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1 THE MORSISO KE J^ 8 1 W |
J Estjlßlishid 1860. Incorporated 1888. '•
( J. H. ESTILL, President. )
THIS WEEK IN CONGRESS.
SENATOR FRYE’S SHIPPING BILLS
FIRST ON THE TAPIS.
An Effort to be Made to Have the
River and Harbo Bill Taken up
Next—A Caucus of Senators to De
cide Whether the Election Bill Shall
be Taken Up.
Washington, July 0. —Senator Frye’s
shipping bills, upon which a vote was not
taken last Thursday because of the lack of
a quorum, are the unfinished business on
the Senate calendar to-morrow, and be
hopes to have them disposed of without
further delay. He will then ask to have
the river and harbor bill taken up. This
bill, with the amendments which the com
mittee on commerce has authorized Mr.
Frye to offer, carries an appropriation of
$23,000,000, and he says it is the best bill of
the kind ever prepared. Two days, he
thinks, will be sufficient for its considera
tion.
THE TARIFF BILL.
Senator Morrill, chairman of tho finance
committee, will endeavor to have the tariff
bill made the order of business after the
shipping bills are out of the way. The in
dications, however, are that the river and
harbor bill will be first taken up. The
•tariff bill, it is understood,will be in charge
af Senator Aldrich. If the river and har
bor bill gets the right of way it is more
than probable that the tariff debate will
not begin in earnest until next week, as
there ar e three appropriation bills to come
up before the Senate this week, one of
which—the sundry civil —is likely to pre
cipitate a debate of some length. It will
be reported Tuesday or Wednesday.
CAUSE OF THE TALK.
Among its provisions as it passed the
House Is an appropriation of 1720,000 for
geological and irrigation surveys, to be ex
pended under the direction of Director J. W.
Dowt ll,aud this will be antagonized by Sena
tor Stewart and possibly by other western
senators, who want the irrigation survey to
be conducted by the agricultural depart
ment. The other two appropriation bills
are the Indian and consular and diplomatic.
This exhausts the list of regular appropria
tion bills, except the deficiency bill, which
will not come before the Souate until near
the close of the session.
THE SILVER BILL REPORT.
The report of the conference committee
on the silver bill, which is privileged mat
ter, is likely to be presented before the close
of the week, and it will probably give rise
to a dobate of some length.
The election bill will be received from the
House probably to-morrow, and will be re
ferred to the committee on privileges and
elections. A caucus of the republican sena
tors is expected some time this week, at
which time it will be decided whether or
not to take up the bill at this session.
In the House.
The proceedings in the House this week
promise to bo comparatively uninteresting
and quiet. Probably the general deficiency
appropriation bill, the least of the appro
priation bills, will be reported ’ and
acted upon before the end of the week.
The elections committee is desirous of re
ceiving a hearing for the contested election
cases of Miller vs. Elliott of South
I 'arolina and Langston vs. Venable of Vir
ginia, waich have been for some time on the
calendar. [n addition to these cases, the
tri ads of the bankruptcy bill expect to he
able to get that measure before the House,
"hile there are indications that during the
week the conferees on the silver bill will
1 ave adjusted their differences and pre
sented to the House a compromise measure,
which it will be called upon to consider.
FORCE BILL PuANB.
The Country to be Flooded With Out
rage Speeches.
Washington, July 6.—Senators Hoar,
Sherman and Chandler, the senatorial com
bination to pass tho Johnny Davenport
force bill in the Senate, finding that they
w ore not strong enough at present to set the
tariff bill aside and pass the force bill under
a temporary closure plan,now propose to pass
the tariff bill asspeedily as possible and then
take up the election bill. If they can “con
vert” a sufficient number of senators they
w ill vote to close the debate. If not they
will have the debate continue some time,
and, having flooded the country with tales
of “southern outrages,” will adjourn.
RAUM’H EXPLANATION.
Harrison Bald to Have Ordered Him
to Make it Public.
W ashington, July 6.—Harrison got tired
of waiting for an explanation from Pension
Commissioner Raum of the charges formu
lated against him in the Cooper resolution
which Speaker Reed has not as yet seen fit
to report from the committee on rules, and
as he sent for Commissioner Raum before
leaving for Cape May and demanded the
explanation. Commissioner Raum gave an
explanation which his friends say was sat
isfactory to the President, but that the lat
ter told him to get it before the public and
not to interfere with the proposed investiga-
BRAVE COUNT BALA.
His Right Leg Broken While he was
Stopping a Runaway.
Washington, July!—Count Bala, first
secretary of the French Legation, will spend
this week In bed Instead of at the seaside as
he had planned. Sitting in Lafayette park
this morning while worshipers were going
w° h i' e “V fßaway cab dash up
Madison place Rushing out to save the
bv theh*o nd d , rOQ knocked down
hL t , ? r6e aud bruised that he
had to be carried into the Cosmos Club,
WM *' lbße ' lU9Utl y remo^d
train robblTßfs in jail.
A Conductor ana Hie Brakeman Re
lieved of $l2O.
No*th Yakima, Wash., July 6.—An
east-boud Northern Pacific freight train
was boarded here to-day by two men. When
dr!w C ? l - < i tor aaked for their tickets they
aud brakmT'V lI l and <x^. n, P cll ed the conductor
Ws h , and over The rob
ewanli A 3Umped from the trai 'i aud
JT*® Wc " t , ln I‘ ura "‘t when the
Sttl7’rtte h I her# aad soon ca °tured the
daughter of the south.
Miss Davis Met by Her Fiance on Her
Arrival at New York.
>ew York, July &—Miss Winnie Davis,
laughter of the late ex-President Jefferson
*vi3, arrived here from Europe to-day on
“he b rench Bteamer La Bretagne. She was
corned borne by her fiance. Alfred w“
fin-on, who accompanied her to the resi
•tmce of Mr. Latham, in the Grenada flats,
whsrs she will stop for a few days.
fbc JHafnittg
HARRISON LATE AT CHURCH.
ffe Spends the Afternoon Watching
the Waves.
Cape Mat Point, N. J., July 6.—A pew
was reserved to-day at the Beadle Memorial
Presbyterian church for the presidential
party, and just as the opening hymn was
finished President Harrison, accompanied
by Dr. Scott and Mrs. Dimrnick, came in.
They had walked from their cottage, a
twenty minutes’ journey. Rev. Dr. Samuel
A. Mutchmore of the Slemorial Presbyte
rian church of Philadelphia, who is staying
at Cape May, officiated.
THE SERMON.
After the hymn and prayers Dr. Mutch
more announced the text for his sermon
from the last two verses of Acts xxvii.:
“The centurion commanded that they
which could swim should cast themselves
first into the sea, and get to land; aud the
rest, some on boards and some on broken
pieces of the ship. Aud so it came to pass
that they escaped all safe to land.”
a hand-shaking.
After the services the members of the
congregation crowded around the Presi
dent, and he shook hands with nearly all of
them. After dinner Mr. Harrison enter
tained several visitors, including Gen.
Sewell and daughter. He did not leave the
cottage during the afternoon or evening,
spending much tiino on the piazza watching
the waves,
A BATTLE WITH A MADMAN.
Farmers Armed With Guns Finally
Compel Him to Surrender.
Delhi, N. Y., July o.—ln the hamlet of
Barbourville, Delaware county, July 4,
Adelbert Gumming, who is undoubtedly in
sane, inflicted wounds upon Sylvanus Pal
merton, which resulted in his death in less
than twenty-four hours. When neighbors
tried to arrest Gumming he attacked them
with a knife. Three or four times he made
the crowd flee before him. Tho farmers
armed themselves with shotguns, and Cum
mings was shot in the legs and wounded in
the head.
FINALLY SURRENDERS.
He continued to slash right and left, but
finally the farmers, pointing their shotguns
at his head and telling him they would
kill him if he did not surrender, lie threw
down his knife. He was brought to jail
here last night. This morning, while
Sheriff McArthur was giving him food, he
would in all probability have been strangle i
by the madman had it not been for as
sistance rendered by prisoners, who had just
been let out of their cells into the corridor.
Gumming is about 40 years of age.
SERVED LONGER THAN JACOB.
A South Carolina Man Waited Sixteen
Years for His Wife.
Greenville, S. C., July 6.—W. A.Tol
lard, a farmer who lives in this county, was
in the city a few days ago, and to some of
his friends he told the following story,
which is vouched for by those living in his
neighborhood: About nineteen years ago
Mr. Pollard hired himself to the late Alex
Spillers, a well-to-do farmer of tills county.
The first month he received a suit of clothes
as pay. Mr. Pollard was then employed
permanently as a farm hand. He had
been with Mr. Spillers but a short time
when a girl ohild was born to Mrs. Spillers.
An hour after it was born Mr. Pollard
asked Mr. Spillers to give him the child as
his wife when she arrrived at the proper
age. Mr. Spillers consented, and said if
Mr. Pollard stayed with him he should
have his daughter at 16. Through sixteen
years the young man worked with his em
ployer, and at 16 claimed the young lady
as iiis fiance, and was soon after married to
her. He is now the father of two children,
and at Mr. Spillers’ death he loft his son-in
law $1,600 in cash for the sixteen years he
had so patiently waited for Ids wife.
FLAMES ON A RIVER FRONT.
A Female Cook on One of the Boats
Burned to Death.
Detroit, July O.—A special to the
Tribune from East Tawas, Mich., says that
late last night the steam barge Sea Gull
was discovered on fire. There were no
means to extinguish the flames. The cook,
Mamie Cornet, was unable to get ashore
and was burned to death. The Sea Gull’s
lines were burned, and she drifted to the
opposite shore and set fire to the barge Cal
vert, but the fire was extinguished
without damage. Further on she
set Emory’s dock and mills on
fire, which were destroyed, the loss being
$30,000. Also Lock & Stevens’ docks, Sib
ley & Hearinger’s decks and lumber. The
loss cannot be ascertained. Sixteen million
feet of lumber were destroyed. The sea
Gull is a total wreck. The origin of the
fire Is believed to be incendiary.
AN IRISH CHAMPION RETURNS.
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Mgr. Bernard O’Reilly Says the Eng
lish Are Hard at Work.
New York, July 6. —Among the passon
sengers who arrived here to-day on the
French steamer La Bretagne was Mgr.
Bernard O’Reilly, who left here eight years
ago to champion the Irish cause in Rome.
While abroad Mgr. O’Reilly wrote a life of
Pope Leo XIII. in French and English, and
also a life of the famous Archbishop of
Tuam. Mgr, O’Reilly said that the English
are making every endeavor to influence the
Vatican on the Irish question, but that the
friends of Ireland are constantly on the
lookout, and have thus far, with the aid of
the pope, managed to hold the upper hand.
The general public, he said, have ho idea of
the moves the English are making, as only
the big ones come to the surface.
GRAND LODGE OF ELK 9.
The Fourth Annual Reunion at Cleve
land This Week.
Cleveland, July 6. —The fourth annual
reunion and grand lodge meeting of the
Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks,
which will begin in this city to-morrow and
continue Tuesday and W ednesday, promises
to be the most largely attended and in
teresting ever held by the organization.
This will be the first time that the grand
lodge has met outside of New York, but re
unions have been held in Cincinnati, Pitts
burg and other cities. There is no doubt
that about 5,000 elks will be in Cleveland
during the week.
Rev. E. J. Stearns Dead.
Baltimore, July 6. —A special to the
Sun from Easton, Md, says: “Rev. Dr I
Edward Josiah Stearns, one of the most
widely known Protestant Episcopal clergy
men in this country, is dead at the age of 80
years. His last illness began several days
ago, and from its commencement there wore
no hopes of his recovery.”
A Brave Captain’s Honeymoon.
Baltimore, July 6.—Capt. Murrell tailed
away with his bride, nee Miss McCormick,
in the steamship Missouri, of which he Is
Commander. On his arrival at Loudon
Capt. Murrell will be detached from the
Missouri, and, after a short ramble through
Europe, will be given command of the new
steamer MississioDi.
INDORSED BY THE ALLIANCE.
The Thomas County Candidates for
Congress and the Legislature.
Boston, G a., July 6. — The mass meeting
of the farmers’ alliance in Thomasville July
3 was the largest ever held by the alliance
in Thomas county. Representatives from
every sub-alliance and members from
every portion of the county were present.
The meeting was one of great importance,
and much interest aud anxiety were felt as
to the result of it, as it was known that the
farmers in meeting assembled would in
dorse their choice of candidates for the
the state legislature and .Senate, and a can
didate for congress from the Second dis
trict. After the annual reorganization and
secret business of the order, the following
gentlemen were indorsed for the offices
named:
Rev. Janies M. Rushin was recommended
to the citizens of Thomas county, and of
the Second congressional district, as a fit
and worthy man to represent them in the
next congress. Mr. Rushin is a gentleman
well and favorably known in this section,
but especially so in Thomas, Brooks, Deca
tur, Mitchell aud adjoining counties, where
he is noted for his simplicity of manner,
purity of life and integrity of purpose. He
is a self-made man of fine natural ability
and mental attainments, liberal, generous
aud broad-minded.
Mr. liushm is by no means a stranger to
the state at large. He is deputy grand
master of the Grand Lodge of Georgia, and
director of the state experiment station
from the second district. Ho is a lifelong
democrat of the Jeffersonian school, and is
a foeinan worthy the steel of any aspirant
for the office which is seeking him. Mr.
Rushin was a soldier, and a good one too,
in the confederate army, and those who
wore the gray with him, revere and honor
him for his fidelity to the “Lost Cause.”
a. Q. MOODY.
A. Q. Moody was the choice of tho meet
ing for state senator from this district, com
posed of the counties of Brooks, Colquitt
and Thomas. Ho is a farmer and teacher—
a man of great dignity. Well educated and
highly intelligent, courteous and refined,
thoroughly identified with the farmers and
alive to their interests and prosperity, he is
at the same time a close observer and free
from class prejudice. Cool, deliberate aud
clear-headed, Mr. Moody will make a good
and useful member of any legislative body
and worthily represent tho Intelligence and
integrity of his district.
THE MEN FOR REPRESENTATIVES.
A. W. Ivey and Jerry M. Parker are the
alliance's choice for representatives, both of
them being farmers who aro noted for their
energy and success. Mr. Ivey is the ex
president of Thomas county’s alliance. Mr.
Parker is equally prominent in alliance
matters and in these gentlemen Thomas
county will have true and good representa
tives.
INDORSED $Y THE BUSINESS MEN.
As an indication of the general popularity
of those men, the following was signed by
almost evory business aud professional man
in Boston, and is the voluntary indorsement
of a largo number of the best and most
intelligent citicens of the county who are
non-alliancemen, and while it is highly
complimentary, it is but a just and merited
tribute to worthy men, by those who
have known them longest and best, viz,:
“We, the merchants and business men of
Boston, Go., and non-alliance men, do
heartily indorse the gentlemen who were
recommended by the county alliance iu
convention assembled at Thomasville on
July 3; do pledge ourselves to earnestly
support them and to aid them to secure the
nomination by the Democratic party for
the offices for which they have boon recom
mended. ”
News Notes from Lumokln.
Lumpkin, Ga., July 6.— Portions of this
eounty were visited with line rains last
week.
A shooting scrape ocourred a day or two
ago at the camp on tho railroad near Hon.
W. W. Fitzgerald’s. One negro shot an
other, but the wound was not a dangerous
one. No arrests were made.
A soriouß cutting scrape happened in the
Twenty-first district of this county on Mon
day. The negro vrho was out is in a critical
condition, and the one who did the cutting
is in jail.
The county alliance met here last woek.
T. L. Morton was elected president and W.
8. Boyett vice president. The allianoo in
dorsed W. J. Northen for governor and M.
L. Everett for representative from this
county.
The com crop of this county has suffered
for rain. Cotton is about an average crop.
A STORM AT MILLEDGEVILLE.
The Electric Light Cut Off and Crops
Probably Damaged.
Milledgeville, Ga., July 6.—This
evening about 6 o’clack a very heavy rain
and hailstorm passed over, Milledgeville,
doing some damage. The electric wires
were broken down in several places and the
city is without electric lights to-night. The
lightning was terrific. It struck the steeple
of one of the colored churches and tore it to
atoms. It is thought that the hail did con
siderable damage to tho orops, but nothing
definite can be learned to-night.
Milledgeville Personals.
Milledgeville, Ga., July 6.—Dr.
Thomas B. Perry, who has been in Arizona
and California for the past five years in
the United States service, is at homo to
spend some tinje with his father’s family.
B. B. Adams, Jr., assistant cashier of tho
Milledgeville Bank, will wed Miss Mamie
McComb of this city to-morrow night.
Nominated for the Legislature.
Fairburx, Ga., July 6.— The all iance of
this county met Thursday and nominated
Hon. James M. Moson, president of the al
liance, for the legislature, and also nomi
ted L. F. Livingston for congress. Great
dissatisfaction exists among the allianoe be
cause of this action. They will certainly
split In this county over such action as the
above.
RAILROAD YARDMEN STRIKE.
Two Companies Refuse to Pay the
Chicago Scale at Cincinnati.
Cincinnati, July 6.—The demand of tho
yardmen of the Pennsylvania railroad and
the Louisville and Nashville for the Chicago
scale has been refused and the strike
is now complete. The Pennsylvania line
sent out its passenger trains
and perishable freight to-day according to
the regular schedule. The attitude of the
switchmen on a number of roads whose
demands were granted is watched with in
terest.
Marinkovitch's Assassins.
Belgrade July 6.—The assassins of M.
Marinkovitch, the Servian consul at
l’restina, have been arrested. The motives
of the murderer* do not appear to have been
of a political character. Her via insists that
Turkey give a pension to the widow, and
that the Prestina garrison salute the Servian
flag.
Zetla Given for Somaliland.
Berlin, July 6.— The National Zeitung
says England cedes Zella to Italy in return
for Somaliland.
SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, JULY 7, 1800.
POWER OF TESTIMONY.
TALM AGE PREACHES IN THE OPEN
AIR IN NEBRASKA.
Things That Seemed Impossible rfFew
’Year3 Ago Now Proven by Living
Witnesses—The Existence of God
Also Easily Proven—Witnesses to
the Power of the Gospel.
Beatrice, Neb., July 6.—l)r. Talmago
preached here iu the open air to an Immense
congregation which hud gathered from all
tho surrounding country to hear the famous
preacher. His text was: “VVe are wit
nesses.” Acts iii., 15. Following is his ser
mon:
In the days of George Stcphonson, tho
perfector of the locomotive engine, the
scientists proved conclusively that a rail
way train could never be driven by steam
power successfully and without peril, but
the rushing express trains from Liverpool
to Edinburgh, and from Edinburgh to Lon
don, have made all the nations witnesses of
the splendid achievement. Machinists
aud navigators proved conclusively
that a steamer could never cross
the Atlantic ocean, but no
sooner had they successfully proved the im
possibility of such au undertaking than tho
work was done, and the passengers on the
Cunard, and the Inman, and the National,
and the White Star lines are witnesses!
There went up a guffaw of wiso laughter
at Prof. Morse’s proposition to make the
lightning of heaven his errand-boy, and it
was proved conclusively that the thing
could never be done; but now all the news
of the wide world, by Associated Press put
in your hands every morning and night,
lias made all nations witnesses. So in
the time of Christ it was proved con
clusively that it was imuossible for
him to rise from the dead. It was
shown logically that when a man was dead
he was dead, and, the heart and the livor
and the lungs having ceased to perform
their offices, the limbs would be rigid be
yond all power of friction or arousal. Thev
showed it to be an absolute absurdity that
tho dead Christ should ever getup’alive;
but no soonor had they proved this than
the dead Christ arose, and the disciples
behind him heard his voice and talked with
him, and they took the witness stand to
prove that to be true which the wiseacres
of the day had proved to be Impossible; the
record of the experience and of tho testi
mony is in the text: “Him hath God raised
from the doad, whereof we aro witnesses.”
Now, let me play Aho skeptic for a mo
ment. “There is no God,” says the skeptic,
“for I have never seen him with my physi
cal eyesight. Your Bible is a pack of con
tradictions. There never was a miracle.
Lazarus was not raised from the dead and
the water was never turned into wine.
Your religion is an imposition on tho cre
dulity of the ages.” There is an aged man
moving over yonder as though he would
like to respond. Here are hundreds of peo
ple with faces a little flushed at these an
nouncements, and all through this assembly
there is a suppressed feeling which would
like to speak out in behalf of the truth of
our glorious Christianity, as in the days of
the text, crying out, “Wo are witnesses!”
The fact is, that if this world is ever
brought to God, it will not bs through argu
ment, but through testimony. You might
cover the whole earth with apoiogios for
Christianity and learned treatises in defense
of religion—you would not convert a soul.
Leotures on the harmony between science
and religiou are beautiful mental discipline,
but have never saved a soul, and never will
save a soul. Put a man of the world and a
man of the church against each other and
the man of the world will in all probability
get the triumph. There are a thousand
things in our religion that seem
illogical to the world, and always
will , seem illogical. Our weapon in
this conflict is faith, not logic; faith, not
metaphysics; faith, not profundity; faith,
not scholastic exploration. But then, in
order to have faith, we must have testi
mony, and it five hundred men, or one
thousand men, or five hundred thousand
men, or five million men get up and tell me
that they have felt the religion of Jesus
Christ a joy, a comfort, a help, an aspira
tion, I am bound as a fair-minded man to
accept their testimony. I want just now
to put before you three propositions, the
truth of which I think this audience will
attest with overwhelming unanimity.
The first proposition is, We are witnesses
that the religion of Christ is able to convert
a soul. The gospel may have had a hard
time to conafier us; we may have fought it
back, but we were vanquished. You say
conversion is only an imaginary thing. We
know better. “We are witnesses.” There
never was so great a change in our heart
and life on any other subject as on this.
People laughed at the missionaries
in Madagascar because they preached
ten years without one convert; but
there are 33,000 converts in Madagas
car to-day. People laughed at Dr.
Adoniram Judson, the Baptist missionary,
because he kept on preaching in Burmah
five years without a single convert; but
there are 20,000 Baptists in Burmah to-day.
People laughed at Dr. Morrison in China for
preaching there seven years without a sii.gle
conversion; but there are 5,888 Christians in
China to-day. People laughed at the mis
sionaries for preaching at Tahati fifteen
years without a single conversion, aud at
the missionaries for preaching in Bongal
seventeen years without a single conversion;
yet in all those lands there are multitudes
of Christians to-day.
But why go so far to find evidence of the
gospel’s power to save a soul? "We are
witnesses.” We were so proud that no mail
could have humbled us; we were so hard
that no earthly power could have melted
us; angels of God were all around about us,
they could not overcome us; but one day,
perhaps at a Methodist anxious seat, or at
a Presbyterian catechetical lecture, or at a
burial, or on horseback, a power seized us,
and made us get down, and mado us trem
ble, and made us knoel, and made us ory
for mercy, and we tried to wrench our
selves away from the grasp, but we could
not. It flung us flat, and when we arose
we wero as much changed as Gourgis, the
heathen, who went into a prayer meeting
with a dagger and a gun, to disturb the
meeting and destroy it, but the next day
was found crying, “Oh, my great sins! Oh,
my great Savior!” and for eleven years
preached the gospel of Christ to his fellow
mountaineers, the last words on his dying
lips being, “Free grace!” Oh, it was free
grace!
There is a man who was for ten years a
hard drinker. The dreadful appetite had
sent down its roots around the palate and
the tongue, and on down until they were
interlinked with the vitals of body, mind
and soul; but he has net taken any stimu
lants for ten years. What did that? Not
temperance societies. Not prohibition laws.
Not inoral suasion. Conversion did it
“Why,” said one upon whom tho great
change hadoimo, “sir, I feel just as though
I were somebody else!” There is a sea cap
tain who swore all the way from New
York to Havana, and from Havana to
Han Francisco, and when he was in
port he was worse than when be was on the
sea. What power was it that washed his
tongue clean of profanities, aud made him
a psalm-singer. Conversion by the holy
spirit There are thousands of people in
this assemblage to-day who are no more
what they once were than a watering is a
nightshade, or a morning lark is a vulture,
or day is night
Now, if I should demand that all those
people here present who have felt the con
verting power of religion should rise, s > far
from Itemg ashamed, they would spring to
their feet with more alacrity than they
ever sprang to tho dance, tho tears ming
ling with tlisir exhilaration as they cried,
“We are witnesses!” And if they tried to
sing tho old gospel hymn, they would
break down with emotion by the time they
got to the second line:
Ashamed of Jesus, that dear friend
On whom my hopes of heaven depend'
No! When I blush, be this my shame:
That 1 no more revere his name
Again 1 remark that “ive are witnesses”
of the gospel’s power to comfort. Ti.ere aro
Christian parents hero who are willing to
testify to tiie power of this gospel to com
fort. Your son had just graduated from
school or college and was going into busi
ness, and the Lord took him. Or your
daughter had just graduate)! from the young
ladies’ seminary, aud you thought she was
going to be a useful woman and of long life;
but the Lord took her, and you were
tempted to say, “All this culture of twenty
years for nothing!” Or the little child
came home from school with the
hot fever that stopped uot for
the agonized prayer or for the skilful
physician aud the little child was takeu.
Or the babe was lifted out of your arms by
some quick epidemic, and you stood won
dering why God ever gave you that child,
at all, if so soou He was to take it away.
And yet you aro not repining, you are not
fretful, you are not fignting against God.
What has enabled you to stand ail the trial?
“Oh,” you say, “I took the medicine
that God gave my sick soul. In my distress
I threw myself at the feet of a sympathiz
ing God; aud when I was too weak to
pray, or to look up, he breathod into
me a peace that I think must be tho
foretaste of that heaven where there is
neither a tear, nor a farewell, nor a grnvo.”
Come, all ye who have been out to the gravo
to weep there—come, all ye comforted
souls, get up off your knees. Is there no
power in this gospel to soothe the heart? Is
there no power in this religion to quiet the
worst paroxysm of grief? There comes up
an answer from comforted widowhood, and
orphanage, aud childlessness, saying, “Ay,
Ay, we are witnesses!” Whan a man has
trouble the world comes in and says, “Now
get your mind off this; g i out anil breathe
the fresh air; plunge deeper into
business. What poor advice! (bit your
mind off it! When everything is upturned
with tho bereavement, and everything re
minds you of what you have lost. Get
your mind off it! They might as well ad
vise you to scop thinking. You cauuot
stop thinking, and you cannot stop think
ing in that direction. Take a w alk in the
fresh air! Why, along that very street, or
very road, she onoo accompanied you.
Out of that grass plat she plucked
flowers, or into that show window
shejlooked, fascinated, saying: “Come, see
the pictures,” Go deeper into business?
Why, she was associated with all you;
business ambition, and since she lias gone
you have no atnbitiou left. O, this is a
clumsy world when it tries to comfort a
broken heart. I can build a Corliss’ engine.
I can paint a Raphael’s “Madouna,” 1 can
play a Beethoven’s “Eroieu Symphony” as
easily as this world can comfort a broken
heirt. And yet you have been com
forted. How was this done? Did
Christ come to you and say, “Get
your rnind off this; go out and breathe
fresh air; plunge deeper into business?”
No. There was a minute when he came to
you—perhaps in the watches of the night,
perhaps in your place of business, perhaps
along the street —and he breathed something
into your soul that gave peace, rest, infinite
quiet, so that you sould take out the photo
graph of the departed one and look into the
eyes and the face of the dear one and say:
“It is all right; she is hotter off; I would
not cull her back; Lord, I thank thee that
thou hast comforted my poor heart.”
Again: I remark that we are witnesses
of the fact that religion has power to give
composure in the last moment. I never
shall forget the first time I confronted
death. We went across the cornfields In
the country. I was led by my father's
baud, and we can e to the farm house where
the bereavement had come, and we saw the
crowd of wagons and carriages; but there
was one carriage that especially attracted
my boyish attention, and it had black
plumes. 1 said, “What’s that? what’s that?
Why those black tassels on the top?” and
after it was explained to me. I was lifted
up to look upon the bright face of au aged
Christian woman, who three days before
had departed In triumph; the whole scene
mado au improssion 1 never forgot.
In our sermons and in our lay exhortations
we are very apt, when we want to bring
illustrations of dying triumph, to go back
to some distinguished personage—to a John
Knox or a Harriet Newell. But I want you
for witnesses. I want to know if yon have
ever soon anything to make you believe
that the religion of Christ can give com
p sure iu tho final hour. Now, in the courts,
attorney, jury and judge will never admit
me e hearsay. Tney demapd that the wit
ness mu it have seen with his owu eyes, or
heard with his own ears, and so lain criti
cal in my examination of you now:and I
want to know whether you have see i or
hoard anything that manes y <u believe that
the religion of Christ gives composure iu
the final hour.
“O, yes,” you say, “I saw my father and
mother depart. There was a great differ
ence in their death bods. Standing by the
one we felt more veneration. By tne other,
there was more tenderness.” Before the
one, you bowed perhaps in awe. In the
other case you felt as if you would like to
go along with her. How did they feel in
that last hour? How did they seem to act?
Were they very much frightened? Did they
take hold of this world with both hands as
though they did not want to give it up?
“O, no,” you say, “no; I remember as
though it were yesterday; she had a kind
word for us all, and there wero a few mo
moutoee distributed among the children, and
then she told us how kind we must be to
our father in his loneliness, and then she
kißSod us good-by and went asleep as oaltniy
as a child in a cradle.
What made her so composed? Natural
courage? “No,” you say, “mother was very
nervous; when the carriage Inclined to tho
side of the road, she would cry out; she was
always rather weakly.” What, then, gave
her e imposure? Was it because she did not
care much for you, and the pang of parting
was not great? “O,” you say,“she s lowered
upon us a wealth of affection; no mother
ever loved her children more than mother
loved us; she showed it by the way she
nursed us when we were sick, and she toiled
for us until her strength gave out.” Wnat.
then, was it that gave her composure in the
last her? Do not hide it. Be frank and let
me know. “O,” you say, “it was because
she was so good; she made the Lord her
portion, and she had faith that she would
go straight to glory, and that we should all
meet her at last at the foot of the throne.”
Here are people who say, “I saw a Chris
tian brother die, and he triumphed.” Aud
someone else, “I saw a Christian sister die,
and she triumphed.” Home one else will
say, “1 saw a Christian daughter die, and
she triumphed.” Come, ail ye who have
seen the last moments of a Christian, and
give testimony in this cause on trial. Un
cover your heads, put your hand on the old
family Bible from which they used to read
the promises, and promise in the presence
of high heaven that you will tell the truth,
the whole troth, aad nothing but the truth.
With what you have seon with your own
eyes, and from what you hare heard with
your own ears, is there power in this gospel
to give calmness and triumph in the last
exigency! The response comes from all
sides, from young, and old, and middle
aged: "We are witnesses!”
You se>, my friends, I havo not put be
fore you to-day an abstraction, or chimera,
or anything like guess-work. I present you
affidavits of the liost men anil women,
living and death Two witnesses in court
will establish a fact. Hero are not two wit
nesses, but thMisands of witnesses—on
earth millions of witnesses, and in heaven a
great multitude of witnesses that no man
can number, testifying that there is power
in this religion to convert the soul, to give
comfort in trouble, and to afford com
posure in the last h ur. If ten men should
otne to you when you are sick with
appalling sickness, and say they had the
same sickness and took a certain medicine,
and it cured them, you would proba
bly take it Now, suppose ten other men
should come up and say: “We don’t be
lieve there is anything in that medicine.”
"Well,” I say, “have you ever triod it?”
“No, I never triod it, but I don’t believe
there is anything in it” Of eourso you dis
credit their testimony. The skeptic may
come and say, “There is no power in your
religion.” “Havo you ever tried it?" “No,
no.” "Then, avaunt!" bet me take the
testimony of the millions of souls that have
lieon converted to Hod, and comforted in
trial, and solaced in the last hour. We will
take their testimony as they cry, “We are
witnesses!”
Homo time ago I’rof. Henry of Washing
ton discovered a now star, and the tidings
sped by submarine telegraph, and all the
observatories of Europe were watching for
that now star. O, hearer, looking out
through the darkness of thy soul to-day,
caust thou Hoe a bright light beaming on
thee? "Where.”’ you say; “where! how can
I find it?” Look along by the line of the
cross of the Hon of Hod. Do you not see It
trembling with all tendernes< and beaming
with all hope? it is the star of Bethlehem I
Deep horror then my vitals froze.
Death-struck, 1 ceased the tide to stem,
When suddenly a star arese -
It was the Star of Bethlehem.
Oh, hearer, get your eye on it. It is
oasior for you now to become Christians
than it is to stay away from Christ and
heaven.
When Madame Sontng began her musical
career she was hissed olf the stage at Vienna
by the friends of her rival, Amelia Htein
inger, who had already begun to decline
through her dissipation. Years passed on,
and one day Madame Sontag, in her glory,
was rhling through the streets of Berlin,
when she saw a little child loading a blind
woman, and she said, “Como here, my little
child, come here. Who is that you are
leading bv the hand?” And the little child
replied, “That’s my mother; that’s Amelia
Hteininger. She uso l to be a great singer,
but she lost her voice, and she cried so
much ab ut it that she lost her eyesight.”
“Hive my iove to her,” said Madame Son
tag, “and tell her an old acquaintance will
call on her this afternoon.” The next week
in Berlin a vast assemblage gathered at a
benefit for that poor blind woman, and It
was saiil that Madame Sontag Hang that
night an she had never sung before. And she
took a skill 'd oculist, who in vain tried to
give eyesight to the poor blind woman.
Until the dav of Amelia Stelninger’s
death Madame Sontag took care
of her, and her daughter after
her That was what the queen of song did
for her enemy. But, oh, hear a more
thrilling story still. Blind immortal, poor
and loit, thou who, when the world and
Christ were rivals for thy heart, did hiss
thy Lord away—Christ comes now to give
thee sight, to give tbeo a homo, to glvo thee
hoavon. With more than a Sontag’s gon
erosity he comes now to meet your need.
With more than a S mtag’s music he comes
to plead for thy deliverance.
IOWA IN DOUBT.
Prohibitionists Will Quit the Republi
can Party in a Body.
Des Moines, la. July 5. —The attempt of
the lowa republicans, in their' Sioux City
platform, to straddle the prohibition ques
tion in order to regain their losses in river
counties is likely to cost them dearly in the
Slough Water districts, as the interior of
the state is commonly called. Secretary
Cook of the prohibition stato committee
said to-day:
“Our committee has just had a meeting,
and we are now preparing a call for a pro
hibition state convention. The convention
will be a mass convention, and will be hold
in Ides Moines Sept. 4. We propose to issue
an address to the voters of lowa, and to
nominate a full state ticket. The repub
lican platform is so clearly a straddle of the
prohibition question, and is so plainly a
trap to deceive voters, that no honest pro
hibitionist cares to lend his indorsement to
it. If the Lozier resolution had been en
grafted in the platform there would have
been no necessity for our party to take the
field, but it was rejected and sneered at,
and we propose now to thoroughly organize
the prohibitionists of lowa, who have deep
convictions upon the all important ques
tion, and poll the largest vote over given
the prohibition ticket in this state. We are
assured of all too assistance necessary from
the national prohibition committee and will
have some of the best speakers in the
nation in the state this fall. lowa has de
clurod for prohibition and wo cannot afford
to lose this state. If the cause should now
Use this state it would set us back a quarter
of a century in our great work for the
suppression of the liquor traffic in the
nation. We will have a large convention
here on Sept. 4, and some of the great pro
hibition orators of the nation Will be here.
We have ulready held one congressional
convention anil that was in the Eighth dis
trict. Rev. L. A. Uilley of College Springs,
I’ago county, was nominated for congress,
and he will reoeive a large vote. The con
vention, which was a good one, was held at
Clearfield, Taylor county. Hon. John A.
Brooks, our candidate for vice president in
1888, was present and made a great speech.
We will have congressional candidates in
every district in the state.”
Mr. Cooke further stated that he believed
most of the prohibition votes would come
from the Republican party, as that party
contained the men who had been always
steadfast prohibitionists, but who now
would be estranged by the course of du
plicity that had been adopted irqthe making
of the republican platform. *
Spain’s New Cabinet.
Madrid, July 6. —The new cabinet is
ooinposed of extreme protectionists. It will
pursue an active colonial policy, but will
remain neutral in European matters. Only
conservative papers express approval. All
the independent and liberal papers condemn
the hasty change.
Of the new cabinet Admiral Berenger is
a democrat, and Senator Eabre aDd the
Duke of Tetuan hold liberal views. All are
nominees of Gen. Campers.
Valencia’s cnolara Record.
Madrid, July 6. —The cholera epidemic
in Valencia has slightly increased. Eleven
new cases and three deaths are reported at
Rolova, and three new cases and three
deaths at Gandla.
The oholera returns from Valencia show
a total of twenty-nine cases and eighteen
deaths Saturday, auda total of twenty-ons
new cases and thirteen deaths Sunday.
i daily, $lO a tear.
- 5 CENTS A COPY. V
WEEKLY, $1.25 A YEAR |
RIFLEMEN AT BERLIN.
THE FEDERAL MEETING OPENED
WITH A PARADE.
The Visiting Marksmen From This
Country Led the Visiting Delega
tions—A Series of Picturesque In
dustrial Groups Add Interest to the
Procaßsion—A Speech of Welcome.
Berlin, July 6.—The German federal
rifle meeting opened to-day. A splendid
procession starting from Brandenburg
gato inarched through the gayly decorated
streets to the town hall and thence to the
shooting grounds. A herald carrying the
imperial banner led the procession. The
different bodies taking part in the parade
were arranged in order, according to their
nationalities, the visiting American rifle
men taking precedence over other foreign
militia. Each corps was beaded by a band
and by target and flag bearers.
A PICTURESQUE DISPLAY.
A series of industrial groups followed,
and after them came riflemen representing
the developments of the German shooting
guilds since the thirteenth contury, and'
attired in the costumes ofjthe different peri
ods. A number of pictorial cars, on which
wore groups symbolical of German citiea
and others representing scenes of previous .
schuetzenfests, and the triumphal cartl
"Germania” and “Barlina,” dosed the pro
cession.
GIVEN AN OVATION.
The paraders were given an ovation by
tho thousands of spectators that lined the
route. On reaching tho town ball each
section was greeted with a flourish of
trumpets, and when all had arrived Burgo
master Forckenbeck delivered au address of
welcome, which lasted over an hour. A
number of New York Independents, riding
two abreast, headed the Americans. The
others were afoot. The weather was dull,
with occasional gleams of sunshine.
DEPUTIES IN DISORDER.
Signor Crlspl Refuses to Divulge a
Series of Charges.
Rome, July C.—There was another scene
of disi >rder in the Chamber of Deputies to
day, duo to Premier Crispi’s declaring that
ho possessed documents containing serious
charges against the municipal authorities
of Catania, and refusing to produce tho doc
uments until the proper time arrives.
Signor Imbrianiand other members vehe
mently protested against the premier’s
course.
A Bulgarian Rumor Denied.
Sofia, July 6.— Tho Suobada denies that
Premier Stambouloff or the Bulgarian peo
ple nre seeking an entente cordiale with
Russia or the expulsion of Prince Ferdi
nand from the Bulgarian throne.
Dr. Burtsall to be Transferred.
Rome, July 6.—The pope has confirmed
Archbishop Corrigan’s action in regard lo
Dr. Burtsall, and tho latter will be trans
ferred from bis urban to a rural parish.
Wiesmann Bays He Has Not Resigned.
London, July 6.— The Berlin correspon
dent of the News says that Baron VV iss
inanu denies that ho has tendered his resig
nation.
BOLD BUNCO GAME.
A Colorado Farmer Swindled Out of
S3OO by Confidence Men.
Boulder, Col., July s.— One of the
boldest bunco games ever played in Colo
rado occurrod near this place a day or two
ago. The first of last week a gentleman,
giving his name as Mr. Lee, from Omaha,
called at tho farm of J. J. Wallace, and,
after inspecting the property, entered into
negotiations for its purchase. A couple
of days later another stranger called at
the farm and unfolded a lottery
scheme to Wallace and Lee, whereby
they could secure $2,000 by invest
ing SBOO. The latter appeared to
become angry over the presumption of the
man and stated he was opposed to any such
methods of securing money. But Lee’s pro
testations were in vain. Wallace was de
termined to invest, and came to Boulder to
borrow SBOO. His farm, a floe one, being
in his wife's name, he could not negotiate a
loan, so he wont to his brother, the Rev.
George Wallace, told him he had a scheme
and secured tho money, promised to pay the
money back that night. True to hit prom
ise, Wallace returned to his brother’s house
that evening and told the following story:
He had returned to his farm from Boul
der, accompanied by “Lee,” the would-be
purchaser of his property. They were met
by the Slattery man, the two buggies were
drawn up side by side and “Leo” handed
over SBOO, for which he received a paokage
containing ostensibly $2,000. These bills
were deliberately counted by Mr. Lee, who
then remarked:
“I suppose you will be as good as your
word and let Mr. Wallace have the benefit
of this scheme?”
The lottory man assented, end Wallace
eagerly reached for his currency and began
to count it out.
“Ob, let mo count it for you,” remarked
Lee. “I am used to counting money.”
With this he grasped the pile, stepped in
the other buggy and loft poor Wallace
swindled and outwitted as they rapidly
drove away. Neither of the thieves nave
yet been heard from, though officers are oh
their track.
A Triple-Born Aristocrat.
From the A r tf York Tribune.
The idea which some people have about
the French word “nee” is amusing. It Is
no unusual thing to find some people speak
ing of Mrs. James Brown, “nee” Miss Kitty
Smith, and it must be confessed that this
innocent disease is epidemic among a cer
tain class of country correspondents. But
ono use of this severely worked French
word which recently appeared in a little
paper seems likely to wear the champion
ship palm unchallenged for some time. The
effusion was ab .ut titled aristocracy.
A woman twice married before, born the
daughter of a count, was wedded for a third
time to a French marquis. The delightful
story called her (the names are fictitious)
“the Marquise le Grandjoix, nee Countess
Loultmeade, nee Baroness Granville, nee
Lady Beverwick.” If the record of birthe
in the family Bible of this often-born lady
were kept according to the theory of the
man who wrote that story what an unsolv
able problem it would be 1
Five Thousand a Year for a Baby.
From the Neuj York Times.
Judge Beach yesterday confirmed the re
port of Referee William H. Willis in the
matter of Francis Marion W'halev, the
infant son of the late Louisine McUready
Whaley, under whose will be received about
$600,000. The child nas been living with
his aunt, Marie Whaley Chisholm, at
Ed is to island, near Charleston, 8. O. The
judge thinks that $5,000 a year will be
ample allowance for the support and ex
penses of the boy. He allows his aunt SI,OOO
for past expenses.
