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The Georgia Enterprise. VOLUME XXIV. The Enterprise. 11 -iii;i> u i;i:kly at r\i\ ]N< ■i l ' Ukohuu. |)NU ,[ is CLUBS OF FIVE. I jEutercJ tit tlio Covington Po I ~ eliiM matter. Terms, 81,25 .. r annum. In flubs of five or more Olio Dollar. Six months 75ets. Four months, DO cts uhvaya in advance. pVT RON TYj e The Old Enterprise. It "rides no fences/’ Jumps no nominations $1.25 in advance. In clubs of five sl. Advertising Rates. Loo 111 Notices loots per line first iuser timi—2o cents per month. Business Ad verbs meats 81 per inch first time —50 cts inch suh.-'Mpient insertion. 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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. _