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THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “Our Own Generation.”
Tkxt: ‘‘David, after he. had served his
otan [/eneratioi i by the will of Cod , fell on
sleep/'— Acts xiii., Mfi.
That is a text which has for a long time
been running through my mind, but not un
til now has it l**©n fully revealed to me.
Sermons have a time to be born as well os a
time to die, a cradle as well as a grave.
l),tvid, cowboy and inger and fighter
and czar and dramatist and blank verso
w iter and prophet,did his best for th© people
of his time and then went ami laid down on
the southern hill of Jerusalem in that sound
sluml>er which nothing but an archangelic
blast can startle ‘ David, after he had
served his own generation by the will of God,
fell on sleep.”
It was his own generation that he had
served; that i9, the people living at the time
lie lived. And have you ever thought that
our responsibilities are chiefly with the
people now walking abreast of Us? There
are about four generations to a century now.
but in o den time life was longer ami there
was, perhaps, only one generation to a cen
tury. Taking these facts into the calculation,
1 make a rough guess and say that there have
been at least one hundred and eighty
generations of the human family. With
reference to them we have no responsibility.
We cannot teach them, we cannot correct
their mistakes, we cannot soothe their sor
rows, we cannot heal their wounds. Their
sepulchers are deaf ami dumb to anything
we might say to them. The last regiment of
that great army has passed out of sight. \N e
might halloo as loud as we could, not one of
them would avert his head to see what we
wanted.
1 admit that 1 am in sympathy with the
child whose father had suddenly died and
who in her little evening prayer wanted to
cont nu© to pray for her father, although he
had gone into heaven and no more needed
her prayers, and looking up into her
mother's face said: “O, mother, I can
not leave him all out. \Aii me say,
‘Thank Gcd that 1 had a good father once,
and so 1 can keep him in my pray
ers.’” Hut the one hundred an 1 eighty gen
erations have passed off. Tans- and up. t'assed
down. Gone forever. Then there are gener
ations to tome alter our earthly existence
has ceased, perhaps a hundred und eighty
generations more, perhaps a thousand gener
at oil' more. \\ e shall not soe them, we sha’l
not hear any of their voices, we will take no
part in th ir convocations, their elections,
their re volutions, their catastrophes, their
triumphs. We will in no wise affect the one
hundr. and and eighty generations gone, or the
o; e hundred and eighty generations to come,
except as from the galleries of heaven the
former generations look down and rejoice at
our victories, or as we may by our behavior
start influences, good or bad, that shall roll
on through the ad van mg age-. Hut our busi
ness is.iike David,to serve our own generation,
the people now living, those whose lungs now
breathe and whose hearts now beat. And
mark you, it is not a silent procession, but
moving It is a "forced march ’at twenty
four miles a day, each hour being a mile.
Going with th t celerity, it has got to be a
quick service on our part, cr no service at
all. We not only cannot teach the
one hundred and eighty genera
tions past and will not see the
one hundred generations to come, but this
generation now on the stage will soon be off
and we ourselves will be off with them The
fact is that you and I will have to start very
soon for our work or it wdll be ironical ami
sarcastic for any one after our exit to say of
us. as it was said of David, ‘‘after he had
served his own generation b}* the will of God,
he fell 011 sleep.”
Well, now, lot us look around earnestly,
prayerfully and in a common sense way anl
ee© what w© can do for our own generation.
First of all let us see to it that, os far as wo
can, they have enouzh to eat. The human
body is so constituted that three times a day
the body needs food as much as a lamp
needs oil, as much as a locomotive
needs fuel. To meet this want God
has girdled the earth with apple orchards,
orange groves, wheat fields and oceans full
of lish and prairies full of cattle. And not
withstanding this. I will undertake to say
that tho vast majority of the human family
are suffering either for lack of food or the
right kind of food. Our civilization is all
askew on this subject and God only can set
it right.
Many of the greatest estates of to-day have
been built out of the blood and bones of un
requited toil. In olden times, for the build
ing of forts and towers, tne inhabitants
of Ispahan had to contribute <0,030 human
skulls and Bag la 1 UO.OOO human skulls, and
that number of peoid© were slain so as to
furnish the skulls. But two contribu
tions added together ma le only 100,000
skulls, while into th© tower of the world’s
wealth and pomp and magnificence have
been wrought th© skeletons of uncounted
numbers of the half fed populations of the
earth, mill ons of skulls.
Don t sit down at your table with five or
six courses of abundant supply and think
nothing of that family In the next street who
would take any on© of those five courses be
tween soup and alraoud nuts and feel they
were in heaven. The lack of the right kind
of food is tho cause of much of the drunk
enness. After drinking what many of our
gro ers call coffee, sweetened with what
many call sugar, and eating what many of
our 1 utc hers call meat, an l chewing what
many of our bakers call bread, many of tha
laboring classes feel so miserable they are
tempted to put into their nasty pipes
what the tobacconist rails lobacco, or
go into the drinking saloons for what the
rum sellers call beer. Good coffee wxmld do
much in driving out ha 1 rum. Adulteration
of food has gol to be an evil against which
all the health o'fleers and all the doctors and
all tlie ministers and all the reformers and
nil the C.iristiaus nee l to set them
selves in battle array. How can we serve
our generation with enough to eat i By sit
ting down 111 embroidered slippers and loung
ing back in an arm-chair, our mouth puck
ered up around a Havana of the best brand,
and through clouds of luxuriant smoke read
ing about political economy and the philos
ophy ot strikes' No! No! By finding out
who in Brooklyn has been living on gristle
and sending them a tenderloin beefsteak.
SSeek out some family who through sickness
or ton junction of misfortune have
not enough to eat and do for
them what Christ did for the
hungry multitudes of Asia Minor, multiply
ing th© loaves and tho fishes. Let us quit
the surfeiting of ourselves until we cannot
choke down another crumb of cake and be
gin the supp’y of others’ necessities.
We often s*'e on a small seal© a recklessness
about th© welfare of others which a great
warrior expressed on a large scale, when his
officers were dissu iding him from a certain
campaign, saying: “It would cost two hun
dred thousand lives,” re;> ying with a diabol
ism that can never bo forgotten: ‘ What are
two hundred thousand lives to me.'”
So far from helping app ase the world’s
hunger, there are those whom Isaiah de
scribes as grinding the face? of the poor. You
have seen a farmer ora mechanic put a
scythe or an ax on a grindstone, while some
one was turning it round and round, and
tho man holding the ax bore on it harder
an 1 harrier while the water dr ppsd from
the grindstone, and the edge of the ax from
being round and dull, got keener and keener,
and the mechanic lifted the ax glistening and
sharp and with edge so keen he must cau
tiously run his finger along lest while ex
amining the implement he cut his hand
to the bone, ho 1 have seen men who were
put against the grindstone of hardship, and
while one turned the crank another would
press the unfortunate harder down and
harder down until he was ground away thin
ner and thinner, his comforts thinner, his
prospe ts thinner and his face thinner.
And Isaiah shrieks out: “What mean ye
that ve grind tiie faces of the poor It is
an awfu thing to be hungry. It is an easy
•bins for us to b- in goal humor w,th al tb*
world when we have no lack. Rut let hun
ger take full possession of us and * ou ™
all turn into barbarians and cannibals and
fiends.
1 am glad to know that the time is coming,
God hasten it. when every family in the
round world will sit down at a full table, ana
it w’ill he only a question between lamo
and vension, or between partridge ana
quail on toast, and out of spoons mftue
out of Nevada silver or California gold tne
pastries will drop on tongues thrilling with
thankfulness becau-e they have full enough.
I have no idea God is going to let the human
race stay in its present predicament.
If the world winas up a'* * now
"MY COUNTRY: MAY SllK EVER UK RIGHT; RIGHT OR WRONG, MY COUNTRY /”—JcrncitaoN.
is it will be an awful failure of ,
a world. The barren places will be j
irrigated. The pomologists, help mI of God, (
will urge on the fruits. The botanist*, in- '
snire i of the Lord, will help on the gardens.
The raisers of stock will send enough ani
mals lit for human food to the nmtkete. and
the la-t earthquake that rends tin* world
will upset a banqueting table at which are
sested the out ire human race. Meanwhile,
suppose thut some of the energy we are **x
jMMiding in uselens mid unavailing talk about
the bread question should be expanded in
mercifnlnMeviations.
1 have read that the battle Held on which
more troops met than on any other in the
world’s history waa the battle Held of l-eip
sic, 160,000 men under Napoleon, 250,000
men under Hchwar/eberg. No, no. The
greatest and most terrific battle is now b©
mg fought all the world over. It is the
struggle for food. The ground toue of the
fined passage m one of the great musical
masfei pieces, tha artist says, was suggested
to him bv the cry of the hungry populace of
Vienna ns th-* King rode through and they
shouted: ‘ Broad. Give us bread!” And all
through the great harmonie* of mu
sical academy and cathedral I hear the
pathos, the ground tone, the tragedy of un
counted multitudes, who with streaming eyes
and wan cheeks and broken hearts in behalf
of them elves and their families, aie pleading
for bread.
Let us take another look around to
see how we may serve our generation.
lAt u:j so* * as far as possible that they
have enough to wear. Gol looks on
Ih' human race and knows just how
many inhabitants the world Ims. The
statisti s of the world’s population ure
carefully taken in civilized lands, ami every
few years officers of government go through
the land and count how many people th- re
are in the I'nited States or England and great
accuracy is reached. But when people tell us
how manv Inhabitants there a: e in Asia or
Africa, at best it must l* a wild guess. Yet
God knows the exa<*t number of people on
our planet and he has made enough apparel
for each, and if there be fifteen hundred mil
lion. fifteen thousand, fifteen hundred and
ft.teen people, then there is anoug i apparel
for fifteen hundred million, fifteen thousand,
fifteen hundred an 1 fifteen. Not slouch ap
parel, not ragged npparul, not insufficient
apparel, but Appropriate apparel. At
least two suts for every being on the
earth, a summer suit and a winter
suit. A good pa rof shoes for every living
mortal A good coat, a good hat or a good
bonnet and a good shawl, and a complete
masculine or a feminine outfit of apparel. A
wardrobe for all nations adapted to all
climes, and not a string or a button, or a pin
or a book or an eye wanting. But, alas!
where are the goad clothes for three-fourths
of the human rare? The other one
fourth have appropriated them. Th© fact
is, there needs to be and will be a redistri
bution. Not by anarchistic violence If
outlawry had its way, it would rend and
tear and diminish until instead of three
fourths of the world not properly attired,
four-fourths would be in rags. I let you
know how the redistribution will take
place. By generosity on the part of
those who have a surplus and increased in
dustry on the part of those suffering from
deficit. Not all, but the large rna jorifcy of
cases of poverty in this country are a result
of idleness or drunkenness, e.ther on the part
of the present sufferers or their ancestors.
In most cases the rum jug is the mael
strom that has swallowed down the liveli
hood of those who ure in rags. But things
will change, and by generosity on the part
of the crowded wardrobes, and industry
and sobriety on the part of the empty ward
robes there will be enough for all to w’ear.
God has done His part toward the dressing
of the human race. Ho grows a sur
plus of wool on the sheep’s back,
and flocks roam the mountains and
valleys with a burden of warmth intended
for transference to human comfort, when the
shuttles of the factories reaching all the way
from the Chattahoochee to the Merrimac
shall have spun an 1 woven it And herecome
forth the Rocky Mountain goat and the cash
mere an- 1 the beaver. Here are the merino
sheep, their origin traced back to the flocks
of Abrahamic and Davidic times. In whitelet
ters of snowy fleece, God has be n writing fora
thousand years His wish that there might be
warmth for all nations. While others are
discussing th© effect of high or low tariff or
no tariff at all on wool, you and I had better
see if in our wardrobes we have nothing that
we can spare for the shivering, or pick
out some poor lad of the street and
take him down to a clothing store and
fit him out for the winter. Eion’t
think that God has forgotten to send ice and
snow, because of this wonderfully mild Janu
ary and February. We shall yet have deep
snows and so much frost on th© window pane
that in the morning you cannot see through
it; and whole flocks of blizzards, for God
long ago declared that winter as well as sum
mer shall not cease, and between this and the
spring crocus we may all have reason to cry
out with the psalmist: “Who can stand be
fore this cold?’*
Again, let us look around and sea how we
may serve our generation. What short
sighted mortals we won and be if we w-ere
anxious to clothe and fee l only th© most in
significant part of a man, namely, his body,
while w© put forth no effort to clothe
and feed and save his soul. Time is a
little piece broken off a great eternity.
What are we doing for th© souls of
this present generation? Let me say
it is a generation worth saving. Most
magnificent men and women are in it. We
make a great ado about the improvements in
navigation, and in l oom tion. and in art
and machinery. We remark what won iers
of telegraph, and telephone, ami stethoscope.
What improvement is electric light over a
tallow candle! But all these improvements
are insignificant compared with the improve
ment in tli© human race. In olden times,
once in a while, a great and good mail or
woman would come up and the world
has made a great fuss about it ever since, but
now tlmy are so numerous we scarcely speak
about them. We put a ha’o about the peo
ple of ti e past, but I think if th© tira s de
manded them it would lie found w© have now
living in this year 18SD fifty Martin Luthers,
fifty George Washingtons, fifty Lady Hunt
ingtons, fifty Elizabeth Frys. During our
civil war more splendid warriors in North and
South were develops I in four yea: s than the
wrhole world in th© previous *w n
ty years. X challenge the four thousand
years before the flood and tho eighteen cen
turies after the flood, to show me the equal of
charity on a large s'*a!e of Oeorge Peabody.
This generation of men and women is more
wortii saving than any of the one hundred
and eighty generations that have passed oil.
Put where shall we begin? With our
selves. That is the pdlar from which we
must start. Prescott, the blind historian,
tells us bow Pizarro saved his army for the
right when they were about deserting him.
With his sword he made a long mark on
the ground. He said: “My men, ™
the north side are desertion and death, on tne
south side is victory; on the north side Pana
ma and poverty, on the south side Peru with
nil its riches. Choosefor yourselves; for my
part I go to the south.” Stepping across
the line one by one. his troops fo.-
Inwed and finally his whole army.
Tho sword of (lo'd’s truth draws the
dividing line to-day. On one side of it are
sin and ruin and death, on the other side are
pardon and usefulness and happiness and
heaven. You cross from the wrong side to
the right side and your family will cross
with you and your friends and your
associates. The way you go they will
go. If we are not saved, we will never
save any one else. How to get saved. i,e
willing to accept Christ, and then accept
Him instantaneous]v and forever. Get on
the Kock first and then you will be able to
help others upon the same Hock. and
women have been saved quicker than I have
been talking about it. What, without a
prayer' Yes. Wtyat, without time
deliberately to think it over/ es.
What, without a tear/ Yes, believe! 1 hat is
all. Believe what/ That Jesus died to save
you from sin ami death and hell. Will you?
j)o you/ You have. Something nyikes
me think you have. New light has
come into your countenances. " el *
come' Welcome! Hail! Hail! Saved
yourselves, how are you going to save
others' By testimony. Tell it to your fam
ily. Tell it to your business associates. Tell
it everywhere. We will successfully preach
no more religion and will successfully talk
no more religion than we ourselves have.
The most of that which you do to beneht
the souls ot this generation, you will effect
through your own behavior- Go wrong, and
that will induce others to go wrong. Go
right, an 1 that will induce others to go
right. When the great centennial exhibition
was being held in Philadelphia, the ques
tion came up among the directors ns
to whether they could keep the ex
position open on Sundays, when a director,
who was a man of the world, from Nevada,
arose and said, his voice trembling with
emotion and tears runniug down his cttcika*
COVINGTON. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 21. 1881).
“ I frol like a returned prodigal. I wenty j
years ago 1 went Went und into a region (
where we had no Sablmth, but to-day old
memories come back to me, and I re
memlter what niy glorified mother
taught me about, keeping Sunday, and I
nee in t<> hear h*r voice again and '
feet as 1 did when every evening 1 knelt by j
her side in prayer. Gentlemen, 1 vote for ;
the observance of the Christian Sabbath, j
And he carried everything by storm, and
- the question was put ‘‘.''hall we open |
th© exhibition on Sabbath'” it whs aim "t j
unanimous, “No.” “No ” What, one man can
do if he does right, boldly right, emphatic- j
ally right.
What if we could get this whole genera
tion saved! These people who are living
with us the sain© year and amid the same
stupendous events and flyin; toward tha fu
ture swifter than eagles to their prey. We
cannot stop. Tlu*y cannot stop. We think
we can stop. We say, “Com© now, my
friend, let u< stop and discuss this subject,”
but we do not stop The year does not
stop, the day does not stop, the hour does not
stop. The veil- is agn at wheel and there is
a band on that wheel that keeps it revolv
ing, and as that wheel turns, it turns three
hundred an ! sixty five smaller wheels, which
are the days, and tlem each of these three
hundred and sixty five wheels turn twe nty
four smaller w heels,which are the boars, and
the*© twentv four smaller wheels turn sixty
smaller wheels, which are the min
utes, and these sixty smaller wheels turn
sixty more smaller wheels, which are the
seconds, and they keep rolling, rolling, roll
ing, mounting, mounting, mounting, and
swiftening, swiftening, swiftening. Oh,
God! if our generation Is going like
that and we are going with them,
waken us to the short but tremendous
opportunity. I confess to you that my
on© wish is to serve this generation, not to
antagonize it not to damage it, not to rule it,
but to serve it. I would like to do something
toward helping unstrap its load, to stop its
tear , to balsam its wounds aiul to indue* it
to put foot on the upward road that has
it its terminus, a*c amation rapturous
and gates pearline, ami garlands amaranth
ine uud fountains rainbowed an 1 dominions
enthroned and coroneted, for I cannot forget
that luilabv in the c osing words of my text:
“David, after he had served his own genera
tion by th© will of God, fell on sle*p.”
An ! what a lovely sleep it was! Unfilial
Absalom did not trout l it. Ambitious Ado
nijata did not worry it. Persecuting Saul
did not harrow it. Exile did not fill it with
nightmare. Since a red headed bov ami
his father’s flocks at night, he had not hall
such a good sleep. At seventy years
of age h© lay down to it. He has had
many a troubled sleep, as in the caverns
of Aduilam or in the palace ft,
the time his enemies were attempting Ins
capture. But this was a peaceful sleep, a
calm sleep, a restful sleep, a glorious s
“After ho served his generation by the ,:
of God, h© tell on sleep. ’ Oh, wat a i
thing is sleep after a nurd day's
lakes all the aching out of the head a
the weariness out of the liuibs and a .
smarting out of th© eyes. From it we
the morning and it is anew world. Ann
we, like David, serve our k-v .ai
tion, wa will at life’s close have
most desira 1 le and refreshing sleep In it
will vanish our last fatigue of bodji, ©tlr
last worriment of mind, our last sort* *
soul. To the Christian’s body that wr v
with raging fevers so that the attend
must by sheer force keep on the blank
it will be the cool s’eep. To those'
are thin bonded and shivering v
agues, it will be th© warm sleep. ..j
those who, because of physical ebsord'
were terrified with night visions,
will be the dreamless sler-p. To nurses
doctors and mothers who were wakened'. ■**
most every hour of the night by those- r *
whom they ministered, or over whom *
watched, it will le the undisturbed s. ,
To those who could not get to bed till la*. 1
night and must rise early in the mor f
and before getting rested, it will be the
sleep. '
Away with all your gloomy talk about',
parture from this world. If we haveserv, ;l
our generation it win nor De putting out in ; n
rh© breakers, it will not be the fight with thb
King of Terrors; it will be going to sleep.
A friend writing ma from Ulino.s says
that Rev. Dr. Wingate. President-. .
Wake Forest College. North Carols
after a most useful life, found his ’ t,
day on earth his happiest day, •’
that in his last moments he seemed to l>* • lv ‘'
sonally talking with Christ, ns friend w 41
friend, saving: “Oh, liow delightful it,-s.
knew You would be with me when t- Cal
came, and I knew if would be sweCi t
did not know it would he as sweet ; I
The fact was he had served Id’s gene V- .
the gospel ministry,and by the will o - RGB
fell on sleep. When in Africa, Maiv, ,n *
servant, looked into ihe tent of Dl
ingstoi e and found him on his k; vvor
itepped back, not wishing to distur a
prnyer, and som© time after weiu say I
found him in the same posture, and , P’ 1
back again, but after a while w< j D 'X'
touched him, and lo! the great tra ‘ j ■
finished his last journey and' : r- u
died in the grandest and mi, 1 { )pj .
posture a man ever takes—on his knees. ’
had serve 1 his generation by unrollir* at !l
scroll of a continent, and by the will *
fell on sleep. Grimshaw, the evan* I>U’
when asked how he felt in his last mor j -,,
responded: “As happy as I can be on tJ: -
and as sure of glorv as if I were in it. I have
nothing to do but to step < ut of this bed into
heaven.” Having serve l his generation in
successful evangelism by th© will of God, he
fell on sleep.
In th© museum of Greenwich Hospital,
England, tnere is a fragment of a book that
was found in the Arctic regions am and the
relics of IS r John Franklin, who had per
ished amid the snow and ice, an l the leaf
of that piece of a book was turned down at
the words: “When thou passest through the
waters 1 will be with thee.’’ Having served
his generation in the cause of science and
discovery by the will of God, he fell on
beep.
Why will you keep us all so nervous talk
ing about that which is only a dormitory and
a "pillowed slumber, canopied by angels’
wings ! bleep ! Transporting sleep ! And
what a glorious awakening 1 You and 1 have
sometimes been thoroughly bewildered utter
a long and fatiguing journey ; we have
stopped at a friend’s house for th© night, mid
after hours of complete unconsciousness we
have opened our eyes, the high risen sun full
in our faces, and, before w© could lully col
lect our facilities, have said; “\V her© uni I,
whose house is this, and whose are these gar
dens?” And then it has Hushed upon us in
glad reality. And 1 should not wonder if.
after we have served our generation and, by
the will of God. have fallen on sleep, the
deep sleep, the restful se-m, we
should awake in blDsful bewilderment
and for a little while any: “Where
am I? What palace is this? Who hung
this upholstery? What fountains
are these tossing in the light? Why. this lookß
like heaven! It is. It is. Why, there is a
building grander than all the castles of earth
heaved into a mountain of splendor, that
must 1)© the palace of Jesus. And, look
there, those walks lined with a foliage mor©
beautiful than anything 1 ever saw before,
and ?oe those who are walking down those
aisles of verdure. From what 1 have
heard of them, those two arm ill arm
must be Moses and Joshua, him of Mount
Sinai and him of th© halting sun over Ajalon.
Ami those two wulking arm in arm must le
John and Paul, the one so gentle and the
other so mighty. And those two with the
robes as brilliant as though mad© cut of the
cooled off flames of martyrdom, must be
John Huss and Hugh Latimer.
But 1 must not look any longer at those
gardens of beauty, but examine this building
in which I have just awakened. 1 look out
of th© window this way and that and up and
down, and I find it is a mansion of immense
size in which I am stopping. All its
windows of agate and its colonnades of
porphyry and alabaster. Why I won
der if this is not the house of
“many mansions’’ of which I used to
read? It is, it is. There must be many of
my kindred and friends in this very man
sjpn. Hark! who e are those voic’s. whose
are those bounding feet ? 1 open th© door and
see. and lo! they are coming through all the
corridors and up and down a!l the stairs, our
long absent kindred. Why, there is father,
there is mother, there are the children. All
well again. All young again. All of us togeth -
er again. And as we embrace each other
with the cry: “Never more to part! never
more to part!” the arches, the alcoves, tho
hallways echo and re-echo the words:
“Never more to part Never more to part”
Then our glorified friends say: “Come out
with us arid see heaven.” And. some of
them bounding ahead of us and some of
them skipping beside us, we start
down the ivory stairway. And we
meet, coming up, on© of the Kings of
ancient larMl, somewhat small or stature,
but having a countenance radiant with a
thousand victories. And as all ar© making
obeisance to this great ons of heaven I cry
out “Who is lief” and the answer comes;
“This is the greatest of all the Kings of
terael. It is David, who after ha had served
his generation by the will of God, fell on
ALL OVER
THE WORLD.
A MOST INTERESTING MEDLEY
OF OAHKFI L VULLINGS .
WIIAT IN GOING oX IN XI’ROP*—DWTIXOITISHri)
Ml N DEAD —FH ANCF.’s PERIL —GERMANY ANI
THE UNITED STATES.
William L. Porter, who has just re
tired from the office of treasurer o Ver
million county, hid., is short about sl2,*
OJO in his accounts.
The United States gunboat York town
took u run on the Delaware river on
Wednesday. The indications are thut
everything was satisfactory.
Extensive land slips have occurred at
Fleuricr village, in Canton of Neuflcha
tel, Switzerland* Several houses have
I een demolished. Inhabit tins ure flee
ing for their lives.
Another tragedy was enacted at Lake
ttarnberg, Munich, on Tliuisday, when
Swo persons drowned themselves in its
waters. Since the suicide of King Lud
wig, eleven persons have drowned them
selvsr ’ n the Like.
11 -1 Meichsanzciyer publishes a
list o f ) # among the crews of the
Gcrniar men of-war Olga ami Eber in
the battle of Apia on December 18th
There vVre 10killed, 30seriously wound
ed and 9 slightly wounded.
The resignation of the French cabinet
has e 1 the country in an 1 pro.ir, and
troo , looked for. Ge . Houlaugei
con t 1 *vs that an immediate dissolution
of 1 uliament is inevitable, and tliutthi*
vo ' ead to the triumph ot his ideas.
' first movement for the enforce
g t a\ of prohibition that has been made
at a 1 uit Dodge, lowa, for two ycur?, was
inaugurated Thursday. There are tliiity
open saloons in Webster county, one of
which does a wholesale business of *20,-
000 a year. Saloon* 111 Badger, Dun
combe, Lehigh an 1 Barnum were raided
by indignant citizens and the liquois
were spilled.
Content* of a North Carolina Mound.
Mr. J. M. Spainhonr lias described,
0 ’he Elisha Mifcchel Scientific Society,
(11 -- b relics that were discovered in the
ivation of a mound in Caldwell
Jbty, N. C. Within the mound was
found a skeleton lying upon its face,
V h the head‘resting in a largo sea
‘shell, the inner surface of which was
'•spved with hieroglyphics. Around the
k were large l eads made of sea
t Ms. The arms were extended and
nt at the elbows, so as to bring the
ands within about a foot of the head.
Around each wrist was a bracelet, com
posed of copper and shell bonds, al
*"“*nating. The copper beads appeared
mai n Ve Been hammered into thin sheets
seco rolled around the string, a part of
)li was preserved. Near the right
1 and was an iron implement like a chisel
0— siijA'di, not sharp-pointed, but smaller
on JM J f rom t-he handle. The
nesting on the convex
will soon bo hotsea shell, the concave
~, 1 p > . rp icli contained about a
tl iu,bt * b ads. The shell was
t made the f hieroglyphics. Two other
I Wo h' on e *ther side of this one,
and their heads resting in the con
ig and surfaces of shells, which were
s ofsodd with hieroglyphics. Several
r skeletons were found around and
‘ ir - r Vvo the principal one. which was
| ;JI . ugt to be the remains of a chief. In
other part of the cemetery were found
iletons of persons who had evidently
been buried alive, their limbs having
oeen held down by large stones placed
upon them. — Popular Science Monthly.
The managers of Monte Carlo, Eu
rope’s notorious gambling he I ], are sad.
It had become the international gaming
house. Princes and tramps sat side by
side and tried their luck in the gilded
palace of sin. Beautiful women tore
their jewels from their necks and cast
them on a favorite card. People trav
eled across continents to risk fortunes
on the most famous gaming tables in the
world. Asa rule the betters lost. Sui
cides were common. Confidential clerks,
trustees, guardians, young men with
their paternal pocketbooks in charge,
women overdrawing their occouuts—
—all these were frequently found self
slain almost under the shadow of the
temple of chance. But now Nemesis
seems to have turned her hard hand
again s' these gamesters. The stockhold
ers of Mont Carlo sized up accounts a
short time ago and found that they were
850,000 short of Inst year’s business.
Only nineteen persons suicided on the
grounds during the past twelve months,
a fact which indicates that losses were
not ns heavy as usual. The previous
year saw twenty-five suicides, aiul the
number has gone us high as sixty iu one
year. The prince of the miserable little
sovereignity in which Monte Carlo is
the only attraction realizes the decline
ot his gambling shop and is trying to
devise means to revise its lost prestige.
He has ottered to hire himself to a syn-
He Was Still a Man.
jji|
Howell Gibbon to needy individual
who lias asked for relief)—“l calin’t
pive you any money, me good fellah;
Imt if you call at me side door to-night
you can have some old clothes.”
Keedy Individual —“What d’ ycr take
me for, mister? I’ve fallen pretty low,
I know: but I ain’t no second-hand
dude I"— Puck
TIIE SOITII
AT LARGE. ]
A GREAT KR .4 OF VUOSFKRITY
AND PROGRESS IMPENDING.
rna uina nun- rtavKu* ami nt:aiM.ss mkn
AOTITI -SOUrTHIiIII ABOUT AAII.aoAD Al'Cl'
HAM'S, MURUKAS, IDICIUAA, tIHKM, ETC.
AIJSBA.IIA.
A railroad between Anniston nni
Montgomery is projected.
Col. W. B. Duun, hr sixty yoats a
resident of Mobile, und prninincn <iii
zen and lawyer, died Thursday, aged 81.
He was born near Nashville, Tenn.. in
1807, and moved to Mobile in 1820,
where lie began the practice of law.
The House passed a bill reducing tht
tax rate in Alabama for 18U0 from live h
four and a half mills, anil for 1801 Ir or
four and a half to four mills, making lot
the tormer 45 cents on the one hundred
dollars, und 40 cents for the latter year.
A bill establishing the new- county ol
Fitzpatrick was passed.
A great crowd, composed largely ol
ladies, tilled the lobbies and galleries at
the state house when the General Assem
bly met Thursday. The special ordci
of the day in the House, was the bill te
aid iu the completion of the Confederate
monument on Capitol hill. The debate
was long and lively, and the bill wa*
finally passed on a vote of 51 to 41.
John Williams, a young desperado,
who murdered a man in cold blood in
Birmingham last Summer, and was ac
quitted on a plea of insanity, is on the
war path again. He has been out of the
asylum about a month, ami had been
making public announcements that he
had reformed and was going to live a
very moral life. Williams got drunk
Thursday night and attempted to shoot
Frank Edwards, proprietor of a billiard
saloon. He was disarmed and left the
saloon. About daylight he became dis
orderly on the streets, wus arrestc 1 and
two officers started with him to the s’a
tionhouse. On the way he a-kerl who
ordered his arrest. When told that no
one ordered it, he began to curse the
officers, and suddenly drawing a large
dirk knife, he attacked Officer Walker
with the remark: “I’ll cut your heart out
any way.” The officer drew his pistol,
and would have killed Williams but for
the interference of the other officer.
MISSISSIPPI.
Maj. R. W. Millsop, president of the
Capitul Slate Bank at Jackson, on Thurs
day, subscribed $50,000 to build and en
dow a college of the Methodist Episco
pal church, South.
NORTH CAROLINA.
The Legislature passed a bill abolish
ing all the while normal schools in the
state, eight in number, and applying the
funds set apart for them to the county
institutes, which will be held under di
rection and control of the state superin
tendent of public instruction.
The Kansas emigration feverhas broke
out among the negroes at Raleigh, and il
is said that hundreds are preparing tc
leave. White agents are urgiug the tie
groes to leave. Many white people ap
pear to be glad to have them leave, while
others say it will demoralize the farming
interests if it continues. Many who
have left or intend to leave, have made
contracts for the year’s work.
The negroes in the western mountains
are having considerable trouble with the
white desperadoes who live there and
follow the occupation of manufacturing
and selling illicit liquors. Of late, these
desperadoes, who care for nothing g ive
their distillery on the mountain side,
have been making desperate efforts to
run certain negroes, who they believe
have put the officers on the track of
their business, out*of the country. But
the negroes refuse to be scared or bull
dozed, and armed themselves and were
ready for any fray. At a negro dance in
Marble, the place was raided by the
moonshiners and a light took place, in
which bowie knives, guns, pistols, clubs
and stones were brought into play. Soon
the negro girls, some of whom had re
ceived wounds, lied and the negro men
followed. When the smoke of battle
had cleared away, three men were found
lying upon lhc ground dead. They
were, Ransford Altman and Oscar Deal,
white, and Sam Smith, colored.
NOI’TH CAROLINA.
The British steamship Chancellor, at
Charleston, laden with cotton, for Odes
sa,was fouud to be on fire Wednesday, in
the lower after hold. The fire was soon
got under control,
TENNESSEE.
A tail-end collision occurred between
tw T o freight traius in Tunnel No. 17, on
the Cincinnati Southern Railroad, just
north of Oakdale. Freight train No.
11, south bound, ran into a special in the
tunnel, smashing the caboose into kind
ling wood, and bursting a 2,800-galloii
tank filled with oil on the car next to
the caboose. The stove in the caboose
set lire to the car, and the flames wen
soon under headway. The oil caught
fire and six cars were destroyed as well
as much of the wood work of the tun
nel.
An immense concourse gathered at
Vanderbilt University, iu Nashville, on
Sunday, to witness the burial of Bishop
McTyiere’s remains. In accordance with
his own last request, the exercises were
simple, being confined to the burial ser
vices of the church. The ceremoniew
which begun at his late residence and
ended at the grave, were participated in
by Bishops Keener, Key, Hargrove, Gal
loway, Granbery and Duncan, assisted
by Rev. Walker Lewis. The grave is
by tha side of the graves of Bishopa
Soulo and McKendree, on the University
grounds.
AT LAST!
The body of a woman concealed i* i
wooden chest, was discovered by ths
police of Dundee, Scotland. The body
was mutilated. The chest w-as so small
that the murderer had been compelled to
squeeze the body into it. The husband’
of the woman was arrested on suspicion of
being her murderer. Bury, the husband,
resided at Whitechapel, London, and
his antecedents suggest that he is proba
bly “Jack the Ripper,” and that he is
subject to fits of unconscious murdei
mania. Bury says that he left White
chapel three weeks ago. He refuses tc
iy why he left there, and acknowledges
that he had no business requiring his at
tention at Dundee. The theory of the
police officials is that Bury’s wife knew
of facts connecting him with the East
End atTocilies, and that she took him to
Dundee in the hope of preventing a re
currence of the crimes.
GEORGIA ITEMS.
The Piedmont Exposition, at Atlanta,
only lacks |IB,COU of the amount neeis
•ary to start the wheels iu motion.
The pott-offlcc at East Po lit, near At
lanta, was broken into by burglars mm
quite a haul was made. No arrests.
lb'V. It. 11. McMahon, the well-kn >wn
Catholic | nest of Atlanta, has been
transfeired to the charge ut St. Patrick’s
parish in Savannah.
A great deal of stock is dying in Madi
son county ftom a disease like tli i glan
ders. There is no cure for a h use or
mule when once attacked.
Amos Jaekson, a colored man, and
his uinc-yenr-old daughter were mur
dered nenr Decatur. Alec. Henderson,
a neighbor, was arrest: l on suspicion.
A | auic is on at Social Circle, caused
by the death of John Henry Wommack
from hydrophobia caused by cat bite. Sev
eral others were bitten and more deaths
are looked for.
Conductor Lindley Mm ray, of the
East Tennessee road, was killed at ltex
by a train breaking in two, and coining
together again, it wrecked the cabi on
in which Mr. Murtay was.
“Jumbo” Hunter, ilie famous Atlanta
policeman, is astonishing everybody by
the system lie has infused into the out
of-door relief plan. Ihe poor people
ore benefitted, uud money is saved to the
taxpayers.
Tulleton, the man who started an al
leged bank in Atlanta, uud failed owing
a large amount of money with upsets of
about sixty cent J , and was promptly
juiled by Judge Marshall J. Clarke, now
offers to settle for fifty cenls on the dol
lar.
The steeple of the Baptist Church a*
Aduirsville, was struck by lightning
Sunday morning, and fired the church.
The tire wius soon extinguished by the
aid of buckets uud the amateur fire
company. Mr. George W. Dow’s barn,
near by, was also struck by lightning
during the night and torn to piece?.
During a severe thunder storm which
passed over Perry Sunday morning,
lightning struck the residence of Mis
C. T. Lawson, on Swift street, tearing a
large hole in the roof and passing down
near the chimney through the house,
scattering the contents, but doing no
damage 10 tho family beyond the shock.
Mrs. Eliza Hargrove, a lady 75 years of
age, living in a lonely neighborhood be
tween Smyrna and Marietta, was murder
ed ou Wednesday night by having her
brains dashed out with an ax, for the
purpose of robbery. L. 11. Cherry(wbite)
an alleged preacher, was arrested by a
posse, and a white mull named Wood
who lived in the house, and Jim Brown,
a negro, Me suspected.
Rev. Dr. Gibson preached an eloquent
sermon in the Baptist church iu Lex
ington, suitable to Communion 8 unday.
He then made all preparations for admin
istering the Lord’s supper, and all went
well until he began blessing the fruit of
the vine, at the same time turning up
the decanter to pour it into the silver
goblets. He commenced to bless and
turn, but no wine came forth. hen he
had turned the decanter bottom upwards
and still no wine, there was consterna
tion depicted on his tace, while the con
gregation struggled to keep tile smiles
trom their faces. Realizing the state of
affairs Dr. Gibson quickly gave out the
doxolugy and dismissed the congrega
tion, deferring the wine part of the com
munion until another season.
FOR PEACF, ALWAYS.
A Washington newspaper man in a
conversation with Secretary Bayard, gives
an outline of the policy which has con
trolled the notions of the Department ol
State during the past four years, and say?
it has been frequently asserted that Mr.
Bayard has no policy, whemas he lias all
along had a very definite, peculiarly
American policy. Bayard believes that
the American people have a higher and
a nobler destiny than that of swaggering
about among tho nations of the earth,
daring somebody to use a homely tx
pres ion, to “knock a chip off their shoul
der.” He thinks it is their mission to take
the lead among the nations in substitut
ing pacific methods for force iu settling
international disputes. .Mr. Bayard’s
theory of statesmanship is that nothing
should be done to disturb or imperil
our peaceful condition, but that, on the
contrary, the highest duty of a patriot is
to contribute as far as he can to their
perpetuation nnd development. His idea
is that the military spirit is to he discour
aged in a republic except in so far ns it
is necessary for the purpose of defence,
because, in its abnormal development, it
is destructive of liberty and necessarily
hostile to the geuuis of free institutions.
Mr. Bayard, commenting on the clamor
in certain quarters, over the Samoan epi
sode, said: “What is it they want me
to do? To provoke war? I do not believe
the people want to go to war about
Samoa. There is no occasion for it. If
they want war, they must get another
secretary of state.”
POPE LEO S IDEA.
Iu all of the Catholic churches on
last Sunday, the oncylical letter ol
his Holiness Pope Leo XIII was read.
The letter is written on the 00th anni
versary of Pope Leo’s priesthood and the
1 lth of his pontificate. He speaks ol
the confidence placed in the apostolic
seo, and says that iu every land where
the Catholic religion flourishes, the
church is duly honored and reverenced
with fervent love and sovereign har
mony. “We have many times,” the
letter says, “as in duty bound, under
taken tho defense of truth, aud havo
striven to expound particularly those
doctrines which seem to be most useful
of all.” Of tho schools he says: “There
is no ecclesiastical authority left in them,
jnd in the years when it is most fitting
for tender minds to be trained care
fully in Christian virtue, ihe pre
cepts of religion are, for the most part,
unhoard. There are are some, indeed,
who go so far as to doubt the existence
of God.”
STUPENDOUS DEAL.
Apeeial cable dispatch from London
to the Montreal Gazette, the Canadian
government organ, "says: “Absurd
statements have reached tho journals
here, through New York, that a syndi
cate of leading Republicans in the
United States control $:400,0(l0,000,
which they intend to use iu an effort to
secure Canadian annexation to the states
by a system of wholesale bribery in
Canada in the event of a dissolation of
the Dominion parliament this year, and
a consequent general election.”
NUMBER 18.
WASHINGTON
MOTOGIIAI’IIED.
GETTING HEADY h'Oli UARRI
SUN'S IN AUG Vlt A TWN.
t'ONtJK i:h.
In the Somite, on Thursday, Mr.
Edmund* offered a resolution (which
was agreed to), directing the committee
on commerce to take into consideration
the question of expediency of the pur
chase, by tho Ujlited States, of the Dis
mal Swamp canal in the states of Vir
ginia and North C arolina, with a view
to its being improved and made an
adequate highway for commerce, be
tween Cheau|>enkc bay and the principal
sounds of North Carolina, and with a
view to utilizing the fresh water of the
ranai and its feeders in a basin for uietai
vessels of the navy. The inquiry into
the Texas election case was taken up and
debated, but no conclusion reached
In the House, the bill lor the admission
of Dakota was pressed by Mr. Springer,
and on acrimonious debate followed.
NOTPM.
The Senate confirmed the nominations
of Commissioner Colman to be Secretary
of Agriculture, and John A. Turley, of
Athens, Tcnn., and Edward B. Young,
South Boston, Vu., to be postmasters.
Commodore George E. Belknap was
detached from duty ns commandant of
Mare Island navy yard, Cal., and ordered
to take command of the Asiatic station,
to take the place of Rear Admiral Chan
dler, who died recently.
President Cleveland announces tl>at to
rnable him to dispose of the (lending
business requiring his personal attention
icforc the close of his term of office, it
will be absolutely necessary that he have
ill his remaining time free from interrup
tion, and he must, therefore, be excusid
to all callers.
T.:e funeral of Gen. Henry ,1. Hint,
U. S. A., took place Thursday at the
Soldier’s Home, of which he was gov
ernor at the time of liis death. The in
terment was in the soldier's cemetery,op
posite the home, and near the tomb of
Gen. Logan. The honorary pall bearers
were Generals John M. Schofield, Joseph
E. Johnston, W. S. Rosecrans, George
\V. Getly, N. TV. Browne, P.V. Hagner,
C. E. Mandcrson and Joseph R. Haw
ley.
On Wednesday, Congress officially
counted the votes for President and
Vice-President, and made the following
report: “The state of the vote for Pres
ident of the United States, ns delivered
to the president of the Senate, is as fol
lows: The whole number of electors
appointed to vote for President of the
United States is 401—of which a majori
ty is 201. Benjamin Harrison, of
the stute of Indiana, has received
for President of the United States
288 votes, and Grover Cleveland, of the
state ot New York, has received 108 votes.
The state of the vote for Vice President
of the United States, as delivered to the
President of the Senate, is as follows:
The whole number of electors appomted
to vote for Vice President of the United
States is 401—of which a majority is
201. Levi P. Mutton, of the state of
New York, has received 203 votes, and
Allen G. Thurman, of the state of Ohio,
has received IGB votes.”
battlefield society.
A joint meeting of Federal and Con
federate veterans, who were engaged at
Chikamauga, was held Thursday in
Washington. The object was to devise
a plan for preserving that field and
marking the positions of ail the forces
that participated in the battle. Gen.
Henry M. Cist, of Cincinnati, chairman
of the committee of the Society of the
Army of the Cumberland charged with
this subject, called bis committee there.
It organized and invited co-operation
from the Confederates. The meeting
was the rc'ult, and there were present
Generals liosccrans, liaird, Reynolds,
Cist, Maudcrson and Bryn ton, and Col
onel Kellogg, of the Federal officers, and
Generals Bate of Tennessee, Colquittof
Georgia, AValthall of Mississippi,
Wheeler of Alabama, Wright of Ten
nessee, and Colonels Bankhead of Ala
bama, ana Morgan of Mississippi. The
iilau of preserving and marking the field
of Chickamnuga under the auspices of a
joint memorial corporation representing
all the states that had troops there, pat
terned in general alter the Gettysburg
association, was cordially approved. It
is understood that some Georgians will
introduce a bill in Congress to adopt
some plan to mark the battlefields in
Georgia.
TELEGRAPHIC ITEMS.
The British ship Anglo-India, from
Shanghai, for .the Philippine Islands,
was wrecked at Tormnsa. A portion of
the crew was Bnved.
Herman F. Keidel, junior partner of
the firm of Wm. Knabe & Son, and man
ager of the branch piano warerooms on
Fifth avenue in New York, committed
suicide on Sunday, in the warerooms, by
shooting himself through the head.
On Sunday, Frank Silvers, of Tecum
seh, Mich., shot his wife and two daugh
ters, Edith and Ada, aged eleven and
nine respectively, and then Bhot himself.
Every one of the victims was shot
through the temple, ana with the ex
ception of Silvers himself, death was
probably instantaneous.
All the parties interested in the Elec
tric Sugar Refining Cos., frauds were ar
rested at Milan, Mich., the sheriff re
turning to Ann Harbor with Mrs. Olive
E. Friend, William E. Howard, Emily
Howard, Gus Halstead and George Hal
stead, and placed them in the county
jail, where they are confined. They
were arrested for obtaining mouey under
false pretenses, three indictments having
been founa against them by a grand jury
ol New York last January.
Great speed sometimes has its advan
tages. Tramps and other ill-disposed
persons the other day piled a heap of
ties upon the track of the Atlantic and
Pacific Hoad in front of an approaching
train. The engineer saw the obstruction
too late to stop his train. He pulled the
throttle wide open and struck the ties
with such force that they were hurled
into the ditch, while the train kept upon
he rails.
Fokty- seven years ago David Law
rence, a Vermonter, bought a pair of
buckskin gloves of Arnold Farrar. He
is wearing them now aud has worn them
every winter bince. They are real buck-
Bkin", honestly made and lined with
lambskin, and are good for much ser
vice yet.