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A Remartbl* Carter. In view of the g^reat interest taken in the appearance of the Ker.Thos. Dixon, Jr., at the Dar lington Guards Armory on Dec. 4th, the following sketch of his remarkable career, condensed from the Detroit Christian Her ald will be widely read at this time: “Dr. Talmage's pulpit for years has been the Mecca of the stranger in New York. It is now the pulpit of Rev. Thomas Dixon Jr., whose congregation leased the Academy of Music on the removal of the great Brooklyn preacher. This vast auditorium is now crowded every Sunday by even greater multitudes than once attended Dr. Talmage’s services. Mr. Dixon is undoubtedly a very remarkable man. His youth, his intellectual ability, his gifts of of oratory, natural and cultivated, and his skill in church management, joined to his determination to succeed as a preacher to the people, make him a power worthy of study. He was born in Cleveland County, North Carolina, Janu ary 11, 1864, entered Wake For est College, North Carolino, in September, 1879, where he soon became a marked man among professors and students. Dur ing his college course, besiues taking a five year’s course in four years, and standing in the foremost rank as a student, he captured from sharp contestants five gold medals. He was grad uated with the highest honors in June, 1883 and at once enter ed John Hopkins University, Baltimore. Here he took a post-graduate course of one year. At the age of nineteen he went to New York, and spent one year studying drama tic art and oratory. Return ing to North Carolina he became interested in politics, and at twenty years of age, before he could vote, was elected a mem ber of the North Carolina Leg islature. thus making him the youngest legislator in the United States. He now deter mined to become a lawyer and a politician. Fe studied law and was ad mitted to the bar, but became porsuaded that it was his duty to preach the Gospel. He filled pastorates in Goldsboro and Ral eigh, North Carolina, doing magnificent work in both places. His fame soon spread, and at twenty-three years of age he received a call from the Dudley Street Baptist Church Boston, one of the oldest churches in the city. In a few weeks every seat and all stand ing room was filled, and it was not untommon for many to be unable to enter the edifice at all, owing to the immense con gregations. Early in 1889 he accepted a call from a small church in New York, believing that New York was the best field in which he could do good His congregation at the Twen ty-third Street Baptist Church at once more than doubled, and in September, upon his return from vacation, Association Hall was engaged. This hall was taxed to it utmost capacity for four years. April 7, 1895, Mr. Dixon left the Twenty third street church snd founded, in the Academy of Music, the largest audito rium in New Yorx, “The Peo ple’e Church,” on the broad basis of 'fellowship in the ser vice of Christ. There have been enrolled over seven hun dred members during the first nine months, and the move ment promises to be a great success in the practical reali zation of Christian unity. A feature of Mr. Dixon’s great congregations is the fact that three fourths of his hear ers are men, while no other New York audience has, it is said, an average of over one- third men. Since coming to New York Mr. Dixon has preached to more people regularly than any other man in the city, and more note has been taken of his work by the Metropolitan press than that of any other clergyman. No man in America is more thourghly hated by a certain class of law-breakers, corrupt politicians and blackguard newspapers than this young preacher. But vilification, slan- uer, and abuse only increase the number of his friends, and augments the pressure of the crowd to gain admission to his services. The Rev. Hugh Price Hughes, the great Metho dist preacher of London, recent ly said of him in an article in his London Times: “He is the living embodiment of the con victions, ideals and methods by which Christianity will yet triumph in the civilized world.” In the fall of 1889, amid hos tile criticism within his church and denomination, and abso lutely alone, he began in the pulpit a determined and bitter series of assaults on Tammany Hall and municipal corruption. He was a leader with Dr. Cros by in the following unsuccess ful campaign, when Scott wm the Union candidate for mayor. When, three years later, Dr. Park hurst fired his bomh into the Oily Dixon was the first minister to come to his defense. For this scathing prelude in defense of Dr. Parkhurst he was arrested the following Tuesday on the order of Tammany Hall, on the charge of criminal libel, and was indicted by a packed Grand Jury two weeks later, and the case was immediately put on the calendar of the court. It was a bold attempt to throttle free speech in New York, and prevent any other ministers joining the Parkhurst crusade. The next Sunday after the in dictment was found, Mr. Dixon struggled through the crowd that blocked the street and the entrances, entered his pulpit and boldly denounced the Grand Jury as packed, and the pre siding judge as particeps crimi- nis. The effect was electrical. Three days later the indict ment was secretly dismissed by the District Attorney’s own motion In two months every pulpit in New York was thun dering for Dr. Parkhurst and his work. Mr. Dixon was the pioneer in New York in bringing to bear the full moral force of the pulpit itself on burning pub lic questions. He has persis tently declared the sacredness of the secular, and insisted that politics is religion in action. While he has been denounced as a sensationalist and seeker after notoriety, those who know him personally laugh at such a charge. His manner is free and simple. He cultivates the broadest love for his fellow- man, and shuns the city and the crowd whenever possible. He spends every day he can at his lovely country home, Ham- bright Hall, at Cape Charles, Virginia, driving, gardening, boating, fishing, and hunting, in company with his charming wife and children. He was married, after a ro mantic and dramatically inter esting courtship, March 3, 1886, to Miss Harriet Bussey, the ac complished daughter of Dr. N. J. Bussey of Georgia. Three children have blessed their union. Mrs. Dixon acts as his secretary, and is his constant companion in work, play, and travel. Why suffer with Coughs, Colds and LaGrippe when Lax ative Bromo Quinine will cure you in one day. Does not pro duce the ringing in the head like Sulphate of Quinine. Put up in tablets convenient for tak ing. Guaranteed to cure, or money refunded. Price, 25 cents. For sale by O. B. Davis. BURNING OF GUAYAQUIL. Details o' One of the Greatest Confla- grrtions in History—Probably Incen diary. Panama, Oct. 24.—The Star and Herald publishes the following de tailed account of the conflagration at Guayaquil: On the night of Oct. 5, the port and city of Guayaquil was visited by je-- haps the greatest fire in history—if we except that of Nero’s Rome. The fire is stated to have originated in the store of Messrs. Massanovich & Bowski two North American Jews Their store was located about the center of the city. At the time a strong breeze known as "El Morro", was blowing, and it did not subside for 60 hours long after the flrery ele ment had devastated the whole of the city to the north and northwest. About two-thirds of the house property and nearly the whole of the comnercial quarter were des troyed. The only four banks in the city were razed, as also three out of the four newspaper offloes, the custom house (containing some $1,000,000 worth of goods) and the church of St. Domingo, a relic of the Spanish oc cupation. A 32-hour blazk. The fire spread with indescriable rapidity and at no time was the Are department able to cope with It. It simply burned itself out. The blaze lasted fully 82 hours. Only five peo ple have been known to have lost their lives. It was stated that in a launch laden with furniture, which caught Are and was swept down with the tide to the island of Puna, five sisters of the Sacred Heart penshed, but this could not be verified. THE FROPBRTT LOSS. It is estimated that 8,000 persons were rendered homeless and that the property destroyed aggregates $16,- 000,000 (sucres); goods destroyed amount to $16,000,000 (sucres) and the loss to the insurance companies about $8 ,600,000 (sucres.) About a fort night after the fire the vaults of the banks destroyed were opened and all securities, etc., were found intact. A bill has been introduced into the Colombian congress appropriating $80,000 in gold to be devoted to the sufferers of the recent Guaavquil fire. Buckien's Arnica Salve. The Best Salve in the world for Cuts, Bruises, Sores. Ulcers, Salt Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter, Chapped Hands Chilblains, Corns, and all Skin Eruptions, and positively cures Piles, or no pay required. It is guaranteed to give perfect satisfaction, or money refunded. Price 25 cents box. For sale at Dr. J. A. oyd's and O B Davis’ drug stores GENERAL NEWS. Forest fires have been again raging in northern Wisconsin and Michigan. The smoke was so dense at one time at the northern end of Lake Michigan that navigation was impeded. Ajustable straps for street car use which can be lowered to suit the user is the latest novelty. The Journal of Botany gives an in teresting account of Herr R. Schlechter’s botanical explorations in South Africa, which have been much impeded by the drought. He collected abeut 1,260 species, of which he estimates one-tenth are new. There are 7,500 inmates of the Massa chusetts State prisons, and over 100,- 000 arrests a year are made, which cost the State the sum of $3,000,000 annually. The Shah of Persia is said te have 50 pet cats which he takes with him on his travels. An error of 1-1000 part of an inch in astronomical records may mean a diff erence of 200,000,000 miles in the dis tance of a star. The oldest national flag in the world is that of Denmark, which has been in use since 1219. W. A. Clark Bids in the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad. Chestei, Nov. 2 —The Chester and Lenoir narrow gauge railroad was sold here to-day at noon and pur chased by Mr. W. A. Clark of Colum. bia on account of the bondholdeis participating in the reorganization. U was bid in at the upset price of $70,000; subject to a mortgage of $100,000 on that part of the road north of Newton. The committee of bondholders will at once proceed to curry out the reorganization on the plans already agreed upon. FEARLESS IGNORANCE. 111 nitrated by a ToarUt Who toileted Upoa Goins Into a Crater. Captain Basil Hall tells one of those stories which are always com ing np to prove that the man who knows nothing about a danger is the one to fear it least and to neglect a salutary obedience toward those who have trodden a path before. The incident was narrated by an old guide at Vesuvius. “A few years ago, ” said Salvatore, “I oame np the mountain with a party of gentlemen, one of whom insisted on going not only around the cone, as we are doing now, but actually into the crater, though I told him that snch an adventure was attended with more danger than the thing was worth. ‘Pooh I Pooh I Danger?’ said the pigheaded gentleman. 'What do I care for danger? Am I not a sol dier? Why, man, I have faced the foe before now! Lead the way. I’ll follow.’ “I merely said that to face a hu man enemy and to face an active volcano were two very different things. “ ‘Are yon afraid to go?’ he asked. “‘I don't much admire it,’I an swered; ‘but as I think I know bow to evade the danger when it comes, having been at the work for nea-ly half a century, I’ll go into the crater if you are determined upon the adventure. Only I warn yon again, the danger to an inex perienced person is very great ’ “ ‘Well, well The called impatient ly, ‘come along I’ And away we went, he flourishing bis stick like a sword, while I only shrugged my shoulders. ‘‘‘Now, sir,’I said to him, ‘the only plan by which we can hope to accomplish this expedition in safety ia to be perfectly steady and if a shower of stones comes about our ears to stand as oool and collected as if nothing were happening. I hope we may not have any while we are in this awkward place, but if we should be so unfortunate, mind, yonr only chance is to stand fast and look forward. It requires good nerves, so brace them np. ’ “ ‘Oh, nerves,’ said be skeptic ally. ‘Is that all? Yon shall see. ’ “So away we went, climbed the lip of the cap, descended into the fearfnl abyss and, thongh half chok ed with the fumes, saw all we wish ed to see. We were on onr return when the mountain roared like thunder, the ground shook, a furious eruption took place, and myriads of stones were shot a thousand feet into the air. “‘Now, signor, miol’ I called. ‘Stand yonr ground and make good use of yonr nerves! Look I Be steady, and yon may yet escape. ’ “But the man who had faced mor tal foes quailed before the powers of natnre. He looked np, as he was bidden, but when he saw a cataract of fire falling on his head the cour age of which he had boasted forsook him, and he incontinently fled. “For my part, I was too much afraid to fly. I never saw such a shower of stones, and I wonder we were not both demolished. As it was, my companion had not run far before he was struck down by these missiles. “One of them broke his leg, and another stnnned him, and 1 had enough to do to get him out of the cone on my shoulders Much work we had to take him to Naples, where the hotel keepers and the Italian doctors between them bad the pluck ing of this precious pigeon for the next six months.”—Youth’s Com panion. The angels may have wider spneres of action, may have nobler forms of duty, hot right with them and with ns is one and the same thing.— Chapin. A Snake That Swallow* Ena The Hydraoi yeti is a native of South Africa, and, taken all around, he is a curiousity in the reptile line. Unlike the regulation snake, be has no teeth in his mouth, but has a full set of grinders in his stomach 1 These dental wonders grow from the center of each vertebra. They pass through the walls of the stom ach and are each crowned with enamel. Hydraci is the champion egg sucker, and the teeth in the stomach appear to be nature’s pro vision for breaking the shell of the egg without running the risk of los ing the precious contents. When the egg lands in the stomach and the serpent’s instinct tells it that every thing is all right, the abdominal walls contract and the egg is crushed against the long row of vertebral teeth.—St. Louis Republic. THE DARLINGTON NEWS The Oldest Nenspiper In Darlington Count; 11 * * Founded Twenty-Three Years. Goes into the Homes and Places of Business of the Substantial People of This Section. * • * * » Its TOWN and COUNTY NEWS COLUMNS and LITERARY FEATURES are unsurpassed: as an advertising medium to reach the people who have money to spend It is unoqualed. 52 NUMBERS, $1 MM. The first of American Newspapers, CHARLES A. DANA, Editor. The American Constitution, the American Idea, the American Spirit These first, last, and all the time, forever. Daily, hr mail, • • - • $6 a year Daily and Sunday, by mail, $8 a year The Sunday Sun is the greatest Sunday Newspaper in the world. Price 5e. a copy. By mail, 82 a year Address THE SUN. New York. NEW-M TIES. For the city reader or the country home THE NEW-TORK TIMES is an uncommonly interesting newspaper. Its sixteen pages are brimful of nows. It is handsomely printed, accurate, clean, fresh, and vigorous. Every Intelligent reader will prize Its special depart ments, comprising literature and book news, social progress, religion, art, scioncc, fashion, the woman's page, and amateur sports. The unequaled tlnanclal page of THE NEW- YOHK TIMES is a capital manual for invest- rs, for bankers, and th» otliwrs of Savings Banks. Trust and Insurance Companies. Hall way Earnings, Stock and Bond Quotations- Interest and Dividend Notices, tbo Organiza tion of New Companies, and ALL Financial News reports are accurately and promptly printed. Its commercial reports, includlug wool, cotton, breadstulTs, butter, eggs and farm produce, recently much enlarged, arc of unequaled fullness and value. The TIMES will do its full shnro of earnest work for sound financial legislation, to repel the assault of private greed upon the lawmak ng power, to establish Democratic principles fo equality in taxation and economy in ex penditure, and to retrieve the defeat brought upon tbo Democratic party by errors and be trayal;,. THE NEW-YORK WEEKLY TIMES. Tbesubscription price of the NEW-YORK WEEKLY TIMES is ONE DOLLAK a year. The WEEKLY TIMES is a capital newspaper It contains all the current nows condensed from the dispatches and reports of the dally edition, besides literary matter, discussions upon agricultural topics by practical farmers full and accurate market reports of prices for farm produce, live stock, Ac., aud a carefully prepared weekly wool market. SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Dally, with Sunday Dally, without Sund Sunday edition only Any one day (not 8u Weekly edition 1 1 Yr| a Mo 3 Mo 1 Mo llO.Ud] $6.00 $2.60 00 8.0l)| 4.00 55.00 75 2.00 1.00 50 LSOj .75 40 i.oo: .60 ao Postage prepaid to all points in the United States, Canada and Mexico, except New York City, where the postage is 1 cent per copy; In all other countries, S cents per copy per day, payable by the subscriber. The TIMES will be sent to any addres in Eu rope, postage Included for (IM per month. The address of subscribers will be changed as often as desired. In ordering a change of address both the old and tbo new address MUST be given. Cash In advance always. Kemittances at th* Publishing Co.' Address all communications thus: THE NEW-YORK TIMES, Printing House Square, New Y*rk CttY. N Y. SATH OF SOUTH CAROLINA. County of Darlington. Court of Common Pleas. Summons For Relief. (Complaint Served. C. 8. Nettles, Assignee Plaintiff again it Clara Stanley, Defendant. To the Defendant Clara Stanley: You are hereb) summoned and re quired to answer the complaint in this action, of which a copy is here with served upon yon, and to serve a copy of your answer to the said com plaint on the subscriber at his office at Darlington 0. H,, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclu sive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the {lain- tiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded In the complc^pt. R L. DARGAN. Plaintiff’s Attorney. Oct. 6th. A. D. 1896. To the Defendant Clara Stanley: You will please take notice that the complaint in this action was Hied in th» office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas for the County of Darlington on the 6th day of October, 1896. R. L. DARGAN, Plaintiff’s Attorney. Faces Fair Are Made Fairer By A Pretty Hat ¥? WILL J. , M. D„ THE WML STYLES Are now ready at Miss MILLINERY ® EMPORIUM. Buggies, Wagons, Harness. I have received two car loads of Img'gies and one car load of wagons, the largest stock I have had in 15 years. Also a big stock of harness. CALL AND SAVE MONEY BEFORE BUYING ELSEWHERE, Cl m HEWITT, DARLINGTON. S. C. PAULIXGTON, S. Office over ItoyrTs Drug &(<>re. Office Hours: 11 a m to 1 p m; 4:30 p in to 7 p in. Mai;V90-lv. KITCHEN Lare Size, made in Seasoned pop ular—wire front or tin front, light color and dark color. Some as low as $2.25 Oth ers higher. Chairs like these, Cain hot- tom, light or dark colors. Only 00 cts. each. $3.50 per set. Ni«*« Hiireans$3.50 worth $5. We have a number of book cases which we will now close out at Mam kacturks Cost. The people arc after the mat ting bargains we arc offering. Call and see the prettiest line of Hugs and Art Squares ever seen in Darlington. Did you get one of our Leather seat Rockers at $3.5'- if not you are not wise—And have you seen our 10 piece Toilet Sets at $ti.."»0, Eng lish Imporred, (iurnnteed not to craze We sell Musicnl Merchan dise, Organs, Widow glass. White Knnmel Steel Beds, Parlor and Dining room fnrnitnre ami SELL IT CLOSE FOR THE DOUGH. BUD BROS., HOME OUTFITERS- BY INSURING YOUR PROPERTY AND YOUR LIFE We represent Fire Insurance Companies whose combined capital amounts to fi^ over $44,000,000! —-A-ITID— Tie Mi Ljle eel Acciot Companies of tie Oiled States All business intrusted to us will have prompt and careful attention, and in case of loss, liberal adjustment, RESPECTFULLY, DARGAN & BAIRD, GENERAL INSURANCE AGENTS Office Up Stairs, in Hewitt Block. SHEPHERD SUPPLY COMPANY, 232 MEETING STREET, — — CHARLESTON, S. C. STATE AGENTS FOR SALE OF UaXCHIG/)^ jrpojj * dz d' dt. 'e vh YOUII OI.!> I’HIKM) s, Sydnor&~ 1 ,, WILL AGAIN HAVE CHAUGS OF Dailiigtoa Tsko Micst Open Tuesday, August II, and every day thereafter. We want your patronage and will do all that can be done for you. YOURS TRULY, SYDNOR & TREDWAY. WHOLESALE STOVES, TIN WARES, HOUSEFURNISHING GOODS, OIL HEATERS TIN PLATE, SHEET IRON, TINNERS SUPPLIES. GAL VANIZED, GUTTER* PIPE. I F 'OH. X rUhJL' „ JoP, OrFicef Darlington Lodge. No. 7, Knights of Pyth’- as, meets on 1st and 3 d Tlksday Evenings in each month, at Castle Hall, Florence street opposite Broad. Visit ing brothers fraternally iuitd. GROVES TASTELESS CHILL TONIC 18 J U8T AS GOOD FOR ADU LT8. WARRANTED. PRICE 50 cts. Galatia, Ills., Nov. 10,181)3. ParisMorllclnoCo., St. Jjouis, M<». Gentlemen:—Wo s»l<l Inst year, 000 bottlon • f OKOVK S TASTKI.KSS < HIIJ, TONIC amt havo bought ihret* groH*already this year. In ail «mr ex perience of 11 years, in the rtnitf business, have never sold an arttelo that gave Ptieh universal satis- 'action aa your Tonic. Yours truly, Adney.Cakk ACC ForsalebyO.lt. DAVIS and Dll, .1. A. ItOV I). June 11—6m (i. i ii.KMii & m Mannlacturers —OF— Doors, Sash, Blinu l^IOXTLIDITsra-S. —ANO- Building Material ESTABLISHED 1842. CHARLESTON, S. C April, 2(1 Sit— y Tobacco Hogsheac Turning, Planin AND Coitract Worl ol all i undertaken, anti satisfaction <:uarant JOHN SISKRON’S SHOP FOR MIL FROM $3 l CO FINS c.isiei!i ami I mlcrtakcrs’ supplies alway Over 200 different styles of. Cooking and Heating Stoves, also Oil Heaters and Cookers. We want the leading merchant in every ^ *‘ Rm ' 111 low prices. town in the state to sell our lines of stoves. Also CYPRESS SHINGI We guarantee full protection in his territory and LTIMTtVR -it the bnv to each agent we appoint. It not sold in your ‘ , a BER ^ 1 l0 " town send direct to us for cuts and prices. T. C. Jeffords, J Jaal’96- lyr.