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Subject: “Gates of Carbuncle.“
Tkxt: “And I will make thy windows of
agates, ?«sd Ihy gates of carbuncles.”— Isa
Hv.,12. '
Perhaps because a human disease of most
painful and ofttiines fatal character is named
aftor it, Hie church and the world have nev« r
<lon« justice to that intense and all-suggestive
i>r* ions stone, the ourbuncle. The pearl
that Chr-st picked up to illustrate His ser¬
mon, and the jasper and the sapphire and
the amethyst which the apocalyptic vision
masoned into the wall of heaven have had
proper recognition, but this, in all tho ages,
j- th« first sermon on thecarbunc>.
This precious stone is found in the East
Indies, in color is an intense scarlet, and
held up between your eye and Hie sun it is a
(aiming coal. The poet puts it into rhythm
as he writes*
Like to the burning coal whence comes its
name;
Among the Greeks ns Anthrax known to
fame.
£S i c, 4 a it hPri« J‘dWini 11 in bl oh3 t„n, t “ ■
cntelt recis^ with v^ klVi? haroenMt K,
vith i ceomeh in n b^,
, J to an of almost suo-rnatur U fW ie of V ?.£; v'
!!t I p^iloC'SefhinT aw symmetry its law of !o°°x%lo zones \Z
amazement of the aclentist. chime the cantos
I ^i 1 ^ 1 ff'°“ oft
< .in tuu. N on , b .t the infinite God could
fashion a earouucle as large as your thumb-
nail, this ptecious and. as stone n to Ho make ordered all ages appreciate
iho ..rst it the it to be set in
olden row high priest s breast-plate
m lime and higher up than the onyx
an 1 the emerald and the diamond, and in
kwktcl »prophecies concerning the splendors
. the lyruiu court, tho carbuncle Is m»n-
honed, the brilliancies of the walls and of
the tassel.ated ftooi-s suggested by the Bible
sentence: • Ilvm hast walked no and down
in i he midst of the stones of tire!” But in
my text it is not a solitary specimen that I
hand you, an the keeper of a museum might
take down from the shelf a precious
stone and allow you to examine
it. Nor is it in the panel of a
door that you might stand an 1 study for its
unique carvings or bronzed traceries, but
there is a whom gate of ic lifted before our
admiring ami astounded vision, aye! two
gates of it, aye. many gates of it: “I will
make thy gates of carcuncl«s.” What gates?
(fates of the Church. Gates of anything
worth possessing. Gates of .successful on-
torprise. tional achievement. Gates of salvation. G itcs of Na-
Isaiah, who wroto this-
text, wroio also nil that about Christ “as the
lamb of the slaughter,” and spoke of Christ
assaying, “I have trod the winepress alone,”
and wrote, “Who is ibis that cometh from
Edom, with dyed garments from Boznih?”
And do yon think th.it Isaiah in my text
merely happened to r “present the gates as
red gates, a« carmine gates, as gates of car-
buncle? No. He means that is through
Htonement, through blood-red struggle,
through agonies we get into anything worth
golfing into. Heaven’s gates may well be
made of pearl, a bright, pellucid, cheer ill
cryatolization, because all the struggles are
<>ver and there is beyond those gates nottiiug
hut raptures and cantata and triumphal pro-
cession aud everlasting holiday aud kiss of
reunion, and so the twelve gates are twelve
pearls, Christ and could be nothing less than pearls.
But hoisted the gates of pardon in His
own blood, aud the marks of eight fingers
a ml two thumbs are on each gate, and as He
lifted the gate it leaned against His forehead
and took from it a crimson impress, and all
those gates are d» eply dyed, and Isaiah was
right when ho spoke cf these gates as gates
of eatbuncle. ok
"idea What an odd l.JFug it is, think some, this
of vicarious suffering or suffering tor
others! Not at all. j he world hud seen vi-
carious suffering millions of times before
Christ cjitne and demonstrated it on a scale
that eclipsed all that went before and ail that
shad come after. Rachael lived only long
enough after the birfh of her son to give him
a name. In faint whisper she said, “Call
him Ben-oui.” which means “son of my
pain and all modern travelers on the road
from Jerusalem to Bethel uncover their heads
and stand reverently at the tomb of Rachel
who dfted for her boy. But in all ages how
many mothers die for their children, and in
many cases grown u;> children, who by ve¬
erean cy stal) clear through the mother’s
heart!' Suffering for others? Why, the world
is full of it. “Jump!” said the engineer to
the fire mau on the locomotive. “One of
us is enough to die. Jump!” And so tho
engineer died at bis post, trying to save the
train. When this summer the two trains
crashed into each oilier near Atlantic City,
amoug the forty-seven who lost their lives.
ihe engineer was found dead with one ban j
<m tin' throttle of the locomotive and the
other on the brake. Aye! there are huu-
deeds here to-day suffering for others. You
know and God knows it is vicarious saeri-
rice. But on one limestone hill about twice
the height of this church, five minutes’walk
fromthe **ait'8 of Jerusalem, was the sub-
limost ease of suffering for others that the
world ever saw or ever will see. Christ the
viciirn, human and satauio malevolence the
executioner tho whole human race having
an overwhelming wav^for interest in the spectacle,
To open « us sinful men and sinful
women into glorious pardon and high hope
and eternal exultation. Christ, with hand
dripping with the rush of opened arteries,
swung back the gate, aud behold! it is a red
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'wiig L true in spirituals is true in tecu-
•nk Tho-c arc voung men and older
num who hope through the settlement of
this acrid controversy between silver and
u’otd. ortho bimetallic quarrel, that it will
become easv to make u living. That time
will never come * It never has been easv to
make a living The men who have it very
easy detiiaie now went through hardships and self-
to which most vouug men would
never consent Unless thev got it bv inheri-
tance yon cannot mention* twenty-live men
who have como to honorable fortune that
did not fight their way inch bv inch, aud
against fearful odds that again and again a l-
most destroyed them For some good roa-
vm God has arranged Tor it for all the centuries
that the only wav most people to get a
fivclihood for themselves and their families
is with both bands aud all the allied forces
of bodv o'n^n mind and soul to push back and
push the rod gate, the gate of carbnn-
cle. For the benefit of all young men. If I
had the time I would catl the roil of those
who overcame obstacle. How many of the
mighty men who went one wav 'United on Pennsyl-
▼aniaavenue and reached the States
Senate or walked the other way on PennsyJ-
vimia avenue and reached the White House,
>lid not have to climb over political obloquy?
Notone How much scorn and scoff, and
brutal attack did Horace Mann endure be-
twoen the time when he first began to fight
for a belter common school svstem in Massu-
chusetts, of him and placed the day the when a statue of the in honor State
IIous» was on “The steps Commons?”
ffi?d fivprJookinc b?og?aphy
the of Robart Hall, the
Baptist princes preacher, who, though he had been
a dale, « school lived to thrill
th* (^oSe world pSvboivTwho weh hit Otrlstiaa eloquence; an i
of never owned a ear-
KiSt ri nre denied* HvSS hlm«elf J" all luxuries that
ihiS |S wh te il after Jeotb.
T-S V , | testament, , 1 c
v.nd IffcMou his lim oP md-ounted ie PL millions le of to Bag- tb-
»n I bovhood'worked n. - n,\ Bishop Jiuies.
who in i iri his passa^o
from Ireland to America and became the
joy of Methodism an<l a blessing to the race.
other book an illustration of overcome ob-
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fiODs. Whtwtatnie oi it,dividual, in true of Sa-
Was ir ft mild spring morning when
the Pilgrim Fathers landed on Plymouth
Root, and did thev come in a gilded ya -hr,
T?** lr ?* mi}t * fl y 5 °K? No. lt was in a cold
wmin* not want am * to ^ r0fE cross a ship the Hudson in whi?h one
,,°V m, J C }, ‘ ver Scalping or the
^Ir,| ive * knives all ready
th ®>* landed, their only wel-
m .® thr ’ Indian war-whoop. Red men
xne h Reach. Red on
• men in the forest. Red ru *u
le raoumatns. Red men in the valleys.
1 Katw ot r,J ‘ 1 a»«a. Gates of ear-
J
Awnsmm hostility unshed back, surely
forefathers will have nothing to do
° tHk » ea? y possession of th • fairest
S2T?, Heui.ii. tne 1 Ua soil . ‘ Hr so tb fertile, * «»• the The rivers skies so
uious with tinny so pop-
men^e. there will life, the acreage so irn-
armk be nothing to do but eat,
and be merry. No. The most power-
iui Nation, by army and navy, sounded its
protest across three thousand miles of water,
dnon came Lexington, and Bunker Hill, and
, Monmouth, valley and Long Island battles, and
sorge. and Yorktown, an*l starva-
ti°n and widowhood, and orphanage, and
the thirteen colonies went through sufferings
wrncii the historian has attempted to put
upon paper, and the ar» ist to put upon can-
vas, butad in vain. Engraver’s knife, and
reporters skill, and telegraphic wire, and
with •Wk”*’ the horrors wl, ieh of have modern made us acquainted
not yet begun their vigilance, battlefield, aud had
of the American the story
tola, and Revolution has never been
never will Do told. It did not take
much ink to sign the Declaration of Inde-
pendence, '1°°/ but it took a terrific amount of
t0 !n H ‘ ut!lh ‘ U * U was an awful F at < 5
1 °P P ^ t n that tbe men and women
? a l* he<1 ,\ bac be 1 ** wor ? It ,!n w « fUS s much of as self-sacrifice, men-
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j We are not indebted to history for our
of the greatest of National
crises. Many of us remember it, and fathers
and mothers now living had better keep tell-
ing that story to their children, so that in-
stead of their being dependent upon cold
type and oblige 1 to say, “On such a pago of
such a book you can read that,” will they
rather be able to say, “My father told me
so!” “My mother tolu mo so.” Men and
women who vividly remember 1361. and
1862, and 1863. and 1864, be yourselves the
historians, living telling it, uot with pen. but with
the tongue and voice and gesture. That
js great use of Memorial Decoration Day,
for the calla lilies on the grave tops soon be-
come breai bless of perfume, and in u week
turn to dust unto teat which lies beneath it.
But the story of courage and self-sacrifice
and patriotism told on platforms and in
households and by the roadside aud in
ch’.irches and in eomc erics by that annual
recital will bo kapt fresh in the memory of
generations as long as our American institu-
tions arc worthy of preservation. Long
after you are dead your children will be able
to say, with the Psalmist: “We have heard
with our ears, O God, our fathers have
told us, what work Thou didst in their
days, m the times of old.” Bat what
a time it was! Four years of home-
sickness! Four years of brotherly
arm sisterly estrangement! Four years of
martyrdom! Four years of massacre! Put
them in a long line, the conflagration of
cities, and Put see them light up a whole conti-
nent! them in long rows, the hospitals,
making a vast metropolis of pain and
hinge, paroxyism! Gather them in one vast assem-
the millions of bereft from the St.
Lawrence to the Gulf, and from the Atlantic
to the Pacific beaches! Put the tears into
lakes, and the blood into rivers, aud the
shrieks into whirlwinds! During those four
years many good and wise men at the North
and South saw nothing ahead but aunihila-
tion. With such a National debt we
could never meet our obligations! With
such moral antipathies Northern anfl South-
era men eoui-i never come into amity! Rep-
resontatives of Louisiana and Georgia, and
the Carolina* could never again sit side by
side with tho Representatives of Maine.
Massachusetts and New York at the Na¬
tional capital. Lord John Russell had de¬
clared that wo were “a bubble-bursliug Na¬
tionality,” and it had come true. The Na¬
tions of Europe had gathered with very re¬
signed spirit at the funeral of our American
Republic. They had tolled the bells on
Parliaments and Reichstags a d lowered
their flags at half mast, and even the lion
on the other side of the sea had whined for
the dead eagle on this side. The deep grave
had been dug, and beside Babylon, aud
Thebes, aud Tyre, and other dead Nations of
the past our dead Republic was to be
buried. The epitaph was all ready: “Here
lies t ho American Republic. Born nt Phila-
llun, dolphin, 4th of July, 1776. Killed at Bull
July 21, 1SG1. Aged eighty-five years
and seventeen days. Peace to its ashes.”
But before ihe obsequies had quite closed
there was an interruption of the ceremon¬
ies, and our dead Nation rose from its
mortuary surroundings. God had made for
ii a special Resurrection Day, and cried
“Come forth, ihou Republic of Washing-
ton, and John Adams, and Thomas Jeii’cr-
son, and Tat rick Henry, aud John Hancock,
and Daniel Webster. audS. 8. Prentiss, and
forth'to Henry Clay. Come forth!” , And she came
be stronger than she had ever been.
Her mightiest prosperities have come since
that time. Who would want to push back
this country to what it was in lSO‘1 or 1850?
But, oh. what a high gate, what a strong
gate she had to push back before she could
make one step in advance! Gate of flame!
See Norfolk. Navy Yard, an l Columbia, and
Ohambarsburg, and Charleston on fire!
Gate of bayonets! S-m glittering rifles and
carbines flash Irani the Susquehanna, and
j the James, to the Mississippi, and the Ar-
kansas! Gate of heavy artillery, making
* the mountains of Tennessee and Kentucky
j and itsmf Virginia were struggling tremble in a? its though last agony. the earth loo
gato was so fiery and so red that I can think
of nothing more appropriate than to take
‘ ra, “ a 0“ H
This country 1ms been for (he most part
of its history passing through crises, aud
after each crisis was better off than before
it entered it. and now we are at another
crisis. We are told ou one hand that if gold
is kept as a standard and silver is not eie-
vated, confidence will be restored aud this
Nation will rise triumphant from all the
financial misfortunes that have been affliet-
irig us. On the other hand wo are told that
if the free coinage of silver is allowed, ail
the wheels of business will revolve, the poor
man will have a better chance, and nil our
industries will begin to hum and roar,
During the hist six Presidential elect Ion I
have been urged to enter the political arena,
but I never have and never will turn the
pulpit in which I preach into a political
stump. Every minister must do as he feels
culled to do, and I will uot criticise him ior
doing what he considers his duty: but
j the political harangues from pulpits irom
now until the 34 of November will not m all
the United States change one vote, but wifi
leave many ears stopped against anything
that such clergymen may utter the rest of
their lives. As a generali rule the laymen
of churches understand politics better than
the clergy, because they (tae laymen) study
politics moro than the clergy and have bet-
ter opportunity of being intelligent on tin -e
subjects. But good morals, honesty, loya -
ty, Ghristnm patriotism and the Ten t <’U_-
1 mnndments—these we must preach. God
i >uys distinctly in the Bible, ” Che .silver and
the gold are Miuc. and He wnl settle tne
| controversy between those two metals. 1,
ever this country needed the divine rescue it
j hove needs so it now. mwy l^op.e Never within Ute™^ my stMved memory to
: death ns in the past .ew months, nave \u.
noticed in the newspapers how many men
and women here aud there have been found
,i™a. tbo post-mortem oraiiuta statins
thatthe cause ol death was hunger? There
! i> not a day that wo do uot hear the crash oi
e* great contmereia! establUhmeat. amt.
as ft consequence, employment many people are
thrown out of Among
what we considered comfortable home-
, '• ivecomeprivation:'.:iuelose- >^ n
this moment at thGr wits ^J- Xher
i™; , n, 0 iSr ^
, '»« will be »' heard and rebel w.U C'kS' come. i. w
' ) :vo nedhing .
can politics, relief \sA\ never cO;-e. Woo
ev»r is elected to the Presidency, the wheels
ot Government turn &■* slowly, and a caucus
i j n yonder white bufidlng on th« hill may
tie toe hands of anv Pr -blent. Now,
though we who live in the District of O nm-
• bin cannot vote, we can pray.and niv prayer
,j a y and night shad be, “Oh God. hear
j | ibeerv of the souls from under tlio attar!
Thou' who hast brought the wheat
and corn of this season to such niagni-
! hide of supply, give food to man an 1 beast.
j Thou who ha 1st uot where to lav Thy head,
pity Jerfection the shelterless. Thou who bast bromht
to the cotton oMhe South and the
Sax of the North, clothe the naked. Thou
: w ho }:a«t filled the min** with coal, giv»
fuel to the shirering. Bring bread to the
body, intelligence to the mind, and salva-
tion to the soul of all the people! God save
j the Nation!”
But we must admit it is a hard gate to
push back. Millions of thin hands have
j j pushed at it without making it swing on its
hard hinges. It is a cate made out of empty
flour barrels, an t cold fire grates, and worn
out apparel, and cheerless homos, and un-
j medicated sickness, and ghastliness ami
horror. It is a gate of struggle. A gate of
j penary. A gate of want, A gate of disao-
pointment. A red gate, or what Isaiah would
have called a gate of carbuncles,
Now. as I have already suggested, as
! there are obstacles in all our paths, we will
! bo happier if we consent to have our life a
struggle. i<T"no”t I do not know anyone to whom
it a strugle. Louis the Fourteenth
thought he had everything fixed just right
and fixed to stay, and so he had the great
mock at Bordeaux made. The hours of that
.dock were struck by ilgures in bronze rep-
r**scnting the kirn* of Europe imd at a cer-
J n d and oVhe^k^t’were m«R to come out
aud 'bowtoLouisthe Fourteenth. But the
clock got out of order one day and just the
opposite of what was expected occurred, as
the clock struck a certain hour Louis the
Fourteenth was thrown to the feet of Will-
i j am the Third. Aud so the clock of destiny
brings many surprises and those go down
jhat you exoected to stand, aad at the foot
of disaster most regal'- inditions tumble. In
all styles of life there come disappointment
and struggle God has for some good rea-
son arranged ~Lt it so. iritis not poverty it is
sickness. it is not sickit 93 s, it is persecu-
tiou. If it is not persecution, it is contest
I with some evil appetit**. ft' it j- not some
ov il appetite it is bereavement. If it is not
one thing, it is another. Do not get soured
and cross and think von** ease is piculiar.
You are lust like the rest of us. You will
have to take tlva bitter draught whether it
bo handed to vou in golden chalice or pewter
m year"income ug. A man who has a thousand dollars a
sleeps sounder aud has a better
appetite ‘ than the mau who has
q v ,, struggle* millions. If our life were
ni>t a w" would nev t consent to
£tay get out of this world, an l we would want to
j here, aud so block up the way of the
j advancing generations. By the time that a
sometimes Il);in gf-ts to be seventy years of age, and
by the time ho gets to be ilfty
years of age ni lie says: “I have had enough
; 0 f thi 5) !U vvhen the Lord wills it I am
r eadv to emigrate to a country where there
ar ,> )10 taxes and the silver of the trumpet
put lo one’s lips has no quarrel with the
gold of the pavement under his feet.” We
have in this world more opportunity to cul-
tivato patience than to cultivate any other
grace. Let mat grace be strengthened in
t }„, Royal Gymnasium of obstacle and op-
position, and by the help of God, having
overcome our own hindrances and worri-
m<mts. let us go forth to help others whoso
struggle is greater than our own.
NO MORE CHEAP BICYCLES.
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A Fool of Cycle Tni»« Makers Said to have
Been Formed,
R fg ramore;1 that tUft W gU-ch»ss bicycle
tuiie manufacturers are forming a pool, the
object of which is to exterminate ihe de¬
moralizing eheap will machine aud perfect a sys¬
tem which be effective in keeping tho
low-priced bicycle from becoming a com-
j petitor It again.
is also reported that certain manufac¬
turers met in New York and entered into a
compact- with the above object in view, by
means of which the “assemblers" aud cheap
producers must to^purcha- quit the business, since they
will be unable - in this country or
in tinue Europe tho materials necessary to con¬
business.
It is said that one of the promoters. If. W.
Hartmau. has gone to Europe to shut out
competition and establish reciprocal ut-
raugements. Interviews with people inter¬
ested in the bicycle business and who should
be well posted, fail to confirm all of the
story, some having heard rumors while oth¬
ers profess to believe that it is without sub¬
stantial foundation.
EDUCATION CF THE INDIANS.
Go ml Progress in tin? Last Year Reported
by Commissioner Browning.
,■ The Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Mr.
j Browning, . has submitter. lus annual , report,
He says that with no outbreaks during the
> V®ar, the education and civilization o the
i Indians must have made progress, and the
mam effort now Is. and for years must be, to
get the Indian en nia allotmennt so a. to be-
come se.f-supportmg. ihe Indians are je-
coming adepts in handicrafts, and received
; j taj tuJO,O0j lor Jir work wo r ]- r 'd™nJ done. le E Education iucation“ 01 0 !°Iu- in
'bans made rapid progress in the Linem¬
ment and industrial traimug schooR There
^ re r , ouro . lu {l 1 ^ehools,-J,Jo-pupils,
dehl matrons, lie . u„ rt e_rs tnat m ■ com
missma C appointed to treat with .->01 r ral tribes
22th? ?. uTtlie°\voc'* ex”u?i.mo[ ‘ of m-fkin- .ioeS? ihe’cSlt o?lands
flioner lays stress upon ihe need oflegisla-
| ! tiou restraining the sate of Inpior m Indian
reservations,
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i MODEST HERO CRUSHED TO DEATH.
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New York I’olk'.em in S*ve« Two Live* aad
Boses His Own.
horses Spurring furiously after a pair of runaway
in West Seventy-second street, New
York City, Mounted Policeman Thomas R.
McIntyre saved J. P. Robinson an 1 Ins wife
from serious injury, perhaps from death, aud
as they hailed him for the hero ho was. his
OVVI) n or .v* threw him. fell <~'n him and
enis i ia q him fatally before their eyes,
Thabravemans mndiediuRooseveltHos-
p it t vl. He was in the prime of life and was
, sooft t0 be promoted. He had thrice received
honorable mention for bravery in stopping
runawa vs.
j ; flj, „ ct wa- the most heroic deed ever per-
formed bv amounted policeman in New York
0 iiy. k, His attempt to stop the running horses
j j UJ , ie w meant great danger for himself, as
th * ;mimn | s were plunging madly toward a
. 0 f elevate t railway pillars. McIntyre
tl , olc Ul0 ehanee and won. but paid the p n-
altv 0 f his heroism with his life. He was
buried with impo.-iug honors,
DEBUT OF THE CU3AN ARTILLERY.
General Gomez'!* Congratulation* on th®
n ork of the Hi>tchkl»*Tfr«*lve Poumler.
. General Maximo Gomez, Commander-in-
Chief of lbe Cuban patriot army, ha> ad¬
dressed to General Calixto Garcia n message
congratulating him and his troops upon the
success obtained in the operations in the
districts of Gibara and Holguin, where the
Spanish have been forced to abandon several
positions.
Gomez Especial mention is made by General
in his message of the brilliant debut
oi tbe.Cubau artillery corps at the attack
upon La Lomade Hierro (Iron Hill), where
a Spanish fortress was totally destroyed by
the twelve-pound Hotchkiss gun recently
sjut to Cut>a. There are two Americans
among tho patriot artillerymen. Messrs. Os¬
good and Chappleaux.
A Village Lighted l*r Natural Gas,
Caledonia. N. Y.. is now lighted, by natural
The village pays one cent a day for
<:•■••!! one of its street lights.
MON ICY IN HANKS.
Comptroller Krkel* Issues Stater-tenl
Concerning; Currency.
Coni pi roller of th<* Currency Eckel*
has issued a statement of an investiga¬
tion made by him of the amount of
money held by the banks of the conn-
try.
The number of banking houses and
trust <• iinpunies u quirt-d* of werell!,-
V«G2 and 77 clearing houses, covering
all the country. Ilephes were received
from but 5,723 banks aud tiust com¬
panies and 00 clearing house associa¬
tions. The information, however, is
of such a character as to enable a fair
aud correct result from all to be ap¬
proximated. Of the 5,723 reports re¬
ceived 3,458 were ot national banks,
1,491 state banks, 457 savings banks,
230 of private banks, and 84 of ioau
and tru*t companies.
The total amount of cash in the 5,-
723 institutions reporting was $415,-
124,849. It is divided as follows:
Gold coin, $155,077,003; gold certifi¬
cates, $55,481,338; silver dollars. $8,-
254,012; fractional silver, $7,399,073;
silver certigcates, $29,6(53,690; treas¬
ury note®, 1890, $18,126,018; United
States notes $110,467,375; currency
certificates, $20,858, 1 00 ; national bank
notes, $23,796,834. Of this total
cash the 3,458 national banks report¬
ing hold $335,174,616, and the 2,265
state, etc., $77,950,233. The amount
of g >}<1 certificates held by these na¬
tional bauks was $155,073,604, and of
these B'ate, etc., $84,484,737. In this
connection it may be stated that the
total number of national banks, viz,,
3,089, held on July 14th, the date of
the last, official call, $361,658,485 cash,
i f which amount there wai in gold
certificates $161,853,560.
FLORIDA HORROR 1 NCRKASKS.
\s Reports Are Received tho List of
Dead Grows.
Deports from the remoter section of
Florida where the storm visited in¬
crease the number of dead.
At Double Sink, in Levy county, a
large settlement, nearly every house
was swept away, and Miss Jennie Hay-
field, a young lady, was killed. Many
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Is Commissioner Nesbitt’s Advice to
Cot. Duncan, «>f south Carolina.
Colonel D. P. Duncan, manager of
the Atlantic Exchange for South Caro¬
lina, is encouraged in his fight against
the compresses by the following
etter from Commissioner Nesbitt, of
( leorgia:
Dear Sir—I regret to see from the
papers that the compress men are
lighting you at Charleston aud Wil¬
mington. I see that you don’t propose
to surrender tamely to their dictation,
aud if your people will back you, yon
can easily bring them to terms. Divert
all wire baled cotton to Norfolk, and
Charleston and Wilmington will soon
be begging for mercy. There will be
nothing accomplished in Georgia this
year, because we commenced too late,
but we are getting in shape for them
next year. We now have a tie that I
think will supercede all wire ties. I
sent you a clipping that you may see
what it is. I think this will be the tie
for next season. Very truly yours,
“R. T. Nesbitt, Commissioner.”
Colonel Duncan has received letters
irom farmers in the state urging him
to “stand to the rack.” He says he
will keep on having cotton tied with
wire, and it is probable Commissioner
Nesbitt’s suggestion of a boycott
against Charleston will be acted upon
in order to force the compress men in
. that city to work more favorably on
the wire ties.
A DEFICIT FOR SEPTEMBER.
Comparative Statement of Receipts
and Expenditures of Uncle Sam.
The comparative statement of the
receipts and expenditures of the gov-
eminent for the month of September
shows the total receipts to have been
$24,584,244 and the expenditures $25,-
579,535,leaving a deficit for the month
of $1,995,291.
The deficit for the three months of
the present fiscal year is $25,154,129,
as compared with a deficit of 89,884,-
658 for the corresponding months last
year.
The recipts during the last months
show a loss as compared with Septem¬
ber of last year of nearly $3,300,000
from customs and about $580,000 from
internal revenue.
Carlisle Will Not Meet Blackburn.
A Washington special says: Secre¬
tary Carlisle has formally declined the
invitation to divide time with Senator
Blackburn in any speech he may de¬
liver in Kentucky daring the pending
campaign.
WASHINGTON NEWS.
GOSSIP OK THK CAPITAL IX
PJT11Y PARAGRAPHS.
Coins** of tiie Chief* ni t Head* of t&*
Various I>**r>.\rtui«rits.
The director of the mint has r.cfiv-
ed a telegram from the Sail 1 rancisco
.mint stating that about $4,o00,000 in
gold is expected to arrive therefrom
Australia within a week. Information
also comes from London that the Bank
of J^iigland expects to lose 05,000,000
to tile United States in a few days.
Both of these shipments are expected
ultim. teiy to reach the treasury which,
together with the amounts already in
sight, would bring ihe gold reserve ap¬
proximately to $135,000,000.
D. M. Ferry .t Co., the well-known
seed dealers of Detroit, Michigan, hava
applied to the courts for an injunction
to restrain the-secretary of agriculture
and his assistants and any other person
connected with the free distribution
of seeds by the government from ex¬
ecuting the law of congress directing
free seed distribution. The bill claims
that the business of Ferry & Co. will
be damaged $20,000 by the execution
of the net of congress and the sale
5,000,000 packages of seed taken from
this firm.
The Bath Iron works of Maine will
build two of the thirty-knot torpedo
boats and the Union Iron works, of
Sun Francisco, the remaining one;
Wolff & Zwicker, of Portland, Ore.,
two 22-knot boats, and of the little 20-
knot boats Herresholf will have three,
Columbian Iron works, of Baltimore,
two, and Hillman Bros., of Philadel¬
phia, one. This is the decision finally
reached by Chief Constructor Hich-
born aud Engineer-in-Chief Melville,
to whom the numerous aud complicated
bids opened September 11th were re-
ferret!.
Conclave of Clubs to Meet.
The officials of the democratic and
silver cl ub associations at Washington
»< circular of information
t • th*- club (via .■mi-m to he
1, it. - on liii 8 i of October,
that CiU'ii s air -h-!"gatim:
<•: V - ergne i ci aloi >*•!*.ot
■’ h< 11.* a.-x lilbONg of
HH^Hi-tiPed ion.
that any organ'/o.i ion
■/ ; support to the platform of
icago democratic convention
|e candidacy of Bryan and Sewali
to paT cicipatiou in the con-
upon a basis < f one delegate
I additional delegate for each
luizution pbers in good will standing; but
be entitled to
jin [convention five delegates.
will conclude its
it night, when it will be ad-
py Mr. Bryau, Vice-President
m, Hon. Benton McMillan, of
je, and others not yet an-
Gold Pouring In.
i formation received o? late at
sury regarding gold imports
fs that the movement is likely
ItiUO for some weeks to come.
itions at Boston have begun,
igtdher the ontiook is regarded
rnment officers as quite favor-
Airea) ly the gold ongaged or on the
ocean, if added to that now in the
treasury, would make the reserve ag¬
gregate approximately $122,000,000.
The total importation since the
present movement began is about $38,-
000,000 and it is fully expected that
the sum will bo increased to $50,000,-
000 or more.
The treasury department has re¬
ceived information of the expected ar¬
rival at San Francisco of $2,500,000 in
English sovereigns, which will be de¬
posited in the United States mint in
that city in exchange for gold coin cer¬
tificates, and these in turn will be de¬
posited in exchange for currency to be
paid the importers in New York.
The gold comes from Australia on
the orders of the New York bankers
and brokers and comes via San Fran¬
cisco, that being a shorter route than
by way of Southampton.
The shipment, added to amounts al¬
ready in sight, will bring the reserve
up to about $125,500,009.
COL. littlk resigns
From the Office of Assistant United
States Attorney General.
Hon. Wm. A. Little of Georgia, as¬
sistant attorney general of the United
States, assigned to the Interior De¬
partment, has tendered his resignation
to the president. His successor will
be announced within the next two or
three weeks.
Mr. Little was appointed by the
president in May of this year to suc¬
ceed Judge John I. Hall, who resigned
to accept the position of general coun¬
sel for the Georgia, Southern & Florida
railroad. Mr. Little was appointed at
tho request of ex-Secretary Hoke
Smith, and since the latter left the
cabinet it has been generally under¬
stood that Mr. Little would return tc
Georgia.
Mr. Little has made a splendid rec¬
ord and has left his imprint npon the
department. Attorney General Har-
mou and Secretary Francis were loath
to accept Mr. Little’s resignation and
both pay fitting tribute to his splendid
legal attainments and services to the
government.
Australian Ballot in Ohio.
The state and electoral tiekeifc of
“the national demoeratic”party of Ohio
have been admitted to the Australian
ballot by Secretary of State Taylor.
The state and electoral tickets of the
nationalists were also admitted to the
ballot in the same way. There will
be seven tickets on the Australian
ticket in the state.
BRYAN PROPHIvGIICS VICTORY.
1 elegrapbs Editor liearst I'll;* He
b’cels Sure of Success.
The New York Jonrua! of Friday
morning publishes tbo following eugn-
e.I -tateiuent from Candidate Bryan,
predicting his victory a month bef >re
election :
“To W. E. Hettrst, Journal, <*• W
York.—Cincimi ti, O., OcGdu -
bavt* no doubt of my eltetiosi, uutt I
base my confidence upon tbo fact, that
fro*' coinage sentiment is growing
everv
4 *The people arc studying the money
q a .. 8 ti 0 p % ^ud th** study of it is con-
vincinx? the people that there can be
no permanent prosperity so long as
the gold standard is maintained.
“The gold standard makes s dearer
dollar ; a dearer dollar means falling
prices and falling prices means hard
times.
“The people who profit by hard
times are relatively so few in number
that they would amount to nothing »t
a p but for tho fact that they aro aided
by a considerable number of people
who, not having studied tho money
qnestiou tliemse ves, have’ received in¬
structions from a few financiers.
“The number of republicans who
have declared for free silver outnum¬
bers the democrats who have deserted
the ticket, and, while the number of
silver republicans is increasing all the
time, the numberof bolting democrats
is all the time decreasing.
“While I have no doubt as to my
election, I believe that every advocate
of free coinage should work from now
to election day to make iho majority
in the electoral college so 7 argo that no
party hereafter will . ven dare to pro¬
pose submission to a foreign financial
policy. W. J. Birr AN ”
GLOWS PERSONAL.
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The Cami aigu t’suis«\s Hot. Words !»*-
tween Clay aud t Mnnlngltam.
Tho heated state campaign i as led
to a personal controversy between
Hon. Steve Clay, the democratic state
chairman, and Mr. John D. Canniug-
ham, chairman of the populist . xeeu-
tive committee.
In a speech at Winder .Mr. Clay
made a severe attack upon Mr. Cun¬
ningham’s personal character, quoting
nt length from u weekly pa]>er pub¬
lished at Douglasviile. That paper
charged Mr.Cunningham with drink¬
ing more whiskey than water, and with
playing poker. It further said that
Mr. Cunningham lost $1,500, gave his
note for the amount, and afterwards
refused to pay it, and turned state's
evidence against other parties to tin*
game. It is charged also that Mr. Cun¬
ningham otabbed a man in the back on
account of a woman.
Mr. Clay denounced Mr. Cnamug-
ham\s campaign methods generally.
Mr. Cunningham has replied in a card
admitting tho poker game but stating
the circumstances very differently and
denying that he stabbed a m»a ia the
baek. He concludes with a severe de-
nuneiation of Mr. Clay.
LEA DVILLR 18 3! KNACK IF.
Bodies of Armed Men Reported
Marching on tho Colorado City.
A special from Leadville, Col., aays:
General Brooks has been notified that
quite o body of armed men, who had
Junction, apparently ’eft a train at Arkansas
passed through tho govern¬
ment fish hatchery, six miles west of
the city, Monday, and there inquired
tho way to Leadville. They refused
to answer questions and left hurriedly.
On Tuesday another armed body
called at the hatchery and asked the
same question. General Brooks will
place the militia in such a way *a to
intercept similar parties.
The possibility of ending the strike
by arbitration or by other amicable
means has disappeared for th© time be¬
ing at least, the majority of the mem¬
bers of the Miners’Union having voted
in regular meeting Thursday to con¬
tinue indefinitely the fight for the uni¬
form $3 per day for »lf of the men of
the mines.
Two hundred members of the
Miners’ union have withdrawn and
will seek work. The operators will
replace the strikers with outsiders as
rapidly as possible, and the sta*e
militia will probably be kept theare a
long time.
QUAY ro VISIT UOLUMIUA.
plans to Unite the Republic, in fac¬
tions in South Carolina
The executive committees of the reg¬
ular and lily white factions of the re¬
publican party of South Carolina have
been called to meet in Colombia.
Senator Quay will bo present to
represent the national executive COffl-
mittee in an attempt to unite the two-
factions. It is understood that Colo¬
nel H. M. Wallace, candidate for gov¬
ernor, nominated last mouth by the
regulars, will be agreed ou as the rep¬
resentative of the whole party, aud
that Dr. Sampson Pope, nominee of
the lily whites, will be dropped. A
joint electoral ticket will also be pn t
iu the field for the support of the re-
publieins in the state.
The regulars, having been recog¬
nized rt- St. Louis as the republican
orgau zation, are not particularly anx¬
ious fpr a reconciliation, as in event o*
republican -ncctfes, they would have
the pull, aud would not be forced to
divide with the lily whiten, who un¬
questionably have men of ability m
their ;*anks. It would Dot be surpris¬
ing if Qnav failed to bring thex* to¬
gether, as the feeling is quite bitter.
f / -—
Michigan Bank Falls.
Tie first national bank of Mount
Pleasant, Mieb., closed it* doore to
bnsi less Monday. The capital of the
ban)( is $50,000 aDd ifc owes depositors
$67,C00. Comptroller Eckels says the
bank’s affairs were bandied incompe¬
tent It.
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