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I ESTABLISHED 1530. I I J. II. EST1LL, Editor and Proprietor. I 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 > •CEATBACOPV ( 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.