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CRIME’S HIGH CARNIVAL.
CHRISTMAS CONCOCTIONS MAKE
MEN THIRST FOR GORE.
duller Details of the Double Tragedy
at Jackson, Miss. -Two Negroes
Fight with Knives and One Will Need
a Coffin in Consequence—Bloodshed
Near Home.
Jackson, Miss., Dec. 25.— The following
particulars have been learned of the tragedy
of last night. It appers t hat Mitchell and
tome other young men were on the streets
celebrating Christmas when they encoun
tered Whitesides. A dispute arose in which
strong language was used. The parties
then separated, McWilhe Mitchell
and his friends going from the
scene. Shortly after ®thoy were
approached from behind by Whitesides,
who was armed with a long knife, which
he bad obtained at a butcher shop near by.
He threw one arm about Mitchell and with
an oath cut a terrible gash in his throat.
Mitchell fell on one knee, but managed to
draw his pistol and discharged its contents
into Whitesides’ body. Whitesides’ died
fifteen minutes afterward. Mitchell walked
a short distance to a drug store, where he
fell from loss of blood. He died within an
hour.
FOUGHT WITH KNIVES.
Two negro employes of the compress
company fought last night with knives.
One of the men was so badly injured that
he will die.
Several severe accidents from reckless
and criminal use of tireatnis occurred here
yesterday and to-day. J. W, Albrecht and
a boy named Roach, two of the persons in
jured, will each probably lose on eye.
Jesse Nettles, formerly agent at Parson
station, was run over and killed by a freight
i rain a short distance below town last night.
Nettles, who is said to have been drinking,
fell asleep *'. the track.
Rowdyism prevailed here last night to a
greater extent than ever before. Several
large show windows were demolished with
bricks.
CRIME AT CHICAGO.
Two Women Dye Their Hands in Hu
man Blood—Knife and Fist.
Chicago, December 25.— Christmas in
Chicago was marred by an unusual num
ber of affrays, fatal and otherwise. In the
twenty-four hours preceding 6 o’clock this
evening, four persons had been reported
stabbed, one shot dead, and a policeman and
an Alderman nearly pummeled out of exist
ence.
The worst cutting was done by a woman,
and her victim is also a woman. Nellie
Taylor plunged a dirk four times into the
brtast and back of Annie Crawford, inflict
ing mortal woimds. The assailant claims
that the Crawford woman had stolen her
child. Both women are disreputables.
Robert Drew knifed two other working
men, Paul Krautwald and Charles Kaertliac,
In a drunken quarrel over the prospects of
a general war iu Europe. Krautwald and
Kaerthac are badly slashed, but nave a
chance to live.
The shooting referred to was the killing
of a bookkeeper, W illiam McCauiev, by his
wife on account of his unfaithfulness, the
other wcman in the case being Mrs. Harry
Macldn, sister-in-law of the wronged wife.
Mrs. McCauley is a relative of the famous
ballot-box stuffer, Joseph C. Mackin.
A RIOT AT CONYERS.
Negroes Stab Men Who Tried to
Quiet Them Down.
Conyers Ga., Dec. 25.—A serious riot
occurred here last evening about 7 o’clock.
Bill and Baker Carr, two burly black ne
goes, attacked Chief Marshal J. F. Christian
and John Osborne, inflicting serious wounds.
Chief Christian’s statement to the News
correspondent is about as follows: Bill Carr,
the older brother, was cursing and using
very bad language on the principal busi
ness street, when he approached him
and notified him that he must hush
or go to the station house. Then the negro
caught hold of his arm aud commenced to
me his knife, his brother assisting. Some
one called for aid for the
Chief, when Mr. Osborne made
his appearance and Baker plunged
a knife into him. Chief Christian’s wounds
are one on the right shoulder aud one under
the left shoulder blade. Mr. Osborne's
wounds are in the le(f. breast just below the
collar bone. Bill and another negro named
Martin Wyatt, who was assisting the Carr
negroes, are in jail. Baker is still at large.
The entire population is aroused aud serious
results are apprehended. The city and
country last night was full of determined
armed men. Bill •hrr was captured m bed
late at night at the muzzle of a shotgun.
DIDN'T LIKE THE BARTENDER.
Seven Kentuckians Got a Warmer Re
ception Than They Expected.
Cincinnati, O., Dec. 35.— At midnight
last night the Sheriff of Kentou county,
Kentucky, received a telegram frpm the
town gate ’ keeper at Erlanger, a village
a bout eight miles from Covington, on the
Cincinnati Southern railway, saying:
’‘Send officers. Bloody riut.
Jeff Childers.”
The Sheriff and a posse went from Cov
ington. The facts of the case are that in
Boono county,Kentucky,prohibition prevails
and Erlanger is the nearest station for the
Boone county boys to get liquor. They
had been assembled there Saturday night,
and drinking at John Conner’s saloon.
They disliked Albert Gates, the bar-keejier,
and, having given him notice to quit, de
cided last night to drive him away.
TRIED TO DRIVE HIM AWAY.
They got up a tight iu the saloon late at
night, and Gafc* put them out. There were
seven in the gang. Gates barred the door.
The gang returned and were refused iidmis
siou. They thou smashed in the windows
with stones and fired pistols through the
doors and windows. Gates and his two
companions returned the fire. The assail
ants retired to reload, and returning, made
a rush at the house. The throe
within fired frmn the windows
with deadly effect. The outsiders shot were:
Koonie Respus, in the thigh and arm;
Frank Respus, in the head, a very bad
wound; Ben Stevens, in the face, the ball
lodging near the ear; John Dorsey, in the
breast and leg.
The wounded were taken in wagons to
Florence, Ky. No arrests were made.
RED WITH GORE.
Christmas Day in Charleston the
Bloodiest in Years.
Charleston, S. C., Dec. 25.—This was
father a bloody Christmas in Charleston.
Although the secular celebration will not
take place till to morrow, there have been
three fatal affrays already, and the police
stations are crowded with prisoners. The
streets have been filled all day with drunk
*1) negroes.
Last night a w hite store keeper shot and
pje fllornimj ffotojS.
killed a negro who attacked him with a
knife.
At 2 o’clock this morning a negro boy.
named Middleton was brought to the sta
tion house bleeding to death from a stab in
the arm.
This afternoon two colored men had a
fight in Bogard street, and one had his head
chopped with a hatchet. His injuria? are
thought to be fatal. It is the bloodiest
Christmas known here in years.
TRAGEDY ON A TRAIN.
Two Men Fire on Each Other ar.d Fall
from the Platform.
Louisville, Ky., Dec. 25.—A special
to the Cos urier-Jo unud from Mount Vernon,
Ky., says: “Bal Chumley yesterday, in
Laurel county, arrested Hugh McUargue,
who was charged with the seduction of a
girl at Pine Hill, Ky. Ho started on a train
with him for this place to-day. When
he arrived at Livingston, Walter Mullins,
one of McHargue’s friends boarded the
tram, and slapping Chumley on the shoul
der, told him a man wanted to see him on
the platform quick. Chumley went out.
carrying his Winchester with him. After
reaching the platform witnesses say that a
discussion ensued, and a repprt of arms
aroused all the passengers. Both foil
from the moving train off the bridge, a
distance of about thirty feet. The
traiu was at once stopped and backed up to
the sceue. Both men were- found dead,
Mullins with his neck broken and Chumley
with his head all torn to pieces, making
it difficult to tell whether he was shot in
the head or not, but it is supposed that he
was, as his brains were found upon the car
steps. In the confusion McHargue escaped.
BULLETS IN TWO BODIES.
A Barkeeper Formerly of Georgia
Loses His Life in Louisiana.
New Orleans, Dec. 35.—A special to the
Times-Democrat from Shreveport says;
“This afternoon, iu a trivial quarrel, F. A.
Jones, a barkeeper, formerly of Columbus,
Ga., was killed, and Capt. Jas. W. Smith,
formerly commander of the Rod
River steamers, and for the
past twenty-five years a resident
of this city, was shot five times, and it is
believed fataliy wounded. Jones struck
Smith over the head with his pistol and
at once commenced filing. Before
Smith recovered from the blow
he had been shot five times,
once iu the right hand,once in the left arm,
once in the right thigh and twice in tne
abdomen. Smith in the meantime drew Lit?
pistol and fired at Jones, who fell dead, the
ball having penetrated his brain.”
Stabbed After Being Cursed.
Waycross, Ga., Dec. 25.—Last night
about 12 o’clock a youth uainbd Clarence
Russ, of Glenmore, entered the Savannah,
Florida and AV estern restaurant at this
place and began abusing Clarence Stead,
the nipiK clerk. U[on .being cursed the
second nine. Stead struck him, whereupon
Russ plunged a knife into Stead’s right
breast and cheek, inflicting two painful
wounds. Russ escaped, but will doubtless
be apprehended.
His Pocket Artillery.
Rockford, Ga., Dec. 25.—John Brigdon
and C. D. Pound celebrated Christmas by
a pistol duel at this place this afternoon
Both are seriously wounded. The little
brown jug and hip-pockot artillery were
the causes of the trouble.
CLEVELAND AND THE POPE.
The President’s Jubilee Present a Copy
cf the Constitution.
Baltimore, Dec. 25.—The special corre
spondent of the Baltimore Sun, who was
sent to report the Papal jubilee ceremonies
arrived in Rome yesterday. He had in his
charge a gift from President Cleveland to
the Pope. The preseut is a copy of the
United States constitution, beautifully en
grossed and richly bound in book form.
It was forwarded to Rome through
Cardinal Gibbons, who received it in Balti
more from President Cleveland about three
weeks ago. It was accompanied by a letter,
iu which the President requested the Can fi
nal to send his cordial congratulations to
the Pope on his approaching jubilee. Hear
ing that the Baltimore Sun was going to
detail one of its city staff to visit
Rome, the Cardinal entrusted the' de
livery of the present to the correspond
ent, who. according to instructions, has
g laced it in the looping of the American
bllnge. where it will probably remain until
formally presented to the Pope by Rt. Rev.
P. J. Ryan, Archbishop of Philadelphia,
and Rt. Rev. Stephen V. Ryan, Bishop of
Buffalo. The book is gilt-edged, contains
fifteen pages, each page 18 inches square,
and is bound with vellum of cream
color. The words * “The Constitution
of the United States of America”
are on the cover in gilt letters. The book
rests iu a handsome case cf tyrian purple.
The few persons who have s en the pres.nt
speak very highly of its merit as a specimen
of what Americans can do iu that line, but
the greatest praise it has created has been
given the President for the simplicity of his
gift.
THREE KILLED INSTANTLY.
All Were Laden With Presents and
Were Walking on the '-rack.
Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Dec. 25.a.Mrs.
Ellen O’Neil, a widow lady, in company
with two of ber children, a hoy and a girl,
while walking on the track on the Hudson
River railroad a short distance above
Rhinebeck station last night, were struck
by a locomotive and ull three instantly
killed. They had been walking on thg
down track, but stepped on the
north bound track to avoid a
freight train. Tne bodies wore
all oadlv mangled. The body of the boy
was so firmly wedged between the bars of
the pilot on the engine that it was found
necessary to pry him out. Mrs. O’Niel
was employed at the Rhine Cliff Hotel, and
at the time of the accident was on her way
home. Both she and her children were
laden with Christmas presents which had
been giveu them.
CLEVELAND’S CHRISTMAS.
The Day Spent Very Quietly at the
White House.
Washington, Dec. 25.—The President
spent Christmas Sunday very quietly at the
White House. In the morning be and Mrs.
Cleveland attended divine service at Rev.
Dr. Sunderland's church, There were no
guests at diuner. The general public spent
the day quietly in peaceful enjoyment of
their homes. The churches all held special
services and they were well attended.
Death of Alexandria's Mayor.
Alexandria, Va., Dec. 25.—John P.
Smoot, Mayor of this city, died this morn
ing, after a week's illness, in the 58th year
of nis age. He was the head extensive
tannery of C. C. Smoot & Sons, President
of the Citizens’ National Bank and was
identified with many of the business enter
prises of the city. The public buildings are
draped iu mourning.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, DECEMBER 26, 1887.
SAMOA’S SEIZURE.
The Natives Growing Indignant
Against the Germans.
San Francisco, Dec. 25 —The steamer
Mariposa, which arrived yesterday, brought
advices from Samoa to Nov. 14. The Apia
correspondent of the Sydney Morning
Herald states that the Samoans arc becom
ing more keenly alive to the fact that the
party represented by the new King, Tomas
ese, has been made use of merely to
serve the policy of the Germans. The
whole plan of foreign interference
as represented by the German plan of Op
erations is steadily raising strong opposi
tion. AVithin a fortnight after the assem
bling of Parliament there were increased
rumors of dissatisfaction of the chiefs. The
meeting of the Legislature did not. include all
the most influential men on the islands, nnd
it is understood that numbers of those who
attended it have seceded from Hie govern
ment,
ARRIVAL OF THE ADAMS.
The arrival of the United States man-of
war Adams, Oct. 19, was the occasion of
much rejoicing to many in Apia The men
were not permitted to leave the ship, be
cause of the presence of German guards and
sentries along the beach, and the possibility
of a conflict taking place. Soon
after the Adams’ arrival, a number
of natives under Asi, a fighting chief,
visited the vessel. After inspection the
Haraoans assembled on the upper deck and
held a dance. The correspondent states that
the Germans have expressed their annoy
ance at this circumstance, and the natives
•have been virtually prohibited from giving
any more such entertainments. A collision
is reported to have taken place between au
American sailor and a German officer on
the street. The officer jostled the sailor, who
knocked him down.
king kalakaua’s troubles.
The Mariposa called at Honolulu. She
brings the following news: After King
Kalakaua had vetoed the bill to abolish the
office of Governor, and also another meas
ure providing for the performance of such
duties as pertained to that office, a call of
the House was ordered to consider the ve
toes and fiery speeches were made by Min
ister of the Interior, Ahurston, Gen. Ash
ford and others. The Legislature declined
to submit the question of the modified right
of veto to the Supreme Court,
and the King wrote asking the
court’s advice. Meanwhile the Legislature
adopted resolutions denying the King’s right
to veto. The Supreme Court invited all the
members of the bar to confer with it on the
subject, and the court listened with closed
doors to the arguments of twenty-two at
torneys. The impression was at first con
veyed that the Supreme Court was unani
mous iu sustaining the veto, in consequence
of which inflammatory articles appeared in
several papers, but a week ago the’ King re
ceived an intimation that the court could
not agree.
ON THE EVE OF A REVOLUTION.
A special correspondent writing from
Honolulu says: “The people here are vir
tually on the eve of another revolution.
The King, in exercising his veto power, in
tends to stand on his constitutional rights
until a judicial decision is rendered.
The legislature will contest his
action and the natives are becom
ing excited. They find themselves
ignored and treated with contempt, their
King insulted and his rights, as understood
by them, ignored or denied. The native
papers, it is said, are inciting the people to
take up arms if necessary, and assert dheir
right to a voice in the management of their
own affaire. It only needs a spark to nr,'- the
country in a blaze.”
TURKEY ALARMED.
I
The Advisability of Calling Out Troops
Under Consideration.
London, Dec. 25. —A dispatch from Con
stantinople to the Daily Hews says: “The
government is alarmed at its neighbor’s war
preparations, and the Sultan is inquir
ing as to the advisability of call
ing out 30,000 men for Erzerouni
and Bulgaria. It is stated that M. Vclidoff,
the Russian Ambassador to Turkey, has in
formed the Forte that unless the indemnity
arrears, amounting to £TSO,(X)O, be paid,
Russia will be obliged to take pledges in
Asia-Minor for the protection of her in
terests.
“The government is hampered for money.
A body or marines \fhose time had expired
recently tried to force their way into
the Imperial palace to demand of the Sultan
their arrears of pa)'. They were aII arrested
and imprisoned, and afterward they were
paid a small sum each and sent away from
the capitol to prevent their complaints
reaching the ears of the Sultan.”
Tenants Granted a Reduction.
Dublin, Pec. 25.—The Mitchellstown
Land Conrt has mode a reduction of 22 per
cent, in the rents on the Countess of King
ston’s estate. A year ago the tenants on
that estate demanded a 20 per cent, reduc
tion. This was refused, end since that time
the tenants have carried on the plan of
campaign.
Russia’s Student Riots.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 25.—The latest
university riot here was caused by the
students inviting citizens to make common
cause with them. The disorder has spread
to the Military Academy, Medical College
and School of Forestry, all of which are
now closed.
If asons and the Crown Prince.
Berlin. Dec. 25. —The Crown Prince has
sent a letter to the Prussian Grant Lodge
of Free Masons thanking them for their ad
dress of sympathy and for their demon
stration? of joy over the favorable symp
toms in his ease.
A Secret Door.
St. Petersburg, Dec. 35.—The recent
rumor that an attempt had been made to
assassinate the Czar, was due to the discov
ery of a secret door beneath the imperial
box in the Mario Theatre.
Charged With Attempted Murder.
Titusville, Fla., Dec. 25.—Two white
men named Barfield and Whitfield, charged
with shooting a man in Orange county sev
eral weeks ago, wore arrested at Canton,
near St. Lucie, through the medium gov
ernment, telegraph line, and are on the way
here. Upon their nraival they will be de
livered to the Sheriff of Orange county.
A Parcels Post Exchange.
Washington, Dec. 25.— The proposed
Parcels Post Exchange Convention with
Canada has been postponed indefinitely.
The Postmaster General of Canada pro
posed so many regulations which would
S roved vorv onerous to our postal service
lat the project had to be abandoned. The
matter may be taken up again late in the
winter.
Burned to Death.
Nashville, Tinn , Dec. 25.—Miss Annie
Cane, cf Dallas, Tex., was burned to death
at Wards Seminary yesterday. She was in
her room partially dressed, anil climbed up
in a chair to arrange a picture over! he
muntel when her clothes caught fire from
the grate.
CHRIST IN THE MANGER.
REV. DR. TALM.~-GE'S BEAUTIFUL
CHRISTMAS SERMON.
Heaven’s Carol on the Natal Day—The
World Had Longed for Centuries for
a Christ—Mary, the Mother—How the
Brute Creation was Honored on the
Night of the Birth.
Brooklyn, Dec. 25. Services to day at
the Brooklyn Tabenacle were jubilant.
Profs. Browne and Ali, with organ and cor
net, were unusually powerful, and Mrs.
Florence Rice-Knox sang three solos. The
thousands of people who packed the church
and all the approaches seemed to join iu the
great chorus:
“He shall reign from pole to pole
With illimitable sway;
He shall reign, when, like a scroll.
Yonder heavens have passed away.”
Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D.D., took as
the subject of his sermon, “The barn and
its surroundings.” His text was taken
from Luke ii, 15: “The shepherds said one
to another, let us now go even unto Bethle
hem, and see this thing which is come ..to
pass.” Dr. Talmage said:
One t housand years of the world’s exist
ence rolled painfully and w earily along, and
no Christ. Two thousand years, and no
Christ. Three thousand years.’m id no Christ.
Four thousand years, and no Christ. “Give
us a Christ,” had cried Assyrian and Per
sian and Chaldean and Egyptian civiliza
tions, but the lips of the earth aud the lips
of the sky made no answer. The world had
already been affluent of genius. Among
poets had appeared Homer and Thespis and
AristophoneSjand Sophocles and Euripides
and Alexis AJschylus, yet no Christ, to be
the most poetic figure of the centuries.
Among historians bad api eared Herodotus
and Xenophon and Thucydides, but no
Christ fx-om whom all historv was to date
backward and forward—B. tl and A. D.
Among conquerors Camillas and Manlius
and Regulus aud Xantippus and Hannibal
and Scipio and Pom pry and Ceecsar, yet no
Christ who was to be couqueror of earth
and neaven.
But. th slow century, and the slow year,
and the slow month, and the slow hour, at
last arrived. The world had had matins or
concerts in the morning, and vespers or
concerts in the evening, but now it is to
have a eencert at midnight. The black
window shutters of a December night wore
throwu open, and some of the best singers
of a world where they all sing stood there,
and putting back the .drapery of cloud
chanted a peace anthem, until all the echoes
cf hill and valley applauded and encored
the hallelujah chorus.
At last the world has a Christ, and just
the Christ it needs. Come, let us go into
that Christmas scene as though we had
never before worshiped at the manger.
Here is a Madonna worth looking at. 1
wonder not that the mo6t frequent name in
all lands, and in ali Christian centuries is
Mary. And there are Marys in palaces and
Marys in cabins, and though German and
French and Italian aqd Spanish and English
prouomice it differently, they are all name
sakes of the one whom wo find on a bed
of straw with her pale face against the soft
cheek of Christ in the night of the Nativity.
AU the great painters have tried on canvas
to present Mary and her child and the i:ici
cidents of that most famous night of the
world’s history. Raphael in three different
masterpieces ce'ehrated them. Tiaioret
and Guirland,jo surpassed themselves in the
Adoration of the Magi. Corregio needed to
do nothing more than his Mrdnnna to be
come immortal. The Madonna of the Lily,
by Leonardo da Vinci, wUI kindle the ad
miration of ali ages. Murillo never won
greater triumph by his pencil than in his
p-esentation of the Holy Family. But all
the galleries of Dresden are forgotten when
I think of the small room of that gaUerv
containing the Bistine Madonna. Yet all
of them were copies of St. Matthew’s
Madonna, and Luke’s Madonna, the inspired
Madonna of the Old Book, which we bad
put into our hands when we were infants,
and that we hope to have under our heads
when we die.
Behold, in the fl st place, that on the first
night of Christ’s life God honored the brute
creation. You caunot get into that Bethle
hem barn without going past the camels,
tho mules, the dogs, the oxen. The brutes
of that stable heard the first cry of the in
fant Lord. Some of the old painters repre
sent the oxen and camels kneeling that
night before the new boro babe. And well
might they kneel. Have you ever thought
that Christ, came, among other things, to al
leviate the sufferings of the brute creation J
Was it not appropriate that, he should, dur
ing the first few days and nights of his life
on earth, lie surrounded i y the dumb beasts
whose moan and plaint and bellowing have
for ages been a prayer to God for the arrest
ing of their torture* aud the righting
of their wrongs? It did not
merely “happen so” that the unintelligent
creatures of God should have lieen that
night in close neighborhood. Not a kennel
in all the centuries, not a bird’s nest, not a
worn-out horse on tow-path, not a herd
freezing in the poorly built cow pens, not a
freight car in summertime bringing the
beeves to market without water through a
thousand miles of agony, not a surgeons
room witnessing the straggles of fox, or
rabbit, or pigeon, or dog in the horrors of
vivisection. Uul has an interest iu the fact
that Christ was born in a stable surrounded
by brutes. He remembers that night, and
the prayer he heard in their pitiful moan
he will’answer in the punishment of those
who maltreat the dumb brutes. They
surely have as much right in this world as
we have.
In the first chapter of Genesis you may
see that they were placed on the earth be
fore man was, the fish and fowl created the
tilth day, and the quadruped the morning
of the sixth day, and man not until the
afternoon of that day. The whale, the
eagle, the lion, and all the lcs?er creatures
of their kind wero predecessors of the
human family. Tbv have the world by
right of possession. They have also paid
rent for the places they occupied. What an
army of defense all over the land are the
faithful watch dogs. Ami who
can tell what the world owes
to horse, and camel, and ox for
transportation} Aud robin nnd lark have
by the cantatas with which they have filled
orchard and forest, more than paid for the
few grains tliev have picked up for their
sustenance. When you abuse any creature
of God you strike its creator, and’you insult
the Christ who, though he might have bren
welcomed into life by prince?, a ltd taken his
first infantile slumber amid Tyrian plush
aud canopied couches, ami rippling waters
from royal aqueducts dripping into basins
of ivory and pearl, ‘(those to be born on a
level with a cow’s horn, or a camel’s hoof,
or a. dog's nostril, that he might be tho
alleviation of brutal suffering as well as the
redeemer of man.
Htanding then as I imagine now I do, in
that Bethlehem night with an infant Christ
on tne one side aud the speechless creatures
of God on tho other, I cry, Look out how
von strike the rowel into that horse's wdo.
Take off that curbed bit from that hireling
mouth. Remove that saddle from that raw
bock. Shoot not for fun that bird that is
too small for food. Forget not to put watar
into the cage of that canary. Tarow out
some crumbs to those birds caught too far
north in the winter's inclemency. Arrest
that man who is making that one horse
draw a load heavy enough for three. Rush
in upon that scene where boys are torturing
a cut, or transfixing butterfly and grasshop
per. Drive not off that old robin,
tor her nest is a mother’s
cradle and unde.- her wing there may he
three or four prima donnas of tho sky in
training. And in your families and in your
schools teach the coming generation more
mercy than the pre-ent generation has ever
shown and in tms marvelous Biblo picture
of the nativity, while you point out to them
the angel, show them also the camel, and
while they hern - the celestial chant let them
also bear the cow’s moan. No more did
Christ show interest iu the botanical world
when be said, “Consider the lilies,” than ho
showed sympathy for the ornithological
when he said, “Behold the fowls of the air,”
and the quadrupedal world when he allowed
himself to be called in one place a lion and
in another place a lamb. Meanwhile, may
the Christ of the Bethlehem cattle pen havo
merer on the suffering stock yards that are
preparing diseased and fevered meat for our
American households.
Behold also in this Bibin scene how on
that Christmas night God honored child
hood. Christ, might lia\e made his first
visit to our world in a cloud, as he will de
scend on his nt xt visit in a cloud. In what
u chariot of illumined vapor he might have
rolled down the sky escorted by mounted
cavalry with lightuing of drawn sword.
Elijah had a carnage of fire to take him up,
wtyy not .Jesus a carriage of fire to fetch
him down} Or, over the arched bridge of
a rainbow the Lord might have descended.
Or Christ might havo had his mortality
built up oc earth out of tho dust of a gar
den, a? was Adam, in full maubood at the
start without, the introductory feebleu s*
of.infancy. No, No! Childhood was to be
honored by that advent. He must have a
child’s light limbs, and a child’s dimpled
band, and a child's 1 learning eye, and a
child's fiaxen hair, au i babyhoo l was to be
honored for all time to come, and a cradle
was to mean more than a grave. Mighty
God! May the Reflection of that one child's,
face be seen in all infantile faces. Enough
linvo all those fathers und mothers on hand
if they have a child in the house. A throne,
a crown. a sceptre, a kingdom under charge.
Be careful how you strike him across the
head, jarring the brain. What you say to
him will be centennial and millenial, and a
hundred years and a thousand years will
not stop the echo and re-echo. Do not
say: “Is is only a child." Rather say: “It
is only an immortal.” It is only a master
piece of Jehovah. It is only a being that
shall outlive sun and moon and star, and
agos quadriUenia'.. God has infinite re
sources, and he can give present* of great
value, but when he wants to give the richest
possible gift to a household he looks around
all the worlds and all the universe, and then
gives a child. The greatest present that
God ever gave our world he gave about
1887 years ago, and ho gave it on a Christ
mas night, und it was of such value that
heaven adjourned for a recess
and came down and broke
through the olouds to look at
it. Yea, in all ages God has honored ch Id
hood. He makes almost every picture a
failure uuloss there is a child either playing
oiithe Door, orlookiug through the window,
or seated on the lap gazing into the face of
its mother. It was a child in Naauiau's
kitchen that told tho great Syrian warrior
where he might go and get, cured of the
leprosy, which, at his seventh plunge in the
Jordan, was left at the bottom of tho river.
It was to the cradle of leaves in which a
child was laid, rocked by the Nile, that God
callei the attention of history. It was a
sick child that evoked Christ’s curative
sympathies. It was a child that Christ set
iu the midst of the squabbling disciples to
teach the lesson of humility. We are in
formed that wolf and leopard aud lion
shall be yet so domesticated that a little child
shall lead them. A child derided Waterloo,
showing the army of Blucher how they
could take a short cut through the fields
when, if the old road had been followed, the
Prussian Ueneral would have come up too
late to save the destinies of Europe. It was
a child that decided Gettysburg, be having
overheard two Confederate Generals in a
conversation in which they decided to march
for Gettysburg instead of Harrisburg, and
this, reported to Gov. Curtin, the Federal
tomes started to meet their opponents at
Gettysburg. And the child of to-day is to
decide all the great battles, make all the
laws, settle ali the destinies and usher in the
world’s salvation or destruction. Men,
women, nations, all earth and all heaven,
behold theebild! fx there any velvet so soft
as a child's cheek i Is there any sky so blue
as a child's eye? Is tin-re any music so sweet
aa the child's voice? Is there auy plume so
wavy as a child’s hair?
Notice also that in this Bible night s-ene
God honored science. Who are the three
wise men kneeling before the divine infant?
Not. boors, not ignoramuses, but Casunr,
B ithasar und Melchoir, men who knew all
that was to be known. They were the Isaac
Newtons and Herschels and Faradays of
their time. Their alchemy was tho forerun
ner of our sublime chemistry, their astrol
ogy the mother of our uiag.iiflceut astron
omy. They had studied stars, studied met
als, studied physiology, studied everything.
And when I see these scientist* bowing be
fore the beautiful balie, I see the prophocy
of the time when ali the telescopes and mi
croscopes, and all the Leyden jars, and all the
ele trie batteries, and all the observatories,
and ail the universities shall bow to Jesus.
It is much that way already. Where is the
college that docs not have morning prayers,
thus bowing at the manger ? Who nave
been the greatest physicians ? Onnt
ting the names of the living, lest
we should be invidious, have we
not had among them Christian men like
our own Joseph C. Huchinson, and Rush,
and VaJantme Mott, nnd Abercrombie, and
Abemelby? Who have been our greatest
scientist*? Joseph Henry, who lived and
died iu the faith of tho Gospel, and Agassiz
who, standing with his students among the
hills, took off his hat and said, “Young
gentlemen, before we study these rooks lot
us pray for wisdom to tho God who inode
the rocks.” To-day the greatest doctors
and lawyers of Brooklyn and New York,
and of all this laud, and’of all lands, revere
the Christian religion, and are not ashamed
to say so before juries and Legislatures and
Senates. All geology will yet liow lieforo
the Rook of Ages. All botany will yet
worship the Rose of hharou. All astro
raony will yet recognize the Star of
Bethlehem. Aud physiology nnd anatomy
will join hands aud say: We must by the
help of God get the Uumau race up to the
lierfect nerve, and perfect nmscle, and per
fect brain. atzA perfect form of that perfect
child liefore whom nigh twenty hundred
years ugo Caspar, aud Beltbeaer, and
Melchior bent their tired knees in worship.
Behold also in that first Christmas night
that God honored the fields. Come in,
shepherd boys, to Bethlehem, and see tho
child. “No,” they say; “we are not dressed
good enough to come in." “Yes, you are,
come in.” Bure enough, the storms and the
night, dew, and the bramble?, have made
rough work with their apparel, but none
have a better right to come in. They were
the first to beer the music of that Christ
mas night. Tlie first announcement of a i
Savior’s birth was made to those men in the ;
fields. There were wiseacres that night in :
Bethlehem atul Jerusalem snoring in deep j
sleep, and there were salar.ed officers of
government who, hearing of it afterward, I
limy havo thought that they ought to |
have had the time news of such a groat I
event, som on© dismounting from a
swift camel at their door aud knocking till
at tome sentinel's question, “Who comes
there?" the groat ones of the palace might
hnve been told of the celestial arrival. No:
the shepherds heard the first two bars of
the music, the first in the major key, and
the last to the subd ed minor: “Glory to
God in the highest, and on earth p ao,
good will to men." Ah, yea; the fields were
onored. The old shepherds with plaid
and crook have for the moat part vanished,
but we have grazing—our United States
pasturo (loins and prairie .about
45,000,000 sheep—and all their keepers
ought to follow the shepherds of my text,
and all those who toll In fields, all wine
dressers, all orc-hardists, all husband
men. Not only that Christmas night,
but all up aud down the
world’s history God has been honoring the
fields. Nearly all the Messiahs of reform,
aud literature, and eloqueuee, and law, and
benovol- nee have oomo from the fields.
Washington from the fields. Jefferson
from the fields. The Presidential martyrs,
Garfield and Lincoln, from the fields, llen
ry Clay from the fields. Daniel Webster
from the fields Martin Luther from the
fields. And before this world is right the
overflowing populations of our crowded cit
ies will have to take to the fields. Instead of
ton merchants in rivalry as to who shall
sell that one apple, we want at least eight
of them to go out aud raise apples. Instead
of ten merchants desiring to sail
that one bushel of wheat, wo want
at least eigiit of them to go out
aud raise wheat. The world wants now
more hard bands, more bronzed cheeks,
more muscular arms. To the fields! God
honored them when he woke up the shep
herds by the midnight anthem, and he will,
while the world lasts, continue to honor the
fields. When the shepherd's orook was that
famous night stood against the wall of the
Bethlehem kahn, it was a prophe y of the
time when thresher’s flail, and farmer’s
plough, and woodman’s ax, and ox’s yoke,
und sheaf binder’s rake shall surrender to
the God who made the country as man
made the town.
Behold also that on that Christmas night
God honored motherhood. Two angels on
their wings might have brought au infant
Saviour to Bethlehem without Mary’s being
there at all. When the villagers, on the
morning of Dec. 2tl, awoke, by divine ar
rangement and in some unexplained way,
the child .Teem might have been found in
some comfortable cradle of the village.
But no, no! Motherhood for all time was
to be consecrated, aud one of the tenderest
relations was to be the maternal relation,
undone of the sweetest words “mother.”
In all ages God has honored good mother
hood. John Wesley had a good mother, St.
Bernard had a good mother, Samuel Budgett
a good mother, Doddridge a gooff mother,
Walter Scott a good mother, Bonjainin
West a good mother. In a great audience,
most of whom were Christians, I asked
that all those who had been blessed of
Christian mothers arise, and almost the
entire assembly stood up. Don’t you see
bow important It is that all motherhood be
consecrated! Why did Titian, the Italian
artist, when he sketched the Madonna moke
it an Italian facet Why did Rubens, the
( lerriian artist, in his Madonua make it a
German fatal Why did Joshua Reynolds,
the English artist, in his Madonna make it
an English facet Why did Murillo, the
Spanish artist, in his Madonna make it a
Spanish facet I never beard, but I think
they took their own mothei-s as the type of
Mary. the mother of Christ. When you
bear someone in sermon or oration speak iu
the abstract of a good, faithful, hon
est mother your eyes fill up with
tears while you say to yourself, that was my
moilier. The first word a child utters is
apt to be, “Mother,” and the old man in bis
dying dream oalls, “Mother 1 mother!” It
matters not whether she waa brought up in
the surroundings of a city, and in affluent
home, and was dressed appropriately with
reference to the demands or undem life, or
whether she wore the old-time cap, and
great round spectacles, and apron of her
own make, and knit your socks with her
own needles seated by the broad fireplace,
w ith great back log ablaze on a. winter
night. It matters not how many wrinkles
crossed and ro-crossed her face, or bow
much her shoulders stooped with tbe bur
dens of a long life, it you painted a
Madonna bet’s woulu be the face. What
a gentle hand sbo bad when we w ere sick,
aud wluit a voice to soothe pain, and was
there any one who could so till up a room
with peace and purity and light? And
what a sad day that was when we came
home and she could greet urf not, for her
lips were forever still. Come back, mother,
this Christmas day and take your old platje,
and, as ten or twenty or litt> years ago,
come aud open tbo old Bible vou used to
road and kneel in the same pli ce where you
used to pray and look upon n as of old
when you wished us a merry Ch ’istmasor
a happy New Year. But, no! i hat would
not be fair to call you back. You had
troubles enough, aud aches enough, and be
reavements enough while you were here.
Tarry by the throne, mother, till we join
you there, your prayers all answered, and
in the eternal homestead of our God we
shall again keep Christmas jubilee
together. But speak from your thrones,
all you glorified mothers, ao i
say to all these, your sons and daughters,
words of love, words of warning, words of
cheer. They need your voice, for they have
traveled far aud with many a heart-break
since vou left them, and you do well to call
tram the heights of heaven to the vadoys of
earth, Had, enthroned ancestry 1 Vve are
coming. Keep a place for us right beside
you at the banquet.
“Slow-footed years! More swiftly run
Into the gold of that unsetting sun.
Homesick we are for thee,
Calm land heyoud the sea."
LOGS FROM THE BIG RAFT.
The Steamer Enterprise Finds That It
Had Broken Up.
New London, Conn., Dec. 25,—The
United State* steamer Enterprise, Capt.
McCalla, arrived here this afternoon
after a successful search for the big
lumber raft abandoned by the ’Miran
da off Nantucket Shoals. When the
Enterprise was 185 miles southeast by south
from the shoals, she fell in with au im
mense number of logs from the raft, prov
ing lieyond doubt that the raft had broken
up. The steamer was among the logs all day,
and part of Friday nignt. None of tbe
logs were lashed together, but floated singly
and spread as they traveled with the tide.
The logs were not in the line of oce.n
steamships aud Capt. McCalla does not
behove there is need of fear of danger from
that source. The revenue cutter Grant,
which was also cruising for tbe raft, arrived
also, but did not see any portion of tbe raft.
Louisville’s Tobacco Bales.
Louisville, Ky., Dec. 25.—Tbe tobacco
season of l&S? closed here yesterday. The
total sales of Louisville for the year
amounted to 135,101 hogsheads, the greatest
number ever sold anywhere in one year.
The sales of lytuisville for 1885, "the jubilee
year,” were 120,077.
Randall Lectured.
Washington, Dec. 26.—1 t Is stated that
the President, s -nt for Mr. Randall last
week and laid his duty beforo hint respect
ing the tariff reform just ns Speaker Car
lisle bus done, and with the same lack of
effect-
( PIUCEftIO A YEAR I
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HEADING'S IDLE TRAINS.
ENGINE FIRES DRAWN ALL ALONG
THE LINE.
The General Manager of Cue Com
pany Issues a Warning that All M®
Who Fail to Return to Work To
morrow will be Blacklisted -No Sign*
cf Violence Yet.
Reading, Pa., Dec. 25.—0n last Sunday
over 6,800 loaded coal cars made up into
fifty-three trains passed through Reading
from the Schuylkill coal region for Port
Richmond and other points south of this
this city. To-day not a single car was
moved and the coal trade is practically
dead. During the forenoon over 100 rail
roads, whose trains were run on sidings
north and south of this city passed
through Reading bound for their home#,
which are mostly in the coal region*
Orders to strike were received early this
morning, and as far as the
railroad crews were concerned,
were promptly obeyed. Immediately
thereafter General Mauager Melieod tele
graphed orders that every engine at tached
to trains lying on the sidings should be
boused and guarded, and this was promptly
done, the engines being run to Reading,
Pottstown and other points. The company
employs at its shop in this city about 2,ofift
men, but, they will not go out as they claim
that thev are not included in the
order or tbe Knights to strike
but the leaders in this city expect such ao
order very soon, so as to more effectually
cripple the company. A meeting of the
Railroaders’ Assembly was held here to-day.
and while no definite action was taken, tile
prevailing sentiment was In favor of stand
ing by the strikers. Tbe agsuta of tbe Read
ing company to-day actively canvassed
this section for men to fill the places of the
strikers, and enable them to resume the
movement of trains on Tuesday morning.
Master Workman Hawman, of this city, to
day sent out telegrams notifying all the as
semblies of tbe decision to strike.
The exact complement of the Phi sdel
phia Knights on a strike is 4,700. Ons at
the leaders of tbe strike says: “We have
decided to stop the binding of perishable
freight and passenger traffic as well should
the company attempt to transport cah
labor over it* lines to take the place
of the men who have gone out. We
are wffil equipp 'd with funds, and we can
command sufficient money to pay 15.000
men $3 50 per day for two weeks to prevent
them from working for the Reading Com
pany.
NON UNION MEN AT WORK.
Engine No. 238 of the Reading rood, ons
on which tbo so-called scab crew was placed
that precipitated the strike, worked hard
all Saturday night and today
snl did a great amount of
work placing trains, cool and
freight on side tracks from Nlcetown into
Port Richmond. Asa result thirteen tracks,
and in one place nineteen tracks, of the
Reading road from tbe round-house to Port
Richmond, a distance of uine miles or so, is
a solid mass of cars. (Scattered through
the moss are twenty coal trains, with a bur
den of about 8,01 K) tons of ooaj. Between
that place and Palo Alto It is said there are
sixty-eight trains, adding about 15,000
tons to the amount available for
immediate use. The officers of the
road at Port Richmond Junction, say that
there is enough coal in ibe yards at Port
Richmond to supply the whole city for sev
eral da vspn<l they do not predict a coal fam
ine. The men on strike claim that there
ana about 8,000 tons of coal at tbe port and
that there is not enough coal for the ordi
nary purjioses of the company. “As tha
miners have stopped there will be no coal,"
said one of tbe members of the committee,
“and I can say that there will be no coal
brought here until the strike is settled.”
, TRAFFIC AT A STANDSTILL.
Bhamokin, Pa., Dec. a I ).— AU the coal
and freight, trains on the Mahanoy and
Shamokln division of the Readiug road
have been stopped aud the men are firm in
their determination to move no traffic.
Owing to the Christmas holidays there tv
little or no coal at the mines for shipment.
The general opinlou in this region is that
the strike now ou in tbe Lehigh region and
this one will not bo adjusted in the coiirse
of several weeks. The support now being
given to the Lehigh men will necessarily be
stopped.
manager m’leod's notice.
Philadelphia, Dec. 25.—The following
notice was issued last night, signed by Gen
eral Mauager McLeod, of the Philadelphia
and Reading railroad: “Work will be re
sumed on Tuesday morning. Dec. 27 at the
Port Richmond yard. Employes will re
port for duty at that time. The place* of
such as do not r port will bo Ailed by other
men. Men discharged for disobedience of
orders in refusing to move trains to the
place of their destination will not be per
mitted to again enter the service of the
company in any capacity.”
ABANDONING THE TRAIN*.
Norristown, Pa., Dec. 25.—Eight freight
and coal train crews abandoned tueir trains
lietween this place and Consbohocsen last
ni(!flit. Tbe men took their engines to Read
ing. All the side tracks in the vicinity of
Bridgeport are occupied by trains from
which the locomotive* have been uncoup
led. One train passed up the road this
afternoon in charge of a non-union
crew. One hundred men in Bridgeport are
out of employment. Local Assembly No.
0041 held a meeting at that place this after
noon aud received filial word from the head
officers to strike. The Bridgeiiort shifting
engines have been iu charge of non-union
men, who will continue at their posts.
A fct. Louis Flare Up.
St. Lori*, Dec. 25.—Fire last night in
the building Nos. 514 and 518 Locust street,
occupied by Tidell & Crunden, dealers in
woo.ien and willow ware aud fanev furni
ture, and the Charles E. Clark Notion Cori
iiany, destroyed the three upper stories.
The losses are: Tidell & Cruuden $25,000,
insuranoe 520,000; Charles E. Clark Com
pany 840,0U0, insurance $20,000.
FIRE IN A PENITENTIARY SHOP.
Michigan City, Ind., Nov. 35.—The
penitentiary shoe-hop was burned last
night. The convicts were all locked up In
their cells and knew nothing of tbe con
flagration, end on this account no panic oc
curred. All the machinery was ruined.
The loss is estimated at $75,000.
Advertising on Mall Matter.
Washington, Dec. 25.—The Post Office
Department is framing a bill to repeal the
law prohibiting the printing, etc., on tb©
outside of third and fourth class matter. It
will permit aDy proper inscription, so that
space is left for the address.
, root Office Bur lars
DeFcniak Springs, Fla., Dec. 25,
Three men were arrested here on Dec. 22
for breaking into the post office at Crest
view, and sent to Pensacola for a hearing
before the United States Commissioner.
Burned in u GuiaDooae.
Toe CO a. Ga., Dec. 25.—The Tocco* eala
boose was burned at 3:30 o’clock this morn
tag. Tbe only inmate, noiaud Taylor, a
negro, was burned iu it. It is probable
that he set it ou fire to effect his escana.