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2TJMES WEEK Vf'iT Aft I THE MORNING NEWS, J ’ X.7JU® "i Established 1850. - - Incorporated 1888. > 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* ~ JL •- 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. ( WEEKLY 2-TIMES-A-WEEK JI A YEAR XT/X Q7 4 5 CENTS A COPY. JN (J. 07. < DAILY, HQ A YEAR. 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.' - -Ulr . 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.
