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* * •, * - • V A r f V ^ t , VOL. X. BARNWELL, 8. C., THURSDAY, MAY 19, 1887. All ABOUT THE BAPTISTS. made bT Dr. Edward Jodson, of New York, the son of the veteran MKMUBBSHIP OF THE CHURCH THK SOUTHERN STATES. IN ThaSMaloa la LonlarW* of HaprcMata- tlTMof the ImnieaM Hembenblp-Im- portant Features of the Contention— Sight-Seeing and Business Heatings. (Letter to the Augusta Chronicle.) Aooording to the latest returns, which have been recently made np from official sources, there are in the fourteen South ern States and the Indian Territory 2,060,985 Baptists. Of these 1,065,171 are white, and are in accord with the body known as the Southern Baptist Convention. This is the body whose sea- dons have been held in the beautiful brown stone bdifice of the Broadway Church. The building is of ornate de sign and modern architecture, and ranks with the churches of which Drs. Hemp hill and Wimtts are pastors, as among the finest and most costly religious edi fices of the South. Through three daily the spacious auditorium has filled with representatives from South of the Pennsylvania line and the Ohio river. From Oeorgia there fifty-five delegates, and Oeorgia the president and secretary, the fifteenth session over Dr. MeU, Chancellor of the Cai- f, has presided, end the seventh at the secretary has served at the long table. fte reports of the two Boards of tbs convention, whieh control the operations respectively of home and foreign mie- a year of great proa- [ near from all tklaa The year has in numbers end n for many yea ea oootnbated, se ed to this convention, far fotei| 1107.00.S3, ami for home Tbs fonagn stahni are mHhhshsil in > Italy, Afrisa and Chin of mianooartsi is 110, i for These are 36 schools, wUh 687 Uuework abruaif awTthe^meUon in the danse population of the city of Shanghai of a shapal. anurety at the npenss of s Publication Society, and Dr- J. P. Greene, of St. Lome. Dr. Judson’s ad dress on Saturday night moved a vast concourse as I have seen few assemblages moved, and following it came the rat tling and disconnected remarks of a minister of Augusta who rightly com pared himself to s small boy folio Gilmore's band who was set to the wot of raising some $2,500 for the fntnre ' ‘ ns of the Board of Foreign Mie ns, which was done under the abiding influence of the speech of the great son of the greatest missionary. A FAT BLACK BOTTLE. scon yoster- wonla fitly tmOVT.JO. Filled to tho Cork With Five Dollar Troo- ury Notes. There came to light in Macon day a New Year’s story that adorn a temperance lecture. A bright little girl gave away what was regarded as s pleasing secret It happened in this-.way: The Telegraph man stumbled into s millinery store yes terday and while waiting to get the at tention of the lady who makes the female population pretty, idly listened to a con- venation between a customer—evidently the wife of s mechanic—s .d the millin er. The lady was looking at a very pretty bat for her little girl who stood at her aide with hungry eyes. The hat was purchased, and the Telegraph man mentally thought it looked like extrava gance for a mechanic s family to throw away four dollan and a half on n hole Kiri's hat As this was the only purchase in whieh the child seemed interested, ahe tided up to where the Telegraph man was standing and artkaatyMd: “We dot lots er money now." The reporter here mentally coned himself for forgetting to buy • ticket for the last lottery dimw- ing. “Wham did you get it, tier “Paps broke UT bottler “Broke the bottle?" “Essut; th' bottle was Jm’ as fuller money as it tood be, an’ we's 'mb now.** No true reporter can be idle when snob an item as this Is in spanking distance, and H was not saom Umn s few minutes before the child's mother was per- foUowing story, WILD LIFE ON THE BORDER. Throe Mexicans Who Tried to Rob a Sheriff and What Happened. (From the Philadelphia North American.) A tall, spare man, with glittering black eyes that stared you unflinchingly in the face, lounged carol oasly around the Ooptinental Hotel last night. It was James Hart, who was at one tfanr^aitf of * tittle lowff 1v WnnKrastr- western part of Texas. The town at the time of Hart’s election was fairly overrun by lawless people. *1 reckon I seen some putty excitin’ times on the frontier,” he said to e North American reporter. “People out my way use ter say I could nte. Well, mebbe I kin and mebbe I can’t “I remember onct—that was just after I was elected—that it 'became known I had some dust hid in my bedroom. “One night when we war asleep three darned greasers kem 4h and tried to ealit.” “Did they get away with Hr aaked the reporter. _ “Stranger,” mid the ex-sheriff delib erately, “oonHiderin’ that there air three graves jes on the other aide of my house with the bodies of three groannri in ’em, it is patty safe to my they didn’t git the dust” _ “Thar kem to onr town one day," con tinued the ex-sheriff, “a young feller from the east. Hie name whar Bob Chambers, ec he whar ea bright and ae * ineotne s youngster as I aver laid eyes on. All the gals in town and on the neighboring ranches got dsad stock on CONDITION OF THE CROP*. The Map Report of tho National Depart- 1 meet of Agriculture. The report of the United pertinent of Agriculture for May relates to the condition of winter grain, the progress of spring plowing end the pro portion of the proposed cotton area already planted. It indicates a d in the oofl£tion of wheat BI two i since Anil 1st, the general average for the whole country being 86, against 96 at the Rune date m 188$ 70 in 1885, and 94 in 1884. The changes in condition have not l>een uniform throughout the winter wheat region, some States show ing an increase, s majority a slight de cline, and a few a heavy falling off Bye has suffered from the same con ditions which have injuriously affected wheat but on account of its hardier na ture the general average is considerably higher, standing at 90.8, against 92.8 on Anil 1st and 95.7. at the same date in 1886. The condition ia barely below the average, being 87.8, against 96.7 hi May, 1836, and 82 m 1885. Tbs season has bssB mo advanced in all parts of the country than usual, spring plowing being behind only oa the Atiaatie oc to Psunsylvanm, and on the Pacific slope. In these seetiona H has been de layed by oold .and excess of moisture. Elsewhere the work la ahead of the ever- the sssscin, especially during ed. “You are a brick. When the war is over IH come North and join you. What’s your name?” “Louis James,” add the aouava, as he reslung his knapsack, picked end disappeared in the wood neve, i up hie gun taction against crows, but it is a dipnted question as to whether the crow in the cornfield is an enemy or a friend. Though he be sometimes destructive to the corn, yet he destroys many insects and grubs. Largs tress can be moved end trans planted, thus taking advantage of several years growth, provided all the roots and some of the sabering earth be carried with them. The place in which they are to be deposited should also be specially for their reception. A prominent nurseryman says that nursery practices iir peach propagation and culture have weakened the vital power of the tree, which ia unable to re- rial as dsprsaring inilustioss as formerly, when the trass from seeding grew well and lived to an old aga. [ oenanow. near each other, but . Finally hs jumped r a lady, wno was party kuM rim 1 bad a way of lookw at ye s that w them big black ayes of ' * like j ‘Night i ■ temperature above normal and rain fall at minimnm. The proportion al ready on May 1st is estimated at 80 per cent, of the whole, while the amount usually computed at that date is about ff proportion of action already planted amounts to of 1 A fresh egg will rink when pissed in •tar, aadwhan bolted the akin will not peel off like that of an orange, as in the ma with thorn not strialtyfresh. State jgs sra glassy and vary amooth, white trash eggs have s peculiar rougham Where the ground has boon wall har- >wed and made even and moth the labor of harrostinc will be limimi, as m ground witt ba better fll lor tha work of thabarvmtiwg maohlna. BsmovaaU proposed area, and ia riightiy aatak up. It than at tha mime date ia any saacaad wh ag five yean, but is iritis Isa mlam than li BO s dog cannot ride-on the skvaHL road, bat this does not apply toother wild or domsistio animate. nisi is the zeaac , r, accompanied by a young boar, ’ hing about forty pounda, evaded tho tiuoMakar s down town on one ticket The dude wore one of thoee short- waiotod and sawed-off i called Norfolk jackets, bat tbs cab won _ but an air of The two mt down the bear on the seat near ling down town, and she went into another car. There was 4 good deal of room thou near the dude, but nobody wanted any of thorn seats. There ought to be soeae ruling on this question of bear transportation. It is s r that intenotaall of us. Ohi wild and reptiles be nlamed as people, white dogs era ruled out? Oris a accompanied by a small dog, ba t out white tha owner of an an active hornet’s asal ■ property with him^on his peopkffor he hungiy™ bind legs of s lattrosd Tbs question to be sabasitSed to tbs railway! by thus tearing down tha sea Boa, aa soasmon earnor% to ada ‘ by a ‘ or a ri to tha prsfndioa of any ana. It is to bs hoped, however, that forth " ariooa may ba avoided by been ot homo, end if tho not need not say that I do ac Wolealoy. far ho to an ea humbug. It WM the J. of the he fail i at the ‘Diak of e She didn't some tar tak told him so one night “He didn't say nothi hte heel and went out Naded into tolling the being jotted down by this 1 “One bright *»a \ eaaqoa orthead finger of maaiory upon the found the daod bodyofbob Clmmb* umb worn pege of s oientel note book: tying by the roadsule, near aa old b»a “I ban pamrd through the ordeal of A ballet bote in bis bead showed bow rue wife, and I am _ - by Nomtento as tha svenms pleat that data. The proi>ort>o&s by are as follows: . North.Carolina 70, Booth Carolina I Mi ___ •v pteii poor rtirvlff oft but ^ ^ ^ AN mclURET OF i J. B. saa bo thus kep« They on slossly of the _ will 27 to 80 tofTOa The tetaoaovls Mrs. To the < The New York ithe 1st of I to fte i lathe whole of to Chrio- wife, and I am too happy was kilted, er what sad how much I j “In tamed who had supphad points in tbs South and Cuba. This terse of Chi had gathered together 11 had Kalita new houses a soot of over $00,000. 1 persoas added to the Lm The moot fmitetten mismone pulpits St worship at i Bumbrr of “I I tho UttiK^Umag iaknd of Cuba, sad it has bssn dssenbed as never haring bean i in the history of In isd Dias, was ordained at Key West, .in the followuiK month a church ' in Havana, whieh, at the ter one year s operation, three hundred members, and two other churches have been estab lished. Aa attempt is to bs made in the future lor the erection of s Baptist house of worship in Havana. One of the most important works ac complished by the Board has been that of avoiding doctrinal and ptsetiosl in teroetion to colored ministers and church officers. A number of very learned sod able seen have bean employed in gather ing these leaden of the negro population together for the purpoee of instruction. In tins work Georgia, Alabama, Florida, Maryland and Mianiamppi reap the bene fits. There | * * this race em About these tain Rttif instennrs of heroism end aeori- flee which could not be known, perhaps, otherwise than through the dry details of *"""*1 reports. One of these con cerns the Citadel Square Church in Gbarieeton. It so happened that just before the terrible earthquake, whieh not only shattered their church, but which also destroyed many of their homes, the process of collecting the reg ular contribution for missions was in S the for fnissions, while without a sanct uary in which to meet, and while they had nothin# but the green sward light ened by the smite of God’s son where they could be gathered together. Some might sneer at this enthusiasm and term it «««»»», but to me it looks like common old-fashioned honesty. They did not own the money that had been given for a speoifle purpose, and no right could possibly exist for diverting itfrom the purpose for which it was given. But ft was grand, nevertheless. The speaking in this convention is al ways of the highest order of merit. It a tremendous amount of gall in an ordinarr man to seek to address and in terest 700 men drown from the best and moat odvarioed and thoughtful men of the South. So that when arguments an to be mads there is a general depend ence upon the mors able and eloquent men. One of the Northern visitors in Us address quoted the remark of apris- otise who had bean captured by Borne, and aftat bis wIsmo and return to his home, described his captors as a “nation of P—1— ” That might ba a little overdrawn, but still H ia a serious thing to take the floor before suoh n body. If the ceBbte is small and the ammunition wmk. tha poor fallow soon diaoovers it Lb^Z&«3giftrot s drunks now to go over saflbrad. Mf husband dsanh hmrityl and often half of hie wages went for dnak. He kept s large bteek bottle of . whiskey all the time u> the bouse, ia | olditioo to what be drank in town. Oa Eve night An yean ago he boese drunk, aadae something bed . wrong with bias, ha was in the kind of a humor. Our oldest boy was m the enb very risk with the fever, sad there was not scent of money in the to buy him the rhespaet toy. My ad bed bean sway from home all day and being drunk nad forgotten all about his Chnstmas. I put my husband to bed and retained to the bed side of my dying boy to wmtoh and weep. It j waa nearly daybreak when I saw raj psemoee son Staking fast- Hushing out cup j of the hoaee I called in a lady fro-nd, ~ ■’ hen aroused my husband. The had aomewhni sobered him, and ae he loved hie boy devotedly, he was bending over the little fellow, beg- ginghim to say something to him. ‘TTie little fellow slowly turned hie toward his father and arid: I’m going to die, papa, for I see tho angels beckoning me to come. This is Chnst- pepe: please let me see what Santa Claus pat in my stocking. My husband went to the mantle and took down the little stocking. It wee empty! He stood still and stared at ft for a minute, and God only knows the of his heart in that short time. He tuned to my, bat ou boy would not have heard him had the poor man's breaking heart allowed to speak. Ou boy was dsad! - ‘‘The day before New Year's my hus band called for the bottle. May God ive my feelings at that minute, for I ted he, too, was dead. I obeyed him mechanically. To my sunrise, he took the bottle in his hands ana, pouring the whisky on the ground, aud: *1 will drink no more; And the money I would spend to? whiskey we will pat in this bottle, and all enjoy the contents. ’ Yon can imagine how happy I was. He had sworn off many times before, bat I knew he was in earnest this time. We modes calculation, and estimated that whiskey cost him, taking the past year as a basis, on an average of five dollars a week. You sec a good deal of his money went to pay court fines for drunkenness. Well ft was decided to pot five dollars a week in the bottle for five yean, come what would. The time was out last New Year’s day, and the big black bottle was broken. Now figure up how many five dollars that bottle contained!” “Two hundred and sixty,” “Yes, or $1,000 dollan. But this was not all. We roved omugh in that time outside of the bottl'i to bay a little home.” *' “Bat are yon not afraid in breaking the bottle you husband will break his resolution?” “No; because we have started another bottle bank,” arid the lady with a happy smile. The husband is a Macon mechanic, well know and enjoys the respect and esteem of riL He says be never knew how much genuine pleasure them was at home with nis loved ones* until be got " 7 Whan Nelly e nearly went e “One day she tightly a of Bob's OusL Jems* who is 1 mysthei the with the Davie. of Louie are m- i ot and was! “It was late ou Saturday night ‘The miooa was full of men drinkm', smokin' - of the of hri ‘«cs I to myself, •Disk, ae boy, ye air the one who gave Chambers hri set tlor. HI 'rest you.' “I slid up to him, end placing my shooter agin his head, mid quietly: 'Diek-^Tseoan ye sir wanted to oo- f a cell down at Laredo jail. ’ “ ‘Wat fur?* he sold up ia an instant, and farin’ his bends on hri weapons. “^‘None of that! hands uq over you “ Te rir wanted for TdBfafBdb-Chtm- and his sober enough to sppreciato ft, and to fill instead of empty the fat black tmttta. “Oven Repetition is sometimes tbs only way to Unprutf s truth upon the mi ad. Accord liver urgatTvel I rak) < Iveta cm Ithe to be i of sick sad i wonderfully of the ever see that gray button chalk. ‘It’aalfa,’ he yelled; *ye ain’t got no proof.’ ‘Mebbe not, but d’ye afore? 1 says I, tearing the on the table. ■Sanders tuned the color of and then said: “Well, I suppose I might as well g’long an’ ’prove my inneroenoe in court.’ „ ^ Yso; yer bom and mine, already sad dled, stand afore the door.” “Didn't he show any fight?” asked the reporter. “New,” was the response; “it wouldn’t do for him to show fight in thot plsoe* Chambers was worry popular, and the hull darned town would a fit to kill his murderer if riled. Sanders knowed this. Aa Laredo was too far away I couldn't take him down thar thet night, so I ^ ted for Jake Roberta's place, about miles from town. “The darkness rim so dense that yon could have cat it with a boarding house knife. “ ’Bonk the only'fhing you could hew above the efaflfar of the horses’ hoofs war the chirpings of the night insects and birds in the trees. “We riopned at a ranch, got a drink en’ then pushed on. VI noticed Sanders keep eyein’ the thtek underbrush that fay like a shadow the dark road. thought he wanted to escape, and ) make, San mj but looked stroke afore him after that. “Just as we got to a portion of the road that skirts a lonely fake Sanders imitated the scresch of a night owL “I knew what that meant though. “Quick as lightning I slid offer boss to the ground. “I was just in time. “A doaen rifles belched forth their ntenta. “tttyhoim dropped dead. “Sanders put spurs to his hone, bat not soon enough. “Up went my gun. “Crook! “Banders fall over his animal dead as a door nail “Aa aoon as I fired I changed my po sition. It wu well, fu another voUey whistled thro’ the aa. “I jumped into tho fake, swam i end mads my way back totha tow with Um 3W£ popular rebel offlcar,^slUiuu^i hajras an fiTJStar sd^ of Virginia, and tha cold. The man of to the hardships of in dull Profiting tty tha example of I Napoleon, Btaaregarl hit upon the plan of aelaWishing a theatre in tha camp for the amusement of the troops, was sslseted to organise the and the work of erecting the theatre was n. The man who waa antroeted the funds neoaaaary to arigaga tha eomnanv skinned B with the money, and th* Federal army broke op all the During the ww, Mortimer styi thee tree in the South cotnad a The horrora of the stage and sometimes added toby dramatic per- ahd when an army entered a own the first thing ft did was to organ- ae a company and play in the theatre. Some of the armies contained enough soldier-actors for a very fair riaed oom- y, and in some oases plays wan ro- rsed ahead, but oftener still the com pany was non-military and briongad to he theatre or traveled about _ ^ y in some town occupied by troops. e prices charged ware 60 eente for privates and $1 for ofifaers and tha houses wan universally packed, andtanoes wan enthusiastic and ge ly in the very best of humor, so much i as to make ft rather difficult to play. Mortimer was paroled, and played off an on for a yew or two with all aorta of • . ■. * m m ^ ave mofessionaL . and all aorta of sectional ism and politics. Once at Corinth hs played “Richard ILL” in a linen duster: trat the audience didn’t seem to mind the discrepancy s bet, and insisted on his coming forward in the tent scene and ■rngiiig the “Star Spangled Banner” and “In the Prison CdllStt.” On the night of the second day’s battle of the Wilderness Mortimer was on picket duty. He had not eaten a morsel for over thirty-six hours, and he was nearly dead with hunger, and very faint, having but recently come from the hospital. It had been the wont of the soldiers to sup ply the place of food with copious chews of plug tobacco, and Mortimer’s pockets foil of the weed, but the doctor had (ring it to ba He stand forbidden ing by n tree, faint and despairing, and in the agony of his situation OTWrimart aloud: > “I’d give the bigristphig of tobeeco in the world for e piece ofSerd-faek,” “I’ll take you ut your word, Johnny Reb," exclaimed a hearty voice, and be fore Mortimer could bring his gun to his shoulder s form sprang out of the dusk and e itaMart aoueve stood before Mm. • ‘Tve been watching you for some time,” continued the Northern man, ‘tana I thought you row ma and wrogot- till I Kami ; had you can neve aUthe hardtack vow Jews TV can crack. Fork over." Such changes Mm toe foodsad pamsd^oror a ptog^of Yu- ican be Iro for th.- iu<tan iix IMAof far the mmsMpsrtod hnse bena‘ ton "to MghV Tndty^agft, pared with toe <x>nes|)otHliaf date of Wc, aada a trout yard 186.4 If the esepfa hel a ataauri el tlsrta' •t i?. * a befajured. Hsooe old walk, half m dttabsa and anrii like ahould be vsred or filled apw The dHahm along the aid ahould be opened now. in < e busy season end tbs " In filling vacancies I pafahro pot the roots down aa deep in tite growid m posribfa, as tha smaou fa 1D6 we+BOU DM BMP TCfT ItaTOIWOie lo tbs growth of young stnwbenypfanfa, fnalL ** ■WW •fW Evergreen hadgm may be trimmed and C d in shape as fate m (his month, but it beta not to cut bask too much. The smell siae broticn will now begin to give way to thoee weighing three to low pounds pro pair. ~ 12, Mil of South Caroli ne, end points to the State’s staHsttas in and points to mifaotaring eni State hm sail ftronbles, and (flourishing a meat is mnde I •4 the saete towaa have bem U m Beptamber I the wiripls at ITttall ta i M86-81 in 1884 5 wars 4,742,31 lbs issripta at the outyo ••1A077 briss, the i at eeipte from the week ware 18,164 bataa and for 1886 they ware 2,298 betasTThe lissmam in amount in right Friday night, as oom- pared with lari yew, fa 49,briss, the metaam as aoaspwad with 1884-86 fa 696,496 balm and th 1888-84 fa 688,096 bsfaa The Chrontafa, in ifa ives some into lovemcnt da dine from the flguroe tag month of the two preceding years, the month’s total being M^UT lelan * Had 61.982 The State has suffered little if any from labor troublas, and shows bar msnufae- thetin 1860 she had 1,280 factories end 17,000,000 used as OHdtal. In 1880, 2,078 factorim wen running, $11,250,000 owdtal was in naa, and the product waa $16,700,000. Lari * uno had grown to 8,248 .280,000 mpitel, and $80,- 000,000 of products. The Oemmbue (Ga.) Enquirer-Sun gives the above figures, and says that oaring the fast rix years there him bom again of over eighty per cent, sod adds “tsirt there something to be proud of in thatr Exemption of many indus trial enterprises from taxation bee tend ed to give big help to growth. Under sooh policy the cotton mills have grown till now they employ $6,000,000 ofmpi- tal, as compered wife $8001000 in 1800, while the annual product ban become $5,600,000 Mainat #700,000 at fee war’s oiitbrmk, Trade in busbar hm devel oped as bandsomely. In 1800 $1,140,- 000 was employed as capital in timber production, asril the market value of the output then was $1,194,000. $3,250,000 was the capital in the product brought |6,236,00a end rorpenfeso making hove kept pees: in 1880 ILOO^OOO wm the value oftfait produet; fast jew ft grew to $$900,000. Thu ssronr or yn Brauar of Sra- re- period Of the two preceding sseeone. The net move- ■T for the month is also Mow that for April of 188$ but exhibits an in crease over the nuns month in 1886 of 7,868 bales. The totals am $0^804 bataq feta yew, against 60,468 betas in 1886, end 29,636 betas in 1886. Notwfthstaod- isUsr month's mnvswmt, the net for the maeon to data eon- in exesfoof feet for say atyufar peric d in our record. The Chrontate says feat, in eoasassa *h the overland, reestpta at tite ports during April rsoord a decline frame yew ago. In fact, the net arrivals have been less .than half whet they were in April, 1886, reaching 89,1W betas, against 202,866 batan and fat comparison with 1886 there is a lom of 14,180 brisa, the total fern being 1064176 tnlm. For the sigbt months, however, the aggre- _ fata excam of that for either 188^86 or 1884-86. The exports to foreign porta have Mtanoff very considerably daring the eamemmfeef hs* yaw of $$890,00a total taking, to The faereat tnnremi in ert^ wm in her 1, W86,sn ■hipped aggregating 196,11$ against 822,149ay4wago,md l8$aQ2fal8W. Coutroatad wife last yaw^fee total to eoordaan eaesmef i&gsszsz I ta 14$000bataa. i in faefftattotasemtov ,477 bataa mem ferns k 722,781 bales man than in ill Mil toetyl iof Hi .-.(-VH'-Vj ■ * to Ml ^ W?-' ■rileoioNd people aU fee fand feap want, Dos tufty bum agrtt id pvt IM grantor a mortgage on^tha land, and work it to • and to its garni sold to tenants to pm month. Theaahoetato: