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I J. H. ESTILL. President. I
THE CHANT OF THE STARS.
LAYING OF THE CORNER STONE OF
THE WORLD.
Talmage Preache* a Sermon on the
Building of the Great Cathedral of
the World—Mountain* for Pillar*.
Sky for Frescoed. Ceiling, Flower-
In* Field* for a Floor, and Sunrise
and Midnight Aurora for Uphol
stery. \
Washington, Nov. I.—The musical re
sources of all nations seem drawn upon
by Dr. Talmage, In this sermon, to Illus
trate a most practical truth. His
subject was: “The Chant of Stars,"
and the text, Job 38:6, 7: “Who laid the
corner-stone thereof, when the morning
\ atars sang together?”
We have all seen the ceremony at the
laying of the corner-stone of church, asy
lum or Masonic temple. Into the hollow
of the stone were placed scrolls of his
tory and Important documents, to be
suggestive if, one or two hundred years
after, the building should be destroyed by
fire or torn down. We remember the sli
ver trowel or Iron hammer that smote
the square piece of granite Into sanctity.
We remember some venerable man who
presided wielding the trowel or hammer.
We remember also the music as the choir
stood on the scattered stones and timber
of the building, about to be constructed.
The leaves of the note-books fluttered In
the wind, and were turned over with a
great rustling, and we remember how the
bass, baritone, tenor, contralto and so
prano voices commingled. They had for
many days been rehearsing the special
programme, that it might be worthy of
the corner-stone laying.
In my text the poet of Uz calls us to a
grander ceremony—the laying of the foun
dation of this great temple of a world.
The corner-stone was a block of light and
the trowel was of celestial crystal. All
about and on the embankments of clouds
stood the angelic choristers unrolling their
librettos of overture, and other worlds,
clapped shining cymbals while the cere
mony went on, and God, the architect, by
stroke of light after stroke of light, dedi
cated this great cathedral of a world, with
mountains for pillars, and sky for fres
coed celling, and flowering fields for a
floor, and sunrise and midnight aurora
for upholstery. “Who laid the corner
stone thereof, when the morning stars
sang together?”
/The fact is that the whole Universe was
U complete cadence, an unbroken dithy
ramb, a musical portfolio. The great
sheet of Immensity had been spread out,
and written on It were the stars, the
smaller of them minims, the larger of them
sustained notes. The meteors marked
the staccato passages, the whole heavens
a gamut with all sounds, Intonations,
modulations, the space between the wordls
a musical Interval, trembling of stellar
light a quaver, the thunder a bass clef,
the wind among trees a treble clef. That
is the way God made all things a perfect
harmony.
But one day a harp .string snapped in
the great orchestra. One day a voice
sounded out of tune. One day a discord,
harsh and terrific, grated upon the glorious
antiphon. It was sin that made the dis
sonance, and that harsh discord has been
Bounding through the centuries. All the
■work of Christians and philanthropists
and reformers of all ages is to stop that
discord and get all things back into the
perfect harmony which was heard at the
laying of the corner-stone when the morn
ing stars sang together. Before I get
through, If I am Divinely helped, I will
make it plain that sin Is discord and right
eousness hattmony. That, in genamlt
things are out of tune Is as plain as to a
musician’s ear is the unhappy clash of
clarionet and bassoon in an orchestral ren
dering.
The world’s health out of tune; weak
lungs and the atmosphere In collision, dis
ordered eye and noonday light in quarrel,
rheumatic limb and damp weather In
struggle, neuralgias and pneumonias and
consumptions anti epilepsies in flocks
sweep upon neighborhoods and cities.
Where you find one person with sound
throat and keen eyesight, and alert ear
and easy respiration, and regular pulsa
tion aard supple limb, and prime digestion
and steady nerves, you find a hundred who
have to be very careful because this or
that or the other physical function Is dis
ordered.
The human intellect out of tune; the
judgment wrongly swerved or the memory
leaky or the will weak or the temper in
flammable, the well-balanced mind excep
tional.
Domestic life out of tune; only here and
there a conjugal outbreak of incompati
bility of temper through the divorce courts,
or a filial outbreak about a father’s will
through the surrogate’s court, or a case
of wife-beating or husband-poisoning
through the criminal courts, but thou
sands of families with Juno outside and
January within.
Society out of tune; labor and capital,
their hands on each other’s throat. Spirit
of caste keeping those down in the social
scale who are struggling to get up. and
putting those who are up in anxiety lest
they have to come down. No wonder the
old pianoforte of society Is all out of tune,
when hvpocrisy and lying, and subterfuge,
and double-dealing, and sycophancy, and
charlatanism, and revenge, have for six
thousand years been bagging away at the
keys and stamping the pedals.
On nil aides there is a shipwreck of
harmonies. Nations in discord without
realising It; so wrong la the feeling of
nation for nation that symbols Chosen are
fierce and destructive. In this country,
where otir sltlM are full of robins and
doves and morning lurks, we have our
national svmbol. the fierce and filthy
eagle, as cruel a bird as can l»e found in
all the ornithological catalogues. In
Groat Britain, where they have lambs and
fallow deer, their symbol Is the merciless
lion. In Russia, where from be:ween her
frnxen north and blooming south all kindly
beasts dwell, they chose the growling
bear; and in the world's heraldry a fa
vorite figure is the dragon, the fabled
winged serpent. ferocious and dreadful.
And so fond Is the world of contention
that wv climb out through the heavens
and baptise one of the other pianAs with
the spirit of buttle, and call it Mara, after
th® god of war, and we give to the eighth
sign of the aodt&c the name of the scor
pion, a mature which is chiefly celebrat
ed lor its deadly sting. But. after all.
the>o symbol* arc expressive of thojway
iK«tlou feel* toward nation. Discord wld'o
at the continent and bridging the xeus.
I suppose j ou have noticed how warmly
II /dr mI ■ W” Siß*
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in love dry-goods store are with other
dry goods stores, and how highly grocery
men think of the sugars of the grocery
men on the same street. And in what a
eulogistic way allopathic and homeo
pathic doctors speak of each other, and
how ministers will sometimes put minis
ters on that beautiful cooking instrument
which the English call a spit, an iron
roller with spikes on It, and turned by a
crank before a hot fire, and then if the
minister being roasted cries out against
It, the men who are turning to him say:
“Hush, my brother, we are turning this
spit for the glory of God and the good
of your soul, and you must be quiet while
we close the service with:
Blest be the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love.”
The earth is diametered and circum
ferenced with discord, and the music that
was rendered at the laying of the world’s
corner-stone, when the morning stars sang
together, is not heard now; and though
here and there, from this and that part or
society, and from this and that part of
the earth, there comes up a thrilling solo
of love, or a warble or worship, or a
sweet duet of patience, they are drowned
out by a discord that shakes the earth.
Paul says: "The whole creation groan,
eth,” and while the nightingale, and the
woodlark, and the canary, and the plover
sometimes sing so sweetly that their
notes have been written out in musical
notation, and it is found that the cuckoo
sings in the key of D, and that the cor
morant is a basso in the winger choir,
yet sportsman’s gun and the autumnal
blast often leave them ruffled and bleed
ing or dead In meadow or forest. Pain
was right, for the groan in nature drowns
out the prlma donnas of the sky.
Tartlni, the great musical composer,
dreamed one night that he made a con
tract with satan, the latter to be ever in
the composer’s service. But one night he
handed to satan a violin, on which Dla
bolus played such sweet music that the
composer was awakened by the emotion,
and tried to reproduce the sounds, and
therefrom was written Tartirri’s most
famous piece, "The Devil’s Sonata,” a
dream ingenious, but faulty, for all met
ody descends from heaven, and only dis
cords ascend from hell. All hatreds, feuds,
controversies, backbitings and revenges
are the devil’s sonata, are diabolic fugue,
are demoniac phantasy, are grand march
of doom, are allegro of perdition.
But If in this world things in general
are out of tune to our frail ear, how much
more so to beings angelic and delflc! It
takes a skilled artist to fully appreciate
disagreement of sound. Many have no
capacity to detect a defect of musical
execution, and, though there were in one
bar as many offenses against harmony as
could crowd in between the lower F of
the bass and the higher G of the soprano,
it would give them no discomfort, while
on the forehead of the educated artist
beads of perspiration would stand out as
a result at the harrowing dissonance.
While an amateur was performing on a
piano and had just struck the wrong
chord, John Sebastian Bach, the immor
tal composer, entered the room, end the
amateur bose iti embarrassment, and
Bach rushed past the host, who stepped
forward to greet him, and, before the key
board had stopped vibrating, put his
adroit hand upon the keys and changed
the painful inharmony into glorious ca
dence. Then Bach turned and gave salu
tation to the host.
But the worst of all discord is moral
discord. If society and the world are
painfully discordant to Imperfect man,
what must they be to a perfect God! Peo
ple (ry to define what sin is. It seems to
me that sin is getting out of harmony
with God, a disagreement with his holi
ness, with his purity, with his love, with
his commands, our will clashing with his
will,the finite dashing against the infinite,
the frail against the puissant, the created
against the Creator. If a thousand musi
cians, with flute and cornet-a-plston and
trumpet, and violoncello, the hautboy, and
trombone and all the wind and stringed
instruments that ever gathered in a Dus
seldorf jubilee should resolve that they
would play out of tune, and put concord
to the rack, and make the place W’ild with
, shrieking and grating and rasping sounds
they could not make such a pandemonium
as that which rages in a sinful soul when
God listens to’ the play of its thoughts,
passions, and emotion—discord, lifelong
’ discord, maddening discord.
The world pays mere for discord than it
does for consonance. High prices have
: been paid for music. One man gave two
hundred and twenty-five dollars to hear
the Swedish songstress in New York, and
i • another six hundred and twenty-five’ dol
lars to hear her In Boston, and another
i six hundred and fifty dollars to hear her
in Providence. Fabulous prices have been
I paid for sweet sounds, but far more has
■ been paid for discord. The Crimean war
• cost one billion seven hundred million dol
i lars, and the American civil war over nine
> and a half billion dollars, and the war
• debts of professed Christian nations are
■ about fifteen billion dollars. The world
pays for this red ticket, which admits it
» to the saturnalia of broken bones, and
death agonies, and destroyed cities, and
ploughed graves, and crushed hearts, any
amount of money satan asks. Discord!
Discord!
But I have to tell you that the song that
the morning stars sang together at the
laying of the world’s corner-stone is to re
sound again. Mozart’s greatest overture
was composed one night when he was sev
eral times overpowered with sleep, and
artists say they can tell the places in the
music where he was falling asleep, and
the places where he awakened. So the
overture of the morning stars, spoken of
j in my text, has been asleep, but It will
awaken and be more grandly rendered by
the evening stars of the world’s existence
; than by the morning stars, and the vespers
will be sweeter than the matins. The
work of all good men and women and of
all good churches and all reform associa
tions help to bring the race back to the
j original harmony. The rebellious heart
to be attuned, social life to be attuned,
. commercial ethics to be attuned, inter
nationality to be attuned, hemispheres to
i be attuned.
> In olden times the choristers had a tun
ing-fork with two prongs, and they would
I strike it on the back of pew or music rack,
■ and put it to the ear and then start the
• tune, and all the other voices would join
i In modern orchestra the leader has a
( complete Instrument rightly attuhed, and
[ he sounds that, and all the other perform
i ers tune the keys of their instruments to
• make them correspond, and draw the bow
• over the* string and listen, and sound it
■ over again, until all the keys are screwed
to concert pitch, and the discords melt
I into one great symphony, and the curtain
hoists, and the baton taps, and audiences
L are raptured with Schumann’s “Paradise
i and the Peri." or Rossini s "Stabat Mater,”
i or Bach’s “Magnificat” in D.
Now. our world can never be attuned by
i an imperfect instrument. Even a Cremona
would not do. Heaven has ordained the
■ I only Instrument, and it t» made out of the
wood of the cross, and the voices that ac-
I company It are imported voices. canta-
> I trleee of the first Christmas night, when
I heaven serenaded the earth with “Glory
’ | to God in the highest, and on earth peace.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 2. 1896.
good will to men.” Lest we start too far
off, and get lost in generalities, we had
better begin with ourselves, get our own
hearts and lives in harmony with the eter
nal Christ. Oh, for his Almighty Spirit to
attune us, to chord our will with his will,
to modulate our life with his life, and bring
us into unison ■with all that is pure, and
self-sacrificing, and heavenly! The strings
of our nature are all broken and twisted,
and the bow is so slack it cannot evoke
anything mellifluous. The instrument
made for heaven to play on has been
roughly twanged and struck by influences
worldly and demoniac. O master hand of
Christ, restore this split, and fractured,
and espoiled, and unstrung nature, until
first it shall wail out for our sin and then
thrill with Divine pardon!
The whole world must also be attuned
by the same power. I was in the Fair
banks weighing scale manufactory of Ver
mont. Six hundred hands, and they have
never had a strike. Complete harmony
betw’een labor and capital, the operatives
of scores of years in their beautiful
homes near by the mansions of the manu
facturers, whose invention and vhrisuan
behavior made the great enterprise. So,
all the world over, labor and capital will
be brought into euphony. You may have
heard what is called the "Anvil Chorus,"
composed by Verdi, a tune played by ham
mers, great and small, now with mights’
stroke, and now with heavy stroke, beat
ing a great iron anvil. That is what
the world has got to come to —anvil 7
chorus, yard-stick chorus, shuttle chorus,
trowel chorus, crowbar chorus, pickax
chorus, gold mine chorus, railtrack
chorus, locomotive chorus. It can be done,
and it will be done. So all social life will
be attuned by the Gospel harp. There
will be as many classes in society as
now, but the classes will not be regu
lated by birth, or wealth, or accident, bur.
by the scale of virtue and benevolence,
and people will be assigned to their places
as good, or very good, or most excellent.
So, also, commercisfl life will be attuned,
and there will be twelve in every dozen
and sixteen ounces in every pound, and
apples at the bottom of the barrel will be
as sdhnd as those on the top, and silk
goods will not be cotton, and sellers wilt
not have to charge honest people more
than the right price because others will
not pay, and goods will come to you cor
responding with the sample by wnich
you purchased them, and coffee will not
be chicoried, and sugar will not be sand
ed, and milk will not be chalked, and
adulteration of food will be a state prison
offense. Aye, all things shall be attuned.
Elections in England and the United
■States will no more be a grand carnival
of defamation and scurrily, but the ele
vation of' righteous men in a righteous
way.
In the sixteenth century the singers
called the Fischer Brothers reached the
lowest bass ever recorded, and the high
est note ever trilled was by La Bastar
della, and Catalini’s voice had a compass
of three and a half octaves; but Chris
tianity is more wonderful, for it runs all
up and down the greatest bights and thA
deepest depths- of > necessity,
end it witk<>ompa«s everything and bring
it in accord with the song which the
morning stars sang at the laying of the
world’s corner-stone. All the sacred mu
sic in homes, and concert halls, and
churches, tends toward this consumma
tion. Make it more and more hearty.
Sing in your families. Sing in your places
of business. If we, with proper spirit,
use these faculties, we are rehearsing for
the skies.
Heaven is to have a new song, an en
tirely new song, but I should not wonder
if, as sometimes on earth a tune is fash
ioned out of many tunes, or it is one
tune with the variations, so some of the
songs of the redeemed may have playing
through them the songs of earth; and
how thrilling, as coming through the great
anthem of the saved, accompanied by
harpers with their harps, and trumpeters,
with their trumpets, if we should hear
some of the strains of Antioch, and
Mount Pisgah, and Coronation, and Le
nox, and St. Martin’s, and Fountain, and
Ariel, and Old Hundred! How they would
bring to mind the praying circles, and
communion days, and the Christmas fes
tivals, and the church worship in whi ;h
on earth we mingled! I have no idea
that when we bid farewell to earth we
are to bld farewell to all these grand old
gospel hymns, which melted and raptured
our souls for so many years. Now, if sin
is discord, and righteousness is narmony,
let us get out of the one and enter the
other. After our dreadful civil
war was over, in the summer of 1869, a
great national peace jubilee was held in
Boston, and as an elder of my church had
been honored by the selection of some of
his music, to be rendered on that occasion
1 accompanied him to the jubilee. Forty
thousand people sat and stood in the great
coliseum erected for that purpose. Thous
and of wind and stringed instruments.
Twelve thousand trained voices. The
masterpieces of all ages rendered, hour
after hour, and day after day—Handel’s
"Judas Maccabaeus,” Spohr’s “Last Judg
ment," Beethoven’s “Mount of Olives,”
Haydns “Creation,” Mendelssohn’s “Eli
jah.” Meyerbeer’s “Coronatiort March,”
rolling on and up in surges that billowed
against the heavens. The mighty caden
ces within were accompanied on the out
side by the ringing of the bells of the city
i and cannon on the commons, discharged
by electricity, in exact time with the mu
-1 sic, thundering their awful bars of a
narmony that astounded all nations.
I Sometimes I bowed my head and wept.
Sometimes I stood up in the enchantment,
and sometimes the effect was so over
powering I felt I could not endure it,
■ especially when all the voices were in full
[ chorus, and all the batons were in full
wave, and all the orchestra in fbll tri-
I umph, and a hundred anvils under
i | mighty hammers were in full clang, and
> ; illl the towers of the city rolled in their
majestic sweetness, and the whole build-
I Ing* quaked with the boom of thirty can
‘ Pare ? a R osa. with a voice that
; | wilt never again be equalled on earth un
! L the »’Nhangelic voice proclaims that
time shall be no longer, rose above all
' Hnnni 8 7 n^J t n h^ r of our na
i n Star - s P an «ted Banner.”
. It was too much for a mortal, quite
1 v°.? Kh for f n imraort *l. to hear, and
i S i° me , fain . ted one womanly spirit
■| *“ p ° v "- sp ' d -
f L ° rd ’.^ Ur °° d * < l u!ck, y usher in the
I W ° rl ? 8 Pe ? ce üb,lee - and all islands
i of the sea join the five continents, and all
• : the voices and all the musical instruments
■ of all nations combine, and all the organs
: that ever sounded requiem of sorrow sound
i ° f Joy ’ and all the
■ btHs that tolled for burial ring for resur
i rectlon. and all the cannon that ever hurl-
> | ed death across the nations sound forth
> j eternal victory, and over ail the acclaim
• of earth and minstrelsy of heaven there
will be heard one voice sweeter and
mightier than any human or angelic voice
. j a voice once full of tears, but now full of
s triumph, the voice of Christ, saying, “I am
i Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the
• | end. the first and the last." Then, at the
■ I laying of the top-stone of the world’s his
i I tory. the same voices shall be heard as
i when, at the laying of the world’s corner
, I stone, “the morning stars sang together.”
LOOKING FOR A LANDSLIDE.
REPUBLICANS CLAIM NEW YORK
STATE BY 200,000.
RIB ■
The Chairman, of the Democratic
State Committee, However, jays
the State Will Go for Bryan by
40,000 —The Republicans Betting
Even Money That New York City
Will Rive McKinley 40,000 Ma
jority—They Also Count on Captur
ing Every Congressman Except
Two.
New York, Nov. 1. —The campaign closed
in this state last night. It has been a
series of hurrahs for the flag, appeals to
patriotism and arguments for conserva
tism in financial and governmental affairs.
The sound money naval display a week
ago and the monster street parade yester
day, in which democrats as well as repub
licans favoring the gold standard, took
part, mark the campaign as one of the
most enthusiastic ever conducted in the
Empire state.
The democrats have managed the cam
paign for Bryan and Sewall in a seeming
ly perfunctory way. With Senator Hill
silent, William C. Whitney an avowed
McKinley man, and ex-Gov. Roswell P.
Flower and other leaders stumping for
Palmer and Buckner, it has been a spir
itless campaign. Hard work has been
done, however, among the labor men and
the working classes, and the campaign of
education will be kept up until Tuesday.
Mr. Bryan has twice visited the state
and this city, which he termed the “heart
of the enemy’s country.” Enormous
crowds greeted him, but whether drawn
by curiosity or belief in the principles
which he urges can only be conjectured.
Throughout the state representative
speakers have harangued crowds and tons
of literature have been distributed by both
sides.
The national democrats have conducted
a warm campaign for Palmer and Buck
ner. and are confident of making a show
ing at the polls which will justify them in
continuing their organization for future
work.
The prohibition and socialist labor par
ties have made their usual quiet cam
paigns.
The people’s party, after vain efforts to
obtain recognition on the democratic elec
toral ticket, endorsed the Bryan and Se
wall electors and took down their state
ticket, with the exception of their nominee
for judge of the court of aftpealk
>* The republicans expect tfte
for McKinley by from upwards.
They ex’*/fc<!i.‘*to elect f rank S.- Black gov
ernor and to capture the congressional del
egation of 34, with possibly two exceptions.
They count upon electing 100 out of the 150
members of the state legislature, thus in
suring the election of a republican to suc
ceed David B. Hill in the United States
Senate.
Chairman Danforth of the democratic
state committee says he is confident of
carrying the state for Bryan by 40,000.
He looks for a democratic plurality in this
city of 30,000.
The betting, however, is the other way.
Money is freely offered on even terms
that McKinley will have over 200,000 plu
rality in the state and over 40,000 in this
city.
A great many democrats who will vote
for McKinley are expected to cast their
ballots for Griffin, the national demo
cratic nominee for governor, and his vote
is expected by some to equal that cast for
Porter, the regular democrat, for gover
nor. Tho division of the democratic vote
between Porter and Griffin makes it an
easy race for Black, the republican nomi
nee.
Great interest in the result of the elec
tion is shown. The registration is con
siderably in excess of all former years,
and the heaviest vote on record will prob
ably be polled.
REPUBLICANS CLAIM INDIANA.
Chairman Gowdy Looks for 25,000 to
00,000 for McKinley.
•Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. I.—Chairman
Gowdy of the republican state committee
this afternoon furnished the following
signed statement: "A conservative esti
mate of the situation at this time shows
that Indiana will give a republican plu
rality of not less than 25,000, and if as we
have reason to believe, a large per cent,
of the silent vote is cast for the republi
can ticket the plurality may reach 60,000.
“The republican organization in Indiana
is so compact and perfect in every detail
that we do not believe that any attempt
by the advocates of free silver by corrup
tion or other methods can effect any ma
terial change tn the situation.
“The republicans will elect all of the
thirteen congressmen, 61 members of the
lower house of the general assembly and
16 out of the 25 senators to elect. With the
19 republican hold-over senators this will
give us 35 in the Senate, a majority of 30.
The republicans will have a majority of 22
in the House, giving us a majority on joint
ballot of 42. This will insure the election of
a republican to the United States Senate
to succeed Daniel W. Voorhees.
John C. Gowdy, Chairman.”
HARD FIGHT IN MARYLAND.
The Gorman and Antl-Gorman Fac
tion* in Hostile Array.
Washington. Nov. L—As to the Maryland
situation the forces in the government of
fices here seem about equally divided. It
is probable that quite as many government
clerks will vote in Maryland for Bryan
and Gorman as for McKinley and the re
publican congressional candidates in the
district nearest to Washington. It is a
recognized factor in the election that Sen
ator Gorman’s continued ascendency in
Maryland politics depends upon the result,
and the Gorman and anti-Gorman senti
ment almost overrides the McKinley and
Bryan issue.
ONE OF ATLANTA’S BLUFFS.
Bryan Men Reported Retting Two to
One Against McKinley.
Atlanta, Ga , Nov. I.—On the strength
of private advices from labor organiza
tions in western cities, Bryan men are
giving odds of 2 to 1 on the result cf ’
Tuesday’s election. This is a reversal of
the odds which heretofore have been given
on McKinley. ,
TROUBLE FEARED IN VIRGINIA.
Anti-Bryan Element Insist* on Hav
ing Watchers at the Polis.
Washington, Nov. I.—The situation in
Virginia elicits the most earnest solici
tude. It is a curious fact that nearly
every Virginian holding office here is a
free silver man. Consequently, the pros
pect of trouble in that state on election
day, arising out of the disputed question
of watchers at the polls, attracts much in
terest.
According to statements received here,
the republicans and sound money demo
crats have selected tally keepers for eacn
precinct in the state. These men are io
watch the interests of the anti-Bryan peo
ple. The democrats are determined that
the plan shall not be carried out. They
contend that the Australian ballot does
not permit it.
The republicans take issue with their op
ponents on this, and, backed by the opin
ions of some of the ablest lawyers tn
the state, have determined to stand by
their position. It is thought not improb
able that this matter will lead to serious
trouble in some of the big negro counties
on election day.
SMALLEY ON THE SITUATION.
The Contest the Most Strenuous in
the Nation’s History.
London, Nov. I.—George W. Smalley,
the American correspondent of the Lon
don Times, who was in Cincinnati Satur
day, cables to that paper as follows: “Mr.
Chancey M. Depew and I visited Mr. Mc-
Kinley at Canton on Friday and found
him buoyant. His confidence and elation
were evident during the whole visit, and
he talked freely. We both brought away
the same impression that If any republi
can depression existed it was not in Can
ton, and, at least of all, in Mr. McKinley
himself.”
Mr. Smalley pays an enthusiastic trib
ute to Mr. Depew’s speeches and dwells
on the cordiality of his reception.
In a cable dispatch sent from Columbus,
0., Sunday, Mr. Smalley cables that the
present is the most strenuous contest in
the political history of America, adding
that Mr. Depew declares that he never
saw anything like it.
CLOSE IN NORTH CAROLINA.
The Republican Chairman Claiming
the State by 16,000. / 1
Raleigh, N. C., Nov. I.—To-night Repub
lican State Chairman Holton said: “ I be
lieve we will carry the state _by 16,000 for
McKinley, 5,500 for Russell, and 6,000 for
the fusion ticket, and all the anti
'ifet’nibbratic congressmen, Unless the dem
ocrats defeat some candidates with bogus
tickets. The anti-democratic legislative
majority will be larger than two years ago.
The republican vote will be larger than
that of the populists and democrats com
bined.”
It Is stated to-night that Chairman Ash
ley of the national democratic committee
has issued a circular asking the gold dem
ocrats to vote for McKinley and Hobart.
D. S. Moss, populist nominee for con
gress in the Second district, to-day an
nounces his withdrawal, and calls on the
populists to vote for Woodward', demo
cratic nominee, against White, colored re
publican.
EXODUS FROM WASHINGTON.
Hundred* of Government Employes
Go Home to Vote.
Washington, Nov. 1.-—Washington is a
deserted village to-night. There was bare
ly a quorum present at any of the churches
at the customary midday services. Every
one who has a right to vote in adjacent
states, according to appearances, has gone
home to exercise it. Maryland and Virgin
da, out of whose territory the site for the
national capitol was carved, naturally re
ceive most of these electoral accretions. As
a matter of fact quite a number of busi
ness men and government employes have
their residences, across the Maryland and
Virginia state line. All pretense of attend
ing seriously to business requiring thought
or executive action was dropped at the de
partments yesterday. Only the most ordi
nary routine work was in progress.
GEORGIA SENATORIAL CAUCUS.
A Probability That It Will Be Held
Next Friday Night.
Atlanta, Ga.. Nov. I.—The democratic
members of the general assembly will
probably caucus next Friday night on
the senatorship. There are five entries,
E. P. Howell, Gov. W. Y. Atkinson, J.
W. Robertson, Hal T Lewis, who nomi
nated W. J. Bryan at Chicago, and A. S.
Clay, chairman of the democratic party
in the state. The legislators have gone
home to vote, and will not reassemble
until Wednesday. It is the field against
Gov. Atkinson.
MURDER OVER POLITICS.
A Motorman Die* From Injuries Re
ceived in a Fight.
Providence, R. 1., Nov. I.—A political ar
gument on a Prairie avenue trolley car
last night caused a fracas which resulted
to-day in the death of Motorman Joseph
Starr. It is reported that his skull was
fractured in a scuffle with Edward Mosely,
a young colored man. Mosely kept an
noying a young man who held different
political views until Conductor Clarence
H. Ryan threatened to eject him. Later
Motorman Starr seized Mosely and they
left the car and fought on the sidewalk.
Starr walked home after the fight, but
became unconscious early this morning,
and died at noon. Mosely was arrested.'
An autopsy and Inquest will be held to
morrow. Starr leaves a widow and two
small children.
A BRIDGE COLLAPSES.
Twenty-flve Republican Horwemen
Injured at Uhrichsville.
Uhrichsville, 0., Nov. L—While the re
publican parade was crossing the Logan
street bridge into Dennison yesterday, the
■bridge collapsed, carrying twenty-five
horesmen with it. AU were injured, but
none fatally. One horse was killed out
right. A German woman, whose name
is not known, is the most seriously in
jured. The presence of mind of the mar
,, shals prevented a panic.
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CASE OF THE COMPETITOR’S CREW
Consul General Lee Protests and. tine
Proceedings Suspended. ♦
Havana, Nov. I,—Owing to a notice of
protest from. Consul General Lee, filed
just previous to his departure for Wash’
Ington, taking exceptions to the new
court martial of the Correspondent Melton,
Capt. Laborde of the Competitor, and other
members,of the vessel’s crew, commenced
in Fortress Cabanas recently, the pro
ceedings in the case have been tempor
arily suspended, though a summons has
been published in local papers requiring
various witnesses to appear and file writ
ten evidence against the prisoners, and
one member of the expedition, George Fer
ran, who after landing, surrendered to the
Spanish authorities and was pardoned un
der Gen. Weyler’s amnesty decree, having
since resided under parole, with his fam
ily in Gbanabacoa, has just been arrested
and thrown into jail, awaiting the trial,
as a witness.
James Brown, a British subject, and
prominent in Havana business circles, has
been imprisoned upon a political charge.
Consul General Lee sailed to-day for
New York on board the Ward line steamer
Vigilancia. Capt. Gen. Weyler sent an
adjutant aboard the steamer to bid him
adieu. A number of Gen. Lee’s personal
friends also went on board the steamer
to see him off.
Gen. Lee was very positive as to the true
motives of his voyages. The only thin&
he would say was that he would see
Piesident Cleveland in Washington.
Maj. Fondevilla reports that his com
mand had an engagement to-day on the
outskirts of Cojmar, near Havana, with
2,500 rebels, led by Lacret and Aguirre.
The first report placed the rebel lost at
twenty-seven killed, but a later one says
that fifty-two were killed. The loss of the
trcops was one captain and fourteen pri
vates wounded.
DYNAMITE DICK ON THE RON.
Three of the Outlaws Narrowly Es
cape Capture.
Guthrie, O. T„ Nov. I.—United States
Deputy Marshal Thomas and a posse came
in from the Creek country yesterday, hav
ing been in search of "Dynamite Dick”
and his gang of outlaw’s, who looted Car
ney and the Sac and Fox agency. They
brought with them a team of mules loaded
with plunder and a saddle-horse, which
they captured. They came upon
three of the outlaws as they
were leading their horses up
a ravine and a pitched battle ensued. It
was getting dark and though over a hun
dred shots were fired nobody was hurt,
and the outlaw's escaped in the darkness,
abandoning their mules, baggage and one
horse. There is no doubt about their being
the Carney gang, led by “Dynamite Dick."
A large posse wIM glve’tffiase.'
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. SOUTH DAKOTA’S SNOW STORM. •;
A—a - .wiw i i im«w—
Heavy Loss of Cattle on the Ranges
Probable.
Huron, S. D., Nov. I.—Friday’s wind and
snow storm was more severe over the
northern and western portion of the state
than was supposed. Many ranchmen on
the upper Missouri and Cheyenne river
ranges will suffer heavy loss op cattle, the
storm being very heavy in those sections.
Snow is reported from twelve to fifteen
inches deep and badly drifted. No tele
graph communication from here west to
Pierre has been had since Thursday even
ing, and it 13 feared stock in the foothills
and on the Sioux reservation suffered
greatly.
RAN INTO A FREIGHT TRAIN,
A Drover in the Caboose Killed and
Another Man Injured.
Westchester, Pa., Nov. I.—The second
section of the day express on the Penn
sylvania railroad, four hours late, crashed
into the rear end of a freight train at
Whitford at 9 o’clock last night, killing
one man and seriously wounding another.
The caboose, in which was John Clara,
a drover, of Pleasant, 0., was smashed
into splinters and Clark was killed. The
conductor, brakeman and flagman of the
freight were all quite seriously Injured,
and were removed to the hospital at Phil
adelphia. Except a damaged locomotive
and a badly shaken up lot of passengers,
the passenger train was none the worse
for the collision.
FIRE IN A HOTEL.
A Woman Burned to Death and Nine
Persons Injured.
Buffalo, N. Y., Nov. I.—The Carlinos ho
tel* at 112 Main street was destroyed by
Are at an early hour this morning. There
were twenty-two persons in the building
when the fire first started. All but nine
of them escaped uninjured. Three were
women, one of whom, an unknown, was
burned to death.
The Injured are: Matt Speak, Mike
Weidger, Henry Miller, Mrs. Henry Mil
ler, Charles Miller, Henry Miller, Jr., Lot
tie Smith and an unknown boy. All are
expected to recover.
BULLETS FLY ON A TRAIN.
One Man Shot Dead and Another Fa
tally 'Wounded.
Lexington, Ky., Nov. I.—A desperate
fight took place yesterday on a train near
Beattyville between John Hargis and Jer
ry Caldwell, in which the former was in
stantly killed and the latter fatally wound
ed. Pistols were the weapons used. An
old grudge was the cause of the trouble.
Hargis was a cousin of Judge Hargis, the
prominent Louisville lawyer and ex-judge
of the Kentucky court of appeals.
SHOT DEAD IN HIS TRACKS.
The City Treasurer of Devil’s Lake,
Ind., Kills a Man.
Devil’s Lake, Ind., Nov. I.—R. J. Illings
worth was shot and instantly killed here
yesterday by Thomas S. Cordner, city
treasurer and a leading politician and
business man. Cordner claims the shoot
ing was in self-defense, as Illingsworth
had brutally assaulted him.
DROPPED DEAD ON PARADE.
A Prominent Capitalist of Cincin
nati a Martyr to Politics.
Cincinnati, 0., Nov. I.—During the gold
standard parade here yesterday afternoon
Henry Lowenstein, a prominent capital
ist and director of the Cincinnati Abat
toir Company, dropped dead while march
ing with his employes.
MONDAYS
■■■ANO ■—
THURSDAYS
BRYANS BRILLIANT BATTLE.
A RESUME OF HIS WORK DURING
THE CAMPAIGN.
He Spends the Sabbath at His Home
Resting for the Dash Through Ne
braska To-day—His Confidence of
Carrying Nebraska and Kansas So
Great That He Has Not Thought If
Necessary to Devote Much Time to
Them.
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. I.—A long sleep this
afternoon and a longer one to-night was
M iliiam J. Bryan’s way of preparing for
his flying trip through Nebraska to-mor
row. The unprecedented campaign of
the candidate practically ended this morn- z
ing, when he stepped from his private
cat, Idler." furnished by the democrat!®
national committee, in the Burlington
station here. He and Mrs. Bryan spent
last night in Council Bluffs and rode over
to Omaha this morning on an electric car
to take the 8:30 train for Lincoln, to
which the Idler was attached. About 200
people were waiting for Mr. Bryan here.
They gave him a suppressed Sunday
morning cheer, and many shook hands
with him as he walked smilingly to the
carriage in waiting. There was a joyous
scene, of course, at the Bryan residence,
when the three children of the candidate
welcomed their father and mother.
Mr. Bryan was tired and went to bed
soon after reaching home. He slept until
supper time and retired again early to
night to secure a good rest for to-morrow's
journey. His own state of Nebraska was,
selected by Mr. Bryan for the final rally
of the free silver forces. The confidence
he has felt that he would carry the stata
was his reason for not making a tour
within it,s boundaries earlier in the cam
paign. it was the same with regard to
Kansas, but that state and his own are
the only two previously in the republican
column, with the exception of those west
of *here, where the free silver sentiment is
considered the strongest, that he has neg
lected in his fight for democratic victory.
The long and hard working campaign
that Mr. Bryan has pursued, began with
his departure from Chicago on July 13, the
Monday following his nomination. From
that time to this he has been on the go,
barring three weeks spent in Lincoln prior
to his departure for New York city to be
formally notified of his selection ss th»
!.emocrai*ic standard bearer, and a week
in the quiet surroundings of Upper Red.
Hook.
_ Hjg hardest day of the campaign was
that during which he made the journey
from Chicago to Pittsburg en route to tha
notification meeting. He left Chicago half
an hour before midnight and made
speeches almost continuously from that
time until he concluded his last address to
a Pittsburg audience twenty-four hours la
ter. That record breaking trip was mad©
during the terrible heated spell of last
summer and left the candidate pretty
well exhausted.
The second hardest day included South
ern Illinois, Indiana and Kentucky. Start
ing from St. Louis early in the morning,
he talked to many gatherings along hi®
route and was obliged to deliver four more
speeches on his arrival at Louisville at
night.
Twenty-seven was the number of
speeches made on his journey from Chi
cago to Pittsburg, and he came within one
of equalling that remarkable record one
day in Michigan last month.
He went as far north as Duluth, Minn.,
and as far south as Memphis, Tenn., while
the Atlantic coast was covered from North.
Carolina to Maine.
How many miles Mr. Bryan will havo
traveled when he returns to Lincoln again
Tuesday morning after his Nebraska
round-up has not been accurately com
puted. but some of those who accompan
ied him Intend -to delve out the correct
figures by a careful study of railroads,
maps and tables of distances. Seventeen
thousand miles is an approximate esti
mate. The democratic candidate visited
twenty-seven states, namely: Connecticut,
Delaware, Illinois, Indiana, lowa, Kans
as (passing through in the night from Lin
coln to Kansas City), Kentucky, Maine,
Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Min
nesota, Missouri, Nebraska, New Hamp
shire, New Jersey, New York, North Car
olina, North Dakota, Ohio, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island. South Dakota, Tennessee,
Virginia, West Virginia and Wisconsin.
He also made a speech in the District of
Columbia.
James T. Dahlman of Omaha, chairman
of the democratic state central commit
tee, will have charge of the Nebraska
campaign to-morrow James O’Shea of
the state committee and a number of cam
paign orators, Including several former
republicans, will accompany Mr. Bryan to
make speeches along the route/ Mr.
Bryan will leave Lincoln on the Idler
by a special train at 6:45 a. m., ana is
due In Omaha at Bin the evening Mrs.
Bryan will accompany her husband. The
entire journey will be made over the Bur
lington road.
Mr. Bryan to-night sent the following
dispatch to Senator Jones:
"Hon. J. K. Jones, Chairman Demo
cratic National Committee, Chicago, Ill.:
I suggest that you urge all members of
silver clubs throughout the United States
to give the entire day Tuesday, if pos
sible, to our cause. In states where the
bolting democrats have been allowed to
use the party name, it will be necessary
for our people to warn voters of the de
ception, and at all polling places they will
be useful to meet the misrepresentations
which may be circulated too late to be
arrested by our speakers or through the
press. The gold syndicate and the trusts
are fighting for existence, and we must
be prepared to meet them at every point.
"W. J. Bryan.’*
BRYAN’S TRIP IN NEBRASKA.
John P. Irish to Follow Him in the
interest of Gold.
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. I.—When Mr. Bryan
leaves Lincoln to-morrow morning for his
flying trip through his own state he will
be followed at no great distance by John
P. Irish of California, who will strive to
undo whatever Mr. Bryan accomplishes.
This programme was decided upon by the
national democrats of Nebraska when
Chairman Mark Hanna vetoed the propo
sition that ex-Congressman William E.
Mason should perform that duty for the
republicans in Illinois. It is improbable
that Mr. Irish will follow Mr. Bryan
throughout the day, but arrangements for
his reception have been made in most of
the larger towns to be visited.