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Newspaper Page TextTHE CLEVELAND PROGRESS. DKVOTRD TO TUK M1X1X0, AGRICULTURAL AND 1WUCATIONAL IXTBRB8T8 9T OLBTBLAXD, WHITK OOUXTTASH NORTB KABT GEORGIA. TMMM8;—One Dollar For Tear. VOL. 'III. CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY, G A. J FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 2. 1804. NO. i Learning the Hawaiian language ia ft social fad in Washington. A novel insurance company lias Been started in Franco, with the object of supplying girls with dowries when they marry. Experiments made in England in running carriages by electricity have been very successful, and it is freely predicted that a time is not far dis tant when it will displace the horse on the farm as a motive power. The total number of pupils enrolled in the public schools of the United States for the year 1891-1892 was 13,234,108, the average daily attend ance being 8,552,851. The enrollment for the year 1890-1891 is shown to have been 13,048,282, and the averugo attendance 8,407,535. “One deplorable result of excessive meat eating, M nays Mrs. Ernest Hart, in the Hospital, “in the ill-temper which is said to be a chronic com plaint in England. In less meat-eat ing Franco urbanity is the rule; in fish and frice-eating Japan harsh words ir«- unknown, and an exquisite polite ness to one another prevails, even imong the children who play together .n the streets." The Sultan of Turkey is said to like America very much and lu take a lively interest in her affairs. He was one of the first of European rulers to advise his people to participate in and visit the World’s Fair, and is said to bo greatly gratified at the success of the Fair and at the treatment which ins people met in Chicago. When i’r. steamer Fuerst Bismarck arriv 1 at Constantinople recently the Suit tit, learning that there wer< Americans aboard, sent his Grand Master of Cere monies down to the ship to j resent his compliments to tlr 1 Vmcric-ius an l tender them the freedom of the city. Miss Edith Dadami is a Californian, seventeen years old, whose n»i n • de serves to be enrolled upon the boou «>. fame. She is only five feet an 1 i quarter o» an inch high and wci^lr. only 12H pounds. She can, however, lift a bag of barley, 125 pounds in weight, and fling it into »i wagon wild the same airy grace that she would display ill tossing a ball, tth • cm break mustangs, drive gang-plo v teams, play the piano, lasso a steer, milk and make butter, embroider doilies, tell a horse’s ago an l value by looking at. him, and prepare a > deli ions dinners as it is permitted Cali foruians to euj >v. * The limit of profitable size in <>. vessels has been reached in the lar that have lately been built. Suvii least is the opinion of Chav'ea Cramp, the Philadelphia ship br.ii If vessels are made much deep* *' 1 cannot enter New York harbor, longer, it will bo liar 1 to make t strong enough to be seaworthy, strain of weight on a long v»*-- 1 tween two waves is enormous. Cramp says English steamers •* much room that tue best made Vi can designs save. His opinion is this superiority of American workman ship and skill will with a fair Hum" give us a considerable par: <*f the fu ture steamboat building trade. New statistics of Protestant Hiiirclr- in France have recently been gat;: From those we glean that there firUr • estint houses of worship in 781 locali ties in the French republic. Ther? are 887 reformed pastors in charge o congregations, and twelve reformed chaplains in the army. The Lutheran clergy number only ninety, the Free Evangelical Church has forty-seven, and the other Frotestaut denomina tions have seventy-two. Then tlier-: are five Bible societies, nineteen Fro 1 .- eetani. societies for horn* mission-, tiv for foreign missions, forty-four or phans’ homes, fortv*;>rveu refuv houses, sixL hospitals and 118 ; cdicals—all in the interest of the i're estant Church of France. A French merchant, a miilionni. at the time of his death, left his property to a friend on condition that when he was buried a sum of SI00,000 should be placed in his coffin. The executor was in no mind to comply with the precise terms of the whimsical request, but was at his wits end to discover some means of defeating it. A happy thought, how ever, came at last. He placed a check for 8100,000, payable to the deal map, in the coffin, and in telling of his ruse to his friends, for the story was too good to kef:]), announced that he is quite prepared to honor the check when the payee presents it. Which gives rice to the reflection by the New York Sun that dodging dead men is eittar ftir tbau waiting iof Uivir REY. DR. TALMAGF, TUK BROOKLYN DIVINE'S SU.\- l>.YY SERAIOX. Subjoct: “The Hare Arm of God.' i holy Text : " The t.onl hath made (un «»•)»»."—Isaiah lit., 10. If almost takos our breath nway to rea l po-niN of the lllble imagery* There Is such boh1n<*«*s of moinphor In my text that I have i '-on for some time getting my courage up to preach from It. Isaiah, tho evangelistic prophet, is sounding tho jubilate of our planet redeemed and cries out, "The Lord I nth nn le bnro His holy arm.” What over whelming suggestiveivss in that figure of sp«»»-*!i, "The bare arm or Clod!’* The peo- pl * of Palestine to this day wear mu*h hinder ing apparel, nn I when they Want to run a c p -embrace, or lift n special burden, or light • i special battle, they put otT the outside app ird, as in our land when n man proposes n special exertion he puls Ids coat nn 1 rolls up his sleeves. Walk through our foundries, our machine shops, our mines, our fa •tori--*, and you fill find that most of the tollers have their coats ofl and their sleeves rolled up. H'liuh saw that I hern must be a tremen dous amount of work done before this world becomes what it ought to be, and he fore- * it all nc■ omplisheJ, and accomplished l*v the Almighty, not ns we ordinarily think of Him, hot by the Almighty with the sleeve of llis robe rolled back to His shoulder, "The Lord hath ma le bare His holy Arm." Nothing more impresses me in the Bible than the e )“0 with which Go1 does most things. Thorn is such a reserve of power. He has more thunderbolt* than He has ever flung, more light than lb* has ever distrib ute*, mom than with which He has om r.ir die 1 the skv, more green than that with which If-* has omeralded the grass, more -riinson than that with which Ito has buruishe 1 the sunsets, Isay It with rover- all I can ?•*(», God Ims never hull tr • know r ism » 1 do that many of the most elaborate and expensive industries of our world have been employed iu creating nrtlf.cal light. Half of the time the world Is dark. The moon and the stars have their glorious uses, bur as instruments of llluini- UMlion they are fa I 111 rut), They will not r *nd a book or stop thnruffhin- Tcat cities. Had not the dark le**., broil persistently fought back by artlll- cial menus, the most of the world’s enter prises would have halted half the time, while the crime of our great municipalities would for half the time run rampant and unre buke I ; h-aee all the inventions for creating artificial light, from the flint struck against steel In centuries past to the dynamo of our electrical manufactories. What uncounted numbers of people at work the year round in aking chnndeltors and lamps and fixtures and wires and batteries where light shall be which light shall run, or shall of tho • arc very tired -in the creation of light and its apparatus, and after all the work tho greater part of the continents and hemis pheres at night linvo no light at all. except perhaps the fireflies flashing their small lan terns across the swamp. But see how easy Go I made the light. He did not make ban* His arm ; Ho’did not even put forth His robed arm ; He did not lift so much as a Anger. Tho flint out of which He struck the noonday sun was the word, "Light.’’ "Let there be light !'* Adam did not see the sun until tho fourth day, for, though tho sun was created on the first day. it took its rays from tho first to tho fourth day to work through the dense mass of fluids by which this earth was compassed. Did you overhear of anything so easy as that ? Ho unique? Out or a word eniuu the biasing sun, the father of flowers, nn 1 warmth and light I Out of a word building a fire-place for all tin* Nations of the enrt h l<> warm them selves by I Yen, seven other worlds, flvo of them Inconceivably larger than our own, ami sovonty-nim* asteroids, or worlds on a smaller scale! Tho warmth and light fof* this great brotherhood, great sisterhood, great family of worlds, eighty-seven larger or smaller worlds, all from that one magnifi cent fireplace, made out of the ono word— Light. The sun 880,000 miles in diameter. 1 do not know how much grander a solar sys tem God could have created if Ho had put forth His robed ar.n, to say nothing of an arm made bare! But this I know, that our noonday sun was a spark struck from the anvil of one word, and that word "Light.” "But," says Rome ono, "do you not think that iu making tho machinery of tho unl- rorse, of w!ii-h our solar system is com paratively a small wheel working into might ier wheels, It must have cost God some ex ertion? The upheaval of an arm either robed or an arm made bare'.-’’ No ; we arc distinctly told otherwise. Tho machinery of a universe G*>d rnadosimply with His fingers. David, Inspired in a night Bong, says so— "When I consider Thy heavens, tho work of Thy fingers.” A Hcoltlsh clergyman told me a ago of dyspeptic Thomas (Jarlyl out with a friend one starry night, ari l as tho frien 1 looked up and said, "What a splendid sky!” Mr. Ourlylo replied ns ho glanced upward, ".-.id sight, sad sight!” Not so thought David as ho read tho great Boripturo of the night heavens. It was a sweep of embroidery, of vast tapestry, God manipulated. That is tho nllusion of the psalmist to the woven hangings of tapestry as they were known long before David's time. Ear back in the ages what enchant ment of thread anil eolor, the Florentine velvets of silk and gold and Persian carpets woven of goafs’hair! If you have been in tho Gobelin manufactory of tapestry iu Paris —alas, now no more ! -you witnessed won drous thing* ns you saw tho wooden needle or broach going back and forth and in and out ; you were transfixed with admiration nt tho patterns wrought. No wonder that Louis XIV bought it, and it became a possession of the thron". nn 1 for a long while none but thrones and palaces might have any of its work! What triumphs of loom! What victory of skilled fingers ! So David says of the heavens that God's Angers wove into them the light ;that God's lingers tapestried them with stars with TTfs fingers I Reservation of power! Suppression of omnipotence! Resources as yet untouched! Almlghtlness yet undeman* st rated! Now, I ask, for the benefit of nil dlshenrtonod Christian workers, if God ac complished so much with His fingers, what can He do when He puts out all His strength nnd when He unlimbers all the batteries of His omnipotence? The Bible speaks again and again of God's outstretched arm, but only once, and that in tho text, of tho baro arm of God. My text makes it plain that the roetitlen- tion of this world is a stupendous under taking. It takes more power to nmko this world over again than it took to make it nt first. A word was only necessary for the first creation, blit for the new creation the unsleeved and unhindorod fore arm of tho Almighty! Tho rensou of that I can under stand. In tho shipyards of Liverpool or Glasgow or New York a great vessel is eon- stmeted. The architect draws out the plan, the length of the beam, tho capacity of ton nage, the rotation of wheel or screw, the cabin, the masts and all the it j.rointmoats of t Ids great palace of tho doep. The architect finishes his work without any perplexity, and the carpenters and tho artisans toll on the craft so many hours a day, each one doing Ills part, until With flags flying, and thousands of people hitzwilnff on the dock*, tho vessel Is launched. But out on tho sea that steamer breaks her shaft nnd Is limping slowly along toward harbor, when Caribbean whirlwinds, those mighty hunters of the deep, looking out for prey of ships, surround that wounded vessel and pitch it on n rocky coast, nnd she lifts and falls III the breakers until every joint Is loose, ami every spar Is down, nnd every wave sweeps over tho hurricane dock ns she parts midships. Would It not reqtiiro more skill and power to g“t that splintorod vessel off the rocks and reconstruct it than it required origin ally to build her? Aye! Our world that God built so beautiful, and which started out with all tho flags of Kdenlo foliage nnd with the chant of paradisaical bowers, 1ms been sixty centuries pounding in the skerries of sin and sorrow, ami td get her out, and to gel her off, nnd to get her on the right way again will require more of omnipotence than It required to build her und launch her. Ho I am not surprised that though lit the drv- dock of one word our world was made, it will take the unslcaved arm of God to lift her from the rocks and put her on tho right course again. It is evident from ray text and its comparison with other text* that it would not bo so great an undertaking to make a whole constellation of worlds, and a whole galaxy of worlds, and a whole astrono my of worlds, and swing them In their right orbits as to take this wounded World, this stranded world, this bankrupt world, this destroyed world, and make It ns good as when it started. Now, just look nt Ihe enthroned difficulties In the way, the removal of which, tho over throw of which, seem to require the bare right arm of omnipotence. There stands heathenism, with Its 800,000,(100 victims. I do not care whether you call them Brahmans or Buddhists, Confuoinns or fetich idolaters. At tho World's Fair in Chicago last summer those monstrosities of religion tried to make themselves respectable, but tho long lmlr nnd baggy trousers and trinkoted robes of their representatives cannot hide from the world the fact that those religions are the authors of funeral pyre, ami juggernaut crushing, and Ganges Infanticide, and Chi nese shoe torture, and the aggregated mas sacres of many centuries. They have their heels on India, on China, on Persia, on Bornoo, on three-fourths of the acreage of our poor old world. I know that tho missionaries, who nro the most Bioriflolng and Chrlstlikrt men and women on earth, are making steady nnd glorious inroads upon those built up abomi nations of the conturles. All this stuff that you see in some of the newspapers about tho missionaries as living 111 luxury and idleness is promulgated by corrupt American or Eng lish or Scotch merchants, whoso loose be havior in heathen cities has boon robuked by the missionaries, and these corrupt mer chants write homo or tell innocent and un suspecting visitors iu India or China or the darkened islands of the sea these falsehoods about our consecrated misslonaires, who, turning their backs on home and civilization arid emolument and comfort, spend their lives in trying to introduce the mercy of tho gospel among the downtrodden of heathenism. Heine of those mer chants leave their families in America or England or Scotland nnd stay for a few years in the ports of heathenism while they nro making their fortunes in the tea or rice or opium trade, nnd while they are thus absent from home give themselves to orgies of dissoluteness such ns no pen or tongue could, without the abolition of all doeeney, attempt to report. The presence of the mis sionaries. with their pure and noble house holds, in those heathen ports Is a constant rebuke to such debauchees and miscreants. If satan should visit heaven, from which he was once roughly but justly expatriated, and he would write home to the realms pan- demoniac, his correspondence published in Dlnbolos Gazette or Apollyoulo New.*, about what he bad seen, he would report the temple of God and tho Lamb as a broken down church, and tho house of many llsreputable place, and the cherubim as suspicious of mor als. Hlii never did lilro holiness, and you had better not depend upon satanle report of tho sublime and multlpotent work of our missionaries in foreign lands. But notwith standing all that these men and women of God have achieved, they feel and we all feel that H tho Idolatrous lands are to bo Chris tianized thero needs to be a power from the heavens that lias not yet condescended, and we feel like crylugout iu tho wordsof Charles Wesley: • Arm of ihe Lord, awake, awake! Put on Thy strength, the Natioua shake! Aye, it is not only tho Lord’s arm that Is needed, the holy arm, tho outstretched arm, but tho bare arm 1 There, too. stnnds Mohammedanism, with Its 176,000,000 victims. Its Bible is tho Koran, a book not quite as large as our New Testa ment, which was revealed to Mohammed when in epileptic fits, nnd resuscitated from these fits be dictated it to scribes. Yet it is read to-day by more people than any other book ever written. Mohammed, the founder of that religion, a polygamist, with superflu ity of wives, the first step of his religion on tars : that God’s lingers em- j the body, mind and soul of woman, nnd no broidered thorn with worlds. ! wonder that the heaven of the Koran is an How much of the immensity of the heavens 1 everlasting Bodom, an infinite seraglio, David uuderst'-' 1 I do not know. Astronomy about which Mohammed promises that each was born in China 2800 years before Christ ; follower shall have in that place seventy-two was born. During the reign of Hoang-Tl wives, in addition to all the wives ho had on they 1 ‘ “■ 11 ohnU / ""* r calculations about tho heaven understood the refraction of the sun's rays and said they were "turned ns the clay to the Beal." The pyramids were astronomical ob servatories, and they were fo loug ago built thnt Isaiah refers to one of them in his nine teenth chapter and calls it the "pillar at the border.” The first of all the sciences born was astronomy. Whether from knowledge already a' road or from direct inspiration, it seems tone heavens. earth, but that no old woman shall enter heaven. When a bishop of England recently proposed that tho best way of saving Mohammedans was to let them keep their religion, but engraft upon It some new principles from Chris tianity, he perpetrated an ecclesiastical joke, nt which no man can laugh who has ever seen the tyranny and domestic wretchedness which always appear where that religion gets foothold. It has marched across conti- i stretched down out of the skies, floraothtng like an arm uneoverod, tho baro arm of the God of Nations! There stnnds also the arch demob of alco holism. Its throne is white and made of blenched human skulls. On ono slffe of that throne of skulls kneels In obeisanoe anil worship democracy, and on tho other sido republicanism, and the one, that kisses the cancerous and gangrened foot of this despot tho often eat gets tho most benedictions. There is a Hudson Blvor, nn Ohio, a Missis sippi of ntrong drink rolling through this Nation, but as the rivers from which I take my figure of speech empty into tho Atlantic or tho Gulf this mightier flood of sioknoss and insanity and domestic ruin and crime and bankruptcy nnd woo empties into tho hearts, nnd the homes, nnd tho ohurohes, and tho time, nnd the eternity of n multitude beyond 'nil statistics to number or describe. All Nations are mauled and scarified with baleful stimulus, or killing narcotic. The pulque of Mexico, the cashew Of Brazil, tho hasheosh of Persia, the opium of Chinn, the gunvo of Honduras, tho wedro of Russia, the soma of India, the aguardiente of Morocco, the arak of Arabia, the mastic of Syria, the raki of Turkey, the beer of Ger many, tho whisky of Hootland, tho nlo of England, the all drinks of Amorion, are do- lug their best to stupefy. Inflame, dement, Impoverish, brutalize ana slay the hunmn race. Human power, unless re-onforcod from the heavens, can never oxtlrpnto tho evils I mention. Much good has been ac complished by the heroism nnd fidelity of Christian rofortners, but the fact remains that there nro more splendid mon nnd mag nificent women this moment going over tho Niagara abysm of inebriety than at any time since the first grane was turned into wino and the first head of rye began to soak in a brewery. When pooplo touch this subject, they are apt to give statistics as to how many millions are in drunkards’ graves, or with quick tread inarching ou toward thorn. Tho land is full of talk of high tariff and low tariff, hut what about the highest of all tariffs In this country, the tariff of f000,000,000 which rum put upon the United Htutos in 1891, for that is what it cost us? You do not tromhle or turn pale when I say thnt. Tho fact is we have become hardened by sta tistics, and they make little impression. But if some one could gather into one mighty lake all tho tears that have been wrung out of orphanage and widowhood, or into one organ diapason all tho groans that have been uttered by the suffering victims f of this holocaust, or Into one whirlwind all j t ho sighs or centuries of dissipation, or from . the wicket of ope immense prison liavo look 1 upon us tho glaring eyes of all those whom | strong dMnk has ondUngeonod, We might ■ perhaps fenlizo the appalling desolation. But, no, no, tho sight would forever blast i our vision ; the sound would forever stun our souls. Go on with your tompornneo literature ; go on with your temperance plat* I forms | go on with your temperance Jaws. But we are all hoping for something from above, nnd while the Imre arm of suffering, and the Imre arm of invalidism, and the hare arm of poverty, and the hare arm of domes* tic desolation, from which rum hath torn the sleeve, are lifted up ill beggary and suppli cation and despair, lot the bare arm ot God strike tho breweries, and tho liquor stores, and the corrupt politics, and tho license laws, and the whole inferno of grogshops all around tho world. Down, thou accursed bottle, from the throne 1 Into tho dust, thou king of Die demijohn! Parched be thy Ups, thou wliiociip, with tires that shall Hover bo quenched 1 But 1 have no time to specify the manifold ovih that challenge 'Christianity. And 1 think l have seen in some Christians, nnd . read in some newspapers, and heard from some pulpits a dlsfieartenmont, ns though Christianity were so worsted that it is hardly worth while to attempt to win this world for God, and that all Christian work would col lapse, nnd that It is no use for you to teach a Hubhath class, or distribute tracts, or exhort in prayer meetings, or preach ill a pulpit, as satau is gaining ground. To rebuke thnt pessimism, the gospel of mnnshup, I preach tills sermon, showing that you are on the winning side. Go ahead! Fight ou ! What I want to make out to-day ia that our ammu nition Is not exhausted ; that all which has been accomplished has been only the skirm ishing boforo tho great Armageddon; that n#t more than ono of the thousand fountains of beauty in the King’s park tins begun to play ; that not moro than ou<* brigadASof tho innumerable hosts to bo marshaled by tho rider on tho white horse has y«‘t taken tho Held ; that wlmt God has done yet has been with arm folded in flowing robe, but that tho time is coming when He wfTl rise from His throne, and throw oft thai robe, nnd come out of tho palaces of eternity, and come down the stairs of heaven with nil conquer ing slop, and halt In the presence or expec tant Nations, and flashing His omniscient eyes across tho work to bo done will put hack tho slocvo of His right arm to the shoul der, and roll it up there, and for the world’s (Inal and complete rescue make baro His arm. Who can doubt the result when ac cording to my text Jehovah does His best ; when the last reserve force of omnipo tence takes the Mold; when tho last sword of eternal might leaps from Its scab bard? Do you know what decided the battle of Sedan? The hills a thousand fe<*t high. Eleven hundred cannons on tho hill*. Artillery on the hoightsof Glvonno, and twelve German bnttnriei on tho heights of La Moncello. The Crown Prince of Hnx- ony watched the scene from tho heights of Malry. Between a quarter to 6 o’clock in tho morning and I o'clock in the afternoon of September 2, 1R70, tho hills dropped tho shells that shattered tho French host in tho valley. The French Emperor and the 86,000 of his army captured by the hill*. Ho in this conflict now raging between holiness and sin "our eyes are unto tho lillls." Down here in the valleys of earth wo must be valiant soldiers of the cross, but tho Com mander of our host walks the heights and views the scene far better than wo can In tho valleys, and nt the right day and the right hour all heaven will open its batteries on our side, and the Commander of tho hosts of un righteousness with all hi* followers will sur render. and it will take eternity to fully cele brate tho universal victory through our Lord Jesus Christ. "Our eyes are unto tho hills.” Jt is bo certain to bo accomplished that Isaiah In my text looks down through the Meld glass of prophecy and speaks of it a* already ac complished. and I take my stand whore the prophet took his stand and look at it as all done. "Halleluiah,’Us done.” Hoe ! Those cities without a tear ! Look ! Those con tinents without a pang. Behold! Those hemispheres without n sin! Why, those deserts, Abrnhian desert, American des ert. and Croat Hahara desert, are all Irrigated into gardens where God walks in the cool of the flay. The atmosphere that encircles our globe floating not one groan. All the rivers and lakes and oceans dimpled with not one falling tear. The climates of the earth have dropped out of them the rigors offthe cold and the blasts of the heat, nnd it is'universal spring! Let us change Let it no more he OUR LATEST DISPATCHES. The Happenings of a Day Chronicled in Judge Butler. The principal evidence! wns given by n confessing member of , the gang, named Padgett. The trial I of the other members of the band will lie taken no nt once. SOUTHERN NEWS ITEMS. THE NEWS IN GENERAL. The Drift ot Her Progress an perity Briefly Noted, the old world’s name. - j called tho earth, as when it was reeking with •avid had wide knowledge of i nents and now proposes to sot up its flltby j * V r» r ythingjpestiferoii8 nnd malevolent Whether he understood tho j and accursed banner in America, and what • 11 full force of whftt he wrote. I know not. but j It has done for Turkey it would like to do th^ God who inspired him knew, nnd He 1 for our Nation. A religion that brutally uldcotlet David write anything but truth, treats womanhood ought never to be fostered and therefore ail the worlds that the tel scope over reached or Copernicus or Galilei or Kepler or Newton or Laplace or Herschel or our own Mitchell ever saw were so easily made that they were made with the fingers. As easily ns with your fingers you mold the wax, or the clav, ular shap 1 In our country. But there never was a re ligion so absurd or wicked that it did not get disciples, and there are enough fools In America to make a large discipleship of Mohammedanism. This corrupt religion has .. .. ... , been making steady progress for hundreds of dough to parti' - years, and notwithstanding all the splendid terl the shape of j work done by the Jessups, and the GoodQlls, world, and that it should weigh six sex- and the Blisses, and the Van Dykes, and the tillion tonT and appointed for all world* ’ Posts, and the Misses Bowens, and the Misses their orbits end decide! their color—-the ; Thompsons, and scores of other men and wo- while to Sirius, the ruddy to Aldebaran, the men of whom the world was not worthy, yellow to Pollux, tho blue to Altnlr, marry- there it stands, the giant of sin, Mohamme- ing some o. the star.-, as the 2100 double stars dunism. with one foot on the heart of wo- tu d Hersahel observed, aJminteteriug tothn man and the other on the heart of Chriiit, whims ot the variable stars n their glance while it mumbles from its minarets thlo Btu- lete'I with/ battlefields nnd gashed with graves, butf. now so changed, so aromatic with gardens, arid so resonant with song, and so rubefleent with beauty, let us call it Immanue/l’B Land or Beulah or millennial gardens/ or paradise regained or heaven ! And to (God, the only wise, tho only good, the onlyfgreat, bo glory forever. Amen. Domegtlc Diamonds. That? the United Btnfces numbers the diamond, amongst its many precious stones is an undoubted fact, and, al though none of any size to compare with those from India, Brazil and SouGU Africa .have been found, yet from the inanyi evidences of finds of And Containing the Gist of the Sewi From All Ports of the World. A Washington special of Saturday says: Congressman Oates, of Alabama, Announces through tho press that ho will bo a candidate for governor. A Washington special of Saturday says : Tho Kearsarge has been ordered from Han Domingo to the gulf const of Nicaragua iu consequence of reports that, tho Honduras Arabs were march ing into Nicaragua. The strike with tho Corona, Ala., Coal Company is still on, with no in dication of any early adjustment. Everything is perfectly quiet among tho men, yet they seem determined. They held a mass meeting Saturday night and somo new developments are expected soon. Tho Howard-Harrison Iron works of Jefferson county, Ala., has closed a contract with tho city government of Austin, Tex., for $100,000 worth of pipo to bo used in the construction of the waterworks there. Tho iron com pany will take half of tho amount in cash and half iu bonds of the city. According to Saturday’s advices tho total visible supply of cotton for the world is 4,604,901, bales, of which 4,083,701 arc American,against 4,324,- 268 and 3,887,468, respectively, last year. Receipts at all interior towns, 77,572 bales; receipts on plantations, 141,778 bales; crop in sight, 6,047,780 bales. At a mooting of democrats opposed to Congressman Springer’s ronomina- tion, held at Hpringlield, III., Satur day afternoon, ex-Mayor Charles F. Hayes, of Springfield, was decided up on as thoir choice to contest with Mr. Springer, the Snugiimore county dele gate. Mr. Hayes has consented to make the race. Ono of tho most disastrous Bros in the history of Bath, Maine, occurred {Sunday in the {Sagadahoc house sta bles. A large part of the business portion of the city was gutted, about twenty buildings being destroyed. The tiro spread so rapidly that the de partment was wholly unable to cope with it. The loss will reach a half million dollars. The Homer ont mills, at Akron, (>., owned by the American cereal mills, burned Sunday evening. The mills had not been in operation for some time, but there was much valuable machinery in them. The Iohh is esti mated at $75,000 on buildings and machinery, $15,000 on stock on hand and $10,000 on boxes. Total $100,000. Tho insurance is $50,000. A special of Saturday night from Henderson, N. 0., Hays that the coro ner’s jury which investigated the fatal roar-end collision which occurred there Friday has rendered a verdict that the* conductor of the first section of the freight, trains was guilty of negligence in not putting out signals in the rear of his section soon enough. It is rumored thnt a warrant will lie issued for him. An official telegram was received Saturday by the war department, of Mexico from Colonel 3nan A. Hernan dez, commander at the city of Chi huahua, denying the absurd rumors and published dispatches concerning the so-called revolutionary movement, in that state. He says the sensational reports are inventions solely for the purpose of disturbing public order. A New York dispatch of Saturday srys: The committee representing all classes of security bondholders of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad Company appointed to prepare a plan for tho reorganization of tho company, have decided to abandon the plan which they had nearly ready to make public and will await further develop ments before resuming the word en trusted to them. At the mooting of tho Emma Sam son camp of confederate veterans in Gadsden, A In., Saturday suitable reso lutions were passed on t he death of W. If. Forney. It was also decided that with the help of other camps funds will be raised to erect a suitable) monument in commemoration of his many gallant and heroic deeds during the war and for his devotion to his people since. A Philadelphia special says : There has been no marked change in the con dition of George W. Childs up to mid night Sunday night. Ho had periods of unconsciousness during the day, but as these have occurred for several days past, they ar» j . not necesnnrily re garded as symptoms of the approach ing end. That his recovery is almost hopeless is generally conceded, but bis physicians do not betray any indica tions that they have given up all hope. A Charleston, S. C., special says; The trial of J. C. Elliott, a whisky spy whoso assault on Mrs. Noite, a lew days ggo, led*to a small riot and an attempt to lynch him, was concluded Saturday before Justice Barnett. Tho defen dant was convicted of assault and but tery and sentenced to pay a $50 tine or serve thirty days’imprisonment, it is peobable that tho defendant will pay the fine. This will be reimbursed to him by Governor Tilman, who will in turn take it out of tho city’s share of profit of the dispensary. The jury in the ease of Thomas Brady, on trial at Newport, Ark., for participating in the recent robbery of the Bt. Louis and Iron Mountain train TGlcgraphic Advices And Prevented In Pointed nnd Hendn- hie Paragraphs. President Cleveland, aocompnnied by his sister, Jliss Hoso Elizabeth Cleve land, and Private Secrotary Thurber, arrived in Hartford,t'linn..Wednesday. Tho president visitod the city to attend the funeral of his favorite nephew, Henry Eurastis Hastings. A New York dispatch of Thursday says: According to the reports of Arnold Davidson, who examined tho books of John Wood, ex-treasurer of Brooklyn tabornnole, it appears that Mr. Wood Iihh appropriated, through rarelesancRB or otherwise, over $'2‘2,- 000 of tho church's money, A New York dispatch says: Tues day afternoon Judge Wallace announc ed his decision iu the New England receivership case. He has appointed Thomas 0. Platt of New York, and Marsden J. Perry, of Providence, Bhode Inland, joint receivers for tho New York nnd Now England railroad. A Now York npecinl nays: The city of Athens completed its ovidenco Thurs day in the waterworks ease. Interroga tories from the following Athenians were introduced: John Oordino,George MeDorman, B. P. Culp, D. C. Oliver, (I. O. Bond, C. M. Htruhau, J. E. Tal- mndgo nnd J. D. Moss. Tho decision of Judge Cullon is not expected for a few days, A New York World dispatch of Wednesday from Tegucigalpa, Hondu ras, says: “This city wns nttnokod 'Tuesday night by a strong force of revolutionists amt Nicaraguan allies. They succeeded in gaining n good deni of ground, but wore repelled before morning. Forty Hondurinns were killed. Seventy wero wounded. Both aides are preparing for another battle. All available men are being soul to tho front." Tho building on tho Boone county, In., poor farm, in which tho incurably insane were confined, was burned Wednesday night and eight of tho nine inmates wore burned to death. Only one woman, Mrs. Hibbard, es caped from tho burning building nnd gave tho alarm to Steward Holcomb, who waaiu tho main building adjacent. It, was then too lito to Have tho iusano people, and tho main building was saved only by the greatest effort. The origin of the iiro is unknown. A special from St. Paul, Minn., says: Thursday morning was unques tionably tlm coldest weather for many years. The weather bureau reported i!fi degrees below zero nt 7 o'clock, in the city. Pierre, H. I>. ; Moorehend St. Vincent, Minn., nnd LnOrosse, Wis,, nil reported 20 degrees below, it was 22 degrees below at, Qu 'Appello and Duluth and 2li degrees below nt Port Arthur. Bismarck reports 18 be low and Huron 10 degrees below. Zero weather still prevails all over tho northwest, Imt the weather bureau predicts decidedly warmer wenthe. William D. Richardson, a Chicago capitalist, contractor and engineer, who has been at Tacoma, Wash., in the interest of the Amur Steamship Company, has made n report on the Pacific coast ports. His object in Ta coma, was to ascertain jvhnt port has tlm best situation for a terminus for the Amur Steamship Company’s line. A dozen boats are to ply betwqon America and Vladivostok, tiibera, the terminus of the Siberian railroad now building. Tho company purchased fivo steamers of the Brazilian mail line, nnd will soon commence building others. BISMARCK IN BERLIN. Be Receives a Boynl Welcome hy the Kaiser and People. Princo Bismarck, his son, Count Herbert, and sevcrnl friends left Friedreshaus Friday morning for Ber lin. Tho train arrived punctually nt tho Entinto station, Princo Henry, of Prussiu, the emperor’s brother, the governor of Berlin nnd a large suit of officers wero waiting the prince's ar rival. The cheering nnd salutations from the crowd pleased Bismarck very much. Most of the houses along the route to the emperor’s palace were decorated with finga. The entire population of Berlin, swelled by thousands from all parts of Germany, had apparently turned out to welcome the senior Bis marck, nnd the younger element cheer ed themselves hoarse as the conch pass ed on route. When tho party arrived atthecastle, the reception of the old statesman wns of tho warmest, most cordial nature. His majesty embraced the prince with the utmost heartiness, nud a kiss press ed on the old man’s cheek scaled the reconciliation between the emperor and his greatest subject. Prince Bis- mnrk’s grave, demeanor during his re ception by his majesty was much com- mented upon. Pros- Happenlngs of Interest Portrayed In Pithy Paragraphs. A Savannah special says: Receiver Comer states that tho earnings of the Southwestern road for December were 853,000, which makes the total net nrniugs for tho six mouths ending December 31st, over 82-12,000. This will bo shown iu his semi-annual re port to the court which will bo made n n few days. Tho First National bank of Fort Payne, Ala., closed ita doors Wednes day and posted a notice saying that on account of a constant withdrawal of deposits nnd the inability to realize on its notes nnd securities it had decided to turn its nlTnirs over to the comp troller. It is stated thnt the bank is solvent nnd will pay out dollar for dollar. A Greensboro, N. C., special of Wednesday says: The sale of tho Cape Fear and Yadkin Valley road is not o(T, na had been supposed. The time of payment is only postponed a abort while. The agent for tho English syndicate was to have ahown up with the money in New York on January Htli. Instead, however, a telegram was received saying ho wns sick, but would bo over as soon ns pos sible. Tho detective force of tho Memphis nnd Charleston railroad 1ms been making important discoveries. Eight or ten men living near Pocahontas, Tenn., have been plotting to rob a Memphis and Charleston pnasenger train. They procured dynamite and tools to blow open the safe and settled on a day to make the attempt, but in the meantime officers in citizen's clothes quietly nmdo arrest after arrest until now tho gang lma been bagged except two or throe. A Charleston speoial of Thursday says: Pence reigns in the city after tho fiarc up Wednesday night. ’The crowd which stortod tho riot wore af ter J. H. Elliott, one of tho constabu lary, who is charged with assaulting Mrs. Noble, tho wife of a grooory mon, whoso place Elliott attempted to raid. They lirat went to the railroad depot to prevent bin departure from the city nnd then to a boarding house wlior.o ho is supposed to lodge. It seems, however, that Elliott had taken refuge in the police station. Tho iron bridge, under construction by the King Bridge Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, at Tallulah Falls fell in Thursday. The accident wns caused by the giving away of the north pier. No blame is attached to the bridge company, as tho piers were already erected by the county. In the collapse C. P. Mnthows, foreman; T. t>. Ste vens, assistant foreman, and W. C. Dodson, laborer, rode the span to the water. No one was hurt except a few sJi."ht bruises. The iron bridge re mains intact, with ono end on the north pier thirty feet from the water. The-report of tho auditor of the stato of Alabama for the year 181)3 shows that tho fire insurance companies have made big profits out of their Ala bama business during the year. The premiums collected amounted to 81,010.7(1 and the losses to $882,800.88. All of the companies doing business in the state nt this time are from England or from north of Mason nnd Dixon’s line, except three or four, ami ninny of the state papers are using these figures ns an argument against firo insurance. They fail to figure off 15 por cent, commissions to locnla, the Htnte taxes, city licenses, etc. Tho North State Improvement Com pany, of Greensboro, N. C., has been placed in tli s hands of a receiver by order of Judge Graves. Dr. Dash, president of tho Cape Fenr nnd Yad kin Valley Railroad Oompnny, which is owned by tlm North Stnto Improve ment Company states tho action wns precipitated b.v suits brought, against tho company in othorpnrts of the state. Tho debt due by the North State Im provement Company was made by the construction of tho Cnpo Fonr and Yadkin Valley railroad. Tho liabilities of the company the doctor places nt $335,000, and tho assets at fully $1,600,000. A San Antonio, Texas, npecial says: A terrible outing?, resulting in the death of two mon nnd tho serious, if if not fatal, injury of six others, •in curred Wednesday morning just as the Missouri, Kansas nnd Texas train was leaving Ban Marcos. A dynamite cartridge, which had boon placed in tho smoking car stove by some un known person, exploded, the stove and half the enr beiDg scattered to pieces. Ed Binding, traveling agent of the city brewery of Ban Antonia, and J. C. Heidoliieimer, a prominent merchant of Austin, Texas, wero instnntly killed. All tho passengers in the car, six in number, were injured. A Columbia, S. C., special says: Governor Tillman henrd of tlio nltempt to lynch a dispensary spy in Charles ton on his return to the city from Washington Thursday. Ho was con siderably stirred up over tho matter, “f will," said he, “deolaro martial law, if necessary, before 1 will allow such overriding of tho law ns seems to bo contemplated. Tt. seems to me that- there is a concerted conspiracy there which will have to be put down, if it. takes all the troops in the stute, and I _ jr.-t worlds I fio uiticy that aritbwattas sro : until th id no me ia tho oahadatton 1 hat He counted j are all *bwu m H" made thaw, tad Bo texts tbttg ! tj?<j b**r ived in messenger Hoveroign, hearing tho offi i to be tiled in tho proceed lo’ haf’o 'crowns ihoro, hut what we j v ' M » k .,Vh'“'xw’’ Orbinne i uu,i ‘ Yi"?*?" ’!♦"j«Z‘n' I ««K* Beoiottry Carlisle to on hoping for U .0*. .upirnsturtIta K*~ < V ^ ***. ve * rtll! * "* ' 10 I join the issuance of bonds m proposed iswor'i j»j) yot *naieth>n« | Iwayntje, *». ( ! Bontcfifip of iltbty tfk!< po&tpoutm by J j ^ • ' To Enjoin Secretary Carlisle. T. B. McGuire, of the executive j , , a,mooli of the Knights of Labor, nt- will say that Charleston will have to Washington Friday ns the P‘7 the bills, for all the expenses of Grand Mnster , should fall upon those who made the trouble." 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Georgia Historic Newspapers

The Cleveland progress. (Cleveland, White County, Ga.) 1892-1896, February 02, 1894, Image 1