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\ ESTABLISHED 1850. ) i J. H. KfeTILL, Editor uud Proprietor. J WORK BEFORE CONGRESS THE SENATE WILL ELECT ITS COM MITTEES TO-DAY. Little Beyond the Introduction of Bills Apt to Occur in the Open Sessions of the Senate this Week—Messages Making 600 Nominations to be Con sidered. Washington, Dec. 11.—The Senate is ex pected to formally elect its committees to morrow, thus ratifying the work w hich the Republicans on their part have already per formed in caucus, and which the Democrats will have accomplished before the body is called to order. Little besides the introduction of bills is likely to occur during the remainder of the week in the open sessions of the Senate. SIX HUNDRED NOMINATIONS. The President has before him 365 messages nominating postmasters alone, all of whom have been appointed during the recess of Congress and are already in oftiije, which messages he will send to the Senate as fast as he can examine and sign them. Other recess nominations, sufficient to bring the number up to about six hundred are exacted during the w'eek. Daily secret sessions are likely to occur for thepurpose of reading and re ferring these, and it is possible that some of the Cabinet nominations already sent to the Senate, but not yet laid before the body, may lie reported for action before the end of the week. All the important committees will bold meetings during the week for the purpose of organization. The daily sessions of Senate are likely to be short ones. IN THE HOUSE. Short sittings and long adjournments may be expected in the House. The Speaker will appoint the Committee on Rules within a day or two, and a recess for two days will probably be taken in or der to allow that committee on opportunity to consider and report upon the various propositions that have already been intro duced looking to amendments of the former rules. Mr. McCreary’s resolution requiring gen eral appropriation bills to be reported to the House by committees within sixty days after their appointment during the long ses sion will probably be speedily and favorably reported by the Committee on Rules, and the discussion following the report may consume the time of the House for a day or two. There is also talk of an aggressive movement by the friends of some of the House officials recent ly displaced which may enliven the proceedings during the latter j .art of the week. SENATE COMMITTEES. The Members Who Will be on Them to Represent the Democracy. Washington, Dec. 11.—A caucus of Democrats will be held here to-morrow morning at 10 o’clock for the purpose of taking action on the report of the caucus committee relative to the minority repre sentation on the committees of the Senate. Following is a correct list of the Senators who will represent the Democratic party on the committees named, except that one or two changes may be made on committees of minor importance, such ns the Committee on the Revision of the Laws: Appropriations—Messrs. Beck, Cockrell, Call and Gorman. Agriculture--Messrs. George, Gibson and Jones, the old members with Senator Bate of Tennessee as a probability. _ To Audit and Control the Contingent Ex penses of the Senate—Mr. Vance. Civil Service and Retrenchment—No change; Messrs. Voorhees. Walthall, Wil son and Berry. Commerce—No change; Messrs. Ransom, Gorman, Kenna and Gibson. Education and Labor —No change; Messrs. Call, Pugh, Payne and Walthall. Engrossed Bills—Messrs. Saulsbury,(chair man) and Call. Enrolled Bills—No change: Mr. Colquitt’ To Examine the Several Branches of the Civil Service—No change; Messrs. Hamp ton and Gray. Epidemic Diseases—No change; Messrs. Harris, Hampton, Eustis and Berry. Finance—No change; Messrs. Voorhees, Beck, McPherson, Harris and Vance. Judiciary—No change; Messrs. Pugh, Coke, Vest and George. Library—No change; Mr. Voorhees. Military Affairs—Messrs. Cockrell, Hamp ton. Walthall, the old members, with probably Senator Bate as anew member. Naval Affairs—Messrs. McPheraon, But ler and Blackburn, the old members, with Senator Gray as a j robable new member. Privileges and Elections—No change; Messrs. Saulsb-'ry, Vance, Pugh and Eustis. Public Lands—No change; Messrs. Mor gan, Cockrell, Walthall and Berry. of the Laws—No change; Messrs. Kenna and Wilson. Railroads—Probably no change; Messrs. Brown. Kenna. George and Blackburn. Rules—No change; Messrs. Harris and Blackburn. Revolutionary Claims—Mr. Coke, chair man. Committee on Private Land Claims— Mr. Ransom, chairman. From'the fact that Mr. Beck, of Ken tucky, is the chairman of the caucus, it was not thought necessary to give him a chairmanship in addition. SELECT COMMITTEES. Additional Accommodations for the Library—Messrs. Voorhees, chairman; But ler and Gibson, the old members. To Inquire into Claims of Citizens against Nicaraugu—Messrs, Morgan chairman; Wilson and some new man. River Front of Washington—Messrs. Mc- Pherson, chairman; Ransom and some new member. Woman Suffrage—Mr. Cockrell, chair man; with Mr. Brown and somo new mem ber. • Centennial of the Constitution and Dis covery of America—Messrs. Voorhees, Gor man and Eustis. A TARIFF CLINCHER. The Effect of Free Quinine PointodOut by Mr. McKenzie. Washington, Dec. 11.—Ex-Representa tive McKenzie of Kentucky, who put through the bill putting quinine on the free list, thinks the effect of that act is good argument in favor of free raw materials. The protectionist critics of the President’s recommendations allege that itie effects of free trade would bo: First, to Oisturb, and pissibly destroy our home in dustries, by flooding the country with the product of the paujier labor of Europe; and second, to increase the prices m the products in question after crushing mil our manufacturers. Now, as Mr. Mc- Kenzie points out whereas there were three factories in this country manufacturing quinine when this bill became a iaw, there ate now fifteen, and the product never was 80 good, while prices never were so cheap. Claims of Postmasters. Washington, Dec. 11.—The committee of the third and fourth class postmasters js here trying to impress on Congress the justice of their claim that they should be adowed office rent and other expenses. (jjf/ DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF. Pennsylvania Railroad Officials in a Bad Muddle. Philadelphia, Dec. 11.—The Record to morrow will say: “Information comes from the main office of the Pennsylvania Rail road Company that disagreement or di vision has arisen among the managers of that corporation relative to the question of what are known as drawbacks or rebates. It is said that President Roberts has de clared his determination to have the system abolished, and that as a preliminary step he has recently caused a list to be made of all persons, firms and corporations who have had allowances made to them during the past fiscal year by the company. It is also stated that the efforts of the President to accomplish his purpose has met with opposition upon the port of other man agers. Asa result of this an interesting contest has arisen withiu the inner circle of the management of the road. Information is given out, that rebates and drawbacks are not known by those titles now. but that they are expressed by such phrases as allowances and terminal charges. It is also said that recent suits for damage brought bv oil pro ducing and shipping firms has had consid erable to do with this action upon the part of the President of the company. Inform ation relative to the inside workings of the corporation has been given to its enemies, and armed with this ship pers all over the country who have been discriminated against have begun ac tion against the corporation. Suits aggre gating about $1,000,000 for alleged discrimi nation have already been begun, and there is no telling when they will end or what po sition the company will be placed in should they be pushed to a conclusion. PENNSYLVANIA’S LICENSE LAW. Saloon Keepers Having Hard Work to Secure Bondsmen. Philadelphia, Dec. 11.—The new high license law passed by the last Legislature promises to drive out the liquor business, not only those who cannot afford to pay a SSOO license fee, but also many wealthy dealers who will And it impossible to secure the necessary bondsmen to become respon sible for their faithful compliance with the law. Up to the close of business yesterday only 350 applications for licenses for next year had been filed with the Clerk of the Court of Quarter Sessions. This is considered a small number in view- of the fact that there are about 6,000 saloons in the city. Dealers are ex periencing no end of trouble iu obtaining two bondsmen who are willing to take upon themselves the responsibility attached to those who become sureties for tavern keep era. Such bondsmen will each become responsible in the sum of $2,000 for the pay ment of all fines, penalties or damages that may be levied upon a dealer for any viola tion of the laws governing the sale of liquor. In attaching their names to the bond thd sureties also give power of attorney to the District Attorney to confess judgment in the sum named for the recovery of all dam ages, costs, fines and penalties, etc. PLYMOUTH’S PULPIT. Rev. Berry Causes a Sensation by De clining the Pastorate. New York, Dec. IL—The small congre gation present at Plymouth Church, in Brooklyn, this morning, was unpleasantly surprised by Rev. Dr. Lyman Abbott’s an nouncement from the pulpit that Rev. Charles A. Berry, of Wolverhampton, Eng., had declined the call extended to him by Plymouth Church. After lengthy prefatory remarks, in which he deplored the announce ment he had to make, Dr. Abbott en lightened the audience, not half a dozen of whom knew what was coming, by reading the following cablegram: To Professor Rossiter W. Raymond: Charles Albert Berry greets Plymouth, appre ciates its confidence, reciprocates its affection, prays for its prosperity, but cannot accept tbe pastorate. Home claims are inexorable; duty here commands. Letter mailed you God bless and guide you. The announcement was ail unforeseen blow, ami much excitement followed. Sev eral ladies in the congregation gave way to their feelings iu tears. SOCIALISTS ON TOP. A Resolution Passed Declaring a Boy cott on Milwaukee Beer. New York, Dec. 11.—The Socialist pro gressive element was topmost at tbe meet ing of the Central Labor Union to-day, its adherents succeeding at length in ad mitting the Progressive Musical Union, which had been opposed by the Knights of Labor and Carl Saha Club. A resolution boycotting Milwaukee beer was passed unanimously. This action was taken at the instance of the Brewers Union fry the purpose of helping the brewers’ workmen in M’lwaukoe, who have struck or been locked out. The resolution declared that workmen “had been slapped in their faces by insolent money hag bosses,” and that, therefore, they should be pun ished. The resolution and the action there on is ordered sent to all the Central Labor unions. AN ACCOUNTING WANTED. The Executive Board of the Knights of Labor Must Report. Philadelphia, Dec. 11.—A meeting of representative men from nearly all the local assemblies of the Knights of was held to-day at which resolutions were adopted recommending that all local asseblies make a demand upon the General Executive Board for an itemized account of all the expendi tures made by that body during the past year, so that they may know where and how $500,000 was disbursed. If the General Executive Board should fail or decline to render such account, it is proposed to compel it to do so by law. The Committee on Elections. Washington, Dec. 11.—Npoal/er Carlisle will ask the House to-morrow to appoint the Committee on Elections for this present Congress. He will not suggest any special way of appointing it. He will call Mr. Crisp, of Georgia, to the chair, and let the House select the committee just as it (ileuses. He is making good progress with the other committees. They will all be ready before the Christmas recess. A Second McGlynn. Newark, N. J., Dec. 11.—Rev. Hugh K. Pentecost this morning resigned his position ns pastor of the Belleville Avenue Congre gational church, of this city. His promi nence in the labor movement, and his can didacy for Mayor of the city on that ticket at the last'charter election, as well as his utterances in regard to the Chicago An archists, had estranged him from some mem bers of his congregation. Colquitt on Temperance. New York, Dec. 11.—Senator A. H. Col quitt, of Georgia, addressed the American Temperance union at Chickering Hall to day. lie emphatically declared that prohi bition was not dead in Georgia, despite its recent defeat, and he was equally sure there would be no compromise in his State. SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 12, 1887. PROF. ORR DEAD. Overwork Terminated in Congestion of tba Brain. Atlanta, Ua., Dec. H. —After a long illness from which recovery was hopeless, Gustavus J. Orr, State School Commis sion, died at 11 o’clock this morning. He was first affected with nervous prostration from overwork, which terminated in con gestion of the brain. Dr. Orr was born in Anderson county, South Carolina, 1819, but his family soon after moved to Jackson county, Georgia. He entered the State University in 1841, in the times of T. R. K. Cobb, Samuel Hall, Joseph Leconte, Linton 11. Stephens, Jabez L. M. Curry, H. H. Hill and others since distinguished. When a senior he would have graduated with first honor, but a porsoual difficulty caused his expulsion, and the first honor place fell to Ben Hill. He graduated at Emory College in 1844 with the second honors. With the exception of a brief period his whole life has been devoted to the cause of education, and after graduation ho taught school in Jackson county, and tnen at Cov ington; from 1849 to 1866 he filled the chair of mathematics at Emory College. In the winter of 1859 he was appointed by Gov. Brown, Surveyor on the part of Georgia for the boundary line between Georgia and Florida, settling finally what had bean an open question since tbe acquisi tion of Florida. From 1867 to 1870 ho was I ’resident of the Masonic Female College at Covington. In 1870 Oglethorpe University was moved from Milledgoville to Atlanta, and Prof. Orr was elected to the Chair of Mathematics, which he filled until the uni versity was abandoned two years later. In 1872 be was appointed State School Commis sioner bv Gov. Smith,succeeding Gen. Lewis, of the Bullock administration. This position he held at the time of his death. He was wrap,sal up in his office, and faithful and efficient in the discharge of its duties. Since it was known nearly a week ago that Professor Orr could not recover, a number of applications for the vacancy, should it occur, have been filed in the exec utive office. It is pretty well understood to-night, however, the appointment wiil be tendered Judge James S. Hook, of Augusta. The office has a salary of $2,000 and a clerk, and the term follows the Governor’s. SOUTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE. The High Country Gettln the Best of the Low Country. Columbia, Dec. 11.—The week just closed has witnessed a Waterloo for the low country interests of South Carolina. From time immemorial there has a! wajs pre vailed among a certain class of people in upper Carolina an intense and very bitter feeling against their fellow-citizens of the coast country, and especially against Charleston. Ever since 1876 this element has been increasing in strength in the General Assembly, and the sentiment has found expression in various ways. The great cause of c omplaint is the very natural influenco exercised by Charleston in the General Assembly. Somo of the more ig norant ot the up-country section ascribe it to the number of Representative- allowed to Charleston. It should be mentioned that prior to the division of Charleston into two counties, she had seventeen Representa tives and two Senators. After the creation of Berkeley county, Charleston's representa tion was reduced to twelve members, but the two Senators were retained. The present apportionment was based on the State cen sus of 1875. Soon after the Democrats came in power the cry was raised that Charleston had too many Representatives, and year after year efforts were made to get a reap portionment, but always without success. To make an enumeration of the inhabitants would cost from $60,000 to $75,01X1. and the “economics,” as they are called, while anxious to stab the metropolis of the State in its back, were unwilling to spend the money to do it in a constitutional way. THE LOW COUNTRIES LOSE. So after mauy defeats they secured the passage of an amendment to the constitu tion, which was adopted by a popular vote, and by which the Legislature was given tbe power “to dispense with an enumeration, and to base future apportionments upon the last preceding United States census. The bill which passod the House last Friday makes a reapportionment on the basis of the United States census of 1880. Under it the low country loses seven Representatives, of which four are taken from Charleston, and the upper country gains seven. It was said by a member during the discus sion that tlie up-country Representatives were wrong in attributing Charleston’s in fluence iu the Legislature to the number of her Representatives. “That influence,” lie said, “is due rather to the character of the men she sends here.” It was a palpable hit, but it did not avert the defeat. It was also urged that to take the census of 1880 was to do an injustice to Charleston, as her popula tion had very largely increased since then, but this consideration also -failed. The bill was carried by a majority of 3. which noth ing could break. A SECOND BLOW AT THE LOW COUNTRY. The other severe blow to the low country was in the defeat of the phosphate bill in the Senate on Wednesday lest. The scope of this bill has already been published in the columns of the Morning News. It is admitted that the phosphate interests are languishing owing to the over-production, and that unless some such relief as was pro posed by this bill was afforded their would be trouble, and serious trouble. The Sen ate, after discussing it for one day, indefinitely postponed the mea-ure by a vote of 17 to 16. The bill, however, is still before the House, and if it can pass that body the fight may be renewed in the Senate. These are about the only two measures that have been disposed of during the week, the remainder of the legislative work being devoted to tinkering at existing laws and the passage of county measures. The news comes from Charleston of a serious holt in the Democratic ranks, and the political situation there looks gloomy enough. However serious a blow may be inflicted by the success ot independentismin the coming election there is consolation in the fact that the persons who are put up for office are well known and responsible citi zens. Killed by an Electric Shock. Cincinnati, Dec. 11.—James O’Connell, stage manager of Charles Andrews’ Michael Strogoff Combination, was struck dead by an electric current Vbich came down the hell wire when he rang down the curtain at Robinson’s Theatre this evening. He was 26 years old. Miss Collins, whom he was to marry, was almost heart-broken by tbe event. Frisco War-ta a Conversion, Ban Francisco, Doc. 11.—The State Democratic Club has decided to appoint a special committee to go to Washington and endeavor to obtain the support of promi nent Democrats in the movement to hold the National Democratic Convention in this city. Two members of this club will start East on this mission at once. Three Killed In a Collision. Btaunton, Va., T>ec. It.—Two freight trains collided on the Chesapeake and Ohio railroad to-day. near Clifton Forge. Three men were killed, one of whom was Con ductor Fry. Both trains were wrecked. ADOABOUTSM ALL THINGS GUIDES WHICH STRAIN AT A GNAT AND SWAoLOW A CAMEL. Rev. Talmage Preaches on a Proverb from Matt hew-Ministers Who are Photographed In the Text—Financiers Who Come Under the Ban -Thou sands Are Hit by the Comparison. Brooklyn, Dec. 11. —To-night the Rev. T. Do Witt Talmage, D.D., preached at the Tabernacle, this city, on “Too Much Ado About Small Things.” His-text was:'“Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat and swallow a camel” Matthew xxiii; 24. The eloquent preacher said: A proverb is compact wisdom, knowledge in chunks, a library in a sentence; the electricity of many clouds discharged in one bolt, a rivet put through a mill race. When Christ quotes the proverb of the text, He means to set forth the ludicrous belmvior of those who make a great bluster about small sins and have no appreciation of great ones. In my text a small insect and a large quadruped are brought into comparison—a gnat and a camel You have in museum or on the desert seen the latter, a meat awk ward, sprawling creature, with back two stories high, and stomach having a collec tion of reservoirs for desert travel, an ani mal forbiddeu to the Jews as food, and in many literatures entitled “the ship of the desert.” The; gnat spoken of in the text is in the grub form. It is born in pool or pond, after a few weeks becomes a chrysalis, and then after a few days becomes the gnat ns we recognize it. But the insect spoken of in the text is in its very smallest shape, and it yet inhabits the water—for my text is a misprint and ought to read “strain out a gnat.” My text shows you tbe prince of inconsis tencies. A man after long observation has formed the suspicion that in a cup of water he s about to drink, there is a grub or the grandparent of a gnat. He goes and gets a sieve or strainer. He takes the water and pours it through the sieve in the broad light. He says, “I would rather do anything almost than drink this water until this larva be ex tirpated.” This water is brought under in quisition, Tbe experiment is successful. The water rashes through a sieve and leaves against the side of the sieve the grub or gnat. Then the man carefully removes the insect and drinks the water iu placidity. But going out one day, and hungry, he de vours a “ship of the d’sert,” the camel, which the Jews are forbidden' to eat. The gastronomer has no compunctions of con science. He suffers from no indigestion. He puts the lower jaw under the camel’s forefoot, and his upper jaw over the hump of the camel’s back, and gives one swallow and the dromedary disappears forever Ho strained out a gnat, be swallowed a camel. While Christ’s audience were vet. smiling at the appositeness and wit of His illustra tion —for smile they did in church, unless they were too stupid to understand the hy perbole—Christ practically said to them: “That is you.” Punctilious about small things; reckless about affairs of great mag nitude. No subject ever withered under a surgeon’s knife more bitterly’than the Phar isees under Christ’s scalpel of truth. As an anatomist will take a human body to pieces, and put them under a miscroscope for ex amination, so Christ finds His way to the heart of the dead Pharisee, and cutis it out, and puts it under the glass of inspection for all generations to examine. Those Phari sees thought that Christ would flatter them nnd compliment them, and how they must have writ tied under the red-hot words as Ho said: “Ye fools! ye whited sepulchres! ye blind guides, which strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.” There are in our day a great many gnats strained out and a great many camels swal lowed, and it is the object of this sermon to sketch a few persons who are extensively engaged in that business. First. I remark that all those ministers of the Gospel are photographed in the text who are very scrupulous about the conven tionalities of religion, but put, no particular stress ur*m matters of vast importance. Church services ought to be grave and .sol emn. There is no room for frivolity in re ligious convocation. But there are illus trations and there are hyperboles like that of Christ in the text, that will irradiate with smiles any intelligent auditory. There are men like those blind guides of the text, who advocate only those things in religious service which draw the corners or the mouth down, and denounce all those things w’hich have a tendency to draw the corners of the mouth up, and these men will go to installations and to presbyteries, and to conferences, and to associations, their pockets full of fine sieves to strain out the gnats, while in their own churches at home every Sunday, there are fifty people sound asleep. They make their churches a great dormitory, and their somniferous sermons are a cradle, and the drawled-out hymns a lullaby, while some wakeful soul in a pew with her fan keeps the flies off unconscious persons ap proximate. Now, I say it is worse to sleep in church than to smile in church, for the latter implies at least attention, while the fotmer implies the indifference of the hearers and the stupidity ot the speaker. In old age, or from physical infirmity, or from long watching with the sick, drowsiness will sometimes overpower one; but when a minister of the Gospel looks off upon an audience and finds healthy and intelligent people struggling with drowsiness, it is time for him to jfivo out the doxology or pronounce the hWiediction. The great fault of church services to-day is not too much vivacity, but too much somnolence. The one is an irritating gnat thut may be easily strained out; the other is a great, sprawling and sleepy-eyed camel of the dry desert. In all our Sabbath schools, in ail our Bible classes, in all our pulpits, we need to brighten up our religious messages with sogn Christ-like vivacity os we find in the text. I take down from my library the biog raphies of ministers and writers of past ages, inspired and uninspired, who have done the most to bring souls to Jesus Christ, and 1 find that without a single exception they consecrated their wit and their humor to Christ. Elijah used it when he ndvi .-d the Baalites, as they oouid not make their god respond; telling them to call louder ns their god might be sound Asleep or gone a hunting. Job used it when fie said to his self-conceited comforters, “Wisdom will die with you.” Christ not only used it in the text, nut when He ironically complimented the putrefied Pharisee*, saying, “The whole need not a physician,” and when by one word He described tbe cunning of Herod, saying, “Go ye, and tell that fox.!’ Matthew Henry’s commentaries from the first page to the last are coruscated with humor as summer clouds with heat, lightning. John Bunyan’s writings are as full or humor as they are of saving truth, ami there is not an aged man here who has ever read “Pilgrim's Progress” who does not remember that while reading it he smiled as often as he wept. Chrysostom, George Herbert, Robert South, John Wes ley, George Whitelield, Jeremy Taylor, Rowland Hill, Nettle-ton, George G. Fin ney, and all the men of the past who greatly advanced the kingdom of God con secrated their wit and their humor to the causo of Christ. So it has been in all the ages, and I say to these young theological students, who cluster in these services Sab bath by Sabbath, sharpen your wits as keen as scimitars, and then take them iuto this holy war. It is a very short bridge between a smile and a tear, a suspension bridge from eye to lip, ami it is soon crossed over, and a smile is sometimes just its snored us a tear. There Is ns much religion, and I think a little more, in aspring morning than in a starless night. Religious work without any humor or wit in it is a banquet with a side of beef, and that raw, and no condiments, and no dessert succeeding. People will not sit down at suidi n banquet. Bv all means remove all frivolity nnd ail bathos anil all lightness and all vulgarity—strain them out through tile sieve of holy discrimination; but, on the other hand, beware of that monster which overshadows the Christian church to-day, conventionality, coining up from the Great ISuhara Desert of Eeelesiastieism, having on its back a hump of sanctimonious gloom, und vehemently refuse to swallow that camel Oh, how particular a great, many people are aliout the infinitesimals while they are quite reckless about the magnitudes What did Christ say* Did He not excoriate the people in His time who were so careful to wash their hands before a meal, hut did not wash their hearts! It is a bad thing to have unclean hands; it is a worse thing to have an unclean heart. How many people there are in our time who are very "anxious that after their death they shall be buried with their feet toward the east, and not at all anxious that during their whole life they should face in the right direction so that they shall come up in the resurrection of the just whichever way they are buried. How many there are chiefly anxious that a minister of the Gospel shall come in the line of apostolic succession, not caring so mgeh whether he conies from Apostle Paul or Apostle Judas. They have a way of measuring a gnat until"it is larger than a camel Again, my subject photographs all those who are abhorrent of small sins while they are reckless m regard to magnificent thefts. You w’ill find many a merchant who whilo he is careful that he would not take a yard of cloth or a spiel of cotton from the coun ter without paying for it, and who, if a bank cashier should make a mistake and send in a roll of bills live dollars too much, would dispatch a messenger in hot haste to return the surplus, yet who will go into a stock company, in which after awhile he gets control of the stock, and then waters the stock and makes one hundred thousand dollars appear like two hundred thousand dollars. Ho only stole one hundred thousand dollars by the operation. Many of the men of fortune made their wealth in that way. One of those men, ongnged iu such unright eous acts, that evening, the evening of the very day wlieu he watered the stock, will find a whurf-rat stealing a newspaper from the basement doorway, and will go out and catch the urchin by the collar, and twist tbe collar so tightly the poor fellow cannot say that it was thirst for knowledge that lod him to the dishonest act, but grip the collar tighter and tighter, saying, “I have been looking for you a long while; you stole my paper four or five times, haven’t you? you miser able wretch.” And then the old stock gambler, with a voice they can hear three blocks, will cry out, “Police! police!” That same man, the evening of the day in which he watered the stock, will kneel with his family in pravors and thank God for the prosiH’i’ity of the day, then kiss his children good-night with an air which seems to say, “1 hope you will all grow up to be its good as your father.” Prisons for sins insectlle in size, but palaces for crimes dromedarian. No mercy for sins animalcule in projior tion, but great leniency for mastodon in iquity. A poor boy siily takes from the basket of a market woman a choke pear— saving someone else from the cholera—and you smother him in the horribleatmosphere of Raymond street jail or New York Tombs, while his cousin, who has been skill ful enough to steal fifty thousand dollars from the city, you will make him a candi date for the New York Legislature! There is a great deal of uueaslness anil nervousness now among some people in out; time who have gotten unrighteous fortunes, u groat deal of nervousness about dynamite. I tell them that God will put under their unrighteous fortunes something more ex plosive than dynamite, the earthquake of His omnipotent indignation. It is time that we learn in America that sin is not inex cusable in proimrtion as it declares large dividends and has outriders in equipage. Many a man is riding to perdition postilion ahead—lackey behind. To steal one copy of a newspaper is a gnat; to steal many thous ands of dollars is a camel. There is many a fruit dealer who would not consent to steal a basket of peaches from a neighbor’s stall, but who would not scruple to depress the fruit market; and as long as I can remember we have heard every summer the peaoh crop of Maryland is a failure, and by the time the crop comes in the misrepresentation makes a difference of millions of dollar! . A man who would not steal one peach basket steals fifty thousand peach basKets. Go down iu the summer time into tbe Mercantile Li brary, in the reading-rooms, aud see the newspaper reports of the crops from all parts of the country, and their phraseology is very milch the same, and the same men wrote them methodically and infamously carrying out tbe huge lying about the grain crop from year to year and for a score of years. After a while there will lie a “cor ner” in the whoat market, aud mon who hud a contempt for a petty theft will burglarize the wheat bin of a nation and commit lar ceny upon the American corn-crib And some of the men will sit in churches and in reformatory institutions trying to strain out the small gnats of’ scoundrelism, while iu their grain elevators anil their storehouses they are fattening huge camels which they expect after a whilo to swallow. Society has to be entirely reconstructed on this sub ject. We are to find that a sin is inexcusa ble in proportion as it is great. I know in our time the tendency is to charge religious frauds upon good men They say, "Oh, what a cla-s of frauds you have in the Church of God in this day,” anil when an elder of a church, or a deucon, or a minister of the Gospel, or a superin tendent of a Sabbath school turns out a de faulter, what display heads there are In many of the newspapers. Great primer type. Five-line pica. “Another Saint Ab sconded.” “Clerical Hcoundrelism,” “Re ligion at a Discount,” “Shame on the Churches,” while there are a thousand scoumlrels outside thechurch to where there is one inside the church, and the misbe havior of those who never see the inside of a church is so great it is enough to tempt a man to liecomo a Christian to get out of their company. But in all circles, religious and irreligious, the tendency is to excuse .sin in proportion as it is mammoth. Even John Milton in hjs “Paradise Lout,” while he condemns Satan, gives such a grand description of him you have hard work to suppress your admiration. Oh, this strain ing out of small sins like gnats, and this gulping down great iniquities like camels. This subject does not give the picture of one or tw o persons, blit is a gal lory in which thousands of people may see their likeness. For instance, i II those people who, whffe they would not rob their neighbor of a farthing, appropriate the money and the treasure of the public. A man lias a house to sell, and tolls his customer it is worth twenty thousand dollars. Next day the assessor comes around the owner sa,vs it is j worth fifteen thousand dollars. Tho gov [ eminent of the United States took off tho j tax from personal income, among other reasons because so few people would tell the truth, and many a man with an income of hundreds of dollars a day made statements which seemed to imply he was about to be handed over to the overseer of the poor. Careful to pav their passage from Liverpool to Mew York, yet smuggling in their Sara toga trunk ten silk dresses from Paris and a half dozen watches from Genova, Switzer land, telling the custom house officer on the wharf, “There is nothing in that trunk but, wearing apparel,” and putting a live dollar gold piece in his hand to punctuate the statement. Described in the text are all those who nre pa f ieular never to break the law of grammar, and who want ali their language an elegant specimen of syntax, straining out ali the inaccuracies of speech with a fine sieve of literary criticism, while through tlie.r conversation go slander and innuendo, and profnnity and falsehood larger than a whole caravan of camels, when they might better fracture every law of the language and shock intellectual taste, and better let every verb seek in vain for its nominative, and every noun for its government, and every proposition lose its way in the sen tence, and adjectives and participles, and pronouns get into a grand riot worthy of the Fourth ward on election day than to commit a moral inaccuracy. Better swal low a thousand gnats than one camel. Such persons are also described in the text, who are very much alarmed about the small faults of others, and have no alai in about their own great transgressions. Thore are in every community and in every church, watch dogs who feel called upon to keep their eyes on others and growl. They are full of suspicions. They wonder if that man is dishonest, if that man is not unclean, if there is not something wrong about the other man. They are always the first to hear of anything wrong. Vultures are always the first to smell carrion. They are self-appointed de tectives. I lay this down as a rule without any exception, that those people who have the most faults themselves are most merciless in their watching of ot,hoi's. From scalp of head to sole of foot they are full of jeal ousies and hypereriticisms. They spend their life in hunting for muskrats and mud turtles instead of hunting for llocky moun tain eagles, always for something mean in stead of something grand. They look at their neighbors’ imperfections through a microscope, and look at their own imperfec tions through a telescope upside down. Twenty faidts of their own do not hurt them so much as one fault of somebody else. Their neighbors’ imperfections are like gnats and they strain thorn out; their own imperfections are like camels and they swallow them. But lest some might think they escape the scrutiny of the text, I have to tell you that we all come under the divine satire when we make the questions of time more prominent than the questions of eternity. Come now, let us go into the confessional. Are not all tempted to make the question, Where shall I live now! greater than the question, Where shall t live forever? How shall I get more dollars here? greater than the ques tion, How shall I lay up treasures In lieav on? tne question, How shall I pay my debts to man? greater than the question, How shall I meet my obligations to God? the questi on, How shall I gain the world, greater than the question, What if 1 lose my soul? tho question, Why did God let sin come into the world? greater than the ques tion How shall I get it extirpated from my nature? the question, What shall I do with the twenty, or forty, or seventy years of my sublunar existence? greater than the question, What shall I do with the millions of cycles of my poet-ter restrial existence? Time, how small it is! Eternity, how vast it isi The former more insignificant in comparison with tho latter than a gnat is insignificant when compared with a camel. We dodged the text. We said. “That doesn’t mean me, and that doesn’t moan me," and with a ruinous benevolenoe we are giving the whole sermon away. But let us all surrender to the charge. What an ado about things here. What poor preparation for a great eternity. As though a minnow were larger than a behe moth. as though a swallow took wider cir cuit than un albatross, as though a nettle were taller than a I<ebanon cedar, as though a gnat were greater than a camel, as though a minute were longer than acentury, as though time were higher, deeper, broader than eternity. Bo the text which flashed with lightning of wit as Christ uttered it, is followed by tho crashing thunders of awful catastrophe to those who make the qnestions of time greater than the ques tions of the future, the oncoming, over shadowing future. O eternity! eternity! eternity! A FLOOD IN THE ALABAMA. Driftwood Carries Away a Span of a Railroad Bridge. Montgomery, Ala., Dec. 11.—Heavy rains during the last few days have caused a rapid rise in tfje Alabama river. The rail road bridge of the Louisville fe, Nashville road, four miles north of this city, has for some weeks lioen undergoing process of com plete rebuilding. This morning about 11 o'clock tho draw span was swept away by driftwood braking down the falsework un derneath. Trains northward and southward are compelled to transfer by boat. A car penter employed on the bridge, and who was trying to break the force of tbe driftwood, was swept off and drowned. BREWERIES A NUISANCE. The Prohibition Law In Kansas to bo Enforced with Vim. Topeka, Kan., Dec. 11.—Judge Brewer, of the United States Circuit Court, yester day issued a decree declaring the Walruff brewery at Lawrence a common nuisance, and directing tbe United States Marshal to shut it up and abandon it. The decree also perpetually enjoins the brewery from manu facturing or selling any intoxicating liquors. This is the first brewery that has been declared a nuisance under the prohibi tory law of Kansas, and the decree Is in ac cordance with the late decision of the U nit* id States Supreme Court on the pro hibition question. Boycotting Coal Companies. Philadelphia, Dec. 11.—The Building Trades Council of this city, which has a membsrthiaof about 24,000, has decided to take up tho boycott in defense of the strik ing anthracite coal miners. A committee has been appointed to canvass the entire city and ascertain just wiiat dealers handle coal mined by the companies holding out against the demands of the men. North Carolina’s Apostolic. Baltimore, Dec. 11.—A dispatch from Rome to Cardinal Gibbons announces the appointment of Rt. Rev. Lee Haid as Vicar Apostolic of North Carolina. He is now abbot of St. Mary’s Abbey in Gaston county, North Carolina, a monastery controlled by the Benedictine order. Bismarck’s Dyspepsia. Berlin, Dec. 11.—Prince Bismarck is suffering from indigestion and nervous headache. Count Herbert Bismarck has arrived at Friedrichsruha (PniCEftlOA YEAR. > \ uiiivie a cm* ~ FERRY'S LIFE IN BANGER. HIS CONDITION AT MIDNIGHT WAS SERIOUS. His Condition During the Day was Fe verish His Assailant a Crank Whose Mind Has Been Unbalanced by Rs pea ted Reverses In Life-Tenor of the Editorials. Paris, Nov. 11.—M. Ferry was feverish to-day, and it is feared his wounds will lie aggravated. He spent a feverish night, but was able to rise this morning. He has re ceived thousands of cards and letters, and Senators and Deputies of all parties have called at his residence and signed the regis ter. Aubertin, when examined by the Judge d’lnstruction, declared that he was an anti-ltevolutionist. He said he was sorry he had not killed M. Ferry, and expressed the hope that others would be more successful. Aubertin, the would-be assassin of M. Ferry, is the author of various pamphlets and the inventor of soveral machines, tbe failure of which has reduced him to deep poverty, embittered his life and brought on occasional attacks of insane exaltation of mind. Radical organs declare that the nwn is a crank, ns political assassination is held to be Inexcusable by the Radicals. The Journal (lax Debate and Republican Francaine. charge the “demagogue press’* with inciting Aubertin, and they demand a new press law to modify the act of 1881. Aubertin promises to reveal the names of his accomplices on Tuesday if the gang does not attempt to assassinate some of the mem bers of the Rouvier Cabinet before that day. HIS CONDITION LESS FAVORABLE. Paris, Dec. 12, 12:10 a. m.— The condi tion of M. Ferry is now less favorable. MORE SHOOTING PREDICTED. During his examination Aubertiu said: “On Tuesday Charles Ferry and Gen. Perron will lie assassinated.” In Aubertin'* pockethook was found a note of the day’s programme he hail written. It said: “I shall send in Hervee’ card. That will briug the secret agent of the Orleans family rush ing toward mo." After shooting M. Ferry, Aubertin shouted: “I am a Lorrainer. lhavo avenged Lorraine and am satisfied.” The prisoner appears to be impecunious. He tried to borrow money to go to Ver sailles during Congress, his intention being to shoot M. Ferry if tho latter were elected President. A DANGEROUS LUNATIC. A number of copies of M. Ferry’s paper, La Rtpubliq.t Francaim , were found an notated and marked in Aubertin’* garret in the Palais Royal, where he lived with an elderly woman wno had sunk her fortune on his numerous schemes to make money. Auhertin’s tether was a file-maker at Rom bach. Ho failed in business and hanged him self. Aubertin’* violent, whim sical temper drove his wife to divorce. On one occasion he tried to kill her. He has been Imprisoned for blackmailing. He is an educated man, and lias published a num ber of school books, Including a French the saurus. His landlady says that his misfor tunes maddened him, ana that he is a dan gerous lunatic. FALLIERES GIVES UP. President Carnot Asks Senator Tirard to Form a Cabinet. Paris, Dec. 11.—M. Fallieres went to tbs Elysee to-day and informed President Car not that he had foil' iit impossible to form a Cabinet on tbe basis of concentration of tho Republican groups, and had therefore abandoned the attempt. M. Lockerey and several other statesmen to whom M. Fal liuros made overtures declined to take office. The President has charged Senator Tirard to try to form a Cabinet. M. Lockerey refused to join a Cabinet un der M. Tirard. At a meeting of the latter’s colleagues, it was decided that it would be impossible to form a Ministry without the assistance of ti.e Radical Left. M. Tirard will therefore abandon the task. The im pression jirevails that M. Flouquot will be summoned to form a Cabinet. UNDOUBTEDLY CANCEROUS. Doctors Hope th‘’t It Will Not Impede the Prince's Breathing for Years. Berlin, Dec. 11.—The Tagblatt says it has authority for the statement that roosnt medical examinations proved that the heal ing process is progressing favorably in the Crown Prince’s throat. The National Gazette announces that it is the express wish of the Crown Prince that no change Vie made in the customary winter entertainment* on account of illness. UNDOUBTEDLY CANCEROUS. London, Dec. il.—A dispatch from Ran Remo to the Standard says that the growth in the i Verman Crown Prince’s t hroat is un doubtedly of a cancerous nature, but that it is so small that the doctors are hopeful that it will be a long time, perhaps years, before it will impede the Prince's breathing. LIBERALISM'S DISSIDENTS. A Circular Wh.cb bays Reconclllatior With Gladstone Is Impossible. London. Dec. 11.—The secretaries of thi Dissident Liberal societies, after a private conference, have issued a circular declaring that report* from every part of the oountry show that the Unionists have made great progress during the last few months, an give promise of continued success of thi Unionist cause. The reports, the circular furt her says, concur in declaring that everj hope of reunion with the Glartstonians be fore tho next election must be abandoned and alliance with tho Conservatives main tained until the question of union shall hava been Anally settled. Bradlaugh After Salisbury. London, Dec. 11.—Mr. Bradlaugh will notify Lord Salisbury that immediately upon the reassembling of Parliament he will move that a committee be appointed tc inquire whether or not Lord Salisbury sent a cheok to assist the fair trade meeting in Trafalgar (Square In 1686. Twenty-1 wo Drowned. IiONDON, Dec. IL—Twenty-two persons were drowned in a recent hurricane off the Orkuey Islands. Caught the Turkeys Napping. From the Brunmoick (Qa.) Adeertiter. Batilla Bluff has a famous hunter who bears tho name of .John Johns. Home time since ho went out and brought home four young wild turkeys. Last Sunday evening be came upon a flock of full grown ones and quietly watched their movements until night, when they “went to rooet.” As soon as they settled down for the night to slum lier he went home and got hia rifle and cams back to the scene and waited patiently for the moon to rise, and then began his slaughter. One by one they come down at the crack of his gun until he had five tin* specimens, which he took home with him and sold them the next day at 75c. apiece.