Newspaper Page Text
. ESTABLISrtED i:4s. I
)J . H . ESTILL. Editor and Proprietor.)
I'KXAS CRYING FOR 1 1!AIN.
H \UDIjV A DKyPOFWATERON
the great HINGES.
I rge Drove* of Half Head Cattle Frnlb
iely Hunting: for Water and Nourlsh-
UC Pasture— Country Merchant* Cease
Buylue Good* —Vast Tract* Shriveled
Cp by the Drought.
Galveston, Tux., April 10.-l-Th past
week has been one of expectancy and
disappointment to the people of Texas.
Vo raius ot any consequeuoe hfive fallen
throughout the immense area now suf
fering” from drought. Dispatches aud let
ters to the Galveston News, San Antonio
Express and other papers of ,'the State
continue to detail the widespread and
threatening character of the drought, the
severity of which has perceptibly In
creased siuoe the last report. The drought
now extends from the far Western grazing
lands across tne State lor adistsjuee of 800
miles into the pine regions bordering on
Louisiana, but decreases iu severity as it
approaches the pineries, from Whioh sec
tion the complaints are of rsoeipt date.
ONE SLIGHTLY FAVORED BBCTION.
The general rains which usuiklly set in
at the lull ot the moon are warning, and
the cool, dry winds of the past fortnight
Continue to prevail, except in the district
immediately west and southwest of San
Antonio, embracing Medina, Bandera,
Uvalde. Erio and Stascosa. counties,
whe e moderate rains fell yesterdav, bat
not enough, sav dispatches f.om that
vicinity. This is one of the grazing sec
tions oi the Siate where stock was dying.
Between sun Antonio and the cdast, em
bracing such lertile counties as Guada
loupe, Gonzales, i.avaoa, Colorado, Cald
well, Bastrop and a dozen others, the
drought has assumed a serious aspect,
putting an embargo upon ail agricultural
development, especially cotton, the chief
product of this section,
CATTLE IN DYING CONDITION.
Oue correspondent describes the road
wavs throughout this belt as cover*! to a
dptU 01 several inches with dust. I The
fields are barren even of weeis, 'While
strings ot cattle almost too poo. to fltand
up are traveling constantly in searton of
grass and water. In Central Texasl. em
tuacing about thirty counties surround
ing Waco, Corsicana and Burne t, toe sit
uation is scarcely less promising, aid re
ports agreeing that uuthing but very
early and plentiful rains will avert seri
ous damage or failure of the crops. In
Northern and Northwestern Texas the
drought is not as severely felt as m the
liber sectT ns, but the complaints are in
creasing daily.
IN THE GREAT PANHANDLE.
A slight sprinkle of rain fell durin ; the
veek in Mitchell county, along the line
>f the Texas and I’aciiic road, but no ro
lort ot rsinlall in the great Panhandle
uetrict has been received. One result of
fie drought is a notable scarcity of early
eg*, ables at the principal points.! The
inxicty over the situation is beciming
renter every day. The wholesale tJmses
if tuis city are calling their drummlrs oil
he road, as the couutry raercuai|’,s re
use to buy during the uncertainty df the
irop outlook.
AN EASTER EARTHQUAKE.
Charlestonians Touted Out ol lied
by aii Unwelcome Visitor.
Charleston. S. C., April 10.—Like
ast at. 1 ai i lew's day,Easter Sunday was
inhered in this morning with a reminder
tf Aug. 31, 1880. The shock occurred
ibout 6:30 o’clocK, and while it did no
damage it was severe enough to siartle
people trom their beds and to frighten
“arty church goers. As on March IV. tbo
movement was in the nature of two sudden
'i ks of the earth accompanied by a -oar.
Lie significance of wnicb coulp nut lie
mistaken at that early hour. Tnis is the
only earthquake lelt here since March 17
asi. The. disturbance, however, bi and no
to rt ou the celebration of Easter. The
mv was a lovely one and the strtets and
ihurclies were thronged with crowds ot
tyly dressed people.
A SHOCK AT BURLINGTON.
Burlington, Vt., April 10—Two
'"'ks of earthquake occurred htfe this
aiteinoon. The first was rather ludt and
*’’B lelt about 2:30 o’clock, and ihy.e jond
n minutes later. The second slick was
’ery heavy, resembling the concassion
m a iatvo gun, follow ed by a jar ol
' eu seconds duration. Doors and win
"s rattled, and those living In the
i ird st i y of blocks say bulldingsseemed
to sway to and fro. .People ran )nto the
’’iteis m a panic, many supposing that
* terrible explosion had occurred Hear by.
t. Raymond dead.
'o Intestinal Disorder Complicated
with Heart .Disease.
Evansville, Ind., April 10.—John T.
qrannd was lulled to appear at the
[.ra nouse here last Friday, coming
'in Hopkinsville, Ky., where he ap
pea trd on Thursday night. The previous
hiaht he appeared in Nashville,
although not at all well.
' was suflernig front a severe cold,
~ l”; U P< audit was not until 4 o’clock
i, M| ier a°on of Friday that ue oou
lß,i' ; ‘ l 11)0 urgent request of pbysl
‘"'re' oot to appear that night. Ho
,*1 111 lt ‘ tl 'rom that time until the
of tiis death, which oo
.neil about 1:30o’clock this morning.
, ' usy afternoon he slept a little ton the
time in s-voral (lays. lirs. Galilei
11 ir. who waited upon him, suv lhat
.7? *" a condition whetbbJ ar
'it-.! , tl< r,? ' * immediate cauiHcl bis
*,,,' "** I),)art loomplliu and
, 1 Severs cold, nervou* pro ifmioti
congestion ol the stomachylsud
I ■> A dl PlOh from a Mend
ff. ' ; , ("loi'd Hi Now ) orlc to-da • to
Pi .i. V Mr. Raymond's ius.nu
-I'bi.u-ui i i lUl,t Mrs. Kaymouil wa* so
>lrl,,a “ #w * ol her bu-baud’n
fliiJr, 1 "h® Wlii unable to give any
Gaisinl. l ".' *° H w as decided to isi>e the
sfc," N - York 10-mght. Too
t)i,'v wont also, leaving on the
, “'“Mio Much R,-u7T
*oth<:‘,L’i IK ’ Aprll A dispstohfrom
‘% m,ih UrM Bort Gibson to tne
teornm ' si lOo’clook this
bi 1,,,, **•' * • ‘‘Mr. Hittiiie’siovsrpoii
-1.110,1 .. zatUijum. Put flat,!
■ v and aow
;l
* i lj
a **—t i *j
‘ ..o‘ I
./ * ' l *"M**.®ltig to clll*-' t
it. “*"• •*' hr of M'" too.
1 - u '.hi] 'fPMßM* l '' bialit de-
RUSSIA IN ALARM.
Another Attempt to Kill the Czar
at SI. Petersburg: Reported.
London, April 10.—The Vienna cor
respondent of the Morning Post says a
report is current to the effect that
another attempt to murder the Czar was
made on the Morsky road in St. Peters
burg lost Wednesday, aud that a student
and woman were arrested who were
carrying bombs under their plaids.
alarming rumors.
A dispatch from St. Peters
burg to the Daily News says:
“Most alarming reports respecting the
Czar have been in circulation here. One
rumor was to tne eft’eot that a mine had
been discovered under the Imperial
Palace at Gatschina, but It is learned on
the best authority that this report is un
true, and ai9o that no arrests have been
made at Gatschina as was reported.
Ou Wednesday, however, when the
Czar was driving to the Gatschina
station here a man aud woman were
seized at the corner of the Neveki Prospect
aud the Great Morskaia ten minutes be
fore tbo Czar’s carriage passed. Another
person tried to present a petition as the
Czar passed, but was arrested bylore be
could reach the carriage. It has not yet
boon ascertained positively whether or
not the persons arrested had any criminal
intentions. The Czar was in perfect
health and excellent spirits.”
The Times’ Bt. Petersburg correspond
ent confirm* the statement that a number
of arrests were made there Wednesday on
tbo oocasion ot the visit of the Czar, but
says he is unable to confirm the report
that a Iresh attempt had been made upon
the Czar’s life.
confirmatory advices.
Vienna and Berlin telegrams confirm
the loregoing and slate that the culprit
stood upon the steps of an uninhabited
house, No. 14, and carried bombs under a
plaid suawi. It is supposed that the
petitioner was an accomplice of the other
i wo and did not know that the latter had
been arrested. The Czar knew nothing
of the arrests. He sat beside the Czarina
and kept bowing to the populace. They
were returning to Gatschina from the
Winter Palace, where they had been re
ceiving a Japanese Prince.
KNIGHTfv AND THE CHURCH.
Cardinal Taschercau Withdraws
Condemnation of the Order.
Quebec, Can., April 10.—The following
circular letter bearing on the Knights ol
Labor question was read in the different
Roman Catholic churches to-day:
ABCHBISHOHUC OF QUEBEC, April 8, 1887.
In September, 1884, the Holy Sei, consulted
by me on the society of the Knights of Labor,
condemned 1t under pain ot grievous sin aud
charged bishops to deter their diocesans there
from, as I did in ray circular letter (No. 131)
of Feb. 2,1895. Alier representations made
by their lordships, the bishops of the United
States, the Holy See has suspended until
further orders the effect of that
sentence. Inconsequence I authorize con
fessors of the diocese to absolve Knights of
Labor on the following conditions, wmch it
is your bounden duty tj explain to them aud
to make them observe:
1. That they confess and sincerely repent
the grievous sin which they committed by not
obeying the decree of September, 1884.
2. That they he ready to abandon this so
ciety so soon as the Holy See shall ordain it,
3. That they sincerely and explicitly prom
ise absolutely to avoid all that may cither
favor Masonic and otlieroondemned societies
or violate the law*, either of justice, charity
or of the State.
4. That they abstain from every promise
and from every oath by which they would
bind themselves either to obey blindly all or
ders of the directors of the society, or keep
absolute secrecy even toward the lawful au
thorities. (See' discipline p. 2,7.) In behalf
of these penitents ouly, and by virtue of au
indult, 1 prolong the tune of paschal com
munion until the feast of the Asceusion in
clusively. Please accept, sir, assurance of
my sinoero attachment.
E, A. Carp. Tascukbeau.
Archbishop of Quebec.
LANsnOWNt: SCARED.
The Galleries of I lie Canadian Sen
ate to be Closed to the Public.
Ottawa, Ont., April 10.—There is
much excitement here over an official
note to the effect that during the presence
of Lord Lansdowne in tb Menat* cham
ber at the opening of Parliament ou April
14 the galleries of the Senate will be
closed. I nis is tue first time in the his
tory ot the Dominion that such a step
pas been taken, the galleries ot the Sen
ate always ou such occasions being open
to the public, who are admitted by
ticket. The t xplanatlon is given that it
will prevent confusion. The opinion is
that his excellency has received letters,
the threats contained in which he is
afraid will be carried Into effect if a
crowd is permitted to enter the gallery ot
the chamber while he is opening Parlia
ment on the floor below. Extra precau
tion is to be taken to insure hi* safety in
passing between the Government House
and the Situate on the (lay Parliament
opens.
RIOTING AT BELFAST.
Ono Man Wounded by a Bullet
Eviction Successfully Fought.
Belfast, April 10.— A conflict occurred
here to-day be’ween a mob and body of
police. During tho fight one man was
wounded with a bullet. No other serious
casualties are reported. At this hour
(midnight) the city Is quiet, but it is said
that preparations are going ou lor a re
newal of tho disturbance to-morrow.
EVICTION SUCCESSFULLY RESISTED.
Dublin, April 10.— The I’rtvy Council !
ha* proclaim il Limerick and other ports |
under the, peace preservation act prohib- j
lung tbo importation ot arms and uuimu- j
ultion.
At Dunnian wav. county Cork, yester
day a farmer and his wtfo resisted evic
tion lor eight hours, hurling stones and
other missile* at the police. Tbe attempt
to evict them w as finally abandoned.
A Town Almost Burned.
liOtfiviu.il, Ky., April 10.—A apeoial
from Mouder*on. Ivy., say* the town of
Coryden, iu that count), was almost de
stroyed by flame* at 1 o’clock this morn
ing. FI I tee a house* lit the business por
tion were reduced to anbe*, leaving only
two atandlng. The loss la estimated at
$40,000, one-iourth covered by iusurauce.
'The fire is HtippoNsd to have originated In
a roetaurant Irom adelectlvo fur*.
Loudon socialist* Arrested.
London. April 10.— Tb* Socialistic
meeting lu Hyde I’ark yesterday lormi-
Dated m u collision with a body of police.
Nine Socialists were at reeled, tncludiug
leader William*.
l/uuitvi’* Calhoun oration,
W ashing i on, April 10. Secretary
Lamar is hard a’ work upon the (nation
which he I* tv deliver al the unveiling ol
tie statue ol Calhoun lu Cbarl*#loa on
April -• i
CAROLINA’S METROPOLIS.
The Sensations ol' the Day in Our
Neighbor by the Sea.
Charleston, April !).—The good peo
ple of this ancient metropolis have within
the past six months developed a spirit of
combativenees which is difficult to ac
count for on any other hypnothesls than
a renewal in the present of the pugnacity
of the preceding generation—a pugnacity
which was characterized in 1860-61 by the
erection ol liberty pules, the birth of the
Palmetto cockade, and which finally led
to the bombardment of Fort Sumter and
the terrible train of consoquences that fol
lowed in its wake, it would naturallv be
supposed that the earthquake would have
shaken them down to a peace basis,
but, on the contrary, that event
seems to have had an opposite effect and
to have stirred up such differences of
opinion as promise to end in a war of
words, only to bo equaled by the war of
blood and carnage that has now been
most happily abandoned. It may be men
tioned as a laot that ever since the earth
quake the city has been, metaphorically
speaking, continuously engaged in a war
of words. It started with the relief tund.
There were grumblers who protested
against the distribution of rations to the
negroes. Then there were growlers who
were dissatisfied at the apportionment of
tho fund among the sufferers, although it
is undeniable that the committee did its
work admirably well. It is a known lact
that a man who is classed Al lu the mer
oantile agencies, and who is a member of
one of the most prosperous firms, received
$1,200, so the story goes, lor repairing his
building, and that the man owns a dozen
houses or more.
WANTED OTHER SITES.
It is rumored that be obtained the
money for the reason that his residence
was the only ono of his dozen houses that
was not mortgaged. Then when the
public building act passed Cougress,
although it was known that the object of
the bill was to enable the oity to sell the
police statiou lor enough money to enable
it to rebuild some of its destroyed build
ings, and that the site was certainly the
most eligible in the ouy, there were
grumblers who wanted other sites. Next
oamv a great war of words on the rebuild
ing of the alms house. A proposition was
deliberately made in Council'to purchase
the Mills House, one ol the largest and
handsomest buildings in the city tor
$30,000, and convert it Into an alms
house, situated in the most fashionable
thoroughfare in the city. This time there
was a howl wbicn went out to Fort
Sumter and up to Summerville, and the
Mills House proposition was hastily
abandoned, leaving the location ot the
alms house stiU au unsettled question.
Then the City Hospital, nee the sugar
house, was torn down and it was pro
posed to re-erect ou its site, which, by the
wav, is au admirable oue, a modern hos
pital. This provoked an angry discussion
and a site was selected in the" northweai
ern part of the city near the river banks.
Tnis, too, brought out a dozen or more in
dignant protests, and the hospital ques
tion too remains a puzzle. Council
next turned its attention to a consolida
tion ot tho fire department. For weeks
experiments were made which proved
that au engine could reach any quarter
of tne city from the little park at the cor
ner of Wentworth and Meetiug streets
belore steam could be raised. Tne lot be
longs to the city, and the old engine
bouses bow scattered could have been
sold lor enough to build a handsome aud
ornamental central statiou. Auotber
windy war ensued and nothing haa as yet
been done.
THE NEW POLICE STATION.
At present all hands are engaged In a
war over tne location of the Dew police
station. The Legislature at its last ses
sion gave the city an eligible lot near the
Citadel. Its position is central, and the
city proposed to put up a handsome build
ing with architectural features similar to
the pile ot buildings which constitute the
State Military Academy. The columns
of the News aud Courier have been filled
this week with indignant protests and re
plies ou this subject.
The postmastership came very near
producing bloodshed. Belore the de
ceased postmaster had been burled there
were twenty or thirty candidates in the
field. Congressman Dibble, who cham
pioned Mr. A. U. Mowry in the fight lor
the Collectorshlp a year or so ago, und
who was supposed to carry the appoint
incut in hisoffioial vest pocket, came down
to Charleston alter the funeral just to
look into tho situation and get the views
of all parties. A statement (semi-official)
was at once published that Mr. Mowry
whs uot a candidate lor the place, aud su
his name was not entered by the book
makers. Having looked into the situa
tion for six or eight hours Congressman
Dibble went off to Washington, and
almost belore bis departure w as known
tne newsof Mr. Mowry’sappointment was
flashed soross the wires. Tins produced a
howl.theechoes ol which have not yet died
out. Mr. Mowry will probably make a good
postmaster. He is “one of the boys,” so
to speak, and his appointment, it is taken
for gruuted, means a general sweep
nmongtae subordinates in tbe building.
Tbo prelent nteihod or conducting busi
ness is generally conceded to be unsutis
laotory to tbe business public, and this is
attributed to the tact tuat tbo institution
has been made a kind ol hospital for im
pecunious pets and favorites, it Mr.
Mowry will usa h broom aud reorganize
the internal economy of ms office, tbe
public will be pretty sure to forgot ell
tbe unpleasant tilings that have been said
about him.
The absorbing topic of quarrel to-day
is the quarantine question, whicn is a
proposition to open the port m summer to
uch vessels from infected latitudes us do
not eorae irorn infected ports. The ques
tion will be settled by the State Board of
Health at Its meeting on April 24.
MOBILE BAY LIGHTS,
A New Range Light to Be Estab
lished at Hand Island.
Washington, April it). The Light
House Board gives notice that on or
about April 20, IKS7, a range light will
be established at naud island light sta
tion, at the entrance to Mobile bay. The
light will boa fixed while shown from a
located headlight placed on the middle of
the ridge or tbs keener’* dwelling, and
with the main light will i rm a range
bearing NMVI,W. These two lizht*
and the bar buoy are In the “nine straight
line. The light is 84 lest abov. the level
of the sea and suould lie seen In clear
weather front tn deck of a vessel fiiteen
foot above the sea eleven nautical tulles.
Rolling 91111 m Burned.
Toledo, 0., April 10. — The Maumee
rolling mills were entirely destroyed by
fir* 10-uL b,. litu loss I* $3140,0 lit. Two
bundled men are throw n out ol employ
ment. _________________
\jirngl|i: miii' • tpiiNlM,
Giyfinv. April 10.— A dmastrou* if.
plosion occurred iu an it „ ‘V 1 ’ 1 "', *' C
lot y at Freiberg, " on , llukd edsjfj
ihiUitii LLiabei Un.teeu. TANARUS„ |
SAVANNAH, MONDAY, APRIL 11, 1887.
DEATH HAS X 0 VICTORY.
TALMAGE PICTURES THE OVER
THROW OP THE MONST ER.
Obiemtne* of tlie Easter Festival in the
O den Time—Kaster the Quen of the
Court of S ditenths—Death's Prepara
tions to Conquer til© World Death
Only the Cloak-Room to Heaven.
Brooklyn, April 10.—To-day being
Easter Sunday tbe Tabernacle was pro
fusely decorated with flowers. The pul
pit, the pillars, and the gallories were
one great garden of bloom, l’rot. Browne,
tbe organist, mid Trol. Ali, the corneiist,
rendered selections from Handel, Haydn
and Beethoven, appropriate to the day
celebrated. The subject of Dr. Talmnge’s
discourse was, “The Overthrow of the
Monster,” and his text. Isaiah, xxv, 8:
‘•Be will swallow up death in victory.”
Dr. Taimage said:
About 1853 Easter mornings have wak
ened the earth, lu Fiance for three cen
turies tho almanacs made the year hegiu
at Easter, until Charles IX. made the
year begin at Jan. 1. In the Tower of
London there Is a royal pay roll of Ed
ward 1.,0n which there is au entry of
eighteen pence for four hundred colored
and pictured Easter eggs, with which the
people sported. In Russia, slaves were
fed and alms were distributed on Easter.
Koolesiastioal councils utut at. l’ontus, at
Gaul, at Ho ate, at Achata to decide the
particular day, and after a controversy,
more animated than gracious, deckled It,
and now through all Christendom, in
some way the first Sunday after the lull
moon which happens upon or next after
March 21, is filled with Easter rejoicing.
The Itoyal Court ol the Sabbaths is
made up of fifty-two. Fifty-one ate
princes In the royal household, but Easter
is Queen. She wears richer diadem, and
sways a more jeweled sceptre, and in her
smile nations ate irradiated. Unusually
w Icome this year because of the harsh
winter and the late spring, she seems to
step out ot the snow batik rather than the
conservatory, come ©utjof tho North in
stead ol tho South, oill of the Arctic rather
than the tropics, dismounting from the
ioy equinox; but welcome this queenly
day, holding high up in her right hand
the wrenohed-off bolt of Christ’s sepul
chre, and bolding high up In her left hand
the key to all tbo cemeteries in Christen
dom.
It is an exciting thing to see an army
routed and Hying. They run each other
down. They scatter everything valuable
in the track. Unwheelud artillery. Hoof
of horse- ou breast of wounded and dying
man. You have read ol the Freneb lad
ing back from Bedau, or Napoleon’s track
of uinety thousand corpses in tbe snow
banks ot Russia, or of the rotreat of our
own armies from Mana-sas, or of the five
kings tumbling over t he rucks of Bethoran
wun their armies, while the hall-storms
ol heaven and tae .swords of Joshua’s
host s.ruck them with thei? fury, lu my
text is a worse discomfiture. It
seems that a black giant proposed to oon
quer the earth. He gathered for his host
all tbe aches ami pains and malarias ami
cancers and distempers and epidemios of
the ages. He marched them down, drill
ing them In tbe northeast wind and
amid the slush of tempests. He
threw up barricades of grave-mound.
He pitched tent of charnel house. Some
of the troops marched with slow tread,
commanded by consumptions, some in
double-quick, commanded oy pneumo
nias. boms he took by long beeiegement
of evil habit, aud some by one stroke of
the battle-ax of casualty. AVlth bony
band he pounded at the door ot hospitals
and sick rooms, and won all tbe victories
in all the great battUfields of all the five
continents. Forward march, the con
queror of conquerors, and all tne gener
als and commanders-in-chief, and all
presidents and kings and sultans and
czars drop under the feet, of his war
charger. But one Christmas night his
antagonist was born. As most of tbe
plagues and sicknesses and despotisms
come out of the East.lt was appropriate
that the new conqueror should come out
of the same quarter. I'ower is given Hlm
to awaken all the fallen of all the centu
ries and ol ail lands, and marshal them
against tbe black giant. Fields have
already been won, but tho last day of the
world’s existence will see the decisive
battle. \V hen Christ shall load forth His
two brigades, the brigade of the risen
dead and the brigade ol the celestial host,
the black giant will fall back and the
brigade from the riven sepulchres will
take Him trom benoath and the brigade
ol descending Immortals will take Him
Irorn above, and death shall be swallowed
up in victory.
The old braggart that threatened the
conquest and demolition of the planet has
lost his throne, has lost his sceptre, has
lost nts palace, has lost his prestige, aud
the one word written over all the gates,
ol mausoleum and catacomb aud necrop
olis, on cenotaph and sarcophagus, on
tbo lonely kahn of the Arctic explorer
and ou the catafalque of great cathedral,
written in capitals ol azalea and nulla
lily, written in musical cadence, written
in Uoxology of great assemblages, writ
ten on tbo sculptured door of tbo family
vault, i* “victoy.” Coronal word, ern
baunered word, apocalyptic word, chiet
word ot the triumphal arch under which
conquerors return.
Victory! Word shoutedatCitlloden and
Balakluvaand Blenheim, al Magiddoand
Sollerluo, al Marathon, where the Ath
enians drove back the Medes; at I’oto
tlers, where Charles Martel broke the
ranks of the Baracene; at fialainls, where
I hemisloclea in the great sea-fight con
founded the I’ersiuu*. und at the door ol
the Eastern cavern of chiseled rock,
where Christ came out through a recess
and throttled the King ol 'Terrors, and
pm him back in the niche trom which tbe
celestial Conqueror had just emerged.
Aha! when the jaws ol the Eastern mauso
leum took down the black giant “death
was swallowed tip in victory.” 1 pro
claim the abolition of death.
Tbe old antagonist is driven back Into
mythology with alt the loreabout Htygtan
hn/ and Cnuron With oar and boat.
Melrose Abbey and Kenilworth Csstio are
no more lu ruins than tbe sepulchre. We
shall hate no mure to do with death than
we have with the cloak-room at agovern
.i hoi piesidem’s levee. Westopatsuch
cloak-room aud leave lu ohargo of a ser
vant our overcoat,our overshoes, our out
ward apparel, that we may not be im
peded In the brilliant round of tbe draw
ing-room. Well, my Iriemle. when we go
out ol mis world wo are going to a King’*
banquet, and to a inception of ntonarchs,
and st the door ol the tomb we leave the
cloak of !b'*h and the wrappings wttu
which wc meet tbe storm* id till* world.
At tne clone of an onrtbly reception, un
der tbe brush and broom ol iu* porter toe
coal or net tuny he handed to u* bettor
i hail When v.e resigned it, still tbe cloak
ol huiuuuity will filially be returned to u
improved and brightened aud puriUod
and rlnltbd
You ami I do aot want our bodies r*.
mined a* ilif* are now. We want to gel
<•••( wtuiu nailing ot juaansg and all their
•* .r
tmi u i
CD,'O, lev ..vagi *s 4>M
slowness of locomotion. They will bo
put through a chemistry of soil and heat
and cold and changing seasons out of
w hich God will reconstruct them as much
better thau thuy are now as tbe body of
the rosiest and healthiest child that
bounds over the lawn at Prospect Park is
better thau I he sickest patient In Bellevue
Hospital. But as to our soul, we will
cross right over, uot waiting lor obse
quies, Independent of obituary, into a
state in every way better, with wider
room and velocities beyond computation;
the dullest of us Into companionship with
tbe very best spirits in their very best
mood, in the very parlor ol the universe,
the four walls burnished and paueled
and pictured and glorified with all the
splendors that the luliutte God lu ull the
ages has been able to invent. Victory!
This view ol course makes it ol but lit
tle importance whether we are oreiuated
or sepultured. If the latter Is dust to
dust, the former Is csbcs to ashes. If
any preler incineration let them iiave It
without oarloature. The world may be
come so crowded that cremation may be
universally adopted bv law us well as by
go: oral conseut. Many of the mightiest
and best spirits have gone through this
process. Thousands and tens o! thou
sands of God’s children have been cre
mated—P. P. Bliss and wife, the evan
gelistic singers, cremated liy accident at
Ashtabula bridge; John Rodgers, cre
mated by persecution; Latimer aud Kid
ley, cremated at Oxford; Pothinus, aud
lliaudina, a slave, and Alexander, a
physician, and their comrades, cremated
at tbe order of Marcus Aurelius—at least
a hundred thousand of Curlst’s disciples
cremat' d—and there can be no doubt
about the resurrection of their bodies. If
the world last, as much longer as it has
already been built, there perhaps may lie
no room for the lurge acreage set apart
lor tbe resting-places, but that time has
not come. Plenty of room yet, aud the
race need not pass that bridge of fire until
it comes to it. The most of us prefer the
old way. But whether outo! natural dis
integration or oretnatlon we shnli get tuat
luminous, buoyant, gladsome, transcend
ent, magnificent, inexplicable structure
called the resurrection hotly, you will have
it, 1 will have it. 1 say to you to
day, as Paul said to Agrippa: “Why
snould It be thought a thing incredible
with you, that (led should raise the
dead?'’ Tbe fur-up cloud, higher than
the hawk files, higher than the eagle
flies, what is it made off Drops of water
irom tho Hudson, other drops from the
East river, other drops from a stagnant
pool out on Newark flats—up yonder
thore, embodied in a cloud, aud the sun
kindles it. if God can make such a
lustrous cloud out of water drops, many
o( them soiled aud impute and (etched
irom miles away, can He not transport
tne Iragmeutsof a Inman body Horn the
earth, and out of them build a human
body? Cannot God,- who owns all ttu
muterial out of which bones and
muscle and flesh are made.Qset them
up again if they have lallen ? if
a manufacturer of telescopes drop a tele
scope on the floor and it breaks, can he
not mend it again so you can see through
it ? Ai dlf God drops tbe human eye into
the dust, tho eyo which he originally
fashioned, can Ho uot restore it? Aye, If
the manufacturer of the telescope by a
change of the glass and a change of focus
can make a better glass than that which
was originally constructed, and actually
improve It, do you not think tbe fashioner
of the human eye may improve its sight
and multiply the natural eye by the
thousandfold additional forovs of the res
urrectlou eye?
“Why should it be thought with you an
incredible thing that God should raise
the dead?” Things all around us sug
gest It. Out of what grew all these flow
ers? Out of the mold aud the earth.
Resurrected! Resurrected 1 The radiant
butterfly, where did it come from? The
loathsome caterpillar. That albatross
that smites the tempost with Its wing,
where did it come from? A senseless
shell. Near Bergerac, Francs, in a
Celtic tomb under a block were found
flower seed that had been buried two
thousand years. Tho explorer took the
seed and planted it, and
it came up; it bloomed iu
bluebell and heliotrope. Two thousand
years ago buried, yet resurrected. A
traveler says be found in a mummy pit
iy Egypt garden poas that bad been
buried there three thousand years ago.
lie brought them out, and on June 4,
1844, he planted them, and in thirty days
they sprang up. Buried three tn usaud
years, yet resurrected. “Why should it
he thought a thing incredible with you
tbat God should raise the dead?”
Where did all tills silk come from —tho
silk that adorns your person and your
homes? lu the hollow oi a staff a Greek
missionary brought from China to Flu
rope the progenitors of those worms tbat
now supply tne silk markets of many na
tions. The pageantiyot bannered host
and the luxurious articles of commercial
emporium blazing out from the i)k
worms And who shall be surprised if
out of this insignificant earthly body,
this insignificant earthly life, our bodies
untold into something worthy of the com
ing eternities? Put silver into diluted
nitre and it dissolves. Is the silver gone
forever? No. Put in some pieces of cop
per and tbe silver reappears. If one force
dissolves another force organizes.
“W by sbouid it be thought a thing in
orediblc with you that God should raise
the dead?” The insects flew and the
worms crawled last autumn feebler anil
leebler and then stopued. They have
taken no food; they want none. They
lay dormant and Insensible, but soon the
south wind will blow the resurrection
trumpet, and too air and the earth will
be lull of them. Do you not think that
God oan do as much lor our bodies as He
does lor tbe wu*ps and ihe spiders und
the (mails? This morning at 4:80 o’clock
there was a resurrection, out ot the
night the day. in a low weeks there will
be a resurrection iu all our gardens.
Why not some day a insurrection anud
ail the graves?
Ever and anon there are in- tancos of
men and wonicu entranced.
A trance is death lollowed by resurrec
tion alter a tew days; lota! suspension of
menial power and voluntary action. Rev.
William i'euuent, a grout evaugellat of
the lasi generation, oi whom Dr. Archi
bald Alexauiler, a man tar from being
sentimental, wiot* in most eulogistic
terur —Itov. William Teonent seemed to
die. ills sioi il departed, People cam*
lu day alter day and said: “He is dead,
bs is dead.” But the soul that And re
turned, and William Tsnnunt. lived to
write out tbe expnrieuus* of what bo bud
sson while his soul was gone. It may be
found some tiinu mat wbst is called *u*.
pended aiummlou or OoiumUihu stalo is
Uriel ricaili, giving the soul an exouiMou
luto las next world /rom which It c >m> *
back, a furlough of a few hour* granted
Irom the conflict of tile to whion it must
return. Do not tbi* waking up ol m o
from trance, and Mils waking up
ul insects Irom wiuler lilvlessuess, ami
this waking up ol grain* burled thru
thousand years ago, msku It ensler lor
you lo believe that your body ami mind
alter the vsanuon of tbe giave shall
rouse and rally, thiAigh there be three
tuoueaud year* between our la*t breath
und the sounding ul the archauaeiia
revllle? Physiologists tell us that while
the mostof our bodies are built with such
wonderful economy that we chu sparo
nothing, and the loss of a finger Is a tnn
derment, and tne Injury of a toe joint
makes us lame, still that we have two or
throe useless physical apparail, and no
anatomist or physiologist has ever been
able to tell what thev are good for.
They are no doubt tbe foundation or
tbe resurrection body, worth nothing to
us In this state, to be indispensably val
uable in the next state. The Jewish rab
bins bad only a hint of this suggestion
when they said that in the human frame
there was a small bone which they s’d
was to be the basis or the resurrection
body. Perhaps that may have been a
delusion. But till* thing is oertuiu, tho
Christian scientists of our day have
found out that there are two or three
superfluities of body thut aie something
gloriously suegestive of another stale.
1 called al my friend's house one sum
mer day. 1 found the yard all piled up
with the rubbish of carpenter and ma
son’s work. The door was off. The
plumbers had torn up tbe floor. The roof
was being lifted in cupola. All the pk■-
tures were gone and tho paper hangers
were doing their work. All the modern
improvements were being introduced
into that dwelling. There was not a
room In Ills house tit to live in at that
time, although a month before when
i visited that house everything
was so beautiful 1 could not have sug
gested an Improvement. My friend bad
gone with his family to the Uoiy Laud,
expecting to come back at tbs end uf six
months, when the building was to be
done. And O, what was his joy when at
the end of six months lie returned and the
old house was enlarged and improved and
glorified 1 That is your body. It looks
well now—all the rooms filled with health,
and we could hardly make a suggestion.
But after awhile your soul will go to the
Holy Band, aud while you are gone the
old house of your tabernacle will be en
tirely reconstructed from cellar to attic,
and every nerve, muscle and bone and
tissue and artery must be hauled over,
and the old structure will be burnished
and adorned and raised and oupolaed and
enlarged, aud all the improvements of
Heaven lntroduoeil und you will move
iuto it on resurrection day. “For we
know that if our earthly house of
ibis tabernacle were dissolved, we iiave a
building ol God, a bouse not made with
hands, eternal in the heavens.” O, what
a day when body und soul meet again!
They are foud of each other. Did your
body ever have pain and your soul not
pity ii ? or your body bare a joy and your
soul not re-echo it? or, changing the
question, did your soul ever have any
trouble and your body not sympathize
with it? growing wan and weak under
ihe depressing influence. Or did your
soul ever have u gladness but your body
celebrated it with kindled eye and cbeek
and elastlo step? Burly God never in
tended two such good friends to be very
long separated. And so when the world’s
last Easter morning shall come tbe soul
will descend, crying, “Where is my
body?” and the body will ascend, saving,
“Where is my soul?” aud the Lord of tbe
resurrection will bring them together,
and it will be a perfect soul In a perfect
body, introduced by a perfect Ohnst into
a perfeot heaven. Victory! Do you won
der tbat to-day we swatbe this bouse
with garland-? Do you wonder we oele
braie it with the most consecrated voioe
of song that we can invite, and with the
deftest fingers ou organ and oornet, and
wltu doxologius that b-at these arches
wilh tbe billows of sound as tbe sea
smites tbe basalt at Giant's Causewuy ?
Only the bad disapprove of tbe resurrec
tion.
A cruel beathcu warrior heard Mr.
iloffat, the missionary, preach about the
resurrection, and he said to the mission
ary: “Will my father rise in the last
day?” “Yes,” said the missionary. “VVlil
all the dead In battle rise?” said the cruel
ohleftaio. “Yes,” said the missionary.
“Then,” said,the warrior, “let rae hear
no more about the resurrection day.
There can be no resurrection, there shall
be no resurruetton. I have slain thous
ands in battle. Will they rise?” Ah,
there will be more to rise on that day
than thus* want to see wnose crimes
have nevertteen repented el. Hut for all
others who allowed Chi! t tube their
purdou and their life and their resurrec
tion it will be a day of victory.
Toe thunders of toe last day will be the
salvo that greets you into harbor. The
lightnings will ba only the torches ot
triumphal procession marohinr down to
escort you home. The burning worlds
Hashing through Immensity will bo the
rockets uolebratiug your coronation on
thrones where you will reign forever and
forever and forever. Where Is death?
What have w to do with death? As
your reunited body and soul swing off
from tins planet on that last day you
will see deep gashes all up and down the
utils, deep gashes ail through the valleys,
and they will he the emptied graves,
they will be the abandoned sepulchres,
wltn rough ground tossed on either aide
of them, nnd slabs will lie uneven on tbe
rent billoobs, and there will be fallen
monuments and cenotaphs, and then lor
tbe llrst time rou will appreciate tne full
exhilaration of tbe text, “He will swal
low up death In victory.”
“Hull the i.ird of earth and heaven!
Praise In I lire by both lie given;
'J lice we greet triumphant now,
Hui! the reMirrectioo Thou!”
A imBL'TF. TO lIEECHER.
Temple Israel of st. Louis <*ivcss3oo
to tlie Monument Fund.
S-r. Loits April 10.—At a meeting of
the members ol Temple Israel this after
noon the proposition to subscribe $3OO to
tbe Henry Ward Beecher monument fund
was unanimously adopted and the follow
ing telegram sent:
/' t he Bn,ir / "t Tt uJeet, /’lyiiiyuth Churu/t,
Bi n l V'. r.S
Temple l*i .el nl st I-ouis subscribes $BOO
t i the fund for hulldi >g a monument to Henry
Ward Beecher, prom pled bv the love we
gratefully uw c him for toe ease of that divine
principle of liberal thought he luiuiorlaluud
by his blessed life.
ft. 11. 90NNESCHKIN, ltabbl.
A Bttyglaf Kitted*
Buffalo, N. Y., April 9.—At James
town, N. Y...A. It. Cntllii hoard a mau
trying to enier his house. He took his
nil , went down-stairs aud r.atcbed tbe
man while he opened a window In the
diuing-room and climbed partially la.
Catlln then fired and tbe bullet passed
through tbe burglar’s neck. He dropped
from ttie window, staggered about ltk)
feet aud tell down. The burglar was an
oil well driller, and on his body was
lound plunder front other bouses he had
robbed.
Encampment uftlinU* A. it.
bT. Lome, April lu—Preliminary ar*
rangoiii*nts lor tua national encamp
incut ot Him Urwnd Army ol the Republic,
which is to bo held In this city next Sep.
lember, are being vigorously pushed and
matters are progressing meet, favorably.
Information so far received from post* in
al> parts ol the country indioatHS that
Hilly Itki.oou m v mbs is ol the Uiand Army
will tig bt.
IPItlCFsm ATKAR,!
1 5 CJiNTs A COPY. {
THREE TERRIBLE CRIMES.
LYMAN 9. WEEKS’ MURDERERS
IN THE LAW’S IKON GRIP.)
A ronfeMlon Am'ing Cmokii iind Identi
fication by b Mn Who Saw Them on
the Night of the Slmoting Leadw to lli<
B<iutlou of the Myatery~A Room
Mnte’ Htalui Bohlhq In—lUhwH)'|
l>oad Girl Bt4 I CartMiocclzed.
Rnv York, April 10.—The police bnv,
a man whom they believe murdered Ly
roan S. Weeks In Brooklyn on the nlgbr,
of March 15. Three “crooks” were early
in the w eek arrested in this city for bur.
glarizlnga house !u Jersey City. They
are: i’aul Krousa, aged 26; John Baker,
aired 23, and John Green wall aged 25-
all German. The proceeds of the Jersey
robbery were found upon the men. Ot
Thursday last Krousa told lnspectm
Byrnes that Greenwall had told ime
( Ivrouss) that he had shot Mr. Weeks lit'
Brooklyn, bad taken away bis overoojygl
and pawned it, and then had sold the pis
tol be did the murder with and baH
bought anew one. Grenwall bad toSH
“Crook” Baker the same story, and UMJ
was nervous and apprehensive,
THE MKN IDENTIEIED.
On Saturday afternoon Mr. Chambet
lain, of Brooklyn, called at police head,
quarters and Identified Greeuwall as one
of two men who sat opposite him on the
ferryboat going to Brooklyn on the even
ing of Mr. Weeks’ murder.
It was learned that Greenwall bad hac
a pal named Charles alias “Bute )>.’-•
Miller about the time of Mr. Weeks
murder, and that Miller was serving a
term In the penitentiary for a recent of,
tense. Tins man was brought to polios
headquarters, and Mr. Chamberlain
recognized Miller among twelve othei
inen as the companion of Greenwall on
tho ferryboat going to Brooklyn on thr
night of 51r. Weeks’ murder.
SKKN AT WEEKS’ HOUSE.
Furthermore, Mr. Chamberlain was ot
his way to his borne when be saw thesi
msuju the ferryboat, and to reach hit
heme is in the habit of passing Mr.
Weeks’ nouse. As be did so that night,
about 11:30 o’clock, he passed two men
staudiug beneath a tree nearly In front ol
Mr. Weeks’ hoime. Mr. Chawberlati
turned eud glanced sharply at tb
men, and was surprised to reoog.
mze them us the two m-l
wtio, by their restless manner, bsc
attracted his attention on the boat earliet
in the evening. Tael women in the boat,
the two men under the tree la trout ol
Mr. Weeks’ house at 11:30 o’clock on th
night of the murder and the men Green
wall and Miller are clearly the same, unJ
ilr.Chamberlain's Identification is posi
tive. To this is added Greenwall’s con
fesslon ot killing Mr Weeks to “Crooks' 1
Baker and Krousq and the police believe
the mystery is solved.
Mimutiu l'uu I’.omißßY,
A Railroad Laborer Beats in the
Skull of His Room Mate.
Hopkinsville, Kr., April 10.—A rad.
road contractor from Cerulean Springs re
ports a uornble murder at a hoarding
house on the Indiana, Alabama and Texas
railway, about a mile distant from the
Springs. Two laborers named Purdy and
Tompkins roomed together up-stairs,
Une ntgnt recently cries for help and loutl
noises were beard in the room. Persons
entering found Tompkins aloue. Ho
talked wildly and salu somebody tried to
cut bis throat. An examination showed
only some trifling scratches, and a fur
ther search showed Purdy coveted up in
bed with his skull beaten in. Tompkins
could give no coherent account an.)
denied all knowledge ol tue deed,
l’urdy was known to have a large sum of
mosey in cash and postal orders. Sus
picion was ilirecied to Tomukins, whn
was searched and the money found on hit
person, lie was placed under arrest. A
large number of i abroad laborers gatb
ered and with difficulty were prevented
from lynching him.
DEAD A .MO AO THE KLOWERS
1 wo 1 liousnnd More People Look a
Itiiliway’H Unknown sleeper.
liAUWAY, N. J., April 10.—The body ol
thfc murdered girl lound near here Maroh
•ifi ana her clothing were exhibited to,
day. About 2,000 persons visited th
morgue. Thu girl’s head was surround
ed with cut flowers. Tbe appearance ol
tbe lace has been greatly improved. A
number of persons claimed that they
recognized the body, but upon
investigation it was tound that theli
statements did not agree with facts
known by the authorities. District At
torney Wilson has oftioially notified Un
dertaker Hyno that tbe body must not bi
buried until he gives the order, Th
funeral will be Held to-morrow, and toe
body will be placed lathe receiving vault,
SPIBm AND THE IUKAEKS.
A Convention of the Chicago Dis
trict Votes Against Anarchy.
Chicago, April 10.—A bitter set back
was given to-day to the friends of August
Spies, who have been endeavoring to en
list the moral support of the Turners
bore for bun and bis condemned lriends,
but tbe Anarchiat sympathizers refute to
acknowledge themselves defeated and
and. dare they will carry their effort, before
the highest authority in the order and
make the issue a national one amoqg^. ;
tne Turners. Spies was a Turtifci
and a prominent one before bis lucaioerk,*
turn. Alter the death sentence was pi-flgjff
lumuced agumst nun ami bis companions ,
a triend ol Spies. Chairman John
a idthetnemler-ortheTurner*’ Executor
i.uard, ot this distinct issued a ciroulat
to all the subordinate Turning Societies
In tbis viciolty requesting them to notltj
the board whstnor they favored th*
adoption of a resolution declaring tbi
verdict against the Anarchists to be un.
just, and asking lor anew trial. The
result was a storm ol protests against tea
action of tbe board.
To-day a dlstrlot convention of 1 urneri
waa held lor tbe purpose of deciding upon
the question of Impeatibing and deposing
tbe District Executive Hoard, and espe.
dally John Cloy, chairman,for over-step
ping their authority and disgracing their
offloe. Bevuntv-seven delegates wars
present, including representatives from
every Turner society within a radius of
fifty miles of Chicago. After a stormy
dtsuussion the resolution to depose Hot
Executive Board was earned by a vote
Of 42 to 3ft.
• • • • Youug or iidtidla-acsd men,
suffering from premature decline o'
power, however induced, speedily and
lauieall) euicd illustrated bong for if.
UMiita in stamp*. World's Dlspeasatj
Ji.rn.cal Associaii w, Buffalo, S.T