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gales cost many lives.
the wind still furious all
along THE BRITISH COAST.
Great Damage Done to the Town and
Small Craft At Queenstown—Two of
the Bark Janet Crown’s Crew
Washed Overboard—Three Seamen
Blown From the Rigging of a
Steamer.
London, Jan. 26.—Gales continued with
increasing strength and velocity iu the
southern portion of England throughout
to-day.
The bark Janet Crown has returned to
Plymouth. She reports two of her crew
washed overboard and drowned, Many
were injured.
The steamer Yorkshire, at Liverpool, from
Baltimore, was flooded, had her bridgos de
stroyed and sustained other damage. Three
seamen were blown from the rigging and
two of them were drowned.
A STRAIT IMPASSABLE.
Menai Strait in Wales Is impassable by
the fury of the gales. Many sailors have
been swept overboard and drowned. The
parade at Sandgate is partially destroyed.
The ship Irex, bound from Greenock for
Bio Janeiro, was wrecked off the Needles.
Several of the crew were drowned.
The survivors clung to the rigging
all day Saturday and part
of Sunday. It was impossible to send a
lifeboat to the rescue, as no boat could live
in the turbulent sea, but a life-line was
iinaliy shot across the vessel by meaus of a
rocket, and in this way the men were safely
landed.
Capt. Mick an of the Cunard steamer
Umbria, from New York, reports that the
passage was the roughest that vessel has
ever experienced. Several passengers were
injured by being thrown violently upon the
decks, and it was finally found necessary to
issue an "order prohibiting passengers from
coming on deck.
The damage to property by the storm is
general. Housos have been unroofed.
The river Shannon iu Ireland and a
number of rivers in Wales have overflowed
their banks, flooding the adjacent country.
DAMAGE AT QUEENSTOWN.
Queenstown, Jan. 2G. —A westerly hur
ricane now prevailing is of unprecedented
severity. The sea has caused much damage
to the town. A number of small craft have
been swamped. Outward-bound line
steamers report fearful weather. Ii the
Irish channel the bark Sidalwa encount
ered hurricanes for ten days, and lost her
first mate by drowning.
A SUCCESSION OF GALES.
Boston, Jan. 26. —The steamer Howick,
from Messina, arrived in this port to-day.
She reports that from the 22d until reach
ing this port she experienced a succession of
t errific gales from southwest to northwest,
accompanied by mountainous seas. On the
morning of Jan. 22, when in latitude 38°
15' north and lougtitude 62° 62' west, a
heavy, gale sprang up from the
northwest acoompauied by a very
rough sea, during which the
steamer had her decks continually
flooded with water. During the nieht it
blew a perfect hurricane, with a fearful sea
running. The waves carried away the
uppor bridge, broke the lower bridge rails,
washed away the ventilators and swept
everything movable from the decks. The
engine room skylight was broken in, and
two men at the wheel wore thrown to the
deck with great force, but were not injured.
Tney managed to got to the wheel oil
their hands and knees in time to
save themselves from being washed
overboard and save the ship from falling
off in the trough of the sea. The gale con
tinued with unabated fury until morn
ing of the 23d. At 1 o’clock on the morning
of the 23d a tremendous sea came over the
stern, which literally shattered the cabin
skylight aud flooded the cabin and berths.
A POLISH CHURCH IN UPROAR.
The Congregation objects to a Change
of Priests.
Buffalo, N. Y., Jan. 26.—A disturbance
took place at St. Adelbert’s church to-day
which amounted nearly to a riot and blood
shed. The church members are Poles whose
priest, Father Klawiter, recently was re
moved by Bishop Ryan and transferred to
Dunkirk, and the Dunkirk priest, Father
Pawler, brought here. The Poles repudiated
Father Pawler, held an indignation meet
ing, and last week sent a delegation to the
pope bearing an indignant protect against
the setting up on them of a priest not of
their nationality and whom they dislike.
LOCKED UP THE CHURCH.
They oven w6nt so far as to lock up the
church, which they claim as their own
property, and to sack the school house and
sacerdotal residence of all their furniture
and fittings and store them in the church
pending the pope’s decision. To-day Father
Pawler attempted to hold divine service in
the school house, not being able
to obtain ingress to the church, and
a few of the Poles entered the house with
him. Immediately an infuriated crowd
gathered outside and ordered the Pawlerists
out.
IN DANGER OF DEATH.
All came except three men, whereat a
large number of those outside rushed into
the church and dragged two of them uncere
moniously out. The other one went out of
tne back room door, and, thinking he was
going to be murdered, rau away. Father
Pawler then arrived at the conclusion that
it would not be safe for him to go ahead
■with his devotions, so he left the scene of
action, escorted by a squad of men.
A BANKER FOUND DROWNED.
Uncertainty Whether It Wa3 Acci
dent or Suicide.
Philadelphia, Pa., Jan. 26.—The mys
tery surrounding the disappearance of
Banker Joseph G. Ditman, who was last
seen alive on Dec. 11 last, was cleared up
to-day by the finding of bis decomposed
and swollen bodv floating in the Schuylkill
river.
There were no marks of violence discern
ible on the body, and whether it is a case of
accident or suicide will probably never be
known. A the time of his disappearance
Mr. Ditmau was president of the Quaker
City National Bank, a newly organized
concern. He was also a large shareholder
of the W. AV. Shaw Music Publishing Com
pany.
UNION IPACIFfc: TRACKS CLEAR.
Snow-Slides Now the Only Danger
Threatening the Line.
Portland, Ore., Jan. 20. —The blockade
on the Union Pacific road is again virtually
raised. East-bound trains started from La
Grange yesterday afternoon. A snow-plow
will reach Baker City to-day, and four de
layed trains will then start for Portland.,
, expect to got through on time. A
chinook” irf blowing, and the snow is melt
mg rapidly. Superintendent Johnson says
Union Pacific road has no fear of land
slides or w ashouts, and, barring snow-slides,
no fear is felt of further interruption on
the line. Owing to the wires being down
there is no news from the blockade on the
on the Southern Pacific.
Wo* Jtoninjj
FIRED AT A BISHOP.
A Crazy Man Tries to Shoot a Prelate
In Hia Pulpit.
Philadelphia, Jan. 26.—During con
firmation services at St. John’s Episcopal
church, at the corner of St. John and Brown
streets, in this city this evening, the congre
gation was startled by the actions of an
apparently demented young man, who arose
from his seat in the church, and, pointing a
revolver at Bishop Whitaker, who was
taking part in the service, fired a shot at
him.
NO HARM DONE.
Immediately there was great confusion,
but it was quickly seen that no harm had
resulted from # the shot. An officer was
hastily summoned and the (♦ouM-b i mur
derer was taken into custody. At the
station house be gave his name as David
Alexander, and his residence as No. 1330
Parrish street. Philadelphia. He told a
rambling story about a letter he had
received which induced him to make the
attempt upon the venerable bishop’s life.
Alexander was locked up pending an
investigation of the matter.
CRACKED ON PROHIBITION.
At the station house Alexander, who is a
well-dressed young man about 30 years old,
and apparently of good education, stated
that until a week ago he was employed in
the mailing department of Straworidge
& Clothier’s dry goods house. Ho is aa
ardent prohibitionist, and Bishop Whita
ker’s attitude on the liquor question having
displeased him, he resolved to kill him.
He resigned his position in order that his
act might not tiring disgrace upon the store.
CALLS THE BISHOP A HYPOCRITE.
He says that Bishop Whitakor is a vile
hypocrite, and a favorer of the rum sellers,
and after hearing him preach a sermon last
April, before the prohibition campaign in
this state, in which the bishop said every
mail must vote according to his own con
science, he entered into correspondence with
the bishop, the result of which was to con
vince him that the reverend gentleman was
an enemy of the cause of prohibition, aud
should bo removed. He has been waiting
for a cha ice to get at the bishop, and learn
ing that he was to take part in the services
at St. John's church to-night he went there
determined to kill him.
PICKING OUT HIS SEAT.
He requested an usher to seat him in the
gallery, but the gallery being closed, he
asked to be seated near the chancel, which
request was complied with. The prisoner
stated that ho ha i determined to also re
move Rev S. D. McConnell, pastor of St.
Stephens’ Episcopal church on Tenth street,
above Chestnut, whose attitude on the
liquor question was distasteful to him. It
is evident that Alexander’s reason has be
come unsettled on account of excitement
produced by his religious and political be
liefs.
WILLING TO HANG.
While being questioned at the station
house the prisoner’s responses were given in
a straightforward manner, and he ex
pressed disappointment that his shot had
failed to strike the bishop. When asked if
ho realized what the consequences would
have been to him had he killed the bishop,
he replied, “Yes. I would be hanged; but
I would go to the gallows gladly
for the sake of my church.” The
revolver used was of twenty-two caliber,
one chamber of which was found to be
empty. A watch was found on the person
of the prisoner, on the cap of which was
engraved a statement to the effect that it
was the first prize presented in 1882 to
David Alexander, a boy chorister of the
Episcopal church iu this city.
FLORIDA’S CAPITAL.
Cars Burned by an Incendiary—Bp
person’s Murderer in Jail.
Tallahassee, Fla., Jan. 26. —Seven box
and one flat car belonging to the Louisville
and Nashville and Savannah, Florida and
Western roads, sidetracked on the St.
Marks branch, half a mile west of the
depot, was burned last night. The fire was
of incendia-y origin.
The murderer of Sheriff Epperson of
Bradford county was brought here to-day
for safe keeping.
Mrs. Mclntosh, wife of W. N. Mclntosh,
Jr., secretary of the bo ird of internal
improvement fund, died this afternoon of
heart disease.
TAMMANY AND THIS GRAD 7 FUND.
The Treasurer of the Atlanta Com
mittee Sends Acknowledgements.
New York, Jan. 26. —John J. Gorman,
treasurer of the Tammany general commit
tee, received a dispatch to-day from Cbas.
8. Worthen of Atlanta, treasurer of the
Grady monument committee, which reads
as follows: "The people of Atlanta and the
south generally will fully appreciate your
generous contribution and gladly share with
you the pleasure of perpetuating the mem
ory of him whose every motive in life was
prompted by iove for his fellow-man. Please
send tho check to J. A. Hammond, treas
urer, Atlanta.” This refers to the subscrip
tion of SSOO to the fund by the Tammany
organization at its meeting last Friday.
MOST IN HI3 CAGE.
Ho Expects His Friends to Secure His
Release To-Day.
New York, Jan. 26.—Anarchist Johann
Most was a discomfited looking man when
he peeped through the bars of his cell in the
Tombs prison this morning. After break
fast time he brightened up considerably,
read pamphlets and said he was quite
pieased with his situation. “All martyrs
must suffer, vou know,” he said. “I am
confident I will be liberated to-morrow,” he
added, “for I was not given time to see my
friends, who will get mo out of this dilll
culty.” The writ issued by Justice O’Brien
on Saturday to bring Most to court is re
turnable Tuesday.
DA FONBEOA DYING.
A Sensational Report Concerning the
Head of the New Republic.
Rio Janeiro, Jan. 26.—A government
decree establishes civil marriage.
A treaty lia3 been signed with the Argen
tine Republic which settles the protracted
dispute regarding the frontiers of the mis
sions territory.
FONSECA REPORTED DYING.
London, Jan. 27, 3 a. m.— Advices from
Montevideo, under date of Dec. 21, assert
tbat Gen. da Fonseca, head of the provis
ional government of Brazil, was dyirie
from angina pectoris in a hotel in the
suburbs of Rio Janeiro.
A Confederate Naval Officer Dead.
New Orleans, Jan. 26.—J. W. Reed,
captain of the board of harbor masters of
New Orleans, and a famous confederate
naval officer, died yesterday at Meridian,
Miss., of pneumonia. During the war he
commanded the confederate steamers Ar
kansas, Florida and AY ebb.
A Linen Warehouse Burned.
Belfast, Jan. 26.—Glendinning Mac
leich’s linen warehouse in this city has been
destroyed by fire. The loss is £30,000,
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, JANUARY 27, 1890.
WORK BEFORE CONGRESS
WHAT THE TWO HOUSB3 WILL
PROBABLY DO THIS WEEK.
A Formidable Array of Bills and Res
olutions On the Senate Calendar
Prospects of a Lively Fight to
Frevent Legislation In the House
Before Rules Are Adopted.
Washington, Jan. 26.—The indications
arc that the Senate will devote itself this
week to tho disposition of bills and resolu
tions on the calendar, which now present
themselves in formidable array, covering
fourteen printed page:. First in order
stands Mr. Morgan’s bill to further provide
for the disposal of public lands in Alabama,
ond by courtesy it will probably bo allowed
to retain its place until the author returns
to Washington.
The bill for the relief of the sufferers by
the wreck of the United States fleet at
Samoa will doubtless be acted upon early in
the week.
Otherwise the legislative proceedings
promise to be devoted mainly to privato
c aims and bills of local interest.
MEASURES WITHIN REACH.
There are several measures of general in
terest within reach, such as tho direct tax.
Blair educational bill, and that for the
amendment of the Mexican award conven
tion act of 1868. But as the Senate is now
acting only upon measures to which no
objection is made they are likely to be
passed over.
There is a possibility that Senator Call
will again bo heard from during the week,
respecting Florida swamp lands, and Sena
tor George may feel it incumbent upon him
to reply to Senator Ingalls’ criticism in his
speech last week upon the connection of his
sons with the swamp angels.
In secret session the nominations of Gen.
Morgan to be commissioner of Indian
affairs and Mr. Dorchester to be superin
tendent of Indian schools will doubtless be
considered and may cause prolonged debate,
as Senator Jones of Arkansas will load an
active opposition.
In the House.
The calling of a republican caucus for
Monday night is an indication that the
House committee on rulos will submit a now
cede of rules to the House early in the week
—possibly (if the caucus is harmonious)
Tuesday. Of course, tbe code will have to
be printed before being acted upon,
which would necessarily throw its
consideration over to the following day.
It has been announced, however, that the
committee on elections will on Wednesday
call up the case of Smith vs. Jackson, from
the Fourth district of West Virginia, and,
as tho democrats have declared their inten
tion to resist to the utmost consideration of
any election oase until the House has a
proper code of rules for its management, a
long wrangle may ensue.
NO BUSINESS PENDING.
There is no busiuess pending before the
' House, the Oklahoma town site bill and the
administrative customs bill having boen
disposed of, and, until the rules are adopted,
any measure which may be passed will be
through discretionary recognition by the
speaker of the members having them in
charge.
The contest over the site for the world’s
fair may be resumed incidentally in the
House if the committee on rules decides to
report favorably upon Mr. Hitt’s resolution
increasing the membership of the commit
tee having jurisdiction over the matter aud
proposing a method for the selection of the
location.
QUAY GOING TO FLORIDA.
He Will Remain Until He Can Sleep
Eight Hours a Day.
Washington, Jan. 26.—Senator Quay
left for Florida early this morning, accom
panied by Richard Quay and Ben Savy,
They will go directly through to Indian
Inlet and will spend the next month or
two out of doors fishing and hunting. Later
on they will go to Key West and the neigh
boring keys and possibly to Cuba. Sen
ator Quay does not propose to
think about the Senate or the offices,
or anything else except his enjoyment.
He is so worn out by the strain of the
oilico-seekers aud the politicians that he
cannot sleep and can hardly eat. “I will
not come back,” he said before leaving,
“until I cau sleep eight or ten hours at a
stretch.” In his absence his partner, Sena
tor Cameron, will look out for the Pennsyl
vania legislation and Pennsylvania office
seekers.
A TEMPLE TO MRS. HAYEB.
Washington Women Start a Move
ment for a Memorial.
Washington, Jan. 26. —Susan B. An
thony, Clara Barton, and other more or
less prominent women have organized the
Lucy Webb Hayes Temple Association to
erect a building here in memory of Mrs.
Hayes, to be called Lucy Webb Hayes
temple, with a drinking fountain and statue
of Mrs. Hayes in front, and busts aud por
traits of other groat women inside. Five
thousand charter members at $5 a member
are wanted to start it. Several hundred
prominent women have already joined.
CLERKS MUSTN’T DRINK BEER.
Harrlaon’e Administration Getting on
a Temperance Basis.
Washington, Jan. 23. —Some of the
male clerks in the departments arc com
plaining because they are being held to a
stricter accountability than under the
former administration for their drinking
habits at luncheon. Boer drinking, to say
nothing of liquor drinking, is distinctly
frowned upon. Although formal rules
have not been promulgated about it, they
feel restricted to soda water or milk, but
they will not resign.
Blaine’s Brother Better.
Washington, Jan. 26. —Secretary
Blaino’s brother Robert, who was so ill with
the grippe as to be the object of great so
licitude to the secretary, is convaleseeat.
He was a candidate for recorder of deeds of
the district, but will only get the office of
deputy first auditor.
A Boul&ngiat Split Imminent.
Paris, Jan. 26.— A split is threatened in
the ranks of tbe Boulangists. M.M.
Laur and Deroulede favor the adoption of
an anti-Semitic policy,while M. Naquetaad
others oppose such a course, and threaten
to resign if their views are not approved.
The committee will meet on Wednesday to
decide upon the policy.
Portugal’s King Better.
Lisbon, Jan. 26,—The king is much
better.
A meeting was held at Oporto to-day to
denouuoe England. The mayor presided.
Gen. Kadetzlcl Dead.
Odessa, Jan. 26.—Gen. Radetzki Is dead.
He whs one of the heroes of Suipka pass,
which was so gallantly held by the Russian*
against the Turks in 187 b,
IOWA’3 1 LEGISLATURE.
The Republicans Make a Proposition
to the Democrats.
Dks Moines, la., Jan. 25.—The House
met this morning at 10:30 o’clock and ad
journed till this afternoon to give the con
ference committees time to work. This
afternoon the House was called to order at
3 o’clock, and at once took a recess till 4
o’clock to consider the republican proposi
tion of conference committees and caucuses.
A proposition had been made this morning
as follows:
1. The democrats agree that at. no time from
the acceptance of this proposition to the final
adjournment of the iloust of the twenty-tbinl
general assembly, and at n<> time during tho
session of said House will sai.l democrat* pre
vent from voting, unseat or oiler any proposi
tion to unseat any one whose name appears ou
the list prepared by the seoretary of state of
lowa and now in use in the roll calls of this
body on account of objection to the apivor -
tlonment act of tho twenty-s-cond general as
sembly, creating districts from which the
members were elected.
2. Henry S, Wilcox shall be elected temporary
clerk, and L. D. Hotchkiss temporary speaker;
the republicans to have the temporary and
speaker pro tempore, and also the door keei>cr,
sergeant at-arms and assistant p ’Rfmaster: the
democrats to have two assistant door keepers,
and the necessary pages to be equally divided
between the two parties, said cilicers to hold
until a permanent organization is reached.
8. Said temporary clerk shall be instructed to
receive the certificates of election of each of
the persons claiming to be members of the
Twenty-third general assembly, aud make a roll
of the members by placing on said list the
names on tho list prepared by the Secretary of
State and now ip use in the roll call of tho
body.
4. A committee of five on credentials,consisting
of Messrs. Dobson, Hobbs and Coyle from the
the republicans, and Messrs. Hamilton and Estes
from the democrats, shall be appointed and the
committee be instructed to report as in'>mt>ers
the names of the [tersons entered on the roll by
said clerk as contemplated in the previous sec
tion as members of the Twenty-third general
assembly, each one of whom shall
be entitled to act and vote on
all questions until tbe permanent
organization shall be reached, and the iierma
nent speaker be elected, and that such persons
whose names appear on these lists shall be
sworn in as members of the twenty-third gen
eral assembly, and shall he members, of the
House thereof, until final adjournment, unless
unseated by the House in a regular contest for
cause, other than objection to the apportion
ment act of the tweuty-second general assem
bly, creating the districts from which the mem
bers were elected.
5. No objection or protest shall be made by
either party to any one whose name appears ou
sai l list of members voting on any question
until after said House is permanently organized
and a [lermanent speaker is elected.
6. All cases of contested seats now- pending, or
that may hereafter arise, shall hereafter be re
ferred to the proper committee, and none of
said contests shall be taken up and acted upon
by the House until reported by said committee.
7. After the temporary organization as here
inbefore provided has been reached, no other
business shall lie in order except the election of
a permanent speaker and business properly In
cident thereto, and at the proper time the elec
tion of a United States senator, hut not until a
permanent speaker shall be elected.
WORKED TILL THE LAST MINUTE.
The conference committee were at work
up to 3:25 o’clock, when party caucuses were
called. The democrats wanted to strike out
section 1, and substitute the; following;
“It is hereby stipulated and agreed by and
between the republican members of the
House and the opposition members thereto
that neither under the temporary organi
zation, or during the effecting of a
permanent organization of tho House
shall any question be raised to the |right of
any person whose name appears upon the
list of members as prepared by tho Secre
tary of State, and now in use in roll calls of
this body, to his seat and vote, and that im
mediately upon the perfecting of the per
manent organization of the House the
coininitteee on elections shall lie appointed,
composed of an equal number
of republicans and of the opposition
thereto, and that no case of the contested
election of a member shall be taken up
excepting upon the recommendation of the
members of said committee. It is further
stipulated and agreed that tho republicans
aud the opposition thereto shall be repre
sented upon said committee by members
selected by themselves respectively.” They
also insisted that section 2 of the repub
licans’ propoitiou be stricken out.
At 4 o’clock the House was called to order
again, and half an hour’s recess was taken
to let the conference committees work.
Nothing was done, however, in tho time
specified, so the House adjourned till 10:30
o’clock Monday morning.
CHICAGO’S SOCIALISTS.
They Put Themselves on Record
Against the Anarchists.
Chicago, Jan. 26. —At a meeting of so
cialists in Waverly hall to-day resolutions
wore adopted calling attention to the dec
laration of the socialist leader, Herr Bebel,
in the German Reichstag yesterday. The
statement of Herr Bebel was that the dis
appearance of anarchists from Germany is
due to the efforts of the socialists,
and that another than the gov
ernment had interested itself in
efforts to support the anarchist movement
for the purpose of confounding its acts and
declarations with socialism, and thus dis
crediting the latter, and that Herr Most’s
Freiheit was the product of secret police.
The resolutions concluded as follows:
We liejeby emphasize the necessity of the
socialists in the United States giving heed to
this declaration of the policy and principles of
German socialism; that in this conntrv the
dynamite agitation has no justification what
ever, aud Us advocates, tbe Musts and DeLums,
should be recognized aud treated as agents of
despotism and not as reformers; and antagon
ism between sociali-ra and their reactionary
agitation be kept as well defined and aggressive
as in Germany.
B’NAI BRITH IN SESSION.
The Grand Lodges of Two Districts
Hold Conventions.
New York, Jan. 26.—The Independent
Order of B’Nai Britb, Grand Lodge district
No. 3, held a convention this evening in
Sanger hall. Delegates were present from
thirty-nine lodges in the middle and south
ern states. An amendment to the endow
ment fund law was adopted. Officers will
be elected to-morrow.
DISTRICT NO. l’S GRAND LODGE.
New York, Jan. 26. —The grand lodge of
District No. 1, Independent Order of B’Nai
Brith, began its annual convention in
Vienna hall to-day. Officers were elected
and delegates chosen to attend the conven
tion of the constitutional grand lodge at
Richmond, Va., on June I.
THOMPSON DOING WELL.
His Wife With Him and Everything
Apparently Promising.
Midville, Ga., Jan. 26.—The News cor
respondent had a conference with Mr.
Thompson’s physicians at 9 o’clock to-night.
They say he has had a comfortable day and
is doing as well as could be expected under
the circumstances.
There are'no new developmen’s.
Mrs. Thompson arrived on a special train
at 11:30 o’clock last night, and is with him
now.
His son Jesss came to see him to-day, and
returned to Augusta ou the eyuupg train.
SOCIALISM IX RELIGION.
HERBERT D. WARD'S TALK FOR
BUSY MEN AND WOMEN.
The Churches Must Lead the Van In
the Movement for Christian Broth
erhood The London University
Club's Good Work —Five Great
Catholic Religions, and Their Devel
opment—The Poor Workers are Our
Palestine Shepherds To-Day, and the
Sages and Princes Must Kneel by
Their Side.
New York, Jan. 25. —The average mind
is always interested in the beginnings of
things. We are curious about tlie appear
ance of the lirst telephone, the first phono
graph. America is proud that she possesses
that earliest nml erudest of all telegraphic
instruments which the genius of Morse con
trived, and which is kept on exhibition
under a glass ease in the Western Union
building in the city of New York. This is
the age of historical research. Never has
the past been quarried with such persistent
intelligence and accuracy. We know more
about the languages of Greece and Romo
than Domrsthones and Cicero. The begin
nings of history are almost an open and
readable scroll. The beginnings of religiou
are at last considered worthy of scientific
treatment.
There are two kinds of roligio'ns, the
ethnic, like the Egyptian, which confines
itself to the interests of a single rac; and
the catholic, which overleaps racial limits,
and aims at. the dominion of the world. It
is a significant fact that tho live grout
catholic religions are tho only onos that
have been founded through vivid personal
ity. Their originators believed themselves
inspired with a now nml saving truth.
These were Confucius, Buddha, Zoroaster,
Mohammed, and Christ. Eaoh of these was
born, eat, drank, married and died like
other men—with one exception.
Our lesson gives us an art in tie as well as
a thrilling account of the advent of Christ.
Glance over tho second chapter of Luke,
from the eighth to the twentieth verse.
Tlierg is no sweeter story in the religions
writings of all the nations of the world.
Not one of their great prophets was horn so
picturesquely ami benignly.
As far as we know, the Chinese do not
claim miraculous phenomena at the birth of
Confucius. Ho was born 551 B. C. His
ancestors were illustrious statesmen in the
kingdom of Loo. There is no special in
formation to be had about his birth or ex
treme youth, except that he had t e great
est bump of reverence on record, formed on
the top of his head, in consequence of which
he was named “Kew.”
Who wus Zoroaster* This is as groat a
riddle as the nature of the Trinity. He has
no iiersonal history. His infancy must have
been excessive, for lie was born.taccording
to liormippus, B. C. 6860, and according to
Prof. Whitney of Yale, B. C. 1000. Marion
Crawford has cleverly exhaused imagina
tive information in his exciting novel
‘‘Zoroaster.’’ At best no phenomena are re
corded, and wo know absolutely nothing
about his birth.
Take Mohammed: Here we have history
and plenty of tradition. Ho was horn at
least of parents, in Mecca, between 567 und
571 A. 1). Many of his biographers are well
educated up to tho necessities of the case,
and insist that his birth was aoc imnanied
by important miraolos. Tho sacred tires of
the Parsoes were extinguished. The palace
of the Persian king was shaken. Lake Hawa
dried up, and other innumerable prodigies
occur after tho style, aud borrowed from
the apochryphal childhood of Christ. Wo
do know that, as a baby, ho had fits,
which increased in intensity as he grew up,
and finally became tho conduit of his iupi
rations. As Mohammedanism numbers
210,000,000 followers we must accept with
respect their miraculous pretensions.
By far tho most dramatic birth happened
to Buddha, the immortal comeouter of tho
Brahmin faith. Hi-, followers are 200,000,000
strong, and his debut was cerlainly signifi
cant. The sacred books state that while in
tho fourth hoaven ho determined to save
the world, and so chose to be born the son
of a king in the city of Kapilavasta. His
mother was a virgin, and she, too, was a
descendant, like Mary, the mother of Jesus,
of the kings of the land. Leaving heaven
as a white elephant, Hiddartba was con
ceived as a five-colored ray of light, and
was born in a physically impossible way,
about 5411 B. C., amid appropriate and re
spectable phenomena. Ho had tho pre
cocity to proclaim his mission as soon as he
arrived.
leaving Zoroaster, the Magian mystery,
out of account, what do we find? Two
prophets were born in tho purple—Con
fucius and Buddha; two in poverty, Christ
aud Mohammed. All except Mohammed
tracod their descent from kings, and their
biographers mado the most of the fact.
Miracles came with throe: Buddha, Mo
hammed, and Christ. Tho most doubtful
miracles are the Mohammedan. By far the
simplest aud most probable demonstrations
uttended the birth of Christ. That is ap
parent by easy comparison. In contrast to
tho vagueness of outline, the crudity of the
miracle, how beautiful, we may say, how
reasonable, how satisfactory to tho taste
and to the heart are tho phenomena that
ushered the Christian savior into the
world 1
It is a striking’fact that the child in the
rock-hewn stable was first welcomed by an
extraordinary social selection. The anti
podes of society bowed before him. The
munual laborer and the brain worker, the
rich and the poor, the shepherd and the
sago, alike received the mysterious sum
mons and answered the call. Each recog
nize! the world’s master-spirit imprisoned
in wide-eyed babyhood, and each hastened
with a significant eagerness and reverence
to accept, to give, and to adore.
Here are tho tawny guardians of sheep,
the fighters of wolves aud of robbers; be
side them the silken, intellectual, refined,
the most cultured philosophers of the east
ern world. It was the first righteous law
of this strange advent that the prince and
pauper should jostle each other in the lime
stone grotto, on the same footing before the
baby king of toleration and equality. We
will venture to say that, at this first service
in the Christian church, Joseph, officiating
as a doorkeeper, did not shovu the homely,
rough shepherd into a back haymow for
the sake of giving the elegant Magians a
full front view.
Christian worship is nothing if not demo
cratic. Many an atheist is born of eccle
siastical aristocracy. Even the Roman
berrotta is frequently known to shade the
sneer of the skeptic. Fine clothes are not
inconsistent with a devout heart, but a
pair of overalls does not necessarily
envelope the lower limbs of a heathen. Ad
vanced city workers now know this. The
broad-aisle pews have to hear it—and
bear it.
Probably the new University club In
Loudon, started by Cambridge and Oxford
graduates, situated in the very pulse-beat
of the slums, has come nearer to solving the
question of Christian brotherhood than any
other movement in modern times. No
shingle bearing the obnoxious sign “Mis
sion Chapel” is taoked up to finish the spir
itual pauperization of a morally decrepit
community. This institution is too virile
to make that unmanly blunder. It in not I
carried on by the proceeds of a swell fair
held by the parent church under the patr *.i
age of Mrs. Uakotah Bond and Mrs. Wa
tered Stock. No theological student is
engaged to hold two services Sunday for
those that are oither paid in washing or
mending, penuies or promises, to attend.
Horo tho young men live. Here they sleep,
they eats They mingle on terms of equality
with their neighbors, the “toughs.” They
put on no airs. They pretend to no mental
or spirtunl advantages. They hold meet
ings, have debates, play games with
lieggars and thieves. They attract by being
men. That is sufficient guarantee of the
sincerity of their purpose. They see that
tile streets are clean, then they wash the
bnbioe, then they scour tho tenements, then
they regenerate a character. Now they
save a life. Example and straightforward
work do it; no favors a ked or given. It
is man meeting man and Christ meeting
both.
Such a work is what the times demand.
But. let us give the church, as woll as the
devil, its due. It needs it. It has begun to
wake up. At present, there are in this
couutrv a dozen representative churches,
each of which has its carpenter shop, its
printing press, its school for sewing, carv
ing, reading and music, its gymnasium, its
library, its games and its popular lectures
on hygiene. Here is a grand practical
beginning, and is redolent with the spirit of
Christ.
Not long ago, at a public mooting called
to further the temperance movement, one
of tho most prominent Episcopalians in the
country said:
“At last the Episcopal church is wheeling
into line!”
Wheeling into line! Good God! Wliat is
a church for but to lead the vau? That
church is worse than useless, it is immoral,
shat does not supply throbbing, battling
men with a wide hope, a high inspiration, a
large welcome and a manly example.
The working men and women of to-day
are our shepherds of t’alestino. These
teamsters, these railroad men, these shop
girls, these factory hands, these starving
seamstresses, those imprisoned miners, have
made a hard watch of it in tlie winter
night, waiting for tlie birth of anew Christ
life. ()ur sages and our prluces must kneel
with the working people before the Savior
of society. Tho hoavonly inusio which
sings “Good will to all men” is Divine
socialism.
Will it awake the church? Fine oars
have heard it long ago.
Herbert D. Ward.
SAVED BY A PHANTOM HAND.
Covenanter Believes Family Prayers
Delivered Him From Highwaymen.
Beaver Faixs, Jan. 26. —Ethan Dodds,
ft young man about 18 year* of ago, re
siding upon College 11111, at tho northern
limits of this place, claim* thct he had a
desperate oucounter with three footpads a
few evenings since. His clothes were out
to ribbons and the highwaymen escaped
with his watch and overcoat.
Dodds has since then addodto the original
tale testimony explanatory of nis eseane
unscathed. He affirms that while the re
duction of his garments to tatter* was in
progress he distinctly saw a white hand
with palm toward him and fingers extended
moving with the knife, and between him
and his person, shielding him from harm.
Dodds is a member of tho Covenanter
church, in which his father is an elder. It
is also claimed by all the members of the
family, of whom there are eight, that
family worship was in progress at tho tirno
at which tho attack was made upon him
and thoy all firmly believe that this ha i
much to do with the young man’s escape
unhurt. This story is generally disbelieved
hore.
A LAND DEAL AT PENSACOLA.
Six Hundred Acres to be Bought for
$60,000 From Guban Heirs.
Pensacola, Fla., Jan. 25.—The an
nouncement is authoritatively made here
to-day that the Maxent tract of unimproved
property, located in the wostsrn part of tho
city, and containing 600 acres, has been
practically sold to three parties, two of
whom are W. J. Vnukirk of this city
and an unnamed resident of Mont
gomery. These gentlemen have purchased
options on the property terminating in the
near future, and it is regarded as certain
that the sale will bo consummated. The
present owners aro a brother and sister
Maxent, residents of Havana, who are
lineal dosceudents of an ancestor of that
name to whom the land was granted by a
Spanish monarch. Tho purchase price is
said to be $60,000.
A FARMERS’ ALLIANCE.
The First Branch of the Order for
Charleston Just Organized.
Charleston, 8. C., Jan. 25.— The Sea
board Farmers’ Alliance was organized
hore to-day by Gen. Stockhouse aud W. N.
Elder, of the state alliance. The following
officers wore installod: President, W. G.
Henson; vico president, John S. Horlbeck,
secretary, E. L. Roche; treasurer, S. L.
Henson; lecturer, E. L. Rivers; assistant
lecturer, H. B. Leo; doorkeeper, J. 11.
Ligon; assistant doorkeeper, T. G. Hamlin;
sorgeant-at-arins, Sandy Bee; busipess
agent, E. T. Legare. This is the first alli
ance over organized la this oounty. The
farmers on its roll are those of the Sea
Island and what is known as the Neok.
They raiso sea island cotton and truck.
One of Burke’s Men Acquitted.
New Orleans, Jan. 26.— The jury in
tho case of Maurice J. Hare, indicted In
connecSon with tho bond defalcation of
ex-Htate Treasurer E. A. Burke, has re
turned a verdict of not guilty. This case
has occupied the attention of the court since
Monday, and is the most important of this
kind of cases ever tried iu this state.
Held as a Safe Breaker.
Worcester, Jan. 25. —J. J. Dwyer was
arrested in London last night, charged with
drunkenness. When he appeared in court
to-day the charge was changed to safe rob
bery, and he was held in $200,000 bonds. He
was recognized as tho man who is wanted
for robbing the safe of the Hammond Organ
Reed Manufacturing Company of securities
valued at SIOO,OOO, on Jan. 11.
Czech Differences.
Prague, Jan. 25.—A fresh difference has
arueu betwoen the old and young Czechs.
The latter refuse to remain passive at the
meeting of deputies to bo held Sunday to
consider tho result of the re ent Germaa-
Czech conference held in Vienna, and, they
therefore decline to attend.
Our Wretched Mall Service.
Quitman, Ga., Jan. 26.—The Morning
News of yesterday reached here this morn
ing. The one for to-day has not yet arrived,
and cannot now, until to-morrow morning.
The News’ subscribers are kicking and
don’t like the idea of being thus disap
pointed.
Dr. Peters Safe.
London,
Berlin correspondent says Maj. Wissmaun
has telegraphed the government confirming
the report of tie wtlrty ot.Df. liters.
f DAILY, *lO A YEAR I
J 5 CKNTSa OOPY. r
I WEEKLY,*UJ6 A TEAR.
TALMAGE BOUND HOME.
THE DOCTOR'S LAST SERMON IN
THE OLD WORLD.
Delivered at Queenstown, Ireland.
"What is in a Name?”—The Music of
Two Syllables—The Word '‘Jesus’*
Fits the Tongue in Every Dialect.
Queenstown, Jan. 26.—While th
steamer Aurauia, from Liverpool, was lying
in this harbor a few hours to-day waiting
for the mads, many of the passengers went
ashore. The Rev. T. Do Witt Talmage, D.
I)., was among the number, and took ad
vantage of tin opportunity to preaoh. Hi*
subject was “What Is In a Name?" and hi*
text l‘hiiippiat.B ii, 9: “A name which i*
above every name." Tho eminent preaciief
said:
On my way from the Holy Land, and whil*
l wait for the steamer to resume her voyags
to America, I preach to you from this text,
which was one of Paul’s rapturous and en
thusiastic descriptions of tho name of Jesus
By common proverb wo have come to be
liovo that there is nothing in a name, and
so parents sometimes present their children
for baptism regardless of the title given
them, and not thinking that that particular
title will bo either a Hindrance or a help.
Strange mistake. You have no right
to give to your child a name that
is lacking either in euphony oi
in moral meaning. It is a sio
for you to call your ohild Jehoiakim or
Tiglath-Pileser. Because you yourself may
have an exasperating name is no reason
why you should give it to those who come
after you. But how often we have seen
some nume, filled with jargon, rattling
down from generation to generation, simply
because someone a long while ago hap
pened to be afflicted with it. Institution*
and enterprises have sometimes with >ut
sufficient deliberation taken their nomen
clature. Mighty destinies have been decided
by tho significance of a name. There are
men who all their life long toil and
tus-ol to got over the influence oi
some unfortunate name. Whilo wo may,
through right behavior anil Christian de
meanor, outlive tho fact that wo were bap
tized by tho name of a despot, or an in
fidel, or a cheat, how much hotter it would
have been if we all could have started life
without any such incumbrance. When I
find the apostle, in uiy text and in other
part* of his writing, breaking out in ascrip
tions of admiration in regard to the name
of Jesus, I want to inquire what are soma
of tho characteristics of that appellation.
And Oh, that tho Savior himself, while 1
speak, might fill me with his own presence,
for we novor can tell to others that which
we have not ourselves felt.
First, this name of Jesus is an easy name.
Sometimes we aro introduced to people
whose name is so long ami unpronounceable
that we have sharply to listen, and to hear
the name given to us two or three time*
before we venture to s;>euk it. But within
the first two years the little child clasps it*
hands, and looks up, aud says “Jesus.” Can
it be, amid all the families represented here
to-day, there is one household where the
little ones speak of “father," and “mother,"
and “brother,” and "sister,” aud not of “ths
name which is above every name?” Some*
times we forget the titles of our very host
friends, and wo have to pause and think tie
fore we can recall tlie name. But eau yon
imagine any freak of intellect in which you
could forget tho Savor’s designation? That
word “Jesus” seems to fit the tongue in
every dialect. When tho voice in old age
gets feeble and tremulous, aud indistinct,
still this regal word has potent utterance.
Jesus, I love thy charming name,
’Tis music to rny ear;
Fain would I sound it out so loud
That heaven aud earth might hear.
Still further. I remark, It is a beautiful
name. You have noticed that it is impos
sible to dissociate a name from the person
who has the name. So there are names that
are to me repulsive—l do not want to hear
them ut all—while those very namai are at
tractive to you. Why the difference? It is
because I happen to know persons by those
names who are cross, and sour, and snap
pish, and queer, while the persons you used
to know by those names were pleasant and
attractive. As we cannot dissociate a nsmt
from the person who holds the name, that
consideration makes Christ’s name so un
speakably beautiful. No sooner is it pro*
nounced in your presence than you think
of Bethlehem, and Gethsemane, and Gol
gotha, and you see the loving face, and hear
the tender voice, and feel the gentle touch.
You see Jesus, the one who, though ban*
quoting with hoaveuly hierarchs, came
down to breakfast on the fish that rough
men bail just hauled out of Genessaretj
Jesus, tho one who, though the olouds are
the dust of his feet, walked footsore on to
the road to Emmau*. Just at soon as that
name is pronounced in your presence you
think of how the shining one gave back ths
centurion’s daughter, and how he helped ths
blind man to the sunlight, aud how he made
the cripple’s crutches useless, and how he
looked down into the babe’s laughing eyes,
and, as the 1 ttle one struggled to go to him,
flung out his arms around it and impressed a
loving kiss on its brow, and said: “Of such
is the kingdom of heaven.” Beautiful name
—Jesus! It stands for love, for patience, fos
kindness, for furbearance, for solf-saoriflce,
for magnanimity. It ie aromatic with al]
odors and accordant with all harmonies.
Sometimes I see that name, and the letter!
seem to be made out of tears, and the*
again they look like gleaming orowna
Sometimes they seem to me as though
twisted out of the straw on which he lajt,
and then as though built out of the throne*
on which his people shall rain. Sometime*
I sound that word “Jesus,” and I hear
coming through the two syllables the sigta
of Gethsemane and the groan of Calvoryj
and again I sound it, and it i* all a-rlpple
with gladness and a-ring with hosaona.
Take all the glories of book bindery and
put them around the page where that nams
is printed. On Christmas morning wreaths
it on the wall.
Let it drip from harp’s string and thun
der out in organ’s diapason. Sound it
often, sound it well, until every star shall
seem to shine it, aud every flower shall
seem to breathe it, and mountain and sea,
aud day and night, and earth and heaven
acclaim iu full chant: "Bleased be his
glorious name forever. The name that is
above every name.”
Jesus, the name high over all.
In heaven and earth, and sky.
To the repenting soul, to the exhausted
invalid, to the Sunday school girl, to the
snow white octogenarian, it is beautiful.
The old man comes in from a long walk,
and tremblingly opens the doors, and hangs
his hat on the old nail, and sets hi* cane iu
the usual corner, and lie* down on a couch,
and says to his children and grandchildren:
“My dears, I am going to leave you.” They
say: "Why, where are you going, grand
father?” “I am going to Jesus.” Aud
so the old man faints away into
heaven. The little child comes In
from play and throws herself on your lap,
and says: “Mamma, I am so tick, I am sc
sick.” And you put her to bed, and the
fever is worse and worse, until in some mid
night she looks up into your face and says:
“Mamma, kiss me good-bye, I am going
away from you.” And you say: “My dear,
where are you going to?” And she says:
“I am going to Jesus.” And the red cheek,
which juu thought was the mark of ths
