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>' Tio favorite-course of study among
She Tale students this year is the Con-,
•tittttiohal history of the/United States
Onida describes the nineteenth cen-
■•’tury clothingof an Englishman as “the
: most frightful, grotesque and disgrace
ful male costume which the world ha:
ever seen.”
Charity pawn shops, where people
may get more nearly the worth of theii
goods that they are compelled to part
with than now, are suggested by some
ot the charitably disposed/ states the
Detroit Free Press.
Now the cry of suffering comes fron
India, where, it is reported, 50,000,-.
000 are on the verge of .starvation, not
because there is unusual deficiency of
food, but because excessive taxation
and. the monetary uncertainty-have re
duced the pittance left to the people
to a line bordering on pauperism.
The four leading Danville -(111.)
newsdealers have entered into an
agreement not to sell the dime trash
of the “Jesse James" type. Since the
boy murderers, Pate and Stark, de
clared that they owed their ruin to
these novels there has been a decided
crusade against their sale in Danville.
Only thirty-five vessels have been
built at Baltimore during 1893, while
sixty-one were built there in 1892.
The registered tonnage 'shows an even
greater decline. In 1892 it was 17,277
tons, while in 1893 it was but 5589.
“This," comments the New Tork Sun,
‘ ‘is a striking indication of the extent
of the depression in the shipping in
dustry during the year.”
The healthfulness of New York is a
reason for rejoicing in the midst of
the prevailing gloom, maintains the
Tribune. In spite of the increase of
population, the number of deaths in
1893 was little greater than in 1892—
only forty-one larger—while the num
ber of births increased more than
2000. The death rate for last year
was 23.46 per 1000, against 24.26 in
the previous year, while for the last
ten years the average has been 24.72.
The Board of Health’s most recent es
timate of the population of the city is
1,891,306, the estimated increase from
the previous year being nearly 50,-
000, so that a year from now the popu
lation will approximate closely to 2,-
000,000.
The Manufacturers’Becord has pub
lished two pages of letters from
bankers in all parts of the South iu
- regard to the general condition of
business, but especially as regards the
. financial position of Southern farmers.
Without exception these letters say
that the enforced economy of the last
two years has caused a complete
change in Southern farm methods:
that the farmers are giving move at
tention to diversified agripultn .. and.
-- that they are now well supplied with
corn audr-provisions.-which will pre
vent the heavy drain of former years
1o pay for Western food-stuffs. Sum
ming up these reports the Manufac
turers’ Record says: “They show
that the whole economic polioy of
Southern farm interests is.undergoing
» change aud the credit system is be
ing superceded by a cash basis. The
low price of cotton - for the last few
years forced upon the farmers the
necessity of raising their own food
stuffs, and added to this was the de
cision of bankers and factors to ad
vance much less money on cotton than
formerly. The result has been a
change that for the time being, while
passing from the credit with its liberal
^buying to a eash system requiring the
closest economy, there has been less
trade with farmers, and hence a de
creased volume of general business in
1he South. But this has brought
about a more solid condition of busi
ness in those dependent upon farm
trade throughout the South than we
have had for many years. Merchants
are carrying small stocks and buying
only ns needed; farmers are paying-
off their debts to such an extent that
without exception these letters from
bankers say that the farmers are less
in. debt than for years. The money
that formerly went North and West for
provisions and grain has been retained
at home, and the full result is that
this section is probably less in debt to
its own banks and less in debt to the
North and West for supplies than in
any year since the war ended.”
The Arab at Home.
Dr. J. P. Peters was the manager of
the expedition sent out by the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania in 1888 to ex
plore the ruins of Babylon. “During
the two years I was there,” said he, “I
lived with many of the wild tribes
around the marshes of Arabistan. The
conditions in which I found them were
most deplorable. They were a most
-depravedrace, robbing, cheating, lying
and fighting being the daily outline
of their existence. The principal diet
of these-people is halfrcboked barley
bread, and with a large percentage of
the tribes this forms the sola diet.
When I offered twelve cents a day for
diggers and guards I had' half the
population applying to me for -work,
and was forced to reduce. the day’s
wages to ten cents. - When one of these
men has a. headache his friends burn
him with red-hot’irons, .and- many
REV. I)U. TALMAGE,.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “Rubies Surpassed.”-
Text : “ Wisdom is better than ruties,”— -
Proverbs viii., 11.
You have all seen the precious'stone com
monly called the ruby. If' is ot deep red
color. The Bible makes much of it. It
glowed in the first row of the high priest's
breastplate. Under another name it stood
in the wall of heaven. Jeremiah compares
the ruddy cheek of the Nazarites to the ruby.
Ezekiel points it out In the robes of the king
of.Tyre. Four times does Solomon use it as
a symbol by which to extol wisdom or reiig-
lon.ynlways setting its value as hotter than
rubfo.
The world does not agree as to how the
precious stones were formed. The ancients
thought that amber was made of. drops of
aud. starvation at the sight <JT a vessel
bringing relief, fell dead from shock of de
light, is it any surprise to you that the joys
of pardon and heaven roiling over the soul
should sometimes be almost loo much for
the Christian to endure and live'/ An ace.i
aunt said to me: “De Witt, three times j
have fainted dead apay under too grcht
Christian joy. It was in all three cases at
the„hbly'commiinion.’- -
An eminent Christian man While in prayer
said .“Stop, Lord :I cannot bear any more
-of. this gladness. It is too mUoh'Tor mortal.
Withhold.! withhold!" -We have heard of
poor workmen or workwomen getting a let
ter suddenly telling them that a fortune had
he8nleft them, and how they were almost
beside themselves with glee, taking the. first
ship to.claim the estate. But, oh, what it is
to wake up out of the stupor of-a sinful life,
-.Did through pardoning grace flild that all
our: earthly existence Will be divinely man
aged for oiir best Welfare, and that then all
heaven will roll in Upon the soul!
Compared With thet a spring morning is
t aurora has no pillared splendor, and a dia-
derstone was supposed to havedroppod from ffi0uj hasn0 fl .f s! ggj ./ p3W1 uo lis;ht and
a stormeloud The emerald was^said to - * bety-ho aquamarine, irni A ruby tm'riiddi-
“«• My gracious’ Lord! My glorious
lazuli was thought to hav*. been born of the ! God j M pre( j; 0:]g Christ ? EoU over on lia
errof nn Indian grnnt. And modern min- a few billows of tint rapture. Aud now
. I ask you, as fair minded men aud women,
made of gases and liquids. . lo me the rub ; accustomed to make comparisons, is not
seems like a spars from the anvil of the set- ! suc!l a joy M that WMtu m0 " 0 than anything
ting sup. . 1 one canhaVoia a jewoiedcasket? Was not
Solomon right when Uesaid, “Wisdom to bet
ter-than rubies?"
The home of the genuine ruby-is Burmah,
and sixty miles from its capital, where lives
and reigns the ruler, called "Lord of the ,
Rubies.” Under a careful Governmental I There is also something in the deep car-
guard are these valuable mines of ruby kept. mine o.f the ruby tha i suggests the sacrifice
Barely has any foreigner visited them* When ’ on whidh our whole system of religion de-
aruby of large value was discovered, it was pends. While the emerald suggests tbn
brought forth with elaborate ceremony, A meadows, and- the sapphire the skies, and.
procession wa3 formed, and, with all ban-. , the opalJ:ho-sea, the ruby suggests the blood
/military guard nnd princely at
tendants, the gem was brought to the king’s
palace.
Of groat value ,8 the ruby, much more so
than diamond, as lapidaries and jeweler3
will tell you. An expert on this subject
writes, “A ruby of perfect color weighing
five carats is worth at the present day ten
times as much as a diamond of equal weight.”
It was a disaster when Charles the Bold lost
ihe ruby ho was wearing at tho battle of
of sacrifice. The most emphatic and start
ling of all colors has the ruby, Solomon, the
author of my text, knew all about the sacri
fice of lamb and. dove on tint altars of ths
temple, nnd he know Hie meaning of sacri
ficial biood, and what other preoiou3 stone
could he so well use to symbolize it as the
ruby? Bed, intensely red, red as the blood
of the greatest martyr of all time—Jesus—of
Ihe centuries! Drive the story Of the cruci
fixion out of the Bible and the dootrino of
Grandson. It was a great affluence when the atonement out of our religion, aud thoro
Rudolph II of Austria inherited a ruby from i would be nothing of Christianity loft for our
Ids sister, the queen dowager. It Was thought j worship or our admiration.
to have bad much to do with the victory of
Henry V. as ho wore it into, the battle of
Agineourt.
It is the pride of thffBussian court to own
the largest ruby of klie world, presented by
Gustavus III to the Russian Empress, Won*
drous.ruby l It has electric characteristics,
Why should it be bard to adopt the Bible
theory that our redemption was purchased
by blood? Whatgreat bridge over sprung its
arches, What temple ever reared its towers,
what Nation ever achieved its independence,
what mighty good was ever done without
sacrifice of life? The great wonder of tho
and there are lightnings compressed in its j world, the bridge that unites these two cities,
double six sided prisms. What shall I call ' cost tne life of tho first architect, Ask the
it? It is frozen fire 1 It is petrified blood!
In all the world there is only one thing more
valuable, and my text makes the comparison,
“Wisdom is better than rubies.”
But it is impossible to compare two things
together unless there are some points of sim
ilarity as well as of difference, I am glad
there to nothing lacking .here. The ruby is
more beautiful in the night and under the
lamplight than by day. It to preferred for
evening adornment. How the rabies glow
and burn and flash as tbo lights Hit the dark
ness! Catherine of Aragon had on her finger
a ruby that fairly lanterned the night.
Sir John Mandeville, the celebrated trav
eler of 400 years ago, said that the Emperor
of China had a ruby that made the night as
bright as day, The probability to that Solo-:
mob, under Borneo! the lamps that illumined
his cedar palace by night, noticed the pecu
liar glow of the ruby as it looked in the hilt
of a sword, or hung iq some fold of the up
holstery, or beautified the lipof someohalice,
while he was thinking at the same time of
the excellency of our holy religion as chiefly
seen in the night of trouble, and he cries out,
“Wisdom to better than rubies.”
Oh, yes, it is a good thing to have religion
while the sun of prosperity rides high and
everything to brilliant in fortune, in health,
in worldly favor, Yet you can at such time
hardly tell how much of it is natural exuber
ance and how much of it to the grace of God.
But let the sun set, and the shadows ava
lanche the plain, and the thick darkness of
sickness or poverty or persecution or mental
exhaustion fill the soul and fill the house
and fill the world ;< then you sit down by the
lamp ot God’s word, and under its light the
consolations of the gospel come out; the
peace of God which passefh all understand
ing appears. Yon never fully appreciated
their power until in the deep night of trouble
the Divine Lamp revealed their exquisite*
ness. Pearls and amethysts for the day, but
tubiss for the night.
All of the books of the Bible attempt in
someway the assuagement of misfortune.
Of the 150 psalms of David at least ninety
allude to trouble. Thera are sighing? in
every wind, and tears in every brook, and
pangs in every heart. It was originally pro-
ossd to call the President’s residence at
Washington “The Palace'’ or “the Execu
tes Mansion,” but after it was destroyed in
the war of 1814 and rebuilt in was painted
white to cover up the marks of the smoke
and fire that had blackened the stone walls.
Hence it was called “Tbs White House.”
Most- of things now white with attractiveness
were once black With disaster.
What the world most needs to the consola
tory, and hero it comes, our holy religion,
with both bands full of anodynes and seda
tives and balsams, as in Daniel's time to stop
months leonine; as in Shadrach’s time to
cool blast furnaces; as in Ezekiel’s time to
console captivity; as in St.John’s time to
unroll ah apocalypse over rocky desolations.
Hear its. soothing voice as it declares •
“Weeping may endure for a night, but joy
cometh in the morning.” “The montains
shall depart and the hills be removed, but
My loving kindness shall not depart from
you.” “Whom the Lord loveth Ho chas-
teneth.” “They shall hunger no more,
neither thirst any more, neither shall the
sun light on them, nor any heat, for the
Lamb which is in the midst ot the throne
shall lead them to’ living fountains of water,
and God shall wipe away ail tears from their
eyes.” ’ -
The most wholesome thing on earth is
trouble, if met in Christian spirit. ‘To make
Pani.what. he was it took ship wreck, and
whipping on the bare back, and penitentiary,
and pursuit of wild mobs. and tho sword of
decapitation. To make David what he was
it took all that Ahithophel and Saul and Ab
salom and Goliath and all the Philistine
hosts could do against him. It took Robert
Chambers’s malformation, of feet to make
him the literary conqueror.
it was bereavement that brought William
Haworth, of Wesley’s time, from wickedness
to an evangelism that won many thousands
for heaven. Tho world would never have
known what heroic stuff Ridley was made of
had not the fires been kindled around his
feet, and not liking this sloWWork' he cried •
“I cannot burn. Let the fire come to me. I
cannot burn.” Thank God that there are
gems that unfold their best glories under the
’lamplight! Thank God for the ruby.
Moreover, I am sure Solomon was right in
saying that religion or wisdom to better than
rubies, from the fact that v a thing is worth
what it will fetch. Religioifwill fetch solid
happiness, and the ruby will not. In all
your observation did you ever find a person
thoroughly felicitated by an incrustinent of
jewels? As you know more of yourself than
any one else; are you happier now with
worldly adornments and successes than be
fore you won them? Does the picture that
coBt you hundreds or thousands of dollars od
your wall bring you as much satisfaction as
the engraving that at the expense of ,$o was
hung upon the-wall when you first began to
keep house?
Do ail the cutlery and rare plate that glit
ter on your extension dining table, surround
ed by flattering guests, contain more of rea-
bliss than the plain ware of your first table,
at which sat only two? Does a wardrobe
shipyards of Glasgow and New York how
many carpenters Went down under accidents
before the steamer was launched, ask tile
three great transcontinental railroads how
many in thoir construction wore buried un
der crumbling embankments or crashed un
der timbers or destroyed bythe powder blast.
Tabulate the statistics of how many mothers
have been martyrs to tho cradle of siok chil
dren. Tell us how many men sacrificed nerve
and muscle and brain and life in the effort
to support their households. Tell us how
many men in England, in France, in Ger
many, in Italy, in the United States, have
died tor their country. Vicarious suffering
is as pld as the world, but the most thrilling,
the most startling, the most stupendous
sacrifice of all time and eternity was on a
bluff back of Jerusalem wbeu one Being took
upon Himself tho sins, the agonies, the per
dition of a groat multitude that no man can
number between 12 o’clock of a darkened
noon and 3 o’clock in the afternoon, purchas
ing the ransom of a ruined world.
Dive in all the sens, explore all the mines,
crowbar all the mountains, view all the
o?owned jewois of all the emperors, and find
mo any gem that can so overwhelmingly
symbolize that martyrdom as the ruby.
Mark you, there are many gems that are
somewhat like the ruby. So is the cornelian,
so is the garnet, so is the spine), so is the
balas, so the gems brought from among tho
gravels of Ceyion and New South Wales, but
there is only ono genuine ruby, and that
comes from the mine of Burmah. Andthere
is only one Christ, and He comes from
heaven. Ono Redeemer, ono Ransom, one
Son ef God, only “one namo given under
heaven among men by which we can be
saved.”
Ten thousand times 10,000 beautiful imita
tions of that ruby, but only one ruby. Christ
had no descendant. Christ had no counter
part. In the lifted up grandeur and glory
and love and sympathy of His character He
is the Incomparable, the Infinite One! “The
only wise God, our Saviour.” Let all hearts,
all homes, all times, all eternities, bow low
before Him I Let His banner be lifted in all
our souls!
In oiden times Scotland was disturbed by
freebooters and pirates. To rid the sea3
and ports of these desperadoes the hero
William Wallace fitted out a merchant ves
sels, but filled it with armed men and put
out to sea. Tho pirates, with their flag in
scribed of a death’s head, thinking they
would get an easy prize, bore down u;. on
the Scottish merchantman, when the armed
men of Wallaco boarded the craft of the
pirates and put them in chains nnd then
sailed for port under the Seoteh flag flying.
Aud to our souls, assailed of sin aud death
and hell, through Christ are rescued, and
the black flag of sin is torn down, and the
striped.fiag of the cross to hoisted. Blessed
be God for any sign, for any signal, for any
precious stono that brings to mind the price
paid for such a rescue.
Illke the coral, for it seems the solidified
foam of breakers, and I like th8 jasper, for
it gathers seventeen colors into its
bosom, and I like tho jet. fob it compresses
the shadows of many midnights, and I like
the ehrysoprusa because its purple to illu-
mired with a small heaven of stars, i anl I
liko the chrysolite-for its waves oi color
which seem on fire. But this morning noth
ing sojmpresses me as the ruby) for it de
picts. it typifies, it -suggests “Tho blood of
Jesus Christ that eloanseth from ail sin.”
Without tho shedding ol blood thera is no
remission.” Yea, Solomon wa3 right when
in my text he said, “Wisdom is better than
rubies.”
To bring out a contrast that will illustrate
my text, I put before you two last earthly
scenes. The ono is in a room with rubies,
but no religion, and the other in a room
with religion, but no rubies. You enter the
first room, where an affluent and worldly
man is about to quit this lifo. Tiiere is n-
ruby on tho mantel, possibly among the
vases. There is a ruby in the headdress of
the queenly wife.
On the finger of the dying man there is a
ruby. The presence of these rubies Implies
opulence of ail kinds. The pictures on the
walls are heirlooms or the trophies of Eu
ropean travel. The curtains are from foreign
.looms. The rags are from Damascus or
Cairo. The sofas are stuffed with ease and
quietude. The rocking chairs roll back
ward and forward on lullabies. The pillows
are exquisitely embroidered. All the ap
pointments of the room are a peroration to a
successful commercial or professional life.
But tho man has no religion, never has had
and never professed to havo. There is not
a Bible or one religious book in ther-oom.
The departing man feels that bis earthly
career is onded, and' nothing opens beyond.
Where ho will land steppingoff from this life
is a-mystery, or whether he wiR land at 'all,
for it may’ be annihilation. He lias no
prayer to offer, and-he does not know howto
pray. No hope of meeting again in another
state of existence. He is- through with this
life and is sure of no other. .The ruby on
the mantel and the.ruby on the wasted fin
ger of the departing one., say nothing-of the
ransoming blood which they, so mightily
tTpify. So-far as giving solace or illumina
tion to a departing spirit, they are a dead
6f ;My Father, inherit the kingdom.
- From her illumined face, I think she -must
heat* rapturous m,U3ie. Yea, she does hear?
rapturous music, now soft as solo.-, now
thunderous as orchestras, now a saintly
.voice alone, now. the hundred and forty and
four thousand in concert. From her 'illu
mined face, Itbink she must breathe redol
ence, Yea; She does inhale aroma from off
the gardens whose flowers never wither and
from the blossoms of orchards,- every tree of
Which bears twelve manner of fruit. From
her illumined face, I think she must see a
K lorious sight. Yea, she sees the wall that
as jusper at the base and amethyst at the
top and blood red rubies ■ between. Goodby,
sweet soul!. Why should you Ituiger stay?
Your work all done, your burdens all carried;
yonr tears''all wept! Forward into the
light! Up into the joy! O.ut into the
grandeurs! And after you havo saluted
Christ and your kindred, search out him of
the palaces of Lebanon cedar and tell him
that you have found to be gloriously true
What thousands of rears ago he asserted in
this morning’s text," “Wisdom is better than
rubies.”
In those burnished palaces of our God may
We all meet. For I confess to you that my
chiet desire for heaven to not the radiance,
or, to take the suggestion of the text, not the
rubescence.’ of the scene. My one idea of
heaven is the place to. me'et old friends, God,
oUr best friend, and our earthly friends al
ready transported, Aye,To meet tho millions.
Whom I have never seen, but to whom I
have administered iu the gospsl week by-
week by journalism on-both-sides of the sea,
and throughout Christendom, and through
many lands yet aemibarbaric.
For the last tWenty-thiea years every blast
Of injustice against me has multiplied my
headers all the World overland the-present
malignancy printed and uttered, becaue our
ohurch to in financial struggle after having
two great structures destroyed by fire and
We compelled to build three largo churches
-r-I saythe present outrageous injustice, iu
soma quarters Will multiply iny* audience in
ail lands UI can keep in good humor and
not flghtback.
A gentleman tapped mo on tho shoulder
summer before last on a street of Edinburgh,
Scotland, and said. “I live in the Shetland
Islands, North Scotland, and I read your ser
mons every.Sabbatli to anaudienee of neigh
bors, and my brother lives in Cape Town,
South Africa, and he reads them every Sab
bath to an audience of his neighbors.” And
I bear and now say to tho forty millions of
the earth to whose eyes these words will
come, that ono of my dearest anticipations
to to meet them in heaven. Ah. that will be
better than rubies. v
Coming up from different Continents, from
different hemispheres, from opposite sides
of the earth, to greet each other in holy love
in tho presence of the glorious Christ who
made it possible for us to get thore. Our
sins all .pardoned, our sorrows all.
banished, never to weep, never to
part, never to die! I tell you
that will be bettor than rubies. Others may
have the crowns, and the thrones, and the
scepters; give us our old friends back again,
Christ, “the friend who stieketh closer than
a brother,” and all the kindred who have got
up from our bereft households, aud all our
friends whom we have never yet seen, aud
y-ou may have all tlio rubies, for that will be
“better than rubies.”
Instead of the dying kiss when they looked
so pale and wan and sick, it would be the
kiss of welcome on lips jubilant With song,
while standing on floors paved with What ex
quisiteness, under ceilings. hung with what
glory, bounded by Walls facing us with What
splendor, amid gladness rolling over us with
what doxology—far better, infinitely better,
everlastingly bettor than rubies!
crowded.with costly attire give you more : f a jj ure , Midnight of utter hopelessness
satisfaction than your first clothes closet j an a u.thb scene.
with its four or five pegs? Didnot the plain Another room ol mortal exit. Religion
’ ring geton the third finger of the left hand ! and u0 rubies. She never had money enough
on the day of your betrothal.give more glad- t0 /, U y 0n6 0 f these exquisites. ' Sometimes
ness than the ruby, that is now.enthroned on ^e s t op p 2d at a jeweler’s show window and
tho thiijl-fiiiger of your right hand? | sawar owpfthein incarnadining the velvet.
If in thfr-journey of life, wo havedeamed She had keen taste to appreciate those gems,
anything, we have learned that this world, bnt she never owned one of them. Shewa3
neither with ith emoluments nor gains, can not jealous or unhappy because others had
satisfy the soul. Why, .here come as many rubies while, she had none. Biitshe hada
witnesses a31 wish to call to the stand to richer. treasurer, and that was the grace of
testify that before high-' heaven' and the God that-had comforted^ her. along the way
.world, in companionship with' -Jesus" Christ amid-bereavements and temptations andpss-
ahda-goodhope of heaven, they feelt’a joy ' secutions and sickness and privations nnd
that all the resources of theirvocabnlary fail trials of all sorts. - Now she- to going out of
to express. Sometimes it evidences itself in life.-
ejaculations ot hosanna ;spmetlmes in doxol- , Thereout to bright, uottyith pictures or
ogy: sometimes in tears, A converted na- statues, not with upholstery, not with any of
tfye of India in a let ter said • “Ho w I long the gems of mountain hr of-sea. but there to
.formy bed, hotthatimaysleep--i iiea,wak6 a strange and vivid glow.in the room. Not
often and long—but tjo hold sweet- commu- .thought of the chandelier or starornoon-
nion with my God.” , day sun, but something that outshines all ot
If sh;mighty to woridiy joy that-Julius II, them. It must *be the presence of xuper-
hearing his’ armies were triumphant,.ex* naturals. From her illumined^face I think
WHOLESALE MURDEB.
A Man Kills His Family ot Seven to
Keep Them from Freezing.
A dispatch from Oklahoma, O. T.,
says that seven persons were found
dead in a house there. It is reported
that their throats were, out and that
the father of the victims left n ndte
saying that he had. murdered his family
to keep them from freezing to death,
adding that he" would commit suicide.- 1
The dispatch says that twenty persons
had frozen to death in Oklahoma.
Dally Summary of Routine Business in
tlie Two Houses.
bill, requiring
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terior department.
THE NEWS IN GENERAL.
French Troops Butchered.
The secretary of the colonial de
partment at Paris, Friday afternoon,
received a. telegram from St. Louis,
Senegal, stating that Colonel Bonnier,
eleven other officers and two hundred
and fifty privates wero massacred by
the Funregos, hear Timbuetoo.
National Spiritualists.
The National Spiritual Society will
hold its annual encampment in Jack
sonville, Fla., hereafter. A contract
was closed Friday by which the sub
tropical buildings were leased for that
purpose.
Entombed Miners.
A eave-in took place Tuesday morn
ing in the Gaylord mine, at Plymouth,
Fa., operated by the Kingston .Coal
Company. Thirteen miners, reported
to he in the pit-, have been so far una
ble to escape. j.
Blue Eyes and Bullets.
The annual report of Lieutenant C. L.
Collins, inspector of small arms practice
of the Department of the- Colorado,
shows some interesting facts. Nation
ally, the result of one year’s competition
shows the following result, with a possi
ble score of 100: Norway, 98.18; Aus
tria, 91; Switzerland, 88.82; Ireland,
87.41; France, 84; Denmark, 83.91;
Scotland, 80; Germany, 76-80; Canada,
76.30; Belgium, 74; United States, 72.
73; England, 68.79; Mexico, -63; East
Indies, Go; Sweden, CO.53; West In
dies, 58; Russia, 57:78; Italy, 55; Hol
land, 45; Wales, 35; Australia, 10.
There were but . one-Australian and two
Welshmen in the competition..
Of the 2,200 officers and enlisted men
classified as practising in the depart
ment, 05.77 per cent, were, born in the
United States; of these 82.73 per cent,
are white arid 17.27 colored. Compared
as to their merit at the target the'whites
scored 80.43 and the colored men 50.58.
In his table showing the merits of the
troops and theii- height, men six feet
ttall and over rank 83.00 i ,er cent, and
5.5 men 09.56. It is almost a steady
plane downhill from six feet to-live feet
fiveinebes. ..
.. “Men with light blue eyes rank highest,
followed in their order by dark blue,
slate blue, light brown, dark brown and
black. In the colored troops light blue
eyes again stand at the top, but followed
in this- instance by slate blue, light
brown, dark brown, black and dark
blue.
- There is but one troop of Indians iu
'Ge rnral McCook’shommand, being L, of
the Second Cavalry.: Tfcis troop not
only stands at the head" of its .regiment-
for revolver firing, but is.af the head-of
the entn-e department. This, however,
is for tqoop work. Whites'beat them
individually.—(Denver Republican.
An Old Lack 'and Key. ,
An old and curious key and lock is at
tached to the door of Temple Churchy in
THE HOUSE.
Friday, Feb, 9.—The: tangle grow
ing ont of the error in an important
roll-call, by which the house Thursday
went into committee of the whole on
the Bland bill, opened the proceedings
in the houso Friday morning. Mr.
Babcock, of Wisconsin; explained that
he had not voted upon that roll-call,
and Mr. Tracy-and Mr. Reed attempt
ed to make the point that this broke
the quorum and that the subsequent
proceedings of yesterday were, there
fore vitiatCch It was discovered, how
ever, that Mr. Marshall, of Virginia,
and Mr. Shell of South Carolina, were
recorded ns not voting, and as their
votes would complete the quorum, no
further objection to the approval of
the journal was made. At 12:27
o’clock Mr. Bland moved that the
house go into committee of the whole
to consider the silver seigniorage bill,
and it was agreed to without a divison.
Saturday, Feb. 10.-—After the dis
charge of some routine business in tho
house Saturday morning, Mr. Loud
asked unanimous consent that the
special order setting aside the after
noon session for eulogies on tho late
Senator Stanford, of California, be va
cated and that Monday at 3 o’clock be
given to that purpose. The order was
made. Mr. Outhwaite briefly an
nounced the death of Representative
Honk and submitted resolutions ex
pressing the grief of the honse at the
loss which congress had sustained.
The resolutions were agreed to and the
speaker appointed the following com
mittee: Messrs. Hare, of Ohio; Sprin
ger, of Hlinois; McKaig, of Maryland;
Hulick, of Ohio, and Ellis, of Oregon.
The honse then, at 12:07, o’clock, ad
journed. The Houk funeral party leff
Washington Saturday afternoon at 3
o’clock ky way of the Fennsylvania
railroad. The vice president, at Sena
tor Sherman’s instance, appointed the
following committee on part' of the
senate: Messrs. Brice, Sherman, Dn-
Bois, Himton and Martin.
Monday, Feb. 12.—In the house,
Moifday morning, Mr. Breckonridge,
of Kentucky, called up the urgent de
ficiency bi]l. It made on appropria
tion of $50,000 for the enforcement of
the Chinese exclusion act and various
amounts for the payment of United
States witnesses. As there-was a dis
position to debate the bill, Mr. Breek-
enridgo. withdrew it and Mr. Heard
proceeded with District of Golnmbia
business, which was tho special order.
At the request of Mr. Tucker, Mr. S.
S. Turner, the newly elected member
from the 7th Virginia district (to suc
ceed Governor O’Farrell) was sworn
and took his seat.
Tuesday, Feb. 13.—The debate on
the Bland silver seignorage bill was
resumed in the house Tuesday. Some
routine business preceded it. The
speaker laid before the house the
Hawaiian message of the president,
transmitted Monday, At - the request
of' Mr. Burrows the correspondence
accompanying the message was read.
The message and correspondence were
referred to the foreign affairs commit
tee. ' Mr. Kilgore, of Texas, and Mr.
Bell spoke in favor of the seignorage
hill. Mr.. Boll believed that the ex
travagance of' tho last administration
was responsible for the financial dis
tress of the present one. Mr. Johnson,
of North Dakota, said that the bill, in
its effect, would not only destroy the
parity between gold and silver bnt be
tween different issues of paper money.
.Wednesday, , Feb. 14.—Messrs.
Quigg and Straus, the members elect
from New York city to succeed Fellows
and Fitch, were sworn in Weduesday
morning, although their credentials
had not arrived’. A letter from Braw-
ley was read, stating that his resigna
tion as a member of the house of rep-
resentaties had been forwarded to the
governor of South Carolina. Mr.
Island made an effort to limit the time
for general debate on the seignorage
bill, to reduce the timo allowed
each speaker from one hour to twenty
minutes, but without success. The
bill was then taken up, and Mr. Stone
of Kentucky spoke in favor of it. Mr.
Walker, of Massachusetts, followed"
Mr. Stone and opposed the bill.
THE SENATE.
No sessions of the senate were held
Friday or Saturday. During the breath
ing spell the senate finance committee
is rapidly perfecting the tariff bill. It-
will come from the committee in
shape' in which it can pass tho senate
without doubt.
Monday, Feb. - 12."—In the senate
Monday morning, Mr. Cullom, of Hli-
nois, presented a large number of pe
titions against the placing of wool on
tho free list. He said that they were
signed by 30,000 wool-growers owning-
6,000,000 sheep, or one-seventK of nil
the sheep of the United- States.
Among the petitioners, he said, was
thclNavajo Indian tribe, owning 1,500,-
000 sheep, on which those Indians were
substantially getting a living and be
coming independent citizens. He' ox-
pressed the hope that the finance com
mittee would give the matter due at
tention. Fetitions from West Virginia
against putting coal and lumber on
the free list were presented by Mr.
Faulkner, of West Virginia. Mr.
Cockrell, . of Missouri, .presented -a
memorial" of the St. Louis Merchant’s
exchange declaring that the present:
stagnation in, business is due to the
uncertainty of congressional action on
the tariff bill and praying that the
question may be settled as speedily .as
possible, and he expressed his satis
faction at .finding that;' the exchange
had recognized the egregious blunder
which had been 'made in putting all
of the distress laBt summer on the
* Sherman silver purchase act.
- Tuesday, Feb. 13.—A bill was re-,
ported by Senator Coke and-passed the
senate Tuesday-.cbntinning in force the
act for tho protection of fish in the :
Potomac river.: The senate bill making .
rain Our Most
TelegrapMc. Aims
And Presented in Pointed aud Reada
ble'Paragraphs.
-for the look. On'.the contrary, the lock
was made .for..if. Both key- and .lock
have been in use since the Crusades.
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hear sweet vofces. Yea, she doe3 the It nights rempiqr m 14_85.—-[H,
U I -r l-!,.- . \
by Kyle, from tha committee on
education, and plnced on file. Then
at 12:30 Senator- Gray resumed argil-
ffleftt an$he resphiticm. .
Hans von Bulow, the distinguished
German pianist, is dead.
The full force of the storm was felt
in the Net?- York harbor Monday
morning, where the gale had full scope
for its wild rush. . Incoming steamers
are doubtless getting their full sharo
of it off the coast.
About 220 Weaves in Wamsntta
Mill No. 6 at New Bedford, Mass., left
work Tuesday morniug when notified
of a reduction in wages, to go into ef
fect Monday. The mill was to have
run on increased time.
~ A Philadelphia dispatch says: The
Public Ledger appeared Monday morn
ing with the name of George W.
Childs Drexel at tho head of its edito
rial columns as editor and publisher,
in place of that of George W. Childs.
Ex-Attorney General Charles M.
Gwinn. died at Baltimore Sunday, after
a ten days’ illness. Mr. Gwinn has,
for a great many years, been the po
litical adviser of Senator Gorman and
stoocLcloser to him than probably any
other man.
Representatives of the leading news
papers and news associations of the
east met in New York City Monday
and formally resolved to perfect an or
ganization for tho collection of the
news of the world and its distribution
among themselves and their clients,
east, west, north and south.’
Advices from London state that
though there was ah uncertain tone in
the bar silver market Monday the price
made an advance of Jd per ounce. At
tho close of the market Saturday the
price was 29id. Early in the morniug
the market showed a disposition to
advance and at the close the price had
reached 30id.
The southern ice’ exchange met at
Knoxville, Tenn., Tuesday in annual
session, but only about one hundred
and fifty members were present. Ow
ing to the large number cf absentees,
the exchange adjourned to April 11th,
when a meeting will ho held in At
lanta. The officers of the exchange
will then be elected.
A cable dispatch of Tuesday from
London says: Professor Tyndall, the
expert in hypnotism, who has recently
returned from the United States, has
addressed a letter to tho home secreta
ry, Mr. Henry Asquith, asking for an
interview with Mrs. Maybrick in her
prison, in order that ho may try to in
duce her to consent to be hypnotized
and thus, if possible, establish her in
nocence.
The worst snowstorm in years raged
all over Kansas and Missouri Sunday
and Sunday night, and Monday not a
single' traiir in the two states was on
time. The snow averaged from a foot
to two feet on tho level. High winds
accompanied it and at some points in
cuts it is twenty or thirty feet deep.
At many places the schools are closed.-
The snow was dry and tho telegraph
service was not injured.
Tho excitement occasioned by the
bomb explosion at the cafe of the Hotel
Terminus, at the St. Lazare railway
station, Pari«7 Monday night, has not
abated, and the outrage is the subject
of discussion in all-public places. It
has been ascertained definitely that at
least twenty-four persons were hurt.
The name of tho bomb-thrower is
Leon Breton, Tno police believe that
he is a member of an anarchist group
who have headquarters at Neuilly-Snr-
Suine.
The board of trade building at Du
luth, Minn., in which were located
the offices of the hoard, the North
American and Western Union Tele
graph Companies, the American
Steel Barge Company, the Lake Su
perior Union Improvement and Du
luth Elevator Companies and the of
fices of nearly all the city grain and
vessel firms, was entirely destroyed by
fire at noon Sunday. The board of
trade building was built in 1885 nnd
cost $75,000. The ■ total loss by
fire is $94,000, with an insurance of
$80,000
Advices oi Monday from Calcutta,
India, state that the India Currency
Association has entered a strong pro
test, which, has been addressed to the
government in regard to the disorgani
zation of trade in consequence of the
changes in the silver policy. The pro
test says that the present state of af
fairs shows that -the closure of the
mints .did not do any harm, though its
advantages wore -temporary and were
suspended by tho abnormal importa
tions of silver, of piece goods and
through other causes.
A New York special of Monday says:
The modifications of the Richmond
Terminal plan of reorganization that
have been substantially agreed upon
are a reduction of the assessment on
the common stock from $125 to $10
per share, and for the assessment a
percentage of newbonds and preferred
stock will be given, as well as common
stock, on the basis originally, contem
plated. In consequence of this change
the underwriting syndicate will ho re
duced 25 per cent, that is, from
$15,000,000.
A special of Sunday from the City
of Mexico says: A syndicate of Mex
ican and American capitalists has been
organized for the purpose of construc
ting a pan-American telegraph line, to
extend along the Pacific coast from
-Victoria, British Columbia, to Santiago,
Chili, passing through the United
States, Mexico, the Central American
BtateB and the Pacific coast countries
'of'South Ame^itfifr'The promoters of
tho enterprise have applied to the
Mexicamgovernment for a concession
for the proposed, line through this
country and if will probably be grant-
Hg,. H
Notes of Interest Concerning tlie Peo
ple and Thoir General WeHare.
The day of St. Valentine in Con
gress was one of exceeding dreariness.
There were probably fifty congress
men present, and they gave hut scant
interest to the tedious speeches being
delivered on the Bland bill.
Secretary Herbert received a dis
patch Monday from the Panama Rail
road company, stating that the city of-
Para arrived at Colon with Admiral
Stanton and the officers and crew oi
the Kearsage. All were safe and well.
The senate has confirmed the nomi
nations of George D. Bryan to be col
lector of customs at Charleston, S. C.
Postmasters—Alabama, O. W. Monroe,
Entaw, Tennessee, L. W. Bates, St.
Elmo; D. C. Morris, Morristown.
The executive committee of the
National Association of Democratic
Clubs, organized July 4, 1888, for the
purpose of aiding in the promotion of
party success, met in Washington at
noon Thursday. The sessions, were
private.
The senate committee on judiciary
Monday decided to report the Peckham
nomination to the senate without rec
ommendation. Senator Hoar was ab
sent and the committee decided evenly
in its vote, Messrs. George, Vilas,
Lindsay, Platt and Mitchell voting for
confirmation, and Messrs. Pugh, Coke,
Hill, Teller and Wilson against.
Thomas R. Jernigan, who has been
appointed consul general at Shanghai,
was consul at Osaka, Japan, under
Cleveland’s first administration, and
the records of the state department
show that his grade ran the highest
known in the foreign service. He is a
good lawyer. Ho was unanimously
indorsed by' the ■ democrats of North
Carolina.
The regular treasury' statement is
sued Tuesday shows that the receipts
from customs dues at New York for
the first ten days of this, month aggre
gated $2,651,373, as against $4,321,-
475 in February, 1892. Of this 16.1
per cent, was paid in gold and 60.3 in
silver certificates, the balance being
divided up among other classes of
money. With the sale of bonds the
treasury is not only gaining gold, bnt
also gold certificates, having now on
hand of the latter $497,950.
The senate has confirmed the fol
lowing nominations: Thomas B. Fer
guson, of Maryland, envoy extraordi
nary and minister plenipotentiary to
Sweden; John Barrett, of Oregon,
minister resident and consul general
to Siam; ThomasB. Jernigan, of North
Carolina, consul general to Shanghai,
China; Delaware Kemper, of Virginia,
consul to A:ioy, China; Jonn Malcolm
Johnstone, of South Carolina, consul
at Pernambuco, Brazil. Collectors of
custo-us—Marion M. Hntson, district
of Beaufort, S. C.; William B. Kee
nan, district oi Wilmington, N. C.
The president. Monday sent to the
senate the following nominations:
John Barrett, of Oregon, minister
resident and consul general of tho
United States at Siam; Thomas B.
Jernigan, of North Carolina, United
States consul general at Shanghai,
China j jUnited States consuls—Adolph
Billhard, of Ohio, at Moscow, Russia;
Arthur Decima, of California, at Ma-
zatlan; John Malcolm Johnston, of S.
C., at Pernambuco, Brazil; Daniel C.
Kennedy, of Missouri, at Malta; Del
aware Kemper, of Virginia, at Amoy,
China; E. G. Mitchell, of Arkansas, at
Newcastle, Now South Wales; George
W. Nichols, of Now York, at Clifton,
Ontario; Marshall H. Williams, asso
ciate justice.of the supreme court of
Arizona; John L. McAtee, associate
justice of the supreme court of Okla
homa: United States attorney, Lytton
Taylor, of Tennessee, district of
Alaska. .
No Work, No Pay.
* Mr. -Boatner, of Louisiana, has in
troduced an amendment to the rules of
tho house which he thinks if adopted
will prevent a repetition of the filibtus-.
tering proceedings of the past few days.
The house had found it difficult to act
on account of a'large number of its
members declining to vote and thus
breaking a quorum. Mr. Boatner’s
amendment to the rules provides that
the clerk of the house shall make a
note of each member present and not
voting and said member when refusing
to vote and being present shall have,
one day’s salary deducted. Mr. Boat
ner’s amendment further provides that
the speaker shall ohtertain no motion
to excuse a member from voting or to
refund a fine when the clerk has im
posed it. Mr. Boatner thinks when a
member’s salary is effected by this, noi
voting ho-will always vote. Tho reso
lution has been referred to the com-
naittee on rules.
Tlie Drift of Her Progress if Pros-,
jerity Briefly Notes.
Happenings of Interest Portrayed’in
■ Pithy Paragraphs.
/:
A statistician estimates.that Ameri
cans expend $400,000 a day for nwuss-
meats.
FIRE AT THE FAIR.
Agricultural Building ami Siaclilnery
Hall Threatened ivlth lies traction.
Fire broke out Wednesday morning
on the eolonade between the agricult
ural building and machinery hall in
the world’s fair grounds. Tho flumes
gained rapid headway 8,nd_the second
and third calls were sent ont, but be
fore additional engines reached tho
burning structure its destruction and
that of the large buildings adjacent on
either, side was threatened. The. fire
was finally gotten under conlrol. The
loss is nominal. The origin is sup
posed to have been incendiary.
Camp Hardee Wants Information.
The following order was issued at
Birmingham, Ala.,Friday afternoon'by
Gamp Hardee, Confederate Veterans:
“To United Confederate Veterans:
Camp Hardee, of Birmingham,, will be
pleased to hear from each camp in tie
United States as to the number of del
egates that mil be present'at tie re
union in April. Camp Hardee wants
to hear Jrom each camp so that prepa-
tions may bemade for eaoh delegate
who will attend.”
A fire at Colliersville, Tens., Mon
day destroyed the bank of Colliersvilio
and the dry goods stores of Mitchell
& Wadley and P. H. Humphries Co.
The totai loss is $30,000.
A cyclone passed within two miles
of Beauregard, Miss., on tho Illinois
Central railroad Sunday night doing-
much damage to property. It was re
ported that a number of lives had been
lost, bnt'inquiry at Hazlehurst shows
that the report lacked confirmation up
to 1 o’clock Monday. The wires are
down.
Eight hours’.snow”fell at >Sau Auge-V
lo, Texas, Sunday, accompanied fly
by a cold north wind, which has con
siderably alarmed stockmen. If the ’
storm continues for any length of timo
the death percentage of stock will be
large, as they are in many localities
barely alive, with nothing "to cat on
the range.
A Birmingham, Al@., special of
Tuesday says: The grand confederate
reunion to he held in this city on the
25th, 26th and 27th of April, promises
to be a lingo affair. Times arc hard
throughout tho south, but encouraging
letters continue to pour into the hands
of the management hero from all of
the southern states, and if indications
are not misleading, there will be an
enormous gathering of tho old coufeds.
Dispatches from Meridian, Miss.,
are to the effect that the section ol
country west and northwest of that
city was visited Sunday night by a
terrific rain and wind storm. No very
material damage on account of - the
wind, beyond the uprooting of timber
and the demolition of fences has been
reported, but the almost unprecedent
ed rainfall wrought considerable dam
age to freshly plowed lands.
A spectal from Dallas, Texas, states
that tho themometer was 22 degrees
above Tuesday morning. Passengers
from Kansas, Oklahoma, tho Chroket:
strip and the Indian Territory report
the most terrible blizzard recorded in
history. A great many lives have -
been lost and tho suffering from cold
is intense. The greatest loss has been
among - the stripers who are poorly
provided with houses, food and cloth
ing-
A Knoxville, Tenn., special: says
The case of James Berry, reported to
the police Saturday night as suspicions,
was, on Sunday, pronounced by half
a dozen physicians to be a genuine case
of small-pox. Perry lives in the heart
of Cripple Creek, the slums of Knox
ville. Twenty-five negroes have beeu
in contact with him since he became
ill. The police and board of health
are taking strict- precaution, and tho
house is now .guarded.
A Savannah dispatch says: Messrs.
Prank H. Miller and A. O. Bacon, at
torneys for the Southwestern railroad,
made a request of Receiver Comer
Tuesday that he turn over to that road
the money belonging to it now in tho •
Central’s treasury. Mr. Comer replied
that he would be very, glad to do so,
but would first have to obtain an or
der of court to that effect. There, is
about $242,000 in the Central’s treas
ury belonging to the Southwestern.
At the meeting of tho Tennessee
Historical Society at Nashville, Tues
day night, there was a letter read from
WV E. McElweo, of Roekwood, Tenn.,
describing a coin found in an In
dian mound in that county. - It bears
an tu-n burning incense on one side,
with the inscription in Hebrew, “shekel
of Israel. ” On the other is a fig or
olive branch, and the words in He
brew, “Jerusalem, the holy land.” A
similar chin was exhibited, but how
the coin got into the mound is a matter
of mystery.
The' effort to inaugurate a fri-stato
fair in Chattanooga this fall is a suc
cess. Tha organization is now com
plete and tho work is in charge of a
board of nine clircfors, of whom Wil
liam Hepburn Bussell r late manager oi'
thb East Tennessee Land Company,
which company built and owns the
town of Harriman, was Saturday elect
ed president. About $12,000 has beeii
subscribed in $25 shares, and $50,001)
of the $100,000 capitalized stock must
he raised before the enterprise is got
ten underway.
A case involving$300,000 was settled
by Judge Key, of the United States
court at Knoxville, Tenn., Saturday
afternoon.- It was a suit to recover
money due on account of tho construc
tion of the Knoxville Southern, now
the Marietta and North Georgia rail
road. The Central Trust company, of
Nfew York, was a pai-ty to the suit.
The complainants wero Knoxville con
tractors, who had never been paid for
their, work in building tho road, niany
of whom would havo been ruined if the
case had gone against them!
A SUIT OF THE SAINTS.
* - .
Mormons Appeal to the Courts for Pos*
session of Consecrated Ground.
The'long delayed equity suit of the ,.
reorganize^ Church of Jesus Christ-of
Latter Day"Saints against th6 Church -
of Christ of Independence, to deter
mine the title, to the farnbns Mormon-
temple lot in Independence, Mo. ,-has _
been token up .for trialni.the United
States circuit-court at Kansas City, Mo.
The suit is a contest between two fac
tions of -the Mormon chilreh to deter
mine the . ownership of a piece of
ground in tlie city of }ji&epeii4 eD - cs »
on Viuch some day fet© Mormons
- ‘Hf sheep bad entered more largely"
Into our agriculture during .the last
quarter of ft; century,” maintains the
New York World, “there would not
noi? be so ma’nY^ai-down farms,” -,
mm
the hands Of man, and from, which, on'
the last day of the world, it is be
lieved, all-good and faithful followers •
of Joseph Smith will ascend direct to
heaven. .
' - " . Female Suffragists Meet. .
; The Twenty-sixth annual convention
of the /National -American Womens
Suffrage Association began a* Wash
ington Thursday moridng with a large
attendance -.of delegates representing
all parts of the country.
The Hartford Journal ^ expresses the
” opinion that it is difficult
the man who fails to ne
lufdfitr