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VOLUM K XXII.
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I
H A■n>"rr*ivo Democratic paper, pub
Qnlichl weekly at Covington, Newton
Joimty, Uoorgin. lurnis, $1.50 i>er an
nini, atri'll.v in ml vane*. Kutahliahod
) t>l*ors 28th, 18(35. Burnt out on
uqpitt, 31t, 1881, and again on Decera
or nut, 18X3. Both times it went down
i aahee without any iunuraiico.
TME'ENTKKI'RtsRi.H an uucnmproniiaing
lvooaic< f the principle* of theorgmiized
ml living Democracy of to-day.
While it grants equal justice to all
iien before tlio law, ii holds this to l*t a
Vhito linn's CJovoi ouient, bchmgiLg to
um by tho right of discovery—l*-
pioathed to him by tho blotxiand stiffet*
ugof the Fathers None but Anglo
hutooJSames were signed to the Deelnra*
iou of Independence ami none hot
rliite anon bled a id died to wrench tho
;oloiie from England's cruel grasp, to
wUblkh lie proud young Republic of
Amoiiea.
Upon these issues the paper is nil ing
io go befico the public, asking uo other
inpport than that which its merits do
lorve. The paper will he free and out
spoken tin all questions of public interest,
land will Hot endeavor to accomplish the
ridiculous feat of “running with the Lore,
and baying with the hounds."
[ Iu oilier words, TIIE EntKRPIUSE will
not la a “fence rider” iu any of tho po
litical campaigns. Tliose who desire a
live aMrs paper, are earnestly requested
o give it a trial.
'jpwp s. W, HAWKINS, Editor.
IRELAND S FRIENDS
In Atlanta, Ga., Make the Wel
kin Ring with Protests
Against Coercion,
KOTA II I E JUDGES, STATESMEN,
SOLDIER S CLERGYMEN AND
LAWYERS ORATE MOST
ELOQUENTLY.
liTely litiliri Turn Out Iu Great Force
to Grace the Occasion*
Governor Gordon had been requested
to (beside over the meeting, recently
held in Atlanta, Ga., to protest against
the proposed English coercion bill, and,
although seriously indisposed, consented
to do so. In calling the meeting to
order,[he said that the vast assemblage
was present to express deep sympathy
for t great cause; a great cause grandly
maintained by a great people. “My
physical condition,” said he, “is such
thatbut for the very great sympathy I feel
in (Sic cause I would not be here to
night. I request Mayor Cooper to pro
sidobver the meeting.”
Mayor Cooper made a very short and
timely speech in assuming the chair, and
presented as the first orator, Col. Albert
Cox, -who presented the following res
olutions
“As part of the Anglo Saxon race, im
bued with the principles of English law
andßiberty, we resolve,
lfThat the policy propounded by
Gladstone and l’amell —home rule for
Ireland—has our profound sympathy.
Ourfown experience has taught us, and
wa Submit it to the world, that local sclf
govirnment is the keystone of the arch
of civil liberty and safety.
sympathize with all English
audßrish statesmen and patriots who op
pot*the policy embodied in the “coer
cioifibill,” viewing that policy as sub
versive of those ancient English princi-
that men accused be tried by a jury
of peers of the vicinage; that the freedom
of the press be preserved; that the right
peaceably to assemble, discuss grievances
and petition for redress be inviolate; and
that the writ of habeas corpus be sacred,
so that an honorable judiciary may
promptly adjudicate whether personal
liberty be restored or be forfeited to just
laws.
8i We express the hope that the signal
failure of all other policies will induce
the statesmanship of England once to try
the policy of a generous justice toward
Ireland."
Gen. Colquitt, U. 8. Senator, said, in
a most eloquent address, that the princi
pal appeal of the Irish is, that they shall
Lava tlie privilege so ilear to all Ameri
can! as tneir birthright, to lie tried by
thnit peers. We love what is just and
what is right. There is hope that Ire
lit#<| will be rescued from the blow which
is i# intended to he dealt her. In the
case of Ireland the moral sentiment of the
world will stand by and applaud Parnell
and Gladstone.
TV gem of the evening was the mag
niicent speech of Judge Howard Van
Epps, and it was said by competent
judges to be one of the most eloquent
•ddres ses ever heard in Georgia.
After a long introductory speech,
Which was brimful of information about
Ireland aud grinding laws. Judge Van
Epps traced the sources of Irish discon
tent, the remedies proposed, English ob
jections to these remedies, and the remedy
—-COOn i'in, now proposed by England.
Irish discontent be said finds its source in
the infamous agrarian laws of tho coun
try, Ml in the aspiration of the Irish
people for local self-government.
HMry W. Grady n\adc .a short but stir
ring Speech, and was followed by Rev.
Dr. Hnwthorue.
Letters were ready from Senator Brown
and Others, and the subjoined message
was sect by cable to Gladstone:
“Gladstone and Parnell, London, Eng
lnnd.|-Tho people of Georgia, at a mass
moetfcg, presiiled over by Governor Gor
don, and participated in bv both the
United States senators ns well as judges
and rgymen, protest agaiust the coer
cion of Ireland, and wish you godspeed
in your struggle for Ireland and human
ity"
CHICAGO KTIUKK
Over >,OOO hod-carriers of Chicago
quit work because they cannot get an
in4§**e in wages from twenty-five to
Ufctjr cents per hour.
The Georgia Enterprise.
BUSINESS BOOH.
Money Pouring into the South for Mills,
Foundries, Railways, Etc.
A brewery is to be started at Florence,
Ala.
The Fountain Head Railroad Cos. will
build a dummy railroad at Knoxville,
Tenn.
The Atlanta Gas Light Economizer
Cos., capital stock (100,000, has been in
corporated.
The Birmingham, Ala., Water Works
will build a reservoir with 1,000,000
gallons capacity.
The Georgia Pari lie Railroad Cos. are
building a branch load from Birming
ham, Ala., to Bessemer.
Many men doing business at Sheffield,
Ala,, are now living in tents, and some
in the adjoining town of Tuscambia.
A company lias been formed to build a
rolling mill at Florence, Ala. A site lias
been selected nnd work will so in begin.
The Marietta & North Georgia Rail
road Cos. will change their road to tlie
standard gauge, and extend it to Knox
ville, Tenn.
Robert MeCarroll lias received the con
tract to build a pier for the U. 8. gov
ernment at Charleston, 8. C. It will
cost $133,000.
The Missouri Pacific Railroad Cos. will
build a union depot and machine shops
at Fort Smith, Ark., nnd a bridge across
the Arkansas river.
Bush Bros, are testing their clay at
Chauncey, Ga., and will, if it is satisfac
tory, erect a plant with a capacity of
about 30,000 daily.
The Falls of Neuse Manufacturing
Cos., at Raleigh, N. C., havs built an ad
dition 40x75 feet, to their cotton factory
and added 40 plaid looms.
A number of furnaces will be built
during 1887 and 1888. A number of
companies have lately been organized to
buihi furnaces in Southwest Virginia.
The East Alabama Railroad Cos. have
increased their capital stock from $2000,-
000 to $400,000, and have let the con
tract to grade the extension of their road
to Roanoke, 17 miles.
Mr. Stevens, a large builder and con
tractor of Birmingham, Ala., has secured
ground at Choccolocco, 8 miles from An
niston on the Georgia Pacific railroad for
a large brick plant.
The Armour Packing Cos., of Chicago,
have signed a contract with the Selma.,
Ala., Land, Improvement & Furnace
Cos., and work will commence immediate
ly on a large packing concern and refrig
erator there.
The Clinch Valley Railroad Cos., re
ported as inaugurated, has been organ
ized with Joseph I. Doran, of Philadel
phia, Pa., as president. The object of
the company is to build the extension of
the Norfolk & Western Railroad from
Graham, Tazewell county, to a connec
tion of the Louisville & Nashville Rail
road, now being extended eastward from
Corbin, Ky.
LABORS AGITATION.
Ntrike. Ordered nil Ovrr Thr MOlrjr.
Bricklayers, bricklayers’ laborers and
carpenters, to the number of two hun
dred, have gone on strike in London,
Ont., for an increase of wages.
House painters in all Wilmington,
Del., shops struck for $2.50 per day, a
raise of 25 cents. Two of the largest
employers have granted the increase, and
it is probable that others will follow.
AH the carpenters in Washington, City,
numbering nearly 300, quit work to-day,
because employes refused to give them
tlie same wages for nine hours work as
they received last season for ten hours.
A large number of carpenters struck
at Hamilton, Ont., for an increase in
wages to 22J cents an hour all around.
Printers in the Hamilton Palladium office
are to be called out because the proprie
tors refuse to discontinue the use of
stereotype plate matter. The Palladium
is a labor paper.
The glass mixers and teasers, of Pitts
burgh, Pa., who struck two weeks ago
for teu per cent advance, returned to
work at their old wages. The recent
decision on the coke question was the
principal argument against arbitration,
and the fact that the Knights of Labor
did not support the strike, left the men
without resources.
A general strike of the coke workers
of Connellsville, Pa., region is certain.
One-half of the men refused to go to
work, and others it is thought will strike.
Tho operators issued their ultimatum in
which they refused to make any conces
sion at present, but promised to consider
the matter as soon as there is an advance
in coke. They are preparing to close
down for a long and bitter fight.
Some of the hands employed by Mc-
Ginty & Cos., on the public school build
ing at Athens, Ga., demanded an increase
of wages. The demand arose from tho
fact that tho hands employed by R. L.
Bloomfield on his Clayton street improve
incuts were getting higher wages. Mc-
Ginty & C’o., acceded to the increase,
stipulating however, that work should
begin earlier in the day than heretofore,
and that the stopping time should be
later.
IMPLOHATS QUARRELING.
Considerable friction and had feeling
exists between the United States legation
md consulate general, at London, Eng.,
the cause being the failure on the part of
the legation to include either the consul
general or his family in the official list
furnished by Mr. Phelps to the lord
chamberlain for court eutertainments.
Mrs. Waller the wife of the consul gen
eral and her daughters are leaving for
the United States, and will be absent
from London throughout the whole of
the jubilee festivities. It is asserted that
the consul general thoroughly disnproves
of the repeated efforts of Minister Phelps
to throw cold water on the American
exhibition.
aboi t t urn’s.
The Western crops summary says: The
conditions in tho main have been favor
able for growing winter wheat. The
condition of spring wheat in lowa, Minn
esota and Nebraska is reported to be good,
though rains are needed. The acreage in'
lowa promises to be folly c- large as Inst
vear, if not somewhat larger. The mead
ows in II innis. Indiana and Ohio are
thin and slow >a> starting. Widespread
injur- to cinvei farms in Illinois is re
ported, owing to the injury from freezing.
NATIONAL CAPITAL NOTES.
Gossip About the President, His Cablao
and Other Notables.
Whnt Southern Men nr* Heine l(roi|iilird'
Inierraiing Item# About ibt* National
thrill* l ie., Kir.
DKVrn OK lIIOQRA VIIKK
Frank 11. Alfricnd, assistant lihuriun
of tlie Senate, died aged forty-seven
years, Tlie deceased was born in Rich- j
mond, Va., and for many years was a 1
prominent politician and journalist. He
was a personal friend of Jefferson I>o\ is.
Secretary Lumarand other eminent south
erners. Mr. Alfricnd was the first bio
grapher of Jefferson I'uvis.
VISIT Of A qUEEN.
Queen Kapiolani, of Hawaii, amt her
suite, arrived recently. At Baltimore
they were met by the Hawaiian minister,
Mr. Carter und Scvollcn Brown, Capt.
1). M. Taylor, and Lieut. R. P. Rogers,
who were detailed try the state, war find
navy departments to extend tin* court"
sies of the government, to the distin
guished guests, ami were e-e tried to
Washington.
GUIIiTV OP BIUBEItY.
Uriah Cornell Alien pleaded guilty in
the criminal court to two indictments
charging him with having offered a
bribe of a certificate of stock in the Pratt
manufacturing company, valued at SSOO,
to James B, Rogers, an examiner in the
patent office, with a view to influencing
his official action. Judge Hagner sen
tenced Allen to pay a fine of $1,500 and
to imprisonment in jail for eighteen days.
THE NATIONAL DRILL.
There is a good deal of complaint com
ing to the capital from persons who had
contemplated attending the national drill
over the action of the railroads which
have been offering excursion rates. It
is stated that alow rate has been adver
tised, but when persons go to purchase
tickets they are told that the rate applies
only to parties of twenty-five or more go
ing and coming in a body. Secretary
De Leon will .endeavor to correct this
matter at once.
THE PRESIDENT'S INTENTION.
United States Marshal McMahon, of
New York, says: “I had a pleasant chat
with the President and invited him to
attend the meeting of the Society of the
Army of the Potomac in Saratoga on
June" 22. He did not make a direct prom
ise, but gave me to understand that he
would certainly go, if possible. We are
going to build anew Home in California,
in Nnpa valley, anil the President thinks
of going out there with us in September.
In fact, he said he desired to visit all the
Homes, and if he could fl el time this
summer or fall, would make the trip.”
AMENDING THE RULES.
The civil service commission submitted
to the President certain proposed amend
ments of rule 4. 6,1!) and 21 of the rules
for the regulation and improvement of
executive civil service. All of the pro
posed amendments were approved aud
became at once effective. These regula
tions will he applied to the war depart
ment, and after they have been tried in
that department, if found satisfactory to
the commission, they will he applied to
the treasury department, and later to all
of the other departments of the govern
ment.
will EJECT HIM,
F. Fenny and W. 11. Crosby, of the
National Hotel, tiled a lull in equity
against Dwight Doolittle to dissolve
partnership and restrain the defendant
from interfering iu the management of
the National Hotel. The complainants
state that they sold Doolittle a third in
terest in the hotel for $20,000 in 1885 on
his representation that he had success
fully conducted a hotel in Norwich,
Conn., on which his lease had just ex
pired. They charge that the defendant
seriously injured the business of the hotel
by his misconduct, quarrelsome temper
and impoliteness to guests.
THE PUBLIC DEBT.
The comptroller of the currency has
authorized (lie Chattanooga National
bank to begin business with a capital of
$300,000. The debt statement, just is
sued, shows the decrease of the public
debt during the month of April to be
sl3 053,098.75. Decrease of the debt
since June 80th, 1880, $83,965,928.50.
Cash in treasury, $400,105 896.41; gold
certificates outstanding. $94,434,485;
silver certificates outstanding, $137,740,-
430; legal certificates of deposit out
standing, $8,350,000; legal tenders out
standing, $340,081,010; fractional cur
rency (not including amount estimated
as lost or destroyed), $0,948,472.87.
Total interest bearing debt, $1,103,459,-
368.72. Total debt, $1,704,174,957.38.
Net gold in treasury April 30th was
$180,902,431 or $,037,416 less than ou
March 31st. Circulation of standard
silver dollars April 30th was $155,785,-
205 or $1,066,450 less than March 31st.
The comptroller of the currency has
declared a third dividend of ten per cent
in favor of the creditors of the Exchange
National bank, of Norfolk, Va. This
makes in all forty per cent on claims
proved, amounting to %2.888,980.
It is reported that Miss Rose Elizabeth
Cleveland, the President’s sister, will be
come a teacher in a prominent private
school for young ladies in New York.
EXCITEMENT IN FRANCE.
Youii Men Parade the Mtrffli ol Parts
and Si dm Patriotic Songs.
A procession carrying a banner inscrib
ed, “ To Berlin ! ” marched to the palace
of the Elysee, the residence of President
Grevy, in Paris, where it was dispersed
by the police. Another mob in the
neighborhood of Eden theatre, where
Wagner’s “Lohengrin” was being per
formed, shouted: "A Bas L’Allemagne 1”
“Down with Germany!” “Vive La-
Francel” “A Berlin!" “On to Berlin!"
"A Bas Bismarck I” “Give us back our
clocks!” referring to Strnsburg. A mob
composed of students and gamins march
cd about shouting. They halted in front
of the army and navy club and there cried
out: “Vive l'armee Francaise!” “Vive
Boulanger!” “A Berlin!” Another mob
went to tile building, occupied by the
Russian embassy, shouting, “ Vive La
France!” “Vive la Russie!” “ Vive Fal
liance Russie Francaise!” The leaders
of this mob then proposed to their fol
lowers to march to the Germau embassy.
Place De La Concorde, singing the air,
“Lampions,” to the words of the song,
“Nos Pcudulcs,” but it was stopped by
the police and turned away before it
could reach the German embassy.
A nihilist printing press has been dis
covered at Odessa, Russia, and thirty-two
nihilists have been arrested.
“HY COUNTRY MAT RMC RVBR BH RIGHT. RIGHT OR WRONG HT COUNTRY."—Jtfffnm
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, FRIDAY. MAY 13, 1881.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
Judge lhmeoi'k sentenced Holmes It.
Purycar at lvterxlmrg, Va., to Ire hanged
on July 15 next, for the murder of his
wife by poison. The crime was com
mitted iu Dinwiddie county ucurly two
years ago.
Jones 8. HumilUm, lessee of the peni
tentiary, and R. D. Gninbrcll, editor of
the Sword and Shield, had a quarrel at
Jackson, Miss. Gambrell was killed al
most instantly, having received several
shots in the head. Coi. Hamilton is mor
tally wounded, being shot through the
body. The cause of tlie unfortunate af
fair was an article in the Sword und
Shield, a few days ago, severely criticis
ing Col. Hamilton's private and public
character.
Six negro boys, thirteen to seventeen
years old, were at the wharf of the Wil
mington, N. <compress, preparing to
go across Cape Fear river to shoot rice
birds. One named Grant Best hail bor
rowed a doub'e-barrellcd gun from a
negro man which, lie says, had no caps
on the tubes, and he did not know it was
loaded. While in the act of blowing out
one of the tubes, the hammer fell and the
barrel disclaimed, killing instantly Ed
Smith aud 13. Fiilvnw. Ben Conn dy and
Ed Fill}aw were also shot anil died soon.
The nnuual parade of the fire depart
ment of Columbus, Ga., was a grand af
fair. Champion No. 6 won the first prize
in the colored companies’ contest.
Deputy United States Marshal John
Knox, ut Lexington, Ga., arrested one
Adam Pope, colored. Adam is accused
of cheating nnd swindling, though lie
claims to be blind.
Fire bugs in Macon, Ga., are giving
tiie police plenty of anxiety. Recently
Policeman Watkins caught Jim Williams
starting a fire under a house, but two
companions of the incendiary escaped.
Capt. Dawson, of the Charleston, S. C.,
News and Courier, has just returned from
Europe where ho was decorated by the
Pope for using his influence as a journal
ist against dueling. His first action on
landing from the steamer was to sue the
New York Sun for libeling him.
The coroner of Cartersville, Ga., held
an inquest over the body of a negro,
Babe Stafford, who died from the effects
of a blow on the head inflicted with a
post of a chair by one Dec Stafford,
This was a most unprovoked murder, and
the accused will doubtless suffer the ex
treme penalty of the law.
A shock of earthquake was felt at El
Paso, Texas, recently. It was percepti
ble in every portion of the city and so
alarmed the citizens that only invalids
and the helpless were left within doors.
For probably two minutes proceeding the
shock, many persons recognized the dis
tinct and offensive smell of sulphur.
While the vibrations lasted, many articles
hanging on walls oscillated and some fell
to the floor, while plastering fell from the
fronts and ceilings of many dwellings and
businsss houses.
W hen the Baltimore & Ohio Express C'o.
gained the franchise of the Queen and
Crescent route and invaded the territory
of the Southern Express Cos., a war of
rates was predicted, and it has come.
The latter company made a cut of thirty
five per cent in rates on fruit and vegeta
bles to all western points.
The Richmond & Danville Railroad
has assumed control of the East Tennes
see, Virginia & Georgia railroad. E. B.
Thomas, general manager of the Rich
mond A Danville Cos., will have charge
of the East Tennessee Cos., in the same
capacity, with headquarters in Washing
ton. Henry Fink has been appointed
vice president of the consolidated com
pany, with office at Knoxville.
News of a terrible accident at Coosa
tunnel, on the extension of the Columbus
and Western railroad, Ala., is at hand. A
white foreman and seventeen negro la
borers were at w*ork in the tunnel, get
ting ready for a large Vrlast. While ram
ming the blast with an iron bar a strata
of flint was struck with the iron, making
a spark, which ignited the powder. Ot
the eighteen men only six came out alive,
and afl of them were more or less in
jured.
An elevator at Louisville, Ky., owned
by Brown, Johnson & Cos., containing
hay, barley, rye, corn and oats, was re
cently destroyed by fire. Loss $100,000;
insured.
A party of eighty three survivors of
the 57th and 59th Massachusetts volun
teers, who served in the army of the Po
tomac during the late War, went to Nor
folk, Va., recently, by a Boston steamer.
The party was entertained by commit
tees of military and citizens.
Patrolmen Moss and McCullough of
Atlanta, Ga., succeeded in reconciling a
husband and wife. They were approach
ed by Henry Hood, a negro who com
plained that his wife had eloped with
Jim McGinnis, nnd that the pair had
come to Atlanta. Later in the day they
came upon the woman at a house near
the eemeterv, on Gullott street. Hood
was notified that his wife had been found,
and called at the city prison. The meet
ing resulted in a reconciliation.
A sensational wedding occurred near
Holly, Tenn. James Smith some months
ago married the daughter of a widow
lady named Lea, and she being a poor
woman, everybody said it was a good
thing for her, as Smith was considered
an industrious man. They lived togeth
er peacefully a month or two, when their
connubial bliss faded away. They sepa
rated, nnd a divorce was applied for and
granted at the last term of the court.
Several weeks ago, Smith again came in
the neighborhood, and hovered around
the scene of his w ithered affections. They
were this time, however, centered on the
mother of his former wife. They were
made husband and wife.
DEATHS HARVEST
la a Coal Mine I.omled la llrlllsh C alambia.
A terrible explosion of gas took place
recently in a shaft of the Vancouver Coal
Co.'s mine, in which there were upwards
of 150 miners at the time. The first in
timation those on the surface had of the
explosion was a terrific shock, followed
by an outburst of thick, black smoke
through the air shaft. The first explos
ion was quickly followed by a second
one, stronger than the first. It carried
pieces of wood, miners’ lamps, etc., hun
'beds of feet in the air. In a few minutes
flames began to issue through the air
shaft with a loud, roaring noise. The fan
house soon caught tire nnd was quickly
consumed. The scenes around the shaft
head were most heartrending. Friends
of those imprisoned below are looking
for the missing, but little hopes sre en
tertained for the safety of about 150
miners who are in the pit.
LATEST NEWS.
John L. Lewis, colored, who lias been
a trusted letter carrier for twelve years in
Cincinnati, <>., was caught stealing mon
ey letters. Ho confessed his guilt.
The crib in Lake Michigan is in a dan
gerous condition and liable at any mo
ment to eol lapse and cut off the water
supply at Chicago, 111. The foundations
are exceedingly shaky, and ail ordinary
gale of wind makes the structure rock
like a cradle.
in consequence of the refusal of Eu
ropean powers to take part in the Paris
exhibition, tlie French government will
postpone the ojicuing until 1890, iu order
to disa * .-late the exhibition from the
celebration of the hundredth anniversary
of the Revolution.
Editor McGuire, of the Mercury, of
Quebec, Can., w*as sentenced to six
months' imprisonment nnd S2OO tine for
libeling Mayor Lamglier and his brother.
McGuire charged them with having re
ceived a large sum of money from a con
tractor for securing a contract in connec
tion with city work.
The Western Export Association has
practically ceased to exist, although its
organization is intact at Chicago. Mauy
distilleries refuse to tome into the pool.
They, therefore, decided to pay no as
sessments, pay no closed houses for the
coming mouth and to reduce the | rice ou
whisky from $1.13 per gallon to $1.05,
decreasing the income of the pool $12,-
000 per day or $2,000,000.
The anti-German fefilipgis so strong in
Paris that the proposed performance of
Lohengrin has been prohibited.
The Chinese government has ordered
that every foreign missionary must hold
a passport from his own government, in
order that his nationality may be shown.
All other passports are declared invalid.
United States Marshal Mead has arrest
ed three men charged with robbing the
express car near Tucson, Ariz. They are
named Barrock, Swain and McCussick.
All three were saloon keepers.
Rev. Charles W. Ward, the Engle
wood, N. J., rector, recently accused of
attempting to murder his wife,was found
dead at the home of Judge Drew, his
counsel, at Rockland Lake, from an over
dose of chloral.
Wm. H. Vanderbilt used to return bis
personal property at $1,000,000. Shortly
after his death the same property was as
sessed at $10,000,009. The executors
offered to pay on $5,000,000 or move out
of New York. A compromise of $8,000,-
000 has just been agreed upon.
The storekeeper of the warehouses
known as Almacons de Deposits at Ha
vanna, Cuba, has disappeared and is
said to baa defaulter in the sum of
$500,000.
Tlie Glasgow steamship, John Knox,
laden with liquor, brick and rolling
stock, struck the reefs near Channel bar
bor, at St. John's, N. 8., and sank in
half an hour. Every 60ul on board per
ished.
The Hounslow gunpowder mills, at
Hounslow, England, were destroyed by
an explosion, which occurred in the mill
ing room. One mail was killed. Much
damage was done to property in the
neighborhood.
The royal commission at Dublin, Ire
land, for arterial drainage has recom
ncn ltd the expenditure by the govern
ment of $1,825,000 in improving the
river Shannon; $325,000 in improving
tlie Barrow, and SIOO,OOO in improving
l he Ban n.
Advices from St. Petersburg, Russia,
state that the nihilists set fire to a police
station in that city and that eight police
men perished in the flames, while nine
teen others were more or less injured.
The day following a timber yard was de
stroyed by flic and several workmen and
firemen were killed.
Caspar H. Borgess, Catholic bishop of
Detroit, lias resigned. The resignation
was sent to Rome six weeks ago, and a
formal acceptance was received. Bishop
Borgess was consecrated bishop April
24th, 1870, and during his seventeen
years, incumbency has had many troubles,
especially with the Poles nnd French.
Before sending in his resignation, the
bishop promulgated a sentence of ex
communication against all who were con
cerned in the Polish riots in connection
with the Stalbcrt’s church troubles a year
ago.
Six men escaped from the county jail
at Worcester, Mass., recently. George
A. Burton, who was serving a term for
polygamy, had been trusted to work in
the corridors and cells and had a cell key
during the day. He hail a tight with
George French and both of them were
put in solitary confinement, in which was
also another prisoner. The tight was a
part of a plot. Three men by the use of
Barton’s key, which had been concealed
in one of the solitary cells, opened the
doors and attacked the grated windows,
pried the bars apart, got into tho yard
and over the fence and made their es
cape.
A MIIVIISTKKS CRIME.
Rev. A. M. Morrison who stole a horse and
buggy near Baltimore, Md. f was arrested
in Brockton, Mass. He was returned to
Baltimore. Conviction followed, and he
was sentenced to seven years in the peni
tentiary with hard labor. Mr. Morrison
was formerly a Methodist minister and
was at one time well known in New Eng
land. Liquor was the cause of his down
fall, his last pulpit having been in Wil
liamsburg, Ky. Last year be suffered
imprisonment for forgery.
REV. 1)R. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S HUN
DAY SERMON
Subject: * 4 Rchlntl the Counter.**
Text : “/Ind a certain woman named
Lydia , a seller of purple, of the citu of Thy
atira, which worshipped God, heard uj*, whose
heart the Lord opened.'' —A<*U xvi. 14. 44 Sec t
thou a man diligent in his business? He
shall.stand before kings. ” —Proverb* xxil., 2U.
Tho first paKsago introduces to you Lydia, a
Christian merchant****. Her lu iiu>s is to
deal in purple cloths or silk*. Bho in not a
giggling nonentity, hut a practical woman,
not Ashamed to work for her living. All the
other women of Philippi und Thyatira have
been forgotten; but God has made immortal
in our text, Lydia, the Christian saleswo
man.
The other text shows you a man with head,
and hand, and heart, aud foot all busy toiling
on up until ho gains a princely success.
“Boost thou a man diligent in his business? ho
ahall stand liefore kings.” Great encourage
ment in these two passages for men and
women who will 1* busy, but no solace for
those w] -
them, at the foot of the rainbow, a casket of
buried gold. It is folly for anybody in this
world to wait for something to turn up. It
will turndown. The law of thrift is as inex
orable as the law of the tides. Fortune,the ma
gician, may wave her wand in that direction
until castles and palaces come; hut she will, af
ter a while, invert the same wand, und all the
splendors will vanish into thin air. There are
certain styles of behavior which lead to use
fulness, honor and permanent ml cess, and
there are certain styles of behavior which
lead to dust, dishonor and moral default. I
would like to fire the ambition of young peo
ple. I have no sympathy with those who
would prepare young Mks for life by whit
tling down their exi*ectations. That man or
woman will be worth nothing to Church or
State who begins life cowed down. Tho busi
ness of Christianity is not to quench but to
direct human ambition. Therefore it is that
I come out this morning ami utter w ords of
encouragement to those who are occupied as
clerks in the stor*s and shops and banking
of the country. You say: “Why
select one class, and talk to one specially this
morning r For the same reason that
a surgeon does not open the door of a hospital
and throw in a bushel of prescriptions, saying:
“Come, now, and get* your medicine.” He
first feels the pulse, watches the symptoms,
and then prescribes for that particularca.se.
Bo to-dav I must le specif’**. The people in
this audience who are clerks ure not an
exceptional class. They belong to a great
company of tens of thousands who are, in this
country, amid circumstances which will
either ‘make or break them for time and for
eternity. I should be very slow to acknow
ledge that tho clerks, male and female, of
other cities, are any more honest or faithful
than the clerics <>• oar own city. Ifanyof
these people have already achieved a Chris
tian manliness and a Christian womanliness
which will be their passport to any position.
I have seen their triuls. I have watched
their perplexities. Tli re are evils abroad
which need to be bunted down, and dragged
out into the noonday light.
In the first place, 1 counsel clerks to re
member that for the most part their clerk
ship is only a school from which they are bt
be graduated. It takes about eight veal's to
get one of the learned professions. It takes
about right years to get to 1* a merchant.
Some or you will l>e clerks all your lives,
but the vast majority of you an* only in a
transient position. After a w hile, some
December day, the head men of the firm will
call you into the back olTce. and they will say
to you. “Now you have done well by us;
we are going to do well by you. We invite
you to have an intci e>t in our concern.” You !
will bow to that edict very gracefully. Get
ting into a street car going home,
an old comrade will meet you ana
say: “What makes you look so happy to
night!” “O," you w'ill say, “nothing, noth
ing.” But in a few days your name will
blossom on the sign. Either in the store or
bank where you are now. or in some other
store or bank, you will take a higher position
than thut which you now occupy. So I feel
to-day that 1 am standing before }>eople who
will yet have their hand on the helm of tho
world's commerce, and you will turn it this
wav or that; now clerks, but to be bankers, im
porters, insurance company directors, ship- 1
pers, contractors, superintendents of railroads
—your voice mighty “on ’Change”—standing
foremost in the great financial and re
ligious enterprises of the day. For
though we who are in the professions may,
on the platform, pi ad for the philanthrop s,
afW all, the merchants must come forth 1
with their in llions tosuaUiiu the movement.
Be, therefore, patient and diligent in this
transient posit on. You are now where you
can learn things you can never learn in any
other place. What you consider your disad
vantages are your grand opportunity. You
see an affluent, father someday come down on
a prominent street with his son. who has ju t
graduated from the University and
established him in business, putting
one hundred thousand dollars of capital
in thetore Well, you are envious. You
say: “Oh, if I only had a chance like that
young man—if I only had a father to put one
hundred thousand dollars in a business for me.
then I would have some chance in the world.”
Be not envious. You have advantages over
that young man which he has not over you.
As well might I come down to the do ks
when n vessel is about to sail for Valparaiso,
and say: “Lot me pilot this ship out of the
Narrows." Why. I would sink crew and cargo
before I got out of flielmr V*;r, simply because
I know nothing ab ut pilotage. Wealthy sea
captains put their sous liefore the mast
for tlie reason that they know that it is th©
only place where they can learn to Ik* success
ful sailors. It is only under drill that people
get to understood pilotage an 1 navigation,
and I wont you to understand that it takes
no more skill to conduct a vessel out of the
harbor and across the sea. than to steer a
commercial establishment clear of the ro ks.
You see every day the folly of people going
into a business they know nothing
about. A man makes a fortune in ona
business; thinks there is another occupation
more comfortable; goes into it and sin' s all.
Many of the commercial establishments of
our cities are giving to their clerks a mercan
tile education as thorough as Yale, or Har
vard, or Frin eton. are giving scientific at
tainment to the students matriculated. The
reason so many men are foundering in
business from year to year, is because their
early mercantile education was neglected.
Ask these men high in commercial circles,
and they will tell you they thank God for
this severe discipline of tlieir early clerk
ship You can afford to endure the wilderness
march if it istroing to end n the vineyards nnd
orchards of the promised land. But you say:
“Will the womanly clerks in our stores have
promotion?" Yes. Time is coming when
women will lx* as well paid for their toil in
mercantile ' - rcl**s as men are now paid for
their toil. Time is corain j; when a woman
will be allowed to do anything she can do
well.lt is only a little while ago when women
knew nothing of tel< graphy. and they were
kept out oi a great many commercial circles
where they are now welcome; and the time
will go cn until the woman who at one coun
ter in adore sells ten thousand dollars’ worth
of goods in a year, will get as high a salary
as tho man who at the other counter
of the same store sells ten thousand dol
lars worth of goods. All honor to
Lydia, the Christian saleswoman. And in
passing, I may as well say that you merchants
who have female clerk* in your stores ought
to treat them with great courtesy and kind
ness. When they are not positively engaged,
let them sit down. In England and the
United States physicians have proteste l
against the habit of compelling tho womanly
clerks in the stores to stand when it was not
necessary for them Jo stand. Therefore, I add
to the protest of physicians the protest of tho
Christian Church, and in the name of good
health, and that God who has made tho wo
manly constitution more delicate than man’s,
1 demand that you let her sit down.
The second counsel 1 have to give to the
clerks who are here to-day, is that you sock
out wlmt are the lawful regulations of your
establishment, and then submit to them.
Every well ordered house has its usages. In
military life, on ship s deck, in commercial
life, there must le order and discipline.
Those people who do not learn how to obey
will never know how to command. 1 will tell
you what young man will reach ruin, finan
cial and moral; it is the young man who
thrusts his tumbinto his vest aud says: “No
body will dictate to me, I am my own master;
I will not submit to the regulations of this
house.” Between an establishment in which
all the employes are under thorough disci-
pline and the establishment in which tho em
hlidiii ii-. l \ • differ
ence between huccoiih und failure—between
rapid Accumulation and utter bankruptcy.
Do not come to the store ton minutes alter
the tune. Do not think anything too insig
nificant to do well. Do not say: “Its only
Just one©." From the most important trans
action in commerce down to the particular
style in which you tie a string around a
bundle, obey orders. Do not g*-t easily dis
{fusted. While others in the store may
ounge, or fiet, or complain, you go with
ready hands, ondcheerl ui face, and contented
3>irit to your work. When ti e bugle sounds,
io good soldier asks no quest ions, but shoul
ders his knapsack, fills his canteen and listens
for tho command of “March 1” Do not get
the idea that your interests and those of your
employer are antagonistic. His success will |
be your houor. Ins cmburraMmout will U* i
your dismay. Expose u<*no of tho frailties j
of the firm. Tell no store secrets. Do not ;
b.aU Rebuff those j**r-ons who come to
find out from clerks what ought never be
known outside the store. Do not be uinong
those young men who take on a mysterious
air wueu something is said against the firm
that employs them, us much as to say. “I
could ted you some things if 1 would, but 1
won t.” Do not bo umong those who imagine
they can build themselves up by pulling
somebody else down. li© not ashamed to be
a subaltern.
Again I counsel clerks iu this house to
starch out what ure the unlawful and dis
honest demands of un establishment, and
resist them. In the six thousand years that
have passed, there lias never been au occasion
when it was one’s duty to sin against God.
It is never right to do wrong. If the head
men of the firm expect of you dishonesty.
dsHuppoint them. “O,” you say, ‘1 should
lose my p!ac • then.” Belter lose your place
than lose vour soul. But you will
not lose your place. Christian heroism
is always honored. You go to the
head man of your store, and say : “Sir, I
want to servo you; 1 want to oblige you; it
Ik from no lack of industry on mv part., but
this thing eems to me to be wrong, and it is
a sin u.:ainst my co e-cience, it is a sin against
God, nn I I beg you, sir. to excuse me. ’ He
may flush up and swear, but he will cool
down, and he will have more admiration
for yon than for those who sub- •
mit to his evil dictation; and
while they sink, you will rise. Do
not, because of seeming temjwrary advan
tage, give up your character, young man.
Under God, that is th * only thing you have
to build on. Give up that, you give up
everything. That employer asks a young
man’to hurt him ;If fort it <e ami for eternity,
whoexpe< t$ him to make a wrong entry, or i
change an invoice, or say goods cost so much
when they cost less; or impose u{on the
verdancy of a customer, or misrepresent a
style of fabric. How dare he demand of you
anything so insolent?
There is one style of temptation that ' ( mi's !
on a gn at many of our clerks, an 1 that is
upon those who are engaged in what is called
“drumming." Now. that occupation is just
as honorable as any other, if it be con
ducted in *Reeord with one’s conseienee. In
this day, when there are so many rivalries in
business, all our commercial establishments
ought so have men abroad who are r ecking
out opportunities of merchandise. The re can be
no objection to tf’at. But there are
Christian merchants in the week-night
prayer-meeting who have clerks abroad in
New York, conducting merchants of Cincin
nati. and Chicago, and St. Louis, through
the debaucheries of the groat town, in order
to secure their custom for the store. Th- re
ore in stores in New Y T ork and Brooklyn,
drawers in which there are kept moneys
which the clerks are to go to nnd get what
ever they want t* conduct these
people through the dissipat ons of the
city. The head men of the firm wink at it,
and in some places actually il.mand It—pro
fessed Christian merchants. One would think
that the prayer would freeze on their lips,
and they would fail back dead at the sniffTff m
their own song. What chare© is there for
young men when commercial establish
ments expect such things of them? Among
all things infernal I pronounce that
the most damnable. Young man, how
will that firm treat you when you |
are utterly despoiled, and dragged out with
sin, going through the haunts of iniquity for j
the purpose of getting customers for their
store' How will they t r eat you? O, they j
will give you a pension! They will build you 1
a fine house! They will get you a horse and
carriage! Will they? No Some day you |
will go to the store, shabby, intoxicated, worn j
out in their service.and they will say: “John, i
you are a disgrace to our house. Now, i
just look at yourself. “Accountant, how
much do we owe this man? - ’ “A dollar and i
thirty cents.” “Well, now, here—here it is; j
a dollar and thirty cents. Go off. Don’t
hangaround the store.” Magnanimity superb! j
They stole the lustre from his eye, and the
color from his check, and the honor from bis ,
soul, and then they kicked him out. If such j
professed Christian meridiants do not go
straight to hell, I don’t know any use of bar- j
ing such o place. Oh, young men, disappoint I
the expectation of that‘firm: disappoint those
customers, if these things are expected of you.
You may sell un extra case of goods; you may j
sell an extra roll of silk; but the trouble is,
you may have to throw your soul to boot in
the bargain. i
Acain: I counsel all clerks to conquer the '
tria's of their particular posit ion. One great j
trial for clerks is the in consideration of custom- .
ers. There are people who are entirely po
lite everywhere e! ", but gruff and dictato
rial and contemptible when they come
into a stoie to buy anything. There
are thousands of men and women who go
from store to store anl price things, without
any idea of purchase. They are not satisfied
until every roll of goods F brought down and
they have pointed out all the real or imagin
ary defects. They try on all kinds of kid
gloves, and stretch them out of shajie, and
they put on all styles of cloak and walk-to th
mirror to see how it would look, and then
they sail out of tlie store, saying: “I will
not take it to-day:” which means:
“I don't want it at all,” leaving the clerk j
amid a wreck of ribbons, nnd laces, and
cloths, to smooth out five hundred dollars'
worth of goods—not one cent of which did
tlmt man or woman buy or exjiect to buy.
Now I call that a dishonesty on tlie i>art of
the customer. If a boy runs into a store and
takes a roll of cloth off' the counter and sneaks
out into tho street, you all join in the
cry pell-inell: “Stop thief!” When I
g*e you go into a store, not expecting to buy
anything, but to price things; stealing the
time of the clerk, and stealing the time of his ]
employer. Isay, too: “Stopthief!” If I were i
asked which class of persons most need the !
graceof (Jod amid their annoyances, 1 would
say: “Dry goods clerks.” All the indignation I
of customers about the high prices comes on
the clerk. For instunce. A great war comes.
The manufactories are closed. The jieople
go off to battle. Tho price of goods runs
up. A customer comes into a store, (roods
have gone up. “How much is that worthf*
"A dollar/ “A dollar! Outrageous. A
dollar!'’ Why, who is to blame for tho fact
that it has got to be a dollar? Does the in
li ’ nation go out to the manufacturers on tlie
hanks of the Mcrrima \ because they have
cl •*1 up? No. Do *s Hie indignation go out
toward the employer, who is out at his coun
try seat? No. It comes on the clerk, lie
got up the war! He levied the taxes! lie
put up the rents! Of course the clerk!
Then a great trial comes to elerjes in the
fa< t that they see the parsimonious side of hu
man nature. You talk about lies behind the
counter —there are just ns many lies before
the counter. Augustine speaks of a man who
advertised that lie would, on a cer
tain occasion. te!l the people what
was in their hearts. A great crowd as
sombled, and ho stepped to the front and
sid: I will tell you what is in vour hearts:
To buy cheap an-i sell dear!” O, people of
Brooklyn! lay not aside vour urbanity when
you come into a store. Treat the clerks like
gentlemen and ladies—proving yourselt
to lie a gentleman or a lady. Re
member, that if the price® are high and
your purse is Lan, that it is no fault of the
clerks. And if you have a son or a daughter
amid those perplcxiii- s of commercial life,
1 such a one comes k me all worn out, l*e
lon enfc, and know that the martyr at the
stake no more certainly needs the grace of
i .od than our young jieople amid the seven
times heated exasperations of a clerk’s life.
Then there are ad the trials which come t©
clerks from tlie treatment of incons.der.ite
employers. There are professed Christian
men in this city w ho hu v© no more regard tor
their clerks than they have for Die scales ou
which the sugars are weighed. A clerk is no
more than so much store furniture. No con
sideration for their rights or their interests.
Not one won l of ©ncourgoment from
sunrise to sunset, nor from January to
December. But when anything goes wrong—
a streak of dnst o i tlie counter, or a box with
the cover off—thunder showers of scolding.
Men imperious, capricious, cranky towards
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their clerks—thoir whole manner a* much at
to say: “All the interest 1 have in you ii to
sc* u hat 1 can get out <•! you
Then there are all the trials of Incompetent
wages. Korno of vou rememlier when the war
broke out and all merchandi e went up, and
millionaires in six
months by the simple rise in the value of
goods Did the clerk get advantuge of that
rise Sometimes, not always. I saw estates
gathered in those times, over which the curse
of God has hung ever since. The cry of un
pai'l men and women in those stores reached
, the Lord of Kaliaoth, nnd the in
dignution of God has been around
those establishments ever since; rum
bling in the carriage wheels, fashing in
the chandeliers, glowing from the crimson
upholstery, thundering in the long roll of the
I ten pin alley. Such men may build up pal
aces of incrchnndiHe heaven high, but after
awhile a disaster will come along, and put
one hand on that pillar, and throw itself tor
l word until down will come the whole struct
ure, crushing the worshippers as grapes are
ni i hod m a w me press.
Then there are uons In establishment* who
arc rimed iu prosp>rous *stabl sh nents—
rui < and by t idr lack of compensation. In how
many prosj ero is stores it has been for the
twenty years that boys were given just
enough money to learn thun to steal? Some
w re seized by the police. The vest majority
of instances were not known. The head of
the firm asked: “Where is George now/” “O,
he isn't here any more. ” A lad might lietter
starve to dentil on a blasted heath than take
one cent from his employer. Woe be to that
employer who unnecessarily puts a temptation
in it boy’s way. There have been c?vat
establishments in these cities building
marble palaces, their owners dying worth
millions, uni millions, and millions, who
mad* a vast amount of their astute out of the
blood, muscles, and nerves of half-paid
cler ks. Such men as—well. I will not merit.on
any name. But I mean men who have gath
ered up vast estates at the expense of the peo
ple who were ground under their heel. “O,”
say such merchants, “if you dou't like it here,
then go and get a better place.” As much as
to say: “I’ve got you under my grip, and I
mean to h<*M you; you can’t get any other
pluce.” i >,w hat a contrast we s©oY>etw©en such
men aud thos.* Christian niercaiits of Brook
lyn and New York who to -day are sympathetic
with their clerks—when they pay tlie salary,
noting ia this way: " This salary that I give
you is id t all my interest in yon. You are
an immoital man; you are an immortal
woman: 1 am interested in your present and
your everlasting welfare; I want you to
understand that, if I am a little higher up in
this store, l am beside you in Christian
sympathy.” Go back forty years to Arthur
Tappen's store in New York—a
man whose worst enemies never
questioned his honesty. Every morning, he
brought all the clerks, and the accountants,
nnd the weighers into a room for devotion.
They sang They prayed. They exhorted.
On Monday morning the clerks were asked
where they had attended church on the pre
vious day, und w hat the sermons were about.
It must have sounded strangely, that
voice of praise along the streets
where the devotees of mammon
wre counting their golden beads. You
s \rtlnn Tappen failed. Yes, he was un
tunate, li!;** a great many good men; but
' idt rrtaud he met all his obligations before
h • !cfl this world, and I know that he died in
tue peace of the Gospel, and that he is before
the throne of God to-dav—forever blessed. If
that be failing, I wish that you might all fail.
There are a great many young men in this
city—yea, in this house—who want a word
of encouragement. Christian encouragement.
One snide of good cheer would be worth more
to them to-morrow morning in their places of
business than a present of fifty-thousand dol
lars ten years hence. Oh, f remember the
apprehension and the tremor of entering a
profession. I remember very well the man
who greeted me in the ecclesiastical court
with the t ip ends of the long fingers of the left
hand; and t remember the other man who took
my hand in both of uis, and said: ‘‘God
bless you, my brother; you have entered a
glorious profession; tie faithful to God and
He will see you through. ’ Why, I feel this
minute the thrill of that hand shaking,
though the man who gave me the Christian
frip has been in heaven twenty-five years.
here are old men to-day who can look back
to forty years ago, when someone said a kind
word to them. Now, old men, pay back
what you got then. It is a great art for old
men to be able to encourage the young.
There are many young people in our cities
w f ho ha e come from inland counties of our
own .state —from the granite hills of the
North, from the savannas of the South, from
the prairies of the West. They are here to
get their fortune. They are in boarding
hous*s where everybody seems to be
thinking of himself. They want com
panionsuip, and they want Christian
encouragement. Give it to them. My
word is to all clerks in this house: Be might
ier than your temptations. A Kandwish Isl
ttuder us'd to think w hen he slew an enemy,
all the strength of that enemy came into his
own right arm. And I have to tell you that*
every misfortune y>m conquer is so muu $
added to your moral power. With onmipy
tence for a lever, and tlie throne of tied fora
fulcrum, you can move earth and heaven.
While there are other young men putting the
cup of sin to their lips, st op down
and drink out of the fountains of God, and
you will rise up strong to thresh the moun
tains. The ancients used to think that pearls
were fallen rain drops, which, touching the
surface of the sea, hardened into gems, then
dropped to the bottom. 1 have to tell you to
day that storms of trial have showered im
pei ishable pearl into many a young man’s lap.
O. young man, while you have goods to seD,
remember you have a soul to save. In a hos
pital a Christian captain, wounded a few (toys
Before, got delirious, and in the midnight
hour ho sprang out on the tloor of the hospital,
thinking he was in the battle, crying: “Come
on, boys! Forward! Charge!” An! he was
only bat tling the spectres of his own brain.
, But it is no imaginary conflict into which I
I call you, young man, to-day. There are ten
i thousand spiritual foes that would capture
you. in the name of God up and at them,
Alter the last storo has been closed,
af er the last bank has gone down, after the
! shuffle of tlie quick feet on the Custom House
, steps has stopped, after the long line of
merchantmen on the sea have taken sail of
(lame, alter Brooklyn, and New York, and
London, and Vienna, have gone down in the
fjrave where Thebes, and Babylon, and Tyre
ie buried, after the great fire
bells of the Judgment Day have tolled
at the burning of a w orld—on that day, all
the affairs of banking-houses and stores will
come up for inspection. O, what an opening
of account books! Mde by side, the clerk3
and the men who employed them—the people
who owned thread-an l needle stores on th©
same footing with the Stewarts, and. th©
Delanos, and the Abbotts, and the Barings.
Every invoice made out—all the labels of
goods—all certificates of stock—all list© of
prices—all private marks of the firm, now ex
i plained so everybody "an understand them.
Ail the limps of cities that were never built,
but in which lots were sold. All bargains.
All gougings. All snap judgments. Arfals©
entries. All adulteration of liquors with cop
pciasand strychnine. All mixing of teas,
h i 1 sugars, and coffees, and syrups, with
c i a per material. All eniliezzlemenfes of trust
funds. All swindles in coal, and iron, and
oil, and silver and stocks. All Swartouta, and
Huntingtons, and Ketchums. On that day,
w nen the cities of this world are smoking m
the last conflagration, the trial will go
on; and down in an avalanche of de
struction wdl go those who wronged
man or woman, insulted God and
defied the judgment. O, that will be a great
Jay for you. honest Christian clerk! No get
ting up early; no retiring late; no walking
around with weary limbs; but a mansion in
which to live, and a realm of light, ami lov©,
and joy over which to hold everlasting do
minion. Hoist him up from glory to glory,
and from song to song, and from
throne to throne : for wfflile others go down
into the s;-a with thoir gold like millstone hang
ing to their neck, this one shall come up the
heights of amethyst and alabaster, holding in
his right han l the pearl of groat price in a
sparklin'?, glittering, flamimr casket.
HORSE THIEVES.
Felix Griffin, a notorious outlaw, was
killed recently near Webber Falls, Ark.,
while tdcalinir horses. Felix was leader
of an organized band of horse thieves.
Robert Vann, owner of the horses, heaid
tint Griffin was lurking around his place
and laid inwait for him and shot him dead
when he entered the stables with two
companion.'. The others esc. ped, though
badly wounded.