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j ESTABLISHED 18S0. I.
■j .T. H. ESTILL, Editor and Proprietor i
SUMMIT’S FATAL CRASH.
FIVE PEOPLE KILLED, TWO DYING
AND MANY INJURED.
A Mistake in Reading Somerset for
Summit in the Train Orders Caused
the Collision—The Man Responsible
for the Accident Becomes a Raving
Maniac—it ach Train a Fast One.
Chattanooga, Texn., Jan. 1.—A disas
astrous collision occurred about 1 o’clock
yesterday afternoon near Green wood,Tenn.,
between so-called “cannon-ball” trains
bound respectively' north and south on the
Cincinnati Southern railroad. These trains
are the fastest in the South, making the
run between Cincinnati and Chattanooga, a
distance of 336 miles, in nine hours and
forty-two minutes. Owing to the fact that
the telegraph poles at the scene of the wreck
were prostrated or burned, it has been im
possible to get details of the catastrophe
until to-day.
RUNNING LIKE THE WIND.
At the time the collision occurred No. 2,
the north-bound train, was running at the
rate of sixty miles an hour, and No. 1, the
south-bound train, at the rate of thirty-five
miles an hour, and they came together witii
a terrific shock. Fire at once broke out in
the wreck and three cars were entirely con
sumed. The accident was caused by the
mistake of Conductor Shrutu, of the north
bound train, in reading an order from the
train dispatcher.
BECOMES INSANE.
The order directed him to pass the south
bound train at Summit, hut he mistook
that name for Somerset, which is a station
i wenty-two miles farther north. Ho escaped
serious injury, but beoamo insane as a re
sult of the accident and is now a raving
maniac. The persons instantly killed by
the accident were:
Lee Withrow, of Ludlow, Ky., baggage
master.
Lawrence Callan, of Ludlow, Ky., bag
gagemaster.
W. Bryan Powell, of Madisonville, O., a
Baltimore and Ohio express agent.
Fireman Cady, whose body was burned
up.
Miss Jessie Green, of Cincinnati, a young
lady about 22 years of age was fatally
scalded and died to-day. She had been
visiting friends in this city during the holi
days and was returning home. Two more
trainmen will probably die from their in
juries.
TEN PASSENGERS INJURED.
Ten passengers were seriously injured,
among them W. T. Roberts, of Rieeville,
Tenn., mail agent, who had an arm and leg
broken. Both trains were totally wrecked,
and it seems almost miraculous that anyone
escaped alive. Trains on the road in the
vicinity of the accident were abandoned
until this morning, but the track has now
been cleared and trains are again moving.
TWO MORE DEATHS EXPECTED.
James Severance, Jr., postal clerk, and
Patrick Taylor, enzineor, are still alive,
but are nrobably fatally hurt.
Michaels, engineer of the north-bound
train, saw the south-bound train as he
emerged from the tunnel, and only fifty
feet away. He instantly put on the air
brakes, and with his fireman in his arms
jumped down the embankment. Michels
arrived here to-night and is more seriously
injured than was at first reported. The
fireman escaped unhuH.
All the mail matter on the north-bound
train was destroyed, including two through
registered pouches. It is remarked as a
strange coincidence that the engine of the
north-bound train had in consequence of
four previous accidents, received the name
among the railroad men of “fatal engine,”
and there was a strong superstition against
running on it. It is now a total wreck.
ANOTHER ACCOUNT.
Lexington, Ky.. Jan. 1.—A collision on
the Cincinnati Southern railroad took place
yesterday one mile south of Greenwood,
Ky., on a 60-foot embankment, midway be
tween tunnels 7 and 8, The following per
sons w ere killed:
I.ee Withrow, baggagemaster,of Ludlow,
Ky.
T. Candee, fireman, of Chattanooga,Tenn.
Lawrence Callan, baggagemaster, of Lud
low, Kv.
W. B. Powell, express messenger, of
Madisonville, O.
Miss Jessio Green, of Cincinnati.
SOME OF THE INJURED.
Among the injured are;
Mr. and Mrs. Avery, of Covington, Ky.,
M ere scalded and inhaled steam. They will
beth probably die. They were taken to
Covington to-night.
Sam Sbrumm, conductor, was internally
injured.
L. B. Gibson, of Cincinnati* cn route
home from Florida, was badly scalded about
!he face aud hands, and it will probably |
prove fatal.
Joseph Nolan (colored), a porter on train
oo ‘1, suffered laceration of the nip and
hand.
William It. Michaels, engineer of train
Xo. 2, who jumped from the engine,
sprained his ankle, had a hand scalded and
a cheek gashed.
Pat Taylor, of Somerset, Ky.. engineer of
train No. i. is bruised and suffering from
concussion, and is badly hurt.
'Pal Murphy, of Junction City, Ky., fire
man of train "No. I. had a leg broken.
W. T. Roberta, of Riceville, Tcnn., in the
mail service, had a leg and arm broken,
W. E. Jackson, of Ludlow, Ky., express
messenger, had his hand, head and buck
sprained and bruised.
L E. Nackett.of No. 11! Richmond street.
Cincinnati, news agent, had his head, face,
hack and legs bruised.
J. C. Burch, of Sydney, O., trav ling
pa-senger agent of th<j Chicago and Alton
railroad, is badly scalded, and his bead,
face and hands are cut.
Joe Hepp, of Covington, Ky., was scalded
and bruised.
Dick Patton, of Ludlow, Ky., a brake*
man. was cut and scalded.
J. E. Campbell, of Hanovertoif O., was
scalded on the face neck and bunds.
FIVE TAKEN TO CINCINNATI.
In addition to the above train No. 2,
w'ltich came north this evening, carried to
’ incinnati five or six badly injured passon
geis. These passengers were in the boudoir
■ ar and the railroad officials refused
to allow the Associated Press reporter
access to them or to give their names or in
.,uries. Dr. Reddish, of Frankfort, in
charge of the Greenwood coal mines, left
Greenwood with the wounded and the body
yt uiss Green for Cincinnati. A later train
followed, carrying all the dead except Miss
Green, wiio was left at Somerset. Very
shortly after the collision a wrecking train
V.r Someeset in charge of Supt.
” Wells, carrying Dr. J. L.
Gwens an d all the Somerset
Physicians for the scene of the disaster.
I "o cars, the mail and baggage of train
-Ao. 1, took tire, and were burned. At the
time of the crash Withrow and Jackson
were talking in the baggage cor when the
car split open from end to end, the mail car
and smoker shooting over them, and the
other cars cutting irose and dropping back.
D is reported that an unknown passenger
was crushed und burned in a water closetof
train No. 2.
@he Jlafning
THREW HIS WIFE OUT OK A WINDOW.
Mr. Avery, of Covington, threwl his wife
through a window and jumped out after
her, both rolling down the embankment.
Conductor Shrunun on misreading the or
ders delivered to him at Winfield, mistaking
Summit for Somerset, hurried his train
down the grade at 30 miles an hour to
make that point, probably running at that
speed when the collision occurred. After
the collision Conductor Bennett ran up to
Shrumm and said: “I’m not to blame for
this; read your last orders.” Shrumni took
out his orders and looking carefully, threw
threw up his hands, exclaiming: “Oh, my
God! I have made a mistake.”
a passenger’s story.
Sharkey Withers, formerly of this city,
but now of Edwards, Miss., was on the train
going south, and made this statement:
“We left Somerset half an hour late, and
were running about thirty miles an
hour up grade. I was in the coach next
in the front of the sleeper, close to the front
door, when shrill whistling alarmed me. I
ran out on the platform and was pitched
down an embankment of fifty feet. I
jumped up and went to work. We helped
to extricate the victims. I helped to take
out three alive, two dead, one of them, Pat
Murphy, l helped to dig out of the mud
into which he was jammed nearly to his
armpits. The next man we got out was the
express messenger, w-ho was crushed under
the trucks. The next was a baggageman,
who was under the tender of train No. 1.
We could hear his groans and dug him out,
He died in an hour. Then we got an injured
man out of the mail car of train No. 1.
Withrow died in a few minutes after he was
put on the relief train. Postal Agent
James Severns, who was appointed one
month ago, lay at one end of his car with
blood streaming from his mouth. We
reached Somerset at 10 o’clock at night.
Withrow’s dead body was laid in the bag
gage-room and the injured on our train*
w'ere placed in the hotel.”
WOMEN SCALDED.
The baggage car and smoker of train No.
2 rolled down the embankment, and tbe
ladies’ car of this train was thrown on the
engine, the inmates being thereby scalded.
Joe Hepp stated that a young couple that
had got oil in Chattanooga were badly cut
and scalded. The regular passing
point of trains Nos. 1 and 2 is
Flat Rock, south of the wreck. The
railroad officials did all in their jiower to
care for the wounded, leaving nothing un
done to contribute to their comfort. Tbe
two engines collided with such force that
they were impalled together, the boilers
shattering and discharging all their contents
m a few minutes. The attempt to pull the
engines apart failed, and they were rolled
over the embankment to clear the track.
TAKEN TO THEIR HOMES.
Cincinnati, Jan. 1. —Three dead and nine
living victims of the Cincinnati Southern
wreck were brought to Cincinnati, Coving
ton and Ludlow to-night. The dead were
Withrow, Powell and Callan. The wounded
were Jackson, Sackett, Campbell, Hejip,
Gibson, Patton, Nolan, Burch, Mr. and Mrs.
J. H. Avery and G. S. Hats. T. E. Sackett
is at the Cincinnati Hospital raving with
delirium. The others are either in the hos
pital or at their homes.
CARLISLE’S CHAIRMEN.
The Committee Lists Will Be An
nounced This Week.
Washington, Jan. 1.—Speaker Carlisle
has had no Christmas holiday. He has the
satisfaction, however, of knowing that his
committee list is almost finished. He is
still working hard at it to-night, but he
hopes to have it ready to announce on
Wednesday next. The chairmanships are
pretty well disposed of. The House has
already chosen Mr. Crisp, of
Georgia, chairman of the Committee
on Elections, the first on the list. The
other prominent chairmen will probably be
as follows: Mr. Mills, of Texas, Ways and
Means ;Mr. Randall, of Pennsylvania. Appro
priations; Mr. Culberson, of Texas, Judicia
ry: Mr. Wilkins, of Ohio, or Mr. Scott, of
Pennsylvania, Banking and Currency; Mr.
Bland, of Missouri, Coinage; Mr. Clardy, of
Missouri, Commerce; Mr. Blanchard, of
Louisiana, Rivers and Harbors; Mr. Hatch,
of Missouri, Agriculture: Mr. Belmont,
of New York, Foreigu Affairs; Mr. Town
shend, of Illinois,{Military Affairs; Mr. Her
bert, of Alaliama, Naval Affairs; Mr.
Blount, of Georgia, Post Offices; Mr. Hol
man, of Indiana, Public Lands; Mr.
Springer,of Illinois, Territories; Mr. Dib
ble, or South Carolina, Public Buildings;
Mr. Outhwaitp, of Ohio, Pacific Railroads:
Mr. Peel, of Arkansas, Indian Affairs; Mr.
Candler, of Georgia, Education; Mr. O’Neil,
of Missouri, Labor: Mr. Matson,of Indiana,
Invalid Pensions; Mr. Hemphill, of South
Carolina, District of Columbia. Mr. Ryan,
of Kansas, is to be substituted at the request
of the Republicans for Mr. Fuller, of Iowa,
at the foot of the Republican
members of the Ways and Means Commit
tee. The Speaker wanted to appoint a
| Western Protectionist to this place. The
Republicans seeing Mr. Fuller announced as
to be appointed expressed a preference for
Mr. Ryan. Mr. Holman wants to go on
the Committee on Appropriations again but
he also wants to take the chairmanship of
Public Lands and as he cannot very well
take both, he will probably stick to the
Chairmanship of Public Lands.
POLITICIANS SHOOT.
One Killed and Two Others More or
Less Badly Wounded.
New Orleans, Jan. 1.—Soon after 1
o'clock this morning a shooting affray took
place in Johnson’s saloon. No. 21 St. Charles
street, In which City Administrator Patrick
McaJey was mortally wounded, Mike
Walsli dangerously and Daniel Markey
painfully. The last named received a shot
in the mouth. All were taken to the Gjiarity
Hospital, where Commissioner Mealev
diod at 2:10 o'clock this afternoon. Walsh
remains in ajeomatose condition. It appears
that Commissioner Mcaley mid a party of
political friends, supporters of Gov. Nicholis,
went into the saloon for the purpose of get
ting drinks.
beginning ok the row.
While they*were there half a dozen Me-
Euery men, including Special Officer Louis
Clare and John Gibson, came in. As to
the origin of the trouble the statements
conflict, there being so many persons pres
ent. Each side, however, charges, the
other with being the aggressor-. Be that
ns it muy they were shouting
for NicholP, (or McEnery|nnd for Sheehan.
Mealev and < Tare caiiie together, and
then the shooting commenced. Twelve or
fifteen shots were firod, showing that sev
er;U weapons must have been used. / All ac
counts agree in one particular, that Louis
Clare and John Gibson began the shooting.
Mealey declared that he had been shot by
Clare. Both Clure and Gibson have been
locked up, and charges of murder will be
made against them.
New Year Honors.
London, Jan. 1. -Numerous New Year
hopoj’H have been c*onfc?n*od by the Queen.
Among the persons thus distinguished ai e
Sir < 'Carles Warren, commander of the
Metrop litan Police, who H made Civil
Knight Commander of the Order of the
Bath, and Mr. Browning, Mr. .Ba fours
private secretary, who becomes a Cavil Com
panion of the samo order. f
SAVANNAH, GA„ MONDAY, JANUARY 2. 1888.
READING’S MEN WONT STRIKE.
They Declare That it Would be Im
politic to go Out.
Reading, Pa., Jan. 1.-—To-day an in
formal meeting of representatives from the
Knights of Labor assemblies in this city,
whose membership consists principally of
Reading railroud employes, was held here.
The situation was again fully discussed,
and it was given out as the sentiment
of the employes that under no
circumstances would they strike, because
they considered it impolitic, and on the
ground that it would not help along the
cause of the Knights of Labor. A number
of assemblies in neighlioriug towns tele
graphed here that they would be guided by
the action of the Reading assemblies. A
quantity of freight, and 1,800 cars of coal
passed through to-day. About eighty men
were employed here to-day and sent to Port
Richmond to take the places of the strikers.
NO CHANGE AT PHILAEKLPHIA.
Philadelphia, Jan. I.—New Year’sday
brought no material change iu the Reading
strike, and the situation remains practically
unchanged. The weather the past twenty
four hours has been the most miserable of
the season, and those of the strikers who did
not remain at their homos passed
the day at the various headquarters
of the local assemblies to which
they belong. All of the assemblies held
meetings to-day, but only oue or two were
of a formal character. Local Assembly
No. 58110 initiated thirty-seven of the non
union men who took strikers’ places at the
Willow street wharves yesterday, and the
members felt greatly encouraged by this
acquisition to their ranks. Representatives
of other local assemblies expressed them
selves as determined to hold out to the end,
and say they are in better condition
to fight than is generally* believed. The
railroad officials, on the other hand, say
that tho business of the road to-day was
larger if anything than usual, aud that
they have more men than they need. Trains
have lieen moved regularly, they say, and
the yards were kept well cleared. Several
boys were arrested this afternnon for ston
ing trains on Pennsylvania avenue and
hooting at train hands. They were all very
youthful. No other disturbances have been
reported.
TO QUIT AT POTTSVILLK.
Pottsville, Pa., Jim. 1. —A meeting of
District Assembly No® 184, comprising all
the local assemblies of the lower Schuylkill
region, was held in this city last eveuing.
There was a full attendance, and it was re
solved that all of the employes of the Read
ing railroad within its jurisdiction quit
work Monday.
SOUTH CAROLINA’S PROGRESS.
A Splendid Showing for the Year Just
Closed.
Charleston, S. C., Jan. I.—The News
and Courier will publish to-morrow a de
tailed review of the progress of South Caro
lina during the last year. The review
shows that the total value of the agricul
tural, manufacturing and mineral products
of the State were over $101,000,000, against
$72,000,000 in 1880. The increase in the
value of manufactures in the same period is
over $15.(XX),000, or 01 per rent., and of live
stock $7,500,000, or 61 per cent.
COTTON STILL KING.
Cotton still gives one-half of the State’s
agricultural revenue, but while the acreage
has trebled since 1870, the average yield per
acre has increased only one-third, which is
probably due to the multiplication of small
farms.
In manufactures one-fourth of the whole
increase is in cotton. Lumber and
flour and other milling make up one-half
of the remainder. There are now in the
State 3,000 manufacturing concerns, em
ploying over 30,000 persons.
FRUIT CULTURE.
Fruit crops are developing rapidly, as is
also the mining of kaolin and granite. The
product of the phosphate mines lias risen
from 125,000 tons ill 1880 t 0452,000 last year.
The increase in railroad mileage in two
yen’s lias been twelve per rent., and more
railroads are constructing and projected
than ever before.
In conclusion the review shows that the
whole revenue of the State from agriculture,
manufactures, mines and quarries, in 1860,
with slave lalsir, was only $54,000,(XX), as
against $101,000,000 in 1886 with labor.
UNCLE SAM SWINDLED.
Inferior Steel Used in Building the
Cruisers.
Washington, Dec. 31. —Naval circles
have been thrown into a state of consterna
tion by recent reports from California rela
tive to the discovery of grave defects in the
steel intended to be used in the construction
of the cruiser Charleston, now being built
in that State. While an attempt was being
made recently to bend slightly heavy 8-inch
steel deck beams several of them snapped
in pieces under the strain of the hydraulic
jack, to the great astonishment of
the construction officers. The steel
was from the East, and had
lieen thoroughly tested according to the
severe requirements of the Htnel Board,
standing successfully all of the tests as to
tension, elongation, elasticity, etc. Much
of this steel has already been used in the
construction of the other cruisers and gun
boats now building, and the alarming
feature of the accident at the California
shipyard is that it casts grave doubt upon
the strength of the other material that has
already been built into ships and may fail
at a critical moment.
HUNGARY'S ATTITUDE.
She Will Not Provoke War, But Will
Be Ready if it Comes.
Pesth, Jan. I.—Premier Tisza, replying
to New Year’s congratulations from liberals
to-day, said that he did not believe that
war was imminent. Ho was convinced that
Hungary would not provoke war, but that
she would be ready if war was forced noon
her. More than that he was unable to say.
“Although a pessimistic view may not
be justifiable." lie added, “an optimistic
view had also disadvantages, because it of
ten pnralyps resisting forces which we may
possibly still need.”
Herr Fall;, in expressing similar senti
ments, said he thought the present gloomy
uncertainty was worse than war itself.
Necessity Knows No Law.
New York, Jan. I.—At the close of Dr.
McGlynn’s anti poverty lecture to-night he
ivad this telegram, just received from i.on
don; “Cardinal Manning, in a speech to-day,
said every man has a right, to the life and
food necessary to sustain life. So strict is
this right that it prevails over all rights of
property. Necessity knows no law; u
starving man may steal his neighbor’s
bread.”
Ex-Gov. Joel Parker Dead.
Philadelphia, Jan. 1.- Ex-Gov. Joel
Parker, of New Jersey, war Governor of
that, State, died at the residence of a rela
tive, whom he was visiting in this city, at
12:25 o’clock 1 this morning from the effects
of a paralytic st roke, with which he was at
tacked at 4:30 o’clock lost Saturday after
noon.
SERMONS TO TIKE WOMEN.
TALMAGE WILL AT THE SAME
TIME GIVE THE MEN SOME HINTS.
Twelve Discourses in the Series
"The Coming Glory” Was the Sub
ject on Which he Preached Yester
day-Only Twelve More Long Breaths
and the Century Will be Drad.
Brooklyn, Jan. I.—At the Tabernacle
this morning, the Rev. T. DeWitt Talmage,
D. D., announced that next Sabbath lie will
begin a course of sermons to the women of
America, with practical hints for men, the
following subjects among others: “The
Women Who Have to Fight the Battle of
Life Alone,” “Marriage for Worldly Success
Without Reference to Moral Character,”
“Is Engagement as Binding as Marriage?”
“Women \V T ho Are Already Uncongenially
Married,” “Influences Abroad for the De
struction of Women,” “Wifely Ambition,
Right and Wrong,” “What Kind of Men
Women Should Avoid,” “Simplicity as
Opposed to Affectation,” “Reformation in
Dress,” “Plain Women,” “The Female
Skeptic” and “Christian Housewifery."
This morning I)r. Talmage’s subject was:
“The Coming Glory;” his text, i. Corin
thians, ii., 9: “Eye hath not seen,
nor ear heard, neither have entered into the
heart of man, tho things which God hath
prepared for them that love him.” He
said:
1888. How strange it looks, and how
strange it sounds! Not only is the past
year dead, but the century is dying. Only
twelve more long breaths and tin old giant
will have expired. None of the past cen
turies will be present at the obsequies.
Only the twentieth century will sec the
nineteenth buried. As ail the years are
hastening past, and all our fives on earth
wiil si ion be ended, I propose to cheer my
self and cheer you with the glories to come,
which shall utterly eclipse all the glories
past; for my text tells us that the eye hath
not seen, nor ear heal'd, anything like the
advancing splendors.
The city of Corinth has been called the
Paris of antiquity. Indeed, for splendor,
the world holds no such wonder to-day. It
stood on an isthmus washed by two seas,
the one sea bringing the commerce of
Europe, the other sea brin ring the com
merce of Asia. From her wharves, in the
construction of which whole kingdoms had
been absorbed, war-galleys with three banks
of oars pushed out and confounded the navy
yards of all the world. Huge-handed ma
chinery, such as modern invention cannot
equal, lifted ships from the sea on one side
and transported them on trucks across the
isthmus and sat them down in the sea on
the other side. The revenue officers of the
city went down through the olive groves
that fined the beach to collect a tariff from
all nations. The mirth of all people sported
in her isthmian games, and tho beauty of
all lauds sat iu her theatres, walked her
ixirticoes and threw itself on t he altar of her
stupendous dissipations. Column, and
statue, and tempj-s bewildered the be
holder. There were white marble foun
tains into which, from apertures
at the side, there rushed waters everywhere
known for health-giving qualities. Around
these basins, twisted into wreaths of stone,
there were all the beauties of sculpture and
architecture; while standing, as if o guard
the costly display, was a statue of Hercules
of burnished Corinthian brass. Vases of
terra-cotta adorned the cemeteries of the
dead —vases so costly that Julius Our was
not satisfied until he had captured them for
Rome. Armed officials, the Corintharii,
paced up and down to see that no statue
was defaced, no pedestal overthrown, no
bas-relief touched. From the edge of tho
city a hill arose, with its magnificent bur
den <vf columns, and towers, and temples
(one thousand slaves waiting at one shrine),
and a citadel so thoroughly impregnable
that Gibraltar is a heap of sand compared
with it. Amid all that strength and mag
nificence Corinth stood and uofled the world.
Oh I it was not to rustics who had never
seen anything grand that Paul uttered this
text. They had heard the best music that
had come from the best instruments in all
the world; they had heard songs floating
from morning porticoes and melting in even
ing grqyes; they had passed their whole
lives among pictures, and sculpture, and
architecture, and Corinthian brass, which
had been moulded and shaped until there
was no chariot wheel in which it iiad not
sped, and no tower iu which it had not glit
tered, and no gateway that it had not
adorned. Ah, it was a bold thing for Paul
to stand there amid all that and say “All
this is nothing. These sounds that come
from the temple of Neptune are not music
compared with the harmonies of which i
speak. These waters rushing in the basin of
Pyrene are not pure. These tntues of Bac
chus and Mercury arc not exquisite. Your
citadel of Aerocorlnthus is no. strong com
pared with that which I nflnr to the poorest
slave that puts down his burden at, yjiat
beaten gate. You Corinthians think this
is a splendid city: you think you have heard
all sweet sounds, and seen all beautiful
sights; but I tell you eye ha’ll not seen nor
car heard, neither have entered into tlie
heart of man, the things which God hath
prepared tor them that love Him.”
You see my text sets forth the idea that,
however exalted our ideas may be of
heaven, they come far snort of the reality.
Some wise men have been calculating how
many furlongs long and wide is tho new
Jerusalem: and they have calculated how
many inhabitants there are on the earth;
how long the earth will probably stand;
and then they come to this estimate: That,
after all the nations have been gathered to
heaven, there will bo room for each soul —a
room sixteen feet long and fifteen feet wide.
It would not be large enough for mo. I
am glad to Know that no human estimate is
sufficient to take the dimensions. “Eye
hath not seen, nor ear heard,” nor arith
metics calculated.
I first remark that we can in this world
get no idea of the health of heaven. When
you were a child and you went cut in the
morning, how you bounded along the road
•>r street—you hail never leltsorrow-or sick
nss. Perhaps later you felt aglow in your
cheek, and a spring in your step, and an
exuberance of spirits, and a clearness of
eye that made you thank God you were
permitted to live. The nerves were harp
strings and the sunlight was a doxology,
and the rustling leaves wer the rustling of
the robes of a great crowd rising up to
praise the Lord. You thought that you
knew what it was to be well, but there is no
perfect health on earth. The diseases of
past generations came down to us. The
airs that float now upon tiie earth arc riot
like those which floated above Paradise.
They are charged with impurities and cis
tern ((er/. The most elastic und robust
health of earth, compared with that which
those experience before whom tho gates
have been opened, is nothing but
sickness and emaciation. 1 s>ok
at that soul standing before
the throne. On earth she was a life-long
invalid. See her step now, and hear her
voice now. (latch, if you can, one breath
of that celestial air. Healtu in all (lie pul
ses—health of vision: health of spirits; im
mortal health. No racking couglr, no sharp
pleurisies, no consuming fevers, no exhaust
ing pains, no hospitals of wounded men.
Health swinging in the air: health flowing
in all the streams; health blooming on the
banks. No headaches, no sideacnes, no
backaches. That child that died ill the
agonies of croup, hear her voice now ring
ing in the anthem. That old mail that went
bowed down with the infirmities of age, see
him wa k now with the step of an immor
tal athlete— forever young again. That
night when the needlewoman fainted away
in the garret, wave of the heavenly air re
suscitated her for ever. For everlasting
years to heve neither aches, nor pain, nor
weakness, nor fatigue. “Eye hath not seen
it, ear hath not heard it.”
I roipark. further, that we can, in this
world, get no just idea of the splendors of
heaven. John tries to describe them. He
says “the twelve gates are twelve pearls,”
and that “the foundations of the wall are
garnished with ail manner of precious
stones.” As we stand looking through tho
telescope of St, John, we see a blaze or ame
thyst, and pearl, and emerald, and sar
donyx, and chrysoprasus, and sapphire, a
mountain of light, n cataract of color, a sea
of glass and a city like the sun.
John bids us look again, and we see
thrones; thrones of the prophets, thrones of
the patriarchs, thrones of the angels, thrones
of the apostles, thrones of the martyrs,
throne of Jesus—throne of God. And we
turn round to see the glory and it is
thrones! Thrones! Thrones!
John bids us look again, and we see the
great procession of the redeemed passing;
Jesus, on a white horse, leads the march,
and all the armies of heaven following on
white horses. Infinite cavalcade passing,
passing; empires pressing into line, agek
following ages. Dispensation tramping on
after dispensation. Glory iu the track of
glory. Europe, Asia, Africa, North and
South America presssingfinto lilies. Islands
of tho sea shoulder to shoulder. Genera
tions before the flood following generations
after the flood, and ns Jesus rises at the
head of that great host and waves his
sword in signal of victory, all' crowns are
lifted, and all ensigns slung out, and all
chimes rung, and nil halleiujahs chanted,
and some cry, “Glory to God most high,”
and some, “Hosanna to the son of David,”
and some, “Worthy is the Lamb that was
slain”—till all exclamations of endearment
and homage in tho vocabulary of heaven
are exhausted, aud there comes up surge
after surge of “Amen! Amen! and Amen!”
“Eye tiath not seen it, ear hath not heard
it.” Skim from tho summer waters the
brightest sparkles, and you will get no idea
of the sheen of the everlasting sea Pile up
the splendors of earthly cities, and they
would not make n stepping-stone by which
you might mount to the city of God. Every
house is a palace. Every step a triumph.
Every covering of the head a coronation.
Every meal is a banquet. Every stroke
from the tower is a wedding-boll. Every
day is a jubilee, every hour a rapture, and
every moment an ecstacy. “Eye hath not
seen it, ear hath not heard it. ”
I remark further, we can get no idea on
earth of the reunions of heaven. If you
have ever been across the seas, and met a
friend, or even an acquaintance, in some
strange city, you remember how your blood
thrilled, and how glad you were to see him.
What will be our joy, after we have passed
the seas of death, to meet in the bright city
of the sun those from whom we have long
been separated. After we have been away
from our friends ten or fifteen years, and
we come upon them, we see how differently
they look. The hair has turned, and
wrinkles have come in their faces, and we
say, “How you have changed!” But oh,
when we stand before the throne, all cares
gone from the face, ail marks of sorrow dis
appeared, and feeling the joy of that blessed
land, methinks we will say to each other,
with an exultation we cannot now imagine,
“How you have changed 1” In this world
we only meet to part. It is gbod-by, good
by. Farewells floating in the air. We hear
it at the rail-car window, and at the steam
boat wharf—good-by. Children lisp it, and
old age answers it. Sometimes we say it in
a 4ight way “good-by;” and some
times with angu sh in which the
soul breaks down. Good-by! Ah! there is
the word that ends the thanksgiving ban
quet; that is the word that conies in to close
the Christmas chant. Good-by, good-by.
But not so in heaven. Welcomes iu the air,
welcomes at the gates, welcomes at the
houses of many mansions—but, no good-by.
That group is constantly being augmented.
They are going up from our circles of earth
to join it —little voices to join the anthem —
little hands to take hold in the great home
circle —little feet to dance in the eternal
glee —little crowns to be east down before
the feet of Jesus. Our friends are in two
groups—a group this side of the river, aud
ii group on the other side of the river. Now
there goes one from this to that, and an
other from this to that, and soon we will all
be gone over. How many of your lovod
ones have already entered upon unit blessed
place. If I should take paper and
pencil, do you think I could put
them all down? Ah, my friends, the
waves' of Jordan roar so hoarsely, we Jan
not hear the joy on the ot her side when
that group is augmented. It is graves
here, and coffins and hearses here. A little
child’s mother had died, and they comforted
her. They said, “Your mother has gone to
heaven —don’t cry;” and, the next day,
they went to the graveyard, and they laid
the body of tho mother down into the
ground; and the little girl came up to tho
verge of the grave, and, looking down at
the body of her mother, said, “Is this heav
en ?" Oh! we have no idea what heaven is.
It is the grave here—it is darkness here—
but there is merry-making yonder. Me
thmks when a soul arrives, some angel
takes it around to show it tho wonders of
that blessed place. The usher-angel says to
the newly-arrived, “These are the martyrs
that perished at Piedmont; those were torn
to pieces at the Inquisition; ih s is the
throne of the great Jehovah: this is Jesus.”
“I am going to see Jesus,” said a dying
boy; “I am going to see Jesus.” The mis
sionary suid, “You are sure you will see
hint!” “Oh! ves; that’s what I want to go
to heaven for/’ “But,,” said the missionary,
“suppose Jesus should go away from heaven
—wtiat then!” “I should follow him,” said
the dying boy. "But if Jesus went down
to hell—what then!” The dying hov
thought for a moment, and then said,
"Where Jesus is there can tie no hell.” Oh!
to stand in his presence! That will be
heaven! Oh! to put our hand in that hand
which was wounded for us on tho cross—to
go around amid the groups of tho redeemed,
aud shake hands with the prophets, and
apostles, and martyrs, mid with our own
dear, beloved ones! That will bo the great
reunion; wo cannot imagine it now, our
loved ones seem so far away. When we
are in trouble and lonesome, they
don't seem to come to us. Wo go on the
banks of the Jordan and call across to them,
but they don’t seem to hear. We say, “Is
it well with the child? is it well with the
loved ones?” and wo listen to hear if any
voice come hack over the waters. None!
none! Unbelief says, “They are dead, and
they are annihilated,” but blessed be God!
we have a Bible that tells us different;. Wo
open it and we find they are neither dead
nor annihilated—that they never were so
much alive as now—that they are only
waiting for our coming, aud that we slra.ll
join them on the other side of the river. Oh,
glorious reunion! we cannot grasp it now.
“Eve hath not seen, nor ear heard, noil her
have entered into ihe heart of man tue
things which God hath prepared for them
that love him.” Oh what a place of explana
tion it will be!
X see, every day. profound mysteries of
Providence. There is no question no ask
oftener than Why/ There are hundred? of
graves in Greenwood and Laurel Hill that
need to lie explained. Hospital- for the
blind and lame, asylums for the idiotic and
insane, alrrtshouses for the destitute, and a
world of pain and misfortune that demand
more than human solution. Ah! Hod will
clear it all up. In the light that pours from
the throne, no dark mystery can live.
Things now utterly inscrutable will be
illumined as plainly as though the answer
were written on the jasper wall, or sounded
in the temple anthem. Bartimeus will
thank God that he was blind; and Lazarus
that he was covered with sores; and Joseph
that he was cast iuto the pit: and Daniel
that he denned with lions; and Paul that he
was humpbacked; and David that he was
driven from Jerusalem; and that invalid
that for twenty years ho could not lift
his head from the pillow; and that
widow that slip had such nurd work to earn
bread for her children. The song will be all
the grander for earth's weeping eyes, and
aching heads, and exhausted hands, and
scourged backs, and martyred agonies. But
we can get no idea of that anthem here.
We appreciate the power of secular music,
but do we appreciate the power of sacred
song! There is nothing more inspiriting to
mo than a whole congregation iifti'd on the
wave of holy melody. When we sing some
of those diar old psalms ami tunes they
rouse all the memories of the past. Why
some of them were cradle songs in our
father’s house. Thoy are all sparkling with
the morning dew of a thousand Christian *
Habhaths. They were sung by brothers
and sisters gone now—by voices that were
aged and broken in the music—voices none
the leas sweet because they did tremhle and
break. When I hear these old songs sung,
it seems a* if all the old country
meeting homes joint'll in the chorus, and
city church and sailors’ Bethel and Western
cabins, until the whole continent lifts the
doxology and the sceptres of eternity Nat
time in the music. Away then with your
starveling tunes that chill the devotionsof
the sanctuary and make the people sit
silent when Jesus is marching on to victory
When generals come back from victorious
wars, don’t we cheer them and shout,
“Huzza, huzza/” and when Jesus passes
along in the conquest of the earth shall we
not have for Him one loud, ringing cheer/
;
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“All hall the power of Jesus' name:
I>-t angels prostrate fall.
Bring forth tne royal diadem,
And crown Him I sad of all."
But, my friends, if music on earth is so
sweet, what will it be in heaven! They all
know the tune there. All the licet singers
of all the ages will join it—choirs of
white robed children, choirs of pa
triarchs, choirs of apostles. Morn
ing stars dapping their cym
bals. Harpers with their harps. Great an
thems of God, roll on! roll on!—otbev em
pires joining the harmony till the thrones
are all full, and the nations all saved. An
them shall touch anthem, chorus join cho
rus, and all the sweet sounds of earth and
heaven ! poured into the ear of Christ.
David of the harp will be there. Gabriel of
the trumpet will be there. Germany, re
deemed, will pour its deep lmss voice into
the song, and Africa will add to the music
with her matchless voices.
1 wish we could anticipate that song I
wish in our closing hymn to-day we might
catch an echo that: slips from the gates.
Who knows but that when the heavenly
door opens to day to let some soul through
t here may come forth the strain of the jubi
lant voices until we catch it? Ob, that as
the song drops down from heaven, it might
meet half way a song coming up from earth.
They rise for the doxology, ail the multi
tude of the blest! Let us ri|p with them;
and so at this hour the joys of the church
on earth and the joys of the church in
heaven will mingle their chalices, and the
dark apparel of our morning will seem to
whiten into the spotless raiment of the
skies. God grant that through the rich
mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ we may ail
get there.
GEORGIA’S CAPITAL CITY.
The Probable Action of tbe New Coun
cil on the Liquor Question.
Atlanta, Ga., Jan. I.—The new Coun
cil, which meets for the first time to-mor
row evening, will soon devote its attention
to the liquor license question, and from
present indications, will undo to a groat ex
tent the action of the old Council. Theanti-
Prohibitionists had a big caucus at the
Kimball House last night to determine the
course of the new Council as to license and
limits. There wore present tho anti-prohi
bition members of the present Council, the
members elect and the leading anti-Prohi
bitionists of the city. It was determined to
largely cut down the $1,500 license, to re
strict the sale of whisky to the present lim
its, but to take off all restrictions as to lo
cality on the sale of beer, ale, etc. This will
lie satisfactory to the mass of the anti-Pro
hibitionists.
Henry Shackleford, for many years an
engineer on the East, Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia railroad, died suddenly this
morning at his rcsi lenco in this city.
There were several Atlanta people in the
Cincinnati Southern accident yesterday.
Their families were grearjy alarmed ami
anxious till dispatches to-day announced
that none of them were hurt.
An eloping negro couple from Waynes
boro were arrested here to-day on a tele
graphic request. Tho bride expectant is a
young girl and the man is charged with ab
duction. They are held at the station house.
STRUCK BY LIGHTNING.
Two Men and a Horse Stunned by the
Same Bolt at Albany.
Albany, Ga., Jan. I. —During a severe
thunder storm here this morning the stable
oi Capt. Ed. K. Wight was struck by light
ning. The bolt fell upon the cupola used as
a pigeon house, tearing out one side of it
and then divided, bursting its way down
each side of the building. In the stable
a valuable sick horse was being doctored by
Capt. Wight and Drane, the groom. The
lightning struck the men and horse, throw
ing them to tho floor. Capt. Wight
thought at first that, tho stable had
been blown up by a dynamite bomb. He
was struck in the "back, and a huge blister
was raised with a hole in the centre. The
groom's urni was paralyzed for the time
and was thought to be broken. The horse
was struck iu the head and stunned. He
was considered dead , but a liberal supply of
whisky rendered him conscious. Though
one side of the pigeon house was torn out,
none of the birds were hurt.
A Bridge Washed Away.
Milleixikvillk, Ga., Jan. L—The tem
porary bridge across the Oconee river at
Milledgeville was washed away last night.
This was a structure erected Inst August
for temporary use, when the old bridge suc
cumbed to the floods. Passengers on tho
Macon branch are being transferred in
boats until the bridge is replaced. The new
iron bridge in course of construction is
nearing completion.
Egg Harbor City Devastated.
Ebc* Harbor City, N. J., Jan. 1.--<The
most disastrous fire in this county for many
years occurred in this city at 11 o'clock last
night, sweeping away almost the entire
business portion of the city. The loss is
*58.000.
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LEO’S GOLDEN JUBILEE.
PONTIFICAL HIGH MASS AT ST.
PETER’S AT ROME.
The Pope and all the Cardinals In the
Church Enthusiastic Demonstra-,
tiona by the 30,000 People in the
Church—Special Masses Throughout
Great Britain.
Rome, Jan. I.—The pontifical mass to
day was a great success. Thousands of
people thronged St. Peter’s square early in
the mormng awaiting the opening of the
Cathedral. Sixty thousand admission
tickets had been issued, and the cathedral
was packed. The Pope entered at 8:30
o’clock, followed by the Cardinals in pro
cession. His holiness was received with
loud and loug-continued shouts of “Long
live the Pope.” The music of the mass was
deeply impressive and many
persons in the audience were
affected. The Pope blessed all pro ent and
left the cathedral at 11 o'clock, the whole
audience expressing its joy by clapping
hands, waving hats and handkerchiefs, and
enthusiastic acclamations. Later in the
day King Humliert expressed himself to a
deputation from Parliament as being highly
satisfied with the smoothness of the cere
mony, which, lie said, was the beet proof of
the Pope's liberty in Rome.
TROOPS ON DUTY.
Two battalions of the line and a larga
number of carbinieri regulated the move
me'ita of the crowd at the Cathedral, and a
thousand policemen in plain clothes were
stationed inside of the edifice. A few ladies
faiuted in the crush, hut no accident oc
curred. In the chapel the columns and pi
lasters were hung with red damask. The
statue of St. Peter was clothed in pontifical
garments with a tiara on the head. .
The orchestra included the fatuo ;s an- |
cient silver trumpets. Princes Atilieri,
Colonna, Orsini, Ruspoli, Poldini, and
many other members of the nohility were
present. The Pope wore the pastoral ring
presented by the Austrian Archdukes.
His tiara was covered with a
thousand pearls. The chalice used by bis
holiness was the gift of the King of Portu
gal. and the golden plate used in the service
was a present from Queen Victoria. The
to deum was sung in tho church of St.
John later on in tho presence of the Cardi
nals and Diplomat* Corps.
FORTY EIGHT CARDINALS PRESENT.
Forty-eight cardinals and 238 archbishop#
and bishops were present at the mass, and
it is estimated that there were 30,000 per
sons in the audience. The Pope prayed for,
a long time in his private chapel and then
received the homage of the court cardinals f
in the sola ducalc. While assuming the
sacerdotal vestment the Pope was overcome
\titb emotion and fainted. Strong
salts| were administered and he soon
returned to consciousness. Ha then as
cended the gestatorial chair and wa* borne
on tho shoulders of the Sediari, attended hr
the Cardinals, into St. Peter's Cathedral.
Just before he was fully vested for the
altar lie again fainted, remaining uncon
scious a few minutes. The mass occupied
twenty-eight minutes. After pronouncing
the benediction the Pope again seated him
self in the gestatorial chair and was borne
completely around the altar to the Capella
del Sacramento, where he offered up a
prayer of thanksgiving. During the cere
mony the Pope wore the triple crown pre
sented to him by Emperor William.
SPECIAL MASSES IN GREAT RRtTIAN.
London, Jan. 1. —Special masses in honor
of the Pope's jubilee were celebrated to-day
in the cathedral* and other churches
throughout Great Britain. The ceremonies
were largely attended and fervent enthusi
asm was manifested.
ST. PAUL’S CELEBRATION.
St. Paul, Minn., Jan. I.—-The Cathedral
was packed to the doors to-day, the occasion
being the celebration of the Pope’s jubilee.
Solemn mass, with orchestral accompani
ment, was celebrated by the paster, Rev.
John Shanley The eulogy of Leo XIII. by
Bishop Ireland was an eloquent and
masterly effort. Ho declared that
the Pope is an ardent admirer
of America, in which he beholds a land
where the civilization of the future is to bn
developed, and which presents a model to
other nations in its unrivalled constitution.
The Pope strongly sympathizes with the
working classes. Toe Bishop declared thas
tho soulution of the vexed Roman question is
at hand and will be met in the broadest spirit
by ttie Pope, w ho is not as anxious for large
territorial limits as he is to have certain ter
ritory, of which ho may be sole sovereign.
The Bishop dosed with an earnest appeal to
his Protestant fellow-citizens to make the
history and character of the Catholic church
a study.
CELEBRATED AT PHILADELPHIA.
Philadelphia, Jan. I.—The golden
jubilee of Pope lasi XIII. wa. celebrated
with elaliorate ceremonies in the Cathedral*
of Batata Peter and Paul, in this city, to
day. A heavy rainfall had no effect on
the attendance, and when the solemn pon
tifical mass began the vast building was
tilled to the Rev. Alexander A.
Gallagher was tho celebrant of the mass.
The archiepiscopal throne wa* vacant, Arch
bishop Ryan being in Rome at the present
time.
ALL ABOUT AUGUSTA.
The River on a Boom—A Newspaper
Change—Broke Hie Arm.
Augusta, Ga., Jan. I.— The Savannah
river is on a boom. Heavy and continuous
rains have fallen in this section for twenty
four hours. New Year’s services were
•slimly attended in consequence.
There will be a general suspension of busi
ness here to-morrow on account of New
Year celebrations.
James Maloney (colored) jumped from the
incoming Georgia train tins nfternoon near
the orphan asylum and broke his a -m.
It is rumored that the Evening Sews will
change hands tomorrow. John M. Weigle,
one of its founders and business manager
from its first issue, will retire to accept the
position of business manager in the Daily
(tnzette office. T. R. Gibson, it is said, has
purchas'd Mr. Weigle's interest in the Sews.
Tne former gentleman lias bee i connected
with that journal as its city editor for years.
v Jacksonville's Base Ball Club.
Jacksonville, Fla , Jan. I.—The base
ball club here has received a challenge from
the Cuba club to go to Havana during holy
week, and play a series of three
games for $l,OOO a side. If the Cu
bans will include hotel expense* in the
challenge the boys will accept. |
The Jacksonville and St. Augustine clubs
will play soon for B.V) a side. The time and
place is' to be decided by the JacksonvilU
club. Athletic sports promise to be excitiug
here this season.
Fire at Pregnall’s.
Augusta, Ga., Jan. Fire at Preg
nail’s Station, on a branch of the South
Carolina railroad, early this morning do
stroyod the railroad depot and a larg
quantity of freight. Owing to the fact that
the telegraph office was included in tht
general destruction only meagre particular
are obtainable.