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Lynch Law.

Rev. DR.. Gricr, one of the editorial contrib
utors to the I~ssocinte Reformed Presbyterian In
the last issue OF that paper, publishes the fol-
article:
"A SrKoNG PLEA FOR LYNCH LAw.-In n
late Issue uf this paper we stated that Il resort
To Lynch law In old settled communities
mark ed n radical detect either In tn" judic-
larry system or public sentiment" We be-
lievc that the former cause Is most generally
The recent acquitta1 OF Col. Tom
Bulord, of Kentucky, Is - good illustration Of
the fact referred tM. 1t Is just one Of those In
SO constantly occurring, which shake
Of yindicating Justice and furnishing crime.
rhr facts Of this celebrated case are briefly
these BufOrd had q case In litigation involv-
Ing about $1,000. The case went against him
In every court. a rchearlnG OF the clSe was
granted. 1t was argued with the same result,
on the 9th Of March 1879. As one If the
Judges Of the Court Of Appeals, Judge Elliott,
was returning to his HOtel from the sitting OF
the Court, he was met by BIf,rd as lie enter
ed the door. Buford asked him to take O
one barrel OF 4 shot gun into The Judges
body, killing him instantly. Alt the evidence
In the case shovel that It was q deliberate,
cold bloudcd brutal murder. HcdclIvercd him
self M, ard In n few months he was tried,
convicted Of Inurdrr In the second degree and
to the PeniiCntiary for lie. Ills
counsel appealed, II new trial wa granted and
Il verdict OF mot guilty was rendered. on
the ground Of insanity. This Is the old story
and 1t will. no doubt. rcpea: itself in al ITS
details. In IL few weeks, Buford Will he out
nf the Asylum If lie goes there at all) and will
be ready To y title, rs before, the Sod nf-
fronts Of his %nelglbors. Is /; any wonder thai
good citizens, in The light of such tria's. look
coolIy on when certain guilt IS dealt with In
The most summary. way, without Judge or
jury? Such examples furnish the advocates
of Lynch law with all the arguments they de-
sire. 1t Is hard TO answer them.
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Whittier are we Drifting?

When religious newspapers cease to publish
the disreputable advertisements that ure, as q
rule excluded from the better class OF the Sec
ular papers, We shall look for the coming of
the millennium. We receive a goodly mum
Der OF religious papers,, each OF which except
the Baptist Courier. and the Southern Presby-
terrain endorse and publish as reading no.
tees, advertisements which could not find q
place on the h~cme-printed side of the Press
and Banner.
We congratulate our brethren on the high
stand which they take, and hope that they
may never lose money by excluding the adj
vertiSements OF cheats from their columns.
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The Progress of Taking Testimony.

gene B. Gary with a notice to the effect that
he will take testimony at L.aurens Cour
House on the II. IS and 10 instant, and at Alb
beville Court House on the u, p, @ and 81 in
slant. From this it Is fair to presume that he
will not go TO Greenwood at the time hereto
fore advertised. Our whole people are inter-
csted In the work which may be dire cted
against any one Of our citizens, and we shoald
ue on the alert. The Press and Banner will
publish the testimony in full, so that there
fore, Whatever yc have spoken in urkness
shall be heard in the light: and that which ye
have spoken In the ear in closets shall be pro-
claimed upon the housetops."
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The Stock Law Case.

In the Court proceedings will be seen the ap-
peal from Trial Justice Tolman's court to the
Court oil General Sessions, testing the validity
or conStitutionullty of the stock law as VIC
hareit in this county. The presiding Judge
affirmed the Judgment of the Court below,
which imposed Il fine upon the owner OF
stock. for allowing them to 20 nj large. MIR.
Montciih gave. notice OF appeal to the -u-
Prefne Court, where NC presume the case Will
lie takcu before It's ended.
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The Christian Union,

This Is the paper edited and published by
Henry Ward Eecchcr and Lyman Abbott
and Is one OF the best weekly papers publish
ed I'm this country. For the family 1t Is one
of the most desirable with which we have
any acquaintance. The sermons Of the great
pulpit orator is II mere fractional part Of rnrh
issue. Send S1.m to the Christian Union, New
York. and If YOU are not satisfied Mt the end
of the wear, you can then subscribe for anoth-
or paper, and say tina we know nothing about
OpWSDnuU.rS.
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Quite a number Of valentines passed through
the office at this place on the lith, ana siiS-
young hearts were made happy, while
it is fair TO presume that there were n much
greater humble of hungering hearts That wero
met by the responsive yenrnings.
MKs. i. f.. JONES, of New Orleans, Is sick.
Mrs. s. e. CASOE Is sic,,..
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Ready for the Day Of Judgment.

We take the following from the Fig field
Advertiser MIR. J. II. Martin. of Edgcfield,
seventy years of age, was recently presented
by his wife with twins. We copy this from
the Ib6criHe IreSs and Banner. and we hear
that Mrs. Martin Is also a.ed seventy. Snnnw
VIC are ready for Mother Shirton und the day
of Judgment"
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The Sheriff reports So, 900 cash in the
National Bank Of Anderson a~aitiue
the order of the Court
Clerk Iourt's.Isepors,
The Clerk of Court reports us having
tnrned over to Treasurer for county pur-
nose since bis last report in the way o
f@icenses and fines one hundred and five
dollars, which is shown by Treasurer's
books and corresponding receipts hled
in his Office.
He reports as placed in his hands by
order of court awaiting a future order
for disposition $3.50 SO. Funds in par
tition one hundred dollars derelict estate
funds awaiting settlement one hundred
and seventy dollars, making total on
hand $3.50 So
We find that there are only $500 paid
Tor LIQUOR licenses and we recommend
hat steps be taken by the County Com
m:ssiopers to enforce the collection OF
the remainder that is due.
It is the opinion of the body thst tue
Jurisdiction in the matter OF the Partl-
Zion of Estates be restored to the Pro-
hate Court as exercised since the crea-
ton of said court until the year 1879, and
we ask Your Honor to give such direc
tion to this recommendation as VIII
bring the matter before the proper au
thorities for their action without delay.
J. II. LATIMER.
Foreman.
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ANOTHER LAs OF r,sxItryrrs

wha, II they are MT to b. h"nored, ate Yet to be very
greatly sympa,hized with, is composed 4 men who
absolutely hunger and thirst after righteousness, bn,
who are disposed to reject the churches because The
c"Is. rtion Of life and duty in them 10 . great deal
lower than theirs. reeollrct u N u-he 10 In hesseu
how-whu gave ne IN account Of his religious exPe'
rience. He had been studying the condition VI men
ana be had ss-n the 20 .erty IN graf cities. the nbund'
ance Of the lew and the lack Of the MANY, aud the
want Of that sympathy which draws man to mar sim'
ply 90 man. 1t nude him 50 sick that BIZ tells gnilly
When b sat down Ut his OWE Able and ate good food
and when he clothed himself In comfortable garments
u think that thousands w-re suffering for want Of
these things. When he want from church dor 10
church door he found one talking about the building Of
the urH, some disc0ursihg oh original sin, some cOnsid.
rr ng one abstract subjrct and Sons. another;
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AND lie cor NO COMFORT.

There Is still another class OF uen who are unbe-
LEVERS because Which, tLry look At the crreds Of the
eLurche, they are satisfied that philosophy and science
are overturning them. Nc are living at u Time when
the world 10 " Ioek up, as 1t were, and 10 on ahighsr
lrvei, ,ettins 20 Of old things. and not know ling where
to hold NJ new things. Ihis church IL iull al II. Min.
lat RS und congregations are full Of 1t. Men resent It;
aid | have no d ubt that | shall get tpistle upon rpis.
tie tor saying that meu have largely let 6" 81 old be-
on the saule principle that q tree sheds the bark OF tue
last year to give plucs to the new bark VI this year.
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Probate Judges Eenort

STATE OF s0UIRCAROLINA,
CSSNTY OF A~BBEvILLE.
&ateme1tJrom the Probate Court to
ING Grfnd Jury.
GETLEMEN II have a very short re
BORT to make to your body. there being
no change of Importance since my last
report.
Amount of money in the Probate
Court ut this date..""..."..Sl,2 8 81
Amount on deposit in the Az
derson National Bank, as
per statement reed, Feb,
o'A J. FULLER LYON,
J. p. A. G..
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here are things stated in church doctrines In ways
such that self.respect should keep q man from, believ.
Ing In them.
Dur,nga revival which toOk place In Boston. At On
my tathrr, In conducting the conversatiun, was assist
ed hy Q great MANY persons, among whom was . stu.
dent from Anduver and my father heard this young
thcolugur, WIN was tulking with o young woman WHO
protested that che believed, and whom be desired to
test. which was all right enough, PROFOUND " her,
finally,
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the WORD OF GOD STAND SURF

God knows HIS own In that they hunger and thirst
after righteousness. Let no man count himself an In.
i'd. VINO believes that tightenusn, s. IL the great end
Ot human life, and wuo longs tor u -.ore perfect reduc-
ton ot his will to obedience tv his mora. SENSE, for a
cleaier revelation OF divine sylulnthy, and for the sun
Of love to shine more purely over all his life. Let any
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MEN ABE LETTING GO OF MANY THINGS,

but they are not vital things; they ne not the mar
row: they are Instruments. .
Consider for one single nUrnent what the creeds Of
ChrIstendUm have undertaken to do. They have un-
dertsken to put into m intellectual for1n things that
never existed rs intellectual ~vrr1ties. They have nm.
deytaken t. state In words truths that have their ex-
istrnce only " emotions or f. eliLgs. But call . man
put an emotion into q picture! CsR o man represent
feelings by isuients and To- msf He can suggest
them, but he cannot mnke them. Emotion h one Of
those things which are indispensable by paint and
brush. And there are multitudes Of things that lie
very cluse to The heart of Christianity which can never
huve un intellectual expression; which Gun be testified
to, but which can never be put into language.
Let u man rich In love and In the power Of love, and
winged with imagination, have the sun Of righteous
mss pouring down It's ~inhuehcr upon hun, and kin
ding everything in bis tropical soul, aud lot him un-
derlahe to put INT" language The central circuit VI his
,Iperience through which
THAT sUUL SWINGS IN sUCH A GLORIOUS LATITUDE,
and do you SUPPOSE there IL sny language In any
tongue, or In all tongues, that can express it, Though
| wer ~ speak with the Tongues VI men and Of an.
ges, | should not syllable even the preface OF II. Anu
yet, what is religion: II Is the huIiness or perfection
Of ideal character. 1t is the Application Of mental phi
Inspphy, IT'S derived f. ON our experienced, 10 the orb OF
Gud himself. 1t /, the nttempt to put In hne lines the
history OF the eternal in the days gone by. II is the
attempt, with the vision or logic, u secure the whole
view Of eternity. 1t Is the framework Uf that great
moral government which God carries on uern the ter
globe, In human life, BY society, by Industry,
by al uyocations. The infinite. the sovereign aud the
eternal God shut up In u catschisnf. Can any man ex-
press the inexpresslbic?
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TIE LEAGUE or oHuacH AND STATE
A GREAT MANY pEssoxs WHO CAN RAISE p1,z1cuL1r

hut cannUl settle them. 1t Is easy for u m..n ~ bsrr In
the bnnE uf o am . hoie which. wheE the str AM bias
started and he water has got Ia going throngh the
Mississippi lcye-, he cannot fill up Syan. Many 4
waves.
Now. religion In its whole inslitution, Is IS large Is
the unive' b. q. God ; and n nun c n very e,siiy lhiow
bimsei out nf Is settled religions belief that las c".h-
himself in a.ali. could put my shuu der on. Vi JOINT,
/ think, il l were right pitched nut l enuld not put
II IN again. AMI here are these philosopher Of mis-
chief, these men thul, like ptrsohs v lrn know how u
create dyspepsia, but do not know how To get rid Of
1t, are able u throw away fks iaith VI th. ir .ath, rs.
but canhot put another faith In rs pace. They have
not thu d sCip'ine or disposition ~ practice 1t; they
grow weary Of III they becom, ~disgusted with It;
they rebound fionI IL and ct last they 20 into un'
belief und theirs Is Ill unbel.e which, II II Is not 81
obnoxious ~ some o.he' 8, lacks the element Of u.n
illness.
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THEY WOULD NOT AccxrT THE TRUTH

because their deeds were evil, BIC .use they huted the
light, und because tn loved darkness. Or any mnr
" hu is d ma Of pleasure In the ordinary sense OF thai
term. and who, Ike a nehern"tb, is p~asturing the grea,
fields OF human life, aud always, trowsi z down ward
m. finding his fond Ii the mud-ur any such man Il
may be raid that bis unbelirf is damnubi,. II Is tn.
.xhulatiun Of the mnrass, 1t Is the miasma that concs
up from the b thy sty in which they hre, that Cloud:
the ruth and puts out heaven to their eyes.
Then u variation, or perhaps m extension " this !,
found where nirr are ,0t w~al.Owing IN the mud, but
are given over to relish passious-to ambition, with
out regard to moral principle; to riches, US only M
other form Of cov-tDusncss and ambition, u selt.ag'
grnndiScuisGt OF every fO.m without any restriction
Of the higher elements. There 10 many q man ~hc
thinks that r. ligion is nothing but II vurnish that car
no we'll be put On 81 The Inst us at the first. There I,
many q imam who "a, 8. II will get riches aud pleasure
when | ND YOnnX: and atler
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/ will turn the corner suddenly some day, and repent.
and G" tv heaven" =" oil the Way th. ouyh lite tEey
shield themselves by fnd!. & FAULT with he truth BE-.
cause they perceive th :. " they nee. pit II and und. r.
take 10 cunfnrm their lives to the mobiles ideals u q
true Christian manh""d, they must cut "f their right
hand and pluck Out their right eye and that they will
nut do. They Iortiiy Ih.us Ives In unl~li, wing sim.
ply because It ~intrrrrres with their selfsbneseI and
that 10 culpRble.
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NOW THAT IS YOUR CASE.

1t Is Just the portrait VI many q man that 10 here.
You ure doing What ysu know is wrong. Yuu or. Or
ganIziug wrong CONDUCT You know that your heart
Is u cage OF unciean beasts. You know that the req
son why you resist Christian preaching on the sabbath
day Is that II yon give In 10 the views that o. e present
ed you have got t. change every part Of your life.
a d yr, If you could be b ought ~ the serious hour
OF chfics ,t'wou:d DO the Ibur which would decide In
your life between glory aud honor and immortality,
and shame and everlasting confusion.
Then there is the un,ettling forco of the conduct of
men who prof. s. to be Christians, which comts In u, .
on different minds H. different Ways. A It Is sid In
Scripture, BY reason Of whom the way OF truth shall
Dr. evil ~, ken oil ~ It Inlay b. sid that III. dirrst
and worst a. gdinent Of inf.Ielity is the church Of
Chri.t 10 the world st large. or oil the crimes thai
were over Commit I'd IT, Eur"pe, the must hrinous
wrro those which were conmittet In The name If
Christianity by Christian rinIer'.rs and, hi istian
popes. Uf oil tue things that hurs beri oppressive
the most o,.p, essiy- has been
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that IS JUST EXACTLY WHAT CHEST DID;

AID they come to Look upon the Wordoi God as i book
that had lis origin IN the Necessity of mrn that were
trying to rescue their frlInw-nru; and brinrc they
know 1t the, are more orthodox than III r minister.
Emotion produced by Practice il often ten Thousand
tines more converting and outstanding u q man
tinn The cIrarrst intellectual s;atetnrht-.nd that with
out any discorI between 1t and the intellectual State
mcnt. 1t merely indicates that GUd In His sovereign
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Toto, reca;ved ....S Ii 6S4 0l
Amt paid Co. Com'rs orders. l3,59o.o'
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Total for special purposes...s 7,63l."S
Amt paid out for special pur-
Doses ........... ........."".."" NV
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Amt over-paid for schools":.S I6.29
It is proper to state that Ill tne ABOVE
report no account Is made of h COM
missions due to the County Treasurer
for collecting the taxes. but the peha,
ties collected for non-payment Will
shout offset the commissions.
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ion OF the money. For ms work, however,
he Is paid. Even If he were not so paid, nei-
ther the statute or the Constitution gives the
Board Of Examiners or the School Trustees
the right to enact a:law,a rule, or = regulation
to the effect that no maj living on the town.
ship line should have u school nearer than
two miles to him. This We believe, is an UNI
warranted discrimination against the farmer
and one which is not attempted against the
towns Of Abbeville, Nincty-Six, New Marke',
Cokesbury, Donalds, or Due West, and all of
which towns it appears from the map Of the
county, are located nearer than two miles ''tO
"the boundary lines Of tt cir respective School
"Districts." We say, establish the schools, as
nearly as possible. where they will best SUBJ
serve the interests for which hey should be
established even If that location should DC
exactly on the township or county line. Sec
ton 50 of the school law 10 in force In South
Carolina. is of general interest, and We here
with present 1t:
SEC. 80. That when 1t shall so happen tina
persons are SO situated as to be better accom-
mOdated at the school OF any adjoining school
district, or whenever 1t may be desirable to es-
tubliSh q school composed OF parts of two or
more school districts, IL shall he the duty of
tie respective Board OF Trustees of the school
districts in which such persons reside or in
which such schools may be situated, or of the
school districts or the parts of which the
school is to he composed. to transfer such per-
sons for education to the school district in
which such school house l. or may b.. located.
but ;hc enumeration of scholars Shall I've tax.
en- In each district as If no such transfer had
been made; and such srllop.. when so conipos-
ed, Shall bc supported rom ihcSchool fundso OF
the respective school districts from which the
scholars may have been transferred: Pro
Uided, That children shall not he transferred
from a school district I'm one county to- 5: hpnl
district in an adjoining county Without the
consent of the boards OF Examiners of the re-
spective counties In which the transfers IS
made"
It will be seen from the above that the rec
ommendation against the location of school
houses "nearer than " miles to the hounda-
~ line of the respective townships" is in dl-
rect conf ct with tho law of the State. The
reader Will no doubt be able TO come to his
conclusions a. t. the justice Of discriminating
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Bal. due this fund...."....S % 81
Ami collected for County for ,oo,
special pnrposes"."..-""." o''lo-'
On hand for special purposes
at settlem't with Comp
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Albert Marlborough. convicted OF SELL
cotton under lien, was first called up. MIR:
r. Noble, Jr., made Il motion Tor q new lriil
which was ovcrruIcd. lie then submitted Il
netition from the prosecutor, Mr.. Dousliiss
that be (Mr. Douglass, was convinced that
Marlborough had had 10 intention of commit.
ting II crime, and praying his Honor TO ne
Icnfrnt in his sentence. Tie ',Dlic'tor a!so
added n word in favor Of the prisoner. and
His Honor sentenced the prisoner 10 pay Il
line of $40, or 60 to jail for 10 dn3s. Tho iine
was paid. ,ua
Join Fell WIS called up for sentence, HIS
Honor said You have been convicted OF Il
grave and serious oi1cnrc-One calling Tor Sc
Vclc punishment, and IT Is II Presented that
YOU have wife and family, aid good people
fof relations. On their account am sorrs Tor
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IN. OLD uo,rIssor ouxsr,oy.

DO you think. madam. that you would be willing to
be- damned for the glory of Gods" She WIS some.
what startled; and my faith r. who was In the Feat be
hind them, Ia bis prompt mud brusqir way. raid,
" What are you asking that wOmsni" He. with q
meek Consciousness or rrctitu,lr, said, ~ was asking
her, Doctor, whether she would be willing to be
damned ,or the glory Of God" Said ny father
ought 10 he DAMNED"