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DAY SERMON.
Subject! ’tGotl Aiuour tlto Fishes.”
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Text: “And Ood said. Let the waters
bring forth abundantly the moving vrva-
tures that hath h/e.”-Genesis L» 80k
What a new book the Bible is? After
thirty-six years’ proiohittg front it arid dis
cussing over UOnO different subject* foiitided
on the word of God, the bOdk is n9 fresh to
mo As when I learned, with a stretch of in
fantile memory, the shortest verso in the
Bible, “Jesus wept,” and 1 opened a few
weeks ago a now realm of Biblical interest
that neither my pulpit nor any one else’a
bad ever explored) and having spoken to
you in this course of sermons on God every
where concerning the “Astronomy of tne
Bible; or, God Among the Stars;” tho
’* limnology of the Bible; or, God Among
the Centuries;” tho “Ornithology of the
Bible; or, God Among the Birds;” tho
“Mineralogy of the Bible; or, Go l Among
the Amethysts.” this morning, as t may be
divinely helped, 1 will speak to you about
the “Ichthyology of tho Bible; or* God
Among tho Fishes.”
Our horses were lathered Ah l tire lout,
and their fetlocks wore rod with the blood
cut out by the rocks, and I could hardly get
my feet out of tho stirrups as on Saturday
night we dismounted on tho bench of Lake
Galilee. Tho rather liberal sappy of fdod
with which wo lm-.l started from Jerusalem
was well nigh exhausted, and the articles of
iliet remaining had by oft repetition three
times a day for throe woeks ceased to appo-
tiz\ 1 never want to see a ilg again, and
dates with me are all out of date.
For several days the Aral) caterer, who
could speak but half a dozen English words,
would answer our requests for 'soma of the
styles of food with which wo had beentlclec*
toted the first few days by crying out “Fin
ished.” The most piquant nppothter is ab-
stinance, and tho demand oil nil the party
was, “Let us breakfast oil Sunday morning
on fresh lish from Lake Genuesareth*” for
you must know that that lake has four
names, and it is worth a profusion of nomen
clature, and it is in tho Bible called Chin*
nereth, Tiberias, Gennesareth and Galilee.
To our extemporized table on Sabbath
morning came broiled perch, only a few
hours before lifted out of the sacred waters.
It was natural that our minds should reverb
to tho only breakfast that Christ, over pre
pared, and it was on those very shores whore
we breakfasted, Christ had in those olden
times struck two flints together and gat on
fire some shavings or light brushwood And
then put on larger wood, and a pile of glow
ing bright coals was tho Consequence.
Meanwhile the disciples fishing on tho lake
had awfully “poor luck,” and every time
they drew up the not it hung dripping with
out a fluttering fin or squirming scale. But
Christ from the shore shouted to them and
told them where to drop the net, and 153 big
fish rewarded them. Simon and Nathaniel,
having cleaned some of those large fish,
brought them to the coals which Christ hail
kindled, and tho group who had been out all
night and wore chill and wet and hungry,
Fat down and berjan mastication. A'l t.lmb
scene came back to us when on Sabbath
morning, Decomber, 1889, just outside the
ruins of ancient Tiberias and within sound
of the rippling Galilee, wo breakfasted,
Now, it ie not strange that tho Bible i n-
sgery i« so inwrought from the flihorles
when the Holy Land is, for the most part,
an inland region? Only three lake j—two be
sides the one already mentioned—namely,
the Dead Sea, where fish cannot liVo At all,
end ns socm us they touch it they die, and
the birds swoon on then* tiny carcasses, au l
tho third, the Fools of Heahbon* which are
alternately full and dry, Only throe rivers
of the Holy Land—Jabbok, Ivishon and Jor
dan,
About all tho fish now in tho waters of the
Holy Land oro the perch, the carp, tbe
bream, the minnow, tho blenny, thu barbel
(so called because of tho barb at its mouth),
the chub, the dogfish, none of them worth a
Delaware shad or an A£rondack trout.
Well, the world’s eoography has changed,
and the world's bill of fare 1ms changed.
Lake Galileo was larger and deeper and bet
ter stocked thrm now, and no doubt the
rivers wore deeper and the fisheries wore of
far more importance then than now.
Besides that, there was the Mediterranean
Tea only thirty-tire miles away, and fish
wore salted or dried and brought Inland,
and so much of that article of food was sold
In Jerusalem that a fDh market gave the
name to one of tho gates of Jerusalem near
bv, and it was called the fish gate. Ti»9
cities had great reservoirs in which fish
were kept alive and bra I. Tho pool of Gibson
was a flab poo!, Isainli and Solomon rotor
to fish pools. Largo fish were kept nlivo
and tied fast by ropes to a stake in thane
reservoirs, a ring having been run through
their gills, and that is tho meaning of the
Scripture na^sago which says, “Canst thou
put a hook into his nose or boro his jaw
through with a thorn.”
So important was the fish that tho go l
Dagou, worshiped by the Philistines, was
made half fish and half man, and that is tho
meaning of the Lord’s indignation when in
I Bauiuel wo road that this Dagon, tho fish
S >d, stood beside the ark of tho Lord, and
agon was by invisible hands dashol to
pieces because the Philistinej had dared to
make tho fl-h i\ god. That explains the
Bcripture passage, “The head of Dagon and
both the palms of his hands were cut off up
on tho threshold; only tho stump of I) igon
was left to him.” Now, tno stump of Dagou
was the fish part. Tho top part, which was
^he figure of a man, was dashsi to pieces,
and tho Lord, by demolishing every thing
but tho stump or fish part of the idol, prac
tically said, “You may keep your fish, but
know from tbe way 1 have demolished tho
rest of tho idol that it is nothing divine.”
La yard arid Wilkinson found tho fish an
object of idolatry all through Assyria and
Egypt. The Nile was full of fish, and that
explains the horrors of the plague that
slaughtered the flmiy tribe all up and down
that river, which has been and is now tho
main artery of Egypt’s life. In Job you
hear tho plunge of the spear into the hip
popotamus as the groat dramatic noofc cries
out, “Canst thou fill his skin with barbed
irous or his head with fish spears?’ Yea,
the fish began to swim in the very first book
of Genesis, where ray text records, “And
God said, Let the waters bring forth abund
antly the moving creature that hath life.”
Do you realize that the first living
thing that God created was the fish? It
preceded the bird, the quadruped, the
human race. The fish has priority of resi
dence over every living thing. The n?xb
thing done after God had kindled for our
world the golden chandelier of the sun an l
the silver chandelier of tho moon was to
make the fish. The first motion of the
principle of life, a principle that all the
thousands of years since have not been able
to define or analyze—the very first stir of
life—was in a fish.
What on hour that was when In the Eu
phrates, the Gibon, the Bison and the Hid
dekel, the four rivers of Paradise,tbo waters
swirled with fins aud brigntened with
scales. All the attributes ot tho infinite
God were call d into action for the making
of that first Itab. Lanceolato nnl translu
cent miracle. There is enough wonder in
the plate of a sturgeon or in the cartilage of
a shark to confound the scientist. It doe3
not take the universe to prove a Go l. A
fish does it. fie wonder that Linpceus and
Cuvier and Agassiz and the greatest minds
of all the centuries sat enraptured before its
anatomy.
Ob, its beauty an 1 tbe adaptodnesi of its
structure to tbe element in which it must
live; the picture gallery on the side3 of the
mountain trout unveiled ns they spriug up
to snatch the flies; the grayling, exiled the
flower of fishes; the salmon, aseanding the
Oregon and the Severn, easily leaping the
Tails that would stop th9:n; the bold perch,
the gudgeon, silver an 1 black spotted, the
herring, moving in squadrons five miles
long; the carp, lor Qiuiumg calloi lb* f>x
Af fishes; the wondrous sturgeons* Tormor ly
reserved for tho tables of royal families, and
the isinglass raAdo oiit of their membrane!
tho tench, dalle! thrt physloiart of fishes, be
cause #heti applied to human ailments it is
Said to be curative; tho lampreys, so tempt
ing to tho epicurean that too many of them
slow Henry II— aye, the whole world of
fishesI
Enough of thorn floating up and down the
rivers to feed the hemispheres if every ear of
corn and every head of wheat and every
herd Of quadruped And if every other article
of food in dll the earth wore destroyed,
universal drought, leaving not so mUoh as
a fipoar Of grAss oil the round planet, would
leave in the rivors art! lakes and seas for
tho human race » staple comtno lifcy of food
which, if brought to shore, would bo enough
not only to feed but fatten tho entire human
race.
lu times to come tho world may bx so
populated that tho harvests and vineyards
au.l land animals may bo insufficient to food
the human family, and thp nations may be
obliged to come to the rivers and ocean
beaches to seek tile living harvests that
swim the deep, and that would mean more
healh and vigor aui brilliancy and brain
than the human race now oWn.
Tho Lord, by placing the tlnh in the first
course of the menu in paradise, making it
precede bird and beast, indicated to tho
world tho importance of the fish us an
article df human foo I. Tho reason that
men and Women lived throe and four and
five and nine hundred years was because
they were kept on parched corn and fish.
Wo mix up a fantastic food that kill the
most of us before thirty years of ago. (,’us-
tards And whippo 1 sillabubs and Roman
punches and chlokoii salads at midnight are
a gantlet that few have strength to run.
We put on many a tombstone glowing
epithets saying that the person beneath died
of patriotic services or from exhaustion in
roligious work when nothing killed the poor
fellow but lobster eaten at a party four hours
after be ought to have been sound asloep in
bed. There afo men to-day in oitr streets so
nany walklutf hospitals Who might have
been athletes if they had takort the hint of
Genesis in my text and df our Lord's re
mark an l Adhered to sixiolicity of diet.
The reason that th.i country district have
furnished most df tho men and womon of
our time who are doing tho mightiest work
in merchandise, in mechanics, in law, in
rneHeine, in theology, in legislative and
congressional halls, an l all the presidents
from Washington down—at least thoso who
have amounted to anything—is beoausethey
were in those country districts of necessity
kent on plain diet.
No man or wouion over amounted to any
thing who was brought up on floating island
or angel cake. The world must turn back
to paradisiac diet if it is to get paradisiac
morals And parad salad health. The human
rads to-day needs more phosphorus, mid the
fish is charged an! surcharged with phos
phorus-phosphorus, that which shines in
the dark without burning.
What made the twelve apostles such stal
wart men that they could eudure anything
and achieve everything? Next to divine in
spiration, it was bacaitio thoy were nearly
all fishermen and lived on fish and a few
plain condiments. Paul, though nob brought
up to swing the net and throw tho line, must
of necessity have adopted tho diet of tho
population among whom he livod, and you
sen the phosphorus in his daring plea before
Felix, aild the phosphorus in his boldest of
all utterances before tho wisacres on Mars
Hill, un i tho phosphorus as he went without
fright to his beheading, and tho phosphorus
you see in tho lives o! all tho apostles who
moved rigbton undaunted to certain martyr
dom. whether to bo decapitated or flung off
precipices or hung in crucifixion.
Phosphorus, shining in , tho dark without
burning. No mau or woman that ever lived
was independent of questions of diet; Let
those who by circumstances aro compelled
to simplicity of diet thank God for their res
cue from tho temptation of killing delica
cies. Tho men and women who aro to de
cide the drift of tho Twentieth Century,
which is only seven or eight steps off, are
now five miles back from tho rail station
and ha l for breakfast this morning a similar
bill of fare to that which Christ provided for
tho fishermen disciple*.op tho banks of Lake
Galilee.
JT , _ yvrticli
Christ by miracle multiplied were bread
fish which the boy Who acted as sutler to tho
7000 persons of the wilderness haude i oyer
—live barley loaves nn l two fishes, Tho
boy must have felt ba lly when called on to
give up the two fishes which h»* had brought
out after having caught them himself) sit
ting with his bare feet over tho bank of tho
lako and expecting to sell his supply at good
profit, bub he felt better when by tho mira
cle tho fish wore multiplied and ho li xd more
returned to him than ho h id flurrendero 1.
Know also in order to understand the
ichthyology of the Bitfe that in tho deeper
waters, as those of the Mediterranean, there
were monsters that arc now oxtlnct, The
fools who become infidels because they can
not understand the ipgiilfmsnt of the recro
ant Jonah in a sea monster might have
saved their souls by studying a little natural
history. “Oh,” says soma one, “that story
of Jonah was only a fable.” Bay others:
It was interpolate! by some writer of later
times,” Others say: “It was a reproduc
tion of the story of Hercules devoured and
then restored from tho monster.” But my
reply is that history tells us that there were
monsters large enough to wli3lnx ships.
The extinct ichthyosaurus of other ages
was thirty feet long, aq I as late as the Sixth
Century of the Christian era up and down
the Mediterranean there floated monsters
compared with wh(ob a modern whale was
a sardine or u herring. The shark has again
and again bean found to swallow a man en
tire. A fisherman on. tbo coaw of Turkey
found a sea. monster which contained a wo
man and a purse of gold. I hnvo soon in
.is.urns sea monsters.Jarge enough to take
down a prophet. ?'
But 1 nave a better reason for believing
ilia (Jid Testament account, and that is that
Christ said it was true fan! a type of His
own resurrection, aud \ suppose He ought
to know. In Mttfcthowixli., 40, Jesus Christ
mys, “For as Jonas was throe days and
three nights in tho whales belly, so shall
tne Bon of Man be three days and three
nights in tire heart of ifia earth.” Aud that
settles it for me and fetf any man who doss
not believe ChrtRa dire* and an impostor.
Notice uisoliow tho Bid Testament writers
drew similitudelrom (fee fisheries. Jeremiah
such imagery to®9jpbesy destruction,
Behold, 1 will t
the Lord, and they f
USAS fish imagery
“it shall come to pi
stand upon it from
Jaim; there shall b3 i
nets; their fish shall :
kinds, as the fish of th
many,” tho explanatj
Eogeii and Enegift
of the Dead
no fish can live, out*!
the time will come vjj
be regenerated, and!
for fish. Amos r
mg, “The day sbs
he will take you a
posterity with fl
EcclesiastUb ded'i
temptation ara i
net. Indeed Solobj
finny tribe and i
ology wmch has i
Furthermore,
derstand the ichth
othi
tmys,
they
Jnme’i
take:
by hook
Jlxe flalxecj
[Least a
?*' And *
out 4§matbau v
kulcdfcy*, “They.!
tbeng&ro.”
Aupfcher mo
that which was I
other, by
man; fishers, sailh
fish them.” Ezskiel
ti'Jphesy prosperity,
>*t the fishers shall
!©di oven to Eneg-
liace to sproad forth
according V) their
:;reat sea, exceeding
of which is that
stood on the banks
ie waters of which
prophet says that
jtlios) waters will
will bo groat places
‘i Idolatries by say-
upon you when
hooks an x your
.... ’ Boloaxdb, in
t tii03e captured of
taken in an evil
new fall about tiie
treatise on ienthy-
bat you may un-
the Bible, you
[yere five ways of
nee of reeds and
fish wore caught.
;nt forbade that on
boats be wreck© 1
■ther mode was by
“ (lee bo clear good
raaefixiag. An
as where Isaiah
mourn, and
brooks shall
(Canst thou draw
And Mabak*
of them with
r a casting net or
>m the shore, an-
which was
thrown front a boat and drawn through th*
RcA As the fishing smack sailed on. HoW
wonderful all this is litwraiighfc into the
Bible imagery and it leads ino to ask ill tfhidb
mo lo nro you ami I fishing, for tho church
is tho boat, and tho gospel is tho not, and
the sea is tho world, an 1 thp fish aro the
souls, and God addresses us as He did Simon
and Andrew, saying, “Follow Me, and I
will make you fishers of men,” But whonis
the best time to fish for souls? In the night.
Peter* Why did you say to Christ), “wo
have toiled nil tho night and lmve taken
nothing?” Why dirt you not flsitt in the day*
time? Ho replies, “You oitght to know,that
tho night is the boit time for fishing.”
At Tobylmnna Mills, among the moun
tains of Pennsylvania, I saw a friend with
high boots and fishing tackle starting out
at 0 o'clock nt night, and I sai I, “Where ore
you going?” He answered, “Going to fish.”
“What, in tho night 1” Heauswered. “Yes,
in tho night.” So the vast majority of souls
captured for God are taken in timox of ro-
yival in tho night maotings. Thoy might
just as well come at 1! o’clock at noon, but
most of them will not. Ask the evangelists
of oldort times, ask Finney, ask Nottleton,
ask Oxborn, Ask Daniel Baker, and then ask
All the modern evangelists which is the best
time to gather Sauls, and thoy will answer,
“The night; by all odds, tho night.'’ Not
only tho natural night, but tho night of
trouble.
Suppose t go around in this audience aud
ask these Christians when they wore convert
od to God. One would answer, “I was at tho
time 1 lost my child by mombranotls croup,
and it was the night of bereavement,” or
tno answer would be, “It was just at tor I
was swindled out of my property,and it was
tiie night of bankruptcy,” or ft would bo,
“It was during that time wheu I was down
with that awful sickness,and it was the night
of physical suffering,” or it would bo, “It
was that time when slander took after me,
ind I was maligned and abiweJ, and it was
tho night of persecution.” Ah, my hearers,
that is tho tune for you te go aftor souls,
when a night of trouble in on them. Miss
not that opportunity to save a soul, for it is
tho best of all opportunities.
Go up along tho Molmwk, or tho Juniata,
or tho Delaware, or tho Totubigbeo, or tho
Bb. Lawrence right after a rain, and you
will find the fisherman all up aud down tho
lakes? Why l Because a good tiino to angle
is right after the rain, and that is a good
time to catch souls, right after a shower of
isfortune, right aftor floods of disaster,
nd as a pool overshadowed with trees is a
grand place for making a fine haul of fish,
lion the soul is under tho long dark
shadows of anxiety and distress it is a good
time to make a spiritual haul. People in
the bright sunshine of prosperity are not so
easily taken.
Bub be sure before you start out to tho
gospel fisheries to got the right kind of bait.
"But. how,” you say, “am I to got it?” My
answer is, “Dig for it.” “Where shall I
lig for it?” “In tho rich Bible grounds.”
We boys brought up iu the country had to
dig for bait before wo started for tiie banks
of tho Raritan. We put the sharp edge of
the spade against tho ground and thou put
our foot oil the spade, and with one tremen
dous plunge of our strength of body and
will we drove It in up to tho handle and then
turtle l over the so I.
We bad never road Walton’s “Complete
Angler,” or Charles CqAon’e ‘Tnatrudtiorts
How to Angle for Gr.Tvllug in a Clear
Stream.” We know nothing about tho mod
ern red hackle or the fly of orange colored
mohair, but we got tho right kind of bait.
No use trying to angle for fish or angle for
souls unless yon have tho right kind of bait,
and there is plenty of it in tho promises, tho
parables, the miracles, the crucifixion, the
heaven of tho grand Old gospel.
Yes, nob only musb you dig for bait, but
use oniy fresh bait. You canuot do any*
thing down at the pond with old angle*
worms. Now views of truth. New views
of God. Now views of tho soul. There are
ull tho good books to help you dig. But
make up your mind as to whether you will
take the hint of Habukkuk and Isaiah and
Job and use hook and line, or take the hint
of Matthew and Luke and Christ and fish
with a net.
I think many lose their time by wanting
to fish with a net, and thoy never got a place
to swing the not. In other words, they want
to do gospel work on a big scale or they will
not do It at all. I see feeble minded Chris
tian men going around with a Bagster’a
Bible under their arm, hoping to do the work
of an evangelist and use tho net, while they
might bo better content with hook and line
and take one soul at a time. They are bad
failures as evangelists. They would be
mighty successes as private Christians. If
you catch only one soul for God, that will be
enough to fill your eternity with colebration.
All hail the fisherman with hook and line I
I. have seen a man in roughest corduroy
outfit come back from tho woods loaded
down with a string of finny treasures hung
over his shoulder and his gainebag filled,
and a dog with Ids teeth carrying the basket
fille 1 with tbo surplus of an afternoon’s
angling, and it was all tho result of a hook
and lino, and in tho eternal world there wilt
be many a man aud many a woman that
was never heard of outside of a village Bun-
day-school or a prayer mooting buriol in a
church basemtntwho will come before the
tliron o of Go! with a multitude of souls
ransomed through his or her instru*
mentality, and yet the work all done
through personal interview, one by one,
one by one.
You do not know who that one soul may
be. Staupitz helped one bouI into the light,
but it was Martin Luther. Thomas Bllnoy
brought salvation to one soul, but it was
Hugh Latimer. An edge tool maker was
tbe a means of saving one soul, but it was
John Summerfleld. Oar blessed Lord healed
one blind eye at a time, one paralyzed arm
at a time, one dropsical patient at a time,
and raised from tho dead one girl at a time,
one young man at a time. Admire tho net
that takes in a great many at once, but do
not despise tho hook and line.
Oort help in amid tho gospel fisheries,
whether wo employ hook or uot, for tho (jay
cometh when we shall see how much uo-
peuded on our fidelity. Christ Himself de
clared; “The kingdom of heaven is like unto
net that was cast into the sea and gathered
every kin I, which, when it was full, they
drew to shore and sat down and gathered
the good iu tho vessels, but cast tho bad
awnv. So shall it be at tho end of (Jie
world—the angels shall come forth and
separate tho wicked from the just.”
Yes, fclio fishermen think it best to keep
tho useful and worthless of tho haul in the
same net until it is drawn upon the beach,
nn l then the division takes place, and If it re
on Long Island coast tne raossbankers are
thrown out and the bluellsh an l shad pre
served, or if It is on the shore of Galilee the
fish classified as silurolds are hurled back
into the water or thrown up on the bank as
unclean, while the parch an l tho carp and
tho barbel are put into pails to be carried
home for use.
Bo in the church ou earth the saints and
the hypocrites, the generous and the mean,
the cnaste and the unclean, are kept in the
same membership, but at death the division
will be made, and tho good will be gathered
to heaven, and the bad, however many holy
communions they may have celebrated, and
however many rhetorical prayers they mav
have offered, and however many years their
names may have been on the church roll?,
will be cast away. God forbid
that any of us should bo among
the “cast away.” But may we do our
work, whether small or groat, os thoroughly
as di i that renowned fisherman, Gaorge W.
Bothune, who spent his summer rest angling
in the waters around the Thousand Isles and
beating at their own craft those who plied
it all tho year, and who the rest of his time
gloriously preached (Jhrist in a pulpit only
Ufteeu minutes from where I now stand,and
ordering for his own obsequies: “Put on me
my pulpit gown and bands, with my own
pocket Bible in my right hand. Bury me
with my mother, my father and my grand
mother. Sing also iny own hymn;
■Mesas, Thou prince of life!
Thy chosen cannot die; •
Like Thee, they conquer in ftic strife*
To reign with Thee oa high.”
THROUGHOUT THE SOUTH'
Notes of Her Progress and Prosperity
Briefly Epitomized
And Iinportnnt Happenings from Day
(o Day Tersely Told.
The North Carolina house of represen
tatives, on Wedneaday, pasied a bill ap
propriating $211,000 for the states exhibit
nt the world’s fair.
The entire cast sido of tile square,
which contained the ilnest block in
Clarksville, Tex., burned Friday. Dosses
nggreg .to $100,000. There was partial
insurance.
A. New Orleans special says: Iu re-
spmiBo to an inquiry nt General Ucaurc-
gard’s residence, Thursday, the informa
tion was given thnt tho general has al
most recovered from tho attack of colic
which ho was prostrated with last Sun
day. Ilis physicians consider him en
tirely out of danger
At Wheeling, W, V«., Friduy after
noon, a street car manned by non-union
men was attacked by a mob of 200 peo
ple. Both the conductor and driver
were terribly beaten, and thoforemin,
whose real name is not known,will prob
ably die. Tho affair has caused great ex
citement.
Governor Tillman, o South Carolina,
on Friday, appointed J. E. Bre/.enle, of
Anderson, to revise general statutes of
the stato under tho enactment of 1889
and 1801. Tho salary for the work is
$1,1500. Mr. Brczeal will take the placo
of Judge Mahor, whoso illness will pre
vent finishing the work.
Hon. John F. Dunn, of Ocala, Fla.,
died at noon Sunday of Bright’s disease
after an illnoss of many weeks. He was
born in South Carolina in 1844, but had
lived in Florida sinco 1852. He was a
soldier in the confederate army, and
siuco tho close of the war had held many
public offices. Ho was probably tho
moat wealthy man in tho state, and one
of tho most liberal and public-spirited.
A New Orleans special of Friday says:
Secretary Hester’s weekly New Orleans
cotton exchange statement shows that the
deficiency in tho movement of tho cotton
crop, compnrod with that of last year,has
crossed the two million mark for tho first
lime. Tho amount brought into sight
for tho week is over ten per cent under
tho corresponding seven days of tho
mouth Inst year and over 84 por cent un
der the same period the year bofore.
Tho special message of Governor Hogg
to the lcgislntnro on the lynching waa
not known in Faria, Texas, until the ar
rival of the Thursday morning papers.
The first impulse and expression wub in
dignation thnt i ho govotnor should con
tinue to ngitato a matter which lie con
fesses is without a romedy, but on better
considerrtion this gave wny to pity for
tho absurdities, us people called them,
into which ho had plunged.
A Columbin, 8. C., dispatch of Thurs
day, says: It is stated officially that
Govornor Tillman haa selootcd the first
floor of tho agricultural hall ns the loca
tion for tho stato liquor dispensary, which
may or may not go into being next July
Tbcrc is talk umong tho prohibitionists
of calling n March convention for tho
purpose of preventing in tho various
eouuiics tho number of signatures to the
petitions necessary to get a dispensary.
A dispatch of Wednesday states that
four thousand people in tho Concordia
and Caturaoula parishes in tho uorihcrn
portion of Louisiana, nro on tho verge of
stnrving. Information received.from that
section shows that tho people aro in n
pitiable condition, and unless relief is
given them many deaths from starva
tion will result. Tho floods of last sum
mer destroyed their crops. Hundreds
moved but thousands wore unable to
leave.
Wednesday morning, Govornor Jones,
of Alabama, sent to the senate tbo names
of It. T. Simpson, of Lauderdale, and
II. M. Somerville and Alonzo Hill, of
Tuscaloosa, as trustees of tho Alabama
insane hospital. He also sent in the
name of Major Henry It. Shorter to suc
ceed himself ns president of tbo rail
road commission. All tho appointments
were confirmed. There is another va
cancy on the railroad commission to be
tided for which there are about seventy
applicants.
Lanier and Uurnott’s grist mill, in
South Nashville, Tonn., was destroyed
by fire Widnesday night. Tho mill and
feed sheds covered nn nrre of ground aud
adjoined tho big tobacco warehouse of
Charles Dortch and tho Nashville ware
house and elevator, and were practically
destroyed when the fire department ar
rived. The stock in the mill, which is
known ns tho Hock Ci y mill, was low
and the loss was only $80,000, nenrly
covered by insurance. The fire origi
nated in a boiler explosion, the cause of
which Is not known.
A Savannah, Ga., special of Thursday,
says: Securities of tho Central railroad
system aro being deposited in tiie South
ern bank gradually by their holdors, who
uro desirous ol coming in under the ro
orgnniz ition plan. Each mail brings in
a number of securities from points in
Georgia und other states, and vice-presi
dent Crane is kept steadily busy attend
ing to them. One trouble is tho mistake
of sending stock without tho power of
attorney to authorize the action that the
senders desire, rendering it necessary to
wri’o to them for it.
Atlanta, Ga., is to have a $1,000,000
land and lumber c< mpany. A charter
was filed in tho clerk’s office Friday with
(he following incorporators: Messrs.
Stephen G. Clarke, Edward P. Kennard
and Daniel MelOe, all of New Yoik
state, and D miol W. Rountree, of
Atlanta. The capital slock of tho com
pany is to bo $1,000,000 with tho privi
lege of increasing it t( $8,000,000. It
will bo operated under the firm name of
tho Allapaha Land aud Lumber Com
pany. Tho period of the incorporation
as applied for in tbe charter is twenty
ycais with tho privilege of renewing it
after that time.
A Birmingham, Ala., dispatch says:
fcV M. Dodson is in trouble with tho
United States government. Ho was
bound over by a commissioner Friday on
the charge of petting rock on govern
ment land. J. L. Kinnebrew has a laige
conlrnct wllh tbo government frr fur-
nisli ng alone to tbe work on the Missis
sippi livir. Dobson is n tub-conlmotor
and leased some quarry hind in Walker
county, Alabama. The stone on tho
leased” land not being sntisfar t >ry, lie
quietly moved over on tome neighboring
land be'onging lo tho government and
got mt 800 cailoads of twenty-two t -ns
cuch before the officers appeared on rlie
scene aud interrupted him. Tho value
of tho stone is about $111,000.
Recognized by All.
A Washing'on special of Saturday
sayB: The statement is made that all
governments including Great Britain
liavo recognized tbo provisional govern
ment of Hawaii. Tho Star nays that
Secretary of State Foster and Secretary
Trai j kavo admitted thnt the supposi
tion neretoforo entertained thnt tho Brit
ish government has witnessed recognition
of the new government in Hawaii is in
correct .
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