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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.