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VOL. 'II.
CLEVELAND, WHITE C OUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1803
NO. 45.
REV. DR. TALMAGE,
THE BROOK 1jY\ BlVIMi’S SUX-
BAY SKKMOX.
Subject:
Trxt: “An'lullth* peophsmc t'ir thunft.
rrings and the lightnings and the noi.se of the
trmnvet and the mountain smoking,"-^Exo*
dus xx., 18.
My text 1n r orms you thnt the lightnings
and earthquakes united their forties to wreck
n mountain of Arabia Petrm in olden time,
and travelers to- lav finds heaps of porphyry
nn«l greenstone rocks, bowlder against, bowl
der. the remains of tho first law library,
written, not on parchment or papyrus, but
on shattered n'a'w of granite. Tho corner
stones of all morality, of all wise law, or all
righteous jurisprudence, of all good Govern
ment ore the two tablets of stone on which
Wore written the Ten Commandments.
All Roman law, all French law. all English
law, all American law that is Worth anything,
all common law. civil law, criminal law,
martial law, law of Nations were rocked in
the cradle Of tho twentieth chapter of Exo lua.
All i it would be well in these times of grow
political agitation if the newspapers would
print the Dc *alogue some dny m place of the
able editorial. The fact is thnt some people
Suppose thnt the law has passed out of exist
ence and some are not aware of some of the
passages of that law, and others say this or
that is of tho more importance, when no one
has auv right to make such an assertion.
These laf’s are tho pillars of society, and if
you remove one pillar you damage the whole
structure.
1 have noticed that men are particularly
vehement against sins to which they are not
particularly tempted and find no especial
wrath against sins in which they them
selves indulge. They tako out one gun from
this battery of ten guns, and load that,
and null inner that, and fire that. They
say, ‘‘This is an Armstrong gun, and this
is a Krupp gun, and this is a Nonlenftd It
five-barreled gun, and this is a Gatling ten-
barreled gun. and this is a Martini thirty-
scvon-hurreled gun." lint 1 have to tell
them that they are all of the same caliber,
and that they shoot from eternity to eternity.
Many quesiIons are before tlie people in
the elections all over this land, but I shall
try to show you that the most important
thing to be settled about all those candidates
is thoir personal, moral character. ThoD*o-
alogue forbids idolatry, image making, pro
fanity, maltreatment of parents, Sabbath
desecration, murder, theft, incontinence,
lying and covetousness. Tnat is :Deca
logue by which you and I will i r.-.M to bo
tried, aud by the same Decalogue you and I
must try candidates for offee.
Of course wo shall not And anything like
perfection. If w« do not vote until wo find
an immaculato nominee, wo will never vote
at all. Wo havo so many taulta of our own
wo ought not to bo censorious or maledic
tory or hypercritical in regard to the faults
of others Tho Christly ru • is as appropriate
for November as any other month iu the
year. “Judge not that yo bo not judged,
for with what measure yo mote it shall bo
measured to you again."
Most certainly nro wo not to tako the state
ment of redhot partisanship ns tho real char
acter of any man. From nearly all tho groat
cltios of this lan l I receive daily or weekly
newspapers, ssut to mo regulnnyand in com
pliment, so I hoo both sides—I see all sides -
and it Is most entertaining and most regulnr
amusement to read the opposite Hintements.
Tho one statement says tho man Is an angel,
and the other says he is a devil, and I split
the difference and I find him half way be
tween.
There never has been an lione.«t or respec
table man running for the Unite! Hiatus
presidency, or for a judgOHhlp, or for the
mayoralty, or for tho shrievalty since tho
foundation of the American Government, if
we may bolieve the old flics of the nownpa-
pers In tho museums. Wnat a mercy it is
that they were not all hung before they were
inaugurated l I a man believe onc-half of
what he sees in the newspapers in these
times, his career will be very short outside of
Bloomingdale insane asylum.
1 was absent two or throe years ago dur
ing one week of a political canvass, and I
was dependent entirely upon what I read in
regard to what had occurred in these cities,
and I road there was a precision in Now
York of 5000 patriots and a minute after I
read in another sheet that there were 17,000,
and then I read in regard to another proces-
siou that there wore 10,000, and then 1 read
in another paper that there were 60,000.
A campaign orator in the Rink or tho
Academy ol Music received a very cold ro-
ception—a very chilling reception-—said one
statement. The other statement said tho
audience rose at him. So great was tho en
thusiasm that fora long while tho orator
could not be heard, and it was only after lift
ing Ills hand thnt tho vociferation began to
subside! One statement wili twist an inter
view one way, and nuother statement will
twist an interview another way. You must
admit it is a very difficult thing in times like
these to get a very accurate estimate of a
man's character, aui 1 charge you, as your
religious teacher, I charge you to caution
and to mercifulness and to prayer.
I warn you also against tho mistake which
many are making aui always do make of ap
plying a different standard of character lor
those in prominent position from the stand
ard they apply for ordinary persons. However
much a man may have or however high the !
position lie gets, he has no especial liberty j
given him in tho Interpretation of the Ten
Commandments. A great sinner is no more !
to be excused than a small sinner. Do not j
charge illustrious defection to eccentricity j
or chop off the Ton Commandments to suit j
especial coses. Tho right is everlastingly
right, and tho wrong is everlastingly wrong.
If any man nominated for any office in this
divine forgiveness, and ho may have Im
plored the forgiveness of society an l the for
giveness of tho world* Although if a man
commit that sin at thirty or thirty-live years
of ago, there is not one ease our of a thou
sand where he ever repents. You must In
Vour investigation see if it is possible that
the one case investigated may not have been
the exception. But do not chop off tho
seventh commandment to suit the case, Do
not change Fairbanks scale to suit What
you are weighing with It. Do not cut off a
yardstick to suit tho dry goods you aro
measuring. Lot tho law stand and never
tamper with it.
Above all I charge you do not join In tho
cry that I have hoard—for fifteen, twenty
years i have heard it-that there Is no such
thing as purity. If you make that olmrgo
you aro a foul-mouthed soaudalef of tho
human race. You are a leper. Make room
for that leper! When a man, by pen or type
or tongue, u ters such a slander on tho hu
man race that there is no such thing as
purity 1 know right away that that man him
self is a walking lazaretto* a rooking ulcer,
and is fit for no society better than thnt of
devils damned* Wo nifty enlarge our char
ities in such ft case, but ill no such ease let
us shave off the Ten Commandments* Lot
them stand as thrt everlasting dofeiiso of so
ciety and the church of God.
The committing of one siu opens the door
for tho commission of other sins. You see
it every day. Those embezzlers, those bank
cashiers absconding as soon as they are
brought to justice, develop the fact that
they wuro in all kinds of sin. No exception
to tne rule. They all kept had company,
they nearly all gambled, they all went to
places where they ought not. Why? The
commission of t ie one ain opened tho gate
for nil tho other sins. Sins go in docks, iu
droves and in herds. You open the door for
one sin that invites in all tho miserable
segregation.
Some ol the campaign orators this autumn
—some of them—bombarding the suffering
candidates all the week, will think no wrong
in Sabbath breaking. All the week hurling
the eighth commandment at one candidate,
tho seventh commandment at another can
didate an 1 the nin! h commandment at still
another, what are they doing with the fourth
coieman lment. “Remember tho Sabbath day
to keep it holy?" Breaking it. Is not tho
fourth commandment as important us tho
eighth, as tho seventh, as tho ninth?
Some of these political campaign orators,
ns I have seen them reported in other years,
and ns I have heard it in regard to them,
bombar.ling the suffering candidates all the
week, yet tosslug the name of God from their
lips recklessly, guilty of profanity—what are
they doing with the third commandment?
Is not the third commandment, which says.
“ fhou shalt not take the name of tho Lora
thy God in vain, for the Lord wdl not hold
him guiltless that taketh his name in vain"
—is not tho third commandment us impor
tant as tho other seven? Oh, yes, wo find iu
all departments men are hurling the irindig-
nation against sins perhaps to which they aro
not especially tofnpted—hurling it against
iniquity toward which they aro not particu
larly drawn.
1 have this hook for my authorlly when I
say that the man who swears or the man who
breaks the Sabbath Is as culpable before God
as these candidates woo break other corn-
man lments. What right have you and 1 to
select which commandment we will keep aud
which we will break? Better not try to
measure the thunderbolts of tho Almighty,
saying this has less blaze, this has less mo
mentum. Better not handle tho guns, better
not experiment much with tho divine ammu
nition.
Cicero said ho saw tho “Iliad" written on
a nutshell, aud you aud I have seen the
Lord's Prayer written on a five cent pi coo,
but tho whole tendency of these times is to
write the Ten Commandments so small no
body can see them. I protest this day against
tho attempt to revise tho Decalogue which
was given on Mount Sinai amid the blast of
trumpets, and the cracking of the rocks, ami
tho paroxysm of tho mountain of Arabia
Tut rata.
I bring tip the candidates for ward and
township and city and State offloo. I bring
them up, an l 1 try them by Ibis Decalogue.
Of course they are imperfect. We are all
imp or feet. We say things we ought not to
flay ; wo do things wo ought not to do. Wo
have all been wrong, wo have all done
wrong. But 1 shall find out one of tho can
didate.! who comes, iu my estimation, nearest,
to obedience of the Ten Commandments, and
I will vote for him, and you will vote lor
Him unless you love Gou less than your
party—then you will not.
Herodotus said that Nitocris, the daughter
of Nebuchadnezzar, was so fascinated with
her beautiful village of Ardorlcca that she
hud the riv r above Babylon changed so it
wound this way and wound that, and curved
this way and curved that, and though you
sailed on it for threo days every day you
would bo in sight of that exquisite village.
Now. I do not care which way you sail iu
morals or wnich way you sail in life if you
only sail in sight of this beautiful group of
divine commandments. Although they may
sometimes seem to be a little angular, I do
not care which way you sail, if you sail in
sight of them you will never runagrounl,
and you will never be shipwrecked. Booiety
needs toning up on all these subjects.
I tell you there is nothing worse to fight,
than the ten regiments, with bayonets and
sabres of fire, marching down tho side of
Mount Sinai. They always gain tho victory,
and those who fight against them go under.
Tnere aro thousands au i tens of thousands
of men being slain by the Decalogue. What
is the matter with tnat young man of wnom
1 read, dying in his dissipations? In his dy
ing delirium ho said, “Now fetch on tho
dice. lr is mine. No, no 1 It is gone, all is
gone ! Bring on more wine ! Bring on more
wme! Oh, how they rattle their chains !
Fiends, fiends, fh nds ! I say you cheat! Tho
earns are marked ! Oh, death! oh, death!
ob. death! Fiends, fiends, fiends!" Ami he
gasped his last an I was gone. Tho Ten
Com maud mem s slew him.
Lot not Indies and gcntlorncnlntlifsnine-
not fix up the Decalogue, but tlx hirn up. i t*'onth century revise ihe Ten Corn maud-
Tho law must stand, whatever else must lafi. ments, but let them iu society and nt tho
I call your attention also lo the fact that ! P°“ s P ut
those who come the
st to this God-liftcil standard. On tho
tirsi Tuesday morning of November read the
twentieth chapter of Exodus at family
prayers. The moral or immoral character of
the officers elected will add seventy-five per
cent, unto or subtract seventy-live per cent,
from the public morals.
You an 11 cannot afford to have bad offi
cials. The young men of this country can
not afford to have bad officials. Tho com
mercial, the moral, the artistic, the agricul
tural, the manufacturing, tho religious in
terests of this country cannot afford to have
ffl dais, and if you, on looking over the
who in your
iblo distance
of obedience of the Decalogue stay at homo
and do not vote at all.
I suppose when in the city of Sodom there
treat the Lor.I AlroiKhty, wouM he not mal- I ware four catidlJmes put up for offleo, amt
treat his fellow man/ If n man be guilty of Lot dill not believe in any of them, h J -
malfeasance in office, be will ndor provo n " " "" 1 * ‘
tion commit any s.u. He who will steal will
you aro all aware or—that tne breaking of
one commandment makes it tho more easy to
break all of them—ami tho philosophy is
plain. Any kind of sin weakens tho eon-
science, and if tho conscience is weakened
that opens the door for all kinds of trans
gression. If, for instance, a man go into this
political campaign wielding scurrility as his
chief weapon, and he believes everything had
about a man and believes nothing good, how
long before that man lilmself will get over
tho moral depression. Neither in time nor
eternity.
If I utter a falsehood in regard fo a man, I , ,
m»v damage lilm, but £ «.-r for myself ten- whole Held, cannot llnd
fold more damage. That Is a gun that kicks, estimation com© within r
If, for instance, a man be profane, under pro- j
vocation he will commit any crime. I Ray j
under provocation. For, if a man will mai- 1
lie. and he vrho will lie will steal.
If, for instance, a man be impure, it opens
the door for all other iniquity, for in that
one iniquity he commits theft of the worst
kind, and covetousness of the worn kind,
aai falsehood—pretending to be decent
when be is not—aud maltreats his parents by
disgracing their name, ir they were good.
Be careiui, therefore, how you charge that
sin against any man
low place, either in
because when you make that charge i
a man yon c urge him w.th ail viJl
with all disgusting propensities, w
rottenness.
A libertine is a beast, lower than t
min that crawl over a .summer
I suppose if there came
•risis in the polities of Babylon, where
Daniel did not believe in any of the candi
dates, he staid at homo on election day,
praying with hia face toward Jerusalem.
But we have no su:ii crisis. Wo have no
such exigency, thank God. But I have to
say to you to-day that tho moral character of
rulers always affects the ruled, and I appeal
to history.
Wicked King Manasseh depressed the mora'
in high p.ace or tone of all tao Nation of Julah and threw
them into idolatry. Good King Josiah lifted
umst uptha whole Nation by his excellent example,
inic.s. Why is it that to-day England is higher up
i all in morals than at any point in her National
: history ? It is because she has tho best ruler
! ver- I in all Europe—all the attempts to scandalize
a is— ] her name a failure. Tho political power of
■ than the swine, for the swine has no | Talleyrand broodedali the political tricksters
intelligence to sin against. Be careful,then, ; of the iast ninety years. The dishonest vice-
how you charge that against any man. ; presidency of Aaron Barr blasted this Nation
You must 1 • so certain that a mathematical i until important letters were written in cipher,
demonstration is doubtful as compared with j because the people could not trust the United
it i States mail. And let the court circles of
And then, when yon investigate a man on
such subjects, you must go to the whole
length of investigation and find out whether
may^
Louis XV and Henry VIII march out, fol
lowed by the debauched Nations.
The higher up you pat a bad man the
worse is his power for evil. The great fab
c* knees before Qoi ana implored the J uii«t say3 that the pigeons wore in fright at
a kite flying in the air, and so these pigeons
hovered near the dove rote, but One day tlm
kite said i “Why are you So affaid? Why
do you pass vour lifo in terror? Make mo
king, and l ! ll destroy all your enemies." Sd
tin* pigeons made tho kit** king, and as soon
ns he got tho throne his regular diet was a
pigeon a day. And while one of his victims
was waiting for 11 s turn to ootno it said .
“Served tie right 1" The malaria of swamps
ris. s from the plain to the height, but moral
malaria descends from tho mountain to tho
plain. Be oaroful, therefore, how you ele
vate into any style of authority men who .-,re
iu anv wise antagonistic to the Ten Com*
mnndmeuts.
As near as t can toll, tho most important
thing now to bo done is to havo about 40.-
000 000 copies of the Klnaitio Decalogue
printed and scattered throughout the land,
it was a terrible waste when the Alexandrian
library was destroyed, and tlm books were
taken to heat 4000 baths for tbo citizens of
Alexandria. It was very expensive heat.
But without any harm to tho Decalogue you
could with it heat 1000,000 baths of moral
purification for the American people.
I say wo want a tonic—a mighty tonic, n
corrective, nu all powerful corrective -and
Moses iu the text, with steady hand, notwith
standing tho jarring mountains and the full
orchestra of the tempest* and tho blazing of
tho air, pours out the ton drops—no more,
no less—which our people need to tako for
thoir moral convalescence.
But I Shall not leave you under tho dis
couragement of tho Ten Oommnndmonis, be
cause wo havo all offended. There ia an
other mountain in flight, and while one
mountain thunders the other answers in
thunder, and while Mount Siuai, with light
ning, writes doom, tho other mountain, with
lightning, writes meroy. The only way you
will over spike tho guns of the Decalogue is
by the spikes of the cross. Tito only rock
that will ever stop tho Shuttle upheavals is
the ltock of At-es. Mount Gal vary ia higher
than Mount Hiuul.
Tho English survey expedition, I know,
say that one Sirmltic peak Is 7000 foot high,
and another 8000, and another 1)000 feet high,
and travelers toll us that Mount Cavalry ia
only a bluff outside of tin* wall of Jerusalem,
but Calvary, in moral significance, overtops
and overshadows all the mountains of the
hemispheres, and Mount Washington and
Mont Blanc and tho Himalayas are hillocks
compared with it. You know that some
times ono fortress will silence anothor for
tress.
Moultrie silenced Sumter, and against tho
mountain of tho law t put the mountain of
tho cross, “The soul that sinueth, it shall
die," booms one until the earth jars under
the cannonade. “Save them Iroin going
down to tho pit. I have found a ransom,"
pleads tho other, until earth and heaven and
hell tremble under the reverberation. And
Moses, who commands tho on**, surrenders
to Christ, who commands tho other.
Once by tlie law our hopes wore slain,
But now iu Ohrlut we live again.
Arifltotlo says that Mount Etna erupted one
day and poured torrents ol scoria upon the
villages at tho base, out that the mountain
divined its flume and made a lano of safety
for all those who oarne to rescue their aged
parents. And this volcanic Binai divide* its
fury for those whom Christ has come to res
cue from the rod ruin on both Bides. Stand
ing us 1 do to-day, half-way between tho two
mountains—the mountain of the Exodus and
tho mountain of tho nineteenth of John—all
my torror comes into supernatural calm, for
tho uproar of the one mountain subsides into
quiet and comes down into so deep a silence
that I can hoar the other mountain speak—
aye, I can hoar it whisper, “fholdoo i, the
blood, tho blood that eluuuseth from, all sin."
The survey expedition says that tho Sinal-
tio mountains have wadys or water oours-'H—
Alleyat and Ajolah—emptying into Folrun.”
But those streams aro not navigable. No boat
F ut into these rocky streams could sail. But
have to tell you this day that the boat of
gospel rescue comes right up amid tho wa
tercourses of Sinaltie gloom and throat, ready
to tako us off from under the shadows Into
the calm sunlight of God’s pardon and into
the land of pouco.
Oh, 11 you could see that boat of gospol res
cue coming this day you would feel as John
Gilmore In his book, “Tho Storm. Warriors,"
says that a ship’s crew felt on tho Kentish
Knock sands, off the coast of England, wnon
they were being beaten to pieces and they all
foil they must die ! They had given up all
hope and every moment washed off another
plant from tho wreck, and they said, “Wo
muptdlo; we must diet” But after awhile
they saw a Ramsgate lifeboat coming through
the breakers lor them, aud the man standing
highest up on tho wreck said : “Can it be?
It is, it is, it is, it is ! Thank God ! It is tho
Ramsgate lifeboat! It is. it is, it is, it is ! ’
And the old Jack Tar, describing that life
boat to his comrades after he got ashore,
said, “Oh, my lads, what a beauty it did
seem, coming through the breakers that awfal
flay !” May God, through the mercy in Jesus
Christ, take us all off the miserable wreck of
our Bin into tho beautiful lifeboat of tho
gospel!
Unthinkable Distances.
Tho distance to the nearest “fixed”
star has been computed by the host
astronomers to bo about 20,000,000,-
000,000 miles, which, by putting it in
another way, would mean 20,000.000,*
000,000 of miles, a distance ho vast
that a trip to our own £im seems but
a pleasure) trip in comparison.
Tho next in distanco is about four
times further away. If we attempt to
fix an average distanco for the fixed
stars wo cannot safely place thejp.
nearer than 4,000,000,000,000 of miles
away! Aud what does this involve?
Light, which reaches us from the
sun in eight and one-half minutes,
would take seventy years in making a
journey between thoaverago fixed star
and our littlo world.
If tho volume of space included
within our solar system were occupied
by one lingo globe 5,600,000,000 miles
in diameter, even such a mighty mass
would bo but as a leather in the
marvellous spread of space surround
ing it. The sea of spaeo would con
tain 2,700,000,000,000,000 of such
globes, each swinging at a distance
approximating 600,000 miles apart!
How can the human mind bo expected
to comprehend such immensity?—New
York Journal.
Compressed Air.
Mr. Ferris, ho of the wheel, pro
poses to make Chicago a seaport. He
says that tho chief item of cost in
canals is the building and maintenance
| of locks, and that this can be avoided
j by the use of compressed air. “There
' is no reason why a box could not bo
i constructed into which the largest
| ocean ships could be floated, the box
■ closed, and the whole box—water,
| ship and ali—raised by compressed air
i as easily as you lift an elevator.” We
| have no doubt this is true. Dr. Gat-
j ling, who invented tho compressed air
! drill, but was not allowed to patent it,
i has always claimed that there was
! practically no limit to the work that
| could be done by means of compressed
! air.
I Among the Kondeh people, who livo
I on Lake Nyassa, in Africa, the favorite
! form of suicide is to enter the water
j and allow one’s self to be devoured by
j a crocodile,
OUR LATEST DISPATCHES.
The Hapnins of a Day Chronicled in
i An d Cmiliiluiiig- 1 lip Gist of (ho Jit its
From All I'ails of tho World.
to oitlicr semj|, hr|
nominate ii no J 1 * -
Tho prcsid$tj
hill extending!
in wfiieli utho
Nino lives wove lost in tho town
buy nt Now York Saturday afternoon
by tho capsizing of n boat,
A $100,000 woolen mill is being seri
ously considered ns the next factory to
bo established at Huntsville, Ala.
Tho court house at Lexington,
Holmes county, JJisn., together with
nil the books and records, was destroy
ed by tiro Friday morning.
“William Simpson & Son's printed
calicoes, sateens and cotton dress
goods have been awarded tho highest
medal and diploma for excellence at
tho world's fair.
Ilio Commercial club, of Birming
ham, Ala., has resolved to circulate a
petition to the ways and means com
mittee asking it not to lower the duty
on iron and coal in tho new tariff bill.
Thirteen convicts escaped from the
stockade at Coal Crook at half-past 5
o'clock Wednesday morning, and up
to Friday, only four had been recap
tured. The niafter was kept very
quiet. Tho country is being scoured
for those yot at large.
Michael & Looser, wholesale and re
tail harness and saddlery and buggy
dealers, at Huntsville, Ala., have failed
and assigned. The liabilities aro esti
mated at, $10,000 to $15,000 and tho
assets at $000. They have been ship
ping goodH to various points over both
railroads for Home-weeks by tho carload.
A Washington* special states that
there is no foNLilutiou whatever for
the report thnt *iP crank attempted to
nssassinate President Cleveland Friday.
An inquiry made of Private Secretary
Tlmrber was tie. \jirst that he or any
one connected Wth tho white house
had heard of tiwfcumpr.
The senate ii<|f burned Friday with
out confirmingSli nomination of Mr.
Hornblowev to TP* justice of the su
premo court. 1 fiStis failure to confirm
Iuih the eflutrtjKf a rejection. The
president will. tilwreforo, bo compelled
name again or to
yuan for the office.
Friday, signed the
lix mouths the time
incso can register
under the * Cleary law. Tho presi
dent also signed the Now York
world’s fair prize winners’ expo
sition bill, and the bill conveying tho
battle ship “Illinois” nt tho world’s
fair to tho state of Illinois.
Twenty-foil?' now eases of yellow
fever were reported by tho Brunswick
board of boajth Friday. It is ru
mored that ofUgase of gouuino yellow
fever has developed at Camp Detention
in the persomojf. a sailor on ran to to
The rumor, while not
ed, lias been fully in-
punrs to bo correct,
book, printed and
,vnH filed for record at
Friday. It is a mort-
[100, executed by tbo
;ns Central railroad in
ltd trust company of
tbo Southern Pacific,
indo payable in gold,
ig for $1,1)110 each and
due April 1, }T)12.
A Raleigh special of Friday says:
The state will not abandon itH convict
farm on Roanoke river, but will put
2,500 acres additional under cultiva
tion. The superintendent of tho pen
itentiary says tho six floods in Roan
oke river have caused the stato a loss
of $80,000 this year. Jlcspito the
floods 1,200 bales of cotton and 00,-
000 busliels'iif corn wero produced.
A Knoxville special of Saturday
says: William Smith, tho trait, rob
ber who wits shot at Coal Creek, has
told the story of the attempt. He says
that Fred "Hiruling persuaded him to
go into it. — limitli told his father and
others tlm 1 .(fording was planning and
says he kndw tho express people liad
been notified. He expected to be re
warded fiy» tho express company.
Smith may die.
A Chicago dispateli of Sunday says:
Assassin Premlergnst has finally se
cured ie|^l advisers and they will bo
in court whin the case is called. It is
expected that they will ask for a con
tinuance 1 *)# the ground of insufficient
time to prepare their evidence. The
case willjthen go over for a week.
Prendergast has been examined by
threo inability experts. They declined
to give any opinion as to liis insanity,
ns they expect to testify during the
trial.
A Waflhjjigton special says: The
populist'members of congress, inclu
ding senators and members of the
house, issued an address Bnturdny ap-
penling-to the people to tako up tho
silver 'I .’ho address begins with
a statetuexUJpf the aggregate debts of
the world Aid of the gold and silver
in existenu A culls attention to the fact
! that tjje uifs require almost tho total
I gold production and says tho decrease
; of the volume of this metal, caused by
hoarding, jpis caused it to appreciate
i 40 or 50 per uent :
Corbet! an:’ Mitchell Sign.
A New York dmpatch of Sunduy
! says : Ali.’agreement was signed to-
, nifyht bjfcRjlly Thompson, represeut-
! ing CHrtt'itn Mitchell, tho English
; pugulist, nTid W. A. Brady, roprosent-
i ing Janie.'!3. Corbett, which will prob-
' ably have tio effect of bringing off tbo
1) g iutorrtttionai fight in New Orleans.
It after all, as if the Olympic
Glut),-•uf t!t« Crescent City, would sc-
euro Jlie event,
i'ijjri yoojs should n id the paper aud
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