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THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “ Slumler* Against Religion
Answered.’’
Tjext: "And / took th* little book out of
the angel's Aantt, and ate it up; ant 1 1 was
in my mouth sweet fin honey \ and as soon
as I had eaten it my belly was bitter. An t
He said unto wne: Thou must prophesy
again before many peoples, and nations ,
and tongues, and kings."— Rev. x., 10-11.
Domifcian, lha Homan Emperor, had in htfl
reulrn a troublesome evangelist who would
keep preaching, and so ho exiled him to a
barren island, as now the Russians exile con
victs to Sitteria, or as sometirna* the English
Government usod to send prisoners to Aus
traha. Tho island I speak of is now called
Patinos, and is So 1 arren and unproductive
that its inhabitants live by fishing.
But one day the evangelist of whom I
sneak, sitting at the mouth of a cavern on
the hill side, and perhaps half asleep under
the drone of the nea, has a supernatural
dream, and before him pass as in pauorama,
time and eternity. Among the strange
things that he saw was an angel with a
little book in his hand, and in his
dream the evangelist asked for
this little book, and the angel gave it
to him, and told him to eat it up.
As in a dream things aro sometimes in
congruous, the evangelist took the little book
and Hte it up. The angel told him before
hand that it would be very sweet in the
mouth, but afterward he would be troubled
with indigestion. True enough, the evangel
ist devours the book, and it becomes to him a
sweetness during the mastication, but after
ward a physic *1 bitterness.
Who the angel was and what the book was
no one can tell Thy commentators do not
agree, and I shall take no responsibility of
interpretation, but will tell you that
it suggests to me the little book
-f creeds which skeptics take and chew
up nni find a very luscious morsel
to their witticism, but after a while it is to
them a great distress. The angel of the
church hands out this little book of evangel
ism, and tho antagonists of the Christian
Church take it and eat it up, and it makes
them smile at first, but afterward it is to
them a dire dyspepsia.
All intelligent people have creeds—that is,
favorite theories which they have adopted.
Political creeds—that is theories about tariff,
about finance, about civil service, about
government Social creeds—that Is, theories
about manners and customs and good neigh
borhood. yfcsthetical creeds—that is theories
about tapestry, about brio-a-brac, about
styles of ornamentation. Religious creeds—
that is, theories about the Deity, about the
soul, about the great future. The only being
who has no creed about anything is the
idiot. This scoffing against creeds is always
a sign of profound ignorance on the
psrt of the scoffer, for he has
himself a hundred creeds in regard to other
things. In our time the beliefs of evangelis
tic churches are under u fuailade of carica
ture and misrepresentation. Men set up
what they call orthodox faith, and they rake
it with the musketry of their denunciation.
They falsify what the Christian churches be
lieve. They take evangelical doctrines and
set them in a harsh and repulsive way, and
put them out of the association with other
\rufchs. They are like a mad anatomist, who,
desiring to tell what a man is, dissects a hu
man body and hangs up in one place the
heart, and in another i>laee the two lungs,
and in auother place an ankle bone, and says
that is a man. They are only fragments of
a man wrenched out of their God-appointed
places.
Evangelical religion is a healthy, symetri
cal, well-jointed, roseate, bounding life, and
the scalpel and the dissecting knife of the in
fidel or the atheist cannot tell you what it is.
Evangelical religion is as different from
what It is represented to be by these enemies
as the scarecrow which a farmer puts in the
coin field to keep off the ravons is different
from the farmer himself.
For instance, these enemies of evangelism
say that the Presbyterian Church believes
that God is a savage Sovereign, and that He
made some men just to damn them, and that
there are Infants in hell a spaa long. These
old slanders come down from generation to
generation. The l*resbytcrian Church be
lieves no such thing. The Presbyterian
Church believes that God is a loving and just
Sovereign, and that we are free agents.
‘‘No, no; that cannot be," say these men who
have chewed up the creed and have the con
sequent embittered stomach. “That is impos
sible; if God is a Sovere.gn, we can’t be free
agents." Why, my friends, we admit this
in every other direction. I, De Witt Tal
mage, am a free citizen of Brooklyn. Igo
when I please and I come when I please, but
I have at least four sovereigns. Tne Church
court of our denomination; that is mf
ecclesiastical sovereign The mayor of this
city; he is my municipal sovereign. Tho
Governor of New York; he is my State
sovereign. The President of the United
States; he is my national sovereign. Four
sovereigns have I, and yet in every faculty
of body, mind and soul I am a free man. So,
you see. it is possible that the two doctrines
go side by siae. and there is a common sense
way of presenting It, and there is a way that
is repulsive. If you have the two doctrines in
a worldly direction, why not in a religious di
rection ? If I choose to-morrow morning to
walk into the Mercantile Library and im
prove my mind, or to go through
the conservatory of my friend at Ja
maica, who has flowers from all lauds
growing under the arches of glass, and who
has an aquarium all asquirm with trout and
gold fish, and there ‘ are trees bearing
oranges and bananas—if I want to go there,
I could. lam free to go. If I want to go
over to Hoboken and leap into a furnace of
an oil factory, if I want to jump from the
platform of the Philadelphia express train,
if 1 want to leap from the Brooklyn Bridge,
I may. But suppose I should go to-morrow
aud leap into the furnace at Hoboken, who
would be to blame ? That is all there is
about sovereignity and free agency. God
rules and reigns, and Ho has conservatories
and He has blast furnaces. If you want to
walk in the gardens, walk there. If you
want to leap in the furnaces, you may.
Suppose now a man had a charmed key
with which he could open all the jails, and
he should open Raymond Street Jail and the
New York Tombs and all the prisons on the
continent. In three weeks what kind of a
country would this be/ all the inmates
turned out of those prisons and penitentiar
ies. Suppose all the reprobates, the Lad
spirits, tne outrageous spirits, should be
turned into the New Jerusalem. Why, the
next morning the gates of pearl would bo
fouud off hinge, the linchpin would be gone
out of the chariot wheels, tho “house
of many mansions" would be burg
larized. Assault and battery, arson,
libertinism and assassination would
reside in the capita! of the skies. Angels of
God would be insulted on the streets. Heaven
would be a dead failure if there wore no
great lock-up. If ail peoplo without regard
to their character when they leavo this world
go right into glory—l wonder if in the
temple of the skies Charles (Juiteau and
John Wilke* Booth occupy the same pew!
Your common sons© demands two destinies!
And then as to the Presbyterian Church be
lieving there are infants in perdition, if you
will bring me a Presbyterian of good morals
and sound mini who will say that he believes
there ever whs a baby in the lost world, or
ever will be, I will make him a deed to the
house I live in and he can take possession
to-morrow.
So the Episcopalian Church is misrepre
sented by the enemies of evangelism. They
sav that church substitutes forms ;nd cere
monies for heart religou, and it is all a mat
ter for liturgy end genuflexion. Falss
Again. All Episcopalians will tell you that
the forms and creeds of their church are
worse than nothing unless tho heart go wltb
them. . ,
So also the Baptist Church has been mis
1 represented. The enemies of evangelism say
tho Baptist Church believes that unless n
man is immersed he will never get into
heaven. False again. All tho Baptists,
close communion and open communion, be
lieve that if a man accept the ljord Jesus
Christ li* will be saved, whether he b3 bap
tized b' drop of water on tho forehead,
Dr be pionged into the Ohio or Susquehanna,
although immersion is the only gate by
which one enters their earthly communion.
The enemies of evangelism also misrepre
sent the Methodist Church. They say the
Methodist Church believe* that a man can
convert himself, and that conversion in that
church is a temporary emotion, and that all
a man has to do is to kneel doitfn at the altar
1 and feel bad and then the minister pats him
on the back and says; “It i* all right,” and
•Mr couxrtiY may sits ever he nwiiT: ewiit on vitosa, ur coontetp'— jewm...
that N all there is of it. False again. Ths
Methodist Church lielieros that the Holy
Ghost alone can convert a heart* and in that
church conversion is an earthquake of con
v letk It and a sunburst of p irdoa, And as to
mere “temporary emotion," 1 wish wo all
had more or the “temporary emotion" which
lasted Bishop Janes and Matthew Rfmpaon
for a half century, keeping them on fire for
God until their holy enthusiasm consumed
their bodies.
So all the evangelical denomination* are
misrepresented. And then these enemies of
evangelism go on and hold np the great doc
trines of Christian churches ns absurd, dry
and inexplicable technicalities. “There is
your doctrine of the Trinity." they say.
‘ Absurd beyond all bounds. The idea that
there is a God In three persons. Impossible.
If it is one God He can’t be three,and if there
are three, there can’t be one." At the same
time all of us—they with us—acknowledge
trinities all around us. Trinity in our own
make-up—body, mind, soul Body with
which we move, mind with which we
think, soul with which we love. Three,
vet ono man. Trinity in the air -
light, heat, moisture—yet one atmosphere
Trinity in the court room—three judges oo
the bonch, but one court. Trinities all around
about us, in earthly government and in
nature. Of cour ;e, all the illustrations are
defective, for the reason that the natural
•anuofc fully illustrate the spiritual. But
suppose an Ignorant man should come up to
the chemist and say: “I deny what you say
about the water and about the air; they are
not made of different parts. The air is
one; I breathe it every day. The water
is one; I drink it every day. You
nn’t deceive me about the elements that
go to make up the air and the water.” The
hemist would say. “You come up into my
laboratory and I will demonstrate this whole
thing to you.” The ignorant man goes into
the chemist’s laboratory and sees for him
self. He learns that the water is ono and
the nir is one, but they aro made up of
different parts. So hare is a man who
lays: “I can’t understand the doctrine of
the Trinity.” God says: “You come up hero
into the laboratory after your death, and
you will see—you will see it explained, you
will see it demonstrated.” Tne ignorant
man cannot understand the chemistry of the
water and the air until he goes into the la
boratory, and we will never understand tho
Trinity until we go into heaven. The igno
rance of the man who cannot understand the
chemistry of the air and w ater does not
change the fact in regard to the composition
of air and water. Because wo cannot under
stand the Trinity, doe* that change the fact?
“And there is your absurd doctrine about
justification by faith,” say these antagonists
who have chewed up the little book of evan
gelism, and have the consequent embittered
stomach—“justification by faith; you can’t
explain it." 1 can explain it. It is simply
this: When a man takes the Lord Jesus
Christ as his Saviour from sin, God lets the
offender off. Just as you have a difference
with someone; he has injured you, he aDolo*
gizes, or he makes reparation, you say;
“Now, that's all right, that's all right.” Jus
tification by faith is thi: A man takes Jesui
Christ as bis Saviour, and God says to thi
man: “Now, it was all wrong before, but it
is ail right now; it is all rignL" That was
what made Martin Luther what he was.
Justification by faith, it is going to conquer
all nations.
“ There is your absurd doctrine about re
generation," these antagonists of evangelism
lay. What is regeneration ? Why, regener
ation is reconstruction. Anybody can under
stand that. Have you not s?en people
who are all made over again by some
wonderful influence f In other words,
they are just as different cow from
what they used to be as possible. The old
Constellation, man-of-war, lay down here
at the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Famine came
to Ireland. The old Constellation was fitted
up, and though it had bean carrying gun
powder and bullets it took bread to Ireland.
You remember the enthusiasm as the old
Constellation went out of our harbor, and
with what joy it was greeted by the famish
ing nation on the other side the sea. That is
regeneration. A man loaded up with sin
snd death loaded up with life. Refitted.
Your observation has been very small in
deed if you have not S9eu changes in charac
ter as radical as that.
A man came into this church one night,
and he was intoxicated, and at an utterance
oi the pulpit ho said in a subdued toue:
“That’s a lie.” An officer of the church
tapped him on tho shoulder and said; “You
must be silent, or ycu must go out.” The
next night that stranger came aud he was
converted to God He was in the liquor
business. He resigned the business. The
next day ho sent back the samples that had
just been sent to him. He began to love that
which ho hated. I baptized him by immer
sion in tho baptistry under this platform.
\ largo salary was offered him if
le would return to his former busi
ness. Ho declined it. He would rather
suffer with Jesus Christ than be pros
pered in the world. Ho wrote home a letter
to his Christian mother. The Christian mother
wrote back congratulating him, and said:
“If in tho change of your business you have
lack of means, come home; you are always
welcome home." Ho told of his conversion
to a dissolute companion. The dissolute
companion said: “Well, if you have become
& Christian, you had better go over and talk
to that dying girl. She is dying with quick
consumption in that house.” 'lb© new con
vert went there. All the surroundings were
dissolute. He told tho dying girl
that Jesus would save her. “Oh,’’ said
ihe, “that can’t be, that can’t be! What
makes you think so?" “I have it here in a
book in my pocket," he replied. He pulled
out a New Testament. Sho said: “Show it
to me; if I can bo saved, show it to me in
that book " He said: “I have neglected this
book as you have neglected it for many
years, and I don't know where to find it, but
t know it is somewhere between the lids."
Then he began to turn over the leaves, and
strange and beautiful to say, his eye struck
upon this passage: “Neither do I condemn
thee; go and sin no more." She said: “It
isn't possiblo that is there!” “Yes,”
he said, “that is there.” Ho held it up
before her dying eyes, and she said:
“Ob. yes, I see it for myself; I
acc?pt the proiniso: ‘Neither do I condemn
thee; go and sin no more.’" In a few hours
her spirit sped away ro the Lord that gave
it. an l tho new convert proached the funeral
ermon. The man who a few days before
bad been a blasphemer and a drunkard and
a hater of all that was good, he preached tbs
sermon. That is regeneration, that :s re
generation! If there are any dry husks of
technicality in tiiat, where are they? All
made over again by the power of the grace
of God.
A few years ago a ship captain came in here
and sat yonder under the gallery. He came
in with a contempt for tne Church of God
and with an especial dislike for Talmags*
When an opportunity was given be arc st
for prayer, and as ho was more than six feet
high, when he arose for prayer no one
doubted that be arose! That hour ho be
came a Christian. He went out and told the
ship owners and the ship commanders what r
great change had been wrought in him. end
icoras and scores have been brought to God
through his instrumentality.
A little while after his conversion he was
on ship off Cape Ilatteras iu a thick and pro
longed fog, and they were at their wits’ ends
ana knew not what to do, tha ship drifting
about hither and thither, aud they lost their
bearings; and tho converted sea captain
weut to his room and asked Go 1 for the sil
vation of his ship, and God revealed it to
him while he was on his knees that at a cer
tain hour, only aiittle way off, the fog wouid
lift; and tho converted sea captain came
out on the deck and told how God heard his
prayers. He said: “It is ail right, boys, very
*oon now the fog will lift," mentioning t ie
hour. A man who stood there laughed
sloud in derision at tho idea that God would
inswer prayer; but at just tlia hour when
God had assure 1 the captain the fog would
lift there came a Hath of lightning through
the fog, and the man who had jeered and
laughed was stunned and fell to the deck.
The fog lifted. Y'onder was Capa Hatteros
lighthouse. The ship was put on the right
course, and sailed on to the harbor of safety.
When in seaport the captain spends most
of his time in evangelical work He kneels
down by one who has been helpless ill the
bed for many months, and the next day she
walks forth in the streets well. He kuoeis
beside one who has long been decrepit, and
he resigns the crutches. Ho kneels beside
ono who had not seen enough to l>e a b e to
read for ten years,aud she reads the Bible that
day. Consumptions go away, and those who
had diseases tnat were appalling to behold
come up to rapid convalescence and to com
plete health. lam not telling you anything
second-handed. 1 have had the storv from
the lips of tin patients in this very house,
those who were brought to health of body
while at the name time brought to
God. No second hand story this. 1 have
beard the testimony from men ono
COVINGTON, GEORGIA. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 14. 188!).
woinifl have been cured.
You may call it f4ith-ctfrt< or you may call
it the power of God coming down in answer
to prayer; I do not care w.iat yoii call it; it
i* a fact The scoffing sea capta n, bi* heart
full of hatred for Christianity, now become*
a follower of the meek and lowly Jesus, giv
ing all the time to ovange ical labors, or all
the time he can spare from o!h*r occupations.
That is regenerat ion, that is regeneration.
Man all made over again.
“ There i* your absurd doctrine of vicari
ous sacrifice," say these men who have
chewed up tho little book of creeds and have
the consequent embittered stomach. “Vicari
ous sacrifice I every man suffer for n.m
--s If. Why do Iva it. ('brist to suffer for I
I’ll suffer for myself and carrv my own bur
dens." They scoff at the idea of vicarious
sacrifice, while they admire it overy where
else except in Christ. People so" its beauty
when a mother suffers for her child. People
see Its beauty when a patriot suffer* for till
country. People see its beauty when a man
denh* himself for a friend. They can see
the beauty of vicarious sacrifice in every one
but Christ.
A young lady in one of the literary insti
tutions wn a teacher. She was very reti
cent and retired in her habits, aud she formed
no companionships in tho new position she
occupied, and her dress was very plain—
sometimes it was very shabby. After a
while she was discharged from the place for
that reason, but no reason was given. In
answer to tho letter dtecharginj her fr >m
the position, sho said: “Well, if I have
failed to please, I suppose it is my own
fault” fche went hare and there for employ
ment, and found none, and in desperation
and in dementia she ended her life by suicide.
Investigation was made and it was found
that out of her small means she had supported
her father, eighty years of age.and vas pay
ing the way for her brother in Yale College
on his way to the ministry. It
was found that sho bad no blanket oil
the r>ed that winter, and she had no lire
on the very coldest day of all the
season. People found it out, and there was
a large gathering at the funeral, the largest
ever at any funeral in that place, and the
very people who had scoffed came anil looked
upon the pale face of the raartvr, and all
honor was done her; but it was too late.
Vicarious sacrifice. All are thrilled with
mch instances as that. But many are not
moved by the fact that Christ paid His pov
erty for our riches, His self-abnegation for
our enthronement, and knelt on the sharp
edges of humiliation that we might climb
over His lacerated shoulder into peace and
heaven.
Be it ours to admire and adore these doc
trines at which others jeer. Oh the depths
of the riches both of the wisdom and knowl
edge of God! How unsearchable is His wis
dom. and His ways are past finding out! Oh
the height, the depth, the length, the breadtif,
the infinity, the immensity, the eternity of
that love! Let our earnest prayers go oqt
In behalf of all those who scoff at these doc
trines of grace. When the London plague was
raging in the year 1065, there was a hotel
near the chief burial-place that excited much
comment. England was in fright and be
reavement. The dead cart3 went through
the streets day aDd night, and the cry:
“Bring out your dead!’ was answered by
the bringing out of tho forms of the
loved ones, and they were put twenty
or thirty in a cart, aud the wagon' went
on to the cemetery; and these Toad were
not buried in graves, but in great trenches,
in great pits; in one pit eleven hundred and
fourteen burials! The carts would come up
with their great burden of twenty or thirty
to the mouth of the pit, and the front of the
?art was lifted and the dead shot into the pit.
All the churches in London were open for
prayer day and night, and England was in
great anguish. At that very time at
hotel, r.t a wayside inn near tho chief
burial-places there was a group of
hardened men. who sat day after*
day and night after night blasphoming God
and imitating the grief-struck who went by
to the burial-place. The**} men 'a: thwvday
after day an ! night after nVlit, and they
scoffed at men, an i they scoffo l at women,
and they scoffed at God. But after a while
one of them was struck with the p ague, and
in two weeks all of the group were down in
the trench from the margin of which they had
littered their ribaldry. My friends, a greater
plague is abroad in the world. Millions have
died of it. Millions are smitten with it now.
Plague of sin, plague of sorrow, plague of
wretchedness, plague of woe. And conse
crated women and men from all Christendom
are going out trying to stay the plague and
alleviate the anguish, and there s a
group of men in this country base
enough to sit aud deride the work.
They sioff at the Bible, and they scoff
at evangelism, and the}' s'>oT at Jesus
Christ, and they scoff at God. If these
words shall reach them, either while they are
fitting here to-day, or through tho printing
press, let me tell them to remember the fate
of that group in the waysido inn white the
piague spreads its two black wings over the
doomed city of London. Oh. instead of be
ing scoffer* let us be disciples! “31t'iwed is
the man that wolketh not in the counsel o*
the ungodly, nor standeth in the way oi
sinners, nor sitted in the seat of the scorn
ful."
The Plant That Produces Tea.
'I lte plant from which the Chinese and
/apanesc obtain the tea, is called by
botanists Thea bohea. It is a small ever
green tree or shrub, closely allied to the
camellia indeed one of the latter, called
warratah, is also said to furnish a certain
class of tea. The bush of Ihe genuine
tea plant grows from three to six feet
high, bushy, branches numerous, leafy.
The young shoots, finely silky, nre ever
green. The ilowcrs are wliito and not
unlike the myrtle, out longer aud
usually two together; tho anthers and
stigma are yellow; in flower in August
and Beptember in its native country. It
was first introduced into British gardens
in 1708. The black and green teas, as
miAVCH OF CHINESE TEA PLANT.
we obtain them, depend for their color
upon the process of drying. Very young
leaves and shoots give the finest tea.
The illustration w II give the appearance
f the plant.— Prairie Farmer.
A RACE WAR.
What threatens to prove n serious
race war has broken out in Marion, 111.
A few weeks ago ihe firm of F. M.
Westbrook & Sons, tobacco packers,
imported a number of colored men to
work in their factory, claiming that
there are no white men capable of per
forming the work of stemming and
stripping. This action on tlie part of
the company greatly euraged a number
of white workmen, and they sent notices
to the colored men, warning them to
leave town within ten days, or receive
summary punishment. Threats "etc
cbo made to hum the factory and homes
of the imported laborers. But little at'
tention was paid to the threats, and a
lot of men went to tho home of Logon
Collins, a colored boss, and fired five
shots into his house. Collins procured
a revolver and returned the file, but no
one was hurt on either side.
HIE SOUTH
AT LARGE.
A GREAT ERA OF PROSPERITY
AM) PROGRESS IMPENDING.
thk i.*non field—farmeiis anii Br sixes* Hen
ACTIVE SOMETHIN'! ABOUT UAIEBOAD ACCF
DENTS, Mt Itt.KUH, Hl'lCll'ES, /THEM, ETC
ALABAMA.
I)r. Mortimer H. Jones, one of the
most prominent physicians in the state,
ami for several years president of the
Alabama Medical Association, died on
Tuesday of consumption.
The Slate Agricultural Society of Al
abama, met at Montgomery in semi-an
nual session on Wednesday. The meet
ing was presided over by Maj, 8. F.
Culver, of Union Springs. An address
of welcome was delivered by Hon. J.
Grcil, of Montgomery, and responded to
by Mnj. J. 11. Harris, of Chambers
county.
The grand jury at Birmingham, on
Wednesday, returned indictments of
murder in the tirst degree against John
and James Wyly, who were arrested
some time ago as accomplices in the
Hawes murders. They are both indicted
ns accomplices in the murder of Mrs.
Emma Ilawcs and the little girl, Irene.
One feature of the Ilawcs murder case
worthy of mention is, that nearly all the
evidence bus been discovered by report
era.
A double and probably triple tragedy
occurred near Warrior. Monday, a ne
gro miner named Prince Avery, was
charged with a nameless crime. A war
rant for Avery’s arrest was sworn out
and placed in the hands of Constables
John Wilson and Henry Goldworthy.
As they- approached the house where
Avery had been in hiding, he opened fire
on them, which was returned by both
officers. Wilson was shot in the breast,
side and leg, and died Wednesday.
Goldworthy was badly wounded in the
body and may die. After both officers
had been shot down, the negto Averv
fell dead, a bullet having entered his
breast and lodged near the heart.
Another witness in the Hawes case
turned up on Tuesday, in an old negro
woman named Sarah Cleus, living at!
Ensley City, who sent for a magis
trate. and purports to make a dying de
position. She was cooking for Fannie
Bryant about the time of the Hawes
murders. She has been sick some time,
and believes she is dying. In her depo
sition the woman claims to have posi
tively identified the irons found about
tlie body of Irene Hawes, as the same
which she saw Fannie Bryant, Hawes’s
alleged mulatto accomplice, pick up on
East Lake dummy tracks, and hide away
in a sack the night before the murder.
The evidence is thought to be some of
the most important yet discovered.
MISSISSIPPI.
Rev. T. Heslin, pastor of St. Mi
chael’s Church, New Orleans, La., has
been nominated to the vneaut see ol
Natchez..
SOI TH OAItOI.INA.
A slight earthquake shock was felt on
Wednesday night iu lower South Caro
lina. Tho vibration was similar to that
caused by a passing train, and was of
brief duration.
The conference of the African M. E.
Church, in session at. Georgetown, has.
adjourned. One of the last acts of the
conference was the adoption of a reso
lution, expressing sorrow and regret at
the reports of the race troubles through
out the South. At a meeting given to
Bishop Arnett, he delivered an address
in which he said; ‘-Ever since tho
proclamation of freedom, our people in
the South have been going to the towns,
leaving the country, leaving their farms,
leaving their home*, standing on the
corners and leaning on the corner, going
to jail and some to the penitentiary.
Let us tell the people there is prosperity
on the farm ns well as in the tow'n.”
TENNESSEE.
Miles Irwin, who was placed on trial
Thursday in Chattanooga on the charge
of murdering Reuben Elliott last Novem
ber, was convicted of murder in the
second degree, and sentenced to the pen
itentiary for eighteen years.
Hon. Henry Mills, of Buffalo, N. Y,,
aged 76, died at tho Palace Hotel in
Chattanooga, of pneumonia. He arrived
there February 1 on his way to Florida,
and having been seized with illness, was
compelled to stop off.
Andrew Carnegie, Boswell P. Flower,
of New York, Gen. Samuel Thomas,
ex President Norton, of the Louisville
& Nashville road, John H. Inman and a
party of twenty New York capitalists
reached Chattanooga ou Wednesday and
went to Lookout Mountain. They went
from there to South Pittsburg to take a
trip up tho Sequatchie valley. It is
thougut they have a big railroad scheme
on hand.
One of the most 'painful incidents in
the history of the Peabody Normal Col
lege at Nashville, occurred recently.
One of tlie scholarship students, F. C.
Geer, of Kennedy, Ala., died of conges
tion. His luneral occurred in the after
noon, and a room-mate, Mr. Melton,
was detailed to attend the remains to
the home of tlie deceased. Next day
the early arrivals at the college were
shocked to sec written on tlie walls of
the main entrance to tho college build
ing some very sensational charges. The
writing was done with a marking brush
and lampblack, and among other things,
alleged that the death of Geer was due
to the action of one of his teachers, who,
it is charged, ordered him to report for
examination while sick.
VIRGINIA.
Three ex-cadets of the Virginia Mili
tary Institute at Lexington, at 3 o’clock
Tuesday morning, out for a lark, stoned
the residence of Gen. Francis Smith, the
venerable superintendent of that institu
tion. They were recently expelled from
the military school. They were fined SSO
each.
George S. Oldfield, president, H. C.
Perch, cashier, 11. B. Nichols and 11. L.
Page, directors, were indicted Thursday
by the grand jury of Norfolk for making
false statements to the state auditor in
October last as to the condition of the
Home Savings bank of that city which
failed last November.
Capt. J. E. Waller, Governor's Lee's
private secretary, committed suicide at
Richmond on Thursday, by putting a
bulletthr mgh bis head. The governor
can assign no reason for the terrible act.
The deceased left nothing to indicate
what caiis< and him to commit the deed.
It is thought by friends that the act was
the result of a love affair. Ho was
known to be subject to periods of mel
ancholy.
I'l.uitin\.
The new hotel Sutherland, in Suther
land, was burned Thursday. The guests
had a uarrow escape. The loss is $lO,-
000.
'lhc tobacco growers of Florida met in
convention at Tallahassee on Wednesday,
an 1 organized the Tobacco Growers’
Association. Great interest wn taken
in dismissing the best method ot grow
ing. curing and marketing tobacco. The
membership of the association is large,
and it promises to he a great benefit to
the tobacco growers of the state.
.vitNMoriti.
Henry Deikman, a member of the St.
Louis Merchants’ Exchange, has skipped
with $50,000.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
Between footpads and burglars, the
A'lanta police are kept pretty busy.
Ivc and John Lee, two Chinese lnun
dryrnen of Rome, were nearly beateu to
death and robbed on Wednesday night.
W. W. Bussey, teller of tho Eagle &
Phenix bank of Columbus, who was
“short” $16,000, and ran away, was
caught at Scale, Ala.
The Bwift Cotton Company, near
Thomason, in Upson county, was de
stroyed by fire Thursday. The loss is
estimated at $50,000, with insurance of
$13,000.
The contractors begun work on Tues
day on tho new Tybee hotel, at Savan
nah. The directors decided to ask for
SIO,OOO additional stock subscriptions.
The hotel w ill he ready for busiuess by
June 15th next.
A. J. Strickland, ordinary of Pierce
county, died on Tuesday night at Black
shear, after a brief illness. A stroke of
paralysis was the immediate cause of his
death. He has held office in the county
for twenty consecutive years, and for the
past twelve years has been ordinary.
“Jumbo” Hunter, the famous special
policeman of Atlanta, has been placad in
charge of the bureau for aiding poor
people. As people investigate, the
bright side of Hunter’s character is seen,
and everybody now concedes that he will
be “the right man in the light place.”
Columbus is soon to have another
steamer added to her fleet. A company
of Mobile gentlemen have purchased the
large and handsome passenger steamer
Lotus No. 3, with a view to having her
ply bet ween Columbus and Apalachicola.
She will make her first trip to Columbus
in about two weeks, as she is now being
thoroughly overhauled at Apalachicola.
John C. Campbell has filed suit
against Tom Cobb Jackson, Ed ward S.
McCandless, Burton Smith and Harvey
Johnson for $25,0C0. This is the case
where an editorial appeared last Fall in
the Atlanta Avalanche reflecting on Tom
Cobb Jackson, who obtained satisfaction
by whipping Editor Campbell with his
fists, and three friends stood by to pre
vent outsiders from interfering.
Some dry goods merchants will have
litigation with the Georgia Railroad
about goods damaged in the Augusta
freshet. Tlie goods were taken from
their boxes to be dried, and the goods
of different merchants and different
towns got badly mixed in returning to
boxes. The result is the goods received
from the railroad do not correspond with
invoices sent by mail.
William Macon, of Liberty county,
convicted lust November of the murder of
John Spain, had his sentence of hanging
changed by Gov. Gordon to imprison
ment for life. Macon, who is a negro,
was convicted on tho evidence of two
negro gamblers, Reuben Glover and
Alex McCraw, both non-residents of
Liberty county. They arc abandoned
cliaracteis, and a number of people have
been found who swear that they would
not believe them on oath.
The fastest long distance run ever
made in the South, and one of the fast
est ever made in a regular railway train,
was made from Savannah to Jackson
ville. The vestibule train, in charge of
Conductor Wright, left Savannah and
made the run of 173 miles in one hun
dred and ninety-nine minutes, or at an
average speed of fifty-two miles an hour.
A great part of the distance was run at
the rate of sixty miles an hour, and sev
eral miles were run at the rale of sev
enty-five miles an hour. Tho engine
hauled a baggage ear, three heavy vesti
bule coaches aud a vestibule dining car.
Richard Peters, one of the most
prominent citizens of Atlanta, died on
Tuesday. He was 79 years of age. He
was a grandson of Judge Peters, a cele
brated Philadelphia lawyer aud author
of “Peter’s Reports,” a legal production
much sought after by attorneys. His
ancestors were Quakers aud came across
the Atlantic with William Penn. He
was educated as a civil engineer. In
1842 when he was 32 years of sgc, he
left Pennsylvania for Augusta, Ga., to
loeute the Georgia railroad. lie was
then with J. Edgar Thompson, who was
afterward president, of tlie Pennsylvania
Railroad. After the Georgia road had
been loca cd, and the work of building
was in progress, Mr. Peters was made
superintendent, lint subsequently re
signed that position to give his attention
to tlie stage line running between tlie
end of Ihe Georgia road and Mont
gomery. Mr. Pelers lived in Augusta
until 1848, when he came to Atlanta ana
married Miss Mary Jane Thompson,
daughter of Dr. Jos. Thompson, of
home fame. After his marriage he made
Atlanta his home, and has been there
ever since. Mr. Peters was identified
w jth all enterprises which had for their
object Atlanta’s good. In 1847 bo
bought a farm in Gordon county, which
he still owns. That farm has for years
been n model place.
THROWN OUT.
The a tion brought by Parnell, the
great Irisli leader, against John 5\ alter,
registered pioprietor of tho livn.ee. for
libel, came up before the court at Edin
burg again ou Tuisday, aud the case was
dismissed, the costs being taxed against
the plaintiff. Tho judgment was given
on the ground that Mr. Waiter, being
one of the copartnership owning the
Times, arrestments against him as an
individual would be invalid. Mr. Ear
ned will appeal from this decision.
SCHOOL-HOUSE WRECKED.
A heavy gale prevailed all over Ne
braska. Considerable damage was done
in the western part of the state, build
in"s being unroofed nnd trees blown
down. At Arapahoe a number of smah
buildings were blown down, but no one
was injured. At Hastings the Central
school was wrecked. Ono of the schol
ars was killed outright, one other in
jured so that he will probably die, and
a teacher. Miss Aldrich, f-t-lly injured,
ALL OVER
THE WORLD.
A MOST INTERESTING MEDLEY
OF CAREFUL VULUNGS.
WHAT 18 OIMNO ON IN FI'BO PE —DISTINOt-JSHED
MEN DEAD -FRANCK’S TEHII. —lir.HHASy AND
THE UNITED STATES.
Workmen in the glass works at Char
leroir, Belgium, have gone on a strike.
Gen. Halomoa has been appointed cap
tain-general of Culm in place of Gen.
Marin, who has resigned.
Mrs. Matilda Frelinghuysen, widow of
the late ex-Becretary of State Frederick
T. Frelinghuyseu.died at Newark, N. J.
A slight shock of earthquako was felt
at Metis, Canada, on Tuesday morning,
coming from the West and lasting n few
second*.
The storm prevailing Wednesday all
over Canada, Michigan and northern
New England, amounted to a blizzard,
and railroad travel was seriously im
peded.
A three-story brick building in Bur
lington, lowa, occupied by F. O. Adams,
boot and shoe manufacturer, together
with a large stock and valuable machin
ery, was totally burned Tuesday morn
ing. Loss $150,000.
The supporters of hi-metalism in the
German Reichstag, have decided to otter
a resolution calling unou the govern
ment to co-operate with England in the
event of the latter initiating proposals to
re-establish the silver standard.
In the House of Representatives of
Pennsylvania, a bill was introduced pro
hibiting “treating,” making it a penal
offense, punishable by a fine not less
than SSO, or over S4OO, for any one to
“treat” another to intoxicating liquors.
Two hundred ship carpenters ceased
work and left the New England Co’a.
ship yard at Bath on Monday. Their
grievance is that the company, in its em
ploy, has a contractor, Judson Baker, of
Richmond, Me., who began work with
carpenters from abroad.
At Pine Lake, N. Y., twenty-four
teams were engaged in drawing logs
over the ice,regarding the safety of which
no fears had been felt. It gave way,
however, after seven drivers and teams
reached shore, and the remaining drivers
and horses broko through the ice and
sank out of sight.
Russell B. Harrison, president of the
Journal Publishing Cos., and sou of the
President-elect, on Wednesday bought
out the entire plant, mateiial and good
will of the Record, of Helena, Mont., n
morning Republican paper, started dur
ing the recent campaign. The Record
was badly in debt, and on the verge oi
bankruptcy when the purchase was
made.
Inspector Bonfietd and Capt. Schaack,
of the Chicago, 111., police force, were
on Wednesday indefinitely suspended
from office. Bonficld and Schaack are
tlie officers whom the Chicago Times hoa
been charging with corruption in office,
the specifications being that the pair
were virtually in loague with the gamb
lers, saloon keepers, thieves and demi
monde. The first result of the charges
was the immediate filing of libel suits
against the Timet, and these suits were
added to daily. Suspended in company
with the inspector nnd captain is Detect
ive Locwcnsteiu, the officer who, after
a terrible hand-to-hand struggle, suc
ceeded in arresting Anarchist Louis
Lingg. The three officers were noted
for bravery in fighting the Anarchists.
A locomotive and tender passed up tho
Lowell railroad track toward the Arling
ton branch, which, it appears, was on its
way to Somerville, Mass. The engine,
as it passed the bridge and neared Win
ter Ilill station, swayed back and forth,
and then after it had gone a short dis
tance, it left tlie track and toppled over
on its side. It was found that the en
gine had fallen across the inward track,
and a man was pinioned beneath the cab.
One of the injured men had taken the
precaution to light a lantern and set it
upon the track, but the train came down
and before it could alow up, collided
with the locomotive and drove it ahead
toward Cross Street bridge, carrying the
the injured man beneath it. When ho
was taken out he was dead and horribly
mangled. He proved to be Engineer W.
Lankell.
ENDED.
All the street roads in New York that
ran street cars, are running, most of
them on schedule time, and all of them
meeting the demands of tho traffic.
Even tho Belt line started out boldly.
The first car on the down town end of
the line was preceded and followed by a
patrol wagon filled with police, but thi-.
precaution was unnecessary, for all cars
that followed proceeded without moles
tation. A party of men, presumably
strikers, attacked a car at Bixty-fiftb
street and Boulevard, and began pelting
it with stones. Passengers left the car,
and the officer in charge of it, Thomas
A. Schneider, having been hit in the
face by ono of the stones, he fired
into the crowd. One of the mob was
shot iu tho head, and died on the way to
Ihe hospital. His name is McGowan
He was a hostler on the Belt line road.
Eye witnesses describe the fight of the
officer and the two street car men with
the mob ns the “nerviest” they ever
heard of. The scene of trouble is on the
west side of Central park. The strike
on the surface roads in Brooklyn was de
clared off on Tuesday night.
THE GENERAL LAUGHED.
Wednesday afternoon, 200 coal opera
tors and miners, holding a convention,
visited tho President-elect in a body at
Indianapolis, Ind. The coal men told
the general that they had read in the
newspapers that he was having a good
deal of trouble iu making up his cabiuet.
They kindly offered to relieve him of any
further vexntiou in this direction, and
piC9ented him with a cabinet slate made
up entirely of coal barons and operators.
Gen. Harrison enjoyed the joke, and
gave them some encouragement. He
said he would adopt their slate.
COTTON.
For the week ending last Friday, the
total receipts have reached 155,354
bales, against 177,821 bales last week, and
149,178 the previous week; making the
total receipts since the Ist of September,
1888, 4,474,387 bales, against 4,583,827
bales for the same perioa 1887-8, show
ing a decrease since September 1, 1888,
of 109,209 bales. 1
NUMBER 17.
PEN PHOTOS OF
WASHINGTON.
DOINGB OF THE “ OUT'B AK P
WHAT THE "IN'S 11 PROPOSE.
CONOR KM.
The conference report on the bill to
incorporate the Maritime Canal company
of Nicarauga was presented in ihe Sen
ate on Thursday by Mr. Sherman, and
was agreed to. The bill now goes to
the President for hi* approval. Mr.
Bbdr, from the committee on woman
suffrage, reported back favorably the
joint resolution proposing a constitu
tional amendment to prohibit the denial
of the right to vote, by the United States
or by any state, on account of sex.
... In the House, Mr. Holman, of Indi
ana, fr in the committee on public lands,
reported back the Bcnate bill providing
that the public lands of the United
States now subject to private entry, or
which are adapted to and chiefly valua
ble for agriculture, shall be disposed of
according to provisions of homestead
laws only. An amendment was adopted
repealing the commutation clause of tho
homestead law and also one allowing per
sons who have abandoned or relin
quished their homestead entries to take
another entry. The bill was passed.
In the Senate, on Wednesday, the con
ference report on the interstate com
merce bill went over, and the Senate
resumed consideration of the legislative,
executive aud judicial appropriation bill,
the pending question being the amend
ment to increase the clerical force of tho
civil service commission. A long and
uninteresting discussion, which turned
principally upon the derelictions of the
post-office department, was carried on.
... .Consideration of the conference re
port on the Nicaraguan canal bill was
resumed in the House. Mr. DiDgley, of
Maine, from the committee on merchant
marine and fisheries, reported a resolu
tion calling on the secretary of the treas
ury for information as to what orders
were given to the commander
of the United States revenue
cutter Richard Rush, in regard to the
protection of seal fisheries in Behring’s
sea in the Spring and Summer of 1888;
whether such instructions differ from
those given the same commanders in the
Spring and Summer of 1887, aud if so,
what reasons existed for any material
change in such instructions. The reso
lution was adopted.
NOTES.
Judge William M. Merrick, of the
Supreme Court of the District of Colum
bia, died in Washington.
The President baa recognized Trapani
Luigi, as consular agent of Italy at Sa
vannah for the state of Georgia.
Sir Julian Pauucefote, permanent un
der secretary of state for the foreign of
fice, h?s been lyn'tfhued British jpuistei
to the United Abates.
It is said that an artillery company
from Staunton, Va., composed of Con
federate veterans, will march in the in
augural procession on the 4th of March.
Gen. Mahonc will try to induce 5,000
Confederate veterans to take part in the
parade.
Harrold M. Sewall, consul general to
the Samoan Islands, received notification
from the Stale Department that his res
ignation would bo aceeptable, on the
ground that his views wfere not in har
mony with those of tlie administration.
In reply, he says that Secretary Bayard’s
instructions aided the Germans.
It is authoritatively announced that
President Cleveland will return to the
state of New York to reside, on the ex
piration of his term of office, and will, on
March sth, resume the practice of his
profession in New York city, having as
sociated himself as counsel with the law
firm of Bangs, Stetson, Tracy & Mac-
Vtagh.
Senator Sherman on Wednesday re
ported favorably the following amend
ment to the sundry civil appropriation
bill for the committee on foicign rela
tions: “To enable the President to pro
tect the interests of the United Stutes
and to provide for the security of tho
persons and property of citizens of the
United States at the isthmus of Panama
in such manner as lie may deem
expedient, $100,000.”
LATEST BYJTELEGRAPH.
A great fire destroyed Ward’s wharf at
Lambeth, England.
The Zanzibar insurgents demand a
heavy ransom for the exchange of tho
captured German missionaries.
Various accounts of the Apia fight as
sert that. Klien fired the first shot, and
incited the Samoans to the attack.
Light earthquake shocks, occurring on
Thursday night, are reported from Los
Angeles aud San Bernardino, Cal.
The London Times is of the opinion
tiiat the passage of the Nicaragua canal
bill in Congress, indicates a coming un
derstanding with the South American
republics.
The Northern Ohio Blanket Mill ai
Cleveland, Ohio, was totally destroyed
by fire Thursday. Loss on the mill and
machinery is estimated at SIOO,OOO with
SBO,OOO insurance.
The steamer which was sunk in colli
sion with the British bark Largo Bay, off
Beachy Head, England, Monday night,
was the Glencoe, belonging to Glen
Line, of Glasgow. All hands went
down.
The whole of the foreign community
of Chin-Klaugfoo, China, with tho ex
ception of a dozen custom and consular
officials, haveariived at Shanghai safely.
The foreign concession has been destroyed
The American mission chapel outside
the concession was burned.
PLAIN TALK.
The London Daily News, commenting
on the Samoan situation, says: “Bis
marck’s ostentatious friendliness for
America is inadequate to recompense us
or our Australian colonies. Tlie policy
Of subservience to Germany, which pro
cures us no appreciable advantage, is
neither a triumph of diplomatic skill and
not a solace to national pride.”
IT’S ALL RIGHT.
The Hunlow steel gun was tested on
Thursday at the naval proving grounds,
opposite Annapolis, Ind., nnd stood the
government test. This is ihe first high
power cast steel gun made in this
country that has ttood the government
test of 43i pounds of powder and teq
rounds.