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VIENNA PROGRESS.
TERMS, One Dollar Per Annum.
“ HEW TO THE LINE; LET THE CHIPS FALL WHERE THEY MAY.”
JOHN E. HOWELL, Editor and Prop’r.
VOL. XIII. NO. £3.
VIENNA, GA„ TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2(i. 1895.
PUBLISHED WEEKLY.
-Vo day in the week is so prolific in
Ires as Saturday.
One hundred years ,ago yellow fever
vas more common ii/ Northern cities
;han it is now in tropical towns.
Athletics, the New York Indepen-
lent is told, are only incidental at
lloru They are too apt to be ac
iidentai'where they are not incidental.
e are still cave dwellers in Eng
uring an action to closes houses
r habitation in the slums of
rt the medical officers de
some of the dwellings as being
cut out of the rock.
Hamburg Fremdenblatt thinks
that the new magazine rifles will dc
iway with cavalry in general engage
men ts, because every saddle could b«
emptied in two minutes in a charge oi
less than a mile. It says that seventy
five per cent, of the cavalry will be
converted into infantry, and the ma
jority of the rest will become b
cyclists.
The Interior remarks : Asa nation
Japan is a child of the nineteenth cen
tury. The progress of Christianity in
Japan is one of the marvels of modern
church history. Tho first five years
of faithful Christian struggle pro
duced one convert. In 1872 was or
ganized the first Evangelical Church
of elev/n members. Now there
363 churches with a membership
35,535.
The State of North Carolina owns
controlling interest in two of theprin
cipal railroads of the State: the
North Carolina Railroad, extending
from Goldboro to Charlotte, 223
miles, and the Atlantic and North
Carolina, from Goldboro to Morehead
City. This makes a continuous line
of road, 325 miles in length, running
through the richest and most thickly
populated portion of tho State.
AVithin tho recollection of the old
est mariner there has not been as dis
aslrous a year to shipping and sailors
as the one just ended, declares tho
New York Mail and Express. Thou
sands of lives have been lost, hundreds
of thousands of dollars’ worth of prop
erty destroyed, and hundreds of hope
ful families are still waiting for tid
ings of loved ones who went to sea in
craft that were not strong enough to
com’-at the wild Atlantic sterms and
never came back. More than a hun
dred strong vessels, well found and
manned, are on tho missing list for
the year, and there is no question
about the fate of their crews. The
Wilson Line steamer Apollo was one
of those of which not the silghtest
trace was found after she steamed
away. AA 7 hat became of her, how she
was lost, how her gallant crew per
ished, are questions that may never be
answered. The Atlas Liner Alvo was
another which went on the voyage
that has no ending.
Rear-Admiral Belknap, of our navy,
now in retirement, says: “There is
not one incident of personal prowe33
or of individual valor in the annals of
England that may not be matched by
a similar deed of courage and heroism
in the annals of Japan. The great
sea fight of Dem-No-Ura was as sig
nificant aud more hotly contested
than the battle of Trafalgar. No
British force has ever met on the field
of battle an Oriental race at all the
equal of the Japanese in martial char
acter and intrepid spirit. Her army
to-day is the equal of the British army
in organization and equipment, su
perior to it in homogeneity, mobility
and discipline. She has seen, this
long while, the British squeeze upon
the throat of China and the brutal
means to accomplish it, and she doss
not mean that such fate shall overtake
her, if stout hearts and strong arms
can prevent it. No British minister
will hereafter attempt to enact the
meddling and menacing part of a
Parkes at Tokio, nor will any
British fleet bombard with impunity a
second Tengoshima. The sun does
not shine on a more determined or in
trepid race than that of Japan. The
martial spirit of Japan antedates that
of Britain, and hereafter, whether on
land or sea, the arch robber of the
universe will find all she cares to meet
if she comes into hostile contact with
the forces of Dai Nippon.”
KEY. UK. TALilAGIi.
The Great Preacher’s Sunday
Discourse.
Subject: “The Glorious Gospel.”
Text: “According to the glorious gospel
of the blessed God, which was committed to
my trust.”—1 Timothy i., 11.
The greatest novelty of our time is the gos
pel. It is so old that it is new. As potters
and artists are now attempting to fashion
pitchers and oups and curious ware like
those of 1900 years ago recently brought np
from buried Pompeii, and such cups and
pitchers and curious ware are universally
admired, so anyone who can nnshovel the
real gospel from the mountains of stuff un
der which it has been buried will be able to
present something Hint will attract the gaze
and admiration and adoption of all the peo
ple. It is amazing what substitutes have
been presented for what my text calls “the
glorious gospel,” There has been a hemi
spheric apostasy.
There are many people in this and all other
largo assemblages who have no more idea ol
what the gospel really is than they have ol
what is contained in the fourteenth chapter
of Zend-Avesta, the Bible of the Hindoo, the
first copy of which I ever saw I purchased in
Calcutta last September. The old gospel
Is fifty feet under, and the work has been
done by the shovels of those who have been
trying to contrive the philosophy of religion
There is no philosophy about it. It is a plain
matter of Bible statement and of childlike
faith! Some of the theological seminaries
have been hotbeds of infidelity because they
have tried to teach the “philosophy of reli
gion.” By the time that many a young
theological student gets half through hii
preparatory course he is so filled with
doubts about plenary inspection, and
the divinity of Christ, and ths questions
of eternal destiny, that he is more fit
for the lowest bench in the infant class
of a Sunday-school than to become a teacher
and leader of the people. Tho ablest theo
logical professor is a Christian mother, who
out of her own experience can tell the four-
year-old how beautiful Christ was on earth,
and how beautiful He now i3 in heaven, and
how dearly He loves little folks, and then she
kneels down and puts one arm around the
boy, and with her somewhat faded cheek
against the roseate che3k of the little one
consecrates him for time and eternity to Him
who said, “Suffer them to come unto Me.’
What an awful work Paul made with the I).
D.’s, and the LL.D.’s, and the F. R. S.’s,
when he cleared the decks of the old gospel
ship by saying, “Not many wise men, nof
many noble, are called, but God hath chosen
the weak things of the world to confound the
mighty.”
There sits the dear old theologian with hi3
table piled up with all the great books on in
spiration and exegesis and apologetics for
the Almighty aud writing out his own elab
orate work on the philosophy of religion, aud
his little grandchild coming up to him for a
good night kiss he accidentally knocks off
the biggest book from the table, and it falls
on the head of the child, of whom Christ Him
self said, “Out of the mouths of babes and
sucklings thou hast perfected praise.” Ab.
my friends, the Bible wants no apologetics.
The throne of the last judgment wants no
apologetics. Eternity wants no apologetics.
Scientists may tell us that natural light is
the “propagation of undulations in an elastic
medium, and thus set in vibratory motion by
the action of luminous bodies,” hut
one knows what gospel light
until his own blind eye3 by the touch
of the Divine Spirit have opened to
seo the noonday of pardon and peace. Scien
tists may tell us that natural sound is “the
effect of an impression made on the organs
of hearing by an Impulse of the air, caused
by a collision of bodies, or by other means,”
but those only know what tho gospel sound
Is who have heard the voice of Christ direct
ly, saying: “Thy sins are forgiven thee.
Go in peace.” The theological dude unrolls
upon the plush of the exquisitely oarved pub
pit a learned discourse showing that the
garden of Eden was an allegory, and Solo
mon’s Song a rather indelicate love ditty,
and the book of Job a drama in which satau
was tho star actor, aud that Renan was throa-
quarters right about miracles of Jesus, and
that the Bible was gradually evoluted and
the best thought of the different ages, Moses
and David and Paul doing the best they
oould under tho circumstances, and therefore
to be encouraged. Lord of heaven and
earth, get us out of the London fog of higher
criticism!
The night is dark, and the way is rough,
and we have a lantern which God has put in
our hands, but instead of employing that
lantern to show ourselves and others the
right way we are discussing lanterns, their
shape, their size, their material, and which is
the better light—kerosene, lamp oil or can
dle—and while we discuss it we stand all
around the lantern, so that we shut out the
light from the multitudes who are stumbling
on the dark mountains of sin and death.
Twelve hundred dead birds were found one
morning around Bartholdi’s statue in New
York Harbor. They had dashed their life
out against the lighthouse the night before.
Poor things! And the great lighthouse of
the gospel—how mauy high soaring thinkers
have beaten all their religious life out
against it, while it was intended for only one
thing, and that to show all Nations the way
into the harbor of God’s mercy and to the
crystalline wharves of the heavenly city,
where the immortals are waiting for new
arrivals. Dead skylarks, when they might
have been flying seraphs.
Here also come, covering up the old gos
pel, some who think they can by law aud ex-
osure of crimes save the world, and from
ortland, Me., across to San Francisco, and
back again to New Orleans and Savannah,
many of the ministers have gone into the de
tective business. Worldly reform by all
means, but unless it be also gospel reform
it will be dead failure. In New York its chief
work has been to give us a change of bosses.
We had a Democrtaie boss, and now it is to
u ~ * Republican boss, but the quarrel is,
' all be the Republican?
A Famous Town Fair.
Lancaster, Penn., is one of the
few American towns with the tradition
of an annual local fair. It is a long
time since the fair was held, but it
flourished once so that it was the event
of the year. The principal street of
the little city was almost hidden in
booths and tables, and every sort of
merchandise was sold, from ginger
bread to rich silks. Country lads
saved their pennies the whole year to
have money for the fair, and on fail-
day every lad bought something
pretty for his lass. Lancaster was
then in many essentials a German
village.—New York Sun.
Ail Extraordinary Advertisement.
At Iserlohn, in Germany, a dry
goods merchant is being prosecuted
for advertising that he could sell off a
large stock of goods remarkably cheap
because it had been procured for him
by a staff of seventeen thieves engaged
by him to steal the goods from the
stores of competitors. He pleads that
the advertisement was only a trade
puff and that the seventeen thieves ex
isted only in his imagination.—Chi
cago Herald.
Who shall be the Republican? Politics will
save the cities the same day that satan evan
gelizes perdition.
The glorious gospel of the blessed God as
spoken of in my text will have more drawing
sower, and when that gospel gets full swin;
t will have a momentum and a power
mightier than that of tho Atlantio Ocean
when under the force of the September equi
nox it strikes the Highlands of the Navesink.
The meaning of the word “gospel” is “good
news,” and my text says it is glorious good
news, and we must tell it in our churches,
and over our dry goods counters, and in ouj
factories, and over our threshing machines
and behind our plows, snd on our ships
decks, and in our parlors, our nurseries and
kitchens, as though it were glorious good news,
and not with a dismal drawl in our voice]
and a dismal look on our faces, as though re
ligion- was a rheumatic twinge, or a dyspep
tic pang, or a malarial chill, or an attack oi
nervous prostration. With nine “blesseds”
or “happys,” Christ began His sermon on
the mount—blessed the poor; blessed the
mourner; blessed the meek; blessed the hun-
f ry; blessed the merciful; blessed the pure:
lessed the peacemakers; blessed the perse
cuted; blessed the reviled; blessed, blessed,
blessed; happy, happy, happy. Glorious
good news for the young as through Christ
they may have their coming vears ennobled,
and for a lifetime all the angels of God their
coadjutors, and all the armies of heaven
their allies. Glorious good news for the
middle aged as through Christ they may
have their perplexities disentangled,and their
courage rallied, and their victory over all
obstacles and hindrances made forever sure.
Glorious good news for the aged as they may
have the sympathy of Him of whom St. John
wrote, “His head and His hairs were white
like wocl, as white as enow,” and the de
fense of the everlasting arms. Glorious good
news for the dying as they may have minis
tering spirits to escort them, and opening
gates to receive them, and a sweep of eternal
glories to encircle them, and the welcome of a
loving God to embosom them.
Oh, my text is right when it speaks of the
glorious gospel. It is an invitation from the
most radiant Being that ever trod the earth
or ascended the heavens, to you and me to
come and be made happy, and then take af
ter that a royal castle for everlasting resi
dence, the angels of God our cup bearers.
The price paid for all of this on the cliff oi
limestone about as high as this house, about
seven minutes’ walk from the wall of Jerusa
lem, where with an agony that with one
hand tore down the rocks, and with the other
drew a midnight blackness over the heavens,
our Lord set us forever free. Making no
apology for any one of the million sins of our
life, but confessing all of them, we can point
to that cliff of limestone and say. “There was
paid our indebtedness, and God never col
lects a bill twice.” Glad am I that all the
Christian poets have exerted their pen in ex
tolling the matchless one of this gospel
Isaac Watts, how do you feel concerning
filffll—Ana lift writes. “I km not
ashamed to own mv Lord." Newtofl,
what do you think of this gospel?
And he writes. “Amazing grace, how
sweet the sound!” Cowper. what
do you think of Him? And the answer comes,
“There is a fountain filled with blood.”
Charles Wesley, what do you thiuk of Him?
Aud he answers, “Jesus, lover of my soul.”
Horatius Bonar, what do you think of Him?
And he responds, “I lay my sins on Jesus.”
Ray Palmer, what do you think of Him? And
he writes, “My faitlT looks up to Thee."
Fannie Crosby, what do you think of Him?
And she writes, “Blessed assurance, Jesus is
mine.” But I take higher testimony: Solo
mon, what do you think of Him? And the
answer is, “Lily of the valley.” Ezekiel,
what do you think of Him? And the answer
is. “Plant of renown.” David, what do yon
think of Him? And the answeris. “Mvshep-
herd.” St. John, what do you think of Him?
And the answer is. “Bright and morning
star.” St Paul, what do you think of Him?
And the answer comes, “Christ is all in all."
Do you think 03 well of Him, O man. 0 wo
man of the blood bought immortal spirit?
Yes, Paul was right when he styled it "the
glorious gospel.”
And then as a druggist, while you are
waiting for Rim to make up the doctor’s
prescription, puts into a bottle so many
grains of this, and so many grains of that,
and so many drops of this, and so many
drops of that, and the Intermixture taken,
though sour or bitter, restores to health.
So Christ, the Divine Physician, prepares
this trouble of our lifetime, and that disap
pointment, and this persecution, and that
hardship, and that tear, and we must take
the intennixture, yet though it be a bitter
draft. Under the divine prescription it ad
ministers to our restoration and spiritual
health, “all things working together for
God.” Glorious gospel!
Aud then the royal castle Into which we
step out of this life without so much as soil
ing our foot with the upturned eartli of the
grave. “They shall reign forever.” Does
not that mean that you are, if saved, to be
kings and queens, and do not kings and
queens have castles? But the one that you
are offered was for thirty-three years an
abandoned castle, though now gloriously in
habited. There is an abandoned royal castle
at Amber, India. One hundred and seventy
years ago a king moved out of it never to
return. But the castle still stands in inde
scribable grandeur, and you go through
brazen doorway after brazen doorway,
and carved room after carved room,
and under embellished ceiling af
ter embellished ceiling, and through
halls precious stoned into wider halls prec
ious stoned, and on that hill are pavilions
deeply dyed and tasseled and arched, the fire
of colored gardens oooled by the snow of
white architecture; birds in the arabesque so
natural to life that while you cannot hear
their voices you imagine you see the flutter
of their wings while you are passing; walls
pictured with triumphal procession; rooms
that were called “Alcove of Light” and
“Hall of Victory;” marble, white and blaok,
like a mixture of morn and night; alabaster,
and mother of poarl, and lacquer work.
Standing before it the eye climbs from step
to latticed balcony, and from lattioed bat
cony to oriel, and from oriel to arch, and
from arch to roof, and then descends on lad
der of all colors, and by stairs of perfect
lines to tropical gardens of pomegranate and
pineapple. Seven stories of resplendent
architecture ! But the royal castle provided
for you, if you will only take it on the pre
scribed terms, is grander than all that; and,
though an abandoned castle while Christ was
here, achieving your redemption, is again oc
cupied by the “chief among ten thousand,”
and some of your own kindred who have
gone up and waiting for you are leaning
from the balcony. The windows of that
castle look off on the King’s gardens where
immortals walk linked in eternal friend
ship, and the banqueting hall of that castle
has princes and princesses at the table, and
the wine is “the new wine of the kingdom,”
and the supper is the marriage supper of the
Lamb, and there are fountains into which no
tear ever fell, and there is music that trem
bles with no grief, and the light that falls
upon that scene is never beclouded, and there
is the kiss of these reunited after long sepa
ration. More nerve will we have there than
now, or we would swoon away under the
raptures. Stronger vision will we have there
than now, or our eyesight would be blinded
by the brilliance. Stronger ear will we have
there than now, or under the roll of that
minstrelsy, and the clapping of that accla
mation, and the boom of that halleluiah we
ould be defeated.
Glorious gospel! You thought religion
was a straitjacket: that it put you on the
limits; that thereafter you must go cowed
down. No, no, no! It is to be castellated.
By the cleansing power of the shed blood of
Golgotha set your faces toward the shining
pinnacles. Oh, it does not matter much
what becomes of us here—for at the longest
our stay is short—if we can only land there.
You see there are so many I do want to
meet there. Joshua, my favorite prophet,
and John among the evangelists, and Paul
among the apostles, and Wyclif among the
martyrs, and Bourdaloue among the preach
ers, and Dante among the poets, and
Havelock among the heroes, and
our loved ones whom we have so much
missed since they left us so many darlings of
the heart, their absence sometimes almost
unbearable, and, mentioned in this sentenoe
last of ail because I wont the thought climac
teric, our blessed Lord, without whom we
could never reach the old castle at all. He
took our place. He purchased our ransom.
He wept our woes. He suffered our stripes.
Ho died our death. He assured our resurreo-
tion. Blessed be His glorious name forever!
Surging to His ear be all the anthems! Facing
Him be all the thrones!
Oh, I want to see it, and I will see it—the
day of His coronation. On a throne already.
Methinks the day will come when in some
great hall of eternity all the Nations of earth
whom He had conquered by His grace will
assemble again to crown Him. Wide and
high and immense and upholstered as with
tne sunrise and sunsets of 1000 years, great
audience room of heaven. Like the leaves
of an Adirondack forest the ransomed multi
tudes, and Christ standing on n high place
surrounded by worshipers and subjeots. They
shall come out of the farthest past led on by
the prophets; they shall come out of the
early gospel days led on by the apostles; they
shall come out of the centuries still ahead of
‘os led on by champions of tho truth, heroes
and heroines yet to be born.
And then from that vastest audience ever
assembled in all the universe there will go up
the flhoilt: TTim* flrnmn PTlml
CONGRESSIONAL.
WHAT THE NATIONS’ LAW-MA
KERS ARE DOING.
The
Proceedings of Both
Briefly Epitomized.
the shout: ‘‘Crown Him! Crown Him! Crown
Him!” and the Father who long ago prom
ised this His only begotten Son, “I wifi give
Thee the heathen for Thine inheritance and
the uttermost parts of the earth for Thy pos
session,” shall set the crown upon the fore
head yet scarred with cruoiflxion bramble,
and all the hosts of heaven, down on the
levels and up in the galleries, will drop on
their knees, crying: “Hail, King of earth!
King of heaven! King of saints! Fing 0 f
seraphs! Thy kingdom is an everlasting
kingdom, and to Thy dominions there shall
be no end! Amen and amen! Amen and
amen!”
Big Lumber Combine.
The lumber manufacturers of the East and
North and the forest owners of the same sec
tions met in Boston, Mass., and organized the
Northeastern Lumbermen’s Association.
Those present represented over 875,000,000
invested in forest lands, saw-mills, wood
working manufactories and the manufacture
of Lumber generally-
PHILADELPHIA’S ELECTION
Results in a Great Victory for the Re
publicans.
Philadelphia maintained its reputa
tion for stalwart republicanism in a
city election Tuesday and elected the
candidates of the republican party by
a majority of from 45,000 to 55',000.
The election was for mayor, receiver
of taxes, conncilmen, police magis
trates and school directors.
The candidates of the republican
party for mayor and receiver of taxes
were City Solicitor Charles J. War
wick and Charles J. Rohey respective
ly. Ex-Governor Pattiaon and Col.
Sylvester Bonnafone, Jr., were the
candidates of the democratic party for
the same offices.
Trial of the Train Robbers.
Tne trial of the Aquia Creek train
robbers, Morgan, or Morganfield, and
Searcy, was begun at Stafford Court
House, N a., Wednesday. Morgan was
fiist placed on trial. The last conns
in the indictment against him, oharg-
mg conspiracy to rob, was discharged.
I he other counts were upheld.
THE SENATE.
There was a large attendance on the
floor of the senate Tuesday and the
galleries were well filled, in anticipa
tion of a struggle, and perhaps a vote
on the silver bill, which had been
adroitly forced to the front as the un
finished business. There was hardly
an absentee on the democratic side,
indicating the anxiety of the different
elements to present full ranks on the
impending contest. A report from
the secretary of tho treasury was
read in response to the resolution
concerning the need of legislation
to meet the deficiencies. The secre
tary slated that an available balance of
$99,875,000 exclnsivo of over $55,-
000,000 gold reserve is on hand. Mr.
Blackburn, democrat, of Kentucky,
reported from the conference commit
tee on the diplomatic and consular bill
that an agreeant had been reached on
all the items except the $500,000 for
beginning the Hawaiian cable. The
report was confirmed and a further
conference directed on the Hawaiian
cable item. Mr. Jones, in charge of
the silver bill, got on his feet with a
request that the senate proceed with
the regular order, which was the silver
bill. Mr. Hill objected to displacing
morning business. “Then,” said Mr.
JoneF, “I will move to take it up at
once.” It was apparent that a vote
was imminent. Thereupon Mr. Voor-
hees, democrat, of Indiana, arose and
presented the credentials of Mr. Wil
son, the new senator from Washing
ton, and he was sworn in. Mr. Jones
yielded further for the resolution of
Mr. Gorman, which was agreed to, for
senate sessions beginning at 11 o’clock
on and after Wednesday. Mr. Jones
now presented his motion to
take np the silver bill. Great
interest was shown while the
yea and nay vote was being taken.
The motion prevailed—36 to 27.
Then the tug of war was on. The bill
was read in full. In the opening
skirmish, Mr. Jones said the friends
of his bill were willing to put the mat
ter to a test now, without a word of
debate. If the opponents of the bill
saw fit to resist, and to discuss it, of
course its friends could not help it;
but they had to make an earnest effort
to get a vote. Mr. Jones added that
he did not propose to jeopardiza
any appropriation bill. There was
plenty of time to pass them all. It
was apparent, however, that no vote
could be taken at once, nor at any
time that could be definitely stated;
so Mr. Jones said he had only to re
quest that the debate would proceed
as rapidly as possible and that the vote
might be had at the earliest possible
hour.
The senate began its 11 o’clock ses
sions Wednesday, rendered necessary
by the pressing demands of the appro
bation bills. Mr. Jones, of Arkansas,
in charge of the silver bill, which
still held its advantages as the unfin
ished business, circulated among his
associates. Mr. Platt, republican, oi
Connecticut, Mr. Higgins, republican,
of Delaware, and other republican
senators were evidently prepared to
carry forward the opposition to the
silver bill and Mr. Higgins secured
the floor for a speech but Mr. Jones
soon came forward with an important
announcement. “The friends of
tne regular order—the silver bill,”
said he, “have no wish to risk
the danger of an extra session of
congress. They so stated at the out
set. The events have shown that this
danger might be incurred and that the
pleat appropriation bills might be put
in jeopardy. For that reason, the
friends of the silver bill have author
ized mo to say that it will not be fur
ther pressed at the present session of
congress.” The presiding officer pre-
ented the Wolcott silver resolution,
declaratory in favor of silver coinage
at a ratio of 16 to 1, but stating that
it was inexpedient at this late day in
the session to take up the silver bill.
Mr. Call sought to take up the Indian
appropriation bill but it was cut off by
objection. Mr. Higgins then address
ed the senate on the Wolcott resolu
tion. He argued that it was meaning
less and could effect nothing. It
would not receive executive approval
even if it went through congress. He
said the repeal of the Sherman law was
notice to the world that the United
States would no longer be the patient
ass to bear the burden of silver. At
12 o’clock, the hour of unfinished bus-
United States to the free zone of Mex
ico, so long as the Mexican free zone
law exists. The senate rejected the
motion of Mr. Gorman to reconsider
its action in adopting the conference
report amending the income tax, and
then took up the Indian appropriation
bill. Mr. Gorman's purpose was to re
quire corporations to make report of
all their high salaried officials.
THE HOUSE.
In the house, Tuesday, the senate
amendments to the honse bill to au
thorize the Oklahoma Central railroad
to construct a railroad through Oklaho
ma and Indian Territories were agreed
to. The consideration of the naval ap
propriation bill was then resumed, the
pending question being the decision of
the chair (Mr. O’Neill, of Massachu
setts), on the point of order raised by
Mr. Sayers against the item in the bill
authorizing the secretary of the navy
to enlist in his discretion 2,000 addi
tional seamen with which to man the
new ships. The chairman (Mr. O’Neill)
announced his decision overruling the
point of order. Mr. Sayers appealed
from the decision of the chai.
At tho opening of the session of the
honse Wednesday some time was spent-
in unraveling a tangle produced by
the passage by the house under a mis
apprehension of a bill to increase the
pension of Thomas Corrigan, late
company B, 888 Hlinois infantry, to
$50 per mouth. The bill was returned
to the house in response to a resolu
tion, and by unanimous consent the
vote was again taken on the recom
mendation of the committee of tha
whole that the bill lie on the table.
Messrs. Hull and Larev, of Iowa, in ■
sisted that the bill was meritorious
and that the recommendation of tho
committee of the wholo should be dis
agreed to, and this action was taken
by a vote of 48 to 100. Mr. Sayers’
motion to strike out the provision in
Iho house for the three new battle
ships in the naval appropriations bill,
was lost—43 to 121.
The house, Thursday, by a vote of
114 to 152 refused to concur in the
senate amendment to the diplomatic
and consular appropriation bill, ap
propriating $500,000 for the Haw
aiian cable.
FROM WASHINGTON.
NEWSY ITEMS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.
Sayings and Doings of the Official
Heads of the Government.
TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES.
Heavy snows have blockaded rail
roads and highways in the interior of
Newfoundland.
It is said that Mexico’s negotiations
with Guatemala are proceeding slowly
but on the whole satisfactorily.
A committee of the New York legis
lature is now investigating the recent
street car strike in Brooklyn.
At Evansville, Ind., Captain John
Ingle was appointed receiver for tb
Evansville, Paducah and Tennessee
River Packett company.
At New Orleans a mistrial has been
entered in the case of ex-Conn oilman
Thriffiley, on trial for proposing to
receive a bribe from Superintendent
Marshall of the L. & N. railroad.
At a meeting of District Assembly
75, K. of L., it was voted to call off
the strike on the trolley railroads in
Brooklyn, N. Y., with the exception
of the Atlantic Avenue company’s sys
tem.
The destitution in St. Johns, N. F.,
is increasing. Between 5,000 and
6,000 persons are not raceiving relief.
The government announces its inten
tion of proceeding with relief works
at once.
At Pneblo, Mexico, four of the pris
oners implicated in the Scott camp
shooting affair were shot by order of
Captain Fragoso. Nearly all the ban
dits have now been captured or killed.
At Fall River, Mass., the agent of
the Chace mills has agreed to pay his
weavers for all cloth woven in a print
cut over forty-six yards long. A strike
had been ordered at the mill by the
Weavers’ Union, but the concession is
deemed satisfactory.
At Duluth, Minn., William McKin
ley, one of the best known men in
northern Minnesota, and a heavy owner
in mining and lumber lands all over
the country, has made an assignment.
The liabilities ale estimated at from
$300,000 to $600,000, while the assets
are small.
At Milwaukee, Wis., the J. Ober-
man Brewing company has gone into
the hands of a receiver, and will be
continued in operation under the di
rection of Judge Johnson. J. Ober-
man, individually, has also made a
voluntary assignment. The assign
ment of the company is for $120,000.
Referee W. G. Choate, of Brooklyn,
has decided that ex-Boss McKane, of
Gravesend, now in Sing-Sing, swindled
the widow of Paul Bauer out of large
sums of money and that he must make
restitution. Paul Bauer was Mc-
, , , , Kano’s friend and the latter adminis-
iness arrived and a sharp controversy , tered on hifJ estate _
arose as to the precedence of various |
bills.
THE LOAN SUCCESSFUL.
The Wolcott resolution, under
the rales, went to the calendar. Mr.
Gorman appealed to senators to stop ' It is Subscribed for Many Times Over
the fruitless discussion on the pending j in London and New Y’ork.
Wolcott resolution, and to take up the | Advices from London state that
appropriation bills which were de-; Messrs. N. M. Rothschilds & Son de
manding attention, if it was hoped to c ] are that the new American loan has
pass them. He then moved to take up proved a colossal success. Though
~ ' the opening of subscriptions only be
gan Wednesday morning, the amount
of tho loan allotted to Europe has
been covered very many times over
both with them and with Messrs. J. S.
Morgan & Co. It is impossible as yet
to give the exact amount of the hide,
as applications are still coming from
London, and the country is yet to be
hesrd from.
The Pall Mall Gazette says that the
success of 4he loan is a tribute to the
power of Messrs. Rothschilds and a
mark of confidence in the great wealth
and financial ability of the United
States.
THE LOAN IN NEW TOTS.
Messrs. August Belmont & Co., and
J. P. Morgan & Co., the managers of
the bond syndicate, closed the sub
scription list for the new 4 per cent
bonds at 10:20 o’clock Wednesday
morning, the amount having been
subscribed for many times over.
THE YELLOW PINE TRUST.
the Indian appropriation bill. Mr.
Butler, in charge of the pooling bill,
objected, and demanded a roll call.
The motion prevailed—55 to 12. The
effect of the vote was to displace the
silver bill as the unfinished business,
and to send it back to the calendar.
The Indian appropriation bill being
taken np Mr. Higgins continued his
interrupted speech on the finances.
There were just sixteen senators
present when the 11 o’clock session of
the senate opened Thursday, and Mr.
Walcott, republican, of Colorado, sug
gested the absence of a quorum. Sena
tors were hurriedly summoned and
forty-responded, two more than the
nocessary number. Mr. Irby, demo
crat, of South Carolina, presented cre-
’“TirialR of B. R. Tillman from South
Carolina, for the term beginning
March 4 next. Mr. Turpie, democrat,
of®North Dakota, offered a resolution
from the committee on foreign rela
tions, expressing the high apprecia
tion of the senate as to the distin
guished honors accorded by the Mexi
can government on the occasion of
the obsequies of the United States
minister, Mr. Gray, and directing the
fecretary of state to forward copies of
the resolution to the authorities of
Mexico. The resolution was agreed
to. The house joint resolution was
passed for the suspension of certain
features of the law authorizing the
transportation of goods through the
Tlie Arkansas and Missouri End of
the Big Combine Organized.
The Arkansas and Missouri Yellow
Pine Lumber Company is the name of
a new organization preparing to open
offices in St. Louis, Mo. Those inter-
< sted deny that it is a lumber irost. A
meeting is to be held on the'26th inst.
to complete the details.
Uncle Sam’s Bond Account.
Here is a little table showing how
the bond account stands:
Face of loan, $62,315,000.
Syndicate premium at 104.49—$2,-
797,943.
United States gets $65,112,913.
What inside jobbers pay, $69,948,-
587.
Inside Jobbers profitto 118—$3,583,-
113.
The public pays and the United
States should have received $73,531.-
700.
The United States has lost $8,418,-
757.
Compounded as a sinking fund at 4
per cent for thirty years this lost profit
would be $27,628,676, or nearly one-
half the original loan.
Jones’s Bill Withdrawn.
Senator Jones and the other silver
men have abandoned the fight for the
passage of the free coinage bill, or for
a resolution declaring for free coin
age, in the senate. They did not push
the matter further because by so doing
it might have delayed the passage of
appropriation bills and have brought
about an extra session. Further,
there was nothing to be gained by
pushing the matter. It was evident
that owing to dilitory tactics no free
coinage bill could pass during the few
remaining days of this session, and as
the senate had, by a majority of nine,
expressed its sentiments in favor of
the free coinage of silver, it was use
less to push the matter further.
The Secretary Notified.
United States Treasurer Jordan sent
this telegram to Assistant Secretary
Curtis Wednesday afternooon:
“New York, February 20, 2:30 p.
m.—Inform the secretary that the
syndicate has completed the matter of
the purchase of gold coin on this side
and have now turned in $123,000,000
gold coin in exchange for United
States notes in excess of contract. ”
This is undesstood to mean that
$30,000,000 in gold have been secured
by the Belmont-Morgan syndicate in
America for payment of the l onnds,
the balance,nearly $35,000,000, having
been secured in London, ■yhen more
than four times the allotment for that
side was subscribed for. So far $23,
052,370 in gold have been received by
the treasury from the syndicate and
$22,060,820 in certificates issued to it,
It will probably be several weeks be
fore the bonds are ready for delivery.
To Save tlie Petrified Forest.
A memorial from the legislative as
sombly of Arizona has been presented
to congress, requesting that the lands
covered by the petrified forest be
withdrawn from entry until the advis
ability of making a public park of it
can be settled. The lands are
Apach6 county, are ten miles square,
aud according to the memorial, are
covered by trunks of trees some of
which measure over 200 feet
length and from seven to ten feet in
diameter. The legislature represents
that “ruthless curiosity seekers are
destroying these huge trees and logs
by blasting them in pieces in search of
crystals which are found in the centre
of many of them, while carloads of the
limbs and smaller pieces are being
shipped away to be ground up for va
rious purposes.” To make it a public
park would preserve the tract from
vandalism and injure no one, as there
are no settlers upon it.
Pay for the Sugar Growers.
There is every probability that the
senate will pass the bill paying to su
gar growers of this country a bounty
on all sugar grown np to the time the
new tariff act went into effect and on
all that will be produced under licenses
authorized prior to the repeal of the
McKinley act up to the time of the
expiration of those licenses, July
1st next. An amendment to this
effect will be offered in the senate
to the sundry civil bill as a commit
tee amendment. The vote on this
question, when the matter was in the
committee, was a tie, owing to the ab
sence of Mr. Cnllom, who is sick. For
this reason it was not made a part of
the bill, but the omission was made
with the understanding that an amend
ment should be reported in accord
ance with the views of Mr. Cnllom,
and the amendment should have all
the force as if originally reported by
the committee as a part of the bill.
Mr. Allison is now engaged in drawing
np the amendment. It will carry an
appropriation of between $4,000,000
and $5,000,000, and will give a bounty
of 2 cents a pound on all sugar pro
duced up to August 28th and 8-10 of a
cent a pound on all sugar made under
licenses that were granted prior to the
repeal of the bounty law.
ELECTRICAL WORKERS OUT.
Nine Hundred Men Quit Work in New
York.
The electrical workers to the num
ber of 900 men went out on strike at
New York Monday. The board of
walking delegates of the building
ii-ades have charge of the strike and if
any firm gives employment to any
electrical workers who arenotmem-
jiers of the electrical workers’ union,
this board declares that it will order a
strike of every man in the building
trades, and as the board claims its
mandate will extend to every man at
work anywhere within a radius of fifty
miles of the city, 80,000 meu will go
out on strike when ordered.
NEW ORLEANS JUSTICE.
A Bribe Taker and a Dishonest Law
yer Sent to the Penitentiary.
At Nsw Orleans, Councilman Numa
Doudoussat, convicted for having ac
cepted a bribe of one hundred dollars
from Groceryman Sherman was sen
tenced by Judge Ferguson to three
years’ at hard labor in the state peni
tentiary.
Ambrose Smith, a well known and
popular attorney, convicted of having
appropriated to bis own use one thous
and dollars, which ho had collected for
a client, was also sentenced to three
years in the penitentiary.
FREDERICK DOUGLASS DEAD.
He Was the Foremost Leader Among
Colored Men.
A Washington special says: Fred
erick Douglass, the foremost leader of
the negro race in the world and one
of the most picturesque characters in
American history, died Wednesday
night at his home in the suburb of
Anacostia. His death was sudden and
unexpected, as he had been in appa
rent good health up to the day of his
death.
Frederick Douglass was born in
Tuckahoe, near EastoD, Talbot county,
Maryland, February, 1817. His mother
was n negro slave and his father
white man. He was a slave on the
plantation of Colonel Edward Loyd
until at the age of ten he was sent to
Baltimore to live with a relative of his
master.
He learned to read and write from
one of his master’s relatives, to whom
he was lent when about nine years of
age. His master later allowed him to
hire his own time for three dollars
week, and he was employed in a ship
yard, and in accordance with a reso
Intion long entertained, fled from Bal
timore and from slavery, September
3, 1838. He made his way to New
York, thence to New Bedford, Mass.,
where he married and lived for two or
three years, supporting himself by day
labor on the wharves and in various
workshops. While there he changed
his name from Loyd to Douglass.
He was aided in his efforts in self-
education by William Loyd Garrison
In the summer of 1841, he attended
an anti-slavery convention at Nan
tucket, and made a speech which was
so well received that he was offered
the agency of the Massachusetts Anti-
Slavery Society. In this capacity he
traveled and lectured through the New
England states for four years. Large
audiences werejattractedjby his graphic
descriptions of slavery and his elo
quent appeals.
In 1845 he went to Europe and lec
tured on slavery to enthusiastic audi
ences in nearly all the large towns of
England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales.
In 1846 his friends in England con
tributed $750 to have him manumitted
in due form of law. He remained
two years in Great Britain and in 1847
began at Rochester, N. Y., the publi
cation o f “Frederick Douglass’ Pa
per,” which title was changed to “The
North Star,” a weekly journal, which
he contributed to for some years. His
supposed implication in the John
Brown raid in 1859 led Governor Wise,
of Virginia, to make a requisition
for his arrest upon the governor of
Michigan, where he then was, and in
consequence of this Douglass went to
England, and remained six or eight
months. He then returned to Roch
ester and continued the publication of
his paper.
When the civil war began in 1861,
he urged upon President Lincoln the
employment of colored troops and the
proclamation of emancipation. In
1863, when permission was given to
employ such troops, he assisted in en
listing men to fill colored regiments,
especially the 54th and 55th Massa
chusetts.
OATES VETOED IT.
His Career as a Lecturer.
After tho abolition of slavery, he
discontinued his paper and applied
himself to the preparation and deliv
ery of lectures before lyceums. In
September. 1870. he became editor of
the New National Era, in Washing
ton, which was continned by his sons,
Lewis and Frederick. In 1871 he was
appointed assistant secretary to the
commission to Santo Domingo; and
on his return President Grant ap
pointed him one of the territorial
council of the District of Columbia.
In 1872 he was appointed elector at
large for the state of New York, and
was appointed to carry the electoral
vote to Washington. In 1876 he was
appointed United States marshal for
the District of Columbia, which office
he retained until 1881, after which he
became recorder of deeds in the dis
trict, from which office he was removed
by President Cleveland in 1886.
In the autumn of 1886 he revisited
England to inform his friends of what
progress he had made as a fugitive
slave of the African race in the United
States, with the intention of spending
the winter on the continent and the
following summer in the United States.
His published works are entitled,
‘Narrative of my Experience in Sla
very,” Boston, 1844: “Life andTimeB
of Frederick Douglass,” Hartford,
1881; “My Bondage and My Free
dom,” Rochester, 1855.
ALABAMA’S RAILROAD LITIGA
TION BILL FAILS,
And the Matter Will Now Have to be
Settled In the Coarts.
A Montgomery special says: The
honse of representatives promptly de
clined to pass the bill involving the
litigation over the ownership of the
Alabama Great Southern over the gov
ernor’s veto. The matter will have to
be settled in the courts, where a suit is
now pending between the two contest
ants, the Southern and the Cincinnati,
Hamilton and Dayton.
This has been the most spirited con
test ever known in the Alabama legis
lature, the bill having passed through
both houses several times by reason of
amendments being tacked on. It
finally passed both bodies in dpe form
and Went to the governor for his sig
nature. He vetoed it on account of
its unconstitutionally in that it dis
criminated against alien stockholders.
The house by a vote of 63 to 35
declined to pass the bill over the veto
of the exeentive and thus settled the
matter finally.
COTTON AND FERTILIZERS.
SMALLPOX IN ST. LOUIS.
Eighty-Five Cases of the Dread Dis
ease Reported.
At noon Wednesday eighty-five cases
of smallpox were reported, and this
number is expected to be increased
when ihe complete returns are re
ceived. The health officers are begin
ning to realize the gravity of the situ
ation and are making energetic efforts
to check the spread of the disease.
Two cases were discovered in the
schools for colored children and the
schools were ordered closed. Bo far
the disease is mainly confined to the
colored population, bnt it is feared
the contagion will spread to the white
people through the medium of porters,
coachmen and waiters, who frequent
the infected districts. The daily sup
ply of vaccine virus was exhausted an
tour after being received. It is esti
mated that an average of 2,COO per
sons are vaccinated daily.
SUES THE ELBE’S OWNERS.
Brother of One of the Lost Passengers
Brings Action for Damages.
An action for damages against the
German Lloyd Steamship Company
will be brought by Siegmund Frank,
the brother of Jacob Frank, the Buf
falo ticket broker, who was lost on the
Elbe. The suit will be for $50,000.
Siegmund Frank gave bonds and
qualified as administrator. Affidavits
have been obtained from two of the
survivors, Carl Hoffman and John
Yever a.
SIX MEN HURLED TO DEATH
And Several Others Badly Burned by
an Explosion in a Mine.
By an explosion of mine gas Monday
morning in the West Bear Ridge col
liery of the Reading Coal and Iron
Company, at Mathanoy Plane, Pa.,
six minors were killed and five were
burned, fonr of them probably fatally.
South Carolina Farmers Vote to Re
duce the Acreage.
A convention of alliancemen and
farmers called by President Evans to
consider the fertilizer and cotton
acreage questions, met in the hall of
the honse of representatives at Colum
bia, S. C., Wednesday night. It in
cluded about fifty representative plant
ers from all sections of the state. Con
gressman-elect J. William Stokes intro
duced a series of resolutions suggesting
that farmers purchase commercial fer
tilizers upon a contract to pay for
them in cotton currency on November
1st. For acid phosphate, 175 pounds
in middling cotton, or $10 in money
per ton, was suggested; for kainit,
190 pounds or $11, and for ammonia-
ted fertilizers 300 pounds or $17—
these prices to be for the goods free
on board in Charleston. Freight, if
prepaid by sender, is to be paid in
cotton at 5 cents.
It was resolved, also, that planters
use as little commercial fertilizer as
possible, and several speeches were
made favoring its total d’snse. With
regard to the cotton acreage, it was
resolved that it be cut down to the
point at which cotton may be produced
strictly as a surplus crop snd without
interfering with the productions of
bread and meat and other supplies
necessary to sustain farming opera
tions. A resolution favoring a hori
zontal reduction of 33 per oent, after
debate, was lost.
The railroads were asked to reduce
the freights on fertilizers 20 per cent.
A committee was appointed to issue an
address to the farmers setting forth
the action of the convention, and, at
11:15 p. m., the convention adjourned.
It was declared in the convention that
the suggestions were to be considered
as merely advisory and not binding
upon those present. In all the speeche*
a strong sentiment in favor of reducing
the acreage was manifested.
FLOUR CGaiBINE ROUTED.
The Crown Mills Seem to Have Whip
ped Out the Would-Be Trust.
A San Francisco special says: The
Union flour mills of Stockton pur
chased last year by the Sperry com
bine for $294,000, has closed down.
Of the thirteen mills owned by this
syndicate in various parts of the state,
only three are are now in operation.
The closing down is said to be due
to the strong opposition of the Crown
mills, for which that company vainly of
fered one million dollars. Had the
bid been accepted, the flour trust
would have been in as complete con
trol as the sugar trust. Instead a bit
ter fight has been waged in the course
of which prices of flour has fallen from
$5.50 to $2.85 a barrel. The Crown
mills are said to be backed by Balfour,
Guthrie & Company, Schwabaoher
Brothers and ex-Mayor Grace of New
York.
The war has been too hot for the
combine and all of the closed down
mills have been dismantled.
CONVENTION OF WOMEN.
Triennial Session of the National Con-
cil in Washington.
The formal opening of the second
triennial session of the National Coun
cil of the Women of the United States
began at Washington, D. C., Monday.
Mrs. Mary Wright Sewall, its presi
dent, called the meeting to order.
The counorl is a representative body,
composed of delegates from all the
various associations of women through
out the country. Among the twenty
associations reprerented are the
woman suffragists; the W. C. T. U.,
Universal Peace Union, various social
releif and missionary societies, the
women draughtsmen, women stenog
raphers, National Council of Jewish
Women, American Anti-vivisection
Society, and various local councils of
women.
HONORING DOUGLASS.
The North Carolina House Adjourns
as a Tribute.
A great sensation was created at
Baleigb, N. C., Thursday by the adop
tion in the house of a resolution, in
troduced by a negro, that when the
general assembly does adjourn, it ad
journ in honor of Frederick Douglass.
The resolution was passed by a vote
of 34 to 20, all the democrats voting
against it. A resolution to adjourn on
February 22d, in honor of Washing
ton’s birthday, which is a legal holi
day in the state, was voted down. The
same body also refused to adjourn in
honor of General Lee, on -January
19th.
PROMPTLY REPULSED.
Chinese Attack the Japs and Are
Badly Beaten.
A dispatch dated Kai Ping, on the
17tb, says that abont a thousand Chin
ese troops attacked the Japanese out
posts at Kumo-Cheng in the morning
and were repulsed promptly. The
Chinese retreated precipitately, leav
ing thirty dead on the field. The
number of wounded had not been as
certained. The Japanese suffered no
C loss whatever.
