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f A prominent Guatemalan official
said that though war between Guate¬
mala and Mexico might be delayed
for a year, it was sure to come.
The Peoria Herald says it is almost
impossible for the average American
mind to comprehend how Casimir
Perier, with a salary, as President oi
the French Republic, of $300,000 a
year, could make up his mind to re¬
sign.
The proposition to build a memor¬
ial bridge across the Potomac River,
connecting Washington City proper
with the great Arlington estate and
National Cemetery, is again before
Congress. It is hoped by the Invent¬
ive Age this matter will be given the
serious consideration its importance
merits. Such a structure is needed,
and that it should be a magnificent
piece of engineering—a monument to
the genius of the present day—goes
without argument.
The cigarette youth merits almost
any treatment that will squelch his
fatal habit, believes The Pathfinder.
The latest method, that of denying
him admission to the public schools
unless he gives up smoking has been
employed in a Missouri town. This
sort of ostracism may bring pretty
effective influence to bear through tho
parents. But may it not cause some
stubborn youngsters to go the other
way into deperate paths?
We have in this country many
churches with a very large member¬
ship, some of them numbering over
2000. But in Europe the churches
boast of many more members than this
—2000 being as a rule but a fair-sized
congregation. There is one church m
St. Petersburg, Russia, numbering
nearly six thousand souls. The larg¬
est membership, perhaps, in the world
is that of a church in Elterfield, in
Rhenish Prussia, which has over six
thousand. The congregation has six
pastors and two churches, while a
third church is in course of erection.
Several members of the famous Krum
maeher family of preachers have been
pastors at that church.
A remarkable trial has just ended at
Bucharest, Hungary. Two boys, one
six years and the other fourteen, were
charged upon their own confession
with attempting to drown a child two
yearB old. Their defense was that the
long drought had to be terminated,
and that the crime for which they
were on trial was the only successful
method known to accomplish the end.
An explanation of this curio-us defense
is that the children of the villages in
times of groat drought are made to
throw the clay figure of a child into
the water. The boys threw in the
child merely because they had no clay
figure. The elder was sentenced to
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two years’ imprisonment and the
younger returned to his mother for
chastisement.
In his speech in the United States
Senate, at the acceptance of the Web¬
ster statue, Senator Morrill, of Ver¬
mont, spoke of the fashionable garb
worn by “Black Dan” when he dined
with him in Washington in 1852.
“Mr. Webster,” said the Senator,
“appeared in his blue coat with gilt
buttons, light buff vest, low shoes and
white silk half-hose, and led the oon
versation most happily, whether
grave or gay. ” This was the custom
of the great American statesman a lit¬
tle *more than forty years ago, a
period which can be recalled by hun¬
dreds of thousands of our living citi¬
zens. What would be thought of any
man, even a Webster, who should ap¬
pear thus dresaed in our time? Would
he not be an object of ridicule? asks
the San Francisco Argonaut. The
clothes of the America,, people
been getting plainer and Muller right
straight . , , along , for , over a , hundred .
years. Look at the costumes of
Washington, Adams and the other
great men after peace had been won
through the Revolution. Look at the
rich and gay dress wl}ich was worn by
men who could afford it when our
own immediate sires trod the land.
Then look at the blkck and white
dress of fashion in the banquet
in this nnpicturesque and blustering
age. It is lovely woman alone who
dares to make a display of colors.
frills, flowers, fringes, 6pangles,
jewelry , and , O-naments at this dismal .
time-
REV. DR. TALMAGE.
T3ie Great Preacher’s Sunday
Discourse.
Subject; “A Seraphic Diet.”
Text: “Man did eat angels’ food.”—
Psalms lxxviii., 25.
Somewhat risky would be the undertaking
to tell just what was the manna that fell to
the Israelites in the wilderness, of what it
was made and who made it. Tho manna
was called angels’ food, but why so called?
Was it because it came from the compounded place where
angels live, or because angels
it, or because angels did eat it. or because
it was good enough for angels? On w r hat of
crystal platter was it carried to the door
heaven and then thrown out? How did it
taste? We are told there was in it something
like honey, but if the saccharine taste in it
had been too strong many would not have
liked it, and so it may have had a commin¬
gling of flavors, this delicacy of the skies. It
must have been nutritious, fora Nation lived
on it for forty years. It must have been
healthful, for it is so inspiringly applauded.
It must have been abundant, because it dis¬
missed the necessity of a sutler for a great
army. three
Each person had a ration of quarts
a day allowed to him, and so 15,000 pounds the
were necessary every week. Those were
times of which my text-speaks, when “man
did eat angels’ food.” If the good Lord,
who ha3 helped me so often, will help me
now, I will first tell you what is angels’
food, and then how we may get some of it
for ourselves. In our moral state we must
have for mastication and digestion and
assimilation the products mentality of the earth. and
Corporeity, as well as The style of
spirituality, characterizes us.
diet has much to do with our well being.
Light and frothy food taken exclusively re¬
sults in weak muscle and semi-individualism.
The taking of too much animal food produces
sensuality. Vegetarians are cranks. Reason¬
able selection of the farinaceous and the
solid ordinarily produces physical stamina. in
But we have all occasionally been an
ecstatic state where we forgot the necessity
of earthly food. We were fed by joys, by
anticipations, dwindled by discoveries, the by companion¬ hour
ships that dining into
insignificance and made the pleasures of the
table stupid and uninviting. There have
been cases where from seemingly invisible
sources the human body has been main¬
tained, as in the remarkable case of our in¬
valid and Christian neighbor, Mollie Ranch¬
er, known throughout the medical and
Christian world for that she was seven
weeks without earthly food, fed and sus¬
tained on heavenly visions. Our beloved
Dr. lrenajus Prime, wonders editor concerning and theologian, this girl.
recorded the
Professor West, the great scientist, marveled
over it, and Willard Parker of worldwide
fame in surgery threw up his hands in
amazement at it. There are times in all our
lives when, the soul asserts itself and says to
the body: “Hush, stand back! Stand down!”
I am at a banquet where no chalices gleam
and no viands smoke and no culinary im¬
plements clatter. I am" feeding on that
which no human hand has mixed and no
earthly oven baked. I am eating “angels’
food.” If you have never been in such an
exalted state, I commiserate your leaden
temperament and dismiss you from this
service as incompetent to understand the
thrilling and glorious suggestiveness of my
text when it says, “Man did eat angels’
food.”
Now, what do the supernaturals live on?
They experience none of the demands of cor
poriety and have no hindrance or environ¬
ment in the shape of bone and muscle and
flesh, and hence that which may delectate
our palate or invigorate our poor, dying
frames would be of no use to them. But
they have a food of their own. My text says
so. There may be other courses of food in
the heavenly menu that I am not awai’s*
of, but I know of five or six styles of
food always on celestial tables when cheru¬
bim and seraphim and archangel gather for
heavenly repast—the mystery of redemption,
celestialized music, the heavenly picturesque,
sublime colloquy, eternal enterprises, saintly
association, divine companionship, celebra¬
tive jubilance. There is one subject that ex¬
cites the curiosity and inquisitiveness of all
those angels. St. Peter says, “Which
thing the angels desire to look into”—that
is, why did Christ exchange a palace for a
barn? Why did He drop a scepter from
His right hand to take a I spear
into His left side? Why quit the
anthem of the worshiping heavens to hear
the crooning of a weary mother’s voice? Was
a straw better than a garland? “Could it not
have been done in some other way?” says
angel the first. “Was the human race worth
such a sacrifice?” says angel the second.
“How could heaven get along without Him
for thirty-three years?” says angel sinful the third.
“Through that assassination may man
rise into our eternal companionship,” says
angel the fourth.
And then they all bend toward each other
and talk about it and guess about it and try
to fathom it and prophesy concerning it.
But the subject is too big. and they only nib¬
ble at it. They only break off a piece dip of it.
They only taste it. They just into it.
And then one angel cries, “Worthy is the
Lamb that was slain And another says,
•‘Unsearchable!” And another says,
‘Past finding out!” And another says,
“Allelui!” And then they all fill their
cups of gold with the “new wine of the
kingdom.” Unlike the beakers of earth
which poison, these glow with immortal
health, the wine pressed and from they the all grapes drink of
the heavenly Eshcol, to
the memory of manger and cross, shattered
sepulcher and Olivetic ascension. Oh, that
rapturous, inspiring, transporting theme of
the world’s ransom! That makes angels’
food. The taking of that food gives stronger
pulse to their gladness, adds several morn¬
ings of radiance to their the foreheads,
gives vaster circle to sweep
of their wings on mission intercon¬
stellation. Some of the crumbs ol
that angels’ food fall all around our wilder
ness camp to-day, and we feel like crying
I SMS’
with expiring Stephen: “Lord Jesus, receive
mv spirit!” or with many an enraptured soul:
: ‘-None but Christ! None but Christ!” Pass
around this angels’ food. Carry through it through
all these aisles. Climb with it all
these galleries. Take it among all the hovels
as well as among all the palaces of the great
town. Give all Nations a taste of this angels’
food.
Now, in the emerald palace of heaven let
the cupbearers and servants of the King re¬
move this course from the banquet and bring
on another course of angels’ food, which is
celestial music. You and I have seen at
I some to whom concert the music or oratorio a feast. whole assemblage Never
was a anv
thing that they took in at the lips of tho
X-h%hef SokVat Ihflipfof
the ear. I have seen and you have seen
I
! traeted for those of us who have not had our
faculties cultivated in that direction were
never long enough for them. As at 11 o’clock
j at night the leader of the orchestra gave the
three taps of his baton to again start the
music they were as fresh and alert as when,
three hours before and at 8 o’clock, the food cur¬
tain first lifted. Musio to them is
for body, food for mind and food
for soul. From what I read in mv
Bible I think celestialized music will
make up a large part of angels’ food.
Why do I say “celestialized music?” Be¬
cause though music may have been born in
heaven it had not all its charms until it came
to earth and took a baptism of tears, Siuce
then it has had a pathos and a tenderness
*h»t it could not otherwise have possessed. and
It had to pass under the shadows over
stormy seas and weep at sepulchers and to
be hummed as lullaby over the cradle of
sick children before it could mount to
its present altitudes of heavenly power.
No organ on earth would be complete with¬
out the stop “tremolo” and the stop “vox
humana.” And no music of heaven would
be complete without the “tremolo” of earthly
sorrow comforted and the “vox humana” of
earthly sympathies glorified. Just take up
the New Testament and find it a notebook of
celestialized music.
It says Jesus sang a hymn before He went
to the Mount of Olives, and if He could sing
on earth with Bethlehem humiliation close
behind Him. and sworn enemies close on
both sides of Him. and tne torments of Gol
fi'etha just before Him,, do you not suppose He
sings in heaven? Paul and Silas sang in
midnight dungeon, and do you not suppose
that now tliey sing on the and delectable trumpets
summits? What do harps
and choirs of revelation suggest if not musio?
What would the millions of good singers and
players upon instruments who took part in
earthly worship do in heaven without music?
Why, the mansions ring with it. The great
halls of eternity echo with it. The wor¬
ship of unnumbered hosts is inwrapped with
It. It will be the only art of earth that will
have enough elasticity and strength to leap
the grave and take possession of heaven.
Sculpture will halt this side the grave be¬
cause it chiefly commemorates the forms of
those who in heaven will be reconstructed,
and what would we want ’of the sculptured
imitation when we stand in the presence of the
resurrected original? Painting will halt this
side the grave because the colors of earth
would be too tame for heaven, and what use
to have pictured on canvas the scenes which
shall be described to us by those who were
the participants? One of the disciples will
tell us about the “Last Supper” better gallery. than
Titian with mighty touch set up in art
The plainest saint by tongue will describe the
•‘Last Judgment” better than Michael Angelo
Vatican. with his pencil put it upon the halt ceiling of the
Architecture will this side the
grave, for what use would there be for archi¬
tect’s compass and design in that city which
is already built and garnished until nothing
can be added? All theTuileries and Windsor
Castles and St. Clouds of the earth piled all up
not equaling its humblest residences; the
St. Pauls and St. Peters and St. Izaaks and
St. Sophias of the earth built into one
cathedral not equaling the heavenly temple.
But music will pass right on, right up and
right in, and millions in heaven will ac¬
knowledge chief that, under God, she Oh, was would the
cause of their salvation. I
like to be present when all the great Chris¬
tian singers and the great Christian players
of all the ages shall congregate in heaven.
Of course they must, like all the rest of us,
be cleansed and ransomed by the blood of
the slain Lamb. Alas, that some of the
great artists of sweet sound have been as
distinguished for profligacy as for the way
they warbled or sang or Angered the key¬
board or trod the organ pedal. Some
who have been distinguished bassos and so¬
pranos and prima donnas on earth, I feel will
never sing the song of Moses and the Lamb,
or put the lips to the trumpet with sounds of
victory before the throng. But many will of the
masters who charmed us on earth more
mightily charm us in heaven. Great
music hall of eternity! May you and I
be there some day to acclaim when the
“Halleluiah Chorus” is awakened As
on earth there have been harmonies
made up of other harmonies, a strain of
music from this cantata, and a strain of
music from that overture and a bar from this
and a bar from that, but one great tune or
theme, into which all the others were poured
as rivers into a sea, so it may be given to the
mightiest soul in the heavenly world to
gather something from all the sacred songs
we have sung on earth, or which have been
sung in all the ages, and roll them on in
eternal and the symphony, but the one great theme that
one overmastering tone
shall carry all before it and uplift all heaven
from central throne to farthest gate of pearl
and to highest capstone of amethyst will be,
“Unto Him who loved us and washed us
frpm our sin3 in His own blood, and made
us kings and priests unto God and the Lamb,
to Him be glory!” That will be manna
enough for all heaven to feed on. That will
be a banquet for immortals. That will be
angels’ food.
Now, in the emerald palace of heaven, let
the cupbearers and servants of the King re¬
move this course from the banquet and bring
on another oourse of angels’ food, which is
laying out of mighty enterprise. The Bible
lets us know positively that the angels have
our world’s affairs on their hearts. They af¬
ford the rapid transit from world to world.
Ministering spirits, escorting spirits, defend¬
ing spirits, guardian spirits—yea, they have
all worlds on their thought. We are told
they sang together at the creation,and that im¬
plied not only the creation of our world, but
of other worlds. Shall they plan only for
our little planet and be unconcerned for a
planet 300 times larger? No. They have all
the galaxies under their observation. Mighty
schemes of helpfulness to be laid out and
planetary executed, shipwrecked worlds to be towed in,
fires to be put out, demoniac
hosts riding up to be hurled back and down.
These angels of light unhorse an Apollyon
with one stroke of battleax celestial. They
talk these matters all over. They bend toward
each other in sublime colloquy. They have
cabinet meetings of winged immortals. They
assemble the mightiest of them in holy con¬
sultation. They plan out stellar, lunar, solar,
constellated achievement. They vie with
each other as to who shall do the grandest
thing for the eternals. They compose doxol
ogies for the temple of the sun. They pre¬
side over coronations. If in the great organ
of the universe one key gets out of tune, they
plan for its retuning. No undertaking is so
difficult, mission no post of duty is so distant, no
mand is so stupendous obtained. but at God’s com¬
they are gladly
When they sit together in heaven’s places,
Gabriel and Michael, the archangel, and the
angel that pointed Hagar to the fountain in
the desert, and the angel that swung open
the prison door of delivered Peter, and the
angels who ran to the ro be the reapers at
the end of the world, and the angel that
stood by Paul to encourage him on the
foundering cornship of Alexandria, and the
two angels that sentineled the tomb of
Chirst, and the four angels that St. John saw
in Apocalypse at the four corners of the earth,
and the twelve angels that guard the twelve
swinging pearls, and the 20,000 char¬
ioted angels that the psalmist de¬
scribed, and more radiant than all of
them put together, and mightier than all, and
lovelier thah all, -‘The Angel of the Coven¬
ant,” the cadences of His mortal voioe, the best
music that ever entranced or immor¬
tal ears. His smile another noon risen on mid
noon, His presence enough to make a heaven
if there were no other attraction—I say, when
they meet together in the council chambers
close to the throne—Ah, that will be regale¬
ment infinite. That will be angels’ food.
And one of my exciting anticipations
of heaven is the prospect of seeing
and talking with some of them.
Why not? What did they come out for on
the balconv on that Christmas night and sing
for our world, if they did not want to be put
in communication with us? I know the ser¬
enade was in Greek, but they knew that their
words would be translated in all languages.
If they thought themselves too good to have
anything to do with us, would they have
dropped Christmas carols upon the shep¬
herds, as ba 1 as any of U3 have ever been?
Aye! If they sang for mortals, will they not
sing for us when we become immortals?
Now, in the emerald palace of heaven, let
the cupbearers and servants of the King re¬
move this course from the banquet and bring
on another course of angels’ food—the last
course and the best, the dessert, the cul¬
mination of the fea3t, which is celebrative
jubilance. You and I have known people
who prided themselves on never getting
excited. They have cultivated the phleg¬
matic. You never saw them cry; you
never heard them in a burst of laugh
ter. They are monotonous and to me in¬
tolerable. I am afraid of a man or a womau
that cannot cry; I am afraid of a man or a
woman who cannot langh. Christ says in
the book of Revelation that such regurgitation people are
to Him nauseating and cause
—(Revelation iii., 16) “Because thou art luke¬
warm and neither cold not hot I will spew
thee out of My mouth.” But the angels in
heaven have no stolidity or unresponsive¬
ness. There is one thing that agitates them
into holy warmth. We know that absolute¬
ly. If their harp be huug up on the panels
of amethyst, they take it down and
with deft fingers pull They from in to among their
the strings a canticle. run
neighbors on the same golden street and tell
the good news. If Miriam has there cymbals
anything like those with which she per¬
formed on the banks of the Red Sea, she
claps them in triumph, and there is a festal
table spread, and the best of the angels’ food
is set on it. When is it? It is when a man or
woman down in the world who was all
wrong by the grace of God is made all right
—(Luke xv., 10) “There is joy in the
presence of the angels of God over one sin¬
ner that repenteth.” Why are they so happily
agitated? Because they know what a tre¬
mendous thing it is to turn clear around from
the wrong and take the right road. It is be
cause they know the difference between
swines’ trough with nothing but husks and a
King’s banquet with angels’ food. It is be¬
cause they know the infinite, the everlasting
difference between down and up.
And then their festivity is catching. If we
hear the bells of a city ring, we say, “What
is that for?” If we hear Tolling out from an
auditorium the sound of a full orchestra, we
say, “What is happening here?” And when
the angels of God take on jubilance friends oyer a
case of earthly repentance your
in heaven will say: “What new thing
has happened? Why full diapason? Why
the chime from the oldest towers
of eternity?” The fact is, my hearers,
there are people in heaven who would like to
hear from you. Your children there are
wondering when father and mother will
come into the kingdom, and with more glee
than they ever danced in hallway at your
coming home at eventide they will dance
the floor of the heavenly mansion at the
tidings of father and mother saved. Be
side that the old folks want to hear from
you. They are standing at the head of the
celestial stairs waiting for the news
that their prayers have been answered,
and that you are coming on to take from
their lips a kiss better than that which now
they throw you. Calling you by your first
name, as they always did. they are talking
about you and saying, “There is our son,”
or “There is our daughter down in that
world of struggle battling, suffering, sinning,
weeping. Why can they not sde that Christ
is the only one who can help and comfort
and save?”
That is what they are saying about you.
And if you will this hour in one prayer of
surrender that will not take more than a
second to make decide this then swifter than
telegraphic dispatch the news would reach
them, and angels of God who never fell
would join your glorified kiildred in cele¬
bration, and the caterers of heaven would do
their best, and saints and seraphs side by
side would <«ake angels’ food. Glory to God
for such a possibility! Oh, that this moment
there rr’ght be a rush for heaven!
The Spirit and the Bride say, Come.
Rejoicing saints re-echo, Come.
Who faints, who thirsts, who will may come.
Thy Saviour bids thee come.
THE DISPENSARY LAW VOID.
Judge Slmonton Decides That the Act
Does Not Always Hold.
Judge Simonton,in the United States
circuit court at Charleston, S. C.,
Tuesday, rendered a decision in a ha¬
beas corpus case, which was brought
to test the constitutionality of the dis¬
pensary law. The defendants, J. E.
Jervey, master of the schooner Caro¬
lina, his son and a sailor were arrest¬
ed some time ago on the charge of vio¬
lating the dispensary law. This schoon¬
er was seized at the landing and her
cargo of whisky from Savannah was
seized and confiscated, and so was the
vessel.
The defendants gave bail, and were
surrendered by their bondsmen to the
sheriff, who held them. The writ of
habeas corpus was then sued out for
their release. The court asks, “Is the
act of the legislature of South Caroli¬
na, upon which this arrest was based,
in conflict with the constitution and
laws of the United States?”
Incidentally, the court says that the
dispensary law has become fixed in the
legislation of the state. It is for the
interest of all her citizens that it be
settled and the constitutionality of all
its parts be ascertained, and that
speedily. But the court finds this ar¬
rest in violation of the constitution
and the inter-state commerce act and
orders that the prisoners be discharged
from custody. The court says: “The
clause of the dispensary act, so far as
it has been made to apply to these pe¬
titions, is absolutely void.” This de¬
cision will probably carry the dispen¬
sary law up to the United States su¬
preme court.
TO LIBERIA.
A Steamer will Leave Savannah With
Negro Colonists.
The Danish steamer Horsa sailed
from Philadelphia Wednesday evening
for Savannah, being chartered by the
International Emigration Society to
take a party of about 200 negro colo¬
nists from Savannah to Monrovia, Li¬
beria. The steamer is under command
of Captain Henry Wibourg. The em
igrants will be accompanied by an
agent of the society.
LAKE’S WARNING.
HE ISSUES AN ADDRESS TO THr
COTTON GROWERS.
The Rise In Prices a Scheme to Hood,
wink the Farmer.
The Hon. Hector D. Lane, presi¬
dent of the American Cotton Growers’
Protective Association, has issued the
following address:
“To the Cotton Growers of the
SouthI wish to call the attention
of the cctton growers to the strategic
movement being made by cotton ma¬
nipulators to delude them into the
suicidal act of planting again a large
acreage in cotton. That uneasiness
has been felt in Liverpool for some
time in reference to a decreased acre¬
age goes without saying, and had these
conditions not have existed, cotton
values would have been lower than
they have been; and now, as the eml
of the season is at hand, and the staple
is substantially out of the hands of the
farmer, these gentlemen, who have
represented the bear element for so
many months, while cotton was mov¬
ing in large volumes, now resort to
this ruse of running values up, simply
as a device to induce the farmer to
plant more cotton than possibly he
intended.
“I warn the farmers of the south
that this rise in the last few days is
fictitious, is the product of a conspir¬
acy of men to systematically rob the
producer of his legitimate gains. It is
a delusion and a snare to catch the un¬
suspecting farmer, to inveigle him into
the toils of another three million sur¬
plus so that they can bear down values
lower than last season with an in¬
creased surplusage on hand. Let the
people beware ! It is a bait to catch
those who will bite. There is no le¬
gitimate reason shown for this rise in
cotton values. The production ha9
exceeded the most sanguine expecta¬
tions. Therefore, where is the legiti¬
mate cause for this rise, if cotton has
been selling at legitimate figures? It
is simply the same old ‘spider and
fly’ game, a recurrence of the farmer
an q t k e ‘bunco steerer,’ and I am con
strained , to exclaim, How long Dh Ob,
Lord, how long. Is it to be ever thus,
that our people are to be waylaid and
robbed of their meagre substance?
“I deny the proposition and defy
the man who made it, that any man
can produce cotton legitimately for 5
cents with any reasonable profit; and
I state advisedly and emphatically that
today the southern cotton grower—I
mean literally the man who digs the
ground, the unfortunate who ‘pulls
the bell cord over the mortgaged mule’
—is not realizing twelve cents a day
for his labor the year round. And
what is to be the fate of this man ii
cotton goes down one and a half cents
this fall, which is not at all improba¬
ble, when we recognize the conditions
that confront us and take into consid¬
eration the fact that we had a most
phenomenal season for picking our
crop this last season, and its classifica¬
tion was higher than ever known,
hardly any grading lower than low
middling. cents,
“Still it averaged under five
and though we may make a smaller
crop the ensuing season of 1895-96 ii
we have a rainy or unpropitious gath¬
ering season cotton in all probability, will
will grade lower and maybap we
have a recurrence of the season of
1881, when we had a superabundance could
of the poorer qualities. We
then expect the same relative differ¬
ence in the grades, which must, of
course, result in considerably reduced
returns from the whole crop.
“I invoke the most earnest attention
of cotton growers to' this nefarious
scheme, and address you this letter
a caveat, that you may not be deluded
by this ‘wolf in sheep’s clothing,’ cloth¬ or,
in other words, this bear in bull
ing.”
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MAYOR FITZPATRICK CLEARED.
New Orleans Chief Executive Exoner¬
ated From Charges of Malfeasance.
In the civil district court at New
Orleans, Thursday, Judge King read
his decision in the ease of Mayor John
Fitzpatrick, against whom articles of
impeachment have been filed by the
Citizens’ Protective Association.
The suit grew out of the fight inaugurated against
the city administration
last summer by the citizens. There
were some dozen charges against the
mayor. He was accused of malfea¬
sance in office, favoritism and other
charges of a similar character, dhe
decision was all in his favor, the judge the
finding him not guilty on either of
charges.
The acquittal of the mayor is con¬
sidered a great victory for the politi¬ the
cal ring, of which Fitzpatrick is
acknowledged leader. The courtroom
was crowded with spectators. There
was also present the counsel who ap¬
peared in the case.
Two More Killed.
A mob entered th& W« alsenbnrgi
Col., jail early Wednesday morning
charged and killed with two the more murder of the of Italians A. *•
Hixon. In all six Italians have been
killed.