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Newspaper Page TextfoJOHNR. (I LUX. VOL. III. CLEVELA DFCVOTED TO TJIK MINING, AGRICULTURAL AXD BDUCA TIONAL INTERESTS Of 0LBY71LA.ND, CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY. GA., FRIDAY, JANUARY 2(1. 1804 NO. 4. REV. DR. TALMAGE. HIE BROOKLYN DIVINE’S SUN DAY SERMON. Subject: “Mother* In Israel.'* Text: “77trt mother of Si sera looked out at a window."—Judge* v.. 2H. v Spiked to the ground of Jael's tent lay the deed commander In chief of the Cnnannitish host, Oonontl Hisorn, not far from the river Klshon, which was only a dry bed of nubbles when In 188!>, in Palestine, we crossed it. but the gullies and ravines which ran Into it in dicated the possibility of great freshets like the onent the timeof the text. General Siscra had gone out with 900 Iron chariots, but he was defeated, and. his chariot wheels inter locked with the wheels of other chariots, he could not retreat fast enough, and so he leaped to the ground an ran till, exhaust ed, lie went Into Jael's tent for safety. Hhn had just been churning, and when he asked for water she gave him buttermilk, which in the east is considered a most refreshing drink. Very tired, and supposing he was safe, he went to sleep upon the floor, but Jael. who had resolved upon his death, took a tent pin, long and round and sharp, in one hand and a hammer in her other hand, and. f iuttlng the sharp end of the tent pin to the orehead of Sisera. with her other hand she lifted the b.immor and brought it down on the head of the pin with a stout stroke, when Sisera struggled to ris°. and she struck him again, and he struggled to rise, and the third time she struck him. and the commander in chief of the Canaanitish host lay dead. Meanwhile in the distance SDern's mother Ills amid surroundings of wealth and pomp and scones palatial waiting for his return. Every mother expects her son to bo victori ous, and this mother looked out at the win dow expecting to *•*« him drive up In his chariot followed by wagons loaded with em broideries and also by regiments of men van quished and enslaved. I sow her now sitting at the window, in high expectation. She wntchcsthe farthest turn of the road. She looks for the flying dust of the swift hoofs. The first flash of the bit of the horse's bridle she will cat *h. The ladies of her court stand round, and she tells them of what they shall have when her aon cornea up chains of gold and ruren- npts of beauty and dresses of such wondrous fabric and splendor as the Bible only hints at, but leave* us to imagine. “He ought to be here by this time,” sayahls mother. “That battle is surely over. I hop** that freshet of the river Klshon has not impelled him. I bop-* those atraiige appearances we riw last night In the *ky were not orniuous. when the stars seemed to fight In their eonrses. No! No ! Ho is so brave in battle 1 know lie has won the day. He will soon be hero.” But alas for the disappointed mother! rtho will not see the glittering headgear of the horses at full gallop bringing her son home from victorious battle. As a solitary messenger arriving in hot hast** rides up to the windows at which the mother of Kisers sitP. he eric*. “Your nrmies nre defeated, and your son is dead.” There is a scene of horror uud anguish from which we turn away. Now you see the full meaning of my abort text, “The mother of Ki***ni looked out at u window.” Well, my friends, wo nronll out in the battle of life ; it is ragiag now. nud the most of us have a mother watching and Waiting for news of our victory or dofea*. If bho bo not sitting at tbo window of «mrth, aho is sitting at a window of heaven, anti she is going to bear all about it. By all the rules of war Sisera ought to tmvo been triumphant. He had '.MX) Iron chariots and a ho A of many thousands vaster than tin* armies of Israel, Hut Uod was on the other side, and tha angry freshets of Klshon, and the hall, the lightning nud the unmanageable warhorsee, anil the capsized chariots and the stellar nauio In the sky discom fited Biseru. Josephus in his history describes the scene in the following words : “When they were come to a oloso fight there came down from heaven a great storm with a vast quantity of rain and hail, ami tin* wind blew the rain In Hie face of the Cnnnnnltes and ao darken** ! their eyes their nrrows and slings were of no advantage to thorn, nor would the coldness of the nlr permit the sol diers to rnako use of their swords, while tills storm did not so much incommode the Isra elites because it came on I heir backs. They also took suoh courage upon the apprehen sion that God was assisting them that they fell upon the very midst of their enetnioH an ! plew a great number of them, so that some of them fell by tho Israelites, some foil by their own horsps which were put into disorder, and not a few were killed by their own char iots.” Hence my hearer*, the bo 1 nows brought to the mother of Sisera looking cut at the window. And our mother, whether sitting at a window of carili or a window of heaven, will hear the news of our victory or defeat notfeccordlng to our talents or eduonHonnl equipment or our opportunities, but no Try ing as to whether God is for us or against us. “Where's naotliar?” Is the question mest frequently asked In many hoinnholds. L i* asked by the husband mm well as the n.ilfi coming in at nightfall, “Where * mother?” ' Is nskod by the little one* when they g**t ti t"‘ and come in crying with tho pain, “Where s mother?’’ It is hs!;o l by tnos* who liovo seen some grand sight or heard f.o.i •• good news or received pome beautiful gih, /‘Where’s mother?” Bho sometime* f<•"!m wearied by the quest ion. lor they all iis’; : vi keep asking it ail the tlm*». 8he is not ci. > tho find to hear every case of perplexity, but ahe is the judge iu every court of linn - appeal. That is what puts the prmvur.n wrinkles on so many maternal faces nn»i p ow ders white so many mutenml foreheads. You B0<\ it is a quest Ion that keeps on for ail ti) 3 years of childhood. It comes from the rur-- ory, and from the evening stand whore the boys and girls an* learning their school les sons, and from the starling out In the morn ing, whoa the tl|»p*?t or hat *>r slate or book or overshoe is lost, unt.l at night, all out of breath, the youug- Bters come in and shout until you can hear them from cellar to garret and from front door to the buck fence of the back yard. '•Where's mother?” Indeed, a child's Iff** is *0 full of that question that if he be taken away one of the things that the mother most misses and tho alienee rlint most oppresses her is the absence of that question, which she will uev**r bear on earth again, except she h**ura it in a dream which sometimes r.-- stores the nurs**ry just a«; it was. and then the voice comes back so natural, and so sweet, and so Innocent, and eo Inquiring that the dream breaks at the words, •• Where's mother?” If that question were put to most of us this morning, we would have to sav, if we spoke truthfully, like Slaern's mother, sin is Ht the palace window. Khe has heco ne a queen unto God forever, and she is \ ulllug back the rich folds of the king's unbo’.s'.ery to look down at US. We are not told th~ f i. Honiara about the residence of 8isera*s mother, bnt th*»r rt is in that scene iu the book of Judges so much about embroideries an i needlework and ladle* in waiting that wo know her residence must have been princely and palatial. So we have no minute and par ticular description of the palace «t whose window our glorified mother sits, but there is so much in the closing chapters of the good old fcook about crowns, and pearls big enough to make a gate out of one of them, now son^s an l marriage sup pers. and harp?, nud while ftors<*s with k.ags in the stirrups, and golden candlesticks that we know tho heavenly residence of cur mother is superb, la unique, is colonnaded, is domed, is embowered, is fountains.'!, is glorified beyond lbe power of pencil or pen or tongue to orient, and in the window of that palace tho mother sits watching hu news from the battl**. What a contract be tween that celestial surrounding and her once earthly surroundings ! What a work to bring up a family, in the old time way. with but little or no hired help, except perhaps for the washing day or for the swine slaught- .trlog, commonly calloi “the killing day !” There was then no reading of elaborate treatises on the host modes of rearing chil dren, and then leaving it all to hired help, with ono or two visits a day to the nursery to see if tho principles announced are being car ried out. Tho most of those old folks did tho sewing, tho washing, the mending, the darn ing. the patching, the millinery, the nmntun making, the housekeeping, and in hurried harvest time helped spread the hay or tread down the load iu the mow. They were at the same time caterers, tailors, doctors, chaplains and nurses for a whole household all together down with measles or scarlet fever, or round tho house with whooping coughs and croups and runround lin gers and earaches and all the infantile distempers which at some time swoop upon every large household. Horae of those mothors never got rested iu this world. Instead of the self rooking cradles of our day. which, wound up. will go hour arter hour for the solace of’the young slumberer, it was weary foot on the rocker sometimes half tho day or half the night rock -rock- -rook—rook. In stead of our drug stores filled with all the wonders of materia modloa nn l called up through a telephone, with them the only apothecary short of four miles’ ride was the garret, with its hunches of peppermint and pennyroyal and catnip and mustard and camomile flow**rs, which were expected to do everything. Just think of it! l’lfty years of ’ preparing breakfast, dinner and supper. The chief music they heard was that of spinning wheel and rocking chair. Fagged out. headachy and with ankles swollen. Those old fashioned mothers -if any persons ever fitted appropri ately into a good, easy, comfortable heaven, they were the folks, and they got there, and they are rested. They wear no spectacles, for they have their third sight—as they lived long enough on earth to get their second sight—and they do not have to pant for breath after going up the tho emerald stairs of the Eternal palace, nt whose window they now sit waiting for news from tho battle. But if anyone keeps on asking the ques tions “Where's mother?” 11answer, “Rho's in your present character.” The probability is that your physical features .suggest her. If there tie seven children ii* a,household at least six of them look like their mother, and the older you get the more 3-011 willilook like her. But I *penk now especially^of your character and not of your look*. Tills is easily explained. During the llrstiten years or vour life you were almost all ,the time with her. and your father you saw only mornings and nights. There are no years in any life so important for lmproastouas tlio first ten. Then and there is the improsslon made for virtue or vice, for truth or jfalse- iiood. for bravorv or cownirdioc, for religion or skepticism. Suddenly start nut from ha- hind a door and frighten G10 child, and/you may shatter his nervous system for af life time. During tin* first ten years you cun toll him enough spook stories to make Chltn a coward fill ho dies. Act before hfm as though Friday were an unlucky day,[and it w.**ro baleful to have thirteen at the table, or see the moon over tho loft slioubhtr, and ho will never recover from tho ldlcAio su perstition*. You may give that girt/before she is ten vears old 11 fondness f**- dress that will make her a more “dummyiframe,” or fashion plate, tor forty years. iKxokielf xvi.. 44. ' As is the mother so is horldnilgh-; ter.” Before one decade lias passed'you can, decide whether that|boy will bo a Shvlouk on a George Peabody. Boys and girls any gon-f orally echoes of;fathom and mothors. . Wbatf an incoherent thing for a motlier/out of! toinp**r to piniish a child\ for /getting! mad, or for a .fat her who suxDkos to shut? his boy up in a dark closet’, because lie has found him with an old? stump of, a cigar in bis mouth, or fur that inothnrMo rebuke her ilaughler Tor staring Git herself too much in tho looking glnss when . b • 'i. »tUer hi 1 hor own\relrrot 1 10 01 ranged as to repeat her form, from all aides ! Tho great English poet’s loose moral char acter wa* decided boforolhe left tho nursery, and Ills schoolmaster in tjie schoolroom overheard this conversation*: “Byron, your mother is n fool,” and It** a ns we rod, “I know It.” You can hear n(l through the heroic life of Henator 8am Houston tho words of ills mother when sho‘ iu the war oi 1812 put a musket iu Ills hand nnd said : “There, my son, fake this snd nover disgrace it, for remember I had'*,rather nil my sons should fill one honorable grave than that one of thorn should turn his back on an enemy. Go and remember, too, that while the door of my eettngo is open to nil bravo men it is always shut against cow ards.” Agrippina, the motherof Nero, mur deress, you art* not surprised that her son was a murfi'erer. Give thnt ehild nn over dose of catechism, nnd make him recite verses of the .Bible ns a punishment, and makoHundayui bore, and he will become a stout nntngoBiint of Christianity. Impress him with the.kindness nud the geniality anil the lovelfa.* *a of religion, nud he will be its advocate land exemplar for all time uud eter nity. A fewf«!ays ago right before our express train onlthe Louisville nnd Nashville rall- ro.id the3pro•■edlng train had gone down through lAoroken bridge, twelve cars falling 100 feet unVl the 1 consumed. I saw that only one span <*/ the I ridge was down ami all tho other 8p:M£* wer** standing. Plan a good bridge o! K morals for your sons nud daughter-.' but have the first span of ten year* deb-dKe. and through that they will .•rash down, though all the rest keep standing. O man. <> woman. If you have pr ‘served your integrity nnd are really Christian, vou have first of all to thunk God, an! I think next you have to thank your mother. Thu most impressive tiling at ihe inauguration of James A. Garfield iir President of the United States was that af ter he bud taken die oath of office lie turned round and in the presence of the Supremo Court end tho Kermtn of tho United States kissed his old mother. If I hud time to take statistics out. of this audience, ami I could ask what (proportion of you who aro Christians own* your salvation under God to maternal fidelity, I think about throe-fourths of vou would spring to your font. “Ha! ha!’ said the soldiers of the regiment to CharlU*. one of their comrades. “What has made ri*** change in you? You used to like sin as*wel! as any of us.” Pull ing from his pocket his mother's letter, in which, after telltngof someeomforts she had sent film, she conchidod, “We nre nil pray ing for you. duirlio, that you maybe a Chris- tain.” ho said., “Boys, that's the sentence.’ The trouble (with Sis era's mother wasthat, while Hitting nt the window of my text watching for ivws of her sou from the bat tlefield, she hurl the two bad qualities of be ing dissolute and being too fond of personal adornment. 'Hie Bible account says : “Her wipe ladies answered her yea. She returned' answer to henself ‘Have they not sped? Have they not/divided the prey to every man a damsel * or t wo, to Sisera a prey of divers colors, 'a pre>' of divers color* of needlework, of •livers colors of needlework on both sides?’ ” Khe makes no anxious utterance about the wounded in bat tle. about the bloodshed, about the dying, about the dead, about the princi ples involved in the battle going on. a battle *40 important that the stars and the freshets look part, and the clash of swords was an swered by the thunder of the skies. What she think* most of is the bright colors of the wardrobes to be captured and the needle work. “To Sisera a prey of divers color*, n prey of divers colors of needlework, of divers colors of needlework on both sides.” Now neither Sisera’s mother nor any one else <an say too much in eulogy of the needle. It bis made more useful conquests than the sword. Pointed at one end and with an eye at the other, whether of bone or ivory, as in earliest time ; or of bronze, as in Pliny’s time ; or of steel, op in modern time ; whether laboriously fashioned as formerly by one hand, or as now, when 100 workmen in i factory arc employed to make the different parts of one needle, it is an instrument di vinely ordered for tho comfort, for the life, for the health, for the adornment of the human race. The e3*e of the ueedle hath seen more domestic comfort and rnoro gladdened pover ty and more Christian service than any other ey**. The modern sewing machine has in no wise abolished tho needle, but rattier en throned it. Thank God for 1U0 noedlovvork, from the lime when tbo Lord Almighty from the heavens ordered in regard to the em broidered door of tho ancient tabernacle, “Thou shnlt make a hanging for tho door of ihe tent of blue nnd purple nnd scarlet and fino twined lluen wrought with noedloworl:.” down to tin* womanly hands which this winter in this taberuaclo arc presenting for benevolent purposes their needle work. But there was nothing ex cept vanity and worldllnes* nnd social splash in what Bisera’s mother said about tin* nee dlework she expected her son would bring homo from the battle. And 1 am not sur prised to find that Slsoru fought on tho wrong side when his mother at tho window of my text in that awful exigency hml her chief thought on dry goods achievement nnd social display. God only knows how many j homes have made shipwreck on tho ward robe. And that mother who slls at tho win dow watching for vainglorious triumph of millinery anu lino colors nnd domestic pa geantry will. after a while, hear ns had news from her children out in th** buttle of life a* Bisera's mother heard from tho alrugglo at Esdraeion. But If you still press thoqwstlon, “Whcro'i mother?” I will tell you where sl ; o is not, though onoo sho was there. Bom** of you started with her likeness iu your faco and her principles in your soul. Hut you have cast her out. Thnt was an awful thing for you to, hut you hnvo dono it. That hard, grinding dissipated look you never got from her. If you lmd seen any ono strike hor you would havo struck him down without much core whether the blow was just sufficient or fatal; but, my hoy, you have struck hor down—struck her innoe.o 'j from your face and struck her principles from your soul. You struck her down! The tent pin that •Tael drove three times into the skull of Sisera was not so cruel ns the stab you lmvo made more than three times through your mother’s heart. But she is waiting yet. for mothers \ are slow to give up their hoys waiting nt some window, it may be a window on earth or at .sumo window in heaven. And others may cast you off. Your wife may scale divorce and havo no patience with you. Your father may disinherit you and say, “Let him never again darken tbo door of our house.” But thorn are two persons who do not give you up—-God and mother. How many disappointed mothers waiting nt the window ! Perhaps tho pan as of tin* window aro not great glass plate, hnvol odgoit nnd hovered over by exquisite 1am- brequln, but tho window is made of small panes, 1 would say about six or eight of thorn, in summer wreathed with trailing vino nil I in winter pictured l»y tin* B.iphaols of tho forent. a real country window. ’I’ho mother Bits there knitting, or busy with bur noodlo on homely repairs, whon sin* looks up anil secs coming across the bridge of the meadow brook a stranger, who dismounts in front of the window. IIo lifts nnd drops tho heavy knookorofthefarmhous*door. “Como in !” is the response. He gives his name and says, “I have come on a sad errand.” “There is nothing Ihe mnttnr with my son in ihe city. Is there?” sho askod. “Yes!” he Hays. “Your son got intonnuufortunntoouoountnr with ti young man in a liquor saloon last night nnd Is badly hurt. The fact is he can not get well. 1 hate to tell you all. I am sorry to Hay In* is dead.” “Dead !” she cries us she totters back. “Oh. my son ! my son ! my son ! Would God I had died for thee!” That is tin* ending of all hor cares and anxie ties and good counsels for that hoy. That is hor pay for her self sacrifices iu his buluilf. That is the had nows from tho battle. Ho tho tidings of derelict or Christian sons travel to the windows of earth or tlie windows of heaven at which mothers sit. “But,” says some one. “nre you not mis taken about my glorified mother hearing of my evildolngs since she went away?” Says isomo ono else, “Aro you not mistaken about ,my glorified mother hearing of my self suerl- jficoand moral hnivory and struggle to do right?” No! Ileavon and earth are in con stant communication. There are trains run- Jnlng every five minutes—trains of immortals •ascending uud descending—spirits going from earth to lieavon to live there. Sprits • descending from heaven to earth to min ister and help. They hour from ns many/limes every day Do they hoar igoodfnewH or bad news from the battle, this/Bodnii, this Thermopyhn, this Austor- jlltz, * iu which every ono of us 1h lighting on the right side or the wrong side. () God, 1 whose I am, nnd whom I am trying to jsorve, as a.result of this sermon, roll over • on all uiotIvjm anew sense of their rcspoiisl- Ibilitv, undtupon all chllclroi, whether still in the nursery or out on tin* tremendous Esdraeion*of middle life or old age, tin* fact that their/victories or defeats Hound clear out, cleat (up/to the windows oT sympathetic maternity.* Oh, is not this the minute when the cloud bt/hlcHsIng filled with the exhaled tears of anxious mothers shall hurst iu showers otkmcrcy on this audience? There is Tone thought that is nlmo.^t loo tender for utterance. I almost fear to start it lest I have not euough control of iny emo tion to conclude it. As whon we were chil dren we Hotoften came in from play or from a hurt or from some childish Injustice prao* ticedunoiAus, and nH soon as the door was opencM \qo cried, “Whore’s mother?'’ uud sue said, “Micro I am,” and wo Imried our weeping Tic cm iu her lap, so after awhile, when we if**t through with the plcusurcg and hurts of t/ils Ilf**, worwill, by the pardoning mercy of Christ. enticrthe heavenly homo, and among tluAfirst quod ions, not tho first, but among thelllM, will bo tho old question that we used to>ask. tho question that Is being asked in thousands of places at tills very moment tbe«|u»*Htioii, “Where's mother?” And it will notdalro long for us to find hor or for hor tojfiudlus. for Him will have been watching at itho Win tow for our coming, and with theWhcrj children of our household of earth w*; will again gather round her, and she will say : ■“Well, how did you get through tho battle of Mfo? > I have often heard from others about you,jlait now i want to hear It from your own /souls. Tell Due all about it, my children !” Ami then we will tell her of all our earthly experiences, tho holidays, tho marriages, tho birth hours, tho burials, tho heart bri nks, the Josses, tho gains, the victories, tho/defeats, anil she will say . “Nevermind, it l*all over now. I see each one of*you has a crown, which was givon you at tin* gate as you <\tnm through. Now cast it at the feet of tho'Ghrlst who saved you and saved,mo and Hawed us all. Thank God, wc aro noverto part, and for all tho ages oternlty you will uever again have to ask, 'Whero'H mother?’” A Coin Recovered Allor . Thirty Years. It is not often thnt a marked coin onco put into circulation is returned to the person who marked it. Onotgo Troup, Superintendent of Forest Lawn Cemetery, Before ho left Scotland, lmd his name slumped upon a coin of tho isHiie of Goorgo H. It was dono in fun, and at that time ho never dreamed that ihe coin would ever ho returned to him. Tho coin was put into cir culation, and a short time Afterward Mr. Troup came to thin country. More than thirty yearH passed by, nnd bethought nothing more about the circumstance. Ono day recently a friend of his at lodge said to him: “I hare a coin with your name upon it.” “I asked him to let me seethe coin,” said Mr. Troup, “and when I looked at it I found it was the identical piece that I had marked so long ago. I wrote to the man who was present when tho coin was marked iu Scot land, and ho recalled thecircunihtance, nnd I got tho coin from my Buffalo friend, and now 1 would not take n good sum of money for it. Where that coin had been during tho thirty years no one knows, but it isnatrange coincident that it should have turned up to me in Buffalo, tho honp; 1 hud adopted.”—Buffalo KxpreM. OUR LATEST DISPATCHES. llic Happenings of a Day Chronicled in Brief and Concise Paragraphs Ami Contninlng the Gilt of tho Nrni From All l’nrts of tho World. A H|iociftl of Huiulay-from Wheeling, W. Yu., hiivk: There never wuh more (liNtreuH iu the Hocking Valley iuuI other Ohio mini mining districts than nt present. Tho mon nro idlo nnd some violence is reported. Kx-Oovornor William Oilpin, tlio lirst governor of the territory of Oolo- liido, died nt Denver Rnturduy morn ing. Ilo mum appointed hy President I.Hindu, Mnreli 22, INI,I, mid ivns nt thnt time n resident of Nt. Louis. A Birmingham special of Snturdny says: ,lim Morrison, thtfreonviot who, with nix others, dynamited the gunrd nnd eseupeil from Prstt mines 'Thurs day night, and who killed deputy slier- ill'Dexter in tho tight between his posse and eueapes Friday, is still nt large. As soon as houses cun ho erected for the additional operators, tho Wost Huntsville, Ala., Cotton Company will work its mill drmblo time—both day and night. This is necessary to ena ble the factory to keep up with its or ders. None of the throe cotton facto ries at Huntsville have been idle a day since they were erected. A special of Sunday from Mexico City, N. M., says: Another robbery of the mails bus evidently been made, re sulting in the loss of a check for *11,- •100. I t w as drawn by Prince Torrez and the prince of Durango, payable to Martino/. Aurora nnd Coliinu of Cor don. It was deposited iu tho mails of dnnunry 1th and pnymont was ordered , stopped. A daeUsouville special of Saturday says: Manager Bowden states that the ■ ^(Vrhctt-Mitchell tight would ho called not Inter than 10:'JO o'clock in tho j forenoon of Thursday, •Inminry 25th. { >1 tin' tight is held away from tho arena in east Jacksonville, a telegraph 1 wire will ho looped to ringsidennd the j result announced to tho press at once. Fire at an early hour Sunday morn ing completely gutted tho telephone j ; xchnngo in Louisville, Ivy, The loss ! on Ihe building is not great. The to- ■ tal loss is estimated at#100,000, about half covered hy insurance, (ioncrnl j Manager Gifi’ord says it will lie three , months beforo the,loss will ho repair ed. The switchboard contained 11,000 w ires nnd was completely destroyed. I Saturday 500 unemployed men ns- M inliled in tho court Iiouho square at. I ndinnnpnlis demanding to ho hoard hy the city ofllcials.* A resolution was passed hy a mass meeting of thesu men l demanding thnt the $17,000 surplus of the tlrand Army of the Hcpulio nation al encampment funds ho used iih relief money for the nnliLployed, No riot- I oils domnnatrattylS have yet been made. . fLj A Denver, CoJ^Hpccial says: The parade which wnl^Bl Sunday under a rail to labor orgimmitJonB to protest against adjournment of tho legislature j without enacting !nws for tho relief of ilalreaa by aObrdii g employment uum- : lierod fewer than 2,001) men. It was | reviewed hy Governor Waite and pop- ] ulist members of the legislature. Very little enthusiasm wan manifested. One I marcher proposed three cheers Mr i Gov. Waite, hut there wns no response. A disastrous Occident occurred nt Ognmaw, a lumber station throe miles north of Stephens, Arlt., early Sntur- | day night, Tho log train was coming into tin station from its last trip from tho camps, which nro located several miles in the country, and a large nuin- ber of woodmen were returning with it. I’nssiiig over a trestle, when nenr- i ing tho end of Die run, the woodwork | gave way and the onrtiro train went ilown.killingthrceoutright and wound- ! ing eighteen others. i A dispatch of Saturday from I’otts- ville, I’a., states thnt an order has been issued by the Bending Goal and Iron company, suspending eleven of its largest eoUicrics for an indefinite period. The colliericft of other com panies will also ho suspended. Owing to the suspension of tlio collieries, the transportation force on tlm Bending railroad will he greatly reduced, and tlm ear shops nt Palo Alto nro to ho shut down indefinitely, thus throwing 150 moil out of work. Tho United Electric Kailway Com pany, at Nashville, went into tho li ii nt Is of a receiver a few days ago, anil now General \V. 11. Jackson is en- j ginccring a plan to reorganize it. The j plan is to take for cash or new bonds I tlm underlying bonds, amounting to i $1,500,000, nnd to pay for the other I bonds, amounting to nearly a million I more, in stock. Tho plan also prom- i ises to expend $140,000 in enlarging and improving the plant and putting tho property on a paying basis. The noted hank of Knglnud forger, George Bidwell, is iu Washington to secure thu assistance of tho state de partment in obtaining for him a full and free pardon from the British gov ernment. Bidwell, with his brother, nnd two other Americans, wns convict ed in England of forging Bank of Eng land notes aggregating £1,000,000, nud the four were sentenced to life imprison ment. After serving fifteen years George Bidwell was released on ticket- of-leave, and five years Inter secured the release of the others. * Chicago dispatch of Sunday says : it i 11 i ii in Manor, on.- of the contractors .iho put up tlm speetatoriiim, Inis filed his answer as a defendant, iu tho Co lumbian Celuhratiou Company litiga tion. Jfo asserts that Hteele Muckny may lie required to give proof to his cluim as a oreditor to tlio amount of $55,000; that Mackey has never paid a cent for tho 10,!lt)li shares he holds, nor tins tho company ever received any consideration in tho shape of a trans fer of patents. The various contrac tors have claims amounting to 1)10,000, so the answer claims, and thnt tho to tal indebtedness is largely in excess of tho bond issue. THE NEWS IN GENERAL. Telegraphic Advices And Presented in Pointed and Reada ble Paragraphs. The Ivy City rare trai'k nine which wan brought boforo I ho United Stated Hiiproim* ciW’t lmH boon decided agaiiiHt tho racing men. Tho annual report of tho Chicago board of trade, Hubmittod Tlmraduy rIiowh that tho actual buHinewR of I ho board, meaHured by tho volume of property handled, wuh larger for 181)11 than dur ing any proviona your excepting tlio phenomenal twelve montliH of 1HB2. Rcocipta of grain and Hour (the latter reduced to bushels) were *247,000,000 bushels, only 8,000,000 bushels lean than 180*2. Herkey.v (Jay, (Irand 1'npidH, Mich., one of the largest, furniture manufact- ries in the world, employing nearly 1,000 iu idl departments, have cut sal aries nud wages from president, down lo draymen, ‘25 per cent. The cut is to take effect nt once. Small orders and the financial depression nro the alleged causes for tho out. Tho men held n meeting Tuesday night, but look no action. A Now York dispatch Bays: Tho Dutch steamer Amsterdam, Captain Stenger, from Rotterdam, January lth, which arrived Wednesday morn ing, lost her cheif officer, *). Moyer, and five men by the capsizing of her port life boat, while proceeding to Ihe assistance of tho crow of the American fishing schooner, Maggie F. Well, which was iu a sinking condition. Tho Holiooncr is supposed to linva been lost with all on board. The annual report of ihe world's Columbian commissioners >\as sub mitted to congress by President Pal mer Wednesday. Detailed statements of the scope and various features of the exposition are left for tho final re port, to bo prepared by a special com mittee of the commission, with Presi dent Palmer at its head, and which will be a work of great- magnitude— practically a history of the fair to be completed next November. Train No, !l on the Kansas City, St. Joe and Council Hlufi’s railroad was held up and roblwd at 1*2 :‘40Thursday morning by live masked men at Roy’s Landing, just above St. .Joseph, Mo. Tlio train was stopped by a torpedo on I lie track and when tlio engineer slowed up ho and tho firemon were covered by revolvers and ordered to go back to the express car and demand admittance. Tho express messenger was covered by revolvers and tho rob bers plundered the ear. Ft is not known how much money they got. A special dispatch from Florence, Col., says: Agent R. F. NtringJe, of tho general land office, dropped in on a lumber camp in Eight-milo canon north of tho city Saturday where he found fifteen men cutting down tim bers on government land and running a large sawmill, lie ascertained that irom 800,000 to 400,000 foot of IngH had been cut, most of which had been shipped to Cripple crook. Tho agent ordered Ihe moil to quit work and will report concerning tlio matter to the land office. Tlio world’a committee of Young Men'n Christian Association, with headquarters at Geneva, Switzlerland, have just issued the call for the thir teenth international conference of the Young Men’s Christian Association of all lands, to meet in London, the Hist of May next. Tho conference will continue until the fitli of .Time. It will include a public thanksgiving sermon in St. Paid’s cathedral on Juno 5th, presided over by Hie Right Rev- ernod Bishop of Ripon, D. I >., and a reception on Juno fith, the jubilee day, at Royal Albert hall, Houth Kingston, Rotton timbers and a poorly con structed trestle belonging to tho New York, Susquehanna and Western rail road was the cause of u frightful acci dent Wednesday in tho Jersey mead ows. A construction train, consisting of a locomotive nnd six gondola cars heavily loaded with gravel, were pre cipitated about thirty feet into a small branch. There was a gang of fifty Italian laborers on the train and three- fourths of them went down. Ono man was killed outright, while another died while he was being removed to tlio hos- | pital. Twenty others were seriously j injured and it is thought that some of them may dio, FIGHT WITH CONVICTS. They Use Dynamite ami Escape from Prnlt .Mines, Ain. A Birmingham sjjecial says: Seven desperate convicts escaped from tho Pratt mines early Thursday night, by blowing open the iron grating with dynamite. Guard .John Patton wns blown up nnd seriously hurt. A posse | of officers, led by Deputy Sheriff' i Frank Dexter, came upon four of the | escRjied convicts early Friday morn j ing, near Gorthitc. Dexter called on I the convicts to (surrender, when a bnt- j tie followed, the convicts having se cured guns. Dexter was shot and one of the convicts badly wounded. Tho I others escape*I, but officers with a dog j are in pursuit. The convicts are led by Jim Morrison, tbo noted Bibb J county desperado. Further bloodshed is expected, THE FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS The Honse and Senale Called to Order in Regular Session. Hally Nummary of Ilontino liu.iiiMs In thr Two House. Till: IIOI'MK. Tukhday, Jan. 10.—There wan but littlo routine bu»iiionR requiring tho nttoutiou of the houau Tuesday morn ing, mtil ut 11 -.12 it wout into comniit- tuu of thu whole to oonaicler tho tariff bill. Mr. Burrow* again atartoil a warm debate on the right of the chair to recognize Mr.Wilaou to offer nil Ilia iinieHiimente before the other aide was allowed to offer any. After a iiro- loiiged diBOUaaiou, thu speaker ruled KiiNtiiining hia declaration rendered Monday. Wkdnesdav, Jan. 17.—Tho ways nnd lneaiia committee Buffered ita first ilu- I'ciit Wednesday when, by a vote or I 12 to 12, tlie conunittoo of the whole lioune rejected Mr. Wilson's amend ment, fixing the dale on which free wool should go into effect as August 1, 1804, and adopted the substitute of Mr. Johnson, the Ohio free trader anil and single taxer, making it go into effect immediately upon tho passage of tho bill. Only one other amendment was noted on during thu day, to allow tho free entry ill bond of machinery ns well ns the materials used in the construction of ships Imilt for foreign account. The rest of tho day was spent in discussing nn amendment of Mr. Burrows to siiliHtitule the pres ent wool schedule for that proposed by tho Wilson bill. At 5 : JO o'clock Ihe house took a recess until H o'clock. Tiiuwday, Jan. 2H. After tho dis posal of mime routine business, Die lioiiHc, lit 11:25 o'clock, Thursday morning, went into committee of the whole Jo consider the Wilson bill. Fmliar, Jan. ID. There wasanmeh bolter iitteudauoe of members when Die house met Friday morning than for some timo past. At 11 ;80 the house wont into a committee of the whole to consider the Wilson tariff hill. At the requeat of Mr. Wilson, chairninu of 1 he committee on ways and means, unanimous consent was given to consid er the sugar schedule of Die Wilson hill for three hours immediately after the house goes into a committee of the whole Monday, and Dint a vote shall thou he taken The nmendmuUt proposed hy Mr. Johnson, of Ohio, puffing steel rails on tlio free list, was lost by a vote of 71 iu tlio nflirmativo to 100 in the negative. After the defeat of tho Johnson steel rail amendment, Bopro- Heiitativo Henderson, of Iowa, offered an amendment to substitute the present law for the agricultural schedule, nud a long debate on agriculture ensued, in which Messrs. Hopkins, of Illinois, Hull, of Iowa, Springer, of Illinois, and others, took part. Hatubhay, Jan. 21). At 11.17 tho house resolved itself into n committuo of the whole to consider the Wilson bill, after nn agreement had been reached, limiting thu debate on the pending amendment, substituting the present law foy the agricultural section of the Wilson bill. An agreement wns lunched whereby three hours wero to bo given to the consideration of the coal schedule, nnd llireo to the iron schedule. The amendment propon ed by Mr. Hcndornon Friday, substituting the existing Inw for tho agricultural schodulo of the Wilson bill, wns defeated by a vote of lid in flic nllirnmtive, nnd 116 in the negative, Mr. Meltae nnd Mr. Vickery offered nmeudmeiitB to the su- gnr schedule. Both amendments nre similar in the provision and strike out the clause in the Wilson hill providing for thu gradual reduction of the boun ty on sugar. Instead, tho bounty is to ho wiped out nt one sweep and su gar bo absolutely free. Mr. Prudon, one of Die I'resident’s Hccretarioa, ap peared iu Ihu House at 12 with the president's veto of tho New York anil New Jersey bridge bill. TilK MENATF. Tijrhdav, Jan. 16. —fn Dio morning liiisiuess in the souate, a resolution was offered hy Air. Call, to smipend tlm injunction of aocroey in tlio enso of pnsaing on the noun nation of tho col lector of internal revenue for tlio state of Florida. Hut as tho resolution it self was construed as executive busi ness, the presiding oflleur ordered the galleries to he cloaroil and Dm doors closed, nnd the senale, thereupon, went into exeoutivu session. At I o'clock the doors wero reopened nud Mr. Hoar nddreHsod the senate on his resolution to refer tho president's Ila wniiun messagu to tlm committee on foreign relations. At thu conclusion of Mr. Hoar's remarks, tho resolution was nllowod to remain on thu table ns the basis of further speeches nnd Mr. Onllinger addressed tlm senate on tho tillin'. Wbdsrhiiav, Jnn. 17.—Tho eivil service lnw and tho way it iH adminis tered was discussed in the sensto Wed nesday. Senator Berry took exception fo Dm policy of alloniug the fourth- class postmasters to remain in office in order to carry out tho spirit of the law. Senator Onllinger, of Now Hamp shire, criticised tlm law nnd said it ought to ho repealed. Henator Hoar defended the law and Henntor Cockrell said that it was a good law if car ried out according to its intent ami purpose. The federal elections bill then consumed a couplo ol hours and Henator Chandler, of Now Hamsliire, tried to secure nn amend ment recognizing tlm rigid of federal supervision over elect ions so fnr as to permit every candidate for congress Die privilege of appointing a watcher for each precinct to guard his inter ests in tlm registration nud thu elec tion, but the vote was nut reaohod. Honator Gray, of Deleware, tried to get the republicans to name a day when a tins) notion should ho taken on tlm bill, but said ho wanted to hear Ihe other side discuss the question. The senate adjourned nt 6:15 o’clock. TiirnsDAV, Jan. 18.—A note to the president from Henator Walthall, stat ing that he had sent to the governor of hiH state his resignation, to take effect on the 14tli instant, wns laid before tha senate Thursday morning and placed on file. A resolution offered bj Mr. Pofl'or was laid over till Friday, declaring that in tlm opinion of the senate, tho ncerotary of the treasury has no lawful authority for issuing and Belling bonds ss proprosed in his no tice of Wednesday. A somewhat sim ilar resolution offered hy Mr. Allen wa« also laid over. TRADE IMPROVES. Dun A Co.’s Deport of Business for the Past Week. It. G. Dun A- Co.'s weekly review bii.vh : Tho event of tho week is the offer of $50,(Ml),000 of United States 5 per cent, ten-year bonds. Thu decision of the secretary gives much satisfaction to all who care for a sound currency, bemuse tho necessities of the treasury were dangerously strengthening those who urged the issue of $50,1)00,000 more silver certificates against the sil ver seigniorage to ho eoibed. The gold not represented hy certificates has fallen below $70,000,000; the revenue continues to fall behind that of last year about $5,000,000 per month, nnd action iu congress on various financial measures is liable nt any timo tu excite doubts iih to whether gold pny- nents can bo maintained. Hence the replenishment of the gold reserve was necessary to a restoration of confi dence nnd a revival of business. The immediate effects were not great, though it is Imped improvement in trade and industries may he hastened. While industrial improvement contin ues, tlm gnin is slow nud the increase in tho purchasing power of the people by the enlargement of the force at work is, in a measure, counterbalanced by tlm loss in tlm purchasing power of tlm people through ii reduction iu wages paid. During tlm past week dispatches have told of reductions av eraging 1J per cent in fifteen iron and steel works, and averaging 15) per cent in fifteen textile works, live em ploying thousands of hands, each hav ing reduced wages 2D percent. Mean while twenty-live textilo nnd eloveu iron nnd steel concerns resumed,whol ly or iu part, against, seventeen textile slid four iron concerns stopping or re ducing force, Tho volume of btisiuuss done has in creased in the leading branches, but not largely. Tlm textile works resum ing lire mostly carpet and knit goods concerns, with some worsted works. Hales of wool for the week linve been 2,805,700 pounds, against 6,802,000 last year, and the proportion since Jnuuaty 1st has boon about tlm same. Though more mills are nt work, and there is more speculative buying, prices, nevertheless, decline, so thst sales at Boston nre about 1 cent below prices asked two weeks ago. Most shoe manufacturers are doing little more than half tlm usual busi ness, though some aro well employed nnd tlm shipments from Boston this yesr thus far have been 20 per cent, less than last year lo date. Again there is more business iu iron and steel products, but lit lower prices. Hteel rails were reduced January 1st to $24 per ton, and nt Pittsburg, steel billets aro selling at $15.75, steel bars nnd tank steel at 1.2 cents, beams at 1.85 nnd wire rods at $211.50. Imports at New York show for Jan uary thus fnr a deer ease of more than 80 per cent, while in exports lienee a gain of $2,800,000, or nearly 20 per cent, appears. There is now no thought of a movement of gold, as London sends stock here to settle for prod uct. The excess of products over im ports in December wns $48,000,000, imt tho exchanges seemed to fore shadow gold imports. Greater confi dence nbrond in tlm linaucinl future would he of special service in uoming mouths. Failures for tho week have been 407 in tho United Htates, against 2!>0 last year, nnd 46 in Canada,agninst 42 last year. For tho first eleven days iu January tlm reported liabilities of firms failing were $9,041,225, of which $8,069,053 wero in mnuiifnettiring nnd $5,846,372 in trading concerns. But tho number of failures about the first of tho year does not necessarily indicate a bad stnto of things. NEWS FROM BRAZIL. Tlm Insurgents Making 11 Warm for tlio Government, Dispatches received at Bnenon Ayres Tuesday night from Bio Janeiro state that the insurgent warship Aquidabon had taken up a position in front of the euBtom house and was proparing to land troops. Tho insurgents have captured Eugeutro island. Forty gov ernment troops were killed and sixty captured. Tho government has sent reinforcements to Nictheroy. The in surgents are reported to he burning villages in tho state of Rio Grand© do Sul anil butchering tho captives they make. Stanford's Estate Appraised. A San Francisco dispatch of Friday says; The appraisement of the late Senator Leland Stanford's estate has been filed. The total valuation of his Han Francisco property iB $17,688,- 319, as follows: Stocks amounting to $11,752,486; bonds, $1,833,100; home nud effects, $131,000; notes and ac counts, $996,506, Biul real estate, $9,- 898.80. This does not include the I’alo Alto, Vina and Gridley proper ties, which were deeded to the uuivert •ity.

Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Cleveland progress. (Cleveland, White County, Ga.) 1892-1896, January 26, 1894, Image 1