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THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S
SUNDAY SERMON.
Subject: “An Obnoxious Diet.”
Text: "And Ihr nr are thru whlrh >/n shall
have in abominati n among the fowls: tho
owl, the vulture r.nd the bat. These at so
shall be unclean to you among the creeping
things that creep vj>on the e irth; th"chains
lon and the unaif.”—Leviticus xi., 1 I*Bo.
The Biblo oilers every po-sililo variety of
theme, of nreument, aiul of illustration. We
care not much in what kind of a pitcher tho
water of life is brou lit, if it is only tho
clear, pure water. Gal gave the an bents a
list of tho animals they might eat, ami a
list of animals that they might not
eat. These people lived in a hot climate,
and certain forms of animal fool corrupted
their blood, amt disposed them to scrofu
lous disorders. depraved their appetites, and
bemoaned their souls. A mans foal, w hen
ho has the means and opportunity of select
ing it, suggests hi* moral nature. Tho rea
son the wild Indian is as cruel as tho lion
is because bo has food that gives him
the blool of the lion. A missionary
among tho Indians savs that, by changing
his sty e of fo *d to correspond with theirs,
his temperament was entirely changed. There
aie certain lorms of food that have a tend
ency to affect the moral nature. Many a
Christian is trying to do by prayer
that which cannot he done except through
corrected diet. For instance, he who uses
swine’s fle-h for constant diet will bo dis
eased in body and pointed of soul—all his
liturgies and cate hi&ms notwithstanding.
The Gadarene swino were possessed of
the devil and ran down a steep
place into the sea, and ail the swine ever
6ince seem to have been similarly possessed.
In I.eviticus, God struck this mo.t off tho
table of His people, and pla od before them
a bill of taro at once healthful, nutritious
and generous.
But, higher than this physical reason.there
was asp r.tual reason why God chose certain
forms or food for the ancients. Gol gavo a
peculiar diet to lus people, not only because
he wanted them to lo distinguished from
the surrounding nations but because cer
tain b rds and animals, by reason
of their habits, have always been
suggestive of moral qualities. By the list of
things from which they were to abstain. God
wished to prejudice their minds against cer
tain evils; and in the li.-t of lawful things
given, he wi hed to suggest certain forms of
good. When God solemnly forbade His peo
ple to eat the owl, the vulture, the bat,
the chameleon, and the snail. He meant to
drive out of His people all the sins that were
thus emblemized.
I take the suggestion of the text, and say
that one of the first unclean things the
Christian needs to drive out of his soul is the
owl. The owl is the melancholy bird of
night. It hatchi s out whole broods
of superstitions. It is doleful an l hideous.
When it sings, it sings through its
nose. It loves the gloom of night better
than the brightness of tho day. Who has
not slept in tne < abin near the woods, an 1
been awakened in the night by the dismal
‘‘too-hoo’ of the owl! Melancholy is the
owl that is perched in many a Christian
soul. It Is an unclean bird, and needs to be
driven away. A man whose sins are pardoned,
and who is on tho road to heaven, has no
right to be gloomy. He says: ‘ i have so
manv doubts,” That is because ‘ you are
lazy.” Go actively to work in Christ’s
cause, and your doubts will vanish,
iou say: “I have lost my
property;’ but I reply: “\ou have
infinite treasures lai lup in Heaven.” xou
say: “1 am weak and *6lCßiy, and go ng to
die.” Then be congratulated that you are so
near eternal health and perpetual gladness.
Catch a few morning larks for ycur soul,
aud stone this owl off your premises.
Asa little girl was eating, the sun dashed
upon her spoon, and she cried: ‘‘O, mam
ma I have swallowed a spoonful of sun
shine!” Would God that we might ail in-
du ge intho same l everage! Cheerfulness;
it makes the homeliest face handsome; it
makes the hardest mattress soft; it
runs the loom that weaves but
tercups, and rainbows, and auroras.
God made the grass black? No; that would
be too sombre. God i: ade the grass red.
No, that would bo too gaudy. God made the
grass green, that by this parabe all the
world might he Jed to a subdued cheer, ul
ne>s. Read yo ir EJble in the sunshine.
Remember that your physical heal h is
•closely allied to your ipiritual. Ihe heart
and tiio liver are only a few inches apart.ana
what affects one affects the other. A histor
ian records that by the sounds of great
laughter in Rome, Hannibal's assaulting
army was frightened away in retreat.
And there is in the great outbursting .toy
of a Christian soul that which can drive
back any infernal besiegement. Rats love
dark closets, and Ratan loves to l.urrow in a
gloomy soul. in the Lord, O }•
righteous! and again I say. re oice!
Hoist the window of your soul in this tne
twelve o’clock of yrur spiritual night. but
the cun to vour shoulder, and aim at the
black jungle'from which the hooting comes,
pull the trigger, and drop that croaking,
loathsome, hideous owl of religious Melan
choly into ti e bush s. . .. . .
Again: taking the sugges'ion of the text
drive out the v ulture from your soul. Goa
would not allow the Jews to eat it. It lives
on carcasses; it fattens among the dead;
with leaden wing it circles about tattle
fields. Wilson, the American ornithologist,
counted two hundred and tbrty seven
vultures around one carcass. If crossing
the desert when there is no sign of wing In
the air, a camel peri-h out of the caravan,
immediately tbe air begins to darken with
vultures There are many proffa-e l Gnus
,t an "bo hove avu nr* in the r soul* l hey
prey upon the character and rgeTings ol
Others. A doubtful reputation is
banquet for them. Some rival in trade oi
profession falls, and the vulture puts out his
head. These people revel in the details of a
man's ruin. They say: “I told you so.
They rush into some store, and say: Have
i you heard the news? Just as I expected
bur neighbor has gone all to pieces! Good
for him! - ’ , ,
That professedly Christian woman, having
heard of the wrong-doinir of some sis-er in
the church, instead of hiding the sin with a
mantle of chfrritv, peddles it all along the
streets. She takes the afternoon to mak*
ner tong - neglected calls. bhe tells
the story ten times before sun
dowm and every time tells it larger, hne
rushes into the parlors to tell it. and into the
nursery to tell it, and into the kitchen to tell
it She says: “Would you have thought
it? Well, I alwavs said there was
something wrong about her. >V ny, l
should not sneak to her if I saw her m the
street. Is it not horrible? But lietter not
say any thing about it. because there
may be some mistake. I do not want
my name involved in the matter. i
guess T will just go over and ask them .at No.
“Id whether they have heard it. Guess it
must be so, for Mary Ann savs that h-r hus
band saw a man who heard from his business
partner that his blind old grandmother had
seen something that looked very suspiclousl
The most loathsome, miserable, Gort-ror
saken wretch on earth is a gossip. I can toll
her on the street, though T have never seen
| her before. Rbe walks fast, and has hp
bonnet-strfflgs loose, for she has not had time
1 to tie them since she heard that lust scandal.
one loo'cs notTi wavs as sue passes hoping to
Hup n p w evidences of depravity in the windows.
I t (link that when Satan has a job so in
finitely mean that in all the pit he cannot
find a devil m rt an enough to do it. ana all
bribes and threats have failed to eet one
willing for the informal crusade, he savs to
one of his sergeants: “Go up to Brookivn. and
in such a street, on such a corner, got that
gossiping woman, and she will be glad to
do it." And sure enough, like a hungry
fish, s'ho takes tin hook in her mouth. an t
Patnn slackens the line, and lets her run out
farther and farther, until after awhile he
savs* “Itistimeto had in that line and
with a few stron t pulls, he brines her to
the beach of fire. W hat do von , sav l
That she was a member of the enuren? l
con not help that. When Satan goes a fish
ing he does not care what school the fish be
long to. whether it is a Presbyterian mack
erel or an Episcopalian-salmon. Amidst the
thunder crash of Rlnai. God said: Thou
eh alt not. hear false witness agamgt thv neigh
bor.” And in Leviticus he savs: “Thou Shalt
not go up and down ns a tale-bearer. l ake
not into vour ear that srum of he.l that
people rail titr.le-tnttlo. Whosoever will'nel?
listens to a slander is equally vanity with the
one who tells it. and an old writer sivs
they ought both to be hune, the ono
by the tongue and the other by the
oar. Do not smile upon such a spaniel, lest,
“MY COUNTRY: MAY
! ' 'lo?. b* put his dirty paw upon
M?Vu T , rP W , '"' k th *' "butter of your soul,
oil. t hr lit Inn men and woman. an 1 #** if
there be w thin you n vulture with filthy
talons and cruel bnnlc. Let not ths unclean
* ou b f° r my text savs:
. , "ba 1 hold in abomination among the
fowls, the vulture.”
Again: taking the suggestion of the text,
drive out the bat from your soul. No wonder
God set, Mi s bird among the unclean. It It
n offense to every one. L“t it flv into the
w n low of a summer night, an 1 all the
il# I* I v< l ' un? an old, are against, it It is
half bird and hntf mouse. It seems ma le
partly to walk an 1 part I v to fly. a *d does
neither well; and neoomos an omblrn of
those (’hristians who try to cling to earth
mi l heaven at the seme time. They want to
wa’k on earth In worldlings, and vet flv to
ward heaven in spirituality; an 1 their soul,
between feet and winr*, is perplexed. Oh.
my brethren, be one thing or the other!
Choose the world, if you prefer it: and see
how menv dollars you can win. an 1 how
mi' li applause you can "am, and how large
a business you can cstibb'sh, and how grand
a house you can build, and how fast
a span of horses you can drive You
mny l*e prospered until you can fail for five
hundred thousand dollars, instead of having
the dhgrace of fa lin r for only ton thousand
nr some unenterprising poonle do. It is
quite a reward to bo able for ten
or twenty to !>e ca’led one
of the so’id men of Brooklyn or Boston: and
then, to make your fortune last ns long as
possible, we will give you a splendi 1 funeral,
and you shall have twenty-five carriages fol
lowing you. with someholy in M'e most
of them, and your coffin shall have
silver handles on Hie sides, and we
will mourn for vou in splendid poe’ et
liandkerchiefs bound with era-e. and bom
bazine twenty full yards long, trailing half
across the parlor, so that a’l the company
may stand uoon it, and we vil! write our
letters for the next six months on paper edged
with black. But mv friends, vour worldly
fortunes will rr.t 1 I will l uv out now
all that you will be worth in worldly estatf
•evenfy-tivo years from now. 1 have the
money in my pocket with which to do it.
Here it is! Two cents! It is a large sum to
offer for all you will possess at the
close of seventy-five years. Choose the
world, if you want to; but, if not, then
choose heaven. That estate lies partly on
this side of the river, but mostly on the
other. It is ever accumulating. The pros
pect of it makes one independent
of earthly misfortunes, so that Rogers,
the martyr, slept so soundly the night before
his burning, they violently shook him in
order to get him awake in time for
the execution: and l'aul exults at the
thought of the “joy unspeakable and
full or'glory.” Oh, choose earth or Heaven!
Make up your mind whether you will walk
in earthly joys, or fly with heavenly ex
pectations. Be not a bat, fit neither to walk
nor fly. having just enough of heaven to
spoil the world, an 1 so much of the
world as to spoil heaven. Christ says
that your present condition nauseates him to
positive sickness: ‘Because tnou art
neither cold nor hot, I will
spew thee out of my mouth!” In the
ruins of Pompeii there wa9 found a petrified
woman, who. instead of trying to fly from
the destroyed city, had spent her time in
gathering up her jewels. She saved neither
uer life nor her jewels. There are
multitudes making the same mista
In trying to get earth and heaven they.,
lose both. “Ye cannot serve God and
Mammon.” Be one thing or the other.
Tread the < arth like a lion, or mount the air
like the for my text says: “Ye shall
have iu abomination among the fowls, the
bat.”
Again: taking the suggestion of the text,
drive out the chain leou from your souL
There is some difference among good msn as
to the name of this creeping thing
which God pronounced unclean, but I shall
take the opinion which s *ems best; suited
to my purpose. The chameleon is a reptile,
chiefly known by its changeableness of color,
taking the color of the thing next to it, some
times brown. sometimes red, and
sometimes gray, but always the color
of its surrounding?, a typ of that class
of Christians who ara now one thing in re
ligious faith, an l now another, just to suit
circumstances, always taking their color of
religious belief from the man they are talk
in"- to. They go to on 3 place, aud are tirst
-ata Unitarians. “Jesus was a good man,
but nothing more.” They go to Princeton,
and they are Trinitarians, almost willing to
d;o for the divinity of Jesus. Among the
Universalists they refuse the idea of future
punishment: and going among those of
opposite belief, announce that there is
a hell with a gusto that makes y°n
think they are glad of it. Drive out that
unclean chameleon from your soul. DO.not
be ever changing the color of your faith. My
friends, liberal Christianity,falsely so-eallei,
believes in nothing. Cod is anything
you want to make Him. ibe
Bible to be believed in so far as you
like it Heaven a grand mixing up of Neros
and Pauls. The man who dies by suicide in
his right mind in loss, beating into glory by
ten years the Christian man who dies a
Christian rt atli in ltftH; the suicide proving
himself wiser thin th Christian, Oh. mv
friends, let ns try to believe m ran ‘.-“4-
An infidel was called to the bedside of ins
daughter. The daughter said: Father
which shall I believe, you or mother! Mother
took the religion of Christ, an 1 died in its
embrace. You say that religion is a humbug.
Now I am going to die. and l am very much
perplexed; s tall 1 believe you, or take the
belief of my mother:’ The father said.
‘•Choose yourself." She slid: "No; I am too
weak to choose for myself; I want >ou to
choose for me.” “Well.’ said the fother,
after much hesitation an i
“Mary, I think you had better take the
religion of your mother.’’ The time will com)
when e shall have to believe something,
call not afford to he on the fen e in re gion.
Truth and error are set opposite to each
other. The ono is infinitely right, nnJ the
other infinitely wrong. On the julgment
dav we must give an account of what we
believed as well as for what we acted.
The difference between believing truth
and believing error is the difference between
paradise and perdition. I beg you, in tha
light of the Bible, and on your knees be
fore Got, to form your religious opin
ion and then stick to it, though business com
panions scoff, and wits caricature, and the
air crackles with the fires of martyrdom.
Surely truths in lehalf of which Christ
died, and angels of God trooped forth, nnd
the whole universe is marshaled, are worth
living for and wortli dying for. Amidst the
most unclean things is th s everchanging
chameleon of religious theory. Away with
the reptile! God abhors it with au all con-
suming abhorrence.
' Once more: take the suggestion of the
text, and drive out the snail from your soul.
God has declared it unclean. It is an animal
to be found everywhere between tho coldest
north nnd the hottest south. There nr#
fifteen hundred species of the snail. They
have no backbone, and they are so slow that
their movement is almost imperceptible. Von
a snail In one niece to day; go to-mo-m-v
nnd you will find it lias advanced only a tew
inches, it becomes an emblem of that large
cla-s of Christian people who go to work
with n slowness and sluggishness that is won
derful. They aro stopped by every little ob
stacle, because, like the snail, they have no
backbone. Others mount up on eagle's wings
but they go at a snail’s pace.
O. child of God, arouse! We have
apotheosized Prudence an l Caution long
enough. Pru lence is a beautiful grace, but
of all the family of Christian graces I
like her the least, for she has been
married so often to Laziness,
and Sloth, and Stupidity. We have a
million idlers in the Lord's vineyard who
pride themselves on their prudence. “Be
prudent,” said tho disciples to Christ, “an 4
stay away from Jerusalem;” hut Ho went.
"Bo prudent,” said I nul’s friends, "and look
out for what you say to Felix,” but he
thundered away until tha ruler’s knees
knocked together. In the eyo-s of the world,
the most imprudent men that ever lived
were Martin Luther, and John Oldcastle.and
Wesley, and Knox. Mv opinion is that the
most imprudent and reckless thing is to stand
still. It is well to hear our Commander’s voice
when He sai l* “Halt! ’ but qu to as important
to hear it when he says “Forward!” This
Gospel ship made to plow the sea at fifteen
knots an hour is not making three.
Sometimes it is most prudent to
ride vour horse slowly and pick out the
way for his feet, and not strike him with the
spurs; but when a band of SShoshoneo In
dians are after you in full tilt,
the most prudent tb ng for you to do
is to plunge in the rowels nnd put
your horse to a full run. shouting: “Go
’long!” until the Rocky Mountains echo it.
The foes of God are pursuing us. The world,
the fiesh, nnd the devil are after us; and our
wisest course is to go ahead at swiftest
, speed. '*
When the Church of God gets to ad van o-
s'lm ever m nianc; rtoiit on wrong, nr country
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, DECEMBER 13. 1888.
.-rur too fait, it will In time enough to us#
caution. No neml of putting on the brake#
whil" going up hill. i)o not let us *it dowd
waiting for something “to turn up”bui
go uh 'ad in th name of Got!, and turn jl
up. The great danger to the church now i#
noc. actuation, hut stagnation. Oh that th#
L°rd Go l would send a host of aroused and
consecrated men ts set tho Cluirch on
fire, and to turn the world upsido down..
I>t us go to work nnd catch the Inst
snail in our souls. With Divine vehemence
l*t us sin up its life out; for my text declare*:
“ I’hese also s iall be un and >an to you among
the creeping things that creep upon the
earth; the chameleon and thesr.ail.” 1 have
thus tried to prejudice thee# Christian men
anil women against gloominess, and Pander,
an l half-and-half exp ‘riencos, and change*
ablenoes, nnd sloth. <>ur opportunities tor
getting better are being rapidly swallow*• I
tin in the remorseless past. This golden
Sabbath is about to drop <>ut of the calendar.
This moment we may drive out a’l the
unclean things from our sou!R—the vulture,
ail i the l*at, and the owl, nnd tho chame
leon, and the snail; an i in place thereof
bring in the Lamb of Gol and the Dove of
the Spirit! Tne case is urgent. Arouse! bo
fore it be eternally too late’ Ll.’luU)v
thy hand (jn.laLu to do, ul”
LATEST BY TELEGRAPH.
Four men, three of them Germans and
one Frenchman, attempted suicide in
New York city on Thursday. One died
instantly, anU at ka.t two of the others
will die.
An engine on the Toledo, Columbus
and Southern Railroad drew a parse gcr
train from Toledo to Findlay, Ohio, on
fuel turnished by crude petroleum. The
trial was smell a success that President
Browu announces that he will have all
uis engine* arranged for the use of oil
and do away with coal.
The testimony in the Darke county,
Ohio, plunderers shows, that ex-Trcas
urer Simon, who is now serving a teim
in the penitentiary, at one time previous
to the last robbery of the vaults, had
g ne to Toronto, taking 8107,000, all
the funds there w re, but that he weak
ened within four days and returned with
all the money, aud that his friends or
pals prevented exposure at the time.
The Belgium strike movement is in
creasing, and the strikers are everywhere
becoming reckless. An attempt ws
made recently to wreck a train on the
Halouviere-Juste railway, dynamite car
tridges hemg placed on the track. For
tuna ily the cartridges were discovered
in time t > prevent a disaster. An at
tempt to blow upa manufactory at Mor
wauwelz with dynamite also failed.
Extensive preparations being mada
for the reception of Mrs. Lucy Par-ons,
the wife of the anarchist who was hung,
cn her return to Chicago, 111., from he:
trip abroad, are very likely to ts
knocked in ihc head: Chief of Polio*
Hubbard says: "There has been enough
of this foolishness in times past, and an
archy will never be allowed to parad*
the streets of Chicago again as long as I
am chief if pol.ee.”
Io the trial of John H. Bauereisen
chief of the alleged Burlington dyrsmt*
conspirators at Geneva, 111., John Alex
ander Bowles, who was a conspirator,
was put on the stand as the first and
most important witness. Bowles testi
fied that he went to work as an engineei
for the Burlington March 22, 1888, and
was persuaded to quit by his brothet
April 4th. He joined the Brotherhood
ind was employed by Bauereisen to buy
dy. amitc and place it on the tracks, and
also to buy vitriol and ammonia to put
in the water tanks and dose the engines.
Eiglitecn monlhs ago Henry 0. Lai
bum, a prominent business man and
member of the council of Sptingfield,
Omo, left his h mie and business to avoid
arrest for a series of alleged forgeries,
amounting to several thousand dollars,
and has been a fugitive from justice evci
since. Early in the week he was called
home by his wife, and on Thursday
while he was ministering to her, an offi
cer ai rested him. In deference to his
wife's condition, Labqim was held at his
home. Officer Grimly waited for hu
prisoner, who sat with liis dying wife it
his arms. When she had breathed he!
last, he was transfsired to jail.
WESTERN LAWLESSNESS.
A bold attempt was made Tuesday
morning to rob ti e safe in the office of
the liooge packing house in Sioux City,
lowa. Four masked men rushed upon
Thomas Coleman, flic watch
man, and overpowered him. A gunny
sack was tied over his head and his
b nds and legs were secured, and he wai
laid down in a corner of the ■ fli c. As
the watchman did not repori, the en
gineer, assistant engineer and tankman
went successively to see what was wrong
and each in turn was seized and b und
like Coleman. The burglars worked
h rd to open the safe, but af er three
hours work they brr-ke their drill und
gave up the job after going through the
pockets of the captured men und secur
ing SOS At 4 o’clock Tuesday morn-
I ing, twenty armed men succeeded in ef
i fecting an entrance to the jail in Canyon
City, Colorado, overpowered the sheriff,
nnd lore down the steel cage in winch
Withered, a murderer, was confined.
The prisoner broke up his bed, and with
a portion of the slat knocked several of
the mob down. Three shots were then
; fired by members of the party, and ith
‘ crell fell to the floor w ith a shattered
{ shoulder. He was immediately carried
! without resistunpe a short distance Horn
the jail, nnd strung up IQ a telegraph
pole, aid his body left hanging until
: daylight next morning. Withered never
laid a word after lie was wounded, and
! appeared most incliff' rent as to his f ite.
Harry Perdue, nnother murderer confined
in jail, was not molested.
PROPER GIFT.
The “Red Cross’’ telegraphed from
Washington. D. C., to an agent to buj
ten thousand p( umls of meal and sixteen
hundred pounds of meat for the still' ring
people of McClenny and Sand, r- t. * la.
The purchase was made and the rut ion. s
from the mill where the meal was ground
to tho places named gave free trans
portation.
A SPLIT.
District* Assembly 135, Knights of
Labor, at Columbus, Ohio, has u ' l ed
about equally, half going to the ret (ra
tion of Miners, in formation of a? im
pendent organization for that district, tne
other half remained with tne king 1 *•
W. F. Lewis, district master workman of
No. 185, has resigned and will be ueaa
of the miners’
DESTRUCTIVE MONSTER.
Tbe great gun just turned out at 'he
Kri.pp works at Essen Germany,
111 tons, carries a ballot V n{ ,
and lias an extreme range of J
miles.
SOUTHERN NEWS.
A CONDENSATION OF HAPPEN
INGS STRUNG TOGETHER.
MOVEMENTS OK ALIdAKCK MEN —RAIL-
ROAD CASUALTIES—TUE COTTON CROP
—FLOODS—ACCIDENTS—CROP RETURNS.
ALABAMA.
Frank Gifford, chief of tho Firt De
partment ot Birmingham for several
m mhs, an 1 for a long time Chief of
Pcl.cc, w hile riding to a lire on horse-
Lac ;, was thrown and killed.
James Horan, a blacksmith of Bir
mingtiam, twenty-five years oi l, cut his
throat on Thursday, and died in a short
time. No cause is known for the rash
set, except that ho had been drinking
heavily for eeveiul days.
The mystery surrounding the death ol
the young girt found iu t le lake at Fast
Lake, Birmingham, was deepened on
Wcdnes lay by the discovery of u possi
ble clew to h-r identity, and tho
fact established by an utopsy that she
w.n murdered and her body afterward
thrown into the lake. Sevi ral parties
identifi. and the body as lhat of a daughter
of a rail load engineer named Dick Hawes.
Tne gnl was murdered Monday night.
So far the officers have been unable to
find any trace of Mrs. Haw es. A special
fiom Columbus, Miss., sayslL R. Hawes,
f-ther of the dead girl, was marred in
that town to Miss Mary Story and left
for a bridal tour. R, R. Hawes, father
of the murdered girl, ariived at Bir
mingham with les bride from Columbus,
Mis-., and was airisted by a deputy
sin riff the moment he stepped from the
traiu, and was immediately taken to the
c 'imty jail. He was told that he was
inspected of having murdered his child.
His bride was taken to one of the hotels
by a friend. The mother of the girl was
never martied to Hause. Ilause formerly
• lived in Atlanta, Ga., and says he was
i there divorced from the woman known
as his wife.
ARKANSAS.
Philadelphia people ar claiming t
• tract of over £O,OOO acres of land near
Berryville, and have recorded a deed
; conveying title to the property. Tin
land is occupied by farmers and is wortt
about $250,000.
K-r.OKIUA.
The work of fum gation goes vigorous
! ly forward at Jacksonville. In three days
about 475 houses have been fumigated
1 and their infected bedding destroyed.
S. F. DeLesdenier, of Houston, Tex.,
suicided at the City hotel in Pensacola.
DeLesdenier was a prominent member of
the I. O. O. F., having been a grand rep-
I rcsentatire of his state at the meeting of
the Southern grand lodge held in Atlanta
in 1884, and in Indianapolis in 1875, and
at the time of his death was grand scribe
! of the order in Texas.
The City Council of Jacksonville re
pealed the refugee ordina' ce, substituting
therefor one I rained to meet the action of
the Board of Health. -Mayor Gerow sub
sequently issued tbe following proclama
tion; “Whereas, by resolutions passed
this day by the city council of the city
of Jacksonville, and the Duval county
board of health, respectively, it appears
that said authorities are assured that the
work of disinfecting the city will bs
practically accomplished by the loth in
stant; therefore, be it known that any
and all persons, on nnd after the 15th
day of December, instant, may lawfully
enter into and remain within said city.
Dated Jacksonville, Flu.. December 4.
IBss. D. F. Geiow, Acting Mayor.”
LOUISIANA.
Fire on Tuesday afternoon destroyed
the buildings 40, 42 and 44 Chartres
street, in New Orleans, occupied by
Janus Boyle & Cos., wholesale no ion*
and clot, ing, and Eugene Dupri e,
whole-ale boats and shoes. Bojlc’s loss
is estimated at $50,000; Dupree’s loss is
estimated at SOO,OOO. The stock and
but.ding of the Odor Dussan’s perfumery
establishment were dnmaged to the ex
tent of $10,000; fully insured.
HIRYMND.
The Baxter Electric Manufacturing
and Mo'or company, of Baltimore, made
a deed of trust lor the benefit of cri di
tors to J. Frank Morrison, trustee. The
failure is due to inability to muke prompt
collections. The company is said to lie
solvent and after paying its debts, will
probably have a balance in property, etc.
Gov. Jackson recently made a curious
mistake. In fixing ihe date of the hang
ing of Isaac Keenan, convicted of the
murder of John Holly, he first thought
of February 22d, but that date being
Washington’s birth-day, he de ided to
make it a week later. At the lime he
had a calendar of 1888 before him and
running hi- finger and >wn the column,
fixed it on February 29th, 1889. Not
being leap year, the re is n> February
29th aud some legal complications may
ensue. The date, as givtn out for pub
lication was changed to March Ist.
At the second test of the Bessemer
cast steel gun, at the proving grounds at
the Naval Academy at Annapolis on
Wednesday, the gun burst into number
less pieces, breaking the heavy timbered
platform it was ou into a thousand frag
ments. The first charge was thirty-six
pounds, tlio seconcl forty eight, the regu
lation charge. This gun was mnde#pf
Bessemer cast steel by the Pittsburg
Steel Casting Company, was sixteen feet
one inch in h ngtli, and weighed ten
thousand pounds. It was charged with
forty-eight pounds of powder, and shot
a concave ball of one hundred pounds.
The government lost, in destruction of
property, about $5,000 by the but sting
of the gun. Ensign Robert Tcashsl),
one of the officers who made the test,
said the experiment proves that Bessemer
cast steel will not do for great guns. It
has not elaatieily nor tensile strength.
TEXAS.
A pronounced case of smallpox appear
ed among the soldiers in the garrison at
Browuville on Wednesday. The patient
is a man who came from Ringgold bar
racks, where he contracted the disease.
There are a number of cases at Rio
Grande City.
TKNNKSSKE.
Rev. Dr W. E. Boggs has 'announced
to the representatives of his congregation
at Memphis, his acceptance of the chancel
lorship of the University of Georgia, sub
ject to the of his presbytery.
The officers discovered another link
in the line of evidence, which is being
worked to show, that the rcci ut European
Hotel fire in Chattanooga, where several
people lost their lives, was incendiary.
On Monday Detective Frank Papenian
found three witne-ses who saw the hotel
act on fire and the officers are linking
for additional testimony. They believe
teveral persons are implicated. Thus far
only one aricst has been made.
MIMNINMII'I'I.
Tho Convention of tho National Al
liance and National Wheel at Memphis,
Miss., met ou Wednesday morning with
delegates present from twenty state* and
territories. An address of welcome wai
delivered by State Senator Joel P.
Walker, on the part of the citizens,
which was responded to by Colonel
Polk, of North Carolina, on the part ol
tho Alliance and Wheel. The President
of the National Alliance, Colonel Mc-
Clure, of Dallas, Texas, delivered the
annual address before the allianco dele
gates at Sheehan Hall, Most of the day
was apeut in organizing various commit
tees and getting in Bhtipc fur business.
A ptopoa tion to consolidate the National
Wli el an' l National Alliance is uadei
consideration.
VIRGINIA.
News lias been received of the destruc
tion by flic of about one-half
of the entire town of Juncsville, the
county site of Lee. Total loss $50,000.
After the tire was over 11. O. Ballou shot
sud killed Dan Craig and mortally
wounded Berry Craig, a brother of Dan.
Ballou in tome way intimated that the
Craigs had possibly set tire to the town,
and the difficulty and killing waa the
result.
The Baptist Congress, consisting of tho
leading ministers and laymen, began its
reventh annual session at Richmond last
Tuesday. Dr. P. Puryear read a paper
an "How Far the State Should Educate.”
A paper on "Common vs. Parochial
Schouls,” by Rev. Dr. Phillip Moxum,
was presented. Rnv. Walter Raunsehen
bausch, of New York, then addressed
ihe congress. The night session was
taken up with addresses on Prohibition
snd high license by Dr. Way land Hoyt
md 11. A. DeLane.
The boat La Libertad, Capt. Slocumb,
who has as passengers his wife and two
children, which sailed for Rio Janeiro
Ihe 24th of July, hound to Washington,
D. C., aud which was last reported at
Beaufort, N. C., on the 20th of Novem
ber, arrived Wednesday at Norfolk safe
and sound, with all well on board.
Capt. Slocumb was commander of the
Baltimore b-rk Aquidneck, which was
lost two hundred miles south of Rio,
and he purchased the material and built
the boat wrliich lias made such a remark
able voyage. The La Libertad is thirty
five feet long, seven feet and a hnlf wide
and only three feet deep. She was built
on the Japanese model, with the rig of a
Chinese junk, there being three masts,
the mainsail being asquareone, slrength
>ned by bamboo
GEORGIA ITEMS.
John T. Glenn was chosen mayor ol
Atlanta on Wednesday, having a major
ity "f 1,003 votes over his opponent
Walter Brown. The ‘’Conservative”
ticket also elected their candidates foi
aldermen and councilmen.
The contract for building a $250,000
hotel in Savannah, was awarded to M. S
Lowman & Cos., ot Jeffersonville, Ind.
The hotel will be completed December 1
25, 1889, and with grounds aud orna
mentation will cost $500,000.
The following bills were approved by
Gov. Gordon; To make legal
and valid the occupancy of Ninth
street in the city of Columbus.
To authorize the refunding of the excess
of s2io, paid for licensetosell spiiituous
liquors granted by the comtnissianers ol
roads and revenues of Fulton county in
1887 and 1888. An act to amend the acl
reeating and organizing a board of com
missioners of Chatham county by pro
viding that the appointments by the gov
erns shall be on recommendation of the
grand jury of the county.
The tower at the new Hebrew orphans'
home in Atlanta, fell on Tuesday, the
heavy stones crushing through the roof
of the surrounding portions ot the build
ing, and doing damage to the extent of
probably $5,000. Four men had a mi
raculous escape from instant death. The
lop part <-f tne tow er suddenly collapsed,
nnd the men who were at work on top of
the tower suddenly disappeared from
view. These were George Oliver, the
contractor for ilie building, two brick
masons, Arthur Gibson aud John Boch
mer, nnd one laborer, name unknown.
The last three arc negroes. The corner
stones at the base were not anchored,
and they gave way. The heavy stones
crashed through the roof over the super
intendent’s parlor and ODe of the dormi
tories, aud did a great deal of damage.
The four men who were on top were
saved by the scantling upon which they
were working, catching over the hole
on the inside of the tower. As it was
they had a fall of thirty-five feet, from
the top of the tower to where the clock
part begins.
A Scarecrow Idyl.
ZGSsf^”
mimm
“Chestnut 1 ” Jim Crow derisive cawed:
"You can't cheat me with this old fraud.”
# ■
But Farmer Hayseed’s,leap year schema
Worked like the logic of a dream.
It is recorded of Daniel Webster that
he hated tobacco, and jf his guests at
Marshfield wanted to smoke they had to
go out to the horseshed.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
WHAT THE UNITED STATES OF
FICIALS ARE DOING.
CONCURS*.
In the Senate on Wednesday, Mr. Plumb
offered a resolution (whieh was agreed
upon), instructing the eommittee on
epidemic disc-ares to inquire as to the
causes of the introduction of yellow fever
iuto Florida during the past season;
whether the instrumentalities of such iu
tro luction are still in force and what
legislation, if any, is necessary to prevent
a similar or other introduction of yellow
fever. Th" •*- ‘ ’ ■■ * ’
conideraay the i, and fra-. \’ ’ p
posing ol --.iWj pa~,.. u siY-‘uAlf a'au
reaching the emT of schedule A, no
amendment being offered to it, tho
Senate proceeded to executive business
... .In the House, Mr. Stewart, of Geor
gia, introduced a bill to establish a
gradual income tax, wh oh provides that
all individuals, corporations nnd estates
in tho Unitea States receiv
ing an annual net income of
$5,000 and upward, shall be taxed
Mr. Oates, of Alabama, introduced a bill
to regulate immigration, provides that no
alien shall be almittcd into the United
S ates who is au idiot, insane, or a pau
per, who has been legal y convicted of
any crime involving moral turpitude,
who is a polygamist, anarchist or social
ist, who is affiicted with any contagious
or loathsome disease, or who is under
contract to perform labor in the United
States. It makes it a misdemeanor pun
able by fine of SI,OOO or imprisonment
for three years for any alien forbidden to
enter the United States to como into this
country.
In the Senate a bill was introduced on
Tuesday, to allow persons who have
abandoned or relinquished their home
stead entries to make another entry. A
similar bill wu* passed by both houses of
Congress last year just before the close of
the session and failed of bee >ming a law
only for the reason, that it did not reach
the President in time for his s : gnature
before Congress adjourned. The bill in
troduced provides that any person who
has settled upon the public domain, who
has not yet perfected title thereto, and
who may be unable to subsist cn lands by
reason of drouth, whole or partial de
struction of crops, sickness, etc., may
take out another homestead entry in
place of the abandoned claim. Mr. Gib
son introduced a bill for the establish
ment in the Interior Department of a
Bureau of Health, to be under the direc-
I tion of the Commissioner, who shall re
ceive a salary of $5,000 per annum. It
also provides for the appointment by the
President of a health commission, to be
composed of twenty members, who shall
be divided into six sections, as follows;
Five for tbe yellow fever section, three
each for the cholera, typhoid fever, scar
let fever, smallpox and diphtheria sec
tions. The health commissioner is di
rected, whenever called upon, by the
governor of a state to make ruin aud
ngulations and take measure for the sup
pression of any infectious disease. An
appropriation of $500,000 is made to be
drawn upon whenever necessary for the
suppression of any contagious or info
seetious disease. Numerous bills were
also introduced and referred, including
one for the construction of two steel
rams to be armed with heavy
rifled dynamite guns, and one for
the construction of two steel cruiser
lo be armed with dynamite guns.
... .The Speaker laid before the House
the annual report of the Secretary of the
Treasury nnd Comptroller of Currenov,
which were appropriately referred. Mr.
McDonald, of Minnesota, presented a
pc-t.tion of citixcns of North Dakota for
the immediate admission into the Union
of South Dakota and Montana, and for
constitutional conventions in North Da
kota, Washington aud New Mexico. Re
ferred to committee on territories.
NOTES.
Secretary Bayard has notified the own
ers of the steamer Ilayticn Republic, a'
New York, that he holds the seizure ol
that vessel to be illegal and unwarranted.
The Secretary of the Treasury hai
awarded a silver life saving medal to
John T. De Liesseline, of South Carolina,
for heroism in saving a woman from
drowning in the harbor of Charleston, S.
C., in August last.
The report of the Secretary of the Sen
ate for the year ended June 30, 1888,
that the expenses of tho Senate were, loi
salaries aud mileage of members, $394,-
157; salaries of officers and employers,
$338,674; contingent expenses, $157,-
702; total, $890,533.
The Court of Claims gave judgment
for $13,839 in favor of Col. J. S. Mosbv,
formerly of the Confederate Army, lutu
United States Consul General to China.
This sum represents fees for issuing certi
ficates to Chinese immigrants to tho
United States, etc., collected in his offi.
cial capacity, and for which the account
ing officers of the Treasury rofused tr
allow him credit.
Assistant Secretary of the Treasury
Thompson has been offered the appoint
ment as Mr. Oberly’s successor in th<
civil service commission. Mr. Thomp
son resigned while Governor of South
Carolina to take his present position.
He is said to have no income other than
his salary, and as his chances are good
of retaining a place in the civil service
commission tinder the incoming Repub
lican administration, while it is certain
he could not retain his present position,
it is believed lie will accept.
The equity court of the District ren
dered a decree pro confesso in the cast
of Michael I. Wood* and John C. Fay
against Perez Dickinson, surviving part
ner of Cowan & Dickinson, of Knox
ville, Tenn., affirming .the complainants
claim. The suit is for recovery of $24,-
048 attorney’s fees for professional ser
vices in case of defendant Dickinson
against the United States before tho
court of claims and Congress, for tho
value of cotton used by General Burnsido
in fortifications at Knoxville in Novem
ber, 1863, when Gon. Longstreet at
tacked the city, in which $96,192 was
I recovered.
The receipt of the news of tho recount
in Charleston, West Virginia, by which
Alderson, Democratic candidate for Con
gress from the 3rd district, is given a
majority of 17, and the election of Flem
ing, Democratic candidate for GovtTnqr
probably assured, did not disturb
the Republican leaders. They assert
that their majority in the House iu the
51st Congress with the West Virginia
delegation solidly Democratic, will be
five. General Clarke says, certificates of
election have been issued in every stato
except West Virginia, so that no fuitlie
change is probable.
NUMBER 8.
CONCEALMENT.
If thy drr.searching eye* oauld to my heart
Find but tho subtle way, it* truth to **o,
Th iu wonktet not then in *llene*grieve apart
That thy great love ehoulii unrequited be;
K r 'tis but sueming, dear, that I am cold
And irro-ponsive to thy yearning still.
I need rnu-t soul my lips, lost they, o'erbold,
Hhould 0| en wale tne barred gate* of tbs
will,
And all that deep and restlos* prisoned tide
Which hidden lies, in ft* impassioned sway,
Bu t forth so swift and strong that 1 1*0 be
side
7Jight strive and strive in vain, Its force to
•tay.
iWJ.’J ;• >u not - -low with what persistent
r| r ' hold
The smoldering fire burns It* toadfe*t way.
That ot its might no warning tale is told
Tho careless eye which seeks alone the ray,
The light, to say If fire be or no.
Until by chance some wandering breath ot
air
Wakes with its touch to fiery crimson glow
The unseen thing which all the while was
there!
80, hidden love, a smoldering fire burns,
Nor gives from out the breast a tell-tale
gleam,
Till some magnetic current swiftly turns
Its unseen light to wondrous glowing beam
Nay, then, dear love, think not that thou
canst read
My heart and soul by looking in my face;
Or weigh their worth by every careless deed,
That thou canst thus all depth ot feeliug
trace.
Nay 'tis too sacred far for common eye,
This love 1 held for thy dear self alone;
Alone for thee shall my heart open lie.
To none but thee its tenderness be known;
So if thou wait some outward sign to see,
Ah, then, 1 need must wait because thou
hast
So willed, till fate—or chance—which'er it be
Shall kindly bring us heart to heart at last,
-Annie MeQnern,in American Magazine.
PITH AND_ POINT.
Our northern forests are slowly pines
ing away.
A Stump Speaker—“ Mister, give me
the butts.”
To remove paint—Sit down on it be
fore it is dry.
The ancient marryin’ ’er—January
wedding May.
Wily is it easy to get in an old man’s
house i Because his gait is broken and
his locks are few.
“The male is late to-night,” as tha
woman said when she got up at 2 a. m.
to let in her husband.
When does the rain become too
familiar to a lady? When it begins to pat
her (patter) on the back.
A nurse girl should fully realize that
it is her attention to the little things
which makes her work a success.
Begone. thou vile anachronism!
Skip, tliou poor, wan thing oh, scatl
Vamoose the ranch, aliez vous en,
Thou aged, pallid hat.
—Tima.
The annual crop of coal jokes is now
being broken up into the chestnut size,
ilany a basket is waiting to receive
them.
It is estimated that there are 1,000,000
vagrant dogs in Rome. That is what
makes Rome howl. —Binghamton iie
vubiican.
Promptly chirrups the 'cheery chime
In the tow r around the block,
The on;y thing behind the time
Is the hack of the office clock.
—Siftings.
Barber. —“How do you like to have
your hair cut, sir?” .Vickey Kino.—
“Wid de scissors, av coor-e! D’ye sup-
I oshe Oi wanted ye to take a scythei”—
Jwige.
Young Physician (who has just lost a
pat’ent, to old physician)—“Would you
advise an autopsy, doctor?” Old Phy
sician—“No; i would advise an in
quest.”
Ethel--“O, papa, did you see the new
parlor lamp Aunt Julia sent me? It’s
the late-t thing out.” Papa—“lt will
be Sunday nights, anyway. — Terre Hants
tCxjrress.
E. Cuthbcrton Gregg, Esq. (enumera
ting the cha acteristics of his fam ly)—
“Vans. Now, my brother Fwed, he’s
the pwactical one; he carwies a pocket
pincushion.” — Life.
“Ihe trouble with pa,” said Mrs.
Bentley, “is that he lets little things
worry him He was mad this morning
because the baby kept him awake all
night.”— Harper'* liazrr.
Gambled Away Three Million Dollars.
The career of the Baton de Bastart, the
greatest gambler of his age, who has just
died in i aris, is another proof of tho
fact, says the New i ork Telegram, that
no amateur gamb er ever keeps ahead of
the game. Iho Baron was the slave of
the gamester's passion.
When the tieaty of Villafranca, re
storing peace after t.ouis Napoleon’s
campaign, was s gned, a dispatch wad
seut to tie Bastart informing him of the
news, which it was his duty, as Sub-
Prefect of Moriaix, to post throughout
the province.
The and spatch was handed to him at a
baccarat tab e, and be simply read it and
went on with the game, for which neglect
of duty he was d.smissed from the office
in disgrace. But De Bastart lost stead
ily, aud those who kept track of his play
assert that his losses were SIOO,OOO per
year; so that, in the thirty years that he
nightly frequented the Paris gambling
rooms, he is estimated to have lost the
immense sum of $ t,000,000.
As he possessed a fixed income of
$150,000 per year he was enabled to in
dulge his passion; but had he been a
clerk on a salary he would perhaps have
crippled himself.
Feasting On Broiled Meskey.
The food of tho Yuleros of Costa con
sists mainly of wild hogs, or such other
animals as they may be able to kill, eked
out by tortillas, aud, as an occasonal
luxury, ad sh of red bean3 stewed in
fat. Monke .s are considered the choicest
of morceauv, particularly the large ted
species, which are as highly relished by
the hunters as a> e raccoons by Southern
darkies, or Thanksgiving turkeys by
New Englanders. Indee I, in many parts
of Spatrish-America monkey meat is
eaten by both natives and foreigners,
whose gastronomic tastes are harder to
please than these of the hungry Yula
ros. I can myself testify to the fact
that a well brodedsiice of young ape—
though a trifle touch and strong—is not
more unpalatable than beefsteak or buf
falo meat, which it greatly resembles. If
one could overcome the cannibalistic
ideas engendered by the l arwinian non
sense, and not feel as if feeding upon
lilack babv, monkey flesh would be de
cidedly pielerableto pork as an article
diet. —PuiiodtlvkiA ilecord. _