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REV. DR. TA IM AGE.
THE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN¬
DAY SERMON.
Subject: “The Spiritual Conflicts o?
Life.”
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nailed not against him he touched the hot
thlh f thl * h ’. a ! lr ! th ? h «llow of Jacob',
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bias’s oiessme. h ^" —Genesis G WiU nM xxxn., ,h r 24-26. q ° except <Ao «
The dust arose from a traveling herd ot
ThPv sheep a T d and
rnej are the present that Jacobs nds . to gain
the good will of his offended brother. That
night Jacob baits by the brook Jabbok. But
there is no rest forthe weary man, no shining
ladder to let the angels down into his dream,
but a fierce combat, that iRsts until the morn
ing, with an unknown visitor. They each
try to throw the other. The unknown visit
perhaps bXTrom^Cket
maiming him for life. As on the
morning sky the clusters of purple cloud be
gin to iipen Jacob seea it is an angel with
y ie 5u S ^ eeQ fS2"S. l'; rtiid »"!> not ”o ‘li one
0
^prAfesttift^sas 5 Jacob wa» a good man, but hero
“lu ,i . tremendous ♦ a,oa ®, «“.«!<■' influence “intuignt by to tho wrestle brook
Jabbok. T . , . For Joseph, a pit; for Daniel, a
wild boast don ; for David, dethronement and
exilo; for John the Baptist, a wilderness
diet and the executioners ax; lor Peter, a
prison , for 1 aul, shipwreck ; for John, ileso
late Patmos ; for /Vashti, most insulting
orueltj ; for Josephine, banishment;_tor .Mrs.
btgonrney, the agony of a drunkard s wife ;
ior John Wesley, stones hurled by an iufuri
ated mob; tor Catherine, tho Scotch girl, the
urowamg surges ol the sen ; for Mr. Baras,
V 1 ? buffetmg of the Montreal populace ; for
Jo in Browu, °f Ldmburgh, the pistol shot
01 Oaverhouse ; lor Hugh McKail the
scaffold ; for Latnner, the stake; for Christ,
the cross. For whom the rocks, the gibbets,
the guillotines the thumbscrews? Forthe
sons and daughters of the Lord God Ai
miguty. Some one said to a Ghristiiin re
former, File world is against you. Then,
he replied, ‘fam against the world.
1 will go further and say that every Chris
turn has his struggle. Ibis man had his
combat m Wall street; this one on Broad
s reet ; this one on Fulton street:; this one on
Chestnut street ; this one on State street;
this one on Lombard street ; this one on the
bourse. With financial misfortune you have
had the midnight wrestle. Redhot disasters
have dropped into your store from lott to
cellar. What you bought you could not soil.
Whom you trusted (led. The help you ox
pected would not come. Some guint panic,
with long arms and grip like death, took
hold of you in an awful wrestle from which
you have not yet escaped, and it is uucer- will
tam whether it will throw you or you
throw it.
Here is another soul in struggle with some
bad appetite. He knew not how stoaltluly
it was growing upon him. One hour he
woke up. He said, ‘‘For the sake of my
soul, of my family, and of mv children, and
of my God, I must stop this !” And, beiiotd,
he found himself alone by the brook Jab
bok, and it was midnight. him, ho That seized evil nppe
tito seized upon and upou it,
and. oh, tho horror of tho conflict! When
once a bad habit has aroused itself up to de
stroy a man and the man has sworn that, by
the nolp of the eternal God, ho will destroy
it, all heaven draws itself out in a long lino
of light to look from above, and hell
stretches itself in myrmidons of spite to look
up from beneath. I have seen men rally
themselves for such a struggle, and they
have bitten their lips and clinched their
Jists and cried, with a blood red earnest
ness and a rain of scalding tears, “Uo l
help mo!”
From a wrestle witli habit I have seen men
fall back defeated. Calling for no help, but
relyingon their own resolutions, they nave
come into the struggle, and for a tiino it
seemed as if they were getting ttie upper
Hand of their haoit, but that habit rallied
again its infernal power and lifte 1 a soul
from its stauding, and with a force borrowed
from the pit hurled it into utter darkness,
First I saw tho auctioneer's mallet fall on
the pictures and muslbal instruments and the
rich upholstery of his family parlor. After
awhile I saw him fall into the ditch. Then,
in the midnight, when tho children were
dreaming their sweetest dreams and Chris
tian households are silent with slumber, an
gel watched, I heard him give the suarp
shriek that followed the stab of liis own
poniard, He fell trom an honoredsooial po
sition , he fell from a family circle ot which
once lie was the grandest attraction ; ho fell
from ttie house of God, at wtio.se alters he
had been consecrated ; he tell—forever i
But, thank God, I have often seen a better
termination than that.
I have seen men prepare themselves for
such a wrestling. They laid hold of God’s
help when they went into combat. The giant
habit, regaled by the enp ot many ternpta
tions, came out strong and defiant. They
elincued. There were the writhings an l
distortions of a fearful snuggle. But the
old giant began to waver, and, at last, in tho
midnight alone, with none but God to wit
ness, by the brook Jabbok, the giant fell,
and the triumphant wrestler broke the dark
ness with tne cry, "Thanks bo unto God,
who givetli us the victory through our Lord
Jesus Christ.” Thun is a widow’s heart
that lirst was desolated by bereavement and
since by the anxieties and trials that came
in the support of a family.
ll is a sad thing to see a man contending
for a livelihood under disadvantages, but to
see a delicate woman, with helpless little
ones at her back, lighting the giants of pov
erty and sorrow, is most affecting. It was a
humble home, mid passersby knew not that
within those four wails were displays of
courage more admirable than those of Han
nihal crossing the Alps, or the pass of Ther
mopylw or Balakiava. where “into the jaws
ot death rode the six hundred.”
These heroes had the whole world to cheer
them on, but there were none to applaud the
struggle in the bumble home. She fought for
bread, for clothing, and for fire, for shelter, with
aching head, weak side, and exhausted
strength, through the long night by the brook
Jabbok, Could it be that none would give
iter help? Had God forgotten to be gracious?
No, contending soul! The midnight air is
full of wings coming to the rescue. She
hears it now in the sough of the night wind,
tn the ripple of the brook Jabbok—the prom¬
ise made so long ago ringing down the sky.
“Thy fatherless children. I will preserve
them alive, and let thy widows trust. in!.Ie!”
Some one said to a very poor woman,
‘•How is it that in such distress you keep
cheerful?” She said ; “I do it by what I call
cross prayers When I had my rent to pay
and nothing to pay it with, and bread to bay
and nothing to buy it with. I used to sit down
and cry. But now I do not get discouraged.
It I go along the street, when I come to a
corner of the street I say. ‘The Lord help
me,' I then go on until I come to another
crossing of tho street, and again I say, ‘The
Lord help me!’ And so I utter a prayer at
every crossing, and sin.ee I have got into the
habit of saying these ‘cross prayers’ I have
been able to keep up my courage.”
Learn again from this subject that people
sometimes are surprised to find out that what
they have been struggling blessing.” with in the dark¬
ness is really an “angel of Jacob
found in the morning that this strange per¬
sonage was not an enemy, but a God dis¬
patched messenger to promise prosperity for
him and for his children. And so many a
mac. at the close of his trial, has found oat
that he has been trying to throw down his
own blessing. If You are a Christian man , I
will go back in your history and find that the
grandest things that have ever happened to
you hays been your trials. Nothing short of
scourging, imprisonment ant shipwreck
derariss pursued by his own sou. he was be
iuur prepared to become the sweet singer of
Israel. The pit and the dungeon wore the
best senools at which Josepa ever graduated,
The hurricane that upset the tent and killed
J ol) ’ s children prepared the man of Uz to
writs the magnifl.-fent poem that lias as
X'iiere is no way to puriiy tii • gol.l nut to
burn.it. Look at the poopie who h ive had
e |,eerfut folks go among “ those who have
been purified by the fire. After Rossini had
five hundredth
S= auT“reu“leTm?n Un
put upon his brow a golden crown ot laurel
leaves. But amid ali the applause and eu
thusiasm Rossini turned to a friend and said,
“I would give all this brilliant scene for a
few days of youth and love.” Contrast the
melancholy feeling of Rossini, who had
everything this world could give him, to the
joyful experience of Isaac Watts, whose mb
fortunes were innumerable, when he says.
SS^iSS^ESSST = ^
Then let uur songs aboim.t
weare marching through immauiiei’s ground
.. .......
gag -Bssswawaa with
for meat, 5j and tho sky darkened fell a groat
lloelc oI Uttll8 . an dthese quails Israelites in largo
multitudes all about them, and tho
. lt6 alld at0 aud stuffed thomsolves uutil
t)le y died. Oh, my friends, it is not hard-
8 hip 0r trial or starvation that injures tho
soul> bm abundant supply. It is not tho
vulture of trouble that eats up the Christian's
life ; it is the quails, it is the quails ! You
will yet find one that your midnight wrestle
b yf be brook Jabbok is witlv the angel of
aod com0 dovm t0 iq,. BS ;illd save,
Learn again that while our wrestling
with trouble may be triuinpliatit we must ex
p ect t j lat i e . lve it 9 mark; upon us.
Jacob prevailed, but the angel touched liiui,
and hjs thlgh boue Hprtt n K from its socket,
and the good man went limping on his way.
Womust carry through this world the mark
of th e combat. What plowed those premia
ture wrinkles in your face? What whitened
your hRir before it was time for frost? What
silenced forever so much of the hilarity of
your housebcld? Ah, it is because the angel
of trouble hath touehed you tbrtt you go
limping on your J way. You need not be sur
pri9Bd tUat tbose W ho have .J p issed through
tlln llre do not fefi , a3 g!ty thev onee did.
Dn Ilot be out of pat ienoe with' those who
O ome not out of their despondency. They
, nav -j triumph t';,,, over their loss, and yet their
gbaM yo „ that they have been trouble
touched. Are we stoics'that wo can. mi¬
movfid sen our cradle rilled of the bright
e .ves and the sweet lips! Can wo stand un
moved and son our gardens of earthlv de
light upro()t ,. l? Will Jesus, who weiit ilim
s(df be , witb us if wo pour our tears
into the gr ives that ooon to swallow down
what w „ lov , l)0 stV Was Lazarus more dear
t„ Him than our beloved dead to us? No
We have a right to weep. Our tears musi
C ome. You siuiU not drive them bank tc
scald the heart. They fall into God’s bottle,
Afflicted ones have died because they could
not weep. Thank God for the sweet, tho
mysterious relief that comes to ns in tears!
Under this gentle rain the flowers of corn
put forth their bloom. Goil pity that dry,
withered, parched, all consuming grief that
wrings its hands and grinds its tooth and
bites its nails unto the quick, but cannot
weep! We may have found the comfoit that of
the cros-q and yet ever after show in the
dark night and by the brook Jabbok we were
trouble touched,
Again, wo may take the idea of the text
and announce tho approach of tho day dawn,
jjo one was ever more glad to seo the morn
ing than was Jacob after that night ofgtrug
g i e , Christians Jt is appropriate for with philanthropists this
and to cry out angel ol
the text, “The day breaketh, ’ Tho world’s
prospects are brightening. The ohuroh ol
Christ is rising up in its strength to go fortli
“fair as the moon, clear ns tho sunaudterri
ble as an army with banners.”
Clap your hands, all ye people, the day
breaketh, Tho bigotries of the earth are
perishing. The time was when we were
told that if we wanted to get to heaven we
must be immersed or sprinkled, or wo must
believe in the perseverance of the saints, or
in falling away from grace, or a liturgy or
no liturgy, or they must ho Calvinists or
Arminians in order to reach heaven. We
have all come to confess now that theso are
nonessentials in religion,
During my vacation one summer I was in
a Presbyterian audience, and it was Sacra
mental day, and with grateful heart I re¬
eeivedthe Holy Communion. On tho next
Sabbath I was in a Methodist church and sat
at a love least. On tho following Sabbath I
was in an Hpiscopal church and knelt bread. at the
alter and received the eonsecratod I
do not know which service I enjoyed the
most. “I believe in the communion of suints
and in the life everlasting.” “The day
breaketh.”
As I look upon this audience I seo many
who have passed through waves of trouble
that came up higher than their girdle. In
God’s name I proclaim cessation of liostili
ties. You shall not go away saddened and
broken-hearted. God will lift your burden,
God will bring your dead to life. Goil will
stanch the heart’s bleeding. I know He will,
Like as a father pities his children, so the
J.ord pities you. The pains of earth will
end. The tomb will burst. The dead will
rise. Themorningstartromblesonabright- begin
ening sky. The gates of the east to
swing open. The day breaketh,
Luther and Melanehthon were talking to¬
gether gloomily about the prospects of the
church. They could see no hopes of delivor
ance. After awhile Luther got up aud said
to Melanehthon “Come, Philipp, let us sing
the forty-sixth psalm of David, ‘God is our
refuge and strength, a very pleasant help in
trouble. Therefore will uot we fear, though
the earth bo removed and though the uiouu
tains be carried into the midst of the sea
though the waters thereof roar aud bo trou
bled; though tho mountains shuke with
the swelling thereof, belab
Death to many, nay to all, is a strugglo
and and a a wrestle. wrestle, We have many friends that
it it will will be fie hard hard to to leave. leave, I care not how
bright nl,r our bitnre iuturti hone hope is. is. It is a bitter
thing to look upon this fair world and know
vnat"we shall never again fruits, seo its its blossoming sparkling
spring, its failing tiiose with
streams and to say farewell to
whom we played in childhood or aounseled
in manhood. In that night, tike Jacob, we
may have to wrestle, but God will not leave
us unblessed. It shall not be told in heaven
that a dying soul cried unto God for help,
but was not delivered. The lattice may be
turned to keep out the sun, or a book set to
dimtbeligut of the midnight taper, or the
room mav be filled with the cries of orphan¬
age and widowhood, or the church ol O” Christ : :
may mourn over our going, but if Jesus calls
all is well. The strong wrestling by the
brook will cease: the hour of death’s night
will pass along— 1 oYio^fc in the morning; 2
o clock iu tho morning; 4 o’clock in tue
morning. The day breaketh.
So I would have it when I die. I r.na in no
grudge against this world. Tne ---- only iauk
.
I h a ve to find with the world is that it treats
me too well, but when the time cpmes to gc
I trust to be ready, my worldly ahairs ali
sett ieJ III IU have have wronger wrongs I others. others, I x want wuu
then to be sure of their lor^ivenns**. la
that last wrestling, my arm enfeebled wiiu
sssrii^f&i'ssss.'s &S ssst sursus
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on and hidp mo up.
inv, may I step nght out into toe light ^:
be abie *.o look baek to my Kuuirod uuc
friends woo woal^ detain me here, _______
ing “Let me go t Jet ate go. U.o
WcOkcUi!’’
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^ MIGHTY HOST G\THERKI> " AT
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BTBTVVGHAM.
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Fourth Annual Reunion of the Con
federate Veterans.
—
The fourtli annual reunion . ot , con
federate veterans was formally opened
at Birmingham, Wednesday morning,
by General Fred S. Ferguson, ot the
First Alabama brigade in Winnie
Davis wigwam, at 9 o’clock. There
building . full and Y 1 many <>’* 00 could P^ 0118 not . gam “ J* ac
cess to the immense half.
The stage was thronged with gener
als , and , colonels, , , ___. most o horn i,
gray uniforms. Tne opening prayer
was made by Dr. J. William Jones,
v-iof.-ohnnln.in VJC P, ,-pneral The audience
stood, ^ and at the conclusion , ol - the ..
eloquent invocation, the old soldiers
responded with cheers and amen*,
Major-General Ferguson, ot Ala
bama, called the convention to older
and introduced Governor Jones, w ho
made a brief but eloquent welcoming
Mrn. in behnlf ol the .tot. ud «.
“ beh *“ of
GORDON AND PANDEMONIUM.
Then came Gordon and pandemoni¬
um. Before Ferguson’s introduction,
there were wild yells of “Gordon!”
“Dixie!” and simultaneously, as the
Georgia soldier-senator faced the vast
throng, handkerchiefs and hats waved
in the air, the band played “Dixie”
and it was many minutes before the
yelling ceased. As it did, the dele¬
gates from the Lee camp, of Virginia,
marched in, headed by a drum corps
of boys and enthusiastic cheering
broke out afresh. At the conclusion
of General Gordon’s address he was
loudly cheered. The band played
“The Bonnie Blue Flag,” and the vet¬
erans went wild with enthusiasm. On
behalf of the Texans. General AA'atts
presented Gordon with a beautiful
gavel, which was accepted iu an appro¬
priate reply. The business of the
convention was then begun, and the
enrollment of delegates taken up.
There were over 500 camps repre¬
sented at roll call. A subscription to¬
ward the Chicago confederate monu¬
ment was then taken up and #1,500
was handed in in a very few minutes.
Routine business then followed.
The local military gave an exhibi¬
tion battalion drill in the afternoon,
witnessed by thousands.
At night a tableau of the states, iu
which the prettiest youDg married wo¬
men from each southern state partici¬
pated was represeuted at the wigwam.
RESOLUTION OF THANKS.
The following resolution was unani¬
mously adopted at Wednesday’s ses¬
sion. “Resolved, That the thanks of
the confederate veterans are hereby
tendered to the congress of the United
States for / establishing the Chicka
mauga and Chattanooga national mili¬
tary park, where tlie history of the
heroic fighting on both sides is being
impartially preserved, aud that the
governors and legislatures of the south¬
ern states, and especially our sena¬
tors aud representatives in congress,
are requested to actively co-operate
with the secretary of war and the na¬
tional commission, acting under him,
iu furthering the work of establishing
the national park.”
FOR A SOUTHERN HISTORY.
The report of the historic commit¬
tee, of which General Stephen D. Lee,
of Mississippi, is chairman, was read.
The report says that while the south
has had much to do witli making tlie
history of tho nation, it has done little
toward writing it. The histories that
have been written by northern histori¬
ans have naturally been biased. It is
recommended that data be gathered
for a correct southern history and that
the legislatures of the southern states
aud the authorities of the schools be
urged to adopt the book for use in the
schools.
The Second Day.
When the veterans’ convention
opened Thursday morning the secre¬
tary read in thundering tones a list of
prominent officers, requested to come
tip on the platform.
The report of the Jefferson Davis
monument committee, made by Gene¬
ral Cabell, showed that over twelve
thousand dollars are in the hands of
the treasurer. The fund is for the
purpose of erecting a hundred thous¬
and dollar monument and an assess¬
ment of twenty-five cents a year until was the
called for from every veteran
fund is raised.
General Miller, deputy commander
for Alabama of the Grand Army of the
Republic, presented General Gordon
with a handsome cane cut from Bar¬
low’s Hill, on Gettysburg battlefield.
In an eloquent tribute he told how
Gordon saved the life of his general,
Francis Barlow, on that battlefield.
The presentation occasioned another
wild outburst of cheering.
FIGHT ON THE CONSTITUTION.
A warm fight arose over the adop
tion of the report on constitution and
by-laxvs, made by General Underwood,
The convention divided into factions,
one favoring adoption, the other
ing postponement. The report was
adopted. It T provides . . for a revenue ot
about four thousand dollars a year.
The report -* of the committee on pen
sion for Mrs. Jefferson Davis, reported
that the , legislatures . , of , Georgia, ,, Ala- ,.
bama> North Carolina, Tennessee,
Kentucky and OT , r1 Texas Texas, hail had been been nuked asked
to appropriate Saw each for such a
pension, but that not one had doDe so.
1 "i‘! " Le r; ri*
ssssstr.sir
^ j, 0 t discussion arose over a resolu
endorsing Atlanta . , invitation . ,. to
tion s
the Grand Army of the Republic. Dr.
J. William Jones spoke against it. He
said that the Grand Army k^ljof of the Be
p»blio ™ eompcd men
invisible m war and invincible in
peace.” He protested in furious tones,
p. H. Busbee, of North Carolina, *
eloquently * sustained the resolution.
He said that Atlanta was a great,
growing and patriotic American citv.
re-echoed h.^. by every southern j»*n, soldier
and every brave southern man. Major
E. J. Gordon, of Alabama, a brother
of General John B. Gordon, spoke in
refutation of Hr. Jones’ charge. The
G. A. R. men were the soldiers who
fou g ht ’ He sa “f that the organization
was made up ot brave men and he
urged the endorsement of the Atlanta
invitation. Several others spoke. The
report . adopted ij.ii by net -
_ was an over v. til
ing majority,
GENERAL GORDON RE-ELECTED.
The election of officers resulted in
the unanimous election of General
John B. Gordon as commander-in
clnef. General AV. IT. Jackson second
general in command; department
commander of the army of Northern
Virginia, Fitzhugh Lee; department
commander of the army of Tennessee,
General S. D. Lee; department com¬
mander of trans-Mississippi depart¬
ment, General W. L. Cabell; chief
clerk, Miss Amanda Childress.
VO HOUSTON NEXT YEAR.
The matter of the next meeting place
was taken up. The invitation of Hous¬
ton, Texas, was presented in several
speeches. Atlanta’s invitation, ac¬
companied by tho mayor and council’s
greeting, the Press Club’s invitation,
that of Fulton County Confeder¬
ate Veterans’ Association and the Sons
of Confederate Veterans of Fulton
county was presented. Mayor Ellison
presented the invitation of Richmond.
The vote was taken by states, result¬
ing in the choice of Houston, Tex.,
which was made unanimous. This
closed the work of the greatest gather¬
ing of confederate veterans ever held.
THE CLOSING CEREMONIES.
Thursday afternoon the ceremonies,
attendant upon the laying of the cor¬
ner-stone of the confederate monu¬
ment in Capitol park, occurred. The
following program was carried out:
In'the early afternoon General Gor¬
don, commander-in-chief, reviewed the
legion of veterans. The escort of
honor, made up of armed and uni¬
formed militiamen aud cadets, headed
the procession. The veterans formod
into two great corps, the
first under command of Lieutenant
General Cabell, and the second under
that of Lieutenant General S. D. Lee.
The Sous ‘of Veterans of Alabama
brought up the rear of the great line.
At tlie park General Gordon made a
few remarks on the laying of tho cor¬
ner stone, and General Stephen D.
Lee, of Mississippi, delivered the ora¬
tion of the day. In the evening there
wan a reception at the Southern Club
to the fair representatives from the
several states.
BIG FAILURE IN NEW YORK.
Dealers In Tailor*’ Goods anil Trim¬
mings Uo to tlie Wall.
Henry Newman it- Co., wholesale
dealers in tailors’ trimmings, at No.
628 Mid 430 Broadway, N. Y., have
assigned. Tho firm obtained an ex¬
tension last September of eight,twelve
and fifteen months, showing liabilities
of #1,600,000 and assets #2,400,000.
The first payment on the extended
notes falls due on May 15th.
According to the assignee’s state¬
ment tlie liabilities of tho firm are
about #1,500,000. The assets are #2,
000,000, consisting of #900,OOo worth
of stock at cost price; #500,000 in
good outstanding accounts, #120,000
in cash and enough real estate to make
the total assets about #2,000,000.
Henry Newman & Co., were among
the largest wholesale and retail dealers
in clothier’s supplies in this coubtry.
In addition to their house at 028 aud
430 Broadway, they, in January, 1893,
opened a large branch 276 and 278
Franklin street, Chicago.
CR1ITCIZED THE CLERGY.
The Bishop of Mississippi Talks Out
in Meeting.
Right Reverend Hugh Miller Thomp¬
son, bishop of Mississippi, has created
a very considerable stir among both
clergy and laymen in his annual ad¬
dress before the diocesean council as¬
sembled at Jackson. After some criti¬
cism on the clergy he used this Ian
guage: « < But we can’t all he elocution
ists, you say, nor pulpit orators. Well,
I am not so sure of that. To be one
or the other of even a-somewhat distin¬
guished kind, as things go, requires no
wonderful endowment. For myself let
me frankly confess 1 never heard but
two preachers whom I could again cross
the street to hear: The late arch¬
bishop of York, Dr. Magee, and my
dear friend, Dr. Palmer, of the First
Presbyterian church, of New Orleans,
who is wonderfully like him and is still
living, thank God.”
IN MEMORY OF CHILDS.
Tribute from tlie International League
of I’ress Clubs.
Dr. Edward Bedloe, formerly consul
a t Amoy, China, has presented Geo.
- W.
W. C. Drexel, for Mrs. Geujg 6
Childs, a letter trom Col. Job m A.
Cockerill, -..... president -- • of - the -• interna- - -
tional League or Press Clubs, in which
_ . , . ,
Col. Cockerill, after expressing Ins ad
riJ j ra tion and esteem for Mr. Childs,
notified Mrs. r-v.Jl.la Childs tw that he l.e innnniii transmits
to her an engrossed copy of the reso
] u tions of regret passed by the league
<* ,ta ih -° 1 Mr <:iiii< 1 ' 1
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c „sf.* rs, , ,
3 o which
fined feeling of appr hension
hag bovered about the city for the past
f weekg hag disappeared.
THE NEWS IN BRIEF
MADE UP OF ITEMS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE WORLD,
Showing Wliat is Going On In Our
Own and Foreign Lauds.
Two hundred and fifty-two fresh
cases of cholera were reported at Lis¬
bon Thursday.
Fire at Hot Springs, Ark., destroyed
a block of business buildings, opposite
the postofliee on Central avenue, en¬
tailing a loss to the amount of some¬
thing like #100,000.
The National line steamer Helvetia,
Captain Froliohe, has been abandoned
m a sinking condition off Cape Finist
cere, Spain, aud her crew and passen¬
gers lauded at Gibraltar.
A telegram received at the miners’
headquarters at Columbus, from
Thomas Fa try, dated Fire Creek, West
A r irginia, says that twenty-one mines
in that state are closed. They employ
3,500 miners.
The Indiana Republican State Con¬
vention adjourned at Indianapolis,
at 4 o’clock Thursday morning, after
having been in continuous session for
eighteen hours. .A full state ticket
was completed and agreed upon.
Mrs. Cornelia G. Weir Morgan, tvjfo
of Senator Morgan, of Alabama, died
of peritonitis at tho senator’s home ill
Washington Saturday. Mrs. Morgan
had been ill for several weeks, but her
death was unexpected.
An almost complete paralysis of the
Pennsylvania coke region now exists.
The strikers have closed every one of
the Frick plants. The Raines Moyer,
Pauli and Fort Hill plants are running
with workmen under the protection of
deputies.
While sixteon miners were descend¬
ing the shaft of a coal mine at Boise do
Luo, near Mens, Germany, the cable
broke and the cage containing tho men
was precipitated to the bottom of the
shaft. Thirteen wore killed, and three
fatally wounded.
Governor Flower, of New York, has
vetoed tho annual appropriation bill
because tho republican legislature re¬
fused to amend tho bill by striking out
the section to allow the attorney gen¬
eral to designate all counsel employed
by state commissioners. This action
of the governor will probably delay
the adjournment.
Tho following wage scale has boon
adopted by tho miner’s convention at
Scottdale, Pa: Mining room coal, 90
cents per 100 bushels; heading coal,
wet, #1.20; dry; #1.05; out-throughs
and narrow work, heading price ; draw¬
ing coke, per 100 bushels of coal
charged, 53 cents; leveling, per oven,
9 cents. For all other work, 12 J x ,er
cent above the Frick scale.
Judge Henry W, Scott, of tho dis¬
trict court at Oklahoma City, O. T.,
has seutenced J. J, Burke and E. E.
Brown, publishers of the Oklahoma
Timex- Journal, to the oouuty jail for
ten days and to pay a fine of #200 each
for contempt in commenting upou his
judicial character. A great sensation
was created. The judge refused to al¬
low an appeal and both newspaper men
are in jail.
A sensational feature of President
Debs’ address to the American Rail¬
way Union meeting at MinneajioJis
was his attack upon Judge Jenkins, in
which he suid : “Jenkins is tho most
corrupt scoundrel that was ever out¬
side of prison walls. He is a man
whose whole life, both public and pri¬
vate, is rotten to the very core, and I
stand prepared to prove it, too. Jen¬
kins is s disgrace to the bench upon
which ho sits, and to tho people who
elevated him to the positi on."
MOTION OVERRULED
In Congressman Hreckenride’s Appli¬
cation for a New Trail.
A Washington dispatch says: The
motion for a new trial in the case of
Bollard vs. Breckinridge was overrul¬
ed by Judge Bradley’s court Saturday
morning. The defendant was present
iu person and was also represented by
his counsel. The plantin'was not pres¬
ent, but was represented by attorneys.
Judge Bradley said the trial lmd been
a fair one and every question of law
had been settled to his satisfaction and
the new trial, if there was to be one,
should be in the court of appeals. He
therefore, overruled the motion for a
new trial. He said he doubted the
court’s power to allow a thirty days’
extension iu which to file a bill of ex¬
ceptions aud he would have to bear
arguments on Uiat point. Argument
was then made on that question ami the
court allowed the thirty days asked for.
Judgment for the amount was then
formally entered.
A FOUR MILLION PRIZE.
Florence Blythe Awarded Her Fath¬
er’s Fortune by the Court*.
The famous Blythe case 1ms been
settled at last by ten decisions just
handed down by the supreme court at
San Francisco, all iu favor of Flor
dice Blythe-Hinckley, natural daugh¬
ter of Thomas H. Blythe, who thus
becomes heiress to an estate of #4,
000,000.
For four years the young woman
whose title to great wealth is thus as¬
sured has been the most talked about
of her sex in California. From a child
she has lived in the glare of publicity
The case is almost as celebrated in the
history of American litigation as thut
of the other California claimant, Mc
Garrahan, who has just ended his long
fight for millions with bis life.
Flour For Glasgow.
The Noel Mill Company at Estell
Springs, Tenn., have finished loading
the second train of flour for export to
Liverpool and Glasglow. It will be
dilivered to the Johnston line of steam
ers at Port Royal for transportioa to
Liverpool
SOUTHERN STATES.
A CONDENSATION OF OUR MOST
IMPORTANT NEWS ITEMS
Which Will be Found of Special In¬
terest to Our Readers.
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.
L. W. Johns, the general superin¬
tendent of the Tennessee coal, Iron
and Railroad company, at Birming¬
ham, Ala., has secured at Weir City,
Kan., 200 negro coal miners to go into
the Birmingham mines in place of the
strikers there.
The Glamorgan pipe and iron works
of Lynchburg, Va., were totally de¬
stroyed by fire. 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 railroad, have received a
copy of a bill filed in the Middle dis¬
trict United States court of Alabama,
to foreclose tho mortgage on the Co¬
lumbus and Western railroad, a part
of the Savannah aud Western system,
between Columbus and Montgomery.
Judge Newman, at Atlanta, Ga., has
signed the order for the foreclosure of
the mortgage on the Richmond and
Danville railroad, and an order for
the sale of the road. He reserves in
the order the right to make the judg¬
ments of various parties against the
road prior liens to the mortgage.
The St. Charles hotel, the largest
and finest hotel in New Orleans, has
been destroyed by fire. One man, a
guest in tho hotel, was fatally burned
and another was fatally injured by
jumping from a third story window.
Tho Western Union building, opposite
the St. Charles, was badlj damaged
aud the instruments were removed.
The loss will exceed #1,000,000.
Suit has been filed in the federal
court at Louisville, Ky,, by the Louis¬
ville and Nashville railroad company
against tho Illinois Central railroad
company to have the contract with tho
Illinois Central in the purchase of the
Huntington lines enforced. The trou¬
ble 18 mainly over the joint use of 121
miles of the Chesapeake, Ohio and
Southwestern Railroad between Ful
,ton, Ky., and Memphis.
It is reportod that a bill of injunc¬
tion will lie filed in a few days atChftt
tanooga to prevent the issuance of
#150,000 in bond* by Hamilton coun¬
ty for building u bridge across the
Tennessee river, west of the city. The
bridge waH to cost over half a million
dollars, by the Chattanooga Western
Railway Company, a syndicate hand¬
ling large sums of British money. The
county court voted bonds last October
to assist in tho enterprise.
The debenture holders of the Cen¬
tral railroad held a meeting 35 Savan¬
nah Wednesday, but came uo nearer a
determination of the matters before
them than at the former meeting. The
agreement which has been drawn had
received only #610,000 worth of signa¬
tures and it has to have #1,000,000 be¬
fore it can become operative. The
amount was increased to about #700,000
at tho meeting and the committee will
canvass for further signatures before
another meeting is called.
ATLANTA MARKETS.
CORRECTED WEEKLY.
UriuitrlM.
(Joiroo—Boasted—ArbnoUlo’s XI 100 lb.
cases,Lion ‘JiS.BOf . Levering'n ?.'i 60«. Green-Ex¬
tra choice 21c; choice good 20o; fair lMc; coaa
niou Gal 8c. Hngar----Granulated 4>£c; >l /.
white powdered C 5‘/,c; 4c; New cut Orleans Inal yellow clari¬ •
extra
fied 4c; ye Tow extra <5 8j4c. Hymp—
New Orleans choice 45c; prime 35@40c; common
20@80o. Molasses—Genuine Cuba 35@38c; im¬
itation 220i‘J5. Teas Black 85@56c; green
■KiWjfiOe. Nutmegs (S5<@85c. Cloves 25@30c;
iiinamoii 10@12%C. Allspice I0@!lc. Jamai¬
ca ginger 18c. (Singapore pepper 11c, Maco
$1.00. Bico, Head «c; good Haft—Hawley’s 9J£; common
4‘Xc; imported Virginia Japan 70c. 5($5%e. Cheese-flats !2%@13;
dairy $1.40; bills. $4-00; pails (59c;
White flab, half $0.00(^8.50. Heap.
Mackerel, half barrels,
Tallow, 100 bars, 75 lbs $3.00@$.75.
turpentine, (50 bars, 00 lbs, $2.25 a 2.50;
Candles—Parafine lie; star 11c. Matches—
400s $4 00; 300s $3 00a3 75; 200s $2 00a2 75; 00s
5gross $3 75.Hodtt-Kc‘gs,bulk 4%c; do 1 lb pkgs
5%c; cases,% lb 5I£c, do 1 and 5J^c; XXX 8c, do%lb butter
Crackers—XXX soda
«%c; XXX pearl oysters'Oj^cisliell anil excelsior
7c; lemon cream 9c; XXX ginger snaps 9c; corn
bills 9c. Candy—Assorted stick 6c; French
mixed I2&12%- imitation Canned goodi-Condeused 95a4 00. Milk, Sal¬
$0 00a8 00; mackerel43
mon $5 25a5 50: F. W. oysters $175; L W
$135; corn 42 50 a 3 50; tomatoes $2.00
Ball .potash $3 10. Starch—Pearl 4c; Lump.
4> 3 <; nickel packages $310; celluloid $5.00,
Pickles, plain or mixed, pints $1 OOal 40; quarts,
$1 SOal 80. Powder—Bifle, kegs $3.25; Y ,kegs
41 90; V. kegs41 10. Shot $1 50 per sack.
Flour, (train amt deal.
Flonr—First patent $4 50; second patent
$1.00; extra fancy $3.25; fanoy-*3 15; family
$2.75. Corn—No. I white 62c. Mixed,
59c. Oats, Slixed 48c; white 50c; Seed rye,Geor¬
gia 75a80o Hay—Choice timothy, large bales,
95c. No. 1 timothy, large bales, 960; choice
timothy, small bales, 90c; No. I timotby, small
bales. 87jifo; No. 2 timothy, small bales, 82% i: -
Meal—Plain 51c; I*2tod 50c. Wheat bran—
barge sacks 90c, small sacks 90c. Cotton
-eel meal—$1 30 per cwt,. Steam feed—41.10
uer < wt. Stock peas 60a65c per bu. White,
00a65. Boston beaus 42.65a2.75 per bnBhei.
Tennessee, 41.75a 2.00. Grits—Pearl $8.00
( onntrT Produce.
Eggs l0%all. Butter—Western creamery
25a27%c. choice Tennessee 15al8c;other grades
J2Ifal5c. Live poultry—Turkeys H'&lOc per
lb; liens 25 and 37J^c. spring chickens
large 15 to 40c; small spring 10al2J4--. Dressed
ijoiiltry-Turkevs 12%al5c; ducks 12%al5c
chickens 10al2>f 'rish pcatoes, 2.50@2.75pei
bbl Sweet potato-* 50a69c per bu. Honey —
Strained 8al0c; in tbecomb 10al2%c. Onion*
$1 50a $1.75 per hi. $3.00a3.50perbbl. Cabbage
lal l-2c per lb.
ProvlMiAn*.
Clear rib sides, boxed 7>£e, ice-cured bellies
10c. Sugar-eared hams I ly.alSe. according
lo brand and average; California. 8%a9c. break¬
fast bacon 12c. Lard, leaf 83* Compound
ey,a6%. Cotton.
Market closed easy middling 6Xc.