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.--~7 N Jr THE UNION TIMES. UNION, 8. O. PALMETTO POINTERS. tNTKRJESTINO ITKM8 FROM ALL OVER THE STATE. The News anil Courier's Prl/.e Contest In 18l>?. The Charleston News ami Courier is So well satisfied with its prizes to the lost successful hog growers in the State of South Carolina last year that u will extend them this year to all branches of agriculture in the State. It proposes t<? offer amounting to $500 ; in all, divided into $100 and $50 prizes, ! and also two gold uieduls. These ' awards are to be given to the most sue- J oessful hog grower, for the best exhib- I it of hay, the most profitable crop of tobacco, for the best results from di- 1 versified crops, for the best results in J _i t .,?,j one for the best showing made in woman's work 011 the farm. The contestants must be subscribers to the News and Courier. - s??- A Kali road Oca I The negotiations which have beou pending for the past three weeks between the Greenwood. Anderson & Western Railroad aud the Carolina Midland Railroad for the lease and option to purchase, have been con- ! eluded. The parties who have leased the road and who contemplate purchasing it and oxteudiug it westward, are said to be men of large means and considerable railroad experience. It is stated that immediate arrangements will be made to extend tho road in the direction of Greenwood. Another Iteeelverto lie Appointed. fudge W. ('. Rennet, of tho circuit of the State, tiled a decision in the , ease of certain stockholders of the 1 Palmetto brewing Company against l>r..ui.l..n? .1 II Iwl...r ... ,vl.inl, r?. reiver was asked for. The Uuited States- Circuit Court had already ap- i pointed a receiver, hut Judge Bonnet i takes jurisdiction, sustains some of the charges against President Dasher ; uud announces that ho will appoint a receiver. Interesting developments j are expected to come out of the con- ; llict between State and Federal Courts. S??- - ? Hlg Hog Contest Kn<le?l. The News and Courier's hog contest j closed on December 17, nmi the win- I uers have been announced as follows . i The first prize, "f<-r the heaviest hog," ! was won by Mr. W. J. Richardson, of Abbeville county, for a hog which gained 5b 1 pounds in '2b7 days, at a cost of $22.19; or at the rate of 1.99 pounds per day, ut the cost of 3.75 cents per pound. The second prize, "for the next heaviest hog." was won by Mr. ?T. M. Leech, of York county, for a hog which gained 52b pounds in 27." days, at a cost of $19.55; or at the rate ?>f 1.93 pounds a day, at the cost i of 3.I f cents a pound. fccoiiom j/lnx? Attorney (i? :ier:d Bivfher has deter- ! mined to make nn etb/rt to ruu the en- 1 grossing department this year on a ; much iitorcf economical basis than be- ! fore. Hit has appointed only five clerks /Tor the tirst of the session ? four indies and one young man. He proposes to increase and decrease the force from tun; to time during the session according to the necessities of the general assembly. He expects to save the State at ?st a thousand dol/ lars in this ?nv / J I>r. H.?veneM hoseii I'rcsiilent. The annua! i:. 11 ng of tl?e corporation of the ;,rotestant Church, of Charleston, .vied 1 >y the llugouot refugee* fr :.i Franc" after tho revoeati >n >f Kdict of Nantes, and the only > :r.T? of the kind in America, ?a- ! M Monday and Hr. Win. C Iiftvere !. a descendeut of | Castor 1'rioloai, the haderof the emi- J grants, was chosen president ?? The Wreck Near <'oluiiibia. UO miles from Columbia, the north- j luinm! New York and Florida vestibule j struck a ear of piles which had broken loose from a freight train and stopped on the trestle over North Hdisto rivor. The engine, mail ind baggage ears went thr nigh the trestle. I ho ongin- j eer and inaii agent were injured, how i seriously is not known. SO Att< r i! Harmon his appomte 1 loseph NY. ilarnwell, of Charleston. a special assistant l uited States district att ruey f< f 4<<mh Curolinn. 'I'l... . . V . ..... . follow.!ii* if- : . Mr 'W . stmV. ?r?l ' killed ii !i"u' ?-' !i:< h M.-ttf.l .'J:so | VOtl lltl H. 1 '!,: ? I I ' 1 Will Is IliOlitlli?lil. ii'nl w ?-> ' ' rt! hi ! < iiina mi l Rcrkslcrr ' i. Mr. StmV >r l ?t 7'? pout) i- 4 l !ur i r-':n :'. \ white :.tili. : y t:,o i:.i:.i?- of Win. Ii. Smuler-i, w i- t hi.I killed 1?v Win. lodx-rt <" t ! -. .i. - i whit*.' man, :it Cade's <I i< t i -tut ii >ii i>!i tli" Northeastern r.r.i' t i. ! tw i < :i ( 'ii n 1? -.t< i? 1 I I -n . !! S iturdiiv. 1' ' . !; v . * 11*-?!ii ( :. i cugo t:. i t..i i V w, -1 i . | nits .trrived ii. Ihirnw.!'. I ri iuv. .Ii- rehomes have heeu |>r?_-j>nr?--1 r Mem 1>\ Col. Miko lirow'ii. < lln-uu hit- established several ?- *! ??ii? -of tin pen; !> in IJurziwell comity I n ',!. list three <-r four ' ill. I'iorl I i< -lie.. ills Tm .. T..- I. I : . ;i y . . . . ; \* broth .- .J -.'i'li, . " i f. v kilh : '.vhil | .1 he: wi"i '! \:r . v.- *i i . M'.l.i' i I .VI .JlliV ' I -' '. ?. I lijfilt VI,'. .t S'. 1. ... M . 1 :. . . boy >v - lh !ir t : .: , #hea his brother rnt to hist i ituu i |<I1<! t |>Uli ' iv ' tii . - . in- a! - > r jceiv ?J ? ?Uv. . u'li.'k i . ull-.-J in almost lustuut death. BEAR TESTIMONY, j LET THE KKDKKMGD "SAY SO." Or. Talmago Mtikfs An Eloquent A| pe ilfor An Outspoken Religion. Tutt: "Lot the redeemed of the Lord say so." Psalms ovii., 2. An overture, an antiphou, a doxology is this chapter, and iu my text David calls" for an outspoken religion and requests all who have boen rescued and blessed no longer to hide the splendid facts, but to recite theiu, publish them and as far as possible let all the world know about it. "Lot the redeemed of the Lord say so." Them is a sinful reticence which has been almost canonised. The people are quite as outspoken as they ought to be on all subjootsof politics and are fluent and voluble on the Venezuelan question and bimetallism and tariffs high and low and remodeled and female suffrage, and you have to skilfully watch your chance if you want to put into the active conversation a modest suggestion of your own, but on the subject of divine goodness, religious experience and eternal blessedness they are not only silent, but boastful of their reticence. Now. if you have been redeemed of the Lord, why do you not say so? If you have iu your heart the pearl of great price, worth more than the Koliinoor among Vic toriau jewels. why not lot others see it? if I you got o(T tho wreck i? tho breakers, why not toll of the -'row and tho stout lifeboat that sftMy lauded you? If from tin* fourth story you arc resound in tluie of conflagration, why not tell of the fireman and tho ladder down which ho carried you? If you have a mansion in heaven awaiting you, why not show the deed to those who may by the same process net an enteral I castle on | tho same boulevard? By the last two words j of niv text David calls upon all of us who have received auy mercy at tho hands of Ood to stop impersonat or the asylums for the dumb and intlie jor.-ence of men, women, angels, devils and all worlds "say so." In those January da.ys. thousands of ministers and privato Christians are wondering' about the best ways of starting a revival of religion. I can tell yon a way of starting a revival, continental, hemispheric and worldwide. You say a revival starts in heaven. Well, It starts in heaven just a* a prosperous harvest starts In heaven. The sun must shine and tho rains must descend, hut unless you plow and sow and cultivate the earth you will not raise a bushel of wheat or a peck of J corn between now and the ??r.d of the world. How, then, shall a universal revival start? ! By all Christian people ttdiiug the -b>ry of their own conversion. led tun men and wo- I men get up next week in your prayer meet- ; ing and. not in a conventional or -intingor ' doleful wily, but in the same ton* they employ in the faintly or place .>r business, | ] tell how they crossed tie* iiu \ and ! the revival will begin then and th> r.\ it j the prayer meeting ha- not beet: so dull I as to drive out all except those e .acern ing whom it was foreordained frmi. al eternity that they should there. Tiioro are so many different ways ,,f being converted that we want to hear all kinds,so tiiat our own case may be helped. It aiway-puts me back to hear only one kind of experience, such as a man gives when he tolls of his j Paulino conversion?how lie was kuoekod I senseless, and then ha I a vision an I hear.l j vole s and after a certain mimiior of U.ica I of horror got up ami shouted for joy. All that discourages mo, for I was neverku< eked senseless, and 1 never Had such a sudden hurst of religious rapture that I lost my equilibrium. But after awhile a Christian man got tip in some mooting and told us how ho was brought up l>y a devout parentage, and had always been thoughtful about religious things, nnd gradually tint peaeo of the gospel eanio into Ins soul likn the dawn of tho morning?no perceptible diHon-nee betwi?en moment nnd moment?but after awhile all perturbation settled down into a hopo that hail consoled and strengthened him during all the vicissitudes of a lifetime. I said, "That is exhilarating: that was my experience." And so I was strengthened. fn another prayer meeting a niau got up and told us how he oneo hated God and went through all the round of iniquity until we were nil on nettles lost ho should go too much into the particulars, hut one day ho was by some religious power liurlod llat and then got up a Christian and lin 1 ever since been going around witha Baxter Bible with large Haps under his arm. a floating evangelist. Well, under this story many are not helped at all. for they kuow they never hated Goa, and they were never dissolute. But after awhile some Christian woman arises nnd says. "I have nothing extraordinary to tell, yet I think the cares of life, the anxieties about my children and two graves 1 opene I in our family plot made me feel tho | need of God, and weak and helpless and ! heartbroken 1 tiling myself upon His mercy, ( and I feel what I lie Bible calls the "peace of | God which |asseth all understanding.' and ' I ask your prayers that I may live nearer to the Christ who lias done so much for me." , I dc 'larc that before that woman got through I we were all crving. not bitter tears, but tears of joyful emotion, and in three days in that neighborhood all tho ice had gone out 1 of the river in a springtime freshet of salvation. "I.et the redeem) I of t lie Lord - ay so." I have but little interest in what pe..jde sav about religion us an abstration. but I have illimitable interest in what people say ; about what they have personally felt of religion. It was an rxpre>si >n of In-* own grntitinie r?>r p TMiniu summon wtiien lou Charles Wesley, after asoasnu >f great de! spondeuey about hi* soul anil < iirist had spoken pardon, to writo that immortal hymn: Oh, for a thousand tongues to sing My great Hodm-mer'a praise! It was after Abraham Lincoln had boon comforted in the loss of Tad, the bright boy of the White House, that ho said, "I now see as never before the preelousnosa of God's love in Jesus Christ and how wo are brought near to God as our Father by Him." What a thrill went through the mooting in Portland, Or , when an ex-Attorney-General of the United States rose and said "Last night I got upnnd asked the prayers of Qod'e people, I feel now perfecly satisfied. The burden Is rolled off and all gone, and I feel that I eould run or 11 y into the arms of Jesus j Christ " What a re.-ord for ail time an I eternity j was made bv Oellaeius, the play aetor. in i the theatre at Heliopidis. A burlesque of j Christianity was put upon the stage. In de. ^ rision of the ordinar.ee of l>npli-:n i bath* ; tub tilled wilh water wa-< put upon the stage, an 1 another aetor. in awful blasphemy, i dippe I ib-ila'ins, | r- .eiumdng over linn the words, "I bapti/o time m the name of the Father, of the Son .an I til" Holy <iho-t." j Iti^e euing fortii from the burlesque bnpt ism he look" I ehauge-l an I was<hanged. n:i I h erie.l out, "I am tt christian. I will j die as a ''hri lian." Though tie was dragg 1 ' out nil I -tolled to death, t! eolil l not ' dr.ovn tiiete-tiai nv made ur ler -nehawful ;s:stair* - "I am a Christian. I will ill" a- i Cliir-tiau. ' tie* re Jeejr. -d of I t In* I. ?r I - IV What e atinuution -v .'.J ->.:>* if all w.i > l . I an wers to pray rs w >ut I tumult out; if ' all nmr-hunts in tight places nenuso ifh ird I a*.: a 1 !i i.. .a <: .ifa: .. ii.l * ?? I xiiia:. tt'Tl-i |>rayi'r tin* raiii ?:im?? ju-t ! . Tin.'' t -a\<* tin.* | ; 'f all i ar who | i r i\ I r..r .1 w.ili'U-riirf >li t ? ?:ii" homo w ml I t>*ll how it -t aftiT th.'ji li r-1 th'' >'- haul on tail lat ? "i tli" tr at <1 T. - it ; fllok, an Englbh M<"list . i - !i it" I in.I f -r W.ot lll'lia :iu-* ! . - a i ri -!i :ui?? Ha l failoil. Tlion ' . : i?: t <!r ( ; ! i: hi-. kn> im, .ill ! t:. i '. "I .viil jfi\.? tli"- a uulni if lit itlv ov? r.'* Hut th" inlfil i. . ' . | ' i\. l. ! . I t a .. - - . 1. "I v.i.. i. ' ' i w ,"iiii i-i if th I Wilt "iv . r.-' '! i tit niotii'i was i ti l> . a,' I. w.i- |m?iit^ a' ' ' . .. "li . !.- i. w mj li'.v.r i i rayia^'. and be came back, saying, "Brethren, take courage; the ohlldren are praying for us." Nothing -can stand before prayer. An infidel oamn into a Bible close to ask punting questions. Many of the neighbors came in to hear the discussion. The in ft del arose and said to the leader of the Bible class, "I hear you allow questions asked." "Oh, yes," said the leader, "but at the start lot us knoel down and ask Ood to guide us." "On, no," said the infidel. "I did not come to pray; I came to discuss." "But," said the leador, "you will, of course, submit to our rule, and that is always to begin with prayor." The loader knelt iu prayer, and then arose and said to the infidel, "Now you pray." The infidel repliod, "I cannot pray. I have no Ood to pray to. Let mo "go! Let me go!" The spectators, who expected fun, found nothing but ovorpowormg solemnity, and a revival started, and among the first who won* brought in was the infidel. That prayer did It. In all our lives there have been times when we felt that prayer was answered. Then let us say so. There lingers on this side of the river that divides earth and heaven, ready at any time to cross ovor, the apostle of prayer for this century, Jeremiah Calvin Lunphlnr. the founder of the Fulton street prayer meeting, and if he should put on his spectacles and read this I salute him as more qualified than any man since Bible times in demonstrating what prayer can do. Dear Brother Lanphior! The high heavens are full of his tamo. Having announced a meeting for 12 o clock, september as, im>7, no ''fit in tno upper room on Fulton street, New York, waiting for people to come. He waited for .1 half hour, and thou n footfall was heard in the .steps, and after awhile in all six persons arrived, hut the n ?xt day twenty, and j the n".xt day forty nud from tuat time to this, \ for over thirty-eight years, every day, Sab- ' bath excepted, that Fulton street prayer I meeting has been a place where people have ! asked prayer and answers to prayer have ! been announeod, and the throb of that great j heart of supplication has thrilled not only \ into the heavens, but clear around the world. ! more than any spot on earth. That lias been the place where the red -eniod of the Lord said so! J->et?the fame outspoken nesa tie employed toward those by whom we have been personally advantaged. We wait until they are dead before we say so. Your parents have plaiiued for your best interests all these years. They may sometimes, their nervous system used up by the earos, the losses, the disappointments, the wornments of life, be more irritable than they ought to no, and they probably have faults which have become oppressive as the years go by. But those eyes, loug before they took, on spectacles, were watching for your welfare, and their hands, not as smooth and much moro deeply lined than ouoo, have done for you many a good day's work. Life has boon to them moro of a struggle than you will ever know about, and much of the struggle has been for you. and lu?w much thev are wrapped uplu your welfare you will never appreciate. Have youl>v word or gift or behavior expressed your thanks? Or if you cannot quite get up tosay it face to face, have you written it iu some holiday salutation? The time will soon pass, and they will be gouo out of your sight, ami their ears will not hear, and their eyes will not see. If you >we thorn any kindness of dee.1 or any w. ids of appreciation, why do you not say so? How much we might all of us save ourselves iu the matter of regrets if we did not delay until too Into an expression of obligation that would havo made the las: yours of earthly lifo moro attractive. Tho grave la deaf, and epitaphs on cold marble cannot make reparation. In conjugal life the honeymoon in noon pant, and the twain take it for granted thnt each is thoroughly understood. How dependent on each other they become, and tho years go by, and perhaps nothing in .->aid to make the other fully understand that sense of dependence. Impatient words sometimes* come forth, and motive* are misinterpreted, and it in taken an a matter' f course that the two will walk the path of lifo side by side uutil about the same time their journey shall be ended, butsomo sudden aud appalling illness unloosens the right hands that were clasped years at before the altar of orange blossoms, the parting takes place, and among the worst of all the sorrows is that you did not oftener, if you ever did at all, tell her or tell him how iudispenmble she was or how indispensable he was to your happiness, and that in some plain, square talk long ago you did not ask tor forgiveness - for infirmities and neglects, and by some unlimited utterance make it understood that you fully appreciated tho IHolity and re-enforcoinont of many years. Alius, how many *u -h have to lament tiie rest of their lives,--Oh, if I ha.l uilvsaid so'" My subject takes a wider range. Tho Lord has hunoreds of thousand-* ?>f people among those who have never join -d His'army hee.'tuse of some high ideal of what a Christian should be or because of a f Mr that they may not hold out or because of a spirit of pro rustiuntion. Thev have never publicly professed C! irist. They have ;us much right to tile sacraments and as mm h right b> ail the privileges of the church as thousands who havo fur years been enrolled in church membership, and yet they have made no positive utterance by which the world may know they love (iod and arc on til * mad to heaven. They nre rede.-u.e I o" the L >rd and yet do not say .? >. oh. whnt un augmentation it would be if by some divine impulse all tb ?se outsider.- should become in-idcrs. I tell you what wMild bring them to their right places, and perhaps nothing else willdays of persecution, it they were Compelled to take sides .us bet we. uj< hrist an.I His enemies, they would take the -i |,>f Christ, and the fagots and the instruments of torture and the anathemas of all earth and hell would uot make them blanch. Martyrs are made out of such stuff as they are. But let them not wait for suoh days as I prav to God may never come. Drawn by the sense of fairness and justice and obligation. let them shew their colors. Lot the rodt uiod of the Lord say so. This chapter from which I take my toxt mentions soveral classes of persons who ou>;ht to be outspoken, anions them all those who jp> on a journey. What an opportunity you have, you who spend so much of your time on rail trains or on -diiphoard. whether on lake or river or sea! Sprca I the iflory of (lod's ooodness and vour own redemption wherever you ifo. Vou will have many a lonij ride beside some one whom you will never seeaeain, someone who is waiting for one word of rescue or ns elation. .Make every rail train and steamer a moving | al.ice of saved souls. Casual uversatious have harvested a great host for (Jo 1. There nre many Christian workers :n pulf i! in inissiou stations. Sabbath - us. in .nliear I of pla >s who ar-- | ipo tbeir >>est for (I 'd and wit!:- 1! ni:v !" octillion. They go and coup*, and no one r-h-- t tiuvn. I'-rliaps all the reward they get is harsh criticism, or rep ilse, ot their hvii fatitrum If you have ever heard of any g- dtlr-v have done, let them know about d I? you Hint some one bcneiltcd by their aim.-, or tlieJr prayers, or tlpur eficcrlni; wor I. /< an I tell them. They may he aim st rcad> * . giv up tbeir mi-sion. Tie'v ma r Is- up. -tin '.- -pair he v. i-i* <?( tln> 11^ "..i if r -II.! >. Om? won! from you may an ordination that will r?l s.r* tin1: ..u : i: ii, f Wi of lln-ir lifetime. A * hri tinu w . ai l to IUt |i!i-.'..r "Mv 111.1111. . i- I ,ii". 1 .1.. Hot Ki. v wliy ;nv lii.- i' ir -.l any longer. !? can-" '"an ! > no _r Tlii-ii Ihu pastor p j 'i I "V tt fuoarcat ifooil overy Ral>* l itli." Sip- a- ? ,1 "How .lo 1 <|o n any ".. . I.-" ami lm p j : 'In tho Ant plniw, v lar'ii'wi - u? \ ur- if in I liur-'i. llrl I'' i: Il i-i toe, aii'l la tip- - ' >iil Iila you urn iilwtii wiila uwak ..!: ; al iff. k ok* Jni; right i inyface,anil that hulpamo, nii'l in tiio ililnl i i .-I. roam rtail ii ? (town vi uf 1 It*,ill ! lIi " h*Mj.S in"." V . - " 1 tlo r.; 1 ' '.i I i : wa.t ..u - ! i ...i" 11 -a ! 1 ?v . to : . - . !" i. , .... i n . i ..lit ..I ain'tinit him vain. Tho moment tho ii ft I a; i i . itioiii oPil thoy turn Ihoif li1" ' J. I t. ('crimp* il ivi' a - :I iMi't ii wai l, tii.- ha I put c-p'.'cia. pt us it ) nought for the right text, and then did hi* beet to put the old thought into some new hap*. He had prayed that It might go to the hearts of the people. He had added to the argument the most vivid illustrations he could think of. He had delivered all with a power that left him nervously o.vhaust?d. Five hundred people may have been blessed by it and resolved upon a higher life and nobler purposes. Yet nil ho hears is the clank of the pew door, or tho shuffling of feet in the aisle, or some remark about tho weather, the last resort of inanity. Why did not that man come up and say frankly. ! "You have done mo good?" Why did not j some woman come up and HAy, ''I shall go ; home to take up tho burden of life mom cheerfully?" Why did not some professional manoomoup and say: "Thank you, dominie, for that good ailvloe? I will take it. God oless you." Why did they not tell him so? I have kuown ministers, in tho nervous reaction that comes to some after the delivery of a sermon with no seeming result, to go home and roll on the floor in ngony. But to make up for this lack of outspoken religion there needs to be and will be a great day when, amid the solemnities and grandeurs of a listening universe. God will "say so." No statistics can state how many mothers have rocked cradles and hovered j ovor iufantile sicknessos and brought up j their families to manhood mul womanhood J anil launched them upon useful anil success- ! 1 ful lives, and yet never received one "Thank I j you" that amounted to anything. The I daughters became mieens in social lire or j were afllanced In highest realms of pros- : | perlty; tho sons took tho first honors of 1 I the university ami became radiant in mone- [ ; tnry or professional spheres. Now tho secret ' I of all that uplifted maternal influence must ! [ ccmo out. Society did not sav so, the i church did not say so, the world did not say so,hut on that day of all other days, the last day, Ood will say so. There are men to whom life is a grind and a conflict, hereditary tendencies to be overcome, accidental environments to b<> | endured, nppalling opposition to be met and conquered, and they never so much as had \ a rose pinned to their coat lapel in admiration. They never had a SOUK dedicated to j their name. They never had a book presented to them with a complimentary word on tho fly-leaf. All they have to show for their lifetime battle is scars. But in the last day the story will eonio out, nnd that lifo wiil be put In holy and transcendent rhythm, and their courage and persistence and faith and victory will not only bo announced but rewarded. "These are they that came out of great tribulation and had J their robes washed and made white in the blood of the Lamb." God will sr.y so! We miss one of the chief ideas of a last judgment. We put into the picture tho lire, and the smoke, and the earthquake, and the descending angels, and tho uprising dead, but we omit to put into the picture that ! which makes the last judgment a magnifleent opportunity. We omit the fact that it is to ; be a day of glorious explanation and com- j i mendation. The first justice that millions I j of unrewarded and unrecognized and uii'irj predated men and women get will be >u i | that day, when services that never called ! | forth so much as a newspaper line of finest i ! pearl or diamond type, as the printers term 1 I it. shall be called up for coronation. That | will be the day of enthronement for those j whom the world called "nobodies." Joshua, i who commanded the sun anil moon to stand ' still, needs no last judgment to get jiuiiea j done him, but those men do need a last , judgment who at times in all armies, under j | the most violent assault, in obedience to com- I | mand themselves stood still. Deborah, who ! encouraged Barak to bravery in battle against ! I the oppressors of Israol, needs no last judg- j | ment to get justice done her, for thouI sands of years have clapped her applause, j | But the wives who in all ages have oncour- j ni'ttil fhnlr Imalmnda in tint lvittlna lif.? i women whoso names were hardly known ho- ; j vond the next street or the next farmhouse, j I must have God say to them: "You dill well, i j You did gloriously. I saw you down in that i j dairy. I watohod you in the old farrnhouso i , mending those children's clothes. I heard j | what you said in the way of cheer when the j ! breadwinner of the household was in despair. I remembor all the sick cradles you have sung to. I remember tlio backaches, the headaches, the heartaches. T know the j story of your knitting needle as well as I know the story of a queen's scepter. Your i castle on the heavenly hill is all ready for j vou. Go up and take it." And turning to . 1 the surprised multitudes of heaven He will say. "She did what she could." God will j say so. And now I close with giving my own per- j | sonal testimony, for I must not enjoin upon others that which I decline myself to do. j ' Born at Bound Brook, N. J., of a parentage i ; as pious as the world ever saw, I attest he- ] fore earth and heaven that I have always i felt the elevating and restraining influence i i of having had a good father and a good mother, and if I am able to do balf as well for my children as the old folks did for me I will botbankful forever. The years of my life passed on until, at about eighteen years i of age. I fe't the pressure of eternal ron itios and after prayer and religious counsol I passed into what I took to be a I saved state an I joined the church, and I attest before earth and heaven that I have found it a most helpful and inspiring association. I like the companionship so well that I cannot be satis lied if I have a day less of it than till eteri nitv. After graduating at collegiate and : theological institutions I ha 1 the hands of ' i ten or twelve goo 1 men put upon my head ; in solemn ordination, at Belleville, N. .T., ' and I attest before earth and heaven that the \ work of tho gospel ministry has been doli.-n.fi.l n ml r n...n.k ....CI last hour. Many times I have passed | through deep water of bereavement aud but ] for the divine promise of heavenly reunion I i would have gone under, but I attest before earth and heaven that the comfort of the gospel Is high, deep, glorious, eternal. Many times have I been maligned and my work ' misrepresented, but all such falsehood und ' persecution have turned out for my advantage and enlarged my work, and I attest before earth and heaven that Ood has fulfilled to metho promises, "Lo! I am with you always," and "The gates of hell shall not pre' vail against you." For the cheer of youngor men in all doj partments let me say you will come out all l right if you mind your own business and are 1 j patient. The assault of the world is only beI ing rubbed down by a rough Turkish towel, and it improves the circulation and makes j one more vigorous. While the future holds ! for mo many mysteries which I do not pret-n l to solve, I am living in expectation that j when my poor work is done, I .-hall go | throughtho gates and meet inv I.ord and all I my kindred who have preceded me. CRAZY HORSE'S MEDICINE. Said It Was ltullet I'mof, and Faith Cost II is llrottier's I.tie. | Pawnee Bill, who has returned to p.-rry, Oklali una, from the four bands of the Pawi nee tribe, brings word that the Indian- have all left their farms and move I jut .? tepees ! on Black li ar Creek and have gone t . ghost dancing and making medicine. <'razy Horse claimed to hav ma lea medicine that was bullet proof, but. when t ried as ... .... 1,1. !,r. a Ion* ;>. fr'M" ,.f . iiinoil "i nhlnfst, t','' i i . ilc? I bile-art ii f i I en used iustunt death. All of * r.t/tv II ?'s eiittl" and ponies worn taken from hitu a* it penalty by thechiefs, an 1 there Is i ill. among the Federal ofll-'ers of in 1 i -t11. him on the charge of murder. Nmv llcliiii'l for (irrin ui Noldier-, T' r.pep.r Wiliiam, assi-ted l.v III" Mini-tor . \Ynr, General von Seliellendorf, mid ;id> I > . a body of military experts, i- eon i '.erim: tee inti'odi: li'Ui of a new helmet : - the l'i -i*fn:i;i ur . in vb vt of the "net that tl. i i.l in.iiineiil i of iho pre.--mt helnn t . .. ii'l at .i a'r aat distance. \i h > ?i ui;-1 'i>*1 lor Wi !'im frr*? 'i i Grand 1 ;r\ of liaitimor , Md.t In - roe !. 1 i that the whipping-post for wifoj i".it.'r.-> i.i th-: ity jail ho oii'te more put iu use. BILL ATCP'S LETTER. DIKFKKKNCKS OF OPINION AS TO WHO WAS THK GUKATRSr MAN. William's Iilols Were Invariably ! Anions the Old Timers. It wa* a goodlv company and a bounteous feast. While enjoying b ith we discussed the affair* of the nation in n ubitoanphic mo <d, and in a temporato, considerate msnner expressed our opinions of men and measures? noting the diffcroacos that h->n<H?fly possessed each different gu st, I ventured to ask a question that each might answer. Who is the greatest American, living or dead, of the last half century? It would lie surprising to hear tl;o answers to this quest ion in any little coterie of intelligent, well educated geu'tlem>n. Almost every man has lits idol whom he worships or admires, not without rea-on, but witli more rogard ihat) is justly duo. We a-o drifted into cnanneis 01 thought by clrcn mats noes, by sur rounding)*, by heredity. We boccme the creatures ?>f prejudice, b,)ih in politic*) and religion. Tlii* is human uature and tlcro is not bin 4 wrong! about, it when it ia kept within bound* of tol- ) vradon foe the opinions of others. Only the | intolerant get tip d'scord. "Who is the greatest man.'" I a*ked. "Gro- j ver ClfW land." said Mr. Fite. "Boh To>nib*j and (icneral Grant," said Mr. .fa-tall. "J>\ | Atti ti< Havgood," said Judge Akin, promptly. 1 "Jeff rso 111) 1 vis," said Mr. Carey. "All, il* ro now," they all respond. "Of conrs>?of course, Jefferson D.iv s w is tho greatest man ?the very greatest man." When I was call** ! to teipotul 1 said: "Non* of you are old euough to have seen the greatest man, but I sa v him when I was a lad and he put his hand upon tuv head and said kin I and tender words to me. lie was passing through our town and my fatlior took n to the hotel that I might see tho greitest and best man in tho nation, as ho called him. It may lv that his benediction upon me lias hi 1 something to do with m? heio worship, mv idolatry, hut my occasional perusal of his biography and his speeches have conff-ined nut in my opinions, lio has boon d*?ad forty-live years, hut 1 s'ill bcliov that John C. Calhoun was the grea'est mm. Ho was the model up >11 which .?eff :son Davis built his own great eharac er." Now. tee how our little party diff-red and their differeu'eg can be traced tosmtec dlateral influences. Km >ry colloge and John W-sloy Methodism ha 1 something to do witbJmlgJohn Wesley Akin>" idola'ry. I suspeet tha' his second choice wou-d he Judge B'.oekl?v. whom lie loves to speak of. Ho v.sited Judge Bleckley at Clarkesvillo no' long ago an I Iislenod eagerly as ho discourse I of his carlv life. "My mother," said ho, "w.snot an eilucutel woman. Abe was not a I -sutif-il woman- T't tact, sli was lioui -iv. I n.'vcr saw h-r lo !? lieautiful hut once, onlv on~e. an I tha' wis wit n she was ileal ami was shrouded for the e ftin. She look si lik an angel sleeping there audi wept greit tears <*f s irr >w. My heart was almost breaking, for she had been such s dear, good in ither to me." Tli t judge paused long enough to wipe the tears that eamo from his cavernous eyes and to r. rover his wonted speech. "But, my tri -ml, her life and her re- i ligion all ; uuteu'ratetl hi on* hoantit?n word, thi moat beautiful in our language an.I that is duty?duty. i'hore is no great tv-ss that is really great without it. My dear mother'sdaily lit>, thought and deed was one of duty? duty to God an I her family and neighbors. She never spoke of it n -r boasted of it., but she acted if and wa saw it and lov.nl her?vca. we love 1 every feature of her sweet and homelv face. 1 do tint owe all to her, but I do owe die better part?yea, all that ia tender and loviug ami true." Mr. J.irrall spoke of General Grant's greatness us a military commander and his magnanimity toward u< after we were conquered. In that was th-> h-'roism o his character. Then In spoke of To nubs' wonderful gifts as an orator and sta'es nan and patriot,but lamented 'bat for so long a tinu h I faihd to s t a high moral example to tlio young men of the state. After he li ad joined the church he occasionally wa? i overcome by temptation?his b-siting ?le?ire j for stimulant, and in all seriousness h> spoke of it to limit op Piirce. lis life long frien 1, mil 1 wanted a tli -oiogicsl explanation. Now G orge," said he, "if [ am really eonverted, why i* it that T crive whisky an l why I is it that I can't rosis'. the desire. It aoenu j to ni" that.a tru Christian slioull tiavo no unholy ?lesircs. Mavbe I am not converted.' Mr. Fite is an ofli -e holder and an ofti *e j seeker, both of which arc honorable to a 1 lion- | nr&bta men and ho has b>en following oil Grover so long that ho will no1 forsake him | now. Mr Carey is not trouble 1 much with j present politics, ii s ideal is dead and he ' loves to worship at his fibrin". T u-rc are many of his :-ii <! l?-r. th.tv inilv* hut little j noise in tli no sy world. I. too, love to worship there and at Mr. Ciilioiin's, too. I lov to read what the greit , men, hi i r.vils, siid nhou* Mr. Calhoun when I it was anno'iucod in the senate that ho was dead. Mr. Webster said: "lb- was a man o' grea' g-niiis an 1 com nand ng tal<*n*. All the worl I ad ' i: ; that. Whca h- last addressed nwe cou'd i ingine tint we saw lis. for- us a senator lrr.ni P. one when Itomr survive I. His high rhirao'er was one of uusn.p -ii-hed honor anl uns|i ut'-d in tegr iv. J .1 ! not belie v-' ho ever I i I a <c'!i-h motive or feeling." Ilenrv Ciaymi.l"Hn genius was she very highest order and the ' harm n! hi* pre.s nee an I ii s 'nw >rs were Selt hy all who convers 1 with hill." I", i vir.l Kverett said: "Ca'houn. Clay an I Welter' f nam thorn in their proper order. Too gtv?t thinker, the great tea Ifr, the pro.v ?ra'.o"." 1'uty, patriotic dutv, was iiilife vork I've been woml ring what lie ha I to do with the M onroe doctrine. II was Monroe's aecretarv of atate when it Was enunci&t'-d. an J I reckon was its inspiration. Hut after all, Mr. f'al honn'a tnoat lovable pinlities were seen in hi'* private life as litis >an<l. f ithiir. friend and J neighbor. In all th^ae ho wa? r>ur" and with- I out reproach- What mor netti he *a:d of hint. I wished to aav this much in justitioation of mv idolatry. I have lieeu to Fort Hdl. where he used to live, and sat at the groat table that was mad? of w ilnut taken from the frigato C institution. I have handled the btoks in his library and lookel at the b-autifu* paintings ' in his picture gallery. I have walk ??1 down the steps and drank water from the fountain that j he drank from, and I feel like the pilgrim feels who goes to Mecca, j Now lot younger men in lulg > in these p'oasan? opioid .s. and when they have chosen an idol I ? them aUtly his character an I he able to give a reason for the faith that is in them, v.'e used to debito ipies-i ?ns when wo were Iiovh at -chool that were akin to those; "Who deserve? the ni ist nr.i s , Coltinilm-f >r discovering America, 01 Washingt n for defending it?" The answer of voting Ani?ri"a now is (i >no/nn I Macon. Tle-v <1 >n't ear- anything al.out Kolumh't*. Ho came as a Spam ird. Hit.:. Aur in Atl n' i (' iis'iiiim ui. I'KliKNT DKKiriKNTV IllLlo It Ciirrios a Total Appropriation of SI, 11 ,"i,tr2'_'. The Various Items. I'll" II mmittc" oil appropriations iia < ?:!:|.. -t ! :li" uryut <l"f!"ieii"y :i|>j>r<>, I ri.111 >ii I'i i. It arri'M it total of i 1.1 !i id 1 a ' \v I Mil < ' tli" I'uldi" I'ri..' . vi.otM; Stat" J>' j>;irl;i."iit *:iti,00fJ; Tr i i> ; rirtm-*nt . ii.'.x'.'T, }>; tri -t < "in-- ' i:i -I .D.V.i. War I) j artn.-lit ?:: If'.,,"*; Navy I > |.:ir'11. 111 -r"?s|.Doll; Interior Depart' t I ?"|>artm"iit of .lii-iMi ". >.">7.! I": i- "lla!i"i>ll>. rJlO.OOO- I'nit"il States ' -I- - I 'J : House <>!' liepresentutl v"s - m !ii ln l"il in tli" atiioiiut for tlie l#i at .f st it" is tli- sum of $20,000 t > . ;.'i in- ruatiniial In tin !.;ry omu.is|/i t ! : tli" ~'ir\". li"lW"<Ml tli" I . ' i st i'.i ami utiili-r the l*f I 'purlin -lit 4<Vi(l,ti05 Id allowed for la. ma- a;-.a I I l.y tie- World's I . 'aiiutt 1 iid' r tli" artay i'-tiinat" t i " T i_? t . imiitirse Heerctary ijamnnt for ' i'..iie It "irililo the | a^ master r.o ; . | a\ t'i"- 111 . rs niouey due tlieni : ! r ; t "I y ar ead"d .liuie .'!()lli, l.Hllj, ) N i U"\\ i"L'i->la!t a i- |.rovid"d for in th" l>illj % LATEST NEWS " IN BRIEF. GLKANINGS FROM MANY POINTS. ? ? Important Happenings, Both - Homo anil Foreign, Briefly Told. Newsy Southern Notes. A student namod Rimes, of the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College at Htarkeville, has the small pox. One million two hnndrcd and eighty six thousand eight hundred and sixty three persons visited tho Atlanta exposition. The Trenstiry gold reserve stood at tho close of business Saturday at $53,702,678. The withdrawals for tho day as reported amounted to $1,051,000. Tho Chester and Lenoir Narrow viaugu ivaurouu iias occu put iu tno hands of a receiver, Maj. G. W. F. Harper, its president having beon appointed receiver. Two farmers of Sharpsburg, Ky., bought ?20 worth of law apiece in trying to settlo iu court a disputed debt of twenty cents. Then thoy took the matter out of court and compromised. The Senboard Air Line Railroad will erect a freight depot .in Atlanta to cost ?7f>,000. The Nashville, Chattanooga aud St. Louis will occupy half of it. Work on the buildings has begun. Mrs. O. Shields, a young woman living near Toccon, Ga., died in horrible agony. She was bitten by a mad-dog last October. Hydrophobia developed a few days ago and caused her death. L. E. Wilson, agent of the Southern Express Company at Eatonton, Ga., has disappeared. An examination of the safe showed that the money packages had been rifled. A shortage of $(100 has been found. A special to the Charleston News ?\j Courier from Walterboro. S. savs: Seven negro laborers ou the Walterboro and Western Railroad, who wore sleepiug iu an under ground camp near Williams, this county, were killed Eridav nirrht bv the onrth ffti'irw. -in them. <#? Northern News Notes. The Morgan Boud Syndicate, of New York, Iiuh been dissolved. N. B. Smithers. ex-secretary of State, of Deleware, is dead. He had also represented Deleware in Congress. Chicago has been selected as the place for the meeting of the National Democratic Convention, aud July 7th the time. Mrs. Martha E. Holdeu. better known to tho world of newspaper readers as 4"Amber," died in Chicago on Thursday. The factory of the "VVoonsocket Rubber Company at Millville, Mass., employing 1,000 men, making rubber boots, has been closed indefinitely. Tho company is a branch of tho United States rubber trust aud has not been running full capacity for some time. 4??. Washington. The House committe on Territories is considering bills which propose the udmissiou of Arixoua, New Mexico and Oklahoma as States of the Union. ? Korelgn. Tho six Canadian cabinet ministers who recently resigned were sworn into i office again Wednesday at Ottawa. The weather at Sydney. New South Wales, Tuesday, was the hottest on record and there were a number of deaths from sunstroke. M. Emile Loubot, formerly Primo j Minister of France, Minister of the In, terior ami Minister of Public Works, ! has been elected President of the i French Senate. Rt. Hon. Arthur J. Balfour spoke at Manchester. Eng., Wednesday. A reference to Emperor William was greeted with groans. He said England would maintain her suzerainty over the Transvaal at all hazards. He deprecated war with the United States and did not believe it would occur. Killed His Hrother. Cal. Price shot and killed his older brother, James, in the upper portion of Richland county ou Saturday night. The two brothers farm not far from one another in the neighborhood indicated, where their family has resided for years. It is a sparsely-settled, wild-looking section of tho country. The aged father of the two men died only about a week ago, and it is sup; posed that the elder brother was sotnej what incensed at tho younger, about : tho partition of the estate. The two | brothers were m l olum oin together ou | Saturday, and on their way homo in i the afternoon had boiho words. About I ID o'clock that night Cnl. sittingiu bin home, surrounded by liia family, heard a stealthy troad outaido in the yard. ; lie had heard, it aceina, that Jim hat! I declared hia intention to get his gun ! and kill him and his whole family. Cnl j got hia gun and went out the back way. As he came round the corner of the house he found dim there with hia gun. He tired at once and dim fell j dead across the shotgun with which ho j intended to assassinate his brother and bis family, < told In t lie Sunt li. fiuhl mining in tli? S li'lh i * having a hoom ! just now. a ?r?ltiig to reports in the nowupapers. l lio gold mines in North Georgia are >.iid t<> he dojmr a prollt.'ihle laisine.s; a | company with t'_?.VJO.i)(hi eapitsl is a I. it t. |e\e|i,p i?o| | miii' in West Virginia, ml t liiel- of . o|i-.ii|or;ii'le \ahie nnd impo '.ui ) ate r rt I in N?<rlli Carolina. It . -ui?I ti n' huii'lreil-"t miner* have atly arriv. 1 in til" / . .I liel-l' 111 Montgomery N". ml y -. N. C.