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JOHN WESLEY'S LOVE AFFAIRS. All of Them Were- Unfortunate and One Filled Him With Lasting Regret. - The story of the great Wesley's love affairs, given by Luke Tyerman in his "Life and Times of John Wesley," forms a strange and most rqmarka ble series of episodes in his life. The first occurrenice was during his mission to Georgia, where he formed a deep at taobment to a Miss Sophia Hopkey, a niece of the chief nagistrate of the colony. The earlier biographies of Wesley represent the affairs as involv ing a conspiracy on the part of the young lady and her friends against the reputation of the youthful ascetic. But so unlikely an account is now dis credited, and is totally disclaimed by Mr. Tyerman. Certain it is that Wesley was deeply in love; certain, too, that he referred the case to his Moravian friends and advisers, who decided accordingly that he should proceed no further in the matter, and ie is said to have acquiseced, saying: "The will of the Lord be done." How ever this may have been (and it seems doubtful whether he voluntarily gave up his attachment), the sequel is equally strange. iPor we find him a few months after publicly refusing the sacrament to this same lady (then married to a Mr. Williams) when she p resented herself at the Lord's table. The grounds of his refusal have never been cleared up; but it was largely in consequence of his behavior that he drew on himself the odium and per secution which drove him out of Georgia. For some years after this he persist ed in his resolution of celibacy-a resolution which certainly was most advisable-for one who had embraced a life of self denial, labor and home lessness. In 1742, too he published his " Thoughts on a Single Life," ex tolling that state as the privilege if not the duty of all who were capable of receiving it; and three years after, in a published hymn, which is clearly autobiographical, expressed himself as follows : " I have no sharer in my heart, To rob my Savior of a part And desecrate the whole; Only betrothed to Christ am I, And wait his coining from the sky To wed my happy soul." It was, therefore, with great sur prise, and not without some scandal, that in 1749 his friends heard that he was engaged to a Mrs. Grace Murray, a young widow, who had nursed him in a short illness, and who was actually accompanying him at that time in his ministerial travels through the coun try. This young woman had been brought up as a maid servant, and was a person of small education, though of great attractions, and a forvant con vert to Methodism. She was a person of singularly impulsive temperament, and with an utter disregard of delicacy and honor in the midst of her engage ment to Wesley allowed herself to co quet also with one of his lay preachers, John Bennett. and for some months the most extraordinary alternations went on, her choice resting sometimes on one, sometimes on the other of her lovers with passionate assertions of her entire devotedness to each, and this with intervals occasionally of a few hours only. Charles Wesley, disgusted and in dignant, strove to put an end to the scandal. His brother yielded and met the"lady to'say farewell. He kissed her and said "Grace Murray, you have broken my heart." A week or two after she was mflarried to the inferior suitor'. She andl Wesley did not meet again for thirty-nine . cars. She long outlived her husband, and when in London she caime to hear her son preach in Moorfilids, she met h'r venerable lover-lover still apparen tly, for the in terview is described as very atfecting. Henceforth they saw each other no more, and Wesley never again men tioned her name. Through long years Grace continued a course of Christian usefulness, and lived and died eminent ly resp~ected. She lies in Chinly Church yard in Derbyshire. Undeterred by his former experi ences, in 1751 Wesley again ventured up)on an engagement which actually resulted in marriage. Now, too, the lady was a widow, a Mrs. Vazille, her first husband having been a merchant, who had left her a small independence. There was little in her toodeserve the attachment of such a man, either in character or intellect. She, too, like Grace Murray, was of humble birth, and, like her, had been a maid servant Having during her widowhood joined herself to the Methodists, she was naturally pleased and flattered with the attentions'of their renowned head. Chas. Wesley again interposed, but tials time in vain. It soon ap~peared how ill-advised a union had been con tracted, and after a few years of wretched married life, marked on her p~art by outrageous ill-temper, jealousy, violence, and even treachery, which her husband on his side bore with the patience of a Socrates, the lady one day took herself olY and lived in a state of separation from him till her death. " Non eamn reliqui, non dimisi, non revocaL -I did not forsake her, I did not dismiss her, I will not recall her " was the husband's apt and pardonable exclamation when lie found her gone. She takes her place in the foremost rank of the .bad wives of eminent men, worthy to be classed with the wedded comp~anions of Socrates, of Albert Dunrer, of George Herbert, of Richard Hooder, she was the most vicious vixen of them all, It may be imagined, withou6 doing any injustice to him, that when his letter's were stolen, interpolated, and forged by his wife, for the purpose of injuring his character, the grieving spirit of the old prophet may some times have said, "Grace Murray would not have done this." At the same time we must, in justice, say that Wesley cannot be wholly exonerated from blame; for, setting aside the qluestion whether, after electing to marry, he was not bound to do more for the comfort of his wife, he certainly gave occam'lon to her jealous temper hy his unwary conduct, and, most of al, by his unaccountable fondness for a certain Sarah Ryan, a quondam maid servant like the others, who, although she was the wife of three living hus bands, so won the good opinion and confidence of Wesley by her ostenta tious devoutness tbat he actually ap pointed her matron of Kingswood Sch ool, where he necessarily paid fre quent visits. No suspicion can really attach, of course, to the fair fame of one pure and unblemished as Wesley, but it was difficult for a jealous wife to think so. And assurelly we must say of him, adopting a well-known phrase of Mr. Froude's, that " in' his relations with womien he seemed to be under a fatal necessity of mistake." --Miss Olive M. Brow n, of A m'erson, has been elected a professor in the Cooper-Limneston institute, Spart mn burg county, and has gone to assume her duties. Miss Brown le a most ac comnphr1 yungnadyn, REPLIES TO HIS CRITIOS. -- Int Tillman Defeds His Spbech In the Senate-. all Will Apologiz-3 when His Facts Are Dis.- prc proved. abi WASItINOTON, Fob. 14, 1890- F41 To the Editor of The World: Ma My uniform rulo has been to trea gre criticims with silence. I break that div rule now for a purpose, and that Is to ha, challenge those who have found so cot much to condemn in my recent speech tur in the Senate to a trial before the jury the of their readers, in which'1 can have I at least a show of justice. The New thi York Times editorially terms me "a grt filthy baboon," the Now York Evening wm Post "a political anarchist," The World ad( itself has used the word " blather- Th skite," the Philadelphia Record alils inC me " the chieftain of anarchists" and n o the Globo of St. Paul says: "This wil follow brings to the Senate the unsavory the record he made In his State, a char- rul actor tattooed with dishonesty." cot These are a few of the parliamentary no0 and elegant phrases employed by the tht polite and refined editors of some of of the leading newspapors as applied to str myself. They have not read my specch, act they dare not publibh it in full, and, we basing their criticisms upon a few int garbled extracts in which I used strong lal language to express indignation and ful contempt, they asked the people of the country to render a verdict against me cv as a coarse, brutal, ignorant black- is guard. thi All the words and phrases which we occur in the speech to which they take on exceptiondo not exceed a dozen. They Im( neither add nor take from the argu- for monts and facts as presented. Not a wl single one of them is unparliamentary, no and frequently, in the same Senate, to language as violent, as coarse and as yo brutal has been uttered in the past by on u dozen men whose names are written do high in our country's history. col If my language was unparliamentary and indecent, why did no Senator call col me to order ? If the charges wore iii untrue, why has nio Senator answered !w them, and why do my nuwspaper critics do not even attempt to answer thom ? Is an it u11paliamentary and indecent to wi toll the truth ? Are we sunk to that .llir low estate that falsehood and treachery all and ollicial dishonesty cannot be men- On tined without calling down an avalan- to] cho of abuse and slandor ? What other Sonstors have whispered among them- anl selves I have spoken aloud and in plain of words. What a majority of the people Ill, of the country have thought and folt ke I have utttered. This is the stum of my offending, and ph the hiroling editors and reportors who 1 now degrado the so-called froodom of lo the press to so despicable a level may fit flatter themselves that they create and h,, control public ppinion, but the thou- ur sands of letters that have poured in oL t1n mo from every quarter of tile Union, or( mostly from the North, and from men be engaged in every pursuit in life, havo given 111 assurances that the scales are falling from the eyes of tile people and that the truth, bravely told, has a sweet and wholcsome sound. The American people as a whole, the "great common people," love the truth, and they love their country. They despise traitors and thieves and cowards. It Is <a large mass to move, but the leaven is at work and the issue is joined, and tile result will be known on the day of election. So far as I am individually concern ed, and so far as my speech in concern- Tc ed, L care nothing for the abuse heaped on le, and thank my critics for direct- C ing attention to my utteranies. When So' my facts and argume~nts have been dis- faco proved I will apologize. Until then fall] dIeoncy dlemands that men who abuse car 1m1 for speaking the truth ehould let age their readers see it anid judge for ers thlemselves, or reserve tile epithets for liv< meni of their own kindl whlo dread the Th truth and love cowardice. con If there is no need of reform, reform at will not come. If I represent nothing The but ignorance and anarchy, why was I adj elected Governor of South Carolina oft twice b~y such overwhelming mnajori- the ties *? F'or four years, as executive, toir fough t and abused by cor porations and [ banks and their hireling newspapers, cap wvhy did my State sen~d me to thle Seon- no0n ato by a vote of 131 out of a total of 160O all in the General Assembly ? D)urlng ted thcse four years the State advanced in rep mlaterial growth andl increase of tax- .con able values more rapidly tihan in any exp~ previous period in its history. I spent wer $500,000 in the erection and equipment -say of two of tihe largest collegee for the whi industrial, techlnical and normal train- gra ing in the South-one for each sex. TI And the constitutional convention, Ter with which I had a great deal to (do, tuei fixed constitutional taxes so as to double Cat tile free school fund ; tile saloons have rep been banished from tihe State, while the three-fourths or the peCople, if not Get more, are firm supporters of the new p nmethod of handling the liquor trailic- Gel Trhese facts, which are history, cannot Job be sneezed at nor obliterated. Anar- Pe< chists don't write such history. Miu I have never shrunk from the lash- of Iigs of newspaper scribbers in the cia areanlaof State politics and wvill not '. begIn to do so in tile broader field to apj which my commission from the people the has transfeerred me. If it Is to be the tie, fate of this great rep~ublic to sInk to the the level of Rlome whlen the P'riietorian cot: guards were wont to p)ut tile em paror- bio) ship1 upI to the higheost bidder ; if Coni- ton gross is to become or remain tne cow - ardly tool and purchasable agent of the flo wealthy ; ii the Federal judiciary are ana to undermine andl destroy the constitu- ing tionl, as foretold by Jefferson ; if our in liberties al-C to be lost through supine Chi Ignorance aed venality, I, as a santinel c on the watch L'wer, holding a sacred firs8 trust, cannot be charged with hlaving Hie assisted my country to its degradatlpn gre by giving a note ol warning. pot B3. R. ILLMAN. in ADDRESS TO COTTON GROWERS. w Strong Reasons Ar. Given for RedJuction ofhi Acreage ThIs Year.an To the Cotton Growers of America: flhi The Cotton Growers' Protective As- fat sociation of America, in convention assembled at Memphis, Tenn,, on this an( the 21st day of -January, 189(1, agaIn net come to you with an urgent appeal for Ar co-operative action in planting the tee crop for 180. It is amatter of extreme ChI congratulation that the appeal made liei to you last year was so generally re- of sp)bnded to and that the crop of 1805, HI. made upon the diminished acreage, ing~ has had the effect of greatly increasing th< the price and bringing prosperity to i the country. Tile crop of 1893, though for estimated to be 3,400,000 bales short of ed the crop of 1894, was in the mlarkets by of the world worth more by nearly d $30,000,000. In the face of this result, vis to abandon the idea of diminished In acreage would be to sound the retreat Leor in the face of victory. It is tihe con- I census of opinion among the best G.& thinkers that of by any means the cot- Me ton crop of America could be held ilo w Ithin the limits of 7,000,000 bales p)or eili annum for ten years, the perople of tha these Southern States would be the his richest and most prosperous agrleul- eal tural people In the world. How can aou this be brought about ? The answer to I rith you. We appeal to .your self. 3rest and to. your patriotism to' do in your power to keep lown the duction of the staple. Do not indon the ground you have won. ht on upon the lines laid down, ke the Cotton States self-support , put more land in clover and - ses for your hogs to run on, erosify your crops. and when you Fe done all this the area devoted to ton will yield more profitable re no than if you sought to increase number of your bales. t is felt by the most thoughtful men ,t we are entering upon a year of at unicertainties, and that even a l cotton crop may fail to give quato roturns for its production. D muttorings of a storm are diturb the country and unsettling all busi s calculations. The prudent man I trim his sails to meet it. With commerce of the country inter oted by war-and war may come ton would be unsalable except at ninal prices. Every consideration, in, of patriotism, of self-interest and rudenco dictates that you adhere ictly to the rule of diminished 'eage. Earnest men are earnestly rking to lead you- and guide you o prosperity. Do not let them ,or in vain, but cheerfully and hope ly respond to their appeal. [n conclusion, we desire to say to 3ry cotton grower, whether his crop 10 bales or 1000 bales, see to It flrst ,t your place is self-sustaining-and mean by this to be sure you grow the farm an abundance of corn, at, hay, oats, peas, potatoes, etc., all the people on the place, both ito and colored. If the tenant will I produce these articles, sell them him, and you keop the money in ir own pocket, in place of sending it of the country. When you have ,io this, or provided for it, grow what 'ton you can. .f every farmer or planter in the tun-growing district will make this rule of action, and live up to it, it i1 accomplish the results we so much sire, of making us all prosperous I happy, whether our cotton, which 11 be a surplus crop, to make sure it of a cheap, home grown living for the people, and all the animals, tho place, and then make what cot you can. 'ross this idea on your neighbors I friends; talk it in season and out season, at homo and abroad; In enco your papors to writo it up, and p it before the public-at least, i1 after thit year's cotton crop is ltot. 1cmcmber, this Is purely a labor of 'o for the bunefilt of all, and if every meor will participate, and lond a lping hand, by co-oprating in a Ited and vigorous effort to reduce size of the cotton crop, and in aso the home-supply crop, immense iclit to all is obliged to be the result. HUCTOl 1). LAN Alabama W. H. STOVALL, i5ssissippl, W. A. BIROUGHTON, C orgia, J. W. CORCOlRAN, Arkansas, F. L. MAXWELL, Louisiana, W. W. STONE, Mississippi, J. M. CASTLM-MAN, Texas, T. F. P. ALLSON, Tennessee, CIARLEM SCO'rT, Miasissippi, A. F. MAYmERitY, Arkansas. FOUTHERN EXPOSITION. to loei. in the Faili-De!egates Meet in Chicajo-Pat Walsh, Chairman. 'IlICAGO, Fb. 19.-An exposition of thern products, natural and manu L.ured, will be held in Chicago this1 ,me rchants, nmanu facturors and italists of this city agreeing to man-. and finance it while the Southern-1 interestcd will furnish it and do-1 r exhibits free of cost to .Chicago.i s was the decision of the specialI lfmit.tee applointed by3 the delegation the Palmer Hlouse this afternoon. committee met immned lately after . aurnment and after several hours eliberation decided to so report to 1 convention when it reassembled orrow.1 ankers, merchants, manufacturers, italists, journalists and men promni t in Southern public life camne from States in the South last night and< sy in large numbers to officially 1 reset their States and cities at the ventilon which will organize the osition enterprise. The delegates 1 e filled with enthusiasm andldid not 1 unkind things about the Neather 1 ch was down to zero and ag- I t-atced by a piercing wind all day. f .no States of Alabama, Georgia, I nessee, Florida, Louslana, Ken-c y, Mississippi, North and South I (otina, Maryland and Tuxans were resented at the opening session, largest delegation being from3 n-gia and Tennessee. .mong the morning arrivals were I m. Charles Thurman, of Nashville; 4 ni H. McDowell, the Tennessee r pie's party leader ; Charles D. I chell, Chattanooga, vice president r hte National Manufactur-ers' Assgo bion ; Major John McCann, the r aumo milier-," of Nashville, who wasc mointed1 by the Governor to look after militairy feature of the exposl 1; Theliodore Cooley, ehairnan of art departmentt of the Trennessee - tenunial, and A. M. Wells, comnmis mer general of the Tennessee eon 'lhe delegates came to the Palmer ise parlors reservedl for their use, E after registering spent the morn nours ini social intercourue or busim is talk with fellow delegates fromt cago or the South.r cor-ge WV. Zeiss, of Texas, was ther t on the ground with an exhibit, brought uip samples of the carnal- f root, which resembles the sweet ate very strongly and which grows I the western part of the State, but '] ives in a much more profitable ( bion near the Gulf~ of Mexico,t ore it is being cultivated. Its pro- 1 rt is the tannte acid of commerce, the Te'xans are proud of it. Along h the carnaigre comes tbe ramie a -ous production from which textile ( rics may be made with a profit. I Vhile the delegates were arriving I heing welcomed by Chicago busi- I si men, ox-Confederates and Grand rny voterans, a preliminary commit consmisting of W. A. G;iles, Chicago; I riirmnan Patrick Walsh, C. A. Col ,iH. LI. Staiford and -W. H. Har-pcr,r eorgia ; Malcomn McNeill and Col. I L. Turner, of Chicago, held a meet to outline a plan for submission to conventIon. Lt 3 (i'clock the delegates assembled businiess, Chicago being represent- ' by many prominetut citiz ns named the mayor. cordlial welcome was given the ltorsm by Corporation Couusel Bealo,d hoe ablsence of Mayor Swift, who is lined to his home with the grip. [on. P'atrick Walsh, of Augusta, t ,was elected chairman, Malcolm Neil, of Chicago, secretary, and t ward iH. Staf'ford, of Augusta, as ant sectairy. Chalirman WValsh t nkcd the corporation counsel for welcome and made a few remarks ling attention to the great re- t rees of to South and the benefIts t me derived from making nan exhiit I of themi to the Western people. 'It was resolved that' a committ Consisting of one representative frc sach State and ten representativ from Chicago be appointed to deoc whether It was an opportune time hold an exposition as proposed, and 30 to present a plan for putting t schome into operation. The committ appointed by the chairman Is follows: W. P. Halliday, Will A. Giles, Gen. Charles FitzSimons M. Lawrence, W. A. Alexander, i .olm McNeill, John E. Scott, Wm. . Harper, Col. Henry T. Turner, Po master Washington Hesing. From the South-B. E. Dulan< Tonnossoo. T. S. Plowman, Alaban W. J. Andrews, North Carolina; E. Roche, South Carolina; D. B. Dy4 Georgia; T. P. Grasty, Maryland; I W. Stone. Mississi i; W. P. Roi: Kentucky; W. A. Simmons, FLorid Morris Schwebacker, Lousiana, and P. Zeiss, Texas. A resolution was adopted inviti all railroads to send delegates to t con vention. Col. Turner, commanding the F Regiment 1. N. G., invited the de gates to attend a regimental drill, j iieption and dance to be given tom( row night at the First Regime armory to the delegates by Chica citizons and the regimental offeors. The convention then adjourned met tomorrow morning at 10 o'cloc when the committee will report. AMElIA AND HER PRINCE. Anothor of the Quick and the Dead Tr Matrimony for the Second Time. At Castle Hill, Albomarle Count Va., the home of the bride, on the 18 Inst., Mrs. Amelia Iives Chanler, t aelebrated authoress, was married Prince Troubetskia, a Russian prin< The affair was very quiet, and gre efforts were made to keep the time the event from the public. rhe co mony was performed by Hev. Paul Menzol, D. D., of Richmond, a Germ Luthoran minister, and was accordij to the form of the Episcopal chur< Miss Gertrude Rives, sister of t bride was maid of honor, and W. Allan Potts, of Richmond, was b( 'nan. The brides-maids wero M Landon Rives, sistor of the bride; M Bessio Martin, of Richmond; M! Julia McGrudor, the authoross, a Miss Elenor Page, of Keswick. Or the hnimodiate family of the bride a the whito and colored tenants ou C Ltives's place witnessed the coromon The couple will remain at Castle i until the 29th, and then sail for Earol The coromony was porformed in t grand hall of the spacious country r4 idence, the east side of which w banked high with ferns and pott plants. At the foot of these was temporary altar, with a pyramid three flights of American beauty rosi edged with white candles. The groom, preceded by the offich Ing clergyman and accompanied by I best man, Mr. Allen Potts, enter tho hall from the east wing of t building, the minister takingr his po Lion behind the altar, the groom sto 3lightly to the right while his b( man took a position a few feet to I right. The bride approached from the nor hallway. She learned gracefully up bho arm of her father and was regal beautiful in a simple bridal robe white ivory satin, trimmed in IRussi ably. She carried a large white col )f the marriage vows, and wore a hu bunch of purple violets; but no orn ments. She took her place to the le >f the groom while her father sto< be the right of the best man. F~ollo ng the bride and her father came tl 'naid of honor, Miss Gertrude Rivi ~he charming sister of the bride, a] rier mother. These ladies took corr( ~onding p)ositions on the opposite sid ~o those occupied by the best man ai .he bride's father. The four pret md stately bridesmaids followed ti naid of honor- and her mother a] ormned a semi-circle around the alta hus comOpleting a beautiful and insp; ng wedding scone. The maid of honor was apparell< n a very becoming gown of whi shiffon and satin ribbons and woi inrple violets. Mr-s. Chanler met Prince Troubet cia in London a little over a year a1 )efore she had been divorced from hi iusband. The Prince paid her son ILttention and invited the Virgin 1.uthorees down to the home of b amily in Italy. This invitation we bccepited by Mrs. Chanler and she hi inito a delightful visit to Lake Major t was here that the Prince saw mc if his present bride. After Mr Thanler's return to Amer-ica nearly ear ago the divorce was obtained at he very soon afterward announced few of her most intimate friends bh mngagement to the Prince. Since hi eturn to this country she had not set ocr prospective husband until I eached Ameriua upon this occasio ~o invitations were sent out to ti auptials and there was no wedding r option. DISCUSSES CLEMSON. he Houseo Considors the Priv;1ego Tax No Change Made. COL~UrMHIA, February 20.-The Hoeul 0-Clay considered and acted upt everal importanmt matters, The rei platration bill was finally passed 1 he H~ouse and sent back to the Senal o see what it thought of the amen, nonts the Ihouse had kindly put in it neasure. After a lively fight the House nd, initely postponed the bill to chant lh lpescnt application of the enti irivilege tax fund to Clemson Collegi 'he debate brought out the existent f considorable inmrest and scrutiny o the financimal affairs of Clemson Com Tere was an unexpectedI conte, against the passage of a resolutic >roviding for the p2urchase of 1 J0 acr< >f land that is much needed by tb lespital for the Iieano Thelm bill to provide for a reductic n the scalc allowed for State p rintin >assed by a decisive vote. TLhe hi >roposes a general reduction of abot 0 or 15 per cent, and the announc< nent is that priinter-s stand readyi nake a sullicient bond that the prin ng can he done for the rates agree ipon to-day. When the registration bill came ui er a third reading anumuber of ament cents were packed in again by Mi l'ownsend. The Senate will have norry timeq of It r-ecognizing the bi W'hen it gets baek to that bouy. When~ the hill to provide for th istribution of the privilege tax canm ip, Mr. Rainsford said that the Olen on report having bcen received it wm imo to act en his hill, which propost o give Clemson $25,000, and th alance to Winthr-op College. Mr. Williams proposed that th alance should g o to the State treasur lirect. Mr. Broazeale moved to strike ou lhe enauting words of the bill, say in hat as long as the implied contrat Sin force that thn privilege tax sh.., go to Clemson it ought not be divertes 3 Mr. Williams said if thd contrac >m has been broken It was by the Clemsc es people. They have-come here yes de after year and asked for money. to they returned what they had gotten. it would be well to talk about broke he contracts. Clemson should be give 0 definite amounte. Clemson, he salU as would spend every dollar given. 6m Mr. W. J. Johnson, of the invest E gating committee, said that a simila i-tax to that of last year was reoou - mended. If $26,000 was given frox St- the privilge tax it would be $8,0( more than is recommended, or wa iy, spent last year. Then there is $20,0O ia; received for the board and about $5,0( L. ought to be received from the faro )r, Re wanted to knew whether the sixt V. of all the State taxes should go 1 h, Clemson. The four denomination. la; colleges were being run at a cost ( Z. $48,000 he understood, and that wt less than Clemson College was recel og ing. Ho favored the bill. he Mr. Leon Williams said the la provided for but ten professors t 'st Ulomson, and many mire were e le- ployed contrary to law. There are I -e- boys in the fitting school, and the )r- should be at school and not at college nt These professors were paid $41,30 go Mr. Wiullams then exhibited an i teresting statement of salaries pa to the professors. k, Mr. Williams went on to say that : Erskine 87 boys were educated at $n 850, an average cost of $07.25. Ne berry College, 129 boys were oducatc at $5,500, or an average cost of $4 leg Wofford 144 boys at $13,000, an averag cost of $90, and Furman 139 boys co $10,500, average $75. At Clemson 41 iY, boys were in attendance, and for the th the cost for professore was $41,360, 48 a por capita of $160, while the averag to per capita of the four denomination se. colleges was $08.50. The only way b at could explain the difforenco was thi of it was State money that was beir 'e- sp 3ut. There appeared to him to be L. a r:w loose somewhere. If Clemst an wore given $25,000 of the privilege ta ig that would give the institution $60,00 h). which lie held was sufficient for all e. be penses and more than the four den Ir. minational colleges united spent. H !st did not Intend crippling any of ti As collego, anid said that Winthrop woul S be well cared for. He insisted that I e5 only wanted to see things conducted I rd a business-liko way. ly Mr. Tatum objected to the bIll as rid diverts the fund from the pur )oso f< )I. which it was intended. A bill hu Y- just bon killed to repeal the tax ar til the present effort is ill-timed. . Mr. Watson challenged any one i e show whore the money has been mi 3u spent. The reports show that all got as oral funds have gone to build up a flr od plant. There is now a compact thi a this tax should go to Clemson, whic of compact was made when the institi is, tion was established. There is no a) peal from the farmers for a change a 6t- to this fund. The matter should be a [is lowed to remain just as it is. 3d Mr. Garris said the board hoped 1 le complete the college in every deta si- this year out of the privilege tax. rid Mr. Burns was opposed to the tax o ist principle, but if it be imposed it shoul kis be distributed as provided in the bil Any college depending on a privilog th tax Is in danger. Every college shou. on come to the Legislaturo for a dire< ly appropriation. If the fund amoun of to $70,000 it would all be spent. The: %n is no reason for special privileges 1 )y Clemson. Ce Mr. Rainsford said the committee r( a- ported a similar appropriation to th ft of last year, $57,000, and this bill pre d vided for over $00,000 to Clemson. W- Mr. Sturkie, of Orangeburg, felt sur 10 that the tax would be repealed, an s,. the time will soon come when a diroc id ap~propriation will have to be made 5- As he believed this privilege tax wiE es soon be cut off he favored Clemson has id lng the advantage now. ty " Citizen " Ashley applroved the ta. 1e but was opposed to the 1)il1. id Mir. Connor, of Orangeburg, sal r, Clemson has been established on a sol r- foundation. There was a faseinatic about Indirect taxes, and Clemson, ha ad urged, could ill afford to get such to tax. He did not want to criticie ce Clemson, but the fact stares the men bers in the face that four denomnin: z- tional colleges are run for less tha fO Clemson. All information shows th: ir the Clemson is doomed unless eli 1e gives up every purp~ose for whic lat Clemson was built has been made is secondary c masideration, this p'ivileg :ss tax. Clemson started out with te &d professors and now she has about 31 e. Ho had been in formed that a majorit St of the students at Clemson had butte '5- be at home att~inding an acadoney. H a was told that there were 27 miuls s id Clemson, and yet money is asked ft to hauling coal. He was advised thsi cir every professor got house rent an 3r water and light free, and p)ossibl mn vegetables and fuel, and he asked the~ 10 the salaries be compared with thee D. at the South Carolina College, Citade 1o Fuirman, Wolord and the other co ~he convicts did all the farm war he heard, and yet $3,000 was asked fc farm harbor. Clemson should be cor fined to her prope'r sphere and wha -..- she was intended for. He regrette to have to say that Clemson's trustee should take warning of a predictio e0 made to him that " a literary crank in would ruin the college. He had n C- critIcism to make on the managemen 'Y of the trustees, as they were. new mae 50 and doing the best they could. ] M r. Black well ' moved to indefinitel t0 post1)p)me the bill, and on this the y Mt and nays were demanded. The bli -waq Inriefluiltely postponed by a vote c e0 59 to 45. e WEYLER BOASTS. . Several Skirmishes--Four Horse. Capture in One Day--Rear Guard of the Enemn *Sighted. n W ASfIINGTON, Feb. .19.--The follow as ing is a copy of a dispatch receive, .0 here today by the Spanish minister signed by the new commandant of th ni Spanish forces in Cuba : g HAnANA, F~eb. 19.--The reports o I1 the last military operations are a tol it lows : Macco has crossed the line be I- tween Habana and Batabano by tha o village calle~d Vapor, with 00 horses I- Later, other troops joined him, 11 di numbers about 000, but the enemy wa under fire. of the troops5 commanded b' p Colonel Seguerra, whish killed threl I- rebels and wounded 12. ~. TIhe insurgents joined their forces ai a San FelIpe do las Vegas, abandonin1 I1 their route towards Matanzas that ha beer, to the south of the railroad fron e San Felipo to Guines, fearing the col e umins which were closIng the line be t- tween the railroad and the sea. .s train conducting General Echagut is who, wvith his command, was going ti e p~lace himself between San Fel ipe anc Guines, met in Molina, between the e railroad station of Melena and Pales y que, 800 cavalrymen of the enemy who approached the train thInking I: i was a freight traIn. Trho column fire< g on them without alighting and arrive( V safely at Guines, di The column of Colnel Sourao 1. wing the extreme left, caime upon ti it onemy in San Folipe do lae Vega a wbere it is found and dislodged Mace r Mira, Diasz and Castio. with 1,5' f mounted men. The cavalry troops, .t Camahuani charged and defeated the n in Culebra and Culebrita hills. Ti n enemy retreated towards ' Navi 1, Several columns followed him in combined movement encircling hir 1- General Llnares hnas also defeat( ,r Maximo Gomes in Lomas del Porve k- oro, capturing four horses. The troo n had three wounded. Roconnoiterir 0 the camp after the engagement, th 6s saw the rear guard of the enem 10 Taking thom for the Spanish fore 0 but seuing that they mado no answ a. to the countorsign, they opened art It lry and Mauser rillo fire, killing s o and wounded 27-the column sulforli 6L four wounded. Tho troops followi of and encircled the enemy. s In the province of Santiago do Cul r- the guerillas of Cobre defeated on ti 11th, on Paso Lajas, a small ban v killing one and wounding anothe 6t The same guerillas in Loma Noruoj i- defeated on the 16th the rebels 0 Porteo Cruz. (Signed) WyLEn. y The places mentioned in the abo s. details are inside a triangle formed 1 0. the i allroada from Habana to San F 2- lipe and from Guines to Habana 1 d San Jose do las Lajats. IHILADEL1'llIA, Feb. 19-Colucide %t with the arrival in this country of : 9 Costello, Secretary of the Treasury " Cuba, the sending of aid to the i id surgents has been progressing mo 4- rapidly than ever. 'a There sailed last Saturday afternot It from off the Capes of ljolaware t 09 Norwegian steamer Oistoria, wit 1 an expedition of 50 mon and a larg nr quantity of arms and ammunitio 'O Th vessel has been )Irchased ou right by the Cubans and will be us( 0 by them for future work. She is j 6t built that she can easily make twolh g knots an hour and, it is clairmed, cr a show her heels to most of t1e wa in ships Spain now has patrolling ti x Island. The expedition is in commar of Captain Edwaird Ardue, who serv( through the ten years' wiar. With hi are a number of the son, of wealti c Cubans in New York city and oth, .0 parts of the United States. d It is anticipated that the vessl W: * reach the North coast of Cuba at n point near the Havana coast, abo next Sunday, where it will be mot I t a detachment from General Gone r army and safo convoyance given to ti s laterlor of the island. With ti d expedition arc one Maxim and tv Gattling guns. 0 News tis been received hero th I- within the last ton days, ton vosse 1- have arrived in Cuba from this cou 0 try with 700,000 cartridges, a lar; 6t quantity of powder and dynamites, at h , riffes. One of the local Juni I- said to-day : I- "As there is no pressing need B anen at this time, no regular exied I Nervous Prostratio n Cured by Dr. Miles' Nervine. (I 1. Prolonged dorangemenit. of the nervou 0 system not only aftocts tho brain and mei d tal powers. but develops (Isease in some a the vital organs. The mosxt dingrous o theso Indirect results is whetn the heart I e afTected. 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Our illustrated catalogue of Furnitur Stoves and Baby Carriages maile free. Address *Ca. F.PAD .grr 848 BRO AD TRUNT-s AUGU...... GA. 1 tiois will be sent to the Island. (m, s orals Macco and Gonez havo utlev ) their, immedjato command in the I') I4'~I I 11. 5 f ! 1~ V:riNJ fl tl t 11 Z'?.. Ii over 10,000 nil who are without any arms except the3 Ina.:,(t,. Ile cold 0.t enly Fre t a Ruany more i1. !;e tIII4 equip t m -lonn. F.:e FM 3 zo U- I JAU,'(HO,', P.eb. 1 h Me s Clurg, IllnIbm- t s Car'oll count-, ti bome of so.natno vy George and a b iIolenator. fored the follo -elect ojlhey f. e, it bing tlo)pted ' n one . r tive votI,.: onnea - Resolved, byo Ix sentatives of thi State ('f Ni that we favor the free KI1L. 1111 iltil )d coinago of silver and gold at the ratio of 16 to I by the govertineut of the United States independently of tl lo action of any other govermunhtunt d. Second-That we do not favl- the r. nominat.ion of any Deunocratiei - cni I o. date for Presidentof the I'nite' " tI in whose known views are not n iaCe4.or( with ours above cxp, o. v0 Third-That we hto,- ;t-, hi-:a t y that those states which: i' I' 'e- cratic majorities in thI gn-r 3y should control in Imakinag :i ll -11 tion fir President amt, V i.c. I t * ---Noma 4 * -. I. ---At Johns i1opkin Unive -h* oi cently i patient and hypnotic o a n- was SiLC( sfully opt.1teI'd up (lseased kidney, no anarI h le i' 1, used. The caso wsit the ir-t in -. hypnotism hits b-eii uw-(,l in1 0'1 ' l0 stitution. 1 c SOUTHERN RAILWAY. ~1. ad JI - ndensed Sohedulo in EIr'cot FEnlIUARY 33rd, 189). BTATIONS. N" utIbt 1 a T r4 1 - 1 - 1 )y - ---- ) m - r. Beltiio. -7 - - Ar Aiulut ru I t .tii BTATION. ... ..r..,i.... s ' i dm ont ........................ ) 3- " _ V il a n1 it .................. . 11jv ~Lii~'t~l Mt i i d ETIA It on ........... ..... ... t Ar. 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