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VOLUME XXII.
Tto Georgia Enterprise.
A progressive Democratic paper, pub
lished weekly at Covinghm, Newton
County, lieorgia. Terms, $1.60 per an
num, strictly in advance, established
Out, 1 ier 28th, 1805. Burnt out on
August 31st, 1881, and again on Decem
ber 31st, 1883. Both times it went down
in ashes without any insurance.
•* ’riiKEN'ruuraisKis au uncompromising
advocate of the principles of thoorganized
and living Democracy of to-day.
While it grants equal justice to all
men before the law, it holds this to be a
White Man’s Government, belonging to
him by the right of discovery—lte
quaithed to him by tbo 1 flood and suffer
ing f the Fathers. None but Anglo
Sax, Mi names were signed to tbo Declara
tion of Independence, and none hot
white men bled aud died to wrench the
colonies from England’s cruel grasp, to
establish the proud young Republio of
America.
Upon these issues the paper is wiling
to go before the public, asking no other
support than that which its merits de
serve. The paper will be free and out
spoken on all questions of public interest,
and will not endeavor to accomplish the
ridiculous feat of “running with the hare,
and baying with tbo bounds.’’
In other words, The Enterpmse will
no|be a “fence rider” in any of the po
litical campaigns. Those who desire a
live newspaper, are earnestly requested
o give it a trial.
Pf|| S. W. HAWKINS, Editor.
J RAILROAD ROBBERY.
A RED LIGHT DISPLAYED ASD
THE TRAIN STOPPED.
Oal? Akuut $2,000 Hiolen-Kscap* ot the
Villains.
A special at San Francisco, Cal., from
(pcson says the western bound express,
due ilierc at 10:30 p. in. recently, was
stopped and robbed at Papago station,
eighteen miles cast of there, about 9:80
o’clock. The number of men engaged
in the robbery is variously estimated
from five to eight. Harper, the engineer,
when approaching Papago, was signalled
by a red lantern to stop. He slowed
down and as he approached the light be
noticed obstructions on the track, so
|Hkced, that in case he failed to stop, the
■ngine would spread the rail and derail
-wsell'. Immediately on stopping, a doz
en or more shots were fired into the ex
press car and a man with a pistol in each
hand boarded the locomotive and com
manded Harper not to got down.
The other robbers had, in the mean
time, been prying open the express, and
failing to get it open they placed a stick
of giant powder under it and compelled
Harper to light the fuse attached. This
he was obliged to do, but tg avoid being
being blown up the messenger opened
the car and the robbers took possession.
j|fter extinguishing the fuse they then
MBk charge of the car, uncoupled the
engine, baggage and express from the re
mainder of the train, and made Harper
get. on the engine and puli ahead two
lengths. This being dono Harper was
again put off. The robbers took off the
engine and pulled six miles toward Tuc
son. Here they “killed” the engine and
toft it. They only got about $2,000.
The express messenger saved $.1,000 in
gold by hiding it in a stove. The rob
bprs are believed to be discharged rail
road employes. Thirty-five soldiers from
Spit Lowell are scouring the country, in
Injunction with Indian trailers from
ttma.
Early Iron Steamships.
first iron steamer to cross the At
lantic was the Great Britain, screw
Mseamr. She sailed from the Mersey
Jfeiv 20, 1845, and arrived at New York
on the 10th of August following. She
was built by I. Brunei, in 1843. Her
ljmgtii was 286 feet. The first iron sail
ing \ essel that made a transatlantic voy
age i-f which there is any record was a
hark called the Ironsides, 271 tons reg
ister, built at Liverpool by Jackson A
Godon, for Messrs. Cairns & Cos., and
launched Oct. 17, 1838. Her first voy
age was to Kio de Janeiro. There were
other seagoing iron steamers liefore the
Great Britain, but of smaller dimen
sions, ami none ventured to cross the
ocean. In 1818 the Vulcan, a small ves
sel, was launched on the Clyde, aud was
employed in the local trade. Afterward,
the Elburkah, fifty-fi v e tons, was built
and went to sea, h*v destination being
the Niger River, Africa, where she was
tob used for inland exploring service.
In 1 1824 the Aaron Mnnby, a small
atsnicr, was built and went from Lou
dmi to Havre and Paris. In 1831 au
iron steamer, 84 feet long and 14 feet
beam, was built at Manchester and went
tol Liverpool. She was the second (the
Elburkan being the first)iron steamer that
ever braved the perils of deep water ex
cept the Lord Dundas lightboat, which
mad- the voyage from Liverpool to
Glasgow in the previous year. In 1838
iron seagoing vessels were becoming
more numerous, hut still of < ntpoiii
tivaly small dimensions, the largest pre
vious :o the Great Britain being one
built in 1841, 200 feet long. —Sun Fran•
titeo Call.
Nlie Hit Joyed the ThN'.n.
Ala.! V who resides in Nyack has a
girl in her employ fresh from some re
gion far removed from the theatre.
Think ini' to give the girl a grand treat,
an* km iwile' Hint she had never Heen
thAtre the lad v purchased a ticket for n
play at tho ojiera house. The girl went
JBKretumed before it o'clock. “What
'SeIf 6 matter ? Did yon not like it?”
asked tho mistress. “Oh, I liked it
ever so much; it’s a fine painting.”
“But,” inquired her mistress, “why
have you returned so soon f Surely von
didn’t see it all.” “Yes ma’am, I clid.
JEfcient iu and sat down and looked at
■■forge picture hang up in front. Peo-
Mfikrpt coining in, and pretty soon
th-c was quite a crowd all looting at
the picture. Then they took it away
an# some men and women wont talking
up there where it had been about some-
Saßffik I hat didn’t concern me, so I got
npasre! eaine home. But I enjoyed tho
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The Georgia Enterprise.
HONORING A STATESMAN.
VA LUOVJOH STATUE UNVEILED
AT CHARLESTON, S. ('.
Ihiin i* uao CrowiU Attend (he feremot.v
A Mn■nitlcrnt Oration by lion.
1., <{. C. I-u in nr.
TUK CALHOUK STATUE
One of the finest days of the year offer
ed (he people of llie (South a chance to
unveil, at Charleston, South Carolina,
on Memorial Day, a magnificent statue to
John C. Calhoun, and the procession
numbered nearly 5,000 military and civic
associations.
The statue, situated on Marion square,
was draped by both state aud national
colors, which were drawn away by six
little children, while thirty-five young
ladies and misses stood around as spon
sors. The young ladies were appointed
to he present at the unveiling of the mon
ument. With very few exceptions they
are relatives of Mr. Calhoun. Two of the
young ladies are the nearest relatives of
their age of Gen. Francis Marion, of the
Revolution,the directresses believing that
the two distinguished Carolinians to have
been kindred spirits, though in different
departments of the service of the state.
Six babies pulled the rope under super
vision of attending young ladies. The
babies were. Julia Calhoun, great grand
daughter of the statesman; William
Lowndes Calhoun, great-grandson of the
statesman; B. Putnam Calhoun, Jr.,
groat-grandson of the statesman and
great-grand nephew of General Putnam;
Sadie Aucrum, great-grandniece of the
statesman; Ftoride Calhoun Pickens aud
Florida Peyne Johnson.
The dedicatory prayer was made by
Kev. Dr. C. C. Pinckney, who was pre
sented to the audience by Mayor Court
enay, who presided. The unveiling then
followed.
Au ode to Calhoun by Miss E. B.
Cheseborough was read by Rev. A.
Stakcly.
Following this came the oration of
Secretary Lamar, which was followed by
another Calhouu ode, written by Mar
garet J. Preston and read by Rev. Dr.
Junkiu, and then came the benediction,
pronounced by Rev. John 0. Wilson.
Secretary Lamar’s speech,which occupied
two hours, was received with the deepest
attention and frequent applause.
WASHINGTON GOSSIP.
ITEMS OF INTEREST FROM OUR
NATIONAL CAPITAL.
What Is Balni Done by the llenda of Our
Government - The Woelt’o Review.
GRANT KKI.ICS.
The Uraut relics, which have been fur
several months safely guarded in one of
the private rooms of the national museum
are now placed on public exhibition.
Two handsome plush-lined cases, filled
with articles from the collection, were
placed in the main entrance. The arti
cles are of great intrinsic valtto.
Nets*.
Tha interstate commerce commission is
in the South. Their labors will be prin
cipally in Georgia and Alabama.
James H. Marr, chief clerk to the first
assistant postmaster-general, died re
cently. Had he lived until June he
would have been iu continuous public
service fifty-six years.
Gem. V. C. Auotut, U. S. A , retired,
will command the encampment of the
national drill. Ho is a resident of Wash
ington.
Acting Secretary Thompson has ap
pointed James II Wheeler, of Virginia,
u watchman in the treasury department.
Wheeler is the man who was so badly in
jured at Richmond. Va., last year by the
premature discharge of a cannon, while
firing a salute in honor of the visit of
President Cleveland.
Acting Secretary Thompson has ap
pointed'Dr. Benjamin F. Sliaftcl, of
Georgia, to be sanitary inspector, at Sa
pello quarantine station, Georgia.
Nearly four hundred pensions have
been granted under the Mexican service
act of January 29th. About 15,000 Mex
ican claims have been received at the
p nsion office. The president lias issued
a proclamation suspending discriminating
duties, tonnage taxes, etc., upon vessels
of the Netherlands and Dutcn East In
dies under the law authorizing him to
make such exemptions, where similar ad
vantages have been afforded to vessels of
the United States.
A REMONSTRANCE
From Certain t'lScem ol Atlantn, H-i t®
the Itullrva y ( flmiiilielrinrrt.
The interstate commission, in session
at Atlanta, Ga., received a formal docu
ment from u delegation of colored people
which recited that they arc assigned,
peaceably if possible, by force if neces
•arv, by the officers in charge of the trains
who claim to be acting under orders from
superiors, to some particular car, known
in the common parlance as the “Jim
Crow car,” “smoker,” or “negro annex,”
which ia always inferior iu every respect
to cars occupied by w hite passengers (lay
ing the same fare and traveling between
the same pointy which car is also tho
retreat for drunkards and ail low and un
principled characters of tho traveling
public of other races, thereby subjecting
maiden", wives, children, mothers ana
listers to horrible outrages and indigni
ties, anil forcing thorn to listen to lan
guage which is heard in the brothel and
bagnio.
MEMORIAL DAY.
Hnnuiital Wtmh.r, llr.ii t'niwdi, I‘lii
lltipla.i uf Ullliarr ml Ctrl. Iloillr.
iiuU I‘Alrtmtr Oration*.
In Atlanta the procession comprised
'he officers of the police force tinder
command of Chief ( ounolly. Following
enme the Confederate veterans, about unu
■Mildred strung, under command of Col.
r rgeT. Fry. The third division, uu
du mmnnd uf Cnpt. W. I). Ellis,
wus o. of the most attractive, including
the Gnu City Guard, under command of
Cap*. Burke,’ Atlanta Hith-s, under Cupt.
Bnced, Means Cadets, under Prof. Edwards
and the Patriots Militant, commanded by
Captain William Kinyon. The Atlanta
Military IT and ws n ,{h this division. W.
J. Lotg, assistant m.iislial, was in com
mand of the saiiitli division, wKich in
cluded three tiibes of the Independent
Order of Red Men, with the Marietta
hand.
Maj. J. Gadsden King was in charge
of the fifth division, which included two
divisions of the Uniform Rank Knights
of Pythias, the Governor s Horse Guard
and the Atlanta Artillery with their four
guns. The sixth division, under the
command of Frauk M. O Bryan, assistant
marshal, including the Knights Templar
escort and catriages containing the ora
tor and chaplain of the day and the
members of the Memorial association.
Following this came various officials and
citizens in carriages under the command
of GeorgeH. DeSaussure. At Oakland uti
address full of partiotic fire was delivered
by Col. Albert H. Cox.
The day was fitly noticed at Macon, Ga.,
Montgomery, Ala., Milledgeville, Ga.,
Amertcus, Ga., Athens, Ga., Covington,
Ga., Albany, Ga., Jacksonville, Fla.,
and many other places.
Chattanooga, Teun., was honored by
the presence of Miss Winnie Davis,
daughter of Jefferson Davis, and in the
evening a reception was given at the
Stautou House.
At Augusta, Ga., Governor Gordon
delivered nu oration before the Confed
erate Survivors association, and an iru
nieuse audience. His address was di
rected to a review of the South under the
old regime, showing its civilization and
prestige in directing and controlling gov
ernmental affairs. Governor Gordon was
sick when he began Iris address, end was
compelled to end it suddenly, on account
of intercostal neuralgia
RICH FIND.
DISCOVERY OF It It'll I VISED
VOI.l) MINES IN MEXICO.
In ft t'hnpsl Map* are Found whicli tilvo
ft Clew.
Special dispatches from the City of
Mexico anuouuee the discovery of two of
the lost seven bonanza mines by an Amer
ican party of prospectors. Humboldt and
Hamilton speak of the fabulous wealth
obtained from these mines by the Span
iards. They were worked up to the
middle of last century. In 1776 the In
'liiaus swept over northern Mexico and
destroyed Chihuahua and all tire miners
were driven out. The Indiana held eon
trol of the country so long that records
were lost. Recently, Lieutenant Kepper,
formerly of the U. S. army,W. K. Glenn,
of Illinois, Copt. Allen ami J. Mclntyre,
of Chicago, weut out on n surveying ex
pedition in the interest of a land com
pany, and iu an old chapel found maps
and other data. Dividing into four small
parties a thorough search was begun.
Mclntyre’s party located what is thought
to lie the Lapoya silver mine, it is in
the midst of thousands of ruined build
ings, among large churches and forts.
Within four miles arc 420 workings
of old Spanish furnuecs and tons of
slag. A few days later the Bowers party
reported the discovery of the Gunyanopa
in the heart of the Sierra Madre moun
tains. Around it arc the ruins of 11$
arastras. Advices from other points con
firm the rumor and state that the gn at
placer field has been located, where the
Jesuits of 200 years ago found fortunes
for the church. Great excitement in
mining centres prevails.
“MILLIONS IN IT.”
The Weatlnglioiiee Air Brake leveatleu
Cluimrd by ft Poor Mu.
Theodore Monger who lives in Detroit,
Mich., is a tall, rather powerful-looking
man, wearing a full gray beard, trimmed
rather close, usually dressed in gray
cloth, and wears cowhide boots. Mr.
Munger lias been a resident of Detroit for
ten years or more, but until recently lias
attracted no attention. He now comes
forward with the claim of having been
the inventor of the Westinghouse air
brake, from which invention he says he
never realized a dollar. He claims that
he invented this valuable Improvement
about eighteen years ago, at the time an
attempt was made to produce the result
with steam on passenger car brakes.
Being in poor health at the time ho says
he revealed his invention to those work
ing at the steam brakes, who have since
taken advantage of it to deprive him of
pecuniary and other benefits. Mr. Mon
ger talks rationally about this invention
and backs up his claim iu the most cir
cumstantial manner,and if legally proved,
will make him a millionaire.
THE G 0. M. SHAKES HANDS
W ith Buffalo lillPi Wntrrn U ihl Indiana.
Mr. Gladstone and his wife recently
[raid a visit to the grounds of the Amer
ican exhibition and camp of the Wild
West show, iu London, Eng A special
perfoimauce was given for their enter
tainment, and they were much impress
ed by the aborigines. Mr. Gladstone sat
and looked on with all evidence of child
like delight. After the performance was
over he was introduced to ' ‘Rid Shirt.”
one of the Indians. Mr. Gladstone spoke
to him at length, and asked him whether
he noticed any difference between Eng
lish and Americans, or if lie regarded
them as brothers. “Red Shirt” replied
that be didn’t notice much about tin:
brotherhood. Fifteen hundred work
men employed at the exhibition grounds
cheered for “Gladstone and home rule.”
Mr. Gladstone and his wife repeatedly
bowed in answer to salutations. Mr.Glad
stone was entertained at lunch by the
manager of the exhibition. Col. Rus
sell, of Boston, presided.
The treasury vaults contain 2,000 tons
of silver and 48 tons of gold. This is
the limit of their capacity, and the treas
ury officials ure puzzled to know what
to do with the constantly accumulating
store of precious metals. An appropria
tion for anew steel vault failed to pass
the last Congress.
“MY COUNTRY UA Y SHE BY HR DR MUST. RIGHT OR WRONG UY COVNTUY."—Jfmar,
COVINGTON. GKOKGIA. FRIDAY, MAY G. 1881.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
A negro teamster, named Lem Cole,
while driving across the railroad trsck
in the suburbs ot Birmingham, Alh , was
struck by a hacking freight train and in
stantly killed.
Clitrk Horn, a well kuowunud popular
young man of Chattanooga. Tenu., while
out speeding spirited horse in a gig.
w as thrown out of the vehicle and kicked
on the head by the horse, receiving in
juries from which lie will die.
A few nights ago at a church in Sandy
BottomGa, May Whitehead an Henry Clay
a colored man got into a dispute uhout
Henry spitting on the floor, and Clay
said something that did not set well with
Whitehead, who struck Clay in the
mouth.
Three children were burned to death
in a farm house near Wright, Texas.
Their mother locked them up in the house
to make a call at a neighbor’s and in her
absence the house was hurried down.
The name of the unfortunate family is
Welch.
Cicero Darby, who was confined in jail
at Macon, Ga., and was sentenced to a
life-long imprisonment, swallowed eight
ounces of opiates aud died in conse
quence. He left a long letter, claiming
to he innocent of the crime for which he
was sentenced to prison.
Judge Jenkins, the new judge of the
Ocmulgee, Ga., circuit, is enforcing the
liquor laws with rigid impartiality. He
fined the ordinary of the county, W.
D. Carlisle SIOO aud B. R. Gordon, of
Toombsboro, SSOO. for violations of the
law.
A young man, named Elmore, of Illi
nois, who lias been in Chattanooga,
Tenu., for several weeks past, looking
for work, fell from a Cincinnati Southern
train at Dayton, Tenu. The wheels of
the train passed over his legs and right
arm, severing them completely from the
body.
While two of Jas. R. Ellis' children
were playing in the yard at his home,
three miles from Griffin, Ga., they were
struck by lightning. One of them, a boy
about four years old, was instantly killed.
The other, a girl about five years old,
was stunned by the shock but soon re
covered, aud is now out of danger.
A D Clinard,whos uddenly disappeared
from Rome, Ga., has committed suicide.
Mr. Clinard was about fifty years old.
lie kept a hotel in Athens, then removed
to Cave Spring, aud afterwards to Rome,
where uutrl recently he kept the Ceut.al
hotel, llewas financially embarrassed, nnd
lmd threatened to commit suicide in or
der that his family might receive ten
thousand dollars life insurance.
Mayor Price, of Macon, Ga., In re
sponse to the complaint of a number of
merchants, forbade tbe Salvation Army
bolding open air concerts. He gave them
permission to parade, but ns the mcr
chants entered such earnest protest
against theit stopping to sing and play
iii front of their business places, he told
them to return to their barracks, which
they did.
The Georgia railroad is laying steel
rails on the Athens branch.
Mobile, Ala., petitions the interstate
commission to suspend some of the en
actments of the law.
The Grays and Blues of Montgomery,
Ala., will euter the prize drill at Louis
ville, Ky., about the middle of June.
A middle-aged man riding a small
mule, is going over the state of Georgia
passing off bogus silver dollavs on the
people.
W. P. Fowler und Mr, Stivers, rector
of the Episcopal Church at Grenada.
Miss., had a difficulty recently, in which
Mr. Stivers was mortally wounded.
A freight train on the Valley branch of
the Baltimore & Ohio railroad, was
wrecked near Timberville station. Billy
Cooley, of Strausburg, Va.. brakemau,
was killed, anil Edward Russell, con
ductor, badly hurt.
William Garvin, w ho murdered William
Hankinson, near Waynesboro, Ga., a
year ago, was arrested a few days since.
Garvin killed Hankinson to prevent the
latter from testifying against him in a
hog-stealing case. He buried the corpse
and escaped. Both were negroes.
Tom Sheely, a farmer living near Op
elika, Ala., about a month ago was bit
ten on the little finger of his left hand by
a fine dog. Recently symptoms appear
ed in the form of intense pains through
out his leftside, and water being shown
him he at once went into violent convul
sions.
Three young sons of Geo. W. Hay
wood, of Solomon Island, iu the southern
part of Maryland, were drowned recent
ly. The boys, with a colored man, were
returning in a small sail boat from a visit
across the bay. The boat was capsized
in a heavy gale and two of the boys,
Frederick and Guy, were swept away iu
the darkness. The colored man and
Bernard, the youngest boy, clung to the
mast till daylight, when Bernard lost his
hold and drowned. The colored man
was picked up by a passiug vessel.
Judge William F. Wright of Atlanta,
Ga., who was born in Coweta county in
1821, died recently at Alexandria, Va.
Alabama’s State encampment iu June
will be a tine affair, and will do much to
increase the efficiency of the military of
that state.
Calhoun county, Ala., intends to scud
a special train of cars as far as New York
loaded with specimens of the resources of
that section.
A jury was summoned by the sheriff of
Baltimore, Mil., to determine the mental
condition of Lambert Gitlings, one ol the
wealthiest men in that city. His properly
is estimate 1 ul $2,U00,0e0.
Mrs. Edna Mullen, of Columbus, Ga.
answered a ling of the door boll recently
and some unknown ruffian tried lo kill
her by a blow over the head wi ll a bar
of iron. She escaped death, buticeeived
a terrible wound.
Iu Jefferson City, Mo., Judge Heurv
and State Auditor Walker quarreled.
Thu judge struck bis opponent over the
head with a cane and the auditor re
sponded with a pistol shot. Both are old
men and neither was seriously hurt.
Mhs. Pock, the widow of James K.
Polk, tenth President of the United
States, is over eighty yeais of age, but
the is in good health and she possesses
a memory of unimpaired vigor. She
resides in the old Polk homestead at
Nashville, Teuu., a large, roomy, two
•ton building made of brisk.
LATEST N KIN'S.
A dispatch from Rome says, that Dr.
McGlynn, of New York, has aguin in
formed the Vatican that he refuses to
come to Home.
Advices from Kodisk, Alaska, says
that the schooner Flying Bcud, hailing
fiom that poiut, was recently lost at sea.
All hands were lost.
Emanuel DeFreitas, a seventeen year
old lad who made a successful jump from
the Brooklyn bridge, was sentenced to
prison for three mouths.
The steamer Benton, from Singapore,
was sunk in a collision with a hark off
the island of Formosa and one hundred
nd fifty persons were drowned.
A dispatch from Western Australia,
says a hurricane swept over the north
east coast recently. A pearl fishing fleet
numbering forty bouts was destroyed and
five hundred and fifty persons perished.
At Hooueville, Ind., five hoys J. D.
Wilson, Will Lampton, Louis Irwin,
Emmett Moore, J. Gifford Lampton, while
roaming in the woods, ate wild parsnip.
Three of them died within au hour.
Mrs. Joseph Farnsworth, aged 25 years
of Lockport, N, A’., ran away with her
liugband's father, Nathan Farnsworth,
aged (10 year*. Mrs. Farnsworth left two
small children. The elopers went to
England.
The English government recently ap
plied for a list of educated candidates to
till vacancies in the ranks of the Irish
constabulary caused by resignations, and
refusals to join the service were so
numerous that the government was com
pelled to resort toau iuferior list. Many,
even of the latter, refused to take the
places offered them.
The trial of persons implicated in the
plot to kill the Gzar commenced recently
aud a Russian general is present to report
proceedings for the Czar. A painful im
pression was produced on the spectators
in the outer hall as the accused entered
the court, their youth and high bred, in
telligent air eliciting much sympathy.
Among the prisoners is a maiden of
striking beauty.
Dr. W. T. Northrop, a physician nt
Haverhill, Ohio, was murdered hy
Thomas McCoy, a saloon keeper, and
his brother Alfred, postmaster at Haver
hill, aided by two sous of Alfred McCoy.
Dr. Northrop had incurred the displeas
ure of the McCoys by being active in fa
vor of local option. They waylaid him
when coming to his office aud began
firing on him with pistols and shotguns.
He was unarmed, but drewapocketknife
and badly wounded Alfred McCoy liefore
lie was fatally shot.
The Wabash railway roundhouse, at
Desmoiues, la., containing fourteen en
gines, was burned receutly,
Mrs. Hetty Green, a forty million
dollar New York widow, is going to buy
the Baltimore Ohio railway.
Being refused a ten per cent, advance
in wages, about 1,000 window-glass
workers have quit work nt Pittsburg, Pa.
Harry Gill, Michael Bohammu, Harry
Morrison, Duuicl Finn aud Ebcn Frances
were killed at Tunnel colliery at Ashland,
-Pa., hy a fall of coal.
The speculators who bought up trade
dollars made over a million dollars profit.
About $.">,250,000 of this depreciated cur
rency has been redeemed at par.
A Central American confederacy with
a firm constitutional basis has beeu
formed. The treaty of peace and friend
ship which has just beeu made public,
will probably promote the welfare of nil
the Central American republics.
Fred Reeves, one of the militiamen
guarding tho reservoir and state property
in Paulding county, Ohio, where the cit
izens have partially destroyed the old
canal reservoir, accidentally shot nnd
killed himself while on guard duty.
Mr. Gladstone, in his speech at the
dinner given by the labor members of
Parliament, iu London, Eug., declared
his entire disbelief in the accusations
made against the Irish leaders of being
concerned iu the Phoenix park massacre.
Customs officers throughout Great
Britain and Ireland hive received string
ent orders to search all vessels arriving
from America, China and the cast, the
government having been warned that ex
plosives have been seut from Sau Fran
cisco to ports in the east to be transhipped
to England.
The cases of a number of druggists and
merchants charged with keepiug open
their places of business, on Sunday, came
up for trial in Washington, D. C. Judge
Snell, on authority of Webster's Diction
ary, held the words “Sabbath” and “Sun
day,” to be synonymous. A fine of
twenty dollars, or thirty days in the
workhouse, was imposed ill each case.
J. H. Burns, of Mansfield, 111., a farm
er, employed three meu to paint a barn.
They stood on a bracket scaffold twenty
feet from the ground. A calf running at
large witli a rope around its neck mau
aged to get the rope eutangled in the
supports of the scaffold, pulling the posts
away, and two of the meu were killed by
the full.
It lias transpired that when Prince
Alexander of Batteuberg was first de
posed from the Bulgarian throne nnd
escorted out of the country bv the suc
cessful conspirators, he accepted from
them the sum of 4,1)00 frunes with which
to pay lib- way to iris home at Darm
stadt. The money was handed to him
at ltciii, in Bcssurubia, whore the
Prince's kidnappers parted with him.
A suit to recover the sum lias been be
gun by the rebels who made the loau,
REV. DR. TAUIAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SI IS
DAY SEHMON
Subject: ** WfiJtt in i Im* Moral Kffl'ct
of B<*cri‘t Societies?"
Text; “IHscover not u secret to another."
Proverb*, xxv., U:
It api*ur* that in Solomon's time, us in all
subsequent jerio<ls of the world, there were
pooplo too much dih|x>st*d to tell all they knew,
it wu blab, blab, blub; physicians revealing
the ease of their patients, lawyers exjKmiu”
the private attain* of their clients, neighbors
Advertising tha faults ol the next door re 1
dent, pretended friends 1s t raying eoiilideucv't.
One naif of the trouble of every community
cornea from the fact that mo many jx*ople ha\o
no capacity to keep their mouths shut.
When I hear bomcUiUMr dmjwraging of you
my first duty is not to tell you. But if i tell
you uliat somebody has etuitl against you,
and then go out and tell everybody' else what
I told you, and they go out and tell others
what I told them that 1 told you, aud we ail
go out, some to hunt up the originator of the
story and others to hunt It down, we shall get
the whole community talking about what
you did do and what you did not do, and
there will be as manv s \U|* taken as though
a hand of Modocs had swept upon a helpless
village. We have two ears but only one
tongue, a physiological suggestion that wo
ought to hear a good deal more than we tell.
Let us join a conspiracy that we will tell
each other all the good and nothing of the
111, and then there will not be such awful need
of sermons on Solomon's words: ‘•Discover
not a secret to another. "
Solomon had a very large domestic circle.
In his earlier days he had very confused no
tions about monogamy and jjolygaiuy, and
his multitudinous associates in the matrimo
nial state kept him too well informed as to
what was going on in Jerusalem. They gath
ered up all the privacies of the city and
poured them into his ear, and his family be
came a Sorosis, or female debating society of
700, discussing day after day all the difficul
ties lietweeu husbands and wives, between
employers anti employes, between rulers and
subjects, until Solomon, in inv text, deplores
volubility about affairs that do not belong to
us aud extols the virtue of secretiveness.
By the power of a secret divulged families,
churches, neighborhoods, nations fly apart.
By the power of a secret kept great chanties,
socialities, refoimatory movements and Chris
tian enterprises may lie advanced. Men are
f gregarious—cattle In herds, fish in schools,
>irds in flocks, men in social circles. You
may by the discharge of a gun scatter
a flock of quails, or by the plunge of
the anchor send apart the denizens of the
sea, but they will gather themselves together
again. If you, by some new power, could
break tbe associations in which men now
stand, they would again adhere. God meant
it so. He has gathered ull the flowers aud
shrubs into associations. You may plant one
forget-me-not or heart's ease alone, away off
upon the hillside, but it will soon hunt
up some other forgot me-not or heart's
ease. Plants love company. You will And
them talking to each other in the dew. A
galaxy of stars is only a mutual life insur
ance company. You sometimes see a man
with no out-branching- of sympathy. His
nature is cold and hard like a ship's must
ice-glazed, which the most agil* sailor
could never climb. Others have n thousand
roots and a thousand brunches. In
numerable tendrils climb their hearts,
and blossom all the way up, and ill* fowls
of heaven sing- in the brunches, in onae
qneuce of this tendency we tiud men wning
together in tribes,in communities in chtirches,
in societies. Some gather together to culti
vate the ai ls, some to plan for the welfare of
the Stab*, some to discuss religious themes,
some to kindle their mirth, some to advance
their cralt. So every active community is
divided into associations of artists, of
merchants, of bookbinders, of carpenters, of
masons, of plasterers, of shipwrights, of
plumbers. Do you cry out against it/ Then
you cry out against a tendency divinely im
planted. Your tirades would accomplish no
more than if you should preach to a busy
ant-hill or bee-hive a long sermon against
secret societies.
Here we find the oft-diacu<sed question
whether associations that do their work with
closed doors and admit their members by
pass-wonls, and greet each other with a
secret grip are right or wrong. I answer
that it depends entirely on the nature of the
object for which they meet. Is it to pass
the hours in revelry, wassail, blasphemy
ami obscene talk, or to plot trouble
to the State, or to debauch the in
nocent, then I say with an emphasis
that no man can mistake: No! But is the
object the defence of the rights of any class
against oppression, the improvement of the
mind, the enlargement of the heart, the ad
vancement of art, the defense of the govern
ment, the extirpation of ciime or the kind
ling of a pure-hearled sociality, then I say,
with just as much emphasis: Yes
There is no need that we who plan for the
conquest of right ovci wrong should publish
to ail the world our intentions. The General
of an army never sends to the opposing
troops information of the coining attack.
Hhafl we who have enlisted in the cause of
God and humanity expose our plans to
the enemy# No! \v wil] in secret
plot the ruin* of au the enterprises
of and his cohorts. When
they expect us by day. we will full upon them
by night. While they are strengthening
their left wing we will double up their right
By a plan of battle formed in secret conclave
we will come suddenly upon them crying:
“The sword of the Lord aud of Gideon.”
Secresy of plot and execution are wrong
only when the object and ends are
nefarious. Every family is a seer* t
society, ever# bush ess rirm and every
banking and’ insurance institution. Those
men who have no capacity Cos keep a
secret are unlit for positions of trust any
where. There are thousands of men whose
vital need is culturing a capacity to keep a
secret. Men talk too much, and women too.
'There is a time to keep silence as well aa a
time to speak.
Although not belonging to any of the great
secret societies about which there has
s* much violent discussion, I have only words
of praise for those associations which have for
their object the maintenance of right against
wrong, or the reclamation of inebriates, or,
like tne score of mutual benefit societies,
called by different names, that pro
vide temporary relief for widows and
orphans, ami for men incapacitated by sick
ness or accident from earning a livelihood.
Had it not been for the large number of
secret- labor organizations in this country
monopoly would long ago have, under its
ponderous wheels, ground the laboring
classes into an intolerable servitude
The men who want the whole earth
to themselves would have got it be
fore this, had it not been for the
banding together of great secret organiza
tions. And, while we deplore many things
that have beeu done by them, their existence
is a necessity, and tlielr legitimate sphere ills
tim-tly pointed out by the providence of God.
Much organizations are trying to dismiss from
their association all members in favor of
anarchy and social chaos. They will gradu
ally cease anything lik*- tyranny over their
members and will forbid violent interference
with any man's work whether he belongs to
their uuioutM- w outside of it,, and will declare
their disgust with any such rule as that passed
in England by the Manchester Bricklayers’
Association, which says any man found run
ning or working lieyond a regular speed,
shall l>e fined two shillings and six
pence for the first offense, five shil
lings for the second, ten shillings for the
third and if still persisting shall be dealt with
as the committee think proper. There are
secret societies in our colleges that have letters
of the Greek alphabet for their nomenclature,
and their members are at the very front in
scholarship and irreproachable in morals,
while there are otheis the scene of carousal,
and they gamble, and they drink,
and they graduate knowing a hundred
times more about sin than they do of geome
try and Kophocle*. In other words secret so
cieties, like individuals, are good or bad, are
the means of moral health or of temporal and
eternal damnation. All good people recog
nize the vice of slandering an individual, but
manv do not see the sin of slandering an or
ganization.
There are old secret societies in this and
other countries, some of them centuries old,
Much have been widely denounced as Im
moral and damaging in their influence, yet I
have hundreds of fiersonal friends who belong
to tliem, friends who are consecrate i to
God. pillars in tbe church, faithful
in all relations of life, examples of
virtue and piety, They are the kind of
fronds whom 1 would have for rnv executor*
If I am so happy as to leave anything for my
household at. tho time of decease, and they are
the men whom I would have carry me out to
the last sleep when I uni dead. You cannot
make me ladievo that thev would belong to
bad institutions. Thev ar® the men who would
•tamp on everything Iniquitous, and I would
eertninly rather take their testimony In re
gard to such societies than the testimony of
those who, having been sworn in as members,
i,\ t!,rii a nun uponthaaooiatyoonfMitlMni*
Knives perjurers. One of theso secret societies
gnve for the relief of the sick in 1878, in this
ml \ $1 190,974 Boom of tbM to lottos
|,:ive jsuired n very heaven of win
tihiue and Rmediciion into the home
of suffering. Several of them are founded
on fidelity to goo 1 cit 1/ensiiip and the Bible.
1 have never taken one of their degrees.
Thev might give mo the grip a thousand
ti o' * mi l I would not recognize it. 1 am
i'Zunroot of their pass words, and I must
in igo entirely from • tlw* outside. But
Christ has given us ft rule by
which we may jutLe not only all individuals,
but societies, secre t and open. "Bv their
fruit-' ye shall know them.” Bad societies
make bad rnen Good societies make good
men. A bod man will not stay hi a gooa so
ciety. A good man will not stay in a bad so
ciety. Then try all secret societies hy two or
three rules.
Test the first: Their influence on home, if
you have n home. That wife soon loses her
iuMiumco over her husband who nervously
and foolishly looks upon all evening absence
as an a sauU on domesticity. How are the
great ontorprivM of reform, aud art, and lit
erature. mid xsnefkvriceand public weal to be
carried on if every man Is to have his
world bounded on one side by Ills front door
step, and on the other side by his back win
dow, knowing nothing higher than his own
attic, or lower than bis own cellar# That,
wife v. ho becomes jealous of her husband s
attrition to art. or literature, or religion, or
charity is breaking her own sceptre of con
jugal’power I know a:i instance where a
wife thought that her husband was
civ/ - tix manv nitdi’s to Chris
tian service, to charitable serwW, to
prayer-meetings, and to religious convoca
tion She systematically decoyed him away
until now he attends no church, waits upon
no charitable institution, and is on a rapid
way to destruction, his morals gone, uis
money gone, and I fear his soul gone. IjG t
any Christian wife rejoice when her husband
consecrates evenings to the service of human
ity, and of God, or charity, or ai-t, or any
thing elevating.
But let no man sacrifice home life to secret
society life, as many do. 1 can point out to
you a great many names of men who ure
guilty of this sacrilege. They are as genial
as angels at the society room, and as
ugly as sin at home. They are generous on
all subjects of wine suppers, yachts and
last horses, but they are stingy about the
wives’ dresses anti the children’s shoes. That
man has made that which might be a health
ful influence, a usurper of his affections, and
lie has married it and U* i* iruiltv of moral
/ira. Coder this process, the wift\ what
j> l her features, becomes uninteresting
and homely'. He becomes critirjal or
her, does not like the dress, does
not like the wav she arranges
her hair, is amazed that he ever was so un
romantic as to otter her hand and heart.
There ure secret societies where* membership
always involve* domestic shijrvreck. Tell
m that a man lias joined u certain kind, and
tell me nothing more about him for ten years,
and 1 will w rite h!s history if he be still olive.
The man is a wiue gnzzl/r, his wife
broken hearted or premaairel/ old, his
fortune gone or reduced, and his
home a mere name in a directorv.
Here are six wtvular nights in the week.
: What shall I do with them #” says the father
and Um husband. “1 wiilgivefour of these
night? to the improvement aud entertainment
of my family, either at home or in good
n ghborhood. I will devote one to chari
♦■,ole institutions. I will devote one to my
lodge.”
I congratulate you. Here i a man who
says: “Out of the six secular nights of the
week I will devote five to lodges and clubs
mul associations aud one to the home, which
night I will spend in scowling like a March
squall, wishing 1 was out spending it as i
huso spent the other five nights.” Thai man's
obituary is written. Not one out of 10,000
that ever gets so far on tbe wrong road
ever stops. Gradually his health will fall
through late hours, and through too much
stimulants he will le first rate prey for ery
sipelas and rheumatism of the heart. Tlte
doctor coming in will at a glance see it is not
only present disease he must fight, but
years of fast living. The clergyman, for
the sake of the feelings of the
family, on the funeral day will only talk in
religious general ties. The men who got his
yacht in the eternal rapids will not bo at the
obsequies. They have pressing engagements
that day. They will send flowers to the coffin,
will send their wives to utter words of sym
pathy, but they will have engagements eJso
where. They never come. Bring me mallet
and chisel, and 1 will cut on the tombstone
that mans epitaph. “Blessed ure the dead
who die in the Lord." “ No,” you say, “ that
would not be appropriate.” “ Let me die the
death of tbe righteous and let my last end be
like his.” “ No,” you say, “that would not
be appropriate.'’ Then give me the mallet
and tne chisel and I will cift an honest epi
taph: “Here lies the victim of dissipating
associations."
Another test by which you can find whether
•y our secret society is right ur wrong is the
effect it has upon your secular occupation. I
can understand how through such an institu
tion a man can reach commercial success. I
know some men have formed their best busi
ness relations through such a channel. If the
secret society lias advantaged you in an hon
orable calling it is a good one. But
iias your credit failed# Are bargain makers
more anxious how they trust you with a bale
of goods# Have the men whose name were
down in the commercial agency A 1, before
they entered the society, been going down
since in commercial standing 1 Then look out.
You and I every day know of commercial
establishments going to ruin through the
social excesses or one or two members, their
fortune beaten to death with ball player's
bat. or cut amidships with the prow' c( the
Njgatta. or going down under the swift hoofs
of the fast horses, or drowned in the large po
tations of Cognac or Monongahela. That se
cret society was the Loch Lain. The business
was the Ville de Havre. They struck and the
Ville de Havre went under!”
The third tost by which you may know
whether the soiety to which you belong is
good or bad is this: What is its effect on your
sense of moral and religious obligation# Now,
if I should take the names of all the people in
this audience this morning aud put them
on a roll, and then 1 should lay that
roll back of this organ, and a
hundred years from now someone should
take that roll mid call it from A to Z there
would not one of you answer. I say that any
society that makes me forget that fact is a
buil society. When 1 go to Chicago 1 am
somewhat |>erplexed at Buffalo, as I suppose
many travellers are, as to whether it is
better to take the Lake Shore route
or the Michigan Central, equally expeditious
and equally safe, getting to their destination
t the same time. But suppose that i hear
that on one route the track is torn up, the
bridges are down and the switches are un
locked, it will not take me a great while to
decide which road to take. Now, there are
two roads in the future—the Christian and
the un-Christian, the safe and the unsafe. Any
institution or* any a.<s<jciation that confuses
my ideas in regard to that fact is a haul insti
tution and a bad association. 1 hod prayers
before T joined that society, did I have them
afterward# I attended the house of God be
fore I connected myself with that union, do I
absent myself from religious influences#
Which would you rather have in your
liand when you come to the -a pack
of cards or a Bible# Which would
you rather have pressed to vour lips in the
closing moment—the cup of Belshazzarean
wassail or the chalice of Christian commun
ion' Who would you rather have for your
p ill-bearers—the elders ot a Christian church,
or the companions whose conversation was
full of *dang and innuendo#. \Yho would you
rather have for your eternal companions
those men who spend their evenings
betting, gambling, swearing, carousing
and telling vile stories, or your little
child. that bright girl whom the
Lord took# Oh. you would not have been
away so much nights, would you, if you had
known she was going away so soon? Dear
me. your house has never been the same place
since. Your wife has never brightened up,
she lias never got over it. She never will get
over it. How lung the evenings are with no
one to put to bed, aml no one to whom to
tell tin* beautiful Bible stories.
What a pity it is that you cannot spend
more evenings at home in trying to help her
bear that sorrow. You can never drown that
grief iu the wiue cup. You can never break
tway from the little arms that used to be
M MBLK ‘>l.
Ming aruunA your neck when sba used to say:
“I’apa, do stay with me to-night. Do stay
with me to-night.” You will never bo able to
wijwftway from your lips the dying kiss of
your little girl. The fascination of a bad •-
cret society is so grea'. that sometime* a man
has turned his back on his home when his
child was dying of ocnrlet fever. He went
away. Before no got la'k at midnight the
•yes hail l>eon closed, the undertaker
Aid done his work, and the wife,
worn out with three weeks’ watching, lay un
conscious in the next room. Then the re
turned father comes rjpsfaii s, and he sees the
.Tame gone ana tin* windows up. and says:
“What is the matter/' Uu the Judgment
i >n v he w ill find out w bat wus tho matter.
Oh, man astray.< tod help yon! 1 am going
'o make a very stout rope. You know that
sometimes a ropcinnkcr will take very small
threads and wind tliem together until after
ft while they become ship cable And lam
going to take some very small delicate thread*
and wind them together until they make a
verv stout rone. I will take all the memories
of ilia marriage dav—a thread of laughter,
a thread of light, u thread of music, a thread
of lianqueting.a thread.of • oi!rratulation,and
I twist tliem together and I have ore strand.
Then I take a thread of the hour of tho first
vour J .. - ud of the darkness
that preceded, an da t i read or the light that fol
lowed: an la thru el of i ; heautiful scarf that
little child use 1 to wear when she bounded
out at eventide to greet you: and then a
\hread of th<* beautiful dre s in which you
laid her away for the n surrection; and then
L twist all there threads together, anti 1 have
another strand. Then I take a thread of
the scarlet robo of the suffering Christ,
and u thread of the white raiment
of vour loved ones before tho throne, and t%
string of the harp chcrubi *, and a siring of
the harp seraphic,and \ twist them altogether,
ami I have a third strand. “Oh,” you say,
• cither strand is cnou li to hold fast a world.
No; 1 will take these strands and 1 will twist
them together, un.l 0.-. e end of that rope
I will fasten, not t> the communion
table, for it shall be removed; not to a pillar
of the organ, for that will < nimble in the
ages; but I wind it round and round the
cross of a sympathizing Christ, and, having
fastened one end of the rope to the cross, I
throw' the other cud to you. L.ay hold of itd
Pull for vour life I Pull for Heaven?
SOUTHERN PROGRESS.
THE IMPHO VI .HUNTS IN VA RIOUS
SECTIONS OF THE SOUTH.
iUftnufarturtiift and Other llu.lneM IfttftV
e.la Bomiiln*—Ne*e Kallmilt, Etc.
Arrangements have been maae for
building a furniture factory at Florence,
Ala.
A SIO,OOO stock company will be or
ganized to erect a canning factory at Gal
latin, Tenn.
The stock of the Planters' Compress &
Warehouse Cos., at Greenville, Miss., is
SIOO,OOO.
Garner & Son, of Tampa, Fla., con
template erecting a steam laundry at An
niston, Ala.
The Rayides Compress Cos., capital
stock $30,000, has been organized at
Alexandria, La.
Subscriptions are being received to
wards the erection of a hotel to cost
SIIO,OOO, at Americus, Gn.
Hitt & Co,,will erect a Taykircompress
at Americus, Ga. They will probably
erect several other compresses.
Allen Fort has organized a company to
build a cotton factory at Americus, Ga.
The capital stock will be SIOO,OOO.
The mayor of Anuiston, Ala., will re
ceive bids for the erection of the city
hall. It is to bo two stories, 120x120.
E. F. Gould, of Lake Helen, Fla., is to
build a 0-story building on Decatur
street, Atlanta, Ga., to cost about $150,-
000.
The Montgomery Iron Works, of
Montgomery, have contracted to furnish
machinery for a 15-ton ice factory at Eu
faula, Ala.
A national bank with a capital of
SIOO,OOO has been organized iu Anniston,
Ain., nnd a dime savings bank, with a
capital of $30,000, has been formed.
Arrangements iiave been mude for run
ning a regular line of steamers between
Brunswick, Ga., and European ports, to
commence on or before the Ist of August.
Works are to be erected in Birming
ham, Ala., to manufacture sad irons.
'lhe capacity will be 10 tons daily. The
East Birmingham Land Cos., are inter
ested.
The Atlanta, Ga., Cotton Compress &
Warehouse Cos. have changed their name
to the Atlanta Compress & Warehousing
Cos., and have increased their capita! to
$500,000.
The Catawba Fails Manufacturing &
Improvement Cos., capital stock $200,000,
has been incorporated at Catawba, 8. C.
The object of the company eventually is
to purchase tiro Catawba falls and build a
cotton factory.
A Western syndicate purchased recently
through a local real estate broker, thirty
four thousaud acres of timber in Escam
bia county, Ala. It is the intention of
the syndicate to commence at once the
erection of a large saw and planing mill.
KIDNAPPING A SENATOR.
A Bald Plan lo Hobble d.neral Sherman’*
lit other.
It has just leaked out, that a party of
kidnappers or outlaws, comprising much
of the dangerous elements of Cuban ban
ditti, had arranged to capture Senator
John Sherman on his recent visit to Cuba.
The project only failed by a uotice in
time. The plot was well arranged, and
the banditti were in sufficent force to
capture Sherman’s party, but they left
the plantation intended as the scene of
the outrage just five minutes before the
outlaws appeared. It is thought the
owner of the plantation was a party to
the scheme. While in Havana, Senator
Sherman took occasion to congratulate
the captain general on the peace prevail
ing throughout the islands. When the
seuator, however, expressed a desire to
visit the sugar plantation iu the interior,
the military guard was sent as au escort,
and the entire party barely escaped an
unpleasant surprise.
violated’orders.
fits Men Sent tu llfatb By a Trainman.
A west bound train, pushing a flat car
loaded with laborers, was going around
the curve leading to a trestle at a good
rate of speed on the Cascade division of
the Northern Pacific railway, when it
rau into an engine which was running
east, backing up. The flat car passed
half way through the tender of the light
engine and the other end crushed up
against the pilot of the west-bound train,
on which were two men. The unfortu
nate men were crushed to a palp. Five
men were killed outright, and one liai
since died. The injured number eight
men. The scene of the accident, as de
scribed by those present, beggars de
scription. Blood is scattered in every
direction, and the neighboring rocks
bear evidence of a fearful carnage. Ihe
accident was the fault of one of the
train’s crew neglecting to flag, as per
orders.