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DYING CENT£RTS_LAST DAYS.
TALMAGE’S SERSION OF INTERNA
TIONAL SIGNIFICANCE.
Taken His Text From Kings, 20:1.
‘•Tims Snith the Lord, (Set Thine
House in Order; for Thou Shall
Die, and Not Live.” Evils That
Need to Be Set in Order Before the
Close.
Washington, Nov. 29.—Considering the
time and place of its delivery, this ser
mon of Dr. Talmage is of absorbing and
startling Interest. It is not only national
but international in its significance. His
subject was "The Dying Century,” and
the text, 2. Kings 20: 1: "Thus salth the
Lord, set thine house in orders for thou
shalt die, and not live."
No alarm bell do I ring in the utter
ance of this text, for in the healthy glow
of your countenances I And cause only for
cheerful prophecy; but I shall apply the
text as spoken in the ear of Hezekiah,
down with a bad carbuncle, to the nine
teenth century, now closing, it will take
only four more long breaths, each year a
breath, and the century will expire. My
theme is The Dying Century. I discuss
it at an hour when our national legisla
ture is about to assemble, some of the
members now here present, and others
goon to arrive from the north, south, east
and west. All the public conveyances
coming this way on Dec. 7 will bring Im
portant addition of public men, so that
when at high noon, the gavels of Senate
and House of Representatives shall lift
and fall, the destinies of this nation, and
through it the destinies of all nations
struggling to be free, will be put on sol
emn and tremendous trial. Amid such
intensifying circumstances I stand by the
venerable century, and address it in the
Words of my text, "Thus salth the Lord,
set thine house in order; for thou shalt
die, and not live.”
Eternity Is too big a subject for us to
understand. Some one has said it is a
great clock, that says "Tick” in one cen
tury, and "Tack" In another. But we
can better understand Old Time, who has
many children, and they are tlie centuries,
and many grandchildren, and they are the
years. With the dying nineteenth cen
tury we shall this morning have a plain
talk, telling him some of the good things
he has done, and then telling him some of
I the things he ought to adjust before he
Lults this sphere and passes out to join
the eternities!. We generally wait until
Loonie d®sd before w<- Sjv In
Bl of (km. I'unerai .■inn;: :en-
■ally very pathetic, and eloquent with
Kings that ought to have been said years
Before. We put on cold tombstones
what w® ought to have put in the warm
ears of tm living. We curse Charles
Sumner while he is living, and cudgel him
Into spinal meningitis, and wait until, In
the rcoms where I have been living the
last year, he puts his hand on his heart
and cries “Oh!” and la gone, and then
we make long procession in his honor.
Dr. Sunderland, chaplain of the American
Senate, accompanying; stopping long
enough to allow the dead senator to lie in
state In Independence hall, Philadelphia,
and halting at Boston state house, where
not long before, damnatory resolutions
had been passed in regard to him, and
then move on, amid the tolling bells and
the boom of the minute guns, un
til we bury him at Mount Au-
burn and cover him with flowers five
lett deep. What a pity he could
not have been awake nt his own fu
neral, to hear the gratitude of the nation!
What a pity that one green leaf could not
have been taken from each one of the
mortuary garlands and put upon his ta
ble while he was yet alive at the Arling
ton! What a pity that out of th.: great
choirs who chanted at his obsequies one
little girl, dressed in white, might not
have sung to his living ear a compliment
ary solo! The post-mortem expression con
tradicted the ante-mortem. The nation
could not have spoken the truth both
times about Charles Sumner. Was it be
fore or after his disease it lied? No such
injustice shaJi be inflicted upon this ven
erable Nineteenth century. Before he goes
we recite In his hearing some of the good
things he has accomplished. What an ad
dition to the world’s intelligence he has
made! Look at the old school-house, with
the snow sifting through the roof and
the filthy tin cup hanging over the water
pall in the corner, and the little victims on
the long benches without backs, and the
illiterate schoolmaster with his hickory
gad, and then look at our modern palaces
of f rea schools, under men and women
cultured and refined to the highest excel
lence, so that, whereas in our childhood
we had to be whipped to go to school,
children now cry when they cannot go.
Thank you, venerable century, while at
the same time we thank God. What an ad
dition to the world s inventions! Within
our century the cotion gin. The agricul
tural machines, for planting, reaping
and threshing. The telegraph. The
phonograph, capable of preserving a hu
man voice from generation to generation.
The typewriter, that rescues the world
from worse and worse penmanship. And
stenography, capturing from the lips of
the swiftest speaker more than two hun
dred words a minute. Never was I so
amaaed at the facilities of our time as
when, a few days ago. I telegraphed from
Washington to New York a long and elab
orate manuscript, and a few minutes
after, to show its accuracy, it was read
to mo through the. long-distance tele
phone, and it was exact down to the last
•emleolon and comma. What hath God
wrought! Oh, I am so glad 1 was not
born sooner. For the tallow candle the
electric light. For the writhing* of the
surgeon’s table God-given anaesthetics,
■nd the whole physical organism explored
by sharpest instrument, and giving not so
much pain as the taking of a splinter
from under a child’s finger-nail. For the
lumbering stage-roach the limited ex
press train. And there is the spectro
scope of Fraunhofer, by which, our mod
ern scientist feels the pulse of other
worlds throbbing with light. Jenner's ar
rest by inoculation of one of the world's
worst t plagues. Doctor Keeley’s
emancipation for Inebriety. Inti
mation that the virus of maddened
canine, and cancer, and consumption
are yet to be balked by magnificent
medical treatment. The eyesight of the
doctor sharpened till he can look through
thick flesh and find the biding place Os
the bullet. What advancement tn geology
or the catechism of the mountains;
chemistry, or the catechism of the ele
ments; astronomy, or the catechism of
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the stars; electrology, or the-catechism of
the lightnings. What advancement in
music. At the beginning of this century,
confining Itself, so far as the great masses
of the people were concerned, to a few
airs drawn out on accordion or massacred
on church bass viol; now enchantingly
dropping from thousands of fingers in
Handel’s concerto in B flat, or Guilmant’s
sonata In D minor. Thanks to you, "O,
century! before you die, for the, asylums
of mercy that you have founded—the
blind seeing with their fingers, the deaf
hearing by the motion of your lips, the
born imbecile by skilful object lesson lift
ed to tolerable intelligence. Thanks to
this century for the Improved condition of
most nations. The reason that Napoleon
made such a successful sweep across
Europe at the beginning of the century
Was that most of the thrones of Europe
were occupied either by imbeciles of prof
ligates. But most of the thrones of Eu
rope are to-day occupied by kings and
•queens competent, France a republic,
Switzerland a republic, and about fifty
free constitutions, I am told, in Europe.
Twenty million serfs of Russia manumit
ted. On this western continent I can call
the roll of many republics—‘Mexico, Gua
temala, San Salvador, Costa Rica, Para
guay, Uruguay, Honduras, New Granada,
Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador, Bolivia, Chili,
Argentine Republic, Brazil. The once
straggling village of Washington, to which
the United States government moved, its
entire baggage and equipment packed up
in seven boxes which got lost In the woods
near this place, now the architectural
glory of the continent, and admiration of
the world.
Tne money power, so much denounced
and often justly criticised, has covered
this continent with universities, and free
libraries and asylums of mercy. The news
paper-press which, at the beginning of the
Century was an ink-roller, by hand moved
over one sheet of paper at a time, has be
come the miraculous manufacturer of four
or five, or six hundred thousand sheets
for one daily newspaper’s issue. Within
your memory, O, Dying Century! has been
the genesis of nearly all the great institu
tions evangelistic. At London tavern,
March 7, 1802, British and Foreign Bible
Society was born. In 1816 American Bible
Society was born. In 1824 American Sun
day School Union was born. In 1810 Amer
ican board of commissioners for foreign
missions, which has put its saving nand
on every nation of the round earth, was
born at a haystack in (Massachusetts. The
National Temperance Society, the Wo
men’s Temperance Society, and all the
other temperance movements born in this
century. Africa, hidden to other centuries,
by exploration in thia century has been
put at the,feet of civilization, to be occu
pied by commerce and Christianity. The
Chinese wall, once an Impassable barrier,
now is a useless pile of stone and brick.
Our American nation at the opening of
this century only a slice of land along the
Atlantic coast, now the whole continent in
possession of our schools and churches and
missionary stations. Sermons and relig
ious intelligence which in other times, if
noticed at all by the newspaper press,
were allowed only a paragraph of three or
four lines, now find the columns of the
leculHf hr iXI the cities, thrown Wide
open, and every week for twenty-six years
without the omission of a single week, I
have been permitted to preach one entire
Gospel s&rmon through the newspaper
press. I thank God for this great oppor
tunity. Glorious old century! You shall
not be entombed until we have, face to
face, extolled you. You were rocked In a
rough cradle, and the inheritance you re
ceived was for the most part poverty, and
struggle, and hardship, and poorly cover
ed graves of heroes and heroines of whom
the world had not been worthy, and athe
ism, and military despotism, and the wreck
of the French revolution. You inherited
the influences that resulted in Aaron
Burr’s treason, and another war with
England, and battle of Lake Erie, and
Indian savagery, and Lundy’s Lane and
Dartmoor massacre, and dissension, bit
ter and wild beyond measurement,
and African slavery, which was
yet to cost a national hemorr
i hage of four awful years and a million
I precious lives. Yes, dear Old Century, you
had an awful start, and you have done
I more than well, considering your parent
age and your early environment. It Is a
i wonder you did not turn out to be the vag-
• abend century of all time. You had a bad
■ mother and a bad grandmother. Some of
the preceding centuries were not fit to
i live in—their morals were so bad, their
fashions were so outrageous, their igno-
• ranee was so dense, their inhumanity so
• terrific. O dying Nineteenth Century! be
i fore you go we take this opportunity of
i telling you that you are the best and the
■ mightiest of all the centuries of the Chrls
; tian era, except the first, which gave us
• the Christ, and you rival that century in
i the fact that you, more than all the other
l centuries put together, are giving the
■ Christ to all the world. One hundred and
i twelve thousand dollars at one meeting
i a few days ago contributed for the world's
I evangelization. Look at what you have
■ done, O thou abused and depreciated cen
i tury! All the Pacific Isles, barred and
• bolted against the gospel when you began
’ to reign, now all open, and some of
i them more Christianized than America,
i No more, as once written over the church
• doors In Cape Colony, "Dogs and Hot-
I tentots not admitted.” The late Mr. Dar
, win contributing twenty-five dollars to the
Southern Missionary Society. Cannibal
t ism driven off the face of the earth. The
■ gates of all nations wide open for the gos
i pel entrance when the chti’wh shall give
■ up its intellectual dandysrin, and quit fool
r ing with higher criticism, and plunge into
> the work, as at a life saving station the
■ crew pull out with the life boat ’to take
the sailors off a ship going to pieces in
I the skerries. I thank you, old and dying
l century; all heaven thanks you, and sure
! ly all the nations of the earth ought to
• thank you. I put before your eyes, soon
> to be dim for the last sleep, the facts
( tremendous. I take your wrinkled old
i hand and shake it in congratulation. I
■ bathe your fevered brow, and freshen
i your parched lips from the fountains of
I eternal victory.
But my text suggests that there are
some things that this century ought to do
, before he leaves us. "Thus saith the Lord.
; Set thine house In order; for thou shalt
' die, and not live." We ought not to let
this century go before two or three things
‘ j are set in order. For one thing, this quar
; rel between labor and capital. The nine-
J teenth century inherited it from the eigh
teenth century, but do not let this nine
-1 teenth century bequeath it to the twen
' tieth. "What we want." stays labor, "to
■ set us right is more strikes and more vlg-
• orous work with torch and dynamite."
"What we want," says capital, "is a
I tighter grip on the working classes and
• compulsion to take what wages we choose
’ to pay, without reference to their needs."
Both wrong as sin. Both defiant. Until
I I the Day of Judgment no settlement of the
quarrel, if you leave it to British. Rus
sian or American politics. The religion
> of Jesus Christ ought to come in within
I the next four years and take the hand
of capital and employe and say, "You have
tried everything else, and failed; now
try the Gospel of Kindness." No
more oppression and no more strikes.
J The Gospel of Jesus Christ will sweeten
this acerbity, or it will go on to the end of
time, and the fires that burn the world
up will crackle In the ears of wrathful
prosperity and indignant toil while their
hands are still clutching at each other’s
throats. Before this century sighs its last
breath I would that swarthy labor and
easy opulence would come up and let the
Carpenter of Nazareth join their hands in
pledge of everlasting kindness and peace.
When men and women are dying they are
apt to divide among their children memen
toes, and one is given a watch, and an
other a vase, and another a picture, and
another a robe. Let this veteran century,
before it dies, hand over to the human
race, with an ‘impressiveness that shall
last forever, that old family keepsake, the
golden keepsake which nearly nineteen
hundred years ago was handed down from
the black rock of the Mount of Beati
tudes: “Therefore all things whatsoever
ye would that men should do to you, do
ye even so to them; for this is the law and
the prophets.”
Another thing that needs to be set in
order before the veteran century quits
us, is a more thorough and all-embracing
plan for the world’s gardenization. We
have been trying to save the world from
the top, and it cannot be done that way.
It has got to be saved from the bottom.
The church ought to be only a West
Point to drill soldiers for outside battle.
What if a military academy should keep
its students from age to age, in the mess
room and the barracks? No, no! They
are wanted at Montezuma, and Chapulte
pec, and South Mountain, and Missionary
Ridge, and the church is no place for a
Christian to stay very long. He is want
ed at the front. He is needed in the des
perate charge of taking the parapets. The
last great battle for God is not to be
fought on the campus of a college or the
lawn of a church. It is to be fought at
Missionary Ridge. Before this century
quits us let us establish the habit of giv
ing the ’forenoon of the Sabbath to the
churches and the afternoon and the even
ing of the Sabbath to gospel work in the
halls, and theaters,’ and streets, and fields,
and slums, and wildernesses of sin and
sorrow. Why do Christians who
have stuffed themselves with “the
strong meat of the word,” and all
gospel viands on Sabbath forenoons
want to come up to a second service and
stuff themselves again? These old gor
mandizers at the gospel feast need to get
into outdoor work with the outdoor gospel
that was preached on the banks of the
Jordan, and on the fishing-smacks of Lake
Galilee, and in the bleak air of Assyrian
mountains. I am told that throughout all
our American cities the second Sabbath
service in the majority of churches is
sparsely, yea, disgracefully attended, and
is the distress of the consecrated and elo
quent pastors who bring their learning
and piety before pews ghastly for their
inoccupancy. What is the providential
meaning? The greatest of all evangelists
since Bible times recently suggested that
the evening services In all the churches
bfe turned into the most popular style of
evangelistic meetings for outsiders. Sure
ly that is an experiment worth making.
1k -tbai Jl' Poes
fieem to me aJI the churches which cannot
secure sufficient evening audiences, ought
to shut up their buildings at night and go
where the people are, arid invite them to
come to the gospel banquet.
Let the Christian souls, bountifully fed
In the morning, go forth in the afternoon
and evening to feed the multitudes of out
siders starving for the bread of which if a
man eat he shall never again hunger.
Among those clear down the Gospel would
make more rapid conquest than among
those who know so much and have so much
that God cannot teach or help them. In
those lower depths splendid fellows in the
rough, like the shoe-black, that a reporter
saw near New York city hall. He
a boy to b’lack his boots. The boy came up
to his work provokingly slow, and had
just begun when a large boy shoved him
aside and began the work, and tfie reporter
reproved him as being a bully, and the
boy replied: “Oh, that’s all right. I am go
ing to do it for ’lm. You see he’s been sick
in the hospital more’n a month; so us boys
turn in and give 'im a lift.” “Do all the
boys help him?” asked the reporter.
sir; when they .ain’t go no job themselves,
and Jim gets one, they turn in and help
’im, for he ain’t strong, yet, you see.”
“How much percentage does
he give you?” said the re
porter. The boy replied, “I don t keep
none of it. I ain't no such sneak as that.
All the boys give up what they git on his
job. I’d like to catch any feller sneaking
on a sick boy, I would.” The reporter
gave him a 25-cent piece, and said, “You
keep 10 cents for yourself, and give the
rest to Jim.” “Can’t do it, sir; it’s his
customer. Here, Jim." Such big souls as
that strew all the lower depths of the
cities, and get them converted to God, this.
would be the last full century of the
world’s sin, and but little work of evan
gelization would be left for the
next ceutury. Before this century ex
pires let there be a combined effort to
save the great cities of America and Great
Britain, and of all Christendom. What an
awful thing it would be for you, O Dying
Century! to bequeath to the coming cen
tury, as yet innocent and unscarred with
a single sin or burdened wjth a single
sorrow, the blasphemy, the law
lessness, the atheism, the profligacy, and
the woes of great cities still unevangel
ized. What we ought to see, O dying cen
tury! is a revival of religion that would
wrap the continents in conflagrations of
religious awakening, and that would make
legislation, and merchandize, and all
styles of worldly business wait awhile at
the telegraph offices and the telephone
offices because they are occupied with tell
in® rhe story of cities and nations borA
in a day. Nearly all the centuries closed
with something tremendous. Why may
not this century close in the salvation of
America? I do not know whether our
theological friends, who have studied the
subject more than I have, are right or
wrong when they say Christ will come in
person to set up his kingdom in this
wos-ld: but though we would be over
whelmed with our unworthiness. I would
like to see Christ descend from heaven in
one of the clouds of thia morning, and
planting his feet on this earth, which he
came centuries ago to save, declare his
reign of love, and mercy, and salvation
on earth begun. And what more appro
priate place—l say it reverentially—for
such a divine landing than the
capital of a continent never cursed by the
tyrannies and superstitions of the old
world?
What has this dying Nineteenth Century
to tell us before he goes? We all love to
hear septuagenarians, octogenarians,
nonagenarians, and centenarians talk.
We gather around the arm chair and lis
ten till it is far on into the night, and
never weary of hearing their experiences.
But Lord Lyndhurst, at 88 years of age.
pouring into the ears of the House of
I Lords, in a four hours’ address, the ex
periences of a lifetime, and Apollonius, at
100 years of age, recounting his travels to
thrilled listeners, and Charles Macklin,
at 107 years of age, absorbing the atten
tion of his hearers, and Ralph Farnham,
of our country, at 107 years, telling the
Prince of Wales the story ol Bunker Hill,
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1896.
can create no such interest as this dying
centenarian, if he will only speak.
Tell us, O Nineteenth Century! before
you go, in a score of sentences, some of
the things you have heard and seen. The
veteran turns upon us and says: "I saw
Thomas Jefferson riding in unattended
from Monticello, only a few steps from
where you stand, dismount from his horse
and hitch the bridle to a post, and on yon
der hill take the oath of the presidential
office. I saw yonder capitol ablaze with
war’s incendiarism. I saw the puff of the
first steam engine in America. I heard
the thunders of Waterloo, of Sebastopol,
and Sedan, and Gettysburg. I was pres
ent at all the coronations of the kings and
queens, and emperors and empresses
now in the world’s palaces.
I have seen two billows roll
across this continent and from ocean to
ocean; a billow of revival joy in 1857, and
a billow of blood in 1854. I, have seen
four generations of the human race march
across this world and disappear. I saw
their cradles rocked and their graves dug.
I have heard the wedding bells and the
death knells of near a hundred years. I
have clapped my hands for millions of
joys and wrung them in millions of agon
ies. I saw Macready and Edwin Forrest
act, and Edward Payson pray. I heard
the first chime of Longfellow’s rhythms,
and before any one else saw them I read
the first line of Bancroft’s History, and
the first’verse of Bryant’s ‘Thanatopsis,’
and the first word of Victor Hugo’s al
most supernatural romance. I heard the
music of all the grand marches and the
lament of all the requiems that for nigh
ten decades made the cathedral windows
shake. I have seen more moral and
spiritual victories than all of my prede
cessors put together. For all you wao
hear or read this valedictory I have kin
dled all the domestic firesides by which
you ever sat, and roused all the hailoos
and roundelays and merriments you have
ever heard and unrolled all the pictured
sunsets and starry, banners of the. mid
night heavens that you have ever gazed
at. But ere I go, take this admoifflion and
benediction of a Dying Century. The long
est life, like mine, must close: Opportuni
ties gone never come back, as I could prove
from nigh a hundred years of observation:
The eternity that will ,soon take me will
soon take you: The wicked live not out
half their days, as I have seen in ten
thousand instances: The only influence for
making the world happy is an influence
that I, the Nineteenth Century, inherited
from the first century of the Christian era
—the Christ of all the centuries. Be not
deceived by the fact that I have livpd so
long, for a century is a large wheel that
turns a hundred smaller wheels, which ■
are the years; and each one of those years
turns three hundred and sixty-five smaller
wheels, which are the days; and each one
of the three hundred and sixty-five days
turns twenty-four smaller wheels, which
are the hours; and each one of those twen
ty-four hours turns sixty smaller wheels,
which are the minutes; and those sixty
minutes turn still smaller wheels
which are the seconds. And all
of this vast machinery is in perpetual mo
tion. and pushes ug on a, t
itre-F eCarriK.y utiose u JurJ wid, at ■
o’clock of the winter night between the
year nineteen hundred, and the year nine
teen hundred and one, open before me,
the dying century. I quote from the three
inscriptions over the three doors of the
Cathedral of Milan. Over one door, amid
a wreath of sculptured roses, I read:
‘All that which pleases us is but for a mo
ment.’ Over another door, around a
sculptured cross, 1 read: “'All that which
troubles us is but for a moment.’ But
over the central door, I read: ’That only
Is important which is eternal.’ O Eter
nity! Eternity! Eternity!”
My hearers, as the Nineteenth Century
was born while the face of this nation was
yet wet with tears because of the fatal
horseback ride that Washington took, out
here at Mt. Vernon, through a December
snowstorm, I wislj the next century might
be born at a time when the face of this
nation shall be wet with the tears of the
literal or spiritual arrival of the Great
Deliverer of Nations, of whom St. John
wrote with apocalyptic pen: “And I
saw, and behold a white horse: ’and he
that sat on*him had a bow; and a crown
was given unto him; and he went forth
conquering, and to conquer.”
FIRE WIPES OUT A FAMILY.
Father, Mother and Three Children
Perish tn New York.
Rochester, N. Y., Nov. 29.—A special to
the Democrat and Chronicle from Perry,
N. Y., says: “A whole family perished in
flame and smoke this morning in the ten
ement house on the Irving Thompson
farm, situated about four miles northeast
of the village, where resided the family
of Luther Greenman, consisting of the
husband, aged 40 years; Mrs. Greenman,
aged 37; Aimee, aged 6; Lottie, aged 3, and
Arthur, a baby 11 months and a few days
old.
“The house was discovered in flames by
Mr. Thompson at 6:15 a. m. He rushed for
the building and knocked open the front
door, but was driven back by the flames,
which seemed to be in possession of the
whole interior. He then knocked open a
room window, and took hold of Mr. Green
man. who was burned so that the flesh
came off in Mr. Thompson’s hands, and it
was all he could do to drag out the corpse.
He was then compelled to flee from the
house, the flames which came from the
window almost burning him. The house
was quickly destroyed.
“Coroner Watson arrived and the horri
bly charred remains of the family were
taken from the smouldering ruins. An
■ inquest will be held In the morning.
“The fire was undoubtedly the result of
a defective stove pipe. Greenman and his
family vrere burned out twro years ago,
barely escaping with their lives."
BULLETS END A BULLY.
A Father and His Two Sons Kill a
Saluda Desperado.
Augusta. Ga., Nov. 29.—A special to the
Chronicle from Saluda, N. C., says; "a
notorious character named Buzardt was
killed by three Hendersons, father and
two sons. <Buzardt had killed two men
and had shot Will Henderson about a year
ago. Henderson recovered, but Buzardt
has been bullying him on every occasion
since. Yesterday, they met again, but
Henderson resented Buzardt’s conduct and
his father and brother came to his rescue
with the result that Buzardt was shot and
stabbed to death. The Hendersons were
not arrested.”
CARRIAGE W ORKS BI RNED.
The Loa* Nearly 4U50.000 and the In
surance Only Half.
York, Pa.. Nov. 29.—This morning the
Queen street shops of the Martin carriage
works were destroyed by fire, entailing
a loss of nearly SSO.OOO. The insurance
is about half that figure. A large amount
of finished and unfinished work was de
stroyed. (
COWBOYS TO FIGHT FOR CUBA.
TWO HUNDRED ARE READY TO
SAIL FROM TEXAS.
Brave Death and Cowardly Treat
ment of Antonio Lopez Coloma
In the Cabanas Answered the
Hooting of the Crowd by Defiantly
Shouting; “Cuba Libre”—The Exe
cution a Piece of Bad Faith and
Cowardice »on the Part of Weyler.
San Antonio, Tex., Nov. 29.—1 tis re
ported here that an expedition of over 200
Texas cowboys is about ready to depart
from Point Isabel on the lowest gulf coast,
near the Mexican line, for Cuba. The ex
pedition was organized by an agent of
the Cuban insurgents who has been in
this part of the state for several weeks.
A large quantity of arms and ammuni
tion will be taken by the party.
Key West, Fla., Nov. 29.—Passengers
who arrived last night from Havana, give
shocking details of Antonio Lopez Colo
ma’s execution in the Cabanas fortress on
Thursday last.
The execution took place in the evening.
A large crowd assembled and much in
terest was felt on account of the import
ance of the person. The crowd consisted
of the rabid Spanish element. Some Cu
bans were present to give a silent parting
to the brave patriot. When led from the
chapel, the crowd hooted and Coloma de
fiantly shouted “Cuba Libre.” The offi
cer of the escort struck him in the face.
Once in the square, Coloma repeated the
cry, and the officer again struck him and
forced a handkerchief in his mouth to
prevent him speaking. Coloma was shot
in the back kneeling. He twice arose to
face the executioners, but was finally com
pelled to kneel. He was killed at the
first volley. When the-volley was fired
the crowd clapped hands, gave shouts for
Spain, and death to all Cubans. Coloma’s
execution was a case of bad faith and
cowardice on Capt. Gen. Weyler’s part.
Coloma was first condemned to a life
sentence unjustly since, as he surrendered
according to Capt. Gen. Campos’ am
nesty decree, he should have been re
leased. After being kept nearly two years
in prison, the sentence was revoked and
he was ordered shot.
Extermination of pacificos continues by
Gen. Weyler’s secret orders. All com
manders are ordered to clear the country
of all non-combatants. This is done sl
is difficult, and it is hard to obtain de
tails. The massacres only become known
through the confessions of officers and sol
diers in some cases. Col. Struch openly
boasted in Havana of killing over 300 old
men, women and girls, who surrendered
In Pinar del Rio province. Many have
been also killed in other provinces. Col.
Struch, while in his cups, gave revolting
details of the Pinar del Rio massacre.
Gen. Weyler’s edict promising pardon is
simply a trap to entice fools.
Well informed persons say Gen. Wey
ley, following Minister De Lome's in
structions that it is necessary to create
sympathy for Spain in Washington be
fore congress meets, has availed himself
of the correspondent of a certain press as
sociation in the United States to make al
leged interviews, and send flattering state
ments to create a false impression of the
state of affairs here.
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Havana, Nov. 29.—The latest reports
from the province of Pinar del Rio locate
Capt. General Weyler in the vicinity of
San Cristobal. He was marching westward
towards the hills, seeking the forces of
Maceo. No mention is made of any en
gagement having taken place.
While a military train was passing along
the central trocha, which extends from Mo
ron to Jucaro, in the province of Puerto
Principe, dynamite bomb, which had
been placed on the rails by rebels ex
ploded. Several of the cars were wrecked.
As soon as the explosion occurred the re
bels, who had been in ambush, made an
attack on the armored car attached to the
train. This car was defended by twenty
five officers and men. They resisted the
insurgents until assistance reached them
from the troops stationed along the trocha
near the scene of the disaster. The rebels
were driven off with a loss of eight killed.
The Spanish loss was two killed and an
officer and five privates wounded.
London, Nov. 29.—The Times will to
morrow print a leader treating of the
situation in Cuba. It says that owing to
the incapability of her generals there is no
prospect whatever oj Spain winning in
\the struggle in the island. Moreover,
Sphin’s resources are strained to the ut
most, and it will be difficult for her puree
to bear much longer the demands upon it.
In conclusion the Times says: “We can
not exclude the probability of interven
tion by the United States.”
ATTITUDE OF THE CLERGY.
Cardinals Satolli and Gibbons to Dis
cus* Il With the Pope.
Rome, Nov. 29.—1 tis reported at the Vat
ican- that the pope has ordered Cardinal
Satolli, late papal delegate to the United
States, to make a report of the situation
of the clergy in America. According to
the report, his holiness charged Cardinal
Satolli to propose such measures relative
to the subject as he might deem neces
sary.
It is expected that Cardinal Gibbons
will come to Rome to discuss the question
under advisement, and to further enlighten
the pope as to the beet means of improv
ing the situation of the American clergy.
After all the data is at hand and di
gested it is probable that the pope will
issue an encyclical on the subject.
STEINWAY’S CONDITION.
The Noted Piano Maker Suffer* n
Relapse and I* tn Danger.
New York. Nov. 29.—William Stein wav,
who was thought to have been on the
high road to recovery from his recent at
tack of typhoid fever, suffered a relapse
to-day, and is said to be in a critical con
-0 di cion to-night.
STONED TO DEATH BY FOOTPADS.
The Crime Committed hy Negroes
nnd a Mob Eager to Lynch Them.
Chicago, Nov. 29.—Louis Maverick, the
proprietor of a boarding camp on the
drainage canal near Lemont, was at
tacked by two colored highwaymen in a
deserted portion of Summit, southwest of
this city, last night, and robbed and
stoned to death.
The crime resulted in the wildest excite
ment at Lemont, and hundreds of citizens
started out to assist the police in captur
ing the men. This afternoon Henry
Rooker and John Latimer, both negroes,
were arrested on the drainage canal not
far from Summit, and lodged in jail.
Rooker afterwards confessed and when
this was rumored about a mob collected,
and it was with difficulty the authorities
protected the prisoner from violence. The
excited citizens threatened to force an
entrance into the jail, where the two men
were locked up, and lynch them.
The streets in the vicinity of the jail
were becoming crowded with excited men,
and the authorities, fearing violence
would be committed, separated the two
prisoners. Rooker was hurried out
through a rear way and taken to the
Willow Springs jail and in order to quiet
the mob it was given out that there was
no certainty of the guilt of the prisoners.
By 10 o’clock the crowd had dispersed.
Last evening Maverick, accompanied by
his nephew, was walking along a low
path in Summit. Rooker and Latimer,
who, it is claimed, were concealed behind
some shrubbery, attacked them and be
gan beating them with stones. Maver
ick’s nephew fled, but Maverick received
a blow on the head, which rendered him
senseless. As soon as the police were
notified of the assault, they went to
where Maverick was when the attack was
made and found his body lying across
tfi.e path. His head and body were se
verely bruised where he had been pelted
with the stones. Officers and citizens
were sent in every direction, and Rooker
and Latimer were captured. The nephew
of the dead man identified them, and
when Rooker was confronted with this,
he gave, up and made a full confession.
He charged Latimer with ffiaving killed
Maverick and added that they divided S3O,
the proceeds of the robbery.
STRIKE OF THE DOCK LABORERS.
Each Side to Be Confident ot
Coining Out on Top.
Hamburg, Nov. 29.—The strike of the
dock laborers and others employed in the
shipping trade continues and both masters
and men express themselves as confident
of success. There is nt sign of a break in
the ranks of the strikers, notwithstanding
the importation of foreign labor. The
leaders of the strike are working hard to
- Os all iSe
and wareh'duscemployes ana ucceed
ed in gaining many accessionsro their
numbers. The warehouse men and the
men employed in the granaries decided at
meetings held to-day to join the strike in
order to proctire better wages for them
selves and incidentally to help the men al
ready out.
The strike is causing much delay in the
shipment of water borne freights. The
sheds are more than full of goods awaiting
shipment, but there is no telling when the
accumulations will be cleared away. Many
of the new men that have been employed
are not at all skilled in their work, and
this adds very materially to the delay In
loading and discharging vessels. It is
believed that the claims of chartered ves
sels for demurrage will be large, and if
' these are conceded or enforced a heavy ad
ditional expense will be entailed by the
shipping men.
The Hamburg Nachrlchten accuses Eng
lish agitators with causing the strike and
asks the members of the various athletic
unions to take the place of the strikers.
A dispatch received ’ here from Stock*
holm says that the dock laborers union
there held a meeting to-day and decided
that its members should not discharge
cargoes from Hamburg that are loaded
by “blacklegs.”
Emperor William has ordered that a de
tailed report be made to him as to the
causes and extent of the strike.
Thus far the men on strike have behav
ed in an orderly manner, but it is evident
that the ship owners anticipate trouble
of some kind, for they have requested the
naval authorities at Kiel to send marines
here.
COUPLE OF CRUEL CRIMES.
A Widow and a Small Girl Assaulted
in Tennessee.
Chattanooga, Tenn., Nov. 29.—Reports
received from Athens, Tenn., contain mea
gre details of two terrible crimes commit
ted near that town, but owing to the tele
graph wires being down, neither names
or confirmation of the stories can be se
cured. In North Adams, an addition to
1 the town, five drunken men, all white,
forced their way into the home of a re
spected widow, and made a savage attack
upon her. One of her assailants threw
a rock which crushed her skull. She will
die.
A few miles from Athens, a little 7-year
old girl was overtaken on her
way home from Sunday school
by a negro "fiend, who out
raged her body In a most brutal manner.
The man has been arrested and confessed
his guilt. He is confined in the county
jail at Athens. The facts were learned
late to-night from trains.
SAVANNAH’S PISTOL SHOTS.
A Match to Be Shot With the Knick
erbocker Revolver Club.
New York, Nov. 29.—A flve-man team
revolver shoot will probably take place
between the Knickerbocker Revolver Club
and the Savannah Volunteer Guards. It
will be shot by telegraph. C. S. Rich
mond of Savannah, the regular champicn
of the United States, winning the title In
a shoot in New Jersey last fall, is inter
ested in the contest. The match will
probably be shot the last of next month.
HARDEMAN’S CASE MORE HOPEFUL
The Trouble With His Kidneys the
Only Soarce of Danger.
Covington, Ga., Nov. 29.—C01. Hardeman
is still critically ill. He has been relieved
of the pneumonia and bronchitis which put
him to bed, but the chronic Bright’s dis
ease of the kidneys, from which he has
been suffering for a year or more. Is a
very grave affection, and the outcome un
certain, but the doctors are encouraged
from symptoms to-day orer those of yes
terday.
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THURSDAYS
TYBEE’S ENGINES OF TERROR.
GEN. CRAIGHILL TALKS OF THE
NEW GUNS.
Any Snrplus Left From the Appro
priation After Paying Venable
Brothers to Be Used in Building
Additional Emplacements —No
Danger That Any Part of the Ap
propriation Will Be Turned Baek
Into the Treasury.
Washington, Nov. 29.—Gen. Cralghill
says every dollar of the $200,000 allottmenf
will be expended upon the government
fortifications at Tybee, In Savannah har
bor. The Morning News correspondent
visited the war department yesterday and
had an interview with the chief of engi
neers, under whose supervision all work
on the coast defenses is carried, on. His
attention was directed to the fact that
Venable Bros, of Atlanta have contract
ed to build the emplacements for the four
8-inch guns at a cost of not more than
$130,000. This, together with the cost of
constructing a wharf on the north end of
Tybee island for the purpose of landing
material, will bring the total expenditure
for the work contemplated up to about
$150,000. : |
Fears are entertained by those who are
interested in giving Savannah ample pro
tection that the unexpended balance, $50,-
000 may be diverted in another direction,
or revert back into the treasury. Gen.
Cuftighill discussed the subject with his
usual frankness and fairness, and at the
same time expressed a warm interest in
the improvements at Savannah. In passing,
he paid a high compliment to Representa
tive Lester, for whom he entertains a
warm personal friendship, which has been
cultivated during Col. Lester’s long ser
vice on the river and harbor committee.
Gen. Craighill says there is no disposi
tion to deprive Savannah of her full allott
ment, for, as Secretary Lamont says In
his annual report, that it is hoped that the
number of emplacements may be increas
ed by means of savings made from some
of the allotments, thus enabling addi
tional emplacements to be constructed.
When $200,000 was allotted to Savannah,
for Tybee, the government could not fore
see that Venable Brothers would put in
such a reasonable bid; besides it is nec
essary for the government to reserve a
small portion of the appropriation for the
expense of supervision of the work. In
the present instance, there is a balance of
about $50,000 to be expended, which will
be applied to the construction of additional
emplacements as originally contemnlatcd .
-byx.ht War.
These’ emplacements or batteries thus
referred to, do not seem merely the ma
sonry form upon which a gun with its
carriage is mounted, but all that part of
a fortification which is necessary for the
installation, protection and service of the
gun. In any battery, one emplacement
means not only the platform, but all that
part of the parapets, traverses, maga
zines, bombproofs, etc., which is made
necessary by reason of that platform, and
the gun, and the carriage mounted on it.
Under the circumstances, immediate steps
will be taken to enlarge the scope of the
work at Tybee, in fact the subject was
under consideration by Gen. Craighill and
his associates, when the Morning News
correspondent called at the war depart
ment.
COLDEST WINTER IN YEARS.
Four Persons and Ten Oar Loads of
Sheep Fronen to Death.
St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 29.—The intensely
cold weather which prevails in the storm
swept districts of the northwest has
brought on Intense suffering, and tn®
death list of four is expected to be in
creased unless milder weather sets in.
At Moorehead, Minn., Thomas Ander
son, a young man, after helping a wo
man to her home, attempted to reach his
own, but perished and now lies buried in
the drifts.
At Devil’s Lake, N. D., Henry Bur
roughs of St. Paul, a mall clerk, started
to walk to town from a stalled train. He
never reached there.
At Fargo, N. D., Frank Vach of Chi
cago was frozen on the prairie, a mile
from town.
At Churches Ferry, N. D., a train man.
attempting to get help for a train load of
cattle, was frozen stiff.
Ten carloads of sheep destined for Chi
cago, were frozen at Grand Harbor,
Devil’s Lake.
The November, which is just closing is
the coldest known in the northwest for
fifteen years. Snow fell on the fourth
of the month, and has not since disap
peared for a day. There is great suffering
on the stock ranges, and thousands of
cattle will be killed if the weather contin
ues cold. On the ranges west of the Mis
souri river, the temperature is from five
to twenty degrees below zero, and below
zero at‘all points in the Dakotas.
At Vermillion, S. D., there is hardly a
tree standing and every orchard is ruined.
In many instances trees a foot in diame
ter were snapped off at the bottom. Ev
ery telegraph and electrical line in town
was prostrated and it will have no lights
until next week.
Reports from the railways indicate that
they are running nearly on time again to
night. Farmers coming in from the
ranges west of the Missouri say the loss
to stockmen so far is not great, as when
the storm broke, the beeves found fair
shelter in the valleys. The weather, how
ever, is still very severe, sub-zero tem
peratures being reported all over Minnea
polis and the Dakotas.
Unless there is a decided rise in tem
perature in the next few days the loss
among sheep and cattle will be very large,
as the streams ars freezing over so solid
ly that it will be hard for them to get
water.
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BEAUREGARD BOAZ DEAD.
He Was Professor of Mathematics in
Charleston College.
Charleston, S. C., Nov. 29.—Beauregard
Boaz, professor ot mathematics and as
tronomy in the College of Charleston,
died this afternoon, after a short illness.
He was born in Virginia and was 36 years
ot age. He was a graduate of the Uni
versity. of Virginia, and for seven years'
has held the chair mentioned here. He
was a man of advanced thought, scholarly
and ambitious, and his death is regarded
almost a calamity by the friends of tnc
college. He was considered the most
accomplished mathematician of his ago
J in the south.