The morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, January 26, 1891, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Text. the MORNING NEWS. 1 ' gaiitijsHiD 1850. Incorpoutel ISBB. > | J. H. LSTUX.Presideiit. | IVG LAW AND BAYONETS IB SENATE TO FI ~HT TO A FINISH THIS W fSK. I (Adoption c” the Cloture Resolu on Would Not Make Certain the asasge of the Elections Bill - Senator /ashburn Looks for the Measure’s lefe^t. Washington, Jan. 25.—Senator Wash jrn of Minnesota is quoted as saying that p adoption of the clotura resolution would it be an indication that the force bill nuld pa** the Senate if a vote is ever ken upon it. “I do not know, of course, ie exact number of republican senators ho will vote against the election bill,’' said b ' 'but the same senators who voted to pstpone it for the silver bill will certainly ite against the bill, with the exception of le Idaho senators. As to Senator Plumb, e whom you ask me, 1 cannot say what peition he will take upon the bill, but it vuld not surprise me at all if the junior rnator from Kansas should vote for it. b, I cannot tell you how Senator Cunsron will vote. If be or any cber republican senator, in addition to tose I bave named, should vote against t e bill it would fail. It looks now to me a if it might t.e a tie vote, if it ever comas t. a vote, and that the vote of the Vioe resident may deckle the question. I hope tie bill may be defeated for the best inter els of the Republican party and the coun ty." THE EFFECT ON THE FAIR. All the southern senators and democratic rpresentatives are a unit in favoring the wthholding of southern state appropriations for the Chicago fair unless the fo-ce bill is prmanently interred. Mr. McMillln sums itall up thus: "It simply a question of no firce bill or no fair. A people whose liber ties are subvertei are not going to furnish tie fireworks to illuminate their decline. 1 tlink, too, that if the south is not repre sented at the exposition there will Jpe a fati ng off in the estimated gate receipts that Kill be felt. The popU of the south are a uait on this matter. •’ THE WEEK IN CONGRESS. {By the Associated Press.) The cloture rule will again come before the Senate to-morrow as the unfinished business, if an adjournment is not caused by some event beyond the control of the majority in that body. If such an adjourn ment intervenes the consequent beginning of anew legislative day, with the re newal of the question of the ap firoval of the journal, may cause a r>ss of some time by the majority before they can secure a resumption of the consid eration of the cloture rule. The programme of the majority is as yet largely a matter of speculation, but clearly their dependence is upon tho presence ia the chamber of sev eral senators now absent. ALL TO BB BACK BY TO-MORROW. It is expected that not later than Tuesday evening the majority forces will be thus recruited, and when this happens the decisive movement that is expected to dis pose of the cloture resolution will follow immediately. The time that would be con sumed by the minority in opposition to the final vote upon the elections bill, in the event of the adoption of the cloture resolution, cannot be calculated with exactness. A majority vote of the Senate will be required to take up the elections bill again, and after that, if t e expectations of the framers of the cloture rule are realized, about sixteen hours, more or less, will be required to com ply with its provisions, assuming that the minority resort to every possible means of obstruction, and bring the Senate face to face with the final vote upon the adoption of the measure as amended by the commit tee on privileges and elections. A CONTINUOUS SESSION. Probably it will be necessary for the majority, if they succeed in their prelim inary movements, to insist upon a contin uous session of the Senate after the cloture is applied, as an adjournment, or even a recess, might furnish the minority with fresh ammunition to continue their defense. Should it happen that final action is taken by tne Senate upon the cloture and elections bill before the end of the week it is proba ble that an appropriation hill—possibly the pensions appropriation bill—will be taken “P. In the House. In the House matters are in such a condi tion that it is impossible to predict with much certainty what will be done even from day to day. It is the purpose of the majority to push through tha appropriation bills ai rapidly as possible, but the expert enceof the past week indicates that progress will be slow. The naval bill is the unfinished business and the legislative, executive and judicial bill, which will be the next regular appropriation measure taken up, affords numerous opportunities for delay without resort to any tactics that can be character ized as obstructive. Monday is “district” day, but appropriation bills will probably crowd local legislation out of the way. the appropriation bills. The condition of the appropriation bills is under serious consideration by the repub lican leaders of the House, and they are earnestly enveavoring to devise some means of facilitating their passage, and it i s not unlikely that considerable time will be consumed uring the week in discussion and action on proposed changes in the rules. It is not the . Mention of the republicans, however, to iI, IQ F a an y amendments to the rules un business is greatly delayed, i * , progress made from day to day will J control them, and it is possible that Th i at all will be recommended. _ ® Bllver bill is still in the hands of the committee, but there is a strong pooabuity, unless it is acted on before the the week, that an attempt will be fnrtu t 0 ‘tkdhorge the committee from its Si- .^ r consideration, and bring the matter mrectly before the House. DEMOCRACY'S CLUB3. Encouraging Replies to the Circular of the i xecutiva Committee. ashington, Jan. 25.—The responses re- Cf nved from the vice presidents of the na lunal b'ague of democratic clubs to the sent out by the executive commit- - have been very encouraging. They an active interest in the organization Man Br , Pat ' desire to extend its usefulness. towMV the states have dubs in every .'P I an d in some the young men who 8 iahen hold are very zealous. fc LAIN ON THE 80UTH BOUND. J °hn Brown Killed at Cambellton by William Gay hart. Bbunson, S. C., Jan. 35.—1 t is reported ■ that John Brown was killed at Camp 'edton this morning by William Gayhart. T' - ora white, and were connected with ti', Bound railroad, which crosses at han ii Pomtk Gayhart. it is said, used a pick J™**, striking Grown on the side of his Ln.L, - . coroner is on the ground, but ij completed his work yet. Gayhart iPhe JHofning ffetoft. A BLO W IN THE NORTH. The Wires Down North and W T est of Washington. Norfolk, Va., Jan. 35. —There were heavy easterly winds along the coast last night and this morning, but the signal service wires are down and it is impossible to get news of any wrecks. NEWS WIRES DOWN. Washington, Jan. 26.—The wires are all down north of Baltimore and wost. A severe snow and wind storm struck Washington early last night and listed about eight hours. It was not very cold, however, and as the snow came down it melted into a disagreeable slusn, which made pedestrianisin extreraly un comfortable. The fall was equiv alent to about 1)4 inches of rain. The wind blew about forty-two miles per hour. It is said at the signal office that the storm started on its way through the east Friday, coming up from the western gulf regions. Washington was right in its path, but the storm did not reach its maximum violence until off the Middle Atlantic and South New England ooast. There toe wind blew fifty miles per hour. New York city had a forty-mile an hour gale and a heavy snowfall besides. SEVERE ON THE WIRES. The storm was particularly severe on the telegraph wires throughout the region in which it prevailed, and many were pros trated. The Western Union Telegraph Company has no wires north of Baltimore, and no direct wires west. Messages have l ean received from New York during the day and evening } but they come in a round about way. via the west, southwest and the south. All messages received for transmission to any point west or north are takon subject to indefinite delay. In the south the storm was not so severe and the wires are reported in better condition than elsewhere. It is said there are probably 1,000 telegraph poles down between this city and Grafton. W. Va. CONDITION OF THE WIRES. Philadelphia, Jan. 25.—At midnight Supt. Gill of the Western Union made the following statement of the condition of the wires of that company: "The portion of tne line on the Pennsylvania rail road between Harrisburg and Pittsburg is all right, but the pike line between these points is prostrated. Chester, Pa., can get Baltimore; Baltimore and Washing ton are working west. We expect to repair the portion of our line between here and Chester and thus establish communication with the south and west by way of Washington and Baltimore. Between Harrisburg and Balti more there are many breaks and communi cation is out off. On the New York divi sion the situation is simply bewildering. There are at least a thousand breaks be tween New York and Philadelphia on the Pennsylvania railroad route alone, and the condition on the baif-dezen routes to New York is equally discouraging. We will uot be able to get a wire to New York to-morrow. My information as to the condition of affairs in New York is as follows: New York gets Buffalo on four wires, Albany on two wires and Oh i angst on one wire. Boston is reached via Albany. Boston has a wire to Portland had one to Springfield.” OONOBBSBIONAL OONTE3T3. The Remaining Cases Not Apt to Be Acted On. Washington, Jan. 25.—The committee on elections will in all probability let the remaining contested election cases die on the calendar. The Florida case, which was reported in favor of the contestant by the majority of the committee, will not be called up until the republicans have a quorum of their own members present. A republican member of the committee said yesterday that he did not think a quorum of the republicans oould be obtained this session. The committee on elections has been unable to secure a quorum of its mem bers for a number of weeks, and in conso qnence thereof no report has beeu mads on the Phelan case. This case is still open and liable to remain to, heoause of the precari ous health of Representative Phelan. SUBSIDIES FOR (STEAMERS. The Ellis Before Congress Looked Upon as Dead. Washington, Jan. 25.—" The steamship subsidy bills seem to be dead,” said Reprej sentatlve Blount, "but they may yet be taken up and passed, provided a way is found to bring them to a vote in tbe House. No, I am not aware of any purpose to have the committee on rules bring in a resolu tion to fix a day for a vote on the subsidy bills. I don’t suppose that I would be oon sulted beforehand if suoh were the inten tion.” It is said that Speaker Reed has bung up the subsidy bills in order to bulldoze Rep resentative Farquhar into voting for the force bill if it reaches the House. caught in the Delaware. ▲ 160-Pound Beal Killed Near Augus tine Pier. Delaware City, Del., Jan. 35.—A fur seal, weighing about 150 pounds and nearly five feat and over two feet in width, was killed on the shore of the farm of Fish Com missioner Sbubert, about six miles south of Augustins pier, on Thursday afternoon. The animal U considered quite a curiosity here, as nothing of the kind has been seen here within the memory of the oldest resi dent. There was a heavy southeast wind blowing at the time of high water, and the animal was carried up in the high grass on the shore aod was unable to make the bay at the time of ebb. HUNTINGTON KEPT COOL. A Corpse Removed From Hla House While His Wife Entertains Friends. New York, Jan. 24.—While Mrs. C. P. Huntington, the wife of the railroad mag nate, was entertaining friends in her home on Park avenue, Thursday evening, she was kept in ignorance of the fact that Julius Lundell, a young Swedish servant in the house, had shot himself. Lundell killed hirasalf in tbe cellar. His weakness vras drink. A fellow servant heard the pistol shot and fouDd the body with a bullet hols in the heart. He in formed Mr. Huntington, who bad tbe body removed without the knowledge of his wife and guests. MR9. W. O. BOUTWILL DEAD. She Was a Daughter of William H. Spencer of This City. St. Augustine, Jan. 35.—Mrs. William O. Boutwall of this city died yesterday morning from tbe effects of pneumonia contracted several days ago. The deceased was tbe daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Spencer of Savannah, Ga. Her father came last night just before her death. Tbe funeral this morning was largely attended. Tbe Sons of Veterans and tbe St. Augus tine Guards, of which organizations the husband was lieutenant and corporal, respectively, were present. SAVANNAH, GA., MONDAY, JANUARY 2(i, 1891. CORBIN’S; SCHEME Items About Business and Several Cther Matters. New York, Jan. 25.—Whether anything shall come of Austin Corbin’s scheme for a system of tunneling bv which rap.d transit may be secured or not, bis plan has attracted general attention on account of its magnifi cent compreher.sivei.ess. It is a Cjloses \ proposition. It is a proposal of engineering to which the Brooklyn bridge, tue Pacific railways and that magnitice t endeavor of Henry Meigs in South Amerioa, the scaling of the Andes with a railway track, must yield their engineering supremacy. It vir tually brings Jersey City, Brooklyn ana New York into one community, connected in all their parts with steel rails laid through tunnels 100 feet below the surface, aud which are bored through s lid rock. It is a plan wbioh contemplates with equanimity the expenditure of perhaps $100,000,000. It is just such a scheme ns might be ex pected from men of mighty brains at tbe close of tbe nineteenth century. And tbe list of proposed incorporators contains the names of men who do great things and contemplate enormous operations as the average man thinks of a tietty purchase. The magnitude of the scheme fascinates, so that in going about from place to place where men of affairs meet it is easy to bear them speak in words of admiration of this proposition, and tbe faith is that the plan will be surely undertaken and consum mated. Of course, these men are not considering glory. For the great achievements of this day are inspired by the desire for profit rather than for fame. It Is easy, therefore, to sre that these capitalists realize the euorrnous profits which will follow the establishment of a system of rapid transit which will make Jersey City, Brooklyn and New York contiguous, and passage from one point to another witain these limits easy, safe and swift. anew newspaper. The establishment of anew newspaper in New York is contemplated. Mr. John H. Btarin, the millionaire merchant and ex oongressinan. President Knapp, of the Met ropolitan Insurance Company, also a man of wealth, and Piesldent Duke, of the great cigarette trust, who controls millions, have formed a 00-partnership for the establish ment of a daily newspaper here. Its capital is to be sufficient. Its editor in chief is to be Howard Carroll, who is a son-in-law of Mr. Btarin; its price is to be 3 cents; it is to ba issued daily, and the intention is said to make it of mugwump tendency, although nominally republican. If Mr. Btarin and Mr. Carroll are true to their political principles whioh they have enthusiastically supported always, the pa per is more likely to be unflinchingly re publican. It is to be Issued in about a month. Whether there is a field or uot for it remains to be seen. Mr. Carroll, who was formerly a journalist of prominence connected with the New York Times, may see a field or may make one. He has pres tige and pleuty of money. So that he be gins the battle most favorably. astor’s matrimonial partner. There is a large and breezy degree of lat itude in the descriptions whioh the nawsca pero are giving just now of the young woman who had caught the most valuable matrimonial partner m the world. That is about what John Jacob Astor amounts to, according to experts in such matters. There are no marriageable dukes left in England, and the noblemen of lesser degree are wound up in debt. Young Mr. Astor is endowed with six feet of solid physique, an imperturbable fund of good nature, excel lent health and is booked for an inheritance toat cannot fall short of $100,000,000. More than this, it is tbe sort of fortune which is looked unon with envy by the Goulds aud Vanderbilts of the earth. No strikes or finan cial crises can affect it. As New York goes on getting bigger and bigger the fortune of young John Jacob Astor will increase. Mr. Astor should come out with a short pamphlet of explanation about his fiancee. Tbe publio is notindifferent to the bride of $100,000,000 in these days, and Mr. Astor doubtlessly appreciates it. Three descrip tions of Miss Willing were published yes terday. The first of them described her as a black-baired woman with luscious dark eyes, a slender figure and a stately manner. Ihe second paper said she was a blonde, who recalled the delicate tints of Amalie Rives’ dainty beauty, and the third de scribed her as a "brown-haired, sunny eyed young woman who had livod so long In Europe that she spoke with a French accent.” A hundred million dollars will capture a good deal, but there is no girl who can fit in all of these descriptions even at that price. COL ROGERS’ DEATH. Tbe Action Taken by the Bar Associa tion of Sanders villa. SANDERSVTTjT.E, Ga.. Jan. 25.—The mem bers of the bar and the county officers of Washington county held a meeting on Fri day, to take suitable action on the ocoasion of the death of Col. Oscar H. Rogers, the solicitor general of the Middle judicial cir cuit, who died in this city on the night of Jan. 22. A committee of three members of tbe bar and two county officers was ap pointed to prepare a memorial on the life and servioes of Col. Rogers. Hon. J. K. Hines, Hon. John N. Gilmore and Col. R. T. Harris on ths part of the bar, and Ordi nary M. Newman and Clerk C. H. Sorell, on the part of tbe county officers, compose tbe committee. The funeral of Col. Rogers took place at 2 p. m. Saturday. A NEGRO OHUaUH IN A ROW. An iugusta Congregation Splits Over its Pastor. Augusta, Ga., Jan. 25.—There is a big row in tbe Thankful colored Baptist church here. Srven out of nine trustees, and twelve out of thirteen deacons, together with a ma jority of the flock, have secured an injunc tion restraining the pastor and his followers from using tbe church until all differences have been settled. They say that the pastor, J. S. Talbott, has overridden them and re fused them their rights In the conference, and they won’s allow the use of the church building until they are allowed a voice in the proceedings. The case will be heard Feb. 20. In the meantime Deputy Sheriff E. E. Pritchard is acting as receiver. ROBBERY AT ST. AUGUSTINE. Valuable Rings Taken From a Boom in a Hotel. Bt. Augustine, Jan. 25.—The rooms of Mrs. E. T. Kidder in.the Ban Carlos were entered Monday evening by a sneak thief, who stole from her jewel case three val uable rings, one of them an engagement rißg of unusual si*e. There are peculiar circumstances attending the robbery which are likely to solve tbe burglary of Snow’s tailor shop on Monday night, as the thief is supposed to be where the police can put hands on him at any moment. St, Augustine’s Season. St. Augustine, Fla., Jan. 25.—The tourist season is now at its hignt, with the openiug of the Cordova on Thursday next all the hotels will be in full blast. Tbe morniug and evening concerts at the Ponce de Leon are attended by ail the visitor* in the city. KILLING OF BELSHAZZAR. TALMAGE ON THE DEATH OF THE KING OF THE CHALDEANS. Tbe Building of tbe Walls of Babylon by 2,000,000 Men—Tbe Feast at the King’s Palace and the Writing on the Wall by a Finger of Fiery Ter ror. . Brooklyn, N. Y., Jan. 25.—Dr. Talmage preached tbe following sermon this morn ing in the Academy of Music in this city, and he repeated it to-night at tbe Christian Herald service in the New York Academy of Music. His text was Daniel 30: "In that was Belshazzar, the King of the Chaldeans slain.” After the sl:e of Babylon had been se lected, two million of men were employed for the construction of the wall and princi pal works. The walls of tbe city were eixty inilee in circumference. They were sur rounded by a trench, out of whioh had been dug the material for the ooostructiou of the city. There were twenty-five gates of solid brass on each side of the square oity. Be tween every two gates a great watch tower sprang up into the heavens. From each of the twenty-five gate*, on either side, a street rau straight through to the gate on the other side r >iK> that there were fifty streets, each fifteen miles long, which gave ts the city an ap pearance of wonderful regularity. Tha houses did not join each other on tha ground, and between them were gardens and shrubbery. From housetop to to house top bridges swung, ovar which the iu habitaulß are accustomed to pass. A branch of the Euphrates went through the city, over which a bridge of marvelous structure was thrown, ana under which a tunnel ran. To keep the river from ever flowing the olty in ttmes of freshet a great lake was arranged to catch the surplus, in which the water was kept as in a reservoir until times of drought, when it was sent streaming down over the thirsty land. A palace stood at each end of the Euphrates bridge; one palace, a mile and three quarters m compass, and the other palaoe, seven and a half rail- s in circumfer ence. The wife of Nebuchadnezzar, having been brought up among the mountains of Media, could not stand it in this flat oountry of Babylon, and so, to please her, Nebucnod uezzar had a mountain four hundred feat high built in the midst of the city, Tfcia mountain was surrounded by terraces, for the support of which great arches were lifted. On the top of these arohes flat stone* were laid; then a layer of reeds and bitumen: then two rows it bricks, closely cemented; then thick sheets of lead, upon which the soil was placed. . The earth here deposited was so deep tbat jthe largest trees bad room to auohor their roots. All the glory of the flowery was spread out at that tremendous bight, until it must have seemed to one below as though tbe clouds were all in blossom, and tbe very sky leaned on the shoulder of the cedar. At the top an engine was constructed, which drew the water from the Euphrates, far below, and made it spent up amid this garden qi th* skies. All this to please his wife! I think she must have been pleased. In tbe midst of this oity stood also the temple of Bolus. One of its towers was one eigbtb of a mile high, and on the top of it an observatory, which gave the astronomers great advantage, as being at so great a hight one could easily talk with the stars. The temple was full of eups, and statues, and censers, all of gold. One image weighed a thousand Babylonish talents, which would be equal to fifty-two million dollars. AU this by day, but now night was about to come down on Babylon. The shadows of her two hundred and fifty towers began to lengthen. The Euphrates rolled on, touched by tho fiery splendors of the setting sun. and gates of brass,burnished aud glittering, opened and ahut like doers at flame. The hanging gardeus of Babylon, wet with the heavy dew, began to pour, from starlit flowers and dripping leaf, a fragrance for many miles around. The streets and squares were lighted for dance, and frolic aud promenade. The theaters and galleries of art invited the wealth and pomp and grandeur of the city to rare entertainments. Beenes of riot and wassail were mingled in every street; godless mirth and outrageous excess and splsndid wickedness came to tho king’s palaoa to do their mightiest deeds of darkness. A royal feast to-night at tbe king’s palace! Rushing up to the gates are chariots, up holstered with precious cloths from Dedan, and drawn by fire-eyed horses from Togar mab, that rear and neigh in tbe grasp of the charioteers; while a thousand lords dis mount, and women, dressed in all the splen dors of Syrian emorald, and the color-blend ing of agate and the ebasteness of ooral, and the somber glory of Tyrian purple, and princely embroideries, brought from afar by camels across tbe desert, and by ships of Tarshish across the sea. Open wide tbe gates, and let the guests come in. The chamberlains and cup bearers are all ready. Hark to the rustle of the robes, and to the carol of the music! Bee the blaze of tho jewels! Lift the ban ners. Fill the oups. Ciap the cymbals. Blow tbe trumpets. Lst tbe night go by with song, and dance, and ovation; and let that Babylonish tongue be palsied that will not say, “O, King Belshazzar, live for ever 1” Ah! my friends, it was not any common banquet to which those great people came. AU parts of the earth had sent their richest viands to that table. Brackets and chande liers flashed their light upon tankards of burnished gold. Fruits, ripe and luscious, in baskets of silver, entwined with leaves, plucked from royal conservatories. Vases, inlaid with emeral and ridged with exqui site traceries, filled with nuts that wore threshed from foreitsof distant lands. Wine brought from the royal vats, foaming in ttie decanters and bubbling in tbe chalices. Tufts of cassia and frankincense wafting their sweetness from wall to table. Gor geous banners unfolding in tae breeze that came through the opened window, be witched with the perfume of hanging gar dens. Fountains rising up from incloeurea of ivory, in jets of crystals, to fall in clat tering rain of diamonds and pearls. Btatuss of nughty men looking down, from niohee in the wall, upon crowns and shields brought from sub dued empires. Idols of wonderful work, standing on the pedestals of precious stones. Embroideries stooping about the windows, and wrapping pillars of cedar, and drifting on floor inlaid with ivory and agate. Music, mingling the thrum of harps, and the clash of oymbals, and the blast of trumpets in one wave of transport that went rippling along tbe wall, and breathing among the garlands, and pouring down the corridors, and th:filing the souls of a thousand banqueters. The signal is given, aad the lords and ladies, tbe mighty men ao4 women of tbe land, come around the table. Pour oat the wine. Let foam and bubble kiss tbe rim! Hoist every one his cup, aud drink to the sentiment; "O King Belshazzar, live forever!” Be stirred bead-band and carcaaet of royal beauty gleam to the uplifted chalices, as again, and again, i.pri egtin they are emptied. Away with cxjfc Pom the palace! Tear royal dignity to tatters! Four out more wine! Give us more light, wilder music, sweeter perfume! Lord shouts to lord, oaptam ogles to captain. Goblets clash; decanters rattls. There come in the vile song, and the drunken blcoo lgh, and the slavering lip, and tho guffaw of idiotic laughter, bursting from the lips of princes, flushed, reeling, bloodshot; while mingling with it all i hear, "Huzza! huzza! for great Belshazzar!" IN'hat is that on tbe plastering of the wall lisit a spirit ! Is it a phantom i Is it God! Out of tbe biack sleeve of the dark ness a fiugei of fiery terror trembles through the air and cornea to tne wall, cir cling about as though it would write, and then, with sharp tip of flune, engraves ou tbe plastering tne doom of tbe king. Tbe music stops. The goblet falls from the nerveless grasp. There Is a thrill. There is a start. There is a thousand-voiced shriek of horror. Let Daniel b brought iu to read that writing. He conies in. Ho reads it: "Weighed in the balance and fouud want ing." Meanwhile the Assyrians, who, for two years, had beeu laying siege to t:iat oi:y, took advantage of th*t o irouxal and came in. I bear the feet of the conquerors on the palacestairs. Massacre rushes in with a thousand gleaming knives. Deatn hursts upon tbe soeue; mid 1 shut the door of that banqueting hall, for I do not want to look. There is nothing there but torn liannors, and broken wreaths, and tbe slush of upset tankards, unit tbe blood of murdered women, and tbe kicked aud tumbled oar cast of a dead King. For "in that uight was Belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans, slain." Igo on to learn that when God writes anything on the wall, a man had better read it us it is. Daniel did uot misinterpret or modify the handwriting ou the wall. It is all foolishness to expect a minister of the thegosp.J to preach always things that the people like or the people choose. Young men. what shall I preach to you to-night? Shall I tell you of tbe dignity of human nature! Shall 1 tell you of the wonders that our race has accomplished? "O! no,” you say; "tell me the message that came from God.” I will. If there is auy hand writing ou the waii, it is this lesson: " Ac cept of Christ, aud be saved!” I might talk of a great many other things;but that is the message, and so I declare it. Jesus never flat tered those to whom he preached. Ha said to those who did wrong and who were offen sive in his sight, “Yo generation of vlperi! ye whited sepulchers! how can ye escape the damnation of hell!” Faul the apostle preached before a man who was uot ready to hear him preach. What subject did be take? Did be say, “Ob 1 you are a good man, n very flue man, a very noble man?” No: he preached of righteousness to a man who was unrighteous; of temperanoe to a man who was tbe viotlm of bad ap.ietitos; of tbe j ;dgment to oome to a man wno was unfit for it. Bo we must always declare tbe message that happens to oome to us. Daniel must lead it as it is. A minis ter preached before James 1. of England, who was James VI. of Bcotland. What sub ject did be take? The king was noted all ever the world for being unsettled and wavering iu bis ideas. What did the minis ter prnsch about to this man who was James I. of England and James VI. of Bootland? He took for bis text (James 1., 6.) "He that wavereth is like a wave of tbe sea, driven with the wind and tossed.” Hugh I Jitlmer offended the king by a sermon he preached, aad the king said: "Hugh Lati mer, come and apologize." "I will,” said Hugh Latimer. Bo the day was appointed; and the king’s chapel was full of lords, and dukes, and tbe mighty meu aud woman of the oountry, for Hugh Latimer was to apologize. He began his sermon by saying, “Hugh Latimer, bethink thee! Thou art in tbe presence of thine earthly king, who can destroy the body. But bethink tbee, Hugh Latimer, that thou art in tbe pres ence of the King of heaven aud eartn. who can destroy both body and soul in hell fire.” Then be preached with appalling directness at the king’s crimes. Another lessou that comes to us: there is a great difference between the opening of tho banquet of sin and its close. Young man, if you bad looked in upon tbe banquet In the lirit few hours, you would have wished you bad been invited there, and could sit at the feast. "O, tho grandeur of Belshazzar's feast!” you would have said; but you look in at the olose of the banquet, and your blood curdles with horror. The king of terrors has there a ghastlier banquet; human blood is tl e wine, aud dying groans are the music. Sin has made itself a king in the earth. It has crowned itself. It has spread a banquet. It invites all the world to come to it. It has bung in its banqueting ball tbe spoils of all kingdoms and tbe banners of all na’ions. It has gathered from all music. It has strewn, from its wealth, the tables and tbe floors and the arches. And yet, how often is that banquet broken up, and how horrible is its end! Ever aud anon, there is a handwriting on the walL A king falls. A great culprit is arrested. The knees of wickedness knock together. God’s judgment, like an armed host, breaks In upon the banquet, and that nigbt is Belshaz zar, tbe King of tbe Chaldeans, slain. Here is a young man who says, "I cannot see why they make such a fuss about tbe intoxicating cup. Why, it is exhilarating 1 It makes me teel welL I cau talk better, think better, feel better. I cannot see why people bave such a prejudice against it.” A few years pass on, and be wakes up and finds himself in the clutches of an evil habit which be tr us to broak, but cannot : and bo cries out, “Oh, Lord Oodl belp me!” It seems as though God would aot hear his prayer; and in an agony of body and soul he cries ou’, “It biteth like a serpent, and it stingeth like an adder.” How bright it was at the start! How black it was at the last 1 Her* is a mau who begins to read cor rupt novels. "They are so charming.” says he; "1 will go out and see (for myself whether all these things are so.” He opens the gate of a sinful life. He goes in. A sinful sprite meets him with her wand. She waves her wand, and it is all enebantmeut. Why, it seems as if the angels of God bad poured out phials of perfume in the atmos phere. As ne walks on, he finds tbe hills becoming more radiant with foliage, and tbe ravmea more resonant with the fulling water. O! what a charming landscape he he seel! But that sinful sprite, with her wand, meets him again; but now she reversos tbe wand, and all tha enchantment is gone. The cup is full of poison. The fruit turns to ashes. All the leaves of tbe bower are forked tongues of hissing serpents. The flowing fountains fall back in a dead pool, stenchful with corruption. Tbe luring songs become curses aud screams of demonlao laughter. List spirits gather about him and feel for his heart and beckon him on with: “Hail, brother! Hail, blasted spirit, ball!” Ho tries to get out. He comes to the front door where be entered and triee to push it back, but tbe door turns against him; and in the jsr of that shutting door he hears these words! "This night is Belshazzar, tbe King of tbe Cbaldeaiis, slain.” Bin may open bright as tbe morning. It ends dark as the ulgntl X learn further from this subject that death sometimes breaks in upon a banquet. Why did he not go down to tbe prisons in Babylon? There were people there that would like to hare died. I suppose there were men and women iu torture in that city who would have welcomed death. But be comet to tbe palace; and just at tbe time when the mirth is dasning to tbe tiptop pitch, death breaks tn at ths banquet. We have often seen the same thing illustrated. Here is a young man just come from col lege. He i* kind. He is loving. He is enthu siasts He* eloquent. By one spring he may bound to the bights toward which many man have hare boJii struggiiug for year'. A profeaaion open* before him. Ha la estab lished in the law. Hi* friend* cheer him. Eminent men encourage hint. After awhile you may see him (lauding in the United States Senate, or moving a popular awn blage by his eloquence, ss troes are moved in a whirlwind. Some night be retiree early. A fever ia on him. Delirium, like a i actions charioteer, seize* the rein* of hi* intellect. Father and mother stand by and see the tides of ids life going out to the great ocean. The banouet i* c >ming to an end. The lights of thought, and mirth, ai.d eh qtieoce are being extinguished. Tho garlands are snatched from the brow. The vision is gone. Death at the banquet! We saw the same thing, on a larger scale, illustrate! at the last war in this country. Our whole nation had been sitting at a na tional banquet—north, south, east, aud west. What grain was there, but we grew it ou our hills. What invention was there, but our rivers must turn the new wheel, aud rattle the strange shuttle. What warm furs, but our traders must bring them from the Arctic. What fish, but our nets must sweep them for the markets. W hat music, but it must sing iu our India. What eloquence, but it must speak in our senates. Hoi to tha na tional banquet, reaching from moun tain to mountain, and from sea to saa! To prepare that banquet the sheapfolds and th* aviaries of the oouutry seat their best treas ures. The orchards piled up oo the table their sweetest fruits. The presses burst out with new wines. To sit at that table, came th* yeomanry of New Hampshire and the lumbermen of Maine and the Carolinian from the rice fields and the western emi grant from thi pines of Oregon, and we were all brothers—brothers at a banquet. Suddenly .the feast ended. What meant those mounds thrown up at I’hickamauga,Shiloh, Atlanta, Gettysburg, South Moun tain! What meant time* golden grain fields, turned Into a pasturing ground for cavalry horses? What meant the corn fields gullied with the wheels of tlia heavy supply train? Why those river* of tears— those lakes of blood? God was angry 1 Jus tice must come. A handwriting on the wall I The nation had been weighud and found wanting. Darkness! Darkness! Woe to the north I Woe to the south! Woo to the oast! Woe to the west 1 Death at the ban quet! I have also to learn from the subject that the deetructiou of the vicious, and of those who despise God, will be very sudden. The wave of mirth had dashed to the highest point when that Assyrian army broke through. It was unexpected. Suddenly, almost always, comes the doom of those who despise God, and defy the laws of men. How wav it at the deluge? Do you suppose it came through a long northeast storm, so that people for days before were sure It was coming? No; 1 suppose the morning was bright; that calmness brooded on the waters; that beauty sat enthroned on the hills; when suddenly the heaveus burst, and tne mountains sank like auchors into the sea that dashed dear over the Andes aud Him tlavas. The Hud Rea was divided. The Rgrptlans tried to cross it. There could tie no danger. The Israelites bad just gone through; where they had goas, why not the Egyptians? 01 it was such a beautiful walking place! A pavement of tinged shells and pearls, and on either side two great walls of water solid. There can be no dauger. Forward, great host of the Egyptians I Clap the cymbals, and blow the trumpet* of victory! After them! We will catch them yet, and they shall be destroyed. ISut the walls liegin to tremble. They rock! They fall! The rushlug waters! The shriek of drown ing menl The swimming of the war horse* iu vain for the shore! Th* strewing of the great host <>n the bottom of tha eea, or pltohed by the angry wave on the beach—a battered, bruised and loathsome wreck! Suddenly destruction came. Oue half hour before they oould not hav* believed it. Destroyed; and without remedy. I am just setting forth a fact, wbloh you have noticed as well as I. Ananias comas to the apostle; the apostle says: "Dii you sell the land for so much?" He says: “Yes.” It was a lie Dead! as quick as that 1 Sap phira, his wife, oomes iu. “Did you sell the land for so much?” “Yes.” It was a lie; and quick as that sh* was dead! God’s judgments are upon those who despise him and defy him. They come suddenly. The destroying angel went through Egypt. Do you suppose that any of the people kuew that he was ooining? Did they near the flap of his great wing? Not Net Suddenly, unexpectedly, he came. Skilled sportsmen do not like to shoot a bird standing on a sprig near by. If they are skilled, they pride themselves on taking It on the wing; and they wait till it starts. Death is an old sportsman; and be loves to take men flying undsr tha very sun. He loves to take them on the wing. Are there any here who are unprepared for the eternal world? Are there any here who have been living without G >d, and without hope? Let me say to you that you had better accept of the Lord Jesus Christ, lest suddenly your last chance be gone. The lungs will cease to breaths; the heart will stop. The time will come when you shall go no more to the office, or to the store, or to the shop. Nothing will be left but death, and judgment, and eternity, Ob! flee to God this hour! If there be one iu this preseuoe who has wandered far away from Christ, though he may not have heard tbs call of the gospel for many a year, 1 invite him now to come and tie saved. Flee from thy sin! Flee to the stronghold of the gospel! Now is the ac cepted time; now is the day of salvation. Good-night, my young friends! May yen have rosy sleep, guarded by him who never slumbers! May you awake in the morning strung and woll! But Oh! art thou a de splser of God? Is this thy last night on earth? HhouMest thou be awakened *in the rught by something, thou knowest not what, and there be shadows floating iu the room, and a handwriting on the wall, and you feel that your last hour is come, and there be a fainting at the heart, and a tremor iu the limb, and a catching of the breath —then thy doom would be but an echo of the word* of the text: “In that night was Belshazsar, the King of the Chaldeans, slain.” Hear the invitation of the gospel! There may te someone in this house to whom I shall never speik again, and therefore let it he in the words of the gospel, and not in my own, with which I close: “Ho, every one t hat thirsteth! Come ye to the waters. And let him that hath no money come, bny wine aud milk without money and without price.” "Come unto me, all yo who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest” O! that my Lord Jesus would now make himself so attractive to your souls that you cannot resist him; and that, if you have never prayed before, or have not prayed since those days when you knelt down at your mother’s knee, then that to night you might pray, saying: Just as I am, without one plea Hut that thy blood was shed for me. And that thou bid’st me come to thee, O, Lamb of God, I come! But if you cannot think ot so long a prayer as that, I will give you a shorter prayer that you can say: “God be merciful to me, a sinner 1” Or; if you can not think of so long a prayer as that, I will give you a still shorter one that you may utter: “Lord, save me, or I perish!” Or, if that be too long a prayer, you nsed not utter one word. Just look and live! I DAILY, $lO A Y*AR. i 1 SCENTS A OOPY. r ( WEEKLY, $1.25 A YEAR. * HEUSER’S STRANGE WISH HE WILLED THAT HIS HEART B3 COT OUT AFTER DEATH. When His Wife Died He Stuck a Knife into Her Bosom-Others of Hia Fam ily Were Tortured by the Thought of Premature Burial. Baltimore, Jan. 23 —One of the ■trangest scene* ever witnessed in this city took place yesterday afternoon in a small, gas-lit room at 214 South Sharp street. It was the partial carrying out of the dying injunction of a well-known apothecary and physician in South Baltimore, who in hia laat will and testament had directed that hia heart ahould be removed from his body after hia death, in order that his dissolu tion might be an assured fact. The peraou who made this peculiar ante mortem request was Dr. Charles F. Houser. The circumstances connected with hie ghestly directions for the disposal of his re mains make his story and that of his fam ily a very remarkable one. Dr. Hauser was born in Germany, but had lived in Balti more for thirty-five years. He was a surgeon In the federal volunteer service during the war, and after the great struggle closed he practiced inedioin* on Houth Hharp street. Advancing years and failing ljeelth induced him to relinquish his practice and open a drug store. For ten years past he has occupied the firit fl x>r of the house at 214 South Sharp street as a store, and had a sleeping apartment on the second floor. Home years ago Dr. Houser married Miss Susan Colburn, daughter of a well-known Baltimore physician. She died about eight years ago at 343 West Lombard street, where Dr. Heuser was residing. A beauti ful daughter was left by her, who is now an Inmate of Mount Hope insane asylum. Dr. Heuser was looked upon as a rather eccentric personage by some of the resident* in the vicinity of his storn, but the Misses Crone, three maiden ladies, who occupied the remalulng portion of the house, say a quieter man than be never lived. BTRANOB CLAUSE IN THE WILL. Dr. Heuser was a consumptive and for the last mouth had been complaining, and last Wednesday was found dead In bis room. 9 A will was found to have been left by tba deceased, in which be requested that bus heart be takeu from his body In the pres ence of witneisn on tbs day of his death, and that his remains be aft-r ward cremated, tbe ashes to be distributed among hia friends. He also stipulated that the Rev. E. A. Colburn of Churehvilie, Harford county, a relative of his wife, should con duct the funeral servWe. The strange clause in the will concerning the heart of the dead physician caused somewhat of a sensation, but bis friends resolved to oarry out his wishes as nearly as possible. August Weber, cashier of tbe Herman Bank of Baltim re, and ono of the best-known Hermans in the city, Isa relative of Dr. Hauser’* late wife. He and Theo dore Htableiuu.a wholashle fruit dealer at 124 Mouth Charles street, set about having tbe directions contained in the will complied with. Dr. George W. Benson, of $lO Han over street, was ask a 1 to perform |the operation. He refused to cut out Dr. ileuser's heart, bavlug been intimately ac quainted with him in life, and naturally ilisli king the task of mutilating bis corpse, especially as he thought It a useless precau tion, as there was no doubt that the ecoen tric physician was dead. The sorvices of Dr. Adolph Boehm were, however, secured, and the operation performed. THE WISHES CARRIED OUT. Yesterday afternoon at 4 o’clock Dr. Bar nard T. Meyer and his son, Hamuel Meyer, who is a student at tbe Baltimore Modicai College, the three Misses Crone and Dr. Boehm gathered in the little room in which Dr. Heuser had died. The curtains were lowered and the gas lighted. On an oper ating table in the middle of the room lay the body of the dead man. It was partially olad. In a few words Dr. Boehm explained the solemn duty he had been called upon to perform by the sacred request of tbe dead. Then be bared the bosom of the corpse, and, taking a sharp knife, he cut away the flesh. The ladle* shudderingly turned their face* from the sight. A few dexterous cuts and Dr. Boehm bad reached the heart. Bevering its attachments to the body, he removed it and held it up, dripping with blood in hi* haiid. And It wa* then replaced in tba body. Dr. Samuel Meyer produced a needle and thread and sewed up the open ing, and tbe witnesses left the room. The first portion of the will’s peculiar provision had been oarrisd cat cremation follows. This afternoon tbe bc.dy was placed in a ooflln and transferred in a hearse to Loudon Bark Crematory. The remains were fol lowed by two backs containing the few mourners. The fires in tbe crematory at Loudon park hod been lighted early this morning, and tbe furnace was at a white beat when the body was plaoed in thocradia and the doors of the oven closed on it at precisely 4 o’clock. It took about two hours for the body to be reduced to ashes. Tbe ashes will be dis posed of as directed in tbe will. The strange request of the physician is accounted for by one woo knew him well, from the fact that he had entertained a hor ror of being buried alive. He often talked on tbe subject, and would say that be wished to be cremated. Hi* fear of premature burial was increased af ter a talk he bod with a Virginia physician, who said that in a number of case* he had seen corpses disinterred which showed that the persons had come to life after burial. Home of tbe bodies were drawn up in the coffins or lay on tbsir sides dreadfully con torted. Resolved upon escaping premature burial by having his body cremated, be determined to avoid the possibility of beiDg buried alive by the singular expedient mentioned. HE PIERCED HIS WIFE’S HEART. A circumstance that adds additional interest to the singular ceremony yesterday is tbe fact that Dr. Heuser, after his wife's death, drove a knife into her heart to pro tect her from the possinility of being im mured alive. lie had freqoently told the story of this affair himself, and said it was the most terrible duty he ever had to per form to thrust tbe cold steel into the bosom of tbe woman he loved as she lay oa the bier before him, yet he could not think of letting her run the awful risk of coming back to life in her grave. Another singular circumstance is that manv members of Dr. Heuser’s family have had their hearts pierced or their veins and arteries cut after death. Tbe fear of pre mature burial seems to have pervaded the whole family and led to the utmost pre cautions being taken to insure escape from such a fate. None of them, however, ex cept the doctor, have been cremated. Flagler's Farm. St. Augustine, Fla., Jan. 35.—The Flagler farm,managed by Thomas Hastings, on the line of tbe Jacksonville, St. Augus tine and Habfax railway, is one of the most perfect in the state. Mr. Hastings is now sending to market fine, luscious peas, salads, celery, cucumbers, tomatoes, radishes and all of the kinds of garden sass so rare at this season north of Georgia.