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RI-WEEKLY EDITION.} WINNSBORO. S. .. T UESDAY. DECEIMR 24. 1878 VO 'I2 N-139 TALMAGE SEES MORE CRIME. WIrArirm Tirr.Vcs .tnour t;rr.iAtD 1LA IY VG. Walking in the Third Watch of th i Niit- An Appropriate iiur for Crime -A. Good Word for Outoastt._ Beware of the Ball and Cue. ,Frtli the eo Yor 1ar.. A bright sky and unlimited adver tising in the shape of new.kpor reports swelled the Rev. Dr. Tal m go's audienca to its usuaM Sun, day morning proportions yesterday. Young men were present in force, and constituted the majority of the listeners. Genesis, i, 5, was selocted for a text "And the darknjss He called night." P'unging at once into his subject, the Doctor stid "T.w,) grand divisions of Time are marked out for us-tho season of sunshine and the seton of shadow; one of gladness, be tuty and joy, and the other of affiliction, sin and gloom. One repres4nts .'work, the otbor ret, , The gqvd Lord himself croated tel r division on the first day and when the gloomy sida held up her dusky brow, He kissed her and called he.r night. Oat W_4t, I foAnd last week, that this per.,. of sermons had been greatly blessed of God ; so I propose to go. on with the assa"It. "The tinkling of ear-bells, the baying of a d.og. the slam of a saloon door ga the shriek of a steam-whiistle aiille aw.ty greeted our Oars in our ral44 of the 'tbird watch of the nighk Il i ntinul. "Hw i uggstive a ba c' missionary '#d p wad, and there a d pai from a, dtmp ,all y erea physician hurrying along .to"-li6k bedside, and ther. a.jght in 'te maunt windv,.whsce . watchoreit. with a fevertosse a natiInm whole -city- adlieg t .g relaxed fr'omn,6h.dahyuiges. -.jr,Yg brains coohing for fut,boor -ori4 Old age and innocent cuiido.1 iII the soothing, refrosiing arms of sleep. But there are others idre who will not sloop at il. B.-wa -o of tile drunkard, lying ou Ini own dor-sap, and t0e giwro o.s. Here is a more gl .s,iy trapdy under v ay than any I Io Edwin B,,th ever en wetol. L t .n the trage,(y of povecry, wh3ro to hovel stands for homa, tnd where there is no fire, no food, no clotii ing, no God I Are these people vicious 7 Sty much more d. tay need your Pity. The Uhristian poar God helps ; but rag,e.I sin's I1.it lights are put out, for th -y ie in hell already. I wou!d give tw.1nty prayers. for a guilty wrotch to one for a poor Christi tn." Between mi(Night and 3 o'clonk ill the morning Mr. 'ain -.; thought ciin.del did their os wvork. They could be foun 1 in saloons at 8 o'clock "firzing up" fo: their horrid deeds. At midnight they brought out their tools. Be,. fore the hour of three the burglar's key touched the store lock, tihe iln cepdiary applied the match to tihe frsil timber, and the knife of tihe assasin left a dead body in tihe vacant lot.- Many would say it can not be helped ; that poverty--raised children ill always become crime hardened men and women. "I ad tmi," he went on, "that powerful circumstances are again)st tile youth of. our 'slum8.' Many have, been born in thieveb'' garrets, with dark lanterns for. their first toy, and the nursing Of heads, damaged by police clubs, the earlient home memories.' They begin by robbing boys' pook ets, but now dig through the eairth' to reich a bank vault, and - blow it . up with gunpowdei'. G.imbling is in full blast durin~g this fearful 'third watch.'. The click,of billiard. bails is heard througli elosed shlut te, while inside may be found legislators whoe vary the making of laws by breaking them. That mer chant who last, spring put a new sign over a new store is inside, hand-in-hand . with court officers, bankers, importers of silks, and Chatham:street clothiers."tebl liard-playe'rs. "TChere is no excuse for this crime of billiard-playing," he 'said. "The deep thunders of' woe beat M iead miarch to the 10,000 souls who go dwn through its influen~ce. Se gij1lios 6of dollars are lost sne v si n degQ e'vpr tr tro t. I1 ok oiltabi;til f.bot gen p iniit$ N - LO.e?k 1hat:,ho dortkes to show you the lions and olopth nts : y>i'ro a fool if you can't divilf) li4 i1 .. ti 'I ffo is after, your Una1 y ia 0 test la-9 a at'r your sou r in Va s(II nd. IIr c L h" l,.)> rel LtO 1 1 ih lost his outiro fortune in a Hiq13 0igh'lan I han rIb ired to his ch.n1 kor an.l com:uittod suici-1e. 1is comrades heard of the aff.tir an I went up to his room t) take a view of the bo ly, but went imnin'liately back to continue the s.ufl-tn of cards and the rolling of the ivory. With a wild swin.r of the arms Til mago excoriated the ideal gauiler in these words: "rhere is muore morcy in the fire which licks the humble cottage with its re-1 ton:ae; more mercy in tha frost ' as it squeoz3s to de th the pretty flAw are in an 'icy einbraco ; 'nore mercy in the hurricane as it drives a crowded steamer on -the Long Is land rocks, than in tie liart, of a gai mbler for his victim. At 8 o'clo.k, N. fin ige thought, the averagj young in tn began to play and to use polito language; lt 10 he bedime garrulous ; at 12, blasphemous ; at 1, a. m., his hat falls off ; and at 3, a. tit., he falls to the flaor in a state of bestial ine brioty, calling for "more drink, more drink 1" We want'hnndreds ,f menl and women to go out and provide1 warn covering for stockingless feet, and to take bread and clothing, as well as prayers,. to the wretched. "T le domestic trakedy is now com pletedl in four acts,." he continued. ".First, the Young m.m leaves his bome and weeping family to depart over the hillside to new scenes and now tempttions3. Ha disippers fro.i the bosam of his family. Ring the bell and let the curtain fall. Scene the seond is a mi.rriage ceremony, with a bride at the alter, -dressed in wiite robes, and excla- i inations of 'how lovely she is,' all over th.e house. Ring the boil and lower Vae carttin. Sine the third pdrtrays a w,ian wAitin. for the return of unstady footsteps. The ho.ue is chiorless. Coll him Is bite ':io nails froon bloodlss fingers. AnguiHh, wailiin'r anI despair. -Rin-, t! U01 oiL ag in an I drop t,,e curtain. S.ena Chbo f)nitil i4- the final one. T1re gravea ;.y ti]d by side in a dirk pl tce. O:1 is that of a child whose death resulted fron neglect a-l vuit. A! ,5a tio: is t lat of a wife W4 > died from a br!kloi utrrt The n1.lxn is tA Oa (1t0 :n ti wao d'el iro.n :sp 103 1,) . t. : beli and LAt A a.! tial kd1W-1 .11 :,0 illun of LI.u kne10s C.10 dt,3 el lesp.ii." THE .FENCE LA IW. TAnDono, N. C., Nov. 20 '78. To the .Ex0cuttiv Committee o/ the North Caroina State Agricul tural Society*: Er.xLEM1N :- 1e Undersigned coni.nittee. appointo:l by tia N,:-th Caro.ina'Stato Agricultural Society to visit HAecklonbiirg con:wtv, in this Stat, and g.ttior inforin itiion inl reC.ediL~ to the0 wor~kint of' thfe fe,eo l-tw, in that (count~y, .iving it,ien tion to) the3 opiniaof a 0ll cl i5st(s of people i2 reg.ard to it, after a trial of several years. etc., res3pectfully. report: Taar triey took t vanta:g'e ot the opportunity to meet the farmers of Mncklenburg during the fair of the Carolinas, at Charlotte, on the 14th and 15th inst. There they t tiked with farmers from nearly all parts. of the county, and found' a most de' cided endorsement of the adv m, tages, conveniences and econo my of the law, and were informed that mnany, who were at first opposed to the law, have become reconciled to it, and admit not only its economy but its convenience and its advan - tages. Of cour'se there are some who do not like it,.but so far as we could Jearn from inquiries made of' m:my farme re from various parts of. the conaTyV, the above seems to be the dtecidedi sentiment of a decided majority of the people of the county. Respeotfully, (Signed) WGr. 8. B.ArT.U, . P. E SmITH, D. W. 0. BENDow, J. A. DUNN, Committee. COWRLING AND THE PRESIDENcY. A Washington special to the New York GrapAic, wvhich that paper says in a leadler is undoubtedly cor rect, states that the friends of Sens tor Conkling have recently been in conference there anid in New York on the'anbject-of his niomination 'to the Presidency, and that he wilfbe it understood thsit*116 is not a candi datanidill' not a din ;AVter 'into a: contest. T.his attitiude is saipp6M to be due, accordt to the OrdpM~Ao, to moy6ra tpeenin itkte 15 'a et . ft''r U:, ' A VX:rY IN 4BAD WAr. The defeate'd canidAtes at the re,eit muu 1A al eliation at Macon, G.I.., have dote nined joLcontest the Ot't ion, an- h ave a!r"aty fled an aWolicationl Ln aninjuneton to prevoub tlo- aaOld aldermn elect. from taking their sets. Accoriing to Lhe NGeon Telegrapt this Will leave the citq in a prOtk,y stow. O course, while he contest is going on, M yor Tir, with the old board, iiill hpl o.; but then it is alnnouncied djp 'P 6.Ino of the old botrd are couing t, "flie determi, oation not to surve beyond the time for waioh t1ey were elected. It is supgestud that this number will be fhmr, and if the.havor also docline-to ant with the- old botrd,. the city will be lett w.*Uut a city governmeat. The case, after it is argued on its merits, 'll be car - tied t0' the Shpiemel6 Court, and wili, in all probabil*' be many months before a final'Ittlement is nud. . So thL it hitt Ivill stand this way: The old 'krd will be unatble to sit for want': a quorum, tuerWill be no power'to order a new election to fill the'4our vacan cies which will be ,emporarily created, and the city -ove'rnment will be gone. In the Oantime the period for the collection -of taxes will pass by, licenses will b.pncollected, and the general coilion of the city will be depressei and her credit inijged by the Lpn-payment of bonds and coupons ling due. HAMPTON'S k A M V.nYINDIciTRD. -In connection with t story that Governor WaLde H.kiujnt shot and killed Colonel Jame Cameron, brother of Simon Cameron, it the battle of Bull Run. a r- Cameron had surrendered, HQ Koener, a wAiter at a Fourth 9 restaurant in St. Louis, says : as a mem. ber of the Seventy- '4t New York regiment, of which ol4el Cameron was colonel. I was, :a Bull Run with him. I was notteh feet away waeqi he fell, askd '446s the. Airot to rait4o him up. T40%Vebels were lbree or four hundred yards away, can nonading us, and we could not see theu, they being sreaded by the trees and bm-mes. Colonel Camaron fell after two or three rounds bad been fired at us, and long before our xegimneut was forced to surven.. SAcRLEGlous 1,iRny.--Tho resi cl"nce of tim ftev. Mr. Tiliunghast, tei pastor of ouo .t0piscp d "l"Ircll in iichhind cunuty about eightuou 11ilos from Cy.uinbia. (n.tr E ,st )Ver,) was entered by burglars and robbed Wodnes:lay night last. Tae ELmily of the patstor heard the tniuve at work, but to avoid blood. sho keph still uatil they had s.11ureA1 t1le, p.under they were seeking. Numerous artIcles of weiryadn.d toe silverware used In too churci on communion day were stolen by the scoundrels. Mr. Tillinghast was absert in Georgia tt the the -.i.m of the robbery. If oi.t aa any oflicers in that Be'mo:m oi a, it cannty wnJ are woarihyV of i. n.i:C, ihey will ferret DRA toe sacs . gmons Llileve3 and bring thens to justice.-R/egister.. Official retana made to the Bureau of Statistics show that dur ing tbe month of November, 1878, there arr,ived at the port of Newv York 5,854, uimigrnts, of whom 94were maldes and 2,248 females. Lhere also aritived during the mon th 3,033 passengers ; of whom 2,612 were citizens of the Unite A i tates return fing from aboad, and i21 sojourners. During the month f Novemibar, 1877, the arrivals at the port were 4,745 immigrants ~2,798 inales and 1,948 feiales), L,949 citizens of the United States, md 272 sojourners. A fierce struggle is impending in WVipconsin over the U. S. Senator ship, although three weeks will alapse before the Legislature meets. Lmtt Carpenter's friendg 'think he will secure thirty-nine vot'es on the Iafst ballot, but it is thought that E. W. Keys will be inminated. ".Boss"| Keys is the chprmpiob ring thief of the Northwest, . but, he ie. also a staunch Republican and the fitness of things will be observed in his election. DNaD.-SMr. Jocob Levin, an old and highly respected eitIzen of Columbia, died ofn Monlday nIghti He was one of the~ oldest 'nebnbers of the .Ricb. land Volunteer Thie . .QQmbpany, Mrs. Mlartha .Herbemont, an aged resident' of Columbmw de 4Itd this life on Tuesday.--4'wagA (9,p m" oorat, 18th. Py o'fte Utp2tp to the Np. W5s 0" TME DAi Y. It is not generally knowvn that there are some threo thousand. Cherokee Inditins residing in North Carolina. E. W. M. Malcey. of South Caro. lin. is at the National capital with oill hip pockets bulged out with tissue iallots. The Texas Legislature has passed an act requiring all railway trains to stop not less tban five minutes at ally station. A eolored barber, named W. B. Puwell, wts recently hurnt to doth in Raleigh. N., ., while attempting to light a fire with kerosene. The U,lited Sthtes Sen-te has passed i hil repeo-ling that provis. ion of the Revisud Statutes requir ing jurors in Federal courts to take the test oatl. A Berlin dispatch Rsay th,%t the funeral services ot Bay-trd Taylor were held at the American Legation on Surlv, aftor which the reniins were c-)nveyed to a mortuary where they will ren-tin until taken to America. The lifeless boIy of .Jmi Sm ith, of the St. Nich.1as Hotel, Brooklyn, was foun last Wednesdy morning, hangin< to the bed post by ia elothes line fastened tightly around the neck. Senators 3-yard, Wallace. G%r land and Bailev have been selected hv the Denioernts to serve on the Bline committee. The Ronubli cans have chosen Tellor, Kirkwood and three othe s. Jnle Baxter, of Uqinnhis, has overruled a motion for a new trial in the case of B. H. E 11ins, convicted of ballot bix stuffing, and sentenced the defendant to two years in the penitentiary. Tt is said that Lientenant Flipper, the only colored c1det who has been graduated from Wost Point, has deci led to write a book describing i the hardships which he had to en dure there on account of his color. Mr. Murat Halstel svs it is no seerpt among Grnt'R intimate friends that he would rather be mnde field-marshal with a anlary of $50,000, and retired on half pay, than to run for the presidency again. The Pri-ef of Wiales telegraphed Gamhottai his eongrntnlations on COrMig on1 tof his du e all right. The Qnen does not like to see Alfred Elward so strong an admirer of the French Republican. Official intelligence has been re eeivpd.at A,ustin. Texas, from the El Paso District that armed hands of delradoes have arrived there from New Me,xico. that the Moxi cans Rhow signs of making trouble, and that the judge of the district fears that the court cannot be held. The snarrinA' match, with black ened gloves, between Professor Wmn. Miller and Joe Goss, which came off on F" id ry night in Baltimore in the t. presence of '1,500 spectators, re snIted in a victory for Millor bya score of tweGnty-two face hits to nineteen for Goss. Queen Victoria may be held per sonlily liable for a share of the losses by the Glasgow Bank. failure. A womnan died recently in England who held a good deal of the stock. Having no heirs, her p)roperty went1 to the Crown, and now the bank's lawyers hold that the Queen is per- I sonally liable so far as that stock is I concerned. t The Newv Orleans Times offers a gold medal, or $100 in g Id, at the winner's option, for a poem of ~ Southern origin and creation which will most adequately record the noble conduct of the North and WVest dturing. the yellow fever visi tation of the' past year, and most eloquently express the gratitude of the South. Th5e residence of -Patrick Ronke, at Cohoes, N. Y.,. was burned last: Thursday night. He and his four sons and two daughtars wvere in the burning' building. The oldost girl' cannot sitrvive, while the younger was corim4ratively painjured. Mr. Rouke is sine dead, arid the boys' were all dead when found. Professors Houston and Thomnp - monh exhibited last wveek, before the Franklin Iustitute, Philadelphia, an invention of electric light which they elaire solvos thq ,prob~lera of obeap lighting ey lectricin,. The light Is produned bW OIncandos. eence of carbon ponits, arnd not by burning as in the oletrie lights nnIC-A-BRA c. Now York lias two thousand three hundred policemen. Any eXpet t can catch enough cold in five minutes to last all winter. There are seven naval offiders till living who were with Nelson it Trafalgar, all verging upon iinsty years of age. Some one asked Snodgrass if he had ever seen a candle run. "No," said our friend, "but I have seen i walking match." A gil in Cloarfiold, Pa., stole a ring from a jeweler's tray by lap ping it up with her tongue .while 3he was closely examining the col lection. There is not so very much differ ance, after all, between the ups and downs of life. "Pay up" and "cash down," are pretty much the same thing. A Michigan man tried to commit uicide by holding his head in a hot cVen. After getting properly baked he saw his fooli3hness. Detroit Free Prea8. "Go buy a new bonnet for me, won't you, dear ?" she said to him it breakfast. He promised to and Ohen when lie saw none in the show indows for less than $20 be did go by all of thom. . A New York belle besought her Father for a new sealskin sacque. 'My dear," he responded fdhdly .ut seriously ; "we paid over $5,500,000 to the British- govern nent last Thursday, and I can't itfford it." Hon. Herschel V. Johnd8n, now i judge of the Superior ,Ctirt of 3aorgia, refused to adjourin over Ihanksgiving day, but compromised >y having the court opened on that norning with religious services. "Do eagles give milk, mother " Lsked the boy. "No, my son; vhat made you think so ?" "Be ,ause, I've heard of the' eagle's icream." The mother. reached for ier slipper, but the .embryo.. Oara' wraplier had vanished. A Salt Lake telegram says that ibby J. Young, third wife of John W. Young, presented herself in an 1,800 dress at a bill iivon by the Knights Templar in tiat city on ;hanksgiving eve, but was refused dmission. on the ground that )olygamous woman are improper >ersons. The Chicago school girl is said o be very awkward in society, )eing only less ungraceful than the 3hicago school boy, to be crammed Vith knowledge, and about as int oresting as a sohool history iTi fine )rint to an old man Without spebta les. All this is said by the Iner 9cean as an argument for teaching leportment and hon3ekae ping in tho m lic schools. Raymond and Ellen Oagood, olored, man and wife, who were entenced to be hanged - at Vines, ille, Liberty county, Georgia, for ho murder of a negro named Sam ;el Golden, escaped several days ince* from the jail, It was expected hat they would be caught and ianged, but the execution has been ndefinitely postponed. Simon and Fames Osgood, colored, cotilted f involuntary manslaughter and entenced to the penitentiary, also scaped, Every one who has used it prow ones Dr. Bull's B.iby Syrup the est remedy k'.owni for the comn ilaints of early ohildchood. It con~~ ains no opiates.* KING'S MT. 11IGH SCHOOL, KUNo's MT.,CLEvELAND OUN'N,' North "'arolina. W. T. R. BELL, A. M., PurIerIItIA. CL ASSICAL AND M ATH EMATICA L. MIL.ITARY DEPARTMENT. 3Hlj largest school of its grade in We~Vstorn No,rth Carolina. Next som ion opena .January 1 at, 1879. MI~Iitary eature optional. Thorough. in every espeot. Bloard, tuition and Oontinlgent ee, fromp $75 to $80 1por Uession of sa mionths. Uniform, including oap, $15.80. Hend for circular. dec 21-26 ~'rue Brotherhood Lodge, No. 344 KiCutchts of flonor ' arnestly desitred. Members:. wIl( odlme pre, sred to' pay d4es. l.it, . oUHANDLElk dec 91-t.9 . Rporter. BOOTS ANDY SHOEST H tillarge,s tok of *pp, aba. yove t ipdafempt