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ITEMS OF NEWS PICKED UP AT
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.
Sayings ami Doings of the Official
Heads of the Government.
The treasury gold reserve wan in
creased Friday by $4111,841 to $01,170,-
251; $05,000 of which camo in tho or
dinary course of business, and $848,-
841 from tho Belmont-Morgan syndi
cate. Tho syndicate still owes the
government over $10,000,000 units
contract, but it is said to bo still
ahead of tho terms of its agreement.
Judge Thomas, assistant attorney
general for the poBtoOleo department,
has issued fraud orders against the
publishers* collection agency, which
continues to use the “so-called news
paper laws’* to forco collections. Post
masters at tSt. Paul, Pittsburg and
Chicago, whero tho company has
offices, were notilied to stop its mail
matter.
Tho Nicaragua canal engineering
board was organized at Washington
Thursday morning at the war depart
ment. No officers were elected, as
Colonel Ludlow, it is understood, will
act as chairman and disbursing officer.
The board will arrange to go to Now
York to examine the plans and hope
to get away for tho isthmus early next
week. Application will bo made for
the attaching to tho commission of a
naval surgeon.
When tho U. S. supremo court on
May 0th again takes up tho income
tax question, it will once more go into
the merits of all tho points involved
and will not, as its order made a few
days ago apparently stated, confine tho
argument to the question whether or
not a rehearing of the case shall be
granted. This unexpected explanation
of tho court’s order shows that what it
intended to state in its nmbigious an
nouncement was that it had granted
tho petition for a rehearing and if tho
bench were full on tho date named,
would open the cases again on Maytith.
Various announcements have been
made in Kentucky and elsewhere that
Secretary Carlisle will participate in
the Kentucky campaign. It is stated
by the private secretary to Secretary
Carlisle, that he will participate in tho
account tins caused some apprehension
among the officials that the time might
come when they could not be honored
with tho old-time promptness. Already
this month more than $11,000,000 1ms
been paid to pensioners, and since July
1st nearly $U7,o00,000 lias been paid
on the pension account.
A MAJORITY FOR
Tl’llNKY
Gov-
ta and Montgomery, nnd also botweon Washing. t&ftmp&ign, but not until after the state
’ convention, which will be held tho lat
ter part of June. The secretary may,
however, see lit to o*oroiso his iullu-
nphis, via Atlanta nnd Birmingham
Nos. 11 ami 12. Pullman Sleeping Car betwoffh
Richmond, Danville and Uroousboro.
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or address —
W. A. TRUK, 8. II. HARDWICK,
Gen’l Faun. Ajr’t. Ass t General Pnaa Agt
Washington, d. C. Atlanta, GA.
J. A l) )DSON, Suporinten lent, Atlanta. Ga.
W. U. GREEN, J. M. CULP,
tioii'l M*gr.. Trathe Mu'gr.
Washinoton, D. C Washington D O-
GROWTH OF THE SOUTH.
The Industrial Situation as Reported
for tile Past Week.
Reports from all over tho south, f"r the past
wor k, nro to tho «ff:ct that llio rocont con
tinued fldvanoo in the prico of cotton, 11m in
creased Armnean in the iron market, and tbu
steady demand for ttio prod net a of a< nthern
coal mines have rawed a marked improvement
in manufacturing and buaiioaa citclea. Tiio
New Orleans cotton fact( ra leport that adjust
ments wi h tlie growers have been more prompt
and patEfactory than fur several yeara. The
output of iron ia well maintained.
The organization of four new cotton mills
are reported for the week, located re-peclively
at Alexander City, Ala., Charlotte, and Frank-
Hnville, N C ., and Edgefield, 8. C. The Texas
and Honduras Oil Blanufaoturing Co. haa been
charter d at Cuero, Texas, with $1(0,000 capi
tal, a 160.000 oil null is to be built at Edgefield,
H, C., and one to coat $10 000 at Clarksville,
Texas, and the Southern Phosphate Co. capital
$143,000, is to rebuild its works at Macon, Ga.
Gla-s works with capital are to l>o built
at Augusta, Ga., a ooal compiny with thesamo
capital has I eon chartered at Covington, Ky.,
and a $26,000 mineral paint company at Man
darin, Ga. Th* re is also reported a cotton
compress nt Docatur, Texas, a distillery at
Hamlet. N. C.; electrical plants at Waynosboro,
Ga., Owensboro, Ky., Enterpri e, Mis- . Knox
ville and Morristown, Tenn., and a fertilizer
factory st Macon, Ga. Iron working plants are
reported at Little Hook.. Ark., and Cliattunoo-
ga, Tenn ; a flouring mill at Mint Hill, N. < a
r.ce mill at l '-ruandina, Fla.; tobacco factories
at Jacksonville and Tnmpa, Fla,, and wood-
wooking plants at Jacksonville, Fla.. Itacebnd,
THE DISPE
ENSi4*
W WAR.
In tho Report of tho Tonne
ernors’ Klectlon Committee.
A Nashville spocinl boys : Tho ma-
jorit.v report of tho committee on rov-
eruor’s election, which in HiRiioil by
the seven demoerntie members of tho
committee, wns presented to Speaker
Pillow, of the sounle Saturday nnd lie
nt once gave notioo ciilliiiR the Iiooho
timl Bennto to meet in joint convention
in the hull of the bonne nt 11 o'clock
Tuesday morning. The report is very
lengthy,nnd shows that tho committee
decided Hint 22,389 ballots were ille-
gnl, nnd should ho thrown out. Of
these 9,73!) were enst for Turney nnd
12,550 for Evans. Deducting thoso
numbers from tho total vote ns offi-
cially returned to tlie seeretnry of
state, Turney will have n j.luntlity of
2,308, ns against the 574 plurality
shown for Evans hy the correct official
returns.
It is expected (lint the greater pnrt
of a week will bo consumed in arguing
the case hy members. Evans's attor
neys desire to make argument before
the joint convention, and the question
of allowing them to do so will be
brought up. Tho flvo republican mem
bers of the committee are preparing a
majority report attacking the consti
tutionality of tho poll-tax law pro
testing against tho committee rulings
in regard to refusing to investigate
certain counties because the elmrgoH
were decided not specific, and attack
ing the investigation an unfair and in
complete. They also dissent from tho
committco’s rulings sh to the law nnd
tho facts.
etioe in a quiet way before tho couvon-l were torn up hy the roots.
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Tcxas, Intermont and Winchester, Va., and
Charts.ton, W. Va.
Water works will l>o constructed ftt Key Went,
Fla . Warnesloro. Ga., I.anc.stor, Ky., 0|.c-
lnaBsa., La., BathorfordtOD. N. C.. Mai jville
and Morristown, Tenn., and enlargements of
water work, at Atlanta and Tnotnesville, Oa.,
and Norfolk, Va The new buildings of Urn
week Include a i25,01.0 brewery at Harper's
Ferry. Va.; bnstnesa bono a at Jaekaunvillc,
Fla., Victoria, Tex. nnd Wlier ling, W. V.. a
*30.000college building at IWIelgh, N. C.; a
*20,000 school bouae nt Madiaon, G,.; ft enn t
bouse at Charlotleaville, Va.. and a *3eOOJ
tenemeni bouae at Atlanta, Ga.—Tradeaman
(Chattanooga, Teen.)
HOLLAND DKI-'AL'LTEI).
Hank Examiner Ihiaroveretl a Sliort-
nge of $00,000.
Cashier .T. It. Holland, of the Mer
chants and Farmers’ National bank of
Charlotte, N. C., is a defaulter to the
amount of 800,000 or more. Hnnk
Examiner Miller discovered the defal
cation. Mr. Holland's peculations
have been carried on for eight years
past and he has managed ti’l the last
few days to hide them front discovery.
The exact amount of them is not yet
fnlly known.
No man in Charlotte has in tho past
been held in higher regard or been
more fully trusted than Mr. Holland,
nnd the whole city was greatly sur
prised and shocked to hear of his em
bezzlement.
HEAVY LOSS OF LIKE.
Fearful Destruction Caused l,y the
HreaUIng of a Dyke.
The grent Honsey dyke of the Epinnl
district of the Vosges, France, burst nt
an early hour Saturday morning. 'I ho
cubic area of Iho dyke is8,000,(100 me
tros. A grent rush of water and grent
less of life followed.
Enormous damage has been done in
the surrounding country. The railways
in all direetiona are interrupted and a
largo number of villages entirely
Hooded. In some places the force of
tho torrent let loose by tho breaking
of Iho dyko was so grent that entire
houses wore swept away nnd largo trees
A Charleston Cltlzeixto Mako a Test
Cnsjpl
Tho clisponsnry law in South Caro
lina threatens vory shortly to nsBUtno
the proportions of a ilfclit between tho
fodernl and state governments. In
addition to tho temporary injunction
heretofore granted byr ^ndgo Goff, re
straining the atato nydhuritics from
seizing contraband liquors brought
into the slate, another injunction was
issued last Friday by iltidgo Himouton,
of tho United Htatei circuit court,
which promises to hoMen matters to
an immediate issue. Tliis last ease is
brought by James Donald, a citizen of
Charleston, ncninsWJSmoK G. Scott,
M. T. liollynud otm^fShombors of the
constabulary forco in-what city. Tho
easo wns evidently prqptVred with groat
caution.
'The plaintiff early? in iho year or
dered from Now Ydrjfi, via the Old
Dominion Dine, a barrator beer, from
Hnltimoro a case of JPiekwick Chib
whisky, and from Savannah a ease of
California winos. lie notilied the dis
pensary constabulary the fact that,
ho lmd bought tho goods and warned
them through his counsel, Mr. New,
not to seize the goods. The goods
were seized, however, ami confiscated.
Tho petitioner has brought suit against
Iho constables for $12(000, anil asks
tho court for an injunohon restraining
all constables, police or filler officers
from interfering with nnd seizing his
property. fl .
llo avers Hint tho liquor wns bought
for hiH own consumption nnd privulo
use and not for sale. The dispensary
law is attacked on tho gsuiiiul that it
attempts to nbridgo thp right of a citi
zen to import into thayitnto for hiH
own uho and oousumptiWsuoh liquors
ns lie may desire. It ibwiilaimod that
tho Inw is a restriotioiYof commerce
between the stutes in favor of Iho pro
ducts of tho state of Bmi^li .Carolina
againat Iho products of other stalos
nnd counties, nnd conflicts with ar
ticle l, sections 8 and 9 of tlm consti
tution of the United Htatos. Tho in
junction asked for is to festraiu and
eu|oin tho constabulary from entering,
seizing or attempting 'to seize such
liquors, or from euteriuff'ljio dwelling
of tho plaintiff to seau’h for such
goods, or iu any mnuifoy . frnrn pre
venting tho plaintiff f<6>»T impWitnig
nnd holding said liquorT • The-injunc
tion ivns made rotnrnaltin ,yn May 1st.
Governor Eviuih has said that he-will
not obey tho injuuotion and .biyi. up
struolod tho oonntnbuliify to^ go ivt^enrl 4i‘
with ihoir soizuros, i
DR. CRAWFORD CENSURED.
Tho Florida Legislature Hits Him a
Hard One.
Some timo ago Tho St. Louis Post-
Dispatch aent out inquiries to various
state officers asking if tho atntulo books
of tho several slates contained laws
against lobbying.
Ono of thoso inquiries reached Hon.
John Ij. Crawford, seeretnry of state
of Florida. Instead of answering tho
question ns asked ho replied: “Tho
lobby controls tho legislature of Flor
ida." This was puldishod in Tho Post-
Dispatch of April 0th, but seems did
not meet tho attention of members of
the legislature now in session until
very recently. This serious condem
nation of tho lawmakers of tho “Alli
gator Htntn" aroused the wrath of tho
house nt Tuesday's session. Speeches
severely denouncing this statement
were made and action was demanded
tofuting the serious refiootiou upon
tho lower house.
After nil nnimntod diacussiou, a com
mittee was appointed to report on tho
mailer.
Resolutions condemning ns uutrue
the statement of tho secretary of stain
were reported unanimously hy that
committee and were brought be
fore tho lioiiso upon tho question of
adoption.
Friends of the aged secretary of
slnio claimed that his letter to Tho
Post-Dispatch wns written boforo tho
assembly of llio present body. This
was not proven, though hia friends
asked a suspension of notion until thin
slntomout could be verified by a tele
gram from St. Louis explaining.
Membera of tho special comraittoo
thought that timo enough had been
given the secretary, but lie had not
furnished an explanation.
Upon the call of the previous ques
tion, tho house adopted iho resolution
by a vote of 31 to 20 and tho lower
house places on its journal a sovoro
censure of tho stato seeretnry.
MV. DR. TALMAGK.
THE NOTED DIVINE’S SUNDAY
DISCOURSE,
Subject: “After tho Hattie.”
Tkxt: "And it eamo to pass na the mor
row, when tlio riilllsttnes ciunn to strip llio
slnln, that they found fhml unit Ills three sons
fnllen la Mount Gilbon.”—I Samuel xxxl., H.
Romo of you were nt South Mountain or
Rhiloh or Ball’s lllulT or Gettysburg on
Northern or Hoiitheru side, and [ ask you If
there is nny enddor sight than u hnUlollehl
after the guns have stopped llrlng? J walked
aoross the Held of Anttotnm just after the
oonlltet. The scene was so slokenlng I shall
not duserlhe It. Every vnlunblo thing had
been taken from tho bodies of the dead, for
there are always vultures hovering over and
around about an army, and they plok up
and tbu memorandum books,
amt tho daguerreotypes, and
at-s, applying them to
dead make no rests-
tanee. Ro there are always eamp followers
going on and after an army, as when Soott
went down Into Mexico, as when Napoleon
marehod up toward Mnseow, as when Von
Moltko went to Redan, There is a simi
lar scone in my text.
Raul and his army lmd been horribly cut to
pieces. Mount Gillum wns ghastly with Iho
dead. On the morrow Iho stragglers eamo
oil to the Hold, and they lined the hilohot of
the helmet from under the chin of the dead,
the wntohor
and the lotto
the huts, nnd the
their own
all convinced thnt the secretary may
not bo inclnootl to speak in tho cam
paign before the meeting of tho stntc
convention.
Tho live stock men of Chicago do
not like the reports sent out by Sec
retary of Agrieultnro Morton, inti
mating that the high price of meat iH
caused by n combination in tho inter
est of tho stock men as against both
tho producer and consumer of meat.
At a largely attended meeting held at
the stock exchange at tho Union
stockyards, at Chicago, a long series
of resolutions wero adopted and or
dered telegraphed to Secretary Morton.
The resolutions say tho receipts of
cattle at the four principal western
markets for the current year are 270,-
000 head less than for tho same period
of 1801. This alone is responsible for
the increase in the prices of dressed
beef. Statements recently sent out
charging that there is a combine or
trust are pronounced unjust, and the
public is asked to withhold its judg
ment until the merit uf the controversy
can lie investigated by the press.
Changing Officers at the Mints.
The reported selection of Mr. Her
man Kretz, tho present appointment
clerk of tho treasury department, ns
superintendent of the United Mates
mint at Philadelphia, vice Townsend,
removed or resigned, and of Mr. W.
E. Morgan, now examiner in the mint
bureau nt Washington, ns .coiner of
the Philadelphia mint, vico Htoel,
transferred, are slated to be tho enter
ing wedges of nil entirely new depart
ure in the matter of tho administra
tion of United States mints and assay
offices. Doth gentlemen are democrats
mid citizens of Pennsylvania, Mr.
Kretz being from Heading, Pa., and
Air. Morgan from Philadelphia, but
neither was urged for appointment by
either of the contending factious of
locul politicians.
Tho purpose is to take tho mint ser
vice out of state politics, not only iu
Pennsylvania,but iu other states whero
! United States mintH nnd nssny offices
nre located.
A Forty Million Deficit.
| Tho decision of the supreme court
j in thu income tax case necessitates a
I rehearing of the estimates of govern-
; nient receipts for the fiscal year end-
I ing June 30, and from the best data
[ obtainable it is believed that the deficit
I for the year will probably nmouut to
$40,000,1100. The amount of tho deficit
| to date is $47,211,511, with indications
of a further increnso before tho close
i of the present month, but the income
He reservoir was situated close to
Iho village of Honsey, and wan con
nected with Iho Canal L'Estc. The
breach caused by tho rush of water is
over 100 metres broad. Tho villages
which have suffered tho most arc llou-
soy, Les Forges, Budogney and Dom-
ovres. Many houses have completely
disappeared.
Additional reportsof tho devastation
caused by the bursting of tho reservoir
show that tho loss of life is far beyond
the first ostimntcH. About 130 deaths
aro now known to have been caused
by the flood, anil the loss may grow,
as in the confusion and ruin it has been
impossible to account for scores of
persons who are missing. The search
for doad bodies is still ill progress.
THE INJUNCTION DI8RKGARDED.
<!ov. Evans* Constables Pay No Atten
tion to Goff ’s Orders.
A Columbia, H. C., special says:
Following out his declaration of inten
tion to disregard Judge Goff’s tempor
ary injunction restraining all state,
county municipal offiecra from inter
fering with liquor shipped into the
state while ill transit and iu tlio linnils
of consignees, until may 2d, Governor
Evans’s liquor constable bus seized a
barrel of bottled boor, shipped by ex
press from Augusts, (Iu., to D. J.
Goble of Columbia. They broke it
open nnd conveyed its confiscated
contents to the state dispenanry.
Htato Liquor Commissioner Mixon lias
issuod a eireulur to constables com
manding them to bo particularly vigi
lant in detecting and seizing liquors.
Tho further action of United Mutes
judges is awaited with tho keenest in
terest.
ALLIANCA AFFAIR SETTLED.
Spanish Vessels Have Hern Instructed
to bo More Careful.
Tho roport that the Altiancu affair
lias boon settled by Spain's conceding
the American claims is confirmed offi
cially at Madrid. Tho Spanish gov
ernment will give honorable satisfac
tion for the mistake and admits that
the Allinncn wns outside her territorial
waters when tho Condo do Vcnudito
fired upon her. Commanders of war
ships ill Cuban waters have been in
structed precisely not to fire on ves
sels outside the three-mile limit.
HELL1GERENT STEPS
To lie Taken by England Against Nic
aragua.
Exact information has boon roooivod
nt Washington as to Great Britain's
belligerent steps in Nicaragua. Brit
ish troops are to bo landed nt Corinto.
The custom houses nro to bo oooupiod
by British officers who aro to exorcise
llio functions of collectors of oustoms.
At tho same time, Nicaraguan local
" is to bb ddtWbSBfcfcljSt'k-
IX POSHKy^UN
i / rintifHoconsprovtqwi awns-
PrltUh Trtaps W-'lc - at -NTt.u-rugua- (ton may be drawn to what is regarded
Rontli Carolina ami Georgia Road.
Tho South Carolina and Georgia
Ruilroad Company reports for nine
months, ended March 31, 1805, gross
•aruings of $882,803 ; expenses,
tax receipts, it is expected, will mate- | 753, net $312,109; fixed charges and
rinlly cut down this amount during j taxes, $232,875; surplus, $70,234;
the remaining ten weeks of the fiscal j fixed charges and taxes for three
year. ' months ending July 31, 1895, $77,fi25,
Receipts front customs and from iu- ■ and surplus after providing for fixed
ternal revenue sources continue to in- ] charges and taxes for the whole year,
crease, but not at the pace expected,
and with fully one-half of the antici
pated receipts from the income tax cut
off, it is doubtful if the close of tho
year shows n deficit less than $10,000,-
000. ,
As tins been the easo for some years,
tho expenditure on account of pen
sions is more than a third of the en
tire expenditures of the government,
mil times, during tho last two
81,009.
'J ailors on Strike.
Two thousand tailors of New lork
city went on a strike Tuesday morn
ing. Tho strike whs declared by the
Tailors’ Progressive union. Homo
2,000 women, girls and boys, whoso
work depends upon the tailors, have |
also been thrown out of employment. | 7,^ )tle j noX orable requisitions of hour are those which
The strike is conducted iu su orderly . secretary of the iuterior on pension advantage to know,
manner and no trouble is expeuted. i
Deb’s Trial Postponed Indefinitely.
The Debs trial on the conspiracy
charge has been continued indefinitely.
This announcement is made by General
Black, United Htntes district attorney,
after n conference with G. 8. Harrow,
one of the attorneys for thedefendunt.
Tun truths which we least wish to
of hear are those which are most to our
Amidst Orelit Kxe Uo in«nt.
Nicaragua lma ref need to accept tho
British ultimatum. This iiiformation
was communicated to Rear Admiral
►Stephenson at Washington at a Into
hour Friday night. The three days
given Nicaragua to make a reply hav
ing expired at midnight Friday, tho
JlritiHh forces at once took possession
of tho town.
Tho garrison at Corinto, which con
sisted of a small forco of about 150 or
200 men, was withdrawn to tho inte
rior, leaving tho British in peaceablo
possession of tho town.
No opposition was made to their
landing, but it, is stated by those fa
miliar with tho Nicaraguan peoplotlmt
any attempt on the part of tho British
to penetrate to tho interior, or, in
short, to leave tho environs of Corinto,
will be resisted by Nicaragua.
Groat exoitomeut is reported to ex
ist, not only at Corinto and Managua,
but throughout tho entire republic.
It is now said positively that Nica
ragua will not pay tho $75,000 indem
nity demanded hy Great Britain.
Should tliis determination bo adhered
to, tho occupation of Corinto by the
Dritish government may bo indefinite.
Tho Jtritish ultimatum provided not
only for the payment- of $75,000
“smart money” to Pro-Consul Hatch,
but it included also a payment of
$2,500 to compensate a number of
Rritish subjects who wore arrested and
taken to Managua with Mr. Hatch,
and provided further that a joint com
mission should bo established to fix
tho damages which resulted to these
and other British subjects as a result
of their arrest and expulsion from tho
republic,
TRADE NOTES.
DradstreotB* Report of IIusIiicbs for
the Past Week.
IlradstrootH’ review of trade for the
past week says: “The feature of tlio
week is tho continued strength of
prices of staples after the striking ad
vances of preceding weeks. There is
a firmer undertone in nearly all lines
of trade, but at a number of points
gains in industrials are more marked
than in commercial lines. Tho flurry
in petroleum is succeeded by a very
dull market. The woolen dress goods
mills have secured a numbor of orders
for fall delivery, which accounts for
tho moderate activity iu tho market for
wool. Cotton goods are firm on tho
advance in cotton and higher wages
paid eastern mill operatives. The
number of strikes for higher wages in
creases. About 25,000 people have
struck in April, most of them for an
advance. Tho numbor of voluntary
advances in wages reported is largo.
During the past two weeks tho wages
of 50,000 operatives, most of them in
tho textile lines, have been advanced
without strikes. As most of those who
struck for higher wages wore success
ful, fully 75,000 industrial operatives
appear to have had their wages ad
vanced since the beginning of April.
“Among the loading southern cities
Nashville, Bavannah and New Orleaus
alone announce any improvement iu
feeling or demand, and in those in
stances it is pronounced.”
Virtue is the surest road to longev
ity, but vice meets an early doom.
by Nicaragua as an invasion of tho
Monroe doctrine.
Tho British admiral lias notified
President Zollaya at Managua that
three days will be given to Nicaragua
in which to comply with tho terms of
Great Britain’s ultimatum. Failure to
pay tlio indemnity will bo followed by
tho seizure of tho custom house at Co-
rinto and llio collodion of tho duties
by British subjects, presumably by of
ficers of the fleet detailed for that
purpose. Tho note of tho British ad
miral contains a declaration that forco
will be used to collect tho money if
opposition is made. Groat excitement
exists. Tho government, it is re
ported, will refuse to pay the indem
nity and will abandon Corinto as a
port of entry. Tho belief iH general
1 hut if Great Britain obtains posses
sion of Corinto she will continue to
occupy if, as she has occupied terri
tory in Egypt and other countries
whero she has obtained a foothold.
TIIE TEXAS COTTON CROP.
A Decrease of 17 Per Cent In Plant
ing Indicated In Reports.
, Estimates placed the acroago in cot
ton iu Texas last year at 5,000,000
with a yield of 0,000,000 bales. Tho
Houston Post publishes its first crop
report this season, of which the fol
lowing is a summary:
“These reports have always been
very accurate. In response to ques
tions recently asked its correspond
ents throughout the state, the Pont has
received over two hundred replies.
Tho correspondents’ replies from all
sections of the slate, in regard to the
acreage in cotton, tho weathor condi
tions and the dato of plant ing indicate a
decrease incottonof about 17$ per cent
while they show a large increase in the
land cultivated. Tho fanners seem to
have been diversifying their crops to a
great extent, planting much more
corn and small grain than usual. With
a few exceptions tho reports show a
late, backward spring, which has re
tarded planting some two or throo
weeks. Tho weather lias been vory
dry over almost the whole state, and
rain is now badly needed to save tlio
corn and oat crops and to bring up
much of the cotton seed lying dor
mant in tho soil. It is well enough to
remark that there seems to bo an al
most universal opinion that should tho
present drought continue for a little
while longer, much land that was orig
inally put into corn and small grain
will finally be planted in cotton, which
may bo very materially alter the acre
age finally planted in that staple from
the above estimate.”
they picked up tho swords and bent thorn on
their knoo to test tho temper of the metal,
mid they onened the wallets and counted the
coin. Haul lay dead along thogrouud, eight
or nine feet in length, and I suppos** the
cowardly Philistines, to show (heir bravery,
leaped upon the trunk of his carcass mm
jeered at the fallen slain and whistled through
tho mouth of his helmet. Jleforo night those
cormorants had taken everything valuable
from the Held. “And it eame to pass on the
morrow, when the Philistines came to si rip
the slain, that they found Haul and his three
sons fallen in Mount Gllbou.”
Before I get through to-day I will show
you that the same process is going on all the
world over, and every day, and that when
men have fallen satan mid the world, so far
from pitying them or helping them, go to
work remorselessly to take what little there
Is toft, thus stripping the slain.
There are tons of thousands of young men
every year coming from the country to our
great cities. They come with bravo hearts
and grand expectations. Tho country lads
sit down in the village grocery, with their
feet on tho t lron rod around tho rodhot
stove, iu tho evening, talking over tho
prospects of tho young man who hits gone
olY to the city. Two or throe of them think
that perhaps he may got along very well and
succeed, hut the most of thorn prophesy
failure, for it is very hard to think that
those whom we knew in boyhood will over
make any grent buocohs in the world.
But our young man has a line position in a
dry goods store. Tho month is over. Ro
gets Ills wages. Ho is not accustomed to
have so much money belonging to himself.
Ho Is u little excited and does not know
exactly what to do with it,aud he spends it
.lifmimo places whero hiNflfcht
therocomo up noweompati
the bi '—
;s soul
yoarotoqnuAu 1 ! 1W. "Bo i^iiWrffiy tleftTT *U*
is tt tnoffcbbrpsb of what, he ijjico TtfL
nnTpfcfl of hui snuff up the taint and como
on the field. His garments gradually glvo
out. Ho has pawned his watch. His health
is failing him. His credit perishes. lie is
too poor to stay in tho oily, and ho is too
poor to pay his way homo to tho country.
Down, down! Why do tlio low fellows of
tho oitv now stlok to him so oiosoly? Is it to
help him back to a moral and spiritual life?
Oh, no. I will toll you why they stay. They
are Philistines stripping tho slain.
Do not look whero I point, but yonder
stands a man who oneo had a beautiful homo
in tills city. His house had elegant furni
ture, his children wore beautifully clad, his
name was synonymous with honor and use
fulness, but evil habit knocked at ids front
door, knocked at bis hack door, knocked at
his parlor door, knocked at Ills bedroom
door. Whero in tlio piano? Sold to pay tho
rent. Whero Is tho lint rack? Sold to meet
tho butcher's bill. Where aro tho carpets?
Hold to get bread. Where Is tho wardrobe?
Hold to get rum. Where are the daughters?
Working their lingers olT in trying to keep
the family together. Worse nnd worse until
everything is gone. Who is that going up the
front stops oT that house? That 1h a creditor,
hoping to find some chair or bed that has not
boon levied upon. Who aro those two gen
tlemen now going up the front stops? The
one is a constable; tne other is tho sheriff.
Why do they go there? Tho unfortunate is
morally doad, socially dead, financially dead.
Why do they go there? I will toll you why*
tho o rod I tors and the constables and tho
shorilTs go thoro. They aro, some on tholr
own account and some on account of tho law,
stripping tho slain.
An ex-momber of Congress, ono of tho
most eloquent men that over stood in the
House of Itopresentatives, said in his last
moments; “Tills is the end. I am dying—
dying on a borrowed bed, covered by a bor
rowed sheet, iu a house built by public
charity. Bury me undortiiat tree in tho mid
dle of tin* field, where I shall not boorowdod,
for I have been crowded all my life." Where
wore the jolly politicians and tho dissipating
comrades who had boon with him, laughing
at his jokes, applauding his eloquence and
plunging him into sin? They have left. Why?
His money is gone, his reputation is gone,
ids wit is gone, ids clothes aro gone -every
thing Js gone. Why should they stay any
longer? They have completed their work.
They have stripped tho slain.
Tlrere is another way, however, of doing
the same work. Here is a man who, through
ids sin, is prostrate. He acknowledges that
ho has done wrong. Now is tlio time for you
to go to that man and say, “Thousands of
people have been as far astray as you are
and got buck.” Now is tho time for you to
go to that mail ami tell him of the omnipo
tent grace of God, that is sufficient for any
poor soul. Now is tin* time to go and tell
how swearing John Iiunyan, through the
grace of God,afterward came to the Celestial
City. Now is tlio time to go to that man and
toll hint how profligate Newton eame,
through conversion, to be a world renowned
preacher of righteousness. Now is the time
totoll that man that multitudes who have boon
pounded with all the flails of sin and dragged
through all tho sowers of pollution at last
have risen to positive dominion of moral
POJ
rmrtrnl and sbiritiu
Yo
Rank Robbed in Now Jersey.
Tho First National Bank at Plain-
field, N. J., Iiuh been robbed of $22,-
705. It is thought tlio theft was com
mitted while there wero but two clerks
in the bank, when a stranger entered
and engaged them in conversation
while a confederate reached the vault
through the directors’ room.
Ills Accounts Were Short.
Thomas S. Borden, agent and treas
urer of tho Metacomet and An swan
mills at Fall River, Mass., hos fled i
from tho city. Ho is short in his ac
counts to tho extent of $0,000, and j Jn
warranto for his arrest have boon is
sued,
lof, toll him that, do you? No.
You say to him, “Loan you mouoy? No
You aro down. You will have to go to tho
dogs. Loud you a dollar? I would not lend
you live Cents to keep you from the gallows.
Yod aro debauched! Got out of my sight,
now! Down! You will have to stay down!”
And thus thoso bruised and buttered men aro
sometimes accosted by thoso who might to
lift them up. Thus the last vestige of hope
is taken from them. Thus those who ought
to go and lift and' save them aro guilty of
strioping tho slain.
The point I want, to mako is this: Bin is
hard, cruel and merciless. Instead of help
ing a man up it helps him down, and when,
liki: Haul and his comrades, you lie on tho
field, it will <• Mini and steal your sword and
helmet and shield, leaving you to the Jackal
and tho crow.
but the world nnd satan do not do their
work with tho outcast and abondonod. A
respectable impenitent man comes to die.
Jle is fiat on ids back, llo could not got lip
if tho house was on fire. Adroitest medical
skill and gentle nursing have been a failure.
He has como to Ills last hour. What does
satan do for such a man? Why, ho fetches
up all tho Inapt, disagreeable and harrowing
things in his lib*. He says: “Do you remem
ber those chances you had for heaven ant
missed? Do you remember all those laps* ;
luet? Do you remember all those o|
probriou** words and thoughts and uetiorn /
Don’t remember them, eh? I ll make you re
member them.” And then ho takes all tho
past and empties It on that deathbed, as tho
mailbags are emptied on tin* postofflco floor.
The man is sick. LLe cannot get away from
them.
Then the man says to satan: “You have
deceived me. You told me that all would hn
well. You said thoro would be no trouble at
tin* last. You told me If I did so and so you
uld do so and so. Now you corner mo
1 hedge me up and submerge me in ovory-
thingovfi.’Y‘Hn, lm!" sayHsatan. “I was only
fooling you. It is mirth for mo to sec you suf
fer. 1 have been for thirty years plotting to
get you Just whoro you are. it; is hard for
you now; it will be worse for you after
awhile. Jt pleases me. Lie still, sir. Don’t
flinch or shudder. Como, now, t will tear
off from you the last rag of expectation. I
will rend away from your soul the last hope.
1 will leave you bare for the boating of the
storm. It is my business to strip the slain.”
You are hastening on toward tin* consum
mation of all that is sa l. To-day yen step aiul
think, but tt is only fora moment, and then
you will tramp on, and at the close of this
service you will go out, and the ijuesttou
will be, “How did you like the sermon?”
Ami one man will say, “I liked It very well,”
and another man will say, “I didn’t Ilk** It
at all,” but neither of tin* answers will touch
the tremendous fact that if Impenitent you
are going nt thirty knots an hour toward
ship wreak. Yen, you are iu a battle where
you will fall, anil while your surviving rel
atives will take your remaining estate and
the cemetery will take your body tin* messen
gers of darkness will take your soul and
como and go about you, stripping the slain.
Many are crying out, “I admit l uin slain;
I admit it.” Oil what battlefield, my broth
ers? Hy what weapon? “Pointed imagina
tion,” says one man; “Intoxicating liquor,”
says another man; “My own hard heart,”
says another man. I>.» you realize tills?
Then 1 come to tell’you that the omnipo
tent Christ is ready to walk across this bat
tlefield nnd revive (iml resuscitate and resur
rect your dead soul. Let Him take your
hand nnd rub away the numbness, your bead
nnd bathe off the aching, your heart ami
slop Its wild throb. Ho brought Lazarus to
life, Ho brought Jalrus’s daughter to life. He
brought the young man of Nain to life, and
these are three proofs anyhow that lb* can
bring you to life.
When the Philistines eamo down on the
field, they stopped between the corpses, and
they rolled over tho dead, ami they took
away everything that wns valuable. And so
It was with the people that followed after tho
armies at Chancellorsvlllo and at Pittsburg
Landing and at Stone River and at Atlanta,
stripping the slain, but tin* Northern and
Bout born women—God Idoss them!—eamo on
tho field with basins and pads and towels
and lint and cordials ana Christian en
couragement, and tho poor follows that lay
thoro lifted up their arms and said, “Oh,
how good that does feel slnoo you dressed
it!” And others looked up and said, “Oh,
how yon make me think of my mother!”
And others said, “Toll the folks at home I
died thinking about them.” And another
looked up and said, “Miss, won't you sing
me a verse of ‘Home, Sweet Home,’ boforo I
die?” Ami then tin* tattoo was sounded, and
tho hats wore off, and the service was read,
“I am the resurrection and thu life.” And
in honor of the departed the muskets swore
loaded and tho command given,
IIre”’ And. there^is set utf
pMuD
-— in thu
ftaUna votun-
olsgforA-a
jo; the angels of £
ooino 'wpnhguifflumip th% glain, and:.-
- -e was voUkjh of dom|prt.. iiml vpiceH -of*
opennd Voices of resurrection 'and voices of
heaven.
Ono night I saw a tragedy on the corner
of Broadway and Houston street. A young
man, evidently doubting as to which direc
tion he had hotter take, his hat lifted high
enough so that you could see ho had an in
telligent forehead, stout chest; ho had a
robust development. Splendid young man.
Cultured young man. Honored young man.
Why did ho stop thoro while so many wore
going up and down? Tho fact is that every
man lias a good angel nud a bad angel con
tending for tho mastery of his spirit, and
thoro were a good nngel nud a hud angel 1
struggling with that young man’s soul at
t lio corner of Broadway and Houston street,
“Come with me,” said the good angel; “I
will take you home; I will spread my wings
over your pillow; I will lovingly escort you
all through life under supernatural protec
tion; l will bless ovory cup you drink out of,
ovary couch you rest oil, every doorway you
enter; I will consecrate your tears when you
weep, your sweat when you toil, and at the
last l will hand over your grave into the
hand of the bright angel of a Christian re
surrection. In answer to your father’s peti
tion and your mother’s prayer l have been
sent of the Lord out of heaven to be your
guardian spirit. Como with me,” said tho
good angel iu a voice of unearthly symphony.
It was music like that which drops from a
lute of heaven when a seraph breathes on it.
“No, no,” said tho lm<l angel; “como with
me; I have something better to offer. The
wiuos I pour are from chalices of bewitching
carousal; the dance I loud is over floor tes-
solluted with unrestrained indulgences; there
is no God to frown on the temples of sin
where I worship. Tho skies are Italian Tho
paths I tread are through meadows, daisied
and primrosod. Como with me.”
Tho young man hesitated at a time when
hesitation was ruin, and the bad angel
smote tho good angel until it departed,
spreading wings through the starlight up
ward and away until a door Hashed open in
the sky and forever the wings vanished.
That was the turning point in that young
man’s history, for, the good angel flown, ho
hesitated no longer, but started on a path
way which is beautiful at the opening, but
blasted at last. The bad angel, leading the
way, opened gate after gate, and at each
gat** tho road became rougher and the sky
more lurid, and, what was peculiar, as tho
gate slammed shut it eame to with ajar that
indicated that It would never open.
Passed each portal there was a grinding
of locks and a shoving of bolts, find the scen
ery on either side of th.* road .-hanged from
gardens to deserts, and tin* Juno air became
a cutting December blast, and tlm bright
wings of the bad nngel turned to sackcloth,
and the eyes of light became hollow with
hopeless grief, and the fountains, that at the
start had tossed with wine, poured forth
bubbling tears and foaming blood, and
on the right side of the road there was
a serpent, and the man said totiiebad angel,
“What is that serpent?” and the answer was.
“That is the serpent of stinging remorse.’
On the left side tin* road then* was a lion,
and the man asked tlm bad angel, “What Is
that lion?” and the answer was. “That is the
Mon of all devouring despair.” A vulture
fi«*w through the sky, and tin* man asked the
had angel, “What Is that vulture?” and the
answer was, “That is the vulture waiting for
tho carcasses of tho slain.”
And then the man began to try to pull off
him the folds of something that hud wound
him round and roitud, and ho said to tho had
angel, “What is it that twists me in this aw
ful convulsion?” nu 1 tin* answer was. “That
is tlm worm that never dies.” And thou tho
man said to the bad angel: “What docs all
this mean? I trusted in what you said at the
corner of Broa 1 way Mil Houston stroet; I
trusted it all, aud why Imve you thus de
ceived me?” Then tho last deception fell off
Iho oharnmr, and it said: “I was sent forth
from tlm pit to destroy yoursoul. I watched
my chance for many u long year. When you
hesitated that night ou Broadway, I gained
my triumph. Now you arc her**. Ha, ha!
You are hero. Come, let us fill these two
chalices of fire nnd drink together to dark
ness and woo and death, llail, hail!” Oh,
young man! will the good nngel sent forth
by Christ or the bad angel sent forth by sin
gut tipi victory over your soul? Tholr wings
are Interlocked this moment above you, con
tending for yrtur destiny, as above the Apen
nines eagle and condor fight mid-sky. This
hour may decide your destiny.
The visit of tin) 103 farmers from the far
Northwest to North Carolina has proved to
he full of results, ns over fifty have bought
farms, while twenty-s9v»n bought town lots.