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} Established 1860. INCORPORATED 1888. V
J J. H. ESTlLL,President. j
COMMUTATION TICKETS.
■— ...
A DECISION IN FAVOR OF A RAIL
ROAD COMPANY.
The Interstate Commission Sustains
a Refusal to Return Full Fare Once
Paid—No Rebate Recoverable Be
cause the Ticket Was Purchased
After the Beeinninz of the Quarter.
Washington, April 6.—The case of
George D. Siduian of Washington against
the Richmond and Danville railroad was de
cided yesterday by the inter-state commerce
commission in favor of the railroad com
pany. The opinion is written by Commis
sioner Veazey. The complaint alleged un
just, discrimination, and the ooints decided
are briefly as follows: The defendant issued
commutation tickets for a stated number of
trips within a specified time, subject to sev
eral conditions, one of which was that tho
purchaser should havo no claim for rebate on
account of non-use of the ticket from any
cause, and another that it be presented to
the conductor for cancellation on each trip
when taken.
HAD TO HAVE THE TICKET.
The commuter had to pay the conductor
full faro if he did not have his ticket, but
In such cases the respondent has fallen into
the habit of refunding the same on presen
tation of the ticket for cancellation of
the trip at the proper office of the
company. About three weeks prior
to the complainant’s purchase
of his ticket the respondent had discontinued
tins habit and had given notice to that
effect in anew tariff sheet filed with the
interstate commerce commission and posted
in the stations of the railroads as required
by the law on the change of tariff rates.
THE RAILROAD SUSTAINED.
Tt is held that it was not unlawful dis
crimination to refuse to refund to tho com
plainant who held such a ticket, but had
forgotten to take it on a certain trip
and had paid hi3 fare, notwithstanding
that he supposed the former custom was
in vogue when he purchased his ticket. The
published tariff stated that the conductor
should collect the fare on trains from pass
engers without tickets by adding 35 cents
to the single trip rates, and this collection
from the complainant is held not to be un
lawful.
NOT GOOD BEYOND THE QUARTER.
Tho complainants’ quarterly commuta
tion ticket was purchased June 13, 1889. It
specified on its face that 180 trips might be
taken, but that it should expire Aug. 31,
and the complainant know this when the
purchase was made. It is held that the
complainant was not entitled to recover
any portion of the purchase price for
thirteeu days less than the full quarter.
WHY THE SOUTH IS SOLID.
A Number of Public Men Write a Book
on the Subject.
Washington, April tL—Representatives
Herbert of Alabama, Hemphill of South
Carolina, Turner of Georgia, Stewart of
Texas, Wils >n of West Virginia, ex-Repre
isntativo Barksdale of Mississippi; Senators
Vance of North Carolina, Pasooof Florida.
Vest of Missouri; and W. M. Fishback of
Arkansas, Ira P. Jones of Tonuessee, O. S.
Long of West Virginia, and B. J. Sage of
Louisiana have collectively written and
will 6oon publish a book entitled “Why the
Solid South; or. Reconstruction and its
Results.” It undertakes to narrate fairly
and dispassionately, in a concise and popu
lar form, the history of the reconstructed
governments in each state, showing how
the republicans obtained control aad how
they lost it; figures and facts as to the
shrinkage of values and the increase of
deb; and taxation under these governments,
and the prosperity of tho south under its
present auspices. The book speaks of Abra
ham Lincoln’s death as an appalling calam
ity to the south; argues that Andrew John
son followed strictly President Lincoln’s
plan of restoration, and contends that if
President Lincoln had lived he would have
been able to defend that plan against the
assat.lts of congress.
EACH CHAPTER SIGNED.
Kash chapcer is signed by its author, who
thus becomes directly responsible for the
truth of his statements, and the claim of
the book in its preface (written by Glen.
Herbert, its editor) is that in all cuapters
the facts are understated rather than over
stated. The race question and race troubles
are extensively discussed; the statement
made that there is no intention to agitate
for repeal of the fifteenth amendment or
the deportation of the negro, and educa
tional and material statistics of many
kinds are given in support of the con
tention that the negro is prospering and
that the south is solving for itself the negro
quostion. The book is dedicated to the
business men of the north, with a statement
that they are interested in continuing the
prosperity of the south.
NOBL3 BREAKS THE SABBATH.
A Formal Breakfast that Will Shock
the Religious World.
Washington, April 6.— Secretary Noble
astonished Washington to-day by giving a
formal breakfast to a number of friends,
chiefly senators and their wives, Senator
Ghornmu being the mest prominent. Gen.
Schofield was the second guest in point of
distinction. Neither the President nor any
member of the cabinet responded to the in
vitation. and the President and Postmaster
General Wanamaker are said to have boen
shocked at it. It is unprecedented in official
circles, although in the faster society sot
Sunday entertainments have of late years
become common. As it is calculated
to sliotk the sensibilities of religious
people throughout the country it may have
S'tue political significance ultimately.
G hile his Secretary of the Interior was
breakfasting his guests the President was
at service at the Church of the Covenant.
He contributed all the flowers which were
used to dec.'rata that church to-dsy.
BUCK COMES BACK.
Ho Says His Getters are as Effective
as His Presence.
Washington, April 6.— C01. Buck left
for Atlanta last night not to return, he said,
till next fall if he oould help it. He says
be finds that his letters accomplish prac
tically as much as his personal visits. He
called on the President yesterday, and had,
lie says, a most cordial reception and a most
satisfactory talk. Incidentally ho recom
mended Jltij. Pierce for a consular upp dot*
bient, and explained the Augusta postofflee
situation so that the President would under
hand It when the papers reached him.
Wrecked by a Landslide.
Ihoy. H. Y., April 0.--A big laudsiide
occurred at D o’clock to-uight on the West
i cast of Sb Johnsvillo at Diefen
oorf Hdl. Both tracks are blocked. An
east hound freight train ran into it.
Later —Four victims were exhumed
irom the debris, but none were killed,
-lgineor F. S. Porter and Fireman Gorman
ero seriously injured, and two other train
•non are badly hurt. Fireman Gorman
may ole
flp IHofuinij ffoto#.
THIS WEEK IN CONGRESS.
The Probable Order of Business in the
Two Houses.
Washington, April 6.—ln the Senate
the Chinese enumeration act will come up
to-morrow, and Mr. Mitchell’s amendments,
intended to restore the bill to something
like its purport a hen it was received from
the House, will be in order. It is not ex
pected that this bill will occupy much time.
After it is disposed of, discussiou of the re
ports in the Montana election case
will be resumed. At the rate of progress
made last week the case bids fair to
go over into next week. It will give
way, however, for prompt consideration of
the world's fair bill should the select com
mittee on that subject make a report after
its meeting Thursday, at which time the
subcommittee is expected to report upon
tbo extent and quality of Chicago’s sub
scriptions to the guarantee fund.
The administrative customs bill stands
n9xt to the Montana contest on the regular
caucus programme.
Saturday, according to the new order of
business, will be devoted to the calendar for
the passage of bills to which no objection is
made.
In the House.
To-morrow will be “district day” in the
House and the greater part of the session
will’probably be devoted to further con
sideration of the bill to establish a national
park on Rock Creek, which is the unfinished
business.
Naval matters are likely to be discussed
Tuosdav. The committee on naval affairs
has several measures of interest on the
calendar, prominent among which are the
McAdoo bill to prohibit the enlistment of
aliens in the navy and the mates retirement
bill.
The naval appropriation bill is also in a
position favorable to speedy consideration.
About the middle of the week the elec
tions committee will take the floor, call up
three contested election cases in order,
namely: Posey vs. Parrett, from Indiana;
Bowen vs. Buchanan, from Virginia, and
Waddell vs. Wise, from Virginia. Over
the first two cases, as tho com
mittee has reported in favor of
the sitting democratic members, there
is likely to be little discussion, save that
Mr. “Cheadle |is expected to champion Mr.
Post y’s claims. But In the case of Waddell
vs. Wise there will be a triangular tight.
The majority of the committee will contend
for Mr. Waddell, the democratic minority
for anew election and Mr. Wise for his
own seat.
Saturday afternoon is set apart for the
delivering of eulogies upon the late Repre
sentative Laird of Nebraska.
CIVIL BERVICE REFORM.
The Tenor of the Coming Reporta of
the House Committee.
Washington, April 6.— The House civil
service reform committee has at last gotten
the testimony it took in print, and will pro
ceed this week to prepare a report upon the
first two branenes of the investigation. The
committee will report first as to the conduct
of the recent civil service commission, and
second as to the conduct of the present
civil service commission. Tbe majority
of tho committee will exonerate
both commissions, criticising at the same
time the course of the former commission
in the matter of Commissioner Lyman’s
brother-in-law, Mr. Campbell. A small
minority of the committee will probably
censure both commissioners. The commit
tee will present these reports to the House
promptly in order to eliminate the personal
feature from the investigation of the re
maining branch of the inquii-y committed
to it, namely, as to the value of the present
civil service system and to the improve
ments which cun be made. The committee
hopes to report on this branch before the
close of the session.
HOW THEY STAND.
The majority will report in favor of the
present system and of enlarging the powers
of the civil service cornmisson and extend
ing the scope of the system generally. The
small minority will probably report in
favor of abolishing the civil service com
mission and going hack to the spoils system.
There is little doubt that the majority of
the house, headed by Speaker K.eod, thinks
civil service reforma mugwump idea which
ought to be swept out of sight, and would
like to adopt the minority report. Never
theless the majority report will be adopted,
if any.
QUAY’S VINDICTIVENESS.
He Is Still Bant on Ousting Sergoant
at-Arms Canaday.
Washington, April 6.— Senator Quay
was lying low about the sergeant-at-armship
of the Senate when he was here, aud so the
statement is made that he has lost interest
in it. On the contrary, he is expected, on
his return next week, to begin the war on
Sergeant-at-Arms Canaday in more vigor
ous style than ever, with some hope of at
least getting Mr. Canaday out, if he does
not succeed in getting S ate Treasurer
Bailey in. So Senator Mahona will be
satisfied whether Senator Quay is or not.
DIDN’T DESERT HER
The Adriatic’s Captain Explains His
Offer to the City of Paris.
New York, April 2.—The Adriatic ar
rived to-day. Capt. Roberts was questioned
about his action toward the disabled City
of Paris. Capt. Roberts states that the
story published is not true, and his version
is vouched for by one of his saloon passen
gers, George C. Stearns. Capt. R .harts
states that he staid by the City of Paris six
hours, and that on a boat from the City of
Paris coming alonside his vessel he informed
the officer in charge that he would do all in
his power to assist the disabled ship.
SIGNALED THE ALDERSGATE.
He signaled the steamer Aldersgate, and
with her proceeded to come up to the City
of Paris, and, reaching her, informed Capt.
Watkins that he had spoken the Aldersgate,
who was willing to tow the City of Paris to
Queenstown. He also offered to take off
t.er passengers and leave them at Queens
town, and not at New York, as has beau
inoorrectly reported.
WOULD TOW HER IF NECESSARY.
He even stated to Capt. Watkius that if
it was absolutely neeessarv to save life he
would tow the City of Paris to Queanstown.
Capt. Watkins, on learning from Cape.
Roberts that the steamer Aldersgate would
tow him, signaled “thanks, go ahead”; so
he proceeded on his voyage.
Carpenters to Strike.
Chicago, April 6.— The journeymen car
penters of Chicago held a meeting to-day
and ratified the action of their executive
council, ordering a general strike to-morrow
for the eight-hour day and 40 cents an hour.
This strike is the opening of the loag
hei aided eight-hour struggle. Five tbousaud
journeymen are expected to strike to-mor
row, and their leaders predict that 1,000
more will follow in a few days.
Judge Thurman Not 111.
Columbus, 0., April s.—The report sent
oit from Columbus that Judge Alien It.
T. lurman is seriously ill is without founda
tio i in fact.
LAND IN IRELAND.
Lord Churchill Writes Another Letter
on the Question.
London, April G. —Lord Randolph
Churchill in a third letter on the Irish
question, after promising that British credit
can be given with safety only when given
in answer to a spontaneous request of the
Irish people, and on their offering
rate revenues as security and bind
ing themselves by every obligation
of national honor to repay, denies that
such a state of things is ideal or impossible
of attainment, and says the admission of its
impossibility would destroy the ease against
home rula Ho goes on to propose that in
stead of continuing coercion Parliament
give Ireland popular local gov
ernment similar to the English and
Scotc.i government which, instead
of inspiring despair will lead to prosperity
and oonter.tmeit. If this were done the re
quest for British assistance in the purchase
of land would come in the natural course of
things,and simi.ar demands for other public
purposes would follow.
WOULD DEAL WITH LOCAL BODIES.
Instead of dealing with the tenants di
rectly the state would deal with local
budies, whose chance of receiving credit
would depend on proper conduct. In the
event of an isolated council falling into dis
order, if the influence of other councils
failed to set it right, it would be easy to
suspend it. The councils would be unable
to combine for repudiation, because they
would possess no central powerful body, or
parliament (such as Mr. Gladstone had
proposed), which could serve as the
channel or means for combining.
Without saying the time is ripe for
such a measure. The writer says he thinks
that prematurity is no excuse tor insisting
upon the passage of tho bill, which will
only embitter the situation. Finally, Lord
Randolph Churchill advises the govern
ment, in the event of determined opposi
tion, to confuse the separatists by with
drawing the bill. He adds that they coaid
then by saving time pass useful measures
and appeal to the country with confidence
based on a good argumeut and be secure of
a patriotic majority.
Student Disorders Ended.
St. Petersburg, April G.—Tho studonts
disorders have practically ended, the holi
days having taken a majority of the students
to tne country. It has been decided that only
those shall bo expelled who were implicated
in the disorders of 1888.
A DIFFERENT PICTURE.
London, April 6.— A dispatch from St.
Petersburg to the Daily Telegraph says the
minister of education and Prof. Mediliff of
the university both resigned, after having
had a quarrel. The dispatch adds that dis
orders among the students continue, and
that the prisons are overflowing with in
mates.
Wants to Isolate Russia.
Berlin, April 6. —The Hamburg corres-
S (indent says that in contrast with Prince
ismarck’s policy. Emperor William in
tends to pave tbe wav to an entente with
France, and thus isolate Russia. The Aus
trian alliance, it adds, remains unchanged.
A War ohip Ruled Out.
London, Apri 1 6.—Tho United States
steamer Alliance was not allowed to enter
the harbor of Malage, as she had no bill of
health. She wa3 admitted at Gibraltar and
there took on coal for China.
Royalty at a Fete.
St. Petersburg, April 6.—Tbe czar
and czarina and family and the queen of
Greece, attended the fete of the mounted
guards to-day.
Our Shoot With Germany,
Berlin April 6. —A match has been
arranged between the American and Ger
man riflemen with fifteen marksmen on
each side.
DEPEW’S DENIAL.
He Repudiates the Statements At
tributed to Him.
New York, April 6.—Chauncey M.
Depew reached home last night. When
toid of the excitement which his reported
utterances about the judges of the south
sentencing men for trivial offenses in order
that tho prisons be kept full and the
contracts thus carriel out, Mr. Dapew
looked surprisod and emphatically said; “I
never made any such statement and never
intended to be so misunderstood.”
WHAT HE SAID.
“In a hasty conversation with a reporter
a few days ago, I made some criticisms of
the contract system of criminals, and said
1 believed it was cruel, unjust and
abhorrent to our present ideas of
humanity, and that the south should
abolish the system and establish peni
tentiaries instead. During my visit in tbe
south I heard a groat deal of the coatraot
system, but had no time to investigate it
thoroughly. But I said, and heard enough
to convince me that it *a< not the best sys
tem for either the state or the people.
NEVER IMPUGNED THE JUDICIARY.
“I never made any charge against the ju
diciary of the south, nor said anything that
could bo construed as such.
“I believe the judiciary of the south to be
both able and impar ial, while the bar is
unusually brilliant. y
“1 Udieve that both the majority of both
the bench and tbe bar is dissatisfied with tho
present system, and would be glad to have
it changed.
THE LEASE SYSTEM.
“It is charged that men convicted of both
serious and trivial offenses, and sentenced,
are leased out in blocks to private con
tractors, who become responsible for them,
and are the judges of the amount of
work they perform, of food they re
ceive, the comforts they enjoy, and oven
of the corporal punishment to be ad
administerod, the state only retaining a sort
of perfunctory supervision of them. Such
a system, I believe, is sure to breed abuse,
wrongs and injustice. I beiieve the system
will be broken up in time, and especially
when tho people who are indicted for the
ie=s serious offenses get money enough to
retain able counsel.”
Abbeville Mention.
Abbeville, Ga., April 6.—President
Lassiter, of the co istruc.iou company, says
be exoects to have rails for the Abbeville
and Way cross railroad iu about thirty
days.
The last grand jury of Wilcox recom
mended thnt a jail be erected to take the
place of the one burned a few months
since.
Mr. Z. T. Lassiter of Hawkinsville, will
move to Abboville soon.
The allianceinon of Wilcox county met ih
secret session at Rochelle on April 3.
Sumner’a Farmers.
Sumner, Ga., April 6.—Farmers in this
section ore progressing finely in planting
their crops.
The farmers’ alliance has a strong lodge
at this place. Tue farmers have implicit
faith in it. and believe the order will work
wonders for them.
The cereal crop is unusualiv promising,
and the planting of cotton will soon be over.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, APRIL 7, 1890.
REV. TALMA (IKON EASTER
MAOHPELAH THE FIRST CEME
TERY EVER LAID OUT.
Abraham'a Idea In Selecting it to
Hide the Savages of Death In
Arborescent Eeauty What Will
Resurrection Day Do for tho Cem
eteries ?
Brooklyn, N. Y., April 6. —The Academy
of Music was appropriately decorated to
day for Easter service, and the regular
artists of the Brooklyn Tabernacle were
assisted by eminent musical performers.
The hymn sung before the sermon was:
“We praise thee, O God, for the son of thy love,
For Jesus who died and Is now gone above.”
The subject of Dr. Talmage’s sermon was
"Machpelah: or Easter Thoughts.” It was
based on the words in Gen. xxiii, 17-18: “And
the field of Ephron, which was in Mach
pelab, which was beforo Mamre, the field
and the cave which was therein, and all the
trees that were in the field, that were in all
tbe borders round about, were made sure
unto Abraham.” Follow ing is tbo sermon
in full:
Here is tte first cemetery ever laid out.
Machpelah was its name. It was an arbor
escent beauty, where the wound of death
was bandaged with foliage. Abrahan a
rich man, not being able to bribe tho King
of Terrors, proposes here, ns far as possible,
to cover up his ravages. Ho had no doubt
previously noticed this region, and now
that Sarah his wife had died—that remark
able person who at ninety yeats of ago had
born to her the son Isaac, and who
now, after she had reached one
hundred and twenty-seven years,
had expired—Abraham is nego
tiating for a family plat for her last slum
ber. Ephron owned this real estate, and
after, in inook sympathy for Abraham, re
fusing to take anything for it, now sticks
on a big price—4oo shekels of silver. This
cemetery lot is paid for, and the transfer
made in the presence of witnesses in a pub
lic place, for there were no deeds and no
halls of record in those early times. Then
in a cavern of limestone rock Abraham put
Sarah, and, a few years afier, himself fol
lowed, and then Isaac and Rebskah, and
then Jacob and Leah. Embowered, pic
turesque, and memorable Machpelah!
That "God’s acre” dedicate! by Abra
ham has been the mother of innu
merable mortuary observances. The ne
cropolis of every civilized land has vied
with its metropolis. The most beautiful
bills of Europe outside tbe great cities ura
covered with obelisk and funeral vase, and
arched gateways and columns an.l parterres
in honor of the innumated. Tbo Appian
way of Rome was bordered bv sepulchral
commemorations. For this purpose l’isa
lias its arcades of marble sculptured into ex
quisite bas-reliefs aud the features of doar
faces that have vanished. Genoa has its
terraces cut into tombs, and Constantinople
covers with cypress the silent habitations;
and Paris has its Pere-ls-Chaise, on wiiase
bights rest Balzuo and David and Marshal
Nev and Cuvier and I* Place-toad Moliere,
and a mighty group of warriors and poets
and painters and musicians, In all foreign
nations utmost genius on ail sides is ex
pended in the work of interment, mummifi
cation and incineration.
Our own country consents to be second to
none iu respect to the lifeless body. Every
city aud town and neighborhood of any in
telligence or virtue has, not many miles
away, its sacred enclosure, where affection
has engaged sculptor’s chisel ad florist's
spade and artificer iu metals. Our own city
has shown its religion as well as ins art, in
the manner in which it holds the memory
of those who havo passed forever away, by
its Cypress Hills and its Evergreens and its
Calvary and Holy Cross and Friends’ ceme
teries. All the world knows of our
Greenwood, with now about two
hundred and fifty tbouiu and ii
habitants sleeping among hill) that
overlook the sea, and by lakes embosom and
in an Eden of flowers, our American West
minster Abbey, an Acropolis of mortuary
architecture, a Pantheon of mighty ones
ascended, elegies in stone, Iliads in marble,
w h le generations in peace waiting for other
generations to join them. No dormitory of
breathless sleepers in ail the world lias so
many mighty dead. Among preachers of
the gospel, Betbune and Thomas ileWltt,
and Bishop Janes and Tyng, and Abeel the
missionary, and Beecher and Budingloa,
and McClintock and Inskip, and Bangs and
Chapin, and Nosh Scho ick and S imuel
Hanson Cox. Among musicians, the re
nowned Gottschalk end the holy Thom
as Hastings. Among philanthropists, Peter
Cooper and Isaac T. Hopper and Luoretia
Mott and ls ibella Graham and Henry
Bergh, the apostle of mercy to the brute
creation. Among the literati, tho Careys,
Alice and Phoebe, James K. Paulditig, end
John G. Saxo. Among journalists, flenno't
aud Raymond and Greeley. Among sci
entists, Ormsby Mitchell, warrior ns well as
astronomer, nnd lovingly called by his
soldiers “Old Stars”; the Drapers, splendid
men, as I well know, one of them my
teacher, the other my classmate.
Amo g inventors, Elias Howe, who
through the sewing machine did more
to alleviate the toils of womanhood
than any man that ever lived, ad Prof.
Morse, who gave us magnetic telegraphy;
the former doing his work with the needle,
the latter with tbe thunderbolt. Am mg
physicians and surgeons, Josooh C. Hutch
inson, and Marion Huns, and Dr. Valentine
Mott, with tlio following epitaph which ho
ordered cut in honor of the Christian reli
gion: “My implicit faith end hope is in a
merciful Redeemer, who is the resurrection
and tbe life. Amen and amen.” This is
our A inorican Mnchoelah, as sacr >d to us’as
the Machpelah in Canaan, of which Jacob
uttered that pastoral poem in one verso:
“There they buried Abraham, and Borah
his wife; there they buried Isaac, and R>-
bekah hia wife; nnd there I buried Leah.”
At this Easter service I ask and answer
what may seem a novel question, but it will
be found, fcoforo I get through, a practical
and useful and tremendous question: What
will resurrection day do for the cemeteries?
First, I remark, it will bo their supernnl
beatification. At certain seas >ns it is cus
tomary In all lands to strew flowers over
tho mounds of the departed. It may have
been suggested by tho fact that Christ’s
tomb was in a garden. And when I say
garden, I do not mean a garden of tnese
latitudes. The late f rests of spring, aud the
early C osts of autumn are so near to each
other that there are only a few months of
fl iwers in tbe field. All tho flowers we see
to-day had to be petted arid coaxed, and
put under shelter or they would not
have bloomed at all. They are the children
of the conservatories. But at this season,
and through the most of the year, the Holy
Land is all ablu-ih with floral opulence.
You find all the royal family of flowers
there, some that you supposed indigenous to
the far north, and others indigenout to the
far south—the daisy and hyncimh, crocus
andanemor e, tulip and water-lily, geranium
and ranunculus, mignonett * and sweet mar
joram. In the college at Beyrout you may
see Mr. Post’s collection of about eighteen
hundred kinds of Holy Land flowers; while
among trees are tbe oak of f/ozeo clime', and
tho tamarisk of the tropics, walnut and wil
low, ivy and hawthorn, ash and elder, pine
and sycamore. If such floral and botanical
1 beauties are the wild growths of tho fields.
think of what a garden must be in Pales
tine! And iu such a garden Jesus Christ
slept after, ou the soldier's spear, his last !
drop of blood had c aguiated. And then
see how appropriate that all our c.unatories
should be lloralizxl and tree-shaded. In
June, G' senwood is Brooklyn’s garden.
“Wei hen," you ssy, “how can you
make out that the resurrection day will
beautify tho cemetories? Will it not leave
them a plowed-up ground) On that day
there will bo an earthquake, and will not
this split the polished Aberdeen granite, as
well as the plain slab that can afford but
the two words, ‘Our Mary,’ or ‘Our
Charley P" Well, I will tall you how
resurrection dav will beautify all the
cemet ries. It will be by bringing up the
faces that were to us once, and in our mem
oriae are to us now, more beauti
ful than any calla lily, and the
forms that are to us more graceful than
any willow by the waters. Can you tuink
of anything more beautiful thau the reap
pearance or thoso from whom we have been
parted? 1 do not care which way the tree
falls in the blast of tho judgment hurri
cane, or if the ploughshare that day shall
turn under tho last rose leaf and the last
china aster, if out of the broken sod shall
coine the bodies of our loved ones not dam
aged, but irradiated. The idea of the resur
rection gets easier to understand as I hear
the phonograph uuroll some voice that
talked into it or sung into it a year ago,
just before our friend’s decease. You
turn tho wire, nnd then come
forth the very tones, tho very
acoentuation, the very cough, the very
song, of the person that breathed into it
once, but is now departed. If a man can
do that, cannot Almighty God, without
half trying, return tho voice of your de
parted? And if he can return the voice,
why not the lips and the tongue and the
throat that, fashioned the voice? And if
the lips and the tongue and tho throat, why
not then the braiu that suggested tiie
words? And if tho brain, why not the
nerves, of which the brain is the head
quarters? And if he can return the
nerve', why not the muscles, which
are less ingenious? Aud if the
muscles, why not tho boues, that are less
wonderful* And if the voico and the brain
and tho muscles nnd the bonei, why not the
entire body? If man can do the phono
graph, God. can do the resurrection. Will
it be tho same body that in tho last day
shall bo reanimated* Yes, but Infinitely
improved. Our bodies change every seven
years, and yet, in one sense, it is the same
body. On iny wrist and the second finger
of my right hand there is a scar. I
made that at twelve years of age, when,
disgusted at tho presence of two warts,
I tool: a red-hot iron and burned
them off, and burned them out.
Since then my b dy has changed at
least a half-dozen times, but those scars
provo it is the rarae body. And wo never
lose our identitv. If God can and does
sometimes rebuild a man five, six, ten
times iu this world, is it mysterious that he
can rebuild him once more, and that in the
resurrection? If ho can do It ten tinns, I
think lie can do it eleven times. Then look
at tho sovontooa-yoar locusts. For seven
teen years gono, at the end of seventeen
years they appear, and by rubbing iho hind
log against the wing make that rattle at
which all the husbandmen and vine-dressers
tremble as tho insectiie host takes up tho
inarch of devastation. Resurrection every
se.enteen years!
Another consideration makos tho idea of
rosurection easier. God made Adam. He
was not fashioned after any model. There
had never been a human organism, and so
there was nothing to copy. At tbo first
attempt God made a perfect raw. Ho
made him out of tho dust of the earth. If
out of ordinary dust of ths earth aud with
out a modal God could make a perfect man,
surely out of the extraordinary dust of tho
mortal body and with million i of models
God can make each ono of us a perfect being
in the resurrection. Sureiy the last
undertaking would not bo greater
than the first. See the gospol
algebra: ordinary dust minus a
model oquals a perfect ma i; extraordinary
dust and plus a model equals a resurrection
body. Mysteriess about it? O, yes; that is
one reason why I believe it. It w mil not
ho much of a God who could do tilings
only as far as I can understand. Mysteries?
0, yes; but no more about tho resurrection
of your body than about its present exist
ence. I will explain to you the last mys
tery of the resurrection, and make it as
plain to you as that two and two make
four, if you will tell me how your mind,
wnich U entirely i,.dependent of your body,
can act upon your body so thnt at your
will your eyes open, or your foot
walks, or your hand is extoudod. So I
find nothing in tho Bible statement
concerning tho resurrec ion that stafegors
mo for a moment. All doubts clear from
my mind, I say that the cemeteries, how
ever beautiful now, will be more beautiful
when tho bodies of our lovod ones come up.
They will come in improved condition.
They will cotno up rested. The mst of
them lay down at the last very tired. How
often havo you heard them Ray, “I am so
tii od!" Tbe fact is, it is a tired world. If
I should go throngn this audience, and go
round the world, I could not find a person
in any style of life ignorant of tho sensation
of fatigue. Ido not believe there are fifty
persons in this audience who are not tired.
Your head is tired, or your back is tired,
or your foot i < tlred.or your brain is tired,or
your nerves are tired. Long journeying, or
budness application, or bereavement, or
sick.mss have put on you heavy weights.
So the vast majority of those who went out
of this world wont out fatigued. About
the poorest place to rest in is tnis world.
Its atmosphere, its surrounding!, mid even
its hilarities are exhausting. Ho God stops
oar earthly life, and mercifully closes the
eyes, aud quiets the feet, and folds the
hands, and more especially gives quiescence
to tho lungs aid h Art, that have n' t had
ten minutes’ rest from the first respiration
and the first boat If a dru nmer boy were
compelled in the army to boat his drum for
twenty-four hours without stopping, his
officer would be court-martialed for
cruelty. If the drummer boy cbonl I
be commanded to beat bis drum
for a week without ceasing, day
and night, he would die iu attempt
ing it. But under your vestment is a poor
heart that began its drum-beat tor the
march of life thirty or forty or sixty or
eighty years ago, and it has had no fur
lough by day or night; and. whether in
conscious or comatose state, it want right
on, for if it had stopped seven seconds your
life would have closed. Aud your heart
will keep going until some time after your
spirit has flown, for the auscultator says
that after the lost oxpiration of lung and
tb i last throb of pulse, and after the spirit
is released, the heart keeps on beating for
a time. What a mercy, then, it is that the
grave is the place where that wondrous
machinery of ventricle and artery can
halt! Under the healthful chemistry
of the soil all the wear aud
tear of nerve aid muscle and bone
will be subtracted aud that bath of good,
fresh, clean soli wilt wash off the last ache,
and then some of thvsamo style of dust out
of which the body of Adam wa3 constructed
may be infused into the resurrection body.
How can tue bodies of the human race,
which have had no replenishment from the
dust since the time of Adam in paradise,
get any recuperation from the storehouse
from which he was constructed without our
going back into tho dust? That original,
, life-giving material having lie on added to
tbe body as it once was. and all the
defects left behind, what a body will be the
resurrection body 1 And will not hundreds
of thousands of such appesring above the
Gowanus Heights make Greenwood more
beautiful than any June morning after a
sbowor? The dust of the earth being the
original material for the fashioning of the
first human being, we have to go Lack to
the same place to get a perfect body.
Factories are apt to bo rough places, and
thoso who toil in them have their garments
grimy aud their hands smutched. But who
cures for that, when they turn out for us
beautiful musical instruments or
exquaite upholstery! What though
the grave is a rough place, it
Is a resurrection-body manufactory, and
from it shall come the radiant uud re
splendent forms of our friends on the
brightest morning the world over saw.
You put into a factory cottou, and it comes
out apparel. You put into a factory lum
ber und lead, and it cotuos out pianos nnd
organs. And so into tbe factory of the
grave you put iu pneumonias and consump
tions, und they come out health. You put
in groans, and they come out hallelujahs.
For us, on tho final day, tbe most attractive
places will not be the parks or the gardens
or the palaces, but the cemeteries.
We are not told in what season that day
will come. If it should be winter, those
who come up will bo more lustrous than
the snow that covered them. If in the
autumn, those who come up Will be more
gorgeous than the woods after tho frosts
havo pencilled them. If in the spring, the
bloom on which they tread will be dull
compared with the rubicund of thoir cheeks.
Oh the perfeot resurrection body 1 Almost
every one has some defective spot in his
physical constitution: a dull ear or a dim
eye or a rheumatic foot, or a nouralgic
brow, or a twitted muscle, or a weak side,
or an inflamed tonsil, or some point at
which t.ho east wind or u season of over
work assaults him. But the resurrection
body shall be without one weak spot, and
all that the doctors and nurses and apothe
caries of earth will thereafter have to do
will be to rest without interruption aftor
the broken nighteof their oarthly existence.
Not only will that day be the beautification
of well-kept cemeteries, but Some of tho
graveyards that have been neglected, a id
been the pasture-groond for cattle
and rooting-places for swine, will tor
the first time have attractiveness given
them. It was a shame that in that
place ungrateful generations planted no
trees and twisted no garlands, and sculp
tured no marble for their Christian ancestry;
but on tho day of which I speak tho resur
rected shall make the place of thoir feet
glorious. From uuder the shadow of tho
church, where they slumbered among nettles
and mullein stalks and thistles, aud slabs
aslant, they shall rise with a glory that shall
flash the wind nvs of tho villuge church, aud
by tho bell tower that used to call them to
worship, aud aoove the old spire beside
which their prayers formerly ascended.
VVhat triumphui procession novor did fur a
stroot, what an oratorio never did for an
acadotny, what an orator never did for a
brilliant auditory, what obelisk never did
fur a king, resurrection morn will do for all
the cemeteries.
This Easter tells us that, in Christ’s resur
rection our resurrection, if we are his, anil
the resurrection of all t e pious dead, is
assured, for ho was “the first fruits of them
that slop'." Renati says ho did not rise,
but five hundred and eighty witnesses,
sixty of them Christ’s enemies, say he did
rise, for they saw him after lie hail risen.
If he di 1 not rise how did sixty armed
soldiers lot I ini got away? Surely sixty
living soldiers ought to bo able to keep one
doad maul Blessed be God! ho did
Sot away. Aftor his resurrection Mary
Lugdale ;o saw him. Cljopai saw him.
Ten disciples in an upper roo n
at Jerusalem saw bim. On a mountain tho
oleven saw him. Five hundred at oneo saw
him. Prof. Ernest Renan, who did not see
him, will oxcuso us for taking the testimony
of the 581) who did see him. Yes, yes; ho
got away. And that makes mo sure that
our departed lovod oner, and wo ourselves
shall gjt away. Freed himself from tho
shackles of clod, he Is not going to leave us
nnd ours in ttie lurch. There will be no
door knob lu tho inside of ourfhmily sepul
chre, for wo cannot come out, of ourselves,
but there is a door knob on tho out
side, und that Jesus shall lay
hold :of, mid opening, will say: “Good
morning! You have slept long enough!
Arise! Arise!” And then what flutter of
wings, and what flashing of rekindled eyes,
aid what gladsome rushing across the
family lot. with cries of “Father, is that
you?” “Mother, is that you I” “My
darling, is that you ?” “How you all have
changed 1 Tho cough gone, the croup gone,
the consumption gone, the paralysis gone,
the weariuess gone. Como, lot us ascend
together! The older ones first, tue younger
ones next! Quick now, got into liuel The
skyward procession has already started!
i-tier now by that embankment of cloud
for the nearest gate!” Aud ns we uscend,
ou one side the en-tli gets smaller
until it is no larger than a moun
tain, and smaller until it is no larger
than a palace, and smaller until
it is no larger than a ship, and smaller until
it is no larger than a wheel, and smaller
until it is no larger than a speck. Farewell,
dissolving earth! But on the other side, as
we rise, heaven first appears no larger than
your hand. And nearer it looks like a
clmnot, and neurer it looks like a throne,
and newer it looks like a star, and nearer it
looks like a sun, and nearer it looks like a
universe. Hail, scepters that shall always
wave! Hail, anthems that shali always
roll! Hail, companionships never again to
bo broken, and friendships never again to
parti That is what remrrection day will
do for nil the cemeteries and graveyards
from the Machpelah that was upouo.l by
Father Abraham in Hebron to tho Mac.i
pelah yesterday consecrated. And that
makes Lady Huntington’s immortal rhythm
most apposite:
When thou, my righteous judge, Shalt como
To take toy ransomed people h me,
(Shall I among them stand!'
Shall such a worthless worm as I,
Who sometimes am afraid to die,
lie found at thy right hand?
Among thy saints let me be found,
Whene’er th’ archangel's trump shall sound,
To see thy smiling face;
Then loudest of the throng I’ll sing,
While heaven s resounding arches ring
With shouts of sovereign grace.
FOUR MEN SHOT.
Three Negroeu Dead and a Marshal
Fataliy Wounded.
Birmingham, Ala., April 6.—A telo
gram came here from Irondale to-night for
a physician. All that can be found out is
that three nogroes were stealing railroad
iron this afternoon, when City Marshal
England and Deputy Sheriff Fortenberry
came up and called for their surrender,
'iho negroes ran about a mile, with the
officers in pursuit, when one of them
turned and shot Marshal England. Deputy
Fortenberrv opened fire ou tne negroes and
when the firing ceased all three were dead.
Marshal England will probably die.
Trainmen In One Order.
Elmira, N. Y., April 6.—Three hundred
delegates, representing the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers, Firemen, Brakemen
and Bwitchroon, met hero to-day, and, with
a few members of the new order of railway
conductors, discussed and adopted a scheme
of federation between all the organizations
of trainmen in the United States.
I DAILY.SIO A YEAR. 1
-! SCENTS A COPY. V
I WEEKLY, 1.35 A YEAR, i
DROWNED IN THE FLOOD.
THIRTEEN NEGROE3 SWEPT FROM
A RAFT.
Tho Event the Most Tragic of the
Flood—Tho Waters Still Rising and
Starvation and Peril Staring People
In the Face- Relief Steamers Doing
Thoir Best.
New Orleans, April G.—Tho Picayune's
Vicksburg special says: “Nineteen negroes,
survivors of a large party of refugees
which attempted to escape from the over
flow down Bayou Falaya ou a raft, have
arrived here on the steamer Hill City. They
report that twelve women and children
were drowned when the current lashed their
crazy vessel against a tree, and they escaped
with extromo difficulty. This is the most
tragic event of tho flood.
GROWING MORE SERIOUS DAILY.
“The situation Is daily growing more
serious in the Hteel bavou country. Earl
Miller, a prominent planter and brother of
Attorney General Miller, arrived from,
there to-day by the steamer Evergreen with
his family and stock. The Miller planta
tion, though very high, has gone under.
The Evergreen reports the water along the
bayous still rising. Cattle aud hogs are
offered for sale by the people at a song.
Much more stock must yet be brought out
or allowed to drovrn. The steamer leaves
Tuesday for Sunflower, and that planters
will desire to remove their stock Is certain.
FLOWING INTO THE MISSISSIPPL
“The steamer Osceola arrived this evening
from tho bead. Her officers report that the
overflow is beginning to empty into tho
Mississippi through Eagle lake, aud they
predict a great increase in the pressure all
along the Louisiana front from that point
southward for the next two weeks. Tho
Osceola begins au inspection of the levees
from Delta, La, northward to-morrow and
will b> joined by President Maxwell and
probably Assistant Engineer Thompson.
UNMISTAKABLE DISTRESS.
“There is most unmistakable distress
along Hteel bayou, and it would be cruelty
to deny it. Tho Evergreen returns there
to-morrow, and the B lusam, with Capt. IV.
D. Puglt and M. VV. Smith on board, will
follow Tuosdav or Wednesday. They will
bring all the peoplo suffering or in danger.
Barges cannot be taken there, and only the
smallest boats are suitable for relief work.
Capt. Pugh will relievo the distressed,
whether they have money or not to pay
thoir fare."
A DECLINE AT SHARKEY.
“Telegrams from Sharkey, on the Talla
hatchie, river report a decline of 18 inches.
Capt. John B. Mattingly, who has just re
turned from the Austin break, says it can
not affect tho Yazoo and 'lallehatchie coun
try, as its current is too feeble.
“Engineer Stubbs, of tne Vicksburg,
Shreveport and Pacin'* railway, renorts tho
prospects more ehee mg and only 30 points
rise in 31 hours a? the worst places on the
lines. Ho is confident that tho rood will
hold its own."
AN engineer’s observations.
The Times- Democrat's Bayou Sara
special says: “The steamer rargonila, now
under government charter, arrived to-day,
having on board Capt. Kingsraan, the
United States engineer in charge of this
levee district. He has been inspecting the
lovoes between Now Orleans and this plac ■.
Ho reports Point Coupee front in good con
dition with tho exception of the levee at
Preston Place, almost opposite Bayou
Hara. At this point he pjhtis
sent a largo number of Backs nnd several
thousand feet of lumber, and thinks there
is no immediate (larger if tho people in the
neighborhood and on Falso river will rally
at once aud use their best material to tbe
best advautnge. His motto is that tbe
government is willing to help those who are
willing to help themselves. Ho is of the
opinion thnt the situation is critical, and
warns our peoplo to look out for at least 18
inches more water.”
WATCHING THE LARGE DYKES. •
The large dyko3 on tho levees, such as
Morgan's, Louisiana, Scott’s, Water
loo, and Grand Bay are re
ceiving his personal nnd untiring
attention. AU that can be done in the way
of engineering skill is being done. The
Morgan levee is like a besieged fort. A
largo number of man are on constant duty.
The earthwork is thoroughly braced with
timbers and a pile driver and piles are
kept ready for Immediate use when needed.
This great bulwark that guards
so many alluvion parishes is being put to a
very severe test. Bayou Hara still holds
out and is making a desperate fight. A
force will be put to work to-morrow to
raise the levee to meet the coming rise.
“The weather is lovely.
“The river at this point has risen two
tenths in the last twenty-four hours, and ia
now only seven-tonths below the high water
mark of 1883.”
POISON AND PREVARICATION,
The Chicago Woman Contradicts Her
self Many Times.
Chicago, April 6.—The champion story
teller is in jail here in tbe person of the
woman Mamie Starr, who cooked the corn
that poisoned to death Mr. and Mrs. New
land, by whom she was employed. The
prisoner's narrative that she had a sister
who was a perfect image of her was start
ling in its ingenious detail, but her latest
explanation, tho most sensational yet ad
vanced, is tuat she bought the poison at a
drug store intending to kill herself and
afterward threw it away without once
opening tho box.
HER FIRST STORIES.
When Chiof of Police Marsh and his as
sist mts locked the girl up la3t night she
Lad positively denied a’l connection with
the poisoning. More singular than this,
she had denied that she was ever at tha
Anchorage Mission, the institution from
whica the Nowland family secured her as a
servant. Bhe ol o denied ever being at t e
residence of the Howlands, and maintained,
in spite of the fact that a dozen persons
identified her, that her sister must have
been the girl who prepared the fatal dish.
DECORATION DAY.
Tho Confederate Graves at New Or
leans Decorated with Flowers.
New Orleans, April 6. Confederate
Decoration day attracted thou-ands of vis
itors to the cemeteries Tho Ladies’ Con
federate Monumental Association, the con
federate veterans’ orea fixations, so ns of
veterans aud the citizen soldiery in
uniform participated. The Grand Army of
the Republic did not take part in a body,
as no invitation was 1 sued, owing to a
division existing in that organization, and
the' union veterans participated individu
ally and sent offerings. The L ie,Confederate,
Arrav of Tennessee, nnd Army of No th
em Virginia monuments were beautifully
decorated. Outside tho other decorations,
at the army of the northern Virginia tomb,
whore the body of Jefferson Davis is in
terred, tue confederate veterans placed a
magnificent presidential chair of yellow
immortelles inscribed “To Our Chief’ ia
front of tho resting place of tho distin
guished dead.
