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ESTABLISHED 1887.
* THE PRESBYTERIAN SYNOD OF GEORGIA HOW4N ■SESSION. *
DR. MORRIS’ SERMON;
MODERATOyiECTED
Synod of Georgia Began Its Labors Promptly
Last Night.
ABOUT TWO-THIRDS OFMLEGATES PRESENT
Rev. J. H. Patton, of Marietta, is the
New Moderator—Two Reading
Clerks Were Elected*
The synod of Georgia lost no time in
getting to work last night.
A Urge number of delegates came in
-Oi the after icon and early night trains.
They were met by committees who escort
ed to their proper homes. . . - u
Many other delegates will arrive this
morning.
The feature of last night’s session was
the sermon of Dr. 8. L. Morns, of
Macon, the retiring moderator. This
was followed by the organization of the
synod and the election of officers.
The synod of Georgia embraces six
ipresbyteries, as follows:
Athens.
. Atlanta.
Augusta.
Cherokee (Rome in this).
Macon.
Savannah.
It has 105 ministers; 213 churches; 690
ruling elders; 552 deacons and 15,022
■ communicants.
Dr. George T. Goetchius, of this city,
has been the permanent clerk of the
-synod for ten years. Dr. Stacey has
been the stated clerk for about 25 years.
Dr. Goetchius, the talented and belov
ed pastor of the First Presbyterian
-church of Rome, is moderator of the
Southern Presbyterian General Assembly,
a high position for which he is eminently
qualified.
Dr. Morris’ Sermon.
Dr. Morris’ Sermon received the
-closest attention throughout. Be
said in part: The text was from Phil
.lippians, 3; 13-14: “Brethren, I count
PRESBYTERIAN PRINCIPLES.
I. —Strict Sabbath Observance.
IL —Education for the Ministery,
IIL —Separation of Church and State,
IV, —Soverignty of God With Divine Purpose,
V, —The Word of God, The Only Rule of Faith and
Practice,
not myself to have apprehended, but
this one thing I do, forgetting those
things which are bebicd, and reach
ing forth unto those things which are
before, I press toward the mark for
the prize of the high calling of God
in Christ Jesus.” Following is a syn
■ opsis of the sermon:
The conditions cf success for Paul
and for the lowliest Christian are ex
actly the same as set fourth in the
text, “Brethren. I count not myself
to have apprehended.”
1. The first condition of success is
■dissatisfaction with pastor present at
tainments; “I count not myself to
have apprehended. ” All progress is
the outgrowth of dissatisfaction. The
self-satisfied makes no further prog
ress. The scholar who is satisfied
with his scholarship will never know
more. The man who is satisfied with
his wealth will never earn more. The
poet who is satisfied with his songs
will never sing a sweeter. The Chris
tian who is satisfied with his experi
ence and attainments will never have
any better. The goal reached today
was a proper aim last year, or even
on yesterday, but the moment it is at
tained it becomes simply a starting
point for some thing higher. A year
ago I stood on the deck of a magnifi
cent steamer, floating lazily in the
beautiful bay of Naples, and gazed on
Mount Vesuvius, wreathed near its
summit in the smoke rising from its
awful crater. I watched the carriage
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drive winding upward, amid its rug
ged lava beds, till it seemed to termi
nate near the summit in a tiny silvery
thread. Taking a carriage at the
wharf. I drove up along that way un
til I reached the terminus. But
it was not the summit. Taking ah
inclined railroad, I was drawn a half
mile by the great steel cable Dearer
the summit, but it still towered above.
After climbing wearily amid cinders,
ashes and lava, at last I stood on the
the summit and looked into the seeth
ing crater, So in the Christian life,
we fix our eye on some goal and
climb steadily toward it; but onee
reached we must lift our eyes higher
still, making our present attainment
only a new starting point; and so
“rise on stepping stones of our dead
selves to higher things.” For the
Christian there is no * ‘ne plus ultra,”
but always “more beyond” for him
who says, “I count not myself to have
apprehended. ”
2. Tne second condition of success is
singleness of aim. “This one thing I
do.” The man of one idea and one pur
pose may not be very comprehensive)
but what he lacks in breadth he gains m
intensity, and is for that reason far more
apt to succeed in his purpose. The
author of that charming poem, “Lucile,”
put his finger on the defect in the charac
ter of his here when he writes: “Alfred
Vargrave was one of those men who
achieve so little, because of the much
that they conceive.”
The tendency of the present age is to
produce specialists. The time is past
when one could be a universal genius.
The universal man of today must be a
specialist, and, selecting one path in life,
walk in that to the exclusion of all
others. Having occasion a few years
ago to cousult the em’nent oculist. Dr.
Calhoun, of Atlanta, for uiy eyesight, I
saw an object there which 1 can never
forget. Parents had brought a little
child to the eminent specialist. But he
shook his head and said there is no hope.
It was at first but a slight defect, but a
blundering physician without the neces
sary qualifications of a specialist attempt
ed to operate and shut up the life of the
child in total darkness.
3 The next condition of success is
forgetfulness of the past, “forgetting
those things which are behind,” Past
failures and past successes are alike fatal
to future achievements. Some sit down
disconsolately amid broken hopes and
disappointed efforts, with their eyes
turned always to the doad past, forever
brooding over their failures, and never
able to pluck up heirt, and bravely fac
ing the future, arouse their manhood to
more heroic efforts. Equally fatal to
success are they who dwell complacently
on their past victories, resting on their
laurels. Let the dead past “bury its
dead” failures and dead successes, and
turning the eye toward a hopeful future,
and “reaching forth into those things
which ere before,” let the past be not a
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HOME. GA„ THURSDAY. SOVtMBEK 11, 1897.
INJUNCTION
ASKED FOR
Some Macon Merchants
vs. Southern R,R.
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BEFORE JUDGE SPEER
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BID is Road By Roland Kilis for These
WHO Filed It.
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PfiOMINEMT ATTORNEYS PRESENT
Petitioners Claim They Have
Been Damaged.
RAILROAD DEMURRER WITHDRAWN
Case Goes Over on Account of More Time
Asked For By Bailroad’. Attorneys.
No Assignment Made.
Macon, Nov. 10.—Ex Secretary of
the luterior Hoke Smith, ex-Senator
George F. Edmonds, Congressman
Charles F. Bartlett, President Samuel
Spencer of the Southern railway and a
large gathering of greater and lesser
lights of the bar and railway world
formed a brilliant gathering in the
United States court here when the case
of sundry merchants and citizens of
Macon, asking for an Injunction against
the Southern railway and claiming a
breach of the poustitutiou of the state
of Georgia by reason of combination,
was called.
Counsel representing the two sides of
the case were present in the court on its
opening. The lawyers representing the
railroad are George F. Edmonds, W. A.
Henderson, Marion Erwin, Hill. Harris
& Birch of Macon, Deiucy & Bacon of
Eastman. For the petitioners are Ba
con, Miller & Brinson and Dessau, Bart
lett & Ellis.
The first step in the case was the read
ing of the original bill fiied by the pe
titioners. It was read by Roland Ellis,
and being a lengthy document, took up
some time! The bill goes into the detail
of the ownership and control by the
Southern of the Central railroad, Geor
gia, Southern and Florida, Georgia,
Midland and Gulf and the Atlantic untj
claims that such o-wnuship and control
is contrary to the constitution of the
state and has resulted in the killing of
competition. It further claims that
each of the petitioners have been dam
aged to the extent of $3,000.
At 12 o’clock counsel for the railway
returned into court, after a conference
of about an hour in a ro in at the Ho’el
Lanier. Mr. Edmonds stated that the
demurrer previously filed, on ac
count of a surprise contained in the
filing of the amendment, would be
withdrawn, and he asked for further
time in which to flie such, and the
pleadings or answer as they might find
necessary.
Counsel on both sides agreed upon 60
days as the time given in which to file,
and the case went over wishoat assign
ment ou the docket.
RAILROAD MAGNATES
Train in Which President Spencer and
Others Bode, Rocked.
Atlanta, Nov. 10.—President Spen
cer, of the Southern, Fran'.is Lynn
Stepson and ex Senator Geo ge Ed
monds, of Vermont, were here to
night
They had been in Macon attending
the big suit against the Southern.
While passing Locust Grove several
rocks were hurled through the car
windows, and consternation reigned
aboard for a short while. The blinds
and cartains were drawn down and
the train came through without fur
ther mishap.
President Spencer went to Chatta
nooga, Stepson and Edmonds to
Washington.
Content "egiin Over H Will.
San Francisco, Nov. 10.—A contest
has begun over the will of Mrs. Lydia
A. Spauldiug, formerly manager of the
Bella Vieta hotel. The contestants are
eastern relatives of the deceased, who
claim that undue influence was exer
cised over Mrs. Spaulding by Mrs. Au
gusta F. Tracy and Mrs. Mary P. Mar
shall, who prejudiced her against them.
The estate is valued at about $70,u00.
lhr«t« !>!• In New Orleans
New Orlkanb. Nov. 10.—The official
report of the board of health on the yel
low fever situation st 1 p. m., is sow
mw cases aad three deaths.
NO AID FOR
CURA NOW
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President McKinley Says
“Hands Off”
FOR A TIME AT LEAST
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Pfrijtf Sigasta’s Reply Eminently Sat
isfactoryto Our Cabinet,
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ANNOUNCED OX GOOD AUTHORITY
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Spain Pledges Itself to Correct
Cuban Abuses.
FEELING FRIENDLY TOWARD U. S.
Reply Likely To Be One of Features of
Forthcoming Message of the Presi
dent—The Situation.
Washington, Nov. 10 —lt is stated
on good anthority that Premier Sagas
ta’e reply to Minister Woodford’s note,
the full text of which was read at Tues
day’s cabinet meeting, is eminently sat
isfactory to this government. In it the
Spanish ministry pledges itself to cor
rect the abuses of power in Cuba, which
was the subject of so much complaint
during the Weyler administration, and
gives assurance of its friendly feeling
toward the American people.
It accepts our good offices in its efforts
to restore peace in Cuba and in a per
fectly' respectful and friendly spirit asks
thsS government, so far as possible, to
restrain the insurgent sympathizers in
the United States from giving material
aid to the enemies of Spain in Cuba.
The reply intimates that but for the as
sistance that has been given them by
filibusters from the United States, peace
would have been restored long ago.
The reply, it is stated, does not con
tain a sentence that could give offense,
or be construed into an expression of an
unfriendly purpose of feeling against
the government of the United Stares.
Ou the contrary the note is said to be
distinctly conciliatory in tone, although
insisting upon the right and duty of
Spain to put down an armed insurrec
tion within its own territory.
It is evident that the reply has made
a favorable impression upon President
McKinley and the members of the cabi
net and it is not unlikely that one of
the features of his forthcoming message
to congress will be a discussion of the
Cuban situation from which it will ap
pear that there is nothing iq the situa
tion to justify present interference on
the part of the United States.
REFUSED TO RECONSIDER.
Home Would Not Take Up Child Labor
Mill—Senate i Two Measures.
Atlanta, Nov. 10.—Directly after the
reading of the journal in the house, Mr.
Nevin of Floyd made a motion to re
consider the adverse vote of Tuesday on
the child labor bill. After a heated dis
cussion the motion to reconsider wns
defeated by a vote of 29 to 100. This
practically sounds a death knell to the
bill.
The house took nq as unfinished busi
ness the bill of Senator Starr, providing
for the submission to juries of auditor’s
reports in equity as in common law
cases, for the trials of questions of fact,
the report to be openly prima facie evi
dence, the burden of disproof being on
the party excepting to the report.
A motion to disagree to the adverse
report of the committee was carried by
c vote of 70 to 39.
The bill to satisfy the bonded debt
issued by Governor Jenkins in 1866,
was killed. The debate on the measure
was lively, ana the fight a spirited one.
In the senate, a number of minor ap
pointments were confirmed and two im
portant bills were passed. Both, were
by Senator Turner. One prohibits the
wearing of buttons or badges or secret
societies for fraudulent purposes, and
the other seeks to amend the constitu
tion of the state so as to enlarge the
power of exemption from taxation of all
places of religious worship and property
of educational institutions.
.Caban Victory Report* Denied.
Madrid, Nov. 10.—It is officially an
nounced that there is no truth in the
report eminating from insurgent sources
that the insurgents have captured the
towns of Holguin and Mayari, In the
province of Santiago de Cuba.
Gat« Her Picture to Gibbons.
Rome, Nov. 10. —The queen of Italy
has sent Cardinal Gibbons a portrait of
herself in her court robes, with the re
■uest that he will send her copiee of all
Bis books. ..........
DRAMATIC CONFESSION
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MAKES A WOMAN WEEP
Mrs. Hack Tarns States Evidence in the Cele
brated Gnldensoppe Murder Case.
THORN LISTENS WITH (NERVOUS AOONY
Story of How Crime Was Planned
and /Incidents Before and After U
theJßloody Tragedy.
New York, Nov. 10.—Judge Smith,
accompanied by District Attorney Wal
ter Jay Cox of Suffolk county, took his
seat on the bench when the hour for the
opening of court arrived. The 12 jury
men then took their places in the jury
box, and Thorn, handcuffed to Captain
Mathven, came iu, accompanied by hie
counsel.
The latter informed the prisoner for
the first time of the confession of Mrs.
Nack, and Thorn’s face flushed. Howe
handed his Client a copy of the morn-,
ing paper bearing a large headline
which read “Mrs. Nack Has Turned
State’s Evidence.”
Thorn gaaed. intently at it and then
he handed back the paper.
At 16 minutes to 10 o’clock the main
door of the courthouse opened, and Mrs.
Nack, accompanied by her lawyer and
Deputy Sheriff Deßr.igga. walked up the
center of the court. Thorn eyed her
closely as she stood within a yard of
him, but she avoiaed his gaze. She was
placed ou the stand, and under the ex
amination of Judge Weller, began the
recital of her story leading up to the
time that she had left her husband and
was living with Guldensuppe at 439
Ninth avenue.
Thorn came there to board. Thorn
and Guldensuppe had a fight, and Gui
densnppe licked Thorn. Guldensuppe
kicked Thorn down stairs. Thorn
pulled a revolver and fired one shot at
Guldensuppe, but failed to hit him.
Gave Thorn Gold.
“A few day’s later,” said Mrs. Nack,
**a man came to my house for Thorn’s
clothes. I told the man that Thorn was
sick in the hospital, but gave him the
clothes. Thorn came back three davi
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later' witn nis race ana' eyes blahk and
blue and neck swollen. He asked me
for money.”
“Why did he ask you for money?”
asked Judge Weller.
“He got no work and I gave him
money,” replied Mrs. Nack iu broken
English.
“When Thorn went away, I promised
ot pay his board bill until he could get
work. After that I met Thorn at
Twenty-third street and Ninth avenue,
when I gave him S2O Thorn was very
bitter against Guldensuppe and wanted
to kill him. Tnoru said:
“ ‘Woman, I love you.’
“I said, T’id a married woman.’
“ ’I know better, you are not,’ replied
Thorn. 'Your husband lives iu As
toria. '
“Thorn then said he wanted to kill
Guldensuppe. I then said:
” ’Martin, don’t kill Guldensuppe: '
kill me.’
“On another day I had a talk with!
Thorn and he said he would kill Gul
densuppe. Ou that night Guldensuppe '
and I quarreled. He grabbed me by the
throat and held me until the blood
came from my throat. I then had a
talk with Thorn about hiring a house at
Woodside. He then went to the house,
and Thorn offered the woman who had
the key money, but she would not take
it. One night we met a man in New
York in a saloon. This man owned the
Woodside house, and we paid him $25
for one month’s rent iu advance. Thorn
gave the name of Braun when he hired
the house.
Thorn’s Hloudy Talk.
“Thorn then took a receipt from the
landlord but said he did not kuow when
he would move iu. Thorn told me he
would, kill Guldensuppe in the Ninth
avenue house and put his body th •
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“rnorn torn me to Bring crarueußup P _
to the Woodside house and he would
kill him there. I had to do all Martin
told me to do.”’
Gradually the lawyer led the witness
up to the morning of Friday, June 25,
the day that the crime was committed.
She said that she and Guldeusuppe left
New York between 9 and 10 o'clock that
morning and after they had crossed the
ferry they boarded a trolly oar which
left them at the Woodside cottage.
“I had the key to the house,” she
said. * ‘and I opened the front door. I
told Guldeusuppe to enter and examine
the house while I went into the yard,
lie did so, and soon afterwards I heard ,
• shot. Martin Thorn came running
down and when he met me he said:
*' Tve shot him; he is dead.* <
“He was very exoited and I was half .
dead,” said the self confessed murderess,
breathlessly.
“What did you do then?” asked Judge
Weller.
Body In Bandies.
“He asked me to go home and come
back at 5 o’clock. When I came back
that evening Thorn had everything
packed in bundles. He handed me a
bundle which he said contained Gul
densuppe’s clothes took another
bundle, which was wrapped up in gray
colored paper. He said that it was Gui
densuppe’s head and that it was done
up in plaster of paris. He took the
trolley car and went over to New York
on a ferryboat. ”
“On which ferry?”
"I don't know; I am a stranger to the
city and can’t say. When we reached
New York I went home and Thorn
went to some other place. I cut open
the bundle and found clothes.”
“Whose clothes?" asked the prosecu
tion.
“William Guldensuppe’s,” replied
the woman, emphatically.
“I saw Thorn that evening again, and
he told me to meet him the following
morning (Saturday) at the Thirty
fourth street ferry. .*
“Where had he put the head?”
“I don’t know; he only told me that
he had done away with it. I met him
the next day at Thirty-fourth street
ferry, and then we arranged about
hiring a cat riage. ”
The woman then told in detail how the
other packages were brought in the
gurry and deposited in the river andjhe
Ogden woods, near High bridge. Z
Thorn Not Touohed. /
The woman spoke fairly intelligible
English with a very strong German ac
cent. During the recital Thorn’s law
yers left their accustomed seats near the
prisoner and were accommodated with
chairs closer to the witness.
Thorn listened, his lips closely com
pressed, his hands clasped and resting
on his knees. Frequently his lips be
came dry and parched and occasionally
he would moisten them with his tongue.
His face bore that same stolid look of
indifference which it has worn all
through, but his eyes were unrestful.
When he was not gazing at his accuser,
he was casting furtive glances around
the courtroom and up into the galleries,
which were crowded with men and
women.
During her direct examination, Mrs.
Nack broke down and cried, but this
had no effect on the prisoner, and if
anything, he seemed to enjoy her dis
comfiture, as his oldtime grin played
around his mouth.
Mr. Howe began the cross examina
tion in a very insinuating way, aud
soon made her acknowledge that the
house in Woodside was rented for the
sole purpose of killing Guldeusuppe
there, that she decoyed him there, that
when she brought the oilcloth and other
wrappings it was for the purpose of
packing up the portions of his body
after Thorn would have finished hit
murderous task.
Cro«» Kxemlnar Clever.
Adroitly and cleverly the lawyer
made the woman own up to the most
damaging and coldblooded preparations
for getting rid of her lover.
"Ami did you cry then?” asked the
cross examiner. "Did you cry when
yon hired the house?"
“No.”
The lawyer continued this line of in
quiry. leaning up to life moment of the
murder, getting the same stolid "no”
for an answer eaftlr tune.
“And now, may I ask, did you cry
when Thorn Colo you he bad shot your
lover, Guldeusuppe ?” asked Thorn*!
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