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liliV. 1)1!. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
*ut»jrci : The Am eoIob «*f C bri»i**’
Tex# “Lift up your head*, O xp out**,
and be ye tiffed up ye ewerUutiuy door?;
ai\d th* Kmj of Glory shall come iP*.
xuv., 7.
In olden times when a zreat roaquerer re¬
turned from victorious war, the people iu
wild transport would take hold of the sate
of the city and lift them from their hinges,
as muc h as to say ‘•Flus city needs no more
gates to defend it since this conqueror ha
got home. Off from the hinges with the gates
David, who was the poet of poets, for tel is tn
his own way the triumphal entrance of
Christ into heaven after Hi> victory over sin
and death and heil it was as if the celestial
inhabitants had said “Here He comes’ Make
way for Him’ Push hack the bolts of dia¬
mond! Take hold of doors of paarl and
hoist them from their hinges of gold! Lift
up your hea is, O ya gates; and lie ye lifted
up, Glory ye everlasting doors; and the King ot
shall come in.”
Among the mountain4 of Palestine no one
the w more uplifting than Mount Olivet, it wa.*
the peroration of our Lord's ministry. On
roof of a house in Jerusalem Tasked,
Which is Olivet? ' and the first glano tran>
tixed me Rut how shall I describe
my emotions, when near the close of
a nights jwiniey, m which we had for twe
encamped of amid the shatter**!
masonry old Jericho, and tasted of
the acrid waters of the Dead that crys¬
tal sarcophagus of the buried cities of the
plain, au l waded down into the deep and
swift Jordan to l«aptize a man. and visited
the ntins of the house of Mary and Martha
aud Lazarus, we found ourselves in stirrups
and on hors *, lathered with the long and
difficult way, as "ending Mount Olivet ' Oh,
that solemn and suggestive ridge! It is a
limestone hii). a mile in length, and 300feet
high, Over and 2700 feet above the level of the
-ea it King David fled with abrokeu
hear!, liver it Pompey led h is devastat¬
ing host**. Here the famous Tenth Legion
built their batteries in besiegement. The
Darden of Oethsemane weeps at the
toot of it. Along the base of this hill flashed
the lanterns and torches of those who came
to arrest Jesus. From the trees on this hill
the boughs were torn off and throw’n into
the path of Christ's triumphal procession. Up
and down that roa 1 Jesus had walked twice
a Jerusalem day from Bethany to Jerusalem, and from
He to Betlmny. There, again and
again. had taught His discioles. Half
way up this mount He uttered His lamenta¬
tion ; ‘"0 Jerusalem, Jerusalem!” From its
height Jesus took flight homeward when He
had finished His earthly mission. There is
nothing more for Him to do. A sacrifice
was ii“eded to make peace between the
recreant earth and the outraged heaven,and
He had offered it. Death needed to be con¬
quered,and He had put His resurrection foot
upon »t. The thirty-three years of voluntary
exile had ended. The grandest, tenderest,
mightiest uttered. good- >y ever heard was now to be
On Mount Olivet Jesus stands in a group
<>f Galilee fish mien. They had been to¬
gether in man j scenes of sadness and perse¬
cution and had been the more endeared by
that brotherhood of-suffering. They had
expected Him to stay until the day of coro¬
nation when He would tatae the earthly
throne and wave a scepter mightier, and
rule a dominion wider than any Pharoah,
titan any David, than any Cesar. But now
nil these anticipations collapse. Christ has
given His last advice, die lias offered His
last, sympathy. He has spoken His last word.
His hands are spread apart as one is apt to
do when he pronouces a benediction, when
suddenly the strongest id.s _____ aud most ...v^o U stupendous I
law* of all »» work r is . shattered, ' •• ‘ it is
the law which, since the worlds were created,
hold them together. It is the law which
holds everything to the earth, or
temporarily it.; the law hurled from earth, returns
which keeps the planets whirling
around oui sun, and our solar system whirl¬
ing around other systems, aud all the sys¬
tems the whirling around the throne of« God—
law of gravitation. That law is sus¬
pended. Jesus or relaxed, or broken, to let the body
of go. That law had laid hold of Him
thirty-three years before, when He descended.
It had relaxed its grip of Him but once, aud
that when it declined to sink Him from the
top of the waves on Lake Galilee, on which
He walked, to the bottom of the lake. That
law of gravitation must now give way to
Him who made the law. It may hold the
other stars, but it cannot longer hold the
Morning Star of the Redemption. It may
hold the noonday sun, but it cannot hold the
Sun of Righteousness. The fingers of that
law are about to open to let go the most illus¬
trious Being the world has ever seen, and
whom it had worst maltreated. The strong¬
est law of nature which philosophers ever
It weighed break or measured must-at last give way.
will between the rock of Olivet and
the heel of Christ’s foot. Watch it, all ye
disciples! it, all tile heavens! Watch it, Christ all the earth! about to Watch leave
this planet. How? His friends will not con¬
vent to have Him go. His enemies catching
Him would only attempt by another Calvary
to put Him into some other tomb. I will tell
you how. The chain of th** most tremen¬
dous natural law- is unliuked. The sacred
foot of our Lord and the limestone rock part,
and part forever.
uplifted Leaning back, and disciples with pallid cheek and
eyes, the see th9ir Lord ris¬
ing from the solid earth. Then, rushing for¬
ward, they would grasp His feet to hold Hun
fast, but they are out of reach and it is
too late to detain Him. Higher than tho
tons of the fig; trees from which they had
plucked the fruit. Higher than the olive
trees that : haded the mount. Higher,
until He is within sight of the Bethlehem
where He was boru, and the Jordan where
He was baptized, and the Golgotha where
He was slain. Higher, until on stairs of
fleecy cloud He steps. Higher, until into a
sky Him, bluer He than the lake that could not glory sink
whose billowing disappears splendors into hide a sea Him. of The
fishermen watch and watch, wondering if
the law of nature will not reassert itself
ami He shall in a few moments come back
again, His and they shall see Hi m descending,
first scarred feet coming in sight, then
tlie scarred side, then the scarred brow, and
they may take again His scarred hand. But
the moments pass by and the hours, and no
reappearance. Gone out of sight of earth,
but come within sight of heaven. And rising
still, not welcomed by one angelic choir like
those who one Christmas night escorted Him
down, but all heaven turns out to greet Him
home, and the temples have especial anthem,
and tlie palaces especial banquet, and the
streets especial throngs; and all along the
Hue to the foot of the throne, for years va¬
cated but now again to be taken, there are
arches lifted, and banners waved, and trum¬
pets sounded, and doxoiogies chanted, and
coronets cast down.
The angels throng’ll His chaciot wheels,
And bore Him to His throne;
Then s\\ *pt their golden harps aud sung
••The glorious work is done.”
It was the greatest day in heaven! As He
goes u > the steps of the throne that thirty
three years before He abiicated for our ad¬
vantage, there rises frotu all the hosts of
a save: a shoot, suit if. *aeru*>T s-traoiMe,
irefcangeL*. “HxUdujah’
O i*r%m oS olives, thou aowwei spot.
The :*a» * of thy jjwtt shah ce"«r be forg<x
So won ter ctut for at least lourt-eo hun
Ired years the ehur -he* have. forty .lays af¬
ter East tr. kept A-fc-eits.oJ fHjr: for the lev
»tl- arc most inspiring and glonous. it
s
takes mu^b ot the uuc-*rtamty out o. tof
idea of heaven, whew from Olivet we see
human nature as* mdin2 The same b»lv
that rase from Josephs tomb ascended
froti Mount Olivet. Our numan nature a
tn beaver: to lay. Just a. they had sem
Christ for f*wty dav>. He ascended, bead,
face, shoulder*, hands. fe?t and the entire
human organism. Humanity arcended
Vb. how closely tha kee|>s Christ in syjn
ptthy with those who are still in the strug
_le! Ascended scars, fat* scars, hard sears
feet sears, shoulder scars' That will keep
Hi%i in accord with all the suffering, with
all the wearv, with all the imposed body, upon.
No more is He a spirit now than a no
more of heaven than earth. Those of the
celestial inhabitants who never saw our
world now walk around Him and learn from
His physical contour something of what our
race will be when, in the resurrection,
heaven will have uncounted bodies as well
as uncounted spirits. On Ascension Day He
‘lifted Himself through the atmosphere of
Palestine, until, amid the immensities, He
disappeared. He was the onlv being the
world ever saw who could lift Himself; surely
if He could lift Himself He can do the lesser
deed of lifting us.
No »Ur 2 oe* down but climbs another sky.
No mm s-::ls here except to rise on high.
Christ leads us all the wav; through the
birth hour, for He was born in Bethlehem;
through boyhood, lot He passed it in Naza¬
reth; through injustices, for He endured the
outrages of Pilate's court room; through
death, for H* suffered it on Calvary, through
the sepulchre, darkened for walls; He lay through three resurrection, days within
it
for the solid masonry gave way on the first
Easter morning; through ascension, for
Mount Olivet watched Him as He climbed
the skies; through the shining gates, for H* 1
entered them amid magnificent acclaim.
And here is a gratifying consideration that
you never thought of: We will see our
Lord just as He looked on earth. As He
rose from the tomb He ascended from Mount
Olivet. We shall see Him as He looked on
the road to Emmaus, as He appeared in the
upper room in Jerusalem, as He was that
day of valedi ct >ry on the ridge from which
He swung into the skies. How much we
will want to see Him.
I was reading of a man born blind. He was
married to one who took care of him all those
vears of darkness A surgeon said to him,
‘d can remove that blindness.'’ aud so he
did. His sight given him. a rose was handed
to the man who never before had seen a rose
and he was in a drnirafcion of it, and bis fam¬
ily whom he had never seen before now ap¬
peared to him, and he was in tears of rap¬
ture, when he suddenly cried ont: * I ought
first to have asked to see the one who cured
me; show me the doctor.” When from our
eyes the scales of earth shall fall, and we have
our first vision of heaven, our first cry ought
not to be, “Where are my loved ones?” Our
first cry ought to be, “Where is Christ, who
made all this possible? Show ma the doctor!”
Could Glory be to God for ascended humanity!
we realize it, and that it is all iu sym¬
pathy for us, we would have as cool a cour¬
age in the eontiict of this life as had Charles
the Twelfth whch he was dictating dispatches
to his secretary, and a bombshell fell into
the room, and the secretary dropped his pen
and attempted flight, diaries said to him:
“Goon with your writing! What has the
bombshell to do with the letter I am dic¬
tating?” If the ascended Christ be oil our
side, nothing should disturb us.
Our fellow sufferer yet retains
A fellow feeling in our pains.
And still remembers, in the skie3.
His tears, His agonies, and cries.
f am so glad that Christ broke the natural
law of gravitation when He shook off from
His feet the clutch of Mount Olivet. People
talk as though cold, irou, unsympathetic,
natural law controled everything. The reign
of law is a majestic thing, but the God who
made it has a right to break it, and again
and again has broken it, am again and again
will break it. A law is only God’s way of
doitis things, and if He chooses to do them
some otner way tie has a rignt to do so. A
law is not strong enough to shackle the Al¬
mighty. Christ broke botanical law when,
one from Monday Bethany morning Jerusalem, in March, on the way
He to by a few words
turned a full leaved fig tree into
a lifeless stick. He broke ichthyologi¬
cal law when, without any natural
inducement. He swung a great school of fish
into a part of Lake Tiberias, where the fish¬
ermen had cast their nets for eight or teu
hours without the capture of a minnow;
and by making a fish help pay the tax by
yielding from its mouth a Roman stater.
Christ broke the law of storms by compel
ing. with a word, the angered sea to hush
its frenzy, and the winds to quit tfceir bel¬
lowing He broke zoological law when He
made the devils possess the swine of Gadara.
He broke the law of economics when He
made enough bread for five thousand people
out of five biscuits that would not ordinarily
have been enough for ten of the hungry.
He broke intellectual law when, by a word
He silenced a maniac in placidity. He
broke physiological law when, by a tduch,
He straightened a woman who for eighteen
years had been bent almost double, and when
He put spring into the foot of inhumated
Lazarus, and when, without medicine, He
gave the dying girl back iu health to the
Syro-Phoenician mother, and when He made
the palatial with the home laughter of the of nobleman his restored resound boy.
igain He
Mid when, without knife or battery, set
?ataracted eyes to seeing again, and the and drum
)f deaf ears to vibrating again, the
serves of paralyzed arras to thrilling again.
Mid then when in leaving the earth He defied
ill atmospheric that‘law law and physiological law,
md which has in it withes and
cables and girders enough to hold the uni¬
verse, the law of gravitation.
The Christ who proved Himself on so many
occasions, anil especially the last, superior to
law, still lives; and every day, in He answer to
prayer for the good of the world, is over¬
riding the law. Blessed be God that we are
uot the subjects of blind fatality, but of a
sympathizing divinity. Have you never
seen a quiet, typhoid fever ship break, beam’s-end or a storm right sud¬ it¬
denly or lift, a a parched sky break in
self, or a fog or a
showers, or a perplexity disentangled,
or the inconsolable take solace, or
the wayward reform at the call of prayer?
I have seen it; multitudes have seen
it. You have, if you have been willing
to see it. Deride not the faith cure. Because
impostors attempt it is nothing against good
men whom God hath honored with marvel¬
ous restorations. Pronouuee nothing impos¬
sible to prayer and trust. Because you and
I cannot effect it is no reason why I others
may not. By the same ai gument could
prove that Raphael never painted a Madon¬
na. and that Mendelssohn never wrote an or¬
atorio, and that Phidias never chiseled a
statue. Because we cannot accomplish .it
ourselves, we are not to con::iu(le that others
may not. There are in immensity great
ranges of mists which have proved,
under closer telescopic scrutiny, and to I be
the store house of worlds, do
not know but from that passage in
James, which to some of us is yet misty aud
dim. there may roll out a new heaven and a
new earth: “The prayer of faith shall save
the sick." The faith eurists may. in this
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j of A erosion Day is mightier than any nat¬
ural list for on the day of which I speak
I He trampled down the strongest of them all.
! Law .s mi-htv but He who made it is
mi-hter. Drive out fatalism from your
thMlotv. and give grace the throne.
Ntaiding to- la v on th? Ascension peak o.
Mount Olivet I am also gladdened Christ at the
closing ’ gesture, "H? ihe iaat gesture haniis and blesssed ot er
mail. Iiftel up His
them.’ savs th? inspired aerount of 'jnr
Lord’s departure. I am so glad He lilted
up Hi-hands Gestures are otten more sig
mfieart than words, attitudes than argu¬
ments Christ had made a gesture of coo
tempt when with His finger He wrote on the
ground; gesture of repulsion when He sai.A
“Get thee behind me. Satan;" gesture of con¬
demnation when He said; "Woe unto you,
Pharisees and bvpocrites. But His last
gesture. His Oiivetic gesture, is a gesture ol
benediction H- lifted up His hands and
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blessed them. His arms are extended, and
the p&kns of His hands turned downward,
and so He dropped benediction upon Olivet,
benediction upon Palestine, benediction upon
all the earth.
The cruel world took Him in at the start
on a cradle of straw, and at last thrust
Him out with the point of the spear; but
benediction! Ascending until, beneath. He
saw on one side the Bethlehem where they
put Him among the cattle, and Calvary on
the other side, where they put Him among
the thieves. As far as the excited and in¬
tensified vision of the group on Olivet could
see Him. and after He was so far up they
could no longer hear His words, they saw
tlie gesture of the outspread hands, the ben¬
ediction. And that is His attitude to-day.
His benediction upon the world’s climates,
and they are < -hanging, and will keep on
changing until the atmosphere shall be a
commingling diction the of October till and they June. whiten Bene¬
upon deserts with
cowslip, lily, and blush with rose, and yellow with
and emerald with grass. Benedic¬
tion upon governments till they bjsosaa
more just and humane. Benediction upon
nations till they kneel in prayer. Benedic¬
tion upon the whole earth until every mount¬
ain is an Olive of consecration, and every
lake a Galilee on whose mosaic of crystal,
and walk. opal, and sapphire divine splendors shall
Ob, take the benediction of His par don, sin¬
ners young and sinners old, sinners moderate
and sinners abandoned. Take the lienedietion
of His comfort, all ye broken hearted under
bereavement and privation and myria 1 woes.
Take His benediction, all ye sick beds,
whether under acute spasms of nain or in
long protracted invalidism. For orphanage,
and cn iidl ess ness, and widowhood a benedi -
tion. For cradles and trundle beds and rock¬
ing chairs of octogenarians, a benediction.
For life and for death, for time and for eter¬
nity, for earth and for heaven, a benedic¬
tion. Sublimest gesture ever made, the last
gesture of our ascending Lord. “And He
lifted up His hands and blessed them.”
Is our attitude the same? Is it the clenched
fist or the open palm? Is it wrath or is it
kindness? Is it diabolism or Christism? God
give ward us the grace of the opbn palm, open up¬
to get the benediction, open downward
to pronounce a benediction. A lady was pass¬
ing ragged along boy, a street and suddenly “I beg ran against
a and she said: your par¬
don, my boy, I did not mean to run against
you; I am very sorry.” And the bov took off
the piece of a cap he had upon his head and
said; “You have my parding. lady, and you
may run agin me and knock me clear down;
I won’t care.” And turning to a comrade he
said: “That nearly took me off my feet. No¬
body ever asked my parding before.” Kind¬
ness! Kindness! Fill the world with it.
There has always been too much of disregard
of others. Illustrated in 1630, in England,
when 95,000 acres of marshes were drained
for health and for crop raising, and the
sportsmen destroyed the drainage works be¬
cause hunting they wanted to keep the marshes For
ducks. ground, where they could shoot
wild
The same selfishness in all ages. Oh. for
kindness that would make our life a sym¬
phony suggestive of one of the ancient ban¬
quets where everything was set to music:
the plates brought in and removed to the
sound of music, the motions of the carvers
keeping time with the music, the conversation
falling lifting of and propping with the rising and
the music. But, instead of the
music of an earthly orchestra, it would
be the music of a heavenly charm, our words
the music of kind thoughts, our steps tho
music of helpful dee.ls, our smile the music
)f encouraging looks, our youth and old ago
;he first and last bars of music conducted by
;he pierced hand that was opened in love amt
tpread leights downward in benediction on Oiivetic
on Ascension Day.
By a new way none over trod
Christ raouuted to the throne of God.
The Ceratophrys.
Thi‘ reptile-house at the Zoo is provided
with an anteroom of a cooler temperature,
which is chiefly devoted to the exhibition
of the frogs former and toads of many kinds. Among
none is more curious than the
ceratophrys, which is perhaps the most
truculent-looking its frog that has ever made
appearance. Frogs are, as a rule, re¬
markable for large mouths, but this
creature is decidedly the largest among
frogs in this particular. It lias also a
bloated appearauce, which recalls that of
a toad, horns, and its eyes are overshadowed by
small which give it a remarkably
evil look. When at rest it usually buries
itself iu the soil, but when annoyed iu
any way it swells itself out, like the
frog in JEsop, On these occasions
it actually barks with rage, and will, we
bite are informed, inflict a tolerably severe
phibian upon any one holding it. This am¬
comes from South America. In
a .state of nature it is cannibal, or some¬
thing other very like it, since it will devour
frogs without any compunction; at
the Zoo it has to he content with roaches,
new-born rats, and such small game. A
remarkable and very interesting feature
of the ceratophrys is that its skin is hard¬
ened in parts by a bony deposit. The in¬
terest of this "lies in the fact that the
great extinct amphibians of the coal pe¬
riod—the labyrinthodonts—had a similar
“dermal skeleton,” though much more
developed than in their degeuere de¬
scendant.—[London Standard.
TELEGRAPH AND CABLE.
WHAT IS GOING ON IN THE
BUSY WORLD.
I
A -lAIMAKV OF OITSIDE AFFAIRS COX
DKXSKD FROM NKWsY DISPATCHES I
FROM CXCI.E SAM'* DOMAIN' AND WHAT
TOE CABLE RHINOS. j
Typhoid fever is epidemic in Cairo,
The National Convention of Charities
and Correction met in Baltimore.
Wednesday.
The international prison congress will
ojien in St. Petersburg, Russia, on Mon
day, June 18th.
Riots Bilbos, have broken out in the vicinity
of Spain. Several miners have
been killed while resisting the gen¬
darmes.
A London. Eng., dispatch of Wednes¬
day, says: A new cotton corner is being
created in Lancashire. A quantity of
American cotton is already cornered.
Prices are advancing.
An Ashland. Pa.. dispatch says: Thurs¬
day morning a fail of rock occurred in a
tunnel at Park No. 1 colliery, near Park
injuring Place, killing two workmen and seriously
another.
lion. Richard Vaux has accepted the
nomination by the democrats of the third
Pennsylvania district, as a candidate for
congress, to fill the seat made vacant by
the death of Sir. Randall.
Pass, A dispatch which of Thursday, the border from line Eagle of
is just on
Mexico and the United States, says that
a revolution of considerable proportions
is very imminent in the state of C’oahvila,
Mexico.
The district court at Grinnell. Iowa,
has conformed to the decision of the su¬
preme court of the United States on the
“original package” case. It dismisses a
suit against original the importers packages. and sellers of
liquors in
A telegram received at Montevedia.
Brazil, says that on the occasion of the
recent rising at Puerts Alegre, the troops,
after tiring a volley and killing and
wounding many, joined the citizens in
deposing been received the governor. confirming the Advices have
report of
orders throughout the province of Rio
Grand. The populace, it is stated, by
force of arms, if necessary, will reject the
new Brazilian banking minister laws of of finance. Dr. Darbosa, the
“ORIGINAL PACKAGE ' SHOP
OPENED UP AND DOING A BIG BUSINESS IN
TOPEKA, KANSAS.
A the Topeka, Kansas, dispatch says:
For first time in five years intoxicat¬
ing liquors are being sold openly in To¬
peka. Charles Bahrer, agent for a lead¬
ing Kansas City opened wholesale liquor house,
on Friday, up an “original pack¬
age" shop at. 417 Kansas avenue, the
principal street of the city. His stock
consists of a carload of beer in cases con¬
taining twenty four bottles each. Before
evening posed the Nothing entire stock less had been dis¬
of. than a case was
sold in any instance. The unusual sight
of intoxicating liquors attracted many
people to the “original package” shop,
and the sidewalk in front of the place
was crowded all day by people who were
curious to see how it was done. Bahrer
says he has no fear of the state law. and
will hereafter deal in original packages of
whiskey aud wine as well as beer.
A test case to determine the full effect
of the "original package” decision lias
been started in Des Moines, Iowa, by the
highest tribunal.
CEDAR KEYS’ MAYOR
BEING HUNTED BY DEPUTY UNITED STATES
MARSHALS.
A dispatch from Cedar Keys Fla., says:
rived Four deputy late United Wednesday States marshals ar¬
here night for the
purpose of arresting Cottrell—and tlie mayor of the
city—W. W. his city mar¬
shal —Mitchell— on the charge of assault¬
ing Customs Collector Pinkerton and in¬
terfering with him in the prosecution of
Government business. The action of the
Government authorities is the result
of a long series of outrages perpe¬
trated by Cottrell, in tlie most of
which he has been aided and abetted by
Marshal Mitchell. existed A genuine reign of
terror has here, the full details of
which will probably never be known
until Cottrell is safe behind the bars, for
the people do not dare to speak against
him so long as he is at liberty. United
States officers succeeded iu arresting
Mitchell Wednesday apprised morning, but Cot¬
trell was of their coming aud is
now in hiding.
MINE CAVES IN
AND BURIES TWENTY-FIVE MINERS ALI VE
—GREAT EXCITEMENT.
A eave-in occurred Thursday near Ash¬
ley, Pa., in No. 8 mine, operated by the
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal company,
by which 24 men were entombed m the
mine. The scene of the disaster was one
of intense excitement. Hundreds of men
went to work to endeavor to rescue tho
imprisoned miners, and one was brought
out alive, hut burned almost to a crisp.
The tire was not before suspected, and
fears are entertained that none of the
miners will be saved uninjured, and that
all are dead. The present cave extends
over half a mile square, and includes a
portion of the thickly settled village call¬
ed Mafett’s Patch. A large number of
houses have gone down with the surface,
but only a few of them have been badly
damaged.
Tra THl^7-.. °e REVievi/j
BCSIXE*. op
*AV 17, r>rr ^,'
M REPORTED ET
11. G. Bun 4 .
^-.Tfcrtockmarket until it has abort** hi';!!
reach, and some bv' «f
With The little selling'’ slug,,"?'’ U* 1
cotton market L,
gins to lie understood th^ „
the present price cannot beT
goods at the present pri<>
pects for the next crop ar
able actual, and while receipts for tl* ^ *
those of last reports are
weaker, year. The taari.
is and the increase!
is a sufficient explanation
delphia less market is waiting ,'
strong in tone, and sak
iron continue to push down
York. Steel rails have Lst?
the quoted. week at 130 . 50 , and i 1
The cry of the ir •
that railroad building docs 8
though it is estimated that 3
miles may be built this ye*
■Band for structural iron i Se >
the concession of the eight
the bunding trades in rnant
ports are almost uniformly (
The monetary situation
lias not been satisfactory,
has nearly taken $2l*,000,000 in more monev. ^
credits have not been dj
failure of a firm ropr.s
“bucket-shops,” is and the j
report last satisfactory, ILfiOO.OOO showing
over year of a
the half May, more than 1
But money has been growin,
six per cent is now the seilim
every ulative indication uses has been that nearly, the su;'
absorbed for securities. by the advance in
Business
week number, for the Unite!
and Canada 21; total 212.
last week.
MILL'S IDEAl
OF THE EFFECT OP TIIF.
BILL, IF PASSED j
Roger Q. Mills, of Texas, J
written a very strong letter iJ
to the Alliance sub-treasury fc
views the bill and then says i'l
once inaugurated, all the
bor will ask to be
measure expansion provides for
of the curru
itself would bring in™
aster to the country, and n* i
citizens would feel it in. ■ <
our farmers. When the i
country is based on a
circulation, it is exposed a! I 1
the perils of speculation, i
in the products
which game the working!
the country are alwayt '-f
lie then says it is undent's
would prefer to lose his -
support such a measure. H
relieving the farmer is more J
a greater demand for
About fifty other congr. -iil
tors they are now preparing lcttersi
cannot support >!« :
them are all of the Georgs:
received the question.
ANOTHER MINE Hd
MEN KILLED AND A NI MHEI 1
IMPRISONED TB U I
A dispatch of Saturday Pour froa
barre, Pa., Bays: mC tbf
were taken out to-day making from
Thursday’s disaster, dead. Otbei a
men taken out
missing. An explosion of firel
place in the Empire colliervofl corapioj
and Wilkesbarre Coal
Two men were killed. I
to be imprisoned in the lower 1
[Hi-sibly other-, and r hr mg
burning. Mine offieidi R* ’
cent in regard to the
being any considerably numlirf
the mines. A later
men were taken out of its
uninjured, except the at I
killed by the explosion. Ihi
gotten under control
A FEARFUL EXPLOj
THIRTY-FOUR PERSONS KlttBl
A HUNDRED W0tSDI»|
A Havana dispatch G save
Sunday night, fire 1 ®’ _
hardware store. In a *"■
flames reached a barrel o' !
building, and a terrific «pl«l
ed. The whole thirty-four structure p® f J
pieces and
Among the dead arc
Senors Musset ZenicoviecM
Francesco, Ordenz aud tte
consul, Senor Frances ; ' J
pened to be in front m *
the time of explosion. 1
the killed, over a hundrfJ ?
injured. The explosion*®! through* J
est excitement ®
thousands flocked to -
disaster.___.
POWDERLY'S
TO THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR WORnfl
FOR CHICAGO
A dispatch of Friday
phia. says: An urgent appl
the Knights of Labor Iff ^
Workman Powderly M
members of the order 111 ‘“T
Powderly says: “The
needs serious, is and stake. the b*;'’ ■'
in Chicago at ^
ance be liberal, and let t -