago. lias during tho paBt month boon speculating in wheat and cotton futures through J. Munn, Son & Co., aud Clapp Co., of New York City, The sequel i? the bank has lost through him S3, 500. Colonel Springs, president of the bank, ac cidentally loaruod that the young man ?was dealing in fnturcs. He immedi ately notified the cashier and they, *011 investigation, caught up with him . lie lias been operating in futures since* about the 15th of August, almost the entire loss beiug iu wheat eou tracts fiold short. Tho young man made a clean breast of tho wholo matter, but while the president and cashier were in consultation with hi? father ho disap peared. Tho bank offered a reward of 3100 for his capture and it is confi dently believed that ho will be caught. He is ].S yoais office, weighs about 140 pounds, is clcan shaven, has reddish hair and freckled lace and hands and is about 5 feet fl inches high, lie is quick and activo iu his movements aud is dudish iu appearance. Tho young man belongs to one of tho besl families in our town and no young man stood higher morally or more thoroughly en joyed tho coufidonco of tho people. Of courso tho standing of the bank js not affected by tho small loss. L.ator? Ilo has been captured and is now in tho custody of tho law. CANNOT BK MxKOItlCf > Attention Must Bo I'alil to (ho lie ports or Grand Juries. The grand jury of Union county, in making their presentment last week raked some of tho county oftloinln over tho cpals for not paying any attention to their former recommendations, t-ay ing that they had at tho two previous term# of court got orders from the court for tho carryiug~ont of their rec ommendations,, and lhut their recom* mondatioAs and tho orders of tho twjO Judges had been ignored, and they deemed it useless to inokn recommen dations if thoy were to be treated w ith contempt, and asked that tho Judgo is sue a ruling to tho parties concorned to show causo tfhy he gr they should not bo held for oontojiipt. Tho Judge commended the jury for their work, and especially for calling Attention to tho disregard of tapir former present ments* esid ho would take pleasure in issuing the role}' that it was crimi nal for a public ofHcor to ignore the grand jury in this manner; that the man sought tho office, and it too often appeared to be the case that the officer seemed to ihiok when be had secured the office bis only dnty thereafter ^rss to sit down and draw thd emolument*. ? ' "Maud U stuaylDg cI?vcul!on how." "Going on the stage?" "No. fltit she think, abe may brr aW? to mowlwuBTr jaaka the editors discern the beauties of bsr poww/MJUjcIM*## Bnouiw. I CATAWBA HISTORY. UltlKF IttiVIUW OK A SHORyilliT INTISFt ICSTlNii lllSTOltY. Prof II. IjOwId BCrtllKWfttM of the History ami Present Condition of ilto Cutaulm liullrtP of South oaiollnu. . ! McDonald Froenmn, of Rameoy, : Sumtor county, writing to tho Colfim- ( bin Hogfbtov of ft recout dato, has this j to Bny in connection to Prof. H. LowIh I Soaife's book, entitled (Ho "History , ttiul Condition of tbo Cfttawba Indians j of South Carolina: ' "Tlioro arc few people in our Stnte \ who nto outhusiaetio in regard to tbo I history and condition of tho Catawba , India u h as is Prof. H. Lewis Senife, a young South Carolinian who tills tue positiou of instructor of Kuglish, Trinity lfnli, Louisville, by. Some of tiin writings on theeo Indians are fa* . miliar to ouv renders, nud ono of hit Indian articles was published m tbe j Renter several months a?o. ,lln u neat and interesting pamphlet of twenty-four pages, Profossoi Scaito j has embodied a large ftuiouut of infor- j mixtion in regard t<? these Indians, j 'i'liu pamphlet, is untitled "History and . Condition of the Catawba Indians ?>! I South Carolina." He opens w.ih a i thoughtful introductory, in which ht< , idlndes to tho remnant aud the pant do votion of the tribe to the cause of the paloi'aee. Next, he di-votes several ptiL'i's to Catawba history, tracing it 'from curly times and giving details of their lighting with tho white mnu, and he quotes from Washington's writings 111 regard to tho Caluwbas in thelM cnch and Indian war. Some space is lie voted to Kiug llaigler, the urcat-.-t chief the Cntuwbas have ever had, and a man who was really auioug the gu-nt men of the red lace. Continuing, 1 r<>f. j Scujfo traces their history on down from the Revolutionary war aud gives an interesting extract from tbe report ,Jof a commission appointed by Clvern or Noble to enter into negotiation with tho Catawbas to cede their lands to South Carolina. He also gives n copy of tin; treaty made with the Out -tubas March 13, 1810, aud he shows that the Statu did not stick t<> tho ogrcemcnt Hindu in tho treaty. Coming on down to tbo present time, lie . makes a long extract about tho Catawbas frr/m Mr. Jninos Moonoy's ' able monograph, 'Siouan Tribes of tho Last. Next Professor Senile speaks of th* condition of tho tribe, und ho says: ."The 225 square miles of land, which was confirmed to the tribe as ft reser vation in 1764, has been curtailed un til now thoy are huddled together on tho inengro allowance of only 800 acres. ? ? * Tho Catawba Indians hftvo never been 'petted.' Thoy always havo been and still aro mistreated and neglected. As to their condition, tho writer knows whereof ho speaks, as ho has often visited tho tribe and has hnd Hmplo opportunity to study their condition." <~i NoxtVc havo on nocount of tho Ca- , lawba Reservation and Professor Scaifo | pives an oxtouded account of tho li?st j visit he ever paid the ttibe. He also , fells about tbo state of tlio reservation ! iih be saw it. 'Ho ^arrs, however, in , stating. that Bob Harris is tho chief; I that official is Jim Harris, whoso term will expire next November. Tho writer of this hasty review had the pleasure of dining with Chief Harris at his home on the reservation last spring. Professor Scaifo jjives an interesting pon picture o. "Uncle Billy C*0!?rge, who was the oldest one ol tho Cataw ba* and wan the last surviving Indian who signed tho treaty with South Car olina. He died last May. ? Ono author tolls about tbo industrial condition of tho tribe, which, how over, is too lengthy to copy here Of tho entire condition of tho tribe ho ob serves: "The presont oondition of tho tribe, morally, socially and finan cially, is a disgrace to themselves, but in more a disgrace to the State in which thev live. In reeard to who is ro sponsible for' this condition, lVoteseor Scaifo suys: "Perhaps, after tbo Catawbas havo become extinct, Bomo one might ask who was responsible. Lot us not wait until then to plaoe the responsibility where it bolongs. If it is South Caro lina's duty to cherish and guard with a fostoricfj euro the last vostigo of her aboriginal inhabitants; if she owes anything to a disinterest ed people who have fought her battles ? a people who werecourted when they were strong, but aro now scorned bccnu?o they aro weak; if sho owes anything to e people whose terri tory she has absorbed without due com pensation ; if it is bur duty to uplift dc graded humanity within her borders; then South Carolina is responsible; and .if she does not fcoon dp something for tbo Catawbas, her escutcheon will bear a btain whioh time cannot craao. It is lime for tho people of South Carolina to compel tlioir representative? in tho Ptato and general government to do something for theso much-wronged and do wfe -trodden. pcopleJL- ? LUL ? -II Professor SoAifo closes bis little work with this paragraph: "Of the twenty- 1 eight Indiau tribes in South Carolina 20O y* are a (i.o, tho few Catawbaa are All that arc left. To these let us etrctch out ? helping hand before it it too late. If we cannot be generous, Jot us be just. " " In a t|?m<pApcr artielo like this, wo. are contj>6lled to be rather brief, but thin. s/tMo.win givo nBl<UftgWtO the scope and nature of Profc?flor 3cflif?>'s thought fol Utile work:. Anyx>ne\vho rout* that work will fsin *~Terj fair ,ldeA*t ihii fliit ? history. .and . pi cacelL. condition of this triUo. The work i# well end concisely written, nod shows \M IWcho* 8o^(e is an f?thuaU0 . .? ? ? * on his subject, but it must not bo im- | (\giuod Unit ho in biased. u/iilo he ipeaka unhodtot inglv abotiirliOv\Vv>nth i Carolina has treat Oil tlio^p pcopta ho I docs not hi?lo tho fao* that tho OaVwN^ bau tiro not an industrious W.lhoy ^??ll j could l>t>. lu on? place ho observAui,; i " t'lio laud is well adapt od to cattle rtfits,> | nig, but during oil my vinitH tlu< of?\v i flock 1 saw on tho place \^us a oowana-j two mules. A tow mombors of tho j tribo worked paitaof tho arable land, but little attention is paid t>y tho In dians to the profitable eorn crops which might bo raised on thoir tine bottom landa. I4<KPAI<IN<J THIS ( ASICS \V bat I lie Attorney-*' nurnl Says A l>ett t DIspMiHiiry < -rook otters* Thorn is atill much talk about tho i State dispensary scandal and tho short ogvs in tho Bubydispeuhoi it s Tho of fioials have begun to look into the Aiken and Chester eases. So far as tho scandal about tho Stato diapematy it concerned. tho peplo arc awaiting with the greatest degree of interest tor the State board to reconvene and re sumo its investigation of the manage ment of tho coueoVu. Thero aru no end of rumors abqut matters to be brought out. It is .understood also that the board at thit* meeting will tako up the matter of tho tdioilagcs in the sub-dispensaries and order a lull in vestigation. Attorney-General Barber and his assistant, Judge Townsend, are Mitiy preparing tho eases against the num erous dispensers whose accounts have already boon found ^to bo short, in taking about the shortages, Mr. Ber ber says that ho is ready to prosecute any man who is guilty of oftioial mis conduct in any shapo or form, wh?n it is called to his attention. llo says ho is going to bo at tho next mooting of the Stato board o/ control and lond all the assistanoo in^is pow er to the board in investigating tho dispoueary afl'airn to tho very bottom. "It is impossible," ho sayB, "for this ofllco to prosecute anybody until tho faotB aro eallod to itB attention. This the law requires tho county boards of control should do, but in very few in j stances has it been done." Furthermore, Mr. Barber sayy ho wants tho solicitors in all the oircuits j to uso thoir positions to bring those j dispensary offenders to justice. : Not only would ho proaccnto the I dispenser, but any other Rtuto officer j should ho by eharged with anyofYoneo. In conclusion, Mr. Barber nays ho did not boliovo that thero woro as mauy shortages in tho oounty dispon RnrioA bb was commonly supposed. will iiklp rm<; kaumkhs. Cloniflon Professors to Deliver Lect ures ttt tho Coining State Fair. It is proposed, so Secretary Hollo way says, that on ouch day of tbo com ing Stato fair nomo ono of t ho profoBa ore of ClemBvJii College will deliver u lecture on somo agricultural subject fit tbe fair grounds about 1 1 or 12 o'clock. President Craighead, of CJemson, has already indicated* to Secretary Hollo wly his willingness to do hiss part in carrying out this plan. It is hoped ihat thi? feature will bo arranged and the farmers given an ^opportunity Lt? ! gather valuablo sciential information. I President Craighead also writes: "If ; you oan secure very cheap rates I may | bring down all the cadets and give a i dress parade on tho fair grounds." In addition to what lias been said As to matters concerning tho State fair, Col. Holloway hiugflpopened a corres pondence with tho authorities of tho several Stnto institutions and tho de nominational colleges in tho hpoountry and Col. Patrick's high school cadets, suggesting that tho profpftsors pormit | tho students of the respective institu j tions to attend, the fair either on Wed nesday or Thursday, the 1 1th or 12th of November. Tho railroads have j boon asked to allow special low rates ! of pasfago for tho professors and atu i dents. Tho day fixed upon ?'ill bo ; called "Educational Day." I'HR IINKXIMttBb iKKM. Governor Kyens Orders and K>itrn lClcctlonln tli c Seventh District. Governor Evans, in view of tho ac tion of congress in unseating Dr. Stokes, has issued tho following proo stion : < " Whereas, a vacancy oxistfl in tho I office of representative in congress for tho Seventh congressional district of | tho Stato of Soi^th Carolina caused by a resolution ol coiiKresndcclariutf thalMio legal election had been held in suid district; and " Whereas, The Constitution of tho ! United States provides that 'When va cancies happen in tho renrcsentaUpu from any State tho execitt^vo thereof shall issue writs of election tft%f)ii>&ch vacancies. "Now, therefore, I, John Gary Evans, governor of tho State of South Carolina, do -hereby dircct that an election for a representative in tho Fifty-fourth congress of tho United State* for tho Seventh -"congressional district of said Stato bo held in tho said Soventh congressional district on the first Tuesday following tho first" Monday iu November, 1800; said elec tion to ba<be!d and conducted in tho manner prescribed by law for tho elcc* . tiou of representatives io.cortgroM at , general election's." -Tvav?Uo#c Men'* Home. ? ? CpnntffitlL trav?ge? throughout the eoantry will ?baarre Toasday, Decamber lit of thU year, u a holiday, k featara of the observance will be t be donating by theaters hotel* and wholesale boa*?fein every elty ol tbe eoaatry of over 5.000 mini innn of t per eeotage of tbe day's rw*Me to the een. 9^*n!mW?E3Si Terx aanog Dseeiooer for tee purpose of aagmenifaff tbe batMtng fund tor the Ka tie^ CotofcsWMT TOvaltera'. Home uaapS tf USB I# . STATE NEWS ITEMS, Hifil from S( r:t unutit I Ion The second rnim^l hold by tho cot oner's puy in t hai letdou over tho bod* of tho infant lound dead. in the mil pond I'oumi ininr v..idid l!i\t (lie chili pnmo to ibi<bath by htrungnhit ion at t u) iiiitiftfi of W" . II l'nhti-r ? I i 11 . 1'In k | o i hit was tho father of tho child w hteli vvah bo in out of wedlock by, l?ot>n Steinmoyer and himself. Tho ease if the most revolting ouo uluch ltat> ovoi CDino tip in that city ami it luisoioatod a profound hcn.sat ion. Kustorlin is eluetnoian to tho metropolitan police force and wont to Charleston from *>r angolnug. Ho is well connoetod. Hi* brother in John IX laistorlin, tint well known telephone man Ho has an in valid wifo and a half grown son and daughter. His wifo and children are highly esteemed and havo tho pro found sympathy of tho ontiro eonimiin lty. lion}; instance I elephono. Superintendent John l>. Kftstovltn of tho Boll TelcplH.no company in a recent interview in tho Atlanta Con stitution grtvo in detail tho proposed extension of tho long distance tele phono system from that eity. The lino between Atlanta and Augusta ib being put up now, and it will bo ox tended to Charleston. From that oity it will bo brought to Columbia and carried on to Charlotte, whero it will connect with tluS loiig distance syslem to Washington and New Vork, It will probably be next Juno boforo tho sya- j torn iw in operation front Columbia. \ / ???" r. \ ./ I opp Accepts, Chairman Clayton, of tho Lily Wbifoj Republican lOxecutivo Committee ban roooivod fro fin Dr. Sampson Popo his letter of acceptance of tho (Subornalo rinl nomination. Tho chairman would not give the letter for publication, but ho stated that tho Doctor not only ac cepted but said ho would do all ho pos sibly could to bo elected. It in prob able that ho will go to Columbia noon and uftor consultation with tho com mittee tho proposed address to tho people of tho State will bo issued and may bo some appointments for speeches will bo mado. l'nrtloiiH < *rante<l. Clrtvornor Evans granted two pardons last week. TLio liist won Maria Eady, colored, who wan ncntcnecd to life im prisonment in the pouitentiary for in fanticide, from Williamsburg county in Oetobor, 1880. The second was W. T. Grooms, white, of Chesterfield. His orime was adultery, lie waft convioted in September, 1893. The pardon was a matter of form. ???*???-? - - -i- ? Tho Harman-Caughman murder trial took place at Lexington last week. The trial consumed two days and was at tended by largo orowdp. Ablocounsol was employed on both sides. Tho jury found Hnrman guilty of mnrdor, but recommended him to tho moroy of the court. Jt is very likely that bin conn sol will. .appeal for a now trial. Tho testimony in entirely too eouBational for theso columns. ? ? The old Wilson gold mino, sevon mile northeast of Yorkville, once a famous producer of gold, is again to commenco turning out its treasure of tho procionu metal, and that before many more days. ^.At least everything is now pointing' that way so strongly that tho proposition is but little short of a certainty. Tho property is now in possession of Messrs. Clarke Broth era, of Columbia. S. ' Mr, J. W. Mixsoij Jins tendered his resignation as stenographer of tho Third Circuit, Judge O. W. Buchanan presiding, ftwill be remembered that ho is connected with tho Dispensary matter, now under investigation. Tho main reasons given for his nsigning was that ho didn't wish to embarrass tho judge l>v continuing to hold tho position of Monographer, etc, . ? -a* fc- . ... Beginning with October 1st, W. W. Harris, clerk to tho constabulary forco, is to have each constable make a re port, daily to the chief constable, so ae to keep a better record of soizures and the movements of tho members of tho forco. The eoubtablo forco is now composed of 5 '3 men. ? Charleston has refused to handlo wire baled cotton, and Col. Duncan, Manager of the Alliance Exchange, has issued a call to the furmera to stick to tho light, as ho can make arrangements for it to be handled elsewhere. Tho anniversary meeting of the State Pharmaceutical Association will bo held in Columbia, Nov. 18th. Tho ex aminations will also take place on the 1 7th and 19th. Some of Columbia's loading btisinoss men are contemplating tho formation of a stock company ut an early date which will havo for ita objcct tho erec tion of a largo cold storage warehouse. Governor Evans has appointed the commissionore of election, both State and Federal. Comptroller Norton is oat settling with the county treasurers of th* State, UNDER THE NEW LAW Klltsr OAMAOIC 8IMT VNOKK NK\V CONS I'l W riONn All Kmployoos Have Rlftlita "V'liivv' Ave Liable for Injuries Kecolvtfd t .\ Ntnployoo 011 Account o* Others' Negligence. . The Atlanta aonstituuZnof NVo<,1^a; day last contained tho (/llo\wng o '"n.o rtrBt a,u,?.?o Z ,101- ll.o now Contention of Sonll olinft \wi\tt hx$&% y<;rt0V- V i ; hi .1 Hu v too BmHKng.intit tho H,tl< !''' Gaston Utfjlvond Company audlho Wd JntoftmAo Railroad Company, lessees 4 the Georgia, Carolina and Northetti Railway Company. Tho fllegationt} in the petition t\U l,v M?ls.?iU, .how tiuvt A";lr'"V aon a.f employee* of the railroad. v as / L , lilwi tirohftbl v poriniuiontlj aeriouily and pronam^ i injur oil while coupling fl0X weekJago at Groonwood, o. i . Thf reason lor holding tho 1 o'ul li able / for tho injuries uro attiihuti to tho crcle^B runl negligence o other uoployew ft ??o same rail. oad company. VVho flaintift the load i? liable under tho to. nt. o , honow constitution adopty I ?> th Btftto. Tho case in one of the > bo tiled Binoo thin oonBtilttlion adopted and tho law wu? 'changed ""iV'iTfnrlhor uhown in tho potMion ?1mt on account of tho injuries roooivod l! jUuou, hi. It'll opult.to.lt..., tho loss of timo, physical sutler lug and doctor'rf bill arc act forth in the apph nation for damagon. ? Tho section of tho now oonahtutiofr Of South Carolina, under winch suit i? brought, is as follows. Article 9* section 15: Lvo.y on ? ployo of any railroad corporation shall mvo the a a mo rights and remedies r nv injury suffered by him from the acta or omiaaious of oaid corporation or its om ploy cob aa aro allowod by low to otbor poraonsjjnot omployoos, when taSr ro.ult. bo Of a superior agont 0^^ ? person having a right ? to con trol or diroot tho services of a party 'J11?1' and also when the injuiy^ rosnlte from the negligence of a fellow Horvant en gaged in another dopartmontoflabor from that of tho party injured, or of ft follow servant on another train of cars, or one ongaged about adifioron , 1)U of work. Knowlodtfo by any emplyeo injured or of a d6f?otivo or uusato oharaotor or condition of any ma ohinery, ways^f appliances shall bono dofODBO to an aotion for injury caused thereby, except as to conductors or engineers in oliarge of dangorous or unsafo cara or engines voluntarily opor utod by them. When death results from any injury to employees, the legal or phonal representatives of tho person injurod shall have the sumo right and remedied as are od by law to such representatives of other persons. Any contract or ' *8rc? mout, expressed or implied, ,made by any employe to waive the benefit of thia sootiou shall be null and voidand thie section shall not be construed to deprive any omployoo of a corpora lion, or hifl legal or persona ropro sontatives, of any remedy or r ght that ho now haa by tho law of the land. Tho general assembly may extend remedies heroin provided for to any 6ther class of employee*. The proceedings in tho court .will be watched with especial interest, as tho Btftto of South Carolina was tho Jlrst in tho world to lay down a rule that one employee of the-tfompany could make the company p*f for an inj J received through the' negligence of another employee. . This is probably one of tho first chboh of a similar uaturo brought m tho Stato of Georgia under tho now constitution, ai*d tho result of t o hearing iu tho courts will bo awaited with interest by tho mombors of the bar and tho public gonorallr>7 - . BUSINKS8 ItKI'OlU'S. A?dvanoo In tho Produce Markets? Cot ton Wont Down. Below Is Bradstre^'s nnd Dun's wookly reports: lo Easto#i jobbing circles tho feeling In one of increased confidence. Thoro Is moro doing In'-somo staplo linos, notico ftbly at the Eapt and a few Southern cities. In most liretihcea purchases contiuuo to buy for immedlato wants only. Thoro |s Httlo expectation of a general rovlval in business prior to tho olectlon. Throughout tho Cen tral We?t ahd North went no malorlftl change Is reportod in trado. Excoptlouu urc at Cin cinnati and 8t. Louis, wncrc tho demand for staplos is larger. B^vannah and Auyus ta report a marked Increase in tho volume , of business but wholesale nnd retail about tho same/ Improvement is shown in various Industrial lines at Now York, Boston, Prcvl donco and Pit'.eburg. The total number of businoaa failures throughout tho United States continues large ? 321 this week? compared with 318Ja?t week nnd 193 in tho fourth wook- of Boptoux bar, 1805. : An Important thing is the general advance in produce markets, especially wheat, which rose shyfHy on Thursday and Friday, clos ing % cont higher for .the week. Cotton ad vftncod an eighth a wo6kago, but lost threo aixt??otbA and with full rocolpta mi?ht havo gone farther but for resumption of work by several important mills. Much los$ than tho full capacity of mills la working, antl the de mand for goods hae be?n quiet and steady. Character ..growr for_the most part Insensibly, as life g ro w a n t first. Now and then It gets notable impulse wblcb wo cm mark; but commonly it grows Imperceptibly, like our bodies. 8togl?l acts raay ^tv cbaroctor ;l)uVlbey 's^-i ^ dOBi rwnj ir, tnwga ^ffig flrfl gggrftara w and ruling. It grows rlnx by ring; and ;; Jhe t wig of this year becomes the bough Of next Our habits a ro another n*m? .for If, and they grow like the graa*. The ingWTa CO irei bJBTWI lire bdy^ - ? wr it: mm ourtWirviZ-a. wuuaw1 winter* and summeg. it k^EIM ' awfdaaly Wf&** Topvlkt, m mm asftmy-iey =f m hmvtmi ' . . S .-,