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The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-12-05
THE BAPTIST STATE CONVENTION

The sixty-ninth session of the State
Baptist Convention of South Carroll
ma. met in the city of Florence on
Thursday, 2sth ult., with quite a full
attendance From the excellent re>
port of the Convention given by the
correspondent of the News 8. Courier
we clip the following:
The Baptists are q power in South
Carolina. They arethe most numer.
Gus denomination Of the State and
they arc thoroughly organized for ef-
fective work Thei: progress is rapid
and lasting, Their increase in all
pats of TIE State is marked. The
Church has ins sted upon an educa'
ted ministry, and rs result scores
Of thoroughly trained yonng men are
sent OUT INTO the field every year
The Baptis,s have taken high ground
and are maintaining it. They cover
the entire State and put strong men
in weak places. BY that means they
have built up whoa some other church
es have barely existed.
Figures are not always very in
tcresting reading, but a few statistics
will show ut glance The results OF
the work of the Baptists in South
Carolina. LAST year there were 3o9
ordained ministers and 764 churches.
The total membership for the State
amounted to 74,2S9. There were
GIG Sunday schools, with 4,lOS teach
ers and 35,209 scholars. The Church
raised S6.666.35 for State missions
and colportage, SS,S00.l3 for foreign
missions, S3.542.42 for home mis-
sions, s20,26 50 for education, and
s134,29026 for miscellaneous pur-
poses, or q total of Sl75,063 IA.
The Church property Of the State is
valued at S746,975. This is a won.
derful showing, and is but q fair in
dex to the real strength and power
of the Church in South Carolina.
"The Convention is well oficcred
Its president, Col. James A. Hoyt, is
= noted parliamentarian and courte-
Gus presiding officer. He is ably
supported by the vice-presidents, the
Rev. E. C. Dargan and Rev. r. W.
Saunders Secretary Thomas is ably
assisted by Mr.. A. B. Woodruff:
The funds are safe in the hands OF
Treasurer C. Fl. Judson.
THE whole proceedings OF the Con-
vention were characteristic of earnest.
ness and business, and were most
entertaining, instructive and bene-
fetal to the delegates and the
visitors alike. The delegates gen.
orally expressed themselves as high.
" pleased with the kind treatment
received from our citizens, and spoke
in glowing terms Of the future city OF
Florence. The Convention has great.
" benefited our town in many ways.
Florence WAS glad to have the Con-
yention meet here. and hopes to
have it again before many years pass
by.
Union was selected as the next
place for the meeting of the Con-
vention, on Thursday, before the
first Sunday in December, 1890, the
Rev. II. G.. Smart TO preach the Con-
sention sermon.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-12-05

order that they may fill their pockets
with Federal gold. We are invited
to sell out our school houses and our
children to the United States at a
good round sum.
But this is not all. We are not ask
ed merely the surrender our schools
to Federal supervision, but We are
told that in the matter of teachers,
and naturally our text books. we are
to look to the highly cultivated
North.
Here is what DR.. Mayo said upon
this point in his Boston address
1--WE must aid by a gigantic minis
try Of education, by which I mean
the endowing of mon and women o'
ability and sending them to the
South to do their best in forwarding
the cause of education"
And all this is to be done, for
sooth, in order that the South shall
be raised to the 'real American
status p In other words the schools
are to be used for supplanting
Southern civilization by Northern
civilization recently so graphically
described by Mr.. Henry Waterson
in The Louisville Courier-Jonnat
We do nssudeve THAT the South
u,onte nj civilization. the so.
called "le6fS seiican status" and
We do not belNhe that it vii! sacri'
fee its sclr.rcs)] ]Aend independence
for the sake on assls
tance in carrying - public
schools.-Neus and Courier.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-12-05

Jones, the family e1terminator,
lad his fifth trial at Edgefield last
week and the result was mistrial.
That is one case in which Judge
Lynch could mete Justice to the de-
fendant and to the State. 1t is GER.
tam that he will never be convicted
by SO jury of his peers.'
All parties are delighted with the
success Of the new Australian ballot
law in Massachusetts,, and the Domo-
Gratis especially Seem to think that
thay huve pro6ted by it. Gov. Lee
and Senator Danial Of Virginia are
proposing its adoption in that State.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-12-05
SENATOR MAGILL.

Senator Magill, of Kershaw, has
been placed on the following Senate
Committees :-Contingent accounts,
offices and officers, engrosed bills,
federal relations roads, bridges and
ferries, and printing.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-12-05

The Union League. a Republ
organization Of jefferson, Ind, has
showed it's contempt for the admin
istration by burning in efigy Presl'
dent Harrison, together with the
campaign outfit Of the club. The
club has become disgusted with the
Presidents appointments.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-12-05
TAt Ta#T##t.
CAMDEN, S. c. DECEMBER 5, 1889
ILLNESS OF JUDGE KERsHAW'

Our entire community was panied
on Saturday last to learn that a tele'
gram had been received announcing
that Judge Kershaw was quite i'll at
Orangeburg. But it gives us pleas
ure to now announce that Judge
Kershaw arrived home on Monday,
and is now much better.
The Camden journal. [volume] (Camden, S.C.) 1866-1891, 1889-12-05
Important Legal Question Deci
hpd

Judge PRESLEY made 81 import.
ant decision on the question OF inte-
rest and usury at the late term Of
Lancaster Court. This point nas
made before him: That when notes
and mortgages bore interest at the
rate Of 10 per cent per annum. with
the Interest payable semi-annua!ly,
the contract was obnoxious to the
statute which prohibits usury, and
that the makers of the md
mortgages were cnt;tl ys'm
of discount under stEtase for
al payments of inht.
The Judge 5ag sthat he saw no
error in the Fat the interest
was made payable ssui-annualIy at
10 par cen:nm p"r annHm; that he
almseii had often drawn contracts
the same way in Charleston, and
that sometimes he had made the in.
tcrest payable qoarierly, and that he
had never heard objections raised to
such contracts. He sustained the
form OF the notes aud mortgages,
and held that they were not usuri-
GUS. Those notes anil mortgages
belonged to tho European compan.
les.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-04
WOMEN IN AFRICA.
Travellers Who are Really Enthusiastic
Over the Charms of the Fair Sex.

Travellers Who are Really Enthusiastic
Over the Charms of the Fair Sex.
From the Neo York Sun.
The explorer, Won Francois, was engaged
a while sgo sketching an African village
which was little out of tho common be-
cause all the houses were built on platforms
which kept them out reach of high water
when the river overflpwed its banks. While
engaged with his sketch, he says, his
attention was suddenly riveted by IA
black beauty Many Caucasian ladies,
he thinks, could well envy this print
tive maiden for her skill in the arts of CO.
quetry as she poised her head now on this
side, now on that, aud paced dalntlly to and
fro along the shore, using her big, black
eyes all the while to the best advantage.
One would hardly notice the fact, he says,
that she was very scantlly attired so well
was the lack Of clio hing supplied by elabor
ale aud beautiful tattooing aud loIg strings
of clwrie Shells which she were abound her
neck and body, while girdle encircled her
waist. Altogether, h, thought shs was one
of the most p cturesque and attractive OBJ
jects he had seen in Africa.
Several recent travellers have spoken in
quite complimentary AID appreciative Ian
guage Of some Of the ladies they have met
in Africa. Becker had not gone inland 100
miles from Zanzibar before he was express
ing his admiration for the young and
really pretty neg resses and their attractive
forms" or course he had plenty Of opp)r
tunity to observe that their shoulders are
round and elegant. their arms are exquis-
itely nodded, and their forms are quite
perfect" "Onr brown beauties,' he adds,
''were not particularly shy, but at the same
time they were quite reserved. They would
ask us timidIy for permission to pass their
hands over oar skin, wnoso wniteness aston
ished them, but they retired in good order
whenever we offered reciprocally TO pat
their shoulders or cheeks.
Another traveller, who has just written a
description of several African tribes, thinks
that the poorest taste in the way II orna-
mentS he has seen is amoug the Bayansi
women, who wear brass rings around their
necks weighing twenty-five to thirty
pounds. The flesh under these rings, he
says, is in many cases continually chafed
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-04
SANITARY MAXIMS.

Abstract OF Leafiet No. 8 Issued by
the National Health Society, London.
1t is the duty of every householder to as
ce tain for himself whether his own house
be free or not from well-known dangers to
health.
This duty, imperative at all times is of
surprising urgency In house where a
woman Is about to become a mother, or a
surgical operation is about to be performed
AS rule, the soundness of the sanitary
arrangements of a house is taken for
granted, and never questioned until drain
begotten" illness has broken out. In other
words, we employ illness and death as our
dral detectives
Whenever gas from sewers or the emana-
ions from leaking drain, a cesspoOl, or a
touled well make their way into a house the
inmates are in imminent danger of an out
break of typhoid fever, diphtheria, or other
febrlle ailments ella se1 together under the
term "zymotic," not to speak of minor
illness and depressed vitality. the connec-
ton OF which with sewer gas is now fully
established. Sewer gas enters a house most
rapidly at night, when outer doors and
windows are shut, and is then perhaps most
potent in communicating the meat the milk
and the drinking water, and in poisoning
the inmates.
house in which children and servants
are often ailing with sore throat, headache,
or dlarrhea is probably wrong in it's
drainage.
Stamped drain work is one of the most
dangerous IF the sanitary flaws of new
buildings; it is also one of the most com
mon and one Of the most difficult to detect,
and is rarely found out except by the i'll
ness it produces.
If you are about to buy or rent house,
be 1t new or he it old, take care be- fore you
complete your bargain to ascertain the
soundness of the sanitary arrangements
with no less care and anxiety than you
would exercise in testing the soundness of a
horse before you purchase it,
Ii you are building a house, or can
achieve it in an old one let no drain be
nnder any part Of your house.
If there is a smell of drains in your house
or damp place in a wall near which a.
waste pipe or u soil pipe runs, or a damp
place in the cellar or kitchen floor near a
Drain or a tank, let no time be lost in laying
bare the pipes or drains until the cause be
detected
If rat appears through the floor of your
kitchen or cellar and a strong current of
air blows from the rat-hole when chimneys
are acting and the wind )ws and doors of
the house are shut, feel sure that something
Is wrong wi h the drain.
If you are tenants, and your landlord re-
fuses to remedy the evil, do it at your own
cost rather than allow your family to be ILL.,
A landlord may reasonably look for in
tereSt on the money which he spends for
the benefit OF his tenant; but he is commit
ting little short of manslaughter if by re-
fu,lng to rectify in his property he saves
his own pocket at the expense of the health
and lives of his tenants
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-04
AN INTENSE PERSONALITY.
What Life Insurance Officers Learr
About Their Patrons.
From the san Francisco Call

ADOOG Lo4L
From the San Francisco Call
"Dr Talmage says That Joseph was presi-
dent of the first life insurance COMPANY
said a downtown agent as he whirled
around in his officer chair. odd it ever
occur to you that an application for life
insurance policy is a very interesting bit of
personal histOryl For Instance, this appli-
cation is from a well-educated, well-born
young widow. Her name is Mrs. Helen
Corbett of Galveston, Tex She was born
in Richmond, Va, Aug. 10 1859. and is,
therefore, 20 years old She has been a
widow ten wears and has had two children,
one of whom still lives and is named as the
beneficiary for her So, 900 policy. She has
not paid the first premium and never made
application for insurance in any company
before. Her fathers name was Charles
Canale Smith, and he was born in Boone.
vile, Re H., and died at the age of SO of
typhoid fever The mothers name was
Susan Kelly Morris, who is still alive and
well. The grandparents on both sides are
dead, except the mothers mother, and she
is totally deaf. This poor little widow
never had a brother, and her only sister
died when she was Is months old, of
cholera infantum. Oar applicant was vac
cinated last year aud does not have re-
gular physician. Sne is very abstemious in
her habits; does not use wine or liquors, to-
bacco, opium, choral or morphine. She
has never lived in the tropics and has never
had asthma, angine pee oris, aneurism, al
coAolism, apoplexy, bronchitis, collie,
chronic dysentery, catarrh, commissions or
fits, cancer or tumor, diseases of the brain
or the bladder, ears, heart, kidneys, lungs,
liver, spine, skin or spleen, dyspepsia, drop
sy, epilepsy, erysipelas, govt, general debil
ivy, gravel, habItual consJipa ion, head
aches, hernia, insanity, impaired vision,
jaundice, neuralgia, palpitation, pneumo-
MIA, pleurisy, paralysis, tistula, rheumatism,
smallpox, scrotula, sunstroka, scarlet
fever, typhoid fever, varico 9 veins, verti-
go, yellow fever, open sores or enlarged
glands. The examining physician says he
weighs l40 pounds. that she is feet inches
in hight, has a bust measure of 36 inches,
which expands inches when she takes a
full breath, and she has dainty little waist
only % inches around. The doctor further
states that she is au American, with blue
eyes and light hair; that she does not look
her age, and that does not thilk she
drinks. There is no heart trouble and her
pulse is steady. She is in the full possession
of her five senses. He does not think there
is any fraud about her place of residence,
aud on the whole recommends us to take the
risk"
And you think you will do itln
WELL not until this additional list of
questions is atisfactOrilv answered"
But the reporter had fled.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-04
HIS HEART JUMPED THREE INCHES
Now Philip Fender Is Slowly Dying
and His Case Puzzles the Doctors.

NOW Hnlllp FenOcf Is SLOWLY Dying
and His Case Puzzles the Doctors.
From the Ne,o York World.
Propped up by pillows, Pnilip Fender is
awaiting death to put an end to the terri
BILE suffering lie has endured for over two
months. Fender is about 81 years of age
and is employed as gardener on the estate
at Plainfield, n j., of J. L. Lldlam, who
is spending the winter in Africa with his
IA ally. The history of Tenders ailments
Is remarkable and none of the physicians
who have examine him have thus far been
able IT, make q diagnosis of his disease or
afford HIN the slightest relief. To a re-
porter Fe de- VS. erday afternoon told the
storv Of his misfortune.
"Thanksg viUg ight' he bega1, 81 was
awakened by SOMEBODY who yelled fire ,
Without waiting to dress | hustled out of
bed and ran over to the window The
sight that met my gaze seat a cold chill
through me, and for IN rment | couldu'a
move. My neighbours house was on fire
and the flames were already bursting
throu h tie roof. | started to alarm the
inmates who | knew were asleep inside,
when | felt sharp, darting pain in my
left side and before it died away my heart
gave sudden jump. Thought it had torn
itself loose and nad left my body.
1T is impossible to describe the sensa-
to-. l fell back on the floor unconscious.
About an hour later | vomited about three
p.nts of frothy blood. After that | felt
somewhat relieved and was able to attend
TO my work.
For several days | was weak and sooa |
became aware that my strength was leav-
ing me. | had to give 10 my work and
sent for my family phy,ician, who said my
heart had shifted over about three inches
from its normal position aud has much en-
larg9d, but he preferred to a wait further
developments before expressing positive
opinion as to the mature of tne disease.
That As over two months ago and he
hasn't told me yet. Three weeks ago my
feet began to swell AID gradually my hands
begaa to grow dark in color."
Here Mr. Tenders Oldest daughter who
is nursing her father, removed the band
ages. Both feet up 10 the ankle )int were
swollen twice their natural size and were
black as ebony, and it was evident that the
flesh was dead. Mr.. Tenders rignt arm
from the shoulder d 1wp is in the same con-
dition, and his whole body is slowly turning
black Dr. Davis, Il homeopathic physician,
is attic ding Mr.. Fender now. lie has
practiced medicine many years, yet in hi
whole experience he says he has never seen
a case a all like this one, and tn re is moth
ing in the medical books to throw any light
upon it.
Mr., Fender is fast losing his strength,
and death is only a matter of days.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-04
DEATH FROM A PING /.
a Strange Case of Hemorrhage in q
New England Town.


New England Town.
SOUTH HADLEY, MASS, March l. -
George Carpenter, about % years of age,
while employed last Monday in removing
some ice pinched one of his toes so hard as
to raise blood blister. AS he had often
had serious trouble from losses of blood in
cBses of trivial scratches he was especially
careful in this instance not to break the
blister. On Thursday, however. with all
his care and watchfulness it broke, and the
blood flowed from the wound so freely as to
cause himself and his parents such alarm
that doctor was called
After some difficulty the bleeding was
stopped, only, however to begin flowing
from the nose. For hours the doctor worked
increasingly 20 stop tue hemorrhage, and
finally succeeded, but despair seizsd upon
all present when it was seen few moments
later that from the mouth gushed forth the
crimson torrent which was hurrying tue
sufferer nearer to his grave. Despite all
efforts the Young man slowly bed to death
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-04

ana raw, and for hours a. time the women
support their rings on their hands in order
to relieve the pressure upon their necks, and
yet no well-to-do ma ried woman would
think that she could exist without her neck
ring; aud when they are asked if this orna-
ment is not a very uncomfortable thing to
wear, they always pretend that they do not
understand. Brass is money among the
Bayansi, and the men. in having it forged
in big Jumps around the necks Of their
wives have found safe but rather cruel
matod of money keaning.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-04
C. Fl. DORSETT,
Real Estate Dealer.
PROPOSALS. FOR BUILDING NEW
COURT HOUSE
OFFICE OF COMMISSIONERS AND Ex- OFFICIo !
JUDGES CHATHAM COUNTY, GEORGIA. )
4 4 l. L

Y, A.
SAVANNAH, GA, Feb 4th, 1890
Office unit II o'clock NJ. on MONDAY. APRIL
list, 1889 for the material and workmanship re.
quired in the erection of a new Court House for
Chatham county, in the City of Savannah
Proposals will be received in lump for the
whole work and also separate bids for Stone
work, Brick and Terra-Cotta work, Tin and
Galvanized iron work, Carpenters work, Plas-
terng Plumbing and Gas Fit ing, Steam Heat
ing, Iron ana Steel work. etc. etc
Payments will be made to the contractors in
the following manner on the certificate of the
Architect, to-wit; Eighty-fve (s5l per cent OF
Tie value OF the work DONE and of material de-
livered on the ground, will be paid monthly as
the work progresses, and the balance at its
completion aud acceptance by the architect.
The contractor or contractors to whom this
work may be awarded will be required in pur-
suance OF section 493 (c) of the Code of Georgia,
TO give bond for the faithful performance Of
the contract and to indemnify the county for
any damages occaSioned by a failure to per-
form the same within the prescribed time.
The right is reserved to reject any and all
bids that may be submitted under this notice.
Proposals must be sealed anu Endorsed with a
statement whether for the whole or a particu-
lar portion of the work. Plans can be seen in
this office and at the office of w. G. Preston
Esq, Architect, No. 1856 Devonshire street, Bos.
ton, Mass, and printed specifications will be
furnished on application at either office.
ROBT u. WALKER c. G. G.
WIN. S. LAYTON, c. G. c.
J. II. ESTItL. G. c. c..
c. II. DORSETT c. G. G.
JAS. b. REED, G. G. G.
Attest: JNo. K. DILLON, Clerk G. G. o.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-04
SHOOTING 4r CLAY PIGEONS.
The Scores Made by the Boston and
Monticello Gun Clubs.

The Scores Made by the Boston and
Monticello Gun Clubs.
MONTICELLO, FLA, March 1.-Following
is the score Of the clay pigeon shooting con-
test shot at Monticello Thursday between
the Boston Ca Gun Climb and the Month
cello (Fla) Gun Club on the grounds Of the
latter. Twenty-Five birds were shot at by
each contestant-thirteen singles and SIX
pairs. The Boston club had never shot at
pairs before. The visiting club and lady
friends were met at tine depot with car
riage5 and hands 1mely entertained at the
Madden house by the Monticello club.
A return match will be shot at an early
day on the grounds of the Boston club, the
members IN friends of the latter club de-
string TO reciDrocate Inequalities. To Capt.
j. s. Hoey and his fellow members of the
Monticello Gun Club, and t. the editor of
the Tribune, Ben McLendon, the visitors
are indebted for a most delightful day of
pleasure. The score:
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-03-04
OCALA'S EXPOSITION.
The Prizes for Wine Carried Off by
Leon County.

OCALA, FLA, March 3-The exposition
prizes on wine were to-day awarded to Leo
county. Wine making is becoming a great
Industry in Florida. The wo department.
is very good; some curly yellow pine panels
are as fine as anything that can be shown in
America; the cedar ash, white oak, hgnum
VITAE, mulberry, palmetto, iron wood, and
many others are as haud, ome as could be
desired by the most fastidious cabinet
maker. the flower departing is superb.
There are many rare aud eautiful cacti,
croi4n family, ferns, etc.; the camilla
japonica display surpasse, description. The
Lady Washington japonica is dream OF
beauty.
IN 9th and 9th of this month will be
great days. All Of the state military will
be present There Will be parades, drills,
LATHE and grand ball