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I THE MORNING NEWS. 1
- Established 1860. Incorporated 1888. v
j J. H. ESTILL, President. j
brooks a fabricator.
His STORY IN THE! CRONIN CASH
NOT SUBSTANTIATED.
No One Else Who Saw the Driver of
the Express Wagon Noticed That He
Wore a Mask—The Woman He Men
tioned as With Him Denies the State
ment.
Chicago, June 23.—George Brooks, the
news agent, who claims to have seen three
men carrying a trunk from the Carlson cot
tage and afterward witnessed the trio
dump the contents of the trunk into the
sewer is apparently not being borne out in
his statements. There is no such thorough
fare as Thirty-seventh street in Lakeviow,
and none of the other persons who met the
wagon that night make any mention of the
driver’s being masked. Brooks asserted
that the driver wore a mask and that a
sudden jolt of the wagon displaced it and
gave him a good view of the man’s face.
THE WOMAN IN THE CASE.
Brooks has named Mrs. Jennie E. Fletcher
of Fort Wayne as the woman who was with
him at the time. The Tribune prints a
special from Fort Wayne, which says:
"Mrs. Jen Die E. Fletcher, a middle-aged
married lady, who has resided in this citv
for years, emphatically denies Brooks’
story, and is indignant that her name is
coupled with such a matter. She says that
George Brooks’ step-mother is her niece.
She has not seen Brooks for years, and she
has not been in Chicago for twelve years.”
IN OPPOSITION TO THE CHURCH.
London, June 23. A dispatch from
Rome to the Standard, says: “Archibishop
Feeham of Chicago having made a long
report to the vantician through Cardinal
Simioni on the criminal acts of
the Clan-na-Gael, tho pope has
given instructions that authorities be
granted tho archbishop to take wnatever
measures he may deem opportune to de
clare the Clan-na-Gael in opposition to
the church.’’
AN ABANDONED BARK.
She ia Towed into Boston Badly
Knocked Out by the Elements.
Boston, June 23.—Shortly before mid
night, Saturday, the tug Argus, of Phila
delphia, having in tow the wrecked Nor
wegian bark Ottawa, arrived at Lewis’
wharf, in this city. The Ottawa was
abandoned at sea about May 15, while on a
passage from Pensacola to Buenos Ayres
loaded with hard pine lumber. Her crew
were rescued and taken to London. The
Argus made an unsuccessful cruise in
search of the bark.
A SECOND CRUISE^
About three weeks ago she left Boston,
made a second cruise June 14, and found the
bark on June 19. The wreck presents a
hard-looking sight and gives evidence of
battling with the elements for some time.
Every available spar, with the exception of
the fore lower mast and mizzen mast are
gone. The fore yard is hanging in the
slings, looking as if it might fall at any mo
ment.
THE ONLY PIECE OP CANVAS.
On it the foresail hangs in ribbons, and
that is the only piece of canvass left except
the mizzen gaff top sail, which is furled on
the mast. Her cabin is completely gutted
and a lot of boards are piled up in the cen
ter of the cabin floor. Apoitionof her
deck load of hard pine lumber remains on
deck. The bulwarks are completely washed
away and parts of the stanchions are brokeD
off. The masts, yards, blocks, iron work, a
vast amount of ropes, riggings, etc., is
strew about the decks.
MRS. HAYES SLOWLY SINKING.
Only the Shadow of a Chance That
She Will Recover.
Cleveland, June 23.—A special from
Fremont, 0., says: “Ex-President Hayes
and family are still anxiously watching for
a ray of hope for the recovery of Mrs.
Hayes. It is now over forty-eight hours
since the attack, and there is no
manifest change for the better.
Burchard Hayes said to-day that he
was not hopeful, and at 2
o’clock the doctors said there was no appre
ciable change, and that Mrs. Hayes was
failing aud her condition not so favorable
as twelve hours before. Dr. Rice
6avs, however, that he has known
patients to grow worse for ten
days or more and then recover.
Mrs. R. W. Huntingdon nee Miss Ada
Cook of Moss Point, Miss., is expected here
to-morrow. She is a niece of Mrs. Hayes
and was a member of the household for
years. She was married at the Hayes resi
dence a few years ago. Telegrams of
sympathy continue to puur in from all parts
of the United States. At 8 o’clock to-night
a member of the family announced that
Mrs. Hayes was not so well.”
NICARAGUA’S CANAL.
Another Fores of Men Set Sail to Join
• tho Workers.
New York, June 23,—The steamer
Aquan will sail to-morrow afternoon for
Greytown, Nicaragua, with tho second con
struction party sent out by the Nicaragua
Maritime Canal Company. She will carry
a number of officers and men aDd tools and
houses and machinery for the use of the
construction force on the canal. At
Fortune Island a number of native laborers
will be taken aboard to reinforce those al
ready secured. Engineer Leßaron, who is
in charge of the construction work, will
have control of the men in Nicaragua, and
toe Aquan’s party will be added to the force
now engaged in Greytown harbor and on
the line of the canah
CINCINNATI’S TURNERS.
Fifteen Thousand Persons at Their
Celebration Yesterday.
Cincinnati, June 23.—There were 15,000
spectators present to-day at the exercises
of the Turners, which lasted from early
morning until night, half a dozen persons
Performing simultaneously. After the close
the exercises, 1,200 Turners, in uniform,
assisted by an orchestra and mannechoir
of 200 voices, joined m singing in the open
air. The singing was in splendid harmony
and tune, and the effect was most in
spiring.
Gone to Select the Battle Ground.
New York, June 23,—Frank Stevenson,
Michael Donovan and William H. Harding
of the Police Gazette, Jake Kilrain’s back
ers > left this city this morning by the Balti
, ?ore and Ohio railroad for New Orleans.
i heir mission is to select the battle ground
lor the Sullivan-Kilrain fight.
Suicide of a Bank Teller.
Baltimore, June 23.—J. Adee Houck,
teller of the Traders’ National Bank in this
city, committed suicide at his mother’s res
idence ia Baltimore county yesterday.
Hhe Jloftting ffcto£
HARRISON AT CAPE MAY.
At Church in the Morning and On the
Piazza in the Afternoon.
Cape May, N. J., June 23.—President
and Mrs. Harrison and Postmaster General
Wanamaker attended reli ious service
this morning in the Beadle Memorial
Presbyterian church at Cape May Point.
The church was not uncomfortably
crowded, and a great many people were dis
appointed who went to the Presbyterian
church at Cape May City in expectation
that the Presideut would drive over and
attend service there. Dr. Wylie, pastor of
the Broad Street Presbyterian church, at
Pniladelpbia, officiated and preached from
PhilJipians, his text being: “But my God
shall supply all your need, according to his
riches in glory by Christ Jesus.”
Dr. Scott, the President’s father-in-law,
occupied a seat in tne pulpit, and offered
prayer and pronounced the benediction. In
the afternoon the President and his family
spent some time on the piazza. In defer
ence to the President’s wishes only a few
persous called, but it is under
stood that he will Hold a general reception
to-morrow. The President leaves to?
Washington at 1 o’clock to-morrow after
noon.
COMING EDISONB KILLED.
A Boiler With Which They Were Ex
perimenting Bursts.
Philadelphia, June 23.—Harry and
William Jesser, aged 15 and 17 years, were
killed yesterday, and are victims of their
mechanical precociousness. They were in
ventive lads, and employed much of their
time running a small engine. They have
been generating steam in an old
range boiler, and conveving it
to the engine by means of a gas pipe. They
conceived the idea of attaching the engine
to the family icecream freezer and thereby
do away with the hand turning. They
were getting up n fire for this purpose yes
terday in a small brick furnace under the
boiler when a terrific explosion took place,
killing both boys and injuring Mrs. Fl >ra
Knisee and little Henry Kniese, who were
near by. •
WESTERN FREIGHT RATES.
Another Cut that Knocks Calculations
Endwise.
Minneapolis, Minn., June 23.—The rate
situation in the northwest received another
severe shock yesterday, when the officers of
the Sioux line announced another sweeping
reduction in the west bound, ail rail rate
from the Atlantic coast, and the Minneapo
lis and St. Paul rate becomes effective to
morrow and is on the basis of 60 cents per
100 pounds on first-class freight. This ap
plies from New York, via the Chicago and
Atlantic railway and from Boston via the
Chicago and Atlantic and Canadian Pacifici
Dispatch and is 10 cents lower than the ai 1
rail route from the east to Chicago.
A WOMAN IN A NEGRO’S GRIP.
A Bcream Saved Her From the Black
Raviaher’s Lust.
Atlanta, Ga., June 23.—A special from
Covington says: “A big, burly, black
negro attempted to rape Miss Bettie Connor
of this place at 9 o’clock last night. Miss
Connor and her aged mother live alone in a
pretty little cottage opposite the Methodist
church.
“At 9 o’clock last night she went out in
the back piazza to bring in a mat. As she
reached down to secure it, a big black negro
jumped from a shadow and caught her by
the throat and threw her to the floor. But
before his fingers had tightened enough to
choke her she uttered a scream, whicn at
tracted the attention of T. J. Sheppard and
Mr. Ingram. They rushed in, but the
negro heard their footsteps before
accomplishing his design and fled. As
they reached Miss Connor’s side they caught
a glimpse of the negro jumping from the
piazza, but instead of pursuing hitn they
lifted the lady into the house iu order to re
suscitate her. She had been choked
severely, and was unconscious for an hour
afterwar 1% the prints of the brute’s fingers
still remaining on her throat. A crowd
quickly gathered around the house, but be
fore pursuit was thought of the negro had
fled, and left no trace behind.
Miss Connor did not see his face,
nor can she give any kind of de
scription of him, except that he was a burly
black fellow. A few ordinary hounds wore
secured and put on the negro’s track, but
they couid not follow it. Bloodhounds were
telegraphed for to Atlanta, but it was too
late to get them on the night train, and it
is not believed that the negro
will ever be caught, although parties
are now scouring the country around
for him. Even tnough he were caught
no one got a glimpse of his face, and it
would be impossible to identify him. Miss
Conner, who is a lady of perhaps 45 years
of age, was seen by a c irrespoudent after
midnight. She had entirely recovered from
the fright, but still bore the prints of the
negro’s fingers upon her neck. Not even
a trace of the direction the brute took has
been discovered, and there seems to be no
hope of catching him, although, if caught,
he will be swung to the nearest tree.
NOMINATED FOR SENATOR.
Paul B. Trammell the Candidate of the
Forty-third District.
Atlanta, Ga., June 23.—The largest
mass meeting ever held in Whitfield county
met at Dalton yesterday to nominate a can
didate for state senator from the Forty-third
district, to succeed Hon. S. E. Field, de
ceased.
Paul B. Trammell was placed in nomina
tion by Mr. Lougley, and was seconed amid
great applause.
No other name having been put In nomi
nation, the chairman called for a rising
vote, and the vast assembly rose almost to
a man, and the announcement of the
unanimous nomination of Paul B. Tram
mell as the democratic candidate for state
senator was made by the chairman.
Mr. Trammell, the nominee, is a young
man, a farmer, and president of the Whit
field County Farmers’ Alliance. In addi
tion to the strong support of ail other
classes of people, he will receive the solid
support of the farmers, and his election is a
foregone certainty.
On motion the chairman was instructed
to notify the democratic executive com
mittee of Murray and Gordon counties of
the nomination of Mr. Trammell as the
standard bearer, it being Whitfield’s privi
lege under the rotation system.
Starke Helps Johnstown.
Starke, Fla., June 23.—At a supper
given here on Wednesday night last by the
ladies of Starke for the benefit of the Johns
town sufferers SB3 40 were realized. This
amount was forwarded yesterday by Mayor
Witkowski to Gen. Hastings.
As an evidence of what Bradford county
lands will produce Warren Clarke brought
to town the other day three onions raised by
himself weighing 4# pounds. Tho largest
measured 17 inches in circumference.
Cameron’s Condition Unchanged.
Lancaster, Pa., June 23.—Gen. Simon
Cameron's condition is unchanged.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, JUNE 24, 1880.
STRANGER THAN FICTION.
A Suicide Unidentified for a Month
Proves to Bea Wealthy Man.
Philadelphia, June 22.—1n a most un
expected manner the mystery surrounding
the disappearance of Henry Riley, who left
his home under circumstances indicating
foul play, was cleared yesterday. Riley
lived at 715 Alaska street, aud on May 21 he
c * re 'T * JGO from bank and nothing further
was ht ard or seen of him. The matter was
reported to Chief of Detectivei Wood May
15, and since that time the police have
be.'n trying to find the man.
P® morning of May 22 an unknown
ntan hailed a number of stevedores on the
wharf at tho foot of Laurel street, Dela
ware river, and asked them to drink with
him- As the stranger was partially intoxi
cated the laborers refused to have anything
to do with him, and he walked into a neigh
boring saloon. Shortly after he was seen
running down Delaware avenue with a
large knife in his hand. The fellow was
evidently maddened by drink, aud made
several vicious thrusts at persons in his
road. Naturally no one cared to stop his
mad course, aud when he ran to the end of
the pier he was allowed to divest himself of
his hat and coat and jump overboard.
As the man still held the knife in his
hand the persons who witnessed the act did
not care to jeopardize their lives by at
tempting to rescue him, but after the sui
cide had sunk from view an effort was
made to recover the body. Five or six
hours later, when the corpse was brought
to tho surface, tho clothing was searched
aud a considerable amount of money was
found, together with a silver watch, which,
singularly enough, was still running. Ou
May 24, or one day before Riley’s disap
pearance had been reported to the”authori
ties, an inquest was held in the case of the
nn known suicide and a verdict was rendered
according to the circumstances.
Tho body was buried by the coroner’s
undertaker in the potter’s field and nothing
further was thought about the matter until
Thursday, when Mrs. Riley called on Coro
ner Ashoridge. She said a man who lived
opposite to her had just been discharged
from the Philadelphia hospital, aud while
there had heard a story from one of the
inmates which led her to believe that the
corpse in the unmarked grave was that of
her husband. Her informant had said he
had baen talking with the hospital patient,
whom he knew as Mike, and this man had
incidentally mentioned the fact of the Lau
rel street drowning. The neighbors knew
Riley was missing, and when he left the
institution ho told the wife of the occur
rence.
The coroner supplied her with a descrip
tion of the self-murderer, and yesterday
the body was exhumed. Mrs. Riley recog
nized it iu a glance and gave instructions
to have the remains removed to another
burying place. In the meantime Coroner
Ashbridge had instituted inquiries, being
somewhat chary about awarding the posses
sion of the body to the woman, as Riley had
left a large bank acconnt, but when ho
learned that hor story was true he at once
issued an order to her. Mrs. Riley subse
quently told the coroner that she would
buy a lot in the cemetery so that her hus
t and could be buried respectably, and in a
day or two she will make an application for
his money, which is said to amount to about
SIO,OOO.
THOMASVILLE TUPIOS.
The Commencement Exerclsea at the
College.
THOMASVILLE, Ga., June 22.—Thomas
ville has had a gala appearance for the past
two weeks. Quite a number of visiting
strangers are here attending the examina
tion and commencement exorcises of our
two colleges. The South Georgia college
finished its examination last week and then
deferred its closing exercises, to take in the
exercises of the Young Female college,
which have occupied this week.
Tho commencement sermon at the Young
Female college, by Rev. R. H. Harris, was
a fine effort and gave universal satisfaction.
a large and interested audience.
Tho graduating exorcises of Tuesday night
were unusually interesting, and the largo
c! apel was packed to suffocation almost.
Misses Alma Delle, Claire Thomas, Mamie
Jorger and Ella Lightfoot graduated with
honor. Theiressays were more than usually
interesting and reflected great upon the
officers and teachers of the college. Presii
dent Baker and his efficient corps of teach
ers have placed the college in the front
rank, and its nineteenth session had a very
successful closing.
To-morrow tho commencement oxercises
of the South Georgia college will be in
augurated by a sermon, by Rev. T. G.
Smith of Cedar Keys, Fla. On Monday
night the Hon. P. W. Meidrim, of your
city, will deliver the literary address be
fore the societies. Ou Tuesday evening the
prize declamation and debate by the mem
bers of the higher classes comes off.
Wednesday night the annual concert takes
place, the exercises closing on Thursday
night, by a cantatta entitled “Trial bv
Jury.”
At a meeting of the board of trustees of
tho college the other day John Triplett and
James F. Evans were placed on the board
of trustees and Prof. Lovejoy re-elected to
the position of principal for the ensuing
term. There is a bright future before the
college, and some important changes iu
contemplation.
The weather —that threadbare topic—has
been hot, with plenty of rain the past week.
Crops are in pretty fair condition. Too
much rain now, which we anticipate, will
injure the melon crop. The pear crop is
very good, and bids fair to be more than
an average yield in this county. Cotton
and corn are looking well, and as a rule
the farmers are up with their work.
The Columbus Cowhiding.
Columbus, Ga, June 23.—There have
been no new developments in the Jetikins-
Carlisle case to-day that have been given to
the public. The Opelika party i3 still here,
and it is presumed that they are waiting
for tomorrow to arrange matters. Mr.
Jenkins, it is reported on the streets, has
been confined to his room by sicknesi since
yesterdav. It is said that an agreement
settling the matter has been reached by
friends of the parties, but its terms have
not been given out.
Last of the Encampment.
Brunswick, Ga., June 23.— Gov. Gor
don. daughter and part of his staff returned
home to-day. All tne visiting military
have gone, and the encampment grounds
are deserted.
French Political Meetings.
Paris, June 23.—Rival meetigs were held
at Beziera to-day by the supporters of the
government and the friends of Gen.
Boulanger. After the meetings the two
parties came into collision and had a hand
to hand fight. M. Deroulede, who was
with the Boulangists, was arrested.
English Mills Burned.
London, June 23.—A portion of the Man
nlngnam mills at B adford was burned to
day. The loss is £50,000. Two firemen
were killed by falling debris and several in
jured.
Persistence—l m sorry, but the editor can
not talk to any one to-day.
Author—Oh, that's no matter. I will do all
the talking myself.— FUeuende Blatter,
MIGHT OF THE GOSPEL
SCIENTIFIC BCOFFING EASY TO
KNOCK OUT.
The Time Past When Christians Need
Fear the Results of Scientific Ex
plorers Who Seek to Discredit the
Stories of the Bible—The Weapons of
Unbelievers Turned Against Them
selves.
Brooklyn, June 23.—The Rev. T. De-
TYitt Talmage, D. D., preached at tho
Tabernacle this evening ou “The Mightiest
Weapon Is the Gospel.” His text was I
Samuel xxi. 9: “There is none like that;
give it me.” The preacher said:
David fled from his pursuers. The world
runs very fast when it is chasing a good
man. The country is trring to catch
David, and to tlay him. David goes into
the house of a priest, and asks him for a
sword or spear with which to defend himself.
The priest, not being accustomed to use
deadly weapons, tells David that he cannot
supply him; but suddenly the priest
thinks of an old Sword that had been car -
fully wrapped up and laid away—the very
sword that Goljath formerly used—and he
takes down that sword, and while he is un
wrapping the sharp, glittering, memorable
blade, it flishes upon David's mind that
this was the very sword that was used
against himself when he was in the fight
with Goliath, and David can hardly keep
his hand off it until the priest has unwound
it. David stretches out his i and toward
that old sword, and says: “There is none
like tbat; give it me.” In other words, “I
want in my own hand the sword that has
been used against me, and against the cause
of God." So it was given him. Well, my
friends, thut is not the first or the last
sword once used by giant and Philistine
iniquity which is to come into the posses
sion > f Jesus Christ, and of his glorious
church. I want, as well as God may help
me, to show you that many a weapon which
has been used against ihe armies of God is
yet to be captured and used on our side;
and I only imitate David when I stretch out
my hand toward the blade of the Philistine
and cry: “There is none like that; give it
me 1”
I remark, first, that this Is true in regard
to all scientific exploration. You know
that the first discoveries in astronomy and
geology and chronology were used to battle
Christianity. Worldly philosophy came
out of its laboratory and out of its observa
tory', and said: “Now, we will prove by the
very structure of the earth, and by the
movement of the heavenly bodios, that the
Bi la is a lie and that Christianity, as we
have it among inen, is a positive imposi
tion.” Good men treinblea. The telescope,
the Leyden jars, the electric batteries, all
iu the hands of the Philistines. But one
day, christiauity, looking about for
some weapon with which to defend
itself, happened to see the very
old sword that these atheistic Philistines
had been using against the truth aud cried
out: “There is none like that; give it me!”
And Copernicus, aud Galileo, and Kepler,
and Isaac Newton came forth and told the
world that, in their ransacking of the earth
and heaven, thev liad found overwhelming
presence of the God whom wo worship; and
this old Bible began to shake itself from the
Koran, and Shuster, and Zondavoster with
which it had been covered up, and lay on
the desk of the scholar, and in the labora
tory of the chemist, and in the lap of the
Christian, unharmed and unanswered, while
the towers of trie midnight heavons struck
a silvery chime iu its praise.
Worldly philosophy said: “Matter is
eternal. The world always was. God did
not make it.” Christian pnilosophy plunges
its crowbar into rocks, and finds that the
world was gradually made, and if gradu
ally made, there must have been some
point at which the process started; then,
who started it* and so that objection was
overcome, aud in the first three words of
tho bible wo find tbat Moses stated a mag
nificent truth when he said: “In the be
ginning."
Worldly philosophy said: “Your Bible is
a most inaccurate book; all that story in
tlie Old Testament, again and again told,
about the army of tho locusts—it is prepos
terous. There is nothing in the coning of
the locu ts like an army. An army wolki
locusts fly. An army goes in order and
procession, locust, without order.” “Wait!"
said Christian philosophy ; and in 1868, iu
the southwestern part of this country,
Christian men went out to examine the
inarch of tho locust. There are men right
before n.e who must have noticed
in that very part of the country
the coming up of the locust
like an army; and it was found that all tho
uewspapors unwittingly spoke of them as
an army. Why? Tuey seem to have a
commander. They march like a host. They
halt like a host. No arrow ever went with
straighter flight than the locusts come—not
oven turning aside for the wind. If the
wind rises, tne locusts drop aud then rise
again after it has gone down, taking tho
same line of march, not varying a foot.
The old Bible right every dme when it
speaks of locusts coming like an army;
worldly philosophy wrong.
Worldly philosophy said: “All that story
about the light ‘turned as clay to the seal’
is simply au absurdity.” Old time worldly
philosophy said: "Tho light comes
straight.” Christian philosophy said:
“Wait a little wnile,” and it goes on and
makes discoveries, and Audi that the
atmosphere curves and bends the rays of
light around the earth, literally “as tho
clay to tho seal.” The Bible right again:
worldly philosophy wrong again. “Ah,”
says worldly philosophy, “all that iliusio’n
in Job about the foundations of the earth
is simply an abiurdity. ‘Where wasc
thou,’ says God, ‘when I set the
foundati ms of the eirth? 1 The earth
has no foundations.” Christian phi
losophy comes and finds that the word as
translated “foundation” may be better
translated “sockets.” Ho now see bow it
will read if it is translated right: “Where
wast thou when I set the sockets of the
eartli ?” Where is the socket * it is the hol
low of God’s hand—a socket largo enough
for any world to turn in.
Worldly philosophy said: “What an ab
surd story about Joshua making the sun
and moon stand still. If the world had
stopped an instant, the whole universe
would have been out of gar.” “Stop,”
sail Christian philosophy, “not quite so
quick.” The world has two moti >us —one
on its own axis, the other round the sun.
It was not necessary in making them
stand still that both motions should be
stopped only the one turning the
world on its own axis. T ere was no
reason why the halting of the earth
should have jarred and disarranged
the whole universe. Joshua right and God
right; infidelity wrong every time. 1 know
it would be wrong. 1 thank G. and that the
time has come when Christians need not lie
scared at any scientific exploration. The
fact is that religion and science have struck
hand in eternal friendship, and tne deeper
down geology can dig anti the higher up as
tronomy cau soar, all the better for us. The
armies of the Lord Jesus Christ have
stormed the observatories of the world's
science, and from the highest towers have
flung out the banner of the cross, and
Christianity to-night, from the observ
atories of Albany and W ashingtou,
stretches out its hand toward the opposing
j scientific weapon, crying: “There i* none
like that; give it me!” I was reading this
afternoon of Herschel, who was looking at
a meteor through a telescope, and when it
came over the face of the telescope it was
so powerful that he had to avert his eves.
Aud it has been just so that many an as
tronomer has gone into an observatory aud
looked up into the midnight heavens, and
the Lord God has, through some swinging
world, flamed upon his vision, and the
learned man cried out: “Who am It Un
done! Unclean! Have mercy. Lord God."
Again, I remark, that the traveling dis
position of the world, which was averse to
morals and religion, is to be broug t on
our side. Tiie man that went down to Jeri
cho and fell amidst thieves was a typo of a
great many travelers. There is many a
mail who is very hmeet at homo who, when
he is ab oad, has his liouor filched and his
good fiabits stolen. There are but very few
men who can stand the stress of an expedi
tion. Hix weeks at a watering place has
damned many a man. In the
olden times God forbade the travel
ing of men for the purposes of trade
because of the corrupting in ilium cos
attending it. A good many mu
now cannot stand the transition from one
place to another. Home men who seem to
be very consistent at home in the way of
keeping the Sabbath, when they get into
Spain, on the Lord's day always go out to
see the bull fights. Plato said that no citf
ought to be built nearer to the sea than ten
miles, lest it be tempted to commerce. But
this travelin { disposition of the world,
which was adverse to that which is good, is
to b < brought on our side. These rad trains,
why, they are to take our Bibles; these
steamshi|)s, they aro to trans
port our missionaries; these sailors,
rushing from city to city all
around the world, are to bo converted into
Christian heralds and go out and preach
Christ among the heathen nations. The
gospels are infinitely multiplied in beauty
and power sine? Robinson, and Thompson,
aud Burckhardt have come back and talked
to us about Biloam, and Capornaum, and
Jerusalem, p unting out to us the lilies
about which Jesus preached, the beach upon
which Paul was shipwrecked, the fords at
which Jordan was passed, the Red sea bank
on which were tossed the carcasses of the
drowned Egyptians. A man said: “I went
to the Holy Lad an infidel; I came back a
Christian. I c mid nothelp it.”
I am not shocked at the idea of building a
railroad to the Holy Land. I wish that all
the wr.rld might go and see Golgotha and
Bethlehem. If wo cannot afford to nay for
muleteers now, perhaps when the rail train
goes wo can atford to buy a ticket from
Constantinople to Joppa, and so wo will get
to see the Holy Land. Then let Christians
travel! Clod speod the rail trains, and guide
the steamships this night panting across the
deep in the phosphorescent wuko of the
shining feet of him who from wave cliff to
wave cliff trod the stormed Tiberias. The
Japanese come across the water and see our
civilization, and examine our Christianity,
and go back and tell the story, aud keep
that empire rocking until Jesus shall reign.
Where’er the sun
Does his successive journeys run.
SJAnd the firearms, with which the Infidel
traveler brought down the Arab horseman
and the jackals of the desert, have been
surrendered to the churoh, and wo reach
forth our hands, crying: “There is none
like that; give it me I”
So It has also been with the learning and
the eloquence of the world. People say:
“Religion is very good for women, it i-Ivory
good tor children, but not for meu.” But
we have in the roll of Christ's host Mozart
and Handel in music; Ganova and Angelo
in sculpture; Raphael and Reynolds in
painting; Harvey and Boerhaave in medi
cine; Cow per aud Soott in poetry; Crotius
and Burke in statesmanship; Boyle and
Leibnitz in philosophy; Thomas Chalmers
and John Mason in theology. The most
brilliant writings of a worldly nature are,
all aglow with scriptural allusions. Through
senatorial speech and through essayist’s
discourse Sinai thunders and Calvary
pleads and Siloam sparkles.
Samuel L. Southard was mighty in the
court room and in the Senate chamber, but
he reserved his strongest eloquence for that
day when he stood before the literary socie
ties at Princeton commencement and
plead and for the grandeur of our Bible. Dan
iel Webstor won not his chief garlands wuilo
he was consuming Hayne, nor when lie
opened the batteries of hiH eloquence on
Bu her Hill, that. rocking Sinai of the
American revolution, but on that day when,
in the famous Gi ard will case, he showed
his affection for the Christian religion and
eulogized the Bible. The eloquence and the
learning that have been on the other side
c une over to our side. Where is Gibbni’s
historical pen? Where is Robespierre’s
sword? Captured for God. “There is
none like that; give it me!”
So, also, has it been with the picture
making of the world. We are very anx
ious on this day to have the printing press
and the platform on the sid) of Christian
ity; but we overlook the engraver’s knife
and the painter’s pencil. The antiquarian
goes and looks at pictured ruins, or ex
amines the chiseled pillars of Thebes, and
Niuovah, and Potnpeii, and then comes
back to toll us of the beastliness of
ancient art; and it is a fact now, that
many of the finest specimens merely
artistically considered—of sculpture and
painting that are to bo found amidst those
ruins are not fit to be looked at and they
are locked up. How Paul must have felt,
when,standing amidst those Impurities that
stared on him from the walls and the pave
rnonts and the bazars of Corinth, lie
preached of the pure and holy Jesus. The
art of tho world on the side of obsoenity
and crime and death.
In later days the palaces of kings Jwere
adorned with pictures. But what to un
clean Henry VIII. was a beautiful picture
of the Madonna? What to Ivrd Jefferies,
tho unjust judge, the picture of the “List
Judgment?" What to Hero the unwashed,
a picture of the baptism in Jordan? The
art of tho world still on the side of supersti
tion and death. But that is being change 1
now. The Christian artist goes across the
water,loois of tne pict ires and brings back
to his American studio much of trie power to
those old masters. The Christian minister
goes over to Venice, looks at the “Cruci
fixion of Christ,” and comes back to bis
American pulpit to talk as never before of
the sufferings of the Saviour. The private
tourist goes to R me and looks at Raphael’s
picture of the “Last Judgment.” The tears
start, aud he goes back to his room in the
hotel, and prays Ood for preparation for
that day wnen
Shriveling like a parched schroll.
The flaming heavens together roll.
Our Sumlay school newspapers and walls
are adorned with pictures of Joseph in the
court, Daniel in the den, Sbadraoh in the
fire, Paul in the shiowreck, Christ on the
cross. Oh that we might, in our fa uilius,
think more of the power of Christian
pictures! One little sketch of Samuel
kneeling in pra/er will mean more to your
children than twenty sermons on devotion.
One patient face of Cnrist by the hand of
the artist will be more to your child than
fifty sermons on forbearance. The art of
the world is to be t ikon for Christ. What
his become of Thorwaldsen’s chisel and
Ghirlandaio’s crayon? Captured for the
truth. “There is none like that: give it
me!"
So, I remark, It is with business acumen
and tact. When Christ was upon earth, the
people that followed him,for tho most part,
had uo social position. There was but one
man naturally brilliant in ail the apostle
ship. Joseph of Arimathea. the rich man,
risked nothing when he offered a hole in
the rock for the dead Christ. How inanv
of the merchants in Asia Minor befriended
Jesus? I think only one, Lydia. How
many of the castles on tho bech
of Gable© entertained Christ? Not
one. When Peter came to Joppa he
stopped with ouo Simon, a tanner.
" hat power had Christ's name on tho
Roman exchange, or in the bazars of
Corinth? None. Tho prominent men of
the day did not want to risk their reputa
tion for sanity nv protending to tie one of
his followers! Now that is all changed.
Among the mightiest men in our groat cities
to-day are the Christian merchants and the
Christian bankers; and if to-morrow, at tho
hoard of trade, any man should got up and
malign the name of Jesus, he would
bo quickly silenced or put out. In
the front rank of all our Christian
workers to-day aro the Christian mer
chants; and the enterprises of tho world are
coming on the right side. There was a
farm willed away soino years ago, all the
proceeds of that farm to go for spreading
infidel books. Somehow matters have
changed, and now all the proceeds of that
farm go toward the missionary cause. One
of tho finest printing presses ever built was
built for tho express purpose of publishing
intidel tracts and books. Now itd >es nothing
but print Holy Bibles. I believe that the
time will como when, in commercial
circles, tho voice of Christ will tie the
mightiest of all voices, and the shins of
Tarshish will bring presents, and tho Queen
of Shelia her glory, and the wise men of
the east their myrrh and fraukince iso. I
look off upon the business me i of eur cities,
and rejoice at the prospect that their tact
and iugenuity ami talent will, after n
while, all be brought into the service of
Christ. It will be one of the mightiest of
weapons. “There is none like that; give
it me!"
Now, if wliat I have said be true, away
with all downhonrteduess! If scieuce is to
be on the right side, and tho traveling dis
position of tho world ou tho right side, and
tlio learning of tho world on the right side,
aud the business acumen and tact of the
world on the right tide—thiue, O Lord, is
tho kingdom 1 Oh, tall into line, all ye
people 1 it is a grand tiling to be in such an
nriuv, and led by such u commander, and
on tiie way to such a victory. If what I
have said is true, then Christ is going to
gather up for himself out of this world ev
erything that is worth anything, and there
will bo nothing hut tiie scum left. A proc
lamation of amnesty goos forth now from
tiie throuoof Gixl.sayiug: "Whotoover will,
let him come.” However long you may
liavo wandered, however great your sins
may have been, “whosoever will, let
him ounio." Oh, that I could marshal
all this audience on the side of Christ.
He is the best friend a mail ever bad. He
is so kind—ho is so lovely, so sympathetic.
I cannot see how you can stay away from
him. Como now ami accent his mercy.
Behold him as lie Btretchos out tho arms of
his salvation, saying: “Look unto me, all
ye ends of tho earth, and be yo suved; for 1
am God.” Make filial choice now. You
will either be willows planted by the water
courses or the clmff which tho wind driveth
away,
ANOTHER MAMMOTH GAVE.
An Ohio Cavern That Rivals That of
Kentucky In Size and Wonderful Fea
tures.
Findlay, June 17. — A rival to the groat
Mammoth cave has at last been discovered.
Henry Griendle, living on the Limestouo
ridge, over the line in Wyandot county,
was plowing, when one of his horses
broke through tho earth into a deep hole.
It was rescued from its position with great
difficulty. Upon examining tho spot,
Griendle found a largo hole, leading per
pendicularly down into the earth. He
dropped In a stone, anil heard It rumble and
rattle in its downward course till the sound
died away in tho distance.
Sensational reports of this discovery
reached this city, and an exploring party
was made up and drove over to tho ridge to
ascertain what was at the bottom of the
story and the hole. Tho party consisted of
half a dozen well-known gentlemen, who
were provided with ropes, lights, fireworks,
etc., to inako a thorough exploration. Hav
ing fixed everything in readiness for tho
descent, tiie question uroso as to who should
first go down. The men looked into the
dark mysterious hole, mentally made a cal
culation as to the probability of finding a
nest of rattlesnakes at tho bottom, and each
one was perfectly satisfied to let several of
tho others go down first.
Finally one of the party summoned up
sufficient courage, and volunteered to make
the descent alone. As he was loworod down,
down, down, the light of his lantern could
be seen growing faintur anil smaller until a
tiny speck was visible. After letting out
tho rope about 100 feet, a faint, muffle i
whisper announced that he hail found solid
bottom. The reporter wont down next,
and, finally, the whole party found itself
at the bottom of the shaft.
The hole descends through limestone rock
all tho way down, and varies in diameter
from 3to 30 feet. The bottom is dry rock,
and place proved to be a capacious
cavern. The place where the landing was
made was estimated to be 00 feet in width,
and while the ceiling at that point was low,
it gradually rose like a dome to the h ghtof
fully 50 foot. Tho floor was very uneven.
Tho party had not gone a quarter of a mile
whou they were suddenly confronted by a
yawning chasm, 10 feet in width and of an
unknown depth. Beyond this impassable
cleft they could see the roof glltteriug in
the light of their lanterns.
Several roman candles were fired into the
space, but tho side walls could not bo soen,
so that there is uo telling now how far the
cave extends in that direction. Tne fire
works revealed numerous stalactites and
stalagmites of beautiful formation, whose
rnarble-like whiteness glistened anil shone
resplendent in vari-oolored lights. The roof
sparkled with a frost-like incrust ttion
which ruff -cted the light from a myriad of
shining points as though tho whole dome
were set In diamonds.
Retracing their steps for some distance,
the party found to the right a small open
ing at tho top of the steep ascent, aod en
tering it, were obliged to crawl on hands
and knees for a distance of perhapi ton
yards. Then the cavern suddenly opened
into another mammoth chamber, appar
ently much larger than the first one, and
poasessing more stalactite formations. At
a great distance from the entrance they
came upon a lake of pure, cold water, as
clear as crystal and of unfathomable depth.
Holding the light to the water, a shi ling
penny was droppe i in and its gradual de
scent watched until it had fallen apparently
fifty feet, when all trace of it was lost.
The water of the lake was perfectly still
and dead, there being no current, and no
signs of fish or animal life were visible. A
few shells were picked up on the shore of
the lake, and, being again shut off from
further advance, the party retraced their
steps. Openings were seen in other direc
tions, as if the cavern extended its wings
still farther, but the fear of losing their way
and of the oil in the lanterns giving out pre
vented further explorations at present. It
is proposed at, some time in the near future
to make further examination, going pro
vided with boats, ladders, planks, etc., that
the lakes aud chasms may not stop the
way.
I DAILY. SlO A YEAR, I
< 5 CENTS A COPY. I
f WEEKLY, !.*> A YEAR f
WANT AFTER THE FLOOD.
TWENTY-FIVE THOUSAND FED BY
THE STATE LAST WEEK.
The Number 3,500 Loss Than Was Fed
During the Previous Week A
Recommendation That the People Be
Furnished Money and Make Their
Own Purchases—No Danger of an
Epidemic.
Johnston, Pa., June 23.-The surgeon
general of the state, L. R. Iteed, arrived
here this morning, and in company with
Surgeon Foster, of the Fourteenth regi
ment, made a complete inspection of the
devastated city. In his report to Gen.
Hastings, the surgeon general says: “I
have been unable to discover anything
likely to produce a serious epidemic other
than the tents and surroundings of the
workmen. The refuse tint has been used and
is now accumulated in the vicinity of their
tents is calculated to produce an epidemio
of measles. This refuse has in consequence
been ordered burnt and in future tho tent*
will bo well aired.
WORK OF Tint COMMISSARIES.
The weekly report of Col. Spangler, who
Is in charge of the commissary department,
shows that 25,000 people are still being daily
fd by the state, a diminution during tiie
wmk of 3,500. He recommend* that the
relief money bo turned over to the citizens
nml that the necossary supplies be
purchased from tho sixteen general
stores and three bakeries now running
here.
A list prepared by Town Clerk Pfarr of
Cambria borough shows that in that place
alone 335 houses have been entirely swept
away. r
The bodies of two women, a oliild and a
Chinaman wore found to-day.
AUBTRIA WANTS PEACE.
The Emperor Says the Situation la
Unchanged.
Vienna, Juno 23.—Emperor Franel*
Josoph, in receiving a delegation yesterday,
said that Austria’s foreign relations and gen
eral foreign polioy were unchanged, and that
she was in full ngreetneut with her
alhus. Tho govorment, he said, was
doing Its utmost to insure a peace
ful development of the European
situation, which was still unsafe.
He hoped peace would bo maintained,
notwithstanding that nrmaments were
everywhere boing increased. The Emperor
said the government had received from the
regents of Hervia formal assurances that
friendly relations with Austria would be
maintained. He continued, “1 wish the
same aud hope that tho wisdom and patri
otism of the Servians will protect
Hervia from serious dangers, and rejoice
that order and peace reign in Bulgaria and
nm pleased at tier continual progress in
spite of her difficult situation. The em
peror closed by saving that the special
credits asked would be devoted to strength
ening the army.
BLOODY BHIRT CHANDLER’S EAR.
Chandler Tells How It Wasn’t Pulled,
and How Calm and Collected He
Was.
Concord, N. H., Juno 20.—Senator Will
iam E. Chandler to-day issued to the republi
cans of New Hampshire, over bis own sig
nature, tho following statement regarding
his quarrel with Senator Blnokburn in
February last:
“Mr. Hulloway, during his characteristic
speech at the caucus, saw fit to refer to the
affair between Senator Blackburn and my
self, which happened in the room of the
committee on ludiau affairs of th United
States Senate on Feb, 22 last. Hi long as
misrepresentations concerning this affair
only served us material for assaults upon me
by democrat newspapers. I have not cared to
notice them. But since they have been repro
duced in the republican legislative caucus
wbicli has nomiuated me for senator, I taka
occasion to dispose of them. The republi
cans present have never given to the
press uuy statement of what actually took
place.
“The committee was in session, no person
being present except the five members and
the clerk. As chairman I was reading the
draft of a report. Henator Faulkner re
marked that he thought I undertook In a
certain paragraph to assert something
which it had boon mutually agreed should
not be claimed. 1 said that 1 did not think
so, and that 1 would read the clause again.
Mr. Blackburn vehemently Intervened and
said that I was certainly violating the un
derstanding, and that it would so appear if
1 would read the paragraph again, and read
it exactly as I did i.efore. I asked him what
reason he tiad for intimating that I would
falsely road tho paragraph. He replied that
he thought so because it would be like my
wuole action in the case, and that he con
sidered mo capable of doing anything to
serve a partisan purpose. Tnen ensued an
angry colloquy, which I cannot undertake
to reproduce with accuracy. I said that!
resented Jins imputation, and he replied
defiantly. At some point hemadea charge
against iny official integrity, and I made
most bitter imputations u;>on him. Ido
not remember tne order of sequence. Then
bo, making some threat of personal violence
(I do not recall the words), started around
Henator Faulkner, who was beside him. to
ward the end of the table where I sat with
Henator Culloin at my right. I said that
he did not dare do what he had threatened.
As he came around toward me Mr. Faulk
ner interposed, and Mr. Culiorn rose and
moved toward and placed his hands on Mr.
Blackburn, who at once stopped aud shortly
resumed his seat, and Mr. Faulkner asked
me to go on reading tho report. I said that
before doing so it must be decided whether
the business was to bo again interrupted in
the same way. Mr. Blackburn, after some
talk, said that he would not say one word
more during the session of tho committee,
and that ho would apologize to Messrs.
Culloin and Plat t and to Mr. Faulkner, but
not to me. The reading of the report by
me then proceeded.
“The whole affair occupied hardly mor
than a minute. I remained seated iu my
chair. I expected no pergonal violence and
was subjected to none and to no appreciable
indignity save threatening words and ges
tures. 1 do not think that I was in the
slightest degree excited, disturbed or appre
hensive. All accounts which represent Mr.
Blackburn as pulling my ear, or dragging
me from my chair, or bauliog me
unresstiug about the room or
represent me as begging protec
tion of the committee or as in any way
deprecating Mr. Blackburn’s wrath, are
uutrue. Tbe ebullition was more ludiorcus
taan dangerous. Of course, I understand
very well that some democrats wish to in
timidate me, and, failing in that, to de
grade me. To do this, it will be necessary
for them to adopt some more effective plan
than that developed in the committee rcorn
lon Feb. 22, or the next day, and thereafter
in the democratic newspapers, which gave
ficiiitous accounts of what had taken
place"
