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ESTABLISHED 1850.
H. ESTILL. Editor aid FroprletoE.l
BEECHER’S COMING SLEEr
vo RALLY FROM HIS COMATOSE
STATE during THE DAY.
nath a Question of Only a Few Hours
at Most Bulletins Issued Frequently
hv the Physicians—All the Members of
his Fsmdy Present Except a Son at
Seattle.
Nkvv yokk. March 6.—About 10 o’clock
this morning Dr. Haramoud arrived at
me bouse of Henry Ward Beecher, and
an hour later the following bulletin was
Po .!!i tv. H. Ulmutb, of New York, in
consultation conUrtns the opinion of the
attending physicians. Mr. Beecher is
eradually tailing. He may, however, live
(or some days.”
That all hope was given up was plainly
indicated by this bulletin.
IN A STATE OB' COMA.
At 2:30 o’clock this afternoon this bul
letin appeared:
“Dr. Hammond is in consultation. Mr.
Beecher has been in a stato of deep coma
all day. No sign of pain or conscious
ness ol any sort. Death is considered
%-tain, but at an indefinite time, proba-
Jjy to-day.”
At s o’clock to-night Mr. Beecher’s con
ditiou remained without noticeable
change. He was unconscious and was
Baid to be slowiy sinking. He moved his
rignt hand occasionally.
LABORED BREATHING.
Mr. Beecher has been lying in a deep
comatose condition all day. He does not
move, but lies on his hack with occa
sional movement of the right arm. Hie
Breathing is heavy and spasmodic, giving
(our or hre heavy respirations and then
almost ceasing.
Mrs. Beecher has been most of the time
in the sick room. She bears up heroioally
and scarcely ever leaves her husband’s
side.
Since the doctors informed the members
of the family that it is only a question of
time for the end they remain in the sick
chamber.
Mr. Beecher’s eldest daughter, wife of
Rev. Samuel S. Coville, of Stamford,
Conn., arrived at the house Saturday
night, anil her husband and two children
wiil immediately follow. Tne other mem
bers of the family in the house now are
Mr. Beeoher’s eldest son, Coi. Beecher,
i his wife and two daughters, and his son,
Henry Ward Beecher; W.C. Boeoherand
his wife, who live at Columbia Heights.
This afternoon Mr. Chandler and wife,
if Peekskill, arrived at the Hicks street
I residence. Mr. Chandler is the manager
of llr. Beecher’s Peekskill farm.
Shoitiy after 2 o’clock this afternoon
I Dr. Searle arrived at the house and re
| mained the greater part of the afternoon.
I He left about 5 o’olock in company with
I Mr. Bermingham, a friend of the family,
l NO HOPE OF RECOVERY.
1 He informed the reporters that there
I has no possible hope of Mr. Beecher’s
I recovery. He was still in a comatose
I state. He said that death might occur at
I any moment. Mr. Beecher cannot take
I any nourishment, not even in a liquid
I form. Dr. Searle also said that later a
I bulletin would be issued giving the exaot
I condition of Mr. Beecher. At the present
■ time there are two policemen stationed at
I the front ol the house keeping the increas-
I tag crowd back.
I NO CHANGE DURING THE DA V.
I Nkw Yokk, Maroh 0, Br. m.—Tue cou
■ tlition ol Mr. Beecher has not materially
■ changed during the day. His pulse va
■ ries from 90 to 100. His temperature has
H ranged Irom 100 to and at present
■ stands 100%. His respirations number
■ about 30 to the minute. His body and ex.
■ tremities are equally warm. His face is
■ flushed, and has a somewhat livid hue.
■lt is the opinion of his physicians that
■ hisrecovery is not to be hoped for; that
■ though the effusion of blood in the brain
■is now stopped, a fresh hemorrhage may
■at any time occur and speedily end lile.
■ I far-away son.
■ Ilerbert Beecher, a son, is on his way
■ tone from Seattle, W.T. A telegram
■ received Irom him to-night about 9:39
■ Clock.. It is almost impossible that ho
■tv!ir rrlv ® il . l Ume t 0 Hee hi father alive.
■m, lam I" RHeoiler is reported to have
. the °P inion that his father
alive after 3 o’clock this
■ lh ‘ nK ; an y people, anxious to hear
■ 01 tlje d > -| "K divine, are
■ ngretrated on the sidewalKs in front of
Kcicß ort 6 ; kt- _Glair Mclielway, man
fa' ° r of ,. tlle Brooklyn Fugle,
Bnnkii,J bat . I jrel 'hiinury steps were
t 0 , celebrate the triple
■i't V, 7 ,°u f eventß in Mr. Beeoher’s
Iwi.v Ceibl ' Mll, “ was to hnve taken
K* "'"Ptember ini he Brooklyn Acad-
Blr l'iil!) 118 ',' 5 ' 1 hls 18 the HlMeth year of
■'fteth o l f" a h t ! 0n 1,1 lhe m * Dlß try and the
Hlmrcii „ hl ? P aß torate of Plymouth
“ and t,ie b, ' love(l pastor lived
BclhmrV t , a ' l ' ,n and friends would have
V '““ted tuuse events In ajubilee.
In * xr,KKIY frkk from fain.
I the hons Too , WBB BUOU HH he o®out
Hr," * “t, tb : H gening. -Mr. Beech-
Th d ’ , w ii' never be conscious
■univ , ? absolutely no hopes.
■ tsnpie of , 10Ur8 aU<l he may last
Hertaiu ys but death is
e I „P ar “ 1 -' ,8 ‘ 8 01 the eu
|''tkiiig rouses him '* mT" com P|ete
■oma, i Jllt *!? aun - He *>es in u stato ol
■ocso ,‘ s r " n °P'“ n ’ or - "t least, is
Btttlv'Tbrlh?" 6 - T "° patient is now
He is a ,|ed 1 r,v: "tichine. l’raotlcally,
H utile ke a "’ dllßt how lorn? he may
B lS( :uii u! !„I- V atitomatio me it is
B'>g. The in,.mi ut ** cannot last very
Br'tu'a u u U Ta°a the,ara,ljr fullyu “-
Herni... 8 uud ara preiiarod for the
B'nilVnfJnt th#t ho had told the
B" u '"'one (,v, r and 1101 l) e necessary for
B' l 'iiii'n'was < ''r P P< l , :“"f lU Mr * Beeoher’s
B ri:raill| al Rlnkini.- 1 ' tinchanged, save
B l ' '’on. lliiraUo k *',' 1 tho inevitable
'"'nr and lwft house at
B'lecher wo* id, i P 6d , ’h° opinion .hat
■ _ " 1111,1 die during the night.
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B"" w ere broket lolt thigh and
i‘nj*u nd e i Je ha ' l R,HO BUB
- to a hospital 1,0 VV "S ro-
M tbat P K,e eS^ tl cannot'lve. It
Bowden r>Hllniß *‘ , <‘*moln
■ e *!• occupyiiu, ’ * married woman,
ll( ’us, l .Vn,i t, a .„ r '”; ,n ,u th Richl
M;'.' 1 . "as tlirown b o, , du , r i ng a 'l'larrel
Marv ~f. t lie window.
They k.,. r vvoro nr-
Ini': hiciun fell out of
Mm 111 “'u iiiuH. ' 8101 M Is disci edited
A MIRACLE OX A TRESTLE.
The Accident on the Iron Mountain
Road a Very Peculiar One.
St. Louis, Mo., March 6—The acci
dent on the Iron Mountain railway, near
De Soto, Mo., last night, while not being
at all usual in regard to fatal casualties,
proves to have been quite remarkable in
respect to several circumstances which
attended it. It occurred at Victoria, 39
miles south of here, a little after 10
o’clock, and was caused by the giving
way under the train of a trestle which
crosses Joachim creek at that point. The
train was the Texas express and consist
ed of baggage, express and mail ears,
a smoker, two passenger coaches anil
four sleepers, oarrying about 130 passen
gers.
A HEAVY RAIN.
A heavy rain had fallen all day and the
creek was much swollen. At Hematite,
the first station this side of the trestle,
the engineer received orders to run cau
tiously, as the rain had been heavy ami
the creek was out of its banks. Engineer
Kelley says he ran slowly beyond that
point, and both he and his fireman, Wil
liam Hach. w’atched the track very care
fully. As he approached the trestle. En
gineer Kelley observed that the track was
entirely straight and level, showing notn
ing wrong, and he went on without the
slightest fear or hesitation, hut when his
engine reached about the middle of the
trestle he felt the whole structure sink
ing beneath him.
SINKING OF THE TRESTLE.
In an instant he opened the valve opera
ting the air brakes full width, and brought
the train to so quick a stop that the front
end of one of the cars was crushed in by
the sudden shock. This saved the
coaches, but the baggage, mail, express
and smoking cars went Into the raging
torrent below, carrying with them all the
men on board. Engineer Kelley and
Fireman Hach went down with the en
gine, and were submerged in the flood.
Engineer Kelley in hls struggles to free
himself found that one of his feet was
held fast, but at the same instant and
just as he realized that he must drown,
the engine turned over, his foot was re
leased and he came to the surface.
SAVED BY A TREE.
Seizing a passing log he clung to it des
perately and was swept down the torrent
and lodged against a tree 150 yards below.
With scaroely strength enough to move
he clasped bis legs and arms around the
limb ot the tree, became unconscious and
was not restored until two or three hours
after he had been taken from the tree,
when he found himself kindly cared lor
in a house in Victoria. His face and
head were severely cut, two of his toes
cut from his feet and he is very badly
bruised in various parts of the body. He
will recover.
THE FIREMAN’S ESCAPE.
Fireman Hacsh was carried about 500
yards down the stream, lodged in a mass
of brush or drift and was rescued soon
after the flood subsided. He is a good
deal bruised, but not seriously hurt.
The postal chr was swept away some
distance, and as the water rushed through
it from end to end the mail was literally
washed out, and is now scattered over
miles of territory or embedded in the mud
of the creels, it is regarded as almost a
total loss, the whole of it being completely
soaked and the addresses of the letters
being obliterated.
NARROW ESCAPES.
Postal Clerks McCullough, Shaffer and
and Ryan were badly bruised and almost
drowned, and being stripped for work
they lost all their clothes, their gold
watches and about $250 in money which
were carried away by the flood.
The smoker, which is said to have con
tained some twenty persons, was swept
down about 300 feet below the trestle and
all of its occupants are believed to have
been saved. They succeeded in getting
outside of the oar, and clung to its top
until they were rescued. There is some
doubt about the baggage man and express
messenger being saved, but a late dis
patch from the wreck says that none of
the train men were lost.
AID SENT TO THE SCENE.
A special train was sent from her*} be
tween 12 and 1 o’clock conveying physi
cians and medical supplies. The" train
returned this alternoou and brought a
number of passengers and trainmen who
did not care to wait at the wreck until
the trestle was repaired, As soon as the
water subsided sufficiently a large gang
of men was put to work,and anew cross
ing w as finished this alternoon and trains
are now running regularly. Thecauseof
the unprecedented flood 19 believed to
have been a cloudburst which took place
late in the evening and filled the creok,
which runs between rugged hills for
miles, so lull that it became a raging tor
rent with a current of over tweti'y miles
per hour and swept everything before it.
MRS. BKCK DUAL*.
The loady the Nearest liivlng Rela
tive of President Washington.
Washington, March 6.—Mrs. Jane
Washington Thornton Beck, wile of Sen
ator Beok, of Kentucky, died at her resi
dence in this city this evening or inflam
mation of the bowels. Mrs. Beck had
been feeliug as well as usual this winter,
and her first symptoms of illness were
the result of a cold contracted while out
riding in an open carriage on Friday.
Nothing serious was apprehended until
this morning, when Drs. Wales and
Busey, the physicians in attendance, in
formed the family that they could offer
no hope of recovery. Senator Beck and
Mrs. Goodloe, Mrs. Beck’s daughter,
were at her oedside In her last moments.
Her only other child, a growu sen, is In
Wyoming. The remains will be taken to
Lexington, Ky., for interment. Mrs.
Beck was born at Auburn, Va., October
9,1825, and was a grand-niece and the
nearest living descendant of Georgo
Washington. She married Senator Beok
In Lexington, Ky., Feb. 3, 1848.
Seeking the Sunshine.
Washington, March Representa
tive William D. Kelley, with his wile and
son, left to-day lor Florida to remain until
the warm weather.
Senator Morrill, or Vermont, accom
panied by bis wife and her sister, Miss
Swan, will go at once to Florida to spend
a month- They will also visit Brierlleld,
Ala., where the Senator has interests in
an iron establishment, and where his son
is located.
Bancroft Critically 111.
Washington, March o.—George Ban
croft, the historian, who has been recov
ering from bis reoent illness very satis
factorily, had a relapse to-uight and Is
now considered to be in a critical con
dition.
Mrs.Clevelnnd’s Grandother Bead
Rochester, N. Y., March (I.—A spe
cial from Churchill, N. Y., says: “Ruth
Harmon, grandmother of Mrs. Cleveland,
ilitfl at her home in Jackson, Mich., this
morning. She will he buried iu Wheat
land.
WEST VIRGINIA’S LAW-MAKERS
Gov. Wilson Calls an Extra Session
to Begin Next Mouth.
Charleston, W. Va., March o.—Gov.
Wilson will to-morrow issue his procla
mation reconvening the Legislature of
this State on the third Wednesday of
April next to consider and act upon the
following subjects of legislation: To
make appropriations for public money to
pay general charges upon the treasury;
to make appropriations to pay the mem
bers of the Legislature and the salaries
of the officers of the government; to pro
tect the public treasury against un
necessary expenditures by regulating
the costs, charges and proceedings in
cnminial cases before justices and Cir
cuit Courts; to provide tor and limit the
allowances for the maintenance of luna
tics in jail; to provide for and secure
such relief to the people of this State as
may be had Irom the act recently passed
by Congress entitled, “An act to regulate
commerce;” to prohibit railroad com
panies from carrying or conveying pub
lic officers or delegates to political
conventions • over their roads
tree of charge, or at a less charge than the
usual rate for other persons, and to
abolish absolutely the free pass system;
to prohibit the use of money and all other
Improper means; to secure nominations
by political parties or election to public
offices; to provide for the acceptance and
confirmation of the reports of the joint
boundary]commission on the boundary
between this Stare and Pennsylvania; to
provide lor establishing the boundary
line between this State and Maryland,
and between this State and Virginia.
The Governor does not refer to the
election of United States Senator, but it
is believed that there will be an election
as the work called for cannot be accom
plished before the second Tuesday after
the meeting. The extra session promises
to be an interesting one.
Senator Kenna arrived home from
Washington to-day and says there is no
doubt but that the Legislature will have
to elect a Senator at its special session,
notwithstanding that Gcrv. Wilson thinns
otherwise.
CHICAGO’S SOCIALISTS.
The Merritt Bill Denounced in In
cendiary Speeches.
Chicago, Maroh 6.—There was a large
meeting of Socialists at the West
Twelfth street Turner Hall this after
noon to discuss the measure pending in
the Illinois Legislature, known as Mer
ritt’s bill, to punish the authors of in
flammatory and Incendiary speeches or
writings. Alter an address by a news
paper man named Buchanan, denouncing
capitalists, the press and military, a
resolution was adopted protesting against
the bill. Then some very radical speeohes
were delivered in English, German and
Bohemian. Editor C’arrlin, of the Arbei
ter-Zeitung, advised his hearers to pro
cure arms and carry them.
Holmes, the English chairman, de
clared that the Socialists had a right
to preach treason and the overthrow 01
society and the constituted authorities.
Sooner than see the bill pass he would
take arms in band and preach revolution.
He was against the bill as an American
citizen, as a Socialist and as an Anarch
ist. If necessary they should all become
determined rebels and preach downright
revolution. Carrlin and Holmes were
wildly cheered by the crowd, which in
cluded a number of women.
WRECKAGE WASHED ASHORE.
A Southern Steamer Supposed to
Have Been Lost Off New Jersey.
Camden, N. J., March 6.—lt is feared
that a steamer bound for a Northern port
was wrecked off the New Jersey coast
during the storm of Thursday last. The
ocean beach between Barnegat inlet
and Seaside Park is strewn with wreck
age. Southern truits and early vegeta
bles in crates and barrels are washed up
in the surf and are being picked up by
the beach combers. This afternoon near
ly twenty barrels of green cabbage were
cast up on the sands. As yet nothing
has been saved that gives the slightest
indication of the name of the vessel. No
bodies have been found.
BRAINED WITH A BOOTJACK.
A Quarrel About Heal Estate Fol
lowed by Uxoricide.
St. Louis, Mo,, March 6. —Janies F,
Goodman, a wealthy citizen ot Hunts
ville, Mo., had a dispute with his wile last
night about a piece of real estate he had
presented to hls little son. Good
man kicked his wile out of
bed and then brained her with
a bootjack. The child witnessed
the killing. Goodman went to a barn,
severed an artery in his arm and hanged
himself to a rafter. The dead woman
was Goodman’s third wife and the boy to
whom the property had been presented
was the son of a former wife.
Floats alter Getting Ashore.
West Hampton, L. 1., March 6.—The
Inman lino steamship, City of Chicago,
Capt. Watkins, which sailed from Liver
pool Feb. 22, and Queenstown Feb. 23, for
New York, went ashore on the outer bar
off this place this morning. She subse
quently floated and at a later hour was
reported proceeding to New York, appar
ently uninjured. Up to 7 o’clock to-night
she had not been signaled in consequence
of a very dense fog prevailing outside.
The City of Chicago was later onreporied
anchored outsldo ot
of the dense log.
AT ANCHOR.
New Yorc, March 6, 11 p. m.—The
City of Chicago anchored outside of the
bar at 9:35 o’clock to-night.
Carlisle to Visit, the Huh.
Washington, March Speaker Car
lisle leaves on Friday for Boston to at
tend the dinner on Saturday of the Bay
Slate Club. Mrs. Carlisle accompanies
him. If he can dispose of the three or
lour hundred letters which have accumu
lated on his table during the past two
weeks before he leave* for Boston, he will
go directly from Boston to hits home in
Kentucky.
A Train in a Creek.
Memphis, Tenn., Maroh (I,—A Texas
bound train of the Iron Mountain rail
road, which left Bt. Louie Saturday night,
was precipitated into a creek by a bridge
giving way, two and a half miles south
of Victoria, Mo. The engine and all
the passenger ooaohes went down to
gether. Only the sleeper was left on the
track.
Winter Wheat Coniine Out Well.
Chicago, March o.—This week’s issue
of the Farmers’ Review says: “Thus far
the reports from the winter wheat holt In
dicate that the crop Is emerging from the
wiutor in better shape than last year.”
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, MARCH 7, 1887.
TALMAGE’S BIG FLOCK.
THE TOTAL MEMBERSHIP Ul*
TO 4,051.
Six Hundred and Ninety New Members
Brought Into tbe Flock Since the
Commencement of the Kevival Now
in Progress—A Text Suitable to the
Occnslou.
Brooklyn, Maroh 6.—This is a Sacra
mental day in the Brooklyn Tabernacle,
aud the sermon Is preaobed at the recep
tion of three hundred and fortv-soyen
new members, making six hundred and
ninety received during the present revi
val,so that the communicant membership
is now four thousand and fifty one. The
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D., the pas
tor,’gave the right hand of fellowship to
the new members, and baptized about
ninety. The audience sang
“Blest ha the tie that binds
Our hearts in Christian love,”
There was a great arch of flowers over
the pulpit, containing the words: “1 be
lieve in the communion of saints.” Dr.
Tslmage took two texts: I Chronicles
28, 5: “And four thousand praised the
Lord;” and Exodus 12, 14: “This day
shall be unto you for a memorial,” He
said:
When week before last the communicant
membership of this cburcti passed into the
four thousand, now re&cbtug four thousand
and llftv-one, the first part of my text came
to my mind, and I bethought myself what a
grand thing it would be if the four thousand
of our communicant membership would, like
the four thousand of the ancient temple,
make it their lifetime business to praise tbe
Lord. Let them all take harp and timbrel
and anthem and doxology!
The allusion of my second text Is to the
Passover, which commemorated the deliver
ance of the children of lsriel on the night
when the destroying angel sned through the
land of Egypt, destroying the enemy but sav
ing tho Israelites, because on the door posts
of their dwellings was sprinkled the blood of
a lamb. To-day we come to celebrate a
grander Passover, all peril going away from
our soul at the sight of the sprinkled blood of
the Lamb of God en the door-posts of our
hearts. Christ, our Passover, sacrificed for
us. “This day shall be unto vou for a memo
rial.”
The Bacramental Sabbath, whether it comes
in au American church or an Engllsn chapel
or a Scotch kirk, Is more impressive than unv
other Sabbath. Its light is holier, calmer,
sweeter; its voices more tender, its touch is
softer, its memories are more chastened. The
fruits of the Christian life suddenly ripen,
like orchards on the hill fronting the South.
The wine of the Holy sacrament seems
pressed from tho grapes of Celestial vine
yards, and the bread broken seems to drop'
irom the hand of Him who parted tho loaves
for the live thousand. We walk to the church
of God with more thoughtful face and with
quieter step. Tho jubilant songs of other
Sundays aro struck through with peusiveness
and are all a tremble with tears; aud when,
at the close of the service, at the door we
shake hands, it is with a more cordial grasp,
because we feel thrilling through our body,
and mind, and soul the great doctrines of
Christian brotherhood; and our minds go back
to our torefathers oelebratiug the Sacrament
in times of persecution in Scotland
among the highlands; commemorating the dy
ing love of Christ, while they were pursued of
their enemies, pouring the wine into rough
wooden cups, dipping the water* of baptism
from the mountain rock, until one day rhev
heard tbe voices of tlielr enemies coming up
the hill, and tho pastor cried out: “Oh, Lord,
the Shepherd, have mercy on the sheep!” and
instantly there was a roaring heard as of
groat floods, and sure enough a cloud had
hurst and there were great torrents running
down the mountainside that whelmed Iheir
foes with sudden wrath. What a deliverance
it was for them on that Sacramental day! Oh,
that on this Sacramental day the cloud of
God's mercy might burst ana our sins be
whelmed and our souls bo saved! This is the
amythiatof days. This is the pearl of days.
This is tne diamond of days. This is tho day
of days. Among the toil thousand million
ages of eternity the first Sabbath of March,
1887, will be to you significant and memora
ble, for “this day shall be unto you” for ever
and for ever “a memorial.”
There is much in the scene of to-day to im
press us because it is a lime of reinforcement.
I used to remark that if I ever lived to see our
membership reach four thousand I thought I
would be willing to say with one of old:
“Now. Lord, lettest thou thy servant depart
in peace, for mine eyes have seen Thy salva
tion.” But I have changed my mind, and I
never so much wanted to stay ns now, so as
to see them all enlisted for God and to watcli
their victories. What might they not accom
plish in the way of making the world better
if they wore all baptized with a double por
tion ot the Holy Ghost. Fourtbousand! That
is four full regiments, as military men count
a thou-and to a regiment. I think not one
hypocrite amongst them. Taken into the
church sometimes in large numbers, but each
one as carefully examined as to change of
heart and evidence of regeneration ai though
lie or she were the only one presenting him
self or herself. Many of onr former members
have passed away into the skies, and have
joined the church triumphant, but wc
have four thousand and more left
for the church militant. To arms!
Quit you like men! We want no
reserve corps among them. Go into action
allot you. Some will ho officers and com-’
maud. Some will make cavalry charge.
Some will lie sharpshooters. Some will stand
guard Some will he on picket duty. Many
of you will belong to the rank aud file. Let
there be no stragglers, none off on furlough,
not one deserter. With Christ for com
manilcr-ln-chief, and tho one-starred, blood
striped banner of manger and cross to lead
the way, 1 give the order that the Ueneral in
the war gave, when rising in hls stirrups, his
hair flying in tile wind, he cried out till all
the host heard him: “Forward! the whole
line!”
There is also something in such a scene to
deeply impress one, because it rehearses a
death scene. Now. you know, there is some
thing very touching In such an incident.
Though you are in a note! and it is a stranger
that is dying, how softly you move about the
place, and if you come up to his couch it is
with uncovered head. Even the voice of the
jester is stopped, and when the eyes of that
stranger are closed it is with emotion. Hut I
am to 101 l you this morning of a death inch as
has never before or since occurred. When
wo die, we die for ourselves, and tho crisis is
alleviated by all beneficent ministries. Bath
ings for the hands; bathings for the head;
bathings for the feet; the light turned down
tow nr set In just the right piece; all tho offi
ces of affection about us when we como to
die. But not so with Jesus. He died not lor
Himself but Ho died in torment and Ho died
for other*. Ho might have moved around In
gardens made by His own hand, an earthly
potentate amid vineyards and olive groves
sloping to the see. Instead of being tossed in
the fi-ning boat on Tiberius Ho might have
chosen a sunshiny day and a pleasant wavo
for tho lake crossing. Instead of being
followed bv an unwashed rabb e He might
have charmed sanhedrims and universities
with his eloquenep. Instead of a ernes and a
bunch of twislod brambles on Hls brow He
might have died in the castle of a Roman
merchant, the air bland with Hl,os and frank
incense. But no; He died in torture; the
good tor the bad, the kind lor the cruel; thu
wise for the ignorant; the divine for tho
human. Oh, bow tenderly we fee! toward
any one who has done a great kindness and
Eerhaps at |the imperiling of hls own life!
low we ought to feel toward Christ, the
captain of salvation, on the white liorse
riding down our foee: but In tbe moment lie
made the victorious charge tbe lances of death
struck him I
There was a very touching scene among an
Indian tribe In the lasi century. It seemed
that one of the chieftains had slain a man be
longing to an opposite tribe, and that tribe
came up and said: “We will exterminate you
unless you surrender the man who committed
that crime.” The chieftain who did the crime
stepped out from the ranks end aald: “1 am
not afraid to die. bnt 1 nAve a wife and four
children, and I have a father aged and a
mother aged, whom I support by hunting, and
I sorrow 10 leave them helpless." Just as he
said that hls old father from behind stepped
ont and said: “He shall not die. 1 take his
place. lam old and well stricken in years.
I can do no good. I might as well die. My
days are almost over Hu cannot be spared.
Take me.” And they accepted the sacrifice.
Wonderful sacrifice you say, but not so won
derful ne that found m the Gospel, for wede
served to die, aye, wo were sentenced when
Christ, not worn out with years, but iu tho
(lush of His youth, said: ‘“Save list man
from going down to the pit; 1 am the ran
som. Put ltis burdens on tny shoulders. Let
his stripes fall on my hack. Take my heart
for his heart. Let me die that ho may live,”
Shall it bo told to-day lu heaven that not
withstanding all those wounds, and all that
blood, and all those tears, aud all that agony,
you would not accept Him:
“Was It for crimes that 1 had done,
Ho groaned upon tho tree'?
Amazing pity, grace unknown.
And love beyond degree.”
There is no woo amid the surroundings of
that scene that impresses mo more than that
of Hls own mother. You need not point tier
out to mo l can see by the sorrow, the
anguish, the woe, by the untlirown hands.
That all means mother. “Oh," you say,
“why didn't she go down to the foot of tho hill
and sit with her back to tlur scene? It was
too horrible for her to look upou.” Do yon
not know when a child is in anguish or trouble
it always tnakos a heroine of a mother? Take
her away, you say, from the cross. You can
not drag her awny. She will keep on looking;
as long as her sou breathes she will stand
there looking. Oil what a scene it was for a
tender-hearted mother to look upon! How’
gladly she would havo sprung to His
relief. It was her son. Her son! How
gladly she would have clambered up
on tho cross and hung there herself if
her son could have been relieved. Ilow
strengthening she would have been to Christ
if she might have como close by Him, and
soothed Him! Oh. there was a good deal In
what the little sick child said upon whom a
surgical operation of a painful nature must
be performed. The doctor said: “That child
won’t live through this operation unless you
enoouraee him. You go in and get his con
sent.” The father told him all the doctor
said, and added: “Now. John, will you go
through with it? Will you consent t.o it?” He
looked very pale, and lie thought a minute and
said: "Yes, father, if you will hold my hand
1 will!” 80 the father held his hand,
and led him straight through the peril. Oh
woman, in your hour of anguish whom do
you want with you? Mother. Young man.
in your hour of "trouble who do you want to
console you? Mother. If the mother of Jesus
could only nave taken those bleeding leel into
her lap! If she migf have taken the dying
head on her bosom! If she might have said to
Him; “It will soon beover, Jesus; it will soon
be over, and we will meet again and it will
all be wcl I.” But no, she dared not come up
so close. Thev would have struck hor hack
with their hammers. They would have
kicked her down the bill.
There e.an be no alleviation at all. Jesus
must snffer and Mary must look. I suppose
she thought of the birth-hour In Bethlehem.
I suppose she thought of the time when with
her boy in her bosom she hastened on in tho
darkness in the flight toward Egypt. I sup
pose she thought of His boyhood, when He
was the joy of her heart. I suppose she
thought of the thousand kindnesses lie had
done her, not forsaking her or forgetting her,
even in ills last moment, but turning to John
and saying: “There Is mother; take her
with you. She Isold now. She cannot help
herselt. I)o for her just as 1 would havo (lone
for her if I had lived. Be very tender and
gentle with her. Behold toy mother!” She
thought It all over, and there Is no memory
like a mother’s memory, and there is no woo
like a mother’s woe.
1 remark again: This is a tender scene be
cause it is a Christian reunion. Why was It
that in the sessional meeting, when I askeil a
woman if it were her son whosat next to her.
making profession of his faitli, she made no
answer) out after a moment, trying to con
trol her emotion, she burst into tears I shpl
within myself, she need not tell me the story.
It Is the old story of a prodigal got back.
“The dead is alive again, and the lost is
found.” Oh, how many families there are
that rejoice together to-r\ay ?
These Christians during the rest of the
year, perhaps, will not know much about
each other. You go in one circle of society,
these go in some other circle of society, and
this one travels in that path, aud this one thu
other path; but to-day we all come on one
platform, and we make one con
fession, and we cling to one cross,
and we gaze upon one death an
guish. It seems to me tdis morning not like
a church, but like a groat family oircle, and
we join hands around the cro-s of Christ, and
wo say: “Duo laird, ODe faith, one baptism,
one cross, one Christ, one doxology. one
heaven!” While Island here it seems to mo as
if this communion table, which is only seven
or eight feet long and three or four feet wide,
widens until all the Christians of our own de
nomination can sit ut it; and still tho table
widens until all the Christians In this land ot
all names aud denominations conic and sit at
it; and still the table widens until It bridges
the sea, and Christianson the other side of
the Atlnntic come and sit at it; nnd still that
table widens until the redeemed of heaven
mingle in tbe communion; Church militant;
church triumphant.
“One army of the living God,
To His command we bow;
Tart of the host have crossed the flood,
And part are croesing now.”
Again, my friends, this is an absorbing
scene beoause it arouses bo many preoious
memories. We look back and remember the
days of our childhood when, long before wo
anew the meaning of the bread and the wine,
we sat in the side pews on Sacramental days,
or in the galleries, and looked as our fathers,
mothers and older brothers and sisters sat ut
the communion. Or, if we sal with them, wo
milled at mother’s dress and said: "What
dues that mean? Wimt is that In the cup?
What is that on the Plate?” O, yes; we re
member those Sacramental days of our boy
hood. We remember how much more tender
father was on that duy than on any
other day. We reinotnber how mother stood,
and without saying one word looked at us,
and her eyes got full of tears. Oh, the dear
oldsoul! They have gone I But until the duy
of our death we will associate tins holy ordi
nance with their memory. And when our
work on earth is done wo will Just go up and
sit down beside them in the heaveuiy church,
as wc used to sit beside them in the earthly
church, and then we will drink new Wlno in
our Father's kingdom.
“Behold the saints, belovodof God -
Washed are tnelr robes In Jesus’ blood;
Brighter than angels, 10, they shine;
Their glories splondid and sublime.”
I remark again: This scene is tender to-day
because it is a confessional. Ymi and 1 re
member the time when. If a man had ohargod
us with anything like imperfection or wrong
doing, we would have thrown ourselves back
on our honor, and said: “You don’t know
who you uro talking to, I shall re-ont such
an insult to my houor and Integrity.” We do
not feel that wav to-day. As we gaze upon
the sacrifice ot Christ, and think of what a wu
have been and what we have done, our hearts
melt within us. W e see one dying acenrsud
tor our sin, aud wc heur Him in His dying
words begging for our service, and yet how
little service we have rendered. Of tills
short life we hnve begrudged God even a frag
ment. Alas! Alasl home of us have lived out
the mostof our days, aud yet we have ren
dered to God no earliest service. Had, that
wc conld have so maltreated lllm on whom
ail our hopes depend. Oh, my brethren and
sisters In Christ, to-day join hands with me
in a confession before Christ! if there be any
piece more humble then another, let us tako
It. If the re be any prayer more importunate
than another, let us breathe it. 11 there be
any confession more hitter than another, Ist
us now weep It out.
“Well might tho sue in darkness hldo
And shut his glories In,
When Christ, tne mighty Maker (Hod
Forman, the creature's sin.”
Once more: This Is a tender and absorbing
scene because ltls anticipallvs. Myhrethruu,
we are not always going to stay here. Tills
Is not our home. This is only the vestibule ol
the church in wbloh, at last, we expect to en
ter. After awhile our names will be taken
off the church hooks, or there will he a mark
in tho margin to indicate that wo have gone
up to a better ohuren and to a higher com
munion. Our Father is not going 10 let His
children remain in the dust. The grave is no
place for us to stay In. “The trumpet shall
sound and the dead shall rise.” Tne Lord
shall descend from heaven with a shout and
the voice of the archangel, and we shall rise.
The white robe In which they put us to our
last Slumber here must get whiter. Oh, the
reuntou of patriarchs, and upostlus, and
prophets and of all our glorified kindred, and
of that "great multitude that no man can
number!” Our sorrows over. Our Journey
endod. It will boas when kings banquet.
And. just as tho snow of winter molts, and
tho fields will brighten in the glorious spring
time. so it will be ivitb all these oold sorrows
of earth; they shall bo molted away at last
before the warm sunshine of hoaveu.
While I present those thoughts this morn
ing does It not seem that heaven comes very
near to us, as though our friends, whom We
thought a great way off, are not in tho dis
tance hut close by? You havo sometimes
comedown to a river at nightfall, amt you
have bean surprised luiw ousily yon could
hear voices across that rivor. You shouted
over to the other side of the rivor, and they
shouted back. It is said that when George
Whttefield preached in Third street, Phila
delphia, one evening time, his voice was heard
clear across to the New Jersey shore. When
1 whs a little while chaplain til the army I ro
membor how atovou-ti.ie weoould easily hoar
tho voices of the pickets across the Potomac,
Just when they were using ordinary
tones, Aud as we no mo to-dav
and stand by tho river of
Jordan tlial divides us from our friends who
aro gono, it seems to me wo stand on ono
bauk anil they stand on thu other; and it Is
only a narrow stream, and our voices go and
tlielr voices come. Hark! Hush! I hoar
distinctly what they say. “These are they
who come out of great irlhulatlon aud hnd
their robes washed and made white in the
blood of the Lamb.” Still the voice comes
across the waters, and f hear: “Wo hunger
no mure, wo thirst ho more, neither shall 1 lie
snn light on us, nor any heat, for tho Lamb
which is in the midst of the throuo leads us to
living fountains of water, and God wipulh
away all tears from our eyes.”
A LUNATIC'S* LAND.
All Interesting Halt Just Brought to
an End In Murray County.
Atlanta, Ga., Maroh li.-An inter
esting suit has just been ended in Murray
Supreme Couit. Mossuian Houston, of
Chatham county, was a colonel in the
war of 1812. In 1820 he beoame insane
ami in 1822 was sent lo a luuatio asylum
In I’hlladelpbla, where he remained till
bis death in 1876. lie drew a lot of land
In Murray oounty In the Cherokee land
lottery and the grant was issued while he
was in the asylum, in the forties A. J.
Hill, of Murray county, bought the land
and still owns it. The property is valued
at SIO,OOO. The administrator ot Mr.
Houston,after the tatter’s death, sued Tor
the property on tbe ground that it had
not beeu legally conveyed, and that the
prescription cannot run against a luna
tic. The defense claimed that tbe pur
chase was iu good faith, aud that the
luuatio enjoyed the benefit of tbe money
paid. Judgment was rendered for the
defendant.
The legislative committee appointed to
investigate tho convict system during ibe
recess is bard at work, and claim to have
already unearthed muoh In support of
the charge of abuses and intimate that
there are more serious developments
ahead.
Thu new 3-inch guns ordered from tbe
Rock island arsenal for the Atlanta
artillery were reoeived last night. A de
tachment ol the company will visit
Macon at the May military review.
Dr. Edward Roach, a prominent young
Dhysiolan here, has been in a terrible
condition for thu last twenty-four hours.
He is desperately ill, and has been in a
delirium. His nervous system is com
pletely shattered, and it is feared by bis
physicians that bis mind is gone, iiis
condition is believed to have been brought
about by hls intense efforts during the
last few days tc ferret out the seoret of J.
Randall Brown’s mind reading. .
REVOLUTIONISTS SHOT.
Tho Regency Motlnjr Out Death
Penalties at Rustchuk.
Rubtchuk, March 6.—Nine officers and
civilians concerned in tho recent revolt
were shot this morning. The soldiers
will be tried to-morrow.
The sentences of some of tbe rebels who
were condemned to death have been com
muted to firteen years’ imprisonment.
Capt. Bollman, who sought German pro
tection, was not shot. He will be banded
over to the German Consul. This dis
position of hls case has caused indigna
tion among the people.
ANOTHER REVOLT THREATENED.
Sophia, March 6.—A1l the powers have
advised the Bulgarian government to deal
energetically with tbe rebels.
Advices irom Orsova, Bervla, say that
Capt. Nebolshie, who has returned there
from Rouinanla with Bendereff and
Grueff, the Zsnkoffits leaders, declares
that his friend’s revolt failed because
there was no concerted plan and that
another attempt will soon be made In aid
of which 10,000,000 roubles are available.
Baron Tbielmann, the German Consul
General on bebalt of Russia, has de
manded the release of six rebels, two of
whom have already been shot.
M. Fieseh, the French Consul General,
has oomplalmd that Karaveloff and
Tsanoff were maltreated by the govern
ment. The government denies the charge
on the admission of the rebels themselves.
Tbe Forte has advised tbe government to
deal leniently with tbe rebels.
ALSACE AND LOKJjAINE.
Berlin, Maroh 6. —The North German
Gazette says: “The results of the Alsace
elections have strengthened the war
party in France. If war should break
out the annexed provinces would be
mainly responsible, aud Germany, being
bound to take this fact into account,
would not repeat tbe liberality extended
to Alsace and Lorraine after tbs war of
I8T0.”
Fifty Corpses Kocovered.
Brussels, Maroh 6.—A dispatch from
Mens says that fifty dead bodies, all ter
ribly burned, have been brought to tbe
surface at the Quaregnon colliery, In
which tbe explosion of the tire damp oc
curred yesterday. The King has sent
$2,000 to bo distributed among the families
of tbe victims.
Crops Aronml Leesburg.
Lkkhuukg, Fla., Maroh 6.—Orange
and I'-mnn trees are in fiife dress with tbe
new growth and In lull bloom. Vecetables
aro coining in lively and it taxes the ca
pacity of express cars to carry them off.
Struwhorrloa ay* being shipped right
along, 25 to 50 crates leaving by express
every day. snd are selling here at 25c
per quart for those that ars too ripe to
ship. One orate of 32 quarts shipped to
Baltimore netted tbe shipper 155 10.
Our hotels are doing a good business.
Our merchants are smiling and happy
over ihe immense amount Si spring trad*
they are doing.
Our brass hand left last evening for
Brooksville, where it will furnish musio
for the tournament.
Preparations sre being made te enlarge
and beautlfr tbe Leesburg House.
Tbe Board ot Trade rooms are nearly
finished and the members expect to meet
In tbelr now quarters Monday night.
Fishing on tbe lakes Is flrst-class and
the iteople are enjoying the sport.
We have now twenty-three trains aday
leaving Leesburg while three aud one
half years ago the looomotive whistle wae
usver heard.
iFRICK tlO AVEAR.I
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LENT A WELCOME RELIEF.
SOCIATi DUTIES AT WABHINO-*
TON FAR, I’HOM SINECURES.
Mrs. Cleveland Eniergm From the Or.
deal With Flying Color.—The Free),
dent’. Wife Decidedly lu Favor of i.
a Second Term—The Dreaie. of the
Seaaou—Jap. Fleeced by a Card Sharp,
Washington, March 6.— Lent’s ftan
miration was a welcome relief to man/
women here who aro burdened with tba
duty of playing prominent parts In tha
social world. Tho season was an unex
peoiedly brilliant one, and the exaction*
on tho time and physical endurance of!
the women who have borne the brunt of
It have been very heavy. Mrs. Cleveland
made the White House the scene of mora
brilliant events thau the wife of any of
the previous Presidents. The White
House receptions in past years-g
were the tamest sort of
us compared with those of tfcetpast sea',
son. The present season of repose wil|J
be heartily relished at the White House,
which has been in a state of oenlusionj
tor the last six weeks with one
uous round of reception., state dinne.g
and all that sort of thing. Mrs. Cloves'
laud has done her duty in a delightful
manner, and despite all this work, so tty
speak, she is as fresh and radiant u
when she stood a blooming bride lash
June. However large the crowds.'
or however ugly the weather shj
always had a pleasant word
and sweet smile for every one presented
to her. No better proot of tbe amiability!
of her disposition oouid be asked than
that furnished by tbe statement that shei
has shaken hands with 40,000 persons:
since tbe season opened, Dec. 1 last. Hhei
will take advantage of this placid spell
to pay a lew calls among Intimate triendsi
tut will pass much of her time at Oak]
lew in the company of her mother,
Mrs. Folsom will continue to bold her
Wednesday receptions in an Informal
way. Mrs. Cleveland will also be
enabled to resume her reading, of whicbj
sbe Is very fond, and to catch up withj
her private correspondence, which is of
considerable magnitude. Bbe has already
begun a course of reading and study, re.
turning to the latter with all the interest:
of her school days. She Is renewing ter
French, taking lessons from a local pro.
lessor, and Is an industrious and careful
student, finding the tenses and gender*
just as hard to remember now as the lady
of the White House as they were a couple
of years since in • her college days. Tha
fact that sbe welcomes a tfuce irom tun
social exactions incident to her position
need not imply that she Is weary of being
the first lady in the land. On tbe con.
trary. It Is well understood among her
friends that she likes the distinction and
does not take pleasure in looking;
forward to the time when she will hava
to relinquish it. That this should be the
case is only natural, all things consid
ered. Mrs. Cleveland is young, hands
some and ambitious, and appreciates tha
fact tbat the prominence of her present,
position, added to the other qualities
mentioned, makes her lot In one enee tha
most enviable In tbe United States. That
she should be decidedly In favor of ai
second term for her busbaud, therefore, i
not to be wondered at. Keport says that
even the closest friends of the President
have not ventured to talk with him atut
a second term. They (ear, knowing Tiis
stubbornness of nature, that be might:
take the notion to quit the course, be
cause in his original letter of acceptance
he advocated a constitutional provlsio.3
against re-election. Thev have not been
afraid, however, to approach Mrs. Clever
land on the subject, aud they were not
mistaken in their surmises. She makes
no denial of the fact that she hopes tha
President will be re-elected, and those la
a position to know say tbat sbe can be de
pended on to use all her powers of per.
suasion to influence him to permit bis
name to go before the people for a re
nomination, and with every good
Democrat and many men o|
other political affiliation as well,
renomination is considered aa
equivalent to re-election. Mrs. Cleve
land's admissions are, of course, mada
with the frank candor of youth and the
ardor arising from an abundance of ani
mal life, but diplomatic discretion Is not
entirely lacking. Sbe is careful not tc&a
too frank with everybody, and absorbs a
great deal more than she gives out. Tha
ladies who frequent Mrs. Cleveland’s
parlors and talk to her in a more oc less
confidential way, say that the artlessnesa
which characterized her entry Into tha
White House has taken the form of diplo
matic cunning, and that II tbe President
does not receive a good deal of qensiblo
advice from bin wife about politics and
matters of State tbey will be greatly dis.
appointed. Thqy say she Is the best ab.
sorbor of public opinion oi any lady
In the circle of the Cabinet.
She sees everything, hears every-A
thing, und If she is like most women
she reports to her husband all that will
be of advantage to blm. Undoubtedly
Mrs. Cleveland is playing an Important
part in the events which are making up
the future of the President, and whlcbt
will lead to success or defeat next
year. She is* young and inexperienced,
but those who know her best say she has'
good dlscernmeut and is the most apt
pupil iu political economy and matters of
State they have ever seen. Her influence
over the President Is well Illustrated
in the way In which she has
induced him in a measure to shake off hia
Inclination to avoid tmhlioity, both la
the White House and outside of It. He.
ceptions and other similar entertain
ments used to be a terrible bore to him,
but bis wire has Introduced him into tha
notion so thoroughly during the present
season that he would probably 'tvei**
excitement if be was to be siHf£ F nlf
burred from them now. Taken aTrnnfll,
It Is doubtful whether the season at tha
White House haa ever been gayer than
the one now closing, and whether any
President bus had a better help.mest in
the person of bis wife.
BKAUTJFDL
Washington is unusually
tlful women this winter, who
ought to know say there havic never be
fore been so iuany4iandsome women hero
atone time. The South -is well repre
sented In the person of Mrs. Clement C,
Clay, who, beroro the war, as tbe wife of
the Senator from Alabama and as a wo
man of wit and fashion, led soolety aa
Mrs. Gen. Ricketts does now. In appear
ance Mrs. Clay is distinguished, tall,
ample in figure, with an intellectual ,
head and good features. She has a re
markably keen eye and a very expressive
nose—straight, with well-opened nostrils
that dilate and quiver. Her oonversa.
tlonal powers are uncommon, and
her talk bristles with epigrams,
bright quotations and bon mots.
It will be remembered that on President
Linooln’s assassination a reward of |IOO,-
000 was otteied for Mr. Clay, who whs
suspected or complicity in that deed,
Mrs. Clay accidentally heard tbe news >\t
the railway station at Maoon.amtat once
drove baok to Ueu. Hill's house, whei* I