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REV. DR. TALMAGE.
THE BROOK! YS IMVXE’S SUV
DAY SERMON.
Subject : ‘-Fairest of the Fair.”
Text: “IT>‘ !* altogether tocrlu." —Solo¬
mon’s Song v.. Id.
The huraau race has daring centuries been
improving. -For awhile it deflected and de¬
generated, the and from all I can read for ages
whole tendency was toward barbarism,
but under the ever widening and deepening
influence of Christianity tlie tendency is now
in the upward direction. The physical ap¬
pearance of the human race is seventy-five
percent, more attractive than-in the six¬
teenth, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
From the pictures on canvas and the faces and
forms in sculpture of those who were consid¬
ered the grand looking men and the attrac¬
tive women of ’200 years ago I conclude the
superiority of the, mem and women of our
time. Such looking people of the past cen¬
turies as paiuting and sculpture nave pre¬
sented its fine specimens of beauty and dig¬
nity would be in our time cousidere 1 deform¬
ity and repulsiveuess complete. The fact
that many men and women iu antediluvian
times were eight and ten feet high tended to
make the human race obn.xious rather than
winning. Such portable mountains of hu¬
man flesh did not add to the charms of the
world.
But in no climate and in no age did there
ever appear any one who in physical at¬
tractiveness could be compared to Him
whom my text celebrates thousands of years
boiore He put His infantile foot ou the hit!
back of Bethlehem. He was and is altogether
lovely. The physical appearance ot Christ
is, for the most part, an artistic guess. Some
writers declare Him to have been a brunette
or dark complexioned. St. John, of Damas¬
cus, writing 1100 years ago. and so much
nearer than ourselves to tho time of Christ,
and hence with more likelihood of accurate
tradition, represents Him with beard black,
and curly eyebrows joined together, and
“yellow complexion, and long fingers like
His mother.” An author, writing 1500 years
ago, represents Christ as a blond : “His hair
is the color of wine and golden at the root,
straight and without luster, but from the
level of tho ears, curling and glossy, and
divided down the center after the fashion ot
the Nazarenes. His forehead is even aud
smooth, His face without blemish aud en¬
hanced by a tempered kind. bloom. His counten¬ mouth
ance ingenuous and Nose aud
are in no way faulty. His beard is full, of
the sume color as His hair and forked in
form ; His eyes blue and extremely brill¬
iant.
My opinion is, it was a Jewish face. His
mother was a Jewess, and there is no wo¬
manhood on earth more beautiful than Jew¬
ish womanhood. Alas that He lived so long
before the daguerrean and photographic His
arts were born, or we might have known
exact features. I know that sculpture and
painting were born long before Christ, and
they might have transferred from olden
times to our times the forehead, the nostril,
the eye. the lips of our Lord. ’
Phidias, the sculptor, put down his chisel
of enchantment 500 years before Christ came.
Why did not some one take up that ohisel
and give us the side face or full face of our
Lord? Pol.vgnotis, the painter, put down
his pencil 400 years before Christ. Why did
not some one taxe it up and give us at least
the eye of our Lord—the eye. that sovereign
ofthe face? Dionysius, the literary artist
who saw at Heliopolis, Egypt, the the time strange oi
darkening of the heavens at
Christ’s crucifixion near Jerusalem, and not
knowing what it was, but describing it as a
peculiar eclipse of the sun. and saying,
“Either the Diety suffers or sympathizes
with some sufferer,” that Dionysius might
have put his pen to the work and drawn the
portrait of our Lord. But. no ; the fine arts
were busy perpetual iug the form and ap¬
pearance of the world’s favorites only, and
not the form and appearance of the peasantry,
among whom Chirst appeared.
„ It was not until the fifteenth century, or
until more than 1400 years after Christ, that
talented painters attempted by pencil to give
us the idea of Christ’s face. The pictures
before that timo were so offensive that tho
council at Constantinople forbade their ex¬ fif¬
hibition. But Leonardo da Vinci, iu tho
teenth century, presented Christ’s face on
two canvases, yet the one was a repulsive
face and the other an effeminate face, Raph¬
ael's face of Christ is a weak face. Albert
Durer’s face of Christ was a savage face.
Titian’s face of Christ is an expressionless
The mightiest artists, either with pen¬
cil or chisel, have made signal failure in at¬
tempting to give the forehead, the cheek,
the eyes, the nostril, the mouth of our blessed
Cord. something
But about His face I can tell you
positive and beyond controversy. 1 am sure
it was a soulful face. The face is only the
curtain of the soul. It was impossible that
a disposition like Christ's should not have
demonstrated itself in His physiognomy,
gladness as an occasional impulse may give
iio illumination to the features, but kinduess
ae the lifelong, domiuaut habit will produce
attractiveness of countenance as certainly as
the shining of the sun produces flowers.
Children are afraid of a scowling or hard
visaged man. They cry out if he proposesto
fake them. If ho try to caress them, he
evokes a slap rather than a kiss. All mothers
know how hard it is to get their children to
go to a man or woman of forbidding appear¬
ance. But no sooner did Christ appear in
the domestic group than there was,an in¬
fantile excitement and the youngsters began
io struggle to got out of their mothers' arms.
They could not hold the children back.
“Stand back with those children!” scolded
aome of the disciples. Perhaps the little ones
may have been playing in the dirt, and their
faces may not have been clean, or they may
»ot have been well clad, or the disciples may
have thought Christ's religion was a religion
chiefly for big folks. But Christ made the
infantile excitement still livelier by His say¬
ing that He liked children better than grown
people, declaring. “Except ye become as a
iittte child ye cannot enter into the kingdom
° f who do not like chil¬
jUa8 for those people out of heaven,
dren ! They had better stay
tor the place is lull of them. That, I think,
U one reason why the vast majority of the
human race die in infancy. Christ is so
fond of children that He takes them to Him
eelf before the world has time to despoil and
harden them, and so they are the now at the
windows of the palace and on doorsteps
and playing on the green. Sometimes
Matthew or Mark, or Luke tells a story of
Christ, and only one telle it, but Matthew,
Mark and Luke all join in that picture of
Christ girdled by children, and X know by
*yhat occurred at that time that Christ had a
face full of geniality. Christ altogether , , lovely , in .
Sot only was lovely iu His habits. I
His countenance, but
know without being told, that the Lord who
made" the rivers and lakes and He disliked oceans was the
cleanly in His appearance. it
disease of leprosy not only because was and
distressing, but because it was not clean,
His curative words were -. “I will. Be thou
.deaD.” He declared Himself in favor o'.
thoroughly washing and denounced opposed to the super¬ hypo
ficial washing when He
irites for making clean only "the outside o!
the platter.” and He applauds His disciples
by saying. "Now are ye clean, ’ aud giving
directions to those who fasted, among other
things. He says. "Wash thy face.” and to a
blind man whom He was doctoring, “Go,
wash in the pool of Siloam.” and He Himself
actually washed His disciples feet, I suppose
not only to demonstrate His own humility,
but probably their feet needed to be washed.
The fact is. the Lord was a great iriend o!
water. T know that trom the fact that most
of the world is water. But when I find
Christ ia such constant commendation ot
water I know He was personally neat,
although He mingled much among ver>
rough populations and took such Ion*
journeys on dusty highways. He wore Hi;
hair long, according to the custom of Hii
jand and time, but neither trouble nor oU
age had thinned or injured Hi? look?. which
wsre never worn shaggy or unkempt. Yea,
all His habits of personal appearance were
-ovely.
Sobriety was also an established habit ot
His life. In addition to the water, He drank
the juice of the grape. When at a wedding
party this beverage gave out. He made gal
ions on gallons of grape juice, but It was as
vrhiit the world makes in our time ?is
health is d:fT--r‘»it from disease and as calm
pulses are different from the paroxysms of
delirium tremens. There was uo strychnine
in that beverage or logwood or nux vomica.
The tippler? and the sots who now quote
the winemaking in Cana of Galilee as tin ox
cuse for the fiery aud damning beverages of
the nineteenth century forget'that the had wine
at tlie New Testament wedding two
characteristics—the one that the Lord made
it and the other that it was made out of
water. Buy all you can of that kind and
drink it at least three times a day and send a
barrel of it round to my cellar.
You candot make me believe that the
blessed Christ who went up and down heal
ing the sick would create for man that style
of drink which is the cause of disease more
than all other causes combined, or that He
who calmed tha maniacs into lheir right
mind would create that style of drink which
doos , than .. anything ...... else to fill .... insane •________
more
asylums, or that He who was so he!oful to
the poor would make a style of drink that
crowds the earth with pauperism, or that He
wno came to save the nations from sin would
create a liquor that is the source of most of
the crime that now stuffs the penitentiaries.
A. lovely sobriety was written all over Hw
face, from the hair line of the forehead to the
bottom of the bearded chin. •
Domesticity was also His habit. Though
too poor to have a home of His own. He
went out to spend the night at Bethany, two
or throe milo3’ walk from Jerusalem, aud
over a rough and hilly road that made it
equal to six or seven ordinary miles, every
in o ruing aud night going to aud fro. I would
rather walk from here to Central Park, or
walk from Edinburgh to Arthur's Seat, or iu
London clear around Hyde Park, than to
walk that road that Christ walked twice a
day from Jerusalem to Bethany. But He
liked the quietude of home life, and He was
lovely in His domesticity.
How He enjoyed haudxng-over the resur
rectecl girl to her father, and reconstructing
homesteads which disease or death was
breaking up! As the song, "Home. who Sweet that
Home,” was written by a man homeless- at
time had no home, so X think the
ness of Christ added to His appreciation ot
lomesticity. His
Furthermore, He was lovely iu svni
pathies. Now, dropsy is a most distressful
complaint. It inflames and swells and tor
tures any limb or physical organ it touches.
As soon as a case of that kind is submitted
to Christ, He, without any use of diaphor
etles. commands its cure. Aud what an eye
doctor He was for opening the long closed
gates of sight to the blue of the sky, and the
yellow of the flower and the emerald of the
grass! What a Christ He was for cooling
fevers without so much as a spoonful of
febrifuge, aud straigbteuiug crooked backs
without any pang of surgery, aud standing
whole ohoirs of music along the silent gal
leries of a deaf ear, and giving healthful nor
vous system to cataleptics ! Sympathy ! He
did not give them stoical advioe or philoso- He
phize about the science of grief. sat
down and cried for them.
It is spoken of as the shortest verse in the
Bible, but to me it is about the longest and
grandest, “Jesus wept.” Ah, many of us
know the meaning of that! When we were
in great trouble, some one came in with vol
uble consolation and quoted tho Scrip turn in
a sort of heartless way and did not help us
at all, But after awhile some one else came
in, and without saying a word sat down and
burst into a flood of tears at the sight of
our woe, and somehow it helped us right
away, “Jesus wept.” You sec. it was a
deeply attached household, that of Mary and
Martha and Lazarus. The father and mother
were dead, and the girls depended on their
brother, Lazarus had said to them: "Now,
Mary, now, Martha, stop your worrying. I
will take care of you. I will be to you both
father and mother. My arm is strong. Girls,
you can depend on me ! ’
But now Lazarus was sick—yea, Lazarus
was dead. All broken up, the sisters sit
disconsolate, and there is a knock at the
door, “Come in,” says Martha. “Come
iu,” says Mary. Christ entered, and He just
broke down. It was too much tor Him. He
had been so otteu aud so kindly entertained
in that home before sickness and death dev
astated it that Ho choked up and sobbed
aloud, and tho tears trickled down the sad
face of the sympathetic Christ. “Jesus
wept,' Why <lo you not try that mode of
helping. You say. “I am a man of few
words,’ or “I am a woman of few words.’
Why, your dear soul, words are not neoes
gary. Imitate your Lord and go to those at
flieted homes and cry witli them.
John Murpby! Well, you did not know
him. Once, when I was in great bereave
ment, he came to my house. Kind ministers
of tho gospel had come and talked beauti
fully and prayed with us and did all they
could to console, But John Murpby, souled, one of
the beat friends I ever bad, a looked big
giorious Irishman, anno in aud into
my face, put out his broad, strong hand and
said not a word, but sat down and cried with
us. I am not enough of a philosopher somehow tosay
how it was or why it was, but from
to door and from floor to ceiling the
loom was filled with an all pervading com¬
fort. “Jesus wept.”
I think that is what makes Christ such a
popular Christ. There are so many who
want sympathy. Miss Fiske, tho famous
Nest'orian missionary, was in the ohapei one
day talking to tho heathen, and she was in
very poor health and so weak she sat upon a
mat while she talked and felt the need of
something to lean against, when she felt a
woman’s form at her hack and heard a
woman's voice saying, “Lean on me.” She
leaned a little, but did not want to be too
cumbersome, when the woman’s voice said,
“Lean hard ; if you love me, lean hard.”
And that makes Christ so lovely. Ho
wants all the siek and troubled and weary to
lean against Him, and He says, “Lena hard ,
if you love Me. lean hard.” Aye, He is
eloso by with His sympathetic help. Hod
Jey Vicars, the famous soldier and Christian
Of the Crimean war. died because when he
was wounded his regiment was too far off
from the tent of supplies. He was not mor¬
tally wounded, and if the surgeons could
only have got at the bandages and the medi
cines he would have recovered. So much
oi human sympathy and hopefulness comes if
too late. But Christ is always close by
we want Him, and has all the medicines
ready, and has eternal life for all who ask
for it. Sympathy! lovely in His doctrines. Self
Aye. He was
sacrifice or the relief of the suffering ot
others by our own suffering. He was the only
physician that ever proposed to cure His pa
< ients by taking their disorders. Self sacri¬
fice! And what did He not give up for
others! The best climate iu the universe,
the air ot heaven, for the wintry weather ot
Palestine, a scepter of unlimited dominion
for a prisoner s box in an earthly courtroom, stinging
a flashing tiara for a crown of
brambles, a palaoe for a cattle pen, a throne
for a cross. Self sacrifice! What Is more
lovely? Mothers dying for their children
down with scarlet fever, railroad engineers
going down through the open drawbridge to
save the train, firemen scorched to death
trying to help some one down the ladder
from the fourth story of the consuming
house. All these put together only faint and
insufficient similes by which to illustrate the
grander, mightier, farther reaching self sac¬
rifice of the "altogether lovely.”
Do you wonder that the story ot His self
sacrifice has ied hundreds of thousands to
die for Him? In one series of persecutions
over 200.000 were put to death for Christ’s
sake. For Him Biandina was tied to a post
and wild beasts were let out upon her, and
when iite continued after the attack of tooth
and paw she was put in a net. and that net
containing her was thrown to a wild bull
that tossed her with its boms till life was ex¬
tinct. All for Christ! Hngnenots Christ! dying for
Christ! Albigenses dying for The
Yaudois dying for Christ! Smithfleld fires
endured for Christ! The bones oi martyrs.
jf distributed, would make ap^th of molder
jng life all around the earth. The loveliness
ofthe Saviour's sacrifice has inspired all the
heroisms and ail the martyrdoms of subse
quant centuries. Christ has had more men
and women die ” ■ all the other in
habitants of all the u*vs have had die feu
them.
Furthermore. Ue was lovely in H's set
ffions. He knew when to begin. wheu to
stop and just what to say. The longest ser
mon He ever preached, so tar as the Bible
reports Hint—namely, the sermon on the
mount was about sixteen minutes in delivery
—at the ordinary rate of speech. His long
est prayer reported, commonly called “The
lord's Prayer,’ was about half a minute,
Time them by your watch, and you will find
my estimate accurate, by which X do not
mean to say that sermons ought to tie only
sixteen minutes long and prayers only hall
a minute long. Christ had such infinite
power of compression that He could put
enough into His sixteen minute sermon and
His half minute prayer to keep all the fol
lowing ages busy in thought and action. No
one preach *J ut 11 short .9 lr ‘ st as , 00 that, , l ?. A hut lit me ant to
as
teach us compression. other shpwn .
At Selma. Ala., the day I was
a cotton press by which cotton wa.> put m
such shape that it occupied m transporfa
fj on only one cur whore three cars were tor
mer j v necessary, and one ship were three
s hips ^ bad been required, and I imagine that
we n aeed to compress our sermons and our
„ into smaller spaces,
And His sermons were so lovely for senti
ment an( j practicality and simplicity and il
lustratlon The light of a candle, the crystal
o{ the cluck of a hen for her chick
9n s. the hypocrite's dolorous physiognomy.
thR mot t, j u the clothes closet, the black
wing of a raV on. the snow nan k of white
)ilieSj our extreme botheration about the
gp n u ter of imperfection in some oue vise’s
character, the swine fed on the pearls,
wolves dramatizing sheep, aud the perora¬
tjon marte up oI a e y e lone iu which you hear
the crash of a rambling house unwisely eon
gtr ueted. No technicalities, no spiffing of
hairs between north and northwest side, no
dogmatics, but a great Christly throb of
helpfulness. I do not wonder at the record
-which says. "When He was come down from
the mountain, great multitudes followed
Him.” They had but one fault to find with
His serm0 n. Jt was too short, God
help all of us in Christian work to get down
0 p- our s tiltB and realize there is only oue
thin „ we have to do—there is the great
wound of the world’s sin aud sorrow, aud
there is the great healing piaster of the gos
pel. What you and I want to do is to put the
plaster on the wound. Alt sufficient is the
gospel if it is only applied. A minister
preaching to an audience of sailors (ton -ern
jng the ruin by sin and the rescue by the gos
pel accommodated himself to sailors’ vernac
ular and said, "This plank bears." Many
years after tilts preacher was called to see a
dying sailor and asked him about his hope
and got the suggestive reply, “This plank
bears,”
Yea, Christ was lovely in His chiei life’s
work. There were a thousand things for
Him to do, but His great work was to get
our shipwrecked world out of the breakers,
That He came to do, aud that Ho did, and
He did it in three years. He took thirty
years to prepare for that three years’ activ
ity. From twelve to thirty years of age wf
hear nothing about Him. That intervening
eighteen years I think he was in India. But
Ho came baek to Palestine and crowded
everything mto throe years—three winters,
three springs, three summers, three aut
umns. Our life is short, but would God
might see how much we could do in three
years. Concentration ! Intensification !
Three years of kind words ! Throe years of
living for others! Three years of self-sacri
flee ! Let us try it.
Aye, Christ was lovely iu His demise. He
had a right that last hour to deal iu anathe
matizatlon. Never had any oue been so
meanly treated. Cradle of straw among
goats and camels—that was the world’s re
caption of Him! Rocky cliff, With ham
mere pounding spikes through torturod
nerves—that was the world’s farewell saluta
tion! Tho slaughter of that scene sometimes
hides the loveliness of the sufferer. Under
the saturation of tears and blood we some
times fail to see the sweetest face of earth
and heaven. Altogether lovely! Can Ho cold
est criticism find an unkind word over
spoke, or an nukiud action that He over per
formed, or an unkind thought that He ever
harbored?
What a marvel it is that all the nations of
earth do not rise up in raptures of affection
for Him! I must say it here and now. I lift
my right hand in solemn attestation. I love
Him, and the grief of my life is that I do not
love Him more. Is it an impertinence for
me to ask, Do yon, my hearer—you, my
reader, love Him? Has He become a part of
your nature? Have you committed your
children on earth into His keeping, as your
children in heaven are already in His bosom?
Has He done enough to win your confidence?
Ran you trust Him, living rind dying and for
ever? Is your back or your face toward Him?
Would you like to have His hand to guide
you. His might to protect you, His grace to
comfort you, His sufferings to atone for you,
His arms to welcome you, His love to encir
cle you. His heaven to crown you? something
Oh, that we might all have of
the great German reformer's love for this
Christ which led him to say, “If any one
knocks at the door of my breast and says,
‘Who lives there?’ my reply is, ‘Jesus Christ
lives here, not Martin Luther.’ ” Will it not
be grand if, when we get through this short
and rugged road of life, we can go right up
into His presence and live with Him world
without end.
And if, entering the gate of (hat heavenly
city, we should be so overwhelmed with our
unwortbiness on the one side, and the super¬
nal splendor on the other side, wo get a lit¬
tle bewildered and should for a few moments
be, lost on the streets of gold and among the
burnished temples and the sapphire thrones,
there would be plenty to show us the way
andtake us out of our joyful bewilderment,
and perhaps the woman of Naiii would say,
“Come, let me take you to the Christ who
raised my only boy to life.” And Martha
would say, “Come, let me take you to tha
Christ wno brought up my brother Lazarus
from the tomb.” And one of the disciples
would say, “Come, and let me take you
to the Christ who saved our sinking ship
in the hurricane Gennesaret. " And
on
Paul would say, "Come, and let me
lead you to the Christ for whom J died
on the road to Ostia. ” And whole groups oi
martyrs would say, “Come, let us show you
the Christ for whom we rattled the chain and
waded the floods and dared the fires.” And
our own glorified kindred would flock around
us, saying, "We have been watting a good
while for you, but before we talk over old
times, and we tell you 8f wnat we have en¬
joyed since we have been here, and you tell
us of what you have snffered since we parted,
come. come and let us show yon tho greatest
sight in all the place, the most resplendent
throne, and upon it the mightiest conqueror,
the exaltation of heaven, the theme of the
immortals, the altogether great, the altogeth¬
er good, the altogether fair, the altogether
lovely!”
Well, tbe delightful morn will come
When my dear Lord wll bring me home,
And I shall see His face.
Then, with my Saviour, Brother, Friend,
A blest etern ty I’ll »pe>»
Triumphant in His grace.
SALOONS ARE OPEN.
Tbe Blind Tigers of Charleston Recov¬
er Their Sight.
The news of the setting aside of the
dispensary law by the state supreme
court was received at Charleston, S.C.,
shortly after 10 o’clock Thursday
morning. An hour later upwards of
200 blind tigers had miraculously re¬
covered their eyesight and w ere in full
blast. In many of them signs ap¬
peared inviting passers by to walk in
and have one with the house.
HALLS OF CONGRESS
BAHY PROCEEDINGS OF BOTH
HOUSE AND SENATE.
Die Discussion of Important Measures
Hrieily Epitomized,
lu the house, Wednesday, attention iu
was called to the inaccuracies the
house journal of Tuesday, but action
was postponed. Resolutions were agreed
to providing for the printing of vari¬
ous reports and laws, and the house
went into committee of the whole on
the diplomatic and consular appropri
ation bill.
At 12:15 Thursday the House went
into committee of the whole on the di¬
plomatic aud consular bill.
Iu the house, Saturday, the bill to
amend the act of 1889 establishing the
circuit court of appeals by authorizing
an appeal where a preliminary injunc¬
tion is grunted or refused, was passed.
This was the only bill that ran the
gauntlet of unanimous consent for con¬
sideration; half a dozen other requests
meeting objection. At 12:45 o’clock
the house resolved itself into commit¬
tee of the whole, Mr. Bailey, democrat
of Texas, in the chair, to consider
the diplomatic and consular appro¬
priations bill for the year ending June
80, 1895. No changes w ere made iu
the items considered. At 2 o’clock
the committee rose without completing
consideration of the bill, and the
house proceeded to hear eulogies upon
the late Senator Randall L. Gibson, of
Louisiana. The speakers were:
Messrs. Myer, Bland, Hooker, Boat
ner, Wheeler, Breckinridge, of Ar¬
kansas, and Blair. The usual resolu¬
tions were adopted, and, as a further
mark of respect, live house, at 4:05
o’clock, adjourned until noon Monday.
Immediately after the house was
called to order Monday morning, Mr.
Hepburn raised the point of “no quo¬
rum,” on the approval of the journal,
and the roll call was ordered. The
journal was approved ; ayes, 213 ; nays,
none. The house then proceeded to
the consideration of measures relating
to the District of Columbia.
THE (SENATE.
In the setmte, Wednesday, the tariff
bill was taken up at 1 o’clock and Air.
Morrill addressed the body. At the
close of his speech. Air. Aliils gave no¬
tice that ho would address the senate
on the tariff bill next Tuesday. Air.
Turpie then took the floor and spoke
in favor of the bill.
The conference report on the fur¬
ther urgent deficiency bill was agreed
to by the senate at Thursday’s session.
The resolution offered some days ago
by Air. Peffer for the appointment of
a committee of senators to reeeive all
written or printed communications from
citizens or bodies of citizens visiting
the capital and to hear them orally,
was taken up. Mr. Peffer adressed the
senate. At 1 o’clock the resolution
went over, the tariff Dill was taken tip
and Mr. Perkins spoke against it.
In the senate, Friday, Air. Sherman
introduced and the senate passed a
bill to amend the first section of the
Behring sea act of the 6tli instant, by
substituting the word “inclusive” for
the word “exclusive,” so that it shall
not be lawful to kill, capture or pur¬
sue seals within u zone sixty geograph¬
ic miles around the Pribyloff islands,
“inclusive” of territorial waters. A
resolution offered Dy Air. Gordon, was
referred to tjie committee on finance,
instructing that committee to report a
bill repealing the law placing u ten
per cent tax ou the issues of stute
banks. The tariff bill was taken up at
1 o'clock.
A petition from citizens of Pennsyl¬
vania for the issue of $500,000,000 of
treasury notes, to be used in the im¬
provement of roads, and to lie dis¬
tributed pro rata among the states ac¬
cording to the length of their roads,
was presented to the senate Saturday
by Air. Peffer. Air. Carey, of Wyo¬
ming, moved to take up the house bill
to protect the birds and animals aud
to punish crimes iu Yellow¬
stone national park. Before final
action could be had on the
Yellowstone bill, the hour of 1 o’clock
arrived, and the tariff bill was
taken up. Air. Dolph continued his
speech, begun Friday, in opposition to
the bill. He soon jielded, however,
to permit Mr. Quay to present the
memorial, adopted by the convention
of protectionist workingmen who had
reached Washington, protesting against
the. passage of the Wilson tariff bill,
and Air. Quay read and presented it.
After the reading was finished Air.
Dolph went on with his speech. At 5
o’clock p. m., the discussion for the
day ended, without Air. Dolph finish¬
ing his speech, and the senate adjourn¬
ed until Monday.
In the senate, .Monday, the crcden
dentials of Thomas Jordan Jarvis as
senator from North Carolina to fiil the
vacancy caused by the death of Air.
Vance, were presented by the vice
1 (resident, and placed on file. An effort
was, made py Mr. Peffer to get before
the senate again his resolution for a
select committee to give hearings to
Coxey’s army. He made a motion to
take it np, but ou the yeas and nays
only 17 senators voted for it, including
Air. Hawley, who probably desired to
give Allen an opportunity to reply to
his remarks, and 20 against it. At 1
p. m. the tariff Dill was taken up and
Mr. Quay, who was entitled to the
floor, yielded it to Mr. Washburn, who
proceeded to address the seriate in op¬
position to the bill.
Railroads Change Hands.
It is reliably stated at Aliddlesboro,
Ky., that the bonds of the Knoxville,
Cumberland Gap aud Louisville rail¬
road have been transferred to the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia,
through Drexei, Morgan & Co., and
that the system will take possession of
the road within thirty davs.
THOUSANDS AEEOFT
REPORTS CONCERNING THE EX¬
TENSIVE STRIKE OF MINERS.
More Thun 125,000 Men Have Thrown
Down Tlieir Pick ami Shovel.
A special from Columbus, Ohio, says:
President John McBride, of the United
Mine Workers, received reports from
a number of his lieutenants in the dif¬
ferent coal fields Monday, the most
important of which is the following
from Murphysboro, Ill. :
“Murphysboro, the supposed key
to the situation in southern Illinois, is
solid; also the Duquesne district.
Everything is favorable, and 2,600
are out. ”
It is signed by Organizers Fahy and
Penna. The leaders had little hope of
inducing tin* southern Illinois miners
to join the strike, aud this is an unex¬
pected addition to the strikers’ forces.
McBride revises his figures as to the
number of miners out at present as
follows: Alabama, 8,000; Tennessee
uud Kentucky, 5,000; West Virginia,
2,000; Indiana, 5,000 ; Ohio, 26,000;
Illinois, 27,600; Pennsylvania, 50,000;
Indian Territory, 2,000; Michigan,300;
Iowa, 1,300.
The following is the substance of
the news given out at the headquarters
Monday:
The Maryland miners will hold a
state convention to determine whether
they will join the strike as a whole or
not, on Thursday of this week. South¬
ern Iowa is not. all out but the miners
of the state will meet at Albia May 2d,
to decide what action the state organi¬
zation will take. The Indian Territory
is out solid. Many miners are out in
the New River and Kanawha River dis¬
tricts, but the miners will hold a con¬
vention at Charleston, W. Va., to agree
ou united action. The miners of the
Wheeling and Monndville districts
have been offered the wages demanded
by the scale, but they have been or¬
dered not to go to work until there is
a general settlement of the strike. The
Indiana block coal miners will join the
strike on May 1st. There is danger
that the miners iu West Virginia who
have been offered the scale wages will
accept, aud thus weaken the strike at
a dangerousjdace.___
ON TO BIRMINGHAM.
List of Camps and Program of the
Confederate Reunion.
Fifty thousand confederate veterans
will be iu line at the grand reunion in
Birmingham. It will be the happiest
day the vets have hud since they once
found pleasure in the very hardships
they endured. annual convention
This is the fourth
of the United Confederate Veterans’
Association and gives promise to bo
the grandest reunion the old soldiers
in gray have ever experienced. Since
the organization of the association a
number of years ago it has continually
increased its membership until now
there are 470 camps. These camps are
established iu all of the southern states
aud, indeed, many of tho northern
states. Every one of the camps will be
represented at the Birmingham reun¬
ion.
Following is a list of camps by states:
Texas 131, Alabama 72, Alississippi 47,
Louisiana 34, Arkansas 31, Kentucky
27, Houth Carolina 27, Florida 26,
Georgia 21, Tennessee 17, North Caro¬
lina 14, Virginia 10, Oklahoma 4,
Missouri 3, Indian Territory 2, District
of Columbia 1, West Virginia 1.
the full phoouamme.
Camp Hardee, of Birmingham, has
issued the following programme for
the encampment:
Forenoon April 25.—Convention
culled to order at 9 a. in. at Winnie
Davis wigwaui, by Major General F.
8. Ferguson, Alabama division.
Prayer by the chaplain general.
Address of welcome by his excellency,
Thomas G. Jones, governor of Alabama.
Address of welcome by Hon. David
J. Fox, mayor of Birmingham.
Response by General John B. Gor¬
don, commander-in-chif, United Con¬
federate Veterans.
Enrollment of delegates and perma¬
nent organization of convention.
Business of the convention.
Afternoon, 2 p. m.—Annual oration
at wigwam.
Resumption of business by conven¬
tion.
Evening, 7:30 o’cfcck.—Tableau of
states and concert at wigwam.
Reception for Mrs. and Aliss Winnie
Davis and other invited guests at the
parlors of the Caldwell hotel.
Second Day, April 26.—Convention
meets at 9 o’clock a. m., at the wig¬
wam.
Business of the convention resumed.
Afternoon, 2:30 o’clock.—Column
formed for review will pass the com
rnauder-in-chief, who will occupy the
reviewing stand at the park.
Laying of corner-stone of Confed¬
erate monument at City park.
Address by General Stephen D. Lee.
Evening. 7 :30 o’clock.—Tableau of
the states and concert at wigwam.
Reception of young ladies represent¬
ing Die states at Southern Club.
SENATOR JARVIS.
Governor Carr Appoints Him as Zeb
Vance’s Successor.
Ex-Governor Thomas J. Jarvis has
been appointed United States Senator
from North Carolina to fill the vacancy
caused by the death of Senator Vance.
Governor Carr tendered the position
to ex-Governor Jarvis and the honor
was accepted.
The appointment gives general sat¬
isfaction, and Senator Jarvis is receiv¬
ing hundreds of congratulations. It
is said he will, when the legislature
meets, become a candidate for Senator
Ransom’s seat, and thus let a western
man become a candidate to fill out the
remainder of Senator Vance's term of
two years.
NEWS OF THE SOUTH
A CONDENSATION OF OUR MOST
IMPORTANT NEWS ITEMS
" hii'h Will Be Found of Special In¬
terest to Our Readers.
I he session of the Louisiana legisla¬
ture, which meets next month, will
elect three United States senators.
This is the first time snch an event has
occurred in 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.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says:
Seventy men went to work in the Ten¬
nessee Coal, Iron and Railroad Com¬
pany’s mines Thursday. Vice presi¬
dent DeBardeleben says he will have a
full force in a few days, and doesn’t
want any of the old men. All is quiet
at the mines.
The Glamorgan pipe and iron works
of Lynchburg, Va., were totally de¬
stroyed by tire. The loss will be be¬
tween $75,000 and $100,000, Insu¬
rance unknown. The company em¬
ployed about three hundred men, and
had enough orders ahead to run them
six months.
The attorneys for the receivers of
the Central trail road, have received a
copy of a bill tiled 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.
The South Carolina state board of
control held an informal meeting at
Columbia Saturday morning aud is¬
sued orders closing all the dispensa¬
ries. For oue day at least prohibition
was in actual operation and no whisky
Iuih been legally sold, but the ‘ ‘blind
tigers” are doing business at the
old stands.
Congressman W. L. Wilson arrived
at New Iberia, La., Thursday, ou his
return from Mexico. He was received
by Captains Cade and Pharr and in
company with them visited several
points of interest and will be given an
insight into the magnitude of the sugar .
industry of that section. Mr. Wilson’s
health continues to improve.
The local camp of confederate vet¬
erans at Birmingham, Ala., has rec¬
ommended to the citizens that in the
decoration of their stores and resi¬
dences on the occasion of the renniou,
that they allow tho national colors to
predominate. While the confederate
colors and flags will be freely dis¬
played tho nation’s flag will be ac¬
corded tho greatest prominence, which
shows the veterans are generous as
well as brave.
A San Francisco dispatch says: Tho
steamer, Los Angeles, of the Pacific
Coast Steamship line, bound north
from San Pedro aud way ports, went
ashore in a heavy log at Point Hur,
forty miles south of Montery. Two
boats containing twenty passengers and
tho crew reached shore safely. An¬
other boat containing four of the pas¬
sengers aud Captain Loland is miss¬
ing and they are supposed to have
been drowned.
found guilty.
Result of the Packwood Murder Trial
at Tavares, Florida.
Jenkins, Mcltae and Clinton have
been found guilty of the Packwoodi
murders, though in the case of Clinton
the jury made a recommendation of
mercy. The jury reached a verdict in
a very short while, being out but little
over an hour. It is understood that
there was practical unanimity as to the
defendants. The verdict was a sur
prise. Those who have followed the
trial closely were of the opinion that
either a mistrial or an acquittal would
be tho outcome. This opinion was
due to the lack of direct evidence
against the defendants and the circum¬
stantial evidence aguiust them.
Jenkins is half Indian and half ne
gro, while McRae and Clinton are
members of respectable white families
in Volusia county, Florida where the
murders -wore committed, the case
having been removed to Tavares, Lake
county, on a change of venue.
The murders, which are the most
horrible on record in Florida, were
committed near New Smyrna, Volusia
county, over two years ago. The vic¬
tims were Miss Bruce, Mrs. Hatch,
Bennie Hatch and Frankie Pack wood,
the two latter being little boys, about
five years old. Aliss Bruce was a sis
ter-in-law of Frank J. Packwood, at
whose home the murders were com¬
mitted. Packwood was absent and
Mrs. Hatch, with her boy, was keeping
Miss Bruce and Frankie Packwood
company over night.
Workingmen at Washington.
A delegation of Pennsylvania work¬
ingmen, sixty-five strong, to protest
against the passage of the Wilson tariff
bill, arrived at Washington at noon
Friday. They quietly proceeded to
Metzerrott’s music hall, w'bere they
held a mass meeting for the purpose of
drawing up a petition and resolutions
to be presented to congress, protesting
against the passage of the Wilson tariff
bill. The league was composed of both
democrats and republicans.
Strike on tbe 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 Great Northern railroad from La
moure, N. D., to Spokane, Wash. It
was signed by I. 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 Spokane.