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VOL. IV.
CLEVELAND, WHITE COUNTY, GA,, FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 1895.
NO. 11.
REV. DR. TALMAGK.
The Great Preacher’s Smnlaj
Discourse.
Subject: “New Ground. 11
Trxt. “Lost I should build upon another
man’s foundation.”—Romans x\\, 20.
After, with the help of others. I had built
three churches in tno same city, and not
feeling called upon to undertake the super
human toil of building a fourth church,
Providence seemed to point to this place as
the field in which I could enlarge my work,
and 1 feel a sense of relief amounting to ex
ultation. Whoreunto this work will grow I
cannot prophesy. It Is Inviting and promis
ing beyou l anything I have over touched.
The churches are the grandest institutions
this world ever saw. and their pastors have
no superiors this sine of heaven, but there is
a work which must be done outside of the
ohurches. and to that work I join myself for
awhile, “Lest I build ou another man's
foundation.”
The church is a fortress divinely built.
Now, a fortress is for defense and for drill,
and for storing ammunition, but an army
must sometimes be on the march far outside
the fort mss. In the campaign of conquering
this world for Christ the time lias come for
an advanco movoment, fora “general on-
f iagement," for massing the troops, for an
nvasion of the encmies’ oountry. Confident
that the forts are well manned by the ablest
ministry that ever blessed tin* church, I pro
pose, with others, for awhile, to Join the
cavalry aud move out and ou for service in
the open field.
In laying out the plan for his missionary
tour Paul, with more* brain than any of his
contemporaries or predecessors or succas-
eors, sought out towns and cities which ha l
not yet beau preached to. Ho goes to Cor-
nltli, a city mentioned for splon lor an 1 vice,
an 1 Jerusalem, where the priesthood and
sauhedrin were ready to leap with both feet
upon the Christian religion. He feels helms
a special work to do, aud he means to do it.
Whnt was the result? The grandest life of
usefulness that man ever lived. We modern
Christian workers are not apt to imitate
Paul. Wo build on other peopled founda
tions, If wo erect a church, we prefer to
have it tilled with families all of whom have
boon pious. Do we gather rt Sun day-school
class, we want good boys and girls* hair
combed, faces washed, manners attractive.
Bo a church in this city is apt to be built out
of other churches. Some ministers sppn 1 all
their time in fishing in other people’s ponds,
and they throw the line into that church
pond and Jerk our a Methodist, and throw
the line into another church pond and bring
out a Presbyterian, or there is a religious
row in some neighboring church, aud the
whole school of flan swim oft from that pond,
and we take them all in with one sweep of
the net. What is gabled? Absolutely noth
ing for the general cause of Christ. It is only
As iu an army, when a regiment is trans
ferred from one division to another, or from
tho Fourteenth Regiment to the Sixty-ninth
Regiment. What strengthens the army is
new recruits.
The fact is, this is ft big world. When in
our schoolboy days we learned tho diameter
and ciroumferonco of this planet, we did not
learn half. It is the latitude and loilgitude
And diameter and circumference of want and
woe and sin that no figures can calculate.
This one spiritual Continent of wretchedness
reaches across all zones, and If I were called
to give its geographical boundary I would
say it Is bounded on the north and south and
east and west by the great heart of God’s
sympathy and love. Oh, it is a great world.
Binoo ft o’clock tills morning at loa.st 80.000
have been born, and all these multiplied
populations are to be reached of the gospel.
In England or in Eastern American cities
wo are being much crowded, ami an
acre of ground is of great value, but out
West 500 acres is a small farm, and 20,-
OOOaores Is no uuusual possession. There is
a vast held here and everywhere unoc-
oupied, plenty of room more, not building
on another man’s foundation. We need
as churches to stop bombarding the
old iron clad sinners that hnvo boon proof
against thirty years of Christian assault, and
aim for the salvation of those who have
never yet had one warm hearted and point
blank Invitation. There are churches whose
buildings might be worth $200,000, who are
not averaging five now converts a yoar and
doing less good than many a log cabin meet
ing house with tallow candle stuck in wooden
eockotnnd a minister who has never seen a
oollego or known the difference between
Greek and Choctaw. We need churches to
get Into sympathy with the great outside
world, and let them know that none are so
broken hearted or hardly bestead that they
will not bo welcomed. “No!” says some fas
tidious Christian: "I don’t like to be crowd
ed in church. Don’t put any one in my
pew.” My brother, what will you do in
heaven? When a great multitude that no
man can number assembles, they will put
fifty In your pow. What are the select few
to-day assembled in the Christian ohurches
compared with the mightier millions outside
of them?
At lea-it 3.000,000 pooplo in this cluster of
seaboard cities, and not more than 200,000 iu
tho churches. Many of the churches arc
like a hospital that should advertise that its
patients must have nothing worse than tooth
ache or “run aroun-ls,” but no broken heads,
no crushed ankles, no fraoturod thighs.
Give us for treatment moderate sinners, vel
vet coated sinners and sinners with a gloss
on. It Is as though a man had a farm of
8000 acres and put all his work on one acre.
He may raise never so largo ears of corn,
never so big heads of wheat, lie would re
main poor. Tho church of God has bestowed
its chief care on one acre anti has raised
splendid men and women in that small in-
closure, but the field is tho world. That
means North and South America. Europe,
Asia and Africa and all tho islands of tho
sen.
It is as though after a great battle there
were left 50,000 wounded and dying ou the
field and three surgeons gave all their time
to three patients under their charge. The
major-general comes in and says to tho doc
tor, “Come out here and look at the nearly
60,000 dying for lack of surgical attendance/’
“No,” say the three doctors, standing there
and fanning their patients; “wo have three
important cases here, and we are attending
them, and when we are not positively busy
with their wounds it takes all our time to
keep the flies off.” In this awful battle of
sin and sorrow, where millions have fallen
on millions, do not let us spend all our time
in taking care of a few people, and when tho
command comes, “Go into the world,” say
practically: “No; I cannot go. I have here
a f**w choice cases, and I am busy keeping off
the flies.” Thero are multitudes to-day who
have never had any Christian worker look
them in the eye, and with earnestness in the
accentuation say, “Cornel” or they would
long ago have been iu tho kingdom. My
friends, religion is either a sham or a tre
mendous reality. If it be a.sham. I d us cease
to have anything to do with Christian as
sociation. If it be a reality, k then great
populations are ou their yray t<r the bar of
God unfitted for the ordeal, aud what are wo
doing?
In order to teach the multitude of outsid
ers we must drop all technicalities out of our
religion. When we talk to people about the
hypostatic union and French <*n •. jlopedlan-
ism and erastianism and complutensianism,
we are as impolitic an 1 little understood as
it a physician should talk to an ordinary pa
tient about the pericardium and inter . -stal
muscle and scorbutic symptoms. Many of
us come out of the theological seminaries so
loaded up that we take the first ten year-5 to
show our people how much we know, and
the n°xt ten years to get our people to know
as much as we know, and at the end find
that neither of us know.- anything as we
ought to know. Here are thousands of sin
ning. struggling aud dying people who ne»* l
to realize just one thing—that J- -us Chr.-d
fame to save them, end will -rue th u n
But we go into a profound and elaborate
definition of what justification is, and after
all the work there are not uutrddo of tho
, .earned professions 0000 people in tho United
8tat<v} who can tell what justification is.
I will road you tho definition:
“Justification Is puroly a forensic act, the
a it of a judge sitting in tho forum, iu which
the Supreme Ruler and Judge, who is ac
countable to none, and who alone knows tho
mauiler ill which tho ends of His universal
goverriuioiit cart best be attriLisJ. reckons
that which was done by the substitute, dna
uot on account of anything douo by them,
but purely upon account of this grtnlous
method or reckoning, grants thorn tho lull
remission of their sins.”
Now, what is justification? I will toll you
what justification is. When a sinner be
lieves, God lots him off. One summer in
Connecticut I went to a large factory, and I
saw over tho door written the words, “No ad
mittance.” I entered and saw over the noxt
door, “No admittance.” Of course I onto rod.
I got instde and found it a pin factory, and
they wore making pirns, very serviceable, fine
and useful pins. Ho tho spirit of exclusive
ness Jms practically written over tho outside
door of many a church, “No admittance.”
And if the Btrangor enter ho finds practically
written over the second door, “No admit
tance,” and if ho goes iu over all tho pew
doors seems written. “No admittance,” while
the minister stands in the pulpit, hammering
out his little niceties of belief, pounding out
the technicalities of roliglon, making pins.
Iu the most practical, common souse way,
aud laying aside tho nonossontinls and tho
hard definitions of religion, go out on the
God given mission, telling the pooplo what
they need and when and how they can got it.
Comparatively little effort as yet has bgen
made to save that large class of persons iu
our midst called skeptics, aud he who goes
to Work hero will not bo building upon
another man’s foundation. Thero is a great
multitude of them. They arc afraid of us
aud our churchas, for tho reason we do not
know how to treat them. One of this class
mot (Ihrist, and hoar with what tenderness
and pathos and .beauty and success Christ
dealt With him. “Thou shalt love tho Lortl
thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy
soul, aud with all thy mind, and with fill thy
strength. This is tho first commandment,
and tho second is like to this—namely, thou
shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. There is
no other commandment greater than this.”
And the scribe said to Him. “Well, Master,
Thou hast said the truth, for there is one
God, and to love Him with all tho heart,
and all the understanding, aud all tho soul,
and all the strength, is more than whole
burnt offerings and sacrifices.” Aud when
Jesds saw that ho answered dlsCrrtetly He
said unto him, “ThoU art not far from the
kingdom of God/’ So a skeptic was saved
id ouo interview. But few Caristiivu people
treat the skeptic in that way. Instead of tak
ing hold of hint with the gentle hand of love,
we are apt to take him with thdiroil plnchora
of ecolosiasticisnl.
You would not be so rough on that man if
yort know by what process he had lost his
faith in Christianity. I have known men
skeptical from tho fact that they grow tip in
houses wherd religion was overdone. Sun
day was the most awful day of tho week.
They had religlori driven into thorn with a
trip hammer. They were surfeited with
prayer mootings: They wore stuffed aud
choked with catechisms. They were often
told they wero tho worst boys the parents
ever know, because they liked to rlrto down
hill better than to road Banyan’s “Pilgrim’s
Progress.” Whenever father and mother
talked of religion, they drew down tho cor
ners of their mouth aud rollod up their eyes.'
If any ouo thing will send a boy or girl to
ruin sooner than anothor, that is it. If I
had fyicli a father aud mother, I fear I should
have wen an infidel. When I was a boy in
Huavlay-flOhotd, at one time wo had a teacher
who, when wo wore not attentive, struck us
over the head with a Now Testament, and
thero Is a way of using even tho Bible so as
to make it offensive.
Others wero tripped up of skoptlclsra from
boing grievously wronged by some man who
professed to be a Christian. They had a
partner in business who turned out to bo a
first-class scoundrel, though a professed
Christian. Many years ago they lost all faith
by what happened iu an oil company which
was formed amid the petroleum excitement.
Tho company owned no land, or if they did
there was no sign of oil produced, but the
President of tho company was a Presbyterian
elder, and tho treasurer was an Episcopal
vestryman, and one director was a Methodist
class leader, and tho othor direotor.s promi
nent members of Baptist and Congregational
churches. Circulars wero gotten out tolling
what fabulous prospects opened before this
company. Ianooant [men and women
who had a little money to invest, and that
llttlo their all, said, “I don’t know anything
about this company, but so many good men
are at tho head of it that it must bo excellent,
and taking stock in it must bo almost os
good as joining the church.”
Ho they bought tho stock and perhaps re
celvod one dividend so as to keep them still,
but after awhile they found that tho com
pany had reorganized aud had a different
president and different treasurer and differ
ent directors. Other engagements or ill
health had caused tho former officers of the
company, with many regrets, to resign.
And all that the subscribers of that stock had
to show for their investment was a beauti
fully ornamented certificate. Sometimes
that man looking over his old papers comes
across that certificate, and it is so suggestive
that ho vows he wants none of tho religion
that the presidents and trustees and direc
tors of that oil company professed. Of
course their rejection of religion on such
grounds was unphilosopkical and unwise. I
am told that many of the United States army
desert every year, and thero are thousands
of court inartials every year. Is that
anything against tho United States Gov
ernment that swore them in? And
if a soldier of Jesus Christ desert, is that
anything against the Christianity which
he swore to support and defend? How do
you judge of the currency of a country? By
a counterfeit bill? Oh, you must have pa
tience with those who have been swindled by
religious pretenders. Live In tho presence of
others a frank, honest, earnest Christian life,
that they may be attracted to the same Sav
iour upon whom your hopes dopend.
Remember skepticism always has some
reason, good or bad. for existing. Goethe’s
irreligion started when the news came to
Germany of the earthquake at Lisbon, Nov.
1, 1776. That 00,00') people should have
perished in that earthquake and iu the after
rising of tho Tagus so stirred his sympathies
that ho threw up his belief iu tho gooanoss of
God.
Others have gone into skepticism from a
natural persistence* in asking tho reason why.
i They have been fearfully stabbed of the in-
; terrogation point. There are so many things
j they cannot get explained. They cannot un
derstand the Trinity or how God can be sov-
! ‘-reign and yet a man a free agent. Noitbor
can I. They say: “1 don’t understand why
| a good God should have let sin come into the
world. Neither do I. You say: “Why was
j that child started in life with such dlsadvau-
: tages, while others have all physical and
mental equipment?” I cannot tell. They go
out of church ou Easter morning and say:
I “That doctrine of the resurrection con-
i founded me.” So it is tome a mystery be-
; yond uuravelment. I understand all the pro-
■ c .oases by which in on get into the dark. I
! know them all. I have traveled with burning
j feet that blistered way. The first word which
i most children learn to utter is: “Papa,” or
| “Mamma,” but I think the first word I over
uttered was: “Why?” I know what it is to
\ have u hundred midnights pour their
i darkness into one hour. Such men are not
to be scoffed, but helped. Turn your back
j upon a drowning man when you have the
j rope with which to pull him ashore, and let
. that woman in the third story of a house
| perish in the flames when you have a ladder
I with which to help her out and help her
down, rather than turn your back scomngly
I on n skeptic whose soul is iu more peril than
1 tho bodies of those other endangered ones
j possibly can be. Oh, skepticism is a dark
j land. There ure men in this house who
I v/ould give a thousand worlds if they nos-
i s - - l them to get back to the placid faith of
1 their fathers and mothers, and it is our place
i / help them, and we may help them, never
t through their head**, but always through
i l heir h These skeptics, when brought
to Jcius, will be mightily effective, far more
:-o than those who never examined the evi
dences of Christianity,
Thomas Ohftlnierrt tWM once a skeptic'»
Robert Hall a skeptic, Robert Ndvfton a skep
tic, Christmas Evans a skeptic. But When I
once with strong hand they took hold of th<
chariot of the gcspel they roll*' 1 it on with ,
what momentum! If I address such men
aud women to-day, I throw out no scoff. J
Implead th«:.i by the memory of the good •
Old days, when at their mother’s knee they |
said,* “Now 1 lay inn down to sleep," and by !
those daysf (tinl flight* of scarlet fever iu 1
which she watched you, giving you the
medicine at just the right tirrto find turning
your pillow when it was hot, an l with liilild*)
that many years ago turned to dust soothed
away your pain, and with voice that fow will
never hear again, unless you join her In the
bettor country, told you to never mind, for
you would feel better by and by, and by that
dying oouch, where she looked ho pale and ,
talked so slowly, catching her breath hot ween
the words, and you felt an awful loneliness
coming over your soul—by all that I beg you
to come back and take the same religion. It
was good enough for her. It is good enough
for you. Nay, I have n better plea than j
that. I plead by all the wounds and tears :
and blood aud groans and agonies and death ;
throes of the Sou of God, who approaches j
you this moment with torn brow, and Incur- I
ntod hand, and whipped back, and saying, |
“Come unto Me. all ye who are weary and
heavy laden, and t will give you rest.”
Again, thero is a field of usefulness but lit
tle touched occupied by those who are astray
iu their habits. All northern Nations like
those of North America and England and
Scotland—that is, in tho colder climates—are
devastated by alcoholism. They take the
fire to keen up the warmth. In southern
countries, like Arabia au-l Spain, the blood
is so warm they are not tempted to fiery
liquids, The great Roman armies never
drank anything stronger than water tinged
with vinegar, but under onr northern climate
the temptation to heating stimulants is most
mighty, and millions succumb. When a
man’s habits go wrong, tho church drops
him j the social circle drops him; good in
fluence drops him; Wo all drop him. Of all
the men who got off track, but few ever get
on again. Near my summer residence there
is a life saving station 'on the beach;
There are all the rope3 and rockets, the
bofttSj the machinery for getting pooplo off
shipwrecks. One summer 1 saw there fifteen
or twenty mbit who were breakfasting after
having just escaped with their lives and
nothing more. Up and down our coasts are
built those useful structures, and tho mari
ners know it, and they fool that if they are
driven into the broakors there will be apt
from shore to come a rescue. The
dliiirohos of God ought to be so many life
saving stations, not so much to help those
who are in smooth waters, but those who
Wo do not preach enough to flrtoll men.
We have not enough With in their release,
Alas, if when they come to hear its wo are la*
borloitsly trying to show the difference bo*
tweeii sublapsarianism and supralapsariau*
ism, While they have a thousand vlpors of re*
morse and despair colling around their ini*
mortal spirits!
Tho church is not chiefly for goodish sort
of men whose proclivities are all right, and
who could get to heaven praying and sing
ing in their own homos. It id on the beach
to help the drowning. Those bad cases are
the cases that God liko3 to take hold of. He
can save ft big sinner as well as a small sin
ner, ftnd when a iiian calls earnestly to Hod
for help Ho will go out to deliver such a one.
If it wore necessary, God would come down
from the sky; followed by all tho artillery of
heaven nnu a million angels with drawn*
swordjpr Get IflO such redeomed men in each
of you* churches, and nothing could stand
before thorn, for such men arc generally
Warm-hearted and enthusiastic.
Furthermore, the destitute child roil of tho
streets offer a field of work comparatively
unoccupied. The unenrod for children are
in the majority in most of our cities. Their
condition was well illustrated by what a boy
in this city said when he was found under a
cart gnawing a bono and some one said to
him, “Whore do you live?” and ho answered.
“Don’t live nowhere, sir!” Seventy thousand
of tho children of New York Oity can neither
read ilor write. When they grow up, if un-
reformOd, they will outvote your children,
and they will govern your children. The
whisky ring will hatch out other whisky
rings, and grogshops will kill with their hor
rid stencil public sobriety, unless the church
of God rises up with outstretched arms and
infolds this dying population in her bosom.
Public schools cannot do it. Art galleries
cannot do it. Blackwell’s Island cannot do
it. AlmshoUsea cannot do it. New York
Tombs cannot do it. Slug Sing cannot doit.
People of God, wake up to your magnificent
missionl You can do it. Get somewhere,
somehow, to work!
Tho Prussian cavalry mount by putting
their right foot into the stirrup, while tho
American cavalry mount by putting their left
foot Into the stirrup. I don’t care how you
mount your war charger If you only get into
this battle for God, and get thorn soon, right
stirrup, or left stirrup, or no stirrup at nil.
Tho unoccupied fields are all around us. and
why should wo build on another mail's foun
dation?
I have heard of what was called tho
“thunder legion.” It was in 171), a part of
the Roman army to which some Christians
belonged, and their prayers, it was Bald, were
answered by thunder and lightning and hail
and tempest, which overthrew an invading
army and saved the Empire. And t would to
God that you could be so mighty in prayer
and work that you would become a thunder
ing legion before which the forces of sin
might bo routed and the gates of hell made
to tremble. All aboard now on the gospel
ship! If you cannot be a captain or a first
mate, bo a stoker or a deckhand, or ready a);
command to climb the ratlines. Heave away
now, lads! Shake out the reefs in the fore-
topsail! Come, O heavenly wind, and fill
the canvas! Jesus aboard will assure our
safety. Jesus on the sea will beckon us for
ward. Jesus on tho shining .shore will wel
come us into harbor. “And so it came to
pass that they all escaped safe to land.”
A FOURTH PARTY
TO DM LAUNOHjKD BY TIIK EX-
TltKME SU.VKlilTES:
CANCELLED-STAMP CRAZE.
A Po8tofH<!« Demoralized by 'a Oil 1 retinz
“Chain,” and Prohibition Asked.'
The frlenrU of Edna Kano and Mettle Gor
man, of Kaneville, Ill., who Instituted a
“chain” of lotters soaking oaneolled postage
stamps, for tho benefit of the latter, a arlppio,
have at last driven tho FostoiTiee Depart
ment into making an investigation.
The sohemo has caused great anaoyanco to
file Department, aggravated by a new
‘‘chain” inaugurated at El Paso, Texas, in
mock sympathy for tho Postmaster, whoso
office has been Hooded with mall as a result.
Tim number of cancelled stamps found in
tho room of tiie bouefleiary of the system is
estimated at 15.000,000 and the report says
farmers’ boys supplied with sacks have car
ried off many of the letters.
An inspector reports t fiat the scheme lias
caused complete demoralization at the El Paso
Postoffleo and that an immediate remedy is
demanded. He recommends a prohibitory
order.
HOW $5 CREW TO BE $248.
John II. Polk’s Discovery a Goad J.csson
for tho Improvident.
Thero Is a lino object lesson to tho Improvi
dent in n story told to Harrogate Fitzgerald,
of New York City, showing how 46 put in a
savings bank grow to 421S. Jacob Dowzard-
er died July 20, ISIS, leaving a wife and
nettling else that anybody wnsawaro of. The
widow married John II. Folk and in her turn
died.
In overhauling her belongings Mr. Folk,
tho widower, cams upon a bank book made
out in the name of Mrs. Folk’s ilrst husband.
It Bliowtid a credit for a deposit of $5 made
March 20, 1820, in the Bleecker Street Savings
Mink. Mr. Folk conclude 1 that the $5 would
feel just ns good to him as it did in the vaults
of tho bank, li * investigated, and to Ids
amazement ho found that Interest had ac
cumulated untii the $3 ha I grown to ?2I8.
.dry" Chatty Green celebrated her 103d
birthday not long ago lu aa old lady’s homo
la Bo»toib bke win bora a slave.
An Address Issued Setting Forth tho
Platform of tho Organization.
The American bimotnllio party was
launohod upon the son of politics.at
Washington Tuesday. It is a new
party which its promoters hope will
take iu tho great mass of democrats
and popnliets. This movoment is a re
sult of a conference which began at
the headquarters of tho American Bi
metallic League 014 February 22d last.
Tho confcrenoo wii nttended liy men
of all parties, diunoorutn, republicans
nnd populisms nlikH; who wero dissat
isfied with cxistilg party conditions
respecting the monetary questions
and sought relicfe therefrom. There
wero present nt^vnrious times men
from most of tho states, among them
being Senators Jones nnd Stewart, of
Nevada; TillmaudKf South Carolina ;
Butler, of North Carolina, nnd Mnn-
teJ, of Monlnutr; lteproseutativos
Hatch, of Missou^; Skinner, of North
Carolina; l’euce,;<>f Colorado; Hart
man, of Montana, Tnlbut, MoLauron
nnd Shell, of South Carolina; Denson,
of Alabama; Brytyi, of Nebraska;
Collin, of Wyomflig, and Oovornor
Evnns, of South Ciuoliua. Thoao gon-
tlemon all favorcsttuiffirmative notion
of Home kind, hut ’differed aa to tno
policy to bo pursued, whilo all agreed
to tho platform adopted.
A Message to the Pooplo.
Tho following address to the people
of tho United States was furnished to
tho Southern Associated Press:
“The money question is now indis
putably the dominant issue in tho
United States, jtnd will remnin bo until
settled, aud sotth’il rightly. Othor
quoBtiona, however important, must
wait for this, wlliH* to n greater or
lessor extent, involtca all others, Tho
issiio is between the gold standard,
gold bonds and bank currency on tho
one side, nnd tlm bimetal lie standard,
no bonds nnd government curronoy on
tho other.
“1. On this issue wo declare our
selves to be uniStcrably Opposed to tho
single gold Htnnilunf, and demand tho
immediate return td^tlie constitutional
standard of golfl and silver, by tho
restoration by^fiis government, indo-
foroign power, of
linage of both silver
fndard money,' at the
and upon terms of
to silvor ooiu to bo a
full legul tender, equally with gold,
for nil debts .and dues, publio and
private. f,
‘‘2. Wo hold that the power to con
trol nnd regulate a paper enrrenny is
inseparable from tho power to ooln
money; and, hence, that all currency
intended to circulate aa monoy should
ho issued, nnd its volume controlled,
by tho govurnmont only, aud should
he legal tender.
“3. We arc unalterably opposed to
tho issuo by tho United Btatcs of iu-
ierest-bouring bonds in time of pcuco,
and demand tho pnyineut of all coin
obligations of tho United States, as
provided by existing Iuwh, in oitbor
gold or silver coin, nt the option of
tho government, and not at tho option
of tho creditor. Ou this issue wo ap
peal from (he dictation of the money
power to tho intelligence and patriot
ism of tho Amorican people.”
An address to the people of tlio
United Btntes, accompanying tho
statement, is an argumont upon tho
issuee set forth in tlio statement. In
it appears these paragraphs:
“Tho purpose of this movoment is
not to array section against section,
nor clnss ngaiuHt class; net to requiro
anybody to give bis party relatiouson
other questions, or to sever his party
relations for any other purpose than
to unite in a common causo—tho canso
of ju stioe agninst injustice, and pros
perity instead of adversity, of contin
ued employment of labor instead of
forced idleness, of abundance and hap
piness instead of want arid miHory.
“There can he no doubt, moreover,
iliat a return to tho standard of gold
and silvor will promote iu tho highest
degree tho business interests of the
entire country, while tho continuance
of the present policy must necessarily
bo attended by a further fall of prices
imperiling business enterprises still
more, and prolonging indofiuitoly tho
present stagnant condition of trado
and industry.”
The Signors.
Tho address is signed by the follow
ing executive oommittce appointed by
tho bimetallic conference, oalled to
meet at Washington February 22,
1890:
A. J. Warner, president American
Bimotnllio League, chairman; John
P. Jones, of Nevada, William M. Stew
art, of Novnda, J. L. MoLaurin, of
South Carolina, Anson Walcott, of In
diana, George C. Merrick, of Colorado,
Henry Jones, of Georgia, J. O. Groen,
of California, Josoph Hholdon, of Con
necticut, O. J. Hillyer, of tho District
of Columbia, Byron E. Shear, of Col
orado, and Mortimer Whitehead, of
New Jersey.
This is followed by the suggestion
of tlio name of Joseph C. Sibloy, of
Pennsylvania, as the party’s candidate
for president, nnd a request for cor
respondence upon this subject to be
nddreHsod to General A. J. Warner,
chuirmau of the executive committee,
American bimetallio party, Sun build
ing, Washington, D. C.
A oommittea, consisting of tho fol
lowing named gentlomen : A. J. War
ner, president American Bimetallio
League,charirinn^j Hon.W. M. Stewart,
United States sspalor, Henry Jones, of
Georgia, Hon. gifiUoiu G. Newlnnds, of
Nevada, Anson Walcott, of Indiana, J.
In MoLaurin, pf South Carolina, was
appointed to seleot a provisional na
tional oommittce to consist of ono
member from oach state and territory
nnd iho District of Columbia, to tako
charge of this movement, in the several
states and territories.
HAYWARD GUILTY.
The Jury Decitlos that Ho Murdered
Ills Sweetheart, Miss Ging.
Attorney Erwin concluded his nd-
drcHs in tho Hayward onso at Minne
apolis Friday morning. Scnrocly a
momont had elapsed after the close of
Mr. Erwin’s address, when Judge
Smith announced that ho was about
to open his charge. Through long
liues of legal phraseology ho road tho
definition of what constitutes a charge
of murder in tho first degree until he
reached the summary of his opinions
concerning tho evidence. Tho effort
.of tho defense to establish tho thoory
that Miss Ging wnH killed by blows
rather than by a pistol shot, tho oourt
took to ho simply an effort to discredit
tho testimony of Blixt, and nH to the
value of that effort it was for tho jury
to dooidc. Tho judge’s charge was a
lengthy and exhaustive one, and at its
close tho jury retired at 10 :30 o’clock
a. m.
A VEIIDIGT OF C1UII.TY.
Tho jury, after rotiriug, ate dinner,
took one ballot nnd found Hayward
guilty of murder in tho first degroe.
At 2 :10 o'clock it reported an agree
ment, and at 2:30 o'clock a verdict was
rendered.
When tho verdict was pretented in
oourt every eye was turned to Hay
ward as the clerk started to read tho
paper. Thero wnH nothing iu ltis fneo
to indicate that, he had heard a word
of it. Ho threw his head back as the
word “guilty” was pronounced, but it
was only to adjust his collar band.
Ho did not change color in the slight
est. Then, looking around at the
crowd, he raised his eyebrows inquir-
i'lK'y.
During tho polling of the jury ho
listoudod to the nnswors, but tho ex
pression on his fuoo was ono of indig
nation rather than any other sonti-
mont.
Monday, April 15th, hits been sot as
tho date of Iho trial of Claim A. Blixt.
It is learned from good authority that
Judge l’ond will hear tho case in 110-
oortmuoo with an agreement between
tho judgos.
A NEW ASSOCIATION
Being I11u11gt1rut.nl by Southern Pas
senger Agents.
Tho Southern Fnssonger Association
will go into existence tn tho 1st of
April next. Tho mass mooting of the
pnssenger men nnd tho oxooutivo offi
cers of southern railroads in sossion
at Atlanta adopted the now rules for
tho new association. No commissioner
was cleoted. It was decided that April
1st ho tho date of tho birth of the now
association instond of March 12th ns
originally intended.
It was at first agreed that all tho
withdrawals of the roads which were
members of tho old a socintinn should
go into effect on March 12th. This
was hIx months after tho Queen nnd
Crescent, the first, ono of the fiook of
withdrawals to put a notioo into tho
hands of tho nasistnnt commissioner.
The meeting decided, however, that
April 1 st would bo a hotter day, and
by general consent this timo was
agreed upon.
The most important outcome of tho
meeting waH tho appointment of a
oommitteo of fivo who are to report on
March 27th upon a Hat of officers.
They will nnmo a commissioner, a sec
retary, a president and other officers,
ns well as an executive board perhaps.
On that date llieso officers will bo
elected, nnd tho railroad world will
know who is to ho tho new chief exec
utive head of the Bouthorn Btatcs
Fassonger Association.
Tho now rules and regulations which
wero formulated by tho committee of
passonger agents wore read by sections
and adopted, nftor which they were
adopted ns a whole.
MADiTa WATER HAUL.
ttobbors Hold Up a Train, Hut They
Got No Booty.
A Southern I’aeifio eastbouud over
land passenger train was held up be-
twoon Stockton and Lodi, Cal., shortly
before midnight Saturday night by
threo masked men. Tho robbers com
pelled tlio cuginoer nml fireman to
stop the trniu and accompany them to
tlio express car, which they forced
open. The messongor would not open
tho safe and tho robbors wero unable
to do so. Aftor working fifteen min
utes on tho safe tho robbers become
alarmed on account of Iho Oregon ex
press being due, and loft the scene on
tho engino. The engine ran into Lodi
witli no ouo abonrd, the robbers hav
ing deserted it. A posse of detectives
with bloodhounds started in pursuit of
tho robbers. No booty was soeured.
A STEAMER CHARTERED
To Convey Negroes to Africa—Other
Vessels to Follow.
A Philadelphia special says: D. J.
Flummer, president of tho Interna
tional Migration Company, of Bir
mingham, Alu., has chartered the
Danish fruit steamer Horsa to convey
to Liberia the negroes of tho southern
states, who aro to ho taken ns colonists
to that country. Tho Horsa will leave
at once for Savannah, aud is expected
to sail from Savannah on tho 12th of
tho month with 200 negro colonists
for Monrovia, Liberia. Ollier steamers
will follow tho Horsa.
Gov. McKinley Sustains the Military.
Tlio Ohio national guard military
commission, appointed by Governor
McKinley to inquire into the shooting
of certain cilizensat Washington court
house by Ohio troops, under command
of Colonel Alonzo B. Coil which <1
fending a negro prisiouei front being
lypcbpd, sustain* (Jolt,
WASHINGTON NOTES
ITEMS OF NEWS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Sayings nntl Doings of tlio Official
Heads of tlio Government.
A statement preparod nt the immi
gration bureau shows that tho total
number of immigrants arriving nt the
ports of tho United States during Iho
seven months ended February 1,1895,
was 113,375, as against 189,582 for tho
sovon months ended February 1, 1891,
n doercaso of 711,207 or 10 per cent.
Comptroller Eckles has ordored Bank
Examiner Johnson to take charge of
tho First National bank of Texarkana,
Tex., which closed its doors Thursday
night. Tho capital of the bank is
$50,000, and on its last report held
$00,000 in loans aud discounts nnd
owed depositors nnd other ilohts
amounting to $15,000.
Tho bureau of engraving and print
ing has printed nnd delivered at tho
treasury department. $15,000,000 of
tho coupon bonds, and $10,000,000 of
the registered bonds sold to Iho Mor-
gnn-BoImont syndicate. The syndi
cate has paid in about $38,000,000 iu
gold and received roooijits for tho
same, hut nH yet has uot expressed any
desire for tho delivery of the bonds.
Tho receipts, of course, carry intereit
from tlioir date, aud to nil intents and
purposes etui ho negotiated nnd passed
from hand to hand tho nnmo as tho
bonds could be.
A voluminous report just made
publio claims ns the result of tho
labors of this commission that tho ser
vices of 251 clerks in tho exooutivo de
partment have been dispensed with,
whoso salaries aggregated $391,000 an
nually. To this must be added a sav
ing of $247,000 in miscellaneous items,
making a total saving to the govern
ment of $907,000. Tho commission
lias suggested other reforms which, if
adopted, will result in an increased
saviug to tho government of $450,000,
nnd which will result in the dismissal
of 252 additional clerks in tho execu
tive departments.
During the last session of congress
there wero referred to tho senate com
mittee on fluanoo a total of 178 meas
ures and documents of various kinds
pertaining to tho financial nffuirs of
tlio government. Action of some kind
was taken with regard to forty-seven,
leaving 181 still standing on tho calen
dar. Most important among the
measures upon which tho oommitteo
failod to act may ho classed the prop
ositions to prohibit tho future issuo oj
bonds of any kind, tho repeal of tho
state bank tax and to provide for tho
temporary deficiency in Die revenno
by tho froo coiliago of silver.
Secretary Gresham lias had no offi
cial information relative to tho report
ed intention of tho Spanish govern
ment to request the rocall of Uuitod
StntoB Consul General Williams at
Havana. Secretary Gresham is plain
ly displeased at tho freedom with
which tho consul general is quoted in
tho newspapers in commenting upon
tlio course followed by tlio Spanish of
ficials, and ho gave expression to
that freedom by remarking: “A
diplomatic consular oilieer cannot,
with propriety, publish in tho newspa
pers his criticisms on the acts of tho
officials of tho country to which ho is
accredited.”
Copies of treasury circular No. 148,
issued in September, 1893, are being
distributed officially to the treasury
heads of bureaus nnd divisions. Tho
first clause reads: “No information
in regard to tho transactions of nu of
ficial character in this department in
to bo communicated to anyone not au
thorized to receive it." Another sec
tion requires authorization to bo re
ceived from tho secretary of tho treas
ury or tho assistant secretary. Here
tofore this restriction ns to informa
tion linB not been construed to em
brace tho preRH and it is understood is
not now intended to so apply, but re
fers to claim agents nnd attorneys.
Amendments to Civil Service Rules.
Further amendments have been made
in the civil sorvico rules with tho ap
proval of tho president. Ono of tho
amendments gives tho commission au
thority to reject the application of an
applicant who has been guilty of in
famous or of notoriously disgraceful
conduct. Prior to this amendment
tho commission only had tho power to
refuse certification in such cases. Ago
limitations have been prescribed for
tho now classes brought within tho
classified servieo by the rocont exten
sion. These limits arc for mossenger
or for assistant mossouger not under
eighteen, for pago or messongor boy
not under sixteen nor over eighteen
years of ago. A proviso lias been
addod which authorizes transfers from
one department iu Washington to an
other without examination.
Talk of all Extra Session.
A cabinet officer, it is said, is au
thority for this notable statement, tho
accuracy of which would bo question
ed wore it not for the sourco from
which it comes. He said:
“Thero is a general assumption that
it is definitely decided that there will
be no extra session. Tho decision is
erroneous. Whether thero will bo an
extra session or not depends upon
circumstances. Tho public is uot
aware of the fact that tlio president
almost decided last Sunday that thero
should ho an extra sossion. The subject
was considered by the cabinet. The im
mediate cause was tho sundry civil aud
deficiency appropriation bills.The pres
ident was very muchVlispoBcd to vuto
both of them. At one timo he had
nearly decided to do it, blit I10 con
cluded that it would bo better to allow
tho country to have rest for a time,
} and to wait the progress 01 evonts, end
Southward.
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mond nnd Danville Fast Mail, Pullman Sleeping
Cara between Atlanta and Now York.
No.s. 37 and 38—Washington and Southwestern
VoBtlbulod Limited, between New York and
New Orleans. Through Pullman Sleepers.be
tweon New York and New Orlouns, via Atlan
ta nnd Montgomery, and also between Washing
ton nnd Memphis, via Atlanta and Birmingham.
Noh. 11 and 12, Pullman Sleeping Car between
Richmond, Danville and GrooiiHboro.
For detailed information us to local ct».l
through time tables, rates and Pullman Sleep
ing oar rcBorvutloiis, eoiifer with local agent a.
or uddro.SB—
W. A. TURK, S. H. HARDWICK,
Gen'l Pass. Ag’t, Ass’t General Pas* Ag'fc
Washington, D. C. Atlanta, OA.
J. A. DODSON, Superintendent, Atlanta, Gu.
W. H. GREEN, J. M. CULP,
Gen’l M’gr.. Traffic Mn'gr.
Washington, D. C. Washington D.O.
not to call an oxtra BOFBion. But, if
thero shell bo n run upon tlio treasury
gold, and tho reserve shall bo depleted
iu spito of tho arrangement which has
been mado to protect tho gold, tho
president, unquestionably, will con
vene tho next congress us soon as that
fact shall bo mado clear or probable. n
This statement is of much signifi
cance, and tho publio will watch tho
treasury gold reserve with increased
intensity.
DANA INDICTKI>
For Publishing an Allngod Libol in
tho New York Sun.
Tho grand jury of Washington, D.
O., has roturned an indictment for
criminal libel against Chris. A. Dana,
editor, and William M. Laffan, pub
lisher of tho New York Sun. The iu-
dictmont is based upon a publication
in Tho Sun reflecting upon Frank B.
Noyes, of tho Washington Evening
Star. Tho article complained of as
libelous "was an editorial touching up
on the war between the rival press as
sociations.
Rogarding tho above a Now York
special otatos that tho indictment
found at Washington against Charles
A. Dana and William M. Laffan, of
Tho Sun, was reciived at that city
Friday afternoon. Mr. Dana appeared
later before Commissioner Shields, was
roleasod on his own recognizance, and
the hearing set for Saturday, March
lfifch, at 11 o’clock.
AGAINST RUBE’S FATHER.
Verdict for tho Express Company
Against Old Man Burrows.
Tho Southern Expross Company got
a vordiot of $5,000 at Vernon, Ala.,
against Allon Burrows, father of tho
late train robber and outlaw, Bubo
Burrows, as administrator of his sou’s
estate. The verdict covers the amount
Rube got from tho expross company’s
cars on his raids during a period of
uino years. His father has just recov
ered $294 from tho express company
for converting Rube’s effects, which
wero in his possession when killed
four years ago, and tho express com
pany quickly retaliated with this suit.
EIGHT THOUGHT TO BE DEAD.
Fire In a Mine In Now Mexico Causes
Loss of Life.
Tho shaft house of tho Old Abo
mine, at White Oaks, Lincoln county,
Now Mexico, caught lire Sunday morn
ing, and in a few minutes the flames
were communicated to tho shafting of
tho mine, which was completely de
stroyed. Nino men wero in tho mine
at tho time, only ouo of whom, G. E.
Wilkinson, escaped. Tho others are
supposed to be dead, as there is but
slight possibility that they escaped
suffocation.
It sometime* happens in certain com
pany that thore aro very many mouth*
which talk and very few head* think,