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VOLtJM BXXIJ.
Tit hgia httrjrin.
A |>re>gre*'vo Pemoi'ratic puixyr, )>ub-
Imlietl .sdfckly nt Oo.iugton, Newton
County, Georgia, le rms, ♦l.fiOjior an
num, atrlcily in advance. Established
O tol*r 281\ 180.’). Burnt out on
AugnaCltlfet, 1881, and again on Docern-
Lor 01 at, 188:1. Uoll) times it wont down
iu aslic* without auy iusnriaice.
ThhEntkhpiiisiGs an uncompromising
advocate of the principle* of theorganized
and living nomocracy of to-day. •
While it grant* eqnul justice to all
men before the law, it holds this tol l B
White Man’s Government, belonging to
turn by the right of discovery—be
queathed to him by the blood and suffer
iugof the Fathers. None but Anglo
Savon names were signed to the Declara
tion of Independence, and none but
white men Mod a id died to wrench tho
colonics from England’s cruel grasp, to
establish tho proud young Republic of
America.
Upon these issues the paper iB wiling
to go befoic (lie public, asking no other
support than that which its merits de
serve. The pai>er will bo free and out
spoken on all ipiestions of public interest,
and will not endeavor to accomplish the
ridiculous feat of “running with the hare,
and baying with tho hounds.”
Iu other words, Till? Enterprise will
not be a "fenco rider" in any of the po
litical campaigns. Those who desire a
live newspaper, aro earnestly requested
o give it a trial.
l ” w. HAWKINS, Editor.
BANDITS SURPRISED.
Mexican t'avnlry mid Aiiifricmi Drpiity
(jhcr.ilt Rent a of Kascnl*.
At dawn of day, recently, in the midst
of a driving rain, tlic Balsli cut-oil above
Sants Maria, Mexican territory, on the
American side of the river and jtlie refuge
of about thirty desperate bandits, thieves
and smugglers, was raided by a force
from bo'li sides of the river. Sheriff Bro
tof and Deputy C'lausner, of Texas, with
about ninety ranch ros and deputies en
tered and drove out the bandits, who
met with a warm reception on the other
side from a detachment of the Mexican
3d cavalry under command of Col.
Nieves* Hernandez. A sharp tight en
sued, in which 'Col. Hernandez was
wounMcd, one of his men killed and an
other wounded. One bandit was killed,
several wounded and a number captured,
several of whom are well known mur
derers, and were executed on the spot.
EXCITEMENT IN FRANCE.
The Yen nil Wen of I’nri* llenmnil Genera)
Beulnil|[tT'i Ketrutiou in OtticK
On retiring from the position of secre
tary of war, to give place to his succes
ror, Qen. Ferron, Geu. Boulanger, the
present idol of the French people, made
a shew address. Riotous demonstrations
at oie took place. Fifty policemen
woro Stationed at the British embassy.
During the night cries of “a L’Elysee”
were raised by the crowd,and fully 1,000
young men formed a procession and
marched at a swinging pace iu the direc
tion of the palace, shouting as they went,
“We want Boulanger!” Before they ar
rived at the Elvsee, however, two strong
bodies of police appeared and dispersed
them.
B (TIAItI.EY ROSS IS JAII..
Recently, Christian K. Ross said to a
reporter, at his residence, Walnut bane
Station. Germantown, near Philadelphia,
Pa., that a man claiming to know the
wheßjnbouts of his missing son, Charley,
had chHed upon him. The stranger gave
his Btlme as Harrington, a keeper in the
State I’ rison of Connecticut, and assured
Mr. Ross that Charley Boss is in that in
stitution undetgoing a sentence of im
prisonment.
A I.CNATIO VISITS GOT. HIM*.
E. C. Dieffenbaeher, an escaped lunatic
from Herkimer county, a large, powerful
man, pushed his way into the executive
chamber at Albany, N. Y., until he was
beside .Governor Hill's desk and de
manded an immediate hearing. His ac
tions created some uneasiness, but lie
was quietly carried away by a policeman
without offering any resistance.
PKOL'LIAK action ok t.ightning-
J. A. Sewell, of Garlaudville, Ga.,
had a valuable ox standing under some
aweetgiuu hushes in the pasture, when
lightning struck a bush about 20 feet
high. Following a downward course
about 8 feet it jumped to another near
the ox and passed down it several feet,
left the bush and struck the ox, killing
him instantly.
GILT UIKRIUN.
Complaint is made because the cherubs'
heads on i)t. Michael’s steeple, in Charles
ton, 8. C., have been painted white, in
stead of being gildi and as they were form
erly. There is a tradition that these
heals were made by Guillotin, a brother
of the inventor of the guillotine.
TOSTI.V SEATS.
Americans in London, Eng., arc pay
ing as high as $250 rent for windows, to
be used the day Queen Victoriagoes from
Buckingham palace to Westminster
Abbey, where the jubilee services will
take place.
INTER EH TIMt SI 11. IT AIIV EVENT.
The friends of the Toledo, 0., Cadets
. have offered $5,000 as a prize, if the cel
ebrated Lomax ltitles will drill in Toledo
next September.
LUCKY OMEN.
On the first anniversary of his wed
ding, President Cleveland caught a fine
men of large trout in the Adirondack®,
The Ph,'toijrnp\U Asms, noting tha
growing demand for dark rooms in ho
tefajexplains that such lodging is called
f' rP y the ijupibements o* tourists
phtfOgrapbcrs.
The Georgia Enterprise.
WASHINGTON DOTS.
INTERESTING NOTES ABOUT PRESIDENT
CLEVELAND AND OTHER NOTABLES,
| Tlic OpnintiuiPi of the ncpurlmrnii, iind
\\ lull Southern Men Are Itrlnf Ap
|iittnicil in I'onitiona, l ie., Ktc.
ABOUT THE “,IIM CROW” COACIt.
Complaint has l>een received by the
interstate commerce commission from
Win, H Council, a colored man, directed
against the Western A Atlantic Railroad
Company, in which he avers that on ac
count of ids color lie was forcibly ejected
from a first-class ear after having paid
for a first-class ticket. He asked that
the commission award him $25,000 dam
ages and such other relief as it may deem
proper, aiul Commissioner Bragg, of Al
abama, is hacking him up iu the strong
est wuy.
1)KBT STATEMENT.
The debt statement shows the deerease
of ilie public debt, during the month of
May. to be $8,888,907.0.), a decrease of
the debt sineeJiinc 30, 1880, of $92,854,-
92, 21; cash in Treasury, $400,209,520,-
05; gold certificates outstanding, $90,-
900,977; silver certificates outstanding,
$139,143,328; certificates of deposit out
stauding, $8,990,000: legal tenderi out
standing, $349,481,010; fractional cur
rency , not including the amount estimated
as b>si or dißH'oycd, $0,947,322 37; inter
i-Nt-hearing debt, $1,098,021,975 51; debt
n u liich interest has censed, $11,737,403,-
08. debt itearing no interest, $592,797,-
773 07; tolal debt. $1 .(597.5*!. 1.11.<111.
SOUTHERN CORPORATIONS.
The interstate commerce commission
lias received a communication from G. S.
Brookerville, of Dublin, Va., complain
ing that the Norfolk & Western Railroad
company arc making unreasonable rates.
, ,1. W. Bryant, of New Orleans, appear
ed before the commission, and, represent
ing the steamboat interests of the Misg
isrippi river, denied the statements of
raiiroad representatives that they were
f, reed to cut rates at all points where
water competition existed. He said that,
on the contrary, the steamboat companies
were- obliged to cut rates to meet reduc
tion by railroads.
NOTES.
The White House is being extensively
repaired.
About 18,000 claims have been filed
under the law giving pensions to veterans
of the war with Mexico.
The Comptroller of the Currency has
directed an examiner to take charge of
the Palatka Natl nal Bank, of Palatka,
Fla.
The Secretary of War returned with
iris approval to John Chamberlin, the
plans of the mammoth hotel to be erected
by Mr. Chamberlin at Fortress Monroe.
Many post-offices will receive tile bene
fit of the free delivery system on July 1,
and among them are Pensacola, Fla.,
Columbus, Ga., Jackson, Meridian, and
Vicksburg, Miss.; and Staunton, Va.
The executive committee of the Na
tional Drill have ascertained that they
will owe between $30,000 and $40,000
more than the total receipts, which were
about $30,000.
Clark Howell," post-office inspector at
Atlanta, Ga., has resigned.
The police regulations during the Drill
were very faulty, and came near causing
a riot on several occasions.
The Light Infantry, of Washington,
protest against the award of a prize to
the National Rifles of the same city.
Gold holdings iu the United States
treasury have increased six milli ms since
May 1. There has been very l.ttie
change in silver circulation during tlic
past month.
Prof. Spencer F. Baird, a well-known
scientist, and secretary of the Smithson
ian Institute, is dangerously ill at his
residence, of an affection of the heart and
kidneys.
The disappointment of the general
public is great because the Toledo, <).,
Cadets did not get a prize. The judges
reply that the company drilled on a sys
tem of their own, and' not according to
regulations.
The appropriation for printing small
silver certificates is well-nigh exhausted,
and nothing can lie doue to meet the
large orders constantly coining in, until
the appropriation for the next tiscil year
becomes aval table.
Comptroller Butler, of the Treasury
department, in auditing the accounts of
the superintendent of the naval academy,
lias disallowed all items of expenditure
tor whisky, brandy, and other intoxicat
ing liquors, furnished to members of the
annual board of visitors.
TEXAS HIGHWAYMEN CONFESS.
TVr tluirr In Which Texas Komi. Are
Rnlded.
John and Creed Craft, Ike and Bill
Usaery and Charles Buckley, the alleged
McNeill train robbers, were before a
United States commissioner at Austin,
Texas, when Buckley, to the astonish
ment of the other men, turned state’s evi
dence, and before be got through with
his testimony, disclosed that he was in
the employ of the sheriff of Bear county,
and had been for some time. He had
been detailed to watch the men, and he
and they had planned to rob a bunk at
Luling, a town on the Sunset route, 'this,
however, was abandoned, and on May
4th they planned the McNeill train rob
bery. A fellow named Hall was captain
of the gang. He and the Crafts, Usserys
and others not known to Buckley, com
mitted the robbery. Buckley was not
with the gang. The robbery was to
occur on the 15th, but for some cause
was delaysed until the 18th. Buckley,
who is a very bad man himself and an
ex-convict, was employed to get the pris
oners’ confidence and expose their opera
tions.
THE MARQUIS WELCOMED.
Gov. Gen. Lansdowne and his wife on
their return to Ottawa from Toronto, re
ceived a tremendous demonstration of
regard. The escort to the Governor
General contained six brass bands. At
Cartier square a great stand had been
erected and was octup'ed by about 2,000
school children, who sang a chorus of
welcome. There was an enormous con
course in the square, estimates varying
from 15,000 to 20,000 persons, thousands
having come from surrounding countii s.
Rev. Father Dawson road a jubilee ode.
The governor general thanked the citi
zens for their magnificent welcome.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
At a spelling bee at Harvey, Ark., an,
affray took place in which Dan Maybe
was shot to death.
Prof. 8. P. Boozer, of the Greenwood
8. C., Male High School, was stricken
with apoplexy, whilst in his buggy, on
his way home from school.
A fatal epidemic is raging in the Goo i
Hope section of South Carolina, in Edge
field county. Both local physicians are
prostrated, and medical aid is badly
needed.
Two freight trains collided four miles
from Calera, Ala., on the Louisville <fc
Nashville railroad. Engineer Howard
Rowe and Fireman Burton were killed
outright, as was also a negro tramp.
P. M. Hale, loug a leading editor in
North Carolina, und for a while a resident
of New York city as a member of tho
firm of E. J. Hale A Sons, publishers,
died in Fayetteville, of that state, afler
a long illness of cancer of the tongue.
The directors of the Augusta, Ga.,
Daily Gazette elected Bismuth Miller,
the present editor of the Weekly Gazette,
editor in chief. W. 8. Royal was select
ed business manager anil bookkeeper.
The other necessary offices will be sup
plied by the editor.
A cyclone struck Nortli East Georgia
and was particularly severe around Cow
eta. At Mr. Turner’s, near Carrollton,
the storm picked up a uegro girl, carry
ing her over a mile above the tops of the
trees, finally setting her down unharmed
but without u vestige of clothing.
Great indignation exists, because Vet
eran Owen flier, of Barnwell county,
South Carolina, a Confederate soldier,
died in great destitution, notwithstand
ing he was entitled to something under
the artificial. limb fund of the state.
Some “cheese-paring” member of the
Legislature last year had the fund cut
down from $9,009 to $2,000.
The recent heavy rains has caused au
increase of yellow fever cases at Key
West, Fla,
The Nashville Union, which begun
publication two years ago as a daily news
paper, has stopped.
There has been anew post-office es
tablished in Rabun county, between Tal
lulah and Clayton, Ga., and by the name
of Tiger, and J. C. Cannon has been
appointed postmaster.
Tobacco is not doing so well'in North
Carolina. A great deal was killed by
cold weather. In some sections tire
farmers have abandoned tobacco, plowed
up the land and put in corn.
St. Phillips Episcopal church in Charles
ton, S. C.. has by vote, sustained its
representatives who withdrew’ from the
Diocesau convention on account of the
attempted admission of colored delegates.
Prof. John H. Miller, professor of
mathematics in Erskine College, has been
elected president of the Due West Fe
male College, S. C., vice J. P. Kennedy,
who resigned on account of failing health.
One of. the most popular societies in
Charleston, S. C., is the Philatelic So
ciety. The society will give a course of
lectures on “Postage Stamps” as soon as
thr services of a competent lecturer can
be secured.
The Alice Clarke, one of the steamers
running between Augusta and Savannah,
Ga., suffered slightly theotlierday by fire,
while about eighty-five miles down the
river. Fifty-four bales of cotton caught
fire and were thrown overboard.
The Charleston & Savannah', and the
Savannah, Florida & Western railway
companies will put on between New
York and Jacksonville an express train
that will make the run between the two
cities in thirty hours, leaving New York
about 10.30 a. m., and reaching Jack
sonville about 4.30 p. m, tlic next day.
Gov. Gordon, of Georgia, says Smith,
of Heard county, the condemned murder
er must hang.
A book agent untned A. S. ITU called
at the house of Mr, Terri, at Corsicana,
Tex,, and insulted the daughter of the
house, and w as killed by her father for it.
Sumter F. Nichols, the slayer of Wil
liam Jordan, who was adjudged a lunatic
at, Baker court, Ga., died from injuries
received in attempting suicide while iu
Albany, Ga.
William Echols, a young white uiau,
living at Cornelia, Ga., one of the best
known young men in that portion of the
state, was foully murdered by persons
unknown.
Rev. L. H. Humphries, a well-known
colored preacher, so annoyed the teachers
of the Girls’ High School, in Atlanta,
that he was arrested and jailed. Ho is
thought to be insane.
For a joke, George Donelson, a clerk
in the drug store of Burge & Itoseoe, cf
Nashville, Tciin., challenged John G.
Bernard, an elderly man, to drink an
ounce of aconite. The words hardly es
caped his lips before Bernal swallowed
the poison. A number of physicians
trioil to save him, but he died.
HORRIBLE CRUELTY.
BLACK SEMI-SAVAGES ATTACK EURO
PEAN SETTLEMENTS.
Mtny Nntivpii of Hlrrrn T.eone Mlniiglitcrpd
—The Attnrking Force Honied hv
HritMi .tlnrines.
News from Sierra Leone, Africa, says
that native warriors, under three chiefs,
invaded the British settlements of Shcr
bro and Suitzus, pillaging and burning
villages in route, -torturing and killing
tile native inhabitants, and taking three
hundred prisoners. On entering British
territory, tlic marauders divided into two
forces and tried to capture a French fac
tory at Sulmat and an English factory <>n
Manah river, both of which were stored
witli valuable merchandise. Capt. Bur
nett, tile English agent, at the head of
native laborers and police, desperately
resisted the savages, who were compelled
to retreat after the attack, leaving many
of their number dead. They besieged
the station, however, for four days,when
the English gunboat Sirius arrived on
the scene and landed a force of marines,
who quickly put the savages to flight.
Attaches of the French factory repulsed
the attack made upon them without any
outside assistance.
GONE!
Hoover, the incendiary labor agitator,
who was shot at Warrenton, Ga., left
Madison for Hickory, N. C. His wife
accompanied him. He. was informed
that he had better leave as soon as his
surgeon considered it safe to travel.
“Mr COUNTHT MAT BUB BVBli BB RIOUT. RIGHT OR WRONG MY COUNTRY."—Jeffman
COVINGTON, GEORGIA. FRIDAY, JUNE 10, 1887.
BUSINESS PROSPERITY.
The Sonth Reaping the Benefit of Large
Capital to Derelop Railways, Mills,
Foundries, Etc., Etc.
Key West, Fla., is to be lighted by
•lectricity.
Greensboro, Ala., is to have a “dummy”
■treet railroad.
V hotol to cost SBO,OOO will be erected
in Petersburg, Va.
Dayton, Ky., has adopted electricity ns
the motive power for street railroad.
Chattanooga, Tenn., issued $50,000 of
bonds for sewerage and street improve
ments.
l lie Morgan County Asphalt and Oil
Cos. with $150,000 capital lias started at
Hartselle, Ala.
The Young Men's Christian Associa
tion of Charlottesville, Va., has started a
$40,000 building.
The Birmingham & Atlantic Air-Line
Railroad Cos., will extend their railroad
from Greenville, Ga., to Savannah,
Memphis, Tenn. items: A saddlery
manufacturing jompauy with SIOO,OUO
capital has started; also, a brick company
with SIOO,OOO capital.
Sheffield, Ala., notes: The Sheffield
Land Company will erect 100 houses;
the First National Bank has contracted
for a $35,000 building.
E. B. Moon, of Richmond, Va., has
purchased about 50,000 acres of timber
and mineral lauds in Smythe, Washing
ton and Grayson counties.
The Chattanooga Land, Coal, Iron &
Railway Cos. will build the Chattanooga
Western Railroad from Chattanooga to
Walden’s Ridge, about 8 miles.
The Alabama Midland Railroad Cos.
capital stock $3,000,000, will be incor
porated to build a railroad from Mont
gomery, Ala., to Bainbridge, about 175
miles.
The Eufaula & Southeast Alabama
Railroad Cos. with a capital stock of sl,-
000,000 to build a railroad from Clayton
to Blakely, Ala., with a branch to Geneva,
lias been chartered.
The Georgia Central Railroad & Bank
ing Cos. will extend the Mobile & Girard
Railroad from Troy to Elba, Ala., the
Eufaula & Clayton Railroad from 25 to 30
miles, and the Fort Gaines branch from
Blakely, Ga., to Columbia, Ala.
Bills have been introduced iu the Flor
ida Legislature to incorporate the Central
Railroad & Steamboat Cos.; a company to
build a railroad from St. Lucie to Wah
netaor Lakeland; the Key of the Gulf
Railroad Cos., and the Memphis & Pensa
cola Railroad Cos.
A New York syndicate have purchased
4,000 acres of mineral lands, at Collins
ville, Ala. An English company has
purchased au immense area of coal land
in the game locality and will at once pro
ceed to develop it, and will build a 100-
t iu blast furnace.
The Atlanta & Chattanooga Railroad
Cos. capital stock $1,000,000, has been
organized with H. 8. Chamberlain as
president; E. J. Sanford, Knoxville, vice
president, It. 11. Hood, Knoxville, secre
tary, and Mr. Mitchell, treasurer. The
object of the company is to build a rail
road to Stevenson, Ala., via South Pitt
burg, Tenn.
At a meeting lately held at Charleston,
W. Va., George T. Stearns, of New
York, made the statement that “a com
bination had been formed, with a capital
of $12,000,000, to build a railroad from
the Pennsylvania line down the Elk, up
the Coal and on to Big Sandy, through
Kentucky and oil to Nashville, Tenn.,
and that he represented that com
bination.”
ATTEMPTED REVOLUTION.
Futile Effort* to Hake Don Carlos King
of Mexico.
Some of the leaders of tlic so-called
Liberal party in Mexico have for some
months been hatching a plot, which the
Mexican government has just unearthed
ami frustrated, by whicli Don Carlos,
tho defeated Bourbon aspirant for the
Spanish throne, was to be invited to
Mexico, to head a revolutionary party.
It is charged that the Clerical parly is at
the bottom of the plot, and a number of
wealthy Spaniards resident in Mexico,
infatuated with the w ihl hope of restor
ing the days of Spanish ascendency, are
implicated. The press warns Don Car
los against evil advisers, and bade him
remember “El cerro de ios coni paras, ”
the spot where Maximilian, Mirumon and
Alexia were shot.
IN EIIUPTION.
A volcano broke out recently on the
Chihuahua side of the Sierra Madre
mountains, near Viedras Verdes, and
about thirty miles west of Casas Grandes.
The lava pours down the mountain side
and extends fully ten miles from the
crulcr of the volcano.
A JAPANESE COMI’I.AINT.
The quarantine on account of small
pox, of the American ship W. 11. Matey,
at San Francisco, Cal., has been raised
and a party of Japanese complained ofii
ciaily to the government, because they
were placet! with the Cuinesc oasseugers
in spite of their protest.
ENGLISH! PLUCK.
Twelve hundred coal miners at Bach
mul, Russia, out on a strike, attempted to
rob a brewery owned by a firm of English
men. Fifty English workmen attached
to the brewery mounted horses and dur
ing the fight which occurred, three of the
workingmen were killed.
GONE WRONG.
The cashier of the Hechetaga Bank, L.
1) Parent, of Montreal, Can., has ab
sconded. He drew checks to the amount
of $12,000, signed them “L. D. Parent,
on trust for Dr. V dude,” and succeeded
in prevailing upon Ray, the ledger
keeper, to accept them for the bank.
Then be cashed them and left the city.
PANIC STRICKEN*
During services in the cathedral at
Chihuahua, Mexico, a candle fell on the
altar ornaments, setting the place on fire.
Many people were killed —mostly child
ren.
HERO MURDERED.
Cant. John Hussey, of Castle Garden
fame in New York city, who saved 42
people from drowning in the last
I was killed by Policeman Hanna.
LATESI_jsIEWh.
The English are rapidly fcirtifying
Herat, and arranging for a garrison of
10,000 mou.
The inagniflecut new war steamer “At
lanta” now lying at Now York, is nearly
ready for sea.
Editor William O’Brien has arrived in
New York, and was received most en
thusiastically.
There is a shortngo ol $5,000 in the
funds of District 49, Knights of Labor,
in New York city.
The noted Captain Williams, of the
New York police, known as the champion
clubber, received an infernal machine
through the express.
The Duke of Norfolk uud the Bishop
of Salford, have had several interviews
witli the Pope ou the questiou of the
Vatican resuming official relations with
England.
A fellow named Powell went to Tracey,
Minn., uud induced J. J. Hartigau, of
that place, to start a bauk with him.
The credulous Hartigau complied, put
ting in SII,OOO, and Powell levuUted
with the cash.
An eruption of the central crater of
Mount Etna began recently. The flow
continues and is increasing iu volume.
Heavy clouds of smoke and masses of
stones and cinders are issuing from tho
crater.
Two hundred men attempted to lynch
William Showers at Lebanon, Pa., who
is charged with murdering two grand
children. Ou the promise of the au
thorities that stem justice would attend
the prosecution of Showers, the crowd
lispersed.
Queen Kapiolani and suite arrived at
Liverpool. A royal salute was tired iu
her honor. The Mayor and a guard of
honor, composed of police and soldiers,
met the royal party at the wharf and es
corted them to a hotel, in a state proces-
sion.
The breaking of the dykes of Theiss
river, in Austria, lias resulted in the sub
merging of 50 miles of Alfold plain, near
Szegediu. It is estimated that the dam
age will reach a million dollars. There
j .{re 4,000 meu engaged iu strengthening
e.lie dykes. The water is still rising in
; the Bega and Nera rivers.
Prof. Charles Siedhorf and his wife,
Matilda, aged 91 and 92 years respective
ly, tired of a lODg and futile struggle
with destitution, committed suicide at
Union Hill, Jt. <1- The aged couple were
to have been taken to a poorhouse, but
rather than submit to this, they took
cyanide of potassium.
The Texas drought disposed of the
last few surviving buffaloes in that state.
In the wilds of Crockett County, a miser
able remnant of the once countless hi ids
hail been allowed to eke out an existence,
without molestation from the cowboys or
the settlers. But when the drought bad
I destroyed crops and stocks, necessity
drove the people to slaughter the buffa
loes.
President Cleveland sent $lO ns a sub
scription to start the popular fund now
being raised to build a monument to Gen.
U. S. Grant.
Mr. Bright, the English statesman,
stroDgly condemns Editor O’Brien’s mis
sion, and the refusal of Irish .Mayors to
celebrate the Queen’s Jubilee.
A strange disease, communicated by
contact, has caused dreadful havoc among
horses in DeWitt county, 111. It is be
lieved to have been communicated from
imported French stallions, and is said to
lie common in France.
Probate Judge Lyman Follett, of Grand
Rapids, Mich., has been missing for sev
eral days. Inquiry shows a large short
age in his accounts. Nearly every estate
in the probate court is suffering where
funds passed through Follett’s hands.
Mnj. Elbridge McConkey, resident
clerk of the Pennsylvania House of Rep
resentatives for several sessions, and who
has been prominently identified with the
state board of agriculture, committed
suicide by hanging, at Harrisburg, Pa.
Fire broke out in the Huebeuer quays,
in Hamburg, Germany, and they were
speedily destroyed. Six large sheds
were next gutted. The flames communi
cated to two British vessels, the City of
Dortnund and the Gladiator, and de
stroyed them.
New York was astonished to learn that
a project was on foot to build in that
city a mammoth Protestant Episcopal
Cathedra], a second Westminster Abbey,
or St. Paul’s Cathedral, in fact; and even
more astonished to learn that the scheme
has been on foot for over 14 years, and
the reporters didn’t find it out.
Lieut. Clarke, U, S. Navy, committed
suicide at Panama recently.
The Troy, N. Y., stove molders have
gone to work again, and the strike is at
an end.
The yacht Thistle sailed a race of
about 50 miles in England, and develop
ed remarkable speed and “all around”
qualities.
A distinct earthquake shock was felt in
Jamestown, N. Y. The shock lasted only
a moment, and seemed like an under
ground explosion of great severity.
It seems impossible to empanel a jury
to try Jake Sharpe, the great briber of
New York City; nearly all the citizens
summoned are prejudiced against him.
During a service in the Cathedral at
Pressburg, Hungary, an alarm of fire was
raised. A panic ensued, and many in the
congregation were killed and injured in
the crush which resulted from the frantic
endeavors of the people to reach the
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
TUB BROOKLYN PASTOR’S SUN
DAY SERMON
Subject: “American Seamen.”
I'aXT: “Behold also tho ships —Jumcs
If this exclamation was appropriate about
lsflo vears ago, when it was written concern
mg the crude fishing smacks that sailed l.nlo>
tlalilae, how much more Appropriate in an
age which has launched from tho dry dorks
for purpose of peace—tho Arisona, of the
Onion lone, the City of Richmond, of the
liiman Line, the tigynt, of the Nat; nal
Idno, the Germanic, of the* White Btar Line,
the Circassia, of the Anchor Line, tho
r.truria, of the Cuuard Line, and the tlreat
i .astern, with hull Nix hundred and eighty
eet long—not a failure for it helped lay the
Ulantic cable, and that wax enough glory
or one ship's existence —and in an
•ge which for purposes of war
ntx launched the screw sloops like
f ho Idaho, the Shenandoah, the Omippe, and
nir ironclads like the Kalamazoo, tho Roa
ioke and the Dunderberg, end those which
iave already been buried in the deep like the
Monitor, theHotmtomc, the Wcehuwkon ami
tho Tocumseh, the tempests ever since sound
ng a volley over their watery sepulchres,
and the scarred veterans of wur shipping that
have swung into the naval yards to spend
their last days, their decks now till silent of
the feet that trod them, their rigging all
silent of the hands that clung to them, their
port-holes silent of the brazen throats
that once thundered out of them. If
in the first century, when war
vessels wore dependent on the oars that pad
died at the side of them for propulsion, my
text was suggestive, with how much more
emphasis and meaniug and overwhelming
reminiscence we can cry out as wo seethe
Kearsage lay across the bows of the Alabama
and sink it, teaching foreign nations t hey had
better keep their nunds off our American
tight; or as we see tho rain Albermarle,of the
Confederates, running out and in the Roan- ;
oke, and up and down the coast, throwing
everything into confusion as no other craft
ever did. pursued by th; Miami,the Ceres,the
Southfield, the Sa-ssacus, the Mattabesett, the
Whitehead, the Commodore Hull, the Louis
iana, the Minnesota and other armed vessels
■JI trying in vain to catch her, until Captain
Cushing, twenty-one years of age, and his
meu blew her up, himself and only one other
escaping; and as I see tho flagship Hartford,
and the Richmond, and the Mononguhela,
with other gunboats, sweep past the batteries
of Port Hudson, and the Mississippi Hows
forever free to all Northern ami Southern
craft, I cry out with a patriotic emotion that
I can id t suppress if i would, and would uot
if I could: ‘‘Behold also the ships.”
At the annual decoration of graves, North
and South, among Federalsand Confederates,
full justice has been done to the memory of
those who fought on the land in our sad con
test, but not enough Igis been said of those
who ou ship's deck dared and suffered all
things. Lord God of the rivers and the sea,
help mo in this sermon! So, ye admirul-,
commanders, captains, pilots, gunners, boat
swains, sailmakers, surgeons, stokers, mess
mates and seamen of all names, to use your
own parlance, we might as well get under
way and stand out toward sea. Let all land
lubbers go ashore. Full speed now! Four
bells!
Never since the sea fight of Lepanto, where
three hundred royal galleys manned by fifty
thousand warriors, at sunrise, September G,
1571, met two hundred and fifty royal galleys
manned by one hundred and t went; thousand
men, and in the four hours of battle eight
thousand fell on one side and twenty-five
thousand on the other; yea, never since the
day when at Actiura, thirty-one years before
Christ, Augustus with two hundred and
sixty ships scattered the two hundred ami
twenty ships of Mark Antony and gained
universal dominion as the prize; yea,
since the day when at Salamis the twelve
hundred galleys of the Persians, manned by
five hundred thousand men, were crushed by
Greeks with less than ? third of that force;
yea, never since the time of Noah, the first
•hip captain, has the world seen such a
miraculous creation as that of the American
Navy in 1861. There were about two hun
dred available seamen in all the naval stations
and receiving ships, and here and then* an
old vessel. Yet orders were given to blockade
thirty-five hundred miles of sea coast,greater
than the whole coast of Europe, and, besides
that the Ohio, Tennessee, Cumberland,
Mississippi, and other great rivers, covering
an extent of two thousand more miles, were
to be patrolled. No wonder tho
whole civilized world burst into
pffaws of laughter at the seeming
unpossibility. But the work was done, done
almost immediately done thoroughly, and
douG with a speed and consummate skill
that eclipsed all the history of naval archi
tecture. What brilliant achievements are
suggested by tho mere mention of the name
of the rear admirals. If all they did should
be written, every one, I suppose that even the
world itself could' not contain the books u.?„fc
should Iks written. But these names have re
ceived the honors due. The most of them
went to their graves under the cannonade of
all the forte, navy yards and men-of-war, tho
flags of all the shipping aud capitals at half
mast.
But I recite to-day the deeds of our naval
heroes who have not yet received appropri
ate recognition. “Behold also the ships.” An
we will never know what our national pros
perity is worth until we lealize w hat it cost,
I recall the unrecited fact that the mm of tie
navy ran especial risks. They had not only
the human weaponry to <*nnt< nd with, but
the tides, the fog, the storm. Not like other
ships could they run into harbor
at the approach of an equinox, or
a cyclone, or a huri'?an*\ becars3
the harbors were hosti'e. A mi
or a tide might leave them on a bar, and a
fog might overthrow all the plans of w isest
commodore and admiral, and accident might
leave them, not on the laud ready for an
ambulance, but at the bottom of the sea, as
when the torpedo blew up the Tecumseh in
Mobile Bay, and nearly all on board perished.
They were at the mercy of the Atlantic and
Pacific oceans, which have no mercy. Such
tempests as wrecked the Spanish
Armada might any day swoop upon the
squadron. No hiding behind the earthworks.
No digging in of cavalry spurs at the sound of
retreat. Mightier than all the fortresses on
all the coasts, is the ocean when it bombards
a flotilla. In the cemeteries for Federal and
t onfederate dead are the bodies of most of
those who fell on the land. But where those
are who went down in the war vessels will
not be known until the sea gives up its dead.
The Jack tmx knew that while loving arms
might carry the men who fell on the land
ami bury them with solemn liturgy,
and the honors of war, for the bodies of
those who dropped from the ratlines into
the sea or went down with all on board under
the stroke of a gunboat there remained the
shark and the w hale and the endless tossing
of the sea which cannot rest. How will you
find their graves for this national decoration?
Nothing but the archangel’s trumpet shall
reach tneir lowly l>ed. A few of them have
!>een gathered into naval cemeteries of
the land and you will garland the sod
that covers them, but who will put
flowers on the fallen crew of the
exploded Westfield and Bhawsheen, and the
sunken Southfield, and the Winfield Scott.
Bullets threatening in front, bombs threaten
ing from above, torpedoes threatening from
oeneatb and the ocean with its reputation o*
six thousand years for shipwreck lying all
around, am 1 not right in saying it required
a special courage for the navy/
It looks picturesque and beautiful to see a
war vessel goin£ out through the Narrows,
sailors in new rig singing:
“A life on the ocean ware,
A home on the rolling deep!’*
the colors gracefully dipping to passing ships,
the decks immaculately clean, and the guns
at (Quarantine firing a parting salute. But
the jwetry is all gone out of that ship as it
comes out of that engagement, its decks red
with human blood, wheel-house gone, the
cabins a pile of shattered mirrors and de
stroved furniture, steering wheel broken,
smokestack crushed, a hundred-pound
Whitworth ritie shot having left its
mark rrom port to starboard, the
shrouds rent away, ladders splintered
and decks plowed up, and smoke-blackened
and scalded corpses lying among those who
are gasping their last gasp far away from
home aud kindred, whom they love as much
as we love wife and parents and children.
Not waiting until you are dead to put upou
your graves a wreath of recognition, this
hour we put on your living brow the garland
of a nation's praise.
Ob, men of the Western Gulf squadron,
of the Eastern Gulf squadron, of the South
Atlantic squadron, of the North Atlantic
squadron, of the Mississippi squadron, of the
Pacific squadron, of the West India squadron
and of tho Potomac Hot ilia, hour our thanks!
Take the lM*iu*diction of our churches. Accept
thu hospital it os of the nation. If we had our
way wo w ould getyou not, only a (tension but a
home und u princely wardrobe, and an cqui
pnge and it i anqutt wuh you live, und after
your depart urea catafalque til • mamolsum
yi s uiptured marble, with a model of tho
ship in which you won the day. It is con
sidered a gallant thing when in a naval fight
the flagship w th its blue ensign goes ahead
up a river or into a I my, its admiral standing
in the shrouds watching and giving orders.
But l have to tell you, Oh veterans of tho
American nuvyl ir you are ns loyal to
Christ os you were to the Govern
ment, there is a flagship sailing nhead of you
of which Christ is the admiral, and He
watches from the shrouds, and the heavens
are tho blue ensign, and He leads you toward
the harbor, and uil the broadsides of earth
aid l hell cannot damage you; and ye, whose
garments wore once red with your own blood,
shall have a robe wash ’d and made white in
the blood of the Lamb. Then strike eight
bells I High noon iu heaven!
With such anticipation, O, veterans of the
American navy! 1 charge you bear up under
the aches and weaknesses that you still carry
from the war times. You are riot as stalwart
as you would have leen but for that nervous
strain and for that terriffloexposure. Let every
ache and pain, instead of depressing, remind
you of your fidelit y. The singing of the Wee
hawken off Morris Island, December G, 1863,
was a mystery. She was not under fire. The
sea was riot, rough. But Admiral Dahlgren
from the deck or the flag steamer Philadel
phia, saw her gradually sinking, and finally
she struck the ground, but the flag still
floated above the w ave in the sight of the
shipping. It was afterwards found that she
sank from weakness through injuries in pre
vious service. Her plates had been knocked
loose in previous times. So you have in
nerve, aud muscle, and bone, and dimmed
evesight, and difficult bearing, and short no s
or breath, many intimations that you are
gradually going down. It is the service of
twenty-three years that is telling on you. Be
of gfxwl cheer. We owe you just as much as
though your life-blood had gurgled through the
M’up|Krs of the ship in the Red River expedi
tion, or as though you had gone down with
the Melville off H itteros. Only keep your
flag flying as did the illustrious Weehawken.
Good cheer, my boys! The memory of
man is poor ana all that talk about the
country never forgetting those who fought
f<: it isan untruth. It does forget. Witness
how tho veterans sometimes had to turn the
hand o gang on the street to get their families
a living. Witness how ruthlessly some of
them have been turned out of office that
some bloat of a politician might take their
place. Witness the fact that there is not a
man or woman now under thirty years of
a_ r e, who has any full appreciation of
the four years’ martyrdom of 1861 and 1865
Inclusive. But while men may forget, God
never forgets. He remembers the swinging
nammock. He remembers the forecastle. He
remember* the fresen ropes of that January
tempest. He remembers tne amputation with
out sufficient ether. He remembers the hor
rors of tliat deafening night when forts from
lK)th sides belched on you their fury, and
the heavens glowed with ascending and
descending missiles of death, and
your ship quak<*d under the re
coil of the one hundred pounder, while all the
gunners, according to command, stood on
tiptoe with mouth wide open lest the concus
sion shatter hearing or brain. He remembers
it all lietter than you remember it, and in
some shape reward will be given. God is the
lost of all paymasters, and for those who do
tfieir whole duty to Him and the world the
pension awarded in Pv*rltt.inpr huave.n
Sometimes off the coast of England the
Royal Family have inspected the British
navy manoeuvred lefore them for that pur
i>ose. In the Baltic Sa the Czar and Czarina
have reviewed the Russian navy. To bring
before the American people the debt they
owe to the navy 1 go out with you on the At
lantic Ocean whore there is plenty of room,
aiul in imagination review the war-ship
ping of our three great conflicts—l 776, 1812,
and 1865. Swing into lino all ye frig
ates, ironclads, fire-rafts, gunboats, and
mcn-of-war' There they come, all sail
set and all furnaces in full" blast, sheaves of
crystal tossing from their cutting prows.
That is the Delaware, an old Revolutionary
craft, commanded by Commodore Decatur.
Yonder goes t lie Constitution, Commodore
Hull commanding. There is the Chesapeake,
commanded by Captain Lawrence, whose dy
ing words were: “ Don't give up the ship; 1 ’
and the Niagara, of 1812, commanded by
Commodore Perry, who wrote on the back of
an old letter, resting on his navy cap:
“We have met the enemy and they are
ours.” Yonder n the flagship Wabash,
Admiral Dupont commanding; yonder, the
flagsliip Minnesota, Admiral uoldborough
commanding; yonder, the John Adams,
Admiral Btringham commanding; yonder,
the flagship Philadelphia, Admiral Dahlgren i
commanding; yonder, the flagship San
Jacinto, Admiral Bailey commanding;
yonder, the Carondelet. Admiral Wathe
commanding; yonder, the flagship Black
Hawk, Admiral Porter commanding; yonder,
the flag steamer Benton. Admiral
Foote commanding, yonder the flagship
Hartford, David Glasooe Furragutcommand
ing. And now all the squadrons of all
departments, from smallest tugboat to
mightiest man-of-war, are in procession,
decks and rigging filled with men who fought
on the sea for the old flag ever since we were
a nation. Grandest fleet the world ever saw.
Sail on before all ages' Run up ail the
colors! King all the bells! Yea, open all
tho port-holes! Umlimber the guns and load
an<l tire one great boanlside that shall shake the
continents in honor of peace and the eternity
of the American Union! But I lift my hand
and the scene has vanished. Many of the
ships have dropped under tho c rystal pave
ment of the deep, sea monsters swimming in
and out of the forsaken cabin, and other old
craft have swung into the navy yards, and
many of the brave spirits who trod their
decks aro gone up to the Eternal Fortress,
from whose casements and embrasures may
we not hope they look down to-day with joy
upon a nation in reunited brotherhood?
At this animal commemoration 1 bethink
that most of you who were in the naval ser
vice during our late war aro now in the aftei
noon or evening of life. With some of you
it is two o'clock, three o’clock, four o’clock,
six o’clock, and it will soon be sundown.
If you were of age when the war broke
out, you are now at least forty-eight.
Many of you have passed into the sixties
and the seventies; therefore it is ap
propriate that 1 hold two great lights
for your illumination- the example of Chris
tian admirals consecrated to Christ and their
country, Admiral Foote ami Admiral Farra
gut. Had the Christian religion been a
cowardly thing they would have had nothing
to do with it. In ite faith thev lived ana
died. In our Brooklyn navy-yard Admiral
Foote held prayer meetings and con
ducted a revival on tho receiving
ship North Carolina, and on Sabbaths,
far out at sea, followed the chaplain
with religious exhortation. In early life on
tioard the sloop of war Natchez, impressed by
the words of a Christian sailor, he gave his
spare time for two weeks to the Bible, and at
the end of tha t <ieclared openly: ‘ 4 Henceforth,
under all circumstances, 1 will act for God.*’
Hte last words, while dying at the
Asfcor House, New York, were: “I than*.
R)d for all His goodness to mo.” When he
entered heaven he did not have to run a block
ade, for it was amid the cheers of a great
welcome. The other Christian admiral will
be honored on earth until the day when the
fir*-s from above shall lick up the waters from
beneath and there shall be no more sea.
“Oh, while Atlantic’s breast
bears a while sail.
While sailor’s fight for right
And sweethearts wail,
Men will ne’er forget
Old heart of oak,
Farragut, Farragnt,
Thunderbolt stroke!”
According to his own statement Farragut j
was very loose in his morals in early man
hood and practiced all kinds of sin. One day
ho was called into the cabin of his father,
who was a ship-master. His father said:
“David, what are you going to be, anyhowf
He answered: “I am going to follow
the sea.” “Follow the sea,' said the
father, “and be kicked about the
world and die in a foreign hos
pital*” “No,” said David, “I am going to
command like you.” “No,” said the father;
“a boy of your habits will never command
anything,” and his father burst into tears and
left the cabin. From that day David Fan-ar
gilt started on anew life. Captain Penning
ton, an honored elder of this church, was with
him in most of his battles, and had his inti
mate friendship, and he confirms, what I had
heard elsewhere, that Farragut was good and
Christian. In every great crisis of life he
asked and obtained the Divine direction.
When in Mobile Bav the monitor Tecumeen
NUMBER 29.
nnk from * torpodo, and the great wnr-hlp
Brooklyn thnt \rn* to load the •qurulron
turned tinck, ho said ho at a lon to know
wlmther to advance or retreat, and he lays:
“I proved: ‘Oh, Ood, who rrenh'd man and
fave him mason, direct me what to do. Shall
Ko onf And a voice commanded me: ‘Go
on.’ and I went on." Was there ever a more
touching Chriatinn letter than that which he
wrote to hia wife from his flagship Hartford!
"My dearest wife, I write and leave this luttar
for you. I am going into Mobile Bay in the
morning. If Ood is my leader, and 1 hope He la,
and in Hint I nla<e my trust. If He thinks it
Is the proper plafe for me to die, I am ready
to submit to His will in thnt as in all other
things. Ood blesa and preserve you, my
darling and my dear boy, if anything should
happen to me. Ma> His blessings rest upon
you, and your dear mother, and all your sis
ters and their children."
< heerful to the end, he said on board the
Tallapoosa in the last voyage he ever took :
“It would be well if I died now in harness."
The sublime Episcopal service for the dead
was never more appropriately rendered than
over his casket, and well did all the forts of
New York harbor thunder as hia body was
brought, to our wharf, and well did the
minute guns sound ami the bells toll as in a
procession, having in its ranks the President
of the I’nited States and his cabinet, and the
mighty men of land and sea, the old admiral
was carried amid hundreds of thousandsof
uncovered hoads on Broadway, and laid on
his pillow of dust in beautiful Woodlawn,
Keptcmlier IKl.amid the pomp of our autumnal
forests.
Ye veterans who sailed and fought undar
him. take your admiral’s God and Christ for
your Hod and Christ. After a few more
conflicts vou too will rest. For the few PS
maiuing lights with sin, and death, and hall
make ready. Strip your vessel for
the fray; hang the sheet chains orar
Ibe skits. Send down the top-gal
lant masts. Barricade the wheel Rig in
the flying jib-boom. Steer straight for the
shining shore, and hear the shout of the great
Commander of earth and heaven as He cries
from the shrouds: “To him that overeometh,
will I give to eat of the tree of life which is
in the midst of the Paradise of God.” Ho
anna! Hosanna!
TELEGRAPHERS IN PERIL.
How the Wires to Washington Were
Kept Open Daring the Baltimore
Biota
Among the events of the war a de
scription was given of the method by
which communication by telegraph was
held open between Baltimore and Wash
ington during the memorable riots in
Baltimore on the 19th of April, 1881.
No one outside the principals and
those who used them ever know how the
national government became apprised so
quickly of what was going on. The only
telegraph company transacting business
in those days was the American, ami the
force consisted of a manager, a dozen
operators and a few clerks. The operat
ing department was in the fifth floor of a
building where the Haiti more American
is now published. The riot commenced
on Friday morning, April 19, 1861, just
twenty-six years ago. The Massachu
setts troops, among the first to volunteer,
were passing through Baltimore on their
way to Washington. Their attack by a
- mft> and the history of that riot are gen
'ofmiy well known," but the telegraphic
portion of the history of that day has
not been thought of.
In less than five minutes after the
Northern soldiers had been attacked the
excited rioters dashed up the four flights
of stairs to the operating room of tho tel
egraph office to prevent the despatching
of the news to Washington and the oon
sequentpnnishment from national forces,
which would surely follow. The opera
tors, fearing interruption, had locked
their doors, but the frenzied Southern
sympathizers chopped their way through
with hatchets and hacked right and left
at the wires leading out of tne windows,
their performance being greeted with
wild shouts in the streets below. The
police force ineffectually tried to make
the rioters desist in their destruction of
property, but toward the afternoon every
wire, with a single exception, was de
stroyed. This wire fortunately led to
Washington, and tho failure to break it
was one of the oversights that occur in
periods of exoitement. The telegraph
men tested from time to time, North,
East, South and West, and soon discov
ered that they had one wire left. They
thought it advisable to close the down
stairs office and conceal this fact by a
notification to the public that as all the
wires had been cut they could take no
business for any point.
Word came from the Washington
authorities inquiring whether any oper
ator would man this wire for the govern
ment. A consultation was held, and one
of the force was assigned to the service.
He was a mere stripling and the only one
who would volunteer for the dangerous
work. He needed a messenger to deliver
his despatches, but all of the regular
force of boys declined to take the risk of
traveling in the streets at night, and only
with considerable effort was a volunteer
messenger procured. The two young
sters acted for the two nights and the
one day, and the messenger is now one
of the most prominent citizens of Balti
more and a leading corporation attorney.
The operator is employed in Washington
with the Western Union company.
With blinds closely drawn and a howl
ing mob a few feet away the boys served
the government through Friday night,
all day Saturday, that night and through
to Sunday morning without sleep and
with but very little to eat. Had they
been discovered they would certainly
have been hung, and the consciousness
of this danger did not make their
desire for sleep very strong. A great
many important despatches passed be
tween the national government and
Mayor Brown, of Baltimore, who did his
best to allay the exoitement and pour oil
upon the troubled waters, which soon
after subsided.
Col. White’s experiments on the re
sistance offered by a bank of snow to a
rifle bullet, which were made recently at
Ottawa, Canada, were most interesting.
It was found that the Martini bullets
fired into a bank of well packed snow
completely spent after traversing a dis
tance of not more than four feet. Snidei
bullets, in hard packed snow mixed with
ice, but not hard enough to prevent dig
ging into it with a sheet-iron shovel, did
not penetrate more than about four feet;
in perfectly dry snow, packed by natural
drift, but capable of being easily crushed
in the hand, a bullet penetrated about
four feet, and in loose drifted dry snow
less than seven feet, though fired from
points only twenty or thirty yards dis
tant.
An interesting case, involving a terri
ble miscarriage of justice, will shortly be
revised by the Competent Court of Jioin,
in Bohemia. Six years ago the Assize
Court at Tabor sentenced to ten years*
penal servitude a man named Jeliuekr
found guilty by the jury of attempting
to poison his wife. After the trial Frau
Jelinek obtained a legal separation,went
to America, and married. She has just
written to her parents to say that,
former husband w an 81k* her
self put the pois° i h plate of pre
serves in order to p*! up a cmirge against
vh iiueK, n:;d thus to obtain a separata*..