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Rev Mr. Spurgeon on lust Sunday
prcaclicil a powerful aertnon cn the
pratriclan liiiqiilly cf London an ex
posed by the Pall Mall Gazette dur
ing the past week. Mr. Spurgeon
took for Ills text the sixteenth ver*e
of the accond chapter of 'he Epistle
Of Paul to tlic Unman* which he quote
ill defense ol the Gazette’* work in
making its revelation. St. Paul the,
preacher aald, felt it ncceasary lo men
tion the hideou* vices ot the heathen
and left on record an exposure of the
sin of his day which crimsoned the
cheek of ihe modest when they read
it. T..erc was a Judgment for the
am of this world, for both men and
nations. Assyria, Babylon, Persia
Rome and Kg'pt werte mpiros of op
pression and cruelty, and full of in
iquity. When the sin of these peo
ple could no louf cr be tolerated, they
were wiped off the earth. Thus of
the nations, bat no one could tell what
bloodshcddiug and suffering came
upon men tor their iniquities.
-Why should London,” exclaimed
(lie preacher, “be mure favored than
Rome? Wliat Is there about our
boastful race, on thi* or on the other
side or tic 'Mantle, that we should
monopolize God’s favor? God will
Judge men'* secret sins, too vile to be
spoken, and which cause a nation to
shudder if dragged, as they ought
(obe, into the daylight. Deeds of the
night of Ihe closed room, done
when the finger I* pill
npon the lip, and *et f committed
which must not be. mentioned lest
the mm himself he regarded as an
outcast abhorred even by hi* fellow
sinners—all shall be revealed, al
though we have for ourcomfort blind
clour eyes and averted our gaze
from thing" Inconvenient to be re
vealed. We here make a difference
between secret and public but God
does not. The veriest secret tin is a
secret only by a lying phantasy of
the imagination . It Is public before
<iod. It i* necessary for the church
to warn men of what will happen If
they continue in their sins, and not
keep them in a false paradise until
they be sent down to hell’s damnation
It becomes every preacher lo cry
aloud and spore no one.”
KKFO&KTHK 00HV10TS.
Half the people la Georgia are la
boring under the impression that the
first consideration with the state in
dealing her convicts is to n ake mon
ey out of them ; and the other half
think that she ought at least to make
them self-supporting, so tho stale will
not beat charges in mataining thorn.
The idea of reforming tho criminals
never enters into the consideration.
As far as making money out ol them
I conwirnod the state would bettor
teud her convict* to Tomioeeo and
lease them out for there t hoy pay just
four times as mttoli for convicts as is
paid for them in Georgia. Ttie whole
convict system In Georgia smacks of
1h dark ages of the world instead of
the enlightenment ot which we boast.
Suppose it should cost a hundred dol
lars or more per year to lake rare of
each convict it should he expended ir
necessary in reforming the criminal,
that iliu danger to thu public at
large may he lessened when thnr arc*
turned looe. Wo have no object tbit
to making as much money as possi
ble out of the convicts hut the host in
terest of the people at large demand
that reformation should stand pre
eminently above all other considera
tions In the management o l ' convicts.
We are heartily In accord ttjih I)r.
Felton in Ills cflort to have the legis
lature establish a house of correction
for telltales and votiths. hut the re
formation idea should extend to every
dopartm-nt of our convict system.
We have known people who had
mere humanity In their hearts than
was lube found in the statute books,
wh i refused to prosecute criminals
simply because the* fell satisfied that
they would he more hardened crimi
nals after their teims were out than
they were lie fore
Dr. Felton, in iliu Cartersvlllo
(Jourant, thus handles th - bond swin
dle: “Clews, kinwiitg that he was
swindled h " Kimball, in the selling
Of bonds to outside foreign capitalists,
atilt continued to deal w ith him.
Knowing him to boa swindler in
dealing with himself, lie still used
him to swindle Georgia. Clews
swears he got ids commission nut ot
the sale of the bond*—2'-, per cent—
he got that in rash. He honored all
the drafts of Foster Blodgett and
Bullock when lie knew the Georgia
law forbade it, and lie sold little less
than hall a billion of the securities
when Bullock informed him that $2-
OUO,OOO in all would meet the state's
ind Utodueas. He retained $240,000
'of ihe cash lie received from the sale
for his nereeHtom, amt th- Lon) only
knows how much Kin.ball and Bul
lock received and retained. Poor
Georgia got nothing and should p v
nothing.” * •
SMITH’S CONVICT CAMP.
Gov McDaniel Dismisses tbs Cass
Against tbs Dsssse.
A telegram of the 11th from Atlan
ta to the Savannah News, says: In
May last Assistant Penitentiary
Keeper Towers made a report lo the
Governor, in which lie stated that the
convicts at James if. Smith’s camp,
in Orglethorpe county, were being
cruelly treated aud poorly
fed, oth in quantity nnd quality,
and that Mr. Smith’s camp should
either broken up or the proprietor
compelled to take care ofhis prisoners
as ihe law directs. Penitentiary phy
sician Westmoreland was sent to the
camp lo make an investigation and
submit a report.
AN AmIOBRKNT PICTURE.
This he,diil, showing the camp to
be in a most fearful condition,and that
tl)e men were improperly clothed and
sheltered, and that one convict had
died aud many were sick. Tho re
port presented such a fearful condition
of things that it was suppressed.
Charges were preferred against Cant.
Smith for cruelty to convicts in whip
ping them, and for failing to give the
convicts a sufficiency of food to keep
them healthy. Alter several post
ponements of uii unavoidable nature,
the case came up before the Governor
to-day. Dr. Westmoreland read bis re
port and gave in testimony wliat lie
saw.
SMITH'.- SIDK OF TIIK STOItV.
Capt. Smith was on baud with a
number of witnesses. Ho said (hat a
guard that had been treating the con
vic's badly had been dismissed, and
that tho prisoners’allowance of lood
had been increased, Capt. Smith al
so said the excessive whipping re
ferred to in the report had been done
without his know ledge or consent,and
that he had not Intentionally cut off
the rations of tho prisoners. The
Governor then issued an order dis
missing tho case. This order shows
doubt in the mind of tho Governor as
io the charges of Dr. Westmoreland,
and in consequence the principal phy
sician is not pleased with the order or
the action of the Governor.
Tiik express people have lilt on a
new way of booming, “old boss”
sales. Thoy have gotln out a story
to the effect that a drummer some
limo ago bought a package for $2,
which proved to contain a lot of spe
cimens of gold-beavtng quartz ( rom a
mine In Colorado, which he succeed
ed in buying for a song, and which
turned out to be worth millions. The
story nitty bo true, but if it is the
prize “old boss” package has been sold
and those who buy at such sales in
the future would be wise to avoid
bidding on auyth’ug like quartz spe
cimens.
A Chance fur a Fortune without
Work.
Great curiosity was shown as to
who was favored by Fortune in the
Grand Semi-Annual [the 181st Mon
tlily | Drawing of tho Louisiana Stale
Lottery at New (Means, La., on Tues
day, (always Tuesday) June Kith.
Geu’ls G. T. Bcouregard of Lu., and
Jubal A, Early of Va.. as usual, gave
their personal attention to the culm
distribution. All were satistied —the
winners more so than those holding
blanks. The amount scattered was
over $522,000. Ticket No 51,106 drew
the First Capital Prize of $150,000. It
was sold in tenths at $1 each. Oho
was held by Frank Naot-i, Woodward
Gardens; ouo by It.W. Tucker, both
of San Franclscy, Cal.; two-tenths
collected by the American Nat’l Bank
of Nashville Teun., lor Morgan Brown
Ksq., a wcll-ku.iwn lawyer there.;
ono-teuth for Mrs. J. T. Dwyer, a su
loon kro-cr, one for Bessie Lilicnthal
a six-year old grand daughter of a
well-known citizen,—Abraham Lof
tier—all of Savannah Gr.,; the re
mainder went elsewhere. Ticket No.
811,251 drew the Second Capital Prize
of $50.00 sold in Now York eitv to
panics desirous of avoid! ng publicity
Ticket No. 1,720 drew the Third Cap
ital Prize of $20,000 sold in tenths;
one to Jno. Wynne of Detroit, Mich.;
another to D. Fitzgerald of Mound
City. Ills.: the remainder were held
by parties ii Boston Mass., and Gran
bury Texas. Tickets Nos. 40,652 and
52,005 the Fourth Prizes each drew
SIO,OOO sold in tenths also; one to A.
A. Korns, Calnsauqua, Penn.; one to
John OB’rien of Boston, Mass.; two
to C. F. Trubn of Fort Worth, Texas ;
one to W.J. Byre, Russellville, Ky.;
one to L. M. Lee, Hock Hill! Texas;
one to Charles Serveloh, Alameda,
Cal-; other tenths were sold elsewhere
Tickets Nos. 10,017, 30,095, 61,201,
88.518 drew each $5,000, and were
scattered all over the earth, etc., etc.
flic next drawing will bo on Tues
day. August lltii, particulars of
which full information can he had on
application to M. A, Dauphin, New
Orleans, La., and let no one let a day
pass by without resolving not to be
omitted from the chance for a for
tune this hat weather without work.
ALL ABOIT A BICVCE.
A MiuUter** i'uforinuitle C*lt*fon
With One of Hi* Deaeou’* Dog*.
(King* Cojnty Wheelman.)
A minister in Cleveland rode to
church last Sabbath ou a bicycle.
As lie swept up to the sacred*edifice a
a large Newfoundland dog belonging
to the senior deacon came lumbering
out to gret the pastor. The bicycle
struck the canine on the head uu
der a full head of steam, aud run him
down with a shack that could he
plainly felt with the naked eye. The
reverend gentleman took a header
and jammed his silk hat down over
hi* cars so tight Jliat he had to craw!
dear through it to get out of it. The
scattered leaves of a seven-head
sermon flew around the avenue like
a theological snowstorm. The dog
made Koine howl with his wails, and
attracted a crowd of 300 people. The
parson’s coat was split down the hack
and his trousers ripped across the
knees. He pinned up (lie knees, and
he had to wear a pepper and salt sack
coat the sexton loaned him. When he
appealed in the pulpit in this garb
the congregation smiled and when
he pronounced histext.ll. Kings xii.
6: “But it was so . . . the priest had
not repaired the breeches ,” there
wasn’t a dry eye in the conventicle.
And now the question before (lie
church is: “Should the pastor rule a
bicyle to church or has the deacon a
Christian ristlit lo own a dog?”
What t lie President thinks of the
alleged literary performances of his
sister and her enterprising publish
ers lias not been told, btr it is plain
enough lo think of such humbug, and
Mr. Cleveland is supposed to be that
kind of a mini, (trail the ingenious
methods et advertising lo which cir
cus managers, actresses and publish
ers have accustomed us, there has
been none that in sheer effrontery or
in apparent success has surpassed the
advertising of Miss Cleveland’s book.
In these days of a free press it would
be rash to say that anybody need have
difficulty in finding a publisher for
anything, and Miss Cleveland’s book
is probably not worse than many oth
ers that come under review every
week; but there is absolutely nothing
in anything that she has ever done or
in anything else that is known ol her
to attract the smallest attention to her
work except the one fact that she is
the sister of the President and “the
lady of the White House,” and upon
this has been worked up a volume ot
•‘advance notices’’ such as no such
book lias ever obtained before. Most
of the newspaper puffery lias been
Jocular, but thla cannot make It any
more agreeable to the President, who
must now need all ins coiluess aud
self-command to keep hi* temper un
der *o distasteful an infliction. The
whole business is thoroughly diguat
ing.—Philadelphia Times.
litnltli, Wi'alia anti llupiiliit-.s
Are more intimately connected
with a sound stomach aud a good con
dition of the blood than most people
suppose. Thin blood means weak
ness, languor and misery. A dyspep
tic stomach means all the horrors you
lean think of. Brown’s Iron Bitters
mean enriched blood, good dig,-lion
health appetite, sweet sleep anil vig
orous strength. Mr. Henry Hallam
South 17lh street, St. Louis, says,
“Browns Iron Bitters relieved me of
dyspepsia, purified my blood, aud
gave mo an appetite.” Thousands
of others testify in the same wav.
tiit:v got *ia,oo<> mch.
Tl© Holder* ofTbt* Two‘‘l.ticky
Truth*' Hold tliel'ttalt
A reporter exiled yesterday upon
the two holders of ticket 51,106, in the
last drawing of the Louisiana Slate
Lottery, Mr. John Dwyer laughed
when informed of tho doubt of some
persons that lie received his $l5,OtK).
“Olt yes,” said lie, “it came all right
end was paid over several days ago.
I got the whole amount, less the
charge for collection. There was no
trotlhlo about getting it, and 1 did
not lure long to wait, in fact, less
than a week.
Little Bessiu Lilicnthal who also
held oiic-'enlh of tho lucky ticket,
51,106. which drew the capital prize
of $150,000 has re oive<Uier share ol
$15.(000. She prattles artlesssly about
her snug little fortune whenever the
subject is broached. On the wall of
her uncle’s office is tacked the green
lettered envelope of the express com
pany. Up in ouo corner is written
the sum collected—sls,ooo.
No tics
The board of commissioners of the
town of Washington find that many
of tho lots at the cemetery arc held by-‘
persons, who have not paid for the
same. We therefore notify such per
sans to settle with the treasurer at
once otherwise said lots will he resold.
L. W. Stxis. B. S. Irvin.
Sec. B.T.C. Fres. BT.C
Tiik News aud Courier publishes a
long letter from General Wade Hamp
ton correcting errors In Ihe recent ar
ticles of General Johnston and Imbo
den touching the first battle of Manas
sas or Bull Kun. General Hampton
shows that the Hampton legion, six
hundred strong, which he command
ed, arrested the victorious columns of
Sherman aud Keyes, who were driv
ing the confederates back and that the
legion so delayed the federal advance
as to enable the confederate reinforce
ments to be brought up.
Governor St. John is makingrepnb
ican fur fly in Ohio, as a prohibition
orator. He spoke kindly of the South,
and declared that section to be more
peaceful and sober tliau the East or
West. The republicans were ar
raigned for hypocrisy on the liquor
question, while the democra's, who
promise nothing, had performed won
ders for practical reform and temper
ance.
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