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REV. DIt. TALMAGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “Home Religion.”
Text : “Jte/i<rn to thine omi house ant
shew how great things Gotl hath done unto
thee." Luke viii., 39.
jrr rf ■yrf climbing up t the
it B to to4ed stand 1 lon^on 11 ? l l0 u pi,aSHUt wkT
been n., on the the wn billows While
something swiftly and terriblv advancing.
Is it an apparation? It is a maniac who ha»
broken away from his keepers, perhaps a
lew rags on his person and fragments of
stout shaekles which he has wrenched off in
terrific paroxysm. With wild yell and
bleeding wounds of his own laceration he
flies down hilJ
Back to the boats, ye fishermen, and pul
Christ and ;so d °the disciples • ? Ut
md as this fl\in£t Jur>. with gnashing teeth
L n vs UP “Xdfoff' T ,aH Dowf s t M^fe’ei M > feet 0 > ^ tbou 91
poor sufferer. And , „ the demoniac , drops
harmles. . exnausted. 'worshipful “Away,
CbrJSt ; and the 2000
go to sea with their accursed cargo.
The restored demoniac sits down at Christ’s
feet and wants to stay there. Christ says to
him practically : “Do not stop. You have
a mission to execute. Wash off the filth and
the wounds in the sea. Smooth your di
sheveled locks. Put on decent apparel and
go straight to your desolated home and tell
your wife and children that you will no more
affiigbt them and no more do them harm
that you are restored to reason and that I,
the omnipotent Son of God, am entitled here
after to the worship of vour entire house
hold. Return to thine own house and shew
how great things God hath done unto thee.”
Yes. the house, the home is the first place
where our religious gratitude ought to be
demonstrated. In the outside world we may
seem to have religion when we have it not,
but the home tests whether our religion is
genuine or a sham. What makes a happy
home?
Well, one would say a house with great
wide halls, and antlered deer heads, and
parlors with sculpture, and bric-a-brac, and
dining hall with easy chair, and plenty oi
light, and engravings of game on the wall,
and sleeping apartments commodious and
adorned. No. In such a place as that gi
gantic wretchedness has sometimes dwelt,
while some of you look back to your father’s
house, where they caudle. read There their Bible by the
light of a tallow were no ear
pets on the floor save those made from the
rags which your mother cut night by night,
you helping wind them into a ball, and then
sent to the weaver, who brought them to
shape under his slow shuttle. Not a luxury
in all the house. But you cannot think of if
this morning without tearful and grateful
emotion. You and I have found out that it
is not rich tapestry,or gorgeous architecture,
or rare art that makes a happy home.
The six wise men of Greece gave prescrip
tlons for a happy home. Solon says a hap
py homo is a place where a man’s estate was
gotten without injustice, kept without dis
quietude and spent without repentance.
Chilo says that a happy home is the place
where a man rules as a monarch a kingdom,
Bias says that a happy home is a place where
a man does voluntary what by law he iseom
pelled to do abroad.' But you and I under a
grander light give a better prescription—a
happy home is the place where the kindness
of the gospel of the Sou of God has lull
swing. *
While I spduk this morniug there is knock
ing at your front door, if He be not already
admitted, one whose locks are wet with the
dews of the night, who would take your
children into His arms and would throw upon
your nursery, and your sleeping apartments,
and your drawing room, aud your entire
house a blessing that will make you rich
while you live and be an inheritance to your
children after you have done the last day’s
work for their support and made for them
the laat prayer. It is tlio illustrious One who
said to the man of my text, “Return to thine
own house and shew how great things God
hath done unto thee. ” Now, in the first
plaee, we want religion in our domestic
flu tie**.
Every had housekeeper needs great grace. II
Martha had more religion, she would
not have rushed with such bad temper to
scold Mary in the presence of Christ, It is
no small thing to keep order and secure
cleanliness and mend breakages and achieve
economy and control all the affair# of the
household advantageously. Expenses will
run up, store bills will come in twice as large
as you think they ought to be, furniture will
wear out, carpets will unravel, and the mar
tvrs of the fire are very few in comparison
* with the martyrs of housekeeping.
Yet there are hundreds of people in this
church this morning who in their homes are
managing all these affairs with a composure,
an adroitness, an ingenuity and a faithful¬
ness which they never could have reached
but for the grace of our practical Christian¬
ity. The exasperations which wear out
others have been to you spiritual develop¬
ment and sanctification. Employments
which seemed to relate only to an hour have
on them all the grandeurs of eternal history.
You need the religion of Christ in the dis¬
cipline of your children. The rod which in
other homes may be the first means used in
yours will be the last. There will be no
hard epithets—“you I’ll knave, life you villian, of you
scoundrel. thrash the out you,
you are the worst child I ever knew.” All
that kind of chastisement makes thieves,
pickpockets, murderers and the outlaws of
society. That parent who in anger strikes
his child across the head deserves the peni¬
tentiary. And yet this work of discipline
must attended to. God’s grace can di¬
rect ug, .Alas, for those who come to the
work with fierce passion aud recklesness of
consequences 1 Between severity and laxa
tiyeness there is no choice. Both ruinous
and both destructive. But there is a health¬
ful medium which thegrace of God wdlshow
to us.
Then we need the religion of Chirst to
help us in setting “Time a good example. settled Cowper
said of the oak : was when on
thv leaf a fly eould shakJ thee to the roo:.
Time has been when tempest could not,” In
other words your children are very impress^
foie just now. They are alert; they are gath¬
ering impressions you have no idea of,
Have you not been surprised sometimes,
months or years after some conversation
which you supposed was too profound or in¬
tricate for them to understand—some ques¬
tion of the child demonstrated the tact that
he knew ail about it?
Your children are apt to think that what
you do is right. They have no idea of truth
or righteousness but yourself. Things which
you do knowing at the time to be wrong
they take to be right. They reason this way
“Father always does right. Father did this.
Therefore this is right.” That is good logic,
but bad premises. No one ever gets over
having had a bad example set him. Yout
conduct more than your teaching makes
impression. Your Jau^b, your frown,
your dress, your walk, your greet
infre, your goodbys. habits your the comings, table.
■vour £oin£», your at
th tne « tones tones of o vour y voice, are making an im
preseion whien will last a million nil hc . y rears after
you are dead, and the sun wju oe exnn*
iuished. and the will mountains die. and will crumble, ^
and the world
oa in perpetual cycles, bat there j
diminution ot the Ior» of your «H.doU
upon the youngeyes that s*w it 1
ears that heard it.
Nowl would not have by
given to you that you must be ^m eohl resen v(
in the presence ot your caiidren. l
not emperor. You are companion w 1 1 1 m.
A* tar ne you can, you mus- waU with them
with then’, fly kite with them, play ball
with them, show them you are interested in
ail that interests them. Spensippus. the
nephew and successor ot Plato in. the
academy, had pictures of joy and gladness
hung all around the schoolroom. You must
not give your children the impression playful that rip¬
when they come to you they are have
ples striking against a rock. You must
them understand that you were a boy once
yourself, that you know a boy's hilarities, a
boy's temptations, a boy’s ambition—yea,
that you are a boy yet. You may deceive
them and try to give them the idea that you
are some distant supernatural effulgence,
ssas.ttsss.**.* s tss
thev wi)1 find out the deception, and they
will have for you utter contempt, begin
Aristotle said that a boy should to
^ u ,i v at seventeen years of age. Before that
a tr “ th l u tf T rl * l ' t ,hr0,t ' n ’ ‘ ° "
100 brl0f - and w e have e!lcu !”H sym P athy
with its sportfulness , IV« ™ ut di '«“ e
10 belp UR m the adjustment of a " the9H
H sale3 tbat , > b ? w Hr0 your cbll v ***..«« l5 “
“
, t b Christians \ ,f yoiiyours ! ‘t are not
° f':°' T,e
i Christian? l I have noticed that however
rj^^ddre^goor'When' , l lmg e per ^
yo L P
have £. presented themselves for admission
fo Q memberaW p i have said to them,
**Are S? vour father and mother willing “Oh? you
« ba " And they have said, yes ,
they are delighted to have us come. They
) mve not been iu church for ten or fifteen
years, but they will be here next Sabbath to
see me baptized.” I have noticed that pa
«** »“>
good.
So it was demonstrated in a police court
in Canada, where a mother, her little child
in her av.us, sat by a table on which her own
handcuffs lay, and the little babe took up
the handcuffs and played with them aud had
great glee. She knew not the sorrow of the
hour. And then when the mother was sent
to prison the mother cried out ■ “O God.
let not this babe go into the jail! Is there
not some mother here who will taka this
child? It is good enough for heaven. It is
pure. I am bad. I am wicked. Is there
not some one who will take this child? I
cannot have it tainted with the prison.'
Then a brazen creature rushed up aud^ said,
“Yes, I’ll take the child.” “No.no,” said
the mother, “not you, not you. Is there not
some good mother here who will take this
ihild?” Aud then when the officer of the
law in mercy and pity took thechild to carry
it away to find a home for it the mother
kissed it lovingly goodby and said : “Good¬
by, my darling. It is better you should
never see me again.”
However worldly and sinful people are,
they want their children good. How are you
goiDg to have them good? Buy them a few
good books? Teach them a few excellent
catechisms? Bring them to church? That is
all very well, but of little final result unless
you do it with the grace of God in your
heart. Do you not realize that your childreu
are started for eternity? Are they on the
right road? Those little forms that are now
so bright and beautiful—when they have
scattered in the dust, there will be an im
mortal spirit living on in a mighty theatre of
action, and your faithfulness or your neglect
now is deciding that destiny,
There is contention already among minis
tering spirits of salvation and fallen angels
as to who shall have the mastery of that im
mortal spirit. Your children aro soon go
lug out in the world. The The temptations rigid of
life will rush upon them. most
resolution will bend in the blast of evil,
What will be the result? It will require all
the restraints of the gospel, all the strength
of a father's prayer, all the influence of a
Christian mother’s example to keep them,
You say it is too early to tiring them. Too
early to bring them to God? Do you know
how early children were taken to the
ancient passover? The rule was just as soon
as they could take hold of the father’s hand
and walk up Mount Moriah they should lie
talcea to the passover. Your children are
not too young to come to God. Whtleyou
sit here and think of them perhaps their
forms now so bright and beautiful vanish
from you, and their disembodied spirit virtue rises,
and you see it after the life of or
crime is past, and the judgment is gone, and
eternity is here.
A Christian minister said that in the first
year of his pastorate he tried to persuade a
young mechanic of the importance of family
worship. Some time passed, and the ine
chanic came to the pastor’s study and said •
“Do yon remember that girl? That was my
own child. She died this morniug very sud
denly. She has gono to God, I have no
doubt, but if so she has told Him what I tell
you now—that child never heard a prayer in
her father’s house, never heard a prayer
from her father’s lips. Oh, if I only had her
back again one day to do my duty! It will
be a tremendous thing at the last day if some
shall say ot us- ,f I never hoard my father
pray. I never heard my mother prayer,
Again, I remark, we want religion in all
our home sorrows, There are 10,000 ques
tlons that come up in the best regulated
household that must be settled, Perhaps the
lather has one favorite in the family, the
mother another favorite in the family, and
there are mauy questions that need delicate
treatment,
Tyranny and arbitrary decision have no
nlaea in a household. If the parents love
God. there will be a spirit of self saoriflee and
a spirit of forgiveness, and a kindness which
will throw its charm over the entire house¬
hold. Christ will come into that household
aud will say -‘Husbands, love your wives
und bo not bitter against them. Wives, Children, see
thut you reverence your husbands.
obey your parents in the Lord. Servants,
be obedient to your masters.” And the fam¬
ily will be like a garden on the a flowers, summer and morn¬ the
ing—the grass plot, and
vines, and the arch of honeysuckle standing
in the sunlight glittering with dew.
But then there will be sorrows that will
come to the household. There are but few
famines that escape the stroke of financial
misfortune. Financial misfortune comes to
a house where there is no religion. I hey
kick against divine allotments, they curse
God for the incoming calamity, they with
draw from the world because they cannot
hold as high a position in society as they
once did, and they fret, and they scowl, and
they sorrow, and they die. During the past
few years there have been tens of thousands
of men destroyed by their financial dis¬
tresses.
But misfortune comes to the Christian
household. If religion has full sway ih that
home, they stoop gracefully. They say,
“This is right.” The father says : “Perhaps
money was getting to be my idol. Perhaps
God is going to make me a better Christian
by putting me through the furnace of tribu¬
lation, Beside that, why should I fret any¬
how? He who ownetii the cattle on a thou¬
sand hills and out of whose hands all the
fowls of heaven peck their fool is my
Father. He clotheth the lilies of the field.
He will clothe me, If He takes care of the
raven, and the hawk, and the vulture, most
certainly He will take care of me, His
'ihild,”
Sorer troubles come—sickness and death.
Loved ones sleep the last sleep. A child is
buried out of sight. You say: -‘Alas, for
this bitter day! God has dealt very severely
with me. Xcann^ver look up. O God. I
cannot bear it.” Christ comes in. aud He
siys - “Hush, O troubled soul! It is well
with the child. I will strengthen thee in a!;
thy troubles. My grace is sufficient. When
thou passeth through the waters, 1 will be
with thee.”
Wfcei ttirou^h L the <l*ep waters 4 I T cal! „ thee to go _
Th*. riv-rsof sorrow <* ;J a l uot overflow,
For I wHi b • with thee thy trouble* t j Wess,
An< &<inetify thee thy dee pent di*tre*t.
But there are hun Ireds of families repre
seated here tliis morning where religion has
^ # ^ ,. omfort . There are iu your
homes the pictures of your departed and
things that have no wonderful valueotthem
selves, but vou keep them preciously aud
,. arefQlly because hands now stil* once
touched them. A father has gone out of this
houwhold a mother has gone out of this, a
di , u ,.;, ter after her graduation day. a
son just as he was entering on the duties ot
life.
And to other homes trouble will come. I
say it not that you may be foreboding, not
that you may do the unwise thing of taking
trouble by the for"''-' that you maybe
ready. We must go uue »y one. There will
be partings in all our households. We must
say farewell. We must die. And yot there
are triumphant strains that drown these
tremulous accents, there are anthems that
whelm the dirge. Heaven is fulUof the shout
of delivered captives, and to the great wide
field ot human sorrow there come now the
reaper angels with keen sickles to harvest
the sheaves of heaven.
Saints will to the eutl endure;
Safely wid the Shepherd ^e-p
Those He purchased for Ills sheep.
Go koine this day and ask the blessing on
your noonday meal. To-night set up the
family altar. Do not wait umil ybu become
a Christian yourself. This day unite Christ
to your household, for the Bible distinctly
says that God will pour out His fury upon
the families that call not upon His name.
Open the Bible and read a chapter , that will
make you strong. Kneel down and offer
the first prayer in your household. It may
be a broken petition ; it may be ouly “God
be merciful to me, a sinner.” But God will
stoop, and spirits will listen, and angels will
chant, “Behold, he prays !”
Do not retire from this house this morning
until you have resolved upon the matter.
You will be gone. I will be gone. Mauy
years will pass, and perhaps your younger
children may forget almost everything about
you, but forty years from now in some Sab¬
bath twilight your daughter wjll be sitting
with the family Bible on her lap reading to
her children when she will stop, and peculiar
solemnity will come to her face, and a tear
will start, and the children will say-,
“ Mother, what makes you cry?” And she
will say, “Nothing, only I was thinking that
this Is the verv Bible out of which my father
and mother used to read at morning and
evening prayer.”
AU other things about you they may for¬
get, but train them up for God and heaven.
They will not forget that.
When a queen (lied, her three sons brought
an offering to the grave. One son brought
gold, another brought silver, bat the third
son came aud stood over the grave
and opened one of his veins and let
the blood drop upon his mother’s temb,
and all who saw it said it was the greatest
demonstration of affection. My friends,
what is the grandest gift we can bring to the
sepulchers of a Christian ancestry? It is a
life all consecrated to the God who made us
and the Christ who redeemed us. I cannot
but believe there are hundreds of parents in
this house who have resolved to do their
whole duty aud that at this moment they are
passing into a better life, and having seen
the grace of the gospel in this place to-day
you are now fully ready to return to your
own house and show wiiat great things Ged
has done unto you. •
Though parents may in covenant be
Amt havd their heaven in view,
They are not happy till they see
Their childreu happy too.
May the Lord God of Abraham and Isaao
and Jacob, the God of our fathers, be our
God aud the God of our children forever.
7,000 .MINERS OUT.
The Strike in Alabama Growing Very
Serious.
Monday’s developments in the miners’
strike in Alabama show that every mine
in the Birmingham district except those
at Warrior and in Tuscaloosa and Walk¬
er county, is shut down. Fully 7,000
men are out. No attempt has been made
to put, in negro labor at the Blue Creek
mines, where trouble is threatened.
Armed deputy sheriffs were on hand,
but the negroes refused to work, fear¬
ing violence from the strikers. The
strike is growing, and the situation is
becoming more serious.
THU SITUATION IN TENNESSEE.
A Knoxville special says: .lames It.
Wooldridge, of the Wooldridge Jellico
Coal Company. Speaking of tlio gen¬
eral strike of coal miners which has
been ordered on the 21st by the United
•Aline Workers of America, says that
all the miners of district No. 19, of
which the Jellico district is a portion,
have signaled their intention to strike.
Work lias been very light in the dis¬
trict the past season, and the indica¬
tions are that they will not be able to
hold out long without assistance, but
it is more than likely that the strike
will remain on until August 1st. Tlio
.lellico district is now paying the high¬
est prices in the United States, and
any result will necessarily be beneficial
to the operators.
A convention of the operators and
miners of the district has been called
to meet at Jellico on the 26th to con¬
sider a uew contract. The supply of
coal for the southern states will not be
entirely cut off, as the Tennessee, Coal
Iron and Railroad Company have
about 2,000 convicts digging for them
in Alabama and Tennessee. Unless
the organized men use violent meth¬
ods to close these mines, the strike
will prove a bonanza to the lessees
of convicts, as it will be the ouly com¬
pany in the United States to operate
its mines.
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REORGANIZING THE MILITARY.
Governor Tillman Wants Men Who
Will Obey Him.
A Columbia, 8. C. special says:
Governor Tillman has begun to dismiss
from the military service of the state
those companies which failed to re¬
spond to his call during the Darlington
trouble. He has written a letter to the
captain of one of the companies which
failed to respond, telling him that he
did not want such “recreant sons of
South Carolina” in her military ser¬
vice. The reorganization of the mili¬
tia of the state is going on speedily.
Alany new companies, who will in the
future be loyal to the commander-in¬
chief, have been organized and asked
to be mustered into service.
INSPECTING GEORGIA MINES.
Northern Capitalists Greatly Pleased
With the Prospect.
Air. E. F. Oates, of Athens, Ga.,
has returned from a trip through
Lumpkin, Hall and White counties,
where he has been with Alessrs. Reed
and Baker, of Detroit, Alich., inspect¬
ing the mineral resources of that sec¬
tion of the state. The two gentlemen
are capitalists and experienced in min¬
ing affairs. They visited the state as
the representatives of a large western
syndicate which will iu all probability
invest in the mines of Georgia.
There is a woman in Ohio who was
one of the little girls in George
Washington’s funeral procession.
She is Airs. Priscilla Spooner. Mi
Spooner recently celebrated her 100th
birthday.
HALLS OF CONGRESS
DAILY PROCEEDINGS OF BOTH
HOUSE AND SENATE.
The Discussion of Important Measures
Briefly Epitomized.
Immediately after the journal had
been read in the house, Wednesday
morning, Mr. Reed called np the mat¬
ter that went over from Tuesday—the
right of Mr. Springer to withdraw his
motion to discharge the order of ar¬
rest issued to the sergeant-at-arms upon
which a vote was being taken, and no
quorum being present. The speaker
held the motion could not be with¬
drawn except by unanimous consent. made
The speaker accepted the ruling
by Mr. Carlisle in the forty-ninth con
gress that the question was the regular
order until disposed of. The roll was
then called on Mr. Springer’s motion,
and as this developed uo quorum the
call of the house was ordered, The
house was unable to obtain a voting
quorum, aud at 1 :40 p. m. adjourned.
In the house, Thursday, a resolution
from the committee on rules, lining
members absent without leave and
those present at a yea and nay call and
refusing to vote or failing, was pre¬
sented by Mr. Catchings. The vote
on its adoptiou was: Yeas, 142 ; nays,
11; (the republicans not voting). No
quorum. A call of the house was then
ordered.
The struggle over the adoption ol
the uew rule to secure a voting quorum
was resumed when the house met Fri¬
day. The republicans made a prelim¬
inary stand against the approval of the
journal. As soon as it had been read,
Mr. Bourtelle objected, aud when Mr.
Dockery moved its approval, the re¬
publicans were silent. Upon the an¬
nouncement of the result of a rising
vote of 105 to nothing, Mr Boutelle
made the point of no quorum, and the
roll was called. At 1 o’clock the house,
unable to secure a voting quorum, ad¬
journed.
iu the house Saturday, as the clerk
began reading the journal of Friday,
Mr. Reed interrupted with a sugges¬
tion that the first business was the
question of approving the journal of
Thursday. The speaker thought not,
and the reading of the journal was
completed, whereupon Mr. Boutelle
objected to its approval, and the yeas
and nays were ordered. Being unable
to obtain a quorum, on motion of Mr.
Outhwaite the house adjourned at
12:35 until noon Monday.
After adopting resolutions express¬
ing the regret of the house at the death
of General Slocum, the house, Monday
morning, took a recess of twenty min¬
utes to await a message from the sen¬
ate conveying the resolutions of that
body over the death of Senator Vance;
After the receipt of the message M r.
Henderson offered the usual resolu¬
tions which wore agreed to, and the
house took a recess until 3:40.
Till! SENATK.
In the senate, Wednesday, the ur¬
gency deficiency bill was taken np and
discussed until 1 o’clock, when the
tariff bill was laid before the body atm
Air. Hale proceeded to argue against
it.
The senate resumed the considera¬
tion of the further urgent deficiency
bill Thursday. At 1 o’clock the tariff
bill was taken up and Mr. Peffer went
on with the third portion of his speech.
He was followed by Air. Frye, of
Maine.
After some routine morning busi¬
ness Friday the senate resumed the
consideration of the further urgent
deficiency bill. Mr. Cockrell offered
an amendment appropriating $40,009
to cover the deficiency in the wages of
workmen and adjusters of the mint at
Philadelphia, caused by the large coin¬
age of gold to meet the demands of
the treasury. The further urgent de¬
ficiency bill was debated np to 11 p,
m., when it went over without action.
The tariff bill was then taken up and
Mr. Peffer began the fourth part of
his speech on that subject.
Chaplain Milburn’s prayer Monday
morning at the opening of the senate
was devoted entirely to the death’ of
Senator Vance, whose funeral services
engaged the attention of that body.
Air. Rawson then offered the usual
resolutions, declaring the great sorrow
with which the State has heard of the
death of Mr. Vance; providing for a
committee of nine senatois to lake au
order for superintending the funeral;
for the removal of the remains
from Washington to North Carolina in
charge of the sergeant-at-arms and at¬
tended by committee; that the pro¬
ceedings be communicated to the house
of representatives, and that that body
be invited to attend the funeral ami to
appoint a committee to act with the
senate committee. The resolutions
were agreed to, and the vice-president
announced the appointment of the
senate committee as follows: Ransom,
George. Gray, Blackburn, Coke,
Chandler, Dubois, White of Cali¬
fornia ami Alanderson, A further res
olution was offered by Mr. Ran¬
som and agreed to, ordering invi¬
tations to be extended to the President
of the United States and the members
of bis cabinet; the chief justice and
associate justices of the supreme court
of the United States; the major gen¬
eral commanding, the army and the
senior admiral of the navy, to attend
the funeral. Senators Merrill, Sher¬
man, Harris and McPherson were ap |
pointed by the vice-president as pail I
bearers; and then a recess was taken
till 3:30 p. m. When the senate
reassembled at 3:30 o’clock the
gal {cries were packed with eager
spectators. At 5:50 o’clock the |
casket containing the remains of tin- !
dead senator was borne into the chain- |
ber by a squad of uniformed capitol
police, and placed on a bier hi the
area. It was preceded by the commit¬
tee of arrangements of the two houses,
and accompanied by the honorary pall-
treaty between the interested countries
and for the issuing of international
silver certificates.
The Shiloh Battlefield association
has adopted a memorial which permits
survivors of that battle, and the seve¬
ral states having troops in the battle,
north and south, to erect on the bat¬
tlefield memorial tablets and give to
each equal rights subject to the regu¬
lations of the association. One direc¬
tor is to be elected from each Htate
having troops iu the battle, and all
who served under General Grant,
General Buell, General Albert Sidney
Johnston ami General Beauregard in
the battle, are entitled to become
members of the association.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH
A CON DENS AT I ON OK OUR MOST
IMPORTANT NEWS ITEMS
Which Will lie Found of Special In¬
terest to Our Readers.
The South Carolina railroad was
purchased at a foreol sure sale at
Charleston, S. C., by Wheeler 1L
Peckham aud others, representing the
first mortgage bondholders.
The session of the Louisiana legisla¬
ture, which meets next month, will
elect three United States senators.
This is the first time such au event has
occurred iu the United States.
The general council of the United
Mine Workers, of Alabama, the repre¬
sentatives of 8,000 miners, declined
the recent proposition of the Tennes¬
see Coal, Iron and Railroad Company,
and ordered a general strike, to take
effect at once.
Camp Hardie, confederate veterans,
of Birmingham, Ala., by a unanimous
vote, passed a resolution inviting all of
the southern governors to attend the
reunion and to be the special guests of
the. camp. A pressing invitation has
been sent to each.
There was just $249,180.70 worth of
dispensary liquor sold in South Caro¬
lina during the quarter ending Febru¬
ary 1st. There were fifty-seven dis¬
pensaries iu operation and the net
profits for equal divisiou between the
counties aud towns were $41,160.49.
The Glamorgan pipe and iron works
of Lynchburg, ‘The Va., were totally de¬
stroyed by lire. loss will bo be¬
tween $75,000 and $100,000. Insu¬
rance unknown. The company em¬
ployed about three hundred men, aud
had enough orders ahead to run them
six months.
The West End Land Company of
Nashville, Tenu., has made an assign¬
ment for the benefit of its creditors.
The liabilities are stated to be some¬
thing more than $100,000, and the as¬
sets, mainly real estate, wero valued
last year at between $350,000 and
$400,000.
The attorneys for the receivers of
the Central railroad, have received a
copy of a bill filed in the Middle dis¬
trict United States court of Alabama,
to foreclose the mortgage on the Co¬
lumbus and Western railroad, a part
of the Savannah and Western system,
between Columbus and Montgomery.
A brick, three-story building at
Memphis collapsed and four persons
wero killed and five wounded. There
are believed to be two others in the
ruins. All the killed, injured and
missing are negro laborers, The
building was built in 1800 and was re¬
garded as unsafe because of the infe¬
rior material used in its construction.
Mr. It. N. Callihun, of Evergreen,
Ala., has been robbed of $1,700 in
gold money. The money, which con¬
sisted of eighty-live $20 gold pieces,
had been buried by Mr. Callilian un¬
derneath an outhouse in his yard, and
a few uights ago some knowing rascal
made away with the treasure. Not the
slightest clue as to his identity has
been left.
The strike of the coni miners in the
Birmingham, Ala., district against the
Tennessee Coal, Iron and Railway
Company was inaugurated Saturday
night and none of the companies, ex¬
cept those worked by convicts, are iu
operation. The Tennessee company is
not especially apprehensive. Not more
than half of their furnaces are now in
operation and the convicts can get out
almost enough coal to supply these.
Receiver Glover, of the Marietta and
North Georgia roud, whom the Krb
interestshave been endeavoring to oust,
made a coup in the United States
court at Marietta Thursday, Tim
charge against Glover, upon which ap¬
plication to Judge Newman was based
to remove him, was that he could not
raise money to pay certain claims
against the road. He has secured from
banks $30,000 to settle tax bills, and
Judge Key has made an order permit¬
ting him to issue receiver’s certificates
for money borrowed.
Strike on the Great Northern.
“Stop work Friday, April 13th, at
12 o’clock. Do not go to work again
until the restoration of the old rate of
wages paid August 1, 1893.” This
message was sent to every station on
the Groat Northern railroad from La
moure, N. D., to Spokane, Wash. It
was signed by f. Hogan and Roy Good¬
win, committee of the American Rail
way Union. The effect has been to
pretty effectually tie up the line at He¬
lena, Great Falls and Hpokane.
Will Sue the State.
The Htate of North Carolina will be
sued by the holders of bonds issued
in 1863 in aid of tbs Southern and
Coalfields railway. The holders claim
that there is uo war taint on the
bonds. They wish the war scale of
depreciation, two-thirds off, to be ap¬
plied to them and thl-n want the state
to issue them 40 per cent, of bonds for
the remainder under the terms of the
general funding act.
fifteen thousand
IS THE AMOUNT OF DAMAGES
AWARDED TO MADELINE.
End of tile Notorious 15reekin ritlgc
Pollartl Breach of Promise Suit,
The jury in the suit of Madeline V.
Pollard against Colonel Breckinridge
for $50,000 for breach of promise of
marriage has rendered a verdict for
Miss Pollard, fixing the amount of
damages at $15,000. The case was
given to the jury at 2:07 o’clock Satur¬
day afternoon and within an hour and
a half the verdict was reached.
The last day of the trial began under
circumstances not different from those
of other days. Madeline Pollard was
not present. She had disappeared
from public view when Calderon Car¬
lisle completed his opening argument
iu her defense. But Breckinridge was
present, seeming indifferent to the
further arraignment ho was to receive
from Judge Jere Wilson, who made
the closing speech.
When Mr. Wilson finished, Judge
Bradley delivered his charge as fol¬
lows:
judge hradley’s charge.
“With the outcome of this cause,
whether thut outcome be for the plain¬
tiff or the defendant, this community,
nor the country, nor humanity in gen
eral lias any concern; and it should
not mutter a feather’s weight with you
as to the direction in which you should
reuder your verdict, what the commu¬
nity or the world at large - may think
of it. You should not concern your¬
selves about the vindication of Ameri¬
can womanhood, or the vindication of
the family, or the vindication of
the country girl in the abstract. Your
province in this case is to vindicate
the truth, and your duty is to ren¬
der such a verdict as the law aud
the evidence require. You are to deter¬
mine the rights of these parties in this
controversy, and not to settle any ab¬
stract principles of morality, however
important such principles may be. The
question in this case, and the ultimate
question for the enlightenment of
which alone all of these many circum¬
stances have been put aud received iu
evidence, including the stories of the
Jives of both the plaintiff and defen¬
dant, is whether a contract of mar
riago was entered into between these
parties; and that question you are to
determine upon the evidence.
In conclusion Judge Bradley said :
“To sum it all up, if you fail to find
a contract was made or that the de¬
fendant was excused for the perform¬
ance of it, your verdict should be for
the defendant. If, however, you find
that such a contract did exist and that
the defendant was not rtdeased there¬
from, you arc to find for the plaintiff. ”
HOW THE VERDICT WAS REACHED.
Immediately after the jury retired,
Mr. Cole was elected foreman. A bal¬
lot waB taken, which resulted II to I
in favor of the pluintiff. Some time
was spent in bringing the juror over,
and then the question of damages was
taken up. One juror was in favor of
giving the plaintiff the full amount
claimed, $50,000, and the juror who
voted for the defendant thought mere¬
ly nominal damages, 1 cent, should be
given. It was finally decided that each
juror should write down an amount,
and the average was taken, resulting
in the award of $15,000.
DAVID DUDLEY FIELD DEAD.
He Was a Distinguished Author aud
Jurist.
David Dudley Field died suddenly
at liis homo in New York of pueu
moniu. He was born in Hadden,
Conn., February 13, 1805, and was the
eldest of four brothers- Henry M.,
Cyrus W. and Stephen being the other
three—all of whom have achieved dis
tinction. David was graduated from
Williams college in 1825, and was ad¬
mitted to the bar in Nffw York city in
1828. He early became prominent,
and, after eleven years’ practice, wrote
a letter on “The Reform of the .Judi¬
ciary System,” which he followed up
later with a pamphlet on the same line.
The result of this agitation was that
the constitutional couveutiou of 1840
recommended a general code and a re¬
form of the practice on the line of his
suggestions.
In I860, Air. Field undertook the
prepation of an international code,
which he presented to the social
science congress after seven yeurs’
work. This work attracted the atten¬
tion of the jurists of the world, and
was translated into several tongues.
Mr. Field was originally a democrat, un¬
til the nomination of Fremont in 1850,
when he supported that ticket. Dur¬
ing 1870 he served two months in con¬
gress, filling the unexpired term of
Smith Ely. From that time on he act¬
ed with the democrats, and was on
thut side in the Hayes-Tilden contest.
Air. Field has published a number of
works of high literary value besides
his great lawbooks, on which however,
his fame chiefly rests. He has lived
for several years at 22 Gramercy park,
enjoying remarkable health and vigor
up to the time of his death.
TRAIN ROBBER KILLED.
Shot Down by a Brave Express Mes¬
senger.
The Daltons or other train robbers
attempted to hold up the Rock Island
train No. 1, four miles below Pond
creek, in Oklahoma territory. They
met an unexpected resistance at the
hands of Jake Harmon, the Wells
Fargo express messenger, who shot and
killed the first man who tried to break
into the express car by the use of dy¬
namite. The other men in the gang
tried to escape, but the trainmen suc¬
ceeded in wounding and capturing The an¬
other of them and two horses.
other bandits succeeded in getting
away, but without any boodle.