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BTTTLER, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 19, 1893.
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THE IF TY-THIRD CONGBISS
. iii Beeniar Session
The President’s Message Bead Before
(be Tiro Houses—Bontine Business.
THE SENATE.
Oth Day.—Five senators, heretofore
on the absentee list for this session,
-tvere present jftnday. They were:
Colquitt of Georgia, Irby of South
Carolina, Lindsay of Kentucky, Mor
gan of Alabama, and Perkins of Cali
fornia'. In the absence of the vice:
president, at Augusta, Ga., the senate
was presided over by Mr. Harris, of
Tennessee. Mr. Hoar introduced a
resolution, asking by ivhat authority
Commissioner Blonnt had been ap
pointed, and proceeded to comment
upon the fact that the information
which had been given to the senate
under the seal of confidence had been
supplied by the state department to the
representatives of four newspapers
that were known to be thorough-going
supporters of the administration.
Mr. Hill, in view of the complaint that
the-minority had no opportunity to
report on the election bill, moved that
.-it be referred to the committee on
privileges and elections. The senate
on motion of Mr. Gorman, proceeded
to the consideration of executive busi
ness and, at-2:40 o’clock, adjourn
ed until Tuesday.
7th Day. The resolution offered by
Mr. Hoar, calling on the President
for information as to the appointment
of Mr. Blount a3 paramount commis
sioner to Hawaii, was not presented to
the senate in the morning hour, Tues
day, but went over iu order to permit
Mr. Collum to address the senate in
opposition to the bill to repeal the
federal election law.
8th Dax.—After the routine morn
ing business in the senate Wednesday
was disposed of, the Hawaiian resolu
tion offered Monday last by Mr. Hoar
was laid before the senate and Mr. Frye
addressed the body.
7th Dax—In the Senate, Thursday,
the committee on privileges and elec
tions, by a party vote, decided to re
port the house bill to repeal the feder
al election laws. The minority was
given a reasonable time within which
to submit its views. The house bill
repealing the federal election laws
was reported back favorably from
the committee on privileges and
elections and placed on the cal
endar, notice of a minority re
port being given on the part
of Senators Hoar, Mitchell, Higgins
and Chandler. The senate joint reso
lution relieving the employes of the
record and pension division of the
war department injured in the Ford’s
theatre disaster from the operation of
the law restricting the amount of sick
leave with pay, was passed. Mr. Voor-
hees introduced a bill for the coinage
of silver dollars, retirement of small
denominations of gold and paper and
for other purposes. It was referred to
the committee on finance. It directs
the coinage into silver dollars of stand
ard weight and fineness, of the seign
orage or profit from the coinage of
sil ver bullion, under the act of- Feb
ruary, 1878, and July, 1890. The sen
ate then adjourned over until Monday.
THE HOUSE.
Gth Day.—The committee on rivers
and harbors is about to begin active
work, and was given authority to sit
during the sessions of the house. Mr.
Wheeler, of Alabama, succeeded in
having Tuesday and Wednesday set
apart for the consideration of the bill
to admit Utah as a c Ate, despite the
objections of .Mr. Dingley that the
matter was too important to be brought
up during the morning hour. District
of Columbia bills were then taken up.
The ways and means committee
have changed the time when the
tariff bill will go into effect
from March to January 1, 1894.
A bill fixing the time and places of
holding federal courts in Nebraka was
passed. Mr. Culberson called up a
bill to revive the act for the consider-
• ation of claims arising under the cap
tures and abandoned property act for
the purpose, if possible, of affecting an
agreement as to its consideration. Mr.
Heed refused to allow the agreement
to be made and the bill was withdrawn.
A bill was passed ranking it com-
. pulsory for all steam vessels of
one thousand tons burden to have
when under way, one engineer and
one helper in the engine room, and all
such vessels to carry two licensed en
gineers. The bill, by its provisions,
is not applicable to ferry boats which
run less than ten hours daily. Mr.
McBae, of Arkansas, called up a bill
instructing the secretary of the inte
rior to reserve from sales out of the
abandoned Fort Cummings military
reservation in Hew Mexico, ns much
land as is necessary to ensure a per
petual spring of water for the use of
the publio and the Bio Grande, Mex
ico Pacific railroad. Without objec
tion it was passed. The house then
took up a measure affecting the Dis
trict of Columbia, and at 3:30 o’clock
adjourned.
7th Day.—There was a small at
tendance of members in the house
Tuesday morning, although expecta
tions had been raised that the day
would be profili'c with interesting in
cidents owing to the fact that the bill
admitting Utah territory as a state
had been made a special order after
the morning honr. Mr. Meyers call
ed up the resolution providing for a
joint commission to investigate the
rank, pay and other matters re
lating to the personnel of the
navy. It was objected to by
Messrs. Kilgore, Sayres and others.
The house resolved itself into commit
tee of the whole for the consideration
of the bill for the admission of Utah.
Mr. Kilgore, who opened the debate
in advocacy of the bill, explained the
provisions of the bill. Speeches were
made by Messrs. Bawlins, Moore and
garter. Me.ssrs. Simpson, of Kansas;
Smith, of Arizona, and Pence, of Col
orado, interrupted Mr. Harter to re
ply to his reflection on the west. A.
the conclusion of Mr. Harter’s 6peecht
nt'5:30 o’clock, the house adjourned,
8th Day,—Pa. the house, Wednes
day, Mr, Holman offered a resolution
setting forth that more than §1,000,000
was paid in premiums for building
vessels for the new navy; alleging tbflt
fcrfftl trips wte osjewlstefi fo gBBfc
only the builders, and instructing the
committee on naval affairs to make a
thorough investigation and ascertain
whether, there had been any collusion
between the. contractors and officials,
and report by biH or otherwise. Ref
erred to the committee on naval affairs
Mr. MyerB, of Louisiana moved to go
into a committee of, the whole to con
sider the resolution providing for a
joint commission to investigate , the
personnel of the navy, and filibuster
ing began at. once. The resolution fvas
agreed to and the. house went into a
committee of the whole on the bill ad
mitting Uttdi as a state. The bill was
passed without division at. the close of
the debate the only amendments of
much -importance incorporated jn
the enabling act being one by.
Mi-. Powers, of Vermont, iiroliib-
iting polygamy forever, and nnotk.ei
byMr.jSwheeler, of Alabama, reducing
one-half the land granted to the staff
for common school purposes. Jnsi
before adjournment the resolution of
Mr. Hitt, eaHing for correspondence
in the Hawaiian affair, amended so as
to include an extension of the period
to be covered by the correspondence
to March, 1889, the beginning of the
Harrison administration, was taken up
and passed.
9th Day. —In the bouse, Thursday,
Mr. Dockery, from the-joint commit
tee to investigate the various executive
departments, caUed np the bill to im
prove the methods of accounting in
the postoffice department. This is a
bin to change the money order system.
Without any discussion the bill was
passed. Mr. Catcbing3 brought in an
order from the committee on' rules,
setting aside a time after the second
morning hour and continuing each day
thereafter, until concluded, for con
sidering the bills admitting Arizona
and New Mexico to statehood.
OUR LATEST DISPATCHES.
The flapiiings of a Day Chroniclea in
Brief and Concise Paragraphs
And Containing the Gist of the heirs
From All Parts of the World.
Forty of the leading coal operators
of the Pocahontas region arrived at
Boanoke, Va., Thursday from''the
southwest and held a meeting to con
sider the coalmining interests of their
section.
Commissioner Lyman, of the civil
service commission, has resigned as
president of the commission but not
as .commissioner, and has been suc
ceeded in the presidency by Commis
sioner Proctor.
A cable dispatch of Thursday from
Paris says: Mr. James Gordon Bennett
has returned to the city after two
months’ absence, during which he bos
passed considerable time in the Biv-
iera. Mr. Bennett has completely re
covered from his accident, which will
leave no serious effects.
The officers of the National Guard of
the state of Tennessee met at Nashville
Thursday night to elect a successor to
Brigadier General Sam T. Carnes, of
Memphis, whose terms of office expired.
The candidates were General S. T.
Carnes and Major H. C. Ward, of
Nashville. The officers met in the su
preme courtroom and after the usual
preliminaries, nominations were made
with eloquent speeches. On the first
ballot Ward was elected, receiving 23
votes to Carnes’s 18.
The delegates of the American Fed
eration of Labor in session at Chicago
Thursday refused to take action on a
communication touching on the ques
tion of the tariff. The matter came up
in the form of a communication from
the plush workers of Bridgeport, which
declared that after the passage of the
McKinley bill, tbeir wages bad been
reduced and that tbeir employes
threatened further reduction in the
event of the passage of the Wilson bill.
The communication was laid on the
table and the delegates fought shy of
any discussion on the subject.
A business block at Buffalo, N. Y.,
known as the Arcade, was destroyed
by fire Thursday morning, and Bobin-
son’s Music theater and Shea’s concert
hall, the latter the finest building be
tween New York and Chicago, arc in
ruins. Tho fireman of the building is
missing and it is supposed he perished
in the flames. The flames also de
stroyed the Verta building, occupied
by Paxen, Williams & Faxeu, whole
sale grocers. The building was valued
at $.200,000. They were insured for
about $5,000 and the loss in tbeir
goods exceeds that amount. The to
tal loss by the lire is placed at -$1,500, -
000.
The bank trials which have been in
progress at Nashville are over for the
present. JndgeSage, Thursday, grant
ed a continuance to George A. Dazey,
charged with conspiracy with Frank
Porterfield to defraud the Commercial
National bank. The ground of the
continuance was the failure of the
government to give the defense ample
notice of the caso on which Dazey
would be tried at this term of court.
The witnesses for the defense were
scattered from Connecticut to Texas,
and as the defense did not know what
drafts were to be relied on by the gov
ernment to make out its case, they
were not in position to say just what
they expected to prove by each wit-
PREHDERGAST WAS AGITATED
While (he Story Of His TerriMe Crime
Was Being Told.
A Chicago dispatch says: Assistant
States Attorney opened the trial of
Prendergast Wednesday with an ad
dress to the jury, in which he outlined
the plan of the prosecution. Mr.
Todd paid a tribute to Mayor Harri
son and referred to the similarity of
bis assassination and that of Lincoln
and Garfield. Attorney Wade will
open the case for the defense.
Mr. Todd said that the prisoner's
actions at the time: of the murder in
dicated that he was sane. Tho attor
ney called particular attention to the
assassin’s well developed sense of pres
ervation; as evidence, by the way he
cared for his perspnal safety during
and after the shooting, As Mr. Todd
told the story of tho shooting Fran-
detgast turned pals usd shrank into
hi« ski? with ill^oseenJed 8ftit*tion (
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Its.Ami Mi at
Very Few Delegates the First Day-
Boutlne of the Convention.
The National Farmers’ congress be
gan its annual session at Savannah
Tuesday noon. Very few delegates had
arrived, and when the congress assem
bled less than fifty, were present.
President Smith, of Kansas, was ab
sent, and Vice_ President D, G, -Ptirse,
of Georgia, presided; Hon. P. W.
Meldrim, of Savannah, in behalf of
She governor of Georgia, welcomed the
delegates to the state. Judge C.-B.
Bounds, of Maine, responded to the
welcome.
The address of welcome in behalf of
the Stat9 Agricultural Society was
made by J. T. Wade, of Georgia, in
the absence of President Waddell. Hon.
Daniel Needham, president of the New
England Agricultural Society, respond
ed to the welcome by the agriculturist.
In his address Colonel Needham touched
upon various matters, one of which was
the educational question. The great
underlying principle of agriculture is
knowledge—is the public school.
The mayor of Savannah welcomed
tho delegates to the city. Hon. B. F.
Clayton, secretary of the congress, in
his response outlined the workbefore it.
The roll of states was then called
and the following states were found to
have delegates in attendance: Alaba
ma, Georgia, Florida, Hlinois, Indiana,
Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan,
Mississippi, Kansas, Nebraska, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Pennsylva-
lia, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Vermont,
Virginia and West Virginia.
Secretary Clayton moved that all
the delegates on the lists sent on by
the governors of the different states
and also those holding proxies be en
titled to seats in order to fill out the
lists from some of the states if there
were any such persons or delegates pres
ent. The motion was carried. Vice
President Purse then announced the
committees of the convention.
The first business taken np by the
congress at the afternoon session was
resolutions. Those approving of im
proved waterwaj’s and of free mail de
livery were referred to the committee
on resolutions. Also a resolution on
business association by farmers for
mutual interest by President Clute, of
the Lake City Fla., agricultural insti
tute.
A resolution as to the relations of
farmers and railroads wero offered by G.
W. Slaughter, of Tennessee deprecat
ing the disposition manifested by far
mers to antagonize railroads and to en
courage legislation intended to ham
per and restrict railroads in their op
eration.
The first address before the congress
was delivered by Colonel Daniel
Needham, of Boston, Mass., upon the
“Inter-Dependence of Business Rela
tions Between the States.”
General Bnrkitt, of Mississippi, who
was to have delivered an address upon
the subject of “The Agricultural South
and West,” was too ill to leave bis
room. General Burkitt’s address was
read by Professor Sanls, of Missis
sippi. The first portion of the ad
dress was confined to a discussion of
the agricultural conditions of the
south, owing, he said, to low prices;
the demoralization of labor and bad
seasons, the farmers of the south were
not to-day in as prosperous a condition
as might be desired. However, Gene
ral Burkitt said in bis address be had
had good labor and fair conditions and
had little complaint of this year.
The addre.ss took somewhat of a po
litical turn when General Bnrkitt
turned on the silver question and de
clared that President Clevaland had
destroyed the democratic pnrty and
that the Chicago platform was a mere
dodge, and was so intended at its
adoption, He appealed to the great
west to join with the south in resisting
the great money power of the cast.
He urged that they combine their
forces to secure the remonetization of
silver and a chauge of financial condi
tions that would result in the improve
ment of the condition of the agricul
tural sections of the country.
The discussion of the addresses. was
then announced and Colonel Need
ham’s address was taken up. Mr.
Tewkesbury, of Pennsylvania, inquired
of Colonel Needham if he had any
well-defined plan by which the govern
ment was to obtain possession of the
railroads of the country. Colonel
Needham cited the Union Pacific.
The discussion grew quite interest
ing and there was a disposition to go
into the wholo history of the Union
Pacifie steal, which threatened to grow
lenghty. The subject proved a very
interesting one and the members seem
ed to thoroughly agree with Colonel
Needham that the government should
take possession of the railroads if it
was found to its advantage to do so.
Colonel Needham said that in an
swer to a general question as to wheth
er it would be proper for the govern
ment to control and operate all the
railroads of the country he had said
that the government had an opportu
nity for an experiment on this line by
taking possession of the Union Pacific
for its indebtedness, and that it
had a precedent for so doing in
the ownership and • operation of
railroads by Australia. He had not ad
vocated that the government should
own and operate-all the railroads of
the country. Very little was done at
the night session. Hon. J. H. Slaugh
ter, of Tennessee, read a paper on co
operation among farmers, and H. J.
M. Stahl, of Quincy, HI., on our na
tional wealth. At the close of the ses
sion the congress adjourned until
Wednesday night.
Thursdays Session.
The farmers’ congress re-assembled
at 10 o'clock Thursday morning. • The
report of the committee on resolutions
was continued. Tho congress declared
itself in favor of all economical im
provement of waterways and harbors by
liberal appropriations, expended sys
tematically in-conformity with a com
prehensive plap prepared by a board of
competent engineers, and commend es
pecially to the favorable copsilloration
of ebngrosBtJw connection btthe Missis*
oippi and great lakes by means .of. a skip
eanal, the substantial'
the
taries and the improvement Oi several
of the most important harbors on onr
gulf and Atlantic coast. The mem
bers are also in favor of rural free
mail delivery and call; upon congress
and the postoffice department to ex
tend the free delivery of mail into the"
country as fast as it can be done with
out . enormous increase in the net
expense of the postoffice depart
ment; and demands that there should
not be any-lowering of the present
rate of letter postage until mail is de-'
Tie Drift
Happenings of Interest Portrayed in
J Pithy Paragraphs.. .
-'There was a large fire atMorganton,
livered at ieast^three Aimes a week hi O., Wednesday morning. An entire
aU township's -having a population of square in the business part of tho town
fen or more per square mile. In view j destroyed, including the hotel and
of the great benefit not only, to agri- ; several stores.
cultural interests, but to ail others ac-1 A Nashville special says: A telegram
craing from a well conducted system ' from Superintendent B. P. Dickens,
of improved highways, the congress | of Henderson division of the Louisville,
urges upon the governors of the sev- and Nashville railroad atEarling t on,
eral states of the Union- to specifically ! Ky., says that the strike on that divis-
cail the attention of their state legisla- ion has been amicably settled and that
tures to the importance of action in all trains are moving smoothly,
devising such a system. . There was a mass meeting of oiti-
The congress, just before adjourn- zens of Brunswick, Tuesday-night, at'
ment Thursday afternoon, elected the
following officers: President, B. P.
Clayton, of Iowa; vice president, G.
M. Byals, of Georgia;. secretary, j.
M. Stahl, of Illinois ; assistant secre
tary,. W. G. Whidby, of Georgia; sec
ond assistant secretary, T. J. Apple-
yard, of Florida; treasurer, Henry
Hayden, of Iowa. The next session
will be held at Parkersburg, W. Va.,
October 3, 1894.
AT THE NATIONAL. CAPITAL.
Affairs of Gom’iicuf aM Ms of
tie Departments Disci®I
Xotes of Interest Concerning the Peo
ple and Their General Welfare.
The war department, Wednesday,
awarded a contract for 5,000 pounds of
smokeless powder to the California
powder works, at Santa Cruz, Cal.
The house committee on judiciary,
Tuesday, after a lively discussion,
voted to report favorably on Bailey’s
bankruptcy bill.
The" house committee on coinage,
weights and measures Wednesday voted
to begin the consideration of the Bland
bill, re-enacting the free silver coinage
law of 1837 on the second Wednesday
in January.
Judge Charles H. Simonton was, on
Monday; named by President Cleve
land as United States circuit judge for
the fourth judicial district. There
will be no big scramble for the seat he
leaves vacant.
The caucus to consider the tariff
bill will probably be held Tuesday
evening. If Chairman Wilson’s re
port is finished by that time—and the
chairman thinks it will be—the bill
will be reported to the house on that
date.
The senate committee on privileges
and elections Wednesday morning dis
cussed, in an informal way, a bill to
repeal the federal election law, but,
owing to other engagements of senators
on the committee, no action was taken
and the bill was laid over.
The state department has received
the following from Captain Picking:
“Bio de Janeiro, December 12.—Cor
pus islands and Enchada are in pos
session of Admiral de Gama, the insur-
ger* yommandant. The former is well
fori; fed and continually firing upon
the "custom house and naval arsenal
with small arms. Consul Burk, at
Pernambucco, wants a vessel as a pre^
cautionary measure, martial law hav
ing been declared. All is quite there.”
CImuseain tlie Wilson Hill.
The following are the more impor
tant changes in the tariff bill, a revised
copy of which was laid before the full
committee on ways and means Monday
morning:
The schedule of cotton yarn is raised
on an average of about five per cent,
and a new class is created, not exceed
ing 12 cents per pound in value, on
which the rate is 20 per cent; Yarns
valued at over 12 and not exceeding 20
cents per pound are put at 25 per cent.
Up to 30 cents per pound, 30 per
cent; np to 40 cents per pound, 35 per
cent; over 40 cents, 40 per cent. All
laces and embroideries, of which
flax, jute, cotton and other vegetable
fibres, are raised from 35 to 40 per
cent. Saxony, wilton and velvet car
pets are advanced from 35 to 40 per
cent. Velvet and tapestry carpets are
advanced from 25 to 30 per cent., and
some advance is made in tapestry
Brussels, treble ingrain and Venetian
carpets. An advance is made in wool
Dutch carpets from 20 to 25 per cent,
and in druggets and bakings and felt
carpeting. A like advance is
made in other sarpets not
specially provided for. Tin
plate is changed from an advalorem"
duty of 40 per cent to a specific duty
of 11-5 cent per pound, and the reduc
tions are not to take effect until Octo
ber 1st, next. Pocket knives and ra
zors are fixed at a uniform rate of 45
per cent. The duty on pearl buttons
is again fixed at a line measurement,at
a rato of one cent per line, and the ad
valorem duty changed from 40 per cent
to 15 per cent. The provision for ivory
an the free list is amended so as to
read: “Sawed or cut into logs,”
instead of simply “sawed or cut.”
CARPENTER APPOINTED
As Pension Agent for tlie Entire South,
Embracing Eleven States.
A Knoxville, Tenn., special of
Tuesday says: Major D. A. Carpen
ter, tlie newly appointed pension
agent for the entire south, embracing
eleven states and disbursing about
$7,000,000 annually, will take charge
of bis office the 1st of January; -The
appointment had been expected for
several weeks. Major Carpenter re
ceived a dispatch Monday afternoon
notifying him- of his appointment.
The major held tho office before during
the - last half of Cleveland’s first ad
ministration.
Bishop Lyman Dead.-,
Rt. Rev. T. B. Iiyman, bishop of
North Carolina, died at -Kis home - at
Raleigh Wednesday morning of heart
failure. Bishop Lympn whs born in
Boston, October 18J15, and was seven
ty-eight years old, Jjp served ns a
priest in Mnryjgp,^, Pjttsburg, Rome,
Italy, end $&n pjsupJsoo agd wr>e com
.st-orat-sd fiSfijift,nf: Npyi'i 1 V •
®J*B8 fo 1878, r w
the city hall The hall was filled with
spectators. Resolutions were adopted
demanding an'investigation as to the
cause of the fever, etc., and thanks
tendered to the people-and the news
papers for their generous aid.
At a meeting of the Waco, Texas,
Commercial Club Tuesday night it
was resolved to -huild a cotton palace
upon an elaborate scale, to be opened
October 16, 1894. President Cleve
land will be invited to take part in the
opening ceremonies. Preparations for
the undertaking will be begun' at onee.
A Columbia, S. O., speeial says: To
a committee of Charleston grocers who
called on Governor Tillman Monday to
get his views as to the practicability of
a high license law in lien of the dis
pensary, the governor said that it was
useless to waste words on this subject
to the legislature as they were bent on
perfecting the dispensary system.
A Columbia, S. O., dispatch of Wed
nesday says: Colonel J. H. Morrow, of
Washington, who is under sentence to
the penitentiary for causing the death
of Collie Eowler, and whose appeal
was dismissed by the superior court,
will make an effort through his attor
neys to secure a pardoffrom the gov
ernor. If he does not secure a pardon
he will serve his sentence.
The trainmen on the Louisville and
Nashville road between Evansville and
Nashville struck Monday because of
the company’s doubling np engines on
freight trains, thus decreasing the
number of trips. This, the men claim,
is a reduction of salary, as it causes
them to lay off more. The strike ef
fects the freight conductors and brake-
men only, and is an economical stroke
on the part of the company.
B. L. Duke, a member of the. firm
of Duke Sons & Co., of Durham, N.
C., made an individual assignment
Wednesday morning. J. E. Wiley and
V. Baliard, of Durham, are the as
signees. His assets are estimated at
$700,000, and his liabilities are esti
mated at $500,000. There are pre
ferred creditors to the amount of
$145,000. He was largely interested
in various industrial enterprises.
One of the most sensational cases
ever tried in South Carolina was that
of the white-haired old colonel, J. H.
Morrow, a well-known horse trainer
of Washington, D. C., who was, about
six months ago, sentenced to impris
onment in the penitentiary. The su
preme court at Columbia, Monday,
decided on the appeal taken by Colo
nel Morrow’s attorneys from the de
cision of the lower court. The court
affirms the decision of the lower court
on all the points involved.
In the United States court at
Charleston, Tuesday, Judge Simonton
filed a decree for $i0,000 damages in
the suit of Mitchell King vs. the Uni
ted States. The plaintiff is the owner
of a rice plantation'on the South Car
olina side of the Savannah river, which
he claims was rendered unfit for plant
ing purposes by reason of the work of
erecting a dam for the deepening of
the water on the Savannah river and
improving the harbor of Savannah.
A Nashville special of Tuesday
says: There is but little to be said
about the strike on the Henderson di
vision, so far as Nashville is concerned.
Passenger trains were running during
the day, but no freight. S. W. Petti-
bone, general chairman of the Broth
erhood of Locomotive Engineers, held
a lengthy conference with the strikers,-
but nothing of the proceedings could
be learned. The officials do not an
ticipate a spread of the strike to other
divisions.
A Jacksonville, Fla., special of Tues
day says: There is a rumor current
that the few anti-fight people who are
still to be found in the city have per
fected arrangements for having James
J. Corbett arrested when he appears
for the purpose of giving an exhibi
tion at the opera house. The Law and
Order league is very reticent in the
matter, hut it is alleged that a com
mittee of the league, with a well-known
lawyer at the head, has already had
the .necessary affidavits and other legal
papers drawn np, and will have an of
ficer to arrest Corbett when he steps
from the train.
The Florida supreme court at Talla
hassee, Wednesday afternoon rendered
an opinion siistainingthevalidity of the
present municipal government in Jack
sonville. This practically ends the
suit although the plaintiffs are given
ten days in which to amend their de
claration. They will go no further
with the case, however. This means
the immediate issuing of one million
dollars in bonds for publio improve
ments and the passage of the ordinance
permitting pngilistio contests with
five-ounce gloves with guaranteed po
lice protection.
The Mississippi Division Confeder
ate Veterans in session at-Jackson,
Tuesday, adopted a resolution asking
the governor to recommend to the
legislature to donate 2,400 acres of
the lands at 'the East Mississippi in
sane asylum, at Meridian,'for a sol
diers’ home, and to use a part of the
$64,000 annually ., appropriated for.
pensions for the ' maintenance of the
soldiers’i.liome. A committee was-ap-
pointed to work to tins end when the
legislature meets, and to ask the co
operation of the governor in the mat-,
fer of a recommeffdation to the legis
lature. -
- Tho evidence in the Howard case at
Jaekaon.Tenn,, was continued Tues
day morning by mono of tho defend-
iffil’s dupe? mm odHsflf who '
Him as Moore, oi London, and Boss
and Leger, of New. York. The Lon-
Moore. Besides these witnesses a wo-'
man has just arrived frqn^ New York
who will'go on the stand and identify
the def endant as Joseph Leger. She,
perhaps, has a better right'to know
him than any witness yet called, be
cause it is averred that she traveled
with the defendant several -months as
Mrs. Leger;
TRADE TOPICS.
Dun &v Co.’s Talk on Business for the
* Fast Week.
It. G. Dun & Co.’s weekly review of
trade says: Trade of all kinds is
waiting. There is no visible improve
ment, and, on the whole, the indica
tions are a little less satisfactory than
they were a week ago. The volume of
business, measured by clearing house
returns outside of New York, shows a
decrease of only 12 per cent, compared
with last year, which is encouraging;
but, as the statement covers the pay
ments for the month, it may not cor
rectly measure the volume of the new
transactions. The reports from other
cities show a hesitating trade almost
everywhere, with a decided diposition
to wait until congress has acted on the
tariff question. Hence, the days of
uncertainty are likely to last until
some weeks.
Wheat has risen a shade. The west
ern receipts were only 3,577,281 bush
els against 6,694,180 for the same week
last year, while the exports from At
lantic ports were only 427,484 bushels
against 1,821,400 for the same week
last year. The receipts of corn were
unnsually large, amounting to3,227;771
bushels against 2,766,760 for the same
week last year, and the exports were
689,066 bushels against 627,500 last
year.
The movement of cotton was not en
couraging to holders, and appearances
indicate a larger supply on plantations
than had been expected. The price
declined an eighth, with strong evi
dence that the continuing heavy re
ceipts are wearying to holders. Cot
ton manufacture does better than
other branches at present, and yet it
has not a very healthy appearance.
In woolen goods the sense of disap
pointment is very clear, and there
seems no reason to expect a decided
recovery until congress has acted on
the tariff question. Several works
have resumed during the past week
and others running only to fill orders,
which will soon be done. Some change
is noted is prices, but sales of wool for
-the week have been only 3,747,500
pounds, against 4,750,500 for the cor
responding week last year. The de
mand for speculative purposes contin
ues, and a large portion of the sales
are of that character!
In iron and steel manufacture there
are symptoms of improvement. The
eastern markets are waiting. There is
a feeling that the new steel rail com
bine will result in a decided decreased'
demand for rtfils and also for pig iron,
and at Philadelphia and Pittsburg no
improvement in price is seen. Copper
is somewhat stronger; with lOjc bid,
and the evidences of a combination of
producers accumulate. Lead has re
mained unchanged in price, and in tin
prices have been almost stationary.
The failures for the week number
386 in the United States against 271
for the corresponding week last year,
and 42 in'Canada against 36 last year.
For the previous week, the number of
failures was only 319. A classified
statement of liabilities of firms failing
during tbe last two weeks of November
shows a remarkable decrease in the
aggregate, and also in the amount in
each section of the country, the de-
csease being about a third in manufac
turing concerns and about 40 per cent,
in liabilities • of trading firms. Man
ufacturing liabilities were $1,675,-
027 against $2,424,886 the pre
vious week and trading liabilities
$1,208,445 against $2,082,980.
AUGUSTA’S GALA DAY.
Thirty Thousand Exposition Visitors
Greet the Vice-President and Party-
Orators from the west, the north and
the south,, on the same platform, ex
pressing the same sentiment of undy-
i ng loyalty to the Union; uttering words
of encouragement for the upbuilding
of the nation. Snah was the sight
that greeted 30,000 visitors at the Au
gusta, Ga., exposition Tuesday. That
the war is ended, so for as the south is
concerned, no one who witnessed the
scenes could doubt. e ‘Yankee Doodle”
awakened a yell of enthusiasm that could
only be compared to that which greet
ed the fond strains of “Dixie,” and
when President "Walsh, in introducing
Mr. Springer as coming from Illinois,
r. state which has given to "the people
and the nation an illustrious name—
the name of Abraham Lincoln—there
was a burst , of applause that would
have put many a-northern andietice on
its mettle to have surpassed.
Again was there a great wave of ap
plause, expressing the people’s approv
al, when Mr. Walsh declared that the
time has come when, however much
we may rejoice in our own state and in
our own section, we must exalt our
selves by the highest patriotism and
rejoice in the common heritage of such
menus' Lincoln and Davis, Lee and
Grant, Sherman and Stonewall Jaok-
son.
Such was the feeling that prevailed
on the occasion of “the visit of Vice
President Stevenson, Secretaries Her
bert and Smith, and Congressmen
Springer of Illinois, \ and Sperry : of
Connecticut,-to the exposition. Neyer
did men experience more generously
and warmly the far-famed hospitality
of the southern people than did these
distinguished guests of Augusta.
PORTERFIELD SENTENCED.
The Dcfanlting Cashier Gets Ten Years
; in tliePenitentiary.
" Judge Sago at Nashville, Tenn.,
Friday overruled the motion for a new
trial in the case of Prank Porterfield,
cashier of the defunct Commercial Na
tional bank, and sentenced' him to ten
years imprisonment in the Kings coun
ty prison at Brooklyn, N: V. W. H
Scoggins, assistant cashier; charged
with certifying cheekB, was let offwith
fifino of $100 and costs, upon entering-
ffplea of guilty, Tho district ottor-
pov sifted that lie was ssiMod that
REV.. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “ Unhorsed.”
Text “Aivl as lie journeyed he came neat
Damascus, and suddenly dhere shined round
about him a light from heaven, and he fel
to the earth and heard a voice saying unit
him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou Me ■
And he said. Who art thou, lord ? And ihi
'■ Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou perse-
cutest."—Aets ix., 8-5.
The Damascus of Bible times stiff atands.
with a population of 135,000. It was a gaj
city of white and glistening architecture, its
minarets-and crescents and domes playing
with the light ot the morning sun; embow
ered in groves of olive and citron and orange
and pomegranate; a famous river plunging
its brightness, into the*scene; a city by the
ancients styled “a pearl surrounded by em
eralds.'
A group of horsemen nr? advancing upon
that city. Let the Christians of the place
hide, tor that cavalcade coming over the
hills is made up of persecutors , their leader
small and unattractive in some respects, as
leaders sometimes fife insignificant in per
son—witness the Duko of Wellington and
Dr. Archibald Alexander. Bat there is
something very intent in the eye of this
miin of the text, and the horse he rides is
lathered with the foam of a long and quick
travel of 135 miles. Ee urges on his steed,
for those Christians msst be captured and
silenced, and that religion of the cross-must
be annihilated.
Suddenly the horses shy off and plunge un
til the riders are precipitated. Freed from
tho riders, the horses bound snorting away.
You know that dumb animals, at the sight
of an eclipse, or an earthquake, or anything
like a supernatural apDearance. sometimes
become verv uncontrollable. A new snn -hud
been kindled in the heavens, putting out the
glare of the ordinarysun. Christ, with the
glories of heaven wrapped about Him,
looked out from a cloud, and the splendor
was insufferable, and no wonder the horses
sprang and tho equestrians dropped.
Dust covered and braised, Saul attempts to
get up, shading his ayes with his hands from
the severe luster of the heavens, hat unsueess-
fally, for he is struck stone blind as he cries
out, “Who art thou, Lord?” and- Jesus an
swered him ; “[ am the one you have been
chasing. He that whips and scourges those
Damascene Christians whips and scourges
life. It is not their back that is bleeding; It
Is Mine. It is not their heart that is break
ing ; it is Mine. I am Jesus whom thou per-
lecutest.”
From that wild, exciting and overwhelm
ing scene there rises up the greatest
preacher of all the. ages—Paul—in whose
behalf prisons were rocked down, before
whom soldiers turned pale, into whose hand
Mediterranean sea captains put control of
their shipwrecking craft, and whose epistles
»re the avant courier of a resurrection day.
I.learn from this scene that a worldly fall
sometimes precedes a spiritual uplifting. A
man does not get much sympathy by falling
off a horse. People say he onght not to have
got into the saddle if he could not ride.
Those c! tt3 who were brought up in the
country remember well how the workmen
laughed when, on our way back from the
brook, we sudaenly lost oar ride. When in a
grand review a general toppled from the
stirrups, it became a National merriment.
Here is Paul on horsback—a proud man,
riding on: ith Government documents in his
pocket, a graduate of a most famous school,
in which the celebrated Dr. Gamaliel had
been a professor, perhaps having already at
tained two of the three titles of the school—
rah, the first; rabbi, the second, and on the
wayto rabbak, the third and highest title.
I know from his temperament that his horse
was ahead of the other horses. But without
time to think of what posture he should
take, or without consideration ior his dig
nity, he is tumbled into the dust. And yet
that was the best ride Paul ever look, OU(
of that violent fall he arose into the apostle-
ship. So it has been in all ages, and so it is
aow. .
You will never be worth much for God and
the church unfit you lose your fortune, or
have your rjpniation upset, or in someway,
somehow, are thrown and humiliated. Yon
must go down before you go up. Joseph
finds his path to the Egyptian court through
the pit into which his brothers threw him.
Daniel would never have walked among the
bronzed lions that adorned the Babylonish
throne if he had not first walked among the
real lions of the cave. ' And Paul marshals
ill the generations of Christendom by fall
ing fiat on his face on the road to Damascus.
Men who have been always prospered may
be efficient servants of the world, but will be
of no advantage to Christ, Yon may tide
majestically seated on your charger, rein in
hand, foot in stirrup, but you will never be
worth anything spiritually until yon fall off.
They who graduate from the school of Christ
with the highest honors have on their diplo
ma the seal 'of a lion's muddy paw, or. the
plash of an hagry wave, or the drop of a
strav tear, or the hrown scorch of a perse
cuting fire. In 900 cases out of 1000 there is
no moral or spiritual elevation until there
has been a thorough worldly upsetting,
f Again, I learn from th*e subject that the
religion of Christ is not a pusillanimous
thing. People in this day try to make us be
lieve that Christianity is something for men
of small caliber, for women with no capacity
to reason, for children in the iniant class
under six years of ago, but not for stalwart
men. Leok at this man of the text! Do you
not think that the religion that could cap
ture snch ,n man as that must have som«
power in it? He was a logician; he was a
metaphysician; he was on ail .conquering
orator; he was a poet ot the highest type
He had a nature that could swamp the lead
ing men of his own day, and hurled against
the sanhedrin he made it tremble.
He learned all that he could get in thi
school of his native village; then he hai
gone to a higher school and ■ there mastere(
the Greek and the Hebrew and perfected
himself in belles iettres, until in after yean
he astonished the Cretans, and the Corinth
ians, and the Athenians by quotations frpn
:heir own authors. I have never found any
thing in Carlyle or Goeth or Herbert Spencei
that could compare in strength or beautj
with Paul’s epistles. I do not think there is
anything in the writings of Sir William Ham
ilton that shows such mental discipline as
you find in Paul’s argument about justiflea-'
tion and the resurrection. I have not found
anything in Milton finer in the way of lmag-
. ination than I can find in Paul’s illustrations
drawn from the amphitheater.
There was nothingin Bobert Emmet plead
ing for his life, or in Edmund Burke ar
raigning Warren Hastings in Westminster
Hali, that compared with the seend in the
courtroom when, before robed officials, Paul
bowed and began his speech, saying, “X
think myself happy, King Agrippa, because I
shall answer for myself this day.” I repeat
that a religion that can capture a man like
that must have some power in it. It is time
you stopped talking as though all the. brain
bf the world were opposed to Christianity.
(There Paiil leads, we can afford to follow.
I am glad to know that Christ has in the
Afferent ages of the world had inHis disci-
pleship a Mozart and a. Handel in music, a
Raphael and a Beynolds in painting, an An-
teio and a Canova in sculpture, a Bush and
i Harvey in medicine, a GrqHds andaWash-
Ington in statesmanship; a Blades tone, I
Marshall and a Kont in law. And the timi
will come when the. religion of Christ will
conquer all the observatories and' universi
ties, and philosophy.will-'thrbugh - her .tele-
r
scops behold the morning star of Jesus, and
In her laboratory see “that all things work
together for good,” and with, her geological
hammer discover.the “Book of Ages.”
Oh, Instead of cowering and shivering
when the skeptic stands before yon anc
talks of religion a3 though it were a pusillani
mous thing-4nstead. of that take your New
Testament from your pocket and show him
the picture of the intellectual giant of all the
iges prostrated on the road to Dnmascui
While his horse is flying wildly away. Thei
ask your skeptic what it was that frightened
the one and threw the other. Oh, no, it is
no weak gospel. It is a glorious gospel. II
Is an all conquering gospel. It is an omni
potent gospel. It is the power of God and
the wisdom of God unto salvation.
Again, I learn from the text a man cannot
become a Christian until he is unhorsed.
The trouble is, we want to ride into the king
dom of God just as the knight rode into eastii
gate on palfrey, beautifully caparisoned. We
want to come into the kingdom of God in lino
style. 'No kneeling down at the altar, no
sitting on “anxious seats,” no cryingover
sin, no begging at the door of God’s Karov,
ClcflY the toad nnd 1st us come in all prano*
Insin tho pride ot our soul, So. wo will
sine? gat mto liesvrn ttiat ita W?
: than
■§. Thero is.
fringed txappSB^of^ftL,, . CTTr . f
utter prostration before God, a going down
in the dust, with i& cry, “Unclean,
clean!”—a bewailing of the soul; likf ”
from the belly of hell—a "
dust until Christ shall by
as He lilted Paul. OI
hearer, you must get off
light from the throne of
the sun throw you! Cc
dust and cry for pardon ani
Again, I learn from this
ihat the grace.of God can
seoutor. Christ and Paul
same time in different
antipathy to Christ \ras _ _
hated everything about Christ. Hewas go-
Ing down then with writs in his pockets to
have Christ’s disciples arrested. He was not
going as a sheriff goes to arrest a man against
whom he had ho spite, hnt Paul was going
down to arrest those people because he was
glad to arrest them.
The Bible says, “He breathed out slaugh
ter.” He wanted them captured, and ho
wanted them butchered. I near the click,
and clash and clatter of the hoofs of the gal
loping steeds on-the way to Damascus. Oh,
do you think that proud man on horseback
can ever become a Christian? Yes! There
is a voice from heaven like a thunderclap
uttering two words, the second word the
same as the first, but uttered with more em
phasis, so thatjhejproud^equestrian may-have
no doubt asto whom is meant: “Saul! Saul jjj
That man was saved, and he was a persecu
tor, and so God can, by His grace, overcome
any persecutor.
The days of sword and fire for Christians
seem to have gone by. The bayonets ot
Nanolcon L- pried open the “inquisition”
and Jet the rotting wretches out. Th«
ancient dungeons around Borne are to-daj
mere curiosities for the travelers. Th<
Coliseum, where wild beasts used to sucl
up the life of the martyrs while the emperoi
watched and Lolia Paulina sat with emerald
adornments worth 60,000,000 sesterces, elap-
ing her hands as the Christians died under
the paw and the tooth of the lion—that Col
iseum is a ruin now. The scene of the
Smithfleld fires is a haymarket. The day oj
fire and sword for Christians seems to have
gone by. But has the day of persecution
ceased? No. Are you not caricatured for
your religion? In proportion as you try to
serve God and be faithful to Him, are you
not sometimes maltreated?
That woman finds it hard to be a Christian
as her husband talks and jeers while she is
trying to say her prayers or read tho Bible.
That daughter finds it hard to boa Christian
vith the whole family arrayed against her—
lather, mother, brother and sister making
her the target of ridicule. That young mnn
Inds it hard to be a Christian in the shop or
factory or store when his comrades jeer at
iim beeadse he will not go to the gambling
lell or other places of iniquity.
Oh, no, the days of persecution have not
jeased and will not until the end of th« -
world. But oh, you persecuted ones, fs it nol
;imo that yon began to pray for your perse
cutors? They are no prouder, no fleroer, nc '
more set in their way than was this perse- j.
outor of the text. He fell. They will fail il /'
Christ from the heavens grandly and glori
ously, looks out on them. God oan by Hi:
grace make a Behan believe in the divinity ol .
Jesus and a Tyndall inthe worth of prayer.
Bobert Newton stamped the ship’s deck in
derisive indignation at Christianity only a
little while before he became a Christian.
“Out of my house,” said a father to hii >
daughter, “if you will keep praying.” YeC
before many months passed the father knelt
at the same altar with the child. And tin
Lord Jesus Christ ti willing to look out from
heaven upon that derisive opponent of th«
Christian religion and address him, not it
glittering generalities, but calling him bj
name: “John! George! Henry 1—Sauil
Saul, why persecutest thou Me!”
Again, I learn from this subject that then
Is hope for the worst offenders. It was par
ticularly outrageous that Saul should navi
gone.to Damascus on thnt errand. Jesui
Dhrist.hnd been dead only three years, and
ihe story of his kindness and bis generosity;
end his love filled all the air.- It was not an
Did story, as it is now. It was a new story,
Jesus had only three summers ago been in
these very, places, and Saul every day in
Jerusalem mnst have met people who knew
Christ, people with good eyesight whom
Jesus had cured of blindness, people whe
had been dead and who hadbeen resurrected
oy the Savior, and the people who could tell
Paul all the particulars of the crucifixion—
just how Jesus looked in the last hour, just
how the heavens-grew black in the face at
the torture.
He heard that 'reoited every day by people
who were acquainted with all- the clroum-
itances, and yet in the fresh memdry of that
scene he goes to persecute Christ’s disciples,
Impatient at the time it takes to feed, the
horses at the inn, not pulling at the snaffle,
but riding with loose rein faster and faster.
Oh, he was the chief of sinners i No outbreak
Df modesty when he said that. He was. a
murderer. He stood by .when Stephen died
and helped in. the execution of that gooff
man.
When the rabble wanted to be unimpeded
in their work of destroying Stephen and
wanted to take off their coats, but did not
dare fo lay thenrdown-lest they be stolen,
Paul said, “I’ll taka care of the.coats," and .
they pntthem down at the feet of Paul, and
he watched the coat3, and he watched the
horrid mangling of glorious Stephen. Is U
a wonder that when he fell from the horse he
did not break his neck—that his foot did not
catch somewhere in the trappings of the
.j# '
m
catch somewhere in the
laddie, and he was not dra
£o_deathV He deserved to die miserably,
wretchedly and forever, notwithstanding all
Gle mofonliftlt/ia and Tiit. JflfinADPO jill(i W?'
his metaphysics, and bin- eloquence, and hit
logic. • '
He was the chief of dinners. He said what
was true when he said that. And yet the
grace of'God saved him. and so it will you.
If there ti any man in this house who thinki $
he ti too bad to be saved and says. “I have -
wandered very grievously from God; Ido •
not believe there to any hope for me," I tell 1
yon the story of this mania thetext who was
brought to Jesus Christ in spite of his sins
and opposition. There may bo. some here
who are as stoutly opposed to Christ as Paul-
was. There may be some here who are cap
tive bf their sins ns much so as the young,
mon who said in regard to hto dissipating!
habits: f‘I will keep on with them. I know
t am breaking my mother’s heart, and I -
knoiy I am killing myself, and I know that - j
when I die I shall go to hell, but it ti now,, j
loo late to stop.” jf
The steed on which-you ride may be J
swifter and stronger andhigher mettled than ;
that on which the Cilician persecutor rode,
but Christ can catch it by the bridle and hurl
it back and hurl it cWwn. There is mercy,
for you who say yon are too bad to he saved.
You say you have put off the matter so long;
Paul had neglected it a great whilej Yon-
say that the sin you have committed has
been among the most aggravating circum
stances; that was so with Paul’s.. _
’You say you have exasperated Christ and
joaxed your own ruin; so did Paul. And
yet he sits t'o-day; on one of the "highest of
the heavenly thrones, and there, to mercy. - ,
for you, and good-days for .you, andglad- ,
ness tor you, if yon-will' only take.-the same
Christ which first threw him down and then 1 •
raised him up. It seems to me as if I can
see Paul to-day rising np from the highway,
to Damascus, and brushing off the dost from-
bti cloak, and .wiping the sweat of excite-. -
Kent from his brow, as ho turns to- us and) - =—
all the ages, saying, “This to a faithful say-
Jesus came into.the world to sive sinners, oi
whom I-am chief.” -
Once more, I-learn tom- this subject that
tt haAbem. 8 Tmere 3 optical delusion on the
road to Damascus, was nofcPaui juskths
man to find it out? If it had been a sham
Mm
and pretense, i.-__ . , ,
bubble? He was a man offacts-a
ments, of the most gigantic intellectual na
ture, and not a man of hallucination.-.
when I see him fall Irom the saddle, bln-—
and overwhelmed, ! soff. there must have
been something in it. And, my dear brother,
you will find that there ti something m re
ligion' somewhere. The only question is,
Where?
There was a man who rode from Stam
ford to London, ninety-five miles, m five
hours on horseback. Yery swift. There
was a woman - of Newmarket^ who rode od
horseback a thousand miles in a thousand
hours. Very swift. But there are those
here—aye, aU of us are speeding on at ten
fold tbit velocity, at a thousand fold that
rate, toward eternity. May Almigh.y God,
from the opening heavens,, flash upon yout j
soul this hour the question of your ®t®rji"
destiny and oh. that Jesus would this hour
TTi'n -nnrilnni'nfr mPTPV Jl?
He stands here with the pathos of a brokeD
heart and sobs into your car : “I have come
for thee, X come -with My .huol: raw from
bleeding. I come with My teot mangled
with'the nrdis. X coma with ? "
bin from the twisted bissiolc,
m mr
'-lirstiBg"tor yens toss, ..X.ean
.
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