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ruTABLhMID 1850 . I kviTTLL. Bdftor and Proprietor. | f J B 0 |\ TIIRKK STATES. 1X I I < HUD V AND SOUTH v ’ T IS TYPE. .. . |- r it*t>l* Northern Trip le re*ti>B Shipment* of I pjn*t Arrest of n Ke (if Hart County—An if r ' SfSt „ ( arve* a Whole family ‘ o.M.ty l.KOßtilA. Montezuma is occu . i_rtt barrooms aiul. two M . fling house in the town . franklin R*\jit*r is just * • *un lay School Assnria tviileon Friday, Feb. 20. -cd her barrooms Satur -4 . t U.ulruad is 'try from At .f M. lntosh, says that he rce meals and three ilrlnks , i-hed at Mount Ver i nuly, has made its ap v.-rv • reditable issue. aldosta, brought in 12 . for who'll he got (!'. Mud swamp with steel 1-fledge l l I.ulu Hursts, tie anything Miss Lulu torily explain the pbe- F "f lialdwin county, doves and part . ml a half of last week, of and horses have been sold , '• aldosta during the last f ■ >rr the season is over it rbeyond. r > i . and not Washington, ,in the recent publication ■ which cast a re • ty of the married uien and Vi at Talmage has. according • -1 erican, promised to II irb.ir, next summer, as _ ,! service (lone in Brook - tlus winter by Rev. Sam _ tin? down passenger train - ro like lightning ran e.l, and cut off his only i- crossing the road at a -Ivs the train ran on I not get out of the way. I'., men county, court*d a s -nit and the day for the When he went to her • l ti ne lie found it lock . -in ih loved the flowing wetland the widow liau is from past (mlicy hold „ Mums! Insurance Com • n tiled, and a consul , distributed. The largest \ .111 l.y the estate of the late j i .... .utmg to 42->O, and from town ion few cents. r -n of Rome are preparing to L' rzo number of men who are in s ng continually to excess, ■m-elves an l no"t benetlling L. 'V hen the list i- fully made out j le : per will sign a bond to forfeit L • r -ells to a man on the list. ! nes Taylor lias been peddling [• ie streets, perambulating on • ugh unable to move at*out in f aat on account of a bodily afflic | ! • twng Mayorremiltc,this license. ■o-d that Taylor is able to walk L >I sc ty, and he has been arrested x „ I,an post oitice becomes vacant | tir-l of Presidential appoint- I • 'late. There are Hi applicants, m arc ladies. Almost every one leacli petition, and i ongr--uinn thn required to assume ail the re v iu making a recommendation to was visited on We Inesday evening re wind and hail storm, blowing --ierabte amount of timber and -o blew down anew four-room ••f building belonging to K.S. 1. ,l took it entirely off the bhwks - > the ground'and tore up a j 4 : a. ' i • timbers. r that the wind was blow it Lafayette Sunday cven 1. w il.iilcnger failed to hear the ig there was no service ex go to the church of which ho ; n as a small congregation u and cheated them out of a pan >' went home. . of Douglasvitle, was 21 . 2. and on that day received t oil from his uncle, I>avid I m *i in gold, because lie said , - .liulhood up, has not taste I ... r.its. Tootubs and his crowd i . bv rabbit hunting, and red lb rabbits and a number -t < in, near Owen's Ferry, in on Monday last, a negro s> Mitchell, suddenly be aring that he was a di- I carved with a knife a • groes. consisting of a man, i biren. and then cscai>ed i rested. His victims were L . . .-t accounts. go l>r. F. W. Memler, wlio . . miles frtun Marietta, at . ,!e while riding a young t-- o i over the saddle turned ui to the ground. Tin f. • . who ran. dragging the ,r und. It would doubtless ait lor the stirrup stra) r -mg him. He is very seri ■ 11. Park, of Greenecounty, k - report to the Commissioner-. uu- shown that fH.ll>l t> 1 from various sources dur- I- I that fi.352 Tttof this amount ■MU Ila Tr. ,-iirer’s hands, the ex ti . iH'iug f 07. There i - f,r this year about $2,000. . vcr. includes the insolvent ix c !e tor's commissions. •> dllei ,r. who lived in the pocket near r rl ■ f Walker and Goraon, diet! a Vc - i' the advanced age of lid a.'. He r >■. Ito the time of his death . ulties. A number of •- nr..- -•> blind that it was with e read at all, but for •fa-' a .r- oi ins life he recovered it l - - lor quite a number of p main portion of each gol the liable. Marshal t arter brought to I imiasioner 15. F. Hr • n. a highly respected citi . who had i-on charged by horse thief from South w . E. Tillman Acree, with license. Mr. Itrown was . and says the etor/ was 1 I ree through malice. He rtidcates from the olEci ds past character and re - r. which were read to the M tuip at once dismissed the ■ iy< s in Crawford county, bibb, i- suffering from a fL other night he was lie found himself chew -1 u had leen so tadly im much pain. He sleep, and was again m lie w up his tongue. U nigh!, and when morn i swollen to that ex i eat nor drink. A lie. and, after exatnina - a nicer on the tongue. 1 , • in the Superior Court riant suit against the \ i.-ta, in which many nice argued and deter ipality’s responsibility , c i sen's pssp i ol water and fra* k : . ■' and plugs, etc. Tins 1 - uiard Phinizv and Salem r to be a ease of imuort- Stste. The plaintiff not ,y years in .. . ! Hank, whose properly Xv. 1; anksgiving niglit The ■ -t case, and will be car -1 'art. . - ast and to Florida an ' - <>f merchandise a day i ■ f .January. These goods e • on, flour and hardware supplies. They went to i 1 Pont, stoekton, Ilonier >.g-" ‘lit- as far as Warcross— ‘av- -vond—and to Withers. ! 4,i , r Fla.; Marion, Fla.; Live i r u lots as far down as New v • Lake City. The freight . ' were by far larger dur | -January than ever before | ic e Valdosta was a town. P ■ <- also leen larger than ft . . ' f which goes to show that Pt: growing in size, strength ►- A short branch R -Lunatic Asylum with ■ , Railroad is almost a a mount of hauling of from tlie railroads to i' ii reased immensely of c- to increase trom x • ’* fr ui any consideration • • and in merely a business ■money that wbul 1 be re i m .. ran. h in question would ' I'y the state and in the omy. Inour.iudg -- of the legislature to wise proeednra and - ■ f that body a just idea 1 '*Qd of its necessities, that her manner. Hurst says that during '■'f ' the receipts were about ‘ ithe large cities they geo io to so per eAk, pay r- V' liiigand individual ®jt rtie paying all advur ' , '' aJ' uses connected with the m ug. he said: “*1 must pleasantly treated lu o'.*'•' r-t • Jhat I was prejudiced ■ it. fearing I would possibly insult on ac t,' V4t ...' ;T the South and having Hut this soon wore off r unpleasant feeling that ‘ u„. ' r aml ignorance of the ■rn people. The Ameri ; * ' c, ,-rywhere,and all that r <ks, " e *ch other.” tl% - Fj®, n,, H '■ We have recently been -ptciiflcaa o t ore taken from k!?r p f |J, i ® wn . c ' l by Sidney R. Hickson, of o? , l lolnS > ? , '®Vi et ’ whlch , *s“ tke appearance said to L T studded with silver. It is saul to be flnc silver ore, and the vein extends fn TANARUS, ' * . t i atance - Mr - Hickson intends open "l.,De. ®P anil developing it in order to r,‘„ JUBt "“ worth. <>ur opinion and tne opinion of miners to whom we nave shown tue specimens, is that this mine will prove to be a One piece of property, and equal to any silver mine in North Georgia, There is no end to the rich minerals that arc in Cherokee couuty. All we want is capital and labor to bring It to tlie surface. Only a few days since we were shown a lump of gold taken from the Franklin mines in this county that was worth fl.fiOO. These mines are operated by Col. A. 11. Moore, and are said to be richer than any in the .State. Washington Gazette: We only had time to mention the killing of dim Johnson hv Thomp son Richardson, lioth negroes, on tlie planta tion of M.G Robert. The following are the particulars: Thompson had <juit his wife sally about a year ago. He suspected Jim Johuson of being intimate w ith her. 'he sold Jim a quilt, which was her own property. The day the murder was committed fast week Thompson said he was going to have that quilt or kill Jim Johnson, and took his ax with him. He first started towards Jim’s house, but turned and went to where Jim was making a little liridge over a ditch bv him self. Some women on the opposite hi.l say that Thompson struck Jim on the head with the ax while he was stooping down at work and that he struck him two or three lieks. Heath was instant. Thompson ran off and has not I>een heard from since. Mr. Robert says that Jim was a very inoffensive negro. Sheriff Maxwell, of Oglethorpe, was in Athens, Friday, his business being to lodge in Clarke county jail Mike F'leeman, the white man who stole a horse from a darkey. The negro who robbed G. C. Hall’s, was also cap tured and placed in the Lexington jail. These are two of the six prisoners who broke jail in !e.\ingtou last week. F'leeman was captured on the line of Madison and Franklin counties. t>V several officers, after a desperate resist ance, during which lie was slightly wounded in the neck. The negro was caught on North river. Mike Fleeman is either a knave or fool, and seems to be afflicted with an uncon trollable mania for stealing, but has not enough tact to cover up his rascality. He comes from a worthy family, who are deeply mortified at his conduct. Mr. Maxwell says Oglethorpe’s fa.ooo jail is a fraud of the first water, and he will not try to keep therein prisoner* charged with any very grave crime. All the locks to the doors have been broken during the frequent escapes. Athens £<innsr- Wiitehuxm: “I am in trou ble,” said I>r. Charley Long, yesterday. "I am all broke up and gone to pieces. Mark how this noble brow is furrowed witn care, and all on ae ouut of my roommate. Think of a man going to bed with a pair of spurs on, and every time I moved I was gouged iu the leg like a horse. My roommate thus tortures me, and when I asked him if it was fashion able to wear spurs to bed where he came from, he replied that it was a fashion of his own. This was all tlie consolation 1 could get This tiling can’t la-t always. There will be a suicide or a murder if it is not stop ped. Only two nights agd he put two |iounds of molas-e- candy in my chatr. It is awful to contemplate how I suffer. Tnink of a room mate getting tip two hours la-fore day and practising on a tinhorn! My chum has done wor-e than this. He poured a half-gallon of kerosene oil m the water pitcher, and I arose next morning and bathed my fevered brow in it. You may not believe it but there was half a gallon of good sting ing Italian bees roaming in uutame t fury on my bed last week, and when I asked my part ner how they came there, the only informa tion I could get out of lum was that he was g ong into the bee business and thought the bed a good place to keep them warm these cold nights. My pipe is constantly loaded with powder, and when it tires off my room inate claims that it is anew kind of tobacco, ili- has au innocent, lumb-like countenance whenever there is anything of this sort on foot. If you come down some morning ami see a piece of crape on my drug store, you can charge the funeral notice to my roommate, for he will be the death of me yet. It was only last Sunday morning that he put a half dozen eggs in each one of my boots. 1 must leave you now and try to get a little rest, for your friend can’t stand this much longer.” FLOKII>A. The telephone is at Work in Orlamio. The brick work of Ocala’s new three-story hotel is about completed. There are now in operation in Orange coun ty iol public schools, a toar of visitation to Which involves a trip of nearly 1.000 miles. New post offices have been established at Oriana, Volusia county, and Rural, Hernando county. The oust office at Westonia, Putnam county, has been discontinued and the mail goes to Leeds. Gov. Perry has appointed N. llayard Clinch as Honorable Commissioner to represent Florida at the coming meeting of the Ameri can Agricultural Society, which occurs on Feb. 20 at New Orleans. Gainesville was swept by a furious gale Tiiur-il.ir. The houses of George Jackson, Alex Williams, Hill Vel-ou and Steve Rots were blown down, and also the shed erected for tli • workmen engaged on the court house Twenty or thirty large and small shade trees were proutrated'. and palings by the hundred rods were floored. Ihe ground "Friday morn ing was covered with oranges in a more or 10-s damaged condition. Lake City correspondence News, Feb. 6: An infantile cyclone struck Lake City last night, aad tore up a tree and crushed in some window panes. It lasted hut a few minutes. —Mr. John McKinney, a prominent merchant at Fort White, died yesterday. His mother died a few days before, and his sister. Mrs. James English, of Wilson, died only a few weeks ago.—Fort White shipped 1,5n0 hales of sea island cotton last season. — I learn that the eyclonedast night threw down timber west of Lake City, hut have heard of no injuries to persona or stock.—Many of our citizens are taking in tae fair at Jacksonville this week. John Lamb, colored* aged C3, formerly of Lake City, hut more recently residing iq La- Villa, was killed about dusk Thursday even ing by a freight train on tnc Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway, at a point 4% miles north of Green Co\e springs. Front the evidence taken by Justice Plummer, of that town, it appears that he 'was cro.-sing Peek creek trestle and was not seen by the engi neer until the.train was within three or four ear lengths of him. The engineer blew for brakes and applied his air brake on the en - gme and tender, and the train was stopped in less than too yards, though pulling It ears down grade, but not, however, until the un fortunate man was run over. Lamb did not see or hear the train until called to by his friend to jump, when lie looked hack, which \t as fatal, for at that moment he fell. SOUTH CAROLINA. William William*,a colored boy of Manning, fell into the lire in a fainting fit several days ago and was burned to death. The |x>st ollice in Greenville sent over st>2,- OiH) through the mails by postal notes and or ders last year and’rceeived about 4‘.i.000. The State printer will have copies of the acts and joint reso.utions of the last session of the Legislature ready for delivery this week. James Brown, colored, of Greenville county, is the father of 12 children. Last week Ins wife gave birth to three children at one time. The Limestone Springs property in Spartan burg was sold at public auction on Monday last, and was bought by J. B. aud.T. K. Cleve land for 15.500. A new Baptist Church has been organized near the I‘lyler settlement, m Lancaster county, tin er the natnenf ••Bethlehem,” with the Kev. John Katie as pastor. About a year ago Ur. J. E. Me Lure bought a tract of land in Kershaw county, containing 150 acres, for $l,OOO. He sold it a few days ago to some young men from Marlboro’ county for $1,500 cash, lie nad made no improvements on the place. Venuer Adams, a colored cow thief in Ab beville, was arrested some time ago. His sis ter Harriet signed his hail bond forssoo,morl gagiug her house and lo' to secure the same. Venner has gone to Florida and left his wife to ‘ hold the bag.’’ There has been quite a number of visitors from the North at the Hobkirh Inn during the present season. Booms in both houses are engaged for Ma eh, and applications aredaily coming in that ill have to lie refused on ac count of the limited number of rooms. School Commissioner May field, of Greenville county, is very seriously considering the ques tion of reducing the size of the school districts and increasing the number, action which he has the right, under the law, to take. He be lieves that the present districts are too large for effective work. The Itichland Volunteers of Columbia have decided to participate in the inter-State com petitive prize drill at Mobile in May, at which the first prize is to be $5,000. At least thirty men will enter for the competition. Tri-weekly drills will oe continued until May. when they will be held nightly. James C Oantwell, Secretary of the company, resigned his iKisition, and W. B. McDaniel was elected to succeed him. A sister of Samps Campbell, of Chesterfield countv. the negro who li is suffered imprison ment twice in two successive years in prefer ence to pay ing his poll tax, came forward a few davs ago and offered to pay the fine of $lO against Samps, anil allow him to lie released, provided Samps would only promise to repay the monev. Samps would not promise. He preferred to stay in jail his 30 days rather than promise to pay. Hi* sister let him stay. The Marion Star says: “The Masonic fra ternity and the temperance society are hay ini a lively time disputing as lo the ownership of the Masonic Hall building. It appearsthat three orders—Masons, Odd Fellows and Sons of Temperance —erected the building some yean* asro. The Od't Fellows and of Tern iterance died out, leaving the Masons gVe owners bv rif?ht of survivorship. The present temperance organization secured per mission to meet in the hall, and now claim that they are part owners of the building in asmuch as the old Sons of Temperance con tributed me-third of the expense iu its orcc tion.” Gen. lie L'lsle's Operations. Paris, Feb. B.—Gen. Briere tie J’lsle telegraphs trom Dong Long the following particulars of his engagements with the Chinese troops on Feb. 6: “A heavy fall of rain prevented an attack on the en trenched camp of the enemy before noon. We. however, had time before nightfall to carry four lines of defenses, covered by ten small forts. The enemy’s tents, provisions and ammunition remained in our han is. The behavior of our troops was admirable despite the difficult ground and vigorous defense offered by the enemy. Our 90 millimetre batteries were of the greatest service. Our losses iu the attack on the redoubts command ing the entrenched camp were 80 killed and wounded. The number of casualties oa the occasion of the capture ot theen treached camp is not yet known. A BIG WEEK IX CONGRESS. AN KXTItA SESSION TREMBLING IN THE BAI/ANCE. Kiver and Harbor Bill Cohorts Banded Tor a Stubborn Fight—Friends of the Regular Appropriation Bills to Mako a Desperate Rally to Rush Them Through. W ashington, Feb. B. Whatever may bo the purpose of the leaders of the politi cal parties in Cougress. its business is rapidly drifting to the point where an ex tra session will be almost inevitable. It is denied by the prominent men ot both parties that they desire an extra session, but they admit that there is danger of it. A mass of business of an important char acter has been put off from session to ses sion, and lately from week to week, until now there is a total stagnation. Not a bill '•an get through, except it be a general appropriation bill, or one which is two un important to stir up-opposition from ten members or the House. The calendars groan under the accumulation of thou sands of bills, many of which relate to in terests national in their character. Great projects for reviving the navy,modernizing the coast defenses, restoring millions of aere9 of unearned land grants to the pub lic domain, measures for importa.it changes in the national banking acts, the suspension of silver coinage and other questions equally important have been delayed until the last month of the ses sion. CHANCES OF THE BILLS. It is safe to say that scarcely a single bill of public iuterest will be passed un less it be forced through in the form of leg islation upon an appropriation bill. This form of legislation is repugnant to the rules of the Senate, and that body will re sist it in almost every case. Senators say that while they do not want an extra session of Congress, it w ill not be their fault but that of the House, which has persisted in putting oil everything until the last minute, and now asks the Senate to accept its appropriation bills, in cluding general legislation, without suffi cient time for consideration. They say that the Senate does not wish ah extra session, but as the Senate will have to remain here anyway, perhaps the course of the leaders of the House means that they also desire to remain in session after March 4. The Democratic management of the business of the House is open to the charge of stupidity or to a deliberate purpose to secure an early convention of the Forty-ninth Congress. * REPUBLICAN PLOTTING. The Republican leaders are contribut ing to the difficulty of the situation by their treatment ot the questions which daily arise. They protest against the do nothing policy ol the Democrats and declaim against the rules of the House, yet never fail to encourage wiiatever tends to increase the embarrassment of the situation, and sometimes actively par ticipate in obstructive movements. Manv persons at both ends of the capital have to d:tv expressed a suspicion that the secret purpose of Mr. Itandall and his followers is to permit the appropriation bills to fail, while he publicly protests against it. Others are convinced that the hand of Mr. Blaine guides Messrs. Reed and Uis coek and their Republican followers in Congress to cunningly shape the course of events so that the Cleveland adminis tration will be troubled by the presence of Congress during the summer. Mr. Randall has gone to New York, it is said, to talk over the situation withTilden and Cleveland, and when he returns the policy determined upon must soon develop it self. The Republicans begin to see that an extra session at which the Democrats could put through the land grant for feiture bills, the bankruptcy lulls, the reconstruction of the navy bill, the bill redeeming the trade dollar and suspend ing the coinage of the standard dollar and like bills whose passage Cleveland will recommend would help the Demo crats much more than it would hurt them. They may change front and light against an extra session instead of for it as they have during the past week. POWER OF THE MINORITY. The condition of business in Con gress is such that the minority in either House can easily force an extra session, but if a purpose to do so is auy where entertained the fact has not been made known, and the leaders in both Houses express the opinion that the appropriation bills will all be passed be lorc- March 4, in which case of course no extra session will be necessary. This will require the abandonment of many important measures which have been per fected in one house or the other. It may he added that not nfuch general legisla tion other than that which may he at tached to appropriation hills can in any event he enacted. The action of the House to-morrow is looked forward to with much interest, as it is supposed that the chances lor an extra session will thereby he either increased to a proba bility or reduced to nothing. THE RIVERS AND HARBORS. The body will assemble at 10 o’clock as in continuation of the last legislative day. The most active promoters of the river and harbor bill have announced their pur pose to resist the adjournment formality at noon and immediate reassembling as on the next legislative day. They will endeavor to continue the last legislative day throughout the week, if necessary to secure the passage of their measure." In the vote to take a recess instead of an ad jouurment last night the friends of the river and harbor hill were found to be in a strong majority, but the issue was not then squarely made as between that measure ou the one hand and one of the regular appropriation bills with a prospective extra session on the other. Such will be the issue to-morrow. WHAT IS HEFOKE THE SENATE. The course of affairs in the Senate dur ing the present week is involved in con siderable doubt. Wednesday will be de voted to the counting of the electoral votes. The pensions appropriation bill will probably be taken up to-morrow and passed. The Indian, army and agricultu ral appropriation bills are in the hands of the Senate Committee on Appropriations, and may be reported in time lor action upon one or two of them before the end of the week. The unfinished business is the anti silver coinage bill, and several Senators have prepared speeches upon it. If the measure le not set aside by other than appropriation bills, there is a prospect that it may be disposed of betore the end of the week. HOPES OF THE SILVER MEN. The silver men, who at first threatened to prevent action upon this bill, now claim to have strength enough to strike out the feature which looks to stopping the coinage of the standard dollar and so have less reason to postpone action. In the House, if the Appropriations Committee is successful to-morrow in opposing further consideration of the river and harbor bill, the post office ap propriation bill will be called up. Imme diately alter its passage the legislative, executive and judicial bill will be pressed for consideration. Tne Appropriations Ccinmittee expect to report the sundry civil bill so that it may be taken up next in turn. These three measure*-will prob ably be sufficient to consume the week. CLEVELAND WITH TILDEN. Representative Moulton's Report of His Interview with the President-elect. Yonkers, N. Y.. Feb. 8. —President- elect Cleveland and Daniel Manning ar rived here this morning. They are the guests of Mr. Tilden at Greystone. MR. MOULTON’S INTERVIEW. Washington, Feb. B.— Representative Moulton, of Illinois, who headed the Springer delegation which called on Mr. Cleveland last week, says: “I had a very agreeable interview with Mr. Cleveland and found him atf'4blo.and pleasant. He is very familiar with the history and rec ord of the leading men <st the country—in my judgnent he is far above the average in" ability, and I was greatly im pressed with the strong ’ vein of practical common sense which pervaded all bis conversation. Practical reform in the many abuses of the government seemed to be his leading thought, lie asked me many questions about the public men of my State.” “Did he give you any information about his probable Cabinet appointments?” “He gave me no definite information, but in my judgment his Cabinet will bean agreeable surprise to the American people. Tnere will be men in the Cabinet who have not yet been talked about by the public or in the papers. It will be com posed of first-class men and will be satis factory to the Democratic party.” Went Through a Bridge. Omaha, Neb., Feb. B.—An accident happened at Creston, lowa, to-day. A Chicago, Burlington and Quincy train went through a bridge. No particulars have been received, except that 16 were and 7 killed. SAVANNAH, MONDAY, FEBRUARY 9, 1885. FLORIDA ON THE WIRE. Newsingfl In Legislative Niches—Shoot ing ol' a Negro at Madison. Talleßassee, Fla., Feb. B.—Last I night the Assembly passed the Senate bill authorizing railroads to condemn | lauds for their own use. It is not proba ble that the convention and appropria tion bills will be passed by Thursday, so an extension of a few days is likely to be had. The committee to examine into the State’s contracts with the Okeechobee Drainage Company will probablv be au thorized to continue their labors during the vacation. THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION. Ihe bill calling a constitutional con vention provides tor anew registration ol voters as though a general State elec tion was to be held. The delegates are to I* equal in number to. anil propor tioned the same as, memljers ot the Legis lature. The election is to be held on the first Tuesday in May and the conven tion is to assemble in Tallahassee on the second Tuesday in June. It is probable that some ol the above mentioned pro visions will be altered to some extent. There will be over 200 bills not acted on when the Legislature adjourns Feb. 12, and many of them are very important measures. THE CONVICT CAMP. The Senate Committee appointed to visit the State convict camp reported that they find 172 men and 3 women at the two camps; that they are all iu excellent health, except five or six,who are suffer ing with chills and lever; that the present contractor, C. K. Duttou, has complied with the contract in furnishing abundant food and clothing for the convicts; that each convict is furnished with two blankets and two suits of clothes; that proper medical treatment and medicine are provided, and that a minister preaches to them twice a month as required by Jaw. That they are in good spirits, not overworked nor im properly treated; and recommended that the convicts be again leased to the pres ent contractor, as they are now an ex pense to the State, the original lease hav ing expired. The committee also recom mended that the Board of Public Institu tions advertise tor tbe lease of convicts in October instead of December, so the con tractor can have more time to prepare for them. TALLAHASSEE'S HOTEI-S. The hotels in this city are elegantly furnished, and the accommodations anil bills of fare are second to none others in the South. The weather is perfectly lovely, and numbers of visitors arrive daily and are delighted with the superior attractions of this beautiful city on the hills. The different hotels are liberally patronized, and more persons have de termined to spend the winter here than ever before. The agricultural interests are looking up, and many of our more progressive burners are engaged in raising improved stock. The Middle Florida Jersey cattle and the butter produced from them are in steady demand in all sections of the State. Nearly every week excellent milch cows raised in this county are shipped to East anu South Florida, and the farmers find ready sale and remunerative prices for all they can raise. SOMETHING ABOUT SENATORS. Hon. Charles Delano, Senator from Vo lusia county, is a native of Illinois. He is an excellent civil engineer and was Mayor of his native town. Removing to this State about two years ago he at once became a prominent railroad man. Ev erything tending to the development of the great resources of South Florida has received his hearty support. Senator C. B. Pendleton represents the Ivey West District. He has been promi nent before the public as the contestant lor the seat occupied by Mr. Allen. Some time since Mr. Allen resigned, and after full consideration the Senate decided that Mr. Pendleton was duly elected. Senator Jolm W. Whidden was born in Thomas county, Ga., and came to Florida when quite a young man, living first in Hillsborough county, but afterwards removed to Manatee county, where he has since resided. He has held many offices of trust in his county. After serv ing several terms in the Lower House he was elected to the Senate, where he takes a high stand. He is Chairman of the Com mittee on State Affairs and is a safe law maker. SHOOTING OF A NEGRO. Madison, Fla., Feb. B.—Last night about 10 o’clock a negro boy named Sam uel Johnson, while coming with his father from town to the railroad depot, was shot through the body by an unknown person and died in about an hour. Four colored boys have been arrested and jailed on suspicion. No verdict has yet been ren dered by tbe Coroner. The supposition is that the killing was accidental,and will serve as a warning to the thoughtless and reckless class who are in the habit of tiring off pistols nearly every night, thus endangering the lives of persons out after dark. The town is making vigorous ef forts to find out the party doing the shoot ing. STATE AGRICULTU UAL SOCIETY It Will Meet at Brunswick To-morrow— Programme of tlie Proceedings. Brunswick, Ga.. Feb. B.—The Georgia State Agricultural Society will begin its spring meeting here Tuesday. The meeting will continue three days. An elaborate programme covering all the days has been prepared. On the first day Mayor Crovatt will deliver an address of welcome on behalf of the city, and Col. D. T. Dunn will deliver an" address of welcome on behalf of the Glynn County Agricultural Society. Hon. T. G. Holt, of Macon, will respond for the con vention. In the afternoon Col. Fan ning’s resolutions on “Immigration” will be discussed. Col. 1). P. Duncan, President of the South Carolina State Ag ricultural Society,will also deliver an ad dress on “Observations of a Cottontotfor the past 20 years.” On Wednesday, the second day, addresses will be delivered as follows: By lion. 11. H. Carlton of Athens,on “The Duty ot the Leading Men of the State to Support with Zeal the Ag riculture of Georgia, and their failure to do so.” By Prof. H. C. White, of Athens on “The Need and Opportunity for the Establishment of an Agricultural Expe riment Station in Georgia.” By Dr, P. H. Mell, Jr., of Auburn, Ala., on “The Science of Meteorology— its Benefits to the Agriculturist;” and by Col. E. S. Murphey, of Barnesville, on “The Practical Uses of Improved Tools, Implements and Machinery.” On Thurs day, the third day. Rev. Henry Quieg, I). D.. of Conyers, will deliver an address on “Industry the Highway of Success.” There will also be reports of committees and miscellaneous business. The mem bers of the convention will be taken on an excursion about the harbor of Bruns wick. GEN. JACKSON’S “FANCY.” Hundred? Gathering; to See the Old War Horse—Drowning of a Negro. Rome, Ga., Feb. B.—“ Fancy,” better known as “Old Sorrel,” tbe famous horse that Stonewall Jackson rode, and from which he was shot, arrived here at 2 o’clock this morning en route to the New Orleans Exposition. Hundreds of people, including many ladies, assembled to see “Old Sorrel.” Tbe horse is in charge ol Maj. Letcher, of Virginia, who states that oyer fifty young ladies surrounded the famous steed at Bristol,Tean., and kissed it. A great deal of its mane and tail ha 9 been cut off by parties anxious for even a hair. The body of Lewis Knox, an old deck hand on the Coosa river steamers, was found floating to-day just below Dublin, on the Coosa river. Knox was crossing Ihe river when his bateau sank and be was drowned. Heavy Weather at Sea. New York, Feb. B. —The steamer Lake Winnipeg, from Liverpool, which arrived here this afternoon, reported that they had strong west and southwest gales dur ing the most of her passage Feb. 4, in latitude 42 degrees and JO minutes, and longitude 60 degrees and 30 minutes, they observed a steamer showing signals of distress which proved to be the steam er Alaska from Liverpool for New York, with Lhe loss of her rudder. Capt. Murray wished to tow our steamer so as to steer his ship. We got out two chain cables and was towed to Sandy Hook. At 12:15 a. m., Feb. 7, the starboard chain parted, but we succeeded, after several hours, in making fast again and proceeded. Burning of a Store at Laurens. Charleston, S. C., Feb. B.—The store of Mitchell & Knight, near Laurens, was destroyed by fire yesterday. Tbe loss is $3,000. It is two-thirds insured. Mistrial in a Murder Case. Charleston, S. G., Feb. B—The trial of Jobn C. Ferguson, at Cobbeville, for the murder ol Benedict last Christmas, has resulted in a mistrial. ENGLAND’S FANATIC FOES THE GOVERNMENT BOUND TO CRUSH EL MAHDI. Italy All Eager for the Fray—Turkey Protesting Against Humbert’s Inter ference and a Turkish Fleet Ordered to Make Ready for Action—Gordon’s Fate Stilt Unknown. London, Feb. B.—The Observer this morning says that Gen. Wolseley asked for specific orders as to what he should do in the event of Gen. Gordon being found dead. After a very animated and prolonged discussion the Cabinet re plied that the campaign should be prose cuted until the reliellion was suppressed. Another council will be held to-morrow. Gen. N'ewdigate is mentioned as likely to be placed in command of the Somlau expedition now being organized. The War office maintains the utmost reti cence with regard to the plans and move ments of Gen. Wolselev. Cairo telegrams received to-day report that a council or war has been held at which Gen. Stephenson was present. He advised a retreat of the troops front Metemueh or Korti and the concentra tion of the entire force towards Berber, and after the capture of Berber to await an expe dition coming to Suakin before makiug an ad vance on Khartoum. Military authorities say that this plan involves a delay in the ad vance upon Khartoum until autumn. The hot weather which begins next month will make it impossible for the English forces to stand marches. A SHEIK BELIEVES GORDON ALIVE. Sheik Gemal Ed Din, a well known Mohammedan agent now in Paris, has been interviewed on the Soudanese rebel lion. He thinks that Gen. Gordon is still alive,* but if dead that he fell while fight ing the rebels. El Maluli, he says, would respect Geu. Gordon as a prisoner aud might be willing to open negotiations to exchange Gen. Gordon for Arabi Pasha, who El Mahdi honors as a true servant in the cause of Ma homet. El Mahdi might make partial peace with the English, but never permanent peace. He would refuse to aecept the title of Viceroy or any other title from the Khedive or from the Sultan, but would remain El Mahdi. He aimed at the conquest of the Soudan and hoped that a rising would take p.ace in Arabia against the Turks. TURKEY’S PROTEST. The Turkish Government has sent to each of the powers which signed the treaty of Ber lin a formal protest against occupation by Italians of Egyptian territory on the Rod Sea coast. Turkey also demands that the Italian troops sent to Assab aud Masswouh shall be withdrawn. News from Gubat, dated Feb. 3, is to the ellect that the rebels are actively employed in preparing for another encounter. Loop holes are being made in the outside of the houses at Metemneh, and the enemy’s videttes maintain an active lookout, fear ing a British attack on the town. The recent convoy from Gakdul, when three miles dis tant from that point, met 1,000 rebel cavalry amt infantry. The rebels were shelled and soon dispersed. The convoy was unhurt. The light camel corps has arrived at Gubat. El Mahdi is drawing immense quantities of sun lilies from the Merawir district. ENGLAND’S INTENDED WITHDRAWAL. In an interview between Earl Granville aud Feluni I ash a, the Turkish Envoy, the former told tiie latter categorically that the English Government intended for political and financial reasons to evacuate Egypt, but that it was impossible to specify the exact period for withdrawal. Tim British Government, he said.beiDg a con stitutional government and dependent on public opinion, which compelled the Cabinet to semi an expedition to Soudan, would not permit the evacuation of Egypt without some reward for England’s sacrifices, lie added that the proposed Turkish expedition to Suakin was inopportune, and assured Fell mi Pasha that the Sultan’s sovereignty over Egypt would be respected. Earl Gran ville counseled the IV e not to raise a ques tion with Italy in ...nnection with the an nexation of Beilul. He he'd that Italy’s commercial interests in Assaba compelled lier to extend her authority over the adjacent district. TURKISH WAR VESSELS ORDERED TO SEA. A fleet of Turkish war vessels has been ordered to prepare to put to sea within a month. Tiie order is interpreted to mean the fixed determination of Turkey to oppose Italy’s encroachments on the Red Sea littoral of Egypt and to prevent any aggressive move ment by Italy in North Africa. COL. DULLER AT GAKDUL. Gakpil, Feb. 5. Col. Sir Kedvers Buller, with the Royal Irih Regiment, has arrived here, having tramped the whole way from Korti. This is the first regiment that lias attempted to make this journey on foot. The men’s bearing won the admiration of all. Col. Buller, with the Irish and Sussex Regi ments and a strong escort from the camel’s corps, will start Friday for Gubat. An as sault on Metemneh is expected soon after Ids arrival at Gubat. It is not thought that the enemy will make a prolonged resistance. The wouuiied prisoners who have been brought here say that El Maluli said to his men that tin. British were few in numher, that their weapons were harmless, and that the English soldiers would fly at the sight of the Arab spearmen. The majority of the rebels were unwilling soldiers. They were compelled to light or suffer cruel treatment. El Maluli threatened to deprive them of food for forty days, saying that if they survived they would be exempted from military ser vice by Allah’s will, and left unmolested. A BITTER FEELING AT CAIRO. " Alexandria, Feb. B.—An intensely bitter feeling prevails among all classes here against the British policy, i lie general opinion is that it will lead to the ruin of Egypt. A na tive paper, La Miriuit Anscfutrk, savs that a numoer of Turkish officers have lately joined El Mahdi. TURKEY PROTESTS TO ITALY. Constantinople, F’eb. B.— The Porte lias sent a protest to the Italian Government against the occupation of Beilul. Count Corti, the Italian ambassador, who was about to leave Constantinople on a furlough, has been ordered to postpone his departure. ITALY’S CAMPAIGN. Rome, Feb. B.—lt issemi-oflieially announc ed that the Italian forces took possession of Massowali on Feb. 5. The natives welcomed them, but the Egyptian authorities, formally protested against their occupation of the town. The Remeyna says that no troops will be sent to Soudan by Italy unless under a formal treaty providing for an offensive and defen sive alliance and guaranteeing Italy English support in the event of war with any mari time power. ADMIRAL CARMI’S REPORT. Admiral Carmi telegraphs that he anchored off Massowah on Feb. 5 with the corvettes Amerigo Vespucci and Garibaldi. A force of marines was disembarkej and the Italian flag was hoisted alongside that of Egypt. England hitherto lias not asked that the Italian gov ernment should co-operate with her in Sou dan. Frequent conferences have been held between Sir Saville Luroley. British Embas sador, and Siguor Mancini, Minister of For eign Affairs, but nothing definite has been agreed noon. Signor Magliani, Min ister of Finance, opposes the ex pedition upon the ground that the treasury is already overburdened, but the majority of the members of Par.ia ment support it and urge that it be carried forward upon a grand scale. /- San/alla, a Ministerial organ, savs: “We will not wait for England to ask our help, but will give it without bargaining. We do not wish hesitation on our part to appear as speculation. It is said that Italians are Macnavil£au This is a noble way of being so.” La Director in an article headed “Advance of Italy,” says: “Italycannot permit England to be defeated. It is Italy’s duty to assist and to extricate the English Cabinet from its present difficulty. The Italian forces, if promptly employed, will be able to open the Suakin aud Berber route and to secure Gen. Wolseley’s line of communication. Public opinion will applaud Italy’s prompt, energetic aud resolute support. England has always been Italy’s friend.” La Rieforma (Ministerial) says: “England is a friend who has rendered us great service and never asked us for a man or penny. It is our duty and to our interest to unite with her.” The Rebellion in Arabia. Cononstantinoi’Le, Feb. B.—The rebellion in 4 emen, Arabia, has been levived because the Porte suspended payment of subsidies to tribes between Jeddah and Meir. A number of caravans have been pillaged. The military commander has asked for 4000 reinforcements. Fatal Flay Between Soldiers. London, Feb. B.—While two soldiers were skylarking at Woolwich arsenal to-day one of them was fatally bayoneted by the other. The occurrence gave rise to rumors that another dynamite outrage had been attempted. Another account of the bayoneting says: “A private soldier on guard duty last night saw a man advancing toward hispost and com manded him to hall and give the counter sign. The stranger neither halted nor replied, hut attempted to walk past the guard line. The sentinel thereupon plunged his bayonet into the man’s body, killing him almost in stantly.” An account of this occurrence reached London to-day and was exaggerated into a sensational report that dynamiters had made an attack on the arsenal. An investi gation shows that the man who attempted to run the guard was also a soldier and a com rade of (the sentinel whom he had tried to annoy by a silly practical joke. West Indian Reciprocity. London. Feb. B.— The recommendation of Earl ot Derby, Secretary for the Colo nies, in favor ol the acceptance of the proposal of the United States government, looking to a reciprocity arrrangement with the British West Indies, has been practically rejected by the British Cab inet. No formal decision has been ar rived at, but the majority of Ministers are opposed to the acceptance of the proposals on the ground that the advantages offered the British West Indies are doubtful in view of the probability of similar trea ties being concluded by the United States with Cuba and Brazil. One section of the Cabinet is also influenced by the consideration that such an arrangement w’ith the United States would be a breach ot the principles of free trade. HUiuarck again 111. Berlin, Feb. B.— Prince Bismarck is again ill, and has been ordered to leave Berlin for a term of repose. WASHINGTON IMPRESSIONS. Bayard, Lamar, Money and Garland as Prospective Cabinet Officers. Washington. Feb. 7.—Mr. Cleveland's conference in New York with Democratic Senators anti Representatives from Wash ington was the principal subject of con versation among politicians at the capital to-day. The greatest importance is at tached to Mr. Lamar’s visit and the long talk he is reported to have had with the President-elect. While the general im pression prevails that Mr. Bayard has been informed that he can be Secretary of State, the fact that he wants the Treasury Department has caused the name of the Senator from Mississippi to be very prominently mentioned in connection with the Department of Foreign Affairs. Senator Lamar has not hesitated to ex press his opinion that the South should not seek recognition in Mr. Cleveland’s Cabinet, but should be entirely content with whatever he may offer that section in the make-up of his advisory council. It is remarked that the greater number of names suggested to the President-elect for Cabinet offices yesterday are those ol Southern gentlemen. While Senator Lamar has declared that he would not accept a Cabinet office for several reasons, one being that another citizen of his State, Mr. Money, is in the field, it is no secret that tbe Senator from Missis sippi believes that Senator Garland is the best qualified man in the party for Attor ney General. The South would be amply satisfied if it could be assured of repre sentation in Mr. Cleveland’s Cabinet by the two offices of Postmaster General and Attorney General. ALL ON THE ALERT. Traps and Pitfalls in Washington Awaiting the New President. Washington, Feb. 6.— Not less than half a dozen gigantic rings, not to men tion the Ividwell Bottoms, have their agents at work to obtain some advantage in the make-up of Mr, Cleveland’s Cabi net. They are in Washington, in New Y'ork and at Albany, and they will follow the President-elect wherever he goes, ana attempt to have a finger in whatever he does. The subsidy railroads are on a sharp lookout, not onlv to see that no harm comes to them, either in the Interior De partment or the Department of Justice, but to strengthen themselves in new ways in both places. The whisky interest is sharp set for offense and defense. It is millions to them whether two men go into the Cab inet, one as Secretary of the Treasury and the other as Attorney General. Any way they want Phil. Thompson made Commissioner of Internal Revenue. The public land ring has its pickets out, und a large force in position to head Mr. Cleveland if he should go wrong right rather. There are other rings, some great and some small, besides almost innumerable petty interests, whose agents are trying in different ways to influence the make up of the Cabinet. To steer clear of all these requires a strong head. SUFFERING SPINNERS. Six Large Cotton Factories Idle near Petersburg, Va. Petersburg, Feb. B.—Located in and near this city are six large cotton facto ries, all ot which, with one exception, have been closed for several months. These mills, when running, give employment to over 1,000 operatives. There has been much sutt'ering among a large number of those thrown out of employment by the shut ting down of the mills, and in order to re lieve tbe suffering existing among tbe operatives at Ettrick, Chesterfield coun ty, where the Ettrick cotton mills are lo cated, aid was asked ol the authorities several days ago. All last week the ne cessary supplies and provisions were fur nished to needy operatives at the expense of the county. It is not known when these factories will resume operations. 400 SHOTS FIRED IN THE HOCKING VAL LEY. Columbus, 0., Feb. B.—The Hocking valley was greatly excited last niirhtover rumors of a concentrated attack'bv the strikers. Over 400 shots were tired*fn the neighborhood of Nelsonville and Buchtel about 10 o’clock, but no attack was made. Patrol trains drove tbe strikers off. The Great Exposition. New Orleans, Feb. B.— Yicc President elect Hendricks will deliver the address of welcome to the World’s Cotton Conven tion to be held under the auspices of the National Cotion Planters Association. Hon. Charles E. Hooker, the silver tongued orator ot Mississippi, will re spond on behalf of the association. The convention will open in the Music Hall of the World’s Exposition building on Feb. 10 at 1 o’clock. The Farmers’ National Congress will meet on Tuesday next at the exposition building. One thousand delegates are expected to be present. FRANCE’S DAY. France had her day to-day at the ex position and the announcement that such was the case had the effect of assembling the largest crowd ever gathered within the grounds. Nearly all the prominent Creole and French citizens were present, together with the officers and seamen of the French men-of-war in the harbor. At 1 o’clock Viscount Dabzac, the French Consul, opened the ceremonies by an address in which he made a formal transfer of the exhibit to the exposition, to which the Director General responded on behalf of the Board of Management. At the completion of the ceremonies sa lutes were fired and there was general rejoicing. The New Orleans Races. New Orleans, Feb. B.—There was a light attendance at the races to-day. The weather was clear and pleasant and the track in good condition. The events were as follows: First Rack—Five furlongs. It was won by Ellen, with Nat Trimble second and Mal volio third. Time 1:0BJ 2 . Second Race—-Selling race; six furlongs. It was won by Belle B. by four lengths, with Pilferer second, a half length ahead of Wild Kansas, third. Time 1 Third Race—Seven furlongs. Aurelias won, with Magpie second and Carella third. Time 1:37. Fourth Race—Handicap; one mile and a quarter over four hurdles. Rowdy Boy won by two lengths, with Ascoli second and Fred B. third. Time 2:28. Joe Cooper fell at the third hurdle. No Verdict Yet In the Murphy Case. New Orleans, Feb. B.—No verdict has yet been rendered iu the Ford-Murphy murder case. Advices From the Far East. San Francisco, Feb. B.—The steamer Rio Janeiro arrived here this afternoon bringing Hong Kong advices to Jan. 9, anil Yokohama advices to Jan. 19 .Th* gunpowder works at Fat-Shan, fourteen miles from Canton, exploded on Dec. 22, killing 250 employes. The Corean Gov ernment has agreed to pay Japan an in demnity ol 120,000 yen for the outbreak against the Japanese and the burning of the Japanese legation on Dec. 6. The government will also punish all of the leading rioters. It is stated that the ne gotiations were carried on through Gen. Foote, United States Minister to Corea. It is rumored at Tien Tsin that Russia will soon make another effort to annex Corea. Eloped With the Wrong Oirl. {Sanftrl (Del.) f'nttr/irise, Jan. 31. On a little farm nearly in sight of the quiet little town of Federalsburg, Md., resides a blooming young girl of 22 sum mers, also her cousin and her father’s ward of two years her senior. Both of these have beaus whom their stern old father and uncle do not approve of. The lover of Mo. 1 and his sweetheart, unbe known to the other parties, had made all arrangements to steal off in the still of the night and get married. This was aleo the plan of the contracting parties No. 2. The ladder was hid back of the garden tor the purpose of scaling the walls at the proper time. In the bewitching hours of the night when the graveyards yawn, lover No. 1 placed the ladder to the window of girl No. 2. The night was dark just at that time. She made her exit out ot the window and into the arms of her supposed knight, and was hurried off to the carriage near by. Not a word was spoken as along the ramparts (the old man’s back lane) they hurried. The car riage was gained and the lash was ap plied to the horses. When they arrived at the preacher’s house, whow r as waiting to tie the knot, the gallant knight then dis covered that he had got the wrong girl. Of course there were some salts and in ward cuss words, and the tug of war came—how to get the weeping girl back undiscovered. Lover No. 2 met with an accident by running his buggy against a post and carrying away his port wheel, and failed toat night to arrive at the house. The old man has bought a sl3 gun. and is nightly in ambush for the raiders. DOWNFALL OF RELIGION. DR. TALMAGE TAKES HIS TEXT FROM ACTS 11., 20. The Efl’ect of Religions Destruction on the Moral World Likened to the Effect the Destruction of the Sun Would Have ou the Natural World. Brooklyn, N. Y r ., Feb. B.— Before the sermon to-day Dr. Talmage expounded a chapter from the Prophecies. The open ing hymn was: “From Greenland's icy mountains, From India’s coral strands. Where Atric’s sunny fountains Roll down her golden sands.” Dr. Talmage’s subject was “The Down fall of Religion,” and his text was taken from Acts 11., 20: “The sun shall be turned into darkness.” The following is the ser- mon in full: Solar eclipse is here prophesied to take place just before the destruction of Jerusalem. Josephus, the worldly historian, says that tins prophecy was literally fulfilled, and that the skies were full of strange appearance* about this time. Of course the sun was not obliterated, but clouds rolled between it and tbe earth. Christianity is tde rising sun in eur time, but there are m-iuy who by the up rolling vapors of skepticism and the siuoke of their blasphemy are attempting to turn it into darkness. Suppose the archangels of malice and horror were unloosed and permitted to extinguish the sun in the natural heavens. They tnrow ou that great lamp of our planetary system oceans trom other worlds, and the waters roll hissing down into the ravines and chasms of that great luminary, and explosion follows explosion until only a few peaks of fire are left, and now they are cooling off and going down until ttie vast continents of flame ar* reduced to a small acreage of fire, and this lias lieeu reduced to a few coals, and they are whitening and soon go out, not a spark left in tbe mountains of ashes and the valleys of ashes and the caverns of ashes. An extin guished sun. A dead sun. A buried sun. Let all worlds wail at tlie stupendous obse quies. Under this withdrawal of solar light and heat our earth, of course, takes universal chill, and the tropics become tlie temperate, ami the temperate becomes the arctic, and there are frozen rivers and frozen lakes and frozen oceans. The inhabitants gather in from arctic and antarctic regions toward the centre, to find the equator as the poles. The slain forests are heaped into huge bonfires, around which shivering villages and cities gather. 'lhe wealth of all the coal mines is hastily poured into furnaces and stirred into rage of combustion; but even the bonfires are lowering, and the furnaces are cooling off, and the nations are dying. Vesuvius and Co topaxi and Stroniboli and the Californian geysers cease their smoko, and the ice of tbe hailstorms remains uumelte i in the craters. All the flowers have breathed their last breath. All the leaves of the forests have fallen. Ships on tlie sea, with sailors frozen at the mast, and helmsman frozen at the wheel, and passengers frozen in the cabin. All nations dying—first at the North, then at at the South. Children frosted and dead in the cradle. Octogenarian frosted and dead by the hearth. Workmen, with frozen arm, holding the hammer, or with frozen foot ou the shuttle. Winter in ail zones, winter from sea to sea. All-congealing winter—per petual winter. Hemisphere shackled to liemisjiliere. Globe of frigidity. Universal Nova Zembla. The whole earth an ice-Hoe grinding against other ice-floes. So the arch angels of malice and horror have put out the natural sun amldestroyei!|our world, and they may take their till-one of glacier and their crown of ice and their sceptre of icicle. W hat the obliteration of the natural sun would do for th* natural world the de struction of Christianity would do for tlie moral world—the sun turned into darkness. At the present time infidelity is a joke. There are people who " ill give 50 cents or $1 to hear Christianity assailed by epigram and quibble, and badinage and harlcquiuade. If correct!) reported ono of the loudest laughs in Brook lyn The. tre lu*t Sabbath night was at tlie Lord Jesus Christ, the Saviour of the world, the One who came to carry our sorrows. I read from that lecture the following in re gal'd to Christ: “When He was here He was forgiving and half human. But now lie is God. Instead of saying ‘Father, forgive them, for they know not what they- do,’ He sends them to eternal fire. It is' wonderful the difference office makes with some people. [Laughter].” Now, there is one law that ought either to he erased from the statute book or else exe cuted, and that is the law against blasphemy. What is blasphemy? I went into the law li brary anil 1 lind this authority: “Blasphe mous words against God. contumelious re proaches and profane ridicule of Christ or the Holy Scriptures are offenses punishable at common law whether u tered by words or in writing.” If a poor drunken man stood on the street corner this morning and took the name of God irreverently on his lips in pres ence of passers-by, he would be grabbed and hustled to the police station. But there is not a city authority in the United States that lia backbone enough to stop the indecent and blasphemous utterance of last Sunday night, though it is being delivered in all the cities Penalties and prisons for those who defame the most insignificant man in the city, hut defamation ol' God has perfect immunity. It would have been the finest drama ever enact ed on the stage of that Brooklyn Theatre if, in the midst of such utterances, my friend Patrick Campbell, Chief of Police, who be lieves in God and Christ, had, with a platoon of his ollicers, stepped upon the stage and gently putting his hand upon the shoulder of the lecturer said: “In the name of the com mon law of this country, and in the name of the families of Brooklyn, this infamy must stop, and stop here and stop now.” “But,” says some oue, “are you not in favor of free speech?” On, yes; X am in favor of all styles of freedom—free driving of horses, but not liberty to run over people in the street; free lire in your stove, hut not incon el inr or the burning of ttie property of others; free air, hut not permission to poison that which other breathe: free use of knives but no right to stab others; free use ot gun powder. but no allowance for assassination; free speech, but no permission for obscenity or slander or false swearing or blasphemy; free to do right and act according to law, but never free to do wrong and against law. I call the attention of judges and attorneys and police commissioners and mayors of cities to the importance of either driving the law against blasphemy from the statute book or putting it into immediate execution. There will in some of our cities arise authority tail enough to see beyond all political surround ings and strong enough to execute the stat utes of the States, and then we shall have no more of the execrable and dastardly abomi nations that were uttered last Sabbath night in Brooklyn theatre, and the carrion stench of leprous infidelity will be fumigated from the atmosphere. Tnere is a class of persons in all our com munity hoping for the overthrow of the Chris tian religion, and many who are bold to say that the world will he better ofl' without it than with it. I want to show them the end of this road, the terminus of this crusade, and what will he the state of things on the sup position that they triumph. First, woman’s complete and unutterable degradation. I will prove it by arguments and facts that no sound or honest being will dispute. In the comniuuUits and the cities and the nations where the Christian religion has reigned woman’s condition has been ameliorated and improved and she is honored and deferred to in a thousand things, and there is not a gentleman who does not takeoff his hat in her presence. She may in the United States and England suffer some injus tice, hut she lias more of her rights in Chris tendom than anywhere else. Jf your associa tions have been good, you know that the words wife and mother and sister and daugh ter are suggestive of the most gracious sur rounding*. The best schools and seminaries of the United States are for young women. Then take woman’s condition in lands where Christianity has madenoor little head way— China, Egypt, Turkey, Assyria, Bor neo, Barbary. The Burmese 6ell wives and daughters like sheep. The Hindoo Bible for bids a woman to hear music or sit at a win dow during the absence of her husband, and allows a divorce if the wife eats before her hughand finishes h's meals. The Hindoo wife is consumed on the funeral pyre of her hus band. The horse, the cow. the dog, the cat are better off. They were intended for brutes and they expect to be treated as brutes. But see the wlme bundles on the rivers in the morning in China. Infanticide after infanti cide. Female children cast off liecause they are females. See the women harnessed to plows like oxen. Hidden from the sight of man by barricades and by veils and by all styles of cruel seclusion. Their birth a disaster, their life a torture, their death a horror! The missionary of the cross in heathen lands to-day preaches to an audience divided .into two parts, the men who msy sit as they will and do as they will, and the women cruelly hidden in a side apartment where they can hear and cannot he seen, no intelli gence, no liberty, no refining influences, no hop* for this life and no hope for the life to come. Kinged nose, cramped foot, disfigured face, maltreated mind and embruted soul. How far hack toward that condition would women go if the Bible and Christianity were withdrawn is only a Question in oynamics. If an object be lifted to a certain point and be not fastened there and the lifting power he withdrawn, how far will the object fall? Clear back to the point from whence it was lifted. Christianity found woman in the last point of degradation and raised her almost to the skies. >’ow, let the power that brought her up be withdrawn and she will fall clear down to the depths from which she was resurrect^' Again, the downfall of icligion and the triumph of infidelity mean the demoraliza tion of society. Ihe most obnoxious thing to infidelity is the idea of retribution. Now, take all fear of voluntary punishment out of society, and let the rule be that all go as they please, and how long before disintegration? I declare it. take the fear of hell out of the minds of men and the majority of them would soon make this world a hell. The vast ma jority of those who are offended at the idea of future punishment have such unclean hearts or lives that thej- are opposed to future retri bution for the same reason that a criminal don’t like a penitentiary. All this brave talk about not fearing punishment for siu in the next world is only a coward’s whistling to keep his courage up. I have s* en men talk very Drave about the future and defy God and flaunt their immor alities in the face of society, and challenge the Eternal, hut iu their last moments they shrieked till you could hear them for two blocks, and the neighbors on a hot summer night had to put the windows down because they could not endure the sound. I had rather see a railroad train with five hundred Christians on board go down through a draw bridge into a watery grave than to see one infidel or one atheist die, though it were on a pillow of eider down and under a canopy of vermillion. 1 would-not want to see the first catastrophe, yet 1 would las sure of their happy destination, hut 1 have never been aide to brace mv nerves up for the latter spectacle. The terror on the brow is so un paralleled. the clutch of the fist is so diaboli cal, the strength of the voice is so unearthly “There is no hed! there is no hell! there is mi hell!” he had said over and over again for forty years, but there was something in that dying scene of my infidel neighbor which seemed to say: "There is! there is! there is! there is'” Mightiest barrier to atheist and libertinism and outlawry and crime of all sorts are the retributions of eternity. Men may escape the law, for that is done every day, hut there is something down in the offender s nature which says “You cannot escape God. He stands at the end of your road of profligacy.” He will by no means clear the guilty. Take the Bible idea of retribution out of the world and Brooklyn and New Y'ork and Boston and Chicago and Charleston and New Orleans would become Sodonis right speedily. The only restraints ou the evil pas?ious of the world to-day are Bible restraints. Suppose now these giants in blasphemy succeeded in marshalling a liujorily of the world ou their side. There they are iu com panies, in regiments, in brigades. Forward, march! ye great army of infidels ami atheists! Banners flying before, banners il> iug behind, inscribed with “No God,” “No Saviour,” “lo as you please,” “No punishment,” "No moral law,” “Down with the Bible.” The sua turned into darkness. Forward, march! Th j first assault is upon the churches. How At with all the houses of worship that have been occupied by people who were deluded into be ing comforted over their bereavements and their sorrows. They deserve to be extirpated because they spent much of their life in re forming inebriety and iu saving tlie lost and holding before the struggling the idea of eter nal rest after the paroxysm of life is over.’ Let the St. Hauls uud the st. Peters and tliu Trinitys and the Tabernacles and the temples be turned into club houses or places of merchandise! Forward, march! Down go ail the Sabbath schools of bright-eyed, bright faced children, singing songs and getting in struction when they ought to have beeu play marbles in the street or swearing ou tn© commons. Forward, march, ye hosts of infidels and atheists! Take the Bible ou which witnesses are sworn out of the court bouse ami let loose testimony be unhindered. Forward, aui down ten thousand asylums and hospitals of mercy supported by churches and Christian philanthropists, prayers every morning by the sick and prayers over the dead. Never mind the blind eyes and the deaf ears and tlie weakened intellects and the crippled limbs. Let paralyzed old age pick up its own food and orphans find their own way and the half reformed go back to their old iniquities. With the broad-axphew dowu the cross and split ‘ up tlie Bethlehem stable. Tear down from Vatican and Florence and Venice and Dres den and all the picture galleries of ihe world the mightiest works ol art. for tliev are re ligious—Claude’s "Burning Bush” and Gliir iaudajo's “Adoratiou of tiie Magi” and Rem brandt’s “Christ iu the Temple” and Paul Ve ronese’s “Marriage in .C'aua” and Michael Angelo’s “Last Judgment.” And drive back all the oratorios of Handel and Haydn and Beethoven into the crypts of the ruined churches for they tell of tlie .Messiah or the creation or Japtha or Samson or other Bible heroes or heroines. Forward, march, ye hosts of infidels and atheists into the graveyards and cemeteries, and tear down the sculpture from Green wood’s gate representing the Resurrection, and break up the artist’s figure of Old Mor tality, aud his chisel at the entrance of Lau rel Hill, and then march on and when you find an epitaph “Asleep in Jesus” chisel out ttie words, and when you find a stone that speuks of heaven cut it uvruy, aud when you find an inscription on the cliild’srestingplace “suffer little children to come unto me,” sub stitute the words “Delusion and sham,” and il you Und an angel in marble strike oil' tbe wings, and on the door of ad the family vaults inscribe “No hope,” “Dead once, dead for ever. And then open tbe graves and sit down on the broken slabs for banquet aud carnival, and pour into the skulls of tlie dead the wine of derision and hate, and altogether lifting chalices of skeleton drink to doom and darkness and annihilation, a liie without comfort, a death without peace, and for body, mind and soul and family extinction. Make all tlie places of Christian burial the grave yards in which lie the whole family of Chris tian graces. Prayer dead. Faith dead. Re pentance dead. Self-denial dead. Hope dead. Society dead. Jlone&ty dead. llai pi ness dead. “’1 urn ttie sun into darkness.” But, forward and upward, ye hosts of m hdels and atheists. There are heights to scale. Pile hill on hill aud Peliou upon Ossa, and hoist the ladders against the walls of heaven. Let the sappers and miners blow up the foundations of jasper and put dynamite under the gates of pearl, and now for the throne. One more attack and theday is won. Charge! charge! The storming parties aim for Him that sittetti on the throne; yea, the Father, the Son and the Holy Ghost. Tlie assailants try to hurl the spirits over the , battlements with mightier wrench thau Mil ton s Satan was pitched into hideous ruin down. They cry “Down with the Son of God aud let the javelins as of old strike his side and tiie hammers his feet aud the brambles his brow. Down off the throne! Down out of sight! Down forever!” And last of all, aud more thau all, they would have God the Father feel the combined lorceof all human aud Satanic spite aud there be deicide. They would have his blood incarnadine the heavens till all immensity is red as a thousand sunsets Uuz-zah! huzzah! a world without a head A universe without a King. Orphaned con stellations, fatherless galaxies, a dethroned Jehovah. An assassinated God. Patricide Regicide, Deicide. that is what infidelity wants. Thatiswhat it will accomplish if it can. Civilization W ill be hurled back into semi barbarism and sem i barbarism into Hottentot savagery. The wheel of progress will turn llie other way and roll toward the dark ages. The clock of the century will be set back two thousand years. Turn back the Sandwich Islands from their schools and libraries and reformed con dition to what they were in Ini', when the missionaries of the cross began their work of gracious revolution. Call home the five hun dred Christian missionaries in India and over throw their two thousand stations and scatter the hundred and forty thousand pupils gath ered out of barbarism into Christian schools Level to the ground on the coasts of all heath endom the gospel batteries which were plant ed to capture all Asia and Africa for civiliza tion. Disband the twenty evangelizing so cieties in South Africa for the salvation of bushman and Hottentots. Send back the converted Chippewas and Delawares amt Oneidas to their war-paint and barbarity and nakedness. Let the three hundred Poly nesian islands that have relinquished heathenism be given back to tneir for mer cruelties. Go hack to you* darkness from which Christianity extricated jou ye 50,000 converts of China, ye 00,000 converts of the Indian Archipelago, ye 180,000 converts of South Airica, ye 300.000 converts of the South Sea Islands, ye 50u.000 converts of India and Farther India. “Turn ihe sun into darkness.” Blot out all the work of Dr. Dull' in India and Abeel in China, and King in Greece, and Jud son in Burma!), and David Brainerd among the American aborigines and discharge the three thousand missionaries in the field from their ministry of self-sacrifice. Call back the medical missionaries, those who doctor both the bodies and the souls of the dying nations Go home, English Missionary Society and American Board of Foreign Missions and Moravians, and.surrender the world that yon have begun to conquer back to the filth and the squalor and the despair from which ttiev are now emerging. JSever has such a nefarious plot been laid for the destruction of the planet, and never has such an all-destructive enginery been set in motion as that which infidelity is working. When infidelity has conquered this world, ii will be a habitation of three wards— the one a madhouse, another a lazaretto, the third a a pandemonium. The concert of this band of infidel music has not yet fairly begun. You have only heard them stringing their instru ments. I put before you their whole pro gramme from first to last. In theatres the tragedy comes first and the farce last, but in the drama of death the farce leads ofr and the tragedy follows. In the farce the infidels laugh and mock, but in the tragedy God will laugh and mock. He says so “I will laugh at their calamity and mock when their fear cometh.” From such open ing chasms of individual, social, national and world-wide ruin stand back. The time.wil) come when the infidel will bo treated as a criminal against* society as well as against God. Society will push out the leper, and the man with soul gangrened, itcherous, vermin covered and rotting apart will fall into the ditch and denied decent burial; men wi.l come with spades and cover him up where he is that the air be not poisoned with the car cass; the on y fit text for his funeral Jere miah, xxii and 19: -With the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.” But a thousand voices cry: “Will all the*: allied forces of infidelity and atheism suc ceed in destroying Christianity? Will the church become extinct and the Bible obsolete and civilizat on only a memory?” Yes! when the smoke rolling up from the city’s chimneys efin arrest and annihilate the noonday sun. At the destruction of Jerusalem, Jo-ephus says the text was fulfilled: “The sun shall be turned into darkness.” His rays were shut out for a while, but.did that destroy the sun? No, that great luminary w'hich at the begin ning shot like an electric spark from God’s finger is ro)ling;onlto-day wanning •outineuts, gilding oceans, and with glorious liglit deluging the world. Eight for mountain and valley. Light for this world. Light for a whole circle of worlds. Not failed light, hut the blending of violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange and red, jnst as true as when first evoked from the white light by the solar spectrum. Eight not worn out by the ages, hut stepping 190,000 miles a second. Light pulsating 451 trillion undulat ons in a second. At the beginning God said: Let there be light, and light was and light shall be. And so Chris tianity goes right on to warm and cheer all nations. Men may shut their window blinds of prejudice so they cannot sec It, and may smoke their pijm of speculation till they are in the shadow of their own vaporing, but the Lord God s the sun and all the earth shall yet bask in its warmth and brighten in its illu minations. Aye, when fully let loose it will be a swift gospel, and who can calculate the speed of its undulations? Aye, the pure white light of the gospel holding in it all the beauties of earth and heaven, the violet plucked from amid the spring grass and in digo of Southern jungles and blue of skiesand green of forest foliage and yellow of au tumnal forests and orange of tropical groves and the red of sunsets, all brought out under the spiritual spectrum. Gieat Britain will take Europe for God and the United States will take America for God. Then both nations together will take Asia for God. Then all three will take Africa for God. Who art thou, O great mounlaius? Before Zerubbabel thou sbait become a plain. The mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. A Vermont farmer reports that he made a profit of *243 from six hens the past season. He sold them early in the spring and conse quently had to plant his garden only once.— HomcrvMt JsurwU. I rnLIS,! 10 A YEAR.I I * CENTS A COPT. j WAR WITH THE MEXICANS TEXANS AND CATTLE THIEVES IN A OVEIiY EIGHT. Twelve of the Marauders Reported Killed iu One Engagement—Two More of the luvaders Reported halil Low in Another Skirmish with the Ranch men—Troops Going to the Scene. •San Antonio, Tax as, Feb. B.— The situation at Carrizo Springs is growing serious. The citizens are detei mined to resist the band of 100 Mexicans when they arrive. A Vdoixly battie is expected. Ihe citizens of Sevalla and Maverick counties are joining forces with Dimmit county in combating the marauders. Runners have been sent to Catulla and other points tor arms and ammunition.*. It is Ascertained that Mexicans crossed the Rio Grande on the night or Fob.fi. they numbered 100, and have divided their force into four bands, who are ap proaching Carrizo through unfrequented portions of the country, driving away herds by detail as they advance into the interior. A RUNNING FIGHT. A spirited running fight occurred to day between scouts of citizens and a de tail of Mexicans. Two marauders wire killed and one American was w’ouuded. Sheriff Oglesby, of Maverick county, has sent a mounted posse to the scene of action on the frontier. Troops at Uvalde left t--night for Carrizo. Another report from i ie trout chronicles another bloody attniy, in wbicb twelve Mexicans were killed and a number won The American loss, if any, was no <:”ed. These conflicts took place ben • or. ranchmen and relays of Mexi cans who were overtaken while driving stock toward the Hio Grande. The Mexicans are being reinforced, their objective point being Carrizo Springs, at which place it is believed they have agreed Jo concentrate their lorces au_l attack the town for tho pur pose of releasing their companions eon liued for cattle stealing. Telegrams from many places along tiie Rio Grande call on the authorities lor troops. A DEADLY SCOURGE. Black Scarlet Fever Makes Appear ance in Louisville, Ky. In the mortuary report, returned to the Louisville, Ky., Health Otlice Thursday, were two deaths iu one family—that of B. C. Scanned, ol No. 1825 Fort land avenue. In both cases the cause of death was ascribed to “black scarlet lever.” A reporter, informed of the dangerous contagion attending black scarlet fever, set. out to learn the particulars in the case, oil reaching Portland avenue it was learned that nearly all the houses in the Scannell neighborhood were deserted. Mr. Scannell’s family occupy a two-story brick just above Nineteenth. A preva lence of great alarm and anxiety was soon developed. The terror-stricken peo ple in that vicinity regard the disease as more deadly anil contagious than small pox, yellow fever or cholera. Questioning physicians as to the first cases of the disease, the reporter learned that the original case reported was that o' Mrs. Blake, who died about two months ago. She was attended by Dr. Bailey, who, after the decease of his patient, en deavored, by the free use of disinfectants and burning the bedding and clothing, to check the spread of the disease. Despite all the efforts, the family of Mr. B. C. Scannell next tell victims. Mr. Scannell’s family had been on friendly terms with the lady who died. There is no doubt as to where the disease then originated lrom. Sporadic it is termed by physicians, meaning that it emanates from germs which are conveyed in arti cles of clothing, food and water, or more directly by the air. On Wednesday a week ago, little Bar tholomew, a 0-year-old son of Mr. Sean nell’s. became suddenly and violently ill. Violent vomiting and purging attacked him, and in a few hours the disease had reached its height. Dr. Benjamin A. Al len, the family physician, was called in and he pronounced the disease at once scarlatina maligna, or, as it is more com monly called, “black scarlet fever.” The boy’s life was despaired of, but nevertheless, lrs. Larabee, Pelie and Al. len, Sr., were called in consultation. In spite ol their united endeavors the child died iu twenty hours after being taken ill. The children in the Scannell family were kept carefully separated from their dead brother, anil every effort was made to prevent their contracting the disease. This was iu vain, however, for on Monday Birdie, an eight-year-old girl, on rising in the morning was suddenly seized with cramps and a severe headache. In a few moments she was attacked with violent vomiting and purging. Growing rapidly worse, in a lew hours she was soon in a comatose condition with a high fever. The fever rose rapidly, and by midnight reached 100 degrees. At daybreak she, too, died in a state of extreme exhaustion. Wednesday morning the eldest child was attacked by the disease, and at night his lile was despaired oi. Birdie was buried in the alternoon, the family leav ing the latest victim ol' the disease at home. With the sick bov w’as left his nurse and the youngest child. On their return from the funeral the grief-stricken parents were horrified to find their young est child in the clutches of the dreaded disease. The stricken family receive no commis eration from the .neighbors, wiio, badly frigh;c-ned, evade them, and have estab lished a quarantine. All their efforts have been futile, however, and two new cases hove been reported, one in the fam ily ol >' loe Waters and another a do rnesti in ployed near the Scannell resi dence. Noue but the most courageous and reckless and dearest friends have come near to alleviate the misery of the afflicted ones. With blanched faces and averted heads those compelled to pass the scourged spot hurry by, and anxious mothers guard their children from the pestilence. Dr. B. A. Allen is untiring in his efforts to prevent the spread of the disease, but it is feared that its pestilential breath will sweep over and scourge the entire neighborhood, and it is impossible to con jecture where it wil! stop. Speaking of the disease the doctor said: “It spares neither age, sex nor color, and is most deadly in its action. Tho most common results, if recovery from the disease should take place at all, are Bright’s disease of the kidneys, deafness, loss of speech, abscesses and paralysis. “One curious leature of this disease, and the one which gives it the name, ‘black scarlet fever,’ is that within a few minutes alter death the patient’s face grows black very rapidly. 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