NO. 29.
JABBATH SCHOOL.
INTERNATIONAL LESSON FOR
MARCH 22 1891.
8. Then the king of Syria warred against
Israel, and took counsel with his servants,
saying. In such and such d place shall be my
oimp.” Between the story of Naaman and
Oehazl and this lesson the Holy Spirit has
written the record of a house building near
Jordan by the sons of the prophets, and the
miraculous recovery of a lost ax, from which
we see the need, humanly speaking, of the
money which Naaman offered Elisha; but
the prophet prefers to rely wholly and only
upon the God of Israel, who can make even
ABiuw, WHO can mase even
““ ’.f had been healed.
tke captain of whose host had
by Israel g prophet* making war against
hs if the Goa who could heal the leper
and make iron to swim could not defeat His
enemies. How blind is unbelief 1 How full
ofingratitude the human heart!
9. ‘ 'And the man of God sent unto the
kin* of Israel, ^ saying, Beware that thou
pass not such a plaee.for thither the Solans
ai’e come down.” How often we are
minded that “All things are naked a „
opened onto the eyes of Him with whom we
have to do," and thpt •‘The eyes of the Lord
are in everv tiI&ha hohniiiinir thn mni ^
ve wu, ana snas rne eye1_
are in every place beholding the evil and the
good" (Heb. iy., 18; Prov. xv., 8.) But here
cTw v" * ' *ruv* **•» -pus nere
is wondrous grace and continued grace to a
wicked man. The king of Israel was Jeho
ran, son of Ahab, apd he wrought evil in the
nght of the Lora, cleaving unto the rin« of
Jeroboam, the son of Nebat (chap, iii, 1-3),
and yet this is not the first time that God has
shown, him kindness through Elisha. See
chapter iii., lfi-19. God would if possible
win this wanderer back to Himself. He
would by goodness lead him to repentance
(Rom. u., 4) for He is not willing that any
should perish (II Pet. iii., 9.)
M. "And the king of Israel sent to the
place which the man of God told him and
warned him of, and saved himself there, not
once, nor twice.” “God hath spoken once;
twice have I heard this, that power belong
efcn unto God,” and this power is continually
being put forth on behalf of sinful man to
bring back his soul from the pit, but though
God 8peaketh once—yea, twice—yet man per
ceived it not (Ps. Ixii., 11; Job xxxiii.,14,
§9). How loving God is! How hard and
blmdismAMl
*' U* “Therefore the heart of the king of
Syria waa sore troubled for this thing.” It
was not his sins that troubled him, Trot the
fact that he could 'not catch his prey, and
that his enemy so successfully eluded him.
He saw that some one was working against
him who knew all his plans, and thought that
it must be a traitor in the camp, one of his
own men*-who was taking the king of Israel’s
part and fore-warning him.
12. “Elisha, the prophet that is in Israeli
tolleth the king,of Israel the words that thou
speakest in thy bedchamber.” Like the ser
vants of Nanno an these servants seem wiser
than their master, for “Great men are not
always wise” (Job , 9).
18. “And he said, Go and spy where he is,
that I may send and fetch him.” The Lord
.so effectually hid Elijah that Ahab and all
his searchers could not find him anywhere in
all the land (I Kings xviii. 10). He also hid
Baruch and Jeremiah so that their enemies
could not find them (Jer. xxxvi., 26). Yet
this unbeliever thinks to capture one who
coujld say of God, “Thou art my hiding
place; Thoushalt preserve me from trouble;
Thou shalt compass me about with songs or
deliverance” (Ps. xxxii, 7).
“And it was told him saying, Behold, he Is
in Dothan.” It was at Dothan that Joseph
found his brethren, when they plotted to kill
him, and afterward sold him as a slave (Gen.
xxxvii, 17); and these are the only two ref
erences to the place in the whole Bible. In
the one case God permits the captivity of
His child and in the other He prevents it,
but in each case it is for their good and His
glory.
. 14. “Therefore sent he thither horses and
chariots and a great host, and they came by
night and compassed the city about.” Sure
ly they had their man now, and escape was
impossible. Thus it seemed to human eyes.
But: on a previous occasion the armies of
Judah were encompassed by the enemy, and
when they cried unto the Lord He delivered
them. And a little later Jehosaphat alone
was surrounded by the Syrian soldiers, who
were abont to kill him, but he cried out and
the Lord helped him, and God moved them
to depart from Him (II Chron. xiii., 18-10;
xviii, 81).
id. "Ana wnen tne servant oi tne man or
God was risen early, and gone forth, behold
an host compassed the city both with horses
and chariots.” While Elisha slept the enemy
h encompassed him about, but Elisha’s God
: neither slumbers nor sleeps, and Elisha rested
r in Him, and feared no evil. His servant,
fc. however, had not the faith of his master, and
we may imagine his fears as this sight met
| his eyes.
“Aud his servant said unto him, Alas, my
master I how shall we do?” He probably felt
something like Israel when they saw the
hosts of Pharaoh pursuing them, the moun
tains on either side of them and the sea be
fore them. It was another case of man’s
utter helplessness, to do anything for him
self, but “The Lord knoweth how to deliver
the godly out of temptation” (II Pet. ii.,
t 16. “And he answered, Fear not.” From
I AUU UO BUBIIOICU, J.- till UUI*
Gen. xvM 1, to Rev. i., 17, how often that
precious word “Fear not” has stilled the
troubled soul!
“They that bs with tie are more than they
that bejwith them ” What is it that Elisha
sees th^this servant cannot see? Is he giv
ing utterance to a hope or t<5 the assurance
of a reality? We shall see that he means
just whjat he says and is fully persuaded of
17. “And Elisha prayed and said, Lord, I
pray Thee, open his eyes that he may see.”
What a simple prayer^ how short, how com
prehensive! No preliminaries and no con
clusion, not even an omen; just a single
petition, asking as from a familiar
friend for just what he wanted.
“And tiie Lord opened the eyes of the
young man, and he saw: and behold the
mountain was full of horses and chariots of
fire round about Elisha.” Now we
know why Elisha, said, Fear not,
mid why he 8aig to his servant that their
helpers were more numerous than the enemy.
Let no one dare to explain away these un->
seen realities of God’s love and care and
power. But rather let the weakest believer
rejoice that he is ministered unto and
watched over by these unseen ones who love
to do the will of God (Heb. i., 14), and let us
joyfully anticipate the day u*ien we shall
take part in a groat triumphant march of
heaven’s cavalry for the rescue aud rederap
tiou of multitu 65 of Israel (Etey., xix, 14).
18. ‘ And when they came down to him,
Elisha prayed unto tha Lord and said,
Smite this people, I pray Thee, with blind
ness. Another brief prayer; a single peti
tion, .Can this man ask and receive auy
tbihg betaesires? A rivor divided, a spring
healed, oU multiplied, a Son given, life from
the dead, food multiplied, a leper healed, a
man madolepraus, iron to swim, eyes open
to see angels^ejes dimmed to see not at all or
to see wrongly? How has he obtained this
power? With whom is be in partnership?
Ah. dear,reader, if we would cling to Jesus,
as EJ^sha clung to Elijah, for a double portion
of the Spirit, then wo tOo might know the
meaning of such words ae these. “Whatso
ever ye shall ask the Father in My name,.
that will l do, that the Father may be glori
fied in the Son.t’
"And he smote them with blindness, ac
cording to the Lortl ot Elisha." So did the
angels to the men of Sodom (Gen. xix, 11).
la Him we live and move aiy} have oar be
ihg. Rend the next four verses and see how
royally Elisha treated these hit enemies and
conquered them with kindness, so that they
cjnae no more into the land of Israel, is
there in us tile love that conquers?—.Lesson
MABCH A LIVELY MONTH.
Strong Breezes Waft These News
Notes To Ua,
From Many Points In the Progressive
Southland, Interesting We
Axe Sure.
VIRGINIA.
There is an Increased demand for man*
ufactured tobacco in Danville and the
factories are all running.
Although the Senate has failed to con
firm the nomination of James McLaugh
lin, postmaster of Lypchburg, it is be
lieved that he will fill that office.
The entire crew of the log-boat “Hope,”
wrecked at Wash Woods life-saving
Station, who were supposed to have been
drowned, have arrived at Norfolk.
Tlie burned elcctric plaut of the Dan
ville Street Car Company will be rebuilt
at once.
Roanoke will soon boast of a postoffice
building constructed at a cost of |75,
. 000 bv the general government. A bill
ordering this has passed both houses of
Congress and been approved by the Pres
ident.
Timberville is a new town on the line
of the Broadway & West Virginia
Railroad that is soon to be constructed.
It is the centre of the great forest regions
of North mountain and Brock’s Gap.
The North fork of the Shenandoah river
runs through the town.
NORTH CAROLINA.
Sam Jones has been invited and will
conduct evangelistic services in Char
lotte shortly.
The legislature passed the bill appro
priating $10,000 annually for a geologi
cal survey of the state.
The vacancies in the state bond of agri
culture were filled by the legislature,as fol
lows: Fi~ ’district, J. B. Coffield, fourth
W. F. utreen, eighth, 8. F. Patterson.
On Tuesday night, David Jones, of
Cape Lookout Saving station, about a
mile south of the camp, found in the
wash of the sea the dead body of a man.
The body was without clothes of any
kind. The arms were off at the shoul
ders and legs off at the hips.
- In the state senate Thursday bill to ap
propriate $25,000 to secure exhibit at
Chicago, failed to pass; this raised a
gr£at howl, and at night this action was
reconsidered and the bill passed the sen
ate unanimously.
• The census officer announced the pop
ulation of North Carolina races as fol--”
lows: whites, 1,049,191; colored 267,
170; Indians, 1,571; Chinese, 15; total,
1,617,947.
SOUTH CAROLINA:
The agricultural experiment stations at’
Spartanburg, Darlington ayd Columbia
have been sold'. They brought $5,000,
$0,500 and $5,500 respectively.
Senator Edmunds, Miss Edmunds and
other distinguished tourists were in Co
lumbia Thursday en route to Camden.
Branches of the Atlanta Building and
Loan Association have been organized in
Yorkville and Florence.
Thos. N. Berry and L. D. Childs, of
Chester, have been appointed as dele
gates from this State to the Bight Wor
thy Grand Lodge, L O. G. T., which
meets in Edinburg, Scotland, in May.
Robert Mill has has prepared plans
for the erection of a church at Spartan
burg for the Baptists to cost $10,000.
The students of the South Carolina
College for women visited the State
House Tuesday afternoon. They were
evidently delighted with their visit.
The election of the $15,000 school
uuiiuiu” uas uicu cuuuuciiucu ai> new
berry.
The' Auderr.on Building & Loan Asso
ciation. which will wind up its business,
will declare a dividend of about 05 per
cent. "f -
Gaffney City has voted to subscribe
$20,000 to the projected Cape Fear and
Cincinnati Railroad.
GEORGIA.
Wade Hampton will deliver the ad
dress at Augusta, ApnFSVatthe reunion
of his old brigade. /
A correspondent days that a large por
tion of the peach and plum crop has been
killed or badly injured in the vicinity of
Davisboro.
Georgia's pension laws went into effect
March 1, and from that date the widow .
of each Confederate soldier will get an
annuity of $100. Alabama has also at
last recognized their claims; but their
share will scarcely be half so large.
The John P. King Manufacturing Com
pany, of Augusta, has made a direct ship
ment of cotton goods to Manchester,
England.
Governor Northen has instituted a re
form in the management of the Georgia
prison camp that will meet with the
hearty commendation of humanitarians.
He has ordered that hereafter male and
female convicts must be kept in separate
apartments, and that no communication
must be allowed between them.
TENNESSEE,
The legislature has passed a bill to
build a monument to John Sevier, the
first governor Of Tennesee.
The bill authorizing the issuance of
$500,000 of bonds by Knoxville has pass
ed the legislature and become a law.
Three men were killed and thirteen
wounded in an accident at_Whitwell, on
the Tennessee Goal Company’s incline
railway.
A printer employed on The Chattano
ga News, Jim Compton, shot Harry Her
bert In the neck. The wound is proba
bly a fatal one. 1
In the senate Thursday the bill creating
a bureau of labor, statistics and mines,
with a commissioner at a salary of $1,500,
whose duties are to inspect minee, mills
and factories and gather labor statistics,
was passed, only two negative votes be
ing recorded. ; „
Nashville baa but few runaway wed
dings, consequently social circles were
startled by th»t one which occurred
Thursday, when John Means Thompson,
a son ot ex-Governor Thompson, of South
Carolina waa Quietly roaflried to Mias Sal
lie Glasgow.
FLORIDA.
Tarpon Springs has just indulged in
the luxury of electric lights.
A Tallahassee special says: Got.
Fleming will leave to the legislature the
appointment of a United States senator
to succeed Mr. Call.
Fernandina proposes to have an as
sociation of ladies to be known as the
City Improvement society, to supervise
the work of keeping the streets clean.
F. H, Grvis, who keeeps a statistical
comparison of the Florida seasons, says
that the business of January, 1891, was
fifty per cent, over January, 1890; that
February was sixty per cent, greater and
that March promises a greater increase.
April, says he, will he away ahead of last
year, and the indications point to a larg
er season.
The Jacksonville and Santa Fe Bard
Rock Phosphate Co., lately reported as
organized, has been incorporated, with a
capital stock of $500,000.
The orange trees along the Ilalifax
river are showing numerous buds and on
ly require a little rain to buret into full
bloom.
A HORRIBLE HOLOCAUST
Monroe High School Burned and
Two laves Lost.
The Monroe. N. C., High School was
burned Thursday morning between mid
night and day.
Two young men, T. E. Pemberton and
Albert Boat, were literally roasted in the
flames.
The building, together with four fine
pianos, all the school furniture, a good
library and most of the wearing apparel
of teachers and pupils was completely
consumed.
Monroe High Scdool, owned and con
ducted by Prof. H. W. Spinks and Maj.
L-P. Andrews, was a large three-story
brick building situated about a mile from
the centre of the town.
It contained, at the time of the burn
ing, 25 pupils, male and female, who all,
with the exception of two, narrewly es
caped with their lives. The girls occu
pied the ground floor, the boys the third
floor, the second floor being used for
recitation jrcjoms, etc. ,f
The building and fittings were valued
at $9,000. The insurance amounts to
about $4,000.
Prof. Spinks and Andrews will rent a
hall %pd continue theirschool.
Anew and handsome building will
be erected in the place of the one burned
down.
Failures and Confirmations by the
Senate:
Washington, D. C., [Special.]—The
The following nominations failed to re
ceive confirmation by the senate: James
H. Beatty, as district judge of Idaho;
Louis Dermaris, coiner of mint at New
Orleans; James H. Young, collector of
customs for the district of Wilmington,
N. C.; Thos. E. Oglesgarde, register of
land office at Minot.
Postmaster G. E. Norris, Brighton, N.
T.; Ct. W. Ferree, Edgar, Neb.; John
Clinton, Brownsville, Tenn.; Jas. Hill,
Vicksburg, Miss.; J. M. McLaughlin,
Lynchburg, Va.
In case of Beatty’s nomination it was
resisted by the Idaho senators on the
ground that Beatty was an active parti
san of Claggett faction, which sought to
invalidate election of senator-eleot Du
bois and finance senator Farwell, a warm
friend of Dubois caused failure of nomi
nation by demand that it lie over four
days, which carried it over March 4.
Young’s nomination was bitterly fought
by faction of his own party which sent
delegation here to oppose it. While in
case of Hill, colored man nominated for
postmaster at Vicksburg, Democratic op
position managed to delay action long
enough to cause failure of nomination.
To Abolish the HomeBtead Law.
A bill has been introduced in the Leg
islature by Miv Lowry as follows:
The General Assembly of North Caroli
na do enact; three-fifths of each House
concurring:
Section 1. That section one (1,) two
(2,) three (3,) four (4,) five (5) and eig.rt
(8), of article.ten (10) of the Constitution
of this State is repealed and abolished
Section 2. This amendment shall be
submitted at the next general election to
the qualified inters of the State, those
voting in favor of the amendment to vote
a written or printed ballot with the
word's: 1 ‘For the amendment abolishing
the homestead, " and those voting against
it to vote the same kind of a ballot with
the uDrds: “Against the amefldme.it
abolishing the homstead” on it.
Section 8. The election shall,be held
and returns made; counted and the re
sult announced under the samp ralas and
regulations as are now provided fc. f . Ji
election of the governor and other stite
officers. «
This act shall be in force from and af
ter its ratification.
To Prevent Lynching.
Mr. Chears, of Union county, has in
troduced a bill in the Legislature to more
effectually prevent lynch law iu North
Carolina. It provides that when such a
crime is committed and the perpetrators'
are unknown, the county commissioners
may employ a special agent or issue a
proclamation offering $400 reward forth*
apprehension of the perpetrators of th
Grime. It also provides that the solicitor
shall send bills of indictment against such
peisons as he has reason to suppose are
implicated in such violation, and the
grand jury are empowered to act upon
such bills, and' the superior court is given
jurisdiction to hear and determine any in
dictment found by such grand jury. Ii
further provides that if the grand jury
ignores bills as sent by solicitors, be that
move the case to some other, county, ft
also provides that the court may have the
power to compel the appearance of wit
nesses from any part of the State, and all
costs shall bo borne by the county in
which the offence was committed.
Mrs. Polly Slough, of Lepoir, N. C.,
died Monday ip her one hundred and
third year.
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FABMEB’S INSTITUTES.
A Successful One Held at Charlottes
ville, Va.
Tha Delegates Were Well-Dressed,
Thrifty sad Prosperous Looking
as All Farmers Should Be.
Chariottestoxb, Va., [Special.]—
No one looking upo< the Fanners’ As
sembled in the LevyjOpera House could
hare received the finpression that they
belong to a down-trodden and impover
ished class of ouri citizenship. They
were well dressed, tl^ifty mid prosperous
looking and all thoroughly interested in
the proceedings of the second Fanner’s
Institute. The gentlemen Who occupied
the stage were especially distinguished -
looking.
Ur. if. L. Lyman was chairman, and
near him were seated the Hon. Thomas
L. Whitehead, the Commissioner of Ag
riculture; Captain Vanwater, of the Mil
ler Manual Labor School; Col. H. H. Ma
gruder and Dr. Charles Ellis, of the Vir
ginia Experiment Station; Captain Orris
i. Brown, of Accoraac,’ member of the
State Board of Agriculture, and many
other well-known gentlemen. In wel
coming the members of the Institute to
the city, Mr. Lyman said that although
the nation needs the farmer more than
any other one class, political and legal
questions would be eschewed. While the
great need of the farmers is instruction,
a knowledge of law and the dead lan
guages will not increase his crops or add
to his margin of profits. He said that
the true aim of his class was to better its
condition and perfect the productions of
the land and to do all they could to make
the world another Eden.
ADDRESS OF WELCOME.
In his brief response to the address of
welcome Colonel Whitehead made several
mints which pleased his audience very
nuch. He conceived the object of such
nstitutes to be to advance the interest of
he farmer without taking from any other
class a right that it qjpw possesses. There
ought not to be, find can nut be fairly, a
war upon any class by the agricultural
people, but it is to their interest to have
what is their own. The farmers want to
avgid t>eing preyed upon. It is not hard
sense tint would use such terms of re
proach as “hayseed” or “clodhopper.”
He thought it took just as much sense
and (eligion to be a good farmer as a
good lawyer. The move of farmers’ in
stitutes has been tried elsewhere in such
stales as are now successful in their agri
cultural enterprises. He believed that if
northern Michigan pad our admirable
climate Virginia fyonld be depopulated,
because the people of, that section have
the knowledge and are vyicnjpgthe prof
its. Thpy don’t claim that they are hot!
making money, bt|t they want to escape
an uuhospitable climate. We need these
institutes to make the' farmers’ calling
more profitable and their families more
comfortable. He thought it an era in the
progress of the farmers that the Universi
ty of Virginia, and such institutions show
an alacrity in assisting the farmers in
their work of education.
HOH-enQLERA AND ITS TREATMENT.
The first set address was by Dr. Charles
Ellis, veterinarian of the Virginia Experi
ment Station. The subject, “Hog Chol
era and its Treatment,” was important
and evidently deeply interesting to the
fanners present. He believes in the germ
theory of course, but does not believe the
disease contagious. He gave a very in
teresting resume of the investigations
which the scientists have made of the
subject. Many incidents, which showed
in wh.at way llpe disease is spread ignor
antly and discussed remedies at some
length.
At the close of his address, questions
were propounded and a general discus
sion ensued, which was followed very
closely by Dr. Tuttle of the University of
Virginia, discussing the very broad ques
tion of the Hygiene of animals and lands
looking to the protection of tbe animal
industry. Yon cannot prevent hog chol
era by law, he said, unless somebody sees
that the law is enforced. The law now
is that diseased dead animals shall be
burned or buried at least four feet deep,
otherwise the constable must do it, and
make charge for it. Hiding about the
country, he saw evidences that the farm
ers did not know of the, existence of this
stntute. The law says animals infected
with contagious diseases, when condemn
ed by a commission appointed by the
couyt shall be killed. This is too slow, a
proeess. He thought the loss by hog
cholera should, be divided by means of
some arrangement of the tax laws, for in
that case each man would be interested in
preventing such diseases.
KOAD-MAKING.
The question which elicited the most
interest, perhaps; W1>s road-making, in
which Professor Thprnton, of the Univer
sity of Virginia, delivered a very striking
and valuable address. Pointing out the
best systems, the cost of building them,
and the manner in which the financial
part of the question might be best man
aged. He took strong grounds in favor
of the State doing the work with an en
gineer in charge, with headquarters at
the Qapitol, and with subordinate engiu
effiSito supervise the work in progress,
lie thought it a waste of time to build
roads that would not last for all time
practically.
He was followed by Captain Vawter,
who thought a good deal of practical
road building could be accomplished if
the people would take to the Importance
of good highwaysj and place at conven
ient places rock gathered from their
farms, which the county qguld crush and
spread on the roads under the direction
of competent men.
Captain 0. A. Brown, of Accomac,
and others spoke on the same subject. -
RIGHT SESSION.
At night the breeding of horses was
discussed at length by Mr. Foxball, A.
Dangerfield, Captain Brown, of Accomac,
and the Hon. T. 8. Martin, of Albemarle.
The latter made a very spirited defense
of breeding and racmg horses, against
which he conceived there wiis a very
strong prejudice.
Paof. Atwood, of Blacksburg, lectured
on the apple apd its insect enemies.
ONLY ONE YEAR TO WAIT.
The Farmers’ Bona Will Have Their
College in 1802.
Gheknville, 8. C., [Special.]—The
board 6f trustees* of the Clfemson College
iu session at Pendleton, decided to press
the work in all the departments and pre
pare to open the College on February 1,
1892. The sessions of the College will
be from February t to December 1 of
ever#, year, making ten months for stu
dents to study and work. There will be
ao Saturday holiday, as in other schools,
and the school days will be six in every
week. No student under 15 years of age
will bo admitted unless the student has
an older brother in attendance. Every
student will be required to work two
hours of each working day at manual la
bor, and will receive such tomnensation
for his work as the board of trustees can
offer and shall hereafter determine upon
The students will be required to live and
board at the institution, except where
they live near enough to attend from their
homes. Board will be furnished at actu
al cost, which will not be over seven dol
lars a month, and books and stationery
will be furnished at actual cost. The
College will be under military discipline,
and every student will be required to
wear a uniform of cadet gray.
AGIUCULTUBAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL.
The board also fixed upon a list ol
studies, but they will be given to the
press later. There will be two general
departments in the College, the agricul
tural and technological. For entrance
into the College the applicant must have
a knowledge of arithmetic, history, geog
raphy and grammar. The agricultural
course will be thorough, and the student
will be given a complete education iu
practical as well as scientific farming.
The technological department will be
.is complete as that of any technological
school in the country. The standard will
be high, and every facility will be giveb
for a thorough course.
PREPARATORY DEPARTMENT.
The board has determined to provide a
preparatory department on account of the
Eresent condition of the public schools,
ut the same limitation as to age will ap
ply in this department.
The College will be able to accommo
date three hupdred students. There are
already over two hundred applications on
file, and they are being received every
fay- ■ ' _■
/ TUITION NOT FIXED.
Tha board has not decided what the
tuition fees will be. The committee on
the selection of professors has been con
tinued, and the committee will take plen
ty of time before making the selections in
order to get the best possible.
PBOGBESS or THE BUtUMHGS.
There are one hundred convicts at work
on the grounds. The experimental sta
tion, the only all wood building to be pul
up, is nearly finished. Two brick houses
tor the use of professors are also being
finished. These are eight-room buildings
and are covered with slate. The labora
tbry, a three-story brick building, one
hundred by fifty feet, ia now being cov
ered with slate and will soon be done.
A new stockade for the convicts has been
built, and five dwelling houses, now used
by mechanics, have also been completed.
The historic old Calhoun house, in
which Thomas Clemson lived and died,
has been recovered, repainted and repair
ed inside and outside. The trustees are
making their own brick and have 400, -
000 ready for use and four thousand cords
of wood on the ground for burning more.
There is also a large quantity of stone on
hand for laying the foundations of the
other buildings. W. W. P.
Cheering a Prayer.
A remarkable scene, and one that
struck part of the aildience as very amus
ing. occurred in the Michigan Democrat
ic State Convention at Lansing, Thurs
day. _ After the usual preliminaries were
gone through with, Rev. E. R. Clark, a
local preachoi. was called upon for pray
er, and, in addressing the Most High,
made a stump speech. The delegates
were wrought up to a high pitch and
when die asked the Deity “to guide the
footsteps of the convention into the track
of that grand old Democrat, Thdmas
Jefferson,” the convention broke into ap
plause, with wild yells of delight and
approval. Even Mr. Clark was discon
certed for the moment and the prated
had to wait until the applause haa die'd
out.
Duping the Colored Man.
Gathesvhj.e, Tex.-—During the past
ten days over 300 negroes have passed
through the city en route to Qklahoma
to settle. Nearly all came from Eastern
Texas and are most distressed and desti
tute of money, farming implements and
everything necessary to prevent starva
tion and suffering ia a new country. A
white man from Oklahomaahas been rep
resenting to them that they could secure
a good farm at very little dost, and has
also sold to nearly every one of these mi
grating negroes a town lot for $1 each.'
These lots were represented to be located
in the heart of a large town, and to bo
Worth $t( 0 Every negro had a deed to
some imaginary town lot.
Senator Hearst’s Successor.
Wasihhoton, D. C., [Special.]—It is
the impression among the friends of Ex
Governor Murray, of California, that ho
will be the successor to the-late Senator
Hearst. Gov. Murray is a Kentuckian
by birth, and served in the Federal army
during t'ne civil war, reaching the rank
of brigadier general at the ago of 81.
He was United States marshall in Ken
tucky, under President Grant, and gov
ernor of Utah, under President Arthur.
Being free from factional connections in
California, his friends consider him a
strong compromise candidate.
Hugh T. Inman Made President of
Georgia Central.
New Yobk, [Special.] —Hugh T. In
man, a brother of John H. Inman, of the
Richmond terminal system, will be made
President of the Georgia Central within a
month. Mr. Inman, who is a man of
recognized ability in the south, has long
been in demand by Georgia Central, but
not until Tuesday was it definitely known
that he would accept the position. The
salary is |80,00tl # year. .
KNIGHTS OF THE ROAD.
A Drummer Relate* His Experience
In GrandBapids, Michigan.
What I like about these “Knights o*
the Road” is that they are great fellow8
for secret society. Most all the drum"
mere belong to everything that is going)
from that of the “Grand Knights of Dia
mend Garter,” down to “Sous of In
temperance.” I am quite a hand for
all such mysterious things myself, so I
get solid with all the boys. My old
friend Crookston called on me the other
day to see if I needed any drugs and to
have a visit, We had a jolly old time.
While we were sitting in the office a
chap came in and wanted to borrow $£
on account of a remittance not coming to
himas he expected. I told him my $21 kept
to lend was in now, being sent in the
day before by Johnny McIntyre, but I
never lent it except to drummers. He
said “That’s me.” leave him the grand
hailing sign of an Odd Fellow, which he
tumbled to. Then Fcame to the great
“haij; in the soot” grip of a Pythonic.
He tumbled. Then Crook gave him G.
B. of the Sons of Malta. He was onto
it. Then I tipped him the hair-poking
signal of a |Good Tippler. He
smiled and,said “H. 0.” This is a
chemical term, meaning “waters.” Then
Crook stuck out his hand and gave him
the noted P. D. Q. sign of the Royal Arch
Brick Mason. f-He “got thar” on that.
Then Crookston examined him as follows,
to make sure he was a drummer:
“From whence comest thou, pard?”
‘ ‘From the Lodge of the Holy St.
Johns, Michigan.”
“What seek ye here to do?”
“To take a few orders and collect a
bill of Billson.”
“Then you are a drummer?”
“I am so taken and accepted by the
boys.”
“How may I know you to be a drum
mer?”
“By my cheek and my fifty-pound sam
ple case. Try me.”
“How will you be tried?”
“By the squar’.”
“Why by the squar’?”
“Because the squar’ is a magistrate
and an emblem of stupidity.”
“Where were you first led to be a drum
“In my mind.”
“Where next?’’
“In a printing office, adjoining a reg
ular post of drummers.”
“How were you prepared j”
“By being divested of my last cent,
my cheek rubbed down with a brick, a
bunion plaster over each eye tmd a h|ayy
sample case in each hand. In this fi\
I was conducted to the door of the post.”
“How did you know it was a ddbr,
being blind?”
“By first stepping in a coal scuttle
and afterward bumping my head against
the door knob. ”
“How gained you admission?”
“By benefit of my cheek.”
“Had you the required cheeki”
“I had not, but Steve Sears had it for
me.”
“How were you received?”
_,“0.n the sharp toe of a boot, applied
to my natural trousers.”
“What did this'teach you?”
“Not to fool around too much.”
- “What happened next?”
“I was set down on a cake of ice and
asked if I put my trust in mercantile re
ports.”
“Your answer ?”
“Not if I know myself, I don’t.”
“How was you next handled?”
“I was put straddle of a goat made out
of a 2x4, and trotted nine times around
the room by four worthy brothers, and
then trotted in front of the Left Bower"
for further instructions.”
‘ How did he instruct you?”
“To approach a customer in three up.
tight regular steps, with my business
card extended at right angles, my arms
forming a perfect square.”
“How was you then disposed of?”
“I was again seated on the cake of iqe
in front of a dry goods, and made to
take the following horrible and binding
oath:
“I, Charles S. Robinson, do hereby
and herein most everlastingly'and diaboli
cally swear, by the Great Bob Tajl Flush,
that I will never reveal and always
steal all the trade secrets I can for the
use and benefit of the Most August Or
der. And I further swear, by the Bald
headed Jack of Clubs, that I will nevey
give, carve, make, hold, take or cut prices
below the regular rates. And I further
swear by the Pipers that played before
Moses, to never have any commercial
dealings with any man or his wife, sister,
grandmother, old maid, aunt or uncle,
unless they, he, she or it is sound on the
ffOoae.Ul —---- i
‘ ‘I was then asked what 1 most needed."
"What was your reply?”
"Money."
"What did you then behold?”
“A copy of Dun & Co.’s reports, open
at chapter‘Muskegon.’ Upon the open
bopk rested a pair of drug scales, in one
pan of which rested ten pounds of con
cent i ale <1 lye, and in the other sat a small
silver jackass. ”
“What did this emblem signify?”
“The scales Indicated the balance he*
tween debtor and enditor. The other
emblems represented de-abilties and ass
ets of bankrupts.”
“Did this teach you any lesson?”
“You bet I It taught me the fact that
the former are generally so almighty much
better than the latter.” /
"Shake! Brother! * * * Will
you be off or from?”
“Both, if I can borrow money enufl to
get out of town on.”
“Have you any cigan?"
“I have.”
“Give ’em to me."
“1 did not so receive ’em, neither will
I so impart ’em.”
“How will you dispose of ’em.”
“On sixty days’ time or two per cent,
cash, F. O. B.”
“All right, begin.”
“No, begin you.”
“No, you begin.”
“Up.” “’Em.” “Set.”
“ ‘Set ’em up.’ The words and signs
are right, Brother Snooks, he is a y&rd
wide and all wool, and you can bet on
him.” ,
Bi other Crookston and I each lent the
chap $5, and he left with many thanks
and kind wishes. .
< Now you can see by this what a htjp i|
fa to a fellow whan
among strangers to,
to fall back on.—0j
Frost Sills Fishes.
One of the incidents of s hard and 1
long continued frost if the suffocation of
Osh and eels in small ponds when no
thoughtful person has broken holes in
the ioe to permit the aeration of the
water which is necessary for the continue
ance of fish life. When ponds are thus
hermetically sealed eels appear to suiter
more than any other fish. On a hole be- C
ing broken they come to the surfaoe in a
half dying condition and are easily
caught. At Digits, near Worcester, a
number of eels have been caughtitothfe
way, the instrument of capture being A
pair of blacksmith’s tongs. p|
In the pond at Dulwich an enormous
eel has been killed. The water was en
tirely covered with iOTj and, a hole be
ing made, a great eel came to the sur
face. It appeared to be in a comatose
condition and was taken out without
much difficulty. It measured thiiteen
feet nine inches in length, was twelve
inches round the thickest part and
weighed nine pounds. But, though eels,
along with other fish, suffer from insuffi
cient aeration of the water in small un
covered ponds there is no doubt that
they are peculiarly susceptible to cold as
well.
There are several matrices of conger
eels being washed ashore in great num
bers during the continuance of severe
frosts, their air bladders being tightly
distended. In 1841 great quantities of
eels were killed in the River Lagan by
the frost and floated down to the quays
at Belfast. There are, howevllr, instances
of eels which had been literally frozen
and quite brittle reviving after an bon*
or so spent in a tub of water placed in P
warm room.—London QrqpMc.
Queen Vie: and Empress Frederick
At & Horse Show.
London, [Cablegram.]—Queen Victo
ria. accompanied by Empress Frederick,
by the latter’s daughter, Margaret, and
by Prince and Princess Wales, drove to
day in open carriages from Buckingham
Palace to Islington, where the royal party
spent considerable time in visiting horse
shows, now in progress at the Agricultu
ral Hall. Queen and her party received
a perfect ovation as they passed through
the streets oh their way to and from thf
horse show ^
Late Jacob Thompson’s Widow.
Memphis, Tenn., [Special.]—The will
of Mrs. Catherine A. Thompson, relict of
the late Jacob Thompson, Secretary of
the Treasury under President Buchanan,
was admitted to probate Tuesday. The
bulk of the estate goea to her grand
daughter, Mrs. Kirkman. To Mrs. Mont
gomery, another grand daughter known
to the stage as “Ray Douglas,” is be
queathed a half interest in a hotel at Ox
ford, Miss., and about $50,000 worth of
jewelry and plate; and $50,000 is set
aside to be invested for her benefit. Thi
estate is valued at $1,000,000.
City Clerk Gone Wrong;
Richmond, Va. [Special.]—Mr. Bu
ford Grymes, clerk in the treasurer’s of
fice was arrested on the charge of the
embezzlement of city funds. It seems he
had collected some gas bills and failed to
turn in the amount to the treasurer, or
enter them on his books. The sum so
far missing is only about sixty dollars, 1
but it is feared a much larger amount has
been misappropriated.
Results of Reciprocity.
Several prominent merchants of Balti
more have organized the Brazil Trading
Co., capital $50^000, with power to in
crease to $500,000. The incorporators
named in the charter are Thornton Hol
lins, Faris C. Pitt, Rufus Woods, Rob
ertson Taylor and Edwin W. Levering.)
This company expects to avail itself of
the reciprocity recently inaugurated, and
to open up a la?ge trade with Brazil.
$400,000 Capital For Oil Merchants*
London, [Cablegram.]—A number of
prominent eOtton seed oil merchants, in
cluding Messrs. Rose, Wilson and Rose,
George Leanes, Son and company; Bevan
Harris and Garrard and Game, Bowes
and Co., of this city, have formed a joint
stock company with a capital of $400,
000.
Growth of Alliance in West Virginia:
Clabksbcrci, W Yi [ar~"hl ] m '
Farmers’ Alliance • organizers have been
working quietly throughout the State for.
several weeks past. It has Row develop
ed that the membership in some counties,
is nearly as great as the combined strength
of two old parties. A new alliance paper
is to be started here this sprlffg.
Rev. James O. Furman Read.
GnEEsviLLE, S. 0. [Specie!.]—Rev.
Jas, 0. Furman, D. D., one of the most
eminent soholars and clergymen of the
southern Baptist church, and for many
years president of Furman University,
died at his home tin Greenville, Wednes
day. Aged 80 years.
Be Took French Leave <
jACkgoN, Miss , [Special.]
Stone received information that
Cowar, ex-collector and sheriff of
county, had absconded with the
funds. He probably owes the
thousand dollars.
American Authors Bow Protected.
Washington, D. O., [Special.
President has signed the co
All of regular appropriation
ceived the President's signatu
Crooked Railways Host
“Nothing wearies a
more than a straight track,”
railroad man. “Any road
miles of straight track would
for one with three or four
distance. I know legions
put themselves out to |
wind and Curve
scenery e
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