The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, August 18, 1891, Image 1

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A rOOK LNYKSTMENT. YOU HAVE BARGAINED YOUR SOUL AWAY FOR NOUGHT. Di'. 1 1.1 mal,. hll..?r? How ili . Fool I oh Mm I.? AlRile mill How It Mhy Ho Itrmi dtfil? Cliriai'? Blood Will Bay Hon Bank. Toj'kka. Kan., August!?. -tie, Tal? tunge reached ihn? civ ycsterdn? in the COUttO of Iii? W? 8(1 iii trip, llo WHS wurmly welcomed by the cili/.eiiB who en uk' In largo ublubera to hear the fa tuous Brooklyn iliv.no. Tho subject of Iho eci mon for ibis week i.*: "A poor investment," and the text Isaiah hi: 3: "Yo havo sold yourselves for nought; and yo thull ha ledeenietl without money." The Lord's people had uone head long into fun, and us a lamislunent they had been carried captive to Babylon They found that iniquity did not pay. Cyrus seized Babylon, and felt so sorry tor these po?r captives that, without a dollar of commutation, he Icttht-hvgo home. ,So that, liicraily, my text was fulfilled: " Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall bo redeemed with out money." There is enough Gospel in this f >r lifty sermons. There aie persons here who have, like tho people ol the text, sold out, You do not seem to belong Other to y curselvos or to God. The thledueds have bei n passed over to "the world, the Heidi, and "he devil," but the pur chaser never paid up. "Ye have sold yourselves for nought." Wlu u ii man passes himsclt over to the world he expects to get somo ade quate cOinpetisaMOh. He has heard tho great things that the world docs for a man. and he believes it. He wants two hundred and llfly thousand dollars. That will be burses and houses, autlnsumnicr resort, and jolly companionship. To get it he i arts with his physical health by over work. He parts with his eon Scitlice. Ho purls with much domestic enjoyment! lie pans with opportune tit s lor lilciary culture, lie parts with his sold. And so he .nakts oyer his entiie nature to the world. He docs it in lour iiibiu ImenlS. Ho pays down tho first installment', .Mid one fourth of his nature is gone. He pay down the sec ond installment, und one-halt of his nature is gone. Ho pav down the third Installment, and three quarters of his nature are gone; and alter many years have goue by ho pays down the fourth installment, and lol Mb entire ualuio is gone. When he comes up to tho world and say a. "Good morning. I bate delivered toy on the gostls. I have pas cd over to you my body, my mind, and my feoul aud 1 have come down tocollect the two hundred and lifty thousand dollars." "Two hundred and lifty thous and dollars?" says the world. "What do you mean?" "Well" you say, "I come to collect the money you owe me, and I expect >ou to fulfill your part.ol the contract." "But," says the world, ul havo failed. I am bankrupt. I can not possibly pay that debt. I have not lor a long While expected to pay it." ??Well," \i a ihen say, "give mo back the goods." "'Oh, no," says the world, "they are all gone. 1 cannot give them back to you." And there you stand oil the confines of eternity, your spiritual character'^one staggering under the con* sith ration that "you have sold yourself lor nought." 1 tell you the world is a liar; it doca not Bee|i its promises. It Is a cheat, and it fleeces everything it can put its hands on. It is a bogus world, it is a six-thensand-y ear-old swindler. Even ii it pays tho two houndrcd and lllty thous and dollars for which you contracted, il pays them in bonds that will not he worth any thing in alittle while. Justus a man may pay dowu ten thousand dollais In hard cash and get lor it worth* less scrip?so the world passes over to you the two hundred and lilty thousand dollars in that shape which will not be worth a larthlng to you a thousandth part of a second niter you arc dead. "Oh," you say, "It will help to bury mo any how." Oh, my brother! you need not worry about that. The world will bury you toon enough for sanitary considera tions. Postmortem emoluments are oi'nu us? to ycu. The In asm es of this world w ill not pass tun cut III the inline world; and if all ll.c wealth of the Bank of Eng?' land were put in the pocket of 'your shroud, antl you in the midst ol the .i oidun ol dt uiL mere askfd lo pay ihres cents lor your ferriage, you could not do it. There tomes a moment in your ex istence beyond which all earthly values luil; and many a man has wakened up in such a time to And that be has sold out lor eternity, and has uothing to show for it. I should as soon think oi'goillK to Chatham street to buy silk pocket, handkerchiefs with no cotton in them, as to go to this world expecting to lind any .permanent happiness, ft has de eeive.l antl deluded every man who has every put his trust in it. Hisioiy tells us ol one who rcsolved that he WOllId have all h's senses grati fied at one and llictuimo time, aud lie expender thousands of dollars on each sense. He tniered a room, ami theie were the lirst musicians ol the land pleas ing his ear. and there were line pictures fascinating his ey e, and there were costly uromalics regaling his uosuil, und there were the richest incuts and wines and fruits, and coidectious, pleasing the ap petite, and ihero w as a soft couch of sin ful indulgent e on which ho reclined; and the man declared afterward thai he would give ten times whatlio had given if he could have one w eek ol such en joy - ment, even though lie lost his .soul by III Ah! that was the rub! He did lose bis soul by it! Cyrus ilie Conqueror itviughl for a little while that he was making a line thing out of this world, and yet br loro lie came to his grave ho wrote out, ihi>. pitiful tq.itupli for his inouununt, "I am Cyrus. I occupied the Persian empire, I was king over Asia. Begrudge, me not thin mo umetit." But the world It) alltr y ears plowed up his sepulchie. The world clapped its hands antl 8iaro|<cd its feet in honor ol Charles Lathi, but what does he say? "I walk up and down, thinking 1 am happy, but feeling 1 am not." Call the roll, and bo quick about it. KamuolJohnson, the learned! Happy! "Mo. I am afraid I shall somo day get crazy." William Jlnzllll, the great essayist! Happy? "No. I have l>cen for two hours and a half going up and iIoau Paternoster How with a volcano in my breast." Hmollet, tho witty author! Happy? "No. I am sick of praise and blanio, and I wish to Ood that I had such cir cunisu.uccs around me that I could throiv my pen Into oblivion." Buchan ou, tho woi.d-renowned writer, exiled from his own country, appealing to Henry VIII. for protection! Huppy? "No. Over mountains covered with enow, and through valleys flooded with rain, I come a fugitive." Moliero, the popular dramatic-author! Happy? "No, A rOOK LNYKSTMENT. YOU HAVE BARGAINED YOUR SOUL AWAY FOR NOUGHT. Di'. 1 1.1 mal,. hll..?r? How ili . Fool I oh Mm I.? AlRile mill How It Mhy Ho Itrmi dtfil? Cliriai'? Blood Will Bay Hon Bank. Toj'kka. Kan., August!?. -tie, Tal? tunge reached ihn? civ ycsterdn? in the COUttO of Iii? W? 8(1 iii trip, llo WHS wurmly welcomed by the cili/.eiiB who en uk' In largo ublubera to hear the fa tuous Brooklyn iliv.no. Tho subject of Iho eci mon for ibis week i.*: "A poor investment," and the text Isaiah hi: 3: "Yo havo sold yourselves for nought; and yo thull ha ledeenietl without money." The Lord's people had uone head long into fun, and us a lamislunent they had been carried captive to Babylon They found that iniquity did not pay. Cyrus seized Babylon, and felt so sorry tor these po?r captives that, without a dollar of commutation, he Icttht-hvgo home. ,So that, liicraily, my text was fulfilled: " Ye have sold yourselves for nought; and ye shall bo redeemed with out money." There is enough Gospel in this f >r lifty sermons. There aie persons here who have, like tho people ol the text, sold out, You do not seem to belong Other to y curselvos or to God. The thledueds have bei n passed over to "the world, the Heidi, and "he devil," but the pur chaser never paid up. "Ye have sold yourselves for nought." Wlu u ii man passes himsclt over to the world he expects to get somo ade quate cOinpetisaMOh. He has heard tho great things that the world docs for a man. and he believes it. He wants two hundred and llfly thousand dollars. That will be burses and houses, autlnsumnicr resort, and jolly companionship. To get it he i arts with his physical health by over work. He parts with his eon Scitlice. Ho purls with much domestic enjoyment! lie pans with opportune tit s lor lilciary culture, lie parts with his sold. And so he .nakts oyer his entiie nature to the world. He docs it in lour iiibiu ImenlS. Ho pays down tho first installment', .Mid one fourth of his nature is gone. He pay down the sec ond installment, und one-halt of his nature is gone. Ho pav down the third Installment, and three quarters of his nature are gone; and alter many years have goue by ho pays down the fourth installment, and lol Mb entire ualuio is gone. When he comes up to tho world and say a. "Good morning. I bate delivered toy on the gostls. I have pas cd over to you my body, my mind, and my feoul aud 1 have come down tocollect the two hundred and lifty thousand dollars." "Two hundred and lifty thous and dollars?" says the world. "What do you mean?" "Well" you say, "I come to collect the money you owe me, and I expect >ou to fulfill your part.ol the contract." "But," says the world, ul havo failed. I am bankrupt. I can not possibly pay that debt. I have not lor a long While expected to pay it." ??Well," \i a ihen say, "give mo back the goods." "'Oh, no," says the world, "they are all gone. 1 cannot give them back to you." And there you stand oil the confines of eternity, your spiritual character'^one staggering under the con* sith ration that "you have sold yourself lor nought." 1 tell you the world is a liar; it doca not Bee|i its promises. It Is a cheat, and it fleeces everything it can put its hands on. It is a bogus world, it is a six-thensand-y ear-old swindler. Even ii it pays tho two houndrcd and lllty thous and dollars for which you contracted, il pays them in bonds that will not he worth any thing in alittle while. Justus a man may pay dowu ten thousand dollais In hard cash and get lor it worth* less scrip?so the world passes over to you the two hundred and lilty thousand dollars in that shape which will not be worth a larthlng to you a thousandth part of a second niter you arc dead. "Oh," you say, "It will help to bury mo any how." Oh, my brother! you need not worry about that. The world will bury you toon enough for sanitary considera tions. Postmortem emoluments are oi'nu us? to ycu. The In asm es of this world w ill not pass tun cut III the inline world; and if all ll.c wealth of the Bank of Eng?' land were put in the pocket of 'your shroud, antl you in the midst ol the .i oidun ol dt uiL mere askfd lo pay ihres cents lor your ferriage, you could not do it. There tomes a moment in your ex istence beyond which all earthly values luil; and many a man has wakened up in such a time to And that be has sold out lor eternity, and has uothing to show for it. I should as soon think oi'goillK to Chatham street to buy silk pocket, handkerchiefs with no cotton in them, as to go to this world expecting to lind any .permanent happiness, ft has de eeive.l antl deluded every man who has every put his trust in it. Hisioiy tells us ol one who rcsolved that he WOllId have all h's senses grati fied at one and llictuimo time, aud lie expender thousands of dollars on each sense. He tniered a room, ami theie were the lirst musicians ol the land pleas ing his ear. and there were line pictures fascinating his ey e, and there were costly uromalics regaling his uosuil, und there were the richest incuts and wines and fruits, and coidectious, pleasing the ap petite, and ihero w as a soft couch of sin ful indulgent e on which ho reclined; and the man declared afterward thai he would give ten times whatlio had given if he could have one w eek ol such en joy - ment, even though lie lost his .soul by III Ah! that was the rub! He did lose bis soul by it! Cyrus ilie Conqueror itviughl for a little while that he was making a line thing out of this world, and yet br loro lie came to his grave ho wrote out, ihi>. pitiful tq.itupli for his inouununt, "I am Cyrus. I occupied the Persian empire, I was king over Asia. Begrudge, me not thin mo umetit." But the world It) alltr y ears plowed up his sepulchie. The world clapped its hands antl 8iaro|<cd its feet in honor ol Charles Lathi, but what does he say? "I walk up and down, thinking 1 am happy, but feeling 1 am not." Call the roll, and bo quick about it. KamuolJohnson, the learned! Happy! "Mo. I am afraid I shall somo day get crazy." William Jlnzllll, the great essayist! Happy? "No. I have l>cen for two hours and a half going up and iIoau Paternoster How with a volcano in my breast." Hmollet, tho witty author! Happy? "No. I am sick of praise and blanio, and I wish to Ood that I had such cir cunisu.uccs around me that I could throiv my pen Into oblivion." Buchan ou, tho woi.d-renowned writer, exiled from his own country, appealing to Henry VIII. for protection! Huppy? "No. Over mountains covered with enow, and through valleys flooded with rain, I come a fugitive." Moliero, the popular dramatic-author! Happy? "No, Tlmt wre-eh of an actor lust now recited four ot nty Hues without the propc?- ac cent aud gesture. To have the children of my brain 10 hung, drawn, and quar tered, tortures ruo 1 ke a condemned spirit." 1 wcut to 6ce a worthing die. As 1 went into the hull I saw its lloor was tessellated, an I us wall was a picture i;allcry. 1 leuud lus death-chamber ndorncd with tapestry tin il it seemed as if the clouds of the setting sun had set tled in the room. The man had given forty \oirs to the world?his Wit, Ills I time, his genius, his talent, his soul. Did the world come in to slnnd by bis death-bed, and clearing oil' the viuls ol bitter medicine, put down any compen sation? Oh. no! The world docs not like dick und ?vipif people, and leaves them in tlio lurch. It ruined this man, and then left him. He had a magnifi cent funeral. All the ministers wore scarfs, and tlicro were fortv-lhree car riages in a row; hut the 'departed man appreciated not the obsequies, I want to persuade my audience that Ulis world is u poor invesltueui; that it does not pa\ ninety per cent of satis faction, nor eighty per cent nor twenty per cent nor two per cent, nor one; that il gives no solnco when a dead bubo lies on your lap; that it gives uo pence when conscience rings its alarm; that it sdve* no explanation in Ibo day ot litre trou ble; and at the time of your decease it takes hold of the pillow ease, and shakes out tho feathers, and then jolts down in the place thereof sighs, and groans, and execrations, and then makes jou put your head on it. Oh. \e who have tried this world, is it n satisfactory portion? Would you advise your friends to make tho investment? No; "Yc have sold yourselves for nought." Your con science went. Your hope went. Your Bible went. Your heaven went. Your God went. When a sberiti' under a writ from the courts sells a man out. the ofti ccr generally leaves a lew chairs and a bed, and a few cupa and knives; but in this awful venduc In which you have been engaged the auctioneer's mallet lias come down upon body, mind and | soul: Going! Gone! "'Ye have sold yourselves for nought," I low could you do so? Did you think that your soul was a mere triuklet which for a few pennies 3011 could buy in a toy shop? Did you Ihuik that your soul, it' oneo lost, might bo found again il you went out with torches and lantern*?I Did you think that your soul was short lived, aud that, panting, it would soon lie down lor extinction? Or had \ou no idea what your soul was worth? Did you ever put your forefingers on its eter nal pulses? Have you not felt the quiver of Its peerless wing? Have you not known that, after leaving the body, the lirst step of your soul reaches to the atur8. aud the next step to the larlherest outposts ol ({od's universe, and that it will not dio until tho day when the ever lasting Jehovah expires? Oh, my broth er, what possessed you that you should part with your soul so cheap? k,You have sold yourself for nought.1' Hut I huvo aomc gocd news to tell you. 1 want to'engage in a litigation I For the recovery ol that soul of yours. 1 waul to show that you have been cheat ed out of it. I want to prove, as I will, that you were crazy on that subject, and that the world, under such circum stances, had no right to tuke tho title deed from you; and if you will join mo I bhall gel a decree Iro.n the high jhnncory court cl Heaven reinstating you into the possession of your soul. k Oh, 3011 8av, "I am afraid of lawsuits, they are so expensive, and'1 cannot pay the cost." Then huvo >ou forgotten the lasi half ot my text? "Yo have s<old yourself for nought; and ye shall bo re deemed without money." Money is good for a great many things, but il cannot do anything in this mailer of the soul. You can 1101 buy your way through. Dollars and p mod's sterling mean nothing at the gale ot mercy, if you could buy your salva tion, heaven would be a great specula tion, an extension ot Wall st cel. Had me. would go up aud buy out the nlace am! .cave us to shift for ourselves. Hut as money is uot a lawful tender, what ih? 1 will answer: Blood! Whose? Are we lo go through the slaughter? Uh, no; .t wauls richer blood than ours. II WUtilH 11 king's blond, it must be poured from royal arteries; Hiiuiki be u .sinless torrent. But where is the king? 1 seo a great ninny thrones and ti great many occupants, yet none seem 10 bo COtnhik. down 10 the rescue. Bui after u while ibo clock ol night in Beth lehem strikes twelve, and the silver pendulum < f a star swings across the sky, and 1 see the King ot Heaven ris ing ii,), and he descends, and steps down I from star to star, and from cloud to cloud, lo.vir und lower, until he touches the shoep-coVtred hills, and then on to another bill. Ibis last skull-souped, aud there, at 1 0 sharp stroke of persecu tion, a rill Incarnadine trickles down, and we who could lint he ruh fined by money tue redeemed l>? precious and im perial blood. We havo in this day professed Chris tians who are so nil oiled aud ethereal* Issctl that they do nut wnnl a religion of blood What do >nu want? You seem to want u religion ot bran s. The Bible sa^h*. '"In the blood Is.tho life," No atonement without blood. Ought not 1 he apostle 1 ? know? What did ho say? "Ye tire r? m 1 med not wiill corruptible Illings, buch us silver and gold, but by the precious blood ol Christ." You put your lancet Into the arm of our holy re ligion and withdraw the blood, and you leave il a mere corpse, lit only far the grave. Why did God command tho priests of old in Strike the kni'c into tho kid, and the goat, and the pigeon, and the bullock, and ibo lamb? It was so that whm tiin bio id rushed out from iheee anhtinhl on the lloor of (ho ancient tabernacle the people should be com pelled lo think of the coming carnage ot the Sou of God, No blood no atone ment. 1 think thai God intended to impress 119 with a vividucs ol 1 hat color. Tue green I of tho urass; the blue of tho sky, would not have Startled and aroused m like lids doep crimson. J l is as if God had said: ''Now, sinner, wake up and sec what tho Saviour endured for 30c Thit is not water. This is riot wine. It is olood. It is tho blood of my own Son. It la tho blood of the Immaculate. It is ibo blood of God. " , Without the shed ding of blood is no'remission. There has bei 11 many a man who in courts of law has pleaded "not guilty," who nev ertheless has been condemned becuuse ther? was blood found on his hands, or hlood found in his room; lind what shall I w<. do in tho last day if it bo sound that wo huvo recruotfieu the Bordo. glory'I nnd have never repented of ii? You I inml believe in the blond or die. Nol escape. Unless you let the sacrifice of JcMisgn in your st ead vou yoursolf must I miller. It neither Christ's blorxl or your blood., lOh," says aoino ono, "the thought of blood si-kens mo." Good. God in-1 funded it to sicken you with your sin. Do not act ad though you had uothing to do with that Calvarlan mussacro. You had. You? sins were tho implements ol torture. Those implements were not made ol steel, aud irou, aud wood, so much as out or your sins. Guilt/ of t'iis homicide, aud th'u regicide, antl this deicldo, coufess your guilt today. Ten thousand voices of heaven bring hi tho verdiet ugalust you of guilt?, guilty. Pre pare to diu, or bellevo in that blooil. l?trelch yourself out for the sacrifice, or accept the Saviour's siicrlflco. Do not Mug away your oue ehauco. Ii t cents to me as if ull heaven were try iug to bid in pour soul. The first, bid ill makes is the tears of Christ at the tomb of Lazarus; but that is not a high enough price. The next bid heaven tuukcB is tho sweat of Gathsotuauc: but it is too cheap a price, The next bid heaven makes boo b to be the whipped back of Pilate's hall; but it is uot a high enough price. Can it be possible that heav?n cauuotbuy you in? IIuuvou tries once more. It satb; "I bid this lime tor t .at man's soul the tortures ol Christ's martyrdom, the blood on his temp o, the bl< xlon his cheek, the blood on his chin, the blood on his tiand, the blood on ins side, tho blood on his knee, the blood 011 his foot?the blood lu drops, tho blood tu rills, tho blood in pools coagulated beneuth the cross; tho blood that wot tho tips of the soldiers' spears, Hie blood that plashed warm iu the. faces of his enemies." Glory to (Jod, that hid wins It! The highest price that was ever paid for auvlhiug was paid for your soul. Nothing could buy it but bfoou! Tho estranged property is bought back. Take it. "You liave Bold yourselves for uouidil; and ye shall bo redeemed without nionoy." ?, atoniug blood, cleansing blood, life-giving blood, san ctifying blood, glorifying blood of Jesus! Why not burst into tears at the thought hat for theo he, shed it. "No," says some one, ?*? wilt have noihiug to do with it except that., like the enemies ol Christ, I put both my hands iuto that caruage and scoop up both palms lull, und throw it on my head aud cry: "His blood bo on us and on our children!' " Can you do such a shocking thiug as that? Just rub .your handkerchief across your brow and look at it. It is the blood of tho Son of God, whom you havo despised and driven back all these yeurs. Oh, do not do that any louger! Come out boldly ami frankly ami honestly, and tell Christ you are sorry. You cannot allbrd to so roughly treat him, upon whom everything de pends. I do not know how you will getaway from this sucjoet. You sec that you are sold out, aud that Christ wants to buy you back. There are three persons who come ufter you today: God. the Father; God, the Son; God, the Holy Ghost. They uuilo their three omuipolence8 in one movement lor your salvation. You will not toko up arms against the Triune God, will you? Is there enough mus cle in your arms lor such a combat? Hy the higest throne In heaven, and by the deepest chasm in hell, I beg you look out. Unless you allow Christ to carry away your sius, they will carry you away. Uulcss you allow Christ to lift you up, they will drag you down. There is only ono hope for you, aud that is the blood. Christ, the simolleriug, bearing your traujresslons. Christ, the surety, p tying your debts. Christ, the divine Cyrus, loosoning your Babylonish cap tivity. Would you not like to be free? Here is the price of your liberation?not money, but blood. I tremble from head to foot, uot because 1 fear your pres cuce, but because I fear that you will miss your chance of Immortal rescue. This is tho alternative divinely put: "lie that bolievth on the Sou shall have everlasting life; and he that heliovth not ou tho Son shall not see life, but the wrath of God abideth on him." In the last day if you now rejeet Christ, every drop of that Bacrilicial blood, instead of pleading for your release, as it would have pleaded if you hud repented, will plead against you. O Lord God of the twhj iient day! avert that calamity! Let us seo the quick Hash of tho cimeter that slays the sin but saves the sinner. .Strike, o i.nip otent God, for the soul's deliverance! Beat, O eternal sea! with all thy waves again the barren beach of that rocky soul, and make it tremble. Oh! the oppressiveness of the hour, the minute, the second, on which tho -tail's destiny quivers, und this is that hour, that min ute, that second! Some years ago there came do vu a fierce storm on the seacoast, and a ves sel not in the breakers and wa* going to pieces. They threw up sonio signals of distress, and the people on shore t-uw then). They put out in a lifeboat . They canio on, and they saw the poor sailors, almost exhausted, tinging to a raft; and so afraid were the boatmen that the men would give up before they uot to them, they gave them three rounds of cheers, aud cried: "Hold on there! hold on! We'll save you!" After awhile the bout came up. One man was saved by hav ing tho boat-hook put in the collar of his coat; and some in one way aud some in unother. but they all got Into the boat. "Now," says tho captain, "for the shore. Pull away no>v, pull!" The people on the land were afraid the life boat had gono down. They said: "How long the boat stays. Why, it must have been swamped and they have all per ished together." And there were men and women on tho pier-heads and on the beach wringing their hoods; und while they waited and watched, they saw something looming up through the mist, and it turned out to ho tho life boat. As soon as iteame within speak ing distance tl*e people on shore cried out: "Did you suvo any of them? Did you save any of them? And as tho boat swept through tho boiling surf and came to tho pier-head, the captain waved his hand over the exhausted sailors that lay ll.it on tho bottom of tho bottom ol the boat, and cried: "All saved! Thank God! All saved!" So may it bo today. Tho waves of your sin run high, tho si -rm is on you, but I cheer you with this Gospel hope. God grant that with in tho next ten minutes wo may row with you into tho barber of God's mer cy. And when these Christian men gather around to seo the result of this service, and the cloritlcd gathering on the pier-heads of heaven to watch und to listen, may we be uble to report all saved! Young and old, good aud bad! All saved! Saved for time. Saved for eternity. ' And so It came to pass that they all escaped safe to laud." K looted Prealdent. CoMJStniA, S C.Aug. 0. -The trus tees of the South Carolina college today unanimously elected Dr. James Wood* ro.v president of that Institut lull. His name was pnsented to the board by the com mi't it on nominations, and no oth er was proposed for that ollice. Dr. W nod row was also elected professor of biology, geology and mineralogy. THE Nl-W EDUCATION. CLEMSON COLLEGE?ITS ORIGIN AND OBJECTS. An A.lii i-i--.s Delivered 1? I' i < >< I ii <? n i 8tr?ide llefum 11?? - Suite AKi-lculturwI mid Me ? liiiulr?] Hnciety i?l Hit Siiimiirr Meeting* Iu OrtillK?'Inii :'. When I recelveil from your secretary tho honor of tho invitatiou to address you i might very well have asked to bo excused in view of tho engrossing nature of the great work at Fort Hill, the daily Buperintendeuce of which is my duty. But as I did not thou beg to be excused, in my great desire to meet you I must now proffer as an excuse for the study and euro that is lacking in my paper, and which should be due this body in any matter presented for its consideration, that the work there is so full oi perplex ities uud responsibilities that only mo ments of suatched opportunities could bo used for this service, and these mo mcuts have been all loo raro tor tho prop er preparation of a paper or this occa sion. Too fresh in tho minds of all are tho events which led to the founding of Clem son Col'ege to need now a minute histo ry of its beginning. Thomas G. Clem son, the son-iu-law of John C. Calhouu, died in April, 1888. leaving by his will 814 acres of land, with Fort Hill, the old home of John C. Calhoun. and about $80,000 in money aud interest bearing stojk an a bequest to the. S ate lor the founding of an agricultural college, if certain conditions were accepted by tho Legislature. THE REVENUES OF THE COLLEGE. Finally the bequest was formally accepted, and, iu sympathy with the ieeling ol many In the State, the Legis lature furthermore granted certain luuds coming from the General Government, and the proceeds ot a certain small tax evied on those interested iu fertilizers, as hi annual income to sustain tho Col legs. These combined sources ol rev enue were found to yield between seventv audsventy-llve thousand dollars nnnuallv, and to place the College at once tm a fooling oi equality with the richest iuslilulious of learning in Ibo South. The matter of a building fund was not at once arranged, as the ample annual revenue, part of which might bo legally used (or buildings, was thought 8ulllcieul to provide against immediate embarrassment. THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES. The bond of trustees, composed of seven gentlemen appointed by Mr. Clcm son as a Belfperpeiuallug body, and of six others elected by tho Legislature for terms of four years euch, met. organized and took up their great responsibility. One of their j first acts was Lie election of an executive committee to represent the board iu the intervals between their regular meetings, which could not be frequent with the. board composed of gentlemen living in widely separated parts of the Stale. The nexl act was the election of a president of the College to be a representative of the executive committee for all current business which hud to be transacted in the two weeks' intervals, which finally became the set periods bet ween tho meetings ?"?f the com mittee. Thus the plans of the College along all its lines ot growth and pro gress represent by the organization the work of the members of the full board, who have given their timo and devotion to the. great task. Provided for by tho far-sooing mind of Mr. Cleinsou against the dangers of sudden changes in the board of trustees, the College has been from the beginning under the influence of a steady policy which 1ms hod as its lUling priueible the foundh g of one of the greatest institutions of its character in the South, A QOOI) FOUNDATION. As the representative of the executive committee, which in Its turn represents the fuller management, l am 113* your courtesy here today io tell you What words of hope aud promise they wish to go out through 3011 to the expectant youth ol the Stale; to (ell you by what methods 1 hey expect that the sentiments of honor, the spirit ol thoroughness, und the cultivation of a pur0 ambition 111113' be made lo blend in 1111 educational 83 s tem with thai tra iling of the hand, the e\e and the brain that is lo :orm the new education. As all must recognize that no institution in the South can aspire lo the first rank thai ignores us the basic element of .Southern manhood a love of truth and honor, pethaps it is needless to assure 3011 llinithis will be a founda tion mono in Clcmson College. Along with this more chlvauom element will go hand iu hand in ihe character build ing attempted there the forming of those habits )f promptness, accuracy, thoroug ness and reliability in regard to all re sponsibilities that make die. successful man. The cultivation of the espril do corps will be looked to as the safeguard of the College. Ii8 graduates will go forth with that tie. still attaching ihcm o the alma mater that will teach them to point with honorable pride, to the source of the instruction that moulded llicin for usefulness; und oh her .0 them as her most precious children destined to bring h.iiioralilo reputation for her althtul work. THE MILITARY FEATURE. Iu the military system, which becomes a part of the College hi connection with the Federal grant, will be planted the discipline of the institution. There will bo no loss here to the student boy whoso farm exercises will grow into niaiilv shape in the exercises of tho daily routine, whilst, the mind of Southern youth v.ill naturally turn to thoughts ot that past Oi his country's history that yields much to stir the blood und lo tend lo the enriching of their nobler impulses. They will not be. taught lobe the unthink ing machine:; 10 prop the siipporls of fu ture tyranny, whilst they draw their in spiration from the record ol that citizen soldiery Unit has reddened tho turf on miiuy u field iu America in patriotic con test's for constitutional liberty. In tho buttoning into tho tight uniform will bo lelt Ihe college training that braces into ereclness ami takes ihn slouch out of ihe ploughboy's step, und with it tho slouch oul of the menial gait thai encumbers all progress. TWO I.INKH OF STUDY. In its grand dep irtments the College is 10 be shaped on two distinct lines of instruction, loaviu^ a c loieo between agriculture and mechanics. Tho latter will naturally precede a development into all tho difficult forms ot technological in struction that may terminate in the high technical professional lines that may oll'er careers of the greatest distinc tion to the talented sons of farmers or others. THE PLACE FOR FARM Etta' HONS, On ihe agricultural tddo will he tound tho widest Held th.it can bo arranged to gratify ibo farmer's aspirations m th at direction. THO room for expansion horo seems to bo unlimited when scieuce and practical ans are to be applied lo agri culture. Tliu Held opcus' with the study or animal aud vegetable life in all their forms, the broad Gold of biology, lu the vegetable world wo have tho plants both usoiul and noxious and the ways of nursing the nno into thrifty life and stif ling the other to an untimely eud. Thou come the vurlous methods of propaga tion of plants, where their lifn and rapid multiplication are to be desired, by seed, by budding, by grafting, otc. In thoso practical arts of the Holds the farmer hoys will indeed feel at home. Their growth in scientiHc thought will go band in hand with the applications in the Held itself. If they loaru to bud and graft, for instance, thov will learn it in a way that will cnablo them to uso it practically aud to transfer their kuowledgo from the College Heids to the home orchards. Thus they will be the mediums for tha transfer of the scieuces aud arts tuught at the Collogc to the people in .heir dis tant homes. .m issioxa i; i : s OK IMtOGKESS. II six huudred boys return from col lego to their homes each year, thluk w'' \t missionaries of progress will be spread over the State to nrighton all the ideas of those homes. These farm er boys will have heard with quickened pulse the lectur.es on agricultural science that will brighten as ou u background all the dark ages of their past life. THE MAKINO OK A MAN. Let us follow one typical farmer boy from Held to college and through its courses. Ho loves the dear old homo, with its teuder-lacod mother und gran ile-souled father. He passes along tho countryside where war has perhaps left its cruel stalus, and by the cities where silent streams proclaim the absence of the genius of progress. Ho scis In the distance tho blue hills that mark Caro lina's western bouudary. Ho reaches Fort Hill aud is on iho ground once hal lowed by the tread ol the great Calhotm. He joins his bildet comrades, already a noble six huudred. In all the stir around him he notes earnestness in the features and bearing of those who ad dress him. There aro echoes of the ?T'suim of Lile" in the uir he breathes. Other lu. nies in Carolina, as sacred as his, have sent their jewels most precious to tho Slate's shriue of the new educa tion. He feels tho quickened pulse of a now life. He begins to grow with a new growth. His letters home tell tho dear ones that the separation which brings such ooportunities is robbed of its pangs. Noble buildings buoy up his aspirations. Ardent, thoughtful, re sponsive natures in teachers aud com rades bear up the burden of home-sick ncss. lie outers hts classes and begins the great work of his lifo, the changing of an unthiuklng man into a machine of intellectual power. He lovos with a now love the unsclHsh hearts at home which may have planned through great privations for the hope of the house. From year to year the sumo home sacri fices keep the boy, of whom they arow but prouder, amid the sceues that nur ture high Intellectual and moral growth. Finally tho man, uo longer a boy, re turns to the old homestead. If he is still a farmer, what a power for good to the old pr.oplo at home. If he has bud ded into splendid development along some ol the high lines of technological education, who will regret the money in snaping the rude country miud into such new powers lor usefulness? THK NEW EDUCATION. The new education will be scholarly in its own line, and will breathe with new hope and endeavor. The man is made a scientilic farmer, but learns to use his hraiu according to the nicMiods of reason. We will not search the pages of Virgil for farming directions of today, or turn back to even more recent limes In the South for experience that is to direct us in tho future. When we turn to the pathetic past, wiili its recent pic tures ol* affectionate loyalty on the part of our late slaves, we are touched with a feeling of sympathy for the weaknesses of these our old helpers in the old way. Necessity is upon us with harsh changes, and we must find new substitutes lor the old dull serldom that encumbered the cultivation of tho soil In turning to the new agents which are claiming the mas tery of the world and opening new realms of enchantment. Slavery is gone, and, whilst there still remains in its product that master race which has won the admiration of the world and forced the respect of its enemies, we know that the South must look to its youth, tilled with the inspiration and ambitions of the new education, to sustain the Old name. A FORTUNAT-K LOCATION. Fortunate was it for the youth ol the Stale that it came into the mind of the owner of the old iiome of John C, Cal I."im to dedicate that spot of all others to the use that would in ike it lorever the most affective agency m marking the character of tho State's noblest son on those who were to hear the burden (>? sustaining her name In the world of thought and action. His was the life ol tho farmer of that day with all the dis ndvaulage* of slavery upon it. While it ruined the soil wo see that it might make the uoblest of men. THE MECHANICAL ARTH. With the agricultural trust as its first and highest the board has property placed its emphatic impress also upon tho second department of the College, which calls up hi thu resources of the mechanical arts for that mental disci pline and training which are to make a race of most useful men to co-operate with those of the Held to press the Slate to the foremost ranks of success. Am i culture aud manufacturing should always go !?>nd in baud. The Held and factory mute co operate where the best condi tions for prosperity are sought. The tendencies of a purely agricultural peo ple to concentrate on tho trade connected with tho raw products of tho Hehls.are to bo striven against by educating the whole people into t .vo great industrial lines of human effort. Tho resulting ac tion and reaction between the two forces svill he a wonderful stimulant for both. In the division ol brain labor aud in the great divorsity of human talent as com monly displayed is found the great op portunity of hoalthfiil progress for indi viduals and States. MANUAL I.AUOK KEQUIKKI?. Strong is tho State as is a braced struc ture which lias yvithlu its own frmittfrj" the footings for its bracing -r^ (,|ie board, in tho hroudest libijjfnty that tho me, ms at their disposal vm\ permit, aim to mako tho College altft thould be, as tho place where the \f\\i\\ of tho Stato may learn tbo mect/tnicul arts along With tho agricultu^f. Mr. Cloinson in tha advice of,hls will named two" col logos as patterns to bo followed whoro the mauual labor system is an integral part of the coursos. Tho board of trus tees have folloyved tho spirit of the will atlc) have directed manna! labor to be exacted of all students, with pay for all w6rk not simply educatonul. Tho two hours of labor oxacted oach day of all students will iu the agricultural depart ment yield nearly a (foliar a week ami thus bear about half the expense of board. A siudeut may thus safely at :end the College who eau but buy his clothing and books and pay half tho net cost of Ins bo<mi. With this manual fenturo will bo preached tho gospel of work aud that high abovo all ignoble things stands tho diguii y oflabar. There is no lcs?ou that our Southern people cau more prolitably loaru than thai the ennoblement of labor will fill their Holds with noble workers. May wo not lind to min _le in tho song of the reaper. In the hot days of his labor, the spirit of n 8cutiment that might emblazon a shield iuhoruldrv, aud that with the ring of the anvil there may chime the riug of tho suul of the humblest artisau? Kl>I'CATIONAL. MISSIONARIES. It Is contemplated by the board to call upon all members of the fuculty to assist iu spreading the sciences and arts of its curricu um over the State through the medium ot various I us ti tles throughout the year. In the mat ter of drawing, tor instance, which is the very basis of technology, the public schools ot the State can, as a rule, provide no preparation, as the teacher* them selves are without tho necessary train ing tbat would enable them lo givo in struction on this line. This instruction may bo given iu a most economical form through tho medium of institutes. Thus later preparation in this and other lines may be exacted of pupils who come up to tho College, and valuable time may be saved iu the higher institution. Clemsou College must, take as its pre paratory schools mainly the puolic schools in the countr>. Phis is a low state of preparation as a basis, and will throw an immense amount of work on our lower departments at lirat. We can not exact of the tanner boys a prepara tion they have no chance ot getting as matters now stand. A better grade of public schools iu the country is a crying want that we inu-it all recognize, ana must hel,j to better. As long as the neccesslty the College itself must pro vide a way to bring its students up to a college basis. So far as is required by the rules adopted for registration, it is only ne cessary to write to the president of Clemson College Fort Hill, S. C, the name and age of siudeut desiring lo enter, his parent or guardian, with post ollico, county or State. A fair appor tionment will be iiiade among the coun ties in adopting any rules to limit the number of studeuU to bj taken. JSTo more stringent rules will bo adopt ed In regard to entrance into the prep aratory department than would bo rea sonable for boys who have had no high er opportunities than those of the ordin ary public schools In the country. But no merely primary work will be don ; at the College. All who register will bo duly informed by circular of til Changes made by the board affecting their in terests. The College will be distinctly agricultural and mechanical, aud not ii rival of the purely literary institutions of the State. The hoard has yet to pass ou tho details of tho curriculum before they can be published authoritatively. OVER mix HUNDRED APPLICANTS. It was generally made known, I be lieve, by the late speech of the Gover nor at the laying of the corner-stone, that applications for registry on the liojks of the College, even then, six months before the opening, exceeded six hundred. A large number have been entered since, and persons well-posted predict that even one thousand may ap ply by tue time the College opens its doors. All name* will bo continued to be registered until tho board adopts some plan ot discrimination or pre scribes a limit. As lias been said by high authority the record is unparalleled in the history of colleges, and shows a union of the whole ptoplo of the State and argues well tor their highest inter ests. Not only for the State but for her neighbors also will this picture of a united front In the cause of industrial education prove the lesson, teaching by example, that, in union liiere is strength. A GREAT MISSION. If Carolina, the fair beauty of the South but thirty years ago, as an elo quent tongue once said, "set us the path to Stygian horrors with tho splen dor of her smile," she may now redeem the trust of leadership she then placed In pawn by lighting the way to the Klysian fields of a radiant prosperity. THE FIELD BEFORE THE SHOP, The appropriations on the part of the State by no means covered the. crowd now to be consideied. If this should unexpectedly in the end reduce to a lower number the crowding throng now seeking to enter college, we eau be sure that still enough wdl bo left to make tho first year's work at least a brilliant experiment. At llrsl the me chanical side of the College may not, be fully appreciated, but as the years go by there will bo growing interest there. Tho labor in the shops must, ne classed at first us purely educational and not calling for pay. Those entering on this side should understand this difference and avoid disappoint tnont. The coun try boys who ui.iy most, in e l help from the prostration of all lb-agricultural intlttstries wl t is lime, will lind Ihe ar rangements id' Ihe College 10 fdVOr their nee is. THE FA UM Kits' COLLEGE, It is well ihat the natural conditions at first ?ill tend to throwing a much greater number into ih- agricultural department than the mechanical. This will relieve the apprehensions of the farmers who might think that there whs a danger of losing iholr special college after nil their work to secure it. The fanners will soon see. that the mechanic d featurei of 'he institution mean only gain to them, w hen ihey per ceive that the new openings thus ar ranged for the overcrowding workers in agriculture cau only result in great er opportunity for all. The great im petus that will be given to factories ol all ki ids will relieve the ranks of the Hgiiculturists whilst they increase the ranks of those who a ill be on trio other hand consumers of tht lr products. THE NEED OF TECHNICAL TRAINING. But how the youth id' South Carolina has sit tiered in the past and must, still sutler for tho lack of technological edu cation lor need of a BUtllcient. support from the Sta'oor endowment! Bvery denominational college should beg from its friends for a department ol this kind. There cannot be too many facilities in this ihe new education. This suggests to me to sta'o that among tho many noble workers at Clemson is one who has the highest respect ot those iu charge fliero, and it is almost a dail^^-r?jrlark as to what that man Jl?tail(l bo wor-h to us and to himself il lie had had the training of a technology leal school. Ho will have It, thanks to the good fortune that placed Chanson at his door and made him one of its builders UNSELFISH PATRK?TS. On February 1, 18U2, the board of trustees propose to throw open the doors of the institution to welcome tho youth of the State. They havo recently elected a partial faculty from material of which they could Safely judge, aud postpomd a few chairs to another oc casion when their importance might be allowed the fuller range of choice due to them. In this and idi previous work these gent lemcn have, show n themselves signally unselllsh, and they will con Unat? to boar all unjust criticism with that nohl ? patienco that in the past has best attested tho purity of their inten tions. AN Al'l'KAT. TO TIIK KAIOIHUS. Farmers of the State, in your hand*. Where lies tho power of numbers, is placed tho grout trust tu Clcmson Col lege. Guard it as a sacred trust that promises a future for your children, which would not hold them unwilling serfs to tho ..oil ' .'hen thotr tastes and talents, which are Coil-given, may point to other lines. If your boy bo a born inventor, oh, grant him. I pray yor, the opportunity to obey Cod's will! Crush not the bud, when but lilt ins tue crust, and destry the plant whose riper years might till with plenty the garners of home aud State. Appeals will bo made you in darkened hours to turu aud rend tho present nursP ~of your care, l'ray God that in no I. of blind distress your insanity, if . comes, may raise your hand to strike that cruel blow. Trunk not that I name an impossible evil, it is tho history of these institu tions. If any people over have cause t o act in maddening despair it is the op pressed farmers bearing the burdens of all classes. In the hour of your fond nursing guard yourselves against that other hour that may come with its tempests of despair. SACKED BY THE HEATHEN. ciiriHitaii MlMlonarleaIn Ohtualn Danger frum tho m?o>. San Francisco, August 12.?The steamship Oceanic arrived last evening from Hong Kong and Yokohama. Ad vices from Hong Kong, up to .Inly 15, state that the lire of discontent is still smouldering in North China. Occasion al riots are reported. The mission sta tions near Canton are said to have been attacked, but no particulars were receiv ed. Two of the Wusucll rioters on trial voluntarily confessed that they murdered two foreigners during tho VVusuch riots. The prisoners were accordingly sent back to the Kuang Chi district and executed on July 5. Their heads aie hung up at Wusu !. as a warning to ot'?er evil doers. A correspondent at Tiensleu writes un der dale of June 29 that all is (pilot there and no trouble is anticipated. A correspondent at Tsolug Klang, un der date, ol June 27, writes that the viceroy wrote to ofllcials here that the resiliences of foreigners should be search ed to see if they had any bodies or dead people's bones about. The lYcsbvtcriau mission was searched by an ollicial, while a crowd of excited natives waited out side. Mol) broke into the Catholic mis sion, but were put out by the occupants, Mgre Clialfant holding the rioters at bay with his revolver. The authorities dual ly sent the military to the scene and the soldieis guarded tho company all night. On July 1 news came by telegraph from tiie southern part ol tho province of serious rioting. In this section the Catholics have large property interests, many line churches and a largo orphan age. Several of these have been des troy ed by the mob. At Fuchea Fu the rioters wrecked houses, entered churches and priests' houses, and sacked everything, but did not burn any buildings. The. amount of damage done is not known, but iL is learned that the orphaugu was not touched. Soldiers have been ordered OUt, and they now patrol the streets at night, guarding the Roman Catholic Church's property, The. town is now left without a gunboat, and i feeling of uneasiness prevails. A telegram from Tieulsiu states that the French and British ministers in China have, opened negotiations with Tsungli Yanieu In regard to their claim for in demnity on account of the recent riots. Thesum claimed Is $1,600,000 Adv'ees from Yokohama give partic ulars of the sinking of tho stoamor Tutu ayc Maru aud the drowning of the hun dred and sixty passengers. The Tain aye Maru aud another steamer, the Myoslll Maru, were racing, when the latter steered ncross the Tain-aye's course and the vessels collided. The Tanuiys Maru sunk immediately, and only about sixty peop'.O, who were on deck, were rescued. Kurth<i Make IMieiiottieiiiii Yum a, Arizona, Aug. 11.- Daily arri vals from the region of Sonora, on the Colorado Kivt r, report a most wonder ful change In the topograpny and ap pearance of the country, Many old landmarks arc obliterated, prominent natural objects are wiped off the lace of the earth, and new ones created i > unexpected places. The damage done is principally to stockmen, who have lost many head of cattle. The. small stream lour miles north of LerdO, which prior to the earthquake was readily forded, has become impassable, owing to its depth. It is now necessary to cross the watercourse six miles hack from the Colorado. Tho Coeopah In dians now predict another earthquake l.able to occur soon. They say natdral signs indicate it. Or urn ii?'r? Tli I i'm i)1 Senators, .Atlanta, Ca, August 12.?Some thing of a sensation In the shape of a "blind tiger' was unearthed in the Suite capitol this morning, when the chief of police of tho City with two de tectives arrested I'eter McMtchael, a porter in the state Semite, for silling liquor without a license. The chief of police states that he has evidence con clusively proving1 that McMichael. who is a negro, hail a large trade with the members of the Assembly. The mem bers of the House are very indignant and the matter has created great ex citement. Governor Northern gave the chief ol police authority to make i he raitl in tho ante-room where the whis key was sold, 'the detectives found fourteen bottles of whiskey and a lot of neer. " I'lio Holy Coal of Triivos." London, Aug. is.- it Is stated on high ecclesiastical authority in Ger many that there is Co Obligation on German Catholics to believe that the Holy Coat of Tn-ves is a garment that was worn by the Saviour, everybody being perfectly free to form his opinion on the testimony. During the last two days there has been a considerable in crease in Hie number of pilgrims, all anxiously awaiting the public, exhibi tion ot the holy uo.it. A number of sick people have also arrived, who uro anxious to bo permitted to touch the relic, in tho jiope of being healed, These people expect u ropitition of the mira cles which are said to have happened on previous occasions of the kind. American Partners on Toi>. LONDON, Aug. 12?The Daily News mis morning commenting on the action of Russia in prohibiting export of rye, says that it is reasuiring to learn that crops In tho United States promise to yield an exceptionally Urge harvest. The farmers of America, the papers de clares, are masters of the situation, and It is to be hoped that they will use their strength mercifully. The making of corners in the necessaries of lifo la never laudable and in tho present junc ture it would he lUtlo short of fiendish. WINDS' WILD WORK. WASHBl'RN VISITED BY A DESTRUC TIVE TORNADO. two l'coiilo k til. .1 Hcorea Injured lu ? Circus?The AiiIimwW l.*nci?i>e From Thuir Cngen?Gr?>wt Dainngtj to Pro perty. Ash LAND, Wis., Aug. 8.- A terrible toriiiulo struck this place at 4 o'clock this afternoon, demoralizing buildings and tearing things up in general. A heavy rain accompanied it, Hooding tho streets for hours after. At Washburn, across the bay from Ashland, the tornado's force was more furious. Business blocks were serious ly damaged and seven people in one building were slightly injured. 1'rof. Williams's circus was giving a per formance, the tents were torn to shat ters and scores of people were injured, but, fortunately, only two were killed? Oeorge Dedbell and Louis Wilson. Tho animals escaped from their cages and are still running wild in the streets. About OO.OOOluishels is damaged in tho Chicago, Str* 1'aul, Minnesota *nd Omaha elevator. .Several pleasure yachts were caught on OhequamegOO Bay and have not been heard from as yet. The roof was stripped from the Fitiold block. The Sweedish Baptist Church was lifted four feet from its foundations aud turned around, and numerous small buildings were twisted about. Out on the bay front half a dozen lit tle yachts were moored. They all broke away from their fastenings and were wrecked upon the shore. The to tal damage amounts to $10,000. Tho worst effects of the storm were experienced at Wasliburn, on tho oppo site side of the bay. The pastoHicu building, a frame structure on Main street, in which were half it do/.ou per sons, collapsed and caught the inmates in what seemed lobe a death trap, but by a fortunate lodgment, of timbers, they all escaped without injury, except two women, one of whom suffered a broken leg and the other a contusion of t he head Half a do/, -n ot her buildings are badly wrecked. Ihe roof of the Omaha elevator was lifted up and dashed Into the bay, exposing the stock of wheat to the rain. The dry (looks and hoisting engines at the coal dock were blown over and ruined, and many thousand feet of lumber piled in the yards ot the Bigelow mills were blawn Into the water. Several sail boats are reported lost, on the Choquamengo Bay, but tie.', reports are not vended, aiid until the full extent of the storm is known the damage to marine interests cannot be estimated. The loss at Wash burn is probably $50,000. 'i hn Weath?r mid tlii< CrojM. The weekly weather and crop bulle tin of the South Carolina weather ser vice, in co-operation with the United Slates Signal Service, for the past week was issued Saturday afternoon and it is as follows, giving much information to the farmers in the various sections of the. State. The weather conditions for the p?ant week have been generally favorable iVi most sections of the Slate to the cotton crop. The rainfall ins been about the normal. With temperature and sunshine about the average. The cotton crop is reported in much better condit ion on tho clay lands than those on sandy lands. The excessive rains of the previous week do not appear to have injured the former to the extent, ot those of tho latter; while it is true that the plant has shed some of the forms on the day Lands, but the shod ding has been much greater and the in jury much more extensive on the sandy lands; besides rust is reported and greater injury must necessarily follow. In some sections of the Stale, where the crop was well cultivated and no ex cessive rains have fallen,the crop isun exceptionally line, and a large yield may be looked for, but the area is not largo and is conlineJ to these particular sec tions. Cotton caterpillars have made their appearence on the coast, but as yet no damage reported. The corn crop is very line, and as the early corn is now about, matured, u large yield must follow. Some little damage has been sustained by some of the fanners from over Hows on creek bottoms. The crops on the river b ittoms were never better, but are later than usual, and If favorable seasons continue for a few weeks, the yield will be larger than for years. The nee crop on the rivers and Un lands is looking remuikably well, stands good and in line condition. A I-'iihIoii r-n'im-u. New On lea ns, Aug. s. a confer ence of the farmers' Alliances and the ahli-loilcry Democrats at l.i Fayotie has resulted in an agreement by which a joint ticket will be nominated, Tho Farmers' Alliance will mime the Gover nor, Treasurer and Superintendent of I'ublic Btlucatiou, and the antilollery league tho Lieutenant Governor. Audi tar, Attorney General and Secretary of Suite. These, nominations are to be made by it convention elected by all the while voters w ho lire opposed to ihe lot tery, and aftertVUt'd submitted to the Democratic Stall' Convention. The Al liance accepted this agreement, and at once nominated Thomas F, Adams, i:s 1'resident ami State Commissioner ot Agriculture, lor Governor. The cam paign will be almost altogether on the lottery issue. ai limine Semiitloh. Atlanta, Aug. 10.?The Jo.irnal Ibis afternoon prints a sensation in ai linuco circles. .1. <>. Wynn, business agent of the Georgia state Alliance ex change, is said to be 920,000 short in bis accounts. The directors appointed \v. a. Uroughton, treasurer ol the ex change, lo examine his books, and the shortage was discovered. Mr. Wynn is under $5,000 bond. His bondsmen met this ntternoon and have arranged to pay all tho shortage. The exchange claims the shortage is out-and-out de falcation. Wynn makes the statement that Ihe shortage is due to a cleric d er ror and a loss of vouchers. shot Two Men, Atlanta, Oa , August 10.?Ileze? kiiih Arp, nephew to the original Bill Arp, shot two men to death near tho si,ue line iu l'annin Count0 yesterday. Arp held ii claim against VV. 11. Bratn let, who-was about to leave the State and had oSyqke ol steers attached. This produced a quarrel and Arp shot, llrain lot through lue heart. Brandet'* broth er then took ii hand in lliv row and wits sho, through the chest, subsequently dying of his wound. Arp belongs to one of the loading families of this sec tion. Itlew fllx Hralim Out. Union, 8. O, Aug. 0.?Mr. Louis, the. . agent ami oporator of the Georgia, Cur.' olina and Northern Railroad .at. iMt lisle, (Fish Dam) committal suicide to day by blowing out hi? brains wi'h a gun. Tho cause is unknown., ThOsJor oner has gone to hold nti inquest.