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SABBATH SCHOOL. DTTEBXATIONAIi LESSON POE APBIL 5 1891. To-daj'i lMKin brfpga baton us Samaria Jo besieged by the SyrUne that there ia a terrible famine, and mothers are so crazed by hunger that they eat their own children (chap. vi., 25, 29), as has been foretold by Mwee (Bey. xxvi., 29i Deut. Xxviti., 56, 57), and all because of their rebellion against God. • 1. “Then Elisha said. Hear ye the word of the Lord.” The king of Israel professed to be so filled with horror at the doings of the people that he swore to kill Elisha, and proceeded forthwith to put bis threat in execution. These are the words of Elisha to him and his messengers. The king was shocked by what he saw, but what he saw was only the result of the sin which God saw and which the king himself was responsible for. not for 4ttbe word of the Lord.” %«wd-v____ «« “Thus saith the Lord” was nothing to him, and henoe all this suffering. 2. “Behold, if the Lord would make'win* do ws in heaven might this thing be.” Thus spake a companion of the king of Israel, in reply to the word of the Lord by Elisha, that to-morrow there would be food in abundance; and thus speaks many a professed Christian to-day* in reference to the great promises of the Lord of Hosts. It is a fearful sin, but so common, to make light of the word of God or reject it altogether, because- it seems im possible or unreasonable. 3, 4, “Why ait we here until we die?” We are now introduced to four outcasts, with out the city because of their leprosy, who are in a most pitiable condition. They are dying slowly of disease, hunger is now hastening their death—there iB no relief from the city; the Syrians can only kill them, and thus shorten their misery, but possible may take pity on them and save them. It is their only nope, and their minds are made up. The con dition of these men was sad indeed, but What about those in all Chrisfcendomr who are on the way to the second death and are indifferent to it? There they sit, many of them in our churches, but they are dead in sin, perishing because they wifi not eat, and indifferent to the future that awaits them. 5.- “And they rose up in the twilight to go unto the camp of the Syrians, and, behold, there was no man there.” Tremblingly and stealthily, under cover of the twilight, they enemy there was none, no one t^ be seen. Their fears vanish, their hearts leap within them; they expected death, but they find life, food and riches in abundance. The change in their circumstances is an illustration of the difference between an unsaved person seeking satisfaction from this world and a sdved soul rejoicing in the fullness of the re demption and life eternal that is in Christ for “whosoever will” (John ill., 10; Rom. vi., 23; Rev. xxi., 67 xxii., 17). 0. “The Lord had made the host of the oynans to bear a noise of chariots, and a noise of horses, even the noise of a great host.” He did not open their eyes to see the hosts of-the Lord as He did the eyes of .Elisha’s servant (vi., 17), bnt He caused rtheir ears to hear, and their hearts to imag ine a great host pursuing them., It was not a host of Hittites and Egyptians, as they thought, but the unseen hosts of the Lord. 7. “Wherefore they arose and fled for their lives.” How many ways th« Lord has of overthrowing His edemies and sanding deliverance to such as He desires to bless! As to His enemies, He can lead them into the sea and drown them, or send fire from heaven and burn them, or hailstones to slay them, or an angel to still them forever, or, as in this case, cause them to flee when no man pur sues. As to those whom He helps, He may send bread from heaven, or commission birds to bring it, or send an angel, or simply mul tiply the meal in the barrel day by day, or cause our enemies, as in this castf, to provido the supply. The.Lord knoweth now. 9. “We do not well; this day is a day of good tidings, and we hold our peace.” Thus snake the lepers as they perhaps paused in their overwhelming joy to consider the famine-stricken city so near by. What a word this is for all who have heard and re ceived the glad tidings of salvation, and are rejoicing in the possession of eternal life, the forgiveness of sins, and all the riches of His grace and glory as we consider the millions on earth who are dying without God because we fail to send them the good tidings. “If we tarry till the morning light some mischief will come upon us.” Who can tell “v the loss will be in the resurrection ; .tig to all believers who have done noth to spread the glad tidings, when at the ment seat of Christ their iniquity lias id them out (R. V., margin). . ‘‘So they came and called unto the por ter of the city.” They did not stop at good resolutions, hut immediately put the same into effect. Let all believers who are think ing of telling or sending the good tidings to others, at once do something about it and the work will move on. These lepers did not wait till the morhing, but at once, during the nighl, they hastened back to the city. How different their feelings now from what vuvt "WVMW moj noun uu t>uo ujimua, bllOU their topic was death, but now itT Is life and deliverance for the dying. 11. “And he called the porters; and they told it to tiie king’s house within.” Thus the good tidings are passed on from one to anoth er, no one thinking of himself, but only of the message of joy which he bears. I 12, “And the king arose in the night and said unto his servants. I will now snow you what the Syrians have done to us.” Neither does the king wait till the morning. It i« a time of sore trouble, and perhaps sleep had forsaken him. But he does not believe tha food tidiugs; he imagines mischief. Had he i elieved the word of the Lord by Elisha he might now have said humbly and gratefully, !A Jhis is the Lord’s Join? and marvelous in our eyes’1 (Ps. cxviii., 28). But he knew not the Lord, a«d was very much like many in our day who, instead of believing God’s ! good tidings, are full of evil imaginations au l suggestions of the devil. i 13. “Let us send and see,’/ Thus suggested one of his servants more wise than his master, buck a wonderful story was surely worth looking into. Like the lepers, they could not be much worse off thau they now were, and if the tidings were true their deliverance was at band. 14. “The king sent after the hoot of the Syrians, saying, Go and see.’* A willingness to investigate is so much better than imag ining or believing an evil report. God asks us to search the Scriptures, to read, to hear, to believe, to prove Him. Let us never turn away from anything God has revealed, bub earnestly and reverently “Go and sea” what He has written. 16. “And they went after them unto Jordan: and the messengers returned and told the king ” All the way to Jordan they found evidences of the hasty flight of the enemy. . The leper’s story was all true; these charioteers could ndt say to the lepers, “Now we believe, not because of thy saying, for we have seen for onrselves” (John iv., 42). Kvidenoe all the way to Jordan is sug gestive of all the way tothe cross, where the last trace of our enemy, sin. is seen; for there Jesus made an end*of sin for all who aocapt Him, so that deidand risen with Him sin shall not have dominion over us, 18. **So a measure of fine flour was sold for a shekel, according to tha word of the Lord.” Whether men will hear or forebear, the word of the Lord will stand. No matter how setninglV impossible, all things are pos sible With God, and nothing is too hard for the Lord (Matt, xix., 88; Jar. xxxii., 17.— The dolphin is said ti be the fastest swimmer 111 the seas; it has been ob served To dart through the waters at a rate decidedly greater than twenty miles an hour, and it is of ton soon swimming round and round a vessel which is Sailing at its highest speed, I THE NEWS OF A WEEK Southern Hen And Measures Paragraphed. Newsy Chit-Chat and Telegraphic Dispatches From Many Points In Our Own and Adjoin ing States. VIRGINIA. The Methodists of Danville are holding interesting revival services. Bessie, a little daughter of Dr. B. M Davis, of Buckingham county, was burn ed to death Thursday. , James F. Sheppard, charged with em bezzlement, was found guilty by the Sa lem Criminal Court. Ten thousand dollars of Danville city bonds hss been takeu up. St. Patrick’s Day was celebrated in Richmond with a parade and banquet. The civil, mechanical and mining en gineers of of Roanoke httfe organized aD association in the interests of these several professions. One of their prime objects is to secure a caretul and accurate survey of Roanoke. The freeholdert of Roanoke Wednesday voted to bond the city for $430,000. For public Improvements $300,000, streets and sewers $75,000, public schools $21, 000, lire department and miscellaneous $30,000. The Norfolk and Western Road will in addition spend $400,000 to improve the streets and property. Claremont, on the James river in Surry county, and the two adjoining vil lages of Reymond and Bartlett, amount ing to several thousand acres, have been purchased by parties from New York, Philadelphia aud Boston. • Judge Whittle, of the Circuit Court, has rendered his decision in the celebra ted case of Moorman’s heirs against the the city of Danville, T. J. Arthur and others. These suits, involving something over $100,000 worth of real estato iu Danville have been pending before Judge Whittle for a long time, and are now awarded to the Moorman heirs. NORTH CAROLINA. A furniture factory commenced oper itions in Newberne Monday. By vote of the citizens Washington has donated $10,000 to secure rights ol way for a branch of the W. & W. tdjtliar place. The King’s Daughters of Greensboro are building a Hospital. , The Commercial and Farmers’ Bank of Raleigh was organized Tuesday. New banks ha$e been organized at Asheville and Rutherfordton. Rrnest Bender, a young man who lived oil,Core Bound, near N»w Berne, was drowned several days ago in the sound while fishing. Oii last Saturday a few gentlemen met and determined to start a foundry in Gas tonia; $4,000 were subscribed at once. The lot has already been secured. Cherokee county’s marble, iron, gold, talc, timber and dirt, have commenced making an inroad on the vaults of Wall street and more than a quarter of a mil lion dollars is being paid out fpr Chero kee lands. Every year J. Shakespeare Harris, of Poplar Tent, near Concord, gives a good suit of clothes to the two-horse farmei who makes the most cotton. Last year D. W. McCommous made the crop, and Mr. Hams brought him to Concord Tuesday and gave him a good suit of clothes. - SOUTH CAROLINA. Maj. Jno. Jones, of Blacksburg, sent in his resignation as general manager of the C., C. & C. Railroad. Eight convicts were received Wednes day at the State Penitentiaiy from Sump ter and five from Darlington. The visiting Boston base ball players have been giving a series of exhibition games at Charleston. me nine gin 01 r rorence, uucen Dy a mad eat, has returned home from the Pasteur Institute, New York, perfectly cured. St. Patrick’s Day was celebrated in Charleston by a united parade of the dif ferent Hibernium uocities and several banquets at night. In removing the cornerstone of the old conrthouse at Spartanburg Thursday, it was found to contain a quart of brandy, a copy of three newspapers published in 1890, and some coins. An iuterercsting marriage took place in Edgefield county a couple of days since. Dr. Jabob Trotter, aged seventy five years, was married to Miss Carrie Ridleburg, aged sixteen. The groom was a widower. The General Committee of the Columbia Centennial has officially invit ed Governor Tillman and staff and all division and brigade commanders and their staffs to participate in the Centen nial parade, May 14, 1891) also all white military companies in the State of South Carolina, and all other white military companies in the other States of the Union. TENNESSEE. They are adepts at Nashville, says the Memphis Appeal-Avalanche, in the legis lative game of breaking the back of bill] by overloading it with amendments. A blast was tired on the side of the Lookout Mountain Tuesday, which dis-. lodged 100,000 tons of rock. One hun dred kegs of powder was the charge, and the ledge of rock; wa3 broken up, and thousnuds of tons tolled down the moun tain side, The railroad track was des troyed for 300 yards. The people are now waiting with Spe cial eagerness the coming of the day wheu the Tennessee Derby shall be run. George Moore, who was to have been banged at Fayetteville Tuesday, bus beet) respited until June ,10. Ih the State senate Monday morning a bill requiring school directors to; have some qualifications for the office was passed. A special train carried 150 insane pa tients Wednesday, from the Central Iu sane Hospital at Nashville to the Westom Hospital at Bolivar, where commodious and comfortable quarters have been pro vided for them. The fire destroying the entire west wing of the Nashville asy lum necessitated the removal. Five charred\nd unrecognizable bodies have been recovered. Greene County has subscribed (50,000 to aijl in building the Unaka and Nola Chuckey Railroad. This railroad is pro jected to run from Morristown, Tenn., to Envin, in Unicoi county; thence east wardly through several counties of North Carolina to some prominent point of con nection with the Cranberry ore deposits of that State. Should this be aocom-. plished, it-vrill become a valuable feeder to the Morristown & Cumberland Gap Railroad. Work on the latter road is making good progress. GEORGIA. Jere Halils has been appointed Inspec tor of Oils for the Macon district, vice Hon. Tom Hardeman, deceased. ' The rice planters near Savannah are not at all apprehensive about their fields. as the steady westerly winds of the past several days have driven the water out. Maj. E. L. Tyler, general manager of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad, was at Atlanta elected president of the Atlanta and Florida Railroad, in place of President Robert Maddox, resigned. Savannah’s cotton receipts passed be yond the 1,000,000-bale point for the season Thursday, and the cotton men en thusiastically celebrated the event by a banquet. There are no delinquent subscribers in Lumpkin county, says the Atlanta Con stitution. Every farm in that section has a gold mine attachment. Even the editors are growing rich. State Commissioner of Agriculture Nes bit, assisted by Dr. Hunnicut, is prepar ing a book designed to be a source of general information about the state, foi general distribution both at home and abroad. The completion of the Gainesville waterworks at a cost of $31,882.03, gives that enterprising and growing city a wa ter supply system equal to any in the South, the supply being at least 300,000 gallons per day. Mr. B. F. Bibb, of the Folsom stock farm near Adairsville, has among his herd of Jerseys a sixteen-months old cow that gives three gallons of milk, and about one pound and three quart* of butter daily. This beats the record. A $50,000 National Bank has been or' ganized at Green Cove Springs. An artesian well is being sunk at Lire Oak. The great meetings of Rev. Sam Jones at Pensacola l»ovo „omo So o olooo. Throo meetings Were held daily, and the aver age attendance was 5,000. The case of Alexander Campbell, in dicted for the murder of Miss Mamie Joseph in St. Augustine last September, lias been set for trial in Jacksonville at the May term of Court. Abill passed the 51st Congress for a survey and estimate for a railroad from the mainland to Key West, and for a ca nal connecting the same with the John’s river for military and naval purposes. A Tallahassee special says: “News has been received here of the burning of a large saw mill at Carrabelle belonging to the Carrabelle, Tnll&hasse and Georgia Railway Company. Two million feet of first-class pine lumber ware also destroy ed. The mills, machinery and buildings were also destroyed. The Alabama, Florida and Western Railroad has been projected to start from euincy, a town on the line of the Florida entral <&; Western, run nearly due north to Bainbridge, on the Savannah & Flori da Road, and thence northwesterly. The U. 9. Government has presented the town of Tampa with the Fort Brooke military reservation for the benefit of free schools. The Quitman as Tampa Railroad has been projected to run between Quitman, on the Savannah, Florida & Western Railroad in Georgia, and the city of Tam pa. lie proposed route is an air line some 250 miles iong, passing through the orange belt and some of the richest phos phate deposits yet discovered in the lat ter State. OTHER STATES. Captain Charles Fowler, agent of the Morgan steamship fine in Galveston, is dead. He was widely known, and dur ing the war occupied a prominent position in the confederate navy. The incorporators of the Pan-American Transportation Company are called to meet at Mobile ^ on April 16th, for the purpose of organizing a company and electing directors. The books will then be open for stock subscriptions. No legislative act was ever more op portune than the Mississippi Emergency bill, which passed both houses of Con mess just before the final adjournment. The 91,000,000 appropriated for imme diate use enabled the Mississippi River Commmission to hold itself in readiness to fight the floods then impending and which have since poured into the delta. A Carolinian Honored. New York, [Special.]—Lorettus S. Metcalf has resigned the editorship of tnc Forum Magazine, after fifteen years of close confinement to review work. He is to be succeeded by Walter H. Page, an experienced newspaperman who has been the business manager of the Forum. It has been through Mr. Metcalf’s uble di rection that the Forum lias achieved high distiuction in the literary world and has forged to the front as ono of the best of American periodicals. Mr. Pago is well qualified for the new duties upon which lie will enter. He is a gentleman, a scholar—some people have accused him of being a crank, but no one has ever charged him with any lack of honesty or ability. Mr. Page is a native of North Caroliua and has hud a long and varied experience in practical journalism, which will serve him to good purpose in the higher walks of literatim upon which he will enter. The salary is 910,000 per annum, f THE DAVIS MEMOIR. The Story of Hie Life Written By His Wife. A Monument of Historic Literature and Wifely Devotion.-Hew Light Thrown Upon Dark Place*. “The Memoir of Jefferson Dtfii,” by His Wife, published in 2 Vols., adorned with many illustrations, by Belford Company, New York,, is more than the mere story of a man’s life, even though that man was perhaps the most promi nent figure of the remarkable period in which he lived. Jefferson Davis was the heart and head of the Confederacy, the representative of those principles to up hold which the South fought for foui years in one of the bitterest struggles of modern times, and these volumes, which tell the story of his career, form also the most perfect history of the Southern States, the most complete exposition of their political and social status which has ever been published. Before his death Jefferson Davis contemplated an autobiography which would place his career, his character, and his public acts before the world in their true light. lie prepared many notes and memoranda, collected many letters and documents. |nd had made some progress in the work when it was cut short by his death. lie left it, however, in such shape that Mrs. Davis was enabled to proceed with and complete the undertaking on the lines laid down by her husband. The work may therefore be said to be Mrgely auto biographical, and Mrs. Davis has wisely nade use of Mr. Davis’s own letters or memoranda wherever the scope and aim ~>f the work would best be furthered thereby. But her own part of the two large volumes is a splendid performance, proving the possession of rare historic genius, discrimination, and literary and editorial powers, not only altogether ex ceptional among women, but reraatkablc ?ven among trained biographers. Volume I, includes the period of Mr. Davis’s life up to his retirement from th** 3enate. A comprehensive sketch of hi: uncestry and boyhood is given. Vol. I. rvn S-S • ‘ Shortly before his last journey t< Briarfield he dictated to a friend an ac count of his ancestry and early boyhood. Three brothers came to America from Wales in the early part of the eighteenth century. They settled in Philadelphia. The youngest of the brothers, Evan Da vis, removed to Georgia, then a colony of Great Britain. He was the grandfath or of Jefferson Davis. He married a widow, whose family name was Emory. By Her he had one son, Samuel Davis, the father of Jefferson Davis.1 was born on the 3d of June, 1£# 3, in what was then Christian County. The Spot is now in TVUcl upei in),,; the exact site of my birthplace has since been built the Baptist church of Pair view. My first tuition was in the usur log-cabin school-house; though in the summer, when I was seven years old, i was sent on horseback through what was then called ‘The Wilderness’—by the country of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations—to Kentucky, and was placed in a Catholic institution then known as St. Thomas, in Washington County, nem the town of Springfield.” In November, 1823, Mr. Davis was ap pointed to a cadetship at West Point. He graduated in July, 1028. Volume II, of the "Memoir” continues the story of Mr. Davis’s career after his resignation from the Senate and his re turn to Mississippi, and includes the mo mentous period of his presidential in cumbency, the Civil War, his arrest and imprisonment, and closes with his death. Mrs. Davis has wisely elaborated this portion of the "Memoir,” and has collect ed an immense mass of data from sources hitherto unsuspected. It is this volume especially which will command universal attention and no doubt occasion much controversy, inasmuch as many actors in the great drama on both sides are set in a new and frequently unfavorable light. In this particular Mrs. Davis has felt it to be her duty to her husband's memory and to herself as a historian t “nothing extenuate and set down naugb in malice”; and however hot the contrc versy this volume may cause, in the enc it can only work for good as violeci thunder-storms clear the air. “The task,” says Mrs. Davis, Vol. IT., p. 1., “of relating my husband’s life ii the Confederacy is approached with anx ious diffidence, but it must fce fairly set forth for his justification. I am unwill ing needlessly to antagonize any part of the country, but love my own with devo tion proportionate to the great sacrifices made in its behalf.” Yol. II., p. 776: “In May, 1866, an indictment was pro cured against the ex-chieftain in the United Btates District Court of Virginia, held in Richmond. Oh' June lltn, ol the same year, on motion of Mr. Bout well, the House of Representatives, by a vote of 105 yeas to 19 nays, resolved that Mr. Davis should be held in custody os a prisoner, and subjected to a trial accord ing to the laws of the land.’ Mr. Davis in the meantime, was exceedingly anx ious to meet the questions arising on any indictment which might be presented.” The following is quoted from William Preston Johnston’s letter of January 6, 1889: . , “But there is no ground for argument with any man who impugns the personal integrity of Jefferson Davis. The charge recoils upon the author. For twenty years, President Davis has breasted a storm of obloquy and calumny from every quarter. Yet, to-day, he stands un scathed, the representative man man of the most glorious epoch of Southern his tory!” Whavever uiny be the politics or sec* tional feeling oi those who read these re markable volumes, there can bo but one opinion as to their historical value, or as to the impress they must make upon the literature of the century. While it can not be hoped the passions and prejudices of the struggle nave wholly vanished, during the twenty five years which have elapsed since the echoes of the last can ncs-shot died away, sufficient cool judg ment has supervened to admit of this “Memoir” being received as a most im port ant contribution to the story of our great and now permanently cemented Union. LAST GREAT GENERAL. Death of Joseph Eggleston Johnston. The Hero of Three Ware Has Passed Over the River.—Buried in the Monumental City. Washington, D. C., [Special.] Gen eral Joseph E. Johnston died of heart failure at his residence in this, city at 11:15 o’clock Sunday night. With him at the last moment were ex-Governor McLane, of Maryland, and the nurse. His death was very sudden, and a few moments before, dissolution there was no appearance to indicate it. He then gasped feebly once or twice, and the great leader of armies had himself obeyed the last summons. General Johnston had been confined to his room for several weeks past, and dur ing the last few days had gradually grown weaker. During the past twenty-four hours he had remained in a semi-coma tose condition, and was aroused with difficulty. His death was so peaceful that Gov / McLane, who was at his bedside, could not for several moments believe that the general was dead. There was not a sigh, not a movement; his heart ceased to beat and he sank to rest as peaceably and quietly as a babe to sleep. In addition to his heart trouble, the general had contracted a severe cold when he recently acted as pall bearer at the funerals of Admiral Porter and General Sherman. With the death of Gen. Johnston there is removed the last prominent figure on either side in the great civil war. There were a great many callers at Gen. Johnston’s late residence, including Gens. Schofield and Rosecrans and Ad miral Rodgers. The remains of Gen. Joseph E. John ston were placed in a beautiful casket and Tuesday morning taken to St. John’s church where the funeral service took place at 11 o’clock, the rector, Dr. Doug lass, conducting the ceremonies ; all be ing simple and void of display, this being the expressed wish of the dead man and his relatives. uvuuiaijr pan uearere were Denator JohnT. Morgan, of Alabama; Senator John W. Daniels, of Virginia; the Rev. J. L. M. Curry, Gen. John G. Parker, U. S. A.; Gen, Charles W. Field, Gen. Harry Heath, Rear Admiral C. R. P. Rodgers, Gen. H. G. Wright, Gen. Beuj. W. Brice, Col Archer Anderson, of Baltimore; Col. Edwin C. Harris, the Hon. J. C. Bancroft Davis and Pay Di rector James Watmaugh, of the navy. The active pallbearers were taken from the members of the Ex-Confederate Association, Washington City. Condolatory telegrams without num ber were received at his residence from prominent people throughout the South. Governor McKinney, of Virginia, tele graphed expressing a desire to come with a military escort from the dead chief tain’s native state. This was declined and then the govenor responded, assuring the presence of himself and five other Virginia officials at the funeral. Gen. Wheeler, from Alabama, tele graphed : “Our universal regret that we no longer have our beloved general.” Senator Walthall telegraphed from Mississippi: ‘‘Gen. Johnston had my admiratioa and affection and his family bas my sympathy.” Similar despatches from Gen. A. R. Lawton, of Georgia, Representative Breckenridge, of Kentucky, from the ex-Confederate association, from many places in thd South and from personal friends or war associates of the dead general, avowing admiration for his ex suited character and appreciation of his brilliant services, pride in his career or regret at his death were received at the mansion during the day and night. P. T. Sherman, on behalf of the late Sen, Sherman, sent the following from New York: “The family of Gen. Sherman desire to tender to the relatives of Gen. Johnston issurance of their profound sorrow and lympathy.” Baltimore, Md.—Gen. Johnston’s re mains were interred at Greenmount Cem ;teTy, Tuesday afternoon, attended by a fast concourse of people. Only the sim 3le burial service at the grave was read, n accordance with the wishes of the •elatives. The Movement in Texas. Aransas Harbor, Texas, is fast gaining i national celebrity. At a sale recently ueld there $250,000 worth of town prop srty was disposed of to buy. rs from 22 itates and from tfyree European countries, rhe reason for the sudden and widespread utrest are due primarily to the vigorous prosecution of the gigantm undertaking :hat it is confidently expected will give to this place a safe commodious deep water harbor and make it one of the great commercial ports of the Mexican Suit. Besides the double termiual rail way which is to connect this city with the mouth of the harbor, .there are many new buildings erected or under construc tion, including a 70 room hotel alul a railroad depot. All that coast region has jceu found suitable for summer as well is winter resorts, and many new struct ures are being prepared for the expected throngs of pleasure seekers. Lands in the vicinity can be purchased for from |10 to $25 an acre that are suitable for truck farms, orchards and vineyards, and many farmers from the Northwest art said to be purchasing and improving them. At the present rate of settlement tnd improvement Aransas Harbor aud the surrounding country will soon be noted for the commercial importance of the one and the quantity and value of the agricultural products of the other, . Receiver Ohunberlain’a Big System. The consolidation of the managemcn' of the South Carolina Railway and its leased lines and the Three C’s give* io Receiver Chamberlain and General Maim ger Ward the control of no doubt the largest mileage of railroad in South Car olina. They have charge of the follow ing lines: South Carolina Railway, Miles: 242 Three C’s Road 148 Columbia, Newberry and Lauren Railroad 46 Cumberland Gap Road 24 Total: _ _,. 460 Y. H. 0. A. ' J Getting Beady for the S. 0. State Convention—A Distinguish ed Delegate. State Secretary Wynne is now hard at work securing speakers and getting ilp an attractive programme for the Young Men’s Christian Association State Con vention, of South Carolina, which is to meet in Charleston April 10th. State Secretary Coulter, of North Carolina, will be present, and also State Secretary Jenner, of-Georgia. There is a probability also of seeming the presence of H. O.-Wil liams and James Farie, Jr., of Savannah. But the Charleston Association men seem to be prouder of having gotten James McConaughy, of New York, to agree to come than any one ebe. This gentleman stands head and shoulders above most of the general secretaries of America, and his work in New York city has been eminently successful. MaoV will recall a series of evangelistic services held in 1870, at Charleston, by Mr. Mc Conaughy and Mr. Hall, also of New York. His genial, * hearty manner and sincere earnestness made many friends at that time, who .will be delighted to greet him again. Mr. McConaughy comes by | invitation of the Charleston Associatioi to deliver their anniversary address, but of course will help at the Convention also. From the present outlook it is evident that the Y. M. C. A. will have a great and enthusiastic gathering in the City bv the Sea. An invitation is now being sent all over the State, urgently inviting all associations to send large delegations. The invitation is cordial, and the local Association proposes to handsomely care for all delegates. They know how to do it, and propose to do their best. A Notable Flag Presentation. The Sailors’ Home at Charleston has been in want of a United States flag ever since its re-erection after the earthquake, but has not been able to secure one. Tuesday its desire was gratified by the presentation of a new flag, which came to them under sad and peculiar circum stances. During one of our recent heavy blows the tug Vulcan was wrecked od the northwest breakers at Georgetown uar. i ne captain anu crewe constructed a life raft and were saved by a pilot boat, but the tug was lost with everything on board. On the last trip of the steamer Santeo to Georgetown Capt. Hopkins discovered a piece of a floating wreck with a signal of distress flying, and what at first appeared to be two men aboard. Hastily changing his course, a very heavy sea running, he approached the piece of wreck and found it was a small portion of the deck on which the mast was still standing with a United States flag flying, Union down, but there were no men aboard. He saw, however, that there y.'us a steam pump oh the wreck. Find ing that it would imperil his own vessel to try to secure the pump he did not at tempt to do so, but broke off the mast and secured the signal flag, probably -he only thing that will ever be seen of the ill-fated tug. Capt. Hopknis decided at once to present the flag to the Ladies’ Seamen’s Friend Society, that it might float over the, Home and Bethel. The flag is entirely new, 6x10 feet in :ize. It was presented to the Society on behalf of Capt. Hopkins by the chap fain, and will hereafter wave in gracefu' folds over the house of God and the home of peace. GEORGIA CENTRAL GONE. The Richmond and West Point Ter minal Octopus Scoops it In: Savannah, March 25.—The lease of the Central Railroad of Georgia to the Richmond and West Point Terminal Company in the name of the Georgia Pa cific Railway was practically decided upon at a meeting of the Central Rail road directors here to-day. The Termi nal’s proposition was discussed and re ferred to a committee, which agreed upon the terms of the lease to-night. The lessees will take the road and as Bume its indebtedness, and will guaran tee the stockholders 7 per cent on the capital stock,, which is $7,500,000. John H. Inman, Hugh Inman, Samuel Inman, John C. Calhoun, Pat Calhoun, Charles H. Phinizey and Mr. Swain* of New York, were at the meeting to-day. Pres ident Inman left here to-night for Au gusta. He will be in New York next week, where the lease will be consumat ed. It is said to-night that everything will be transferred in about two weeks. The lease of the Central will give the Georgia Pacific a through line from Sa vannah to the Mississippi river. Through the South to California. Washington, D. C., [Special.]—The President and Mrs. Harrison will leave m their Southern trip and California tour between the fifth and tenth of April, Oby way of Lynchburg, Danville, otte, Atlanta and New Orleans, and thence to the Pacific coast over the Southern Pacific. Announcement of Southern stops will be made later. The President goes to attend the for mal opening of the great Leland Stan ford, Jr , University, Palto Alto, Cali fornia, to which Senator Stanford ho* til ready given twenty million dollars, th# buildings of which cover many square miles, and designed to give to every needy child of that State a literary, scien tific or mechanical education. The Uui versity is a memorial, to the dead son of Senator Stnuford, and fie is expected to endow it with au additional'twenty mil lion, making it the largest, best furnish ed and the most richly endow'ed school of the whole world. * Stick To a Good Thing. A cash offer of $7,500,000 for a South ern iron and coal property now in full jperation was made not long ago and do dined by the present owners. The.offer was made by English people through American representatives, ana the mouey was m hand to pay for the property, but the owners thought they would prefer to keep it rather than to have $7,50%000. A.8 the Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co’s property is the largest of its class in the South, it may be well to say that this ^ffer was not made to that companf. It is reported that a French inventa is manufacturing paper from bop fines KEEP GUT OF DEBT. PraMast Polk Has Something to Say About the farm. The Culture of Peanute Diacuaeed By August H. Began.—Other Alli ance Matter. Wewant to say to all our-readers, and specially to our farmer readers, Some, things about debt. We are sure that what we say will help every one who will carefully read it and act upon it. The time is at hand when it is neces sary to prepare for another crop. Do not go into debt to buy what you want to enable you to pin another crop, if you can help it. It is better—far bettor—to make a small crop, and let it be all your own at harvest time, than it is to go in debt in order to pitch a big crop and take the risk of failure. If you must have means to start another crop, it is better to bor row the money on vour farm for a year or two and pay cash for what you buy. Be sure not to buy much. Again wfc say, it is better to make a small crop and have it all your own when it has been made, than it is to go in debt. We are sure '-bat the man in debt is not free in any ssnse—cannot consider himself free_is not considred free by his neighbors—and worst of all, is not considered free by his creditors. ^ Many debts that bang over and threat en the farmer could have been avoided if he had managed his farm so as to make t-is bread and meat and clothing at home. We are deeply in earnest when we say we want to see our fanners make their meat tnd bread and clothing at home. Any : ariner can raise and keep a few sheep. The wool from these will make the very .iest of clothingfor both man and woman; i nd the lambs come in splendidly for fresh meat during the summer. Flax will grow splendidly in this latitude;‘and in addition to furnishing the warp for jeans, the seed is very valuable as a market crop. Let our fanners, then, raise some sheep and swine, and grow some flax, and mnke their own clothing, and live on the farm, and live off the the farm, and keep free of debt, and they will become prosperous and happy. It is the duty of every farmer to buy as little as possible; and what he does buy hould be bought to the best advantage •ad be paid for on the spot. AUiance r.en now have purchasing agents, through whom they can purchase to the very best advantage; and they ought to form clubs md make their orders through these "gents. But the main thing is not to bey any thing you can do without, until you are full bauded and able to indulge your rastes for elegant things. Let us econo mise this present year and not go in debt, and the prosperity you have been sighing for will surely come and come speedily. Let us keep out of debt at any hatard, and all will be well. ****** ^ ° PEANUT CULTURE. The following letter from August H. Pegau at Port Wallthall, Va., on the sub ject of peanut culture will be interesting: I was amused to read on the agricult ural page of the Commercial Gazette of January 7, in an article (selected of course,} on the “Culture of Peanuts,” the i,rave statement that the nuts will not orm unless the blossoms be covered with arth as soon as they open. The daily ask—as the writer styled it—may be in err sting to amateurs who plant for amuse ment, but just what it would be here in Virginia, where farmers have twenty acres tnd upward in peanuts it is difficult to magine. The notion is as absurd as planting things in the moon. When the over and the little pod goes into the ground, where the nut is perfected. Here in Virginia the planting is done ibimt the first of May on elevated rows (similar to sweet potato ridges, buff"not so high) three feet apart in the rows. Sandy land is the best peanut land. They are cultivated similar to corn, ridging‘up the rows some at the last working, so the pegs, as the little pods are called, have nice, mellow soil to sink into. They do : not require extra rich land, butmusthave some lime to fill well. - - iy The last season here was a good one, and from fifty to nearly a hundred bushels per acre were raised; but generally fifty t« sixty bushels is considered a good crop. The vines make excellent cow feed, and are selling for (10 a ton. To prevent mice or anything else from taking up the seed, it is coated with coal tar. The samo is also done here with seed corn, and then ashes are put on the seed to make it dry to handle. Less than a pint of ashes will cover a bushel of corn or of peanuts, either, and save lots of replanting. *•»*»♦* Arrangements are being made in Minn esota whereby a subtrust of the Farmers’ National Trust will be organized. The fanning fraternity of the whole North west, consisting of 60,000 men, propose to form this trust, and make their own market. Shrewd men are at the head of the scheme, and before the seed ripens for 1891 the farmer will know what he is doing. The Most Fowerfnl Telescope. Half a dozen serious-faced men an working at Cambridgeport, Maas., over a great lump of glass, with a delibera tion that might suggest, under different circumstances, that they expected to be paid by the hour. What they accom plish In a day is not appreciable to the untrained eye, and the amount of work they do In a month, is hardly Worth mentioning. Indeed, the ever-present anxiety in their minds and the minds o' their employers is last they may ] too rapidly. They can afford to slowly, for, if they succeed, in their) they will have given to the lump of f a value comparable only witl of the rarest gems. The lump < is intended to form one of the lei the forty-inch telescope for ~ varsity of Southern California, and I being ground by Alran Cfark * T the world-celebrated makers of a ' refractors. It will be the moat powerful I in Hie world when it if comp! the famous instrument In the i servstory on Mount Hamilton relegated to second place, telescope Is to be beeten by : JVoneiwc Btaminv,
The Sanford Express (Sanford, N.C.)
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