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, ESTABLISHED 1650. I •j J. H. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor. f MILLIONS PUT IX MEXICO. AMERICAN CAPITALISTS MAKE BIG LAND PURCHASES. Eivo Millions Acres Included in the Tract of Ono Company Some of the Finest Cotton and Grazing Lands in the Country in the Acquisitions—The Second Term Presidential Succession Proposition Apt to Pass Congress. St. Louis, April 17.—Advices from Mexico state that the following American Investments in Mexican real estate have been closed recently: A syndicate composed of Chicago capi talists and United States army officers had purchased a tract of 5,000,000 acres lying in the States of Coahulla, Durango and Chi huahua, in Northern Mexico. The tract is traversed by the Mexican Central and also bv the International railroad, which Mr. Huntington is building from Eagle Pass to Laredo. Of this tract 1,000,000 acres is the finest cotton laud in the country. It is the famous Lagriua district. A companv composed chiefly of Hartford 'Conn.) capitalists has bought 500,000 acres Iving in Sonoitf and Chihuahua, all grazing and agricultural lands. A purchase of 235,000 acres lias been made in the western part of Chihuahua by Utah men. As this tract is adjoining the Mormon colony the purpose of tho purchase can be readily guessed. THE PRESIDENCY. A telegram from the City of Mexico, dated yesterday, says: “Candidates for the presidency are in the city awaiting the action of Congress. Nothing can be done until it is known whether President Diaz is to be his own successor. Congress is not making any haste about it. There was not the slightest reference to the subject in either the Senate chamber or the House of Deputies last evening. The sentiment in favor of President Diaz continuing in office is undoubtedly growing. Whether the con stitution shall be changed so as to allow him to remain in office two years longer, so as to re-elect for another term of four years, has tieen a question. A committee has reported in favor of an amendment allowing re election. This committee says that in tho opinion of its members two successive terms of the presidency will not endanger tho re public by making it. possible for a President to perpetuate his power. As the members of the committee are all prominent Liberals their recommendation will have consider able weight. WASHINGTON’S DRILL. List of the Southern Companies En tered for the Event. Washington, • April 17. —Following is a list of the Southern military organizations entered and acted upon by the National Drill Committee at the close of the entries: Alabama—Lomax Rifles, Company “B” First regiment, (competing). Arkansas—Eureka Springs guard. Kentucky—First- regiment Kentucky State Guards i competing); Battalion Louisville legion (competing). Louisiana—Battery A, First regiment (compel mg); Battery B, Louisiana Field Artillery (competing); Louisiana Rifles (competing'. Maryland—State Corps of Cadets (com peting). Mississippi—Vicksburg Southrons (com peting): Capital Light Guard (competing); n inor.a Rifles. Missouri—Company D, Second regiment (competing); Company B, Thud regiment (competing!. Company C, Third regiment £?mpeting,; Company A, Fifth regiment; . M. A. Cadet Company (competing). North Carolina —Governor'* Guards (com peting ; Goldsboro RiflesJ(eompeting); Fay etteville Light Infantry (competing); Max ton Rifles (competing); Forsyth Rifles (com peting: UighiKiint Guards (competing): Granville Guards (competing): Monroe Light Infantry (competing); Hornets’ Nost Rifles (competing). South Carolina—Lee Light Guard, joxas—San Antonio Rifles (eom)xting); Belknap Rifles (conns-ting); Miller Ride-., ! '■nni'ss.'e—Memphis Merc hunts’ Zouaves icomjtetmg). \ itginia—Wost Brigade of Virginia Vol unteers. twenty-nine companies of infantry, nve batteries of artillery and two cavalry companies; First regiment of Virginia Vol unteers (competing); Richmond (trays loom - Peting); AV alker Light Guards, Winchester j.pht infantiy (competing); Alexandria uigni Infantry (competing); Attacks Guard ' Guard (competing); ,v , , Cadet Corps (competing); St. John's vaaetjCorps (competing). SALVATION SENSATIONS. One of the Army Calls on Dr. Haw tnorne to Capture the Fugitive Real Estate Man. Atlanta, Ga., April XV.—While Dr. vwthorne was asking for subscriptions td * * baptist Rome Mfusion at the First Bap tist church to-night in the presence of a f!kt mn regation, Walter S Withers mil' tt member of the Salvation Army, K, o s< ‘ ns ® t,on '>y calling out: “Dr. vthornc, 1 wiU give Vi) if you s**eh R. 11. Knapp, ‘the nruß • lliall who an RWAV, . glve u ' y<i don't catch him.” This .•u raised Hawthorne and cuused a n jn the congregation, some ail< som *‘ frowning on Ih<* speaker. Ivlti ] ls , n memher of the Arm of i‘ r,k •"'■land, which failed lu re some t." ,lg "’ :Ul| l the court appointed R. TT. ‘" 1 ’ j l "yeiver in thcca.sc. To-night during i ,' ii ' l'*' Salvation Army some i. i . ’uaii-ilog T'Xir* crowd ruslusl p, i'i' rm '! al 1 ,s - A lady nanusl Clementina W °vn f< * ! n,ul broke her leg Is-low the pj,. ‘ VVttM taken to her home on Green avenue j„ a j mo if The lmnic was Piiiink i • V " nii,| l harmless dog, which tuv, ' threw from a window to the rniissl'v't ,u “*> The trouble wa.< i mischievous IsivN in the audience, wr n " " m " "allied J.'T. Rurke, in step iy-.| '"'"i a passenger train on the Georgia *i,, ’ ni °i' Point today, fell under the r ‘ Ms and was killed. A Big Blaze at Wheaton. fr 1 ~A • April 17. Fire broke out V|„ . ” l °’ lt Pi o'clock at Hawkins' mills at Iti'iL , "1, ' l "'troving !■ | m >ur .VIO.OOO feet of d< ~ Ihe pl'ining mliJ mul ulsmt lmlf u "'vli l KI , , ' u '’’filings. The railroad truck V"t i’ -1 , tf, r l ’Ut 1(SI fort. Tlie track . ! " n'iv Is'in condition for trains to His ”''i"' kto mm row morning. Mr. Ik | * will prolmlily rauch *IO,OOO. * 1 1" i insurance. . Knapp'u Flight. April 17.- It. 11. Knapp, the hi 1 " iejd ratafe broker and imlitieiau. fi "' ll **stubli!ln*rl t Jias flikl tihw ifinp. di ' '"K vu tunl/isl a large ntimler of to | 'amn here from I'ansdii ill t 1 ! lih • 1 ** N 'l|>|"W'd that he has let ill lied ““ 1 mintry. f' r ' 0| lttoal Confederation "iifot * kl 'ljwi. April I, t political "*h'.ai/l !" n J** fc *'*‘‘* n laGrtnJ I—tween (lie * u mm4 and the Bundwicb IsiamU. FIRED ON FROM AMBUSH. An Irish Magistrate Has a Narrow Escape from Death. Cork, April 17. —Magistrate Heggarty, while returning from a meeting of the De fense Union to-day, was fired at from be hind a hedge and wounded in the head and shoulders with buckshot. Heggarty is un popular and has been vigorously boycotted. No arrests have tieen made. Collisions took place to-day between sol diers and civilians at Youghal and Cork Hill. Several persons were hurt At Limerick to-day thousand;- of persons joined in a demonstration against the coer cion bill. The Mayor presided. “I’ARNELLISM AND CRIME.” London, April 17.—The Times , as proof of its assertion at the conclusion of its articles on I onellism and crime, says that it has further documentary evidence, and prints a far simile of a letter signed by Mr. Parnell ;uid supposed to have been addressed to Mr. Egan to pacific his subor dinates when Mr. Parnell publicly denounced the Phoenix Park murderers. The letter fills one side of an ordinary sheet of note paper and is in a strange handwriting. "Yours very truly, Charles S. Parnell,” in AH. Parnell's writing, is at the top of the other leaf. The Times suggests that the signature was thus written so that it could be torn off if necessary. TEXT OK THE LETTER. The letter, which is dated simply “15— 5—82,” without an address, is as follows: Dear Sir—l am not surprised at your friend’s anger, but be and you should know' that to de nounce murderers was the only course open to us. To do that promptly was plainly our best policy, but you car. tel! him and all others con eerned that though I regret the accident of Lord Cavendish’s death I cannot refuse to admit that Burke got no more than his deserts. You are at liberty to show him this and others whom you can trust also, hut let not my address be known. He can write to the House of Commons. The Times says: “Mr. Parnell cannot ex pect that a simple repudiation of the letter will have any weight with public opinion. He must bring more solid proofs to annul the effect of tho disclosures." KILLED BY A TANK. Disaster Follows Upon Disaster Near Palatine. Palatine, 111., April 17.—While view ing the wreck of freight trains on the Chi cago and Northwestern railroad near this city to-<lay six persons were killed, two fatally and a number seriously injured, by the bursting of a large water tank. It is supposed that the collision of the freight trains in the immediate vicinity in the morn ing had jarred the .immense tank, contain ing 100,Of) gallons of water, and loosened or cracked the hoops, which gave way while a large crowd of country people was standing immediately under the structure, when it collapsed and fell, burying thejpeople under the wreckage and water. Rochefort Assails the Pope. Paris. April 17.—M. Rochefort has a vio lent article in L'lntransigeant directed against the Pope, who, he says, sac rificed France to Germany in the Chinese Missions question, and is now aiding in the work of Germanizing Alsace and Lorraine. The article concludes: “If most of our Min isters were not known to fast on Fri days the government would answer these in sults by recalling the French Ambassador to the Vatican ana the religious budget.;’ California and the Hauls. Los Angeles, Cal. .April 17.— TheJBoard of Trade of this city has adopted a resolu tion asking the Intel-state Commerce Com missioners to temporarily suspend section four of the interstate commerce law, as the fruit and wine crops in California will soon mature, and manufacturers, packers and shippers fear to make contracts for raw products, owing to the heavy increase in freights under the interstate law. Pope Leo Enjolna the Centreists. London, April 17. — A letter from the Pope to the Archbishop of Cologne, enjoin ing the Ceutreists to vote for the Prussian ecclesiastical bill a-s passed by the Oberhaus, will l>e published presently. Prince Fred prick Charles of Prussia, at the desire of Emperor William, is aliout to visit the Pope to thank him for sending Cardinal Gal em berti to Berlin on the occasion of the Em peror’s birthday anniversary. A Jury Disagrees. Sioux CtTV, la., April 17.—The jury in the case of John Aronsdorf, charged with the murder of Rev. George C. Haddock, dis agreed and were discharged. The jury stood eleven for acquittal and one for conviction. The juror who voted persistently for con viction stated to a reporter that lie had been offered a bribe by the defense, but de clined to say who made the offer. Sprinters Show Tholr Speed. Milwaukee, Wib., April 17.—At Western Union junction to-day. H. I'd. Johnson, the champion sprinter of America, was defeated in a iOO yard dash by James Collins, of Edgertoii, H’is, Two heats were run in the remarkably short time of ten seconds each, Collins being given one yard start. Ho won the first heat by one and a half and the second by two feet, Imprisoned by Fire. Connt'.llsvu.i.k, Pa., April 17.—The upper )>art of the Davidson coal works at this place caught fire yesterday afternoon and imprisoned throe miners, all of whom are now believed to lie deoil. Their names arc Paul Nagle, William Koder and Shanman. Washington’s Sunday Law. Washington. April 17. — The Sunday law was rigidly cnforcol to-day, and the result was one of the quietest. Sabbaths in the his tory of the city. In a few instances the law was openly violated for the purjiose of inak ing a tost case. Wintry in Franco. Pakis, April IT. —Heavy snow storms and bitterly cold weather are prevailing in the Northern mid Eastern portion# of Kronen. Farmers are despairing on account of the unprecedented severity of the weather. A Tobacconist Assigns. Baltimore. Md.. A)>ril Id. William F. Coclircn, a wholesale toliucco ilcalmt niailc an assignment to day to William 11. ohryock for the Ix-netlt of his creditors. The bond of the IniltW i’ vAI.OOO. Marino News. London, April li. Arrived bark Cohn helin from Savannah, short of provisions. A |ortlon of her cargo was jcttisonwl and her stanchions and bulwarks were damage[> on the voyage. Qhilzaie's Rebela. Bombay, April 17,- The Catnlahar tioo|w sent to stititM'i’Hs the Glnlxiils rising have (ouiul the ii ls'Kso numorons that they were i oi!t|iel!isl to Intrench. Ruroorn of h Terrible Diaaeter. IxiNimiv, April 17. It is nfurtnl tliat an Engllsli steamer ruts foundered off I tom fuefo, C.'rsi a, and Unit IM lives iusve tieeu lueL SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, APRIL 18, 1887. FLORIDA’S CAPITAL. Old Politicians of the Belief That a Dark Horse Will Win. Tallahassee, Fla., April 17.—A1l is quiet here to-night. There is no excitement whatever over the Senatorial canvass. Gov. Bloxham’s friends hope to nominate him to morrow night, while Gov. Perry's supporters are confident and expect at least to prevent Gov. Bloxham’s nomination. Experienced politicians say it is now impossible to nomi nate either Gov. Perry or Gov. Bloxhant, and that a third man, probably Air. Pasco, Vi 11 be chosen. THE STATE LANDS. The committee appointed to examine into the conveyances ot lands by the State to railroad companies, and inquire whether those companies have complied with the terms on which conveyances were made, and to make other inquiries into the rela tions of the various railroads with the State, and ascertain if the object for which they were incorporated have bceu observed will begin its investigations in a few days. NEW COUNTIES. There have been bills introduced in the two houses of the Legislature to create two new counties, namely, one to be called Lee, made from a portion of Alonroe county, and one to be called Osceola, made from several of the middle iieniusular counties. The House bill making the State pay fees in criminal cases before Justices’ courts is now on its third reading, but the way thereby opened for reckless expenses will, ft is to be hoped, yet defeat the bill. THE ANTI-FREE PASS BILL. The hill prohibiting the granting of free passes to members of the Legislature and tftate officers was given another set-back Saturday so as to be again amended on the second reading. This measure is bitterly opposed anil every step through which it t nesses hotly contested, but it will neverthe less pass in the course of time and will bo approve! by tbe Governor. FORT MEADE FACTS. The Florida Southern’s Proposition to Build from Leesburg to Bartow. Fort Aleade, Fla., April 18. —It is rumored here that the Florida Southern Railway Company, failing to make any deal with the Plant system whereby they could secure the Pemberton ferry branch, intend building at once from Leesburg to Bartow, thus securing a through run from Palatkato Punta Goivlu, and that the Plant system, not to be outdone, will build from Pember ton’s ferry northward to some point, where they will tap the Savannah, Florida and Western, and southward through Fort Aleade and Grove City to Boeca Grande, where they will have a lietter terminus, deeper water and be much nearer Cuba than any other line. Parties who claim to be on the “inside” are quietly buying up lands in Bartow, Fort Meade and Grove City. With this direct line of the Plant system coming into Fort Aleade aud a con nection with the Florida Railway and Navi gation system, which is to be made bv the Plant City, Fort Meade and Lake iVorth railroad, and when this is done, with the Florida Southern working to hold a share of Fort Meade's patronage, it wjjj. make lively times here and build up fnntVa etty second to none in South Florida. Airs. G. IV. Black will present “Cantata of the Flower Queen” on next Wednesday evening at the Fort Meade Opera House. All of her entertainments are first-class, and on this occasion she will have a full house. The grand tournament will be held here on May 4. Knights from Hillsborough. Manatee, Orange and Hernando counties have already entered, and it is expected that the list will pin up to fully 100. The tour nament ball will be gotten up on a grander style than anything of the kind ever at tempted here before. MANGLED BY CARS. A Horrible Accident on the Railroad Near Barnett. Barnett, Ga., April 17.—Last, night as the Washington train was approaching Hill man station on its return trip, an object was discovered by the engineer about 30 feet iu front of his engine on the track, hut he was too near it to stop, and the entire train passed over it, which jarred the train so much that it was soon stopped, and upon examination the object proved to be the body of John M. Burke, who was a farmer and"resided in the neighborhood. The hixly was hardly recognizable. The scattered parts were collected together and placed iu a sheet and carried to Sharon, where the re mains were interred in the Catholic ceme tery this evening in the presence of a large number of relatives and friends. Mr. Burke was reared near the spot where he was killed, and leaves a wife and two children, one of whom is only a few days old. XVXiile the accident was very sail, no one attaches any blame to the trainmen, as it was entirely unavoidable. ALAPAHA ANNALS. Death From Typhoid Pneumonia—Rain Much Needed. Alapaha, Ga., 'April 17.—Miss Alice Gaskins, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Gaskins of this place, died at 1 o'clock this morning after an illness of ten days of typhoid pneumonia. Dr. R. T. Kendrick is dangerously ill of the same disease. The farmers report rain much needed, hut the outlook is generally encouraging. No melon or truck crops are planted for shi)>- inent nt this place. A venture in this direc tion two years since failed to )iy expenses; hence no more at present, Alapnha ships about 1,500 bales qf cot ton, 40,000 pounds of wool and 100.000 pounds of rice annually, and will average 150 Iwrrels spirits of turpentine and 400 barrels rosin per month during the shipping season. NEWNANBVILLE’S MYSTERY. The Wounded Man Still Alive but No Arrests Made. Newnansvillk, Fiat., April 17.—The shooting affray that occurred hero Friday night was the general topic of the day. R j s still, however, unknown who did the shoot ing. The woiihded man was interviewed by several people, but he is either ignorant as to who shot him or desire* to keep his counsel. One lta.llpassed through his thigh, one through ids Hlsiomcn and lodge ! there, and one through his breast, making an up ward cun \ flic door where he was stand ing when shot is covered with bullets. No urrcM-s liavc Usui made, nor has anyone tried to make an arrest even on suspicion. He is still in a precarious condition. Anarchist Revenge. New York, April 17 Three tires Itsvd luxii started in and aUiut the building of the .Vw Yorker A ihunj, the lost tasing pl.’u e early this moml/lg and dun tag mg the littiid ing and its •saituuta ald.lrio, Tlirte i a sus picion that the liri's are tie result of utuirch nut!, enmity, developed through iiM'cndla rim. "linglWi )>ink,” lstt<*r known a* scarlet, mie li ux*i im Ills- cashmere and ullihliimm i di'sawa fix' pitisaw Irtjut twelve to eiiuaai ' yaara wf aga. ORDERS BOUND BV OATHS. TALMAGE ON THE MORAL EFFECT OF SECRET SOCIETIES. A Tendency to "Blab” Declared a Char acteristic of Solomon’s Time The Great Preacher ’Acknowledges the Great Good Accomi|lishedbyMany of the Institutions—Home Life Should Not be Neglected, However, for tho Lodge Room. Brooklyn, April 17. —The Rev. T. De- Witt Talmage, D. D., announced to his con gregation to-day that as the Brooklyn Tabernacle has tieen uncomfortably crowded for many years the trustees have purchased tho adjoining ground, on which a great chuivh, prayer and Sunday school room will be built, which on Sabbaths can be opened into the main auditorium. thus giving room for at least a thousand more hearers at services. Six thousand people are crowded into the present building; 4,050 of these in pews, and about 1,500 seated in aisles aud standing. The improvement will add great ly to this capacity. The subject of Dr. Tftlmage's sermon to day was: “What is the Moral Effect of Free Masonry, Odd Fellowship, Knights of Labor, Greek Alphabet and Other Socie ties f” The text was from Proverbs, xxv., 0: “Discover not a secret to another.” Dr. Talmage said: It appears tliat in Solomon's time as in all subsequent periods of the world, there were people too much disposed to tell all they knew. It was blab, blab, blab; physicians revealing tho case of their patients, lawyers exposing the private affairs of their clients, neighbors advertising the faults of the next door resident; pretended friends betraying confidences. One-half of the trouble of every community castes from the fact tliat* so many people have not capacity to keep thalr mouths shut. AVnon 1 hear something disparaging of you my first duty is not to tell you. But if I Jell you what somebody has said against you, and then go out and tell everybody els" what I told you, and they go out and tell others what I told them that I told you. and we all go out, some to hunt up t he originator of the story and others to hunt it down we shall get the whole community talking about what you did do and what, you did not do, and there will lie as many scalps taken as though a 1 iand of Afodocshad swept upon a helpless village. We have two care but only one tongue, a physiological sugges tion that we ought to hoar a good deal more than we tell. I jet us join a conspiracy that we will tell each other all the good aud nothing of the ill, and then there will not be such awful need of sermons on Solo mon's words: “Discover not a secret to another.” Solomon had a very large domestic circle. In his earlier days he had very confused no tions about, monogamy and polygamy, and bis multitudinous associates in the matri monial state kept him too well informed as to what was going on in Jerusalem. They gathered up all the privates of the city ana poured them into his ead[ and his family lie camc a Sorosls or female debating society of seven hundred, discussing day after day" all the difficulties between husbands and wives, between employers and employes, between rulers and subjects, until Solomon, in my text, deplores volubility about affairs that do not belong to us and extols the virtue of secretiveness. By the power of a secret divulged, fami lies, churches, neighborhoods, nations fly apart, By th< power of a secret kept great charities, so< alities, reformatory move ments and Ch -istian enterprises may be ad vanced. Me r are gregarious—cattle in herds, fish in chools, birds in flocks, men in social circles. You may by the discharge of a gun scatter a flock of ouails, or by tne plunge of thr anchor send apart the deni zens of the seh, but they will gJther them selves together again. If you, by some now power, could break the associations in w hich men now stand, they would again adhere. God meant it so. He has gathered all the flowers and shrubs into associations. You may plant one forget-me-not or heart,'s ease alone, away off upon the hillside, but it will soon hunt up some other forget-me not or heart’s-ease. Plants lovo company. You will find them talking to each other in the dew. A galaxy of stars is only a mu tual life insurance company. You some times see a man with ho outbranch ings of sympathy. His nature is cold and hard like a ship’s mast ice-glazed, which the most agile sailor could never climb. Others have a thousand roots and a thousand branches. Innumer able tendrils climb their hearts and blossom all the wav up, and the fowls of heaven sing in the branches. In consequence of this tendency we find men coming together in tribes, in communities, in churches, in so cieties. Some gather together to cultivate the arts, sonic to plan for the welfare of the state, some to discuss religious themes, some to kindle their mirth, some to advance their craft. So every active community is divided into associations of artists, of mer chants, of bookbinders, of eaipentcrs, of masons, of plasterers, of shipwrights, of plumbers. Do you cry out against it; Then you cry out, against a tendency divinely im planted. Your tirades would accomplish no more than if you should preach to a busy anthill or beehive a long sermon against secret societies. Here wo find the oft-discussed question whether associations that do their work with closed doors and admit their members by pass-words, and greet each other with a secret grip, arc right or wrong. I answer that if doiiend.-, entirely on the na ture of the object for which they meet. Is it to pass the hours irrevelry, wassail, blas .pliemy mid obscene talk, or to plot trouble to the state, or to delianch the innocent, then I say with an emphasis: that no men can mistake, No! But is the object the de fense of the rights of any class against op prtssion. the improvement of the mind, tne enlargement of the heart, the advancement of art, the defense of the government, the extirpation of crime or the kindling of n pure-hearted sociality, then I say, with just as much emphasis. Yes. Thera is no need that ve who plan for the conquest of right over w rong should pub lish to all the world our intentions. The General of an army never sends to the op posing troops information of the coining- at tack. Hindi we who have enlisted in the cause of Gixl and humanity expose our plans to the enemy} No! we will iu secret, plot the ruin of all the enterprises of Satan and his cohorts. When they exjxs t us by day we will fall upon them by night. While they are Ktrengt ueliing their left wuig we will double up their right By a plan of liattlo formed in six-ret eoneluvi we will conn* suddenly iqxin them crying: "The sword of the U)i'd and of Oidisju." Mem sy <>f plot and execution am wrong only when the object and ends ara iu furious. Every family Is a secret Hs-tnty, every business Arm Mul every banking and Insuratuxi lu ■dilution. Those men who liave no capacity to kicp II secret fire lllitit for of ■i. There urn Uumsands of I need is culturing k cm . M<*ll talk . Ttu-n* in m Hum* Vt * n Umm u tottuy nt thr un At ilioitf ii (Wi ** hi lurii it i Imvfy only words of praise for those associations which have for their object the maintenance of right against wrong, or the reclamation of inebriates, or, like the score of mutual benefit societies called by different names, that provide temporary relief for widows and orphans, and for men incapacitated by sickness or accident from earning a liveli hood. Had it not been for the largo num ber of secret labor organizations in this country monopoly would long ago have, under its ponderous wheels, ground the laboring classes into an intolerable servitude. The men who want the whole earth to themselves would have got it. liefor© this, had it not been for the banding together of great secret organize rations. And, while we deplore many things that have lx>en done by them, their exist euce is a necessity, and their legitimate sphere distinctly pointed out by the provi dence of (rod. Such organizat ions are try ing to dismiss from their association all members in favor of anarchy and social chaos. They will gradually cease anything like tyranny over their members and will forbid violent interference with any man's work, whether lie belongs to their union or is outside of it, and will declare their disgust with any such rule as that passed in Eng land by the Manchester Bricklayers’ Asso ciation, which says any man found running or working beyond a regular speed shall be fined two shillings and sixpence for the tirst. offense, live shillings for the second, ten shillings for the third and if still persisting shall be dealt wit h as the committee think proppr. There are secret societies in our colleges that have let ters of the Greek alphabet for their nomen clature, and their members are at the very front in scholarship and irreproachable in morals, while there am others the scene of carousal, .and’they gamble, and they drink, and they graduate knowing a hundred times more atiout sin than they do of geometry and (Sophocles. In other words secret socie ties, like individuals, are good or bad, are the means of moral health or of temporal and eternal damnation. All good people recognize the vice of slandering an indi vidual, but many do not see tho sin of slandering ail organization. There are old secret societies in this and other countries, some of them centuries old, which hav e been widely denounced as im moral and damaging in their influence, yet I have hundreds of personal friends who belong to them, friends who are conse crated to God, pillars in the church, faithful in all relations of life, examples of virtue and piety. They are the kind of friends whom l would liave for my executors if 1 am so happy as to leave anything for my household at the time of decease, and they are the men whom I would have carry mo out to the last sleep when I am dead. You cannot make me believe that they would lielong to had institutions. They are t,ht> men who would stamp on anything iniqui tous, and I would certainly rather take their testimony in regard to such societies than the testimony of those who, having been sworn in as members, by their assault upon the society confess themselves per jurors. One of these secret societies gave for the relief of the sick in 1873 in this country t 1,480,274. Some of these societies have poured a. veiy heaven of sunshine and bene diction into tbe home of suffering. Several of them are founded on fidelity to good citizenship and the Bible. I have never taken one of their degree*. They might give me the grip a thousand times, and I would not recognize it. lam ignorant of their pass-words, and I must judge entirely from the outside. But Christ has given us a rule by which we may judge not only all individuals but all societies, secret and open. “By their fruits ye shall know them.” Bail societies make bad men. Good societies make good men. A bad man will not stay in a good society. A good man will not stay in a bad society. Then try all secret societies by two or three rules. Test the first: Their influence on home, if vou have a home. That wife soon loses her influence over her husband who nervously and foolishly looks upon all evening ab sence as an assault on domesticity. Ilow arc the great enterprises of reform, and art, and literature, and beneficence and public weal to be carried on if every man is to have his world lxmnded on one side by his front door step, and on the other side by his back window, knowing nothing higher than his own attic or lower than his own cellar? Th.it wife Who becomes jealous of her hus band's attention to art or literature or re ligion or charity is breaking her own sceptre of conjugal power. I know an instance where a wife thought that her husband was giving too many nights to Christian service, to charitable service, to prayer meetings, and to religious convocation. Hhe system atically decoyed him away until now he at tends no church, waits upon no charitable institution, and is on a rapid way to de struction. his morals gone, his money gone, und I fear his soul gone. Let any Christian wife rejoice when Bor husliand consecrates evenings to the service of humanity, and of God, or charity, or art, or anything elevat- ing. But let no man sacrifice home-life to se cret society life, as many do. I can point out to you a great many names of men who are guilty of this sacrilege. They are as genial a- angels at the society room, and n > ugly as sin at home. They are generous on all subjects of wine suppers, yachts and fast homes, hut they are stingy arrmt the wives' dresses and the children's sh.sis. That man has made that, which might be a healthful influence, a usin']* .• of his affections,-and lie has married it, and he is guilty of moral bigamy. Under this process, the wife, what ever her features, become uninteresting and homely. Ho liommoj critical of her, does not like the, dress, does not like the way she arranges her hair, is amazed that, ho ever was so unromantic as to offer her hand and heart. There are secret soeicties where membenthin ul way involves domestic shipwreck. Tell me that a man has .joined a certain kind, and tell me nothing more about him for ten y<ars, and I will write hi* history if he Is* still alive. Tie* man is a wine guzzler, his wife broken hearted or prematurely old, hi* fortune gone or reduced,*and Ids home a men* name In a directory. Here are six secular nights in the week. ‘ What shall I do with them.''’ snvs the father and t.hp husband. “I will give four ol these nights to th<* improvement and entertainment ot my family, either at home or in good neighlsirhood. I will vote one to charitable institutions. 1 will devote one to my lodge.” I congratulate you. H**re is a man who says: -(hit of the six secular nights of the week I ivi 11 devote five to lodges and clubs and associations and one to the home, which night I will sp*nd in scowling liken March squall, wishing I was out spending it as ! have s[s*nt the otb**r live.” That man's obi* nary is written. Not one out of ten thous and that ever gets so far on the wrong road ever Stops. Gradually his health will fail theough late hours, and through too much stimulant* le* wiil !■ tint rate prey for erv Misdiu an I rheuinatisiu of tin lieurt. The doctor coming in will at. n glance *i*e it is not only pr,edit disease lie must tight, but years "f fast living. The clergy iiuiti, for th * sake of the feeling* of ihe fi nit!v. on ,tie tuaeral day will only talk in litigious generalities. Tin* men who got hi yacht in lie* ct enul rapids will not,hr at tli,. <i|ims|iiu*. They have nre—mg cngagi incut* that iiav. Tuey w ill send flowers to the rofllli. will send thill wild to Utter word*. of )in|*ltliy, lait they Will haveiu ngeinciits cl,ewh‘*n*. They ne'er iijme. Ilnur mi m illet and chisel, and I w ill cut ~ . iifnait<MM ttuil <IVJJ • . til*' iIM? !• who (Hi* in tllft ijtftl ••No, ' you s*>, UeO. would UOt l *l/1 rt priate.” “Lot me die the death of the righteous and let my last end lie like his.” “No,” you say, "that would not be appro priate.'’ Then give me the mallet and the chisel, and 1 will cut an honest epitaph: “Here lies tho victim of dissipating associa tions!” Another test by which you can find whether your secret society is right or wrong is the effect it tins on your secular oc cupation. J can understand how through such an institution a man can reach com mercial success. I know some men have formed their liest business relations through such a channel. If the secret society has ad vantaged you in an honorable calling it is a good one. But has your credit failed? Are bargain makers more anxious how they trust you with a bale of goodaf Have the men whose names were down in the commercial agency A I. before they entered the society, Ixvn going down since in commercial stand ing; Then look out. You and I every day know of commercial establishments going to ruin through the social excesses of one or two members, their fortune beaten to death with ball players, bat or cut amidships with the front prow of tho regatta, or going down under the swift hoofs of the fast horses, or drowned In the large potations of cognac or Monongahcla. That secret society was the Loch Barn. Their business was the Vi lie de Havre. They struck and tho Villo do Havre went under!” The third test by which you may know whether the society to which you lielong is goodorbad is this: What is Its effect on your sense of moral and religious obligation; Now, if I should take the names of all the people in this audience this morning and put them on a roll, and then 1 should lay that roll back of this organ, and a hundred years from now someone should take that roll and call it from A to /■ there would not. one of you answer. I say that any society that, makes me forget that fact is a bad society. When Igo to Chicago Tam some times perplexed at Buffalo, as I suppose many travelers are, ns to whether It is tietter to take the Bike Shore route or the Michi gan Central, equally expeditious and equally safe, getting to their destination at the same time. But suppose that I hear that on one route the track is torn up, tho bridges are down and the switches are unlocked, it will not take ni” a great while to decide which road to take. Now, here nre two roads in the future—the Christian and the unchristian, the sale and the unsafe, Any institution or any association that con fuses my ideas in regard to that fuel is a had institution and a bad association. i bad prayers before I joined that society, did 1 have them afterward ? I attended the house of God before I connected myself with that union, do I absent myself from religious influences; Which would you rather have in your hand when you come to die—a pack of cards or a Bible! Which would you rather have pressed to your lips in the closing moment —the cup of Belshazzarean wassail or the chalice of Christian com munion; Who would you rather have for your pall-hearers—the elders of a Christian church or the companions whose con versation was full of slang and innuendo? Who would you rather have for your eternal companions— these men who spend their evenings betting, gambling, swearing, carousing and telling vile stories, or your little child, that bright girl whom the Bird took! Oh, you would not have been away so much nights, would you, if you had known she was going away so soon ? Dear me, your house has never been the same place since. Your wife has never brightened up, she has never got over it. She never will get over it. How long the evenings are with no one to put to bed, and no one to whom to tell the beautiful Bible stories. What a pity it is that you cannot spend more evenings at home in trying to help her bear that sorrow. .You can never drown that, grief in the wine-cup. You can never break away from the little arms that, used to be flung around your neck when she used to say: “Papa, do stay with me to-night; do stay with me to-night.” You will never be able to wipe away from your lips tho dying kiss of your little girl. The fascina tion of a liad secret society is so groat, that sometimes a man has turned his back on his home wdien his child was dying of scarlet fever. He went away. Before he got back at midnight the eyes had been closed, the undertaker bad done his work, and the wife, worn out with three weeks’ watching, lay unconscious in the next, room. Then tho returned father comes up-stairs, and he sees thp (Tadic gone and the windows up, and says; “What iR the matter?” On the judg meat day he will find out what was tho matter. Oh man astray, God help you! I am going to make a. very stout rope. You know that, sometimes a rope-maker will take very small threads and wind them together until after awhile they become Bhip eable. And ( am going to take some very small delicate threads and wind them together until they make a very stout, rope. I will take all the memories of the marriage day—a thread of laughter, u Ihread of light, a thread of music, it thread of banqueting, a thread of (-congratulation, and I twist them together ti nd I have one strand. Then 1 take a thread of the hour of the first advent in your house, a thread of the darkness that pro ceded, and a thread of the light that fol lowed; and a thread of the bcautiful scarf that little child used to wear when she bounded out at eventide to greet you; and then a thread of the beautiful dress in which you laid her away for the resurrection; and then I will twist ail these threads together, and 1 have another strand. Then I take a thread of the scarlet robe of a suffering Christ, and a thread of the white ra i incut of your loved ones before the thri me, and a string of the harp cherubic, and u string of the harp seraphic, and I twist them nlj together, and I have a third strand. •’()," you say, “either strand is enough to hold bust a World!” No; I will take these strands and I will twist them together, and one end of th it rojie I will fasten, not to the communiontable, for it shall lx* removed; not to ii pillar of tlx- organ, for that will crumble in the ages; but I wind it round mid round the cross of a synqiathiziiig Christ, anil having fastened one end of tho rope to the cross, I throw the other end to you. I,ay hold of it! Bull lor your life! Puli for heaven! Senator Edmunds' Bulldog. cVoi.i tlu H'nnhington Star. Senator Edmund* owns a fine-bred bull dog, w hich he prizes very highly. The dog ii a great pet. and is the constant compunion of the Senator when the latter is at home. I n his n*w residence the Senator's library is on the second floor, and, in order that the dog might pans to and from the library l/i his kennel in the lmrk yard without going through the house, the Senator had an iron staircase, just, wide enough for the dog, • xtehied from one of the nnr windows of the library to tile yard Blow. The dog passm up and dow ii the staircase at will, mid w hen at the bp '"11111 • his desire to enter by scratching at the window. How Ho Blew Hit* Nose. The late William It. Travers wa* about an near n counterpart of the famous (’buries Lamb as any two men could I*-, even to tho stilller "h nv, in niy frb ad, wh wh eh wiin-Ii hand dddo you l>-b blow your iio '-* Wlthf United Gmib. “Mv light o iniui'sc ' "Tti-tiaMi that's wb-wheri you'll* I’ bl’ l*' P P fjaculiar, 1 m o u iwndlmnUl!-. Ifc (PRICE glO A VEtR.I i 5 TEXTS A COPY.f SHOEMAKERS IN' REVOLT. SIX THOUSAND TO WITHDRAW FROM THE KNIGHTS. Frank Campbell's Troublo with Master Workman Quinn the Baste of the Action A Bold Declaration That? Loafers in the Mask of Labor Muatt Take a Back Seat. New York. April 17.—About 300 show makers of New York and vicinity met to* (lay and organized an o|icii union under tha title of the “Manufacturing Shoemaker*’ Benevolent and Protective Union No. 1.” This is the result of the quarrel of Frailly. Campbell, of local assembly No. 3873, tlis Tarrytown foreman of Hunan’s shoe tory of this city, with Master WorldoMtl Quinn, of District Assembly No. 4'.i city. This action will undoubtedly lowed by the withdrawal of about AMPI uni!mbtri iriti;; i!ii the BiU'i Flank presid'd meeting and told his experience with Workman Quinn, of District No. T.i. Till 1 ; TROUBLE. Mr. Campliel! had executed a between himself and his employer iiaiilKj was sanctioned by the Knights of I .dHHi but when lie refused to break his contract and good faith with his employer and strike because ordered to do so, because he would not do this, “The Quinns and McGuires and the Gills,” hiul held a midnight conclaveand! ordered Camplicll’s withdrawal. He said that Quinn had then called him a scab and t hreatened him with a boycott ail over thai States. The man who ordered the strike aC Hunan's had been only two years in business and as a workman did not know a shoe frond a watch, and the speaker did not proposal that his craft “Should longer submit to tha arrogance of a man who did not understand the trade he worked at.” TIME TO CALL A HALT. It was time, he said, that workmen put down these men. “It comes to this, ho added, "that these men must be curtailed of; their power to issue edicts affecting mea who oppose them and their schemes. I don’t projxise that my little ones, Like those of tha longshoremen, shall tie reduced to want to please loafers in the Knights of Lalior against whom we now propose to act.” These sen* timents were roundly cheered by those pres ent, and a formal withdrawal from tha Knights of Bibor was adopted. The shoe* makers are exceedingly bitter, and as they withdraw they will enter the National Feder ration of Lalior. Factory Girls Strike. Milwaukee, April 10. —At Menasba all tlie girls in the carding department of that Menashu woolen mills went on a strike yes terday afternoon. The proprietors of the mill ordered a window facing the street painted recently so that the girls emyaoMaife would attend strictly to business and tempted to watch passers-by. The grl* fjS| fuse t" return uni's, tin* iiuint is rmuol^^B The Church and the Knights. ItoviK. April 17.- The !’"P" approveifSMM of Garilin.’il Gib!•mis and < Inin in his ji.-lion with reference K Might- iif Gil*.i’ him * secured tile Il|Jl|"!’C|!C" "I I lldiuai ■ 1111 •, .lie! IS 11 'h support. _ Montreal Teamsters Strike. ■ $9 Montreal, April 10. —Four teai".-ter ■ of the l h al’d i rank and 1 I’;" railway- wnt ■don a strikeHH| morning for an advance froi i $1 35 per day. Freight throughout tho lining handled liv express wagons. WK th'e three agencies. The Budding Brains of New Boy Conspirator. New York, April 10.—While we 1 !■ hearing so much alsmt the brains that time reaping for^^H tomb let us keep an eye on brains that will blossom in the ca^HH years. It seems to me that there is lirH 'lays a breed of youngster* with ufii¥ quickened to a degree luiequaled in theiV ' predecessor*. I know scores of these boys, the like of whom I knew not in my own bovhixxl—alert, sharp-witted, knowing,and' full of that quality which used to be called “gumption.” Their growth in this city ap pears to lxs promoted mainly by three ihings. Firstly, by the tremendous energy of New York life, which prompts an early de* velopment of the facultie*, stimulates their action und tends to what is known as “level* headeduess.” Secondly, by the common school system. Go into these school*, look at the discipline, scan the text books, watch the mental drill, and then sis- how the mind and manner* must lie affected in the forma tive period between seven and fourteen. Thirdly, by the daily papers. Multitudes of youngster* read other sheets nowadays be side the weekly story tellers, as everybody is aware who keeps his eyes epen about town. Thus they get a smattering of knowledge of current affairs, social prog* ri-MS, political, business and practical lire that works profoundly upon thir nature. These three agencies, it seems to me, arc fertilizing tho ixiyish brain in a wonderful way. 1 have just read the elaborate narrative recently published by the lad of IS), Arthur Brunswick, who organized that extraordi* nary conspiracy of the Pistrct Telegraph boys, which v.as exploded by his arrest, and which brought him to a trial in which be narrowly escaped from a term in jail, Brunswick is perhaps u rare specimen of the youngsters whose bum})* blossom under the influences hero sjxikeu of, lint lie is, never theless, a type ol a lia-fr* whiiii lielong* es pocially to this time. His- job of secretly organizing his agile comrade* was. in itself, a piece of extraordinary ingenuity, full of all such arts a* might bo practiced by an old and experienced luuid, and calculated to raise that alarm which led the corpora tlon to adopt vigorous measures for the un dermining and luppriesion of the “Apex Ciuti.’’ But more remarkable even than that job U the foot that tbs whole of the quaint mid striking narrative of its ori gin and overthrow was written by tha youngster himself. Within two dry* from the tune that the subject was suggested to him the manuscript of nearly 100 foolscap folios whs completed bv his own hand in al most jx-rfect shape tor the pr ss without any outside help whatever. | speak ns a man of large ex(icrietice in composition when I say that the feat, was one which I have rarely known to be exceeded, even by practiced writer*, though it was Brunswick s first *• ri(HMeffort in the line. I (onfess that lam surprised heyond measure bv bis 1 opacity <’f thought and narrative, no losii than by Ilia style and language. it iw always interesting to study the bud ding brsiim of the young New York which will bold the stag" fora good parted tha twHiiii-ih century, and it is agreeable to welcome the |i<mi iff bright youngster*U|x<u w how sh'Hf’de.x tlu* republic must: MtMHI lost ■ • •* i nrroir. ' WkstuwSMi (S ilie Jury. -,ri * lawyer in lilx-l • see tla- taker 'Li> nuuiy a man tut* l**>n *h*Jt for a hssi Meruma lihtti !’ a i isx-e sai)iiittfl| i sli Tward by * jui v <ff Lie f lmw oouair/iiM%*