*1 - i. VOL. VI SANFORD, N. C„ THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1892 -1 —-'■ mi—i m-— - mmmmmmmrntm -- . _' J5AJJBATU SCHOOL. INTERNATIONAL lesson fob FEIJB.UARY 81, 1889. : a- -t®* “Th®** Bald the princes unto Baruch; Ctd hide thee, thou ana Jeremiah, and let no man know where ye be.’’ Baruob was Jere miah's scribe, ana had just been reading in the ears of the people, fn the Lord’s house, upon tho fasting day, the wordB of the Lord, which he, had. written from the mouth of Jeremiah (verses 6, £}. ThdLord gave these words to Jeremiah in the hope that the w iU Mio UUIJU iuau rae, people might turn and be forgiven (verses 8. *<), for He it ever seeking to save. Baruch •/, iDUkiuK iaj savo. oaruca having read to the people Is sent for to read the words to the princes, which, having beard, they are afraid, inquire further, and then give counsel as in this verse, '•being friendly to the prophet. * 20.-/“Andthey went into the king and told all ttoe wordsv In the ears of tne Ttlbg.” Jehoiakim was the son of Josiah the good gng, but was very- different from his father.' He was preceded by his brother Jehoahaz, who reigned only three months, and was then carried captive into Egypt (II Chron. Uxyj„ 1-5). 2L “So the ting sent Jehudi to fetch the roll, and Jehudi read it.in the ears of the king, and in the ears of all fcfie princes* This Ik thn' will nf CnH that 1_:_ This is the will of Cod, that kings" princes and people in all the world should hear His .. fword.^ This is the. responsibility of all who ■.!? Shave the wohd, that they should give it or jreadit to others; and if we are oifly willing (He will set 'before us open doors. All re jsults are with Him. fie will see to it. -v L 2?‘ u?ow ♦be king sat in the winter house on the ninth month, and there was a fire on fche hearth burning before him^. Winter and summer houses,- and houses of ivory1 are spoken of to' indicate the luxury and self in dulgence of the people (Amos iii., 15). If the j (fasting day of verse t> was the fast of atone ment, in the seventh month (Lev. xvi. 29) then some little time (over a month) elapsed between Baruch’s first reading and'this read ing before the king. i ' L 33. “He cut' it with the penknife and cast it into.the fire that was on the hearth, until all the rob was consumed in the fire that was ‘i on the bedrth.” This was his treatment of the word of the .God of Israel upon whose throne he sat (I Chron., xxix., 23) and whose •• representative he ought to have been, Con his other’s treatment of the word of -— \-AUU BlimuH I 111 am jpot do worse than the professors and preach era of our day who in the name of “higher ;-arz jcritjcjsm,” or “science,’Vpr .something else, penknife the Bible, cutting' ‘out what they > please, refusing us anything supernatural, - • and assuring us that even Jpsus Christ was not an infallible ahthoWty hi all things.' All : fruch had better heed Isa., viii., 30, R. .V.-. • '"“Yet they were hot afraid, nor rent their garments.” And no more are these unbelieving critics of our times, who are •thus hastening on to their own destruction and leading multitudes with them. . s 25; -“Nevertheless Elnathan .made inter-. * 'Pessiofito the king that he would not burn the rpll, but heWould not hear them.” If > any one will not receive the truth God will ' -let them believe a lie (II Thess. it, dO-12), but '* !S*r^wWbe the result (chapter jrid., 15 * *■•)« Klnathan and the others did well to '■■■ plead*for the word, even though they pleaded -in vaiu. God will not forget it. ‘ ’ f ’ 20- “But the king commanded to take Barueh, the scribe, and Jeremiah, the »pro« - ipbetr the Lord hid them.” Not only » ben°t fear'to destroy the Word of the Lord, but lie feared not to kill. JHis servants also i| he could lay hands on them. " Rebel lion fearfully hardens heart. How safe are those whom God hides; see how securely ffa bij Elijah (I1*Kings xviii., 10). Compare £*8. xxvij., 5, xxxii., 7, and give good heed to Zeph. ii, 3; Luke xxj., 36 that you may .rejoiceinQoLiii., 3. . " > > ;, j. 27. * ‘Then the Word of the Lord came to Jeremiah after that the king had burned the roll.” The Lard had seen it all and. observed it; He had now more work for Jeremiah and knew just where to find him. The prophet 1 \h i;f only to hold himself ready for anything th it Jehovah might require, either to ap pear or to be hidden, to speak or to be quiet, do or to suffer. 1 .28. *'‘Take thee again another xoll, and Write it in all the former words that were in - the first roll.” In verse33 it.is said that many more words were added. It. is im ipossible to destroy the word of God. All _. efforts to do so have only increased.the num ber of copies. The Bible has been compared to a man who has been shot and hung and drowned and burned in the fire and scattered to the winds, and yet in some wonderful way Us more alive than ever. ’ 29. :“fhus saith the Lord, Thou hast burned this roll, saying. Why hast thou, . Written therein, saying. The king hated the book because it told of a coming judg ement;" so the Bfble is now .hated by many V ^because it tells of a lake of fire for the un jgodly, and of everlasting punishment, and :of coming judgments. But though many may penknife these things out of their Bibles, »ud hate those who preach them, j yefc the Eacts stand. . , , . , . 31, 33. “Therefore thus saith. the Lord of */ehoiakim, king of Judah,'I will punish [him, and his seed, and his servants, for the'ir '-iniquity' but they hearkened not.” His miserable death and wretched treatment of ^us.bhdy, With evils upon his seed and king dom are here foretold, and all came to pass, ' iThe Deliver not only has a redeemed soui - pow. "but will have a renemed body, boo, just like the body or his liord, and aha?!: •it with Him on His throne, and no evil can befall him (1 John ifi., 2, 3; Phil, ill, 20, 21; . fiev* ili/81<* Ps. xoi., 9, 10). But the pros ..b uiintuiRvoi jo ns luuoeuiiuu ly hwYuI &s the other is glorious, (Bee I hess.i*f 7-10; Math, xxv., 41; Rer/xiv., 1.) God has provided salvation tor all and not -willing that any should perish,, it how shall any escape who neg ;t so great a salvation? And what a 'earful responsibility rests upon allwbo' - ‘atfv way add to or diminish the' , [word of Gdd (Rev; xxii./ 18, -10; Dent. iV., 3; xii., 83; Prov. xxx., 6). With inany.to-,c ttay the whole book of . Revelation is com « , nletely set aside, and preachers tell their Bearers not to read id; whereas in this book r. «U the other books, of the .Bible end and taeet, and in it is the consummation of all previous prophecy. It is-the only book of «U the sixty-six that contains a special blfessr*. lug upon reader and hearer (Rev. i., 8), I’, „ myself have heard ope of the moat popular preachers and Bible teachers of to-day. say * that he would not think; of taking a\ text Xrom either Daniel or Revelation if ne could ‘Juflbitv. I da not wonder that th6 safnem&n' said that the Jews were no more to God than' ^the Indians of .our country.- What differs «nce is; there between such a man and the .o^flkinj^of Judah who out and burned the word jof God? Is not this man the. worst of the wwd.—-Lesson Helper, ; •, .t*v -L'~‘ " , Speed of ,Rallr'»iiyI 5'rttlu»v ; It ta often desirable d®;; reliijye^thj tedjuoiot travel by rail bj>, testing the .•peed at which the train-.’is, rU _j',i along, and many-persons kmusti them-. " selves By tkainglbii speed ;by noting,' watch in hand, the time at Which the pVarious mile posts are passed. There is ; a rule, however, which gives., approxi mately correct results, whiohanyboothay practice without reference to a timer , keeper. The rails average about thirty feet iu length; and the number passed ~ over in twenty- ieoonds equals, roughly, the number qf. ratios per hour at which - the train Is travel) og.' Unless the train is running at a very high speed,say over 'sixty miles per hour, there is no dif ?. ’Acuity in counting the number of rails passed, over, as there is a distinct click as the joint between each pair of rails is • covered by the wheel.—New York Ttl* v FEBRUARY FANCIES. , Many Important Happenings That Get < ; . People Into Print. / i ‘ Tlj,e Latest News Notes and Bis< , patches From the Potomac ■ To the Quit . ' i, • " ' -■' ' f ~'rzryiRQonA. ■ _ Roanoke is to have a mutch factory. <■ " The Danville Fire Insurance Company has been organized. K ■ Another national bank is being organ ized at Harrisonburg. . . , Norfolk has a new bank called the City National, with $200,000 capital stock. The Book-Sellers’ Association meVt at Richmond last week. More attention is now being paid to stock raising in Louisa. ’ ~ % Twenty-seven marriage licenses were ssued during January in Bedford county. Senator Daniel delivered a lecture in Charlottesville for the benefit of tbo Con federate veterans of that city, dt ■'-*£*¥ The Barig Iron Works of Buena Vista made an assignment Thursday, with lia bilities of $80,000. ' The Young Men’s Christian Associa tion convention Convened at Richmond Thursday with 145 delegates present. Eighty years ago there were -less. itlian 1,000 lambs raised yearly in Pulaski county for the northern'markets; now it will average about 10,000. Then the lambs averaged not over 60 pounds; now from 75 to 80 pounds. The Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad Co. has, given a. contract to the Richmond Lo comotive and Machine Works ,for ,25 lo comotives, which m.akes 46 ordered by that road of this company. It was only a few years ago when Southern raHroa is were compelled to buy all their engines in the North. . _1 _ Farmers’Bulletin No.' 0, in press at the Department of Agriculture, • •Waali ington, D. C , treats of the cultivation and curing of tobacco. Ifc/1s writteu by Johu M. Estes, a practical tobacco raiser, who has recently made a cAreful study of the subject in the tobacco-raising States Any one can procure the pamphlet by writing for it. NORTH CAROLINA. The bank of .North Wilkesboro will open up March 1st. _ Salary of the mayor of Winston has been increased to $1,000. 7 • The new Atlantic Coast Line machine shops arevto be built at Rocky Mt. Salisbury i3 about making an organ *-ized movement against the saloons. The State Sunday School Association meets.iii New B.erne March 29th. • Average death rate iu eleven town* of Noith Carolina is 10.0 for fh« whites |x»r 1,000, and 17.4 for the blacks. Jno. T. Patrick has been notified by the - Commissioners of Agriculture to “move his plunder” from the Agricultu ral building at Raleigh. ‘ ; 4 7 - Governor Holt is at Haw River,'where his aged mother is quite sick. * J. D. Bridges, dry goods merchant of Shelby,, has^assigned. Liabilities "about $16,000; assets $5,000.- V ' . The First and Second regiments of the?1 State Guard are to encamp in July at Wrightsville, the Third and Fourth regi ments at Asheville. '* Dr. Albert B. Hart, professor of . Amer ic:-"'''i; t • Governor .Tillman offered a reward of #80 for thefcaptui'o of. .the nersorr- who1 burned the barn of 3. P. Cook; in' New" berry county, t .. , j ' A stage line is to be established be tween Orangeburg liitd tho ocarest- sta tion on the Houth Bound railroad. There is a movement on foot to form a new county,ou^.of portions, of Orange burg and Berkeley .county with Holly Hiilae’ the county seat. ■ ' There wasm “scrap” on ..Washington square, Charleston, between Probate Judge Msgrath and' Mr. Bissoll, a plum ber, the difficulty arising dirt of busi ‘V -r1' ness troubles .No, weapons; were used nod the damages are not serious/ j * The Governor pardoned Henry Robin' ion, who was convicted of burglary and larceny and sentenced fo five } pars’ im prisonment iu tho State penitentiary. Raiding Deputy Ensor of the’ revenue service returned.to Greenville from a raid in Oconee and Pickens pountie*. He des troyed four illic't distilleries and five hundred gallons Of beer and mash. .A scheme is on foot at Greenville and will be carried out to bu'dd a magnificent new opera house by organizing a branch of a northern building and loan associa tion. • 1 . •.-- - ■ ' ‘ tifil A meeting of the prominent citizens of Pickens was held and a company organ ized to build a railroad from Pickens to Easley, where a connection will be made wjth the Richmond and Danville road. The East Shore Terminal Co. has de cided to increase its bonded indebtod ness by atfcissue of bonds to the amount of $3(H>,pOQ, also to increase the capital stock of the company $300,000. , . ; The Wolfo-A Tiger Mining Co., incor porated bv tfnj last legislature, is devel oping gold m/ncs in GrecnviHertnd Spar tinburg counties, and- is haviiig'&urv^eys made for a canal to be constructed (pur miles in length. " Another fatal accident, occurred in the Northeastern railroad yard, Charleston*, by which ^ A-. •O’Brian, acting, yard master, was crushed to death whim coup ling cars. Tftie deceased was $2 years old. He will be sent to Smeath, on the South Carolina railway for buitaj. OTHER STATES. Greenville, Miss., special says: “Due Gue Fergusbn, son of GeHJ S. W. Fergu son, shot and killed James Goodman, merchant.and largj planter. Goodman’s brother was also wounded. The affrajy 0 etirred at Leesburg, .^JJiss., t>yeoty miles from here.” . V - Among tlie speakers at the meeting of 1 he Southern Educational Association at Atlanta, July 5-8, will be -President Winston, of the State University-Presi dent James DinwidcKe, of Peace Insti tute, Raleigh, and President C. D, Mc fvfcr, of the Normal aud Industrial School fnr White Girls, at Greensboro.. Theste 'gentleman'will well represent North Car olina;*',, • •: Fieh Planting in North Carolina Streams.. Newton, N/C.—Dr. : Josephus Turner, of Sherrill’s Ford, takes much interest in fish aud has been corresponding with Congressman Henderson with regard - to stocking the Catawba river. The fol lowing reply Of the Commissioner of Fish and Fisheries to o#ne of Mr. Henderson’s communications, which is furnished, us by Dr; Turner, will be of interest to many readers, especially those along the Ca tawba aud Yadkin rivers: Hon. John 8. IIendekson, House of Representatives, . . — Hism Sio. • ^ -» or.-— uary 19th, I beg to say that in June, 1886, 305;000 shad fry were deposited in the Catawba liver,, rear Morganton, N. C. In December, 1883, -500 red-eye perch were planted in’the Yadkiu - river near Salem; and duringTbc same mouth 2,455 carp were put in the sane stream near Salisbury; also, in January, 618 yearling rainbow trout were deposited therein. I have directed these streams be placed on ourTist for deposit of shad in the distri bution Of ilie species next spring. Should you desire that notice in reference to the planting be given to any of your con stituents, please forward name and ad dress to this office. Very respectfully, M. McDonald, Commissioner. Atlantic Coast 'Line Violates the • ... Law.^-i : ' Washington^ D. d.,T[8fecial.]r—The Inter-State Coramorce Commission has made a decision in favor of Hie com plainant, in the case of Charles P. Perry against the Florida Central and Pepiusu-. lar Company and other roads forming bh&At|anticCoastr'Lineri'J,TheconditioTis affecting rates-on,strawberries from Flor ida points to New York are.compared with those connected wi ll the transpor tatlpn of oranges and other freight car ried in the same trains,, and the.Com mission rules that the rates for forward ing strawberries • from Florida *-to New York city should qot. exceed 3.-33 per hundred pounds from Callahan, Fla., to New York, and from Lawtry^ Hammock Ridge, and other, stations more distant from N«*w York Callahan * and through fates should not be in excess of the charge from Callahan, and should be filed with the Commission and.publish ed according t6 law- The Commission also reaffirms its . power to determine what rates are. reasonable, and in regard to damages it holds that the measure of reparation Is (he difference--between the rate charged and the reasonable:rate which.should, .have ,beeivcharged-,- .The defendants are ordered to bring; their, freight from' Law try- and' alt* points to Callahan jn eppformi$x with.the long and short liatil provision qj. the law, qud,faiilt "is found with the practice 6f charging a through rate and; adding a 'local rato to" or froip a local, point upon a through shipment intended tq be continuous. 4. killed in,frying to ksr (Sister. WHEELiNQ, W.. Va., .[Special. ]— terrible accident oecutreri at Gameron, oearthiffcity, in 'whftti fiyfi beautrful young girls, daughters ' of William Cris well, last their lives, one of thiim while heroically attempting to save, the other." Essie nock Georgians fitiiwcll, aged ie spovlfully fourteea Had. sixteen- were walking along the Baltimore and, Ohio track, andfwtnle atieropliAg1 id c'rtiii in‘; f«e«M{ ».,;?VSSihonn4 -fiftin,,.Essie-.-felt • when the engine was almost upon her. is • KJeorgiana; seeing iter' sister's danger1 and ignoring the - fact that tho attenf^ was almo3t.eertaiu .death, rushed to her, rescue. > She, too. • sttrinbleil, and wu3 . killed. Essie was> cut*- itt two-by the wheejs.’ - s -iAcr^;is> .* •liynchihgc ht ttoanoke.' ’ -Roanoke, Va •gABw'ly Eriday ihbVnlng unobntiiso peisoip took Wih.i.aven der,.the ne^ro who. waa.^onfloed jn the. police staticio hero Tior lyi' attempt assault ’ o»,AlinsrPerron »fcitra?g»r>: and*Winged ” him to a ,,ti-ee.,' J,avomlot .eonjeased be- ■ hire he wirir hinged. •' y ' ' —Vi j' -.!.st•*'•}* •O.V '* FARMERS’ ALLIANCE, - Much Interesting News of the Im ' meose Order. Capt. Alexander Bos a Bill Which He Thinks Will Regulate the Cotton Acreage. Wasuinotow, D. C.—“Impossible to control it; useipse speculation to consider it,” cmphtociilly and tersely replied Sydenham B, Alexander, of, the sixth district of North Carolina, when asked if concerted redaction in acreage was the remedy for the prevailing depression in cotton, “We can’t make cotton in my part of North’Carolina under 9p.,5’ Mr. Alexan der aaid. .., •,, A f., ’ * ‘What fs your areitfedy for the presS&t^ Condition?” ho was asked. “This,” he replied. .Mr. Alexander produced a bill which is before the committee On Ways and -means. ,-,The proposition is as concise os the author’s speech. The most i m pOrtant provides “that all vessels’ built within the United. States by citizens thereof, and wholly, owned and manned by citizens of the United States, engaging in foreign commerce, shall be allowed to enter and discharge their returning cargoes at" any port of the United States, free of all cus tom duties; provided, that said vessels shall have carried full outgoing cargoes from the United. States, three-fourths at least of which cargoes consisted of agri cultural products of the United States.” The ether sections simply provide legu lations to carry out this idea. The nine.third party Alliance member* 'or Congress —Simpson, Otis, Baker, Da vis and Clover, of Kansas, Kerr and Mc Keighan of Nebraska, Hallowed of Min nesota, and Watson of Gcprgia—held a conference, and a declaration was drawn up to_ be issued as a manifesto to their constituents and the country. It declares that these gentlemen propose to* flock by themselves hereafter and denounces the Livingston faction for going into the old party lines.-; The 8 mpson-Watspn fac tion want it unders ood that from this time op they are third party men, and hot to be reckoned as sura to support the party measures of either party. Con gressman Clover of Kansas has in prepar ation a bill, to be introduced in a day or so, which he says will warm the cockles of the Alliance heart. It is a bill provid ing that, evory Stato_sbaH own oil rail roads in its borders and operate the same A full programme for the couduct of thc^e new State enterprises will be set forth. Four per cent.' of all profits are to lie laid aside as a repair and mainte nance fund, and the residue is, to fatten the publjc treasury, and in that way to lower taxes. Mr. Clover claims that his Schemfc'wjll make, travel . t-Tienis*--, railroad tickets will be sold for 20 per cent, of the present tariff, and that, as n direct resiilt, many more people will trav el and more freight will he shipped, and the aggregate of receipts will be larger than ever. ****** RB?6HmONa OF MECKLESBURG ALLIANCE. Resolved, That we adopt the Carolina Watchman as the organ of the Mecklen burg County Alliance. -2. That we endorse the principles ..laid down the in Ocala platform in. to to, and thp sub Treasury especially. 3. That we eu.dorse our National Presi dent and worthy North Carolinian, L. L Polk. 4. That we endorse our national edi tor, Dr. C. W. Macune, and recommend the taking, and urge the reading of na tional organ,. the National Economist, so *bly conducted by him, by alt .Alli ancemen and liberty-loving citizens. 5 That, we are in hearty sympathy with our Western Alliance brethren* and wiiT’be.found solid, side by side with them af theJjatlotbox—next November, voting for reform and pure government. G. That we recognize co-operation in business essential to success, and, as oui State Alliance has successfully inaugura ted a business system, and each Alliance business agent do his tradiug through pur State agency ns far as practical. •y . Fraternally, L. M. McAllister. Sect’y. A WISE MOVE 1M GEORGIA. One ofthe best moves that has been made in the South tosccure a good class of im migrant farmers has just been inaugura ted in Putnam county, Ga., by some en terprising citizens, who have organized the Middle Georgia' Land Co. with a capital stock of $50,000. ■ Subscriptions to the capital stock are to be in land and "money ’Tim company will purchase good farming property’and divide it into 100-acre dorms; On each ., farm a com fortable residence will be built and such improvements made as will unable a ten; ant or ..purchaser to hegiu active fann ing Operations os soon os be fnkea poses sion. The Atlanta Constitution, iu giv ingpsowe details of the plans of opera ‘ lions of the company, says; "" “The intention is to sell these farms to ^csirablc settlers on Jong time and easy 'payments, thereby seeming industrious and thrifty immigrants' Hut home poo ptp, WiU-not be shut out-from1, the Imne-. fits of thjs scheme. Farmers who have ,’h'eretof rc'rented land may, iu a reason able length of time, own u farm of their ojrn, .paying, for ■ Tho ManufactuierB’ Record, of Balti.' more, in its issue of February 13, says: “While there is no marked increase in the organization of new industrial enter prises throughout the South, there is a steady, solid advance, and also a grow ing confidence with the leading capital ists of the country that the South is the best field in America for investment. Many plans of great magnitude lire being worked out, and with a return of activi ty in investment and business interests in the country at large the South will again become the center of development, and future operations will probably be oti a larger scale and by heavier capitalists than .anything which the South has seen yet. Among the more, important under takings reported during the week are the very extensive iron and steel-making and town-building operations to be com menced bV Alex. A. Arthur, the fmimlnr of Middlesborough, in connection with some of the foremost iron-makers and largest capitalists of the North. This enterprise, or rather these combined en terprises, will probably draw not less than $10,000,000 into that section within the next 12 or 18 months. At Tuscaloosa, Ala., $250,000 coal and coke company has been organized, in connection with'con tractspreviously made, to secure a railroad to navigable water on the Warrior river, thus opening a water route from Alabama coal fields to the Gulf; a $00,000 coal company has been organized in Shelby county, Ala.; a knitting mill will be re moved from theNorth to Bridgeport, Ala ; at Ocala, Fla , it is reported that a syndi cate with a capital stock of $1,000,000 will establish 8 large tobacco factories; a company is being organized to establish a bleachery in Georgia; a $1,000,000 com pany has been incorporated in Louisville, Ky., to deal in timber lands, andn$l, 000,000 company in Kentucky to pur chase and develop oil and mineral lands; in Frankfort, Ky., a $300,000 distillery company has been incorporated jllarietla, Ga., is to have a large furniture factory; a $250,000 kaolin company has been or’ gauized in Luke couutv, Fla ; a $15 000 lr«iVr$WRIff ice”"facCbry " iu”'8I.re've port, La.; a f600,000 company is being organized to purchase and develop 60, 000 arres of Kentucky coal lands, etc. The Norfolk & Western railroad has just secured $2,000,000 in New York for | pushing the work on its Ohio extension ! more rapidly. These are signs which show how the outlook is improving.” EX-GOVERNOR SCALES DEAD. He Passes Away at* His Home in Greensboro, Gukknsboro, N. C.—Ex-Governor Alfred Moore Scales died at his. home at S) 05 Tuesday night. He was born November 26th, 1827, in Rockingham county, lie served in Congress one term before the war and for five consecutive terms after the war. He entered the Confederate army as a private, was iu many of the ino$t impoitant battles of that conflict, was twice wounded and be fore the closp of the contest was created brigadier-general. In 1884 he was elec ted Governor ot North uarolififlrby a raa jority of 20,000. After his term expired he retired to private life, and has since been interested in financial enterprises, being nt the time of his death president of the Bank of Greensboro. He has been very ill for many mouths, and his death was not unexpected. The funeral took place at 11 o’clock Thursday from West Market Street Pres byterian church, the pastor, Rev. Dr. J. Henry Smith, conducting the exercises At 10.30 o’clock all bells of the city be gan to toll and so continued for half an hour. The pall bearers were Messrs. J, S Michaux, R. M. Douglas. R. R. King, Dr. B. F. Dixon, D. Schenck, Jr., W. P. Bynum, Jr., S L. 'Irogdon, J. T. Morehead, J. A. Bariinger, J. N. Wil son, Dr. D. R. Schenck, Robert Yaughan. Gov. T. M. Holt and staff were present at the funeral. Tree Pass Excitement. Richmond. Va.—A bill introduced > few day* ago making John E. Masarjr, superintendent of public instruction, ex officid’meraber of the board of visitors ol the dejif and dumb institutions and also of the university, cauie up. Senator Flood, of Appomattox, opposed,.the bill on two grounds, the first of wli’ch was that Massey was the officer to which the boards made their reports which unfitted him to serve; the second and main ob jection was that, though paid $500 per annum fop ex pens s by the State, Massey regularly traveled ou free railroad passes^ and boarded with the professors of edu tionnl iustUutiouswhiie he charged the State for railroad fare and hotel bills. Flood read some of the itemized bills making these charges against the State and afso a letter asking for $70 from from Prof. Lomax to defray hia (Massey’s) expenses back frpm Alabama; ' where he had just been married. A committee was appointed to investigate the report. ~ Albert Fink to Be President. - NewYokk. - There is a good authori-. ty for the statement’ that when the reor ganization of. Abe jRiehmond Termioal' profierty is completed, - Albert Fiek, the former trunk line commission er, will be offered tho presidency of the new corporation.- rptie Qlcojtfc committee has completed its v.orju and the plan .of reorganisation prepared by it will proba bly toe made public in a day or tyro, LIFE OF STONEWALL JACKSON. A Sweet, Inspiring: Story of the Se vered and Beloved Confed erate Leader. . The “Life and Letters of Gen. Tlios. J'. Jackson by his Wife, Mary Anna Jack son,” has been issued, from the press of Harper & Bros , with an introduction by Rev. pr. Henry Field. Writing from the other side Dr. Field says, “The time has come when we can do justice to those who were once in 'arms against us.” “It. is only- a few months since Geh. Sherman was .borne through our streets, and among those who followed at his bier was his great adversary, Gen. Johnston, who, by a sin gular coincidence, survived him but a few weeks . Thus the warriors who once ‘to battle rode* at the head of hostile Armies, now fall into line in the great procession to that realm of silence in which all enmities are buried.” In this bearing of our great soldiers towards each other, they who were “first in war’* were also “first in peace,” and it were well that they should remain ‘ first in the hearts of their countrymen,” as the leaders whom we are to follow in the work of reunion Why. then, recall the bitter memories.of a war that is ended? “Let the dead past bury its dead.” But out of the dead past comes the living present. “It is a poor reconciliation which is ob tained by only agreeing never to speak of the past/V “Men who are honest and brave have nothing to be ashamed of, and nothing to conceal.” Lessons of heroism, of patriotism, of patient enrlur rance may be learn* d from illustrious examples on both sides, the blessed fruits of which are to broaden character, to en large sympathy, and to teach respect for a foe who honestly and courageously dif fers from us. Already “Stonewall” Jacksop has be come a national hero, and the North (without the tender love and hero-wor ship for him that inspires every Southern heart,) proudly claims him as the highest type of an American soldier. Dr. Field says: “He was the most picturesque figure of the war. None of the other leaders had a personality so unique. In Jackson, there were two men in one that seemed absolutely incompatible—the highest military genius, with a religious fervor that bordered on fanatacism, a union of soldier and saint for which we must go back to the time of Cromwell. His character is one of the most fascing ting studies of American history.” The world has heard so much of Jack son through two previous Biographies, that it will hardly be prepared for the revelation that awaits it in the charming book before us. Its purpose is not to re iterate what lias already been said by able aud loyal pens, nor to portray in fresh columns the matchless Confederate hero, but to disclose to the public, for the first time, another phase of his char acter, not less attractive because so dif Sfahy*tfnvc'only regarded him. “Another beautiful illustration of the lines that, - “The bravest are the tenderest, The loving are the daring.” His “inner life known but to few, dis closed fully only to her who was united to him in the closest of human relation ships, is by her beautifully arid delicate ly unveiled for the wonder and admira tion of thousands who never knew him, and of many who met him in the clash of arms and c>n fields of carnage. ” Mrs. Jackson, in her preface, gracefully aqd touchingly gives her reasons for the pub lication of these memoirs and letters. The work was undertaken at the earnest solicitation of (ier now sainted. daughter, the lovely Mis. Julia Jackson Christian, who, especially after she became a moth er, felt such a desire that her children might know more of the domestic life of their illustrious grandsire than they could ever learn oth erwise'than through this book. She,too, had known the father only at second hand ; her historian had been the loyal mother, from whose lips she UaiIy lis tened to some sweet reminiscence and quaiutauce with, and appieciat on of, the the matchless father, whom God “called up higher” before she had learned to lisp his name. She “with gentle footsteps followed him. even as he followed Christ, into the Upper Sanctuary before the work was completed. With heart of lead, aud hands that seemed t > have lost their cunning, Mrs. Jmksdn,- resumed hersad but sacred task,inspired by hCr la mented daughter's wish,and the prayerful hope that the motherless lambs might be spared to read, to admire, and emulate -his grand example. Host worthily and even touchingly has she completed her “labor Of ljjve.” Her style is chaste and* vivacious, and i9 peculiarly adupted to biography—a species of composition that is so often heavy, even in the hands of more experienced or p:etentious writers. Gen. Jackson’s life was of couise full of adventure, and of incidents. All this . is most attractively and pleasantly .inter .woven by the enthusiastic author, and forms mi umiaually attractive book. Two points of character strongly impress the reader. One is the deep tenderness and affection of liis nature—a romantic love for his wife that never fails or varies* —combiued with complete unselfishness —in fact, entire self-abnegation to. love or tQ duty.; the other is, hisl' iritensa^re ligious character.' It was "not a-profes sion—teas d lifepermeating his being,, and euteriug into every detail of his da\ly life. It'was, often remarked, during the war, that it was hard for a than to be a Christian iifthe army, where his tempta* '* tions were so great and;go multiform, but, ; here is a marvellous exaanpt^iqf.th^ Chris tian soldier—never ttyo'tirefl or too hur ried to.piaj:—who, in the heat of actioD^ - amid storm.ofshot* and shell, so often raised his eyes iii'devoiit supplication'tp tbeGodof buttles > .' This 1 after characteristic is- strikingiy testified to byjiis colored servant, Jim,., who said ho could always tell when thero ^ was going to be A battle, Srid he? v‘Tli6 . General.is a great A friend prevailed, And she has just finished it, saying how much \ she enjoyed it, and that she could not see how any one could read t and not ‘ wish t o be a Christian. > . ■ Mrs. Jackson has, happily, given no minute accounts of battles, aud they are only introduced as forming apart of Gen*^^1 Jackson’s life, from which they could not be dissevered. The first chapters of the memoir are devoted to a brief history -3 of the Jackson auccstors—people of old English and Scotch Irish stock, a deline- V.' ation of whose sturdy, vigorous natures **■ T clearly, rfeveal whence the great military leader inherited his indomitable will, his ;; energy and tranquil courage, 4‘The boy was father of the man.” In childhood, ■'% he exhibits wonderful determination' in surmounting obstacles and. accomplishing whatever he undertakes. This is 'very interestingly narrated in his tryingwex perience when attempting to enter West ’ Point, his subsequent trials,' and final -J “over coining” of them all by the end of . 4, his four years’ career as a cadet. While in the military academy he com piled for his own Use a set of rules And maxims,- relating to morals, manners, dress, choice of friends and aims in life: Perhaps^be most characteristic of these ^ was: 4*Yo,u may be whatever you re- £ solve to be.” Another was: “Through life let your principal object be the dis charge ofdhtyT Disregard public opin ion when it interferes with duty.” |j Then there comes “Af^Hvee to Action, flfe^rst, regard for one’s own happiness, “j aud for the family in which you live. ;"*yj Second, stride to attain a very high ele vation of dnaracter__aud.a high standard of'actioni'?^4^%#--■ witn sucir Joity resolves he could do and dare. What an example for young * £» men! His career in the Mexican war 1846 to % 1848, is ..pleasantly, but not lengthily told ; his subsequent years of usefulness and happiness as a professor in the Vir gynia Military Institute, his two mar- 0 riages are full of interest and fill his life, till the shadows of 1861 called him in ,r ~ the spring to the stormy scenes of war, away from the peaceful nest in the moun tains, to which he was destined never to return. The iuterest never flags through the three years, in which we count his ■ k life by deeds, not years, till the fatal night, when at the very climax of his glory a shot from those who would have ‘died for him,, palsied the strong arm rad s put an untimely end to his grand career. Ur. Field says: “Next to his thought of God and acknowledgement to Him . were thoughts of the dear ones at home —the young mother with his child in her arms. All his heart was centered in one spot. Many who read these pages will be^surpgsed at the revelation of Lis passionate love-'6f home, to which he was eager to return, ‘though he was never to cross its ‘threshold again. While the ' of mail over his breast, those who knew him best saw under it a great human heart. Above all.to her who looked up in his face with perfect trust and confl dence,. that face was open as the day. To her this man of iron was the gentlest ■aud tendcrcsl of all human beings, whose first thought was always for her; who would not “that even the winds of sum mer should visit her too roughly.” Such devotiou cannot be forgotten even after . the lapse of a quarter of a century. The yearning heart turns to the pist—the faith- * bosom . carries with it a great mem ory and a great affection. “As she sits by her desolate fireside, the , old days come again, and they are once * more in the home that was always made bright by tile suushiae of his presence. Filled with such memories, it is but the impulse of loyalty to the dead, that she should wish others to know him as she did, that the world should know him , , uot*o»lv. as| the Soldier, but as the man, aud should know all the gentleness and tenderness iu that lion heart. This is re- — ^ vealed now7here so clearly as in his letters to her during the war. If any thiuk they arc too personal, T^have met the-* womanly shyness and timidity by saying: “YeS,* you cau leave it all out, and sup ply every word of endearment by a blank, but every time you do this you leave out * a' touch of Stonewall Jackson, for this fond devotion, this exquisite tenderness are as much a part of the mau as was h(s military genius.” The Volume commends itself also in size; binding and finish—not so vo'umi nous or ponderous as to deter the mass of readers, nor is it at all prolix The price also ($2.00) is such as to make it w'lthin the j^each. of many who cannot afford the more extended and expensive biogra- ' pfties of othe!r great leaders in the late war. It is.a simple and beautiful story -p. “written out of a woman's heart.” ' MASONS IN COUNCIL Meeting of the Grand Royal Arch Chapter 'at Charleston. ' CirAiu.BSTo^ 8 O.—The grand Royal \rch chapter Of Free Masons met in an aual convocation here. Sixteen subor- * J.iujdQ chapters were represented, Grand II gh Priest W. li. Witherow presiding. [n the address of.the grand high priest in account is given of the tri-eunial con cut ion of thegeueral grand chapter at Siiuneapolia.'^’he following grand ofh ’ ;ei» w^re vcdacted: lfigh-priest, W. II «; ■ IVitherow' of Wionsboro;, deputy high y-. wiest. J. 11 Barron,Columbia;scribe, B. • " v: II.Caique, Murigh; chaplain, H. F, 3hrietzoeVg. (’oh I ultra; treasurer, C. F, • . !aekar>nfr:COhiinl>in; secretary, J. E. , '< tlUrk, Charlostou, captain of the boat, Ps ’At- - I. AVilhitf, Anderson; royal arch captain, II. Cl HoiSes of Shunter; sentinel, L. F. tteyer, Ch)tilestoh. ■. : Thfi gr.and;eounCil of royal and select rS liastcrs also met. Councils io Charleston. . ■' Columbia; Newberry, Anderson, Rock . ■ dill, .Spartanburg and .Marlboro were . ■'”( sresenf. The following giaud ollieris eete elected for the ensuing year: Grand ouster, 8 BBufst, Charestoo; deputy mister, F- J- Wilhi e, Andersoj; conr._ I actor, II. (’. Moses, Sumpter; treasurer, ... J F.-Jackson, -Columbia; recorder, Z. yavis, Charleston,; chaplain, g. C. D«r- . ;ah, Charleston'; marshal, Willingham, ’lAcklHill? captain of the guard, C. F 'hmknio. Charleston; conductor of (he lotted, A. B; Thomas, Charleston; stew. ird.’A. E. Cptiift, t liarlestou; sentinel, U F. vllajer, t liar lesion.