The Horry herald. (Conway, S.C.) 1886-1923, August 17, 1899, Image 4
GLORIOUS DELUSION
Dr. Talmage Satirizes the Antagonists
of Christianity.
THE GEEAT PREACHER
Depicts in a Very Unusual Way
the Triumphs of the Gospel.
A Delusion Which Overpowers
the Strongest
Intellects.
The antagonists of the Christian religion
are in this sermon of Dr. Talmage
tnct in a very unusual way, and
The text is Kzekiel xxxi, 21, "lie made
his arrows bright, he consulted with
images, he looked in the liver."
Two modes of c.iviniation by which
the king of llabylon proposed to find
out the will of (led. lie took a bundle
of arrows, put thorn together, mixed
them up, then pulled forth one and by
the inscription on it decided what city
he should first assault. Then an animal
was slain, and by the lighter or
darker color of the liver the brighter or
darker prospect of success was inferred.
That is the meaning of the text, "lie
made his arrows bright: he consulted
with images, he looked in the liver."
Stupid delusions. And yet all the ages
have been filled with delusions. It
secies as if the world loves to be hoodwinked,
the delusion of the text only a
specimen of a vast number of deceits
practiced upon the human race. In (lie
latter part of the last century Johanna
Southeotc came forth pretending to have
divine power, made prophecies, had
chapols built in Iter honor, and 100,
000 diciples came forward to fallow her.
About five years before the birth of
Christ Apollonius was born, and he
came forth, and after five years being
speechless, according to the tradition,
lie healed the sick and raised the dead
and preached viituc and, according to
tiie myth, having deceased, was brought
to resurrection.
The Delphic oracle deceived vast
multitudes of people; the Pythoness,
seated in the temple of Apollo, uttering
a crazy jargon from which the people
guessed their individual or national
fortunes or misfortunes. The utterances
were of such a nature that you
could read them any way you wanted
to read them. A general coming forth
to battle consulted tbe Delphic oracle,
and he wanted to find out whether he
was going to be safe in the battle or
killed in battle, and the answer came
forth from the Delphic oracle in such
words that if you put the comma before
the word "never" it means cnc thing
and if you put the comma after the
word "neve; ' h means another thing
just opposite. The messages from the
Dclpliic oracle to the general was, "(Jo
forth, return never in battle shall thou
perish." If be was killed, that was according
to the Delphic oracle; if he
came home safely, that was according
to the Delphic oracle.
So tbe ancient auguries deceived the
people. The priests of those auguries,
by tbe flight of birds or by the intonation
of thunder or by the inside appearance
of slain animals, told the fortunes
or misfortunes of individuals or nations.
I'he sibyls deceived tbe people. The
sibyls were supposed to be inspired women
who lived in caves and who wrote
the sibylline books afterwards purchased
by Tarquin the I'roud, So late as
the year 1829 a man arose in New York,
pretending to be a divine being, and
played bis part so well that wealthy
merchants became his dicipies and throw
their fortunes into his keeping. And
so in all ages there have been necromancies,
incantations, witchcrafts, sorceries,
magical arts, enchantments, divinations
and delusions. The one of
the text was only a specimen of that
which has been occurring in all ages of
the world. None of these delusions
accomplished any good. They deceived,
they pauperized the people, they
were as cruel as they wcro absurd.
They opened no hospitals, they healed
no wounds, they wiped away no team,
they emancipated no serfdom.
liut there are those who say that all
these delusions combined arc as nothing
compared with the delusion now
abroad in the world, the delusion of the
Christian religion. That delusion has
today 400,000,000dupes. It proposes
t) encircle the earth with its girdle.
That which has been called a delusion
has already overshadowed the Appalachain
range on this side the sea, and it
lias overshadowed the Balkan and Cauoasion
ranges, on the other side the sea.
It has conquered England and the bailed
States. This champion delusion,
this hoax, this swindle of the ages, as it
has been called, has gone forth to con
quer the islands of the Pacific, and
Melanesia and Micronesia and Walayan
Polynesia have already surrendered to
the delusion. Yea, it has conquered
the Indian archipelago and Borneo, and
Sumatra and Celebes and .Java have
fallen under its wiles. In the Fiji islands,
whore there arc 120,0(10 people,
102,000 have already become the dupes
of this Christian religion, and if things
go on as they are now going on and if
the influence of this great hallucination
of the ages cannot be stopped, it will
swallow the globe. Supposing then
that Christianity is the delusion of the
centuries, as some have pronounced it,
I propose to show you what has been
accomplished by this chimera, this fallacy,
this hoax, this swindle of ages.
Admiral Farragut, one of the most
ftilmipwl mon nf tlir> Aninfinor
.v,....
early bocame a vjctiai of this Christian
delusion, and, seated not long before
bis death at Long Branch, he was giving
some friends an account of his early
life. He said: "My father went down
in behalf of the Cnitcd States government
to put an end to Aaron Burr's rebellion.
1 was a cabin boy and went
along with him. I could swear like an
old salt. I could gamble in every stylo
of gambling. 1 knew all the wickednoss
there was at that time abroad.
One day my father cleared everybody
out of the cabin except myself and
locked the door. He said: 'David,
what arc you gwing to do? What arc
you going to be?' 'Well,' 1 said, 'father,
i am going to follow the sea.'
'Follow the sea and be a poor miserable,
drunken sailor, kicked and culled about
the world and die of a fever in a foreign
- hospital!
'Oh, no!' I said. 'Father, I
will not be that. 1 will tread the quarter
dock and coram and as you do.' 'No,
David,' my father said. 'No, David.
A person that has your principles and
your had habits will never tread the
quarter deck or command.' My father
went out and shut the door after him,
and I said to him: '1 will change. I
will never swear again. 1 will never
diink again. I will never gamble
again, and. gentlemen, by tl o help of
Clod, 1 have kept those three vows to
this time. I soon after that became a
Christian, and that decided my fate for
time an 1 for eternity."
Another captive of this great Christian
delusion. There goes Saul of
Tarsus on horseback at full gallop.
Where is he going? To destroy Christians.
lie wants no better play spell
than to stand and watch the hats and
coats of the murderers who arc tnas
ruv/i ni{s \?wia n vii ii'ii v.11* iiv-iv;
the same man. This time he is afoot.
Where is he going now? doing on the
road to Ostia to die for Christ. They
tried to whip it out of him, they tried
to scare it out of him, they thought
they would give him enough of it by putting
him into a windowless dungeon,
and keeping him on small diet, and
denying him a cloak and condemning
him as a criminal, and howling at him
through the street hut they could not
sweat it out of him, ami they could not
pound it out of him, so they tried the
surgery of the sword, and one summer
day in (It! lie was decapitated perhaps
the mightiest intellect of the (>,000
years of the world's existence hoodwinked.
cheated, cajoled, duped by the
Christian religion.
Ah, that is the remarkable thing
about this delusion of Christianity; it
overpowers the strongest intellects,
(lather the critics, secular and religious,
of this century together and put a
vote to them as to which is the greatest
book ever written, and by large tnnjori
ty they will say "Paradise l.ost. Who
wrote "Paradise Lost?" One of the
fools who believed in this Bible, .John
Milton. Benjamin Franklin surrendered
to this delusion, if you may
judge from the letter that he wrote to
Thomas Paine begging him to destroy
the "Age of Kcason" in manuscript and
never let it go into type and writing afterward
in his old days, "Of this .Jesus
of Nazareth I have to say that the system
of morals he left and the religion
he has given us arc the best things the
world has ever seen or is likely to sen;"
Patrick Henry, the electric oJiam :
of liberty, enslaved by this delusioi ?.
that lie says, "The book worth all < iiei
books put together is the Bil
Benjamin Bush, the loading physit "gist
and anatomist of his day, the g cat
medical scientist, what did ho say?
"The only true and perfect religion is
Christianity." Isaac Newton, the h ading
philosopher of his time, what did
he say? That man, surrendering to
this delusion of the Christian religion,
crying out, "The sublimcst philosophy
on earth is the philosophy of the gospel."
David Brewster, at the pronunciation
of whose name every scientist
the world over uueovers his head, David
Brewster saying, "Oh, this religion
has, been a great light to 111c, a very
great light all my days." President
Thiers, the great French statcman, acknowledging
that he prayed when ho
said, "1 invoke tho Lord Cod. in whom
1 am glad to believe." David Livings
tone, able to conquer the lion, able to
conquer the panther, able to conquer
the savage, yet conquered by this delusion,
this hallucination, this great swindle
of of the ages, so when they find
him dead they find him on his knees.
William K. Gladstono, the strongest
intellect in England, unable to resist
this chimera, this fallacy, this delusion
of the Christian religion, went to tho
house of God every Sabbath and often
at the invitation of the rector read tho
prayers to the people. If those mighty
intellects are ovorborno by this delusion,
what ehanoc is there for you and
for me?
Besides that, I have noticed that
lirst rate iniidols cannot be depended
on for steadfastness in the proclamation
of their sentiments. Goothc, a leading
sceptic, was so wrought upon by this
Christianity that in a weak moment he
cried out, "My belief in the Biplo has
saved 1110 in my iitcrary and moral life."
I > n i
nousscau, one 01 the most eloquent
champions of infidelity, spending his
whole life warring against Christianitycricsout,
"The majesty of the Scriptures
amazes me." Altemont, ilie notorious
infidel, one would think he
would have been r.afe against this delusion
of tha Christian religion. Oh, no!
After talking against Christianity all
his days, in his last hours he cried out,
"Oh, thou blasphemed but most indulgent
Lord (lod, hell itself is a refuge
if it hide me from thy frown." Voltaire,
the most talented infidel the world
ever saw, writing 250 publiontions, and
the most of them spiteful against
Christianity, himself the most notorious
libertine of the century, one would
have thought he could have been depended
upon for steadfastr.es ia the
advocacy of infidelity and in the war
against this terrible chimera, this delusion
of the Gospel. Hut no. In his
last hour he asks for Christian burial
and asks that they give him the sacrament
of the liord.Jesua Christ. Why,
you cannot depend upon these first
rate infidels: you cannot depend upon
their power to resist this great delusion
of Christianity. Thomas Cain, the
god of modern skeptics, his birthday
celebrated in Mow York and Hoston
wun great enthusiasm Thomas I'ainc,
the paragon of Hible haters; Thomas
Pain. about whom liis brother infidel,
William Carver, wrote in a letter which
1 have at uiy house, saying that lie
drank a quart of rum a day and was too
mean and too dishonest to pay for it;
Thomas Paine, the adored of modern
infidelity: Thomas Paine, who stolo
another man's wife in (England and
brought her to this country; Thomas
Paine, who was so squalid and so loathcsomc
and so drunken, and so profligate,
and so beastly in his habits,
sometimes picked out of the ditch,
sometimes too filthy to he picked out;
Thomas Paine, one would have thought
that ho conld have been depended on
for steadfastness against this great delusion.
Hut no. In his dying hour
he begs the Lord Jesus Christ for mcr?y.
Yes, this chimera of the gospel is
not satisfied until it goes 011 and builds
itself into the most permanent archi
tecturc, so it seems as if the world is
never to get rid of it. What are some of
the finest buildings in the world? St.
Paul's, St. Peter's, churches, cathedrals
of all Christendom. Yes, this impertinence
of the gospol. this vast delusion,
is not satisfied until it projects itself
and in one year gives, contributes,
$<>,250,000 to foroign missions, the
work of which is to make dunces and
fools 011 the othc. side of the world
people wo have never seen. Deluded
doctors 220 physicians meeting week
by week in London in the Union Midioal
Prayer circle to worship God.
Deluded lawyers Lord Cairns, the
highest legal authority in Kngland, the
ex-adviser of the throne spending his
vacation in preaching the gospel of
.Jesus Christ to the poor people of
Scotland. Frederick T. Frelinghuysen
of New Jersey, once secretary of
state, an old fashioned Kvangolical
Christian, on elder in the Ko'orincd
church: John Fright, a deluded tjuakcr:
Henry Wilson, -the vice president
of the United States, dying a deluded
Methodist or ('ongregationalist: Karl of
Kintore dying a'deluded Prtsbyterinn.
And to show the immensity of this
delusion, this awful swindler of the gospel
of Jesus Chrsst., I open a hospital
and 1 bring into that hospital the
death beds of a great many Christian
people, and I take you by the h/.nd and
I walk up and down the wards of that
hospital and I ask a few questions.
I ask, "Dying Stephen, what have you
to say?" "Lord .Jesus, reccivo my
spirit." "Dying John Wesley, what
have you to say? ' "The best of all is
(Jod is with us. " I tying Kd ward Payson,
what have you to say?" "Ifloat
in a sea of glory." Dying -John Brndford,
what have you to say?" "If
there he any way of going to heaven on
horseback or in a fiery chariot, it is
this." "Dying Nenndcr, what have
you to say?'. "I am going to sleep
now, good night." "Dying Mrs.
Florence foster, what have you to
say?" "A pilgrim in the valley, hut
the mountain tops arc all aglcam from
peak to peak."' "Dying Alexander
Mathew, what have to say?" "Tho
Dord who has taken caro of me 50
years will not cast me oil now;
glory he to God and to the Lamb!
Amen, amen, anion, amen!" "Dying
.John I'owson, after preaching the gospel
so many years, what have you to
say?" "My death bed is a hod of roses.'
Dying Dr. Thomas Scott, what have
you to say? This is heaven begun. Dying
soldier in the last war, what have
you to say? Hoys, 1 am going to the
front. "Dying telegraph operator on a
attlcficld of Virginia, what have you
to say? The wires are all laid and the
poles are up from Stony Point to headquarters.
Dying Paul, what have you
to say? "I am now ready to he offered,
and the time of my departure is at
hand; I have fought the good fight, 1
have finished my eourse, I havo kept the
faith. O death, where is thv stinir? ()
grave, where is thy victory? Thanks
be unto Cod who givcth us the victory
through our Lord Jesus Christ."
O my bold, my (lod, what a delusion,
what a glorious delusion! Submerge
nic with it, fill my eyes and cars
with it, put it under my head for a pillow,
this delusion; sproad it over me
for a canopy, put it underneath me for
an outspreading wing, roll ;t over me in
ocean surges 10,000 fathoms deep. If
infidelity and if atheism and if annihilation
arc a reality and the Christian
religion is a delusion, give me the delusion.
The strong confirmation of every reasonable
man and woman is that Christianity
producing such grand results
cannot be a delusion. A lie, a cheat, a
swindle, a hallucination, cannot launch
such a glory of the centurios. Your
logic and your common sense eonvinco
you that a had cause cannot produce an
illustrious result, Out of the womb of
such a monster no such angel can he
horn. There are many who began with
thinking that the Christian religion
was a stupid farce who have come to
the conclusion that it is a reality. Why
are you in the Lord's house today?
Why did you sing this song? Why did
you how your heads in the opening
prayer? Why did you bring your fami
1 v with vnn? Wtiv wlmn I ?<>!! \'<?n n(
. J) ??v.i ?- j *? \* v/rn
the ending of all trials in the bosoiu of
God, do there stand tears in ?your eyes,
not tears of grief, hut tears of joy, such
as stand in the eyes of homesick children
faraway at school when some one
talks to them about going home? Why
is it that you can bo so calmly submissive
to the death of your loved one
about whose departure you once were
so angry and so rebellious? There is
something the matter with you. All
your friends have found out there is a
great change, and if some of you would
give it in scholarly style, and others,
giving their experience, would give it
in broken style, but the one experience
would bo just as good as the other.
Some of you have read everything. You
are scientific and you are scholarly and
yet if I should osk you, "what is the
most sensible thing you over did?" you
would say, "tho most sensible thing I
ever did was to give my heart to God."
Hut there may be others who have
not had early advantages, and if they
were asxeu to give their experience
tlicy might rise and give such tcstimoiiv
as the man gave in a prayer meeting
when he said . "On my way here tonight
I met a man who asked 111c where I was
going. 1 said, 'I am going to prayer
meeting.' He said, 'there area good
many religious, and 1 think the most of
them arc delusions. As to the Christian
religion, that is only a notion, that
is a mere notion, the Christian religion.'
I said to liini, 'Stranger, you sec
that tavern over there?' 'Yes,' he said,
'I sec it.' 'Don't you sec mo?' Yes, of
course I seo you.' 'Now, the time was
when everybody in this town knows if
I had a quarter of a dollar in my pocket
I could not pass that tavern without
going in and gotting a drink, all the
people of .Jefferson could not keep 1110
out of that placo. Hut God has changed
my heart, and the liord .JesusChrist
ll!lQ (lnuh'AUn/1 tliawat
..vixiuj^u in; iiuint 1UI BlIUIl^
drink, and tliore is my wholo week's
wages and L have 110 temptation to go in
there. And stranger, if this is a notion
I want to tell you it is a mighty
powerful notion. It is a notion that
has put clothes on my children's hack
and it it a notion that has put good food
on our table, audit is a notion that has
filled my mouth with thanksgiving to
God. And, stranger, you had better
go along with mo; you might get religion,
too;lots of people arc getting religion
now."
Captured and Shot.
A dispatch from Santo Domingo says
two of the assassins of President Henrcaux
have been captured and shot.
THE PENITENTIARY. I j
LContinued from First I'ago.J ^
by ono of the Kagsdale notcH. Tlio |
State lias been left out for the entire
three years nnd iti 1898 neither Watson
nor t he State has been paid anything, j
In November, 1895, Mr. Ncal collected
of W. Hammond $500 on convict j
hire, which he ke| t and used. In December,
1895, ho eolleetcd from Cooley
& Fowler $500 convict hire, which he
also used. Iti February, 1897, he collected
from these two firms over $15,- j
000 and deposited to his own credit and
used $539.95 of the same, lie collected
from J. .J. Fretwcll $587.17 for oats
(Fx. M) and failed to pay it in. lie ,
gave a check to the bookkeeper for$172
to balance his account for cash in hand
and there was nothing in bank to pay it
and it has not been paid, lie took a
note of W. W. Kusscl for $000 for his j
own accommodation and endorsed it as
superintendent of the penitentiary and
placed it in bank, and it has never been
paid the bank is after the penitentiary
fur I hp 111 < 111 #' v unit Mr \"n;il oilmilu
that he is liable therefor. He collected
#710 stable rent, which was unauthor
ized, but which lie claims was allowed
by the board of directors, which they
deny, and which appears to have been
approved in the prison pay roll, lie
has gotten supplies from the penitent iary
for which he has not paid, amounting
to $(>118.20. His family washing
has not been paid for and he got a carload
of cotton seed to plant, which ho
should pay for. All these matters, ta- j
ken with his presents of State property
to his friends and his having his superintendent,
Hagsdalc, to furnish the
cows to the penitentiary at a big profit.
which profit Mr. Neal got, his keeping
open house for his friends at the penitentiary
at the State's expense, stamp
him as being utterly deficient in the
faculty of distinguishing between what
is his and what is the State's, accompanied
with a remarkable faculty of ;
being generous with the State's assets
and especially to himself. W'c hold
that both W. A. Neal and J. II. Watson
arc liable for the convict hire for
convicts to he worked <>n Ncal's plantation
for the years 1890, IH',17 and 1898.
for the reason that Watson contracted
to pay for them and Neal got the benofit
of the labor and violated his duty in
procuring thorn to he worked for his
benefit and deceiving the hoard of directors.
Their labor was an asset of
the penitentiary as much an the produets
of the labor on the State farm,
and he cannot taso either and refuse
to pay for it. A conversion of one is
the same as a conversation of the other
We also condemn the practice of the 1
superintendent's endorsing paper as
superintendent and thereby pledging (
the credit of the penitentiary without
express authority from the hoard of di- '
rectors in each instance. We especially
condemn Mr. Ncal's action in endorsing
the $850 note for .1. H. Watson and
thus making the penitentiary borrow
that amount of money merely for Watson's
accommodation. We also condemn
its use in the Kagsdalc notes and
W. W. ltllHRnll nnlo
The following are the amounts now 1
admitted by Mr. Neal to be due from
him to the penitentiary, it being ae- '
knowlodgcd that there is a shortage to 1
that extent
Amount eollcetcd of -J S Few- '
lcr, Dec 181)5 $ 500 00 1
Amount collected of W 0
Hammond, Nov 1805 500 00
Amount collected Fowler A
Hammond A Kent Feb 07. 530 05 1
W. \V. ltusscll note 000 00
Collected from W. T. Magill 1
for brick sold at DeSassuro
farm 40 00 5
5 book eases at $12.00 each.. 00 00 '
1 hat rack 10 00 1
0 small tables, at $2 each.. . 12 00
1 bedstead 10 00
Fainting furniture at home.. 10 00
700 bushels cotton seed at 15
cents 105 00
Commissary account 0 years.. 038 21)
Check unpaid and [carried by
Burriss 172 00 1
Collected of .) .1 Frctwell for
Oats. April 1808 387 17
I
$3,584 41 1
We find that he is liable in addition
for the following amounts, which are
contested by him:
Convict hire on the Watson
contract for the years 181)15,
181)7 and 1808 $ 7,400 00 1
We think lie should refund
stable rent which should
never have been paid 740 00
$11,724 41
There appears to be due the peniten- 1
tiary the following items which have
not been properly charged on the books
or collected, being found on an old
brickyard book and commissary book
and which the parties arc no doubt
ready to settle on presentation of bills:
lion W 11 Ellcrbc, commissary
account $154^11 '
Hon .John Gary Evans, commissary
account 181 14 \
Hon 11 11 'lillman, commissary ,
account 57 0G J
Hon 11 R Tillman, carload of
brick 72 00
Hon 11 11 Tillman, oats, no !
amount giyen; he simply informs
us that ho owes for
them and we do not (ind any
record of it.
We append as Exhibit A a statement 1
of the property purchased, improvements
made and labor furnished to
public institutions by the penitentiary 1
during Mr. Meal's administration, ag- '
grcgating in all $175,845 17, being the 1
value placed upon the samo in the re- 1
ports of the board for the six yc?rs.
The cvidonec taken is herewith submitted.
The proper steps to bo takon '
as a result of this report and the cvi- (
dcncc will be determined no doubt by .
yourself and the attornoy general,
llospcetfully submitted,
W F Stevenson,
J T llay,
Knox Livingstone,
Thos F Me Dow,
11 Cowpcr Fatton.
i
F. X III It IT A.
lieport 181)3.
p. 7. Clemson College convicts,
for guards, otc..$ 3,118 11)
p. f>. 2 olectric motors, etc. 2,(KM) 00 1
p. 7. Convicts Clemson col
lego and guard hire... 14,580 00 (
p. 7. Convicts, guard hire,
etc., for Winthrop... 10.080 00
$30,078 41) :
It o port 1894.
[>, 0. Old hosiery mill (over
hauling) $ 4,000 00
p. 0. New hosiery mill rebuilt
15,000 00
p. 0. Improvements in the
yard. inclusive of
above items 80,000 00
p. 7. 7 head mules and
horses 700 00
p. 7. Labor and cash to colleges
22,852 32
153,552 32
Itoport 1805.
!>. 7. 08 mules for Slate
farm, engines, gins,
wagons, tools, farming
implements $12,000 00
p. 8. To colleges, labor,
cash, etc 17,114 30
$20,114 30
Iteport 1800.
p. 17. Improvements penitentiary
proper, barns
stables, sheds, oto ...$ 5,000 00
I'rison building and
other improvements
inside yard 1,000 00
Buildings at Heeds
farm 2,500 00
BeSaussurc place <(uar
tors for guards, dining
room, smoko house,
hay sheds, grist mill,
engine hoilors, guano
house on railroad, etc. 2,100 00
$10,(500 00
lie port 181(7.
p. 10. New laundry complcto
$ 800 00
Kccd farm, now barn
for mules, hospital
building, lot fencing,
fencing 400 acres pasture
land 5,000 00
$ 5,800 00
Report 1808.
Report of board of directors on pages
"> and (1.
I'aid purehaso real estate
with interest accruing on
purchase money $0(5,000 00
lluilding dykes, clearing
land, etc 10,000 00
$1(5,000 00
TILLMAN AND EVANS.
Write Letters to the Penitentiary Investigating
Committee.
Senator Tillman and Kx-G over nor
10vans never did appear before the penitentiary
investigating committee.
Hut each of them wrote a letter to the
30 mm it tec.
Senator Tillman's letter was as follows:
Trenton, S. C,, Aug. 1.
Dear Sir: Your letter of .1 line 2-1 endosing
copy of the account on the commissary
book at the penitentiary re3civcd.
I have no recollection of any
)f these matters, and am morally certain
that 1 paid everything 1 owed the
penitentiary when I left Columbia at
he expiration of my term as governor.
Hesides, I left all the corn and hay 1
liad on hand at the executive mansion
tvitli the understanding that Governor
Kvans would take it and pay for it, but
lie told me that Col. Ncal used it. The
mansion was unoccupied for several
weeks after 1 left, undergoing some rcittingand
ovcrhaulding, and Ncal probably
do not feel that 1 owe the State
inything on thatycore.
The brick 1 am willing to pay for at
the price 1 could have bought them in
Augusta at the tune, ? 1 at the kiln, or
r(> delivered at Trenton. 1 paid the
freight on the carload of brick which
Uol. Neal shipped me.
Respectfully,
It. It. Tillman.
Ex-Governor Evans writes as follows:
Watcrbury, Conn., .Inly .'10, 1MU.
lion. W. K. Stevenson, Cheraw, S. C.
My Pear Sir: Your letter io reference
to the penitentiary investigation was
handed ine by my brother while in
Edgcticld, and the reason I had not answered
before is that I fully intended
to be with you at the next session of
your committee. Circumstances over
which 1 have no control will prevent
my being with you as anticipated.
So far as the statement that " I worked
convicts upon my farm" is concerned,
1 am satisfied that you have had
ample proof of its absurdity. I had no
farm upon my occupancy of the governor's
mansion. I was informed hy the
superintendent of the penitentiary that
my predecessor had rented a small plat
of ground, about five acres, in or near
the city limits, and that he (the superintendent)
had sown for the governor
and made rough forage for his horse and
that he would make the same terms
with me if 1 desired. I did so, and
paid the owner, Mr. Geo. II. Newman,
&H) rent and have his receipt. So far
is tho harvest-was concerned, it was
pretty expensive, as my share was not
mtlicient to reimburse me for the rent.
The property being city lots, however,
I suppose we got out as light as most
''llelgian block fanners."
As to the account I owo the managoncnt
of the penitentiary, I will state
\>r the information of your committee
hat the articles I purchased were at
narkct prices, such as any ordinary
iti/.cn could buy, and it was no espcciil
favor to me.
The account will be paid when a cor'cct
bill is rendered, and not before. It
s no fault of mine that it has not boon
icttlcd boforo. I am sorry that I canlot
be with you, as I would gladly renter
you any assistance in my power. I
vould respectfully call your attention
o my message to the genoral assembly
md their references to the management
)f the penitentiary.
With assurance of my high esteem
or you and your committee, I am
Respectfully yours,
John Gary Kvans.
Hanged by Alabama Mob
<J?1 T ? - *
ouiumuii ouuuh, a negro, was nangcu
jy a mob near Forrest, (Ja., for attcmptng
to assault a young white woman.
NOTICE,
Conway Lodge, No. 00. Knight* of
Pythias will meet regularly the firat and
bird Thursday nights of each month until
jtherwlse ordered.
I). A.Spitkt
Chan. Com.
J. C. Spiviy
K. It. A 8
May 14th, 08. ly
m.
LL&K
NOTHING UKK IT
FOR
Constipation,
Indigestion,
ial Regulator it Kidneys.
Wholosalo by?
THE MURRAY DRUG CO.,
Columbia, S. C.
Dr. II. BAKU,
o 11
V1IAI 1V91U11, U? V.
?LIFE?
A vegotablo for Mild,
euro for Liv- the Pleasant,
er, Kidney & LIVER Sure.
Btoinach troubloi. and 25, 50, $1.
-KIDNEYSSold
wholonalo by?
Tbo Murray Drug Co. Columbia
Dr. II. Haer, Charleston, S C,
Macfeat's
School of
SHORTHAND
?AND ?
TYPEWRITING
COLUMBIA, S. C.
This Sohool has the reputation of being the
bebt business institution in the State. Graduates
are holding romuneratiTo positions in
mercantile houses, banking, insurance, real
estate, railroad offices, &o., in this and other
otates. Write to W. IT. Maofeat, Court
stenographer Comulbia, H. 0 for terms, eto
Ginning
Machinery.
o
The Smith Pneumatic Suction
Elevating, Ginning and
Packing System
la the simplest and most oflicicnt on
the market. Forty-eight complete
outfits in South Carolina; caoh
one giving absolute
satisfaction.
Boilers and Engines; Slide
Valve, Automatic and Corliss.
My Light and Heavy Log Beam Saw
Mills cannot bo oquallod in design, efficiency
or prioo by any dealer or matiu
cajturer in tho South.
Write for prioeB and catalogues.
V. C. Badham,
1320 Main Street,
COLUMBIA, S. C.
It is the=
Custom
Bat a very poor ouo, to wait until the ginring
aemon is on before locking to see
what fix the gin is in
Now is the time to
HURRY
IV7UIV Ulil 1U 1 ii Ti
ELLIOT GIN REPAIR WORKS.
' Do not delay and then ask us to let you
have it at once, for thorough work canno'
he done in a hurry. 'Ihe attention givei
this matter now will more than repay yon
whon the ootton is white in the fields
and the gin house crowded. The workis
coming in already, so ship at once to the
undersigned, located at tho old electrio light
engino house.
e orouces by permission:?W. II. 11 i ?
& Co , V C. IJad lis in, Jno. A. Willis.
Z^f.Wark your name and shipping point
on work sent and propay tho freight.
Tin Elliill Gin RjjuirWariis,
W. J. ELLIOTT, Proprietor,
No. 1314 Gates Street,
COLUMBIA. S. C.
=Koeley
126 SMITH STREET, ||
Coit. Vandkruohht, l||l| ij
CHARLESTON, S. C. V
ALCOHOL
MORPHINE
OPIUM
TOBACCO
CIGARETTE
USING
Produce each a dieoasc having defin
ite pathology. The disease yields
asily to the Doublo Chlorislo of Gold
Troatmont as administered at tho above
Keoloy Institute.
N. B.?Tho Keeley Treatment is
administered in South Carolina
?aty CHARLESTON.
H. H. WOODWARD,
Attorney and Counsellor at Law,
Conway, S. C.
""Office up stairs over Herald office
opposite Bank.
Wilmington and Conway
Railroad.
Daily except Sunday.
Southbound.?No. 97.
Leave Hub 3 00 pm
I.?ave I lions 8*10 pin
Arrive Chadbourn 8 36 pm
Leave Cbadbourn 6 36 pm
Leave Clarendon C 00 pm
Leave Ml Tabor 0 16 pm
Leave Loritt 0 36 pm
Leave Haoford .. 0 60 pm
Leave Bayboro .. 7 00 pin
Le ve Privette 7 09 pm
Leavo Adrian 7 12 pm ^
Arrive Conway 7 40 pm
Northbound.?No. 98.
Leave Conway H 30 am
Leave Adrian H 66 am
Leave Privolta 9 00 am
Leave Bayboro 9 10 am
Leave Sauford 9 20 am
Leave Lorie 9 85 pm
Leave Ml Tabor 10 10 ain
I mivo ('Inruu Ion 1 40 am
Arrive Chadbourn 11 20 am
Leave Chadbourn 11 60 n'n
leave llions 12 16 pm
Arrive Hub 12 26 pin
R. B. SCARBOROUGH,
Attorney at Law,
CON WAT, S. C.
Agent Mutual Life Insurance
Co. of New York.
WACCAMAW LINK NTK V VtKllS.?The
Steamer will leave the wharf at Conway
cvory Monday and Wednesday morning
for Georgetown at -1 o'clock, touching all intermediate
points; and will leave her wharf
at Georgetown every Tuesday and Friday
morning for Conway at 1 o'clock, touching
at all intermediate points.
D. T. McNeill,
Gon'l Agt and Troas., Conway, 8 C.
II. A. Munnerlyn,
Agent, Georgetown, 8 C.
J. It. Tolar. J. II. Hart
T. II. Blachly.
TOUR. HART 8 CO.,
1 (>() Front Street,
N E \V Y O It K ,
Commission Merchants
and
.Jobbers of Naval Stores.
Liberal advances on consign
mcnts of Naval Stores and
Cottou.
Monibera of the New York Cotton and
Produce Fix change.
To get strong
and healthy use
one bottle MurT?
A "1%/I"
IV A X O 1 LtUi> miATURE.
Price 50c
III MURRAY DRUG GO-,
All We Ask of
s^YOU
" S?ANYTHING
lInt,,? Maohifiofir or
Ill UUU1UUI J
Mill Supply Line
Is that you givo us an opportunity
to submit our prices aud mako
comparisons. We ask this because
we believe wo can make it to
YOUR advantage. TRY US.
Wo make a specialty of equipping
IMPROVED MODERN GINNERIES
OF ANY CAPACITY
WITH THE SIMPLEST AND
MOST EFFICIENT COTTON
HANDLING {APPARATUS IN
EXIST E NC E-T11E M U RR A Y
SYSTEM.
Correspondence with intending purbcasors
solicited.
W. H. Gibbes & Co..
COLUMBIA, S. C.
houtii carolina aokncy
Liddoll Co., Charlotte, N. C.
A. B. FarquharCo., Ltd., York, IV
Eaglo Cotton Gin Co., Bridgewater,
Macs.
Straub Machinery Co., Cinoinnati, O.
! Atlantic Coast Line.
WILMINGTON, COLUMBIA AND
AUGUSTA RAILROAD.
Condensed Schedule.
Trains Going South.
No 66* No-86
P.M. A.M.
I.eave Wilmington 3:46
Leavo Marion H:3t
Arrive Florence 7:16
f lm " - ' ?
uvmo *7:46 *3 26
Arrive Sumter 8:67 4 29
Leave Sumter 8:67 0 40
Arrive Columbia 10:20 11 00
No. 62 runs through from Charleston via
Central R. II., leaving Charleston 7:00a. m ,
Lanes 8:34 a. m , Manning 9:01) a m
Trains Going North.
No 64* No.63
A. M. P. M.
Leave Columbia *0 60 *4 00
Arrive Sumter 8:16 6 13
Leave Sumter *8:16 0 (Hi
Arrive Florence 9:30 7 20
Leave Florence 10.00
Leave Marion 10:40
Arrive Wilmington 1:26
*l)aily.
No. 63 runs through to Charleston, 8. C.,
via Central R R., arriving at Manning 6:41
p.m , Lanes (1:17 p. m., Charleston 8:00 p m.
Trains on Conway llranoh leave Chadbourn
6 36 p m, arrive Conway 7 40 p in,
returning leave Conway 8 30 a m, arrivi
CUadbourn 11 20 a m, leave Chad bourn 11 60
a m, arrive Hub 12 26 p m, returning leave y
Hub 3 00 p arrive Chadbourn 3 86 p in t
Daily except Sunday.
J. R. Kenly, General Manager.
T. M Emerson, Traffic Manager.
H.M. Emerson, General Passenger Agen