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MY. DR. TALMaGE.
THU BROOKLYN 1)1 VINE’S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “Echoes.”
Text : “71k sounding again of the mount
nin*."—Ezekiel vii. 7.
At last, I have it. The Bible has in it
a recognition of all phrases of the natural
world from the aurora of the midnight
heavens to the phosphorescence of the turn
bling sea. Hut the well known sound that
wo call the Echo I found not until a few
days ago I discovered it in my text, “The
sounding again of the mountains." That is
the Echo. Ezekiel of the text heard it
again and again. and in his jour
Born among mountains, passed
ney to distant exile, he had among
mountains, and it was natural that nil
through his writings there should loom up
the mountains. Among them he had heard
th<* sound of cataracts and of tempests in
wrestie with oak and cedar, and the voices
of wild beast, but a man of so poetic another a na
turo as Ezekiel could not allow
sound, viz , the Echo, to be “The disregarded, sound
end m he gives us in our text
ing again of the mountains.”
Greek mythology represented the Echo as
a nymph, the daughter of Barth and Air,
following Narcissus through forests und into
grottoes and every whither, and so strange not
und weird and startling is the Echo i do
wonder that tho superstitious have lifted it
into the supernatural. You and I in boy
hood or girlhood experimented with this re
sponsiveness of sound. Standing half way
between ttie house and barn, we shouted
many times to hear the reverberations, or
out among the mountains back of our homo,
on some long tramp, we stopped and made
exclamation with full Jungs just to hear
7 v-hot Kzskiel calls “fhe sounding again o,
the mountains.” child and
The Echo has frightened many thing a after
many a man. it is no t imo you
have spoken to hear the same worus repeated filled
by the invisible. All tho silence* are
with voir, s ready to answer. Vet it would
not he so startling if they said something
else, hut why do those lips of the air say .just
what you sa’v? Do they nipan to mock where or
mean to please? Who aro you and.
are you, thou wondrous Echo? Sometimes
its response is a reiteration. The shot of a
Kim, a*drum, tlic clapping of the hands, the heating
of tho voice of a vioiiu uro some
times repeated many timet by the Echo.
Near ('ohJentz—that which is said lias
seventeen Echoes, la 1770, a writer says
that near Milao, Italy, there were seventy of
mch reflections of sound to one snap a
pistol. l J iay a bugle near u lake of lCillar
ney nml tile tune is played hack to you ns
distinctly as when you played it. There is
a well two hundred in and ten Isle feet of deep Wight. at
i 'arlsbrooke castle, the sound of
Drop a pin into that well end tho
its fall comes to tlio top of the well distinct
ly. A blast of an Alpine horn comes back
from the rocks of Jungfrau in surge after
surge of reflected sound, until it seems us if
every peak Imd lifted and blown an Alpine
horn.
But have you noticed—and this is the rua-
1,'ii for tho present discourse—that this Echo
in the natural world has Its analogy in the
moral and religious world? Have you noticed
the tremendous fact that what we say and
do conies hack in recoiled gladness or dis
aster? About this resonance I preach this
sermon.
First—Parental teaching and descend- example
have their Echo in the character of
ants. Exceptions? Oh, yes. Ho in the
natural world there may be no Echo, or a
distorted Echo, liy reason of peculiar prox
imities, but the general rule is that tho char
acter of the children is the Echo of the char
acter of the parents. The general rule is
that good parents have good children ami
hud parents have bad children. If tho old
tnan is a crank, his son is npt to be a crank
and the grandchild a crank. Tho tendency
is so mighty in that direction that it will get
worse and worse unless some hero or heroine
in that line shall rise and say: “Here! By
the help of God, I will stand this no longer.
Against this hereditary he tendency to queer
ness 1 protest.” And or she will set up an
altar and a magnificent life that will reverse
things, and there will be no more cranks
among that kindred.
In another family the father nud mother
are consecrated jieople. U'liat they do is
right. What they teach is right. Tue b<>ys
may for some time bo wild and the daugh
ter worldly, but watch 1 Years pass on, per
haps ten years, twenty years, and you go
hack to the church where the lather and
mother used to be.consistent members.
You have heard nothing about tho family the
for twenty years, atal at the door of
church “Where yciu tee the sexton Webster?” and you “Ub, ask he him, has
is old Mr.
been dead many years I” “Where is Mrs.
Webster?” “Oh, she died fifteen years ago!”
“I supposo their sou Joo went to the dogs?”
“Ob, no,” says the sexton, “ho is up there in
the elders’ seat. He is one of our best niul
most important members. You ought to
hear him pray and sing. He is not Joe any
longer, he is Elder Webster." “Well, where
is the daughter Mary? i suppose she is the
same be?” thoughtless “Oil, no,” butterfly she used to
says tho sexton,
“she is the president of our missionary
society aud the directress in the
orphan the asylum, <ili the ragamuflins ami when she take goes hold of down her
street
dress and cry, ‘Auntie, when are you going
to bring us some when, more books and shoos revival, aud
things? 1 Aud in times of
there is some hard case back in a church
pen lie that no one elsoeantoueb,she goes where
is, and in one minute she has him
a-erving, and the first, thing wo know she is
fetching the hardened man up to the brother front
to be prayed for, and says, ‘Here is a
who wants to find the way into the kingdom
of God.’ And if nobody seems ready to
pray, she kneels down in the uislo beside him
und says, ‘O 1 ,ord!’ with a pathos and a
power and a triumph that seem instantly to
emancipate the call hardened sinner. Oh, no 1
you must, not her a thoughtless butter
fly in our presence. You see we would not
stand it,” The fact is that the son and
daughter much of that family did not promise
at the start, but they are now an
Echo, a glorious Echo, a prolonged Echo of
parental Vermont teaching and example. 1 1
A mother, life as her boy was about “Ed- j
to start for a on the sea, said:
ward, I have never seen the ocean, but I un- j
derstaud the great temptation is strong i
drink. it.” Many Promise me after you that, will telling never of touch this j j
years Edward
in a meeting, said: “I gave that
the promise world, to mother, and at and Calcutta, have been the ports around of j
tlie Mediterranean, San Francisco, Cape
of Good Hope and north and south poles, !
aud never saw a glass of liquor in all those
years that my mother’s form did not appear
wtorenw, and I do not know how liquor
tastes. 1 never have tasted it and all be
cause of the promise 1 made to my mother.”
This was the result of that conversation at
the gate of the Vermont farmhouse. The
statuary of Tborwaldseu was sent front
Italy to Germany, and the straw in which
the statues had been packed was thrown
upon the ground. The next spring beauti
tul Italian flowers sprang up where this
straw had been cast, for In it had been some
of the seeds of Italian flowers, and, whether
conscious of it or not, wo are all the time
planting others for ourselves thorns. and You planting lor it
roses or thought
only But straw, yet among it were anemones:
here is a slipshod home. Tne children parents
are a godless pair. No They example let their fit follow.
do No as they please. morality to Sunday
lessons of or roiigiou.
no better than any other day. The Bible no
better than anv other book, l'he house is a
•ort of inn where the older and younger
people of the household stop for awhile, lbe
theory acted on, thou -', perhaps not
nouneed, is: “The oLLurvo will have to do
a* I did and take their i..Lcfe is a
lottery anyhow, ami «k«ue ur&w prizes and
some draw blanks, and we will trust to
luck.”
Skip twenty years and come hack to the
neighborhood where that family used to Jive.
You meet on the street or on the road an
old inhabitant of that neighborhood, and
you say. ‘‘Can you tell me anything about
the Petersons who used to live here?” “Yes,”
says the old inhabitanti “I remember them
very well. The father and mother have
been dead for years.” “Well, how about
the children? What has become of them? ’
The old Inhabitant replies: “They turned
out badly. You know the old man was
about half an infidel and the boys were all
'fhe oldest son married, but got
i r ,to drinking habits, and in a few years his
wife was not able to live with him any long
er, and his children were taken by relatives,
and he died of delirium tremens on black
well’s island. His other son forged the name
of his employer and fled to Canaria,
“One of the daughters of the old folks
married an inebriate with the idea or reform
ing him, and you know how that always
ends—in the ruin of both the experimenter
and the one experimented with. I he other
daughter disappeared mysteriously There und nas
not been heard of. was a young
woman picked out of the East River and put
in the morgue, and some thought possible.- it was tier,
but I cannot say.” "Is it 1 yp_ u ‘ ;r >
out. “Yes, it is possible, rhe family is a
complete wreck. ’ My hearers, that U just
what might have been expected, Echo, tno ah tins awful is
only the Echo, the dismal
Echo, the dreadful Echo of parental h obliqm«y
i and unfaithfulness. I he old folk3 ap„ l up
a mountain of wrong influences.amithis is
only what rny text calls Ike sounding of
the mountains. behavior to . ,, M
Indeed our entire tt o
will have, a resound. While opportunities
fly j n ,i straight lino and just touch us once
and are gone never to return, the wrongs
iv«. practice upon others fly in a circle, and
they come back to the place from which
they started. Doctor Guillotine thought death it
smart to introduce the instrument of
named after him, but did not like it so
well when his own head was chopped of!
with the guillotine. Judgment Day will be Echo
Bo also the an
of all our other days. The universe needs
such a day, for there are to many things in
the world that need to be iixed up and ex
plained. If God had not appointed such “Oh, a
day all the nations would cry out.
God, give us a Judgment Day." Butweare
apt to think of it and speak about it as a
day away off in the future, having no other spe
cial connection with this day or any
day. The fact is that we u o now making
up its voices; its trumpets will only sound
back again to us what wo now say and do.
That is the meaning Christ of will all that that Bcripture day ad
which says that on
dress the soul, saying, “I was naked and Ye
clothed me; 1 was sick and In prison and Ye
visited me.”
All the footsteps in that prison corridor as
the Christian reformer walks too the wicket
of the Incarcerated, yea all the whispers of
condolence in the ear of that poor soul dying
in that garret, yea all the kindnesses are be
ing caught up and rolled on until they dash
against the judgment throne and then they
will bo struck back into the ears of these
K ill-, and daughters of mercy. Louder than
the crash of Mount Washington falling on
its face in the world wide catastrophe, and
the boiling of the sea over the furnaces of
universal conflagration will be the Echo and
re-echo of the good deeds done and the sym
pathetic words uttered and the niighly bene
factions wrought. charities, all tho self
On that day all the
sacrillcies, all the philanthropies, all the
beneficent last wills and testaments, all Die
Christian work of all tho agos, will bo piled
up into mountains, and those who have
served God and served the suffering human “The
race will hear what my text styles
sounding of tho mountains.”
My subject advances to tell you that
eternity itself is only an echo of time. Mind
you, the analogy warrants my saying this.
The echo is not always exactly in kind liko
the sound originally projected, Lord Ra
leigh says that a woman’s voice sounding higher.
from a grove was returned an octavo
A scientist playing a flute in Fairfax County,
Va., found that all tho notes wore pitch. returned,
although some of them in a raised
A trumpet sounded ten times near Glas
gow, Scotland, and the ten notes were all
repeated, but a third lower. And tho natural spir
itual world. law What corresponds do of good with or tho bad may
we
not coma back it, but to us in just back tho it will; proportion it may
wo from expect higher gladness come .than thought
bo a mightier wo
or from a deeper woe, from a con
queror or from a worse captive, from a
higher throne or deeper dungeon. Our
prayer or our blasphemy, our kindness or
our cruelty, our faith or our unbelief, our
holy life or our dissolute behavior, will come
back somehow. head
- Suppose the boss of a factory or the
of a commercial Ann some day comes out
among liis clerks or employes, aud putting
his thumbs in the armholes of his vest says,
with an air of swagger ami Bibio jocosity! “Well,
I don’t believe in the or the church.
The one is an imposition and the other is
full of hypocrites, i declare I would not
trust one of those very pious people further
than I could see him.” That is ull ho says,
but he has said enough. Tue young men go
back to their counters or their shuttles aud
sa y within themselves, “Welt, he is a suc
cessful man aud has probably studied up tho
whole subject and is probably right.” Bibles
That one lying utterance against the
and churches has put live young men on
wrong track,and though the influential man
had spoken only iu half jest, the echo shall
come back to him in live ruined lifetimes
and live destroyed eternities. You see the
Echoes are an octave lower than ho antiei
pated. On the other hand, some rainy day,
when there are hardly any customers, the
Christian merchant comes out from his
counting room and stands among the young
m en who have nothing to do, and says:
“Well, boys, this is a dull day, but it will
dear off after awhile. There are a there good
many ups and downs in business, but
i s an overruling Providence,
“Years ago 1 made up my mind to trust
God and He has always seen me through. I
remember wheu I was your age, I had just
come to town and the temptations of city
ijf„ gathered around me, but 1 resisted,
The fact is there were two old folks out on
the old farm praying for me aud I knew it,
nml somehow I could not do as some of the
clerks did or go where some of tho clerks
went. I tell you, boys, it is best always to
,i„ right, and there is nothing religion to keep of Jesus one
right like the old fashioned
Christ, John, where did you go to church
j as t Sunday? Henry, how is the Young
Men’s Curistian assooiatiou prospering?" and the
About noon the rain ceases suu
comes and they out and within tho clerks themselves: go to tlieir “Well, places, he
successful say merchant aud I ho
i s a guess
knows what he is talking about, mid the
Christian religion must help bo a in good this thing, battle
God knows I want some
with temptation and sin." The successful
merchant who uttered the kind words did
not know how much good he was doing, but
the echo will come back in five lifetimes of
virtue and usefulness, and live Christian
deathbeds and five heavens. From all the
mountains of rapture and all the mountains
of glory and all the mountains of eternity,
he will catch what Ezekiel in my text styles
'The sounding again of the mountains."
Yea, I take a step further in this subject
and say that our own eternity will be a re
verberation of our own earthly liietime.
What we are here we will be there, only
on a larger scale. Dissolution will tear down
the body aud embank it, but our faculties of
mind aud soul will go right on without the
hesitancy of a moment and without any
j | change except enlargement and iutensitica- than
tiou. There will be no more difference
j between a lion behind the iron bars and a
| | lion escaped into the field, between an eagle
j n „ cage and an eagle in the sky. Good
: here, good there; bad here, bad there. Time
j ls only « bedwarfed time. eternity. ’ Eternity is
Hi this life our soul is in dry dock. The
moment we leave this lire *ve are
for our great voyage, and we sail on for cen
turtes quiutillion, fundamental but the ship does after not it
ehauge its the dry dock, structure it does
gets out of not pass
trorn brig to schooner or from schooner to
man-of-war. What we are wnen launched
from this world we will be in the world to
] come. Oh, God! by Thy convertins; ftnd
sanctifying spirit make us right here and
now that we may be right forever I
‘‘VVell,’ says some one, this idea of mora.,
spiritual and eternal Ecao is ue v to me. Is
there not some way of stopping this Echo?”
My answer is, “God can and He only.” if it
is a cheerful Echo we do not want it stopped;
if a baleful Echo we would like to have it
stopped. The hardest thing in the world to
do is to stop an Echo. Many an oration has
been sooiied and many an orator coruoutidad
by an .Echo. Costly churches, cathedrals,
theatres and music halls have been ruin ■ ) by
an Echo. Architects have strung wires
across auditoriums to arrest the Echo, and
hung upholstery against the walls, hoping to
entrap ‘ it, an i hundreds of thousands of
dollars have been expended in public build
ings of this country to keep the air from
answering when it ought to be qu.et,
Aristotle and Pythagoras anil Isaac New
ton and La Place and our own Joseph Henry
tried to hunt down the Echo, but still the
unexolored realms of acoustics are larger
than the explored. When our first Brook
lyn Tabernacle was being constructed, wa
were told by architects that it was of such a
shape that the human voica could not be
heard in it, or, if heard, it would be jangled
into Echoes.
in state of worriment I weut to Joseph
Henry, the president of Smithsonian insti
tution at Washington, anil told him of tins
evil prophecy,and he replied: “I have proba
bly experimented more with tho laws of
sound than any other man, and I have got as
far as this. Two buildings may seem to be
exactly alike and yet in one the acoustics
may be good and in the other bad. Goon
with your church building and trust that all
will be well.” Oh, this mighty law of sound!
Ob, this subtle Echo! Thera is only one be
ing in the universe that thoroughly under
stands it-“The sounding again of the
mountains.” destroy natural
And if it is so hard to a
Echo, how much harder to stop a moral
Echo, a spiritual Echo, an immortal Echo.
You know that the Echoes are affected by
the surfaces, and the shape of rocks, and
the depth of ravines, and the relative posi
tion of buildings? And once in heaven
God will so arrange the relative position of
mansions and temples and thrones that one
of the everlasting charms of heaven will be
the rolling, bursting, ascending, deceuding,
chanting Echoes. All the songs we ever
sang devoutly, all tho prayers wo have ever
uttered earnestly, all the Christian deeds we
have ever done will be waiting to spring
upon us in Echo.
The scientists tell us that in this world the
roar of artillery and the boom of the thunder
are so loud, because they are a combination
of Echoes—all the hillsides, and the caverns
and the walls furnishing a share of the re
sonance. And never will we understand
the full power and music of an Echo until
with supernatural faculties able to endure
them we hear all the conjoined sounds of
heavenly Echoes—harps and trumpets,
orchestras and oratorios, hosannahs and
hallelujabs, east side of heaven answering to
the west side, north side to south side, and
all tho heights, and all the depths, and all
the immensities, and all the eternities join
ing in Echo upon Echo, Echo in the
wake of Echo.
In the future slate, whether of rapture or
ruin, wo will listen for reverberations of
earthly things and doings. Voltaire stand
ing amid the shadows will listen, and from
the millions whose godlessnsss and libertin
ism and debauchery were a consequence of
his brilliant blasphemies will come back a
weeping, wailing, despariug, agonizing,
million-voiced Echo. l’aul will, - while
standing in tho light, listen, and from all
the circles of the ransomed, and from all the
many mansions, whom he helped to people,
and from all tho thrones ho helped to occu
pants, und from nil the gates ho helped
throng with arrivals, and from all tho tem
ples he helped 1111 with worshipers there
shall coma back to him a glorious, and triumphant ever ac
cumulating, transporting
Echo.
Oh, what will the tyrants and oppressors
of the earth do with the Echoes? Those who
are responsible for the wars of the world will
have come back to them all the groans, the
shrieks, the cannonades, the bursting shells,
the crackle of burning cities mi l the doath
of a nation’s homes—Hohenlinden and Sala
manca, Wagram and Sedan, Marathon and
Thermopylae, Bunker Hill and Lexington,
Smith Mountains and Gettysburg. listen 1 Senna- Marc
acherib listen I Semiratnis
Antony listen I Artaxerexes listen! Darius
listen! Julius Caesar listen 1 Alexander and
Napoleon listen! But to the righteous will
come back the blissful Echoes.
Composers of Gospel liyums and singers
will listen for the return of Antioch and
Brattle Street, Ariel and Dundee, Harwell
and Woodstock, Mount Pisgah and Corona
tion, Homeward Bound and Shining Shore,
an d all the melodies they ever started.
Bishop Heber and Charles Wesley and Bradbury Isaac
Watts and Thomas Hastings and
atnl Horatius Bonar and Frances Havergal
listen! there
But you know as well as I do that
aro some places whore the reverberations
seem to meet, and standing there they rush
upon you, they rain upon you, all at oitce
they capture your oar. And at the point
where all heavenly reverberations meet
Christ will stand nud listen for the resound
of all His sighs and groans and sacrifices and
they shall come back in an Echo in which
mingle tho acclaim of a redeemed world.and
the “Jubilate Deo” of a full heaven. Echo
saintly, cherubic, archangeiic! Echo of
thrones 1 Echo of palaces I Echo of tem
ples I Omnipotent Echo! Everlasting Echol
Amen I
The Drojky.
The one-horse drojky of Russia i*
meant to hold two persons. Our experi
enee was that it held oue and a bit. It ia a
common and an amusing sight to see
some gallant officer deftly encircling the
waist of his fair companion in one of these
conveyances. “His arm gets in the way
so,’’he explains, “and this is the only
means of disposing of it that he can
think of. ” The horses are first-rate,
small m size, but able to do a great deal
of hard work, and keep their good looks
in spite of it. Nearly all of them are
stallions, and are bred in Russia. The
driver, who is sometimes a mere boy.
wears a dark-blue dressing-gown kind of
coat, a curiously-shaped hat, and high
topped boots, and makes quite a pictur
esque object. His dress seems to be a
very hot one for summer, but the aver
age driver is too poor to buy cooler cloth
ing. It is astonishing to see what an
amount of heat Russians seem capable of
bearing. Even on the hot days of
August , a great , many oi f tlie tue 0 muter* ffi eers would
wear tlieir thick military cloaks,
There are no fixed fares for the drojky.
g verv t jme _ ou bi rc one a lotto course of
bargaining __von ensues between you and and tne the
driver, until at length the latter consents
t 0 take about half what he first asked,
T , cents will take you J a long wav,
and . I got urn6 lor
on one occasion a
| four cents. In the absence of an agreed
fare t jj e .driver charges ® what he likes,
| Gnce we paid . *1 for a drive , • ot f a f lew
j hundred yards in a two-horsed carriage.
j Temple Bar.
--
qqje ____' ma "A i 0 ritY to’ of the Scottish Gipsies
have spread over „ a vast tract ot co >.
Here they have gradually become Europe lost to
view as a distinctive race. In
th * fouad ia the greatest number to
day . Hungary anil tv auacnia, wn v
in
there are 500,000.
--—
The pay of Chinese soldiers durins
is so 8tnall that ma nv have to sup
r™- . .
pdrt themselves as day Is borer*.
NATI0NALCAP1TAL
THE FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS
AT WORK.
Dally Routine of Both Houses Briefly
Outlined.
THE HOUSE.
Wednesday.— The bouse, on Wednes
day, after the introduction of a few bills,
finding itself with nothing to do, ad
journed until Thursday. import
Thursday. —No business of
ance was transacted in the house Thurs
day. information furnished
Monday— The
by the press that the president would on
Monday send to congress his anxiously
looked for message relative to the Chilean
troubles, had the effect of bringing to
the capitol a large number of visitors.
At precisely noon Speaker Crisp ascend
ed to the chair and his colleagues, with
out regard to party, warmly greeted him
as he reassumed the reins of authority,
laid down so long on account of sickness.
The chaplain in his prayer feelingly allu
ded to the death of Justice Bradley.
During the call of the states, Mr.
Prudeti, one of the president’s door secre- of
taries, appeared at the
the house and was announced by the as
sistant doorkeeper. He delivered the
message of the chief executive relating
to the Chilean troubles, and the call hav
ing been suspended the message was im
mediately laid before the house. The
buzz of conversation which usually per
vades the chamber was instantly hushed
and every member engaged dropped and the became work
upon which he was
an attentive listener. The spectators in
the galleries evidently appreciated the
gravity of the situation, and there was
none of that noise which so frequently
interrupts the deliberations of the bouse.
THE SENATE.
• Wednesday. —When the senate met
Wednesday, Senator Walthall was in his
seat and received congratulations parties from his
his fellow-senators of both on
re-election. Senator George entered the
chamber while the business of the morn
ing hour was in progress, lie also was
warmly congratulated . After the intro
duction of several bills the senate took
up the calendar, the first eighteen bills
on it being for public buildings.
Thursday. —After the introduction
of a few important hills in the senate
Thursday, Senator Sanford made a long
speech in favor of the land loan bureau.
Monday.— At noon Mr. Pruden, one
of the president’s secretaries, delivered appeared
at the bar of the senate and
the message in relation to Chili, with a
large package of copies of the corre
spondence on that subject. At 12:55,
when the morning business presented was com- the
pleted, the vice president
message, and it was read.
NOTES.
Representative Bankhead, of Alabama,
chairman of the committee on public
buildings and grounds, says that bills for
new buildings and improvements to the
amount of $27,000,000 aro already be
fore the committee.
The senate committee on privileges
aud elections had under consideration
Thursday morning the contested Florida
election case of Call vs Davidson, and
decided by a unanimous vote to recom
mend that Senator Call retain his seat.
Senator Gallengcr on Thursday pro
posed an amendment to the interstate
commerce act to allow all railroads to
grant passes to newspaper publishers for
printing advertisements, nud for other
services, as well ns to their respective
editors and actual einplojes.
The senate committee on privileges
and elections held a meetiug Saturday
afternoon aud decided by an almost unan
imous vote to report in favor of Dubois
in the contest of \V. H. Claggett for the
seat now occupied by the former in the
United States senate. The committee
also decided by a unanimous vote to re
port in the case of Senator Chilton, of
Texas, that his appointment had been
regular and in accordance with law and
precedent.
Assistant Secretary Spaulding, of the
treasury department, was before the ways
and means committee of the house Satur
day and made a statement of the financial
condition of the treasury. He presented
a long array of fi ures, showing the com
parative receipts and expenditures of the
government during the past year or two.
The Secretary stated that the estimate of
the river and harbor improvements next
year was $46,000,000. He also stated
that at the close of last month the trea
sury bad paid upwards of $1,000,000 iu
sugar bounties.
Mr. Stanford addressed the senate
Thursday in advocacy of the bill intro
duced by him on December 22, to pro
vide the government with means suffi
cient to supply the national want of a
sound circulating medium. The bill
proposes au issue of the United States
circulating notes to the amount of $100,
000,000, "and such additional amounts
from time to time, as shall he necessary
to meet the requirements of the act, to
be lent (under supervision of the land
loan bureau) to owners of exceeding agricultural half
lands to an amount not
the assessed valuation of land, at the rate
of 2 per cent interest, Mr. Stanford was
followed of’the by Mr. Peffer, in a long speech
in favor bill, w hich was afterwards
laid aside.
The Associated Press, after adjourn
ment, interviewed upwards of a hundred
senators and representatives concerning
the President's message on the Chi ean sit
uation. The senators were much more
cautious about commenting on the mes
sage and the probable ou come than
members of the house. But it was evi
dent that party considerations did not
bind the members of either house in their
views, and that a decided majority was
willing to sustain the president and iu
upholding, with firmness
vigor, the position taken by this govem
ment. Many of them, in expressing
their views, said it seemed to them that
the United States had, in some respect®,
perhaps, not act- d altogether,iu the right,
but they said they hail no doubt that
much should be done by Chili, and that,
ia the eo .J, she would comply with most
of our demands. Of the message itself,
the opinion of democrats and rc-pub i
caus alikt was that it was a strong pre
sentation of the case.
ENCOURAGING OUTLOOK.
Dan & Co. , GIyss a Bright View of
Trade Thorughout the Country.
Business failures occurring throughout
the country during the week ending Jan.
23, as reported to R. G. Dun & Co.,
number for the United States 274, and
for Canada 54; total 828, against 330 last
week. Report from cities outside of
New York shows some increase in trade
as well as great confidence in the future.
At Philadelphia, increasing orders sales reported are seen for
in dry and goods; general large inp in hard
nails, ord< rovement iron have
ware and better ers for
caused additional furnaces to begin blast.
At Charleston some improvements is seen,
though large supplies of cotton are still
on hand.
THE PRECIOUS METALS.
The output of precious metals in 1891
has been surpassed in only two years, ac
cording to Weils-Fargo’s gold, statement, $60,
amounting to 131,975,994 in
014,004 in s lver, $13,261,663 in copper,
and $12,385,780 in lead. The Mexican
output of silver was $43,000,000. An
nual reports of many other industries
show that the production in 1891 has
rarely, if ever, been equaled, and the
new year begins with no prospect of a
decrease in any important industry. The
reduction of rates by the Bank of Eng
land from 3£ to 3 per cent shows the Con
fidence that prevails in foreign money
markets.
Reports from all money centers show
ample supplies, an easier market and, ex
cept st the south, a comparatively light
demand, with fair or good collections.
The enormous excess of exports still con
tinuing leads many to believe that more
gold must soon be imported.
The industries are remarkably well em
ployed for the season and the movement
of crops is still large, and reports from
every pirt of the country express even
gre iter confidence than before in the
pr< spects for trade. The market for
products has been undisturbed by specu
lation, which is held in check by enor
mous supplies. Wheat advanced 1± cents
and receipts at the west have been ligh
ter owing to the severe weather, but ex
ports continue large. Corn is coming
forward freely and has declined 1£ cents,
and the exports for the will probably be
heavy. Oats are a quarter lower, but
pork products a shade stronger. Oil has
declined one-half, and coffee advanced a
quarter. Increasing strength is reported
in markets for iron and steel products.
THE COTTON MARKET.
Sptculation in cotton has taken cour
age from the fact that receipts have re
cently declined at some pioints largely,
and the price has advanced a sixteenth
during the week and a quarter since the
lowest point, 7|, was touched. Specu
lative sales last week reached 700,000
biles at New York, and the improving
market caused a better tone at many
southern points.
HELPLESS VICTIMS
Of a Conflagration in a Surgical
Institute.
One of the most appalling fires in the
history of Indiaeapolis occurred Thurs
day night. The National Surgical In
stitute was burned to the ground. The
fire started at midnight in the office
building. The origin is claimed to have
been from spontaneous combustion of
chemicals which had been placed in the
room. Circulars and papers about the
room were soon ablaz->, aud i" fifteen
minutes the whole lower floor was envel
oped in flames.
Attendants quickly awakened nil the
patients and pandemonium reigned.
Shrieks for help weut up, and the in
mates realized their situation, and the
stoutest hearts were appalled. The po
lice and firemen and attendants all. worked
diligently and with perfect accord, and
many patients were taken from the upper
floors by means of ladders and carried to
a place of safety by them. No attempt
was made to save anything but life. The
patients, both male and female, them
selves under ordinary circumstances una
ble to barely get about, assisted nobly in
the work of rescue.
CRAWLING FOR LIFE.
The halls and stairways, before the fire
had communicated to the main building,
furnished a wierd sight. The inmates,
helped wrapped in bed clothing, crawled nnd
themselves along from one floor
nnd one landing to the other. Many
touching scenes occurred, such as friends
stopping to assist others more unfortu
nate. Citizens turned to help iu the
work of rescue. Cots were rudely con
structed from mattresses, and strong
armed policemen picked up the unfortu
nate ones and carried them safely out.
THROWN FROM WINDOWS.
Two women jumped from windows.
One of these was badly injured, but an
other, who was caught by a man stand
ing in the crowd below, escaped serious
injury. Two others threw cut their ba
bies, which were caught and saved by
the firemen. One or two men jumped
from the roof and wejn badly hurt.
Many of the rescued people were taken
to the nearest shelter. Soon there w r eri
five or six hundred iuitrftj*, among whom
th“ scenes were indescribably uitiful. A
majority children of the patients iu the hospital
were under treatment for de
formities or disease, which rendere i ill n
helpless. A wry large number ha i be u
more or less burned in addiiion to theii
former misfortunes and bad become sepa
rated from their mothers or nurses.
Among these occurred the most pitifu'
and touching scenes. Nineteen bod 1
so far have been taken from the ruins.
FEVER AMONG CATTLE.
Secretary Rusk Issues a Notice to
Railroads and Stockmen.
A Washington dispatch of Wednesday
says : Secretary Rusk has issued a notice
to managers and agents of railroad and
other transportation companies, stock
men and others interested, that splentic,
or southern fever exists among cattle in
a described area, which includes nearly
all of including the territory lying south of
and the states of North Caro
: lina, Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas, and
the Indian Territory. From February
15 to December 1, 1892, no cattle are to
be transported from this area to any por
tion of tbe United States, north or west
of it, except by rail, for immediate
slaughter, stated and when so transported 'are cer
tain rigid regulations to be
observed.
THE WIDE WORLD,
GENERAL TELEGRAPHIC AND
CABLE CULLINGS
Of Brief Items of Interest From
Various Sources.
A cablegram of Thursday from Madrid,
Spain, says: An anarchist uprising is re
ported at Renda, Malaga. Troops are
being hurried to the scene.
The street car s’rike in Pittsburg con
tinues. Friday night the strikers at
tacked every car that went out of the
shed. Several arrests were made.
After being out three and a half hours,
the jury in the famous criminal libel suit
of Senator Quay against the Pittsburg
Post brought in a verdict of guilty Fri
day.
Mrs. Jefferson Davis, who was elected
an States honorary vice president of the United York,
Daughters of 1892, in New
has accepted the honor and been enrolled
as a member.
A Chicago dispatch says: The site
for the Chilean government building at
the world’s fair was approved Monday.
It is on the main driveway. Sites for
seven other Central and South Ameri
can governments were also approved,
A St. Petersburg cablegram of Friday
says: During service in a church at
Slobodskoi, in the government of Viatka,
the roof gave way and fell upon the wor
shipers beneath. The wreckage was soon
cleared away, when it was found that
fifty persons had been either killed or
injured.
whole Dispatches of Thursday say that is the
of the Rio Grande frontier cov
ered with snow, the first time ever know n.
Mexicans Suffering among the poorer classes of
and among United States troops
has been intense for the past few days.
Several commands of United States cav
alry in the field are without comfort and
conveniences.
“Colonel” Pickett Nelson, who claim
ed to be the tallest man on earth, died at
Baltimore, Mch, Thursday. Ilis body
measured eight feet five inches in length.
In life he claimed to be eight feet one
inch tall, and to weigh 387 pounds.
After death his frame relaxed and be
came four inches longer than it had been.
Nelson was a colored man.
The funeral services over the remains
of Cardinal Manning were held in
day. Brompton oratory, at London, Thurs
The admission to the oratory was
by ticket only, for it would have been
utterly impossible for the structure to
contain one hundredth part of the vast
crowd desirous of paying a last token of
respect to the dead prelate.
Fire broke out Thursday afternoou in
the five-story brick building, No.
20 West Fifteenth street,New York City.
It spread to No. 22 East Fifteenth street,
and also to the Lincoln bank building,
Nos. 1 and 8 Union square, at the Four
teenth street corner. It was under con
trol at 3 o’clock. The loss is very heavy,
falling upon a large number of business
houses.
A London cablegram of Thursday says:
The city is wrapped in a dense and al
most which impenetrable fog equal to that
prevailed about Christmas time,
and which caused much loss of life and
incalculable money damage. Traffic is
greatly impeded, and so dark is it that
the use of electric and gaslight is resort
ed to throughout the city iu houses,
shops and factories.
The general assetnb'y of the committee
on revision of the confession of faith in
session at New York completed its work
Thursday. Chapter 11, treating of the
universal offer of the gospel, which has
been a bone of contention during the
latter days of the committee’s session,
that was adopted iu a condensed form. All
now remains is to submit the report
to the general assembly.
A Washington dispatch says: The net
gold in the treasury Thursday including
bullion, is $119,749,286, being a loss of
over six million dollars since the 10th in
stant, and a loss of over ten million dol
lars since the 1st instant. Receipts from
customs at New York during the first
twenty days of January were $8,336,042,
being $681,513 less than receipts during
the corresponding period of last year.
A London cablegram is to the effect
that the anarchists who were arrested at
Walsail on January 7th and others who
have since been taken into custody were
again in the AValsail police court Thurs
day. One of the prisoners is named
Slaughter. The police claim to have
evidence that he was concerned in the
he Chicago Haymarket massacre, and that
was the prime mover in the present
conspiracy.
Ferdinand street branch of the Boston,
Mass., Electric Light Company was de
stroyed by fire early Saturday morning.
The loss is estimated at $200,000. The
property destroyed consisted of twenty
four dynamos, valued at $5,000 each, live
150 horse-power engines, one 100 horse
power engine and one 300 horse-power
engine. Ten minutes after the Sre was
discovered the main floor fell with a crash
and carried with it valuable machinery.
A dispatch from Indianapolis, Ind.,
says: Delegate conventions in thirteen
congressional districts of Indiana on
Friday selected a state committee.
Eleven of the members are outspoken
for President Harrison, while Heming
wao, of the first district, and Hanna, of
the twelfth, have agreed not to antago
nize him. In every district resolutions
were passed endorsing the administra
tion, and ia nine out of thirteen districts
resolutions were passed declaring the
president for renomination.
TEXAS COTTON PLANTERS
Disgusted With the Situation and
Future Outlook.
A dispatch of Monday from Dallas,
Tex., says: At least 80 per cent, of the
cotton crop has been mirketed and it is
thought that not more than ten per cent,
remains at the giu homes. The planters
have lost heavily upon it and are dis
gusted with the situation and the outlook.
They loudly protest that they w D't plant
more than half what they did last year.
The price now obtained is two c» nts be
low the actual cost of production per
pouncL.