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t'wf fmi nil : Wj* r 1 ^ 4 The Taxpayers Are Pressing on the vj Legislature. MANY OF THE MEMBERS ? 6*14 (ao bp Already Pledged to Vote to (Qtve Taxpayers More Time--Far ; Beblud. . V ^ The probabilities aro that such pressure will be brought to bear ou the legislature that the question of oxtending tho time for the payment of the tines will be about one of the first , important steps taken by that body. A member of the legislature, who was in lambia n[few days ago, in an inter*1 with a Register representative, hat such ft ftton ?!"" ? ? ?vu?** wo m?nu"- j neocasary to save the property 1 Sua former. Ho 8aid that already 1 wi?y9.tt concerted movemont look- j register**' 'jUc^ 4 resolution adopted, . ost of the members had J at senueS(] to vote for ^ sij0vv. l necessity of such action ho ' ?u Greeuvillo county lie bad 1 t hardly more than haif the ~been paid aud it was even 1 work* in otyiei counties. The Lcgisla- h tare, generally, docs uot take kindly ' to extension of time, but it looks as if 1 it will hove vo do something this year. n | * Awful ITay>-c?rcless NIoUier! ' At Prosperity, .Ncwbcrrv county, XisUTa Spouco' loft ber two children, u * aged about 4 and 2 years, locked in the L Louse all (lay while she went away? ome say to Xewberrv?and .they both ? were' burned to denlh. Sir. * I;. 1. , ? Stoudomayer, on whoso promises the house stood was the first oao to get there. Fo heard tho children screaming, but whea he got the door broken in he was out off from them by the lire, h 'He tbon b:oUo iu two windows in hit A efforts to get to the children, but he 4 could, not find thorn The lire bad gained such headway that no one couid^H enter the house. It is the obildror. had Hot make their The mother e n < i v Mai I^HH^^^H^Hs 87,? S3, 33,013,- o I e 9 I1 ool*. I hardly a * larlestou-- < Then we r fi-now wo ' f of session j 1 a*, nor was ' The dif- [ nstruction ; ? i. Vet the j ( ant. in the ! 15 to tnaui: 11 ? issued n j ( ioId Mm- 1 r came very near defeating "ll i * ... . 'undiu j \ lacking otic vote to do so. , to 1 lt. J j combined on a more deeenJ?!>io j f can McKisson bv name, ar I . J t .. I lieve the present inay^ \Vinwthrop j We were very mu. by ?* ' llanna would be bc^**" jY')?0 j nothing to recommend ^vho h.avo c H . . to all the: ? ^ I paign, and knoya|T,olo,d j hoodie and coll'm tho smullpci in i 1 ?. Ml the cases dunned liitn ontc{ tonn Tbo?e j f politician." nai t>eeu vac- j . 1 .varioloid Aclose j in iil'.y sense ot ?.?- sed persons. v Bolii i wont. Mooresville, N. C.y Office Safe Cracked and $154 Stolen. NO CLUE TO THE ROBBERY. Ibo Robbery Is Supposed to Have Been Committed by Professional Sofc-Crackers. Tho postoffieo at Moofosvillo, X. C., was robbed Wednesday night of last 1 week. Tho back door of the small i building in which tho office is located i was prized open with u crow bar, which ] hud becu obtained at the railroad st&- < tion, a short distauce from the office, < and an entrance thus effected. 5 After tho burglars entered they bo- ^ pnu operations at once on the safe. A ^ bole twelvo inches deep was bored c through the top of the snfo, and dyna- j mite put therein. Tho safe was moved % from the wall and the fuse lighted. The j, loor was blown coniplotelj* irorn the r linpes, several panes of class iu the jj rent windows wore knocked out, and lictures throwu from tho wall. Although the robbery was committed n the heart of tho town, within a tone's throw of the Johnson Hotel, 'j inly a few heard the explosion, ami hose that did did not think there was nythiug wrong. Tho burglars getaway nth aoout ?1.M in money and stamps, Daylight disclosed the robbery, and hrew the town into a state of excite- (V jent. Air. Robt, SS. Temploton is ^ lostmaslei at Mooresvillo. As soon as e learned of the robbery?about 0 'clock?1 o wired Postmaster Mullen i t. nartotto asking lor instructions ns i what course to pursue. Mr. Mullon eJ ireil him to notify tho department at 0) I'ashiogton at ciice. a, /The mayor ol Mooresville also telelaphed to Chief Orr for bloodhounds ^^^jocould be gotten. Tho hounds ate not sufficiently ! ?' cent. sei to have been Observer. ]U B B re I iUltl IB The H< B B houses tho ^minces were ,,v mg the CO suggestho labor U ... , , ' 11'"aotluce thc-w L ' ' b" ch have caused a teeeut event ^ we (.fljversally deplored. c ill(;s GOF.S IXDEPEND XT \ litis pert In and H b)cn?ocrntie Ticket. Pe* 'iy u Entail Majority. ,n(l ?,j ^uis, independent Dom. of c i in ', ;u , bus beeu elected J .,]| n l "'"'"' ' u. Lucas Clapp, the . that bothatf pjy u majority of u 1 seemed to The entire independ- v i !>s sire of <|;i^k carried by reduced c . has beeu an a the 'ictorv up to the last ho^. "'"ft ion wan quiet and orderly, aa<tos wiTP>fl oto was polled. y' vHanna lias Gained Two Votes. k A special from Columbus. O., of the ;th, say9: Conservative estimates to- j light place tko legislative vote at 75 to ti 0 against Hanna. The workers of the P enator claim 71 votes, and assurances >f the two necossavy additional votes, ind possibly four more. The opposiion insists that Hanna will never have b 0 votes on joint ballot, and that they lave gained two votes. Jisastrous Nitro-Glyccrlue explosion An explosion cf 1,500 quarts of nitroglycerine near Booth, an oil town a <?w miles cast of Toledo. O., killed an .11 well shooter named Stephen Wilson, ind wiped out of existence a team of lorses and a wagon. A pieco of Wilion's i!e?h and tho head of ono horse vas all that was found. Considerable lam ago was done to properly in tt,-? viunity, but no ono &lso was injured. A Crazy Man's Awful Deed. A Bristol, Tern., speciul totho>*at>rillo (Tcnn.) Banner, says: "In a fit , >f insanity, Alexander f artor, n white I ltizen of Greenville, hilled his wife K ind 13-ytar-old daughter. Mont id, ? vhile they slept, and then shot and ' :ilIod himself. Carter V.iauied his wife <" md daughter with an axe. Ho is said v o have been mentally unbalanced for a iorno time. " c Another Kxpress Kohb.uy n J he American Express Company, at ifii York. !;;?j been robbed of $10, *S2, ind C'In vie Binder), lr., a trusted cm- J )?oye, is missing. Centra! officers and j /l ivate detectives aro hunting for him. ji (lets $4,000 PnringeR. Tho second tiial of tho suit brought igaiust the street rialwny com- * intsy, of Winston, W {',, by T.J. "VVi! - i on, sscrot&ry and treasurer of the city, ^ 1 the killing of his 7-year-old son by n " Jreet car two years ago, '-vas concluded j . . the jury last week returning a ver- i for f-I.OCO in favor of the plaintiff. r ^^^r^ndont't wiil nppenl to the Sn J "min. The lirst jury gave v break lira 81m ; Handsome Showing Made Under Co!. Ncal's Management. $9,600 PAID SINKING FUND. Board Will Recommend the rearing j Dowu of tho Old Main Building I and tho Erection of a Modern One. Tho annual report of the Suporin. tendent of the State penitentiary reSects the greatest credit upon the managemont of Col. \V. A. Xeal. Tho report shows that with cotton at 5 cents C!ol. Neat ha9 been able to pay considnably over SO, 000 borrowed from the unking fund for the purchase of tho r>eod farm, and turns over to the State Treasurer the handsome surplus of ibout $10,000 makiue the net earnings if tho institution for tho veer about tl S>,600. Auotber thing that the report shows, ndicnting a remarkably tine sanitary ondition, is that fhe death rate lias lAAtt 1 ? ' *? * * v-'iuj per. ceut tor thoyear. , The board recommonds the tearing owu of the old main building iu the ard and the erection of a modern rison structure in its stead. Tf this is one the authorities ere coufident that, le death rate can be reduced below int of any prison in the I uited States. A physician who has been going to le prison occasionally says that the initary ceuditiou was as good as that f any prison ho had ever seen. The osnital service be considers better than lut in most large cities. Ho found lat each convict was clean nud healthy i appcavancn and, inquiring ^ ? the cause, ascertained that ich man was provided with threo suits ' undeiclothing, three shirts, socks i id drawers; that each day the men are | ivou a bounteous vegetable dinner well ioked; that each day each man gets iu 10 way of meat .1 half-pound of bacon id a pound of beef or three-quarters , a pound of pork, besides all the ( holcsomc bread he can eat. ( Jfc may be mentioned also ths,t the \ ison lias had to pay in its expohses , <1 expenses of guarding prisoners sont < Clemson. M'inthrop and the hospital t r the insaue from time to tim.?. < Successful Fanning. ; One of the most notable examples of t ccessful farming in the htate iu the t ar that has just closed is that of Mr. 1 Q. Hammond, reported by the .1 )nea Path Chrouiclo a few days ago. ? r. Hammond, it is stated planted 110 res of "bottom land,'' on Pocky Kivor, corn, and has harvested V,-100 bushels m the tract, or, at tho rate of nearly . 3 bushels to the srm T*..r> v. I - * 4VI U, Li u t hub, would have becu still larger, n t for t.ho fact that 15 acres ol his crop t ro raided and badly dafnaged by cut g rras. There wero sev^-al* acres, as h mrted, which produced over 103 fc ikelseach. Besides this enormous 0' n crop, however. V* Hammond 0 rto 350 bales v.-T' , and 1,000 u | el0111 of las* 1. i-? _jir:<?1L>^?,r. f ^ i ""l' and if a pound, i' uuu'i .<np piuoiiv of 82,500, ' e.i ins coiw. *1 the corn vcre sold at the currenc .? ?al price, 60 ents a bushel, it would bring 8-1.400, >r nearly enough to pay the whole cs>ense of making the cotton crop. Will Have to Do Something. Secretary of Stuto Tompkins has reoived from the supervisors of registraion in several counties the record tooks, which are copies of the regutraion lists on lilo iu the several counties uder tho new registration law. As as the case with the first to bo reeived?that upon which the assistant ttorney general ga\e an opinion?none f them have been properly arranged, t seems that the supervisors everyJicre b^ro been un&blo to understand .TV?iv"Vlio\^t was intended that tho JSXoSm^Si5fP?r?a-, Mr. 'tap. ins thinks thaW0 on\7 to bo books in sucb*haVe tV,at, xhP' C*Q o satisfactorily w1^ ke *ba legislature to make\an appropriation o have them copicfean'^ arranged alhabetically.?The Stt^e ?civ Father McManus Xy Cjulity. Magistrate Rouse, of CuP'''.e3ion' has as handed down his deen??a..in tae aso of the Stale of South CaT^iLlPa > " ^ather P. J. McManus. charged isturbing Divine worship. The casev as attracted considerable attention ince it was brought before the courts, or the leasoti that the affair is without irecodent in South Carolina jurisprueuce. Magistrate ltouso was unablo 0 see whero Father Mr.Nlanus whs uiltv of the charges preferred against .... f.%. i,i_ f~it~? ?? nv-.t i? r i 11 i 4 I/V uio ID1IUU 1'i icait I" ulIlIT 1'. ! . Juigley. and, after a careful eonsideraion <?f the evidence adduced at tlie preiuiinury investigation of I'uther McIanus, held several days ago, he diseased tlio proceedings. Hurled With Military Honors. Gen Johnson Hagood's remains was iken from the county courthouse, in {aru'.vell, whero it had lay 111 state, uardcd by veterans of bis command, u the tith, by the Citadel cadets, of harlestou, ?ud conveyed to the Cpisopal church, whore the funeral serices were performed bv Bishop < 'ape! s, nd then it was taken to the Episcopal ometery and buried with military I iniiors. Ho endeth a brilliant career of J noble Carolinian. --? ? - | r?ys the $20,000 Promised. i \t the recent meeting of the Htate 'i aidcf Control the board authorized couiuiissionerH to pay into thoState masury ?20,000 which had been prona5C'i. Stole the Pew I'tntes. ft is strange what some thieve* will tenl sometime*. Tlio Columbia Kegster snya tlint somebody entered the .Vnshingtou sheet Methodist church iiid stole from the back of the pews tho lame plates of the j ew holders. Whet he thief could po&ribl.v w&ut with them ? unknown, as simply as bite of brass notal they are worth nothing. Tho ew holder?, wero much uiyetifyed i heli they found that alt tho plntei ! lero gone. No olio ha* any idea who j ouimjttwd tb^de^d. i !hmmmh "Over the River to Rest Under th& Sha^le of the Trees." A SKETCH OF HIS LIFE, -L * ?? Goneral of the Confederacy, Governor of jsuuth Carolina and a Patriot In AVar and Pedce. General Johnson Hagood died at his home in Barnwell last week. Gen. Hagood Was bbrn in Barnwell county, February 21,j 1S29. His early education was received ?t the Richmond Academy in Augusta, And at the age of sixteen he entered the (Citadel, where he graduated in 1 Si? TfiAfc u;~i.?* i ? ?v^* v.uo i^uco'j uuuurB UI hit class. HeUtudisd law and waa admitted to the t\ar in 1650. In 1351 lid was elected commissioner of equity for Barnwell couirny, which office he held until 1861, whlsn he resigned to enter the Confederate army. He was elected colonel of the/F irst youth Carolina volunteers and tAok part in the bombardment of Fort flumter. He was promoted to a brigafiicr generalship iu 1862. At the termintetiou of the war lie returned to t^u> active supervision of his pi aiitting iuterests. In 1ST 1 he wasj elected a deleuate to the tab-payers' convention. In 1876 ho was lCpanuated for comptroller general, on this ticket with Harap ton, and he contributed largely to the great political victiory which freed the StRto from radicaA rule. During the tin\e of tho Ellenltou riots he was appointed by the Rejnublican .lUdge Wiggins in charge of A posse to repel the disturbance. In Mn\\ 1877, ho formally took possession of Vho offico of comptroller general and jftpplied himself to thoroughly organising and systematDiug tho department. He was re-elected in 1873 and continlied in office two more vears, when he w-j plected governor. His administratp | as governor ^as a itucess, and not.ttaudinir the efforts if friends to indrf im to accept * secmd tern, he abs/l^^'dv refused. Siuee ncu He lias not an active part in polities. Aa a cjijjjiu, he has (lone hie luty to his countrySSAnd party. Ilia atcntion has been g?,ven chiefly to agri:u!tura! pursuits asr.d tho development >f local eaterprisllis in Barnwell. He ook (great interest Sin eduea^cn, and at ho time of his deetif. was chairman of he board of visitors!? of the Citadel. In &-)4 ho married ElWpiso, daughter of 'udge A. P. Butler, iate-ad he has one son, ilr. Butler Banood.W Rewards fo^P Firebugs. Gov. Ellerbe has f offered a reward of ilSO for the appreh Jkpsion and convic ion of the party orM parties who on the ight of Jan. 2 set re to und burned he barn and stab1 Jmn of Jno. Burgers :> iumter county,10*oeether with several orses and ra^BnlesT A reward of $160 as been n^Bo ollered fpr tho detection f the jt^rftrties who burned tho gin house f Thomas W. Holloway ut t'oi&fijfia. together with como cotton and 'Wrvesting machinery, on the night cf Jan. 1. Comiui Y. M. C. A. Convention. The 21st annual State convention of the Young Men's Christian Association of South Carolina will bo held at Columbia, Feb. 10-18. Tho Slate committee has been fcr come time giving careful thought and hard work fcr the preparation of this convention and they now have one of tho strongest programmes arranged that has ever been given at any former convention. Reduced rates has beeu secured on all railroads leading into Columbia. All Indebtedness Cancelled. Superintendent Xcal of the State penitentiary has completed tho payments for tho Reed farm. Two years ago tho Legislature authorised tho sinking fund commission to loan 39.000 to the penitentiary authorities for four year6 at 4 per cent, for the purchase of the farm. Last August 31,000 of this mouey wan paid back. Last week the balance of the money borrowed, with interest, was paid? ?8,649.72?cancell- , iug all indebtedness on the placo. ? JielUgereocy of the Cubans. Congressman Norton believes that congress will at this session recognize the belligerency of the Cubans. The Democratic house caucus was absolute- { ly unanimous on the subject, and Mr. j .Norton does not anticipate that the I measure will fail to pass i.he senate, ilr. Norton is an earnest advooato of fce repeal of tbo 10 per 'cent, tax on SfaTe bahV". if hA thought the meaeure had j.chabce he would bo willing to stay in siS??on turough June. Knterprlscs btarifd In a Year. During the past year the total amount of tho capital of tiio oi,rP?ratioiis chartered was 8-t, 470,400. There were 118 new enterprises to scefre charters during tho year. There *ora also ."57 companies to secure efnamissiona, but have not yet compieteA Vl&7 .organize^ tions. m,'r' A ^Iurdcrer fuptured. Frank Creen, who shot and killed A I . _ ? t? i r?^i - - ^ ? - ' ? mrwniu rxuuurt .1 oues, O! ?'range Olirg, on Thursday before Christmas, and for whom a reward of $150 was offered, has been captured nod lodged in jnil nt tbaKplace t\v Mr. H, H. Murph, who oajr.turod hnu while walking along the public road unarmed. ?- ? C.ayden Convicted. In the United Stales District Court, at Charleston. Charles Oaydcn, of Eastover. was tried on tho charge of abstracting money from lottere A verdict of guilty was rendered. A reuled sentence was imposed. Deliberate Murder. At Charleston Thomas Pincfcney, colored, was shot and killed, and S. S. Kates ia being held as the perpetrator of the deed. From the evidence of the most important witnesses, it seems that Pinckney and Cathrme Sumter have been living together for some time and lie was called to the door and shct down. E?tos was seen to leave the yard immediately niter the killing, pluming a pistol UJidel kiH CoUt ?=> he left. ^ f ls*? SOUTH CAROLINA NEWS. Tho First ltoad Law. Several days ago it, was stated tbat the Good Roads Association would give out a series of articles on the question of good roads, so as to arouse interest in the work. The first of the series has been given to the press for publication by Chas. W. Wilson, secretary, and it gives a brief 6kctch of the history of road building from the earliest timos, but wo only give that part of it that relates to the road problom in the State in her oarly history. It follows: "South Carolina took up the road problem very early in her history. On the 26th of Mav, 1632, tho Colonial Assembly passed tho first road law, entitled "An Act for Highways." In 1 -e-T -A -i -i i:- ' I i i u i uu .itv nun [lapsed iin eciiug a ruuu | to be built to Oraugeburg from "the I head of the path that leads from Dor Chester to Capt. Izard's cow pen.'' In I 1742 an Act was passed providing for a I ferry across Snntee River, and a road j made in connection with it "to facilitate the passage of travellers from Charleston to Williamsburg and others, the northwestern parts of this province. " Krom 1753 to 178ijthe following toads wero provided for: From Eutnw Springs through Manchester, Camden i and Lancaster C. H. ; from Fort Mott to Fishiug Creek; from Societ}* Hill to Bennettsville,' Marion, Conwayboro and Georgetown, and from the eame point to Darlington, Kingstreo nud Fort Mott; from Orangeburg to NiuetySix, Abbeville and Pendleton; irom Augusta to Edgefield, Ninety-Six and Fish Dam, and from Friday's Ferry, on Congaree River, to Augusta. "In 178S n general road law war passed, reqnring twelve days' work, or a commutation tax of $2 per diem, and in 1789 the funds derived from tavern licenses were appropriated to read improvement. "Those early reads were, as a general thing, located with remarkable skill, and well built, as the present condition of many of them will prove Drayton's ! 'View of South Carolina,'' published in 180?, rots: 'The roads in the State are well adapted to traveling aud transportation, evon to the mountains, and hence the wagons find no difficulty in coming from the upper counties, bringing with them the commodities of that diatant region. Cross roads to and from each court house are made throughout the State, and a wagon road i uas luieiy neen ruano Ji'om tlie north fork of Saluda river over the mountains to Kuoxville, iu the State of Tenueseee, l>y which wagons havo passed carrying loads of 2,600 rounds weight. * ? ? And at this time a carnage and four may be driven from auy part of this State to tho other, from tho seashore to the mountains, without any other difficulty than such as naturally arise in long journeys. 'As a further proof of the high de' croe of efficiency of these old State i < * ads tho cost of transportation by v agons between Columbia and Charleston m 1^21, as given bj- Mr. Robert Mills, was onl>' 17 22-100 cents per ton per mile. Standard authorities giro the cost at JS cents per ton por mile on the very best earth roads, while the average cost in this State now is variously esti| mated at from 25 to 40 cents. Siuoo the beginning' of the railway era in the thirties tho history of the public roads in this State has been entirely without interest, recording only a ; steady and uubroken decline. An effort was made about ten years ago by the writer to awaken some interest in tho subject, but itwas soon crowdodout by other issues. It is to be hoped that the present movement marks a turning point, and that with tho beginning of the twentieth century an era of great activity in road-building will be commenced." J Incendiary Fire at Aicolu. The Eishopville correspodcnt of the State says: At Alcolu postoffice, near this place, Mr. E. H. Hearon's barn and 6tables were burned on tho 6th, together with 600 bushels of corn and a largo quantity of peas and forage. He also lost five flue horses and mules, one line milch cow and two two-horso wagons, making his total loss over ?2,000. This makes.the second barn and .stable Mr. Hearon has had tired in four years I and tllA fciirt h ftlnbln !? a * 1-, V.? o ?, I :u a fourth of a mile of Alcolu postorlies in the last two months. As a consequence the people of the community of Alcolu are thoroughly aiousod and do termined to run down aud punish the fire fiend in their midst regardless of cost. If there ever was a case that dcr raanded reward from the Governor this is one. ? The Privilege Tax. Ail the indications point to the fact that tlnvfrumers will not use as much 'i fertilizers this year as last. This may mean a serious decrease in the rovcuue of Clemson college, which last year amounted to $ ><),Ofio,and may alsomean that tho farmers aie not going to plant as much cotton as last year. Figures from the treasurer's otlic.e are instructive. From December 10, 180<1 to Jan- f unry 1807, the amount paid Or. nc-' count of the priviiego tag w as 84,fi.V2.50. C*From DecerniX.r 10, to January ,7. 1808, tho amount was 82.207. This is a fall off of moro than half, and a gentleman who is familiar with such things says that ho does not believe that the' future will show any increase. Kiveocut cotton will Keep down the sales move than anything else. - The Register. --- ? - ... t lcinson College Inspected. Dr. James Evans, of Florence, pi estj dent of tho State tioaid cf health, )>r iMnyuou, 01 uie Aianue Hospital service, have made a thorough investigation of the sanitary condition of IC'imn&on C ollege. 'I he Tesnlt of the investigation will bo made to the board at an early dale. Against the Lien Law. At f amden, on the first Monday, the Cotton Growers' Association of Kershaw county, met, and after several addresses by leading citizens, urging tbo organization of the farmers, the following resolution, offered by Col. \V. K. Thompson, was adopted: Kesolvod, That it is the sense of this convention that the lien law has sorved its purpose, and we do, in convention assembled, petition onr Legislative l?od\*t-? j tiholish *aul lion law, to Inks effect the . j 1st of January, l&W. in fww^ The Strange Will of afc - . Yorker and Officer of thB CHRISTIANITY, SO \ Wt Ho Says, Is Hot the^PteHglo^^BI Christ?It Puts an uflaowo, Itnagloary Being in the Pflce of Nature. Ono of the most ralbarkable wills ever filed in the office Jf the surrogate of New York is that cs Henry Morohouso Taber, offered fwi probate oh the 4th. In spite of the fajlt that Mr. Ta*ber xvas president and treasurer of the board of trustees of thti^/Fifst Presbyteriau church, in the ourcding clauses of hi will he denounc/s all religion as sbavr, and as having if s origin in superstition. He requesteaiihat no services be held over his body and that he be cremated. Mr. Tabet- died on Christmas eve, at the age of 73 years. Two children, Sidney Riehiiior'd Taber and Mary Taber. survive the testator, and to them the euiire estate, valued at over $1,000,000, is /given absolutely. The will is in the linrirl ti- ? /*f tU* 1 --4- 4 ?J u>uvi-ti>iviuk ui ius icaiitiur, huh contains the following: "Believing that all religions, including Christianity, are superstitions; that the busic doctrines of the Christian religion, the fall of. niau, is nttbrly aud absolutely false, and that its opposite, the rise of mail from the lower orders, is a scientific fact; that beliefs in (so-called) miracles are hallucinations of the brain, and WithOttt existence; that the chief char acteristic of what is termed 'the Wprd of God' are injustice, cruelty, untruthfulness atid obscenity; that the effect of orthodox Christian teachings is to encourage ignorance, selfishness, narrow mindedness, scrimoriousness. intolerance, wrong and mental slavery; hat Christianity, so-called, is not the religion of Christ; that it supplants ethical culture and trtto morality with meaningless theology and nnbelievablo dogmos; that it puts'an unknown Jand probably unknowable) imaginary be ing in the place of nature; that it gives a name of pcrsoualitj' to evil?an equally unknown an imaginary being; that it so w orks upon the credulity of its adherents as to invite in them a fear of that most horrible of doctriues. eternal punishment, (T say, believing all thesei I, in all kindness and in all earnestness, request that over ray remains there bo no religious services of any kind, nature, or description whatever. "l also request that my body be cremated at Fresh Ponrl or other' crematory, and that nay ashes be left ? h AV A ' ' tuoi c. THE FREEZE JN FLORIDA. Orange Trees Only Temporarily Hurt. Strawberries and Tobacco Cooked. Tbo cold weather of January 1st and Cd did considerable tempera:}' damage to vegetables, but none of a permanent character, in Florida Orange trees will in *om* LLnir IniUua aud where they were in exposed places in the northern border of the orange belt will loso a part of their tender growth. Owing to the fact, however, that the sap was down, the trees themselves were able to resist unscathed even lowor tempcratmo. Roports from the pineapple belt of tho coast indicate lhat the damage to rfneapples was trilling. Tho fall crop of tobacco in all parts of the State was injured badly. Rlooms on strawberries wero killed. E^rly strawberries in tho northern section were frozen on the vines aud the vines themselves set back fully six weeks. The tendere8t garden crops in all sections as far South as Tampa, where, lacking protection by forests, streams or lakes, were badly injured, but exposed gardens did not represent more than half the area in truck, growers having learned by experionce tue wisdom of selecting well protected spots. THE CO I KTVIL 31 FED. A Salvation Army Thief Presents a Schedule of His Crimes. A. F. Revis, a member of the Salvation Army in Redlands, who was arrested for wholesale thievery, appeared before the Superior Court at San Bernardino. Cal., w ith a Bible in one band and a tabulated statement of his thefts, committed since 1H8S. in the other. He pleaded guilty to the crime charged, aud also insisted that punish ment l?e administered for each theft committed as per schedule, w hich appeared by the pcore. In that wav 0111 v. hijp said, he could atone to a just (iod. T/ho defendant presented so novel a rfcse, without any attorney to ndviso lfcim, that tho court refused to pass Sentence without further consideration and continued tho time for sentence. The Federal Finances. The monthly statement of tho public debt, issued on the 3d, shows that at the close of business on Pec. 31, 1897, the debt, less cash in the Treasury, amounted to 111,537, a decrease for the month of 819,114,899. This decrease in the debt is due principally to nn increase in the case, which is accounted for by the sale of the Union Wacitic railroad. Sankey for the lloty Land. Ira P. Sankey is asjam about to sail to Jerusalem, Egypt and the Holy Land, and will be accompanied by Mrs. Sankey Aud their oldest son. This trip is undertaken principally ou account of "Mrs. San key, who has not been well for scree time Southern Coo! Field*. The English syndicate, wliish has re centlv been breaking into the Kentucky and 'I'eunesree cool regions with ft view to buying all of the mines. baft made n proposition to the mine owners which may be accepted The deal involves the expenditure of ?8,000,000. Kmbezrler Thought Dead la Vet Alive. W. .T. Tope, who it in charged embezzled SfiO.bttO from the First Xntionnl Itunk ut .Louisville, Ky., and who \\m thought 4??d, is nine ui Hacrn acute, L'il. - . . f / t ^ March ... | April W \ } ffiiv.v.v.v.r.^lk / J July jf>n 1 August 01 September e^* 6 0.1 October C 05 6 05 November ... December .... Mvr.nroor, cottox market. Liverpool.?Middling 3}. Futures closed steady. \ * January aud February 3 10 b February and March 8 HfcjJUl Wl March and April 8 It b P" April and May 3 13 b \ May and June 8 13 b June and July 3 1-4 } ? July and August 8 15 ?"> August and September S 1ft b Septomber and October 3 17 I ontntu. ..wl v?. u o " I N'VIWWJI buu rilll/UI O 1 I 1$?a J November and December 8 18 b December and January 3 11 b ? OTHER COTTON MARKETS. ^ ? Charleston.?Cotton <juiet; middling 5?. Wilmington. ?Cotton firm; middling 5 i-l?. Savannah.?Cotton steady; middling 6 8-16. y Norfolk. - Cotton steadv; middling ' ft*. * " Memphis.?Cotton steady; middling ft P-16. Augusta?Cotton steadv; middling 6 9-10. Baltimore ?Cotton nominal; mid ling ft*. Columbia?Market steady ;goood mid dling 5$. _ ^Charlotte?Market steady; 30od middling 4.40, BAT/riMOBK rnonrrr map.kft. Baltimore.?Flour inactive and unchanged. Wheat -Weak. 8| ot and month May 1M bid; steamer No. S Red. PQ.;(s??01; Southern wheat by sample U2@9?$; Southorn wheat on grade Corn?Quiet. Spot 32^ ; eteamei mixed 3(H??i30|; Southern white corn 32(pl*41; yellow corn. 30@:44. Oats?Quiet but firm. No. 3 whH* 20i<?S0. rice. Charleston ? Tlio rice market if firm. The quotations are: Prime 5}?ot Good 4jf(?5 Fair 4} @4* naval store?. New York.?Rosin steady. Turpentine quiot at SH@33s[. Charleston?Turpentine firm at SOf. Rosin firm aod unchanged, Savannah.?Spirits turpentine firm at SO); Roam firm and unchanged. Wilmington. ? Spirits tuppeutino 30$ 30J. Rosin firm at 1.15(3) 1.50. Crude terpentine firm at 1.40(?!.90. Tar firm at 1.05. cotton seed oil, -*c... York ?Cotton seefd oil firm prime cruao prttnTr -r^uAa 32<a02. Dime Museum to Penitentiary. David E. Rates, accused of having six more wives than the law allows, endwho, as a result of his arrest several mouths aero, has had steady employment at the dime museums, in Chicago, has been convicted of biganly in tin first of the numerous cases against him. He was given a fine of SI.000 aud m intermediate sentence in the penitentiary. Thrco of the wives were preset' in court. ? - a<agi?' i Iiiot In a Court Room. In the Hamilton (Teun.) County Court Esquire Springfield aud Esquirt Rau'ston had soms hot werds and clinched. Instantly 250 men in cour< started a riot. Clubs, chaira, cuspidori I and knives were used, and everybody fought his neighbor. Windows weh broken and the court roorrj defaced. hrti/iflvc t*?era namrialln.1 vaaiiva v/?ivo?o <TVI V vw?M^wi?vu W * VfVVi V IUMC1 with their clubs, and then $ourt ad jourued. The whole citv was stirrec up and serious trouble is looked lor. Assignment at Greensboro. At Greensboro, N. C., the firm of J. L. King A- Co., has filed a deed of at signment, naming John W. King true tee. The firm's indebtedness of aboul $20,000 is covered with assots ordinarily worth in the neighborhood of' $30,000, aud it is only fair to presume that dollar for dollar will bo paid, with a possible balance. Failure to make collections forced the firm to take this step. Amerlrnn Cotton Shipments. The London Pall Mall Gazette, in commenting upon the increaseof Ameri* can cotton shipments to Tapan says "The special interest for ne lies in tht injury to Indian cotton growers. It the American staplo continues cheap, and the American takings increase, it is more than possible that ere long America will also ship to China. Powder Mill Blow# t/p. i l-even persona wore killed and many I f.thcrn honibly mangled by a terrific gun-ponder explosion in the Sen Man,ioya factory at Oviedo. Spain. The factory was completely demolished Q*<*t two hundred kilogram? of powder exploded. 1 King's Mountain Ipoal King's Mountain, N. C., people are somewhat agitated over the recent die; oovcrv of coal near that place, and ! unless experts are very much mistaken. they will bo independent of the coal I mines of other States. An analysis of 1 ' samples sont to a government 'expert hows 05 per cent, carbon. He pronounces it a fine sample of anthracite COal. The monitor Ampbitrit* has artived J ut i'oit Koyal, 8 t and will ?.? u*t-d guuoery practice ship. - J ' I v