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FSTABI.T9HED 1850. J
1J H. ESXILL, Editor rtHd Froprletor.l
SIX TIMES TO THE HILT.
, EOKOI.MN IS THE STREET
AT NEW ORLEANS.
Mo rdererth9oß of a.. ®*-Coroi.*r
. j „cal Political Fau)—The Crime
•, .he Wife f the Vic.Uu
The Murderer Pound Hidden In a
Ckw Orleans, March 13.—Erv Smith,
(colored) aged 40, was atabbod to death
ast night by Thomas Roohe, son of ex
coroner Roche, who figured prominently
!u politics here during Gov. Kellogg s ad
ministration. Smith was stabbed six
times, twice in the right arm, once in the
forehead, once in the neck, once in the left
arm and once in the back, below the left
shoulder, the last named being the fatal
stab, Eddie Orlnnell was with Roche
when the crime was committed. About
an hour after the murder Roohe and
Grinnell were arrested. They were iound
Bidden in some rubbish in a loft. Roche
denied having anything to do with the
killing of Smith. He said he had con
cealed himself because he understood
that he had been accused of the crime
ami did not want to go to jail.
% IDENTIFIED BY MRS. SMITH.
Smith’s wife, who witnessed the mur
der of her husband, has lully identified
Roche as the murderer and Grinno'.l as
the man who accompanied him. To-day
when confronted with Mrs. Smith Koetie
and Griunell appeared indifferent, but
when ehe identified Roche he remarked
that she was a fool and did not know
what she was talking about. Mrs. Smith
replied, “l know you well, Tom Roche,
and you know you killed my husband.”
This reply caused Roche to look crest
fallen. . ...
At the autopsy it was discovered that
the knile blade bad broken off at the
iiandle and had dropped down inside
of Smith’s shirt. It is about an inch
wide with a very sharp point, botb edges
being sharpened as keen as a razor. It
resembles very much tne blade ot a dirk
which Roohe is known to have carried.
The murder is said to have been a most
cold-blooded one.
KILLS HIS FATHER..
A Brutal Murder in Kentucky which
is Not Very Mysterious.
Louisville, Ky., March 13.—Wallace
Carpeuter, ated 18 years, son of Adam
Carpenter, who was assassinated near
Hustonville, Ky., late Friday night, has
been arrested charged with the murder
of his father. Adam Carpenter was a
wealthy and prominent iarmer of high
character, and much beloved in the com
munity In which be resided. About
11:80 o’clock Friday night someone
kDucked sharply upon the front door
of the murdered man’s house. Tne
knocking was repeated the third and
iourth time. Carpenter arose and went
out by the back door to discover the cause
of the noise Ho had barely passed out
of the house when the murderer, who
was concealed aud protected by a
small coal house, filed upon him
with a shotgun charged with pisiol
or rifle balls. The shot was immedi
ately fatal. Carpenter was struck by
three balls in the right side, and with an
exclamation of pain and surprise fell and
expired on the spot. Tlio son bad quar
reler! with his lather and had threatened
to kill him. Tracks leading from the
bouse were identified as his, and other
suspicious circumstances make the belief
general that he committed the murder.
His character is not good aud his intel
lect is not considered bright.
KILLED BY BALD RNOBBEKS.
Two Men Dead and a Man and
Two Women Injured.
Springfield, Mo., March 13.—Friday
night a band of armed men went to tne
house of William Eaton, thirty miles
south of this city, aud breaking down
the doors fired a volley into the house.
illi am Eaton and Charles Greene were
kil ed outright. Eaton’s aged father was
seriously wounded. One woman was
shot in the bead and another in the hand.
c'ap. mUr^erer9 en m ‘Uie .good their es-
Mrs. Eaton says she recognized two of
them. It is alleged that the attacking
party are members of the Bald Knobber,
the noted vigilance organization, audit
issipposed .natthey killed Eaton and
'll u for being outspoken against them.
se .n^ eale * U,xui,< ' ment prevails in that
settiou over tbe a flair.
KILLED BY Ills OWN HAND.
•ill ins Coffee Accident ally Fires
IHstol Near Madison.
Madison, Fla., March 13 The onm
mumty was greatly shocked to learn the
•ad news to-day that Lucius Coffee, son
mu A ' J- Cofft ’ e ' living about nine
k.n *! norlll °i here, had accidentally
Si"' Z n Yo “K Coffee
~e , nr > e^r <l*y m Quitman. While
the wav ,w < i lUe hH stopped at a house on
l kT ,Iled ni9 P‘ol. which
caßecii’t o b “ 11 entering his cneek. It
cawin^iJ tl ' rou *s tho top of his head,
was a'bttip'win 'i PRth> The voung man
b )'wv kreatly liked
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G '‘‘•inter; IMscl.arued.
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MASKED ROBBERS,
An Express Messenger Held IJp
and Over SB,OOO Secured.
Coleman, Tex., March 13.-Thls mom
ing the Gulf, Colorado and Santa Fe rail
road office here was the scent* of a “hold
up,” resulting in a loss to tbe express
and railroad companies and employes of
over $3,000. James Muse, an express
messenger, Henry Brien, night operator,
aud two men were in the depot. Muse
had occasion to go out about. 3:40 o’clock
and came running back and said, “some
one is robbing the cars.” The party
started to tbe ears when Brien told Muse
to run back and get something to shoot
with. Muse went back toward the depot
to get his six-shooter, when three men
jumoed out from the south door of the
depot, thrust six-shoofers in his face and
told him with an oath to open tbe sale,
OBEYING ORDERS.
Muse opened it, and the robbers got two
express packages—one of $-2,500, another
of S3OO, another of SOO ol railroad money,
and the pooket-book of Muse with $135 in
it aud hisgoid watch, worth $125. While
this was going on, Brown and the yard
men were up the road a lew hundred
yards, at the oar which Muse saw the
men get out of, and which they found hud
been broken open and a load of bran set
on lire. After some trouble, they suc
ceeded in putting the lira out. It is be
lieved that the robbers do not live far from
this place. All tbe men wore long black
masks that concealed tueir faces.
OVERFLOWS IV MISSISSIPPI.
The Feeling Among the Planters
Decidedly Gloomy.
Vicksburg, Miss., March 13.—Advices
from Richland and portions of Madison
parish report tbe outlook in that section
gloomy. The Epps plantation Is partially
submerged, and the water i9 rising in
Bavou Macon at the rate of an inch in
tour hours. The Pugh place, on Jones
Bayou, is about halt covered
with water, which is rising
there at the rate of about three
inches in two hours. The Cunningham
place, on Tensas river, is all submerged
and the w ater is rising about six inches
a day. The Gasquet place, at Section 5,
is also covered w itb water. The private
levee, built by the late Col. Edward Rich
ardson and other planters, whioh isabout
six miles long and fur feet herb, and is
intended to protect the east bank oi Bayou
Macon, lias given away in about
twenty places above the XVyley Monti
ceilo place. Although a general over
flow is not anticipated there will be
much damage done by water coming
ihrough tue openings in the Arkansas
front, and also by that coming in at Dia
mond Island bend and Reid crevasse.
News was received from Reid crevasse
to-nigbt to tne effect that United States
EngineerCoppi bed succeed and iri protect
ing the ends of the levee, thus arresting
lurther eulting away of the embank
ment.
B. & C.’.S TRANSFER.
A Conference at Baltimore which is
Considered Significant,
Baltimore, March 13.—1 t was ru
mored this morning that an important
conference of railroad men was to be held
in this city during the day, but as no
prominent names were to be found on
any of the hotel registers the rumor did
not seem to be wei! lounded. In
the afternoon, however, it was dis
covered that a party of three was stopping
at a prominent hotel, and that they
had been closeted lor several hours with
John K. Cowen, counsel for the Balti
more and Ohio Railroad Company. The
gentlemen were ascertained to be XV. O.
Boone. H. S. Ives and G. H. Straynor, of
New York. They persistently refused to
see reporters—in fact their presence at
the hotel was denied—but they are known
to bave left the city to-night. No inkling
as to the result of the conference could
be obtained, nor is it known whether or
uot Mr. Garrett was seen by them, t hough
some are ot the opinion that they had an
interview with him at his house.
Baltimore and Ohio officials bave uo in
formation of any kind for the public, but
say the press shall have all the desired
inlorination at the proper time.
COTTON CONSUMED.
Fire Plays Havoc with 1,800 Bales
nt Memphis.
Memphis, Tknn., March 13.—Fire this
morning at 1:30 o’clock burned about
1,300 bales of cotton stored in Jacob Vor
hees’ cotton shed, on Washington street.
The losses are as follows:
M. Gavin & Cos., 200 bales, insurance
$9,600; McDavitt, James & Cos., about
375 bales, insurance $12,000; George
Arnold A Cos., 180 bales, in
surance $5,000; G. C. Howard Js Cos.,
200 bales, Insurance $0,000; F. W. Sher
rill & Cos., 150 bales, insurance $5,000;
Haynes. EHis <& Cos., about 180 bales, in
surance $6,000; Barksdale, Denton & Cos.,
about 50 bales, insurance $2,000. The
loss is not total, and there will be about
40 per cent, salvage. The origin is un
known. Nearly all the insurance was
placed in local companies. ,
FOUND HIS WIFE IN FLAMES.
The Overturning ol a Lamp Costs
a Woman Her Lite,
Washington, March 13.—The wifeot
Columbus Tupple was burned to death
at her home in this city last
evening. On Mr. Tupple’s return
home after a short walk he found
a neighbor trying to dlsoover the
source ot a strong smell ot smoke. Alter
an unsuccessful search Mr. Tupple en
tered his own house and iound bis wife
in her bedroom enveloped in flames.
When the flumes were extinguished Mrs.
Tupple was dead. Tbe fire evidently
orignated lroin the overturning ol a
small lamp.
WOKK AX A S I’ANDSXILIi.
A Government Snag Boat Tie* Up On
Aooonnt ofLack of Money.
Alkxandria, La., March 13.-The Uni
ted Stalessnag boat Wagner, Capt. K. F.
White, cauie up yesterday morning from
Ouachita and Black rivers, where she has
been clearing those streams of obstruc
tion*. Owing to the river and harbor bill
not having been signed, and tho want of
funds to continue work, sbo was ordered
to lake up ail the government property
on those livers and at thin point and
Torres Bayou and proceed with it to
Shreveport and there await further de
velopments, All on board hope lor an
extra session of Congress or anything
rise to make a change in the plans. They
took four flatboats ami all tbe other gov
eminent property and left last evening
tor Shreveport.
FIRED BY THE ANTIS.
A Michigan Prohibitionist Hounded
by Kuinsoliers.
Howell, Mich., March 13.—A little
betore miduight last night fire was dis
covered in E. N. Monroe’s hardware
store. In a short time the entire row of
business blocks on Grand River street,
between Wynan’s avenue and East
street, three blocks ou XVyiian avenue,
and a row of name buildings on East
street, vvere in flames. The caving in
ward instead of outward of the Green
away block, was all that saved tbe re
mainder ot the business part of tbe town.
Mr. Monroe is Chairman ot the County
Prohibition Party Committee and a hard
worker for the prohibitory amendment.
Ou the first of the month lie received the
following loiter:
Detroit, Micu., Fob. 27.
Fo F. jV. J/oupoe, //..tcW/, Mick. \
Sir—l with to inform you that you must
stop your work on the prohibition cauee or
we will burn yon out, root ami branch. You
may prepare lor the worst, as we are on your
track. Many Saloon Keepers.
The Prohibitionists consider this an ex
planation of the cause of the fire. As the
fire engine made its appearance a voice
in the courtyard,opposite Monroe’s, said:
“Tom Clark,” and added some remark.
A pistol shot then grazed night watch
man Clark's clothes, glanced ou the en
gine and buried itself against Ai. Fish
beck’s collarbone. A revolver with one
empty chamber was altera ards picked up
in the courtyard. Tms lire coming so soon
after the incendiary tire of two weeks
ago has thrown the city into a fever of ex
citement. So lar as known the losses ag
gregate $67,000; on which there is about
$20,000 Insurance.
FLORIDA’S CIGA.KM.VK.fcRS,
The Central Labor Union of New
York Considers the Sit nation.
New York, March 13 The Central
Labor Union, at its meetiug yesterday in
Clarendon Hall in East One Hundred aDd
Thirty-eighth street, elected anew set of
officers. The cigarmakers called atten
tion to a dispatch from Key West rela
tive to the adventures of Ramon Rubiera
in Florida. Air. Rubiera is Secretary and
(Organizer of tne Cuban Confederation of
Cigarmakers tn this city, editor of La Re
pubiica and a delegate to the Cen
tral Labor Union, He went to Flor
ida ostensibly to settle the difficul
ties of the cigar manufacturing tiim
of Ybor & Sanchez y Hava with iis
employes, but ready to organise the
cigarmakers of Florida. Tue Central
Labor Union adopted a resolution that
the proceedings of the Board ot Trade at
Tampa betray a desire to precipitate a
class conflict in this republic, in I bat tiie
expelled citizens were informed that tbe
only cause of their expulsion was their
action in connection w'ith labor organi
zations.
There is also a story to the effect that
the Spanish Consul offered the Board of
Trade $50,000 to have the expeilt'd men,
who are all Cuban revolutionists, put
aboard a Spanish gunboat in the vicinity
of Key West. This seems remarkably
improbable, but the Central Labor Union
calis the attention of the United States
authorities to it, and desire that peace be
preserved in Florida.
PALYTK.Y POINTERS.
A Steamboat Humor—The Prohibi
tion Candidate for Mayor.
Palatka, Fla., March 13.—1 t is re
ported thaf George XV. Qumtard, owner
of the Charleston steamers City of Co
lumbia, City of Atlanta and Delaware,
will shortly withdraw these steamers
from the Clyde line, qow running to Fer
uandina, and put them on the old Charles
ton route. The City of Montioelio will
connect Florida with Charleston, as she
is to be withdrawn from the Nassau line.
The city water works will be in opera
tion in a tew days. Tne pities are full.
Capt. John T. Gay, ex-policeman, of
Nevv York, now a resident of this city, is
the prohibition candidate for Mayor. The
platform will be out this week.
Mr. John Oliver has been in the city
the past few days making arrangements
for the exhibition of a tribe of Florida
Seminoies, now stationed on Kissimmee
lake. This tribe consists of eiguty-eight
men, women and children. Mr. Oliver
has secured ground along the river bank
in West End. ft. and hopes to have them
here shortly, when ibis city will outrival
St. Augusiuie lor natural curiosities.
Ou luesday, April 5. tne annual city
election wiii take place. As yet uo con
ventions have been held, though candi
dates lor Mayor are coming lor ward.
a lining them is Msj. H. K. Teastiate.
Our present Mayor will also be a can
didate, but his euances are not very en
couraging. A Mayor is wanted who will
stay here during tbe summer months.
Others who are mentioned for Mavor are
Capt. John T. Gay, Joseph Edward
Lucas and Marcellus Dalton. The elec
tion promises to he a lively one.
Grand Island.
Grand Island, Fla., March 13—An
intormal meeting was hold to-day at Fort
Mason to consider the boundary line of
tbe new county. A part of Marion and
Sumter counties are anxious to be in
cluded in tbe new county. They not be
ing represented at the meeting, as well as
several other sections, it was impossible
to come to any detinue agreement, and
after considerable discussion it was de
cided to 0.1 l a mass meeting, to ho
held at Fort Mason March 25, to
appoint delegates to define the
lines of tbe new county and
locate the oouuty seat and then present
it to the Legislature. Fort Mason seems
to be the favorite site for the county seat,
as it is tue most centra mu i
point.
Cropsare looking tine. Beans are being
shipped freely, and tomatoes will be ready
in about two weeks. Beets, cucumbers
and cabbages are also being shipped in
large quan'tties.
Our mail arrangements hare been
changed, which, as usual, makes the
mail very irregular.
Killed by Apuolies.
Utica, N. Y., March 13.—Information
has been received here that Lieut. Reward
Mott, of Buuckvilie, Madison county, was
shot and kyied by an Indian at ban
Carlos, Art., on Friday, lie graduated
last year irim West I’olnt Military
Academy. He was Inspector of Indian
Supplies at San CaOos and was in com
iuaiid of a band of Apache scouts.
An Attempt to Kill the Czar.
London, March 13.—The Standard has
received u oipuer dispatch irorn what it
considers a trustworthy source saying
that an unsuccessful attempt iias been
made to assassinate the Czar. Mo details
are given.
; on. A, 8. Joiiuston’n Statue.
Cbioopkk, Mass., March 13.—The
Ames Works have just finished an eques
triau bronze statue of Cen. Albert Syd
ney .loans ou, which is to be unveiled at
Mew Orleans April 10.
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, MARCH 14, 1887.
STINGING ANNOYANCES.
WAR OF THE INSKCT WORLD
ON THE HUMAN RACE.
How the Hlttite* and Cauuanttes Were
Put to Fligh by tlia Puncture of
the Hornet Other Species of Small
In-ect Worrfineute—Some of tho Ob
jects of Their Infliction.
Brooklyn, March 13.—At the Taber
nacle this morning tbe Rev. T. DeXVitt
Talmave, D. D., expounded appropriate
passages ot Scripture* lie thou gave out
tue hymn beginning:
“Must Jesus bear the cross alone.
And all the world go free?
No! there’s a cross for every one,
And there’s a cross for me.”
The subject of bisdiseourse was “Sting
ing Annoyances,” and his text, Deutero
nomy vii,, 20: “The Lord thy God will
send the hornet.” He said:
It seems as if the insect world wero deter
mined to \t ar against the humtin race. It is
every year attacking tho grain Helds and the
orchards and the vineyards. The Colorado
beetle, the Nebraska gra-hopper, the New
Jersey locust, the universal potato destroyer,
seem io carry on the work which was begun
ages ago, when the inserts buzzed out of
Noah’s ark as the door wasoyeued.
in my lext the hornet tl es out on its mis
sion. It is a species of wasp, swift in its mo
tion aud violent in its sting. Its touch is tor
ture to man or beast. We have all seen me
cattle run bellowing from the cut nf its lancet.
In boyhood we used to stand cautiously look
ing at the glohulur nost hung from the tree
branch, aud while we were looking at Ute
wonderful pasteboard covering we were
struck with something thai sent us shrieking
away The hornet goes in swarms. It, has
captains over hundred-, aud twenty of them
attacking one lin.n will produce certain
death. The Persians attempted to conquer a
Christian city, but the eiepimnu and the
beasts on which the Persians roue were
as outed by the nornet, to that the win le
army was broken nu and ihe besieged city
was rescued. This burning aud noxious In -
sect stung out tho JiiHites aud Canaanites
from their country. Whai Ihe gleaming
sword and cnariot of w*r could not accom
plish was done by the puncture of an insect.
The Lord seat the Hornet.
My friends, when we are assaulted bv be
hemoths ot trouble—great behemoths of trou
ble—we become chivalric, and we as-ault
them; we gel • n Lie h.gh-mt tiled steed of
our courage, aad mi e .. cavalry charge at
tiiem, ami, if God be wit i ua, we come out
"trouger and betier tliau when we went in.
Hut, alas for til; bo iusectiie annoyances of
life—the-e foea too small to shoot—tbeao
things without an , avoirdupois w- Ight—the
gnats, aud tlie nudges, and the flies, and the
wasp-, and the hornets! In othtr words, it is
the small sting eg ano- > uucis of our lire
which drive us out and us . us up. Into Hie
best conditioned life. lor same grand and glo
rious purpose, (fed sen s Hie hornet.
1 re in a is io the flrst place, that these smalt
stinging annoyances may come in the shape
of a sensitive, nervous organization. People
who arc prostrated under typhoid fetors or
with broken bones get plenty of sympathy,
but tvho pities auybndg that is nervous? 1 be
dootors say. aud the famuy says, and every
body says, "Oh! she’s only a lit tie nervous;
that’s all. The sound of a heavy foot, the
harsh clearing of a throat, a discord in music,
a want of harmony between the shawl and
the. glove on the same person, a eurt answer,
a passing slight., (he wind from tho east, any
one of ten thousand annoyance-, opens the
door f r the hornet. The tact is,
that the vast majority of the peo
ple in this country are over-worked,
aud their nerves are the flrst to give out. A
sroat multitude are under the strain of Ley
den, who, when he was told by his physician
iliat if he did not stop working while he was
in such poor physicul health he Would die, re
sponded,‘'Doctor, whether X live or die the
wheel must keep going around.” The-e
poisons of whom 1 speak have a bleeding
sensitiveness. The flies love to light on any
>bing raw, and these people aro like the
Cauaanites spoken of in tho text or in the
c iulext—they have a very thin covering and
are vulnerable at all points. Aud the Lord
seol the hornet.
Again, these small insect annoyances may
come to us in tho shape of lnends and ac
quaintance who arc a, ways saying disagree
able thing-. There are some people you can
not be with for half an hour but "you feci
cheered and comforted. Then there are other
people you cannot be with for live minutes
beiore you feel miserable. They do uot mean
to disturb yon, but they sting you io the bone.
They gather up ad the yarn which the gos
sips spin and peddle it. Tuey gather up all
the adverse criticisms about your person,
about your business, about your home, about
your church, and they make your car the fun
nel Into which they pour it. Thov lauirh
heartily when they tell you, as though it were
a good joke, and you laugh loo —outside. These
people are brought to our attention in ti e
Bible, in the boos of lluih: Naomi went forth
beautiful aud with the liuestof worldlv pros
pects into another laud, but after awhile she
came back widowed, and sick, and poor. Wu.it
did her friends do when she came back to the
city? They all went out. and, insiead of giv
ing her common-sense con-elation, what did
Hiey do? Ueud the book ot Kulh and timl out.
They threw up their bauds and said, ‘‘is this
Naomi?” as much as to say, “How very
had you look!” When X entered the
ministry I looked very pale for years,
and every year, for lour or live years, a
hundred times a year, i was asked if I was
not in a consuii.; ioii: Andi asong through
the room X would sometimes hear people sigh
and cry. “A-ab! not long ior this world!” I
re-oivcd in tho.-e limes mat 1 never, in any
conversation, would a , anything depressing. |
and by the help of God I have kept the reso
lution. These people oi whom I fpeak reap
aud mud in the great harvest Held of discour
agement. Some days you greet ihem with a
hi.arious "Good morning,” and they oooie
buzzing at you with some impressing informa
tion. Thu Lord seat the hornet. It is aston
ishing how some people prefer to write and
to say disagreeable things. That was tho
case when years ago Henry M. Stanley re
turned al.er his magn ilcent exploit of llud
ing I>r. David Divingstoue, and when Mr.
itanley stood before the savants of Europe,
and many of tho small critics of the day.
under pretense of getting geographical in
formation, put to bun most insolent ques
tions, lie folded his arms and rolu-cd to
answer. At the very tune when you would
sunpose all decent men would have
applauded the heroism of the man.
there were (hose to hiss. Tho Laird
sent the hornet. And whan afterward that
man sal down on llie western coast of Africa,
.sick and worn, perhaps, in ttie grandest
achievement of the age tn the way oi geo
graphical discovery, lucre were small critics
alt over the world to buzz and buzz, and
curicamre and deride him, and when a few
weeks afier ibnt ho got tho Loudon papers,
as lie opened them, out flew the hornet.
When I see that there arc so many poople in
the world who like to .as disagreeable things,
and write disagreeable things, 1 come almost
in my tveakor rnonuuits to believe what a man
said to me in Fhilatlelphiaouc Monday morn
ing. 1 went to get the horso that was at the
livery, aud the hostier. a plain man, paid to
cue, ”Mr. Talmsge, I uaw that you preached
to the voutig men y estorday.” I said. “Yes.’’
lie said. “So use, no use; man’s a failure.”
The small Insect anuoyances of life some
times come In the shape of a local physical
trouble, which does not amount to a positive
prostration, but which bo.hers you wren you
want to feci the host. Perhaps it is a sick
headache, which has boon tue plague of your
life, and you appoint some occasion of mirth,
or sociality, or usefulness, ami wueu the clock
strikes the hour you cannot make your up
-1,-..ranee. Perhaps the trouole is botweeu
the ear and the forelu-ad. In the shape of a
neuralgic twinge. Nobody cau see it or sym
pathize with yon; but just at the time when
you want youriuteilect clearest aud your dis
position bngnteot, you feci a sharp, keen,
disconcerting thrust. The Lord sent the hor
net.
Perhaps these small insect annoyances will
come in the shape ot ad mo-tio irritation.
The pafloi aud the kitchen do not always
harmonize To get good service and to keep
it is one oi thu great question-, of tue country,
Hometunes it mav be the arroguncy and in
considcritteuosK of employers; but w hatever
I e the fact, ns all admit there are these In
soot annoy auces w in- tig their way out from
Urn culinary department, tf the grace of
God be not in the ho art ot the h usekeeper,
she cannot luatulaiu her equilibrium. Tho
Xnen come home at night and hear the Story
of these annoys .cea, and sav. “O! these
home troubles are verv little tilings ” They
are small, small as wasps, but they sling.
Martha's nerves were all unstrung when she
rushed in asking Christ lo reprove Mary, and
there are tens of thousands of women who
are dying, stung to death be :h *e pestifer
ous domestic annoyances. Tbe Lord tool the
hornet.
These small insect dislurbanrcs may a so
come iu the shape of business Irritations.
'J here are men here tvlm went through 15.(7
and sept. 24, 18 9. without losing their bal
ance, who are everv dnv uahor- and by little
unuoyauoei—a clerk's ill manners or a blot
of inkou a bill of lading, or the extravagance
fit a partner who overdraws bis account, or
the luulereelliug by a business rival, or the
whispering of business coufi lances in tbe
streets, or the maxing of tome little bad dobl
Which was against your judgment, just to
please somebody else, it is not the panics
that kill the merchants. Panic* come only
onee in ton or twenty years it Is the con
stant din of those evn-y-day annoyances
winch is sending so many ot our ho't mer
chants into nervous dyspepsia and paraiy-ls
and the grave. When oitr natioual commerce
fell flat on its face, these men stood up and
felt almost defiant; but their life is giving
wav now under tho swarm of tlito-e pestif
erous annoyances. The Lord sent the hornet.
I have noticed in the history of some of my
congregation Ihut their annoyances are mul
tiplying, and that they have a hundred where
they used to have ten. Tho natoiaiist tells
tis that a wa p sometimes has a family of
20,1)00 wasps, and it does eom as if every an
noyance of your life bred a million. By the
help of (Jon to-day I want to show you the
otherside. Tho,hornet is of no use ? O, yes!
The naturalists ells us they are very import
ant in the world’s economy; they kill spoleis
aud they clear tho iitmo-pliere; and I really
believe God sends the annoyances if our liie
upon us to kill the spiders of the soul and to
clear the atmosphere of our skies. These an
noyances are scut on us. 1 think, to awake ns
up from our lethargy. There is nothing that
makes a man so lively as a nest of “yellow
j.cC .ets,” and I mink that these annoyances
are int. nde ) to persuade us of the fact that
this is uot a world for us to stop in. If we
had a bed of everyth ng that was attraotlve
an 1 soil and easy, what would we want of
heaven ? You llitnk that the hollow tree
semis the hornet, or you think the devil si mis
the hornet. I waul to correct your opinion.
The Lord sent tile hornet.
Tlicu I also ihilik these annoyances conic
upon'us lo culture our patience. In tne
gymnasium you find upright parallel liars—
bars with holes over each other for pegs lo he
IHlt iu. Then the gymnast lakes a peg in each
tiami and he begins to climb, oue ineu at a
time, or two inches, and gelling his strength
ealiured, reaches after awhile llieoeiltug
Aud it seems to me that these annoyau. es ,u
life are a moral gymnasium, each worry a
peg by which we are to climb higher and
uight-r lu Christian attainment. We all love
to esc patience, but it cannot be cultured iu
fa r weather, it is a child of the storm. If
you had everything ties ruble and there was
nothing mure lo get, w hat would you want
with patience? The outy time to culture H
is when you are slandered and cheated, and
sick aim half dcau. “Ob,” you sa;, “if f
only had the circumstances of some well-to
do man l would bo patient too.” You might
us well say : -‘if it were not for this water
I would swim?” or “I could shoot
this gun if it were not for
the caps.” XV hen you stand chiu-deep
in annoyances is the time for you to swim out
lowaid the great headlanus of Christian at
tainnnnt, ami when your life is loaded to ilic
muzzle with repulsive anuoyances—that is
the time to draw the trigger. Noih.ng but
ihe luiiiace will ever burn out of us the
clinker and the slag. I have f .rmed this
theory in regard to small annoyances aud
wiXHiioua: It takes just so inuuu trouble to
lit us for usefulne s ami for heayen. The
ouly question is, whether we shall take it in
the hu:k. or pulverized and granulated. Here
is oue man who lakes it in the hulk, lli*
back is brokeu. or his eyesight put out.or
souieother uwtul calamity h lu Is him; while
the vast majority oi people take the thing
piecemeal. Which wnv would you rather
cave i-? Of course in piecemeal. Better
h ive live acuing teeth than oue broken jaw.
Baiter ten llv-b isters tnun an amputation.
Better twenty squalls than cue cyclone.
There may be a i.iflerence of opinion as to
allopathy and homeopathy; hut iu this mai
ler of trouble I like lioinuo, alhiedoser—small
pellets of annoyance rather than some knock
down nose of calamity, instead of tho tliuu
derboit give us the hornet, if yon have a
bank you would a great deal rather that fifty
men should come in with checks less tbau a
huudred dollars than to have Iwo depositors
come iu tue same day each wauling his ten
thousand dollars. In tins latter case you
cough and look down at the floor and up ut tin*
sailing before you look into the safe. Now,
my friends, would you not rather have these
small drafts of annoyance on your bank of
faith tliu.ii sumo all-staggering demand upon
your endurance? i want io mako you so
strong that you will not surrender to srnuil
annoyances. In the village of Iluinelin,
tradition says, there was an invasion of rats,
and these small creatures almost devoured
the town and threatened the lives of the pop
ulation, aud the story is that a piper came
out one day and played a very sweet tune,
and all the vermin followed him—followed
him to the banks of tho We er. and then he
blew a blast aud they dropped In and disap
peared forever. Oi course this is a fable, but
1 wl*h i could, on the sweet flute of the Gos
pel, draw forth ail the nibbling and burrow
ing annoyances of your liie, and nlay them
down into the depths forever. Ilow many
touches did the artist give to Ins picture or
“Cotopaxi,” nr his “Heart of the Auden?” i
suppose abont fifty thousand touches, t hear
toe canvas saying. “Why do you keep me
trembling with that pencil so long? Why
don’t you put it on iu one dash?” “No,” saj s
the artist, “I know how to make a painting;
it will take flfiy,thousand ot these touches.”
And J want you, my friends, to understand
that it is these ten thousand annoyances
wtneh. under God. are making up the picture
of jo 1 r life, to In: bang at last in the galleries
of Heaven, fit lor angels to look at. God
knows bow to make a picture.
I no into a sculptor's studio and see him
shaping a statue. Me lias a chisel in one hand
and a mallet iu the other, and he civi s a very
gsntleslroke—ellck, click, click! I say. “Why
don't you trike harder?’' "Oh!” he replies,
• that would shatter the aLatue. I can’t do it
that way. J must do it tins way.” ho he
works on, and after awhile the features come
out. ami everybody that enters the studio is
charmed and fascinated. Wed, God has your
soul under process of development, and it is
the little nunoyaures and life
that are chiseling out your ln,mortaWialure.
Ir is click, click, click! f wonder why some
creat Providence docs not come, and with one
stroke nreparo you for heaven. Ah. no; God
says that is not the wav. And so he keeps
on hy strokes of litiie vexations, until
at last you shall he a glad
spectacle for angels and for men.
You know that a large fortune may he spent
in small change, and a vast amount of moral
character insy go away in small depletion. It
Is the little troufiles of lile that arc having
more effect upon you than great ours. A
stvarm ol locusts will kill a grain hold sooner
than the incursion of three or tour entile.
You say: “olnee 1 lost my child.slnoo I lost
my property. I have been a different man.”
llutyoudo not recognize the architecture of
little auuoyauc’s, that are hewing, digging,
cutting. snuping, splitting, and
inierjoining your moral qualities.
Hals may sink a ship. One
lucl'er-match may sand del ruction through
a block of store-houses. Catherine de Meil
lcls goi her death from smelling n poisonous
rose. Columbus, by stopping and asking for
it ulooc of bread and a drink of w ater at
a Krone.! can convent, was led to the dis
covery of anew world. And mere is an Intl
ma'e connection between trilles and im
(Densities, between nothings and everything*.
Mow, be careful to let none of those annoy
ances go through your aonl unarraigtied.
Compel thru) to ad mini ter to your spiritual
wealth. The scratch of a slx-peuny nail
sometimes prod urns lock-jaw, and the clip of
a most Influiteslmal annoyance insy damage
you forever. Uo not let. auy annoyance or
perplexity come acrosa your soul without Its
■uakiog you bettor.
Our national government does not think it
belittling to put a tux on pins, and a lax on
buckles, and a tax on shoes The individual
taxi sdo not amount to much, but In the ag
gregate to millions and millions of dollars.
And I would have you, O Ohitslitn mail, put
a high tariff ou every annoyance and vexa
tion that uome through your soul. Tilts
might not amount to much, In single cases,
but in the aggregate it wtiu and be a great reve
nue of spiritual strength uni satisfacMon.
A bee eau sviek h >uey even out of a nettle;
und it you have the grace of God in your
heart, you can get sweetness out of that
which would otherwise irritute and annoy.
A returned mis t nary told mo that a
company of adventurers row'ug up the
Ganges were siuug to death by flies that in
fest that region at certain seasons. I have
seen the ear:h strewed with the carcasses of
men slam by Insect annoyances. The only
way to get prepared for tho great trouble-: of
life is io conquer these small troubles. What
would you suv of a soldier who refused to
load his gun, or to go iuio the conflict bc ause
it was only a skirmish, saying. “I am not
going to expend my ammunition ou a skir
mish; wait until there com s a general en
gagement, and then von will sec how cour
ageous 1 am, and what bait mg t wilt do!”
'The general would say to such a man. “It
you are not faithful iu a skirmish, you would
be nothing iu a general engagement.” And
I have to tell you, <• Christian men. If you
cannot apply the principles of Christ's re
ligion on a small settlo, you will never be able
to apply tie m on a large scale.
If I had my way with you I would have you
possess all possible worldly prosperity. i
would ha. e you each one a garden—a river
flowing through it. geraniums aud shrubs on
the sides, and the grass and flowers as beauti
ful as though the rainbow had fallen, i
would have you a bouse, a splendid mansion;
aud tiie bed should bo covered with uphols
tery dipped in the setting sun. I would have
every ball in your house set with st,attire and
statuettes, and then I would have the four
quarters of the g obo pour iu all tlieir lux
ur'es on your table, aud you shduld have
forks ol silver find knives of go and, lulald with
diamonds aud amethysts. Then you should
each on - ol you have the finest horses, and
your pick of tho equipages of the world.
Then 1 would have you live 160 years, and
you should not ltavo a paiu or
ache until the last breath. “Not
each one of us?” you say. Yes;
each of you. “Not. to your enemies?” Yes;
tho only difference I would make with them
would tie that I would put a little extra gilt
on their walls, and a little extra embroidery
on tlieir slippers. But you say. “Uhv docs
not G,xt give iu all these tiling,?” An! 1 be
think myself. He is wiser, it woud make
fools and sluggards of us. if we had our way.
No man puis his best, picture In the portico or
vc s. iliule of bis house. God meant th'S world
to be oniy the vestibule of be ivun, that great
gallery of the universe toward which we are
aspiring. We must not have it too good m
this world, or we woUtd want no heaveu.
i’olycarp was condemned to be burnt to
death. Tbe stake was pointed. He was fas
tened to it. I lie faggots were placed around
bun, the fires kindled, but history tells its that
the llaiues i.enloutward like the canvas of a
ship in a stout breeze, so that the flames, in
stead of destroying I’olycarp. were o ly a
wad between Hi m and his enemies. They hud
ac. unity to destroy him with the pom mi; tbe
flames would not touch him, (V: It, my
hearer, i want you io understand that by
God's grace the flame* of li ial. instead of eon
s doing your soul, aro only g ong io lie a wail
of deteuse, and a canopy of be -sing. God is
going to fulßd to you the blessing and ihe
promise, as He did to Polycarp. ••When thou
walkest through the tire thou Diall not i.e
burned.” Now you do not u..demand; you
tnau know hereafter, in iieaveu you will
bless God even lor Ihe ho. net.
GLOKGI V’S CAPITAL.
,-Y Negress Drops Dead —Return of
a Truant Wife.
Atlanta, Ga„ March 13— Mary Ann
White, a colored woman, aged about 60,
dropped dead on Line street ibis after
noon. The cauao was heart disease. The
remains were removed to her home on
Humphreys street. An Inquest will oe
held to-morrow.
(Sarah J. Belcher, tbe young woman
who lelt her home day before yesterday,
was found to-day. She told Chief or 80.
lice Connelly that she loft her husband
on aocountof conlinued cruel treatment:
that he has often beaten her, and told ber
the other day that, she could leave. She
says that her husband can keep their
child and support it. She is living in a
respeotable family, and proposes to work
for an honest support. Sheoxpects to file a
suit for divorce to-morrow, bbo Is a
beautiful girl of 17 and says she married
at, 13. The bad feature In the case seems
to be her willingness to give up her child.
FREIGHT AT X STANDSTILL.
No Change in (lie Situation of the
Railroud Strike.
Cleveland, 0., March 18.—Chief
Arthur, of the Brotherhood of Locomo
tive Engineers, denies the report that his
organization is assisting the striking
brakemen and switch hands of the New
York, Beunsylvania and Gain railroad.
Nothing new was developed to-day. AII
freight traffic over the road has oeased,
but nevv men am being hired, aud it is
thought efforts will be made to run trains
Monday. Only 150 men aro engaged In
the strike, but 4,000 are out of employment
by reason of the blockade of rrel.bt and
lack of facilities along the line ol the road
to get ooaiand ore.
Judge Blone, iu the Common Fleas
Court yesterday, refused to dismiss tho
injunction widen prohibits the strikers
from going upon the railroad property.
THE NEAPOLITAN MANDOLIN.
Fashion und the Latest Craze lu the
Musical Line.
■ New York, March 12.—Just as the pet
dog has been Ignomiuiousiy banished
from the drawing-room rug and a cat
substituted in his place, so have baDjos
and zithers been consigned to ou’ ot the
way cupboards while the ftoinan of fash
ion occupies herself with the latest craze
In the musical line—the Neapolitan man
dolin. A lew years ago this quaint little
instrument was unknown hero save by
hearsay, but now the music shop that
does not have several of them In Us win
dows, appropriately bedecked with gay
ribbons, is decidedly behind the age.
New Yorkers are never eiow to seize
upon a novelty, no mutter wrhat particu
lar lot m it may take. Of course, how
ever, there are novelties and novelties.
Tho inandoliu belongs to thooategory that
one limy effect with credit to one’e sell.
Worneu—l use tbe word advisedly, as the
numb* rot men who learn the instrument
is proportionately small—women there
fore, woo bave mastered tiie mandolin
sufficiently to play, even though much
be (eft to tho imagination In this respect,
certainly present to tbe observer a more
or less picturesque appearance. I’erhups
this is one of tue chief reasons for tbe
enormous popularity the uinodclin has
or late attained. It was (list intro
duced to us by tbe Bpanlsh students,
and since then their talented conductor
has successfully attempted to make the
instrument laminar to Now York sooiety,
Tbe mandolin is difficult to learn, its
construction being tho earns as that of the
violin. Tbe silver etriuge are struok by
menus or u email piece ut tortoise-shell
held in tbe right baud, and the sound thus
evoked is peculiarly sweet and thrilling.
Queen Murgnurita,of Italy, is an ac
complished performer oil the mandolin.
Clara Lanza.
Jones Convicted of ManNluiiKliter.
Charleston, 8. C., March 13.—The
Edgefield jury found R. T. Jones guilty
of inanalanguler. He killed Edward
Rresaley. hi* fatber-ln law, an old man
stricken with palsy. Eight jurors on the
first ballei vm.Md tiiuliv o' mill'll r, two of
man laughter, and two not guilty. The
vc.Uicl w us a compromise.
IPKICK *lO ATEATf.I
1 5 CHM l*o A COPY, f
! EULOGIES ON BEECHER.
PLYMOUTH CHUKCH CROWD! D
AT TWO SERVICES.
KnoleslMsttcul Kprirntiitlfei of Many
Denominations Prtleip*t In ths
ikvr.ulng— Vnihrr McOljnu Sends a
fraternal Letter on lb Nobienasa of
tlio Broad Stand Taken by the Dead
Pastor—. Signs of Mourning Eschewed^
New Y'okk, March 13.—Tbe church ca
(.'run berry eircet, Brooklyn, made tamoua
throughout the whole civilized world by
the late Henry Ward Keecber and the
scene of his * remarkable triumphs oi
eloquence and oratory, never presented a
more joyous and gay appearance than if
did to-day. It was decorated more as for
a May day festival instead of tbe occasion
of Plymouth’s late pastor’s funeral
eulogy. The chief deooratlons of tli*
church, where tue body lay In state, ha<l
been brightened by the addition of freshly
cut roses,and the front of the platform and
-loall desk, which served ask pulpit,
was also one mass of beautiful roses,
lilies, smilsx and ferns. Hot a sign of
crape could be seen auy where, and eyws
the ladios seemed to have conformed TO
their departed friend’s love of obeerluls
ness by appearing In their brightest cos.
tumes. The edifice was crowded to Its
fullest capacity, and when all the aisles
were ohosod up the people even crowded
the platform steps almost to the foot oi
the preacher.
Ryv. 8. B. Ilalliday, Mr. Beecher’s asJ
sisiant, who is at present in obarge of
the church, assisted the Rev. Dr. Lyman
Abbott in tbe conducting ot tbe service.
Rev. Abbott, spokejioi over one hour, auit
iho attention of the audience was only
broken l>; tbe occasional sobbing ol sum#
of the church members.
ALL DENOMINATIONS REPKESKNTED.
The evening service in Plymouth
church was remarkable from tbe tact
that clergymen of almost every denomU
nation were present and enoke In eul >gyi
of tlio late Henry Ward Beecher. Thef
buildln r was crowed to excess and the
vestibules were utterly Impassable both
in front and rear, and during the service
many people fainted and mure than onn
remained where they swooned and could
not be carried out. Rev. 11. 8. Halliday
conducted the services and read the fol
lowing letter from ltev. I)r. McGlynn'
i he deposed priestof St. Stephen’s church*
New York:
MAZen 13, 1887.
Rrn, nntl Dtnr Mr, RalHdny:
1 regret very much that 1 cannot be present
tide evening at the meet.ug in Plymouth
church tu honor Hut memory of the great pa
lor aud tn condole tor iho irreparable loss, f
must, therefore, content myeolf with saym;f
briefly in writing what 1 should be glad ta
say more fully iu speech. It is a sign of tha
dawning ot ihe better day, for which tua
world Inis bo long vcarned.tlml each a meeting
should be po.siiilo, ami tuat you and yonrs
should so earnestly ilesiro iho uresence of a
clergyman ot that church which seems so re-,
mote—and too many would say so-and any
(agonistic to yours. Foremost in tbe work of
hastening the coming of the better day was
'liegroat man whose death we mourn and
for whose work wo giro thanks. None other
o well as he taught the men and land of Los
lime to exalt the essentials of re
ligion, pm o and undeflied. in which
c all agree anil to minimus
rhe differences that seem to separate us. Ta
him was given to son with a clearer vision,
to reveal with uneqiialcd genius, aud wl;lt
tireless energies tu make common amgpif
men the meat, inr ol Him who taught of old
oti tin. Mount, und by the sea shore, the care
of all religion lo tse hro'berhood of man. 1
cheerfully confess that from Mr Beet.her I
learned from the first dftfs of my n inistryL
anew tenderness and fullnetJE
or meaning in "Our Father,” and I am glad
to he ablunnre to state that the theology of
the old church agrees with bis In this, that
;hc essence of religion is In com union wish,
God through love of Him for Uis own safe
and iu loving all men with the zest witii
which wo love ourselves, and that while
Nscnflce and sacrament, cretd and ritual,
prayer and sermou and song may be, and arc,
powerful helps aud necesßary manifestations
of this religion, which is love, wtlhout it they
are but mockery and blasphemy. I thank
fully count hiiii among the masters from
whom I have learned fill er meaning of the
prayer, “Thy will bo done on earth as It is In
‘leaven.” He and other giants of their ttm*
have cleared the Held aud illuuduateU the
way for higher progress, ami helped us ta
give more- perfect u.-surauee of victory in tint
sirifo that is now beginning, against
wider slavery than that against which
he dealt his sturdy blows—the enslav
ing of the masses bv the
ar.d to taunt it union not merely
of American atuies, hut of the peo
ples of the world. .‘•t.tmuUiied and encour
aged by hUstmccas, 1c ns t ake up the burden
of the peope’s wrongs, whore Ills tired
shoulders have laid it down, and tight the
buttle, it ~eed be. anew, till right snail come,
iind we, as the burden falls from our
shoulders and the weapons from our hands,
• hall luive a nearer vision than was given ta
linn of tiie reign or the Prince or Peace. At
feotiouatelj and fraternally.
KhWAKD McGltnn.
The musical portion nt the services wax
very elaborate, ami was rendered under
the supervision of Gen. lloratio C. King.
The speakers were Hr. Gunnison, UnU (
versaMst; Kabbi Wintner; Rev. B. Huln
sion, Baptist; Hr. Agler.
.1. A. Funk. Lutheran; Hr. Lindsdy Par*
Iter, of Boston; Ur. Re-d, Unitarian, and
Rev. C. •!. Hall, Reformed Church. All
Kiioku in eulogy of tue late pastor of Ply
mouth church, and asserted their belief
that he was a man whose breadth of mind
entitled them to claim him as a brother
in religion to them all.
MBS. NKEBE’S KUNKRAL.
The Entire Affair Characterized by
■ombre Pecorviru.
Chicago, Marot E-arerae quiet
marked the burial of > ra. Jfeeb to-days
Fully 40,000 people shiv, red three hour*
in the bleak wind wa.ting for the obse
quies of the noted Anaroblst’s wife
commence, and were only rewarded by flj
sight of a procession tuat, except in
differed only in a tew minor details fro*
any ordinary funeral. Last evening the j
master of ceremonies estimated that j
20 000 sympathizers would be iu line.J
Whether the absence ol the Anarchist v
widower dampened the enthusiasm, or the
fuet that the police were taking ex
traordinary precautions to quell disorder
had a like effect, the 'demonstration fell
far short of its promoters’ expectations.
Including the persons in 177 carriages
aud buggies there were probably 6,000
souls m the process'on. The prohibition
ol red Dags was scrupulously observed.
A lew banners were curried and they
were turled and totally hidden in black
drapery. Not a dozen mourners were in
'uniform. A single band furnished tbs
only music in the procession. Policemen
were almost wholly kept out of sight, and
the entire affair was characterized by
sombre decorum.
No irutii in the UiriM.
Hhkia, March 13.—Tha medical com.
mission appointed at the instanoe of the
Pone to investigate the stones about
cruellies being perpetrated on tbs rebel
prisoners reporta that there is no truth
iu the stories.