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gjjyTDR. TALMAGE.
jgg BROOKLYN DIVINES SUV
DAY SERMON.
Subject “The City of Blood.”
. “Cnx bones are scattered at the
‘month, ss when one outteth sad
SiTLtii wood upon Thee, the O, God, earth. the Bat Lord mine T
jgUcxli.,7. urto
Thoukh you may read this text from the
1 1 read it as cut by chisel into the pe
a?ma»sacred nt s cross beneath which lie many oi
at Oawnpur,India. To show
£Sly ®f“bat Hindoofem they and have Mohammedanism fell swing, and
are, where theinselves In
as they represent religions,” nnd to demon- a
Xte “n&riiament of and abom
SSion to what extent of cruelty when fully let
human nature may go
loose, and to illustrate the hardening pro¬
cess of sin. and to remind you how our
rimious Christianity may utter its triumph this
over death and the grave, round I preach world series, my
fl«v>Dd sermon in the the
shall speak of “The City of Blood,” or
rawnDur, India- minutes . after „ A its ..
Two hours and ten Shropshire
occurrence Joseph Lee, of the
Reciment of foot, rode in upon the Cawn
pnr massacre. He was the first man I met
at Cawnpur. I wanted to hear the story
from some one who had been here in 1857
and with his own eyes gazed upon the
slaughtered heaps of humanity. I could
hardly wait until the horses were put to the
carriage, and Mr. Lee seated with ns,
started for the soene, the story of which
makes tame in contrast all Modoc and
Choctaw butcheries. or the
It seems that all the worst passions
century were to be impersonated and escort by one at
man, mid he Nana Sahib, the onr
Cawnpur, Joseph Lee, knew man per¬
sonally. Unfortunately there is no cor¬
rect picture of Nana Sahib in existence. The
pictures of him published in the books of
Europe and America and familiar to us all
are an amusing mistake. This is .the fact in
regard to them : A lawyer of England was
to India for the purpose of defending
case of a native who bad been charged
with fraud. The attorney came and so
skillfully managed the case of his client that
client paid him enormously for his
services, and he went back to England, tak¬
ing with him a picture of his Indian client.
After awhile the mutiny in India broke oat,
and Nana Sahib was mentioned as the
villain of the whole affair, and the
of England wanted a picture of
and to interview some one on Indian
affairs who had recently been in India.
Among others the journalists called upon
lawyer, lately returned. The only pic¬
he had brought from India was a with pic¬
of his client, the man charged tothe
The attorney gave this picture Hin¬
as a specimen of the way the
dress, and forthwith that picture wm
either by mistake or Intentionally, said for he
Sahib. The English client lawyer would
in dread that his some
see the use made of his picture, and it
not until the death of his Hindoo olient
the lawyer divulged the facts. of Perhaps such
never intended that the Ince n
should be preserved amid human
I said to our escort, “Mr. Lee.
there any peculiarity in Nana Sahib s
The reply was : “Nothing
peculiar. He was a dull. lazy, ooward
ly, sensual man, brought up to do nothing
wanted to continue on the same scale to
nothing.
Prom what Mr. Lee told me and from all
I could learn in India. Nana Sahib ordered
massacre in that city from sheer revenge.
father abdicated the throne, and the
paid him annually a pension of
*400,000. Wnen the lather died, the Eng¬
Goverament declined to pay the same
fellow to the son, Naha Sahib, but the poor
was not in any suffering horn laok
funds. HU father toft him *80,000 In gold
*500,000 in jewels, amounting *800,000 at in
bonds and other resources to
*1,500,000. But the poor young man
not satisfied, and the Cawnpur Wheeler, massa¬
was his revenge. General the
who had oommand of thU city,
often warned, oould not see that
sepoys were planning for his destruc¬
and that ot all his regiments and all
Europeans in Cawnpur. all this by the
Hr. Lee General explained Wheeler had to married me
that a na¬
and he naturally took her story and
there was no peril. Nana But Sahib the time hod
the proclamation from forth
and such a document want as
before had seen the light of day. I
only the an extract: kindness ot God, and the good
“As by
of the emperor, all the Christians
were at Delhi, Poo nab. Sattara and
places, and even those 5000 European
who went in disguise into the for¬
city and were discovered, are destroyed
sent to hell by the ploos and sagacious
who are firm to their religion, and os
have all been conquered of by them the present ts left
and os no trace
these places, it is the duty of all the sub
toots ana servants of the government to re¬
at the delightful Intelligence and oarry
their respective work with comfort and
As by the bounty of the glorious Al¬
and the enemy destroying fortune ot
emperor, the yellow faced and narrow
people have been sent to it ’hell, and
has been conquered, is neces¬
that ail the subjects and landowners
government servants should be as
to the present government as they the
been to the former one; that it is
beat duty of all the peasant* and
proprietors of every district to re¬
at the thought that the Christians have
sent to hall, and both the Hindoo and
religions have been confirmed,
that they should, a* usual, be obedient
authorities ot the government and
suffer any Complaint against them¬
to reach to the ears of i the higher au
— „
“Mr. Lee, what is this?” I said to our es
ss the carriage halted by an embank
et, “Bees,” be said, “is the intrench
whers the Christian* ol Oawnpur took
” It is theeematae of a wall which
at the behind time ol the mutiny with wee only shelter four from feet
htedL which, no
— ran, the bent at 1» degrees, dire* 440 Bendy men,
and a
month. A handful of floor and split peas
wns the dafly ration, wfclob and they only buried two their wsU* dead, near
one ia
because they had no time to bury them in
the earth, and the otter well ***te on
which the artillery of b the enemy death played, so
that It wee a ehotee e t wee n by turn
nnd death by bullet or abeO. Ten thousand
SS2 Hindoos outside this frail wall and
the . dying people the inside. Hindoos In ad
to army of and
y-r'--and lnvteble army of sickness
swooped down npon them. Borne want tar
r’apolexy. nisei under exposure. Starring, Others mntitatei, dropped
A
_„_-ed, toast rack, ghastly groop wafting
to die! Why did not tte b ra tten drah down
those mud walls and the R 10,006 annihilate
thenow leas than 1006 ? was because they
uupernmuraUr defended.
Sahib resolved to cele br a te an an
ry. The 281 of J 1857, would be
rs since tee bate r«:
Lord dtie, Tf“M* to
That day the I
Cawapur to be mc&brated^^H slaughtered. Other wine.
with
This to be eeiebrei ed with blood. Other
have
This with
have Icffie^rit hth?' ^
daaeeof the gay.
tea death. The infannr
c” The€
teat The
wans ei the sea ageteat a ogs
the
heavens, the victory and Hte on that anniversary day HH® gave
to people.
some
from
the intrenohmeat ’ of the E .dish
was
native Christian woman, Jacobee byname,
holding high up in her hand a letter. It
was evidently a communication from the
enemy, and General Wheeler ordered the
woman brought in. She handed him a pro¬
posed treaty. It General Wheeler and his
men would give up their weapons. Nana
Sahib would conduct them into safety.
TJhey could march out unmolested, the men.
women and children. They could go down
to-morrow to the Granges, where they
would And boats to take them in peace to
Allahabad.
There was some opposition to signing
this treaty, but General Wheeler’s wife told
him he could trust the natives, and so he
signed the treaty. There was great joy in
the intrenehment that night. Without
mol estation they went out and got plenty of
water to drink and water for a good wash.
The hanger and thirst aud exposure from
the consuming sun, with the thermometer
from 1®) to 140, would cease. Mothers re¬
joiced at the prospect of saving their chil¬
dren. The young ladies of the intrench
ment would esoape the wild beasts in human
form. On the morrow, true to the promise,
carts were ready to transport those who
were too mnch exhausted to walk.
“Get into the carriage,” said Mr. Lee,
Ganges, we for tjlll which ride the to liberated the banks of the
combatants
and non-combatants started from this place.”
On our way Mr. Lee pointed -out a monu¬
ment over the burial place whioh was opened
for General Wheeler’s intrenehment, the
well into whioh every night the dead had
memorial. been dropped, There Aronnd five it is a curious
are crosses, one at
each corner of the garden and one at the
centre, from whioh inscription I to-day read
my text. Biding on we came to the Memor¬
ial Ohurch built to the memory ot those
fallen in Cawnpur. The walls are oovered
with tablets and epitaphs. I copied two or
three of the inscriptions ; “These are they
who come out of great tribulations also.
“The dead shall be raised incorruptible
also, “In the world ye shall have tribulation,
but be of good cheer, I have overcome the
world also, “The Lord gave. The Lord
hath taken awayalso, “Come unto Me, all
ye that labor and are heavy laden.”
“Get into the carriage,” said Mr, Lee. and
we rode on to the Ganges and got oat at a
Hindoo temple standing on the banks.
“Now,” General said Mr. Lee, “here is the place to
Whioh Wheeler and his people came
under the escort of Nana Sahib.” I went
down the steps to the margin of the river.
Down these steps went General Wheeler and
the men, women and children under his
care. They stood on one side of the steps,
and Nana Sahib and his staff stood on the
other side. As the women were getting into
the boats Nana Sahib objected that only the
aged and infirm women and children should
go ou board the boats. The young and at¬
tractive eight women filled were with kept out. Twenty
boats were men, women and
children and floated out into the river. Each
boat contained ten armed natives. Then
three boats fastened together were brought
up, and General Wheeler and his staff got in.
Although orders were given to start, the
three boats were somehow detained. At this
juncture a boy of twelve years ot age hoisted
on the top of the Hindoo temple on the
banks two flags, a Hindoo and a Moham¬
medan flag, at which signal the the boat men nnd
armed natives jumped hore, and 1 from boats aild
swam for the s from innumerable
guns the natives on the bank fired on the
boats, and masked batteries above and below
roared with destruction, and the boats sank
with their precious oargo, and all want down
save three strong swimmers, who got to the
opposite shore. Those who struggled out
nesr by were dashed to death. Naha Sahib
and his staff with their swords slashed to
pieces General Wheeler and his staff, who
had not got well away from the shore.
I said that the youog and attractive wo¬
men were not allowed to get into the boats.
These were matched away under the guard
ol the sepoys.
“Which way?” I inquired. “I will show
you,” said Mr. Lee. Again we took seats in
the carriage and started for the olimix of
desperation and diabolism. Now we are on
the way to a summer house, called the as¬
sembly rooms, whioh had been built for reo
reation and pleasure. It had two rooms,
each twenty-nine by ten. and some window
less olosets, and here were imprisoned 206
helpless people. It was to become the pri¬
son of these womea and children. Some of
these sepoys got permisstoa of Nana Sahib
to take one or more of these todies to their
own place on the promise they should be
brought back to the summer garden next
morning. A daughter ol General Wheeler
was so taken and did not return. She after¬
ward married the Mohammedan who had
taken her to hts tent. Some sepoys amused
themselves by thrusting children through
with bayonets and holding them house. up All before the
their mothers in the summer
doors oloaed and the sepoys standing waited guard,
the crowded women and ohildren
their doom for eighteen days aad nlgUts
amid sickness and flies hnd steach, an i
starvation.
The butchers came out exhausted, think¬
ing they had done their work, and the doors
were closed, bat when they were again
opened three women and three boys were
still alive. All these were soon dlspatohed, In
and not a Christian or European was left
Cawnpur. The murderers were paid fifty
cents for each tody stain. The Mohamme
don Ins dragged by the hair the dead
_____ aud threw
bodies out of the summer house
them Into a well, by which I stood with such
feelings as you cannot imagine. But after
the mutilated bodies had been thrown into
well the record of the soene remained In
hieroglyphics of crimson on the floor and
wall of the slaughter house. An eyewitness
says that as be walked in the blood was shoe
deep, and on this blood were tufts of hair,
pieces of muslin, broken combs, fragments
of pinafores, children’s straw hats, a card
case containing a nnri, with the inscription, of
“Ned’s hair, with love;” a lew leaves an
Episcopal prayer book; also a book entitled
“Preparation for Deatha Bible on doling the fly
leaf on which was written, “For
mamma, from bar affectionate daughter,
Isabella Blair,” both the one who presented
it and the on* to whom it was presumed de
parted lorever. Havelock
Then Nana Sahib heard that
was oomiog, and hi* name was a tewor to
the sepoys. Lest the women and children
Imprisoned in the summer boose, be or ordered
bly rooms, should be liberated, Thsoffl
that their throats should be out,
oers were commanded to do the work and
attempted *, but tailed because the law
easts would not allow the Hindoo to hold
the victims while they were being slain,
Than W0 men were ordered to fire through
the srtndows, but they fired over the heads
of the imprisoned ones, and only a few were
killed. Then Nana flnoib wue ten rage and
ordered professional batchers from
the lowest of tho gypsies to go at the work. _
Five of them, with hatchets and swords
knives, began the work, but thres of them
coHrarad sad tainted undse the gtamanses, eomptee
aadir was toft to two botch** to
the slaughter. The struggle, the ving sharp througn eri,
the blinding Wow, t be clea
scalp and skull, the begging for life, the
death asrony of hour after tow. the tangted dead—
finite of the corpses, who the piled up inside tee
only Hoi and those were
summer house eua ever know. to
i ! “Mr. Lee, I bare heard that
were found written on tee
He and
the waU tee story of tee bratailtia* they
s
■ ep pari of the floor
of
is a
so •ter asto blood.
ot
iaS&&&gES& down, and. garden of ex¬
hns been torn a surrounds the
quisite and fragrant flown
scene. Mr. Leo containing pointed out bodies to tu some
seventy mounds or por¬
tions of bodies of those not thrown into the
well. A soldier stands on guard to ruthlessly keep the,
foliage and flowers from being
pulled. I asked a soldier if I might taken
rose as a memento, and he handed me a
cluster of roses, red and white, both colors
suggestive to me—the red typical of the car¬
nage there enacted, and the white tor the
purity Of those who from that spot asoended.
But of course the most absorbing interest
concentrated at the well, into whioh hun¬
dreds of women and children were flung marble or
lowered. A circular wall of white
incloses this well. The wall is about twenty
feet high. Inside this wall there is a marble
pavement, I paced it and tound it fifty
seven paces around. In the center of this
inclosure and immediately above the well of
the dead is a sculptured angel of resurrec¬
tion, with illumined face, and two palm is
branches, meaning victory- This angel
looking down toward the slumberers be¬
neath,but the two wings suggest the rising
of the last day. Mighty consolation in mar¬
ble ! They went down under the hatchets of
the sepoys.' They shall come up under the
trumpet that shall wake the dead. I felt
weak and all a-tremble as I stood reading
these words on the stone that covers the
well: “Saored to the perpetual memory of
a great company of Christian people, chiefly
women and children, cruelly massacred
near this spot by the rebel, Naua Sahib, and
thrown, the dying with the ddad. into tue
well beneath on the 15th day of July, 1857."
On the arch of the mausoleum were cut the
words, “These are they Who onme out of
great tribulation."
The sun was sinking beneath the horizon
as I came down the seven or eight steps of
that place of sepuloher, and I bethought Napol
myself : “No emperor, unless It was
leon, ever had more's glories around his it pil¬
low of dust, and no queen, unless were
the one of Taj Mahal, had reared for her
grander cenotaph Shan orowns the resting
places of the martyrs of Cawnpar. But
where rest the bones of tue Herod of the.,
nineteenth century, Nana Sahib? Two men
sent out to find* the whereabouts of the
daughter ot General Wheeler tracked Nana
Sahib during a week’s ride into the wilder
dess, and they were told that for awhile
after the mutiny Nana Sahib set up a little
pomp in the jangles. Among a few thonsad
Hindoos and Mohammedans he took for him
selt the only two tents the neighbors had,
while they lived in the rain and mud. Nana
Sahib, with one servant carrying an um¬ and
brella, would go every day to bathe,
people would go and stare. For some
reason, after awhile he forsook even
that small attention, and dlsap
peared among the ravlnes of the
Himalayan Mountains, He took with
him in his flight that which he always took it
with him—a ruby of vast value. He wore
as some wear an amulet. He wore it as
some wear a life preserver. He wore it on
his bosom. The Hindoo priest told him as
long as he wore thatrubv his fortunes would
be good, but both the ruby and the prince
who wore it have vanished. Not a treasure
on the outside of the bosom, but a treasure
inside the heart, is the best protection. Solo¬
mon, who had rubies in the hilt of swords,
and rubies in the lip of the tankards, ana
rnbies in his orown, declared that which
Nana Sahib did not find out in time, “Wis¬
dom is better than rabies.” When the
forests of India are cleared by the axes ot an¬
other civilization, the lost ruby of this Cawn¬
pur monster may be picked up and be
brought back again to blaze among the
world’s jewels. But who shall reclaim lor
decent sepulture the remains of Nana Sahib?
Ask the vultures! Ask the reptiles! Himalayas! Ask
the jackals! Ask the midnight
Much criticism has been made ot Sir
Henry Havelock and Sir Colin Campbell be¬
cause of the exterminating work they did
with these sepoys. Indeed it was awiul. My
escort, Mr. Lee, has told me that he saw the
sepoys tautened to the months of cannon,
and then the guns would fire, nnd for a few
seconds there would be nothing but qmoee,
and as the smoke began to lilt fragments of
fleeb would be found flying through th**ir.
You may do your own criticism. I here ex¬
press no opinion. There can be no doubt,
however, that that mode of finally treating
the sepoys broke the back of the mutiny.
The Hindoos found that the Europeans
could play at the same game which
the Asiatics hod started. The plot of
was organized for the mnrder
all the Europeans and Americans in
India. Under its knives and bludgeons
Amerioan Presbyterianism lost Its Campbell, glorious
missionaries, Kev. Mr. and Mr*.
Bev. Mr. and Mr*. MacMullln. Bev. Mr. and
Mrs. Jonnson, Bev. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman.
The work ot slaughter had been begun in
all directions on an appalling scale, and the
commanders of the English army made up
their minds that this was the best way.
The Btaok Hole prison has been torn
down, but a stone pavement twenty feet by
twenty lndlcatee the ground covered by the
prison. The building had two small win¬
dows, and was intended lor two or three
prisoners. Thaw natives ot India crowded
into that one room of twenty feet feet by
twenty feet 14* Europeans. This midsummer
heat, the snffooatton, the trampling ot one
upon another, the groaning and shrieking
and beggingand praying that of night all, are held matters lights
of history. The sepoys
to the small windows and mocked the suffer¬
ers. Then all the sound# ceased. That
night of Juno 20, 175*, passed, and 12fi
corpses were takea out. Only twenty-three bed
people of the 14« were alive, and they
to be palled oat from under the corpses.
Mrs. Carey, who survived, was taken by the
Indian nabob into bis harem and kept s
prisoner six years. Lucknow tu 1857 was
only an echo of Calcutta in 1758. During the
mutiny of which I bare been speaking S na¬
tives who bad been in the servloe ot uro
peons and well treated would, by them, end call with of the no
oanse of offense, at the
mutineers, and without and any mothers compunction, ot the
stab to death the tethers
household and dash out the brains of the
children. These natives are at pease now,
but give them a ohanee, and they Will re¬
enact the scene# of 135* nnd 1817. They took
upon the English as conquerors and them¬
selves as conquered. Ebe mutiny of 1867
occurred beoa use the British Government
was too lenient and put in places ot of trait the
and In oommand of sorts too many
I sail upon England to stop the present at¬
tempt to palliate the natives by allowing
them to hold posit ion* of trust. I am no
alarmist, hut the only way those AtteMes
be kept from another mutiny is to put «
out of power, end I say beware, or the Look
now an^Cawnpur bytteTlXeknlra^undCawnpur and^llU^cMrtyrdom#^
beeeiipeed
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to India. Prevention better
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BRIEF TELEGRAMS.
V
A CONDENSATION OF OUR MOST
IMPORTANT DISPATCHES.
Short and Crisp Morsels of General
Interest to Onr Readers.
In a fight among tramps at Tin, O.,
two ingji^were killed and a third fatal¬
ly hurt
1‘ The earnings of the Mexiean Na¬
tional railroad for the fourth week of
November are $110,144.06.
An extensive strike has been inaugu¬
rated by the silk weavers of LyonB,
France, moat of whom have left their
work.
Count von Schouvaloff, the Russian
ambassador at Berlin, will succeed
General Gourko, who has resigned as
governor of Warsaw.
Congressman elect Andrew J. Camp¬
bell, the republican opponent of Gen¬
eral Daniel E. Sickles at the last elec¬
tion in the tenth New York
died Thursday.
Governor Crouns has appointed the. as
commissioners frehn Nebraska to
Cotton States and International Expo¬
sition, which will be held at Atlanta
next year, Colonel George E. Jenkins,
of Fairbury, and T. M. Broome, of
Alliance.
Private advioes received at London
from Calcutta state that duties on cot¬
ton imported into India are to be re
imposed on January 15th next. In an
article on the subjeot The Manchester
Guardian expresses doubt as to the
truth of the report.
One hundred and fifty male gar¬
ment workers employed by Straw
bridge & Clothier, at Philadelphia,
and female helpers to the number of
two hundred, struck Thursday reduction morn¬
ing because of a proposed
in their wages.
A ranchman named Francisco Mo¬
rales has reported to the authorities at
Ures, Mexico, that a band of Yaqui
Indians visited his ranch and killed
three sheep herders and drove off a
large number of cattle. A detaohment
of troops will be sent in pursuit. ,
The Shenango glass works at New¬
castle, Pa., were entirely destroyed by
fire Sunday morning. The loss is
$100,000; insurance $30,000. The or¬
igin of the fire is a mystery. Three
hundred men are thrown out of em¬
ployment. The works will be immed¬
iately rebuilt.
The Freeman's Journal, a Dublin
newspaper, says: “Forged Amerioan
bonds to the value of several thousand
pounds are in the hands of Belfast in¬
vestors. The bonds were bought in the
usual way. It is reported that a broker
has been sent to the United States to
inquire into the matter.
The Fidelity Building and Loan
Association, of Washington City,
which has become so involved in law¬
suits at Pittsburg and other points,
stole a march upon its creditors by
securing the appointment of a reoeiver
to take oharge of the business of the
concern in Washington and elsewhere.
The socialists made an exceptionally
aggressive demonstration during the
debato on the royal oivil list in the
Brussels chamber Thursday. Their
attacks were so bitter that eventually
the conservative deputies arose in a
body and, led by the premier, drown¬
ed the socialist speeches with cheers
for the king.
The Mexican government is receiv¬
ing many offers of assistance in patting
extra troops into the field in oase of
war with Guatemala. In extraordi¬
nary session the legislature of the state
• of Qneretaro has voted that its mem¬
bers would draw no salary daring the
war, should hostilities ensue, and that
the amount thus saved be applied to
purposes of war as the general govern¬
ment may see fit.
Diptheria is raging throughout the
oily of St. Lonia, Mo. In some quar¬
ters the disease is assuming such pro¬
portions as to be considered an epi¬
demic. The board of health is indig¬
nant at the action of certain physi¬
cians in giving the disease a wrong
name when Nearly filling out death .certifi¬
cates. all of the eases are re¬
ported ss cronp or laryngitis, when scarlet in
reality they are diptheria or
fever.
The row between the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company and the Panama
Railroad Company New was York stopped Thursday. by the
supreme court of
Justice Trnax, in special term, handed
down a decision ordering a permanent
and perpetual injunction to restrain
the Panama Railroad Company from with
terminating its present agreement
the Pacific Mail Steamship Company.
This injunction restrains the railroad
from changing the methods now in
vogue between the two companies re¬
garding the issuing of bills of lading
and the transportation of passengers,
mail or merchandise. v
TILLMAN COME* DOWN
And John Gary Evans Is Governor of
South Carolina.
The inauguration of Governor-oloet
John Gary Evans took plaoa in the
hall ot the house of representative* o'clock Taee- at
Columbia, 8. O., at one
day afternoon, with impressive cere¬
mony. Tbe chief justice administered
the oath and tho new governor deliv¬
ered hie inaugural address. All the
Is regard to the
the syndicate which
$10 ,500,000 in cash to i
■j -‘-■el root*- 1 --* 1
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CARLISLE'S PLAN.
The Secretary of the Treasury Makes
His Report to Congress.
By far the moat interesting part ci
the report of the secretary of the
treasury, which was sent to congress
Tuesday, is the exhaustive attention
paid by that official to the condition reforms.
of the treasury and currency
In the opening the secretary mentions
that the exoess of expenditure over re¬
ceipt during the last fiscal year was
$69,803,260, and daring the first flv*
months of the present fiscal year $21/
87,367.
"It?is not believed, however,” he
writ an, “that this difference between
thwreceipts and expenditures will con¬
tinue in the same proportion until the
close of the year,” and, accordingly,
he estimates a deficiency of $20,000,
000 at that time, while he farther ex¬
presses the opinion that present laws
will yield ample return for the fiscal
year 1896, as all their provisions will
then be operative, and the prospective
improvement in the business of the
country, if realized, will greatly in¬
crease the sources from which taxes
ore collected, and accordingly a sur¬
plus of $28,814,920 is estimated for
that year.
THX SECKETABT’S FLAW.
The secretary presents a plan which
would relieve the government from and
some of its burden and secure safe
elastic national and state bank curren¬
cy, and result ultimately in a perma¬
nent retirement of United States legal
tender notes of both classes. The
features of this plan include the re¬
peal of all laws authorizing a deposit oi
United States bonds as security for cir¬
culation; permission to national banks,
under certain requirements, to issue
notes to an amount not exceeding 75
peroentum of the paid-np capital; re¬
quiring each National Banking Asso¬
ciation to redeem its notes at its own
offioe-; providing a safety fund for the
Immediate redemption of the circulat¬
ing notes of failed banks; a repeal of
lows imposing restrictions upon a re¬
duction and an increase of national
bank circulation and of laws requiring
banks to keep a reserve on account of
deposits; exempting from taxation,
under certain provisions, circulating
notes issued by banking corporations
which transact no other than banking
business; together with other measures
which the secretary explain^.
He givos at length his reasons for
the repeal, oa his plan proposes, of all
provisions of existing laws which re¬
quire National banks to hold a fixed
reserve against deposits. “Every left free pru¬
dently managed bank, and if discount busi¬ to
oondnet its deposit advantageous
ness in a manner most
to its own interests and the interests
of its patrops, will undoubtedly keep
on hand a reasonable reserve to meet
not only all the ordinary demands
upon it, but to provide for Buoh emer¬
gencies as are liable to occur in the
community where it is located. But
it ought not to be prohibited by law
from using such reserve for the only
purpose it was designed to accom¬
plish.” provisions in the
retard’s Among other be se» d
plan, is that no notes
less denomination than ten dollars.
THEBE ROBBER* DOT GOLD.
They Hold Up n Train In Texne to the
Tune of $140,000.
One of the most daring train rob¬
beries ever committed in Texas took
place eight miles west of Forth Worth
Thursday evening nbont 6 o’olcwk. As
an eastbound Texas nnd Psoiflo pas¬
senger train was nenring Mary’s creek
it was brought to n sadden stop by *
danger signal displayed on the trestle.
The engineer was covered by three un¬
masked men, who boarded tbe cab and
ordered that tbe train be baeked np
nbont n bnlf mile, when tbe fireman
was oovered nod ordered to brsnk in
the express door. He refused, bnt the
robbers pulled tbe triggers of their
guns, nnd n number of shotn in tbe nir
brought tbe firemen to terms. He
bnret in the express onr door with n
pickax. One of the robbers then kept,
the firemen nnd engineer while the
others went into the express csr.
Fort Worth is the end of the express
run end the safe doors were open.
One of- the robbers rifled tbe safes
while the other kept gnsrd over the
messenger. At 6 o’clock the train wee
stopped snd thirty minutes Inter it
was in Fort Worth. Tbe exset amount
the robbers secured is not known, bnt
it is said to have been near $140,000 in
money, gold bullion en route from San
Francisco to Washington, snd Texas
Pacific checks
After the hold-np the robbers
mounted their horses, told Iks engin¬
eer to go ahead and then mads leis¬
urely off in a northwesterly direction.
The express officials ray they do not
know the amount taken, bnt that it is
tbe only through train from the west
and carries every evening • large
txnonnt of money. On the arrive] ot
he train at Fort Worth posse# were
immediately organised thereby making to close in ev¬
ery direction, escape
impossible.
Kolb Mill Kicks. ,
B. F. Kolb, who calls himself gov¬
ernor de jure of Alab a m a, has issued a
massage “to tbe general bly and
people of Alabama.” He starts out
with a reference to “the revolutionary
condition of your state government,”
stigmatises the democrats r~ ““
era,” and declares that the
tional guarantee of a fair election has
been overthrown.
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A SUMMARY OF
HAPPENINGS,
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And Presenting an Epitome of
South’s Progress and Prosoerit
Barclay ay & & Williams, w imams, furniture lurmrare deal¬ uw-»
ers, , at - Newport. ‘ News, Va., .have ee&- as¬
signed. Liabilities, $10,000;
mated assets, $12,000.
The Manchester spoke mills, «*-
Richmond, Ya, which have been ibtra
down for some months, have resume**
operations with a fnll force of hands
The state liquor commissioner o_
South Carolina, Mr. Traxter, who w»* .
appointed by Governor Tillman when
the dispensary law became operative, Gov
has tendered his resignation the to reeig
ernor Evans. The cause of
nation is not known.
Notioe of contest has been served oo .
Congressman-elect Jos. M. Kendall
(democrat) of the tenth Kentucky dto
triot, on behalf of N. T. Hopfanu
(republican) who charges conspirtay bi»
with the county clerk to defraud
by issuing spuriotw tickets, omitting:
his name from the republican tiokei.
Thursday night a terrible collisicei,
occurred between Rockingham, a special and an N. ex*- CL
tra freight near named Wells scald*®
One engineer was skull
to death. The other had his
fractured and one leg broken ap»d »
not expected to live. Both firemeste
jumped and did not receive any ia*
juries. m
Fire broke out Thursday mori C_,
in Parham’s mattress factory in ,
tanooga and for a time* conflagration*
was threatened. The fire department,
however, responded promptly and
ceeded in getting the flames under^
oontrol before they could reaoh a#,
joining buildings. The mattress flMfc
tory was gutted. The loss is about
$5,000, fully insured.
in I ■
The Red Bank cotton mills
ington county, 8. 0., about twen““
five miles from Columbia, one of A™ s
oldest cotton factories in the stats, '
entirely consumed by fire on Sat
evening. Most of the output on ■W’Sl
cotton goods and felting, something were u...
The total loss will be oi
$75,000. The amount of in
unknown.
A sensation has been created in Q
lnmbia, 8. C., by the publication Perry, ot
letter written by B. F. A
linian now in Washington, to J<
Ashley, a member of the honse, chs
ing Ex-Governor Tillman with t
ing all kinds of rebates and othej
honest transactions, and urging 4
to oall on the legislature to appoint
committee to investigate the matt
Bank Examiner Gannon has, romdm
affidavit oharging William F, Bo-w
late oashier of the City National "
ot Quanah, Texas, with embez TJ
$20,000 by a note on the Midlam
tional bank, of Kansas payable City, < ,,
October 8, 1894, and in 1
days. Brice’s embezzlement*
claimed, aggregates $87,000, of i
$20,000 is on Ksnsaa City, $10,0
St. Louis and $7,000 on 9
banka. \ .
In the South Carolina
Thursday a house bill passe
reading which makes intox %•'
drunkenness and the of .< >v-.
use
obsene language a misdenu
isbable by fine or imprisonin profane g
use of an ordinary under wow the
cost from $5 to $60
There was a big fight, many legis!
pointing out the laughable natu leg
such a law, attempting people. to
morality into the
The directors of Clifton mills.' 4jj
tanburg county, 8. 0„ k*
mined to build a new oo! HI'
whioh will make the third m ■■,’V
ted by this company on
Tbs new mill will be built
son’s shoals, whioh has a wata
capacity of 20,000 spindles
looms, without the aid of sD fTsar 9m
er. The mill will be finfe*
operation by the 1st of next <
and when finished this mill i
five cotton mills within a tfe
radius. ~~~/§
BIO LABOR
The American Fed
Denver.
Tbe fourteenth annual <
the American Federation
called to order at Penv<
President Monday. Qompers There pro
o’clock v
dred delegates and speeta
Fellows hall at that time
many more came in dimin
ing session. -'-K
President Rhode
ver Trades Asaeml h
address of weleofl to
Gompers briefly re ,____
ent time. This was follow
plimentary words for Deni
energetic people, Belem
innovation of
so
that within a
_____5 of industry
conventions of the fe
Golden Gate.
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