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jkrjumilt (lllotning JlJwds. 1 ESTABLISHED 1850. ) fj, H. EBTILL, Editor and Proprietor.] BELL TELEPHONE SUITS. THE COUNSEL NEARLY AGREED ON THE BILL. The Action to be Brought at Columbus, O.—Three Appropriations of #>600,000 Each for Dry Docks at Nsvy Vards— Mrs. Whitney Coming South. Washington, March 7.—lt is learned that the government suit against the Bell Telephone Company will be brought at Columbus, O. The bill will he finished by the government counsel this week and may be filled before Saturday. It is un derstood that a fair copy of the last draft of the bill which has been prepared by the counsel, was sent to Judge Thurman, at Columbus to-night for his linal approval, preparatory to filing it. It is entirely possible that it may not be filed for some time yet. Judge Lowery said the other day that there was no occasion to hurry It. DKT DOCK APPROPRIATIONS. The House Naval Affairs Committee has agreed to report in favor of appropriating 1600,000 each for dry docks at the League island, Noifolk and Brooklyn navy yards. It will deckle to-morrow whether this ap propriation shall be included in the uaval construction bill now about to be re ported by the committee. It stood 6 to 6 on this proposition at the last meeting, A member who was absent at that meet ing returns to-morrow. It is stated that Civil Service Commis sioner Trenbolm will shortly be nominated Tor Comptroller of the Currency. Mrs. Whitney, wife ot the Secretary, goes on Wednesday next for a fortnight’s trip South. Mrs. Burtou N. Harrison will accompany her. Mrs. Whitney in tends to travel.slowly. Their ultimate des tination is Jacksonville. THE MATTHEWS APPOINTMENT. It Does Not Give Satisfaction at Wash ington. Washington, March 7.—The appoint ment of James Campbell Matthews, the colored lawyer and Democratic politician of Albany, N. Y., to tbe position of Re corder of Deeds of the District of Colum bia to succeed Frederick Douglass con tinues to excite unfavorable comment among Democrats. There were a number of prominent white Democrats of the District who sought the position. They and their friends are very angry, because a colored man from Albany succeeded in having their applications and petitions set aside. There are not a few colored Democrats in Washington. They form tbe nucleus of an organization which they have in tended to use to encourage colored men in the Southern States to throw off the yoke ot Republicanism. They are as displeased as the white Democrats over Mat thews’ appointment. While they ad ,Hiit that their race has been hon ored they say that Matthews is a car pet bagger. The leaders ot the colored Democrats think that as long as a colored man was to succeed Mr. Douglass he ought to have been a man who lived in Washington. The members ot the Demo cratic committee ot tbe District are specially displeased at the appointment. The Democrats say that it was hard to stand Frederick Douglass as the head of the most important bureau of the District government, bat they had to put up with it under the Republican Administra tion. In their opinion a white Democrat should have succeeded Douglass. Congressman Norwood i reported as saytog: “it is the worst example of car pet bag ism I ever heard ot—to go to Al bany and bring a Northern negro down here to fill so good an office. Couldn’t the President find a suitable man in tbis dis trict f” Other Democrats deprecate the appointment and speak of it with indig nant sadness as a foolish mistake. There is some talk of organized Demo cratic opposition In tbe Senate to Mat thews’ confirmation. There is more talk of a concerted effort to induce the Presi dent to withdraw the nomination. The selection of Matthews is attributed by many to the influence of Secretary Man ning. TEA CULTURE. the Experiment in South Carolina Dt dared a Failure. ■ Washington, March 7.—Commis- Isioner Column, of tbe Department of Ag- Iriculture, has quite an unfavorable re reportupon tbe government tea farm at ’Summerville, S. C. Mr. Vardell, tbe su perintendent, writes biu that the severe wiuter and protracted cold weather stripped the tea plants of their foliage. He says he thinks some varieties are dead to the root. He has found one variety standing in certuiu places that endures the cold better than tbe others, and from which no leaves have fallen. He is now engaged in plowing between these plants, but says he discourages all applications tor them because they are evidently enfeebled bv the cold weather and in no condition for removal. Commis sioner Column is understood to bo of tbe opinion that this experimental tea farm better be abandoned, as he is having propagated on tbe grounds of the depart ment tea plants in sufficient number to meet all the calls for them. WORK. BEFORE CONGRESS, Duekin’s Case in the Senate—Appro priations In the Moose. ' W ashington, March 7.—The chief bu siness ot the Senate for the coming week is expected to be dismission of the resolu tions reported from the Judiciary Com mittee concerning the refusal of the At torney General to transmit all the papers in the Duskiu case, iu compliance with the resolution of the Senate. The debate will begin at 2 o’clock to-morrow. , Two appropriation bills, tbo pension and the urgent deficiency, have passed the House of Heurchentalives, anu there are now in committee of the whole await ing action, tbe Indian, post office, military academy, army, consular and diplomatic and District of Columbia appropriation bills Most of the time during the pres ent week will be consumed in considera tion of one or more ol these measures, and it Is probable that at least one or two of them will be passed. 150 Yanis for s'2so. San Francisco, March 7.- A 150-yard foot race yesterday between William Hough, of Now York, and Charles Gibson, st tbis city, for $250 a side was won by the Istter. Hough was given five yards tbe start. Tbe first run was a dead beat in li'/i seconds, which is said to beat all previous records by half a second. Gib- R4on won the second run In 14% seconds by ' I S feet. Hoctallst, Meet tugs. London, March 7.—Socialist meetings wero held t--day In Lodnn and Manches ter. The attendance was scanty. The nroccAdlaaM warn uuiet- MORMOIi WOMEN. Frotests Against the Fight of the Gov ernment. Salt Lake City, March 7.— A large meeting of Mormoa women was held In the theatre yesterday, many speeches were made and a protest adopted. The speakers upheld thy right of women to go into polygamy and said thousands of dis reputable women in the East would be glad to be made thy wives of such as the speakers were. They maintained that tue government had no right to say wom en should not marry, and it might as well take the opposite cyurse and compel vir gins from the cloister to marry. Such social preferences should be respected, and the government had no right to interfere. The protest declared that womenhood had been outraged in the courts by questions about expected ma ternity, the fathers of children, etc. A suffrage was declared to be a vested right of women here, and should not be at tacked. An emphatic denial was made that they voted otherwise than according to their own free will. The “noble women” who had refused to answer the questions propounded by the courts were eulogized, and the action of Judge Zane and United States Attorney Dickson in requiring testimony from a legal wife against her husband in unlaw ful cohabitation oases was condemned. The wives and mothers ol the United States were called upon to oome to the assistance of the women of Utah in their resistance to interference with their rights. A com mtttee was appointed to memorialize the President. One enthusiastic speaker was desirious of knowing “whether the Federal officers and courts would per sist in thetr present course alter reading our protest.” Another speaker said she held “the horde of petty officials” in contempt. In four days more the Leg islature must adjourn aud no progress has yet been made towurd assimilating the laws ot Utah with tbe national stat utes. All the propositions tend m a con trary direction. The deadlock between the governor and Legislature is still un broken. SAM JONES AT CHICAGO, He Declare* that Christianity In that City la Too Slow for Him. Chicago, March 5.—“1 have no use for that nasal, slow, hymn-singing Chris tianity that hasn’t either blood or energy in it,” said the Itev. Sam Jones at the noon service to-day. “The devil can run a mile before some of you fellows can get your boots on. If I had a Southern audi ence before me, 1 could say: ‘You’ll never get there, Eli!’ That’s slang 1 guess, but I don’t think the Lord cares much how you construct your sentences so they nit the mark. Slang is not offensive, unless it is offensive in itself. 1 never heard of a grammar school in heaven. Perhaps that’s offensive to Northern ears, but the fact is you people iu Chicago manufac ture more slang in one week than the South does in a vear. What I dislike are those verbal critics who say: ‘Did you hear how he murdered grammar? Did you hear how he murdered rhetoric?’ 1 can stand it to be swallowed up by a whale, but I hate to be nibbled to death by minnows. It just annoys me. I’d sooner have a policeman come up and knock me down than to be pounded over the head with a rubber balloon. It an noys me and a good man hates to be an noyed.” [Laughter.] A FATAL DUEL IN MEXICO. Disagreement* Helweeu Two Prominent Families End* Disastrously, Chihuahua. Mex., March 7. —A duel with pistois between Trinidad Alvarez and Senor Paredez has just been fought in the suburbs ol this city, three shots be ing fired by each. Senor Paredez received three wounds and it is believed will die from his injuries. The first two shots fired at Senor Alvarez missed him but the third struck him in the forehead, killing him instantly. Both Senor Paredez and Senor Alvarez were prominent men here. The duel was caused by a quarrel between the families of the two uisu in which they became involved and Senor Alvarez received a challenge from Senor Paredez, which he accepted, with the fatal result described. Galot Paid by Anarchists. Paris, March 7.—Galot, who discharged a revolver in the Paris bourse Friday, was in the pay ot Anarchists. It is re ported he has lately had interviews with I/iuise Michel and I’rince Krapotkine, noted Nihilists. Peronnier. who fired a revolver in the Chamber a few days ago, has been sent to a madhouse. Gladstone and t.h Farmers. London, March 7.—Premier Gladstone has so lar progressed with the landlords appropriation scheme as to require the servioes ot Sir Henry Thring, Parliamen tary Counsel to the government, to draft the details ol tbe bill. He proposes an ascending scale of rates of purchase on tbe ratio of tbe extent and value of the tenants’ holdings. Murder of an Abbess. Paris, March 7.—Abbess MalogucUaso ponee, while dining in the Hospital of the Sisters ol the I’oor at Perpegnan, was at tacked and murdered to-day by a band of ruffian*. Their motive is supposed to have been robbery. Several culprits were arrested. Neville Pardoned. Madrid, March 7.—The Dukeof Seville who was recently sentenced to imprison ment for insulting Queen Christina was pardoned by tbe Queen on tbe occasion of tbe marriage of Princess Eulalia. He will be liberated to-morrow. Princess Eulalias’ Dower. Madrid, March 7.—Prinoess Eulalias’ dower is $700,000, and she receives a pen. sion of *30,000. The Duke of Montpensier has settled *12,500 annually upon her and *26,000 upon her husband. Tho presents are valued at *200,000. The Army In Egypt. London, March 7.—Lord Rosebery, the English Foreign Secretary, has con sented to make room lor a number of Turkish officers in the Egyptian army by displacing British officers. Wiudtliorst’s Amendments Ad mitted. Bkrun, March 7.—Tbe Reichstag com mittee, by a vote of 12 to 7, baa admitted Dr. Windtborat’s amendments to the anti* Socialist bill. A Conference Proposed. London, March 7—The Russian gov ernment propose* a oouferenoe at Berlin to fix tbe torme of the Bulgarian unity. - Turkey and Greece, i London, March 7.—lt Is expected that ' Turkey will acßd an ultimatum to Greece t* disarm. SAVANNAH. MONDAY, MARCH 8, 1886. IN THE DOMESTIC CIRCLE. TALMAGE THROWS OPEN THE DOORS OF OCR HOMES. Home* Filled with Pleasure and Others Full of Naught Save Desolaieues* and Despair—Home Should be a Type of Heaven—A Picture of She Home far Eternity. Brooklyn, N. Y., March 7.—Rev. T. Do Witt Talmage, D. D., preached to-day in the Brooklyn Tabernacle, the ninth of his senes of sermons on “The Marriage Ring,” the subject being “The Domestic Circle.” Before the sermon he read the names of seventy new members, making the present number of communicants about 3,300. The hymn sung was: “Oh, could I spent the matchless worth! Oh, could 1 soumt the glories forth That in my Saviour shine!” Appropriate passages of Scripture were read and expounded Dy l>r. Talmage, after which he took his text from Mark v. ID: “Go home to thy friends, and tell them how great things the Lord hath done for thee.” Following is the sermon iu full: There are a great many people longing for some grand sphere in which to serve God. They admire Luther at the Diet of Worms, and only wish that they had some such great opportunity In which to dis play their Christian prowess. They ad mire Paul making Felix tremble, and they only wish that they had some such grand occasion in which to preach righteous ness, temperance and judgment to oorne; all they want is only an opportunity to exhibit their Christian heroism. Now the Apostle comes to us and he practically says: “I will show you a place wnere you can exhibit all that is grand and beautiful and glorious in Christian char acter, and that is the domestic circle.” If one is not faithful in an insignificant sphere he will not be faithful In a resound ing sphere. If Peter will not help the cripple at the gate of the Temple he will never be able to preach 3,(KX) souls into the kingdom at the Pentecost. If Paul will not take pains to instruct in the way of salvation the jailer of the Philippian dungeon, he will never make Felix trem ble. He who is not faithful in a skirmish would not be faithful in an Armageddon. Tbe fact is we are all placed in just the position in which we can most grandly serve God; and we ought not to be chiefly tboughtiul about some sphere of useful ness which we may after awnile gain, but tbe all absorbing question with you and with me ought to be: “Lord, what wilt Thou have me now and here to do?” There is one word in my text around whicn most of our thoughts will this morning revolve. That word is “Home.” Ask ten different men the meaning of that word and they will give you ten different definitions. To one it means love at the hearth, it means plenty at the table, in dustry at the workstand, intelligence at the books, devotion at the altar. To him It means a greeting at the door and a smile at the chair. Peace hovering like wings. Joy clapping its hands with laughter. Life a tranquil lake. Pillowed on the ripples sleep tbe shadows. Ask another man what home is and he wiil tell you it is want looking out ot a cheerless fire-grate, kneading hunger in an empty bread tray; the damp air shiver ing with curses; no Bible on the shelf; children, robbers and murderers in em bryo; obscene songs their lullaby; every lace a picture of ruin; want in tbe back ground and Sin staring from tbe front; no Sabbath wave rolling over that doorsili; vestibule of the pit; shadow of infernal walls; furnace for forging everlasting chains; faggots lor an unending funeral pile. Awful word! It is spelled with cHrses; it weeps with rum; it chokes with woe; it sweats with the death agony of despair. The word “Home” in the one case means everything bright. The word “Home” in the other case means everything terrific. I shall speak to you this morning of home as a test ot character; borne as a refuge; home as a political safeguard; Some as a school, and home as a type ot heaven. And in the first place I remark that home is a powerful test of character. The disposition in public may be in gay cos tume, while in private it is In dishabille. As play actors may appear in one way on the stage and may appear in another way behind the scenes, so private character may be very different from public charac ter. Private character is often public char acter turned wrong side out. A man may receive you into bis parlor as though he were a distillation of smiles, and yet his heart may be a swamp of nettles. There are business men who all day long are mild aud courteous and genial and good natured In commercial life, damming back their irritability and their petulance and their discontent, but at nightfall the dam breaks and scolding pours forth in fioods and freshets. Reputation is only tbe shadow ol char acter, and a very small house sometimes will cast a very long shadow. The lips may seem to drop with myrrh and cassia, and the disposition to boas bright and warm as a sheaf of sunbeams, and yet they may he only a magnificent show win dow to a wretched stock of goods. There is many a man who is affable in public life and amid commercial spheres, who, in a cowardly way. takes bis anger arid ms peruiance home and drops them on tbe do mestic circle. Tbe reason men do not display their bad temper in public is because they do not want to be knoeged down. There are men who bide their petulance aud their irritability just for tbo same reason that they do not let their notes go to protest: It does not pay. Or for the same reason that they do not want a man in thsir stock company to sell bis stock at less than the right price, lest it depreciate the value. As at sometimes tbe wind rises, so after a sunshiny day there may be a tempestu ous night. There are people who in pub lic act tbe philanthropist, who at home act tho Nero, with respect to thsir slip pers and their gown. Audubon, tbe great ornithologist, with gun and pencil, went through tbe forests of America to bring down and to sketch the beautiful birds, and after years of toil and exposure completed his manuscript and put it in a trunk in Philadelphia for a few days of recreation and rest, and came back aud found that the rats bad | utterly destroyed the manuscript; but I without any discomposure and without 1 any trot or bad temper, he again picked up his gun and pencil and visited again all the great forests of America and re produced his immortal work. And yet there are people with the ten thousandth part of that loss who are utterly nnre coneilabte, who, at the loss or a psncll or an article of raiment, will blow as long and sharp as a northeast storm. Now, that man who ia affable In publlo and who is irritable in private, w making j a fraudulent overissue of stock, and he Is as bad as a bank that might have four or five hundred thousand dollars of bills in circulation with no specie in tbe vault, fast us learn to show piety at borne. If we have It not tbore, we have it not any waci o. If wa have not genuine grace in the family oirole, all our out-vard and public plausibility merely springs from a fear of the world or from tbo slimy, putrid pool of our own selfishness, i tell you the home is a mighty test of character. What you are at home you are every where, whether you demonstrate it or not. Again, I remark that home is a refuge. Life is the United States army on the na tional road to Mexico, a long march with ever and anon a skirmish mid a battle. At eventide we pitch our tent aud stack the arms, we hang up tbe war cap aud lay our head on the knapsack, we sleep until the morning bugle calls us to march ing and action. How pleasant it is to re hearse the victories and the surprises and the attacks of the day, seated by the still camp fire of the home circle! Yea, life is a stormy sea. With shiv ered masts and torn sails and hulk aleak, we put iu at the harbor of home. Blessed harbor! There wo go for repairs in tbe dry dock of quiet The candle In the window is to the toiling man the light house guiding him into port. Children go forth to meet their lathers as pilots at the “Narrows” take the hand of ships. The door-sill of the home is the wharf where heavy life Is unladen. There is tbe place where we may talk ol what we bavedone without, bring charged with self-adulation. Tbeie is tbe place where wo may lounge without being thought ungraceful. There is the place where we may express affection without being thought silly. There is the place where we may forget our annoyances and exasperations anu troubles. Forlorn earth pilgrim! no home? Then die. Tiiat is better. The grave is brighter and grand er and more glorious than this world with no tent from marchings, with no harbor from the storm, with no place of rest from this scene of greed and gouge and loss and gain. God pity the man or the woman who has no home! Further, 1 remark that home is a po litical safeguard. The safety of the State must be built on the safety of the home. Why cannot France come to a placid re public? Ever and anon there is a threat of national capsize. France as a nation has not the right kind of a Christian home. The Christian hearthstone is the only corner-stone for a republic. The virtues cultured in the family circle are an absolute necessity for the S ate. If there be not enough moral principle to make the family adhere, there will not be enough political principle to make the State adhere. “No home” means the Goths and Vandals, means the Nomads of Asia, means the Numideaus of Airica. changing from place to p'acu, according as the pasture happens to ehange. Con founded be all those Babels of iniquity which would overtower and destroy the home. The same storm that upsets the ship in wbich tbe family sails will sink the frigate of the constitution. Jails and penitentiaries and armies and navies are not our best deionse. Tbe door of tbe home is the beet fortres-i. Household utensils arc the best artillery, and the chimneys of our dwelling bouses are the grandest monuments of safety and tri umph. No home. No republic. Further,! remark, that home is a school. Old ground must be turned up with sub soil plough, and it must be harrowed and re-harrowed, and then the crop will not be as large as that of the hew ground with less culture. Now, youth and child hood are new ground, and all the influences thrown over their heart and life will come up in after life luxuriantly. Every time you have given a smile ol approbation— all the good cheer of your life wiil oome up again in the geniality of your children. And every ebullition of anger, and every uncontrollable display of indignation will be fuel to their disposition 20 or 30, or 40 years from now—fuel for a bad fire a quar ter of a century from this. You praise the intelligence of your child too mueh some times when you think he is not aware of it, and you will see tne result of it before 10 years of age in his annoying affections. You praise his beauty, supposing he is not large enough to understand what you say, and you will find him standing on a high chair before a flattering mirror. Words and deeds and example are the seed of character, and children are very apt to be tbe second edition of their par ents. Abraham begat Isaac, so virtue is apt to go down in tho ancestral line; but Herod begat Archelaus, so iniquity is transmitted. What vast responsibility coines upon parents in viewof this subject! O! make your homo the brightest place on earth, if you would charm your chil dren to tbe high path of virtue and recti tude and religion. Do not always turn the blinds the wrong way. Let the light which puts gold on tbe gertian and spots the pansy pour into your dwellings. Do not expect the little leet to keep step to a dead march. Do not cover up your walls with such pictures us West’s “Death on a Pale Horse,” or “Tintoretto’s “Massa cre of the innocents.” Rather cover them, if you have pictures, with “The Hawking Party,” and “The Mill by the Moun'am H'ream,” and “Tbe Fox Hunt,” and “The Children Amid Flowers,” and “Tbe Harvest Scene,” and “The Saturday Night Marketing.” Get you no hint of cheerfulness from grasshouper’s leap, and lamb’s frisk, and quail’s whistle, and garrulous streamlet, which from the rock at the mountain top clear down to tbe meadow ferns under the shadow of the sleep, coines looking for the steepest place to leap off at. and talking just to bear itself talk f If all the skies nurtled with tempest, and everlast ing storm wandered over tbe sea, and every mountain stream went raving mad. frothing at the mouth with uiud foam, and there were nothing but sunoons blowing among the bills, and there wore neither lark’s carol nor humming hire’s trill, nor waterfall’s dash, but only a bear’s bark and panther's scream, and wolf’s howl, then you might well gather into your homes only tbe shadows. But wbeu God basstrewn tboearth and the heaven’s with beauty and with gladness, lei us take into our home circles all Innocent hilarity, all brightness and all good cheer. A dark home makes bad boys and bad girls, In preparation for bad men and bad women. Above all, my trlends, take into your homes Christian principle. (Jan it be that in any of tbe comfortable homes of my congregation tbe voice of prayer is never lilted? What! Nosupplication at night for protection? Wbai! No thanks giving in the morning for care? How, my brother, my sister, will you answer God in the day of judgment with refer enoe to your cbildren ? It is a plain ques tion and therefore 1 ask it. In tbe tenth chapter of Jeremiah God says be will pour out bis fury upon tbs families that call not npoa his name. O parents! when you are dead and gone and tbe tuoss is covering the inscription of the tombstone, wiil your cbildren look back and think ot father and mother at family prayer? Will they take the old family Bible and open It and see tbe mark of tears of oontriUon and tears of consoling promise wept by eyes long before gone out into darkness? Oh, if you do not isculeate Christian principle In tbe hearts of your cbildren, and you do not warn them against evil, and you do not Invite them to holiness and t God, and they wander off Into dissipation and into infidelity, and at last make shipwreck of thsir immortal soul, on their death bed and in their day of Judgment they wilt curse you I Bested by the register or tho stove, what if on the wall should come out the history of your children? What a history the mortal and immortal life of your loved ones! Every parent is writing the history of his child. He is writing it, composing it into a song or turning it into a groan. My mind runs back to one of the best of early homes. Braver, like a roof, over It. I’eaoe, like an atmosphere, In It. Barents, personifications of faith in trial and com fort in darkness. The two pillars of that earthly home long ago crumbled to dust. But shall I ever forget that early home? Yes, when the flower forgets tho sun that warms it. Yes, when the mariner forgets the star that guided him. Yes, when love has gone out on the heart's altar and memory has emptied Us urn into forget fulness’. Then, the home of my ohildhood, 1 will forget thee; the family altar of a father’s importunity and a mother’s tenderness, the voices of affection, the funerals of our dead father and mother, with interlocked arms like intertwiniug branches of trees making a perpetual arbor of love and peace and kindness—then i will forget them—then and only then. You know, my brother, that a hundred times you have been kept out ot sin by the memory of such a soeno as l have been describing. You have of ten had raging temptations, but you know what has ’ held you with supernatural grasp. I tell you a mail who has had such a good home as that never gets over it, and a man who has bad a bad early home never gets over It. Again, I remark, that home is a typo of heaven. To bring us to that home Christ left His home. Far up and tar back in the history of heaven, there come a period when its most illustrious citizenwas about to absent Himself. He was not going to sail from beach to beach; we have often done that. He was not going to put out from one hemisphere to another hemis phere; many of us have done that. Blithe was to sail from world to world, the spaoes unexplored and the immonsitios untrav eled. No world had ever bailed heaven, and heaven had never balled any other world. I think that the windows and tbe balconies were thronged, and that the pearline beach was crowded with those who had come to see Him sail out the harbor of light, into the oceans beyond. Out, and out, and oat, and on, and on, and on, and down, and down, and uown Ho sped, until one night, with only one to greet Him, He arrived. His disem barkation so unpretending, so quiet that it was not known on earth until the excitement in the cloud gave intimation that something grand and glorious had happened. Won comestnere? From whatportdid he sail ? Way was this the place of his destina tion? 1 question the shepherds, 1 ques tion the camel drivers, I question the angels. I have found out. He was an exile. But the world has had plenty of exiles. Abraham an exile from Ur ot the Chaldees; John an exile trom Epbssus; Kosciusko an exile from Poland; Mazzini an exile from Rome; Emmett an exile from Ireland; Victor Hugo an exile from France; Kossuth an exile from Hungary. But this one of whom I speak to-day bad such resounding farewell, and came into such chilling reception—tor not even an hostler went out with his lantern to help him in—that he is more to be celebrated than any other expatriated one of earth or heaven. It is ninety-five million miles from here to tbe sun, and all astronomers agree in saying that our solar system is ouiy one of the small wheels of the great machin ery of the universe, turning round some one great centre, the oentre so far distant it is beyond all imagination and calcula tion; and if, as some think, that great oentre in the distance is heaven, Christ came far from home when he oame here. Have you ever thought of the homesick ness of Christ? Borne of you know what homesickness is, when you have been only a tew weeks absent from t.be domes tic circle. Christ was thirty-three years away from home. Some of you feel home sickness when you are a hundred or a thousand miles away from the domestic cirole. Christ was more millions of miles away from home than you could calcu late," if all your life you did nothing but calculate. You know wbat it is to be homesick even amid pleasurable surround ings; but Christ slept in huts, and he was athirst, and he was ahungered, and ho was on tbe way ironi being born in another man’s barn to being buried in another man’s grave. I bare read how the Swiss, when they are far away from their native coun try, at the sound of their national air get so’homesick that they fall into melan eholly, and sometimes they die under the homesickness. But oh, the homesickness of Christ! Poverty, homesick for celestial riches. Persecution, homesick for ho sanna, Weariness, homesick for rest. Homesick for angelic and archangelic companionship. Homesick to go out of the night, and the storm, and the world’s execration, and all that homesickness suffered to get us home! At our best estate we are only pilgrims and strangers here. “Heaven Is our borne.” Death wilt never knock at the door of that mansion, and in all that country there is not a single grave. How glad parents are in holiday times to gather their children home again. But I have noticed that there is almost always a son or a daughter absent—absent from borne, perhaps absent from the country, perhaps absent from the world. Oh, how glad our Heavenly Father will be when he gets all his children home with him in heaven! Aud how delightful it will be for brothers anu sisters to meet after long separation! Once they parted at the door of the tomb: now they meet at the door of immortality. Once they saw only through a glass darkly, now It is face to face; cor ruption, Incorruption; mortality, Immor tality. Where are now all their sins and sorrows and troubles? Overwhelmed in tbe Red Sea of Death while they passed through dry shod. Gates of pearl, capstones of amethyst, thrones of dominion do not stir my soul so much as tho thought of home. Once there let earthly sorrow* howl like storms aud roll like sea*. Home! Let thronss rot and empires wither. Homo! Let the world die In earthquase struggle, and lie buried amid procession ol planets and dirge of sphere*. Home! lost everlast ing ages roll, Irresistible sweep. Home I No sorrow, no crying. No tears. No death. But home, sweet home, home, beautiful home, everlasting home, borne with eaob other, homo with angels, home with God. One night lying on mv lounge, when very tired, my children all around about me in lull romp and hilarity and laughter —on the lounge, hair awake and half asleep, 1 dreamed tbta dream: I was in a far oountry. It was not Persia, although more than Oriental luxury crowned tbe olties. It was not tbe tropics, although more than the tropical fruitfulness filled tho gardens. It was not Italy, although more than Italian softness filled tbs air. And 1 wandered around looking for tborna and nettles, but 1 found that none of them grew there, and i taw the sun rise, and I watched to *oe It *et, but It sank not. Amt 1 saw thepcople in holiday at tire. and | said: “When will they pot oft' teis and put on workmen’s garb ami again delve in the mine or swelter at the forge?” But they never put off the holiday attire. And 1 wandered in the suburbs of the city to find the place where the dead sleep, and 1 looked all along the line of the beautiful hills, theplaoe where the dead might most blissfully sleep, and l saw towers and castles, but not a mau soleum ol a monument or a white slab could 1 see. And 1 went into the chapel of the great town ami I said: “W here do the poor worship and whore are the hard benches on which they sitF” And the answer was made me: “We have no poor in this oountry.” And then L wan dered out to And the hovels of tho desti tute, and I found mansions of amber and Ivory and gold, but not a lenr oould I see, not a sigh oould I hear, amt I was bewildered and I sat down under the branches of a groat tr(>e, and 1 said, “Where am I? And whence comes all this scene t” And then out from umong Iho leaves, and up the flowery paths, ami across the bright streams there oame a beautiful group, thronging all about me, and as l saw them oome I thought I knew their stop, and as they shouted I thought 1 knew their voices; but then they were so gloriously arrayed in apparel such as l had never before witnessed, that I bowed as stranger to stranger. But when again they clapped their hands and shouted, “ Welcome, welcome P* the mystery all van ished, and I found that time had gone and eternity had come, and we wore all to, gether again in our now home In heaven, And 1 looked around and 1 said: “Are we all here!” asd the voices of many genera tions responded: “All here!” And while tears of gladness were raining down our cheeks, and tho branches of the Lebanon cedars were dapping their bands, and the towers of the great city were chiming their welcome, we all together began to leap and shout and sing: “Home, homo, home, home 1” INDIANS AT THE WHITE HOUSE. Ssnsca* and .Southern Utea Call on the President. Washington, March A delegation of New York Seneca Indians, consisting of Andrew John, Jr., and T. T. Jarnerson, and a delegation of Southern Utes from Colorado, consisting ol Chief Ignacio, Buckskin Charley, Tapu Che and Inter preter Archullta, visited the President yesterday, accompanied by tbe Uts agent, Mr. Btollstelmer, and Mr. 11, G. Osborne, of the Indian Bureau. They were intro duced by Gen. Upshaw. The New York Indians have come to Washington to endeavor to prevent legis lation by Congress which will provide for the allotment of their lands in severalty. The only title these Indians have to their lands Is the right of occupancy as a tribe or nation, the lee having been purchased by Gorham and Phelps and Robert Morris in the latter part of tbe eighteenth cen tury from the State of Massachusetts,that State having obtained the right in a con vention had with New York, December 16, 17H6. New York retained the right of government and jurisdiction thereover, and It is now vested in the Ogden Land Company. The Indians claim that should their lands be allotted In severalty, the title by which the nation holds the land would he extinguished, the Ogden Land Company would then have absolute title and tbe Indians would lie ousted and lose their lands. The Southern Utes here are for the pur pose of making arrangements to sell their lands in Colorado and in lieu thereof to obtain others in Utah, which they allege arc much better adapted to their wants. The President talked freely with these people and listened patiently to their statements. Ho assured them that their interests should be protected, but said that before making any promises he de sired to consult with the Secretary of the Interior and the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, in whom he bad the utmost con fidence. Eaob of these delegations has had Inter views with Indian Commissioner Atkins, the Secretary of the Interior and the Sen ate Committee on Indian Affairs. They will call upon the House Committee on Indian Affairs to-day. Tho Southern Utes left tor Colorado on Sunday. Both delegations express their gratifi cation at the interest in tbelr welfare evinced by the President and the Interior Department officials. MAKING MR. ROACH AN ISSUE. Republican Senator* Trying to Make Political Capital Ont of tbs Dolphin Affair. Washington, Marcb-6.—The Republi can Senators will probably try to make a political issue out of John Roach. About a month ago, when the bill to create an Assistant Secretary of the Navy was under discussion, both Mr. Ingalls and Mr. Haie intimated that at tbe proper time Secretary Whitney’s course iu connection with the Dolphin matter would be fully gone into, and since that time it has been expected that Mr. Hale, who is the second member of the Naval Affaire Committee, would in troduce eonie kind of a resolution hearing on tho subject. Mr. Hale has introduced aud the Senate has adopted, without de bate, a resolution calling upon tbe Secre tary of tbe Navy tor full information in connection with the Difpbin, Boston, At lanta and Chicago. The Secretary is directed to state what changes have been made iu tbe original plans ot those vessels and the causes lor such changes, If any; what oorrespond enoe has passed between him and tbe Naval Advisory Boards; when the opin ion ot tne Attorney General in regard to tbe Dolphin was received by tbe Secretary and bow it was published; Information as to the present condition of tbe Dolphin, and whether she has been accented by the department. Tbe Secretary Is also directed to transmit all correspondence and information concern ing the payment ot the reserved amounts under the contract on the four ships, ail opinions of tho Attorney General relat ing thereto and any correspondence showing that tbe contractor was in finan cial difficulties when tbs payments were mads. MAltlll OKAS WEEK. The Marry Making Inaugurated by a Parade of Firemen. New Orleans, March 7.—The volun teer fire department to-day oelebrated ita fifty-first anniversary by a procession. Tbe engine* and trueka were handsomely decorated, and crowds of people thronged tbe streets along tbe line of march. Many visiting firemen took part In the pro cession. The / (mft-ltmnorrat and Pirny. une offices are brilliantly illuminated to-night In honor of tbs event. Tbe pa rode Is pronounoed tbe finest ever seen hare. Gov. English and wife, of Connec ticut, 60 citizen* of Portland, Me., 1,200 Texans, and many thousand persona from other state* have arrived since yes terday. Rex and bis retinue will be re ceived at the exposition to-morrow with regal honors. He will have a large mili tary and otvm eacort. Purled entirely tunerseasa mm sir meat *“***•• , PRICEEIO A YEAR,! t 6 CENTS ACOFY. J LABOR UNIONS AT WAR, FLINT GLASS WORKERS AND' KNIGHTS AT OUTS. Tbs Clash Apt to Extend to Otlier Citle* All Effort* to Bridge Ovsr the Diffi culty Prove Futile—No Change In the situation In Texas. Fort Worth, Tex., March 7.—Th situation hero last night showed that the Missouri Pacific road was completely blocked on all but passenger trains. The few men who had gone to work were not interfered with, but the boarding-houses and some hotels refused them food ot lodging, In fact, they had no place to lay their heads. The company’s officials talked about renting a bouse for them to sleep and board in. The community generally expressed themselves asßtrong ly in favor of the strikers on the points of their demand for increased wages for common laborers and the hostility re cently evtnood toward the Chinese. The Knights of Labor in other Hues of work were standing bv their brethren, and money and provisions were guaranteed to sup port the strikers for months. The Knights felt that they must win in this fight on the principle of self preservation and ex pressed no lear whatever of losing. The railroad officials were taciturn, hut firm is their stand. At Dennison, Texarkana, Weatherford, A bell no. Baird, Tovah, Far- Is, Sherman, and all Texas and Pacific points the men had joined tbe strike, and freight traffic was paralyzed. The strikers kept sober and quiet, anti acted firmly and enthusiastically. The opinion is general that the strike will be successful. NO CHANGE AT DALLAS. Dallas, March 7 Tbe condition of the strike at this point is practically un changed. The mechanical men on tbe Mouth west liues of tho Gould system were ordered out to-day. TRAINS NOT MADE UP. St. Louis, March 7.—The Missouri Pa ciflo train which left for the West to-night had to be made up by tbe officials of the road, General Superintendent Kerrigan assisting in the work. Tbe strikers say they will see to It that engines and postal cars are made ready for tbe toad,so that the mails snail not be delayed, but will ren der no assistance in making up passenger trains. HIRING LABORERS. Sherman, Tex., March 7.—Orders have been received from tbo Texas Pa cific management to hire all the unem ployed laborers obtainable who are not members of the Knights of Labor organi zation and furnish them transportation t (other points. A long strike scums im minent. UNION VS. KNIGHTS. Pittsburg, March 7.—At a meeting of the American flint glass workers to-day it was decided to strike at tbe factory of Maoßeth & Uo., where Knights of Labor are employed. Recently about 100 mem here or local Assembly No. 6, of the Amer ican Flint Glass Workers’ Association, employed at Mae Beth’s works, withdrew from the organization because President Smith refused to permit them to form a new union on the south side. An Assem bly of the Knights was formed which now bus a membership of 20, while the other workmen in the factory, about MO in num ber, still continue in tbe union. A SETTLEMENT IMPOSSIBLE. Repeated efforts to bridge over the diffi culty have been unsuccessful, and now more vigorous mea-uras have been adopted. " President Smith, of the Ameri can Flint Association, has ordered tb* strike, which will begin Wednesday morn ing. All the members of the union will positively refuse to go to work until tbe Knights of Labor are discharged from the firm’s employ. This will cause a fight between tbo'two organizations, which mav spread to other cities. The striker* will be HUpjairted by the tinioa,* while the boycotted men will have tbet support of the Knights of Labor. This-' will be the only case In th# history of labor unions in this vicinity where a con-. flict has occurred between them. The, American fltut glass workers union lias a membership of 6,000 in tbe United States and Canada and embraces all tbe worker*, with but few exceptions. KENTUCKY’S CONVICT*. Peace to be Malatalaed While theTroop*! It.iuuln, But No Longer. Louisville, Ky„ March 7.—The five companies of State militia sent by Gov. Knott to protect tbe convicts and BUMS property at the Greenwood mine*, near tbe Cincinnati Southern railroad, in Po laski county, Kt., arrived there early thia morning, and took the 200 free miners and eitizdus entirely by surffrise. The free miners had ordered the lessee# to remove the convicts, and were waiting for tbe expiration of tbe two days’ gras* granted before they resorted to the threat ened violence. Toe mob Is orderly and not disposed to resort to violence, but they Insist on the removal ol tbe eon viots. They say ot course they can do nothing and wdf do nothing as long as the troops remain, hut that the convicts must and shall go just as soon as tbe soldiers are ordered away. GUHONIMO’h BAND. More Massacre* and Depredations Per petrated by the Renegades, Tombstone, Ari., March 7.— News was received here to-night to the efffeot that a band of thirty Apaches ten days ago attacked a party of travelers at a point flftoeu miles southwest of Nooosaia, Sonora, Mexico, killing one Mexloan and one Aim-rican. The Indians, who it is be lieved belonged to Geronimo’s band, then proceeded to William Browu'* mine where Mr. McKertoa was killed last September, and killed Mr. Brown and a companion named Jam s Moser. The band then started south and camped one mile south ot Ban Pedro, where they stole eighty horses from the settlers. They then went in the direction of the .Sierra Madri mountains. Railing at New Orleans. New Orleans, March 7.—The weather wa* cloudy and threatening to-day. The track wa* heavy. The event# were as follows: Kiser K*cr.—FurseUiU. for all ages; three qoarur* of a mile. It wa* won by i-.tno t, with Vtmlutr second and Beau Mondu third. T H*coin> Raue.—Furre ♦'**, fsr all age*| si* furlong*. I* "S' w “ n 1 11 •? let wUiiHy ctarahftd mksob4 m><4 MAitoil® TbM 1 Talon Rack. -Selling sliowano**; reran eighth* of a mile, ft wa won by Palos House, with Clsu-le llr*nnun reread and Hjr dersbsd third. Time „ „ * Koi bth Rack Handicap, for *U ••; on •ml imif-cishiti milt'*. It wa* woa by Hot Box, with Klotoh Tarlor reread and uiro tie third. Time i:OT. ♦ A Village Burned. London, March 7.—-Kahili*, a villa** ■ear Dissent!*, Nwiuerlaact, Including * church and sc'hß<>!, wa# destroyed by art*.